Board. Checks On Atrocities   Survey Indicates -Reports Are True.

[Roosevelt Wai iRefugee Board Cites Finding   Sponsors Report of Bestial Cruelty and Murder by  Million in German   Extermination Camp

Cruelty, Murder By Nazis Told In Board s Report   Frightful Happenings Jn Camps Revealed By Secretaries Stimson,  Hull And Moraenthau

Mass German Atrocities Bared In Cabinet Report   25,000-Word Draft On Findings Gives Details Of Bestial Cruelty And Murder By The Millions In Nazi Extermination Camps In Poland

Another American Spearhead 20 Miles Wide Pours Through Lines to Point Halfway Between St. Lo and  -Vire, Old Normandy Capital—4,000 Prisoners Taken — Nazi Retreat More Chaotic Than That Witnessed in North African Drive.

London Speculates Gen. George 5. Patton, Jr. May Be Leading Tank Offensive Which Has Pinned Germans in Seacoast Trap. Fall of Coutances Fxpnected Soon

‘(Make 15-Mile Advance From  West of St. Lo   Shut Door of Pocket On German Army Corps; Yanks Capture Tessy

Pation May Be Leading Tanks in Great Drive   Bradley Has Placed Foe in Position That Every Commander Dreams Of   MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR FORCES   Germans Being Driven Into Pocket . at. Coutances; 50.000 in Retreat .-

Americans Slash Ahead 15 Miles  Near Coutances   Another Spearhead Pours Through 20-Mile Gap  Blasted in Normandy.   Germans in Chaotic Retreat From Allies

American Push Expects To Win Coutances Soon  Advances Scored On Entire Front; Tanks   Advances Scored On Entire Front; Tanks Driving Spearheads Deep In Enemy Line:

Yank Troops To Outskirts Of Coutances   Remnants of at Least Six Enemy Divisions Caught to the North; Edge Ahead in Italv

Flood of Yank Armor Pours Through ‘To Coutances Closing Door on Foe’s 84th Army Corps; Chaos in Retreat

In Two Miles Of Coutances   City Key Point of Disorderly German Retreat; Resistance Cut to Pieces

DRIVE TO WEST NORMAN COAST THREATENS FOE   yank Thrust Gains 1] Miles Since Start Of New Push

Estimate 50,000 to. 70,000 Enemy in Trap; Yanks Still Advance    Ronmel’s 84th Army Corps Cit Inte Vaolaterl Groups; Americans Only 3. Mites Front Coutanees, Control Heights

TANK COLUMNS IN DUTSKIRTs OF GOUTANGES   Pour Through Gap in Naz Lines; Yanks Trap 84th Army Corps.

TO OUTSKIRTS OF COUTANCES   Close Trap On Remnants Of German Army In Normandy

Many Germans Being Pressed Against Se:   After 15-Mile Advance From St. Lo, Yanks Blast Ger  mioan wipe   CAPTURE 4.000 PW’s

Movement West from St. Lo Has Caught Remnants of 84th Nazi Army in Pocket Against Sea.   4,000 PRISONERS IN ALLIED NET SO FAR

Coutances Fall Seems Imminent   ..- Thousands Of Nazis Strive To Flee Trap

Yank Armor Battles Into Coutances Outskirts; Rout Of Germans Is Growina .

Remnants of German Army Corps Caught in Drive  - on Coutances   THRUST OF 15 MILES   ‘More Than 4,000 Prisoners Taken Thus Far in Quick Thrust

Battle for Coutances On   American Troops in Outskirts of Vital Nazi Hub in 15-Mile Advance From St. Lo: Tessy-Sur-Vire Captured

Do Christmas Buying Now, For Soldiers   Post Office Warns Oct. 15 Last Date; Weight Only 5 Lbs.’

Post Office Department Urges Early  Mailing of Christmas Gifts Overseas

Post Office Department Urges Early Mailing of Christmas Gifts seb.

Judge Landis, Baseball Czar, Dies In Chicago   Iliness Ends Career Of Man Who Guided National Pastime

JUDGE KENESAW LANDIS, NATION’S BASEBALL CZAR, DIES IN CHICAGO SATURDAY

Argentine Government Announces Quake Toll 1,500 Dead, 3,000 Hurt

‘Situation In ‘China Described  ‘As Very Serious   Japanese Press Driv: On Kweilin.

Chinese Spokesmar Terms Military Situation “Serious”  Preparations Being Made to Defend Kweilin From Japs

Situation In China Described As Very Serious.     Japanese’. Press. D a wr ye ae

CHINA: PRESENTS: ITS PEACE PLAN   _ Program Is Very . ‘Similar’to One  Already Acreed Upon

UHINA PRESENTS HIS PEACE PLAN   Program Is Very Similar to One Already Agreed Upon

CIGARETS EXPENSIVE   Dozen Cartons Bring $106 ai Sale in Chicago

More Bonds  To Farmers   With Income at Peak They are Expected to Suy ‘2 Billions Worth

‘Predicts Increased Investment By American Farmers During Qixth War Rond Camnaiecr

Poles Take North Anchor Of Hitler Line   Fifth Army. Advancing up West Coast, Capturing Men and Material   Jap Garrison Driven From Burma Hold

Japs Are Being Driven From Myitkvina Fort   -Merrill’s Infantry Crosses River Four Miles South Of City

Nips In Flight From Myitkyina Yanks, Chinese Increase Pressure On Area

Japanese Garrison Said Retreating From Myitkyina, Burma Stronghold

Allies Sweep Across Irrawaddy  Japs Are Being Driven a ea eet er

Yank Spearhead Thrusts 35 Miles of Anzio Beachhead 4 Hitler Line Sacs Tn. Sauth:      Jan Garrison Ousted From North Burma

Allies Evicting Jap Garrison At Myitkyina   EnemyF ightingDesperatel y To Escape Liquidation At Bie Rarmn Race

Yanks Mop Up Last Japs At Myitkyina   Enemy Cleaned From Most of Town by Gen. Merrill's Men

JAPS RETREAT AT MYITKYINE   Garrison Being Driven Out Of City, Allies Say

Allies Close Net — Around Myitkyina   Trapped Japanese Being Driven From North Burma Stronghold On 3 Sides

Americans Urged to Prove Devotion to Fighting Men By War Bond Purchases

Morgenthau Makes Plea   ‘Citizens Are Asked. _ To: Convince Enemies

Appeals For Individual. Bond Buying   Convince Enemies, Moraenthau Uraes

Booklet Tips For Hostesses In Service Clubs Give Most Answers, Not All

Warden Amrine Quits Lansing Job Over Execution   ‘Refuses to Bea Party To Brady Hanging Set for April 1.5;  A “Barbarous Rite”

Amrine ‘Quits Post [At Lansing   Warden Resigns Rather Than Execute Death Sentence; Hudspeth Named As Successor

PRISON HEAD QUITS TO AVOID EXECUTION   Kansas Warden Refuses Tc : Supervise Hanging

Liberation of  Estonia Virtually Ends  Baltic Port Is Seized by Russian Troops

PERLURAINEIRRCeEE usc on <citmestiee, .sonemmmmeesieeamemenamemll CHURCHILL, EDEN ARRIVE IN BRITAIN

British Renew Attacks Upon Greek Rebels   Seek Full Control Of Athens After Lull  For Conference

New Push on ELAS Launched   Peace Negotiations at Standstill Pending Answer on Regency

Churchill, Eden Back In England After Greek Trip   Three-Pronged Drive Against Rebel Forces Under Way In Athens

YANK INVADERS DRIVING INLAND ON SAIPAN ISLE   Admiral Nimitz Reports Fighting Is Heavy With _ Japanese Using Artillery and Tanks.   BEACHHEADS SECURED BY AMERICAN FORCES   Bold Raid, Supported by Planes and Warships, Puts U.S. Troops 1,500 Miles From Philippines.

a Reports Landing of Big American Force   Advance Inland Under Hof Fire

Landing Made On Saipan  Tn Marianas   Hold Would Put Yanks Within 1.500 Miles — Of Japan, Philippines   JAP ADO Pek Ue  STIFF RESISTANCE  Tnvasion Climaxes Four Days of Shelling And Rombingo bv Fleet

American Invaders Of Islan 1,500 Miles From Tokyo Making “Progress”   ADVANCING INLAND AGAINST JAP FIRE

Troops Secure Beachheads. Make Good: Progress Against Heavy Resistance in Landing

Dorsey, Wife Set to Surrender   PRINCIPALS FACE 10 YEARS IN : PRISON IF CONVICTED

7 Countries Elected To Air Council   U. &., BRITAIN, NETHERLANDS, BRAZIL, FRANCE, MEXICO AND BELGIUM WILL SERVE ON BODY

AVIATION MEET ~ PICKS GOUNGIL   Place Left for Russia; Pat, tern for World Co-opera, tion Adopted.   SUBJECT TO APPROVAL

Order Barring Press At Trial Is Rescinded   Reporters Who Attended Opening Session of Case Admitted; Jury Selection Underway

Press Ban Lifted at Sedition Trial: Court Makes Ready to Select Ture  4

Says Finns to  Quit in Month   Fail to Hilt Red Army's Karelian Drive

RED CROSS SURGICAL DRESSINGS REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 4-8   FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Jap Planes Are Destroyed In Attack on Clark Field; Ormoc Corridor Is Cleared

U.S. Liberaiors Destrsy or Danuige Majority of 100 Jap, Planes On  Ground

JAP AIRFIELD NEAR MANILA IS BLOWN UP   NIPPONESE TROOPS ARE CRUSHED IN ORMOC SECTOR

LIBERATORS JAR MANILA AIRPORT   Yank Reid on Clerk Field Destroys About 100 Pianes on Ground

U. §. Planes Hit Japs on Luzon  Daylight Attack Clears Clark Field

Liberators Lash Clark Field In Philippines —   Destruction of Nips In Ormoc Corridor , Completed, Reported

MAJORITY OF JAP PLANES ON GROUND BLASTEL   Bombers Operating From Leyte Where Ormoc Corridor Cleared

Planes Raid Clark Field   100 Grounded Japanese Aircraft Destroved; Complete Ormoe Campaign.

CLARK FIELD AIT IN SMASHING RAID   Majority of 100 Grounded Jap Planes Destroyed   SURPRISE ATTACK   U. 8. Troops Complete Destruction of Nips in Bloody Ormoc Corridor

DESTROY 100 JAP PLANES IN RAID   GROUNDED CRAFT SMASHED IN ATTACK ON CLARK FIELD NEAR MANILA.

Yank Fliers Spray Manila With Bombs   Raid Clark Field; Bag 100 Grounded Jap  Planes

Yanks Reduce Jay Area on Guam  Enemy Conducts   Enemy Conducts Mass Buriqis

REP. W. H. WHEAT OF ILLINOIS DIES   CONGRESSMAN FROM RANTOUL IS VICTIM OF A HEART ATTACK

Bold Effort Made To Turn Nazis’ Flank in ftaly   New Air Offensive Continues; Soviet Troops Gain More

Deep Behind Nazi Line   Bold Thurst Designed . To Turn German Flank: Coupled With General Assault By 5th Army

Allies Land Behind Nazi Line in Italy   Commandos and Rangers Establish Beachhead on West Coast Below Rome; Russians Capture Rail Center m North

STRONG NEW INVASION FORCE IN SUCCESSFUL LANDING ON WEST COAST MENACES GERMAN LINES   - New Beachheads Gained and Satisfactory Progress Made Following Blasting of German Controlled Airfields in Area of Eternal City

Go Behind Nazi Lines in SeaBorne Hops   Allies in Greatest Amphibious Landings Since Salerno—RAF Continues Poundings

FIFTH-ARMY TROOPS STAGE SEA-BORNE ANVANCE SATIRNAY   BOLD THRUST MADE BY SEA TO TURN GERMAN FLANK IN ITALY

Japs Trapped by Allied Invasion In New Guinea  ey © cua” Weer 2 meee   Gen. MacArthur's Troops Strike Unexpectedly

—— me  J. C. Jackson Heads” County Druggists In Sth War Loan Drive

RAIDERS TOOK JAP TOLL   Flying Boat Squadron Has Re. turned From South Pacific

JAPS MAY RISK HOME FLEET 10 PARRY. AMERICAN PHILIPPINE BLOW   Halsey’s Attacks Put Nips On Spot

It’s A Strange War In Bougainville Jungles  Life For Ohio's 37th Dreary, Risky

Buckeye Troops Fight Strange Kind of War In Bougainville Jungles

Third of Jap Fleet Sunk?   High Noval Authority Estimates Big Losses By Nippon Navy

Third of Japan’s Fleet Gone, But Still Strong; Air  Power Lacking

Burma Supply Line Is Periled   CRUISER, CARGO SHIP HIT IN OTHER ACTIONS; MOMOTE AIRDROME NEARLY READY FOR ALLIED USE; ATTACK QUELLED

Pafton Throws In Three More U. §. Divisions   Third Army Extends ‘Drive on Both Sides Of Metz; Germans Cal It “Biq Offensive”

Germans Claim Yanks Prepare or Bie Push   UL. S. First Army Regains Some Lost Ground in Area Southeast of Aachen

Germans Assert Big Offensive’ Is Under Way  Several Divisions licad Ry Patton   Several Divisions Used By Patton In Assault

Patton Intensifies  Blows Toward Rhine   Three More Divisions Thrown into Assaults on Both Sides of Metz In Prelude to Strong Offensive

6 DIVISIONS IN DRIVE ON BOTH SIDES OF METZ   Sixteen Villages Captured As Americans Score 3-Mile Advance

3rd Army Drives Toward Rhine   Yanks Open Heavy Assault Along 25-Mile Sector of Western Front.

Patton Move: Fresh Troops into Battle   Germans See Assault ) as Prelude to the "Bia Offensive’

Third Army Attacks And Fighting Is Spreading  Niombhar Of Mieicinne   Number Of Divisions Thrown Into Battle To Cut Off Metz, German Fortress

Germans Say New Assault Signal To All-Out U.S. Push   Americans Extend Drive Toward Rhine To Both Sides of Metz, Take 16 ‘Towns

Metz Being Cut Off While New Drive Is Set in Aachen Area   British Extend Control of Islands Blocking Gateway to Port At Antwerp—Germans Fear American Advance That Threatens Saar Basin— Poles Capture Bridges

BIG OFFENSIVE NOW UNDERWAY IN-METZ AREA   More Divisions Thrown Into Great Battle

sO’Daniel’s Gas Ration For Tour Is Questioned   Pro-FDR Texas Demos Are Unable To Get Party Records, Need $3,000

CLAIM VIENNA AREA BOMBED   Robot Raids “On South England Renewed

Nazis Continue To Hit Britain With Rockets   Allied Aircraft Renew Assault on Invasion Area

Do Cultural Exchanges Help U.S-?   ‘Neighbor’ Policy Paying Dividends In Most L. A. Republics

Hitler’s Newspaper Admits These Are Heaviest Trials; Three Plotters Taken

BECK NAMED AS ~ GERMAN PLOTTER   Goebbels Declares Three Generals Took Part In Attempt on Hitler’s Life.

Tension Eased by Polish Statement  Stettinius May Have Paved Way for

Open Way For Helping  Poles Through Transition After Give Up Eastern  Provinces

CLEAR WAY FOR BIG 3 CONF AE   U. S. Requests Poles to Yield To Soviet Demands

Way Cleared for ‘Big 3” Meeting  Atmesphere Cleared by U. S. Statement

Meeting Of Big Three Clears Diplomatic Air   U. S. Stand On  Poland Concise

Highly-Charged International Atmosphere Clears As Allies _ Avree On Pole-Soviet Borders

SWEDEN TO HELP FINN OVERTURES   Seek to Persuade Moscow Not to Break Contact With Helsinki

SOVIETS MAY LAUNCH DRIVE TO SMASH FINLAND'S ARMY   RUSSIA REPORTED TO WAVE MANY DIVISIONS MASSED ALONG FINLAND'S  wm BORDER

Reds Enter Important Vistula Base   Russ Battle Into Sandomierz, Naz Defense Center

Reds Enter  Sandomierz   Street Fighting in Key Nazi Base on Vistula River

ANTI - FASCIST RULE IN ITALY   Ivanhoe Bonomi Forms New Cabinet. Speedily

NEW: REGIME FOR ITALY ENTIRELY ANTLFASCIST  NEW REGI   Democratic Government : Pledged to Further War Againat Germany.

FORM NEW ITALIAN CABINET, PLEDGED TO FORGET FASCISM   Badoglio, Forgotten Man, Returns Quietly To Obscurity

ATALY’S NEW GOVERNMENT ANTI-FASCIST       New Cabinet Named; Will Meet During Week End

Bonomi Heads New Democratic Regime in Italy   Cabinet Pledges To Help Allies; Fight Fascism

New Italian  Government Anti-Faseist   Members Do Not Want To Swear Allegiance to Prince

New Anti-Fascist Government Is Set Up In Italy    Cabinet. Organized By Bonomi Pledged To Aid Against Germany

McCormick Hubbard Adopted Children Are Again Adopted   Fowler McCormick Had Petitioned for Their Guardianship

louse Committee Approves GI Bill Passed by Senate  Unemployment Wage:   Unemployment Wage Cut, Fsadaral Loans ’ To Vets Raised

GJ. Bill Of Rights Voted   Veterans Committee Aooroves Of Measure

House Revamps Gl Benefit Bill   ‘Compensation Cut And Loans Hiked .

House Group Cuts GI Dole   But Committee Increases Weterans’ Loan -Limit

G. I. RIGHTS BILL APPROVAL IS GIVEN   Senate: Measure Revised and Sent to House for Action

“GI BILL OF RIGHTS” IS OK’D BY COMMITTEE   House Will Seek Action On PostWar Benefits For Veicrans Next Week

Rep. Short Asks for a Courtmartial   Introduced a Resolution in the House Today Calling for Action.

Mustang Sets Cross-Country Speed Mark   FIGHTER CROSSES U. S. IN 6 HOURS, 32 1/2; OTHER 7 MINUTES LATER

Quezon Dies in New York   President of Philippines Is Claimed By Death

138.000 ALLIED AIRMEN TAKING PART IN MAIN BATTLE OF THE — INVASION OF HITLER’S REALM   Fourth Week of Smashing Attack Against Vqunted Secret Installations in Northwestern France Sees Big Attack. Rail And Oil Centers in Romania Blasted

France, Balkans Poundec   KEEP BOMBING ATLANTIC WALL DESPITE ADVERSE WEATHER

VICHY LEADER 9 EXECUTED   Pierre Pucheu, Former Interior Minister, Declines To Be Blindfolded; Gives Rifle Squad Command to Fire

A Headache In Surplus.   Treasury: Office of Surplus Property Runs “Screwiest: Department Store in the World”

WAR  TODAY   Great Drive-Launched. Today Near Aachen May Signa 1 Beginning of Offensive 10 Make Ouick Kill

‘NEW WESTERN FRONT OFFENSIVE MAY SIGNAL BEGINNING OF AN ALL-OUT ALLIED DRIVE FOR KILL

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Push May Be Bid for Quick Kill   Allies Launch Attack to End War Before Win ter Sets In

New Allied Drive  May Be Quick Kill  Signs Tend to Prove Nazi Prediction of A General Assault

Capture Of German Town By Americans Reported Bey Stockholm Radio   Battleship Construction Program Resumed By Navy

INCREASED G ASOLINE QUOTAS ARE UNLIKELY   Ickes Says Government Is Only Interested In Meeting Needs Of Armed Services

3.000 Allied Heavies Pound French Areas   Four Great Armadas From Britain, Italy Blast Nazi Targets

 Canadians Mop Up Robot Launching Sites; R. A. F. Blasts Nazi Evacuation Shipping Off Dunkerque

Enter Argonne; Investing Forts  Of Ardennes Gap   American Columns Are Driving Whipped Nazi Homeward In Great Confusion All  Along Two Hundred Mile Battle Front.

Another Column Storms Gap on — Belgium Border   Third Smashes Into Argonne Forest Less Than 70 Miles From Reich; British Take Amiens. Cross Somme

Dewey Says Free Press Will Win Over Domination   Lesson Learned From All Dictators ls Applicable To This Country

PRESS LAUDED BY GOVERNOR DEWEY      Newspapers Are Called On to Resist Dom~ {nation

Gov. Dewey Calls Upon Free Press To Resist Government Domination

Dewey Gives Praise to Free Press   Says Ha Is, Confiteat ft Will Resist  _, Domination by =  Gey emimant

Vandal Seized Wielding Knife On Parked Cars   Grand Rapids Man Is Arrested; May Be Federal Case

SLASHES FORTY TIRES ON 36 PARKED AUTOS   Tries To Toss Knife Away  When Caught, But  It’s Recovered

Lausche Opens. Columbus Office   Launches Campaign For Governorship

UEFERMENTS 10 GO TO REY MEN   VWPB Lists 13 Vital War Programs Wnhic Carry Incuction Stay.

Bricker Urges More Control Over Spending   Charges FDR Sought To Make Congress __ Another Reichstag

WAGE DISPUTE IS RAGING ON   CIO and AFL Debate Return To Work in Lumber Industry

DEWEY SPEECH MAY PROVOKE VISIT BY FDR   UMW Leaders’ Okeh O! Governor Expected  To Draw Fire

20,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS HALF-WAY THROUGH SIEGFRIED LINE EAST OF AACHEN   Tanks Support Infantry in Big Push; French Smash to Rhine at Belfort Gap; Huss Describes Fighting in the City of Metz

Patton's Troops Gain Control of Third of Metz   Infantry, Tanks Close in on City From All Sides

PALaa ATTAGK AT ANZIO WITh ARMORED UNI   Allies Holding Third Major » Enemy Attempt to Cut Defense Lines.

Germans Uncover Secret Weapon   New Attacks Indicate Third Drive To Push Allies Into Sea Is Under Wav

ROBOT TANKS OF GERMANS USED ON ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Allied Forces Fight Grimly to Hold Off Enemy After 10-Day Lull in Battle Is Ended Very Suddenly.   WESTERN GERMANY IS VISITED BY BOMBERS   More Crackups In Nazi Satellite Front Looms, JugoSlav Forces Again Take Initiative.

Germans Experiment With Radio-Controlled Midget Tanks But New ‘Secret Weapon’ Has So Far Proved Dud

3RD ATTACK UPON ANZIO   All Assaults Are Beaten Off By Allied Forces

Nazis Admit Lines Split InTwoIn Kiev Sector   Black Picture Of War Given; No Hope For A Successful Counter-Attack Seen

“Wery Deep Penetration” Made by Reds   Nazis Quit Portion of Berdichev, Below Zhitomi:

NAZIS ADMIT EAST FRONT NOW SPLIT   Take Black View Of Reversals At Hands Of Soviets

Black Picture Given At Foreign Office, Says Dispatch Sent By Swedish Correspondent

NAZIS ADMIT LINES SPLIT   Deep Penetration of Defense Is Reported

Berlin Admits Split In. Line   Dark Picture’ Presented: For Axis; Expecting Quick Invasion

Resuming Relations Would Gain Cooperation with Russians, Idea of Exiles

Nazi Admits Line Is Severely Cut by Soviets  Spokesman Presents Gloomy Picture Of Germans’ Status

Japanese Resistance At Mokmer Airfield Is Stiffened; Fighting Sharp On Coast Road

EIGHT ‘OF ELEVEN: (ENEMY “PANES KNOCKED OUT IN. FIGHT FQ BIAK ISLAND ~~

Japs Pushed Back  In Burma Sector      Stilwell’s Men Advance, But Nipponese Gain Ground In Vital Honan Province

JAPA BY NEW ALLIED PUSH IN BURMA   Nippon Forces Gain Against Chinese In Honan

New Drive in North Burma Batt ers Japs  Nips Continue To   Nips Continue To Push On In China

ALLIES ADVANCE IN NORTH BURMA   Stilwell’s Forces Knife Ahead Jops Are Stopped Near Imphal

ALLIED THRUST ~INBURMA GAINS    Japanese Win New Ground In Honan Province

Stilwell Pushes Jap Forces Back In North Burma  a I   Enemy Continues Successes Against Desperate Chinese

STILLWELL MEN OPEN NEW DRIVE IN'NORTH BURME   Chinese Troops. Smash Southward in Three . Spearheads

Japs Hit by New Allied Offensive in North Burma   Chinese Forces in Honan Area Repulsed by Nippon Troops

Enemy Hit By New Offensive   In China’s Honan Province. Japanese Win New Sue rvAacenwe

New Drive In North Burma Batters Japs  Nips Continue To Push On In China

CEILING PRICE ON CORN NO MATTER WHO BUYS OR SELL   Farmer, Trucker, Feeder, Neighbor, AH Must Regard the Ceiling at AI Times, Says OPA.

Dewey Adviser and Hull Discuss 'U.S. Plan for Peace Orqanization

Dewey’s Representative to Meet With Hull to Discuss Security Plans

‘NON-PARTISAN’ TALKS PLANNED   Dewey Picks Dulles To Hold Conference With Hull

Republicans Want To Have Voice In World Peace   Hull Meets With Dewey’s Foreign Pelicy Adviser to Discuss Dumbarton Oaks . Meeting

Hull, Dulles to Talk Post-War  Security Plans   By JOHN M. HIGHTO

HullandDewey Peace Advisoi Plan Meeting   To Diseuss Plan for. Postwar World Security Organization Within Few Days

Will Confer With Dulles   Hull to Talk With ‘Dewey’s Choice for Secretary of State

HULL TO MEET COP DELEGATE   Plans Conference With Dewey’s Advisor On World Peace Plan

HULL T0 CONFER WITH DEWEY AIDE   Four-Power Meetings  Expected to Be Amicable with All Proposals Related

HULL, DULLES TO CONFER SOON ON WORLD SECURITY   Dewey's Representative and Secretary of State Expected to Talk Over Post-War .Organization at Washington in Few Days

HULL TO CONFER WITH DEWEY AIDE   ACCEPTS SUGGESTION OF CONFERENCE WTIH POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR

Dewey Issues Labor Day Proclamation, Giving Labor Views.   ‘BE SPECIFIC,’ FR TOLD

Ban Politics in Formation of Peace Agency   Hull Gratified at Dewey's Action on Momentous Question

Dulles Meets Hull on Peace   Wants Above-Board Action on ‘League’

Hull Expected to Confer Soon With Dewey's Foreign Affairs Advise

Hull Accepts Dewey’s Aide   Will Confer Soon On Postwar World Security Organization

Hull And Dulles, Dewey Advisor, To Confer Soon  Annthar Ctan TaLlan   Another Step Taken To Forward Unity — On Foreian Affairs

Hull fo Confer With Dewey's Aide on Peace   Conferences Set On New Postwar Security Agency

HULL, DEWEY AIDE TO TALK SECURITY   Secretary and John F. Dulles Are Expected to Confer In Washington, D. C.

RED ARMY NEARS LAST NAZI SUPPLY ARTERY IN RUSSIE   German Forces in Chudovo Sector Are Reported Caucht in Tran

NEARING LAST RAILWAY LINE SERVING FOE   Russians Prodding Ahead Through Snow And Rough Territory

RED ARMY IS NEAR ~ LENINGRAD-PSKOV RAILWAY TODAY   Twenty Miles Away, Units Smashed Forward Toward “Last Supply Artery.   SKI MEN PUSH DRIVE   Russians Attempting to Close _the Last Bottieneck Below Leningrad.

New Snowfall Covers Far North Front   Seviets Are Driving On Final Supply Rail Line of Nazis

SOVIET UNITS NEAR RAILWAY   20 Miles From LeningradPskov Line, Last Supply Artery far Nazis.   SKI-MEN PUSHING DRIVE

SOVIETS ADVANCE THROUGH SNOW IN BATTLE.FOR RAILS   LENINGRAD-MOSCOW LINE IS VIRTUALLY IN RUSSIAN HANDS

Russ Draw  Noose About Nazis Caught In The North   Leningrad-Moscow Rail Line Almost Completely In Soviet Hands

Russian Units Push To Cut Rail Line   Troops Drive To Close Last Bottleneck Near Leningrad

Soviet Troops Threaten Last Supply Route   Russions Are 29 Miles From Railway Which Serves Nazi Units West Of Novgorod

Reds Punch Close To Retreat Route   Pw NGCHICUL ARUUISG  Are Only 20 Miles From Vital Pskoylaninnene Death...

All But One Nazi Escape  Line Is Cut   Russian Army Uniis Within 20 Miles of Last Railway Between Lakes Ilmen and Peipus   SKIMEN PUSH DRIVE   Reds Already Hold Moscow and Revel Railroads in Leningrad Sector

BORMANN SUCCESSOR TO HITLER, HE SAYS   Little Known Nazi Is Being Groom,ed To Keep Movement Alive After Collapse Of Germany

Hatch Urges Definite Foreign  Affairs Policy   Says Doubt on U. S$. Stand Is Disturbing Factor in World

Scores Killed, Many Injured By Tornado   Wind of Tornadic Proportions Twists Through Penn. sylvania and West Virginia—Death Toll Reported Mounting

At Least 60 Dead Hundreds Hurt  In East Storms   Tornadic Winds Strike Pennsylvania  And West Virginia

42 PERSONS DIE, HUNDREDS HURT IN VIOLENT STORN   Wind of Tornadic Force . Sweeps Through Southwestern Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia.   STRIKES AT NIGHT, SOME AREAS ISOLATED   Soldiers, Police and Firemen Work to Release Trapped Victims—Death Roll  ' Rising.

Three States Hit ‘By Severe Winds   More Deaths Expected to be Reported When Rural Communities in Mountains Are Reached

Parts of Penn. And West Va. Hit By Record Storm   Hundreds Injured, Many Homes Razed

60 Persons Killed In Tornado   Hundreds Homeless “in  Pennsylvania and West  Virgina, Lnjured Crowd Huspitals

Tornadoes Kill Scores; Seven Die In Wisconsin   iRe The Associated Presa)

At Least 42 Lose Lives, Many Hurt  In Storms   Southwest Penna., Northern W.. Virginia Hit by Violent Wind   SHINNSTON, W. VA., SUFFERS SEVERELY.   PRR RAD as NR SB f  Communications Cu  Reports Continue To Filter Throush

TO STUDY WHITE COLLAR STATUS   Senators To Investigate Sad Condition Of Millions On Fixed Income, But There’s No Indication Of What Can Re Done.

White Collar Man Studied   Millions of Him, Unorganiz.ed, on Same Old Pay As Living Costs Soar

J ap Convoy Sunk In Effort To Aid  New Guinea Base   Allied Submarines Send Down More Enemy Ships as Marshall island Blockade Kept Intact—Japs Intensifying Attack On Bougainville Where Ohio Boys Hold Beachhead

27 Japanese Ships Sunk  In Pacific   Indications Are That Mili Is About Ready For An Invasion Blow

217 Japanese ‘Ships Sent ‘To Bottom   U.S. Subs Account For 15 While Planes  . Wipe Out Five-Ship Convoy Near Wewak

Allies Sink 2/ Jap Ships By Air, Sea Action  U. S. Battleship Guns Soften We. We Atoll

27 More Jap Ships Are Sunk   Subs Account for 22; Bombard Mili Atoll In Possible Pre-In vasion Softening-Up

, Allied Subs And Planes Sink 27 eMore Jap Ships   By-Passed Enemy Base In Marshalls Pounded By Warshins. Rombers.

27 Jap Ships Sunk; 22 by Submarines  Warships Shell Mili Atoll,   Warships Shell Mili Atoll, Jap Base in The Marshalls

U. S. U-BOATS TAKE BIG TOLL OF JAP SHIPS   Indications Mount That ByPassed Fortress in Marshalls is About Ready For Final Assault   MILI ATOLL SOFTENED

SUBS GET 22 NIP VESSELS AS INDICATIONS POINT TO FINAL ASSAULT GN MARSHALLS GROUP   Total of 642 Ships Sunk Probably Sunk or Damaged by Undersea Boats Says Allied Headquarters Report. in Listing New Naval Disasters for Japs

22 of Number Are Destroyed By American Submarines In Pacific Area:   /ATOLL READY FOR RAID

Included in the American submarines’ toll were two transports, two tankers, and  freighters.

SUBMARINES ACCOUNT FOR 22 SINKINGS AND PLANES GET 5 MORE   INDICATIONS MOUNT THAT BY-PASSED JAP IS. LAND BASE READY FALL

SUBS CREDITED WITH GETTING » 22 SHIPS   Mili Atoll In Marshalls Hit By Warships    Killed In Convoy Battle Near Wewak: Ponape, Rabaul Raided

ALLIES SINK 27 MORE NIP SHIPS, 22 BY U-BOATS   Believe U. S. Ready To Launch Final Assault in Marshall Isles

Twenty-Seven More Jap Vessels Sunk   American Submarines Down 22 in  Extended Cruises

American Subs Account For 15 Of Nip Vessels   British U-Boats Sink Seven As Yank Airmen Wipe Out Convoy Killing 1500 Troops; U.S. Naval Forces Shell Mili, Wewak

Submersibles Take Heavy Toll Of Nip Shipping In Pacific   Yank Subs Alone Credited With 22 Vessels, Including Two Transports and Two Tankers—British Report Seven Sinkings Off Islands in Dutch East Indies.

JAPAN LOSES 27 SHIPS IN ISLAND RAID   Final Assault On Marshalls Now Underway

27 Jap Ships Are Sunk By Allied Forces   U. S. Submarines Claim 15; Mili Atoll Being Softened, Nipponese Puech Taward India

US. SUBS BAG 15 OF SHIPS IN LATEST RAIDS   5-Ship Convoy Wiped Out In Futile Effort To Aid Japs Trapped At Wewak

Allies Sink At Least 2/ Jap Vessels   Submarines Account For 22 Ships; Bombers Wipe Out Five Shion Convov

TOTAL TOLL OF 27 SHIPS, KNOX CLAIMS   Two Transports Among Victims of U-Boats.—Convoy Headed For New Guinea Obliterated.

Yankee Subs Take Big Toll In Pacific   Trying to Supply Bases; Entire 5-Ship Convoy Obliterated

27 JAP SHIPS SUNK, WEWAK CONVOY BALKED   1500 Japs Estimated Killed or Drowned in Convoy Battle by U. S. Airmen   GUNS BLAST MILI   batileships and Planes Soften Ur Strong Jap Bases in Marshalls Final Assault May Be Near

Twelve Jap Ships Sent to Bottom  U. S. Strikes New Blows in Pacific

Subs Account for 22; Total of Enemy Sea Losses is 642   Five-Ship Convoy, Including Transports, is Last Victim

27 IAP SHIPS SUNK BY ALLIES      Soften Mili Atoll In Marshalls for Final Assault

with 1,500” Japs Victim   Battleships Aid Carrier Planes in Softening Up Mili Atoll; Rabaul is Hit

Allies Sink Twenty-Seven  Jap Vessels   Final Assault Is Readied For Mili Atoll—Burmese Fighting Heavy

U.S. Subs Sink 22 More Jap Ships: Enemy Convoy Wiped Out by Bombs

Altied Raiders Account For 27 Jap Ships   American Subs Bag 15 Vessels In Pacific, Far East: 7 By British.   WIPE OUT NIP CONVO)

Allies Sink at Least 27 More Ships of Japs   Submarines Get 22 of Bag; One By-Passed Jap Fortress About Reddy for Attack

AMERICAN SUBS  CREDITED WITH  15 ENEMY SHIPS INDICATIONS POINT  TO FINAL ASSAULT IN MARSHALL ISLES

Invited to Make Sugges.   tions for Tax Boosts . Before Senate Group

WILLKIE'S TAX IDEAS WANTED   Senate Seeks Advice On How To Raise More Federal Revenue

TAFT WOULD HAVE WILLKIE EXPLAIN   INVITES STATEMENT OF HOW ‘TO EXTRACT 16 BILLION FROM TAXPAYERS,

More. Confusion Ahead as Cities Prepare. To Go Back on Fast Time at Different Date:

THME ; CHANGE — NEXT MONTH   MAJORITY OF Oi10 TOWNS TC TURN CLOCKS FORWARD, DURING. APRIL, BURVEX SHOWS.

PARMUSHIRU BLASTED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Two Night Raids On Kurile Base Revealed By Navy

Raids Renewed  On Paramushiru   Allies Report Little Opposition From Japs

IEWEY SAYS. ADMINISTRATION HAS NO POSTWAR WORK PLAN      REPUBLICAN . CANDIDATE “LABHES OUT ‘AT NEW DEAL . . WECORD IN HIS OPEN-  ING SPEECH

Administration Fearful of Peace. G.O.P. Nominee’s Openings Theme   WANTS MEN HOME   “Not: Afraid of America’s Future”: Hits ‘Collapse’ , of WPB, Discord

New Deal’s Plan to Keep Big Army After War Hit By Dewey at Philadelphia   Says Roosevelt Regime “Afraid of Peace; Present Administration is Called Wasteful, Exhausted, Bickering

Promises Quick Demobilization After Victory In  Opening Campaign.

New Dealers Fear Peace,  Dewey Says   GOP Candidate Make: First Major Speech Of His Campaign

DEWEY FLAYS ROOSEVELT REGIME   Charges Plan to Keep Men in Services for Lack of Jobs

DEWEY SAYS FDR AFRAID OF PEACE   GOP Candidate Opens Tour by Calling Regime ‘Tired, Exhausted’

PEACE FEARED BY NEW DEAL, DEWEY AVERS   REPUBLICAN BEGINS HIS BATTLE FOR PRESIDENCY

DEWEY SAYS NEW DEALERS PROMISE DOLE, NOT JOBS   Assails Plan He Asserts Exists to Maintain Big Army After War to Reduce  '- Unemployment.   CALLS FOR SPEED IN DEMOBILIZATION   Flag-Waving Crowd Greets Candidate in Philadelphia as He Attacks Record  _of Democrats. —

New Dealers Fear Peace Dewey Says   SO WANT TO KEEP BOYS IN THI ARMY AND Te®AN HUGE ARMY) OF UNEMPLOYED; “AFRAID OI PEACE,”   Opens His Campaign

Large Post-War Army  Planned in Fear .  Of No Civilian ‘Jobs,  Governor. Contends* OPENS CAMPAIGN  IN PHILADELPHIA  Says He Has Faith ~~  In “America? 8 Future, Quotes Gen. Hershey

G. O. P. Candidate . Opens Campaign With Address In Philadelphia  IS WELL RECEIVED Says Roosevelt Fears Tc  Face the End of The  War

New deal afraid of  peace, Dewey avers   ‘Administration provides real issue bv telling plans to retain large army’

Roosevelt Fears Peace Return, Dewey Charges   Opens Nation-Wide Speaking Tou At Philadelphia With Blisterine Blast.on New Dealers

Dewey Says Large Army Plan Roosevelt Scheme to Provide Jobs for Returning Veterans

GIVEN AN EXTRA DAY   ape 16 New Dead Deadline for Mailing Overseas Packages

Sever Half German Pocket’  South. of Schelde Estuary. And Seize Watervliet

Athens Taken By British And Greeks   People Notified Day Of Liberation Here

GERMAN FORCE FLEES BEFORE BRITISH ARMY   Allies Are Expected To Land Within Two Days

Moscow says enemy being  ‘cleaned out? Tighten circle around Odessa

Reds Start Mopping Up Near Odessa   Russians Trap 25,000 To 50,000 Men On Black Sea

Soviets Spring Trap On Nazis   Reds Trap Remnants Of Five Or Six German Divisioris Northwest Of Odessa; Siege Arc Around Port Narrows

‘Upwards Of 50,000 Germans Being Wiped Out By Russian: ‘Troops Northwest Of Odessa ;

Russians Trap Five to Six Nazi Divisions   Drive Near Enemy‘s Last Escape Route From Odessa

Soviets Lrap. Thousands Near Odessa  25,000 to 50,000. Meu  Being Wiped Out,  Moscow Announces RING AROUND CITY CLOSING GRADUALLY  Mobile Soviet Units  Now With 13 Miles  Of Last Escape Route   25,000 to 50,000 Mer Being Wiped Out, Moscow Announces   RING AROUND CITY CLOSING GRADUALLY

REMNANTS OF GERMANS in RUSSIAN TRAP   Five Or Six Divisions Being Wiped Out Moscow Announces; Capture More Towns En Route To Odessa   Retreat in Panic

Soviet Mobile Units Smash Near Escape-Way   Take Dniester City; Narrow Seige Arc Around Odessa

REDS NARROW SIEGE LINES ABOUT ODESSA   Nazis Trapped Northwest of City Being Wiped Out

Remnants Of Five German Divisions Trapped By Reds   German Port Of Odessa Is Isolated In New Advonce By Onrushing Armies In Ukraine

Reds Wipe Out Trapped Nazis Above Odessa   60 Villages Taken in Narrowing Siege Arc Around Big Port; No Mention of Rumania

MORE THAN 25,000 GERMANS TRAPPED IN ODESSA AREA   Russian Army Encircles Rem“nants of Five or Six, Divi‘sions and Kills 5,000 « ‘ in Two Davs.   REDS SWIFTLY CLOSING ON BLACK SEA PORT   One Soviet Column Only 10 ‘Miles Away, Another 17— Nazis Hurl Reserves Into Battle.

Swift Seizure of Black Sea » Port of Odessa Expected  MANY TOWNS TAKEN   tanh aw A fmt me:   Red Forces Near Last Escape Line to Ru MaARILA

MANY TOWNS TAKEN IN RAPID ADVANCE   Red Forces Near Last Es. cape Line to Rumania

Spring Arrives Today, But —  Snow And Sleet Storm Hits County Over The Week-End

Ee  Spring Arrives Today, But — $$  Snow And Sleet Storm Hits - County Over The Week-End

PREPARE HOME FOR ‘BOY BLUE   Grandmother Fails to Keep Secret of Identity

Bar U.S. Ships  From Argentine Order Expected To Be Effective Oct. 1

Crack-Down On Argentina By America   ‘Government Orders U. S.  Flagships to Halt Stops , At Ports

US. 10 CUT OFF SHIPPING TO ARGENTINE   Latest Crackdown Explained in Terms of War Requirements.

Fall Of Bucharest To Russians Near. Bulgars Talk Peace  Germans In Full Retreat — Toward Reich From France

American Armies Fight Within 33 Miles Of Belgium   German 19th Falls Back Under Costly Attacks; St. Dizier Captured

British Force Enters Amiens   Nazis Fall Back in South France; Poles Seize Gothic Line Anchor; Fall of Bucharest Near

Other Islands Are Captured In Swift Blow   Results Of Assault On Vital Japanese Naval Base Not Yet Given Ont Re Nimits

Engebi and Several Other Isles of Atoll Captured; American Casualties Light

Marines Hit Atolls, Gain Speedy Coup Against Japs   Truk Within Range Of U.S. Land Bases

Several Other Islands Fall To Americans   Smashing Victory Rivals Triumph on Kwajalein Atoll, 400 Miles to Southeast

Islands Seized In Quick Move  By Task Force   Admiral Nimitz Reveals Speedy Victory Scored In Marshalls; Major Airfield Taken   Truk Base Within Range Of Bombers   Assaults On Other Jap Islands Under Way, As American Offensive Widens In Scope

Seizure Puts. Ameri ah Forces .750 ‘Statute Miles From Trok—Win Vial Air Base.         OTHER MARSHALL _ ATOLLS OCCUPIED   Assaults Against. Enem Continue With Repo ‘t Indicating Our Casual. ties Are Light. ie

SEVERAL OTHER ’ ISLANDS SEIZED BY AMERICANS   ad Important Airbase Snatched From Japs After Landing On Eniwetok Atoll

Casualties Light as Yanks Take Several Islands of Eniwetok Atoll; Can Strike At Wake, Carolines or Marianas Islands Now

Several Additional Isles In Marshalls  Captured by Speedy American Invasion

ENGEBI ISLE, OTHER POINTS FALL TO YANKS   Losses Reported Light As Truk, Wake Are Threatened

Air Base Is In Hands (f Victors   Land-Based Planes Are Now Near Enough To Lash Out at Truk

NEW VICTORY REPORTED BY l). §. MARINES   ISLAND CASUALTIES LIGHT IN WEST PACIFIC PUSH

IMPORTANT JAP  AIR BASE FALLS   Taken One Day After Landing on Eniwetok Atoll   OTHER ISLES GAPTURED   Smashing Victory Puts Truk Within Attack Range of Land-based Planes

Important Air Base Included   »mash At Eniwetok Riyals ~~ _ Lightning Kwajalein Victory

Other Isles Eniwetok Atoll Seized   U. S. Casualties in — Latest Conquest Seem to Have Been Light

FIRES ARE SET ONJAPBASTION BY LIBERATORS   Blazes Rising 2,000 Fee! Are Observed After Truk Atiack   DUTCH NEW GUINEA AIRFIELDS RAIDED

Liberators Strike at Japs on Truk and Woleai  Bombers From South and Central Pacific Participate

FIRES AT TRUK   Other Yank Planes Crater Runway of Jap Airfield At Woleai

Solomon-Based Bombers Set Fires at Truk   Runway on Woleai Is Cratered; Raids Made On Wewak, Hansa Bay

Jap Bases in Caroline Isle  Group Bombed   Truk Among Targets Selected by Airmen of United States

LIBERATORS SET FIRES ON TRUK BASES   Also Drop Bombs on Woleai, Integrated ith Attacks from Marshalls Blast Wewak.   Aussies Move Up

Liberators Strike at Japs on Truk and Woleai  7 Bombers From South   Bombers From South and Central Pacific Participate

CHINESE REPEL STRONG ATTACK BY JAP TROOPS   Reinforced Enemy Hurls Repeated Attacks At Suburbs of Hengyang; Jap Casualties Reported To Number  .000.

Chinese Repulse  Jap Gas Attack Upon Hengyang   Valiant Chinese Defenders Poisoned By Mustard Gas. But Keep Hold On City; Japs Advance Elsewhere.

JAPS USE GAS, CHINESE CLAIM   Hengyang’s Defenders Hold Against Enemy Attack

Atrocity Posters To Be Shown  Japs Claim Stories Cover Our Cruelties

First Posters S      Based “On: Story of Jap:  “Slashing At Sagging . Form of Wounded   . American

{Ray Tucker “Polls” Rival Campaign Strategists  ‘FDR Given Slight Edge In Nip-And-Tuck  Battle: Two States May Decide Outeome

HENGYANG IS CIRCLED   Chinese Had Broken Thru Jap Ring Three Days Ago

Japs Encircle Key City in Hunan Region   Foe Now Controls 32 Miles of Hengyang Railway

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Other Allied Units Strike Northward Against Fleeing Nazi Columns; Yanks Join Battle Above Antwerp

Three Major Strongholds Hit In Drive   Poles Enter Breda; British Capture Goes, Loon Zand

ALLIES STRIVE TO CUT RETREAT OF NAZI TROOPS   40,000 Germans Fleeing In Direction Of Rotterdam, Report Says   DRIVE UNDERWAY TO FREE ANTWERP PORT

 GARRISON CITY OF BREDA FALLS   Allied Planes Rain Death And Destruction Upon Troops Congesting Highways

0,000 Germans ay Be Trapped  n Meuse River   Canadians, Poles Join in Assault

Alhies Trying To Trap Nazis In Holland   40,000 Germans Are Still Attempting to Make Escape

Allies Hammer Path to North As Breda Falls   Beveland Island Garrison More Tightly Squeezed  Rv Canadian Adleance

U. 8. BOMBERS STRIKE HEAVY BLOW AT REICH   Industrial Targets in Southwest Germany Are Blasted

ON GERMANY AND FRANCE   Fortresses And Liberators Blast Southwestern Germany After RAF Night Fleet Attacks Stuttgart.   Fires Rage

U. S. Bombers Hit Germany And France   Record Fighter Force Guards Fortresses on Their Mission

GERMANY RAIDED, 18 PLANES BAGGED   HUGE ARMADA OF FIGHTERS BOXES. IN ATTACKING AMERICAN: BOMBERS.

STRIKE HEAVY BLOW AT REICH   Industrial Targets in Southwest Germany Are Blasted

Heavies Hit  Nazi Plants  And Airfield Virtually No Air Opposition Met

Yank Escort Downs 18 Nazi Planes   Southern Germany, Airfield Near Paris Feel Bombs

YanksKeepUp Nonstop Reich Blasting   British Bombers Span Channel For New Attacks

Over 2,000 Allied Planes Batter Foe   German [adustrial Targets,  Chartres Airfield Hit

18 Nazi Planes Are Knocked Out by Escort   Assault Follows R. A. F. Strike Against Stuttgart

U.s.Casualties Mount To 528.795   List Announced By Stim son Includes 117,453 Dead

Continued Today. Despite Ap“peal ‘by -German-Control-” Jed ‘Danish : Radio.

‘SALVAGE CAMPAIGN OF WASTE PAPER   Governor Hickenlooper Designatew Months of July, August, and September,

CAMPAIGN ARGUMENTS CENTER ABOUT WAR, PAST AND PRESENT  DEMOS SAY GOP LOST  PEACE; REPUBLICANS SAY CECRECY MAINTAINED

War and Peace Campaign Topics   Dems Say GOP Lost the Peace — Facts on War  Hidden, Republicans Say

Democrats coneentrate arguments  ‘Republicans los! the last peace’

Revive Original Campaign Topics   Dems Blame GOP for Lost Peace;  This War Laid to FDR

Both Parties Continue on War Theme   GOP Lost Peace After First World War,  : Demos Claim

Pearl Harbor I GOP Theme   Rep. Maas Says FDR Had Advance Warning

BOTH PARTIES ARGUE PEACE   Democratic and Republican Speakers Emphasize Old Points

 “V-J Day” Comes Closer  'P acific War Shortened Six  Months, Senator Tydings Says

BRITAIN ENDS EFFORT 10 WIN TURK SUPPORT   Churchill Reveals   Vecision  eee everemn  MAY CARVE REICH  Debates on Foreign Affairs

PRIME MINISTER SAYS IN COM ONS CHANGES WILL BE  MADE IR OTE HELPS FUTURE PEACE =”

— a a a a ee 6 eo  In Reich Likely   EFFORTS TO BRING TURKEY INTO CAMP OF ALLIES HAVE CEASED, PREMIER REVEALS

REICH TERRITORY MAY BE SHIFTED   Churchill Says Allies Wil Make Changes Needed for Secure Peace

BRITAIN CEASES EFFORT 10 GET TURKS INTO WAR   Allies Will Win Balkans Anyway, Churchill Assures Commons   HUN LAND LOSS HINTED   Territorial Changes Will Be Made If Necessary To Guarantee World Peace

Veteran: Group - : -Would-Operate. _. Airline InN. E.   Norsemen . Air “Transpart -. Plan Of 30 Servicemen; Will. Serve. Fitchburg

Nine Deaths Due To Storm In New England States   Heavy Damage As Resorts Deserted

SUPPLIES ARE CUT DOWN TO MERE TRICKLE   Allied Air Fleets Cut Rail Lines and Knock Out Freight Yards.

Allied Bomb Blows Cripple All Rail Lines For 210) Miles; Bullseye Hits Scored On Dam, Loosing  Wall Of Water On Nazis

‘AIR FLEETS CUT ENEMY SUPPLIES TO MERE TRICKLE   Rails Knocked Out— Cracked Dum Flood Hlalée Nine Nlace? Diane

Air Blows Cut Italy Railways   German Supplies Dwindle as Allies Score Knockout Hits

ITALY RAIL LINES CUT BY BOMBERS   Every Rail Yard in Central Italy Is Knocked Out

Allied Air Attacks Reduce Flow of Supplies to Nazis in Italy; Blast Big Dam, Causing Great Flood Damage

Reports Persist. _ Gn Allied Smash  Timed To Invasion   (ermans Evacuate Civilians From 5th Army Front

Enemy Railway Lines In Italy Said Paralyzed   Flow of Supplies To ‘Nazi Troops Claimed Cut To Mere Trickle —

Many Prisoners Taken By Americans In South France   Bag of Captives Passes. 23,000—German Resistance _ Collapses Inside Toulon—Naris ae Bight to Escape:.- ae

French Port Has Renewal Of Fighting   [Remnants of Nazi Force  Regroup in Marseille And Take Position On Wate: front

Where Remnants of German Garrison Occupy Strong Positions on Waterfront.   10,000 Surrender

Fighting Flares Up in Big Port Of Marseille   German Garrison Manage: to Regroup and Occupy Strong Positions

Mas Prisoner: s Taken By  Americans In South France   Bag- of Captives Passes: 23, 000—German Resistance  ceellaptes Inside Toulon—Nazis_ we Fight to Escape-.-

BOCHE STILL FIGHT INSIDE OF MARSEILLE   Other Units Of Foe Race Northward; Allied Movements  Shrouded

QUIT HITLER, NAZI GENERALS TELL HOMELAND.   Appeals Made by Captured Officers Warning Germans to Oust Fuehrer.

Washington Disappointed   But U. S. Government Will Continue Efforts To Heal Russo-Polish Breach  =>. BIA CRIRY SMITH

Still Lack Details On Set. Edmondson   Parents Receive Letter About Local Man Missing Over Berlin Since May 24

Reports Indicate Leslie Palmer Is Prisoner of War   Germany Reports Pilot of Plane as Prisoner.

Vienna Area Is Again Battered   American Heavy Bomber: Follow Up Night Blow Of RAF.

Germans Report American Bombers Blast Vienna Again  Planes from Italy Beported in @_.__ ig we =3 *. 8% BP. ORL ke   Planes from Italy Beported in Second Eaid in 12 Hours—-Other Bombers Back Invasion Forces

Vienna Area Is Hit Anew In Day Raic   Other Forces Darker French Skies to Aid Invasion Troops

ITALY BASED BOMBERS Hil VIENNA AREA   Fortresses From Britain Attack Enemy Air Bases in Northern France ard   ROCKETS STILL FLYING

Vienna Area Under Raids  Great Aerial Forces Also Aiding Invasion

Heavy Bombers Attack Vienna   Bad Weather Closes In Again On Northwest Europe.

American Bombers Strike Again At Vienna Area  Other Planes Assault Invasion Coast, Blasting Airfields

Yanks Fight Air Battles In Balkans   Other Planes Darken Skies “ Over French Front In Attacks Supporting Ground Forces.

BOMBERS OVER EUROPE AGAIN   Vienna Area Hit Twice; Invasion Forces Given New Support

Vienna Area Attacked By U.S. Heavies   Follow Up Night Blow Delivered By British Air Force

ALLIED HEAVIES ATTACK VIENNA   Big Force Hits Vienna Again; Britain-Based Task Forces Attack Northern Europe: Hit Yugoslavia.

HARD HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS      Hours Austrian City Attacked by Planes. Italian Area’ oa

Italian - Based Bombers Hit At Viennese Again   Berlin Radio Reports Second _U. S. Raid Over Area Made In Twelwe Hours

Vienna Bombed, Berlin Says   Task Forces of Planes Support Invasion Troops

IN VIENNA AREA   Second Raid in 12 Hours Is Made by U. S. From Italy

RAID EUROPE IN 2-PLY ASSAULT   Nazis Report 2nd Attack on Vienna in 12 Hours

U. S. Heavies Attack Vienna   Americans Follow Up R. A. Assaults on Same Reaion

Two Mothers, Six Children Killed ©   Auto Hit by. Flyer At Ohio Crossing

BERLIN IS HIT AS ALLIED AIR ASSAULT RISES   Seven Countries Blasted In Record Two-Way Blow On Axis Eurcpe

All Return Safely from Heavy Raids   Follow Bombings by Rec ord Number of U. S. Planes Yesterday

U.S. PLANES ON PROWL YESTERDAY   112 Enemy Aircraf Are Destroyed

112 Nazi Planes Downed   Berlin Hit By Royal Air Force Thursday Night

NON-STOP OFFENSIVE ON NAZIS CONTINUES   Long Range American Bombers Hit Bases Over Wide Territory

Two Way Assault Frem Britai And Itahan Bases Round Or Sixth Day Of Greatest Air 0: femsive Of War    MUCH DESTRUCTION { TO PLANE PLANT

NON-OTOP Alh ATTACK GIVE FOES NO RES   Block-busters Rain Down on Capital; U. S. Blows Set a Record.

4000-0. S. AIRCRAFT BLAST 7 NATIONS IN TWO-WAY ASSAULT   RAF Light Bombers Follow With Attacks On Berlin : And Western Germany; New Day Pincers  Attaek Hinted

Non-Stop Allied Air Offensive Is in Sixth Day   Western Germany and Berlin Still Being Pounded

Great Air Offensive Continues   Berlin, France, Hungary Blasted By Allied Bombs

RAF Planes Smash Berlin Tn Night Raid   1.000 American Bombers Blast Seven Countries In Two Days

BERLIN, WESTERN REICH HIT IN NEW AIR ASSAULT   M00 U.S. Planes In Record Blow: Swiss Dawn 12 Planos

00 U.S. Planes  Blast 7 Countries   RAF Mosquitoes Round Out Sixth Day Of Aerial Offensive by Hitting Berlin

Huge Air Blow Hits Berlin   R. A. F. Follows 4000-Plane Yank Raid on Germany

Other Planes Are Over Germany Again Today After Night Attack By British Bombers

Dewel Will Be Speaker  Ban MO mn POTD ty tip = Wwe Wwe wa kh   Republicans Will Hold Meeting In Iowa Theatre

FOR RGREAT STRIDES AFTER WAR ENDS   Sketches of State’s_ . Candidates to be Given.

Jowa Js One of Leaders ia Post-War Plauning   State Commission Is Doing Good Work 

GERMAN SMASH HURLED BACK IN AACHEN BATTLE   Nazis Fight Furiously Along Entire Front; Canadians Gain Near Antwerp

. S. FIRST ARMY FIGHTS OFF HE THIRD COUNTERSMASH N 24 HOURS INSIDE AACHEN   anadians Waging Crucial Combat for Opening of Antwerp as Supply Port Before Hard Winter's Gales Set In   DVANCE ON BELFORT GAINING MOMENTUM

German Thrusts Stopped   First Army Juncture Made After Three _Counterattacks Fail; Supplies By Air Now

Allies Knock Two Holes In Antwerp Coastal Defenses   Clamp Grip On Entrances To Port; Repel Counter-Attacks At Aachen

Yanks Clamp Aachen in Steel Trap   GermanCounterattacks Fail to Prevent Union of U. S. Forces

U. 8. Troops Withdrawn From Inside Fort Driant   Giip fs Claimped On  Antwerp Entrances

Allied Patrols Grip Entrances To Antwerp Aree   Yanks Withdraw From Ft. Driant After Ten Days

Third Heavy Nazi Blow. Hurled Back   American Units. Withdraw From For? Driant

Yanks Seal Off Aachen Completely   American Forces From North And South Unite East Of City.

Doughboys Make Gains In Vosges   Canadians Wage Crucial Battle For Opening  Of Antwerp

INDUSTRIAL CENTERS OF GERMANY RAIDED   More Than 2,000 American Heavy Bombers Pound Berlin And  Rail Communicatione

U. 5. BOMBERS BLAST BERLIN   Smash Industrial Targets. U-Boat Pens As Heavy  Assault Continues

YANK BOMBERS   Gen. Doolittle Says Raids Have Smashed 23 Nazi Oil. Refineries

Blast Germany's Aircraft Plants In Major Attack   Doolittle Praises Allied Superiority

Smash Enemy Submarine Pens in Toulon Rail Comm munications in Rhone Valley.   Bad Weather

Savage Fighting Rages in Rimini   Nazis Seek to Prevent Allied: Breakthrough Into Po Valley Area ©

NAZIS ON LAST STAND IN ITALY   Desperate Fight Waged For Rimini, Gateway To Po Valley

Germans Fight To Prevent Po Valley Entry   Savage Battle Is Being Waged For City of Rimini

Nazis Battle Savagely to Hold Rimini   'Fearful of Eighth Army ' Lunge to Gothic Line in Po Breakthrough

Nazis Fight Hard To Hold Rimini   Casualties Heavy  1... wri e*earereias

119 Members of Hillman’s P.A.C. Listed as  Communist Fellow Travelers

SHERIFF INDICTED IN CLARK COUNTY   Assistant Prosecutor in M’Coy Case Is Investigator

Report Says Hungary Ready For Armistice   Government Accepted Preliminary Armistice Conditiors.

READ or FRENCH ‘NATIONAL COMMITTEE WAS. NOT IN.  * WITED TO WASHINGTON —  i BY ROOSEVELT +

DE GAULLE'S VISIT WiLL HOT MEAN FuiL RECOGNITION   President's Displeasur>, With French  Leader . My Is Flain'y Evident '

DE GPULLE'S WISH WALL HOT WE FEL RECOGATIO   President's Displeasur2 With French Leader Is Flan y Evident

HONSHU IS ALSO HIT, MIPS CLAIM   ‘Substantial’ Force @ B-29’s Blast Japs’  Arsenal Center

B-29s Hit Mukden Darien, Manchuria War Plant Cities   Saipan-Based Bombers Seen Flying Over Honshu Twice

“THANKSGIVING DAY TQ BE OBSERVED   The Nation, With Exception  y Of Seven States, Observes Day; Turkey Is Lacking in Several Areas

D WARTIME THANKSGIVING OBSERVED   DYS AT FRONT GET TRADITIONAL TURKEY DINNERS ALONG WITH HOMEFOLKS

Third Wartime Thanksgiving Finds Fighters and Civilians In Traditional Celebrations

Vacant Cheirs at Dining Tables Mar Third War Time Thanksgiving Day

NATION GIVES THANKS AMID WAR SORROWS   FIGHTING MEN JOIN IN RITES; TURKEY GOES TO FRONT

Wartime Thanksgiving: GI Joe and Jane Get Most Turkey, But That's Okay with Homefolks

Nominees for State, County Offices to Be Chosen Today  Polls to Be Open From Noon Until   Polls to Be Open From Noon Until 7 P. M.; 62 Candidates Are in Contests to Fill 11 Local Posts

‘Nominees for State, ‘County Offices 'to Be Chosen Tedav   Polls to Be Open From Noen Until 7 P. M.: 62 Candidates Are in Contests to Fill 11 Local Posts

Churchill Asserts Empire To Face World Well Knit   Tells Commons Turkey Counted Out of War, Praises Badoglio Government, Favors League Backed by ‘Overwhelming Force’

Wisconsin Communities Report An Increase In Early Balloting Over 1940 Level

LIEUT. BUDDE NOW GERMAN PRISONER   Parents. Recéived Telegram _ Tuesday With News — .., + Hels Safe.

LIEUT. BUDDE, NOW CERMAN PRISONER   Parents Recéived -Telegram Tuesday With News LF Te Safe

RUBBER SUPPLIES BETTER, TIRES ARE STILL LIMITED   Five Countries Making Contributions But Main Middle East Sources Are Closed Until Japanese Are Whipped.

Rubber Outlook > Now Improving   ROGER BABSON. REVIEWS : TIRE SITUATION IN’U. S. A.

CAMPAIGN IN NORTH BURMA ~ MOVES AHEAD   AMERICAN FORCE TAKES ONE _ ENEMY STRONGHOLD—JAP’ “COUNTER-OFFENSIVE   WAS BEEN HALTED? 

MOVE INTO SHADZUP   Nip Offensive in India Not Yet Stopped Completely

Third Army Nears Great Arsenal City - Of Saarbrucken   Rhine-Rhone Area Rid Of Nazis; Reds Take 50 Slovak Villages; Allied Forces Advance In Italy

Force Crossing Of Rhine River At Strasboura   Many Enemy Tanks Destroyed as Nazis Attempt Breakthrough at Belfort Gap; Russian Forces Penetrate Slovakia

Allies Make Other Gains North, South of Central Seetor      rrench Report Crossing Rhine Near Strashoure

Methodists Plan Crusade For Christ  4} Or, on ee   Five Objectives In 25 Million Post-War Plan

‘CRUSADE FOR CHRIST’ Reconstruction Program fs Advocated hy Methodists

King Awaits New Type Jap Warfare   Hope Enemy Will Change Tactics Now and Come  Out For Showdown.

NAME WARREN KEYNOTER FOR GOP MEETING   Californian Is Chosen By Arrangements Committee

Warren Named GOP Keynote1   Joseph Martin Recommended As Permanent Conv. Chairman

GOV. WARREN NAMED 6. 0.P. KEYNOTER    Rep. Martin to Be Convention’s Permanent Chairman

Warren Selected GOP Keynoter   California. Governor Named By Committee

Warren To Keynote GOP Meet   Califernian Chosen To Open Convention; Rep: Matrin to Be Permanent Chairman

Allies Break Through German Orne, Mayenne River Lines   Battle May Decide War In The West   Fall Of Lorient. Brest, St Nazaire Only Matter Of Daves

Ailies Less Than 130 Miles Away   Plunging Toward Commuti ications Center of Le  Mans Today

Desperate Effort Made To Split  Drive On Paris   Powerful Yank, British Force Burst Through . Orne, Mayenne Lines -

‘At Least Four Hun Divisiens In Effort to Halt Paris  Drive From West

GAIN 3 MILES IN ATTEMPT TO SPLIT DRIVE   Paris Only 130 Miles Ahead

THRUST AIMED TO SPLIT NEI PUSH GN PARIS   Counierattack Gains 3 Miles  at Frightful Gost in Lives, Armor.

Drive Swings West   Other U.S) Units Mapping Up Nozis In Brittany Area

WAR PROFITEERS HELP 10 HITLER   Nelson, at Dinner Meeting, Informs Guests of Plans to Break Unity.

MILITARY RULE IN HAWAI BANNEI   COURT HOLDS MARTIAL LAW INVALID DESPITE NIMITZ’ TESTIMONY.

HAWAN LAW HIT IN NEW RULING   Martial Rule Attacked 8 Judge in Case Yes* terday

Army Overseas Leaves Limited By Shipping Space   Men F rom Southwest Pacific Already  Coming Home

SET FURLOUGH PLAN FOR ALL OVERSEAS VETS   Program Of Rotation Now Extended To Pacific Area

RUMOR LINKS "NAZI PUZZLE WITH PEAGE   SWISS BOQURCE SAYS ADOLF'S ‘SILENCE I$ PART OF  PLAN  TOBOLSTER PEACE BID

Key Civilian Goods First   WPB Moves to Insure Early Postwar Shift  For Plants Producing Most Important Items

Plants Most Important To Civilian Economy To Be First To Reconvert

MOST IMPORTANT TO RECONVERT FIRST   WPB Will Make List of Industries According to Nereccity.

Reconversion  Steps Taken   Plants “hee Listed By. Their Products

PB TO ASSURE CIVILIAN GOODS   Plants Making Most Needed Goods Will Recon vert First

Most Needed Civilian Goods To Come First   WPB Working on List to Assure Them as First from Switched-Back Plants

INDUSTRIES PRODUCING MOST NEEDED CIVILIAN GOODS TO RECONVERT FIRST

Say Nazi Plans All Defensive   Claim British, Danish.  Paratroops In Denmark

6,000 Aircraft Hurled at Foe In Three Raids   Powerful U. S. Punch Costs But 8 Planes: 9,000 Tons of Bombs  Dropped on Targets

UNPRECEDENTED NON-STOP ASSAULT FRANKLY TERMED BY UNITED STATES COMMUNIQUE AS “THE AIR INVASION OF GERMANY.”

2,000 Planes  Hit German Plane Plants   U. S. Attacks Follow  . Record One-Night Load END NOTIN FIGHT

RAIDERS DROP 9,000 TONS OF BOMBS IN DAY   Unprecedented Drive By Air Against Foe Continued

STRONG FOREIGN PLANK ADVOCATED   [Virginia ‘Delegates Are Against Wallace for : Vice-president .

Senators Urge Strong Plank On World Policy   Framers of Democratic Platform Commence Work as Virginia Opposes Renomination of Wallace

Democrats Plan Foreign Policy   Want Large Part In World Affairs

Farty Leaders Would Stress  Foreign Polic,   Platform Builders Demand Plainly-Worded Plank On Post-War Stand

FOREIGN PLANK OF DEMOCRATS URGED CLEAR   'Solons Demand Party Draft One Clearle Warded

Lieut. R. A. Knodle, Mt. Morris, Takes Part In Air Raid On Perugia

Luther League To  Present Pageant Will Be Given _ Sunday, May 17

Nazis Hint Russians Are  Now In East  Prussia   Strong German Defense Lines Near Schirwindt Under Attack

MOSCOW WAITS BELGRADE FALL   City Reported In Flames As Russian Troops Mop Up

Exiled Royalty — — Criticizes Tito   Says Partisans Have Been Driven Back From Major Towns Due To Faulty Operations.

04,000 HOARD FOUND IN POT   Gold Certificates Buried a "Rear of Tavern Near Marquette,

POST-WAR LOAN PLAN TO CAUSE MUCH ARGUMENT   Discussioii Of Loans To Nations Defaulting First Loan Js Seen

POST-WAR: LOAN TO DEFAULTING NATIONS TALKED   Senator Hir.am W. Johnson Expected to Oppose: Project

Beat Off Jap Effort To Strike   Air Offensive And Land Action Puts Squeeze On Nipponese

Yankees Beat Jap Attack on Pacific Base   U.S. Air Attacks on Kurile Islands Near Japanese Homeland Reported by Nimitz

Americans Repe! Jap Raiders On Eniwefok Atoll  U.S Airmen Keep Up Assaults Aimed At Kurile Islands

COUNTY BUDGET LOWERED FOR COMING YEAR   ‘Estimate Lists Items Of Expenditure and Sources of Income

Defective Wire Brings Guilty Jury Verdict   Anaconda Company, Fow Officials Face Jail Or Eines Or Both.

Governors Study 14-Point Policy Plan for G. 0. P.   26 State Executives Meet With Dewey,  Bricker in St. Louis

Assemble for Meetings With Dewey   Brownell Confers With State Executives © About Dates for Campaign Appearances by Dewey -Bricker Ticket

26 G. QO. P. Governors Assemble for Meetings With Dewey   Brownell Confers With State Executives About Dates for Campaign Appearances by Dewey-Bricker Ticket

ANPA OPENS IT ANNUAL MEET   Eisenhower Message Indicates Invasion News Will Be Speeded to Public.

NEWS OF INVASION MAY BE SPEEDED T0 GENERAL PUBLIC GEN. EISENHOWER TELLS ANPA THAT PUBLIC  ADINION GWiare Wape

‘UNIT SYSTEM” FOR ‘FARMER DEFERMENTS: DROPPED FOLLOWING PROTESTS OF FARM STATE CON-_  . GRESSMEN.

SINGLE NIMROD FATALLY HURT IN DEER HUNT   Wounded, Missing Lists Grow As Season En ters Third Day

ITALY’S WINTER SLOWS FIGHTING   Allied Air Raid Destroys Milan Powder Plant, Swiss Hear

FIREMEN’S SCHOOL   K, U. Extension Division to Hold Annual Session at Wichita

Homeless Boy and Girl Found. Dead; Father is Arrested For Non- aii

LT. GLEN “SMITH KILLED   Former _K. U.. Engi Engineering Student Was in Marine Air Corpa

LT. GLEN ‘SMITH KILLED   Former K. U., Engineerin Student Was in Marine Air Corps

nnaenaeteenneeetineaneientinemimeneene  CHILLICOTHE MAN. KILLED BY SATURDAY’S STORM

F.R. Calls On Labor   Urges Unceasing Production at Home To Shorten War

COL. DEWEY RESIGNS AS RUBBER DIRECTOR   With Synthetic Production Near Geal Set by Baruch, Agency Will Be Lignidated,

DEWEY RESIGNS AS RUBBER DIRECTOR   Office Will be Liquidated - by September 1, He Savs

DEWEY RESIGNS AS RUBBER DIRECTOR      Office Will be Liquidated _- by September 1, . _. He Says

ANTI- ROOSEVELT PARTY: GROUP — PLANNING NATIONAL MEETING   “ JEFFERSONIAL " DEMOCRATS” ‘EXPECT TO FORM ORGANIZATIONS IN EACH  z 8 BEATE ig

ROBOT BOMBS STILL DROP ON ENGLAND   Fury of Attack Increases; Defense Measures Improve

NAZIS STEP UP ROBOT BOMBING   RAF Blasts Pilotless Planes Over Channel

Robot Attacks on So. England Mount in Fury   New Defense Measures Prepared Against Buzzbombs

Rocket Bombs  Keep Coming British Admit More      British Admit More Casualties. Damage

Robot Bombing Of England  Increases   U. S. 8th Air Force Sends Bombers to Hit Emplacements

Robot Bombings Mount In Fury —   Flying Forts Again Blast Installations

Robot Bomb Rain Rising   RAF Attacks Missile Shower Over Channel

ROBOT BOMBING MOUNTS IN FURY   New Defense Measures Are Nov Being Prepared

Robot Bombing Of South . England Mounts In Fury; New Defense Plan Mapped

Put-Put, Out!  Recruit Rode His Imaginary Cycle So Well He Rode Right Out  of The Center

MaeArthur in Direct Charge Of Landing   Vichy Reports U. S. Planes Flying Over Japan

Invasion Forces Overpower Light Resistance, Seal. Fate of 50.000 Jap Soldiers

(Move Flanks Rabaul, Traps 90,000 Japs   Japanese Surprised And Resistance Weak, Big Airfield Captured  MACARTHUR ON SHIP

DESTROYER - BORNE TROOPS QUICKLY OVERRUN ONE ISLAND IN BISMARCK SEA; RESISTANCE VERY LIGHT; SITUATION OF ENEMY IS PRECARIOUS.

Fate of 50,000 Japs Is Sealed as U.S. Forces Seize Admiralty Islands Foothold to Qutflank Rabaul   Destroyer-Borne Troops Overrun One Island on Northern Flank to Advance American Front Lines Within 1300 Miles of Philippines

Finland Moves Toward Complete Military, Diplomatic Rupture With Germany as Russian Terms are Met

Allied Airmer Batter Jap Shipping   Destroy, Damage 25 Vessels in Widespread Raids

Air Forces Blast 25 Jap Vessels   Attack in Ceram Area Knocks Out 23 Ships

Allies Regain Area Lost to Germans  On Italian Coast   Big Bombers Strike More Nazi Factories; New Soviet Success

FIND: LONERGAN GUILTY.OF 2ND DEGREE MURDER   Ver dict, Demands: 2.0.  Year-To-Life 7 ..- Sentence -    ACCEPTS FATE   Judge Fixes. April 17 ‘ ‘Ror: Imposing. ._ Sentence

Wayne Lonergan Is Found Guilty   Wife Slayer Convicted In Second Degree; Sentence April 17.

JURY CONVICTS FLIER OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER   ‘Rags To Riches’ for Wayne Lonergan Ends Behind Prison Walls

VERDICT OEMANDS ALIFE SENTENCE   Lonergan Is Convicted o! Second Degree Murder In Death of Wife.

Wife-Slayer FoundGuilty   Wayne Lonergan Gets ‘20 Years to Life’

CORVICT LONERGAN IN WIFE'S DEATH   Faces 20 Year to Life Sentence In Prison for Second Degree Murder

LONERGAN CONVICTED OF MURDER OF WIFE   Second Degree Verdict Puts Prison as His Fate

Lonergan Found Guilty   Faces 20 Years to Life Imprisonment; From Rags -to Riehes

LONERGAN GETS A PRISON TERM   Found Guilty Of Second Degree Murder; Faces 20Year To Life Sentence On April 17.

Temperatures   U. S. Light Carrier Badly Damaged, Sunk By U. S. Navy:

Entire Jap Fleet Out, Says King   One Division Turned Back, but Enemy Believed Determined

U.S. Third Fleet Sinks Jap Flattop, Damages Six Battleships in Major Air-Sea Action Near Philippines; Americans Lose Licht Carrier Princeto

Carrier, 2 Cruisers And Destroyer Sunk In Philippine Zone   Americans Lose Small Carrier When Three Jap Fleets Emerqe

Enemy Carrier Sunk: Yanks Hit Battleships: U.S. Light Carrier Losi

King Reports Entire Enemy  Fleet Battling   Commander Of U. S. Fleet Says One Column Of tan Fleet Fled

Fierce Blasting Of Rabaul   Damage Heavy Says M Arthur Communique Many Fires And  ixplosions Caused.

WAR SHORTAGES GET ATTENTION FROM CONGRESS   State Department Changes Run Into Unexpected Snags in Senate

Return State Department Nominations   Senators Want More Information About  Men Selected

Senate Sends  Choices Back   Foreign: Relations: Committee Rebuked-

F.R.Nominees To State Dept. Posts ‘Bounce   Senate Sends Them Back To Committee For Fur. ther Hearings.

Majority of Senate Oppose Nominations  Names Chosen by President Sent

Gov. Warren, California,  To Keynote GOP Parley   Westerner Chosen Unanimously By Committe On Arrangements For Republican National Convention In Chicago June 26

Warren Named GOP Keynoter  California Governor To Lead Off Meeting

GOP Keynote For Meet May Be Dark Horse   Party Leaders Hint Man Not Mentioned Slated Te Open Convention .  In Chicaso

Governor of California  (FOP Keynoter   Kick-off Speaker For Convention Named Unanimously

Calitornia Chief Gets High Honor   Governor Temporary Chairman, Selection Unanimous by 24-Member Committee; 10 Others Nominated for Speaking Post

WARREN NAMED AS G. 0. P. TEMPORARY CONVENTION HEAD   Spangler Says Arrangements Committee Recommends the Election of Rep. Martin aos Permanent Chairman of Convention in June

Governor Warren of California Unanimous Choice To Keynote G. O. P. National Convention

PICK WARREN FOR KEYNOTE OF COP. MEE   Selection Made On One Vot From Field of 10 Nominations.

Warren Chosen Keynoter for ¢. 0. P. Conclave   Coast Governor Will Serve, Also as Chairman

GOV. WARREN - TO BEKEYNOTER   .G.0:P,;. Ten’ Others Given ~ . Consideration:

SELECT WARREN FOR KEYNOTE JOE   REPUBLICAN LEADERS REPORTED TO FAVOR GOVERNOR OF CALIF.

Gov. Warren Of California Is  GOP Keynoter   Dark Horse Entry Selected By Republican Arrangements Group.

—GUP ABPNOTEA—: California Governor Ts Unanimous Selection Of Committee —   Pacifie Coast Executive Also Will Be Temporary Chairman; Republican Leaders Told He Is Not Candidate For. National Office.

WARREN- NA NAMED GOP KEYNOTER   Martin Recommended As Permanent Chairman

GOV. WARREN SELECTED FOR GOP KEYNOTER   Unanimous Choice of Arrangements Committee For Post

GOV: WARREN IS NAMED AS GOP KEYNOTER   California Executive Is Committee’s Choice of Convention Chairman

Arrangements Committee Name s Chief Executive of California as Temporary Chairman For Party’s’ June 26 Nominating Convention.   SELECTION UNANIMOUS

Republicans Name Gov. Warren Keynote Speaker  : Rep. Martin Talked  As Permanent Chairman for Meet

GOP Chooses Gov. Warren As Keynoter   “Martin Is Probable Choice For Chairman

Gov. Warren Is Chosen To Be Keynoter   California Governor I: Choice Of Republicar Committee For Post Al Nominating Convention

Gov. Warren Will Keynote GOP Session   Californian Selected After Committee Receives LO Other Nominations

Gov. Warren  To Kenote . GOP Meet   Californian Selected When It Became Known He Was Not Candidate

GOP Committee Picks Governor Earl Warren of! California as Keynoter

AME WARREN GOP KEYNOTER   Arrangements Committee Selected California Governor for Past.   MENTION OTHERS ALSO

GOV. WARREN, CALIFORNIA, “KEYNOTER”   Republican Arrangemenis Committee Meets in Chicago to Select Chairmen For GOP Convention.

GOP Committee Acts Wednesday  Unanimous Choice of Arrangements Group

Governor Wins U.S. Party Honor   Oaklander Chosen Temporary Chairman Of Convention by Unanimous Assent of 24-Member Arrangements Committee .

COP SELECTS GOV. E. WARREN AS KEYNOTER   Spangler Says Selection of California Governor Was Unanimous

WARREN T0 GIVE _ KEYNOTE ADDRESS   Governor ‘of California Is Chosen by the G.O.P.  Committee   12 OTHER NOMINATIONS

Governor Warren  Chosen Chairman  GOP Makes Selection Prior to June 26 Nominating Seccion

GOVERNOR WARREN OF CALIFORNIA KEYNOTE MAN FOR REPUBLICANS   HOUSE MINORITY LEADER MARTIN BE URGED FOR PERMANENT CHAIRMAN

Warren to Keynote GOP  Convention   California Governor Also Selected as Temporary Chairman

Warren Named Keynofer Af GOP Conventior   Party Chieftains Select Officers For Coming Session

Warren Selected G. 0. P. Keynoter   Committee Choice of California Governor Is Unanimous

Republicans Name Warren Keynoter   California Governor Elected Unanimously— Martin Reeommended

ROOSEVELT LEADS NATION IN PRAYER   President Reports Invasion Drive Is “Up to . Schedule”

President Sets Naval Losses At Three Craft   Chief Executive Leads Nation in Prayer for Victory, Freedom and Peace; Nation Thrilled

Roosevelt Pleased as He Reports Invasion Move ‘Up to Schedule’   President Spends Part of Night Preparing Special Prayer for Success of Warfare

FDR REPORTS GREAT RIVE ON SCHEDULE   Leads Nation in Radio Prayer for Victory,  + Freedom and Peace: Start is Auspicious   “Doing All Right”

Chinese Army Is Closing Upon Hochih   Jap Forces Continue To Withdraw Men In Southern Burma

Germans Falling Back In Thurst  To Halt Onslaught   Off Retrealing Enemy Secondary Armies Cut Troops In Pskov Area

cxtermination of Cherkasi Germans Said Proceeding   Sweep within 35 Moles of Baltic

REDS ARE WITHIN 30 MILES OF PSKCY AS NAZIS FLEE   Trapped Remnants ‘of Germans Being Squeezed Ever Tighter By Rus-

Nazis’ Fate Sealed in: Soviet Trap   2,500 Germans Die in Attempt To Break Out

RUSSIANS AR WITHIN 35 Mi. OF PSKOY   Cherkasi Battle Reaches Hand-toHand Stage

TRAPPED NAZI ARMY BATTLES HAND-TO-HAND   Russians Continue Extermination of .Foe Despite Counter-Attacks; Gain in Pskov Area.

RUSSIANS, NAZI FIGHTING FINAL STAGE OF BATTLE   ‘Germans Appear In Full Re treat as Reds Use Bayon ets, Rifle Butts on Sur wivare   JAP KAVIENG BASE BLASTED BY AIRMEN   Attack !s Aimed at Crippling Bismarck Base !s Left In Flames, Several Vessels Ciumle.

WITHIN 35 MI. OF PSKOV   Cherkasi Battle Reaches Hand-toHand Stage

RUSSIANS DRIVING NAZIS DFEPEP INTO CHERKAS! POCKET   Battle toExterminate Trapped Germans Enters Handto-hand Stade

GERMANS STILL IN RETREAT ON BALTIC FRONT   ‘Battle Of Pocket’ Now In Final Hand-ToHand Stage

FEW ISSUED IN PRIMARY VOTE   Wisconsin Voters to Make Nominations From Many Candidates.

Soldiers Stage Defiant Protest   Canadian Troops Oppose Conscription

CANADA TROCPS SHOUT PROTEST   1,000 Soldiers Parade ir Defiance Against Overseas Draft.

CANADIAN HOME GUARDS PROTEST OVERSEAS DRAFT   1,000 TROOPS STAGE DEMONSTRATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Canadian Home Troops Protest  Stage Parade-—Call For Drafting of Wealth, Industry

Conscription Puts Canadian Rule At Stake   Soldiers Demonstrate In British Columbia; Oppose Being Shipped For Overseas Duty

Canadian Home Defense Soldiers Parade in Protest of Conscription

Conscription Stirs Quebec lo Defection   Soldiers Parade in Protest Against New Canada Draft Order

A PROTEST PARADE   Canada Prime Minister Favors Partial Overseas * Conscription

SOLDIERS DEFY CANADA DRAFT   Mackenzie King Stakes His  Gov’t On Partial Conscription 

CANADIANS FACE CABINET CRISIS   Liberal Party Strives To Hold Together As Youths Protest Draft

QUEBEC RIOTS OVER WAR ORDER   CANADIANS HOWL ABOUT OVERSEAS SERVICE

Conscript Crisis Disrupts Canada; King's Hold Slips  Disturbances in Quebec Like First War Disorders; Half Of Liberal Cabinet Quitting

PROTESTS OVER CONSCRIPTON FLARE IN CANADA   British Columbia Home Guard Parades In Protest As Prime Minister King Stakes Life Of His Government On Partial Conscription Plan .

CONSCRIPTION S BIG ISSUE OF CANADIANS   Soldiers Parade In Protest Of Late Action

Spain Faces Stiffened U. S.-British Policy; Must Become Really Neutral Or Make Outright Axis Alliance

DECISION IS MADE TO PUT PRESSURE ON SPANISH GOV'T   Francoists Must Maintain Strict Neutrality or Join the Allies

Squeeze Spain For Decision .   Anglo-American Heads Place Oil Embargo

WAR TODAY   London Observers Speculate On Germanus Being Driven From Russian Soil Before Spring

The War Today   Europe Speculates on Aftermath Of Nezi Collapse in Russia

WAR OBSERVERS BELIEVE SOVIETS MAY CLEAR GERMANS OUT RUSSIA 1IN REMAINING WINTER WEEKS

THE WAR TODAY   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE  hecceeliaied Preece War Analyst

The War Today— —" Don’t Expect Russians To Wait For Allies Before Marching Into Berlin:

4’ GIs Home To Tell of Shortage  Of Ammunition   Artillery Needs ore Ammunition For Barrages

Gls From Front Plead for Shells   Siegfried Line Vets Tour Munition Plants

! ry e . Berlin again baitred, wrecking ‘transportation communtcations

TAXES A BARRIER   Senator George Calls for Lower Rate and Paying Off of Debt

POST - WAR TAX CUTS PROPOSED   senator George Thinks Public Debt Can Be Shaved Following Conflict

PIPELINE LEAKS DELAY OPENING OF GASOLINE FLOW   ‘Little-inch” Breaks In Weld: ed Job from Youngstown Tube Company.

“Little Inch” Bursting at The Seams   Operation of Pipeline Delayed By Leaks

Truk Bases Are Pounded   Japanese Plane Loss In Pacific Are High

AERIAL BATTLE ~ FOUGHT AT TRU   AMERICANS DOWN AT LEAST SIX JAP PLANES IN 35MINUTE STRUGGLE,

Truk Lashed From South   Six Japs Known Downed In Assault: Other Areas Hit

Quota for E Bonds Is Hiked Here   30 Perish When Two Ships Collide

German Armor Strikes Deeper Into Belgium   Nazis Are Reported In Quest of Supplies; Yanks Are Holding. On Beth Flank.

NAZI ARMOR BACKED UP BY INFANTRYMEN   Americans, However, Hold Firm in Some Parts of Break-Through Passage—Enemy in Onadct af Sunnhadc

2,000-Ml. FRONT IS FALTERING AS SOVIETS PUSH ON   Great Mining Center Believed Doomed—Nazis Retrastinn.

Mining Center Being Shelled By (Red Artillery   Nazis Acknowledge Reverses, Claim Defensive Successes

SOVIET ARMY IS MOVING IN ON KRIVOI ROG   Outer Defenses. of Nazi Bastion . Are Smashed .

Reds Closing Assault Are On Krivoi Rog, Ukraine Ore City: Battle in 8 Areas

RUSSIANS GAIN AT KRIVO! ROG AND IN BALTIC   Nazis Report Powerful Red Drives in Eight Separate Areas

Reds Closing in On Mine Center   Eight Offensive Drives Reported

REDS GRUMBLING GERMAN DEFENSES ALONG LONG UNE   Japanese Are Believed to Have Withdrawn All WarShips From Rabaul, Planes Are Weakening Line.   JAP PRISONERS ARE LOSING HAUGHTY AIR   Wake Island Bombed Without Damage, Lone Destroyer Sinks Four Vessels In Convoy Group.

Reds Close In on Krivoi Rog   Eight Offensives Hint General Soviet Drive

Double Super-Fort Smash Fires Hankow Docks; Hits Nagoya, Japs’ Third City

5,200,000 U. S. Men on Duty Abroad, at Sea   Stimson Declares Decisive Action Is at Hand

5 Million Yanks Overseas  Figure Includes Fighters in AFF or at Sea

5,200,000 Yankees  Abroad   Stimson Declares Master Plan To Overwhelm Axis Has Reached Final Stage.

BRITISH OPEN FIRE   Use Tanks Against Rebels as Scobie’s Ultimatum Expires

Clear ELAS From Athens   Lt. Gen. Scobie, British Commander, Reports Good Progress Being Made

British Open Tank Assault on Elas   Scobie Says Progress Made in Clearing Troops From Athens

British Open Tank Assault Upon ELAS   Ultimatum Was Sent Last Night By British General To Stop Fight.   FIGHTER PLANE SIN

British Tanks Attack Greeks   Scobie Lannehes Assau! When Uhimatm To ELAS Expires

British Open Assault on Rebel Forces   Tanks and Fighter Planes Join In All-Out Drive

Open Up  On ELAS   British Launch Plane And Tank Attack Afte) Ultimatum Expires

BRITISH TANKS ASSAULT ELAS   Ultimatum From Scobie Expires in Athens

Suicidal Attack By Enemy Ends In Massed Death   Americans Land On Hauwei, Butjo Luo, Near Los Negros

1,000 JAPS ARE KILLED ON BOUGAINVILLE   Suicidal Enemy Counterattack Is Launched

‘SUICIDAL’ JAP ATTACK COSTS FOE 1,000 DEAD   ‘Two More Islands Taken By Americans In Admiralties

Yank Troops Repulse Japs At Bougainville   1,000 Japs Killed In  Suicide CounterAttach

Yanks Slay 1,000 in Jap Suicide Unit   Fanatics Charge Within 10 Feet Of Junele Guns

1,000 Japs Killedin Day. Is Estimate   American Troops Occupy Two More Admiralty Islands

JAPS IN SUICIDE ATTACK ON YANKS AT BOUGAINVILLE   Other American Forces, 650 Miles West, Occupy More Admiralty Istands.

MARY JAPS BEING KILLED   UL S. Troops Kill Estimated 1,000 in Smashing Suicidal Enemy Counter-Attack in Bougainville.

LEPKE EXECUTED BUT STORY LIVES   Defense Counsel, Laguardi and State Attorney Drop Hints

HINT STATEMENT BY LEPKE TOLD POLITIGAL BACKGROUND   MEN HIGH IN POLITICAL CIRCLES HAVE BEEN NAMED BY NOTORIOUS SLAYER

‘Scattered Fighting Reported But ' Germans Finally Hold All Im  portant Railways, Radio Std } tions, Telephone Exchanges    REGENT ADMIRAL HORTHY REMOVED

Captives Reported ‘Living High’ ‘House Will Investigate ‘Coddling of Prisoners

U.S, ‘CODDLING AXIS PRISONERS   Captured Soldiers Treatec ‘Like Heroes,’ Is Claim

Mistreatment  OF Vets Seen   -May Begins ‘Visits .To’ Army Hospitals

Axis Prisoners _ Coddled, Charge   House Committee Will Investiqate —

Red Army at Border of Czecho-Slovakia; City In North Poland Falls

Reds at Czecho-Slovak Border in Flaring New Drive in South Poland   Fortress City Of Lomza Captured By Surging Soviet Troops; Open Ferocious Onslaught On Warsaw

LOMZA FALL ANNOUNCED BY RUSSIANS   Drive Carries Within 15 Miles of East Prussia Border; Open Assault on Warsaw.   Cross San River

Red Army Speeds Forward in New Poland Offensive  FURIOUS . ASSAULT OPENED ON WARSAW  Bitter Engagements Are Fought in the Praga . Area 

Soviets Reach Border of Czechoslovaki   Ferocious Onslaught Against Warsaw Opened by Russians

Soviets Assault Warsaw   Succeed In Thrust To Take Transylvania For Romania

REDS CAPTURE LOMZA, REACH CZECH BORDER   FEROCIOUS THRUST IS OPENED ON WARSAW

Stubborn Sky Battles Rage Over Munich   Fleet of 2,000 U. 5. Planes Blast Great -South Germany City

Powerful U. S. Aerial Force  Lashes Munich   2,000 Planes Attack City After RAF  Hurls Night. Blow At Berlin; Air Battles Reported Over Munich Ares.

Brifish Pound Berlin Proper With 2-Tonners   American Bombers Reported Striking Deep In Munich Area

MASSED BLOW IS SECOND IN PAST 5 DAYS   Toulon Area in Southern France Also. Blasted by Great Fleet Which Blackened Sky

Berlin Gets Night Blast. As Mosquito Planes Raid   Second. Massed Blow ‘Made: Against Reich

2,000 American Planes Hit Munich In South Germany  Other U. S. Airmen Strate Ton lon, Mosquitos Attack Berlin, .

MUNICH AREA AND TOULON SUBJECTED TO AERIAL BLOWS   Fleet ..of . 2,000 . American Planes Deliver Attack on Munich, Germany, as Italy Liberators Blast Former French Naval Base

Sky Blackened With Bombers Near Munich   Fleet Of 2,000 American Planes Participate; RAF Hits Berlin

Munich Area Hit By 2,000 U.S. Planes   Shrine City Of Nazi Party Bears Brunt Of Heavy Assault

OBJECTIVES ARDUND MUNICH ATTACKED   Bombers Forced to Cast Explosive Loads Through Cloud Lavers.

TWO THOUSAND PLANES BOMB NAZI TARGETS   Berlin And Munich Hit; Sky Battles Are Reported

Big Bombing "Force Raids  Munich Area   @Other VU. S. Planes Attack Toulon—British Mosquitos In Assault on Berlin During Nioaht.

U.S. Planes 2000Strons BlackenSky During Raid   Munich Area Feels Terrific Weight Of Assaults

New Assault On Germany  2,000 American Planes Attack Targets in Arena at Manich

>MUNICH, BERLIN HIT BY BOMBS   Sky-Blackening Allied Aerial Fleets Active

Munich Blasted by 2,000 Yank Planes  in Great Assault   British Mosquitos Hit at Berlin, Losing Only One Airship

Yank Bombers Attack Munich   British Mosquitos Bomb Berlin in Night Raid

2000 Planes Shower Bombs Upon Munich   American Planes Also Strike Toulon From Italy

Aerial Armada  Bombs Munich   Two Thousand Americar Planes After Mosquitos Hit Berlin.

Air Blows on Berlin, Munich   Two Thousand U. 5. Planes in Attack; Toulon Also Hit

2,000 U.S. Planes Strike at Munich   Second Big Raid In Last Five Days

1,100 BOMBERS ATTACK MUNICH   Another Force Of Ametican Planes Strikes At Toulon

Yank Fliers Hit at Munich   1100 Heavy Bombers Accompanied by 900 Fighters Make Raid

2,000 AMERICAN PLANES BOMB SOUTHERN REICH   British Airmen Pound Berlin for Second Straight Night

2000 Planes Rake Munich  R.A.F. Hits Berlin; Italy Bombers in Smash on Toulon

—AERIAL—   MUNICH BLASTED BY > ANN PLANES   Sky-Darkening Fleet Of American Bombers, Fighters In Raid   BERLIN IS LASHED   British Mosquitos In Night Raid On BombSeared Nazi Capital

Fleet Of 2,000 American Planes Rain Bombs On Targets In South Germany

Munich Area Hit by 2,000 U.S. Planes   Raid Comes After Mos quitos Rock Berlin With Heavy Attack   SECOND IN 3 DAYS   Germans? Report Heay: Sky Batiles Over South. ein Piton Countiy

FDR’s Statement On Peace Plan   Proposals Made Public To Permit Full  Discussion by People

Confusion Would Result If Leaders  Change, Hannegan  GOP ‘Untested’ He Tells Washington Day Dinner Guests

Carrier Lost In Aflantic  Navy Reports Casualt   Novy Reports Casualty List Relatively Light

Drive West Of Novgorod Only 10 Miles From One Of Two Remaining RRs

Luga River Bank Scene  Of Fighting   Leningrad Troops Are Continuing  Their March

REDS PUSH ON DESPITE MUD ON NORTH FRONI   Troops Advance To Luga River Bank Through Bad Thaw

Reds Smash At Nazi Salient In Two Drives   Bank of Luga River Reached; Thaw Turns Front Into Quagmire

Reds Smash lo Luga River Bank   Two Armies Hammer Steadily at Nazis’ Baltic Front

RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVE TO BANK OF LUGA RIVER   Unusual Warm Weather Turns Northern Battlefield Into Sea of Mud

Red Squeeze On Foe Tightening   Reach Bank Of Luga River, 10 Miles From Escape Railway.

Soviets Reach Banks of Luaa   Red Armies Continue To Move in Opposite Directions in Salient

RED ARMY REACHES LUGA RIVER BANK   Thaw Turns Leningrad Front Intn Quaemira

Red Army Troops Bridge Luga River.near Leningrad-Vitebsk Railway and Columns In South Push Toward Junction; Gororov’s Armies Racing Toward Estonia.

Worker Draft Is Not Needed, MW’Nutt Asserts   : Hershey Advocates Policy Of Conscripting 4-Fs Into Lahar. Army

MNUTT SEES NO NEED FOR ‘LABOR DRAFI   Relieves Job Control For 4-F’s Merits  Consideration

SITUATION As RELATIVELY GOCD TO HOUSE COMMITTEE      ‘Adds That There May Be Real Merit in Proposals For Job Controls Over Men in 4-F, But Army Is _ Onposed to Inductine Them

Nation’s Chief Stull Eves Labor Draft  Declines Comment On MecNutt’s Opposition Stand

M’Nutt Opposes National _ Service Act At This Time   Manpower Chief Describes Situation as. “Relatively Good” —Hershey Declares That 4-F's Must Serve

Labor Draft Is Opposed By MeNutt   But Manpower Chief Sees Possible Merit In Control of 4-F’s   HERSHEY SAYS 4-F°S MUST DO THEIR PART   Deferment Restriction For Men Up to 30 Suorested by McNutt

LABOR DRAFT STILL SOUGHT BY ROOSEVELT   BATTALIONS OF 4-F REGISTRANTS MAY BE INDUCTED

Military Affairs Members To Seek Prompt Solution O: Manpower Needs

McNutt Explains Deferment Policy   Manpower Problem to Be Solved by Group In Another Month

M'NUTT SEES NO NEED FOR LABOR DRAFT   Head of War Manpower Commission Informs Subcommittee Situation Is "Relatively Good"   CHIEF FOR INDUCTION

Greater Use Of 4F’s Seen By Officials   McNutt Is Opposed to Labor Draft; Hershe Says Army Demands Inductees Be Young

Manpow er Situation  Called Good   MeNutt Against National Service—  4¥F’s May Be Drafted

MNUTT SEES NO NEED FOR DRAFT   Holds Job Control Of Men In 4-F Has Its Merits

4F JOB CONTROLS   Dissorees With FOR Over Present Need for Service Laws"

Draw Liquid From Tanks as Safety Measure at Plant   ‘Number of Known Dead In Cleveland Blast  Rises to 121

BOILER LINKED TO OHIO BLAST   Cleveland Deattr Toll Is 121, 44 of Whom Are Identified .

LONERGAN CASE I GIVEN JURY TODAY   Judge Tells Jurymen They Can Return Any of Five Verdicts.

Churchill and Eden Arrive at Athens To Help in Crisis   ELAS to Attend Political Conference With British Leaders at Greek Capital Tuesday ; Archbishop of Athens Scheduled to Preside

CHURCHILL IN GREEK CAPITAL   Prime Miniter. Eden G to Greece in Effort To End Strife

Churchill and Eden Are in Greek Capital   Seek to Settle Civil Strife; Conferences Set

Churchill and Eden Arrive In Athens to Attempt Settlement of Greek Crisis

CHURCHILL AND EDEN ARRIVE FOR CONFERENCES IN ATHENS   British Officials Will Hold General Meeting With All Warring Factions Today; Archbishop  Seen As Possible Regent

CHURCHILL SEEKS TO SETTLE CRISIS   Prime Minister and An..thony Eden Reach ‘Greek Capital

CHURCHILL, EDEN ARRIVE IN ATHENS   BRITAIN’S TOP LEADERS GO TO CAPITAL IN EFFORT TO SETTLE CRISIS.

Jaos Launch New Drive   Push Northward From Canton to Join Troops Moving South

Jap Armies Launch Expected Drive  To Sever China  Long-Awaited Push From Canton Is Now Underway

She Understood, She Said, She Was. to Get Pardon for Husband, Dr. J. W. Eisiminger

Woman Again Telling Story   Seventh Time She’s Told Of Paying to Obtain Clemency During Phillips Term

CONGRESS GETS TAX SHUDDERS   Most Of Members Unable To Make Out Own Income Forms

‘Jackass Question’ Radeliffe Says Income Taxpayers To Let Out Greatest Yells In Next Month   Seldom Have So Many Owed So Much With Sx Few Chances Of Figuring Out What It Is

Congressmen, After Shuddering Look at Income Tax Blanks, Predict Public Howl

Senator Inspects Form 1040 (Over A Piece Of Lemon Pie) And Starts A-Hollering, Too

"Jackass Question" on Form 1040 In Income Tax Return Blanks Is Admired

Income Form  Is Criticized °   Congressmen. Ready For: Many: Protesta”

Axis Diplomats Conducting Spy Ring, Hull Charges; Troops Endangered

Irish Reject Plea To Oust Berlin, Tokyo Diplomats   Hull Reveals U.S. Note Requesting De Valera to Sever Relations; Charces Eire Actually Aidmo Axis

U.S. Likely To Press Vigorously For Fullest Protection Of Military Secrets.

'Demobilization Plans Being Made /With Hopes Of Quick End For Nazic

B-29s Bomb 5 Jap Targets Without Loss   Nip Soldiers Trapped on Sai-  pan Resist, Civilians Surrendering; Last Jap Airstrip on Noemfoor Captured

No Losses to Superforts on Second Jap Raid   Five Targets Were Blasted in Attack Made Friday Night

All of B-24s Safe At China Bases After Jap Attack  Chinese Thwart Nip Plot to

Five Japanese Targets Hit By Fleet Of B-29:   All But Four Miles Of Saipan island Now Held By Yanks

NO PLANE L033 IN JAPAN RAID   B-29 Superfortresses: Over, Came Weak Fighter Opposition.   SEVERAL TARGETS HIT

PUSH TOWARD SPAN SKYMEN TRIED TO Win   Yanks Battle Slowly To Plain Beyond West Wall

American Shock Troops Batter At Fort Driant   British Second Army Attacks on Arnhem Sector ©

Nazis Wage Stuff Fight  In Bastion   Americans Burrow Into Passages: British Near Arnhem

Diplomat Is Shot Dead Upon Estate   Police Believe Teichman Slain

Five Killed in Dormitory Fire  Seven Shipyard   Seven Shipyard _ Workers Injured, It Is Reported

JAPS LAUNCH DRIVES TO CUT OFF CHINESE   Two More Enemy Divisions Rushed To Hunan Area

GIO ENDORSES FOR FOR FOURTH TERM   To Call National Confer: ence In Washington Next Month

U. 5. BOMBERS SMASH JAPS WEWAK BASE   No Defense Put Up by Foe Against Yank Air Raiders

DESTROY 13 JAP PLANES AT WEWAK      AMERICANS BLAST .NEW. GUI “NEA BASE—GROUND. TROOPS TO SOUTH GAIN.

U.S. Convoy Ts Reported  In Mindanao   Another Invasion Of Philippines May Be Imminent

Jans Report U.S. Convoy Sailing West   Another Philippines Invasion May Soon Take Place ic Indication

JAPS SAY YANKS SAILING THROUGH MINDANAO SEA   New Invasion on Philippine Archipelago May Be An-

Hill 112 Now ‘Crucifix Hill’   Top Is No Man’s Land, British Pile Up Corpses of Attacking Enemy

Italian- Based Planes Strike In Balkans   Allied Planes Report 2,000 Sorties In Day With Loss Of Only Eight :

Allied Warplanes Smash Nazi Communications Over Italy   U. S. Bombers Blast Venice  Harbor, Pound Targets From Ancona To Trisske

VENICE, TRIESTE ARE BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBERS   Nazis On Beachhead Front Are Appre. hensive Of Attack

U .S. Heavies Blast Venice   Also Hit Targets From Ancona to Trieste, Reported

Allied Airmen Batter German ‘Lines In Italy   U.S. Heavy Bombers Raid Venice Harbor. Pound Targets From Ancone to Trieste

BOMBERS POUND VENICE HARBOR   Allied Planes Hammer at German Communications in Series of Raids

ALLIES RAID THE HARBOR AT VENICE   ‘Also Attack Other German - Communications, Flying 2,000 Sorties in  All—Nazis. “Jittery” at -Beachhead. 

U. S. Bombers Blast Venice   Diverted Temporarily From Assaults on: Balkan Rail Taraote.

Planes Pound Nazi Points In Italy   Yank Bombers Hammer Venice Harbor and Other Targets

U.S, BOMBERS BLAST VENICE HARBOR TODAY   Allied Planes Flew 2000 Sorties In New Air Raids

THE  T ODAY   churchill’s Demand For Confidence Vote Typical of Individualist—W hole” Hog Or Nothine

British Prime Minister Defeated on Minor Dome: tic Issue, Demands Showdown on War Policy to Stop Frequent Pot Shots at His Government

CHURCHILL'S DEMAND FOR VOTE OF CONFIDENCE FROM COMMONS SOMETHING OF SURPRISE MOVE

The War Today  Churchill Challenge Typical of Square-Jawed Individuahst.

Churchill Wants Whole Hog or None   By DeWITT MacKENZIE Associated Press War Analvct

Four Tots Die In Home Fire   Soldier’s Children Tied So They'd Go To Sleep

Etex Group Makes Plan For  Industrial Research In Texas   Prot: :-t ‘Towns

SUPPORT 15 PLEDGED NEW DEPARTMENT OF EAST TEXAS. 6. OF €.   INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSED: HERE MONDAY

GENTILE ENGAGED TO COLUMBUS GIRI   Isabella Masdea Wears Seven  Diamond Ring

STRETCH DRIVE BEGUN BY OHIC PARTY LEADERS   Rival Candidates Going All - Out In Bid For Votes

SMUTS HINTS A TRIANGLE   Attack From Three Sides Might Mean Early Vietory

Fall of Vitebsk, Zhlobin Uproots Anchors of Nazi Line Across White Russic

BRIBERY CHARGED AT WRIGHT FIELD   Equipment Supervisor Nabbed By FBI Agents

Identification of Victims Is Slow: 150 Others Injured   Five Officials of Ringling Show Held For Manslaughter

CIRCUS TENT FIRE DEATH TOLL NOW 152   Show Officials Face Charges; 250 Injured: Many Still Unidentified.

Five Officials of Circus Held for Manslaughter   City Plans Mass Burial with Many Victims Unrecognizable — Canvas Coated with Wax and Gasoline

150 Dead In Circus Holocaust   -More Than 250 Others Injured in Worst Circus Fire in History;  Hold Officials On Bail

Death Toll Over 150 In Circus Tragedy   Women, Children Chief Victims of Ringling’s Fire   Manslaughter Is Charged Against Officials of Show; Investigation Beains

Five Officials of Ringlings Face Charges of Manslaughter; Weary Relatives Visit Morgue; Most Victims Children: Fire Cause Sought

PRESS INQUIRY AS TO ORIGIN   Officials of Circus Company Held in Bail for Manslaughter.   250 PERSONS. INJURED

Most of Victims Women, Children; 250 Are Injured   Hold Circus Officials Fou Investigation Following Holocaust

Toll Of 146 Dead Counted Following Nation's Worst Fire In Circus History -

Most of Victims Women, Children; _ 250 Are Injured  Hold Circus Officials For

Circus Fire Toll  Reaches 150 Mark   Majority of Victims of Flames Reported to Be Women and Children

Manslaughter Charged to 5 Ringling Men   Many Missing in Holocaust At Hartford

CHAPLINS AWAIT VISIT BY STORK   Young Wife Plans Today to Enter ~ Hospital in Fallarnia

Lake Adds Fruif Juice To His Diet   Stays With Resolve to Hunger-Strike, However

(Turn to BARUCH PLAN, Page 7) Some Parts Of Plan Stir Legislative Opposition

Congress Views Baruch Report  Controversy Over Specific Plans May

Congress Lauds Baruch Postwar Business Plans   Economic Outline Is Hit For Tax Feature And ar Powers tension

U. S$. Naval Task Force Attack Confirmed; Fight Believed Still Going On

American Pacific Fleet Silent On Truk:Action. Report Heavy Fighting.

This May Be Purely a Jape anese Propaganda Claim.   TRUK ISLAND IS GATEWAY TO JAPAN  Pe [> es 5 pees TO i ee ees   Japs Have Been Heavily Fortifying Truk Over Span of 20 Years.

Yanks Step Up Efforts To Erase Rabaul Base   Bombers Pouring Explosives Into Warehouses, Barracks and Shops

Rabaul Battered In A New Phase  By Allied Bombs   Warelionses Avid Barracks Of Once Great Bastion Being Steadily Levelled

Airmen Hammer Key Warehouses, Shops At Rabaul   MacArthur Launches Move To Level Jap Feeder Base

Allied Bombs Level Rabaul   Warehouses, Shops, Barracks and Other Buildinas Attacked

Allied Tactics -\Asolated Jans   RABAUL GARRISON NOW FACES NEW U. S. ATTACKS.

YANK LANDINGS. ON BISMARCK SEA ISOLATE RABAUL   Explosives and Incendiaries Level Once Proud Jap Bastion in Southwest Pacific

BOMBS LEVELING RABAUL BASTION   New Phase Of Warfare Aims At Enemy Warehouses, Shops, Barracks And Other Structures.

Rabaul Being Levelled Now   Allied Bombs Batter OftBombed Base, Dropped On Warehouse, Shops  WEWAK AREA PASTED  Destroyers Wipes Out Village Thought to Contain Japs and Supplies

PORT OF PATRAS AND ISLES FALL TO ALLIED UNITS   Patriots Give Substantial Aid and Uproarious Welcome

LLIES MAKE 2ND IVASION OF THE ALKAN TERRITORY   mash Into Greece To Pinch Off Peloponnesian Peninsula   A CRETE BLOCK-OFF   merican Ist Army Forces Pour Through Siegfried Line Breech

Allied Armies Smash at Gap From 3 Sides   Canadians Attack After Aerial and Artillery Barrage

Reds Prepare For Assault ‘On Belgrade   Partisans Inside Capital Ready To Aid — Shell Suburbs

SHELLS LAND IN SUBURBS OF BELGRADE   Russians Paving Way for Thrust Across Danube to Free the Yugoslav Capital   FINAL ASSAULT IS NEAR

Reds Push Drive ‘To Rid Belgrade OF German Rule   Russian’ Army’ Augmented. ‘By. Partisan Units For “Thrust: Across - Datiube

Reds Shelling Suburbs Of Belarade   Assault To Free Yugoslav Capital Appears Near

Drouth Ups Cost Of Dairy Subsidies   Midwest Farms to Receive 15 Millions

Motives Legitimate Says Chaplin   Violation of Mann Act Charge of Government Trial Aqainst Actor

Chaplin Says Motives Were Str ictly Honest      Claims No Evil Intent When He Purchased Tickets ~ Bar Proteve

Yanks Believe They Are Fighting For Land That Has Forgotten Them

Soldiers Think War Is Blind Alley With Death At The End   Hal Boyle Says Battle Morale Of Men Is High But Some Feel Homeland Has Forgetten Them

Old Settlers’ __ Picnic At High Lake August 20  This Is Palo Alto And Emmet Event

CLEAR, CRISP AFTER IOWA SNOW FALLS   7 Below in Boone This Morning. Had Warmed up to Zero by Early Afternoon Hour.

RUSSIANS MASS FOR BIG BATTLE IN WARSAW AREA   Germans Evacuate Krosno; Reds in Transylvania Seeking K.O.

Elusive A.W.O.L. Finally Caught   Soldier Who Broke Frederick Jail, Captured Today.

‘Hexed’ Coal Mystifies   North Dakota State ‘Fire Marshall Calls On FBI to Solve Case Of “Jitterbug Coal’.

ee —__'"~S.-ti‘ _!ttttt~”  “Bowitched” Schoolhouse Closed For Investigation

Jitterbugging Coal Upsets Officials And School Closed Down As ‘Bewitched’

THE CASE OF THE JITTERBUG COAL ‘Bewitched’ Wild Plum School Forced to Close

School House Coal Regular Jitter age   Coal Stirs Without Cause and Things Begin to Happen

Witch In School House!   Coal Jumps Out of Bucket, Window Blinds Smoke and Books Move - - - and Pupils and Grown-ups Tremble

“Case of the Jitterbug Coal’ Has North Dakota School Officials Puzzled; Children Stay Home

Case ¢ of ‘ ‘Jitterbug. Coal”’ Puzzling  [Fuel “Dances” About Schoolroom

WILLKIE SEES DEWEY AS FOE   Milwaukee Sentinel Out Editorially For New Yorker

5th Army Drives Toward Po Valley   Yanks Smash Outer Gothic Line Defenses

Inflation After - War Discussed   ROGER BABSON WRITES ABOUT VALUE OF PROPERTY

BABSON LOOKS FOR BOOM IN CITY REAL ESTATE IN 1951   Financial Writer Wonders If History Will Re peat With Conditions Several Years After Previous Confict.

BABSON DISCUSSES REAL ESTATE VALUES   Expects Land Boom To Start Few Years After War Ends. Rates Buying Farm Land a Good Hedge Against Inflation That Is Exnected.

Clues Lacking In Death Mystery  No Motive Found . For Chicago Kiljing

COMPLETE ABSENCE OF MURDER MOTIVE   Official Makes Statement After Four Days of Investication.

MOTIVE MISSING IN WOMAN'S MURDER   Police Without Clues in Williams Case

OCKET FIREPOWER IS CHANGING WAR    Rotary Speaker Tells of Use  by Small Boats and : ‘Planes   FULL OUTPUT NEEDED

IS CHANGING WAR  =   Rotary Speaker Tells of Use by ~~ Boats and —  es

POLL TAX BILL ~ PIGEON-HOLED      Filibuster Thr eat Wins for South

FIGHT STRIKE IN TIN MINES   Bolivian Government Yields To Labor Pressure

New Aerial Assaults Hurled Against Manila   Tokyo Reports Air Attacks On Philippine     Capital After Suffering One Of History’s Greatest Naval Defeats.

Nips Report Air Attacks On Manila   Toll Of Jap Ships Sunk Or Damaged Now Set At 58

Latest Reports Show Fifty-Eight Warships Damaged, Twenty-Four Sunk in Greatest Naval Victory

Atnerican Fleet Counts Enemy Losses “And Mourns U.S. Personnel Casualties In Greatest Naval Triumph In History. .

THIRD FLEET CARRIER PLANES SINK, DAMAGE TEREE JAP CRUISERS  AT LEAST 90 PLANES DESTROYED ON LUZON ISLAND RAIDS

Tokyo Reports Three Raids by 200 U.S. Planes   Japs Lose 58 Warships Off Philippines in History's Greatest Naval Engagement

Whipping One Of Worst Ever Handed A Navy   Four Carriers And Two Battleships Among 24 Definitely Sunk By American Forces

Naval Victory In Pacific Was Greatest of War   New Areial Raids Launched Against Mantla Defenses

AERIAL ATTACK AGAINST MANILA NOW UNDERWAY   Japanese Naval Loss Totals 58 Ships

Japan Lost 58 Warships In Sea Fight   Defeat Becomes One Of World’s Worst Naval Whippings

GREAT PACIFIC BATTLE GROWS IN MAGNITUDE   Nimitz Communique, Subject to Revision, Shows 58 Japanese Warships Sunk or Damaged   ACTIONS CLASSIFIED

New Naval Air Blows Reported   Japs Say Victorious U. 5. Fleet Has Launched Air Assault on Mantia   BIG U.S. TROOP MOVE - “ALSO IS REPORTED   48 Jap Ships Either Sunk o Damaged in Historic Bat- tle Off Philippines

U.S. Seores One Of Greatest Victories In Fight Off Philippines   TokyoReportsNew Attacks On Manila   Possibly Only Two Jay Ships Escaped Damage In Sea Battle

24 VESSELS DEFINITELY WERE SUNK   Four Carriers and Two Battleships Among the Craft Sent to: Bottom— No Modern Nation Has Suffered So Heavily. 

Attaeks Against Manila   American Navy Launches Aerial Raids After Great Naval Triumphs

Tokyo Reports Blows In Wake U.S.Sea Victory   Says 200 U. 5. Carrier Planes Stage Three Raids On Philippines Capital   58 Jap Ships Sunk, Damaged by U. S.   Admiral Nimitz Declares Enemy Fleet Has Been Decisiyely Defeated and Ronted

AIRMEN DAMAGE 3 CRUISERS, RIP AIRFIELDS IN RAIDS ‘ON MANILA   Report 58 Ships Sunk or Damaged in Sea Fight; Jap Vessels Lost in Second Philippine Battle Total at Least 500,000 Tons, More Warcraft Than in All Four Preceding Pacific Engagements

New Air Attacks On Ex-Capital Of Philippines Told   Sixty-Four Nipponese Battlecraft Have Been Sunk By Americans In Pacific Since May, 1942; 24 Of Sinkings Made In Recent Battle For Invasion

Nips Fleet Toll Rising   Loss in Ships Sunk Or Damaged to 58, May Still Be Revised Upward

Fleet Ready to Open Manila Act   U.S. BATTLEWAGONS IN BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY

Heavy Jap Cruiser. 90 Planes Are Downed by Yanks   Two Other Cruisers Are Damaged in Renewed Raids on Luzon Island; Enemy Major Ship Losses Brought to 61 by Latest Raids

TEMPERATURES:   58 JAP SHIPS KNOCKED OUT IN SEA BATTLE   World’s Greatest Navy Victory Revealed By Admiral Nimitz

Fifty-Eight je Ships Are Sunk or Damaged by UJ. S. Fleet   4 CARRIERS IN GROUP   Nimitz Reports Enemy Has Been Decisively Beaten and Routed

Nips Report New Attack On Manila   Renewed Air Action By U. S. Navy Revealed As Nimitz Gives Final Sea Battle Score

Third Fleet Carriers Likely Sink Heavy Cruiser, Damage 2 Others in Week-end Raids

Toll of Jap. Ships Sunk Grows Daily   24 Definitely Sent to Bottom, Nimitz: Reports

Russ 12 Mi. In Rumania: Odessa Afire   Red Armies Capture 50 Villages, Sever. Prut River Railway

Invading Armies Now 13 Miles Beyond Prut; Bombers Hit Budapest   Large Force of U. §. Bombers Makes First Large Scale Assault on Hungary in Flight From Italy; Nazis Claim Cassino Retaken

Russians Claim Ukraine Losses ~ Exceed 183,90   » Are Clases On Odessa, U. S. Bombers Pulverizing Hunaary

SAY INVASION HAS NO DESIGN ON TERRITORY   Soviet Announcement Welcomed in British  Government Circles

Reds March Deep into — Rumania —   _ Reported Five to.10 Miles Across Old Boundary; Numerous Villages Captured

PORK BONUS STAMP _ MADE VALID BY OPA   Third Such Stamp, Worth Five Meat Points, May.. Be Used © _Throuch February 26. - :

ANOTHER PORK BONUS ISSUED   ’  Spare Stamp No. 3 Good For Five Points On Sausages Also

Five-Point Pork Bonus Authorized Effective Today   Supplies Exceed Expectations, OPA Ruling Announce:

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Parapooch—=New, Exciting Role for St. Bernard Dog   "Major" Willing Subject of Army” Experiments at Muroe Air Base

EXILED POLISH PREMIER QUITS   DEALS SEVERE BLOW TO ANGLO-AMERICAN EFFORTS IN DISPUTE

YANKS PUSH NORTHWARD ON SAIPAN   Head for Garapan, Administrative Center

30,000 Jap Defenders On Island   Fleet Cracks Islands 600 Miles From Jap Mainland To Support Invasion.

Gr RETREAT IS IN PROGRESS ON ~—-100-MI FRONT   Germans Appear Stil] ‘Plenty Tough’ Though Quality of Troops Deterisrates ond Supplies Diminish:

Germans Retreating  In Holland   British Troops Wheeling Forward 4 Miles Per Hour Across Flatlands

GERMANS ARE ON THE RUN IN HOLLAND   More Than 50,000. of Enemey In General Retreat Before Allied Push,

Berlin Asserts Allies Landing On Walcheren Island   Montgomery's Troops Wheel Over Flatlands With Great Speed

Allies Close On Bastions Below Maas   Germans Still Cling To Small Foothold In ’S Hertogenbosch

‘Germans In Full ‘Holland Retreat   aaa Enemy Troops Fall Back On 100-Mile Front As Allies Shrink Pocket Below Maas River

TILLWELL CALLED TO ILLINOIS POST   Will Head Aeronautical Engineering at Big Ten   CAME TO K. U. IN 1942

STILLWELL CALLED 70 WENO POST   Will Head Aeronautical En: gineering at Big Tea *e School   CAME TO K. U. IN 1942

BULGAR PREMIER TALKS FOR PEACE   SPEECH INDICATES INTENTION TO BREAK AWAY FROM GERMANY

te tee pen sateen  Way To Get Oust of of War War Now Sought By Bulgaria

APPEALS FOR HELP   Bulgaria Premier Asks How His Country May Get Out of War

Bulgaria In Desperation  Appeals To America To Get Her Out Of War At Once   Significant Speech Made By Premier Before Parliament

Bulgarian Premier Asks Help to Take Nation Out of. Wat   Next Few Days Will De termine: If-.He Has Army’s Backing

Help Is Sought By Bulgaria In  Gaining Peace   Premier Delivers Appeal To U. S. And Britain To Aid Balkan Nation In Getting Out Of War

BULGARIA READY FOR PROPOSALS ON PEACE PLAN   No Obstacles In Way To Talk With Allies

Public Works Slashed in Budget for 1945   Utah, Idaho Get Reclamation Project Funds

Ask Congress To  Finance Program   President’s Plan For Public Works Announced

Body ManDrowned Jan. 17 Rises To Surface This P. M   The body was identified at ¢ Ch  ro'clock as that of CH.

PEARL HARBOR ~ PROBE APPROVED   ROOSEVELT SIGNS LEGISLATION CALLING FOR IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION.

FDR Signs Pearl Harbor Probe   Says Investigation Should Not Interfere With War Effort.

a he ae a No “Tamma” Indians ;  Here, But. Wildcats  f Are Sull Araund

BRITISH HAVE SHELLS, CHURCHILL DECLARES   Tells Commons There’s No Reason For Shortage

No Shortages in Britain Seen   Based on Present Output, Churchill Tells Commons

British Army Has Supplies      “Chur chill Qui iets. Shortage Ru mors’

Churchill Says British Not Facing Munitions Shortage   Statement To Commons Follows FDR Claim Americans Lack Needed Shaite

SAYS MUNITIONS SUPPLIES AMPLE      Churchill Asks Production Rate Be Maintained

Says Britain Has Enough Ammunition   Ample Supply For All Fronts, Commons Hears From Churchill

British Supplies Of Ammunition Seen Adequate   Churchill Tells Commons Considerable Reserves Available To Armies

HIGHEST PRICE FOR VICTORIES IN THE PACIFIC   Enemy Death Toll Is at Least 19,000

(By Roger Babson)   Babson Gives Ten Reasons For Which To Be Thankful!

Kine Visits Hospital   French Cabinet Grants Amnesty  To Red Leader

Commended For Service In Action On Front Line   Vetiton. Doud Of : Oyens Among Elever - Cited For Bravery

Commended For — Service In Action On Front Line  . Weedon. Doud Of -Oyens Among Eleven * Cited For Bravery

Fifth Army Opens New Offensive   Break Across Lower Garigliano River   Ends Ten-Week Period of Being Stalled On River’s South Bank.

GERMANS PUT RESERVES INTO USE IN DESPERATE EFFORT 10. HOLD LINE: BIC BATTLES RAGE.

MACHINERY T0 BE AVAILABLE   WPB Is Authorized To Provide More Equipment For Farmers

President Directs War Production Board to Provide for Increased Supplies in Its Reconversion Program—Lifting of Quotas From 400 Items Under Consideration—Executive Predicts Substantial Post-War Exports of Food.

GERMANS WAIT IN SIEGFRIED LINE   ENEMY DEFENSES EASILY SEEN FROM U. 8S. POSITIONS IN LUXEMBOURG.

FDR, in Fine Shape, Returns To Washington   President Tanned, Rested After Month In South Carolina

Roosevelt Ends Southern Rest   Returns To Washington After Visit To Baruch’s South Carolina Plantation.

PRESIDENT RETURNS TO. WASHINGTON DESK IN TOP CONDITION      Enjoyed 4 Weeks of Sun and Rest at Baruch Estate in South Carolina   NO BRONCHITIS TRACES

Roosevelt Back In White House After Vacation   President Seems Greatly Improved

F.R. Back at White House   Returns From Month's Vacation Much Rested; Calls Conference

FDR BACK, TURNS T0 BUSINESS   Apparently Ready For Any Military, Political Problems

FR. Back at Desk After Month's Rest   President Better as He Starts Schedule; Sees Solons, Hull

PRESIDENT BACK AT WHITE HOUSE AFTER VACATION   INVITES LEADERS IN CONGRESS TO REVIEW HOME FRONT PICTURE

F.D.R. BACK 10. WORK AFTER REST   PRESIDENT REVIEWS LEGISLATIVE PICTURE

ROOSEVELT BACK AT WHITE HOUSE AFTER VACATION   FDR in Top Condition After Month’s Rest in South Carolina

President Returns To Work After Four Week Rest In South Carolina

FDR Back After Rest   President Perfectly Fit Again After Month Of Rest in the South

OFFICIALS SEE PRESIDENT AT WHITE HOUSE   Back on Job After Month's Vacation Executive Confers With Congression al Leaders   IS PRONOUNCED FIT

ROOSEVELT BACK IN WHITE HOUSE   Feels a: Great. Deal Better After 4 Weeks’. Rest in: >South Carolina _

Confers With Congressional Leaders on Legislative Situation.   EXECUTIVE LOOKING FINE

ROOSEVELT BACK AT DUTIES AFTER SHORT VACATION   Executive’s Health Apparently Greatly Improved From Month Spent at Baruch Plantation.   IMMEDIATELY MEETS NUMBER OF LEADERS   Secretary of State Hull Meets Special Train, Provides President With Report on World Doings.

Roosevelt Back in ~ Washington After Month’s Seclusion   ‘Chief Executive Says He’s Fully Recovered  From Illness

Chief Executive Back in Capital   President “Looking Fine, Indeed” Says Barkley After Conference

F.D. R. Meets With Leaders   President Informed Of Status of Work In Both Houses

FDR Returns  To Washington   After Four Weeks’ Rest On Plantation. President In Top Shape.

President In Good Condition On Return From Month’s Vacation In So. Carolina

No New Legislation Proposals Expected. Sen. Barkley Says, After Conference

President Back At Washington   Feeling Much Better After Rest in South Carolina

President Told ‘Things Getting Along Very Well” At Capital   No Comment Made  On Ward Inguiry   Chief “Looking Fine” Af ter Vacation Spent In South Carolina

F. R. Winds Up Four-Week Rest  Returns Ready To Take Up Anv Problems

FDR RETURNS AFTER MONTH IN THE SOUTH      President, Tanned and Rested, Back in the White House      “EXCELLENT SHAPE,” PHYSICIAN STATES   Met at Station by Secre tary of State Holl

President Back In Washington, Tanned, Rested   Adm. M’Intyre ‘Perfectly Satisfied’ With His Physical Condition

"Roosevelt Back to White House Desk *For Conferences   Hears Report from Leaders After Rest In South Carolina; ‘Feeling Much Rettar

Roosevelt Returns To Desk Feeling Great Deal Better   Appsars in Top Condition After four Weeks’ Resi on Baruch Plantation in So. Carolina

PRESIDENT BACK IN WASHINGTON AFTER VACATION   Appears Tanned And Rested After Four Weeks In South Carolina Retreat   FISHED AND MOTORED AROUND COUNTRYSIDE

PRESIDENT IS BACK FEELING FIT TO WORK   Spent Four Weeks On Plantation: Calls in Congressional Leaders First Today.

Roosevelt Ends Month's Vacation  In Fine Health   Arrives in Capital From Baruch Estate; Meets Leaders Today

PRESIDENT BACK IN WHITE HOUSE   Roosevelt Feels Much Better After Rest On South Carolina Plantation.

No Gasoline For Spaniards   Nation Feeling Full Impact Of U.S. Decision

Baptists Gather For Convention  Tulsa Expecting 1,50  a za... . gg. Saag ee ey ey

FBI Asked to Look for Spooks in One-Room School   Queer Happenings Are ‘Work of the De@il,  Farmer in School District Believes

Heavy Aerial Blows Land On Nip Bases   ‘Important Atoll In Marshalls Shelled By Warships; Subs Sink  Dozen More Vessels

Allies Widen Their Attacks On Japanese   New Guinea-Britain, Woke; Marshalls Hit Subs Sink 12 Ships

AIR, SEA UNITS RIP JAPANESE IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Nips on Marshails, Wake, New Guinea Feel Allied Power

TORRENT OF AIR AND SEA DESTRUCTION 18 LOOSED ON JAPANESE   SINKING OF TWELVE MORE ENEMY SHIPS BRINGS SUPPLY WORRIES

Allies Loose New Torrents on Japanese   Positions Over Wide Expanse of Pacific Smashed From Air

Widespread Attacks Made on Jap Bases in Pacific  New Guinea, Wake  Marshalls Feel Bens wf TT EC. Batele

Allies Continue To Batter Japs Island Empire   Planes, Ships Bombard Enemy Bases Over Wide Area

Knox Reveals 12 More Jap Vessels Sunk   Battleship Oklahoma, Sunk in Sneak Pearl Harbor Attack, Is Afloat Again

Twelve More Jap Ships Sunk By -US Submarines   Allies Continue Heavy Bombings of Enemy Positions in New Guinea, Wake Island and Marshalls

Fresh Setback for Japan's Ability to Supply Her Forces   Brings Total of Nip De. stroyed or Damaged to 584: Knox

SHIP LOSSES OF ENEMY TOTAL 584   ALLIED SEA, AIR POWER HAMMER AT JAPANESE ISLANDS

Widespread Attacks Made on Jap Bases in Pacific  New Guinea, Wake Marshalls Feel Furv of U.S. Raids   By Morrie Landsberg Associated Press War Editor

ENTIREPAGHIG POUNDED HARD   Allies Locse Torrent of Air And Sea Destruction on Jap Positions.    INTENSIFY RABAUL FIGHT

RABAUL HIT IN GREAT ATTACK. BY 250 PLANES   Allies Loose Torrent of Air and Sea-Borne Attacks on Jap Positions in Pacific

Nippon Feels Pressure Of  Allied Blows   Destruction Hunts Jap Over Wide Area in the Pacific

Allied Might Unleashed on Jap Positions   Planes Drop 800 Tons of Bombs. As U. S. Ships  Sink Submarines

BOMBERS TEAR IAP. POSITIONS   New Guinea, Wake Island  Marshalls Flayed By     Yank Airmen

Ohio Fourth Among States In War Work   Columbiana County Has Shared Orders Valued At $46,086,000

Allies Down 23 More Planes in Raid on Rabaul   Latest Victory Brings Jap Plane Loss to More Than 400 in January

ALLIES DOWN 23 MORE JAP PLANES   CRAFT BAGGED IN RABAUL RAID—CARGO SHIP IS SUNK OFF KAVIENG.

Rabaul Pounded, «3 Japs Downed   Six More Believed Downed: Ship Sunk

Jap Air Loss At Rabaul in January 40€   Allies Shoot Down 2: More Planes in Most Recent Raids

ALLIED BOMBERG ASOAULT RABAUL   Marks 25th Raiding Mission There This Month,   PLANE TOLL MOUNTS   Air Arm Presses Campaign To Soften up New Guinea Area About Madang

‘ALLIES MAKE MONTH'S 25TH RAID ON RABAUI   Supply Dumps Tif, 23 OF Forty Japs Brought Down

Rabaul Pounded, « 23 Japs Downed   Six More Believed Downed; Ship Sunk  Ss... ae Fae £T Fasrearre

Wounded Raturn faa i Nor ae) seared:  QEARUAU LE BUC LUAL Gh tt LVUS DEGRA  In Better Shape Than Expected

Rubber Program Still Bad News.  Although Moying o1 Schedule, Facilities

Blockbusters, Propaganda Leaflets © Warn Germans of Coming Slaughter

Leaflets Dropped On Berlin Carry Warning   2 \State Only “Peace” Can Stop The Devastation Of Cities  g In Germany

OWI Pamphlets Dropped on Berlin Tell Germans Onlu Peace Will End Slauqhte

Grim Warning Notes  Showered on Berlin  Panrphlets Tell Germans Dusky Prange? Will Walt Bawh Ba

‘Peace’ Pamphlets Dropped   HITLER OVERTHROW URGED IN LEAFLETS RAINED ON BERLIN

GERMANS WARNED ABOUT BOMBING   Stern Message Given In Pamphlets, Sirens to Cease   When Peace Comes.

Germans Nervously Watching Weather   Speculating on Invasion Time

Germans Flee Hitler Line ~   Nazis Abandon Huge Stores as They Retreat to Third Defense’ ‘Position; Allied Troops 20 Miles From: ‘Anzio   NAZIS COCK NERVOUS WEATHER EYE CHANNEL-WARD AS ‘SKIES BRIGHTEN

Germans Pay Close  Heed to Weather      Moscow Radio Says Na ‘Disquiss’ Commander "you Rundsiedt

Moral Law Just Basis for Peace  Catholic Bishops Rap Power Politics

Catholic Bishops of U. S. Desire Peace Organization Founded on Moral ‘Law and Repudiating Power Politics

Bishops Urge Peace Group   Call For International Organization Founded On Moral Law.

Bishops Score International Power Politics — Fear Imperialistic  - Domination

Catholic. Bishops Urge Repudiation Of Power Politics in Peace Agency

“Moral” Peace Is Called For By Churehmen   Catholic Bishops of U. S. Slap at Russia’s System of Sponsored Regimes  in Nearby Areas

AMERICANS SEIZE LIMON: WIPE OUT IST JAP DIVISION   Yanks Plunge 1,000 Yards Beyond Bastion Which Enemy Had Defended Savagely and at Heavy Cost.   ENTIRE YAMASHITA LINE IS IN DANGER   Rolling Country Lies Ahead of MacArthur’s Troops in Drive Down Highway Toward Ormoc.

LIMON SEIZED BY - AMERICAN FORCES   Rain-Pounded Doughboy: ' * Take Japanese Bastion

YANK TROOPS TAKE LIMON T0 PERIL JAP LINE   Biggest Gain in Two Weeks is Made in Leyte Battle

T 32ND CRUSHES F JAP BASTION SAT LIMGA   In Biggest Upsuree. of Leyte Island Battle Front Yor More Than Two Weeks.   Sink Vessels

JAP BASTION OF LIMON FALLS TO U. S. DIVISION   American Forces Score Biggest Advance In Past Two Weeks To Take Town

LIMON BASTION IS CAPTURED BY 32ND DIVISION   Entire Yamashita Line On Leyte Island Is Now Threatened   HEAVY RAINS STILL HAMPERING TROOPS

Nearly Destroy Enemy s First Division   Entire Yamashita Line May Be Rolled Up Soon

Yanks Drive 1,000 Yards South of Limon   SUDDEN UPSURGE   Practically Destroys Enemy's First Division; Biggest Gain in Two Weeks

Yanks Capture Limon Bastion On Levte; Wipe Out First Jap Divisio:

Yanks Crush Limon Stand. By Japanese   Whole Yamashita Line - On Leyte Island — Placed in Danger  IAP TOSSES HIC

Chinese Fear Hengyang Lost   Japs Completely  Encirele Witol Rail Center

WAR CARRIED 10 MARIANAS BY AMERICANS   Hundreds of - CarrierBased Craft Blast Saipan and Tinian, 1,300 Miles From Capital.   PARRY ISLAND FALLS TO YANKS   Capture Completes Conquest of Eniwetok Atoll Which Enemy Had Garrisoned With 3,000 Men.

Michigan Camp Aiding Vets In  Readjustment   One of first states to take step; study and recreational facilities  Leen men. hisev: .

Nazis Turn Over  An Old ‘Leaf’   SUPREME HEADOL ART. ERS ALLIED EXPEDITION  Au, & Rerinr et ~~

MARAUDERS RELIEVED   Encircled Units Rescued by HardHitting Jungle Fighters

Allied Airmen Bomb Japs On  Burma Front      Raiders Range Over Wide Area

Pamphlet Stirs Republicans And Democrats   Two Pages Objectionable To Hannegan; Printed By PAC. Brownell Says

PAMPRLET STIRS — POLITICAL WORLD   Flurry Caused in Both Parties as Statements Irk Democrats

Meadows Warns Of Denuded State  Democratic Candidate   Democratic Candidate To Speak Tonight -

CIVILIANS ARE BANNED   Germans Tell of “Security Belt” on Swiss Frontier

NAMES IN THE NEWS   DEATH TOLL IN CLEVELAND FIRE INCREASES 10 99

FEAR 200 DIE IN CLEVELAND FIRE   Known Death Toll Hits 99, Group Starts Inquiry

CLEVELAND FIRE INQUIRY OPENED   DEATH TOLL SOARS TO 98, WITH 108 PERSONS ON THE MISSING LIST

Probe Commences On Cleveland Fire   Death Toll Soars To 104; 102 Persons Still Licted ac Miccina

Workers Combing Ruins Of Cleveland Plant As Investigation Board Named

Gas Blast Toll May Reach 200  Property Damage May Reach 15 Million

ee eerie  200 FEARED KILLED IN CLEVELAND BLAST   Ruins Still To Hot To Work Properly

Board of Inquiry Probes Cleveland Blast Disaster   Minety-Eight Persons Reported Dead and 108 Missing: Schools House 680 Withont Homer

Possibly 200 Met Death In Cleveland   Number of Known Dead Mounts  To 99 With  100 Missing

BLAST TOLL IN OHIO NEAR 200   Coroner Estimates Even Greater Loss of Life in Plant Explosions

Comb Ruins For Additional  Victims Cleveland Explosion   Board of Inquiry Begins Investigation Into Cause Of City’s Greatest - Disaster

Death Toll in Ohio Fire May Reach 200   INQUIRY BOARD SET UP; RED CROSS CARES FOR 680 HOMELESS SURVIVORS

GERMAN CAPITAL IS TOTTERING NOW: (TS END IN SICH   British Pound City Twice ; One Night—Followed Yank Raid.

Berlin Probably Left in Death Throes by RAF   Two Devastating Attacks Staged On Nazi Capital

IRAF Stages Two Attacks On Nazi Capita!   Complete Collapse ‘Seen in Next 25 Days if Raids Continue

Pass Bond Quota By 16 Per Cent   Purchase Of One Bond By Each Resident Asked By Johnson

Beachhead Line  ‘Holds Grimly In ' Face Of Attack   German Dead Carpets Ground Before Anzio Beachhead; Allied Line Sags, But Grim Fighting Men Prevent Break-through

Yanks Mow Down Nazis, Hold Anzio   Some German Units . Cut in Half; Allies Take Cassino Station

Germans Stopped It Great Anzio Battle   Terrible Losses Inflicted as Nazis Hurl Forces At Beachhead; Grim Courage of Allies Holds Firm

BEACHHEAD LINE IS LITTERED BY GERMAN'S DEAD   Allies Pose New Threat To Cassino On Rapido River

Allied Soldiers Fight Doggedly To Stop Nazis   Allied Airmen Shoot Down At Least 17 Nazi Planes: Clarke Praises.   STOP BREAKTHROUGH

Grim Allies Still Holding Anzio Lines   Beachhead Carpeted With German Dead As Crucial Battle Continues

LINES INTACT INBEACHHEAD BELOW ROME   ALLIES WEAR OUT NAZIS IN BLOW AT ANZIO

Nazi Attempts At Break Through !s Repulsed by 5th   Four Enemy Divisions Thrown Into Beachhead

Half Of Some Enemy Units Are Wiped Ou   Glark Visits Front, Praises Courage Of Troops; Air Battles Rage Throughout Day

ML LIED TROOPS FALL BACK BUT MAINTAIN LINE   Take Heavy Toll of Enemy Lives at Anzio Beachhead

Savage Battle  Below Capital Nears Climax   Americans And British Hold Ground, Repulse Powerful Assaults By Nazi Forces   Believed Gamble By Germans Lost   Allies Also Make Gains In Cassino Sector, But Fail In Attempt To Breach — Lines

Germans Suffer Heavy Losses in Efforts to Break Through to Drive Allies Into Sea

Superior Forces Of Nazis Fail To Win Beachhead   Allies Hold Firmly Breakthrough Wa: Feared, But Yanks Come Back

Fanatical Germans Beaten  Off; 17 Planes Shot Down          Cleand Trtal To led

Nazi Thrusts . Are Supported By Infantry, .  Armor Forces.   Recklessness Shown With Heavy Losses

BATTLEFIELD STREWN WITH CERMAN DEAD   Americans and British ‘Break Up With Steel Enemy Attempt to Crack Lines. —   FIRM STAND BRINGS PRAISE’ FROM CLARK   Foe Hurls Four Divisions  : Into Bitter Struggle— Allied Airmen Shoot Down 17 Planes.

Nazi Dead Litter Area At Anzio   Allied Forces Holding Line Despite Heavy German Attack

MINES CLOSE BY FIRE WILL OPEN MONDAY   Possibility Of Gas Seeping Through Had Halted Production

TENN A LEN LIN LN  Russian Army Captures Ochakov; Now Within 15 Miles Of Hungary

LIBERATION t LEYTE IN 'INAL PHASE   . Submarine Chaser Sunk  In Manila Area

BLAST 8 MORE JAP SHIPS, RAID MANILA AREA   Carrier Planes Destroy 191 Aircraft; Leyte Climax Near

Americans Beat Japs Back, Push  Toward Ormoc   Carrier Plane Raid On Manila Area Wrecks 191 Jap Aircraft

LBIERATION OF LEYTE NEARS FINAL PHASE   Kight More Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged

BAG 8 SHIPS, 191 PLANES IN MANILA RAIDS   American Carriers Also Pound Jap Bases on Luzon: Battle for Leyte Nearing Victory Today.

LIBERATION OF LEYTE IN FINAL PHASE   American Carrier Planes Cause Japs Plenty of Damage In Raidon Manila Area.

Carrier Planes Destroy 191 Jap Aircraft In Raid   Eight Or More Ships Reported Blasted In Manila Area Attack 

Destroy 191 Jap Planes And Blast 8 Or More Ships By U.S. Planes  LEYTE LIBERATION IN FINAL PHASE  Sweeping Aside Light Enemy Opposition In Converging Advances

JAPS PINNED IN SMALL ORMOC POCKET; 8 SHIPS IN MANILA BAY BLASTED

LIBERATION OF LEYTE IMMINENT   Navy Fliers Blast 191 Jap Planes And Eight Ships

Liberation of Leyte Island Believed Near   Jap Planes and Ships Blasted in Manila Area

REICH MAY FALL APART PIECEMEAL   Break-up Army by Army Rather Than Single Surrender Is Seen; Armistice Terms in Either Case Ready

Believe German Will Fall Apart  Leaders Doubtful About Surrender

Say Armistice Terms All Set  But Germany May Fall Apart Piecemeal

Say Germany To Fall Apart Piecemeal   Armistice Terms Are Ready for Either  Alternative

See Germany Falling Apart Piecemeal   Rather than Single Surrender; Would Mean Chaos for Years

Gradual Defeat Chaos Feared   Terms Ready for Single Capitulation Or Series, Say Waiting Allied Chiefs; Occupation Basic Part of Program

Armistice Plan  Ready forReich   Germany Expected To Fall Apart Army by Army

Leaders See Piecemeal  Nazi Defeat  German Postwar Chaos Peses Grave Problem

1900 HEAVY BOMBERS RAID ESSEN   Berlin and Other Points Blasted By Allied Airmen

1000: British Bombers. Hit Steel City   Essen Battered Despite Strong German Defense

RAF Planes Raid Essen And Berlin   Airmen Battle Snow And Nazi Defenses To Attack Cities

FOR GERMAN ARE PLANNED   Germany to Get Her Worst Winter Of Allied Bombs

Wallace Asks Collaboration With Russia  Vice President Makes Address

Wallace Reported To Be In Russia   Radio Moscow Quotes Vice President's ‘Talk —

DECISION IN WARD CASE TOMORROW   Federal Judge Hears Final Arguments Today

Montgomery Ward Arguments Heard   U.S. Court Likely To Act Tomorrow

Lepke, Two Others, Granted Respite With Only 70 Minutes Left to Go; Dewey Intervenes

GANGSTERS ARE GRANTED STAY BY GOVERNOR   Buchalter And Two Henchmen Are Appealing To Supreme Court   GANG LEADER MAKES SENSATIONAL CHARGES

FURTHER REPRIEVE GIVEN BUCHALTER   Last Ditch Appeal: Plan- med Today by. Ganaster

Romania's Young King Tells Complete Story ‘Of Coup Which Removed Nation From War   Story Of What Occurred

‘King Mihai Rides Through Hail of Fire To Deliver His Nation to Allied Camp

State Superintendent of Public. Instruction Knew or Should Have Known of Circumstances in Case,,Committee Says 

Disclose New Japanese Raid  On B-29 Base      Make Third Attack In 24 Hours Against Island Of Saipan

Nips Lose 26,000 In Landing Trie   Attempts On Leyte Cost Japs 7 Convoys

CHURCHILL ASKS OREEKD 10 ACCEP; ARMISTICE TERMS   Hore Expressed That avepresentative Cab-net 1.ay Be Formed

CHURCHILL ASKS GREEKS TO BOW   Premier in Athens Requests Factions to Accept Terms

CHURCHILL ADDRESSES REPRESENTATIVES OF WARRING FACTIONS IN CIVEL STRIFE

URGES GREEK ARMISTICE   Asks Warring Factions to Accept Lieut. Gen, Scobie’s Terms

WARD SEIZURE HEED ILLEGAL   Senate Says I. D. Exceeded Authority

WARD SEIZURE RULED UNLAWFUL   SENATE COMMITTEE RAPS F. D. R. ACTION

Senate Group Holds Ward Seizure Invatid   Lacked Constitutional or Statutory Authority, View Outlined, With  Recommendation of Care in All Such Moves

F,.B.. AUTHORITY. IN ACT DENIED   Judiciary Group Scores Rulings of Biddle

WARD SEIZURE ILLEGAL, SAYS SENATE GROUP   FDR Acted Without Constitutional Authority, Committee Says

No Authority  ‘For Seizure    Roosevelt, Biddle And Jones Criticised

SUB-COMMITTEE CRITICISM FOR BIDDLE AS WELL   Secretary Jones Also “Called” For Ordering Soldiers to Take Over Mail Order Plant.

Ward Seizure Is Assailed in Senate Report   Committee Offers Sharp Criticism Of Federal Action

President Had No Authority To Seize Wards   That Is Decision of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Headed By Senator McCarran

WAS OUT OF LINE   Subcommittee Says Roose velt Had No Right To Seize Wards

SENATE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE SAYS PRESIDENT DID NOT HAVE AUTHORITY TO SEIZE WARD PLANT   Had Neither “Constitutional or Statutory Authority” Says Sharply Worded Report Which Raps Attorney General Biddle for Advising to the  Contrary

Assails Action _ In Seizing Plant   Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Declares President Roosevelt Had “No Constitutional or Statutory Authority” to Issue Order in Montgomery Ward Case.   BIDDLE IS CRITICIZED

McFarland “Explains” Ward Vote   Votes Against His Committee’s Report  Flaying U.S. Action

Declares Ward Seizure llegal   Senate Sub-committee — Issues Statement

COMMITTEE SAYS F.D.R. WENT T00 FAR ON WARDS   Reports President Had ‘No Constitutional Or Statutory Authority’

FDR Had No Authority for Ward Seizure,  Report Holds   Biddle Criticized by Senate Judiciary SubCommittee

WARD SEIZURE ACTION RAPPED   Senate Group Says President Exceeded Authority

Senators Condemn  Seizure of Ward’s   Say Roosevelt Acted Without Any Legal  Power in Order

2 Senators Deny  FDR Authority In Ward Seizure Subcommittee Report: Criticizes Biddle’s

Charge FDR Exceeded [Power In Ward Case   ‘Senate Subcommittee - Report Declares President Had ‘No Constitutional Or Statutory Authoritv’ To Seize Chicago Plant

SENATE RAPS WARD SEIZURE   Judiciary. Committee {ssues Sharp Report, Criticizing President’s Action... —

Seizure al Ward's 5 ~ Assailed   No:., Authority for Order, Says ‘Report: of Senate Sub-Committee 2 >   VARIOUS.:FEDERAL . +. UNITS: CRITICIZED   Biddle Singled Out in Sharp. - ~"Worded Attack on, U.S, “Procedure

House Stops Ward Hearing   Further Hearing Set for June 6 When Sewell Avery Will Be Questioned

Ward Seizure —   Hit by Solons   Senate Committee Says “FDR Had No Authority To Take Over Plants in Chicago ”

Sente Group Says Seizure Was llega   House Chirman’s View Is Opposite

CRITICIZE GOV'T INWARD SEIZURE   SENATE COMMITTEE SAYS ROOSEVELT DID NOT HAVE AUTHORITY.

Seizure Order Called Illegal   Asserts FD Without Right To Take Over Plant Of Montgomery Ward Co.

Senators Rap President In Ward Case.   Seizure Declared To Have Been Beyond Authority

SENATE G FLAYS F.D.R.S WARD ACTION   Judiciary Subcommittee Says President Lacked Seizure. Authority

Report Holds FDR Exceeded ~ Legal Power   Atty. General Biddle Sharply Criticized For His Action

Criticism of Roosevelt For Seizure  Senator Reports There Was No  Teoal Antharity

Claim FDR Exceeded Authority   SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS ON RECENT ARMY SEIZURE

FIND NONE IN LAWS OR CONSTITUTION   Report of Senate. Judiciary Subcommittee Also Criticizes Biddle, Jones, WLB, NLRB and Labor Department Unit.

Senator McCarrans Report Assails Action, ‘Asserting FDR Had ‘No Constitutional or Statutory Authority’ to Take Mail Order House.

Blasts Ward Seizure as Unauthorized   FDR Had No Power to Act, Says Senate Committee: Raps Biddle

Committee Decides Against Roosevelt in Ward Seizure .   President Had No Authority to Issue Order, Judiciary Report Decicres

Ward Seizure Illegal, Says Senate Group   Sub-Committee Denie: President's Right to Issue Order

SLAVE WORKERS SABOTAGE NAZIS      Wave of Defeatism in South Reich

Sabotage, Rioting Reported in Reich   Slave Labor Rebels;  Civilian Unrest Grows

28 STATES BEHIND FDR IN SURVEY   Has 286 Electoral Votes; Dewey 945

As Of Today:  FDR Leading In 28 States, Dewey In 20  Electoral Votes 4”. Stand 286-245

BAD WEATHER HANDICAP ON ITALIAN FRONT   Jespite Continuous Rains Attacks Are Made On Shipping Off Yugoslav Coast   MINOR THRUSTS HALTED

Crack Nazi Units Tied Up at Anzio      Invasion Coast Weakened as Ger mans Try Inelfectively to Wipe int Bearhhead   24,000 CASUALTIES   Another German Drive Stopped by Americans Afier Three Abortive German Offensives

THREE ABORTIVE EFFORTS FAIL TO THROW ALLIES INTO SEA, AND COST NAZIS HEAVILY —   Manpower Losses Have Forced Germans to Bring Crack Divisions Needej Elsewhere into Anzio Sector. 24,000 Casualties During Past Month

ALLIED BEACHHEAD  FORCES HAVE THROWN  BACK GERMAN ATTACK COMMUNIQUE REPORTS BAD WEATHER REDUCES  ITATTAN HOCD ATIONG

‘Nazi Losses At Beachhead Near 24,000   High Percentage of Enemy Killed by Allied Artillery Fire

Germans Lose About 24,000 On Beachhead   Of These 3500 Are Captured by Allied © Troops; Majority of Remainder Are Killec

Allies Repulse Another German Anzio Attack   Fighter Bombers Attack Ships Off Yugoslavia; Nazi Beachhead Attacks Cost Enemy 24,000.

Nazi Losses At Anzio High   Casualties About 24,000; Artillery Takes Heavy Toll

Germans Are Forced To Weaken Their Forces Who Were Expected To Meet Invasion —

Anzio Disrupts Nazi Defenses   Allies Say 24,000 German Casualties

Germans Lose ~~ 24,000 Men in ~Talian Fight      ‘Developments _ There Disrupt Nazi Plans to Reinforce Channel Coast

Small German Thrust Below Rome Repulsed   Bad Weather Slows Up Land Fighting On Ital sean hrante.

Weather ‘Slowing In Italy   Small German Attack Hurléd Back  On Beachhead

24,000 NAZI CASUALTIES ATANZIO   Hard Fighting Has Disrupted Plans For Meeting Invasion

ALLIES BEAT BACK SMALL NAZI ATTACKS   Otherwise, Situation Relatively Quiet on Al Fronts, With Weather Continuing to Restrict Operations.

AMZIS LOSE 24.000 IN BATTLE OF BOME   Allies Capture 3,500; Many _ German Casualties Are ~ Dead Officer Reports

German Losses In Italy Are Estimated At 24,000 Today   Hard Fighting of Past Month Has Disrupted Enemy Plans for Meeting Spring Invasion; Crack Divisions Tied Up

German Efforts to Wipe Out Beachhead Below Rome Costly   Nazis Have Suffered 24. 000 Casualties in Their Attacks

ALLIED BEACHHEAD FORCES HAVE THROWN BACK GERMAN ATTACK COMMUNIQUE REPORTS " BAD WEATHER REDUCES  Traay ARrD awTThy

Italian Campaign Disrupts German Defense of France  Scheduled for Action On Continent, Crack Troops Are Tied Up;  S ee 2 Fae fA Pm mS

Last-Ditch Battle Is Shaping Up For Los Negros Island   Futile Anzio Drives Cost Nazis 24.000   —RUSSIA—  VITAL RAIL LINE GUT BY SOVIET:   Odessa-Lwow Railroad In Southern Russia Severed, Report   BLOW TO NAIZS   Germans Must Now Divert Traffic Through Rumania

24,000 Nazi Casualties At Anzio —   Fighting There Ties Up Crack Enemy Divisions Intended for Use Against Invasion

Enemy Plans  Disrupted By Anzio Bid   Crack Nazi Divisions Earmarked for Defense Of France Have Been Retained in Italy; High Percentage of Losses Listed as Killed

NAZIS” ANZIO LOSSES HEAVY   24,090 Casualties in Three Abortive Efforts to Wipe Gut Beachhead.

NAZIS LOSSES REACH 24,000 IN BRIDGEHEAD   Crack Troops Marked Fo Anti-Invasion Duty Tied Up By Italian Battle

BAD WEATHER SLOWS ALLIES ON BEACHHEAD   German Thrust Is Repulsed Before Allied Forces

Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses Before Anzio   Casualties to Date Placed at 24,000, a: Lerae Percentage Dead

Small German Attack Beaten  Bad Weather Reduces Operations In Italy

REPULSE SMALL GERMAN ATTACK   Bad Weather Has Reduced Operations On Beachhead

 a German Casualties in Beachhead   Fighting Are Estimated at 24,000

Nazi Losses At Beachhead Put At 24,000   Germans Have Paid Dearly In Effort To Oust Allies

Nazi Anzio Losses Put At 24,000   About 3,500 Captured by Allies—List Of Dead High

ANZIO FIGHT PROVES COSTLY   German Casualties  24,000 on Beachhead

NAZIS PAY DEAR FOR ATTEMPT TO TAKE BEACHHEAD   AMERICAN OFFICERS SAY BODIES PILED UP LIKE CORDWOOD

Nazis Lose 24,000 Men In Anzio Tries      Foe’s Dead Piled Like Cordwood. Says Yank: New Drive Beaten Back

Enemy Plans Are Badly Disrupted   Crack Divisions . Earmarked For West Are Tied Up   ROME FIGHTING IS EXACTING PAY OFF

Germans Suffer 24,000 Losses   Three Abortive Efforts to Wipe Out Allied Beachhead Below Rome Prove’ Costly, Allied Announcement Sets: “Barth Poday.    CRACK UNITS TIED UP

Nazi Losses Total — 24.000 Men at Anzio   Hard Fighting of Past Month at Beachhead Has Disrupted Enemy Plans for Meeting Spring Invasion Across Channel.

24000 NAZIS LOST AT ANZIO   Hard Fighting In Italy Disrupts Invasion Defense Plans

Nazi Losses  Huge In Italy   Germans Suffer 24.000 Casualties In Counter-Attacks At Beachheads.

Allies Repulse Nazi Attacks   Inflict Casualties on Germans in Anzio, Cassino

ARTILLERY OF ALLIES TAKES A HEAVY TOLI   Still Suffering From Beating It Has Taken, Nazi Army Fights On Only Small Scale.

CRACK GERMAN DIVISIONS TIED UP   Three Enemy Attacks Are Repulsed At Anzio   ALLIED CAMPAIGN   In Italy Disrupts Hitler’s Plans For Meeting Invasion Of Europe

German Invasion. Defense Program Disrupted by Allied Campaign at Rome Beachhead

HURL BACK LIGHT GERMAN ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Bad Weather Prevents Large Scale Action on All Italian Fronts

Allies Repulse Small New Nazi Assault  German Losses  In Anzio Area Set At 24,000

Russ Strike New  Blows at Nazis   2 More Transports Sunk Off Sevastopol

LEGIOLATURE 10. CONVENE TONIGH)   Enactment Of ‘Soldier Voting -Legislation _ Principal Business’.

News Behind The News  Copyright McCinra Newspaper   WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker   MacArthur 2°724t2

FINNS TRY TO EXPLAIN STAND   Foreign Minister Talks to American Charge D’ Affaires

Rep. Dirksen Raps Spending Plan Of Administration  Republican Candidate To Speak Tonight me FL_L.... 8. 2"...

Rep. Dirksen Raps Spending Plan Of Administration  Republican Candidate To Speak Tonight At Helena Meeting

Berlin Says Pisa Leaning Tower — Destroyed by Allies   Nazi Counterattacks Hold Eighth Army. at Bay Near Florence .

TOWER OF PISA RAZED — BERLIN   Germans Report Historic Edifice Shelled By Allied Guns

DENY HARM TO TOWER OF PISA   Famed Landmark Not De stroyed, Says Observer.

Florence Beyond Grasp Of Allies As Nazis Battle   Pisa, Florence May Lose Treasures To Fortunes Of War

NAZIS REPORT “TOWER RUINED   ‘Wrecked by Artillery Fire Says Berlin Broadcast

Germans Claim U.S. Shelling. Leaning Tower  Balsh Aciny Hild At Bay

LEANING TOWER OF PISA DESTROYED CLAIM NAZIS   Germans Say Allied Artillery Has Levelled Historic Structure

Claim Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Destroyed  TR ee pe ee ee   Nazi Propaganda, Out With It First, Blames Allied Guns

TOWER AT PISA LEVELED, BERLIN RADIO REPORTS   Allied Artillery Fire Blamed, But. No Confirmation From Allies on Historic Wonder i

Allies Destroy Leaning Tower   Nazis Claim Famous Tower Of Pisa Falls Under Artil lerv Fire.

TOWER OF PISA NOT DAMAGED   German Reports Said Historic Place Was Destroyedy By Allies.   NAZIS COUNTERATTACK

Japs Hurled Back In Battle for  Hunan Rail Link   Chinese Smash Enemy Thrusts, Capture Important Positions

Reveal 2 Enemy Submarines Sunk   Atlantic Attacks Lasted More Than Five Hours

NAVY FLYERS SINK TWO SUBMARINES   Axis U-boats Destroyed in South Atlantic

JAPS CONTINUE PUSH ON ALLIED SUPPLY ROUTES   Drive Nips from Over Hal! of New Britain in South Pacific

Yanks Now Hold More Than Half Of New Britain   Jap Pressure Against Allied Supply Line In  Dunslta  f nedlvnsion

Japs Yield Part Of New Guinea   Believed Falling Back on Rabaul for Death Stand

NIPS REGROUP FOR NEW ATTEMPT TO TAKE KOHIMA IN INDIA; JAPS LOSE CONTROL HALF NEW BRITAIN   Second Determined Attempt by Japanese Is Indicated and Heavier Fighting Is Reported in Central Burma. Japs Prepare for Death Stand at Rabaul

Jap Threat Against Allied Supply Line into China and Northern Burma Unabated

New Britain Half Won by Allies   Japs Continue to Threaten Imphal

Japs to Make Final Stand ‘Near Rabaul   Allies Control Half of ‘New Britain; 10,000 Japs ‘Killed here

Japs Fall Back To Rabaul   Prepare Last Ditch Fight; Continue to Advance in India

JAPS THREATEN NE TO CRN   More Than Half Of New Britain Now Held By Allies

Japs Maintain Pressure on Allied Lines, But Losing Grip on Rabaul

Jap Threat on India Remains  Prmnamvy WisthArnwe   Enemy Withdraws From Two Points In New Britain

Japs Put in Death Trap On New Britain- Threat In India Still Remains

Nippons Continue Threat to Imphal  No Let Up to Drive Into India

J ap Threats Are Unabated  In Burma Area   Picture Brighter For the Allies  In New Britain

JAPAN GIVES UP AREA NEAR PARAL BASE   Battle For India Unabated Today By Jap Armies

THREAT OF JAPANESE AGAINST SUPPLY LINE OF ALLIES UNABATED  OUTFLANKED JAPS ON NEW CUINEA FYPECTED

No Letup In Jap Pressure Near Imphal  Half Of New Britain In Allied Hands After

Japs Still Press Against Burma Supply Line, Retreat To Rabaul For Final Stand

Nipponese Troops Prepare For Last-Ditch Stand In Torn Rabaul Area

Japs Relinquish ° Half Of Island   But Burma - Chinese Threat Looms

U. §. PLANNING RECONQUEST OF GUAM IS BELIEF   ‘Light Naval Forces Shell Island For Second Time On Sunday

Total Defeat Faces Hun As  ‘Xmas Nears   Only in Inter-Allied Poliey and Political Tiscords Could They _ Find Hope of Easier ' Surrender Terms

Vermehren en Disgusted With Brutality Of The Nazis    GIVES HIMSELF UP. TO THE BRITISH

‘Se erateimmaeetaenencmnn rete ere AA RSE  NAZI EMBASSY ATTACHE IN TURKEY GIVES UP

 e Brieker Due For Gains  In GOP Race   Week’s Calendar Also Favors Dewey, Roosevelt

Roosevelt, Dewey To Augment Leads   Delegate Selections in Seven States in Week

Bricker to Gain Second Place   Misscuri, Wyoming Conventions Today

NEW ATTACK ON HITLER   Swedish Paper Reports Rumor of Attempt on Life.

State Women Called To Jobs   Up to Them If Oklahoma War Plants, Essential Civilian Work to Keep Up

RUSSIANS NEAR SOUTHERN TIP OF BULGARIA   (important Black Sea Port Of Constanta Falls   GERMAN ATTACKS   Northeast Of Warsaw Are Repulsed: No Word On Transylvania Drive

Reds See Early Rout Of Hungary   Soviets Bore Deeper Into Trancsvivania

SINIETS ADVANGE IN TRANSYLYANI   Fall Of Constanta, Ro. Imanian Port, Puts Reds Near Bulgaria   NAZIS STIFFEN   German Resistance Against Swiftly - Movying Russians Increases 

HERSHEY ISSUES NEW DRAFT RULES   After Men Under 26 Are - Taken, 26-29 Class Next

Hershey Details Draft Proposal.   Age Groups Above 4 Th Roe Neetad

26 to 29 To Be Drafted Next   Hershey Explains Progressive Age Group Plan For Draftees.

Draft Plans Vision “Less Striet”’ Standards For Higher Age Groups

Present Draff Setup Outlined By Gen. Hershey   Men in 26-29 Age Group Will Be Taken To Complete Calls

Draft Chief Eyes Men Over 26   hase Requirements  In Higher Brackets

Draft Looms For Older Age Brackets  Progressive Calls Announced to Meet Service Ouotas

Group From 26 To 29 Next in Line for Draft   Hershey Says Efforts To Be Made to Place Or induct 4-F’s

Hershey Details Draft Proposal   Age Groups Above YA To Re Needed

DRAFT T0 MOVE INTO HIGHER AGE BRACKETS   After Men Under 26 Have Been Taken, Those Up To 29 Are Next   4-F°S SLATED FOR WAR-IMPORTANT JOBS

Hershey Says Selective Service To Hit Higher  Ace Bracket After Men Under 26 Answer Calls

HERSHEY OUTLINES PROGRAM OF DRAFT   Group From 26 to 29 to Follow Calling of the Younaer fAen

Chinese Take The Offensive  At Chengchow   Heavy Casualties Inflieted  On Japs In Sharp Counter-Attack

Chinese Counterattack Japanese At Approaches to Chengchow, Honan

Chinese Troops Counterattack In  Chengchow Clash   Japanese Bring Up Reinforcements To Aid Honan Province Drive

DEWEY AND WARREN ARE IN FOREFRONT   New Yorker’s Prospects Boomed by Report .Pennsylvania Will Swing Support.

SENTIMENT FOR DEWEY- WARREN SLATE GROWING   Reports Also Grow That Penn. sylvania Favors New Yorker

SENTIMENT FOR DEWEY-WARREN TICKET GAINING   N. Y,. Governor’s Stock Up; Pennsy Delegates Swing To Him

Pennsylvania Delegates Will Back New Yorker, Say Reliable Reports

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SET MONDAY   ‘Dewey and Warren’ Best Bet for  GOP Ticket #

Aims Tonight's Broadcast at Party Workers on Whom He Depends’ jo Rustle. Votes For Him—Dewey Plans Next Talk

FR’s Speech Tonight Especialy Aimed at Democratic Party Workers.

FDR ADDRESSES DEMOS TONIGHT   Bricker Scores New Deal Efforts to Buy Election

FDR To Talk» On Air Tonight   Is Set For Another Political. Round:

F.D.R. 10 MAKE CAMPAIGN TALK TONIGHT, DEWEY PLANS ANSWER   EMPHASIS PUT ON POLITICAL ACTION GROUP, FOREIGN RELATIONS BY OTHERS IN RACE

President fo Give Political Talk At White House   Bricker Charges PAC Is Trying To Buy Election

Roosevelt Speaks Tonight in Effort to Strengthen Bic   Address Aimed at Party Workers; Gov. Dewey  Will be Listening

PRESIDENT WILL BE  HEARD IN POLITICAL  BROADCAST TONIGHT DEWEY AWAITS TONIGHT’S SPEECH BEFORE PREPAR INC CATIIDIAYV "TAT

F.R. Addresses Party Workers  Dewey May Answer Statements Saturday

ROOSEVELT 0 AIR TONIGHT; CAMPAIGN TALK   Dewey Waiting To Hear What FDR Reports

PRESIDENT WILL GIVE POLITICAL SPEECH TONIGHT   Chief Executive Expected T« Stress ‘Get-Out-TheVote’ Plea

PRESIDENT WILL BE  HEARD IN POLITICAL  BROADCAST TONIGHT DEWEY AWAITS TONIGHT’! SPEECH BEFORE ; PREPAR ee aE eo

FDR COMES UP  FOR*2ND RADIO  ROUND TONIGHT SPEECH AT 9 P. M.  AIMED ESPECIALLY AT PARTY WORKERS

HEADS BUILDING COMPANY   MN, Pknny Flected: President! of Masonic! Organization § *

HEADS BUILDING COMPANY   M. N. Penny Elected President of Masonic Organization

Speak Up For Democracy, Is Senator’s Plea   Conspiracy Of Silence On Foreign Policy 1: Charged In Statemen By Sen. La Follette

Sen. LaFollette Urges U.S. Peace Program   ‘Protests Conspiracy of Silence by Roosevelt, Dewey

SHIP-A-DAY ‘BLASTED FROM JAP FLEET   American Subs Credited with 15 More Enemy Merchant Ships; Rocket Weapon Aids Allies.   “like Picket Fence’

ew Weapon User Destruction {Enemy Craft   Rockets Destroy German U-Boat

15 MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK   U. S. Subs Average Better Than Ship a Day; Use Of Rockets Bared

15 More Japanese Vessels Sunk By U.S. Submarines   Communique Lists Latest Bag by American Submersibles Operating in Pacific—New Weapon Announced

Bag Includes Destroyer; Rocket-Carrying Planes New Weapon Against Subs

15 JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK BY U.S. SUBS   Rockets Fired From Planes Latest Naval Sub Defense Weapon

Solid South Puts Okay On 4th Term      Republicans Show Very Well In Florida, North Carolina, Virginia

Solid South . Stands Firm   “‘Téxans* Opposition Crushed: By. Ballot

OPA DAMAGE SUIT IS FILED AGAINST FIRM   Government Agency Takes Action Against Eastern Grain Growers Of Hagerstown

LOCAL CONCERN I5 — ACCUSED BY OPA   Trebie Damage Suit Filed Against Eastern Grain Growers

NEW INVASION — IN PACIFIC SEEN   Cochrane Says U. S. Fleet Has 1,300 Warships, 44,680 Auxiliaries

MAJOR BLOWS — AGAINST JAPS — COMING SOON   NAVY NOW BAS AT LEAST 1566 . WARSHIPS—i00 CARRIER T_ ADDED IN LAST © MONTHS

U-Boat Halts Neutral Ship   Two Americans Taken Captive by Germans

U-Boat Puts Refugee  Ship on Spot   Sets 383 Adrift; Berlin Halts Sinking; 3 Dead

Former Cadel Here Kilted in Crash   FO. Donald Pipkin Dies lw Aiprlane Accident

QUARTET FLEES AS GUARD IS OVERPOWERED   Murderer Among Men Hunted By Authorities Thruout Northwestern Ohio

Two Fiscape Monona Jail  _ This Morning   Were to Have Been Taken To Fort Madison Today To Start Terms

Convicted Men Break From Jail  Monona County Sherif Hunts Sioux City Men

2 BREAK OUT Of ONAWA JAIL   Chisel Out Bricks,  Then Remove Bars

‘Battle Said to be in Progress on German Soil Around  Saarbrucken With Frontier Crossed at  Three Places  '   ENEMY CAUGHT IN CALDRON ALONG CHANNEL

British Thrusting Into Netherlands   .-Patton’s Army Moving Under Security Blackout

Blackout On Information Continues In Order To Baffle Germans; . Air Forces  Rain Bomb Loads’ On. Germany; Troops. Close In On Channel Ports.

Army Silent Over Reports Of New Gains  German Town   German Town OF Saarbrucker Reported Taken

Allied Headquarters Has No Confirmation German Border Crossed— Troops Close in on Calais, Dunkerque   Aachen Reported Captured

Allies Said To Have Taken German Towns   Troops Also Are Reported In Luxembourg

But Official Silence Cloaks Location of American  Forces     Trarrrcernss TAT T¥erYT FY 4 hRITS   BRITISH IN HOLLAND   Heavy Bombers and Fight ' ers Precede Land Ad vance on Reich

British Forcing Way Deeper Into Holland   Supreme Headquarters Continues 3-Day Silence On Where Fast-Moving Third Army Now Is; Unconfirmed Reports Say It’s Taken Aachen, Saarbruecken in Germany

YANKS PIERCE REICH BORDER AT 3 POINTS   British Enter Holland, Trap 100,000 Nazis; Antwerp Falls

Allies Cloak Operations In Secrecy   Belgium Liberated; _ U. S$. Troops Enter. Holland, Luxemboure

British 5 Miles Inside Holland Aiud Only 28 Miles From Rotterdam

Maintain Silence on Yank Drive   Supreme Headquarters Fol Third Day Gives No Report On Doughboys   ‘SAME BLACKOUT wae USED PREVIOUSLY   Third Army May Have Checked Off Another 75 Miles in Advance

U. 5. TANKS ARE ON OUTSKIRTS OF STRASBOURG   Forces Driving Toward Rotterdam Inside Holland

Headquarters Still Silent on Patton’s Army   By JAMES M. LONG Of the Associated Press

Official Silence Kept About Fast-moving American Forces, Reported Across  German Border.   PATTON'S FORCES ON GO FOR THREE DAYS

Patton's 3rd Army Moving Under Security Blackout for Three Days: Report Capture of Towns In Reich   Aachen and Saarbruckes, Several Miles Across Frontier Believed In Allied Hands; American Bombers Attack Rail Center

Yanks. Stabbing into Rhine Valley   Supreme Headquar ters Shrouds Offen sive in Secrecy

British Crossing Holland’s Frontier   Paiton’s Men Said To Be Fighting Around Saarbrucken— Bio Enemy Army Trapped

Headquarters Mum on Patton Drive; British Inside Holland   Aachen, Saarbrucken Captured, Unconfirmed Advices Say

Secrecy Enshrouds U. S. Troops But Armored Units May Be Well into Siegfried Zone; British Columns Over Dutch Border Head for Rotterdam

Dispatch From Frontier States U. S. Tanks Have Reached City of Strasbourg And Fighting Rages on German Soil

—~—BATTLE OF GERMANY — Capture Of Aachen And  Saarbrucken Reported  In Swiss Dispatch   No Definite Information Given Out By Supreme Headquarters As Americans Pursue Fieeing Nazis In Secrecy-Shrouded Offensive

Secrecy Shrouds Offensive Thought To Be Inside Of Siegfried Line Defenses

BRITISH DRIVE INTO HOLLAND ~ SPEEDS AHEAD   Nazi Defense Stiffens In Effort to Hold Channel Ports

Yank Tanks  Reported In Germany   American Troops Said Fighting on Outskirts Of Strasbourg; Saarbrucken Is Scene Of Battle; British Move Upon Rotterdam

Unconfirmed Reports Say Allies Have Captured  Aachen And Saarhriuclean

AMERICANS 0 GERMAN SOIL: REACH HOLLAND   Reported Well! In Siegfried Line Defense Aree

ALLIES TAKE FIRMER HOLD ON LOWLANDS   No Confirmation From Supreme Headquarters That Allied Troops Have Crossed Nazi Border.

Account Not Confirmed By Headquarters   Allies Knife Through Belgium To Frontier Of Netherlands; Pin Nazis Along Coast

Hint Yanks Cross German Frontier In Three Sectors   Believe U. S. Troops Under Patton Breach Siegfried Line in Rhine Valley Around Sarrbrucken

British Troops CrossBelgium Enter Holland   Aachen, Saarbrucken In Germany Reported Captured by Yanks; Headquarters Silent

Report Yanks Have Crossed German Border in 3 Places: Headquarters Stays Silent

OFFICIALS HOLD BACK NEWS OF PATTON’S GAINS   Whereabouts of Army Unknown as Europe Hears 2 Reich Cities Token

BRITISH TANKS PUSH FORWARD ON ROTTERDAM   50,006 to 100,600 Nazis Are Caught Along Channel Coast

US Armor Across German Border At Three Points   Front 100 Miles Long, Russians Cross Narew

British Deep In Holland   Patton Acmy Declared in Saarbrucken, Aachen Across Reich Border os Allied Headquarters Keeps ‘Security Silence’

SAARBRUCKEN AND AACHEN SAID CAPTURED BY FAST MOVING U. S. TROOPS IN RHINELAND INVASION

Secrecy Shrouds Advance Onto “Holy German” Soil   Allied Forces Seize Brussels And Antwerp As Liberation Of Holland Nears

News Not Confirmed By Allies   American Tanks Said to Be Near Strasbourg on Rhine River

Invaders Of Belgium In Brussels, Antwerp   Stockholm Says Patton’s Men Take Perl At Junction 0 Three Borders; Luxembourg Head Greets Allies; 50,000 To 100,000 Nazis Caught In West

May Be Well Into Nazi Defense Zone   Secrecy Guards Advances But Allied Forces May Be As Far As 75 Miles Inside Germany; 100,000 Cut Off

2 Reich Towns Nabbed: Report   American Troops Reach or Cross German Frontier on Broad Front, Dispatches Say; Defense of Low Countries Collapses

Penetrate 3 Points;—Rhine Valley Gains Veiled In Secrecy   U. S. Tanks Said Near Strasbourg; British Forces Near Rotterdam; French Racing Up Saone Valley

‘Allied Silence Cloaks Thrusts At Reich Border   British Drive Deeper Into Holland, Near Rotterdam; Solidifying Belgium   U.S. Air Force Blasts Nazi Cities In Path Of Advancing Armies To Support Land Drive   Rhineland Transport, Industrial Centers Hit By 750 Heavy Bombers

Unconfirmed Reports Declare Doughboys Already Have Captured Aachen and Saarbrucken Inside Germany Proper — British Forces Are Thought to Be Thrusting Deeper Into Holland and Solidifying Their Hold on Belcoium.

WHEREABOUTS OF YANKS SECRET   Frontier Reports Say Saarbrucken, Aachen Fall   OTHER STORIES   Place American Forces At Strasbourg: Prisoner Toll Set At 76,000

aWIS9 REPORT OAARBRUCKEN, AACHEN TAKEN   First Fighting at Village on Moselle River; Nazis =< Coresad Roark

Yank Troops Seize Aachen, Saarbrucken   American Troops Believed To Have Smashed Into Rhine Valley And Siegfried Line; British Forces Enter Netherlands

YANKS BELIEVED STABBING INTO RHINE VALLEY   MAY BE WELL INTO DEFENSE ZONE OF SIEGFRIED LINE

Allied Drive In Germany Is Cloaked.  In Secrecy —   Assault On Siewtr ied. * Line-Believed Opened

Secrecy on Movements Maintained   Swiss Report Aachen Captured; Heavy Fighting For Brest Continues

BRITISH THRUSTING DEEP INTO HOLLAND; HOLDING BELGIUM  OFFICIAL SILENCE CLOAK AMCDICAN TUIPN ADMY

BRITISH DANE INTO HOLLAND   Unconfirmed Reports Say Allies Have Captured Aachen, Saarbrucken.   YANKS AT STRASBOURG?

British Lash Into Holland   Americans Reported Launching Drive into Valley of Rhine; Brussels, Antwerp Liberated

No Reports for Security Reasons; Troops May be Well Into Siegfried Line

U. 5. Forces Said To Be in Naziland   Headquarters Keepin Silent On Advance; British In Holland

AIR ARMADAS BLAST VITAL NAZI TARGETS   Almost 1,500 Bombers In Great Assaults On Reich

AIRMEN BATTER RHINE TARGETS   Factories And Railways Behind Siegfried Line Blasted

Navy Doctor's Daughter, 5, Is Kidnaped   Child-Found on “Doorstep 14 Blocks From Seattle Hane

Kidnaping in Seattle Fails   Five-Year-Old Girl Found 14 Blocks from Home After Being Abducted from Bedroom

ABANDON CHILD AFTER KIDNAF   Navy Doctor's Daughter Found 14 Blocks Away

Kidnaping Frustrated   5-Year-Old Girl Carried From Room And Then Abandoned

Demobilization Bill May Bring Fight In Senate   Measure Would Place Postwar Unemployed Under U. S. Control

Rumanians Defalr Japanese Attache  Attempts Suicide Upon Capture

Rommel Didn’t Know His Mine Fields Were Phonies; Happy Frenchmen Chop Up Nazis’ Wooden Artiller

To Fool Invasion Force:  On Coast o of F Normandy   (Qther eyewitness slories or Parca 6-A,.)

Allied Airmen ily 5.000 Sorties: Namur-Luxembourg Highway In Peril

Yanks Lose St. Vith and Stavelot, Hold Malmedy; Shorten News Blackout

Air Arm Strikes Blow Promising Havoc Among German Legions;  Headquarters Speeds Up War News

Allied Planes Unleash Might in 5,000 Sorties   Americans Gain Several Miles in Counter-Attack

HOOVER ARRIVES IN CHICAGO   Declares GOP Platform qs “in Richt Direction”

Hoover Says Gop Platform Okay   Admits Communications  With Candidate Dewey

§. L. Boy Slain  Over Noise By  Irate Neighbor Celebrants on  Way Home After Late Shov

Grove Put On Probation; Sentence Is  Suspended   ' Two-Year-Term Held In Abeyance By Judge: Comments Defendant Has Lost Prestige

CLARK'S FORCES GAIN TWO MILES   GERMANS THROW FRESH TROOPS INTO LINE IN EFFORT TO STEM ADVANCE.

Germans Throw Fresh and Refitted Troops against Clark's Doughboys

Foe Reinforces Front in Italy   Yanks Drive Within Range @f Palas Mi,

GERMANS MAY FLEE TO ALPS   Railways And Roads In Bologna Area Now In Range Of U.S. Guns

hermans Throw in Fresh Troops in Bologna Defense   Attempt to Check Fifth Army Only 10 Miles From Vital Citv

FRESH TROOPS PUT IN ITALY BY NAZI HDQS.   Desperate Attempt Seen To Stall Mark Clark’s  Advance

EDITOR 18 WOUNDED   Major Reynolds Was in Charge of  Army Magazine Yank

PROBE TWO PLANE CRASHES IN WHICH FOUR MEN KILLED   Jrackups Oecur Monday At Wright Field, Tipp City

rerflow Crowd Hears GOP Nominee fe Truman, Generals on Failure dministration to Prepare for War

FAIL TO QUIET RACE TROUBLE   Farmer Warned Against Use of Negro Labor

HOLD SOUTH OF ROME   British Take Many Prisoners in Halting Nazi Counter-Attack

FRESH CRISES. IFOR HITLER IN (RUSSIA. BALKANS   MacKenzie Sees Collapse Of Ukraine As Bloody Catastrophe for Nazis

ENTIRENAZI EAST FRONT IN JEOPARDY   Fuse Of Balkan Powder Keg Has Been Lighted

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF Aesaociated Preas War Anaivet

WAR TODAY   Fresh Crises Are Rushing At Madman Herr Hitler "In the Soviet  —and Balkan “Theatrés Of War

ON HIS FEET TO SIDESTEP NEWEST CRISES IN SOVIET-BALKAN AREAS  HITLER WILL HAVE TO BE QUICK

Red Army Drives Forward In White Russia On Main Line To Warsaw, Poland

RUSS NEARING NAZI BASTION OF MINSK   Red Drive Threatens Encirclement of Great Forces of Foe

NAZIS REPORT L0SS OF VITA PINSK BASTION   Soviet Armies Hammer Pathway Straight Toward East Prussia

Nazis Say Reds Have Broken Inte Grodno Defenses   City Vital Bastion On Approaches of East Prussia Border

Berlin Admits Evacuation Of Pinsk Bastion   Russians Capture Wilno After Nearly Week Of Violent Fighting; Soviets Approach Pre-War Border Of East Prussia

Russian Tide Rolling  Near Prussian Front  Army Enters Grodno, Key Base Gnhly on Milas Pram Fraanse Tins

ARMY REACHES UST SATE TO ~ FAST PRUSSIA   Fall of Grodno Would’ Open Way to Plains of Ger- ~ many Itself, --

Nazis Give Up Pinsk Bastion ‘OfPripetA rea   Fall Of Grodno Would Open Way For Soviet Push To Soil Of Germany

Grodno’s Fall Would Pave Way For Push Straight To East Prussia; Conquest Of Pripet Marshes Completed

Grodno Attacked By Soviet Army   Berlin Says Nazis Leaving Pinsk In Flight Back Info East Prussia

Germans Admit Fighting 20 Miles From East Prussia Border   Action Is Reported On 600-Mile Front   Moscow Says Five Army Groups Plunge Within  28 Miles Of Kaunas

BARRIER 10 EAST PRUSSIA DUE TO FALL   Germans Admit Evacuation of Pinsk, Big Bastion of Pripet Marshes.   Would Open Way.

Grodno Next Objective of Red Armies   Capture Would Open Way for Push Into East  Prussia

GERMAN REICH ONLY 45 MILES FROM FIGHTING   Reds Twice Penetrate Grodno Last Remaining Stronghold on Road to Germany.

Russians Break into Grodno Germans Evacuate Pinsk, Last Big Bastion of Pripet Marshes

NAZIS ADMIT WITHDRAWAL FROM PINSK   Berlin Admissions Indicate Defenses Are Falling Apart

Red Army Breaks Into Grodno, Vital German Bastion   Russians Only 20 Mi. From Prussia; Foe Evacuates Pinsk

PINSK Falls to Russians   Soviets Continue Sweeping Advance Towards Germany

Nazi Report That Pinsk Evacuated By Germans; Other Gains by Reds

STRUGGLE FOR GRODNO RAGES, NAZIS REPORT   Stalin Orders Salute To Celebrate Big Soviet Victory

Russians Enter Grodno; Germans Evacuate Pins)   45 Mile Push to Put Reds on German Soil

LOST IN ACTION   Gabreski Reported Missing As Home Town Awaits Return

TOP U.S, AIR. ACE MISSING   Lt. Col. 'Gabreski’s Plane Shot Down

LEADING U, 8. ACE FLIER 15 MISSING   LT. COL. GABRESKI, WHO HAD DOWNED ’28 PLANES, LOST OVER GERMANY.

Reception Plans For Top Yank x -* * &* HF * Ace Stop; Missing In Action

TOP AIR ACE IS REPORTED LOST   Home Town Shocked While Preparing Celebration

HEDOING AND HOME. COMING PLANS, HALTEL   Top-Scoring American Flier Reported Shot Down Over Germanv?-

Leading American Ace Reported As Missing In Action   Tragic News Interrupts Plans For HomeComing In Early Aurust

MILITARY COMMITTEE HEAD ADVOCATES ISLANDS. CONTROI   CHAIRMAN MAY DECLARES AL . LIES MUBT KEEP CONTROL OVER PACIFIC, LAFYER WAR

STRONG FRANCE IS AMERICAN DESIRE   Secretary Hull Says People Are En titled To Select Own Form Of Government

Ward Strikers Bolster Lines of Pickets   STATE POLICE PATROL PLANT AFTER 3 MEN INJURED IN DISORDERS

SOLDIER VOT BILL PASSED BY HOUSE   Puts it Up to President For Veto Or Signature

HOUSE PASSES SERVICE BALLOT   F. R. Reported to Be II ndecided on Action

DECLARE FDR UNDECIDED ON FATE OF BILI   Ballot Plan Gets Okek In House by Margin Of 273 to I11

House Approves Soldier Vote,  Send On To FR   President To Base . Action On Volume of Men To Benefit

House Approves Comp. Soldier Vote Bill   Measure Sent To FDR for  Vata ar Sionaturea

Allied ships pound shore  installations Blast batteries at close range

Allied Ships Pound Cherbourg aces dead i ateicheactahdaleeee a  Fourteen War Vessels Blast ‘Nazi Batteries Into Silence

Allied Ships Pound Cherbourg  Fourteen War Vessels Blast _Nazi Batteries Into Silence

Warships Help Take Cherbourg   Steam Close Inshore To Affack Germans

LIS Warship Nevada Leads Squadron in’ Point-Blank Tattoo of Cherbourg

CONN., CENTENARIAN IN 37 YEARS DRIVES 300,000 MILES WITHOUT MISHAP

U.S. Naval Victory May Shorten War by Months   Reports of Nimitz-MacArthur Lis i 26 Major Jap Ships Sunk or Damaved

Joan Breaks Down ~ When Letter Read  Recess Granted In Chap lin Case

ee on  7 +: - We ,0an in “ears-as Lever %eae - r Srea< Wil. 348). in;  ues-ioning an ASair W727 7 1er ‘Aan Jarrec

Joan Berry Gives Further Details At Chaplin Trial  Girl Weeps on Stand As Her Love Letter le Read ta Jury

LEE CHANGES MIND ABOUT CANDIDAG   Detroiter Says He'll Ruin As Democratic Lt. Governor Alominee

LEE 10 STAY ON DEM SLATE   Cancels Withdrawal As Lieutenant-Governor  Candidate

BULGARIA WANTS. GET OUT OF WAR BUT IT’S TOO LATE   Reminds Greeks of “Lamentations of Thiet Who  Has Been Caught in Actinn

BULGARS HINT PEACE MOVES   Parliament To Hear Restated Policies oday

Bulgaria May Break From Nazi Yoke   But It Is Indicated Bulgars Are Still Afraid of Germany.

Soviets Storming Gates Of Minsk: Nazis Desperate   Believe 300,000 German Troops Bottled Up Defending White Ruslan Capital  a ee a ee ee ee ee a a ee oe i oe    MAJOR ESCAPE ROUTES CUT OFF  (BULLETIN)

MINSK ISOLATED AND UNDER HUGE ATTACK BY REDS   Soviets 180 Miles Nearer @ Nazi Capital Than Ten Days Ago

DRIVE FOR PHILIPPINES IS FORESEEN   Three Top Kanking U.S. Admirals Meet In San Francisco

LAY PLANS FOR NEW MOVES IN ‘PACIFIC AREA   ‘Three Top-Ranking U. S. Navy Commanders Meet On West Coast

Nimitz, Halsey and King Confer On West Coast; New Attacks Expected

Nimitz, ralsey and King Meet   Frisco Gathering May Be Important

New Moves Seen In Pacific War  After Conference   Big Three of Navy, King, Nimitz, Halsey, Meet In San Francisco

Churchill and Eden Assailec   Britain's Action in Greece De.  fended by Prime Minister   and Foreign Secretary

COMMONS TOLD  ‘BIG 3 AGREE   Churchill Concedes, However, Disagreement on Some Aspects.

Churchill, Eden Back Up Greek Policy   Stand Firm During Commons Debate; Big Power Meeting Urged

Churchill Evades “Spheres ‘ Of Influence’ Question, Big Three Agreements General

Churchill Says Allies Agree On General Aims  Labor Party Attacks His Policies In T\Yakata On fCraacan

“BIG 3° UNITY ON AIMS CITED BY CHURCHILL    Britain, Russia and United States in “Complete Agreement” He Tells Commons.

Stand Pat ‘On Greece   Churchill, and } and Eden Defend Policy i in Bitter Commens Debate

Declares There is Complete Agreement Between Big Three On General War Aims

Churchill, Eden Stand Firm On  Policy In Greece   Personal Contact Among ‘Big 3’ Foreign Ministers Is Urged.

Churchill Stands Pat   Evades Questions As to Russo-British _ Division of Spheres

Churchill, Eden Standing Pat On British. Armed   Intervention In Greece

Churchill and Eden Attacked In Commons for Strife in Greece   Britain Seeking Nothing There, Foreign Minister Says

Big Three Agree: Churchill   Sidesteps Attempt to Draw Opinion on Spheres of Influence

URGE QUICK RE-ESTABLISHMENT FACE TO FACE CONTACT AMONG FOREIGN WENISTERS BIG THREE

Winne, Eden Stand Pat On  Greek Problem   Eden Urges Quick Reestablishment Of Contact Among Ministers.   UNDER BITTER ATTACK

BITTER DEBATE IN COMMONS OVER GREECE   Prime Minister Churchill Runs Into Storm of Crificism During Full-Dress Discussion   BIG THREE IN ACCORD

BUT MAY NOT AGREE AS 10 ALL DETAILS   Prime Minister Faces New Storm of Criticism Over British Policv in Greek Trouble

Uncle Held in Death Of Columbus Child   21-month-old Girl Kept Him Awake, Man Says in Confession

Naval Ordnance Depot Is Rocked By Explosion   Child Beaten To Death Uncle Finally Admits

“Container Shortage A Primary Headache ‘For Farmer in 1944  . a a ia ict i

t's Face Facts   Container Shortage A Primary Headache For Farmer in 1944

ONE MAN AUDIENCE FOR SINGER JOLSON   ‘ Wanted To Cry When  Met That Guy’

Men Under 26 Expected fo Fill Army, Navy Needs but Navy Demand Increased

See Most Selective Service Needs  Filled from Pool of. Men Under 26

10 DRAFT FEW MEN OVER 26   Selective Service Needs Can Be Filled By  Younger Men

LIGHTER DRAFT CALLS FORESEEN   BELIEVE MOST NEEDS CAN BE FILLED WITH MEN UNDER 26 YEARS

POOL UNDER 26 TO MEET NEEDS OF ARMED FORCE   Believed Sufficient To Maintain War Streneth

8S. A. Man Had Never Fired Bazooka, But  Second Shot Blasts Tank

OKLAHOMA IN VOTE BATTLE   POLITICIANS AWAITING RE SULT OF BITTER CONTEST “ROR ELECTION: OF.

SCROLL TO CHINESE   Wallace Carried Token ‘from President on His Trip

3,049 KILLED IN SAIPAN FIGHTING   Yank Losses Comparatively Light with 20,720 Japs Slain, 1,707 Captured

Jap Losses On Saipan 7 To 1 Against Yanks   Navy Secretary Reveals Figures

3,049 Yanks Killed On Saipan; 13,049 Injured   AES     One Key to Unlock Jap Door

Suffer 16.463 Men On Saipan   More Than 5.000 Of Wounded Have Returned To Duty On Tinian.

Casualties On Saipan At 16.463   3,409 Killed— More Than 5,000 Wounded Now Back on Duty

3,045 YANKS DIE ON SAIPAN   Japs Lose 20,720 Known Dead In Attempt to Hold Island

Saipan Invasion Cost 16.463 Men   Some Of Those Who Conquered It Fighting On

SAIPAN INVASION COST 3,049 YANKS   3,000 of Wounded Now Fighting Tinian Battle; 20,720 Known Enemy Dead

END FIVE-DAY DONORA PLANT STRIKE TODAY.      Two Other Strikes Are Settled But Fourth still Continues

GERMANS BOMB HOSPITAL AREA, KILL PATIENTS      Direct Hit Made On Ward Tent In Anzio Beachhead Sector

Dewey Vows End to Gov't ‘Squabbling   “Accord From Chaos’ ts G.O.P, Task, Says Leader of Party

GOVERNORS TO DISCUSS 15 POINT PROGRAM   Dewey Promises To End ‘Petty Bickering’ of Gov't Units

Dewey Attacks  Bickering In  Gov t Agencies He, Bricker Report  : Goyernors To Discuss

DEWEY PLEDGES END TO STRIFE AMONG BUREAUS   GOP Nominee Gives 15-Point Program for Republican Party Discussions  os *ia.s.7e, ewer ©

Map Program for St. Louis Conference   Dewey and Bricker To Delve into Conflict Between State and Federal Government

Dewey Pledges End Of Bickering in  Government Offices  GOP Candidates Have 15-Point Program For St. Louis Meet

Dewey Reveals Fifteen Points  For GOP Action   Pledges To End Bickering, Warfare In Various

Republicans Offer 15-Point Program   Dewey and Bricker at Conference Dledae End to Bureau Bickering

Dewey Pledges Elimination Of Govt. Bickering   Lists 15-Point Program For St. Louis Parley Of GOP Governors.

 Has 15 Point Program Dewey Would End Bickering Between Units of Government

Dewey Sets Up 'S_Point-Acenda   Would End Bickering Between Various Government Units

Dewey Vows to ar Bickeri ing  Tn Gover ‘hiner   Republican Presidential Noniinee Cites Constant Warfare Beiweeh Units In Washington

Dewey Draws  Program For Conference Would End Bickering Between Units Of

DEWEY PLEDGES TO END DISUNITY   Hits Conflict Among Federal State And Local Rules

DEWEY PLEDGES POLITICAL UNITY   ANNOUNCES 15-POINT CAMPAIGN PROGRAM 'TO END BICKERING’

—GOP PROGRAM—  Tee OUTLINES ~ {B POINT PLAN   Hopes To. End ‘Disgrace> ful” ‘Spectacle Of Petty Bickerine’

HOLLAND CUTLIKES IMMEDIATE. POST INVASION POLIEY   Already in London; Eisenhower to Sign for United States ©

POS T-INVASION PLAN PROVIDES FOR PROTECTION   Some Groups Prepared For “Hatchet Day” When Huns Are Put On Run   NEW GOVERNMENT READY   Land To Be _ Temporarily Ruled Under State Of Military Siege

Hengyang, Vital Chinese Junction, Completely Encircled by Japanese

hoosevelt Certain Of Party Majority Vote This Week  Primaries Will Raise   Primaries Will Raise Warren to Third Place In GOP Convention

FDR CAN GET NOMINATION DURING WEEK   Total of 335 Delegates to be Named by  Parties   WARREN THIRD IN REPUBLICAN RACE   Four-U=S$-Senate and 4] House Seats Involved in Voting

This Week Puts Warren In 2d Place   DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WILL NAME 335 TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS BEFORE WEEK’S END.   3 Senators Opposed

NOMINATION IN SIGHT FOR FDR   President to Get Delegates Enough This Week to  Have Majority

MILLS SEEKING ANOTHER TERM   Commissioner Is Readying Big Road Program

Fifth War Loan Campaign Starts Monday, June 12   fowa Asked to Sell 202 Million in This Drive

IOWA’S WAR BOND QUOTA 202 MILLION   Fitth War Loan Campaign Opens June 12—Fayette County's Qnota Is $1,070,000

STH WARLOAN DRIVE ASKS. 202 MILLIONS   Drive Will Start June 12 and Continue Until July §—Four Weeks:

Announce Quota Of 5th War Loan Drive in June   Pocahontas County Quota Is Set at $858,000; E Bonds. $550.600

ANOTHER WAR LOAN BEGINS ON JUNE 12   Preparations Being Made for A _nother Sale of War Bonds Next Month.

ROOSEVELT IS WED TO MOVIE ACTRESS   Son Of President Takes Third Wife In Ceremony Petformed At Grand Canvon

FOUR POINTS ARE CUT FROM BUTTER   New Draft Chart Effective on Sunday Boosts Values ~ of Some Beef.

AIR CONFERENCE 10 BE ARRANGEL   American Officials Plan Fo: Meeting With British, Russian Agents.

Holland Victory Paves Way To Germany; Patton Smashes Nazi Tanks.

U.S. MAY SEIZE MIDWEST TRUCKS   OPERATORS ASS'N REFUSE TO COMPLY WITH WAGE ORDER

Barkley — Has Talk With FDR   ‘You Wouldn’t Have Known Anything Had Ever Happened,’ He Reports   RECENT BREAK. APPARENTLY BEALED   Majority Leader Goes to Bat for President in the Senate

Barkley Sees Chief Executive  Just Like Nothing   Just Like Nothing Had Ever Happened

Barkley Sees FDR: Everything Ok eh   Senate Leader Says Meeting Like Other Sessions

SEN. BARKLEY GOES TO SEE PRESIDEN]   Would Not Have Known Anything Had Ever Hanvened

Barkley Visits At White House   All Is Friendly, But Without Talk of Tax Bill

Bountiful. Midwest Harvest of Grain. Causing Problems of Transportation

BOUNTIFUL WHEAT HARVEST BRINGS PROBLEM OF PLENTY  AS PILES OF GRAIN GROW

Almost Unbelievably Bountiful Crop of Wheat Gorging Handling Facilities

Record Harvest  To Rail Centers   Granaries and Elevators Already Gorged With Bountiful Wheat.

UNUSUALLY LARGE HARVEST BOLLING Ih   Granaries, Elevators and Mills Are Gorged With Wheat.

Huge Force Of Bombers Hit Defenses   Berlin and Paris Blasted at Night in Continuous Air War

2.000 Allied Planes Again Blast Europe   Heavies Hit Plants At Wiener Neustad; Hint Bucharest Blow; RAF Strikes Bearing Plant

Italy-Based “Yank Planes Hit Austria   Messerschmitt Factory Bombed; Armadas From  Britain Pound Nazis.

HARDEST NICHT POUNDING ON HITLER'S CHANNEL DEFENSES FOLLOWED BY DAYLIGHT RAIDS

BOMBERS FROM ITALY ASSAULT AUSTRIA PLANT   Airfields and Railways Given Hardest Night Pounding by Arr Fleets

Heavy Night Assault Is Made by RAF   American Planes Keep Preinvasion Assault Going With Attacks on Yugoslavian Railvard. Bucharest and Wiener Neustadt

Smash at Air Plant In Austria   Bucharest Hit, Too As Fall of Sevastopol Brings Romania’s Hour Of Reckoning Closer

FRESH RUIN ON GERMANY FROM ALLIED PLANES   “Great Tension” in Reich Admitted. British Evacuation From Invasion Ports Planned.

Eastern Alps Are Scene of Battles   U. 5. Heavy Bombers from Jtaly Take Up Pre-In vasion Attacks   [RAIL YARDS ARE’ HIT   British Fliers Are Concentrating on Objectives in France

‘Aerial Fights Raging Over Eastern Alps   Allies Striking From Two Ways Against Railroads and Airfields

Bolivia Aims For  U. S. Recognition  3 Revolution Leaders Resign Positions

LOOK TG KELLY TO SAVE BILL   Governor To Face Solons In Appeal for Administration Acts

Want Kelly to Defend Own Bills   Senate Writes Further -Restrictive ‘Provisions — inte Juvenile Code

B-29’s Blast Kyushu, Vital War Plant Hub   About 100. Superforts Raid Jap’ Naval And Factory Center For 5th Time

Superforts Hit At Kyusuhu Again   Strategic: Military ‘Targets Bombarded

STORMS RAMPAGE ENDS IN CAROLINA   37 Dead; $20,0( 000, 000 Loss To Florida Fruit :

Tropical Storm  Ends Rampage In  Carolina Hills 39 Killed, Heavy

Hurricane Ends Costly Rampage   Thirty-Five Killed Before It Spent Itself In North Carolina.

TODAY ON THE HOME FRONT  WHITE COLLAR WORKER FUTURE STILL BLEAK _   Squeezed Between Low Income and High Living Costs; Gets Senate Sympathy

White Collar Workers Have Bleak  Salary Future Despite Senate Aid

Attack Follows Heavy RAF Raid On Nazi Capita!   Yank Airmen Loose 2000 Tons of Bombs On Industrial City

Giant Bombers Smash At Enemy In _ Daylight. Yanks Gain In Italy.

FOR BLASTED BY HOFFMAN   Using War To Set Self Up  As Dictator, Congress man Says

Cong. Hoffman Again Flays FDR   Blames President For Pearl Harbor Blow

Federal Ballot Advocates Hopeful   States’ Rights Movement Grows

PREDICT BILL — TOBE PASSEL   Advocates of Federal War Ballot for Armed Services Confident.

Senator Lucas Predict: “Senate Ready to Recon- sider Its.States Rights _ ' ‘Weasnre-

Approval Looms For Federal Soldier Ballot  Compromise Made in Seaton? Riaghte

w————————————E————_—  Backers Confident Soldier Vote Bill Will Be Passed

Predicts Federal Ballot Will Win  Advocates of Plan Express Confidence

FEDERAL WAR BALLOT WILL PASS, EXPEC!   Prediction Made In Spite of Congressional Progress Toward State's Rights Bill

Federal Ballot  Group Confident  But States’ Control Plan Gains Strength

Federal Ballot Predicted  For Armed Forces Of U.S. ! In Spite Of Other Actior

SOLDIER VOTE BILL APPROVAL TS PREDICTED   Growing Sentiment To Pass Federal Bill At Once

Predict Federal War Ballot Yet   Advocates es Confident Despite Move For State Richts Bill...

FEDERAL SOLDIER BALLOT ADVOCATE! PREDICT PASSAGE   Take Rosy View of Hs Success Despite Apparent Progress in Congress of a States’ Rights Bill

Tugwell Cabinet ls Arrested   Charge Made For Contempt of Court In Appropriation Dispute.

New Deal Test In N. Carolina   Political Vets Battle For Democratic Senatorial WNamination.

New Deal Is Issue in N.C.   Hoey and Morrison Fight it Out for Senate

TEST NEW DEAL IN NO. CAROLINA   ADMINISTRATION CRITIC IN RACE FOR U. S, SENATOR

Test New Deal ” InN. Carolina Primary Vote   Political’ Veterans Battle For Democratic Senatorial Nomination

NEW DEAL GETS TEST IN SOUTH   North Carolina Veterans Vie In Primary

N. Carolina Casts Votes   Rep. Morrison Secks To Retain Position

- Gubernatorial And Senatorial Primaries Of State Attract Attention Of Politicians Of The Nation   By JACK BELL AP Political Writer

PRISONER ADMITS TRUNK SLAYING   CONFESSES HE KILLED WIFE IN CHICAGO AND SENT BODY TO LOS ANGELES.

Arrest Closes Trunk Mystery  Husband, Arrested in Texas, Confesses Guill

Confesses He Sent Dead Wife's Body West ina Trunk   Says He Killed Spouse in Chicago Hotel With Blow of Fist

Villegos In Trunk Body  Confession   Admits Striking Wife In Argument and Placing Body in Trunk

TRUNK MURDER CASE CLEARED   Texan Signs Confession That He Killed His Wife In Chicago

Suspect Admits Trunk Slaying  Ty. lL.  ipo ta kl]   Didn't Mean to Kill Wife, He Declares

HUSBAND HELD FOR SLAYING OF WIFE   Soyla Villegos Admits Shipping Body in Trunk

HUSBAND CONFESSES TO TRUNK MURDER   Killed Wife With Blow of Fist, Texas Sheriff Told

Big Bomber Crashes In Next ‘County   Plane Circled Carroll in Night Before Denison Crash; Crew Safe

11 Bail Out Of Burning Fortress  Which Crashes In lowa Hours Later

Americans Take Rooke Island   Seize Strategic Bit Of Ground Between New Guinea and New Britain

U.S. Takes Key Island Unopposed   Completes Domination of Vitiaz and. Dampier Straights

Yanks Take {sland Off New Britain   Heavy Air Blows Exchanged With Jap:

Rooke Island Lies Astride Supply Lines   Complete. Domination of Vitiaz and Dampier Straits; Allied Planes Are Busy 

SMALL BUT STRATEGIC SPOTS IN PACIFIC TAKEN OVER: AERIAL ATTACKS ON JAPS CONTINUE   Disinclination of Japs to Fight It Out in the Sk; Seen by Lack of Enemy Opposition in Marshalls Allied Attacks Cover Wide Area

Strategic Pacific Isle Seized by U. S. Forces   Occupation of Rooke Improves Allied Position; Air Blows Are Traded

Jap Airmen Raid Allied Positions On New Britain, Solomons, Marshalls; Americans Drop 179 Tons ¢ ~ Of Bombs On Rabaul Airdromes

YANKS TIGHTEN DOMINATION OF VITAL STRAITS   Navy Aircraft Active As Allies Enhance Position In Southwest Pacific

Strategic Island Taken By American:   Scant Opposition Shown to Allied Raids on Jap Bases in Southwest and Central Pacific

YANKS OCCUPY ROOKE ISLAND   Further Enhance Steadily Improving Position In Pacific

ROOKE ISLAND IS CAPTURED BY YANK TROOPS  Str gostlens Allied _ Position In South Pacific NO OPPOSITION  Japanese Make Aeri  al Attacks On  ee Rr YA’         Japanese Make Aer'al Attacks On . Americans

Another Island Seized From Japs In Pacific To Tighten Supply Line

YANKS CAPTURE STRATEGIC ISLE IN THE PACIFIC   Japs Face More Staggering Defeats As Result of Surprise Landing

_ —PACIFIC—  JAPANESE FONT “OPPOSE LANCINE   Allied Domination Of :Vitiaz. ‘And. Dampier ‘Straits Now Complete   “RABAUL SMASHED        Bombers: Rain- 279 Tons ‘Of Bombs On. Biinee Jap Airdromes ;

Island Off New Guinea Is Captured   Americans Seize Vital Position As Aerial Blows Rain Down On Nip Bases

Yanks Seize Strategic Isle In Pacific   Troops Unopposed In Capture of Straits Keypoint

Yanks Occupy  Pacific Isle   Small But Strategie Rooke Seized Unopposed Satur. day: Airmen Out.

AMERICAN UNITS OCCUPY VITAL ROOKE ISLAND   Capture Isle Between New Britain, New Guinea Without Opposition

Yankees Take Rooke Island   Meet No Opposition; Complete Domination of Vitiaz and Dampier Straits

Yanks Take New Strategic Island In South Pacific   Rooke Isle Seizure Unopposed; Steady Improvement Seen In Southwest

CONTROL VITIAZ, DAMPIER STRAITS   ALLIED RAIDS SWEEP i. NIPPONESE BASES ” OVER A-BROAD AREA

Occupy Strategic Island Unopposed   By MORRIE LANDSBERG Associated Press War Editor

Americans Occupy Strategic Pacific Island of Rooke   Position of Allies in Southwest Pacific is Bettered Steadily

Americans Take Strategic Isle   Rooke Island Gives Allies Domination Of Supply Line Straits

BUT 1S VITAL   United Nations’ Position in Southwest Pacific Improves Steatlily.   TROOPS ARE UNOPPOSED

OSITION IN OUTH PACIFIC IMPROVED   cupation of Small But  rategic Island of Rooke  Vital Step for United Nations   ANY AERIAL ATTACKS

AMERICANS OCCUPY OMALL STRATEGIC PACIFIC ISLAND  ROOKE ISLAND SEIZED WITHOUT OPPOSITION OF JAPANESE

Yanks Occupy Pacific Island   Take Isle Between New Guinea and New Britain

Allies Seize Strategic Island   Occupy Rooke, Between New Guinea and New Britain Without Opposition from Enemy

ROOKE ISLAND OCCUPIED BY U. S. FORCES   Sirategic Isle Completes Allied Domination of Straits Beiween New Guinea, New Britain   JAPANESE RAID RO:      Nip Fliers Also Hit Southwest Pa. cific Bases, Allies Bomb Kavi eng, Rabaul, Wewak

Cherbourg Entirely In. Amer. Hand      NEW OFFENSIVE SOUTHWES1 OF CAEN HAS ALREADY ; NETTED SIX-MILE ADVANCE.

New Phase of Norman Drive Is Underway   Eight Villages Captured by British Infantry

Nazi Transport Lines Southwest  of Caen Slashed   Task of Restoring Wrecked Docks At Cherbourg Started

Cherbourg Falls to Americans   Montgomery Opens Biq New Offensive In Caen Vicinity

RITISH TAKE 8 ILLAGES, CUT UPPLY LINES   Nazi Invasion Losses 70,000

BRITONS TAKE 8 VILLAGES NEAR CAEN   American Troops Complete Conquest Of Cherbourg

8 Villages on Caen  Road Fall   Gains Scored in New Norman Offensive; Cherbourg Liberated

a2  U.S. Troops Have Taken Cherbourg,  MONTGOMERY IN DARING MOVE TO OUTFLANK GERMAN BASE   At Least 32,000 Prisoners Are Taken In Big-Scale Allied Push Up Peninsula

BRITISH ARE MAKING DRIVE AGAINST CAEN   Most Stubbornly Defended German Base In Normandy Is Under Attack.   BULLETIN

Argentina Defies American Decree   Republic Almost Quarantined by Edict to Pull Out of Axis.

ARGENTINA IS STILL DEFIANT   South American Nation I: Unmoved by Hull’s  Denunciation

Argentina Isolated by New World   U. S. Refuses To Recognize Pro-Axis Government

Defiant Argentina Stands Under Virtual Quarantine From Western Hemisphere

Argentina Unmoved by Sweeping State Department Decree   U. S. Charges‘of Pro-Axis Activities are Denied in Public Retort

Argentina Is ‘Quarantined’   Defiant in Puce of Hull's Denuncjation

ARGENTINA STOOD VIRTUALLY ALONE AND DEFIANT   U.S. Government Charges Argentina With Open Aid To The Axis

ARGENTINA IS ALONE UNTIL VIEW CHANGES   Neighbors Agree With U. S. On Latest Move

Argentina Gov't Accused By U.S. As Pro-Axis  No Recognition Of   No Recognition Of Regime Until Change  In lte Policiec

U.S. ASSAULT ON ARGENTINA WINS SUPPORT   Denunciation Charging Open Aid To Axis Approved By American Countries

Argentina Defies U.S. Ultimatum   Other American Nations Approve Denunciation of Actions

A Defiant Argentina   Won’ t Change Policy Despite Threatened ‘Isolation By Other American Countries

Defiant Argentina ‘Quarantined’ By Neighbor Nations  Will Continue Present

U. $. Denounce: Latin Country  Argentina Defiant After Statement

Argentina in - Defiant Mood   WESTERN HEMISPHERE BLACKLISTS SOUTH NEIGHBOR’

Argentina Practically Quarantined  From Western Hemisphere Neighbors

Argentina Is Still Defiant   Foreign Minister Declares Policy Will Be Maintained

Argentina Virtually Quarantined By Refusal To End Pro-Axis Policy

Argentina In Hemisphere ‘Quarantine’   U. S. Bluntly Lists Charge: Of Open Axis Aid; Argentina Is Defiant

U.S. NOTEAVERS NEARISOLATIN ~~ TORARCEATIN   United States Declares She  Will Not Recognize Country Untit It Abandons a Pro-Axis Policy.   BUENOS AIRES REPLIES IN DEFIANT MANNER   Most of Other South Ameri can Republics Unanimous ly Approve Denunciations  . By Secretary Hull.

Quarantine Fails To Move Argentina   Government Defiant In Face of Refusal Of Recognition by U. S.

Sern! NEWS BIN I CINE        Nazi Retreat Along Baltic Front Forecast

FEW DETAILS ON TRAGEDY IN MEDITERRANEAN   Trooper Toll Raised to 19

£98 LIVES LOST ‘ASUS, VESSEL “SUNK BY ENEMY   Risaster in Mediterranean Third Largest Loss ¢ of War

498 Officers, Men Lost in Ship Sinking   ENEMY SINKS JU, S, TROOP SHIP IN MEDITERRANEAN

498 AMERICANS LOSE LIVES IN SINKING   . §. Ship Sunk Br Enemy Action In Mediterranean With Heavy Loss Of Life

Loss Recent But Date Is Not Given   Cause of  Ship Loss Not Given in Announcement

498 MEN LOST ON TRANSPORT   American Ship Is Sunk In Mediterranean;  Kin Notified

Next of Kin ¢ Notified, the Army Reports   Date of Sinking of U..8. Vessel Not Announced, But It Was ‘Recent’   NO DETAILS ILS. TOLD > . -IN STATEMENT

“Recent Loss Is Announced By War Department; Ship Went Down Siciftly: Kin Notified

YANKS CARRY ON PRE-INVASION HUN POUNDING   1,000 Fortresses, Liberators And Supporting Planes Roar Over Continent   BRITISH HEAVIES STRIKE   Soviet Airmen Carry Fight To Nazis In East As Armies Regroup

498 Lost as U.S. Vessel Sinks in Mediterranean   Details Undisclosed— All Missing Were Military Personnel

MEDITERRANEAN SEA DISASTER IS DISCLOSED   SINKING OCCURRED RECENTLY; PLACE, DATE NOT GIVEN

498 Lost When U. S. Ship Sunk   No Details, Except That it Was Recent, Given By War Department.

American Ship Sunk By Enemy   498 Military Personnel Missing After Sinking In Mediterranean.

Result Of Enemy Action   Vessel Sank Swiftly In  Mediterranean Area

Third Major Loss of Life On Transport   American Ship Sunk By Enemy Action In Mediterranean  DETAITS WITHHELD

Mediterranean Sinking Costs 498 U. §. Lives   Date Of Sinking Not Given in War Department’s Report On Lost Vessel

WAR DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES SHIP WAS SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN   Second Heaviest Loss Of U. S. Lives {n Troog Ship Sinking Revealed.

498 MISSING AS AMERICAN SHIP IS SUNK   Enemy Sank Vessel in Mediterranean, Says War Department

498 DIE AS U.S SHIP IS SUNK   War Department Lists Loss in Mediterranean

498 Men LostonU.S. Troop Ship   Parents Get Word from War Department Private Schucks Missing

Army Silent On Cause Of Recent Loss   Mediterranean Area Is Given As Scene; Next Of Kin Notified By  WH aw Tiassawbecnseet

Transport Sent to Bottom by Enemy In Mediterranean   Date of Loss and Whether by U-Boat Or Aircraft Attack Is Not Disclosed

ARE AMERICAN SERVICE MEN   Tragedy Occurs in Mediterranean, Army Says, in “Recent Enemy Ac tion,” Nature of Which Is Not Revealed. core

Navy Reveals Loss With No ‘Details Given   Military Personnel Lost by Enemy Action in Mediterranean.

498 Lost As Mediterranean Transport Sunk   War Department Announces Third Large Loss of  Military Personnel.

AMERICAN SHIP SUNK, 498 LOST   Transport Disaster  Third Major One Of War

Transport Vessel Sunk By Enemy In Mediterranean   Second Heaviest Loss of American Lives In Troop Ship Sinking

Trans port Is. Sunk,-495 Lost   Ship Is Victim of Enemy Action in Mediterranean

498 Military Personnel Die As Ship Sinks   American Vessel Sinks Rapidly as Result of Attack

SHIP GOES DOWN FAST   Loss Is Second Largest of War, Report States

War Department Does Not Disclose Nature of Enemy Action.   VESSEL SINKS SWIFTLY

498 MISSING IN U.S, SHIP LOSS   Reveal American Warship Sunk in Mediterranean

498 Lives Lost In Sinking of American Ship   Transport Destroyed In Mediterranean

498 MEN LOST AS SHIP SINKS   Army Announces Third Major Transport Loss In War So Far

498 MEN LOST IN SINKING OF U. 5. VESSEL   Vessel Lost as the Result of Enemy Action   DATE OF SINKING IS NOT ANNOUNCED   Next of Kin of the Personnel Have Been  Notified

489 MILITARY PERSONNEL LOST WHEN SHIP SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN RECENTLY

498 Die as US. Ship Goes Down   Vessel Sunk ‘Recently’ In Mediterranean, War Dept. Reveals

Japs Said Subic Bay Raided by Three Bomber Flights After Dyess’ Big Day

FARM DEFERMENT IN NEW DRAFT LAW   Local Board To Compile List Immediately Of All Under 26

‘Scan Draft Status of Ag Workers   Review Deferments For Farm Youths On Order Of State Chief,

Merits of Meter For Tax Stamps Told Aldermen   But Council Adjourns Without a Decision After Sales Talk

YANKS BATTLE FOR ‘DROMES; JAPS TRAPPED   Succumb to Starvation and disease; natives Report Finding Large Numbers dead.   Air Assistance

lown Board Resolution In Death af Oechler      Urgent Army Call for Skilled Electrical Men on Two Jobs

Urgent Call Made For Electricians   Army Needs Them For Work On Coast, Knoxville

Confer On Allied Plans For Europe   Stettinius Meets With Mili. tary and Diplomatic Officials

Yankees Trap 15,000 Nazis in Alps Dash   Close In for Kill After Cutting All Escape Routes

15,000 NAZIS ENCIRCLED IN RHONE VALLEY   Secret U.S. Column "Cuts Germans’ Escape Gap

Allies Fight For Myitkyina   Enemy’s Burma Railway Blocked By Firm Line Northwest of City

Allies Seize Third Of Myitkyina City In Street Battle  ' Deep Mud and Monsoon Rains  . Hamper Attackers; Vital Read ; Junction Cantured

Allies Take Burma Junction   Hold Roads Fanning West and North to Mogaung and Fort Hertz

Allies Holding Third Of Myitkyina, Command Road North to Mogaung

Burma Advance _ Made By Yanks   JAPANESE BASE GETS HAMMERING BY ALLIES.

Road Junction Won By Allied  Force In Burma   Advance Through Deep Mud And Monsoon Rains; Enemy Drowned

ALLIES WIN JUNCTURE IN NO. BURMA   Base Of -Myitkyina Already One-Third In Allied Hands

BURMA JUNCTION TAKEN BY ALLIES   Third Of Jap Myitkyina Base Held By Stilwell Forces

Allied Forces Making Progress — Against Jap Bases In North Burm:

Allies B attle Rain and Mud For Myitkying   Great Jap Base In Northem Burma Already One-Third In Allied Hands

ALLIED UNITS HOLD A THIRE 1 OF MYITKYINE   Troops Win Command of Roads Fanning North and West of Japs’ North Burma Base Despite Monsoon Rains.

Great Jap Base One Third in Allied Hands   Stilwell’s Forces Win Command of Junction In Bottle for Meutibotn.,

ALLIES MOVING TOWARD MAJOR BURMA VICTORY   Capture Of Myitkyina By Stilwell’s Forces Expected Momentarily; Third Of City Reported Already Occupied.

DRIVE INSIDE EAST PRUSSIK" SLOWED DOWN   STIFF RESISTANCE ENCOUN/WERED BY. RED ARMIES— . CHEK RAIL CENTER - SyIZED

FIRE MENACES PLANE PLANT   Loss Placed at Over $1,500,000   Spectators and Cars Cause Confusion

Aireraft Plant Suffers Damage In Morning Fire   Million And Half Damage To Douglas Cafeterias In Chicago

15-Husband Record Set; Fraud Charge   WOMAN ACCUSED OF UNLAWFULLY GETTING SERVICE ALLOTMENTS

3 Gunmen  Are Captured In Memphis   Young Fugitives from San Quentin Prison © Confesé Robbery of Robert E. Lee Hotel in Jackson

‘American Atr Forces Soften  Up Marshalls   Secretary Of Navy Says Forees Meet Weak Opposition In Air.   FOE ON DEFENSIVE

KNOX SAYS ENEMY BEING PUT ON DEFENSIVE   Naval Secretary Declares U.S. Air Forces Softening Up Marshall Islands

Knox Hints Invasion Near n Marshalls   Japs on Defensive Over Wide Area, Secretary Says

Air Power of Japs Weakens   U. S. Planes Meeting Less Resistance in Bombing of Marshalls

HINTS INVASION OF MARSHALLS   Knox Reports Yank Airmen Continue to Soften Up Jap Outposts

Softening Up Of Marshalls Is Continued   American Air Forces Are Raiding Enemy Bases Regularly, Is Report Of Secretary Kaox

US. Poised For Invasion Of Marshalls   Weakened Enemy Due for Pounding, Soys Secretary Knox

US. Softens Up  Marshall [sie  Japs, Says Knox Nip Ships Sunk  At Kavieng Off New Guinea

Air Opposition Weak — Knox   U.S. Continuing To Soften Up Marshalls

Jap Air Strength Reported Weaker  @....,...—s ‘Ef... Oat wl Om eg   Secretary Knox Voices Report On Aerial Activity in Pacific Area

Softening Up Of Marshalls  To Continue   Weak Air Opposition Being Offered, Knox Reports; Nazi Claims Of Sinkings Denied

AMERICAN AIRMEN “SOFTENING UP” MARSHALL ISLES      Knox Says Enemy Has Been Strictly On Defensive Throughout South Pacific.

i SI  Another American ‘Invasion o of Jap Held Marshalls Expected   American Planes Softening Up the Jap-held Islands.

U.S. Air Forces Still Softening Marshall Isles   Secretary Knox Declares Only Weak Opposition Offered By Japanese

Air Attacks On Marshalls  inning Encountering Weak Opposition in TR Ar Knox

Marshalls Next To Be Invwaded?   Aerial Supremacy Near For Allies Over Europe-Arnold

Marshall Islands Undergoing “Softening Up” Treatment   Use of Term by Knox Indicates Jap Islands May Be Invaded Soon

U.S, AIRFORGES SOFTENING UP THE MARSHALL ISLANDS   Encountering Weak Opposition in the Air, Sec. Knox Stated.   RAIDS ARE CONTINUING   “We Are Putting the Enemy on the Defensive,” He Told Press Conference.

Secretary Knox Says Marshalls Softening Up   Only Weak Aerial Opposition Given American Bombers

Jap Air Force On Defensive  Knox Save American   Knox Says Americans Have Had Few Losses

Secretary Knox Says Marshalls Being Softened   Intimates Invasion Of These Pacific Islands May Be Nearing   AIR ATTACKS ARE GROWING STEADILY

U.S. Air Forces” Soffen Marshalls   Knox Says Americans Encountering Weak Opposition in Air

Marshalls Again Are Softened Up   Weak Opposition In Air Reported

STORM KILLS 127, INJURES 680   Scores Reporied Missing in Pennsylvania and West Virginia Storm

TWISTER MAKES PATH OF DEATH, DESTRUCTION.   Storm Strikes With Great Velocity in Two States

Death Claims Little Therese   7 Lima Remains In Acute suer Labor Shortage Bracket   1 KILLED, 28 HURT IN BUS ACCIDENT

Iliness Fatal to Baby Whose Father Got Furlough Thru Plea to Roosevelt

British Strike ELAS Forces   Endeavor To: Clear ‘Embattled’ Capital’

British Open New Drives On Flas   Begin With Artillery Borrege, Then Forces Advonce in East Athens

BRITISH LAUNCH NEW ATTACK ON GREEK REBELS   Hope To Clear Southern Athens, Hold Half Of Capital

BRITISH OPEN DRIVE ON ELAS   Three - Pronged Assault Against Greek Rebels in Eastern Suburbs of Ath ens.

British Open ELAS Attaek   Begin Three-Pronged Drive To Clear Greek Capital OF Opposition Forces.

British Open Drive Anainst ELAS Forces   U.S. Support For Regency Reported

BRITISH DRIVE AGAINST GREEK ELAS IN ATHENS   Operations to Clear Capital of  Rebels in Second Phase. U.S, Mind Same as Churchill's

British Open Push on ELAS   Three-Pronged Attack Made in Eastern Guburbe of Athens

British Open Drive Against Elas Forces —   Designed To Clear Them From Athens

British Move Against ELAS   Three-Pronged Drive To Clear Athens Opens After Long Barrage

British-Greek Force Attacks In Athens   Peace Negotiations Await Decision On Establishment Of Regency

Peace Negotiations Pend Word From King George on Establishment of Regency; Churchill Returns to Eneland

Administration Rebuffed by Senate in Freeing Merchanis from 0.P.A.

DECLARES POSTAL PAY BILL ABUSED   Sen. Reed WouldProbe Fantastic Increase In Salaries

SENATOR REED OF KANSAS IN ATTACK POSTMASTERS PAY   TERMS PROPOSED SALARY INCREASES FANTASTIC AND UNJUSTIFIED

Sixth War Loan Rond Rox Score      5 Tokyo Raiders “Escape” Across Russian Border

FINAL CHAPTER IN  DOOLITTLE RAID ON  TOKYO INTERESTING FIVE AMERICAN AIRMEN  PAMPERED CAPTIVES ANI MADE FASV ESCAPE

Tokyo Raiders “Held In Russia — EseapeToU.S.   Story Told Of Flight By Five Doolittle Men Over “Best-Guarded” Border

Doolittle Raiders “Escape” Pampered Russian Captivity   AMERICAN FLYERS INTERNED IN RUSSIA FOR YEAR TELL OF PROLONGED BOREDOM, ESCAPE

Five Doolittle Fliers Back In  United States   “Escape” Across World’s Best-Guarded Borders After Russian  Internment

DOOLITTLE RAIDERS “ESCAPE” RUSSIA:   San. Antonian. Among Five. Who Land Near Vladivostok, Cross Best Guarded Border

5 Doolittle Raiders Return   “Escape” from Russia After Being Interned There

Five Doolittle Raiders Who Came Down In Russia ‘Escape’ And Return Home

Last Of Doolittle’s Tokyo Raiders ‘Escape’ From Russia  Five Men Were Treated Royally By Soviet  Qavernment dnd 1) S Vhinlamatic teoante

Return To U.S. Bares ‘Escape’ Of Doolittle Raiders Interned In Russia

Tokyo Raider: Return After Long Absence  Five Who Landed in Siberia in 1942 Eecanea Int?ernmmen 4

‘Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, Forced \Down, Interned By Reds, Are Home   Taken To Soviet-Iranian Border, Which They Crossed In “Escape” Which  Russia Never Protested.

Nazis Admit West Wall May Not Hold   British Tell People To Leave Rail and Industriel Centers

Germans Admit Allies May Hit Through Coast   Berlin Says Test Will Come In Halting Advanced Forces’

WARNS NAZIS “REICH FAGES ~ PREAT PERI   Berlin. Broadcaster Admits West Wall Defenses May Not Hold. —

GERMANS ADMIT WEST WALL MAY BE PENETRATED   Belicve When Fighting Start: the Battles Will Not Be Limited to the Atlantic Wall But Also to Areas Far Be wond

Nazis Admit West Wall Penetrable   INVASION GREATEST TEST FOR GERMANY, COMMENTATOR WARNS

NAZIS SAY WEST WALL MAY FALL   Berlin Commentator, Tojo Tell People of Possibilities on Invasion Day.

Nazis Admit Western Wall May Not Hold   Say Real Test Will Come When German Border ts Reached

West Wall Not Tight   Nazis Admit May Be Penetrated; Tojo Says Germans Confident

May Breach Wall, Germans Admit   Small Waves May Reach Far Beyond Wall.  Commentator Says

Nazis Admit Today Western Defenses May be Penetrated   Continental Underground Tells of German Plans to Meet Invasion

May Move ~ Defenders hy Plane   Rail Lines ‘Destroyed; Hitler * May Use Air. Troops  for Defense   CHANGE OF TUNE ON NAZI RADIO   Broadcasts Nov Now Admit "West. Wall Defenses May es Be Penetrated

GERMANS ADMIT ATLANTIC WALL MAY BE DENTED   Airborne Troops Feared b Nazis in Their Preparations for Invasion  »

Nazis Not So Sure of Wall   8th Army Systematically Gnaws Away at Nazis Before Cassino

iSay West Wall Defenses Might Be Penetrated Af ter All When Invasion Cones

Enemy Admits Invasion May Penetrate Val   Germans Say Western Defenses Might Be Cracked By Allied Attacking Force   TROOPS REINFORCED

Nazis Admit West Wall May Crack    Tojo Enters Into Lists  With Pep Talk to Home Front

GEAMANS ADMIT LINE MAY BREAK   Enemy Hastily Reinforcing Air-Borne Troops for Defense.   [PULL FIGHTERS BACK?

Nazis Now Admit West Wall May Be Penetrated By Allies When Invasion Thrust Comes   Reported Hastily Reinforcing Air-Borne And Parachute Forces For Defense

Invasion Near, Nazis Fortify . Western Areas   Jap Premier Lends Moral Support To German People

WEST WALL DEFENSES MAY FALL SAYS BERLIN  Germany Reinforces Parachute Corps to Rush to Aid of [ts Armies

Nazis Admit Defenses Are Not so Strong   Tojo Says They Are ‘Confident And Impatient’

NAZIS ADMIT DEFENSES MAY BE PENETRATEL   Berlin Commentator Discusses Possible Moves by Germans in West Wall Bicht

Food Alert Week Sets Pace for 44 Production   Neighborhood Groups Diseuss Part in Food For Victory March

STATE WIDE — FOOD FRONT.  ALERT SOUNDS   12 Sioux Co..Men To Lead Meetings in Each Twp.

LOUISA COUNTY FARM  BUREAU NOTES.   NEIGHBORHOOD DISCUSSIONS— PLAN MOBILIZATION OF ALL FOOD PRODUCING  pDnoATtDooena

Polio Case Quarantines Montreat Camp   Order Confines 225 Girls To Camp: Dr. Reynolds Savs Fight Organized.

Strike Whys Pondered -In Figure Form   Record Indicates Many Reasons For Work Stoppages

Sgt. Kelly’s Congressional Medal Steals Show in Italy as Clark Decorates 137 Men

MAJOR GENERAL “BUSTED” AT SALERNO BY GENERAI CLARK, IS ON HIS WAY BACK TO TOP

Salerno.General Was Demoted  Col. Dawley Advanced On Gocd Record Here

ANOTHER DEMOTION IN ARMY REVEALED   Native of Antigo Recommended for Promotion After Proving Himself.

RUSSIA TO URGE SPEED BY UNRRA   Soviets Want Relief Started For Needy Nations

Planes Attacking Big Nippon Fleet In Major Battle   Greatest Naval Battle of Pacific War Looms As Showdown with Enemy Fleet Seems Near

Naval Battle ‘Still Looms   Carrier Planes Swat Japs In Preliminary Encounter

CARRIER PLANES POUNCE ON JAPS   Sea Epic Taking Shape in Pacific: As Enemies Assemble Near

CHINESE BACK FOR DESPERATE FIGHT WITH CHANGSHA ASSAILANTS   JAPS DRIVE FOR CITY FROM TWO FRONTS, ALLIES BOMB PALAU, GUAM, CLOSE MYITKYINA SIEGE

BODY IS RECOVERED   Fighter. Pilot Trainee Went Down in Quick Sand on Range ¢

Halt Induction Of Men Over 25 In War Work   Army, Navy Holds Need for Young Men Is Greater

Need of Younger Group Stressed By Draft Chief   Induction of Older Men Will Not Solve Matter, Says Hershey

ARMED FORCES WANT DRAFTEES FROM 18 TO 26   Need Urgent, Leaders Say

Sky Battles Over Island Of Kyushu   Japs Risk Thin Fighter R« serve in Defending Home land Island

‘Columbus Real Estate ‘Man Cited in Attempt To Take Huge Profits

WAIST GUNNER SUFFOCATES IN BOMB BAY TRAP As Fortress Limps Home From Berlin Sergeant 1s Wedged in Jammed Doors

Flak-Battered Fort Returns To Base With Crew Member's Body Hung In Door

Harrowing Journey  Made By Fortress   Gunner, On First Trip, Dies While He Danales From Jammed Boamb_Bay Danre

HOTEL FIRE AT RICHMOND. VA   Six Killed In Jefferson Hotel Last MidNahe

6 DIEIN BLAZE IN VIRGINIA HOTEL   Many Receive Treatmen  for Burns Suffered

Virginia State Senator And Five Others Killed In Richmond Hotel Fire

Officers Like Corley Help Make 1U. §. Soldiers “Best in the World”’

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION DATE JULY 19      Selection of ‘Date Announced By Hannegan

Nomination Of Roosevelt All Arranged   Democrats Set © Up Streamlined  July Convention

Soviets Announce Snur Of Action   Bad Weather Over Channel Blocks Allied Bombers

Reds Said Ready ForBig Smash —   Flareup Reported In Tarnano! Area

Reds Said Ready For Big Smash   Flareup Reported  In Tarnopol Area  By RUSSELL LANDSTROM Beanrintead DPrace Cinlts Writer

BOND SALES HERE. OVER $2,000,000   Individual Sales in County Stili Way: Below Ouota

Four Badly Hurt In Road Collision   Car, Truck Carrying 14 Hit East of Springer

Twin Moves Under Way To Assure  Future Oil   House Votes Program To Cost $30,000,000 Aimed at Developing Synthetic Fuels   EXPERIMENTAL WORK IS AUTHORIZED

WARDS FIGHT TAKE-OVER ORDER   CHICAGO FIRM HEAD DEFIES F.D.R. ORDER

Wards Refuses F.R. Order to Give Up Store   caf Pe es es 2s ee DElZULe FAW We Vu pany Head Rejects - Nemand

CHROME SOURCE LOST TO HITLER   Allies Win Diplomatic Victory As Turks Cut Otf All Exports

Turkey Decides To Stop Chrome ~ Frbonls to Navi   Decision Fiesh_ Fririt- of ‘Allied Campaign to . . ‘Plug. Leakag 2

Liberators Blast Marcus Island   Volcanos Also: Bombed In Latest Assaults

DEWEY ENDORSES WARNING TO NAZIS   Governor Backs Action of the State Depart. ment

DEWEY BACKS WARNING GIVEN NAZI LEADERS   Threat to ‘Wipe Out Groups in Camps Is Denounced

DEWEY WARNS NAZI LEADERS OF WAR GUILI   GOP Candidate Will Speak In Pittsburgh Tonight

Dewey Endorses Hull's Warning To Nazi Germany   Friendly toward Hall

Dewey OK’s Warning To Nazi Chiefs      GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE APPROVES STATE DEPARTMENT NOTE TO GERMAN LEADERS AS TO NAZI PLANS,   In Pittsburgh Today

DEWEY INDORSES WARNING TO NAZIS   BACKS PLAN TO PUNISH GERMANS IF THEY EXTERMINATE POLES AND JEWS.

a ee  ES —  ’ Grand Island Soldier . Overseas Desires To > Vote Fall Election

Regency For Greece Likely   Greek And British Lead ers Said To Agree Uvon Plan.

U. S.-LATIN RELATIONS TAUT  ‘Nation Calis Armour HomeFromAr¢genting

U.S. Ambassador Leaves Argentina   Action Reveals Concern Over Nation’s Failure To Join Allied Camp

Score Direct Hit On Enemy Cruiser; Allies Lose Four Aircraft; Marines Take Initiative In Borgen Bay Area.

Allied Aerial: Ai Assaults ‘Are Widespread From Timor "Ue: New. Ireland ‘:.

Allies Smash 17 Jap Planes  And 2 Ships   Enemy Cruiser Also Hit in Raids From Timor to New Ireland

17 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT OOWN      Two Freighters Also Destroyed- In Allied Aerial Assaults Iv Pacifié, °°

Jap Cruiser Hit, 17 Planes Downed   Two Freighters Sunk in Timor Isle Raid

Allies Hit Jap Planes. Ships   Aerial Assaults in Pacific Bag Prizes With Only Four Losse:

Great Record Brought Back By Liberator   Battered ‘Blite Streak’ Returns to This Country For Tour of War Plants

"Blue Streak", Leading Warplane in Mediterranean, Retired from Battle

WORKERS AtalGh, SHUT DOWN MINE   Supervisory Employes Close U. S. Seized Mine by Simple Expedient of Quitting Jobs; Shutdowns Spread

F.D.R. Possible Delegate World Security Council   President Would Hold President Office and New Post Too.

Talk FDR For Peace Delegate   President Would Continue in  Office While Taking On New Duties

W antRoosevelt As Peace Head   say President Shou ld Head U. 5. De ‘legates

TWO HIGH NAZI OFFICIALS FLEE   Von Papen and Dr. Funk Seek Asylum in Portugal, Says Lisbon Dispatch.

ARGENTINA TO. TRAIN YOUTHS   ALL YOUTHS 12 YEARS OLD AND OVER.NOW SUBJECT TO COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING

Murder Hint in Heiress Death  L.A. Autopsy Finds Gauge Lodged Deep In Girl’s Throat

OUTFIT OF LOCAL MAN PRAISED   S-Set. Robert L. Love: ly Cited for Bravery on Saipan

Raids Revive Speculation  About Kuriles   Possibility of Invasion Toward Jap Homeland By That Route Seen   Dy Thal MOTE CCC  ISLANDS. BOMBED FIVE STRAIGHT DAYS  May Mean Air Forces ’ Taking Advantage  DW? Checks Bo Wives kee:

Landing Hinted On Kurile Isles   Repeated Bombinge.Revive Tovestan Snecalation

arvereasea DY Western Newspaper Unio)  DEWEY CAMPAIGN MAY SURPRISE COINTRPYV

FIGHT HEAVY BATTLE WITH LUFTWAFFE   French Coast, Balkans Bombed

U.S. Air Forces Goes Into Action At Berlin Again   2,000 Planes Strike  At German Targets In “‘Great Strength”

2000 Planes Hit Capital in Bad Weather   Nazis Report Luftwaffe Putting Up Deadly Fight

32nd Division Gains Slightly On North Leyte   Japanese Supply Centers Bombed

SLIGHT GAIN MADE IN HEAVY SHOWER   Seventh Division Beats off Vicious Jap Counter. _ attacks

JAPANESE HURLED BACK IN FURIOUS FIGHT FOR ORMOL   Enemy Counter-Attacks South of City Repulsed by U.S. 7th Division— Foe’s Losses Heavy.   YANKS NORTH OF TOWN ‘SCORE SLIGHT ADVANCE   Heavy Rains and Nip Resistance Shatter Hopes for  Early End of Leyte   Campairn.

(th Infantry  Repulses Jap “Death Chance   Philippines Campaign Cost Jap Nation More Than ~ “ JOO.000 Teranne

SUICIDE JAPS ARE REPULSED BELOW ORMOC   ENEMY CASUALTIES ON LEYTE ISLAND NEAR 100,000

Slight gains registered in Ormoce battle  Airmen protect Superfort base

3 2nd Division Scores Slight Gain In Ormoc Valley Sector   Seventh Division Beats Off Japanese Counterattacks to the South: Fighting Occurs in Torrential Rains

SUICIDE TRIES SQUASHED IN ORMOC BATTLE   Heavy Rains, Dogged Jap Resistance, Bog Hopes For Early, Crushing End To Campaign

AMERICANS MAKE ‘GAINS ON LEYTE: RAIN SLOWS PUSH   Seventh Division Repulses Numerous Counter-attacks — By Japanese Defenders   ADVANCES NORTH ON COAST BELOW ORMOC

32nd Division Makes Small _ Advance, 7th Beats Off  Vicious Attack

YANKS FIGHTING IN TORRENTIAL RAINONLEYTE   32nd Division Makes Slight Gain; 7th Beats Off Jap Attacks   NIP SUPPLY DUMPS HEAVILY ATTACKED

JAPAN'S COST IS QUITE HEAVY TO HOLD LEYTE   Seventh U. S. Division Is Beaten Off by Vicious Counter Attacks by Enemy; Torrent of Rain.   26.090 Ninponese

Torrents Slow Yank Gains in Ormoc Valley   Seventh Division ‘Checks Stiff, Counter-Attacks . With Heavy Jap Losses

AMERICANS FLEE CHINA PROVINCES   Are Ordered, Along With British, To Evacuate Sectors

Norris Obsequies   “Champion of Popular Rights” Laid to Rest In Family Burial Plot

Jones Urges Texans to  Mend Rift   Sees Presidential Voters Barred By Parley Order

et-ictiv Feminine   Reveal Ban on Business Men  At ‘Forward Zone’ in France

Civilian Business Men Banned from Military "Forward Zone" in Europe

Washington To See New Crisis   POLITICAL UPHEAVALS IN GERMANY AND JAPAN

Officials Expect More Political-Military [Crises To Speed Finale Of Japan And Germany

Attempt to Kill Hitler and Revolt of Nazi Troops May Be Beginning of End for the Germans.   OUSTING OF TOJO IS DISTURBING TO JAPAN

FORESEE MORE AXIS CRISES   Desperate War Situations, Internal Strife To Speed Fall

U. S. Ofticials Expect Further Enemy Crises   Hasten Final Axis Collapse

Last Mile For Axis   May Be Long, Bloody One, But Crises in Germany: and Japan Mark Beginning of End

French Control Frontier On South Coast Of Lake Geneva   300 Nazis Of Annemasse Sut Surrender, Others Flee To Internment In Switrerlana

French Patriots Capture Pair Of Pyrenees Cities   Germans Battle  To Quell Revolt

After d-Hour Battle in France  Patriots Capture 300 Nazis      Mad Colonel Give: Us St. Male For?

FRENCH PATRIOTS CONTROL FRONTIER   Capture 300 Germans After Sharp Three Hour Battle Today.

PLEDGE REPORT ON LEND-LEASE   Extension of Program Has 334-21 House Approval

Full Repor Ot a:     ot Pledged Soon      McKellar, Pledges Tally of Expenditures Before "Senate Acts

2,800 Bombers Blast Pathways for 6 Columns   British Troops Cross Seine Anew, Aiming at Calais Bomb Coast   RILELETIN

Battling ‘Typhoon.  Japanese   Facing Both U. S. Infantrymen Drive Ahead Toward  A Showdown

SAY CIGARETS WILL CONTINUE. -TO BE SCARCE   Smokers Are. Are Advised. By Tobacco: Men NT At Ta Hoard   SERVICE. ORDERS   Manpower. and Mate' rial Shor tages Prevent. Increases

Four Reasons For Shortage Of Cigarets   Will Continue to Be Scarce to Civilians; Hoarders “Very Foolish”

Careful Polish Reply To Russ Cheers Britain   Request For Border Mediation Heightens Hopes For Early Settlement. *

POLES INDICATE DESIRE TO REACH BOUNDARY ACCORD   U.S. and Britain Asked To Arrange for SovietPolish Discussions to  That End

Chance to Settle Polish Dispute   Call on Allies to Bring Poles and Reds Together on Boundary Line.

Poles Ask Mediation In Frontier Dispute   Request U.S.-Bnitish Participation In Talk:  With Russia; Move Suggests An Early Solution Of Tough Allied Problem

POLISH REQUEST PLEASES BRITISH   HAILED AS CHANCE TO SETTLE TOUGH BOUNDARY DISPUTE

Polish-Soviet Harmony Seen   Border Settlement Is Believed Certain

Polish Answer to Border Proposal Viewed Hopefully         Government-in-Exile Asks a Conference With Soviet, Britain, U.S.

POLoH ASKING FOR MEDIATION   Seek U. $.-British Help to Salve Border Dispute With Russia.

Brightens Chances   Towards Setilement  Of Knotty Problem          Neither. Rejecting Nor. Accepting Curzon Line As Frontier Exiles - Call OnU.S., Britain To Mediate

POLISH REPLY T0 RUSSIAN BOUNDARY OFFER 1 PLEASING  CLAMS AL Crerent ceent

POLES REQUEST BORDERPARLEY   Early Solution of LongStanding Russ-Pole  Row Indicated

Poles Ask U.S.-British Help in Bringing About  Russo-Polish Agreement

Curzon Line’ Offer Neithel Accepted Nor Rejected In Official Statement

Pole Reply Pleases   Statement Asks BritishU.S. Aid in Settling ~ Borderline Dispute

Poles Request Mediation In Border Dispute  Britain, U.S. To Hel In Settlement Of

U.S. And Britain Asked To Aid. Reds And Poles  In Border Discussions

See New Hone for Russian Polish Accord   Poles Ask Britain and United States to Aid Settlement

Polish Request . For Mediation Is Being Hailed   Early Solution Of United Nations Toughest Froblems Seen.

Russo-Polish Settlement Step Nearer   Poles Ask Britain and US. to Help in Arranging Meetings

Wrangle Over Russo-Polish Border Appears To Be Near  Settlement In Latest Plea

Polish Answer to  Border Proposal Viewed Hopefully   Government-in-Exile Asks a Conference With Soviet, Britain,

POLISH REPLY TO RUSSIA ON BORDER 6000   United States And England Willing To Help Poles

POLES MOVE ~ FOR ACCORD WITH RUSSIA   Ask Britain, U. S. Act as Intermediaries to Bring About Discus: sion of Differences   NO COMMITMENTS   Exiled Government Neither Accepis Nor Rejects Russia’ 8 ‘Curzon’ Liné Proposal ~

Foresee Boundary Dispute Settlement   Poles Call Upon U. S. And Britain to Aid  Im falesinne Dreaklanmw

Open Way For Settlement Of Border Issue   Polish Reply To Russia Brightens Chances For Eventual Solution Of Knoity Problem

POLE-RUSSIA ROW CLEARS   BRITISH, U. S. MAY SETTLE BORDER DISPUTE

Polish Govenment Asks Mediation in Dispute en Frontier   Reply to Soviet Russia Hailed and Brighten ing Situation

FULBRIGHT WINS IN ARK. RUNOFF   DEFEATS GOV. ADKINS TO BECOME DEMOCRAT NOMINEE FOR SENATOR

POSTWAR NEEDS: Future Questions Emphasized As 2 States Hold Elections

Fulbright Wins in Arkansas Balloting   Freshman Member o: House Defeats Goy. Home Adkins

VOTE REFLECTS PEACE ISSUES   Fulbright Wins Arkansas Primary; New Yorkers View Postwar Era

NOMINEES STRESS PEACE PROBLEMS      Political Aspirants Intend to Maintain Just, Lasting Peace.

Peace Problems Pushed to Front  Find Eckoes in Tuesday Nominations

Peace Problems Playing Partin Vote Campaigns   Fulbright Wins In Arkansas Race; Others Nominated

Fulbright Is Runoff Winner   New Yorkers Empbasize Perce Problems

PARATROOPER FAGES MURDER IN ENGLAND   He and Striptease Dancer Are Held for Trial

Seeks To Strike Out Reports   Senator Says People Have Too Many Forms

Sen. Thomas Would Narrow Field Of OPA Control  Solon Asserts Only © Basic Needs Shauld Re Cavered

Will Move to. Strike Union Report Clause   Lucas Announces Plan to Amend Tax Mensiren in Binktn

CURB ON OPA OVER PRICE CONTROL 1S SOUGHT BY SOLON   Would Limit Control to Basic Cost-of-Living Commodities, ~ Not Non-Essentials

CLAUSE REQUIRING UNIONS TO REPORT CASH IS ATTACKED   Senator Will Try to-Ban Section From Revenue Bill; Red Tape Given Flaying

MOVE ON TO SPARE UNIONS FROM FILING REPORTS   Sen. Lucas Believes Clause Should Be Removed From. tke $2,275,600,000 Tax Increase Bill

DRIVE WEDGE INTO ENEMY DEFENSES   High Points In Alban Hills Occupied By Allies   EIGHTH ARMY   Advances Up Via Casilina, Capturing Frosinone; Get Aerial Support

YANKS SMAS DEEPER INT GERMAN L   See Rome Acress 15 Has Miles From Alban — Hills 

Enemy Drops Back. After. Frosinone’s  Hard Battle   Rome Within Sight Of American Force

Massed Air Armada Ripping GermanLines   Armored Units Lunging Forward; Enemy Fighting for Via Casilina

U. 5. INFANTRYMEN DRIVE DEEP WEDGE INTO ENEMY’S LINE   AMERICANS MEETING FIERCE RESISTANCE BUT REACH ALBAN HILLS

—fITALY—   Deep Wedge Is Driven Into Valmontone Line; Frosinone Captured   tAmerican Advance Of More Than A Mile And A Half Gained Against Strongest Kind Of Nazi Resistance: Yelletri Held By Yanks

Doughboys Capture Strong Points in Alban Hills in Deep Thrust Into Nazi Lines

Americans Sight Rome, Capture Alban Heights ©   Crack Valmontone Line; Nazis Falling Back Along Via Casilina From Frosinone

Fitth Army Drives Deeper Into German Defenses Below Beapnal (pew BGiohth Adwancac

AESIOTANGE OF (NAZIS STRONG   Americans rive Deep Wedge Into Enemy’s Valmontone Line,   IN VITAL HIGH POINTS

Nazi Retreal _Imperilled by New. ‘Advance   British -- Continue: Driving: Enemy Hard in Flanking Move: Destroyers Help.   HARD FIGHTING: > NEAR VELLETRI   Guns Heard in. Rome and. Fall.of City Appears aMatter of Days: 

Eternal City Visible From Lofty. Ridges  ~ Taken From Nazis   Allied Headquarters Declares That Punches Below Capital Yield “Limited But Important” Gains

Rome Sighted 15 Miles From Alban Heights   Allies Score Advance In Stoutly Contested Battles; Foe Reports Vellitri Abandoned

AMERICANS GAIR SALIENTS ON 2 VELLETRI SIDES   Eighth Army Advances On Valmontone After Fall Of Frosinone

5th Outflanks Velletri, Lanuvio In Alban Hills, British Take Frosinone   Greatest Air Umbrella Of Italian Offensive Covers Yanks Hitting Last Nazi Defense Line

High Points In Alban Hills In Allied Hands   Advances Won By Doughboys Against Strongest Kind of German Re sistanre   N azis Retreat  From Velletri   Berlin Radio Indicates Bomb-Shattered Town Left to Americans After Hot Fight

Win Dominating Peaks Beyond Velletri; British Push Up Via Casilina.

Documentary Evidence Bolsters Charge F. R. Withheld German Date From Congress Ear:

FOR CHARGED WITH SLASHING ARMY APPROPRIATIONS: .   Rep. Engel Adds Charce. of Withholding Secret Keport of Hitler bower.

REP. ENGLE DECLARES PRESt‘DENT. OUT ARMY FUNDS AND '\ WITHHELD REPORT ON’  GERMAN PROGRAM

CHARGED Wilt SLASHING ARMY APPROPRIATIONS   Rep. Engel Adds Charce of Withholding Secret Report of Hitler Fower.

Charges FDR Withheld Vital Reports   Sliced Army Requests For Funds After : 1935, Is Clatm

BOMBERS ATTAUK SEVASTOPOL AREA   Merciless Night Blow Is Given Garrison Jammed Into Surrounded Seaport; Other Land Fronts Quiet

REDS BOMBING SEVASTOPOL START FIRES   Russians Ringed around Crimean Port Holding Off from Frontal Assault to Save Forces.   Attack in Forests

, AXIS GARRISON OF SEVASTOPOL HIT FROM AIR   Merciless Night Attack ~ May Mean Infantry Is Preparing To Plunge Ahead

Soviets Bomb Sevastopol   Raid ts Indication Of Renewed Assaults

Red Bombers Batter Nazis    Merciless Night Raid Hits ill-Fated Sevastopol Area

Russ Air Assault.  Rakes Sevastopol   Attack Viewed as Prelude To Storming of Citv

ENEMY STRAFED AT SEVASTOPO!   Reds Deliver Merciless Assault On Trapped Axis Garrison

Soviet Bombers Blast Crowded Nazi Garrisons  Red Troops Poised   Red Troops Poised For Final Assault Against Sevastopol

South In Line For $200,000,000 For New Highways   North Carolina Would Receive 13 Million for General Use, and $187,662 for National Forest Roads.

Funds For Post-War Highway Expansion ‘Asked of Congress   Louisiaan Share To Be $9,185,000 If

Most Of Nazis Get Out Of Allied Trap   Minefields And Bad Weather Slow Gains By Pursuing Troops

Allies Reach Maas River In New Push   Canadians BattleWay Onto Island Sram Beveland

Would Increase Teachers’ Pay   O’Conor Announces 8Point Program For Education Svstem.

Favors 12 Years Of Public Educetion, Smoller Classes And increased Teacher Compensation

LONG JAPANESE LINE OF BASES TORN BY BOMBS   500 Tons From Wewak to Bou gainville. New Target, in Caroline Islands, Attacked

FANATICAL JAPS MOWED DOWN ON LOS NEGROS   Meanwhile, Yank Bombers Continue To Smash Ruins Of Enemy Bases

Discover Bomb  In British Ship   Nazis Planted Explosive To Destroy Cargo Load

POLICE DOUBT STORY BY BOY   Skepticism Shown Of Claim He Spent Week in Trunk

Plans Announced by Democrats  Program Given for  3-Day Convention

Utah Farm Couple Has Lost Four Of Six Sons in U. S. Armed Services

Sons Lost in War, Parents Ask ~ That Fifth Boy, a Marine, Come Home

Grief Stricken Parents Lose Four Sons in War, Ask Release of Fifth

SAYS LAUSCHE TO BLAME FOR MESA WALKOUT   Large Strike Thursday to Tie Up 64 Midwest War Plants

WORKERS THREAT      Cleveland” War Plants Threat -ened; Political Issue Brought: . Into Rift

FLEEING NAZIS KEPT ON RUN BY 5TH ARMY   ADRIATIC SECTOR ENEMY FORCES JOIN RETREAT

Nazi Troops On Adriatic Join Retreat Up Peninsula   ' Road, Rail Junetion OF Viterbo Captured By 5th Army Forces Tirivine Tin Weet Coast   ON COASTAL HIGHWAY 40 MILES FROM ROME  Many Fleeing Vehicles Smashed by Planes Flvine 1.500 Sorties

E07 L772 YW 237S.  —_ <a. '= is a ry & ry   Allies Gain 15 Miles Per Day But Foe Retreats Bevond Gun Range

Allied Forces Capture Three Key Italian Towns   Fleeing Germans May Make Stand  Beyond Florence

Allies Chase Broken Nazi Army in Italy   Three Communication Centers Fall in Swift Advance; German Troops Abandon Adriatic Positions in General Flight

NAZIS LEAVE POSITIONS IN HASTY FLIGHT   Viterbo, Vital Rail Junction, Falls before Swift Seven-Mile Thrust from Lake di Vico.   Fresh From Denmark

Allied Fighters and Bombers Destroy Another 195 Enemy Vehicles and 28 Rail Cars in Ceasless Attack on German Transport

Rout of Nazis North of Rome Is Continuing   More Towns Taken by Swiftly Advancing American Troops

Fifth Army Pursues Nazis * At Fast Speed North Of Rome   Germans Abandon Adriatic Positions in General Fiight Up: Italian Peninsula—Viterbo {s Captured

lark's Forces ursuing Nazis orth of Rome   General Enemy Flight Reported

Clark Captures Town 55 Miles North of Rome  Fifth Army Keeps   Fifth Army Keeps Up Fast Chase of Battered Germans

Fifth Continues Breakneck Pace   Viterbo Falls To Smashing Yanks  By EDWARD KENNEDY

House Committee Frowns on Plan To Drop 9 Million Small Taxpayers

Tax Simplifying Methods Sought  Refuse To Drop Nine Million Taxpavers

No Escapes ‘in lax Revision.  Solons Reject Plan To Drop 9 Million From Income Levy

Germans Retake Mortain In Thrust at Avranches   Americans Hold High Ground While Bombers Have Field Day with Foe— Yanks Drive on Paris on 50-Mile Front

ADEST OAWE INGE INVASION   Aimed at Outflanking American Spearheads Pointing Toward Paris. .   PLANES IN HEAVY RAIDS

FURIOUS THRUST SEEN AS MOVE TO HOLD PARIS   Gain of 3 Miles Reported But U. S$. Airforces Are ‘Having a Field Day’

Some Ground Given; Attack Is Being Held   Hurricane of Fire Fronr Guns, Air Forces Meets Enemy Thrust

Harl Furious’ Counterattack   KK KOCK ORK  AAF Lets — Em Have It

Launch Their Biggest Attack Since Invasion   Armored Divisions Thrown Into Battle To Gain 3 Miles; Take Poundina From Air

TEMPERATURES:   Fight Desperately To Halt Paris Drive    Four Enemy Armored Divisions Lash Out In  Strongest Counter-Attack Since D-Day But Thrust Is Blocked

Most Furious Nazi Counterblow Opens  on Normandy Front   Four Tank Divisions of Enemy Give Allied Airmen Field Day

Nazis Stopped After 3-Mile Gain; Caught in Allied Meat Grinder   Alrmen Have ‘Field Day’ Blasting Four Armored Divisions Being Held hy Ground Forces: Avuilleve. dais To

Attempt To Qutflank American Spearheads Pointing Toward Paris 1. Begun In Normandy

Penetrate Yank Line for Three Miles   Seek to Separate Allied Armies Driving for Paris,

AMERICAN AiR FORCE HAVING FIELD DAY POUNDING GERMAN ARMOR AS \T MAKES ATTACK   Nazis Launch Largest Counter-Attack Since Land ings in France But Americans Do Not Expect It te Make Much Progress, Although It Has Made  Gansaa OCatne   KRAKOW, WARSAW AND BORDER QF EAST PRUSSYA UNDER FIRE FROM ARTILLERY AND BOMBERS   Street Fighting in Warsaw Between Poles and Germans. Reds Capture Vital German Oil Sources in Southern Poland. Heavy Fighting Is On

GERMANS LAUNCHED MOST DETERMINED OF COUNTERATTACKS  FOUR ARMORED NAZI  We PEArAetn MEE oe rarest,

Nazis Throw Their Greatest Counterblows Since D-Day Against Sweeping Yank Advances.   GERMANS TRY TO HALT  HIGHWAY TOWARD PARIS

LAUNCH FIERCE COUNTER- DRIVE AGAINST YANKS   Seek to Outflank Allied  Spearheads Driving  For Paris

Aiming to Cut Around Yank ‘Spearheads   Germans Recapture Mortain In First Rush; Pushing Drive for Avranches

‘[Recapture Mortain, Aiming At Avranches   Spearhead Already In Danger, However, And Under Fierce Shelling, Bombing; No Late Brest Report

Germans Move Offices From French Capital   Brittany Campaign In Closing Stage; Troops in Harbars

Counter-Blow Near Avranches Gains 3 Miles.   But Yanks Stop Drive Which Nets Heavy. Losses of Armor for Nozis

Germans Strike Counterblow as Troops Advance   Four Nazi Divisions Thrown in Stem Yanks; Break Through Three Miles.   Report Germans Pull Offices From Capital

bas: East of Avranches to Get in Rear of Allied Units   YANKS PUSH ON PARIS   . theads Turn Eastward rom Conquest of Breton Peninsula

Nazis Lose’88 Tanks, Gain 3 Miles In Reckless Lunge At Paris Bound Spearhead

LAUNCH FIERCE COUNTER-BLOW AT U.S. TROOPS  PENETRATE ALLIED, COASTAL STRIP TO

r Armored Divisions Used by Germans In Counter-Attack ©   Thrust Is Strongest Enemy Has Made Yet Since Invasion Day

Carolina Sees Record Heat   Temperature Hits Mark Of 105 In Some State Towns.

Nazis Evacuate Civilians From Border Of Germany’s Homeland   RED OFFENSIVE IN LOWER POLAND   Capture Kaunas And Grodno, Two Main German Defense Bastions

Reds Smash Into Kaunas Defenses   Soviet Armies Roll Unchecked Toward East Prussia From Fallen Grodno; Drive In Lower Poland Gains Speed

Evacuation Of Civilians Is Ordered   Russians Smash Westward From Captured Grodno

Germans Pull Civilians Out Of Territory   Russian Tanks Storming Old Lithuanian Capital

Russians Break. Into  Kaunas  Nazis Order   Nazis Order Evacuation of . Civilians From East Prussia:

Two Soviet Armies Smash Forward From Captured Grodno, Key German Bastion Leading To East Prussia.

NAZIS REMOVE CIVILIANS FROM FRONTIER AREA   Soviets Reach Kaunas After Celebrating Fall of Grodno

Nazi Civilians Evacuated From Border Regions   Russian Tanks Breaking Into Kaunas Defense

RUSSIANS MAY HAVE CROSSED QVER BORDER   Fall of Grodno Gives Soviets Clear Road Ahead Into Nazi Territory.  ,   BULLETIN   Soviets Are Silent.

Nazis Order Evacuation Of Civilians   Reds Smash Near Prussia From Falten Grodno Fortress

Prewar Capital of Lithuania Said  In Grave Danger   Moscow Radio Reports Violent Fighting In East Prussia Regions

BATTLE ALONG BOUNDARY OF NAZI HOMELAND   New Drive in Poland Gains

RUSSIANS MAY BE IN EAST PRUSSIA   Fighting Now in “Immediate Neighborhood,” Say Rus sians.

Russian Armies Roll On Unchecked Past Fallen Grodno Toward Kaunas   Berlin Reports Soviets Attacking In Poland Reach Zloczow, Only  38 Mi. From Lwow, Tarnopol

REPORTS HARD FIGHTING NEAR EAST PRUSSIA   Evacuation of Civilians from Reith Border Region Under Way.

HARD FIGHTING IN VICINITY OF EAST PRUSSIA   Nazis Order Evacuation Of Its Civilians From Region Of Border

Barkley Wins Over Six Foes In Kentucky   Senator Piles Up Early Comanding Lead In Primary

———— rhe  G. 1. Plans to Name Post-War Barber Shop After MacArthur

Airmen Meet Strong Defense   Returning Crewmen Tell Of Nazi Defense Of Belgrade And Sofia   BOTH CAPITALS ARE HEAVILY ATTACKED

Labor Leaders Claim BLS Cost- Of- Living Statistics Index Distorts Basic Facts

Labor Group “Contends Bureau eDistorts Facts   Leaders Carry Charge of Grave Injustice  to White House

Labor Leaders Hit Distorted Index Of Living Costs   Non-Partisan Board Upholds Figures; Says White House

Union Leaders Protest Hiked  Living Costs   Charge “Grave- Injustice’ In. U. S.. Index; Inform re 2 Rooseyelt -Figures::..  , “Nise “Ani aes

LIVING COST INDEX HIT BY LABOR MEN   Members of President’s CostOf-Living Committee Challenge Figures; Charge Basic Facts Distorted

Petain is Reported Arrested   Geneva Paper Says Frenct Brief at Vichy Was Taken  to Germany

Capture German Headquarte Town Of Ausonia, Bight Oth Villages, Extend Bridgehec Across Garigliano River   HILLS CAPTURED, PRISONERS TAKE

British Bomb Stettin, Nazi Baltic Port   Americans Hit Reich. France

Airline Has Loss Already This Year   Planes Are Making More Frequent Stops Now

MacArthur's Pattern. Is Showing Up   Admiralty Landing Culmination of Strategy Launched In June of Last Year

ALLIED PATTERN NEARLY FINISHED   New Landing May Play Vital Part In Pacific Warfare

Landing On Admiralty Islands To Play Big Part In Cutting Off Japan From Her Outer Defenses

Americans Mop Up Strategically Important Los Negros Islanc Of Admiralty Group After Bold Attack on Another Stepping Stone - - - Resistance Overwhelmed

American Troops Push Ahead After Initial Landing Success   my C. VYATES MDASTEL

REDUCE AIRCRAFT GOALS 3 PERCENT   Will Bring Production to About 8,274 Planes a Month.

Aircraft Goals Cut Slightly  Monthly Production To Be 8.274 Planes

CHEERING THRONGS GREET ALLIES AS THEY ENTER CITY   Popilace “Showers British anc Greek Troops With Flowers And Fruit

Allies Take Corinth: Nazis Flee   Greek Patriots, British Troops Move After Triumphant Parad

Gen. Ike For Prompt News   Wants Coverage Woven Into Invasion Battle Plans

INVASION NEWS TO BE SPEEDED   Eisenhower Says Coverage Should Be Woven Into Battle Plans

EISENHOWER GIVES SUPPORT 10 PLAN      Davis Says News Coverage Should Be Woven into Battle Plans.

‘LAND - BASED; SHIPS FLY, OVER BATAAN AN D CORREGIDOR   No Opposition Encountered by Fighters; Hope. to Returni~ Soon in Force

DELEGATES BEGIN SECRET SESSIONS   International Security Conclave May Eliminate ‘‘League of Nations”

WORLD PEACE CONFERENCE BEGINS WORK   Probably Will Abandon Name and Buildings of League

 Court Continues. Murder ‘Trial  At Worctester   Arraign Des : Rosiérs . On ’ Strangulation “Of Wife, Mother. Of 5 Children

Between 750 and 1,000 Bombers Attack at Sunset  NINE BOMBERS ARE LOST DURING RAID  Bulgarian Railway Center   Bulgarian Railway Center Attacked Earlier in the Day

1,000 Bombers Hit France in Sunset Raid   RAF Bombers Follow, Keeping Great Air War Going Around the Clock

Dump 2500 Tons Of Bombs After RAF Day Attack   8000 Sorties in 54 Hours Made by Allies on Europe

Surprise Sunset Assault Made On German T. argets  In Northwestern France

Invasion Zones  Receive Sunset Blast Of Fort:   American Heavy Bombers, With Ample Support, Stage New Assayit On Nazi Military . Targets; Follow Up RAF Poundings

U.S. Heavies Hit Nazis In. Sunset Blow   Enemy Caught By Surprise In Raid

BOMBERS KEEP AXIS. EUROPE AN DEFENSIVE   Italy-Based RAF Planes, British- Based U. S. Planes Keep Blasting, Several Targets.   Kassel-Hamm

Yanks Deliver Surprise Sunset Raid on France   RAF Night Bombers Reported Over Reich Even While U. S. Flier: Returning to Bases

German Targets in North France Bombed for Hour:   RAF Also Blasts Reich War Centers

Flying Forts Hit France In Surprise   Attackers Dump 2,900 Tons Bombs  On German Target

Between 750 and 1,000 Bombers Attack at Sunset  NINE BOMBERS ARE LOST DURING RAID  Bulgarian Railway Center Attacked Earlier in the Day

Between 750 And 1,000 U. §. Bombers Catch Ger mans Napping   11,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED IN 54 HOURS

MERICANS STAGE CORP RISE ATTACK   Blast Military Targets ir Northwestern France   NINE BOMBERS LOST   Marks Approximately 8,000 Sorties Against Nazi Targets in 54 Hours

SURPRISE RAID MADE AGAINST NAZI TARGETS   Over 750 Planes Sweep Across Northwestern France; Nine  Are Lost

Hull and Dulles Agree On Points   In Accord On Many Aspects of Proposed World Peace Agency.

Hull’s Policy Pleases Dulles   Dewey’s Expert Reports ‘General Agreement’

HULL, DULLES END PEACE DISCUSSION   Latter Reserves Right for G. 0. P. Foreign Policy Criticism

Hull, Dulles Agree on Numerous Aspects of the Proposed World Peace Agency; to Continue Talks

TWO AND HALF MILES OUT OF ROER CITADE   Other Gains Made by General Hodges’ Men as They Forge Ahead Through Nazi Snow.

Jap Plane Plants Hit By B-29’s   Heaviest Raid of War - By Superforts Fires  ' "“Negnoa Kantaniac

Farina Held For Robbery Of Payroll   Bail Of Boston Man Is $50,000

Dewey: Arrives In Minneapolis  For Major Talk   Foreign Affairs Will Be Under Discussion  In Address Tonight 

GEN, GARIBALD! ~ ISPUT TO DEATH   ROME RADIO. REPORTS EXECUTION OF FORMER COMMANDER IN. N, AFRICA,

War Veterans Flay Lewis And Strikes  Two Back From ltaly Give Views

Veterans Visit Lewis: Soldiers Lecture Labor Leader About Strikes, Hardships of War

Two Servicemen Lecture Lewis   War Vets Complain About Strikes At Home

Reds Promise Policy of No Interference  Moscow Won't Fight Capitalism

Soviet Intervention in Other States Denied by Moscow  Coexistence of Two Governmental Systems Admitted

RUSSIANS WILL NOT INTERFERE   Reds Not To Intervene  Dom&tic Affairs, Claim

BRICKER RAPS ~ AVERY OUSTER   7 : ‘  GOVERNOR DECLARES ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION HAS LOST PERSPECTIVE ON JUDICIAL’ PROCESSES

Subscription: Rate Boost      The Enterprise price tb te Neve a Small Increase fa: ‘the Annual Subscription Rate. July Ici.

Subscription Rate Boost   The Enterprise ls te Mave.a Smiall Increase in the: ‘Annual Subscription Rate, duly: ist.

Subscription Rate Bees! At $1.50 after July Ist   The Enterprise fs to Have a Small increase in the Annual Subscription Rate, duly Ist.

Knights To Install - Officers,..ty 13:   James M. Kennedy Returned As Head of Local Organization for Year

Knights To Install . — Officers. duly 43   James M. Kennedy Returned As Head of Local Organization for Vear

‘ICCUP VICTIM APPEALS TO FOR   “irl, 21, Seeking Furlough for Her Doctor, Now In Service

Veleran Newsman Of Chicago Dies      William McKay Widely Re garded as One of Newspaper Deans

Superfortresses Produce ‘Good Resulis’  Our Losses in Raic  on Industrial The Rup Tt La

D2da GIANT. BOMB BLAGT JAP INDUSTRY   Heavy Blows Struck at Bases in Manchuria and China with Light Losses.

B-29s Smash af Jap Industries In Daylight Raid   Losses Reported Light in Blow At Manchuria

Superfortresses Produce ‘Good Results’  Our Losses in Raid on Industrial Targets Are ‘Light’

Wrigley Gum Stocks Stated for Soledjere      Work-or-Be-Drafted Measure Aimed at 4-F’s. Introduced

RUSSIANS DEAL BLOWS TO FOE   Liberate One-Third of Carpatho-Ukraine, Gain in Nannhe Rasin.

Reds Free Section of Czech Nation   Swiftly Slice Through Carpathian: —Virtually Set  Up Solid Front

BLOWS DEALT TO GERMANS IN DANUBE BASIN   Carpathian Passes Captured By Red Forces Today

Czech Area In East Is Freed By Advances   Deal Stunning Blows te German Positions in Rich Danubian Basin  BY DANIEL DE LUCE

Soviet Army Is Sweeping Through Czechoslavakia  Stunning Blows Dealt to Nazi D....t _» Pa . _ -

Soviets Smashing Swiftly Across Czechoslovakia As Belgrade Mop-up Continues

HARD BLOWS REPORTED IN DANUBE BASIN   Russians Remain Silent On Offensive Operations Againsi Enemy In East Prussia  VITAL PASSES TAKEN

RUSSIAN TROOPS PUSH DEEP INTO CZECHOSLOVAKIA   FREE ONE-THIRD OF CARPATHO-UKRAINE, EASTERN PROVINCE

Swift Red Drive In Carpathians Frees Big Arei   Deep Soviet Penetration Of East Prussia Reported From Germany Today

Reds Sweep On In Czech Land  Deal Blow To Nazis In Danubian Valley

German Carpathian Stand Trampled by Swift Red Advance   Victory Over CarpathoUkraine Line Achieved After Lone Fight

Russians Liberate Third 01 Easternmost Province In Stunning Blows

Czech Area In East Is Freed By Advances   Deal Stunning Blows to German Positions in Rich Danubian Basin

Russians Drive Across Eastern Czecho-Slovakia  Red Sweep Already Has Liberated One Third Of aussatinn,! eens,

Bonds Are Cashed at Greatest Rate Since War's Start, Despite Pleas

American Soldiers, Ready for Invasion, To Observe Easter   MacArthur’: s Forces To Recall Bataan on Anniversary

To Eulogize Bataan Heroes   Yanks in South Pacific to Honor Comrades as Victory Tide Rises

Thousands Will Gather At Services Symbolizing Eulogies of Bataan Men

Easter Sunrise Service to Eugolize ‘Men of Bataan on Second Anniversary

Princess Beatrice Dies; Last Surviving Child of Famed Oueen Victoris

ember of Royal. Family Die: “In London; Would-Have _ Been 88 in April

Death Of Archbishop, Princess Beatrice Shocks England Today   Queen Victoria’s Daughter Dies Two Hours _Before Passing Of Dr. William Temple, Primate Of All England, Archbishop Of Canterbury

Death Takes Last Child ©   Princess. Beatrice.  “Passes: In: Slumber:

Beatrice, Last Child of Queen Victoria Dies   Mother of Former Victoria Eugene Of Spain Dies In Sleep.

HODGES’ FIRST ARMY TROOPS THRUST FARTHER INTO NAZI FRONT NORTHEAST OF AACHEN   American Offensive Toward Rhine Continues to Gain In Third Day While German Army Reforms for New Battle  A CTC CC      FORTY - EIGHT HOUR TRUCE AT DUNKERQUE

Siegfried Line. Assault Gains Against Strong Hun Defenses.      British: Beat: Back -Counter- Attacks

Americans Shove Deeper Through Backstop Defenses Guarding The Rhine-And Cologne; Doughboys Hold Surface Positions In Fort

PN TOE ACAI DIAN TROUBLE AGAIN: FIRST AMERICANS PUT ONE OVER ON CLERKS

GROUNDHOG “PUNCH DRUNK”   And That’s How Seer Makes Predictions Candlemas Day

Snow Falls Over Midwest Today   Sub-Freezing Temperatures Prevail

Snowfall Reported In Some Parts Of Illinois; ‘More Frost Tonight

Snow Falls Tn Midwest; Temperature  Takes Drop   Biting Frosts Expected To Be Repeated Tonight: Chicago Mad Coldest May 5 Of AI Time

JAPS DEFY FDR IN USE OF GAS   Chinese Charge Poisoned Gas Used Against Them In Jap  Drive in Honan Province. —

\JAPANESE AGAIN USING POISON GAS IN CHINA   ‘Enemy Defying President Roosevelt’s Warning Against Use Of This  Weapon.

‘Air Attack on Germany Has Yet To Reach Peak, Arnold Says; Full Power of Our Forces Not Realized

Air Attacks Not af Peak, Says Arnold   Mighty Air Force So Powerful It Doesn't ‘Know Its Own Strength’

Arnold Declares Air Power Peak Not Yet Reached   Warns Germany Of More Coming

Raids On Germany Yet To Reach Peak, General Arnold States   Anybody’s Guese

PEAK OF BOMBING GERMAN EUROPE NOT YET ARRIVED   Gen. Arnold Says Air Force of 2,300,000 Me: Now Operating. Has Dropped 468,391 Tons Of Bombs

More Bombing For Germany,  Says Arnold   Air Attacks, Fierce As They Are, Have Not Reached Peak

Peak Bombing By Air Force Still to Come   General Arnold Says American Force Doesn't  Know Its Own Strength

PRESENT RAIDS ON GERMANY ARI ONLY SAMPLES   Gen. Arnold Says Heavier Raids Now Expected

ir Attacks Have Not Yet Reached Peak   Gen, Arnold Says Forces Don’t Know Their Own Strength

Air Attacks To Hit Peak   Arnolds Warns Nazis Of Blows In Making

28,000 WORKERS IDLE TODAY DUE TO ARGUMENTS  Entire Nation  = a a ae   Entire Nation Affected By Stoppages

28,000 Tdle in 20 Walkouts Over Nation   fruck Drivers - Repori ied Out in 8 States; 7,000 G.M. Workers Strike

Navy Bride .. ~ Dies After — Lab Blast   Hurled Through Window of Second Story Today in Washington, D 2

Draft Boards Complain Of - Blanket Deferment Of Government Employed Family Men   Rocsevelt Order Means Ear~ . ier Draft of Less. Favored Men

Wage Boost Doomed by Cost Report   Davis Says Living Figures Have Gone Up 29 to 30 Pet.

MORGANTHAU’S GERMAN PEACE IS RUTHLESS   Would Forbid Rehabilitation of German Industry; Force Germans to Live by Agriculture.   Cabinet Is Split

Revision of policy toward reich sought  Indications point to a deeper split

Treasury Seeks to Impose Hard Peace on Germans;  Causes Policy Making Split

SPLIT IN CABINET HAMPERS PROGRAM   Handling of Ger Germany After War Causes Dispute

Report Made to Stalin On Decisions of Quebec   Policy Makers Split On Peace for Defeated Reich

Ruthless Peace For Nazis Urged By Morgenthau   Treasury Experts Seek Changes in Policy toward Germany

Treasury Experts Reported Seeking To Impose Harder Terms on Germany

‘Treasury Men — Seelk Hard Peace  For Germany    Seek Basic Changes In Rules To Be Given Allied Administrators

British Seek Air Support  Small Nations’ Aid On Traffic Plan Sought

Allied Airmen Support U. S. Marines Clearing Japs From Borgen Bay

BITTER FIGHTING. ~ IN NEW BRITAIN   Bombers Are Support: ing Drive to Clear  Japs Out

Marines Resume Borgen Bay Offensive As Plane: Blast South New Ireland

Seek To Drive Japs From Borgen Bay..... Bombers Back ‘Marines  In Bitter New Battle  On New Britain Island

MARINES, JAPS RENEW CLASH   Bitter Ground Fighting Rages In Northwestern New Britain

Bitter Battle Is In Swing dver Pacific   Marines Are Aided By Allied Planes At New Britain

Ground Fighting Onr-New-Britt  - Reported Bitter   Allied Bombers Support USMC Renewed Push To Rid Borgen Bay Of Japs

New Britain Battle Grows More Fierce   Marines Pushing Slowly Through The Bush

BITTER FIGHTING RAGING ON GROUND IN NEW BRITAIN  om RK   ALLIED BOMBERS SUPPORTING MARINES IN EF. FORT CLEAR JAPS OUT

BITTER FIGHTING RAGING ON GROUND IN NEW BRITAIN  ALLIED BOMBERS SUP. BesaAhD Lr  RAR Tim:

YANKS RESUME OFFENSIVE ON NEW BRITAIN   Bombers Smash At Jap Troops, Supply Lines

Witter Fight Rave;   rines Reach Hill 660 In Advance of Mile and hree Quarters; Japs Reisting Desperately.

Drive Out of Verdun Towards Metz   Get Closer To German  And Belgium Border

THRUST OPENS PATH TOWARD SIEGFRIED LINE   Germans Seem Unable To Cope With Rush Of Famed Third Army   BRITISH NEAR LE HAVRE   French Troops Advance In South—Russ Advancing At Racing Speed

Japanese Score Impressive Gains In Strong Drives against Chinese

More Tokyo Raids Reported by Japs   B-29’s Over Capital Twice Sunday, Claim

+ ne Maren of Veatn Prisoners on Bataan Taste  Fast Jap Sun ‘Treatment?

March of Death   Japs Snarl, Jeer at Prisoners,  Deny Them Food or Water

Bataan Death March Colonel Tells of Jap Cruelty   By LT. COL, pide E. were United States Tr  ¥ Alr rees) As told to CHARLES LE AVELLE

Dyess Tells of American Officer Beheaded : For Possessing Jap Yen When Bataan Felll:

ATTACK 10 BE CONTINUED RELENTLESSLY   Mighty Armada of B-29's Blast Jap Capital With Hundreds of Tons of Bombs

Balloon With Jap Ideographs  Discovered In Timber Area   Heed Warnings

Jap Balloon Is Found In Montana   Fuse to Incendiary Bomb Big Enough to Start Major Forest. Fire Had Burned Out

Strange Jap Marked Balloon Found In West   Craft Armed with Incendiary Bomb; 33 Foot Bag Made of Processed Paper

Discovery Ox*“apanese Balloon Here Ax auses Speculation In Nation

Incendiary Balloon Indicts Japanese   Mysterious Paper Sphere 33 Feet in Diameter, Lands In Montana.

NINETEEN KILLED IN THREE-WAY CRASH OF PLANES   Touched Wings In Formation At Weekly Review, No Survivors

1° Die When Planes Meet   Formation Maneuver -At Airbase Is Tragic

19 Die as Three Bombers Collide   Accident Occurs During Weekly Review

Visit of Nominee Touches Off Giant G. O. P. Celebration   Immense Crowd Meets New Yorker With Cheers, Band at Rail Depot; City Banner-Draped for Occasion

DEWEY PLANS DISCUSSION OF F.D.’$ BACKING   Speaks Saturday Night At Charleston; Talk Broadcast

KELLY-M'KAY FIGHT LOOMS IN MICHIGAN   Resignation of Public Service Commission Official May Be Preview

KELLY-MCKAY FEUD FLARES   Rekindled By Resignation  Of Ivan E. Hull  From PSC

Many Contests Hang on GI Vote   At Least 50 Races In State May Be Decided By Soldier Vote

SOLDIER VOTE T0 DECIDE 50 PA. CONTESTS   GI Ballots Hold Answer In Close Election Results

Most Penna. Contests Hinge On Soldier Vote   Democrats Have Slight Lead In Most Cases; Myers Ahead By 1,593

Wave of Sabotage, Strikes and Clashes Between Nazis, French Nears Proportions of Uprising

EARLY MEETING OF ROOSEVELT, STALIN, CHURCHILL 1$ SEEN  PRESIDENT’S ‘RE-ELECTION ; MAKES CONFERENCE  Tarr 6 PAT

Re-Election Of FDR Makes It Virtually Certain He'll Soon Meet With Stalin, Churchill   Conference Will Largely Shape Course Of Fresident’s 4th Term Foreiqn Policy

To World Affairs   FDR Is Expected to Hold Early Meting With Stalin. Churchill

NEW SESSION OF ‘BIG 3' BEFORE CHRISTMAS SEEN   Second Meeting Of Allied Chiefs Said Virtually Certain

FDR’s Re-Election Indicates New Meet Of ‘Big Three’ In Few Weeks

ROOSEVELT IS EXPECTED 10 MEET LEADERS   Will Probably Shape Course Of 4th Term

See Early Meeting Of "Big Three" As Result Of F. D. R's Re-Election

Big Three Meeting . Expected Soon For ~ Postwar Plan Talk      Roosevelt’s Re-Election Paves Way for Second Discussion of Aims

Re-elected, Roosevelt Expected to Meet Soon With Stalin and Churehill

Victory Points Way To Early Big 3 Meeting   FDR Win Is Expectec To Bring Speedy Talks With Stalir And Churchill

FDR Re-Election Makes Big Three Early Meef Certain   Conference to Largely Shape Way of Fourth Term Foreign Policy

Karly. Meeting Of Big Three Held Certain   Diplomatic Authoritie Expect Acceleration Of International Affairs at Once

Continue Destruction Of Nazis Trapped At Nikopol 40 Towns Captured In Drive To Clear Ukraine; 3,800 Enemy Troops Killed In Last 24 Hours

GERMAN FRONT IN RUSSIA CRUMBLES UNDER RED BLOWS   Nazis Retreat in Ukraine Rout; Soviets Outflank ~ Krivoi Roa

Seven Soviet Armies Pounc German Foes   Entire German Force on Eastern Front Crumbling Fast

Weakened Lines Said Hammered By 7 Red Armies   Report German Retreat In _——_-Lower—-Ukraine-Rapidly. Turning Into A Rout

Seven Russian Armies Deal Smashing Blows To Germans; Retreat Approaches A Rout

Nazis Crumbling — At Many Points   Slaughter of Germans Said The Bloodiest In History   RETREAT RAPIDLY BECOMING ROUT

NAZIS’ EASTERN FRONT BUCKLES, REDS DRIVE ON   Seven Mighty Soviet Armies Are Rolling Against German Forces

Russian Pincer: Close in on Ter Enemy Division:   Once All-Powerful Eastern Front of Invaders Crumblin at Many Points Under Staggering Sledae-Hammer Blows   RETREAT WEST OF APOSTOLOVO IS A DEBACL

Germans’ Lone Eastern Front is Crumbling   Russian Pincers Tighen Around Remnants of 1015 German Divisions

Seven Russian Armies Pound Area; Pincers  Being Closed   Retreat Is Turned Into ‘Grim Debacle

Outflank Krivoi Rog   Red Tenacles Close On 16 and 15 Battered German Divisions Between Cherkasy and Nikopol; KievNikolaev Railway Only Escape for Nazis Left.

Nazi Lines In Russia Crumbling   Gawan Risectan   Seven Russian Armies Batter German Front At Many Points

SOVIETS SMASH NAZI DEFENSES   Seven Red Armies Crust All Resistance; Bypass Krivoi Rog

GERMAN LINES CRUMBLE ON SOVIET FRONTS   Nazi Retreat Near Rout i Lower Ukraine; Kill 3,800 Huns Wednesday

Seven Russian Armies Batter Reeling Nazis   Retreat Of Germans In South Ukraine Fast Be coming A’ Debacle.

Red Sledgehammer 1 Blows Turn Enemy  Flight To Debaele   Ukrainian Arinies Out: * flak Krivoi. Rog And -Surge’ Toward: Kiev: Nikolaev Railway, On: y Remaining . Escape Route = Germans * Sbaivshtered.. 0:

SEVEN SOVIET ARMIES STRIKE CERMAN TROOPS   Eastern Front Is Crumbling; Many Nazis Killed

NSOVIET ARTES DRIVE AGAINST FOE   Hitler's Once All-Power. ful Eastern Front Is Now Crumbling

‘Once All-Powerful Live Shattered By Attacks Of Seven Russian Armies, With Nazi Retreat Resembling Rout In Lower Ukraine—Red Forces Close In On Remnants Of Trapped Divisions In CherkasyNikopol Pocket—Krivoi Rog Outflanked

Germans Fleeing Russ Onslaught   Retreat In Ukraine {s Turned Into Debacle

SEVEN RUSSIAN ARMIES CRACK NAZI DEFENSES   Ukraine Retreat Become: Rout; Krivoi Rog Iron Ore Center Is Outflanked

GERMANS’ EASTERN FRONT 1S CRUMBLING BEFORE 7 RED ARMIE   Nazi Retreat ~ i Ukraine * Nears *. Krivoi Rog Flanked          NORTHERN TOWNS TAKEN

Nazis’ East  Front Giving ‘Way Steadily   Russian Armies Are “Pounding Battered Foe - Relentlessly

Nazi East Front Crambles Before Seven Red Armies   Russians May Trap Ten Additional Battered Gérman Divisions In Rain-Soaked Steppe Country

Nazi Retreat Approaches Rout as Reds Tighten Pincers on 10 to 15 Divisions in Ukraine.

BRITISH LABOR CRISIS CRACKS   Mine Workers Returning Slowly To Pits In Yorkshire Area

Miners Return  To British Job   Yorkshire’ Workings Said OD Percent A. 5:

British Miners Return To Pits   Mine Strike Cracks Under Government Warnings; Miners Return Slowly.

PROFIT SHOWN BY PITTSBURGH STEEL COMPANY   Directors Meet, Re-Elect Same Officers, Then Declare Dividend

ALLIED ARMY IS FIGHTING ENEMY TO SAVE LANDING   Germans Hurl Full Striking Force Against Narrow Sector Following ThreeNav Jall.   AIRPLANES PROVIDE SUPPORT TO. FORCES   Mass “Emergency Graves” Are Needed For Burial After Great Many Berliners Die In Raid.

Planes, Guns, Tanks  Hurled Into Melee   Americans and British Hold Fasi—Stimson Warns Against Pessimism

Mother Talks to  Two Sons in Army   Bradford Lady Hears From Son in Hawaii

4 Die in High Octane Blast   Explosion Rocks Research Unit at Marcus Hook

Two More Nazi War Prisoners  Flee NH Camp   Six Free In New England

NED C. WELLS DIES ABOARD DESTROYER   Navy Discloses Death of Former Hardware Merchant On Nov. 12

Eighth Army Captures Cervia Allied Bridgehead  Over Savio River A... lL i. g mt

British Inching Lp Italian Coast   Bad Weather Hampers Operations By Fifth Army

NYE, FERGUSON JOIN LAUSCHE AT COLUMBUS   Democrats Elect Auditor and Lieut. Governor, Gain in Legislature But GOP  - 3351] Dominant.

JAPS CAPTURE. CHINESE. CITY OF HENGYANG   Vitel Rail Junction Fells. After Long, Heroic Defense

More Bombs Fall In Blazing Berlin   Germans Routed m Ukrame as Mighty Soviet Drive Sweeps On

REDS EXPECTED TO REACH GOAL BY NIGHTFALL   Swift Advance Routs Demolk tion Squads: Storm De- ~ fays Italian Action = -

Japs Occupy Palau Islet  Near Peleliu   Americans Removed Without Casualties As Nips Move In

Whole Business Lot of Horse Play  Droll Writer Puts His Campaign For Demo Post Into High Gear

Fatalities May Pass 40; Rescue Work Continues   At Least 250 Out of More Than 1,000 Are Injured, Hospitalized

T7 KILLED AS THAIN DROPS INTO GORGE   13 Soldiers Among Victims in Wreck of Louisville and Nashville Train

Fear 40 Dead In Crash Of Troop Train   80 More Injured In Plunge Into Gorge Of! River In Tennessee; Some Cars Burn

Train Wreck Death Toll May Top 40   17 Bodies Counted, All But Twc Seldiers, Where Troop Train Planged Into Gorge

Train Plunges Into Gorge, Seventeen Die   Train Carried 1,000 Soldiers. Fifteen Killed

Soldiers Die In Wreck Of Troop Train   Trein Plunges Into Gorge In Tennessee, At Leost 17 Persons Killed

Death Toll In  Train Wreck  May Exceed 40 15 Soldiers  Amano Victims

TRAIN PLUNGE TAKES 17 LIVES   Fifteen Soldiers, Engineer And Fireman Killed In Tennessee

17 Killed in Train Wreck   Expect Death Toll In Tennessee Wreck  To Exceed 40

Toll in Troop Train Wreck May Reach 40   Bodies of 17, All but Two of Them Soldiers Already Taken From Debris of 50-Foot Plunge Into Tennessee Gorge.

Troop Train’s Plunge Into Gorge Claims 17   200 injured When Engine, 6 Coaches Topple From Rails at Sharp Curve

Train Wreck Dead May Reach Forty  Seventeen Victims Of Gorae- Disaster.

L&N PASSENGER TRAIN GOES INTO GORGE NEAR JELLICO: 13 SOLDIERS AMONG VICTIMS   Wok of Extricatiny Victims Goes on With Total Namber of Dead and Injured Yet Undetermined. Engineer and Fireraan Both Meet Death

LOCOMOTIVE AND 5 CARS PLUNGE 50 FEET INTO GORGE   WRECK OCCURRED IN TENNESSEE; 1,000 SOLDIERS ABOARD

Troop Train Plunges Into Gorge; 25 May Be Dead   Louisville & Nashville Engine, Cors Wrecked Near Jellico, Tenn.; 12 Soldiers, Engineer, Firamen Known Killed

17 Are Known Dead As Train Plunges Into 50-Foot Gorge   15 Of Victims Are Soldiers; Other Reports Tell Of Much Héavier Toll

Death Toll In Wreck Of Train May Reach 40   Fifteen Soldiers, Two Trainmen Known Dead in Tennessee Wreck of Troop Train from Ft. Harrison.

At Least 17 Die In Troop Train Wreck   Special Plunges Into Tennessee Gorge; Death Toll Mav Exceed 40.

17 Dead In Train Wreck: Eighty Hurt   Troop Train Carrying Over 1,000 Soldiers Meets Disaster

CASUALTY LIST MOUNTS TO 17: SEEK OTHERS   Scores Injured When Army Train Plunges Into Deep Ravine

Troop Train Plunges Into River; 17 Die   Death Toll Expected to Exceed 40; Estimates Place Injured at 250

Twelve Soldiers Killed In Train Wreck In Tenn.   Unofficial Estimates Say 25 Killed and 250 Hurt; Troop Train.

Train Crash Kills Fifteen  Troops, Crew   250 Thought Injured As Train Plunges Into River Gorge In East Tennessee

(15 Soldiers, 2 Civilians ‘DieIn Wreel OnL. &N.   Troop Train Plunged Inte 50-Foot Gorge; Number Of Injured Estimated At 90

Fatalities May Pass 40; Rescue Work Continues  At Least 250 Out of More Than 1,000 Are Injured,  TY wee ttaliwana

Train Carrying 1,000 Troops Plunges Into Tennessee River; 17 Are Killed

17 Bodies From Train - in Gorae   Death Toll in L. & N. Wreck Probably Will Exceed Forty   1,000 SOLDIERS . WERE. ON BOARD   Many Trapped as. Train Plunges 50. Feet Into River Cut

17 Kalled In Train Wreek   Fifteen Soldiers. Engineer. Fireman Dead; Special Sol. dier Train.

17 Killed in Troop Train Wreck   Engine, Five Cars Down 50-Foot Bank

Seventeen Killed In Train Wreck  At Least 15 Soldiers Die In Accident

17 MEET DEATH IN TRAIN WRECK   Twelve of Victims Soldiers; Many More Injured

/ L&N Passenger Leaves Tracks 17 Dead In Train Wreck As Rescue Work Continues

17 Killed as Train Plunge: Into Gorge  Fifteen Soldiers Die As Train Leaves Track

TROOP TRAIN WRECKED; 17 REPORTED DEAD   Plunges Into 50 Foot Gorge In Tennessee

TAAIN'S PLUNGE   Fifteen Soldiers, Engineer And Fireman Victims Of Mishap

17 Known Dead As Troop Train Drops 50 Feet   ‘Cars Plunge Into Gorge; Tennessee Death Toll  Seen Mounting To 40

Troop Train Is Wrecked; Many Soldiers Dead   More Than 1,000 Soldiers Just Out Of Training, Were Aboard.

13 Soldiers Die in Wreck   Engineer and Fireman Also Die as Train Goes into Gorge

Tennessee Train Smash Fatal For At Least 17; All But Two Soldiers

Bill of Rights For Soldiers About Ready   Unemployment" Pay for Year Acreed On

Senate, House  Work Today On Veterans’ Bill  fee ee. ieee Cee      Seek Compromise  On G.I. Measure

SENATE POWERJO BE TESTEL   SUBCOMMITTEE ASKS FOR LEGAL PRECEDENTS.ON RE-  FUSALS OF WITNESSES TO TESTIFY .

THREAT VOICED TO COURT-ACTION   MESA Officials Refuse T Attend WLB Hearing

Zero Weather Slows. F liers %   Bombers Hit Nuzia: In Pincer, Operation:

2 ARMADAS U.S. BOMBER’ OVER REICH   Brave Below-Zero Weather To Strike At German Targets

Nazis force Fifth army te  slight retreat Heavy raid on  Anzio positions

Allied Troops Fall Back on Beachhead   Gerinene Hint New  Anglo-U. S. - Attacks Imminent

5th Army Forced ToWithdrawFrom  Cassino Position   Mile And Half Stretch At Anzio Given Up In Nazi Raid

AMERICAN TROOPS MAKE WITHDRAWAL   Exploring Nazi Patrols Reported Active at ‘Anzio

Make ‘Slight’ Withdrawal At One Spot   Italian Troops Seize Another Hill Position Northeast of Cassino  PATROTS ARE ACTIVE

ALLIES MAKE WITHDRAWAL AT BEACHHEAD   South Of Carroceto Follow. ing Heavy German Raid; Nazis Active All Along  BRront.   Bomb Rail Yards

Allies Make Withdrawal or Anzio Front   Troops Fall Back After Heavy Raid; Mountain Near Cassino Seized

2,000 Heavies  Strike Enemy Nazi Air Bases, Other Stations Smashed

Mighty Air Support for Invasions German Air Force Bases Also Hit _

2,000 BOMBERS HIT GERMANY AGAIN TODAY   German Bases and Stations Blasted with 8,000 Tons of Rombs

2,000 ALLIED PLANES STRIKE NAZIS IN EUROPE   Airmen From England, Italy Support Troops in New French Invasion   Believe Allies May Take Easy Victory in Lower France

Allied Air Force Grounds Nazis   Raids Prevent Interference with Invasion and Battle Of Nermandy Trap

—AERIAL—  NAZIS LASHED BY AERIAL ARMADA:   Two Thousand U. §., British Bombers Blast Enemy Targets

Planes Pound Nazi Targets   2.000 Batter Germany Holland, Belgium —Aid Ground Troops

Nazis Are Raided On a Wide Front   At Least 2,000 Allied Bombers Drop Cargos  on Air Bases   ONLY TWO CRAFT LOST   Attacks Are Designed to Knock Out Hitler’s Air Forces

ALLIED BOMBERS BACK INVASIONS   2,000 U. S. and British Heayies Blast Reich From Berlin To Coast

119 German Air Force Bases Hit By Bombers   Over 2,000 Planes  Pound Reich, Holland, Relgium; Others Back South France Invasion

Aerial Fleets Pace Armies Of Invasion   Blast Steel Path on Riviera and in North; 2,000 Heavies Hit Reich

Air Fields of Nazis Bombed   2,000 Big Allied Bombers Strike to Cripple Last Strength

FIERCE NAZI ATTACKS SLOW DUREN ATTACK   Third And Seventh Armies Near Reich Frontier On 50Mile Front

German Guns Stall Foree  Near Duren   Nazi Resistance Is Concentrated Before Cologne

Fierce German Fire Stalls Yank Troops Before Duren Hinge   First Army Units Reach Flooded Roer Along 1,000-Yard Frontier; ° Seventh Army Rolls Eight Miles

Enemy Artillery Stalls Unit 2 Mi. From Duren; 3rd, 7th Near Frontier

NAZI ARTILLERY HALTS ADVANCE TOWARD DUREN   Patton’s Troops Force Blies River, Take Border Town

U.S, FIRST ARMY REAGHES ROER NEAR COLOGNE   German Artillery Stops Yanks Two Miles  From Duren

U. 8. TO EXPAND OVERSEAS FORCES TO 500,000 MEN   Stimson Says Twice Number Now Abroad Probably Will Be on Foreign Soil ‘by End of Year.   MOVEMENT WILL CLOSE MANY TRAINING CAMPS   Youngest and Physically Best Qualified to Go First— ‘Older Officers to Be Put  on Inactive List.

Many U.S. Army Camps To Close   ‘Two-Thirds Force To Go Overseas By End Of Year

MANY SOLDIERS TO BE SENT OVERSEAS   About Five Million Men Expected to be Abroad by End of Year

Army Expects Five Million — ToBeOverseas  By Next Year   Plans Then To Close Many of Its Camps And Training Stations In Continental U. S.   YOUNGEST, TOUGHEST TO BE SENT ACROSS  War Secretary Warns Against Over-Optimism Regarding Italian Push

Big Army Camps Will Be Closed   Need Grows Less, Stimson Asserts

 Many Domestic Camps to Be Shut Down  Two-Thirds of Vast American Army  Will Be Overseas by Close of 1944

Expect Five Million  Yanks Go Oversea:  Will Close Down Mam Army Camps

ARMY CLOSES UP CAMPS BY END OF YEAR   ABOUT FIVE MILLION MEN EXPECTED TO BE OVERSEAS

Maddox Announce: He Will Run For Congressman  Republican Leader Is First to Enter 1944 Race

Maddox Announces He Will Run For Congressman  Republican Leader Is First to  rit... TRAA we

Allied Planes Blast Jap Pacific Bases   150 Bombers Attack Wewak, Other Craft Hammer at Rabaul

Bombers Hit Jap Bases of Wewak,  Rabaul Again  Enemy Ammunition Ship, Freighter r .- = ee

150 PLANES HIT WEWAK: BOMB RABAUL   Catalinas Sink Ammunition Ship And Freighter In Admiralty Islands North Of New Guinea.   122 Planes Lost

LOSSES HEAVY AS JAPS HANG ON AT RABAUL   WEWAK BATTERED Gt te TONS OF BOMBS

Spearhead Is At Reims, Rouen May Fall Any Moment   Fast Moving Columns Cross Marne, Reach Beyond Troyes With Fleeing Germans In No Position To Fight Back.

Queen Contest Ends on July 10   Announce That Extension ol Time Was In Error

FORMER UNIVERSITY REGENT WAS SENATE PROBE WITNESS  J. R. PARTEN SAYS FOUR   J. R. PARTEN SAYS FOUR OLD REGENTS SHOULD RESIGN FROM BOARD

Reds Approach Budapest From the North  Other Units Reach the Central Slovakian Border

SOVIETS SMASH TMILES NORTH OF BUDAPEST   Russian Storm Troops Be lieved Fighting Inside Capital Gates   HUNGARY’S PUPPET GOVERNMENT FLEES

STORM TROOPS BELIEVED NOW IN BUDAPEST   Puppet Government Flees To Austrian Frontier Town Of Sopron

TARAWA LESSON KEEPS LOSS LOW   Marines Show How Much They Have Learned

AMERICANS RAIN NEW BLOWS ON NAZI POSITIONS   Bombers Pound Germans ir Normandy to Pave Way For Ground Gains

Hordes of Planes Smash Anew at German Positions  Airmen Blaze Trail For New Thrust At Foe in France

PLANES AGAIN SUPPORT DRIVE   Wave After Wave Smashes At German Positions On Front

Bombers Help  Yank Advances  InNew Thrust Stuttgert Ta  ad leniy  Bo ombers n Gieon

PLANES AGAIN SUPPORT U. S. DRIVE IN FORCE   Blaze Trail for New Dawn Thrust South of Vital St. Lo Highway

HEAVY AERIAL SUPPORT FOR NORMAN ARM)   U. 8. Planes In Action After R. A F. Last Night Had Made Major Assaults On Germany

U, 8. PILOTS RIP NAZIS IN FRANCE   British Continue Raids or Stuttgart, Berlin

Air Support In Normandy   500 Heavy Bombers Raid Military Targets In Vienna, Albania.

Waves of Planes Blast Yank Paths   Heavy Support Is Given U. S. Troops; More German Cities Targets for RAF

Airmen Again Pace Blaze Trail for Yankee's Advance   Stuttgart, Berlin, Bremen Strafed, Italy-Based Planes Hit Vienna Installations

Aerial Might Supports the U. S. Ist Army   Smashes From the Air Over Berlin And Austria

—ABRTAL-~   PLANES SUPPORT GROUND FORGES   Marauders And Fighter. Bombers Plaster Ger. ‘man Positions

U. S. Planes Smash Nazi — Positions    RAF Assaults Made On Stuttgart Last Nioht

Soon To Hear ‘Back The Atfack—Buy More Than Before’   Southern Governors To Greet Sec. Of Treasury Texarkana

Straddling Texarkana Ready; for Spotlight as Focal Point Of Nation's Attention Monday When 5th War [oan Regin

TEMPERATURES:   Spanish Reports Say Air  Troops Landings Deep In France

Loyal Japs Win Hearing On Return   L.A. Federal Judge Orders General to Prove Order's Legality

Three Jap Tankers Sunk, 10 Ships Hurt Also Hit Destroyer   Jap Fleet Appears Surprised and Flees U. S. Fifth Carrier Force In Third Major Engagement.

Three Enemy Tankers Sent To Bottom and 10 Warships. Damaged by U. §: Air Assault   Jap Fleet Turns Tail ond Naval Battle Fails to Materialize; U.S. Plane Attack Called Third Hardest Dealt to Japanese

Bag Of Surprise Attack Includes Airplane Carrier      Philippines Sea Action Costs U.S.N. 49 Planes

4 Jap Vessels  Reported Sunk: 9-10 Get Hits   Surprise Attack Monday Halted By Darkness;  Carrier Among Victims

YANKEE FLEET SUFFERS ONLY MINOR DAMAGE   Reports Indicate Nippons Flee To Avoid Surface Battle

ONE JAP CARIER AND 3 TANKERS SUNK BY PLANES   Third Hardest Blow at Japs Since Start  of War    AMERICAN LOSS ONLY 49 PLANES

NIP CARRIER, THREE TANKERS SUNK BY YANKS      Nine Other Ships Damaged  Before Japanese Fleet Breaks Off Action

Carrier Among Vessels Sunk  In New Action   Pursued and Located Enemy Fleet After Attack

Destroyer May Have Gone Down   Nine or Ten Other Vessels Damaged  In Plane Attacks Monday Night—Enemy Fleet, Blinded by Loss of Planes in Sunday Attack, Turns and Flees

Evade Surface Battle   Nip Fleet Turns Tail And Runs After Allied Carrier Planes Sink Or Damage 14 Vessels

Yanks Close In Upon Palau Base   Conquerors of Morotai Rush to Rebuild Fighter-Plane Bases ‘

Marine Heroes Of Guadaleanal Battling 8000  Japs in Palaus   First Division Gains 1¥ Mile Beachhead on Peleliu

BIG AIRDROME   Marine Heroes Drive Against 8,000 Japs on Peleliu Island.   WORK ON MOROTAI BASES

MOROTAI ISLE IS IN HANDS OF ARMY   Capture Of Peleliu Would Unlock Other Islands   U.S, LOSSES   Reduced By Overwhelming Air And Naval Support: Japs Surprised

U.S. Marine leroesPush On Against 8,000 Japs   Yanks Are Closing In On Airdrome  On Palaus

Hold Fitm Beachhead On Peleliu   Marines Hurl Back — Enemy Counterblows To Close On Airfield; Ready Morotai Strip

Net Tightens ‘On Philippines   Marine Veterans of Guadalcanal Hurl Back Japs to Strengthen Beachhead; Davao Faces New Menace From Morotai   STORM CAUSING DAMAGE IN CANADA; U.S. TOLL, 39 DEAD, MILLIONS IN LOSSES

DRIVE AGAINST IAP TROOPS AT BIG AIRDROME   Americans Maneuvering Within Plane Range Of Philippines

BIG AIROROME ‘ON PELELIU   Marines Hurl Back Coun‘. ter-Attacking Nip Soldiers and Tanks to Gain Mile - and -'a - Half - Long  . Reachhead.

MARINE HEROES DROVE AGAINST ‘R000 JAPANESE   Closed in.on a Big Airdrom on Teleliu inthe Invaded Palaus.   515 MILES OF DAVAO   Even Nearer That City Yanks Worked Feverishly on an Air Base.

Japs Staging Furious Fight To Hold Palau   MacArthur Legions Overrun Morotai, Win All Obiectives

Marine Heroes Of Guadalcanal Leading Attack   Counter-Attacks Throwr Back; Ring Closing On Philippines

Marines Close On Important Base In  Fierce Palau Fight   Yanks On Morotai Work Feverishly To Get Air Fields In Shape For Blows At Philippines; American Losses Held Down By Air, Sea Coverage

Guadalcanal Vets Battle 8,000 Japs   Furious Battle Being Waged for Airdrome On Palaus Island

CLOSE IN ON JAP AIRDROME WITHIN 515 Mi. OF DAVAO   YANK CONQUERORS OF MOROTAI WORK ON NEW AIR BASES

Marines Drive Against 8,000 Furious Japs   Close In On Airdrome As Other Yanks Worl Feverishly On Fighter Plane Bases Nearby

Battle For Bases Nears Philippines   Marines Closing in on Airdrome 515 Bomber Miles  of Davao   BEACHEAD ON PELELIU   MacArthur Announces All Objectives Won on Is~ land of Morotai

Peleliu’s Airdrome Objective of Drive by Yankee Marines   8,000 Japanese Fight Furiously to Hold Strategic Field

8,000 Japs on Peleliu Resist U.S. Invaders   Morotai Airbase. Already Taken. Menaces Principal Philippines City

Closing On  Airdrome at Peleliu   Marines Heroes of the Guad_alcanal Battle Drive Against 8,000 Japs   COUNTER ATTACKS HURLED BACK   , MacArthur’s Forces on Morotai Hard at Work on Airfields

Yanks Advance -Foward—Drome On Peletin Isle   Capture Would Eliminate Great Jap Naval Bases Allied Attack Sites Built

MARINES CLOSE IN ON PALAU AIRBASE TODAY   Work Feverishly To Construct  Landing Field

Furious Battle Being Fought For Palau Isle   Counterattacks Are Hurled Back By Marine Fighters

Nips on Morotai Conquer: eds Rush Work on Airfield “Within Plane  Range of Mindanao

Heavy Fighting ls Reported in Palau Islands   Morotai Conquest Ends; Invading Yanks Build Airdromes Quickly

Yanks Close “in on Palau Airdrome   Battle 8,000 Japs On Pelelin Island,  » Widening Beachhead; Morotai le Won

OTEEL-TIPPED U. 5. COLUMNS PLUNGING TOWARD CAPITAL  SWIFT ENVELOPMENT OF BRITTANY COST GERMANS 16,700 MEN

Yanks Menacing Rail Center 100 Miles From Paris   Soviets Topple Oil Center in Southern Poland

Strong Tank Forces Drive Upon Capital   British Surge Forward Russians Make Headway

Germans Shell  ‘Allied Held Areas Of Florence, Italy; U. S. Planes Active

Reds Repulse Nazi Attacks   Negro Drowns Body Still Sought   Harold B. Wright Claimed by Death

COURT FINES PINK, RAVITCH IN CIGAR DEAL   Mike Michalko, Baroda To Serve 214 Years For Mail Theft

You Can't Dig A Foxhole In [he Water: —By William F. Frye  Infantrymen And Fighting Ducks Do The Job

3 Biggest Allied Powers Backing Post- War Plans   Indians And Egyptians Disappointed Over Some Decisions

Federal Judge  M. E. Otis Dies   Passing After A Heart Attack Few Weeks Ago

DEATH CLAIMS FEDERAL JUDGE   Merril E. Otis, Kansas City, Who Sentenced Pendergast, Dies at 60

JUDGE OTIS DIES   Had Been Federal Judge for Western Missouri  Since 1925

DEWEY NEW DEALER IS IGKES’ CHARGE   Throws Sponge in Ring After Diaper, Ickes Tells 7,000

OxE COLUMN SMASHING TOWARD ORLEANS, 63 MILES BELOW CITY    GERMANS SO DISORGANIZED, AMERICAN ARMOR ROAMING AROUND ALMOST AT WILL; BRITISH AND CANADIANS CONTINUE TO GAIN ON NORTHERN APPROACH TOWARD PARIS.

Americans In France Are Going Ahead   London Newspapers Say Yanks Are Just. Outside Defense Zone Of Paris

Orleans And Chartres Are Next Objectives lf Not Already Taken   Official Headquarters Find Germans Disorganized and Remain Silent As to Distance from Paris

Thomas Dewey Tests Fortune In California   Luckily Unhurt In Train Wreck, GOP Nominee Prepares For New Blows.   HILLMAN TAKES RAP

DEWEY, UNINJURED IN TRAIN WRECK, T0 GO SAN FRANCISCO  PORTLAND SPEECH CHARGED “QUARRELING,

France Declared Free of Pacts   Gen. De Gaulle Issues Surprise Statement

EDEN SEEKS NEW T POWER CONTACT   Assures House British Bayonets Will Not Impose a King on Greeks; Talk Eases Political Disputes

CONTROVERSY EASED BY TALK BY CHURCHILL   Insists U. S., Britain. Reds in Agreement On General Aims

Britain Not Foreing King On Greece. Eden Says   Foreign Minister Defends Chief in Debate On Policy at Commons Session; Says Allies Should Have Acted Earlier

WON'T IMPOSE KING ON GREECE, EDEN DECLARES   Political Controversy Eased; Roosevelt Confirms Rift Among Big Three Powers

Eden Staves Off Vote of Censure  On Greek Policy   Tells Parliament That Britain Is Not Trying To Reinstate King

Eden Wants Conferences By Foreign Ministers   Parliament Assured Britain Has No Plaus For Imposing King On People of Greece  CHURCHILL HEARD

THREE- POWER MEETS URGED IN EDEN TALK   British Official! Seeks Agreement on Aims . of Nations

Eden Assures Commons British Bayonets Will Not Impose a King on the Greek People  Prime Minister Churchill Gives Partial Confirmation to Reports That There Are Differences Amona Bic Three

Mt. Vesuvius Goes Completely Wacky; Lava Flow Menaces Three Coastal Towns

GREAT VOLCANO GOES COMPLETELY HAYWIRE  — o > - . * - . +. Sudden Shift Of Mt. Vesuvius Lava Flow Perils 3 Italian Coastal Towns; Kear Cone Mav Burst Soon

Mt. Vesuvius Lava Flow Threatening Three More  Cities With Destruction

Lava Flow Menaces Three  Italian Towns   Mt. Vesuvius Has Gone Erratic; No Lives Lost Thus Far

F lowing Lava Menaces Towns   Coastal Population Threatened By Volcano

WORST CONDITION IN CENTURIES NOW EXISTS AT MOUNT   Three Coastal Cities of 86,000 Menaced By Sudden Lava Flow Shift.

Vv esuvius Goes Haywire, More Towns Threatened   Lava Flow Shifts as Experts Warn Cone Liable To Blow Of Momentarily

MI. VESUVIUS IN OTH DAY OF ACTION   Threatening Three More Italian Towns With Destruction.

Delay Draft Of “Needed” Men Past 26   Selective Service Officials Act to Take Younger Men

Order Halts Draft of Men 26 And Over   Military Need For ‘Younger’ Recruits Cited

Boards To Delay Drafting Essential Men Of Over 26  New Order Is Issued Saturday By Selective Service Director Hershey From Washinaton

British Seize Emieville in Push on Paris   Americans Force Seves River, Stop Counterattack:

Allies Advancing In Normandy on Road to Paris   German Attacks All Beaten Off

BRITISH ADVANCE INNORMANDY PUSt   Drive East of Caen. Re. _ sumed as Weather Improves

DRIVE RESUMED, ALLIED FORCES TAKE EMIEVILLE   German Counter-Attacks Are Beaten Back After Weather Improves   MALTOT AND SEVES PREVIOUSLY TAKEN

Allied Troops Resume Push in Normandy   British Tommies Clear Nazis From Emieville

British Capture Emieville In Their Push Toward Pari:   Allied Staff Officers Estimate Nazi Casualties Since D-Day at 156,000; Yanks Force River and Seize Village

As Weatther Sharply Re. duces Air Offensive: AILITES TAKE EMIER. ville From Germans.

British Tommies Clear Germans From Emieville, Five Miles From Caen, Enemy Continues To Retreat

MARINE FIGHTER  PILOT REALIZES HE  BE GROUNDED SOON MAJOR BOYINGTON, 30,  HAS RECORD OF 26 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN

BOMBING PRINCIPAL LAID DOWN BY “IKE   Eisenhower Order Dec. 29 Said Lives Count More Than Buildings.

Six States Count Votes After Primary   ClO- Endorsed Candidate Wins In Massachusetts

SIX STATES PRIMARIES SHOW LIVELY RACES IN COMING FINAL   RENOMINATIONS IN OKLAHOMA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS HIGHLIGHT DEMOCRAT VOTE

Early Primary Trends Holding   * Oklahomans Name "Senator Thomas Who Had Two Opponents

Numerous Hilltop Strong: holds Snatched From  the Germans  . GAIN OF THREE MILES      Heavy Fighting Continues; Counter-Blows Beaten

400, 000 GERMAN CASUALTIES IN  NORTHERN FRANCE; 25 DIVISIONS DESTROYED, 18 BADLY MAULED

GERMAN CASUALTIES IN FRANCE SINCE D-DAY TOTAL 400,000; 25 DIVISIONS ARE DESTROYED

400.000 Nazis  Are Casualties   kisenhower Reports On Huge Lists From France Since June 6

_ Eisenhower Reports 400,000 Casualties Intlicted On Germans Since June 6

Allies Inflict Huge Casualties On Hitler Forces   Eisenhower Report Places the Enemy’s Losses in Northern  France at 400.000

400,000 Nazi Casualties In North France; Allies Lose 3.000 Planes And 900 Tanks

25 German Divisions Destroyer   Allies Have  Inflicted More Than 400,000 Casualties on Nazis Since D-Day   2,378 AIRCRAFT ALSO DESTROYED   More Than 1,000 Tanks and 20,000. Motor Transports Captured or Destroyed

‘Allies Inflicted 400,000 Casualties on Germans in North France Since D-Day

SINCE D-DAY TOP 400,000   Eisenhower Asks Continu: ed Flow of Supplies ! To Allied Armies

ioe Casualties  Up To 400,000   Destroy 25 Enemy Divisions.  Severe Mauling Of 18 Since D-Day.

Enemy Flees Before Great Allied Armies   British Troops Make Swift Gains In North France

FOUR GERMAN ARMIES ALMOST DESTROYED IN WESTERN FIGHTING  GEN. EISENHOWER GIVES  RrRorAANn TT Mat BIA Ter

EISENHOWER SAYS 24 ENEMY DIVISIONS DESTROYED AND 18 OTHERS BADLY MAULED

25 DIVISIONS DESTROYED ON WESTERN LINE   18 More Divisions Badly Mauled, General Eisenhower Declares in Report Made Today

400,000 NAZI CASUALTIES IN FRANCE LISTED   Eisenhower Says 25 Divisions Destroyed; Allies Ahead Of Schedule

Allies Have Inilicted More Than 400,000 Casualties — On the Nazis Since D-Day

Allies Inflict 400,000 Casualities in North   American Losses Increased 23,249 In Week of Severe Battle for Victory

ENEMY LOSSES TREMENDOUS IN NORTH FRANCE   25 Nazi Divisions Destroyed, 18 Others Battered by Allied Armies

Eisenhower Reports 400, 000 Casualties  Inflicted on Nazis   25 Enemy Divisions Destroyed,  18 Others Severely Mauled Since D-Day, Report Shows

25 Enemy Divisions Destroyed   German Casualties Since D-Day Are More Than 400,000, Is Report Of General Eisenhower

YANKS SEIZE ST. DIZIER IN EASTERN PUSH   Allied Advances Mushroom All Over Battlefields of First World War Denying Nazis Any Rest   EXCEEDING SCHEDULE

Gets Five Planes In Single Flight   Illinois Fighter Pilot Chalks Up New Mark

JOHN WILSON ASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME   Pioneer Resident Tak. en By Death Tuesday Night

Truck Strike Gets Worse   Roosevelt May Order ..ODT to Take Over Strike-Bound Lines

Lyttleton Apologizes ToCommons   BRITISH MINISTER OF PRODUCTION EXPLAINS WHAT HE MEANT BY SAYING LEND LEASE FORCED JAPAN,   Furure in Capitol

 Statement By Lyttleton  Stir 's Congr ess   Briton Apologizes For Saying America Not Forced into War   War Left Rome Quickly Behind; Human Pests Were Everywhere

Brest, Which Fell After 46 Days Of Siege, A Picture Of Desolation   Besieged Germans Took Refuge In U-Boat Pens In Final Days; German Nurse Declares  Siege Of Allies Was Terrible.

Brest Left Picture Of Desolation   German Commander Fled Before Surrender; Most of Buildings Demolished

Fallen Brest Scene of Desolation; U.S. Engineers Surveying Damage

Brest Wrecked by Allied Siege Prisoner. Toll “Mounts ‘to 35, 000

‘Battered Brest, Now Allied-Held, Is i Picture of Utter Desolation, Ruin

Myriads of Allied Bombers Hit Reich   Captured Brest Picture Of War's Desolation

Majority of Buildings in Famous Port Cit Demolished by Heavy Allied Attacks, Present Picture of Desolation and Ruin

Allies Now Hold Brest But Port City ils a Picture of Desolation and Ruin

BREST SHOWS DAMAGE FROM AIR ASSAULTS   Port Is Picture of Desolation; U. S. Engineers Commence Work

 + of + French Civilians Find Nothing to Return ‘To in Battered Brest   Majority of Buildings in Famous Port City Demolished by Heavy Allied Attacks, Present Picture of Desolation and Ruin

BREST A PICTURE OF DESOLATION ‘AND RUIN  Big French Port Falls To Allies

Brest Is Picture Of Ruin   Thousands Of Nazis Come Out Of Sub Pens To Surrender To Allied Forces

Churchill Lists British Casualties   Merchant Seamen,  Civilians Not Included

Re RrO UTES a Sct eae eke: AMIS hee Ee   British War Losses High

BRITISH LOSSES IN WAR 667,199   Casualties So Far About One-Fifth Of Those In World War I

158,741 BRITISH KILLED IN WAR   CASUALTIES TOTAL 667,159, CHURCHILL INFORMS COMMONS

BritishEmpire loses. 667,159 In War to Date   Casualties One-Fifth of Thosein First World War

British Join In Mour ning  Loss Ot Knox   Funeral Will Be Held Monday With Burial In Arlington

Kniox Burial * *  ee Tks  ‘In Ar ington   Rites in Capital ’ ‘Church to Precede Military Cortege to Grave

Gen. Patton Speech Draws Critical Comment in Capital   Senators Say Foreign  Policy Talk Should Be Left. Up to Hull

Patton Speech Arouses Capital  Senators Critical Of Latest Outburs?

Patton Talk Draws Firein Washingtor   G.0.P. Senators Say Gen: eral “Should Be Taken Off Stump”

Senators Ired by Patton's Remark U. S., Britain, Russia Destined to Rule World

Take Patton Off Stump, Is Demand Of GOP Solons   Says US, British Destined To Rule

Kingsley Couple Married Tuesday  Bernice Flammang And Josevh Timmin:

Yuaoslavs Take Western Bosnia   Partisans Report Major Victories

Freezing Weather to Extend Over Kansas   Temperatures Tonight Expected to Reach a Low of 30 Dearees

Rise of U.S. Public Debt Is Halted Temporarily by Big December Receipts

SAILORS ARE GUESTS AT WHITE HOUSE TEA   First Lady ls Hostess To Four Back from Convoy

Two-Way Blast of Axis Europe Launched Again   Southeastern Portion of Continent Hit _ By Large U.S. Fleet _

Planes Meet Opposition Over Europe   Widespread Attacks Pound Nazi Bases With Great Blows

Bombers Lash Budapest Area   Railway Yards in Yugoslavia Also Hit

‘Roosevelt Will Have Chance Next Week To Restore Harmony With Southerners

nies Demos’ Third Party Threat av End at White House ‘Social’   NO. 15—

White House Plans "Social" Next Week To Placate Feelings of Dixie Democrats

F.R. to Get Chance to Restore Party Harmony Among Southern Demo:  ee a ee a en

President Will Get Chance to End Southern Quarrel  Social Event Is Seen As Chance for Effort Toward Truce

Roosevelt To Placate South With A “Social”   Southern Governors Meeting To Discuss Demand For Freight Rate Equality.

PLAN SOCIAL TO  HEAL PARTY RIFT   TO MEET ROOSEVELT   SOUTHERN ae AT THE WHITE HOUSE

‘SOCIAL’ PLANNED FOR WHITE HOUSE   FR to Have Opportunity of Restoring Harmony in Demo Ranks.

Southern Democrats’ Third Party Threat May End At Governors Social At White House

PRESIDENT WO0S DIXIE LEADERS   White House “Social” Planned For Visiting Southern Governors Next Week.

White House Calls Democrats To Conference   “Social” Planned For Southerners To Seek Harmony

uthernersPoland Seen ry Get Glad Getting Repl; ind Of FDR For Russian:

GROUP OF SOUTHERN GOVERNORS TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT  WHITE HOUSE “SOCIAL”   WHITE HOUSE “SOCIAL” MAY RESTORE HARMON} IN DEMOCRATIC RANKS

White House Will Try To Soothe. South   ‘Social’ To Attempt To. Calm “Storm In Ranks Of ‘South's "Beading Democrats:

HARMONY WITH SOUTH EXPECTED THROUGH SOCIAI   Third Party Move May Be Stopped  By NORMAN WALKER

Placating South Roosevelt Task  Plans White House "Social" for Governors

Marshalls Island Falls in Smash   AUSSIES BREAK THROUGH JAPANESE DEFENSES ON NEW GUINEA; RABAUL ROCKS IN NEW AIR SMASH; U. S. TROOPS SWARM OVER ISLETS

U. S. Marines Take Namur Island  In Marshall Drive   Americans Wipe Out Enemy Troops in North Portion of Atoll; Several Other Isles Stormed and Captured, Nimitz Says

Battle Rages For Control Of Kwajalein   Enemy Losses On Island Are Set at High Mark

PITTSBURGH HIT BY WALKOUTS IN UTILITY PLANTS   Power Facilities of Duquesne Light Company May Be Forced Into idleness,

PITTSBURG FACES 'WPB TO CONTINUE UTILITY STRIKE NEWSPRINT PLAN   eneral Walkout Threatened Chairme Ta End Deadlock Ste

FINLAND WEIGHS F.0D, RS APPEAL   “We Regret It Wasn't Made Three Days Earlier,” Finn Leaders Say.

Finns Study F.R. Appeal   Spokesman for Foreign Office Regrets Statement Not Made Earlier

FINLAND MOVED BY FOR'S PLEA   But Hope for Peace Fades as Reply Sent To Russia

FINNS CONSIDER FOR’S APPEAL   Believe Decision Reached by Finland Officials

Savs Finns Te Consider FDR’s Plea   Regret It Wasn't Mad: Three Days  Earlier

aA FDR PLEATOO LATE   Parliament. Reaches Decision In Negotiations With. Russia

Trujillo Out For Congress  a Bs Oe   Secretary to Senalor Cutting for & Years

Bridgehead Gained Near Bagnacavallo   Canadians: Expand Foothold: 1,500 Yards West of Canal

Sixth War Loan Bond Box Score   Allies Near Road Center In Po Valley

TAKING OF RAIL HUB CUTS HOLE IN GERMAN LINE   Russians Expected to Reach Prut River Line Within Matter of Days

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.      Rail Junetion Cz

REELING NAZIS. THROWN OUT OF BLACK SEA BASE   Bessarabia Armies Split

Russians 20 Wiles Of Prut   Defense Post 55 Miles of Lwow Is Outflanked Today

Soviets Smash at  Black See   GERMAN HOPE OF STAND NORTH OF PRUT FADES IN ONSLAUGHT

Victory Blasts Another Gap In German Lines AJong Middle Bug   Drive Continues Across Bessarabia   Fall Of Parvomaishk Leaves Foe Without East-West Railroad Line

GERMANS BEING PUSHED OFF OF BALTIC COASTS   Capture of Tallinn Enables Rus  sians Once Again to Operate Combat Fleet on Baltic.

RED BALTIC FLEET PREPARES FOR COMBAT CRUISE: SOVIET TROOPS AGAIN CROSS VISTULA

MORE RUSSIANS CROSS RIVER IN WARSAW DRIVE   Poles Report Hard Fighting On Vistula’s West Bank; Reds Seize Tallinn

CAPTURE OF TALLINN OPENS WAY SOVIET FLEET IN BALTIC  FAR TO SOUTH IN BALKANS RED ARMIES PUSH TOWARD HUNGARY

Battling On Vistula At Warsaw   Russians Again Crossing River in Heavy Fighting, Poles Report   PRESSURE ON RIGA ALSO INCREASED   Tallinn Captured and Red Fleet Prepares for Combat in Baltic

NAZI HOLD ON BALTIC RIPPED   Reds Take Estonian Capital; Hit Outer Defenses of Riga

Russian Troops Gain Control Of Gulf Of Finland   Nazis Forces In Baltic Area Periled By Reds Capture Of Tallinn

POLES ATTACI NAZI FORCES FROM REAR   Tallinn’s Fall Ends German Hold On Baltics   SOVIET FLEET   Clearing Channel For Use; Pressure On Riga Is Steadily Increased

Plan Is to Seal: Off Nazi _ Troops. in Lower . Balkans       NAZI: RAIL ESi ESCAPE ROUTES ARE CUT   Junction With. the Rus. sian Forces. Is Ex..  . pected 

Berlin Reports Paratroopers At Wageningen   British Second Ar mv Extends Salient On South Rhine Bank West Arnhem.

Morotai Conquest Easy   Marines Make Ready Airstrips for Coming Philippine Push

Cardinals Lead; 1-0, In the 4th   Lanier and Potter Hook Up In Brilliant Mound Duel

Potter Faces Lanier In 2nd Game; Sun Shines After Ratn   Browns Go Up Against Sore-Armed Southpaw Whe Lost Last 7 Games

CARDINALS LEAD AT END OF FOURTH    National League Club Scores Run { ona Hit and Two Errors   Score at end of seventh inning Cardinals, 2, Browns. 2.

Browns Kindle Enthusiasm of Baseball Fans   Nelson Potter to Go For Browns as Cards Rest Their Hopes on Left Arm of Max Lanie:

Phone Strike ‘Called Off By ~ Union Chief:   Leaders Bow to Orders of War Labor Board After Case Handed Over to White House—Long. Distance Calls Held Un

Telephone Strike Called Off After War Labor Board Turns Dispute Over to FD

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OPERATORS ARE ORDERED 10 60 BACK TO WORK   Leaders Of Ohio Anc Washington Unions End Telephone Walkout   STRIKE REFERRED TO VINSON FOR ACTION

Allied Aircraft Lost Put at 70   17 Fighters Included in Official Figures Announced — Over 13,000 Sorties Flown During First 24 Hours of Invasion of Continent.   COMMAND OF SKIES

FROM MAN'S CHEST   ARMY SURGEONS RISK’ LIVES IN PERFORMING OPERA-: TION ON DOUGHBOY. ~-

One Bomber-One Cruiser   Single Liberator Blows Up Heavy Jap Cruiser, Sinks Destroyer

Jap Cruiser Is Blown Up In China Sea      Blast Nearly Wrecks Raiding B-24 Liberator

B-24 Sinks Two Ships 45 Minutes   Spectacular Feat Performed Against Japs Off Formosa.

Bomber Sinks  Jap Cruiser   Single Liberator Bags Destroyer in Attack On Enemy Convoy

14th AAF Sinks Two Jap Ships   Coordinated Blow With Nimitz Task Force Off Formosa Hits Hong Kong

2 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK BY SINGLE LIBERATOR   Low-Level Attack Made On Formosa-Bound Convoy

 Plane Sinks ) Nip Ships   Lone B-24 Breaks Up Formosa-Bound Japanese Sea Force

JAP DESTROYER, CRUISER SUNK — BYLIBERATOR   Single B-24 Based In China Attacks Convoy Bound For Fermosa

$130,000,000,000 Needed — Wallace   Income Required to Pay Debt and Give Full Employment

'U.S. Income Must Stay High, Claim $130 Billion Figure To  Re Needed—wWallace

Irish Voters Back De Valera Party   Scores Biggest Political Victory

Pay Increase Doesn't Settle Wage Issue   WLB Promises To Seek Way Around Wage Barrier.

Wage Award Preserves Steel Plan   Follows Framework of ‘Fonnula But Search For Ways Around Will Int-nsify 

Payoff For CIO Backing Sc Per Hour   WLB MAKES FRIENDLY GESTUR: TO ROOSEVELT BACKERS, BU VINSON AND OPA MUST APPROVE   Little Steel Stands

MAIN WAGE ISSUE 1S STILL UNSETTLED   Steel Pay Award Leaves Formula Question Open

PAY FORMULA KEPT IN AWARD TO STEEL MEN   Workers Given More Money, But No Hike In Basic Wages

DROP BOMBS ON WAKE    American Fliers Drap 44 Tons of Explosives on Island .

Flames Drive Girl Students From Dormitory   Causes Estimated  $50.000 Damage

GOTHIC LINE PIERCED AT THREE POINTS      Paves Way for Allied Drive To Bologna.

German Gothic Line in Italy ls Penetrated  Way Prepared for Allied Drive ee ee

WEDGE DRIVEN IN GOTHIC LINE   Crack Nazi Defenses A! Three Key Points

EIGHTH ARMY PENETRATES GOTHIC LINE   British, Poles Drive 1000 Yard Wedge Into Line

Vaunted Gothic Line Penetrated  At Three Points   Wave Paved For Drive Up 20-Mile Wide Corridor In Italy

ALLIES DRIVE THREE WEDGES IN GOTHIC LINE      Pave Way For Drive Up 20 Mil Wide- Corridor In Ttaly .

Allies Smash Thru Italy Gothic Line   British, Poles Pave Way for Biq Drive

Nazis’ Gothic Line Cracked   Way Paved for Push Up Adriatic Coast

Nelson And Hurley Meet With Chiang   Nelson Says They’re To See How Can Lick Japan Soon As Possible

FOURTEEN TOWNS CAPTUREN   Yugoslav Partisans Are Helping the Allied Cause

[FOURTEEN TOWNS CAPTURED   Yugoslay Partisans Are Helping Boe : the Allied Cause s

NEW BOMBERS NEARLY READY 70 HIT JAPAN   ARMY AIR FORCE CHIEF SAYS SUPER-BOMBERS TO BLAST JAPS FROM CHINA BASES

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Big Guns Fire Across Border For First Time   U. §. Third Army Now in Luxembourg

Yanks Drive _ Closer to. : Sieofried Line   Push. into Luxembourg Tn General Advance <Toward German Border

Luxembourg Is Invaded As Many-Pointed Allied Offensive Sweeps Ahead   Nazis Fear Drive Aimed at Rhineland’s Vital Industria! Region; U. S. Forces Meet Stiffer Resistance on Moselle; Reds Push Toward Hungary

American First Army and British Second Army Drive Opening Wedge Into Luxembourg to  Highlight Eastern March.

First Army Units Press Deeper Into Ardennes Forest, Lay Down Artillery Barrage at Aachen

Other Americans Move Deeper Into Ardennes Forest; No Serious  Opposition to Ist Army

U.S. Ist Army Pushing Ahead East of Liege   Links Up With British, Nears Aachen, Drives Wedge Into Luxembourg; 3rd Army in Fierce Battle

American First Army Joins Forces With British Second On Albert Canal   LUXEMBOURG FREED, ’ REPORT DECLARES

Allies March Eastward To: ward Reich on Wide z Front re!  BATTLE IS RAGING — ON SOUTHERN FRONT.  New Crossing .o of Moselle Forced South of Metz

BRAIN EXPERT CALLED TO RETREAT OF HITLER  - Rumors Heard in London Report Fuehrer Is Hiding Out in Castle

HITLER MAY HAVE BRAIN EXAMINATION   Reported in Seclusion Near Berchtesgaden

Seclusion Of Hitler Stirs Speculation   Said Examined By Brain Specialist

HITLER REPORTED TLL IN HIDEOUT   BRAIN SPECIALIST SAID TO HAVE BEEN CALLED TO TREAT FUEHRER.

Hitler Said Consulting Brain Doctor   UNAUTHORITATIVE STORY HAS RELIABLE BACKING OF FUEHRER’S RETIREMENT

Farm Bureau And 4-H Clubs Give Program  Campaign Results Celebrated At Joint Meeting

Farm Bureau And 4-H Clubs  Give Program  Campaign Results Calahus 4,,] A ZL

Push Nose of German Salient Further Back   In Northern Corner Signs Increase that Von  Rundstedt Is Preparing for New Blow at Yanks

Third Army Hammers At Flank   Signs Indicate Enemy Massing On North Corner

THIRD ARMY HAMMERS AT SOUTH FLANK   indicate Rundstedt Building Up Forces For New Offensive

Patton's Army Pounds Flank Of Nazi Bulge   Threat To Meuse River Line Lifted: Allies Get Set For New Offensive

Believe Rundstedt Is Building Up Forces For Second Phase Of Drive

U.S. Forces Aiming To Trap Foe, Narrow Neck Of Salient To 15 Miles   Germans Pull Back To Rochefort; Signs of Build-Up For New Nazi Breakthru Seen

First And Third Armies Speed Toward Each Other As Nazis Regroup Forces

FIRST, THIRD ARMIES DRIVE TO WITHIN 1% MILES OF JUNCTION   Yanks Pound Deep Into Flanks Of Belgium Bulge; Nazis Reel Back From Meuse To Escape Possible Disaster

Yanks Still Pounding at Enemy Lines   Patton’s Army Strikes Hard Blows at South Flank of Salient

LIFT CURRENT PERIL TO YANK MEUSE LINE   Patton Hammers Enemy Flank

NAZI SALIENT IN PINCERS OF ALLIED ARMIES   American Ist and 3rd Bite Deeply Into Flanks of Enemy on West Front.   BULLETIN

PATTON D HEAVY BLOWS TOAUNOSTEDT   Americans Lift Meuse Threat and Seek to Entrap Nazis in Bulge.

End Threat To Meuse River Line   PATTON’S MEN GAIN GROUND IN THE SOUTH; NORTHERN CORNER NAZI SALIENT  STILL DANGEROUS

Nazis Believed Grouping Units For Another Push   Patton’s Fighting Third Army Cracks Into Under Flank of Enemy Bulge

German Flanks Hacked   Allies Expecting Germans to Stert New Offétisive

CAPTURE OF ROME BRINGS NEW LOSS OF PRESTIGE TO NAZIS WHOSE ARMIES FACE DESTRUCTION   Ejection of German Hordes from Eternal City Without Serious Damage to Ancient and Historie Sites Follows Prayers from Parts of the World

EJECTION OF HUNS FROM ROME — WILL BE ACCEPTED GUARANTEE OF COMING EATE HITLER FUROPE

«kK Kk Kk Japs’ Blackest Month   By HOWARD HANDLEMAN  Representing the Combined Allied Press. (Distributed by the Assoclated Press.)

Blackest Month in Japan’s Military History Is Drawing to a Close Today

Blackest Month In Jap History Nearing Close   U. S. Conquest Of Eniwetok Is Practically Over

Japs Trapped On Parry Island Wait For Death As We Close In   February Blackest Month In Nippon’s Military History, Says Admiral Hill, U.S Commander

Japs On Parry Await Death Like Condemned Men  Blackest Month In Japs’ History Nearing Close

Blackest Month In Japan’s Military History Draws To Glose As Allies Storm Parry Island

STARS AND STRIPES FLOAT OVER ENIWETOK   Enemy On Parry Island Grimly Await Knd

GUT INTAX > 1$- OPPOSED   GEORGIA SENATOR, ADVO: ‘CATES REDUCTION OF DEBT “BEFORE TAXATION .»

Americans Quickly Secure Beachhead and Supplies Start Rolling Ashore in Preparation for Showdown Battle With 225,000 Enemy Troops — General MacArthur Goes Along Aboard Warship.

Yank Landings Announced by Gen. M’ Arthur   Beachheads Won on Leyte in Drive to Split Jap Defenders of Islands; Men and Supplies Roll Ashore

Makes Good Vow He Would Gome Back; Seizes Coast Of Leyte   Pours Supplies Ashore In Preparation Foi Showdown Battle W ith :     000 Japanese

Americans in Position to Cut Islands in Two; Sea and Air Forces Assist Sixth Army

Sixth Army Leads Drive   Beachheads Firmly Held And Supplies  ~ Rall Achore: Ninos Crossed Up Again

Heavy Air AndNaval Bombarg. ments Precede Landings, Communique Says _

Tacloban Won With Small Casualties In Large Scale Amphibious Operation   LANDING PRECEDED BY IHEAVY BOMBARDMENT

‘Heavy Air And Naval Bombardments Precede Landings, Communique Savs

‘Yanks Seize  East Coast of Leyte Island, ‘General Says   Island Is Situated Where It Cuts Off Mindanao in South From Luzon in North  wWac CNnon ater Pager

Landings Made For Showdown With Jap Army   Half Million Japs Reported Cul Off

American Aerial Invasion of Philippines Con tinues, Says Gen. Max Arthur; Landing Sup posed to Have Been o: Suluan Island.

13-MILE LUNGE BY ALLIES; KEY CITIES BAGGED   Patton Columns Within 27 Miles o! Parisian Suburbs and Me¢ting Only Slight Resistance.

Patton Within 22 Miles © Of Paris; Nazis Reported Preparing to Yield City

Orleans Fall Cuts France In Middle  Canadians L Lash. Qut In Northern Thrust.

City at Mercy of Yanks   One American Column Reported But 21 Miles Away

Last Natural Defenses Tumble as Two Rivers Crossed: Falaise Taken

Patton Plunges Through Orleans, Chartres; Canadians Forge New Seine Trap

GERMANS MAY ABANDON CITY WITHOUT FIGHT   Orleans’ Fall Cuts France

Front Reports hint City to Be Abandoned   Fighting Is Heavy Around Suburban Town of Arnoult

Patton’s Columns Are in St. Arnoult; Versailles Attacked   Germans May Declare First City of France “Open”; Correspondent Reports Little German Activity There

LIMITED NUMBER OF CASINGS TO BE RELEASED STARTING IN OCTOBER, RATION  . 0 CWKEF SAYS:

» NEW RATIONING CHIEF TELLS OF ” FACTORY GAINS   Production Expected To Pass 2,000,000 Monthly in Last Quarter   NECESSITY IS TO RULE   All Drivers, However, May Be Able To Buy Rubber in Coming Year

Tires for ‘A’ Drivers Seen This Autumn   Suspension of Rubber Rationing Remote,  Chief Declares

NAZIS IN WILD ~ FLIGHT, TOSNO FALL EXPECTER   Rel Army Is Near Capture of Another Rail Point in New Drive

RED VICTORY AT TOSNO IS IMMINENT   Germans, Who Besieged Leningrad 29 Months, Flee Wildly

German Troops In Leningrad Area In Retreai   Moscow Report Says Besiegers Of Leningrad For 29 Months Now Fleeing   MORE RAIL TOWNS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS

Toy Rocket: Explodes; Boy Loses: Hand   Thomas Gardiner Trfured in Model Plane Experiments

Russians Near Finn Seaport: Defenses Fall  Prediction Made Finnish Cabinet To Be Revamped

Russian Siege Guns ‘Pound Finnish Port   Viipuri Is Battered by Soviets Only Nine Miles Away: Drive Gathers Speed

RUSSIAN GUNS SHELL VIIPURI   Reds Turn Heavy Artillery on Chief Finnish City; Troops ‘Draw: Near.

BIG GUNS POURING ~ SHELLS ON VIIPURI   Red Army Is Only Nine Miles From the Finnish Seaport

Reds Turn Big Guns On Viipur!   Russian Fleet Units Add Weight to Land Drive On City; Block Finn Escane Rv Sea

SOVIETS WITHIN SIGHT OF VIIPURI   Red Army Only Nine Miles From Finn Post

Russians Open Fire on Viipuri   Big Guns Pour Salvo After Salvo Into Big Finnish Port

Russians © Seven Miles ‘From Viipuri   Finn, Defenses  Collapsing  —Red Fleet Assists In Bombardment

\ lipuri Shelled by Advancing Reds   Finnish Seaport Is Just Ahead of SwiftlyAdvancing Soviet Army

Stockholm Hints Viipurils Taken   Says Reliable Reports Indicate Finns Have Yielded City to Russians— Moscow Places Red Army Nine Miles Away But.Pushing Ahead.   BIG GUNS POUND PORT

PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS OF WORLD WAR  VETERANS   President Roosevelt Today Signed Bill Which Also Includes Children.   IS TO COST $37,000,000      The Pension Provides Up to $74 a Month for Families.

Pension Bill Is Approved   ~ Veterans’ Survivors To. Receive: Benefits

PENSION BILL FOR LAST WAR SIGNED BY FOR   War Workers, Sugar Outlook And Military Topics in Congress Spotlight

Roosevelt Signs New Pension Law   Aids World War  Widows, Children

Service Vote Is Discussed By Roosevelt   Question Hinges on Whether Men Will Ballot Under Old or New Measure

How Many? Is Crux Of Soldier Vote   Roosevelt Says This Issue Is Paramount in Ques- tion of New Law

Crux of Soldier Vote Explained   President Said It Is a Matter of What Ballot Gets to Most Men.

Debate Worth of Soldier Bill   Suggest President May Veto New Legislation

Nation’s Chief Hints Veto Of Soldier Bill   Roosevelt. Questions Bill’s Value To Would-Be Voters

HARD FIGHTING IS STILL FACED   Past Week Puts Victory Talk Into More Real. istic Perspective

OPEN VERDICT IN WOMAN'S “FIRE DEATH   Ed Sudduth, Husband of Victim, Is Chief Witness

Break Mannerheim Line: Drive Aimed at Kuocking Finland Out of Conflict

Major Offensive Launched By Russians Against Finns; Mannerheim Line Punctured   82 COMMUNITIES ARE TAKEN, STALIN SAYS

Finns Bearing Brunt of Big  Russian Drive   Moscovites Smash 15 Miles Through Mannerheim Defenses

Russians Open Offensive on Finnish Front   Other Soviet Drives Expected to Unfold Soon; Finns Suffering Heavy Losses in Fight

Federal Judge Rules Miners Not To Get Portal-To-Portal Wage Under Fair Labor Act

STATE LOOKS TO COUNT OF SOLDIER VOTE   Roe’s Lead On Shore Cut To 420; Counties Have 2,665 GI Ballots

State’s Votes Assured F.D.R.   Soldier Vote Expected To Make Little Change In Results.

Allies Give Up Hill Positions   Gurkhas, New Zealanders  Rennie Werte Renwt

Allies Abandon Hill Positions On Cassino Front   Troops in Ruined .. Town Are Unable To Go to Rescue

TROOPS WITHDRAW FROM STEEP HILL   Bloody Struggle for Monastery Hill Will be Renewed

ALLIED FORCES WITHDRAWN FROM MONASTERY HILL   Indians and New Zealanders Give Up Advanced Positions Taken in Cassino Offensive, _   FIGHTING CONTINUES  IN RUINS OF CITY   Fifth Army’s Artillery Blasts Concentration of Troops East of Continental  ; Hotel.

Allies Withdraw Troops From ‘Monastery Hill   Bloody Siruggle Must Be Undertaken Anew

QUITS 2 HILLS NEAR CASSINC   Retreats F rom Slopes As Fight for Ruins Of Town Goes on

Troops Quit Preearious  Hold on Hills   Maintain Position On Castle Heights Just West of Cassino   HOLD IT TEN DAYS

Allied troops are taken off Italian slope  Drive for height delayed till later

INDIAN GURKHAS WHO CLUNG TO STEEP HILLSIDE BELOW THE RUINED BENEDICTINE ABBEY FORCED TO BACK DOWN.

ALLIED TROOPS RETREAT FROM HISTORIC HILL   Indian Ghurkas, New Zealand Fighters Leave Advance Positions   STRUGGLE FOR CASSINO STILL WITHOUT CHANGE

Deibel’s Pancakes Are OK in Theory, But Rohrer and Spencer Will Make ’Em

German Assault Repulsed   German Attacks On Anzio Beachhead  Stopped: Attack On Cassino Thrown Back.

Enemy Thrusts in Italy Repulsed   Allies Counter Anzio Attack With Barrage:

Allies Absorb Heavy y German Blow, Restore Breaches In Line: Captured Foes Dazed   RECEIPTS TOP BILLION

BRITISH-BASED = GROUP LOSES 34. PLANES IN RAIDS      Strike With Crews From Ital  at Regensburg—Statigart,  Augsburg and Furth Alen Hit.             9% NAZIS DOWNED IN ONE ENGAGEMENT          R. A. F. Follows Up. Assaul With Attack. on Frankfart, —Berlin Station Goes.  Off Air.

RAF Raiders Hit Frankfurt in 7 Day Air Assault   Regensburg Assault First in Which Fleets Blast Same Target

Greatest Aerial Assault of War On Seventh Day   31 Big Bombers Lost in Action

(Co-ordinated Attacks Hit Regensburg   31 Yank Bombers Fail To Come Back From Great Assault  ST SLES PRT OMA rcatrmq@rey TA

Giant aerial offense goes  into 7th day   Regensburg and Frankfurt hit

Assaults Are Made By Planes Based “In Britain and Italy Escorted By. Over 1,000: Fighter:.Craft  .

American ond British Bombers Operate for Sixth’ Day   ANOTHER RAID AT NIGHT INDICATED   Plants at Regensburg Are Among Those Hit Dur‘ing Day

AIR WAR HITS PEAK AS AMERICAN BOMB“ERS HIT GERMANY FOR SIXTH STRAIGHT DAY, FOLLOWING UP RAF  WwoIND RLOWS.

Nazi Warplane Factories Being Blasted   R.A.F. Again Takes Up Baton for Another Assault

"Mighty Aeria! Blows Go On   Two-Ply Swats Rock Nazis, Berlin Says Frankfurt Hit

U. 5. BOMBERS STRINE DEEP INTO GERMANY   REGENSBURG RAIDED FROM BRITAIN AND ITALY

Hitler's Factories Hit Day and Night Italian Calm Holds  German Radio Reports Vitebsk Evacuated;  Review Invasian Force

Nation at War Pauses Yesterday to  Pay Tribute to Mothers of Soldiers

Tribute Paid U. S. Mothers   Ceremonies and Special Events Honor Mothers

AMERICAN FIFTH NEARS BOLUGNA   Troops Smash Beyond Core Of Enemy’s Gothic Line; Threaten Escape Route for Nazi Forces

YANKS CLOSE ON GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE IN ITALY   Troops Having Smashed Gothic Line, Aim For Highway Hub

AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE IN ITALY      Main. Escape Route for _ Nazis May Soon be © Seized

Americans Smash  Forward in Italy Fifth Army Nears  Nazi Fecane Route

oth Menacing — Escape Route   Foe Fights Hard To Block Po Valley Advance

AMERICANS SMASH TOWARD BOLOGNA   FASCISTS AND PARTISANS REPORTED BATTLING IN THE STREETS OF CITY.

YANK TROOPS NEAR BOLOGNA   Smash Beyond Gothic Line In Italy; Nazis Fighting Desperately

GERMANS STILL RESISTING IN CITY OF METZ   Trceops Of .British Eighth _Army Close In On a Raanzs, In Italy :

LEAVE WEAPONS, EQUIPMENT IN PANICKY FLIGHT   WHOLE SOUTHERN HALF OF NAZI DEFENSES APPEARS TO BE CRUMBLING; FRENCH CAPTURE MULHOUSE; THIRD ARMY TAKES PONTPIERRE.

7th Army Within Sight Qf Rhine; Nazis Leave Booty in Hasty Retreat

German Forces Quit Southern Area of Greece   Movements of Nazis Throughout Greece Continue as They Try To Extricate Armies

Germans Quit Important Greek Sector   Peloponnesos Grows Untenable When Yugoslavs Advance

‘Germans Reported To Have Abandoned South Greece As Defense Becomes Untenable   Declared Striving To Extricate Forces as Pressure Tightens

Part Of Greece Held Abandonec By Nazi Forces   Peloponnesus Said To Have Been Vacated By The Germans

SAY NAZIS PULL BACK IN GREECE   Report Germans Abandon Most of Peloponnesus

NAZIS ABANDON GREEK SECTOR   Germans Reported Trying To ad sare as

ERMANS LEAVE PELOPONNESUS   oxi Movements From outhern And Northern Greece Continue

ENTERED WN “KENTUCKY DERBY   Rain .Continues Turning Downs Track Into Sea - Of Mud

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Over 1000 Heavy Bombers Blast Nazi Aircraft Factories

DAYLIGHT RAIDERS BLAST ‘REICH AFTER NIGHT-AIR OF[ FENSEIVE BY RAF '-

1,000 BOMBERS ROCK GERMANY   rit beriimn  oe a senna  Robot Lull For England Ends

ALLIES SMASH AT JAP BASES AND SHIPPING   Enemy Is Hammered Along 4,000- Mile Front from Kuriles to Dutch East Indies.

Hammer Japs Along 4000 Mile Front   12 More Enemy Vessels Sunk or Damaaed

BOKBERS POUND JAP BASES. ON 4,000 MI. FRONT   12 Eneny.. WV es.s-els ~D aia g @d KromKuriles* to: ‘Dutch  ne nd

JAP BASES GET HEAVY POUNDING   Allied Bombers ‘Hit Them from ‘Kuriles to Indies

NEW AIR RAIDS ARE MADE ON JAPANESE BASES   Twelve More Enemy Vessels Are  Sunk Or Damaged In Pacific

12 MORE JAP SHIPS HIT BY ALLIED BOMBS   Fliers Hammer Nip Bases On 4,000 Mile Front

12 MORE SHIPS LOST BY JAPS, ALLIES REPORT   Foe’s Bases And Shipping Blasted On 4,000Mile Front

AMERICANS LAND ON 3 MORE ISLES IN PALAU GROUP   Invasions Carried Out to Erase Japanese Artillery Positions on Nearby Peleliu,   WARSHIP AND PLANE COVER PROVIDED   Conquest Is Virtually Complete—Nimitz Announces 10,000 Nips Killed Since Sept. 15.

Beachheads Are Secured; Fighter Plane Strip Has Been Captured   Islands Are Negesebus and Honaaur North of Peleiu Where Yanks Pocket Jap Survivors

NINE ISLANDS IN PHILIPPINES AREA OCCUPIED   ABOUT 10,000) JAPS KILLED SINCE SEPT. 15

Actual individual E bond purchases ‘below expectations, Garey asserts

GREAT BATTLES’ ARE IMPENDING, MARSHALL SAYS   General Says People At Home Still Do Not Grasp War’s Magnitude   WILL CONCENTRATE ON JAPANESE LATER

Gen. Marshall Warns Of ‘Great Battles  Chief Avers Home Folk:  Too Complacent

MARSHALL URbta EFFORT AT HOME   Chief of Staff Says Great Battles Impend in Europe; Marshalls Thrust Preview Of Things to Come

General Warns On Home Front Letup   Marshall Says People Failing To Grasp ’ Magnitude Of Effort Needed Ene Virtaiy:

‘Marshall Says ‘Great’ Battles Impend   Declares People Do Not Grasp Magnitude of Task

Home Front Must Face the Realities Of A Total War   Marshall Tells Nation Great Battles Ahead; People At Home Fail To Magnitude of Effort Needed For Vic torv,

Soldiers Should Know People Are Behind Them. Chief of Staff Declares

Marshall Says People > Fail to Realize Effort Necessary for Victory

Germans Arrest  French Officials   Fear Revolt At Time  of Allied Invasion

All Ji apanese  Resistance is Reported Ove   American  Planes _ Now. Within. 1150 Miles of _ Philionines. . .

All Japanese Resistance is Reported Over   American Planes Now Within 1150 Miles of Philippines

Now Operating Fine Arr -dromes Within Range - of Phillipines & Palau: 60,000 Japs Face Slaughter or Starva tion; Japs May Coun. terattack at Holland: Bake.

PHILIPPINES IN BOMBING RANGE   Lightning Conquest in New  Guinea Paves Way.

U.S. Planes Taking Off From Bases Near Palau   Newly Won Field: Over Hollandia In Operation

American Bombers Are Using Hollandia-Airfields; Jap-.Resistance Has Been Nipped

AUSSIES TAKE ALEXISHAFEN; PINCERS CLOSE   U. S. Now Has 4 Airstrips Within Bombing Range Of Philippines

Yanks Using Airfields at Hollandia   ‘Operation Complete,’ Says MacArthur as Resistance Ceases

Use Air elds At Hollandia   Panicky Japs Blasted as _ They Flee to Jungle; Alexishafen Falls

U. S. Bombers Use Jap Field   NEW BASE FOR YANK FLIERS IN PACIFIC AREA.

U. S. Planes Fly From Newly Won Bases.... .  Jap Resistance Around  Hollandia Ends; Enemy Panicky And In Flight

Hollandia Based U. S. Planes Fly Within Range of Palau, Philippines

AMERICAN BOMBERS USING NEWLY-WGN GUINEA AIRFIELDS   Splendid Airdrames Taken From Japs at Hoellandia Within Range of Palau and the Phillinine Islands

ALLIED DRIVE ON HOLLANDIA IS FINISHED   Troops Complete Occupation of Airdromes, From  Which Bombers Already  Are Flying — Alexishafen Also Taken.

Yank Bomber: Using Captured Jap Airdromes   Bases Within Range of Philippines Seized in Ligktning Invasion by U, S. Forees

DEWEY TAKES NO. 1 POSITION AS CANDIDATE   Whether Willkie Will Support Nominee Big Question

Willkie Will Not Seek   Nomination   Withdraws When He Fails in Wisconsin Primary

Admits In Omaha Speech He Is A Beaten Man As Result Of Wisconsin Vote

Calls on Friends To Cease Efforts In His Behalf   Takes Step After Wisconsin Fails to Give Him Delegate

Defeat in Wisconsin Causes Candidate To Call Off His Campaign   Asks Friends To Discontinue Efforts in His Behalf and Not To Present His Name to Convention; Silent on Whether He Will Suppor! Choice of Party; Dewey Looms as Early Victor

Willkie Will Not Seek  Nomination  - Withdraws When He Fails in —

‘Statement Follows ' Setback in Wisconsin Primary  DEWEY HOLDS LEAD IN THE 1944 RACE  Willkie Asks Withdrawel of Name From Convention

WILLKIE OUT OF RACE FOR PRESIDENCY   Walks Out Beaten Man After Wisconsin Primary That Denied Him A Single Delegate.   Dewey Jumps Ahead

Asks friends desist from any activity  Attacks lack of a foreign policy

Calls on His Friends . Vo Desist from Activity In His Campaign For G:0.P. Nomination ACTS AFTER FAILURE IN WISCONSIN YOTE Fails To Win Single Pledged Delegate Jn Thoesdas Primary

Tells Omaha Audience “It Is Obvious That I Cannot  Be Nominated”’   WITHDRAWAL MAKES ‘: DEWEY GOP LEADER

POOR SHOWING IN WISCONSIN     PROMPTS ACT   Announcement Made In Auditorium at Omaha

2 KILLED IN AUTO CRASH AT MILFORD   Headon Collision Fatal to Lang: don and Spencer Youths Last Sunday Morning.

Ball Withdraws  Stassen’s Name    Delegation Pledges State Votes To Dewey

‘Great Opportunity’ Willkie Tells Dewey   Tribute to Stassen On Withdrawal

PICTURE-TAKING SPREE HAILED   Ohioan’s B-29 Scouting Trips Paved Way For Raid On Tokyo

Party Conclave Monday; Meets Set for Today   Boom Hannegan as National Committeeman for Aylward

DEMOCRATS MEET IN JEFFERSON ITY FOR CONVENTION   Hannegan Being Boomed for National Committeeman With Reported Support of Truman.   FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF “BIG 12” LOOMS   McKittrick Indicates He Will Oppose Selection of Delegation to Chicago  Ruled by Clark. ~

Major Jimmy Stewart Commands — Squadron---and Respect of His Men

Republicans Start Work On New Platform   Party Leaders Coniinue To Make Claims For Dewey and Bricker As Ses

GOP Begins On Platform.   Spangler Predicts No Deadlock on Candidate

Say Dewey WillTake Nomination  At Chicago   New York Governor Taiks With G.O.P. Leaders Now In West For Convention

G.O.P.Planl Task Begins At Chicago   Clare Luce Balks At Making Address In Hoover's Wake

New Deal Tested In Florida, Alabama Voting  ' Pepper Carries Banner for F. D. R. Regime

Put 4th Term In Proxy Test   Florida, Alabama Have Democratic Senatorial Pri 4 ry   maries Today.

Maryland Foe Of FDR Victor   Senator Tydings Wins Primary, 5 To 1

New Dealers Are Tested In South   Senators Pepper And Hill Have Opposition

FDR Strength fo Be Tested in Primaries   Fourth Term Issue in Both Florida and Alabama

Roosevelt Forces Face Test in Vote   Florida and Alabama Hold Primaries; Tydings Wins Out in Maryland

Administration Faces Test Today In Primaries   Florida and Alabama Votes Watched Closely

New Deal Gets ¥ Test In Florida, Alabama Today   Tydings Renominatec In Maryland Despite Administration Disapproval

States Elections Still Decided by Pro-Con New Deal   Tydings of Maryland .Renominated Despite Support-FDR Plea

New Deal Policies Under Test In Florida, Alabama; Primaries Held Today

Pepper Leads New Deal Folk   Senator Hill, Another New Deal Supporter, Opposed in Alabama

ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION BEING GIVEN ,TEST BY PROXY IN FLORIDA AND ALABAMA PRIMARY ELECTIONS.   Senators. Claude Pepper and Lister Hill of Florida And Alabama, Respectively, Seeking Re-Election With Administration in Those States

Florida And Alabama Vote  New Deal Undergoes Tests In Both States

TEST NEW DEAL IN TWO STATES   Florida and Alabama Demo cratic Primaries To Show Southern Trend.

FDR TESTED IN TWO PRIMARIES   Administration Gets Proxy Test Today In Florida And Alabama; South Dakota Votes; Tydings Wins Easily In Maryland.

3 STATES TEST ADMINISTRATION IN PRIMARIES   Florida, Alabama, South Dakota Hold Elections: Renominate Tydings

Administration [s Given Proxy Test   Florida. Alabama Democratic Primaries To Test New Deal

Administration  Test In 2 States Florida, Alabama Hold  Senatorial Primarie<«

Peppcr, Hill Test FDR’s Popularity   Sen. Tydings Wins Easy Victory for Nomination

Administration ‘In Proxy Test In Two States   Senatorial Primaries Held For Democrats Today At Florida, Alabama

THREE STATES PROVIDE TEST FOR NEW DEA   Florida, Alabama and South Dakota Primaries in Firing Line.

Administration Undergoes Tests In Florida, Alabama Primary Elections Today

Allies Ambush Japs On Jungle Front In Burma   Americans Bomb Enemy Positions

Decomposed Body Found In Car   Van Buren County OfficialSeek Identity

Grapefruit and Orange Juices Now Point Free   Ration Values of Cheese and Chuck Meats Reduced

OPA CUTS POINTS ON MORE BEEF ROASTS, CHEESE   Canned Orange and Grape Fruit Juices

New Ration Values _ on Some Food Are Announced by OPA   ‘All Meats Now RationFree to Continue So  This Month

MEATS REMAIN RATION FREE THRU JWLY 1   Cheese, Canned Milk Values Cut; Chuck Steaks And Roasts Lowered

Meats to Continue Ration-Free In Coming Month  Reduction in Cheese Product Point Value Is Announced

No Meat Ration Shift Before July   More Items Added To Point-Free List

CHTAUG JUICE ON FREE Lal IN NEW BULL   Cheese Products Cut 2 Points. _ Condensed Milk Down, Meats the Same.

Point Value Some Citrus Juices Drop   Chuck Steaks and Roasts Cut Two Points; Meats Which Are Free Of Points Remain So.

Meats to Remain Off Rationing Through July 1   Point Values Reduced On All Kinds of Cheese And Condensed Milk

Some Fruit Juices Are Taken From Ration List   Points Taken From Canned Carrots — Lowered On Cheese

Citrus Fruits  To Be Point Free   OPA Also Announces Reductions to Be Made on  Cheese and Roasts.

OPAREVEALS POINT VALUES TO JULY 18)   All Meats Now Ration-Free Remain So; Some Fruit JItuices Go Unrationecd

All Meats Now Ration-Free To Be Continued   Canned Carrots, Orange ‘Juice, Grapefruit’ Juice: and Blended Juices  Made Point-Fréeé “""

CHANGE POINTS ON SOME FOOD ITEMS   Meats Now Ration-Free Will Continue So During Month of June

More Foods Point Free   Canned Carrots and Citrus Fruit Juices  Off List; Most Meat Is Still Ration-Free

More Products Are Placed On Point-Free Lis   Fruit Juices Unlimited; Cheese, Canned Milk “Values Reduced

Meats Still To Be Ration-Free Throughout June  OPA Makes Some Citru:   OPA Makes Some Citrus Juices Available With ant Stamne.

MEATS REMAIN RATION FREE TO JULY 131   ‘Juices Being Added to Point-free List While Point Values on  Cheese Being Reduced.

CHEESE CUT RATION POINTS A POUND T0 10   All Meats Now Ration Free Will Continue So Through July 1

CHTRUS JUICES ~ OFF RATION LIST   Changes “Effective Sunday; Unrationed Meat Or-. : fier Extended.

All Meats Now Ration-Free To Continue Free Through June Under Latest Decision

—RATIONING— Beef Only Meat Still On Ration   Cheese Slashed 2 Points; Fruits, Vegetables Made Ration-Free

OPA Most Fruit Juice Now Point Free   Meats Now Off Ration List Will Continue So During Rest Of Current Month

SOME CANNED GOODS OFF RATION LIST   Point Value of Cheese Is Reduced a Bit

MEAT RATION POINTS EASED TO NEW LOW   Canned Grapefruit and Orange Juice Taken From Ration List

JUNE RATION VALUES TOLD   Meats Now Point-Free te Continue So Doing  Month

Carrots, Juices Are Ration Free   OPA Cuts Point Value of Cheese

ALL RATION-FREE  MEATS CONTINUE SO  THROUGH JULY 1 CHANGES ANNOUNCED IN  RATIONING VALUES; ONL’ TWO INCREASES MANE

Meats Remain Ration Free  Thru July 1   Canned Carrots, Orange, Grapefruit Juices To Be Ration Free. .

‘OPA ANNOUNCES NEW POINT LIST   Carrots And Citrus Juices Removed; Beef Value Cut

Meats Now Ration-Free Stay On That List Through July 1   Some Canned Juices Added To Free List; Butter Remains Unchanged: Cheese Values Are Also Cut

Changes In Point Ration. Values Made   But Meats Now RationFree Will Continue Free Through July 1

RATION-FREE MEAT SYSTEM IS CONTINUED      To Remain Effective Through June — Cheese Cut 2 Points— Orange and Grapefruit Juice Off Ration List.

More Canned Foods Named Ration Free   Juices and Carrots Head List; Cheese Is Cut in Point Value

Meats Continue On ‘Free’ List New Point Values Are Revealed By OPA

Meats To Be Ration Free Through July   Cheese Reduced 2 Points; Canned Fruits Added Ta Processed Foods.

Values of Cheese Products Reduced Canned Juices To Be Ration- Fre ree

Carrots, Juices Are Unrationed   OPA Reduces Cheese, Products, Chuck Bee Steaks, Roasts, Two Points, Effective Sunday, Promises More Beef, Veal, Lamb

Meat, Ration ree, Holds During July   Small Cans of Orange and Grapefruit Juice Go te the Free List

 Meats to Remain lt ‘inchanged Canned Carrots and Citrus Fruits Are Made Ration-Free

Ration Free Meat Setup Will Remain.  During June   OPA Frees Juices And Canned Items

MEATS CONTINUE TO BE POINTLESS   Canned Milk Value Slashed, Some Juices Ration-Free

OPA ANNOUNCES POINT CHANGES   Most Meets Continue RationFree in June—Orange Juice Off List

NO CHANGES ARE ANTICIPATED IN  RATIONED MEA)   Those of Free List Probably Obtainable Without Use of Points Until July 1 OPA Reveals,   ORANGE, GRAPEFRUIT JUICES ON FREE LIST   Cheese More Plentiful With Reduction In Point Value. Civilians Will Get Les: Butter.

Point-Free Meats Stay Until July 1   Canned Carrots, Orange And Grapefruit Juice Made Point Free

Meats to Remain Point Free Through July 1.   Fruit Juices Go Off List And Cheese Products Are Reduced, OPA Announces

Meats To Be Kept Ration Free in July   Carrots. Fruit Juices Made PointFree, As Canned Milk Goes Down

Siena Captured as ‘Allies Advance  Al Across Italy   Historic City Falls To Algerian Troops; Vital Road Severed

TWO POCKETS OF JAPANESE HOLDING OUT   8537 Enemy Dead on 12-Square-Mile Island

Yankees Use Island Airfield   Count 8537 Japanese Dead; U, S. Casualties 5,500, Dead 786.

“A” Gas Coupon  Value the Same   Each Stamp Good For Three Gallons

SHORTAGE OF GERMAN RESERVES IS NOW APPARENT AS HITLER FACES \WAR ON ALL SIDES OF REICH   Close Analysis of Pressent Situation Reveals tf  man Weakness, But Tough Going Still in Store for Allied Armies Which Press Forward on All Sides

 VETERAN WAR ANALYST INSPIRED [WITH CONFIDENCE THAT ALLIED: [AFFAIRS ARE COING VERY WEI.

Farm Machinery Sales Are Under Price Control   Reports to OPA Show Purchases At Excessive Prices

Systematic Reduction of War Industries Starts  “Hump” Crossed In Jap Raid Plans

PRINT BALLOTS OVER PROTEST FROM HATFIELD   Judge Loses Fight For Name of Office In Large Type

Hatfield Loses Ballot Fight   Demand For Larger Type Turned Down 

Allies Bide Time As Nazis Strengthen Arno Defenses   Pilot Lands, Rescues Buddy, Takes Off

‘CORATED FOR RESCUING PILOT   rmerican Lands tn Romanion Posture Under  }  Enemy Fire

ERIE WAR PLANT SFIZED BY U, S.   Firm Refuses to Fill Order at Agreed-To Price

U.S. Takes Over Erie, Pa., Plant   Charges Company Boost ed Prices On Government Contract.

GOVERNMENT SEIZES PENNSYLVANIA PLANT   Erie Concern Charged With Boosting Contract Prices

Federal Seizure of Erie Company For Interference With War Production

Government. Seizes Erie War Factory  Price Boosting ‘Of Federal - ..

Erie War Plant To Be Operated  By Government   Order Seizure On Charge Firm Boosted Prices On Military Contract

Erie, Pa., Plant Is Taken Over  By Government   Boosts Prices  On U. S. Contract

GOVERNMENT TAKES ERIE WAR FACTORY   Refusal To Comply With Prices Is Reason

New Challenge To Be Handed Chief Executive   House Prepares To Send Ballot Measure to FDR

F, D. R. FACES A NEW CHALLENGE   House Certain To Pass Service Vote Bill; Veto Not Unlikely.

SRD CHALLENGE IS FACING FOR   Soldier Ballot Is Latest Major Issue Courting Veto

House Passage Of U.S. Ballot Bill Expected   Service Vote Measure I:  Approved by Senate, 47 ' to 31: Split With  White House Seen

HOUSE READY TO PASS SOLDIER VOTING BILL   Measure Which FDR Has Already Called A Fraud Will Get Congres  sional Approval

Congress Ready To Challenge F.D.R. In Form of Another Service Vote Bill

Congress Hurls New Challenge at FDR in "States’ Rights" Service Vote Bill

strong Defenses Crumble   Twin Red Drives To Kill, Capture 300,000 Germans

Nazis May Withdraw in Ttaly$   STHADILY HEADWAY GAL BY ALLEBS AN DIIV ES:

Reds Slash Deeper Inte Nazi Lines   Germans Falling By Thousands Before Swift  Red Onslaught

Baltic Reds. Slaughtering  Panicky Foe   Leningrad Lines Rock ‘Under Fire GOL Soviet: Planes

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS ARE MASSACRED ON NORTHERN FRONT   119-Mile Nazi Defense Line Is Crumbling

3,000 Germans Surrender After Fall Of Novgorod   Battle Fiercest Since Stalingrad, Nazis In Panic Stricken Flight

45,000 NAZIS KILLED NEAR LENINGRAD   Greatest Battle Of Annihilation Since Stalingrad

‘Thousands Slain ‘In Huge Battle of Extermination   Strongest Nazi Lines In Europe Appear To Be Crumbling Fast

RUSSIAN ARMIES CUTDEEP SWATH INTO ENEMY REAR   Fate of 300,000 Nazi Troops In Leningrad District De pend on Success of Movement.   JAPS RUSH HELP TO SOUTHWEST PACIFIC   Loss of 10,000 Tons of Ships and 49 Aircraft After New Raids Cause Increased Action.

Nazi Line in Italy Believed Cracking   Last Night’s RAF Assault on Berlin May Have Been Heaviest to Date

BERLIN GIVEN BATTERING BY RAF BOMBERS   British Push Northward In  Italian Sector

REDS CRACK NAZI DEFENSES NEAR LENINGRAD   Seythe-Like Sweeps Push Deep Into Line— 200-000 In Danger

Thousands Are Slain By Russians   TWIN DRIVES SOUTH OF LENINGRAD AND WEST OF:  NOVGOROD HAVE NAZIS ON RUN

RED ARMIES FANNING OUT; KILL GERMAN   Strongest Nazi De fenses In Europe Are Crumbling Un- der.Russian Blows.

PANICKY NAZIS WASSACRED IN LENINGRAD FRAY   Strongest German Defense in‘Europe Appears to Crumble

Big U-Boat Toll In February, Nazis Claim   Sweden To Fire On Foreign Warplanes

Late News Bulletins   Sweden to Fire on All Yoreign Military Planes

Must Re-Indorse Gasoline Coupons   . Write New Number On Face or Back.

Car Owners Must — Endorse Coupons with New Numbers   This Must Be’ Done Even If Coupons Are Already En‘dorsed With Old Numbers —

Army Liberators Hit Truk Atoll   Ponape Is Blasted for 39th Time

Truk, Ponape Bombed Anew as 1§. Opens Full-Scale Air War   Islands 700 Miles From Philippines Attacked

improved  SUNDAY SCHOOL  International  - LESSON =      Lesson for July 30

—_______I UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL  *UNDAY ; “wWCHOOL be  By HAROLD L, D. D. op &Y HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.   Lesson for December 17

U. S. Heavy Bombers Out Again After 3-Day Lull; Brunswick Takes Blow

1laylor LISCOVETS WE Srdaully, Giraud Being Sidetracked   New French Military Leader  Wins Anglo-American Backing

Thousands of Arrests Made by Germans After Chetnik Belgrade Blow

Finnish Minister to Sweden Leaves For Helsinki Obviously to Get Nation  Out of War

Hinn Minister Leaves In Haste For Helsinkt   Finland Apparently Trying To Get Out Of War.

Moves Seen: By I FE inland —   Patriots Continue  Fichts “With ‘Nazis

Finns Renew Efforts For  Peace Terms   Minister in Sweden on Trip to Helsinki; Seen as Significant  :

FINNS, SPEED PEACE EFFORTS   MINISTER TO SWEDEN FLIES TO HELSINKI

Finns May Make New Move To Get Out Of War   Romania's Switch And General Outlook In Balkans Stirring Action Anew

FINNISH PEACE MOVES QUICKEN   Ncosniih’e Turn Expected To Hurry Finn Action

See Effort Made To Take Finland Out Of Conflict   Envoy To Sweden Leaves Stockholm Suddenly On Second Helsinki Trip

= , Si. 43) HUNTS   —  ed by King Peatares Synficate Ine. Reproduction in Whole « in Part Strictly Prohibited.)

Heavy: Aerial. and Artillery.Bombardment. Opens Way For New Drives Against Ger-mans—Third: Agi Tightens Its Gtip On Matz. .

FIRST ARMY IS ON OFFENSIVE NEAR AACHEN   Ninth Army Opens Push At Holland Border; Yanks Near Metz

NEW ASSAULT BY 1ST, 9TH HITS AACHEN SECTOR   French Hit Gateway To Belfort Gap; Metz Further Menaced

First And Ninth Open New Attacks As Third Puts Strangle Hold On Metz

FISENHOWER’S OFFENSIVE IS SMASHING FOWARD IN MOST SECTORS OF WESTERN FRONT   : First French Army, Latest Unit to Spring Into Action, Plows Forward on Both Side of the Doubs River   REACHES POINT ELEVEN MILES FROM BELFORT

“Mystery” Army In Holland   Hodges’ First Army Believed in Action on Aachen Sector—Third Army Tightening Grip on Metz — First French Army Drives Ahead in Pelfort Gap Area

Armies In Holland Hammer Germans  - TowardOld Border   French But 11 Miles From Belfort; Americans Advance Near Metz; Report Nazi Resistance Stiffens

24 GO FOR EXAMS   Men From This County Take Pre-Induction Phys ical Lests

5 MEN INTO SERVICE   Group Left Lawrence This Morning for Fort Leavenworth

FOR EXAMINATIONS   Seventeen Men Went This Morning to Fort Leavenworth

26 GO FOR EXAMS   To Fort Leavenworth To- day for Pre-Induction Physical Tests

FOUR KILLED AS PLANES CRASH   Trainer Type - Ships Collide North of Akron

4 KILLED WHEN PLANES CRASH   Instructor, Three Cadets From Kent University Victims of Tragedy

Dispatch Directed to Occupied Areas with No Explanation Given for Delay in Announcement   Wider Selection

Tojo's Cabinet Quits in Face Of War Losses   Elder Statesman, Marquis Koichi Kido Called in by Hirohito

NOTED ARTISTS ON CONCERT PROGRAM   Internationally Known Talent to Appear at sas University

NOTED ARTISTS ON CONCERT PROGRAM   Internationally Kno Tal_ ent to Appear at sas University :   OPENS ON NOVEMBER 6

Commissions Do Not See Eye to Eye in Power Case Evidence   Difference Comes Over Evidence of Power Outlook in 1912 as Described in Kelley Testimony

See Eye to Kye in  Power Case Evidence   Difference Comes Over Evidence of Power Outlook in 1912 as Described in Kelley Testimony

Service Vote Issue In Doubt As Governors  Reply ToFDR: Many Feel State Ballots Enough

States Reply That Federal Ballot Is OK.      Forty-Two Governors. lnform President of Attitude; Many Favor Own Laws

Service Vote Issue Remains in Doubt as 42 Governors Reply   Roosevelt Awaits Word From Six Executives Before Deciding

SERVICE VOTING ISSUE HEADING FOR SHOWDOWN   President’s Query Answered By 42 Governors - - Trend Toward State Ballots

Vote Action Hangs Fire   FDR Decision on Service Ballot Bill Hin ges on Stand Taken By  Most Populous States

Governors Reply To Ballot Query   State Programs Held Sufficient

Most of Them Emphasize Their States Want Fightina Forces to Vote.

Governors Favor U. S. Distributed State Ballots For Men In Service

STATE BALLOT ~ PLAN FAVORED   President Hears From 42  Governors on Proposal

STATE BALLOTS BACKED IN POLL   Seen Adequate For Troops If U.S. Gets Them Over

MOST GOVERNORS THINK ELECTION LAW SUFFICIENT   Six Will Accept Federal Plan, 13 Are Opposed, Others Non-Committal or Fail to Send Reply.   SIX LARGEST STATES HOLD VETO BALANCE   Gov. Green Says State Ballot Is “Complete,” Men Able to Cast Ballot Through Cooperation.

GOVERNORS OF NATION FROWN ON VOTE BILL   Answer Roosevelt On Inquiries In  New Vote Bill

Governors Report ToFD’s Query On  Service Voting   Issue In Doubt But Trend Of Opinions Indicate Plan Will Work Well 

42 Governors Give Vote Views   Poll Reveals They Believe State Ballots Will Give Vote to Most

Governors ‘Think State Ballots Okay   42 STATE HEADS REPLY TO F.R. SERVICE VOTE QUERY

STATE REPORTS LEAVE SERVICE VOTE IN DOUBT   TREND OF OPINION INDICATES STATE BALLOTS SUFFICIENT

SERVICE VOTING OUTLOOK BRIGHT   Forty-Two Governors Reply To President’s Query, And Indieations Are State Ballots Will Reach Most Service Men And Women.

Poll of Governors Reveals Officials’ Belief That New Federal Ballot Bill Will Work

STATE BALLOTS TO GIVE VOTES TO MOST SERVICEMEN   Forty-Two Governors Reply to FDR’s Query—Six States to Use the Federal Ballot

Slate Executives Agree On Desirability Of Soldier’s Ability To Cast Ballots Bul Suggest Federal Aid in Distribution

DR Decision Depends On “Larger States.   Most States Reply td Federally” Distributed State Ballot Wanted

Governors Differ on Soldier Ballot  ' Majority Favorable to State: Ballot

GOVERNORS OF 42 STATES REPLY QUERY ON SOLDIER VOTES  BELIEVED MOST REPLIES ARE THAT NEW MEASURE RE EEFEECTIVE

‘NIMITZ CLAIMS U.S. NAVY HAS ‘SUNK A DOZEN JAP WARSHIPS — AMERICAN CARRIER SHOT DOWN

THREE INTERLOCKING AIR AND SEA BATTLES PHILIPPINES AREA   ENGAGEMENTS STILL GOING ON WITH JAP LOSS. ES REPORTED HEAVY

VICTORY COST - CARRIER, ADMIRAL SAYS   Believes 250 Men Lost When ‘Princeton’ Went Down

Carrier Princeton Sunk  in 3-Day Air-Sea Fight   'MacArthur’s Men ‘Advance on Leyte,  Now Hold Three Airfields on Island _

Carrier, Damage Two Others U.5.Flattop Princeton Lost...   Nimitz Reports Casualties Light As Big Sea Battles Rage: Yanks . Gain On Levte: 8-29's Raid Japan

Japanese Lose Dozen Warships; U. §. One Carrier   Casualties Light Among Personnel Of Princeton

Yanks Sink 12 Jap Warships, Lose Carrier   Ground Gains Made As Bombers Lash Nippon

Nimitz otates Jap Cruiser Sunk, Other Vessels Damaged:  Carrier Princeton Lost

Dozen Enemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged;  Yank Carrier Lost   3 Interlocking Air-Sea Contests Fought Over Nearly 1000 Mis. Of Western Pacific Now In 3d Day

SEA-AIR BATTLE IS STILL RAGING AT PHILIPPINES   One U. S. Carrier Sunk After Damaged by Bombs But Most of Crew Saved

12 Jap Verne      Strong Force of Superforts Hits Targets in Southern Japan; Yanks Push Ahead in Leyte Campaign

Light Flat-Top Lost By Yanks   Princeton's Captain And 1,360 Officers And Men Rescued: 150 Nip Planes Downed; Tokyo Admits Two Cruisers, Destroyer Sunk   Headed For Levte.   Tokvo's Version.

Enemy Navy Aims 3-Pronged Attack In Philippine Area   American Vessels Forced To Sink Princeton After She Was Mortally Wounded By Land-Based Bombers; At Least 1,360 Seamen Aboard Saved

[$O87. BLISTERING VERBAL -AT: 2 TACK OFS CAMPAIGH “PER.-“PARED BY REPUBLI. CAN. CANDIDATE.

Dewey fo Renew Radio Attack on EDR. Tonight   Blistering Talk Is Anticipated From St. Louis

Heavy Bombers Blast Oil Plants   Merseburg and Hanau Among Targets. Hit

FLIERS SUPPORT GROUND TROOPS   1,000 U. S. Bombers Smash Nazi Rail, Plant Targets

Widespread Aerial Daylight Attacks on Industrial Germany   1,000 Allied Planes Drop 7,000 Tons On The Reich

Nazi Objectives Blasted Today   Over Thousand Heavy Bombers Raid Oil Plants, Rail Yards in West German Areas

German Oil Plants: Again Are Smashed  Eighth Air Force Continues Steady  Fey eee

},000 U. $. BOMBERS HIT RUHR, RHINELAND   Industrial, Rail Bases Torn Ahead Of Allied Armies

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT FIELDS IN LOW COUNTRIES   Also Hit Targets In Prance, After Scattered Night Raids

Bombers Hit Airfields in Low Countries   Robot Bases and Other Targets are Blasted in France

BOMBERS HIT ROBOT BASES   Planes Smash Calais And German Air Fields

HUGE AIR FLEET HITS NAZICITIES      1500 American Bombers Hit Oil And Rajl Centers

MORETHAN 1,000 BOMBERS BLAST NAZI TARGETS   Mustangs And Liberators Plaster Ruhr And Rhineland In Advance Of Ground Troops Near Aachen

Fred A. Good State, Civic Leader, Dies   Former Chairman Rail Commission

Express Hope Of Air Accord   Difficult But No Insurmountable  Problems Seen

World Accord On Air Problems Seen In Making   Canadien Position Seen Moving Away From British Views

REPUBLICAN WOMEN OPEN CAMPAIGN TUES   First of Six Regional Con. ferences To Be Held In Erie   NOTED SPEAKERS’ LIST

Seven MontanansReceive Promotions, Called to Duty byWarDepartment

Fighting lrishman Tells Of Congressional Medal Award in Two Sentences

Simplified Tax _ Plans Completed   Will Spare 30 Million Job of Making Return

Treasury Department. Announces Plans to Spare Tax: Payers Trouble of Figuring Out 1944 Iincome Taxes.

SEVASTOPOL AAZI ESCAPE ROUTES HIT   13 German Vessels, Including 9 Loaded With Troops, Sunk

Enemy Reports Say Sevastopol Battle Resumed   Soviet Airmen Blast Besieg ed City And German Evacuation Routes   RUSSIAN REPORT SAY ‘‘NO CHANGE’

RUSSIANS PUTTING HEAVY PRESSURE ON GERMANS IN SEVASTOPOL—E SCAPE  1 SHIPS BEING SUNK

Yanks Blast ‘Japanese Along 3000-Mile Pacific Front   ; Knox Warns Nation Against ; Wild Optimism Over Pacific

BLASTED JAPANESE ON 3000-MILE FRONT   Americans Complete a Cycle of Potent Adtacks on Enemy Positions.   IN PACIFIC DEFENSE   The Flyers Returned to the Kuriles Chain to Bomb Paramushiro.

Blast Japan Along 3,000 Mile Front   American Bombs and Shells Rain Down on Installations and Ships

FROM BATTLE ZONES By MORRIE LANDSBERG  oe fawee eee We  iee a we sta

Blast Japs — (On Long Front   Bases From Paramushiro To Rabaul Mauled; All Of Eniwetok Island Taken

9 Jap Ships Are Caught Fleeing Base   Sinkings Bring Nip Losses for Week to 44 in Bismark Area Alone

U.S. Blasts Japs on 3,000Mile Front   Eniwetok Captured In Offensive From Paramushiro to Rabaul in Pacific

Pacific Pasting Given To Enemy   YANKEE BOMBS AND SHELLS STRIKE JAPS

Blast Japs On Wide Front   American Bombers  Strike at Kuriles'  In North; Sink Nine Jap Ships Off Rabaul

More Islets Captured By Yank Forces   Air Attacks Intensified anc Expanded in Far-flung Pacific War Zone

JAPO BLASTED ONLONG FRONT   Pacific War Rages on 3,000-Mile Front, From Paramushiro to Rabaul.

JAPAN FEELS ALLIED POWER ON BIC FRONT   3000 Mile Stretch Hit By American Bombing Force

ELECT OUR SIDE OR BE SORRY IS PLEA T0 VOTERS   BOTH PARTIES SAY FATE OF NATION AT STAKE IN ELECTION

Charges Made On Two Sides   Political Speeches -Coyer ‘Wide. Field

Both Parties Seek Suppori   Campaign Settles Down To “Elect Our Side Or Be Sorry” Trend

Nation Swept $y Pleas of Rival Parties   Campaigners Turn On Full Force of Persuasive Argument

Many Topics in Political Debate   Many Appeals Made to Voters by Speakers For Both Parties

SPRAY VOTERS WITH APPEALS   Both Sides Advise ‘Elect Our Side Or Be Sorry’

‘Elect Us Or Be Sorry’ Is Theme of Campaign   Bricker Declares Armed Forces Should Protect American  Interests Around the World

VOTER APPEAL MADE BY BOTH PARTIES NOW   President Gave Two Talks Over Air Thursday

Pepper Declare: Dewey ‘Hates’ England, Russia  Political Pot Boils; — als > Voters  arama tarran’®

“You'll Be Sorry” Line Plucked From -Mothballs For Nov      Rival Candidates Resort to Threats of Dire Things If

TRADE BLOWS IN CAMPAIGN      Both Sides Invite Nation to Follow Them to Prosperity, or Ruin with Opposition

Vote Appeals In Nafion Near Another Peak   Pepper and Luce Take Opposite Election Views

Fliers Hit Rail Points in Back Of Battle Zone   Daylight Operations Greatest in All Three Days of Invasion War.  27,000 Sorties Made

AIR FORGES SMASH AT RAIL POINTS   Daylight Operations Possible since Weather Has Improved; 2,700 Sorties Mark Passed.   Strike England

American Bombers Smash At  Rail Junctions Behind Lines   Daylight Operations Over France Reach Highest Pitch Since Invasion—176 Nazi Planes Shot Down in 54 Hours

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Allied Planes Smash at Rail Junctions   Flights Increase as Weather Conditions Tleorave

WEATHER AIDS AIR FORCES IN INVASION TASK   RAIL TARGETS HIT; LOSSES ABOUT ONE PERCENT

Allied air loss mere 1 percent   Surpass 27,000  mark in sorties

27,000 Serties Flown Since hivasion’s Start, Losses Ahout One Percen

Allied Bombers Smash Strategic Nazi Rail Lines   Pound Transport Points Well Behind Beachhead Zones

ALLIED DUM HALL JUNCTIONS BEHIND FRENCH WA WAR ZONE  Attacks Made 100-150 Miles   Attacks Made 100-150 Miles From Beachheads — German Ground Fire Is Heavv.   289 PLANES LOST SINCE INVASION BEGAN   Nazi Craft Destroyed in Period Number 176 — Air Blows Increase as the Weather Improves.

CHINA WEDGE NOW FEARED   be JAPANESE MAY CUT DIRECT LAND COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN EAST AND. . WEST CHINA

MacARTHUR {5 WITHIN RANGE PHILIPPINES   New Landings Put Forces Closer to Objective; Mightiest Naval Force Supports Troops.   Suicidal Fight

No Organized Resistance Met By Invaders   Only 23 Miles Split Two Spearheads; City Of Hollandia Seized:  Aussies Fix Airstrip

Or ganized Resistance  Not Yet Met   MacArthur with Men, Now Only 1.000 Miles  From Philippines  AIM AT 3 AIRPORTS

Giant Pincers Closing On Nip Airdrome   Invaders Sweep Rapidly Inland

Jump Of 500 Miles Made By General MacArthur's Men   Pincers Is Being Clamped Around Japanese Base Within Five Miles Of Main Airport

American Units — Step Up Thrust - For Dutch Area   MacArthur Cutting Off Japs; Within Range  Of Philippines

TWO SPEARHEADS NEARER JUNCTION   Meet No Organized Resistance of Consequence   AIRSTRIPS OBJECTIVES   M'Arthur Says Landing Has Isolated 140,000 Japanese Troops

Powerful American Spearheads Close In On Airdrome Without Meeting Organized Resistance

PLIGHT OF NAZIS WW NARVA, PSKOV NOW DESPERATE   Soviet Forces Hammering Mainstays of Hitler’s Baltic Lines  a

Russians Press Three-Way Offensive Against Key Anchors Nazi Baltic Line

REDS CLOSE ON NARVA, PSKOV   Advance Deeper Into Estonia } see Nazis’ Plight Rapidly Growing Worse

NAZI ATTACKS “ON RUSSIANS TURNED BACH   RED ARMIES MEETING FIERCE “RESISTANCE AS. THEY CLOSE ON TWO BALTIC AREA STRONGHOLDS

Texas Democrats Split Over Issue Of Fourth Term; Two Slates of Delegates Named ‘o U S. Convention

NEW DEALERS BOLT IN TEXAS   Democrats Refuse To Back FDR Or Commend Him As Commander-in-Chief

TEXAS SPLIT WIDE OPEN   Fourth Term Advocates Bolt Regular Convention

Texas Democrats in Serious Split Over 4th Term   Pro Roosevelt Group in Rump Convention

TEXAS DEMS SPLIT OVER ATH TERM ©   Name Two. Séts ts ot Delegates to “ Convention

Texas Democrats Remain Split;  Rival Camps To Go To Chicago   oh Eve Of Invasion Churchill Reaffirms ‘Allied Demand For Unconditional Surrender

Texas Democrat: Divided After  Convention Tiff   Split Occurs Over Fourth Term Issue

DEMOCRATS Of TEXAS SPLIT WIDE OPEN   Fourth Term Advocates Bolt Regular Convention

TEXAS DEMOCRATS IN SPLIT —_QVER FOURTH TERM SUPPORT   REGULAR CONVENTION RE FUSES TO INSTRUCT DELEGATES FOR ROOSEVELT— GROUP HELD OWN , SESSION

TEXANS DIVIDED OVER 4TH TERM   Pro-Roosevelt Democratic Delegates Bolt Austin Convention

Fourth Term Issue Splits Texas Party   Warring Democrats To Seek Recognition At Chicago

Kaw Is Expected To Stay in Banks   No Flood Danger Here Unless Additional Moisture Falls   OTHER RIVERS ARE OUT   Most Serious Overflow in History Is Predicted : at Wichita

Rains Revive Flood Threat   Marais des Cygnes Out By Tomorrow; Neosho And Verdigris Safe  Unless More Rain Falls

Fighting Inside Caen: Atlantic Wall Breached      Parachute Troops Strike First Blow At Normandy

Bomber Production  Menaced By Strike   AFL Affiliates Refuse To Heed Plea On No-Strike Pledge, Tyvina Us Bia Plane

Allies Press Drives On Two  Pacific Sectors; All Not Well On Jap Home Front

Targets Along F rench Coast Are Blasted   Epic American Raid Destroyed  152 Nazi Fiehters

Allied Bombers Break Daylight Lull In Attacks   a a Re ee Across. ‘Channel Today -Yoward North France

Largest Fleet Pounds Europe   Airdromes, Rail Hubs Are Hammered In France, Belgium, Luxembourg ~

BOMBERS STRIKE AT TRANSPORT HUBS IN FRANCE   2000 Planes Cripple Anti-Invasion Defense In 3 Nazi Nations

Perhaps Weaviest Assaulé of 23. day Campaign Under Way Tttesday to Cripple Auti-Invasion Defenses of Western Europe.

Hit 10 Airdromes French, Belgian Transport Hubs   lst Time Yanks Blast Occupied Territory In Such Force

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   British Move to Declare Stillwell Persona Non Grata

KNOX's PAPER. “BACKS DEWEY   NEWSPAPER. BNOX SLEPT Td - BECOME: SECRETARY ‘OF. NAVE’, OPPORBES: — “FOURTH TERM

AFL Attacks Wage Formuls   Union Claims Living Costs Ave Up 43% Pereent

GAIN 25 MILES IN ITALY IN DAY   Allies Captures Three Vita Highway Towns

Nazis Continue Flight in Italy  Organized Resistance Pamnlatalu Ricanmear

Allies Drive Ahead in Italy   Some Troops Advance As Much as 25 Miles In 24 Hours

ALLIES RUSHING AHEAD IN ITALY   SOME UNITS GAIN 25 MILES IN 24 HOURS; NAZIS RUN

Allies Speed Northward  In Italy   Broken German Lines Suffer Heavy Casual-: ties, Show No Sign © Of Making A Stand

Allies Now 100 Miles North of  Italian Capital   Smash Forward From Adriatic to Tyrrhenian Sea Today

Allies Make 25-Mile Gain In North Italy   Eighth Army : Captures Todi. 60 Air Miles From Rome

EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES UP 10 25 MILES   Captures Important Towns of Terni and Narni — Gen. Clark’s Men Now Almost 100 Miles Beyond Rome.

ALLIES SMASHED FORWARD ON THE ———ADRIATIC TODAY   Some Troeps Advanced a Much as. 25 Miles in 24 Hours.   HIGHWAY TOWNS TAKEN   Fartherest Advance Came by the 8th Army in. the Capture of Todi.

Allied Troops Gain in Italy   Some Advance 25 Miles in 24 Hours; German Retreat Rapid

ALLIES SMASHING AHEAD NTA   Gains As High As 25 Miles Made In Last 24 Hours’:

FIFTH ARMY UNITS MAKING NOTABLE ADVANCES IN ITALY   Surge Ahead From the Advi  atic to the Tyrrhenian Sea  Today — Several Importaat Highway Towns Taken

ENEMY LINES IN ITALY CRUMBLE   Germon Losses Heavy a Retreat Before Eighth Army Becomes Rout

Allies Sweep On In Italy   _ Take Key Centers, Some Advance 25 Miles In Day, No Organized Defense

Smash Ahead ~ Beyond Rome   Eighth, Fifth Army Forces Capture Important Highway Towns In Advance.

a a lA iN  EVICTION IS BALKED BY ORDER OF COURT   Tenant Is Dissatisfied With 90-day Period of Grace

BROWNELL IS NEW LEADER OF G. 0. P.   National Committee Unanimously Elects 40Year-Old New Yorker Chairman to Direct Dewey’s Campaign.

Brownell ‘Heads. ‘GOP Committee   The New York. Lawyer  Was Unanimously Elected’: Today..

DEWEY MAPS CAMPAIGN T0 FIT THE TIMES   Republican Presidential Candidate’s Drive Is On War Tempo

DEWEY CONFERS WITH AIDES ON CAMPAIGN PLANS   STRATEGY LIKELY TO BE GUIDED BY PROGRESS OF WAR

Brownell Named Chairman GOP Nat'l Committee   Dewey Declares Republicans Will Remain United

Brownell To Direct Dewey Campaign For Presidency; Unity Promised By Dewey

Brownell Heads C.0.P. Committee      Named To Succeed Spangle: As Chairman

BROWNELL NEW GOP CHAIRMAN   Young New York Lawyer Succeeds Spangler

BROWNELL IS NEW GOP HEAD   Dewey Warns Committee Of Decisive Tacticcs Of Administration

Brownell New 6.0. P. Chairman   Associated With Dewey for 14 Years

Herbert Brownell Is Named Dewey Campaign Manager   Presidential Nominee Tells G. O. P. Committee “We Will Make A Gigantic Effort To Do Our Best To Save Republic And Win The War”

Young New York Lawyer Is Elected Chairman to Manage Dewey Presidential Campaign

6.0.P. Names Brownell to Head Party   Spangler Is Elected Counsel; Gov. Dewey Addresses Committce

Brownell.  New GOP  Chairman   Dewey Gives Informal Talk to National Comnuittee

BROWNELL IS NEW GOP CHIEF TO HEAD DRIVE   Dewey Manager Is Named At Chicage; Candidale Optimist

TO RUN CAMPAIGN   Herbert Brownell Chairman of Republican National Committee

NEW CHAIRMAN FOR GOP GROUT   Brownell, New York Attorney, Will Direct Campaign For Dewev.

Brownell New GOP Chairman   New Yorker Elected Unanimously to Post By Committee

Dewey Names Brownell to Run Campaign   Named Natl Chairman as Successor to Spangler

Brownell ls Named Chairman of Republican Party  Dewey Sights Attempt By New Deal to Split Ranks of GOP

Dewey! Says GOP Seeks Win War, Save Republic   Herbert Brownell] Is Named National GOP Chairman

Dewey Maps Campaign on ‘War Course   Completes Meetings With Party Leaders; Ready to Name Committee Chairman

Long Time Associate ef Dewey Mames Spangler, Predecesser, as General Counsel

N.Y, LAWYER, 40, HEADS DEWEY’S VOTE CAMPAIGN   Herbert Brownell, Jr., New GOP Chairmen—Nominee Pledges United Party

Herbert Brownell, Jr. Is Elected by Republicans As National Chairman

GOP Unanimity Is Proven in Session of Nat. Committee   Brownell, Dewey Man ager, is Elected to Chairmanship

Brownell New IG. 0. P. Chairman   New Yorker Is Dewey’s Choice; ,Nominee Attacks Democrat Tactics

GOP SELECTS BROWNELL TO HEAD CAMPAIGN   Dewey Pledges Effort to Save Republic, Winning of War

Brownwell Named Chairman For Republicans Today   Dewey Spends Most Of Night Conferring; Coast-To-Coast Tour Is Studied

DEWEY FRIEND 1S CHAIRMAN   ONE. OF DEWEY'S TOP. POLITICAL ADVISORS NEW NA‘TIONAL CHAIRMAN TO “ BUCCEED SPANGLER

GOP Elects Brownell As  New Chairman   Dewey Says GOP Remain United Despite Present Administration,   SUCCEEDS SPANGLER

RAMVNAL UWVMM  Brownell. Is Elected Chairman   DEWEY PROMISES “GIGANTIC EFFORT TOWARD SAVING OF REPUBLIC AND WINNING WAR”

Brownell Made GOP Chairman   New Yorker Succeeds Harrisen Spangler

British Warned Nazis May Try To Invade Isles   Suicidal Attack Reported Possible

British Warned Of  Nazi Counter Drive   Germans Might Try to Land on British Isles, People Are Told—Rommei Proclaimed as Rorehk Seviane

Possible invasion of Britain is anticipated   Tojo lauds German preparedness as Marshal Rommel’s popularity grow:

British Considers Possibility Nazis May Retaliate To Invasion By Attempting To Land Troops On Isles

Told Enemy May Attempt Landings in. Great Britain When Allies Open Drive

Britons Warned Hitler May Try Desperate Plan   Germans Boasting Their Forces Ready For  Invasion

Britons Warned Of Nazi Invasion   Tokyo Backs German Boasts of Preparations For Coming D-Day.

Britons Told Nazis Might Land on Isles   Germans Boast Arms Ready for Any Blot By Allies: Sweden Says Rommel Being Proclaimed Potential Saviour of Reich

Ground Forces At Cherbourg Given Close And Effective Air Support

1000B0MBERS AND FIGHTERS POUND WALL   Of German Fortifications Separating American Troops from Cherbourg Attack in Waves.

Ledo Road, China’s New Lifeline, In Use; Leads Through Burma Jungle:

Reveal Ledo Road Now Is Carrying Supplies to Beleaquered Chinese

China’s Ledo Road Usability Disclosed  ‘But Mounting Jap   Presse on Yannon

New Life-Line To China Opened   Ledo Road Put In Operation; Building Remarkabie Feat.

“USABILITY” OF NEW LEDO ROAD T0 CHINA DISCLOSED   Disclosure Made by Seattle —P. LL Confirmed. by the Army Today — Usefulness Depends on Ability to Stave Nee lacanese Lreasure

Chinese Gain On Salween River Front   Tokyo Reports Yank Air Base Less Than 1,000 Miles from Japan   ‘By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ ~ Associated Press War Editor

Chinese Drive Rolls On   - Capture Many Strong . Points; Japs Hint At New Allied Airbase  Closer To Philippines

CHINESE FORCES RECORD GAINS ALONG SALWEEN   Tokyo Hints Of New Allied Airbase Closer To Jap Homeland

Chinese Score ‘Sharp Gains In New Offensive   Tokio Reports U. S. Air Base Within Bombing  Rangce Of Japan.

TOKYO FEARS ALLIES HAVE NEW AIRBASE   Chinese Offensive Sweeps Through River Area

Chinese Offensive Drives Japs From Strategic Positions   Allies Get Air Base In Bombing Range Of Foe

IN RANGE OF JAP MAINLAND      Chinese Gain Strategic Points In Drive for Burma Road

Strategic Points Taken By Advancing Chinese; Tokyo Says U. S. Has Base 1,000 Miles From Japan

Tokyo Hints Allies May Have New Base Closer to Homeland   Jap Radio Tells of Attack on Suochwan; Pacific Summary

Japs Indicate New Field For Allied Raids   China’s New Offensive On Salween River Front Sweep Points.   IMAIN FORCE OUT

JAPS CLAIM U.S. USES NEW BASE   Tokyo Radio Tells Of Attack On Yanks At Suichwan

Chinese Advance In Salween River Offensive  Nips Hint Allies ‘Have Airfield Clase to Formosa

Japanese Stab at Air Base in China   Report’ Attack on Field Within Range of Vital Enemy Points   GAINING ON SALWEEN   Drive to Form Junction With Stilwell Force Makes  Headway

JAPAN HINTS ALLIES HAVE A NEW BASE   Tokyo Claims Raid on Suichwan, Less Than 1,000 Miles From Homeland of Rising Sun.

GHINESE MOVE TO NEW POINT   Tokyo Report Indicates Allies May Have Important Airbase.   TELL OF ALLIED LOSSES:

Says Allied Base In Bomb Range OfJap Homeland   Chinese Sweep Through Many Strategic Points On Salween River Line

China's Drive to Meet Allies in Burma Progresses   Enemy Reports Blow At U.S. Air Base Near Jap Homeland

First Drive Gains Toward  Burma Road   Tokyo Indicates U, $ Has Base Within Range of Homeland

Chinese Drive Nets Several Vital Points   Tokyo Indicates Allies Have Airbase In Bombing Range Of Jap Homeland

CHINA’S NEW “DRIVE SWEEPS - AHEAD TODAY   Japs Claim - Allied Airbase Within Bomb Range

New Drive in China May Get Base From Which To Hit Japar   British Continue Mop-up of Burma While Yank Bambers Blast New Guinea Coastline and Enemy-held Islands Over Vast Expanse of Pacific Ocean

Chinese Army Pushes Ahead  On Salweer   Tokyo Reports Yanks Have Airbase Within Range Of Japan; Allies Hold Ahohima Ridge

CHINESE SWEEP KEY POINTS I NEW OFFENSIVE   Tokyo Radio Indicates New Airbase May Have Been Won in Drive

Russian Doctor Reports Use of Food Made From Blood of Live Animals

QUEBEC PLANS CO-ORDINATED”   F. R. INSISTS ON U. S. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

Vicious Counter - attacks on Two Fronts Are Repulsed   TROO BOMBED BY PLANES   Stage Being Set for New Soviet Offensive, Renorts Sav

SOVIETS HALT ‘NEW ATTACKS ~BY NAZI UNITS      Hitlerites Fail to Penetrate Red Defenses On Baltic Front

Vicious Counter - attacks on Two Fronts Are Repulsed   TROOP TRAINS ARE BOMBED BY PLANES   Stage Being Set for New Soviet Offensive, Reports Say

BALTIC FRONT FLAMES INTO ACTION AGAIN   ESCAPE TRANSPORT SHIPS SUNK OFF SEVASTOPOL

German Attack Jn Narva Area  Is Broken Up   Renewal Of Action Or Baltic Front Fail To Catch Russian: Unprepared

Reds Repulse Strong Nazi Counterblows   Germans Hurl Blows on Baltic, Carpathian Fronts; Sevastopol Battle Goes On

GRIM BATTLES CONTINUING AT SEVASTOPOL   4,300 German Troops Said Killed In Two Counterattacks

EGHTING FLARES UN BALTIC FRONT   Nazis Lose 5,000 or More Killed; Many Captured   AIRMEN TAKE TOLL   Great Havoc Wrought at Sea As Nazis Attempt to Flee From Sevastopol

Baltic Front Flares Anew Near Narva   ‘Five Nazi Escape Ships Sent Down

Russians Turn Powerful Attacks By Nazi Tanks   German Blows _ Directed Against Bridgehead At Narva: Losees Said 2000

Powerful Nazi Attack On Red Force Checked   Soviets Beat Back Tank and Infantry Assaults Near Estonian Border Town of Narva   Huns Leave 2,000  Dead Before Reds   Meanwhile, Grim Battle: Are Reported Continuing In Full Swing At Outskirts of Sevastopol

NAZIS STRIKE ATRED ARMY IN POLAND   Create Diversion As So. viets Press Remnants O: Sevastopol Garrison Intc Black Sea.

SOVIETS BEAT BACK GERMAN TANK ATTACK   Narova River Bank Is Scene Of New   Nazi Offensive

GERMAN LOSSES HEAVY IN SHORT BALTIC ASSAULT   Thousands of Axis Troops Drown in Futile Attempt to Escape Sevastopol

NAZI ATTACKS WIPED OUT ON BALTIC FRONT   Other Enemy Counter-Blow Spreads; Reds Smash At Sevastopol Convoys

German Attacks Repulsed By Red Army   Many Nazis Reported Killed In Surprise Assault In Baltic

TWIN  BLOWS FAIL   THOUSANDS OF GERMAN AND ROMANIAN TROOPS DROWN OFF SEVASTOPOL

Reds Repel Heavy Counter-Attacks In Estonia Sector   At Least 2,300 Axis Troops Claimed Killed Alona Carpathians

Russians Beat Back Two Nazi Attacks   Germans Hurl Tanks And Infantry Into Two Battles

ACTIVITIES ARE RENEWED ON BALTIC FRONT   Blows Directed By Enemy Against Russian Bridgehead on West Bank of  Narova River   2,000 NAZIS LEFT DEAD

Reds Repel Nazi Attacks   Attacks Made in Estonia and Old Poland; Sevastopol Siege Rages

Foe suffers heavy toll in Narva attack  Violent action is resimed m north

Nazis Strive To Get Reds Off Balanee   Heavy Attacks Reported In Carpathians And Around Narva In Far  Separated Blows

Powerful German Tank And Infantry Attacks Beaten Back By Reds On Estonian Border; Little Details On Sevastopol Battle.

Sovieis Beat Off Vicious Nazi Attacks   5,000 Germans or More Are Killed in Action

Reds Fling Nazis. Back In Attaeks   Near Narva   Tanks And Infantry Used; 2,000 Killed’

War Flares  Along Baltic Front Today   Six-Week Quiet Broker By German Attempts te Break Siege

Reds Repel Foe ‘In Estonia And In Old Poland   Powerful German Tank  Attacks Smashed With  Ed am eres 1 reeac

Nazis Attack Violently  Near Narva   Also Fail in Poland; Four Transports Sunk Trying To Flee Crimea  NAZI LOSSES HEAVY

In Estonia And Poland Repelled   Fighting Spreads’ From Stanislawow In Carpathians

Reds Repulse Nazi Attack Near Narva   Quiet Baltic Front Springs  To Life Again

Battle Flares Once More or Baltic Front   Fierce Nazi Attacks Near Estonian Border Beaten Back by Reds

RENEW FIGHT IN ESTONIAN AREF   Powerful German Tank and Infantry Attacks Are Beaten Back By Reds.   QUIET FOR SIX WEEKS

Large-Scale Attacks Being Carried Out On Baltic ” Front   { LARGE TRANSPORTS SUNK BY RUSSIANS

Reds Smash Nazi Thrusts Near Narva   Grim Battles Reported in Full Swing At Sevastopol

POWERFUL GERMAN TANK AND INFANTRY ATTACKS BEATEN OFF   NAZI COUNTER BLOWS IN WIDELY SEPARATED _ AREAS REPULSED *

Reds Repulse Nazi Drive Near Narva   Also Frustrate Enemy Assaults at Foot of Carpathians — Action on. Baltic Front - First in That Sector in Six Weeks.

GERMAN ESCAPE VESSELS SUNK   Powerful Counterattacks: In Carpathians Are Beaten Back  REPORT 2300 DEAD)  i {

GRIM SEVASTOPOL BATTLE(S RAGING   Nazi Attacks. At Foot Of “Carpathians Also . Checked By Russians   DEATH: TOLL HIGH   Thousands Of Axis Troops Reported Drowned In Black Sez

4000 Germans Are Killed: Many Prisoners Taken   Red Bombers Sink 4 Transports, Destroyer Near Sevastopol

Heavy. Attack at Foot of Carpathians Also Repulsed     wk. BRE See Se SE mem CCl tl   BATTLES SPREAD   Grim Fighting Continues ~« at Outskirts of Sevastopol

2,000 GERMANS LEFT DEAD IN DRIVE   Grim Battles Continue At Sevastopol Outskirts   THREE TRANSPORTS   Sunk By Russian Bombers In Black Sea; Other Raids Reported

Enemy Attacks At Narva In Estonia And Carpathians   Continue to Exert Heavy Pressure From 2 Sides On Red. Positions At Foot of Carpathians — Sevastopol Battle. Rages.

Baltic Front Flares Into Action Again   Red Fliers Attack Nazi Troop Trains At Latvian Junctio gs: Fivegh osst!s Trying to Flee From Sevastopor Sank

SOVIETS SMASH COUNTER-STABS IN CARPATHIANS   Enemy Attacks Near Estonian Border Town Also Repulsed by Reds

Reds Beat Back Vicious Blows: Kill 5,000 Men   Sevastopol Still Held by Germans

Reds Beat Back Powerful Nazi Tank Attacks   German Infantry Also Turned Back By Russian Army

Soviets Beat Back Powerful German Counter Thrusts   Foe Hits with Tanks And Infantry Near Narva and at Foot Of the Carpathians

Russians Beat Off Nazi Blows   Germans Fail to Gain in Estonia and At Carpathians

GERMANS FAIL IN ATTACKS ON BALTIC FRONT   Red Army Repels Tank And Infantry Drives. Grim Battles Go On in  Sevastono}

Soviets Beat  Off Vicious Nazi Attacks  5,000 Germans or More Are  a, + 2k) ee oe, or ee

Reds Beat Back German Attacks   Powerful Axis Tank and Infantry Raids Are Made  Near Narva   2,000 NAZIS KILLED   Grim Battles Continue in Full Swing at City of Sevastopol

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS NEAR ESTONIA   Thousands Of Enemy Troops Reported Drowned Trying To Flee Sevastopol

JAPANESE NAVY SUFFERING FROM LOSS OF SHIPS   May Be Reason For Failure Of Japs To Engage In Showdown Battle

MacArthur Gets 3 Out of 4 GOP Votes in Illinois Primar;   Nebraska Republicans Make Stassen 9 49  Favorite Over Gov. Dewey

GUAM BATTLE NEARS FINALE   Doughboys Await Signal For Final Push To Wipe Out All Nip pon Resistance

OVER 10,000 JAPS DIE ON GUAM ISLAND   STEPPING STONE TO PHILIPPINES IS RAIDED

AMERICAN FORCES SURGING FORWARD      Dominating ‘Height Cap. tured’on Island: of ~ Guam ---

To Capture Mt. Santa Rosa Threatening to Cut Last Doomed Japanese in Two,  eee

YANKS POISED FOR KNOCKOUT BLOW ON GUAN   Mt. Santa Rosa, Dominat: ing Northeast Shore, Has Been Captured   JAPANESE HAVE LOST MORE THAN 10,000 MEN

Yankees Split Last Jap Forces Clinging to Guam   Jap Base Barring Philippines Drive Blasted by Liberators

GUAM MOP-UP NEARING END   Yankees Surge Six Miles Up Coast; Threaten Remaining Japs

AMERICAN FORCES SURGING FORWARD   Dominating Height Cap. tured on Island of —-—_ Guam —-—

Marines Cut Last Guam Japs in Two   Enemy Losses Exceed 10,000  Nimitz Says

GERMAN RETREATS ACROSS POLAND   Civilian Populations Being Driven Along on Foot and Nazis Taking Everything

Chaos Is Spreading Through Poland As Nazis Retreat   Transport System Has Broken Down; Civilians Starving

Con’t Call Statements Lies, Judge Tells Chaplin During Testimony

Chaplin Takes Witness Stand   Comedian Repeats His Conversation with Joan Berry About Her Expected Child

British Deny Peace Talks   Refuie Reds’ Report Of Meeting With Naz;

France to Have Voice in Parley   Big Four Likely to Become Bia Five

Peace League ‘Big 5’ Likely   French Liberation Mav Revise Setun

FRENCH STATUS DEMANDS STUDY   Security Conferees Face Another Problem

Third of Peninsula HasBeenCaptured   Berlin Radio Reports Two New Landings Made by United Nations Forces in Sector

Cherbourg Drive Seizes Carentan  In Furious Fight   Cerisy Forest 18 Miles Inland From Sea In Allied Hands; Beachheads Complete And 60-Mile Long Coast Strip Firmly in Our Hands; Over 10,000 Prisoners Taken

Carentan Link Set, Fierce Tank Battle Raging Near Tilly   Coastal Strip Some 60 Miles Long ‘Firmly’ Held; Churchill, Marshall, Eisenhower at Front;  Enemy Driven From Cerisy Forest

American Tanks And Troops Cut Line in Normandy   60-Mile Beachhead Firmly Established

Cherbourg Drive ne Carenten—Allied Militar y. Heads Visit Front .

‘Jap Soldiers Among Enemy Casualties In Normandy,  Montgomery Says   BEACHHEADS FUSED ON 60-MILE FRONT

Seizure Af Ceirsy Forest Put Yanks Near Mid-Normandy Communications Hub Of St. Lo, Deepest Penetration Inland Yet Seored

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New Cherbourg Drive Succeeds: Beachhead Firn   Allies Claim Rommel  Now Using About  15 Divielane

Uherbourg Drive Topples Carenten—Allied Military Heads Visit Front

island Air Field Falls To U.S. Forces   Naval And Air Support Aids Marines On Peleli us Isle.

U.S. Invaders Widen Grip in Palan Islands   Capture Third of Angaur and Win Vital Peleliu Airfield From Japs      NAVAL GUNS BIG AID   MacArthur Veterans Extend Hold on Morotai, South of Mindanao

Yanks Capture Peleliu Airfield   Take One-Third of Anguur Island

All Perimeter Objectives Gained By U. S. Forces   MacArthur's Veteran Troops Tighten Hold On Morotai Island

AMERICANS INVADE 2ND PALAU ISLE   Capture Third of Anguar, Southern End of Peleliu

U.S. Foothold in Palau Isles Is Extended   Capture Parts of Anguar and Leleliy

American Forces Extend Their Foothold In The Southern Palau Islands

U. S. HOLD IN PALAUS EXTENDED   MacArthur Tightens Grip On Morotai *@ In Halmaheras

U.S. Tightens Grip On Palaus, Seizing Angaur Foothold   Invasion Troops Push 1,000 Yards Inland Within 1 Day

YANKEES ARE MAKING MORE ISLAND GAINS   Big Guns Mow Down Japs Where They Offer Most  - Resistance and Other Battles Are Meacaer.

American Forces Strengthen Holds On So. Palaus Near the Philippines   Complete Pitu Airfield 250 Miles South Of Philippines

Invasion Of lurope Starts Before Long   Germans Expect  Blow To Come From South Also

Germans Ringed hy Powerful Allied Forces  Armies Are Poised  a a 2 2. oe ee   Armies Are Poised and Waiting for Finel Orders

Admiral Tells of  Invasion Plans   Briton Says Assault To Open ‘Before Long

Germans Ringed by Powerful Allied Forces  Armies Are Poised and Waiting for Final Orders

Yankee Bombers Attack Berlin District Again   Daylight Raid Is Fifth in Six Davs

U.S. Troops Drive 6 Miles on Biak   Strong Jap Forces Battle from Ridges

Big Stick Policy Is Recommended   Navy Undersecretary J. V. Forrestal Backs Policy

BERLIN BOMBED 4 CONSECUTIVE DAYS   More Than 5,000 Planes Took Part In Offensive Yesterday

Mosquitoes  Raid Berlin  Zar  ,f   Weather Grounds Bigger Bombers.

RED TROOPS DRIVE CLOSER TO PRUSSIA   “Enemy at Gates of Ger many,” Nazi Broadcasts _ Cry—Declare “Supreme ' Test Has Come.”   RUSSIANS ADVANCE UP TO 20 MILES   Enemy Efforts to Organize Effective Opposition ' Fail—Street Fighting ~ at Wilno Continues.

Reds Plunge Nearer to Kast Prussia   Nazi Broadcasts Cry “Enemy at Gates of Germany”; Latvia Rai  Center Outflanked

Round-up of German Remnants East of Minsk ~ Completed  BITTER FIGHTING RAGING AT WILNO  German Radio Admits “Supreme Test Has Come”

East of Minsk as Other Red Forces Continue Battle of Annihilation Of Nazis in Wilno.   Pinsk Is Lost

Nazi Broadcast Admits Reverse Outside Prussia   Germans in Wilno Face Annihilation

SOVIET ARMIES PLUNGE STEADILY TOWARD EAST PRUSSIA, BALTIC   Continue To Bowl Over All Nazi Effort To Organize Opposition; Nazis Say, ‘’Enemy At Gates Of Germany” 

Report Japanese Fleet Has Come Out Unconfirmed   Nipponese Making Strongest Defense

Fight Still Rages Close To Formosa   Task Force Fights Off  Jop Air Attack And   Destroys 91 Of Foe’s Plone:

Halsey Forces Still Winning   Admiral Nimitz Reports Engagement: Continues With Japnese Offering Strong Defense :

91 More Jap Planes Bagged At Formosa And Luzon; Enemy Is Resisting   NIPPONESE FLEET IS. ANNOUNCED IN ACTION

At Least 91 ‘Enemy Airplanes Are Destroyed BATTLE—BUILDING—=  UP, REPORTS SAY, No Comment on Japanese  Claims of Ship Losses

Yanks Continue New Thrusts At Orient Gatewal   Nimitz Is Silent On Nips Report Of Sea Action

NAZI ‘STOOGE: ESCAPES DEATE   German ‘Spy Raiders’ Range Over England

AMERICA’S LEADING ACE IN EUROPE LOST   Major Walter Carl Beckman, Who Had Won 18 Victories, Missine in Action.

Alice Schultz ls Bride Of  Roscoe Hansen  Former Graettinge: Schanl Teachar

Gen. Eisenhower Creates New Kind Of Warmaking; Telegraphs Punch But Delivers Overwhelming Blow

EISENHOWER PLANS ARE SUMMARIZED   Invasion Leader Known As ‘Sure  Thing Artist’

fokyo Announces Refurn of Yanks To Philippines   Harbor and Airfield Sections Attacked

MARINE ADVANCE ON PELELIU ISLE HALTED BY JAPS   Enemy Fights Savagely From Fortified Mountain Positions—Front Lines  Unchanged.   AMERICANS ON ANGAUR DIG NIPS FROM CAVES   Allies’ Statement Fails to Confirm Tokyo Announce-ment of New Raid on Manila Area.

CHINESE SAY JAPS REINFORCING NEW OFFENSIVE HEAVILY   By CLYDE FAI     SWORTIE

Japs Draw 18 Divisions From ‘Manchuria To Chenghsien Front In Honan Province   Embark On Plan To Link Conquests in North And South China By Rail

PARATROOPS LEAD INVASION FORCES      Battle-Hardened Veterans Are First To Land On West- . ern Front

YANK PARATROOPS BEHIND NAZI LINES   HUGE PLANES TOW TROOPLADEN GLIDERS TO LAND FIRST BLOW IN FRANCE, +

Battle Hardened Veterans Cascade Down Behind Enemy to Plant First Blow in Nazi Vitale

Landing by Moonlight —  US. Paratroop Units Saw Service In Sicily

Foreign Aims Under Attack   Critics of Administration Will Be Answered By Connolly

Connally Raps GOP In Defense Of  Administration’s Foreign Policy

FIGHT LOOMS ON FOREIGN POLICY   Democrats Lash Baek At Mounting Republican Criticism

‘Democrats Defend FDR In Scathing Blow ‘Against Isolationism   Connally Declares Administration Has Policy Of Foreign Relations in Good Order; States Immediate Problem Is to Win War

NEW DEAL SEEKS SUPPORT FOR FOREIGN POLICY   Bipartisan Committee To Be Appointed On World Peace Plans

Lash Back At GOP Criticism   Democrats Voice Defense Administration’s Foreign Policies.

GOP CRITICISM OF ADMINISTRATION IS RESENTED BY DEMOS   SENATOR CONNALLY WILI DEFEND FOREIGN POLICIES SOON IS BELIEF

GOP CRITICISM OF ADMINISTRATION IS RESENTED BY DEMOS  SENATOR CONNALLY WIL! ALCELEAN FARERICA.T BAT

Gillette Brings Joy to Democrats  Think Candidacy Will Being Vietaru

NEW BLOWS LANDED ON JAP FLEET   12 Ships Hit During Record Smashing Blow at Singapore

U.S. B-29 RAID HITS SINGAPORE   Jap Destroyers, Transports Also Bombed in Bonin Islands

FAR EASTERN AIR WARFARE ON BIG SCAL   SUPERFORTS SET RECORD IN BLASTING SINGAPORE—ENEMY CONVOY HIT NEAR HOMELAND

Report Stalin in Favor of Another Big Three Parley  However, No Plans Have   However, No Plans Have  Yet Reen Made for : Conference

STALIN FAVORS 3-POWER PARLEY   MOSCOW LETS IT BE KNOWN HE IS READY TO MEET F. D. R. AND CHURCHILL.

SOVIETS FAVOR SECOND PARLEY   BELIEVE MUCH GOOD WOULD COME FROM SEQUEL TO TEHERAN

SECOND. MEETING OF BiG-d IS EXPECTED   Churchill's Call for Such a Meet Causes Great Russian Interest.

Soviets Favor New Meeting With Stalin   Churchill’s Call For Conference Stirs Interest

How Long Jap War Will Last Hard fo Guess   Appraisal Made Difficult by Many Intangibles

‘SOVIETS TRY 10 « (UTFLANK GIT   Attempt to Drive on Warsaw, Polish Capitol   NAZI DEFENSES SAG   North Baltic Front Splits Open With Capture of City of Narva

NAZIS FLEE ACROSS RIVER UNDER FIRE   Sweep Puts Stalin’s Troops 140 Miles From Germany and Increases - Threat to Warsaw.   FIVE GERMAN ~ GARRISONS DOOMED   Russians Take Fortress of Narva by Storm and  Push Back Hungarians in Carpathians.

Stab Sagging Forts on West Bank Of Wisla River as Other Russ Take Narva, Splitting Baltic Front

Soviets Split Open North Baltic Front   Estonian City Fortress Of Narva Falls: Deblin Also Taken; 100.000 Poles Now in Battle

NARVA TAKEN: REDS ARE AT WISLA RIVER   RUSSIANS PREPARE TO OUTFLANK WARSAW

Soviets Reach Wisla on 30-Mile Front   Russians Battle to Outflank Warsaw, Poland

River Is Last. Defense Line  Before Reich   Narva Falls in North As Russians Advance Rapidly on All Fronts  DEBLIN ALSO TAKEN

Reds Fight For Bridgeheads West Of Wisla; Narva Falls To Lungind Soviet In North

NAZI DEFENSES SCOURGED ALONG WISLA BY REDS   Massed Forces Prepared To Cross Last Natural Block To Germany   SOVIETS 140-MILES FROM GERMAN SOIL

Soviets Reach Last Natural Defense Line of Germans  NARVA_IS 1S SEI _SEIZED IN BALTIC ATTACK  Kore Than 500 Towns Fall in Russian Assault

Stalin Announces Capture Of Narva And Fortress City of Deblin, On East Bank Of Wisla River

WAR. TODAY   Hitler Mystery One Of Most Intriguing Dramas Because Fate 1s Of Vast Import to AW] Nations °

MacKenzie Says—  New Hitler Mystery of Vast Import   Death of Hitler May Be Gigantic Hoax Leading to World War Iil

Thinks Hitler Tales May Be Master Hoax   Kentucky Editor Brings New Theory to Great Mystery

Derm EEE’ abt  e_freparing To Attempt the Master Honx of All Time re e e Hitler Might Use Plastic Surgery To Outwit Allies and Eseane Fata

WORLD STILL SPECULATES ON WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HITLER, HOPING . THAT HIS END MAY BECOME REAL

The War Today   By DeWITT MacKENZIE Aeenclated Preag War Aanlhvat

IMYSTERY OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HITLER REMAINS INTRIGUING DRAMA BECAUSE. OF IMPORTANCE

DECLARES NAZI OFFENSIVE WILL FAIL COMPLETELY  GERMANS 32 MILES   GERMANS 32 MILES IN ALLIED LINES AS DRIVE SLOWS DOWN

Temperatures   Nazi Break-Through Blunted, Report  British-Canadians

INAZIS RETAIN INITIATIVE ON 32 MILE FRONT   Veteran Yanks Enter Battle to Repulse Sixday Old Drive

Inifiafive Sfill in Nazi Hands   Eisenhower, Swying Germans in Great Gemble, Matic fan Cenekina of Ene   Says Drive To Fail   Var Rundstedt Rushing Up tdore Fower as Smash Loses Much Momentuny

Eisenhower Views “Complete Failure” For Nazi Offensive   Calls On Allies To Destroy Enemy; Reich Command Says Forces . --Now. 40. Miles.. Inside. Belgium

BELGIUM FOR 45 MILES   Eisenhower Calls on Troops To Administer Crushing . Defeat to Foe. 3.43"   SAYS DRIVE WILU FAIL

Enemy Smash Into Belgium Slowed Down   Counterattack Breaks Out In New Section South Of City Of Luxembourg; Furious Tank Battles Are Reported Raging

PENETRATED FORTY MILES INTO BELGIUM IN WEEK’S TIME   GEN. EISENHOWER CALLS ON HIS ARMIES TO ADMIN. ISTER CRUSHING DEFEAT

But New Battle Breaks Out In Another Secto   Big Push Turned Aside Along Wide Front; Germans Are Still Deep In Border

14 PAGES   BATTLE 40 MILES INTO BELGIUM   Action Flares In New Sector. South Of City Of Luxembourg

Enemy 40 Miles Inside Belgium but Momentum ls Reported Decreasing

Eisenhower Brands Attack ‘Last Gamble’  Allied Armies Dedler ed to Attack;  ate Done Eewecin Dnvembonurge

Gen. Eisenhower Calls upon Allied Armies To Deliver Crushing Defeat To Nazi Hordes; AP Correspondent Advises Enemy's Thrust ‘Blunted’

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Called Upon Allied Armies to Swing Into Action and  Destroy the Enemy.   GERMANS IN A LAST GAMBLE ON SUCCESS   Declaring the Offensive “Will Completely Fail and His Gamble May Turn Into Defeat.’

Eisenhower Calls on Troops to Deliver Crushing Defeat   ‘MANY ROVING GROUPS   In. a Confused Situation Further German Moves  Are Possible

Great Defeat Asked for by  Eisenhower   Allied Commander Calls Drive Great Gamble; Main Thrust Westward

General Calls On Americans To Destroy Foe   Enemy Penetration In Belgium, Luxembourg Deep; Pace Slowed As Douahbovs Brace

Eisenhower Says Nazis Chance Loss   German Tanks Range Behind Allied Lines Doing Heavy Damage; Vet Yank Forces Race to Stop Blows

Momentum Of Counterattack Lessens   Nazis Penetrate To 40 Miles At One Point

Yanks Halt Germans After AQ-Mile Thrust Into Belgium   New Attack Begun Below Luxembourg As Six-Day Assault Is Slowed Down

Breakthrough 40 Miles Into Belgium Blunted; Eisenhower Calls For Enemy's Total Defeat

Initiative Still In Nazi Hands   Eisenhower, Saying Germans in Great Gamble, Calis for Crushina af Ene   Says Drive To Fail   Von Rundstedt Rushing Ur More Power as Smash Loses Much Momentum

Main Enemy  Push Turned - Aside; Slowed   Von Rundstedt’s Offensive Penetrates Belgium For 40 Miles

ENEMY ATTACK HAS GAINED 40 MILES, REPORT   Headquarters Continues 48-Hour Delay In Front Reports

Gen. Eisenhower Calls for a Crushing Defeat of Enemy as Yank Resistance Strengthens; Deepest Penetration of Belgium Now Reported at Forty Miles

40 Miles Into Belgium; Push Will Fail, Says  Kisenhower   Ourthe River Crossed by Several Spearheads, Foe Asserts

DECLARES VON RUNDSTEDT'S BIG OFFENSIVE WILL FAIL   Enemy’s Sally From Fixed Defenses May Give Chance To Turn Great Gamble Into Woarct Defoont

“After Six Days of Slashing Assault in Which Axis Forces Had Driven Wedge 32 Miles Runstedt's Columns Are Turned Aside   SOUTHERN FLANK REMAINS RATHER CONFUSED

tank, Infantry Battles Rage On Entire Front: Nazi Flanks Threatened

Attack Will Fail, Eisenhower Says   German Push Breaks Out in New Sector South of Luxembourg—-German Sally From Fixed Defense May Give Us Chance To Turn Gamble Into Defeat, Eisenhower

Kinemy Crosses Ourthe States German Office   Counterattack Breaks Out In New Sector 20 Miles From Luxembourg.   GERMANS REPULSED

Eisenhower Calls > For Allied Push To Crush Nazi Armies   Report Americans Repel New German Offensive 20 Miles South of City of Luxembourg

Roving Bands  Of Tanks Slash Allies    Von Rundstedt’s Men Have Penetrated Forty Miles Inside Defense Lines; Heavy Casualties Reported; Flank Attacks Held

Eisenhower Calls On His Armies To Destroy Enemy   Declares Allies Will Turn German Gamble Into Defeat

Nazi: Drive Into Belgium Slowed: Offensive Breaks Out South Of Luxembourg

MAIN FORCE OF GERMAN THRUST AT STANDSTILL   Germans Make Great Gamble In Bio Offensive

MAIN UNITS OF ENEMY SLOWED BY AMERICANS   Field Dispatches Reveal German Attock Is Blunted Deep in Belgium

Von Rundstedt’s Columns Have Been. Turned Aside in Some Sectors and Forced To Slower Pace in Others, Reports Say

Allied: Army Called Upon To. Destroy  Nazi Force   Counterblaw Breaks Out he New Sector

Although Germans Have Penetrated 40 Miles. Their Offensive Is Now Reported Slowed.   CAMPAIGN IS LOSING MUCH OF MOMENTUM

EISENHOWER CALLS ON HIS MEN TO ADMINISTER A CRUSHING DEFEAT   Allied Commander Says the Nazis Offensive Will Completely Fail

_ Allied’ Commander-In-Chief Calls Upon Armies To Swing Into Action And Destroy Enemy; Veteran Fighters Go Into Action.   Intensity Of Conflict Mounts

1,000 Planes  Raid Formosa   Others Carry Out Heaviest Mass Attack On Japs Vital Oil Center,

1,000 Warplanes In Attack, Says Tokyo Broadcast   Also Reports Greatest Assault Yet On Borneo; Another Palau Isle Takers

1000 Allied Planes Raid Formosa, Hit Jap Oil In Burma   U.S. Amphibious Forces Grab 11th Palau Island

Thousand-Plane Raid on Formosa Reported by Tokyo   Heaviest Attack On Oil Center in Borneo Carried Out

ELEVENTH ISL! IN PALAUS - CAPTURED   Heaviest Mass Attack Is Made On Borneo   Lost By Japs In Effort To Reinforce Morotai: Nips Admit Losses

Allied Raid On Formosa Is. Reported   Tokyo Radio Says 1,000 Planes Engaged in Attack, and Oil  Center at Balikpapan Was  Also Aerial Target

OTHER ALLIED BOMBERS SWING HEAVIEST BLOW OF WAR AT NIPS’ BORNEO OIL CENTER

BOMBERS BLAST AREA GUARDING CHINESE COAST   Other Planes Pound Borneo Oil Field; 11th Palau Isle Falls

BROADCAST ALSO TELLS OF HEAVY BORNEO ATTACK   AMERICAN FORCES TAKE 11TH ISLET IN PALAU GROUP

TOKYO BARES GIANT ATTACK BY U.S. FORCES   Japanese Oil Center At Balikpapan Also Dealt A Record Blow

GREAT AERIAL FLEET BOMBS FORMOSA RASE   Eleventh Island Of Palau Group Taken By U. S.

Palau Island   Allied Fliers Deliver ‘Greatest Mass Blows to Balikpapan Oil

Japs Say,  F ormosa  Raided   1,000 Planes Used In Daring Attack, Tokyo Announces

ALLIED PLANES AAD FORMOSA?      Tokyo Reports 1,000 Aircraft in Attack; New Hit At Borneo.   TITH ISLAND IS TAKEN

Yanks Grab 11th Island  in Palaus   Report Strike at Borneo Oil Center by Largest; Group of Allied Planes

Formosa Is Raided by 1,000 Planes   ‘Heavy Attack Made on Jap Oil Center at Balikpapan; 11th Island in Palau Group Captured

ISLAND ATTACKED BY HUGE RAMAN!   Tokyo ‘Says ‘tL 000 Allied Planes Take Part In Air Assault.   RAID OIL CENTER   Balikpapan In Borneo . Lashed In Another “ Heavy Acrial Smash

Bid Raid Blasts ‘Vital Oil Center At Balikpapan   Yanks Report Capture Of  ~~~] th~-Palaw—Ieland-—InMonth-Old Invasion

81ST CAPTURES ANOTHER ISLE IN PALAU GROUP   Other Pacific Airmen Rehit Balikpapan Refineries in Borneo

Big Japanese stand Suffers Heavy: Atfack   Assault Credited’. : To Planes. From “ws Carrter Keres

Big Sky Armada Raids Formosa   Record Number of U. S. Planes Also Bomb Kev Oil Center

1,000 Planes Hit Formosa. Japs Report   Heaviest Mass. Attack Also Pounds Borneo Oil Installations

TOKYO REPORTS 1,000 ALLIED PLANES RAD ISLAND OF FORMOSA _ AMERICANS CAPTURED THEIR ELEVENTH ISLAND  OE PALAU CROUP

YANKEE PLANES SMACK BORNEO AND FORMOSA   Tith Palau Island Seized As U. S. Forces Push Closer To Japan

Tokyo Reports 100 Of 1,000 Planes Downed  Admiral Mitscher’s Carrier Force May Be Carrying Out Big

ANOTHER BIG RAID MADE ON BORNEO'S OIL   Japanese Report Major Aerial Battle Over Formosa. U. S. Forces Take Another Islet.

THREE OF FIVE POLLS FOR FDR   Other Polls Unchanged In Close Contest

Roosevelt Is Slightly Ahead  In Four Polls   Fortune Survey Indicates Roosevelt Will Receive 53 Per Cent Of Popular Vote On Tuesday

Four of Five National Polls Give Roosevelt Edge in Electoral Votes

FOUR OF FIVE NATIONWIDE VOTING SURVEYS SHOW FDR LEADING GOVERNOR DEWFY

ROOSEVELT IN LEAD IN POLLS THIS MORNING  Pathfinder Gives Dewey. Majority

SURVEYS GIVE ROOSEVELT EDGE   Four of Five Polls Report FDR to Win Election

FOR Is Leading In Latest Polls   Three Out OF Five Give FDR Slight Edae

3 Out of 5 Vote Polls Favor FDR   Pathfinder Magazine, Gallup’s Survey Favor Dewey; Fortune, Newsweek FDR

Moves Ahead Southwest — Of Aachen   ALLIED MOBILE FORCES RACE... BEYOND RHINE TO JOIN TROOPS NEAR ARNHEM, HOLLAND

Eirst Army Launches Drive Across Nazi Siegfried Defenses Sontheast Of Aachen; Allied Forces Moving Beyond Rhine   HOLLAND TRAP IS GOAL OF YANK DRIVE

FORTRESSES HIT VITAL TARGETS IN REICH AREA   Fail To Flush Nazi Air Force For Showdown Battle

Bomb Targets in  W. Reich   Run Into Moderate AntiAircraft Fire; Nazis Retiring

VAST AREAS ARE BOMBED, GERMAN PLANES NOT SEEN   Two Formations of 250 Heavy Bombers Each Sent Out to Hammer Positions of Former Fights.   CASSINO STILL SCENE OF INDECISIVE BATTLE   German Forces Reportec Near Complete Occupatior of Small Nations In Sou theast Europe.

U. §. HEAVIES ATTACK THIRD STRAIGHT DAY   Crewmen Returning from Bombing of Reich Fail to See Single Foe.   BULLETIN

MARRIED SUNDAY BY REV. ROHLFING AT ST. JOHN’S ot   Miss Mildred Barklage Became the , Brido of Henry J. Peyton Will Reside on Farm.

Truckers To Stage Strike At Midnight   New WLB Order For Wage Hearing

F.R.ASKS OPA FUND INCREASE   $12,000,000 MORE FOR STAFFS REQUESTED

FR Asks Congress For OPA Support   Appropriation Bill Requests $182,252,000

OPA FUNDS ASKED   Meesevelt Urges $12,000,000 Increases For Price Administration

F.D.R. ASKS FOR $12,000,000 MORE FUNDS FOR 0.P.A   Would Have Congress Increase Original Appropriation For Next Year

OPA FUNDS ASKED   ——— bs ag $12,000,000 Increases Price Administration Enforcement

{2 Million More Sought For OPA   President Hopes To Enlarge Payroll

IOWAN CHARGED WITH SABOTAGE   Tried to Derail Train  Following Areument

Trapped J aps Face  Death, Reports S ay   " Nipponese i in Grip of Relentless Sea and Air Blockade, e Coupled With Onslaughts-——Heavy Cas- — ss anna (37°73 Already Inflicted :  re wet abe o

Commuauication Lines To Marshalls, Bismarcks And Selomons -Severed

Nearly 100,000 Japanese Soldiers in Beseiged Islands of South Pacific Are Facing Death

100,900 Jap Soldiers Face Death By Guns, Starvation and Disease   Food and Munitions Supplies Cut Off From Many Islands in South and Southwest Pacific

100,000 JAPS ARE DOOMED BY BOMBARDMENT, BLOCKADE   Army Says Seizure Of Strategic Points By American Ground Forces In South And Southwest Pacific  Proving Disastrous To Nipponese

Are Trapped:   Enemy Faces Starvation And Diseases On Pounded Pacific Isles.

Allies Cut Supplies To Pacific Islands   Starvation, Disease, Guns * Wipine Out Enemy

100,000 Jans Are Trapped   Enemy Faces Starvation And Diseases On Pounded Pacific Isles.

Survey Reveals ight of Many Doomed Troops       Starvation Looms For Trapped Units

Codesters Hold Memorial Service For Member   Honor L. N. Searcy, Only Delegate To Die

Peace Draft Hearing Set For January   House Military Group Action

SET HEARINGS ON PEACE ARMY   House Committee to Take  Up Youth Training   Next Month

Military Training In Post-War Days Will Be Argued   House Military Committee Will Consider Compulsory Training.

[DEPUTY SHERIFFS TO BE ~;   APPOINTED SRECIAL GAME 7%  ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

Deputy Sherrifs To Be Appointed Special Game Enforcement Officers

DEEPEN HOLD TO FiVE MILES ALONG COAST   Tokyo Fears More Landings

VITAL HEIGHT FALLS TO U.S. TROOPS; NIPS SENT REELING INTO JUNGLES   Jap Resistance Wilts Under Powerful American Blows; Plight of Enemy Scurrying Into Jungles Due to Become Acute From Lack of Supplies; Tacloban Field, Other Airfields Repaired

Clear 20 Mi. Tacloban Dulag Highway After Seizing 2nd City, Palo   MacArthur Says Jap Supply Plight May Soon Be Acute; DNB Hints: 2 g At 2nd Or 3rd Landing ie.

U.S. Invaders Sweep Forward in Philippines   Japs Driven Back Toward Hills on Leyte

American Beachhead 5 Miles Deep   Palo Taken _ After Capture Of Capital

Troops Drive Japanese Back Toward Inland Hills And Capture Hill 522

Five-Mile Deep q ‘4 Coastal Zone q 2 Consolidated   Palo. Leyte’s Second City. Falls To Whirlwind Drive Of Infantryvmen

Yanks Secure East Leyte; Start Big Base   Japs flee under heavy shelling and bombing; plight soon to become acute. -

Capture of Palo, Island’s Second City, Completed   Americans Consolidate Coastal Area To Depth of Five Miles

Set Coastal Zone at Dulag North to Tacloban; Clear Palo of Enemy: Take Hill

Americans Slash Westward On 21   Mile Beachhead Toward Interior Hills, Jungles, Coastal Zone Consolidated   DOMINATING HILL IS ALSO CAPTURED

Reds Only 50 Miles from  Budapest _  Berlin Reports bl... m._krems

RUSSIAN FORCES ONLY 50 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   Violent Action Takes Place Between Reds, Romanians And Germans

Soviets Leap Tisza River,  ~ Reach Danube   Berlin Radio Says Russian Columns Now Fighting lth Miles in Reich

REDS SEIZE 140 TOWNS IN DRIVE TOWARD BUDAPEST   Russians and Romanians Battle Nazis 50 Miles From Hungarian Capital— Cross Tisza River.   SOVIETS WIDEN FRONT IN EAST PRUSSIA   Berlin Reports Invaders Are 10 to 18 Miles Inside Province With Fighting Savage.

DEWEY LOOMS AS CHOICE OF ~ REPUBLICANS   Willkie Withdraws From Race   DRAMATIC MOVE   Bricker and Stassen Still In Running

POLITICAL OBSERVERS SEE. FIRST BALLOT VICTORY FOR NEW YORK GOVERNOR =» AT CONVENTION " +

Governor Dewey  Seems Certain As (.0.P. Candidate   Withdrawal Of Willkie - Seems To Forecast Dewey’s Nomination By Partv

Willkie’s Withdrawal From GOP Presidential Race Assures Dewey Nomination

May Be Named On First Ballot   Willkie’s Withdrawal Leaves Way Clear

BATTLE 10 SAVE MAN IN SEA LOST   BLIMP, DESTROYER AND FLYING BOAT FAIL TO REACH AIRMAN IN TIME,

Say Germans’ Treatment of Prisoners [lmproved When Tide of War Turned

CAPTIVES od NAZIS FARE _—  Tre eatment Impre s With Allied Vieton U.S.

Kepatriated Americans Say Nazis Changed Attitude Toward Prisoners When They Began Losing the War

Russ Armies Crack Nazi ‘East Wall’   New Drive Carries Soviets to Within 84 Miles of Warsaw

TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES PASS ‘EAST WAL!   Whole Front Moving, From Finland to Lwow

‘Allies Advance Up to 25  Miles in Italy Grosseto and Todi  Are Taken in Gureaea Narihuescsd

Allies Advance Up to 25 Miles in Italy  Grosseto and Todi Are Taken in

Await Denial of British Charge   ‘Say SHAEF Let U. S. Business Men Through

Daily Mail Accuses SHAEF Permitting U.S.  Businessmen into Paris

LONDON PAPER CHARGES U.S. FIRMS FAVORED   French Market Being Cornered

French in Army Nazis Are Told   General Eisenhower Warns French Must Be Treated as Soldiers

French Partisans Claimed As Part Of Allied Forces   Xisenhower Warns _ ‘Germans Against” . Maltreatment Of Those Captured

FRANCE’S ARMY IS PART OF AEF   Execution Of Patriots Will Be Punished, Berlin Warned

Secret Force Of Yanks Build Bases   Soldier Technicians Make Possible Shuttle to Russia

Russia Favors  Curzon Line As New Border   Moscow Statement Points Way to . .,.. Some Settlement 

CORZON LINE BASIS FOR NEW BORDER      Moscow Radio States Line Drawn In 1919 Should Be Used Between Russia And Poland.   Open Skepticism

GESTAPO ULE STILL STRONG   Advices in SwitzerJand Indicate That Entire Nation Seethes with Resentment

Report Resentment In Germany To Nazi Rule! Stories Indicate Popular Movements Snuffed Out By Gestapo

CITY OF HALLE SAID ISOLATED FROM COUNTRY   Public Hangings In Cologne, Treason Trials Reported

NAZIS SEND SAILORS INTO FRONT LINE   Airmen Also Put Into Battle By Desperate Nation

GERMANY SENDING SAILORS AND FLIERS TO BOLSTER ARMIES   Rushed Into Front Lines To Combat Gravest Military Crisis

GESTAPO GHEEKS MUTINY THREATS   Resentment Growing In Germany Against Nazi Rule, Swiss Hear

Unrest At Mannheim Is Told By Traveler:   (By FRANK BRUTTO) ‘Ped Beta Beytitancier

Resentment  Against Nazi  Rule Reported   Authorities no Longer Able to Keep Workers on Jobs

REICH FACING GRAVE CRISIS   Gertnany Reported to be Rushing Sailors and Airmen into Front Lines as) Infantry — Attempting to Bolster Faltering Armies,

Nazis Bolster Faltering Armies   Use Sailors and Airmen as Infantry

Reports Of Revol Inside Germany Reaching Swiss   Hitler’s Condition Believed To Be  Verv Serious.

Nazis Sending Sailors And Fliers Into Front Lines As Internal Troubles Mount

Nazis Rush Sailors And Airmen To Front   Her Warships And Planes Wiped Out, Germany Makes Final Stand On Ground.

RESENTMENT IN REICH GROWING   German People In Rebel lious Mood, Question Nazi Leaders

Report Germans Rushing Sailors, Airmen To Front   Reich Appears To Be Facing Gravest Crisis’ of Present Warfare

Cold May Damage Karly Truck Crop   Low Of Between 21 And 28 Forecast Tonight

Arms Production Increase Needed To Halt Germans   Say Heavy Fighting Will Continue for Next Year in Europe

PRODUCTION BOOST NEEDED, KRUG SAYS   WPB ‘Head Says Fighting ‘in’ Europe May Last : Veor ®

Nazi Push Causes Resurvey  Of Arms Production Plans   Placed On Basis Heavy Fighting May Continue In Europe For Year Or Longer; Material Losses Heavy, Said

Holds Production  To Be Based on War Continuing Through Next Year or Longer  STIMSON CONFIDENT

HEAVY FIGHTING MAY CONTINUE ANOTHER YEAR   Greater Arm s Production Necessary Because Of ’ German Attack   STIMSON CONFIDENT OF ENEMY’S DEFEAT

Arms Output Plans Recast iRor Anather Year In KFurone  kt £ MMP U

Nazi drive leads to arms outpul review   Oideals assume Luropean war may last at least a vear: step-up indicated

ARMS OUTPUT PREPARED FOR YEAR OF WAR   PRODUCTION MUST CATCH UP WITH HEAVY LOSSES

Battleships Join Growing Assault  In Pacific Area   Heavy Bombardment of Palau Islands Revealed By Navy

American Battleships Join Growing Offensive In The Philippines Theater

Us 5. . Battleships Show _           VIAREGGIO REACHED BY. PLUNGING YANKS

BATTLESHIPS JOIN FIGHT IN PHILIPPINES   Heavy Loads Of Explosives Ar Dropped On Japanese Protective Bases

Planes Add To Assault On Islands   Battleships Shell Japanese Bases On Palau Islands.

BATTLEWAGONS JOIN IN BLOWS AT PHILIPPINES   Jap Bases Dealt Heavy Damage By Ships And Planes

U. S. Battleships Join  Offensive in Philippine Area: Bombard Palau Isle

BATTLESHIPS BOMBARD PALAU ISLES   U. S. Bombers Blast Tolaud, Celebes And Halmahera

Battleships Aid Attack Philippines   U.S. Vessels Join Growing Offensive; Air Raids Continue

U. 5. BATTLESHIPS IN PHILIPPINES   As Warplanes Continue Blasting Beit Of Protective Bases

Halsey’s Fleet Steps Up Attacks   Battleships Join Offensive in Philippines Area; Attack Mindanao

COUNTLESS TONS OF EXPLOSIVES HIT JAP BASES   Heavy Assault Made * on Mindanao Isle by Air

Battleships Now Near Philippines   Carrier and Land Planes Join Attack

Japanese Bases Are Bombed   Carrier-based Planes Raic Islands in Central Philippine Group

Virtually All Processed Food Slated to Come Off Ration Lists on Sept. 17

Most Processed Food Ration-Free in 10 Days; All Vegetables, Except Tomatoes, Included.

Many Processed Foods Freed Of Ration Points   WFA Spokesman Hints Additional Meats To Be Freed Soon

Most Processed Foods To Lose Rationed Status   Additioval Meat Items”. To Be Made Ration-Free In 10 Days. WEA: Hints 

Occupation Of Reich High On List Of Churchill-FDR Meeting Subjects

Military Men Believe Final Great Battle of European War Is at Hand; Prepare  » For Quebec Conference

Roosevelt Gets Ready To Meet With Churchill   Gathers From Cabine:  Members and Diplomats  Advice and Information On Many Subjecta

FD. R. PREP! FOR CONFERENCE WITH GHURCHIL!   Two to Discuss Problems Involved in Occupation of Germany and European  Economic Affairs.   PRESIDENT TALKS WITH HIS ADVISOR:   Gathers Information He Will Use—-Decisions Will Not Be Final Because of Stalin’s Absence.

FDR PREPARING FOR HIS TALKS WITH CHURCHILL   President and Prime Ministe Expected to Discuss War Against Nips

Prepari ing For Victory Pusey   President Gets Information on  Problems Ahead

FDR Prepares For Quebec Meeting With Churchill   Hull, Stimson, Morgenthau Are While House Conferees Voactnordav

CHINESE OFFERING STIFF RESISTANCE TO JAP ADVANCES   Nips Apparently Determined to Upset Allied  Plans to Use China As A Reena

SAIPANG, HENGYANG BEAR BRUNT PACIFIC WAR AS WEEK OPENS  ALLIES ENLARGING HOLD ON ISLAND, BUT JAPS THREATEN CHINA

JAPS DRIVE TO CUT CHINA IN TWO PARTS   Hangkow-Canton Railway Fight Called ‘Most Serious’

SHERIFF SEEKS SIGN VANDALS   Hastings Charges Willful Destruction of Campaign Posters

Rev. Atkins Moved  To New Charge   Transferred to Church At Chandlers Valley

New Invasion cf Philippine Isle  Surprises Japs   Doughboys Sweep Inland; Assault Waves Meet Little Resistance

200 Hungarian Towns Are Taken by Reds  New Soviet Drive Is Launched an Feet Priucciag

Russ Continue Onslaught For Budapest   Seize Fourth City Of Hungary in Drive on Capital

ITALY BASED WARPLANES HIT FRENCH COASTAL AREA WHILE U. S. COLUMNS DRIVESOUTH   Vital German Targets on Mediterranean Coast ' ~— Blasted in Manner Reminiscent of D-Day InvasFy jon. Allied Moves Puzzling Observers

Tighten Hold On Germans in Caen Pocket   Enemy Throwing Bulk Of West Wall Forces Into Vital Battle

Americans Drive South of Loire River as Bombers Hit Southern ‘French: Coast in Strong Force

Secrecy Hides Allied Moves on Front in France  Two-Way Threat To Southern Part

Moves West Of Paris Must Be Secret, Report   Report Yank Troops Have Crossed Loire  River; Nazis Caught Flat-Foated In Area

Germans Confused as Allies Open Up Series: of Powerfu Attacks in Many Directions   Situation Obscure in Area West of Paris’ As Yanks Drive South After: Crossing. Loire; Nazi Defenses on Mediterranean Bombe

Land and Air Arms Both Join Battle   Nazis Are Rushing Reinforcements in Hopes Of Checking Troops Below Caen; U. S, Eareec Thruct 10 Miles Forward on Loire

Land Air Assaults — Launched   Allies Developing More Encirclement Threats; Nazis Are Baffled   STILL IN DARK ON PARIS OPERATIONS   Strong Resistance Offered. In Some Sectors. In Ever. Widening Allied Drives

Encirclement Threatens Huns In Caen Sector   Yanks Take 10,000 Prisoners in 48-Hour Period; Nazis Mystified.   Allies Attempt to Close 30-Mile Trap

FOUR-CAY HUSH ON OPERATIONS WEST OF PARIS   American Armored Thrust 10 Miles Southward Across Loire River; Bombers Blast Mediterranean

U.S. Armored Force Drives South of Loire; Bombers Hit Coast  MYSTERY IN A SWEEP      Nazis Baffled as to Mair Objectives of. Yank  Spearheads

Nazis Stiffen Resistance As Pincers Close on Caen   Unconfirmed Report Says Yanks in Paris Outskirts as Wide-spreading Spearheads Leave Objectives in Doubt   Planes Blast Riviera

Two-Way Push And Paris Drive Still Mystery   Secrecy Important To Keep Germans In the Dark

Operations West Of Paris Cloaked In Deep Secrecy   Bradley Sweeps 10 Miles In Dash Across Loire As Offensive Fans Out

STRICT SECRECY OF IMPORTANCE   Land and Air Forces Develop Two-Way Threat to Southern France,    AMERICANS CROSS LOIRE

Americans Lunge 10 Miles Across Loire   .. Two-Way Allied Threat To South France Grows

Yank Airmen Raid Jap Airforce  Nest, New Guinea   Churn Area With Bombs

12 Jap Planes Destroyed in Wewak Raid      Enemy Ammunition Ship and Freighter Sunk in Admiralties

LITTLE CERVARO ON ROME ROAD IS ENCIRCLED   Beachhead Established by British on Peccia. River Under Heavy Enemy Shellfire {

Cassino is Being Bombard:  ed and Germans Are Fighting to Hold This Fortress.

YANKS CAPTURE 3 PEAKS ABOVE ROAD TO ROME   Encircle Fortified Town 4 Miles From Cassino

YANKS ONLY FOUR MILES OF CASSINO   Advance of Two Miles is Made By Americans

Fifth Army Seizes Three Mountain Heights Flanking Inland Road te Rome — Formations of Allied Fighter Bombers Rall Cervaro in Support of Attack.

Nine Killed When Still Explodes   Coffeyville Refinery Blast Has Deadly Effects

Nine Men Killed At Coffeyville   Eight Others Hurt In Explosion Which

SOME TIPS ON PACKING GIFTS FOR OVERSEAS   Mailing Dates for Christmas Parcels Sept. 15 to October 15

CHRISTMAS MAIL TO MEN OVERSEAS MUST BE WELL TIED   Many Packages Lost When Wrapped In Boxes Too Light

Christmas Mailing Period To Armed Forces Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 Inclusive

Service Men’s Christmas Packages Should Go Into Mail From September 15 to October 15

Deadline Is Set For Mailing Gitts   Christmas Parcels for Men Overseas Must Be Sent in September and October.

PLAN XMAS GIFTS NOW FOR OVERSEAS   Postmaster Says Now is The Time to Get Gifts Ready  For Forces Overseas   SEPT. 15TH IS THE DATE

ERVICE MEN'S \MAS MAIL DUE   esr OLLICE DEPARTMENT <i1S 10 WAIL PACKAGES SUPT. 15TH

CHRISTMAS MAIL FOR OVERSEAS TO CLOSE ON OCT. 15   Postmaster Explains Need For Proper Packing Of Gift Boxes And Of Mailing Packages As Soon After Sept. 15 As Possible

Postmistress Gives Dates For Christmas Mail To  Soldiers in Foreign Service

RULE SFOR MAILING YULE PACKAGES ‘TO BOYS OVERSEAS GIVEN BY WALKER   Postmaster General Tells How Gift Boxes Should Be Wrapved To Insure Delivery: Dates Sent. 150%. 15

Oct. 15 Final Date to Mail Overseas Gift:   RULING ON CHRISTMAS PACK: AGES GIVEN BY POSTMAS- TER-GENERAL WALKER

Christmas Parcels Must Be Mailed Sept. 15--Oct. 15  Same Dates For All Branches Of Service

Instructions Are Given As to Preparation of Packages to Be Mailed

HERE IS WHAT TO DO IF YOU PLAN MAILING PAGKAGES TO THOSE IN SERVICE OVERSEAS

FRAMEWORK FOF NEW LEAGUE Of NATIONS FORMED   U. S., Britain anid Russa to Begin Preliminary Talks   Rules Issued For Mailing Christmas Packages Overseas

XMAS MAILING STARTS SEPT. 15   POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT GIVES RULES ON PACKAGES FOR BOYS OVERSEAS

MAILING PERIOD FOR CHRISTMAS PARCELS TO GO OVERSEAS   Postoffice Department Designates September 15 To October 15 As Dates

Less Than 200,000 Votes in Primary   Official Count in Kansas Smallest In Modern Times

Neff Asks Not Be Re-electedSouthers Baptist President   Says Two-Year Term Is Honor Enough ’ For Any Man

BIGGEST PALAU VICTORY SEEN   Ridge-Scaling Marine. Kill More Than 7,000 Japanese  OWN LOSSES LISTEC

Ear ‘ly End Of  Fighting On   Peleliu Seer   Japs Compressed Into Two Pockets With Marines and Dougkbeys Ready For Final Assault

NIPS DIVIDED IN TWO POCKETS ON NORTH OF ISLAND   Marines’ Losses Total 686 Dead; MacArthur Hits Enemy Shipping

Big Victory In Sight For Allies On Bloody Peleliu   Americans Suffer 5,500 Casualties In First 10 days.

Another Pacitic Victory  )Yanks Mop Up Peleliu  After Bloody Campaign

Final Peleliu Victory in Sight   a Saeeeonce Qe ee ge  Yanks Scale Ridges -In Bid for Early End- LS Lacces 5 506

Yanks Are in Sight Of Their Biggest Victory in Palaus  American Casualties Reach 5,500 in Pacific Island Drive

JAPS BLASTED BY YANKS Ih TWO POCKETS   Leathernecks and Doughboys Bid for Early End to Resistance in Peleliu's Tortuous Terrain   CASUALTIES ARE HIGH

ENEMY IN POCKET   Leathernecks and Doughboys Bid for a Victory on Palau

BIGGEST VICTORY IN PALAU BATTLE IN SIGHT TODAY   Yank Invaders Forcing the Enemy on Peleliu’s Rough Terrain Into Two Pockets— Over 7,000 Japs Killed

Close on Japs  On Peleliu   Yanks Kill Over 7,000 Enemy; Marines Suffer Heaviest Invasion Losses

(10 Politics Group Assailed   Hillman Fires Back  At Dries Committee

Dies Committee Says CIO Political Action Group Communistic; Denial Made

Dies Hits CIO: Hillman  Hurls Retort  Exchange Follows Charges Against  a ae

Political Unit Of CIO Assailed By Dies Group   Led by Communists, House Committee Says:  Denied by Sidnev Hillman

U.S. Buffefed by Disagreement Of Two Nations   Look: for‘ Link.in : Rumor. That British  Met Von: Ribbentrop

U. S. Officials Remain Silent  On Peace Story   Hull Informs Soviets U. S. Willing to Help Settle With Poles

U. S. Seeks to Heal Pole-Red Rupture   Hull Offers Offices in Interest Of Restoring Diplomatic Relations of Quarreling Nations

United States eels To Solve Russ-Pole Riff   Hull Hopeful Way Will Be Found

Comes In Face Of Polish Squabble  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Prees Staff Writer

Moscow s Peace Talk’ Rumor Gets Emphatic Denial   Britain Emphasizes She'll Fight to End; Allied Chiefs Puzzled

U.S. Offers Aid In Pole-Red Dispute   Latest Upheavals Brought On By Rumors of A Separate German-British Peace.

U. 5. STEPS INTO RUSS-POLE ISSUE   New Wave of Misunder standing Arises Between London. and Moscow

U). 8. RESPONDS TO POLISH PLEA   WASHINGTON . OFFERS GOOD OFFICES IN NATION'S DISPUTE WITH RUSSIA.

AEViolON CALLED FOR UN AZAR FAY SALES   May Increase Infaniry Pav by $iG Monthly

REVISION GALLEB FOR AN A RAY SPALES.   May Increase Infantry Pao by 3iG Monthl

REVISION OF PAY. PLANNEI      CONGRESS ‘TAKING UP. QUES TION: OF ADJUSTING ARMY ~ pay TO HAZARDS ‘OF BERVICE —

28 German Planes Downed Saturday   Widespread Assaults From French Coast To Paris Suburbs Continue Aerial Offensive

Simplified Tax  To Roosevelt Soon   Congress May Finish Its Action Today

Simplified Tax Bill Is Passed   Await Final Revisions Of Minor Nature Prior To Trip to White House

SEN. BARKLEY INVITES A COMPROMISE   Writes Letter To President; Pledges Confidence

Budget Requests From Colleges   Requests For N. C. State, Woman’s College and Agricultural Depts.

Russ Capture Praga, Big Warsaw Suburb   Fall of Nazi Strongpoint Paves Way For Liberation of Polish Capital

PRAGA FALL OPENS PATH TO WARSAW   Thousands Killed in Struggle for Fortress

Troop-Laden Jap Barges Are Sunk  Try To Leave Rabaul Te  Reinforce Talasea

Japs Pull Troops Out of Rabaul  Reinforce Positions Aaawinct ft! & Abdbneke

Japs Shift Rabaul Troops to Meet Coastal Drives  MacArthur Forces   MacArthur Forces Sink Four Barges Loaded With Enemy

JAPS PULLING THEIR FORCES FROM RABAUL   TROOP -LADEN BOATS AND BARGES SUNK OFF TALASEA

Japs Pulling Troops From Rabaul Base   Used to Bolster Units ’ At Other Points in  New Britain

Japs May Be Quitting Base   Barges Sunk Apparently Trying to Take Troops fron Rabaul to Another Area

Troop-Ladex Jap Barges Destroyed    Enemy Pulling Troops From Base at Rabaul

JAPANESE HOPE TO RETAIN NEW BRITAIN BASES   Enemy Moving Troops Out o Rabaul — Four Nip Barges Are Sunk

ATTEMPT _ SEEN TO REINFORCE NEW BRITAIN   PT Boats Menace Enemy Forces, Sink Four  Barges

PRAHL'S BID ON STREET WORK ACCEPTED   Approved by Commis sion, But May Meet State Rejection

PRAHL'S BID ON STREET WORK ACCEPTED   Approved by Commission, But May Meet State Rejection   DOG OWNERS

Sight 50 Ships Near Mindanao   Enemy Broadcasts  Convoy Under Air  Attack; Speculates On Destination.

One Soldier, Anyhow, Has An Idea Ot How To Handle Post-War Germany

Says Allies Should Occupy Germany For “Maybe 50 Years” After War

CAPTURE OF ADMIRALTY ISLAND AIRPORT TIGHTENS PINCERS ON MIKADO’S ISLAND KINGDOM   Allied Forces Continue to Capture Bases and Gain Footholds: That Will Eventually Strangle and Crush The Japs Within Their Own Borders

 ALLIES CONTINUE TO TIGHTEN PACIFIC PINCERS AND CRUSHING OF JAPANESE KINGDOM COMING

The War Today   Landing in Admiralties Seen As Tichtenine Jaws on Japs

The War Today —— Allies Keep Advancing in Pacitic Area  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

Albania Plans Democracy, Needs Aid of Allies, Says Premier Hoxha   mY SI FEUER Representing the Combined American Press

RUSSIAN ARMY GAINS IN DRIVE FOR BUDAPEST   Tightens A rec South. est of City by Tak ing Town

Red Armies Tighten Ring On Budapest   Northern, Southern Forces Within 20 Miles Of Junction

STEEL ARG GROWS AROUND CAPITAL   Fighting on Hungarian Ccpi @ tal’s Flank Reaches New  Fury; Both Sides Throw in Reinfcrcements

REDS TIGHTEN ARC AROUND BUDAPEST   CAPTURE RAILWAY AND COM. MUNICATIONS CENTERS— BEIZE 10 TOWNS.

SOVIET ARMIES PINCH BUDAPEST   Columns Near Junction In Soviet Attempt To Encircle City

Reds Continue Gains in Battle For Budapest   Tito Forces Also Cat.. _ Railway Escape Route For Germans. in:Greece

Arc Around Budapest Is Tiahtenina   Reds Take-Town on Southeast Approaches

Red Army Closing Trap on Budapest   Rail Junction and  10 Other Towns Taken

Fighting Neat Budapest Said Furious   Russians Tighten Arc Around City’s Approaches

Reds Tighten Their Hold on Budapest Area   Nazis Say Russians Force Way Into Town of Jaszapati

War Records Committee Solicits Aid of Relatives in Making List Cor-~ rect in Every Detail

War Records Committee Solicits Relatives in Making List Cor: rect in Every Detail ~

Peninsula Nearly Cut by Invaders; Germans Fleeing   Last Escape Line Under Shellfire by American Forces

Seize High Ground Overlooking Shore   Have Last German Escape Route From Cherbourg Under Artillery Fire, May Trap Many of Enemy Within Port

Troops Of U. S. In Gains Now In Sight Of The West  Coast Beaches

Another American Column Nearing St. Lo D’ Ourville, on West Coast Highway Last Escape Route for Nazis

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS FACE ROUT AT PORT   Reports Indicate Nazis on Verge of Trap—Hills Near Objective Are Grabbed

Task Foree Sinks  13 Jap Vessels, Bags 141 Planes   Powerful Unit Inflicts Heavy Losses on Nips Less Than 1,500 Miles From Tokyo At Cost of 15 Planes and 15 Airmen: Three-Day Assault Staged on Marianas

(3 Ships Sunk, {6 Damaged in Marianas Area   {41 Enemy Planes Downed by Yanks

16 DAMAGED, Md PLANES SHOT DOWN   Binemy’ 3 Sea and Air  “Power Dealt Blow in Raids in and Near the ‘Marianas Islands.,   ‘AMERICANS LOSE FIFTEEN AIRCRAFT   Ground Objectives Are Strafed and Bombed as Airmen Battle Fiercely All Over the Skies.

U. S. Carrier Task Force Damages 16 Other Vessels In Raid On Marianas   ONLY 15 AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DESTROYED

Carrier Planes Smash Jap Isle In Daring Raid   Destroy Many Ships

TASK FORGE IS DAMAGING JAP POWER   Action Centers Near Marianas for Three Days Stirring up Hornets’ Nest of Resistance.   Surprise Ships

Navy’s Raids Cost Japanese 141 Aireraft And 13 Ships   16 Other Vessels Hit In Carrier Attacks  On Mariana Islands Over Two-Day Period   AMERICAN LOSSES 15 PLANES, 15 MEN   eS a  ee  Destroyer. Big Oiler, . And Three Corvettes Amone Jap Ships Suuk

Thirteen Jap Vessels Sunk, — 16 Damaged In Three Days   Daring Carrier Task Force Also Destroys 141 Enemy Aircraft With Loss of Only 15 Planes— Nimitz Makes Announcement

Carrier Task _ Force Sinks 13 Jap Ships   16 Others Damaged, 14] Planes Destroyed in Marianas; 15 Ameri. can Aircraft Lost

PREPARATIONS MADE ‘TO “EVACUATE VILLAGERS : AS VESUVIUS HAS WORST ERUPTION SINCE 1906

First Wife Is Sought In Case   Chicago Police Seek To Question First Wife Of Chicago Man In Second Wife’s Death   MRS. F. S. WILLIAMS DIES OF WOUNL

First Wife Sought In Murder Mystery   Mrs. Macher Missing From Home In Baltimore

U.S. Bombs One Of Japs’  WT. S091 a5ia te  Tokyo Radio Reports  “Tyee en Maatensl Wer

Battle For Leyte Is Tough   Storm Helps Jap  - Landings But Heavy Toll in Warships  - Taken By Yanks

Japan Lands Fresh Troops On Leyte Islanc   Darkness, Rain Favor Enemy; Tremsports Lost

JNPS REINFORCE LEYTE DEFENDERS   U.S. Planes, Patrol Boats Play Havoe With 19Ship Convoy   10 SHIPS SUNK   Most Crucial Philippine Land Engagement Is  Now Under Way

TEMPERATURES:   19-Ship Enemy Convoy Bearing Fresh Foe Force Routed

OAVAGE BATTLE: ON FOR ISLAND   ‘Tiger of Malaya’ Gets Reinforcements Ashore At Ormoc.   LOSES SEVEN VESSELS

Enemy Puts More Troops on Leyte   Jap Convoy Is Caught Under U. S. Fire and 10 Ships Sunk   BUT 10,000 GO ASHORE   “Tiger” General Takes Big Risks to Take Fight  to Yanks

Jap Reinforcement: Reach Leyte; Nine Ships Sunk  More Than 100,000 Men Involved In Island Battle

Japs Lose 10 Ships In Gamble To Get Reinforcements   American Planes and  PT Boats Attack 19 Ship Convoy.

Jeps Poured Onto Leyte Respite Loss of Three Transporis aid Seven Destroyers

Thousands of Fresh ‘Troops Brought to Islands as Japs Plan a Determined Resistance.   TEN JAPANESE SHIPS LOST IN NEW ASSAULT

Japs Pour In Reserves For Final Stand   U. S. Air Forces Sink Landing Barges And Warships In Effort To Prevent Landinas

More Japs Land   Yamashita Pouring Nips By Thousands Into Leyte Battle

Savage Battle  Waged for Leyte   Nipponese Succeed in Landing Fresh Troops To Replace Casualties

Jap Reinforcements Total 10,000 Troops   100,000 Men Involved in Fierce Fighting as Yanks Sink 10 Ships In Convoy Relievine Levte Armies

Big, Crucial Battle Is Starting   Nips Land 10,000 More Men at Cost of 3 Transports and 7 Destroyers   LONG BATTLE WITH 419-SHIP CONVOY   More Than 100,000 Men Now Involved in Land Action on Philippines

FRESH NIPS ARE THROWN INTO BATTLE   Enemy, at Cost of Three Transports and Seven  ( Destroyers, Lands 10,000 or More Reinforcements at Ormoc.

FIERCE LEYTE "BATTLE RACES   Yanks Sink 10 Ships Of Convoy Bringing In Fresh Nip Troops

Enemy Lands More Troops At Heavy Cost   Three Transports, Seven Destroyers Lost in Action

EVADE AERIAL, SEA ATTACKS OF AMERICANS   Bitter Battle for Islands Now Beginning to Take on Some Aspects of Guadalcanal

Japs Land More Troops On Leyte   Three Transports, Seven Destroyers  Sunk by Yank Flyers

Enemy Lands More Troops In Ormoc Bay   U.S. Planes, PT Boats Sink 10 Vessels in 19-Ship Jap Convoy

Gen. Yamashita Landing Fresh Force On Leyte  Americans Sink 10 OF 19-Ship Conv voy; Crucial Land Clash   pea an DESY, See

BIGGEST LA ENGAGEMENT DEVELOPS   b Nips Lose Seven Destroyers, 3 Transports   100,000 TROOPS   Involved In Savage Fight: 35,000 Casualties Inflicted By Yanks

10,000 More Jap Troops Reach Leyte   Land Despite Sinking Of 10 Convoy Ships; Crucial Rattle Develons.

3 Transports, 7 Destroyers Sent to Bottom   Battle for Philippine Isle Involves More Than  100,000 Men

7 DESTROYERS  SUNK. REPORT   Enemy Now Has 40,000 Troops Ashore for Impending Battle

Yanks Sink 10 Jap Ships Landing New Soldiers on Leyte   Over 100,000 Men Are Engaged in Land Struggle for Island

House Commuttee Scraps Jobless Training Benefits  Main Body Passes Bill Contrary to Senate Surplus Disposal Plan

EX-WAR WORKER PLAN DISCARDED   House Scraps Proposai to Train Discharged Men for New Jobs

Recover Bodies “Of Five People ~ From Wreckage   All Found. in Small Aree Where Big Airliner Crashed and Sunk _

GEN. EISENHOWER DECLARES GERMANS’ POSITION HOPELESS   LENGTH OF EUROPEAN  WAR DEPENDS UPON TW( WAIN FACTORS. HE SAYS

Eisenhower Says Nazis Hopeless   Supreme Commander Expresses Confidence

Eisenhower Won't Set Definite Date For Victory Day   Refuses to Say Whether Nazis Will Be Beaten Even This Year But Says Their Plight Hopeless

NAZI CHANCE GONE   General Eisenhower Sees No Chance of a Ger-man Victory

 Refuses Comment On Whether War Will End Thi Nazi Situation Hopeless,

EISENHOWER IN GOOD CONDITION   EXUDES CONFIDENCE; SAYS SITUATION FOR GERMANY S HOPELESS

Germany Is Defeated Says Eisenhower, With Gestapo Control, We Must Destroy

Says Length of War De pends on Enemy Endurance and Gestapo Contro! Power

DeGaulle to Be Given Conirol  Will Direct Civil Affairs in France

DE GAULLE GROUP TO CONTROL FRANCE   U. S. and Britain Plan to Give * Committee Civil Powers in Liberated Areas.

Head Free French   Given Control of Civil Ad. ministration; No Allied Military Government.

Senator Pepper Invades Ohio To Fulminate against Dewey   Ferguson Hits Liquor Department; Lausche Raps Sales Tax Handling

BulgariaTo Restore Dem Liberties   Bulgars Will Brea} With Germany. Soon Terms Arranged i Washington

Planes Play Key Role In Pacific    Supply Allied Forces On Five Fronts in Burma; Batter Enemy In South Sea Islands

Airmen Taking Decisive Roles   In Important Burma Fight: ing Are Busy Now With Offensive, Defense, Supply

Airmen Play Key Role i in Burma   Allies Batter Japanése Bases on 1,500-Mile Arc   Five Allied Forces Fighting Japs Are Supplied by. Airmen;. Indian Defense and Burma Offensive Hinges on Available Planes

ALLIED AIRMEN PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN FIGHTING IN BURMA   AT LEAST FIVE SEPARATE ALLIED FORCES BEING SUPPLIED FROM AIR

AIRMEN ARE PLAYING VITAL ROLE IN INDIA   Transport Planes Striving to Supply No Less Than Five Separate Allied Forces   MILD GROUND FIGHTING

Allied Airmen in Major Role Against Japs   Highlight in Offense, Defense and Supply ta Entire War Zone

Allied Forces in Burma Jungles Are Supplied By Air Transports; Blasting Of Jap Bases Goes On

ALLIED AIRMEN PLAY BIG ROLE IN BURMA WAR   Fliers Supply Five Major Bases With Transport Planes

Airmen in Big Role in Burma  Transport Planes   Transport Planes Now Supplying Five Allied Forces

PLANES PLAY DECISIVE ROLE IN BURMA, INDIA   Allied Offense, Defense And Supply is Being Pushed From Air

Airmen Play Decisive Role   Important in Offense, Defense and Supply On Burma Front

AIRMEN CARRY LOAD IN BURMA   ‘Playing Key Supply Role For Five Allied  Forces

Says Blood Test Is Not Conclusive  New Chapter Written ia Chaplin Case

Blanket Draft Deferment Is Ordered for All Men 30 and Over in Essential Indusiry

Blanket Ruling Good For ‘Indefinite Period; Men 26 Through 29 To Remain Civilians ‘For the Time Being’ MEN 30 AND OVER MAY NEVER GET CALL Calls To Be Ignored If Boards Must Dip Into Necessary Men  Of 26-10-29 Age Group

DEFERMENTS FOR  ESSENTIAL MEN BEING ORDERED   Those Over 30 To Maintain Civilian Status “Indefinite Period’’   26-29 GROUP 15 ALSO AFFECTED BY DECREE

 Blanket deferment for men (30 and over in key industry  Promise temporary civilian status fan Sappeccaryw place nf 9A then 9G

“Necessary” Men 26 To 29 Ta Stay In Givilian- Life— “ For Time Being”

. Blanket Draft Deferment Ordered for All Men Over 30 in Essential Industry   ‘‘Netessary’’ Men of 26 Through 29 Promised Civilian Status for Time Being; Boards  Instructed to Review Cases at Once

MEN PAST 28 MAY NOT GET CALL AT ALL   DRAFT NEEDS EASED UP FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS

 Blanket Draft Deferment Ordered For All Men  Over 30, Some In 26 Croup In Essential Work

General Hershey Announces New Draft Deferment Rules  Men Over 30 Likely Not To Be Called Up, Eceantial Moen 26 Ta 90 flat Dateormante

“Necessary” Men 26 To 29 To — Stay-In -Givilian—Life-— “ For Time Being” 

Blanket Draft Deferment Ordered for All Men 30 Or Over in Essential Industry   ‘Indefinite Period’ Means Six Months or More, Hershey Explains; ‘Necessary’ Men 26-29 To Remain Civilians ‘For Time Being’

Change Affects 26-30 Group In Necessary Jobs   Men Over 30 Jn Essential Industry Deferred Indefinitely; Hershey Says Boards Can Pass Up Calls

Men Above Thirty In Essential Work Deferred Under Latest Regulations   Class 2-C Registrants Under 26 Must Take Preinduction Physicals, State Board Orders

DOUBT EXPRESSED: ANY WILL RECEIVE CALLS THIS YEAR             Civilian Status “for: Time Be ing” Given “Necessary”:  Men 26 Through 29 Years Old. —       TIME OF SUMMONS TO DEPEND ON LOSS:   Board to Review at Ong Cases: of Men in Both’ A: Groups Who Hay Been Put in 1-A.

Blanket Deferment Policy Is Outlined For Men Over 30.   ‘Decision Also Exempts ‘For Time Being: All “Necessary” Men From 26 To 29

‘Defer Essential Men Over 29 Indefinitely  e’'Necessary’ Workers From  26 to 30 Won't Be Called

Eisenhower Has  ‘Medium Bomber   Uses Own Plane From England To Normandy

COVENTRY TO HAVE UNIQUE CATHEDRAL   Free Churches Will Join An alican Conaregation

5,000 ALLIED © PLANES BLAST VITAL TARGETS   Indications Are That Allied Planes Would Hit With Daylight Raids Tadawv

DISMISSAL OF WARD SUITS REQUESTED   WLB Decisions Not Subject to Court Review, Appeals Court Holds.

STATE RESTS IN PAY-OFF TRIAL   Defense to Introduce Testimony in Behalf of Robert R. Fitzgerald

State Rests In Trial   Defense Fails to Strike Testimony of Mrs. Eisiminger

Flier ts Survivor Of Crash   Berlin Dispatch To Swedish Paper Tells of Lynching

Nazis Admit Lynching: of Yank Airman   Crowd of Churchgoers Machinegunned, Is German Claim

DEWEY OPENS SESSION WITH GOP GOVERNORS   Republican Leaders Split Into Teams To Work Out Fourteen Point  Plan To Aid Candidate

Governors Back Dewey Campaign At Conferences   26 Meet Him In St. Louis

26 GOVERNORS ATTEND MEET   Begin Session Designed te Aid Dewey in Campaign For Presidency

Governors Drafting 14 Point Policy   TWENTY-SIX R EP U B. LICAN CHIEF EXECUTIVES ASSEMBLE IN PORTENTIOUS CONFERENCE HEADED BY PAKTY TOPS.   Round Table Discussion

Eyewitness Tells of Withdrawal   Describes Battle Of Arnhem as Unbelievable Hell

Epic Paratroop Battle At Ambhem Described   Survivors Ask to Return to Front After Braving Nazis’ Heaviest Fire

First Inning  CU ATIVATaAT ayo   Fifth Inning  ~~. tT Teeest   Second Inning  MawTewmrTet ar oe

ROOSEVELT VETO OF NEW TAX BILL RAPS U, S, GREED   Caustic Message Calls  @ Tax Relief for Special Privilege

Tax Bill Veto  Given Congress   President Vetoes New Tax Bill And Sends Caustic Message   FIRST TAX BILL VETO BY PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT CHARGES BILL - PROVIDES SPECIAL PRIVI- LEGES AND IS “WHOLLY KNEF FECTIVE"

Action Establishes U. S. Precedent  RAPS TAX FORM  ee  Measure Called Bill For Greedy

ROOSEVELT CALLS MEASURE “RELIEF BILL FOR GREEDY”   Congress Leaders Mustering Forces for Overrider Rottle Thurcday

President Vetoes New Tax Bill   Sends Caustic Message To Congress

Congressman Asks That Short, Kimmel Be Tried  Solon Wants Action Or Impeachment RAmuso in Civ AAanthe

IMPEACHMENT MAY BE ASKED IF MEN NOT GIVEN TRIALS   Early Court Martial Hearings   For Peart Harbor Officers : Again Demanded

Demands Trials Within 6 Month:   Missouri Legislator Issues Ultimatum

Kimmel-Short Trials Urged   Congressman Wants Courts Martial Held Within Next 6 Months

Congressman Asks That Short, Kimmel Be Tried  Solon Wants Action Or Impeachment Mave in Six Monthe

New Move Made To Force Court Martial of Men In Command on Dec. 7, ’41

Grenades Attached ‘To Bodies Of Slain   ; Dead Enemy Fighters Are Burned Bound Soldiers Exposed to Fire

Low-Flying US, Planes Smash At Jap Land Forces   Truck Convoy Of Enemy In Philippines Is Hit By Surprise Attack   OTHER JAP BASES HIT BY BOMBERS

AMERICANS RIP  RHINE DEFENSES  ON BROAD FRONT FIRST ARMY CLEARS  NAZIS FROM AACHEN IN BITTER FIGHT

7,000 RAF PLANES “FOLLOW YANKS INTO. GERMANY   ‘Drop Nearly 3,360 Tons o  Bombs on Frankfurt—Berlin Touched tichtlv.

More Than 1,000 RAF Bombers Pound Germany   Industrial Center Of Frankfurt May Be Knocked Out

Pro-Roosevelt Demos Ask Court For Quick Action  Brief Filed Seeking to Get Names on Primary Ballot

LAST FIGHTING BY NAZI UNITS ENDS IN METZ   Other U. S. Troops Within 25 Miles of Strasbourg on Rhine

Americans to North Drive Within: 23 Miles of Greater German Stronghold Of Strasbourg on the Rhine River’ at

Berlin, In Melancholy Broadcast, Report Great Tank Battles, Exceed In Violence Anything Since Invasion Of Europe.

Americans 23 Miles of Strasbourg Trying to Trap the German 19th Army.   METZ FIGHTING ENDS   fore Than 1000 Prisoners and Staff Officers Surrender at Mulhouse.

Strasbourg . Endangered As Yankees Near Rhine   Vinal Resistance. Dissolves At Metz

NAT VDobéo LINE BROKEN BY 7TH ARMY   In the North Americans  Drive to Within 23 Miles ; of Strasboura.

Part Of Staff Of Nazi Army Taken Captive   Americans But 23 Miles From Base Of Strasbourg

VR STE RPN FRONT.   American And French Forces Erase Nazi Mountain Front      1,000 Prisoners Surrender At Maginot Line Fortress City; Drive On Strasbourg Carries Throuch German Defenses

TWIN DRIVES BY ARMIES CRUSH, MAY TRAP NAZIS   Enemy Driven Back To Roer River On Northern Sector

Nazi Southern Front Erased- 9(00Surrender   Great Tank Battles  Fought from Aacher To Swiss Border By Yanks and Germans

Seek Curtailment Of OPA’s Powers  House Committee May   Reaeammend Actian

FINN SWEEP CONTINUING NORTHWARD   Reach Olhava River In Drive To Oust German Armies

Carroll County Democrats Pick Hansen ': To Oppose Carroll Lane Next Necerbis

Carroll County Democrats Pick Hansen To Oppose Carroll Lane Next November

Yanks Seize Port, Crumple Nazi Defenses   Polish Forces Take Adriatic Anchor of Line

Yanks Capture Livorno, Big Port in Italy   Polish Troops On Adriatic Coast Take Ancona, Nazi Anchor

Americans Capture Great . Port Of Livorno, Italy; Polish Forces Take Ancona

Both Ends of Nazi Line in Italy Taken   Yanks Occupy Livorne and Poles Capture Ancona

Livorno Wrecked by Retreating Nazis—Polish Troops Surge Into Ancona on Adriatic

Port Left In Ruins        MOST IMPORTANT VICTQR:; CAMPAIGN IN ITALY SINCE ; FALL OF ROME SIX WEEKS AGO  eee

Ancona, On  Adriatic, Is     Seized Also   ' Hail Twin Allied Victories  In Italy As Vital Blow  To Enemy.

ALLIES CAPTURE NAZI ITALY ANCHOR BASES   VICTORIES CLEAR WAY FOR ONSLAUGHT ON GERMAN GOTHIC LINE; BRITISH CROSS UPPER ARNO RIVER

LIVORNO FALLS BEFORE THRUST OF YANK UNITS   Greatest Victory fo. Allied Forces Since Capture of Rome

NAZI DEFENSES ACROSS: ITALY ARE CRUMPLED   Polish Forces Seize Ancona: Gothic Line Ageault Forming

Great Port of Livorno Taken by Americans   Victory Biggest of Campaign Since Fall of Rome

Livorno, Italian Port, Falls To Americans As  Poles Capture Ancona  Double Victory Unhinges German Defenses Clearing Way For Aceanlt Qn Gathic  ine

Fifth Army Takes Livorno In Greatest Victory Since Rome: Poles Seize Ancona

WAY CLEAR FOR MAIN ASSAULT ON GOTHIC LINE   . Virtually All Port Facilities Destroyed by German Troops

Vital Aneona Is Taken By Polish Unit   Both Ends Of Nazi Defense Lines Smashed.

ALLIES TAKE ANCONA AND LIVORNO   Hailed Biggest Allied Victory Since Rome 

DECISIVE GAINS — IN ITALY OPENS ROAD 10 NORTE   Two Victories Clear Way For Frontal Onslaught That May Clear Germans From Florence Sector.   SEVEN JAP VESSELS ARE SUNK, DAMAGED   Reds Open New Offensive on  — Outflanked Lwow— Move   Will Prepare Way into Poland Proper.

LIVORNO AND ANCONA, ITALY, ARE CAPTURED   By REYNOLDS PACKARD, I’ P. War Correspondent.

Livorno Is Captured By American Troops   Crumple Western Anchor Of Ger man Defense Across Ttaly

Poles Capture Ancona  Twin Victories Clear Way for   Twin Victories Clear Way. for Front Attack  On Gothic Line

IN ITALY (RUMBLING   Ancona Seized By Polish Troops Of Eighth Army

Yanks Capture Livorno, Vital West Italy Port   Ancona Falls to Poles at Nazis’ ‘Adriatic’ Anchor

Officialdom Rescues 8 Ducklings That Fell Thru Sewer Grate in N.Y. Village

Most Opposition Before Florence  Is Cleared Out   Indian Troops Take Lead In Hard Fighting

Social Security Board Recommends Federal Doctor, Hospital Insurance

Federal Health  Insurance Urged Person Would Choos   Person Would Choose Own Doctor, Hospital

FAVOR FEDERAL SICK INSURANCE   Members Of Social Security Board Recommend For First Time Federal Insurance To Cover Doctor And Hagenital Rille

GOVT MEDICAL TAX URGED FOR SOCIAL SET-UP   Recommended In Report Of Social Security Board

‘Social Security ' BoardRecommends ‘Health Insurance   Other Provisions For Broadening. Social Security Program  Presented in Report To Congress.

SECURIFY BOARD OFFERS NEW PLAN TO ASSIST SICK   Eighth Annual Report to Congress Suggests Federal Insurance to Pay Doctor, Hospital Bills.   BENEFICIARY WOULD CHOOSE OWN DOCTOR   Benefits Would Be Extended to About 20 Million Persons to Include Farmers and Other Workers.

5.9.0. ADVOCATES INSURANCE BILL   Federal Insurance Would Cover Doctor and Hospital Bills.

Urge Insurance  Hospital Bills   Federal Program Receives Recommendation From Social Security Board

Board Urges U.S. Hospital Insurance   Extension of Social Security Provisions Proposed to Congress

Federal Medical Insurance  Urged by Security Board   Report to Congress Says Person Should Be Allowed To Select His Own Physician

Jap Bastions Hammered by American Guns   Blows Continue At Island Forts In Pacific Area

Pacific Force Hammers lslanc Jap Fortresses   New Assaults on Palau, Celebes and Halmahera Officially Reported By Admiral Nimitz

‘New Blows Pound ‘South Approaches To Philippines   Battleships’ Join In Wreaking Destruction On Ring Of Island ’ Shields.

Battleships Deal Blows on Palau in Wake of Bombers   PreInvasion Tactics Seen as Battlewagons Go Into ActionCelebes, Halmahera Bombed

BATTLEWAGONS HIT JAP ISLES   Add Thunder To Blows Of Bombers, Rockeis

Navy Pounds Nippon Bases   ‘Battleships ‘Shell Pacific Islands ~

BATTLESHIPS, PLANES RAID VITAL PALAU   New Sledgehammer Blows Also Fall On Celebes, Halmahera

OUTPOSTS OF PHILIPPINES ARE SHELLED   Rising Pitch of Destruction Visited in Japanese Bastions Evident in Com muniques

U. S. Ships Shell Palau. Jan Bases   Action Recalls Pre-Invasion Moves Against  Guam

Battleships Join Attack On Islands   Palau, Celebes and Halmahera Defenses Shield Philippines

BLAST SHIELDS OF PHILIPPINES   Warships, Planes Attack Island Keys In Pre Invasion Raid

Heap Ruin On Island Bastions    Battleships, Bombers, And Rocket-Firing Air craft Blast Jap Forts . Shielding Philippines

SHIPS ATTACK JAPS’ ISLANDS   New Sledgehammer Blows Dealt By Sea And Air Craft   AIM AT PHILIPPINES

SOVIET PAPER RAPS WILKIE   PRAVDA SCORES ARTICLE ON RUSSIA AND POLAND

Soviet Newsman Scolds Willkie For Writings   Discussion of Status Of Poland, Balkan State:  Draws Particular Fire

Pravda Attacks Willkie Article InN. Y. Times   Says GOP Leader ‘Muddies-Waters’ “To Win Support

Willkie Rapped By Russian As ‘Double-Dealer’   He’s ‘Muddying Water” in U. S. Soviet Charges

Claim Maneuvering With Pro-Russian, Anti-Soviet Groups in Politics

Soviet Writer Charges Willkie Playing Politics With Russia’s Problems

Communist Press Accuses Willkie Of “Double-Dealing” In U. S. Politics

Communist Party Paper  Scores Willkie For  Russian Article   Pravda, In Moscow Article, Accuses U. 8. Presiden:  tial Nominee Of 1940 Of ‘Muddying The Waters’ In Effort To Entice Support

Red Newspaper Calls Willkie ‘Double-Dealer   Pravda Claims Seeds Of Distrust Planted Against Soviet Union

Willkie Called ‘Political Gambler’ In Artie in Communist Newspaper

AVDA TITAS M CRITICAL > TOPEFUL   king Create ictrust  Sing Willkie

Soviet Paper Hits Willkie; Says  He Is Interfering : Pravda Alleges Article   Pravda Alleges Article “Mudding Waters” Of Important Affairs

RUSSIAN WRITER SCOLDS WILLKIE   World Traveler Called ‘Political Gambler’ In Pravda Article

Pravda Hits at Willkie On Baltic Issue   Communist Party Paper Says ‘Such a Political Gam. ler Destroys Confidence’   REFERS TO ARTICLE BY G.0.P. LEADER   Accuses Him of Using Words and Phrases to Creat Mistrust

Willkie Views On Poland And Baltic Attacked  Pravda, .Communis< ‘Paper, Says Soviet Will Handle Situatio

Red Paper Takes Rap At Willkie   Story Dealing With Baltic Question Under Attack

Soviet Paper Hits Willkie; Says He Is Interfering  Pravda Alleges Article “Mudding Waters” Of Important Affairs

PLANE OUTPUT . CHANGES MADE   CUTBACK IN ‘SOME TYPES OF PLANES TO SHIFT 100,000 ’ “PERSONS INTO. OTHER ‘FACTORIES

Donnell Picks U p In Mail Vote   — iz —— a i MF ®'  Has 4.899 Lead With Half Of The  Absentees Counted

Pinal Decision May Depend On Official Canvass   @ Donnell Checks Absentee Slide Toward Opponent

Reds Smash Wilno Lines; City Lost   Hitler Reported Moving Military  Corumand to Rea

Collapse Of Nazis In East Grows More Disastrous   Hitler. Luftwaffe And Army Headquarters Being Moved; Wilno Is Doomed To Fall Sann

Russian Spearheads Pass Wilno: Disordered Nazis Retreat Across Lithuania

FIGHTS NAZIS INSIDE WILNO   City’s Fall Appears Near As Other Russians Drive On Deep Into Lithuania

RUSSIAN STILL BATTLE NAZIS IN WILNO STREETS   British Report Soviet Force: Within 60 Miles of East Prussia

ALLIES GIVE RECOGNITION 10 DE GAULLE   France Emerges Again as Nation in Control of —Destinies

AlliesOK DeGaulle  Regime   France Stands On Its Own as Great Power

nited Nations ecognize Gaulle Rule   ance Once More Has  ntrol of Its Destiny: wer Turns  wer Most of Nation

FRANCE ARISES AS NEW NATION   DeGaulle Government Is Recognized Ry Allies

DeGaulle Regime Wins Recognition  From ‘Big 3’   Eisenhower Hands  Metropolitan France  Except Combat Zone To de Gaulle Group  CAFFERY JS ENVOY

DeGaull Is Named Head For. France   U: S., Britain, And Russia Recogn Provisional Regime

FRANCE PLACED IN CONTROL OF HER OWN AFFAIR‘   Regime of De Gaulle Recognized as Provisional Government by U. S., Britain and Russia.   NEW LEADERS TO RULE IN NON-COMBAT AREAS   Washington Names Ambassador to Country and May Soon Unfreeze Billion in Nation’s Assests.

Allies Accept Gen. De Gaulle’s  French Regime   ‘Interior Zone,’ Which Includes Paris, Now In Government Hands

GIVEN REGIME OF DEGAULLE   Simultaneous Action Taken by United Nations

Government Of DeGaulle Recognized   Regime of General Now  To Be Provisional.   Government Of France

DE GAULLE GROUP NOW. RECOGNIZED   French Provisional Government Accepted By Allies; Renublic. Reborn

Judge Extends His Order In Ward Dispute   Restrains Officials O:  _ Firm From Hinderins Government Contro Of Plant

FEDERAL JUDGE EXTENDS ORDER   Restrains Ward Officials From Interfering With Government Control.   WILL RULE WEDNESDAY

ORDER AGAINST WARD EXTENDED   Judge to Rule Wednesday  on Company Request

House Backs Ward Probe   300 To Vote Authorizes lay Ubtization of Governmen® Sejzure.

J udge Extends Injunction I  Ward-U. S. Suit   Order Restrains Mail Or der Firm From Interfering With Government  _ Control of Business

JUDGE EXTENDS. WARD INJUNCTIO   Ruling On U.S. Seizure Of Chicago Firm Set  For Wednesday

SOME WAR VETS ARE DRAFTED AGAIN   Those Fully Recovered From Wounds Must Be Given Old Ranks.

WOUNDED YANKS BEING DRAFTED   Ballot Battle Goes On and Liquor Hunt Starts

Re-Drafting Discharged Vets Who Have Recovered From Wounds In Battle

NINTH DIVISION CLOSES IN FOR FINAL BLOWS   Front Dispatches Say Yanks Less Than Four Miles From City

GOP WINS BY LANDSLIDE IN MAINE ELECTION   Three Congressmen, Governor Art Elected By Very Large Vote

Maine Goes GOP By Large Vote   Margin Biggest Ever Recorded In State —

b. 0. P. SWEEPS MAINE ELECTION   REPUBLICANS ELECT GOVERNOR, CONGRESSME!

Reds Close In on Nazis In North":      Kingisepp, Nozi_ Stronghold, Under Fierce Assault;.”: Defenses Broken ~

Reds Continue Headlong Sweep Toward Estonia   Close In From Two Directions On Nazi Bastion of Kingisepp

RED ARMY CLOSES IN ON KINGISEPP   American Flyers Destroy 546 Jap Planes In One Month, Allies Lose 97.

REDS SWEEP ON TOWARD ESTONIA   Spearheads Now Within 12 Miles Of Frontier

Soviet Forces Drive Toward Estonia Border   Threaten To ‘Trap Big Force Of Germans Near Leningrad

Governors Say South Still In Democratic Fold   Think Freight Rate Question Can Best Be Handled By The Democratic Party.

Dixie Democrats Forget Third Party Squabbles   Fill Banquet Hall With Huzzahs For Wallace Again As Candidate.

‘Love Feast Keeps Dixie Bloc in Line   . Wallace Wins Cheers _From Former Crities At Democrat Dinter:

Threat Of Southern Revolt Among Democrats Is Melted During Conclave In Capital

Dixie Democrats Forget Dispute, Cheer Wallace   Threats of Bolt By Southerners Has Melted Away

WALLACE WINS PLAUDITS OF SOUTHERNERS   Roosevelt Mollifies Bolt Threaten ing Democrats—West and Soul Join in Freight Rate Demands

DIXIE REVOLT OFF; WALLACE GIVEN PRAISE   Southern States To “Vote The Ticket”

BRICKER IN BID FOR FARM VOTES   Ohio Governor Charges New Deal Promises Have  Been Broken   VISITS KANSAS TODAY

Bricker Says New Dealers  Trick Farmers      Candidate Declares Needed Machinery Shipped Abroad

Bricker Accuses New Deal of Betraying Land ©  Candidate Declares New Deal Has Broken Promises

HITS NEW DEAL FARM PLEDGES   ‘Shamefully Broken’, Says Bricker In Kansas Appearance

BRICKER ON AIR TONIGHT AT 9:30   Ohio Governor Says New Deal  Mistreats Farmers

U.S. Bombers And Germans Battle   BIG AIR DUEL WAGED OVER GERMANY PROPER.

U5, WARSHIP ~ SUNK BY U-BOAT   DESTROYER ESCORT TORPEDOED IN ATLANTIC—CASUALTIES NOT DISCLOSED.

YANK DESTROYER ESCORT IS SUNK   Fiske Sent to Bottom of Atlan tic by a Torpedo, Navy Reports

1,5. Destroyer  Eseort Sunk   Fiske Down In Atlantic When Hit By Torpedo

(Marines Seize 2 More Islets In Palau Group   Ngesebus, Kongauru Fall To Ya ks in New

BRITISH SUBS DESTROY 21 JAP SUPPLY SHIPS    ‘Japs Now Are Denying They Executed B-29 Bomber   Crews.

SEDITION TRIAL BARES NAZI PLANS   Sent Teen-Agers To Germany to Learn Doctrines

MOKMER FALLS TOU. S, TROOPS, ARADURA TAKEN   More Successes Are Reported In Pacific Theatre Of Operations

DRAFT PROBE BEGUN IN CLINTON COUNTY   Board Resigned in. Protest Over Deferment

Report Yanks Drive Japs Back In Upper Burma   New Delhi Report Acclaims Progress By U. S. Troops Against Enemy

American Infantrymen In Indian Jungles Repulse Crack Japanese Units

Dyrnes Moves To Speed Flow Of Ammunition   Army General, Several Civilians Are Named . Te Solver Prahlom

War Production Staff Enlarged   Byrnes Reveals Plan For More Munitions

DEATH DELAYS SOLDIER DEBATE   SOLON PASSES; ACTION ON MEASURES POSTPONED

Allies Defeat Japs At Three Points On Plain Above Imphal   Bitter Fighting Continues For Hill Feature After Two Days Of Battle Near Jungle Track

ALLIED FORCES = TAKE 3 JAPANESE DEFENSE POSTS   They Were Located Northeast of the Plain of Imphal, It Is Announced.   LASH OUT WITH TANKS   Are Pushing Their Offensive Against Japanese Invasion Forces.

Allies Advance Against Japs In India Battle   Armored Forces Enter Fight Against Nippons

Allies Attack Japs With Tanks   Capture Three Small Defensive Positions On Plain of Imphal

ALLIES ADVANCE IN IMPHAL AREA   Tank Units Take Three Jap  Positions in Northeast

Allies Employ Tanks in Indian Fight   More Advances Are Being Recorded Against Japanese

Allies Force Japanese Back   Tanks Used on India Invaders; 72 Jap River Craft Shot Up By Planes

Allies Lash Out Against Japs in India   Scores Gains And Take 3 Small Defensive Positions

ALLIES USE TANKS IN INDIA FIGHT   Three Small Jap Positions Northeast Of Imphal Taken

Allies Lash Out Against Foe Near Besieged Imphal   Tank Forces Score Further Advances in Bitter Fighting; No Change at Kohima

Tanks Attack Jap Invaders Of India   British Eurpire Forces Begin Counteroffensive.

ALLIED TANKS AND INFANTRY GAIN IN INDI   Offensive Against Japanese Takes Three Positians North of Imphal.

Some Gains Are  Made In Burma   Small Successes By Altes Reported

Allied Tanks and Infantry Hurl Back Invaders; Other Thrusts Are Checked

DEMOS ASSAIL BENEFITS BILL   Measure ‘Does Not Provide Anything,’ Is Claim

HEAVY SHELLS TEAR CASSING   Nazi Losses Reported Heavy  ee     Bayonet Fighting In Village

TEAR HUGE GAPS IN CASSINO LINE   ‘Milica Big Guns  Inflictine Heavy Casualties on  Germans

Pravda ‘Rumor’ Report Feared Blow At Unity   Polish-Russian Rift Believed Responsible

LOCAL MAN SCORES — SUBSIDY PROGRAM   R. C. F. Weagley De. nounces Plan in Farm Bureau Address

ALLIED BOARD SPURS NEW ITALIAN REGIME   All Parties Would Play Part, Russian Official Says

ptt iy  Classical-Music : Called of Benefit .  Ta Coanralescente

UNINSTRUCTED ENVOYS ASKED   State Democratic Commit: tee Urges Free Delegates

Goddard to Wed Mereditk in Tijuana   THIRD MARRIAGE FOR ACTRESS, FORMER WIFE OF CHAPLIN

a WEDDED 10.      Jeanette Campobosso Bride of ‘Songt. Clifford J. . Bradley

U.S. Bombers Hit Berlin and Other  Areas in Germany  Forty Planes Lost In Day’s Assaults; : Waeather Dalawe Armie

ASSAULT FIRST FOR YANKS ON . NAZIS’ CAPITA   Eastern Germany Also Hit; Allies Slow Enemy Forces in Italy

Fighting Hits New Peak on Sainan Island   2,000 More Japs Are Buried in Last Two Davs

Nimitz Reports Continued Gains In Saipan Fight   Capture 80 Tanks, Large Quantities Of Jap Equipment

‘ALLIES USING IDEAL WEATHER FOR AIR BLOWS   Armadas Of Planes Support Invasion Forces On French Coast

GERMANS SHELL ALLIED TROOPS NORTH OF ROME   Allies Advancing Farther North In Italy

U.S. Heavies Smash af Sever Oil Refineries   Bottle Through Nazi Fighters to Reach Targets in Hungary And Yuaostlavia

Yanks Bombard Oil Refineries   Nazi Bases In France Belgium Blasted

Night Watchman At Antrim Mine Fatally Injuret  LeRoy Watkins, 58, Die   LeRoy Watkins, 58, Dies After Fall From Mine Shovel

ere FOR UNEMPLOYED — ~) WILL.GET ATTENTION St SOON   SEVERAL PROPOSALS TO AID , JOBLESS DURING RECON VERSION WILL COME   BEFORE CONGRESS

AMINO TRATION MAPS WORK RELIEF PLANS   Benefits Would Be Stop-Gap During Co:.version Pericd

BRIGGS ENTERS ~ INNOCENT PLES   Subdued, Serious, He Denies Forgery

Briggs Pleads Innocent To Forgery Charges   Denies Writing “Hopkins Letters’

Briggs Pleads Forgery Innocence   Interior Department Aide Denies “Hopkins Letter’ Charaes

Geo. N. Briggs Pleads Innocent   Former Assistant Of Secretary Ickes Denies All Charges

BRIGGS DENIES ALLEGED FORGER’   Pleads Innocent of Writing Celebrated Hopkins Letter

Briggs Pleads To Letter Charge Claims Inn nocence  be U..Lin. Deewnu

BRIGGS PLEADS NOT GUILTY ON FORGERY CHARGE   Grant Attorneys of Ickes’ Aide Three Weeks to Prepare Case

Not Guilty, Briggs Says   Enters Disclaimer To All “Hopkins Letter” Charges

BRIGGS DENIES GUILT IN ‘HOPKINS LETTER   Attorneys Get Three Weeks For Filing Of Motions

RIGGS DENIES FORGERY CHARGE   PLEADS INNOCENT TO ALLEDGED FAKING OF ‘HOPKINS LETTER’

BRIGGS DENIES LETTER CHARGE   Former Aid to Sec. Ickes En. _ ters Not Guilty Plea to Indictment.

BRIGGS DENIES FORGERY CHARGE   Attorneys Given Three Weeks To File Demurrers

Briggs Pleads Not Guilty In  For gery Case   Former Confidential Aid to Ickes Denies He Sigued Harry Hopkins’. Name to Letter

George Briggs Enters Plea Of Innocence   Asserts Federal Charge Of Forgery Connected With “Hopkins’ Letter”

‘Denies Forging Hopkins’ Name   Briggs Pleads Innocent To Charge He Faked Hovkins’ Letter.

BRIGGS PLEADS HE'S INNOCEN}   Former Ickes Aide En. ters Disclaimer in “Hopkins Letter”

Bri gos Denies That He Forged Hopkins Letter      Pleads Innocent Today When Arraigned In Celebrated ‘Forged Letter’ Case

Briges Enters Innocent Plea   Former Aide To Iekes Appears To Answer Federal Indictments,

ENEMY PUSHED ~ BACK IN ITALY   Canadian Troops Establish Two Lamone Bridgeheads

BRITISH FORGE ACROSS LAMONE   Northern Flank Of British Attack In Italy Pushes Along Ravenna - Bologna Railway.

CANADIANS SPAN AMONE: RIVER:   ESTABLISH TWO NEW BRIDGEHEADS IN FAENZA SECTOR

BRIDGEHEADS ESTABLISHED BY CANADIANS   Germans are Shoved Back Two Miles in Direction Of Lugo, Headquarters Announces

Churchill Cites Threat of Civil War in Greece   Britain, U.S. Take Steps to Halt Disorders

BALKAN CAPITAL UNDER BARRAGE   Swarms ef 15th Airforce Warplanes Strike Ahead : Of The Russian Advance.

SPUD PRICE GOOD   Thus Far No.  Grade Is Bringing $2.65; Yield Only Fair.

SPUD PRICE. GOOD   Thus Far No.  Grade Is Bringing $2.65; Yield  aly By : 

Allied Bombers Open Battle on Beaches of Channel Coast of France in Early Dawn Tuesday.

Weather Halts Allied Air Activity   Fighter Bombers Cntinue Offensive

Captive 16- Year-Old German Medic Happily Envisions Life in U.S2-:

Denies Talk OF  Vichy Dealings   state Department Says Rumors Of Collaboration ‘False On Their Face’ *

Final Victory In Pacific Depends On Beating Army   22,000 Japs Isolated y When Allies Take Green Islands By  Surprise

Solomons Campaign Has Ended   MacArthur Says Japan Cannot Be Defeated Through Blockade and Bombing Alone

New Island Landings By U. S. Forces Bring End  To Solomons Campaign

End Of Solomons - Campaign Is Announced Today  SEIZE ISLANDS Must Defeat Jap

Solomons Conquest Complete   An Estimated 22,000 Jap Troops Trapped By Allied Landings  On Green Islands

DECLARES FATE OF JAPS SEALED   ALLIED TROOPS MOVE INTO GREEN ISLANDS, CUT OFF 122,000 NIPS

19-Month Solomons Campaign Finished, MacArthur Says   New Allied Landings Isolate 22,000 Jap Troops Remaining

Solomons Drive Ends i in Success   22,000 Japs Isolated in Surprise Operation

ALLIES OCCUPY KEY ISLANDS IN SOLOMONS   MacArthur Anpounces Solomons Campaign Ended, For All Strategic Purposes   TRAP 22,000 JAPS      ‘Uliimate Fate is Sealed,’ Says Commander, But Declares Jepan’s Army Must Be.Mel, De-

MacArthur Says Defeat Of Japanese Army Necessary for Victory   Campaign for Solomons Has Been Completec With Capture of Green Islands; 22,000 Enemy Troops Cut Off From Supplies

Statement Follows Allied Capture of New Islands; 22,000 Japs Trapped

SOLOMONS DRIVE IS COMPLETED   22.000 Japanese Isolated From   Rabaul Supply Base

Solomons Campaign  Is Ended   22,000 Japs Sealed Off By U. S. Occupation of Green Islands

22,000 Japanese on Solomons Isolated MacArthur Reports   19-Months- Old Drive Complete for Every Strategic Purpose

LONG CAMPAIGN IN SOLOMONS ENDS FOR ALLIES   Seizure of Green Islands Cuts Nip Supply Lines to 22,000 Troops

99.000 Japs Isolated By ‘Allied Move   Solomons Campaign At End; Troops Land On Green Islands, Cut Off Supplies From Rabaul

22,000 JAPS ISOLATED IN BOLD SEIZURE   In Wake of Swift New Island Landings MacArthur Announces End cof Solomons Campaign   BLOCKS SUPPLY LANES

MACARTHUR SAYS JAP ARMY MUST BE DEFEATED —   Announcing End of Solo‘mon’s Campaign He Says ‘Final Victory Depends on Army’s Defeat

Yanks Seize Green Islands   Completes Campaign In Solomon Islands, MacArthur Says

Gen. MacArthur Announces End Solomons Campaign, Bul Declares That In Order To Assure Victory Jan Army Mus! Be Defeated

END CAMPAIGN FOR SOLOMON      American and New Zealand Troops Move Inte Green Islands.   I MUST BEAT JAP ARMY

Must Defeat Jap Army--MacArthur   Blockade, Bombing, Held Not Enough

SOLOMON ISLE CAMPAIGN ENDS   22,444 Japs Isolated By Successful Invasion  Of Green Islands

LONG CAMPAIGN FOR SOLOMONS ISLANDS BROUGHT TO CLOSE  OCCUPATION OF GREEN ISLANDS ISOLATES 22.000 JAPANESE

Allies Write Finis To Drive  In Solomons   MacArthur Warns Victorious Troops Jap Army Must Be Defeated, However

Allies’ Conquest Of Solomons Is Complete Today   Enemy Troops Isolated, Face Annihilation, MacArthur Says

Widen Breach In Gothic Line In New Attacks   Report Germans Are With. drawing From Strategic Futa Pass   CLARK’S FORCES TAKE HIGH GROUND

INVASION COAST {S ALLIED BOMB TARGE   50 German Bombers Strike Back At Britain

Aerial Blows Exchanged Over England, France   Strong Enemy Force Strikes At London, East Anglica

FDR, BROUGHTON AS PRESIDENTIAL DUO N. CAROLINA IDEA   Florida Voters, Late Returns Show, Place Sen. Harry F. Byrd in Presicential Race Against His Will

Florida Voters Put Harry Byrd In Presidential Race; N. C. Stands Pat

North Carolina Demos Make 4th Term Move   Gov. Broughton Is _ Endorsed as F, R. Running Mate

FLORIDA PUTS BYRD IN RACE   Four Candidates Pledged To Virginian Believed Elected

F.D.R.-Broughton Ticket Pushed   North Carolina Democrate Want Governor As Vice-President,

Daily Temperatures   Gen. Stillwell Returns to Burma To Keep Vow, Thrash the Japanese

BENZIEDENIES TAKING BRIBES   Witness Insists He Did Not Know Who Hemans Was Flepresenting.

BAY CITY SOLON DENIES BRIBERY   Benzie If Norway And Shea Of Laurium To Be Next On Stand

Troops In South Push’ Across Ingulets, Open Road To Nikolayev   Fighting At Pskov  Extremely Bitter   Berlin Radio Says Nazi Ad. vanee Posts Pulled Back To Main Defenses

Reds Within 19 Miles of Latvian Line   Russians Launch Westward Sweep; Fight for Pskov

Casualties In  War, 136,186   Estimates Of Dead Do Not Include Vietims Of Jap Atrocities.

a  Yank Casualties Approach 150,000  Jap Atrocity Victims Not Included

aa tk Total 146,186   Dead 33,153, Not Including Victims Of Jap Atrocities

ARMED FORCES CASUALTY TOLL NOW 146,186   Army and Navy Figures, Reporiing 33,153 Dead, Do Not Include Victims of Jap Atrocities

140, 106 15 TOTAL OF WAR CASUALTIES   Estimates of Dead Do Not Include Victims of Jap Atrocities.

Casualties Total Reaches 146,186   Dead 33,153; Jap Prisoner Deaths Not Included

Casualty List Is Increasing  146,186 Men Reportec On Casualty List Now

RAF Lashes Rail Centers   Mosquito Raiders Drop Blockbusters on Berlin

Drop Scores Of Two ton Blockbusters On City HOUR LONG PARADE SPEARHEADS DRIVE  91 Mile Stretch Of Canals Drained Dry

Great Sky Fleet Blasts Rhineland   Rail Centers, Supply Bases Heavily Bombed

Airmen Send Flaming Oil Down on Japs   MacArthur's Planes Split Open Storage Tanks in Hills of  Dutch New Guinea

Blazing Attack Answers Jap Atrocity Brag   Flaming Rivers of Oil Fiy Down When Bombers Rip Center

War Bond Score   ‘Allied Fliers Give Answer In Flaming  ica Of Oil

Foe's Hint ‘Superfort’ Fliers Were .Executed Brings New Raids on Nips

Argentine Corn to Be Imported by U.S.   6 Million Bushels to Start Easing Shortage.

HITLER 1S SILENT ON 55TH BIRTHDAY   German Nation Avoids  ' Even a Pretense of  Celebration 

Schnickelgruber Is 55: Germans Spend Hitler's Birthday Wondering When Aftack Will Come

PROCESSION SF BOMBERS OVER EUROPE   In Preparation For Invasion, In Wake Of Night Blows At Lyon, Aulnoye; Barrages At Pas-de-Calais.   One Plane Lost

NO NAZI FIGHTERS MET DURING RAIDS   [jmuiden “Docks of Hol land Blasted by the Marauders

1,700 Planes Smash Again AtCoast Of Europe   000 to 750 Bombers  Pound Pas-de-Calais  Part of Invasion Coast ‘Without Opposition  THUNDERBOLTS HIT

1,700 Planes Smash  ° Invasion Coast Area   Fighters Sweep Airdromes in Sight of Paris Without Seeing Single Plane: Operations Cost Americans Six Craft

1,700 PLANES HIT INVASION ‘COAST AREAS   Airdromes Near Paris ® Also Blasted By  Yank Airmen

2, 400 Tons of Bombs Blast 'Hitler’s Invasion Rampart   Atlantic Wai, Dutch Port, Raihvey Junction in. France Pounded With No Interception From Germans

BOMBERS POUND INVASION AREA, HOLLAND DOCKS   Probably 1,700 Planes Sent Against NaziHeld Targets; 6 Planes Lost

Forfresses, Liberafors Have Big Day   Bomb Airdromes In Paris Area

Marauders Hii German  E-Boat Nests   Thundering Aerial Barrages Rattle Windows in Britain

U.S. bombers strike blows at continent  Invasion coast ee, Bee: be

Tank, Track Tosies High      Patterson’ Stresses Production: Plans

Eisenhower Needs Equipment  300 Tanks, 900 Trucks Lost 'Monthly On Western Front

Eisenhower’s Forces Losing 500 Tanks, 900 Trucks Wonthiv.   ENGINE MAKERS STRIKE

Army Supplies Greatly Needed   Rising Production Can’t Keep Up With Increased Military Demand.

Yanks Need More Supplies  Output On Schedule, But Demand I[ncrease:

MORE AMMUNITION NEEDED BY YANKS   Replacement Tar Tanks Called ‘Imperative’

Plants Fai ‘Ike's Needs   Production Rising, But Not Fast Enough, Undersecretary Says

Artillery Shells  Reserves Gone   Being Used Faster Than Manufactured

‘lke’ Asks More War Supplies As Workers Strike   Over 32,000 Airplane Engine Builders Idle In East

New York Governor Declares Nation’s Foreign Policy Should :Be- Conducted With View to’ Preventing Recurrence of ‘War—Hits at Regimentation—Asserts Civilians Are Worried “About Bungling” On Home Front.

DOMBERS Hil 4 JAP SHIPS IN CELEBES RAID   ~ lard Blows Struck at Foe in Air Attacks Over Wide Area

Four Jap Ships Sunk In Raid   Hit By Naval Bombers In Attack Off Celebes.

AIRFIELD CLOSE TO PHILIPPINES   Four Japanese Cargo Vessels Destroyed In Celebes Raid

Germans Anticipate Invasion of Balkan Nations on “D-Day’   Reinforce Defenses on Dalmation Coast te Meet Possibility

Nazis Expect New Invasion From Italy Through Balkan:   Red Air Force . Smashes German  Sink Vessels in Black Sea and Blast Lwow

Nazis Forecast Allied Drive in  Mediterranean   Cite Troop Movements in Italy. Fear Blow at Dalmatian Coast

NAZIS EXPECT INVASION ON MANY FRONTS   Germans Fortify Lines; Expect New Drives

Report Large Allied Troop Move In Ital)   Bomb-Happy Nazis Say Sth, 8th Armies Now Preparing Concerted Attack With Invasion

Mediterranean. Activities Seen _ Threat To Nazis   New'Allied Offensive Plans Reported As Germans ‘Reinforce Balkan Lines

ALLIED MOVE IN ITALY SEC AS NEW PERIL   Nazis Strengthen Dalmatian Coast Defenses to Meet Thrust.

‘GERMANS EXPECT NEW ALLIED DRIVE IN MEDITERRANEAN   New Offensive to Coin cide with Western Invas. ion Brings Reinforce _mwente

BERLIN REPORTS ALLIED ACTIVITY IN SOUTH ITALY   INTIMATE ATTACK TO COINCIDE WITH WESTERN INVASION

Balkan Drive Feared by Nazis  Defenses Tightened In Dalmatian Area

Nazis Reinforce Dalmatian Area  Expecting Attack In Mediterranean

Partisans Aided Reds In Odessa   HEROIC FIGHT SAVED CITY FROM NAZI TORCH.

10,000 Russians Lived In Odessa Catacombs For Months While Nazis Ruled

Cave Dwelling Soviets Created a \Reign of Terror for Nazis in Odessa

FORECASTS OF. ~ FUTURE MADE   BARUCH, - (RAISER AND KRUG OPTIMISTIC OVER POSTWAR. INDUSTRY AND PEACE --

Present Plans For Prosperity, Peace   Will Speak Saturday Night In New York

BARUCH GIFT 1S ANNOUNCEL   ‘FINANCIER-SETS UP BIG FUND TO FURTHER THE STUDY : "QF PHYBICAL THERAPY 

WPB Officials Act Despite Army aud Navy Contentiou It Might ‘Torpedo’ Hiring Controls

CIVILIAN GOODS OUTPUT ASKED   Military Men Object To WPB Head’s Proposed  Program

1 WPB MEMBERS FAVOR STARTING RECONVERSION   Labor Members Say Unemployment Already Evident In Some Places

Russians Reach Outer Defenses of Mannerheim Line   Capture 120 Towns On Eighth Day of Finland Campaign

DRIVE NETS 170 TOWNS   Russians Only 23 Miles From City of Viipuri

Reds Draw Near ‘Gate Of Finland   Outer Defenses Of Viipuri Taken In Crushing. Drive

Britain Stands Pat On Polish  Border Issue   Will Not Recognize Any Changes Effected Since —Aneuat. 1939.

Po», DEWEY “@O BRICKER HAP PLANS   Republican Leaders Outline Campaign Strategy in Albany

DEWEY AND BRIGKER MEET ~ JO DISCUSS THE CAMPAIGK   CONFERENCE BEING HELD IN ALBANY TO GO OVER i8SUES AND PROPOSED BPEAKING TOURS

12,500 American Planes Strike At Heart Of German   2,000 Strike From Britair Over Fierce Channe Storm, Others Fron Italy.

BRICKER PUSHES BUDGET BALANCE   Current ‘Spend, Waste, Tax And Borrow Policy’ Hit

BALANCED BUDGET ~ 1S BRICKER PLEA   Tells Governors U. S. Must Biuld On Solid Rock of Financial Solvency

Bricker Says Nation Must Build on Rock of Solvency, Equity, Justice

Bricker. Urges Sound Finances Calls For Revamping Of Entire Tax System

ENTRY OF YARKEES INTL LE MANS IS INDICATED   British and Canadian Forces Score Important Gains Near Caen   INAZI COUNTER OFFENSIVE STOPPED   German Losses Terrific — Big French Ports Still Held By Enemy

SWISS SAY NAZIS REMOVE TROOPS FROM BORDEAUX   British and Canadians Gain in Drive to Unhinge German Line   BULLETIN

Report Raid On Celebes, Philippines   MacArthur Reports Joy Sixth Air Division Has Been Almost Wiped Out

Eisenhower Broadcasts To Kurope  Tells Them Hor  tt. wT «28   Tells Them Hour Of Liberation Is Approaching

JAP FORCES DRIVEN BACK BY CHINESE   Defenders Make Great Comeback To Ease Threat

Break Siege, Drive Main Body of Jap Troops Back 25 Mites on Railway

CHINESE SMASH BACK TO BREAK HENGYANG SIEGE   Jap Threat To Vital Railway Removed

Smashing Assault Sends Foe Reeling 25 Miles From City   Column Driving Northward From Canton Area Stalied Completely; Leivans Force Being Wined Out

CHINESE BREAK SIEGE OF HENGYANG   Drive Main Body Of Japanese Back 25 Miles

Lift Siege — Of Henyang   Chinese Forces Smash Japs Back 25 Miles As 8th War Year Begins

Hengyang’s Defenders  Break Siege   Japs Driven Back 25 Miles, as Chinese Scere Victories eu Both Fronts

Threat To Vital R. R. Removed   Break Siege Of Hengyang, Enemy In "s Full Retreat.

Chinese Lift Hengyang Siege ln Smashing Comeback; Japs Are Driverf Back Many. Miles:

CREAT JAPANESE ARMY IS FORCED INTO RETREAT ANB ‘DRIVE INTO CHINA DELAYED   Smashing Victory Obtained by Chinese Army Aft. er Seven Years of Hard War. . Today Marks  Anniversary of Japanese Attack on China

Chinese Score  Sudden Victory   Main Body Of Jap Army Driven Back

Chinese Stage Smashing Gain At Hengyang   Japs Driven Back Twenty-Five Miles In Hunan Province

China Smashes To Comeback In Hunan Area   ‘Hengyang Siege Broken, Japs Driven Back 25 Miles As Dissection Stonned

[Main Body of Japanese  Troops Driven Back Dis. tance of Twenty-five  Miles

Chinese Break Jap Siege Of Hengyang   China Enters Eighth Year of War by Driving Japs Back

Chinese Have Broken Siege Of Hengyang   Smash Comeback Drives Japanese Back 25 Miles in Vital Area

U.S. Airmen Attack City’s Rail Yards; British. Ships Shell Yugoslavian Island

British Warships Shell Island to   Assist Yugoslavs   Clark Reports Beachhead In Satisfactory Condition—Visited There

ALLIED BOMBERS IN ATTACK ON VITAL WAR INSTALLATIONS  BRITISH WARSHIPS BOME   BRITISH WARSHIPS BOMBARD ISLAND TOWNS IN _ SUPPORT YUGOSLAVS

Nazi Railroad ards Blasted InHeavy Raid   British Destroyers Shell Island Off Dalmatian Coas?

—. FLORENCE —   Railroad Yards In Historic Italian  City Are, Attacked

Rail Targets Objectives in First Smash   Yards Used to Supply German Forces; British Warships Shell Islands

March Is Strike Month In Britain   Unions Strive To  Keep Up Work

LABOR UPRISING UPSETS BRITAIN   Valuable Working Time Lost As Coal Miners Stage Walkout

Americans Fight . : Amid Alban Hills   Yankees Near Via Casilina, Outflanking Velletri

Fifth Army Sweeps Beyond Cisterna,  Occupies Cori; Entire Battalion of Germans Quits to Onrushing Yanks

Russia-Polish Quarrel Is Bar to Peace   World Security Threat Seen in Breach Between Governments

RUSSHAN-POLISH TANGLE SERIOUS   Quarrel Seen As Menace To Security Of The Postwar World

Pole Situation  Is Dangerous  Authorities Taking  Grave View Of Affair

Polish-Russian Impasse Seen As Peace Threat  Quarrel Threatens Future Amity  Of Postwar World

Grave View Of Red, Pole Row   Authorities In Washington Say Quarrel Reaches Dangerous Stage.

Taken to Police Headquar_tera Shortly Before Fu-, neral For Mrs. Phyl . lis Newmark

POLITICS SEEN IN DRAFT TALK   Message To Congress Is Branded First Move For Fourth Term

Bill of Rights Laid Down by President Makes It Clear He Believes Social Changes Should Be Pressed After War— Republicans Believe It Gives Outline of What Executive Wants Democratic Convention to Indorse.

ATH TERM BID SEEN BY G.0.P.   President’s Message Held Preview of Democratic  Platform

Republicans Flay FD. R. Message  Deciare It Open Bid For Fourth Term

Senator Barkley Will Support Fourth Term For President Roosevelt

Roosevelt Accused of "Proven Lack of Foresight" by Asst. GOP Chairman

Charges Delay in War Plans   Maine G. 0. P. Leader Lay Lack of Foresight: to President.

Kisenhower Broadcast Asks French Underground To Guide The Invaders

Eisenhower Gives D-Day Broadcast   Tells Europeans They Must Help

Nazi Broadcasts Estimate 3,500,000 Troops Ready For Big Invasion ‘Jump’

New Instructions To Underground  Allies Ask Detailed   Allies Ask Detailed Data About Bridges, Roads and Woods

3.900.000 Men To Hit Europe,  Axis Estimates   Eisenhower Staff Gives Instructions to Allied Patriots as Germans Guess Invasion Power

INVASION AREA SENT MESSAGE   Eisenhower Asks People To Be Ready To Help Allied Forces

Radio Alerts  Invasion Zone   Allied Bulletin Stresses Underground Guidance

Another Appeal Goes To Europe   Nazis Speculate On Allied Blows  By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE  Bescnxintad Yoeman Gban hd til olibae

Instructions on Invasion Are Again Given by Radio To Underground in Europe

SAYS-EISENHOWER HAS 3,000,000 MEN   GERMAN PREDICTS BLOW IN BALKANS AS WELL AS : ACROSS CHANNEL,

ALLIES GIVING D-DAY ADVICE   Patriots Told to Have In: structions For Guiding Invaders

Germans Warned To Prepare for. ~ Multiple Blows   Eisenhower’ Issues More _Instructions to: ‘Underground.

Many Nazis  Surrender, ‘Russians Say   Soviets Regain Areas Lost in First Month Of Conflict in East  BIG RAIL HUB FALLS

Border Town Taken; 6000 Nazis Killed   Russians Say Many Germans Surrendering and Changing Sides

Reds Sweep Up Nazi Bastions In Vast Gains   Report Hundreds of Germans Throw Down Arms in Disastrous Rout Before Torrent of Soviet Power

REDS REGAIN SOIL LOST IN 1941 INVASION   SOUTHERN UKRAINE GERMAN FORCES FACE DISASTER

GERMANS PAY IGH PRICE ‘OR GAINS   Streets of Town Piled With Layers Of Nazi Dead

TRAP CLOSING “AROUND NAZIS “AN THE SOUT   FRENCH’ AND AMERICA‘ “. FORCES CLEAR CERMANS FROM WESTERN HALF OF > IMPORTANT crTk

Kaw and Blue Are Near Flood Stage   Heavy Ruins in Northwest ~ Cause Rivers to Leave ~ Banks   CREST HERETOMORROW   Flora Predicts Kaw Here Will Reach 23 Feet Sunday Evening 

Floods Develop On Kansas Rivers  Weave Quarflessr nm   Heavy Overflow on Blue Reported; Kaw  Dicacter Imminant

Streams Out In North   Blue, Republican and Kaw Flooding After. Week of Heavy Rain

French, Belgian Bases Get Brunt of U. S. Bombing    Another Multi-Pronged Assault Made On Nazi Aircraft Works —

PRE-INVASION OFFENSIVE HITS FRENCH AREAS   - Attack Rounds Out Three Days Of Concentrated Aerial Assaults

Yank Planes Hit France, Belgium      U.S. Forces Smash at Aircraft Plants, Fields on 300-Mile Front

ONE-MAN ARMY IS BACK HOME   Soldier Who Killed 60 Ger. mans, On Furlough, Almost Broke

One-Man "Army" Who Killed 60 Germans Returns Home On Furlough, Broke But Happ’

Hero’s Home With $20 In His Pockets   ‘One Man Army of Anzio,’ Pfc. Alton Knappenberger of Pennsylvania, Surprises Mom—He Killed 20 Nazis on Anzio.

“One Man Army of Anzio” Comes Home With Congressional Medal of Honor, But Broke

Hero Comes Home Broke  ++ + a “One Man pda Didn't Have Heart To Cash War Bond

COMMANDOS IN NEW LANDINGS TO ROUT NAZIS   Dutch Isle Sought To Rid Antwerp Approaches of All German Defenses

Allies Invading Isle Controlling Port Of Antwerp   Retreating Nazis May Make New Stand North Of Rhine Estuary.

NEW LANDINGS MADE TODAY BY ALLIED TROOPS   Walcheren Island Invaded; Advance  Tower Antwerp

Say Violent Battle For Port Of Flushing Rages   Expect Quick Liberation Of Island To Open Antwerp For Allied Ships

Opening Sea Lane To Antwerp Is [Allied Objective   British Announce  New Step in Battle For Port Facilities; Nazis Escape Trap

Pinchers Placed  bs Last Germans Blocking Antwerp   Flooded Walcheren Island Squeezed From Two Sides

British Land Soldiers on Dutch Island   Mak: Bold Bid to Wipe Out Blcckade of Approaches  To Antwerp ,

Late Report ClaimsGood Progress ls  Being Made   Pincers Is Set Up To Clear Lanes For Antwerp

Making Good Progress in Drive to Smash Last Barrie: To Sealane to Antwerp   Canadians Land, Toe  Force Way Across Causeway and Seize Foothold on East Side of Island

Commandos Go Ashore From Fifty Ship:   Canadians Also Move Up in Final Phase of Drive to Clear Antwerp   HOLLAND FRONT GREATLY EXTENDED   Fleeing Germans Expected to Make Next Major Stand On Neder Rhine

Report Good  Progress   Link Made With Beveland to the East; 5lug 300 Yar: . Ahead

Canadians Fight “Their Way Onto Key Island, Too   Pincers Closes On Last Germans Barring Waterwav To Antwerp.

ISLAND GUARDING ANTWERP INVADED FROM SEA TODAY  CANADIANS ALSO FOUGH ~ WAY ONTO ISLAND OVER CAUSEWAY ALSO

TROOPS MAKE A LANDING ON WALCHEREN   Commandos Strike From South and West as Canadians Cross From East to Last Barrier on Antwerp Sea Lane. ~°

British Commandos Invade Walcheren For Antwerp Kaye   Pincers Drive is Aimed at Clearing Nazi Harbor Nest

To Free Antwerp Sea Lanes   Landings Coordinated With Canadian Breakthrough in Pincers Drive On Walcheren

Making Good Progress in Drive to Smash Last Barrier To Sealane to Antwerp   Canadians Land, Too   OWE WEWEES BWI, EV  Force Way Across Causeway and Seize Foothold on East Side of Island

Allies Pound Approaches To Antwerp   Germans Tell Of New Landing On Walcheren Isle

MOST OF NAZI ARMY EVADES HOLLAND TRAP   Bulk of 40,000 Troops Get Across Maas as Rain Slows Allies; Canadians Reach Walcheran Island.

GERMANS REPORT “ALLIED LANDING   Amphibious. Forees Attack From South Shore _ Of Walcheren Island   ‘ESCAPE 'TRAP   Skillful Enemy With: drawal Saves Most Of 40,000 Troops

BRITISH COMMANDOS: STORMED ASHORE IN DRIVE FOR ANTWERP  CANADIANS BURST ACROSS CAUSEWAY ONTO EAST Trear Tsar AM FAP 6A hI.

Allies Land On Flushing, Clear Way To Antwerr  Germans Withdraw Most Of Forces

British Land On  Walcheren Island   Commandos Are Tighten. ing the Pincers on the Nazi Forces   ESTABLISH BEACHHEAD   Allies Are Battling to Oper Sea Lanes Leading to Antwerp

Allies: Open. Last Avenue Te Antwerp. Says Report.   Action Comes. After Artillery Barrages

2-Way Pincers Clamped U pon Nazi Holdouts   Foe Slowing Drive on Maas With Stubborn Rearguard Action

Nazis Report New Landings To Clear Lane To Antwerp   Trapped Germans In Flushing Apparently Caught In Two-Way Squeeze; New Enemy Defense Expected On Neder Rhine From Rotterdam To Arnhem

CLIMAX NEAR IN BATTLE 10 FREE HOLLAND   ‘Canadians Drive Into Enemy Defenses Of Schelde Estuary

Drive to Pry Oper Big Port   Commandos Make Progress in Clearing Antwerp Sea Lanes

PINCERS ON ANTWERP IS OPENED   Indicate Germans Escape Another Allied Trap   Expected Along Line From Rotterdam To Arnhem: Weather Still Bad

Allies Assault Last Nazi Fort Near Ehige Port   Berlin’ Reports Blas By Amphibious Faree. dm Island Where Huns Are Holding thi   Germans Fleeing Below Maas River       st of [0.000 ' “Facaped Trap tn EL  aed British   Aid Yank Units

Seaborne Operation Reported   Assault Last Nazi Point Blocking Lane To Antwerp

Allied Forces    Block Antwerp   NEW LANDINGS MADE ON THE SEACOAST OF BELGIUM

Amphibiou Landing at Vlissingen   Allies Assaulting Last Nazi Gun Positions Blocking Sea Lane to Antwerp

British Commandos Attack Last Hans Barring Route To Antwerp   x «* « * MacArthur’s Armies Fight For Carigara   x «kK *w® * Yanks Whip Japs 8 tol In Air

Nazi Gun Positions Blocking Route To Antwerp Assaulted   Berlin Report of Landing of Amphibious Forces On South Shore of Island In Schelde Estuary Is Later Confirmed   MUD HALTS PURSUIT OF ENEMY ALONG MAAS   RVTIETIN

Commandos Aidet By Navyin Attack on Island   Amphibious Forces Expected to Free Port for Supplies

BRITISH TROOPS INVADE ISLAND NEAR ANTWERP   Land on Walcheren Isle, Last Nazi Gun Positions Guarding Lane to Port

Amphibious Landing By Allies On Walcheren   Assaulting Last German Gun Positions Blocking Way To Antwerp; Nazis Eseape From Trap

Last Nazi Blockade Assaulted   AMPHIBIOUS FORCES LAND ON WALCHEREN ISLAND IN FINAL DRIVE TO FREE PORT

To Crush Last German Points Blockading Sea Approaches To Antwerp  GOOD PROGRESS IN FIRST LANDINGS  Violent Fighting For The Island’s Main Stronghold In Progress

HOPE 10 POUR SUPPLIES INTO BELGIAN PORT   \ iolent Fighting Rages After Landing, Nazi Command Reports

Allied Troops Are Making  Fine Progress   Canadians Burst Across Causeway on East Edge of Island Despite Heavy Nazi Resistance: Pincers Drive Is Gainina

Invaders Hit Last Sea Lane Blocking Port   Canadians Battle Across Causeway Through Wall of Fire From German:

BRITISH UNITS STORM ASHORE ON KEY ISLAND   Tighten Pincers On Las! Nazi Troops Barring  Use of Harbor

STRONG PROTECTION BY NAVAL AND AERIAL FORCES GIVEN AS COMMANDOS OPEN NEW DRIVE.

DUTCH ISLE IS INVADED BY BRITISH   Seaborne Troops Are Advancing From Two Sectors

Last Detenses Betore Antwery Giving Away   Berlin Radio Says Strike is Aimed at Viillingen on  Tip of Walcheren

British Commandos Land on Walcheren Island and Gain  In Pincers Against Germans

British Storm Ashore on the Southern and Western Coast of Walcheren Island, and Get Foothold.   WOULD BAR NAZIS FROM MAKING STAND

Navy Units Aid Forces In Attacks   Counterattacks In Venlo Area Let Up After Five Days.

SMASH INLAND IN. WALCHEREN ISLAND THRUST   Pincers Drive Directed at Last Nazis Barring Sea Lane to Antwerp

Amphibious Landing Made  On Walcheren   Germans Assert Seaborne Strike Has Been Made

Allies in Attack To Open Sea Lane   Last Barrier to Port of Antwerp Assailed by Amphibious Forces

Commando Troops On Walcheren   Make Good Progress In Efforts To Wipe Out Last Nazi Resistance On Dutch Island

COMMANDOS IN ISLAND LANDING   British Make ‘Good Progress in Pincers Drive on Road To Antwerp.   ‘CANADIAN CROSS BRIDGE

British Troops Land On Walcheren Island   Canadians Cross the Causeway From Bovelaud to Walcheren

ALLIES STORM “ASHORE ON NEW ~ DUTCH ISLAND   Amphibious Thrust Aimed At Liberating Port Of Antwerp

Germany Admits Allied Thrust In Full Swing   Begin to Prepare People for News Of Reich Invasion

BERLIN TELLS OF LANDINGS   Says Allies Invade Southern France Along 125Mile Stretch

No. Surprise, bestia Say —  Of New Landings   ‘Radio Begins Preparing Germans.for Invasion  Of Homeland by Soviets

BERLIN RADIO WARNS PEOPLE OF INVASION   Lt. General Kurt Dittmar Prepares Nazi Residents Against Future Allied Thrusts At Reich

GEAMANS oFOT INVASION SITES   ‘Declare Allied Drive in South ~ France in Full Swing; Prepare People for Invasion of  The Reich

Germans Say 125 Miles of Coast Invaded  Broadcast Prepares People for

GEORGE BILL HITS DEADLOCK   Impasse May Force Measure Back Into House For Final Decision

Demobilization Bill May Be Sent Back To House For Final Decision

George Ade, Humorist, Is  Dead At 78   Famed Hoosier Author Succumbs After [liness Of A-Year

GEORGE ADE, 78, FAMED HOOSIER AUTHOR IS DEAD  LITERARY CAREER  rvrTranrn ALC   LITERARY CAREER EXTENDED OVER A HALF CENTURY

GEORGE ADE DIES AFTER SUFFERING HEART AILMENTS   Famed Author and Humorist i Dead at 78; Was Ill for Nearly Year

Frost Danger Faces State   Cold Plus Other Factors Threatens Damage To Gardens Over State

Gardeners of State Warned Of Late Frost   Weather Man Expects Tender Vegetables In Northern Area  To Be Damaged

VICTORY GARDEN FOLKS WORRIED   Forecast of Late Frost Tonight Chills Enthusiasm of Gardeners

REPULSE JAPS ON SAIPAN: 13 BARGES CONE   Yanks Fighting Desperately to Hold Island; Smash Enemy Attempt To Cut Off. Americans.   Large Garcstn ¢

Japs Tuned Back  On Saipan Island  13 Barges Sent To The  BoHeom

JAPANESE HOME ~ (ISLAND BOMBED   SUPERFORTRESSES, FLY! WG ' FROM CHINA, DROP EXPLOSIVES.ON KYUSHU:

B-298 ATTACK JAP HOMELAND   Kyushu Aircraft Center Is Target For Large Bombing Force

Rain Clouds Are Moving IntoOhio   Missouri And Illinois Get Drought Relief; Some Rainfall Expected In Ohio Valley Region

SOLDIER INJURY FATAL   PAPA’S OFF TO THE SEVEN SEAS, EVEN IF MARY ANN DOES EAT OATS

ENVOY MAY BE SENTTOMOSCOW IN NEWEST MOVE   Believed to Be. Nes  Move by Finland  Concerning Rejected Demands

NEW MOVE FINN-RUSS PEACE PLANS   No Details Given; Think Reply Has Arrived from Moscow

Finland's Peace Move Advances   Report Important New Development

Hint Finland  Near Answer   ‘Important Development Suggested On Peace

AXIS SURRENDER PLANS OUTLINED   Comple te Destruction Of Hitler’s Army Is Imperative

Nazi Surrender Terms Framed  "No Armistice,’ Plan; Prussian-Built Army Will Be Scrapped

ALLIES DRAFTING SURRENDER TERMS   PROPOSALS CALL FOR COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S ARMY,

Nazi Army fo Be Destroyed   Surrender Terms Agreed on by U. S., Britain and Russia

Surrender.  Is Planned.   Allies Draft Plans’ For ‘Nazi. Controls

Allies Make German Terms Of Surrender   Plans To Include Prussian-Built Army’s Destruction

PLANS FOR NAZI SURRENDER SAID BEING PREPARED   Still Terms Ahead For German Nation

Complete Destruction Of Prussian-Built Army ~~ [gs Called For In ‘Surrender’ Terms Of Allies

Allied Terms Planned For Nazi Surrende   Call For Full Destruction Of German Army

Surrender Terms Nearly Complete  Destruction of Nazi Army Demanded

Allies Draft Plans For Surrender Of Nazi Forces  ) -  Camolete Destruction   Complete Destruction Of Prussian-Built Army to Be Made

Surrender, Not Armistice   Big Three Plans For This War’s Terms For Germany Almost Complete

Dawson’s Plurality Surpasses 20,000; Meadows’ at 61,000   > Party Interest Remains in Race By Kenna, Hoff for Court Post; O'Brien Edees Ont Sam Chilton

Move Ahead on 150-Mile Front   Soviet Forces Pound Towards Warsaw

FRIEND HELD IN » POISON DEATH   ADMITS PUTTING RAT POISON IN PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH

Bomhers Pound Rocket-Plane Installations   Other Fortresses, Liberators Hit Oi] Refineries

COOLER WEATHER IN      But No Severe Cold Is Forecast for Kansas °

New Deal Can’t Be Trusted, Bricker Warns In Talks To Pennsylvanians

Can’t Trust New Deal, Bricker   Has Record of Broken Promises Without Parallel, He Says

“New Deal Cannot Be Trusted”   2 Years of Broker Promises Has Serious: ly Impaired’ Our Na “tion, Gov, Bricker

BRICKER SPEAKS AT HARRISBURG   Says Broken Promises Show New Deal Can Not Be Trusted —- Says Nation Needs Change

NEW DEAL CAN NOT BE TRUSTED, GOV. BRICKER DECLARES.   GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Says Administration's 12-Year Record One’ of “Deoaken Promises’

New Air Ace Is Feared Missing   Maj. Boyington Hac Just Set Record

Report Marine Ace Missing Same Day He Equals Record   Mother of Maj. Gregory Boyington Confident He'll be Found

Boyington Missing; Didn't Come  : Back from Bagging Plane No. 26

AIR ACE LOST OVER PACIFIC   Major Gregory Boyington  Missing After Down ine 26th Foe

FAMOUS FLYER LOST ON LAST JAP MISSION   Has Credit For 26 Air Kills In Pacific

TRAGIC TWIST FOR WAR'S HER(   Major Boyington, Who Downed 26 Planes, Reported Missing

Marine Ace Missing On Sweep In Which He Equalled Record   Major Boyington Did Not Come Back After Shooting Down 26th Nip, Mother Informed During Community Celebration.

Boyington Is Twenty-Seven Lost In WarIn Bus- Train Over Pacific Crash Perish

Air Ace Boyington Missing In Leading Raid on Rabu   [Former ‘Flying Tiger’ Co-Holder With Rickenbacker, Maj. Joe Foss of 26-Plane Record of ‘Aerial Kills’

Greg Boyington, Flying Ace, Is Reported Missing   Bags 26th Plane To Win Wide Fame

AIR HERO REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION : Mother Sure Son Who Downed 26 Jap Planes Will Be Found Safe

Yank Flying Ace Missing In Action After Downing 26th Jap For Record

Joins Foss-Rickenbacker Hall Of Fame.... Maj. Boyington Downs 26th Jap Plane; Fails To Return From Flight

G. Boyington, Marine Flying Ace, Missing   Report Comes Few Hours After Entry Inte Hall of Fame

CONCEDE B-2 ~ LOSSES IN RAID   Leyte Ground Forces Push Japs Back; More Enemy Warships Sunk

TWO BIG B-29 PLANES LOST   AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS REPORTS 51 JAP PLANES  DESTROYED OR DAMAGED IN BATTLE

Flood Threat Growing as Six States Battle Menace in Mid-Western Territory

Kloods Sw eeping Over Six States   Right Persous Lose Lives In Raging Waters

 —RUSSIA—  REDS 40 MILES FROM AUSTRI   Armored Columns Rip Into Final German Defense Zones

Soviets Nearing Austrian Border  Armored Units Plunge to Last Defense Zone

Reds 40 Miles From Austria   Russ Storm Past Lowel End Of Lake Balaton

German Resistance Sags In Hungary  As Red Army Drives Toward Austria

Final Zone Of Defense Is Pierced © By Soviets’   - Southeastern Reich Frontier Threatened

GREAT BATTLE IS RAGING IN FAST HOLLAND   Three to Four German Di. visions Hurled Against Force Clinging to Rhine Foothold.   SUPPLIES REACH _ TRAPPED CHUTISTS   Fifteen Miles to South Other English Forces Cross German Border at Two Points.

Strong Nazi Counterattacks ‘Threaten to Cut Narrow Rescue Line to Lite Band of Surrounded B ori tish Paratroopers. A TLE e's Gain On Other Erunts

MEN, SUPPLIES TRICKLE THROUGH   Battle Rages on Holland’s Approaches to Reich   DOUBLE INVASION   Hits Germany at Two Points In Kleve Area, Foreign Workers Told Revoit

Lose Toehold Across Neder   Reich Invaded from Holland; Slave Labor Told to: Revolt

British Clinging Sfubbornly to lts Foothold West of Arnhem   Second Army Is under Atlack as If Strives To Reach Beleaquered Airborne Force.

BRITISH FIGHT FOR FOOTHOLD ACROSS RHINE   SLIM SUPPLY LANE REACHES TRAPPED AIRBORNE UNITS

rx 7 “(7 a" . . et ~ So - ae ee ul.  2y Nez's; Seva Wo sxer  -~f - — a ech pe oe — yep

SUPPLY LANE T0 ISOLATED UNITS IS MAINTAINED   Sea-Going Trucks And Assault Boats Across Neder Rhine At Arnhem   GERMANS FIGHTING DESPERATE BATTLE

BRITISH FAIL TO RESCUE SKY UNITS   Rescurers Also Under Violent Attack; Only Dribble : Of Supplies Get Through After Nine Days Of Bitter Fichtine

Grew in Line For High Post   ® Stettinius May Name Ex.-Fnvoy as Aide

Finnish Regime May Go Under  On Peace Issue   Social Democrat Party Puts Strong Pressure On Government To Act

F innish Major Party ‘Applies Pressure  To Force Immediate Action on Peace

FINLAND SCANS PEACE OUTLOOK   Social Democratic Part) Puts Pressure On (,overnment

FINNISH LEADERS CONFER ON PEACE      Helsinki Government May Fall, on the. - Issue -

Majority Party. ~Of Finland Asks - Action on Peace   Government’“Ma y Fall _ On. Issue, Helsinki  Keports Hint

FINNS SEEKING ‘WAY TO PEACE   Helsiiki Government Lead: ers Hold Long Confer. ences on Question

August Toll of Japanese Ships Exceeds Five Daily   Far Eastern Air Forces Paving Way For Next Invasion

Airmen Continue Assault On Japs   Five Nip Ships A Day Sunk By Bombers

Jap Cruiser Hit at Dutch Celebes  Claim 92 Ships Sunk During the Manth

Riddle Jap Shipping,   Allied Planes Blast Enemy Vessels at Rate Of Five a Dav in Aug:

[Blast a Path  To Philippines   Jap Shipping Has Suffered Heavily Throuchout August

FALL TOUCH IN AIR      Night Temperatures of 60-64 Fore“cast fot Eastern Kansas

Honor Memory  Of Two Soldiers  Services for Sgt. Boyle And Pvt. Kettler

Honor Memory  Of Two Soldiers  Seryikes: for. Set. Boyle ~ And Pvt. Kettler —

LOCAL BOARD GETS POWER TO ENFORCE PRIGE CEILINGS   OPA Ruling Strengthens Community’s Control of Prices

Rationing Boards Are Empowered to Enforce ‘‘Ceilings”      OPA Price Panels May Hear Cases of Overcharge and Name Penalty

JAPANESE BEAR DOWN ON IMPHAL   Thousands Mass Only 34 Miles Away; British Check Two Columns But Third Bearing Down On City From Northeast.

Japs Strike Into Main British Defenses; Battle For Imphal Imminent

Japanese Troops Are Nov Striking Into Main British Defenses,  JAPS MASSING FOR  BIG STRIKE AT BASI  36 Enemy Planes Caugh On Ground in Jungle Airfield.

HALT NAZIS IN TARNOPOL AREA   Germans Uneasy Over Soviet Preparations

HIT-IN OLD POLAND   Red Army Preparing for New Eastern Front Of fensive

Germany, Balkan Nations Uneasy Over Soviet Aims  Nazi Tarnopol Drive Has Crumpled;  Doll Army Prannring

REDS CRUMBLE GERMAN ATTACK   Action Slight on Eastern Front With Increasing Indications of By Russ Drive.

HOTEL FIGHT CAUSES DEMAND -FOR CONGRESSIONAL wNauiRY   GROUP OF CONGRESSMEN ASKING FOR INVESTIGATION OF FIGHT STAGED IN WASHINGTON HOTEL

WLB Chairman Sees Grim Fight On Labor Front   Believes Stern Controls Ahead If Labor lisists On Using ‘Strike Pistol’

BATTLE OVER WAGES REPORTED SHAPING      More Stringent Controls Ahead, According to Observerc

tringent Contre  in Tells Labor ay Be Needed   WLB Head Says ‘Drop Strike Threat, Discuss Demands Peacetully’

Battle Impends On Home Front   Stringent Control Of Labor Possible

Lucas Opposes Union Reports  EE  a S   Harrassed Enough By Many Forms, Senator Declares

HOLDS OUT IN RUINS OF CITY   Plight of Airborne Troops Reported ~ to Be Critical

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BRITISH ARMY TRIES 10 AID LOST DIVISION   PORT OF BOULOGNE LIBERATED BY CANADIANS

Poland’s Exiles  Weigh Problem   Cabinet Has Last Chance to End Dispute

First Quisliing on Trial  ——2——  2-——- — Pucheu Pleads for Life    Treason reinch Charae

FRENCH CHIEF GOES ON TRIAL   Pucheu, Accused Of Treason, Turns On Laval

Methodists Close 80-Yr. Gap In Ranks   Urge FDR Stop Liquor Making

Fleeing Germans Leave 30,000 Dead, Captured or Trapped as Resistance Ends in Southwest Third of Holland

Canadian Units Liberate Port of Antwerp   Columns Overtake Retreat of the Last 10,000 Germans From Southwestern Holland; 30,000 Captured or Trapped

ANTWERP PORT FIGHT WON BY ALLIED FORCES   Wade Through Water Waist Deep Under Heavy Fire

Resistance Ends Except By Rearquard  1   Battle For Antwerp ls Reported At End

Allies Pouring Torrent Of Fire [Into Last Nazis   Fleeing Enemy Remnants Die By Thousands On Escape Bridges; British Prepare To Take Up Chase Toward Rotterdam; Take Oodenbosch.

USUAL THREATS OF HITLER = ~~ NOT-HEARD IN HIS SPEEC:   PROMISES . OF VICTORY NOT STRESSED IN TALK GIVEN ON ANNIVERSARY OF RISE-TO FOWER

2 Wounded In Attempted Prison Break   Jail Besieged With Tear Gas and Rifle Fire to Capture Five Men Who: Held Offi cere Cantive

DRAINAGE WORK BEGINS MONDAY   Chamber To Pay Engineers For Pct. 2 Survey

15 KILLED IN TENNESSEE TRAIN WRECK   13 of Dead Were Soldiers; Death Toll May Rise

ORMER CONVIGT CAPTURED SUNDAY   Four Shots Fired At Stolen Car In Which He Fled

Aircraft Works In Austria Hit   Flying Forts Stage Savage Attack

Strike Savage Air , Blow in Austria   Forts Score Direct Hits on Important Aircraft Factory

Chaplin Defense Blocked; Trial  Resumes Tuesday   Spectators Jam Hall Courtroom

bUP HAD 4-WAY OHEAIFE FIGHT   County Race Bears Distinct Tinge of City Battle

GOP HAS. 4-WAY SHERIF FIGHT.   County Race Bears  _ Distinct - Tinge of City Battle 

Nazi Losses in France Double Ours, He Says   Jap Defeat to Come Soon After Germany’s, Claim

MacArthur Aide Visits White House   New Moves Agains Japan Charted, Observers Believe

Pacific Air. Chief in U.S.   Kennedy at Capitol; “Drive on Japs Seen’

Kenney Pays Surprise Visit to U.S.  Pincers Campaign On Japan Seen Acs Toaocieal Reculh

UNION POLICY — 18 SUGGESTED   NEW YORK LEGISLATURE COM: MITTEE URGES THAT. RULES __ BE RELAXED FOR:  ‘“ WwemeD aera

Similarity of Names Brings Romance _  Millionaire, 65, and Girl Clerk, 24

Latest News Flashes By LNS.  ar Talat«una)   6 Die in Park Fire   Fight in Warsaw Area

aVewey Returns Home To Alban "Reception —  Campaign Plans @. Drawn Up Under

Dewey Back To Albany   GOP Presidential Nominee Cheered By Crowds Along Route

SECOND PLACE “MOVES START      EMOCRATS IN HOUSE AND  SENATE BACKING FAVOR-  — . FTES FOR VICE PRESI - DENT NOMINATION

Democrats in Congress Heading Toward Friendly Fight on FDR Running Mate

DEMOS DISCUSS VICE-PRESIDENT   Seek Running Mate for Fourth Term Race

Conjecture On Running Mate For Roosevelt   Fourth Term Nomination Seems To Be Taken As  BParanwnanweae flanmalweastan

ALLIES TOWARD NAZI FRONTIER  HIGHT   American Armored Forces and British Infantry Carry Attack

Continue To Add Strength To Sky Army   Meeting Strong Resistance In Several Areas

VITAL DUTCH CITY FALLS 10 BRITISH FORCE   Fresh Troops And Equipment Pour Into Newly Won Areas Of Holland   YANKEES SCORE’ GAINS   Fifth Army Slugs Way Into Gothic Line—Russians _ Halt Nazi Attack

More Airborne ~ Alhed Troops Being Landed   British Second Army And U. §S. Airborne Army Join In Holland   SOME FIGHTING IN EINDHOVEN AS YET

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  rae iy ae  Re Seems Hee y wl igiegettes A a a   Report Allies Capture Eindhoven

New Guinea Jap Army Tri ies To Break Trap   Enemy Opens Full Scale Offensive in Effort To Prevent Another Saipan

ANOTHER JAPANESE ISOLATED ISLAND ARMY OFFENSIVE  SOME 45,000 ENEMY TROOPS TRAPPED IN NE\ CUINEA SEEK RREAK OU

ANOTHER ISOLATED JAP ARMY TRIES TO BREAK FREE   Jap Offensive Started Monday with Attack Against Veteran Amertican Traone

Isolated Nipponese Army Of 45,000 Seeking To Break Free In New Guinea; Australian Force Pushing Up From South

Japs Fight - fo Escape From Trap   Force of 45,000 Making Do or Die Attempt to Break Out in New Guinea   BATTLE -YANKEES AND AUSTRALIANS   First Attack Ma Made ‘Monday After Two. Months of Quiet; Action Continues

Death Trap Holds Japanese Forces Upon New Guinea   Attack Americans Whe Squeeze One Of Jaws

Japs Attempt To Break Out Of New Guinea Trap: Reveal Losses On Saipan

Trapped Japs on New Guinea Attack U.S. Lines  2359 Yanks Killed, 11,481 Wounded

JAP OFFENGIVE (ON NEW GUINER   Build Up All-out Drive to Break Free of Allied Death-trap.   ATTACK VETERAN TROOPS

JAPS PREPARE TO BREAK FREE OW cw GUINEA  Fecane Or Parich   Escave Or Perish Is Ordeal Ahead  For Enemy

Trapped Japs Battle for Escape Path   45,000 Seek Way Out Of Yank Circle in  New Guinea

JAPS TRYING TO CET OUT OF TRAP IN NEW GUINEA   Build Up Offensive To Break Free Of Allies

40,000 OF JAPS MASSED INBID TOBREAK TRAP   All-Out Enemy Drive Looms On New Guinea; Saipan Costs U. S. 15,053

Japs Attacking In New Guinea   Seeking to Break Out of Allied Death Trap on Island

Yanks Attacked By 45,000 Japs Seeking Escape   Continue U. S. Bombing Of Guam, Truk Islands; Losses At Saipan Heavy

By-Passed Jap Forces in New Guinea Attacking   Saipan’s Capture Cost 2,359 Yanks Killed, 11,481 Hurt

JAPS ATTACK IN NEW GUINEA   45,000 Troops. Attempt T Break Qut.of U. S:-and Australian ‘Trap.

Isolated Jap Army Seeks Escape From - Allied Death Trax      40.000 Nips Start ‘Effort to Break New Guinea Squeeze

JAPS ATTACK TOBREAK TRAP IN NEW GUINEA   Nips Start Drive Near Aitape: Over 15,000 American Casualties on Saipan

JAPS OPEN NEW ALL-OUT DRIVE ON NEW GUINEA   40,000 Troops Seek To Es cape Trap; Neutralization Raids Continue

Japs Caught Inside Trap Getting Set For Assault   Forty Thousand In Latest Isolated Entrapment

Trapped Japs Attempt Escape   Large Enemy Army Prepare  }  Offensive To Break Through Guinea Trap.

TRAPPED JAPS OPEN OFFENSE   45,000 Nips Open Breakthrough Attempt On New Guinea

15,000 Yanks Casualties _ on Saipan   Chinese Move Up Up Rail Road; MacArthur Sends ut Bombers ‘

ISOLATED NIP ARMY SEEKS 10 ESCAPE TRAP   45,000 Jap Troops, Trapped: In New Guinea, Open Offensive

ISOLATED JAP ARMY ATTACKS YANK TROOPS   Start All-Out Offensive to Break Free of New Guinea Death Trap

45,000 TROOPS BATTLE ALLIES ON NEW GUINEA   NIMITZ DISCLOSES 2,359 AMERICANS KILLED ON SAIPAN

Soviets Renew. Offensives On Both Ends Front   Germans Almost Cleared From  Small Island

Soviets Approach East Prussia Base   Fierce Fighting Rages On Road to Gumbinner

SOVIETS: PUSH ON IN EAST. PRUSSIA   Four Nazi. Strongholds Ate Seized Despite ~ Hard Counter-Thrusts

REDS MAKING ~ GAINS ALONG. THEIR FRONT   ADVANCES REPORTED IN: NOW WAY, PRUSSIA .AND.. BAL KANS—FIERCE FIGHTIN _-  . 4 9M PRUBSBIA..‘:

EAST PRUSSIAN BASTIONS FALL   Reds Advancing in South Open Roads to Center or Czechoslovakia

Swancutt May Know His Fate By Nightfall   Court Martial Finds He Was Sane At Time Of Fatal Shootings; Plea Of Innocence Entered

Didn't Remember About Killing, 1s Swancutt's Defense, Says Attorney

PATTON BATTERS ACROSS STREAM AT SIX PLACES   ASSAULT TROOPS OF THIRD ARMY WITHIN SIEGFRIED DEFENSES

New Gains All Along Saar Front   Germans Forced to Fall Back Into Siegfried Line ” as Saar Cities. Totter   PATTON ADVANCES ON 50-MILE FRONY;   Roer In Flood; Comparative Quiet There, Casualties Heavy on Both Sides   BULLETIX

Third Army Bursts Into Sarrequemines In Smashing Drive   Patton’s Troops Driving Into Siegfried Line

TEMPERATURES:   Heavy Losses Are Sustained On Both Sides   5 Armies Now On Nazi Soil; Two More Poise For Fresh Blows

Tons of Food, Medical Supplies for U.S. War Prisoners of Japs Held

Enemy Forces Fleeing From Odessa   Red Army Tightening Siege Arc Around Biq Black Sea Port

Report Nazis Fleeing From Doomed Por   Soviet Siege Arc Draws Closer Around Odessa As Defenses Crumble

Russian Army Now Within 9 Miles Sea City      ‘Enemy Column Cau ghi Hurryi ing From Metropolis  / and Thrown Back Into Tev Dniester Swamps   Panic Sweeping Nearby Villages   ussian Forees Break own One Enemy Defense  Lime After Another in   Corridor to Odessa 

Reds Closing On Odessa As Enemy Flees   Heavy Nazi Losses As Siege Arc Drawn Tight

Soviet Army Is 10 Miles From Port   Three Prongs Surrounding Black Sen Naval Base

\ Russian Army, Is Within "40 Miles of Big Black  Sea Port .      NAZIS WEAKENING   Red Forces ces Tighten, Ring on ‘Shattered ‘Enemy ‘ Divisions

Russian Forces Draw Siege Are Around Seaport   Hundreds.Of Invaders Ars. Said Thrown Back Into Iey Dniester Swamps

German and Rumanian Troops Are Reported. . Quitting Odessa As  ' Sieas Arc Tichtens 

Report Foe In Flight From City   Enemy Column Caught Hurrying Along Narrow Road from City

Soviet Forces Drawing Net About Odessa   German ond Rumanian Troops Reported as Fleeing From City

Enemy Flees Odessa As Soviets Approach   Russians Step Up Pressure On City; Germans Worried and Resistance Reported Weakening.

GERMANS AND RUMANIANS TRYING TO ESCAPE AS REDS DRAW NEAR; SIX DIVISIONS ARE ENCIRCLED   ‘Between 25 and 50,000 German Troops Face An‘nihilation at Razdelynaya, Above Odessa, While in Naval Base Itself Great Confusion Is Reported 

RUMANIANS -AND GERMANS IN FLIGHT FROM ODESSA-TODAY   Russian Army Drew Tight ; Siege Arc Which Was Pressing Closer.   9.6 MILES FROM CITY   One Enemy Column Surprised and Unable to Put Up Any Resistance.

Nazis Reported Fleeing Odessa As Reds Close In   Russ Army Now Within 10 Miles Of Black Sen Port

RUSSIAN SIEGE ARG TIGHTENS AROUND ODESSA   Report Nazis, Rumanians Fleeing Black Sea Naval Port

Want Biggest - War Bond Sales Next Saturday   lowa War Finance Committee Urges Greater Sales E Bonds

BUY “E” BONDS THIS SATURDAY   'lowa Behind Quota on In  dividual Bond Sales

JURY CONVICTS “UTAH GULTISTS         THRTY-ONE “PERSONS  VOLVED .IN POLYGAMY : ‘TRIAL PLAN APPEAL:  ey WIGNER COURT 

Two Jap Supply Ships Blasted By Allied Planes   Enemy Toll Raised To 25 By Latest Aerial Attacks

Airmen Blast Jap Supply Ships   Toll Is 25 Enemy Craft in Two Weeks

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST TWO JAP SHIPS ON WEWAK   U. S. Destroyers Help Clear Japs From Bismarck Archipelago in Admiralties

FLIERS BLAST TWO MORE JAP VESSELS AFTER WEWAK RAID   Allies Have Destroyed 25 Enemy Ships In Two Weeks

BLEST TWO JAP SUPPLY SHIPS .   Allied Airmen Raise. Toll of Enemy Shipping In Past Two Weeks to Twenty-Five.  :

Two Jap Supply Ships Off Wewak Coast Blasted   Toll of Shipping Raised to 25 in Past Two Weeks

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST JAPANESE SUPPLY VESSELS   Raise Toll Of Enemy Shipping In Past Two Weeks TT, 95

Price Ceilings Cause Shortage Of Meat, Claim   Supplies More Plentiful Now

Yield Italian Towns to Nazi Counterattack  Thrusts Throw Allies from

THREE TOWNS IN ATTACKS IN ITALY      Fifth Army Strong Points are Lost in Face of Fierce Counterattacks

GERMANS REGAIN 3 ITALIAN POINTS   Strongest Counter - Attacks In Weeks Uncorked

Nazis Retake 5th Army Points   Forced to Relinquish Hold on Three Strong Points

NAZIS PUSH U.S. BACK IN ITALY   Retake Three Positions From Fifth Army

NAZIS UNCORK NEW ATTACKS; RETAKE TOWNS   Fifth Army Forces Relinquish Hold  In Some Areas

Nazis Take Three Points  Fifth Army Driven Back by Attacks aS a he ee

Huns Yielding Ground Before  Fire Throwers   Doughboys Reach Point Only 28 Miles From Dus seldorf In New Gigaatic Offensive   Beeck In Flames; Fight In Streets   Survivors of Hitler’s Best 58 Troops In Lindern, Captured; Dead Cover Breck Strepis   Nazis Retake Strongpoints  From Fifth Army In Italy

Nazis Strike   Recapture Three Allied Strong Points In Counter-Attacks

3 POINTS RETAKEN   Nazis in Strong Counterattacks Southwest of  Bologna

GERMANS RETAKE POINTS (N ITALY   Enemy Uncorks Strongest Counterattacks in Area Near Bologna.

German Troops Recapture Three ltaly Strong Points  Fifth Army GivesUp Montes Belvedere,  Castellarn Caranc

German Defense Cracks In North And On Moselle   First Army 18 Miles From Aachen; British And Dutch Cross Albert Canal; Patton Throws Three Bridgeheads Over River.

BURIED AT SEA AMERICAN HEROES COMMITTED TO REST. LESS PACIFIC IN SERVICE ON CARRIER.

Your Sons Are Buried With Honor   A. P. War Correspondent Describes Burial Ritual At Sea

Four Children Perish When  Home Burns   Mother Injured In Vain Attempt To Rescue Them

4 CHILDREN DEAD AS RESULT OF FIRE   Three Suffocate and the Fourth Dies of Burns When Hame Burns.

Over 3 Billion Bushels of Corn   Final Total Almost Third Larger Than Ten Year Average

War Heroes Quizzed In Capital  Lit. Childers And Set. Kelly Taiks Modestly About Feats

Heroes Tell How They Won Congressional Honor Medal   Lt. Erflest Childers And Sgt. Charles E. ‘Commando’ posi Tell Stories; Drama Is Lost In Their Reticence

U.S. War Heroes Tell Of Exploits   Kelly and Childers Recite How They Won Congressional Medal.

Reds Batter Suicide Units In Sevastopol   Battle to Clear Nazis From Crimea Nears Climactic Stage

NAZIS CLING TO LAST HOLD AT SEVASTOPOL   Storm Troopers Killing Enemy By Thousands

POUR SHELLS INTO NESTS OF GERMANS   ‘Battle for Great Black Sea  -Poit Reaches Climactic ‘ » Stage and End of So~ - viet. Offensive Appears roe Cee

Red Artillery Blasts Enemy Suicide Squads Clinging To Last Nazi Hold In Crimea

Russ Guns, ‘Wheel To Wheel. Blast  Sevastopol   Fall Of City Near; Salvo After Salvo Poured Into Enem) Suicide Squads

Sevastopol Under Attack From 3 Sides  Red Artillery Blast: Beleaguered German Survivors, Trying ee ee - e  e.

RUSSIAN GUNS RAKE GERMANS   Soviets Turn Heavy Weapons on Foe in Full View af Burning Sevastopol,

GLINAX NEARS IN BATTLE FOR CRIMEAN POR   Red Artillery Pours Salvoes of Shells on Smoking Sevastopol,

Red's Storm Troops Fight 2 Axis Armies   Terrific Battle Waaed in View Of Sevastopol

MAIN HEIGHTS AROUND CITY CAPTURED   “Heavy Artillery Fire Sent Into Flaming Port   NAZIS CLAIM   56 Russian Planes Downed; Great Losses Suffered By German Troops

Battle for Sevastopol in Climactic Stage As Soviets Press Enemy To Black Sea

Soviets Crack Main Defenses At Sevastopol   Heavy Guns Pour Death Into Crimean City; Capture Seems Near.

Soviet Guns Pour Murderous Fire Into Sevastopol   Nazi Suicide Squads Cling to Last Hold  In Crimea; Fall of City Closa at Hand

Sevastopol Fall Believed Near  Russian Storm Troops Break Through Lines

Battling Remnants Of 2 Axis Armies  Outside Sevastopol   Report Beaten Germans In Crimea Are Forced Back To Black Sea; Reich Claims 56 Soviet Planes

Red Artillery Pouring Fire On Sevastopo   Battle for Doomed Port Nears Climax, as Reds Report Advance

Red Artillery Blasting Doomed City   Axis Suicide Squads Are Holding Out In Crimean Bastion

Reds Assault Sevastopol   Storm Fortified Heights Overlooking City, Pour Shells Into Defenders

HEAVY FIGHTING AT SEVASTOPOI   Battle Reacches Climactic Stage; City Flaming From Artitlery Fire.   3RD DAY OF OFFENSIVE

SHELLS HURLED AT NAZI TROOPS IN SEVASTOPOL   Reds Baitle Remnants of 2 German Armies in Smoking Seaport

FALL OF GREAT CRIMEAN PORT APPEARS NEAR  BATTLE REACHES CLIMATIC STAGE   BATTLE REACHES CLIMATIC STAGE IN VIEW OF CITY

Storm Troops Battle Last of Axis Armies   Fight Raging Within Sight of Flaming City; Driving From All Sides

Red-Storm Troops. Fight Axis in Full View of Sevastopol   German Forces in” Crimea: Reported.” Definitely Defeated

Russian Storm Troops Battle At Sevastopol   Fights Remnants of Two German Armies Within Full View Of Black Sea Port

Soviet Victory At Sevastopol Appears Near   Fortifications Breached by Reds All Along the Line

Nazis Pressed Back Against Sea, Is Clain:   Battling Desperately. Clinging to Every Inch Of Black Coastline Under Heaw Shelling   Fortifications Of Enemy Broken   Investia Dispateh Says Axis Are Definitely Defeated; Germans Suffering Heary Losses

Storm Heights, __ At Sevastopol   Russian Troops Hotly Engaged With Suicide Defenders of Crimean Port Which Is Pounded With Heavy Artillery Fire.   BATTLE IN LAST STAGES

RED ARMIES HAMMER AT DOOMED CITY'S GATES   Soviet Artillery, Wheel to Wheel, Blasts Germans Clinging to Port City

New Walkout Swells Total Idle Workers   ‘Iliness’ Affects Transit Workers At Philadelphia

Transport Workers Walk Out In Philadelphia Sending © Strike Idle Total to 25.000

Chaplin, on Stand, Denies Paternity   COMEDIAN TESTIFIES IN DEFENSE OF CASE CHARGING FATHERHOOD

Film Comic Tells Court Of Threats   Admits Warning Miss Barry He Would Bare Lo vers’ Names.

Chaplin in Admission ol Berry Threat   Comedian Says He Told Joan He’d ‘Blacken Her Nome’

Pledges for Bonds Go Better Than $5500 Over Quote   It’s Now Up to All to Make Good on Pledges

FAYETTE COUNTY BOND QUOTA IS SURPASSED   Chalrman John F. Miller Reports an Over-subseription by the Bum of $81,005

Soviets Capture Polotsk, Open Route to Latvia  Reds in Southwest   Reds in Southwest Reach Point 110  Miles From Prussia

Temperatures   Allies Cut Swath © Across Hitler’s Robot Bomb Bases

PATTON'S 3 ARMY PUSHING INTO LORRAINE      Metz Under Yank Gunfire ; Canucks Take Dieppe, Seal Robot Coast

FRONTIER OF BELGIUM ALSO BEHIND ALLIES   Battle for France Ending With Blaze of Glory With Nazis Legions Racing for “Home”

Germans Evacuate Five way Railway Junction  Of Polotsk   Fall Of r Bastion  Cracks Dvina Line   Reds Maneuver To Trap German Garrison That Fled Captured Minsk

Seeret ‘Radio Atlantic’ Says Allied Tanks Are in Reich   Patton’s Army Thundering East From Verdun   Hitler to Broadcast  ‘Sensational Speech’

HITLER TO TALK ON WAR TODAY   Der Fuhrer Will Make ‘Sen sational Speech,’ Lisbon Diplomats Declare

Lisbon oays Announcemenit To Be Sensational; Expected To Plead For Last Ditch Stand

HITLER MAY REVEAL INVASION OF REICH   Speech Announced for Today Ex pected to Call On People to Fight on Their “Holy Solj.”

Spokesmen Warn People Invaders Coming Closer:   Allies Break Into Fatherland Expected At Any Moment *

(Hitler, in Talk Today, Is Expected to Ask Defense of 'Holy Soil’

‘Verdun Push Brings Troops To Frontier   Battle of France at End; Quick Liberation ot Low Countries Seen

Fuehrer Expected To Announce Patton’‘s Invasion Of Reich, Call For Battle On ‘Holy Soil’

Other Units Drive Near East Prussia   Germany Concedes Loss Of Stronghold After Minsk Falls

VITAL RAIL JUNCTION "EVACUATED   Minsk, White Russian Capital, Is Taken By Soviet Troops

3rd Army  Smashes Nazi Line   Troops Enter Belgium as Nazis Open Low Countries Floodgates

YANKS ADVANGE AT HIGH SPEED   Suggests Doughboy Likely in Belgium and Luxem- . bourg Now.   ‘ON REICH BORDER SOON

Germans Claim Americans Now Near Thionville  Allies Believed To Be In Luxembourg, Belgium; Foe Fleeing

 Hitlar “Sensational Speech” Today ‘Americans Enter Belgium In March Towards Berlin   Lote Bulletins

Vimy Ridge Captured ~ By British   Germans Fleeing From Rocket Bomb Centers; Low Countries Flooded   OFFICIAL REPORTS LAG BEHIND DRIVE   ‘But Yanks Are Well Past Verdun and Sedan, Racing Nazis to Siegfried Line:

Other Forces Only 5 Miles FromBelgian Border; Dieppe Captured—Neutrals Report

Hitler fo Call. Nazis fo Fight On "Holy Soil”   German Diplomats In Lisbon Declare Fuehrer’s Speech Is To Be Sensational

BATTLE FOR FRANCE ALMOST OVER; BATTL FOR GERMANY NEARS  @ ALLIED TROOPS NEAR BORDERS OF BELGIUM,

FUEHRER GIVES AIR TALK TODAY   Sensational Speech May Announce Americans Are In Reich

Americans 20 Miles From Seigfried Line; Nazi Troops Loose Flood in Lowlands

Germans In Retreat on All Fronts   Nazi Spokesmen Warn Tha Invasion of Germany  Imminent

“Filar Eynected to Announce Crossing of Nazi Frontier by Patton in Speech Today

FINNISH-SOVIET PEACE TALKS RENEWED, TANGIBLE RESULTS ARE EXPECTED

S INCREASING   Efforts Renewed All Along Assem Front in Northern India.   MENACING VITAL BASE

Nubbins Hoffman Rests In Hospital   Doctors To Examine  Child For Ailments

Americans Form Pincers Attack In Livorno Drive; Milan Railyards Raided

The War Today   By DE WITT MACKENZIE  Aocnriatoed Prece War Anazlvet

ISTRANGE FIGHTING PLAN IN JUNGLES OF BURMA HAS WELL PLANNED INVASION OBIECTIVE

THE  TODAY   Fighting In Burma Jungles Held Spade Wo rk_For Ulimaie Amphibious Invasion Of Conntry.

TRE WAR TODAY   Strategy In Burma Calls (For Amphibious Invasion

PROSPERITY WITHOUT PRECEDENT POSTWAR   That's Opinion of AFL President Green

DR. ERIC MANN HERE FRIDAY  rm tiecTiirRe ON SLIRREFNDEFR OF GFRMANY

Reds, Nazis Wage Titanic Battle In Sevastopol Streets   Restrictions Guard Secrecy Of Invasion

Land Force Moves  Into Nazi Bastion   Strategic Landmark Obliterated By History's Greatest Air Assault; Over 1,400 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped

SHOWDOWNTO COME IF NIPS PUT UP FIGHT.   Tokyo Says Engagement On; Nimitz Says Enemy “Hurt” :

WDOW COME IF NIPS PUT UIP FIGHT   Tokyo Says Engagement On; Nimitz Says Enemy “Hurt”

WAVELL MA¥ RELEASE SANDH   Mahatma - Suffers From-Malaria, Low. Rlood Pressure

Belfort Gap May Be Scene ‘Of Great Battle   Allies Under Patch Are Attempting to Cut Germen Retrea: Toward Reich Gate

' Also Says 14 Jap Ships Sunk, by Submarines Since Last Navy Report  REPORTS SKETCHY

U. S. Task Force Hits Every Ship At 3-Jap Islands   Fleet Units Strike Palau, Yap and Woleai In Carolines; U. S. Subs Sink 14 More Vessels; 4,316 Nip Planes Bagged in War

U.S. FORGE HITS EVERY JAP SHIP   Anchored At Palau, Yap And Woleai; Subs Sink 14 More Vessels; 4,316 Jap Planes Shot Down.   No Ships Lost

. §. Task Force Hits Every Jap Ship af Palau   Knox Reveals Americar Subs Sink Fourteen More Japanese Vessels

Knox Discloses Heavy  Blow Struck by Task ! . Force    14 MORE JAPANESE SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK   Nipponese Planes ‘Numbering 4,314 Shot Out of the Air

ALL JAP WARSHIPS AT 3 BASES SENT DOWN OR DAMAGED   Secretary Knox Reveals Heavy Blow Was Dealt by Task Force at Palau, Wo leai and Yap. —   3 NAVAL. VESSELS NEARBY DESTROYED   Subs Sink 14 More Nipponese Supply Ships, Increasing Total Bag in War to at Least 667.

3 Dromes Around Hollandia   Field-at Aitape About Ready to Use  Jananeace Resistance Disoraanized

NEW ERUPTION FROM VESUV IU   Two-Ineh Layer of Seething Lava Covers Area Around Pompei.

SEETHING VESUVIUS ERUPTS ANEW; MOLTEN LAVA FLOWS INTO THIRD TOW}

POURING FROM MT. VESUVIUS   Great New Eruption Area Around Pompei Ruins with Two-Inch Laver ©

Mi. Vesuvius Nurls Lava in New Eruption   Molten River of Lava Sweeps Away Houses in Cercola, Two Miles From Peak

VESUVIUS LAVA FLOW INCREASES   FRESH ERUPTION ENDANGERS MORE TOWNS ON COAST

NEW ERUPTION CATCHES MORE ITALIAN TOWNS   Area Found Pompeii Covered With Two-inch Layer of Lava From Ancient Volcano.

Vesuvius Spurts A New Eruption   Lava From Famed Volcano Hurled Through Air on  Mountain Slope.

Seething Vesuvius In New Eruption  Area Around Pompei ts Covered with 2Inch Layer of Lava

NEW ERUPTION HURLS MORE LAVA ON ITALY   Pompei Section Covered By 2-Inch Layer Of Coals

New Eruption From Seething Vesuvius Covers Wide Areas   Hurls Lava Through Atr in Chunks and Threatens Towns

Fresh Vesuvius Eruption Sends Fiery River Into Third Village   Lava Sweeps Aside First Houses In Cercola, A Town Of 5,000 Population; Countryside Showered With Cinders And Dust.

Vesuvius Blast Spreads Damage   Great Chunks of Lava Hurled Through Air by Italian Volcano

New Eruption Hurling Lava  From Vesuvius   Countryside Showered  Troops Wear Helmets: Houses Swept Away In Cercola

Hot Lava Hits Yank Soldiers  Near Vesuviu:   New Eruption Engulfing Houses, Burning Crops And Endangering Allied Troops

Mount Vesuvius Buries Third Town Under Lava   Dust Settling On Salerno 25 Miles Away Other Towns Threatened

Huge New Vesuvius Eruption   Hail of Lava Covers Pompeii Area and New Fiery Stream Crushes Houses in Cercola

THREE QUAKES FELT IN WIDE AREA OF U. §.   Shakes Northeast States. - Causes Heavy Damage  In Canada

NORTHEASTERN AREA OF UNITED STATES FEELS SEVERE QUAKE   TREMORS EXTENDED FROM VIRGINIA INTO CANADA: SOME DAMAGE

Earthquake Felt  From Virginia To Wisconsin, Canada  Heavy Damage Done In Vicinity Of Cornwall. Ontario

Quake Shocks Felt Over Wide Area Last Night  Reported In Baltimore, W. Va. And From East  On Ta Wisenncin

Earthquake Rocks Northeast U. S.   Damage Caused at Cornwall, Ontario

Severe Earthquake Centered in Canada Felt in Northeast  Heavy Damage in Vicinity of Cornwall, Ont., One Person Huri—Two Other Shocks Follow

EARTHQUAKE SHAKES MANY U.S. CITIES   Buildings In Canada Sway; Some Damage

Northeast Hit By Sharp Quake In Early Morn   Ontario Town Reports Damage Close to $100,000

Northeastern United States Rocked By Earthquake; Felt Far South As Virginia

Earth Tremors Alarm Thousands  U.S. and Canada Residents Awakaned

NORTHEAST I5 SHAKEN BY TWO EARTH TREMORS   Cornwall, Ontario, Has Severe Damage; Felt In Wheeling

HAKES SHAKE WIDE SECTION   housands Jarred In Northwestern United States And Canada

Quake Is Felt From Virginia Into Michigan   Thousands of Persons Are Awakened by Rattling Dishes and Windows Early Today   Cornwall, Canada, Is Hardest Hit   Chimneys Toppled From Hundreds of Houses; Windows Fall From Downtown Stores

Earthquakes Rock East States,  Cities in Canada  Heavy Damage Causec  In Ontario by  Severe Earthshocks

Northeast U. S. Is Shaken By Midnight Earth Shocks   Tremors Felt From West Virginia To Wisconsin And Northward To Canada

SHOCKS FELT IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO   Heavy Loss in Ontario Town; Patient Tossed from Bed in Toledo, 0.

Earth Tremors Reported From States, Canada   Northeastern Part of U. S. Shaken Early Today and Much Damage _ Results Near Cornwall, Ont.

Yanks Make Formal ntry  Into Paris   Parisians Turn Out In Best “Spit And Polish”

Entry of Americans Into Paris Cheered More Enthusiastically Than In 1918

Badoglio: Recognizes Tito Group   Vichy Radio Says Italy Will Renounce Claim to Fiume

ALLIES AND ITALIANS LAND IN  S DALMATIA   Prospects of Blow-Up In Balkans Grow

Say Allies On  ‘Dalmatian Coast   ‘Report of Action Given wn. Swedish Dispatches

Reds Advance — From East . Explosion Due   PACIFIC WAR. we timitan Press,

SWEDEN HEARS OF ALLIED LANDING IN SOUTH DALMATIA   Possible Patrol Action With Italian Aid Is Indicated

THREE MEN LEFT TODAY   Went to Leavenworth for Induction Into Armed Forces

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War's Biggest Sedition Trial Becomes Bedlam As Government Opens Its Case; Defendants, Lawyers Shout Continuously

ARS BIGGES SEDITION TRIAL   Started Today Against 29 Defendants In Washington

Sedition Trial — Becomes Bedlam   Defendants Charged With Plannine Revolt

Judge Wears Out Gavel at Spy Ring Trial   Bedlam Sounds Through Court

State GOP To Meet Tuesday, Calling Lyons   ‘Recently Elected Committeeman Reported Ready To Resign, but Lyons Won't  Discuss the Matter.

ESCAPE PORT ON LEYTE IS TAKEN BY DOUGHBOYS   Japs Believed To Have Suffered One Of Worst Military Defeats   YANK CASUALTIES PLACED AT 11,267

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Battle For Leyte Is “Over Except For Mopping Up”   Japanese, With an Estimated Loss of 112 ,128 Killed, Suffer Greatest Defeat-—American Casualties Put at 11.217

Major Defeat Handed Japs   Leyte-Samar Push Brings Death To 112,728 Japs; Palompon Taken

YANKS CAPTURE LAST JAP ESCAPE PORT ON LEYTE   ‘Palompon Seized in WaterBorne Assault—Fate of Nips Remaining on Island Sealed.   112,727 ENEMY TROOPS KILLED IN CAMPAIGN   MacArthur Says Foe’s Defeat Probably “Is Greatest in Military Annals of Japanese Army.”

‘LEYTE CAMPAIGN ¢ CLOSED, ASSERTS   Nips Sustain Greatest Defeat In Annals of Army   CASUALTIES HIGH   M’Arthur Says Destruction Seldom Paralleled in His-  tory of Warfare 

WATER - BORNE RAID SEALS UP ISLAND VICTORY   Last Escape Port Taken By Yanks Christmas Morning To End Campaign

OPENING ROUND OF FIGHT IS WON BY AMERICANS   Allies Press Attacks In Other Sectors of European Front

Great Stream of Warplanes Moving Cargo   27 German Fighters Shot Down as They Attempt to Interfere   ALL GOING WELL  IN NEW INVASION   Several Cities Reported Taken by Airborne Force Landed Sunday .

Movement to Turn North End of Siegfried Line Under Way   GAIN FIRM FOOTHOLD   German Forces Evacuate Many Places in Move  to Escape   Rulletin

Waiters Swindle Union Pacific  Pocket $200,000 Worth Meal Checks

Italians Declare State of War   Charges Japs With  Extreme Brutalities

GERMANS FALLING BACK ON RIGA FOR TAST-DITCH FIGHT   Russians Capture 200 More Towns in Drive to Clear Nazis From West Coast of Estonia,   ANKARA REPORTS REDS ARE INSIDE HUNGARY   Other Soviet Forces Seize Turka in Poland—Continue to Hurl Shells Into  Warsaw. ,

GERMANS FALL BACK ON RIGA LAST STAND   In Baltics Expected to be at That Point; Reds Capture 200 Places in Estonian Drive.   Czechs Speed Up

Nazis Believed Making Last Stand in Baltics As They Retreat at Riga   Germans Yield More Than 500 ‘Towns to Advancing Reds; Narrow Escape Corridor Is Axis’ Only Hope

Mauled German Troops Fall Back on Riga for Their — Last Stand in Baltic Area

Nazis Fall Back Toward Final Stand   Retreat Toward Rigc Before Red Baltic Drive; Reds Gain  ~_. Le-Thdb. se! -—--

GERMANS DROP BACK TO RIGA FOR LAST STAND   Cesis, Stronghold 50 Miles North Of Baltic Capital, Taken By Reds   SOVIET ARTILLERY BOMBARDS WARSAW

Germans Prepare for Last Stand in Baltic States  RED ARMY PROBE DEEP IN BALKANS  Many Towns and Villages Captured = by Reds

Nazi Troops Are Falling Back in Baltic States   Believed To Be Getting Ready for Last Stand in Balkans

Russians Smash Nazi Armies In Baltic Sectors   Riga Is Prized Naval Base For The Soviet Fleet

Nazis Prepare Last Stand In Baltics  Fall Back on Riga  _As Reds Reveal Fall Of 500 Villages, Town:

NAZIS’ BALTIC FORCES FALL BACK ON RIGA   Foe in Retreat Yields Over 500 Places  To Russians

Germans Prepare for Lost Stand in Baltic States   RED ARMY PROB !  ~=—s DEEP IN BALKANS:   Many Towns and Villages Captured by Reds

Reds Hurl Foe "Back Into Riga   Russians Oceupy 500 More Towns in Baltie Area

BRUTAL KYLUER SENS 2 WOMEN   Hacked Bodies Found in Separate Hotels; Police Say Suspect Confesses 

Waiter Held‘For Mutilation Death Of 2 Women In Los Angeles Hotels

CONFESSED SLAYER OF TWO GETS URGE IN HORROR MOVIE: SEEK EVIDENCE OF THIRD TRY

Fiendish ‘Butcher’ Mutilates Pair of Los Angeles Womer   Former Sailor Rips Female Companions in Sex Slayings

Waiter Held For Murder Of 2 Women   Mutilations Described As Los Angeles’ Worst

Wilson Held As Police Probe Murder Of Women  May Have Sought   May Have Sought Another Victim

Husky Waiter Held On Confessing Fiendish Slaying Of 2 Women   Mutilated, Nude Corpses Found In Different Downtown Los Angeles Hotels; Otto Wilson  Says Was ‘For Pure Cussedness’; Is Tulsa Qacnart

Hold Waiter In Deaths Of Two Women   Mutilated Bodies Found In Two Hotels

2 Nude Women Brutally Slain ‘In Hotel Rooms   Husky Waiter, Formerly Medically Discharged From Navy, Confesses To Fiendish Crimes

Slayer Is Held ~ Incommunicado   Believed to Have Been Luring Third Victim When Arrested

Slayings Caused by Lust to Kil  Authorities Probing Mutilation Murders

Fiendish Slayer of Two “ Women May Have Had Another Intended Victim

Murderer’s Plans to Lure 3rd Woman Toward Death Fail      Officials Investigating Killer's Companion at Scene of Arrest

Admits Slaying And Mutilating 2 Nude Women   Waiter Arrested In Bar After Grisly Los Angeles Hotel Crimes.

Waiter Admits Mutilation Slaying of Two   Hit and Slashed ‘Just for Pure Cussedness,” he Says

PROBE MOTIVES OF MUTILATOR   Believe Lust Killer May Have Been Luring  Third Victim

Two Nude, Women Slain, Mutilated; Waiter Confesses   Bits of Flesh Cut From:One Torso Found “'Littered on Carpet

CLAIM WAITER ADMITS HOTEL MURDER CASES   Police Call Killing of Two Women Most ‘Fiendish Crime’

Man, Formerly Of Near Shelbyville, Confesses To Two Fiendish Murders In Separate Hotels In Los Angeles

Wilson Tells Events of Slaying Night   WOMAN SEEN CHATTING WITH CONFESSED KILLER TO BE QUESTIONED

Police Believe Wilson Plotted Third Murder   Woman Who Chatted With Slayer At Time Of Arrest May Have Been Third On List

Two Women Murdered in  ‘ ‘Los Angeles   Waiter Held Incommunicado After Confessing to Police One of Most Fiendish Crimes Beer Recorded

WAITER HELD IN TWO SLAYINGS   Mutilated Bodies Of Victims Found In Hotel Rooms

WAITER KNIFES 2 WOMEN TO DEATH   CONFESSES FIENDISH CRIMES COMMITTED IN LOS ANGELES HOTELS

Waiter Confesses Mutilation Murders  @ Slaying of 2 Los Angeles Women Qna af AsKest Eiandich C rimacan Rarcear

Police Attenrpt to Learn If He Planned to Lure Third Woman to Fiendish Fate

FIEND IS. HELDAS TWO WOMEN ARE MURDERED   Husky “Waiter, Muti lates Victims In : Joos Angeles   Police Describe Crime As One: Of Worst On Record

—WORST CRIME L. A. HISTORY—  Man Held In Murder 2 Women   DISCHARGED SAILOR HACKS TWO COMPANIONS TO DEATH WITH KNIFE IN HOTELS

Waiter Admits Two Murders  Fiendish Slayings Of 2 Women In California

OF 2 WOMEN   Waiter, Ex-Sailor Confesses Mutilation Killings In Los Angeles

JANITOR ADMITS KILLING CRAZE   Slayer Of Two Women Is Held Incommunicado

New OPA Plan Will Foree Motorists  Into Forming Car Pools For Work

Drive to Stress Car Pooling Move to Further  Conserve ‘Gas’ as ge ee

Marine Photo Planes Pry Lid Off Japan's Secret Pave Way For Raid On Truk

Marine Photo Planes First To See Enemy Base on Truk   Daring Flight Reveals Big Naval Fleet, Luxurious Ground Installations

2. Marine Photo Planes Fly From Solomons to Spot Truk for U.S. Attack

Marine Photo Pilots Pry Top Off Truk In First U. S. Planes Over Isle

RELEASE GANDHI FROM CUSTODY   British Order Indian Leader Freed; Condition Of His Health Is Bad,

EDEN TELLS OF NIPPON ATROCITIES   Charges Thousands Of War Prisoners Killed By Japs

BRITISH HOLD JAPS ACCOUNTABLE " FOR DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF WAR PRISONERS BECAUSE OF CRUELTIES

Eden Declares. Thousands Slain  In Prison Camps   Commons Told Japs Violated Principles Of International Law

EDEN CHARGES JAP ATROCITIES   TORTURE, STARVATION OF PRISONERS TOLD

EDEN CHARGES JAPS WITH TORTURING BRITISH EMPIRE PRISONERS   Principles of International Law Forgotten by Nips

BRITISH EMPIRE PRISONERS DIE BY JAPS’ HANDS   Eden Makes Accusations of Atrocities At Same Time WU. 8, Reveals Like Crimes

EDEN DENOUNCES JAP TORTURE Ot BRITISH CAPTIVES   Commons Told Nipponese Have Slain Thousands of Prisoners

New Story Of Japanese Cruelty To Allied Prisoners Revealed Today By British War Minister

Horrible Treatment of. Prisoners by Japanese Is Revealed by British

‘One Battle Of Seine Is Held  Virtually Over   Nazi Altenipt to Flee Across River to Mouth of Sea Defeated by Allied Forces

Fight on French Beaches in One Sector Is Described; ‘Boats C apsized, Some Drowned as Others Faced Fir:  wey WAETAT A smerny: we ec coca) tee *

WEATHER. HINDERS TRQGPS. WEETIEG HENNY BESISTANGE   Landing Craft Gausize; Scldiers, "e lore Trown

VEATHER CEES fee iaaltat Hoey BES STABLE   Landing Craft Capsize, Soldiers, ~a.lors Drown

Waco's Brazos River Reported Near Flood Level   Heavy Rainfall Injures Twenty-One Claims 5. Lives

Texas’ Major Rivers Threaten  Extensive Flood Damage: Five Dead  And 19 Hurt in Wind and Rain Storms

AOAC AlMeriven ee     DIVE BOMBERS ARE SCREAMING DOWN WITH EXPLOSIVES   American ‘Troops In Italy Near Main Road In Po Valley

Allies Cut Jap Escape Routes In Burma Area   American, Chinese Forces Drive Down Stratec'c Valley

MAINESCAPE LINES OF JAP ARMIES CUT   American and Chinese Forces Continue Drive in Burma   STILWELL PREDICTS - CAPTURE OF VALLEY   Columns Cut Steadily Into Remnants of Diwieian  - mn

JAP ESCAPE ROUTES CUT IN BURMA   By Allies In Hukawng Valley Within 11 Miles Of Southern Extremity Of Strategic Rowl,   150 Miles in Burma

U.S. Tank Force: Cut Japanese Burma Escape   Stilwell Hazards Guess Hukawng Valley Will Soon Belong To Allies.

Allies Cut Jap Lines in Burma   Two Escape Routes Smashed in Drive

JAP’S BURMA ROAD SEVERED   Stilwell Says Entire Hukawng Valley Is About To Fall

OPPOSITION IS NOW DWINDLING IN FSGAPE GAP   French, American Troops Are Converging In Drive At Belfort

Resistance In Southern France Grows Stiffer   Desperate Nazis Being Herded Along Toward Belfort Escape Gap

AMERICANS OVERRUN SIEGFRIED LINE AT NUMBER OF POINTS   GERMAN RESISTANCE NEAR BELFORT GROWS

Nazis Battle To Flee Trap  Near. Belfort   Allies Encounter Increasing Resistance From Herded Enemy

GERMANS SHOW FIGHT, NEARING BELFORT PASS   Put Up Stiff Battles Falling Back On  Kscape Gap

Yanks Slugging Way Toward Eternal City   More Positions Captured 14 Miles From Capital as Germans Try To Esecane Noose

Germans Fall Back Under Steady Drives   Enemy Defense In Some Places Not Yet Broken

Power Drive Sweeps 614. Miles North of. Velletri: To 14 of Rome. ag

‘Hold Most of Alban Hills  Around Rome   American and British Captured More Towns; Seek Highway Junction

U.S. Soldiers Knock Out Nazi Defense   Most of Alban Hills Are Captured By Advancing Troops

—I]TALY—   Velletri-Valmontone Line Is Cracked By Powerful Thrusts   American Forces Capture Monte Castellacie, 14 Miles From Eternal City; Firm German Resistance Is Encountered

Trap Jaws Closing On Nazi Rear Guarc   Allies Pledged to Spare Citadel Unless Foe Cheases to Defend It

OCCUPY MOST -OFALBAN HILLS   8th Army Stabs Through Sacco Valley; Lanuvio ls Captured.   ‘PLAN TO MEET ON ROAD

YANKS PUSHING THRU ALBAN HILLS TO ROME   Another Column Driving Up Via Casilina Tee ward Capital

OF ALLIES CONTINUE   Fifth Army Smashes Past Velletri And  Valmontone

Two U. S. Columns Converge on City; High Point Falls   Capture of Monte Custellacio Places One American Force 14 Miles from Canijitc

Fate of Holy  City Is Up to  ~ German Army   Allied Command Will Tako  Military Action Only So Far  as Enemy Uses It for Pur poses of Warfare

Germans Insist Rome Is Freed Of Armed Force:   U.S. Troops Slug Their Way Through Hills of Italy

Slug Way Through Hills   Allies Meet Fierce Resistance Battling Through Final Nazi Defense Before Rome

Americans Slug Through Alban Hills In Advance Toward Italy’s Capital

Pledge toSpare Capital if Nazis Do Not Defend   Power Drive Sweeps 64 Miles North of Velletri To 14 of Rome

Fifth Army Drives. Through Breaks in Nazi Defense Line   Allies to Spare Rome if Germans Keep it Free of Military

Stronghold Is Fourteen Miles From Capital City   Second Column Is Driving Hard Up Via Casilina

Allied Forces Capture Heigh ts Guarding Rome’s Fle   Nazi Paratroopers Fail In Attempt To Grab Tito

U.S. TROOPS WITHIN 14 MILES OF ROME, DRIVING AHEAD AGAINST STUBBORN RESISTANCE

MAJOR BREAKS MADE IN NAZI DEFENSE LINE   U. S. Troops Fight Way Through Alban Hills; Castellacio Falls

Advancing .Through -Alban Hills : When the Town: Was ‘Taken. ,   14 MILES FROM ROME   Another American Column Today’ Drove Up Via Cas:  _ ina. Toward: Capital:

Report Nazi Lines Still Intact South Of Italian Capital   Allied Troops Advance on Via Casilina Highway and in Alban Hills In Italy

FATE OF ETERNAL ' CITY DEPENDS ON GERMAN DEFENSE   U. S. TROOPS TAKE MONTE CASTELLACIO, ONLY 14 MILES AWAY

Lavunio, Labico Taken In Drive Against Nazi Line   Fifth Army Placed In Strategic Position.  For Push On Capital .

kome May Be Spared   Mount Castellaccio Falls to U. S. Troops Genzano Hammered

OTH ARMY CUTS ENEMY LINES IN “MANY PLACES”   Nazis Between Alban Hills and Seacoast Jeopardized by Gains

Nazis Fight Desperately in Hope of Delaying Alliex— Rome to be Spared if Pessible

GENERAL BREAKTHRU IN NAZI DEFENSES BELOW ROME BRINGS BATTLE DANGER TO CAPITAL   Most of Alban Hills Dominating Network of High- ways Leading into Eternal City Now Held by American Fifth and Entrapment of Remnants of Mauled German Divisions Looms

U.S. Planes In Big Force Raid Europe   Begin Shuttle Operations Using Bases Prepared  in Russia

Allies Will Spare Rome Unless Nazis  Defend City   Enemy Defensive Position Unbroken Despite Capture Of Two Strong Fortresse

Yank Troops Slug Through Albans   Monte Castellacio, 14 Miles from Capital, Taken—Another U .S. Column Drives up Via Casilina — Defensive  Line Not Yet Broken

Yanks Control Alban Hills   Fifth Army Captures Strongholds of Labico, Lanuyio, Mt. Castellaccio as Nazis Flee Toward Gates of Eternal City

American Units Advance in Italy   Monte Castellacio Captured as Troops ; Slug Way Through Alban Hills,  Guarding a Southern Path to Rome  Push Alone Via Casilina.   ENEMY LINE CRACKED

Troops Within 14 Miles Of Eternal City   Germans Putting Up Stif Resistance In Strong Defenses

Rep rt Allied Capture orANatr As US neon Sweep On Eternal City   Now 14 Miles From Rome; Yanks Take Monte Castellacio; Allies Pledge To Take Only Necessary Military Action At Rome.

BLIZZARDS HAMPERING YANK GAINS   American Troops Pinned Down By Frigid Weather

CANADIANS ADVANCING IN ITALY   Weather Halts Activity On the Fifth Army Front

Freezing Rains, Snow Halt U. S. Troops In Italy   Canadian Armored Forces Drive Slowly  On Adriatic Coast

Canadians Move Slowly Northward   Battle Blizzard On Italian Front

Allies Battle Biizzard in Italian Drive   Canadians Push On, Snow Pins Yanks In Mountains

[TALIAN BLIZZARD IS RAGING   Pins Yank Fifth Army Troops to Their Positions

Kin To Get Word About Casualties   New Plan Now Being ‘Put Into Operation

BULGARIA READY TO MAKE PEACE   Indicates Willingness To Ac: cept Armistice Terms

MAY APPLY NOW FOR HOME CANNING SUGAR   Local Food Stores Have Application Blanks for Customers, Who Must fiend Them to West Union

W. Main Street Smashup Kills Fruit Broke   Cornelius Van Loon, 53 Runs Into A Truck, Dies Instantly

DEMS STILL LACK FLECTION LEADER   Draft-a-Candidate Goal Is Missed at Convention Meeting in Detroit

Michigan Dems Block C10 Move To Name Leader   Party Still Without Standard-Bearer, Fry Gets Bid

De Gaulle Arrives, Urges Cooperation   President and Cabinet Greet French Leader

TWO QUIZZED IN CHURCH SLAYING   Husband Admits Quarrel With Estranged Wife

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Here’s How It Feels to Ride On a B-26 Bombing Run  Crews Know Their Business; Morale  Is Good Among British- Based Fliers

Hitler Queries “What'll I Do Ne xt?”   By DeWitt MacKenzie Associated Press War Analyst

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Nazis Study Problem Of Next Stand   Hitler Lacks Troeps, Supplies Te Defend  Pesitions In France

‘Where to Tarn Next’ Is Supreme Problem for Harried Dictator  ‘Hitler. on Ropes. Must Make Stand Soon

The War Today   Where Do I Go Next? is Question Karine Harried Hitler

Too Many Obligations Is Downfall For Fuehrer— — By Vewvilt WaACcKeMnsle Vt  Hitler's Reception Committee Flops On Job

TODAY   Hidler’s Arrogant Stubbornness Has Crowded Him Into Impossible Postion, Almost Overnight In France

Allied Ship  Losses at Lowest Point   Alexander Says Germans Will Try Again With U-Boats

ALLIED CONVOY LOSSES LIGHT   Less Than One Ship In 1,000 Lost In 2nd Half of 1943

Allied Convoy Losses Less Than One Ship in 1,000 in Second Half of '43

Convoy Loss Hits New All Time Low   Alexander Warns Nazi U-boats Will Strike Hard Again; Victory Not Over.

BRITON WARNS ON COMEBACK OF NAZI SUBS   Allied Shipping Losses Now Only One In 1,000 Sailings, Report

‘A’ Motorists Get One-Third  Cut in Ration   Gasoline Black Markel One Reason Given Por Redaretiaw

‘A’ Card Rations Cut One- Third  Gas Reduction Is Effective March 22

Black Market Blamed for Cut In ‘A’ Gas Rations   Gigantic Racket Drains 2,500,000 Gallons Daily

GAS RATIONS . ARE REDUCED   ‘A’ Card Values Cut Tc Two Gallons For All Areas

Gas Black Market Is Scored By OPA   A Card Dole Cut in Central and Western States as Of ficials Call Counterfeiting of Coupons “Greatest Criminal Racket” in History

Black Market Is Cause of Gas Cut   2,500,000 Gallons Drained Daily From Civilian Supply.

‘A’ Gas Coupon Cut To 2 Gallons : Effective March 22 Over Natior

‘SPURIOUS COUPONS * oe -FLOODING COUNTRY      Enforcement. Chief" ‘Says  15 ct; of Alt ‘Those ‘Turned ° In by Filling Stations _  ’» Are: Counterfeit, 

FAKE COUPONS BRING ABOUT GASOLINE CUT   4- CARD ALLOWANCE 2» GALLONS APTER MARCH 22

‘KN’ Card Gas Ration Slashed To Two Gallons   Huge Black Market Said Threat to U. S. Wartime Economy

‘h Coupons Cut To: 2 Gallons: Action Effective March 22   Imminent ‘Critical Demands’, Black Market Make Action Necessarv

*A’ Gas Ration Now 2 Gallons For All Nation   Action Means Third Cut for Every Part Of Country But East

Finn Troops Advance Against Stiff Resistance, Communique Reports

Harold W. Mason National GOP Secretary, Dead  Heart Attack In N. Y. Fatal

U.S. Proposal That All Nations Join to Guarantee World News Freedom Drafted to Preserve Peace

U.S. Proposes. Press Freedom   Wants All Nations of World To Guarantee  Freedom of the Press.

a ORY  ~ SF fire, but n  Oo 6 7 e __ Dp ..be News Freedom Policy fo insure Feace

PLANES WITHOUT PILOTS BOM ENGLAND ASAIN      Buildings Wrecked and Growing Toll of Lives is Taken

 Robot Missiles Shower Britain ‘Germans Hint U. S. ‘Due for Rocket Attack

. Germans Hint They're Getting Rockets "Ready for U.S.; Continue Bombing Enaland

‘CHINESE RECOVERY BRAVE ADVENTURE OF WARFARE; MUST STAND OFF MENACE ‘OF JAPS UNTIL ALLIED AID AVAILABLE

GREAT CHINA DRIVE A RACE AGAINST TIME   —BY DeWITT MACKENZIE— Associated Press War Analyst

Offensive Threatens Sea Ports   Russian Soldiers Fight Way Thru Tamopol Streets

TARNOPOL NEARS CAPTURE BY REDS, NOOSE TIGHTENED   Sensational Gains .By Zhukov’s Army are Still Continuing.

Half Million Nazis Inside Big Pincers   Russians Within 42 Miles o Black Sea Ports—Four  Armies Moving

IS TRAPPED IN UKRAINE   Red Armies Tighten Pincers On Half Million Germans

Armies Closing. In On 500,000  Nazis In Ukraine   Russ Divisions Set , For Maneuvering To  Start On Final Kill

Big Squeeze Is On In Ukraine Against Nazis   Reds Tighterl Pincers Around 500,000 Germans In South Ukraine

Red Armies Tightening Pincer Grip  Third Army:   Third Army: Forces Ingulets River on 106 Mile Front

Red Army Nearing Prussia   Germany Threw Everything In Vain Attempt To Save Great Fortress City.

Russians Clear Way for Massive New Drive on East Prussian Capital,  Shatter Nazi Defenses Before Grodno

"MIDDLE OF ROAD’ POLICY (6 URGED   Senators Oppose ‘Fire Sale’ Disposal of Surplus Goods.

--@-o+o Oo 0-0-0 sie  j  . Capt. Frank Coffey, : Lincoin, Delivers  Treaeansc At Cherbourg

NASR ee eS TN UR  UNARMED CARRIERS DROPPED EQUIPPED ARMY IN FRANCE   CARRIER PLANES TOWING GLIDERS IN RANGE OF NAZI MACHINE-GUNS

TACKLING TOUGH ISSUE IN ITALY   New Council Has Hard Problem In Reorganization Of Italian Government.

Allies Tackle ltalian Problem   Allied Italian Advisory Council To Reorganize The Government.

Reorganization Of Italian Govt. Up This Week-End   King Expected to Quit and  Hand Reins to Son — Opposition Parties Ready ._ To . Qooperate After King’s : Retire ment. ~

Allies Seek Solution of Italian Rule  , a ee Vn eee er eee   American and British Emissaries Tackle ¥exing Problem

Council Views Italian Setun   Allied Advisory Group Taekles Reorganization Of Government,

Allied Council Set To Revamp Govt. Of Italy   Umberto Slated To Succeed King But May Not Prove Acceptable.

Full Reorganization Of Italian Government Is Due  New Advisory Council For Nation to Meet Over Weekend

Allies Capture  Manus Airdrome  Nearby Town’s Defense  Cracked In Attacks

Manus Island Airdrome Falls To U.S. Force:   American Drive Cracking Japanese Defenses Around Lorengau Village Itself, MacArthur Says

INVADING UNITS TAKEAIRDROME   Americans Cracking Jap Defense on Outskirts of Lorengau.   600 YARDS FROM TOWN

U.S. Drive On Manus Cracks Jap Defenses   Lorengau Air Base Overrun

Americans Take Manus Airdome.   Crack Jap Defenses Around Town of 'Lor_engau; Jap Attacks End on Bougainville

Americans Press Near Lorengau’s Outskirts Today   Overrun Airstrip and Threaten Town; 1,1000 Bougainville Japs Slain.

American Drive Nets Airdrome   Invaders Crack Jap Defenses of Town On Manus Island

Yanks Cracking Foe’s Defenses — On Manus Island   Lorengan Airdrome Falls to American Forces. and the Town Itself Is Tottering

TRIP-HAMMER BLOWS UPSET JAP DEFENSES   New Drive on Manus Is land and Other Recent Gains in Bismarck Arez Reported —

AMERICANS 0 MANUS ISLAND GAIN AIRPORT  Japanese Crack   Japanese Crack Under Attacks At Lorengau

Yanks Crack Manus Defenses  Invaders Nearing Towr Of Lorengau After Taking Jap Airdrome

STATE DEMANDS DEATH PENALTY   Claims Collett Has Nerve 0 Professional Killer

‘STATE DEMANDS DEATH PENALTY   lury ASked To Withhold Recommendation Of Mercy

COLLETT CASE GOES 10 JURY LATER TODAY   State Brands Alleged Slayer McCoy Family as Professional Killer

BOND SALES IN TOWNSHIP ARE ABOUT AVERAGE   Special Feature At Varsity Is Planned Tonight

SPECIAL FILM ON SIXTH WAR LOAN TONIGHT   More Minute Men Needed To Aid  Local Drive

Coast‘ Defenders To Go Overseas   Stimson Announces Change in. System

Soldier Vote Cost $700,000   Cost of Postage Will Average 20¢ Apiece  Ahn Weadtawntan

Willkie Withdraws *As Candidate For _GOP Nomination   Decision Of 1940 Republican Nominee Is Announced Wednesday Night At Omaha Afte He Suffered Major Defeat In Wisconsin

Willkie Takes Hat From Ring ~InOmaha Talk   Wiséonsin Defeat Called Sign He Can’t Secure Tate Mae

Seizure of Ward Company Called Political Mistake   Legal Battle Over President's Order Resumes in Court

‘Attempting to Isolate Base  At Myitkyina   Damage Headquarters ir Mohnyn, Burma; Japs Driving for Imphal

Polish Troops Drive On Imola   Take Monte Maggiore Eight Miles To South

6. 0. P. Governors Bill of Rights @hallenges Demos  New Deal Handling Of Welfare,

Dewey, Bricker, Other State Executive: Conclude Discussions of 14 Issues

FDR’s Ad. Challenged by GOP Governors   Welfare Agencies Handled Poorly  le One of Charves

GOP Governors Blast New Deal Labor Policies   Welfare Administration Chaotically Handled,  Conference Charges

GOVERNORS END THEIR CONFERENCE   G. O. P. State ‘Heads Agree On Campaign Program

se Japs LiIgaye American Task Force   14 More Jap Ships Sunk by American Subs in Pacifie -

Enemy Report Says Big Battle (n In Marshalls   Indications Are That U. 8. Has Unloosed Big Assault On Jap Islands   GREATEST CHALLENGE TO JAPANESE FLEET

Seize 15 More Soft Coal Mines   Shafts to Be Reopened For Work Friday

TEKES SEIZE   15 Coal Holdings Put Federal Possession Total at 33

ROOSEVELT MAY SEE CHURCHILL SOON   President: Kinborates on Statement  That Allies Will) Occupy Germany and Janan,

REDS ADVANGE CONTINUES IN CRIMEA SECTOR   Capture Hub Of Dzankhoi Then Make Spectacular 37 Mile Advance

CRIMEA FREEDOM DUE IN FEW DAYS   Jap Successes at Imphal Plain Results in Setback For Allied Forces.

REDS SWEEP THRU THE CRIMEA AREA   Complete Freeing Of Peoples There A Matter of Days

Soviets Hope To Free Crimea  In Few Days   ‘Russian Army , Sweeping -Up German Defenders:

LIGHTNING DRIVE FORCES NAZIS 10 RETIRE RAPIDLY   Moscow Alsa Claims That Armies Have Conquered Key Carpathian Passes.

Red Troops Sweep Througt the Crimea   Complete Liberation of Peninsula Expected in Mater of Days

Russians Win Kereh Peninsula  3 Soviet Columns Qwean intan Criman   3 Soviet Columns Sweep into Crimea To Break Down Key Nazi Defenses

Reds Win Half Of Kerch Peninsula In Lightning Campaign   Foe Lacks Heart To Fight It Out   Half Dozen Towns On The Czech Border Reported Captured By Russians

Junker Revolt Believed To Be Deep Seated   Rumors Fly Thick And Fast—Many Generals Believed To Have Been Executed

NAZIS URGED T0 BOOST FUEWREF   Hitler Asks Troops fer Loyalty in New Appeai—Revolt Is Deep

Army Revolt May Be Deep—And Not Over   Ominous Lack of Loyalty Pledges From Top Leaders of Army; Ley Tells Laborers ‘Idiotic Nobility’ to Blame

But Top Leaders Fail: To Profess Alleaiance   Evidence Mounts That The Revolt is Deep And Far From Being Quelled ©

LOYALTY PLEA [GNORED BY TOP LEADERS   Evidence Mounts That Revolt Against Naziism Is Deep and Far From Being Suppressed. -..   RIVAL GOVERNMENT. REPORTED SET UP   Underground Says Generals Have Established Regime and Called on People to Back Them. 

NAZIS TIGHTEN CONTROL OVER REVOLT NEWS   Many Top Generals Liquidated During Blood Purge

Gestapo Tries Toe Strengthen Hold On Army As Rebels Organize   )BY ALEN SINGLETON   Necoriated Prece Staff Writer

Hitler Asking for Loyalty; Purge Goes on   Junkers Generals Reported to Have Set Up New Regime

[Top Leaders of Army Unhear« From As Ominous Signs Show Revolt Is Deen-Seated

Report Rival Regime Set Up Inside Germany   Many Top Leaders Ominously Missing in Revolting Nation

HITLER ISSUES ORDER OF DAY TO GERMAN ARMY  eet: see core lec tedee-y eee gp Ace

Evidence Revolt Still Unquelled Noted in Reports   Many Noted Generals’ Names Missing, as Some Profess Loyalty

EVIDENCE SEEN REVOLT ROOTS ARE SET DEEP   Tight Official Control Limits News From Germany

Evidence of Deepening Revolt Seen In Censored German News;  Setting Up of Rival Rule Rumored

Hitler Asks Army’s Loyalty As Nazi Censorship Screens New: Developments In Berlin

Rumors State Rival Regime  Established   Aide Blames ‘Idiotic Nobile ity” For Revolt; Generals Liquidated.   HIMMLER AT WORK

Food Subsidy Plan Killed   Committee Votes To End Proaram June 30

Foe Plots For Third Attempt   German High Command Urges Generals To Prepare Selves For New War.

SAYS NAZIS PLANNING A THIRD WAR   Correspondent Declares Captured Document Shows High Command Wants Officers to Save Selves for Future.

German Officials Urged to Surrender   Be Nucleus for Army To Launch Third Wat Aimed ta Rule Warl-

Nazi Army Officers Urged to Save Themselves as Nucleus for Next War

Nazi Officers Told to Save Selves as Nucleus for Army in Another War

Save Selves, Officers Told   German High Command Wants Officers as Nucleus For Army for Third War

 Nazi Officers Being Saved for Another War   Charles Sawyer Named _ Ambassador to Belgiun

GERMANS DECLARED MAPPING THIRD WAR   Writer Says Officers Urged To Save Themselves

Re ee eet Tt me net  Save Officers For Another War, Plan Of Nazis   Dewey Has Two Narrow Escapes: Campaign Train In Collision

Germans Plotting for a Third War  High Command Urges Savina Officers Corps

GERMANS HURL MAJOR FORCE AGAINST THIRD ARMY BRIDGEHEADS —  ,. FIRST FULL-SCALE HEAVY ". BATTLE SINCE NORMANDY OPENED TODAY

Defenders Battle Fiercely   Bulldozers Crush Enemy Guarding Key To Vital Center”

YANKS FIGHTING AGAINST STRONG GERMAN FORCES   Key Bastion Before Metz Once Reported Token, But Scrap Still On  By WILLIAM L. RYAN

REPORTED CAPTURE OF METZ DEFENSE POINT FOUND ERROR  FARTHER NORTH FIRST ARMY FORCES BATTLE

Sritish Beat Back Nazi Nijmegen Counterattack   Reds Roll to 20 Miles of Belgrade; Americans Advance in Ital

Nazis Reel . Before Push . Of 5th Army   Roosevelt Says Our Side ‘Wants Home Rule Fo: Nation

U. S. Fixes Blame For Fags Shortage   Short Crop, Black Market. More Smoking Cited

REPORT ON CIGARET SHORTAGE  People Smoking move, many Are ‘Gearing And ale Maryrkat A atixrao

BRICKER SEES BOP. SWING   Predicts Win In Pacitic States, New York And Pennsylvania

Farmers’ Draff Status Up To Local Boards   Production Unit System Abandoned

Farm Draft Rules Ordered Tightenec   Local Boards to Pass On Essentiality

Abandon Unit Drait System   Selective Service Scraps Judging Farm Workers By Unit Of Production.

More Farm Youths to Face Draft   Old System Scrapped by Selective Service: To Speed Inductions

DEFERRING OF FARMER UP 1D DRAFT BOARDS   System of Judging Workers by Units of Production is Scrapped.

Serap Unit Plan In Farmer Draft  Must Be Irreplaceable To Keep Deferment

Farm. Determent Placed : ‘on New Basis in Future   UNITS OF PRODUCTION BE DROPPED. LOCAL BOARDS GIVEN DISCRETIONARY POWER. MANY BE DRAFTED 

Draft Service Scraps Plan Of Judging Farm Workers   Deferments in Agriculture Returns To Discretion of Local Boards; Need of Men Under 26 Is ‘Stressed

LAUSCHE RAPS BALLOT VERDICT   Urges Solons to Consider Issue at Extra Meet

BRICKER CRITICIZED FOR VOTE DECISION   Lausche Accuses Him o Playing Politics

British Push . Cuts off Half Rocket Coast:   U. S.:Arniored Forces. Now Only 55 Miles  . From German Frontier

ENS FALLS TO BRITISH  (0 CUT OFF HALF ROCKET DAST, CANADIANS ADVANCE

British Take Amiens, Cross Somme in Drive to Liberate Robot Bomb Coast; Yanks Through Argonne.

Yanks In Good Gains  On Ormoc   Reinforced Enemy Gives Promise Of Bitterest Fight In Island Campaign.

MOST BITTER ~ HIGHTING OF ISLAND LOOMS   Ormoc Said Flaming From Artillery, Air Attacks

ALLIES START NEW POLICY ON NEUTRALS   Increased Chrome Shipments from Turkey to Germany Begins ‘Get Tough’ Action   Small Amount of Oil

NOTE PROTESTS AXIS TRADING   Britain And U. S. Act In Concert To Choke Off Vital Materials

SEEK 10 CUT REICH TRADE   Allies Apply “Get Tough” Policy to Turkey And Sweden

Demand Show Down With Neutral Nations   U.S., Britain ‘Get Tough’ With Sweden, Turks, Eire, Spain

Plan To Enc Sweden’s"  Nazi Trade   U.S. and Britain Condemn Neutrals’ Deals with Reich

Sweden Sent New Protests  On Nazi Hel   T wen Spain, Eire To Feel ets of Stiff Poliey

Neutrals Warned Not To Aid Axis   U. 5. and Brifain Call for Showdown

U.S., Britain Get “Tough With Neutrals   Turkey, Spain, Eire Told to Stop Giving Supplies to Germany

WAR SUPPLIES FOR GERMANY TO BE CURBED   GET - TOUGH POLICY ADOPTED TOWARD NEUTRALS

Sweden, Turkey, Spain Feel Allied Pressure In Move To Choke Off Trade With Nazis

U. 5. SPEEDS PRODUCTION OF BIG GUNS   Increase Ordered as Result of Battle Experience

PUSH SHELL AND BIG GUN OUTPUT   Heavy Artillery Program Now Put on Par With Landing Boats

Dog Saves Lite Of Boy in Tunnel   Barks Bring Aid When Dirt [raps Victim

TOKYO ROSE’ TOOK PHOTOS REFORE RAIN   Crystal-Clear Pictures Taken Ry Lone B29

Metropolitan Sergei, Patriarch of All ‘Russian Orthodox Church, Dies at 78

NO DISEASE BOOST ~ ASRESULT OF WAR   U. S. Public Health Service _. Reports on Survey ee © 7-1 7-9

No DISEASE BOOST ~ ASRESULT OF WAR   U.S. Public Health Service _ Reports on Survey ~ " Meare

Nazis Handed Two Setbacks  By Americans   Germans Ousted From Two Points In Clashes In Anzio Beachhead Area

REDS WIN TWO STRONGHOLDS   Important Road Hubs Fall To Russians Smashing Deep Into Slovakia

STRIKE VIOLENCE CHARGED BY WARE   ASKS INJUNCTION AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH EMPLOYES STILL AT WORK.

INJUNCTION IN STRIKE ASKED   Wards Seeks Protection For Non-Striking Workers

Ward Seeks To End Violence By CIO Pickets   Asks, Injunction From Court 1o Protect NonStriking Employes in Detroit Stores

SOFIABOMBED SECOND TIME IN 17 HOURS   Fires Visible for 55 Miles Following Raid By British

British Planes Bombard Sofia   Suggest Collapse of Bulgaria Politically

SOFIA BOMBED TWICE; GREAT FIRES KINDLED   Air Offensive- To Knock Bulgaria Out Of War Seen

AIR ATTACK ON SOFIA IS CONTINUED   British Bombers Follow U.S. Raiders; New Fires Started

Aerial Raid Turns Sofia Into Inferno   British Pound City _In Wake of Assault By U.S. Fortresses

Sofia Is Given Another Bombing   INDICATIONS ARE THAT COLLAPSE OF BULGARIA IS NEAR

PREDICTS FREEZE OF SECURITY TAX   ENOUGH VOTES IN CONGRESS TO DO IT, SAYS KNUTSON

Knutson Confident Of Tax ‘Freeze’   Strong Movement in Demo Ranks, However, for Compromise on SS Tax 

CURITY TAX FREEZE URGED      Rep. Knutson Says There Are Enough Votes to Take Such Action.

Congressmen Say’ Security Tax Is to Be Frozen  _ Rep. Knutson Asserts Enough Votes Are Pledged for Action

Social Securify Tax Freeze Seen   Provision Of Act Hits House Opposition

SECURITY TAX FREEZE PENDS   Rep. Knutson Says Enough Votes Promised to  Block Raise

Despite Rep. Knutson’s Claim Social Security Can Be ” “Frezen” —A Strong Demo Movement. to Compromise Develons :

SAYS SOCIAL SECURITY TAY oT 0 BE FROZEN   Rep. Knutson Is Sure Of Enough Votes On Bill

Social Security Freeze Certain, Knutson Reports   Movement Developinc In Democratic Ranks For A Compromise On 1149 Startina Jan 1

Security Tax. “Freeze” Seen As Certainty   Oue Congressnian Says If Vetoed It Would Be Attached to Second War Powers Measure

ALGIERS SAYS BRITISH STILL HOLDING FAST   Berlin Reports Allies on Offensive; Censorship Assailed

Officers Probing Rape Slaying Of Coast Heiress   Red Leather Diary Is Studied as © Police Seek Partner

5.322 Calhoun Men Called Up For War Duty   County Ranks Fifth In State In Inductees Since 1940

First Entrance Of Pre-War Nazi Soil By Reds    “Smoke Floats Over German Lands and We Can Smell Things Burning’—Pravde

Berlin Radio Says Russian Infantry Enters E. Prussia   Moscow Reports Many Towns Burning Under Red Attack on Nazi Territory; Warsaw Battle Continues

Fires Reported In Towns Of East Prussia   Battle For Warsaw Continues; Reds 30 Miles From Krakow

EAST PRUSSIA IS ENTERED BY REDS   Cities Ablaze As Infantry Pushes Forward   OTHER FORCES   Drive To Within 30 Miles Of Krakow; Gains Made Below Warsaw

SOVIET UNITS ENTER EAST PRUSSIA AREA   Clash With Enemy in Sudauen District; Warsaw Battle Rages On

SOVIET FORCES PUSH TOWARD CITY OF KRAKOW   Battle For Warsaw. Rages Inside And ,Qutside Of . Capital

RUSSIANS FIGHT ON GERMAN SOIL BERLIN INDICATES   Penetration In Northeastern  Part of East Prussia Is Announced By Nazi High fammand.   STRUGGLE FOR WARSAW CONTINUES WITH FURY   U. S. Eighth Army Inside of Florence; Enemy Is Being Pressed Back on Both Sides of City.

Ground War Carried . Into East Prussia; Many Towns Afire   Russians Sweep Close to Krakow in Their Triumphant March

SOVIET TROOPS. CARRY WAR INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Russians. ; Per ene tr ate German ‘Soil For. Kirst Time   Nazis Report Fighting In Sudauen-Schaken. Area. 

Report Soviet — Amny Fighting On German Soil   Russians Have Carried the Ground War to German Soil for First Time Since Hostilities Started.

Kast Prussian Breakthrough Sets Reeord   Battle For Warsaw Rages As Germans Resist Bitterly in  War on Own Soil

FIRES RAGE IN EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Announce Battles In Homeland; Clash For Warsaw Continues

Fires Rage In Towns of East Prussia   Reds Drive Toward Krakow, Barrier to German Silesia

RUSSIANS ARE FIGHTING ON GERMAN SOIL   Fires Raging In East Prussian Towns Today

Berlin Declares Reds Cross Border, But Moscow Silent   However, Soviets Report Fires Raging In East Prussian Towns Which Are “Objectives’   BY LEWIS HAWKINS

East Prussian Towns -Burn in “Wake of Drive   In South, Soviet  , Tide Pushes to Point Only Thirty Miles fram Krakew

REDS FIGHTING ON GERMAN SOIL IN EAST PRUSSIA   BATTLE FOR WARSAW RAGES INSIDE AND OUT OF THE CAPITAL

Nazi Communique Reports Fighting In SudauenSchaken District; Admit New Russian Gains  Ralaw Warecaw ~

Berlin Declares Reds Cross _ : Border, But Moscow Silent   However, Soviets Report Fires Raging In East Prussian Towns Which Are “Ohbiectives’

Soviet Troops Smash Into East Prussia   Only 75 Miles  From Silesian Rarder of Reich

German Soil Feels Fury  Of War   Battle On Nazi Territory for First Time As Red Troops Knife Into Bast Prussia

Berlin Indicates Soviets Crossing Homeland Border   Tells Of Fighting On Own Soil For First Time; Prussian Towns Aflame

Russians Are Fighting On German Soil   Nazis Défending “Homeland  - for First Time Since Beginning of War as Soviet Army Enters East Prussia

Nazis.Report Red Forces Cross Border   Russians Within 75 Miles of German Silesia in South. ,

Red Troops Penetrate East Prussia   Russian Troops On German Soil For First Time In Conflist

Red Troopers Smash Into East Prussia   Warsaw Battle Rages Inside and Out of Old Capital

FIGHT FOR “WARSAW IS ‘CONTINUING   Reds Within 30 Miles Of Krakow And 70  , From Silesia

Pravda, Soviet Organ. Says “Smoke Floats Over German Lands and We Can Smell Things Burn. ing.” Reds Making Great Gains Along Entire Brant

Reds Fighting on Nazi Soil, Berlin Admits   Forces Penetrate Northeastern Part of East Prussia

Waste Paper Collection  FRIDAY Wards 1, 4. 5, and B   Most of Stolen Jewel Hoard Worth $70,000 Recovered

WEST GERMANY POUNDED AGAIN BY RAF PLANES   Allied Craft Intent On Sapping _ Hitler’s Defenses   INVASION MOVE EXPECTED   Russia Scene Of Heavy Ground Fighting; Nazis Hurled Back

Yanks Deal New Blow To Nippos In New Guinea   Seize Harbor, Airfield At Saidor In Surprise Attack   Michigan Veterans Storm Saidor Beach

Sadie Meendering And  Louis Cleveringa Wed   Pretty Home Wedding Solemnized Last Wednesday Evening By Rev. J. HL Kregel

Move To Unseat James Farley   Showdown Will Come At Meeting of Democratic Committee In April.

Germans Again Bomb London      Robot Bombs Fall After 15-Day Lull

(ADIAN Resumption Of Nazi Robo {IT KIEL Bombing May Keep Blackout

GERMANS END V-DAY LULLIN BII77-ROMBING   Effect on Proposed Lifting of Blackout Uncertain

F. R. Happy, Confident at Ath Victory   SENDS TELEGRAM IN ANSWER TO DEWEY’S TALK ADMITTING DEFEAT

PRESIDENT FOLLOWS ELECTION RETURNS INTO EARLY MORNING  CONFIDENT THROUGHOUT NATION AT WAR WOULD RETURN HIM TO OFFICE

FOR Follows Returns Closely   Wires Thanks to Dewey For Statement— Confident from Outset

PRESIDENT HAS ANSWER READY   He Sends Telegram To Opponent, Thanking Him For His Statement

‘FDR Stays Up Til Victory---Then to Bed; ‘Dewey. In Defeat, Sces New U.S. Unity

Roosevelt Tabulated Returns Far Into Night, Sent Message To Dewey, Retired At 2:50

FDR Confident From Quiset on ‘Fourth Term Vote   Thanks Dewey For Radio Talk Concediny Defeai; Declared -He Wonld Be Happy Teo Retire

Roosevelt Follows Election Returns Into Early Hours   Telegraphs Dewey His: Thanks for ‘Defeat Concession

‘Farm Jumpers Given Warning By Draft Head   Must Not Leave Farm Without Board’s Okeh, Regardless Of Age

MARINES LAND ON TINIAN IN $0, PACIFIC   American Bombs Drop Near The Philippines

Daring Amphibious Blow Achieves Initial Success as Men Pour  Ashore Against Slight Opposition

M’Arthur Surprises Foe, Puts 77th Division Ashore in Drive to Win All Leyte While Planes Smash Convoy

8th Army Tanks, Infantry Advance Mile on Adriatic  Germans, Counter-Aftacking  Fiercely Lufand, Bring Allied Oifencive ta Standchll

Italy Nazis Fight to Hold Gothic Forts   Sth Army and Yanks Make Gains But Germans Battle Fiercely

8TH ARMY AT MARANO BANKS   12 Miles Inland Germans Bring Allied Offensive To Standstill

AT STANDSTILL   Allied Offensive Meets Fierce Counter-Attack in Italy.

Bitter Battle In Italy   Allies Inch Forward On East and West Coast, But Are Held To No Gain in Center

ALLIES SLOWED INITALIAN PUSH   Nazi Counter-Attacks Check Drive On Center Sector

Eighth Reaches Marano River   Yanks On Italy Front Reach Last City South of Gothic Lire.

Eighth Army Forces Reach Marano River   i2 Miles Inland Fierce German Counterattacks Bring Allied Offensive to Stand. still; Yanks Near Pistoria ,

STH DRIVES T0 MARANO RIVER   U. $. Completes Year of War on Italian Soil

GERMANS FIGHT BITTERLY FOR GOTHIC LINES   Americans Meet Resistance In Rimini Area

ALLIES CONTINUED SLIGHT PROGRESS IN BATTLE FOR ITALY   LIMITED ADVANCES MAD! _ ON BOTH ENDS OF LINE   APDAGCE DENINGCIITA

GERMAN ATTACKS SLOW ITALY PUSH   EIGHTH ARMY.FIGHTS TO MARANO RIVER BANKS

Sth Army Is Four Miles From Rimini  Nazis Battling Furiously To Halt Allies

EIGHTH ARMY IS HALTED BEFORE TAKING RIMINI   Germans Putting Up Bitter Resistance Along Adriatic Coast —-Many German Dead Seen.

Allies Advance On Both Ends Of Italian Front, Stalled By Nazi Counter-Attacks Infand   Germans Fighting Stubbornly In Last Ditch Fight To Stay In Italy

8TH ARMY PUSHES TO MARANO RIVER   YANKS CLOSE JN ON ISTOAL, IMPORTANT CITY HELD BY NAZIS

Germans Battle Fiercely in Italy  Allies Abie to Make Only Slight Gains

oth Army Gains In One Area But Halted Elsewhere   Esach Banks Of-Marano 4. Miles Of. Rimimi: Nazis Counterattack Strongly.

NAZIS STOP ALLIED DRIVE NEAR RIMIN   Counter-attacks Halt Ad vance 12 Miles Inland . From Gothic Line Town of Rimini on the Adri- atic Sea.

Germans Stall Drive In Italy   Allied Offensive Is At.A Standstill

URGENT NEED OF TRACTOR. OPERATORS   High School Boys and Business Men Can Help Plant Crops

Sh h! Don’t Discuss That Christmas Lollipop: It’s a Military Secret

Congressman Discovers Christmas Candy Now Military Secret and He Dare Not Talk About it

Aw Conference Debates Skies  Freedom Issue   U. S., British Views Difter

THE FUTURE IN THE AIR: . BARRIERS TC CIVIL AIR ROUTES ARE WATCHED 

RED PLANES RIP NAZIS’ RETREAT   Soviets Race to Cut Escape Following Capture of Staraya Russa

REDS STRAFE RETREATING GERMANS   Race to Seal Off Escape Routes Toward Baltic States

NAZIS FACING NEW RED TRAP   Escape Routes to Baltic States Menaced   Staraya Russa Now In Soviet Hands

Allies Control Major Portion of New Britain   Estimated 40,000 Jap Troops Believed Preparing For Stand

Japs Facing ‘Last Stand’ Near Rabaul   Enemy Retreats Acr oss Most of y Britain Isle

Altied Forces Control Main Portion ot New Britain, Japan's Main Holding in Bismarck Archipelago,

Japs in Retreat On New Britain   Prepare for Stand Near Rabaul, Belief

Allies Control Major Portion  Of New Britam   Estimated 40,000° Japs Prepare For ‘Final Stand At Rabaul

40,000 JAPS IN RETREAT FACE RABAUL TRAF   Major Portion Of New Britain Now Held By Allies

40,000 Japanese Prepare Final Stand At Rabaul   Enemy Cut Off From Supplies By Allied  Advance

Allies Control Major Portion of New Guinea   40,000 Japanese May Be Preparing for Final Stand

ALLIES HOLD MAJOR PART NEW BRITAIN      Japs To Make Final Stand Below Rabaul

House-To-House lighting Rages In Cassino   Yanks Enter Town Under Cover Of Artillery Fire

BOMBARDMENT PAVES ENTRY FOR AMERICANS   U. S. Barrages Shake Countryside For Miles

Russians Eye  Mediterranean Seek Unlimited Acces: Through Dardanelles

Take Rail Depot, Fight In Streets   Fierce Battling Rages At Both Ends Of Normandy Front; More Than 58 Cities, Towns And Villages Liberated

Huns Fighting   cK Kk Kw Ke Eisenhower Back  From Tour Of Front.

FIERCE BATTLE RAGING ALONG NORMAN FRONT   Germans Throw in Giant Tiger Attacks for First Time in Attempt to Halt Allies

Nazi Anchor On Western Flank Scene  Of Contest ‘   “Normandy. Is Scene Of. Fiercest: Battles .

Enter La Haye And Capture Railway Depot   Fierce Battle Under Way All Along Penin sula Front—Rommel Using Heavy Tanks

YANKS BATTER INTO IMPORTANT JUNCTION POINT   Germans Use Tiger Tanks irst Time in Fierce Counter-Attacks

allway: ‘Station — Is Taken   Hand. -- to.Hand. Battle ; m Streets; Fierce Action ate Both Ends of Line -:   NAZIS BRING- OUT 9-20. \ HEAVIEST: TANKS.   Canadians”: Forced. Back From Airfield: Near: ‘Caen; © Rommel Counter Attacks.”:

Fight Handto-Hand in City Streets   Fierce Battles Rage a! Both Ends of Normandy Front -

58 FRENCH VILLAGES LIBERATED   Caen Area Also Scene Of Violent Battle With Germans

Rail Station Cantured by Doughboys   Two Mile Gain Made Bitter Fighting Rages Near Caen

Showdown Follows Seizure of Railway Station 300 Yards From Heart : of the Vital Junction, Which i Enemy Anchor on Western Flank France—Struggle Rages in Car : Area—58 French Towns ‘and Villages Liberated to Date.

A Hand-to-Hand Struggle Rages For French City   Canadians Join in Normandy Battle In Which Progress Is Reported Slow

Battle Nazis In Streets of La Haye Du Puits   FIERCE FI FIGHTING  Battles Rage At Both _ Ends of Normandy Front ‘

Hand-To-Hand Battle Raging Through City   Rommel Strikes Hard To Push Canadians Back From Carpiquet Airfield Near Caen   Nazis Try Tiger Tanks

Violent Fighting Also In Caen Sector; 58 Cities Liberated First Month.

‘Rail Station Near Heart of City Seized   Hand-to-Hand Fighting; Germans Launch Heavy Counterattack in Vain

Americans Sieze Railroad Station In New French Push   Yanks Advance Over Two Miles On Front in France; Violent Battles Rage Around Caen

Railway Station Seized in Nazis’ Anchor Town   Fierce Fighting Is Raging at Both Ends of Front

INVASION AREA TOUR IS MADE BY EISENHOWER   Bloody Battles Raging on Several Sectors as Allies Expand Beachhead

City Is Nazi _ Anchor Point ~ In Normandy   Fierce Fighting Rages at Both Ends of French Battlefront

Yankees Enter La Haye   58 FRENCH CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES NOW LIBERATED

La Haye Du Puits Station ls Seized: Fight In Streets   Other Bradley Forces Score Gains of Over 2 Miles in France—Nazi Anchor on Western Flank Totters as Yanks Slash to Heart of La Haye.

_—INVASION—~   Street Fighting Rages In Key Nazi Defense Anchor In Normandy   ILA, Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s Tireless Doughboys Score Advances Of More Than 2 Miles Along PWutire Front

Fierce Battle Rages Thru Streets of La Haye du Puits   FOLLOWS U. S. GAINS   Germans Counterattack to Retake Airfield in the Caen Sector

REPORT SHOWS 38 TOWNS FREED   Battle Rages In Streets Of La Haye Du Puits   Ablaze With New Activity: Nazis Counterattack With Heavy Tanks

Germans Resist Heavily in all Sectors, Progress  Hard for Allies

Seize Railway Station 300  Yards from Center of Town   Score Two Mile Advance Along Entire Front in Section Against CounterAttacks—Nazis Use Rio Tanke

Doughboys Fight Hand To Hand In Nazi Anchor City On West Flank In France

Rail Station In Town . Is Captured   Fierce Battle Rages for La Haye du Puits; Germans Throw Giant Tiger Tanks Into Counterattacks: 58 Towns Liberated

Yanks Storm Into Streets ‘Of La Haye      Seize Railway Station Near Heart of City, Western Anchor of Nazi Line in France

STRUGGLE WITH NAZI TROOPS I STREET FIGHTS   Bitter Engagement at La Haye-Du Puits Still Raging

Doughboys : Seéized: Railton Station 300 Yard From “Center. of      IMPORTANT JUNCTION:   Fierce "Fighting - Raged 4 Both Ends of the niandy ‘Battlefroi

Americans Capture 1/ More Towns   La Haye Du Puits Scene of Bitter Street Fighting

French City Falls To U.S. Infantrymen  La Haye Du Puits Taken After Bitte Doveahhav Accaul

Seize Railway Station At La Haye Du Puits   Fierce Fighting Rages At Both Ends Of Normandy Rattlefront.   NAZIS COUNTERATTACK

Yanks Seize Rail Station   Advance Elsewhere, Too; Canadians Take Carpiquet, Battle For Airdrome —

FIGHT THROUGH STREETS OF LA HAYE DU PUITS   Germans Use Tiger Tanks in Vain Effort to Save French Town

Fierce Fighting Raging in France   American Doughboys Battle Foe In Streets of La Haye du Puits

8 French Towns Freed In Allied Invasion Drive   Rommel Attacks Repulsed at Caen Report Claims

DOUGHBOYS FIGHTING HAND TO HAND IN STREETS OF LA HAYE / DU PUITS, IN WESTERN FRANCE   German Anchor Line in Normandy Area Rocks Under Heavy American Attack and Fighting Raves. Battle at Caen Grows in Ferocity

Supreme Headquarters Discloses that More Than 58 French Cities Have Been Liberated Since D-Day.   IMPORTANT JUNCTION . CITY NOW ENTERED

Capture La Haye Railway Station, Fight In Streets   Fierce Fighting Rages At Both Ends Of Normandy Front: 58 Places Freed

Battle Foe In Streets Of La Haye   Advance Made Against Heavy Tank Assaul?

VITAL GER TOWN (5 TAKEN   La Haye Du Puits, on Wests ern Flank, Falls in Hands te-Hand Fight.   STRUGGLING FOR CAEN

Drive Germans Out of Seventeen French Villages   Americans Force Nazis Back to Mile of Western  Defense Anchor.   Stubborn Resistance  Is Offered Near Caen

Fall Of City Considered Imminent; British Warships Intercept, Wreck German Convoy Headine Prom Normandy   PROGRESS SAID TO BE SLOW, STEAD’

 German Soldiers ‘Said Giving Up © In Huge Numbers   American Troops ; Drive Within Mile. ‘ of Edge of City %

femperature Readings   Hinurliv ‘Temperatures   P. C. Relative Humidity Precipitation (inches) ....   TIDES AT BRISTOL

Claim Soviets Find Finn Counter-Armistice Plan _ Unsuitable; Hope Remains

Finland’s Plea: Said Rejected   Russian Refusal of Truce Terms Renorted

Finland Awaits Russian Answer   Latest Reports Say Soviet Union Unable To Accept The Finnish Proposal.

Say Russia Spurns  Finnish Peace Plan  Both Parties Are Keeping  Door Open

FINLAND AWAITS RUSSIA'S REPLY   FINNS ARE CALM, BELIEVE DELAY IS A GOOD SIGN

HIGHER AGE GROUPS WILL BENEFIT FROM DEFERMENT POLIC)   130,000 In 18-22 Bracket Removed From Deferred List

KEY DOCKS AT FORMOSA HIT BY U. §. BOMBS   China-Based Bombers Rip Isle, 200 Miles From Philippines

U.S. Bombers Attack Formosa   Halmahera Island Is Neutralized By Other Big Air Raids

Formosa Hit By Bombers From China   U. S. Planes Attack at Both Ends of Philippine Isles

Formosa Attacked By U.S. Bombers   Japs Say Volcano Islands Hit Again  ~~. — ———— a ee

U.S, AIR FLEETS LASH FORMOSA   Strike From Base In China: Halmahera Neutralized

'US Bombers From China ‘Hit Formosa   Halmahera Effectively Neutralized; Chinese Forces Intensify Attacks on Japanese in Hengyang Area

FORMOSA HIT BY AMERICAN BOMBER FORCE   Enemy Airfields On Other Isles Are Shelled

Halmahera Is BombPocked;  Iwo Jima Hit   Admiral Nimitz Silent in ‘Western Pacific; Chinese Battle over Rail Line

Yank Heavy Bombers Hit Formosa   Jap Anchor on Inner Water Routes Target For Planes

Formosa Attacked by Yankee Bombers Flying From China   Iwo Jima, Halmahera AIso Given Pounding by Liberator Ships

U.S. PLANES IN CHINA ASSAULT FORMOSA DOCKS   Airmen Pound Iwo Jima Again; Neutralize Big Jap Base Guarding Philippines

Big U.S. Bombers Attack Formosa Near Philippines  Jap Ships Sunk OFF Coast of Chinn

Formosa Atfacked By U. §. Bombers Based on China   Anchor on Japan’s Water Ways 200 Miles North of Philippines.

U. 5: BOMBERS FROM CHINA HIT FORMOSS      Planes Neutralize Halmah. era, Jap Port 200 Miles From Philippines

FORMOSA BOMBED  BY U. S. RAIDERS;  SINK JAP SHIPS CHINESE INTENSIFY  _ FIGHT TO CLEAR JAPS CONM DIIOMA BAAN

—PACIFIC—  FDAMOSA BOMBED AYU. 5, PLANES   Américan Bombers Based In China Strike. Japanese Island ”   PHILIPPINES HIT   Kalmahera Island -At Southern Tip Neutralized, Says MacArthur

Formosa, . Jap Anchor, is Bombed  Takao Docks Hit; 3 Freiahters Sunk

BOMBERS RAID FORMOSA, NEAR PHILIPPINES   Halmahera, Big Jap-Held Island Neutralized By Aerial Blows

CHINA BASED BOMBERS HIT AT FORMOSA   Anchor of Japan's Inner Water Routes 200 Miles North of Philippines Attacked   MAIN PORT IS BOMBED

Assault On Iwo Jima In Volcano Group South Of Tokyo Is Reported By Japs

Death Toll In Circus Fire 152   Flags Fly At Half Mast In Harttord In Mourning For Victims  AUTERDYD OF PHPPRPCNNE

DEATH TO 1 CIRCUS ":-AZE RISES TO 153   Investigate Rumor Fire Started by Former Employe

INVESTIGATION _ CENTERS,’ ON REPORT WATERPROOFING "LED TO RAPID SPREAD “OF FLAMER

RUSSIANS POUND BUDAPEST GATES   BIG GUNS AND PLANES HAMMER C4PITAL—STRONGHOLD OF SZOLNOK FALLS.

Tanks Storm At Entrance Of Budapest Stronsholds.   Stalin Issues: Order Of ‘Day On’ Advance

Sunday Edition   Soviets Batter At Shell-Swent te OF City   2 Rail Towns Seized   Bridges Jammed

CAPITAL CITY QF HUNGARY IN CHAOS, REPORT   Hungarians Are Said To Have Attacked  Germans

SZOLNOK FALLS TO REDS WITH 40 MORE CITIES   Germans Below Capital Cut Off From Retreat Into Budanest

Soviet, Nazi Tank: Lock in Flaming Battle at Budapest  Russians Cut Escape Route; Axis Plight Is Critical

Battle Raging  Near Budapest Report Reds Ousted From Town Mile Awa)

Flaming Tank Battle Rages; $zolnok Falls   Soviets Cross Tisza Again And Cut Rai Line—Capital — To Fall Soon

Soviet Troops Forcing Germans To Flee Capital   Drive into City From Two Sides

Soviets Batter ‘at Gates of Budapest   Other Units Topple Great German Szolnok Stronghold

Soviets Push Within Mile. of Budanest   Another Column Takes Szolnok, Escape Route From Maygar Capital

Soviet Forces Thrown Back  From Budapest   Greal Armed Battle Waged Along Edge of Imperilled, Capital; Axis  Situation Critical

Soviets Repulsed Near Budapest In Flaming Battle   Red Troops Topple Tisza Stronghold In Wheeling Assault

SOVIET FORCES DRIVEN BACK IN RAGING BATTLE   Another Soviet Attack Moving Up 50 Miles South of Capital

Russian Forces Swing Arc Around Besieged City  MORE TOWNS HELD -LN-SOVIET_-ADVANCE  Many Hungarian Troops Turn on the Germoans

Soviet Tanks Roll To Edge Of Budapest   German Forces Said Fleeing City To Cross Danube River

Great Armored Battle Raging  Near Budapest      Russian Tanks Thrown Back After Crashing Into Sorok ee © ome   AXIS STAND CRITICAL

Reds Batfer At Gates Of Budapest Now   City Under Heavy Shelling, Bombing, Fugitives © Fleeing From Capital

RUSSIAN SHELLS JOLT BUDAPEST   Soviet Forces Near Gates of Hungarian Capital—40 Villages Taken

Reds Pierce City Suburbs, Push Beyond   Bulk of Nazi Forces Fleeing from Capital, Hungarian Reports Say  NEEENGES RIUCKTE

Russians Get Within Mile Of Budapest   Germans Hurl Reds Back, However, in Big Battle of Armor

The War Today   My DEWITT MACKENZIF Asst®deted Press War Analyst

The War Today   Climax Near in ’Round Clock Rlactine of Reich From Air

WAR TODAY   Experiment to: Deter. mine How Close Hitler Can be Bombed  Inte. Submission Nears Climax

Today’s War Moves   Near End-of Experiment to Bomb Hitler Out of War

Bricker Lauds Maine For GOP Election Coup   Condemns Democratic Party) For Allowing Hillfman To Run Campaign

SAYS HILLMAN ~ NEW DEAL BOSS   Bricker Charges c.1.0 Group Running Democratic Campoian

Bricker Declares FDR's Campaign In Hands of CIO Committee   Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Moves Into Maine; Says High Court New Deal Tool

BEING POLLED IN MATTOON   Clear, Cool Weather Brings Out Early Record Crowd

Britain, France In Agreement On West Europe  Plans For Bloc To Hold Germany “er 1. Clack Afear

Bloc to Hem Herrenvolk  a Natans Weichine   4 Nations Weighing West Front Accord

Britain, France Said For Bloc Of  Western Nations   Regional-Accord Plan Might See Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia In Second Group, Next ‘Big Three’ Conference Said Likely To Consider Feasibility

Kurope Bloe Agreed Upon  By Two Allies   Britain And France Report In Accord To Help Keep  Germany In Check.   SAME CASE IN. EAST

Britain, France Agree on Western European  Bloc to Hold Germany in Check After Wa

Western European Bloc Is Approved   France, Britain Agree on Plan to Check Germany

Bloc to Checkmate Germany is Favored by France, Englanc   Similar Combine May Be Formed in East By Russia, Other Nations

Lining Up Blocks To Hold Germany Down   Britain, France in Accord, Belgium and Holland May Come in; Russia May Lead Lineup on East Side

BRITAIN, FRANCE AGREE ON NAZI RESTRAINER BLOC   Both Feel Germany Should Be Kept in Check in Following Peace Years By Group of Western European’Nations

BRITAIN AND FRANCE AGREE TQ PEACE PACT   Other European Countries May Sign Treaty

Britain Agrees On Europe Block   FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO “SIDE WITH ALLY ON PLANS

Two Powers  Are Asreed   England And France Favor. .Western “Blot:

Accord! Reached: On FE ‘orming Bloc ‘To. Check Reich   Sie Belgium: And Holland Original Signatories WwW ith Britain, France

Allies Ask Post War Nazi Check   Kuropean Nations to Keep Germany in Hand During Peace Years

Britain, France Agree Post War European Bloc   Is In Accord With Part of Dumbarton Oaks Plan.

See Need For Bloc Of West  Europe Nations   Britain, France Agree A Peacetime Check On Ger manv Desirable.

A Postwar Peace Bloc.   Britain. and France Agree On Need for. — Anti-German Coalition

War Cost To U.S. in Year  89 Billions   Taxpayers Contribute Toward Sum Largest ‘Take’ on Record

Budget Estimates War Cost For Fiscal Year Starting July 1 At $88,900,000,000

$88 Billion In  War Forecast Figure Conflict In” Europe To Be Ended

U.S. War Bill For Year Fixed AES Billions   Largest Tax “Take” In History Slated

YEAR’ COSTS NEARL' 89 BILLION   Budget Director Estimates Europeon Wor Will Be Over By Summer

U.S. ARMY CHAPLAIN TO DELIVER GOOD FRI. MESSAGE AT ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN

ROSE SHOW IN MINATIRE TO   Legion Home Will Be Scene of Beautiful Dis-

ROSE SHOW IN MINIATURE 10 ATTRACT MANY   Legion Home Will Be Scene of Beautiful Display of Unusual and Rare Flowers

) Previous Reviews Of War Have Led To Action— ~~By Kirke L. Simpson  Churchill To Sound Signal For Invasion

SMALL CHILOREN DIE IN HOME FIRE   Fire in Christmas Decorations, Wrappings Destroys Interior of Home

Move to Brace Domestic Front   Senators Called Back  For Reconversion Effor

Senate Group Called Back. To Work : on ‘Peace Bills’  "Military Comimittes.” a To Rush Measures  - BRas-Cancideraton ~

WORK LAID OUT FOR CONGRESS   Legislation Preparing For German Collapse To Be Rushed

Absent Senate Members Callec Back to Posts   Vandenberg Says GOP Will Ask Speed-Up  In Peace Measures

Senate Group to Work Oui Bills   Commiitee Called Back to Capital

BARKLEY IN MOVE FOR SPEED-UP ON PEACE MEASURES   Absentee Senators Are Called To Washington to Hasten Action on Reconversion — . Legislation.   POSSIBILITY SEEN OF GERMAN COLLAPSE   Leaders Hope to Brace Home Front Against Any Economic Impacts From Sud den Nazi Defeat.

F ighting Ragin g Rice Her ngy ang   Chinese Batter Way Deeper Into Jap Lines

Russians Face Fierce Fighting   GERMANS WON ESCAPE CORRIDOR ALONG BALTIC

Dangerous Foremen’s  Strike Off   74,000 Workers To Resume After Giving Air Force Most Crippling Blow.

Foremen’s walkout ended; way to work is open for 52,000   Packard reports 38,000 employes soon to resume output of engines

FRENCH HOLD GREATER PART OF ELBA ISLE   Capture Capital in Conquest of German-Held Territory—Allied Gains Continue on the Italian  y Mainland. 

French Colonials Hold Greater Part of Island of Elbe   Nazi Resistance is Re ported Increasing on Italian Front

House Flattens  Ballot Roll Call   Takes. Action To Govern State Bill Consideration

Allied 7th Army Drives 26 Miles   Nazi Line Broken in Advance on Belfort

Ickes Signs River Pact, Aids Arizona   Osborn Calls Extra Legislative Session For Tuesday. Feb: 15

KRUG SUCCEEDS DONALD NELSON AS WPB LEADER   Roosevelt Expecting Nelson to Remain for Another High Gov't Post of Much Importance

Donald Nelson's Resignation Is Accepted by FDR   Says Be Counts on Former WP Chairman Remaining For Majer Pesi in Gevernmen!

Donald Nelsor Quits as Head of WPB   Julius Krug Named To Become U. 5. Production Chief

Nelson Quits WPB. fo Get few US. Pos   F.R. Silent on Plans For Aide’s Future; Krug Named Successor

Nelson Quits as WPB Chairman  President Accepts Resignation at Once

Julius Krug Appointed To Chairmanship   F. D. R. Has Some Other Govt. Post In Mind For Retiring Chief.

NELSON TO GET “MAJOR POST:” QUITS WPB JOB   New Assignment to Be Announced in Near Future by President

Nelson Resigns as WPB Chief   President Names Krug as Successor, Says Former Chairman to Remain in Government in Important Post; Reconversion Charted

DONALD NELSON QUITS AS CHAIRMAN OF THE WPB BOAR   Resignation Was Accepted Today by President Roosevelt.   ‘REMAIN IN GOVERNMENT      The Presidént Named Julius  A. Krug as Successor to Nelson.

Nelson Resigns WPB Post, Krug  le G Irracctnr  Te were re eres ee ere

President Indicates He Will Be Given genthies High ost 2 7   KRUG HIS SUCCESSOR

Nelson Resigns As WPB Head: FDR Accepts   President ‘Counting On Him For Another Big Government Job’

NELSON QUITS AS WPB HEAD   New ‘High Post of Major Importance’ Hinted by Roosevelt :

NELSON RESIGNS AS CHAIRMAN OF WAR PRODUCTION BOARD   PRESIDENT SAYS HE IS COUNTING ON NELSON FOR POST MAJOR IMPORTANCE

2500 Planes Softening Up Coast Nearest England;  RAF Night Raid on Again

Seers Weigh Effects Of Truman Talk   Demo Second Choice Urges FR Reelection in  Michigan Addresses

F.D.R. Is Common Man’s Best Hope   President’s Running Mate Speaks Before Vast Detroit Crowds.

Navy Planes Hit Caroline Island  Enemy Air Base Is Reported Attacked

Air Navy Strikes  Carolinas   Carries American Offensive 750 Miles Closer To Truk: Lose No Planes.

USECAR STAMPS MUST BE BOUGHT   _ Collector Of Internal Revenue Gives Warning “OF: Drastic Measures

Jap Resistance Crushed  SOUTHEAST ASIA COM. ATAN D TIFANRAITANT CPE

JAPS IN A BAD STATE   Troops Entering Tamu Have to Bury Piles of Bodies

Motorists Urged To Make Application For New ‘A’ Ration Books At Once

U.S. Submarines Take Big Toll  Japanese Aircraft Carrier, : 26 Other Ships Sent Down

Jap Aircraft Carrier Sunk By Submarine   Americans Destroy Other Enemy Ships

Big J ap Carrier 26 Other Ships Sunk by Subs   Sinkings Bring to 99 Enemy Fighting Ships Victims of Submarines

U.S. Submarine: Sink 27 Japanese Ships  Seven Combatant Vessels Are Included in Total

State Shows Big. _ ‘Drop in Gas Use   Consumption Decreases 103,000,000 Since 1941, Report Reveals

Allied Forces Hammering At Hitler Line Following Breach of Gustav Barrier

Thomas Herbert Cuts Lead To 2,262 Votes   Ohio Republican Recount Possibility Democrats

Forrestal Seen Successor Knox   Strong Backing For  Under Secretary Develops In Congress.

Forrestal May Succeed Knox.  Stassen Also Named Ac Navy Seaceratary

FORRESTAL [8 SUPPORTED 10 SUCCEED KNOX   Another Republican, However, May be Named To Post

Forrestal May Succeed Knox As Secretar   Congressional Backing Develops; No Hint From F. R.; He Might Name A Republican

Forrestal Gets Backing for Knox Post   Lt. Comdr. Stassen a Seen As Possibi hity

FORRESTAL TO. suegeED KNOY’   ‘Strong Congressional Back ing for Assistant is Developed Today,

Forrestal Backed for Post of Knox   Served as Undersecretary ‘To Dead Chieftain; Stassen Considered

Forrestal May Succeed Knox   Undersecretary Said To Have Strong Congresgional Backing:

Forrestal Gets Strong Backing   May Succeed Knox As Head of Navy

Forrestal May Be New Navy Chief   Stassen Also Listed — as Possible. Successor to Frank Knox

FORRESTAL MENTIONED AS SUCCESSOR OF KNOX  President Roosevelt Calls Death Of Navy Secretary a “War Casualty”

Urge Forrestal For Navy Post   Strong Congressional Backing Appears For Assistant

Back Forrestal For Naval Pos   Undersecretary Has Congress Support

Forrestal Given Congress Backing For Navy Secretary   President Has Given No Hint of Suecessor to Knox—Stassen Named in Speculation

Forrestal Is Mentioned For Cabinet Post   Strong Support Develops For Acting Secretary To Be Named Successor To Frank Knox

Forrestal Held Likely Choice   Wins Congress Backing As Kuox Snecessor

FORRESTAL MAY SUCCEED KNOX AS NAVY CHIEF   ‘Strong Congressional  - Backing’ for Undersecretary Develops in Washington ,

Urge Forrestal Appointment As Navy Secretary   Strong Congressional Support For Elevation Of Undersecretary.

Congress Booms Forrestal As Knox Successor  Mantinn Staccan   Mention Stassen For Naval Post

FORRESTAL MAY SUCCEED KNOX AS NAVY HEAD   Is Acting Head; FDR May Make  Choice Soon

Red Army in Campaign To Drive Nazis Out of Southwestern Russia   Russians Within Six Miles of Odessa-Warsaw Railroad.   ANOTHER RUSSIAN ENCIRCLEMENT   12 Nazi Divisions, Some 164,000 Routed in Poland Drive.

RED ARMY MAKES NEW GAINS T0 DRIVE GERMANS  OUT OF RUSSIA   Moscow Announces Route Of 12 Nazi Divisions In Campaign That Landed Them Just Six Miles From Odessa Warsaw Railroad.

PENS NOTE 10 WIFE. SUICIDES   Walter B. Smith Ends Life With Gun; Despondent Over Health

Americans Take 16 Towns in New  Two-Pronged Pust   Artillery, Planes Launch Drive; Other Areas Fairly Quiet

Long Stagnant Front Springs To Life—Nazis Caught  nee nen te He Rh =     Ry Sienrice

Capture 16 Towns in Two: Pronged Attack on 7-Mile Front—Hundreds of  Nazis Killed.   THRUST SUPPORTED BY FIGHTER BOMBERS   Gains Up to Three Miles Made —Germans Say Yanks Are Trying to Reach Saar  River. _

Americans Gain Three Miles on Meiz-Nancy Front   Two-Pronged Attack Nets Fine Results

New Offense Started Near Metz Front   Third Army Lashes Out in New Advance

PATTON'S A IN 3-MILE GAIN AT METZ-NANCY   German Radio Says Third Army Is Driving To  Cross Saar River   HURTGEN CAMPAIGN BY YANKS STALLED

Yanks Advance ‘Three Miles; Take 16 Towns   Americans Lash Out in Two-Pronged Blow Along Metz-Nancy Front: U.S. Planes Knock Out Nazi Command Posts

16 towns captured in 3 mile advance; air support is potent   Nazis claim two-pronged offensive directed at breakthru to Saar river

MAKES GAING UP TO THREE MILES   Fighter-bombers Knock Out Nazi Command Posts   16 TOWNS TAKEN   Nazis Say Gen. Patton Has Opened Attack to Break Through to Saar River

Open Offensive Between Metz And Nancy; 3-Mile  Gains Scored In Drive   16 Towns Captured In Advances; Nazi Radio Says Gen. Patton Launches Attack

Rouses Convention Ferver to High Pitch With Challenge to Republican Rivals

AGE ISSUE AAIGED BY DEMO KEYNOTE   Says If FR and Colleagues Are ‘Tired’ So Are Other War Leaders..-

Retain Roosevelt To Win War And Peace, Kerr Says In Convention Keynote Speech

AGE STRATEG\   Democrats’ Keynoter Lik: ens F. D. R. To Other Allied Chiefs _

Dewey’s Age Issue Answered by Kerr   Keynoter Replies that Experienced Men Who Are Winning War Will Also Win the Panca

SAYS OLD MEN STILL WINNING   Oklohoma Governor Makes Rip-Snorting Democratic Speech

Democrats Are Stirred By Keynoter's Addres:   Goy. Kerr Tosses Back Dewey's ‘Tired Old Men’ Challenge

Democrats Keynote Speech Rips Republican Record   By THOMAS A. REEDY

Old Age Issue Is Thrown at GOP   Oil-Man Governor Kerr Answers Dewey Cry of  Tired Old Men.”

Kerr Challenges Dewey on Issue ol "Tired Old Men’  Democratic Keynoter Cites Ages« of Churchill. Stalin.

Democratic Key-Noter.’_ Accepts "Tired Old Men" Challenge of the GOP

OKLAHOMAN SAYS U. 5. MUST BE LED BY F.D.R.   Gov. Kerr Brings Down House In Convention Keynote

GOP Campaign Str rategy Hit By Democrats   Keynoter Kerr Says War Being Won By Men Dewey Declares Are Too Old

TIRED OLD MEN WINNING WAR, SAYS KEYNOTER   CHARGES DEWEY IS HOOVER’S PROTEGE WITHOUT A PROGRAM

KERR ANSWERS GOP NOMINEE ON AGE ISSUE   Quick Victory, Lasting Peace Main Goals of Democrats, Keynoter Reveals

AGE ISSUE IS HURLED BACK AT GOP IN ROUSING KEYNOTE   vil Roosevelt Is "Tired “Old. Man”. What Abou : Churchill, Stalin, King; Marshall, 1 , _..-Nimitz’‘and- Others?

Suffer 90,000 Casualties in Italian Battles   Powerful Allied Campaign Against Germans Is Com pletely Halted.   Sees No Sign of Nazis Pulling Out of Italy

Gen, Alexander Admits Allied Drive Against Gothic Line Is Bogged

CAMPAIGN IN ITALY SLOWED DOWN BY MUD  9000 Casualties   9000 Casualties Reported In 500 Mile Gain

Mud, Peaks Bog  Down Campaign   Allied Commander Sees No Signs Of Nazis Ouitting Italy.

Gen. Alexander Sees No Hope of Nazis Leaving Italy: Allies at Standstill

Gothic Line Drive Completely Halted, Says Allied Chie!   Mud, Apennine Peaks, Enemy Forces, Grind Allied to Stoo

MUD SLOWS UP TALIAN ORIVE   No Sign of Enemy Pulling Out; 9,090 American — Cacualtiac.

Italian Drive  Slowed By Mud   Costs 90,000) Casualties In American Forces: Power ful Drive Halted.

DEMOCRATS WIN STATE OFFICES   Balloting Believes To Be Heaviest In History Of State

DIES COMMITTEE ATTACKS 6.1.0   Claims Sidney Hillman C.1L0O. Chairman Is Communist Leader.

Russians Claim, That Germany's Defense In Hungary. Has Collapsed   GERMAN REPORTS SAY: REDS ARE. PUSHING TOWARD VIENNA   Nazis Report Russians Have Surrounded Covering Forces Inside Budapest

Soviet Tanks Break Into Outskirts of Flaming City in Violent Fighting

TAK LEADER BLASTS VETO   CONGRESS REQUESTED TO OVERRIDE F. D. R.

TAX BILL VETO MESSAGE STIRS UP RESENTMENT   INDICATIONS POINT TO CONGRESSIONAL UNITY FOR OVERRIDE

The War Today  Crucial Sea Battle May Be Raging off Philippine Coast

TOKYO CLAIMS OF GREAT NAVAL LOSSES TO AMERICA INDICATE DECISIVE SEA BATILE IS ON

THIS IS RATHER TENSE MOMENT IN PACIFIC WAR AS JAPAN HAS IMADE EXTRAVAGANT CLAIMS

“WAR TODAY   Daring. and d \ Powerful Attack, Ou Formosa. ‘Marka Que of the De- cisive Engagements.   Of Whole Peer &  ~ Conflict. s

MACKENZIE SAYS— New Pacific Battle May  Be Decisive   Japanese Navy Reported In Action After Months of Hiding

Showdown Battle Develops At Edge Of Cologne Plain   Conquering First Army Meets Only Slight Resistance In Doomed Coronation City; 500 Defenders Captured, Many Killed Running Away

Showdown Battle Looms at Cologne   Pilots Report Practically All Of City Is Destroyed: Only Light Resistance Is Met

Showdown Battle Is Believed to Be Developing on Edge of Cologne Plain to East as Nazis Send In Tanks

FINE SELECTION OF CHRISTMA: TREES. LONG AND SHORT NEEDLES. OPEN EVENINGS. LEONARD QUINN sona ELLSWORTH

NOTICE! OUR STORE WILL BE OPEN ALL DAY TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY “ww 1 ETLTS MKT., 199 8. B’'WAY.

RAILWAY FIGHT HELPS GERMANY   Axis Countries Avert Eruption, Produce New Propaganda

RAILAND STEEL LABOR MESS AIDING ENEMY   German Propaganda Averts Collapse Of Germany With Tales Of Chaos In The United States.   Subjugated Lose heart

WALKOUT THREATS HELD VERY COSTLY      Nazi Propagandists Saying Chaos Reigns im lls.

Rail, steel Strike Threats. Feared To Have Lifted Nazi ‘Morale And Delaved Peace

France and Germany Pounded Again Last _ Night; RAF Out Today   Non-Stop Pre-Invasion Ai Raids Shift to Northern France Today

PRE-INVASION AlR ASSAULT ON AXIS   British Bombers Again Over Northern France This Morning.

Berlin Says Forces Reach East Prussia   Moscow Remains Silent; Huge Forces Poised Along Frontier for Drive

Red Forces May Be On Enemy Soil   Berlin Reports Indicate Fighting Has Started in Prussia; Towns Aflame   RUSSIANS PUSH CLOSER TO KRAKOW   May Hold Up Thrust Into Prussia Until New Wedge Is Driven Into Baltic

Berlin Indicates That Russians Are In East Prussia   Battle For Warsaw Rages Inside and Outside of Polish Capital.   Nazis Put Up Bitter Stand on Homeland

East Prussian Towns Aflame, Moscow Says   Penteration Into Naziland Reported Made Near ) Virhelis

East Prussian Towns Burning As Reds Strike  ‘ Ground War Carriec To German Territor   ‘ Ground War Carried To German Territory First Time; Warsaw Struaale Raging

MOSCOW SAYS DRIVE HALTED BY RESERVES   Fire Raging in Towns Along Border of East Prussia

Soviets Smash Close To Krakow   . Battle For Warsaw Rag es Inside and, Out of City

Drive New Wedge  To Trap Germans   Russians Pause at Border of East Prussia; Poised to Advance   MOVE TO THE..NORTH   Warsaw Battle Rages; Soviet Forces Within 30 ~ Miles of Krakow

Germans Tell Of Heavy Fighting In Virbalis Area — Warsaw Battle Continues Furiously

Fighting In East Prussia Is Indicated   Red Cavalry Forces In Poland Only 30 Miles  Tie eka WY wa ES

Red Cavalry In 30 Miles Of Krakow   Fierce Battle Continues te Rage Inside and Outside War. saw: Junction Guiflanked

Russians Fail fo Mention Crossing Border Into Reich   Soviets Driving New Wedge Toward Lithuanian Coast

Berlin Claims Reds Are On Nazi Soil   Soviet Hordes Charge Forward in Rush Upon Krakow

No Solid Proof That Russians Have Crossed E. Prussian Border.   RED TROOPS PREPARED

Japanese Air Power Is Reduced   Giant Tank Force Makes Triple Attack on Islands

Mighty U. S. Sea, Air Forces Wreak Heavy Destruction on Nip bases; All U.S. Warships Escape Damage

Spreads Ruin Through Installations On Ground in Triple-Spearhead, Three-Day Attack on Pacific Isles .

Americans Gain 10 Miles In South France   Threat To Paris And German Army Made By Other Units

Yanks Drive To Close  German Escape Gap   American Armor Has Penetrated 10 Miles Into Southern France In Drive From Nantes; Threat To Paris Continues.

MYSTERY PUSH BY AMERICANS IS CONTINUED   No Confirmation Made On Allies Reaching Paris

Yanks Gain 10 Miles In Lightning Assault South From Nantes   Supreme Headquarters Silent Over ‘Mystery’ Attack in Paris Sector; Resistance Stiffening in North Arc

ENEMY SHIPS DESTROYED BY RED AIRMEN   Twelve Nazi Vessels Trying to Evacuate Troops to Romania from Sevastopol; Land Fighting.   Hit Trains At Lwow

Red Airmen Destroy 12 Nazi Ships   Rincgk. San. Fig-* Sinks Enemy Vessels Trying To Escape From Sevactanol

Soviets Sink 12 More Ships Off Sevastopol   Berlin Says Furious Land Fighting Is Raging Around Crimean City; 51 Nazi Planes Destroyed on All Fronts Sunday

12 MORE NAZI VESSELS SUNK ~ATSEVASTOPOL   Furious Land Fighting _ Rages Again Around Besieged Port

AtD AIRMEN Ot BLACK oth FLEET SINK 12 VESSELS   Ships Trying to Evacuate Nazis From Sevastopol Are Sunk by Warplanes   AXIS CLINGS TO SMALL SECTION OF THE CRIMEA   Berlin Says Soviets Have Launched Final Assault on Sevastopol; Declares Nazi ‘Troops Have ‘Achieved Defensive Success’

Twelve Nazi Vessels Sunk   é Dunkerque’ Fleet Is Bombed At Sevastopol

REDS SINK 12 SHIPS FLEEING FROM CRIMEA   RUSSIANS UNLEASH FINAL DRIVE ON SEVASTOPOL

Reds Sink Dozen More Nazi Ships   Evacuation Efforts Prove Disastrous; And Thousands Die: 51 Planes Destroaved

12 MORE NAZ VESSELS SUNK OFF SEVASTOPOL   Germans Trying Desperately To Evacuate Troops  From Crimea   FINAL ASSAULT IS UNLEASHED ON CITY

Soviet craft sink 12 more enemy ships  Tried to evacuate Sevastopol troops

FURIOUS FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ANEW NEAR SEVASTOPOL   Nazis Say Reds Have Begun “Final ‘Assault’ On City With Air, Tanks and Infantry Forces.   12 MORE EVACUATION  . “SHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM   Russian Airmen Blast Vessels ‘Fleeing Toward Romanis— --Score Direct Hits On Seven Transports.

GOCA-COLA:TO COLLECT MUSIC INSTRUMENTS   Cily - Widé Collection Staris ‘Today for Soldiers at Front

Seek Musical. Instruments For Use Of Troops  Collection To Begin Here On March 13.

Collection of Instruments Under Way ¢   DRIVE, SPONSORED BY COC’Y. COLA, TO BE CONCLUDED 27th OF MAR. ANNOUNCED,

CITY-WIDE DRIVE STARTS IN LINTON   Coca-Cola Botting Co. Starts Drive for Musical Instruments.

SOLDIERS T0 MAKE THEIR OWN MUSIC      Drive Started  Here For Collection‘ Musical Instruments

COCA-COLA C0. SPONSORING DRIVE   Country-wide Musical! In. strument Collection for Soldiers.

Coca-Cola Collecting Musical Instruments 'For Service Men   Donations May Be Made At Any Concern Selling Coca-Cola

Tremendous Anti- F.D.R. VoteinSouth   BUT NEW DEALERS SEE VICTORY IN APPARENT SUCCESSES OF stNATORS PEPPER AND LISTLCP ITT. Ea   5 Byrd Delegates Lead

New Dealers  ~ Win in South   Hill Renominated, Pepper Tops Florida Field

4th Term Gains Favor In Primary   Experts See Victory For Administration In Southern Races

ALLIED BOMBS HIT BUDAPEST AND BELGRADE   Mediterranean Forces Blast Enemy Communication Lines In Balkans

Budapest And Other Cities In The Balkans Targets Of Allied Bombing Formations

Budapest Is Again Bombec   Allied Night Bombing Formations Continue Attacks In Balkans  BELGRADE ALSO  MARTOODA: TAPRART

Typhoon Halts Leyte Fighting; Manila Raided   Yanks Bag 118 Jap Planes; Leave Three Ships Afire In Aerial Battle

Typhoon Hits Leyte Area   Ground Fighting About Stopped; Manila .Has Fourth Major Raid

Typhoon Slows Leyte Battle   Japs Feel Fourth Carrie: Raid In Month On Manila.

TYPHOON SLOWS! LEYTE. FIGHTING!   Fourth Manila Air Raid Sets Japs Back

LEYTE FIGHT IS STOPPED —BY TYPHOON      Storm Takes Precedence Over Efforts of Both Sides on Swaying the Limon Battle Line— Road Block Holds.

STORMS HALT LEYTE BATTLE   Manila Recovers From Fourth Major American Air Attack

Typhoon Slows Leyte Island Battle To Walk   Meanwhile, Japs Raid American Positions; U, S$. Airforce Bombs Enemy Supply Areas

TYPHOON SLOWS LEYTE FIGHTING   Some Progress Reported i Limon Attack — Nips Lose in Air Duels

Leyte Battle Is Slowed to Stop   rYPHOON HALTS ALL FIGHTING IN WAR AREA.

TYPHOON SLOWS FIGHTING ON LEYTE TODAY   Americans And Japs Hampered By Extrama Woather   Manila’ Recovering From 4th Big Raid Of Month

LEYTE BA IS SLOWED UP BY TYPHOON   MacArthur Communique Notes 32nd Division Is Making Progress Near Limon

Battle Lull On Leyte   Typhoon ‘Brings Fighting in Ormoc Area to Water-Soaked Impasse

Storm Stops Leyte Battle; Bomb Manila   118 Planes Reported Wiped Out; Fourth Raid Upon Capital

32nd Division Making Slight Progress Near Limon Against Opposition.

Manila Is Raided For Fourth Time   Typhoon Checks the Fighting on the Island of Leyte   SOME PROGRESS MADE   American Aircraft Hit Jap Waterfront Targets Near Ormoc

Typhoon Nearly Puts Stop To Levte Battle; Manila Recove®’ ‘ag From Air Raid

Typhoon Halts Battle of Leyte; Manila Battered   Rain Soaked Ground Activity Grinds to Step; Infiltration Attempted; Japs in Air Raid

Typhoon Halts Major Action For Leyte Isle   Manila Recovers From Its Fourth Air Raid of Month

AVERY INSISTS HE'S STILL BOSS   Business as Usual Order of Day in Seized Offices at Chicago

AVERY AND FOR GOLLIDE AGAIN   /Prresident Says Ward Chairman Guilty of Consistent and Willful Defiance of W. L. B.

‘Greatest Tank Battie Of  Summer Continues Its Third Straight Day FRESH WAVES ENTER BATTLE EVERY HOUR Military Observers Do  - Not Attach Significance  To Withdrawal

Soviets Whittle German Wedge In Warsaw Line   Gigantic Tank Battle Rages. In Third Day

GERMANS AND REDS IN HUGE TANK BATTLE      Russians Narrow German Wedge In Their Lines

NAZI SALIENT AT OSSOW CUT BY RED ARMOR   Greatest ‘Tank Battle Of Soviet Summer Offensive In Third Day

Russians Squeezing Costiy Nazi Salient   Greatest Tank Battle of Summer Drive Rages Through Third Day Since Setback

Reports That Roosevelt is  For Wallace   Congress Hears He Favors Him for Running Mate

Hear President Favors Wallace   Reports Linked To Conference at White House

Congressional Circles Hear Willkie Is Given Go-Signal In Effort For Renomination

Report FDR: Has Given Approval For Running Mate   Washington Circles Say Wallace Gets Best Wishes For Coming Campaign.

Report FR Gives Nod To Wallace   lowan Has Blessing Of Chief for Vice Presidency

Roosevelt For  Wallace-It Is. ~ View Of Some   Understood to Have Re ceived Presidential Best Wishes For Success In His Campaign

Vision Wallace as FDR Choice  Belief Grows He sae WII Get the Cail”

WALLACE SEEMS FDR CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT   Washington Reports In dicate President Gave  Him Best Wishes in Hi: Campaign for Re-Elec Pea

Wallace Given FDR’s Backing   Lawmakers in Capital Convinced Roosevelt Favors Vice President's Renomination

ven Approval Running Mate  f FDR Has   Washington Circles Say Wallace Gets Best Wishes For Coming Campaign.

Wallace Said to Have FDR's  Best Wishes   President Unwilling to: Make -* Change on. Tieket; Con° gressmen. Hear   SOUTH HAS BEEN ' “AGAINST IOWAN   State Nominating’ Meets. Almost _to:an End: Dewey May Get Totinns Vote

CONGRESS HEARS FDR GIVE HIS. ‘OK’ TO WALLACE   Reports Linked to Talk. .Between Wallace and. Roosevelt Held Shortly Before Wallace Left For Orient

Wallace Given Nod for Place On Party Ticket   FDR Conference Reported to Have Discussed Program

SAY WALLACE FAVORED BY FF   Receives President’s Best Wishes for Success in Campaicn.

Little Hope For Peace   Finn Reply, Reportedly Rejecting Soviet Terms, to Russia Today

Finns Return  Reply To Red:   Finnish Diplomatic Source Declares Not Much Hope Held For Peace.

Finns Consider Roosevelt View Regarding Peace   Regret Delay In Takine Action

FINLAND'S REPLY  TO RUSSIAN PEACE   TERMS DELIVERED FINNISH DIPLOMAT SAYS HE HAS LITTLE HOPE  raw 1 RP we

FINNISH REPLY TO RUSSIANS DELIVERED   Not Much Hope for Peace Is Indicated and Finns Prepare for New Attacks

FINN REPLY DELIVERED TO RUSSIA   1 Do Noi Have Much Hope fo: Peace, Finnish Diplomatic Source Reported as Saying

Finn Reply To Russians  Given Today   High Diplomatic Source Says ‘Little Hope’ I: Held For Peace

To Armistice ‘Handed Russia   Internment of Seven German Divisions Chief Stumbling Block to Peace Move

FINNS REPLY IS SENT 10 RUSSIA   Reports Indicate Terms Have Been Rejected, Little  Hope For Peace. 

FINNS’ REPLY IS DELIVERED IN STOCKHOLM   Diplomatic Source Informs ssociated Press There Is Little Hope For Peace

No Hope Held In Finland Peace   Finnish Reply Is Sent To Russia Today

FINLAND GIVES SOVIET ANSWER ON PEACE OFFER   F.D.R.’s Message Noted; Regret Not Sent Earlier

SLIM HOPE: OF PEACE 1S HELD BY DIPLOMATS   Finland Expected to Report Contents of Note Saturday

Slight Hope For Finn Peace Seen   Reply Is Delivered To Russian Stockholm Office

Contents Of Reply. May  .. Be. Announced Tomorrow; King.Gustav Urged Mannerheim to Ac: cept Conditions. ~

ON WAY FO MOSCOW   Spokesman ‘Says ‘4 Do Nol Have Much Hope for Peace’ as Note Is Sent

FINNS ABANDON HOPE FOR PEACE   REPLY TO ARMISTICE TERMS DELIVERED TO RUSSIAN LEGATION

Finland's Reply To Russian Peace Terms Is Delivered To Soviet Legation; Hopes Fade   Contents Of Note, Believed Rejection Despite FDR’s Appeal, Promised Tomorrow

nnish Reply Russians Delivered   ittle Hope for  epresentative Holds eace Settlement

FINNS GIVE RUSSIA NEW PEACE REPLY   Delivered Today To Legation At Stockholm

Big Yankee Bombers Blast Nazi Cities        Steady .Drumfire ‘Of Bombs. Fall  “On Enemy ~

Hamburg Among Targets Blasted   American Forts Hit Vital Points In Reich

Pa HAMBURG, OTHER CITIES      Fow Pronged Attack Made On Northwestern Germany By Planes

CHEAP CHEMICAL IMITATION TO PRODUCE COAL, GASOLINE TO SUPPLY NEEDS OF WGRLD

RUSSIAN FORCES ALSO STORM DEFENSES OF NIKOLAEV, BIG BLACK SEA PORT, 200 MILES 7 NORTHEAST 7

RED ARMY CUTS WIDE SWATH IN RUMANIA DRIVE   Ukraitie Army Drives Halfway Across Bessarabia In Broad Phalanx

Reds Drive Nazis From Nikolaev, Black Sea Port   Amazing Bessarabian Drive Thwarts Foe At Prut River

REDS DRIVING GERMANS OUT OF NIKOLAEV   Widen Pathway to Bessarabian Approaches To Rumanian Border

BIG DRIVE ACROSS ~BESSARABIA [6 NOW NEARING [ASI   British Radio Says Entire ' Nazi Ship Convoy Has Been Sunk By Reds.

RED ARMY OVERRUNS SESSARABIA   Soviet Forces Nearing Rumanian Border  ¥ On 60-Mile Front

NAZI), RUMANIAN FORGES FALL TO GROUP FOR STAND   Pervamaisk Homes Turned Into Forts But Soldiers Are Driven into Bug, Where Hundreds Die.   ALLIES MOVE TO STOP JAP TOKEN INVASION   Japanese Destroyer and Two Small Cargo Ships Are Sunk By Bombers Off Northern New Guinea.

RUSSIANS TEAR NEW HOLES IN GERMAN LINES   Assault Are Closing Or Nikolaev At Mouth Of Bug River

Cut 60-Mile Swath Thru Bessarabia   Push Disrupts Foes’ Efforts to Reeroup for Stand

SOVIET BIG GUNS SHELLING CITIES IN EAST PRUSSIA   eds at German Border Prepare to Invade Reich Soil

Russian Forces Smash At East  Prussia Border   Red Tanks And Infantry ” Prepare To Invade oil Of Reich Itself   NRIVE ON KRAKAW ALSO PROGRESSING

Reer River Stronghold of Julich Is Entirely in American Hands, Blue Network Broadcast Declares

Julich Said Held; 3rd Spears Saar From Bridgehead   Troops Of Gen. Patch’s Seventh Army Narrow Trap On Germans In Vosges; Are Fighting North Of Colmar In Junction Town Of Selestate

River Spanned By Doughboys To Take Julich   Main Part German Town Lies East of Flooded Stream; Siegfried Line Guns Barking   Hun Being Cleared From Saarlautern   British Advance 1,000 Yards; U. S. First Army Rolling Back Nazis Defending Cologne

Nazis Pour Shells ‘Into Yanks Racing “Over Saar Bridge   Roer Reported Crossed at Julich; Alsace Junction of Selestate Falls: British Drive Into Western Venlo

Colmar Battle Area Viewed Narrowed By Fall Of Selestat   U. S. Third Army Fights Last Spotty Nazi Defenses At Saarlautern:  British Capture Venlo Suburbs

Month-Long Battle To Open Antwerp Draws to Decision   Few German Guns Remaining on Flooded Walcherer On North Side of Schelde Rapidly Running Out of Ammunition   FIRST ARMY BREAKS THROUGH HURTGEN FORES!   BULLETIN

ANCIENT DUTCH PORT FALLS 10 BRITISH TROOPS   OVERRUN FLUSHING; LONG BATTLE FOR ANTWERP NEARS END

British Fight In Vlissingen - Streets Today   Battle to Open Port of   Antwerp. Now Is ‘Just ' About Over’

Americans Go Forward in Germany   Near Road Center Only 20 Miles From Cologne in Drive From Aachen   PORT OF ANTWERP ALMOST CLEAR   Full Scale Drive May Await Final Clearance of Major Center

FIGHT HARD IN STREETS OF THE: CIT)   Month-Long Battle to Open Antwerp About Over—Americans .Mee€. Stiffening Resistance in: Aachen Area Drive.

Struggle for Antwerp Port Nearly Over   British Commandos Overrun Flushing in Bitter Fighting

Hint Acceptance Of Nomination  By MacArthur   Drop HINT 1 - 24 Censored In General’s Office, Report Says ‘*‘No Campaigning’’

Indicate MacArthur Will Accept If ‘GOP Nominates Him for Presidency

Political Sentiment of MacArthur Is Felt Out   Suggestion Made General Believes Military Man Should Be in White House

Get Summary On MacArthur   Political Sentiment In Pacific Sounded

POLES BATTLE AGAINST NAZIS   Patriots Strike At Enemy In Streets Of Warsaw

Polish Patriots In Warsaw Aid  Russian Drive   Underground Army Swarms Through Streets To Battle Germans

Secret Pole Riflemen. Swarm Through Burning Warsaw Shooting Down Nazt Troops

Poles Swa rm. Thru Streets Of Burning Warsav   Nazi Troopers Shot Down in Desperate Effort to Aid Russian Armies on Vistula

Underground Army Fights For Warsaw   Battle Raging in Four Sections of City, Poles Report

Poles Battle Nazi Troops In Warsaw   Heavy Attacks Reported Launched Against Enemy's Rear

Polish Riflemen Aid Russians In  Burning Warsaw   Nazi Troopers Being Shot Down By Member: of Underground Army

SOLICITORS STARTED THIS _ MORNING TO ENLIBT DOL-° LARS IN.THE.WAR EFFORT OF NATION -

STH WAR LOAN DRIVE OPENS TODAY; WORKERS START FOR $836,000 GOAL   Aim Is To Sell Bonds In Every Home Of County,’ '': Gabriel Says; Three Zones Set Up To Facilitate It

Press Correspondent Says He Doesn’t Like Jerry Now That He Knows Him

Hull Angered by Propaganda Plea Allies Join Hitler in War on Reds

SPANISH PROPOSAL _ ASSAILED BY HULL   Brands as Infamous Suggestion U. S. and Britain Join Germany Against Russia.

Iwo Jima Hit By Liberators  Isle Launching Point For Raids On Saipan

Capt. Voorhees 1s Awarded DFC   Husband of Ardmore Girl. Flies Many Missions Over German Cities

SOVIET ARMY AT DOORSTEP OF RUMANIA   Gains 18 Miles On German Troops; Nazis Isolated

Threaten to Encircle Nazis   Reach Out Toward Tarnopol and Lwow;  Many German Dead.

Breach 18 Miles Long Made Across Trunk Lines, Threatening Entrapmeni of Germans to South   15,000 NAZIS SLAIN   Spearheads Within 60 Miles of - Rumanian Border, Flanges Reach Oui for Tarnopol

AMIN FORCE MAY BE TRAPPEL   Odessa - Lwow - Warsaw * Railroad Breached Distance Of 18 Miles   WEATHER IS BAD   Russians Surgé Forward In Latest Campaign In Ukraine ©

Reds Swarm - Across Vital ~ Railway Line   Last Westward Connection For Germans in South Russia Severed

VITAL RAILWAY LINE BREACHED FOR 18 MILES   Sharp Clashes Reported Inside Cassino, Nazi Thrust At Cisterna Routed

ZHUKOV'S ARMY SWARMS ACROSS VITAL RAILROAD   Last Rail Connection For Germans Battling In Southern Russia Is Severed; Spearheads Within 60 Miles Of Ruman ian Border.

Red Army Sweeps Onward After Cutting Nazis’ Last Railway Link With West

ADVANCE UNITS ARE 60 MILES FROM BORDER   New Offensive Takes Great Toll Of Nazi Lives   Sent Against Retreating Germans: Berlin Says 200 Towns Taken

RUSSIANS CONTINUE OWIFT DRIVE TOWARD RUMANIAN BORDER  VITAL ODESSA-WARSAW TRUNK RAILWAY LINES BEEN BREACHED

New Disaster Face Germans in Ukraines   Soviets Capture Main Railway; Rush Toward the Rumanian Border

DNIEPER BEND NAZIS MAY BE PUT OUT OF WAR   Two Hundred Ukraine Towns Are Liberated In Advance

Nazis Driven Backward in South Russia   Vital Railroad Line Is Breached For 18-Mile Stretch

Railway Line Seizure Aids  In. Entraping Of Nazi Army   Tarnopol Next Goal Of Russian Forces

Great Masses of German Troops Face Trap in South trmeamwmc        WINTER UTS:   ENORMOUS LOSSES   More Than 15,000 Nazis » Killed in First Two Davs of Drive

Russian TroopsSwarm Through Huge Breach In The Important Odessa-Lwow-Warsaw Line

‘Democratic National ‘Convention Set For July 19 in Chicago   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

of. This Ww eck.   “Not Much Left to to Do For, State GOP. Convéntiorers:

Yankees Near Airfield on Invaded Biak   Landing Puts U. S. Forces 900 Miles From Philippines

Yanks Menace One Airfield On Biak Island   Newest. Pacific Landing Less Than 900 Miles From Philippines

70,000 Holland Nazi: F acing British Trap.  Allied Troops Fight Way  Into

BRITISH TROOPS ADVANCE TO PLACE TRAP ON 70,000 NAZIS IN HOLLAND   Resistance Said To Be Crumbling

British Attack Along 12 Mile Dutch Front   Second Army But Nine Miles From Tilbura

BRITISH CRACK — NAZI BASTION, - HERTOGENBOSCH   Outskirts of City 52 Milega Northeast of Antwerp Entered During Night r

British Push Into Anchor Of Nazi Line   German Resistance Appears Crumbling In Pivotal City

SQUEEZE ON 40,000 NAZIS AT ANTWERP   Canadians Collaborating With Tommies in Attempt to Bottle Up Foe in 8.W. Holland.

BRITISH BLAST CITY GUARDING ESCAPE ROUTES   Canadians Tighten Siege Arc Around Pocket On Schelde Estuary

british Army Cracks Inte German Anchor Bastion Of ’S Hertogenbosch  KEY TO MAIN ESCAPE ROUTE FOR GERMANS Fate Of This Important  City Is Expected To Be Decided Today

Berlin Reports Americans Bring Up Reinforcements At Aachen   Major Offensive Believed Near   Allies Battle Fiercely To Clear Antwerp As Supply Base

GERMANS MAY ABANDON VITAL DEFENSE POINT   Threaten Main Escape Roads For 70,000 Knemv Troops

British-Canadian Dutch Drive Gains   2nd Army Cracks Into Key ’S-Hertogenbosch

Plan New Rhineland Offensive   British Troops Enter Dutct Transport Center—Fierce  Fighting

GERMANS NOT MAKING MUCH OF ADEFENSE   Three Columns Converge on Key to Escape Route from Holland.

DEFENSE OF GERMANS I$ (RUMBLING   Second Army in New Offensive to Capture Antwerp

BRITISH CRACK MAIN HOLLAND GERMAN ANCHOR    Key To Escape Route For Ovei 60,000 German Troovs

First Christian Church   Sunday school every Sun. day at 10 o'clock.

Annual Crop of Predictions for New Year Season  Makes Appearance

CAUTION NOTED »IN PREDICTIONS FOR NEXT YEAR   Biope for Peace Grows, But Great, Near-Great See Bloody Battle

Cautious Optimism Marks New Year's Predictions In High And Low Places

No Conformation That Vatican Is Recognizing Japanese Philippines

x a  eEeEeT nae 3 i wor ma # a i> a Pn i Ha Daset ? e * panna ee Ne oe  "Realize. Arm Was Blown Off

Classes at University: Will Be Dismissed, De- *~:  cember 2]   2 PARTIES SCHEDULED.

VESPER SERVICES — BEFORE HOLIDAYS   Classes at University Will ismissed, December 21

Big Junction of Sarrebourg and 23 Other Towns Captured by U. S. 7th Army; Drive Into Strasbourg Reported

Take Sarrebourg; Cutting Behind Huns’ Rhine Line   French Leapfrog Through Saverne Gap In Powerful Short-Cut Drive Toward Berlin; Yankees Reported In Suburbs Of Strasbours.

POSTAL NOTES TO BE ON SALE HERE FIRST OF YEAR   New Type Money Order Costs 5 Cents Up to $10 Valuation.   FIRST CLASS OFFICES   Other Classification Offices Will Be Supplied Later, It Js Announced.

New Money Orders To Go On Sale Here About Jan. 1, Postmaster Green Says

BLOODY LEYTE FIGHTING BY ELDON OTTENHEIMER.  i yee Ruler lee Shawne Ql? ac =WAiséane

Yanks Draw Net Tighter Around Japs   Leyte Defenders in Small Pocket Fighting Like Cornered Animals

NON - ESSENTIAL IAPS TO LEAVE CAPITAL TODAY   Others To Follow Later In Effort To Escape Superfort Bombs

2 U.S. Units Put Squeeze on Foe Line   Bitter Fighting Rages on Leyte as Nips Fight Like Trapped Rats

JAPS REPORT BOMBERS OVER CAPITAL AGAIN   Severe Battles Rage on Leyte; Slaughter Thousands of Enemy in Trap

Bitter Fights On Levte ‘sle   Despite Slaughtering Of Thousands Of Japanese Caught In Trap,

SLAUGHTER FOE IN LEYTE TRAP   Jap Division Annihilated ir Squeeze by Americans

Battles Rage On Leyte--Jap  Losses Mount   Trapped Japs Fight Hopelessly as Yanks Turn Full Force To  Northern Ormoce

Jap Division Is Annihilated   Berlin Radio Says Civilians Quit Capital As Superforts Wing Over

GERMANS LOSE THOUSANDS OF MEN IN ATTAGK   Russians Claim 164 Airplanes Lost By Nazis

Russians Holding As Germans Attack  Reds Report Thousand: Dead In Offensive

Russian Counter-Attacks Stop Strong German Drive   Nazi Effort To Drive Soviets Back In Romania Costs- Them Thousands Dead

Partial Transit — Service Resumed  In Philadelphia   Majority of 5,800 ~ Workers Continue Crippling Walkout

Army Takes Over in Transit Strike   Negro Boy Shot by Men in Passing Car

GREAT N, Bl BASE SLIPPING FROM JAP GRIF   Stilwell’s Troops Close in on Myitkyina; Advance Near Imphal .

ALLIES WINNING MYITKYINA BASE   Stilwell’s Troops Seize End Of Airfield

STILWELL’S MEN  PUSH INTO JAPS’:  MYITKYINA BASE SNATCH ONE END  OF BIG AIRPORT  cients marmeen

Seize More Of Myitkyina   Stilwell’s Men Grab End of Airdrome; Only Nip Offensive Is At Changsha

Jap Hold On Burme Base Slips   Allied Forces Seize New Positions in Battered Myitkyina; Tight —en‘Grip On Lunegling

Myitkyina Slinping From Japan’s Grip Before New Attacks   Allied Troops Smash Inte City in Determined Drive for Possession

BASE SLIPPING FROM GRASP OF HIROHITO ARM}   Part of Myitkyina Snatched by Stillwell Troops. Japs on Offensive On'y in China

M yitkyina Is Sup PINS  from         Stillwell’s Troops Take One End of Airfield; Nips Within Seven One-Half Miles of Changsha

BASE SLIPPING FROM JAP GRIP   Gen. Stilwell’s Ground Units Snatch One End of Myitkyina Airfield.   ADVANCE DOWN ROAD

JAPS SLOWLY LOSING GRIP ON MYITKYINA   Allies Take One End of Bastion’s Airfield, Dis_Jodge Japs on Northeast of City and Progress in Streets.

Fall Of Burma  Base Is Near   Stilwell’s Men § ‘n Snatch One End Of The North Airfield At Mvyiikvina.

MYTIKYINA BASE TOTTERS UNDER ALLIED ATTACK   Japs Losing Their Hold on Vi tal Positions in North Burma War

JAP OFFENSIVES MOVES NEARER TO CHANGSHA   Key Chinese Center on: Hankow-Canton Railway Menaced by 80,000 Jap anerge

Holiday Death Toll Hits 119   34 Deaths Caused By Car Wrecks: 51 Miscellaneous: 34 Drownings.

DEATH TOLL REACHES 118   Four Day Memorial Holiday Is Only Half Over

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL INCREASES   Drownings Take More Lives  Than Traffic Accidents

TOLL IN NATION PLACED AT 302   80 Drownings Reported Over Holiday Weekend  ee ae

REDS DISCLAIM INTENT TO GRAB LAND IN POLANE   ‘No Designs’ Says Moscow, Calling Moves Purely Military

, FIGHTING STILL IN STALEMATE   No Comparable Figures On Allied Casualties Are Available

IN ITALY ARE ABOUT 40,00   Foe Suffers ‘Big Casualties on Three Battle Fronts

Nazi Casualties Heavy In Italy   Total Estimated At 40,000 In 60 Days  By EDWARD KENNEDY

Nazi Casualties Heavy In ltaly   Totat Estimated At 40.000 In 60 Dave

Italian Battle Costly to Foe   Total German Casualties Said Ta Re 40.000

NAZI CASUALTIES IN TTALY 40,000   FOUR GERMAN DIVISIONS PUT OUT OF ACTION IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS.

TWOITALIAN FRONTS STILL IN STALEMATE   SITUATION AT ANZIO IMPROVED, SAYS ALLIED CHIEF

Enemy Casualties Set at 40,000 on  Two Italian Fronts  24,000 Lost on Anzio Beachhead; Fighting Lulls Temporarily

Nazi losses large in gain of stalemate   Casualties on two fronts 40.000

Red Juggernaut Intensifies Drive From Mariampol To Frontier Of East Prussia

Russian Advance Nearing Pre-War Reich Territory   Reds Are Now Only Few Miles From Frontier Of East Prussia Proper   GEMANS SEEK TO DEFEND WARSAW

RUSSIANS NEAR PRUSSIA BORDER   Red Armies Advance to Within 11. Miles of Vilkaviskis

Allies Score Burma Victory   Sino-American Troops Myitkyvina Garrison

3,000 JAPS KILLED IN DEFENDING BASE      STILWELL’S FORCES CRUSHING LAST ENEMY RESISTANCE AT MYITKYINA.

BOOSTS GIVEN 10 BOND DRIVE HERE   Several Large Purchases Announced on  coe Bai dgy

BOOSTS GIVEN T0 BOND DRIVE HERE      Several Large Purchases Announced on  on Bday

Germans Fire New Weapons   Light British Forces Draw Fire of Guns Along Atlantic Wall

CHURCHES WILL SEEK CLOTHING FOR WAR AREAS   Two Weeks Drive, Start: ing Next Sunday to Be Held Here

Churches to Collect Clothing for War Stricken Countries Next Week

Churches Have Undertaken To Help UNRRA   Will Collect Clothing For War Stricken Countries

Doughboys Of 2 Divisions Close In On Japanese  Nipponese In Pocket

Americans South of Ormoc Close In on Jap Pocket Despite Torrents of Rain

JAPS IN GRMOC POCKET ATTACKED BY U.S. TROOPS   MacArthur Reports Heavy  Enemy Losses in Fighting—Rain Hampers Operations.   PRESSURE PUT ON FOE ABOVE STRONGHOLD   Nips Fight Stubbornly From Strong Positions — Fourteen Planes Shot Down by Americans.

TORRENTS OF RAIN "BALK OPERATIONS   @/7th Division Probes South Toward Cornered Foe   7TH DRIVES AHEAD   “Trapped Enemy Force Being Squeezed Into Narrowing Pocket; Losses Heavy

Japanese Face Trap As Yanks Put On Squeeze   Nip Paratroopers Whe Landed Behind Lines Are Driven From Two DU. S. Fields   MacArthur Gives - Praise To Troop:   Rain Hampers Operation In Coastal Area, But Yanks Are Pounding Nipponese Units

Torrents Hamper Destruction, — Of Ormoc Japs   Enemy Force Pushed Into Steadily Narrowing Pocket

RAIN TORRENTS HAMPER YANKS MOVING TO KILL   Albuera, TransIsland Road Terminus, Captured

Yanks Driving InOn J apanese Pocketed   Pressure North Of Ormoe Kept Up Despite Rain

RAIN HAMPERS AMERICANS IN ORMOC MOPUP   JAPANESE SQUEEZED IN NARROWING POCKET

Rain Slows Ormoc Task   Sut Japs in Pocket South Of Ormoc Being Squeezed im Narrow Area

Two Divisions Put Squeeze On Ormoc Foe   Japs Fight Bitterly, But Lose; Tokyo Radio Warns Nation

Rain in Torrents Handicaps Yanks In Island War   Enemy ‘Chutists Sabotage Some U. S. Facilities

Close In On Japs In Trap   Torrential Rain Hampers Two Divisions In Destroying Enemy.

Dewey Declares Congress Must Determine Extent of Future Use of Armed Forces

Dewey. Raps  Peace Plan   “Sees. FDR. Beatie For Biz Corifliet -.

MOVES FACE CONGRESS BAR   Delay In Authority Said Decision  Rarrier

’Dewey Says Congress Alone Must Decide O: Extent of U. S. Aid To Quell Aggression

Dewey Heard By 10,000 at Minneapolis  Answers Major Campnaian OQueactian

PEACE ABOVE POLITICS, SAYS DEWEY IN WIS.   Too Important to Be Made Political Football, He Asserts

FDR Headed Toward War With Congress After Peace: Dewey   Sad Misuse of — Congress Might Upset Plans, He Tells Audience

Dewey Places His Faith i in Congress  Crecee TL 32 DH.   Says That Body Alone Must Determine Use Of Force for Peace

Dewey Hits AtRecord Of New Dealers   Says President Need Not Rely On Conaress

WOULD NOT TIE HANDS OF ENYA   Congress and President Must Work Together, Says   CITES FRICTION   Criticises Administration's Foresight in Pre-war Foreign Trade

Holds Nation Cannot Afford Peace Battle   Dewey Stresses Need of Having President Friendly With Congress

Dewey Asks Full U.S. Participation In World Peace   Asserts Roosevelt Cannot Work In Harmony With Congress.

DEWEY GIVES HIS STAND ON PEACE POLICY   MINNEAPOLIS TALK MATCHES SPEECH BY ROOSEVELT

!Dewey Says Congress Must Determine LU. S. Participation In Foreign Affairs

Dewey Expands Views on Peace   Foreign Policy Too Important To Be Political Football He Says

Dewey Would Place Powers Upon Congress   GOP Candidate Predicts Oneman Government Is Headed Toward Bad Ending in World Peace.

DEWEY FIGURES CONGRESS MUST HAVE LAST SAY   Extent of Force to Preserve Peace Would Be Solon’s Decision

PEACE AUTHORITY MUST REST WITH CONGRESS: DEWEY   DECLARES FDR HAS SHOWN HE CANNOT WORK WITH CONGRESS

Congress Alone Must Fix Extent of U. S. Armed Forces to Keep Peace, Says Dewey

FOREIGN POLICY TOO IMPORTANT   Dewey Says it Shouldn’t Be Made Part of Political Controversy.   INQ QUESTION ON PLAN

ROOSEVELT GETS DEWEY ‘ANSWER’   G.0.P. Says Congress Must Control Armed Forces

DEWEY GIVES ISOLATIONIST LABEL T0 FDI   F.D.R. Scuttled World Economic Pact, G.O.P. Nominee Asserts

Dewey Says President, Congress Must Work In Partnership For Peace

Congress Should Instruct Delegate To Security Meet   Dewey Declares Representative Should Have Power To Make Terms—On Orders Of Congress

Dewey Warns Of Conflict  Over Peace   Says Congress Alone Must Decide on UL. S. Forces To  Quell Aggression

Dewey Says Stand Clear   Reaffirms Foreign Policy; Rakes FDR Rows With Congress

DEWEY WOULD GIVE POWER TO WORLD ENVOY   But Congress Must Set Limit Of U. S. Arms Aid, He Says

Nominee airs view on peace.  ee ae ee   Envoy must have authority: Dewey

Dewey Says Congress Should Grant Powers to American Peace Body Representative

Nominee Says” Decision On Army’s Role Must,  _ Be Constituticnal

FR. HEADS FOR CONFLICT OVER PEACE-DEWEY   Congress Alone Must Decide on Forces to - Quell Future Ageression

Dewey Believes Friendly (ongress Would Give Security Envoy Authority   GOP Candidate Declares Representative Cannot Run to Congress for Authority Every Time There Is Decision to Be Made Attacks Oil and Scrap Shipments to Japs

Chinese Launch Counter-Attacks   Japs Hurled Back, Face Threat of Trap

Here is An Explanation of the New War Manpower Control! Act Rules

Break With Finns Talked at Capital   Finland Now Plunged Into Full Nazi Military Collab oration.

U. S. Break With Finland Looms Today   Hull Indicates Status With Russia’s Foe Considered

Finnish Break Receives Full Consideration  —HULL   Last American Diplomat Still In Finland; May Be Ordered Out.   NAZI SWARM FINLAND

U. S. Considers Break in Finland Relations   Hull Reports Gullion Last Diplomat in Helsinki

U.S. Considering Finland Break   One American Representative Still In Finland.

MAY BREAK WITH FINNS   Hull Reports. Matter Is Receiving Full Consideration

Russian Armies Gain Momentum In Push To West   Democratic Government In Finland Near Collapse; Crash Kills Jodl, Dietl

Finn Action © IMay Bring U. S. Break   Secretary Hull Says Question Receiving ‘Consideration’

Attacks Made In The North  Designed To Destroy German Siese  inec

PIERCE STRONG NAZI DEFENSE LINE IN NORTE   Hope To Clear Path For Drive Into Baliic Area

Missouri River  Group Asks Plan Of Coordination  Seeks Over-All Development of Riv er Based ¢ on

Missouri River  Group Asks Plan  Of Coordination   Seeks Over-All Development of River Based on Several Omnibus Bills

FIERCE BATTLE BEING FOUGHT ON BEACHHEAD   Aerial Forces Lend Support To Fifth Army Battling On Defensive

Terrific Fighting in Progress in Anzio Beachhead and Among Ruins of Cassino

YANKEES Oh DEFENSIVE,  HOLD LINES   Initiative Passes To Germans  AIR AID ARRIY KS  lierce Battle In Cassino Sector

ALLIES REPEL FOUR GERMAN ATTACKS   Gain Slightly in One Sector of Battle for Beachhead

GPL, G.S, REYNOLDS IS BADLY WOUNDED   Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reynolds Was Injured in Belgium.

Sky Armada Of Greatest Total Rains Hurricane Of Destruction  On Hun Invaders; Gains on Front Held to One Mile As Situation Is Reported Improvex

Census Bureau Says NM Population Still Falling   timate Curry opulation Now 490.452

CTheDAIY erste WASHINGTON MERRY - GOROUND A   MUTINY IN NAZI HIGH P COMNTAANHN

Two Americat Air Forces Fly Tovether   \ 8th and 15th { Batter at Balkan © Cities and Oil

Bombers Based In Britain, Italy, Hit Oil Fields —   Refineries, Storage Depots Objectives of Combined Attacks.

BUCHAREST, BUDAPEST ARE BOMBED   500 Italy-Based U. S$. Bombers Hit At Hungary Capital

WALLACE SEES BIG _ TRADE FOR FUTURE   Predicts. China and. Rus. sia Will-Keep Wheels:  ce - Homming  -

Post-War : Co-operation, Resources Development Stressed -in Address. ~

Wallace Predicts Russia and China Will Help U. S.   Sees Big Benefits From Postwar Trade

UKRAINE LOSSES WILL BE LOWER THAN EXPECTED   Rapid Advance of Rus-_ sian Armies Has Prevented Germans Burning and Pillaging as Heretofore

South Ukraine Escapes Damage Russian Advance Too Swift For Germans

Little Ruin In Ukraine   Red Army Advance Too Swift to Allow Usual Destruction By Nazis

Ukraine Area Saved By Reds  From Rum   Advance Too Rapid To Permit Nazis To Do Dirty Work

NAZIS LEAVE IN HURRY   Most of Southern Ukraine Is Saved from German Destruction

BRITISH PLAN 10 KEEP UP WITH US RECONVERSION:   Lord Keynes Submits . Program to. Washington Fostwar Officials .

BRITISH SEEK CONTINU ATION OF LEND LEASE   English Seek To Keep Step With American Business In Reconversion   U. S. HEAD START FEARED   London Asks Munitions And Supplies For Jap War To Free Own Industry

B-298 HIT TOKYO AS RAIDS ENTER SECOND MONTH   Daylight Blow  Struck At Capital As Air War Grows

Tokyo Munitions Plant Raided, But Not Knocked Out   Results Inconclusive, But Big Nagoya Plane   Factory Ruined

DAYLIGHT RAID ON TOKYO MADE BY SUPERFORTS   Fifty to Seventy B-29s Hit at Airplane Plants

1,500 Tons Of Bombs Were Unloaded On The Japanese Homeland   INDUSTRIAL POINTS IN THE TOKYO AREA   3-29 Airplane Has Proved Itself A Magnificent Weapon Of War

Superfortresses Bomb Tokyo, Opening 2d Mo. Of Growing Offensive   21st Bomber Command Discloses Jap Homeland Was Hit By 50 Bomb Tons a Day Last Month

_ Big Mushashino Aircraft Works Principal Target   1,500 Tons of Bombs Released On Japan During Past Month

AIRCRAFT FACTORY IS TARGET   Gen. Hansell Reports On First Month Of Blows On Japan

Musashino Plane Works Believed Hit   Axis Accounts Say Fifty To Seventy Superforts In Raid.

JAPS DECLARE 30 B-29S TOOK PART IN ATTACK   Marks 5th Maior U. S. Raid Against Plants in Nipponese Capital

Attack Is Fifth In Strength On Tokyo—From 50 To 70 Superfortresses Take Part In Bomb- ine   JAPS MAKE CLAIM FIFTEEN SHOT DOWN

SUPERFORTS AGAIN RAID JAP CAPITAL   Aircraft Works Believed Major Target of B-29s

BIG AIRCRAFT WORKS TARGET IN NEW ATTACK   Strike by Daylight Inaugurates Second Month of Mounting Blows at Japs.

FLYING FORT HIT AT TOKYO IN DAY FAIDS   Drop Explosives, Fire Bombs Shortly After Noon, Nips Report.

JAP CAPITAL GIVEN FIFTH BIG BOMBING   lsnemy Says 4 Planes Shot Dwn Over Tokyo Area

Japs Claim Own Planes Hit Saipan   Pound 1,500 Tons of Bomb: On Jap Homeland «Ir One Month.

MOUNTING OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN REPORTED   Superfortresses Open Second Month of Raids Against Enemy—Bombers Presumably Hit Sprawllng Musashino Airernaft Wor!

DUBUQUER LOST AS SHIP SINKS   Machinist's Mate Davidshofer Presumed Dead

REPORT U-BOAT CREWMAN DEAD   Harold J. Brant, 21, of Near Dubuque, Lost

Abandoned: Liberator. Flew 150 Miles In Formation.Toward Home, Then Fell  As Yanks Prepared To Shoot Her Down

Unoccupied Bomber Flies 150 Miles In Perfect Formation   8 Men Had Bailed Out, 2 Presumably Killed Aboard: Crashes Near’ Base

Abandoned Liberator. Flies in Peles Formation Toward Its Base After Raid

R.A F DROPS L800 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES   More Than 1,000 Aircraft in Attack; 43 Lost

LARGE AREAG OF FRANCE MAY BE LIBERATED   Underground’s Activities Might Give DeGaulle Political Possibil:t.es —

Male Aids in Chicago Hospital Are ‘Praised for Fidelity and Efficiency

Germans Making Costly Defense On Prussian Border   Heavy Casualties Being In flicted By Russians In : East Prussia Battle   WARSAW DRIVE BEING SPEEDED

NAZIS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN E, PRUSSIA      Germans Rush New Troops fn:  fo Battle Line

Dewey Prepares To Accept, Speech Is Ready  Preparation of Talk First Open Sign

GENERAL MACARTHUR SURPRISES LANDING FORCE WITH VISIT   INSPECTS LANDING ON ADMIRALTY ISLANDS BEFORE FIRING HAD CEASED 

MacArthur Inspects Admiralty Island Invaston   NSPECTS EVERVTHING

MAC ARTHUR PLEASED OVER NEW INVASION   Visits Admiralty Islands; Sees  Two Dead Jans

MacArthur Hit Shore First  In Invasion   First To Step off Boat, Says Witners In Admuralties

Americans Reported to be Within 87 Miles.  of Paris  ST. MALO CAPTURE _ TOLD IN DISPATCH  No Indication Where the Nazis Will Make en Stand —

U.S. Troops Reported To  Be in Nantes   Nazis Counterattack Against Canadians North of Falaise

SWEEP THRU LE MANS TO ~ NANTES AREA   The Port of St. Malo Knuckles Under tm Surrender

OPEN ATTACK UPON BREST'S OUTER FORTS   Other Columns Sweep Through Le Mans and Are Reported 87 Miles From Paris.   NAZI RESISTANCE CONTINUES WEAK   Canadians Broaden Their Wedge Into Enemy Lines—British Beat Off Attacks on Orne.

Bradley’s Forces Sweep Eastward in Drive on Capital; Le Mans Taken; Nantes And Angers Entered

FLYING WEDGE OF AMERICANS IS UNCHECKED   FAST SPEARHEADS ONLY 87 MILES FROM PARIS

Troops Enter Lorient, Says Front Report   Nazis Hurl Strong Counterattacks Against Russian Armies Approaching East Prussia; Food and Water Shortages Reported in Florence

Reports Have Americans in  Nantes, Angers   Nazis Still Offering Slight Resistance To Allied Advance

Without Any Stiffening Nazi Resistance That Would Presage a Real Ficht.

Pass Le Mans In Great Drive Into Inferior   Germans in Brest Refuse To Give Up

Doughboys Launch Attack On Brest When Garrison Refuses To Surrender   NO INDICATION WHERE GERMANS WILL STAND

Unconfirmed Reportes Claim American Troops Push ing Into Nantes And Angres Without Meeting Any Stiff Enemy Resistance

300 Russian Bombers Hit Finn Capital   Heavy Attack Made While Helsinki Is Report.  ed Considering Peace

300 Russ Bombers Hi Finn. Capital   Helsinki Ablaze in 50 Places Following Raid Lasting Hours

Republicans Map Party P Platform    Committees Named By Taft at: Work

STRIKES NOW SPREADING IN DETROIT AREA   Several Piants Closed; 50,000 Workers Idle

20,000 WAR WORKERS IN AREA IDLE   Foremen’s Union Will Have Showdown in Detroit Area With War Labor Board Today.

Nearly 50,000 - Detroit Area Workers Idle   Foremen’s Strike,Called Oft in Washington Today, Has Affecten Many. Plants   LEADERS CALLED BEFORE U.S. BOARD   C.1.0. Groups Have Pratestéd Enforced Idleness Because of Strike

The Day’s Almanac   loday’s Herald   To the People of this Cammunity

CONSCRIPTION SPLITS CANADA   Government May Fall as Result of Plan to Send Draftees Overseas

CONSCRIPTION BATTLE ARISES   Canadian Government Faces _ Crisis Over-New Plan. 

Conscription Issue May Result in Overthrow of Canadian Government

Canada fo Draft for Duty Abroad   Policy of Using Only  Volunteers Overseas  Abandoned; King . Faces Crisis

CANADA'S DRAFT POLICY CHANGED   VOLUNTARY SYSTEM FOR OVERSEAS DUTY DROPPED  _ FOR COMPULSORY PLAN,

Quebec Resists’: Service Abroad.   For Conseript:s   Canada Changes Policy Of  Sending Only Volimteer - Army ‘Men ‘Overseas

CANADA LIFTS OVERSEAS BAN   ABANDONS POLICY ON SENDING ONLY VOLUNTEER TROOPS

King Cabinet Faces Crisis  In Canada  Totters on Opposition wo gt lll oe

Canada Facing Crisis Over New Conscription Policy  French In Quebec Protest Over Sending Galdiare Te Pt mks mW.

—CANADA— .Canada’s S Conscription  Order Stirs Quebec   Abandonment Of. Policy Of ‘Sending Only Volunteers Overseas For Battle Duty Threatens Position Of Prime Minister King

Quebec Opposes Overseas Draft   Partial Conscription For Overseas Service Protested Vigorously

OVERSEAS CALL IRES CANADIANS   Troop Policy Change Perils Mackenzie King’s Rule

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Texas Demos Split Over Fourth Tern   Anti-FDR Group Defeats Move To Pledge Delegates

CAPTURE JAP STRONGHOLD   Native Troops Over-Ran Positions at Sumvurabum

NEW YEAR. NEW PARTY In Slowak Hall Wednesday. 1         SPRCTAL RENERIT PARTY

GEN. EISENHOWER WEST COMMANDER   Change In Strategy’ Took Place immediately After ke’ Arrived In France.

General Bradley Now Commands American Army Group on Equal Status With Mont- -gomery of British-Canadian Forces.

BRADLEY HEADS TWELFTH GROUT   Eisenhower Takes Personal _ one of Western Inva_ sion: Moves. --

Eisenhower. Shuffles Commands, Take: Over Operations in Northern France

Bradley Commands Yanks in New Invasion Setup  First Army Charged With Mak  ing Breakthrough, Third Held Back fer Final Smash

BRADLEY HEADS NEW ARMY GROUP IN W. NORMANDY  GIVEN COMMAND OF 12TH; ‘IKE’ IN —

TO STRENGTHEN ARMY   iY , British Plans Made to Draft 250,000  More: Men

British Up Draft Quota by 250,000   CHURCHILL ANNOUNCES INCREASED INDUCTIONS FOR COMING MONTHS

 ~—OPPOSE PROHIBITION VOTE—  Labor Group Endorses Ath Term For FDR

Steel Formula  Blasted By AFL   Modification Asked  To Increase Wages’

AFL CALLS FOR MODIFICATION OF STEEL FORMULA   Secretary-Treasurer Meany Givet Testimony To Special WLE Panel

FARMERS GIVEN HIGH PRIORITY   Third Highest AA-2x Rating Given Farmers For Needed Equipment.

NAVAL OFFICER ANNOUNCES VISII   Will Conduct Interviews In Terre Haute On June 22-23

JAP FLEET GETS NEW CHALLENGE   Yank Invasions Are Bid For Sea Battle, But Tokyo Expected To Refuse

IAPANESE. FLEET HAS IGNORED — ~ CHALLENGE NEAR PHILIPPINES   ENEMY NAVAL UNITS STILL IN  -, EDING: AS AMERICAN © . FLEETS SUPPORT.  oy *L. ENVASIONS ©.

Churchill Meets Cabinet Leaders   To: Address Common: Sometime This Week

Russ Proceed To Slaughter 175,000 Nazis   Crash Into Suburbs Of Nikopol, Rich  Manganese Center

Mercilessly exterminate snared nazis   Germans need manganese ore

Many Nazis Annihilated At Cherkasy   Nikopol Vital To Foe Because of Deposits Of Manganese Ore  TRAPS DRAW TIGHTER

Soviets Batter Into Suburbs  Of Nikopol   Ring Being Drawn Tighter Around Trapped Nazis

Reds Entrap: More Nazis _   Troops Storm To Outskirts _ Of Manganese-Rich Nikopo

SOVIET ARMY CRASHES INTO NIKOPOL AREA   Fights to Exterminate 175,000 Germans in Two Traps

NOOSE HOLDING 175,000 BOCHE GROWS TIGHTER   Hitler Orders Troops To Hold ManganeseRich Base

RICH MANGANESE CITY READY T0 FALL TO REDS   Soviets In Suburbs Of Nike« pol Despite German  Opposition   HITLER HAS ORDERED BATTLE TO FINISH

Entire German Garrisons Fall To Soviet Armies   Battles Roar to a Climax; Reds Block Escapeway

REDS EFFECTIVELY BLOCKING ESCAPE OF ENEMY AFTER TAKING MANGANESERICH TERRITORY AND CHERKASY POCKET: MUST HAVE ORE.

Nikopol Is Neared. _ By Soviet Forces   Red Armies Proceed With Slaughter of 75,000 Pocket: ed German Troops in the Dnieper River Area -

RED ARMY TRAPS FIVE DIVISIONS HOLDING NIKOPO   Russians Fight Way Into Out_ skirts of City With Man_ ganese Deposits Need- . -ed- by Hitler...   WIPE OUT GARRISONS: IN CHERKASY POCKET   Savage Resistance of 175,000 Germans in “Death Ring” Slowly Béing Over-  come. :

Reds Break Through Naz ines Covering Hungarian Capital: Capture Mende

TRAP FORMING ON BUDAPEST   Russians Swarm In Vir tually From All Sides.

Holiday Travel To Twin Cities Breaks Record   Transportation Lines Engulfed Despite Appeal Of ODT

Tokyo Dispatch States Allies Given Up Forme: Isle-to-fsle Strategy

Japan Predicts Huge Allied . Drive in Pacific  Isle-to-Isle / Strategy, Say Nips

REPORT 9 JAP BARGES SUNK   11 Others Damaged By PT Boats Operating in Darkness Near New Guinea.   ENEMY TROOPS ON BOATS:

JAPS ATTEMPT TC ESCAPE NEW JUNGLE TRAPS   Nine Enemy Barges Sunk By Torpedo Boats In Bay

PT Boats Sink Nine Jap Barges, Damage Many Others Off New Guinea

Soldier-Laden Jap Barges Blasted to Bottom in Numbers   PT Boats Harass Enemy Seeking to Escape Huon Peninsula

PT BOATS SINK 9 BARGE LOADS OF JAP TROOPS  ENEMY TRYING TO  ESCAPE TRAP ON HUON PENINSULA

Blasting to Bottom of Vitiaz Strait Many Foes Trying to Escape Jungle Trap

ALLIES HOLD TRAP IN HUON PENINSULA AREA   Yank Naval Units Work At Night

Troop-Laden Barges Sent To Bottom  P-T Boats Drown Many Japs Trying To Escape Huon Peninsula Trap

U.S. Navy Is Blasting Japs Off Huon Coas!   Sink 43 More Barges Includ ing Two Nip Troop Ships. Aussies Now Within : Miles of Sio.

Navy Blasts Jap Escape Barges Off Huon Coast   43 More Barges Sent To Bottom As Japs Seek To Escape Jungle Trap.

Fleeing Japs Are Shot Down In South Seas   Patrol Boats Sink Barges Filled With Men

U.S. PT Boats Blast at Japs In Huon Trap Sink Nine Troop Barge:  and Damage 11 Others in Vitiaz Strait  AUSSIES ADVANCE  Navy and Army Bombers Shatter Jap Shipping in Marshalls Raids

Jap Barges Are Sunk By Patrol Boats   Enemy Troops Attempt To Escape From Trap Set By Allies Along New Guinea Coast

PT Boats Sink Barges Fleeing New Guinea Marines Advance At Borgen Bay; Arawe

Allies Smash Jap Barges In Vitiaz Strait   Enemy May Attempt Te Evacuate Force From Huon Peninsula With Tean Closing

Directive Of eO E S C hie f And Textiles   * Order Dictating Civilian Goods Production Causes Ruckus

Congress Collides With Law Of Supply, Demand   Question Of More Revenue For Morey Orders Mects Opposition

Law of Supply And Demand on  Money Orders  Stymies Congress   Boom Business in Sales by Banks May Bring Changes

RUSSIANS NOW.IN POSITION: FOR COMING ALL-OUT DRIVE   CAPTURE OF SEVABTOPOL SETS STAGE FOR ASSAULT TO KNOCK ROMANIA OUT OF WAR

TS TARE SEVASTOPOL 10 CLEAR CRIMEA   Attacks on Western Black Sea Coast Now Possible.

SOVIET CAPTURE OF SEVASTOPOL CLEARS CRIMEA   Reds Now Poised for Early Assault on Romania’s Coast

EARLY ATTACK ON SHORES OF ROMANIA SEEN   Entire Coastline Open To Assault by Reds’ Black Sea Fleet

SOVIETS TAKE SEVASTOPOL Tl CLEAR CRIMEA   Attacks on Western Black Sea Coast Now Possible

Nipponese Losses Larger Than First Reported  ONLY TWO VESSELS     NAMED EN DISPATCH.  End of Far-Flung Naval Battle Not Yet in Siqht

Jap Losses May Reach AO Ships Sunk Or Crippled   U.S. Carrier Princeton, Two Escort Carriers, Destroyer Escort  And 2 Destroyers Lost  [APS STILL PURSUED

VICTORY OVER JAPAN COSTS SIX WARSHIPS   TOKYO LOSSES 40; FLEET REMNANTS STILL PURSUED

TOTAL OF JAP SHIPS BLASTED NOW SET AT 40   Navy Reveals Six U. S Ships Lost in Philippines Battle

Jap Loss In Naval Battle Is 40: Shins   Total May Go Higher With All Reports In

SIX WARSHIPS REPORTED LOST BY AMERICANS   Only Bare Outline Of Smashing U. S. Triumph Vet Availahla   NIPS ACKNOWLEDGE ADDITIONAL LOSSES

Nipponese Losses Larger Than First Reported  ESSELS NAMED IN DISPATCH.  End of Far-Flung Naval Battle Not Yet in Siaht

G6 WARSHIPS US. TOLL IK NAVAL BATTLE   Against 27 Lost By Japanese Off Leyte: Two Carriers, Two Destroyers, Escort, Princeton.   Revise Figures

PUTS JAP LOSSES AT 40 WARSHIPS   ADMIRAL GIVES ESTIMATE IN NAVY DAY TALK—SIX U. 8. VESSELS SUNK.

Fire’s Dead Totals Four   South Boston Ruitis Too Hot For Search

FEAR MORE BODIES IN FIRE RUINS   Known Toll Is 4 Dead; Loss Put At $104000

Albany Roars Welcome to Gov. Dewey  Crowd of Well Wishers Greets Return of G.0.P. Nominee  SEEKS PARTY UNITY  Willkie Supporter Likely for Post on Executive Committee

Albany Cheers Dewey Back  From Chicago   Hand of Friendship Held Out to All Factions

Dewey Certain of GOP Harmony   Hopes to Receive Willkie’s Support

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Plan To Produce Passenger Cars, Civilian Planes   Expect Action Soon   May Expand List

Walking Tree: Provide Bizarre Touch   On Christmas Eve for Yankees Fighting in France

Planes Fill Beach Sky _ To Hit Nazis   200 to 1 Air Power Used by Invaders To Protest Tranns

Aerial Support Given Invaders   Warplanes Blast Nazi Supply Lines

FLIERS BATTLE BAD WEATHER AT BEACHHEAL   Enemy Air Activity On Increase, But Still On Feeble Side

Massed Allied Planes - Blast German Holdings  Over Huge Inland Arc

Opposition From Luftwaffe Said  To Be Increasing   Planes Fight Through Low-Hanging Clouds To Hit German Lines

FORMATIONS OF WARPLANES HIT SUPPLY LINES   Battie Through Low-Hanging Storm Clouds Over French Coast

Planes Blast 3600-Mile Arc   Huge Allied Air Arm Burns Fortifications, Supply Lines, Keeping 200-to-1 Lead Over Nazis; Assaults Hamper German Supplies

Jap Naval Base At Mako Hit; Takao Bombed   American Naval Forces Wrest 8 Million Square Miles of Pacific Ocean, Islands from Enemy

U.S. Flyers Make New Attacks on  Japan's Bastions Davao and Islands  Between Formosa, Chin. Among gete

Allies Push” Nazis Back   Troops Withdraw To Powerful Gustay Line

French Troops Take Sant’ Elia  Near Cassino ©   U. S. Patrols Cross Rapido And Canadians Open New Adriatic Coast Drive

GERMANS PREPARE FOR BLOODY STAND BEFORE CASSINO   Hitler’s Tenth Army Withdraws toe Gustay Line to Protect City on Road ta Rome.   ALLIES TIGHTEN ARC AROUND STRONGHOLD   All Signs Indicate Impending Battle Will Be One of Most Furious Since Fall of Naples.

Nazis Withdraw To Gustav Line   Final Bloody Stand Seen Before Cassino

WITHDRAW T0 NEW POSITIONS BEFORE RAPIDO   Signs Point To Heaviest Battle Since Fall Of Naples; Americans  Cross Stream

FINAL BLOODY HGAT BEGINS FOR CASSING   HITLER'S SOLDIERS WITHDRAWN TO GUSTAV LINE

Hitler troops withdraw to Gustav line   USS. patrols probe  enemy positions

FIERCE FIGHT FOR CASSINO 18 EXPECTED   Gerinans Fall Fall Back to Gustav Line for : Final Stand

Hitler’s 10th Army Withdraws to Gustay Line   VILLAGE IS TAKEN BY FRENCH TROOPS   Furious Battle Expected to be Waged for Cassino

Nazis Retreat  To Gustav Line   Patrols Probe Positions Preliminary To Attack

FINAL BLOODY STAND TO PROTECT CASSINO ON ROAD TO ROME; GERMANS STRENGTHEN DEFENSES ON HIGH GROUND.

Hitler's Army in Italy at New Lines   American Patrols Battle Enemy Inside Cassino

French Push Back Nazis in Italy   Seize Five Hill Positions in Cassino Region

French Smash German Flank   Nazi Counterattacks At Acquafondata Fail

STRONG BLOWS BY AMERICANS FORCE RETREAT   Germans Pour Heavy Barrage Into Cervaro

French Take ltalian Town   Waves Of Nazi Troops Halted In Battles

U.S. May Rut Strike-Hit Phila. Lines   Seizure, Operation By Army Indicated at White House Meet

CITY IN AN UPROAR   Race Riots Are Added to Philadelphia Transportation Tieup

Racial Troubles  Stir Philadelphia  In Strike’s Wake Armed Bands Roam City Beating Whites after Strike Proiesting Negro Hiring

SUIT INSTITUTED BY WARD’S AGAINST WLB   Mail Order Firm Seeks To Enjoin Enforcement Of Maintenance Of Membership Order

Livestock Price Ceilings Forecast   Action Slated on Plea For Relief From OPA

Fliers Strike Keenly: Hold Foe in Check   German Tanks and Infantry Keep Jabbing At Lines But Fail to Gain; Ninth Air Force Deals Harsh. Stunnina Blow

Churchill Tells Commons Britain Doing Best To Heal Breach With Allies

BIG THREE NOT IN AGREEMENT, SAYS CHURCHILL   Admits Split Has Occur red On Policy in Liber. ated Europe.

ALLIED FORCES REPORTED ONLY 4) MILES AWAY   Rumor of Germany’s Capitulation Withdrawn as Untrue

Junior Junior and Senior High Schools To Present Program This Tuesday Evening   List of Numbers . And Names Of ‘Participants

Blizzard Last Week-end Brings Snow and Sleet To Big Bend Territory

BRICKER HITS RATION SETUP   Charges Program Used for Political Purposes By New Dealers

DIES CHARGES ‘SMEAR BUND’ IN WINCHELL FEUD   Congressman, Commentator Swap Acid Words as They Meet in Studio.

Hoffman Throws House In Uproar   Dispute Over Winchell Causes Near Riot

House in Row Over Winchell  Uproar Follows Hot Exchange Between Hoffinan and Sabath

Dies-Winchell Radio Wrangle Throws House Into Oratorteal Tantrions

DIES ANSWERS COMMENTATOR   Pair Swaps Acid Words on Air Regarding Congress ‘Smear’ Charge.

House in Uproar Over Winchell:  Michigan Man Touches Off Wild Sesion:

County Teachers Institute Meets August 7 to 11   Three Instructors to Be In Belleville to Present Latest Teaching Methods.   Others May Enroll   Public Is Invited to Hear ‘Clyde Phillips and Renna Hunter, Guest Speakers.

Halsey May Get New Assionment   Admiral First To Wind Up a  finamenalaia (‘amnaian

in Four Days [The FPatriots Have Routed The Germans From Paris  50,000 UNDERGROUND FIGHTERS TAKE PART  Americans Lash Out Far Beyond Capital Within 160 Miles Of Germany

Capital Falls; Yanks 160 Miles From Germany   Allied Armies Tighten Noose on 93,000 Survivors of Seventh Army; Patriots Round Up Nazis, Vichy Traitors in City’s Mopup

Armored Might of General Eisenhower’s Troops Continue Push Past Paris.

HURRICANE. WIND DANGER PASSES   -Storm Slows, .But : Strong Onshore “Winds “Will Continue North

REPORT STORM DANGER ENDEL   Forward Speed Slowed and  Intensity Diminished

STORM LEAVES HEAVY DAMAGE   20 Millions Loss in Citrus Crop: Terrific Gales Now Subsiding

PROPOSED STATE CHARTER ADOPTED   DELEGATES BATTLE OVER DOCUMENT UP TO CLOSING . HOURS OF CONVENTION,

U. S. Third Army Smashes At German Vanguar In Luxembourg As Enemy Tanks Rip Through 40-Mile Gap   (RULLETIN)

Beit! Czars “Thumb Down” Wallace Hague And Kelly Tell FDR Voters Don’t Want lowan

Political Czars ‘Thumb Down” Wallace  Hague And Kelly Tell FDR Voters Don’t Want Iowan

AIR ACE DOWNS HIS 28TH PLANE   Pennsylvania Boy Will Come Home To Marry Grand Rapids Girl

Shoots ‘Down 28th Nazi, ‘Becomes Top Scoriig Ace ‘Of Whole U. 8. Air Force

U.S. Thunderbolt Pilot Bags His 28th German Plane, Goes Home for Wedding

AR   Thunderbolt Pilo Pilot Becomes Top-Scorer Among ’S. Rirpmen

Coroner Opens Inquest To Fix Responsibility For Circus Fire Deaths   35 Witnesses To Appear As Toll Mounts To 159

6 NAZI CITIES ARE HIT HARD   Allied Bombers Drop 6,000 Tons Of Explosives On Towns

Bombers Attack Western Reich   Karlsruhe And Frankfort  Are Main Taraets

BIG AERIAL OFFENSIVE IN 3RD DAY   Frankfurt, Karlsruhe Hit; 6,000 Tons of Bombs Fall in A Day

Nazis Qpen Recruiting Offices for ‘Volunteers’ For Hitler Guerrilla Army

2,000 TRAPPED NAZIS FIGHT FIERCELY   Report Escape Gap Is Now Good As Closed   FLAME-THROWERS   Used By Doughboys In Advance In Besieged City; Destroy 84 Tanks

Hungary Sends Peace Missions  One Delegation to Contact Russ, Other Plans Vatican Plea

—RUSSIA—  AGA'S CAPTURE CBIR RUSSIANS   Two Armies Released For Southward Thrust Toward East Prussia   VICTORY SALUTE   German Radio, However, Denies Fall- Of Latvian Capital

Bulgar Delegation Leaves for  Armistice Meeting  Officers Will Visit Moscow to Sign Peace Agreements

Reds Last  Doomed Germans   Three Soviet Armies Storm Baltic Pocket; 100,00 Trapped

TENSE SITUATION ABOUT ARGENTIN   Diplomatic Experts View Col. Peron’s Rise to Office as Open Question.

Section Of Georgia Ande Southern Carolina Struck By Devastating Storms   UPWARDS OF 400 REPORTED INJURED

TORNADO HITS SEVEN COUNTIES IN GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA; TOLL OF 39 DEAD AND 400 OR MORE INJURED

HIT PARTS OF GEORGIA AND § CAROLINA   Toll May Grow as Sev: eral Injured Are in Serious Condition

MUCH CAMAGE DONE GY TORKAUD SOUTHERN STATES   Thirty-nine Persons Killed—More Than 400 Were Injured

TOLL OF STOR MAY EXGEED 39 " DEAD, 400 HURT   eb Damage Is Heavy n Seven South Carolina, Georgia Counties

30 -KILLED, 400 HURT BY STORM   Devastating Tornadoes Hit Seven Counties In Southland

MANY KILLED ~ BY TWISTERS   DEATH AND DESTRUCTION CAUSEDBY TORNADOES THAT SWEPT TWO SOUTH.  ERN STATES :

Merchant Marine World's Largest  Land Says It Should Be Preserved

Merchant Marine Praised by Land   Largest in World, Admiral Declares

FARM SITUATION GROWS SERIOUS   LABOR SHORTAGE AND RAINS DELAY SPRING PLANTING

SIXTH RAID ON JAP-HELD MARSHALLS   Demolishes Radio Station. Damages Storage Areas; “Carrier Based Planes’ States Admiral Nimitz.   No Interception

Carrier Planes Hit Jap-Held Marshall Isles   Great Damage Results to Enemy Installation:

MARSHALL ISLANDS. RAIDED BY AIRMEN      Hangars and Storage Areas Are Bombed and Fired

ATOLLS RECEIVE FRESH POUNDING   Navy Carrier Planes Make Clean-Up Raid In Marshalls

CARRIER PLANES HIT MARSHALLS   Ammunition Storage Ar: eas Pummeled By  U. S Bombers

Carrier Planes Again Blast Marshalls Bases   Bomb and Set Fire To Hangars, Damage Other Installations

PATTERSON SAYS WAR WITH JAPAN NOT 10 BE SHORT   New Year Forecast Neflects Demands for A 1-Out Production

BRING SUPPLIES FOR AIR ARMY   Great Armada of Bombers And Transport Panes Destroy 27 Fighters.

TOUr BOMDS Of Reich Industries  Strong Air Blows   - Follow in Wake. QE Airkharns lanvlinmse

Supplies Are Dropped to Yank Forces   Big Air Battle Ensues When Invaders of Holland Receive Aid

Planes Feed Holland Pust   Big New Air Blows Rain on Germany In Invasion Support

ite I ‘an Out Back Of Nazis   Sky-Borne Farees Seek To Encircle Sleefried Anoliac

GREAT ARMADA OF TRANSPORTS AND BONBERS INACTION  WITH AID OF FIGHTERS  THEY FEED SUPPLIES * TO-AIRBORNE ARMY

ALLIES WIN FIRST ROUND IN BATTLE TO LAY OPEN FLAT LANDS OF NORTH GERMANY   Continuous Stream of Air-Borne Reinforcemenis and Supplies Reported Flowing Into Little Dutch Nation Taken By Axis   SECURITY BLACKOUT CLAMPED ON LATEST COUP   RrvrTETING

27 Nazi Planes Knocked Down Ovey Invaded Holland   Enemy Intercepted In’ Maastricht Aréa, Engage in Dogfights

Sky Armadas Drop Supolies In Holland   Bombers and Transport Planes Feed Sky Troops; Keen Of German Planes

GREAT ARMADA OF BOMBERS, TRANSPORT PLANES RUSHING     MEN AND SUPPLIES TODAY —

PREPARE TERMS FOR BULGARIA   Armistice Will Be More Severe Than Romanian Peace

PEACE TERMS FOR BULGARIA ARE SHAPING   Document Expected To Be Tougher Than Romania's Because of Delay In Quitting Axis

Armistice Terms For Bulgarians Reported Tough   Penalties Exacted  For Slow. Desertion Of Nazis; leniency Is Shown Romania

ARMISTICE TERMS FOR BULGARIA BEING PREPARED   it Is Expected the Terms, Now Being Put in Final Shape, Will Be More Severe Than Those Handed Romania

TRUCE TERMS ~ BEING SHAPED      Expect Bugar Agreement Will Be Tougher Than Romanian. .

ARMISTICE FOR BULGARIA AND ROMANIA MADE   Tougher Terms Than Given  Earlier

Petition Says Erickson Neglected Court Duties   Action Charges Justice Received $8,642 For ‘Unlawful’ Work Outside of Office

Erickson Accused of Drawing Adjustment Referee Pay While on State Supreme Court   Attorney George Niewoehner Draws Up Petition Asking Correction of Minutes of Montana’s High Tribunal

White Sulphur Springs Attorney Seeks Correction of Tribunal Minutes To Show When Justice Was Absent

Munich Failure Forecaster Says Fuehrer Will Be Liquidaied If Inva sion Succeeds

Predicts Hitler Will Be Liquidated   Man Who Forecast Munich Failure Sees Him Overthrown By People

Do-Or-Die Germans Relenting  Troops Hit Center AL Naremandye Line   Troops Hit Center Of Normandy Line; Aim Attack at Transport Network

Russian Tanks Into Suburbs Of Budapest   Motorized Infantry Within Full View Of The Capital

Budapest Push Takes Russians  Into Suburbs   Second Powerful Column ~ -Passes"Danobe Bend OnVienna, Bratislava Road

Russian Armor Enters Budapest   Another Powerful Force Headed For Vienna

SOVIET COLUMN MOVES TOWARD VIENNA. CZECHS   Main Russian Infantry In Full View Of Magyar Capital

Soviets Battle Before Gate Of Hungarian City   Motorized Red Infa bniry Declared In Full View of the Hungarian Metropolis   Other Columns Are  Bound For Vienna   Hastily-Reinforced German  Garrisons Suffer High Casualiies In ShortRange Fighting

Powerful Red Column Drives Westward   Total Gains Of Three Miles Are Announced

MAIN FORCE OF RED TROOPS IN VIEW OF CAPITAL   ANOTHER SOVIET COLUMN DRIVES TOWARD VIENNA

Fighting For Budapestls Near Climay   Main Body Of Motorized Infantry Within Full View Of Capital.   CASUALTIES ARE HIGH

Reds Deploy Two Columns About Great» Danube Bend   “Last! Budapest Tank: Defenses Are Entered

Reds in Suburbs Hungary Capital  Main Body Within Sight of Capital

HEAVY GERMAN CASUALTIES IN SUBURB BATTLE   Hungarian Capital Within Clear View of Main Body of Motorized Soviet Infantry.

LONG BATTLE FOR BUDAPEST NEARS CLIMAX   Germans Suffer High Losses in Futile Attempt to Stop Reds

Russian Tanks Battle Way Into Suburbs of Budapest  German Garrisons Suffer Many f Casualties as Reds Push Ahead

Budapest Battle Nears Climax   Another Red Army Unit Drives Toward Vienna, Bratislava

Russian Tanks Enter Budapest Suburbs on North   Other Forces Converge On The Hungarian City

Russians Enter ‘Budapest Suburhs   Moscow Says Nazi Defenders Losing Heavily in Fighting

REDS FIGHT IN SUBURBS OF BUDAPESI   Tanks Are in Northern Outskirts, While Another Column Is Driving Westward Toward the Canital of Vienna.

ENTER SUBURBS OF BUDAPEST   Red Tanks Battle In Outskirts; Other Forces Drive Above City

Russ Tanks Lumber Through Budapest, Shaken by Revolts   Shott-R an ge Fighting Takes ‘Heavy — Toll; Hungarians Rebel

SOVIET TANKS AN BUDAPEST   Another Powerful Red Col_ umn Drive Westward Past Danube. Bend.

Red Tanks In Suburbs Of Budapest   Russian Column In Drive For Vienna; Resistance Strong

RED TANKS BATTLING IN SUBURBS   Another Soviet Column Driving Toward Vienna

SOVIET TANKS BATTLE TODAY AT BUDAPEST   Main Body Now Within Full View Of City

Budapest Battle Nearing Climax   Nazis Fight Fiercels To Prevent Russians Closing Trap on City

Russian Tanks Push Into Danube City   Other Soviet Forces Report Gains in Vienna’s Direction

Russian Tanks In Outskirts Of Budapest   Another Powerful Red Force Drives Westward Above Capital Toward Bratislava and Vienna

INTO SUBURB OF BUDAPEST   Capital Reported In Flames As Nazis Fight Fiercely

TANKS MOVING INTO BUDAPEST   Russian Armor Enters Northern Suburbs Of Hungarian Capital, Gains Miles On RPorder.

AU SSLA—  Red Tanks Smash Into - _ Badapest’s Suburbs   Russians In Northern: Section Of Hungarian Capital;. Another Powerful Cofumn Drives Toward . Bratislava And Vienna .

Soviet Tanks In Budapest: ~ Climax Nea   Germans Battle Fanatically to Hold Off Reds: Suffer High Losses

STRONG SOVIET FORCE   RERLIN ADMITS REVERSE   TWO SERVICEMEN INJURED IN ACCIDENT

BIG PLANES FROM ITALY JOIN ATTACK   Messerschmitt Factories In Austria Target for Thundering Blew, As Bad Weather Rules   10 Planes Lost

Plane Invasion \s Continued On ~ German Targets   Bad Weather Halts British Operations; Other Air Arm Busy

U. S. Bombers Attack Nazi Plane Plants  Violent Air Battles Occur Over

ltaly Based Planes Bom Nazi Plants   bod Weather Over Continent Forces British ased Bombers From Carrying Out Attacks, Bul ase’ Bombers Are Active Later In The Day

Nazi plane factories get real blasting   French-Belgian targets wrecked

Factories Hit By Bombers From Italy   Weather Turns Back Big Force from West Aiming at Germany.  OPPOSITION STRONG

ITALY - BASED U. 5. BOMBERS RAID AUSTRIA   Furious Air Battles Fought in Assault On Plane Plants

Terrific Blows Hit Great Nazi Plane Centers   Western Germany, Holland, Attacked

Factories at Wiener-Neustadt Dealt Heavy Blow   TARGETS IN FRANCE ALSO ARE BOMBED   Liberators and Fortresses Turned Back by Bad Weather

U. S. Bomhers Attack Nazi Plane Plants   Violent Air Battles Occur Over Wiener-Neustad:

Heavy Blow. Dealt Germar Plane Plant  _ Weather Breaks motes "MES nk  whence: =

Yanks Bomh Plane Plants In Austria   Thunderbolts, Lightnings Hit Western Europe

Italian-Based Bombers Blast Austria Plants   Plane Factories in Weiner-Neustadt Hit; Targets in France, Belgium Also Attackec

Messerschmitt Plants  Dealt Smashing Blow   American Heavyweights Thunder Up From Italy To Pound Weiner-Neustadt; Planes From Britain Forced Back By Weather

Plane Plants In Austria  Bomb Targets   RAF Goes Out at Night Following Raid From Italian Bases

BIG BOMBERS RIT AUSTRIAN PLANE PLANTS   FORAY FROM ITALY MADE BY 15TH AIR FORCE

RECAPTURED BY CHINESE   In Counter Offensive Which Virtually Clears Province of Invaders; Japs Driven Back.  Cink iinet

FIRE TRUGK-AUTO CRASH KILLS FOUR   Torches Needed To Remove Dead from Car

American Assaults  Follow RAF Raids   Fourth Straight Blow Is Dealt Against The Northern France Area By Fighter Bombers

ATLANTIC WALL NEW TARGET OF FLYING FORTS   1000 Four - Motored Bombers Blast French Coast

PEARL HARBOR PROBE OPPOSED   Senate Leader Suggests Delay Until New Year

POST-WAR. MEET SET FOR AUGUST   “Big Four” Session Will Be Held In Washington

Russian Forces Storm Belgrade From Suburbs   German Report Says Reds Open Lithuanian Push “Ta Vicinity Of” Staitia

JAP DRIVE ON U.S. AIR BASE THOUGHT CHECKED   First Chinese Victory in Many Days Believed Decisive.

The Work Day to In-: crease From 6 to 7) Hours, to Care for, Portal to Portal Pay

JOHN L., ICKES STILL FIGHTING   Union Replies to Telegram Telling Official To ‘Watch Your Guard’

SECRETARY ICKES ASKS JOHN LEWIS POINTED QUESTIONS  MINE CONVENTION DELE. GATES CRITICIZE CABINE  QOFFICER’S ACTION

INSULTED’ UMW BITES BACK IN ANSWERING WIR   Secretary Notes ~ Lewis Answering ' First Telegram By Political Blast

UMW Convention Replies to Ickes Wire to Lewis  Term Question About Living Up to Contracts ‘Insult to Every Mine Worker in Mahan’

Miners sIckes Telegr aphie  Feading ‘Giows      Unionists Term “Remarks ‘By Secretary of Interior “* “Insult to ‘Every  Worker‘In Nation”

ICKES, MINE WORKERS CONTINUE TO BICKER   Second Exchange of Telegrams Reveals Variety of Charges

ICKES REMARK CALLED INSULT   Asks Lewis If He Proposes To Live Upto Role of Keeping Contracts.

ALLIES DRIVE INTO PATH OF NAZI RETREAT   Die-Hard Germans In Rear Guard Put up Battle In Streets of Lyon.

Allies Cut Escape Road Above City   Sweep Carries Within 120 Miles Of Army Junction.

YANKS FIGHT IN LYON STREETS   Thrust Across Enemy Line Of Retreat North

ENEMY I$ FIGHTING FIERCELY   Troops Are 120 Miles From Junction With U. S. Third Army

Battle Enemy Line Of Retreat 50 Miles — Beyond Lyon. SINCE INVASION nay 220 MILES INLAND  ‘Drive Directly Across Path Of Retreating °  Nazi 19th Army

Die-Hard Nazi Troops Fail In Holding Lyon   Allies Thrust Across Enemy’s Retreat  Above Citv

AMERICANS FIGHT GERMANS 50 MILES ABOVE FRENCH CITY OF LYON   Yank Forces In Southern France Now Only 120 Miles of a Junctior With Troops In North ern France.

NAZIS BATTLE YANKS IN LYON   Try To Hold Open Escape Route Above City

U.S. Acts To Put Dixie Train Strikers In Army Wreck Kills U. §. Moves To 48 Hurts 31

songress Finishes Action on Most of Its Fund Bills; Prepares to Recess Today Until Aug. 1

Congress Will Recess Until August First   Final Action Delayed On 1945 Supply Bill

‘Hunt For Killer Tn Mexico City   Governor, Two Others  Die At Assassin's Hand.

F.D. R. DISCLOSES  HE HAS BRONCHITIS   Visits Naval Hospital for X-RaysCoughs and Wheezes During Conference, —

US. Navy Planes Destroy 17 Jap ‘Cargo Vessels   Saturday’s Raid Over Luzon Also Damaged a Cruiser; Downed 126 Aircraft

Luzon Raided Again  By Carrier Forces Philinpines Hit By Third   Philippines Hit By Third Fleet Units

Philippines Struck New Aerial Blow   Japanese Continue to Take Severe Beatings

Heavy Philippine  Attacks by Carrier  Force Continue More Jap Aircraft,  Ships Destroyed In Luzon Sweeps

19 JAP PLANES ~ AND 7 VESSELS   New Strikes Are Made Against Clark Field And Legaspi

jerial Invasion f Philippines {; Continued   New Sweeps on Luzon Disclosed; 7 Jap Ships set Afire, 19 Planes dre Said Destroyed

JAWS OF ALLIED SIEGE ARC NOW NEARLY CLOSED   Yanks, British, Canadians Driving to Trap Nazi Seventh Army

SIEGE ARC IN FALAISE AREA DRAWS TIGH   Expect to Close Gap Soon, Says Allied  Spokesman

titre aiaintinetine ted  COLUMBUS TAXI SERVICE PARALYZED BY STRIKE

SPEEDING BIKE HITS TRUCK; 2 RIDERS KILLED   Two Benton Harbor Wa: Workers Lose Lives On US-12>

Reds Cut Nazi Escape Railway Near Leningrad   Germans Herded Toward Estonia, With Entrapment Peril Mounting.

Germany Says Links Pierced At Kirovograd   Nazi. Command Also Reports Reds Have Renewed Onslaught Between Pripet ‘and Berezina.   Reported F ighting In Kereh Streets   ‘Soviet Troops Ch arging  Forward With Mounting Fury On Leningrad Front, Huns Admit

Russ Pierce Nazi Lines At Kirovograd   Germans Also Report Renewal Of Attacks In Other Sectors

Fall of City Now Expectec At Any Hour   Juncture of Troops Made on Via Casiline

Romans Told City To Fall   Ancient Spires Of City Within View of Troops

Allies Warn Fall Of City Is Imminent   Romans Instructed To Protect City From Destruction

Radio Warns of  German Tactics   Residents of Efernal City Told to Guard Against Nazi Destruction

BYRNES WARNS WORK LAGGING   WAR MOBILIZATION DIRECTOR DECLARES SHORTAGE OF , 60,000 WORKERS HAM‘PERS VITAL PRODUCTION ©

DYRNCS WARNS OVILIAN QUTPUT MAY BE CURTAILEL   Program Depencs on Obtezining War Workers for Bottlenecks

BYRNES. WARNS SNL OUTPUT MIAY BE CURTAILE   Program Depends. on Obteining War Workers for Bottlenecks  _-

MANPOWER BOTTLENECKS   Unless Workers Found Civilian Production Will Be Curtailed

He'd Try To Set Off Jap Volcanoes   Scientist Thinks Bombing Might Start Eruptions

Allies Cut Nazi Lines in Italy   Enemy Front Broken At 3 Vital Points

Allies Break Through Nazi Defenses   Near Important Highway Hubs of Grosseto, Terni

Crack New Nazi Line In Italy   Allies Approach Grosseto Highway Center, 114 Miles Beyond Rome.

. New Nazi Defense Weaponls , Encountered By The Allies  Parachute Projectile 1s Reported By Fliers After Blacting Five Enemy Shine OFF Norway

‘CHUTE BOMB IS USED IN NAZI DEFENSE      Rocket-Like Weapor Fails To Stop - Beaufighters

Knox Says Hal: Of Jap Cargo Tonnage Sank   Secretary Says U. S. Undersea Fighters Have Sent 14 More Vessels to Bottom

Myth of Jap Island Defenses Exploded in Truk and Marianas Raids  “tisade Pinan    Yanks Whittle Away Half of Jap Merchant Fleet

alf of Japan's Original Merchant eef Has Been Sunk, Knox Asserts

Knox Cites Heavy Jap Shipping Losses ‘As U.S. Subs Sink 14 More Vessels

JAP SHIPPING HARD HIT, KNOX ASSERTS      Nearly Half of Merchant Tonnage Sunk Since Start of War

BENEFITS FOR FARMERS URGED   Wickard Seeks Post-War Social Security Protection

Establishing Supply Route Into China Will Require a Major Operation

ILACK OF WAR ASSISTANCE TO CHINA APPARENT DESPITE ANY STATEMENT TO THE CONTRARY

CHINESE REBUTTAL OF CHURCHILL CLAIMS OF LAVISH AID DRAWS CONFIRMATION FROM ANAYLST

; _WAR TODAY   Despite America’s Assistance, China Hasn't Enough: Military Materials to, Dust a Flute; Chinese Can’t Win War by Dying

CHINESE ARE NOT AFRAID TO. DIE BUT DYING DOES NOT WIN WARS; EQUIPMENT ‘NEEDED IF NIPS ARE TO BE DEFEATED:

We'll Take Japs at Own Game--War or Pleasure-and Beat Them,.FDR Says

Poison Gas Industry In Leverkusen Hit’ Coastal Areas Isolated   Germans Reported Moving: 50 Divisions from Russia to Meet Coming Invasions

Bad Weather Causes Lull In Bombing   Only Single Planes Reported Over Germany; Nazis Repulsed In Italy

Stockholm Dispatch Reports Nazis Have Split Armies and Doubled Strength To Meet In vasion.

Pre-Invasion Air War Into Its 17th Day   ‘Poison Gas And Chemical Works Hard Hit By RAF

Former Clearfield Flier Being Retired At The Ripe Age of 16 Years

spied at kuna) SAbatiidans! Liberator Gunner Retires From Army’  At Rine Avge of 16

Murphy To Be Ambassador In Occupied Reich   Going To London With Personal Rank Of Ambassador.

AMERICA PROGE WAR LOAN QUOT!   Individuals, However, React Only 46 Per Cent of Series E Bond Goal. Large Over. subscription Urged

SIXTH WAR LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED   BULK OF ‘MONEY COMES FROM CORPORATIONS—SALES TO INDIVIDUALS LAG.

War Loan Quota Subscribed But More Sales Asked  Militarv Cost Up   Military Cost Up And More Borrowings Declared Necessary

SIXTH WAR LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED   Corporations Account Fo Most Of Purchases, Treasury States

U.S. Passes War Bond Quota; Keeps Right On Going Because Drive Not Considered Success

1,000 U. S. Planes Attack Formosa Island Guarding The Coast Of Chinese Mainland

16 Surface Vessels Sunk, 19 Damaged, Admiral Nimitz Announces — American Losses Total 22 Aircraft, With No Injury To Fleet — Tokyo Reports Renewal Of American Attack On Island Today — No Con. tact Made With Enemy Warships

Yank Airmen Bombed Formosa From End To End; Adm. Nimitz Savs 19 Other Craft Damaced   We Lost 22 Planes; No Damage To Surface Ships As Halsey Strikes Territic Blow; Tokvo Says     auld Resumed This Vorning

221 Nip Planes Destroyed In Formosa Attack   Sixteenth Enemy Ships Sunk, Nineteen Damaged in Raid 575 Miles From Japan   America’s Loss Is 22 Airplanes   [sland Bormmbed From End io End; Damage to Military Installations and Supplies Heavy

Yanks Destroy 221 Jap Plane: Sink 16 Ships   American Carrier ; Forces Strike Fourth Successive Blow at Jap Inner Defenses

Big Carrier Force Used In Assault   U. S. Losses Listed at 22 Planes; Yanks Land On 12th Palau Island

JAPANESE LOSE 221 PLANES IN NIMITZ BLAST   Tokyo Radio Says New Blows Unleashed On Formosa

Tokyo Reports Attack  Renewed ‘Today; 22: U.S. Planes Lost) In! A aac.

Formosa Blasted By Carrier Force   Tokyo Reports Fifth Straight Raid in Progress as Nearby Island Raided an Secand Conceacitive Dav

Nip Report Of Big Raid On. Formoso Is Confirmed   16° Enemy. Ships”. Sunk, 19 Damaged

Planes Sink 16 Jap Ships  At. Formosa   19 Others Damaged And 221 Aicraft Destroyed; L. S. Loses 22 Raiders

Tokyo Says Attack Is Continuing   Blow By Carrier Force Fails to Bring Enemy. Fleet Out of Hiding;  Onto 12th Palau Islet

16 Jap Ships Sunk; 19 Are Damaged   Carrier Planes Renew Attack Today, Tokyo Radio Says

JAP SHIPS, SINK 16   Strike Climaxes Raids On Luzon, Ryukyus, Marcus

221 Nip Planes Bagged, 35 Ships SunkOrDamaged   16 Of Vessels Sent Down; Island Raked End To End; No U. S. Ship Hit

JAPS DISCLOSE ANOTHER HEAVY FORMOSA RAID   Nip Claims of American Carrier Sunk Not Confirmed by Allies

Mighty Strike ls Climax of Four-day Foray  Nimitz Says 16 Nip e2:4:¢- . *€@79 mit... -  Nimitz Says 16 Nip Ships, 221 Planes Bagged by Airmen

LATEST STRIKE IN PACIFIC NETS 221 JAP PLANES AND AT LEAST 16 SHIPS SUNK   Communique By Admiral Nimitz Is First Official  Information Available Since Earlier  Announcement By Tokyo   RENEWAL OF ATTACK TODAY IS UNCONFIRMED

Tokyo» Reports Attack:  Renewed Today; 22) US:: “Planes Lost in Read ‘

British Stop Air Service To Ireland   Eire Reduces Railway Transportation to Conserve Coal

Philippines Are Uneasy   Decision By Puppet Ruler Against Draft Betrays Jap Fears of Possible Native Revolt

Hint Turmoil In Philippines   Puppet President Balks at Conscription, ‘Brotherhood Claim at Stake

 ~ os ‘GOP Session :  ‘At a Glance   By the Assoclated Press  Wednesdav

Red Armies Only 17 Miles From City of ping  Bro ught Ru ussia Victar eae

FINNS FIGHTING LOSING BATTLE AGAINST REDS   Govorov’s Troops Are Now But 17 Miles From Port OF Viipuri   MANNERHEIM LINE . HAS BEEN SMASHED

Russians Smashing  Finland Defenders  Are Now 17 Miles From Second City

Russians Drive T Oo Knock-Out Finland   Old Mannerheim Line Smashed as Soviets Reach « Point 17 Miles From Viipuri, Nation's Second Largest City .

Soviets Smash Through Old  Finnish Line   Reds Only 17 Miles From Viipuri; Premier Admits Russian Gains

SOVIET FORCES 17 MILES FROM CITY OF VIIPURI   A Finnish Bulletin Re ported That German Fliers Shot Down 12 Of 39 Russian Planes Encountered In Two Days

Thousands Attend First Day Of Fain   Despite Threatening Weather, Crowds Flock to the Grounds—Hell Drivers Furnish Thrills With Five Grandstand Acts   No Indispensable Men, Says Dewey In Portland Speech   Governor Declares Peace-Making Too Important to be Dependent Upon Life Span of Three Individ-  uals—Nation-wide Broadcast Made

Thousands Attend First Day Of Fair   Despite Threatening Weather, Crowds Flock to th Grounds—Hell Drivers Furnish Thrills With Five Grandstand Acts

Revolutionary Impulses in Europe May Touch and Change Every Country on Continent, Some U.S. Diplomats Feel

fey  As Cone   U. 8. Polity Would Allow Political Upheavals in: Europe to . Run Nornial Course.

Revolutionary Impulses May ‘Touch And Change All Nations ‘On The European Continent   Must Run Natural Course, American Diplomats Beliave

50 CARRIERS, 20 BATTLESHIPS IN U.S. FLEE]      Philippine Rescue Was Impossible, Says King

Growth of U.S. Navy Emphasized   Now Includes 20 Battleships, More Than 50 Camiers

GPEED-UP IN WAR ~ NNAZIS. JAPAN   fenty Battleships and More, +Trn 50 Carriers Now  Operating With Fleet. 

Speed War on Japan, Nazis   King Promises Tempo Increase, Citing 20 Battleships, 50 Aircraft Carriers in Fleet, Summarizes Front Situations

iFarly Speedup Of War Promised iby Admiral King   20 Battleships, More Than 50 Carriers in Fleet

EARLY SPEEDUP IN TEMPO OF WAR AGAINST AXIS PROMISED BY ADM. KING

King Promises Early Speedup In War Tempo   20 Battleships, Over 30 Plane Carriers —  Now In American Fleet

King Promises Speed-Up In War Against Axis: 20 Dtslochins. 50 Carriers Now With Fleet

Over 50 Carriers And . 20 Battleships Now in . Service, King Reveals

RING REPORTS OPLEDUP FOR WAR ON AXIS   Head of U. S. Fleet Reveals 20 Battleships, 50 Carriers in Sea Forces.

Weary Ist Infantry Revealed as Stopper of Crack Nazi Force   Hitler Youth Division is Routed by Yanks Near Key City of Liege

First Infantry Adds To Battle Glories    K K KK Seventh Armored Division Praised

Rundstedt Held Without Gains 3 Straicht Davs   ; \Called Back to Batile tor 8 Days of Hell.  iFirst Division Halts Hitler's Best

Veteran Yank Ist Rips Crack Nazi Division   12th Elite Guard Is Torn By Battle Trainec Force; Not An Inch Given By Douahboys .

Ast Division, Worn, Tired, Haked Nazis  In Drive Wes   Veterans Of Other Campaigns Shattered Himmler’s Elite Guard Division

Autonomy For UMW Is Suppressed   JOHN . LEWIS CONTROLS CONVENTION, SCARCELY 100 SUPPORTING EDMUNDSON’ RESOLUTION TO TAKE HIS POWER.   Emundson Denied Seal

ELAS Forces Take RAF Quarters ©   Kifissia Office. Now In Hands of Leftists

ELAS  Sieze RAF Building Insurgents Set  Fire to: Hotel Headqua: tters;

1,000 GREEKS STORM RAF QUARTERS   British Promise To Open Attack Early Tomorrow

ELAS CAPTURE RAF ATHENS aH   All-Out Campaign To End The Internal Struggle

300 HEAR G.0.P. CANDIDATES AT RALLY HERE   Cross, Barrett and Lueder Brand New Deal “Failure”

EXPLOSIVES SHORTAGE   McNutt Says Plants Need More Employees to Fill Quotas

Vast Raids Made On Germany With 122 Nazi Fighters Shot ‘Down In Fierce Sunday Battle   7,000 Tons Of Bombs Cascaded On Oil Facilities Within 48 Hours

British “Feeler” Attacks Already Being Made On ‘Coast, Germans Say

Attack Islands 460 Miles From Philippines   Regarded as Thrust Against Caroline Defense

PALAU SHELLING IS REGARDED AS GURTAIN-RAISER   Jap Navy Again Evades Fight

ALLIES RAID TARGETS IN NORTH ITALY   Bearing Works in Turin Area Blasted By Flying Forts

Bombers Hit Industry in North Italy   British Smash Deeper Into Enemy Lines  Along Adriatic

GREAT RAIDS IN \TALY, BALKANS   LONDON —UP— Ameri can heavy bombers raided northwest Germany today, and 18 were missing.

AXTS TARGETS IN ITALY ARE BOMBED   Planes Based m Mediterranean Area Work Havoc

Allies Complete Sweeping Raids   Bomb Industrial Works In Jugoslavia, Italy _

Advance 62 Miles Across Old Poland   One Of Two Remaining Nozi Escope Railroads From Lower Ukraine Tran le Cut By Russians

Only 60 Mi. From Hungary   Second Spearhead Cuts Next To Last Escape Route From Ukraine.

RUSSIAN ARMY IS 60 MILES FROM HUNGAR’   Moves 62 Miles Over Southeast Poland In Four Days

DOW DEVELOPS NEW SUGAR SEED   New Process to Enable Better Planting, Harvesting in Sugar Beet Production

Allies Push Above Forli  . aw Racictanna   German Resistance Mounts Steadily

British Gain In Bologna Area   Capture Strongly Held Nazi Town of St. Tome

GREATER. INTEREST URGED IN SCRAP. PAPER CAMPAIGNS   All Paper Collected . Said to Be From small

GREATER INTEREST URGED WN SCRAP PAPER. CEMPAICKS   All Paper Collected Said to Be From Small Fercentage of Homes

RELATIONS WITH LATIN-AMERICA ~ DETERIORATING   Brazilian Says News Has Been Kept Out of U. S. Press

Ward Company Claims Violation Of Constitution   Taylor Tells Soldiers To Bar Avery, Ryan From Premises

House Rules Committee Approves Resolution For Probe of Seizure Of Montgomery Ward Co. Plant

House to Probe Seizure of Ward Plant in Chicago   Stormy Hearing Held by Rules  Committee

Injunction CaseBefore U. S. Court   Company Seeks Dissolu. tion of Order Obtained  by the Government

Heavy Yank Planes Strike From Italy   Wintry Weather Halts Smashes From Britain; Bomber Toll Reduced

Great RAF Bombing Blow Rocks Reich   U. S. Air Force Suffers Heaviest Loss Since April From Ack-Ack as Boche Interceptors Decline Battle

WINTER MALTS AIR OFFENSIVE   Losses of Eighth Air Force Not As Large As First Reported.   15TH AIRFORCE STRIKES

RECORD AERIAL DRIVE HALTED   Weather Grounds Planes After Two-Day Attack

BOMBERS FROM ITALY STRIKING INTO GERMANY   ‘Thursday U.S. Losses Cut to 40. Bombers and 13-Fighter Planes

U. 5. FIFTEENTH  AIR FORCE HEAVIES  ATTACKING GERMANY AMERICAN LOSSES  THURSDAY HAVE BEEN CREATLY REDICED

Germans Warned Of Allied Raiders Over Bavaria   Eighth Air Forces  Has Heaviest Bomber «Loss Since ‘April

Bombers From Italy Plaster German Targets   Yank Aijrcraft Losses Yesterday Are Reduced From 86 To 53.

Great Waves Of RAF Bombers Roa Over Reich To Suffer Huge. Losse:

BOMB FROM ITALY   Bad Weather Ends Two. Day Offensive by Brit- ‘ *- ain-Based Planes

BOMB FROM ITALY   Bad Weather Ends Two_ Day Offensive by Bnitain-Based Planes

‘Air Offensive ‘Continues; U.S. iLosses Heavy   Yanks Lose 40 Heavies in Raids Thursday; Synthetic Oil Plants Bombed

Nazi Ack-Ack Downs 40 U. 5. Heavy Bombers  8th Airforce Suffers Its Heaviest Loss In 7 sess ” —

U.S. Air Force Strikes With Heavy Bombers   Bad Weather Holds Up Allied Based Planes in England

I'lying Bombs Are Beaten:  Batile Of London Is Over   Terror Attacks Ou England Ended With Allied Troops Overrunning Launching Sites On French Coast; Only 29 Per Cent Of Bombs Reached London      Yanks Move Fast. But Not Fast Enouch To Catch Fleeine Nazis

U.S. Planes In. “Greatest Air Battle”   59 Bombers, 5 Fighters Lost in Heavy Attack On Plane Factories  In Central Germany

Germans Say 124 Big Bombers Shot Down, Claim They Solved Defense Problem

64 Craft  Lost in Assault   NAZI AIRPLANE PLANTS BATTERED IN THREE CENTRAL GERMAN CITIES

Over 700 Yankee Bombers Blast Nazi Plane Plants In Heavy Attack Tuesday

Highlights of F. D. R.’s Solon Report   LIST MAIN POINTS OF PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS

KING AND QUEEN SEE ROBOT SHOT DOWN   Witness Attack on Winged Boml While Visiting Anti-Aireraft Battery.

OHIO TOWN READY  TO BURY DEAD   Rescue Teams Remove Bodies Of 52 Miners After 2.Month Effort

M'NUTT WARNS PERIOD CRUCIAL   Says Manpower Top Priority Until Surrender of Japan

American Troops Advance Against Main Gothic Line  Clear Prato, Pistoic Outposts; Rimini Fiaht Continues

AMERICANS REACH GOTHIC DEFENSES   One Spearhead Within 35 Miles of Industrial City of Bologna in Po Valev.

American Troops Reach Gothic Line   SEVENTHARMY TAKES DIJON: ARMIES MEET’   Vanguards at at “Undesignated Spot” Just 28 Days After Inyasion of Southern France.   Pound Riviera

HIGH RANKING AIR OFFICER — DEMOTED FOR ‘LOOSE TALK’   FORMER COMMANDER OF NINTH AIK FORCE DEMOTED AND PLACED GON INACTIVE LIST

-eave Rennes 20 Miles. — Behind As They Strike. For Normandy Clean-Up

ALLIES GAIN NEW POSITION AGAINST JAPS   Japanese Forced Back On Three Big Islands

New Drives Open On Japs   Yanks on Los Negros Advance, Other Forces Leapfrog Past Saidor

Tighten Hold On Los Negros   x «* KK OY Crafty Fijians Carve Up Japs

M’ARTHUR’S MEN HIT JAPS. TWICE: IsegRe SiCrESSE'      BY RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Editor

Yank Advance Tightens Hold On Los Negros   Meanwhile, Allies Score Leapfrog Gain Up New Guinea Coast.

CAVALRYMEN TIGHTEN GRIP ON LOS NEGROS   Reinforced Troops Extend Holdings Across Isthmus to Northern Peninsula   DRIVE ON MADANG   Small Units Leap-Frog Up New Guinea Coast 30 Miles Nearer Jap Base

US Holdings On Los Negros ‘Are Extended   MacArthur Announces Two Offensive Successes Against Japs in Southwest Pacific

32nd Division Jumps Around  Enemy Troop:   Leap-Frog Move Gains 30 Miles Up Coast Of New Guinea: Admiralty  ee Ee 2

Allies Score DoubleGains In Pacific   Extend Holdings on Los Negros, and LeapFrog Up New Guinea Coast Toward Madang

SUCCESSES IN SOUTH PACIFIC ARE REPORTED   Reinforced Dismounted Cavalry Division Fights Through Ariillery Fire To Extend Holdings   FIRM GRIP ON MOMOTE

TWO NEW OFFENSIVE SUCCESSES AGAINST JAPS IN PACIFIC  DISMOUNTED FIRST CAVALRY TIGHTENS 

Achieve Two Successes In South Pacific   Extend Holdings On Los Negros Island; New Landing  Near Madang.   AIRMEN BLAST RABAUL

Successes Against Japs On Los Negros And New Guinea Scored By Yanks

New Drives Against Japs Are Successful   Cavalry Division kxtends Holdings on Los Negros—Other Units Nearer Madang

YANKEES RECORD NEW SUCCESSES   Extend Los Negros Holdings. Push Toward Madang

Two New Successes Scored Against Japs  He DYFMEFARDWT fF DWOCwWw et rrlrawy?T

U.S. Advanees In Burma. Admiralties. New Guinea   First Cavalry Tightens Grip On Los Negros Airstrip: 32nd Division Lands Near Saidor; Japs Mopped Up In Asia

Japanese Suffer New Reverses  Twe New Offensives Crowned With Succes:

MacArthur Reports Two New Offensive Successes Today   Americans Advance on Los Negros and Leap Frog Guinea Coast

Cherbourg Thot Next Objective   FIRST PHASE OF INVASION IS TERMED COMPLETED; FAMEE PANZER DIVISION NOW . OPPOSING ALLIES

British, Astride Paris Cherbourg R. R., Strike Toward Embroiled Caen      Allied Headquarters Announces Initial Successes As Stimson  Warns Of Nazi Fury

First Phase Of Invasion Completed, Say Leaders   Armies Swing Into Battle To Destroy Mobile Reserves Moved Into Area

Aim to Destroy German Mobile Reserve Units   Fall of Caen, Key Transport Hub, Is Reported

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE CAEN; FIRST PHASE OF INVASION SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED.

Invaders Turn Blows on Nazi Mobile Units   3S Se ee eee ee  LONDON—(U.P)—The United Nations radio at Algiers reported today that the Allies had captured Caen.

pay june 8.—The United Nations radio at Algiers reported today ‘that the Allies had cantured Caan °°  . a

United Nations Radio Says Caen Has Fallen To Our Forces      Nazis Throw Crack Units Into Fight   Allies Strike Out In At tempt To Isolate Entire Cherbourg Peninsula

Caen Laken By Allies Says Radio At Algiers   Bayeux Is Occupied   Famous Nazi Panzer Division Enters Fight

YANK ARMORED UNIT ENTERS AVRANCHES   18-Mile Gain Is Reported - In New Offensive   GRANVILLE   Falls To Americans, Berlin States: Prisoner Total Increases

Lt. William R. Hogan To Receive DSC At Ashburn Retreat Ceremony Tuesday

HULL INVITES HEADS OF BIG THREE TO TALKS   _ Russia, Britain and China To Meet with U. S., in Post War World Security  Conferenca

Big 3 Is Invited By Hull   RUSSIA, GREAT BRITAIN, CHINA, UV. &. TO DISCUSS ORGANIZATION OF PEACE

HULL CALLS Bib SECURITY MEET   WORLD SECURITY AIM OF COMING CONFAB

LEWIS FLORA, 45 ~ DIES IN ACCIDENT   Brickyard Worker Is Suf. focated at Williamsport. Monday

GESTAPO TRIES TO PUT ORDER IN NAZI FORCE   Demoralized Germans Retreat to Hitler’s  Important East Bastion

,, Forces Race ; orward Against German Defenses   Threaten To Bring Minsk Under Siege, Topple It Shortly

RED ARMIES 25 MILES FROM MINSK   Two Forces Crash Through Nazi Defenses

RUSSIANS RACE ACROSS BEREZINA, SLASH MINSK QUTER DEFENSES   RED ARMY SMASHES TO 25 MILES OF. CITADEL GUARDING WARSAW ROAD IN GIANT NEW DRIVE

Crash Through Fresh German Reinforcements   Third Army Crosses Berezina River; First Takes Slutsk

Red Army is Nearer Goal, Minsk   Speed Toward Ancient Cita del Guarding Invasion  Route to Warsaw

RUSSIAN ARMY GAINS IN DRIVE AGAINST MINSK   Streams Across Berezina River, Speeds Down Home Stretch

NAZIS THROW FRESH TROOPS INTO BATTLE   Soviet Forces Smash Through German Lines and Race on at High Speed.

10 Carloads Of Bushels To Be Shipped Here   More Packs Coming Ti Augment Supply Of Used Containers

FRUIT BASKET SHORTAGE IS FASED BY WEA      Ships 400,000 Bushels To This Area; Promises  More

BULGARIA SIGNS ARMISTICE WITH ‘BIG 3’ ALLIES   Ex-Satellite Of Nazis Signs After Churchill Stalin Talks

SIGN ARMISTICE   DEFEATED. PARTNER. OF HITLER ALREADY HAS’ ‘CARRIED’ OUT SOME OF TERMS. :

E Bond Investments Lag in County War Loan Campaign  Community Reaches Other Goals, but Individual Purchases Short of

More Than Million to Be Raised In Fifth War Loan   Lagging Individual Bond Investmenis Threaten County Campaign: Every Resident Urced io Add Hie Assistance

INVASION ‘FLASH’ WAS FALSE  British Girl Teletype Operator Of AP Sent Erroneous Report Of Landing

FALSE INVASION FLASH STARTLES ENTIRE WORLD   Girl Operator, Responsible, Suffers Nervous Exhaustion

GOVERNOR PROPOSES BONUS FOR EMPLOYES   Second War-Time Parment Of $120 Will Be Suggested To Legislature Tonizht

ANOTHER BONUS IS PLAN OF GOVERNOR   State Employes \ Would Re. ceive Additional ola}

Cards Snatch An Early Lead  Musial Homers With Johnny Hopp On Base

MUSIAL HITS: 2 RUN HOMER   ‘Cards Get 4-0 Lead Within 3rd-Inning .- .   SECOND INNING   THIRD INNING

Cherhourg Peninsula Halfway Cul   Prize Port Of Cherbourg Only 14 Miles Advance

Americans Are 14 Miles From Cherbourg   News From France ‘Couldn’t Be Better,’ SHAEF Declares

Ar prcers 4 Ys  “ee (V-y> ail   cur >eninsu.a in ~a.=, vad"ure -ASon in >rive ¢+.gains= S-. 0; ™4-I07 Ta ce “1 V-Sur-Seu _eS

Cross Merderet River beyond Cherbourg; British and Canadians Beginning Offensive.

of Montebourg, France   U. S. T Win High Official Praise ; For Advances; Phase of Securing Bridgehead Near End

Yanks In Outskirts Of Montebourg; Normandy Beachheads Firmly Secured   ADDITIONAL TROOPS, EQUIPMENT LANDED

Progress Could Not Be Better, Statement Says   Now 14 Miles From Cherbourg

‘roops 14.Miles _ l'rom Great Port, -Tierce Battle-On      Strategic Centers of Three  Towns in Southeru France Occupied by Partisan Groups

Pepper Quits Fight Against Nominations   Confirmation of State Department Aides Is Expected

FR. FIRM ON 6 NOMINEES   Pepper Abandons Fight  to Delay Confirmation

New Dealers Stall Confirmation Of Six Appointments   Seeking Action Before Adjournment, Leaders Plan Nite Session

WILL CONFIRM STATE DEPT. APPOINTEES —  an . gt   Opposing Senators Decide to Abandon Fight

FR. STANDS PAT ON NOMINATIONS; FIGHT IS OFF   Approval Of State Department Leader's Naw Sean Axseurred

Russians Strike Nazi Shackles . From Rail Trunk   Germans Launch Bitter Drives On Ukraine Line

Reds Within 22 Miles Of Estonia   Smela Fails; Nazis Advance In South Ukraine 

RED ARMY GAINS IN NORTH; FALLS BACK IN UKRAINE   Russians Plunge Westward From Leningrad to Point 22 Miles From Old Estonian Border.   SMELA EVACUATED BY GERMAN FORCES   Soviet Leaders Admit Withdrawals in South From Populated Places East  of Vinnitsa.

Russ Clear Nazis From 2 Rail Hubs   Drive Rolls On in North, but Soviets Retreat in Ukraine

RUSSIANS ARE FORCED BACK IN UKRAINE   Germans Counterattack; Leningrad Shackles Broken

Premier Stalin Announce: Capture of Nevosokolotki: Huns Strike in  Ukraine

Allies Batter At Approaches To Antwerp  New Front Extends   New Front Extends Completely across Southwest Holland

AmphibiousUnits Eifect Landings On Island Shore   Main Enemy Escape Route Near Tilburg Menaced By Armored Assaults

Canadians Land On Walcheren Island  In Antwerp Drive   Assault German Guns Controlling Channel

Doomed Huns Slow Advance of Canadians   Allied Front Now Extends All across Southwest Holland; Cologne Blasted

Wewak Trap Is Tightened Around Japs   Australians Push Steadily Toward Port On One Side; Americans On Other

ii rap Narrows On New Guinea J aps   Australian ‘Troops Erase 80 Jungle Miles In 28 Davs of Fighting

Jap Troops Move Forward In China   Report Chenghsien May Have Been Captured

Present Speed Limit To Remain   Tire Shortage Causes ODT to Abandon Plan To Lift 35-Mile Rate

ODT Abandons All Plans For Relaxing National 35-Mile-An-Hour Limit

No Lifting Limit On Car Speed Now   Critical Tire Shortage Increasing, Points Out ODT

35-Mile Speed Limit to Stay Critical Shortage in  Tires Causes ODT to

35-Mile-an-Hour Speed Limit for All Road Travel Observed Only Spottily

No Litfizg Limit. ; On Car Speed Row   Critical Tine Shortage Increasing, Points. Gut ORT

Pensions May Affect Nation   ROGER BABSON WRITES ABOUT U. S. SOCIAL SECURITY

American and British Pilots - Literally Tearing Reich-held Europe to Pieces With Bombs      No Letup In Attacks—Continuous Rear Of Heavy Bombers Heard Shuttling Back, Forth Across Channel 24 Hours A Day

Thousand Bombers in Big Assault   Bombing Perhaps Biggest Yet on Nazi Capital— Start Many Fires

Nazis Admit Capital Badly Damaged in “Terror Raid”   1000 Bombers With Equal Fighter Support Staae Attack——Invasion Rumors Mount

Nearly 2006 Planes In . Operation —   NAZI BROADCASTS ACKNOWLEDGE WIDE-SPREAD  FIRES AND HEAVY DAMAGE-Ad AIR OFFENSIVE CONTINUES .

Floral Tributes to Wendell Willkie Fill Church for Funeral Rites Today

WILLKIE RITES ARE HELD TODAY   Floral Piece From White House— Governor Dewey Attends

60 000 Persons Pay Respects To W. Willkie   Funeral: Services This Afternoon, Burial in Indiana

AARON BENESCH DIES IN 27-FLOOR FALL   6-Year-Old Former Baltimore Banker And Furniture Dealer, Left Notes In Hotel Boam

Former Baltimore Banker Ends Life. —-27-Story Fall   ‘Auron. Banesch Plunyss _ To Death, Ignoring Painters’ Cries

Forts Put Out - Tokyo’sLight:   Japan's Capital Finall Beszins Blacking Out

Aircraft Planes, Depots, Coastal Fortifications Hit in Mighty Raids

9,500 Tons Fall As Allies Press  Invasion By Air   Greatest Air Assault In History Hammers At Aircraft Plants, Transportation Centers And Fortifications Of Invasion Coast.

OFFICERS REPORT BUSY WEEK -END   Hotel Blanket Theft Solved by Sheriff; Three Other Arrests Are Made

PHILIPPINES Hill BY HEAVIEST RAID   Japs Abandon Three Airdromes In Southern. Mindanao

Polio Study Conference Is" Scheduled As New Cases In State Are Reported Daily

Japanese Slip In With Reinforcements For Showdown Battle with MacArthur

JAPANESE LAND TROOPS AT ORMOC FOR A SHOWDOWN   Mechanized Equipment Also Is Put Ashore—American . -Airmen Sink 2 Transports in Convoy.   YANKS PUSH 5 MILES WEST OF CARIGARA   Twenty-Seven Enemy Planes Blasted From: Skies in ‘Eight-Hour Sky Battle Off Leyte.

JAPANESE FALL BACK IN LEYTE ISLAND BATTLE   24th Division Pursuing Retreating Enemy Five Miles West Of  Carigara

EVERY SOLDIER MAY CAST VOTE   Cards For Ballots Now Being Given To Servicemen

! Nipponese Vessels Attacked _By-Car rier-Planes, Admiral   Nimitz Announces

Foe Warships Seen on Move Toward Leyte   Yank Troops Continue to Advance in island Fighting; Samar Bridgehead Won; Another Airfield is Taken

Strong Nipponese Force Sighted Moving Eastward In Central Philippines

Jap Cruisers,  Battleships Under Attack   Enemy Planes Pound U. 8. Invasion ‘Fleet, German Radio Says

U. S. Carrier Planes Strike Enemy Force Of Battleships And Cruisers   ACTION TAKING PLACE AROUND PHILIPPINES

LARGE TOKYO NAVAL FORCE MOVING EAST   GREAT SEA BATTLE ANTICIPATED FOR U.S. WARSHIPS

CARRIERS HiT JAP NAVY OFF PHILIPPINES   Battleships, Cruisers Moving Kastward; Nimitz Gives Brief Report, Radios Silent.   Badly Defeated

Y.W. SPONSORS   LECTURE COURSE   Five Outstanding Cleveland Women Are Engaged

Y.W.C.A. Plan  Lecture Course   five Speakers Wil. Cover Varied Fields

Rises To Deny Slot  /Machines In Camp   Hampton Roads Genera! Refutes Charges Made By Senator Bridges

RED DEVILS FORCED 10 EVACUATE   Remnants Of Gallant ®Division Are Moved South Of Rhine

Allies Advance to Maas   British Drive to Split Holland Gains; Supply Road Won

DUTCH TOEHOLD INTO RUHR LOST   Gallant Stand Speeds Rapide ly Increasing Invasion Farther South.   ADVANCE TO MAAS RIVER

Allies Reach Maas River as Battle For The Netherlands Takes Favorable Turn; Fighting in Pocket Ends  As Red Devils Retreat Across Rhine

ALLIES REMAIN SILENT ON FATE OF SKY TROOPS   British Units Sweep Stretch Of Maas In Holland, U.S. Forces Span Moselle

Allies Yield Key Position As Epic Of Heroism Ends   How Few or How Many of Battered and Bloody “Red meovils’’ Division Have Been Moved to South Bank of River Is Unknown   MONTGOMERY'S LAND DRIVE DELAYED TOO LONG

Wounded Are Left Behind As Prisoners   Allies Forced To Yield Key Cross-Rhine PosiHan At Arnhem.

ALLIED INVASION OF HOLLAND REACHED MAAS RIVER LINE   WITHDRAWAL OF AIRBORNE BRITISH FORCE LOSES RUHR TOEHOLD

Number of Men Saved Not Revealed   Land Drive Delayed Bad Weather Aided  Germans

Withdraw Remnants Of ‘Lost Division’ Across North Rhine; Attack Toward  Kleve Carries To German Frontier   Allies Punch Through Albania

Number Saved Not Announced   First Key Position Lost Since Invasion In West Began

British Drive Reaches River   Close in For Solid 40-Mile Line; Heavy Action all Along Western Front

Britain’s Air Division Taken  From Key Post   How Remuants of -Surraunded Troops, Were Reseurd Monday Night Not Told By Allies   NAZIS SAY KILLED AND CAPTURED 7906   First Withdrawal From Important Position Since. Allies Began Onward Mareli

BRITISH ANXIOUSLY AWAIT WORD OF FATE OF AT LEAST 9000 MEN. COMPRISING PARATROOPER GROUP   NATION TOLD NO QUICK’ VICTORY IN SIGHT AND FIGHTING WILL GO ON WELL INTO YEAR 1946

Maas River Line Approached By Allies In Holland; Red Devils At Arnhem Withdraw Across Rhine

REPORT 2,000 SKY TROOPERS SURVIVE FIGHT   Other Allied Units Expand  Dutch Corridor, Drive  To Maas River

TEMPERATURES:   oO OE      SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Sept. 27-(AP)-Britain’s lost division—all that emained of it after nine days lone battle for a cross-Rhine foothold at Arnhem — was withdrawn Monday

‘Number of Survivors Not Given   Gallant Fight Helped British in Launching New Drive in Holland

Wounded Left Behind  To Become Prisoners   How Many Left Alive, How Many Rescued Not Disclosed as News Ban Lifted —Credited With Furthering Invasion

TOEHOLD ACROSS RHINE IS LOST   First Loss Of Key Post Since D-Day; Number Saved Is Not Disclosed

‘Lost Army Retires Across Rhine Under Cover Of Darkness   Number Of Battered Forces To Get Out Is Hidden By Dimout   Toughest Nazis Used.

LOST DIVISION OF BRITISH TROOPS I BACK ACROSS RIVER  NUMBER OF AIRBORNE INVADERS SAVED FROM NAZI TRAP UNDISCLOSED

‘Remnant of British Arr: borne Force Was Pulled Back Monday   MAIN ATTACK GROWS   Battle of Holland Said te Be Swinging Against Germans

Allies Yield Key Position On Dutch Front   Advance Is Made Along Maas River Close to Germany

All That Remains Of Famous Airborne Fighters Retreat: Monday Night; Wounded  Left To Be Prisoners

“LOST DIVISION” IS WITHDRAWN SOUTH OF RHINE   How Many of British Paratroops Survived Battles Not Revealed

Wounded Leff As Prisoners   Ran Short of Supplies and Rescuers Beaten From Hold On North Rhine Bank

Survivors of Airborne Unit  Escape to South of River   Wounded Are Left Behind to Become Prisoners As Allies Yield Key Position For First Time Since European Invasion

All That Remains Of Airborne Unit Rescued In Night   Wounded Left Behind As Prisoners; Dempsey Wheels East Toward Reich

Allied Invaders Strike  To Maas River Defenses   British and Belgian Divisions Battle Within Three Miles of Germany Along New Forty Mile Front, Split Holland

NEWS BLACKOUT MAY BE LIFTED IN SHORT TIME   Fate Of British Air Troops Is Still Unknown

Allies Yield Ist Key Post Of Invasion   Wedge Into Holland Broadened By British 2nd Army

BRIT AIN’S LOST DIVISION TAKEN SOUTH OF CITY   Move Made Monday Night And Kept Secret; No Definite Information Yet As To Number Saved Or Fate Of Others.

Aerial Army Withdrawn Across Rhine After Nine Days Of Bloody Battles

Survivors Of =: ; ‘Lost Division’  - Ordered Back      Germans Claim Allied Unit Virtually Wipéd Out in 9-Day Fight *2

First Toe Hold Into Ruhr ls Wiped Out   Wounded Sky Troopers Are Left to Become German Prisoners; Gallant Stand of ™Red Devils’’ Speeds Other Allied Drives

How Many Escaped Not Yet Revealed   Germans Declare Division Annihilated, Asserting 6,400 Captured And 1,500 Killed In Arnhem Sector

Survivors Of ‘Lost Division’  Ordered Back   Germans Claim Allied Unit Virtually Wiped Out in 9-Day Fight ~~

How Many Were Saved Not Revealed  by Allied Headquarters, but Nazis  Claim Killing of 1,500 and Capture  of 6,400—Air-Borne Division Such  as Tried to Open Front in Northern  _ Germany From Holland Normally ts Is 9,000-Strong. spent

LOST DIVISION OF BRITISH AIRBORNE TROOPS WITHDRAWS AFTER HEROIC 9-DAY STAND

News Day And Night   English Lose Toehold In German Ruhr As Result Of Withdrawal   Invasion Sticks To Maas River   Headquarters Gives No Indication On How Many Men Saved

WAKEFIELD SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION      S;Sgt. Walter Salo Was Aviation Engineer on Bomber Plane.

FIGHT IN POLAND FOR TARNOPOL RAGES UNABATED   Russians Press Forth On Entire South Ukraine Front

Reds Push Down Inguls River  Ranch Within 20 Mile:   Reach Within 30 Miles Of Black Sea Port Of Nikolaev

Qther Forces Reperied Within 22 Miles of Kherson, Big Nezi Bese on Lower Dnieper   NAZIS SURRENDER   Morale Reported Low — Heavy Forces Thrown Inio Battle for Tarnopol

5,000 Nazis ° Dead As Reds Push Closer — To Kherson   210 More Villages Freed Of Invaders

Southern Offensive Rolls Forward; 60,000 Germans ‘Slain In Past Eight Days

Red Army Drives On  Nikolaev   Number of German Prisoners Growing Fast

BORDON DENIAL   Black Marketing Connection in Government Goods Is Disclaimed

Expecting PanAmerican Split   Uruguay and Paraguay Reported Considering Recognition of Argentine Government.

German Garrisons In The North Baltits Threatened By Newest Russian Thrust

Red Artillery Begins Shelling Warsaw’s Distant Suburbs And Indicatio ns Point to Further German Withdrawals. Main Battle May Come Between  Wareaw and Rerlin

Soviet Tr oops ArelIn Sight Of Polish Capital   Meanwhile, Berlin An: nounces Russian Penetraon to Latvian Rail Hub of Jelgava   Huns Face Trap In Northern Baltics   Germans Reported Plan. ning Stand Between Bistula and Oder, or Between Warsaw and Berlin

Nazis In Baltic States Face Entrapment As Reds Reach Jelgava   Russian Calvary, Scout Cars And Tanks, Rolling Across Plains, Sight Polish Capital As Germans Continue Flight

Warsaw Shelled, Baltic Nazis. Cut Off By Russ   “Great Battles To Be Fought on Route to Berlin

Baltics Cut in Two by Rolling © Russian Armies   In Sight Of Warsaw

SOVIET TROOPS ENTER JELGAVA   Warsaw Under Fire; Nazis To Fall Back Past Polish Capital

Soviet Push ToJelgave Trap Nazis   Russians Reach Vistela on Wide Front as Germans Prepare Fer Battles West of Warsaw

Reds Penetrate To Latvian Rail Hub of Jelgava   Threaten to Trap Nazi Garrisons in. the Northern  Raltice   Won’t Make a Stand To East of Warsaw

Polish Capital Suburbs Under Red Shellfire   Soviets Closing Trap on German Army in Baltics

Reds Shell Suburbs Of Old Warsaw   City Sighted By Soviet Vanguards; New Baltics Trap Indicated.

Reds Turn  Heavy Guns On Warsaw   Germans May Not Try t Make Stand Until Soviets Move Past City   NEW RED THRUST = ee INFO BATVEA   Penetration n Reaching Into Jelgava Practically Bisects the Baltics

Reds Must Fight To Reach Berlin   Nazis Report Great Battles Will Be Fought i in Near *. “Future   SIGHT POLISH CAPITAL   Soviets Threaten To Capture te Trapped Germans  in Baltics

Large Rail HubEnterec ToThreaten Entrapment   East Warsaw Hold Of Germans Will Be Given Up

AZIS FALL BACK—  Soviets Shelling Warsaw   GERMANS MAY PULL DEFENSE LINE WEST TO POLISH CAPITAL

Russian Trap Threatens Nazis in North Baltics   Suburbs of Warsaw Placed Under Fieid Artillery Fire by Onrushing Soviets

Artillery Shells  Warsaw's Suburbs  Russiart Vanguards Now in Sight Of Capital of Poland Says London

Russian Army Spearheads In Sight of Poland’s Capital   oe NEE ATCC tt  Units Penetrate to Latvian Rail Hub Of Jelgava, Which Would Practically Bisect Baltic Republics

RUSSIANDRIVE DRAWS NET ON BALTIC FORCE   Berlin Declares That Sovie' Troops Have Penetrated To Jelgava Rail Hub

MT, BARRIGADA 1S CAPTURED BY YANKS ON GUAM   Less Than One-Third Of Former American Pos session lo Be Cleared   ENEMY LOSSES ON NEW GUINEA HEAVY

LAST CLEANUP DRIVE STARTS ACROSS GUAN   TASK FORCE HELPS WIPE OUT JAP REMNANTS

Yanks Prepare For Cleanup Of Guam Japs   Peak Dominating Flat North Plateau Won by U., S. Forces

Dewey To Meet With Governors  At St. Louis, Mo   To Confer On Election Plan: With G. O. P. Governors On Campaign Program

DEWEY FLAYS  NEW DEALERS   THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE CHARGES ROOSEVELT AD. ‘MINISTRATION CAUSED UNNECESSARY ..— "FRICTION: .”

Says Protected” Communication Only British Aim   Would Thwart ‘Gangsters’ From Establishing Rule Of Terror In Greece

Churchill Asks Confidence Vote On Intervention   Stakes Fate Of Government On Stand On Greece And Italy.

Churchill Given Confidence Vote On Intervention   Prime Minister Scornfully Refers To Greek Patriots as “Grangsters” &  “Ruffians’.

Huge Damages To War Plants Alter  Pacific Picture   ‘connaissance Planes See Six Blazes Lapping Up Musashina Plane Factory After Great Mass Of Bombs Are Planted In Surprise Visit.

M’Arthur to Lead Drive In Philippines   Nimitz Discloses Plans in Radio Speech to Legior

Implores U.S. To  Break With Spain  _ Coffee Sees 3rd World War Taking Root

FINNS CLINGING T0 ~ VERY FAINT HOPE      Hope to Rescue Soviet Peace Negotiations, Despite  Paccimicm

HEAVY TROOP MOVEMENTS   Russians and Finns Are Rushing Armies to the Front .

Finns Cling To Faint Hope - Of Armistice   Want More Precise Idea of Terms Before Going to Moscow

Reports Russian’ Troops  Moving on Finnish Front   Wuland Si) Garett

Report Troop Moves, Though Finns Cling To Faint Hope   . Military Activity Said Intensified; Finns Want More Data On Peace Terms

Russ Given Finn Reply   Reject Terms of Armistice; Still Hold Faint Peace Hopes

SEEK TO SETTLE SLAV DIFFERENCES   Peter. in London for Parley with English; May Merge Factions

YANK TANK IS BEST DRIVER CONVINCED   He Drove German Panther and Says Sherman Superior

TWO YANKEE FLEETS RAID REICH REGIONS   Berlin Claims Fierce Aerial Battles Ensue All Way From Coast to Germany

Hostignt Assaalt Virst Since Last riday and 15th of Month — pAme ans Bomb Four. German "Airdrames in Fr. Tuesday.

Violent Aerial Battles Fought Over Germany   Powerful Formations of American Bombers  Meet Nazi Planes

Escaped Prisoner Tells of Brutality  Reveal Tragic March of Deat ath

- By Hamilton County Republicans In County Convention Friday. Elect Judicial And State Convention Delevates.   Calvage Calendar

Americans at Important Nazi City Near Line   Powerful Armies Mass Along Frontier for Stupendous Assault as Bombers and Tank Battalions Open Path With Deadly Ferocit)

LAST FLIGHT OF YANKS" LEADING ACE PICTURED BY FLIER IN DROME RAID

LIST AMERICAN ACE AS MISSING   Beckham Was Credited With 18 Naz: Planes

NORTH CAROLINA VOTERS CASTING BALLOTS TODAY   Governors Race Between Cherry And McDonald Stirs Up Most Interest; Choose Successor To “Our Bob” Reynolds; Other Races.

Hi\kie Protest 10 Foreign Plank  )nly Sour Note   Dewey Nomination Practically Sure

Dewey, Warren Seen Assured On GOP Ticket   Willkie Protests Foreign Policy Plank As Convention Opens   Frenchman Hides Botile of Scotch Four Years in Nazi-Held Hotel

Willkie blast is thrown at foreign plank  Warren delivers  keynote address

CORRIGAN CASE PROBE ORDEREL   Commander Of Navy’s Bureau Of Ordnance  Praws Suspension

Naval Officer. Explains His Firm Lost Business Due To His War Effort

Navy Commander Corrigan Asserts Firm Lost Money  Waives Immunity to Testify Before Truman Commitiee— Grand Jury Probe Planned

300,000 HOSPITAL BEDS FOR VETERANS IS ULTIMATE NEED   Forecast By Veterans Agency Made In Report

Nation Into Allied Camp   Germany Calls New Romanian Government ‘Communist’, Appeals to Troanc   Balkan Hold Shaken   Yugoslav, Greek Territories Expected to Be Cleared of Nazis Quickly

bout Face by Romania wreatens Whole Nazi dsition in the Balkans  Romania Quits War on Allies   Romania Quits War on Allies ‘And Is Mar ching Against Hungary

Fighting Spreads In Oil and Wheat Fields of Kingdom   Bulgaria Periled From North and South in Entirely Untenable Position Yugoslavia and Grece in Position for Liberation   BERLIN CALLS CAPITULATION "ACT OF TRATIORS"™

Nation Leaves War And Joins Allies’ Cause   Sudden About-Face Threatens Germans’ Hold On Balkans; King Michael Proclaims That Forces Will Fight For United Nations

Sudden Change of Sides In War Threatens Germany's Control Throughout Balkans   Hungary Abolishes All Political Parties In Fear of Intrigue; Capitulation Had Been Expected, German Reports Maintain

Nazi Balkan Position Is Direly Menace   Fighting Spreads Between German. Romanian Troops i Rich Oil Kingdom   LATE WAR DEVELOPMENTS

Romania Marches On Hungary After Exit From War On Allies; Troops Fight Nazis

IN BALKANS IS IMPERILED   About-Face of Bucharest to Status of Co-Belligerent Makes Position of Bulgaria Entirely Unteanahle. —

Balkan Nation Changes Sides, Turns on Ally   Hitler's Hold On Rich Country Sorely Threatened

Rumania In Allied Camp: Joins Fight   Nazis in Full Flight Toward Border in Other Sectors

GREAT RUSSIAN ARMIES SWEEP INTO BALKANS AS ROMANIANS AND GERMANS BEGIN FIGHTING   Romanian Capitulation Threatens to Unset Entire Balkan Front for Germans and Rioting in Rich Oil and Wheat Kingdom Prevails. Roman  lanes Turn Avcamst Hungarians

Diplomatic. Move Open: Up Balkans For Allies     Red: Drive. Forces: “Start Of. Upheaval,

Germany 1s Now Facing Another Foe In Balkans   Withdrawal To Mear Quick Liberation Of! Yugoslavia An c¢ Greece

. Other German Satellite Nations Expected To React Promptly to Romania’s Action In Agreeing to Allied Armistice Terms

ROMANIA NOW FIGHTING ITS FORMER ALLY   Marching Against Hungary Today; Quits Nazis

Ouits Mazis. Joins Allies In Conflict   Whole German Position in Balkans Now Threatened

Berlin Asserts Move Is No Surprise  Counter-Measures Promised; Aid fee. pD.J-

Launch Drive to Recover Transylvania   Germany Appeals to Romanians Not to Take Orders From New Regime; Moves Swiftly to Keep Hungary in Line.

Romania Deserts Avis as Balkan Crackup Hinted   Bulgaria, Hungary Seek Allied Terms, Report Says

Quit Axis and Join Forces With Allies   Fighting Reported Between Romanian and German Troops; Bulgaria in Bad Spot; Yugoslavia and Greece May Quit; Germany’s Balkans Hold Weakens

Romanian Troops Reported Marching Against Hungary As Russian Armies Drive Swiftly Toward Heart Of Vanquished Nation

Axis’ Balkan Wall Starts to Collapse   Germans Shout Traitor as Romanian Troops Join Russians in Battling Nazis

Romania’ Accepts Russian _, Offer of Peace, Changes  Sides   NOW FIGHTING NAZIS   Other Satellite Powers’ of _ Germany ying to bE Out W

ROMANIA BEGAN MARCHING AGAINST HUNGARY TODAY   Whole German Position in the Ralkans Threatened by Recent Movement.   FIGHTING SPREADING   Huchareat Broadcast Said Ro. mania Had Turned (oRelligerent.

QUITS FIGHT ON GERMANY’S SIDE TO JOIN ALLIES   WHOLE POSITION OF HITLER IN BALKANS IS NOW THREATENED

Mutiny Hits Axis Satellites   Political Upheaval Hits Three Countries Bulgars Seek Peace

Satanescu Heads New Co-Belligerent Government Now Fighting For Allies; Germans Said Move Was Expected.

lroops Move on Transylvania   Nazis Brand New Government Communist; Issue Desperate Appeal to Army Not to Take Orders From ‘Traitor King’ Mihai

Nation Breaks German Yoke To Aid Allies   Satellite’s Armies Turn Against Nazis On Appeal by King

Nazi Hold in Balkans . Tottering   Position Imperilled in Seveval Countries By Bucharest’s About-Face   FIGHTING GERMANS IN OIL LANDS   Some Romanians Jom the Russians; Berlin Stunned, Sends Out Appeals

azi Grip n Balkans 1reatened  iwitt Chan nge   iwift Change Somes After plit With Axis

Threat Mounts To Germany s Hold In Balkans   Invade Transylvania To Area Taken From Nation By Fuehrer,  Handed To Hungary

Romania Turns lo Allied Side And Starts March  Against German Hungary

Romanians March on Hungary Reds Reach German Factories In Carpathians, Bessarabia

Bucharest Claims Hitler’s Ex - Partner Enters Transylvania   (rerman Headquarters Say Revolts Star in Rich Oil, Wheat Sectors of ‘Rumania

Hungary, Facing Invasion, Abolishes Political Parties   Bulgaria Threatened on North and South While Russian Armies Continue ‘Drives Toward Bucharest, Ploesti Oil   March into Transylvania

Surrender By Bucharest Is  Blow To Nazis   Threatens Hitler’s Whole Position In Balkansy Bulgaria In Untenable Plight   Romanian Troops In Transylvania   Fighting Beside Russians; Germans Reported Batting Romanians In Oil Fields

Romania Marches On Hungary After Exit From War On Allies: Troops Fight Nazi:   BY WADE WERNER

NAZIS MENACE GRAVELY IN ALL BALKAN SECTOR   Claim Fighting Spreads Between Romanians and Nazis in Oil Areas

Bucharest Says Nation Is Co-Belligerent; Exit From War Shakes Nazi Position

Romania Sends Its Troops on Hungary   A Re in Rich Oil and Wheat Kingdom of Romania  Is Reported Between Romanian and German Forces.   eace Tremors Felt in Finland: Yugoslavs in Position to Break

Nazi Hold On Balkans Slipping   Other Small Nations May Ape Romania And Desert Hitler.

Nazis Chieftains   Battle for Transylvania Province Is Begun; Quarreling of Balkans Leaders Hits Climax; Bulgaria Faces Serious New Theat

SURRENDER OFFER OF ALLIES TAKEN   German Position In Balkans Desperate With Bulgaria Outflanked, Greece, Yugoslavia Ripe For Uprising

ROMANIA MARCHING AGAINST HUNGARY IN NEW WAR ALIGNMENT  ABOUT-FACE OF BALKAN NATION THREATENS GER MAN POSITION THERE

Balkan © Blow-Up Threatens   Bulgaria’s Position “Untenable”; Liberation of Yugoslavia, Greece, May Come Soor

Nazi Balkan Front Near A Collapse   Germans Stunned By Growing Chaos On South Flank; Rumors Run Riot

Romania Accepts Russian ~ Offer of Peace, Changes : Sides   NOW FIGHTING NAZIS   Other Satellite Powers of _. Germany Trying to t Quit War

River Projects Will Get Underway Soon As Men, Materials Are Available

PACIFIC FLEET IS ON PROWL, TOKYO CLAIMS   PHILIPPINE LOSSES OF JAPS SET AT 39 WARSHIPS

Tokvo Savs U. S. Fleet  Moving On Phili pp ines   Revised Total Of Japanese Losses In Philippines Lists 39 Ships Sunk Or Damaged, A Setback Which Drastically Cuts Enemy's Capital Striking Force

Japs Say ‘Probably Whole Pacific Fleet’ Is On Move   Tokyo Claims 141 American Warships, Transports Sunk Or Damaged; China-Based Liberators Add To Total Of Nip Vessels Blasted

Yanks’ Pacific Fleet on Move Japan Reports   Tokyo Broadcasts Admit Situation in  Philippines Serious er... f@... _f gg... ._

beaten Knemy Has Little Defense Left   Revised Figures on Recent Battles Make Nippon’s Loss Bigger

Tokyo Asserts U.S. Fleet On Rampage   Whirlwind of Naval Wrath Brings Fear to Empire

Tokyo Jittery As Toll Rises To 40 Ships   Route Of Nipponese Forces Amounts To Slaughter—Ground Troops Advance

Japan Reports 5 U. S. Task Forces Off Philippines   Whole Pacific Fleet 1: On Move, Enemy Radio  fee mE PeeeiCee peee

Yank Bombers Blast Crippled Japanese Ships   Planes Fram China And! New U. S. Based Ou Leyte  Sink More Craft, Admiral Reports   40 Enemy Vessels Sunk Or Damaged   Believed Nipponese Nav; Strength Cut In Half In Major Battle Off Philippines

JAPAN REPORTS U. S. WARSHIPS ON MOVE   Broadcast Declares “Probably Whole Pacific Fleet” Is Out for Ficht.

TOKYO REPORTS FIVE U, S. TASK FORCES MOVINI   Japs Fear ‘Whole Pacific Fleet Now Preparing To Strike Them

Open Bank Box In Coupon Quiz  Police Question 14° Ration Emnlavec 

INFORMATION ON THE RETURN OF GASOLINE COUPONS FOR NEW AND USED AUTOMOBILES

QUESTION JAP PEACE TERMS   Armistice Discussion by Ministers Reported

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  Britons Have Paid Price In Blood, Sweat, Tears

BRITISH FORGE IS SURROUNDED   GREEK LEFTISTS: CUT OFF ALLIES IN ATHENS

ELAS Rings British Army Into Athens   Critical Situation Exists In Capital As Fighting Mounts

BRITISH IN ATHENS ARE SURROUNDED   Insurgents Pour Into Capital to Stitfen Fighting

Secret Base on Majuro Atoll is Estabiished by American Forces   Americans are Holding ~ Positions Near Rabau

Majuro Aids In Conquest Of Jap Isles   Occupation Kept Secret Un til Today—Used As Refueling Base   Vital in U. S&S. Drive

LIFT DOG QUARANTINE   The 40. Day Confinement Period “‘Ends' at Midnight . 

U.S. Fliers Hit Jap Convoy Near Leyte   Ground Battle Near End; Bullet Almost Gets MacArthur

DIES GROUP 10 EXPIRE JAN,   Administration Not To As} Continuance, Is Belief

END OF DIES COMMITTEE SEEMS CERTAIN   Administration Leaders Oppose Extending Power of Group

MT, VESUVIUS ERUPTION IS WORST IN YEARS   Towns in Lava Path Deserted

‘SECRETARY HULL ‘READY TO START ‘SECURITY PLANS   Announces Intention Ti Open Discussions With Aled Nations   CONFIDENT SUPPORT OF SENATE LEADERS

SECURITY BODY ~ TALKS PROCEEL   Hull Ready To Go On With Britain, China ”> And Russia

Sec. Hull Ready To Meet Allies   Wants To Discuss Security Measure

HTING RA IN NIJMEGEN, HOLLAND   “Great Developments” Promised by Spokesman for Eisenhower

IN NUMEGEN, HOLLAND «=   “Great Developments” Promised by Spokesman for Eisenhower

PLOT TO BLOW UP HEADQUAR. TERS OF BRITIBH AND THE   GREEK GOVERNMENT  ‘49S FRUSTRATED

SHURCHILL, EDEN ESCAPE IN GREEK 4)YNAMITE PLOT   Huge Charge of Explosives # Found Under Athens Headquarters

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   FRUSTRATE PLOT AIMED AT CHURCHILL, OTHERS

Dynamite Found Under Athens Hotel ‘As Churchill Confers on Greek Crisis

CHURCHILL IN ATHENS 10 TRY ENDING REVOLT   Accompanied by Eden; Will Meet Leaders of Opposing Forces

APPROVES RECORD NAVY ALLOWANCE   Over 32-Billion Dollars for New Ships, Planes and Personnel

JAPANESE WAR LORDS TRYING TO BOLSTER HOME FRONT MORALE TELL LIES ABOUT BIG NAVAL VICTORY

Hysterical Jap Leaders Lie About Fleet Victories   ‘By DeWitt, MacKenzie  AD Wor Analwyvat

Editoric Comment Written. today..and MA Gad ky Télearsank   Dewey Gets: Noisy. Greeting in St. Louts ~   New Zealand Troops Move Up in Italy

Jap Leaders Lie to Public About Fleet   ‘Sinking’ of Fifty U. S. Warships Rank: As Utter Falsehood

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Yanks Blast Jap Claims Of Victory   New Air Assaults On Luzon May Be Prelude To Invasion Of  — Philippines

ADMIRAL NIMITZ IN FLAT DENIAL TOKYO BOASTS OF VICTORY   JAPANESE FLEET REFUSED TO FIGHT; TWO SMALL U. S. SHIPS DAMAGED   JAPANESE WAR LORDS LIED TO THEIR HOME FOLK IN ALMOST HYSTERICAL VICTORY CLAIMS

WAR TODAY   Jap “Victory Boasis” Are Out Of Tune: With Nip Fleet's Face-Losing Performance , Off For. wink 

War Today  Nimitz Communique Reveals Fantastic Jap Claims Untrue

News From The Homeroy Churches   IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH P RW Ranec Pacitnr.

BMUACH LAOHES AL NEW UEAL Th CAPITAL OPcEGH   Ohio’s Potential Presidentia! Nominee Hits Waste, Coddling

BRICKER BLASTS LABOR CODDLING   Governor in Capital Speech Hits New Deal Policy of Waste and Tax

iG OVERNOR IN WASHINGTON CAMPAIGN SPEECH ALSO.  LASHES OUT AGAINST. . i FISCAL WASTE :

BATTLE BREWING OVER UNION AND VET JOB RIGHTS   CONFLICT DEVELOPS OVER PREFERENCE OF SERVICE MEN

CONFLICT OVER VET SENIORITY   Union Official Opposes Selective Service policy On Matter.

DEBATES BEGIN ON VETERAN'S JOB SENIORITY   Under Present Law Civilians May Lose Jobs

WPB Seeks Arms For Battling Nazis Year or Longer   Foe’s Counterthrust Bring New Demands, Krug Points Out

BEEIND ENEMY POSITIONS ON NORTHERN END   Take Town 30 Miles West of First Beachhead

Drive Started To Clear Los Negros   Troops On New Guinea Make Landing Behind Japanese Lines In Latest Land Operations

Bishop Strips _ Stalin ‘Envoy’ Of Privileses   Friest Appeals to Delegates From Rome, Vowing He Js Befne ‘Craeits ip

PRIEST PAYS PENALTY FOR STALIN VISIT   POLISH - AMERICAN CLERIC APPEALS SUSPENSION

Unidentified planes strike at low level   Germans gain li miles in Beloium

Two Full German Armies And Probably A Third Engaged _ In Fierce Onslaught

SUNDAY NIGHT LUNGE MAKES 11-MILE GAIN   AMERICAN SALIENT WIPED OUT AT Or. Vira

Infantry, Armored Forces Fight Way From Western End Of Their Salient   Nazi Attackers Have Driven within Four Miles of Meuse River South of Namur

GEAMAN FORCES RENEW OFFENSIVE   Gains Told in Reports of 48Hour Time Drag   PLANES BOMB PARIS   Nazis Wipe Out Yank Salient At 8t. Vith; Encircled Doughboys Hold Out

Nazi Infantry And Armored Forces Drive 11 Miles Deeper Into Belgium   ENEMY UNITS WITHIN FOUR MILES OF MEUSE

New Thrust Carries To Within Four Miles Of  Meuse River Yank Line   Iwo, Possibly Three Full Armies May Carry Hitler-Conceived Plan To Earlv War’s-End

SEVENTY MILES OF GERMAN DEFENSES, GUARDING GOTHIC LINE SHATTERED

Sth, 8th Tear Nazi Defenses  On WideFront   British Army Wins Arezzo As Yanks Pour Into Gap  Tn Era River Defense

(0 Miles of German Defenses lopple  Under Heavy Blows   Arezzo, Gateway to Florence, and at Least Four Mountain Strongholds Bélow Liverno Fall Into Allied Hands

VITAL CITY OF AREZZO FALLS TO BRITISH   Sevently Miles Of Nazi Defenses Guarding Gothic Line Approaches Crumble Under Trip  Hammer Blows

Florence Gateway Falls To Eighth as Fifth Makes Gains Along  Arno River

German Defenses In Italy Crumble   Gothic Line Hit Hard by Allies

Arezzo’s Fall Opens Way  To Florence   70 Miles of Defenses Guarding Gothic Line Crumble Below Pisa  2° BRIDCES BOMBED

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES AREZZO; 5TH ADVANCES   Shatter Defenses of Florence Taking Mountain Strongholds; Enemy Losses Heavy.   Hammer Nazis

Chinese Take Half Of Main Jap  North Burma Base  Allied Troops Press In on Town From Three Sides

MARTIAL LAW OFF   President Restores Right of Habeas Corpus in Hawaii

SUSPEND ARMY RULE IN HAWAII   FDR's Order Restores Writ Of Habeas Corpus

Martial Law In  Hawaii Lifted Privilege Of Habeas Corpus Restored

FOR 3 MONTHS REST   Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek Arrives in Rio de Janeiro

UHLER NAMED TO BELLEVUE BOARD      Former Judge of Orphans’ _ Court Appointed “Trustee

UHLER NAMED 10 BELLEVUE BOARD   Former Judge of Orphans Court Appointed -Trustee

Amerians Capture Jap  Field on Manus Island   Another Japanese Attack On Allied Beachhead At Empress Augusta Bay Repulsed; Rabaul Is Bombed

U.S. FORCES SEIZE ISLAND AIRDROME      Advances on. Manus Is land Announced in Dispatch

JAP AIRDROME ONMANUS TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Enemy Casualties Have Been Counted In The Thanseands   ATTACKS CONTINUING IN CENTRAL PACIFIC

300 HOMELESS AT OTTUMWAAS FLOODS MOUNT   11 Amphibious Boats Ordered to City to Give Aid in Rescues

Mayors Sworn In Many Cities  27 Take Office In Various Towns In Pennsvivania —

The Great Game of Politics   —~By FRANK R. KENT  The Hillman Program

KELLY [6 SEEKING "FAMILY’ SUPPORT   Wants Elective Officials to Make Him Chief of AntiMcKay Groups.

FOR READY 10 START BARUCH PLAN MOVING   New Industrial Era Envisioned In Post-War Blueprint   Baruch Report Covers Most Business Need:

Greatest Sea Battle Shaping In Marianas   Axis Radios, Admiral Nimitz Agree  Engagement Likely—May  Be Under Way

Reports Nipponese Have Lost 600 Planes Since June 10; Enemy Fleet Operating Between Marianas and Philippines

EISENHOWER IN BRITAIN, PLANS HIT HIGH GEAR      Preparations For Invasion 0: Europe Enter Final Stages

[IMPORTANT ARMY POST TO GEN. BRADLEY   Named a Senior Commander of  Amer. Ground  Forces

GEN, BRADLEY COMMANDER OF GROUND FORCES   Gen. Wilson Hints at New Blow in Mediterraneart Optimism Voiced by Eisenhower

EISCNKUREK Id BACK IN LONDON, PLANS NEARLY SEI   May Present His Plans te Other Leaders Today In Rritain.

Gen. Bradley Named To Lead  Yankee Troops   Eisenhower Arrives: In - England To Prepare For Invasion ©

INVASION PLANS. ENTER FINAL STAGE TODAY   Eisenhower's Arrival in -Londén Believed Forerunner of Big  Push .

ALLIED PLANS FOR INVASION MOVE RAPIDLY   General Bradley Named Senior Commander of U.S. Ground Forces.

Bradley To Serve With  Eisenhower   Senior Commander Of U. S. Ground F orces For Invasion Of Continent Is Named __

PIGK MISSOURIAN NFINAL PLANS FOR EXPEDITION   Assault on Germany Wil Open By May 1 According to Speculation Advancec In London.   EISENHOWER IN FIRST CONFERENCE WITH 5C   Russia Rejects Polish Exile Government Proposal of Establishmem of New Common Border.

Preparations For Europe Invasion ‘In Final Stages ©   Allied Generalissimo To Complete Plans For Striking At Axis

Bradley U. S. Ground Troop  Commander   "Eisenhower Arrive: In England For Big Job

Preparation For Invasion Of Western Europe Now Reaching Final Stage   Nimitz Sees Long Hard Fight Ahead

ACCIDENT RATE IN AAF NOT BAD   Arnold Says Rate Of Losses By Accident In Huge Air Force Training Program “Basically Good.”

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Tae Pes De you have peer digestion? OIC Oe you feel healachy after eating? (C7 De you get sour or upset easily? COC Bo you feel tired—listless? MC

Do yeu have poor digestion? Ol Bo you feel headachy after eating? [7 [ Do you get sour or upset easily? (_] Do yeu feel tired—listless? ml

leaders Warn Heavy Rattles Await Troops   Stimson and © Churchill Caution Agairt Teo Much Optimism

Stimson Warns Heavy Fightins Is Still Ahead   Full Foree of Nazi Counter-Attack Yet to Be Felt in France

Two Killed When Trainer Crashes   British Cadet, Instructor Die in State Crash

London Tense About Outcome   Press Worried About Nettuno Beachhead

LONDON PAPERS DISAPPOINTED AT ITALIAN DRIVE   Possible Over-CautiousPointed to As Letting Initiative Pass to Enemy}

HUMBLE WINS ORDER  TO STOP SEIZURE OF  ITS INGLESIDE PLANT TEMPORARY RESTRAINING  ORDER ISSUED AGAINST PAW AT DNAILAS

American iroops, supplies Caught In Sacks-—~ —~By DeWitt Mackenz  Last German Offensive Is Bloody Business

WEGCHECHLIC JA YS——  Yanks Win Big Battle to Escape Trap   German Flanks Less Vulnerable To CounterAttack As Result Of  Recent Advances

WAR TODAY   Germans Again On the Marek; Merge Into One Salient, Long Arms Thrusting Into Roloivwina

GERMANS GET SECOND WIND AND IN NEW DRIVE MERGE PINCERS  INTO ONE MASSIVE SALIENT

COUPLE GERMAN ARMIES HAVE HAMMERED OUT HUGE SALIENT INTO ALLIED RET CIUM LINES

Weather Fails To Worry FDR   Will Tour Gotham in Open Anto. ‘Rain or Shine’

President Tours  New York Today   Rain Threatens Trip; Speech Slated Tonight

Textbook Revisions Sham, Says Chaffin   Grand Jury Clerk Says New Texts Had Minor Changes

BOOK ADOPTION TERMED ‘FRAUD   Grand Jury Clerk at Tulsa Testifies Against Dr. Bennett and Associates

FOREMEN’S STRIKE HURTS WAR EFFORT   Condemnation Comes fron Undersecretary of War

Blows Come After Record RAF Attack   VICLENT AM BATTLES ARE RAGING OVER FRANCE AND WESTERN GERMANY,

Record Night Force Bombards Stutigart   1,000 Bombers Drop 3,300 Tons On Northwestern Reich Tarect

War Casualties Surpass 1918   Fatalities Greater:  Than First Conflict -

World War IT Casualties Surpass World War I   Thirty One Months Fighting Have Produced 261,541 Casualties

U.S. Casualties Surpass Those Of World Wa ri  50.772 Already Killed In This Wa   56.772 Already Killed In This War  Compared To 53.878 Lost ln 1917-18

STILL MOUNT      Surpass Those. of World War No.  “Frans oh  One According ‘to Agatysia Latest Official Reports. hey

Russ Armies Massed for Berlin Drive   Big Concentration in Poland Hints at Double Offensive

Claim Russians Mass Enormous Force For Drive   Say Reds Are Concentrated In Great Strength 170 Miles From Warsaw

Reds Massing ‘Men, German Reports Say .   Preparing on Enormous Scale For New Drive  In Old Poland

Soviets Reported Concentrating in Poland for Large Stab on Berlin

RUSSIANS 10 INVADE NAZI HOME GROUND   Massing Large Forces Along East Front

NAZIG REPORT REDS ARE MASSING MER   Russian Troops Preparing For New Drive on the Path to Berlin.

Russians Mass In Poland On Great Scale For New Drive   Nazis Report Enormous Concentration Of Men And Equipment !n Old Poland

Russ Massing For Assault   Germans Report Big Force Will Strike In Old Poland

Russians Mass Men for Berlin Drive   Enormous Amounts Of Equipment Said to Be Ready

REDS MASSING IN OLD POLAND   GERMANS TELL OF OONCENTRATIONS OF MEN AND EQUIPMENT

Reds Mass “Men, Arms -For Attack   Germans Report Russians Shaping New Offensive

11 KILLED IN CRASH OF TRANSPORT PLANE   Three WAVES Among Dad in Ac: -eident at Olathe, Kan.—Five : “Persons Injured. .

——Duy Wor bdbonds-—  DEGAULLE MIGHT OBTAIN BRITISH AID AFTER WAR

Marines. Seizé Three More  Pacitie Bases   Completely Secure New Positions Near to Peleliu

Yanks Secure Positions on Peleliu   Ngesebus Entirely Occupied; Mop Up on Kongauru

Ngesebus, Kongauru And Unnamed Islane Near Peleliu  Quickly Subdued.

Visit of De Gaulle  Harmonious   French Leader's Visit ‘Amazes’ Washington Heads

G. 0. P. Aspirants Get Test in Wisconsin Voting  Willkie Has the Only Full Slate Ot 94. Candidates

MRS. LUCE TAXES LEAD AFTER FIGHT   Democratic Woman Opoonent _Falls Behind After Rurals Report

7 waterway authorities  goal-F.D.R. Missouri river shed mentioned

Water Controls in F.D.R. Plans  Seven Authorities Seen by President

SOVIETS SLASH FINN DEFENSES   Sudden Aerial tntensification Hints Of New Operations

Soviet Infantry, Armored Forces Pounding Steadily Against Finnish Defenses

SPEARHEAD OF ~ SOVIET DRIVE ~~ NEAR VIIPURI   RED TROOPS WITHIN 37 MILES OF CITY—INCREASED AIR ACTIVITY IN POLAND

9,000 PLANES UVER FRANCE Ath OF JULY   From Dawn until Dark; Blast Scores of Targets in Support of Normandy Ground Drives.   RAF Support

Bombers Observe Fourth Blasting _ Normandy Front  Hloliday Seas Resurgence   lloliday Seas Resurgence Of Heavy Assaults by Allied Planes

FLIEAG oUPPORT GROUND DRIVES   5,000 British and American Planes Range Over France During Fourth of July Resurgence of Air Assaults

= nm nin, 1 ee “ Wye ive allies fo 3k a es 5 Teste Peery Trees  GQ. — WW he. geitle

BLAST PAS DE CALAIS SECTOR   RAF Lancasters And Halifaxes Resume Attacks On Flying Bomb Bases  In Northern France

HUGE AIR FLEET BLASTS FRANCK   FIVE THOUSAND PLANES BOMB TARGETS IN SUP. PORT OF LAND DRIVE,

Allies Bomb German Lines   Planes From Britain And Italy Take Part

HUGE AIR FLEETS — STRIKE IN FRANCE   Great Fourth of of July. Re: _ surgence of Air At tacks Reported

Horse Pulling  Contest August 21 Prizes Offered For  Two Classes Teams

Phone Communications Between Stockholm And Berlin Remain Cut Off

Report Sugar Situation Getting Worse, Shortage i\May Be Prolonaed

Shortage of Sugar Growing Worse, Government Says  Decrease in Shipments From Caribbean  Is Given as Reason

Nazi Weapons Bring Terror   Populace: Fearing. ‘New Silent Bombs:

Horrible Weapons In Nazi Arsenal   Morrison Hints Germans Use Noiseless Robot

DEATH SNEAKS IN   Gliding ‘Robot Bombs Arrive Silently at Eng-’ ' lish: Targets.

Reds Lag. As Winter Closes In.   Bitter Fight Rage. But Snows Impede Tank; Air Action

Cold Slows Red Drive in  East Prussia   Both Sides Reported Suffering Heavy Losses

SNOW SLOWS RED PRUISSIAN DRIVE   HUGE FORCES BATTER GUMBINNEN OUTPOSTS   SNOW SLOWS

DAMAGE SUIT FILED HERE   Woman Saya Injuries Incapacitated Her for Work :

OHIO DEMS TO NAME CHAIRMAN   Expect Democrats to Select Albert Horstman

Newsman Who Accompanied Superfortresses on Raid Describes Masterviece of Desiruction

U.§. Bombers Blast Eight More Jap Cargo Ships  Area Includes Scattered Points

Allies Pound 8 Jap Ships —   One Known Sunk And Seven Fired Or Badly Hammered...

US. Bombers i y Jap- Cargo ~Ships in Paci   Sunk 10,000 Ton Freighter; 2 Others Left in Flames

BJAPCARGO SHIPS HIT BY U.S. BONIBERS   RAIDS CONTINUE ON ENEMY POSITIONS IN MARSHALLS

EIGHT CARGO SHIPS HIT IN FAR PACIFIC   Nippon’s Merchant Fleet Being Pared Down; Japanese Take Offensive To Bring On Biggest Air Battle.   MacArthur Prefers Manila

Candles Are Used to Light Streets   “Smog” In Pittsburgh Suburb Causes Almost Complete Tieup

This Is Day for Which New Mexico Has Waited Since Fall of Philippines Caught 2000 of Its Sons

Warren's Mat Is In GOP Ring   ...Calif. Governor To Be Candidate in Primary

ARMY CARAVAN HERE SATURDAY   Camp Davis Show To Visit Here In Interest of Fourth War Loan,

ANOTHER GAS BOOM FOR WEST VIRGINIA   New Well Struck in Hills Near Ohio Border

Maquis Battle Nazis in Belfort, Laval's Haven   Germans Reported Moving U;   to 30,000  Troops to City

MAQUIS NOW FIGHT NEAR GERMAN SOIL   Threat To Rhineland Suddenly Seen

20,000 MORE YANKS LANDED ON LEYTE   Battle For Ormoc Reaching a Showdown; Manila Raid Seen As Prelude to Invasion of Luzon.

Yanks Reinforced on Leyte While Airforce Hits Manila: Japs Lose More Ships

Up to 1,250 Yank Bombers Hit  Invasion Coast   British Planes Are Also Active in Raids on Germany

15,000 Tons OF bombs Dropped On Hitler’s Fortifications  PLANES ARRIVE ON BASES IN RUSSIA  Complete Collaboration Of Americans And Reds On Eastern Front

Invasion Coast 'Raked Again By  American Planes   Over 13,000 Tons of Explosives Fall In Four Davs and Nights

MORE DAMAGES, ‘DONEBY AIRMEN TO FRENCH COAS]   Daylight Blow ‘of Américans Follows Ceaseless -Activities of British Flyers During Night.   REDS KILL 2000 NAZIS IN EASTERN ROMANIA   Chinese Make 12-Mile Drive Against Japs on Burma Road, Yugoslavs Resist Enemy Assault.

After Night Attacks by The British   No Planes Lost in Heavy Raids by British During Night

West Wall Defenses Hit Four Straight Days, Nights   French Coast Raked By 1,250 U. S. Planes In Day Blow

Fullscale Attempt To Split Western And Eastern China   FORESTALL U. S. LANDING ON COAST   Civilians Evacuate Changsha, Capital Of Hunan Province

CHANGSHA IS EVACUATED   Jans in Big Attempt to Snlit China   Nips Using 150,000 Troops in Tungting Lake Offensive

PUT 150,000 MEN IN DRIVE FOR GHANGSHE   Seek to Split China and Bar American Landings on Southeast Coast.

JAPS SEEK SPLIT IN CHINESE ARM   Americans  Knock Qut 11 Jap Tanks In First Armored Fight In Pacific.

‘Sweeping Initial Gains Reported . On Chinese Front   Nip Armored Columns Rolling Back Lines, Driving On Changsa —

JAPS GAIN IN TUNGTING LAKE DRIVE   China Official Says Situation is Grave

Japs Renew Drive to Cut China in Half   150,000 Warriors Launch Assault Across Yanetze

Japanese Hurl 150,000 Troops Into Offensive   Full-Scale Drive Seeks To Split China And Forestall U. S. Landing.

Situation Is Grave, Chinese Official Says In Appealing For Ai Support

Japs Hurl 150,000 Troops Against Chinese In Attempt To Split China, Seize Ports

PERIL IS ‘VERY GRAVE,’ BELIEF AT CHUNGKINE   Major Attempt Seen Te Prevent U. S. Landing On China Coast

JAPS GAIN IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO SPLIT CHINA   ‘Only 30 Miles From Changsha

INATTACK NEAR TUNG TING LAKE   Nipponese Make Gains _ in Full Scale Effort to Split Up China

OUT TO STOP CAPTURE OF MORE BASES   Japs Also Swiftly Developing Offensive in China Around Hankow-Canton Railroad

FIERCE FIGHT — IN YUGOSLAVIA   Germans Attack Main Partisan Cities

Yanks Lunge 8 Miles Inside Saar Region ©   Troops in Suburbs Of Saarbrucken; Sieefried Pierced

Push Mile And A Half Into Siegfried Line Belt Of Pillboxes   SMASHING SUBURBS OF SAARBRUCKEN   Nazi Propagandists Pre pare German People For Loss Of Saar Region

SAARBRUCKEN SUBURBS HIT BY 3RD ARMY   Propagandists Prepare Reich For Loss Of Rich tndustrial Region °

Yanks Smash New Wedge in Siegfried Line   Southern End of Front Driven to Within Seven Miles of Line in Drive on Colmar as Entire Front Conflict Rises to Climax

AMERICAN 3RD DRIVES DEEP IN SIEGFRIED LINE   Patton’s Army Fighting In Suburbs Of Saarbrucken

Patton Drives Into Suburbs 0f Saarbrucken   German People are Prepared for Loss Of the Saar Basin

Saar Basin sattle Nears Blazing End   Third Army Wedges Into Pillhoxes Of Siegfried Line.

Bombs Fall On Munich   . U: -S. Planés Strike At Western: Germany

MUNICH AGAIN BOMBED; OTHER TARGETS HIT   1300 RAF Bombers Make Attack In Night; No Loss

Fortresses Again Bombard Munich Saarbrucken Hit   Munich Region, Now Most Intensively Bombed Region On Earth.

9000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON CITY IN THREE DAYS AND OTHER VITAL TARGETS HIT   Munich Bombing Seen As Effort to Cripple Transportation Facilities in Western Europe. Nazi Oil and Rail Facilities in Northern Italy Blasted

Bombers Pound Munich For 3rd Successive Day   American Heavies Alsc  Blast Saarbrucken In  Wleet Caermanv.

Nianigh Is Hit Again   One Thousand U. 8. Bombers Lash Import--ant German City .

Rail Centers Tn Germany Are Again Blasted   Thousand Fortresses and Liberators Attack Transportation Centers Vital to Nazi Existence.

MUNICH IS BOMBED FOR THIRD DAY BY AMERICAN PLANES   Fifteenth. Air Force Bombers Based in Italy Pound Nazi Oil and Railroad Centers in North Italy

Munich Blasted Again By Huge 8. Air Armada  Nazi Oil and Rail Facilities in Traly Alen Attacked

MUNICH STRUCK SRD DAY IN ROW   Saarbrucken Also Battered By Heavy U.S. Bombers

Saarbrucken Is Also Blasted  RAF Night Blows  Fall On Rail Yards

MUNICH JARRED THIRD STRAIGHT DAY BY YANKS   1,000 Forts and Liberators Smash at Targets—Saarbrucken Hit

1000 Bombers Blast Nazi Factory Cities   Probable Another 5000 Tons of Bombs Will Fall Monday as Did on Sunday

‘Munich Blasted Again by Thousant Forts, Liberators  @.. fg lot Cs td he   Saarbracken Alse Siraled by American Heavies, Oil Plaats, Bail« in lialy. France Hit

Munich Blasted By Another Big Bomber Attack   Center For Rails, Highways Hit; Enemy Facilities In North Italy Also Pounded

1,000 Yank Bombers Hit Munich Again   Saarbrucken Another Target of U. S. Air Attack

Bombers Blast Munich Again:  1000 U.S. Heavies Rake City on Third Successive Day

Aerial Fleet Raids Munich  For 3rd Time   Strikes At Saarbrucken In Western Germany; Cripple Transportation.   STRIKE FROM ITALY

FLYING FORTS. ROMS MUNICH FOR THIROOA   Continue Campaign to Knock Qut Nazi Transport Over Europe.

Tons Of Bombs Hit Germany   War Plants, Tanks, Troop Columns Struck Without Opvositinn

1,000 U. S. Bombers Strike Munich 3rd Successive Day; Saarbrucken Also Pounded   Heavy Attacks Designed To Cripple German Transport In All West Europe

Munich Gets It Again   GERMAN RAIL CENTER 18 HEAVIEST BOMBED REGION ON EARTH

Munich Blasted By U.S. Armada   Other Sky Fleets Striking From Italy; Red Airmen Hit Kotka.

Nazi Rail. Network Is Hit Again   Third. Heavy Assault on Munich. in Three Days; Saarbrucken Also Bombed   INDUSTRIAL CENTER 2" HEAVILY POUNDED      nbets."From Italy: Make New Assault ov’ Oi], Tanks; German Lines Crippled -

1,000 Bombers Blast Munich   Saarbrucken, Big Steel Center, Also Hit

FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS BOMB MUNICH AGAIN   Thousand Planes Hit City for Third Successive Day.   HIT AT SAARBRUCKEN   Munich a Key Transportation Center and Attack Was Timely.

Thunderous Air Blows Strike at Transportation   Munich Again Is Target; British Bomb Saarbruckear

Munich Hit On Third Straight Day   1,000 Bombers In Attack— Italian-Based Planes in Raid

Forts Smash Munich Third Straight Day   Great Transportation Center Feels Force of Thousand Bombers

Nazi Traffic Lines Are Systematically Wrecked From Air   Crippling of German Transport Object of Many Bombings

Munich Battered Third Day by U. S. Air Foree   Big Bombers Continue To Smash German Supply Cities Behind Both Major Fronts

MUNICH FIT BY 1000 BOMBERS   PLANES POUND NAZI RAIL, OIL TARGETS

Great Force Of Heavies Hits Munich For 3d Day   At Same Time RAF Strikes At Rail Centers In France; Finns Also Blasted

Third Straight Blow Leveled At Munich   Thousand American Planes Hit Great German City

Munich Hit For Third Day   Thousand Forts and Liberators Smash at Transportation Center

LARGE NUMBER HEAVY AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST MUNICH AGAIN   OTHER AIR UNITS STRIKE IN FRANCE AND NORTHERN ITALY

Third Da y in The Bombing Of Munich   Big Air Fleet Strikes Without Having Loss

Munich Bombed For Third Time   Flying Fortresses And Liberators Also Attack Saarbrucker

1,000 BOMBERS HIT MUNICH FOR 3RD DAY IN ROW   City Main Transportation Center for Germans in Europe

Munich Hit By 3rd Bomb Blow  1,000 Bombers Again Attack Rail Center

Skillful and determined leadership  misht have averted war-Rep. Luce

Army Consolidating Its. Position in Occupation  Of Ward Company Stores

ARMY SETS UP OFFICE IN WARDS   EARLY HEARING MAY FOLLOW BOOKS’ REFUSAL

ARMY SETS UP IN WARD OFFIGE   Desks, Typewriters, Tele _._phanes_lostalled. for Of-. ficers and Help.

‘Army Takes Firm Grip On Ward's   General Byron And His Staff: Set un Office

PLANE WILL BRING DEWEY TO CHICAGO WEDNESDAY NIGHT   Finishes His Acceptance Speech ; ‘No Comment’ On Warren

Governors Of Nation Demand  End Of Waste And Confusion   Federal Government Asked T: Stop Duplication—Against Usurpation Of State Powers —~- Conference Comes To Close

UrFlGIALS ELATEM yeh REPORTS CF POLISH SHANE-UP   Cpens Way for Restoring RussianPolish Relations

OFFIGIALS ELATED NE EP H      Cpens Way for. Restoring RussianPolish Relations --

SEDITICN CASE BEING TRIED IN FEDERAL COURT   28 Men, 2 Women Aceused Of Trying To Undermine Morale

30 Go on Trial Today at Capital In Sedition Cases   Court Action May Continue Four Months, Reports Indicate

THIRTY CALLED CONSPIRATORS IN NAZI PLOT   Hearings May Last Months

Biggest Sedition Case of War Called to Trial   28 Men, Two Women Are Accused of  . ft men come wr mee

SEDITION TRIAL TO BE STARTED TODAY      Thirty Defendants to Face Charges in Capital Court

30 Defendants Face Sedition  Charges Today   Trial of Alleged Plotter: With Nazis Scheduled Tn Wacket rect

Begin T: rial i in Biggest ‘Sedition Case of War: 30 Persons Involved.

TO OPEN TODAY   Biggest Prosecution of Its Kind of the War Reaches Court in Washington

6 U.S. Airmen Were Lynched  Nazis Violate Rules Of International War

PENETRATE METZ FORTRESS FROM NORTH AND SOUTH  GERMANS PREPARE STIFF DEFESNE IN   GERMANS PREPARE STIFF DEFESNE IN STREETS OF CITY

Rhine Barrier   Six Armies With 1,250, 000 Men‘Smash at Germar Defenses :

Allied Troops Race Toward Rhine Barrier   Six Armies With 1,250,000 Men‘Smash at German Defenses

Stores to Close Christmas Day   Monday Will Be Generally Observed as Holiday—No City or Rural Mail Deliveries

Nazis Lose 20 Tanks i in Caen Area Defeat One of Worst Since D- Day

GRAND JURY CHARGED BY JUDGE MAYS FOR NEW TERM OF COURT  INDICTMENT AND TRIAL  BY JURY STRESSED AS ONE

GRAND JURY CHARGED BY JUDGE MAYS FOR NEW TERM OF COURT  INDICTMENT AND TRIAL  BY JURY STRESSED AS ONE CACRED RICUT TERT

BOMBS DROPPED ON STOCKHOLM   Unidentified Warplanes Cause Damage In Swedish Port

Bombs Dropped On Stockholm: Report Damage   ‘Foreign’ Warplanes Come From East; One Aircraft Crashes

Property Damaged Over Wide Area of Sweden's Capital, Nearby Cities   American Bombers From Italy, England Pound German Aircraft Centers; London Raid Sets Fires; Fighting in Italy Slows on Beachhead, Main Front

Dubach Boy Pounds "Em Toward Berlin In Ninth Air Force S: C.   Pfc: Walter Stokes’, Section Passes 10, 000  eee oe Ser

___ WHAT OUR BOYS BS ARE Doin TO NOs WIN THE WAR  seep eth cee chp che ehe hp hp che oh -b -

Polish General Criticizes Gen. Bor For Premature Uprising in Warsaw, Bringing Death to 200,000 Poles

Germans, Abandon Northern Anchor   Fortified Novgorod Is Left For Advancing Red Army, Tevine To Free Leninerad

Southern Anchor Is No More As Result of Russian Victory; Whole German Zone In Danger   Liberation Of Pskov Imminent—Classic Pincers Movement Turned Novgored Trick—Staraya Russa Now Also Exposed

British Units Cross Garigli:  Rrver In Surprise Ojfensi  Town Of Suio Captured; Bor  ays Hit Gentocelle   GUNS EXCHANGE SALVOS OVER ENGLISH CHANN

NAZIS ADMIT NOVGOROD ABANDONED   Paves Way For Soviet Smash. Into The Baltic States

TRAP SET FOR 250,000 NAZIS AT LENINGRAD   Way Paved for Smash by Soviet Forces Into Baltic Through Maneuver on Ice

SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS RULES PARTY HAD RIGHT TO CHANG   DECISION BARS ANTIROOSEVELT ELECTORS FROM DEMO BALLOT

FDR DELEGATES WIN IN TEXAS BALLOT FIGHT  Supreme Court Halts Controversy Over Presidential Electors Slate

Fierce House-to-House Battle Rages in Artena; All Fronts Smash Ahead

Allies Make Steady March On Rome Road   Threaten to Take Velleteri 18 Miles From Capital.

NAZI RETREAT ROUTE UNDER BIG GUN FIRE   OTHER U. 8. FORCES ONLY 18 MILES FROM ROME

Velletri Now In Hands of Fifth Army   Germans Desperately Fighting to Keep Italian Road

Pour Heavy Shell-Fire Into Casilina Highway, Main Escape Route For Nazi Forces Below Rome

OTHER TROOPS ARE 18 MILES OUTSIDE ROME   Allied Armies Gain Steadily at Every Point on Front

Eight Nazi Divisions Face Disaster As Allies Capture Artena; Rome 15 Miles Away

YANKS COVER vA CASILINA WITH SHELLS   Armored Forees Battle Way fo Artena 2% Miles from ° Main Highway.

Nazis Trying To Counter-Attack   Americans Shell German Posts 15 Miles From Rome

Yankee Armored Forces Threaten  Casilina Highway   8 German Divisions  Facing Trap, Throw  ew Reserves Into Campaign

Allies Pound Important » Htalian Road   Enemy Reserves Fighting to Keep Casilina Wav Oven

Americans inter Town Of Artena Fifth Army  ‘Threatens Rome   Allies Forge c, Ring Around the “Ponting Marshes. Adyanes Steadily On Entire 80Mile Front

Nazi Eseape Line Below Rome Under Heavy Fire.   Fifth Army Nears Town Of Velletri

Yanks Drive fo Close Up Retreat Line   Fight Way Into Artena, Righth Army Moves Up Center of Valley -

Germans Striving Te Prevent Blocking Of Via Casilina   Fifth Army Throwing Ring Around Pontine Marshes, Meet New Defense Line

8 DIVISIONS’ ESCAPE LINE   Germans Throw Reserves Into Fight in Effort to Keep Strategic Casilina Highway Open.   YANKS TAKE ARTENA IN 9-MILE ADVANCE   Doughboys Wage Houseto-House Fight in City Behind Hitler’s Retreatine Tenth Army. .

lron Ring Now Being Tightened Around German:   Acting Secretary Of War Says Enemy Faced With Manpower Shortage

30 U.S. Fighter: Fail to Return From Missions   27 of Losses Occur in Tremendous Attacks  Beyond Berlin—More Raids Said Underway

PRE-INVASION ASSAULT ON NAZI DEFENSES   American and British Planes .of Every ..Description Rain Blows on Nazi Transportation.   Resume Operations

Sudden, Gigantic Attacks Deal Terrific Blows to Nazi Transport System   Allied Command Hurls Every Available Fighter Into Effort to Destroy Each Moving Military Object; Most of Sweeps Made at Hedge Heighf; 35 American Fighters Fail To Return.   RBRLAST TRANSPORT SYSTEY

Chinese Capture Vital Lungling    ‘Key Jap Stronghold Falls After Five Days

Democrats Acted Upon GOP Advice      DROPPING OF WALLACE BORE OUT OPPONENTS CONTENTION: TIME TO CHANGE HORSES.   Brownell Hits Bass Rule

NEW GOP CHIEF SUMS CAMPAIGN PROS AND CONS   Predicts Talk About Rival City Machines And Radicals   REPUBLICAN STATE - MACHINES COUNTED

Time To Change Horses: So Democrats Abandoned Wallace, GOP Chairman Brownell Declares

DOZEN ATTACKS ARE MADE ON PACIFIC BASES   Augsburg And Friedrichshafen Hit; 43 Planes Lost

Isle 960 Miles From Tokyo Is Bombed; Burma Ground Helc   Tank-Led Americans Smash Lorengau In The Admiralties Saturday

Bombs Kurile Island; Allies Get Air Bases Behind Foe In Burma; Cain Qn Manne

U.S. Drops Bombs In 960 Miles Of Toyko And Other Jap Pacific Bases Lashed   Tank-Led Cavalry Smashes On In Drive Aqainst Nips On Admiralty

U.S. fliers hit closer to Tokyo   Carve airfields in Burma jungle

Big U.S. Bomber Hits Island 960 Miles From Tokyo  Other Flyers Strike Japanese Bases  On 3100-Mile Front

Mile Of Toko And Other Jap Paci lic Bases Lashed  valry Smashes On In   Tank-Led Cavalry Smashes On In~ Drive Against Ninos On Admiralty

Our Navy Hit Japs Hard In The Pacific   Knemy Lest Many Ships And Planes; Great American Victory

Democrats Split On Ward Seizure   No Time Set for Considering Probe

Democrais Split Over Ward Quiz   Cooling Off P Period Ts Sought By. Administration Forces in Houses   OTHERS ANXIOUS FOR SPEEDY ACTION   Rep. .Sabath Is Opposing Unnecessary Haste Based: On Political. Motives

Demos Split Over Chicago  IPlant Seizure   Will Fight Desire Of Administration for Cooling-Off Period

Democrats Solit on Ward Seizure  “Sabath's Delaying Tactics Criticized

EMISEN WOMAN ASKS DIVORCE   Charges Husband Driving Her To Practically Distraction

OMAN ASKS DIVORGE   Charges “Husband Driving Her To Practically Distraction ;

Congress Gets FD’s Annual Message Today   President's Report Is Expected to Set  Session in Motion

Congress Waits F.D. R. Message   Delivery Scheduled At Noon Tuesday

FDR MESSAGE WILL BE READ TO CONGRESS   Chief Executive-Stitt Confined: to White House Rooms by Influenza Attack   PRESIDENT TO BROADCAST BOILED DOWN VERSION

WORK STARTS AFTER TODAY FOR CONGRESS   LAWMAKERS AWAIT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT

Nation Wait:  Message  To Congress TWness Prevents  Roosevelt’s Personal Reading

CONGRESS FOR LABOR DRAFT   President ‘Unable to Deliver Message In Person

Presidential  Message  To Congress  Due at Noon   To Be Read by Clerks, F.D.R. To Broadcast  Boiled-Down Version Le oe Batt nw at a Pp AT   PRESIDENT MAY CALL FOR CIVILIAN DRAFT   Election-Year Angles Complicate Maze Of Issues for Congress

Capital Waits Annual Report By- President   Message Due Today Noon;  Congress Reconvenes, Faees Manv Tecncs

Congress Back on Job Waits for FDR Message   Maze of Issues Complicated by Election Year

CONGRESS 10 GET MESSAGE -OFPRESIDENT   Presidential Message Will be Read by Clerks at Noon   SPECIAL BROADCAST PLANNED AT NIGHT   Call for Civilian Draft Reported on President's U pet

Congress Awaits Message With Unusual Interest  President Is Expected To Hit at Strikes,  Pressure Groups Today

G. O. P. Candidate Gets Big Ovation From Women’s Clubs At Louisville.

Dewey Urges World League To Keep Peace   “American. Participation Must Be Nonpartisan, Declares N. Y. Governor at Louisville

BATAAN DEFEAT TWO YEARS AGO   NO OFFICIAL OBSERVANCE. OF ONE OF DARKEST DAYS IN ~~~" AMERICAN HISTORY ~~

ONLY SNIPERS HAMPER YANKS AS NANCY FALLS   Germans Announce Evacua: tion of Maastricht in Netherlands

Maastnicht and Nancy Fall to Allied Forces   Americans Pierce Outer Section of Nazis’ Siegfried Defenses

RANGER SINKS 6 NAZI SHIPS   Nav y Bares 5-Month ple re Feat  Plane Keilor Still In Action

R.A.F BOMBERS ROCK NAZI CAPITAL   2,200 Tons of Bombs  Dropped on Battered City

President Has Not Arrived   Conference Between Two Leaders Will Be One Of A Very Decisive Nature.

A Deadly Hail of Fire Along Cassino Front   Germans Dug In With Ma. chines Guns. Behind a Double: Apron of Wire   VALLEY. POUNDED BY ARTILLERY   Jeeps Push Through. Mud Under *Fire, Bringing In Food. and Ammunition

Nazi Fire Is Terrific at Cassino  Bad as s Any i in Mediterranean Drive

Y anks Ignore German Fi ire In Cassino Drive   Patrols Advance to Qut  _ skirts of Town Itself Before Withdrawing: Overcome Many Traps

U5. DOUGHBOYS  DRIVE WITHIN HALF  MILE OF CASSINO RECROSSED RAPIDO  RIVER IN DEADLY FIRE FROM SMALI APMS..

[— Ee —————————eEEyEYE_rrtssts—  ce ements Seeman temmamcicencas Bee  Oceana Dough boy Watches Battle From The Balcony Of Wrecked Italian Home

Solon Asks Return Of Public lands for Taxation   Government Holds 800,000,000 Acres, Peterson Says

ONE-FIFTH OF U.S. ‘LAND - CONTROLLED BY 90-ODD ACENTS   Cress Will be Asked to Return Great Part of Land to Public Tax Roll<

U.S. Controls Fifth Of Land   Move Seen to Return Surplus to Individuals, Centralize Control of Remainder

Public Domain Return fo Tax Rolls Is Urged   Ninety Federal Agencies Share Control of Land

TYDINGS ASSAILED. BY GOP CHAIRMAR   Tait Declares Senator Is Committing Political Hara-Kari

SENATE RACES HOLD INTEREST   N. Y. Republican Choice Highlights Activities In Feur States

Delays Approval Of Stettinius   Langer Objections Cause 24-Hour Wait

Stellinius Gets Unanimous 0. K. of Senate Roque  Held Up However, by Senator Langer

MADE BY MARS   Huge Flying Boat Makes First Flight in Pacific Service

Flying Boat Mars Reaches Hawaii   Carries 35 People And Large Cargo

MARS LANDS AT PEARL HARBOR   Huge Flying Boat Is Placed In: Pacific Service By Navy

Mars to Hawat  In 13 Hr., 18 Min.   Flying Boat Carries 35 People, 7-Ton Cargo

Desperate Nazi Counter-Blow; Tanks Drive to the Rescue; Canadians Take Boulogne

Allies Strive To Reach Airbornes  In “Hell’s Patch”   Form Contact With One Isolated Force; Plight Of ’Chuters Near Arnheim Reported Critical; Canadians Clear Up Bologne Port.

Yanks Driven From Reich Sector; Over-All Allied Picture Termed Satisfactory in Spite of Setbacks

Allied Troops On Two Sides of French Capital   Underground Army Battles Germans On City Streets

Allied Flags Said Already Flying i in Many Parts of Pari   Fight in: Versailles. ce Bridgehead: On. Seine At Mantes Established

Patton’s Forces Fight In Versailles Vicinity 10° Miles From Capitol

Fierce Revolt By Patriots — Is Hoped For   ‘American Tanks. Establish ‘Brideeheads Across Seine

Patton’s Vanguards Fight in Vicinity Of Versailles; Ameticons May Sweep For Reims, Soissons and Marne

Tanks Establish Seine Bridgehead   Paris Underground Staging Fierce Revolt—Report Allies Flags Flying In Capital — Third Army Patrols “rel t in Ver-ailles Renort

ALLIED FLAGS FLYING TODAY IN PARIS AREA   Underground Army Stages Nazi Revolt

Americans Bridge Seine At Nantes; Patton’s Army Approaching Versailles

Tanks, Cannon Flamethrowers, Pave Fiery Way   Germans Open Roer Floodgates To Slow Offensive in North

UNOFFICIAL IREDELL COUNTY FELECTION RETURNS   FDR Keeps Vigil Into Night Awaiting Decision Of Voters

RETURNS POINT TO 407 10 124 VOTE MARGIN   President Holds 2,500,000 Advantage Over Dewey In Total Ballots   ‘Roosevelt Quits At 2:50, After Dewey Admits Defeat   {

Russians Push Inside Reich To Schirwindt   Germans Acknowledge They Have Abandoned Lithuanian Highway Center of Virbalis

PRAGA SECTOR BATTLES RAGE TO NEW HEAT   Tank Battles Be Become Most Severe of Entire War: Warsaw Badly Battered   REDS ARE PREPARING FOR BIG OFFENSIVE:

USSIA INVADED, SAYS asERMAN REPORT   Virbalis Highway Center Abandoned By Nazis Forces

Berlin Admits Great Drive On   Reich Invaded And Nazis Have Been Forced To Abandon Highway Center Of Virbalis; Land Of Junkers Pounded By Airmen.

Reds In 3-Way Slash Through Balkan States   Trapping Of Thousands Of German Troops Appears Likely.

Powerful Russian Army Crosses Carpathians And Invades Czechoslavakie   Victory Announced In Special Order Of The Day; Other Soviet Forces Believed Battling On Enet Peneeta Sail

Mighty New ‘Soviet Drive Moves Mile Inside Reich’   Offensive Not. Yet.  Revealed In: Moscow.

Virbalis And Sehirwindt In ‘Russian Hands   Berlin Says Former Fell After Stubborn Defense: and That Red Drive .  Is Continuing   MOSCOW SILENT ON DETAILS OF ADVANCE   Heavy Artillery ‘and Air Attacks Launched By Russians Against Tilsit On Border

Czechoslovakia Being Invaded By Soviel Army  ee ee ee” ee   Stalin Announces Big Penetration With 7 Passes Seized; Reds Push In East Prussia

Red Drive Is Carried Into Reich   German Command Says Russians Have Advanced a Mile Inside Prussia,   IMPORTANT ROAD CENTER CAPTURED   Fali of Virbalis Reported From Berlin as Germans Tell of Red Push

Say Soviets Seize Village, Drive Mile Inside East Prussis   No Official Word From Moscow on New Offensive; Huns Claim 48 Red Tanks Destroyed

EE q Germans Imply Russians Have Reached Schirwindt, Mile = Inside Reich, In Embittered Struggle; Virbalis Cap. tured.

East Prussia Invaded by Red Forces   German Radio Reports Mighty New Offensives From Baltic States

Russians Invade  East Prussia      NEW OFFENSIVE NOW IN HOMELAND OF GERMANS

HINT INVASION (FE. PRUSSIA   German Command Implies Russians Take Town a Mile Inside Border.   NO REPORT FROM REDS

PED ARMY PATBP'S SCOUT POSITIONS OF GERMANS IN WARSAW  TANK WARFARE IN PRAGA SECTOR REPORTED BITTEREST OF ENTIRE WAR

Germans Report Red Advance !n East Prussia   Highway Center Said To Be In Hands Of Russian Troops

Nazis Indicate A Red Invasion Of East Prussia   Push From Baltic Zone Extends To Schirwindt, Inside Reich.

SOVIETS CROSS CZECH BORDER   Nazi Report Hints Thrust Into East Prussia

Victory Guns Ready for Fall Of Belgrade   Dispatches State German Troops are  In Death Trap

RUSSIAN INVASION OF EAST PRUSSIA IS IMPLIED BY GERMANY  ENEMY BROADCASTS SAY RED OFFENSIVE FORCES  LOSS HIGHWAY CENTER

Germans Say Rus: Army Is Driving  Into East Prussia  Lithuanian Highway Center Abandoned By Defending Nazis

Reds Launch Drive: Into East Prussia   Virbalis Falls to Russian Offensive As Armies Move Mile Inside Reich Aiminoa New Attack at Schirwmadt

SOVIETS CROSS INTO PRUSSIA NAZIS REPORT   Mighty New Red Offen sive Drives Mile. In ide Reick.”

RUSSIANS IN REICH, NAZIS SAY   Fierce Battle Raging Through Streets Of Belgrade, Report

Soviet Invasion Of East Prussia Implied by Berlin   Loss of Virbalis Acknowledged by Germans Today

Reds Enlarge Drive Against East Prussia   Germans Admit Soviets Have Raced Within Borders of Reich

Nazis Report Red Tanks And Bombers Are Pacing Drive Into East Prussia   Germans Say Reds Have Adavanced to Schirwindt, a Mile Inside the Reich

Nazis Say Reds -Thvade Section ~ Of East Prussia   Guns" AL Moscow Primed “To: Salute. “Anticipated ° Fall Of, Belerade Today

Reds Broaden East Prussia Offensive, Nazi Radio Admits   Germany Announces Fall of Virbalis; Reveals Soviet Baltic Drive

NAZIS HINT RUSSIANS IK E. PRUSSIA   - Soviet Drive is Supported By Big Air Armada

SOVIET ASSAULT UNCONFIRMED AS BELGRADE FREED   Only Two Nazi Groups, loslated, Remain In Slav Capital, Tito Says

Reds Capture Vital City Of Virbalis   Gain Strategic Advantage As Result Of Success

SOVIET DRIVE PROGRESSING BERLIN SAYS   Germany Implies That Russion Invasion of East Prussia Has Extended To Schirwindt  asAmma eee Aatar @ewiei fi rahigT

SOVIET T TAKE KEY TOWN IN GREAT DRIVE   German Command Says Foe Strikes Mile Inside Reich After Virbalis Falls

‘Germany Implies Russians Invading East Prussia; ‘New Offensive from Baltics Extends to Schirwino}

PUSH ACROSS CARPATHIANS FROM POLAND   Stalin Discloses New Thrust Into Germany; Prussian Push Hinted

—RUSSITA—  BERLIN REPORTS NEN OFFENSIVE   German Communique Implies Russians Now Mile Inside Reich   MOSCOW SILENT   Fierce Street Fighting Expected To Bring Fall Of Belgrade .

GERMANS HINT RUSSIANS PUSH INSIDE PRUSSIA   ‘Mighty Red Offensive  Extended A Mile  Inside Border

Soviets Cross Carpathian Mountains ’ ‘And Invade Czechoslovak: « In Force

Berlin Reports Red Offensive  oy eee oe he ee   Belgrade’s Fall Expected Soon

NAZI BROADCAST IMPLIES BATTLE IS RAGING IN REICH  GERMANS ABANDON LITHUANIAN TOWN   GERMANS ABANDON LITHUANIAN TOWN 3 MI. FROM BORDER

Dewey Continues His Non-Partisan Peace Efforts   Talked With Dulles

Bi-Partisan Peace Efforts Continue   Dewey's Adviser Talks With Stettinius

RUMORS FIND SCANT SUPPORT IN ROOSEVELT   President Shunts Aside Questions ‘ om Fourth Term and Ticket, _ Leaving Field to Dopesters

Democrats Are Agitating On Vice-President  Politicians Direct Unusual Attention To This Year’s Choic:

Politicians Now Concentrating Qn Vice-Pres.   Move Made To Seek Convention Pledges For Sam Rayburn; Broughton Among Those Considered.

Seek Rayburn As Vice-President  Main I Interest Is In  % Danning Mati,

POLITICIANS EYE VICE PRESIDENCY   Believe Post Vital Cog in 1948 Election

Boom On For Rayburn For Vice President   Supporters Seeking Convention Pledges for Speaker of House

Push Rayburn As Choice for Second Place   Democrats Placing Unusual Stress on Vice Presidency

REPORT NAZIS ARE LEAVING FINLAND   While Little Nation Moves Toward Complete Military and Diplomatic Rupture With Germany   Quiet In Helsinki

Finland Moves To Full Break With Germany   Soviet Terms Demand Nazi Withdrawal by Sept 15, Return to Old Barder

Germans Launch New Anzio Drive   New “Secret Weapon” Tank Is Used In Effort to Blast Allied Lines

Nazis Open Heavy Attack Between Carroceto and Cisterna Tuesday.    BOMBARDMENT HEAVIEST

GERMANS SMASH AT ALLIES AGAIN IN ANZIO REGION   New Radio Tanks Used in At tempt to Drive Allies Into the Sea

GERMANS LASH AT BEACHHEAD   Nazi Artillery and Secret Tanks Qpen Withering Assault *

Nazis ‘Send Tanks Loaded With Explosives Against Allied Troops At Anzio

NAZI ‘SECRET WEAPON’ FAILS ON BEACHHEAD   Report Reds Reach Outskirts of Pskov, Retake Over 250 Towns

NEW ASSAULTS ON BEACHHEAL MADE BY NAZIS   ‘Secret Weapon’ Used To Tr To Drive Allies Into Sea; Reds Hit Key To Baltic

Germans Try  New Weapon On Beachhead   Radio-Controlled Tanks Exploded Prematurels By Allied Guns

NAZIS START NEW OFFENSE AT BEACHHEAD   Germans Are Using New Secret Weapon Against Allies in Italy.   Beachhead Is Pounded By Heavy Artillery

Nazis Use New Secret Weapon.   ' Launch New Assault On Anzio Beachhead Which Grows Stronger

Unveil Secret Weapon   Third German All Out Drive Believed Under Way.

Third Attempt To Free Coast Seen As Enemy Forces Attack   Allied Guns, Planes Are Making Contacts

Germans Armed With Tank Loaded With High Explosives Strike Anew On Anzio Front

Nazis Strike Allies With New Weapon   Third German Drive At Beachhead Is Put Into Motion

‘Germans Use New Secret ‘Weapon Along Anzio Front   Reds Within 6 Miles of Pskov

Nazis Hurl Secret Weapon Tank At Anzio Beachhead   Radio Propelled Tank Loaded With Powder Used In Italy In New Offensive

Nazis Using New Weapon in Anzio Battle   _Radio-controlled Tanke Brought Into Play in Great Artillery Duel

Nazis. Slug Anew at — Beachhead   - May Be Third Great Drive; Tank Leaded With Explosives Is New ?’Secret Wannan’

Germans Renew Heavy Assault South Of Rome   Scope Indicates Third Great Beachhead Drive Is Under Wav.

Tanks Explode By Control Of Radio Beams   Third Attack Launch ed To Drive Allies From Bridgehead

Radio-Controlled lanks Being Used  3y German Troops   rtillery Duels Thunder Along Beachhead as Heaviest Bombardment Since Landing Is Aimed at Invasion Forces   REAT ENEMY PRESSURE GETS BUT LITTLE RESULT

YANKS BATTLE RADIO-GUIDED CERMAN TANKS   Blow Up 14 “Secret Weapon” Explosive Carriers  Before They Reach Allied - Lines in Italy.

FIGHTING ON BEACHHEAD IS NOW RENEWED   Germans Are Using New Explosion Type Weanon

Guns Smash 14 Radio-Guided Tanks Bearing Blast Charges   Foe Planned to Blow Up Vehicles by Remote Control

Third Great Attack Sees Secret Tank   Raid Near Cisterna Growing Hourly In Strength

14 Blown ‘Up hy Our Artillery   New. ‘Secret. Weapon’. Is Loaded: With : Explosives and. Radio-Controlled. .-.   BUT: THEY EXPLODE= °° ~ IN NAZI POSITIONS:   Germans -in New. ‘Attack on “Beachhéad, May. Be Try.. ing a Third Drive ~

Using Tanks Loaded With Explosives   14 Exploded By Allied Guns Before Reaching Lines

BEACHHEAD BATTERED IN ASSAULT   Radio-Controlled Car. riers Of Explosives  Loosed On Allies

New Offensive Believed Begun In Anzio Area   Russian Troops Fighting On Very Outskirts Of Pskov  Ty, fies 3:   NEW ‘SECRET TANK

Seeret Weapon Used By Nazis In Anzio Fight   Tank Attacks. Made With New Device As ‘Huns Open Third Drive Against Yanks

Nazi Attack Grows At Anzio Beachhead      May Be Third Attempt to Drive Allies Into Sea—Enemy Using Radio-Controlled Tank Filled With Explosives.

Allies Blast German Secret Weapon in Beachhead Battle   Nazis Send Radio-Controlied Tanks, Loaded with Explosives, Aoainet Forces on Beachhead.

Nazis Open Third Beach Attack With Robot Tanks   Reich’s ‘Secret Weapons’ Fail To Daunt Fight in Allied Force

Heavy Bombardment by Artillery; Nazi Using Radio-Controlled Tank

GERMANS OPEN HEAVY ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Used RadioControlled Tank Load. ed with Explosives in Second Try to Break Allies   FAILED EARLIER      Allies Disclose Tanks Blown Up by Artillery in Second Offensive, Caused Damage in Own Lines

NAZIS USING NEW “SECRET WE I TANK, RADIO-CONTROLLED DiI IN NEW OFFENSIVE AT ANZIQ= «:   Tanks Loaded With 1,000 Pound joinel s Designed to Crash Allied Lines and aA: Allies Explode 14 of Them with Art?”

Third Great Blow at Anzio  Beach Due   Red Army Fights on Outskirts of ‘Pskov, ‘Sweeps iUp 70 Settlements ‘in Ukraine

“Secret Weapon,” Tank Loaded With Explosives, Being Used By Nazis Against Italian Beachhead; Third Great Offensive Indicated.

NAZIS USING TANK WEAPON   Enemy Directs Radio- Con trolled Explosives at Yanks In Italy

Tanks. Laden With Explosives Are Hurled At. Allies   But Allies Explode Tanks * Before. They Reach Allied Lines — New, Attack Growing Stronger ee May be Third New

Nazis Throw New Assaults At Beachhead   ‘Secret Weapon’ Tank Used Against Allies; Third Big Offensive May Be Under Way

Germans May Have Opened Third Great Offensive In Bid To Smash Allies

Big-Army Men Top Post-War Planning Body   Trained Service Reserve Likely To Be Proposed In U.. S Rlnenrint

Advocates of Big Peacetine Forces To Direct Policy   Men Favoring Compulsory Training Head Post-War Board

SOLID SOUTH WILL REMAIN SOLID BUT VOTE INTRIGUING  EXTENT OF SOUTHERN ANTI-NEW DEAL DEFLEC. TIGN BEING WATCHED

50,000 Japs in St. Matthias Trae   ENEMY SCORES LIMITED SUCCESS IN DRIVE INTO INDIA; NEW INVASION BASE WITHIN BOMBING RANGE OF TRUK

‘eds Batter at German order, Claim Hitler's ‘atal Hour Approaching

RUSSIANS SHELL SOIL OF PREWAR EAST PRUSSIA FROM RANGE OF 8 MILES

Reds’ Guns Firing Into E. Prussia   Report German Forces Reel. ing in Confusion Before  Russian Drive

GERMANY’S FATAL HOUR SEEN NEAR AS SOVIETS HAMMER EAST PRUSSIA   Artillery Pours Shells Into Reich Territory As Reds Reach Baltic, Enter Warsaw Area And Battle Along Vistula

Red Army Crushing Gates Of Hitler’s Inner Fortress  GERMANY’S FATAL HOUR APPROACHING  Tattered German Units Reeling Back In Confusion ;

Fatal Hour For German Nation Said Approaching   Tattered Nazi Units Reported Reeling Back In Confusion

Tattered Nazi Units Reeling Back In Disorder Before Red Drive Through Strong Points Near  DBardar   SOVIETS ENTER WARSAW SECTOR

Red Artillery Pours Torrent Of Steel Into East Prussian Border Towns At 8 Mi. Range

SOVIET ARMY SMASHING TOWARD EAST PRUSSIA IN GREAT DRIVE   Tattered German Units Reeling Back In Confusion Before Russian Fighters.

GUNS BOMBARD EAST PRUSSIAN BORDER TOWNS   Soviet Army Is Ready To Carry War To Hitler’s ome Grounds

Tussians Reach Soil of Reich, Nazis in Flight   ‘Vise Closes on German Armies on North Baltic Coast

German Soil of East Prussia Shelled by Reds   Crashing Gates of Hitler's Inner Fortress

Nazi Border Cities Jolted By Artillery   Army Near Border On 20-Mile Front; Warsaw Fight Rages

Reds Crash Inner Fort Of Germany   Russian Army Push May Carry Troops Onto German Soil,

Nazi Troops Reeling Back in Confusion   Soviets May Trod on Ger man Soil Today, Is Re port.

G.O-P. in Indiana Supports Dewey   District Caucuses Name 22 Delegates

U.S. Gets World Banker’s Role   Monetary, Financial  Conclave Ends Task

U.S. To Become World Center Of Trade Under Plan   Has Quota OF 30 Per Cent Of Overall Prund

857,400 Suryical Dressinys Made By County Red Cross Volunteers in Past Year

Three Religious Groups Express Confidence In Character Of Rainey

Nazis In Italy Turn Viciously   Eighth Runs Into  Bitter Resistance By LYNN HEINZERLING  Racanmianstatht Deaea Cenfks Cl eoitsav

Nazis Half fighth Army   Prolonged Rains Give Enemy Time for Stand

NAZI FORCES HALT FLIGHT ABOVE ROME   Germans Make a Bitter Stand Against Allied Eighth Army

NAZIS HALT FLIGHT, BATTLE 8TH ARMY   GERMANS MAKING STAND IN CENTRAL ITALY 85 MILES FROM ROME.

GERMANS HALT FLIGHT 10 MAKE STAND   About 85 Miles North of Rome; Counter Attack  “to Retake Chiusi; Breathing Spell.   2.300 Sorties

Nazis (nt faly Turn Viciously   Eighth Runs Into - Bitter Resistance’  cn! wpepaver TYATAIFCUT TAT

NAZIS MAKE BITTER STAND BEYOND ROME   Eighth Army Meets Strong Enemy Resistance North And North west of Perugia

Germans Turn  To Battle 8th   Making, Stand 85. Mile:  Northweat af Ramee

FLIGHT OF AXIS TROOPS HALTED   Desperate Enemy Forces Make Stand 85 Miles North Of Rome

Germans in Italy Making Strong Stand   British Eighth Army Encounters Bitter Nazi Resistance

German Force:  Halt Flight in Central Italy   Enemy to Make Bitter Stand 85 Miles Above Rome: Rains Aid Foe

Russians slaughter trapped Germans in hand-to-hand action   Shock troops rip into new sections of Budapest: press drive on Vienna

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VIOLENT STREET FIGHTING RAGES INSIDE BUDAPES!   Russians Report Axis Garrison Is Being Slaughtered in Thoroughfares Clogged With Dead.   TWO SIDES BATTLE AT CLOSE QUARTERS   Struggle Unrivaled in Ferocity Since Stalingrad—Enemy Units North of City Trapped.

Streets Clogged With Nazi Dead, Moscow Reports   Greatest Struggle Since Stalingrad

Soviet Shock Troops Smash Into Budapest Areas, Start Slaughtering Trapped Nazis

Russians Begin Slaughter of Nazi Garrison   Ferocious Fighting Rages in Budapest Sireets

TRAPPED AXIS GARRISON FACES ANNIHILATION   Streets Of Budapest Are Clogged With Enemy Dead And Wrecked Guns   SOVIETS APPROACH NEARER TO AUSTRIA

Soviet Army Battles For Heart Of Hungary Capital   Several Budapest Districts Captured—Garrison Trap: ped in the City ls Estimated ot Over . 100,000 Men

More Sections Of Budapest Fall to Reds   Berlin Says Russians Are in Heart of Hungarian Capital

New York School  Firemen Strike   Workers Ask Civil  Service Status

TWO RESIGN IN OW! SQUABBLE   Officials Deny Charges Of “Hamstringing” Efforts

OW. UPSET BY "FAMILY QUARREL   Nurse Wounds Caused by Resignation of  Language Experts

Council  Approves  Terminal   _ City to Enter Lease Negotiations For P. & L. E.R. R.  Property on Sixth St.

MONESSEN BUS TERMINAL GETS COUNCIL OKAY   Meeting Held To Work Out Plans For Establishing Big Station There

ClO Is Linked In Federal Investigation  Governmen + Officials   Government Officials Are Also Named In Committee Report

CONSIDER PROBE OF CIO GROUP AS ARM OF NEW DEAL   DIES COMMITTEE CITES RECORD OF MANY PHONE CALLS

DIES SEEKS INQUIRY OF ACTIVITIES OF CIO   Telephone Calls to White House From Political Group Scrutinized

Dies Probes PAC Calls to White House  CIO Committee Called Political

DIES COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING PHONE CALLS   High Government Officials Named By Dies Friday

Probe of Political Action Committee's Activities Probable   CIO Organization is Considered Violator of Hatch Act

ClO Is Linked In Federal Investigation   Government Officials Are Also Named In Committee Report

Cold Frost Spreads Over Texas Friday   Paris Thermometers Again Record Low Temperature of 39

PACIFIC FORCES LASH AT-KOREA, BONIN ISLANDS   SAIPAN INVADERS PUSH INLAND FROM THEIR BEACHHEADS

Saipan Invaded by Strong Task Force; New Super-Fortresses Rain Bombs on the Mainland   Beachhead Established on Southwest Coast of Island and Troops Now Engaged With Strong Forces; Story of Raid on Japan Told

Navy Follows up  Saipan Invasion   Strikes Bonin Islands. Korea in Unprecedented Task Force Assault

NEW ASSAULTS STRIKE NEARER JAP HOMELAND   Korea and Bonin Isles Pounded in Support Of Saipan Action

Hit 600 Miles From Tokyo As  Korea Raided   Strike Few Hours After News Of B-29 Attack On Jap Homeland.   FIGHTING IS HEAVY

Allied Invaders Smash At Jap Empire’s Heart  In Saipan, Bonin Is.

Support Invasion Of Saipan by Bold  Pacific Assaults   Task Force Strikes Two Bonin Isles; Bombers Hammer Korea

BONIN ISLANDS STRUCK SHORTLY AFTER BIA RAIN   Allies Bringing War Closer To  Japanese Soil

Nips Report Allied Task Force Attack On Bonin 600 Miles From Tokyc

FAR EAST WAR—~   ALLIED FORCES CARRY THREAT OF VICTORY TO JAPS' FRONT DOORSTEP; HIT BONIN ISLAND

American Invaders of Saipan Advance in Heavy Fighting   Big Task Force Hits Bonins. Innermost of Jap Defenses

Support Invasion. ‘Of Saipan by Bold  Pacific Assaults Task Force Strikes Two  Ranitn ITelace Ramhbare

Legislature to Consider School Financial Needs   Governor Says Session Limited To One Problem

20 Ohioans Die in Holiday Accidents  . Eight. Hurt in:Mishap      Eight Hurt ingMishap At Amusement Park

Sees Uninstructed Democratic Group   Party Source Gives Views on Convention

LEVEES UNABLE TO HOLD FLOOD WATERS TODAY   Lowlands Covered By Water From Mississippi *

Flood Swirling Over River Levee   Thousands Are Fighting High Waters Along the  Course of Mississippi.

HEAVY DAMAGE FROM THE FLOOD WATERS   1,686,400 Acres Were Inundated in 113 Counties in Three States.

Flood Waters" Break Levees, Peril Mount   High School Boys Fight To Check Rampaging Rivers in Middle  Western States

Yanks Establish Beachhead Across Moselle; Prepare — For Thrust Into Reich

Allies Say Battle Soon Will Be Fought: On German Soil   ALLIED COLUMNS IN HOLLAND ARE NEAR ROTTERDAM   German Resistance Stil? Strong Around Caiais, Dunkerque And Boulogne

To Battle For Tito   Yugoslav Unit in Russia Swears Allegiance To Partisan Leader

SLAV ARMY SHAPING UP IN RUSSIA   Take Allegiance To Tito; Show Dislike For King

Yank and British Tankmen Meet West of Bayeux While ~ 2nd Column Streaks Northward   Arc Around Carentan Tightened—German Forces Cleg Roads And Offer Fine Strafing Targets Te: Allied Elierc

AMERICAN COLUMN IS REPORTED WITHIN 10 MILES OF CHERBOURG   U.S, And British Lines Joined Along 60«Mile-Gtretch Of Normandy Coast; Push Nearer Bie Prench Port

Allies Take Isigny and Ste. Croix   NEW ADVANCES LINK ALLIED BEACHHEADS ALONG A FRONT NEARLY 60 MILES IN LENGTH .

Link Beachheads On 60 Mi. Front; British Seize Vital Ste. Croix   Germans Acknowledge Reverses In Caen-Bayeux Sector But Claim “Thousands Of Prisoners”

2 More Towns Are Seized By Allied Armies   Isigny And Ste. Croix Captured And U. S. And British Forces Join; Fierce Battle For Carentan, Key Nazi Town, Reported

WALLACE BID FOLDS UP ON SECOND VOTE   Convention Ends Amid Note Of Harmony After CIO, ‘Big City’ Flareups

2 Democrats Nominate Senator Harry Truman To Run For Vice-President With Franklin D. Rooseevelt   Southern States Threaten To Form “Third Party”

Demos Shelve Wallace; Name Truman Instead   Missourian Must Carry Brunt Of Roosevelt's 4th-Term Campaign.

‘Democrats Call On Truman, V-P Nominee To Carry Fight Of Roosevelt To Republicans   Surface Strife Dissolyes But There Remains A Note Of Southern Dissident

Gets Vice Presidential Nomination By 1,031 Votes To 105 Cast For Wallace

Missourian Is Chosen After Stormy Sessior   Election is Not Unanimous. As ClO And Big City Leaders Wage Fight

DEMOCRATS PICK  TRUMAN TO RUN  WITH ROOSEVELT MISSOURI SENATOR  DEFEATS WALLACE ON SECOND BALLOT

TO HELP. FDR TO 41H TERM   Missouri Senator Beats Out Wallace For Democrat Vice President Bid

Missouri Senator FD Running Mate   Piano-thumping Practical Politician To Carry 4th Term Fight To Republicans

iruman Wins Nomination for Vice President   Missouri Senator Defeats Wallace On Second Ballot

TRUMAN WINS NOMINATION ON SECOND BALLOT   Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Expected Te Do Most of Campaigning.

Truman Inherits Job Of Running Party Campaign   Missouri Senator Defeats Wallace For 2d Place At Democratic Parley

SEN, TRUMAN TO CARRY FDR'S FIGHT TO GOP   Defeats Wallace by Wide Margin on 2nd Ballot for Vice President

TRUMAN WILL CARRY BRUNT OF CAMPAIGN   Chosen To Carry FDR’s Fourth Term Fight  To Republicans

TRUMAN WILL LEAD FIGHT FOR F. D. R.   Expected to Bear Burden in Scrap with Republicans, Since President Says He Has No Time for Campaigning.

Truman Wins Over Wallace on Second Ballot Last Night   Vice President, Backed by CIO, Shelved by Democrats. 1.031-105

Democrats Name Truman To Carry FDR’s Fourth Term Struggle To GOP   Beats Out Wallace For Second Spot On Ticket

> Mo. Senator , Defeats Wallace On South Vote   Vice Presidential Candidate Will Bear Campaian Burden

Democrats End Convention With Naming Truman   Delegates Swing Over Rapidly On Second Ballot To Select Missourian As FDR’s Running Mate.

WILL ASSUME LEADING ROLE IN CAMPAIGN   Receives Nomination After Trailing Wallace   MISSOURI SENATOR   Collects 1,031 Votes I Hectic Session Lasting Eight Hours

Senator Truman, Chosen As F. R. Running-Mate, To Carry Campaign Burden   F.R. Welcomes Sen. Truman  Congratulations Are Wired To Candidate

TRUMAN AS NOMIN®® FOR VICE fRESDEN WILL CARRY FIGHT 0 °GOP IN ELECTION CAMPAIGN   60-Year-Old Missouri Senator, with Backing of Big City Political Moguls, Wins Over Wallace in  Balloting for Second Place on Democratic Ticket

Truman Practica! Politician for Term lV Fight   Missouri Seantor Won From Wallace On Second Ballot

Truman Is Picked For Second Place   Missouri Senator Wins Over Wallace on the Second  Ballot   A SESSION OF STRIFE   South and City Bosses Prevail in Vice Presidential  Choice

Missouri Senator Wins On Second Ballot, Landslide   Captures Nomination After Trailing On First Ballot; Given Strong Support By Kelly“Nash-Hacue Machines

Name Truman Running Mate For FOR   Missouri Senator Beats Wallace On Second Ballot At Chicago

Campaign Load Falls To Trumar   Vigorous Practical Missouri Politician Expected to “Make Active Drive   HOT RACE ENDS ON NOTE OF HARMONY   ‘Good Ticket’ Says Hillman Who Lost. Tussle’ With Bic. City Leaders

SOLON IS NAMED ON 2ND POLL   Landslide Vote Name: Missourian Over  Henry Wallace

MISSOURIAN RUNNING MATE   SLAM -BANG DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WINDS UP ON HARMONIOUS PITCH

Sen. Truman For Vice President Unites Democrats   Chicago Convention  Ends With Kansan   Party Choice

Senator to Carry Fourth Term Drive .   Break Comes on Second Ballot; Beaten Wallace Has Only Kind Words

Harry Trumaa, a Practical Politician, to Carry Cam paign For Which President Roosevelt Says He Ha No Time.   Piano-Thumping Senator Defeats Henry Wallace on Second Ballot

Democrats Choose Truman as Running Mate for Roosevelt   Missourian Nominated on Secon Ballot in Defeat of Wallace Started hy Southern Opposition

Sen. Truman Carries Fight For 4th Term   Vice-Presidential Nominee Will Take Task For Which FR ‘Lacks Time’

Truman To Carry  Fieht Against GOP   Practical Politician, Backed By Big Ciiy Chiefs, Beats Ont Tiheral Candidate

Russians Near Oid Rumania   Germans Back On Battlefield: Where War Began

BESSARABIA CROSSED, OLD BORDER NEAR   Soviets Two Miles From Port of . Nikolavevy

“Nazis Being Hurled Back On Opposite Ends Of Lines   * 50-Mile Bridgehead Hammered Out On North Rank Of Upper ‘Dniester River By Russions

INVASION NEWS WILL BE ISSUED  CONTINOUSL)   ‘OW! Says Allied  ‘Headquarters in  Britain to Be Source

HOUSE PASSES SOLDIER VOTE UNANIMOUSLY   Series of Bills Stripping Red Tape From Military Balloting Goes to the Senate

House Passes Service Vote Program   Measure Passe: Unanimously Now Goes to State Senate

Japs In Retreat On Bougainville   Fall Back In Hasty Flight Leaving Hundreds Of Dead On Battlefield   MORE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS TAKEN

BOUGAINVILLE JAPS RETREAT   Trail of Mass Graves anc Broken Guns Mark Flight

AMERICAN. FORCES « ADV/ NCING BEHIND BARRAGE” AS: . ENEMY LEAVES 4,000 ~  - DEAD- BEHIND.  ,

American Troops Advance in France   Drive Carries to Within Few Miles of Key Rail Junction Supplying German Troops

Troops Advance Toward St. Jean De Daye On Highway Linking St. Lo And Cartenan, Prepare To Cut Road Five Miles West Of Lisan

‘Threatening Vital Railway Junction   British Repel Nazi Counter Blow, Gain In Several Sectors

Allies Crushing Counter-Drives  Of Nazi ‘Troops      American Troops Near Last German-Held Rail-High-way Lifeline to the Port of Cherbourg—-— . Steady Advances Reported

DRIVE WITHIN G6 MILES UF LAST LIFELINE   ‘Steady Progress’ Toward Cherbourg; Developing Attempt to Cut Off and Capture Peninsula.   20 Divisions

STEADY GAINS ARE MADE ON FRENCH FRONT   AMERICANS SLASH INLAND FROM CARENTAN

Allies endanger last nazi held lifeline to vital Cherbourg port   Troops drive ahead from Carentan; provress recorded alone entire front

Allies Slash Forward InNormandy, Near Junction Of Last German Lifeline   Steady Pregress In All Sectors -Ranarted In Drive For Peninsula

Capture of Last German Lifeline To Port Looms   Steady Advances On Other Sectors

Allies Repulse Counterblows  On East Wing   Capture of Quineville Provides Valuable New Beach Outlet: Other Advances Made

Steady Advances Reported By Allies In Normandy In Spite Of Counter-Attacks   Reuters Reports Reigneville Tn American Hands; Heavy New British-Canadian Attack Is Developing In Caen Sector; Negro Troops Are In Action

Planes Oper Assault on Wide Front   Artillery Bombardment Helps Pave Way for Bayonet Attack

Greatest Since Normandy   Bombers Pave Way For Offensive Ry First Army

Smash Forward: Toward Rhine on 20 MileFront   Maximum Gain of Two Miles is Reported

{st Army Storms Siegfried on Broad Front in Biggest  Offensive Since §t. Lo Fall

YANKS STORM SIEGFRIED LINE IN 2-MILE GAIN   Smash Across River, Railway

Biggest Assault Since Normandy Reported Begun   U. S. Assault Troops Smash Toward Rhine Along 20-Mile Front

Yanks Railroad, River North of Aachen   Begin First Phase Biggest Push Since St Lo, Normandy

‘Climactic Battle For Germany Is Due To Begin Very Soon; Allies Continue To Advance

F ight Ahead      ACTION OCCURS ON BROAD FRONT NORTH OF AACHEN; CROSS RAILROAD AND RIVER.

Americans Advancing In General Direction Of Two Towns Of Merkstein, Herzogenrath, Batter Through Fill Boxes   REPORT WURM RIVER HAS BEEN GROSSED

Allies Pierce Nazi Key Defenses In Advances Anticipating Big Push   Ist Army Races Eastward Toward Rhine; Canadians Reported Attacking At Dunkerque

YANKS IN BRITAIN: REARING TO GU ON INVASION TRIP   U. P. Manager Declares Men Are Finest Equipped He Has Seen Sn Europe During Past Ten Years.   GREAT QUANTITIES OF SUPPLIES ARE READY   Americans Itching te “Get Going Pronto” as British Soldiers Say “Lets Get Cracking.”

Amelia Earhart Mystery Revived   New Search Asked By Rep. Heffernan

Propose Probe Into Plight of  __\melia Earhart   Congressman Suspects: Foul Play at Hands of © Japs in 1937 ©

Where Does Bargaining Idea Stop:   Steel Case Arguments Pose Questions Of U. S. Policy

SOVIETS BOMB FINNISH PORTS   Follows Attack on  i Foalgints   Finn Cabinet Considers Peace Move

450 RED PLANES HIT FINNS’ PORT   Cabinet Reported Meeting as Kotka Gets Heavy Two-Hour Attack

BESIEGED DUREN OUTFLANKED IN COLOGNE DRIVE   Reds Artillery Is Battering Budapest and Canadians Expand Position in Italy

TROOPS MENACE COLOGNE AFTER NEW ASSAULTS   First, Ninth Armies Hold 14-Mile Stretch of Flooded Stream

Patton’s 3rd ‘Widens West Wall Wedge   U. S. 9th Army Cantures Vichhoffen; Reds Besiege Budapest, Take 12 Towns

FIRST AND: NINTH AMERICAN ARMIES WIPED OUT NAZIS  CONTROL OF ROER RIVER . SECURED ALONG STRETCE : FOURTEEN MILES

Control 14-Mile Stretch      Long-Stalled 9th Army Captures Vichhofen; _ Other Units Inch For-ward in Bitter Fight

Americans Push Back ‘Nazi Lines   Now Hold 14-Mile Front Only 20 Miles From Coloane.

Right Wing Of Ist Army Attacks Along Roer River  Slow Progress Made Elsewhere On Front;

Yanks Extend Their Control Of Roer River    Americans Only 20_ Miles fro! Cologne at Nearest Point Kesternich Is Captured by Gen, Hodge's Troops

NEW BLOWS DEALT NAZI RAIL LINES   American Bombers Strike Anew, Meet. No infenfererecs

Ul. §. BOMBERS BASEL  IN ITALY CONTINUE  NORTHERN ATTACKS RAILROAD YARDS IN  MANY CITIES OF NORTH ITALY ARE RLASTED

U.S. Bombers Punch Hard at Foe in Haly   Blows Seek to Paralize  28 He  Communications North Of Rome: No Re<ictanreae

Chinese Admit Situation Grave As Japs Push On  Kweilin Entered; Voamanina Maarad

Fighth Army Takes Southern Florence Bring Up Forces on  25-Mile Front for Assault Across Arnon

Nazis May Fight for Florence  Enemy Violates Oper City Proclamation

EIGHTH ARMY FACES FIGHT FOR FLORENCE   FORCES IN SUBURBS FIND RESISTANCE STIFFENING

Allied Troops in Horence Suburbs  Question Whether Art City Declared "Open"

ALLIES OCCUPY SOUTHERN PART OF FLORENCE   Indications Point To Nazi Defense OF Remainder Of City

TROOPS OCCUPY FLORENCE AREA   Enter Southern Suburbs and Bring up Forces Along 25Mile Front for Push Across The Arno River

British Gain All Suburbs Of Florence   Nazis Declare ‘Open City but Post Troops for Bitter-End Fizht   EIGHTH CLOSES IN   Yanks Patrol Pisa Area; Dalmatian Landings Hit Two Islands

Forces Set. For Battle. On 25-Mile  Arno Front   “Contest: Expected. For: Culture. City.

SEIZES FLORENSE SUBURBS T0 SOUTH   EIGHTH ARMY MOVES UP FORCES ON 25-MILE FRONT FOR PUSH ACROSS ARNO.

Thousand Greeks Executed, Report  Historic Convents Are Believed Destroyed

GERMANS BATTLE TO SAVE FAENZA   CRACK VETERANS THROWN AGAINST BRITISH NEAR ITALIAN ROAD CENTER.

Nazis Try Driving Eighth Army Off   ‘ST FLEET JAPS HERDEI STORY INTO POCKE} § BOMBS ON LEYTE IS   Over Frankfort Rail Network in Blow to Aid U. S. First and Yhird Armies.   Blast Tank Train

BATTLE RACES AROUND FAENZA   Crack Panzer Units Try To Save Vital Road Center In Italy

Nazis throwin ~ brat Tags in - ~ Faenza Sectut   ‘ierce: See -Saw Battle Rages As Foe Tries To Save City

BATTLE RAGES NEAR FAENZA   Nazis Throw ‘Crack Veterans [nto Fight to Save Highway Center

Republican Leaders Finish Preliminaries To Opening Convention Next Monday

GOP CONVERGES ON WINDY CITY   Dewey, Bricker Spar; Seek Candidate for VicePresident

Republicans Set For Convention   Preliminaries Completed Today For Main Sessions Starting Monday

‘Republican Delegates  Converge on Chicage   Party Leeders Finish - Preliminaries to Manday’ Opening

Republicans Prepare To Open Convention On Monday  Bricker Refuses To Let Dewey Have Show Alone

Sparks Grilled by Juty “About THe eltel  Former Akron Mayor —Declines—te -Revaal.

DOZEN SHIPS JOIN FLEET EVERY DAY   Need Half Million More Men To Man Exoanding Navy

Navy To Get 12 New Ships A Day   Will Have Over Three Million Men By End Of 1944, Knox Reveals.

DOZEN NEW SHIPS DAILY NAVY’S AIM   Knox Reveals 1944 Ouipui fo be Nearly Double 1943 Performance of Sea-Going Vessels   NEEDS MORE MEN   Navy's Strength at End of 1944 Eslimated to be 3,700,000 Officers and Men

NAVY TN NEED OF 3,006,000 MEN IN 194!   Addition of 12 New Ships a Day Leaves Present Manpower 500,000 Short.

More Men Needed  For Naval Service   Half Million Increase Ordered This Year Because of New Ships

U.S. LAUNCHING 12 SHIPS DAILY   Navy To Need 3,006,000 Men And Officers By End Of Year

Dozen New Vessels Added to U. S. Navy  Daily, Knox Reveals   Fleet Will Need Over 3,000,000 Officers, Men by Year’s End

NAVY WILL NEED HALF MILLION MORE THIS YEAR   Addition of Nearly Dozen Ships A Day for 1944 ‘Calls for More Trained  ere

U.S. Adding:12 Ships Daily — To Fleet, Reports Sec. Knox;  Thousands Of’ Men Sousht

Navy Requires 500.200 More Men   Total Strength to Be 3,006,000; 12 New Ships Join Navy Daily

Navy Makes Plans To Meet Manpower Needed To Care For Newly Added Ships

Dozen Ships Daily Added Now To Navy ‘Knox States   Small Auxiliaries Not Included; End Of Year To See Total Personnel Of 2.006 Gbb

Dozen Vessels Joining Fleet Dail y;500,000 Men Required   Navy Has Increased From 913 to 4167 Ships in 2 Years

Navy Needs 500,000 Men, Knox Reports   Constantly Increasing Number of Ships Cited by Chief

Navy Needs 500,000 More Men To Man Dozen New Ships A Day ’ Now Beino Added To U.S. Flee

Knox Says Navy Needs Over 3 Million — Men; Dozen Ships Being Launched Daily

Increase of 500,000 Officers and Men Over Present Enrollment by End of Year in View of Present Program Which. Turns Out Nearly 12 Ships Daily.   KNOX GIVES FIGURES

Knox Cites Need Of Big Navy Personnel   Declares 3,006,000 Officers and Men Will Be Needed by Ends of Year to Man Ships Being Launched at 12-a-Day Rate

Navy Is in Need Of500,000 Men   With Nearly a Dozen New Ships a Day Joining Fleet Manpower a Problem.

Navy Set: Big Ship  Increase   STRENGTH OF 3,006,000 BY END OF 1944 CITED, KNOX REPORTS NEEDS

KNOX EXPECTING 12 NEW SHIPS A’ DAY DURING 1944   Navy Secretary Reveals Nearly Half Million Officers And Men Will Be Needed To Man New Craft In Rapidly Expand ing Fleet.

U.S. Navy Getting Dozen New Ships Every Day   Secretary Knox Says Fleet Will Need to Have 3,006,000 Officers and Men by End OF Year. or Increase of Over Half Million

Russ Offers Poles New Border Terms   Would Annex West Ukraine; Give Poles East Prussia, Corridor

\Lack of Enemy Opposition, Swift Advanece Feature Allied Landing

Difficult To Get Out News Of New Drive   A. P. Correspondent Gives ‘Description Of Latest Italian Landing

“Tetch ed”’ ro mm anders Of Landing saa Show Reporter How War Binds Fichter.

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS LISTED IN LIFE OF  WAR CORRESPONDENT _, DON WHITEHEAD OF ASSO.  “CIATED PRESS TELLS AROUT ALLIED LANDING

HOW WAR CORRESPONDENTS GATHER NEWS IN COMBAT AREA TOLDBY WRITER IN ITALIAN THEATER   Nerve Strain of Riding in Planes, Riding in Amphibious Landing Boats, Traveling with Infantry or in: Jeeps is Recited by Noted Writer

No Shots Fired as Allied Amphibious Forces Walk Ashore Near Nettuno

Yanks Steeled For Hard Job Disappointed   Whitehead Tells of Sus. pense in 24 Hours Before Landing

24 Hours In Life Of Correspondent Landing With Allied Assault Troops

Correspondent With Fitth Army 1 in Italian Landings Describes T hem

Correspondents Have A Tough Time..... Reporter With Landing Forces Is Surprised By _ Ease Of The Operation

Troops Amazed at Ease of Landings Behind Nazi Lines    AP Correspondent With Second Assault Wave Did Not See A Sinale Shot Fired

Meet Little Opposition On Italian Shore   Troops Are Amazed Over Ease Of Landing On Beach South Of Rome, Reports Whitehead

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS LISTED IN LIFE OF WAR CORRESPONDENT  KHON VLIIFTCLIC AMR AR ACCNH   DON WHITEHEAD OF ASSOCIATED PRESS TELLS ABOUT ALLIED LANDING

WPB Situation Under Control   Internal Feuds In  Agency Said Squelched

Rift Between Two ‘Leaders Growing   F.D.R. AND DE GAULLE “DIFFER ON FRENCH  ™ BOLICY

Rift Between Two Leaders Growing   EDR. :-AND DE GAULLE DIFFER ON FRENCH ** pPOLICVv

Pendergast Machine Gave Truman Start on His Political Career   Survived Boss’ Crash and Went on to Make  Reputation as Senate War Costs Investigator

Truman survived Pendergast’s crash to become leader in democratic party

Tieup Ends at Ward Subsidiary   Work Resumed After Army Takes Control

Churchill Promises Nazis _. Stepped Up Air Assaults   British Prime Minister. Declines to Predict End of: Eu ropean War in 1944—Derides View That. a Hitler Is.About to Collapse. 

Churchill Tells Of Plans for Huge Air Blitz   Leader Warns Foe That Worst Is Yet to Come

Churchill Doubt: Early End Of War   New And Increasingly Heavy Air Blows  ‘Beyond Any Imagined’ Promised Nazis By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE  BR eannintan Denace Genhs Ul eibae

Churchill Visions Long Fight Ahead Before Victory   Says Allies Entirely United; Pledges Aerial  Blows Before Invasion

ALLIES TO STEP UP AIR ASSAULT, CHURCHILL SAYS   Prime Minister Promises ‘Heavier Blows Will Be Dealt Germans This Spring and Summer.   WARNS OF STRENGTH OF HITLER’S ARMY   Tells Commons American and British Forces Will Be About Equal at Out set of Invasion. .

CHURCHILL tte STEPPED-UP Alt BLOWS AT REIGH   Will Reach Far Beyond Anything Yet Employed or Indeed Imagined   DECLINES PREDICT END OF CONFLICT IN 1944   Gives House of Commons First War Review in Five Months; Stresses Allied Unity, Frrendship With Russia: Covers Wide Range

Churchill Says Greater Attacks On Germany Are To Be Made Soon   Withholds Encouragement That European War Wil End in 1944; Stresse: Allied Unity

CHURCHILL WARNS NAZIS OF BOMBING   Stresses Allied Unity, Stating Germans Still Strong; Declines To Predict End Of European War In 1944.   Election Year

Air Attacks On Germany To Increase   Churchill, However, Refuses To Predict End of War This Year

Churchill - Forecasts Air Blows   Warns of Nazi Strength,  Stresses Allied Unity In Speaking Before   Bettich Mace

Minister Reports _ Nazis Still Strong   Leader Reveals Invasion About Vo Be Launched

NO COLLAPSE FORESEEN YET FOR GERMANY   GIGANTIC AERIAL BLOWS PROMISED AGAINST NAZIS

Brit ton Pledges Great t Air Drive ‘Against Nazis   Churchill Withholds Hope War in Europe Will End This Year

Churchill Promises Air Blows at Nazis Greater: Than Anything Imaginec

Churchill Doubt: Karly End Of War   “New And Increasingly Heavy. Air Blows. _ “Beyond Any Imagined” Promised Nazis

NEEDED: BLOOD AND BONDS  Noted War Correspondent Tells Of Wounded Men fferinge Blood

A Lesson tn Giving - “B By Ernie Pyle”   \Dispatch’s Foreign Correspondent /Says GI’s Shame Civilians

Election Judges — And Clerks To Serve November 7   Supervisors Announce Names At.Meeting ~ Last Monday. —

klection Judges And Clerks To Serve November 7  Supervisors Announc   Supervisors Announce Names At Meeting Last Monday

DEGAULLE ACCORD EAPEGTED AFTER GAFITAL VISIT   Way May Be C eared for. Adminis:retion by National Committee

NCH LEADER AND STATE  ‘DEPARTMENT EXPECTED TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES." » OVER FRENCH AREAS

TOWN AND COUNTRY   Happenings in And About Town The  hae Past Seven Days

bla URDEAG. TO HOLD FOL AT ALL GOST!   All Nazi Resources Trying to Ferret Out Secrets of Allied “D” Day.

Nazi Spies Probe  Secrets From Air   Enehrer Places Continent Qn Emer, Footing

HUNS SEEK TO UPSET TIMING FOR INVASION   Military Leaders Ordered To Forestall At All Costs Any Allied Stroke   JITTERS HEIGHTENING   May Day Taunts Hurled By Patriots In Occupied Lands Of Continent

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By Internationa  News Service)   POLISH AND NAZI TROOPS FIGHT FIERCELY AT MONTE CASTELLACCIO

Polish Troops Seek To Oust ‘Nazi Defenders From Rugged Monte Castellaccio Slopes

Bill Is Overruled Todav   Kentuckian Is Re-Elected to Senate Office

ALLIES SMASH GERMANS BACK AGAINST MAAS   Drive Against Holland Salient Picking Up Speed

American, British Guns Rock Nazis On W. Front   Preliminaries To New Offensive Are Believed Under Way: Half Of Aachen Held

British Blows Aim At Breaking Nazis   Germans Rocked Back to Venlo In Breakthrough Attempt As Tank Attacks At Aachen Stopped

Allies Drive © Germans Back Toward Venlo   Indications Point To Offensive Aimed At Conquering Nazis Before Christmas

Allies Pound Nazis Along Whole Front   Offensive in North Hints at Plan to Co-operate With Reds

May Be Prelude to Offensive   Yanks Smash Counter Attacks Near Aachen —— Nazis Expect Attack

Canadian Troops Clearing Entrance to Antwerp— Aachen Mop-Up Centinues

ALLIES SMASH NAZIS BACK IN NEW ASSAULT   Start of Fresh Drive To Break Enemy’s  Defense Seen

FORWARD FROM DUTCH SALIENT   Yanks Again Fight Off Nazi Counter-Attacks in Battle of Aachen

NAZI DEFEAT BY CHRISTMAS ALLIED GOAL   Yanks,, British, Russ Now Moving In For Knockout Blow

New Offensive  ~Looms in Europe   Allies Roll Nazis Toward Meuse; Americans Hold Half of Aachen

Offensive In Holland  increases   Indications Are The Aim is to Break German Resistance Before Christmas

Germans Pushed Back on Maas River in Holiand   More Counterattacks Are Beaten Off in Vicinity of Aachen

ALLIED TROOPS ROLL HUNS BACK TOWARD VENLO   Yanks Hold Half of Aachen; Close in On Sea Lane to Antwerp

U.S.-British Drive Pushes. Enemy Back   Toward Venlo   Effort-To Win War Ry. Christmas’ Seen:

British Push Nazis Back In Holland   British Advanc Advance Swift  After Capture of Venray; German Resistance On Schelde Dwindles —

Operations Along Meuse River Are Considered Preliminary To Big Drive Against Germans

Victory Before Christmas  Seems Aim of New Drive   By Allies on West Front

FIERCE FIGHTING IN HOLLAND AND INSIDE AACHEN   British and Americans Rock Germans Back on Meuse And Tighten on Antwerp

Shove Germans Back Toward Venlo on Maas; Aachen Story Nearly Told

ALLIED DRIVE BELIEVED T0 (PRESAGE ALL OUT OFFENSIVE [AIMED AT CRUSHING GERMANS

British And Russian Offensives May Be Start OF Grand Assault On Germany

FIRST STAGES SEEN IN THE HOLLAND AREA   British and American Armor Rock Germans . Back ‘Toward Venlo: in What May Be ‘Opening - Bid for 1944 Victory.  4,

NAZIS ROCKED BACK TOWARD sVENLO SECTOR   Organized German Resistance Is Still Strong

Germans Fall Back From  Tank Attacks   Allies Open Assault Intended to Break All German Resistance Before Winter; Yank Troops Continue to Clean Up Aachen

PUSH GERMANS BACK ON MAAS   Action Seems to Be Preliminary to Big New Offen- . sive in Europe.   STOP “COUNTERTHRUSTS

BRITISH, YANKS HURL FOE BACK TOWARD VENLO   Preliminaries . To Big Push Gn West Front Are Indicated

Big All-Out Push Against Nazis Coming   Allies Shove Germans Back in Preparation for Drive To Crush Enemy Forces by Christmas.

Double Offensive Hits the Germans   British’ and Americans Out to Break Nazis Before  Christmas   STOP COUNTERTHRUSTS   Holland Canadian Force; Less Than Two Miles  From Breskens

ALLIES BATTER CLOSE TO MAAS IN DUTCH BLOW   Offensive May Be Aimed A Erasing Nazi Resistance Before Christmas

Violence of Allied Assault Along West Front Is Increase¢   Offensive to End Nazi Resistance Before Christmas Seen

Nazis Being Rolled Back In Holland   Pressed Toward Venlo; Gain Made West Of Antwerp

Allies May Kk. O. Nazis By Christmas   Action In Holland Salient Hints Plans For Mounting Great Offensive

Germans Being Driven Back On Holland Salient   Allied Armies Building Up Strength For Great New Offensive.

Appears As Preliminary To Offensive At Breaking Germans Before Christmas

ommies And rmor Rock azi Forces   Cracking Resistance Before Christmas Object Of Drive

NAZIS ROCKED BACK BY BRITISH AND U.S, TROOPS   In Holland Canadian Forces Less Than Two Miles From Sea Entrance Ie  Schelde Port.

KE OFFENSE ODN WN WEST   Hope To Break Organized Nazi Resistance Before Christmas   FIGHTING GROWS   British Tommies, Amer ican Armor Advancing In Holland

Germans Falling Back On Meuse; Big Push Seen   Canadians Closing In On Enemy Guns Commanding Antwerp.

[First Guns Fired In New Offensive   Germans Pushed Back in Holland In Preliminaries to New Drive

BRITISH-AMERICAN  MECHANIZED FORCES  ROCK GERMANS BACK ACTION APPEARED BE  PRELIMINARY TO GRAND WECT OFFENCIVE

Canadian Units Only Two Miles From Bresken:   Great Offensive To Break Enemy Strength Before Christmas Is Imminent

BRITISH-AMERICAN MECHANIZED FORCES ROCK GERMANS BACK  ACTION APPEARED BE DDCTIMINADY TA roann   ACTION APPEARED BE PRELIMINARY TO GRAND WEST OFFENSIVE

THRUST SEEN AS PRELIMINARY 10 ALL-OUT ASSAULT   YANKS SMASH NEW GERMAN ATTACK IN THE AACHEN SECTOR

28TH DIVISION IN FIRST ARMY   Pennsylvanians in Command of Gen. Cota Paraded in Paris Streets

Entire Chilean Cabinet Resigns   Action Will Give President ‘Free Hand’

Use Bazookas With Deadly Effect  In Invasion Of Jap Arsenal Isle   Eyewitness Account Of Capture Of Prize Saipa: Airfield After Smashing Enemy’s Attempt To Reinforce, Is Given. _

‘Southera P rar of Saipan Isle Under American Control   Yanks Seize Prize Airfield in Drive  Against Stubborn Enemv Resistance

Americans Wit Air Field Upon Saipan Island   American Land-Based Planes to Operate From Field as Yanks Sweep Across Island

Yanks Move On After Capturing ‘Aslito Airfield   -Important Plane Base On Saipan Island Falls To Americans

Saipan Holdings Are Expanded by American Forces   Remnants of Jap Divisions Rolled. Back by Yankees

Jap Civilians On Saipan Flee To Yank Area For Protection, Food, Housing

YANKS ROLL JAPSBACK ON SAIPAN   Control Southern Part, Capture Prized Airfield

REPORT ALLIES NOW IN NORWAY   Stockholm Hears Landings Made Near Lofoten Islands

ALLIES LAND IN NORWAY, CLAIN   Lofoten Islands Region : Invaded, Sweden Says

LOFOTON ISLAND THRUST CLAIMED   Allies Reported Landing In Northern Norway Near Arctic Ocean

~ BACK OF THE NEWS  What's Going on Behind the Scenes and What It Means, As Seen Through the Byes of Keen Observers in the Nation's Nerve Centers of Politics, Finance and Industry   Paul Atallon_   Ray Tucker  Washinaten

PUBLIS INVITED   Lt. .Goyernor Tuggle to Speak, Special Musical Prorram

TOWN CLOSE TO BUDAPES!   Reds Clear Foe From Nearly All of 50Mile Rail Line

CLEAR = NAZIS f FROM RAILWAY IN HUNGARY   Storm and Capture Mezokovesd, Gaining Control of Artery Between Budapest and Slovakia.   Prevent Breakthrough

NAZIS CLEARED FROM RAILWAY . BY RED TROOPS   Stronghold Of Manor, 1: Miles From Budapest,  Falls To Russians   MUD IS HAMPERING MANEUVERS BY TANKS.

GERMANS CLEARED FROM RAIL LINE   Russians Capture Axis - Stronghold of  Monor

Reds Clear Rail Lines; Monor Falls   Thirty Localities Taken As Soviets Gain On Budapest

Soviets Clear Nazis From Vital Railway   Axis Stronghold of Monor Is Captured by Reds

TYRONE MAN IS MISSING IN GERMANY   Second Lt. Robert M. Little Is Unreported Since Mission on May 12.

CONGRESS SEEKS TO FINISH WORK BY END OF WEEK.      Wants To Take Summer Vacation Appropriation Bill To Be Considered

BLASTS. NEAR 2 AP SCRIBES   London Apartment ‘Cleaned’ By Exnlosion

Treason Trial Ends Dramatically; Eight Nazis To Get Death Sentences

GERMAN OFFICERS SENTENCED TODAY   Fight To Be Hanged Publicly Tonight As Examples

SWEDES RESENT BALTIC ORDER   Hold Nazis Responsible For Any Ship Incidents

SWEDEN ROUSED BY NAZI EDICT   Berlin Says Ships May Be Sunk In Baltic Without Warning

‘American Forces On Anzio Beachhead Move Forward To Points Two Miles Of Nazi Supply Line On Via Appia

Amenicans Push On Appian Way   Yanks Only 2 Miles From Vital Route

REVAMPED ITALY AFTER FREEDOM UMBERTO’S GOAL   King’s Son Pledges Real War On All Axis Influences

6,000 ALLIED - AIRCRAFT TAKE PART IN RAIDS   Four European Countries Feel Brunt Of Heavy Bomb Raids   35 ENEMY FIGHTERS BAGGED DURING DAY

BOMBERS HIT IN NORTHERN FRANC   Down 35 Enemy Planes, De stroy 51 Others on Ground

AIRFIELDS BOMBED BY ALLIED FLIERS      Great Fleets Take Part in * Raid in Northern France

35 Nazi Planes Are Shot Down  Allied Aircraft Hit Vital Airfields

ALLIED PLANES BLAST DROMES OVER FRANCE   Yank Heavies Smash Bridges In Mastricht In Holland And Huy, Namur In Bel gium

BOMBS ARE RAINED. ON FLEEING NAZIS   ALLIES BLAST 35 GERMAN FIGHTERS FROM SKIES— LOSE 23 PLANES.

Nazi Robot Bomb Salvos Unchecked as Nicht Attacks Take Toll of Britons

Americans Seize Italy Supply Port   Yank Columns Push On Toward Leghorn

Important Port in Allied Hands  bg ee ee. ee Boas   Pressing Supply Problem Eased

Laud Release India Leader   Friends Fear New Crisis Marked In Ulness Of Mo. handas Gandhi.

Ghandi Release Brings Praise  - Even English Press Shows Satisfaction

Fear Crisis In  Gandhi’s Healtt  Release Of Mohanda: : Is Welcomed

INDIA WELCOMES GANDHI RELEASE   Pleasure Expressed in All Newspapers of Nation

HEED PLEA F LOCAL CONTROL IN YOUTH PLAN   Probate Judges Gain In Fight to Control County Agents

STUDY COMMISSION MEETS WITH KELLY   Stricter Requirements For County Agents is Goal

TAFT WANTS TO-KILL EXGESS PROFITS TAX   Says It Demoralizes Business And Retards Plans

JAPS CLAIM . YANKS LOSE BATTLESHIF   ‘Two Cruisers Sunk, Nips Say; Six i Ships Damaged

Showdown In  Pacific Believed Near   Results of First Round of Great Sea, Air Engagements Not Assessed; Nimitz Promises Details When Available

7 EQWSEETS GK By First Army In Big Attack   Doughboys Gain Nearly Mile in New Offensive; Third Beats Off Four Assaults; Seventh Pushes Ahead

Forces Strike Viciously on Snow. Covered Front  VILLAGE 1S SEIZED  IN FURIOUS ATTACK  Patton's Troops Throw Back Tank- Supported Assaults

DOUGHBOYS CUT NEW HOLES INTO WEST NAZI WALL   First U. S. Army Advances Nearly A Mile West Of Roer River   7TH ARMY FIGHTING WAY INTO HAGUENAU

NAZI FOOTHOLD WEST OF ROER NOW TOTTERING   Allied Force Scores Gain Of One Mile, Driving © Through Snow

U. 5. First Army Is Driving Germans From Footholds West Of The Roer, While Third, Seventh And Ninth Armies Shove Forward

Open Vicious Assaults on Germans’ Last Footholds West of River; ‘Bombers Pulverize Enemy Lines

1AKI TOUR ITOWNS, BATITE™ -INIQ. IIRL MORI- ‘IN ¢- NIN. ATL ALONG 10- MIE PRONE

Hit Hard Blows In Resumption Of Rhine Drive   Take One Village, Enter Four Others

Four Towns Are Taken by Nightfall   Yanks Enter Three Other Cities in Major Attack

Ast Army Blow  Jolts Germans  On Wide Front   3d Crushes Enemy Effort  ‘Ta Reduce Bridgehends  Dw Canet. Gale Bank

Yanks Gain Despite Heaw Fall of Snow   First Army Beats Off Four German. Attacks On Saar Bridgeheads  PLANES BACK: PUSH

First Army Drives Inio Four Towns  Lad Tienes: Diwke   Third Army Beats Off Attacks On Saar Bridgeheads

Hodges Opens Big Attack In Snow   Patton Repels German Attacks And Advances

War Of Nerves Involves Japs  Commentator Sees Lull Refore Maiaor Rlaws«

Situation in China Grave; Japs Advance   Danger Greatest Republic Haa Faced in 6 Yeara

WARM, SULTRY DAY   ‘Scattered Light Showers Forecast For This Part of State

head Armies Storm into the Manganese Center of Nikopol.  ‘aap ee 6 hd ak A Dee eee hh a   TIGHTEN GRIP ON 15 NAZI DIVISIONS   Germans Lose 22,000 Men in First Trap; Survivors Encireled.

RUSSIANS SCORE IMPORTANT NEW GAINS IN UKRAINE AGAINST NAZIS   General Malinovosky’s Third Army Opens Battle For Nikopol.

RUSSIANS SYSTEMATICALLY WIPING OUT GERMANS ON DNIEPER AND KIEV FRONTS

Germans Retain Firm Grip on Italian Town   U.S. and Canadian Army Newspapers Admit Enemy Has Improved Positions

SLACKENS IN CASSINO   indicate Germans Have Regained initiative There

GERMANS STILL HOLD FAST 10 “RUINS OF TOWN   Yank, Canadian Army ®Organs Report New Offensive Looms

Army Magazin Admits Nazis Retain Town   Ground Lost Despite 12 Days Of Fierce Fighting

‘Allies Fail In Effort To Take Cassino Ruin After Bloody Assault

Cassino Battle Slackens.As Barrage Opens   Weary Troops Pull Back As Big Guns, Start Savace Duel

Army Newspaper Concedes Attack of No Success   German Hold Still “ As Strong As Before March 15 Bombing

Ground Fighting Inside Cassino Has Slackened   Cannonading From Hillsides Is Opened Up

Army Newspaper Calls Cassino Battle Bloody Failure; Germans Gain   Observers Report Nazis Seized Initiative As Papers Insist Defeat Is Not Final

WEATHER   ARMY JOURNAL CALLS CASSINO BATTLE FAILURE   Explains Stalemate

Army Press Frankly Says Efforts Fail   Nazis Regain Initiative In Battling Through Ruined City

raiure Admitted By Allies   Germans Regain Initiafive in Embattled Town

U.S. and Canadian Army Papers Frankly Admit Nazis Stronger Than Ever There

GROUND BATTLE INSIDE CASSING HAS SLAGKENED   Heavy Cannonading Is Opened From Hill Positions ‘ By Foes

llies Fail  Bid for assino   Stars and Stripes Concedes Germans Have Regained Initiative in Town

ARMY NEWSPAPER TERMS CASSINO ~ FIGHT A FAILURE   iStars and Stripes Admits  Nazis Have Held and are Threatening Our Posi aga Ss:

Attacks So Far Failure, Is Conceded   Defeat Not Final and Ney All-out Offensive Will Be Organized

ARMY PAPERS GALL CASSING FIGHT FAIL   German Hold on Town Strong as Ever, Assertion of Stars and Stripes.

ALLIED THRUST BEATEN, SAYS ARMY'S PAPER   Bloody Hand-to-Hand Struggle Fails to Oust Germans

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, March 27 (UP)--The Allied at-. ttack on Cassino has ended in bloody failure after 12 days of bitter hand-to-hand fighting, the U. S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes ‘  ‘conceded today, while observers indicated that the Germans had regained the initiative inside the ruined : al  ’ on annem dh aa teon ee

Army Newspaper Concedes Cassino Fighting Bloody Failure for  Allied Troops   Germans Regain Initiative Inside Mountain Stronghold

New Soviet Push In East Prussia   Berlin Reports Reds Have Broken Through Narew River Lines

THREE-WAY DRIVE OPENED ON PRUSSIA   Germans Say Two New Red Offensives Are Opened, One to the South and One Along the Baltic.

Russians Capture Ochakov, Clearing                March to Odessa

DEFENDE BASE ON GLAGK SEA FALLS TO RED!   Ochakov Fall Clears Path to Odessa; Reds Race to Mounfain Passes.

WEEK-END MAY SEE RUSSIANS — IN THAT COUNTRY   Important Communications Center for Germans May Be Vacant.

Russians in Flank  Move   Nazis Predict More Retreats; Leave Equipment in Flight

Red Army Races for Hungary   Crech Underground In Contact With Approaching Reds

Near Goal in. Wor Bond Drive; Need $117,418.25   Heavy Saturday  Purchases Pushed » Total Up; One  More Day to Go

Enemy Violate: Truce; Allies  Roll Into Paris   Fighting Rages Anew After Germans Suddenly Attack Patriots; French, Yanks Enter City From Three Sides

Gloma Blake Suffers Right Side Injuries   Infantryman. Writes He Was Wounded In France, Auqust 6

Two Cl0-Endorsed Wisconsin Candidates Lose  Republican Governor And Senator Get RPenaminnations

CHURCHILL IS BACK AT WORK   Recovered From Pneumon.ia, Premier Confers With King, War Leaders

Churchill Begins Series of Talks   Prime Minister Returns tc London Looking foward Hour for Invasion

Republicans Hole a Majority in Legislature  G.O.P. Gains Five Seats: Has Edge in Senate, House

Republicans Hold a Majority in Legislature  G.O.P. Gains Five Seats; Has Edge  eo. Goo

POLICY RIFT TAUGHT ALLIES LESSON IS VIEW OF HALIFAX   No Indication, Though, U. S., Britain Will Change Ideas

Halifax View Stirs Doubts   Anglo-U. §. Breach On Policy Serious

Believe Policy Breach Will Remain Until Roosevelt, Churchill Confer

Three States Vote For Byrd; Vice-Presidential Selection To Bring Big Fight On Floor   Nomination Made At 6 P.M.O’clock Casa Grande. Time; Convention Adopts. Its Platform. With But Few’ Amendments

Third Offensive In Ukraine Rips 109-Mile Gap   Uman Base Captured; Rome Railyards Hit ; Beach Attacks Fail

Allies Continue Advance in Italy   Strong Nazi Defense Fails to Halt Drive

Allies Push Thru 6 Towns. In Torrent of Rain That Swamps Big Scale Action

Yanks-British Push Through 6 More Towns   Report Rommel Pulls Back Armor To Avoid a Trap

CANADIANS TAKE ST. MARTIN AS NAZIS RETREAT   Rommel Withdraws Tanks As Allies > Advance In Rain

ALLIES GAINING THROUGH HEAVY. NORMANDY RAIN   Go Through Six Villages As Gen Rommel Withdraws Mane Tanks

Despite Rain Allies Advance Through Six More Villages   German Armor Is Reported Pulling Back From Break

Drive Through Six More Villages In Normandy As Rommel Withdraws  YANKS IN ITALY CROSS ARNO RIVER  Germans Open Artillery Attack On Newly Taken Livorno Port

Allies Siog Thru Downpour, Free  6 More Villages   German Tanks Pulling Back From Threat  Of Encirclement

Heavy Downpour Fails To Stop Allied Advance   British, Yank Units Plunge Ahead Through Six More Villages

ALLIES TAKE SIX VILLAGES [N NORMANDY   Plune Forward Despite Heavy Downpower of Rain

Nazis Withdraw Armor — From Caen Area To Avoid ST hreat Of Encirclement

Allies Push Nazis Back Below Caen      Troops Plunge Through Six Villages Despite Heavy Downpour

Yanks, British Take Six Towns in Normandy   Nazi Tank Withdrawal Hinted as Rain Halts Big Scale Action

Normandy Front Drenched by Heavy Rains   Americans and British Advance Desnite Weather

BRITISH SCORE CAUMONT GAINS   MORE VILLAGES NABBED AS MEN BATTLE IN RAIN

Allies Threaten To Cut Off Cherbourg Peninsula   People Of Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium And France Are Warned To Keep Away From Coastal Waters Leess They Hinder Invasion Forces Operations

Situation in France Warrants ‘Sober Confidence’; Coastal Ship Warning g May Presage New Blew; Enemy Loses 1% Aireraft. Allies 900

Bricker Launches GOP Campaign   Says Only He, Dewey, Can Restore 2-Party Government in U. S.

REVIVE LIBERTY, BRICKER URGES   Ohioan Launches Drive For Vice Presidency

U.S. Artillery Blasts af Japs In Philippines   Yank Infantrymen Annihilate “Banzai” Attack in Another Sector of Leyte

lighting Bitter for Ormoe   Trapped Japanese Clash Violently With US Infantrymen Of 96th Division

Send Explosives Into Jap Forces   Americans Battling to Drive Last of Enemy From Leyte Island   FIGHTING IS BITTER   “Banzai” Counterattack I: Beaten Off by Allied  Idiers 

‘Long Toms’ Pound Ormoc   Infantrymen Annihilate ‘Banzai’ Attack; Japs Strongly Entrenched

‘Long Toms’ Blast Japs On Leyte   Griat Barrage Against. Or* moc Area Follows The Smashing of Jap Attack   FINAL BATTLE FOR ISLE UNDER WAY   Yankees Gain In Bitter Battles; Jap Air Losses Continue Heavy

Yank Infantrymen Annihilate Jap “Banzai’ Assault  Enemy Concentrations Pounded by Big Guns of U. S. Troops

Bombard  Ormoc.   Pour Shells Into to Jap Positions As Fin  Battle to Push Eoemy From Leyte Shapes Up

Liimactic Fight Looms On Leyte: Ormoc Is Nearer  Jap Reinforcements Evade Interference

EXPLOSIVES ARE » HURLED AT JAP —ORMOC TROOPS   ™ ‘Panzai’ Attack Is Crushed by Yank Forces—At Least 500 Nips Slain

Japanese Under Shelling In Philippines   Final Battle Of Leyte Cdmpaign Shaping Up

LEYTE BATTLE NEARS CLIMAX   Shell Jap Troop Concen trations, Smash Hys terical Attack

FINAL BATTLE LEYTE ISLAND BELIEVED IMPENDING AS JAPS TRY TO STRENGTHEN FORCES

Heavy Yank Guns Shell  Jap Forces   Infantrymen Turn Back Leyte “Banzai’’ Attack;

Bitter Fighting _Underway As Yanks Close on  _odLastJap-Escape..Rart; Banzai Charges Re. pulsed,

I ndications Are [hat State Demo ~ _ Parley In Austin Will Be Lulu

POLITICAL POT A-BOILIN‘ Pro- And Anti-Rooseveltians Exnected to Clash at Pow-Wow

lexas Demos ‘Seamed Up For Session   Fur May Fly On Roosevelt Issue

JAPANESE FALL BACK IN BURMA   New Offensive Started To Clear Land Route Into China

FLIERS RAID DUISBURG, HAMBURG   Huge Fires Started in Transportation Center

Allied Bombers Hit Supply Lines   Round Out Week of Crippling Blows

RAF Bombers Hit Duisburg Targets   Ends Week of Non-Stop Bombardment In Reich

Texas Democrat Says New Deal Is Planning to Establish 'New Government System in U. S.

T DESTROYERS; 3 TRANSPORTS REPORTED SUNK   Between 5,000 And 10,000 Jap Reinforcements Landed On Leyte Island   AMERICANS ADVANCE THROUGH MOUNTAINS

Three Transports and 7 Destroyers Lost in Effort  SIZE OF LANDING FORCE NOT GIVEN  Appearance of Convoy Touches Off Air Battle

U.S. Aireraft Hampered By Weather   Also Seven Destroyers, But Not Before Enemy Lands Reinforcements  NOW TOTAL 40,000

Yank Ground forces Gain in  (arigara Area   ce of Nip Convoy Touches Off 94Hour Air Battle; 16 Planes Downed

Enemy Losses At Ormoc Include Seven Destroyers   U.S. Airmen Pounce On Convoy During  Landing Operations; Smash 3 Transport

For Philippines as 35,000 Japanese Already There Were Augmented by Many Thousands More Arriving on Cargo Ships.

Ground Forces Continue Their Advances   Enemy Now Has From 40 to 50 Thousand Troops in Area; All Signs Point to Heavy Battle for Ormoc

Japs Reinforce Ormoc, but Lose Seven Destroyers, Three Transports in Sea-Air Fight

Sacrifice ten ships in landing   Americans drive foe back 5 miles

“ORIGINAL FORGE   Japs Lose 3 Transports and @ 7 Destroyers in Effort   FIERCE BATTLE   @Yanks Advance Up to Five Miles Through Hills South of Carigara

PUT ASHORE IN MIDST OF AIR BATTLI   American Fliers Attack _ Enemy Convoy, Sinking ' Three Transports and Seven Destroyers.   DOWN 16 PLANES AND LOSE EIGHT   Nipponese Now Believed to Have 40,000 to 45,000 Troops on Island Facing 4 U. S. Divisions. -

Four Appointees To Be Questioned   Committee May Start Today With Grew

Appeal Made for. Blood Donations Lamar County Lack:  en ne o~,.en

GOEBBELS  BERLIN BOSS   Named "Sole Administrator’ of Bomb-Soaked Capital

GIVES GOEBBELS RULE IN BERLIN   Hitler Makes Propaganda — Chief Sole Administrator  :   Says Broadcast

AWAKENED CONGRESS IS SEEN BY BRICKER   G. O. P. Aspirant Says Barkley Stand Shows Legislative Branch Taking Rirhtful Place.

Papandreou Resigns, OKs Regency   British Weight Thought Behind Greek Archbishop

WAR TODAY   Italian Throne Rocking Dangerously; Emanuele’s Promised Retirement May Pre<aee~-End Monarchy

PROMISE OF RETIREMENT ITALIAN KING MAY MEAN END MONARCHY FOR SUCCESSOR ROMAN EMPIRE

MONARCHY'S END IS SEEN FOR ITALY   Emanuele’s Promise To Retire Presages Passing Of Throne

DECISION OF ITALIAN TO RETIRE PRESAGES END OF MONARCHY AND MAY INDICATE EUROPEAN TRENDS   Communists Whom Mussolini Fought, Appear to Be Most Aggressive, But Final Form of Italian Government Awaits Vote by the People

THE WAR  a 2 - ¢ ate) J . Fig 7’. 4 ‘ : he bs . *~ * OP ae . ne >

ERE ar  \Coming End Of Monarchy In Italy” ‘Indicated In King Emanuele’s Move

The War Today   RR, HEWITT MACKENZIE Sessviated Preas War Analyst

Japanese Push Into IndiaSeen Not Dangerous   Allies Will Hold Iniphal Gen. Auchinleck Says;  eleva: Bete Se

JAP INVADERS ABOVE IMPHAL IN 200 MILES   SECURITY OF INDIA NOT JOLTED, SAYS AUCHINLECK

BRITISH PUSHED OUTOFTIDDIM   Auchinleck Says There Is No Cause For Alarm  In India

JAPS ON PLAIN ABOVE IMPHAL   British Forced to Abandor Tiddim; Stilwell’s Men Tighten Trap on Foe

Tiddim base abandoned by British force  Move branded. as unumpertant

JAPS FORCE BRITISH 10 LEAVE TIDDIM   Forward Base In Burma, Which Gen. Auchinleck Says Is No Cause For  At. eee   No Cpposition

Japs Capture Advanced _ British Base:   India Invaders Thrust Into Manipur: Pla

Cut New Section Out Of Rumanian Rail Network   Ukranian Army Forces Race 19 Miles Across Steppes; Fleet Cooperates In Capiure Of Tiligulo-Berezanka; Sipotyany Taken.

»Russian Advance In South  ls Now Drawing Near Ukraine  Goins Of As High As 19 Miles Are Made In ® Move To Throw Germans Out Of Southern Area

Survey Shows fMany-New-Farms Will Be Desired After The War   Twice As Many Future Op‘-erators as Those Who Want to Quit

SHORTAGE OF FARMS AFTER WAR IS SEER   FCA Survey Shows 2-1 Ratio.

SNOW AND DROPPING TEMPER: _ATURES OVER VAST AREA AS WINTER MAKES SUD DEN ASSAULT

Communist Wing of P. A.C. Seeking Control Rep. Clare Luce Warns Labor  a oa Pee et ere

Allies ‘Again. . Hit Philippines:   Small: Freighter Sunk; No Opposition Met

JAP FREIGHTER 1S SUNK BY ALLIED PLANES   Communique Sa ys Aerial Campaign in Moluccas Threat ens Philippines

BOMBERS SINK ANOTHER JAP FREIGHTER   Was Sunk In Davao Gulf, Off ‘ Philippines

Montana Medical Convention Will Open Today  Heavy Program Is Arranged  fae Gigta fencer

Montana Medical Convention Will Open Today   Heavy Program Is Arranged for State Group

Heavy Force Escorted by Yank Fighters   Certain Targets in Capital Hit; Big Air Battle Reported

MEET STRONG NAZI FIGHTERS   German Radio Pictures One Of War’s Greatest Air Battles. t

American Heavy Bombers in Strong Forces Plow Through Wall of Anti-Aircraft Fire For a Daylight Raid on Nazi Canital.   Returning Pilots Tell of Heavy Fighter Opposition Encountered

U. S. Bombers Again Smash Berlin Area.   ‘Greatest Alr Battle of Wear Reported Raaing Over Germany

Berlin Is Struck  In Heavy Foree  Germans Admit Plane:  Reach Target

U. S. AIR FLEET STRIKES SECOND BLOW AT BERLIN   OTHER ALLIED UNITS SMASH TARGETS» IN NORTHERN FRANCE

Wall Of Flak, Fighters Hit  Berlin Raiders   1,000 Miles Through Opposition To Reich Capital— Nazi Radio Says “Biggest”   SECOND 4N THREE DAYS

SECOND YANK AIR BLOW ON NAZI CAPITAL   Seventh Operation in Eight Days for U. S.  Bombing Forces

“Strong Forces” Hit Nazi Capital A Second Blow   The German Radio Reports One of _War’s Greatest Air Battles -

Berlin Again Is Target Of U.S. Raid   Big American Force Hits Capital Despite Bad Fight

Second Yank Bombing Of Nazi Capital   Germans Report One Of Greatest Running Aerial Battles Of War.

Germans Say — _ Balile Rages  * for 350 Miles   Surprise Follow-Up to Sat. urday Raid: Aimed at Selected Targets   INVASION. COAST ALSO.IS POUNDED      ®swarms of Fighters Accom’ pany Heavy Craft;-Full “Story Not Yet Told

Deal Second Blow to Capital City in ‘Very Strong Force   Berlin Radio Tells of Great Battle in Air This Morning

BLOW THEIR SECOND RAID BY DAYLIGHT   Yanks Tell of SevereFighter Opposition and Berlin Says One of War’s Greatest Air Battles Is Fought.

rortresses Back Over Nazi Capital   U-S. Fliers Say Berlin a Long Way Erom Being Leveled

Nazi War Machine Weakening ee a ES  Rommel Reported In Quarrel With Commander In France

Nazi War Machine Weakening eae eee PARENTS  Rommel Reported In Quarrel With Commander In France

Reporfed Rommel-Runstedt Fuss Indicates : Hitler's Vaunted Machine Begins fo Crack:

Eight Dead An Oil City Gas Fire   100-Octane Aviation Gasoline Plant Destroyed, 8 Burned

Quebec Votes Protest King’s War Policies      Duplessis Leads In Premier Race

“tWO° TROOP TRANSPORTS ‘AMONG VESSELS SENT DOWN DURING ATTEMPT AT  ; REINFCRCEMENT: .”

MANY JAPS DIE AS PLANES SINK 5-SHIP CONVOY   Mille Shelling, Kuriles Raids, Admiralty Conquest Hint New Invasions

Report Junction Of Australian, American Force   Believe 14,000 Japs Destroyed in Huon Peninsula Campaign

YANKS, AUSSIES EFFECT JUNCTURE   FORCES JOINED NEAR SAIDOR, NEW GUINEA—BULK OF 14,000 JAPS KILLED.

Willkie Name Figures In  Dewey Talks   GOP Nominee Meets NE Folks

Believe Omaha Woman, Found Beaten to Death, Was Victim of Robbery

Victim Of Bludgeoning Death Known   Robbery Believed Motive For Slaying of Omaha Resident

ARMY PLANE FORCED DOWN   Makes Crash Landing At Local Airport; No One Iniured

Army Plane {s Damaged Here   Four Crewmen Unhurt In Forced Landing

CAPPER IS NAMED TO SUCCEED SLOAN      Cumberland Lawyer Ap. pointed Chief Judge by Governor

WALTER CAPPER IS APPOINTED   Cumberland Attorney I Named To Maryland Appellate Court

‘Dead Wood’ Removal Is Ordered  By Governor   No Reprisals Planned Along Political Lines, Martin Says, However  AICL CA DTIATIOCM OCrrarworec

Martin Bids Cutting Out Dead Wood   GOVERNOR DENIES THAT THERE WILL BE REPRISALS’ FOR THIRD-TIME SWEEP OF ROOSEVELT,   No Cabinet Changes

EARLY THRUST ACROSS RIVER BORDER LOOMS   Moscow Says Soviets Are Only 60 Miles From Czecho-Slovakia

“We Are Going Into Berlin. Say Red Generals   Soviet Guns Massed On Prut Shelling  Rumania

Reds Poised for Balkan Thrust: Shell Rumania   Soviets Drive To Prut River On 53-Mile Front.

Six Jap Cargo : Ships Smashed   Bombers Deal Big Blow ln Maréhalle

Bond Leader Says County Pride Is at Stake Now  Unblemished Record Must Be Kept,

Bond Leader Says County Pride Is at Stake Now  Unblemished Recerd Must Be Kept,  oe ean . an peenne

U.S. Bombers In Paris Area. Nazi Radio Broadcasts  Huge Force Of Yank Planes Strikes Again At Ear De-Calais  2. .2 ge ig

1250 AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS HIT WEST WAL  Aerial Ass ssault, Ts Of Teac etal ch   Aerial Assault Is Of Powerful Proportions   ROCKET GUNS ARE USED BY GERMANS

HUGE AMERICAN ARMADA POUNDS INVASION COAST   British Fliers Strike French Shore, Cologne in Night Attack

Aerial Assault On French Coast   OVER 1250 PLANFS' IN NEW RAID ON NAZIS

Aerial Assault of Terrific Proportions ‘Made :Along -Invasion ‘Coast For 4th ‘Straight ‘Day; RAF Attacks... Same Area:for Third Straight Wight.

U.S. Heavy Bombers Hit French Coast   Allied Air Power Based ia Britain Concentraies oa Tareeic ior Invasion

U.S. Planes Drop 2,200 TonsBombs In Daylight   Boulogne & Calais Are Targets Of 1,250 Bombers

1,250 Yank Planes Again Attack Coast   ferl 2.200 Tons On Area; RAF Assaults Cologne At Night With

13 Thousand Tons of Bombs Loosed Over France in 72 Hours   Coast Line Shaken by Unrelenting Aerial Attacks in June

1,290 PLANES ROCK FORTIFIED FRENCH COAST   Fourth Attack in Row Against Atlantic Invasion Wall

Planes Blast Boulogne Area   France Gets 13,000 Tons of Explosives in 72 Hours, Road, Rail Communications Ripped; R. A. F. Smashes Coast Targets

2200 Tons of Bombs Rained Down in Drive Against French Coastal Areas

BOULOGNE AND CALAIS HAMMERED   RAF Blasts Invasior _ Coast, Cologne In  Night Assaults

Americans Hit France Invasion Coast Again   Blast Area for Third Consecutive Night; British Lay Mines in Enemy Waters; Heavy Aerial Support in Italian Push

Bombers Hit Coast Area   Center Heavy Battering On French Coast Just Across From England

~—CALAIS, BOULOGNE TARGET—   Pound French Coast   U. S. Heavies Striké After RAF Night Raid

FOURTH STRAIGHT ATTACK ON COAST   Installations In Bou logne And Calais Areas Heavily Bombed   POWERFUL ARMADA   British RAF Bombers Also Blast Coast And Hit Cologne

Yank Heavies Batter France   1,250 Bombers and Fighters Attack Nazi Military Installations

1,250 Pound Boulogne anc Calais Areas   Drop 2,200 Short Tons Of Bombs On Targets

Approximately 1,250 American Heavy Bombers And Fighters Smash Military Installations In Boulogne And Calais Areas Of France — U. S. Daylight Operations Follow On Heels Of RAF Attacks On Strategic Objectives During Night

Bombers Smash Hard af French Invasion Coast   Channel Ports Bottered Again By Allied Planes

INVASION COAST GETS 4TH HEAVY ATTACK IN ROW   Powerful Aerial Assault Against Europe Continues; Cologne Raided; ItalyBased Planes In Action Again.

U. S. Planes Keep Air Raids Going   Heavy Day Assault Follows Night Smash by British

1,250 PLANES UNLOAD 2,200 TONS OF BOMBS   British. In Night Forays. At: tack Nazi Defenses And Cologne

HURL 2200 BOMB TONS ON CALAIS, BOULOGNE AREAS   HEAVIEST ATTACKS AIMED AT DEFENSES CLOSEST TO ENGLAND

YANKS CONTINUE GREAT RAIDS ON PAS-DE-CALAIS   1,250 Planes Assault Invasion Coast In Fourth Straight Attack

U.S. BOMBERS HIT MARK ON FRENCH COAST   Greater Aerial Attacks Begin Against Nazis

Bombers Smash At Calais And  Boulogne Areas   Yanks Dump 2,200 Short Tons Of Explosives On  Nazi Fortifications.

Great Assault Made Against French Coast  Raid A Follow-Up To Attacks By Reitich Planec

AMERICAN BOMBERS IN GREAT FORCE IN COASTAL BLASTINGS   MONDAY’S RAIDS FOURTH IN ROW ON AREA NEAR. EST TO ENGLAND

Coast Areas Are Pounded By American Air Raiders   Fourth Raid Made Upon Invasion Site

Calais Area Hammered by 'Big Bombers   13,000 Tons of Bombs Hit France in Last 72 Hours

Powerful Allied , Air Fleets Lunge At French Coast   1,250 U. S. Heavies Lead Assault on Installations at Boulogne and Calais

SUATTER 2,200 SHORT TONS OF BOMBS   Fourth Attack In Row On Pas De Calais Area   Struck By R.A.F. By Night: Raid Free Night Is Enjoyed By Britain

U. S. Heavies Smash French Coastal Area   1,250 American Bombers Deal Tremendous Blow To Nazi Forts

BOMBEHG HAIG NAZI Bato ON FRENGH COAG)    German: Radio Reports Planes Over Paris; Hungary Raided in Night.

BLAST FRENCH COAST FOURTH STRAIGHT DAY   ‘About 1,250 50 U. S. Bombers and ‘Fighters: on ‘Monday Mission, Strik - ing Primarily at BouYooene and Calais Areas.

joulogne And ‘alais Areas lardest Hit   More Than 13,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped Upon France Within 72 Hours

Invasion Coast Is Lashed   U.S. Assault Comes After R. A. F. Bombs Cologne.

YANK BOMBERS JAR COAST OF FRANCE TODAY   Nazis Report U. S. Planes Over Paris — Raids Follow Big RAF Attack

16 SHIPS SUNK BY U. 8, SUBS   Undersea Craft Rove Japan Coastline

U. S. Submarines ‘Sink 13 Jap Ships   Sea Raiders Enter Nips’ “Front Yard”

FDR Working On Messages      ‘State of Union.’ , Budget Reparts Due Congress

Saipan Climax Is Near   Island Struggle Mounts to New Fury; Fall of Garapan Closer

Second: & Fourth Marine Divisions and © 27th Army. Division Fighting A Battle of Epic Courage; Marine Units Suffered Major Share Of Casualties.

 Marines Clamp Vise On Garapan   City, a Mass of Flame And Rubble, Is Near Surrender; Roll Japs Back in North Sainan

Senate Takes Exception Over Draft Report   Challenges Report of Special Medical Committee and Urges Physical Standards Be Lowered.

HAWARDEN GIRL AND AKRON MAN ARE MARRIED   ‘Ceremony Takes. Place © “At Lutheran Church In Hawarden, February 3

Ensign Beehler And Helen Adler Of LeMars Wed  Leave For Florida Where Groom Is Assigned Duty

B-29'S BLAST WAR ARSENAL IN MANCHURIA   70 Superfortresses Inflict Damage, Japs Admit

Superfortresses Blast Manchuriat Arsenal of Japs.   Tokyo Admits ‘Some’ Damage Inflicted By American Bombs

Governor Thye Leads Ticket Back To Office   President Rolls Up Substantial Lead In Half of Precincts

German Industrialists Profit By Leak In Plans Of African Invasion

Nazis Contrived Profit on Invasion of Africa   Knew Secret Plans. Punished Those Who Helped Allies. Author Say

Says Germans Profited by Deal on Francs   Refugee Writer Says Frenchman told Nazi: Of Allied ‘42 Plans

European Bankers Knew of African Invasion, Plans and Profited. Refugee Says in New Bock

More Ohio Operators Out   Strike in 10 Cities —Walkout Expected To Spread

More Walkouts In Ohio Bell.  Long Distance Calls Halted By Strike

DAYTON STRIKE GNITES OTHERS      Military Fields’ Service Unimpaired; Girls Oppose Salary Plug Expenses Pay

PHONE WALKOUT CONTINUES 10 SPREAD IN OHIC   Buckeye Telephone Service Dismissed in 11 Communities

‘PHONE STRIKE GROWS BIGGER   Switchboard Girls Quit In 10 Towns, But Dial ’Phones Work; Military Posts Not Hurt

Havre Rancher  Is Named to Board  Fred B. Purdy Takes Post Held by Rae

Gov. Ford Names Havre Man To State Board   Fred Purdy Succeeds William Rae on Equalization Board

Gov. Ford Names Havre Man To State Board  Fred Purdy Succeeds William Rae on

FBI Agents Seize Wards Official   FBI Stationed to ‘Avoid Destruction’

FBI ARRESTS WARD OFFICER      Chicago Company Official Charged with Removing Poster Placed in Plant by Government;

Ward Official Grabbed By FBI   Accused Of Removing Government Poster At Plant In Chicago

FB. , SEIZES WARD OFFICIAL   Montgomery Ward Mer. Taken By F. B. I. For Removing Poster

Ward Official Arrested For Taking Down Sign   FBI Pounces on Assistant Manager— He Says He Only Wanted a  Souvenir To SHKow Others

FBI Arrests Ward Official For Tampering   Charged With Taking Down Government Siqn

World Religious Freedom Urged   Inclusion In Pact Asked By Baptists

World Religious Freedom Urged   ‘Inclusion In Pact Ackod Ry BRanticte

‘Hit Nazi Airfields. Plane Plants   U. S. Fliers Smash At Targets In France And Belgium

63 ENEMY CRAFT WRECKED IN DAY   German Skirmishes Are Re: pulsed In Five Attacks of Fifth Army.

PROCLAMATION 10 HAPPY FILIPINOS   MacArthur Says We're Not Conquerors, But Procurers Of Liberties

Jap Puppet Law Revokec For Leyte   MacArthur Proclaims Rights Of Democracy For People Of Island

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES TO BE APRIL, 25t   Concord Polls Open From 12.30 to 7 p. m. on Tuesday

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES TO BE APRIL 25th      Concord’ Polls ‘Open From 12.30 to'7\p..m. on  Tuesday _—C

Rival Accused By Cromwell  Briton Moved Into His Home. Charges Suit

SAYS DORIS DUKE PUT HUSBAND OUT   Court Asked to Declare Reno Divorce Void

Doris Duke Hit By Ex-Hubby In  Divorce Answer   British Solon Latest Of Her Loves?

SCANDAL IS BARED   Richest Girl Kicked Husband Out for Another, Charge

Dorsey Acquittal Seems Certain  Hall Not Sure Who Slashed His Nose

LeMars Man Participates in Raid Over Austria from Base in Italy   Lieut. Vernon Nelle  Is Bombardier On Armd Hartrada

Vernon Nelle Planned To Put Feet Under Ma's Table, — But He Nearly Missed Bus   Pilot Of His Bomber Completed Mission Despite Damaged Plane

Clark: Sought As Witness In Shipyard Sui   Corporation's Case Ends Abruptly In Circuit Court

DC SHIPYARD SABOTAGE SIFT IS DISCLOSED   Revealed By Chief Engineer’s Testimony  At Trial   Corporation Rests Case

Russia Changes Policies   All Sixteen States Are Given Rights lo Form Their Own  Foreign Policies,

Uncle Sam Sets World Records   Collected More, Spent More, Borrowed More Than Any Year In History

Uncle Sam Is No Slouch When It Comes to: Collecting, Borrowing, Spending Money

GOVERNMENT HAD PENDING RECORD   Collects More, Spends More And Borrows More in 1944 Than Any Previous Year of History

U.S. SPENDING HITS NEW PEAK   Nation Also Collected And Borrowed More Than Any Previous Year

Report British Troops Have Cut Railway and Highway Between Caen and Villers-Bocage. Tommies Push Forward Six Miles.

Tommies Push Forward More Than 6 Miles   ‘Apparently, They’re Trying To Envelop And Knock Out Caen   Yanks Preparing For More Action   Putting Port Of Cherbourg In Shape To Receive More Supplies

lakes Over Southern Sector of Peninsula   BRITISH PUSH FORWARD MORE THAN SIX MILES ON NEW OFFENSIVE AT EASTERN END OF FRENCH INVASION BEACHHEAD.

Jap Tanks Break Yank Roadblock   Enemy Reinforces  Troops Resisting U. S. Advance Toward Limon

TANKS TO CUT U. S. DEFENSE   American Roadblock Is Broken As Foe Moves Up Reinforcements

Jap Tanks Break (8. Roadblock On Leyte Island   Yanks Meet Stiff Resistance in Ficht for Limon

Enemy Tanks Rip Yank Road Block   Japanese Reinforcing Their Troops Trapped at Limon

Japs Break Through Road Block  Near Ormoe   Limon Held By Hundreds Of Well-Dug-in Enemy Troops

Jap Tanks On Leyte Pierce  Yank Blockade   Reinforcements Run Through American Fire To Aid Ormoc Defenders

Japs Bring Up Tanks To Help Defend Limon   U. S. Troops Encounter Strong Opposition In Effort To Seize Viliage On Road To Ormoc

YANKS REPEL. FANATIC JAP COUNTER-BLOV   Break Up Desperate Attacks On Leyte Island: Enemy Reinforcement Plans Also Foiled.

Jap Armor Cracks Ormoc Road Block   YANKS SHOVE ENEMY INTO CORNER OF ISLAND

Nips Pierce Yank Blockade   Tanks Run Road Gantiet Hoping to Aid Garrison; Americans Advance Despite Desperate Jap Resistance

Philippines Landings On Other Isles Hinted: Ship Losses Revealed

Doughboys Repulse Jap Counterattack on Ormoc Perimeter   Break Up Nips’ Desperate Attempts Without Loss

Americans Plan New Invasions  ~fit-Phitip pines   Reinforced Infantry men Cut New Wedges Into Japanese - On Levte

Counter Attacks By Japanese Karl   Americans Advance Slowly on Leyte in Face of Opposition

Jap Tanks Break Thru Road Block   Reinforcements Reach Troops Fi iting U, S. 24th Division   OPPOSITION IS STRONG   Limon Is Held by Hundreds of Well Dug In Nippon ese Troops

Jap Tanks Break Yank Road Block   Doughboys Meet  Strong Resistance From Entrenched Japs in Limon

Smash Jar CounterAttacks   Americans Press Steadily. in On Ormoc; 24th Division Cuts Across Road South of Limon

Jap Tanks Break Ormoc Road Block   American Patrols Penetrate into Limon Outskirts; Japanese Thought Withdrawing Army from Village

New Invasions Of Philippines Reported Neat   Reinforcements Arrive On Leyte; Michigan Men In Action

Nip Tanks Pierce Yank Line   Armor Breaks Througt Road Block in - Battle for Linon

WAGE DESPERATE BATTLE TO HALT ADVANCE OF U. S.   AMERICAN PATROLS PENETRATE LIMON; JAPANESE DIG IN

Bitter Fight For Limon Is Taking Place   New Seaborne Invasion Of Philippines Seen

Ormoc Japs Lunge Madly In Death Grip   . Suicidal Attacks Broken Up Quickly Along Leyte Front

More Japs Into Fight at Limon      Some Enemy Tanks Break  Through to Reinforce Troops in Village   HUNDREDS OF NIPS ARE WELL DUG IN   Yanks Smash: Counter, Attacks and Hold Ground; Some Slirht Gains

Japanese Crack Island Roadblock   Enemy Tanks Reinforce Troops Resisting American Drive on Leyte   ATTEMPT TO SAVE FACE WRECKS JAP STRATEGY  Fantastic Chapter of War Told In Connection With Sea Battle

ENEMY FORCE DESTROYED AT LIMON VILLAGE   Americans Complete Envelopment To Cut Off Garrison

‘Japs Smash Way Into Pocket to Relief of Limon   Enemy Tanks Crash  Roadbleck; Yanks  Find Village Strongly - Defended by Ning

JAPS PUSH OUT OF LIMON TRAP   Bitterly Defend Key Te Ormoc Road, Break Yank Block

JAPS’ ATTEMPT TO STOP U.S, TRNOPS FAIL   Counter-Attack Repulsed In Ormoc Area

JAPS BREAK ROAD BLOCK NEAR LIMON   Reinforced Troops Stub - pornly Resisting Advance of the Americans Against That.Important Key to Ormoc.

ENEMY BREAKS THROUGH BLOCK   Japs Reinforce Troops Resisting Advance of 24th Division.   JAP OPPOSITION STRONG

Senators Find Mass Of Discouraging Statistics On Cigarette Shortage

BEST 1N CAREER   COMMITTEE OFFICALS SAID  FOURT®A- JTERM CAMPAIGN TALK PRESIDENT’S MOST POPULAR

Associated Press Chief Calls for Action Now on Postwar Freedom for the Press

WORLO IN NEED OF FREE PRESS   Would Aid Peace By Letting People Know One Another—Cooper.   PRINCIPLE IS OUTLINED

Green Would Inquire Into  GOP Politics   Counters CIO Probe Demand

WARREN FORECASTS VICTORY FOR GOP   California Gove: Governor Gives Rousing Keynote Address

GO? Ser: e." rics  66 Deegan. am ae eae ret or Tam es we wt a hed  “Wieag. a eames roe 4  sci ee Ce ae

Gov.Warren DepictsGOP OnWayBack   CHIEF EXECUTIVE MAKES ADDRESS BEFORE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION GIVES POINTERS ON “OUR JOB.”   “Dr. Win-The-War”

Warren Sounds Keynote: Asserts Republican Party Will Guide Nation fo Enduring Peace   Declares GOP's First Objective Is To Keep War Out of Politics, Politics Out of War

Voters Are Asked To Beat New Deal   ‘Nothing Easy To Offer, Gov. Warren Savs

Warren Sees G. 0. P. as on Way Back to Power, Cites Job Ahead   Californian, Keynoter, Pledges Party to Guide Nation to Enduring Peace and Prosperity

LEFTISTS HOLD OUT IN ATHENS   NO CHANGE IN SERIOUS GREEK SITUATION

LAY MINES IN ATHENS   Rebels Continue To Hold Positions; Use Artillery

Rumanian Peace Envoy EnRoute To Cairo Talks   Prince Stirbey, Former Premier, Reported Traveling On Pass Issued By British

BALTIC STATES PEACE RUMORS SPREAD TODAY   Finland Told To Accept Original Terms Cr Else

Move Indicates Breakdown of Whole German Flank in South   Two Red Columns Race Unchecked for Black Sea Port   Rumanian Bringing Poace Rid tn Allin

Rumanian Prince Off To Cairo  To Offer Peace Bid To Allies   Envoy Offered Special Pass By British After Conferences In Ankara With Neutral And Allied Diplomats.

Former Premier Prince Stirbey Is Enroute To Cairo   Envoy Is Expected To Contact British, Russian Ambassadors With Representations

Calls For Action In Kellems Case   Congressman Demands Move Against Tax Defi

Demands Action Against Woman  War Industrialist Refuses to Pay December Income Tax

DEATH TOLL OF FOUR IN CALIFORNIA   Nine Inches of Precipitation Since Sunday as Storm Continues.— Damage in Millions.

DEALS HEAVY BLOW 10 NIP SEA POWER   Marines, Army Land on Island 770 Miles Northeast of Truk

Senate Document No. 159 Should Be Read For Background Of Dec. 7.

Pearl Harbor Report Under Senate Study   3-Year-Old Document Center of Strife Over Blame for Hofocaust

NAZI HANGING — _ BEING: PROBEL   DEATH OF GERMAN WAR PRIS ONER MAY BE CONNECTED’ ' WITH PLOT TO ESCAPE

Investigate Hanging Of German War Prisoner At  Arizona Prison Camp

Savage Treatment By Japs Revealed   More Atrocities Found In ““Wiped Out’ Villages

White Flags Are Raised At Pillboxes   American Cannon Squelch Attempt At Counter-Attack

Aachen Nazis Facing Point-Blank Gunfire   White Flags of Sur rrender Run Up pwc Saeeral Kev. Defense Points:

 Aachen Battle Nears End   U. S. Stege Forces Fire Point Blank into Doomed Nazi Garrison

HIT RHINELAND CENTER BEHIND AACHEN FRONT   Nazi Garrison Reduced To 600 Yanks; Yanks Root Out Foe

155s Blast Resistance Nests at Aachen   Doomed Garrison Is Reduced to 600 Men

Eisenhower Gets Wild Greeting As Paris Caps Viole nt Weeh-End   Patton’s Tanks Reported 95 Miles From Germany

Parisians Thrown Into Panic by Street Fighting; Nazis Bomb City; Victory Address Postponed; Vichy Men Hunted Down on Roofs and in Barricades and Many Killed

Preparing For Fifth War Loan Sale Of Bonds ©   Campaign Opens Next Monday; To Continue Four Weeks . 9 -::

Heavier:Buying Necessary in  Fifth War Loan   “Back the Attack — Buy More Than Before”

Preparing For — Fifth War Loan SaleOfBonds _  Campaign Opens N Monday: Ta Contr

WARD DISPUTE "NEAR CLIMAX   COURT RULING ON INJUNC _ TION AND BARGAINING... * ELECTION ON YTHIR © * WEEK'S SCHEDULE

TO BRING DECISIONS IK WARD CASE   Union to Vote Tuesday, Judge Holly to Rule Wednesday

DECISIONS NEAR IN WARD CASE   Union Balloting And Court Hearings On Schedule

WOMEN READY TO HELP SELL BONDS   Sixth War Loan Campaign Will Start Monday  ring  QUOTA IS $1,750,000

WOMEN READY TO “HELP SELL BONDS   Sixth War Loan Campaign _ Will Start Monday Morning  '\ ok   QUOTA IS $1,750,000

J apan’s W ewak Aerial Powe  Again Pounded   Allied Airmen Drop 108  Tons of Bombs on Enemy; 72 Nip Planes ou Ground Destroved

Wewak, Rabaul Bases Battered   20 Japs Shot Down in Dual Air Blaw

WEWAK AIR BASE ~ AGAIN BLASTED   ALLIED RAID ON: SECOND STRAIGHT DAY INCREASES DAMAGE TO AIRDROMES,

NIPPONESE AIR POWER SAPPED   Allied Airmen Hammer At Wewak With 108 Tons Of Bombs

Japanese Air Bases al  Wewak Blaster   At Least 13 Enemy Planes Shot Down Over Rabaul

Speedy Enactment of “Streamliner”  Tax Bill Assured   Would Free About 3 Millions From Filing Tax Returns

SPEED ACTION ON SIMPLE TAX   Streamlined Bill Emerge:  From House; Quick  Passage Seen

Quick Passage Of Streamliner  Tax Bill Likely   Would Free 30 Million From Filing Of Income Tax Returns.

Swift Enactment Of Tax Bill Seen   Prompt Action Predicted on New “Streamliner” Measure Which Will Free 30,000,000 Persons From Filing Returns Next Year: While Making Few Changes.   “WONDERFUL JOB” SEEN

New Tax Bill To Eliminate Filing Returns  All Levies on Earnings to $5,000

Passage of Simple Tax Bill Certain   30,000,000 Would Be Freed of Filing Returns; Tax Burdens Unchanged

See Speedy Approval Of  Tax Measure   Millions Of Persons Ty Escape Filing Annual Accounting; Burden Not To Change Vich

New ‘Streamlined’ Income.  Tax Bill Would Eliminate  Chore of Filing a Return

STREAMLINED TAX BILL LABELED AS A WONDERFUL JOB  MEASURE WILL FREE   MEASURE WILL FREE 30,000,000 PERSONS FROM FILING RETURNS

Good News For Taxpayers 30,000,000 To Be Freed  Erom Filing Income Returns

Swift Swift Enactment Of New “Streamliner” Tay Measure Is Predicted By Solons

Frame Simple. Tax Law      Quick Enactment Seen For Measure Freeing 30,000,000:Persons from Filing Tax Returns

See Swift Enactment Of New Tax Measure   “Streamiine” 8ill Would Free 30 Million Persons From Fitine of Returns

PREDICT SWIFT ACTION ON BIL   ‘Streamliner’ Would Free About 30 Million From Filing Income Returns.   (CALLED WONDERFUL JOB

New Tax Bill Is Approved   Swift Enactment Is Pre dicted, Will Relieve 30,000,000 Headaches

SPEEDY PASSAGE I EXPECTED FOR SIMPLIFED TAY   Bill With Slight Changes tr Liability Would Exempi 30 Million Wage Earners to File Report.   ENTIRE WITHHOLDING PLANNED IN MEASURE   750,000 New Taxpayer: With Earnings Betweer $555 and $624 Yearly Would Be Included.

30 MILLION WOULD ESCAPE TAX RETURNS UNDER HOUSE PLAN   Streamlined Bill Finds Favor; Swift Enactment Is Predicted   LITTLE CHANGE IN RATES

Thirty Million Probably Won't Have  To File Income Tax Returns in 1945

Streamlined Tax Proposal Ready for Vote   Bill Eliminates Filing of Returns For Many Millions

Quick Passage Seen for Bill  Freeing Many of Tax Return = =   Re FRANCTSR VW. LE MAY.

‘Streamline’ Tax Adoption Held Likely   Would Free 30 Million of Making Returns, End Victorv Levy

Streamlined Tax Plan fs Offered   Government Would Complete Levies

STREAMLINED TAX BILL GETS ‘GREEN LIGHT   Quick Passage by House and Senale Promised for Measure to Free 30 Million from Returns

NEW TAX BILL WILL AID ALL UNDER $5000   House Has Measure Under Study; Will  Go To Senate

Streamline Tax Bili a Certainty   Swift Enactment Predicted to Free Millions of Mak ing Income Returns.

0. K. On New Tax Plan To Be Soon   Millions Would Not Have To File

30,000,000 Taxpayers May Get Relief Predict Swift Passage Of Streamlined Bill To  Simplify Tax Returns

Streamliner Tax Measure Ready To Go   Quick Passage Predicted for Bill Freeing 30,000,0000 : of Making: Returns   LITTLE CHANGE IN ‘ AMOUNT OF TAX   But Couples.- ples With “More Than One, Child Would Pav.a Little Less. ~

FLORENCE IN ~ ALLIED HANDS   LASE OF “GERMAN. SNIPERS CLEARED FROM CIT Y— "_ ADVANCE HAS BEEN : RESUMED «°

YUGOSLAV SHAKEUP MAY ELEVATE TITO   King’s Government-in-e x il ¢ Believed Tottering

Germans Caught In Vise by Big Allied Advance   3 Nazi Divisions Face Annihilation

PRIZE INLAND PORT OF CAEN IN NUTGRACKEE   Three German Elite Armor ed Divisions Reported  In Confusion   PORT OF CHERBOURG IS HEAVILY DAMAGE

British Gain In Greatest  Tank Battle   Three Nazi Divisions Reported’ Thrown into ‘Complete Confusion’  ONON BRRFAK WIDENS.

Montgomery’s Tanks Also Clash with Nazis near Caen; Prisoners on Peninsula May Total 40,000.

Prize Inland Port Is Held in Steel Nutcracker GERMAN DIVISIONS PUT IN CONFUSION  Americans Continue to Round Up Cherbourg . Prisoners

PORT OF CAEN IS CAUGHT IN BRITISH TRAP   GERMANS THROWN INTO COMPLETE CONFUSION

Germans’ River Line Shattered’ At Inland Port   Canadians Lend Hand In Routing Hitler's Elite »” Units

Burma Campaign Nears Conclusion  Reopening of Road Seen in Near Future

Japs Threaten To Sever Vital . Chungking Road   Thousands. ‘Fleeing From Kweiyang as Enemy Draws Near

CHINESE DRIVE JAPS FROM TOWN GUARDING FAMED BURMA ROAD  GROUND ACTION BREAKS OUT ANEW ON WATERSOAKED LEYTE  —

Yanks Break Stalemate In Leyte Sector   Pacific Allies Gain in Battle of Attrition Against Enemy _

Reopening Of Burma Road Near   Japs Fall Back In Area, Threaten in  Central China

Chinese iroops Seize Chefang On Burma Road  Rut In Central China.   But In Central China Japs Intensify Threat To Kweivang.

} AMERICAN EQUIPPED CHINESE ARMY. AT CHEFANG NEARS END OF CAMPAIGN TO REOEN THE PIVOTAL BURMA ROAD

Drive By Chinese For Burma Road - Nears—Success   Chefang’s Capture Leaves Qnly One More Town In Hands Of Japanese

Jap Forces Near City of Kweiyang   Leyte Struggle in Philippines Little Changed; Rains Halt Most Fighting

le Pyle Is Swamped By Kisses As He Enters Wildly Rejcicing Liberated French Capita

House Board Decides Not to Push 4-F Bill   Agencies Have Power Already to Act on Problem, Group Feels

House Military Group Rejects 4-F Force Bill   Committee Decides No Law Needed To Conseript Labor for War

4-F Slavery Rejected by May Group   CONGRESS TOSSES BACK INTO LAPS OF PRESIDENT PROPOSAL TO BIND PHYSICALLY BELOW PAR.   Stimson Opposed It

4-F PROBLEM BACK IN LAPS OF AGENCIES   House Committee Abandons Legislation to * Force Men in Jobs    VERBAL REPORT IS MADE AT SESSION   Government Groups_Hayve. Power to Act, Conaressmen Sav

House Group Drops Plans To Push 4-F Legislation  Committee of Opinion = - ,   Committee of Opinion Government Agencies Already Have Powne  To Deal with Situation   MOVE CLIMAXES  WEEKS OF STUDY Many 4-Fs Already In Essential Work, Committee Contends

Congress Ducks 4-F Legislation  Returns F Problems To U. S. Agencies

Problem of 4-F’s Left to Agencies   No Bill Needed, Committee Decides

Give Attics a Good Cleaning Help St. Nick tc   Help St. Nick to Meet Tcy Needs.

GEAMAN RETREAT ID NOT “FLIGHT   In Opinion of Military Aus thorities in London but it Is Recognized as Bitter Retreat for Nazis

SALARY INCREASES  EXPLAINED MONDAY  AT FACULTY MEETING ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY  MAJOR JOHN C. CALHOUR AND W P MW'CAMMON

SALARY INCREASES EXPLAINED MONDAY AT FACULTY MEETING  ADDRESSES DELIVERED B   ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY MAJOR JOHN C, CALHOUN AND W. P. M’CAMMON

‘ODT Says Dairy Can’t Boost Deliveries, Even  iIE ft Does Use Horses

Judge Considers Noxon’s Motion For New Trial  Charged With Slavine Son

Five Enemy Divisions Forced Off Balance By HardHitting 24th Div.

. Five Divisions Opposing . Yank Forces   Americans Drive Ahead in Mountain Areas

EXPECT FALL SEVASTOPOL VERY SHORTLY   As Scarred City Is Shelled By Russians; Thousands of Germans and Romanians Try to Flee.   3,000 Prisoners

Fall Expected Hourly, Moscow Report Asserts   Yalta Captured By Red Forces

Blast-Thousands of Trapped Evemy Attempting Evacuation by Sea; Other Troops Force Lower Dnestr

Russians Take Yalta and 40 Other Towns in Pushing Within Three And One-Half Miles of City =

Soviet Guns Pound City, Yalta Falls   Red Troops Reported Fighting in Suburbs — Of Crimea Fortress

South Crimean Stronghold of Yalta Captured   145.793 Casualties Inflicted on Axis Since March 6; 3,000 Captives Taken Daily

Russion Siege Guns Batter Sevastopo   Big Crimean Base Seems Doomed To Early Fall, Capture 3.000 Germans Daily

Reds Close On Nazis At Sevastopol   Yolta Falls As Soviets Capture 3,000 Germans Day

Red Artillery Pumps Its Shells Into City   Thousands of Nazis, Romanians Try lo Escape bv Seq

Tighina and Chisinau are  outflanked —  Russ artillery  ehiolltes.c« liactinn

Soviets Grateful for Supplies Furnished Through Lend-Lease   American Butter in Leningrad Is Called ‘Roosevelt Smiles’

Nip Resistance on Wakde Isles Overcome  - Assault Is Made on Jap Naval Base at Soerabaja

Nip Resistance on Wakde Isles Overcome  Assctult Is Made on Jap Naval  Desem af Ca merckouk xs:

Chinese Win Town North Of Hengyang   Occupy Bail Junction of Liling, Japs Reported Withdrawing to Seuth—Denbi Russians Massing

Clark's Grim Order Is To Destroy Nazis   Capture of Holy City To Come Next, Commander Tells Men— Germans in Retreat

Clark Orders Annihilation Of Germans   Alexander Seeks Ald Of Citizens to Save Eternal City

Victorious Fifth And Eighth Armies Join Forces Within Easy Sight of Eternal City; Appeal Broadcast To Partisans To Saye City From Enemy's Saboteurs

Destroy Nazi Army, Order   Fifth Army Smashes Pari Of Germans’ Last Hill Positions Guarding Rome   Germans Baltered   Advancing Armor And Infantry Already In Outer: Approaches of City

Huth Army Lroops Drive © Into Outskirts as Enemy Flees Crushing Assaults

Americans Are  Within 10 Miles of City   Allied High Command Flashes Dramatic Message Calling on People to Prevent Nazis From Burning Eternal City

Clark Orders Nazi Armies Be Destroved   American Troops Fight Way Through Outer Approaches; Freedom Near, Partisans Told

Approaches To City Reached By U.S. Troops   ‘Liberation Of City At Hand,’ Gen. Clark Broadcasts To Romans; Fifth And Eighth  Armies Join East Of Valmontone

EARLY FALL OF ETERNAL CITY BELIEVED NEAR   Troops Out To Destroy Retreating Nazi Armies

ALLIES PIERCE OUTER RIMS OF ETERNAL CITY   Troops Under Orders To Destroy Retreating Nazi Armies

Nazis Flee Northward; Allied Entry Into tate Called “Matter of Hours”   Gen. Alexander Orders: His Troops: 4 To Do Everything Possible to Prevent: Dectrnetion of Historic Eternal City:

CAPITAL'S FALL EXPECTED AT ‘IMMEDIATE HOUR   Nazis Say City Free Of Troops In Response To Pope’s Plea

News Day And Night   Instructions Given Ags Troops Fight Within Shadow Of City   Nazis Say Armed Forces Removed   Allies, However, To Storm Ancient Capital If Foe Defends It

Axis Defenses Crumble Under Blows Of Fifth Army; Fleeing Germans Pillage And Burn Countryside

ith Army Races Into Approaches To Eternal City.   Liberation of Italian Capital From Nazis Matter of Hours

NAZIG FALLING BAGK PILLAGE COUNTRYSIDE   German Resistance Limited to Delaying Action to Cover Retreat.

Yank Troops Race Through Approaches to Rome Under Orders to Destroy Germans   Americons Within Easy View of City Skyline; Nazi Radio Says Eternal City Is Now Free of Armed Forces; Report Heavy Pillaging

German Delenses Crumble Before  Advancing Allies; . 8 ‘  Nazis In Retreat   Americur Foyees Race Through © Guier — Approuches [o Capital Undev Orders tu Annihilate Remaining German Divisions

LIBERATION 5 AT HAHD   Americans Race Through Outer Approaches Bent on Destroying TwoGer man Armied.   MOP UP POCKETS ~* STILL RESISTING   Capital’s Skyline. Within Easy View of Advanes ing Armored Units and Infantryvmen.

Germans To Flee Belgium   Radio Atlantic Say Yanks Have Crossed Borders

Nazis Say Troops Reach German Soil   Lorraine Residents Being Evacuated From Maainot Line Alona Route of [I © Drive

Secret Radio Places Allies On Nazi Soil   Berlin Still Says Invaders 11 Miles  Away From Border

Berlin Reports Troops 11 Miles FromGermany   Mystery Radio Reports Crossings Into Germany, Luxembourg. Belgiun

American Armor Smashes Across Belgian Frontier   eect es ——  Doughboys Drive Past Borders Of Reich And Luxembourg, Report; Abbeville Is Seized; Citizens Of Lorraine Flee

Brawl Epidemic Hits Film Town  Dorsey and Hall Spar: Oldfield Feuds at 66°

King George VI Of Britain Visits Allied Forces On Eighth Army Front In Italy

Champaign Soldier Decorated for His "Teaspoon Capture” of Several Foes

Smash Jap Assault — In Burma   Attempt to Wipe Out Allfed Road Block on Supply Line Defeated In Three-day Battle

Japs Fail To Break Block   Lose Heavily in Vain Assaults on Rail and Road Block Near Mogaung

Ja aps Beaten Back in Drive On Roadblock   Stilwell Force Inflicts Heavy Casualties on Burma Invaders

Allied AirBorne Troop: Defeat Japs   Strong Attempt By Nips To Break Rail and Road Block Frustrated

—_ PACIFIr—_  Attempt To Break Road  Block Beaten Off In : Three-Day Battle   Enemy Attacking. Force Of 2,000 Suffers Heavy Casualties Near Mogaung In Clash With Allied Air-Borne Forces

ASSAULT ON ROADBLOCK REPULSED   Air-Borne Troops Score Decisively, Inflict Heavy Loss

ALLIED AIR TROOPS BEAT DOWN JAPS   Over 1,000 Slain in Defense of Road Block 65 Miles West of Mogaung, Stilwell Reports.

ALLIES REPEL JAP ATTACK IN NORTH BURMA   4th Unsuccessful Nip Drive tc Smash Roadblock South of Mogaung

Allies Beat — Off Jap Attack   Enemy Suffers Heavy Loss in Attempt to Break Road Block

JAPS DEFEATED IN THREE-DAY BURMA BATTLE   ‘orce Of 2,000 Japanese Fail In Fourth Attempt To Wipe Out Roadblock In Northern Burma; Air Commandos Join In Battle.

STRONG -JAP ATTEMPTS TO BREAK ALLIED STRANGLEHOLD ON SUPPLY TO NORTHERN BURMA MET DEFEAT   Allied Air-Borne Troops in Three-Day Battle Inflict Heavy Casualties on Attackers Decisivel ‘ Defeating Them. At Least 1.000 Japs Slain

Japanese Suffer Decisive Defeat In Burma Battle   Allies Maintain Ten-To-One Ratio Against Nip Foes

JAP LOSSES 10 T011N NORTH BURM/   At Least 1,000 Nips Have Died in Four Unsuccessful Attempts to Break Allied Hold on Supply Tine.

Hand Decisive Defeat To Nips Near Mogaung   Enemy Loses Heavily In Attempt To Break Rail And Road Block

Allied Troops Block Japs In 3-Day Battle   ‘Nips Tried To Break Rail - and Road Position 65   Miles Southwest O£   Mogaung

National Reclamation Association Will Convene Thursday to Lay Plans to Combat Pending Legislation Which Threatens State Water Control

Big Aerial F oree, Presumably U. S. Planes, Attacking   Follows. Big. American Raid -Yesterday And RAF Assault Last ‘Night © Which’ Left ‘Great Fires. Burning In Chemical and ™Industrial Plant ‘Targets:

YANK BOMBERS FOLLOW UP Ble. 7) ON BERLN  nr...   Great Fires Raging In Frankfurt and Rerlin   OTHER POINTS HIT HARD BLOWS

Battle Germans 15 Miles Below Big Rhone Valley City; Report Swiss Border Rtached  Te Dyramatiro   (RITLLETIN)

DIED ATHOME . OF HER SONIN: WYNNEWOOD. PA      Mrs. Eleanor Blake Widely Known in Musical and  - Dramatic Circles :

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Yawata Hit by U.S. Bombs for  Second Time   Sasebo, Key Point in Enemy Seapower Undergoes Attack

Enemy Homeland Port Blasted in Daring Atfack   U. §. Forces Draw Nearer fo Tokyo

FOLLOW-UP BLOW I) DEALT YAWATA   Gen. Arnold Reveals Twin Attack Friday Night   SASEBO IS TARGET   Japs Also Say Port of Naga. saki Also Struck; Say Three Planes Downed   Headauartere Renort

17 Year Olds May Take Exam Here   Air Forces Board Will Be Here On January 18

AGREEMENT. ON ~ PRICE CONTROL      SOUTHERN . ‘BLOC WINS, ‘piss PUTE OVER PARITY PRICE  . AMENDMENT FOR COT_ TON GROWERS 0. 0-:

ENEMY DESTROYS MILITARY BASES BEFORE LEAVING   Entire German Salient Near Captured Zhmerinka Is Expected to Collapse Under Pressure.   YANKS NOW CONTROL ADMIRALTY ISLANDS   Way Is Open For New Assaults on Battered Enemy Holdings From New Guinea to Truk Base.

German: Give Up Staraya Russa Enemy in   Enemy in Major Retreat From Bastion   Reds Annihilate Foe Trapped in Chérkasi Pocket

RED PRESOUAE MOUNTING ON THREE FRONT!   Uses Famous Squeeze Play t Force Germans Out  Without Fight.

Reds Take Stronghold   Staraya Russa Falls; 63,000 Nazis Are Lost

Berlin Admits Evacuation of Eastern Base   Denies Annihilation o: Troops Encirled in Ukraine

EVACUATED NAZIS SAY   Mogilev-Poldoski On Dniester Taken By Soviet Forces

SOVIETS CROSS OVER DNIESTER TO BESSARABIA   Russians Take Vinnitsa, Invade Pre - War Rumania

Russians Smash Across Dniester To Seize Vinnitsa   Wedge Outskirts Of Lwow, Take 40  River Towns

NAZIS ADMIT STARAYA RUSSA LOST   Acknowledge Loss Of Vital Base Below Leningrad

Germans Retreat After Loss of 63,000 Troops   Fall of Stronghold Completing Collapse of Nazi Lines In North

REDS FINISH* WIPING OUT NAZI POCKET   Complete Final Liquidation of Nazi 8th Army

GERMANS EVACUATE FORTRESS   Stronghold Key To Nazi Detense On North Front

Another Disaster Hits Germans As Staraya Russa Is Lost; . Trapped Divisions Liquidatec   Capture Of Great Turntable Base Follows Death 0 Surrender Of 63,000 Doomed Troops

StarayaRussa Evacuated by - Nazi Troops   Smashing Reverse Fol lows Loss of 63, 000i ‘in . Ukraine Trap. .

WEA action raises hope of beet raisers   Needs favorable legislative help

4-F Labor Draft Plan Hits Snag   House Chairman Declares Service Act Changes Seem Unlikely

LABOR DRAFT HAS SETBACK   HOUSE MILITARY: AFFAIRD  CHAIRMAN SAYS CHANCES   AGAINBT AMENDMENT  OF LAW

HOUSE GROUP MAY NOT GHANGE RAFT AGT   Natienal Service Act May Be Siudied, Chairman Says.

Better Be Nice to Guy Who Gets In Your Hair, Advice of State Office:

CANADIANS TAKE CARPIQUET NEAR CAEN OBJECTIVE   Heavy Thunder Of Artillery Fire Precedes Dawn Drive; German Counter-Blows Are Anticipated By Advancing Allies.

CANADIANS TAKE CARPIQUET WITH MIGHTY THRUST   American and British Troops Also Post Goins in Normandy Campaign

‘Canadians Match U. S. Drive With Offensive — Thrust Near Caen   Force Withdrawal of German Defense Forces at  Several Points

Americans Press Drive Along Lower Cherbourg Peninsula: Cnn diane 2 Wifiles Bram (san

Canadians Take Carpiquet With Both Ends of Allied Lines Roaring Into Action   Canadian Attack Chops at Very Heart of German Defenses About Caen; Americans Converge on Du Puits From Three Directions

Canadian Troops Capture Carpiquet: Near Caen: Americans Close in on La Haye Du Puits on 20-Mile Front

JOIN Y BIG OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Carpiquet Captured in New Drive; Chop at Defenses Around Caen

Much Action On Normandy Bridgehead   Carpriquet Taken By Canadians; 3 Miles From Caen

Allies Striking Heavily On Both Ends Of Front    British, Canadians Slash Ahead In Caen, Yanks Gain Anew Qn Right Flank

Action Roars At Both Ends In Normandy   American Offensive on Peninsula-Closing in on La Have du Puits   CARPIQUET FALLS   Canadian’ Attack Chops  at Heart of Defenses _ for Caen... 

Yanks, British. Gain In France   Conadians Capture Carpiquet, 3 Mi. West Of Caen; La Haye du Puits Imperiled by American Drive Down Cherbourg Peninsula

Bridgehead Scene of Bitter Battle As Troops Open Up Over Wide Front

Canadians Capture Carpiquet, And Battle For Airfield, In Caen Area As Americans Close In On LaHaye Du Puits On. Peninsula. British Move Forward.

Temperatures    Attack Chops at Heart of Detenses Of Nazis, With Doughboys Fighting Wae Forward Through Water Waist Deep

Canadians, Americans Open Up In TwoSector:      Canadians Capture Town On The Road To Caen

BRITISH, CANADIANS AND U.S. *: TROOPS CELEBRATE FOURTH BY. OPENING NEW OFFENSIVES   Germans Now Engaged at Both Ends of Bridgehead by British-Canadians While Americans on Cherbourg Peninsular Close in on La Haye Du Puite

WRIGHT PLANT STRIKE ENDED   65,000 Still Idle In Other Labor Disputes

Strike At Wright Plants Settled —   50,000 Truck Drivers Idle In Midwest Area

Wildcat Strike At Wright Co. Has Ended   Truckers and Freight Handlers in Mid-West Still on Walkout

Truck Drivers’ Strike Still Bothers Nation   Employees in Five Wright Plants Return to Work

SHOWERS AND COOLER   Temperatures of 85 to 90 Forecast For Tomorrow

Grade Labeling  Issue Reopened   Reconsideration of  House Measure Asked

World Series News Will Be in Californian   NEWSPAPER TO PUBLISH PLAY-BY-PLAY STORIES OF CARD-BROWN GAMES

Grinnell Cops Nab Last 2 Of Escaped Felons   Two Other Anamosa Fugitives Captured Near Amber. lowa.

Last Of Four Convicts That Escaped From lowa Reformatory Captured

Last Two Escapees Captured   Are Being Held in ‘Grinnell Jail For  Warden

NO RESISTANCE IS OFFERED 10 IOWA OFFICERS   Last 2 Captured at Grinnell as They Planned Auto Theft

POLICE TARE SECOND PAIR AT GRINNELI   Two Others Captured Thursday Afternoon Near Anamosa

EERFUL OUTLOOK IS SKETCHED   Interval Before Nip Fall To Be Shorter, - He Predicts

Prime Minister Churchill, dpeaking In House Of Commons, Expresses Confidence That War Agezinst Axis May Come To Ar End Much Sooner Than He Once Expected

CHURCHILL SEES EARLY WAR CLOSE   Prime Minister Says Finish May Come Sooner Than Expected   Won’t Take Long to Polish Off the Japs

Allied-Russ  Offensives Coordinated   Followed Program Laid Gut at Teheran, Premier Tells Commons   LAUDS EISENHOWER   Reports on Flying Bombs and Evacuation of Million Londonets

Jap Phase lo Come Lo Climax Much Quicker Than Expected He Tells House Of Commons

Normandy Invasion, Red Army Offensive Planned at Tehran   Churchill Declares That “War News is Good” in Commons Speech

Churchill in Very Optimistic Report on War   Victory May Perhaps Come Soon, He Says

Early Defeat Of Axis Seen By Churchill   May Be Sooner Than Expected, He Tells  Commons

Victory Over Nazis, Japs Seems Near   Confident and Cheerful British Prime Minister Paints Glowing Picture In Report To Commons

Churchill Sees Earlier Finish of Axis  Leader Views Better   Leader Views Better Conditions on All Global Fronts

Interval Between Nazi,  Jap Defeats May be Short   Discloses.Norman Invasion, Great Rusian Offensive Timed at Teheran, Says News from France Extremely Good

Churchill Gives Hope for Early End to Conflict   Pictures Armies Of Axis Wavering On All Fronts; ‘Tribute te Russia

CHEERFUL OVER WAR PROGRESS   Coordinated Fighting Result of Tehran Meet, Churchill Says: -

‘Peace Sooner Than Expected, Shortened Jap War, Forecast By Chief Before Commons

CHURCHILL, IN CHEERFUL TALK, SEES HOPE OF EARLIER END OF WAR THAN WAS EXPECTED

‘Japs Won’t Last  Long After Fall Of Nazi Germany  British Leader Sketches  Bright Picture of Apnroachine Victory

British Prime Minister, Despite Fear Of Raising False Hopes, Declares He Feels Final End Of War May Come Sooner Than He Once Expected — Sketches Bright Pictures Of Swiftly Approaching Triumph— Reveals Heavy Losses From Robot Bombs

‘Prime Minister Reveals hn.  asion Of Normandy  Mapped At Teheran, Pledge to Stalin

Prime Minister Reviews War af Commons Session   Enemy Recoiling On Every Front, He Says Confidently

CHURCHILL SEES EARLY END OF WAR   No Longer Bound To Deny Victory May Come Soon

War May Be Shorter Than He Anticipated, Churchill  Tells British Commons

Bright War Review by Churchill   End to Come Much Sooner Than He Once Expected; ‘May Come Perhaps Soon’   NORMANDY DRIVE FULFILLS PLEDGE   News From France Termed Extremely Good; Russians ‘Tearing Guts’ Out of Foe

'War With Axis May End Sooner Than Expected; Churchill Tells Commons

tarly Fall Of Axis Seen By Churchill   Japan Expected To Surrender Soon After Hitler Is Defeated

PRIME MINISTER SAYS AXIS ARMIES ARE RECCILING ON. ALL BATTLEERONTS OF WORLD   House of Commons Told That Victory May Now Come Sooner, Much Sooner, Than He Once Expected. Mentions No Dates, But-Speaks with Confidence

War May End Sooner, Says Churchill   Interval Between Defeat of Hitler And Japs May Be Shorter

i]  HE SAYS IN WAR REVIEW   Points To Axis Armies Recoiling -All Over World

Phone 5  for Want Ads,  - Subscriptions,  -All Advertising, Job Printing   Guam Attack Moving Ahead Of Schedule

CASUALTIES OF U.S. ARE LIGHT: PROGRESS GOOD   All Shore Defenses Had Been Gouged Out by Heavy Bombardments

GUAM ATTACK MOVES AHEAD OF SCHEDULE   Americans Threaten Quick Seizure Of Port Apra, Key Defense Point

GUAM FIGHTING PUSHED AHEAD OF SCHEDULE   J. §. Lands More Troops; Expect Capture of Port Apra Soon

Invasion of Guam Ahead of Schedule   Steadily Reinforced Yanks Threaten Quick - Capture of Port Apra, Core of Japanese System—Casualties Light.

LIBERATION OF GUAM—   SWIFT PROGRESS AND LIGHT CASUALTIES AS SOLDIFR®e MOVE INLAND

Drive On Guam Reported Aheac Of Schedule   Great Barrage Before Attack Blasts Japs Out Of Positions

TWIN COLUMNS CONVERGING ON KEY PORT APRA   Adm. Nimitz Reports Light Casualties, Swift Progress

GUAM ADVANCE GETTING AHEAD TIME SCHEDULE   Light Casualties for American Forces Which Are Poyging Onto Jap-Held Pacific Isle

Yanks Gaining Ahead Of Plans In Guam Attack  Amer Bid F Swift Capt re OF Big  [So Sg se eee ey

Progress On “Guam Ahead Of Schedule   Reinforced Yanks Aim At Quick Capture Of Port Anra.

Casualties Are Light In Drive of Liberation   Gouge Out Defenses.   Operations Smooth.

JAP DE <GOUGED OUT ON SHORES   Report Offensive Pushed Ahead Of Schedule   LIGHT CASUALTIES   Announced In Communique; New Cabinet Formed By Japanese

y€ Bombers Hit od Trail For O: ay Near Ploesti   Guam Avenge P Being Pushed J Harder Today \N

Yankees Threaten Port Apra, Vital Defense On Guam   Liberation Of Outpost Is Ahead Of Schedule

ALLIES SWAR OFF SHIPS 10 LIBERATE GUAM   Swift Progress Reported; Japs Are Revenged

Guam ‘Avenge’ Assault Pushes Past Schedule   Japs “Blasted To Hell Out And Up Into Trees,” Saya Admiral In Charge

Guam Attack Runs Ahead Of Schedule   Yanks Threaten To Pinch Off and Capture Apra

Jap Defenses Gouged Out By Yank Thrust:   Planes And Warships Blast Nipponese As Marines And Infantry Fight Way Toward Distant Heights

Guam’s Liberation Ahead of Schedule Set by Americans   Yankees’ Casualties Moderate; Swift Progress Made’

Progress Is Made In Taking Island   Liberation of Guam From  Grasp of Japs Ahead of Keak   Americans Threaten to Pinch Off and Quickly Capture a Port

Guam Attack Is Moving On Schedule   Marines and Soldiers Moving Inland From Two Beachheads

Americans Swarm About  Jap-Held Port   Progress Rapid And Casualties Reported Light

Guam’s Main Harbor Is Threatened   Two Strong US _ Landing Forces Converge on Port Apra; Casualties Light in Island’s Invasion

Progress Is Made In Taking Island   Meat of Comm ie rasp of Japs Ahead o ore ,  ie   YANKS SWARM ASHORE   Americans Threaten to Pinch Off and Quickly Capture a Port

Yanks Avenge Guam Capture By Jap Troops  wk Lele   Liberation of Isle Now Running Far Ahead of Schedule

Guam Invasion Ahead of Schedule, Casualties Light  Yanks Press Inland Against ' Increasing Resistance Bat

Opposition To King Wanes   Plebiscite of Italians Postponed, Russian Recognhition Dampens ‘Anti’ Ardor

GUAM ATTACKS: ARE INCREASED   “Barrage” Shelling of Former U.S. Outpost May Foreshadow Invasion

Guam Assault Near Invasion Stage Today   UL. S. Sea Forces in 15th Straight Day of Bombing and Shelling

U, S. NAVAL FORCES MAKE JAPS SHUDDER  ae am Battered  a tye wy   Guam Battered Four Days By Battleships

GUAM SHELLING BY U.S. ENTERS ‘BARRAGE’ PHASE   Term Usually Applied te Operations Before Invasion

—PACIFI C— ;   ; ss STEP UP GUAN ATTACK   Assault Has Reached . ‘Barrage’ Stage, Says Admiral: Nimitz

GUAM GETTING NAVAL BARRAGE   Unprecedented Pounding o Island Delivered as Ships Move in 4th Day.

WARSHIP- ATTACKS ON GUAM REACH “BARRACE” PHASE   Unprecedented Assaults on the Former V. 5. [et Continuc —Term “Barrage” Often Indicates Screen For Landings

Yanks Intensify Blows on Guam   Naval Guns and Air Forces Pound Defenses to Bite

BARRAGE USED AGAINST GUAM   Heavy Fire ‘May Be Intended As Screen For Landing Troops

Guam Blows Hint Landing   U.S. Battleships Step Up Attacks To Barrage Phase

GUAM BATTERED BY BATTLESHIPS   Extended Assault Believed Presaging Invasion

NAVY CONTINUES TO BLAST GUAM   582 JAPANESE DIE TRYING TO BREAK NEW GUINEA TRAP

MAY LAND TROOPS   Adm. Nimitz Reports An Intense Barrage Laid — Down on Gaum

Bombers Thunder Over Guam,  Work New Havoc  Attack Is Now Said To Have Moved Into Barrage Phase

INDICATIONS OF LANDING PLANS AT GUAM ISLE   Battleship Assault Has Now Reached Barrage Stage, According to Admiral Nimitz

Rake Guam With Fiery Barrage   Terrific. Assault Now Triples Blows Which Preceded the Invasion of Saipan 

DRIVE ENTERS BARRAGE PHASE   Nimitz Uses “Term Firs' Time in Reporting on Guam Pounding.

Attack on _ Guam Enters Barrage Phase   US Warships, Carrier Planes Blast Defensive Positions on Island: Rota Island Bombed

Guam Barrage Hints Landings  About Ready   Unprecedented Assault By Warships In Fourth Straight Day

Two Arrested in Kidnaping Case  Denison Incident Again in Spotlight

Beachhead Behind Nazi Lines Secured Without Opposition; Foe Is Completely Surprised

American Troops Amazed At Easy Conquest In Grabbing Beachhead Behind German Line:

Landing Made 30 Miles From Capital, Berlin Broadcast Says   Allies Silent on Invasion Point: Attack Is Going Well   ‘Hardly a Shot Fired,’

Doughboys Amazed at Landing   ‘Maybe War's Over And We Don't Know It,’ Says Colonel

NAZIS CAUGHT ~ BY SURPRISE IN LANDINGS   Americans Amazed By Lack of Opposition

LANDING CATCH NAZIS OFF GUARD   Hardly Shot Fired at SeaBorne Invaders: Americans Utterly Amazed at Lack of Opposition

Easy Landing Near Rome Is  Big Surprise   Troops Can’t Believe It Is True As Opposition Is ‘ Not Forthcoming

SHELLED BY DESTROYERS   Air, Sea Arms Join In Blastina New Guinea Nips

Bombers Blast Jap-Held Bases   Hit Hundred Mile Span  of New Guinea Coast

U.S. Warships Blast Jap Bases On New Guinea   American Ground Forces Advance _  On Bougainville

SMASH ACROSS LUXEMBOURG ON INTO BELGIUM   PUSH INTO ROAD HUB OF BASTOGNE, NEAR BELGIUM LINE   BULLETIN

TOWARD SPANNING AMERICA: ‘Good Neighbor’ Highway Is Planned to Link Americas

New Highway Is Considered  ‘Good Neighbor’ Road Throuch Cuha. Mexieo

War Prisoners - Help Clean Up Storm Wreckage   Germans From Algona Camp Work in County

) MEMBERS Of ARTHUR OUTING GROUP DROWN   Bob Blaase, Athlete, and Chesterville Man Victims

Hirohito Removes  Army, Navy Heads After U.S. Victory   dalf Of Eniwetok Island Captured By Americans As Big Pacific Drive Goes On; Nimitz Places Truk Losses At 17 Planes And One Damaged Surface Ship

TOP OFFICIALS ARE QUSTED BY RULER’S ORDER   Japs Admit Success of American Assault  On Naval Base

American Blows At Truk Cause Shakeup In Javanese High Command   Allies Throw Evervihina Into 48-Hour Fight

Past Week Was Worst In Japanese History   Japs Lost Five Islands, Scores Of Ships And Hundreds Of Planes, Found Allied Power

Hirohito Dismisses Army, Navy Heads; TojoGetsArmyJob   American Fighting Men Close In On Eniwotek In Swift Thrust: Truk Assault Costly To Enemy

UL S. Victory At Truk Brings Shakeup In Jap High Command; Tokyo Admits Great Losses

TRUK RAID COSTS ENEMY 19 SHIPS, 201 PLANES   Quster Climaxes Most Disastrous  Week Of War For Nips

Jap High Command Fires Army, Navy. Chiefs of Staff —   Tojo Takes Over, After Worst. Week. Of War for Nips

LIGHTNING BLOWS BY YANKEE FORCES COST ENEMY 19 TO 26 SHIPS, 201 PLANES AT TRUK   Emperor Ousts Chiefs Of Army And Navy General Staffs After Disastrous Week Of Warfare; U. S. Troops Close In On Eniwetok In Marshalls

Truk Attack Cost Enemy 19 to 26 Ships   Action. in: Marshalls. Continues as Americans Take’ Engebi Island: Rabaul Hit Again

LIGHTNING SEA AND AIR BLOWS DISRUPT JAP HIGH COMMAND  NINETEEN TO 26 SHIPS  AND 201 PLANES LOST RV ENEMY AT TRIK

Tokyo Shakeup High Command   Changes Made Following Yank Blow At Truk

Hirohito Fires _ Chiefs For Loss Incurred At Truk   19 Ships Sunk, 201 Planes Destroyed — At Bastion; U.S. Forces Invade Eniwetok

Army and Navy se ha After Devastating Blow at Tr And Losg of Islands in Packfiares.

ANNOUNCE SHAKEUP. IN JAPANESE HIGH COMMAND TODAY   Chiefs of the Army and Navy Are Relieved of Their Commands.   A DISASTROUS WEEK   Lost Five Islands in Those Seven Explosive « - Days.

DISASTROUS WEEK BRINGS JAP SHAKEUP   Lightning Blows by American Land, Sea and Air Forces Cost Nipponese 19 to 26 Ships   PLANE LOSSES HIGH

Multiple Lightning-like Attacks by American Land, Sea and Air Forces Give Aggressors Worst Week Since They Hit Pearl Harbor and Something To Worry About

Action Follows Disastrous Week For Pacific Enemy   Nips Lost 19 to 26 Ships and 201 Planes in Truk Raid  By Associated Press

DEPOSE HEA OF ARMY. NAVY AFTER DEFEATS      Tojo Made Military Chief; Ushiroku Commands Fleet

GOP, DEMOCRATS AWAIT RETURNS FROM OKLAHOMA   SPECIAL ELECTION MAY CHART COURSE FOR FDR AND DEWEY

New Deal Test Seen in Voting In Oklahoma   New York State To Name Delegates To Party Sessions

OKLAHOMA VOTE. MAY HOLD CLUE: TO PARTY FUTURE   Roosevelt and Dewey Win Support of New York Primaries

Clark Leading In Oklahoma Race At Noon Reports   Election Results May Give Presidential Peocnects Clues

WATCH BALLOT IN OKLAHOMA   Both Parties Make Strong Bid in Special Election

POLITICIANS EYE SPECIAL ELECTIONS   Oklahoma Voting May Give Clue  For Future

Democratic Hou-¢ Seat At Stake In West  Politicars  Watch New. York 4 1u.d Oklahoma In Hope Of Finding Clue

Political Eyes” On Oklahomans  GOP Says 4th Term © ‘Depends On Results

Both Parties  Turning Eyes On Oklahoma   Primary Vote There May Be Clue to

Oklahoma Election Of Interest _ To Both Parties As Indication Of Roosevelt Or Dewey Cours

Observers Watch Polls In South to Find — Status of FDR, Dewey   Oklahoma Congress Election May Indicate Trend in Selection of Candidate For President; Parties Choose Delegates

Outcome Of Special Oklahoma Election: Fved As Political Yardstick Of Both Partie:

National Political Attention Focused  on Oklahoma Pel!   New Deal Declared to be  Only Issue in Election Today

Both Parties Watch Voting in Oklahoma   Believe Result Will Give Indication of Euéure Trends

Eye Voting In Oklahoma   Results of Election There Seen As Clue to Dewey, FDR Strength

‘SPECIAL OXLAHOMA CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION WATCHED   Foliowers of Both Parties  Hope Outcome May. Give: Clue to Action of Two! Sulent Men, Dewey and  Reasevelt 

’ Parties Test * Power loday « In Oklahoma   Outcome of Special : Election Believed Significant; New York To Pick Delegates

OKLAHOMA IN LIMELIGHT AS ELECTION TIE   Outcome of Congress Contest May Have Bearing on Dewey and F. DBD. R.

BOTH DEMOCRATS ANL REPUBLICANS WATCH OKLAHOMA ELECTION  NAMING OF CONGRESSMAN EXPECTED TO GIVE CLUE TO FUTURE

Light Vote After Big -Ballyhoo   Muskogee Turnout “ Begins Slowly in Election of National Significance   MAY GIVE CLUE TO NOVEMBER RESULTS   But Democrats Scoff at Idea That It Will Point Course for Roosevelt.

STEPS TAKEN © TOCUTTRADE WITHNATION   U. S. Ships Banned From Entering Argentina Ports <

U.S. Tightens Screws On Argentina As Tino Moves Cut Trade To Mere Trickle

U.S. Tightens Economie Ban On Argentina   State Department in Two  Moves Thins Trading T. Mass, T.!..1-1,

U. S. Virtually Stops Imports From Argentina   American Ships Canno — Call at Argentine Ports after Oct. 1

IMPORTS FROM ARGENTINA ARE BEING CUT OFF   U. S. Ships Will Not Be Permitted To Call At Port: After October 1   IS PART OF ECONOMIC SQUEEZE BY AMERICA

U.S. TRADE BAN HITS ARGENTINA   American Ships Barred From Calling At Ports Oct. 1

U.S. TIGHTENS ARGENTINE      Virtually Cuts Oft Imports InCrackdown

ULS-Argentine Trade Dwindles To Mere Trickle  Restrictio ns Placed Amer om ships calling

U. S. Bans Its Ships From Argentina, but Britain Takes No Kindred Action

UJ. 8. GUTS TRADE WITH ARGENTINA   FORBIDS VESSELS TO CALL AT PORTS OF SOUTH AMERICAN NATION.

Finn Parliament Delays Decision; Terms Said Harsh   Reparations Asked By Reds Thought To Be In Billions

Delay In Peace Talk By Finns  Parliament Will , oe . ete:  eee a

UP COMPLETE COUNTY LATE FOR PRIMARY   mo.r ts .ay in Filing; Sherifi’s Office Cortested.

GOP COMPLETE COUNTY SLATE. FOR PRIMARY   .mo.r ts Laz an Filing ; Sherift’s Office Contested.

SOVIETS SMASH OVER 15 MILES THROUGH NAZIS   Offensive Renewed In Southern Estonia In Attempt To Trap Enemy   REDS ADVANCE CLOSER GERMAN EAST PRUSSIA

Soviets Smash Through South Estonia   Seek to Strangle  Nazi Baltic Troops

Soviets Smash Through South Estonia   Seek to Strangle 300,000 Nezi Baliic Troops

300,000 Germans May Be Trapped in Baltic Area   Battle for Warsaw About To Commence

Soviets Break German Lines In Estonia   East Prussia Further Menaced by Latest Action of Red Army

Reds Smash at Estonia; 300,000 Nazis Trapped   Great Wheeling Movement Northeast o! Warsaw Sweeps Within 15 Miles - of East Prussia ry

Drug Used In iof To Evede Army Service   Eighteen in Washington Are Charged With Selling Medicine   RESULTS IN REJECTION

Arrest 18 As Draft Dodgers   F.B.I. Says They Used Drugs Before Taking Physical Test.

ALLEGED DRAFT DODGERS IAILED IN WASHINGTON   F. B. I. Reports 18 Men, Including Orchestra Lead er Arractac

Use Of Drugs To Skip Draft Charged In 18 Arrests   Hoover Says Inductees Had Blood Pressure Increased; Arrests Made In Wachingston

18 ARRESTED FOR DRAFT EVASIONS   Blood Tests Reveal Drugs Had Been Taken to Portray Phycho-Neurosis.

DRAFT FT DODGER ~ BING BROKEN   EIGHTEEN PERSONS CHARGED “ITH DRAFT “EVASION ~ THROUGH, USE OF  DRUGS

Former Helena Man Taken by FBI On Draft Charges   Hoover Says Bratcher Admits Taking Drug Before Tests

Democrats To Need Three Miltion Fund   Party Surplus Will Be Lrased

Another Primary Opponent Given Post by Lausche   Huffman, Columbus Attorney, to Be Commerce Director

“owns erw eevee vireeSs aS §$ See a wriiwew.  WILLKIE SILENT AROUT SUPPORT

METZ RAIL YARDS BOMBED; BREST U-BOAT AREA HIT   Berlin Plastered With 2-Ton Units Of RAF Nicht Fleet

HEAVY BOMBERS RAID RAILROAD YARDS AT METZ      German Airdromes In Northern France Also Hit By Allied Planes

HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST FRANCE IN HUGE RAID   Railway Yards and Airfields Blasted By 750 U. S. Heavy Bombers.

Both Sides Pour in Reinforcements Into Test  Of Streneth: Nazi l se New Secret ¥-2 Bomb

Allies Rain Bombs, Shells On Enemy’s Do-or-Die Advance   Germans Using Highly-Secret Rocket Bomb In Assault; Big Battle Shapes Up  DY fFTaARZECRC RAACTIACY

IN FURY ALONG REICH BORDER   First Army Falling Back Slowly Along Entire 70- Mile Front

Rigid Military Censorship Blacked Out Details Of German Progress   ENEMY HAS NOT YET BROKEN OUR LINES   Both Sides Pouring Reinforcements Into The Big Battle

Wewak-Rabaul  Civen Another Heavy Pounding   Over 300 Tons Of Bombs Ar Dropped On Japanese Island Bases

ROCK WEWAK, RABAUL BASES   Battered By 316 Tons of Bombs  etiam  rl igtnwnta Teemnmta« és   Obliterate Important Jap Air Strips

SENATE GROUP TAKES UP BILL FOR 4-F LABOR   Special Service Units In Army And Navy Proposed

Allied Airmen Resume Reich  Aerial ‘Blitz’   Berlin Reports Strong Bomber Force On Prowl Again Today.

HUGE FORCE OF BOMBERS CROSS CHANNEL TODAY   British Mosquitos Blast West: ern Germany Last Night

BOMBERS STRIKE AT REICH AFTER RAID ON VIENNA   TRIP OVER THE ALP MOUNTAINS COSTS ALLIES 11 PLANES

Daylight Attacks By Bombers Are Continued   Strong Formations, Joined By Fighters, Head Across Channel; Vienna Rliactod

Bombers Again Hit  France   Daylight Foray Follows Blasting By RAF Planes.

Great Allied Air Fleet Wings Way Over Continent   Berlin Reports U. S. Bombers Over Reicn Are Engaged in Violent Battles

Strong Formations of Bombers in Air Over Reich Today   Follow Night Raids by British Mosquitos; Targets Unknown

ALLIED BOMBERS HEAD ACROSS CHANNEL FOR DAYLIGHT OFFENSIVE   Today's Forays Follow Up Blow at Vienna, Fart of Far Flung Raids Friday   'MOSQUITOS BOMB REICH

Japs toBe Relocated in West   No Mass Movement Seen as Many Already Settled Elsewhere

Capitulation of Hungary Expected Soon   Neutral Sources Report New Penic, Confusion

s Hungary Ready s.To Seek Peace   Frightened Budapest See Red Storm Approach

Capitulation of Hungat y Expected ~-Atan Early Date   Panic and Confusion Reported Mounting In Budar est

BUDAPEST PANIC MOUNTS AS RED ARMY APPROACHES   Thousands Reported Fleeing Hungarian Capital — Capitulation of Country Is Awaited.   CABINET IN SESSION TO DECIDE COURSE   Rioting Said to Have Broken  - Out in Some Towns—Cen gored News Fails to Hide Desperate Plight.

HUNGARY EXPECTED -TOSOON QUIT WAR   Russian Tanks Batter Way Toward Budapest

PANIC OF WAR HITS BUDAPEST   Capitulation Of Hungary Expected Soon; Capital To Be Evacuated

Growing Panic And Confusion Hit Budapest   Capitulation of. Capital Expected as Russians Batter Way Toward City

SNOW COVERS ALL OF IOWA   Snowplows Are Out in Some Parts of State

Yankee Forces Move Closer To Philippines  Nimitz Strikes At Palau, Army   Nimitz Strikes At Palau, Army At Morotai Area

ASSAULT MA BY SOLDIERS AND MARINES   Uv. S$. Amphibious Forces Land Under Protective Fire of Ships

American Task Forees Now On Palau Islands   Invasion Of Fortress-Liko  Area Follows Quiekly Thrust By Marines and Army Onto Morotai   Grouud Opposition  On Palau Is Suff   Landings Made On Heels Of Most Crushing Aerial Bombardment Islaud Ever Reecived

LANDINGS MADE BY MACARTHUR ON MOROTAI   Losses Heavy In Early Fighting; Jap Aerial Forces Are Destroyed

Yanks Landon Palau  Islands and Morotai   By-Pass Halmahera to Surprise Japs,. Pin Enemy Down on Bases, Destroy 501 Planes. 40 Ships. Damage 44 Vewele

Twin Landings Made On Island Bastions Guarding Philippines   New Blows At Nipponese Holdings Follow Or Heels Of Crushing Air Bombardment By Forces Under Gen. MacArthur, Adm.  Nimitz In Coordination

MacArthur Lands Men on Morotai   Nimitz’ Marines on Un. named Islands in Palau Group

Assault Forces Land on PalauMorotai Islands   Crushing Aerial Bombardment Precedes Two-Way Invasion

Landings Follow Terrific Bombing   Marines and Army Land on Palau and* Moroat; Battering Philippine Approche

U.S. Forces On Palaus. Morotat.   Japs Surprised by Landing 300 Miles From Yank Objective Under Cover of Heavy Assault on Naval and Air Base

Nimitz and MacArthu Confident   Initial Buccess Indicated in Their First Reports on Twin Asaults   MacARTHUR PUSH SURPRISES JAPS   Nimitz Cracks Into Heavily Fortified Base in Push Toward Philippines

Philippine Doorstep Attacked   MacArthur Also Makes Surprise Morotai Lanting

Yanks Invade Palau Islands ‘And Morotau   Landings Effected After Terrific Air  And Naval Blaws; Leaders Confident

Americans Storm Ashore On Powerfully Defended Palau Against: Stiff  <: Opposition After Giving Island. Record Air  ‘ Bombardment.

Americans On Palau Islands And Morotai   Assault Forces Are Supported By Fleet And Carrier Planes

Land on Palau and Morotai In Drive To Recapture of Philippines; Losses Light

Crushing Air  Blows Crippling  Philippines Beachheads Fixed;  Japs Lose 501 Planes & 173 Surface Craft

Invade 2 Island Groups Guarding Philippines   Nazis Attack Finnish Island

Twin Landings South And East Of Philippines   Bitterly Resisted At Paulu, Advance Against Minor Opposition At Morotai

U.S. Converges On Philippines  {nitial Success In Palau Island Attack

New Strike, 600 Miles from Philippines, ls Linked With Earlier Landing on Morotai   Troops Under Nimitz and MacArthur  In Coordinated Assault; Forces On — Palau Meet Strong Enemy Resistance

U.S. Forces Land on Philippines   ASSAULT TROOPS NOW HOLD BRIDGEHEADS ON ISLANDS

COMING NEARER TO PHILIPPINES   Invasions Bring Forces 609 And 399 Miles, Respectivaly. Claser.   COMMANDERS CONFIDENT

Yanks Land On Morotai And Palau   One Island Only 300 Miles South, and Other 600 Miles East of Southern Philippines

Hit South And East of Philinpines   MacArthur's Men Ashore in Moluccas — Marines and Army In Palau Isles

Yank Forces Close In On Philippines   Nimitz And MacArthur Team Up Again In Successful Landings.

PALAU ISLANDS INVADED TODAY BY AMERICANS   Opposition Met But Landings Continuc

Nimitz Invades Palau,  MacArthurmen Land on -Morotai: Dual Threat

NIMITZ AND MACARTHUR ARE CONVERGING ON PHILIPPINES FROM BOTH SOUTH AND EAST   Halsey's Bristling Third Fleet Opens Terrific Barrage To Pave Way for Doughboys To Go Ashore   AIR LOSSES ARE REPORTED RELATIVELY LIGHT

Assault Forces Coverging On Philippines  Halsey’s Fleet Batters Islands

New Drive Meeting Resistance   Nimitz and MacArthur Lead Double Assault On Jap Bases Guarding Philippines; Islands Shake Under Heavy Navy Pounding

sue BUILDING © 1S CURTAILED   FEWER SUBMARINES TQ BE  . CONSTRUCTED BUT AN INCREASE IN SHIPS AND  ‘MUNITIONS OUTPUT

NAVY ASKS MORE OUTPUT OF SHIPS   Sub Production Reduced Other 1944 Needs Increase

SYNTHETIC OIL PLANT BOMBED, BERLIN RAIDED   Two-Ton Blockbusters Dumped On Nazi Capital, Rubr Valley Hit

BOMBERS BLAST RUHR OIL PLANT   BRITISH, CANADIAN HEAVIES LASH FRANCE

RUHR VALLEY OIL PLANT HIT   Berlin Also Attacked In 1,000 - Plane Raid

RABAUL AFLAME AFTER BOMBING   MacArthur’s Pilots Blas’ Targets Over Wide Area

YANKS BLAST RABAUL AREA   Terrific Damage Inflicted  Jap Air Opposition Disappears

MAUL RABAUI AGAIN   Japs Decline To Meet American Raiders In Sky

DROP 400 TONS OF BOMBS IN WIDE AREA   Rabaul, Again Bearing Brunt, Still ‘Uses No Planes

House Bans 3A Tyranny On Farmers   ADMINISTRATION AGENTS COMPELLED FARMERS TO SIGN UP OR LOSE GAS RATIONS AND NEFERMENTS.   Can’t Force Joining

House Votesto Ban Demantis on -- Farmers by AAP   Membership in Triple A “ Net Required for 5 Deférment

o Puts Ban Farmer Threat   harge Farmers Comlled To Sign With AAA Lose Deferments.

Allies complete encirclement   Aroused senate prohibits  alleged force by the AAA

House Votes Ban on Alleged Triple A Pressure in Deferments, Gas Rafions

AAA PRESSURE CHARGE HEARD   House Hears Complaints That Farmers Are Forced To Sign

Berlin Admits Withdrawal Erom Fortress Which Has Withsfood Five-Month Battering; Clatm Ratrast Mada Withant Inferfarance

RUINED CITY IS EVACUATED BY GERMANS   Berlin Radio Declares Withdrawal Was Without Interference From Eighth Army.   KEY FORTRESS IN WINTER LINE   Stronghold Had Stalled Advance on Rome Since January — Town 8 Miles From Capital.

U.S., French  forces reach  vaunted line  British fight way across Liri valley

ENEMY FLUNG BACK ON ROAD TOWARD ROME   CASSINO EVACUATED AS ALLIED TRAP CLOSES IN

BATTER JAPS T SEIZE JUNCTION AND AIRFIELDS   Air Attack on Mindanao Told

Two Airfields Are Possibly In U.S. Hands   Tacloban, Capital Of Leyte Isle, Reported Captured; Americans Surge Forward With  Battlecry Of ‘Remember Bataan’

93 Ships, 171 Planes Blasted in Invasion; 4 Airfields Periled   Hated Japanese ‘Torture Division” Of Bataan Defending Leyte Island; Tavasion Supplies Pouring Ashore

Tanks Plow Thru Hated Jap Division   Bombers, Fighters Strafe Targets Ahead of Doughboys.

Capture Of Two Airfields Is Reported; Japanese Show Stiffening Resistance —

Temperatures   Americans Seize Road Junction —  On Leyte Island   Two Airfields Believed in U. S. Hands} - Yanks Cry ‘Remember Bataan’ as They Die Out Japs With Bayonets and Grenades

INVADERS SEIZE ROAD JUNCTION   Yanks Also Thot To Have Taken Twe Filipino Airfields

Road Junction of Dulag Seized By  American Troops   **Remember Bataan” Battlecry Spurs On ~ Invasion Forces

Jap Resistarice Stiffens ‘on East Coast of Leyte; Sixth harm Storm ‘Norther. End of Island

Americans Seize Road Junction And Possibly e2 Airfields On Leyte

Double Wedding Held At El Paso Monday‘ April 15  Sgt. Loesche Weds Marjorie Lambert  Of This Place .

Plane Output Records 1 Are Broken In March   WPB Executive Vice Chairman Reports 9,118 Planes Delivered And Previous Weight Records Eclipsed By Nine Per Cent

Plane Output at All-Time High  9,118 Delivered During Last Montt

Step Up Huge Air Blitz   6000 Allied Planes Batter. Nazi Wall in 24-Hour Period

Flying Forts Strike France In two Waves   Cherbourg and Paris Targets Bombed by U. S. Fliers

EUROPE HIT BY 8 TONS A MINUTE   U. S. Bombers Smash At Cherbourg and Field Near Paris

Forts Attack French Port  Of Cherbourg   Dun Teenoinn Ditties at RLC-KMVEGSICN sand 2:  Europe Goes Into 12th Dav

PORTO HAMMER CHANNEL PORT OF CHERBOUAL   Avord Air Base Near Paris Also Blasted in 12th Day of Offensive.

CHERBOURG PORT AND AVORD BASE IN DAY BLAST   Anti-Invasion Key Points Picked By U.S. Bombers

Offensive Reaches Mighty Seale Which Churchill Promised Germans   Day Attack Made Without Challenge   Friedrichshafen Turned Into Burning Pyre Visible LOO Miles Away

Government Seizes More Mines To End Spreading Walkout:  Hundreds Of Miners Back In Pite

U. S. Seizes 15 Struck Coal Mines   BRINGS NUMBER UNDER FEDERAL OPERATION TO 33; MORE THAN 3,000 MEN RETURN TO PiTs.   Strike Voted At 5 More

Teachers: On Strike  Over Pay Increase  West Deer Twp. Schools Are Affected

Nazis Reportec Pouring Inio Bulgaria   Germans Declared to Have Closed Border With Turkey

Congress Nears Tax Answers   Expects Final Approval From White House

Conterees Agree On New Tax Bill   To Be Approved Probably Tomorrow

Congress in Last Phase Of Tax Bill   Postage Hike Is Set; Income Tax Rates Retained

Individua idual Tax Load Increased By New Measure   Earmed Income Credit Eliminated By Congress

New Tax Law Nearly Ready  For Signing   House and Senate Put on Final Touches

CONFEREES AGREE CONTAX MEASURE   Work on Bill For Over Twa Billion Moves Into Final Phase of Work.

CONFEREES AGREE ON TAX BILL   Agree on Figure . Of $2,311,800,000  In New Taxes

DRAFT OF NEW TAX BILL GETS COMMITTEE 0. K.   Proposed Tax Increase 8 Billion Short Of F. D. Goal

Tax Bill Ready For Final OK By House, Senate   Measure Falls Far Short of Goal Set by F. R.

CONGRESS MOVES TO LAST PHASE OF 'NEW REVENUE BIL   Conferees Agree and Final Approval Expected In Bath Houses Wednesday.

$2,311,800,000 In New Taxes Final Figure      Conferees Finish Work, Congress Due to Act Tomorrow

Heavy Raid On Palau   Tokyo Radio Says Attack Was from Carrier Based Planes; Report Mindanao Hit Again

Germans Battle Desperately on Edge of Florence   British Report important Gains

TIRED EIGHTR ARMY HALTED AT FLORENCE   LAST-DITCH STAND COVERS GERMAN RETREAT

NAZIS MAKE STAND BEFORE FLORENCE    DESPERATE RESISTANCE LIM. “ITS 8TH ARMY TO SMALL, BUT IMPORTANT GAINS. 

SMALL GAINS BY 8th ARMY ARE REPORTED   VOGELKGP IS SI CAPTURED BYB' AMPHIBIANS Al   In Florence Battle; German Officers Appear to e Making Last Ditch Stand for Hitler.   1,900 Sorties

Nazis Tighten Florence Line   Sth Army Held to Small Gains Neer City

EIGHTH ARMY HELD IN FLORENCE AREA   “Smalf But , Important’ Gains in Italy Drive ‘Reported

DRIVE SLOWED AT FLORENCE   ‘Small But Important Gains Reported As Resistance Of Nazis Stiffens

Eighth Army Makes Gains  Near Florence   Doughboys Hold Entire City Of Pisa On South Bank Of Arno As Nazis Entrench In Northern Sector

KING GEORGE PAYS VISIT TO NORMANDY   Monarch Accompanied by His Sec retary and Captain Sir Harold Camohell of Royal Navy.

GENTILE STATIONED AT WRIGHT FIELL   Piqua Ace ‘Flying New JetPropulsion Plane

AIRFIELD USED BY AMERICANS   Engineers Complete Strip Five Days After Landing

Only 150 Miles From Manila   Engineers Build Por In Record Time To Carry Front Closer lo Nips.

FLORENCE AREA BEING CLEARED   Activity Along Italian Fronts.  Limited To Patrols

Florence Fed As Sniping Dwindles   Allies Bring Up Supphes as Street Fighting Ends

Yank Supplies.  Reach Florence   Food, Water, Medics Provided Inhabitants

SPEED FOOD 10 FLORENCE FOR HUNGRY HORDE   Enemy Sniping Ended: Allies Attempt To Restore Order

Order Is Being Restored in City of Florence   Street Fighting Ends as British Troops Enter

Peace Returns To Florence   Allies Rush Supplies To,Hungry Residents

Allies Begin Task Of Feed People Of Florence   Aside from Capture Of Frontone, Italian Front is Quieter

Florence Riots Are Subsiding; Food Poured In   AMG Officials Strive To Restore Order In Art Center

Shipworkers End Four-day Strike  Thousand Return to Cramp Shipyards

CRAMP STRIKE ENDED BY VOTE   Union Shipbuilders Agree To Return to Jobs This Morning

17,000 Return to Work im Shipyard   Strikers Boo Their Own Union Chief

Phila. Shipyard Employes Vote To Resume Work   Call Off Strike After Long Debate

Strikers Vote To Return to Shipyard Jobs   End of Walkout Comes After Four Hours of Stormy Debate by Men

Cramp Union Workers Vote To End Strike At Shipyard   Act as Authorities Given Power To Clear Way for Any Men Desirine To Return   NOT SEIZURE MOVE BY NAVY, KNOX SAYS

STRIKERS AGREE TO END SHIPYARD TIEUP   Production Of Invasion Ships Had Been Halted By Philadelphia Walkout: Knov Steps In

54,000 Nazis Are Captured Since D-Day      Strong German Resistance Slows British; ‘Russians Add to Gains ;

30 U. S. SHIPS SUNK, JAPS SAY   Claims Are Unconfirmed  By. Allied Reports. .

Tokyo Claims Great Victory   50 U. 8S. Warships Reported Blasted

Through Cassino Ruins   Allied Progress Im-  peded By Debris and Nazi Fire from Hills; Reds Nearer Rumania

Allies Pushing Through Ruins That Were Cassino   Stuttgart Target Of RAF’s Heaviest Assault of War

RECORD , AERIAL ATTACK MADE. ON STUTTGART  More Than 1, 000 Brit“ish Bombers Blast .. ae “City  A L L I ES Ss. é A r N  Cr eep ‘Thr ough Debris  _ Of Town OF Cassino. ~         Cr eep Thr ough Debris . Of Town Of  “ . Gagesino.

GERMANS FIGHTING FROM RUINS OF GHOST CITY TRY 10 STOP ADVANCE OF ALLIED TROOPS   Despite Blasting from 2,500 Tons of Bombs and Concentrated Artillery Fire Cassino Defenders Fight Desperately to Impede Progress of Allies

SURVIVING GERMANS FIGHTING BITTERLY IN CASSINO SECTOR  THOUSAND BIG BRITISH BOMBERS BLASTED STUT

1,000. British. Nazi Arsenal   Russians Rip 62-Mile Gap into German Lines in Bug River Sector

GESTAPO IS ACTIVE IN PRISONER CAMPS      Nazi Leaders Impose Dis: cipline on Germans in United States.

Believe Next Six Weeks Will Be Most Critical Period of European War: Allies Seek Quick Knockout

Hitler Hopes ‘ToHold Lines ‘This Winter   Fuehrer Believes Germany Will Be Stronger Next Spring Py

NEXT 6 WEEKS MOST CRITICAL FOR CONFLICT   Eisenhower's Plans Would End War Before Latest Hopes of Hitler Mav Be Realized   Re VIRGIT PINKIPFY

[Hitle’ _ “ pears Trying: To String ‘War Into Winter   Hopes Germany Will Field Body of Fresh Troops Next Spring

NEXT SIX WEEKS WILL BE MOST CRITICAL OF WAR, SO EXPERTS SAY   Hitler Hopes Winter Will Be His Ally

Neither Bonus Money Nor Job Will Satisfy Soldiers, Canadian Warns

Praise Cong. Fred E. Busbey For Hic Wark On “GC IL Bill Of Riaght<”

BUSBEY GUIDES LEGISLATION TO HELP WAR VET   Bill in Congress Would Assure Him Being Re-established

G. . ‘Bill of Rights’ Guided in House by Rep. Busbey: Lauded for Work

U. S. Seizes Struck Hard Coal Mines   PRESIDENT MOBILIZES W.M.C.., SELECTIVE SERVICE, WAR DEPT. AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AGAINST MINERS   More Strikes Foreseen

\Mines Seized By Government  At Shenandoah   Move’ Made To Break Strike of 4,000 Miners At Phila.-Reading Co.

Atussian Surge ‘Topples'1 Three _-Masyar Cities   Red Armies Posing Threat To Both Ends of Lake  Pence actec ss bx:

Three Great Hungarian Objectives Held by Reds   STALIN ANNOUNCES - GREAT VICTORIES   Russian Offensive Surges Toward Gates of the Reich

Russians Get Strongholds Near Budapest   Red Army Closer to Borders of Austria; Rail Junction Taken

Russ armies topple 2 big strongholds  Push closer to Himearv capital

Three Great Hungarian Objectives Held by Reds  STALIN ANNOUNCES GREAT VICTORIES  Russian Offensive Suraes   Russian Offensive Surges Toward Gates of the Reich

Soviets Topple Two Nazi Strongholds   Red Forces Push Closer to Hungarian Capital

Russian Juggernaut Rolls Into Romania   Axis Resistance Collapses After Romanian Army Deserts Battlefield--Nazis Suffer Heavily

Two Russian Armies Drive Into Romanie   Nazi Resistance fs Breaking Along Front

Reds Topple Chisinau in _Swift Drive   Sweep Through Hundreds OF Towns uid Cupture "95, 000 Prisoners In Romania

REDS PUSH ON AS ROMANIANS GIVE UP FIGH]   FOUR STRONGHOLDS FALL IN THRUST TO DANUBE

Russian Drive Is Directed At Galati Gap   Germans’ Escape Routes in Rumania Are Being Slashed

Soviets Topple Chisinau, Seize  29.000 Troops   Enemy Resistance on Entire Romanian Front Broken: Reds Near Gap Defenses

Reds Capture Capital of Bessarabia   Four Other Major Strongholds Fall to Russians

TOWNS TAKEN IN -THE SWEEP OF RUSSIANS   Soviets Drive Forward as Axis Forces Col-. lapse

RUSSIANS DRIVE 28 MILES IN ROMANIA; SEIZE 4 BASTIONS   Axis Resistance Reported Collapsing — 25,000 Prisoners Taken by Reds in One Day.   GERMAN EIGHTH ARMY SAID TO BE IN PERIL   Soviets Approaching Galati Gap, Last Enemy Defense Line Barring Way to Heart of Country.

Nazi Resistance Reported Broker 0n Entire Front   Important German Strongholds Fall

TOWNS TAKEN IN THE SWEEP OF RUSSIANS   Soviets Drive rive Forward as Axis Forces Col-. ' fapse

INDIA OPPOSES BRETTON WOODS   BUSINESS CONFERENCE RUNS INTO SNAGS

CONFLICTS AT BUSINESS CONFERENCE   Cartels and Tariffs Cause Disagreement

Reduction Of 10 Pct. Seen Because 330,000 In Services May Not Cast Ballots

SGT. JOHN MANSON HAS BRONZE STAR   Son of Mr. and Mrs; John Manson Displayed Great Courage on Attu

Quota for Town and County is Considerably Less than for 5th Drive

: Correspondent Describes Allied Attack  Quiet Valley Becomes Battlefield

Doughboys Wait Patiently in Cemetery Unti Lifting of Barrage Calls Them tothe Attach

Yanks Advancing On Newly Won Foothold In Admiralty Isles   New Guinea Japs Caught In Squeeze As Yanks Effect. Amphibions.Landings West.Of Saidor. .

MacArthur Reports Two New Successes   AMERICANS PUSH AHEAD IN FIGHT ON LOS NEGROS   With Tight Grip on Momote Airfield They Prepare for Stiff Battles With Jans

PUSH JAPANESL BACK ON LOS NEGROS ISLAND   Troops Land Back of Nips New Guinea Positions West of Saidor

Los. Negros. Gains Made.   Yanks Near: Enemy’ 8 Lines In Admiralty .

Yanks Push Ahead On Los Negros   Troops Drive Toward Jap Positions and .New Junale Baitles

U. §: Troops Advaticing In Los Neros Area   Japs Lose 3,000 In The Defense of Airdrome; Yanks Face New Battles.

old Tight ip On Big  rdrome   Invasion Already Has Cost Japs 3,000 In Killed And Wounded

U. S. Troops On Move In Pacific   Continue To Push Ahead Into New Jungle Rattles.

Yankees Advance Against Japs On Los Negros Isle  Land Behind Foe  In New (CGiinea

Farewell Message Given By Giraud   French General Tells Troops to Fight for Victory

Giraud Tells Men fo Carry On   Deposed French Leac Tells His Troops He Harbors No Bitterne:

 YGsMington Leaders say-——  \Texas Supreme Court May Decide Demo Question

Mre. Morse's Funera) Thursday   RAF Heavies Blast Bergen Pens of Subs

NAVY TO REDUCE PILOT TRAINING   Civilian Program To Bi Dropped, Knox Reports

PLYMOUTH COUNTY BOND QUOTA SET   $1,149,000 “War Bonds To Be Sold, Starting November 20

COURT HEARS 60 CASES AS TERM OPENS.   Dismissals and Munsr . Actions Recorded . by Judge Russell --’

COURT HEARS bY) GASES AS TERM OPENS   Dismissals and Minor Act.ons Recorded by Judge Russell

Living Cost Up 30%  "Rosser elt Gr oup Claims   Labor Points to Finding of Special Committee as Argument For Relax. ing Wage Formula

REJECT LABOR CLAIMS OF 44 PER CENT RISE   Davis Says Increase in low Income Groups Was Greater

Probers Claim Cost of Living Up 30 Percent   ‘Labor Members of Special Agsuiluce Say Increase nsiderably Higher

Rise In Livi ing  Costs Ne: arly 50 Percent   Committee In Report On The  Wartime Advance

Living Cost Show Gain Of 29 Per Cent   Labor Seizes On The Figure To Demand Raises; 44% Union Estimate Denied

Living Costs to Wage Earners Up 29 to 30 Pct.. F. R. Probers Find

LIVING GO3T3 UP 23-d0 Ph GENT, REPOR}   Covers Bulk of Wage Earners Says Commiitee of FDR Probers.

REPORTS LIVING — - COSTS UP 30 PCT,   GROUP’S FINDINGS MAY FIGURE. IN. F. D. RB. DECISION ' ON WAGE FORMULA.

BOOST. IN LIVING COST CALCULATED   Special Committee Reports Cost up 29 to 30 Per Cent; Fails to Tally With Other Price Statistics

Living Costs Up 9-30 Per Cent, Croup Tells F. Rh.  Union Labor’s Claim   Union Labor’s Clain Of 44 Per ! Cent Rise Rejected

Wartime Living Shows Increase Of 30 Per Cent  Labor Claims Show Advances Greater

LIVING COSTS RISE REPORTED   Special Committee Sets Figure At 30 Per Cent

Exchange Of Envoys Not Full  Recognition   Izvestia Irked By U.S. Press; Ready To Change Badoglio Government

REDS IRRITATED BY THE JUMPING “TOCONCLUSION:   Russia Really Wanting Change In ‘Ttalv. .  ALLIED DELAY THE SORE SPOT

Russa Seeks It  alian Change   Exchange of Envoys Not Recognition, Says Red Newspaper

Not Going Whole Way, Says Paper   Russia’s Izvestia Denies Full Recognition Given Badoglio

Reds Explain Convoy Exchange   Editorial Insists U. S. and Britain Misunderstood Attitude Toward Italy.

BOMBERS HIT RUHR, FRANCE IN NIGHT RAIDS   Smash Rail, Oil Centers: Weather Stops Day Normandy Raids

Ludwigshafen Blasted By RAF Bombers   Aerial Attacks On Round The Clock Basis

GERMAN RAILWAY — CENTERS BOMBED   AMERICANS HIT. HANNOVER AND KASSEL=BRITISH BLAST LUDWIGSHAFEN,

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Nenspaper Ceodiesta   “WASHINGTON Re Day ToHeker”

READY FOR SHOWDOWN   Senate Finance Committde Votes To Freeze Security Tax

OFFICER ESCAPES IN PLANE MISHAP   Darwin Henesy enesy Caught i in Blinding Storm Over New Mexico

OFFICER ESCAPES "IN PLANE MISHAP   Darwin Henesy Caught in Blinding Storm Over New Mexico

Jap Naval Fight Loss Growing   Submarine Sinks Huge Flattop, Other Units Of Fleet Sent  To Bottom.

One of Newest Nip Carriers Is Torpedoed  Action Raises Enemy _ Losses to 15 Ships Sunk or Damaadced

Curley Loses Libel Action Against Post   Plans Appeal In $500.000 Suit

LAUSCHE DRAWS STINGING BLOW   "Bossism” Cry Of State Democrats Boomerangs At GOP Convention

HERBERT CHARGES LAUSCHE CANDIDATE OF BUREAUCRATS   LIEUT, GOVERNOR SAYS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE TOR GOVERNOR BACKED BY NEW DRALERS

"Chute Unit Landed On German Soil      Langerwehe, West of Cologne, Captured by U. S. lst Army.

HGHTo BLOODY BATTLE IN ARG AROUND DUREN   Swiss Reports of Paratroop Landing Behind Siegfried Line Unconfirmed.

Patton’s Forces Take Stronghold  of German Army   First Army Drives Into Heart of Langerwehe, ‘On Cologne Approaches

Germans Flee ToForts In Saarbrucken   City Badly Battered, Correspondents Say Old Church in Ruins

Hodges Army Grinds Nearer  City of Cologne   Patton Wedge Deepens it Saar; Patch Across Vosves

Report Paratroopers : Hurdle Siegfried- Line 'In Upper Rhine Area

St. Avold Is ‘Captured by U.S Third Army   Race Through Collapsed Nazi Defenses

RD ARMY NEAR ERMAN BORDER ‘TSAARBRUCKEN   1st in Bloody Drive on Duren

Yanks Enter Nazi Strongholc Near Cologne   Swiss Dispatches Say Sky Troops Join Fight Behind Siegfried Line East of River; Thunderbolts, Lightnings Join Cologne Battle

YANKS BATTLE FOR AIRBASE IN WAKDES   Fall Imminent as Result of New American Landings

YANKS BATTLE FOR AIRDROME ON WAKDE ISLE   Vault 125 Miles Beyond Hollandia   yond Hollandia  MAKE LANDINGS  os  Seek Control of All Dutch New Guinea   MAKE LANDINGS

Bricker Offers 10-Point Program   Suggests Course For Bright Future

Hull Marks His 73rd. Birthday  Tackles Problems of War and Peace

TOKEN’ AID NOT ENOUGH SAYS SPEAKER   Fourth American Air Base in China Lost to Japanese

Allies Throw Germans Defenders Back From Ancient City Of Perugia

Allies Push Far. North Of Rome   Drive Foe Out Of Vita’  Communications Hub

NAZI. DEFENDERS OF PERUGIA ARE FINALLY OUSTED   After Stubborn Fight AIlied Eighth Army Veterans Move on Beyond Ancient City

Stubborn Nazi Defenders ers Hurled from Communication Hub 85 Miles North of Rome

Allies Continue Push After Driving Nazis Out Of Italian City Of Perugia

Allies Pursuing Fleeing German:  Nazis Rush Fresh Troops Into Italy

Perugia Falls To Eighth Army   Captured Foe Reveals German Division Moved From Belgium.

tt ALr—  PERUGIA IS HEL BY EIGHTH ARN   Nazis Continue Flight After Losing Italian Communications Hub

8th Army Veterans ‘Still Advance   Nazi Division From Bel-gium Used In Italy _ Now

Push Nazis Toward Florence Line; Troops From Belgium Are Thrown Against Allies   Eighth Army Moves From Perguia; Fifth Faces Heavier Opposition

Fifth Army Pushes Past Roman City Of Perugia   Nazis Employ Sevén Divisions In Fight

ALLIES ADVANCE 4 MILES ABOVE FALLEN PERUGIA   Smash At Provincial, Capital In Drive On Adriatic Coast

Germans Driven Out of Perugia ‘As Allies Advance   Yanks Take Prisoners from 19th Luftwaffe Division, Diverted from Belgium June 10th

Loss In Italy Costly To Nazis  Forced To Bring One Thiivision From Belgium

British Drive To New Gains   GERMANS CONTESTING ALLIES BITTERLY IN ITALY

ALLIES PUSH 85 MILES NORTH OF ITALIAN CAPITAL   Roll Germans Back Toward Florence Defense Line

GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF PERUGIA   STUBBORN DEFENDERS ROUTED BY EIGHTH AT COMMUNICATIONS HUB

PERUGIA RID OF GERMANS; ARMY ADVANCES   Fifth Army Now 85 Miles North Of Rome Sector

Allied Push To North In Italy Still Unchecked   Eighth Army Cleans Up Perugia, Pursues Foe Revond Ancient City.

Allies Drive Past Perugia   Eighth Army Hurls Last of Tough Nazi Defenders From City

Allies Hurl ~ Nazis Back To New Line   Advance 4 Miles North Of Perugia Toward Florence, Italy

GERMAN FORCES IN ITALY ARE. BEING PURSUED   Allies .. Push Rout Miles _ Beyond .  Pertgia’

Eighth Army Hurling Huns In New Drive   Ancient Perugia Falis To Yanks; Prisoners Taken

Allies Driving Forward After Perugia Falls   Fifth Army Takes German Soldiers Who Departed From Belgium After Invasion Started

DRIVE GERMANS FROM PERUGIA   Allies Continue to Push Northward in Italy

Allies Throw Last Germans Out Of  Perugia, Drive On   Now 4 Miles North of City, Advancing Against Reinforced Germans.

Allies Move Ahead in Italy   Eighth Pushes Beyond Perugia—Fifth Fights Through Four Villages

19th German Division In Italy Now  Eighth Army Hurls Last  German Out Of Perugia; Drives On Beyond City

Steady Pace In Italy   Vicious Enemy Counter Attacks Fail to Halt Advancing Allied Army

Allies Take 4 Italy Towns   Last Nazis Driven From Perugia, Push Four Miles Northward

Eighth Army Vets Clear Perugia, Advance 4 Miles  Fifth Army Captures Division Men Drawn From West

Allied Advance © -in Italy Goes ~on Unchecked   Prisoners Reveal: German Units Shifted: From Other “Fronts::"

ALLIED FORCES IN ITALY ADVANCE BEYOND PERUCIA   Communications Center Free Of Last Tenacious Nazi Defender—Eighth Army At Point Four Miles Beyond City '

LAST GERMANS HURLED FROM ITALIAN TOWN   Fighth Army Advances Bevond Perugia and Troops Are Still Making Steady Progress

MEAT POINTS —_NOTCHANGED   FROZEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES TO BE TAKEN OFF. RATION LIST DURING © APRIL ~*~

Norwin High School Is Hit By $250,000 Blaze   Three Story Unit Of School Is Destroyed—Records Saved

Irishman Earns Medal of Honor   Technical Sergeant Charles E. Kelly of Pittsburgh Has Become Italian Campaign Legend After One-Man War ~  on Carmane

TECHNICAL SERGEANT KELLY OF PITTSBURGH IS GOING TO GET ICONCRESSIONAL. MEDAT. HONOR

T0 BE AWARDED MEDAT ORHONOR   Reveal Feats Of Seat. Chas. Kelly, Pittehnrak   BATTLED NAZIS   Fignting -irisnman 1s Called. “Commando” By Friends

One-Man — Army to Get Medal   Congressional Award to Sgt. Charles Kelly, Better Known as:‘Commando’   JUST ONE EXPLOIT AFTER ANOTHER   With . Whatever “Weapons Are Handy He Is Credited With Killing 40 Germans

Kelly To Get Army Medal; Here’s Why   Fighting Irishman From Pittsburgh Knocks Off 40 Nazis In Italy

Sgt. ‘Commando’ Kelly  To Get Congress Medal   Fighting Irishman from Pittsburgh Cited for Lone Wolf Exploits Against Nazis, Has Six Brothers in Service

FIGHTING MAN Taleo 10 WIN WAR HIMSEL   Kelly’s Liking for Patrols Makes Him Legend of  Italian Camnainn.

OCCUPATION OF ENIWETOK COMPLETED   Last Island of Atoll Expected To Fall Today

OF BEING TAKEN   Americans Have Virtually Cleaned Japs Out of All Islands.

PREPARING TO   . American Conquest df Bake. witok - Atoll Enter Final Phase— Powerful Naval Forces and Swarms of Aircraft Begin Crush> Ing Bombardment.

Final Thrust In Jap Atoll Under Way   UNRELENTING ATTACK 18 PUSHED IN CONQUEST IMPORTANT JAP POSITIONS,

U. 8. CONQUEST © OF ENIWETOK IS IN FINAL PHASE   4  Nimitz. Annonuces That Aircraft Has. Begun Crushing Bombardment on Parry, Last Enemy-Held of Marshall Group

Yankees Mop Up Bniwetok, Hit At Parry Island  Daramischira Arain   Paramushiro Again Bombed By U. S. Navy Planes

AMERICANS MOPPING UP ON ENIWETOK   Assault Launched Against Remaining lise of Parry

U.S. MOVES FOR QUICK WIN IN ENIWETOK ATOLL   Allied Airmen Continue Their Unrelenting Aerial Offensive

PARAMUSHIRO RAIDED AGAIN BY U.S, GRAF!   Final Phase In Conquest of Marshalls Is Being Carried Out Swiftly.

Americans Enter F inal Battle For Eniwetok Bases   Blast Last Jap Fort At Parry, Plaster  Paramushiro Island

DEMONSTRATOR .IN ATHENS SHOT AND KILLED BY MAJOR   Partisan Parade Broken Up by Gunfire Near Building Where Eden was Visiting

ATHENS SHOOTING OCCURS NEAR EDEN   ‘Greek Demonstrator Slain in Parade Outside His Building  -

East Prussia Beng invaded By Red Troops   Nazi News Agency Reports y Reich Is Invaded From East Today   REPORT BATTLING ON GERMAN SOIL

RUSSIANS ON ~ GERMAN SOIL AT WIRBALLEN   GERMAN NEWS AGENCY REPORTS THAT RUSSIANS HAVE ENTERED GERMAN . -TERRITORY 

German Soil In Hands of Red Army Troops      East Prussia Scene of First Fighting on German Soil

Defenses Barely 46 Miles From  Paris Are Hit By Gen. Bradley's  Tanks; Yankee Column Reported Near Chartres   FORWARD ELEMENTS ! STORM CHATEAUDUN

Resistance Of Germans Weakened   Yank Columns Disorganize Enemy Communications  System

German Rear In Normandy Is Menaced   Bradley's Tanks And Infantrymen Fan Out Along Eighty-Mile Front

ARMORED FORCE ATTACKS ON AN 80-MILE FRONT   Multi-Pronged Drive Also Menaces Normandy German Rear

TANKS ATTACK ALONG AN 8 MILE FRONT   Troops Storming Chateaudun, and Near Chartres, 46 Mijes from Paris.

Resistance by Enemy Is Disorganized   U. S. Forward Elements Storming Chateaudun

U.S. ARMORED COLUMNS ARE PROBING LINE   Bradley’s Men Menacing Orleans and EntireGerman Rear In Normandy.   BULLETIN

COLUMN BARELY AG MILES WEST OF CAPITAL GIT)   Gen. . Bradley’s Infantrymen and Tanks Fanned Out Along 80-Mile Front That Also Menaces Orleans.   NAZI RESISTANCE IS BADLY DISORGANIZED  U. S. Bombers Blast German ’ Targets For 12 Days In Row — Hit Fuel Dumps and Air Fields:

Fast Rolling Americans 70 Miles Beyond Sarthe River Line   THREATEN TO CUT FRANCE IN TWO   4,322 German Prisoners Were Added To Bag Wednesday

OUTER DEFENSES OF FRENCH CAPITAL UNDER ATTACK. BY AMERICAN ARMORED ¢O

ORLEANS IS MENACED    BY YANKS   Americans Advancing On 80-Mile Front Through France

Tanks Speed Ahead, Peril Enemy Rear   One Spearhead Reported 28 Miles from Orleans, Major Hub.

MEAT ACTION ~~ S AWAITED   SPECULATION OVER WHETHED GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE. STEPS TO BOOST PRO- © hy ecg an SAUOIGQNE me ge

MINERS GIVEN BOOST IN NEW PAY INCREASE   Alabama Miners tc Get Portal To Portal Pay

UMW SEEKS NEW DECISION FOR COAL MINERS   Supreme Court Award To Ore Miners Cited As Bolsterer For Case

COURT DECISION BOLSTERS CLAIM OF COAL MINERS  UPHOLD PORTAL TO  PORTAL PAY FOR IRON ORE MINERS

FOUR PLANES ARE LOST N BOMBING OF STFEL CENTER   Flyers Report Bombing Was. Accurate, . Caused: Many Fires and Several Destructive Eynlasians, °   TWO PLANE LOSSES NOT DUE TO ENEMY. ACTION   Japanese Radio Reports That Moji and Kokura, Cities. on Home. Island of Kyushu Also Bombed.

Two Bombers Said Lost By Accident   None Of Attackers Lost By Enemy Act; Raid Is Success

Yawata Target Of Big Bombers In First Attack   ‘Sizeable Force’ Leaves ‘Large Fires And Explosions;’ Two Sky Giants Are Lost In Accident; Korea, Bonins Raided

47, 000. Japs Fac ace Surrender Or Death In Guinea; Guam Due To Encircline Actions.

Over 47,000 Japs Caught In Traps   MacARTHUR I REPORTS HEAVY CASUALTIES INFLICTED

47,000 Japs Entrapped On Guam, New Guinea: Key Burma Base Seized

26,000 Japs Killed And 47,000 Trapped  On Guam Plateau, New Guinea Jungles

More Japanese Are Trapped   Only Death or Surrender For Many Thousands On Guam, New Guinea

Yanks Push Jap Forces into Traps   Bottled Up Troops Lose Heavily on Guam, New Guinea

Traps Enmesh 7,000 Japs On  Guam Plateau      10,000 More Awaiting Death, Surrender Im New Guinea

JAPS FACING TRAP IN GUAM   7,000 Face Death. or Surrender, 40,000 More in-Same Fate in New Guinea.

Trapped Japs Are Doomed   Only Death Or Surrender Await 47,000 Nips On New Guinea, Guam

Two Powerful Traps Enmesh Nippon Force:   Seven Thousand Enemy O1 Guam and 40,000 In British New Gninea Face Annihilation

26,000 NIPS DIE IN POCKETS ON GUAM, WEWAK   47,000 Other Japs Face Death or Surrender in U. S. Traps

47,000 Japs Are Held in U.S. Trap   Only Death or Surrender Await Enemy in New © Guinea Jungles   PUSH AHEAD ON GUAM   Marines and Army Force _ Japanese Northward on Island

47,000 JAPS FACING DEATH OR SURRENDER   7,000 on Guam and 40. 000 in Britian New Guinea Jungles Cut Off by  Americans

GUAM AND GUINEA TRAPS ADDING TO JAP TOLL OF DEAD   Yanks Close In On 7,000 Nips ‘On Guam's North Plateau And 40,000 In Jungles of British New Guinea

NEWS Behind The iF <   (Now on tour, surveying political and ‘reconversion situations.)

Yanks Within 10 Miles of Bologna   Push Forward To Nazi  Lines In Apennines

YANKS AGVANG IN PO VALLEY      Push To Within Ten Mil Bologna, Key City

Fifth Army Is 10 Miles  ¥ro rom m Bologns   Advance Continues: ) At TworMile-a-Day  Pore

AMERICANS PUSH AVTHIN 10 MILES VF BOLOGNA   Germans Reported Hastening Defense ; in Foothills of  Apenninies’

5 INCH SNOW IN NORTH IOWA   Forecast for More Snow Turntig to Rain

SOVIETS LES THAN 45 MILES FROM ROMANIA   Rip Tarnopol - Proskurov Lines   kurov Lines NAZIS IN FLIGHT  Reds Approach Czech oslovakia

nm a ey em ane  NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE OPENED BY ZHUKOV   Forces 45 Miles From Pre-War Northern Rumanian Border

PAC SPENDING CHARGE DENIEL   Is Not Excessive, Hillman Tells Investigators

TAXES FOR TRACTOR GAS ARE OPPOSED BY POMONA   Number of Members Attend Funeral of Mr. Slack   DELEGATES ARE NAMED

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To All In The Various  Communities  CIEANED RY cCRIRES

United States Attache’s Wife Shot In Hote!   Mrs. Frank Starr Williams. Wealthy and Socially Prominent, Report- , ed Near Death

Woman Victim Of Shooting   Wealthy and Socially Prominent Wife of U.S Official Wounded °

Woman Is Shot In Drake Hote   Complete Mystery Marks Chicago Attack

CHICAGO POLICE HUNT WOMAN BETER SHOOTING   Wealthy Society Matron Snot In  Drake Hotel

‘Wealthy Wife Of Attache Of State Department Shot Mysteriously In Chicago

Socialite Is Shot By Woman   Unidentified Gunwoman Tries To Kill Daughter Of Victim.

Wife Of State Department’s Attache Wounded Critically - By Assassin Hiding In Room

WOMAN 15 onOT IN APARTMENT   Unidentified Woman Fires Shot Which Seriously iniures Mrs. Williams.

WEALTHY WIFE OF U.S. AIDE SHOT IN. HOME   Chicago Socialite Is Near  Death; Stranger  Hunted

Wife Of State Dept. Attache ‘Badly Hurt   Mrs. F.S. Williams — Wounded By Gunwomar In Mystery Shooting

WEALTHY WOMAN SERIOUSLY SHOT   Wife Of State Department Attache Victim Of Gunwoman

DIPLOMATS Witt NEAR DEATH AFTER CHICAGO SHOOTING   Mrs. Frank S, Williams Sho! by Woman in Hotel  Anartman?

Woman Acquitted In Youth’s Death   State Contended Boy kill ed In Jealous Rage

Socialite Set Free In Death Of Jay Lovett   Jury Returns Verdict of Net Guilty After ‘Trial Lasting Since Early September

All Pau lies Meet -In-Effort. to EndDrivers’ Strike   Series of Conferences > “Key tov Spread of «> Bus Tieup™

Greyhound Strike Hangs In Balance   CONFERENCES IN PITTSBURGH BETWEEN LABOR, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT ARE FRUITLESS   Awaits Two Presidents

Cherbourg Front Ablaze, Indicating Reich Withdrawal   ‘Allied Skytrain, 50 Miles Long, Pours Reinforcements in France To Meet Nazi Counter-Attacks

Teacher Shortage Theme Of Address By School Head  Require More Types Of Work Viewing  Present Situation

“(Good Results” Were Obtained, The War Department Announces  PHILIPPINES HIT FOR FIRST TIME  Mounting Power Of The U. S. Sounding The Doom Of Japan

Cave-In Kills Coloma Worker   Arkansas Man Victim Of Farm Accident

CAVEAN KILLS FARM EMPLOYE   Arkansas Man Is Victim Of Accident Near  Coloma

EXPECT HITLER TO WIDEN RULE OVER RUMANIA   Oil Too Vital for Germans to Give Up Balkans Without Fight

LEADERS Ut NATION AR  NW CUSTODY   German Army Units Take Over  BULGARIA NEXT?  German Demands Are Refused

Priest Killed In Front of Church   Father McDermott Once Served Preston County Mission—Known Here

New York Stocks   Radio Operator Hid From Japs Two Years On Captured Guam

Six Miners Die; Victims Of Mine Fire   ALL OTHERS OF 157 AT WORK EN CHARTIERS SHAFT NEAR CLARKSVILLE ESCAPE FLAMES  ra, MII EL   3 Widows, 16 Orphans

BERLIN ADMITS FALL OF KAUNAS, FORMERLY THE CAPITAL OF LITHUANIA   REDS WITHIN 22  MILES OF REICH   Nazi Saltent East of Warsaw  Has Collapsed.

RUSSIANS WITHIN SIX MILES OF POLISH CAPITAL ALSO NEARING E. PRUSSIA

Aerial Torpedo Does Quick Job   Jap Ship Sunk In Only o0 Saeansle

Aerial Torpedo Does Quick Job   Jap Ship Sunk In Only 9D Saecrnande

GERMANS GET BAD BEATING   Huge Russian Forces in One of Greatest Coordinated Offensives of War on Eastern Front.

Russians Trap 175,000 Nazis Near Black Sea  Yanks Beat Back  Germans in  — rm. ._.Lhke..1

[Russians Maul Two Trapped (Nazi Armies, 175,000 Men, (Make New Gains In Ukraine

RUSSIANS LAUNCH GREAT OFFENSIVE   Bomb Helsinki Twice in Four Hours to Knock Finland From War.

3 Red Armies Converge On Trapped Nazis   Plan To Free Ukraine, Pulverize Hitler's Southern Armies

TRAP TWO NAZI ARMIES   Purpose of Drive Appears To Be Freeing of Ukraine

FIFTEEN GERMAN DIVISIONS ARE TRAPPED INSIDE BNIEPER BEND   Russians Advance to Within 78 Miles Of Lwow and Are Nearing Bug River

 LAA RAAB RAR AARAAAA AS DD Nazis Threaten To Turn Pilots Over to People

DEMOCRATS HOLD SENATE CONTRCL,; GAIN TY HOUSE   Roosevelt Landslide Slashes G. O.P: Hopes, Yhreatens Incumbents.

Democrats Refain Senate Control   Win 22 Contests, Republicans Eight

DEMS TO RULE SENATE, HOUSE   Gains Are Recorded in Sweep By Roosevelt

Draft to Give Examinations In Advance of  Service Call   Drops ‘Screening’ Test: Plans Separate Army, Navy Quotas

CHANGE DRAFT PLANS 10 AID IN INDUCTION   Local “Screening” Exams Post - Induction Furloughs Abolished

KIRK TO COMMAND. U. S. TASK FORCE   Rear Admiral Named to Lead Naval Force in Enaland

Kirk Named Task Force Commande:   Further Details in Plan : For European Invasion Disclosed with ~ Appointment

U.S. Admirals Join Allied Task Force   Kirk to Command Unit Attached to British

Invasion Heads Named in London   Kirk To Command Greal Task Force

Narvals Now Isolated City  Reds Also Closing In Pekay On Three Sidec

Reds Isolate Narva in North Estonia   Russians Attack Pskov From Three Directions

RUSS ISOLATE . GERMANS AT NARVA. PSKOV   Third Soviet Drive Underway Around Vitebsk

WAR BALLOTS ARE READY   County Auditor Goforth To Start Mailing Soon

British Fight German Rear Guards In Perugia; 27,000 Nazi Prisoners

NAZIS RACE NORTHWARD TN ITALY   French Victorious On Elbe, Take 1,900 Prisoners

Rear Guards of Nazis Wiped Qut in Perugia   French Smashing  Last Resistance on Island of Elba

STH ARMY FIGHTS WAY THROUGH OLD CITY OF PERUGIA   French Colonials Have Smashed Last Organized Resistance. on Elha_

NAZIS RESUME FULL RETREAT ACROSS ITALY   French Complete Elba Conquest, Taking 1,900 Captives

British Army Wipes Out ” Isolated German Rear  Guards In Perugia   27,000 GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN   French Colonials Smash Last Nazi Resistance On Elba

Nazi Army in Headlong Retreat in Italian Sector   RETREAT OF FINNISH ARMY NOW A DEBACLE

Perugia Falls to British in Italy   French Crush Nazi Resistance on Elba

 The Vitamin Murder Case  Infatuated With Maid, Iowa Farmer Poisoned His Wife

Ida Grove Man To Be Charged  In Poisoning   Purported Confession Made That He Put Poison in Vitamin Capsules

DAVIS, OW! HEAD, WINS LONG FIGHT   To Have Part in Decisions on Release of News

LONG FIGHT WON BY DAVIS FOR PROMPT WAR NEWS RELEASE   OWI Chief On Board Tc - Review All Future Decisions

WALTER EYRE RESIGNS FARM BUREAU POST   County Extension Director Since 1935, Takes Similar Job in Des Moines County

Reports Hint Crack in Nazi Control  Looting Spreads In Wake of Allied Air Raids

8.8. ROOSEVELT WILL RUN HERE NEXT SIMMER   City of Grand Rapids To Go On Mackinac Island Run

$$ Roosevelt ~ Will Run Here   Grand Rapids Slated For - Island Cruises

RUSSIANS TAKE KRASNO, CROSS « CZECH BORDEF   Soviet Troops A'ss Crash Into Eastern Suburb ® of Warsaw

REPORT JAPS ~ PREPARE FOR NEW ATTACK          HNEMY MASSING TROOPS FOR ANOTHER MAJOR ATTEMPT  ¢ TOCAPTURE INDIA  i FRONTIER BASE

NEW JAP DRIVE EXPECTED ON BIG INDIA BASES   Allies Prepared ‘To Meet Threat At Imphal And Kehima

EXPECT NIPS TO RENEW DRIVE   New Onslaught Indicated by Enemy’s Troop Movements

FIENDISH SLAYING OF TWO WOMEN LAID CALIFORNIAN’S NOOR   NUDE AND TERRIBLY MUTILATED BODIES VIC TIMS FOUND IN HOTELS

U.S. Submarine: Sink Eleven Jap Warships   Ant Islands Attackec by Naval Airmen; Jap Thrust Stopped

Variety of Blows Hit Japs as India Drive Is Snagged  Tokyo Believed Massin  Troops in China tt mann

Negro Admits Slaying Woman   Battered Body Found Covered With Leaves, Branches In Ditch

Seminole Band To Play Concerts For Benefit Of Crionled Children   State-wide Program Approved By Gov.

HOUSE COMMITTEE SHUNS LABOR RIL   Recommendations by Army, Navy, Maritime Commission Does Not Deter Chairman

MACARTHUR RETURNS TO ISLANDS WITH SPECTACULAR SMASH  HUGE JAP DEFENDING EORCES SPLIT IN TWO

Americans Widen Lines After Three Landings At Leyte   Nipponese Caught By Surprise As Assault Waves Hit; Islands’ President And Staff Also Go Ashore; 225,000 Of Foe Believed Guarding Base

Coal More Precious Than Mone y Doughboys a Front Keep Warmer Than People of Paris - - - Except in Ex-Gestapo Suite

CROSSES SOMME TO FLANK 100 MILES Ot ROBOT BOMB COAST   Thrust Of 60 Miles In Two Days Revealed As Americans Push Beyond Laon To Within 30 Miles Of Belgium

Amiens Captured In Headlong Push By Allied Troops   American Tank Armies Fan Out Beyond Aisne, Marne River Lines

AMIENS FALLS NV SMASH TO CHOKE ROBOTS   Tommies Without Rest Surge Toward Belgium; Nazis.-~ Quitting Cold,

U.S. Tank Armies Only 80 Mi. From Germany s Border   Expect British Drive To Overrun Robot Coast In 72 Hrs.

Temperatures.   Americans Within Eighty Miles of Germany’s Frontier

British roops Threaten To C rerrun Robot Bomb Coast Within  Short ‘ime.

Amiens Taken By British   Twin U.S. Drives Said to be Within 26 Miles of Belgium

2 YANK DRIVES PUT ALLIES NEAR BELGIAN BORDER   British May Lift London ‘Rocket Siege’ Within 72 Hours

Amiens Falls; Troops Plunge Toward Coast   Robot Bomb Base Sites Threatened; Twin Tank Drives Near Belgium.

U.S. Forces Blast Jap Bases Used To Raid Saipan  Foe’s Suicide Attacks Repulsed on Leyte; Sink More Jap Ships

LONDON EDITOR NEW PRESIDENT OF OHIC NEWSPAPER GROUP   Bricker Warns Of Three ‘Dangers’ Periling Free Press

Railway Wage Set tlement Seen   Three More Unions Agree to Terms

Three Hold-Out Rail Brotherhoods : Accept 9-Cent-an-Hour Wage Boost

Army Sees 1939 Red-Finn Fight As Real Help   Moral Aspec ts Are Iynored in Evaluating Military Situation

Atfack on Finns Backed by Army   Says Russian Move Bolstered Position

‘Deadly Gas Fumes Seep Through ‘Store as Authorities Seek ‘to Destroy ‘Pesky Little Weasel’

American Losses In Marianas Drive Small Compared to Slaughter of Japs

Mariana Action Proves Costly to Japanese   More Than 40,000 Nips Believed to Have Been Killed

40,000 Japs are Killed in Marianas Campaign; U. S$. Lost 4,453 Killed

Japanese Loss In Marianas Set  At 40,000 Men   American Death Toll In Islands Campaign Amounts To 4,453. 

Rains Slow Fr ront Line   “Mud. Causes ‘Supply Problem: For Army:

German Armor Fans Through  20=-VMile Break   American Attacks Re-Establish More Or Less Solid Lines On Flanks.

ARMORED BATTLES NOW SHAPINGUP IN BIG GERMAN BULGE   American Resistance ‘Hardening But No Sign From Any Source That Nazi Panzers Have Been  Stemmed Or Checked

YANKS STILL GIVING GROUND, BATTLE T0 STOP BREAKTHROUGH   News Blackout Obscures German Gains In Last 48 Hours; Groups Of U.S. Forces Cut Off; Situation Still ‘Grave’

In Supre ae Bid For Break Through In American Lines   SITUATION SAID TO BE STILL GRAVE   Nazis Claim 10,000 Prisoners Have Been Taken, 200 Tanks Destroyed

Meagre Reports Indicate Scope of Nazi Offensive May Spread To All Fronts

BATTLE IS DEVELOPING   U. S. Resistance To Nazi Drive Is Hardening

Greatest German Offensive Since Egyptian Campaign  May Be Aimed At Antwerp

First Army Is Holding Firm In Some Areas   Nazi Infantry Follows Armored Spearheads In Drive Aimed At Liege; Situation Of U. S. Troops ‘Definitely Better’

Enemy Advancing Alt Along First Army Front; Furious Fighting Rages

All Reports Emphasize The Seriousness Of The German Blow   SECURITY BLACKOUT STILL OBSCURES THE DETAILS OF BATTLE   It’s Indicated Nazi Drive Toward Liege, Belgium, Remains Unchecked

Heavily Censored Dispatches; Indicate Great Tank Battles Are Developing, Expansion Of Offensive Seen   SHOWDOWN STRUGGLE APPEARS SHAPING UP

SEABEES_ SPRINKLE FOR DUSTY MARINES  Se aaenan ee ate oa ee ere cece, mem koe

Hershey Sees Tightening Of Draft Rule   Reveals Army Need For 1,200,000 More Men by July 1

DESCRIBE KILLING OF WAR CAPTIVES   NAZIS SAID TO HAVE SHOT PRISONERS IN BARRACKS —AND WORKSHOPS.

GERMAN LUNATICS MASSACRE 47 MEN   Guards Spent Several Days In Slaying Prisoners Held In Prison Camps.

NAZI MASSAGRE DETAILS BARED   Prison Camp Slaughter Described In Sweden By Evye-Witnesses

comparable to Wakde’'s excellent 4,700 foot strip.   Mass Murder Of RAF Flyers Called A Horrible Massacre

Allied Prisoners in German Camps Said “‘Massacred’   Eye-Witness Accounts of Mass Murders Given by British Pilots Reaching Sweden; Britain's Hatred of Navis Mounts

Prison Shooting: Were Deeds Of Berserk Guards   Allied Officers Not Trying to Escape When Murdered

10,000 SOVIETS RAGE ACROSS LITRUANIA      Other Forces Rear Down Unchecked on Budapest

HOPE RENEWED FOR 66 MINERS   Canaries Alive After Underground Trip

Planes Aid Ninth’s Push.      Ace Zemke Is POW, War Department Says

ALLIES COLLAPSE ENEMY DEFENSES ~INCASSINO AREA   American Artillerymen Advance Guns During Fog, Open Terrific Bombardment on Stronotiold. ©   NEW POUNDING DEALT TO INVASION COAST   Allied Forces Control Underside of New Guinea, 4 Enemy Troop Barges Are Sent to Bottom.

RIP BIG HOLE IN NAZI LINE   Tank-Led Infantry Opens Four-Mile Gap in Central Italy: No Progress Made on Rome Front.

Pour Through Nazi Gustav Line Defense   Yanks, French Shatter Main German Fortifications North of Cassion.

Backers of Dewey, Willkie Believed Ready for Rattle   Struggle Threatens _te  Break Out During First Conclave

Superfort Engine Plant Production Stopped by Strike   1,900 Supervisors at the Wright Plant Tie-Up Aircraft Production

STRIKE TIES UP FIVE B29 PLANTS   1900 SUPERVISORS WALKOUT AND STOP ENGINE PRODUCTION

TRAIN WRECK FATAL TO TWO   Ohio Detrailment Brings Injury to 13 Persons, Including Soldiers

eee eS  2 KILLED, 13 INJURED IN OHIO TRAIN WRECK   Homeward - Bound Soldiers Are Hurt Near London

2 DIE, 12 HURT IN RAIL WRECK NEAR LONDON, 0,   Fireman, Engineer Scalded tc Death by Steam in Cab of Engine

SAIPAN BATTLE IS RAGING ON   U. S. Units Advance Up to Two Miles—Warships, Planes Hit Bases

Jap Bases Along 3,300 Mile Arc Are Plastered   Navy Chief Promises Impeding Blows At Japan Itself.

Japan Next Target After Saipan Falls   Warships and Planes Hit Both Ends of 3,300 Mile Front

U. S. Forces Drive Miles   Warship And Bomber Attacks Are Reported

Saipan ForceTakes Towns; Gains 2 Miles   Tinian, Kuriles; Yap and Truk Hit From. Air itt 3.300-Mile “Are

U.S. Warships Attack Six Jap Pacific Bases   Meanwhile Americans On, Saipan Score Gains Up To Two Miles, Headquarters Announce

U.S. Troops On Saipan Score Gains   American Warships And Planes Hit Enemy Islands

BIG. VICTORY IS SCORED BY 8TH ARMY   Special Communique Announces Fall of Formidable Nazi Position.   BULLETIN

Strikes Tie Up War Production   Government Intervention May Become Necessary

U.S. MAY SEIZE BAY CITY PLANT   STRIKES CURTAIL WAR OUTPUT OVER COUNTRY

LABORATORY TESTS OF POTOMAC WASTE   Commission Believes Critical War Materials Can Be Salvaged From Industrial Deposits

STUDY OF POTOMAC  RIVER IS PLANNED   Possibility of Reclaiming Waste Will be Determined

JAPS ADMIRALS GUESSED WRONG ON SEA BATTLE   ~ Naval Strength Greater Than Nips Thought

New Interest On Political Front   Democrats Of Texas Meeting Tomorrow; Dewey Visits lowa

Robot Assault Rocks England FromNewBase   Saturday Daylight Lull Is Broken; Ack-Ack Guns Cover ‘Bomb Alley’

FIRMS ASSISTING AXIS ARE CITED   U. S., Britain Put 15,000 Business Men, Companies on Their Blacklist

ALLIES CRACK DOWN ~ ON FIRMS THAT ARE TRADING WITH AXIS   Destroy Enemy Aiders

i ARE DOOMED   State Department t@ Con tinue Economic Penalties Into Postwar Era

Sanctions Imposed On Those Companies To Be Continued Indefinitely Into Post-War Period; Plants In Neutral Countries Are Warned

BLACKLISTE FIRMS TO FACE POST-WAR BAN   U, §. And Britain Seek To Give Advantages To Those Aiding Allies

Sanctions fo Be Continued   Anglo-Americans Penalize Business Men Blacklisted

CRACKED DOWN ON BUSINESS MEN AND FIRMS BLACKLISTED   CHARGED WITH ALLEGED ASSISTANCE TO ENEMY WAR MACHINES

PACE 0M ALLIED BLACKLIS   Alleged Assistance To : Germany And Japan Brings Action   SEVERE BLOW   U.S. And British Governments Combine In FarReaching Drive

FIRMS AIDING AXIS TOSTAY ON BLACKLIST   Economic Sanctions Will Be Continued By Britain And U.S. After Peace

Blacklisted Firms To be Cui from Trade affer Peace   State Depariment Spokesman Makes Plain U. S., Britain, Will Continue Sanctions

ASloT ENEMY WAR MACHINES   10,000 Listed By U. S.. Britain, Are in Latin America, Others in Europe.   CONTINUE INDEFINITELY

ALLIES CRACK DOWN ON FIRMS ASSISTING AXIS   Act Now to Warn Officials ir Neutral Countries Not to Yield to Germany

Blacklist Group Feels Pressure OU. §., Britain   Governments Crack Down For Alleged Assistance To Axis War Machines

Allies Craek Down On Firms  On Blacklist   15.000 Business Men Believed Helping Germany, Jap an With Arms.   BEGIN INVESTIGATING

U. S. and Britain Blacklists Firms Which Help Enemy's War Machines

Business Firms Face Sanctions   United States and Great Britain Crack Down on 15,000 Individuals and Concerns, Blacklisted Because of Alleged Assistance to War Machines of Axis.   CONTINUE AFTER WAR

Neutral Business Firms Hit   Allies Blacklist Con cerns Which Persist _ In Trading With Axis; Ban Into Postwar Era

WONT LET UP ON FIRMS PUT ON BLACKLIST   Crackdown Will Be Continued After War in U. S. and Britain

15,000 PLACED ON BLACKLIST   Charged by U. S. and Britain With Aiding Axis War Machines

15,000Firms Blacklisted By Britain And America   Joint Action Taken To Punish Those Whe Have Been Helping Axis War Machine

U.S. Britain Crack  Down On Axis Firms   Action on 15,000 Who’ve Aided Enemy to Continue On After War, Giving Others Who've ‘Played Ball’ Advantage

America. Britain  Hit Axis Helpers   Announce Extension of Rules for Blacklisted  Firms in Postwar Era

Economic Sanctions To Be Continued After The War Against Blacklisted Firms

Allies Put 15,000 Firms On Black List   Friends of Germany To Be Punished After War

Crackdown on Firms ‘Under Blacklist Ban   Sanctions Won’t Be Let Off Immediately Upon Close of War

 Americans Storm Across Vire River Above St. Lo; British Find Part of Caen Deserted

Americans At Last Report Were Fighting Gere mans In Hand-To-Hand Combat Near St. JeanDe Dave.

Enemy May Be Pulling Out Of Peninsula; ‘Manenoth Barrace Precedes Infantrvmer

Troops Storm Across River  Above 8t. Lo      Bridgehead Established On Bank: British Find Caen Docks Deserted

YANK FIRST ARMY. LAUNCHES THIRD PUSH IN 5 DAYS   Last Reports From Vicinity of St. Jean-De-Haye Tell of Hand to Hand Clashes With Bavonets.   AMERICAN PLANES BOMB NAZ] AIRCRAFT PLANTS   Robot Bombing of England ts Resumed: Germans Let Go  - First Daylight Attack In Several Weeks,

DRAFT-FREE WAR WORK IS DESIGNATED   WPB, Army and Navy List Programs in Which They Will Ask Deferments for Key Men 22 Through 25 Years Old.

CLASSIFICATIONS ON DRAFT ISSUEL   ‘Men Engaged In Production of Essential War Needs to Get Deferments.

New List for Deferments Announced   Services Will Ask Deferments For Key Men 22-25 Years

LIST JOBS FOR DRAFT DELAYS   Key Men 22 Thru 25 Can Get Deferments If On List

Urgent Goods List Released To Aid Draft   WPB, Army, Navy, and Maritime Service Set Up Requirements

WPB Announces List Of. Urgent Program:   Armed Services to Ask Deferment for Men  Under 25 Years

OFFICIAL LIST IT ANNOUNCED      Urgent Manufacturing Programs for Which Deferments May Be Asked.

LISTS WORKERS WHO MAY GET DEFERMENTS   WLB Program Effects Key Men 22 Through 25 Years Old Only

Program Listed For Deferments   Army, Navy and » Maritime Service Submit Lists

WPB Announces Larger List For Job Deferments   Will Ask For Key Men 22 To 25

WPB REVISES LIST ESSENTIAL WAR INDUSTRY   WPB, Army, Navy, Maritime Commission Will Support Draft Deferments for Key Workers

erment stries Announced   nt ManufacturPrograms RevealWar Production a

KEY DEFERMENT LIST ANNOUNCED   WPB Announces List Of Urgent Jobs In Which Army, Navy And WPB Will Ask Deferments For Youne Men.

NAVY TO ASK MEN DEFERRED   Army, Maritime Commission Also Seek Deferments for Big 22-25 Groups

New Deferment List Drawn Uj   WPB, Army, Navy Agree On Key Occupations

WPB Lists Deferment  Elicibles   For Men Needed In Industries Producing War Materials

BATTLE FIRST ARMY WITH SAVAGE ABILITY   Americans Held to: Standstill in Slow’ Process. of Grinding Up German Forces Before Cologne

Germans Fight2 Gambier Baj First Army To Crewmen Were A Standstill/ Shark Victim:

Yanks Fought To Standstill In One Sector   Ai Only One Point Along Line of Firet Army Was. Insignificant Gain Scored

War’s End Remains Far in Future For U. S. Doctors  Army Will Induct Fewer Men for Limited Service

War’s End Remains Far in Future For U.S. Doctors  Army Will Induct Fewer Men for  Pe eee ee

Chinese Gain In Hengyang Sector   Remaining Troops In Florence Pulled Out By Kesselring

Chinese Gain In Hengyang Sector  Remaining Troops In Florence Pulled Out

CENSORSHIP OF MOVIE RAPPED   Film On Wilson Banned By Army Without Review

Japan Bombed by New Boeing B-29   Superfortress Raiders Came From  India-China Burma Theater   DETAILS ARE WITHHELD   Land-Based Attack on Nippon First Use of Long  Range Bomber .

New Giant Bombers Blast Japan  Super-Fortresses Inauqurate Worldwide Offensive War hv Alliec

Raiders Bomb Jap Homeland In First Task   Gen. Arnold Is  In Command of New Sky Giants, B-29 Super-Fortresses

U.S. Hurls Sky Giants At Nippon   Specific Targets And Details Of Raid With a = Se . eee. .. Ree

U. S. New B-29 Superfortress Command Stages Raid Over Mainland, with Details Lacking.   SECOND TIME THAT JAPAN HAS BEEN HIT

6OWERFUL NEW <JPER-BOMBERS MASH AT NIPS  PART OF JAPAN  eTpley IN RAIN

HUGE PLANES STRIKE FROM BURMA-INDIA   New U. S. 20th Air Force, World - Roaming Sky  _ Mammoths, Blast Nipponese Homeland.   TARGETS NOT GIVEN IN FIRST REPORTS   Air Chief Gen. Arnold  - Directs B-29's, Specially Built for Long Range . Operations. —

War Bond Score   Nip Raid Is First Assignment For Giant US Plane

New Superfortress. Is Used in Attack   Army Throws New Fighting Giant Into Pacific War; Announcement Of Latest Assault Discloses Existence of 20th Air Force.   CAME FROM INDO - CHINA - BURMA ‘THEATRE

SUPER FORT BOMBERS IN AIR ATTACK   First Fighting Assignment for B-29's But No Details Revealed on Homeland Strike

Mammoth Engines of Destruction Flying From Distant, Secret Bases, Wifl Be Operated as Major Task Foree Known as 20th Bomber Command— Details of Thursday’s Attack Not Given Out,

J. S. Hurls New Flying Giants at Nippon; 20th Air Force Is Unveiled

First Mission For Huge New Craft; Army Is  Mum on Target   B-29's to Be Used as Major Task Forces ‘Throughout World’

First Blow Struck At Mainland Since Jimmy Doolittle’s °42 Venture

B-29 Superfortresses Used; Details Such As Bases ‘And Cities Hit Kent Secret

World-Roaming Unit of Super Fortresses Under Personal  Command of Gen. H. H. Arvold Receives Its First  Aenianiaant’   There’s No Hint Where Bombers Stationed or Where They Strike

FULL DETAILS NOT RELEASED    General Marshall Hails Start Of New Offensive; Raid Second On Japs

New Fighting Giant Thrown Into the War in the Pacific Today by the United States Army,   FIRST ASSIGNMENT FOR THE SKY MAMMOTH   It Wan Disclosed for the First Time the Existence of the Twentieth Bomber Command,

Big B-29 Super ‘Forts’ Enter Pacific War By Raiding Nip Homeland

Army Drops Bomb Load; Time, Place Kept Secret   Supe r - Fortresses Are Introduced To Pacific

New Planes Hit From  East Bases   B-29 Bombers Get First Battle Assignment In Raid on Japan; Creation of New American Air Force Announced by Chiefs

Details Of Attack Not Given Out   Tokyo Reports Allied Attempts to Land on Mariana Islands

AERIAL GIANTS FINISH INITIAL FIGHTING TASK   World-Roving Bomber Command Revealed  In Raid Report .

‘Location of Aerial Smash ‘Not Divulged   Army Air Forces Use Giant Planes Against Homeland of Japanese

SUPER - FORTS HIT MAINLAND SECOND TIME   ‘Huge Planes Hit Heavy Blow On First   Mission

B-29 Bombers Turned Loose Against Japs   First Fighting Assignment For Mammoth Plane; Great Bombing Range.   WITHHOLD DETAILS

Nippon Proper Hit From Air By New Craft   War Department Declines to Give Exact Location

Army Anncunces B-29 Bombing of Nip Homeland; No Hint of Where Planes Struck; Based in Far East Theater

COMMANDING GENERAL HAS “NO COMMENT"   U.S. Submarine Corvinc \Reported Lost

LOSS OF U. S. SUB REVEALED   Corvina and Crew Ave Missing in Action

U.S. Reveals Loss of Sub   Navy Reports Corvina Lost; Brings Number of Subs Destroyed to 20

Sub Listed by  Navy as Lost    Ameffean Craft Is Listed as Missing After Operations Agninet lan Shinning

Confesses To Slaying Girl   Shipyard: Worker Under Guard After Slashing Arms And Wrists.

ATTACK RAIL CENTERS IN THE CAPITALS   Raid on Belgrade Proper Is Allies’ First of the War and Airmen Also Blast Aircraft Facilities There.

RAIL CENTERS BELGRADE RAIDED   Block Supplies To German Forces In Russia   Based In Britain Inactive: 176 Enemy Aircraft Downed In Anzio

SOFIA, BELGRADE BUCHAREST TAKt BOMB BLASTINGS   For the Main Part Railroads Are Targets as Allies Seek to Cripple Nazi Transport

Yank Bombers From Italy Hit Sofia. Belgrade   Balkan Raids Strike At Supply Lines Of Nazis Facing Russians.

Report Given On Expenses  Of Nominees   Capehart’s Funds Held Under Total. - Permitted by .Law

Much Of Reick Industr ry City Left In Smoke   Reiurning American Flier: Report Many Fires and Explosions in Huge Frejght Yards   Berlin Says Many Bombers Set Afir   25,000 Tons of Explosive: Dropped on Naziland and Hun-Occupied Areas in Six Days

WAKE BLASTED IN HEAVY RAID      No Enemy Interception In Marshalls; All Planes Return

Army and Naw Bombers Blast Wake. Nauru   Three Jap-Held Bases In Marshalls Raided: No Planes Are Lost

Wooster Woman Who Won ‘Americar Mother’ Title in 1939, Dies at Home

Assault the Siegfried Line Forts   Americans Plunge Deep in to Forest in the Moselle Valley

€S1S                   tan   ". AMERICANS PLUNGE DEEP INTO ARDENNES FOREST, © BEYOND THE MEUSE. ER

hoages hitting Fiank   Patton Ready for Frontal Assault On Siegfried Line

Plunge Deep Into Ar- dennes Forest Beyond The Meuse River   BOTH ARMIES NEAR SIEGFRIED LINE   American And British Armies Are Nearing A Junction In Belgium

Patton’s Army Locked With Foe On Moselle; First Crosses Meuse   British Capture Gent, Armentieres As Air And Land Forces Lash Nazis In Channe! Ports

Blitz - -type of. Warfare Has Given Way. to Close Fighting As Germans Make a Stand

Yugoslavia Army Plunges Into Ardennes Beyond Meuse   Patton's Forces Mect Resistance Along 50-Mile Moselle Valley Front

First Army Spearhead Driven From Auchamps Crossing Of Meuse Well Into Ardennes Forest To Area Of Thilay   ARMY JUNCTION IS NEAR IN BELGIUM

BATTLE ALONG JO-MILE FRONT NEAR MOSELLE   First Army Drives Spearhead Into Ardennes Forest District

Americans Meeting Bitter Resistance From German Army Guarding H omeland

Reverse Lend-Lease From Allies Growing in Volume  Crowley Says Program Necessary for Rombinasc of Evrone

LEND-LEASE 10 U.S. INCREASES   $2,000,000,000 YEARLY RATE OF AID RECEIVED

$10,771.43   Denton’s quota $20,000.   Lend-Lease Works In Reverse to Aid United States

WIDOW OF © JOHN KEYES   Mrs. Lara H._ H. Keyes, 81, Was Formerly Active in ‘Church Affairs

CTheDAIY -utitt  WASHINGTON MERRY - GO: ROUND & ,  DREW’ reanson

Little Resistance Met On Noemfoor   Amphibious U. S. Forces Leapfrog To Island 770 Miles From Philippines

BRKER ACCEPTS NOMINATION A FRENCH HICK ©   Chiefs ‘Predict. Dewey » “Will Carry State: by. ‘Majority Over ‘150, 000

BRIGKER SPEAKS AT FRENCH LIGK   Fae Oe Will Accept Vice-Presidential   Nomination Tonight At GOP  Editorial Meeting.

BRICKER ACCEPTS NOMINATION AT. FRENCH LICK   Chiefs Predict Lewey Will Carry State by Majority Over 150,000

BRICKER WILL ACCEPT TONIGHT   Vice Presidential Nominee in Neighboring Indiana For Speeches

Post-War Bill Passed By Senate   Construction P ro gram For State Institutions Is Approved Without Any Dissenting Votes

'Twwivtw  Landings Fc ollow Al 17-Day Battering By Ships, Planes

U. 5. MARINES, INFANTRYMEN LAND ON GUAM UNDER SHIP, AIR BARRAGE   INVASION OF FIRST JAP-HELD AMERICAN TERRITORY BEGINS AFTER 17-DAY SOFTENING

Stop Telephone Calls To Ireland.    Halt’ Travel To Wales, England, Scotland

PHONE LINES TO IRELAND SUSPENDED   More Key Areas Are Prohibited by  Britain

TELEPHONE SERVICE WITH IRELAND IS SUSPENDED   Travel Restrictions Invoked in Key Areas of British Isle:

British Consider Outlawing All Non-Union Strike:   Laborites In Commons Expected To Split Over Issue

British Air Commander Says Japs Increasing ‘Bay of Bengal Aclivity

PORTER FACING FIGHT FOR JOE   Opposition Is Reported lr Senate To Appointment

Allied Bombers Attack France, Cities In Reich  Berlin Ceases      Berlin Ceases  To Be Capital

Bad Weather Curtails Air Support Needed By Allied Forces   SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI.rONARY FORCE, Tuese  PS ..3.. A f¢ ATI 7+; €

Doughboys Are Battling Against Snipers And Motar Fire And In First SurgeCaptureMore Than 100 Prisoners

Crush Stout Nazi Line in Thrust: Periling Road Hub   Quick Turn-About Offensive Seeks To Squeeze Off All Peninsula; Terrific Battle Rages in Rain, Mud

ENEMY LINES IN CHERBOURG AREA CRACKED   AMERICANS ADVANCE THREE MILES IN RAIN AND MUD

Americans Ahead In Rain and Mud   New Power Drive Crumbles Strong * Nazi Defenses   Yanks Fight in Battle Reminiscent Of World War I; Gains Up to 3 Miles

Allies Advance Three Miles in Rain and Mud   Weather Hinders Air Help As Doughboys  Drive Against Stout  German Defenses

Americans Strike South From Cherbourg to Take  Remainder of Peninsula

Mud Does Not Stop Advance By Americans   Fighting Around Caen Reported Slackening

RED OFFENSIVE HAS. ENGULFED BALTIC TOWNS   Stalin Announces BreakThrough North Of Tartu, Estonian Rail City   BOTH SIDES SILENT CONCERNING WARSAW

Reds Roll Rapidly Aheaa In Estonia Following Double Breakthrough

RED ARMY SEIZES 2,000 HORE TOWNS IN BALTIC STATES   Russians Plunge to Within 50 Miles of Estonian Capital _ After Breaking Through Near Tartu.   NAZI ATTACK WEST OF RIGA REPULSED   Germans Say Soviets Who ' Entered Warsaw Under . Cover of Artificial Fog Were Wiped Out.

Russian Army Breaks Nazi Lines in Estonia   Offensive Reaches Within 50 Miles Of Nation's Capital

Soviet Troops _ Open Clean-Up Push in Baltic   fwin Breakthrough Perils 200,000 Germans Along  Feaeanian Feant

Nearly 2,000 More Towns Engulfed by the Reds_.__.  SH FORCES CLOSE TO _ ESTONIAN CAPITAL  Break-through North of Tartu Reported in Dispatches  4

Soviets. Gain In Baltic _  Offensive   43-Mile: ‘Advances - one “-Made by Two. Separate "Russian Colamne  HOPE TO.RID NORTH OF NAZIS. BY WINTER   ’ Nearly 3,000:Towns Swept Up by Reds In-Powerful Drive: .

1,800 ESTONIA TOWNS TAKEN BY RED FORCES   Reds Announce Fourth Great Army Group Makes Big Gains

SOVIETS NEA TALLINN, TAKE 2,000 TOWNS   TWIN BREAK MADE IN GERMAN LINE IN ESTONIA

Russians crash nazi lines to advance 43 miles on wide front   Move to within 50 miles of Tallinn to free Baltics ‘before snow flies

ATH BALTIC ARMY TAKES 1800 TOWNS   In Two Advances in §stonia; Try to Rid Country of Germans Before Winter.   200,000 Nazis

The War Today   By DeWITT MacKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst

VITAL NAZI CITY TARGET OF 800. U. $; BOMBERS   RAF Makes 13th Pulverizing Assault on Berlin; 47 Fail to Return

OPEN BIG-SCALE BOLOGNA DRIVE   Clark’s Fifth Army Take: Offensive in Northern Italy

LARGE SCALE OF FENST » LAUNCRED AGAINST NAZE : , FORCES) DEFENDING”  * “ BOLOGNA :

EGIN NEW OFFENSIVE IN ITALY   Large-Scale Drive Aimed at Capture of Bologna

Charge of Aiding Tommy Corcoran Denied by Biddle   Attorney General, In Statement, Says Littell is Wrong

Cotton Spinning Industry Works 125 P. C. Capacity   Census Bureau April Ficures

Council Seeks Prevention Of Fire Hazards   Passes Ordinance To Extend Limits Already In Force

Council Seeks Prevention Of Fire Hazards  Dannn. Lr\..]°.. . . ..   Passes Ordinance Tc Extend Limits Already In Force

Memorial Day Services Have Added Sienificance In These War Years   Thoughful Address By Rev, Earl Dale Climaxyes Prorram

Two Islands Are Seized By Marines   Battleships Bombed Kav. ieng-Tojo Says Jap Posi tion Serious

90,000 JAPS ISOLATED BY LIS MANELIVER   Kavieng Is Hit By Battleships In New Attack

TWO ISLANDS IN ST. MATTHIAS GROUP SEIZED   Encirclement Of Bismarcks Now Completed—Battleships @hall Ravians

Americans Surround Bismarcks   Landing on ‘ St. Mathias Group Closes Gap

$0,000 JAPS IN SOUTH PACIFIC ARE ENCIRCLED   U. S. Marines Take 2 More Islands Around ‘Bismarck Archipelago

PREDICT DEFEAT FDR’S PROPOSED. LABOR DRAFT ACT   Senate Tentatively Approves Tax Bill Raising Two and a Half Billion Dollars.

Market Beans, Farmers Urged   Crushing of Soybeans Needed to Provide Oil for Requirements

Soviets Surge Across Bug River  ete a  TRAP THOUSANDS  teen  German Retreat Continuing

NO NATURAL BAR TO GAIN RUMANIA 29 MILES AWAY   Tanks and Infantry Speed West of River Along 62-Mile Front

SOVIET FORCES AT MOUTH OF BUG ESTUARY   Trap Several Nazi Di visions; Within 12 Miles of City

GERMAN-HELD NAVAL . BASE  ON BLACK SA ISOLATED—  ROMANSA BORDER ONLY  29 MILES AWAY

EUROPEAN AIRCRAFT LOSSES — ARE ANNOUNCED BY THE AAF   STRATEGIO BOMBINGS SINCE D-DAY COST 797 U.S. PLANES > mENEMY LOSBES L301

ARMY REPORTS ON AAFS WORK   Enemy Loses Two Planes To One For Yank Airmen

RAIDS ON EUROPE COST 797 PLANE!   Strategic Bombing Since DDay Finds 61,872 Tons on German Targets.

ENEMY PLANES AND SHIPS LOST TO ALLIES   Widespread Attacks In South Pacific Area Reported As Well As Bombing Of Wewak Base.   Many Lead Japs

31 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN ISLAND RAIDS   3-Ship Convoy is Also Destroyed; Many Foe Targets Blasted

‘Jap Dead Exceeds 1,000 In Suicidal Assaults At Empress -Anguala:-Ba¥.

Allies Down. 31 Jap Planes In Pacific Area   Also Destroy Enemy Three-Ship Convoy, Number of Barges

Sink 3 Ships, Wreck Barges In Rabaul Area   Bombers Attack New Guinea Base

ALLIES DOWN 31 JAPANESE PLANES, WIPE OUT CONVOY   Enemy Dealt Heavy Blows in Widespread Raids From _ -Hollandia, New Guinea, ~ . to Rabaul.   -WEWAK ATTACKED BY 100 BOMBERS   Nipponese Dead in Suicidal Attack. in Empress Augusta Bay Area Ex ceeds 1,000. ‘

Japs Suffer Heavily in. Southwest   3Y Planes, Three - Ship  Convoy, Small Craft Hit by Allied’   Air Forces”

33 Nip Planes Shot Down in Heavy Aitacks   Action Extends Over Wide Area in South Pacific

3- SHIP CONVOY IS DESTROYED OFF HOLLANDIA   33 Jap Aircraft Shot Down In Widespread Attacks In Two Days   WEWAK IS SUBJECTED TO HEAVY BOMBING

Allies Bag 31 Jap Planes in Wide Attacks   Three-Ship Convoy, Many Barges Destroyed In 48-Hour Period

31 Japanese Planes Downed By Allied Fliers In Attacks   Three Ship Convoy, Small Craft and Barges Destroyec in Widespread Assaults—Wewak Is ‘ * Again Pounded

Drives On Peleliu Gain Momentum; Japs Stagger  Under Terrific U.S. Blows

Island Conquest Gains Momentum  ny qi ee aS ee ee   Japs Showing Signs of Weakening Under Terrific Attacks by Troopers

Japs Weaken Under. Blows. Of Ameri ‘icans  On Two Isles.   P eleliu. Airdr ome.  Used By Yanks: -

American Drives On Two Isles Gain Momentum   Japanese Show Signs Of Weakening  Under Strong Attack

Yanks Already Using Peleliu Airdrome, Fighting North Over Rough Terrain

Japs Cracking Under Terrific  Palaus Assault   Over Five Thousand Deac And Island’s Main Town Captured.

LIGHT AERIAL ATTACKS SAID MADE BY ENEMY   Yanks Hold Half Of Angaur, Use Great Peleliu Airdrome

Japanese Forces Show Signs Of Weakening Under Fierce Attacks Of Palau Invaders   3,543 Nips Killed During First Four Days Of Fighting On Islands

American Drives On Two Isles Gain Momentum   Japanese Show Signs  Of Weakening  a a  a, oY ee oe

Japs Fight Bitterly a \gainst Invading Yanks   Nip Officers Shackle Men To Posts: 5,543 Die In Four Dave.

Yankee Drives On Peleliu Are  Gaining Speed   Japanese Show Signs Of Weakening Under Attacks Which Have Cost Them 5,543 Dead

Yank ‘Drive’ Gains ‘Mo-. mentum: Despite Suicid-  al Enemy. Stand; Pelel-  «au Airfield Being Used: 

Japs Show Signs Of Giving Ground   American Drives on Islands _ in Pacific Gaining  omentum   FOUR DAYS OF BATTLE   Terrific Attack by the Allies ~ Has ee Japanese en

American Drives Gain Momentum on  Peleliu, Angaur  Japs, With Casnalties at 5,543 in Four Days, Show Signs of Woabkanina—Chained tn Pacic

Japs Staging Fight to End   Leaders Shackling WNipponese to Posts

Japanese Fall Back On Palau   Weaken Under Heavy U. S. Attack; Find  Japs Shackled to Guns — To Assure Death Stand

'U.S. Conquest of Palau Islands iPicks Up Speed   Jap Dead 5,543 In Four Days; Enemy On Angaur Retreats To Last Defenses

Lynn Dedicates Roll Of Honor   County Has 1,900  Now In Service  By C. W. RATLIFF Rualanrha Staff Writer

String Of Crimes Follow In. Wake Of Jail Breakers  Akron Liquor Store Robbers Cut Swath

String Of Crimes Follow In Wake Of Jail Breakers  Akron Liquor Store Robbers Cut Swath ‘While At Liberty

City To Pay Out ($85,162.50 Oct. J   Retiring $32,000 Of Bonds, Remainder Interest Payments.

Willkie Backers Lead in Primary In New Hampshire   Count in Republican Test With Dewey Still Is Incomplete

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Body of Woman Is Founc In Grave in Back Yard Paroled Murderess Helc

Browns Win Opener With Single, Homer   McQuinn’s Circuit Clout Spoils Great  Mound Exhibition by Mort Cooper

Browns Grab Opener in  World Series   Moore's Single and McQuinn’s Homer Give Them 2-1 Win

BLOODY PURGE HALTS GERMAN ARMY REVOLT   Gestapo Kills Many Generals and Aristocrats as Himmler Regains Shaky Control of Reich.

” Hitler Flight To Rhineland Hideout Rumored; Driving Revolt Leaders To. Cover

Montgomery Ward President Evicted From  Own Building   Avery Refuses to Cooperate with Gov't. Says Att'y. General

CANRICO FROM la OFFICE BY TWO SOLDIERS   ‘Avery Kicks and Squirms  When Evicted on Refusal  to Help Run Plant,

Soldiers Carry Ward President From Building   Firm to Seek Injunction Against Governmen;

Bum’s Rush Given Avery by Soldiers   Kicking, Squirming Mail-Order Company Head Carried Into Strpect ac Biddle Looks Ou

Armed Soldiers Patrol Streets; “Business As Usual” But U.S. Does It   Sewell Avery’s Refusal To Give Up Control Seen As Move To Compel Seizure

Official Fights: Ejected Bodily   Army Acts When Executive Refuses to & Permit Control of Seixed Property; Attorney General Biddle in Command

Wards Head Taken Fighting  From Store   63 Year Old Sewell Avery Ejected by Army After Stormy Scene

Defiant Ward Head Evicted   Soldiers Carry Avery Out After  President of Firm Refuses Co-operation With Government in Firm Operation

SEWELL AVERY IS - OUSTED:BY ~ FWO SOLDIERS   Refused to Give Up Books te Government—Puts Up ' Battle.

Executive Is Tossed Out By US   Mail Order Head Defies Order Of U. S. Government

Evict Avery From Ward Plant Office   Follows Refusal to Coop erate with Federal Au thorities Today

Soldiers Eject 69-Year-Old Head ‘Of Chicago Firm From His Office   Fighting Avery is Carried Out Today As He Refuses to Turn Over Books

TROOPS OUST MAIL ORDER EXECUTIVE   Avery is Carried From Office By Two Soldiers

ARGENTINA'S ACT STIRS NEIGHBOR’   Bolivian Recognition Done Without Consulting Other Reoublics

Diplomatic Dilemma Break with Argentina Over Bolivian Recognition Likely

Bombers Tear At Reich Rail:   Heavies, Mediums Assauli Five Railroad Yards

RAIL JUNCTIONS HIT IN GERMANY   Strategic ‘Supply Points For Enemy Troops Get Heavy Pounding

ORDER MAKES MOST MEATS RATION FREE   Only Steaks and Roast Beef Now Require Red Points

 Beef Steak, Roast Alone  Remain On Ration Lists   ‘Red Pomts Must Doe Donble Duty. ts OFA Deciaran Ae Mont Saunnly Allows Port Slashing

Beef Steak and Roasts. Only Ones Excepted   OPA sit As Many Red Points Ae  Half As Many Red Points As . Before: Effective Now

Good News For The Housewives ES  Meats, Excepting Steaks And  Roasts, Become Ration Free

Most Meat Off Ration Point List   OPA Springs Great Surprise; ;Choicest Beef Yet Rationed

Only Steaks, Beef Roasts Now Require Red Points   All Other Meat Taken From Ration List, But 30 Red Points Must Last One Month PREVIOUSLY GOOD FOR 2-WEEK PERIOD Butter, Canned Milk, Margarine and Cheese Still Require Points

OPA Makes All Meat Ration Free Except Beef Steaks and Roasts   Red Point Allowance Is Cut in Half  To Continue Curb on Butter, Cheese

Most Meats. Ration Free At Midnight   Points Revamped On Choice Beef 

Good News For The Housewives arene et   Meats, Excepting Steaks And Roasts, Become Ration Free

OPA In Surprise ' Move Affecting Points On Mea’   Beefsteak, Beef Roasts Only Ones Not Made Point-Free

RATIONING ENDS FOR ALL MEATS!  EXCEPT STEAKS, ROASTS   EXCEPT STEAKS, ROASTS POINTS HALVED   0. P, A, Red Coupon Slash I: Effective Immediately.

ALL MEAT RATION: FREE EXCEPT BEEF ~ EFFECTIVE TODA)   Steaks and Roasts Are Left  On List —Allowance of Red  _- Points to Consymers Cut in Half.   POINT PROGRAM CHANGE . - DUE TO BIG SUPPLIES   Bowles Says Lease-Lend Requirements Have Been Filed and Army-Navy Is On Current Basis.

RUSSIA: RESENTS REPORTS   Says Polish Exile Government Is Responsible for- Events _

Senate Okays Six Appointees To State Dept.   Confirmed After FDR Intervenes to Break Opposition

New State Dept. Assistants Take Oaths of Office   Nominations Confirmed Two Weeks After : Appointments

SENATE CONFIRMS SIX NOMINEES FOR STATE DEPARTMEN    President Steps In Te Curb New DealerLed Revolt

‘ALLIES LAND FORCE BEHIND JAPS IN BURMA   First Use Of AirBorne Troops In Asiatic Campaign

DEATHS MOUNT IN ARGENTINE EARTHQUAKES   San Juan Is 75 Per Cent Destroyed; Rescue Work Is Pushed

PEAT TOLL Wi DAN UUAN QUAKE MAY HIT 4000   Estimates R*rge From 50) Up in Argent.ne Tremor

SEVERE PROVES FATAL JO HUNDREDS   DEATH TOLL IN RUINED CITY IN ARGENTINA MAY REACH 4,000, OFFICIALS SAY: :

Heavy Death Toll In Argentina As Result Of Quake   San Juan Ruined For Second Time In Half Century By Earthquake   ESTIMATE DEAD FROM 500 TO 4,000

Nips Prepared For Setbacks In So. Pacific   Japanese Told Enemy Is . Directing Daily Attacks Against Rabaul With Huge. Forces   Marshall Islands . Attacks Continued   Raids Believed Presaging : Imminent Invasion of Japan’s Mandated Holdings

Allied Attacks Scare Japanese  Tokyo Radio Refuse: to Be ‘Optimistic’

Warships Make Their Closest — Strike to Tokyo   Join Air Fleets to Hit at Least 20 Jap Bases

Naval Guns Rain New Blows On Islands —  U.S. Fleet Bombards Jap Bases

American Warships Strike Within 1060 Miles of Tokyo   Bombard At Least 20 Japanese Bases Along 4,000 Mile Front

BANKHEAD JOINS CLAYTON'S FOES   Critics of FDR Appointees Promise Vigorous Quiz of Four Men

Senators Recall State Department Appointees for Further Questioning

1100 British Heavy Bombers Hit af Cologne   Drop Many Bombs  On Nazi Anti-Invasion Transport Center, London Reports

BERLIN GIVEN MOSQUITO RAID   9,000 Planes Assault  Nazi Targets In 72 Hours   BOMB LOAD IS GREAT

1,100 British Planes Hit Cologne, Others Blast Nazi Railways   RAF Airmen Rip Targets in France, Bel: rium, Berlin; U. S. Pounds French Coast

U. S. Planes Over Northern France Today   9,000 Planes Drop 15,000 Tons Of Ex plosives On Europe In 72 Hour Period

Cologne and French  Railroads Blasted ©   RAF Believed To Have  Br ought Tonnage of Explosives Dronned 4 in Four Days to 15. 00

1,100 Planes Drop Massive Bomb Load   9,000 Planes Dump Close tc 15,000 Tons In 72 Hours

NaziRailroad Center Target Of Big Attack   9,000 Plenes Over Europe In 72 Hours

Major Raids Leave Paths For Armies  Of Invasion   Rail Targets Dealt Blows; Berlin Hit

Cologne Smashed Again by Bombers   Nazi Anti-Invasion Transport Hub Cracked by 4480 Tons of Explosives

BRITISH SHOWER TONS OF BOMBS ON RAIL CITIES   Cologne Chief Target of Great RAF Attock—France And Belgium Are Hit

RAF Batters Transport Hub in Ratd   Cologne, Three Other European Targets Given Big Bomb Load

Shatter Jap Resistance On Arakan Front   Remnants Of Field Arm; Fleeing In Disorder After Savage Attack In Western Burma

JAPS FLEE IN DISORDER IN WEST BURMA   Leave Quarter of Force Behind Dead  In Arakan Sector

Mountbatten Lauds Troops For Triumph   8000 Nip Soldiers Shattered in Big Victory for Allies

Shattered Nipponese Fi leeing in Disorder  Enemy Army Leaves One- Four th   Enemy Army Leaves One-k ourly Of Men Dead in Jungle Battle

Japs Hacked To Pieces in Burma Rout   ‘Complete Victory” Won in Arakan Area, Says Adm, Mountbatten

Twelve Transports And 12 Gliders  Lost in Invasion Overnight Operations Bring First  Specific Reports

12 BIG TROOP CARRIERS AND GLIDERS LOST   First Reports of Losses From Overnight Reinforcement Operations Received

Dozen Troop Carriers, 12  Gliders Lost   Reported Missing From Reinforcement Overation In Night

24 SHIPS AND GLIDERS LOST “INVRAID RUIN   Correspondent Tells Graphic Story. of Fighting By Paratroops.

»12 Air Troop Carriers Lost   Huge Allied Transports, 12 Gliders Are Reported Missing From Train Reinforcing Invasion Forces on Normandy Beaches

Hal  Boyle Heads Back to War Zone Convinced Uz S. “Has Ever ything”         (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOK.)

New Threat In India Develops   U.S. Occupies More  Islands In Pacific By RAY CRONIN

New Threat In India Develops   U.S. Occupies More -slands In Pacific

Japs Hurl New .  Threat in India;  More Islands Fall U. S. Extends Hold On Marshalls; Allies  Advance in Rurma

OPEN BIG GAP IN PART OF GUSTAV LINE   Juin’s Troops Take 1000 Prisoners; Gain 7 Miles

Converging On Hitler Line At Vulnerable Arc   Seven-Mile Drive Threatens To Neutralize Powerful Cassino Stronghold As Italian Campaign Gathers Momentum.

French Open G4p Three Miles Wide In Heavily Fortified Area, Sweep Orr In Pursuit of Fleeing Enemy Forces

Hopes for Bricker Fade But Supporters Say They Won’t Give Up—Delegates Welcomed W ith Attack on Roosevelt by lilinois Governor—Balloting for Presidential Nominee Slated To Start Wednesday

ACTION GIVES N.Y. GOVERNOR 651-VOTE LEAD   Bricker Forces Plan To Continue Fight To Convention Floor

Dewey Appears A Positive F avorite As Republicans Open Their’44 Convention

Republican Convention under Wav   More Dewey Votes Gives New Yorker Enough to Win

New Yorker Has Enough To Win  Nomination MEET IN CHICAGO  Bricker Still In Fight Despite Dewey Strencth

SAY DEWEY HAS SUFFICENT VOTES FOR NOMINATION   California: Joins -Pennsylvan_ia, Illinois, Other States to Provide 651—-Needed For Nomination 529    PLEDGE WAR VETERANS RECOGNITION IS DEBATED   Gov. Edge, New Jersey, At_ tacks World Organizations , Alfred Landon Seeks a ¥ Lower Tariff.

PARTISANS FACE SEVERE DEFEAT   Nazis May Surround ‘Tito’s Positions

Wm. Offer Is Chairman  Of Drive   County Faced With Largest Ouota of War

WALLAGE CLAliiG 50 HELEGATES   Vice President Said to Be Assured of Votes for Renomination

FRIENDS.OF VICE PRESIDENT SAY HE HAS 150 DELEGATES   WALLACE FIPORTED TO EX. PECT HIS RENOMINATION ’ AT DEMOCRATIO — CONVENTION

FINNS RETREAT TOWARD VIPUR   Reds Open Great Hole In Karelian Isthmus Defenses

Reds Continue To Advance on Finnish Port  Finiieh En rean lesa   Fish Forces, lise Hauvily im Me. And *4c& 4 t---

SOVIET FORCES IN FINLAND ADVANCE   Seventeen More Fortified Strongpoints Are Captured

Russians Advance Against Finns   Capture 11 More Fortified Points

17 STRONGPOINTS IN FINLAND FALL   BLOODY FIGHTING MARKS RUSSIAN STEAM - ROLLER DIVE TOWARD VIIPURI,

MAJOR OFFENSE STARTED TODAY ON PENINSULA   Germans Caught Off Balance By British

British Enter Noyers; Major Battle Looming   Rommel Hurls 5 More Divisions Against Allies; Showdown May Develop

Rommel Throws Five Divisions Against Englist   Germans Caught Off Guard By Attack Of Second Army

Rommel Throws In Reserves In Effort To Halt British   Lessay Apparently Abandoned By ~ Enemy; Yank Troops Slug Forward In Center

Desperate Rommel Hurls Five Divisions Into Crucial Battle   Caught Off Balance By Sudden British Thrust, While Yanks Continue Strangle Hold On St. Lo; Clearing Skies Play Into Our Hands.

Great Battle Appears Near In Caen Area   Americans Keep Up Assault On St. Lo, Where Nazis Dig In

Navy’s ‘Big Three’ Hold War Council   Nimitz, King, Halsey Meeting Announced

U. 5. May Give Post-War Ships To So. America   Subcommittee To Rec ommend Such Use Of Surplus Boats

Polish-American Priest Says Reds For Great Poland   Declares Future To Prove Stalin’s Friendliness To Catholicism; Addresses ‘Countrymen’ From Moscow On Departure

Stalin’s Views Please Priest   Father Orlemanski Says Soviet Leader Friendly To. ward Church.

DIXIE DEMOCRATS TALK THIRD PARTY   Southerners in Open Re. volt Against New Deal —

QUUTHERN DEMOS TALK dh PARTY   Dissidents From Dixie Start Third Party Talk in Threat To Traditional Solidarity of The ‘Solid South’

Dixie Democrats In Open Revol!   Third Party Talk Heard in Chicago

Alhed Advance Slowed By Rain   Kighth Army Drives Beyond Captured Perugua; Fifth Strongly Opposed

Rains Slow Allied Advance in Ifaly   British Clear Last ‘Nazis From Perugia

ALLIES PUSH FORWARD IN ITALY: CLEANUP OF PERUGIA COMPLETE   EIGHTH ARMY FORCES CAPTURE CHIUSI, FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN RADICOFANI, GROSSETO AREAS

British Troops Pursue Nazis After Taking Perugia; French Make Gain

RAINS SLOWING ITALIAN DRIVE; PERUGIA FALLS   Nazi Rear Guard Action Stubborn Along Entire Front

ALLIES MOVE NORTHWARD INITALY   Nazi Rear Guards Fight Delaying Action, Others Flee

BRITISH ARMY CLEARS ENEMY FROM PERUGIA   French and American Units Push Northward Against Bit ter Opposition

Allies Advance North of Perugia   Army Forces Encounter’ Bitter Enemy Opposition

ALLIES CLEAR GERMARS FROM PERUGIA   Nazi Rear Guards Are Putting Up Desperate Fight

BTH ARMY CLEARS FOEFROM PERUGIA ADVANCES NORTH   Driving Rains [tmpede Pro: gress on Virtually Ail Fronts In Italy.

Japs Are Falling Back in Burma  . British Troops  7 er wr wr a) ee

Japs ; ps Abandon North Burma   ‘Railroad: Destroyed ‘By Retreating.. Nip¢’

ENEMY PULLING BACK IN BURMA   Major Stand Unlikely By Nipponese North Of Mandalay

JAPS ABANDON LARGE SECTORS OF NORTH BURMA   Enemy Seen Not Planning Stand North Of Mandalay

Navy Planes Bomb Nazi Merchantmen   20,000-TON CONVOY LEFT BURNING AFTER NORTHERN WATERS STRIKI

British Task Force Sinks Nazi Convoy   20,000 Tons of Shipping Left in Flames Of Norway

Philippines To Be Helped By UWF   Philippine War Relief Part of United War Fund

Filipinos Will Be Aided By War Chest Funds   Needy Civilians Will Ge Relief Sorely Needed After Three Years of Io B..1.

Gasless Spaniards Irked By Allies   Blockade Wrong Way To Win Friendship, They Say

Brest-Litovsk Abandoned As Soviet Forces Close In Swiftly On Warsaw, Riga

SOVIET DRIVE SPEEDING UP. ALONG FRONT   GERMANS GIVE UP HOPE oF DEFENDING BREST-LITOVSK. " —RUSSIANS GIVE ENEMY. NO REST

State Legislature Jo Onen jonuary 17   Pre-Session Meetings to Get Things Going

SET FOR OPENING STATE LEGISLATURE      Republicans Have Everything Coming Their Way ~   Picks Newspaperman

Japan's Sixth Air Division Annihilated   Jap Planes And Navy Craft Are Destroyed

Jap Air Force On Guinea Wiped Out   Heavy Air Blows Continue To Rain On Nips In Mountina Attacks In Pacific

Jap Airforce In New Guinea  Is Destroyed   MacArthur Declares Enemy’s Division of Planes Annihilated

JAP DIVISION REPORTED TO BEWIPED OUT   M’Arthur Says Air’ Sesup in i New Guinea ‘Ane “nihilated —

JAP AIR UNIT CUT UP; © PALAU GETS BLASTING   Mikado and Military: Heads Warn: People To Prepare: for Worst

Carrier Planes Blast Palau  Off The Eastern Philippines   Attacks In Force Appear To Be Pre-Invasior  Assaults; Japanese Air Division Is  Virtually Wiped Out

Japanese Sixth Air Force Lost, Says MacArthur   Yank Liberators Smash 17 Planes

JAPANESE SIXTH AIR DIVISION IS DESTROYED   MacArthur Says Enemy Suffered Heavily In Futile  New Guinea Defense   PRE-INVASION ATTACK ON PALAU ANNOUNCED

J. L. Ingrum Passes Away  Saturday, May itt   Had Been Sick For The Last Four Years

PRESIDENT MAKING CLEAN SWEEP OF TOP U.S, CHINA PERSONNEL  SUPREME ATTEMPT MADE TO REINVIGORATE CHINESE WAR EFFORT   PICTURE FROM CHINA IS ONE ~ OF CHIANG GAMBLING HEAVILY WITH CHINA’S WORLD PRESTICE

Entire American China Personnel Shaken to Reinvigorate War Effort

HOPE CHIANGTO MAKE CHANGES, PUSH JAP WAR   Supreme Attempt to Reinvigorate China’s War Effort Reported

US. To Make a Fresh Start on chinese Problem   Housecleaning Now Includes Ambassador Gauss; Reconciliation With Reds fs Aim

U. 5. Envoy To ' China Recalled In Shake-Up   Doubt Expressed Tha! China’s War Effort Will Be Inviaorated

Clean Sweer  In China   President Recalls Ambassador Gauss in Effort to Bolster — Chinese War Effort

Ambassador to China Recalled In War Crisis   Attempt to Liven Chiang’s War Role Is Not Succeeding

Changes Top U.S. Personne! In China Area   President Roosevelt Makes Clean Sweep Of High American Officials.

SHAKE-UP 10 REINVIGORATE WAR IN CHINA   President Makes a Clean Sweep of Top Americans In Erfort to Strengthen Chiang Kai-Shek  ARADACC ANRAD peccimaAIc

AMBASSADOR T0 CHINA RESIGNS   NO CONNECTION WITH RECALL OF STILWELL, ROOSEVELT DECLARES

FOR 10 CHANGE CHINESE SETUF   President Will Place New Men In Key Positions To Help Chinese

‘Attempt To Spur Chinese War Effort   Roosevelt Makes Clean Sweep Of Top U. S Personnel In Effort Tc Gain Co-Operation

Aim To Replace Top Americans In China Post:   Announcement Of Gauss Resignation Follows Removal Of Gen. Stilwell

Confidence In China's Future War Role Dims   F. R. Removing Top American Personnel From China, Including Ambassador Gauss

FDR Making Clean Sweep of American Personnel in China   Strategists Speak with Lessening Confidence of Chiang’s Role in War

Ambassador Gauss Resigns.  Called Home  FDR Making Clean Sweep of Top U. S.  Personnel in China

‘Supreme Effort’ by Roosevelt 'Seen to Get Full Co-operation Of Chiang’s Government

China’s Outlook Doubtful   » Capital S1ill Hopes Chiang, Communists Will Get Together

AMERICAN SHAKEUP IN CHINA SEEN AS EFFORT TO SOLIDIFY CHINESE FACTIONS BUT MOVE MAY FAIL

FDR Trying To Spur War Effort of Chine   Envoy Quits; Military Men Doubt Move Will Succeed

HOPES TO BOLSTER CHINA IN THE WAR   President Makes Clean Sweep of Top Ameni ~ can Personnel

STILWELL CASE DARKENS ROLE CHINESE PLAY   Roosevelt Is Making a Clean Sweep of Top Personnel

Top Personnel In China Told To Return Home   U.S. Ambassador Removed in Hopes Of Placating Chiang

China Crisis. Brought Near a Showdown   President Accepts the Resignation of Ambassador Gauss

SPELL OF WEATHER   Rain, Snow and a Temperature Drop on Schedule For Kansas -

The War Today—  Battle Of Cologne Plain May Be One Of Toughest Of War

The War Today   ses a Ts. 7s. Wwe oo ee  Heavy Casualties Stiff Reminder Worst Yet To Come

Chee Dodge Comes Home On Saturday   SENATE COMM. PLANS HRARINGS ON NOMINEES    Germane Suffering C000 Casualties A Day— —BSy DeWitt Mackenzie   Battie Of Cologne Plain Toughest Of War

The Weather   Battle of Cologne Piain, Still to Be Fought, May Be The Toughest Engage ment of Entire War

PATTERSON'S STATEMENT ABOUT CASUALTIES REMINDS US THAT TOUCHEST FICHTING TO COME

Clearing Route To Manila   American Bombers Meet Little  Opposition In Widespread Operations

Heavy New Raids Rock Truk, Wake      Enemy Bases Totter Before U. S. Assaults

WAR TODAY   iirer Days May Be Ahead In Invasion But Ultimate Success Is Certain :

Our Forces Abroad To Be Doubled This Year   Stimson Announces Plans To Close Many Camps In U. S., Transfer Those Now From Administrative To Combat Duties.

Overseas Army  Being Boosted   Two-Thirds Going Across This Year; Camps To Be Thinned

Two-Thirds Of Army Will Be Overseas By Year End   Secretary Of War Stimson Tells Press Parley Expeditionary Forces Will: Double; Some Home Camps Will Be Closed

Two-Thirds Of Army To Be Overseas By End Of 1944, Stimson Reveals

Two-Thirds US Army  Overseas By Yearend   Washington, Jan. 27.-—(P)—As present plans shape up, two-thirds of America’s steadily growing army will be at overseas stations bw the end af thic vear

Two Thirds of Army to Be Overseas by End of Year   Closing of Some U. S. Camps Planned Within a Few Months, Stimson Says

TWO-THIRDS OF U.S.ARMY SOON TO BE ABROAD   Overseas Expansion Plans Revealed by Stimson; To Close Some Camps

Two-Thirds of Army to Bs Overseas By End Of Year; Peak of Training Program Past

Bulk Of Nation's Fast-Growing Army Is Due For Overseas Shipment This Year

MORE TROOPS 70 LEAVE COUNTRY   I'wo-Thirds Of Army To Be Overseas At End Of ’ Year, Says Stimson

Present Plans Call For Transfer To Combat Units Of Substantial Proportion Of Soldiers Now Assigned To Administrative Duties, Secretary Stimson Says— With Peak Of Training Program Past, Air And Cround Forces Begin Closing Some Camps

To Close Army Camps Two-Thirds of U.S. Army to Be Overseas By End of Year

Two-Thirds of U. S. Army Overseas by  End of This Year   Training Period Past Peak—Closing Many Training Camps

Two-Thirds Of Army Overseas  By Year’s End   War Secretary Stimson says most of enlisted men will be assigned to combat. units.” 

2-3RDS OF U. S. ARMY WILL BE ABROAD IN ’44   Stimson Announces Plans to Close Number of Camps in America

Stimson Says. Forces Overseas To Be Doubled — Before End of Year

Benevolent Gty Fathers Fill Holes In Streets: Resident Finds A Lake         Two-Thirds OfU.S. Army May Be Overseas By End OfThis Year Says Stimson:

Twe-thirds Of Army To Be Overseas  By Year End   Number Of Domestic Camps To Be Closed;  Peak Of Training Dasct OGtimann Gawa

Many Men te Go Overseas During Year  Some Camps to Be Closeed—Many

Two Thirds Of Army Soon To  Be Overseas   Men To Be Reassigned By End Of This Year, Stimson Declares

STIMSON SAYS TWO-THIRDST0 LEAVE IN 1944   To Close Some Camps And Send Older Officers Home

YANK UNITS ON OVERSEAS DUTY TO BE DOUBLED   Reassignment Program Will Decrease Number In Administrative Duties

To Double Our Army Overseas   Two-Thirds of U. S. Force: to Be Stationed Abroad by End of Year   SEVERAL CAMPS WILL BE CLOSED   Older Officers Will Soon Be Returned to Inactive List, Stimson Says"

Some Officers To Be Relieved Of Duty ....  Two- Thirds Of Army Overseas  By End Of °44

Two-Thirds U. S. Army Overseas By End of 1944   War Secretary Alsa Discloses Plans for Closing Domestic Army Camps Soon

SOME CAMPS TOBE CLOSED NOT NEEDED   Stimson Announces Plans To Increase Overseas Forces

WILL DOUBLE OUR RES BRO      To Begin Closing Camps And Retiring Less — Efficient Men =   DESK SOLDIERS TO _ GET COMBAT DUTY

U.S. Will Double Overseas Army By End of Year  Many Domestic Army Camps Will Be Closed

Stimson Reveals Plan For Closing ManyU.S.Camp,   Discloses That Number Of __._Offirers Over 38 To Be Placed On Inactive List

Two-Thirds Of Army Will  Be Overseas   Stimson Announces Plan: To Close, Some Camp: As Troops Leave For Stations Abroad

Two-Thirds Of Army  Overseas   Stimson Says That Is . Goal for End of 1944; Many Training Camps to Close as Troops Leave

DOMESTIC CAMPS TO CLOSE AS 3 OF ARMY MOVES OVERSEAS   STIMSON BARES MILITARY PLANS; SOLDIERS IN ADMINISTRATION SLATED FOR COMBAT DUTY

Two-Thirds Of U.S. Army Soon  To Be Over Seas)   Sonie: Army Camps to Be Closed; “Many . Adminis: - trative Soldiers to Go Into Combat Units

Two-Thirds Of U.S. Army Will Be Overseas This Year; Some Camps’To Be Closed

STIMSON SAYS THIRD NOW IS OUT OF U. S$.   Reports Peak of Training Program Is Past, With Ground Forces Beginning to Close Some of Their Camns.

Expand Overseas  Force This Year   Stimson Says Two-Thirds of Army to Go Across; to Close Many Camps.

U.S. Foreign Army To Hit NewRecord   Two-Thirds Will Be Overseas By End Of This Year

EXPECT MOST ARMED MEN IN COMBAT SOON   Two-Thirds Of U S. Army Will Be  Sent Across

MOST OF FORGES TO BE OVERSEAS BY END OF YEAR   Stimson Reveals Plans to End Some of Domestic Camps Shortly and Transfer of Combat Units.   PEAK OF TRAINING IS OVER SECRETARY SAYS   \ir Forces Relinquish Number of Establishments Some of Training Centers Are Now Closed.

Two - Thirds of U.S. Army to Be  Sent Overseas  By End of Year   Fit Men at Fixed Station: More Than 12 Months  to Be Shipped

PRESENT PLANS FOR ARMY WILL PUT MAN) MORE MEN OVERSEAS TWO-THIRDS OF ARMED FORCES S TO BE A ABROAD  Doha

PRESENT PLANS FOR ARMY WILL PUT MAN} MORE MEN OVERSEAS   TWO-THIRDS OF ARMED FORCES TO BE ABROAD BY END OF 1944

WITHIN U. S. TO BE REDUCEI   Men to be Sent Overseas, Olde Officers Relieved, Number c Camps to Close

U.S. 10 DOUBLE FORCES ABROAD BY END OF YEAR   To Transfer Some Domestic Camps Into Combat Units Overseas

Stimson Reveals Program to Reduce Domestic Training Establishment  INE CAMP IS HI Men in Service Year 01 More to Be Sent Overseas Soon

Two-thirds U.S. Army to Be Across By End of 1944   Some Domestic Army Camps to Be Closed Announces Stimson

U. §. to Rush Trained Men to Overseas  Two-thirds of Armed Forces to Be Across by End of 1944

American Army Forces Abroad To Be Increased   Stimson Reports. Older Officers To Be Relieved

STIMSON BARES EXPANSION OF OVERSEAS ARMY      Number of Domestic Army Camps to be Closed, He Reveals

Two-Thirds of U. S. Army to Overseas  Posts Before ‘45   secretary Stimson Reveals Number of Domestic Camps Will Be Closed—New Expansion Program to Double Forces on Foreign Soil.

Stimson Bares Expanded Offensive Program; Several Camps To Close.

Progress Made In Tiddim Drive   Main Escape Line Threatened By Patrols

BOME OWN POSITIONS   Mistake Made by Jape Near Yank Neachhead on Rougainville.

HEAVY FIGHT IN CHINA   Counterattacking Chinese Infliet Casualties

Sink Jap Ships In Marshalls   Liberators Complete © 14 Raids Since New Yea

DEGAULLE DUE INU, §. TODAY   Principal Problems To Be Discussed Are Outlined

Gen. De Gaulle Due To Arrive In Washington   Problems To Be Discussed With French Leader Are Indicated

MINDORO IS SHELLED BY NIP WARSHIPS   3 Nip Destroyers Sunk, Battleship, Cruiser Damaged

FLEET COMES OUT IN OPEN TO HIT ISLE   Three Destroyers Sunk, Battleship Cruiser Damaged

Japanese Lose Three Ships in Mindoro Raid   Americans Expect ' New Enemy Naval Blows in Philippines

Japs Expected To Risk Navy te  Protect Luzon   Nips Lose 3 Warships, 2 Damaged in Raid on Mindero

Jap Destroyers Sunk In Mindoro Attack From Sea   New Enemy Assaults Designed To Disrupt Timetable In Pacific

Hit Five Jap Ships Lying Off Mindoro   U. S. Planes Sink 3 Destroyers of Enemy Attacking Force.

NEW ATTACK BY JAPANESE NAVAL UNITS EXPECTED      Seek To Disrupt American Time Table In. Pacific Theatre

ENEMY NAVAL ATTACK WAITED IN PAGIFIE      Japs Ready to Gamble Strength Against Philippine Drive

Japs Appear To Be Ready For Gamble   New Naval Attacks Expected To Follow Costly Mindoro Raid

Holy Land Facing Unhappy Christmas, ‘Birthplace of Christ Plagued by Strife

Submarines Herring, Golet Lost, Each Carrying Crew Of 65 Men, Navy Announces

(2’5 TO GET A POLITICAL DIET   War Department to Permit Political Broadcasts by All Qualified Parties.

NAZI PEACE FEELERS GET COLD SHOULDER   Unconditional Surrender : Still Allied Answer

ULL DECLARES NAZI MOVE, OF © COURSE, IS OUT   Allies Won't Consider Anything But Unconditional Surrender, He Repeats

NO NEGOTIATED PEACE, NOR NEUTRAL ASYLUMS FOR NAZI CHIEFS. SAYS HULL

Nazis Ready To Negotiate, Hull. Asserts   Government Working On Problem of Pre venting Hitler’s Escape

Mr -s. Luce Sore Since Scorned  Says Thomas   UAW Head Says She Demoustrales Old Adage  “Hell Hath No.Fuvy”. Tn Her Speeches ©

PAC Official Says Clare Booth Luce Asked Its Support  Turned Down By

Brifish Heavies Hit Supply Areas  98 German Fighters Downed Yesterday

RAF Bombers Hit German Supply Bases   One Wing Attacks Nuess, Another Batters Freiburg

PARIS ANGERED BY TERRORISM   French Policemen Found Slain Without Trial By SS Troops

Pilot Escapes From “Hell”   Lieutenant Is First American Ever Rescued From Treacherous North Burma Jungle

Yank Pilot Rescued From Burma Jungle; Living Skeleton After 45 Davs

Reduced to Two Gallons On A Books   Change Applies to Al States West of Alleghenies—Starting March 22

ARE CUT T0 2 GALLONS   OPA Order Is Effective Mar. 22; "B’ Rations Cut

NEW RULING IS EFFECTIVE ON MARCH 2?   Coupons Must Last for Period Of Three Months

“A” GAS RATIONING CUT TO 2 GALLONS    Nationwide “‘Leveling’”’ of ‘A’ Coupon Value in Effect March 22.

GAS RATIONS CUT TO TWO GALLONS   Value of A Stamp Lowerec In States West of Allegheny Mountains Mar. 22.

Cut Value of “A” Coupons To Iwo Gallons   “B’' Mileage Is Reduced 60 Miles In Western States

New Ration To Be Two Gallons \After March 22   Bowles Says Reduction Needed To Facilitate Work In Farm Sections

MIDWEST AND PACIFIC ON EAST BASIS      No Change Made in "C”  Rations in Any Of the States; Changes “B” in Five Pacific States.

“A” Ration Cut To Two Gals. Week   Levels Rations For Whole Nation; “B™ Mileage Reduced For West Coast.

Dewey Plans ~~ Post-War Farm Program Speec!  Will Address Resident Of Nation’s Farm Bale Tismeolocts

Governor Dewey Preparing Tour To Farm States   Expected To State His Case To Farmers Tuesday

American Troops within Sight of Great French Port; Nazi Hopes of Success Blasted.

Field Dispatches Report Capture Of Volgnes MonteBourg And St. Martin Le-Grand In Latest Assault

YANK TROOPS CLOSE IN ON BIG SEAPORT   TRAPPED GERMANS MUST QUIT OR FACE DEATH

Troops Storm to Top of the Last Ridge Barrier  ALLIED WARSHIPS POUND THE ENEMY  Attacks Continue on Qut er Defenses During  Night

ks Two Mil ht  “i  Imminent’             Within Sight of Great Port;  ons of Hasty German Demolition Smoke Shroud Over City; Heralds tNari Hopes for Successful Siege

Nazis Putting Torch To Port   Yanks Storm Top Of Last Ridge; Shelling Cherbourg

Demolitions By Germans Shake City   Last Ridge Barrier. To Cherbourg Scaled By American Troops   TRAPPED GERMANS URGED TO SURRENDEF Valognes. Montebourg  * Fall as Allies Press Toward Freneh Port

Allied Spokesman Advises Thousands Of Trapped  Nazis To Surrender   FRESH ALLIED TROOPS - RUSHING INTO ACTION

M NKS STORM TOP OF UST BARRIER   Allies Call on Trapped Ger.   mans to Surrender   SMOKE SHROUDS CITY   London Broadcast Says Fall Of Cherbourg Imminent; Warships Pound Port

Americans Storm to Top Of 4 Last Ridge Barrier to Key Port; Only Two Miles From City

‘Surrender Or Die’ Ultimatum to Nazis   German Troops Now Destroying Facilities Of Port in Preparation for Its Fall

NAZIS RESUME ROBOT AIR RAIDS   800 More School Chil. dren Leave London for Safety

4-Year-Old Child Found   Weary and Few Seratches From His 24-Hour Ordeal, Is O. K.

Supers Visit Tokyo   Big Planes Fly Over Hong Kong  For First Time

B -29’s Reported Over 7) okyoand Hong Kong   Last Leyte Exit Port Under Fire; Enemy Reports 25 Ships Blasted

Supers Reported Over Hong Kong, On Tokyo Raid   U. S. Artillery Shelling Palompon, Last Jap Port of Escape

Robots Are Still Being Used Today   Regular One-ton Bombs Fal in London, Causing  Casualties

Say Nazis Using New Robot Bomb   Operated By Pilot Who Bails Out Before Crash

Nazis Use New Robot on England   GERMAN RADIO TELLS OF LARGER BOMB PILOTED BY AIRMAN

Chinese Dig in To Save Kweilin   Hope to Make a Stalingrad’. Défense  Of City; Report Japs  Checked Temporarily

CHINESE HANG ON IN KWEILIN   Jap Thrust Momentarily Stopped, But Defenders Expected To Lose Base

\Chinese Army Prepares ‘Stalingrad’ \Defense of Strategic Kweilin Town

Railroad Junctions  Hit Hard   American Heavy Bombers Take Up Raids After RAF Dump ed Over 4,000 Tons.

Destruction Is Rained on German Bases   Anti - Invasion Installations Heavily Bombed

Stimson Queried On Troop Mutiny   Reports Say 16,000 Negroes in Uprising

NEGRO MUTINY ~ REPORT HEARD   WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER “ASKS. STATEMENT ON. AL- : z LEGED VIOLENCE :  IN SOUTH ge”

MASSIVE RAF BOMBER FLEET HITS GERMANY.      Berlin, Railway Centers And The Luena Oil Works Hit Hard

R. A. F. hits Berlin oil,  rail works Spreads fire and destruction

BLAST BERLIN, RAIL TARGETS   R. A. F. IN BIGGEST RAID ON GERMANY

Berlin, Western Railway Centers,  Oil Works Hit   Record-Breaking Raid Centered On Leuna, Major Petroleum Plant

BULGAR PREMIER SEEKS WAY OUT WAR FOR COUNTRY   Germans Said To. Be Taking Back War Material They Once Gave To Bulgarian Army.

BULGARIA SEEKS PEACE WITH ALLIES   Was Also First Of Balkans to Do So In Last War

Entrapment of Two German Armies in Lithuania is Seer   Russians Strike Deep Within Range of E. Prussian Frontier

*Airliner Crashes; *At Least 7 Dead   TWA Transport Fails In Los Angeles; 23 Persons . Aboard Giant Plane

AT LEAST SEVEN DEAD IN CRASH OF AIRLINER AT LOS ANGELES   Plane Crashes Into Residential Area

GITY STRIKE. HITS TOLEDE   EMPLOYES OF SEVEN MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS DECLARE. “HOLIDAY” AFTER PAY   BIKE REFUSED: —

No Fourth Term News Says F.R.  President Answers Direct Question

Greek Insurgents Seek Compromise   Proposal Submitted By Scobie From EAM Unit

Scobie Studies Flas Compromise Settlement   However, Fighting Continues in Greece

GREEKS PRUPESE CUMPRO   Proposal Came As Fight. ing Continues At Some Points

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  pert een eee  American Tranne Prece eek, Against Caccing

CREWMAN KILLS THREE ON SHIP   Story Of Murder On High Seas Told By Sailors; Stabber Slays Self

Heavy Bombers Blast Nazi Lines   Vital Rail Junctions Hit In Massive Raid

HUGE FLEET OF HEAVY: BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   mash Vital Rail Lines Leading To Western Battle-- - , front

BLAME LAME NAVIGATIONERROR =  FOR TRAGEBY IN LANDING   NAVY REVEALS. THIRTEEN AMERICANS KILLED BY - SHELLS FROM GUNS OF DESTROYER

Shell Own Landing Boats: 13 Killed   Admiral Nimitz Explains Error In Landing

ltivasion ‘Dates Set. As-Landing Barges Rushed   Navy: Launches, Big Program - For’ Construction Of  Landing Craft

GEN. EAKER DEFENDS RAID ON CASSING   Says It Accomplished “All That Was Expected”

BOMBING OF CASSINO ACCOMPLISHED — ALL THAT WAS EXPECTED, SAYS EAKER

DEFENDS RAD ON CASSINO ©   Says It Accomplished “All That Was Expected”.

EAKER TELLS ~ OF CASSINO   COMMANDER - OF - MEDITERRANEAN AIR. FORCE SAYS " BOMBING ACCOMPLISHED - (EXPECTED RESULTS

Heavier Blows On German War Centers Coming   Lieut. Gen. Eaker Says At tacks From Air Will Be Steadily Increased

Russians Sweep To Within Few Miles Of Estonia Line   Seizure Of Novosokolniki, Four-Way Rail Junction, Hailed In Order Of Day By Stalin

Way Opened For Drive to — Gulf of Riga   Other Soviet Forces Sweep to Within 25 Miles of Estonia   Main Leningrad-Moscow _ Line Is Cleared by  Red Army

Surprise Russ Blow Opens Latvian Road   Red Forces Seize Station Linking Moscow, Leningrad

Cigarette Shorta ge Will -~ W orse During oO News 2 Months   By Ernest B. Vacearo

WHO'S SMOKING QUR CIGARETS?   Senators Out Looking For Extra Packs » Lois of Fire Developing

Petrillo Claims He's Won Victory   Lifts Recording Ban Against Three Major Concerns

PATTON AIMS TAO THE SAAR   Ban is lifted  on recording ‘Petrillé’s union demands are met

Petrillo Lifts Recording Ban   Union Will Receive Royalty on Discs

Petrillo Signs 3 Major Firms  Long Recording Fight Finally Settled

Tokyo  Repor ts Yank Landing Costly Failure   Jap Radio ‘Broadcasts Mapia Island Invasion Attempt; No Allied Confirmation

Tokyo Radio Says Allies Land Again   No Allied Confirmation On Reported Repulse on Enemy Held Island

Japs Report New Invasion   Tokyo Claims Allies Repulsed at Mania

Tokyo Announces Mapia Landing   Claim Attack Repulsed With Heavy Losses

By JOUN A. PARRIS  Tinlitnd Pines Sha t? ff netiiwiinesdn   Japs Say Allied Troops Landed Dn Island Off Dutch New Guinea

JAPS CLAIM NEW DRIVE IS REDULSED   Allies Offer No Confirmation of New Opcration

DISPLAY RED. STAR   Pictures of Stalin and Tito Are Everywhere in Serb Canital

FIRST GLIMPSE OF BELGRADE IS GIVEN ALLIES   Yugoslav Capital Found Bedecked With Communist Emblem By Newsmen   CITY WAS DAMAGED BY HEAVY BOMBINGS

Everywhere Displayed After Over Three Years of Nazi Occupation; Partisans Join Troops.   Choose . Government

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Nearly All Store Window: Adorned with Pictures  Of. Stalin and. Tito ©... :

THREE KILLED ~ IN BUS GRAS   » Two Inductees Victims; 84 Others Hurt

MILWAUKEE MAYOR RETUANED 10 POST   Appleton Retains John Goodland, Brother of © Badaer Governar.

ASSOCIATED PRESS  FILES ITS PROPOSED  FORM OF JUDGMENT SEVERAL CHANGES MADE  IN PHRASEOLOGY OF COURT WINCMENT

FILES PROPOSED JUDGMENT FORM   Associated Press Seeks Clarification Of Government Rulings

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILES ITS PROPOSED FORM OF JUDGMENT  SEVERAL CHANGES MAD) IN PHRASEOLOGY OF

Argentine Government - Denounced By Roosevelt   Growth Of Nazi-Fascis' Influences In That ~ Country Rapped

Roosevelt Denounces Nazi-Fascist Loving Argentine Government   Says Nation‘Ignoring Solemn Inter-American Obligations Toward Hemisphere Defense System

President Denounces Areentina   Hits Growth of Nazi-Fascist Influences in That Country

FDR Rebukes  Argentina   President Scores Reputed Growth of Nazi Influences

F.D.R. Tougher With Argentine   Denounces Nation’s Fascist Tendencies; Concern Ils Growing

Argentina Hit By Roosevelt  Nazi-Fascist Influence Growth Is Noted

FR Denounces Argentine Policy   Accuses Country of. Having Nazi Influence

ROOSEVELT RIPS ARGENTINE RULE   Lashes At Government For Nazi-Fascist Trends

FOR CRITICAL OF ARGENTINE REGIME   Denounces It for Growth ol Nazi-Fascist Influences There.

BRITISH TROOPS. MENACE FAENZA   Patrols Cross River At Edge Of Italy's Po Plain

BRITISH PLANES HIT ARM WORKS   Drop Fire Bombs On Essen, Home Of Krupp Armament Plant; See Mysterious Silvery Ball.

Gov. Sam C. Ford Favors Aid to Small Miners   Approves Proposals Adopted by Western Governors

KANSAS EXPECTS FLOODS,   Weekend Rains Are Heavy in Cottenwood River Watershed.

Cottonwood "Threatens ‘Big Flood   Neosho Also Is  - Expected to Overflow, - Through Lyon County; Over 4 Inches Rain

Plymouth County Bond Purchases  Short Of Goal  With Four Days ToGo30Per — Cent Under Quota 

U5. Forces Now Threatening To Encircle Lessay   Allied Command Says Entire Cherbourg Peninsula Is Now Secure   NAZIS WITHDRAW FROM SOME AREAS

Avoid Foreign » Investments Now   ROGER BABSON GIVES "ADVICE ON MONEY -. SCHEMES. _

Underground Leaders in Three Countries Report Plans Ready for General Unrisings

Underground in 3 countries ready to touch off powderkeg of revolt

RUSSIA HOLDS KEY TO EARLY ALLIED VICTORY IN EUROPE   Washington Wonders When Warsaw Offensive Will Start; Leaders Speculate Over Possibility Of German Collapse Once Rhine Is Crossed

KEY T0 EARLY VICTORY HELD - BY RUSSIANS   Date of Victory Hinges on Eastern Front Of- fensive

Red Drive May Start In Winter   Warsaw, Antwerp Noted As Route To Enter Germany

Russia Holts Key To Farly Victory In European War   Officials Do Not Know Why Warsaw Drive Hos Nai Baen Sita.te4

RUSSIA HOLDS KEY TO EARLY VICTORY, MILITARY MEN SAY   Ranking U. S. Leaders Believe - Soviet Smash on Eastern Front Would Knock Out Germany.   WARSAW THE GATEWAY TO DRIVE INTO REICH   Hope Is That Reds Will Open Major Attack as Soon as Ground Freezes in Central] Poland.

VICTORY KEY HELD BY Reps   Date of Nazi Defeat Seen Depending on Eastern Front Offensive

16 MORE JAP SHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM BY U. S. SUBMARINES   Five of the Number Were Troop Transports.

5 Transports, 10 Cargo Vessels and Tanker Listed as Sunk.  BRINGS TOTAL TO 477 SHIPS SUNK  Yank Soldiers Knock Out Enemy Troops on Ground.

Germans Battle Fiercely To Hold Po Valley Lines   Meinforcements Are Brought Up By Nazis—Fierce Counter Attacks Smashed   NEWLY-WON GROUND IS HELD BY ALLIES

YANKS FIGHTING AT PO GATEWAY   Smash Three Counter Blows By Nazis at Center of Gothic Line

British Counsel Plunges to Neath From Hotel Room  Sir’ Anthony. George,” iv “fi” Health, “Killed” —- “he Reltimore oo

DRIVE FORWARD INTO LINNICH ON ROER RIVER   Third Army Troops Extend Saar River Front Near Merzig   West Front Today

Third Army Tanks Extend Positions  in Valley 10 Miles   Ninth Army 15 Miles From Rhineland Twin Factory Cities   Western Front

U. §. Forces Seek Break in German Lines   Major Battles Rage in Roer and Sear Valleys in Move on Cologne

Russ Demand Surrender Or Annihilation   Soviets Send Ultimatum To Beleaguered German Gar. rison In Budapest.   SHOCK TROOPS MEET

AILL TWO REE ENVOYS UNDE A WHITE FLAL   Troops Bayonet Way Through Walls of Germans in Stricken City.

Soviets Demand Budapest Be Surrendered   Ultimatum Given As Red Army Forces Join Hands

Surrender or Die, Soviets Tell Germans   Garrison in Budapest Given Ultimatum By Russians

GERMANS RUSH  RESERVES TO CASSINO   Bent on Futile Attempt to Hold City at All Costs

FIERCE BATTLE FOR GERMAN STRONGHOLD IN CENTRAL ITALY CONTINUES AS ALLIED TROOPS ON’ BEACHHEAD TAKE RIDGE IN SURPRISE AT , TACK—RED ARMY EXTENDS SPEARHEADS IN ROMANIA AND POLAND

ANS RUS RESERVES 10 CASSINO   Bent on Futile Attempt to Hold City at All Costs

FIRMS TRADING WITH AXIS > HIT BY ALLIED: BLACKLIST   SANCTIONS TO CONTINUE AFTER THE END OF WAR— ARGENTINA HAS  - > MOST FIRMS

HARD ECONOP"S BLOW DIRECT AT ARGENTINA   Blacklist Of Firms Will Be Continued Following Fall Of Germany   U. S., BRITAIN PLAN MOVE   Total Of 44 Countries And Territories Will Feel Effect Of Bans

MANY LEAVE APTA      More Than ‘Two Million Persons Evacuate Bomb-Stricken Berlin According to Latest Report

250,000 Flee Berlin Ruined By Allied Raids   Apartments, Houses Destroyed By  Thousands

2,250,000 PEOPLE HAVE FLED BERLIN   400,000 Houses Destroyed in Allied Air Raids

German Stand Within France Said Unlikely   ‘PARIS UNDER MARTIAL LAW AS PATRIOTS BATTLE GERMANS

Patriots Fight Nazis in Paris   Virtual Martial Law Clamped on City

F.D.R. Aide May Shoulder Attack   Rosenman May Be “Whipping Boy”

MARSEILLE ORDERED EVACUATED BY NAZIS   Germans to Force All to Leave Port Except Those “of Interest” to German Army.

Germans Report Russians Use 63 Divisions in Big Baltic Offensive   Toward Cvechoslavakia

Russians Open Another Intensive Push in Baltics   EINDHOVEN {S TAKEN TUESDAY

ALL-OUT BLOW ON WARSAW IS SEEN COMING   Germans Admit That Situation In the East Has Become “Critical.”

CLAIM MILLION RED TROOPS IN BALTICS DRIVE   _ Nazis Admit Outlook “Critical” as Huge Soviet Force Attacks

SOVIET DRIVE REPORTED. IN BALTIC AREA   Nazis Say Russians Have 63 Divisions In Big Offensive

BIG. OFFENSIVE IS PUSHED BY 63 DIVISIONS   Nazis Admit Situation  Critical, May Seek To . Evacuate Troops

AirmenSink Japanese Transports   Liquidate 1,500 Enemy Troops—Submarines Sink  15 Jap Vessels

CLAIM 15 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK   U-Boats Accounted for 15 Vessels, Navy Reports

-Americans Find Town Abandoned; Hold Appian Way   Anvaders Capture Velletri, 16 Miles From Rome, Fan Out To Intercept Divisions Fleeing From Southern Front; Bridgehead Strengthened.

General Enemy Withdrawal Believed Started   American Troops Throw New Bridgehead Across River and Find Key City Virtually Abandoned by German Forces

Coercion of Farmers by AAA Probed   Agency Used Threats To Secure Members, Congressmen Say

73 of 136 Unidentified Dead in Cleveland Fire To Have Mass Burial

Bloody Acres of Pacific Fighting Reveal Japs Must Be Dug Out All Way to Tokyo

Yank Planes Sink 6 More Jap Vessels   Tokyo Claims U.S. Battleship, 6 Other Ships Sent Down

Jap Freighter Sunk Off Shanghai   11 Others Damaged By Yank P-51 Mustangs

Bulgarians Urge Nazis To Get Out   Rupture of Turkish Ties With Germany Believed Brewing

Demand Berlin Remove Troops From Bulgaria   See Indication Request By  May Be Heeded By Nazis

BULGARI ASKS NAZI TROOPS 10 LEAVE COUNTRY   Request May Be Heeded, Report  Indicates

Bulgars Ask Nazi Troop Recall  Germany Seems Likely To Heed Request  Adan. Each: Daokuacal

Bulgars Ask Germans To Quit Country   Istanbul Hears Request May Be Granted

Turkey Asks Germans To Leave Bulgaria   Bulgars Seen Favorine Reds

BULGAR REQUEST 70 OUST TROOPS   Initial Request of Bulgaria Turned Down But. Latest Plea May Be Fulfilled By Germans—Reda_ to’ Estabeh: Cnnenlatee

Bulgars Ask Germany To Remove All Nazi Troops   Reported Negotiating With Allies To Get Out Of War; Turkey Mav Enter War Soon

ALLIED FORCES  SMASH GERMAN  COUNTER-BLOW 163 ENEMY TANKS  WERE KNOCKED OUT BY PLANES ALONE

Pincers Clamp Enemy Defenses Before Capital   Canadians Strike Out In Heavy Attack With 1,000 Heavy Bombers Onenina Path

Lorient Target Of Great Attack -By-Doughboy:   Two Powerful Surges At Wings Of 130-Mi. Front Threaten French Capital

GERMANS RUSH IN MORE MEN   U. S., British, Canadians Advance in Two Power_ ful Surges.    COUNTERATTACK HALTED

NAZI DRIVE IN MORTAIN AREA BEATEN DOWN   Allies Are Little More Than 100 Miles From French Capital

Germans Battered Again in Daylight By 600 U. 8. Heavy Bombers as Reserves Rushed From South France

Canadians Smash Into Caen Line   American Armored Spearheads Reported in LeMans, Only 110-Miles From Paris   GERMANS. RUSHING IN REINFORCEMENTS   Battles. Still Swirling in Center, But Yanks Make Gains in All Sectors

Germans Desperately Rush Reinforcements   Berlin Radio Admits American Troops in St, Malo; Fierce Enemy Counterassault Is Reported Smashed

Little More Than 100 Miles From Capital   Nazis’ Counterattack Thrown Back and Tanks Destroyed

Canadians Start Major Offensive; Yanks Advancing      Drives Gain At Both Ends Of Curving Front; German Counter-Attack Crushed

Nazis Reel Under Blows   American Troops Race to Nearly 100 Miles Of Paris as Canadian Forces Drive 4 Miles Through Caen Defenses Under Air Cover

CANADIANS RIP NAZI DEFENSES SOUTH OF CAEN   U. §. Spearheads Drive Te Within 110 Miles ef French Capital

TWO POWERFUL OFFENSIVES OPENED   Americans Enter St. Malo, Berlin Announces   RESERVES   Rushed By Germans After Futile Counterattacks Cost Heavy Casualties

Spearheads Orily a Little More Than 100 Miles Distant Today —   UNITS REACH LE MANS   Reduction of Bases in Brit_tany Continues; St. Malo Fight

Enemy Pours In Troops to Stem Drive   Canadians Punch  Hole, Americans Enter LeMans

‘One Advance Unit Moves Into Le Mans   Fierce Counterattack By Germans Halted; Caen Sector Still Flaming

MUES DANE 4 MILES INTO ENEMY LINES   Advance at Both Ends of 100 Mile Front; Tank Fight Rages in Center.

Alhies Launch Powerful Drives From Both Flanks Following Counterattack’

ALLIED TROOPS IN POWERFUL SURGES DRIVE FORWARD TORAY: NAZIS BRING HP NEW TROOPS   Hitting at Both Ends of 130 Line America“.s and Canadians Endanger Whole German Posttion. Nazis Bring Up Troops from Southern France   TOKYO BROADCAST TELLS NATION AMERICANS MAY SEEK QUICKER DECISION BY HOMELAND ATTACK   With New Guinea Lost: and A Third Marianas Island, Guam, Tottering, ‘National Difficulties o Unprecedented Seriousness Confront Nippon’’

YanksWithin100 Miles Of Paris; Advance Steadily   New Advances Come After German Counter-attack Near Mortain Is Defeated

Allied Armies 110 Miles From Pre-War Capital   Ameticans Break Into St. Malo, Le Mans In Steamroller Drive

Germans Rush Forces From South France: Yanks Reach Le Mans: Air Blowe Aid

GERMANS RUSH IN FORGES FROM SOUTH FRANCE   2.Powerful Surges Made From Wings of 130Mile Front’

DESTROY NAZI COUNTERBLOW AND ADVANCE   Both Canadians and Yanks Push on as German Defense Collapses.   Yanks Fight on in Streets of St. Malo

Enemy Thrust Fails; U.S, Rushes Ahead   Canadians Advance; Germans Suffer Several Setbacks

Allied Threat To Capital OF  France Mount:   American and Canadian Forees Advancing In Two Powerful Surges At 130-Mile Front Wings   Little More Than 100 Mi. From Paris   Doughboys In La Mans; Nazi Counter-Thrast fs Wrecked: Canadians Sinash Enemy Line

Americans Little More Than 100 Miles From Paris As Canadians Threaten Caen Hinge

Bombers Blast German Tanks   ..+ Desperate Foe Rushes In Reinforcements

Canadians Thrust Four  Miles into German Line   Allies Storm over Orne River, Punch Through Once Impregnable Tank Screen; Yanks Mop up in Brittany

Advance Group Already In Le Mans; Leave Wreckage OF Ahortive Countere Try

Yanks Push on Past Smashed  Counterattack,  Reach Le Mans   British and Canadians Break Through AntiTank Screen

Counter-Attack Is Left Behind by Sweeping Thrust   Germans Hastily Calling Strength  vp eArm SA th Crane

Fliers Smash Heavy Nazi  Counterblow  Yanks Take Le Mans and Canadians Surge Ahead on Left Flank  FIRST NIGHT ATTACK  Geimans Lose More Than 160 Tanks in Effort to Split \lies

PincerDrive Threatening, Nazi Defenses   Americans Enter Le Mans; Canadian Troops Open Assault

Enemy Draws Fresh Force From South   Mortain Counterdrive Is Still Writhing; Left Far To Rear.

Germans Rush In Troops in Effort To Check Kast Advance   Report Yanks Enter Le Mans; Canadians Penetrate Enemy Lines Four Miles Below Caen

Canadians Hammer Four Miles Into  Main Enemy Line Below Caen—Hinge Battered by Bombers—-Report Germans Rushing Troops From Southern France

Germans Desperately Rush in - Troops from Southern France in Effort To Halt Allied Drive.

AMERICANS 100 MILES FROM CITY   Canadians Break Out In Fierce Assault . On Caen Front

Nazi Counterattack Thrown Back; Drive of Allies Continues   Germans Rush Reinforcements to Defense of Threatened Paris

Canadians Thrust Four Miles Into Line Below Caen   loughboy Drive Leaves Behind to Northwest Wreckage of Enemy's Abortive But Still Withering Counterattacks   AUCH RESISTANCE ENCOUNTERED AT ST. MALO

Germans Rush Up Reserves   German Counter-Attack Wrecked; Canadians Storm, Ahead in New Drive

Yank Troops Nearly 100 Miles Away   Germans Rush in Men In Effort To Halt Advance.

Canadians Pound Lines Below Caen   Germans Rushing Reinforcements From Reserves in Southern France

ONLY 110 MILES LEFT 10 60 10 REACH CAPITAL   American Bombers Hit Nazis To Help Multiple Drive By Ground Forces

Nazis Explain ‘Swift Retreat:   “Germans ‘Admit Loss Of: Normandy. Battle

Germans Admit Normandy Loss   Berlin Says New Arms To Change War

Nazis Concede Battle of Normandy Lost, Say Time Gained to Revolutionize Arms

BERLIN ADMITS NORMANDY LOSS   \ Propagendist Says High Command Is Confronted With New Decisions

Nazi Forecast Of Revolution In Equipment   Claim They Will Change Whole Aspect of War

BERLIN ADMITS NORMAN LOSS   Nazi Commentator Hints Further Withdrawals  From France

Rome Is Bombed By Allies   Italy Reports Heavy Damage To Railroad Yards  In City’s Suburbs.

U.S. SHIPS BLAST NIPS IN PACIFIC   Aerial Attacks On Continent Resumed

WOULD LIFT LID ON PROMOTIONS   Senate Military Committee Votes to Consider Generals Individually for Advancement

TWO FLEETS B-29 PLANES HIT NAGOYA   Step Up Attacks On Japan’s Third Largest City

One of Principal Supply Bases In China Bombarded   100 B-29’s Based On Saipan Deliver Blow  At Mitsubishi Plant

JUNDAY HAIDS FAUM SAIPAN, GHINESE BAgES   War Department Announces New Blow at Japan’s Aircraft Center.

Tokyo Reports Still Another Nagoya Raid   Japs Admit B-29s Cause ‘Slight Damage’ in Industrial City

2 B-29 Fleets Bomb Nagoys Factory Area   Yangtze Bastion . Of Hankow Jolted In Secondary Blow

B-29'S AGAIN BOMB NAGOYA RAID HANKOW   100 Superfortresses Attack Biggest Jap Plane Factory: Similar Group Hits Supply Base in China.

The Weather   Nippons Speculate . Americans May , Invade Luzon Isle

TWO FORCES MAKE SEPARATE SWEEPS AGAINST ENEMY   Tokyo Says Nagoya Hit Again Today

Two Fleets of B-29’s Hit Japan’s Largest Aircraft Center at Nagoya   Scoring A Number Of Direct Hits And Setting Large Fires

Set Stage for Surge Into City   Say Nazis Leaving, Bombers in Fight Patrol Sea Lanes

CHURCHILL SAYS BIG 3 NOT AGREED   Tells Commons Britain Trying To Heal Breach

BRITAIN WORKS HARD TO HEAL ALLIED BREACH   Churchill Says U. S., England, Reds Fully Co-Operate on War

“Big Three” In Discord Over Allied Policy   Admission Is Made By Churchill; Allies, However, Cooperating In War Pracacntian

PREMIER ADMITS MG 3 SPLIT ON iOLICY DETAILS   Claims Harmony On Big Aims

Britain Does Her Utmost For Accord   Allied Policies In Liberated Areas Causes Disagreement!

Churchill Admits Disagreement On  Allied Policies   Says Britain Doing Utmost To Heal Breach Among “Big Three”

CHURCHILL SAYS BRIT. SEEKS UNITY      Defends His  Government Fourth Time in 12 Days

‘BIG THREE’ IN DISAGREENENT   Churchill Says Britain Doing Utmgst to Heal Breach

‘Big 3’ Policy Balm Sought By Churchill   Allied Divergence Of Views Admitted In Commons Talk

Big-3 Split Is Coneeded By Churchill   Say s Britain Doing Best to Heal Breach Over Freedom Police.

POLICY BREACH IS ADMITTED BY CHURCHILL   General Debaie On Greek Program Set Fer Today

Churchill Says Big 3 Disagree On Allied Policy   @ Says Britain Is Doing Her Utmost To Heal the Breach

SAYS “BIG 3 COOPERATES ON GENERAL AIMS   Prime Minister Faces Flood of Criticism About Greece

BIG POWERS COOPERATE IN PRESSING WAR   Prime Ministet! Stresses Need for Close Association Ir Momentous Hour.

BIG THREE’ IN DISAGREEMENT Oh EUROPEAN ISSUE.   Admission Made By Churchill Britain Tries To Heal Gap

DONOT AGREE ON LIBERATED AREAS POLIG   commons Hears Churchill ir Fourth Defense Made in 12 Bays.

Civilians To  Get All Butter   Supplies Will Remain Tight Despite Letup

STRESS NEED FOR SIXTH WAR LOAN EXTRA’ PURCHASE   Community Will Receive Credit for Outside Transactions

ALLEN CITIZENS BUY $1,438,493 BONDS IN DRIVE   Response In First Week Indicates $4,924,000 Goal Will Be Hit

@ IN WASHINGTON   ARE YOU CHOOSING TO BE POOR?   Ry ROOTH TARKINGTON

REAMS ATTACKS LIQUOR OFFICE   Fisher Denies Charges in Purchase of Whisky

Find Lad of 4 In Mountain; Lost 24 Hours   BETWEEN 500 AND 600 SEARCHERS SCOURED BROAD AND SAND MOUNTAINS FOR CHAMBERSBURG BOY.   Unhurt By Experience

William Rosier Funeral Saturday   Died Thursday at Home in Forest Ave.

Oa ce a Rc «NR ea ati a aaa tine acim tell  rain Kills 4 At  olumbus Crossing

Committee Probe Authorized by Attorney General.   Inquiry Was to Begin . Thursday Aftetnoon OF University Debate

ATTORNEY GENERAL RULES COMMITTEE HAS AMPLE POWER  SENATE PROBE OF UNIVERSITY MATTERS PLAN

Airbases and Military Installations Are Fleavily Blasted, Admiral Nimitz Reports

HEAVY AIR RAID MADE ON LUZON. ~ IN PHILIPPINES   Nimjta's Carrier Planes Blast ‘Air Bases and Military © : Installations of  Japanese.   SMASH AT FORMOSA  REPORTED BY TOKYO   Broadcast Says 1,000 Aircraft Carried Out Attack — “. New Landing Made 3 in Palaus.

Air Bases and Military In stallations Are  Smashed  HEAVY BOMBING OF _ FORMOSA REPORTED,  la 5. Infantry Troops Land on 12th Isfand In Palaus .

F ormosa Also Hit By 1000 Aircratt, Says Tokyo Radio   Nimitz Reports Latest Blow at Philippines Hit Air Bases and Military Installations; Land on 12th Palau Isle; Keep After Balikpapan

Fifth Strike — Against Luzon By Carriers   _ Third Fleet Action Announced in 3 Days As Scope. Expands

BLAST LUZON IN BIG ATTACK   Airbases, : Military Installations Pound ed by Yanks

Airbases And Military Installations Hit; No Report Of Damage Revealed   BORNEO REFINERIES UNDER ATTACK AGAIN

News Dimout Is Ordered By Allies   1,000 German Tanks Said To Have Been Destrove

FATE OF AIR TROOPS STILL IN BALANCE   Nazi Reports Assert Allied Force Still Holding Out

Great Oil Fields Nearer   Major Escape Routes To Trapped Nazis Snapped.

Reds Storm in N ikolaev  on Black Sea   Plight of Germans Grows Worse Hourly as Reds Control South Front

RECS SET UP ON 80 MILES OF THE PRUI   Russians Continue to Inflict Great Casualties On Germans At Many Ukraine Front Points

Reds Mass On Border Of Rumania   Pour Shells on Enemy Lines Along 80-Mile Front on Prut River; Stalemate in Italy

‘NAZI STRONGHOLDS ALONG EAST FRONT FALLING RAPIDLY   RUSSIANS REACH PRUT RIVER ALONG 80 MILES RORDERING RUMANIA

LONDON, March 28.—4" —Between 236 ang 300 U. S. heavy bombers struek at German airfields in’ France acan today.

MACKENZIE SAYS— Nazi Grab of Hungary ls Logical   It’s Focal Point For Hitler’s Protection Of Germany’s Very LiveLine

dhe War Today  eee Seizure of Hungary Logical Step Toward Hitler’s Final Defense.

GERMAN SEIZURE OF HUNGARY SEEN‘AS MOVE TO STABILIZE MILITARY POLITICAL, FRONTS   “ Hitler"Making Preparations for ‘Final Defense of His Inner Fortress and The Rich Rumanian Oil  : Biel. Ruthless Hand of Nazis Now Working  ast tw

WAR > TODAY   Hitler’s Seizure Of Hungary Smart Move For Final Defense Of  Inner Fortress

GERMANY’S SEIZURE OF HUNGARY IS SMART TACTICS ALTHOUGH IT TS BRUTAL TO IDEAL SERVANT

JAPAN BATTLES TO SMASH TRAP IN ORMOC AREA   New Invasions Hinted, With Luzon Mentioned As One Of Probable Targets

EMPIRE FATE HANGING ON PHILIPPINES   Washington Reveals Plans Drawn For Invasion Of More Jap Islands In The Pacific

Japs Fighting Fanatically In Philippines   Washington Hints Yanks About Ready For More Landings

Japs On Leyte Hurl Assaults At Americans   Attempt To Aid Comrades Trapped In Ormoc Valley

Suicide Attacks By Japs   Hurl Tank, Infantry Blows at Yanks in Philippines

DESTINY OF JAPANESE EMPIRE RESTS WITH NIPS ON ISLAND: LUZON MAY BE NEXT OBJECTIVE

Japs On Leyte Battling With Fanatical Fury   Suicidal Tank Assaults Seek To Aid Thousands Of Tranned Comrades.

SUICIDAL JAPANESE ON LEYTE HURLING TANKS INTO ATTACKS   “SHOULDERING DESTINY JAPANESE EMPIRE” THEY SEEK AID COMRADES   WAR ANALYST STRESSES CRITICAL SITUATION GROWING OUT OF JAP OFFENSIVE IN HEART OF CHINA

JAP ATTACKS ON LEYTE FAIL   Enemy's Suicidal Blows Fail To Dislodge American Troops

26,000 See Naval Giant Take Waves   Sen. Truman Speaks As U.S. S. Missouri Joins U. 8. Armada

TOJO OUSTED IN NIPPONESE GREAT CRISIS   Hull Says Removal Sign of Jap’s Desperation

OPA to Return Canned Peas, Tomatoes, Asparagus to Ration List Sunday

Peas, Tomatoes, Asparagus Back On Ration List   ‘Civilians Warned _ Supply of Canned Goods To Be Smaller

ANOTHER POINT HOLIDAY ENDS  * ¢ * * . . OPA Restores Canned Peas, Asparagus, Tomatoes To Ration List

SOVIET FORCES SMASH ACROSS BIEBRZA RIVER   Pierce 15-Mile Belt Of Defenses Guard ing East Prussia

Reds Strike at East Prussia On 15-Mile Front   Invasion of Germany Believed Likely In Next 72 Hours

Soviet troops cross Biebrza; thousands of enemy imperiled   781,886 Germans killed or captured by 6 red armies in summer offense

REDS CROSS BIEBRAZA LAST BARRIER      SSDEATH TRAE AS NARROWEL ERTO 9 MILES   Before German Soil; Mos. cow Reports Thousands of Enemy Killed anc Captured.   South Of Warsaw

Russian Troops Cross Biebrza River in Poland   Attacking on Threshhold of German East Prussia; Many Nazis Killed

Reds Smash Through Axis Defenses Guarding Borders Of East Prussia

Red Summer Drive Erases  781,886 Nazis   Soviets Armies Due  To Burst Into German Territory Within Next 72 Hours, Says Report

SOVIET ARMY TROOPS NEAR GERMAN SOIL   Fourth Army Kills 140,000 Germans in One _ Month

RUSSIANS SMASH NAZI RIVER LINE GUARDING PRUSSIA   Swarms of Fighter-Bombers Pound German Positions ‘wo Miles From Border of Province.   781,886 MEN LOST BY ENEMY IN EAST   y Moscow Reports That Num‘ber Has Been Killed or Captured Since Summer Offensive Began.

Invasion of East Prussia Forecast in Next 72 Hours   Soviets Smash 15-Mile Belt of Axis Defenses Moscow Says 781,886 Foes Slain Since July 13

Russians Surge Steadily Closer  To East Prussia   781,886 Germans Killed Or Captured in. Summer Offensive, Moscow, Says

Soviet Troops. Kill, Capture 172,360 Nazis   Reds Cross Biebrza River  In New Surge Toward Old Fact Penccia

Yanks Smash To Bastogne To End Siege   Neck of Nazi Bulge is Narrowed to 20 Miles by American Attacks; Foe Withdraws at Some Points

DELAY ADDS TO VALUE   Indiana Man’s 1943 Christmas Gift War Cirarettes.

Air, Land Assault Hits City   Dive Bombers Join in Destroying City Caught in Yank Trap

Ral i i hh Li Bi it tet  250 Wounded Soldiers Killed by Nazi Romb

Jap War Prisoner Killed by Blast   Rocket Bomb, Smuggled Into Barracks, Explodes

Military Men Back Single Defense Plan   Legislators Suggest Postponement Until After War

Baby. Two Women Are Found Dead  Child’s Father, Shot In Face. Tells Nothing

SOVIET FORCES MAKE ADVANGE’   Grim Hand to Hand Fight. ing Along 85 Mile Front Near Budapest.

Russians Inch Nearer Hungary Communications  Six Villages Taken Despite Chill Rain, Mud Slowing Drive

CLOSER T0 3 STRONGHOLDS   Fight Enemy Hand-toHand Along 85-Mile Battle Line Northeast of Budapest for Hatvan, Ever and Miskole.

Red Forces Inch Closer To Budapest   Rain. Mud Slowing Soviet Offensives:

Reds Nearer To  Strong Points   Inch Closer To Hungarian Cities; Storms Hamper Operations.

IN A GRIM BATTLE   Russians Move Closer tec Strongpoints Northeast of Budapest

SOVIETS EXTEND SWEEPING GAINS   Reds Capture Six Villages in Violent Fighting North Of Budapest

NAZI COUNTER DRIVES FIERCE   Reds Inch Way Ahead; Knock Out 43 Tanke

Hard Fighting Along Front OF 85 Miles   Chill Rain And Deep Mud Slow Down Offensive

3 Hungarian Towns Near Fal  Hatvan, Eger, Miskolc, Nazi Communications Centers Threatened

Soviet Forces Inching Ahead  Storms Hamper Move: Of Russian Armies

House Group Plans Bill to Freeze Security Taxes  Congress Battle on Increase Desired by   Congress Battle on Increase Desired by Administration Seen

Tax: ‘Freezing’ ~Facing Battle   Soft Coal. Regulation ‘Plan ee rn

House Fight On OAB Tax Now Looms   Those Favoring Halt Of Planned Increase 2 WinVote Agreement

SOCIAL SECURITY FREEZE TILT SEEN   Backers Win Agreement to Consider Legislation; Action Hoists Storm Signals Again on Capitol Hill

U. S. Hurls in Long-Hidden Ninth, Opens New Hodges Campaign; American Air Armada Blasts Path

Winter offensive is underway; launched at heart of Germany   Long hidden Ninth joins First in  drive into reich: score larve sams

TROPICAL RAIN STALLS LEYTE GROUND ACTION   Chinese Reconquest Of Burma oad Is Step  oser

U.S. Airmen Hit At Jap Airdromes And Shipping  Ground Action in Philippines Stalled   Ground Action in Philippines Stalled By Tropical Rains

AIRMEN BLAST JAP AIRFIELDS IN PHILIPPINES   BASE AT IWO JIMA ON B-29 PATHWAY IS BOMBED

LUNA PARK HAS 5-ALARM BLAZE   Crowded Coney Island Amusement Center Scene Of Ruin

Amusement Park Is Swept by Fire  Half of Famed Playground Destroyed

FIRE DESTROYS HALF OF CONEY ISLAND PARK   Three-Hour Blaze —-Spread; None-Killed, 35 Treated

Flames. Sweep Coney Island’s Ss: Amusement Center As Thiroings  Of New Yorkers F rolic N earby.

Strong American Forces Stab Deeper Into Jap Units Trapped In New Guinea

JAPS UNDER FIRE AS THEY RETREAT ON NEW GUINEA   More Than 400 Killed as Americans Advance Two Miles Eastward From Driniumor River.   NEW YANK LANDING MADE ON BIAK ISLAND   Westward Penetration Draws Noose Tighter Around Other Encircled Nipnonese Units,

New Landing Made On Biak Isle By Yanks   Trapped Japanese In New Guinea Pushed Back; Nippon’s Death Toll Soars Rapidly

NEW LANDING MADE ON BIAK BY U.S. TROOPS   NIPPONESE PUSHED INTO CORNER ON GUAM ISLAND

Yanks Smash Deeper Into Trapped Foe   New Biak Island Push Draws Noose Tighter Around Nipponese

NEW LANDING ON BIAK DISCLOSED   Yanks Aim More Blows At Japs—Advances In British New Guinea

PARAMUSHIRG SHELLED FROM U.S, WARSHIPS   Jops Caught Off Guard At Base Less Than 1,200 Miles From Tokyo By Task Force

Herbert Muchow Reported Missing   Was On 32nd Bombing ~Mission As Tail Gunner

Montanan Tells How He Spotted Janan’s Fleet   Great Falls Man Back On Mainland After 18 Months of Service

DEMO PLURALIT' IN HOUSE 53   Complete Unofficial Roster Is Compiled

240,000 Pay High Tribute To Smith   ‘Happy Warrior Buried Yesterday Beside Wife

HUGE THRONG “AT RITES FOR SMITH   200,000 Pass Bier of New York Ex-Governor.

ABDUCTORS.0F GIRL AND TAXI DRIVER SEIZE   Sleek, Riding-Togged Ban dits Admit Craziest of _Kidnapings to Police 

Two Abduetors Easily. Caught   Pair of Norfolk Men Who Forced: Rides Captured In Gotham . Movie

FDR Appointees To Court Split   Justices Black, Murphy Criticize Frankfurter

U.S. Supreme Court Split By Dissension   Rift Develops Over Law Interpretation Of Economic Cases

Blunt Language Reveals Rift Between _ Three of Roosevelt-Appointed Justices

DIVISION DEVELOPS BETWEEN SUPREME COURT MEMBERS   Roosevelt Appointed Court Judges Disagree Over Law Relating to Economic  D&eennt acces

SUPREME COURT RIFT REVEALED IN DEGISTONS   Justices Black, Murphy ‘arayed ‘Against Felix er, Former Roosevelt ‘Adviser

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Ack-Ack Crews Do a Good Job Covering Yank Landings  Crews Sleepless, Fight On Night ‘ After Night Clearing Air of Axis ™

Japs Determined To Learn Allied Methods Of Large Scale Landings; Send Troops To Nazis

Japs There To Study Landings   “Nips With Germans In Normandy to Find Out Allied Amphibious Methods

Japanese Dead In France Indicate War Lords Want Data On War At Any Cost

JAPS SENT TO FIGHT WITH GERMANS TO GET INFORMATION ON ALLIED METHODS, BELIEF

Japanese Dead Found In France   Combat Teams Studying American Tactics

Neosho River   Japs Get Preview  Of Pacific D-Day   Nipponese Found On Beaches of Normandy Apparently There To Study Allied Tactics

U.S. Warships And Planes  Smash Japs In Philippines   Ninety-One Enemy Ships And 68 Aircraft Destroyec In Continuing Attacks By Surface And Air Fleets Operating Off Mindanao

TOKYO REPORTS RAIDS CONTINUE ON PHILIPPINES   68 Planes Also Bagged In U. S. Carrier Force Blow

Allied Strength Leveled af Philippines   91 Jap Vessels and 68 Aircraft Are Destroyed

ATTAC PHILIPPINES BY BOMBERS   69 Nippon Aircraft Also Destroyed By Unified Strength Of Allies, Warships, Carrier And Land-Based Planes   ATTACKS Now IN THIRD DAY

Halsey Leads {st Operation Of Task Force   68 Enemy Planes Blasted in Raid On Merchant Fleet

91 Vessels, 68 Planes Destroyed   Little Enemy Defense Action Encountered

Destroy 91 Jap Ships, 68 Planes In 3 Day Blows   McArthur, Nimitz Weld Forces Into Giant Pacific Attack

Philippines Attacked By Allied Unified Naval and Aerial Might   Destroyed 91 Japanese Vessels And 68 Jap Aircraft

91 Jap Vessels, 68 Planes Razed By Allied Assault   Third Pacific Fleet, American-Australian  Forces Work Together

VITAL BLOW INFLICTED ON JAP EMPIRE   Ninety-one Enemy Ships, 68 Aircraft Are Destroyed In New Attacks.

RECORD AERIAL BLOWS CARRIED ON BY YANKS   1,800 U. S. Bombers Hit Reich Today; Stuttgart Hit By RAF

DEEP INTO THE REICH   Americans Hit Objectives in Schweinfurt and Mainz Areas

BOMBERS MAUL GERMANY AGAIN   1,800 Planes Hit Targets in Western Area

PLANES SOAR DEEP INTO REICH TODAY   Attack Military Objects in Schweinfurt, Coblenz, Mainz Areas.

Record Breaking Aerial Assaults Pound Nazi Lines  10,000 Allied Plains Jein In Battering German Delease

YANK BOMBERS ATTACK REICH   Over 1,800 Liberators, Forts And Fighters Jar Hamburg-Harburg Plants

REICH POUNDED FOR 36 HOURS   Mosquitos Fol Follow Ur Mass Raids On Germany

AERIAL SIEGE ENTERS THIRD STRAIGHT DAY   More Than 1,800 Yank Planes Attack Industrial Targets In Western Germany  TIA es, VAI AW Farrraic ise

Bombers Hit Rail Center   ‘Weekend Air Attack “Is Heaviest..Of War

Bombs Smash Heart of Ruhr   1,800-Plane Fleet Hits Reich Industry

Aerial Armada Attacks Reich   Allied Airmen Continue Mightiest Bombing Siege Into Third Day.

2,000 Yank Planes Rock Nazi Targets   Close to 10,000 Used In 24-Hour Attack Over Week-end

U.S. Bombers Hit Nazi Oil Refineries, Rails, In Heaviest Blow Of War

MORE THAN 1,800 AMERICAN PLANES ATTACKED GERMANY  SELATEMtUr MMlAAMIaAM Amn   MIGHTY BOMBING SIEGE AGAINST REICH CARRIED INTO THIRD DAY

Great Allied Air Raids  Continuing  Mightiest Bombing Siege of War

ANOTHER GREAT AIR  ARMADA OF AMERICAN  PLANES RAID REICH MILITARY OBJECTIVES  BATTERED MONDAY FOLTOWING RITSV WEEK END

1,800 BOMBERS HIT INDUSTRIAL TARGET   Allies Carry Mighty Aerial Siege of War Into Third Nav.

MORE THAN 1,800 AMERICAN PLANES ATTACKED GERMANY  MIGHTY BOMBING SIEGE   MIGHTY BOMBING SIEGE AGAINST REICH CARRIED INTO THIRD DAY

RAF Bombers Raid Stuttgart Twice Sunday   Solingen, Sheffield Of Germany, Also Bombed. Twice by RAF

Much Of Story Yet To Be Told   High U. S. Officials Declare Victims Of Atrocities Will  Be Avenged.

Murderers Will Be Brought To Justice After The War  Thousands Of Victims Of Enemy Savagery

U. S. Determines To Avenge Jap Atrocity Victims   Government All But Abandons Hope Of Getting Relief Supplies To Prisoners Still Held by Nipponese

Jans Reduce Claims Of U. S. Lesses to 62   PHILIPPINES VICTORY May Change Allied Strategy

5 Other Allied Armies Batter Into Nazi Lines   Entire Southern Flank Of German Defenses Unhinged In Belfort Area; U. S. Third Army ‘Completes’ Occupation Of Metz

France Again To Be Major Power   United Nations Pact To Be Signed By Envoy

Q).W.1. Warns Of War Speculation   ‘Lays Down News Policy As - To Speculation of When War Will End.

Higher-Ups Warned Not To Speculate Regarding Date When War Will End

JAP BOMBERS STAGE ATTACK INMARSHALLS   AMERICAN ASSAULTS EXTENDED ALMOST TO CAROLINES

Americans Reach Out as Far as Caroline Islands in Extend ing Their Air Raids—Fleet Carrier-Based Planes Strike at Eniwetok Atoll, Enemy Staging Base From Truk— Damage Inflicted on Airfield and Other Installations,

Americans and Japanese Trade Aerial AlLacks   Nips Raid Positions in Marshalls, U, S. Hits Eniwetok Atoll

U.S. Bombers Raid Atolls In Marshalls   Nimitz Reports Jap Planes Attack Roi Island

Enemy plane: hit positions on Roi island   ‘U.S. beachhead .is lengthened

TRUIAN GAT ih Ui FIGHT LAW NUT REEBE!   Kiissouri Sena‘or Can't See Manpower shortave Talk

YOUTHS INDICTED “IN ROBBERY CASES   Fifteen Indictments Returned Against Eight. Deiecgners

YOUTHS INDICTE INDICTED ~ INROBBERY CASES      Fifteen Indictments Returned Against Eight, : i" Drisoners

Chinese’ Are Aare by ~ Jap Meiiace   Enemy Concentrates 280,000 Troops To Capture HankowCanton Railroad and Clear Way for Other New Blows

Japs Poise For New China Blows   Concentrate 280.000 Troops To Capture Railway. Changsha

Rail Link © Is Chief Jap larget   Mass 280,000 Troops For Blow at Vital Transportation Line; Other Drives Imminent

280,000 Troops Massed By Japs On China Front   Enemy Makes Attempt To Force Chinese From Hankow-Canton Rails

MASS 280,000 JAPS IN CHINA   Prepare Mighty Drive To Gain Canton-Hankow Railroad

Nippons Mass Great Army in China Drive   Americans Apparently Laying Groundwork. for New Offensive

180,000 Japanese Troops Poured in China Offensive   Nips Retaliating There as Allies Increase Pressure

JAPS INCREASE DRIVE IN CHINA   Yank Planes Widen Blasts At (sland Bases

Japanese Massing For Widespread Blows in China   Increasing Pressure Is Causing Alarm; New U. S. Offensive in Pacific Looming

280,000 JAPS READY 10 START NEW CHINA PUSH   American Fliers Blast Isles in Pacific Including : Kuriles

NEW STRATEGY   Have Concentrated 280,000 Troops to Pry Chinese From Railway. —   /PLAN FOR NEW BLOWS

Japs Mass For New China Drive   OVER 280,000 TROOPS ARE CONCENTRATED FOR ATTACK

280,000 Japs Claimed Ready For Big Blows Against China   Chungking Spokesman Says That As Allies Apply More Pressure On Japs Enemy Will Hit Harder At China

More Pressure By Japanese Against China   Pushed by Allies They Concentrate On Raids on China

New Strate Adopted By Japanese  oa ly Siew      280,000 Nip Troops Concentrated to Pry Chinese  Loose from Hankow- Canton Railroad

NEW DRIVES BY 280,000 NiPS$ LOOM   Major Offensives Aimed At Complete Conquests Expected

General Tseng Alarmed By Developments...  Japanese Mass 280,000  ~ Troops To Pry Chinese From Hankow Railroad

Chinese Halt Jap Drive OnChangsha   Enemy Has Massed 280,000 Men. For New Offense

Japs Mass To Wrest Hankow \CantenRailway   Alarm Felt Over Spreading Enemy Offensive; Battle Brewing For Changsha; U.S. Fliers Strike Wide  Pacific Blows.

Japs Embark New Strategy      Put 280,000 Troops To Pry Chinese From HankowCanton Railroads.

Chinese Halt Jap Drive OnChanesha  Enemy Has Massed   Enemy Has Massed 280,000 Men For New Offense

JAPS GET REABY  TO STRIKE NEW  BLOWS IN CHINA CHINESE GENERAL  SAYS ENEMY HAS 280,000 TROOPS

JAP BLOW PERILS VITAL CHINA RAIL   NIPS MASS 280,000 TROOPS FOR SMASH

Nip Pressure Mounts As Allies Put Squeeze On Foe Outside China; New Gains In Burma

JAPS ATTEMPT NEW STRATEGY AGAINST CHINA   Half-Million Men Being Used To Take Railroad

Japs Massing Troops in China   Have 280.000 Men To Pry Chinese From Hankow Railroad

War Is Drawing Closer To Tokyo   Japs Concentrating On China Offensive

WAR IN CHINA GROWS SERIOUS   Elsewhere in Far East, Japs Getting Worst of It

CANADA CRISIS” ~ BEING SOLVED   FRENCH-CANADIANS IN PARLIAMENT FIGURE OUT COMPROMISE IN CONSCRIPTION ESSUE

Face-Saving Compromise Is Hinted In Canadian Conscription Crisis

NOBEL PRIZES GIVEN TO TWO SCIENTISTS NOW IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS

2 INU. S. GET NOBEL PRIZES   Physics Awards Go to Sci. entists at American Institutions

COMMITTEES OF VILLAGE BOARD AT DEPUE NAMED   President Appoints Officers And Committees To Handle Affairs Of Village During The Com. ing Fiscal Year.

‘BOARD OF THE VILLAGE MET TUESDAY   Considerable Business Transacted During Regular Meeting

DEPUE BOARD  TO IMPROVE  MANY STREETS   Motor Tax Funds Wil Be Used To Pay For Asphalt

COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED FOR THE YEAR   De Pue Village Board Confirms Appoint ments Of Pres.

~ PUBLIC WORKS AFTER THE WAR   Many Projects Planned By The De Pue Village Board  pen

U.S. BOMBERS HURL ATTACK AGAINST KIEL   Great Air Battles Are Fought In Skies  Over Denmark

More Than 3000 Planes Shuttle Across Channel in Attacks From Germany to Invasion Coast

Nazi Kurope Is Blasted In Day-Lone Raids   3,000 Planes Participate In Attacks

JAPS QUST HATA IN BIG SHAKEUP   -~OKAMURA -TAKES OVER AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEI

Jap War Mintstry Shakes Up Command   Hata Is Transferred From China Post In General Reshulfle Of High Otticers.

WILLKIE GETS SNUBBED; GOP HAILS DEWEY   VICE PRESIDENTIAL OFFER REJECTED BY GOV. WARREN

Hoover Call: For Change In Leaders   Policy Framers Snub Willkie; Bricker May Be Asked to Take  Vice Presidential Nod

arren Refuses Nomination for Vice-President  Republicans Snub Willkie, Ignore   Republicans Snub Willkie, Ignore His Foreign Policy

Ratify Policy Rejecting Willkie’s Ideas   Herbert Hoover Tells Delegates That Only by a Change in White House Can Freedom Be Assured

Republicans Snub  Willkie Demands, Party Bolt Feared   Hoover Hit« New Deal

Californian Asks Name Be Held Out   Says He Has Assumed rtain Obligations ‘Lo People of State   SPECULATION TURNS TO SEVERAL OTHERS   Foreign Relations Plank Is Accepted Despite. Willkie View

WARREN REFUSES  PLACE ON TICKET   Clare Boothe Luce States War Might ~ Have Been Averted by Present U.S: Administration

WARREN SAYS HE WON'T BE V. PRESIDENT   Avers Statement Is Final as He Has Unfullilled Pledges in California; Await Dewey Choice.   Penna. For Warren

Reds Capture Nazi Height in City   WARSHIPS JOIN IN ASSAULT, SINKING FOUR BIG TRANSPORTS

Officer Says Girl He Slew Is Only One He ‘Ever Could Love’   Testimony Comes After Wife He Wed  Three Times Is Witness for Defense

Flown On 12 Europe Missions, Escort  Titled Hottes* Fichter Plane

New Long-Range American Fighter In Greatest Aerial Battle over Reich

Soviets Cross Bug River on Way to Border   Russians Within 24 Miles Of Naval Base at WNikalaew

oS. &- Ges  Spearheads Within 30 Miles Of Border  Red Army Troops Take Vapnyarka, Cut Vital Lwow-QOdessa Railway

NAZI LINES IN SOUTH RUSSIA NEAR COLLAPSE   Reds’ 2nd Ukraine Army Within 30 Miles of Old Rumanian Border

Russians Break to Bug River   ARMIES HIT VINNITSA, ENCIRCLE GERMAN ARMY AT KHERSON

2AILROAL %, INCTION CITY ONLY 25 MILES EAST OF THE BES:’%. ABIAN BORDER SEIZED BY SOVIETS AFTER TANK ND INFANTRY ATTACK--OTHER RED FORCES SM, ~ ’ ACROSS THE MIDDLE BUG RIVER

Thousands More German Forces Trapped In Ukraine Are Slain As They Endeavor To Make Escape Abandoning Much Fauinsient

Germany’s Entire Central Sector Of Front In South Russia Appears Collapsing   Russian Juggernaut Is Driving Relentlessly Toward-Rumania -

FINNISH REFUSAL TO ACCEPT RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS SERVES TGBOLSTER MORALE OF NAZIS   Action of Firins Seen As Equal to National Suicide and Future Hardships. In Effect It Is Equal To Major Defeat for Allies At A Critical Moment   German Front In South Russia Nearing Collapse   RED ARMY MOVES ON TOWARD RUMANIAN BORDER AS NAZIS PLAN NEW STAND ON DNIESTER   Russian Continue to Pile Up Fresh Disaster for Germans Along the Bug River, Smashing to Within 17 Miles of Nikolaev on Black Sea

PUSH SPEARHEAD WITHIN 30 MILES OF OLD RUMANIA   SEVERAL THOUSAND MORE NAZIS SLAIN IN UKRAINE POCKET

Reds Drive On Toward Rumania   Central Sector Of German Line In South Is Endangered

NAZI COLLAPSE SEEN FOR-ENTIRE CENTRAL SEGMENT OF FRONT   Konev's Forces Drive Toward Rumania; Nikolaev. and Odessa Menaced   NQ NEWS OF TARNOPOL

Reds Within 30 Miles Of Old  ‘Rumanian Line   Smash Across Bug River To Threaten HardPressed Germans.

Open New Threat to Hard-Pressed. Nazis in Lower Russia, Smash Within 17 Miles of Nikolaev    KOPANY CAPTURED      Nikelaev Virtually Cut Off by Water and Threatened on Three Sides by Land

Russians Drive Toward Rumania   Germans Fall Bock In Confusion on Black Sea Ports

Reds Within 30 Miles _ Of Pre-War Rumania;  - Bug River Is Crossec

Nazi Front  Near Collapse As Reds Gain   Second Ukraine Army 100 Miles From Border Of Rumania; Speed Aheac

Soviet Army Is 30 Miles  From Rumania   Another Force Within 17 Miles of Black Sea Port of Nikolaev

ire Central an Front ar Collapse   Army Troops Rerted 30 Miles From rabia Border

SOVIET TROOPS CROSS MIDDLE BUG. PUSH ON   New Disasters Are Piled Up for German Troops in Ukraine

Soviels Storm Bug River, Push Speedy Advance  Thousands Of Nazi   ‘Thousands Of Nazi Troops Are Slain In Ukraine Pocket

Russians Push Spearheads Near Rumania   Soviet Forces Cross Bug River; Pose New Threat to Foe

River Spanned By Red Forces; Huns Tr apped   Grave New Threat Facing  Germans In South, With  Thousands Pocketed By Soviet Drives   Advancing Toward Port Of Nikolaev   Huge Holes Ripped In German Lines, Soviet Troops Seize More Towns In Ukraine

Central Nazi Lines Crumple   Kunev’s Russians Drive Toward Rumania, Others Smash Toward Odessa

REDS BATTLE NAZIS ALONG RIVER BANK   German Troops Hard Pressed By  Soviet Forces

Drive Across Bug River Jeopardizes  Nazis In Ukraine.   Germans In Snigerevka Trap Northeast Of Nikolaev Abandon Quantities Of Men, Equipment As Russians Push Extermination

REDS ROLL NEARER RUMANIA’S BORDER   Whole Center of German Front in Southern Russia Cracks   NEAR DNIESTER RIVER

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE TOWARD RUMANIA AREA   Germans Resist Fifth Army Advance Into Ruined Cassino

REDS 20 MILES FROM RUMANIA   Whole Central Sector 0:  German Line Near Collapse

Russian Armies Point at Rumania   Central Sector of German Front In Soviet Reported Near Collapse

Carve Gap in Escape Route   Moscow Reports Central Line Is In State of Collapse.

CENTRAL FRONT OF  GERMANS IN SOUTH  RUSSIA IMPERILLED TWO GREAT SOVIET  DRIVES HEADED FOR NIVOTABCYU ANKR nnecca

Reds Within Thirty Miles Of Rumanian  Border Lines   Middle Bug River’s Cressine Reported

Whole German Central Front Is Collapsing   Enemy Falling Back In Confusion Before Soviet Armies

Compressed Nazi Central Front Is Now Near Collapse   Troops Now Within 30 _ Miles of Bessarabia — Germans Expected To Try All-Out Stand On Dniester River Which is Bessarabian Boundrv.

Surviving Nazi Troops, Ruins Impede Attack   RAF Makes Record Raid on Stuttgart— Reds But Seventeen Miles From Goal   Bulletin

Cassino Battle is Near Decision as Allies Storm City   Destruction Wrought by Record Bombing Hampers Attack

SOVIETS oMASH ACROSS RIVER   Drive Down Bug’s West Bank a Threat to Nazis In Lower Russia.   FIGHT ON LONG FRONT

Germans Facing Grave New Threa  Soviets Smash Across Middle Bua River

Reds 30 Miles From Bessarabia; German Front in State of Collapse

German Lines Collapsing in South Russia   Konev's Army Drives  Toward Rumania After Crossing Bug River in Sensational Break

Speed Through 62-Mile Gap Ripped In Nazi Defenses On Bug In Western Ukraine

Whole Central Sector of Nazi Front Appears Near Collapse  BOMBERS CUT PATH   RPVot sesso Wh Fad OG  Red Army Troops Within 30 Miles of Bessarabian Rardnr

Reds 25 Miles From Rumania s Prewar Border   Major Railway Line To Odessa Cut By Capture Of Junction City.

Russian Army 30 Miles  From Rumania   Way Opened For Drive Down West Bank Of Bug River

Soviets Sever Lwow-Odessa Railroad Links   Central Sector Of Nazi Lines Nearing Collapse

CENTRAL PART OF NAZI FRONT FACES DEFEAT   Two Great Russian Attacks Rush Speedily Toward Nikolaev, Odessa

Cul Main Rail Line to Odessa   Reds Capture Vapnyarka. Carving New Gap in Nazi Escape Route   WHOLE CENTRAL FRONT CRUMBLING   Germans May Try. for an All-Out Stand On the Dniester River

NAZI ABOUT JLLAPSE   kraine Army 1 Relentlessly tumania,.   all Back in  confusion Near Ports

Vital Rail Link Cut by Charging Russian Forces   Fall of Vapnyorka, Only 25 Miles from Bessarabia Severs  Lwow-Odessa Line

Russ Widen Gap in Nazi Escape Route   Army, Smashing Ahead, Takes Vopnyarka in Push to Rumania

JOAN OBJECTS 10 BLOOD TEST   Chaplin Denies All Accusations Made by Former Pupil

BRITISH GAIN ALONG THE APPIAN WAY   Indicate Nazis Forced to Order General Withdrawal!

Nazis Prepare To Withdraw On 5th Front   Speedy British Attack Knocks Foe’s Try At New Line Off Balance

British Forces Drive Northward On Appian Way   Believe Germans Are Ready To Withdraw From Fifth Army Front

HARD-PRESSED NAZIS IN ITALY PLANRETREAT   Prepare New Defense Line In Fifth Army Area; Thrown Off Balance By  Bact Purinue Acaanlt.

Raids Disrupt Rail Traffic In Bulgaria   . No Trains Arrive At Turk Border For 24 Hours

Germans Are Driven From  [Model Town   Aprilia Again In British  Hands After Severe  Fighting

Aprilia’s Fall Told by De Luce  Faselst Model Town in Hands of Allies

‘Aprilia, Model Village of Fascism, ‘Taken by Allies With Little Fighting

Solon Critical Of Biddle’s Opinion   Assails Ruling M-Ward In War Work as ‘Amazing

Denounces Seizure of Wards by Goverament as Migh-handed Procedure

WOMAN STOPS 1 OF 2 NEWTON JAILBREAKERS.   Wife of Sheriff Halts Ralph Cox, But Chicagoan Escapes

Allies Behind  Burma Jap Lines   Troops To Disrupt Enemy Communications

British And Indian Troops Set Down  On U.S. Airfield   Daring Move Planned 7 Months Ago Upsets Japs

Gliders Land -* British Troops Far Behind Nips   Transports Follow; Jackie Coogan, of Film Fame, Hac Part

Daily Temperatures   American Air Commandos Landed By Planes, Gliders in North Burma

COMMITTEE DROPS CONTEMPT ACTION      Demand for Access to White House Files Not to be Pressed

REDS TAKE  E A‘HEIGHT   Position of Importance Is Captured in Romania

Soviet Forces Take Height   Russians, However, Make No Mention of Large Offensive

ITALIAN COPS  TO BE PUNISHED FOR LAXITY IN LYNCHING CASE   Horrible Riot Is Vividly Pictured

Mob Murder Of Carretta To Be Investigated   Hated Roman Fascist Brutally Lynched By Italians

FOLEY 10 RUN FOR CONGRESS   Announces Fourth District Candidacy On Democrat Ticket

Foley To Enter Congress Race   Announces His. Fourth — District Candidacy

‘Slaughter Is Expected To Be Tremendous   New Gains Made On Approaches To Krivoi Rog

SLAUGHTER OF TRAPPED NAZIS IN FINAL STAGE   Massed Soviet Artillery Pours Rain Of Steel Into Pocket

Captured Hun Sub Hunts Sister Ships   British Send Out U-Boat Under Own Flag After Scizure

CAPTURED U-BOAT TURNED AGAINST FOE   Britain Reveals How Sleek Nazi Sub, Bagged .in 1941, Helped Hunt Down Sister Shins.

Nazis Won't Enjoy This   That Vanished U-Boat Wes Captured, Used Against Former Sister Ships

Soviets Offer Plan for  World Peace   International Air Force Proposed To Prevent War

Soviets Urge  Aerial Police   Preview of Russian World Peace Plan Received  ee Bean Baeruen:

MacArthur Announces New Successes Jap Defenses Collapse At Both Ends Of A 430 Mile New Guinea Front

FOUR AIRFIELDS 4, ‘"D THREE COASTAL BASES HAVE BEEN SEIZED FRO.* HEFENDING NIPS IN FOUR DAYS —FIFTH AIRFIELD, © BIG HOLLANDIA PORT, EXPECTED TO FALL AT Es * TIME

YANKS CAPTURE THREE BASES, FOUR AIRFIELDS   Chinese Troops Break Enemy Resistance In Mogaung Valley Drive

Jap Defense ~- Of Hollandia  Is Collapsing   Fifth Airfield Expected To ‘Fall Before Allied Pincers Soon

Hollandia Airdreme  Expected to Fall Momentarily to Pincer Forces Being Tightened  REPAIRS ARE RUSHED

Yanks Take Four Japanese  Air Fields   Defenses of Enemy Collapses at Both Ends of War Front

ACTFIC:  HP RESISTINGE. "5 CILLAPSIN   Americans Seize Three Airfields In Smashing New Guinea Drive   MARCH ON FOURTH   Nip Defenses At Both Ends Of 430-Mile Front  Crumbling ~

Bypasséd Madang Falls 4 Airfields Now In Al lied Hands, Repair Rushed On Latest 3 Allied Pincers Closin; On-Main Field at Hol landia.

Great Quantities Of Supplies Seized At Madang; Aitape Also Falls In Smash

Japanese Defenses Collapse Along 430-Mile Front  In New Guinea; Stilwell’s Men Break Resistance On Burma Frontier

Utter Collapse Of Japanese Defense Line On New Guinea  Confirmd By Gen. M’Arthur

Four Airdromes, 3 Coast Bases Fall To Allies   Capture Of Fifth And Last Field Is Due Momentarily

BIG HOLLANDIA AIRDROMEMAY FALL AT ONCE   Entire Invasion Front Of 150 Miles Crumbling Before Advance

YANKS CAPTURE TWO AIR BASES AT HOLLANDIA   Troops Close in for Final Kill at Last Big Nip Airdrome

JAP DEFENSE NEAR: COLLAPSE   Enemy. Resistance Reporter “Crumbling on New. Front in New: Guinea. -

Japanese Defenses Crumble: New Guinea Gains Extended   Enemy Forces Collapse At Both Ends Of 430-Mile Front: Two Fields At Hollandia, One At Madang Fall: Major ‘Drome Expected To Surrender

M’Arthur Says Foe Is Folding In New Guinea   Madang Captured by, U. S. Forces; Fifth Airfield Under Attack: Enemy Opposition Weak

‘Allied Troops Close On Main Hollandia Field   3 Other Fields In Dutch New Guinea Captured

Allies Take 3 More Airfields  From Japanese   Seize Two At Hollandiz And Another At Cap: tured Madang.

DANES REPORT NAZIS WITHDRAW FROM NORWAY   Denmark’s Ships Used to Transport Germans, Newspapers Ray .

Germans Are Reported Withdrawing Troops from Norway and Denmark   Russians Blame “Reactionaries”’ in China for Recent Jap Gains There

Danes Report Nazis are Withdrawing Forces from Denmark and Norway

NAZIS WITHDRAW FROM DENMARK   TROOPS REINFORCE WESTERN FRONT ARMY

Report Germans Taking Men From Norway, Denmark   Troops Withdrawn To Bolster Armies On West, East Fronts

POSTING DEADLINE ~ CHANGED BY OPA   Prices of Food Items Must ' be Listed in Eating —  -. ~Digees

POSTING DEADLINE ~ CHANGED BY: OPA      Prices of Food Items Ais be Listed in Eating  -Places

FRANCO FORCE ‘DRIVES REBELS ~ FROM VALLEY   Guerillas Remain in Possession of  Hills

Spanish Army Battles With Guerrillas   Republicans Crossing Borders From France

COLO WAVE HITS MID-WEST, EAaT   North,Central Border States Coldest in Nation; Readings as Low as 34 Below Zero Recorded

New Cold Wave Hits Dakotas   Sub-Zero Temperature: Prevail in East

To Be Opposed By Randall Fo Seat In Senate   Senior Senator‘ From Mary land Defeats Four Rivals  In Yesterday’s “Light  : Primary Voile   Baltimorean Wins Republican Toge   Campaign Against Paul Robertson, Purely. Factional Contest. Between Rival Party Leaders

Sweeps State In Primary-—Sasscer Wins Nomination—Ward Defeated By Roe

Tydings Decisive Winner in Primary. Sees ‘Good Augury’   Frequent Foe of Roosevelt Finds No Anti-Administration Feeling in Overwhelming Victory

JAPAN WILL BE FIGHTING IN 1946, GEN. HARMON DECLARES   Superfortress Raids Will Not Soon Knock Enemy Out Of War, Officer Contends; Fliers Have Seen No _ Great Damage From Recent Earthquake

SOVIET SEES LONG GERMAN WAR AHEAD, RUSSIANS URGED’T0 GREATER EFFORT.

REPORT NAZI LABOR CHIEF KILLED IN ITALY  i wweerer .. Oe sl Bee, ae ae

New 28-000-Ton Japanese Carrier Is Believed Sunk   American Sob Adds to Toll Philippines Sea Battle While MacArthor's Romberc Score

U. §. Sub Blasts New Jap Flat-fop  Send Three Torpedoes Into. Vitals of Carrier

Latest Survey of Jap Losses in Reset Navol Battle Show 5 Ships Definitely Sur?:, +.) dive 15,000 Carrier; 9 Others Damaged; Over 23€ vires Shot Down

New Japanese Carrier Victim  Of Yankee Sub   Trio Of Direct Torpede Hits Dooms Enemy Flattop Off Philippines.

Jap Carrier Hit By U.S. Sub      THREE TORPEDOES HIT ENEMY FLAT TOP BELIEVED SUNK

Enemy Shipping Troubles Mount   Americans Believe Another — Carrier Is Sent To Bot' tom of Sea :   TOKYO REPORTS A RAID   Japanese Tell of 60 United States Planes in Attack on Guam

New Jap Carrier Believed Sunk By Yank Submarine; Tokyo Says Guam Raided

New Jap Corrier “Probably Sunk”   U.S. Sub Scores Three Hits on 28.000-Ton Craft; Enemy tosses Mounting

Believe Big Jap Carrier Of 28,000 Tons Sent To Bottom of-Phillippine Sea

Another Jap Carrier Hit   New 28,000-Ton Craft Believed Sunk In Philippines Sea

Jap Carrier ls Reported To Be Sunk By Yankees   Attempts To Stop Americans At Saipan Fail

JAP CARRIER IS PROBABLY SUNK   Hit by Three U. S. Torpedoes; Guam Raided: Big Saipan Battle Near

BELIEVE U-BOAT SINKS ANOTHER NEW NIP CARRIER   U. S. Sub Hits Flattop With Three Torpedoes, Other Ships Sunk

US. SUB BLASTS JAP CARRIER   ‘Believe 28,000 Ton Ship Sunk by Three Torpedoes in Philippines Sea.

JAP CARRIER BELIEVED SUNK   Submarine Sends Three  Torpedoes Inte Ship

U.S. Sub Torpedoes Carrier   Jap Flattop Believed Sunk in Action Sunday; Major Battle Reported In Making On Saipan

"ASSERTS GERMANS TORTURED AND MURDERED FALLEN U.S. PARATROOPERS IN NORMANDY

Nazis Tortured And Murdered Y ank - Paratroopers, NBC Reporter Says

Paratroopers Tortured By Germans Early in Invasion   “Indisputable Evidence” Brought Back By Returning Troons. Claim

Nazi Cruelty Approaches That Of Japs   American Paratroops Stabbed, Cut, Tortured, Then Put To Death

Captive Yanks Are Tortured      NBC REPORTER TELLS OF MURDER OF PARATROOPERS

House to Get Report on New Tax Plan   COMMITTEE APPROVES SIMPLIFICATION, PAY DEDUCTIONS HIGHER

YANKS OVERRUN STRONG POINTS ‘IN PHILIPPINES   Temporary Capital For Philippines Set Up At Tacloban

Constitutional Government Returns To Philippines Headed by Osmena

SEEK TO TRAP FLEEING NIPS IN VALLEY   Provincial Government Set Up At Tacloban   GROUND FORCES   Extending All Positions, MacArthur Declares; Advance Steady

YANKS STRIVING TO BOTTLE FOE IN LEYTE AREA   Japanese Fleeing Up Valley; Philippines Return To Free Government

Tanks Lead Way Deep Into Leyte To Trap Enemy   Japs Reported Retreating Up Island Valley

Tanks Lead Foot Soldiers in Drive On Southern Flank   Engineers Rush Work on Captured Japanese Airdrome

U.S. 7th Inf. Div. Moves Up Open Leyte Valley Jn Pursuit Of Enemy; Free Philippine Government Established at Tacloahan:

Attempt To Trap Units Retreating In Leyte Valley   Seized Area Shaped Into __Base For MacArthur’s Push To Avenge Bataan

STRONG JAP POSITIONS ARE TAKEN   Americans Pressing Ahead In Effort To Trap Fleeing Enemy

TANK-LED AMERICAN INFANTRY DRIVING INLAND ON LEYTE ©   DETERMINED EFFORT BEING MADE TO TRAP RETREATING ENEMY FORCES

ARE TRYING TO SPRING A TRAP ON NIPS   Routed From Positions on the Island’s Southern Front, Enemy Is Retreating Up the Wide Leyte Valley. -

Americans Drive To Trap Japanese   MacArthur's Men Pushing Westward on Leyte Island's Front   ADVANCE BY TANKS   United States Infantry Is Moving Up Open Valley From Dulag

TACLOBAN 15 MADE CAPITAL; JAPS RETREAT   Leyte To Become Great Base For Reconquest Of All Islands

Crack Strong Leyte Island Defense Area   Tanks Moving Up Open Valley From Beachhead; Enemy Forces Retreating

TANK-LED AMERICAN INFANTRY DRIVING INLAND ON LEYTE  kRHrMEeMaAs ASE Fear   DETERMINED EFFORT BEING MADE TO TRAP RETREATING ENEMY FORCES

Overrun Jap Defenses on South Front   Nips May be Falling Back Into Positions In Mountains

Yanks Press Advantage On Leyte Islanc   Continue Steady Advance  Aloug 18-Mile Front; Start Work On Air  —_—_—y

Great Base To Bé Built For Future Blows   Advancing U. S. Force Enters Area Ideal For Tank Warfare; Enemy In Retreat

BUILDING OF GREAT BASE FOR ALL ARMS BEGIN:   Tacloban Becomes Provisional Capital Of Philippine Islands

AMERICANS OVERRUN STRONG JAPANESE DEFENSE POSITIONS  YANK SEVENTH INFANTRY TROOPS MOVING UP - OPEN VALLEY INLAND

U.S. Troops.  Drive From:  Dulag Beach   Action Centers on: Road - Running West From Coast To San Pablo

McArthur To Use It Te Branch Cut To Avenge Bataan And Corregidot

Our Invading Forces Make Gains on Leyte Island’s Southern Front, Army  Radio Reports.   TROOPS MOVING UP VALLEY WITH TANKS

Ko TRYING TQ TRAP THEM   Anfantry Division, Led By  Tanks, Is Moving Up  Broad Valley.   ‘IDEAL FOR TANK FIGHT

WORK STARTED ON GREAT WAR BASE. SAYS MAC ARTHUR   TACLOBAN BECOMES TEMPORARY CAPITAL OF FILIPINO GOV'T

Strong Jap Positions Overrun   Mac Arthur Forces Push On, Trying to Trap the Retreatine Enemy   TANKS, LEADING DRIVE IN VALLEY   Two Airdromes Captured and Will Be Built Into Bice U.S. Airbases

Seventh Division Moves  inland With Support Of Tanks From Its Beachhead At Dulag

NEW CAPITAL ES TABISHED AT TACLOBAN   Work Commenced on Captured Airfields and Other Installations to Prepare Base for Operations   TROOPS PRESS ONWARD

U-S. Forees Seek To Trap Enemy In  Wide Valley   Seventh Infantry Troops, Led By Yanks, Are In Pursuit Of Nips

Trap Being Set for Jap Troops   American Tanks Are Moving Up Wide Valley From Captured Dulag, Leading U. S. Doughboys in Assault on Fleeing Nips

Tanks Driving Up Flat Valley; Infantry Moving Up River From Dulag

Trying to Trap Enemy Troops Re. treating up the Wide Leyte Valley

Tacloban Made Free Capital of The Philippines   M’Arthur Tells Plans for Great Base Centered On 2 Airdromes

Set up New Philippine Government   Tacloban Becomes Temporary Capital; Yank Advance on Levte Continues

Yankees Overrun Strong Positions, Seek to Trap Japs   Seventh Infantry Division, Preceded By Tanks, Pushes Up Open Valley Inland From Dulag, U. S. Beachhea

Yankees Capture Two Towns On Leyte Island  MacArthur Plans. Great Base to

DRIVE TO TRAP JAPS FLEEING LEYTE VALLEY   Yanks Speed Great Air Base for Retaking Philippines

New Robot Bombs Reported RE  Big German Secret W eapon Reported By Swedish Paper

Claim Robot Bombs Capable of New York Flight Assembled by Nazis in Jutland

AN VE ARMIN RUINS INCPOrleag nt en  \Big German Secret W eapon  Reported By Swedish Paper

Larger Secret Weapon? Germany Said To Be Concentrating Robots Capable of Flying to U. 5.

 Robot Bombs for New York ? Nazis Reported Concentrating  Long- Range Missiles in Jutland

Nazis claim new ten-ton  robot bombs ‘Can be fired as far ae New York’

AMERICANS CLOSED PINCERS ALL ABOUT BELEAGUERED CITY   THIRD ARMY FORCE“ — HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM FORT DRIANT, NEAR METZ

40,000 Tons of Bombs Hit Reich   Hungary Sues for Peace; Reds Seize Petsamo in North Finland

40,000 Tons of Bombs Hit NearWestwal   Russians Sieze Petsamo, Cut Escape Road from: Northern Finland to Norway

U. 5. Soldiers Get Bear As Mascot   Animal Took Up Home in . National -Zoological. Park

HUNAN CAPITAL FALLS TO JAPS   Changsha Topples After Fourth Attempt By Invading Army

GHANGOTA FALLS TO JAP FORGES   50,000 Japanese Participate in Assault Against Hunan Province Capital; Defenders Withdraw

(HANGSHA HELD BY JAPANESE FORCES   Capital of Hunan Province Taken After Fierce Fighting

Changsha Taken By Jap Forces   Loss of Capital Of Hunan Reported

ChangshaFalls After 5 Years   Japanese Continue Gains On Other China Fronis

Fifth Army Takes Three More Heights   Canadians Drive Further Toward Their Goal

3 More Heights Taken By Yanks  Canadians Pushing On Toward Pescara  —_ a eeee sc eee OU aes 4 Sw meee ee

Yankees Take Three More Vital Heights  Canadians Drive   Canadians Drive Another Mile Toward Pescara

RAIDERS BLAST BRIDGE, SEIZE NAZI SOLDIERS   Canadians Drive One Mile Along Adriatic, Menace Pescara; Commiandos Are Commended   CLARK’S MEN FIGHT THROUGH ICY RAIN   Miserable Weather Keeps Allied Airmen Inactive  But Ground Troops Keep Lp Battle

Sth Army Takes More Key Hills On Cassino Road   Tey Terrain, Rains Unable To Check Allied Advances

Yankees Take Three More Vital Heights   Canadians Drive Another Mile Toward Pescara

More Heights. Along Route To Rome Taken   Canadians Gain More Ground in Effort to Capture Pescara

OTH ARMY TAKES 3 MORE HEIGHTS   CANADIAN TROOPS MOVING TOWARD PESCARA ADVANCE ANOJHER MILE,

Nazi Heights Are Captured By Americans      ‘Canadians Move Another Mile Upon Pescara In. Driving Iey Rain

EIGHTH GAINS; YANKEES GRAB THREE HEIGHTS   British Commandos Hit Behind Nazi  Lines

Vetoed Tax Bill is Wholly Ineffective FDR Message Holds   Chairmen of Revenue Committees Not Impressed by Veto

Special Groups Would Obtain Privileges Under Terms Of Bill, Asserts Roosevelt

Roosevelt Says Measure Is An  Aid To Greedy   Bi-Partisan Leaders Say They Will Work For Overriding Vote

IRATE SOLONS THREATEN 10 OVERRIDE ACT   President Charges Bill Afforded Special  Privileges

‘Congress Gets Tax mm Back with a Roosevelt Veto   Measure ‘Not for the Needy but for the Greedy;’ Threaten To Override Veto

FDR Vetoes Revenue Bill   President Labels 1t A Relief Measure “Not For The Needy But For The Greedy”

NEW TAX BILL iS FOR THE GREEDY, NOT THE NEEDY   This Is Statement Madé by President Roosevelt in His Veto Message.   THREATS BY CONGRESS      Sens. Doughton and George Led Democratic Denunciation of the Veto.

House to Vote Thursday On Overriding   President Says Bill Would Bring in Insufficient Sum

PRESIDENT TOSSED  TAX BILL BACK AT  CONGRESS TUESDAY FIRST REACTION OF CON  GRESS IS WITH THREATS TD OVERRIDE VETO

/DOUGHTON HITS AT ROOSEVELT TALK ON BILL   President Declares Measure Is “for Greed and Not for the Needy”

Deseribes Law As Ineffective ToCover Need   Veto Threats Are Heard Immediately In Ranks Of Both Republicans And Democrat«

F.D. R. VETOES TAX BILL CALLS IT INADEQUATE   “Relief Measure for Greedy,’ Is Charge; Congress Will Try to Override Ban

FDR Vetoes — Tax Measure As Dangerous   Special Privileges Given Favored Groups by Bill,  President Acca ut.

‘“‘Not For The Needy, But For The Greedy”...  Leaders In Both Parties Threaten To Over-Ride F. D. R.’s Tax Bill Veto

NEW REVENUE BILL VETOED BY PRESIDENT   Is Termed Measure foi Greedy, but Both Dem: ocrats and Republicans Threaten to Override the Action.

GUVERNMEN [AY SEWE COAL MNES   Gradual Taking Over of 70 Coal Mines Appears Inescapable

GOVERNMENT MAY STE GOAL MINES   Gradual, Taking Over of 70 Ccal Mines ’ Appears Inéscéapable

Super Fuels In Your Car After War:   New Gasoline Better, But Don’t Expect Too Much

Government Slows Reconversion   Seek to Bolster  Lagging War Production

CIVILIAN GOODS OUTPUT CURBED   Lag In War Production Slows Up Program Of Conversion

CIVILIAN PROGRAM © SLOWED BY GOV'T         Drastic Order Given to Bolster Lagging War Production

RECONVERSION   Government Takes Drastic Action to Bolster Lagging War Production

CIVILIAN OUTPUT CURBED BY U. 5,   SHELL SHORTAGE LEADS TO DRASTIC ORDER TO BOLSTER WAR PRODUCTION.

Production bey Civilian ‘Goods Halted   Needs Of War To Come First

Civilian Goods Program Slowed By New Order   Conversion Halted Except in Areas  With Adequate Labor

British, Sky Army Straddle Rhine; Reich Exposed to Allied Sweep; Brest Occupied

BRITISH MERGE WITH CHUTISTS NEAR NUMEGEN   PATH IS ALREADY OPENING FOR PUSH INTO NO. GERMANY

51 NATIVES ON GUAM WERE BEHEADED   Heads Lopped Off . By Japs in Final , Stages of Campaign

51 GUAM NATIVES BEHEADED BY JAPS IN GREATEST PACIFIC WAR ATROCITY    By CHARLES ARNOT AND MAC R. JOHNSON

Tribute Paid to Guam Men Kuled by Japs   51 NATIVES FORCED TO AID NIPPONESE, THEN BEHEADED

NATIVES MOURN COMRADES WHOM JAPS BEHEADED   Caliéd Greatest Single Atrocity of Pacific War

Brifish Move To Encircle Port Of Caen   Hun Counter-Attack Across Odon River Said Total Failure

MILES OF SUNCTION   Bradley’s Troops Moving Toward St. Lo In Drive

Caen Nearly Encircled By British; Powerful German Attacks Repulsed

British Drive Nears 1 Main Caen Air Field   British Troops Within 11 Miles of Encircling: Stronghold as Nazi Counter-Blows Fail

British Only 1 Mile From Caen Arfielr   Attackers Closing 11-Mile Gap in Circle Closing  A haat (UG   BLOCK OFF ROADS   American Salvage Expert at Work Clearing Harbor of Cherboure

British Advance Fast On Key Port Airfield   Foe Reports Allied Breakthrough; Army Supported by Warship Guns

Advance Forces Within 11 Miles Of Circling City   Germans Hurl ‘Armored Reserves Into Effort To Halt Allied Assaults

LARGE GERMAN FORCES FAIL IN FLANK ATTACK   Rommel Is Rushing Strategic Reserves to Front to Halt Allies

Yank Units Make Series Of Attacks   Light Thrusts Made to Straighten Lines Toward Road Junction

CAEN ALMOST SURROUNDED: GERMANS FLEE   Allies Capture Airfield In That Area

\Nazis Fail With Flank Attacks By Tank Force   Marcelet Captured By Montgomery; Now Half Mile From Caen Airfield

BY GERMANS IS REPULSED   Two Allied Columns Driving In Opposite Directions Are Within 11 Miles Of Encircling Port  oo &#© &£ 4 ce 6 & © 2 a ee ss COU

BRITISH TROOPS CLOSING TRAP ON CAEN BASTION   English Within 11 Miles o Sealing Pincers of Inland Port

Gay Desperadoes Admit Abduction ~ Of Two Persons  Two Norfolk Gun-Toter:   Two Norfolk Gun-Toters Trapped by New York Pownbroker.

Jap Naval Minister Is Ousted   Nippon Shakes Up Command as Americans Near_

Latest News Flashes By IN. S.   New Commander-in-Chief Named by the Jananese   Dewey Mans Plans

Japan Ousts Shimada As Naval Chief   Grave War Situation Causes Shift in High Command

Nomura Made . Navy Minister, Tokyo Reports  Shimade Who Was “p lieved Of Hic Post

Admiral Nomura Takes Over Post In Cabinet Shift   Apparent Ouster May Have Resulted From Recent Naval Defeats

Jap Minister Of Navy Out   One Broadcast Says He Resigned; Other Reports He Was Fired

japanese Replace Adm. Shimada As Navy Minister  Nomura Is Appointed As Nips Talk Of Grave Situation

ADMIRAL SHIMADA IS OUSTED AS JAPANESE NAVY MINISTEX   ANOTHER CABINET CHANGE IS _MADE BY ENEMY A8 JAPS SUFFER STEADY . BETBACKS

Radio Cites Homeland’s Grave Peril   Nomura Takes Oath As Nation Smarts Over Two Defeats

JAPANESE NAVY CHIEF OUSTED   Adm. Shimada Out After Philippines Sea Defeat

JAPANCOL NAVY CHIEF OUT IK STAFF SHAKEUP   Action Taken To Insure Ultimate Victory, Tokyo Says

GEN, ABE SELECTED GOVERNOR OF KOREA   New Jap Premier Sees Closer Axis Ties

CHIEF OF JAP ~ NAVY OUSTED   Admiral Shimada Replaced  a  Obscure Nomura Gets Position

Shimada, Jap Navy Minister. Loses His Post   Relieved Of Job, Tokyo Radio Says; Situation Grave

Jap Navy Chief Ousted By Tojo   Admiral Shimada Replaced As Naval Minister By Nomura

/ Japs Oust Navy Minister After New U. S. Victories in Pacific Warfare

SHIMADA FIRED BY WAR LEADERS: NOMURA NAMED   High Command Shuffle Follows Jap Fleet Lass OW Philipnines

Japs Change Navv Chiets  In Shake Up   Recent Defeat In Philippine Sea Believed Cause For Removing Shimada

Jap Admiral Shimada Out ‘As Navy Chief   Tokyo Announcement Hints Removal Due to Yanks’ Saipan Victory

P NAVAL MINISTER REPLACED   Tokyo Says Grave War Situation Caused Change

Change Made After  Defeat Of Jap Fleet   Naval Head Is “Relieved Of His Post,” Nips Report

Jap Admiral Relieved of His Post   Action May Be Result of Recent Nip Naval Losses  erat aeceea «¢ =e ee @ tae

" ADML, SHIMADA -QUSTED AS JAP NAVY MINISTER   Steps Down After Sea ® Defeat And Conquest Of Saipan

Japanese Replace Adm. Shimada As Navy Minister  Nomura Is Appointed  As Nips _— DrEé Fmrwmccsen Crbecmed a

IAPS ANNOUNCE CHANGE AT KORE!   Gen. Abe Takes Post Formerly Held By New Premier General Koiso.

lare Boothe Luce, Mrs. Churchill nd Mme. Chiang Named for Glamor

President To Veto Tax Bill   Action May Mean An Increase In Taxes

Wage Increases Up to Roosevelt   War Labor Board Passes Dispute To White House Without Comment

Little Steel Revision Left To President   WLB Feels Not Qualified To Setlle Question On Living Cost

Wage Dispute Goes To FDR   WLB Refuses To Make Decision On “Little  Steel” Formula.

Labor Board Throws Wage Question into  Lap of F. D. RB.   No Recommendation  To Be Made on Issue  Of Revising Upward . Ceiling in Formula  LABOR MEN OBJECT

PAY FORMULA ROW PASSED 10 F. DR.   WAR LABOR BOARD TO OFFER NO ADVICE — DECISION BRINGS PROTEST.

STEEL FORMULA DISPUTE DODGED   War Labor Board Votes To Pass It On To Roosevelt

British Bomber: Strike French Rocket Ramps   Nazi Naval Vessels At Le Havre Pounded; Rail Center Hit.

RAF ATTACKING ROBOT SUPPLY DEPOTS TODAY   Up to 1700 American Planes Attacking German Airfields South of  Dawic

Bombers Hit Continent In  Night Attacks   Strike At Bases Of Flving Bombs

FLYING BOMBS DEPOTS RAKED   British Bombers Hammer At Reims And Pas De Calais

REDS TO LEAVE ‘OAKS’ MEETING   90 Per Cent Agreement at Meet Hinted by Official

Eyewitness Dinas F rom The ed ite Scene.  Ernie Pyle And Other Reporters Bring News  — Right From The Front

correspondent Tells of Things as They Led Up to European Invasion

Preliminaries for Invasion as Viewed by Corresponden'   Ernie Pyle Writes of Preparations and Trip Across Channel

Monetary Stalemate Is Foreseen   Time Very Limited For Any Agreement Between the Nations

Democrat To Oppose James OnGOPTicket   Name of Judge Chester H. Rhodes Will Appeal on Both Ballots  IS ASSURED SUPPORT

DRAFT GROUP OFF TO ARM)   Twin City Contingent To Enter Service At Ft. Sheridan

Large Group Off For War Service   4] Depart Today For Army And Navy

Assassination....  An Early Attempt To Take Hitler’s Life Has Been Reported

German Officers Face New Purge  At Hitler's Order   Algiers Report Says Attempt Was Made On Hitler's Life On June 2

LAUNCH PURGE IN NAZI ARMY   Ferret Out Dissident Klements   Reveal New Attempf on Hitler’s Life

2,752 Killed, 8,000 Injured byHunRobots   Churchill Tells Commons that 2,750 Flying Bombs Loosed at England, London —

Russians Open Strong Assault  North Of Kowel   Nazi Robot Bombs Kill 2752, Hurt 8000 British

WARREN DECLINES PARTY NOMINATION   California. Governor Says He Cannot Accept Place on Ticket 

Says He Cannot Take Nomination If it's Offered   Bricker Appears Likely Choice

WARREN CANNOT ACCEPT DRAFT HE ANNOUNCES   California Governor Say: He Is Not Free To Run For Vice Presidency   HOOVER, MRS. LUCE ADDRESS DELEGATES

‘Must fulfill obligations’  Dewey adherent:   Dewey adherents ‘approve Bricker

WARREN REFUSES PLAGE ON TICKEY   DECLARES HE WILL DECLINE NOMINATION IF Iv IS TENDEKED BY G. 0. P.

Lieut. Ross King Maxine Sampson  Married Monday  ! Ceremony At. St. John’s American  Lutheran Church

SAMPSON-KING WEDDING MONDAY   Young Couple To Be At Home at Lincoln, Neb., For Present

British Nip Nazi Plans Of Invasion   Tale Finally Told Of How Airmen Balked Start Of Thrust At England

NAZI PLANS FOR INVASION "WERE BALKED: BY: THE BAF   MILITARY. AUTHORITIES RELRAGE PRTAILS OF. ATTEMPT “TO INVADE ENGLAND   EN IM@ 0.

COMMITTEE SPLIT ON SENATORIAL DISTRICT PLAN   Republicans Vote to Lay Out New Areas in Constitution While Democrats Oppose.   LATTER WOULD LEAVE TASK TO LEGISLATURE   Population Inequalities Cited During Debate—Proposal Is Labeled as Bi-Partisan.

Political Tie On Redistricting State Senate  GOPs Want to Shape New Districts but

LONERGAN TRIAL START DELAYED   Defense Lawyer In Cafe Society Murder Case Fails To Appear

LONERGAN COUNCIL DOES NOT APPEAR   Judge Receives Letter Be. fore Court Saying Council In Toronto Investigating.

BRICKER PLANS MAJOR TALKS   Will Give Views On Interna: tional Affairs, Agriculture

FULL INQUIRY OF PEARL HARBO 1D EXPECTED   Senator Willis Says Drive Won’t Come Until After Election

tll INQUIRY (j PEARL HARB i EXPECTED   Senator Willis SaysDrive Won't Come. ‘Until After Electiog

HITLER LEGIOKS PATRUL DARUBE; UOCUPY ROMANIA   Officials Confirm Occupation of Third Balkaa Satellite.

Tiny unarmed tug tows LCT clear acrose channel ta invasion, beaches

Latest News Flashes By IN. S.  {Thee “Tal ahecen se \   Canadian Assault

DWINDLING FARM LABOR GETS oET BAGK BY HERSHEY   Farm Wages Climbed to New All Time. Hich in America

FARM LABOR SURVEY REPORT = ~—FSSUED BY FOOD OFFICIALS   THREE PERCENT FEWER FER‘BONS ON FARMS THAN YEAR AGO-WAGES AT ALL-TIME PEAK

Doughboys Take Jap Airdrome At Noemfoor  Li ght Opvasinen Overcome Quickly

U.S. Invaders Of Noemfoor Engulf Airfield, Drive On “Toward 2 Others On Island   American Casualties in Hop Closer To Philippines Lightest Of Any Landing

Yanks Seize Airdrome On Noemfoor Isle   a. S. 6th Army Makes 100-Mile Swoop To: ward Philippines By Landing On Island Off Dutch New CGruinea; Press After 2 Remain: ing Airdromes; Casualties Light.

Yanks Invade Noemfoor, lake Main Airdrom   MacArthur Makes New 100-Mile Jump Toward The Philinnines.

NOEMFOOR ISLE AIRDROME WON WITH -INVASION   Light Enemy Opposition Quickly Overcome ‘in Attack Off New Guinea

J. S. 6th Army Makes 100-Mile Swoop Toward Philippines - By Landing On Island Off Dutch New Guinea: Press After 2 Remaining Airdromes; Casualties Light.

JAP BLASTING B-29'S FORM OWN FORCE   Plane’s Details Unfolded As Roving Bomber Command Disclosed

* w& k& ke Ke KUM oe Army Reveals Many Details Of New B-29 Super Bomber

U. 5. Unveils Mammoth Super-Fortress That Hit Japan As Earth-Circling Bomber Speeding Like Fichter Plane

3 WACS Court Martialed, 9 Soldiers Accused of Aiding _. Escape of German Prisoners

Love Notes To Nazi Jail Oakland WAC   Eight Soldiers Involved In Aiding Escape of Prisoners in Colorado

Eight U. S. Soldiers Help Nazis Break From Colorado Camp; Wacs. Write Notes to Germans

Naval Forces Have Battle In Ormoe Gulf   Both U. S. and Japan Lose Destroyer in Philippine Waters

U. 8, JAPS EACH LOSE DESTROYER IN SEA-AIR FIGHT   Major Action Fought in Ormoc Gulf—American Crew Members Rescued by Patrol Planes.   SIX NIP AIRMEN BLASTED FROM SKIES   Ground Action Remains Stalled in Mud—Widely Separated Enemy-Held Areas Bombed.

in Sea-Air Clash in Ormoc Gulf Off Leyte; Catalina Planes Rescue Most of Personnel.   Liberators Missing

U. S. FORCE IN DARING ENTRY OF FOES PORT   American Crew Is Rescued By Catalina Patroling Planes With Fighter Protection

SEA, ALR FORCES © CLASH OFF LEYTE   Majority of American Crew e Members Are Rescued   SUBS ALSO TAKE TOLL   ubmarine Fleet Sinks Destroyer, Cruiser and 18 Other Cargo Ships

Two Vessels Sunk  In Sea-Air Clash   American and Japanese Forces Each Lose a Destroyer * in Battle Off Leyte—Enemy Vessel ' Also Believed: Damaged

ONE JAP. ONE U. 5. SHIP SUNK IN ORMOC BAY   Most of Crew of Am erican Destroyer Are Rescued

U. S. DESTROYE REPORTED LOST IN SEA BATTLE   Japanese Warship Also Sunk In Same Action In Ormoc Gulf   MOST OF SURVIVORS RESCUED BY PLANES

U.S. Destroyer sunk in Daring Action   Enemy Warship Is Sent to Bottom, Another Is Damaaed

FLEET LOSES DESTROYER IN ORMOC CLAS   JAP SUPPLY FUR SHELLED BY U.S. WARSHIPS

Another Enemy Destroyer Hit In Ormoc Gulf   Majority of Yanks Rescued by Patrols

Yanks Lose Destroyer  In Ormoe Bay   Enemy Warship Sunk. . And Another Damaged In Daring Sea Strike  PLANES TO. RESCUE ~

Greeks Agree On Regency For Country   Announcement Made As Armistice Terms Are Declared Inadequate

CANDIDACY - FILED BY GLENN BEALL   Sixth District Congressman Files for Renomination

SUCCEEDS JIM FARLEY   Paul E. Fitzpatrick Is Chairman of New >York State Committee.

Two Years Make Big Difference   MacArthur Now Is Able To Fight Back

Two Years Make Big Difference   MacArthur Now Is Able To Fight Back  By MURLIN SPENCER

Asiatic Mainland Second Front Asked by Chinese  Enemy Forces Reach Foochow in Bid To Forestall Yanks

Asiatic Mainland Second Front Asked by Chinese  Enemy Forces Reach c..-bheu- te Bid   Enemy Forces Reach Foochow in Bid To Forestall Yanks

Fresh American Divisions Join in Battering   Nazis Withdraw Tanks, Move in Infantry; Yanks Seize Five Towns in Bastogne Area; U. S. Spearhead Probes North Near Compogne

Germans Try To Push Baek Yankee Pincer:   Rundstedt Undecided  Whether to Pull Out Ole Strika

UEUT. PURVIS: BeLIEVED WW a1   "Grandson of Loial-. ‘Women Is Pilct of. Army B-%) Plane -

MET. PURVIS BcLIEVE) IN BLS   Grandson of Loial Women Is Pilct of Army B-2Z) Flane

i a... ..—meepemmmmnetenet CENTRAL METHODIST CLASS MET THURSDAY NIGHT

DENMARK GIVES HITLER TROUBLE   Hundreds Arrested In Copenhagen; Gunfire Heard In Streets

MAKE TWO-MILE ADVANCE TODAY   \Most Powerful Tank Drive Ever Mounted in Any War Theater Enters Third Day

Capture Canisy In A Two Mile Advance And Press On South   STRONG AMERICAN  TANK DRIVE MADE  Twenty-four Towns Are  Taken In First Two Days Of Offensive

PAC SCORED IN REPORT OF DIES’ GROUF   Organization Called Su. preme Bid for Power ‘by Communists

Report Says PAC  Bids for Power   Dies Group Charges Communist Plot

Supreme Bid ForPowerOft Communists   DIES SUB-COMMITTEE SAYS NCPAC AND CIO-PAC ARE RALLYING POINT FOR ALL RED ORGANIZATIONS   By Election With Big Money

PAC COMMUNIST SEEKING POWER   7 Dies Committee Says Labor Group Trying To Capture  Democratic Party

Principal Election Issue: ‘Communists Making Supreme Bic  For Power, House Group Asserts   Hillman and Browder Are Seeking Control Of Democratic Party, Two Democrats Charge

Dems May Make House Member Head Of Platform, Wagner Declines Job

Wagner Rejects Platform Job At Convention  Ganreae Rankin   George, Rankin Win Primaries; Jones Protests

Wagner Declines Demo Platform Committee Post  New Chairman Will =~. A ce:    New Chairman Will \Be Announced Before Week Ends

DEMS TO REVEAL PLATFORM WRITER   Senator Wagner Declines Position; Holiday Mostly Free from Politics

SEN. WAGNER: NOT TO HEAD /KEY COMMITTEE      Prominent «Democrat Declines ‘Conven-. tion Post

DEMOCRATS SEEK PLATFORM GUIDE   SEN, WAGNER TURNS DOWN JOB; GEORGE WINS IN GEORGIA

WAGNER TURNS DOWN PARTY'S PLATFORM POST   Resolutions Committee Chairmanship May Go To. House Member

PLATFORM JOB TURNED DOWN BY SEN, WAGNER    ek. May Announce Successor This Week; Two Pri- _  maries in South

Democrats Look For Chairman On Resolutions   Wagner Declines To Accent Post

Chairman’s   Post Empty   “Wagner : Refuses ‘To Accept Third Time.

BART PAUBLEM STILL Bib KEW IN WASHINGTON   Tr.mse Manpower Ta: le W.l1 Be S_lved in Month,

M'NUTT TERMS OUTLOOK GOOD IN MANPOWEF   Calls Pressure Unnecessary for Service Act or 4F’s in War Work

LONDON JOLTED BY FREAK RAID   German Plane Sneaks In Without Alert; Several Dead And Injured

Nazi Plane Drops © Bomb on Theater: th Freak Altack   No Alert Sounded, Seven  Killed, 31. Injured —— 1 __ fn Exelosion. — ---—

BOMB HITS LONDON THEATER, KILLS 7   NAZI PLANE SLIPS THROUGH CITY’S DEFENSES—3,000 IN PLAYHOUSE.

Nazi Plane Slips Past Air Raiders   Drops Bomb On English Movie To Kill 7 Persons and Injure 31.

Seven Die in Sneak  Raid on London  31 Others Hurt When Bomb Hits Theater

SIX FATALLY HURT WHEN BOMB FALLS      German “Plane Attacks London Dance Halli in Freak Raid

Nazi Bomb Hits London Theater  Diane Arrives   First Sneak Attack

Turks Seize Two  Tame RE RE pp le MY ey  Romanian Ships * is ee ;  ym i  Pronaring to Flee

TANKS AID UNITS THAT TAKE OVER HALF OF ISLAND   Marines on Roi and Namur Ready to Close In; Enemy Losses Terrific

DEGAULLE IS WILDLY CHEERED ON VISIT TO INVASION COAST   READ OF FRENCH COMMISSION GREETED WITH GREAT EMOTION IN LIBERATED  VILLAGE,

Four Sydney Newspapers Are Forced to Halt Publication   Row Develops Over Supposed Violation  fis Mammenmahkin

“Wage and Price Control Policies “To Be Continued?   FOR Gives Indirect Endorsement to Plan For Continuance of Stabilization Setun

Release Report On Wage Policies   President MakePublic Study on “Cost of Living”

AR SHABILIED   Cost Of Living As A Whole Lower Than Year Ago, Claim   ENDORSED BY FDR   President’s Top Economic Advisers Hail Results . Of Plan

Price Control Success, Aides  Tell President   FDR Says Year of Stable  Costs Unprecedented TF Wri Tw

Prices, Wages Kept to Line, Report Says   President Issues Statement on Living Cosis

Report Says Wage Policy Must Stand   FDR Indirectly Endorses View Of Top Economic Advisers

Wage and Price Controls Must Be Continued - FDR   His Economic Advisers Say Cost of Living Lower Than a Year Ago.   ‘Stabilization Brings Benefit to All Groups’

Wage, Price Curbs Success, Report To Roosevelt State:   Economic Advisers Urge Continuation of Program —_  Ne Change of Consequence in Cost of Living * During Year, President Told

Price Raises Halted; Must Be Held: F. R.   President Makes Public Stabilization Report With Wage Warning

Roosevelt Makes A Report Public   Economic Advisors Declare Wage and Price Control Must Continue   LIVING COST IS DOWN   Stabilization Has Benefitted "Fixed Income Groups . . ;

IWaloTs Gal OF LING t3 NOW REDUCEL   Wages and Prices Must Be Maintained at Level, President Told.

PRICES HAVE BEEN HELD IN CHECK A YEAR   Report Shows Higher Trend _ Has Been Stopped

F R Gives Report Claiming Cost of Living Down   “Hold-the-Line” Order Effective, President Contends In Statement

Cost Of Living Slightly Lower Than Year Age   EDR Hold-The-Line Report Alzo Claims That Wages Have Been Stabilized

Cost of Living Down and Pay Levels Stable, FDR Asserts   Issues Report Sayin g Controls Must Be Continued

Hold-The-Line Order Has   Been Successful, Says Roosevelt In Releasing Stabilization Report

WAGE FORMULA CHANGE BANNED   Present Policies Must Be Continued, White House Aides Say

Hold-the-Line Policy Keeps Prices Down   Living Costs Are Unchanged for Year, President Roosevelt Told by Advisers

MAINTAINS LIVING ~ COSTS WERE HELD; STABLE FOR YER   Stabilization Program Re Released Today by President Roosevelt. ©   ‘WAGES ARE STABILIZED   Tomorrow Marks the Firkt Anniversary of “Hold the Line” Order.

Present Wage, Price Control Policies Must Be Continued, ‘Advisers’ Report To FDR Says   President Agrees In Announcing Living Costs Lower Than Year Aqo

Economic Policy Termed Success      ‘Hold-the-Line’ _Endorsed by FDR-

COSTS STABLE, FOUR ECONOMIC CHIEFS REPORT   Continuance of Controls Asked

YS HAS BEEN CCESS FOR RST YEAR   oints Out Costs Living Have n Reduced

MOOsevent Meporis:  LIVING COSTS STABLE   Investigators Urge No Change In Price And Wage Controls

Price and Pay Curbs Success, Roosevelt Told   Top Economic Adviser: Declare Policies  Must Be Continued

Contends Cost of Living As “A Whole Is Lower Than A Year Ago.   /REPORT IS IMPORTANT:

STABILIZATION IS GIVEN HIGH ENDORSEMENT   Gains Made During Past Year Must Not Be Jeopardized By Changes, Ex ecutive Declares   CONCEDE PRICE BOOSTS

FDR Reveal: Favorable  Wage, Price Situation   Com aittee In Favor Of Continuing Babs

Living Costs Actually Lower   Wage, Price Controls Must Continue..

STABILIZATION HERE SAYS F. R,   President Reports § Living Costs Substantially Unchanged For Year And Wages Stabilized.

PRESIDENT STATES LIVING COSTS PAST YEAR UNCHANGED  HE ALSO MAINTAINS. THA]  WAGES HAVE BEEN STARILIZED

Must Hold to Proven ~ Policies   Roosevelt Gives Indirect Endorsement to Report on Stabuization   ‘HOLD-THE-LINE’ PLAN HAS WORKEIL   Cost of Living as a Whole Actually Lower Today Than a Year Ago

Cost Of Living  Held Down   Stabilization Program Sueceeds In First Year, Claim

Continuation Price. W: ages Control Urged   President Roosevelt) Makes Publie Report On Stabilization Program.   ‘FIRST ANNIVERSARY

PRICE AND WAGE. CURBS DEFENDED   WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIO. ADVISERS CALL STABILIZATION PROGRAM. SUCCESS.

Living Cost Lower Than Last Year, FDR's Economic Advisors Report

 “7° . Roosevelt Asserts Stabilization 'Plan Has Been Successful

REPORT [5 MADE ON STABILIZATION BY THE PRESIDEN   idaintains That Living Costs Have Been Held Substan  tially Unchanged; Wages Have Stabilized.   NOST CLOTHING PRICES SHOW AN INCREASE   Some Adjustments Have  Been Made to Correct ; Gross Inequities on the , Present Wace Question.

Wage, Price Policy Is  Suceessful   Roosevelt States Results Show Cost Of Living is Lower Than a Year Ago

HIGH OFFICIALS HOLD FIRM ON WAGE POLICIES   Labor’s Drive To Shelve Little Steel Formula Runs Into Snag; Held Success

Drive To Break  Wage Formula Cive rep Setback.   “Price and Pay Curbs Success, Must Continue,

Hold-Line Order Is Said Vital   Stabilization Program Economic Success Reports Roosevelt

Report Released on Stabilization Plan   REE Baan Maintains Living Costs Substantially  liscwlom wna Lae Xone

FDR ENDORSES PRESENT WAGE, PRICE POLICIES   Indirect Okeh Given In Published Report  From Advisers

COST OF LIVING DOWN PRESIDENT IS INFORMED  Chief Executive Given Report  mm... Ox _L‘l’ aa emo wm ee Darciilbe

WAGE FORMULA GIVEN SUPPOR]   Labor’s Drive to Break ‘Little Steel’ Plan Runs Into Pronouncement Policies Must Be Continued

Little Steel Fight Hits Snag   President Backs  Stabilization Plan

F. R. Backs Findings Of Top Advisers   Report Stresses Success Of Wartime Stabiliza  tion Procram.

CONTROLS DUE  Hh CONTINUE ON PAY, PRICE  r   Unchanged  Federal ' Policies Capital Hope Now

TO END PAY FORMULA IS HIT BY FDI   Report on Success of Stabilization Program Cited

FDR Says Wage Price Controls. Must Be Kept ‘Overall Living Cost - Below Year Ago. fs   . ee ee  en ae

Hold: the: ‘Line ‘Report Made To Roosevelt  Vi Mist sh OOF nes Rowles. Davis Survey First Year of Enforced Curbs  PRESIDENT “AGREES  “Tmportant Statement of Simple Fact.” Declares Chief Executive   PRESIDENT AGREES

LIVING COSTS STABILIZED FOR YEAR   Says Wage, Price Controls Must Continue   INFLATION   Will Be Whipped If Present Program Stands, Roosevelt Adds

Roosevelt Favors Continuation Of Price Control  Present Stabilization System Endorsed By President Today

PAY FORMULA 1S HIT BY FDR   Report on Success of Stabilization Proj gram Cited

‘Living Cost Shows Drop, He Reports   Wages Stabilized and Should Be Maintained; Committee Makes Report

Must Continue ‘Present Wage. [Price Policies   Roosevelt Makes Public Report On Stabilization

MAINTAINS LIVING COSTS WERE HELD STABLE FOR YEAF   Stabilization Program Reper' Released Today by President Roosevelt.   Tomorrow Marks the First Anniversary of “Hold the Line’ Order.

Roosevelt For Present Price  And Pay Policy   President Endorses Repor From Top Economic Advisers That Program Must Be Continued   Holds Living Cost  Is Actually Lower   “We Must Not Jeopardize Gains by Change Or Relaxation of Effort.”  Be Save

EDR Warns Wage Policy Must Stand   Stabilization Report Saya Living Costs Have Been Lowerect

President Reports Line Has Been Held, Cost of Living Now Lower Than It Was At This Time Last Year

Price, Wage Program Lauded   Report of Stabiliza tion Chiefs Says Cost Of Living Lower Now Than It Was Year Ago

Hungarian Civil War Flares Fighting Rages in Budapes'   Soldiers Join Partisan Forces in Army Revolt Against Nazi Regime

NAZI GESTAPO “HAS BUDAPEST IN TIGHT GRIF   Forces Horthy Te Repudiate His Armistice

HUNGARY REGENT NAZI PRISONER   ARMISTICE PLANS FAIL; GERMANS HOLD BUDAPEST

German Public Bewildered at Allied Landings   Had Believed the West Wall Was Impregnable

Reich public can’t believe ling breached  Surprise, anger greet admission

German Public Bewildered at Allied Landing:  Had Believed the West Wall

Germans Dazed By  Invasion   Nazi Public Dumfounded, Doubts That Coast Wall Has Been Cracked

3 HEAVIES LOST IN TERRIFIC RAID ON NAZI GAPITAL   1,000 Planes Drop 2,800 © Tons of Bombs Setting Vast Fires in Berlin

BIG ‘FORMATIONS OF AMERICAN’ AND RAF WAR: _ PLANES CROSSING: CHANNEL TODAY TO IN-.. CREASE PRESSUE OF AERIAL WARFARE IN ~ PRE-INVASION OF FENS!¥VE—BERLIN ’ SUFFERS HEAVIEST BLOW OF. WAR 

Autoists to Get Few Tires in 1945   WPB Orders More For Army Needs

FEWER PASSENGER CAR TIRES ON SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR   REQUIREMENTS OF ARMY RE SULTS IN AN ORDER TO REDUCE TIKES FOR  CIVILIA

Plans Over-All Staff   WFA Plans Cut In Food Output   Hogs, Poultry, Eggs, Cattle to Be Reduced

ANIMAL SUPPLIES FOR 1945 LOWER   Sharp Reduction Expected In Cattle, Hags, Poultry, Need More Feed.

GermansClaim Fourteen U.S.  Planes Bagged   some Dannige In Sections  Of Budapest Acknewl  edged Done by Oeeapying Hun Sources      Americans Blast Steyr. Old Poland   More Than 100 Enem Planes Shet Down In Smashing Attack On German Industries

TOKYO VISIONS NEW LANDINGS IN PHILIPPINES   Repairs Rushed To Two Airfields Captured On Island

Battered Defense . ‘Wilts Under Heavy Air, Ground Attack   MacArthur Says Foe’s Plight Acute} Tanks, Gis, Dive-Bombers Blast PD. ctti. me Refore Advancing Yanks

U.S. Slated to Rule Southwestern Area   Britain Urges American Control Of Austria. But Russia Demurs

Plans Call For U. 8. Occupation   America Will Govern Most of Southwest Reich

Hourly Temperatures   U. S., Britain, Russia Complete Plans For Occupation of Germany, Report

British and Indian Troops Score Victory   Japanese Force on Arakan Front Is Largely Destroyed, Allies Announce

NEWTON BLACKBURN >. KILLED IN ACCIDENT      Former LeMars Resident Succumbs To Injuries Received When A Truck Hit Him

Fatally Injured  In Auto Accident  Newton Blackburn Lived Here In Youth

Old Santa Claus, Whe ‘Visits Tonight, Has Long, Gay History   Beloved Fellow Has Been Bringing Cheer To Young and Old for Centuries, But Had Picture Drawn Only 100 Years Aao

Churchill Refusal To Sell Bases To U. S. Stirs Ire  Congressmey Who Eecomment  . a, Le   Congressmen Who Recommend ed Permanent Acquisition Question British Attitude

MCCARAAN LEADS IN NEVADA RACE   Democrat Out In: Front In Battle For Seat In U. S. Senate i

NEVADA BALLOT OUTCOME CLOSE      McCarren Holds a Slight  Edge Over Pro-FDR Vail Pittman

FDR Speech Set for  Philadelphia Urged to Make  Other Talks In Ohio. Tihnoaie

ROOSEVELT 10. GIVE SPEECH IN PHILADELPHIF   Address Scheduled For Shibe Park On October 27; Other Talks Planned   PRESIDENT TOLD HE WILL LOSE JERSEY

ROOSEVELT PLANS SPEECH IN PHILLY   President ls Told New Jersey Is in the Dewey Column

FDR Will Make Campaign Talk In Philadelphia   President Tells Newsmen He Is Planning Other Political Sneeches

All-Soldier Cast of 45 People In ‘Evening Show   Parade In Afternoon. Will Of fer Rides In Army ‘Tank to Bond Buyers

Charges FCC Probe Blocked By Higher-ups   Miller Alleges “Corruption” Practiced

REST S TAKEN BY ROOSEVELT   President Goes South Yor 2-Weeks Stay In Sunshine

Roosevelt OFT For Two Weeks’ Trip in South   Much Needed Rest in Sunshine Prescribed For President

ROOSEVELT IN SOUTH TO REST   Trip Dispels Reports President Planned to Meet Cherchil! Soon

Study Total Vote   FDR's Vacation Dispels Any Thought Of ‘Big 3’ Meeting

Harris Rosendahl Cadet-Midshipman At Marine School  Local Youth Has Seen Service With Normandy Landings

Harris Rosendahl Cadet-Midshipman At Marine School   Local Youth Has : Seen Service With 

Burma Battle News Poorly Treated By Allied PRO   Bombay Papers Say Realism Is Lacking; Bases In Assam Are Further Threatened

Planes Sink Or Damage 86 Vessels   Destroy 357 Japanese Planes in Third Raid On DL iianinec   ATTACKS CONTINUE, JAPANESE REPORT   Air Defense Broken, Enemy Warships Flee From Former Ports

F. D. R. TO APPROVE PRICE LEGISLATION   President Says He Will Sign Bill Saturday Extending Life of Control] Act.

EGGS ON SIDING WILL BE PUT INTO FEED   Mixers Paid Five Cents a Case For Them

CONGRESS KEEPS WATCH ON WPB   Fear Recent Upheavals Will Hinder Program

SOLONS BELIEVE NELSON DITCHED   Upheaval In WPB Causes Grave Concern Among Congressmen

Congressmen Critical of WPB Changes   Republicans and Democrats Express Dissatisfaction

Senators Plan To Inquire Into WPB Upheaval Fear War Output  And Reconversion  Will Be Hindered

NELSON THOUGHT QUT PERMANENTLY   Some Believe WPB Controversy May Hinder Nation's War Effort

Tammany-Controlled Candidate Wins By Narrow Margin in N. Y. Rvy-Flection

Gertrude Feller Weds Corporal © Leo F. DeForce  Wedding Takec PI.   Wedding Takes Place At Kansas Camp. Monday Morning

Gertrude Feller Weds Corporal Leo F. DeForce   Wedding Takes Place At Kansas Camp Monday Morning

RED OFFENSIVE PUSHES NEARER TO PSKOV BASE   Ten Nazi Divisions I Russ Trap Virtually “Wiped Out”

Soviets Clear Germans From  Lake’s Shore   Railway Junction of Luga Among 800  Places Recaptured

LARGE AREAS NEAR ESTONIA   Clear Foe From Share Of :Peipus, Kill Many in Trap

Reds Threaten Foes at Pskov   ‘Lugs Captured by Soviets ; In Nerthern Sweep

Soviet Forces Capture 800 Localities   Kill Thousands of Germans in New Attacks

Reds Clear Lake Peipus ‘East Shore   Hundreds More Nazis Die in Korsun Trap As Steel Ring Tightens  OTHER DRIVES GAIN

Russians Score New Victories In Great Drive   Thousands More Germans Killed

;  Russ Overrun Estonia’s Frontier Line   Clear Fast Shore Of Lake Peipus: Capture 800 Towns

REDS RETAKE LARGE AREAS NEAR ESTONIA   Clear Foe From Shore Of Peipus, Kill Many in Trap

100,000 NAZIS WIPED OUT IN UKRAINE   Russians Also Attacking Toward Lwow In Old Poland And Narva, Ancient Battle. gate To Northern Estonia.   Cut off Segments

Nazis Cleared From. East Coast of Lake Peipus  MANY TOWNS TAKEN IN SOVIET ADVANCE  Enemy Counter-attack: Beaten Down During the Day

Clear nazis from coast of Lake Peipus   ‘Red forces 43 noiles from Pskov

YANK SPEARHEAD WITHIN 14 MILES OF FRENCH PORT  BERLIN SAYS MORE LANDINGS 15 MILES

7 000 Prisoners Taken; J aps’ Fighting Alongside Germans; as American Troops. Praised

Canadians Fight To Expand Newly Won Brilgehea  Nazis Throw. in’ Troop:

Senator No Great Shakes As Fiction Writer  Ball’s Rise Like Hollywood Yarn

Simplification Begins On Taxes   Committees Will Try New Streamlined Bill

Smash To 8 Miles Of Warsaw   Nazis Flee Across Danube To Yugoslavia; TurnuSeverin Falls.

American Troops i in France Betting ‘On Fall of Paris and Last-Reich

American Troops Betting Germany Will Fall Between Oct.  and Jan. 

SOLDIERS PLACING BETS ON SURRENDER OF NAZIS  Many Guesses Are Being Made On Penhahle Date of Fall of Reich

SVIVIVITVVIVT TV r re New American Ace in European War Baas 22 Germans

Heavy Losses Taken By Enemy in Men, Material   Unchecked Red Army Captures Old Polish Border Station Of Podovolochisk, 200 Other  Localities, Moscow Says

Entire Nazi Artille ry Battery Taken   Americans Reach Spigno To Find Enemy Has Mled

Nazi Infantry Pulled Back   No Germans in Spigno  When Doughboys Work Way Into Town

Nazi Troops © Fall Back in-. Spigno Area   Civilians Rush In. From Hills and Kiss © Yankees; Town a Mass of Rubble   NAZIS FIGHTING DELAYING ACTION      Infantry Withdraws “And Artillery Is Given Job of Slowing ‘Allies

EIZED CITY } EVACUATED Y GERMANS   ountain Stronghold in ‘aly is Left Mass of Rubble by Demolition Squads   VILIANS ARE HAPPY

Spigno Taken By 5th Army   Town Left By Germans a  Mass of Ruins; Civil  jans Welcome Soldiers

Nazi Troops Withdrawn In Many Places   Italian Civilians Rush From Hills To Kiss Soldiers

Japs Lose 46 More Planes.   Rabaul -Hit Again; Year's Score Now Is 243 T055

ALLIES DOWN 46 MORE JAP PLANES IN RABAUL RAID   Bag Brings Total Craft Destroyed in Two Days to 64 Against American Loss of 11,   BIG FIRES STARTED, ONE SHIP DAMAGED   Enemy Knocked From Strong Positions by Aussies in Fighting in Northwest New Guines.

46 More Jap Planes Shot Down as Allied Bombers Hit Hard at Rabaul Again

Allies Destroy 46 Jap Planes In Rabaul Raid   Total of Enemy Aircraft Bagged in Iwo Days at Base Reaches 64

46 More Japanese Airplanes Downed In Raid On Rabaul   New Assaults on Sunday Announced by Allied Head. quarters——Total of 64 Enemy Aircraft Destroved in Two Days

Raises Toll of Enemy Planes To 64 in 2 Days America’s New  Secret Weapon Showing Results

Houser-Downey Contest Looms   Administration Stalwart, Critic to Compete for Election; Repeal of Prohibition of Taxing Federal Property Assured by Returns

Superfort All-Electronic Shooting Given First Public Demonstration; ‘No Human Hand Laid On A Gun

B-29 Guns Are Fired Without Human Hand Touching Gun  One Superfort Withstood Attack By 79 Nips;   One Superfort Withstood Attack By 79 Nips; Is Demonstrated Publicly For First Time

Reds Closing In On Fortress City Of Lomza   Bridgeheads Are Established  Across Narew

Nazi Tanks Defeated in Lorraine   Hitler Throws In Armor For First Timé Since Caen Against 3rd Army

Hitler Using Many Tanks To Stop Yanks   Throwing Armed Forces in Recklessly, Great Tank Battle Raging

PATTON'S ARMY IS BATTERED   Hitler Throws Finest Armored Troops Against U. S. Third Army; Losses Heavy On Both Rides

British 2nd Army Rushes to Aid of Airborne Troops Trapped in Arnhem Vicinity   Capture Niamegen Bridge Intact After Hard 24-Hour Battle and Push to Relief of Troops Cought in Pocket Eight Miles to the Nerth

Hitler Risking Armored Forces In Great Fight   Americans Give More Than They Take Along Border

Destroy 105 ‘Nazi Tanks In 3 Davs   Battling Northeast Of Nancy —~ German: Commit First Armor Since Caen

Germans Fiercely Counterattacking As Life and Death Struggle Rages Around Arnheim; Both Sides Lose Heavily.

Greatest Tank Battle for Yanks Is  Raging on U. S. Third Army’s Front

THIRD ARMY IS WAGING HARD TANK BATTLE   Hitler Throws In Large Portion of Armored Forces Believed Moved From Russian Front   ENEMY GETTING TOUGH

Hiller Wages Tank Battle   Nazis Risk Large Portion of Remaining Armor in Holland

Ruhr Valley's Fate at  Stake: Big Tank Battle Raging East of Nancy

ARMORED FICHT GREATEST SINCE DUEL NEAR CAEN   Hitler Hurls Large Part o' His Tank Forces Into Battle

BIGGEST TANK BATTLEFOUGHT   U. S. Third Army Fights Three-Day Duel With Nazi Armored Units

NAZIS THROW RECKLESSLY AT ALLIED FORCES   While U. S. Losses Were Heavy, They Were Kept Well Below Those of Hitler's Command

GREAT TANK BATTLE RAGES IN NANCY AREA, WITH 105 GERMAN MACHINES ALREADY BLASTED

NAZI TANKS HARD HIT IN CLASH WITH 3RD ARMY  wm 5 yoqr tf po. 6a pagal,   Greatest Single Armored Battle Of Campaian Fought in France

GREATEST TANK BATTLE STAGED SINGE INVASION   German Losses Are Heavy; 105 Tanks Ruined

GREATEST TANK BATTLE SINCE INVASION RAGES   Germans Throwing Armor Recklessly Against U.S. Third Army

Great Tank Battle Is Raging   Nazi Armor Th rown Aaainst 3rd Army

U.S. Tankmen Battle German Panzer Troops   Hitler Throws Large Part of Armor Into Effort to Stop Patton’s Third American Army

Germans Throw Armor Against Patton's Force   105 Enemy Tanks Are Destroyed; Nazis Now Throwing In Machines Recklessly, Report

STRONG NAZI TANK FORCES BATTLING U. S. THIRD ARMY   Three-Day Battle Rages As Hitler Recklessly Throws In Large Portion of His Armored Forces Against Yanks Near Nancy ‘

NAZIS LOSE 105 TANKS IN FIGHT   Patton's Third Army Engage Foe Three Bitter Davs

Third Army In Swirling Tank Battle   Kayoes 105 German Tanks; Hitler Hurls In Newest Armor

Third Army Battles Huge Nazi Tank  Force Near Nancy   Hitler Throws Large Portion of His Best Armor Against Yanks, Loses 105 In Three Days; Engagement Continues

Monastery Noted  For Its Archives  Owned By Government, Te is Run By Monks

Old Monastery National Shrine  Has Been Run by   Has Been Run by Monks as If Their Own Property

FAMED CASSINO MONASTERY HAS BEEN NOTED NATIONAL MONUMENT MANY YEARS

Famed Abbey Was Founded By St. Benedict In 529      (Monastery Has Been National Monument Since 1866 But Monks Have Lived. In-It And Run It Just As Uf 14 Were Their Own Property

FM. LAW QUITS POST ATA. & M   Dr. C. 0. Terrell Is Namec To Texas U. Board

Shadzup In Mogaung Valley Taken By Merrill's Men; Counter-Attacks Virtually Stop Nips’ Three-Way Drive Toward Imphal In India

AMERICANS BLUNTIN( JAPANESE DRIVE TO CROSS INTO INDIA  MILITARY SITUATION IN BURMA AREA DE. CIDEDLY CONFUSED

YANK TROOPS TAKE SHADZUF   Increase Threat To Japs’ Vital Rail Center   In Burma

VITAL HAILWWAY 5 THREATENED   Americans Slash Through Burma’s Mogaung Valley To Oceupy Town.

Yankee Drive Pushes Aheac in Burma   Americans’ Success Counteracts Japs’ Three Pronged Move Across Indian Border

Jap Thrust, Is Slowed      Merrill Raidérs’ Advance in Mogaung Valley Threatens Rail Center at Myitkyina 

MERRILL'S UNIT GAINS IN BURMA; OCCUPY SHADZUP   Extend Threat To Japan’s Vital Rail Center at Myitkyina

Yanks Near Myitkyina;, Rail Point   Jap Propaganda Drive Is Being Blunted By New Allied Gains

oo Troops Slash Through  Mogaung Area   Threaten Key Jap Railway Center— Military Situation Confused in Burma

». = PACI   U.S FORCES CUT: THROUGH VALLEY N BUTAMA TRIVE   Americans Are Reported Within 50 Miles Of Myitkyina ,   NIPS ARE HALTED   Reports Indicate Enemy : Is Checked In Sweep Into India

Yanks Threaten Burma Railway   MERRILL’S TROOPS OCCUPY SHADZUP, IN 58 MILES OF MYITKYINA; ADVANCE BLUNTS JAP IMPHAL STRIKE IN INDIA MANIPUR VALLEY

TEMPERATURES:   Enemy's Major Rail Center Is Placed In Peril   39-Year-Old Brig. Gen. Merrill Leads Drive Through Valley

Yank Pinchers on Japs in Burma   400 Tons Bombs Dropped on Enemy

MERRILL SCORES NEW SUCCESS IN BURMA FIGHTING   SLASHES THROUGH MOGAUNG VALLEY TO OCCUPY SHADZUP

Military Situation in North Burma is Vague and Confused   Allies Stop Japanese Drives Into India; News of Pacific

MANEUVER CONFUSES DEFENDERS   Climactic Onslaught Is Raging Within Sight of Rome

Brilliant Flank Drive Lands 13 Miles From Rome   Yanks By-Pass Velletri, Capture Mt. Peschio Overlooking Holy City And Sweep Down Toward Last Thin Rim Of German Defense Line.

Yanks Suddenly Shift Drive, Sweep Into Fortifications Left Unmanned By Enemy; Gunfire Recks Capital

Battle Rages Within Sight Of Key City  i Os: Meee   Troops Sweep Across Base of Eastern Hill

Battle Under Way in Full View of City   Yankees By-Pass Velletri to Capture Mt. Peschio

Fight Looms on War Plants Bill   ‘Debate Opens Today On Sale of Property

IBcachheads Enlarged on New Guinea  by MacArthur Forces   Engineers Conquer Mud and Jungle to Put Airstrip Into Condition for Use by Blliied Warpvlanes: Allies Close In on Japs

MacArthur’s Men Closing Nutcracker On Japan’s  Airdrome At Hollandia

Few Nazi Sentinels  Stay Behind   Nazis Mystified By Allied Attacks On French Front

Yanks Push Nazis To Roer   Patton Advances Deeper Into Saar Basin in Heovy Fighting

“DEATH” STAND BEING MADE BY NAZI RESERVES   Patton's Army Moves Nearer Two Strongholds In Siegfried Line

Firstand Ninth Armies Pound Nazi Defenses   Lamersdorf And Grosshau Captured: Germans Offer Fanatical Resistance.

Stand or Die Order Given Nazi Troops   Roer River Line Cracking Under Weicht of Attack

AMERICANS CAPTURE? MORE TOWNS   First and Ninth Armies Gain Along 21 Mile Front

Savage Fighting Along 21 Mile Front On Plains Before Cologne   CHOICEST GERMAN RESERVES IN ACTION   Estimated 100,000  Nazi Troops Killed, Wounded Or Captured

 Germany Throwing Choicest Re serves Into Action In West To  Replace Estimated 100,000 Men  Killed Or Captured   PATTON ADVANCING FARTHER INTO SAAR

Sewell Avery Criticised by Head of WLB   Montgomery Ward’s Employes Underpaid,  Davis Declares

Supreme Court Rules States May Not Assess Property Taxes Against Federally Owned Machinery in Plants

Etex Group Makes Plan For  Industrial Research In Texas   Singleton Becomes New College Ass’n President

Two Youths Capture 5 Nazis Attempting To.Escape Camp  . « Held In Henhouse Until Authorities Arrived

Magdenburg Hit As RAF Strikes  Deep In German   Industria 1 Center, way Junction

German City Blazes After Attack   R. A. F. Loses 52 Bombers in Meadgeburg Raid

RAF LEAVES WAR CENTER ABLAZE   Blasting “of Magdeburg Climax of Mighty Battle   52 BOMBERS LOST   Small Fleet of Allied Plane: Again Visit Bomb-scarred Rerlin Capital

American Planes Take Wide Range In Pacific War   RAF Penetrates Deep Into Central Germany

Magdeburg Ablaze. After RAF Biasting   Obliteration . Att Attack or Nazi: War. City: Climax. ~-qf 3,000-Plane Smash"

Air Attacks Leave Nazi City in Flames   3,000 Allied Planes Figure in Series Of Sky Operations

RAF Hits City Of Magdeburg   2,000 Long Tons Inflame  ivnwe Bail Caw

Magdeburg in Flames After RAF Attack   Large Sections of Industrial City Are Wrecked by Bombs

MAGDEBURG SET ABLAZE BY BOMBERS   Key Nazi Center Is _ Raided With 52 RAF Losses

RAF Lashes Important City Ot Magdeburg   Smaller Fleets Of Bombers Visit Bomb-Scarred Berlin Again.

HAVOC SPREAD IN MADGEBURG BY RAF BLOW   GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CITY ABLAZE; BERLIN HIT

Magdeburg RAF Victim   German War Industries City Left in Flames

HUGE SECTIONS OF MAGDEBURG ARE WIPED OUT   RAF Attack Chimaxe: 26-Hour Assault By 3,000 Planes

3,000 PLANES SMASH REICH IN 26 HOURS   2,000 Tons Of Bombs Fall On Magdeburg

Central Reich City In Flames For Third Time   Magdeburg, Twice Destroy ed by Fire Centuries Ago, Laid Waste by  RAF Bombers —

2,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Maadebura   Big German Industria Center Left in Flames by R-A.F.

Republicans Open Party Headquarters   In Old Gamble Store Building.

NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR GOP SECURED   Republican Campaign in the County in Full Swina

Mystery Shrouds Death Of Baby, Hysteria And Burns Of Mother In A partment Fire

Major Battle Imminent in India   Allies Speed Reinforcements To Kohima Under Eves of Japanese

ALLIED FORCES K tHE ips       Allies Are Pouring Reenforcements Into Kohima Area   NIPS ALREADY ON THE DEFENSIVE

More Allied Troops Pour Into Kohima   Town Guards Valley Entrance to Assam;  Japs Hold Hilltops

GARRISON OF KOHIMA » IS IN SIGHT OF ENEMY   British Poured Artillery Fire into Kohima Village ,a Mile West of Main Town Itself,

Great Battle Seems Imminent At Kohima Allies Reinforced   Chinese Capture Jap-Held Town In burma In Advance Down Mogaung Valley Toward Important Enemy Rail Bases

Burma Drive Sees Allies In Advance   Stilwell’s Forces Capture Village; Big Battle Nears

New Battle Looms As Allies Pour Into Kohima  Thrust Is Expected For Key to Strategic Valley

Major India Battle Near As Allied Reinforcements Pour Into Kohima

Incredible Battlefield Is In Making; Stiliwell’s Chinese Score Spectacular Success [n Mogaung Valley.

ESERVES ARE EING RUSHED NTO KOHIMA   ajor Battle Appears Immi ent at Gateway Guard ing Entrance Into Plains of Assam   ANKS AT OUTSKIRTS

Kohima Fight Nears Climax   Allies Pour in Troops For Big Blow; Stilwell’s Men Make Big Advance

MAJOR BATTLE IN KOHIMA REGION APPEARS BREWING   Japs Scattered in’ the Hills Around. Kohima See Allied Reinforcements Pouring Into That Gateway Hill Town

Major Clash Is Expected At Kohima   British Send Tanks and Reinforcements — Will Force Showdown

Two Million American Boys Enjoy Turkey Dinner Today In Six European Countries

LULL ON RUSSIAN. FRONT CONTINUES   Moscow Says Her Army Is Ready With Improved Weapons for Finish Ficht.

Lull in Russia Plagues Germany   Nazis Speculate On What Is Next

“Navy Secretary Knox Predicts ‘Longest Casualty Lists in ‘History; Urges Labor Draft

Knox Sees Hard Battles, Long Lists — Of Casualties   Says Most Ferocious Fighting Lies Ahead And Urges Passage  Of Labor Draft Bill   FEELS EMPLOYMENT NEEDS CONTROLS   Says More Men, Ships, Equipment, Supplies Needed This Year

Knox Endorses Draft of Labor  As ‘Sure, Fair’   Navy Secretary Declares Hardest Battles Ahead Abroad and at Hame

CASUALTIES INCREASING, KNOX WARNS   ‘Most Ferocious Fighting Lies Ahead,’ Navy Chief Tells U. S. Public   CITES COMING INVASION; INDORSES LABOR DRAF?

Knox Gazes into Future: ‘Sees Fierce Fighting Just Ahead; ‘Asserts Labor Draft Is Necessary

Twin Attacks  Made by Allied Units   Canadian Forces Open First Major Assault Since Last Month, Cracking Nazi Defenses in Vicinity of Carpiquet Base

Communicetions Junction May Fall Soon; British Match American Advance

Yanks Close In On La Haye: ‘Canadians. Take. Carpiquet Ac RBritich Advance

CHINESE ARMY IN TENGCHUNG   Enter Outskirts And Bat. ter At Ancient City’s Ancient Walls

Japs Break  Into Hengyang Chinese Say   U. S. Marines Use Secret Weapon On Tinian

NIMITZ, MACARTHUR LAY FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF PHILIPPINES   “TRULY FEARFUL”  SECRET WEAPON AIDS MEN ON TINIAN ISLAND

CITY OF HENGYANG ENTERED BY JAPS, CHINESE ANNGUNCE   Brisk Fighting Reported Occuring Both in the City and Its Outskirts — Japanese Have Sourht City For Lonz Time

Japs Break Defenses Of Hengyang   Troops Fighting In City Streets

TWOFOLD LESSON TAUGHT BY GREAT AIR BATTLE OVER NAZI RUT ET) CERMANY ON TUESDAY

Mighty Air Battle Over Germany Teaches Lessons Gives Encouragement and Warning

The War Today  Allies Learned Two Lessons From Tuesday's Mighty Air Battle.

Today’s War Moves   Learn Strength of Naz Air Force in Tuesday’s Record Attack  -.. Pe eeriewPr Bano we Par errie

The War Today   Great Air Battle Discloses Hitler Has Aerial Reserves 

Strikers Injure 3 Ward Officials   Troopers Called Out  To Put Down Violence

STRIKING TEXTILE WORKERS TO RETURN   1,198 Members Of Three Union: Agree To Go Back To Jobs; Army Oneratine Mills

Nelson Quits. His Post as. Head of WPB  ; ‘President Says : Important Jeb"

Nelson Quits As War Labor Board Chie!   Roosevelt Accepts Resignation; Says He's Counting On Nelson,   RIEL 6 ELRRUUCIAL TAS A

 oo. &. &. ©. &. 6.4. 4.4.4.)   WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING TO 4 WIN THE WAR

Ten Nazi Industrial Cities Shudder Under Three-Way Attack From U. S., RAF Planes: Oil Cities Hit

‘Smashing Attacks Are Aimed ‘At Railways And Oil Plants   NEW TERROR WFAPONS   Krauts Cooked In Greece

GERMAN SYNTHETIC OIL INDUSTRIES HIT BY U. 5. AIR FORCE  OVER THOUSAND BOMB ERS FAN OUT OVER WES! ERN CERMANY TARGETS

FINN ARMISTICE MOVES STARTED   Preliminary Decisions Encouraging; No Ful! Peace Probable

Finnish-Russian Armistice Seen  Diplomats Expected  To Arranne Tranty

PAYROLL TAX TO BE UNCHANGED   One Percent Social Security Levy Voted by Senate Through ‘44

WMC Has New Book To Help War Vets Find the Kind of Job They Want

 Onthe Home Front  WMC Guide Directs Veterans To Suitable Post-War Jobs 

Change Probable On Wage Policy   Action Expected Before Election

Wage Boost  ‘Inevitable’ So Says WLB Chairmar Of Present Formula

WLB Wage — Problem To. White House   uxnect Question to Come To FR Before Nov. 7 General Election

WLB Will Recommend Nation- Wide  Wage Increases -- Before Election

Labor Board Recommends Pay Increase   Increased Compensation Will Eclipse Little Steel Formula

Pie. John R, Phillips 3  Recovers From Wounds:  te fe.John BR. Phillips, Marine). Cc Hite of Mr.and Mrs. Frank!   Davis Says Situation Is Eclipsing Little Steel Formula

WLB to Seek New Wage Policy Before Victory.   Chairman Indicates Report Urging Adjustments to Cost edi Living to Ge tc FRE

WLB EXPECTED .T0 RECOMMEND WAGE CHANGES UPWARD   White House Likely to Receive Request to Adjust Pay and Living Costs

See Adjustment In Viane Scale  Expect “*WLB Soon To Advise Policy

Axis Reports US Caries Attacks      Land-based Blows At Formosa Also Reported.

‘Axis Reports U.S. Carrier Attacks  }On Phillippines   [Land-based Blows At Formosa Also Reported.

SEEK CAPONE IN CHICAGO MURDER   Slaying Took Place in Back Room, Says Witness

BROTHER Of NOTED GANGSTER SOUGHT IN TAVERN DEATH   Matt Capone and Bartender Disappear After Murder In Chicago. Saloon.

Bare Huge Black Market Gas Plan   Two St. Joseph Men Held by OPA in 10,000,000 Gallon Activity.

Four Char ‘oed With Illegal  Sale Coupons   Allegedly Removed Gas Coupons From Furnace

Gallant Minesweeping Forces Face Heavy Fire To Clear Invasion Path

Gallant Mine-Sweeping Force Guided Assault Waves With Greatest \Operation of Its Kind in History

KING “SWEATS OUT” AIR RAID   Pilots Vow To Monarch To “Fight This Thing Through To Victorious End”

Miner Wage Pact Draws WLB Okeh   Two Dissenting Votes Are Cast On Coai Contract

Southern Field Not Included In Settlement   Granting Travel Time Pay Eases Controversy

WLB APPROVES PACT FOR SOFT COAL INDUSTRY   New Unrest In Southern Area Looms; Travel Pay Okayed

NEW CONTRACT APPROVED FOR COAL INDUSTRY   WLB Approves Portal To Portal Contract, Will Pay $8.50 Daily

WLB Okays Coal Wage  Contract ro   Votes 10 10 2  For Bituminous 

WLB Gives Okay To Coal Contract   Action Averts, New Unrest In Industry

/BASTOGNE RANKS WITH SUCH STANDS AS TOBRUK AND WAKE   Historians Can Well Afford To Reserve Space For Heroic Holdout Of Doughboys In Belgium; Yanks Got Mad Rather Than “Sensible”

Bastogne, Thorn in Rundstedt's Side, Threafens fo Disease Whole System

Bombers Assist Chinese Troops  Caught In Siege   Kill 1200 Jap Troops At Changsha; Blast Stores, Depots In Canton Area

INVASION BACKED BY 2,000,000 TONS OF NAVAL MIGHT   CAPTURE RIO AND PUSH JAPS BACK ON TWO OTHER ISLETS

Vets Into Battle for ~ Key Atoll   US. Infantrymen- From At tu'and Marines. Seek .to Crack Jap Defense’ Hub   IT BARS WAY TO TRUK AND TOKYC   Long Fight ‘a Possibility Because of Jap Preparations and Vital Prize at Stake

COP CANDIDATE DARES THOMAS   W. J. Otjen Raps Fourth Term Issue at Rally Here; Schwabe Talks

Otjen Challenges Thomas fo Debate  Offers Public Debate ye ee Deal, Other

Agreement Reached by Delegations At Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Three Principles for World Leaque

Big Three Agrees On International Peace Principles   Organization Would Safeguard Large And Small Nations

General Outline of Plan Similar To One Outlined by President Roosevelt

BIG THREE REACH AGREEMENT ON PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE   Delegation From America, British and Soviet Nations State Terms For Orranization.

THREE MAJOR POWERS:IN AGREEMENT   Agree‘on Three Broad Principles At Dumbarton

Jap Paramushiro Base Is Raided   Northern Air Drive To Be Stepped Up

AMERICAN LEGION’S  G1. BILL RIGHTS  HEADS FOR HOUSE THREE AND HALF BIL LION DOLLAR MEASURE PASSED BY SENATE

Senate's Anxiety to Pass Legion's "G. I."" Almost Proves Embarrassing

GI BILL-OF-RIGHTS GETS WARM WELCOME   Senate Passes Legion’s Bil Unanimously

“G. 1.” Bill  To House   See Quick Approval Of So-Called “BillOf-Rights” Measure

SENATE APPROVES BILL 10 AID VETS   Members Unanimous on Roll Cali and House Expected to Act Favorably.

Green Light for Legion’s Bill   EEE EES  Senate Unanimous For Postwar Benefits  ee Ra

‘GI’ Benefit Bill Passes       Measure Now Heads For House Action

SENATE SENDS WAR VETERANS BILL TO HOUSE   Legion's ‘G.I. Bill of Rights’ Passes 49 to 0 After Roll Call Insisted Upon

House Welcome For Legion Bill ' Seen Assured   “Bill-Of-Rights” Measure Is Passed Unanimously By Senate Members

LEGION MEASURE FOR VETS RELIE. 'PASSES SENATE   $3,500,000,000 Measure Gets Unanimous Approval and Goes to House

80-Mile Gale Damages Farm, Kills Livestock In Columbia River Gorae

But Knox Says No Hope for Quick Victory in Pacific  "ct t Cine Tapani   Total Shows Growth Of U.S. Offensive Power, However

U.S. Navy Destroys 92 Japanese Ships Past Three Weeks   Yanks Seize Eniwetok, Other Sea, Air Assaults

ENIWETOK ISLE FALLS, EXPAND BOMBING RAIDS   U. S. Fliers Rip Paramushiro, Shumushu on Northern Tip of Japan

92 Japanese Ships Sunk In Three Weeks   Knox Couples Disclosures With Warning Against Too Much Optimism

92 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN LAST THREE WEEKS   Paramushiro And Rabaul Are Raided by Yank Ships, Planes

KNOX REPORTS 92. JAP SHIPS SUNK IN 3 WEEKS   Also Sea.And Air At tacks Against Bases

92 Jap Vessels Sunk In Past 3 Weeks---Kno3   Eniwetok Is Taken As Paramushiro Raided

93 Japanese Ships Sunk in Three Weeks   Secretary Knox Reveals Toll Inflicted in Sea and Air Smashes

$2 JAP SHIPS DESTROYED IN THREE WEEKS   Eniwetok Island Captured While Air and Surface Units Pound Others

Japanese Suffering Heavy Loss of Ships   92 Destroyed in Past Three Weeks, Knox Says; More Attacks Over Wide Area Against Pacific Bases.

AMERICAN BOMBS AND SHELLS BLAST JAPS IN WIDE AREA   DESTRUCTION OF 92 JAP VESSELS IN PAST THREE WEEKS REPORTED

Amperials Hit Retreating Japs   Chinese, Yanks Carry Offensive In Burma

NEW DiniVE IS LAUNCHED Ii NORTH BURMA   British Columns Head East to Aid Stillwell Forces

TOKYO REPORTS ATTACK ON TRUK   Communique Says _ Base Raided By Carrier Task Force; No Confirmation Of Jap Claims Of Hits.

TOKYO REPORTS TRUK ASSAULT   Claims U. S. Task Force Hits Island Sunday

JAPS RESIST LANDINGS ON SCHOUTEN IS.   Just over 800 Miles from Mindanao’ in Phillippines; Shore Batteries Trade Blows.

Japanese Premier Warns His People That They Face 'Unprecedently Grave Crisis’

Koiso Warns Japs of Blow   America Seen Ready To Strike Mainland

WARN JAPS OF GRAVE CRISIS   Koiso Tells People Inva sion of Homeland Is  Imminent

Americans Make New Stabs Info Bonin Islands   Japanese Premier Declares Danger Of Allied Landings

Jap Leader Says Invasion Pending   Tells People Gravest National Crisis Near  As Allies Hit Bases

JAPANESE FEAR YANK INVASION   Premier Gives Warning After New Attacks on Bonin Islands.

YANK THRUSTS UPSET JAPS   Koiso Warns of Allied Attempts to Land on_ isle; Bombs Fall Freely

Japan Fears An Invasion   ‘Premier Warns His People. Upon’ T rend:

Yankees Make Stabs Among Bonin Island:   Jap Premier Warns People “Enemy Watching For Chance to Land On Homeland”

—PACIFIC—  JAPANESE FEAR YANK INVASION   U. S. Strike At Bonins Brings New Warning From Nip Premier

U.S. PILOTS HIT BONIN ISLES AGAIN   Fierce Raids 600 Miles  Fram Tokva

BONINS HIT BY YANK BOMBERS   Jap Premier Warns Of “Grave National Crisis”

US. Stabs Into Bonins Cause For Warning By Koiso   Premier Tells Nip: Of Possibility O' Homeland Invasior  By Allies

JAPANESE TOLD YANK STABS AIM AT HOMELAND   Readers Issue Warning as Nimitz Fliers Bomb Bonins

JAP PREMIER WARNS NATION 15 FACING VERY GRAVE CRISIS   NEW AMERICAN STABS INTO BONINS, 600 MILES FROM TOKYO

New Bonin Raids Stress Warning By Jap Premier   Nippon Urged To Improve Defenses In Anticipation Of Stabs At Homeland

STAB ANEW’AT BONIN ISLANDS   - JAP-PREMIER WARNS “ENEMY” LIKELY TO LAND ON HOMELAND

BONINS STABBED BY AMERICANS; PEOPLE WARNED   National Crisis Is Faced By Japanese

ALLIES STAB BONINS 600 MILES TOKYO   Koiso Says “Enemy Is Watching for Opportunity to Land on Our  Hameland’’

JAP PREMIER WARNS TOKYO   Tells Nippons Enemy Set For Landing On Japanese Mai ‘and

Japanese Holding All but 60 Miles Of Vital Railway   Multi ~ Pronged Drive Overcones Chassse Racsigounsca

IMPORTS OF LIQUOR PUT ON QUOTA BASIS  WPB Hopes to Maintain Supply OF Industrial Alcohol for War

PUT SQUEEZE ON LIQUOR IMPORTS   Quota Limits Ordered on Cuba. Porto Rico

TWO-WAY SQUEEZE ON IMPORT WHOOPEE   -WPB Places Strict Quota on Imported Liquor

Guffey Replies To Sen. Butler   Backs New Deal Foreign Policy   Wants Apology

DROUGHT GROWS MORE SERIOUS   Scattered Showers Bring Little Relief To Ohio

Russian Planes — Smash Defenses Around Budapest   Lines Softened Up “For Final Blow At Hungarian Capital

PLANE FLEETS BLAST AT NAZIS   Germans Claim Their Counter-Attacks Closed Breaks in Defenses

PVT. R. GROWE IS WOUNDED   War Dept. Informs Parents Son Was Injured Sent. 26

DeGaulle Announces Liber, ation After Four Days of Fighting  BATTLED IN STREETS  RR CORA      French Interior Forces Control, Seize Public Buildings =

n Four-Day Street Fighting Led by 50,000 Organized French Forces and Joined by Hundreds of Thousands of Others, Armed and Unarmed, Parisians Seize All Buildings and Capture All Vichy Representatives Who Had Not Fled, Report Says. .

While Thousands of Armed and Unarmed Frenchmen Take Over, U. S. Troops Are Near at Hand.   FRENCH SEIZE ALL PUBLIC BUILDINGS

Special Communique From DeGaulle’s Headquarters In London Announces Capture of City After Days of Street Fighting   NO WORD OF AMERICAN TROOPS PARTICIPATING

Patriof Army Of 50,000 In Vital Victory   Public Buildings Are  Taken Over By Force Of Interior; de Gaulle Announces Results

Capital Falls To Patriots As French Army Troops Take Second Largest City

Liberation Achieved After Four Days Of Street Battles Led By 50,000 Of The FFI   All Public Buildings Scized And Complet¢ Control Won, Says Communique; American Troops Have Not Yel Entered City

YANKS 160 MILES FROM GERMANY   50,000 French Patriots Chase Nazis From Paris

FRENCH FORCES LIBERATE OW CAPITAL CITY   Germans Driven From Buildings Rv Patriots

50,000 Frenchmen — Who Can’t Be Wrong —~ Seize  Capital Of France By Capturing Buildings And  Firing On Germans Left To Attempt To Held  City While U, S. By-Passes It

FRENCH RISE TO PUT DOWN HATED MASTER   Meanwhile Allies Tighten Trap on German Forces Only 160 Miles From Reich Border.   Re JAMES MW LONG

Nazis Driven From City After 4 Days _ of Street Fighting   Battle Led by 50,000 Organized Forces of French Interior

50,000 Armed Men And Thousands Of Civilians Overcome German Control

Thousands Help Throw Nazis Out   Fow-Day Battle Is Led by 50,000 Organized French Forces: Citizens Help   ALL FRENCHMEN ARE CELEBRATING   No Word of Any Entry by Americans Drawn Up Around Capital

French Capital Is Freed by Mass Revolt of Parisians Who Seize Vichy Officials; Population Wild With Joy

‘Communique States That ‘Fight Is Led By 50,000  Organized Frenchmen

Parisians Join Armed Forces to Effect Delivery   ‘La Marseillaise’ Seng Again Aller Feur Days of Stree! Fighting Recalling Bastille Day

50,000 Organized Forces Lead Fight Which Shakes Off Nazi Strangulation   American Armed Might Draws Up Around Capital For Great Day; De Gaulle Makes Announcement

City Freed by Own Residents Tn 4-Day Fight   Liberation of French Capital Announced by De Gaulle

DeGaule Reports Successful Four Days of Fighting   50,000 Organized Force of Interior Led Final Battle

“La Marseillaise” Rings Through Paris In Scenes Recalling First Bastile Day

Underground Forces By Tens Of Thousands Rise Up To Seize Control.

Paris Shakes Loose Shackles of Four Years of Enemy Bondage To Be Free

American Armored Column Only 160 Miles From Border of Germany; Tighten Seine Trap

After Four Days Of Street Fights Paris Liberatec   French Patriots, 50,000 Strong, Drive Nazis Out of Capital.   First Allied Capital  Freed From Germans

French Capital Shook Loose the Shackles of More Than Four Years of Enemy  Bondage.      SWEPT NAZIS FROM THE CITY’S STREETS   Paris Had Been Under German Control Since June 14, 1940; Americans Drew ~ Up Around Capital.

Patriots Free Capital After Battling Nazis — Along Streets 4 Days

LIBERATION OF PARIS BIG BLOW TO NAZI FORCES   Vichy Representatives Have Been Arrested or Have Fled from Paris

“La Marsellaise” Sounds Again In Paris Streets As Patriotic Frenchmen Celebrate Liberation of City

‘All Germans Reported Out Of Capital   DeGaulle Says All Major Public Buildings Under French Control

Germans Are Swept Out Of Capital After Four — Days of Street Fighting  Fighting Was Reminiscent   Fighting Was Reminiscent Of Scenes of Bastille Day

De Gaulle Announces Recapture Of Capital After 4Days of Street Fighting Led By 50,000 Frenchmen   Seize All Public Buildings, Capture All Vichy Representatives Who Had Not Fled, American Army Drawing Up Around City

NAZI CAPTORS DRIVEN OUT BY FRENCH FGRCES   De Gaulle Announces Capital Taken After FourDay Fight

PARIS FREED AFTER ' FOUR YEARS OF GERMAN BONDAGE   Great. News “Came Today. From Allied Sources At Fighting Front in France.

Hitler’s Reign Is Broken   FOUR DAYS OF STREET FIGHTING LED BY FRENCH PATRIOTS RECALLS MOB SCENES OF BASTILLE DAY

Sweep Nazis From Streets Of Capital   Four Days of Fighting Brings Victory —Seize Vichyites

French Throw Foe From  Capital City   Hordes of Natives Charge Upon Germans, Recapture Public Buildings, Arrest Many Hitler Collaborationists

FRENCH PEOPLE LIBERATE CITY AFTER 4 YEARS   CAPTURE ALL PUBLIC BUILDINGS AS YANKS ENCIRCLE THE CAPITAL

TEMPERATURES:   Patriots Drive Foe From Capital After Four-Day Battle

50,000 Organized French Forces of the Interior Aided by Hundreds of Thousands More With Improvised Weapons Free City

Rise Of French Patriots In Blov For Liberty Reminiscent Of Historic Days Of The Bastille ©

Nazis Swept From Streets Ot The City   De Gaulle Announces Capital Liberated After Fighting

‘Nazi Bondage Of Four Years Is Thrown Off   No Word That  U. S. Troops Have Entered City  This Afternoon

RECENT VICTORIES OVER JAPS IN MANY WIDELY SEPARATED AREAS OF PACIFIC GRATIFYING TO NATION   No Time to Start Celebration, But Fact That We Now Have Ability to Determine When and Where We Will Hit Enemy Are Vital Factors to Success

The War Today  Picture of Southwest Pacific Operations Is Gratifying One.

Today’s War Moves   News From Pacific Areas Proves Power of U. S. Strength

The War Today   Yanks’ New Pacific Assaults Show We’re Bound for Tokyo

WARTODAY   U, §. War Machine in Pacific Not Expected To Slow Down Until Tokyo Is Reached

May Testify In Trial Of  Former Mate   Estranged Wife Expected To Take Stand In Drownina Case

POLITICAL POT 5 SIMMERING   Wide Open Wisconsin Races Worry Some Politicos, Please Others.   MANY ARE CANDIDATES

Nine Dead Inlowa Floods, Storms   “Damage To Property And Crops Continues To Mount Today.

Loss of Lives, Property and Crops in lowa Floods Continues to Mount

FLOOD LOSSES IN IOWA MOUNT   9 PERSONS HAVE ““LOST THEIR LIVES SINCE THURSDAY —

SKY TROOPS SET UP FLANKING THREAT TO THOUSANDS OF NAZIS   Allied Aerial Army May Drwe Foe Into Arms Of British; First Army 20 Miles From Caloone

Allies Bid for Quick Victory in Invading Holland   Americans Smash Thru Siegfried Line Near Cologne: Reach Aachen

Allies Gamble On Knockout Blow at Reich   Second Army Lashes Out to Seal Off Bellend From Nazie

OPERATION IS BOLD BID FOR QUICK VieTORY   Crossing Of Flood Barrier Threatens Break into Northern Germany

Allied Troops Invade Balkans   Albania, Slav Adriatic Isles Entered on 400-Mile Front

Strong Forces Land by Sea and Air, Begin Push Toward Soviet Junction; More Balkan Assaults Believed Near

Martin Urges Continuance of Price Controls   Battle Looms Over Way It Is and Should Be Administered

Republican  Leader Urges Price Control Continuation   Rep. Martin Advocates Renewal for Year  And Asks Congress To Consider Tt Now   WAY IT IS DONE MAY BE BATTLE BASIS

Dies Accepts Invitation To Follow Winchell On ‘Radio Night Of Mar. 26

DIES ACCEPTS WINCHELL BID   To Reply To Columnist’s Attack: Issues New Blast

Mes ‘Accepts Bid for Radio Debate With Winchell and Issues New Blast

DIES ACCEPTS WINCHELL BID   Solon. To Follow Columnist wv” On Radio March 26

Keep Diary and Live Longer, Advice of Mayo's Pathological Anatomis

Keep a Diary And Live Longer   . That's Advice Given By Mayo Foundation ‘Pathology Anatomist

DIARY [5 PRESCRIBED: ‘ . Scientist Asserts Diarist — Should Record Aches. Pains

Reveal Use Of  Rocket Guns   Britain Discloses New Propellant Takes Toll Of Ger. man Planes.

Now Using Propellant Material Manufactured in United States Middle West   Number of Kills Proof of Potentcy   Began Turning Qut Rockets From Dave of Munich: Tested in Jamaica

Rocket Gun Long Used By England   Weapons Employed Effectively Since War Began

British Disclose They’ve Been Using Rocket Guns Since  ithe Very Quiset of the War

British Reveal They've Been Using Rocket Guns Since Start of War   Devices Highly Effective Against Nazi Bombing Planes, Savs Official Report

Allies Using Rocket Guns  Terme At not Ee itanteea Vlaams Vink OC entueeem   Termed Most Effective Weapon Yet Knowr

BRITISH USING ROCKET GUNS   Report Weapon Employed Since War Started

British Disclose They Have Been Using Rocket Guns Against Nazis Since Outbreak Of War

CROPS IMPAIRED BY LACK OF MOISTURE   No Heavy Rains in Sight to Bring Extensive Relief From Draught.

Nips Lose 33 Planes Also ©   Heavy Blows Lash NipsAll . Way From Wewak To Rabaul.

Allies Shoot Down 33 Japanese Craft   Three Ships Totaling 10,000 Tons Sunk in Raids Ranging from Wewak to Rabaul, New Britain

ALLIES DOWN 33. JAPANESE PLANES AND SINK 3 SHIPS   Enemy Airdromes and Sup‘ply Dumps Pounded in “Raids on Rabaul and Wewak.   DIRECT HIT BLOWS UP AMMUNITION VESSEL   Allies Lose Five Aircraft in Attacks—Aussies Mopping Up, on Huon  * . Peninsula.

Allies Shoot Down 33 Jap Planes, Sink 3 Foe Ships In Heavy Pacific Attack

Japs Lose 33 Pianes, 3 Supply Shins   Allied Airmen Rain Havoc On Base At Rabaul

Allied Air Blows Range From Wewak, N. Guinea, To Rabaul, New Britain

THREE JAPANESE SUPPLY VESSELS REPORTED SUNK   Heavy Bombing Attacks Conducted By Allies From Wewak To Rabaul   33 ENEMY AIRCRAFT BAGGED IN RAIDS

Allies Blast 33 Jap Planes and 3 Ships      Heavy Raids Staged on Wewak, Rabaul By Raiders: Enemy Ammunition V essel Blows Up After Receiving Direct Hit

33 Japanese Planes, Three Ships Destroyed By Fliers   Airdromes, Supply Dumps and Anti-aircraft Positions at Wewak and Boram Bombed—Rabaul Area Again Attacked in Sweeping Raids

GAINS IN DRIVE PAST PLOESTI   Push Half-Way Across Romania in Effort to  Reach Serbia

REDS ADVANCE TO JOIN TITO'S PARTISAN ARMY   Forces Within 135 Miles Of Bulgar Border; Nazis Into Bulgaria

Russ torees advance on Yugoslavia  Soviets demand Bulgar passage

BULGARIA PUT UNDER HEAVY - RED PRESSURE   Moscow Seeking To Get  Nation Out Of War To  Facilitate Drive   RUSSIANS HALF WAY THROUGH ROMANIA

ICKES DEFENDS OIL PIPELINE IN ARABIA   Seere‘ary Says Ex-Standard OW Cempany Official fs Dheredited “Plavbov”

Congress Critical Of Australia’s Cut In Armed Forces   90,000 Older Men To Be Taken from Troop Units for Prodactien of Food and Clothing

Charges of Solon Are Denied ee eee  Miss Kellems Hurls Lie At Coffee; Talks To Reporters

Buhl Flier’s Crew Bags Jap Transport, _ Then Has Enough Thrills for Lifetim:

Yanks Close In From Three Sides On Flaming Ormoc   Low-Level Attack On Jap Transport Gives Yank Fliers Lots Of Thrills

Kansans Are Lucky in Air Battle With Japs Attempting Leyte Landinc

LEIPZIG CENTER OF HEAVY BLOW   Industries and Oil Plants In Central Germany Bomb Targets

Allies Are Forced To  Withdraw.   Suffer Slight Setback In . Northern Sector of Beachhead Below Rome

In Other Sectors And At Cassino, Our Troops Are Slowly Advancing.

GERMANS HELD IN MURDER PEN   Civilians Live In Camp Used By Nazis As Slaughterhouse

New Ceiling: For Cottons To Be Given   Shirts, Dresses, Sheets, Ete., Will Go Up Undev OPA Ruling

Some Clothing To Cost More   OPA Okays Advances For Cotton Textile Mills, Consumers to Pay Higher

Cotton Goods  Prices fo Go Up   OPA to Announce Price Increases Promptly, It Is Announced

Allied Protests Heeded, Spain Yields 3 Ships   16 Added Bartoglio Vessela May Be Surrendered Tn Amity Ceature

FASCISM FOR U.S. FEAR OF V.P, WALLACE   Business, Labor and Agriculture Will Need To Work Together In Postwar Period

WALLACE ASKS FOR POST WAR COOPERATION   Fight Between  Labor, Business,  Agriculture Would Be Fatal

Wallace ‘Warns Postwar Fight for Economic  Power May 8ring Fascism to This Country

WALLACE GIVES POST-WAR AIMS      Warns of Struggle by Bie Three’

FREDERICK FAIR WILL BE HELD IN SEP TEMBES   Event Will Be Held From 26th Through 30th After 2-Year Lapse   CONTRACTS CLOSED FOR CONCESSIONS

JAPS' CHIEF PLANE PLANT PLASTERED   Third B-29 Raid May Halt Production of. Consequence for Days

SAIPAN’S B-29'S IN MIGHTY BLOW ON PLANE PLANT   Dispatches Call Forts’ Raid ® Knockout Punch on Key Mitsubishi Works

NAGOYA BLASTED THRO: TIME IN LAST TEN DAYS   Mitsubishi Aircraft Works Bears Brunt of ‘ Knochout Punch”

NAZIS THREATEN DEATH TO DANES RESISTING RULE   Prepare to Launch Ruthless Campaign Before Allied . Invasion Unless Sabotage Ends.   NATION IS ISOLATED FROM REST OF WORLD   Hitler’s Special Deputy Quoted as Saying Country Is “Swarming”  With Underground Workers. :

Restive Country   Faces Stern Test   Prisoners To Be Executed, e. 1. POOR: * {peers

War Prisoners Here Approvec   Sixth Service Command Assigns 4,000

Austin Says  People Want Labor Draft   Senator Believes Home Front Must Be Made Stronger

Wisconsin Football Player Fatally Hurt in Big 10 Game   Freshman Quarterback Dies After Being Carried Unconscious From Playing Field

HUNGARIANS OPPOSING NAZI TROOPS   Germany Moves Into Bulgaria to Occupy Satellite

HITLER 10 TAKE OVER SATELLITES DESIRING PEACE   Soviet Forces Continue Westward Rush, Army Is Now 23 Miles Inside Bounds of Bessarabia.   ENEMY SEEKS ROUTE TO CONTINUE NEEDS   Reports Come From Rumania of Germans Moving In Men, Seize Railroads, Leaders Are Rounded Up.

Nazis Seize Key Points In Balkans   Germans, Already Occupying Hungary, Move On Rumania, Bulgaria

FIGHTING BREAKS IN RUMANIA AND BULGARIA’   Say Agpressive Move Is To Defend Reich Arainst Soviet

Berlin Foreign Office Says Protective Measures  Being Taken in Balkans

CLAIM HUNGARY RESISTING NAZI “PROTECTION”   Bulgaria and Rumania Also Being Occupied to Bolster Balkan Defense

George Bernard Shaw Backs Irish For Refusal To Abandon Neutrality

SOONG GIVEN HIGH POST IN NEW MOVE TO RALLY CHINESE   Chiang Yields One Job In Latest Change Of Government

JAPS 200 M. FROM CAPITAL OF CHINA   Kai-Shek Calls On Nation to Rally Forces

UONG PUT Ih Hla PLAGE Aa HEAD QF YUAN   Calls for National Rally as Newspaper Suggests He Take Over Armies.

CHIANG ORDERS CHINA TO RALLY TO NEW THREAT   Takes Further Steps to Reorganize in Face of Army, Political Crisis

CHIANG CALLS ON CHINA TO RALLY, FIGHT   Says Military Situation of Nation Extremely Difficult

Chiang Names Soong President Of Yuan   Generalissimo Says Military Situation Is ‘Extremely Difficult’ For Chinese

General Chiang Kai-Shek Calis on China to Rally and Annihilate Japs   And Takes Further Steps To Reorganize His Government

Chiang Urges China to Rally Against Japs   Appoints Soong Acting President; Sees Final Victory

Six Million U. S. Troops Are Overseas   More Than Four Million Army Men Bolstered By 1.566.000 Sailors.

Nearly 6 million American  men serve on foreign soil 63.000.000 ship tons of supplies   63,000,000 ship tons of supplies  noured thru 127 ports to fighters

Nearly 6,000,000 Of Army’s 7,700,000 Men Now Battline Enemy In Overseas Theaters

Nearly 6 million Ameriean men serve en foreign soil  63,000,000 ship tons of supplies noured thru 127 ports to fighters

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NEARLY 17,000 SOONERS HOME FROM SERVICE   State Has Responsibility o Placing These Returning Veterans in Jobs

Ration Coupons Again Necessary  Tomatoes, Peas and Asparagus on List

Vegetables Go Back on Ratior List Sunday   Placing of Points On Peas, Tomatoes. Asparagus, Is Prelude to Others

RATION POINT HOLIDAY ON CANNED GOODS ENDS   Processed Tomatoes, Peas And Asparagus Are Returned To List, Effective Sunday

fresh Troops Brought Into French Area   Situation Described By A}. lied Headquarters As Well In Hand.   BRITISH LOSES MILE   Peas, Tomatoes, Asparagus Back-On List

SOME VEGETABLES GO ON RATION LIST   Canned Tomatoes, Peas And Asparagus Return to’ List Sunday.

End Point Holiday      With Old Stocks of  Canned Foods Gone Many Will Go Back On Ration List July 1

Seven Children Perish. uy Flames While Their Mother Is Ill in Hospital

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Russians Penetrate Pskov From Two Directions; Report Germans Burn Estonian City Of Narva

Soviets Penetrate ?skov Outskirts rrom New Angle   Moscow Reports Nazis Apply Torch To Narva

Red Troops Smash Way To Outskirts Of Baltic Gateway City Of Pskov

Reds Tighten Pskov Ring   Smash Way Into City’s Outskirts From New Direction, Moscow Reports

Russian Forces Plunge To East Edge Of Pskov   Germans Reported Firing Estonian City Of Narva As Reds Near.

Soviets Plunge into Outskirts of Pskov   Reach Baltic Gateway City from the East: Nazis Put the Torch to Narva ©

Germans Put Torch To Ole Fort City Of Narva   Nazi Troops Put Up Bitter Battle At Pskov But Reds Report Gains

Nazis Appiv ‘Torch to Estonian Fortress as Kussians Near   RAIL LINE PERILED)   Red Army Is Approaching Baltic Gateway From Two Sides

SOVIETS CLAIM GERMANS PUT TORCH TO NARVA   Reds Kill 2,300 Nazis in Two Days in Drive for Ancient Estonian Fortress

Soviet Forces Drive Wav To Pskov Border   Unofficial Reports Say Nazis Put Torch To Fortress Of Narva.   DIG IN AT BEACHHEAD

Reds Penetrate ‘Besieged Pskov ~ From New Point   Unofficial .Moseow Report  Says Estonian Fortress Is Set Afire By Nazis

Russians Reach Pskov,  Gateway To The Baltic   Red Columns Converge On Town From Two Directions; Germans Apply Torch To Narva, Estonian Fortress

RED TROOPSAT CITY OUTSKIRTS   Russians Have Smashed Way Near Baltic Gateway City of Pskov.

Russ Circle Pskov, Narva   Baltic Key Totters; Nazis Fire Estonia City, Hint Defeat

Russians Smash Into Suburbs Of Baltic Gateway   Germans, Preparing To Quit Narva, Burning  Furtress Town.

Capture Additional Suburban! Towns Despite Desperate De fense by Germans    NAZIS FIRE NARVA   Apply Torch as Russians Enlarge River Bridgehead, Threaten Last Rail Line Out of Town

Soviet Troops Force Entry ~ Into Pskov   Germans Put Narva to the Torch During Retreat From Border City

RED TROOPS ENTER OUTSKIRTS OF PSKOV, GATEWAY 10 BALTIC      Germans Expected To Make Defensive Stand to Save Key Railway Center   \NAZIS ADMIT RED GAINS

Narva Burning,  Soviets Report  Reds In Outskirts Of Pskov. Moscow Tells

Narva Blazes As Reds Plunge  Near Fortress   Meanwhile, Soviet Units Hold Positions in En. virons ‘of Pskov_From  Two Directions   Soviets Close In ‘(On Town Of Ostrov   One. of Two Last Escape  Rail Routes Open to  German Garrison  in Pskov

Soviets Smash Way Into Outskirts of Pskov, Baltic City   Germans Put Torch to Estonian Fortress Town of Narva

EDGE OF PSKOV IS REACHED IN RUSS ADVANCE   Report Germans Put Torch to Estonian Fort Town of Narva

‘REDS FIGHTING IN PSKOV; NAZIS BURNING NARVA   Hard Pressed Germans Leaving Ruin and Ashes In Wake of Retreating  Armiec

NAZIS ADMIT RED GAINS IN NARVA SECTOR   Hitlerites Are Putting the Torch to Ancient Estonian City, Soviets Report —Russians in Outskirts of Pskov.

Report Germans ~ Set Narva Afire   Unofficial Advices Reaching London Say Torch Is Put to-Ancient Fortress Menaced by Russians — Outskirts of Pskov Reached From East.   CITY NEARLY CIRCLED

RED TROOPS AT GATEWAY TO BALTICS   Red Units Control! Two Positions  Near Pskov

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U.S. Asks End To Walkouts In Shipyards   Stoppages of Wark by Machinists Peril War, Say Army, Navy Men

Army Takes Over Ward Subsidiary   Hummer Company Held by Soldiers

Army Occupies Hummer Plant  Of Ward Firm   Defiance of WLB’s Order Charged to 0 Subsidiary  RE 1

Army Seizes Hummer Co. Springfield   SUBSIDIARY OF MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. HAS BEEN DEFIANT OF WLB DIRECTIVES, ALTRaET).   Dispute 9 Months Old

THIRD OF CITY IN YANK HANDS, DOCKS REACHEL   Germans Resisting Fanatical; Crashing Artil'ery Shells Into French Port City

FIGHTING AT MAD RATE IN BAYEUX AREF   Defeat of Nazi ‘Tactical Reserves Outlined as Second Goal in Invasion Plan of Allies

Gov. Warren Disclaims Office Boom   DECLINES TO STATE WHETHER HE WOULD ACCEPT NOMINATION

AIRDROME ON MINDORO ISLE   Shattered Jap Forces On Leyte Futilely Try to Flee

MINDORO ISLAND AIRDROME BEING USED BY YANKS   11 Of 29 Japanese Planes Are Shot Down Over * Teland   CONQUEST OF LEYTE NEARLY COMPLETED

MINDORO BASE NOW USED 10 POUND MANILA   JAP RESISTANCE ON LEYTE ISLAND CRUSHED

JAWS OF PINGERS  CLOSED ON JAPS IN ORMOC AREA   Two American Army Corps Form Junction and Are Systematically Wiping Out Enemy.   MINDORO AIRDROME NOW USED BY YANKS   Eleven of. Twenty-Nine Nipponese Planes Attacking U. S. Troops on Island Shot Down.

Yank Planes Using Fields On Mindoro   Two U. S. Army Corps Form Leyte Junction, Japanese Flee West  ERETIGHTER SET AFIRE

Yanks Using Air Field. On Mindoro   ‘Now Have Another Base ' From Which to Harass Jap Shipping and Supply Liazs  -

U, S. Official Warns That German Luftwaffe Could Still Come Back

Hall Describes Dorsey Battle  Actor Denies Hitting Band Leader First in

Hall Confused by Details of Dorsey Brawl]   ACTOR CLAIMS BAND LEADER HIT HIM FIRST IN QUARREL

ARMY SYSTEM FOR DISCHARGING MEN IS SIMPLIFIED   Each Veteran Will Be Given a Complete Medical Checkup Be fore Final Discharve.

Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers Says Useless and Bureau. cratic Restrictions Deny Yanks Facts

CHARGES ARMY SLOWING NEWS   Rep. Edith Rogers Claims Soldiers Not Getting ‘Inside’ Stuff Overseas

RUSSIAN FORGES SMASH WESTWARI   Last German Stronghold ir White Russia Crumbles   WILNO THREATENED   Ancient City Expected to Fall Quickly as Did Minsk; Bombers Attack

Reds Capture Polotsk, Pushon Wilno   German Defenses Crumble on  300-Mile Front

Spearhead Pointed Directfy at Polish City of — - Wilno    MANY PLACES ARE "TAKEN DURING DAY   Premier Marshal Stalin Announces Capture aft Polotek

GERMAN FLANK AT CISTERNA SMASHED   Mountain Height 19 Miles From Beachhead Taken   150 VEHICLES   Destroyed By U. S. Planes; One Escape Route To Rome Is Left Nazis

Yank Doughboys Seize Mile Of Vital Appian Highway To Rome   American Armored Column Smashes Through German Flank On Rome Side Of Cisterna As Allies Score Gains In Italian Fighting

Trap Set for Germans in Pontine Marshes as Americans Take Mountain Height 19 Miles from Beachhead Forces

Chunk of Appian Vay to Rome Is  Seized by Allies        After Breaking Through to Win 2,000 pee Beachhead Forces Drive Ahead Powerfully Yard Stretch Near Cisterna   BRITISH TROOPS FORCE MOLETTA RIVER TO WEST

AMERICANS AND CANADIANS ARE WHIPPING NAZIS   Dominion Forces Smash Through Hitler Line To Melfa River In Liri Valley;  Germans’ Condition Grows Worse By   "The Hour.

U. S. Troops Seize Mile-Long Chunk of Road to Rome and Occupy Terracina As (Canadians Smash Through Hitler Line

PUSH OUT FROM ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Seize Monte Alto 19 Miles From Littoria

Allies Thrust Thru Hitler ~ Line in North, Center, South      CLOSER TO BEACHHEAD   Enemy Fleeing Trap; German Position Grows  Worse’ Hourly

Other U. S. Troops Push From East Forcing Germans  Into Wide Pocket

Potential Trap Formed By Two Drives   Mile Chunk Of Appian Way Seized By American Troops

Yank Surge Takes City Of Terracina   Canadians In Spectacular Five-Mile Thrust Up Liri Valley.

Deep Strikes Made in Hitler Line at Three Vital Points   Allies Press Drive to Destroy Nazi Armies on Italian Front

Allies At Anzio Beachhead ~ Push Nazis Into Retreat   Twin Offensives Advance Swiftly, Destroy Much Of Nazi 10th And 14th Armies

HITLER LINE. SMASHED AT. THREE POINTS   Anzio Troops Seize Mile of Appian Way; Spread — Trap for Nazis.

Yanks Smash Through Flank At Cisterna   ‘Many Prisoners Reported Taken In Italian Advance

AMERICANS GRAB *MILE-LONG PART ‘OF APPIAN ROAD   One Column Drives Through Nazi Flank on Rome Side of Cisterna

RIP BIG HOLES: IN HITLER AND: ANZIO LINES:   Allies Press Nutcrackes Drive To Smash Nazis In Italy

Americans Set Potential Trap In Marsh Area   Allied Planes Blast German Convoys Racing From. Escape Pocket ~

9,000 Allied Planes Rip Hitler’s Europe In Two-Ply Attack   Berlin Hit Twice by RAF, U.S. Bombers: Main Fifth Army Troops Only 19 Miles From Anzio

CANADIANS POUR THROUGH LINE AND BEACHHEAD FORCES CARVE OUT SECTION OF APPIAN WAY

Pincers Move Developing Trap for Foe   Canadian Armor Has Smashed Five Miles Through Line

ALLIES BREACH HITLER LINE IN THE LIRI VALLEY  BEACHHEAD FORCES SMASH FORWARD IN

U.S. ARMORED COLUMN MAKES NEW ADVANCE   Below the Town Yanks Seize Section of Appian Road to Rome

Mile-Long Chunk Seized South Of City Of Cisterna   Main Front Offensive Smashes Forward As French Troops Capture Pico; Canadians Breach Hitler Line Near Pontecorvo

REPORT THRUST UP LIRI VALLEY   Nazi Position Becomes Worse Each Hour as Allies Smash Ahead

Nazi Forces In Italy Face rap Threat   Americans Smash More Than a Mile Into Enemy Zone

U. $. Troops Seize Chunk Of Appian Way   Other Americans Pushing From South Seize Monte Alto, 10 Miles From Terracina

Breaks Made In Hifler Line By Pincers Move  Germans In Pocket; As Americans

GERMANS ARE IN POTENTIAL TRAP   Americans Batter 10 Miles Through Mountains <j  4  Above City, 5   CANADIANS REACH MELFA

Canadians Break Into Hitler Line   Yank Troops Seize Mile of Appian Way Below Cisterna

Key Points ‘Simashed in — 3Sectors   Americans Take sb Sas : and Sieze a Mile Chunk. “of:Appian Way   THREATEN FORTRESS. “TOWN OF CISTERNA   Canadians"Make —Spectacular..Gain and:: Enemy .Position Is Worsening Hourly:

Adolf Hitler Line Cracked By Canadians   ‘Beachhead Forces Seek To Cut Escape Route Of Germans      U. S. Armored Column Threatens To Take —  Cisterna

ANZIO FORCES CAPTURE MILE OF APPIAN WAY   Canadians Gain 5 Miles In Drive Through Hitler Line

Mile of Rome Road Is Seized   Canadians Breach Hitler Line as U.S. Troops Smash Through to Threaten Cisterna and Trap German Army

Appian Way Cut; Doughboys Crush Germans Flank   ‘Allied Planes Blast Nazi Convoys On Escape Road: Liri Valley Line Breached

Cisterna Area Threatened By Advancing Army   Alltes Maintain Progress in New Battle for Italy

Beachhead Forces Drive Powertfully Against Foe   Germans’ Situation On Main Front Grave; Allied Pincer Push Breaches Hitler Line

SEEKING 10 CLOSE IKAP ON GERMANS   United Nations Troops Fighting Their Way Through Nazi Defenses in Bitter Battles.

Potential Trap   Allied Planes: Blast: Ge ‘ man Convoys Ra¢ity From. Escape Pocket

Hitler Line in Liri Valley and Center Breached — Monte Alto, 10 Miles North of Terracina Taken—Beachhead Forces Drive Powerfully Ahead

Smash Through Heavy Strikes In Hitler Line   Canadians Reach Melfa; Seize Mile-Long Chunk Of Appian Way.   HIT FROM. THREE SIDES

Americans Take Terracina And Threaten To Entrap Germans In Pontine Marsh   British On Anzio Forced Moletta River Farther West; Rammed into Nazi Defense:

ALLIED TROOPS BREACH HITLER LINE IN VALLEY   Seize Mile-Long Strip On Road To Rome

Armored Column Pierces Nazi Lines As Doughhoys Take Hills At Terracina

TERRACINA I$ OCCUPIED BY U.S. TROOPS   Defenses Also Smashed in Center and North— Forces at Beachhead Seize Mile of Appian Way Near Cisterna.

Cisterna Now Under Attack From 2 Sides   Hitler Defenses Lay Crumbled; Beachhead Perimeter Expanding; Foe In Deadly Peril

MAJOR NORMANDY BATTLE LOOMS AS ALLIES, NAZIS SWAP GAINS   AMERICANS SHOVED BACK ACROSS SEVES RIVER; BRITISH TAKE GROUND AT MALTOT, CAPTURE WOODS

CALVIN POSTMA MAKES FINAL SACRIFICE   Dies In Combat July 16 On French Sail

2 Pro-Nazis Are Dismissed From Magyar Cabinet  Significance Not Clear   Significance Not Clear As Ministers Leave ‘By Their Own Request’

HUNGARY WEAKENING IN NAZI ALLIANCE   High Pro- German Officials Are Reported Resigning

New German Drive In Italy Indicated   Foe Believed to Be Regrouping Forces; Two Attacks Renulsed

YANKS AWAIT NEW NAZI PUSH   Nazis Regroup Forces For Drive On Bridgehead; Raids Repulsed

Double Cisterna Attack Repulsed  Lull Still Continues In Cassino Sector  = SO  —_  s ees we me eee

American Troops Throw Back Localized Nazi Attacks; Kesserling Apparently Preparing For Another Attempt To Drive Allies From The Beach.

AIRMEN RENEW BATTLE AGAINST NAZIS AT BEACH   Snow Hampers Movements of Allied Troops Around Cassino

New Attacks On Beachhead Are Repulsed   Kesselring Is Believed Regrouping His Forces For Another Attempt To Fight Way To Sea

Yanks Throw Back Germans   Repulse Two Attacks West of Cisterna On Anzio Beachhead

2 BEACHHEAD BLOWS HALTED   Germans in Need of Breath: ing Spell After Heavy  Anzio Losses.

Yanks Throw Back Two Nazi Attacks West Of Cisterna;  Armies Regroun For Bartle

Another Smash At Beachhead Expected Soon   Opposing Armies Regrour For Battle As Big Cunk Trwal.

GERMANS PLAN NEW ATTEMPTS ON ANZIO FRONT   Regrouping of German Forces for Another Attempt To Oust Invaders Seen

American Forces Hur! Back Two Nazi Attacks at Anzio   Ry RICHARD GC MEASSOCHK

NAZIG REGROUP FOR NEW TRY?   Americans Throw Back Two Attacks West of Cisterna Tuesday.   LULL IN CASSINO FIGHT

Enemy Losses Force Lull   Kesselring Brings Heavy Artillery to Bear On Beachhead, However

Nazis Group For New Try At Beachhead   Clark’s Men Throw Back Two Attacks; More Artillery in Action

Yanks Hurl Back Germans At Cisterna   Artillery Duel Carried O1 As Armies Regroup fo! Next Clash

TWO ATTACKS THROWN BACK BY AMERICANS   Field Marshal Kesserling Brings Long-Range Artillery Into Play and Regroups Forces   CASSINO SECTOR QUIET

YANKS AWAIT NEW ASSAULT   Opposing ‘Armies Regroup Forces For Renewal of Anzio Battle

Hun Artillery [Massed To Hit Yanks At Anzio   Long Range Guns Brought Into Play By Germans, Forces Regrouped By Nazi Conunander   Americans Repel Foes At Cisterna   Allied Airmen Active In Areu Below Rome; Yank Treops Attacked By Enemy Planes

AMERICAN TROOPS THREW BACK LOCAL ATTACKS OF GERMANS  ARTILLERY AND AIR POWER BROUGHT INTO BEACHHEAD BATTLE

AMERICANS BEAT OFF NEW ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD  —— se ee eC   LULL CONTINUES IN FIGHTING ON CASSINO. SECTOR *

REPULSE CISTERNA ATTACKS   Southéast Asia Command Tells Of Arakan Front Drive

Germans Get Set for Anzio Drive   U. S. Soldiers Throw Back Two Small Attacks; More Coming

Minor German Assaults Thrown Back   Marshall Kesselring Grouping Forces for Fresh Onslaught

Expect New Attack On Beachhead   Nazi Long Range Guns Pounding Anzio Area

2 Localized Nazi Attacks ‘Beaten Off  By Americans   Kesselring Preparing New Assault; One U.S Battalion Counts 500 German Dead

Allies Halt Nazi Attacks   Two Local Beachhead Thrusts; Only Shelling In Cassino Sector

Yanks Push Back Three Nazi Blows West of Cisterna   Enemy Maintaining Steady Pressure Around Beachhead Area; Lull Continues In Cassino Sector.

Nazis Mass To Hurl New Anzio Attack   Americans Hurl Back Two Assauits West Of Cisterna Post

TWO LOCALIZED «_ GERMAN ATTACKS ARE THROWN BACK   They Occurred West of Cisterna Yesterday, Naples Announced Today.   ARTILLERY BROUGHT UP   Nazis Shelled Center. of An zio and Other. Beachhead Objectives.

KESSELRING REORGANIZING FOR NEW TRY   German Long Range Ariillery Brought Into Play Against Anzic Beachhead   AIRMEN ACTIVE   Heavy Bombers Smash ai Regensburg, Germany, in Co-(rdinadion With British-Based Planes

Nazis Making Preparations ~ for New Drive   Kesselring.. Is  Regrouping His Forces in . Rome Beachhead Area   BREATHING SPELL SORELY NEEDED   Germans. Suffered. -Heavy Casualties. in Initial » All-Out Attack

Nazis Prepare New ‘Beachhead Offensive   Long-Range Artillery Brought Into Play Against Allied Positions at Anzio and 130 Enemy Planes Attack Troops.   By RICHARD G. MASSOCK.,

Nazi Forces Apparently Regrouping For Another Effort To Rout Allies

Allies Repel Two Attacks; Fighting Reported In Lull Around Cassino

GERMANS ARE REPULSED BY lj, S, TROGPS   Allies Steadily Gaining Ground  On Beachhead

Lull Continues In Fighting On Italian Fronts   Germons Regroup Forces for New Smash at Allies

Third Assault On Beachhead Is Expected   Kesselring Believed Re: grouping Forces For Another Desperate Attempt — Artillery Duel   Continues.

See Fresh Attempt To: Dislodge Allies Made By Germans   Enemy Brings Long-Range Guns ~ Into Play As Kesserling Forms Forces Near Anzio Beachhead

TwoLocal Pushes Repulsed; Nazis Shell Beachhead   Lull Is Evident On Cassino Front Lines; German Dead Litter Field By Hundreds

daps Claim Yanks Storm Ashore On Saipan And Tinian; Fighting Heavy

U.S. Task Force May Be Striking   Final Major Barrier On Mid-Pacific Road To The Philippines

Vice President of Anaconda Company Speaks At Meeting Here Today; A. T. Peterson Outlines State Postwar Employment Program

PEOPLE OF EUROPE PROMISED RELIEF   Food To Follow. Troops Into Liberated Countries

ALL-OUT DRIVE LOOMS ON BIAK   U.S. Lines Bolstered; Trap Tightened On Other Japs

Americans Are Set For All-Out Assault on Biak  Two Other Jap Forces  May Be Victims Of Pincers Moves

TROOPS MASS FOR ALL-OUT PUSH ON JAPS   Air Support, Ground Troops Eliminating Snipers, Mortars

U.S. Troops AdvanceF or Pincer Attack on Biak   Units Land Behind Enemy Lines On Bougainville; Thousands of Japs Now Trapped; Aussies Take New Guinea Posts

Americans Gather For Raid On Biak   More Yanks Land For Attack On Pacific Island

REINFORCE TROOPS ON BIAK ISLAND   "Yankees Prepare to Take Airdromes Which Japs Defend St::bbornly; New Leap at Bougainville.

Ul. S. Reinforces Garrison At Biak   Men Massed For All-Out Drive Against Japs

Americans Push Liberation Drive In Philippines   Take Another Leyte Airfield and Free Numerous Towns

Yank Landing On Samar  Is Reported   Numerous Towns Freed And Counter-Attacks Repulsed at Night  ONE FIFTD IS TISEN-

Yank Forces Smash Ahead In Mire, Heat Of The Philippines  Doughboys Get Another Jap Airfield

Americans Take Another Airfield In Philippines   Troops Moving Forwarc in Mire and Heat; New Landing Reported

Overcome Japanese Resistance on Leyte Freeing Numerous Towns From Enemy; Stubborn Counter Attack West of Palo.

MacArthur's Troops Take Third Airfield On Leyte, Ferry Tanks fo Samar Invasion

Yanks press advantage on Leyte island No confirmation ~ on Samar landing

NEW AIRFIELD TAKEN IN FIGHT FOR LEYTE ISLE   7-Mile Advance Made Against Strong Enemy Resistance

Convoy of Troops and Invasion Weapons Arrives in England Trained for Battle

France Wants Part In Future   Expect French To Have Place In World Council

WADKE TOLE nT FOR FIRST TIME   Planes Sink Oi!-Laden Jap Ship, Fire Merchantman.   BARGES SUNK   ‘Heavy Bombers Hit Wake ‘Island; Set Off Explosives  In Storage Areas

Allies Attack Wakde Island For First Time   Oil-Laden Jap Ship Sunk, Merchantman Fired in Other Raids

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest Wold News 'Today.   Alemen Are Reseed,

Two Rescuers Reach Fliers on Plateau   AIRMEN MAROONED 10 DAYS AFTER BAILING OUT FOUND UNINJURED

Jap Parliament Holds Short Session, Hops Into Air Raid Drill   By INITED PRES&@

Dewey Ignores National Issues In Albany Talk   Suggests Freezing Of New York Fund

REDS OPEN N DRIVE ON DNESTR IN. BESSARABIA   M.oscow. Announces Mass Attacks On Enemy Shipping At Sevastopol

Reds Launch Dnestr Push   Enemy Shipping Near Sevastopol Battered

OFFICIALS SEE K STRIKE SOLUTION   Lausche Believes Transil Workers Not to Walkout

HOPE TOAVERT TRANSIT STRIKE   Employes Threaten Cleveland Transportation Tie Up Tonight

March Call For 39 Take Physical   Large Group will Leave Next Thursday on February Call; Combing List For Men

Plane Crash Near Merrill Brings © Death To Crew   Six Fliers From: Sioux City Base Killed In Accident

Plane Crash Near Merrill Brings © Death To Crew  Six Fliers From: Sioux City Base

Bomb Japanese Celebes Base   Navy Also Sinks Twe Ships in Marshalls

Knutsen Predicts Post-War Tax Load Of Over 23 Billions  Current Federal

Big Postwar Tax Load Seen   Estimated at 23 to 28 Billion Dollars Annually

Postwar Tax Load Of 23 Billions Seen by Knutson  Interest on Debt One Of Largest Items  In Future Financina

Big Tax Load Js Predicted   Knutson Sees 23 Billions Necessary, After War To Carry Nation

U. S. Faiis Te Lure Jap Fieet   Picture, However, Is Not Bright For Japanese Navy

Yanks Smash For Cassino - From 2 Sides   Gustav Line Flankers Cut Way to 500-Yard  Range in Front

U.S. Within 500 Yards O Cassino On Italy Front   City Being Attacked From North And Fron Rear; German Line Is Seriously Threatened

American Units But 500 Yards  From Cassinc   Reported Attacking Nazi Fortress From Rear; Also Stage Frontal Push

Cassino Fall Is Imminent As Yanks Move In   German Fortress Is Only 500 Yards From American Line

5000 Planes Pound 29 Axis Targets  Wage All-Out Push To Cripple Nazi Antiinvasion Bases

Allied Troops German Lines  Jump Garigliano   Jump Garigliano Estuary on Long Quiet Front

Allies Strike Behind Germans   Report Large Raid In Minturno Area

ALLIES STRIKE BEHIND ENEMY LINE IN ITALY   CANADIANS ONLY § MILES FROM PORT OF PESCARA

ALLIES HIT BACK OF GERMAN LINES      Troops Jump Estuary of River to Raid Nazi Positions

Allies Strike Behind Nazis In West Italy   Sweep Around End Of Enemy Defenses On Garigliano River  HALTED. NAZIS SAY

“BIG FOUR’ TO CONFER ON PEACE BODY   Britain, Russia and China to Send Delegations to U. S.

BRITAIN, RUSGIA: CHINA TO CONFER IN WASHINGTON   Will Establish New International Plan to Maintain Peace

PEACE PLAN. 18 STUDIED   SENATORS GIVING ATTENTION TQ ROOSEVELT POSTWAR PROPOSAL—FALL CON. ° * FERENCE PLANNED, '.

Our Gliders, ’Chutists Met No Resistance. AP’s Dixon Reports   Most Of Gliders Land Safely Behind Beaches Of Southern France, Correspondent, In Plane Above Invasion Area, Reports.

Nazi Resistance Minus Quantity  Glider Troops Meet Little Opposition

No Major Fighting Seen on Beaches Hour after Landing  AP Correspondent Flying Above Invasion Zone Sees No Signs at Struaale 20 Miles Inland

RESISTANCE IS WEAK ON FRENCH INVASION COAST   War Correspondent Tells Story As Seen By Air

Invading U.S. Gliders and Chutes Land Behind Foe Unopposed, Eyewitness Says

Eye-Witness Sees Little Opposition In Early Stages of Invasion Battle

2000 Heavies Aim Te Ground Nazis   Airberne Spectator Over Invasion Area Sees  No Major Fighting 20 Miles Inland

Eyewitness Gives Account (f The Invasion   Correspondent Says No Resistance Met In Early Stages.

No Early Resistance Reported To Invasion;F oe Action Lacking  Preliminary Stages Of South France

A. P. Writer In Bomber Above Invaders Reports No Sign Of Resistance During Landings   Glider Forces Seen To Come Down Amid Complete Lack Of A Struqale

Kenneth Dixon Watches Invasion From B-25 Bomber   Reports Parachute Glider Landings ‘Made Successfully

Gen. Patton Leading [American 3rd Army, ‘Eisenhower States   Small Resistance Is Met By Allied Landing Forces Today

NEW FRENCH INVASION WATCHED BY NEWSMAN  Kenneth Dixon, Aboard Bomber, Sees First Troops Land on Front

No. Major: Fighting  Observed, Press. Correspondent Reports From. Vantage :Point:In “Plane

Dixon Sees No Sign Of Opposition   Glider, Parachute Troops Seen Landing  Unopposed 20 Miles Inland

AP Man Flies Over Invasion Coast, Can't See Any German Resistance

Local Gunner In Italy, Gets The Air Medal   Tech, Sgt. Edward Trusiewiez Took ‘Part In Key _ Bombing Raids

ENEMY RADIOS TELL OF RAIDS   Germans Say Americans Take Suluan Island In »  Philinpime Gulf

Yanks Open Up Offensive, Tokyo Claims   German Radio Claims Landing Made On Suluan

BERLIN TELLS OF SUCCESSFUL YANK SULUAN LANDING   Wording Of Axis Reports Suggests Beachhead Seized On Leyte

IWarFun dDriveOpens;Support Ot Public Expected by Leaders   Red Cross Burden Greater Than Ever

RED CROSS DRIVE [S LAUNCHED HERE   Rev. Boergadine Cities Overseas Achievements Aiding Armed Forces.

Red Cross Asks $200.000.000 To Cover Wartime Needs   LOCAL RED CROSS DRIVE WILL BE ANNOUNCED NEXT WEEK

Red Cross Faces Immense Tasks in Present, Future   Harvey Organization Holds Meeting Tomorrow Night in  City Hall; Start Monday

What if He'd Been Well? Sick Marine Kills 8 Japanese, Apologizes for Having Malaria

Labor Worried Over Vets’ Jobs   Fear Vets May Deprive Seniority of Jobs; May Not Agree With Unions.

Halsey's Carrier Planes Sink or Damage 57 More Japanese Ships and Small Craft and Destroy 87 More Nip Planes

Wallace Lead Cut By Byrnes, “Sen. Barkley   > D.R. Letter Is Center Of Interest On Eve Of Convention

Henry Wallace "Read Out’ by FDR’s Praise   Delegates Take View Presidentini Letter Danis His Chances

Byrnes, Barkley Gain For Vice President, FD Faintly Praises Wallace   Democratic Delegates To Decide, President Writes

 Byrnes and Barkley Active As  Wallace Hurriesto Chicago to ‘Look After HisOwn Campaign

Faint Praise Given Wallace By President  Byrnes And Barkle; eff - ge, gy gt

Heated Pre - Convention Democrat Battle Rages   FDR Says Delegates “Must Do Deciding’ At Chicago Meeting

Wallace Plans Fight for His ‘Renomination   Vice President to Chicago Wednesday His Lead Slipping To Byrnes, Barkley

Barkley And Byrnes After V.P. Choice   President's Letter About Wallace Not Demanding; Convention Wednesday

A Bitter Contest For Second Place   F..D. R.’s Faint Praise of Wallace Heartens Other  Candidates   LETTER MADE PUBLIC   “Convention Must Do the  Deciding” Is Roosevelt’s Word

SCRAPS BREWING FOR DEMOCRATS AT CONVENTION   Wallace Gives Way To Byrnes And Barkley in Race for Vice President Honor

Democrats To Battle On Post   BYRNES AND BARKLEY CONTEST FOR NO. 2 SPOT

FDR's Letter Faintly Praises Running Mate   President Roosevelt Says He Likes and Respects Wallace, but Decision Is with Delegates.

Byrnes, Barkley Slash  Wallace Backing In  Democratic Fight   Receives But Faint Praise From F. D. R. Who Says Convention ‘Must Do The Deciding’ On Vice Presidential Nomination

Faint Support Given Wallace By Roosevelt   Vice President Declared “Out” by Political Experts

Wallace Going to Chicago   FDR'S WEAK PAT ON BACK OF IOWAN SPURS OTHER RUNNING MATE ASPIRANTS

Hurry-Up Call Brings Wallace To Convention   His Backers Fear Result Despite FDR Endorsement

WALLACE’S VOTE ~ BEGINS TO SPLIT   ‘Defection in Pennsylvania Delega; tion,’ Claimed for Him

Wallace Is Given Slight Pat by FDR   Opposition Takes Heart as President Leaves Selection Up to Convention

MOVE IS MADE BY IOWAN 10 SAVE WALLACE   Called to Chicago as Pennsylvania Splits Over Nomination

Wallace Answers ‘Hurry-Up Call   Supporters Plead For Him To Come Lead Campaign

Wallace Camp Sends Henry A Hurry-Up Call   He’s Due Tomorrow To Take Personal Charge Of Convention Fight.

F.D.R. Indorses Wallace; Gives Convention Free Hand On VP Choice

Wallace Out; Barkley and Byrnes Gain  Long Awaited FOR   Long Awaited FOR Letter Fails to Give lowan Comfort

Wallace to Be at Party  Convention   Others Are Being Pushed for FDR’s Running Mate

DELEGATES MUST CHOOSE RUNNING MATE, SAYS FDR  STATEMENT CALLED DISMISSAL OF VICE  ARAFAT ay UAL I ArEL

Wallace Heads For Chicago; Hopes Lagging  Byrnes And Barkley Gaining; F. R.’s Nod To Vice-President

DEMOCRAT OPEN SESSION TOMORROW NOON   Vice-P-esidential Nomination Is Greatest Isssue

Barkley, Byrnes Draw Strength from Wallace   Lukewarm Roosevelt Letter for Vice President Starts Pre-Convention Flurry.

Byrnes, Barkley Lead After FDR Mild Letfer  Wallace Supporters “Urs His Appearance  ma nembhananwth § phn

Break in Wallace's ~~ $trenath   Pennsylvania, Which Has Been. Claimed. for Him, “Splits Vote in Poll   OTHERS MAY JOIN : THE BREAK-AWAY   Byrnes and Barkley Are Moving Up, But 15 Names May Be Offered

PRESIDENTS LETTER LEAVES MATTER OPEN   Says Delegates Must Make Final Decision As To Runnine Mate

BACKERS URGE WALLAGE TO RUSH TO CHICAGO   FDR Indorses Vice President But Leaves Decision With Delegates

Better Hurry, Mr. Wallace Vice President Losing Out: Aides Call Him to Chicago

Byrnes and Barkley Cut Into Wallace’s Fvpected Suppor!   Rooseveit Letter Back: NVice-Pres. Wallace In Half-Hearted Way

Faintly Praised By F. D., Wallace  Chances Decline   Byrnes And Barkeley Cut Rival’s Lead; Keynote Address Is Tomorrow

President Asks Nomination Of Wallace.  But Leaves Selection To Convention

FDR LEAVES IT UP TO DELEGATES TOCHOOSEV.P.   Believes Body Will Give Matter of Choosing Vice President Great Considera £e nee:

WALLACE VOTE IS HACKED Al   Byrnes And Barkley Cut Into Support Of VicePresident

FDR’s Letter Yanks Support From Wallace   Limits Endorsement To Personal Preference For Iowan

Barkley, Byrnes Bid For Office   Seek Vice-Presidency After Perfunctory Dismissal” of Wallace   Timmons-in-a-Tent Seeks Democratic Nomination For Vice-Presideney

\Byrnes, Barkley Move Up In. VP Battle In Wake Of FDR’s Faint Support Of Wallace   Furious Pre-Convention Battle On; President Leaves It Up To Deleqates

Stock Of Byrnes, Barkley Soar As Running Mate Of Pres. Roosevelt   F.D.R., In Letter, Praises Wallace, But Says Convention Must Do Selecting Of Vice-Presidential Nominee.

Wallace On W ay To ( hicago  To Battle For Nomination      Vice President Summoned When Campaign Lags After FDR Personally Approves Him But Leaves Decision Up To Delegates; Byrnes-Barkley Battle Rages

Byrnes, Barkley Gain in Second Spot. Race; FR’s Praise for Wallace Faint

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIA  Transportation In Germany Is Fast Thinning

PRICE CEILINGS ON CIGARS RAISED   Pre-War Nickel “Smoke” Coming Back at 14% Cents—New Tops ¥Fffective Nov. 18. _—-«’

Oklahomans Open Massed Coyote Hun ‘Aided by Flying Farmers and C. A. P.

1,000. Hunt Coyotes. in Oklahoma Mass. Attack Directed Froin Planes        Dozens of Marauding: Animals Are B: Are Bagged as Small Army of  ‘Men’ Tries to. ‘Wipe ‘Out Menace: to Livestock and Poul“ > ty—FourDay ‘Drive Launched: After ‘Disappearance of Calves;, ‘Turkeys and Sheep in Great ‘Numbers,

Midwest Truck Strike Threat   Usion . Orders Vote Taken Next Weekend

Yanks Seize New Naval Base  In Carolines   Frightened Jap Navy Offers No Opposition To Task Force Raids

YANKS CAIN NEW BASE INPAIF   Capture Of Ulithi Atoll Without Firing A Shot Is Announced   RAIDS CONTINUE   American Pilots Clamping Aerial Pincers On Philippines \

U.S, CONTINUES AERIAL ATTACKS ON PHILIPPINES   Reveal Army Troops Capture Atoll in Carolines Month Ago

PHILIPPINES HIT BY CARRIER AND LAND BOMBERS   Nimitz Bares Occupation Of New Pacific Base Without A Shot Being Fired

YANKS CLAMP PINCERS ON PHILIPPINES   Carrier Forces Strike From North, Unhampered By Frightened Japanese Navy

Yank Planes Pounding at Philippines   Ulithi Atoll in West Carolines Taken. New Navy Advanced Base

NOT STOPPED BY JAP NAVY   Land-Based Fighters Make - First Massed Foray  From South. ;   CAROLINE ATOLL TAKEN

Yanks Seize New Jap Base in Carolines   Gen. MacArthur’s Southwest Pacific Fighters Raid Length of Mindanao Island

Tighten Invasion Pincers   CARRIER AND LAND-BASED PLANES STRIKE ANOTHER BLOW AT PHILIPPINES   Strike At Clark Field.

Yanks Clamp Aerial Pincers \On Philippines   Nimitz Announces Ulihi Atoll Occupied Four Weeks Ago; Truck Convoy Blasted to Bits on Mindanao.

PHILIPPINES ATTACKED BY UL, §, BOMBERS   Truck Convoy Is Blasted; Navy Moves Up

Heavy Raids Strike From Two Sides   Nimitz Asnounces  Unopposed Landing in Carolines -

STEP UP BLOWS UNHAMPERED BY JAPANESE NAVY   NIMITZ ANNOUNCES NEW BASE ACQUIRED IN WEST CAROLINES

Yanks Moving ir on Philippines   Aerial Pincers Provina Effective

Destruction of Jap Facilities ls Continuing   Yanks Unopposed in Taking Strategic Pacific Coral Isle

RUSS ARMIES FIGHT INTO CRIMEA CITY   Four Huge Convoys Attacked by Red Planes

First And 30th Took Aachen   Famous Fighting First and Old Hickory From Caro. linas Joined in Capture  Of City.

France Asks Equal Voice   De Gaulle Wants Part Tn Punishing Reich

FRANCE WANTS SAY IN FATE OF GERMANY   Demands Equal Voice With Big Three

Beat Underbrush  For Sen. Truman   Missouri Delegation Active in His Support For VicePresident.

BOY WITH. LEUKEMIA GOES TO CLEVELAND   He Doesn’t Know Disease Threatens His Life

FINN CAPITAL CITY BURNING   Bombed By Reds For Third Time Warning To Get Out of War

HELSINAT RAID WARNS FINNS T0 QUIT WAR   Capital Bombed Twice Sunday, Again Today; Many Fires Started

FIRES SWEEPING FINNS’ CAPITAL ‘AFTER RED RAID   Bombing of Helsinki See: as Warning to Get fo Out of War

SEE WARNING FOR FINLAND   Bombing Of Helsinki Seen As Notice To Finland To Get Out Of War

FEEDING HUNGRY . ~ IN EUROPE URGED   RESOLUTION BEFORE. HOUSE TO SEND SUPPLIES TO SUBJUGATED NATIONS.

Kwajalein as American as Hot Dogs Three Weeks After Invasion  (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S. NOTEBOOK.)

Bulgarian Troops Said Withdrawn  From Yugoslavia   Another Step Toward Peace With U. S., Britain Reported. Taken

Bulgar War Exit Appears Certain   Withdraws Troops From Yugoslavia In New Peace Move

Pope Expresses Thanks to God Rome Is Spared   Big Crowd, Including Fifth Army Troops, Hears Pontiff Talk

Japs Reported To Have Taken  Lungling Base      Reported Only 19> Miles Of Rwe'ln: oo fying Coastal Sceter Against Expected Aflicu .ffen gyaa're

 Japs Reported To Have Taken Tried Base   Reported Only 19 Miles Of Kweitin; Fortitving Coastal Secter Against Expected Alliec Uffen e1te

Demands Probe of ClO Activities  Violation Charged of Federal Statutes

DEMAND PROBE OF C10’S POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE   GOP National Chairman H. E. Spangler Charges Group With Viclation of Corrupt Practices and Hatch Acts

Seek Probe of CIO Political Action Group   Senator Butler Calls For Investigation of Union Activity

C10 POLITICAL ACTIVITIES NOW BEING CENSURED   Senatorial Probe Demanded As Result of Alleged Violation of Corrupt Practices and Hatch Acts

Nebraskan Takes Up E. E. Spangler’s Charge That Hatch Act Is Violated

URGES PROBE OF UNION POLITICS   Senator utler Demands Investigation Of Charges Of “Flagrant Violations” Of Comrupt Practices Act By CIO.

Senate Probe 0} C10 Political Group Asked  GOP Chairman Says Corrupt Practices, . Hatch Act Violated

DEMANDS SENATE PEOBE OF CIO  egumcics-mmmca: tari ciatamesmillthimamalh

Butler Demands Inquiry On C0 Political Action   Cites Charges Made By G.O.P. Head, Harrison Spangler

Asks Senate To Investigate C10 Political Group   Butler’s Request Based On Spangler’s Charges Of Corrupt Practices.

Probe Of CIO In Campaigns Due In Senate   Butler Demands’ Inquiry, Alabama: Battle. Cited . As’ Union. verge. ; "Is Defeated

Senafe Hears Demand for CIC Political Inquiry   Union Activity Called Violation Of Election Laws

C10 Political Activities Are Being Scanned   Labor Committee Is Being Accused of Flagrant and Bold Violation of National Laws.

Congressional Inquiry of CiO Commiffee Asked   Result of Charges Union Guilty of Violations Hatch Act

arene PROBE        Republican Leader Charges Violations of Corrupt Practices  and Hatch Acts

New Thrusts Inte Inner Defenses of Japan Seen —   Two Top Naval Leaders of Nipponese Killed _In Assault On Saipan

Two Top Jap Naval Chiefs Are Reported Killed In Saipan Invasion; Guam Hammered By Warships’

Yanks Slay 2 Admirals, Blast Guam   Leader of Attack On Pearl Harbor Meets Vengeance

Island 2 Miles West of Saipan Is Seized   New Thrusts Into Japan's inner Defense Indicated

Pacific Forces Take Maniagassa Island   New Thrusts Indicated By Seizure; Jans Lose Two Admirals On Saipan

PREPARING FOR JAP THRUSTS   American Forces Announce Seizure of Maniagassa Island — Two ‘Top dap Naval Leaders Lose Lives.

TWO HIGH JAP NAVAL LEADERS DIE ON SAIPAN   Admirals Nagumo And Yano Devised Pear] Harbor Attack

U.S. Forces in Pacific May be Getting Ready for  New Assaults   Death of Two Jap Admirals at Saipan July 7 Announced

AMERICANS TAKE ISLAND NEAR SAIPAN   Nimitz Reveals 2 Top Jap Naval Leaders Killed

ISLAND WEST OF SAIPAN SEIZED BY U. S, FORCES   Two Top Jap Naval Leaders Lost at Mantarassa

Japs Lose Two Naval Leaders   Admirals Killed in Battle of Saipan

Yanks Believed Tc Be Preparing New Thrusts At Japan   Nimitz Reports Deaths Of Jap Admirals; Island Seized

Some Progress ‘Is Made on Peleliu Island   _ Japanese Dead in That Area Now Totals 12,211

Calls Men to Defend Home Soil   Home Army Is Similar to That in Britain After France Fel}   INCLUDES ALL MEN  BETWEEN 16 AND 60   But Dercree Claims It Is Not in Preparation for Defeat

Men 16 to 60 Are Ordered to Defend Homeland   Fuehrer Did Not Speak but Had Decree Broadcast

German Home Guard Js Formed   Hitler Proclaims Second All-Out Effort Must. Will Succeed

Defense Of Home Soil Tichtened   Germany Facing Enemy Alone Just As In 1939, Decree Issued By Hitler States

NAZIS CALL ON ALL MEN TO ARM TO DEFEND REICH  Civilians From 16 to 60 Called ; To Armed Service Today by Hitler

Hitler Forms Home Guard To Stop Foe   Says Second All-Out Effort by Germany Must Succeed

Hitler Organizes Home Guard; Drafts All Men from 16 to 60 Years of Age

Draft Germans . ~ From {6 To 60   ‘We Face Enemy Alone,” Hitler’s Lament

HOME GUARD 19. HITLER LATES!   Calls On All Able-Bodied Men To Fight Allied In” vasion

Hitler Forms Home Guard   Germany Facing Enemy Alone As in 1939, Save German Leader

Hitler Calls Al Nazis, 16-60, Into Home Guard   Germans Desperate, Owing to Failure Of European Allies

Formation Of German State Guard   Hitler Proclaims Second All-Out Effort Must Succeed: His Voice Not Heard

New Home Guard In Germany   FUEHRER BOASTS OF KNOCKING OUT ALLIES IN FORMING NEW ARMY

Hitler Forms New Guard for Reich   ORDERS ALL MEN FROM 16 TO 60 INTO UNIT FOR GERMANY’S DEFENSE

‘Hopkins Letter’ Under Federal Eye; Ickes Denies Part in Willkie Probe

YANKEE FORCES IN NEW LANDING ON MAPIA ISLES   Forge Another Link in Chain _ Trapping 90,000 Japs on New Guinea

Jap Resistance Reported Slight   Landing Forges New Link in Chain Of Islands Trapping 90,000 Nips

GUAM TRAP CLOSES   Bad Tidings for the Enemy Come From All Parts  of Pacific

Battle For Guam ‘Nears End   Yap Island Raided By Big Bombers; Tokyo Reports Planes Over Philippines

Conquest of Guam Near as Trap Closes   Yap Seen Neutialized by A Attacks; Raids en Mindanao Reported

Complete Capture Of GuamNear Now   Once Great Airbase of Yap Is Blasted by Heavy Bombs

TOKYO SAYS RAID MADE ON PHILIPPINES   No Substantiation of Broadcast is Made by Lt. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force   SUPPLY LINE IS SLICED

Bad Tidings Plague Japs   Yap Neutralized, Supply Line Slashed, Nine-Tenths Of Guam Taken

Yap Apparently Neutralized By 30-Ton Bombing   Slice Jap Supply Line Between Aitape And Wewak

Yanks Continue Advance on Guam   Tokyo Reports U. S. Planes Over Philippines; Many Bombs on Yap.

CONQUEST OF GUAM NOW NEAR   Japs Compressed In Small Section; Yap Neutralized

Tokyo Reports American Planes Over Philippines: 42,000 Japs Killed In Unsuccessful Drive Into Northeast India And Burma

GUAM CONQUEST IS NEAR CLOSE   Several Thousand Japanese Squirm On Tenth Of Island

Yap Defenses Knocked Out; Jap Supply Line in New Guinea Cut in Further Blows

Guam Campaign Is Nearing End; Yap Nevtralized   ‘Reduced Jap Force Is Driven into Tiny Corner of Former U.S. Boce

Nips Receiving — Severe Pasting   SEVERAL THOUSAND OF ENEMY. PINNED ON ISLE

American Troops Drive Nips Into Northern One-Tenth of “the Island—Yap Islaud je  Peaunttanse Naowivalized

Reconquest Of Island of Guam is Near  Tokyo Reports American Planes Owar Philinninoe

Yankees Push  Guam Cleanup   Several Thousand Japs Forced Into North End of Base

Reconquest Of 'U.S.Navy Base Of Guam Near   Yankees Have Compressed Several Thousands Of Sguirming Japs Inte Tenth of Island

Japs Squirming Under U. S. Air, Land Victories   Yap Island Neutralized; New Guinea Supply Line Cut.

Yanks Compress Japs on Guam   Supply Line Between Aitape and Wewak on New Guinea Slashed

Federal Agents . Arrest Antique ~ Doll Authority   Well Known New York Dealer Accused of Coding Letters

King George Pledges More Aid In Pacific   Briitsh Monarch Addresses Parliament, Expressing Confidence In Victories.

SOVIET ARMIES PUSH WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF EAST PRUSSIA   Hitler’s War Council Reported Ready To Evacuate Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

REDS WITHIN RANGE OF EAST PRUSSIA   Border Can Now Be Hit By Russ Artillery

FEDERAL WORKERS TO BUY MORE BONDS   Mrs. Roosevelt Reports on Recent Trip Through Carribbean and South America

Jap Installations in Marshalls Hit   Five Enemy Ships Damaged by Bombs

Jap Installations in Marshalls Hit  Te Biman Gla tec’   Five Enemy Ships Deamaced by Bamb:

Seeks fo Force Mississippi Flectors fo Cast Votes For Their Party's Nominee

RUSSIAN FORCE ON BALTIC SEA * BELOW MEMEL   Germans in Riga Isolated; ® New Drive Reported South of Warsaw

Sergeant, Two Privates Wipe Out 70 Japanese ‘In Four Days Of Action

SENATE SENDS SOLDIER VOTE BILL TO PARLEY   Federal Ballot Plan Passed With Limifing Amendmenis, House Voted States’ Rights Brll

SOLDIER VOTE AND FOOD SUBSIDY SHARING SPOTLIGHT IN CONGRESS   Politics Comes in for Discussion in Capital, Too, But It Centers On Vice Presidency With Fourth Term Bid for FDR Taken For Granted—Simplified Tax Form Sought—Labor Problems Still With Lawmakers

Soldier Ballot ~ ssue In Pocke   Senate, House Divided Over Legislation

Compromise, or Else  On Soldier Ballot Bill   Senate Passes One Kind, House the Other Kind

Compromise  On Soldier Ballot Bill   Senate Passes One Kind. House the Other Kind

Shuttle Plane  Service Bombs Reich Center:   Huge Bomber Fleet Escorted By 1,000 Fighters From England to Russia

Bombers — ‘Ait Berlin and Fly On   Reports Indicate: First: of - Shuttle Raids’. Between’: ~~ ‘Britain-and Russia:-.   ENCOUNTER FLAK: <.. ~ BUT NO. FIGHTERS   Germaiis Admit Damage and Threaten. Vengeance ;Rock-. -et: Bases -Hit “Again:

86 REGISTRANTS TO TAKE PRE-INDUCTION PHYSICAL ON MONDAY   IARGFST GROUP GOES TO CITY TO GET SERVICE QUALIFICATION’

FORTY-TWO LEAVE -  SATURDAY UNDER NEW DRAFT PLAN   ‘SELECTEES WILL GET FROM 21 TO 96 DAYS BEFORE THEIR FINAL CALL

1,000 fo 6,000 Wright Corporation Workers on Strike af Lockland, Ohio

Call Convention Of Republicans   County Meeting to Be Held at Court House March t7—To Select State Delegates

County Republican Convention to Be Held at Court House on June 30

A-H-GIRLS-PLAN.-.: FAIR PROGRAM THURSDAY, AUG. 3   Six Clubs Will Present Ex hibits in 4-H Girls’ Build ing; Mrs. Roy Budling,  Wee te tg Preside.

‘Sen. Harry S. Truman Nominated For Vice President By. Democrats, *Angry Disputes Forecast Trouble

TRUMAN TO RESIGN CHAIRMANSHIP OF WAR INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE   ROOSEVELT, VICE-PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE WILL MEET TO MAKE PLANS FOR CAMPAIGN

RUMAN’S AIM: ‘AVE LIVES ANI AONEY IN WAR   ‘ Candidate “Tells Platform

Suicide In Toledo Leaves Letters  Telline Of $30,000 Gambling Losses

SUICIDE STARTS POLICE CHECK   Claims $30,000 Lost to Toledo Gamblers in Two Years

Allied Troops Drive Ahead  In New Gumea   Australians Are Advancing Up Ramu Valley After Overcoming Jap Defense   ALLIED PLANES ARE AIDING GROUND MOVE

; DROWNED : ” NEAR HOM   Mother of Hugh Leith, 3rd Finds Body in River;  Doe Nearby

CONCORD BOY a DROWNED ~ NEAR HOME   Mother of Hugh Leith, 3rd Finds ds Body in River; — Dog Nearhy.

Labor's Rights Are Subject To Political Favor   ,To Attack Handling O1 Problems By ''Washington Bureaucracy’

DEWEY WILL SPEAK ON LABOR TONIGHT   Address From Seattle Will B Broadcast At 10:30 EWT; To Attack Bureaucracy

KIMES SEEKING STATE PARDON   One of Nation’s Most Publicized Bandits in 20's Is Seeking Release

Kimes Clemency Will Be Considered Soon   New Pardon, Parole Board Will Look Over Application

FDR. ELECTORS UPHELD IN TEXAS   STATE SUPREME COURT ORDERS THEIR NAMES PUT ON ELECTION BALLOT,

Cairo Peace Story Was NotPassed By Censor   Two Other Russian Papers Fail To Make Mention Of Report Printed In Pravda

Russia’s Reply On Diplomatic Breach Awaited   Reaction To U. S. Offer To Help Smooth Over Difficulty Seen Way Out

ARMISTICE DAY ROBOT BARRAGE MADE ON LONDON   Many Destroyed Be. fore They Could Dive to Earth

[ROBOT BARRAGE HITS LONDON   No Disclosure If New _ V-2 Rockets included

LONDON HIT BY ARMISTICE DAY BLAST OF V-18   Censor Refuses information Of  The Use of V-2s

Gunners Blast at Barrage   Parts of V-2 Rockets Found, Experts Work on Countermeasures

Thunder of Robot Bombs Over England Punctuates Grim Armistice Day Rite

Armistice Day ‘V-2’ Barrage Hits Eneland   Nazis Promise Robot At tack on Antwerp, Al  _ jies’ Supply Port

POLL TAX 10 BE BIG ISSUE   Controversy Heads Toward Both Political Party Conventions.

Conferees Kill New Vote Plan   State-Controlled Ballot Comprom Reiecied

HOPELESS DEADLOCK ON VOTING MEASURE   “States Rights” Advecatcs 311 But Kreck Props From Under Compromise Proposal

SHORT SPECIAL SESSION SEEN   Soldier Vote Measure ts Only Matter On Calendar

SPECIAL SESSION 10 AID SOLDIER VOTING OPENS WEDNESDAY   15,000 Ohio Servicemen Have Already Asked For Ballots

Dewey Defies FDR to Offer Future Policy   New Deal Likened To Bankrupt Outfit Under One-Man Rule

Dewey Charges RooseveltHas No Future Plan   Asserts President Failed To Offer Any Program And That.New Deal Is “Bankrupt”

FDR Campaigns Without Program, Asseris Dewey   New Deal Living In Past, GOP Candidate Contends: Railway Seizure Was Political Set-up

DEWEY CHALLENGES FDR TO. PRESENT. A. PLAN FOR FUTURE   Asks President, Who Is Speaking Tonight In New York City, to Offer Even the Pretense of a Program for the Period to Come

Attack Made On New Deal As Bankrup!   Gov. Dewey Returns Tc Albany Following Hi: Pittsburgh Address Or Labor Policies

New Deal is Bankrupt, Dewey   Challenges FDR to Present Even Pretense Of Program

FDR Challenged To Offer Progran For the Future  Governor Dewey Te tr» cS (gereeeneee   Governor Dewey Cheered By Huge Pittsburgh Crowd

Dewey Challenges FDR to Offer Program for U.S.  GOP Nominee Assert: New Deal Has ~ Nothing for Future

Dewey Challenges FR to Present ‘Even Pretense of Future Program’

DEWEY SAYS NEW DEAL LIVES ONLY TO EXTEND POWER   CHALLENGES FDR TO PRESENT WORKABLE PROGRAM FOR FUTURE

Dewey Challenges FDR to Offer Program for U. S.  GOP Nominee Assert: New Deal Has  Alathina far E:stire

DEWEY WANTS. EDR. TO LIST FUTURE PLANS   Charges New Deal _ Has No ‘Definite’:  . Ppoorvam

Dewey Asks F.R.’s Program  Brands New Deal As Bankrupt Organizatior

DEWEY BLASTS LACK OF PLANS   Challenges FDR to Present ‘Even Pretense of Program’

FOE PLANLESS, DEWEY CLAIMS   New Dealers Challenged To Air Program For Future

Canada Rafusea ta TIntarvane.   BIG GUNS SHELL NAZIS IN (TAL!   TROOP CONCENTRATIONS UN. DER. FIRE~GROUND OPERATIONS HALTED BY MUD.

FIGHT IN ITALY AT STANDSTILL   Mud Keeps Both Sides Mired: Only Big Guns In Action

ALLIES SHELL FOE AT ANZIO   Artillery Pounds Nazis As Mud Brings Land Fighting to Standstill

Kirke L. Simpson Says: Allied Successes in Italy Cause Nazis To Consider Early Retreat

MUNICH AGAIN AIR TARGET OF U, $. INVASION   2,000 Bombers and Fighters Joing Force From Italy Hits South Of France.

MUNICH AREAS GET POUNDING FROM BOMBERS   2,000 American Planes Tour Southern Germany While Another Force Hits Italy

NOT FAR FROM FROST   Forecaster Says Tonight Will Not Repeat Goodland’s 38 Low

Canada Hurrying To Decisive Vote   Parliament Wants Conscription Crisis Ended Soon

King Confidence Vote Expected In Draft Crisis   Prolonged Debate In Canada Ended

SLAV BORDER “LINE CROSSED ~ BYRED ARMY   JUNCTION IS MADE WITH FORCES OF GEN. TITO

Reds Smash Across Danube Into Yugoslavia To Join With Tito’s Patriot Group   Narew River Fortress On Polish Front Taken, Extending Warsaw Outflanking

Soviets Drive Into ‘Yugoslavia   Partisans, Reds Join Forces Against Nazis

REDS SMASH OVER DANUBE TO MEET TITO   River 1,000 F Feet Wide, Crossing May Have Been by Air as Parachutists Are Used.   Buffer Lines

RUSSIANS ARE IN YUGOSLAVIA, TITO ANNOUNCES   Junction With Partisans Follows Capture Of Turnu-Severin   NAREW RIVER FORT TAKEN BY SOVIETS

Russians Smash Across Border to Join Forces With Tito’s Partisans

Moscow Reports 50-Mile Advance To Yugoslav Line  Soviet Victories in Poland Bring New Fact Prussia Threat

May Have Joined Tito's Partisan Army near Border   Turnu-Severin Falls to Reds

Red Forces Drive Across  - Danube To Join With Tito   Soviets Move Into Yugoslavia, Unconfirmed Reports Say, After Wide Gains—Capture of _ Turnu-Severin Announced

RUSSIANS SMASH INTO . YUGOSLAVIA TO JOIN PARTISANS   Way. Opened for Attack on  . '. Hungary by Soviets and  the Forces of Marshal Tito. ‘,   NEW THREAT DEVELOPS _- {0 EAST PRUSSIA   Reds Plough Through Strong : Enemy Defenses and Seize Narew River Fortress of Ostroleka.

Reds Smash Across Danube Into Yugoslavia To Join.   Narew River Fortress On Polish Front Taken. Extendina Warsaw Outflankina

Reds roll over Slav frontiers  Swift tuncture   Swift juncture with Tito looms

Jap Bases. Under Fire   Ponape and Kusaie in kastern r Carelines

Yank Move Takes Japs by Surprise; Beachhead is Won   Daring Attack After 600-Mile Trip Cuts Philippines, Puts MacArthur Only 150 Miles from Manila

Philippine Isles Are Cut In Two   Americans Less Than 200 Miles From Manila After 600-Mile Jump: Jap Opposition Scanty

New Landing By 6th Army Is 150 Miles  ‘From Manila   Bloodless Beachhead . Quickly Established ;  Corridor Is Cut  Through Archipelago  NAVAT AIT VITAT.

Gain Virtually Bloodless Bridgehead in Daring Amphibious Break Spanning Heart of Islands; Guerrillas Prove Great Aid fo United States Force:

Bold Amphibious: Break Takes Troops Within 150 Mi. of Manila, Gen eral MacArthur’ Reports. Six Hundred Mi. Water Movement.

Navy- Borne Soldiers Are On Mindoro   Over-Water Move of 600 Miles Made by Sixth Army Force

American Forces Leap 600 Miles across Philippines; Are Virtually Unopposed   Gen. MacArthur Says New Landing “Will Enable Us  To Dominate Sea and Air Roules Which Reach to  fhe China Coast’: Troops Now 150 Miles from Manila   By €. YATES MCDANITIEF!

oth Army Force Crosses Philippines, Digs Out Beachhead Near Manila

MacArthur 150 Miles From Manila   Landings Such a Surprise to Japanese All Lights Were Busning And Resistance is Light

oops Seize’Beachhead  50 Miles From Manila in ~ . Alinost Bloodless Stroke

New. Thrust Spans Heart of Islands, Cuts Japs in: Two   ‘oe Offers Only Token. Resistance: as ‘Americans Achieve Complete: Surprise--Our’ Losses: a Said: Neslivible by. Gen. ‘MacArthur:

Advance of 600 Miles: in Philippines Gives Amer icans Access to Routes to China. Bacal   INBOUND CONVOY: ATTACKED FROM. A          Japs Surprised as to Lands ing Place and First ‘Awe  FP ae  Opposition Ashore.

UPERATION PUTS YANKS WITHIN 180 MILES OF MANILA   Invaders Get Virtually Bloodless Foothold in Sur. prise Maneuver   ESTABLISHES CORRIDOR THROUGH ARCHIPELAGO   More Than 200, Perhaps 300 Planes Destroyed in Widespread Attacks; 60Mile Over-water Movement Takes Convoy From Leyte

Daring Amphibious Break In Philippines Made With Few Casualties   CONVOY SKIRTED JAP ISLAND STRONGHOLDS

FLEEING FOE CAUGHT AGAI IN HUGE TRA   Garrison Blowing U Stores, Arsenals Inside City

Report Puts Yanks Inside French City   New Pocket Formed Around Fleeing German Army With Sudden Thrust North To The Seine

Fleeing Seventh Army Driven Into New Trap   Germans in Capital Blowing Up Stores: Marne Retreat Likely

Nazi Troops In New Trap  Near Seine   Germans Reported Blowing Up Stores In Greater Paris

American Troops Are Reported In France’s Capital   Vatican’s Claim Paris Occupied By Yanks Not Confirmed; Enemy Demolitions In City Noted; Patton Is Near River

New Bag Of Nazis Taken   Allies Trap Part Of Seventh Army In New Pocket

WEATHER TO BE FAIR   But Cooler Weather is Moving in With Chance of Frost

FASCIST OFFICIALS WILL BE QUSTED   THEIR REMOVAL FROM GOyERNMENT POSTS IN NAPLES AREA ORDERED,

VANGUARD NOW ONLY 30 MILES FROM COLOGNE   Aachen Battle Still Rages

Aachen Totters as Full Weight of Drive Strikes   Siegfried Line Hopelessly Shattered by American Troops; 500-Mile Line Moves Forward in Relentless Steel Wave

TROOPS THRUST THROUGH AREA OF TEN MILES   First Army Elements Crack Vaunted Nazi Line as Nazis Indicate Rhine Being Approached

Weather Hot In  Sportman’s Park   Wilks, Kramer To  Be On Mound For Game

Browns Produce Four-Run Rally in Third Inning to Take 4-1 Lead Over Cards   Te e™  ns.. FOODOCERS BE mmG es .. PMN ene 8

Summer Heat As Third Game Series Begins   Hot October Sun Sends Temperature Into the 80's

Finns’ Capital Devastated By Russian Raid   Refugees Report Large Sections Of Helsinki Are In Puins.

Finn Refugees Tell Grim Tales. ~ OfBombed City   Say Red Raid On Helsinki Makes Peace Prospects With Russians Remote

Heaviest Air Attack Made Upon Helsinki   Grim Picture of Damage Wrought Painted By Refugees In Stockholm   OVER 600 IN ASSAULT

RUSSIAN RAID ON HELSINKI BLASTS HOPE FOR PEACE   Vast Sections of Finnish Capital Destroyed in Saturdav’s Attack

ROBOT COAST BLASTED iN POORWEATHER   By Strong Forces from ‘Kragland While Yards and Industrial Areas in Hungary Are Raided   Oil Refineries

ALLIED PLANES POUND ROCKET INSTALLATIONS   Germans Continue To Send Robot Bombs Over Southern England But Little Damage Is Reported

Powerful Raids Made Against Calais. Area   “Allies Also Continue To Hit. Installations In Hungary, Yugoslavia

CATASTROPHE IS TREADING — ~ ON HEELS OF NAZI ARMIES   Disaster of First Magnitude May Overtake Them Any Time; Red Front: Withdrawal ‘Attempted - we “So as to. Attack’in France eo vans

The War Today      Military Disaster Faces Germany if Great Retreat in East Fails

CATASTROPHE THREATENING TO -OVERTAKE HITLER'S RETREATING ARMIES AS RED ARMY ROLLS ON   Berlin Military Spokesmen Have Been Preparing The German Public for A Great Withdrawal On The Eastern Front Where They Are Losing Men And Materials

DISASTER MAY BE TREADING ON HEELS OF HITLER’S ARMIES NOW BEING ROLTED BACK FROM EAST

Soldier Takes Stand Today In Sedition Th rial   Identifies Clip Sheets Of Press

Gives Testimony On Clip-Sheets At Sedition Trial   Brown Is Questioned On Providence Journal’s Stand Toward Britain

Regina Plueger  Becomes Bride _  Of Harry Heeren   Popular. Young -Copule. Pledge —  ~ Marital Vows +

Regina Plueger Becomes Bride Of Harry Heeren  Popular Young / -Copule. Pledge ‘Marital: Vows. \

Kelly Given Big Welcome   Sleeps Late “In Best Bed I've Seen in Months”

Charles (Commando) Kelly Gets Rest Only After Police Guard Set Up at Unpretentious House in Pittsburgh

‘Commando’ Kelly Comes Home to Mom and Wild Demonstration by Friends

Three Hundred Police Help Keep Crowd Back When War Hero Arrives At Pittsburgh Home; Celebration Is Scheduled For Tomorrow

Kell y Given Hero Welcome   “Commando” Comes Home’ to “Mom” and Shawano St. in Pittsburgh.

“Commando” Kelly Sleeps Late In “Best Bed I’ve Had In Months” At Home

Commando Kelly Welcomed Home By Admiring Friends: Enjovino Rest At Old Home

“COMMANDO” KELLY IS TAKEN. TO HEARTS OF “MOM” AND OTHERS  SLIGHT, SHY, RUDDY-

LYONS RESIGNS AS REPUBLICAN COMMITTEEMAN   Delegates in Secret Ballot Express Preference For Dewey

Germany And France Hit Again Today   Allied Bombers Continue Attacks There And Also In Italy

Allies Continue Heavy Pre - Invasion Aerial Bombing Of Hitler’s Fortified Europe.

Soviets Oust Voroshilov, Japan Replaces Ching Commander in Surprising Shakeups

PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION T0 SUPPORT DEWEY   New York Governor Likely To Be Nominated On First GOP Ballot   CONVENTION OPENS TODAY IN CHICAGO

Dewey Assured 10 Pennsylvania Convention Votes   Early Nomination Appears Probable

DEWEY 10 GET PENNSY BLOC OF 70 VOTES   Governor’s Nomination on an Early Ballot Is Forecast

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Pennsylvania's Delegation  Throws Support to Dewey   New Yorker Has Total of 535 Delegates Claimed or Pledged; *“‘Dewey on First Ballot” Talk at Parley Opening Today

I. B. CLINI CHEOKS 1,339   Employes of Five “ectcries Examined; 793 Pupils Checked

T.B. SLUNG CHEEKS 1339   Employes of Five Feetories Examined; 753 Pupils Checked

Reds Capture Drohobycz Poland’s Largest Fuel Center And Fortress City   Nazis Claim Jelgava, Key Rail Junction Southwest Of Riga Has Been Recaptured

Nip Strongholds Seized in India   British Forces Also Driving From Imphal

Allied Air Might Hits Nazi Drive   Favorable Weather Permits Heavy Attack

Allied Planes Pound Germans  Favorable Weather Permits Many Planes Teo Join Attack

Nazis Bombed Again By Big Allied P lanes   Heavy Toll Taken Of Enemy Vehicles On Tuesday

CLEAR WEATHER HELPS AIRMEN ON BOTH SIDES   Germans Bomb Paris While Allied Bombers Blast Nazis On Western Front.

OydUU HAL  PRISONER CAPTURED   Knemy Retreating In Disorder   earn  FORM THIRD LINE  Kall of Itri Blow To Kesselring

Japs Taking Heavy Loss, North Burma   INew. Aerial Raids Made ‘On Dutch New Guinea Jap Bases

Foe Suffers Heavy Losses in Burma   New Allied Offensive Is Disclosed; Naval Chiefs Meet in San Francisco

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses In Fighting   Admiral Lord Mountbatten Makes Announcement; U. S. Admirals Plan New Blows

Allies on New Drive in Burma   Meeting of Pacific Admirals Revealed

Nippons Suffer Heavy Losses In India Fight  Cook Up More Trouble for Japs

NEW NAVY BLOW AGAINST JAPAN BREWING, BELIEF   Allied Forces Are Inflicting Heavy Losses on Enemy in Jungles of Far East

ALLIED JUNGLE TROOPS INFLICT -LOSSES-ON JAPS   New. Offensive ‘Operation’ Pushed In ' Burma .   Added Worries For _Japs Seen In Naval . Meeting.

ALLIES DRIVE NEARER JAPS' LIFELINE IN INDIA   U. S. Navy Leaders Nimitz King, Halsey Meet in San Francisco

JAP LOSSES IN BURMA HEAVY   U. S. Naval Leaders Hint New Blows; Chinese Plead for Aid

New Allied Offensive In Burma   Troops Battling Japs  Near Mogaung Threaten Jap Railroad Link; Fleet Chieftains Meet

ALLIES LAUNCH BURMA SMASH   THREE NAVY TOPKICKS MEET IN BAY CITY

Allies Open New Drive in Burma   Battling Foe South Of Mogang, New Threat To Jap Supply Line

Meeting Of Top Yank Admirals Suggests New Blows Will Be Aimed At Fnemvy

Allies Reveal New Drive In Central Burma   U. S. Admirals Confer On Fresh Naval Blows  [ee

Report Reveals Severe Losses  By Jap Forees   New Offensive Operation In North-Central Zone Takes Heavy Toll Of  Invading Enemy .   New Blows Landed On Japanese Bases   Chinese Leader Appeal: For More Allied Aid In Gallant Fight To — Drive Nips Back

Japanese Suffer Losses in Burma   Allied Jungle Fighters Slash Out in New Offensive . Operation   THREATEN RAIL LINE   China’s Hard Pressed Armies Appeal for Al-}ied Supplies

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON JAPS IN BURME   Determined Drive to Open New Land Route to China Begun As Naval Chiefs Plan New Action

ENEMY SUFFERS HEAW LOSSES   Mountbatten’s Forces Ac:  tive in New Offensive in  North-Central Burma.   NEW BLOWS PLANNED

Mountbatten’s Jungle Fighters Inflict Heavy Losses On Japanese In Burm

Allied Jungle  F ighters 1 in  Burmese Drive   Japs Suffer Heavy Losses—Chinese Plead For More Materiel of War

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN N, BURMA   Expect New Blows Against Enemy In Near Future

New Offensive In North and Central Burma   Naval Leaders Plan New Blows  Against Japanese

JUNGLE FORCE INFLICTS HUGE LOSS ON JAPS   New Offensive Operation .Under Way in North-Central Burma Sector   NEW THREAT CREATED TO ENEMY-HELD RAIL LINE

Jungle Fighters Threaten Jap’s Rail Supply Line   Inflict Heavy Casualties In New Burma Drive; Battle Near Mogaung

JUNGLE FIGHTER UNITS HIT JAPS   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses In Battles With Allies In Burma

Allied Warplanes Again Hit Reich   Blast Enemy Transport System, Robomb Sites

HUGE PLANE ACTION OVER EUROPE TODAY   Allied Planes Fly from Both England, Normandy

16 Dead’ and: 69 ‘and: 69, Wounded  Push, ‘Total i in Beach Tenis-to 202

16 Dead, 69: Wounded in Hospital Raid   Reports from Anzio Beachhead Fail io Indicate Wheiner Nurses Among Casualties

} . ca e ‘Missionaries On New Guinea  ‘Killed By Japs   Most Of Them Were German Citizens; One Was Stabbed To Death

DEWEY PINS LOSS ON WAR   Regins New Role of Titula: Head of Republican  Party

Dewey May Try Again In 1948   G.O.P. Candidate Gives Evidence He Believes War Defeated Him.

Dewey Believes War Emergency Caused Defeat  New York State Governor Soe Saekina Meclechan Ac Sica

Dewey Back At Desk In Albany  pP..l. Lin Vhlee Pa   Feels He Was Defeated On Wor Issue

War Cause. For Defeat   ‘Dewey. Feels Himself ‘Licked By Conditions:

DEWEY BELIEVED  TO FEEL THAT WAR  CAUSED HIS DEFEAT BELIEVES MAJORITY OF  AMERICANS DID NOT WANT MARE WARD CHANC)

NEW HEAD IS NAMED ~ FORBUC BY BRICKEF   Charles H. Jones To Take : Ohio Directorship  q

AFL. SPOKESMAN RAPS MAGAZINE   UNION PUBLICATIONS USE’ OF MACARTHUR STATEMENT IS REPUDIATED—MESBAGE SENT IN 1942

Sailor  Escapes  Jap Prison Caray   Seattle Blucjacket Held By Japs For 22 Months After Fall of Corregidor

Smash Out Gains.” After Overcoming Furious Attacks  Ave Within 6. Miles of  Last Communication: Linking Big Port City

Nazis Throw Reserves — Into Attack  On Invaders   Heavier Fighting Seen Along Frout

Americans Crush On Despite Bitter Fighting   Allies Gain in Face of Heavy Counterattack: In Cherbourg Region; Germans Hurl 20 Divisions and 600 Tanks Into Struggle

Allied Troops Advance Despite German Blows   British Forced To Give Up Troarn In Heavy Fighting

AMERICAN TROOPS SURGED AHEAD ON THE PENINSULA   Announcement Was Made by Allied Headquarters Today,   STIFF COUNTERATTACKS   Germans Threw About wen. ty Divisions and 600 Tanks Into the Pattle.

Americans Close In on Cherbourg 's Last Link to East   Other Allied Troops Holding After Loss Of Some Positions

Americans Striking Across Peninsula, Within 6 Miles Of Communication Line   Germans Regain-Two More Towns In Furious Counter-Attack Along 100-Mile Fighting Front in Normandy

Yanks Nearing Last Nazi Link To Major Port   Gains Hammered Out Despite Fierce Enemy Resistance All Along 100-Mile Front; Foe Uses 20 Divisions, 600 Tanks

FURIOUS BATTLES  RAGE AS GERMANS  CALL IN RESERVES ESTIMATE 20 NAZIS  DIVISIONS NOW IN NORMANDY FIGHTING

Massive German Cou nter-Attacks Are Beaten Down   To Cherbourg: Furious Fighting Rages

SIXAMILE GAP LEFT TO PINCH “UFEPENINSULE   Americans Batiling Inside Montebourg; Allies Hold Excent at Troarn.

American Forces Drive To Pretot   Less Than Six Miles From Last Communications Linking Cherbourg With France; Beat Furious Counterattacks

Gains Reported Despite Enemy's Stiff Resistance  20 German Divisions Hurled Into Battle; Use 600 Tanks; Allie:  g ——— . S. aa

Gains Made In Face Of Resistance   Advances Come West of Carentan On Cherbourg Neck

Gains Made in Face of Stiff Nazi Attacks   Germans Hurling 20 Divisions and 600 Tanks Into Battle

ALLIED TROOPS HOLDING FIRN    Make Gains in Some Areas In Spite of Furious Counteraction.   IBRITISH GIVE UP TOWN

Americans Stab Nearer Cherbourg    British Lose Troarn  But Hold Caumont As Fighting. in Normandy Draws Near A Climax

Germans Throwing Armored Divisions Into Fray in Effort to Crush Invading Allied Armies   American Infantry and Airborne Units Smash Across Cherbourg Neck to Cut Last Line of Communications Leading Into Coveted Port

Gains Hammered Out Despite Furious Enemy Counter-Blows All Along 100-Mile Front, in Which Germans Are Using 20 Divisions and 600 Tanks '—Americans Fight Back Into Mon tebourg—Field Dispatches Say Quineville Taken. 8 .

Massive German Counter-Stroke Made on Allies   U. S. Infantry and Paratroopers Score Gains to West of Carentan.   Only Six Miles From French West Coast

GERMANS STAGE NEW OFFENSIVE ON BEACHHEAD   Battle Nearing Climax, Nazis Say Today

AMERICAN TROOPS  SURGE POWERFULLY AHEAD IN CAMPAIGN  GAINS HAMMERED OUT I FACE OF HEAVY GERMAN ARMORED ASSAULTS

In Six Miles Of Coast Now   Mammered Out Gains Against Counter-Attacks Using Armored Forces  TROARN GIVEN UP  British Forced Out of Anchor Town; Fierce Armored Battles Raging

Enemy Bringing In Reserves; Four Nazi Armored Divisions Used In Counter-Attacks One Allied Gain Made In Last 24 Hours

Within 6 Miles of Last Link Connecting Cherbourg With France      GERMAN DRIVES HELD   Nazis Succeed Only in Taking [wo Advance Points From British

TEMPERATURES:   Enemy Strikes Back Furiously; Cherbourg Is Almost lsolated

Allies Are Holding Firm Elsewhere Despite Huge German Counterstrokes

“HEAVY LOSSES , ARE INFLICTED ~ ON THE ENEMY   German Counter-Stabs Extend ? Over Wide Front—British Yield Troorn

ALLIES NOW FIGHTING FIERCEST BATTLES SINCE LANDINGS AND BOTH SIDES RUSH IN RESERVES.   American Infantry and Airborne Units, Support: ed by Tanks Smash Across Cherbourg Neck, With. in 7 miles of Cutting Last Communication Lines  'T., Peninanla Tin

YANKS SURGING AHEAD TO CUT OFF CHERBOURG   Allied Forces Gain Ground All Along 100 Mile  Normandy Front

Yanks Make Gain In Cherbourg Neck  To Isolate Port      U, S.'T roops Only Six Miles From West Coast; Retake Montebourg; 17 Big Nazi Tanks Knocked Out

British Yield Troarn, Villers-Bocage On East End Of Battle—Line.

Americans’ Stal Cherbourg: Within Six Mile é Nazi Road. 32:   FIERCE BATTLE

Allies Holding Elsewhere After Setbacks, Despite Furious German Assault:

Powerful  Blows Fall On Defense Of Germans   Gains Being Made Despite Fierce Counterblows   Germans Declare Fighting In Normandy Is Increasing  In Violence By The Hour

Less Than 6 Miles From Port’s Last Link with France   Gains Made Despite Furious Nazi Counter Blows Along Entire JOO.Mile Errante

ENEMY THROWS 20 DIVISIONS INTO FIGHT   British Forced To Give Up Troarn, Anchor Of Line   AMERICANS   Fight Back To Montebourg; Battle Nears Climax, Germans Report

6 Miles From Last Link To Cherbourg   Gains Hammered Out Despite Furious Counter-Attacks All Along Line— Allies Holding Firm Elsewhere — Nazis Retake Villers-Bocage and Troarn

POWERFUL GAINS MADE IN FRANCE DURING THE DAY   Advances Hammered Out Despite Furious C ounterattacks By Germans All Along The 100-Mile Front.

Allies Hold Firm Elsewhere as Americans Plunge Across Neck of Peninsula After British Loss of Troarn

U. S. Pushes Forward Despite Heavy Counter - Attacks; Smash 17 of 600 Nazi Tanks; British Lose Troarn

Enemy Hurls  20 Divisions   Six Hundred Tanks Batter Back British: Americans Surge Onward

HEADQUARTERS SAYS ENEMY’ § LOSSES HEAVY   Berlin Radio Reports Allies 9 Miles West Of Carentan

Social Security Plan  For Farmers Calls for  Careful C onsideration me AUTO AD TRY TWAT

Yanks on a Hayride:  Raid on Rocket Coast’ Is Tame As Compared with Former Battles

2 Other Generals, Rear Admiral Captured; Dollmann Is Highest Ranking

German General Dollmann Killed in Action in France   Eighth Nazi General fo Meet Death or Capture Since Invasion Probably Victim of Air Baid

GERMAN 7TH ARMY COMMANDER KILLED   Gen. Dollman, Artillery Ex pert, Is Sixth To Die Since Invasion

Nazi Full General, Eighth to Fall, Killed in France  Atlantic Wall Section  Commander Was A west il aed Cuwowtealioas

High German General Killed In Normandy   Commander of Nazis Seventh Army Believed Victim of Air Raid

Nazi Full General, Fighth to Fall, Killed in France  Ailantic Wall Section Commander Was Artillery Specialist

ALLIES IN ITALY ON THE MARCH   Closing in on Rimini, Adriatic Coastal City

Fifth Army Nears Lucea  And Prato   Allies Score Gains On Both Flanks Of Italian Front.

Allies Close On Adriatic Coastal City of Rimini   Would Open Way For Sweep Up Broad Plains Into Northern Italy

Allied Drive Nears Rimini Adriatic Port   U. S. Troops Advance In Thrust Against Gothic Anchor

Claim Red Army Outflanking City   Hungarian Capital Center of Big Battle

Russians Land Near Budapest   Radio Says Russians Outflaking Hungarian Capital Krom South

Soviet Force Lands on  Danube Island   Two Bridgeheads Taken in Drive Alang Tisza River

REDS LAND ON ISLAND IN DANUBE   Point Is Only. Four Miles From Budapest

Sef Dates for Oral Arguments Nov. 14   Appeals Made in Eight Textbook Cases Growing Out of Grand Jury Findings

DEMOCRATIC DEFEAT IS URGED BY MOLEY   Former New Deal Bigwig Sees Domination Danger

Red Army Plunges Ahead a: Nazi Defenses Crumble; Foe's Losses Are Staggering

Huge Losses Are Suffered  By Germans   183.930 Nazis Killed Or Captured in Week Of Summer Offensive

SOVIETS LIST 183,930 NAZI ARMY LOSSES   HUGE TRAP CLOSES ON MINSK; ENEMY LINES CRUMBLE

Nazi Defeats Turn To Rout   Reds Say 183,930 Kilied Or Captured During First Week

HUGE FORCES CONVERGING ON CAPITA   ‘Germans Forced to Continue Retreat Toward City. Despite Arrival of ~ Reinforcements. —   BORISOV SCENE -. OF STREET FIGHTIN G   Moscow Declares 183,930 Nazi Troops Have Been ' Killed or Captured in  Great Offensive.

scow Reports eal Gain in ive for Minsk   own of Borisov eclared Taken

Nazi Losses in East Set at 183,930 Troops   Dead Alone Amounts to 132,900, Russians Report

Vast Total of 183,930 Nazi Casualties in Week Disclosed  FOUR RED ARMIES MOVING ON FRONT  Full Extent of German Debacle Told in Moscow

ROUT GERMANS WITH LOSSES OF 183,930   Russians Plunge ahead toward Minsk; Town inside old Poland Taken; Nazi Debacle Reported.   100 Localities

183,960 foe liquidated is Stalin claim  Enemy torn on sprawlins front

2 P- T Boats Whip 30 Jap Bombers Get Four Craft and. Nips. End. Fight

Two P-T Boats Japs Reported Sunk ‘By Dive Bombers Return to Harbor -

P-T BOATS RETURN AFTER BATTLING JAPANESE PLANES   Tokyo Reported 30 of Emperor’s Dive Bombers Had Destroved the Boats.   Seldom, If Ever, Have Japs Sent Out So Many Planes Against a Pair of P-T’s.

‘Speedy Torpedo Craft Survive Battle With Enemy Aireraft  Pair of P-T Boats Battle 40 Jap Planes

MRS. BECKVOLD PASSED AWAY IN REST HOME   Funeral Held } in Evangelical - Free Church for Native  of Norway

DIED AT HOME OFD ip ot      Funeral for Mrs. Harriet (Philips) MacKinnon at Trinitarian Church

DIED AT HC HOME i IN ‘CONCORD         Funeral for Mrs, Harriet (Philips) MacKinr 1 at -.. "Trinitarian Church

HOUSE PASSES VETERAN BULL      Mustering-Out Pay Provides $100 * for Less Than 60 Days of Service.

Eyewitness Describes Scene of Horror as Circus Tent Burns   By ALDEN B. CRANDALL

McNutt’s 4-F Figures May  Be Off, Too   Says He Got Them From Selective Service, Which Declares It Has None

Normandy Debacle May Spell Victory for Allies In Campaign for France

PATTON TANKS SMASH AHEAD IN PARIS AREA   Foe Facing Great Encirclement West of French Capital

Yank Tanks In Outskirts Of Paris Block Retreat   Bulk of German 15th Guarding French Rocket Coast Hurled Into Lost Battle of Normandy

Von Kluge Struggles  To Avoid ‘Dunkerque’ At Seine River SUPREME HEADQUAR:.  TERS ALLIED EXPEDI. TIONARY FORCE, Satur:

NAZI ARMIES IN NEW TRAP ALONG SEINE   DUTCH AND BELGIAN FORCES JOIN IN PURSUIT

Allied Troops In Pursuit of  Fleeing Nazis   Yon Kluge’s Attempt to Remedy His Reverses Is Failure

FIFTEENTH ARMY IS DEFEATED IN RESCUE ATTEMPT   Troops Were Rushed From Rocket Coast In Futile Effort To Save Seventh   EISENHOWER SUMMONS HIS FIELD OFFICERS

Soldiers of Six Nationalities in Hot Pursuit of 40,000 to $100,000 Enemy Troops in Second Death Trap.

 MADD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Lightning Hits  Girl's Corset;  Man Loses Finaers

Detroit. Stores And Cafes Are Without Breac   Bakery Drivers Strike Over Delay By WLB On Wage Demands

State Court Clears Docket For First  Time In History  “Citizens May Look Forward to Prompt Judament”

STRIKERS, EMPLOYERS ASSAILED BY McNUTT   Men Leaving Production Line Ard Trying To Beat Competitors Im Post-War Market Are Hit

«Improvident Users” Of Oil May Just Have To Freeze   Ration Board Has No Extra Fuel to “Bail Out” Those Who Run Short —

4,000 Ships Involved ‘In Channel Crossing   Thousands of Smalier Vessels Also Used to Carry Allied Force<

Started Well, Says Churchill   Tells Commons Something Of Immensity Of Naval, Aerial Operations

Commons Told Of D-Day Move By Churchill   -Prime Minister Says Landings Are Moving Ahead; Enemy Fire 1s Being Quelled

4,000 Ships Carry Troops To France’s Battle Area   Churchill Praises ‘Conquest Of Italy

4,000 Ships Took Troops Over Channel For Attack   Enemy Shore Batteries Largely Quelled, Says Churchill In Commons; Ohstacles Overcome

THREE TIMES AS MANY COMBAT VESSELS IN SERVICE AS WHEN WAR STARTED

NAVAL POWER CUT BY LACK OF MANPOWER   Effectiveness Marred, Say Officials, by Labor Shortage

US.NAVY'S SIZE TRIPLED SINCE WAR BEGAN   However, Manpower Shortages Threaten Full Effectiveness

TRIPLED SINCE WAR BEGAN   However, Manpower Shortages Threaten Full Effectiveness -

Prepare For Seige   Defenders of Kweilin Determined to:Make It China’s Stalingrad

JAPANESE CABINET CONSIDERS CRISIS   MEASURES REPORTED.. :.PREFARED TO STRENGTHEN NATION’S WAR EFFORT.

Jap Cabinet to Pass More Stringent Regulations to Strengthen War Effort

TOJO WORRIED BY WAR TREND   Special Cabinet Session Called To Speed Up Fighting Power

Le Havre Shelled, Germans Report   Nazis Declare New Landings Imminent

Tragedy Caused By Bad Weather   Navigation Difficulties Cited in Communique; Reich Lashed Again

American Bombers Mistakenly Drop Explosives on Swiss Area: Death Toll Placed at 50

All Estonia Is Liberated By Red Army   Russians In South Reported Driving Into Hungary And Slovakia

Reds Liberate Estonia, Drive Into Hungary  Twin Blow Also  Sends Troons

Soviet Army Drive Seals  Riga’s Fate   Southern Armies Reported Driving Into Hungary.

aaa aa a SE a a a a a  REDS FREE ALL ESTONIA, JOIN FORCES FOR ASSAULT ON RIGA   RUSSIAN TROOPS REPORTED DRIVING DEEP INTO HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA; BALKANS DEFENSE COLLAPSES

Reds Finish Liberation Of Estonia   Armies in South Drive  Deep Into Hungary And Slovakia

GERMANS’ DEFENSE SYSTEM IN BALTIC STATES COLLAPSES   Soviets Drive Deep Intec Hungary, Slovakia — Rega’s Fate Is Sealed

LIBERATION OF ESTONIA COMPLETED   Russians Driving Deep Into Hungary And Slovakia

REDS FINISH LIBERATION OF ESTONIA   Also Drive Deep Into Hungary And Slovakia

Reds Complete Estonia Liberation And Drive Into Hungary; Assault ‘Opens on Riga; Defenses Collapsing

RED ARMY SMASHES DEEP INTO HUNGARY: RIGA'S FATE SEALED   Soviets Also Invade Slovakia In Twin Drive; Baltic Armies Herding Germans Toward Sea

RUSSIAN: ARMIES. DRIVE DEEPLY. INTO HUNGARY   Offensive Aimed at Eliminating “Last. Two Nazi Satellites

REDS DRIVING INTO HUNGARY AND SLOVAKIA   Entire German Defense System In Baltics Appears to Have Collapsed.

Russian Forces Seize Big Latvian Transport Center Of Valmiera, Smask 40 Miles Westward To Gulf Of Riew   NAZI DEFENSE IN BALTIC COLLAPSES

Germans Fleeing As Allies Fight Through to Maas   Battle for Antwerp De clared Over; Fog Hampers Allied Air Arm

Nazi Flee To Bridges Into Reich   Canadian Troops’ ‘Storm Enemy Hold On Schelde Island

Escape Route Black With Masses Of German Tran sports; 3,400 Troops Captured

Fight Through to Maas, Closing in on German Escape Bridge; Nazis Clog Roads in Hasty Re - treat Through Dense  Fog,

Allies Reach Maas North Of Tilburg.   Close To Huge Bridge, One Main Escape Route _ For Fleeing Germans  NAZIS CLOG ROADS

Allies Advance In Holland Despit Weather and Mud  Battle of Antwerp Is Over Declares British Spokesman

Weather. and Terrain. Handicap Operations of Troops   PROGRESS IS. MADE  IN ANTWERP FIGHT   Nazis Are Being Pursued Across the Dutch — Countryside

Allied Forces Drive Forward To Maas River   Threaten Foe’s Main Escape Bridge; Fleeing Germans Fill Roads; Enemy Beaten at Antwerp

-Port Of Antwerp Freed; Canedian Troops Push On  ‘pee iacmsi on vaccinia: ate a accmrescnaae:

FLEEING NAZIS JAM ROADS IN MAAS SECTOR   FIGHT FOR ANTWERP OVER IN FAVOR OF ALLIES

Officer Declares Port Struggle Won As Units Land at Walcheren;  Retreating Germans Clog Highways

GERMAN TROOPS ARE RETREATING FROMHOLLAND   Battle For Port Of Antwerr Is Over In Allies’ Favor, Spokesman Says   HIGHWAYS CROWDED WITH NAZI SOLDIERS

Highways Black Wit a Germans Pulling Outs Fog Prevents Their.Dé struction by Airmen, :         Position of Enemy’ Gag rison on One of. d ie proaches to Antwerji'® Declared “Hopeless.’

First. [Third and Seventh Armies Score Big Victories   Germans Are in Retreat to East Bank of Roer River as Relentless Blows Carry Americans to Cologne Plain

WEDGE DRIVEN 3 MILES INTO COLOGNE LINE   NAZI RAIL CENTERS BLASTED BY 1600 U.S. BOMBERS

Multiple Attacks Force Germans To Yield Vital Area   Haquenau Captured By Seventh Army

Buzz Bombs Continuing —   Course’ Of ‘Approach: However, Is Varied :

i NR RAAT a NE Ow CR  Robot Bombings On England Show Decided Decrease

ee  BUZZ BOMBS RETURN AFTER NIGHT LET-UP   Believed Nazis Sending Them From Farther East

Flying Bombs Renew Attacks   During Night. Londoners Free From Terror Wea pon: Below Peak.

London Says Robot Bombs Buzz No More   Relief To  Blitz-Hardened Residents To Not Hear Terrifving Noise

STARK COUNTY’S CORN ‘FREEZE’ TO EXPIRE JUNE 24   May Contract For Delivery Later To Save Shelling Cost Subsidy.

FREEZE BONUS FOR CORN ENDS AFTER JUNE 24TH   County AAA Chairman Warn: Farmers That Five Cent Pe Bushel Payment Will Not Be Made After That Date.

Russian Forces Are Closing In On Nazis In Latvia   Reds Also Renew Offensive East Of Warsaw Says Moscow Report   MOVE NEARER TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Soviet Armies Press New Offensive To Tighten Nonse Around Germans In Latvia

REDS OPEN UP NEW DRIVE 10 TAKE WARSAW   Tighten Ring Around Nazis In Latvia   SAULL CAPTURED aie  Drive Toward Riga Is Speeded Up

R. G, CAMPAIGN NEAR GOAL IN CITY, COUNTY   Many Divisions Have  4 Attained Quotas,  General Chairman Announces.

Yanks Plunge 44 Miles Northeast Of Liberated Lyor   7th Army Races to Trap Nazi Remnants Fleeing South France

Yanks Head Off Remnants Of German 19th Army 44 Miles Northeast of Lyon

Pian “Supervised Bla.  Sc Shes wOMBSPvista say  Far Corning Youngsters

Soldiers Lose Arm ora Leg  But Not Spiri its   Despite Seriousness Of Wounds They  Have Sense of Humor

Doughboys with Lost Legs Keep Sense 'Of Humor While Wounded Nazis Whine

Churchill and Stalin Discuss Polish Problem   Meeting Already Brings Results; F.D. Sidesteps

Stalin - Churchill Meeting Dwells On Polish Issues   Plan For Capitulation Of Hungary, Terms With Bulgaria

11th Hour Effort To Gain Polish — Settlement Made   Stalin-Churchill Talks Bringing Other Major Diplomatic Results

Churchill, Stalin Seeking To Solve Polish Question   Importance Of Stalin’s Acceptance Of Banquet Invitation At British Embassy Difficult To Over-Emphasize: Gesture Absolutely Without Precedent

Note Rapid Developments At Moscow   Diplomatic Moves Are Made In Fast Order As Churchill Meets With Marshal Stalin

Results of Stalin-Churchill Conferences Become Evident   Russia  Insists That Germany’s Power Must Be Destroyed Forever

CONFERENCES IN MOSCOW FRUITFUL   Problem of Poland May Be Settled

Moscow Talks Ge  Results   Bulgaria Armistice, Polish Effort Seen as Conference Results

LL ELE LO EAS NOE ANC RI  DRIVER FOUND GUILTY  IN CHILD’S TRAFFIC DEATH

Entire Convoy Is Sunk By Airmen   Loss of Six Destroyers and Four Transports Are in Addition to Losses MacArthur Reported

Carrier Planes Destroy Ships In Philippines   Jap Reinforcement Convoy Is Caught Nosing Into Ormoe Bay Of Leyte.

Defense Rests — . Without Calling . Upon Lonergar   Counsel Moves Suddenly ~ After Only -3. Witnesses Are Heard On Stand

Lonergan Ends Defense After Three Testify   Counsel Rests  Suddenly Todav

Defense Rests In Loner ‘gan’s  Murder Tr la   sok Sudden Action -Is Surprise. With Only Three ‘Called To Testify For Mate Of Slain Woman

LONERGAN'S CASE RESTED   Flier Not Called To Stand  To Deny He Killed  Wife

The Farmer and War Bond Purchases  by Charles W. Holman, Seeretary

“Senate Balks »At Approving Appointments   Undersecretaries Of State Not Confirmed

NOMINATIONS ARE RETURNED 10 COMMITTEE   Senate, in Upset, Declines _ to Act on State Dep't Appointees

SENATE REVOLT ON NOMINATIONS   Names of Men Named to High State Department Posts Go Back to Committee for Further Study

SENATE REVOLTS AGAINST 4 NAMED STETTINIUS AIDS   Roosevelt Appointments Turned Back to Foreign Relations Committee for Further Study.   STARTLING UPSET ANGERS CONNALLY   Charge Made in Hot Debate That Nominees Represent “Money Interests of . Country.”

Senate Halts Nominee List   Wall Street Flavor Hinted by Chandler

Senate Refuses Early Action on Four Appointees   State Department Nominations Referred Back to Committee

Senate Declines to Act on Four Appointees  Nominations Are Returned to the Committee

NOMINATIONS BRING REVOLI   Senate Sends State Department Appointments Back To Committee

Startling reversal in senate   Nominations sent back to committee   Nebraska Republican Senators Butler and Wherry voted in favor af recommittal.

NOMINATIONS SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE   Senate Stages Startling Upset In Refusing To Confirm Ronsevyelt ADnpointres

SENATORS HOLD UP NOMINATIONS   Action On Roosevelt's Choices Delayed In Startling Upset

Stettinius Aids Fail In Senate   SENATOR GUFFEY AND OTHER NEW DEALERS JOIN REPUBLICANS IN DEFERRING PRESIDENT’S APPOINTMENTS  Back To Committee

Piraeus Is Battered In Double Blow By Allies   Cervaro, On Italian Front, Evacuated By Nazis, Says German Communiaue

Port of Athens Bombed; Berlin Admits Loss of  Cervaro in Ital y   Piraeus Hit by Forts by Day, Wellingtons by Night

ALLIES BATTER PORT OF ATHENS   Day And Night Bomber Assaults Strike At Balkans

Bombers Strike Doubleheader Blow At Balkans   Allied Planes In Day-And—-Night--Attack——As—Sth Slugs Slowly Ahead

Planes Blast Piraeus: Athens Port   Fifth Army Seizes More High Ground In Italy

BOMBERS HIT DOUBLE BLOW [AT GK. HARBOR   Piraeus, Supply Port for Nazis,  Is Hit Hard

ALLIED PLANES POUND PIRAEUS, ATHENIAN PORT   5th Army Seizes More High Ground in Gains on Italian Front

ALLIES DOUBLE AIR BLOWS ON BALKAN PORT   Fifth Army Drives Nearer To Cassino on Road To Rome

YANKS CLOSING IN ON CASSING   Allied Bombers Plaster Balkans, Greece In  Heavy Assaults

Allied Airmen Batter Away At Key Points   Fifth Army Takes Cervaro. Last Village on Way To Cassino

FIFTH SEIZES TOWN IN DRIVE TOWARD ROM   Allied Bombers Hamme Port of Athens, While Clark's Men Push Toward Cassino

 Raiders Bomb ‘ Nazi Ships in Greek Harbor   Day and Night Attacks Hit Mediterranean Port of Piraeus

FLYING FORTS RIP HARBOR FACILITIES      American Fifth Army in Central Italy Close in on Nazi Mountain Stronghold of Cassina

NAZIS THROWN OUT OF CERVARO BY THE ALLIES   suerman Communique Announces Allied Victories; Greek Port Heavily Bombed; Fifth Army Takes New Ground.

GERMANS ADMIT CERVARO TAKEN BY THE ALLIES   Bombers, Meanwhile, Aim Heavy Blows at Piraeus, Port of Athens

Austrian Alps is Scene — Of Blow to the Nazis      HUGE GAP BLASTED IN GERMAN DEFENSE LINE

Allies Bombard  Greek Harbor, Axis Supply Port   U.S. Troops Within Few Miles of Cassino,  On Road To Rome

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM GERVARO ON ITALIAN FRONT   Allied Bombers Smash at Piraeus, Greece, in Heavy Force

Port of Athens Bombed by Allies   Fifth Army Gains More Ground in Its Advance Toward Rome.

PORT OF ATHENS 1S HEAVILY BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBERS  FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY SEIZED MORE HIGH GROUND FROM GERMANS

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES 10 NEW GROUND   Nazis Are Thrown Out Of Cervaro,  Germans Admit

PIRAEUS BOMBED BY ALLIED PLANES IN HEAVY ATTACKS   Flying Fortresses in Force Hit Port of Athens. ’ Allied Ground Forces  Cain

Allied Fliers Give Piraeus  One- Twol Puneh   Day And Night Bombers Hand Double Blow To. Port Of .Athens   START HUGE FIRES

Vilal German Base in Greece Given Barnhing   Allies Closing In on Cassino Stronahol!ld

ALLIED AIRMEN BOMB PIRAEUS DAY AND NIGHT   Doubleheader Air Blow ai Athens Port Marked by Fires and Explo inane   CERVARO IS SEIZED   Germans Report Fall of Village, Last Road Outpost Guarding Cas sing

Piraews: Athens Port   Fifth Army Seizes More High Ground In Italy

ALLIES POUND GREEK PORT   BOMBERS HIT PIRAEUS; FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES

FLIERS RAID HARBOR AT PIRAEUS   Fifth Army Gains in Drive Toward Cassino

Germans Report Allied Capture Cervaro Village.   Bombers Raid Piracus In Continuing Blows Into Balkans.

Allies Bombard Greek Port, Advance in Italy   Germans Press Yugoslav War In Balkan Move

Anglo-U. S. Army Closes In on Cassino   Damage Reported Widespread at Greek Harbor

Double Header Air Blow Hits Into Balkans   ‘ifth Army Continues to Advance in Italy; Takes More High Ground

breek Harbor f Piraeus Is Bomb Tarcet   “subie Blow Is Struck At Main Supply Port German Units In ast Mediterranean

DOUBLE ALLIED BLOW AGAINST BALKAN ENEM)   Ground Advance in Italy While Bombers Crash Port of Athens In Axis-Held Greece.

INBALKANS INTENSIFIED      Port Of Athens Hit; Fifth Army Scores New Gains

Forts Go Over Alps For Raid   Sth Army Only Onc Mile from Vital Cassino Fortress

CLARK GAINS AS BOMBERS BLAST GREECE   Germans Say Cervaro Lost To Allies

INTO BALKANS   Allied Bombers Batter Port Of Athens in Greece; 5th Takes More Ground.   NAZIS FLEE FROM TOWN

Allied Airmen Twice Bomb Port in Greece      Many Fires Started in Harbor of Piraeus as Yanks Strike by Daylight and R. A. F. Follows With Night Raid.

Athens Port Battered By Bombers   Fifth Army Seizes More High Ground in Italy

PIRAEQUS TWICE BATTERED BY THE ALLIED BOMBERS   This Action Took Place as 5th Army Seized More High Ground in Italy.   NAZIS LEAVE CHERVARO   Were Thrown Out of the City Four Miles Southeast of Cassino.

Piraeus Given.  Load of Bombs   Cervare Evacuation Has Been Admitted Over Berlin Radio

Allied Bombers Hit Athens Port In Heavy Force   Fifth Army Seizes More High Ground On Italian Front

GREEK HARBOR HIT IN DOUBLE ATTACK   Germans Say Troops Have Lost Cervaro

GERMANS ADMIT EVACUATION OF CERVARO VILLAGE   ALLIED BOMBERS SMASH AT GREEK PORT OF ATHENS

JAP ATTACKS Oh  FLANK REPULSED   Sparring Against Allied Line Continues Along Driniumor River Front East of Aitape  In British New Guinea

IND "SUE FOR “MRS. HEWIT]   Held in West Concord “Uno Church for Prom- Inent Resident

 SERVICE a      Held in West ‘Concord Umea Church for Prominent Resident

Car wag oe eg kk. Na, afl sdaigiss * Yanks Push Into Le Mans   Canadian Offensive Smashes Through Enemy Barrier Guarding Road to Paris And Advances More Than 10 Miles   frnie ryle ells of  Colored Smoke to Guide Allied Airmen

CANADIANS PLUNGE THROUGH GERMAN LINES BELOW CAEN AS AMERICANS MOVE FORWARD   Berlin Dispatches Say Americans Have Passed Through Le Mans to Within 87 Miles of Paris. Doughboys Enter Outer Defense of Port of Brest

Canadians Reported 15 Miles Past Caen, Americans Beyond Le Mans, as Allied Wings Curl Around Germans

Nazis Pushed Back 10 Miles By Canadians   Berlin Indicates Nazis Yielding At St. Malo

Canadian Forces Advance 16 Miles In Caen Sector   Yanks Push Past Le Mans; Fall Of St. Malo Near; Allies Approach Falaise

Nebraskan _ Assails New ~ Tax Proposal   Denounces Ten Per Cent Blanket Deduction In Income Tax Bill

New Tax Plan Meets Criticism   Nebraskan Objects To 10% Allowance

New Tax Bill Gift Clause Is Assailed   Nebraskan Hits 10% Cut for Church and Charity Contributions

Today in  W ashington   A Roundup of Developments From. the Nation's Capital

SIMPLE TAX BILL ASSAILED   Automatic Charity Deduc tions Scored As —  Unfair

Solon Assails Income Tax Laws   Hits At Plan To Aid ‘Little Fellow’

‘Unfair And Immoral’  Critic Assails Blanket Tax Deduction For Charity

New Tax Bill Called Unfair And Immoral   Deduction Plan Arouses Ire of Committee Member

SAYS PROPOSED TAX “IMMORAL   First Criticism of Plan Is Voiced by Curtis

South France Invaders  Smash 32 Miles Inland; Nazis Flee Spain Border

REMNANTS ARE SLAUGHTERED IN BIG PUSH   Allied Planes, Tanks and Infantrymen Are Annihilating Enemy Columns.   BULLETIN

PS, ge ee ee a TD EEE  Americans Outflank — Toulon, Lunge Within 25 Miles Of Marseille   Stiffer Resistance Is Met Before Naval Stronghold; 1,000 Sq. Mi. Liberated In 5 Days

Czech-Soviet Pact Hailed By Izvestia   Said New Proof Of Policy Toward Small Nations

FIVE FIRES STARTED   Superfortresses Over the Japanese Capital Early Saturday

Manila Evacuated By Jap Civilians   Tokyo Announces Flight From City

HALSEY RAIDS STRIKE FEAR OF INVASION   Nipponese Residents Also Pulled Out Of Davao

Civilians Flee Manila After Raids   Tokyo Announces New Evacuation Of Philippines.

Civilians Leaving Manila   Halsey’s Forces Raise Havoc With Jap Ships, Planes

Tokyo Reports ivilians Quit Manila   Americans Continue Mop-Up Operations (n Palau Islands

Tokyo Reports Civilians Leave Manila  Evacuation Starts as American

Farm Women Choose Officers And ‘Make Plans: For Two: ‘Organizations —   Adopt A Four — ; .Point, Program. For Winter. Meetings -.’

Misner-Players To Pay Annual Visit   Well Known Dramatic Group Pre sents Streamlined Version af Clagsicse

KNOX REVEALS JAPS WEAKEN IN MARSHALLS   Enemy Seems to Lack Planes and Ammunition, He Says; Yanks Take Island Without Opposition.

‘Knox Says Japs Are Apparently ae of Planes and Ammunition in ‘The Marshalls: Ack-Ack Fire Weak

Jap Shortage Of Warplanes Seen by Knox   Weak Marshalls Ack-ack Also Cited: Biscay Bay Blockade Tighter

RAY EDMUNDSON SEEKS LEWIS’ JOB   ANNOUNCES HE IS A CANDIDATE FOR UMWA PRESIDENCY

Four-Power Peace Plan To Be Released Tuesday, But It’s Only a Start

World peace blueprint to be disclosed  Veto question  still undecided

WILL REVEAL PEACE PLANS   Powers Ready to Present Outline of Security Organization Today

Big 4 To Bare Security Plan   Blueprint of World Peace To Be Published Today

World To Hear ‘Big Four’ Plan For Peace Today   Document To Outline Main Points of ADied Peace Organization

PEACE BLUEPRINT   United Nations Document to Reach Wart During ay

Big Four ToPresent Peace Plan   World to Hear About ~ Ofgutizution Which — Will Maintain The Peace

South Economic Problem No. 1, Says Jim Farley  Striking Balance  Satvacn Industry, ee  ees

Industry Is Needed To Aid South—Farley   Reynolds And Ayers Nam: ed Officials By Alabama Chamber Of Commerce

British Take Esquay; Yanks Lessay   Sudden British Punch Unveiled Southwest Of Caen: Americans Meet Stubborn Defense

Doughboys Batile Through Stubborn Defenses on Last Mile to St Lo.

Field Sources Report Fail — Of Lessay .   ‘British Take Esquay, Build New Offensive Southwest of Caen  am +TnN tre nAnsACN

35,000 Salesmen Ready For Drive  ee eS   Bond Drive Opens Tuesday

OWI Sets End of Jap War 18 Months After Hitler Falls   War in China, Nips’ Man. power Reserve Favor Long Struggle

Dozen Nipponese Planes Raid B-29 Base in West Chine   No Superforts Lost; Enemy Gains Continue in China

Aol OF JAPS BLASTED DUT OF PILLBOXES   Nimitz Says Main Objectives Seized in Opening Blow at Jan Empire.

All of Enemy’s Strongpoints hU. S. Hands   More Islands Seized bs; Yanks in Crushing Blow At Marshalls

CONVICTS IN UPRISING AT ATLANTA PRISON   Twenty-Five Seize Building and Barricade Themselves—Hold 4 Guards as Hostages.

Show Need For Higher  Production   Number Of Workers ‘At Less- Essential Plants Will Be Limited As Result Of New Plan

Limit Jobs In Certain Work  ' Less-Essential Plants Will Be Affected

Status Given of Soviet Republics   Will Have Power To Negotiate With Various Countries

Russia’s 16 New Republics To Function Independently   Will Establish Individual Relations With Other Nations. Moscow Declare:

Soviet Press Seos Groat Future For 14 Reoublies is World Relationshins

Red Units to Act Separately   Will Have Power to Conclude Agreements With Other Nations

NEW RED STATES VOTE SEPARATEL   16 Republics To Send En voys to Other Nations, Will Receive Diplomats.

insurance Stock Good Investment   ROGER BABSON TALKS ABOUT INFLATION IW Ty. s.

INVASION OF “HOLY SOIL’ OF REICH OPENS   Intensive Air and Artillery Bombardment Said to Have Preceded Thrust.

Soviets Mass For Invasion  Of E. Prussia   Report Received In Moscow Says Red Arniy Already Across Border

First Invasion Of The “Holy Soil” Of Germany In This War  AIR AND ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT  Russians Destroyed Groups Of German Mobile Units

Reds Launch Drive Against Kast Prussia   Broadcast Says Units Have Crossed Into Nazi Territory

ARTILLERY BOMBARDS FRONTIER   Airmen Pave Way For Full-Scale Attack  On German Soil

EAST Philoalh QUBJECTED 10 AERIAL BLOWS   Third Army Reaches Szes-_zuppe River, Opens Blasting  of Border Defenses.

Third Red Army Broadens Front In East Prussia   Intensive Bopibsrdenent Made On “Konigsberg, On: Nazi “Holy Soil’

ARMIES MASSED FOR PUSH ONT 4 GERMAN SOIL   Air And Artillery Bombardment Softening Up Nazi . Defenses

Reds Start Shelling of East Prussia   “Holy Soil” of. ‘Germany Ready For Invasion

Reds Reported  In East Prussia   Jewish General Leads Russian Army to Germany's ‘Holy Soil’

Reds Mass To Invade Soil Of Germany   Army Massing On Szeszuppe Riv er Front Preparatory To Ful Scale Invasion Of “Holy Soil’ Of Germany   PATROLS MAY HAVE ALREADY ENTERED

Konigsburg Is Target Of Drive   Air And Artillery Bombardment Blasts Way For Troops

ARMY MASSES STRENGTH FOR NAZI INVASION   Patrols Test Defense: Shells Scream Across Prussian Frontier

Farmboy Now America’s Ace of Aces ©   CAPTAIN R. I. BONG DESTROYS 27 JAP PLANES IN PACIFIC

BOEBBELS ENCORAGES NAZIS _ TO REPRISALS FOR BOMBINGS   PROPAGANDA CHIEF SAYS IT HARDLY SEEMS “POSSIBLE OR TOLERABLE” TO PROJECT DOWNED FLITES

Farmers Get Help to Keep Their Tractors Running; School Boys, Business Men Assist

Mel Secretly   Garbage Truck Drivers May Join In Philadelphia Strike

SUNSHINE RETURNS   Temperatures Between 60 and 7(  ~  Forecast for Tonight

R.A.F DROPS LON) TONS OF EXPLOSIVES   Assault on Capital Follows U. S. Attack on Five Nazi Centers

VAST TInt) STARTED Ih NCAT RAI   2.800 Tons of Bombs Dropped  RENEW ASSAULTS  Indicate Invasion tmminent

Japs Report New Raids On anila; Yanks Repulse  Enemy Attack On Leyte

Yanks Bomb Manila  Twice in 24 Hours   Another 27 Nip Ships Sunk or Damaged.

HURRICANE THREATENS — NEW ENGLAND   Skirted Southern Seaboard and. ‘ls. Roaring: Northward

NORTH CAROLINA STORM TURNS   Moves Northward T'ovward New Jersey and New Encland

RESORT BEACHES ARE EVACUATED AS STORM NEARS   Terrific Winds Raise Waves 50 Feet High

Hurricane Nears Eastern Coast   Thousands Evacuated .From Path of Storm

East Gowers Before Lash Of Hurricane   Mountainous Waves Hit North Carolina; Winds Race North

Lashing Storm Heads Toward New Enaland   50-Foot Waves Whip East Coast Flood Town

‘Killer’ Hurricane Is Licking At East Coast   Residents Flee Before Mighty Tempest, N. Carolina Towns Isolated

9) To 100 Mi. Wind 0 Ft. Waves Lash N. C. Coast Towns   Due To Hit New England By 12 M.; Disaster Units Are Ready

Storm Roaring Northward   Weather Bureau Warns Blow  Will Sweep Across New England

Mass Meeting To Plan Stock Sale In Market Association, Friday   Officers Chosen For Cullman County Producers Association; Site For Plant Chosen; 4 Public Invited To Meeting

Nazis Strike Counter-Blow Along Front   600 Fighters Guard. Glider Trains, Shoot -_Up AntiAircraft.

Aerial Army Makes Bid To Turn Siegfried Line   Nazi Resistance Against U S. First Army Stiffens Suddenly Inside Reich

Democrats Break Republican Majority In State Governorships; Have 24

DEMOGRATS BREAK REPUBLICAN EDGE IN GOVERNORSHIPS   Win 14 More For Total Of 24, With Missouri Still In Doubt

PROPAGANDA OF NAZIS HITS IOWA   Rumors Try to Thwart Success of Bond Drive

Americans Mass For Capture of Historic City   12 German Planes Downed by Yanks

NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED BY AMERICANS   City Under Terrific Bomb and Artillery Barrage

Yanks Mass ForLast — Push On City   Doughboys Move Into Suburbs, Take Two War Factories

Americans Mass for Final Assault On Invasion Gateway to Reich After Seizing Suburb From Enemy

Germans Hurl Planes Into Defense of Flaming City  MOST OF AACHEN IN FLAMING RUINS  ‘Americans Belie Believed Close to Main Part of Aachen

Nazi Efforts To Relieve Doomed City Are Smashed   Artillery Pours In Cascades of Shells © And Bombers Strike In Successive Waves PEAT DATTTI TC PACT

Aachen 85 Pct. In Ruins   German Attacks By Planes, Tanks Are Beaten Off

PREPARE t      Germans Driven Froti Northeastern Factory Suburb in Grenade. and Rifle Attack. ok   RESCUE UNITS FAIL: 2 TO GET THROUGH         Soldiers and Civilian Cower in Sewers and Caves—85 Per Cent. of Town in Ruins. ~

$5 Per Cent Of City Said  To Be in Ruins   Americans Battle Way From Factory to Factory Building

GERMANS HURL FIGHTER PLANES AGAINST YANKS   150 Are Employed In Bitter Defense Of Flam ine Aachen   ROTTERDAM HARBOR BLASTED BY ENEMY

Referee Delays Decision After Jackie: Cooper Denies Morals Charge

« YANK ‘HEAVIES' — POUND GERMAN * PLANE CENTER   Friedrichshafen Target Of Day Raid Near Swiss Border

AMERICAN AIRMEN BLAST GERMAN AIRCRAFT CENTERS IN HEAVY RAID   Daylight Bombing Causes Heavy Damage To Western Germany.

Hoosevelt Supporters _ Press for Quick Vote —. On Soldier Balloting

Service Vote Legislation Becomes Political Football a: ‘Senate Republicans and Democrats Swap Charges

Senators Swap Charges Over  Service Ballot   Party Lines Tighten In Fourth Day of  Debate on Measure

SENATE IN HOT DEBATE ABOUT SOLDIER VOTE   Leaders of Both Parties Swap ‘‘Playing Politics” Charges

Politics Charged As Senate Debate: Soldier Ballot   Republican Claims Federal Plan Would Aid Fourth Term

GOP ATTACKS BALLOT PLAN   Reublicans, Democrat: Swap Charges of “Politics”

750 American Bombers Strike Friedrichshafen   Rail Lines Into Brenner Pass  Also Blasted

Italy-Based Fliers Hit Nazi Air Factory   Enemy Communications in North Italy Ripped

Mississippi  Is Falling  After Crest   Highest Level In 100 Years Is Reached at St. - Louis

Mississippi At Highest Peak In 100 Years   St. Louis Escapes, But Flood Waters Spreading Destruction.

ST. LOUIS SEEMS TOBE SAFE FROM RAPING TORREN   Elsewhere The Earthen Levees Are Givine Way   11,000 FIGHTING TO HOLD LEVEES

Mississippi at High Level   Peak Registered at St. Louis 100 Years Ago Has Been Reached

HIGHEST LEVEL AN TOD: YEARS   River Fails ; Slightly, Then Rises Again; Continues Damaging Course.

FLOOD WATERS CONTINUE 10 CAUSE DAMAGE   New Hundred Year High Reached In St. Louis Area

100-Year Flood  ~ Records Broker   Mississippi Safely By St. Louis

Mississippi Falls, Rises To Increase  Flood Loss   Waters Are Tearing At Earthen Levees

ARMY FIGHTING TO STRENGTHEN * WEAK LEVEES   Two Inch Rain’ Expected To Push Water Higher

Million Acres of Farm Land Under Water   Mississippi Continues On Its Damaging Course; More . Levees Threatened.

FLOOD PERIL IS MOUNTING   Additional Help Called te Fight Rampaging Rivers

Mississippi Rises Again   Army Engineers Call for Help To Hold Dikes

Selective Service Puts lingers on Problems of Veterans’ Employers

COMPLETE PLANS ANNUAL CHURCH MEN’S BANQUET   Christian Men’s Banquet Is Thursday, Feb. 10, At Toulon H. 8.

EXPECT LARGE CROWD CHURCH MEN’S BANQUET   Christian Men’s Banquet Is Thursday Night At High School.

Dae et ee  CIO Steel Issue Faces Showdown   Wage Hearing Is Refused AFL

Soviet Army Drives Into East Prussia   + Offieial’German Reports Admit Break Into Reich West Of Eydtkuhsen.

Germans Claim Reds Crack Over East Prussia Border   No Immediate Confirmation 01 Report From Moscow Sources

? RED ARMIES JOIN TO DRIVE FOR BUDAPEST   Smash Across Tip 0O Czechoslovakia; E. Prussia Bombed

iP. G. Wodehouse, Minus Jeeves for Laundry, F ound Nazi Concentration Camps Humorous

Nazi Says Allies  ‘Trying Desperately o Win Now Ahead  Of Secret Weapons

WHISKY MAKING T0 BE RESUMED   Domestic Distillers Get Month Of August For Easing Shortage

MONTH OF WHISKY MAKING APPROVED      Distillers Permitted to Turn Out Beverage in Aucuct .

WHISKY MAKING & 1S AUTHORIZED   MANUFACTURE OF LIQUOR DURING AUGUST APPROVED BY NELSON’S BOARD.

"ALDIER VOTE BILL DUE FOR MARE DEBATE   Compromise Measure of Conferees Also May Meet Veto

ULMER VOTE BILL fiAY bhikb OEGUND FU VEL   Controversy Heads Back Into Stormy Cozgress Debate; Pcssible Veto.

VOTE DISPUTE. ~~ MORE BITTER   COMPROMISE OFFERED: BY  CONFEREES HAS STIRRED UP  NEW ARGUMENTS IN." CONGRESS . ~-

Three Killed In Crash With Train   F laming Gasoline Fror  Truck Causes Deaths .

RUSSIAN ARMY IS FIGHTING AT GATES OF KORSUN SATURDAY   LAST BIG CENTER OF RESISTANCE FOR ENCIRCLED GERMANS THREATENED

Soviets Draw Near Gates Of Big Nazi Base   Reach Kor'sun Approaches; 11 Reich Junkers Downed

Soviet Armies : Continue Battle.         Operations To Exterminate “Nazis Said ‘Coming. To *yogieal .. Conclasion”

Soviets Report Wild Confusion Among Nazis in  Dnieper Trap   Shells Blast 11 Rescue Planes to Bits at Cherkasy

REDS BATTLE AT KORSUN’S APPROACHES   City Is Last Big Center o' Resistance in Uppei Dnieper Bend — Soviets Wreck 11 Junkers Trans: perts.

Red Army Fighting At Approaches  To Enemy’s Base Wild Confusion Now Prevailing in Ranks of Germans

Vatutin Consolidates 220 - Mile Line, in Position for Drive on Odessa-Warsaw Railway   HUB OF RAIL LINES   Slaughter of Trapped Germans Mounis, 1] Junker Planes Seeking Aid Nazis Blasted

REDS TIGHTEN DNEPER HOLD   ‘Soviet Army Advances On Korsun, Threatening German Legions

Reds Clean Up Last Dnieper Resistance   11 Huge German Transports Downed By Anti-Aircraft Guns

Soviets Storm Gates of Korsun  Last Center of Resistance Attacked

Nazi Rescue Planes Blasted  Reds Tighten Grip   On Tranned German:

Reds Facing Last Core Of Bend Defense   Artillery Prevents Nazi Planes From Reaching Entrapment

RUSSIANS STORM KORSUN, LAST NAZI BASE ON DNIEPER   Moscow Reports Wild Con:fusion Among Trapped  Garman Trasns

Russians - Near Last Nazi Base   “Now in the ‘Approaches: tc Korsun, Only Center of Resistance in Dnieper   *- WILD CONFUSION IN- ENEMY RANKS   Various Units-Are Cut. Oft ~ and Isolated; Many Hackec. to Pieces

U.. S. Plat es s Permanently Based In: France For. First Time - fe

SOVIETS SEEK WORLD WIDE RECOGNITION   Russians Press for Official Relations in Many Nations

REDS CAMPAIGN FOR RECOGNITION   Pressing Other Nations Is Latest Development in Soviet Foreign Po icy

Soviet Army Set For K. QO. Of Budapest   Enemy's Eastern Anchor Southeast Of City Is Toppled

AUSS PUSHING THEIR AnMMlt THRU HUNGARI   Breaking Outer Defenses 0 Budapest in Readiness _ for Main Attack.

Reds Topple Anchor Of Budapest Defense   Russians Prepare For All-Out Assault On Hungarian Capital With New Gains.

Reds Advance In Assault On Budapest   Capture Eastern Anchor of Nazi Defense Positions

REFUSES FILES IN SENATE QUIZ   Daniels Opens New Rifl With Committee Over REA Probe

ENTRAPPED JAP  REGIMENT FACES IMMINENT DEATH IN LIMON POCKET   Nip Drives To Free Road Block Repulsed

Allied Planes Pound Balkan. 4 Communicafio a                Prime Rail Targ At Bucharest Hi Despite Bad We

Allied Air Force Based In Italy Carries On Offensive To Enemy: Fronts All Quiet

NEWSMAN GIVES OWN IMPRESSION   Find Russians Are Tough Babies and No Doubt Justified.

Temperatures   Americans Advance In Driving Rain On Le Haye-du Puits

U.S. TROOPS (PEN DRIVE AS DAWN BREAKS   Enemy Kept Off Balance as Ist Army Strikes In Western Area of Normandy.   BULLETIN

New Offensive Being Launched In Driving Rain:   Bradley Sends U. S.  First Army Charging \ Into German Positions

Country Surrenders ‘To Soviet Union For Second Time In War   Terms For Peace  Not Yet Disclosed   Nazis Ordered To Leave By Sept. 15 Or Face Internment

Great Britain Joins United States In Refusing Bolivia Recognition

0.P.A. ANNOUNCES RATION CHANGES   Increased Ration Points on Beef, Lard and Veal.

MILITARY DEMANDS ON TRANSPORTATION EXPECTED CONTINUE   WILL BE NO LETUP FOL LOWING: VICTORY IN EUROPE. IS CLAIM

Yank Paratroopers and Airborne Infantrymen Play Big Part In Seine Crossing.

Truck Strike Retains Grip  WLB Powerless to Order Men Back as  Onerators lenore Order

ALLIES ON OFFENSIVE ATKOHIMA      Claim Initiative At All Points In Area Of India Base

ALLIES PREGUING JABS AT KOHIMA   Hand tnvaders Setbacks or Plain of Imphal.

Allies Open  Burma Drive   Japanese Forces Thrown Back at Every Point In Successful Push

Allied Forces Take Offensive On India Front   Raiders Bombard Japanese Bases Along New Guinea i North Coast.   ATTACK PONAPE ISLE

Allied Forces At Kohima Push Offense   Satisfactory Progress Reported; Jap Casualties Growing

AlliesGo Offensive  At Kohima   Good Progress Is Reported Along Front; Chinese Push Ahead ‘Also

Stilwell’s Forces Take Mogaung Valley Point, Trap Retreating Japs

SAPS GO ON DEFENSIVE AT KOHIMA   Allies Making ‘Satisfactory Progress’ In Area

Allied Offensive In Kohima Area Making Progress  Heavy Casualties Inflicted o1 Japs Near Imphal Plain—Chi nese Take Inkangahiawncg

F/O W. Barton Alive; Prisoner  Of Germans   Smethport Man First Reported Missing, Next As Dead; Now Listed  As German Prisoner

‘Wm. Barton Alive; Prisoner  Of Germans   Local Man First Reported Missing, Next As Dead, Now Prisoner

-  FAFT-CIO.- ~  CHARGES BY CIO. BRINGS INQUIR   Senate Committee To In“ vestigate Statements -- Against Taft

Fulbright Named Arkansas Senator   Wins Run-Off From Gov. Adkins

British _ Second © Army Plunges. Forward In Drive Aimed At Linking Up With, Great Air Army; U.SFirst Army Holds At Aachea Against Waves Of Fanatical Banzai Attacks.

Bombers, Transports and Gliders Send Additional Forees After Air Invasion Is Started.   STRAINED ARMY OF HITLER BEING PUSHED

Third Army, Nazis Battle Bitterly Below Metz While Yanks Close Aachen Noose

GLIDERS, BOMBERS AND TRANSPORTS IN INVASION BACKING   THIRD ARMY SLUGGING IT OUT WITH GERMANS TRYING STOP ADVANCE

Three Cities In Holland Are Taken   Reinforcements Pour Into Sectors Now Held By Air-Borne Army as Germans Battle Desperately Against Two Other Yank Forces

Germans Hurl in Troops From Russia, Wage Bitter ‘Last-Ditch Fight for Reich

NAZIS FIGHTING DEPERATELY TO STOP AMERICAN ADVANCES BUT YANKS INCHING FORWARD

British Push. For Junction With Air Army   Surprise Landings Aimed at Flanking Sieatried Line

Nazis Trying to Siop Yanks at All Costs   Fresh Reserves From Russian Front Hurled Against Doughboys   BUT REPEATED ASSAULTS FAIL   Bitterest Fighting Since DDay; Americans Still Recording Gains

HEAVY FIGHTING AROUND AACHEN   Germans Throw Reserves From Russia tnto Desperate Baitle.   HOLLAND A WEAK SPOT

Reserves From Russian Front Pour Into West Wall: Allied Airborne Army Slashes At Nazi North Flank   x *k «kk * The Surrender

Hitler, Meanwhile, Hurls Reserves From Russia  Into Aachen Battle.

SHAEF STATES FIRST ROUND IS WON   Tilberg, Nijmegen, Eindoven Taken, Report   SIEGFRIED LINE   Penetrated Below Aachen; Yanks Within 20 Miles Of Cologne

GERMANS WAGE BITTER FIGHT   ‘Repeated Counterattacks Are  Smashed by Yanks

New Operation May Break Back Of Resistance   Gliders, Transports Put Men In Holland; Spearheads Are Held In Sieafried Line

Vertical Invasion of Holland’s Flat Lands is Complete   Yankees in the Bitterest Fighting Encountered Since D-Day

aii of Paris is  Admitted by Huns   Germany Reports Theit Strongpoints Succumbed to Enemy Superiority

Another Yank Force Presses Toward Paris   140-Mile Dash: To Brest Made In Five Days

breton Peninsula Cui Off   140 Mile Dash Made By Americans In Only Five Days

ST. NAZAIRE, NANTES MAY HAVE FALLEN   British Snap Enemy Anchor Positions Near Caen

Two Vital Harbor Cities are Falling   Cutting Off Entire Peninsula Gives U. S. Forces Clear Road Direct Toward Paris

Fall Of Port Marks End Of Lone Dash   Reports Say Nantes And St. Nazaire Also Invested.

Tanks Enter Key Port After 140-Mile March   Second Force Believed Inside St. Nazaire. Across Peninsula

DEMANDS THAT PLEDGE IS KEPT   Murray Says Government Promised to Keep Wages In Line With Prices.

Hungary Asks Peace But Fascists Rebel   Fighting Continues, Meanwhile, With Undiminished Vigor

Marine Artilleryman Wonders Why Allies Don't Let Japs Keep Saipan

Why Not Let Japs Have It   That's How Private Felt After Being Told All to Be Careful About on Saipan

Bi-Party House Group Supports ‘States Rights Bill   Confident of Beating Murray-Kilgore Plan For Post-War Jobs

Bi-Partisan Move to Pass  George Bill   Coalition Leaders See Way Clear to Follow Procedure of Senate

Bi-Partisan Drive to Pass ‘States Rights Bill for Handling Unemployment Problems Looms in House

GEORGE BILL FACES QUICK HOUSE ACTION   Bi-Partisan Dr ive is Shaping Up to Put Measure Through

Bi-Partisan Drive Gets under Way In House for ‘States Rights’ Bill

NAZI ‘CHUTISTS IN SWIFT FIGHT TO HOLD CASSINO   Tough Germans Holding New Zealanders Pinned Down in Tight Corner of Circle

NAZIS POUR “MORE TROOPS ‘INTO CASSING   Are Believed Reinforcing Positions Through Secret Tunnels—Get Three More. Tanks Into Continental Hotel.

Nazis in Cassino  Stand   SECRET TUNNELS AID GERMANS TO STAB AT ALLIED LINE TROOPS

Nazis Gain At Cassino   Tough Parachutists Hold Anzacs in South Part of Ruined Town

GERMANS HOLDING  CASSINO AGAINST  NEW ZEALANDERS CLAIMED NAZIS GRADUAL  LY REINFORCING TROOPS IN WRECKED TOWN

Nazi Parachutists Strengthen Hold On Cassino!   Ailied Troops Move in on Strategic Railroad Center in Northern Burma

Germans Gair At Cassino   Tough Nazi Parachute  Troops Strive To Throw Allies Out

Germans Are Reinforced Through Secret Tunnels; Shell Anzio, Nettuno.

NAZIS FIGHTING HARD IN ITALY   Ordered By Commander to Throw Allies Out of Cassino If Possible.   USE TANKS AT ANZIO'

NAZI CHUTISTS STIFFEN FIGHT FOR CASSINO   Germans Get Three More Tanks Placed in Continental Hotel, Send In Men Through Tunnels   AIR DUELS FOUGHT   Lad  Two German Tanks Stabbing at Allied Lines on Anzio Beachhead Knocked Out

Use Secret Tunnels to  Move Men   Underground’ Passage Ways . Helping Germans to Hold Line at: Cassino   MORE TANKS ALSO’ "ap E BROUGHT: UE   Seven Knocked Out-by.Artillery Fire;:Planes Active  On: Italian: Front.

Germans Reinforcing Their Troops In Cassino Battle Sector Via Secret Tunnels   Nazis Holding New Zealanders In Tight Confines In Southern Aréa

TOUGH GERMAN ~ PARAGHUTISTS ON GUARD AT CASSINO   Ordered by Their Commander Lieut. Gen. Heindrich, to Hold the City.   REINFORCING TROOPS   Have Succeeded in Getting Two More Tanks in the Continental Hotel.

German Chutists Cling to Cassino   Nazis Also Are Able to Get in More Tanks and Reinforce Troops.

NAZI SKY TROOPS HOLD IN CASSINO.   CLING TO POSITIONS DESPITE EFFORTS OF NEW ZEALAND FORCES

Tunnels Aid Cassino Nazis ToHold Town   Foe’s Chutists Block Anzacs: Enemy Shells Anzio-Nettuno Areas

Nazi Air Troops Hold Cassino  New Zealanders Are   New Zealanders Are Pinned Down In Town

Nazis Reinforce Cassino Troops  Believed Using Tunnel Bk ta Lak Mamds

Three More Tanks In The Lobby Now.... .  Tough Nazi ‘Chutists Holding Cassino Line

New Zealanders Held at Cassino   German Forces Reinforced in Devas tated Town With Secret Tunnels  Used For Bringing in Fresh Units  wRheee eas Tanke   ALLIED PLANES ACTIVE

German Paratroop: Try Desperately  To Control Cassino Tough Fighting Still Continuing on Both Italian Fronts

New Zealand Forces Held In Corner As Germans Use ‘Tunnels To Supply Troops

Nazi ’Chutists Cling To Cassino   Germans Using Tunnel To Funnel In Reinforcements.

WITNESS STAND   Testifies He Paicl Legistators to Vote Against ‘Sandbag Bills.”   EMPLOYED BY GROUP!

More And Chea per Eggs In Prospect   Prices Next Year Will Be Slightly Lower

British Empire Triples Reverse  Lend-Lease Aid   President Shows U. S. Getting Back Much In Goods, Services

Senators Okay Simplified Tax   Committee Will Fayor Bill Virtually Unchaneed

Changes in Tax Bill Rejected   Senate Finance Group Favors House Bill

3rd, 5th Fleets Bag 905 Ships, 3080 Planes   Manila, Clark Field, Legaspi Identified by Tokyo as Targets for Carrier-Plane Attacks; New Base for Invasion Secured

1 Warships In Latest © Bag by Subs   905 Nip Vessels Destroyed, Damaged In Last Few Months

Yanks Seize Naval Position In Carolines  MacArthur Sends  Planes Sweepina O   MacArthur Sends His Planes Sweeping Over Mindanao; Hit Truck Convoy In Assault

Allied Planes Thunder Over Straits In Super (zround Support Raids      Luftwaffe, In Increasing Numbers, Rising To Meet Challengers; Fierce Battles Reported

Massive Air Fleet Clouds Coast Area   Thousands of Heavy Bombers, Fighters — Roar Over Channel

U.S. Planes Hit Targets In France   Luftwafe Rises To Meet Challenge; Allies Maintain Air Superiority

Air Blows Increase Over Invasion Coast as Weather Clears: Luftwaffe May Figh

FULL POWER OF ALLIED AIR ARM HITS DEFENSES   1,000 Liberators And Fortresses Blast Bridges, Railway Tareets

AIR UMBRELLA REACHES PEAK AT BEACHHEAD   Weather Clears, Allied Fliers Give Troops Tight Cover

REDS PUSH THRU TOWARD RIGA, LATVIA   Berlin Radio —  Terms Situation ‘Critical’

Red Advance Perils Nazis In Baltics   Violent Battle Rages In Riga Area Along Sea coast.

Soviets Open Up New Offensive © In Riga Sector   Break-Through Made Half Way Across  German Corridor

Critical Nazi Situation in Baltics Seen   Deep Russian Break-Through Is Reported

With Russians Making A Frontal Assault On Warsaw   DRIVE ON LATVIAN CAPITAL OF RIGA   Moscow Confirmed Reports Of Heavy Fighting North Of Warsaw

SLASH NAZI LATVIA LINE   Indicate Trap Is About to Be Sprung On German Forces

SITUATION [a CRITICAL FOR NAZI TROOPS   Baltic Battle Flares To Full Intensity; Upwards Of 500,000 Soviet Troops Engaged In Fighting   SOVIETS HALFWAY ACROSS CORRIDOR

sreak - Through Toward Riga Causes Critical Situation   Russia Throws In  Half Million Men   British Reports Say Battle For Warsaw In Final Phase

REDS. DRIVING TOWARDS RIGA   “Critical Situation” for German ‘Troops Created — Baltic Battle Flares to Mull Intensity,

Reds Advance Toward Riga; Threaten Trap   Breakthrough May Cai Nazi Supply Lines; Close On Warsaw

Reds Score Big Gains Near Riga   Break-thru in Latvia Admitted by Berlin

Berlin Admits Red Advance Toward Riga   Baltic Battle Flares To New Intensity, Report Says

Ely Seeking Nomination For President   Bay State Ex-Governor Hopes to Block  Naming of Roosevelt

Political Action Hit by Ayers  Says Group Agains' Interesis of State

Jerry 0’Connell’s ClO Program Is Hit by Ayers  Finds Erickson Seeks Dictation From  Milleaan Liautanant

Jerry O’Connell’s ClO Program Is Hit by Ayers  Finds Erickson Seek:  Rictatinn Fram   Finds Erickson Seeks Dictation From Hillman Lieutenant

Clare Boothe Luce Says She Defeated Entire New Deal and Hillman’s PAC

Sedition Case Lawyer Draws Ire Of Jurist      ‘Fined Four Times For Contempt In Protesting   Trial Judge’s Order; Motions For Mistrial Are H Overruled

Lose Mistrial Move In Mass Sedition Case   Justice Eicher Rules Proseeuting Attorneys Did Not “Transcend Permissible Bounds”

MISTRIAL PLEA IS OVERRULED   Judge Orders Mass Sedition  Case To Proceed

No Mistrial In Sedition Action Judge Fines Another Defense Attorney

Yanks Have New High Explosive   FETA Thitd More Powerful . Then TNT, Acording to Ordrance Officers.

GERMANS TAKE DEFEAT ON:ALL FRONTS TODAY   Danube River Is Mined By RAF During Week

NAZIS FALLING BACK TOWARD NEW LINES NORTH OF CAPITAL: — ALLIES PRESSING ENEMY HARD   Germans Trying to Salvage Armies from Armor Littered Battleground of Defeat in Liri Valley. Allied Armies Penetrate New Defense Positions

NAZIS THROW IN RESERVES ALONG FRONT   Spearhead From Fifth Army Penetrates to Within Two and Half Miles of Retreat Road

STH ARMY ONLY 16 MILES FROM ETERNAL CITY   Drives Within 21, Miles of ' Main Escape Route  For Nazis 

bth Army Troops Endangering Last Escape Route for Nazi Forces Battling Below Rome   Indications Are That G ermans Will Not Attempt to Defend Rome But Will Pull Forces Into Strong Fortifications [n Northern Italy

ESCAPE ROUTE FOR GERMANS BEING CLOSED   Russian Front Is Ominously Quiet But Pre-invasion Air Attack Goes On

Into Hills Below Rome   Main Enemy Escape Route Threatened By Swift Advance; Reds Blast .Convoy

Fifth Army Is Within 2% Miles Of Via Cassillina   More Heavy PreInvasion Air Blows Delivered on Europe

Germans Say No Eternal City Defense   Fall Back Into Aiban Hills, 13,000 Prisoners

TRAFFIC IN SNARL NERDORA BRIDGE   Five Cars and a Bus. In. volved in Early Morn. ~ + Ing Accident   VEHICLES SKID ON -ICE

TRAFFIC IN SNARL ON EUDORA BRIDGE   Five Cars and a Bus Involved in Early Morn- - ing Accident ¢

U.S. to Bring Home Yanks NazisTrapped   Gripsholm to Be Used for Exchange of Americans “Taken in France

U.S. Coast Guard Foils Nazis Again   Capture Germans In Attempt Establish Weather Outpost In Greenland.

F inal Drive On  Guam Underway   Prepare To Annihilate Remaining Nip Troops

U. S. MARINES PREPARE FINAL DRIVE ON GUAM   Increased Enemy Opposition and Rough Terrain Retard  Advance

AMERICAN FORCES PREPARE FOR FINAL ASSAULT ON GUAM   Capture Vital Hill And Road Junctions At North End

FLOODS GROW WORSE IN SIX STATES   Even Italian War Prisoners Aid In Fightine Waters

Troops Battle Flood Waters In Six States   Thousands Left Homeless; Property Damage Expected To Mount

GOP Campaign Swings To ot. Louis Tonight   Gov. Dewey Prepares Message With New Attack Upon Administration’s De mobilization Plan.

Dewey To Attack  Demobilization   Charges Roosevelt Is Hiding Behind Evasions—To Talk Tonight

Dewey Calls For Honesty   Deimobilization Plans To’ Be Reviewed Again At St. Louis Tonight .

Dewey Shapes New Attack To Hurl At Administration’s Demobilization Plan

GETS LIFE TERM FOR SON’S DEATH      Coshocton Man to Spend Part of Time in Solitary

DEWEY WILL RUN IF NOMINATED, FRIENDS ASSERT   N, Y. Governor Feels ILA Duty To The Dlawiitedt stapes:

NEW YORK GOVERNOR WILL ‘NOT MAKE’ ANY PERSONAL EFFORTS TO GET.G. 0. P. “AMINATION ——

Gov. Dewey Will Accept   Friends Say He Will Take Nation’s Top Honor

Assert Dewey Would Accept   Friends Believe New York Governor Would Be Candidate If Nominated

70 Per Cent of Ships Said Sunk ‘By Air Attacks.   Tokyo Radio Reports Still Go Unconfirmed.  By American Sources

Nimitz Says Japan Must Be Occupied   Warns Enemy That Bomb. ing of Their Homeland  to Be Intensified

Convoy Reaches Mindoro, Report   70 Per Cent Sunk, Tokyo Radio Says

Japs Claim to HaveSunk Over Half of Ships   Washington Silent, Tokyo Radio Tells of 2s Flaw Ateack

Japs Claim U.S. 50 Ship Convoy Sighted In Sulu Sea Heads For Mindoro   Earlier Enemy Reports Hinted A Imminent Invasion of Luzon;  Boost Alleged U. S. Losses

JAPS CLAIMING U.S. CONVOY TO HELP MINDORO   Report 50 Ship Fleet On Way + Through Sulu Sea In Philippines

CLAIM PLANES TAKE BIG TOLL OF U.S. SHIPS   “Nimitz. Declares Japan Must Be Occupied for “UcS..to Win Peace 

CLAIMS MOST OF FLEET SUNK IN 4-DAY BATTLE   Allies Silent On Report

TOKYO SAYS U. S. CONVOY AT MINDORO   Nimitz Warns Japan Must Be Invaded And Occupied

JAPS CLAIM AMER. CONVOY IN SULU SEA   Say 50 Yank Ships Approaching Mindora

Popular Young Couple Pledge Marital Vows Ralph Bergin — Margaret Ludwi;  £4.  ngr_

Popular Young Couple Pledge Marital Vows   Ralph Bergin Margaret Ludwig Are Married

BLOOD TEST HAS COMPLICATED CHAPLIN CASE —   Report Of Three Physi: cians Absolves Him Of Charges Of Being Fath. er Of Joan  Barry’s Child.

Soviets. Break Into Satu- Mare, Take Huszt In ExHungarian Territory

Berlin Claims Army Checks Red Push .   Breakthroughs Would Outflank Territory In East Prussia

Russians Open New Offensive, Germany Says   Red Army Forces Strike Along Narew River in Poland Between Warsaw And Invaded East Prussia

NAZIS ANNOUNCE NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE IN POLAND   Say Reds Attack Along Narew River Between Warsaw, East Prussia

Superforts in New Assault Hit Nagoya   Mindoro Beachhead Extended fo Bring Fear to Japanese

JAPS REPORT FIGHTING ON MINDORO   Claim American Convoy Off Island Heavily Damaged

Jap Radio Gives Version Of Fight   Tokyo Spokesman Claims Heavy U. S. Losses

Tokyo Claims U.S.Convoy Badly Battered   Reports Waters Near Yank Landing At San Jose, ' Mindoro, Covered With Wreckage

-WILL HEAR ‘APPLICATION.   Topeka Company Wan ‘Wants to Add Gas  Facilities in Edwards County

WILL HEAR APPLICATION   Topeka Company Wants to Add Gas Facilities in Edwards County

German Fliers  Bomb London   High Explosives And Incendiaries Are Dropped On British Capital

LONDON HAS NEW ATTACK BY NAZI NIGHT RAIDERS   SIX OF RAIDERS SHOT DOWN DURING ATTACK LAST » NIGHT--SOME CASUAL-, TIES REPORTED

HURRICANE TAKES TOLL OF 22 LIVES   Huge Property Damage In 11 Eastern States

Hurricane Kills 24, Damage Set at $30,000,000   Tropical Gale Litters 11 States and Half Dozen Cities With Debris; New York Has Greatest Loss of Life in Great Storm

Towering Seas Smash Boardwalk, Steel Pier,   Debris Litters 9}Mile Coastline; 100-Mile Wind Rakes Many Cities

Hurricane Takes  22 Lives Along Atlantic Coast —   Damage Estimated At $30,000,000  From Terrific Gale

Hurricane Dies Down After Taking 22 Lives   $30,000,000 Loss Caused With 11 States Battered

Damage in Fas! Coast Hurricane Is $13,008,000  Only 18 Lives Are Reported  Loct in Storm

HURRICANE HITS ATLANTIC COAST   18 Lives Have Been Lost, Property Damage Heavy On Atlantic Coast

Passes Out To Sea Near South Weymouth, Mass., Leaving Long Coastline, Many Cities Littered With Debris

Storm on Coast Leaves 2? Dead   Damage to Property Near 30 Millions

HURRICANE DEATH TOLL 18; 150 HURT   Storm Passes Out To Sea After Wrecking Wide Area

HURRICANE KILLS 18 IN NEW ENGLAND   Passes Out to Sea in Massachusetts After Hitting Eastern States; 30 Million Darmace Done.

22 Lose Lives In  Hurricane   Storm Damege Estimated at  30 Million Dollars; 150 Persons Hurt

$30,000,000 Damage Done  By Hurricane   Twenty-four Dead; One  Hundred Foot Waves Hit Jersey Coast-

Patrolman Plunges Into Icy Water to Save Fredericks Putnam, Aged 7 .

Patrolman Plunges Into Icy Water ‘to Save. F: serie Putnam, Aged 7°

Britain Decides to Approve DeGaulle   U. S. Delayed Action, London Sources Say

11 Die in Blast At McAlester Naval Depof   Seven Enlisted Men And Four Civilians Were Among Victims, Commandant Announce:

Threaten _ to Revolt. _on Taxes   Democratic. Leaders... May Vote to Override President; G.O.P: Backing. Bill Solidly   REVENUE SITUATION WITHOUT. PARALLEL   No New Legislation in '44 If Roosevelt Is Sustained, . Authorities Say

ADEMOCRATIC — REVOLTLOOMS   if Pres. Roosevelt Returns New Tax Bill with His Official Veto

Training Given In Tower Operations a ten nee omen  ‘Units Of Railway Operating Battalion Stationed Here

Major Crabbs Is ‘Back Front Italy   Training Given In Tower Operations ee  Units Of Railway Oper ating Battalion Stationed Here

DURBIN ATTACKS ASSEMBLY CALL   Says Gov. Bricker Injects “Political Propaganda”

Nazis Fight In Face Of Sure Death   Leader Orders Last Man Defense But Many Giving Up

AMERICANS AT GATES OF ST. MALO TODAY   Infantry Backed by Tanks, Artillery and Dive Bombers Attacks Ancient Seaaoirt Fartrace

Germans Make St. Malo Stand  Battle To Last Man Ordered By Leader

NAZIS ORDERED TO HOLD AT ST. MALO, GIVE IN   Commander Leads Last-Man Fight; Hundreds Surrender

ALLIED FLIERS RAIN DEATH ON FLEEING NAZIS   Other Heavy Bombers Lash At Reich Itself In Hard Blows At Germans

Fleeing Nazis  Hammered__ From Air   Germany Also Gets Blastng From Heavy Bombers

Aerial Attack Cracks Germans As They Retreat   Bombardment from the Air Sweeping Over Nazi Armies Is Ceaseless; Reich Itself Is Bombed.

FLIERG ATTAGK NAZI LEGIONS   More Than 6,000 Rail Cars, 594 Locomotives Des- ° troyed in 2 Days.   /KNOCK. OUT 30 TANKS

GREAT AERIAL FORCES STRIKE FLEEING NAZIS   Germans Must Be Frantic,”’ Says  P-47 Pilot

Planes Rake Retreating  Nazi Troops   Air Forees Lashing Anew at Von Kluge’s Seattered Divisions

AIRMEN POUND FLEEING NAZIS   Germans Report Bomber Fleets Over Reich Itseit

Constant Raids Harass Germans At Every Point  Von Kluge’s Army Badly : Scattered,

GLAZED TODAY WITH COATING OF SLEET   Highway Travel is Hazardous According to.State High-.. way Patrol.   CAUTION. IS URGED   Mostly Freezing Rain Covers the State, According to the *. 'K. C. Weather Bureau.

Germans Throw Buik Of2 Armies Into Fight   British Widen Grip Across Odon; Planes Batter Enemy Supply Line

REP, LUGE SIGHT POLITICAL PUTSCH   Charges Plot Between Communist Wing of PAC and Some New Dealers to Control American Labor

PLOT CHARGED BY MRS. LUCE   Claims Power-Hungry New Dealers and Red Group  In Alliance

COAST STORM DAMAGE HIGH; DEATH TOLL 12   Hurrieane Blows Out To Sea; Half Dozen Cities Lashed

Japs, Monsoon Rains Slow Chinese Burma-Bound Offensive on Salween

Rain, Heavy Jap Attacks Slow Up  Burma Offensive   ‘Chinese Encountering Stiffest Resistance Since Start of Drive

CHINESE ARE SLOWED UP BY MONSOONS   Burma-Bound Offensive Halted by Rains

GAUSS QUITS AS ENVOY TO CHINA GOV'T      Amboessador Is Following Genera! Stilwell Home

U.S. Ambassadorto China Coming Home; Stilwell Recall Laid to ‘Persanalitice:

U. §. Ambassador To.China Returns   Reporters Say U. S. Now Discounting Any Effective Chinese Part In Offense.

Roosevelt Says Resignation of Envoy Is Not Connected  _. With Recall of General, Which He Attributes to Clash of Personalities With Chiang—Latter’s Refusal to Revitalize War Effort Led to Differences With Americans.

U.S. ENVOY IN CHINA RESIGNS   Chinese - American Differences Revealed by Correspondents

From China   F.D.A. Suys Resignatia.i Has No Cc.mection Will Rech of Stilwell

Env oyt to China Coming Home, F.D-R. “Rev eals   Has No: ‘Connection: With Stilwell Recall. Chief. Executive Says egg ee RETA COPTOWER

St. John Makes Kingsport Star Of ‘Story Of City’ ~~   Ambassador GaussF ollows General Stilwell Home; FDR Says  No Connection Between Official’s Resignation, Military Move"

GAUSS QUITS AS ENVOY T0 (HINA GOV'T   Ambassador Ts. Following   General Stilwell  a - Home

Ambassador resigns post, leaves China  ‘Has no bearing in Stilwell case’

Gauss Quits At Chunking, FDR Reveals  US Ambassador Follows Gen. Stilwell Hame

Says Chiang Saves Face By Ouster Of Stilwell   Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss Follows American General Home; Triumph Of Anti-Democratic Regime In China Cited

ENVOY TO CHINA BEING RECALLED   Stilwell And Gen. Chiang Clash; U. S. Policies Are Unchanged

Hit Clark Air Field Near Manila      Hi ‘Tons of Bombs Shoot Down 39 dipantse Piane  Japs Again Raid pan, Flying From Iwo

Yanks Step Up Attack On Japanese Luzon Airfields; Nips Raid Saipan

STATES F. D. R. LIFE ASPIRANT   Says President Has Antipathy For U.S. Form Of Government

Strikers Give In To Army Orders   Philadelphia Transit Tie-Up Is Broken

New Regime In Bolivia  May Not Get OK from U.S   Hull Says Inf ormation Strengthens Belief Forces Unfriendly  in. A ee a rl    WORDS MAY POINT AT ARGENTINA

COUP OUSTS THREE ARGENTINE LEADERS   Engineered by Pro-Axis Reactionairies, It May Imperil President Pedro Ramirez’s Position.

Pro-Nazis Stage Argentine Coup   Ramirez’ Regime Menaced By Military Cahal

New Shake-up In Argentine Government  Nationalists Force  Resignations of : Theaa f ee 

ry BAG MADE      German War Plant at Steyr Smashed by Yanks   300 ENEMY PLANES DEFEND TARGET

100 NaziPlanes Shot Down In U.S. Steyr Raid   33 Allied Craft Lost; Very Successful Attack On Enemy Factory

Yank Bombers Hit Factories  In Old Austria   Plane Parts Factories And Ball-Bearing Works At Stewr Under Assault

Yanks Destroy Over 100 Planes In Austria Blow   Record Number Of German Fighters Shot Dowr In Mighty Aerial Attack On Steyr, Huge Ball-Bearing Center In Reich

100 ENEMY PLANES  BAGGED YESTERDAY IN RAIN OVER STEYR   U. S..Heavy Bombers and Es corts Hit Aircraft Parts Factory.   A LARGE FORMATION   On the Italian Battlegroun¢ “the 5th Army Repulsed ‘Small.German Thrusts. —

Over 100 Nazi Planes Bagged   Big U.S. Armada Shoots Down Record Number on Single Raid From Italian Bases in Attack on Steyr, Austrig.    AMERICAN LOSS IS 33

Bag Over 100 Enemy Planes In Steyr Raid   Italy-Based Allied Bombers Take Heavy Toll In As. sault On Austrian City.   NAZI DEFENSES STIFF

German Aircraft Parts Plant And Ball Bearing Factory Smashed By American Planes   ‘Truk And Ponape Again Gain Lethal Greetings From U. S.

About 300 Enemy Planes And Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire Mct by Allied Forces In Raid On Aircrafts Parts Factory And. Ball . Bearing Works.

Yank Raiders Destroy 100 Enemy Planes   Attack Bearing Plant In Austria During Busy Sunday

100 Germans Shot ~ Down By Yanks   HEAVY . BAG OF ENEMY PLANES REPORTED ° IN ITALY.

MORE THAN HUNDRED ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN FROM ITALY  DIC TADMATIOo If ¢   BIG FORMATION U. S. HEAVY BOMBERS DELIVERED ATTACK ON STEYR

Yanks Down 100 Planes   U, §..Bombers Score in Big Raid on Steyr; Austria  By Edward Kennedy

NAM Parley Hears Plan To Pay Off Nation’s Debt   60-Year Program Includes Slashes in Individual Income And Business Taxes

Tax Reduction Proposed: Manufacturers Offer Plan To Pay  Off National Debt in 60 Years

Its Not the Drilling of Your Teeth That Hurts, It's Heat, Dentists Told

LEGION PLANS TO HELP VETS   New State Leader Asserts First Aim is to Aid Those in Service

KING TO STAND ON DRAFT POLIC)   VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS STAGED IN QUEBEC BY CONSCRIPTION-AGE MEN.

SEN. McNARY, REP. FLOOR LEADER, DIES   Was Nominee for ‘ Vice-President Four Years Ago .

M'NARY DEAD; G. 0, P. LEADER FOR 24 YEARS   / 1940 Vice Presidential Nominee Had Liberal Senate Record

Senate Honors McNary, Leader of Republicans   Late Solon Termed ‘Angel of Press”, Knew Government

Thousands Of Japanese Apparently Isolated  Action In Marshalls One Of War’s Most Brillian

Thousands Of Japs Isolated  In Marshall   Subject To Capture At Leis. ure Or Starvation; Poe keted In Atolls.   JAPANESE SURPRISED

Thousands Of Isolated Japs Face Capture At Leisure Or Starvation   Bold Stroke Of Our Forces Into Heart Of Marshall Islands Pockets Large Groups; Attack On Kwajalein Took Foe By Surprise.

Thousands of Jap Troops Isolated on Atolls, Where ' They Expected U. S. to Hit

Yank Thrust At Heart Of Marshalls Threat  To Heavily Garrisoned Islands

‘MARSHALLS DRIVE APPARENTLY HAS ISOLATED THOUSANDS OF JAP TROOPS

IAPS CUT OFF BY THOUSANDS IN MARSHALLS   Bold Stroke Into Heart of Island Group Apparently Leaves Big Force to Be Killed or Die of Starvation.

MANY THOUSAND JAPS ISOLATED BY NEW ATTACK   Caught by Surprise in Marshalls Attack, Entire Defense System Is Now Distomted

JAPS THROWN OFF BALANCE BY SURPRIS!   Thousands of Enemy Troops Iso lated on Marshall Islands East 0 Kwajalein, Roi

THOUSANDS OF JAPS ISOLATED ON ISLANDS  Troops Pocketed on Tiny Atolls May Be Conquered at Leisure Now

JAPS CAUGHT BY SURPRISE   American. Blow at Marshails Finds Japanese Defenders Of Guard.

Thousands of Japs Trapped   Attack in Center Cuts Off Garrisons in East Isles of Marshalls

G.O.P. Wins House Seats   Pennsylvania Elects: 2. Coneress Members

G.0.P. Wins Two  Seats in Congress   Elect Successors To Pennsylvanians

FAIR -NOUGH   REPUBLICANS GAIN 2 SEATS    O. P. Congressmen Are Elected In Two Pennsylvania Districts

Republicans Capture Two ‘Seats in House   Pratt Defeats Barrett To Take Seat Vacated By Democrat McGraner.

6.0. P. WINS 2 ELECTIONS   Elects Pair of Congress  - men In Pennsylvania   Districts

G. 0. P. Gains Twe  More House Seats: Republicans Win  Pe ae a a o. Pe Th.

REPUBLICANS ELECT TWO CONGRESSMER   GOP Scores Double Vie tory, Wresting Seat From Democroatc

Chinese Begin Drive To Join Allied Troops   Force Crosses Salween River In Western Yunnan Province At Many Points.   -APPRO ACH MYITKYINA

CHINESE OPE STRONG DRIVE FOR BURMA RD.   Crack Nipponese Grip On Peiping-Hankow Railway

Chinese Lash Out In Burma   Seeking to Help in  Opening Supply Route to China

Chinese Driving South to Regain Burma Road Link   Chaing Kai-Shek’s Forces Cross Salween River in Offensive

Chinese Open Drive to Gain  Burma Road   Large Force Aided By Yankee Planes Crosses Salween River

Chinese Launch New Drive to Regain Old Burma Road   ALLIED PATROLS STAB NEAR MYITKYINA; JAP HOLD ON PEIPING-HANKOW CRACKED

Troops Cross Salween in  Big Offensive   Junction With Advancing  Stilwell Sought

DRIVE TO “OPEN ROUTE LAUNCHED   U. S. Fliers Support New Offensive By  Chiang’s Army

JUNCTION WITH ALLIED TROOPS DRIVING ACROSS NORTH BURMA WOULD RE-OPEN SUPPLY ROUTE   Chinese Counter-Attack Cracks Japanese Grip on Newly-Won Peiping-Hankow Railroad, But Japs Have Fought Their Way into Loyang

CHINESE LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE   Begin Attack to Regain Part of Burma Road

Chinese Open New Offensive To Jom Allies   Hope to Regain Important Portion  Of Old Burma Road

CHINESE LAUNCH SOUTHWESTERN OFFENSIVE PUSH   Aimed At Regaining Portion Of Old Burma Road

Chinese Launch: Offensive to Open Burma Roar   Jap Invasion of India Termed Complete Failure

Chinese Lift Enemy Grip on Rail Line   Allied Planes Be Bomb Dutch New Guinea Coasts; Allies Use Rocket Guns

OFFENSIVE OPENED BY CHINESE REGAIN PART OLD BURMA ROAD   U. S. FOURTEENTH AIRFORCE SUPPORTED NEW DRIVE RE-OPEN ROAD

Bradley Making Bold Attempt To Trap German Army  Nazis Rushing Up Reinforcements

Hobo King Grumbles   Rides Deluxe Coach, Prefers, Riding the Rods

GOP Sees Victory In Clark Defeat   Leaders Say Missoun  Will Elect Dew ey

Clark Losing In Senate Race   Hamilton Fish Credits Win Partly To Dewey’s Criticism.

@ OLD-TIME RELIGION  Sale of Little Wabash Church Recalls Stirring Revivals

Rebels Dynamite Prison   British Troops Capture Four Rebel Strongholds

ATHENS FIGHT CONTINUES ON SMALL SCALE   British Take Four Rebel Strong Points; ELAS Strikes Back

Greek Forces Continue Fight Around Athens   British Capture Four Strongholds And Clear Road Leading To Piraeus

FIGHTING STILL ON IN ATHENS   British Take Four Rebel Strong Points.

GREEK REBELS STILL BATTLE   ATTAGK ATHENS PRISON AND RAF COMPOUND

BRITISH GAIN IN BATTLE OF ATHENS   Rebels Storm RAF Headquarters and A Political Prison

Road To Piraeus Cleared Against Slight Resistance   Moderate Optimism Prevails That Peace Can Be Arranged Soon in Greek Civil War

NNSASSSAANANSANNANANASA NNSA ARAN ANA SANA SAAS AAS ANS  What Did You Do Todav?

WHAT YOU WILL ANSWER: When You Mail GI's Christmas Cift, Questions Will Be Asked

ROOSEVELT TO GIVE NOD TO TRUMAN   President to Say He Will Be Pleased to Run With Senator, Poct-Disnatch Savs. \

Thousands Of Germans Surrounded   Americans Attack on Both Flanks and Take Eaemy  Prisoners

Thousands Of Nazis Are In Trap East Of Celles, Spearhead Driven Back

Echternacht  Refaken From Enemy   Murky Weather Fails to Ground Allied Warplanes

Nazis Admit Loss of Echternach ‘As Americans Seize Initiative Jn Belgian-Luxembourg Assaults 

YANK AT TAGKS DRIVE ENEMY BACK d MILES   Take Initiative on Flanks and Point of Luxembourg Spearhead.

Nazis Admit Initiative is Lost on Front   Americans Gain on Both Flanks and Tip of Spearhead

Thousands of Nazis East of Celles Are Serrennded by U.S.  I n Counter-Drives

GI’s Win Initiative As 2000 Bombers, Fighters Strike Key Rail Yards

Enemy Admits Loss of Initiative Between Bastogne and Echternacht

Nazis Are = Driven Back Three Miles   AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE SURROUNDED THOUSANDS OF GERMANS EAST OF CELLES

American Troops Seize Initiative:  At Three Points’   Berlin Radio Declares:  ‘That German Forces Have Lost Echternacht

Seize Initiative, Ring Thousands East of Celles   Spearhead at Dinant Turned; Foe Resorts to ‘Elastic Defenses’

Ist Army Is Now Attacking; Germans In Luxembourg Are Hurled Back Into. Reich

WPB Approves Boost In Civilian Goods For 1944   Ranges, Refrigerators Using Ice And Cooking Utensils To Come Soon

Plan More. Ranges and Ice Refrigerators   _WPB to Boost Production Despite Manpower Situation

Americans Bomb Ponape, Kusaie  Army. Navy. Marine Pilots Participate

Allies Capture Enemy Artillery   Seize Last Big Jap  Gun Believed In Burma

Allied Troops Capture 13 Pieces Of Jap Artillery in India, Burma

rrayers AMSWeretd Marshall Island Native Keeps Faith27 Years Despite Japs

Nip Resistance Ceases in Hollandia Are:   Yanks Capture and Are Now Using Three Airdromes

Yanks Complete Outflanking of  New Guinea Japs   All Three Hollandia Airfields Captured In Lightning Drives

THREE FIELDS ARE NOW USED BY AMERICANS   Alexishafen Base North of Madang, Is Captured

Death Takes Tiniest Quad   Soldier-Dad Visits Mother, Sees Children She Hopes to Marry

YOUNGEST OF FOUR BABIES OF DOUGHBOY DIES   Three Others Reported Doing Weill Mother of Quads Hopes She Can Marry Sergeant Soon

One Of Quads Dies; Doughboy Their Father   Unmarried English Mother ‘Not Too Well’: U.S. Wife Shocked

Third Wartime Message Given  To US. Congress   Five-Point Domestic Program Outlined To Congress By President Roosevelt   NO SECRET TREATIES MADE IN PARLEYS

FIVE POINTS _ WERE LISTED IN PROGRAM   DOMESTIC PROGRAM. RECOMMENDED TO CONGRESS FEATURED BY REQUEST FOR  FAR-REACHING LEL} *, + GIBLATION: +}   By WILLIAM ic. HUTCHINSON TASSHALIBHAT: Newer Sateiow

OFFERS 3-POINT PROGRAM FOR HOME FRONT   Denies Secret Pacts at Teheran or Cairo Conferences

Bloody Gains  Hammered Out Against Nazis   Establish 20-mile Front on Roer; Reds Open New Drive; U. S. Suffers Heaviest Bomber Loss of War in Oil Plant Raids

WADSWORTH HOLDS TALK WITH DEWEY      Compulsory Military _ Training Discussed at Parley

Big Guns in Action   Gov. Dewey Favors Strong Military Nation, Rep. Wadsworth Declares

Wadsworth SeesDewey At Albany   NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE SAYS MISTAKES OF 1921 AND 1922 WILL NOT BE REPEATED AFTER THIS WAR   is Impressed by His Vigor

DEWEY FAVORS POST-WAR ARMY   AGREES ARMED FORCES SHOULD BE KEPT STRONG

DEWEY’S PLANS TAKING SHAPE      Front Veranda Campaign Hinges On Party Organization

Dewey Supports Postwar Arms  _ Tells Wadsworth U.S. Should Keep Armed

Dewey Asks  Strong US. After War   ‘Brlieves Country: Shauld   Be Powerful and Kept  So in Militury Senca

JAP ADVANCE ON LIUCHOW HALTED 45 MILES AWAY   Nipponese Thrust Toward Rail Hub and Site of Last U. S. Air Base in Eastern China Brought to Stop for  Tino Raine

-_... =i o .  Quota Set in County   Campaign Will Probably Start in June or July

Fifth Bond Drive Quota Set in County   Campaign Will Probably Start in June or July

Senate Puts Curb On Lend-Lease’   Bill Approved With Limiting Amendment

Fortresses in I'leet Striking From Britain   ltalian Fighting W eak—Russians Take Suburb of Pskov. Move Ahead

37th Division Field Artillery Battalion — Praised for Exploit in Munda Campaign

5-Day Conquest Completed; Jap Resistance Low   Restless Waves Of  Planes Continue Air Invasion Of Europe

Finis Is Written to Hollandia Conquest   Three Airdromes Within Range of Philippines Won in Five Days

Japs Report Offensive Begun Against Allied Position In India; Fresh Troops Arrive

BIG JAPANESE AIR BASE AT HOLLANDIA TAKEN IN FIVE DAYS   ENEMY, HOWEVER, APPARENTLY DETERMINED TO PUSH INDIA INVASION

NO POWERFUI RESISTANCE IS SHOWN   Japs Launch New Offensive On Burma Front   Meets With Admiral Nimitz To Plan Mighty Blows; Chinese Rally

CONQUEST OF JAP AIR BASE I$ COMPLETED   Enemy Resistance  Very Weak At Hallandia

RED ARTILLERY BARRAGE ROUTS GERMAN TROOPS   Allied Forces Complete Conquest Of Hollandia

Take Last Air Field   Conquest of Hollandia Completed After Five Days; Scant Opposition

Hollandia Base Falls to Yanks   Allies Pouring Reinforcements Into  Indian Fighting Area

5-Day Conquest Of Hollandia Air Base Completed   But Allies Report Nippons Launch General Offen sive in India,   U.S. Now in Bombing Range of Philippine:

QUICK MOP UP OF HOLLANDIA   Seize 3 Airdromes At Base, Plus One At Aitape And Another At Madang

Hollandia’s Conquest Ends In Only 5 Days   Enemy Failed to Make Single Show Of Strong Resistance

Allies Complete Conquest of Hollandia Base  Mightier Blows _ Predicted as U. S. Chiefs Confer

U.S. Winds Up ltsCon quest  Of Hollandia   Four Air Bases Taken Without Jap Resistance; Enemy Drives On In India

Hollandia  Conquest Finished   MacArthur States Allied Loss Low;  Little Resistance.

ROLAND IN ALLIED HANDS   Big Jap Base In Dutch New Guinea Falls  In 5 Days

MAC ARTHUR MEN  WIN HOLLANDIA  BASE IN 5 DAYS CONQUEST COMPLETE  _ SAYS MAC ARTHUR;

Hollandia's Airport Taken   Job Completed, Bombers Gc From New Fields to Smash Wewak Area, Jap Ships

 —PACIFIC—  SIX ALR BASES —AELD BY ALLIES   Gen. MacArthur's Forces Meet Only Weak Enemy Opposition   BATTLE IN INDIA   Both Allies And Japanese Pour Reinforcements " Into Kohima Area

Japanese are Active in New Invasion  More Resistance In India Than At Hollandia

Allies Mop Up In Capture of Hollandia Base   MacArthur Completes Campaign in 5 Days; Jans Drive at Kohima

HOLLANDIA OPERATION IS INOW COMPLETED.   American Bombers Now Fly From Airdromes There to Terrorize Japs In Jungles

CONQUEST OF HOLLANDIA IS “COMPLETED ©   Little Resistance Shown On Island But Japs Press Faltering Invasion In India

U.S. COMPLETES S-DAY DRIVE IN N. NEW GUINEA   Tokyo Radio Says Nip Troops Renew Offensive at Kohima

NEW CITIZENS ARE HONORED   Urged By Judge Evans te Give All-Out Support  Te Government

Citizenship Is Granted 33 Here   Patriotic Exercises Take  Place Sunday

Promises of deliverance broadcast to lowlands on Hitler attack anniversary

Exile feaders Promise Help   Dutch-Belgium Leaders Broadcast On Anniversary) Of} Lowland Invasion.

Exiled Leaders Tell People of Belgium And Netherlands Deliverance Is Near

JAP TOLAND GARRIOON MAY Bt LEFT STRANUEL   Eight More Enemy Supply Vessels Are Hit

JAP ISLAND CARRION A BE LEFT STRANDEL   . Bight More Enemy Supply Vessels Are Hit

Gen. Geo. Patton Replaced By Maj.-Gen. Alex. Patch; Receives New Command

Takes Over 7th Army   Command to Maj. Gen Patch; Patton May Get Invasion Post

General Patch Heads 7th Army   Replaces Gen. Patton, Who Has Been Assigned To “Another Army”

SEVENTH ARMY REINS TAKEN OVER BY PATCH   Patton Gets New Command War Department Says

British Fleet to Go East   Sinking of Giant Tirpitz to Free British Warships

Nazi Convoy Smashed by Warships   ENEMY EXPECTS NORWAY LANDING FOLLOWING HUGE NAVAL LOSSES

TIRPITZ BLASTED “OUT OF ACTION" BY 6TON BOMBS   GERMAN BATTLESHIP SUNK OFF NORWAY: CLAIM CREW SAVED

German Convoy Is Surprised, Sunk   Nine Vessels Destroyed, Tenth Driven Ashore in Sunday Night Blow

British Reveal Warships Sank 9 Of Nazi Convoy On Day Tirpitz Went Dowr

Fiith, Eighth Armies Open Drive With Thunderous Dawn Over Cassine

Announcement That American Fighter Planes Can Now Make Round Trip from Britain to Berlin And That British Have New 12,000-Pound Bomb Means New Developments

The War Today   *Round-Trip Flight of Fighters TNT, Rarlin War Milectane

DEMOS CALL ON F. D. R. TO RUN AGAIN   National Committee, After Naming Hannegan Leader, Adopts Resolution Earnestly Soliciting Fourth Term.

ELECTION PROBERS SET FOR CAMPAIGN   Public Counted On To Report Violation of Laws

U.S. DOUGHBOYS GO INTO ACTION ON BURMA FRONT   American Veterans Of Solomons and New Guinea Campaigns Make 200-Mile Forced  March Aoainct Tanc.

American Soldiers Now Fighting In Burma With New Successes   March Through Northern Burma Jungles and Smash Naga Hill.

Soviets Poise For Big Winter Drive   Nazis Say New Russ Offensive Imminent

Four-Way Air Raids Pulverize Heart Germany   Attack Lehavre and Blast Leipzig Area; Little Opposition.

Allied 1 Planes Saturate Sky   Heavy Bombers Hit. . Heart .Of  Germany

LOCAL COUPLE ARE WEDDED JAN. 29   Bonnie Lou McInnis And John E. Budwigs Princinals In Event

WASHINGTON HAS.NO DOUBTS 2 NS TO ROOSEVELT’S PLANS   PRESIDENTS REFUSAL TO AN‘BWER DIRECT QUESTION CLINCHES BELIEF HE WILL BE NOMINATED

Roosevelt's Refusal To Answer To 7 Fourth Term Question Unimportant

Seek. Judgments  On Small Sums Partition: ‘Suit Heard ‘Im: Court

FOREIGN POLICY PROMISED   Senators Question Secretary Of State, Aides; Much-advertised Fireworks Fails to Go Off

Senators Miss Inquiry Chance        Few Questions / Asked or FOR*S N, sees

Stettinius Finds Little Fireworks   Confirmation of Six  As Aides Predicted

LIBERAL POLICY IS OUTLINED BY NEW SECRETARY   Much- Advertised Fire. works Fail To Materialize At Hearing

NO FIREWORKS IN SENATE QUIZ   Stettinius For Liberal  Foreign Policy, He Tells Committee

SECY OF WAR 1S QUIZZED ON DEP'T AIDES   Fireworks Fail to Go Off at Hearing Before Senators

Six Assistants Are Defended By Stettinius   Liberal Foreign Policy State Department Aim, He Tells Committee

Fireworks Fail to Develop at Investigation   Stettinius Asks for Endorsement of Program, Aides

New Calls Come From Army For More Equipment   Forces Set in Motion to Combat Manpower Shortage in Vital War Needs.

40 Pct. of Army Cargo Shipped Out In Past Year Went to Pacific Area, Gen. Somervell Reports

6 MILLION YANKS NOW OVERSEAS   NEARLY HALF OF ARMYGOODS GOES TO PACIFIC

Soviet Asks J. S.  ‘Influence’ Finns   Cease Moral Support, To Bring Armistice

Reds Smash North East  Nazi Front   Clear Peipus Bank to Drive 40 Miles to Pskov Junction  War in Brief:

A DESTROYER ON LIST FOR SEA VICTIMS   854 Jap Boats Now Have Been Sunk in War.—Tokyo Changes Tune on Superfort Raids.

27 Additional Jap Ships Sunk By U.S. Submarines   Destroyer, Gunboat, Transport, Tankers, Cargo Vessels And Other Types Included

U.S. Subs Sink 2] Enemy Ships  Destroyer, Co nverted Gunboat With Other

U.S. Subs Sink 27   Latest Bag Announced Includes Destroyer and Converted Guubaat

Destroyer, Gunboa' Included in New List of Sinkings   New Figure Brings Total Jap Losses By Subs To 854

4-SHIP CONVO} IS WRECKED OFF LEYTE   42 Nip Planes Shot Down Around Philippines   INFANTRY OUTFIT   Crosses Leyte River Below Limon; Enemy In Big Raid On Morotai

U. S Submarines Get 27 More Japanese Ships  Destroyer and Gunboa Are Included In Latest Yank Bag

U.S, SUBMARINES BAG 27 VESSELS IN RAIDS   Destroyer, Gunboat Among Japanese Ships Blasted

American Subs  : Blast 27 Japs   Enemy Destroyer, Gunboat Included in Total. .

Pilots Hit 20 Ships in Smash   Three Transports Are Destroyed in Series of Driving Attacks

Nip Destroyer Among Victims   Latest Bag Hikes Total for War to 854 Sunk, 37 Probables, and 119 Damaged: Tanker, Gunboat Included

Yank: Subs Sink 27 Jap Vessels   Transport, Tankers Included In Report

Arms Program 48% Complete At Mid-Year   But Urgent Weapons Lag Behind Military Estimates of Need

TRAP TIGHTENS ON JAP BASTION   Battle In China Reaches Outer Defenses Of Changsha

ALLIED NOOSE TIGHTENS ON MYITKYINA   Jans’ Island Bases Raided in Central Pacific Area

Chefang, On Burma Road, Is Captured   Chinese Aided By American Units And ith Air Force

CHINESE TAKE CHEFANG   Is .Next to Last - Japanese-Held E Town on Burma Road

Chefang Falls To Chinese   Next to Last Jap Town on Burma Road In China Captured

Chinese Take Chefaneg on Burma Road   Is Next to  Last Jap-Held Town on Famed Highway

Quadruplets Born To Soldier’s Wife   Mother Doesn't Know What to Do With Them

RURAL GROUPS HELD MEETINGS   SEVERAL GROUPS HELD REGU. LAR MEETINGS DURING THE PAST WEEK

: ; CommonsTold No One ) Has Ever Cast AV ote: :  In Britain Under 30.

RUSS PLANES BOMB PORT lit FINLAND   Others Approach Pelsinki But Drop No Bombs

FINNISH PORT OF KOTKA BOMBED BY RUSSIAN PLANES   Marshal Mannerheim Reported in Helsinki for  Moan mastant Piccueccians’

Finnish Port Of Kotka Bombed by Reds   Finn Cabinet in Discussions Over I’) @ Qunogactinn

King George Visits Beachhead   British Ruler Lunches With Montgomery At Headquarters.

KING GEORGE VI VISITS FRANCE   Monarch Goes To Normandy re See Allied Fighting fen.

ENGLAND'S KING ON BEACHHEAL   First Time In Four Centuries That Reigning Sovereign On Norman Soil,

Sia ia em meee  King George Pays A Visit To Beachhead; Views Firing On Foe

King George Visits Normandy Beachhead:; lls “Deenly Moaved’’ - °

King George Visits French Beachhead To Spur Troops In Their Assault On Nazis

King George’s Visit to Normandy First by English Ruler in Four Centuries

Warn Vet Rights Must Be Guarded   Bricker and Truman Speak At Opening Session o American Legion In Chicago. Legion’s D. S. Aware - Given To Gen. Henry Arnold.

Bricker, Truman Address Legion   Both Pledge to Protect Service Man’s Rights

American Flyers Blast Jap Destroyer, Down 17 Planes   Marines Repulse Two Counterattacks At Cape Gloucester; Enemy Bases Bombed

DESTRUCTION GF JAP SHIPS CONTINUES   Off New Treland, While Planes Also Blast Rabaul And Madang, New Gui nea.   Strategic Targets

Nazis Hold Up Advance In N. Italy   Bitter Battle Rages As Allies Inch Ahead At  Gothic Line

Germans Hold Back Attacks   Fifth and Eighth Allied Armies Make Only Scant Progress

Big Allied Assaults Make Minute Progress in Haly  Brazil Expeditionary Force Joins Fifth  Aomy th Aetian

FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES ALONG FRONT IN ITALY      Powerful Drives by Fifth anc Eighth Armies Fail to Dent  Naz) Line

Fierce Fighting On in Italy   Allies Make Scant Progress Against Heavily Fortified Lines

ALLIES HAMMER AT GOTHIC LINE   FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES WITH BUT LITTLE PROGRESS

Allied Progress Is Slight Against Enemy’s Lines; Brazilians In Action On 5th Army Front Advance

HEAVY BATTLE ON   Allies Make Scant Progress Against German Lines in Italy

Small Gains.  Made. lvltaty   “Powerful Assaults Made’ ‘By. Allies —

Nazi Resistance Slows Attack In Northern Italy   German Paratroops And Tanks Battle British Far San Martingn Aren

Fierce Fighting Continues on italian Front    Scant Progress Made Against Heavily Fortified German  ' Lines; Brazilian Forces Are Praised 

Fierce Fighting Rages on Broad Italian Front   Scant Progress Made in Efforts To Oust Germans

SLOW PROGRESS MADE SUNDAY IN NORTH ITALY   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses  On Gothic Line

IN ITALY [S FIERCE   Powerful Allied Assaults Making Scant Progress

FIERCE FIGHTING ON ITALIAN FRONT   Powerful Assaults By 5tl And 8th Armies Makes Scant Progress. .

‘Powers To Divide Job  Of Occupying Germany   Army and Navy Journal Says American, Britain and Russia Aoreed as ta Procedure

FLORENCE KELLER WEDS L. HENRIGH   Pretty Ceremony Held At Remsen Church This  Morning

Plan Ceremony  For Installation _ Of Archbishop   Most. Rev. RJ. Cushing Will Be. Consecrated At Boston ‘Tomorrow

Intangible ‘Tax Revision Proposed: ~ =. To Give Municinalities 24 Millian:

MORE TORNADOES. HIT   ‘Second Series to Strike in Arkansas in Week Kills

TIT SLATED 10 BE LEADER OF TROOPS   Tells Them to Strike immediately Against German Obiectives.

a  AT... DAnhies LWGWS bewasenaw The News  nansrigeht Melure Newspaper   WASHINGTON iv Ray Lucker

Berlin Reports  Assert Romania, Hungary At War   Bulgaria Makes Plea For Armistice With  Russian Government

Romania and Hungary wat as Russ attack Bulgaria  Action taken despite Sofia’s plea for armistice with soviet

QUICK ACTION IS TAKEN BY RED FORCES   Invasion of Ex-Hitlerite Nation Fol. lows Armistice Plez From Sofia.   BULLETIN

CLAIM ROMANIA HUNGARY ATWAR   ‘Nazis Report Russians Strike Into. Bulgaria

ROMANIA AND HUNGARY WAR, BERLIN SAYS   Soviets Cross Bulgaria Line

Bulgaria Asks Russian Army k or Armistice   Indications Are Appeal Will Fall On Deaf Ears In Moscow

Romania and Hungary Begin Open Fighting   Russ Invade Bulgaris  Despite Plea for Armigtite

Reds at Yugoslav Borders   Report Says Russians Enter Bulgaria Despite Plea for Armistice

Leese Takes Monty's Place   Tank Expert, Strict Disciplinarian, Heads 8th Army

TWO COMMANDING POSITIONS SEIZED BY ALLIED ARMIES   Taken Against Fierce Nazi Opposition, It Was Announced Today.   Bomber Fleets Reaching Into Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, Hit Balkans.

Alliesin italy Seize Commanding Points from Nazis.  Bomber Fleets ‘Deal   Bomber Fleets: Deal Blows to Balkans Communications .

SIR OLIVER LEESE HEADS 8TH ARM   Will Succeed Gen. Sir Ber. nard L. Montgomery, It Was Disclosed Today.

Leese Is New  Eighth Army  Commander Tank Expert Takes  = ; _ 9s. Pare 2.   Tank Expert Takes Montgomery’s Place On Italian Front

ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY HAVE SEIZED ADDED POSITIONS   BOMBER FLEETS REACH INTO BULGARIA AND YUGOSLAVIA ON RAIDS

ALLIED SEIZE TWO POSITIONS   Fifth Army Troops and Indian Units Pushing For: ward in Italy.   IRAILWAY NEAR SOFIA HIT

Allied Armies Take Pair Of Strona Points   Bomber Fleets Reach Into Bulgaria And Yuaoslav Areas

Allies Win New Heights in Italy  poth 5th and 8th ies Score Gains

Allies Take Two Heights Despite Nazi Resistance   Sammucro Ridge Hill Occupied By Fifth Army

ALLIED ARMIES SEIZE TWO KEY POSITIONS   Fifth Army Troops Ad vance Little More Than Mile West of Venafro   We RIMLIARTM FO WAQRHC

Deal Smashing Blows to Nazis  In Balkan Area   Allied Armies in Italy Seize Two Commanding Positions.   U. S. Air Force Hits Railroad Near Sofia

ALLIES SEIZE TWO ITALIAN HEIGHTS   OVERCOME FIERCE NAZI OPPOSITION FOR SLIGHT GAINS

Allies Capture Two More Italian Heights  Be BPISsawmysti wWwaAcerw ee

Allies Take Two Heights In Italy   Bomber Fleets Blast Germans in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia

8th Force Led By Gen. Leese   Succeeds. Montgomery In "Charge Of. Struggle -. Avainst. Nazis .

Lt. Gen. Leese Commands 8th   Tank Expert, Veteran of North Africa, And World War! ~

Troops of 5th Storm Ridge On Nazi Line   Gain Dominant Positions —U.S. Bombers Hit Bul  garia and Yugoslavia

Allies Gaining Dominant Seat In Italian Theater   Bombers Deal Three Hard Blows To Nazi Balkar Commu nications; Fifth Army Storms Samucre Ridge.

Air Action ~ Heightened In Balkans   Allies Armies in Italy Seize Two Positions Near Samnutcro Ridge

Aerial Blows Are Struck In The Balkans....  Allies Capture Italian Points From Germans

Allies Seize Two Heights   Bombers Deal Heavy Blows To Nazis in Balkans

ALLIES SEIZE NEW HEIGHTS IN DRIVE IN ITALY   Fortresses Smash Rail Yards Near  Dupnitsa, Bulgaria, and Dobaj, / Yugoslavia

HARD BLOWS ARE DEALT IN THE BALKANS   Bomber Fleets Reach Into Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to Cripple Enemy Installations   GLIDER IS SHOT DOWN

GERMANS PUT UP FIERCE OPPOSITION   Fifth and Eighth Armies Each Get Ridge—Bombers Deal Hard Blows to Nazis’ Balkans Communications.

ALLIES GAIN POSITIONS IN VENAFRO AREA   Bombing Raid In Balgaria; Nazis Fear Break

5TH ARMY GAINS MILE IN ITALY   Bomber Fleets Smash  at Nazis in lugoslavia

ROMERS Isl. “BALKAN TARGET!   Allied’ Armies Séize Commanding: Positions In Italian Campaign

LEESE CHIEF OF 8TH ARMY   Succeeds Montgomery in Italian Command

Allied Armies Take Two Strategic Positions in Italy  Air Forces Hammer  Rail Yards as a a

NAZIS UNABLE TO STOP ALLIED UNITS INITALY   American, Indian Forces Seize Vital Hill Positions in Advance

ALLIES SEIZE NEW HEIGHTS IN ITALY   Bombers Blast Nazi Targets =m Balkanc«

Allied Armies Take Iwo Strategic Positions in Italy  Air Forces Hammer Rail Yards as Ground Troops Gain

Allies Take Two Important Positions From Germans In Bitter Fighting In Italy

Leese Heads  kK oh th A rmv   Tank Expert Takes Montgomerys Place As Commander Of Army.

Allies Push On In Italy; U.S. Bombers Raid Balkans   Commanding Positions Taken In Fighting; Railway Yards Are Targets Of Planes

Fresh Positions . Seized In Ttaly_ By ‘Allied Unit      «North Of San ¥ tore As

Germans Bitterly Resist Strong Effort Of Yankee Forces To Encirele City   Two Armies Draw Pincers ‘Around Nazis Whose Attacks Are Thrown Back; Patton Strikes Out On New Front In Metz Area

Escape Gap For Germans Is Narrowed   Nazi Garrison Appears Prepared To Fight To Death

NAZI GARRISON MAY FIGHT 10 DEATH, BELIEF   Knemy’s Last Escape Gap Is Narrowed To Three Miles

Encirclement of City Immiment   Nazis Battle Fiercely to Hold Open Escape Gap; Patton Resumes Drive

Nazis Seek to Quell  Uprising   Public Buildings in Denmark Held by Germans

DENMARK'S ROYAL FAMILY REPORTED UNDER NAZI SIEGE   Germans Said to Have Moved On Royal Palace—Fourteen Killed in Battle Before Castle.   HITLERITES TAKE OVER GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS   Danish Police Force Dissolved in Coup—Nation-Wide Rioting Believed at an End.

Nazi Troops Battle Danes With Artillery and Seize All Government Buildings

KING BESIEGED IN ~ DENMARK RIOTING   14 Nazis Slain After Germans Sieze Build-  inas

FDR May Issue Statements Backing Wallace, but Minus Pressure Upon Convention

HITLER SHIFTS HIGH COMMAND   Von Rundstedt Removed As Field Marshal On Western Front

Governors Give Views on River Basin Proposal   Ford Seeks Pick Plan Action Delay Uncil After Bureau Report

Nine Governors In Agreement On River Plan  ff... Py. am ell Lg Weerey, bral   Gov. Donnell Declare: Missouri’s Concern Is Over Floods

ig New Battle mminent. on Anzio Beachhead   Germans Rush Up Reserves; Patrol Activity Increases

Towa Plants  Will Benefit  by Agreement 30 Soon Can Return  to Production of Civilian Articles

SENATE GROUP PLANNING VET WAR BENEFITS   Ready For Every Postwar Eenefit But Bonus For Veterans

Plan Post-War Veteran Benefits   Senators Coniplete Bill; Passage Sure

UPRISING ASKED BY DE GAULLE   Calls on French People to join Struggle

Allies Strike to Destroy Cream  Of Nazi Forces   ‘This Is End of a German Army,’ Staff Officer Declares

BULLETIN   National Uprising In France Called” — By Gen. DeGaulle

General Appeals for Greater Efforts on Part of His Men   RELLETIN

Marshal Von Kluge Making Desperate Attempt to Pull Nazi Army From Allied Trap   Terrific Losses Being Inflicted on Germans as They Retreat Hurriedly Through an [8 Mile Corridor, Which Is Being Narrowed

U. S. SPEARHEADS SURROUND NAZIS IN GIANT PINCERS  CREAM OF VON KLUGE’S  WUA/JCCTCOA cnorce THY   CREAM OF VON KLUGE’S WESTERN FORCES TRY BREAK OUT BELOW CAEN

British Earl Flays Dearth of Babies   PROBLEM REACHES OPEN AS MILITARY LEADERS PROPOSE SOLUTION

Railroad Men Appear Before Emergency Board   Reason For Action Is Indefinite

BiG BOMBERS WRECKDROMES DOWN PLANES   Germans Suffer Heavy Blows on Fields Near Vienna; Rail Yards North of Paris.   Evacuate 900

FURIOUS SKY BATTLES RAGE   Nazis Put Up Fight in Air To Protect Route of Retreating Armies

Battle in Skies Over Wide Front   Allied Bombers Range Fram North France___. To Vienna To Blast Foe

Poles les Confer  With Soviets   ’ Signs: Encouraging Concern ing: Result

Pole Envoys May Figure In New Setuy      Mikolajezyk and Aid Con. fer in Moscow With U.S. and British Diplomats

FUTURE WORLD OIL POOL SEEN   POSTWAR INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT PREDICTED

Post-War Agreement Seen ‘To: Split Up Supplies Accordine To Need

Equal Access  Promised To  Oil Supplies President Foresees  Postwar Agreement Ne All Netiane

MORELIBERAL GASRATIONING HELD DOUBTENI   Postwar: Agreement to Accord. All Nations “Equal -Access” to World Oil   * Supply

Equal Access To Qil Hinted  Little Hope Of Highe Gas Allotments Aheac

Tokyo Reports ‘Palau Bombed By U.S. Planes   jJapanese Base 500 Mile:   East Of Philippines Pounded By Carrier “borue Bombers 

Tokyo Reports U.S. Task Force Attacks Palau   Another Yank Group Hits Sabang: Suicidal Japs Cut Down Like Wheat

Allied Naval Forces Attack Palau, Sabang   Sea Forces, 3.000 Miles Apart, Hit Western  Pacifie, East Indies.  STRATEGIC FORTRESS

JAPAN ADMITS RAIDS ON TWO OF HER BASES   Reports Allied Task Forces Pound Palau, Sabang In Pacific, East Indies

Yank Planes Attack Palau   Tokyo Radio Reports Penetration of U. S. Task Force

Sabang and Palau Hit, Japs Say   Report Attacks  By Allied Naval Task Forces—Make Progress on Isles

ALLIED NAVAL FORCES SHELL TWO ISLANDS   Palau Attack Is Follow-Up Of  Guam Invasion

SABANG AND PALAU HIT BY WARSHIPS   Japs Report Heavy Allied Assaults 3.000 Miles -Apart

Navy Task Forces Strike Jap Targets 3,000 Miles Apart   Tokio Says U. S. Planes Hit Palau, Near Philippines

TOKYO REPORTS AMERICAN ATTACK ON PALAU ISLAND   Broadcast Says Some 30 U. §. j Carrier-Based Planes Struck ” At Important Isle 500 Miles East of Mindanao in the Philippines 

Japs Report Palau Isle Attacked   Area But 500 Miles East Of Mindanao In Philippines

Yanks Secure Guam, Tinian  Island Grip   Palau, Japs’ Sea Fortress, and Sabang-in Dutch East Indies, Naval Targets

ALLIES STRIKE WITHIN 560 MI. OF PHILIPPINES  YANKS CONTINUE  TO FORGE AHEAD ON GIAM. TINIAN

Allied Naval Task Forces Attack Jap ‘Islands Far Apart   Tokyo Reports Strong Assaults on Palau and  Sabang Today

Allied Navy Forces Raid Both Palau And Sabang   Nips Admit Raid On Important Defense Cities

SECOND NAVAL RAIDING FORCE RAKES SABANG   Yanks Secure Guam Beache heads; Split Tinian Defenders

U.S, Bombers Attack Palau Island Near Philippines, Says Jap Radio; Also Raid Yap Isle.

Enemy Reports Sabang in Dutch East Indies Assailed and Palau Near Home Bombed

Japs Report Raids On Palau, Sabang   STARVING JAPS WITHDRAW FROM NEW GUINFA VALLEY

POWERFUL TASK FORCES HIT JAPS AT PALAU AND SABANG   Tokyo Gives First Reports on Blows at Sea Fartresses;  Japs Cut Down Like Wheaton Tinian Beachheads

Japs Report Palau,Sabang Hit By Yanks   Palau Strike Would Be Logical Follow-up of Marianas Campaigns

Allied Navy Raids Palau And Sabane   Japs Report Attacks, But Say Damage Is Slight; Guam Beaches Secure

Allied Task  Forces Raid Palau, Sabana   Japs Claim Two: Allied Destroyers and Submarine Sunk; Nip Forees on Tinian Split in Two

Carrier Force In Assaults On Enemy's Bases   Palau A Sea Fortress Which Shields South Philippines; Yankees Gain On Guam. Tinian

Allied Navy Task Forces Carry Out Raids On Palau, Sabang, Tokyo Says

Tokyo Reports New U.S. Naval Blows at Indies.  Caroline Isles   ims Sinking of Two # Destroy ers and Sub marine

JAPS REPORT SEA ATTACK ON SABANG, PALAU   Yank Forces Join on Guam; ‘Mow Nips Down Like Wheat’ on Tinian

STRATEGIC JAP FORTRESS HIT   Palau and Sabang, Say Jap Radio Report

AMERICANS HIT PALAU, IS REPORT   Task Force Assaults @By Ships, Planes Not Confirmed

Naval Forces Raid Palau And Sabang   Tokyo Reports 2 U. S.  Destroyers and Sub Sunk at Sabang

Palau, Sabang Under Attack By Task Force:   Vital Western Pacific Bases Hit; Advance Guam Conquest

Allied Naval Forces 3.000 Miles Apart   Marines, Army Join Beachheads on Guan As Jap Forces Split In Two on Tinian

Carriers Make Stab at Palau, Yap   Japs Report Assault On Strategic Islands by Yankees

Yanks Raid Palau, Sabang, Japs Say;  Marines, Army Join Forces On Guam

Task Force Raids On Palau, Sabang Reported By Japs   Enemy Claims Slight Damage Inflicted; Says Two Destroyers, Submarine Sunk

VITAL ENEMY FORTRESS OF PALAU STRUCK   Dutch Indies Port Is Other Target; Foe Figes Into Ocean At Guam

Planning For Flood Control Considered   Postwar Measure Would Involve 3 Billion Dollars

Senate Group Gets Flood Bill   Potential Construction Program To Cost More Than $2,600,000,000.

President Joseph H. Carter An / nounces $1,700,000 Mill Will Begin Operations Next Septombher   WILL REPLACE MILL > NOW IN OPERATION

CZECH OIL CENTERS HIT BY BOMBERS   Central, Northern Germany, Balkans Raked By Bombers

AMERICAN BOMBERS RAID NAZI TARGETS   One Of The Heaviest American Assault Raids In Davs

2,000 Bombers Strike German, Balkan Targets   Clearing Weather Permits Resumption  of Air Offensive

Here’s Your Proposed 4-F Labor Army   ‘Convenient’ Substitute For Labor Draft Is Seen

Mead and Wagner Back   President in Showdown   Senate Galleries Packed, Mostly with - Women, for Climax of Bitter White House-Capito! Hill Feud   BARKLEY WRITES ROOSEVELT   Expresses Desire for Continued Cordial Relations but Insists ‘We Must All Seek Some Common Ground’

Tax Bill Is Law In Spite Of President   Chamber’s Overwhelm: ing Rebuff Climaxes Revolt Against Executive.

OF TAX MEASURE   Measure Became a Law With Votes to Spare in the Senate Today.   VOTE WAS 72 TO 14   Estimated Measure Will Yield $2,315,000,000 in Additional Revenue.

GALLERIES ARE FILLED FOR 72 10 14 VOTE   Barkley Tells President That His Faith in Him Still Endures

VOTE IS 72 TO 14 ON THE PROPOSITION   Solons Thus Put Onto Law Books $2,315,200,000 Revenue Boost Which Had Been Turned  Nhawn hy Praaidant -. =

Crowd Jams Galleries As Ballot Comes   $2.3. Billion Measure Becomes Law; Barkley Sticks To His Plans, Votes As Expected

OVERRIDE FOR’S TAX BILL VETO IN SENATE 72-14   Barkley Arrives 11 Minutes Late, Casts Vote With Majority

CLIMAX REVOLT AGAINSTE.R:BY TO TOI ACTION   Galleries Filled With Josiling Spectators; Pepper Makes‘ Vain Plea

FOLLOWS HOUSE IN OVERRIDING ROOSEVELT VETO   INCREASE IN POSTAL RATES TO GO INTO EFFECT IN 30 DAYS

OVERRIDING VOTE TODAY IS 72 10 14   Determined Senate Teams Up With House to Ignore F. D. R. Veto

Action Taken By 72tol4 Count   Barkley Stands By Decision to  Override President:

Crowds View   Mistoric Tax Action   Opponents of Presidential Veto Have Votes To Spare in Making Bill Law, 72-14, As Senators Quickly Follow Lead of House

2BILLION TAX BILL IS MADE LAW OVER VETO   Senate Teams Up With House In Protest  To FDR’s Act

Senate Votes, 72. 14, to Pass Vetoed Bill   Congressional Revolt Is Complete as Upper House Makes Revenue Bill a Law

Tax Bill. Is Passed Over Veto   Senate Is Crowded for Briel Climax to Great Confressional Revolt   OVERRIDE. BY" VOTE OF 72 TO 14   Barkley Sends Letter to President, Helping to * .: GQleary Atmosphere

Barkley’s Letter Is Opening Move For Return of Harmony   Communication Indicates Majority Leader Is Willing To Go Long Way to Smooth Out Turmoil Threatening Party   MEASURE PROVIDING $2,315,200,000 NOW LAW

REVENUE MEASURE BECOMES LAW BY VOTE OF 72 10 14   Upper House of Congress Climaxes Revolt Against President

FIRST INCREASE TO BE FELT IN POSTAL RATES   Political Storm That Rocked Congress With Barkley Speech Now Subsiding

Vote Of 72 To 14 Case In Upper House For’ Bil As Climax To Congreasional Revolt

Barkley’s Letter To President Declares: “If We Cannot Trust One Another In This Tragic Period, How Can The People Trust Us?”

Revolt Against hail Climaxed By 72 to 14 Vote   Is First Tax Veto In the History of - Congress; Galleries Filled to Capacity

OVERRIDES TAX VETO 72 1014   Determined Senate Makes Measure Law With Votes To Spare.   BARKLGY IS MAIN FIGURE

DETERMINED SENATE TEAMED WITH HOUSE OVERRIDE TAX VETO  CONGRESSIONAL REVOLT CAUSED BY CAUSTIC MES-

Reaches Climax in Senate: Tax Law is Now Law Over Veto   Senators Vote, 72 to 14, to Override President on Revenue Bill

Second Rebuff: ToPresident  Is Registered   Re-Harmonized Senate Delivers Final Legislative Blow Required To Pass Measure   Vote Is 72 to 14 . Against the Veto   Two Maryland Senators Vote to Override Preaident; Barkley Spark.” ’ plug of Revolt

Senators Back Up  House   Bill Automatically Becomes Law  Thru Vote

Barkley Hand to F.D.R.   Friendly Response To: President’s Tele‘gram Eases Tension Following Veto Revolt

Upper Chamber Follows Action of House and New Revenue Bill Becomes Law

Vote of 72-14 Cast fo Override Chief Executive   Tax Program Becomes Law of Land Immediately

No Doubt Of  Action From Very Outset   Democrats Valiantly Seek To Regain Harmony on Party Ranks

Senate Votes To Override Tax Bill Veto   Vote Is 72 To 14 — Pepper Heads Minority Voting To Sustain.

PT. SHERER § AWARDED BRONZE STAR      ic Bravery; Overseas  es ‘Man Cited For Gince January 1942

e Fifth Co  STRIKERS HOLD UP FOOD FOR ARMED FORCES   12 Million Cans of Food Wait Whims of Striking  Union Men.

Gen. Pershing ‘Reported Tll With Cold   EXERTIONS ON HIS BIRTHDAY CAUSE SERIOUS CONDITION

PINCERS MOVE LAUNCHED ON EAST PRUSSIE   OUTNUMBERED NAZIS UNABLE TO HALT RED SURGE

Soviets Drive Giant Pincers Against Reick:   East Prussia Threatened By Double Red Thrust To Lan Off Province

Berlin Tells of Raging Battle in East   Reds Drive Another Spearhead Near East Prussian Line

REDS BEGIN NEW ADVANCE ON PRUSSIA   One Spearhead Thrust Toward Province’s Eastern Border and Other  Units Cross Narew.   YGIANT PINCERS + MOVE UNDER WAY   Extension of Vistula   Bridechead Below War aw Brings Another ‘Threat to Germans.

Utility Company Franchise Ends Coming Spring  Plans for Renewal Under Consideration By City Council

Utility Company  Franchise Ends  Coming Spring Plans for Renewal  Under Consider ration BD. 8s, fr... #

Pound Atlantic “Wall”   Allied Bombers Blast Secret Nazi Installa tions in France; Hit Pescara Dam in Italy

Allied Aviators Open Battle Of  Europe Invasion   Wage Relentless Attack On France And Balkans

Balkans Setting More Attention From Allied Fliers   American Bombers Hit Five Targets In Romania Today

Allies Blast Secret Nazi Fortifications   Begin Fourth Week of Air Offensive _ Against Nazi Europe as Prelude to Big Concerted Invasion Smash-Up

Enemy Positions Hit in Northern New Guinea   Land Drive At Two Points Is Indicated

More Jap Bases In Pacific Get Bomber Blows   Planes Pave Way For Land Attacks On  New Guinea

FLIERS RAID JAP FIELD ON NEW GUINEA   Seen As Indication Of Allied Land Drive Toward Madang

LAND DRIVE AGAINST MADANG IN MAKING   Heavy Bombing Attack Preparing Way

Allies Close In On Bogadjim, Madang Bases   Aussies Moving Up To Fuse With U. S. Troops At Saidor

Japs Report 400 U.S. Planes Smast Again af Luzon   Big Carrier-Based Fleet Hits Clark Field, Says Dome

CARRIER PLANES HAMMER LUZON dN GREAT FORCE   B-29s Continue Incendiary ® Attacks on Tokyo Area Says Jap Radio

BATTER CLARK FIELD AND OTHER AREAS   Destroy 91 Jap Aircraft; Wreck Harbor Installations

FIRE BOMBS DROPPED ON JAP CAPITAL   /NIPS LOSE 91 PLANES AS TASK  FORCE PLANES STAGE BIG!  ; SCALE LUZON ‘ ASSAULT   BULLETIN

American Subs Exact Heavy Tol Of Nin Vessels   Large Japanese Aircraft Carrier and 26 Other Ships Sent to Bottom

U. S. Submarines  Sink 27 Vessels   Jap Aircraft Carrier, 26 Other Craft In Toll

16 OTHER SHIPS SENT 10 BOTTOM   Tokyo Is Blasted By Superforts In Doylight Raid

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS SUNK BY U.S. SUBS   And 26 Other Japanese Vessels Sunk By U.S. Submarines

Jap Aircraft Carrier Sunk by U. S. Submarines; Also 26 Other Ships

19 COUNTY MEN GET 1-A TAGS   Selective Service Board Grants Few Deferments in Recent Meeting

34 ARE PLACED IN 1-A BRACKET   County Board Takes Deferred Ratings From Number Of Local Men

70 MEN PLACED IN 1-A BRACKET   Most of Prospective Draftees Are Married, Over 26, Local Board Says

38 COUNTY MEN DRAW 1-A TAGS   Board Also Grants Some Deferments To Men Holding Essential Jobs

8 MARRIED MEN GIVEN 1-A TAGS   Draft Board Also Defers Coun. ty Fathers During Recent Meeting

8 COUNTY MEN PLACED IN 1-A   Droft Board Defers Several Others for Work in Essential Jobs

Yanks Within Six Miles of Livorno   Americans Advance Up Coastal Hiahway

GAINS OUTFLANK LIVERNO PORT   AMERICANS ADVANCE TO SIX MILES OF CITY

YANKEES TAKE PECCIOLI, ARE NEAR LIVORNQ   Smash Up Coastal Highway Ti Within Ten Miles Of Lower Arno

AMERICANS 6 Mi. FROM LIVORNO   Big Italian Port Is Outflanked By Latest U.S. Gains

FIFTH 6 MILES FROM LIVERNO: PORT FLANKED   Richest Prize Since Fall Of Rome Within Allied Grasp

Livorno Near Capture by  Americans   Six Miles Gained In Hard Fighting; Germans Pull Back

American Troops Smash Up Italian Coast to Within Six Miles of Livorno Port

President Asks Hull to ‘Keep Eye on Subject of International Cartels

Farm Prices in lowa at New High  _ Now at 190 Pct. of 1909-14 Base

Spring Brings Promise Of Sudden Break In Mediterranean   Writer Has Feeling Akin to Happenings Just Before El Alamein Line Was Cracked in North Africa Fight

Despite Allied Stall In Italy Writer Has Hunch’ Something To Happen Before Lona

Field Reports Say Japs Are Resisting Fiercely. Admiral Turner Says Marshalls Campaign “Could Be Main Event” Of Pacific War.

AMERIGANS CAPTURE TEN ATOLLS BEFORE ENEMY WAKES UP   NOW RESISTING FIERCELY, HOWEVER, AS ALLIES THROW HISTORY-MAKING MILITARY MACHINE INTO ALL-OUT EFFORT TO FLANK JAP PACIFIC EMPIRE.

Japs Resist Fiercely In  Marshalls   American Troops Have Tackled Enemy’s Three Major Strongholds On Kwajalein Atoll

All Reports Indicate the American Invasion Is Going Well.   TAKE BEACHHEADS KWAJALEIN ATOLL   Twenty-three More Jap Planes Shot Down Over Rabaul.

Hull Says Garbled Accounts Given On Policy Confab  Closer Understanding Conference Ends In Heated Backfire

Hull Says Garbled Accounts Given On Policy Confab  Closer Understanding  Conference Ends ar ee

SIZEABLE TASK FORCE HITS WAR TARGETS   Nip Metropolis Is Jam-Packed With Flimsy Buildings

HOSTILITIES IN FINLAND MAY END WITHIN 10 DAYS   ~Russia Confirms Fact That Peace Negotiations Now “Under Way

FINLAND MAY QUIT FIGHTING SOON, REPORT   Armistice  With Russia Predicted In Next Three Weeks

RUSSIA AND FINLAND MAY END HOSTILITIES      London Papers Confirm Neyotiations Are Underway

Regarded in Washington As Test of ‘Peace Unity’ Amoug United Nations

Russians to Start New      Indi cations Are That the  Soviet Plans to.Go on  Own Course ~~

Hear Russia Plans New Polish Regime   Alhes Disturbed By Lone Hand Move

DIPLOMATS IN JITTERS OVER REDS’ PLANS   For Poland; See Post-War Collaboration At Stake; Severe Test Of United Nations Unity.   General Security

ALLIED UNITY TEST IS SEEN   Indivalions Reds Ready to Set Up Polish Government Cause Jitlers

TEST IS SEEN   Indications Reds Ready to Set Up Polish Govern ment Cause Jitters

Reds Bring High Jitters To U.S.   Views On Poland  Causing Concern  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Recarrisniad Deace Gtnt! Writer

Allred Would Let Texas Democrats — Vote On Instructing Of Electors

JAS. ¥. ALLRED SAYS ISSUE SHOULD BE DECIDED BY VOTERS   FORMER GOVERNOR PROMISES REPRISALS IN SEPTEMBER CONVENTION

Dewey To Give Major Talk On Tuesday Night   Subject Of His Buffalo Speech Has Not Been Announced

MORE DEWEY TALKS LISTED   Nominee Speaks Tuesday in Buffalo; Plans Stops On Way to Boston

SERIES OF SPEECHES SCHEDULED BY DEWEY   GOP Presidential Nominee Will Visit In Upper New York State And New England This Week

Dewey to Hit Campaign Road Again Tuesday   In Buffalo That Night: Also Will Speak From Train at Rochester:  In Boston Wednesday   Details of Syracuse Address

 Air Liner Crash Kills Seven, Hurts 15 ‘In Thick Foo Near Los Ancveles

AIRLINER CRASH IS FATAL 107   Passenger Plane Flies Low In Fog, Strikes High Tension Lines

1900-Ton Blow staggers City   1750 Bombers, Fighters Take Part In Fifth Assault on Shottered German Capital Since War's Start

"VERY GREAT STRENGTH” IN ATTACK FORGE   Attack Formation May Have Ran 1,250 to 1,750 Planes. May Make Rome Open City

Travelers From Berlin Say U.S, Attack On Capital Is Ainericans’ Seveyrest Blow

NAZI STATIONS AGAIN OFF AIR   Allied Armadas Believed Pounding More Than Invasion Coast

RAIL WORKERS 10 ‘MAKE AGREEMIEN]   Representatives of Mor ¢ Than Millio? Expected to Report Very Soon.

LABOR -, LEADER SAYS  INDUB" TRY. AND AGRICULTURE IN.’ “COME UP AND LASOR INCOME 18. LOWER

MURRAY FLAYS U.S, PAY POLICY   ClO Chief Demands Revision So Labor Can Receive Its Share

ClO OPENS FIGHT ON WAGE POLICY   Demands Proportionaté Share Of Income For Labor

AACHEN FIRST GERMAN CITY 10 BE TAKEN   By Americans at Relatively Small Cost After Savage Resistance; Many Nazis Trapped.   Ample Warning

Aachen Falls To American First Army.   Yanks Blast Nazis From Last Stronghold, Start Mop-up of City

TROOPS ARE MOPPING UP GARRISON   Ruined City Occupied Or Seventh Doy Of Siege

NEW ATTACK IS LAUNCHED BY CANADIANS   Infantry and Armor Strikes Out Through Mud and Marshland to Bolster Salient at Antwerp   YANKS STABBING AHEAD

TROOPS START MOPPING UP IN RUINED CITY   Vital French Rail Hub Seized; Vosges’ Passes In Allied Hands

City Yields On 7th Day Of Attack   Yanks Mop Up  Remnants of Nazi Garrison Trapped On the Outskirts

CANADIANS SPLIT NAZIS IN HOLLAND   Transport Center In France Taken By Seventh Army

Gateway To Ruhr First Big German City To Be Taken   Last Major Stronghold Is Knocked Qut: Canadians Open Offensive

YANKS IN FIRST ARMY CAPTURE RUINED AACHEN   Germans Foresee Great Allied Drive Due Shortly

Wreckage Of “Aachen Taken   Completely Demolished City Seen As Typical As Allies Smash On Inland

Aachen Falls To Americans   Canadians Strike North Through Marshland, French Infantry Advances —

Yanks Mop Up Ruins of Aachen After Capture   Remaining Nazis Trapped in Vise

Aachen Falls To Americans; City Wrecked   Russian Armies Take Offensive All Along Front

Aachen falls to troops of neers on /th siege day   Yanks start mopping up of remnants of nazi garrison 

FIRST MAJOR GERMAN CITY FALLS TODA\   Remnants Of Garrison Trapped; SS Troops Fight To Death

German City, Reduced to Wreckage, Finally Falls  ATTACKS STARTED ON SEPTEMBER 15TH   Remnants of Trapped Ger mans Being Mop‘ped Up

Last Resistance of Germans in Aachen Ends   First Large City to Fall to Americans

Aachen Is Taken In Week’s Battle   Yanks Mop: Up Last Remnants of Garrison Trapped in Outskirts   CANADIANS IN DRIVE   Americans Advance in Vosges Sector Near Moun~ tain Passes

WRECKED CITY, AACHEN FALLS TO AMERICANS   GERMAN REMNANTS MOPPED UP BY FIRST ARMY

BOTH ENDS OF NAZI LINE IN WEST WEAKEN   American Seventh Captures Bruyeres, French Force Vosges Pass, Canadians Split Foe in Holland.

MOPPING UP JOB ALL NOW LEFT FOR AMERICANS   Canadians Launch Big New Drive To Free Antwerp; Mud Slows Operations

Canadians On To Bolster Big Allied Salient   Bombers Support Drive To Reinforce Troops in Holland As Fight Bogs Down

MacArthur Messages Filipinos: “IT Have Returned, Rise and Strike”   Aachen Captured By Yanks; City Is Grea! Rubble Heap

Mopping Up Last Nazis On Outskirts   Canadians Open New Drive to Bolster Allied  Salient

- SPRAWLING GERMAN CITY OF DEATH IN FIRST ARMY'S HANDS  _ ‘CAPTURE FIRST MAJOR _ ENEMY CITY COMPLETED ' FRIDAY AFTERNOON

Aachen Falls to Ist Army   Front Dispatches Say Ancient City Virtually Destroyed By American Arms

Americans Mop Up Aachen Area; . Canadians Gain Above Antwerp; British Close In On Greek Town

NAZI CITY OF AACHEN TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Border City Reduced To Wreckage By Invading Yanks

First Big Reich City Captured   Becomes City of Death and Ruins Because of Fanatical Stand   YOUNG SS MEN . THREW AWAY. LIVES   Doughboys Still Mopping Up Pocketed Groups Within the Debris

Yanks Complete Aachen Mop-Up   Yanks Capture Bruyeres, Key Road Hub, and Vital Gates to Upper Rhineland Above Belfort; Holland Drive on Maas Bogs Down

Capture Of First Major ‘German City Announced  After Seven-Day Siege

Germans Yield City of Aachen fo Americans   City of Death and Destruction Falls After Lona Seige

Sprawling City Left A Mass Of Wreckage By Fanatical Resistance Of Hitler’s Men

NEW GAINS ARE REPORTED TODAY ON WEST FRONTS   Canadians Move To New Positions  North Of Antwerp

LAST NAZIS ‘CLEANED OUT _ OF Bie cit   Victorious ; Yanks Start -Mopping Up Last Remnants of German: Gartison, Trapped on the Ontskirts_

First Major German City To Be Taken   Yanks Inaugurate Mopping Up Tactics; Raze Last Building

Md TEFENDERS. ARE WIPED. OUT   . First Major German City To Be Captured By Americans .   MASS OF RUINS   Fanatical SS Officers : Blown From:Last Stronghold Today

First Major German City Captured   City Left a Mass of  Wreckage After Bitter Street-By-Street MopUp of Fanatical Nazis

OCCUPATION OF KEY TO RUHR IS. COMPLETED   First Major German City Falls After 10-Day  Siese

SIEGE ENDS AS YANKS MOP UP TRAPPED NAZIS   FIRST MAJOR GERMAN CITY TO FALL IS A MASS OF WRECKAGE

Bitterly Held Aachen Falls To American First Army   German Remnants Still Resisting In Isolated Sections of Old City

Aachen Falls To FirstU.S.. Army Today   First of Major German Cities Taken After Seven-Day Siege

Last German Resistance  Is Crushed   American First Army Completes Mop-Up Of German City.

Aachen First  Big German. City To Fall   Defenders Are Driven From Burrows in City. Pocketed in Suburbs  DAMAGE APPALLING

City Only Pile of Rubble After Heavy Pounding   Scores of Prisoners _ March Out of Last Pocket of Resistance

American First Army Captures Ruined Aachen  Gateway To Ruhr Firs  ny, ae Fp, ren ae ! oe i   Gateway To Ruhr First Major German City Tc Fall To Allies.

FALL: OF AACHEN PAVES WAY FOR GRAND ASSAULT   Canadians Siog Through Mud Toward Antwerp - - Advance In Italy Picks Up

Wrecked City Taken Over By Americans   Doughboys Start Final Cleanup Of Ruined Aachen

All Resistance Ends In Aachen: 2800 Captured   Canadians Drive North Toward New Port; Planes Breach Dam

Canadians Stage  Drive On Germans  Blocking Antwerp   Red. Pr essure: On Reich: ‘Grows; “Battle Rages Outside Budapest; British Tr ‘oops Occupy Thebes:

MOPPING UP LAST GERMAN STRAGGLERS   Last Defiance From Big Stone Building in Which SS Troops Had Barricaded Themselves

Destruction And Death"  Ridden City Is Captured   Canadians Pressing ‘Drive Near Antwerp

FIRST GREAT NAZI CITADEL KNOCKED OUT   Bitter Fighting Ended After Ten Days of Blasting at Ancient Site.

FUTILE oTAND BY DEFENDER (F GHY ENDS   French and Americans Open Passes in Vosges Area; Canadianc Gain.

Red Armies Continue To Invade: Pre-War Réich;. re Canadians Inv New Drive.

Troops Mop Up  Nazi Garrison In  Gateway To Ruhr   General Hodges’ First Army Captures First Major German City On Seventh Day Of Its Siege —- Fanatical German Resistance Turns City Into Mass Of Wreckage

RUINED AACHEN COMPLETELY IN YANK HANDS   New Gains in Belgium, East

City. In Ruins A¥ Allies Mop Up Last Nazis   Germans Surrendering By Scores As Road To Cologne Clear   DRIVE TO ANTWERP   Attack 14 Miles From Seaport; Vosges Passes Opened’

First Major German City To Surrender   Lies 340 Miles From Berlin; 40 Miles From Cologne; Is Ruhr Gateway

Victorious Troops Star Mopping Up After Sever ‘Dav Sieae Of Old City

Aachen Falls Today; City Is Mass Of Ruins   First Major German Town Falls to Americans After Nazi Garrison — Bitterly Fights to Last.

First Army Men Conquer Wrecked City After Seven Days Siege   Bastion IsGatewav  To Ruhr Valley   British Second Army Makes Slow P ogress Along Holland Salient

Americans  In Control Of Aachen   City Entirely in Allied Hands—Action Opens in Antwerp Area

SHELL-WRECKED AACHEN CAPTURED BY U. 5. TROOPS   Last Strongpoint Reduced by Direct Fire—Mop-Up Begins of Nazis Trapped in Pockets.   YANK LOSSES LIGHT IN SAVAGE BATILE   City’s Fall Nails Down Right Flank of 85-Mile Front — Canadians Attack North of Antwerp.

Aachen Falls To Americans Of ist Army   Seventh Day Of Siege Ends With Victory

ANCIENT RUNK CITY 1 RUINED   Victorious Yanks Start Mopping Up Last Remnants Nf Garrison.   340 MILES FROM BERLIN

Battered Aachen Falls To American First Army On  Seventh Day Of Its Siege

German City Of Aachen ls Captured   Famed Gateway to Ruhr Is Mass of Wreckage Last Nazi Stronghold Inside City Knocked Out by Direct Hit From U. S$. Gun

Drive North OF Antwerp  en awnall PD...   Opened By  Canadians   Gain Several Miles  In Few Hours; Number Of Germans’ Big  Guns Knocked (it

ONLY MOPPING UP OPERATIONS REMAIN TO CLEAN OUT GROUPS OF ISOLATED GERMAN TROOPS

First Major German City Falls to Yanks   Nazi Resistance Leaves Wreckage Of City of 150,000 Population; -Colacne Within Striilkins Distance

rst Major erman City ils to Yanks   lazi Resistonce mashed After even-Day Siege

Americans Crush Aachen, Attack Isolated Pockets  Canadians Advance In New Offensive North of Antwerp

VICTORY ENDS BITTER FIGHT TO TAKE CITY   Small Pocket of Nazis Still Fight Outside Of City Proper

Aachen Clear; Canadians in Drive on Breda   Yanks, French Open Uy Three Passes Across Voewac

City of Death and Destruction Captured By Yanks on Seventh Day of its Siege

Americans Mop Up Aachen, Canadians Gain Near Antwerp   Belgrade Falis Before  Russian, Partisan Blows

HITS WITHHOLDING OF BAD WAR NEWS   Senator Johnson Demands Officials Be Reprimanded for Toying with Public

SEVERE REPRIMAND I$ DEMANDED FOR WITHHOLDER OF NEWS  "ADMINISTRATION LEADER: AB chr wr Tar 84 Berar sw  Wa rr   ADMINISTRATION LEADERS ON SPOT IN NAMING CAMPAICN PROBERS

RAPS CENSORSHIP OF U.S. SLAYING OF PARATROOPERS   JOHNSON DEMANDS REPRIMAND FOR WITHHOLDING NEWS

Paris Commentator Claim Allies to Start Invasion Of Europe Within Week

Marytand boy Makes Quite A Name For Himself At Anzic When His Tank Destrouey Bogs Down In ‘Red Hot? Area

TO INVESTIGATE RUMPUS    Senate Committee Will Look Into Statler Hotel Incident

Early Meeting /May Be Held By Big Three   Roosevelt Asserts Time And Place Must Be Kept Secret Until All Arrive At Scene

Roosevelt Says Big Three Will Meet As Soon As Arrangements Can Be Made

BIG 3 MEETING DUE SOON, FDR TELLS NEWSMEN   Thousands Brave Rain In Washington To Welcome President Back

MEETING OF BIG THREE LEADERS BEING PLANNED   Roosevelt Says No Date or Place Yet Decided For Parley

ANOTHER MEETING OF BiG THREE MAY BE HELD AT EARLY DAY   PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CONFIRMED THIS BUT DETAILS NOT COMPLETED

Triple Parley ‘When It Can Be Arranged’   Roosevelt Says Nothing Definite .on Time or Place as Yet

FR. COMMENTS ON BiG 3 MEET   LONDON EXPECTS TALKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Hull Reported Eager to Get Back on Job   Roosevelt Expects Him to Return Soon; No Other News on Cabinet   BIG THREE LIKELY  TQ MEET SOON   President Sees Reporters at White House First Time Since Election

Big-3 Want To Hold Meeting   FDR Saves No Details Have Been Worked Out: Nothing Definite.

FDR. Confirms Big Three Meet   ~ Press Conference Told No Details Have Been Worked Out.

wn Eee ASIN E Se Ete dame  FDR Wants To Meet Stalin And Churchill

Big Army of Occupation to Remain In Germany for Indefinite Period

Yanks Open Ait Drive on Main Base in Palaus   Japs Increase Their Aerial Defenses; Truk Is Also Raided

American Planes Blast Jap Airfield On Main Palau Isk  Increase in Hirohito’s Air Defenses Noted In Pacific Raids

Yank Airmen Hit Babelthuay In the Palaus   10,151 Jap Dead  On Peleliu, Angaur; MacArthur Air Force: Destroy 9 Jap Ships

YANKS STRIKE NEW AIR BLOW IN THE PALAUS   Babelthuap Airfield Blasted by Ma rine Flyers

Marine Flyers Strike Enemy  In Pacific   Group Troops Still Mopping Up in  Southern Palaus

VOLLEYS FROM 24 GUNS IN MOSCOW   Russia Celebrates Army's Drive to the Prut River

Bombers Blast Six Nazi Air Fields In Raids   RAF, Fighter Planes Strike At Military  Objectives In France

ERE POSGIELE Jr 4 FOUNBIES   Vv nhs: 8  a iSi. fers Crimiral Action f.c.-nst. Unicnists

SEU POSSEL JF 183 FUNERIES   WLS Consijersal Acton st. Unionists

Tells Sume- Anteresting  News That, Friends Will  Be Interested In Back In  His Home Town: in ‘St. Charles. -

YANKS ARE POPULAR -ALONG BURMA ROAQ   NEWS OF CAPT. C, A, ELLIOTT   Story from Southwest China Tells of Work U. S, Engineers Are Doings

Two Toronto Peace Officers Witnesses in Lonergan’s Tria   Deny Soldier's Confession of Wife Murder Made Under Stress

2 OFFICERS TESTIFY IN LONERGAN TRIAL   Brought Young Man Back to “New York After His Wife Wace Sjoin.

(More Than 1,000 Bombers — Attack Targets Covered By ‘Clouds In South Germany

South Germany Tagets Hit By 1,000 Bombers   "Island of Walcheren Blasted By British After Warning To Dutch

24 BRITONS ARE KILLED AS SHIP SPLITS IN TWO   Freighter Crashes Onto Boor Island Rock, 12 Miles Off Maine Coast

British Ship Breaks Up Off Maine Coast   Twenty-Five Members Of Freighter’s Crew Are Lost During Driving Blizzard On Friday

25 Lives Lost As British Freighter Crashes Off York   Vessel Pounds On Boone  Island Rocks In Storm

British Vessel Runs Aground; 24 Crewmen Lost   Ship Piled Onto Boon Island Ledge Off Maine Coast Friday, Split In Two; 20 Rescued By U. S. Craft. 

25 Aboard British Freighter Die __ When Blizzard Forces Vessel Onto- Ledge Off Maine Coast

24 Lost When Ship Hits Ledge  British Freighter : Splits in Two Off Work Meine

2) SEAMEN LOST WHEN SHIP HITS LEDGE IN STORN   British Vessel Grounded on  {sland OFF Maine Coast Fridav

BRITISH SHIP LOST IN STORM   Freighter Grounded Off Maine; 25 Of Crew Die

25 British Sailors Lost   Freighter Piles Up On Boon Island Ledge Off New Hampshire

British Ship Wreeked, 24 Are Drowned   Freighter Goes On Rocks off  nas of Maine

British Freighter Breaks Apart Off Maine Coast  Twenty-Five Sailors Are Lost From Gila tualea P" warces al AK

British Freighter Breaks Apart Off Maine Coast  Twenty-Five Sailors Are Lost From Ship’s Crew of 45

British Freighter Piles Onto Ledge  24 Crew. Members Lost, Others Hurt ‘In Blizzard Mishap

VESSEL CRASHES ON ROCK LEDGE: 05 OF CREW LOST  RESCUERS FAIL TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH

15 Seamen Lost When British Ship Hits Ledge  Fri Freighter Piles Up Off e Coast In Storm

24 Died When Ship Hit Ledge  Rreaoicghtor Tact OF9F   Freighter Lost Off Maine During Storm

25 MEN LOST IN SHIP CRASH   British Vessel Breaks in Two After Hitting Rock on Maine Coast.

British Freighter Piles Onto Ledge; 24 of Crewmen Lost   Splits in Two in Driving Blizzard Off Coast  of Maine

HALF CREW LOST IN SHIP WRECK   British Freighter Smashed By Storm Off New Englind

25 Lost in Sea Mishap   British Ship Piles Up on Island Off Coast of Maine

25 British Sailors Perish In Storm   Twenty-five Members 0. Crew Lost When Veasel Breaks Up Off Maine

S oeeaentnememennnnmedinmmenmmmaanndinedl  24 LOST AS BRITISH SHIP IS WRECKED

British Ship Lost on Rock Off York, Me   Freighter Split in Twe During Blizzard; 25 of Crew Dead

25 Perish As British Ship Wrecks On Ledge Off Maine   Freighter Crashes into Rocks During Driving Blizzard, Splits In Two

25 Lost When Ship Hits Rock   British Freighter Piles On Ledge Off Coast Of Maine.

“Milk Policy” Aids Farmers Chart Plans   a a  The Government Hopes to Arrange Agency to Give Seeur?ty ~

Martin Urges Milk Policy   Wants Program to Permit Farmers to Plan Operations

‘SENATE BATTLES ON POWER PLANS   $970,965,000 POSTWAR FLOOD BILL ARGUED

Flood Control Issue Stirs Senate Debate   New Hospital Included In Prison Fund Request

250,000 Axis  Forces Face Soviet Trap Red Army Units Join After Striking Out in Two Prongs SIEGE GUNS TAKEN  Artillery - Had Poured Death Into Leningrad for Two Years

Soviet Poles May Control Relief Work   UNRRA Commission May Be Sent Into Area to Work Out Plans

POLISH RELIEF ADMINISTRATION PLAN COMPLETE   Distribution Of Supplies Will Soon Start

Commission From:-UNRRA to Determine Needs; Rival: Warsaw, Govern ments-Remain at Odds

Polish Relief In Soviet Hands   UNNRA To Turn Job Over To Soviet Sponsor. ed Polish Committee.

UNRRA’s Officials Face Predicament in Polish Quarrel   Failure of Goveriinients ““of Poland to Compromise is Stickler

Heavy Downpour Floods Streets   Most Of Plains  Reanorte Rainfall

American Marauder Bombe Supported By Spitfires, Caz Record Offensive Against Cor nent Into Fifth Day   000 PLANES OVER EUROPE IN FEW DA’

LT, HAMILTON IS AN OLDTIMER NOW ‘New Shavetail’, Group Of Rookies  Crack Key German Fortification

‘Rookie’ Platoor Comes Through   Takes Pillbox Despite Veterans’ Doubts

Exploit Makes Seasoned Veterans Of “Shavetail’”’ and Rookie Platoon

“Rookie Shavetail” Knew His Job And Now He Is No Longer A Rookie

SMALL BUSINESS HAS HALF WAR DOLLARS   Nearly Two-thirds of Army Contracts Went To Them

Many Enemy Soldiers Give up   Germans Struggle  To Cross River and Escape Big Trap

ALLIED FORCES ENTER TOULON: FALL NOW NEAR   War’s End Within Sight Says British Officer as Resistance Crumbles

FLEET HURLS SALVOS INTO PARAMUSHIRO   Shore Defense Caught By Surprise in North Pacific

Two Killed And Three Injured — In Oil Explosion   ‘Former LeMars ~Resident: Victim. Of Raging Firé ©

Two Killed And And Three Injured In Oil Explosion  - Former LeMars Resident Victim _  ee ee

MANY ISSUES FACE DEBATE IN CONGRESS   MANY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO BE DECIDED DURING THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS 

FAR-REACHING ACTION FORESEEN   New Leal Victory to ‘Bring International and Domestic Chanees

Made Overall Commander Of Ground Forces   Bradley’s Rank Equals That Of Montgomery; Nazis Have Lost All

GENERAL BRADLEY 15  OVERALL COMMANDER  OF U.S. FORCES POSITION IS EQUAL TO  THAT OF GEN. MONTGOM ERV RPRITISH LEANDER

Bradley Becomes Yank Commander {In North France   C. . . As Ten Days Ahead Of Schedule

Eisenhower Says French War 5 Days Ahead of Schedule   ‘Announces Bradley, Commander of U. 5S. Force in France

BRADLEY HEADS “U.S. IN FRANCE   ‘Ike’ Honors Montgomery in Announcement

More Gasoline ls In Prospec   Increase Is Due After War In Europe Ends

Soldiers’ Vote Bill Is Debated Hotly in Senate   Republican Defends President's Message, Democrat Raps It

ON FOR MESSAGE   Vet Vote Legislation Debat Finds Senators bitering

SERVICE MEN'S VOTE DEBATED   Roosevelt's Blistering Message Has Mixed Reception

Republican Defends and Democrat Criticizes F. D. R. During Debate

Langer Praises, Gillette Flays ~ .Filk’s Message   Republican Defends and Democrat Criticizes President's Point

FORRESTAL WITH CHIEFS IN ITALY   Presence of Leaders Hints Allies Plan Surprise in That Theater

ALLIED HEADS ~ MEET IN ITALY   Churchill — Attends  Conference  Could Mean Surprise Blow at Hitler

SIND FORGES:  TRY 10 MEET GEN. STILWELL   To Open Land Supply Route From India Into Blockaded China; Enter City of Tengchung.   Blast Jap Nests

INTO MAIN JAP BASE      Chinese in a Drive to Reopen the Burma Road 

2000 JAPS OUST YANKS FROM ISLE   Capture Ngeregong But Trapped By Navy

- ' ae rive Vaz  SU, CUD ITS STE or,  s-s NE77E. .47882S Says Invasion Up to Schedule  ‘Ww? f. FT... Pt... Blennitence

“Success Thus Far,’  FDR Terms Assault   President Asks Americans Join Him in Prayer That Allies May . Build ‘Sure Peace’

Chief Leads U.S. Prayer For Victory Roosevelt Aske   Roosevelt Asks Divine Aid In Allied Cause

IF. D.R. Leads Nation in Prayer F or Victory, Freedom, Peace;  Says Invasion ‘Up to Schedule’   Americans Greet Invasion News  f  With Prayers and Confidence

Texans-in-Britain Club Organized at Assembly Depot in British Isles

Armies Fight On Both Sides Of Florence   Battle for City Will Not Be Within Its Limits

Nazis Withdraw  From Florence   Battle Being Centered In East-West Suburbs

FLORENCE BATTLE LINE IN SUBURBS   NAZIS WITHDRAW FROM HISTORIC ART CENTER

GERMANS MOVE TO NORTH BANK OF ARNO RIVER   British Patrols Hoping To Avoid Street Fighting In Florence

Florence Nearly Cleared of  German  roops   Decisive Battles To Be Fought in East, West Suburbs

PLAN BATTLE IN SUBURBS OF FLORENCE   Indicate Nazis Have Withdrawn From the City

Main Germar Force Quits. Florence   Famous Buildings Of Italian City To Be Spared

Germans Largely Withdraw From City of Florence   Only Machine Gun Nests Are Reported Left

RENEW “A” BOOKS BEFORE SEPT. 21   New Gasoline Coupons Will Be Worth 4 Gallons, But there Will Be Fewer.

RENEW “A” BOOKS LATE THIS MONTH   New Gasoline Coupons Will Be Worth 4;Gallons, But there Will Be Fewer.   Ration Calendar for August

“A” GAS COUPONS GOOD TO SEPT. 21   New Gasoline Coupons Will Be _ Worth 4 Gallons, But there Will Be Fewer.

DEBT LIMIT IS BOOSTED AGAIN   Increase From 210 to 260 Billions Approved—Caboret Tax Slashed

Bill Boosting National Debt Limit Is Sent To President With Rider

Cattle Growers Want Changes Made In OPA And Federal Income Taxes

‘Cattle Growers Of State Want Changes In OPA And Income Tax Laws And Name Their Desires For Definife. Legislation

GREW URGES JAPAN SMASH   FORMER ENVOY SAYS NIP MACHINE MUST BE RUINED

Heavy Planes Attack Second Straight Day   Great Reserve Strength And Crew Endurance Show Strong Fighter Support

NAZI CAPITAL HIT 4TH TIME WITHIN WEEK   Industrial Targets Are Al. so Struck In Mid-Germany; 8 Planes Are Missing

Hapless Berliners Undergoing Second Attack in 24 Hours   Heavy Yank Bonibers Again Rain Explosives on Flanring Capital; Wednesday Raid Nets 125 Fighters

U, S. BOMBERS STRIKE BERLIN AGAIN TODAY   Waves Of Allied Planes Attack Nazi Targets  verry yy rarsrar

Hannover Alsc Attacked by U.S. Aviators   Little Resistance to Assault Offered by  German Airforce

U. S. Bombers Heap New Devastation On Nazi Capital   Ts Fourth American Blow in Six Days; Nazis Admit Damage And Civilian Losces

FEW NAZIS RISE TO GIVE BATTLE, NONE SHOT DOWN   Raid Fourth on Flaming Capital in Six Days — Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire Thrown Up.   DESCENDING TOLL SEEN AS SIGNIFICANT   City Reported Without Electricity, Gas and Water Since Daylight As- saults Began.

Attack Shows Strength in Equipment, Endurance Of Crews.   FIGHTER FORCE STRONG

[FOURTH TIME IN SIX DAYS HEAVY BOMBERS OF U. $. HIT CAPITAL  WEDNESDAY’S RAID COST CODMANG 19° DIANTE

German Fighters ~ Virtually Absent   Eight Planes Are Missing  ‘After Daylight Smash

BIG BOMBERS BLAST BERLIN FACTORY AREF   AMERICANS REPEAT RAID, LOSE ONLY EIGHT PLANES

7 Bombers, One Fighter Only Losses   Capital Heavily Hit;  Hannover Also Raided,  Nazi News Agency Says RAF OWT AGAIN

83 GERMAN FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN YESTERDAY   8th Airforce Fleet Claims 5 to . 1 Victory in Battle Over Nazi Capital

Fourth Battering In 6 Days Stresses Great U. S. Reserve Strength.

U.S.-BRITISH WAR SHIPS FOR RUSSIA   Urgent Need Churchill Tells House Of Commons, Since Disposal Of Italian Navy Is Uncertain.   Italy Asks Details

Same Route - Followed as: on Day. Belors   Repeated: ‘Attacks Give:.Ne ‘Rest,-.-Show» Americans” Great. Reserve: Strength: ::           USUAL CLAIMS BY -°: = . «: NAZIS. ARE: MISSIN   125-Enemy' Planes.: :Downed in Yesterday’s Raid; 38° ‘Bombers Lost

RAF Bombers in Follow-Up Raid During Night   Frankfurt Radio Off Air; U. S. Losses Set at 7 Bombers, 1 Fighter

FLAMING CITY LASHED —AGAN BY AIR FLEET      Nazis Pay 125 Fighters In Futile Effort to Stop Early Blow

BOMBERS HIT CITY ATH TIME   Flying Fortresses And Liberators Return To Doomed Capital

Flying Fortresses and Liberators Make Fourth Attack on German Capital in Six Days, American Airforce Announces

U.S. Reserve Power Shown  In Assaults   Explosives Dumped On Ruins Left Wednesday When 125 Nazi Fighter Planes Were Downed

BLAST F IN SIX DAYS ON CAPITAL   City Hit By 30,000 Tons Since November   125 FIGHTERS   Downed By A.A.F. Wednesday: Losses Include 38 Big Bombers

FOURTH BLOW IN 6 DAYS BY YANK AIRMEN   Unending Drive Shows Amazing Reserves  Of 8th Airforce

German Broadcast Hints at Fourth American Strike   Wednesday’ s Operation, Involving 850 to 1,000 War planes, Disclosed to Have Downed Total : of 125 Enemy Aircraft   THIRTY-EIGHT U. S. SHIPS FAIL TO RETURN

U. 5. BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST NAZI CAPITAL   Strike at Berlin Industrial Targets; 8 Planes Lost

RAIDS ON CITY NOW TOTAL OVER 30,000 TONS —   Nazis Grow Weaker In Opposition As Attacks Continue

Press Attack Over Blazing Nazi Arsenal   Second Day In Row Of Ter. rific Bombing By Fortresses, Liberators   ADMIT SOME DAMAGE

Capitol Hit Second Time In Two Days   » 30,000 Tons Dropped On Berlin Since November 18

AMERICANS HIT CAPITAL HARD BLOW   Raiders Take Toll Of 125 Enemy Planes In  Fierce Assault

Heavy US Bombers Return To Berlin tor Another Raid   Attack Reich Capital  Second Successive Day

German Capital Hit For Fourth Time In 6 Days  Powerful Fighter “scorts Accomnany

FOURTH TIME IN SIX DAYS HEAVY BOMBERS OF U. 8. HIT CAPITAL  WEDNESDAY’S RAID COST GERMANS 125 PLANES, BRETT aae FHrry TipDrcre

U.S. Heavy Bombers Carry Out Assault on German Capital For Fourth Time in Six Days, Demonstrating  Amazing Reserve Strength of Air Force.    HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES

AAF reports only minor encounters   Lose fighter and seven bombers

Ath Attack In Six Days Made By U.S On Capital:   Second Day In A Row That Nazis’ Chief City Has Been Struck Serious Blow

U. S. Fortresses Hit Nazi Capital 2nd Day in Row   Attack Demonstrates the Amazing Reserve  Strength of 8th Air Force   German Air Arm Has An Exhausting Week

Heavy Bombers Batter Enemy In Daylight Raid   Amazing Reserve Strength Shown By U. S. Airforces

Industrial Targets Hit for the Second Day in Sucéession   ONLY EIGHT PLANES. REPORTED MISSING   Indications. of Follow-up Attack by the RAF Reanorted ~

Hannover Also Blasted by Big Yank Bombers   Skies Over Germany Virtually Free of  Nazi Planes; Attack Is Fourth in Six Days

Big Bombers Renew Attack OnCapital ~   Damage Heavy From Three Previous Raids

Berlin Raid Losses Light   Only Seven Bombers Lost; Germans Absent From Air

Berlin Again Feels Force of UJ. 8. Bombers   Reich Capital Hit Thursday for Fourth Time in Six Days

U. S. Flying Forts Follow Up Yesterday’s Big Assault With Another Heavy Raid

American Heavy Bombers Blast German Capital   Little Resistance Offered by Nazis

Amazing U. S. Reserve Power Is Demonstrated   First Announcements Fail To Indicate Strength of This Attack

Second Day In Row For AAF   Fourth Time in Six Days Heavy Bombers Have Bombed German Capital

Nazis Fail To Crow Over ‘Big ‘Aer ialBattle   Little German Resistance Indicated: Enemv Experiencing War’s Most Exhausting Weck   125 Hun Planes  Bagged Yesterday   Up to 1,000 U. &. Bombers In Wednesday Raid; 350,000 Incendiary Bombs Hit Capital

WEAK NAZI AIR OPPOSITION ENCOUNTERED OVER GERMANY   ‘American Bombers And Fighters Flew Over Industrial - Targets In Berlin And Hannover With Loss Of Only  _, Eight Aircraft; No Enemy Planes Destroyed

Defense  Weakens   Hitler's Capital Has Been Rocked With 30,000 Tons of Bombs Since First Big Raid

WAVES OF PLANES RETURN TO REICH FOR NEW ATTACK   38 U. S. BOMBERS LOST WEDNESDAY AND 68 ON MONDAY

Berlin Raided For Fourth Time In Week By Bombers By U.S. Eighth Air Force 

GERMANS FAIL TO CROW OVER AIR BATTLES      Concede Damage in Residential Seciions, Some Casualties Among Popul  ation      BALL PLANT FIRED   125 German Planes Downed in Wednesday's Raid, 38 American Bombers Lost

125 German ‘Fighters Shot  Down Yesterday   German ‘Radio Stations Go Off Air As Armada of Heavy American Planes Roar To New Assault’ — 301 . Nazi   Planes. Bagged — by Yanks In? Raids.

BODY OF MISSING INDIAN STUDENT 15 FOUND IN HUDSON   VALSA MATTHAI WEALTHY BOMBAY STUDENT AT CO. LUMBIA MISSING LONG

Find Body Of Rich Indian Girl In River      Student’s Death Remains Mystery

Indian Girl's Body Recovered   Wealthy Columbia Student’s Body Is Found in River

MISSING GIRL’S BODY IS FOUND   22-Year-Oid Indian Student Disappeared March 20

River Yields Body of Long Missing Girl   Search for Student From India Ends; Death Due to Drowning

Wiiriwind Advance Expands Break-Through To Depth Of Nearly 12 Miles; American PatTois Thrust Into Periers   NAZIS SEE HUGE ENEMY ARMY READY

Allied Planes Continue  Air Attacks   Opposition Light in Intensive Daylight Assaults

U. S. Bombers Continue to  Strike Europe   Alert in Switzerland Suggests That RAF Is Also Attacking

NAZI AIR BASES INFRANCE ARE POUNDED AGAIN   Hangars, Machine Shops, Ammunition Dumps Destroyed By Alhes   RAF NIGHT RAIDERS HEAD FOR CONTINENT

American Bombers ‘Smash Nazi Bases   Intensive Daylight Bombings of Coastal Defenses Continued—Hangars, Barracks, Shops and Ammunition Dumps Smashed

PLANES POUND NAZI DEFENSES   Americans Blast Air Bases In France and Military Positions on Coast

HEAVY WEIGHTS AGAIN HIT AT FRENCH COAST   11 U. S. Planes Fail te Return; Germans Lose 17

SOME DEMOCRATS FEEL BUCKING A ATH TERM FUTILE   Several Fermerly Active in Party: ounicily -to; Ignerc Convention — Wheeler” Will Not Seek Delevate’s. Chair

FDR Admitted Party’s Choice   4th Téerin Opponents Will Shun Chicago

Party Leaders Skip Conventior   See No Chance f Mmre@esc +... UFR

Some Democrats Feel F.D.R. “In”   Will Absent Themselves From Convention As They Concede Roosevelt Nomination On First Ballot.

FRENCH ARE DRIVING INTO RHONE VALLEY      Push Westward From Captured Marseille — Direct Dispatch From  t— Geneva Tells of the Northward Advance.

—SOUTH FRANCE—  REPORT YANKS ON SWISS FRONTIEE   Others Headed For Rhone Valley 25 Miles North Of Marseille   SALON CAPTURED   French Drive Westward After Capturing Country’s Largest Port _

Romanian Army Turns Against Hungary; Report Allied Units Have Reached Swiss Frontier   Nazis Dissolve Hungarian Government As Romania Accepts Allied Armistice Terms; Western France Units Sweep Along Seine

SAY AMERICAN FORCES REACH SWISS FRONTIER   Allied Troops Seize Salon, Marseille, Grenoble; Report Bordeaux Taken

U. S. FORCES STRIKE NORTH OF MARSEILLE   French Poilus Recapture Greatest Port and Drive Westward Into Lower Rhone Valley   MOPPING UP AT TOULON

Advance Made Into Lower Rhone Valley   Troops Reach Swiss Frontier; Bordeaux Reported Captured

NEAR RHONE ROUTE   American Forces From the South Press Farther  Into France

Salon Captured By Other Units  In So. France   Algiers Says Bordeaux Has Fallen to Allies And French

SWISS FRONTIER REACHED GY U.S, FORCES: REPORT   Germans Fire At Own Troops Who  Surrendered

Yanks Drive Northward    Swiss Say Force Has Reached Swiss Frontier; French Mop up in Marseille

Yanks, French Strike Toward Rhone Valley   “Pincers Is Forming To Cut Off Southern France; Mopping Up At Port of Toulon

Southern France   U. S. Forces Have aml Salon; Algiers Reports Bordeaux Has Faller

U. 5. FORCES ARE NOW AT SWISS LINE   Occupy Salon At Rhone Valley Entrance

PLUNGE TOWARD FRENCH INTERIOR   ALGIERS’RADIO SAYS BORDEAUX SEIZED BY ALLIED TROOPS

Allied Forces Surging Into Rhone Valley      Of Marseille; Near  Swiss Border

Yank Forces Take ' Key Gateway City; ~ Near Swiss Border   Allied Aim at Pincers Movement to Chop South France

U.S. Forces Advance Up - Rhone Valley   Aim For Juncture With General Eisenhower's  Troops

Capture Salon In Drive To Interior   Bordeaux Reported By Algiers Radio To Have Fallen

Yanks Meve North From  Marseille   Capture Salon During Drive Toward Rhone  River Route to France

Yanks Capture Salon; French Push on Rhone   Dispatches From Geneva State U. S. Troops Have Reached The Swiss Frontier

Pilot Jackie Coogan Says Burmese Took Him for God As He Landed With Glider

Jackie Coogan Says Burma Natives Astonished When Glider Opened Its Mouth and Out Drove an Army Jeep

BLOW FOLLOWS BiG FIRE RAID ON WEDNESDAY   301 German Planes Downed In Two Attacks; 38 Forts Missing

IS 4TH RAID ON CAPITAL INS DAYS   Follows Biggest Fire Attack In History

Raiders Shoot Down 125 German Planes, Destroy Large Ball Bearing Plant   Amenican Air Force Planes Return to Nazi Capital Today, Continuing Drive to Knock Luftwaffe Out of Action

Huge Bomb Fleet Shatters Capital   Fortresses and Liberators, Guarded by Fighters. Strike Second Time in Two Davs

U.S, BOMBERS BLAST BLAZING BERLIN AGAIN   . Attack Proves Reserve Power

U. §. Infantrymen Repulse Attacks On Beachhead   Allied Bombers Smash Nazi Supply Lines

NAZI CAPITAL STRUCK SECOND STRAIGHT DAY   Total of 125 German Fighters Downed In Great Fire Raid by Americans.   BULLETIN

BOMBERS ON RAID AGAINST REICH’S CAPITAL   Berlin Is Still Burning After Record Attack

MANY FIGHTERS PROTECT LARGE RAIDING CRAFT   Quick Follow Through Made After Record Fire Raid on Capital

Air Fleet Again Blasts City In Daylight Raids   Suggest Drive To Kill Military Potential Remaining In Capital

Hundreds Of Planes In New Raid   Powerful Force of Fighters and Bombers on oth Raid  in 7 Days

British Papers Use Superlatives In Describing Feat Made By Doolittle’s Airmen

ANOTHER HUGE FIRE BLOW AT CITY REVEALED   ‘Destroy 125 Nazi Planes In American Raid Wednesday

FOURTH DAYLIGHT BOMBING IS MADE ~ WITHOUT BATTLE   New Attack Reflects Powerful Air Force In England Stamping Out Nazi War Industries.   DAYLIGHT ENDS AS BERLIN PROTECTION   American Infantrymen Fight Off Two Nazi Attacks, Airmen Bomb Units Forming In Rear.

City Still ~ = Afire From Wed. Attack          IN THREE DAYS AMERICANS HA EQUALLED THREE HEAVIEST BRI RAIDS ON CITY OF ENTIRE WAR)

U.5, BOMBERS, RAF FIGHTERS RENEW ATTACK   Second Straight Day Assault Shows Strength of Allied Reserves.

REDS MOP UP 150 TOWNS IN STEADY SWEEP.   ZHITOMIR IS TAKEN; POLISH FRONTIER 85 MILES AWAY

Chiseling On Control Of Prices Cited   Increased Labor Costs Cause Orders for Price Hikes

TORPEDO BOATS HIT BY MISTAKE   Accurate Yank Gunners Bag 2 U. S. Planes And 2 Peetees

2 PT BOATS, PLANES LOST INS. PACHIC   Mirtaken Identity . Reported Near

Mukden Area Hit By Bombs   Japan’s Transplanted War Industries Feel American Air Might; Enemy Minimizes Damage

Roving Yankee Fortresses Strike Japan’s Industries Removed To Manchuria

Jap War Industries Moved to Manchuria Hit By Super-Forts   Giant Bombers Make Daylight Attack on Plants in Mukden As High Altitude Precision Bombing Given Test — No Details Of Raid Given in Brief Communique

Superforts Hit Mukden Industries   - First Daylight Raid of B-29’s

$1,000 Prize s Offered Public   Freedom of Press Contest Announced

Tough Reich Fight Looms   German Strength Grows as They Battle at Home

Allies. Have Gigantic Task If They Finish War in ’44; Nazis Fight for Every Inch

Allies Have Huge Task Ahead in Beating Germany  Nazis Are Battling On Home Soil With Mounting Fury

Allies Face Gigantic Task In Beating Nazis This Year   Stabbore German Stend at Berder’ ~indieates Difficult Struggle Ahead”

How It Happened   Finishing War This Year Huge Task for United Nations

MAD FLIGHT OF NAZIS HALTS AT REICH BORDER   Gigantic Task Now Faces Allies If They Finish the War This Year

Huge Task to Win in “44, Writer Says   Nazis Fighting With Fury of Trapped Tigers Says Gallagher

GIGANTIC TASK AhEAD OF ALLIES TO END WAR IN 44   Recent Allied Gains Western Front  Slow And Made At Heavy Cost; Winning Of War Slack ened.

‘Stiff German Resistance Proves Nazis Intend To Wage Costly War At Any Price

ALLIES FACE HUGE TASK IF THEY ARE TO FINISH WAR WITH NAZIS THIS YEAR

Gigantic Task Facing Allies .   Germans, Defending Homeland, Far From Throwing In Sponge.

British Armor and American Parachuters Break Through: Relief of Pocketed Skytroons   Six Mile Barrier of German Steel Smashed But Germans Cut Rescue Road Far to South Between Eindhoven and Nijmegen in Hard Fight

VICTORY THIS YEAR APPEARS DOUBTFUL   ‘Lost Division’ In Hot Battle Since Sunday

HUGE TASK AHEAD   Allies Realize Much Is Still to Be Done to End War This Year

Allies Have Gigantic Task Ahead If They Are To Win War In °44; Nazis Know They’re Beaten But Still Hope For Compromise Peace

GIGANTIC TASK IS FACING ALLIES IN WINNING THIS WAR   MAD FLIGHT OF GERMAN!  ENDED AT BORDER AND

K * Kw Huns Are Still Obeying Hitler   K *= *K—O UY Crippled Krauts On Last Leg

Victory in 1944 ls Gigantic Task   Recent Gains Small And at: High Cost

BAGNAGAVALLO IN ITALY TAKEN   British Eighth Army Gains In Push Toward Bologna

Effect Of Labor Draft On Individual. Explained   New Law Proposed By President Would Plac Nearly Everyone Under Government Control To Work Where Ordered

LABOR DRAFT EXPLAINED IN NEW BILL   All Women 18 Tx 50 Would Have To Register

WHAT “DRAFT? MIGHT MEAN   Bill Introduced By Vermont Senator Best Known and Already in Shape.

Reds Push 15 Miles in  Nazi Lines   Red Army in White Russia Advances Into Heart of Pripet Marshes

Recent Draft Calls Lower  Hershey Sees Under 26 Pool Lasting Until Early In Fall

Cigarette Smoke Fogs Room; Senate Investigation of Fag Shortage Opens

Index   7 * Othman finds one cause of cigaret shortage is men who make ’em smoke

Yanks Drive On  Toward Livorno   Prisoners Captured  Number Over. 32,000

U. S. FORCES HIT NAZI RESISTANCE ON ITALY COAST   American Tanks ‘Pound - Northw: and on Coastal High Og  wava

U.S. Troops Overcome Resistance   Travel on Coastal Highway —Columns March Inland to Shell Rear Guards

Yanks Within 15 Miles of Livorno, Italy   Other Allied Columns March Northward

U. S. Armored Units Pierce German Line   Mighty Drive Carries Within 35 Miles Of Leghorn In Northern Ltaly

U. S. Froops Near Leghorn in italy Push   Crack Bitter German Resistance in 7 Mile Advance.

ALLIED GAINS  CONTINUE IN ITALY   Americans Drive Forward 7 Miles On West Coast

British Smash Nazi Tan Drive Near Caen; Enem: Yields Along Italy Fro:

Yanks Smash Foe for 7-Mile (zain in Italy   J. S. Armor Within 25 Miles of Important City

Yanks. Continue: ‘Advance ‘in’ aly   32,000:Germans: Captured to Date:

Commons to Hear  Churchill Friday   “Shortish” Statement Te Be Made of Resulis of Meetine With Stalin

DeGaulle Claims French Support  Representation Made to Allied Leaders

De Gaulle in Normandy   Given Great Welcome; Denies Agreement Made On Invasion Liaison

DeGaulle Warmly Received i in France   But Relations With Allies Still Clouded

RNs lA MAY "ERT AXIS, SIN ALLIES   Negotiations Under  Way;  Decision May  Come Soon

Rumania May  Abandon Axis   Report Negotiations Are Under Way On Possible Armistice, At Cairo  SOME TERRITORY MAV RF SACRIFICED

Tough Job Awaits The New Congress   Nation’s Best Known Figures Interested In Election Result

Public Figures Facing Stiff. Opposition  For Office; Many Seats To Be Filled

Control Is At Stake      Party Lineup in 79th Congress Awaits Decision of the Voters

Control of Congress Is At Stake in the Election  New Congress to Face Problems   New Congress to Face Problems Of Unprecedented Maonitnde

36. 389 Nz azis: Taken At Brest   Second. Larges. Bax Of War ‘Prisoners -

00,009 GERMANS BAGGED AT BREST   ALLIED HAUL OF PRISONERS AT FRENCH PORT SECOND LARGEST OF WAR.

FIND 20,000 STOLEN PIRARS   Charge 2 B. H. Men With Holding Loot; Held On Bonds Of $1,500

PRIMARY FIGHT it WlOGO Wal NEAR DECISION   Dewey, MxcArthur, Willkie, Etassen Forces Wind Up.

Test for Willkie: Wisconsin Republican Primary Likely To Show November Trend

 Preliminary Shirmish  Wisconsin Primary Will  Test Willkie Strenoth

Willkie’s Chances Faée Wisconsin Test Today   Supporters Say He Needs Majority; Republicans Entering Four-Way Contest, Democrats Not in Conflict

VOTE RESULTS “IN WISCONSIN ARE AWAITEL   BITTER PRIMARY CAMPAIGN FOR DELEGATES TOG. 0.P. CONVENTION ENDED TODAY *.

WILLKIE HAS REAL TEST AT POLLS TODAY   Wisconsin Republicans to Elect 24 Convention Deleantec   FOUR WAY BATTLE COMES TO CLOSE   Returns—Not Expected—to _ be Known Before Wednesday

PRIMARY FIGHT. NN WISCONSIN NEAR DECISION   ‘Bewey, MacArthur, Willkie, Etassen Forces Wind Up, -

WILLKIE TEST IS SEEN TODAY   Wisconsin Primary May Show Strength Of Candidates

ABOUT $3,000 PAID TO INFLUENCE VOTES   Free Drinks and Poker Games in Hotel Room Entertained Legvisjaters

Tells How Lawmakers ‘Put on The Squeeze’   Adjournment Night Is When the Lobbyists . ‘Have to Dig Up Fast and yi Korigua’

REDS 13 MILES WEST OF MINSK   Germans’ Counter-Attack: Fail to Halt Relentless Advance

Units Rushing to Aid of Pocketed Airborne Troops Approach Arnhem and Hurl Shells Into Enemy Lines — Reinforcements Are Flown To Battlefields.

Reinforcements Are Rushed to British Second Army; ‘Lost Division’ Commander Reports Morale Is High

_ Thousands of British and American Glider Troops and Large Amounts Of Supplies Are Flown in

SANDUSKY MAN PRISONER  TEP @ CUT TT aT Sern sca ™ ¢ ec iisit™@,,

How Army’s ‘Watchdogs’ Keep Check   . G’s Hear, Investigate All Complaints In Confidence

MARINES HOLD EAST SIDE OF PELELIU ISLE   Army: Troops Occupy Nearly All Of Angaur

Stubborn Japs Being Dug Out From Pillboxes   Bloodiest Sort ‘of Fighti ng Reported In Island Struggle

OF PELELIV CAPTURED   U.S. Medium Bomber: Hammer Mindanao In Philippines

Yankees Trap Jap Troops On Angaur Island   Marines Plunge Ahead On Peleliu; Enemy Fights Bitterly   U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 20. (4)—The 81st infantry has completely captured little Angaur island, southernmost of the Palau group.

FINAL PHASE QF CAMPAIGN FOR PELELIU   United States Marines Engaged In_ Digging Out Stubborn Japs from Pillboxes.

Japs Offer Weak Stand On Anguar   Peleliu Pillboxes Provide Position For Hard Fight.

MARINES BEGIN LAST PHASE OF PELELIU DRIVE   Dig Out Stubborn Japanese Fro Ridge Pillboxes; Lose 2 Ships

MARINES MOPPING UP ON PELELIU   Army Occupation Of Angaur Is Nearly Completed

Mitchell Bombers Hit Mindanao Harbor, Buayan Airdrome Installations Sunday

Peleliu Battle in Last Stage   Marines Seize All Primary Objectives

HEAD FOR UNITED STATES   Lt. Walter D. Ehlers Has Been Overseas Two Years

HEAD FOR UNITED STATES   Lt. Walter D D. Ehlers Has. Been Ove Two Years. - 

U. §. Vanguard Near Terracina  Is Driven Back   Marshal Kesselring  Turns On Full Power Against Allied Push

Nazis’ Last Reserves Thrown In   Showdown Battle For South Italy Is Now Underway

Nazis Throw A Il Reserves Into Battle   Strip Garrisons North of Front, Weaken Anzio Ring.

Nazis Send In All Their Reserves   First Setback for Allied Army in Eleven Days  of Offensive

GERMANS POUR IN RESERVES 10 REPULSE ALLIES   Seesaw Battle In Coast Area

Pouring Reinforcements Into The Coastal — Sector An  AMERICANS THROWN BACK AT TERRACINA  First Allies Sethack In The Eleventh Day Offensive

AMERICANS HURLED BACK AT TERRACINE   Nazis Throw In Last Reserves To Halt Allied Drive

NAZIS THROW IN LAST RESERVES AT TERRACINA   Reinforce Coast Line Anchor As 5th Reaches Edve Of Citv

SELRING USES, EVERYTHING FOR SHOWDOWN FIGH!   Allies Get. First Setback. Ii, 11-Day Offensive “When Enemy. Concentrates te Make Stand. .   KIEL, DUISBURG AND FRENCH COAST BOMBED  Italian Patriots § Told Plans to Stand. By For Orders For Uprising When Time Arrives.

Temperatures   Reinforcements Hit Americans Near  Terracina Sector

Yanks Advance 18 Miles in New Italian Drive   Within 51) Air Miles of Center  of City of Rome

NAZIS THROW “IN RESERVES ~ HALT ALLIES   Concentration of German Forces Produces First Setback In 11 Days.

AMER. PLANES DID BIG JOB DURING MAY  re 2 PO Arhfnryy      Dropped 63,000 Tons Explosives On Nazi Europe

Pincers Advance On Naval Station Begun; Soviet Armies Only 50 Miles From Old Rumanian Frontier

Russian Armies Begin Pincers Movement On Black Sea Naval Base      Reds Kill 500 Germans Repulsing Attack Launched By  “Drunken” Nazis

RED ARMIES ADVANCING IN UKRAINE   Beain Pincers Move Against Nikolaev

RUSSIANS BEGIN PINGERS DRIVE ON NIKOLAES      New Gains Made Thru Crumbling Nazi Lines From Polar to Black Sea

NCPAC BRANDED AS COMMUNISTS   Research Director Lists Prominent Affiliates Of U.S. “Front”

Men Over 26 May Get Long Draft Delay   Most States Not Calling Older Men  For Service Induction

Democrats Will Control House  At Least 49 Majority; Hold Senate Safely

EXACT SIZE .10 BE DECIDED YET IN HOT RACES   Democrats Assured of  55 Senate Seats With 5 Yet to Be Determined

Congress Makeur Remains in Doub’  Democrats Assured increased Maioritles

Dems Given Firm Grip On Congress   Win Plurality Of About 49 Members In House

DEMOCRATS WILL CONTROL HOUSE WITH 241 MEMBERS WHILE THE REPUBLICANS HAVE DROPPED TO 179

BIG MARGIN IN HOUSE IS HELD BY DEMOCRATS   Now Have Plurality Of At Least 49 Members   IMPRESSIVE GAIN   Administration Force Also Controls The Senate 

Late Returns Deliver Plurality Of 49 Members To Democrats In House

Democrats Win A House Margin Of At Least 49   Undecided Contests Obscure Exact Size Of Senate Maioritv.

DEMS SURE OF PLURALITY OF 49 IN HOUSE   Most Impressive Party Gain In Lower Chamber Since First Roosevelt Victory in 1932  SOMF ARE UNDECIDED

GAINS IN HOUSE FOR DEMOCRATS   Party Wins Substantial Majority in Congress

DEMOCRATS GAINED FULL CONTROL OF U. 5. CONGRESS  PLURALITY OF AT LEAS’ 49 MEMBERS IN HOUSE HAS REEN ASSTIRED

FIERCE FIGHTING IS STILL RAGING INSIDE GCASSINO   Reds Surge On In Two Major Assaults—Another Batch Of Germans Trapped

Americans At Rome Position Restore Lines   Street Fighting Bitter, As Red Allies Entrap  Five Nazi Divisions

Yankees Repulse Nazi Attack In Rome Beachhead   Make New Advances On Main Front At Cassino

_ New Nazi ~~ Altack Is > — Repulsed   Break In Allied: Lines Belov Rome Mended and Original Positions Restored   REDS TRAP FIVE MORE NAZI DIVISIONS   «Showdown Between Allies and Spain Predicted in Two Weeks _

Reds Trap Five ore Divisions:  + Near Nikopo!   Yanks Push Back Tc Original Position; Italian Front Is Now  Stabilized

Germans Repulsed Lost Positions Are Recovered   Russians Trap Five More Nazi Divisions at Nikopol

GERMAN ATTACKS 70 HOLD ON TC THEIR ORIGINALPOSITIONS   Cassino Virtually Encircled House to House Fight ing Goes on Bitterly. Nazis Get Reinforcements  In Beachhead Area Where Determined Drive. is'€

Americans Repulse Attack, Restore Original Positions; Kwaialein Down

BREAK IN AMERICAN  BEACHHEAD LINES  HAS BEEN RESTORED RUSSIANS REPORTED TO  _ HAVE TRAPPED FIVE  «= MADE CEDMAN NIVICION!

Nimitz Reveals Plan To Level Enemy by Air; Challenges Nip Fleet to Block Finishing Blow.

Daily Temperatures   By UNITED PRESS   Nimitz Reveals U. S. Plans for Drive To China, Securing Bases for ‘Air Raids on Jap Home Islands

Land Bases Needed, Commander Declares   Objective Is to Get Ground Ferces In Position to Strike at Tokvo

China Bases Are Goal Of Nimitz   Dares Jap Fleet To Stop His Trans-Pacific Drive; ‘No Secret We Will Try To Land In China,’ Admiral Declares

Aims To Gain Bases for  Jap Defeat   Admiral Says Nips Can't Be Defeated Rye Sea Alone

Jap rieet invited To Fight   10,000 Japanese Lett on Marshall Atolls to Starve

Intends To Drive ~ Straight To China   ‘Admiral Nimitz Hopes To Send His Forces Straight Across Pacific In Order To Obtain Bases In China For Use In Final Drive To Bring About Defeat Of Japan

Will Drive Straight Across Pacific  Declares Need For Chinese Bases

Nimitz Says U. 8. Bases in China Sought   Commander of Pacific Fleet Challenges Jap Navy to Block Effort

NIMITZ PLANS DRIVE ACROSS THE PACIFIC   Says Japs Can Be Beaten Only from Bases in China

CHINA BASES BiG OBJECTIVE NIMITZ SAYS   Pledges Drive Across Pacific

Nimitz to Drive Across Pacific to Get Chinese Bases   Defeat of Japan To Be Directed From There

Says U. S. Intends To Take Bases In China For Final Blows At Japan

NIMITZ TO DRIVE STRAIGHT WEST TO CHINESE SOAS}   Issues Challenge to Japanese Fleet; Wants Bases on Asiatic Continent.

Pacific Fleet Will Welcome Jap Battle   Nimitz Reveals Plans To Land Supplies, Men In China

SOLONS TO HEAR AVERY TELL OF WARD SEIZURE   Mail Order Chief Follows Biddle And Davis Who  Back Action    ClO OFFICIALS ‘CALLED   Congressional Probers Dig Deep Into Facts Leading To Business Attack

TRUMAN GROUP CHARGES WAR EXTRAVAGANCES   Nevada Magnesium Plant Is Subject Of New Investigation

Magnesium for Industry Urged  wvwhemurmnanmrPar and   Extravagances and Inefficiencies Are Charaed by Probers

Nevada. Plant          of ‘Estimates   Truman Committee . Says That Production’ Is Ariple to Allow Civilian Use:

MAGNESIUM NOW “SUFFICENT FOR CNILIAN NEEDS   Truman Committee Reports on “Extravagances and Efficiencies” In Waste at Great Plant.   SUGGESTS RESEARCH FOR USE EXPANSIONS   Ore One-Third Lighter Than Aluminum Is Suggested In  - Production of Number of Other Articles.

RAF Makes Heavy Raid On Augsburg Last Night. Fighting On Beachhead Below Rome Limited To Small Forces Probing For Weakness.

AMERICAN PLANES ~ GOT 142 YESTERDAY   Heavy Toll Is Exclusive of Those Destroyed by the RAF.

4 Great German Plane-Buildina Cities Pounded   Toll Does Not Include Planes Bagged By RAF Or Hit On Ground

ATTACKS ° = eS ALSO OPENED          TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES SMAS ING INTO ROMANIA AS NEW: . OFFENSIVE 8TARTS IN THE NORTH

SOVIETS DRIVE ON OIL FIELDS   Surge 44 Miles on 156 Mile Front  ns  Capture 40 Towns Near Warsaw

SOVIETS DRIVE FOR PLOEST! Oil. FIELDS   New Offensive Cost Nazis 25,000 Dead and 12,000 Captured

PLOESTI’S FUEL RIM IN TWO NEW RUSSIAN DRIVES   Reds Gain 44 Miles in South. Breach Nazi Line North * of Warsaw

FRENCH COAST BLASTING FELT OVER CHANNEL   Fighting Flares in Italy But Ominous Calm Hangs Over Russia

rfields Are Pock-Marked; rashes Are Heard From Calaise; Budapest War Factories Smashed   27TH STRAIGHT DAY

AMERICAN BOMBERS IN MIGHTY COASTAL BLASTINGS THURSDA)  CEASELESS PROCESSION OF WARPLANES ROCK CHANNEL DISTRICT

Procession of U. §. Bombers s Almost Ceaseless   German Artillery Heavily Pounds Anzio Beachhead

Houses Ratile, Explosions Echo Across  English Channel.   By RICHARD McMURRAY AP War Fdtior

Explosions Rock Homes Across  Channel Thursday   War Factories Hi In Budapest; ‘Fou Rail Centers Get Pounding

Plane Roar Loudest Ever Heard   Heavy, Rumbling Explosions Echo Across  Narrow Channe!

RAIDS FOLLOW TWINBLOWBY NIGHT PLANES   War Factories At Budapest, German Chemical Center Included In Targets

CEASELESS PROCESSION OF GIANT BOMBERS RAIN DESTRUCTION ON INVASION COAST AND GERMANY ©   German Chemical Center of Ludwigshaften, War Factories in Budapest and Railway Systems in France and Elsewhere Along Invasion Coast Are Targete

Chinese Capture Village In Burma  Allies Clear Out Road Block South

Chinese Forces Occupy Tingring   Make Swift Advance ~ from Captured Wakawng Thrust Over Panglu.

‘Allies Advance Slowly On Three Italian Fronts; Rain Hampers Air Attack

GERMANS SLOW DRIVE OF POLES IN ITALY   Indian Troops Consolidate Bridgehead Across Ronco—Yanks Capture 100 Prisoners.

‘British Indian Troops Consolidate Bridgehead Across Italian River

Yankee Railmen Seek To Solve  Monterrey Snar:   Mexico Unions Agree  To Accept Aid

Heavy Fighting Outside Fallen City of Hengyang   Naliant Chinese Defenders Were Killed Almost To Last Man.

DAVE. WITHIN 2 MILES AE ST, NAZAIRE SUB BASE   Thrust 30 Miles Inside Boundary Line of Brittany—Nazi Resistance Weakens   AMERICANS ALSO HEAD FOR BREST

Dewey Smear Charge Halts Sedition Case   Defense Attorneys Again Lose Motion For A Mistrial

Accuses Gov't. Prosecutor of ‘Smearing Dewey   “Presidential Impossibility” As Sedition Evidence

Smear Attempt   But Defendant In Sedition Case Is Exposed by Democrat

OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE SOUTH OF HURTGEN FOREST IN DRIVE AIMED AT BONN ON THE RHINE; OTHER UNITS OF FIRST ARMY WITHIN HALF MILE OF DUREN WHERE NAZIS ARE BLOWING UP BRIDGES AND DIKES.

HOLLANDIA TORN UP IN NEW RAID BY U.S, AIRME}   Harbor at Jap Air Base in New Guinea Ripped to ' Pieces—Barges Sunk, Great Fires Set.   ENEMY IS HELPLESS BEFORE ONSLAUGHT   All MacArthur’s Planes Return Safely—-Ground Troops Gain in Drive Toward Bogadijim.

Death Blow Is Dealt Hollandia   Japs Helpless As  Bombs Rain Down  By ASAHEL BUSH RBeaencinted Praca Gtatt Weitae

Allies Strike Helpless Port Of Hollandia  No Fighters Lost as They  Follow Up Sunday ' - Raid

250 Allied Planes Tear Up Town, Harbor of Hollandia   Jap Air Base on New Guinea Helpless To Resist Attack; Burning Fuel, Supply Dumps Send Up Towering Clouds of Smoke

Bombers Smash Town, Harbor Of Hollandia   250 Planes Hit Areas  Where 288, Jap Planes Were Destroved Sunday

Death Blow s. Dealt Hollandia   Japs Helpless As Bombs Rain Down

Jap Airfield Is Wiped Out   Hollandia Is Rained By American Planes

AMERICAN, FRENCH COLUMNS CLOSING IN ON LYON SATURDAY  HEAVY MOTOR MOVEMENTS NORTH AS GERBEABIC SER Cer s Be Tp ADB

GERMANS CLAIM SOVIET WINTER OFFENSIVE ON   Weather Favors Russians; Withhold Sector of Armored Fight

Out 101 Nazi Tanks   Battle Under Way May Be Opening of Major Drive

Soviet. Winter Drive Started Germany Says   Russian Claiin ‘sf: Destrnetion of 101 Nazi Tanks in '24-Hour Period Gives “Support ta Report

NAZI TANK LOSSES TO. REDS HEAVY   Soviet Report Supports Claim Of Winter Drive

SOVIETS GREAT WINTER DRIVE IS UNDER WAY   In One Day Russian Destruction Of Nazi Tanks Mounted To 10]

Tank Victory Substantiates Reds Open Drive  18] German Panzerc Decitraved   10] German Panzers Desireyed In One-Bay's Fighting; Cold Favorthle fe Soviet Tactics

Eastern Front Now Lies Under Hard, Firm Snow   Soviets Destroy 101 German Tanks In 24-Hour Period

Soviets Destroy  101 Nazi Tanks   Eastern Front Under Firm Snow As Winter Offensive Starts

Germans Lose 101 Tanks To Russians   Big Winter Offensive Perhaps Started With Armored Battle

SOVIETS OPEN OFFENSIVE IN LATVIAN AREA   Germans Lose 101 Tanks As Redc Onan TIn With New Attack

Reds Destroy 101 German Tanks, Guns   agi Of. ig . Victory Is Not Given

Winter Offensive May Have Opened   Moscow Reports Destruction of 101 Nazi Tanks in 24-Hour Period

Russians Roll As Hard Freeze Hits   Destruction of 101: ‘German  Tanks. in 24 Hours =  Shows Action   IMOVEMENT IN LATVIA   Stir of Activity Along Other _ Parts of Eastern: Front

SOVIET WINTER OFFENSIVE IS NOW UNDERWAY   Weather Is Just Right For Reds On East Front

Reds’ Winter Offensive May Be Under Way   Moscow Reports 101 Nazi Tanks Destroyed in Day

ee = ee eeeeeEeeeESEEEe  RED WINTER OFFENSIVE STIRRING INTO ACTION

Russians Wipe ‘Out 101 Enemy iTanks In A Day   Red Army’s Great Winter ‘Offensive Under Way,  Sawa Rerlin.

Great Winter Drive Of Red Army May Be Under Wavy   101 German Tanks Reported By Moscow To Have Been Wrecked In Reeent Fichtine

RED SMASHING OF 101 NAZI TANKS GIVES CREDENCE 10 DRIVE REPORTS   GERMANS SAY 270,000 RUSSIANS ON MOVE IN LATVIA; THIRTY ENEMY DIVISIONS IN TRAP

Tank Debacle Opens Soviet Winter Drive   101 German Panzer Units Destroyed in First 24 Hours

Russians Destroy 101 German Tanks   Weather Favors Red Battle Pian

Red Offensive Gets Under Way  191 German Tanks Reported Destroyed

Soviets Report 101 Nazi Tanks Blasted  in 24-Hour Interva   Announcement Supports German Claim of New  Red Winter Assault

REDS KNOCK OUT 101 NAZI TANKS WITHIN 24 HOURS   SOVIET COMMUNIQUE INDICATES WINTER DRIVE MAY BE ON

Red Winter Offensive Under Way?   Soviet Report of Huge Nazi Tank Losses Supports Berlin Story of Big Push in Latvia

Reds Destroy 101 Tanks in 24 Hours   Give Support To Nazi Claims That Russian Drive Is On

SOVIETS OPE WINTER DRIVE   Nazis Report 270,000 Red Troops On Move In Frozen Latvia

GERMANS LOS 101 TANKS IN DAY   Vazis Place Scene Of Push Near Latvian Pocket   T SLOVAK GITIES   Fall To Advancing Redsf Losonc Is Threatened In Southern Attack

REDS DESTROY 101 NAZI TANKS AS DRIVE OPENS   Russian Weather Turns Cold, Making Terrain Ideal For Push

Russ Army’s Winter Drive Is Under Way   Reds Destroy 101 Nazi Tanks in 24 Hours as Latvian Push Advances

Great Russian Winter Push Is Apparently On   Soviets Report 101 German Tanks Knocked Out  In Single Dav.

Russians Wreck 101 Nazi Tanks  Long-Awaited Eastern Front Attack Comina

Soviet Knocks Out 101 In 24-Hr. Period   Russians Getting Great Weather For Offensive

SOVIETS DESTROY. (QV WAZL TANKS   Reports ‘Current Reds . Have- Launched Great - Winter Drive =

101 German Tanks Lost In Red Battle   Russians Open Long Delayed Winter Offensive To Support Allies

101 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out In Red Offensive   Germans Report Big Push Against Latvian Pocket; Ground Hard  For Armored Forces

oth Strikes   British Cross Garigliano As Yank Forces Besiege Cassino

—RUSSTA—  SOVIETS BATTLE ON TWO FRONTS   Goal Of Offensives Is To _ Break Siege Of Second  Russian City   BLOCKADE ENDED   Campaign Expected To Add To Difficulties Of Nazis In North

Red Army Forces On Two Fronts Spring Forward In New Offensive Aimed At Ending Nazi Siege Of Northern City—Twin Assault Adds To Difficulties Of Enemy, Already Harassed By Attack In Vicinity Of Novosokolniki—Gains Continue In Ukraine

SEEK TO BREAK SIEGE OF 2ND SOVIET CITY   Twin Offensive Aimed At Cracking Nazi Semi-Circle About Area

Reds Move Ahead  In New Offensive   Drive Calculated to End Siege By Germans of City of Leningrad

Russians Seek To Raise Siege Of Leningrad   Two Powerful Red Armies Launch New Drive on Northern Front, Which Gains

Russians Start New Offensives   NORTHERN ‘RUSSIA SEES HEAVY FIGHTING BY REDS

Russians Drive To End Seige Of Leningrad   Two Armies Launch Simultaneous Assaults In North Russia.

Seven Nazi Divisions Meet Defeat   Fortress Town of Krasnoye Taken; Other Fortified Areas Pierced

OFFENSE BEGINS SOUTH OF TOWN OF ORANIENBAUN   BERLIN BROADCASTS ADMIT REVERSES ON TWO RUSSIAN FRONTS

SOVIET DRIVE AT LENINGRAD GAINS GROUND   Germans Admit Offensive in North ts Making Steady Pragress.

Reds Start Drive Against Leningrad   Russians in Offensive That Has as Object Lifting of the Siege.

RUSSIANS MOVE TO LIFT SIEGE OF LENINGRAD   Twin-Offensives Under Way f Oust Germans Who Have Girder City 17 Months   VATUTIN GAINS   Indications Seen Germans Will Make Another Try to Hold Line of Bug River

Long-Awaited Assault From Leningrad Procressing   SMASH NAZI LINE   Terrific Barrage Of Artillery Opens Big Attack

Drives Aimed At Ending Nazi Siege   Serious Defeat Dealt Seven Divisions Of Enemy Infantry

Seek to End Nazi Siege . Of Leningrad   Success Seen  In First Phases O44 M&tfanciva

Soviet Army is Blasting Ahead Now   Main Objective Is To End Siege Of Leningrad

GERMAN SIEGE OF LENINGRAD ALMOST OVER   Russian Armies Continue Push Despite Cold

DEFEAT SEVEN DIVISIONS OF NAZI TROOPS   Red Forces Advance Sev en to 12% Miles and Capture Fortress Town 15“Miles Southwest of Big City.

Red Offensive Shatters Nazi Lines In North   Two Armies Open Attack On Nazis and Develop Big Seale Drives to Free City   Berlin Broadcasts Admit Withdrawai   40 More Towns Retaken By Russ Forces South Of Leningrad; Nazi  Train Captured ~—

DUAL OFEFNSIVE ADDS PERIL T0 HUNS IN SECTOR   Soviets on Volkhov Front Take 40 Towns in Strong Attack

Reds Advance 7 to 12 Miles At Leningrad   Capture Heavy Guns That Have Been Shelling City, Stalin Announces; British Eighth Army Makes Gain  in Italy

Red Steamroller Grinds Out Gains   Germans Admit Setbacks In Two Sectors Of North Front; Soviets Gain In Ukraine

Second Soviet City Periled For 17 Months   Attacks Begun Friday and Success Is Assumed By Russ Announcement

BY RUSSIANS CUGGESSFUL   Seige Of Leningrad By Nazis Nears . Final Stage

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH ATTACKS ON LARGE CITY   Twin Operations Against German Defenders Are Related by Moscow

Reds Launch Drives at Leningrad  yo   Two Offensives On in Effort To End German Siege of City

ADVANGE SEVEN 1012 1-2 MILES   Red Units Inflict Serious Defeat on Seven German Infantry Divisions.   ITAKE IMPORTANT ROAD

Garigliano River Crossed As Sth Army Advances   Reds Gain South And West Of Leningrad; ‘Bushmasters’ Whip Japanese

Reds Now Cracking Powerful Lines Near Leningrad ©   Expanding Gains Into Large Scale Drives, Threaten Nazis in North

RED ARMY FORCES ‘OPEN OFFENSIVE T0 /END LENINGRAD SIEGE   TWO SOVIET ARMY GROUPS BREAK STRONG GERMAN LINES

Reds Launch Drives a Leningrad  Two Offensives  Oe in Effort   Two Offensives On in Effort To End German Séege of City

REDS SEEK TO BREAK SEIGE OF LENINGRAD   New Offensive in Baltic Area Creates New Hazards for German Invaders

Great Holes Torn in Nazi Defenses by Russian Troops   Break-Through Widened 20-25 Miles on Leningrad Front

Determined To End German Seige of the Second City of Soviet Union; No Captured Objectives Announced As Yet.

Heavy Guns Captured as Red Army Widens Breakthrough  On Northern Front to 25 Mi.

Twin Russian Armies In Offensive To End German Siege Of Important City

Great Holes Are Being Torn in German Lines   Artillery That Shelled City Has Been Captured

2 Army Units Assault” Nazi Seige Lines   Drive Developing On Large Scale Against Strong German Defen -ses — One Assault Launched 20 Miles West of City And Another 100 Miles South e7st.

TWIN ATTACK LAUNCHED ON ~ NORTH FRONT   Setbacks Admitted By Nazis Who Report Assaults By Waves Of Red Tanks

Tear Great Breach In Nazi Lines   Take Fortress Town Of Krasnoye Selo In Gain Of 7 To 1214 Mi.  mrietksetnoTrTar

Italian Front Active Along Road to Rome   Russians Strike To Lift Siege Of Leningrad In North Russia

Soviets to Rescue of Leningrad   Launch Twin Drive In Effort to Lift  Long Nazi Siege of Russia’s Second City

RUSS CANNONS LEAVE ENEMY “SPEECHLESS”   Reverses Admitted by Berlin on Both Main Sectors of Long Battlefront Across Soviet

Krasnoye Selo, Fortress Town, Seized in Gain  Of 7-123 Miles   ‘Serious Defeat’ Inflicted on 7 Nazi Divisions, ' Stalin Says

Nearby Groups Press Similar Attack On Nazis   Operations Seen As Threatening Encirclement

Twin Drives Penetrate Nazi Lines   Offensives Believec To Be Proceeding Successfully

ENEMY SIEGE OF LENINGRAD NEARS BREAK   Simultaneous Assaults Launched to Break  Nazi Defenses

New Offensive Launched to End Siege of Second  TLaroect Rice (City

PRISONERS SEIZE FOUR AS HOSTAGES   Atlanta Prison Attaches Held by Long Term Convicts

CONVICTS HOLD FOUR HOSTAGES   Long - Term Prisoners Barricaded In Atianta

JAPANESE LOSE 3 ADDITIONAL TROOP VESSELS   Enemy Resistance Now Decreasing along © Ormoc Corridor  On Leyte

Jap Opposition In Ormoc Area Said Weakening   Three More Japanese Leyte-Bound Ships Are Reported Sunk

Yankees Sink Three More Enemy Ships   Jap Night Raiders Cause Minor Damage at Tacloban

Leyte Yanks Sink 3 More Jap Vessels   Jap Troop Losses Reach 17,000 For Yamashita Defense

Jap Shins With “Reinforcements Sunk Off  eyte  Report Nip Resistance   Report Nip Resistance Steadily Decreasing — Under Pressure —

Dewey Reviews Work af Albany   No Bureaucracies In New York Regime

Six More Towns and Yillages in ftaly Are Captured  NAZIS ARE BURNED  FROM THEIR CAVES  Mighty Push Against the Gustav Live Raging Unabated

FINNS EJECT GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS   From Vicinity of Helsinki, Hopeful of Finishing Job Without Help; Austrians Won't Fight.   Porkkola For Reds

FINNS BATTLE 100,000 NAZIS   Capture Port, Make Prog. ress in Ejecting German Forces

PAIR SOUGHT IN LAMAR KILLINGS   One Youth Captured Near Skiatook in Slaying of Sheriff and Son

French May Occupy Reich   Four-Way Division Of Germany Predicted For Guard Purposes

FRANCE TO GET EVEN WITH FOE   De Gaulle Setup Will Have Voice In Imposing Justice Upon Germany

FRANCE TO JOIN WITH BIG THREE   Tivuden Nation Is Given Voice In Dealing Out Justice To Hitler

France to Be First-Class Power; Have Full Voice in Deciding Germany's Fate

FRANCE TO HELP - PUNISH GERMANY   FULL VOICE, IN: PLANNING OCOlen. AND: OTHER MAT__... TERS.. GIVEN PARIS... .

BSARRAY WR RBBB YT ASRS  AIDED THE TOMATOES  But Additional Fall Will Be of Great Aid to the Crop  DRY ROT HAMPERS

UCD RAINFALL CAN AID COUNTY'S TOMATO YIELD   Many of the Growers Finding An Infection of Dry Rot   CAUSED BY HOT WEATHER

British Tanks Take Amiens In 60-Mile Drive   American Units 33 Miles From Belgium Border

Third Army Cutting Off Direct Route to Reici:; Enemy in South Retreats Toward Lyon

Advance 60 Miles in 48 Hours   Bridgehead Across Somme River is Established; Nazis In Full Flight

Americans Overwhelm 3 Trainloads  Of Nazis Trying to Escape at Laon

General Eisenhower Asserts . Allied Campaign Now 5 Days Ahead of General Schedule

Plunge Toward Coast Finds Nazis In Open Flight   Americans Are 40 Miles From Maginot Line, Now Reversed

English Push Ahead 60 Milesin2 Days; Units Take Amiens   Americans Capture Laon in Attack Toward Belgium Less Than 30 Miles Away

NO REARGUARD STAND TRIED BY ROUTED FORCES   Spearheads Aim for North End of Maginot Line, Least Fortified

ROCKET COAST IS IMPERILED BY AMERICANS   t, Gain Of 60 Miles ~ Reported; Near ~ Belgium Border

Seize Amiens, Cross Somme As Foe Flees Toward Reich   American Columns on Last 30 Miles to Belgium

_ Germans Believed Likely to Give Up All _ of North France—Canucks Mop Up Rouen, Half Robot Coast Flanked

Half Of Robot Coast Doomed   Bewildered And Disorganized Enemy Apparently Headed For Homeland By Shortest Possible Route

Swift Advance Imperils Nazi Rocket Coast   )Montgoniers’s Panks Cross Somme River, Travel: ing Sixty Miles In  48 Hours   No Respite For Disorganized Foe   American Colunins Overrun Laon and Stab To Within 33 Miles of Belgian Border

Americans Now 87 Miles From German Border   Americans Overrun Laon and Stab Within 33 Miles of Belgium; Advance Approaches Meuse River

\Germany Only 83 Miles From ‘Our Forces; Three Trainloads \Of Nazi Troops Destroved   British And Canadians Head For Rocket Ceast; World War 1 Battlegrounds Are Conquered In Four Davs

ALLIES ARE RACING TO BELGIUM   Amazing 60-Mile Gain Made In 48 Hours; Yanks Advancing

Bewildering Speed of Four Allied Armies Overwhelms Nazi Soldiers And Strikes 33 Miles From Belgium   Advance Is Virtually Uncontested Along 150-Mile Arc, Indicating Enemy Has Given ‘Up Last Pretense of Rearaquard Stand

Advance 60 Miles Within 48 Hours; Doom Rocket Sites   Drive 5 Days Ahead Of Schedule; Yanks 33 Miles From Belgium; Nazis’ Southern Retreat Costly

ALLIES OCCUPY AMIENS, SMASH ACROSS SOMME   Foe In Full Flight; Four Og rushing Armies Virtually Unepposed

60-Mile Gain In 48 Hours Pushes Nazis   Americans Win Laon, Press Into Last 30 Miles Before Entry  Inta Ralaium

Yank Columns Race Towards Belgium Front   Germans Give Up Last Pretense Of Rearguard Stand; Head For Home.   NO REST FOR NAZIS

Eisenhower Reports French Campaign Ahead Of Schedule Bradley Assumes New Duties   Chief Confidently Declares His Forces Will Invade Reich Decisively

FOUR ALLIED ARMIES MAKE GERMANS RUM   Allied Drive Five Days Ahead of Schedule With Somme River Not a Barrier as Was Anticipated

British Tanks in Amiens Threaten Channel Coast; Yanks Head For Belgium

Start Cleanup of Robot Bomb Coast in Push Toward Pas de Calais; Nice Falls; Poles Seize Pesano, an Anchor of Gothic Line; Reds Take over Ploesti Oil Fields, Reach Bucharest

Athes’ Lightning Drive Finds Nazis Fleeing for Reich   Americans Stab North Along Last 30 Miles to Belgian Border

Germans Run Headlong For Escape   Americans Overrun Laon, Charge Nearer to Belgium

‘British Capture Amiens and Then Drive Across the   Somme River, Gaining   60 Miles in Push.   ALLIES CONCENTRATED ON 150-MILE FRONT

Nazis Flee for Reich Before Plunging Allies   Advance of 60 Mile in 48 Hours Apparently Puts Enemy in Full Flight For Homeland, Through Belgium.

Rushing American Columns Overwhelm At Laon Three Trainloads of German Soldiers Trying to Flee Back to Germany

Within 33 Miles Of Belgium   Yanks Now Only 87 Miles From German Frontier.

MASH ACROSS SOMME RIVER   Yanks Overrun Laon; Stab North to Within 39 Miles Of Belgium.   ‘DRIVE AHEAD OF TIME

German Hopes For Stand Blasted   Last Pretense Of Rear Guard Fight Seems Abandoned

GROSS THE SOMME   Made a Lightning Sixty-mile Drive in Forty-Eight Hours.   GERMANS ARE IN FLIGHT   Fleeing Back to the Reich Before Four Onrushing Allied Armies.

British Tanks Take Amiens  Cross Somme   Advance 60 Miles in 48 Hours; Germans Making No Stand

NAZIS IN FULL FLIGHT BACK TO REICH   British Advance 60 Miles In Last 48 Hours   CANADIANS   Within 22 Miles Of Dieppe; Germans Fail To Make Any Kind Of Stand

Huns Slashed By Canadians   “Warships Support _Advance..Of Troops

Warships Aid Kighth Army At Rimini   Fleet Pumps Shells Into  Nazi Defenses as Canadians Strike

_  —ITALY—  RESISTANCE IN TALY GROWING   British Warships Aid Canadians In Atta ek On Rimini

Canadians, Aided  By Warships, Gain  In Drive on Rimini Nazis, Appareajly Reorganized  Offer Vigorous Resistance to  Meideehead Arroce Conca  

Nazis Battle To Halt Allies On Italian Front   Heavy Resistance Reported Today By Eighth Army

NAZIS SHOW RESISTANCE NEAR RIMINI   Determination to Halt Advance Increases as Allies Come Within 6 Miles of Po Valley Highway  Norminis.

Allies Six Miles From Rimini, Italy   Meet Increasing Nazi Resistance In Drive Up  Po Valley   French Town “Murdered” By German Soldiers

Canadian Drive In North Italy Tenaces Rimini   Fifth Army Scores Five Mile Gain On Westerr End Of Line.

Rimini Threatened By ~— 8th Army Penetration Of Gothic Line in Italy

NAZI DEFENSE STIFFENS NEAR PO VALLEY ROAD   Ships Aid Eighth Army ir Drive to Within Six Miles of Rimini

Nazi Resistance Stiffens at Rimini   Eighth Army’s Push Apparently Halted Six Miles from Anchor

Eighth Army Near Rimini   Nazis Put Up Stiff Fight With Canadians Only Six Miles Away

Heavy Fighting In Italy  Canadians Aided   Canadians Aided By Warships

Nazi Resistance stiffens In Italy   Warships Support Advanee By Canadians

Nazis Stiffen as Allies Near the Po Valley   Both 8th and 5th Armies Make Progres: on East and West

CANADIAN TROOPS DRIVE TO WITHIN SITY MILES RIMINI   INCREASING GERMAN RESISTANCE BEING MET ON ITALIAN FRONT ©

BRITISH SHIPS AID ITALY WAR   Allies Meet Increased Resistance Near End Of Po Valley Road

Warships Blast Way For Advance Toward Rimini  Stiff Opposition Met By Canadians

NAZIS STIFFEN ITALIAN FRONT CANADIAN TROOPS  DRIVE TO WITHIN 6 MILES OF RIMINI

Eighth Now Six Miles of Rimini   Canadians Meeting Increased German Resistance In Po Valley.

BITTER BATTLE IN PO SECTOR   Canadian Troops Drive to Within Six Miles of Rimini.

Canadians Meet Resistance On Rimini Drive   Bitter Fighting Rages Along Po River Highway as Na zis Put Up Fight.

Slow Down In Italy   Germans Counterattack Viciously Following Allied Break-Through

NAZIS STIFFENING RESISTANCE TO: ALLIES. AT RIMINI.   Canadian Troops. Drive on Eastern: Po. Valley Bastion as Brit Warships Offshore Give Aid~-Nazi Losses Are Heavy

Canadians Six Miles From Rimini: Nazis’ ‘Resistance Increases   British Warships Aid Wth Salvos From Coast; Germans Reorganize In Heavy Battle

Canadians — Six Miles  From Rimini   Nazi Resistance Increases: British Warships Shell Enemy Defense Positions: 5th Army Gains Five Miles

NAZIS’ DEFENSES STIFFEN IN ITALY   Warships Aid Canadians In Drive Toward Rimini

CANADIANS ARE NEARER RIMINI   Eighth Army Meets Strong Foe Resistance During New Offensive

Adiminisiration and Congressional Tax Leaders Join Enthusiastically in Tax Simplification

Treasury Agrees With Congress On Simplifying Tax’.  Relieved OF Figuring” Returns ,?

Streamlined Tax Hailed By Ex-Foes   Swift Enactment Forecast; Morgenthau Voices His Approval

Simple Tax   Form Nears   Congress, Roosevelt Working On Program

Leaders Unite To Hail Plans For New Levy   Morgenthau Praises Work Of House Tex Planners  Th. SB awlifc: Ranias

‘STREAMLINER’ TAX BILL DUE   Plan Approved to Simplify Forms Wins Wide, Support in Capitol

‘SIMPLE TAX. PUN TO ANE QUICK ACTIO   Praised by Morgenthau, Bill Given Backing from Both Parties.

AMLINE A TAX PLAN SUPPORTED   Administration and Congressional Leaders Urge Program to Simplify Laws; Estimate Forms Revised

SUPPORT GIVEN NEW TAX MEASURE   GEORGE PREDICTS: PASSAGE OF SIMPLIFICATION BILL _ AT EARLY DATE..

Leaders Join To Favor New Tax Plan   Millions Will Find Reporting Made Easier by System

Leaders Laud Simplified  Tax Measure   Support Swarms To Doughton’s Streamline Plan

YANKS PUSH AHEAD IN THE LEYTE DRIVE   Resistance Still Bitter, but Latest Casualty Figures Show Japanese Losing Eight Men for Every  Amaricean.

Planes Blast Luzon Island As. Iwo Jima  Ts Hit Anew.   Nips” ‘Are ‘Losing. 8... Men For Every ‘Yank

Japs Lose 82,554 Men In SS Days Of Leyte Fighting; UU. S. Casu alties 10,409.

JAP CASUALTIES ON LEYTE SAID TO BE 82,554   Campaign Continues Deapite. Bitter Nip  Nes SN Se Re   AIRMEN ARE BUSY   New Attacks ' Made : Against Other Jap : Streneholds

CASUALTIES IN PHILIPPINES   Fresh Attacks On Iwo Jima Also Reported

Jap Losses In Philippines Set At 82,554 Men   American Casualties Are 10,409, MacArthur Reveals

82,554 CASUALTY LIST FOR. JAPS IN LEYTE BATTLE   At Rate of Eight Japs for Every American Foe Loses 1,500 Men Per Day for First 55 Days of U. S. Invasion of Philinnines

Jap Philippine Casualties 82,554   Enemy Seo Far Has Lost Eight Men For Every Yonk

82,554 Japs Lost in Leyte; Yanks 10,409   2,176 Americans Killed Since Oct. 20, Report By MacArthur Shows

Japs Lose 82,554 Men In Philippines; Carrier Raid Wipes Out 91 Nip Planes

Jap Casualties 87 554 In 55 Days On Leyte   U. S. Carrier Attack Wipes Out 91 Planes Resistance Bitter As MacArthur Gains

LUZON RAIDS WIPE OUT 91 JAP PLANES   Fresh Attacks on Iwo Jima In Volcano Islands Reported By Nimitz at Pearl Harbor

NIP CASUALTIES SOAR IN PACIFIC   MacArthur Reports Total at 82,554 in 55 Days; Luzon Is Blasted

JAP WAR LOSS HEAVY IN 55 DAYS FIGHTING   1500 Killed Each Day In Invasion  Of Philiv»ines

Jap Casualties On Leyte Total Beyond 82,000   Americans Have Struck Down Average of 1500 Enemies Daily tn Bitter Campaign

Jap Losses on Leyte Large   MacArthur Estimates 82,544 Foe Casualties  Since Invasion Began

Japanese Armies Lose 1,500 Men A Day on Leyle  82,554 Tetal Casmalties Cive  Eight te One Advantage in 55 Days ef Philissimes Fink!

Raiders From Italy Bomb French Cities   Bad Weather Prevents Continued Assault From Britain

BAD WEATHER HALTS AIR OFFENSIVE   Britain Based Fliers Welcome Day of Rest

Hot Vote Fight In Eire Seen   De Valera Flayed For Ordering Rush National Election

Political Row Stirs Ireland   De Valera’s Move for Election Commended And Criticized

Political Fight Develops In Eire When De Valera Calls Election Following Defeat Of Transport Bill   FEELING IN LONDON CRISIS IS SYNTHETIC

ANTI GROUP SLATED 10 FILE TODAY   Possible Use Of Party Tag By New Organization Protested

USE OF DEMOCRATIC NAME PROTESTED BY PRO-ROOSEVELT MEN   ANTI-ROOSEVELT FACTIO! ; DLA TMH CIC TIeT Ar

USE OF DEMOCRATIC NAME PROTESTED BY PRO-ROOSEVELT MEN  ANTI-ROOSEVELT FACTION  PLAN TO FILE LIST OF ELECTORS MONDAY

F.B.1. Pessimistic: Certain Percentage of Soldiers Will Turn to Crime, Says Conroy

German Oil Centers In France Smashed   U. S. Heavy Bombers Join Tactical Air Units in Assaults

NAZI OIL CENTERS HIT BY AIRMEN   OTHER PLANES BLAST AT 40, 000 GERMANS CAUGHT IN SEINE TRAP.

Japs Dealt New Heavy Blows   Thirty Enemy Ships, 107 Planes Wrecked Over Wide Area.

107 Jap Planes And 30 Vessels Targets Of U.S.   Wreeked In Blazing At tacks Extending Over . 4,500 Mile Length Mikado Regime

BLAZING CHAIN OF AMERICAN: SEA AND AIR ATTACKS LEAVE. DESTRUCTION IN THEIR WAKE

THIRTY JAP SHIPS AND 107 PLANES ARE WRECKED BY ALLIES  BLAZING CHAIN OF AIR AND SEA ATTACKS ON NIPPON EMPIRE

Japs Lose 30 More Ships   Widening Series of Bombardments Take Heavy Enemy Toll

30 Jap Ships and 107 Planes Wrecker In Only Five Days   Attacks Covered Devastating Period Of Pacific War

JAP AIR, SEA LOSSES HEAVY IN LAST 5 DAYS   U. S. Forces Smash 30 Ships, 107 Planes in Pacific Raids on Entire Front

30 Jap Ships Sunk By Sea. Air Actions   Attacks Extend Over The 4,500-Mile Length Of Mikado’s Empire

U. S. STRIKES AIR. SEA BLOW WITHIN 650 MI. OF JAPAN  ~_LASH VOLCANO AND Bani lel ANN WITH   LASH VOLCANO AND BONIN ISLANDS WITH 3-DAY BOMBARDMENT

Yanks Sink 55 Nip Ships   Five-Day Bombarding Over Mikado’s Empire Yields 158 Planes

30 Jap Ships Are Sent to The Bottom   Americans Strike From Kuriles To South Paeifie

Heavy. Blows Dealt Bonin : And Voleano  Island Bases   Powerful ‘Naval Forces Strike

30 Japanese Ships And 107 Planes Wrecked in Raids  Five Days of Aitacks by Warships and Planes Exiend Over 4,500-Mile Nip Empire

30 Japanese Ships, 107 Planes Knocked Out As Warships Smash Bases

Yanks Destroy 30 Jap Ships, . 107 War Planes   Chain of Sea and Ait Bombardments Wreck Havoc in Empire

MIKADO'S NAVY IN HIDING FROM YANK CHALLENGE   95 Ships and 158 Planes Knocked Out in Daring 5-day Attack

Bonin, Volcano Isles Receive 3-Day Bombing   Land-based Liberator Follow Up, Carrying Attack to Fourth Day

YANKS PUMMEL DAZED NIPPONS   30 Jap Ships, 107 Planes Destroyed In Five-Day Operation

Inner Defenses  Of Japs Blasted   American Sea. Air Bombardments Take Heavy Enemy Toll

Thirty Jap Ships, 107 Planes Kayoed in Air, Sea Raids   Principal Attacks Are Aimed at Bonin, Volcano Island Chain

U.§. Bombers Account for 30 Jap Ships   Bonin Islands Heavily Blasted By Task Force

U.S. Navy Bags Thirty Jap Ships, 107 Planes  Yanks Lose Only Six Aircraft

U.S. Fliers Bag 107 Jap Planes And 30 Vessels   Bonin And Volcano Isles Hit In Heaviest Blow; Davao Gulf Loss Heavy

OD JAP onlPS * ARE WRECKED   American Sea, Air Raids Extend Over 4,500 Mile Front.   107 PLANES DAMAGED

AIR ATTACKS ON JAPAN ARE WORST IN WAR   Bonin Islands Get Blunt Of Bomber Raids

WORK OR SERVE BILL SU°PORTED IN COMMITTEE   Measure Designed Te Force 4-F’s, Older Men Into War Jobs   SELECTIVE SERVICE, MILITARY FAVORABLE

BREAK MEANS RELIEF FOR AIR ARMY   Advance Patrols of British Contact “Lost” Units

Rinehardt Fights With F tafantry Regiment in © Fiiprerice-Boloana Drive

Giant African Wild Man Caught After Five Y ears, Punished for Killing Game

Brookhart, Former Iowa Senator, Dies   Was Colorful Leader  «Of Farm Bloc in Upper House

SEN. BROOKHART DIED IN ARIZONA; MRS. H. FOSSLER   Had Exciting Career During Years of Campaigning.   Mrs, Henry Fossler, 82, Long-time Resident of Hatdin, Passes— ‘Soldier Boy Writes,

Conferences Are Slated . By Badoglio During Week   Premier Is Paying Political Prospects

BADOGLIO'S PLAN MAY BE ADOPTED   Premier To Meet Thursday With Leaders Of Parties

Badoglio . To Meet The Factions   The Italian Leader Is » Trying To Form Coal‘tion Government

ITALIAN LEADERS ARRANGE PARLE’   Premier Badoglio Agrees To Meet Party Heads At Naples

ITALIAN CABINET WILL BE NAMED IN NAPLES SOON   Marshal Badoglio’s Proposal For War Government to Win Approval

BADOGLIOTO 60 TONAPLES FOR GOVERNMENT   Proposal For Coalition Cabinet Expected To Go Through

Premier Marshal Bagdolio to Come To Naples Meeting   Confer Thur:      TEs Basen

MURRAY ASKS MEN TO WORK   Counsels Steelworkers tc Stay on Job as Con tracts are Made

STEEL DISPUTE RUNS INTO SNAG   President Of CIO Tells Men To Keep Working, Wait For Contract

ISLAND AND BASES   BOMBARDMENTS IN MAR. SHALLS INDICATES NEW “LANDINGS ARE BEING   PLANNED

Blast Japs On Other Atolls   Resis‘ance on Kwajalein Island Ceases

YANKS POUND OTHER ATOLLS IN MARSHALLS   Jaluit May Be Next on Schedule  ATTACKS SPREAD Operations Hailed By Nimitz

ARMY AND MARINES BATTLED JAPANESE FOR ENIWETO!   Invasion Forces Fighting Occurred in the WesternMost Marshalls.   BEACHHEADS TAKEN   Eniwetok Is Last Life Line for By-Passed Nipponese Garrisons.

U, S, UNITS LAND ON ENIWETOK IN MARSHALLS   Isle Lies at Western Tip of Group; Knox Believes Truk Attack Victory

Beachheads Establishedo# Eniwetok While Naval Guns Thunder Pro- ~~ lective Barrage   News Of Triumph On Truk Awaitec   Seerctary of Nayy Knox Says Confidently “I Think This Attack  Was a Victory”?

Army And Marines Fight For Eniwetok; Awaiting Details Of Truk Attack

Truk Result Is Awaited Impatiently   Strong Beachheads Won In Attack On Thursday

NEW ATTACKS ON MARSHALLS MANE BY I. S.   World Waits For News From Truk  Sea-Air Fight

Yanks Gain New Footholc In Marshalls   Air-Sea Blow At Trul Apparently Diversion ary; Knox Indicates Tri umph Over Japs There.

Yanks Battle For Eniwetok   Firm Beachheads Won Thursday—Ships and Planes Provide Cover

WIN BEACHHEADS AT ENIWETOK IN MARSHALL ISLES   KNOX CONFIDENT BATTLE AT TRUK WAS A VICTORY

ARMY-MARINE. FORCES WIN FIRM BEACHHEAD   island is Last Lifeline For Isolated Japanese Forces Throuchout Marshalls

Word Awaited On Triumph At Truk Naval Base   Tremendous Force Smashes at Foe In Pacific Area

U. 5. Strikes Another Blow at Japanese   Eniwetok in Marshalls invaded by Strong Army, Marine Ferces

Allied Forces Expend Offensive Campaign in Western Marshall Islands

American T roops Strike Eniwetok   Pacific Drive Speeds On in Marshalls—  Truk Believed Won

W. MARSHALL ISLAND BATILE RAGING TODAY   Campaign Begun There at Same Time Another Force Was Striking at Truk Bastion

Big Guns, Bombs Thunder Support   FIRM BEACHHEADS WON ON NEW ATOLL, LAST JAP MARSHALL LIFELINE PORT, AS TRUK BATTLE OUTCOME AWAITED

Jap Radio Asserts Marshall Islands Target Of Assault   Americans Battle For Eniwetok Knox Sees No Invasion Of Truk; Offensive Covers 3700 Miles

OF OFFENSIVE      Await Confirmation of An Indicated Sea-Air Triumph Over Truk.   IBEACHHEADS ARE SECURE

Eniwetok Is Invaded by Americans   Confirmation of Yankee Victory at Truk Is Now Awaited

Silence Shrouds Operations at Truk, Diversion for Eniwetok Landing — Only Two Ships in Convoy Escape

Tokyo Reports Kast Marshalls Hit by ard U.S:  Carrier Force   Fleet Which Attacked Truk Still Maintaining Radio Silence

Soldiers, Marines Speed Tempo Of Pacific Scrap   U. S. Forces Battle Nipponese for Eniwetok, Awaiting Confirmation of Indicated Sea and Air Triumph at Jap Truk Bastion

Battle Foe ‘For Pacific sland Base   U. S. Invasion Forces Win Beachheads on Atoll in Marshalls: Await Truk News

THIRD CARRIER FORCE STRIKES AT NEW ATOLLS      Attack Timed With Blows At Eniwetok and Truk

Firm Holds Are Won On.  - Jap Fortress   Last Lifeline For Now. _ By-Passed Garrisons in Marshalls At

Confirmation (Of Triumph At Truk Awaited   Firm Beachheads Won By Americans On Eniwetok As Breath-Catching Tempo Of Pacific Offensive Is Speeded Up

Japs Report Other Marshall Isles Hit   Tokyo Radio Declares a Third Task Force Attacked Taroa and Maloelap While First Blasted Truk and Second Eniwetok.   By CHARLES H. McMURTRY.

U.S. Triumph At Truk Is  Anticipated   Westernmost Marshalls  Hit In New Offensive

Eniwetok Isle Is Invaded By Army. Marine:   Offensive Expands As Confirmation Of Truk Victory Is Awaited; Knox Confident

Marines and Doughboys Fight Way Ashore on Eniwetok Following Truk Assault

END OF SUDDEN CONTRACT CANCELLATIONS SOUGHT   Truman Committee Plans Action to Prevent Recurrence of Situations Such as Those at Brewster Plant.

Senate Lays Asidg’ Bill Authorizing Funds For Emergency Flood Control

ON DEFENSIVE   Sabotage Hoax Blamed on Lad   Messenger Boy Enacts Nazi Role

STEWART PROUD OF GOP LABOR RECORD   Lausche Pledges To B ‘Free Governor’

‘Squeeze Against 40,000 Germans Is Gaining Headway   British Drive to  Near ’sHertogenbosch While Canadians Hold onto Breskins

Canadians Cut Off Causeway   Allies Reach ’S Hertogenbosch in Squeeze Offensive On Germans in Holland

British Drive Aims At’S Hertogenbosch   Offensive Would Eliminate Blockade Of Germans Around Antwerp; Force Of Nazis In Trap Near Breskens

Nazi Base In Holland Under British Attack   Troops In Outskirts Of ’S Hertogenbosch; Canadians Set Back In Fight Around Breskens

British Gain in Drive to Open Antwerp Port; Snow Hampers Battle in West

Blazing Battle  Flares in Holland  Canadian Troops Hold Firm Grig On Breskins, Once Reported Lost

Winter's First Major Snows  Hamper Allies   Canadians Cut Causeway To Schelde Estuary Islands

Squeeze On Nazis  Gaining   British in Outskirt: Of Dutch Roac Hub City

ENGLISH STORM INTO OUTSKIRTS OF MAJOR BASE   Canadians Press Closer Tc Roosendaal In Fighting To Clear Antwerp

British Push Campaign tor Antwerp Port   Small Gains Scored Against Germans on Northern Border

BRITISH ENTER KEY HUB; SNOW SLOWS ALLIES    Canadians Squeeze Nazis Into Pocket In Fight For Antwerp

FIRST WINTER SNOW FALLS ON WESTERN FRONT   Canadians Hold Ferry Port Of Breskens Today

TROOPS BATTLE IN STREETS OF HERTOGENBOSCH   Battle For Schelde Estuary Below Antwerp Turns For Bette:

Squeeze Put On 40,000 Nazi Troops   Allies Enter Outskirts Of Important Town

BRITISH TROOPS BRUSH GERMANS FROM ANTWERP   Canadians Help In Clearing Area Around — Important Western Port; Metz Heavily Pounded.

BRITISH, CANADIAN FORCES DRIVE AHEAD IN HOLLAND SECTOR  SQUEEZE OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMAN TROOPS ON WEST FRONT

40,000 Germans Try fo Prevent Use of Antwerp   Assault Ring Is Being Drawn About Transport Center

British Troops Storm Outskirts Of Dutch City   Coanadions Forcing Germans Backward In Antwerp Area

Empire Troops Battle Way — Along Estuary   Snow Falls on American Front, Slowing - Campaign

Ferry Port Of Breskens Is Stormed  During Day   British, Canadians.” “Wage: Touch Battle

They They keep fightingYou keep buying WAR BONDS      British Storm ’S-Hertogenbosch; Canadians Nearing Roosendaal

CANADIAN FORCES BATTLE FIERCELY N ANTWERP AREA  aa trom AMAT   NO MAJOR GAINS ALONG WEST FRONT AS WINTER SETS IN

CANADIANS CONTINUE ADVANCES   Tommies Smash Ahead Into Outskirts Of ’S Hertogenbosch

HEAVY BATTLE IS RAGING FOR ANTWERP PORT   British, Canadians Drive Closer To German Bastions

FIGHT INSIDE HOLLAND HITS HIGHER TEMPO   Allies Strive to Win Port of Antwerp for Supply Base

German Defenses Breaking   BRITISH IN STREETS OF HERTOGENBOSCH; AACHEN SECTOR QUIET

BRITISH GA  IN IN DRIVE ON HIGHWAY HUB   Allies Approach Hertogen. bosch In Holland Victory Campaign

British Drive Ahead to Trap Nazis   Co-Ordinated Offense In Holland May Snare 40,000 Nazis

Putting Squeeze On 40,000 Nazis   British Troops Driving Into Outskirts of Dang Road Hub   ONE PHASE OF ATTACK   German Troops Are Battling to Hold Southwest ern Holland

British and Canadians in  Holland Gain   Drive Into Outskirts Of ’S Hertogenbosch; Battle for Antwerp

West Front Sees British Advance   CANADIAN UNITS GAIN ALONG BATTLE LINE .

Canadians and British Gain Near Antwerp   Canadian Forces  Clamp Firm Hold on Port of Breskens . And Cut Causeway

Sharpens Plague of Weather Hampering _ Allies’ Operations   Nazi Lines Waver at’S Hertogenbosch Under British Attacks

Storm [nto Outskirts of 'S Hlertogenbasch = En trenched Enemy And Snow Prevent Mayor  TTT LT

Canadians Cut Off Causeway To Schelde Estuary Islands’ ‘Three Miles of Roosendaal

British Fight in Road City   Canadian Troops Hold Breskins, in Flanking Drive Near Roosendaal

NAZIS. BATTLE TO HOLD AREA   Canadians and British in Squeeze Offensive Against Enemy.   WANT ANTWERP PORT

PUSH DRIVE TO CLEAR NAZIS IN ANTWERP ARFA   First Widespread Snow of Winter Sharpens Plague of Weather

FIGHT FLA TO CLEAR ANTWERP   Port Of Breskens Is Held Firmly By Allies  i C TineTy ADLAV   Mopping Up Aachen Area; Whole Battalion Of Nazis Wiped Out

UNITS MOVE UPON CITY   {The Bastion, s’Hertogenbosch, Is an Important  ‘Enemy Communications Hub and Link in West Wolland ‘Line.

British Reach Highway Hub   ‘Storm Into Outskirts of  : ’S Hertogenbasch__ En   trenched Enemy And Snow Prevent Major Qoainc.

SHAEF Says Breskens Is Held Firmly  By Canadian:   British Storm Into  ‘S Hertogenbosch Outskirts, Dutch Comminications Cente

SEEKING 10 OPEN PORT OF ANTWERP   First Snow Of Season Falls On Western Front

Canadian Troops Cut Causeway  Leading to Islands In Schelde Estuary

Tanks Ferried From Leyte Where Japs Resist Fiercely   British Gain In Holland

Force Of 40,000 Is Threatened   First Widespread Snow Hampers Efforts Of Allied Troops To Open Main Offensive

ANTWERP PORT ONE OF GOALS OF TWO-PLY ATTACK   Americans Advance Against Tough Opposition at Nancy And in Northern Italy

To Edge Of Dutch Road Hub   British to ’sHe to ’sHertogenbosch in Drive to Pinch Off Nazi Troops Holding Out in Holland

ALLIED TROOPS EXTEND LINES IN NORTHERN AREA   British Enter Dutch Town; Canadians Drive Nearer Roosendaal

U.S. Soldiers On Biak Are  Reinforced   New Landing Carried Oui Without Jap Naval or Air Action

Reinforced American Units Launch Massed Assault on Island of Biak

AMERICANS MASS FOR BIAK ASSAULT   Reinforcements Lan d Without Enemy Interference

Jap Snipers Halt Yankee Advance Toward Airfields   More Troops Are Rushed In Without Enemy Interference

WARTHUR SENDS. REINFORCEMENTS TO BIAK ISLANE   Troops, Protected by Guns of Seventh Fleet, Land With- . out Air or Naval Interference.   JAPS STILL HOLDING UP AMERICAN ADVANCE   Planes Try to Dislodge Snip_ ers Who, From Ridge Positions, Have Halted Move  ‘on Airfields.

DOUGHBOYS ARE LANDED ON BIAK WITHOUT BATTLE   Guns Of Seventh Fleet Cover Arrival Of Ameri can Reinforcements   JAP SNIPERS STALLING DRIVE ON AIRFIELD

PLAN WELCOME FOR DE GAULLE   French Leader Will Call At White House

DeGaulle Slated to Arrive:in U.S.   Elaborate Plans of Welcome Made

An Elaborate Welcome will Greet DeGaulle   French Leader to Receive Military Honors at Airport

Nation Mourns Death Of Alfred E. Smith—F.D.R.   ‘In His Passing The County Loses A True Patriot’

PAYS TRIBUTE TO AL SMITH   FDR Says ‘Country Loses True Patriot’

Drunk Driver Is Given Days   Another Assessed $40 Fine in Jackson Circuit Court

POSS GETS CONFIRMATION CF SONS CAPTURE BY TAPS   — er  SGT. SOSEBEE TO EAST COAST   AVOCA SGT. DECORATED

ickes Announces New Regu: lations: for Distribution 0’ Fuel to Householders Dur.  ing Coal Year

BIGGEST PLANE BREAKS RECORD   Passes First Flight Tesi With Time to Spare

Giant Plane Makes Record Time in Flight   CONSTELLATION ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON 7 HOURS AFTER BURBANK TAKEOFF

Transport Sets Speed Record   Crosses U. S. in 7 Hours, 3 Minutes

Japs Take Heavy  Toll of Forces  Invading Saipan 9752 American  Casualties Reported; Advance Continues

ADVISE TIGHTER - HOME MEASURES AGAINST DISEASE   REPORT SCARLET FEVER RISE IN STATE; PARENTS CAN HELP

Russian Troops Battle Nazis in Luga Outskirts   40 Localities Captured as Reds  Continue “Advance

Red Troops Smash ‘Into Luga Section   Roil Junction ls Captured; Thousands Of » Germans Slain In Shrinking Pocket Areas

SOVIETS NEAR OUTSKIRTS OF BASE AT LUGA   Germans Fail in Try To Pierce Lines  Of Trap

Reds Clear Rail North to Leningrad   Pocket Full of Trapped Germans Squeered Tight

eg AR  SPEED BUYING OF PORCUPINES   State Conservation Dep’ Begins Negotiations  With Owners

ITALIAN FRONT WORRIES NAZIS   Reserves ‘Called Out In Attempt To Stop Canadians

ARMIES IN SAVAGE FIGHTIN ITALY   CANADIANS HURL BACK REPEATED ATTACKS AGAINST LAMONE BRIDGEHEAD.

509 Die When Train Stalls — in a Tunnel   Only 50 of-Italian Civilians Escape. Death by Carbon Monoxide

Russians Deny Dismemberment   Says Advisory Commission Has No Plan For Cutting Germany Into States.

Tass denies any plan to divide reich  Trio occupation  zones proposed

Russ Affirm ‘Zone Plan Fer Germany  * Deny Move to Cat * Country Up ~ Into Small States

Reich Division  Plan Is Denied   Reds Say Dismemberment Tdeau Not Debated

Reds Say German Dismemberment Not Discussed   Three Zones of Occupation Proposed by Commission, Tass Declares

CASSINO-LIKE NAZI STAND IS EXPECTED   Germans Fight Viciously in Outskirts — British, Meanwhile, Open New Drive on 9-Mile Front in Caen Area. .

British Gain In New Drive From Caen   American Patrols Cross Ay; Lessay Invested as Forces Regroup   ATR COVER RETURNS   Fliers Have Field Day as Weather Clears Up After Several Bad Days

YANKS PLUNGE INTO NAZI LINE   British in Caen Sector Fight Blazing Battles in Two Villaces.   LESSAY LOST TO ENEMY

A ‘Cassino’ : «Bale in nie      Germans. Are Lodged: * Subterranean Forts. and: : "Tunnels: Under Ruins” me   BRITISH BATTLE TO. : “WIN HIGH GROUND:   Gains Made in Drive to Set: Up: Positions'to :. Burst Out of Normandy ™         . SURREME: HEADQUARTERS A LLI# D EXEDITIONARY. Ryo WES GALLAGHER .

YANKS REPORT CITY DEFENSE WORKS TOUGH   British Gain in Heavy Fighting Southwest Of Captured Caen

ARE MADE ON PERIERS   British Throw Strong Forces Into Action In Caen Sector

§t. Lo Entered On Ith Day of Bitfer Siege  British Battle   British Battle In Streets of Two Villages

British Dive Forward on Nine-Mile Front South  of Caen     GERMANS ARE DUG IN  :   Enemy Lines Are Rein- forced and Aircraft Are  Thrown In

American Warriors Attack This Morning During Thick Heavy Mist, Headquar- . ters Reports.   OTHER GAINS MADE AGAINST NAZI LINES

Seeking Jump Of Spots For Major Offensive   Tommies Capture Noyers and Esquay; Yanks Push Into Lessay

—INV ASION—   British Take 2 Towns In Flaming Battle -In Caen Sector      Gen, Bradley’s Warriors Drive into Heavily Defended Bulwark Of Nazi Normandy Line; British Sweeping Ahead Near Caen

DEMPSEY’S MEN FIGHT NAZIS IN NOYER STREETS   ATTACK ON 9-MILE FRONT IN NORMANDY; YANKS HAMMER ST. LO

Cassino-Like Battle in Prospect Before Town Falls   British Fighting Blazing Engagements In Region of Caen

British Strike To Tear Out Of Peninsula   Western Anchor Of Enemy Line Is Taken

Find Vital Town Stiffly Defended: British Drive On      Britons Trying To Burst Out Of Normandy Peninsula, Take 2 Towns

Yankee Targef Being Heavily Defended, Claim   Germans Say British General Now Hurling Several Divisions In  Clash Near Caen

AHEAD ON CAEN BATTLE FRONT   Force Way Into Evrecy  In Extension of  Odon Salient

MONTGOMERY'S MEN DRIVE T0 EDGE OF EVRECY   St. Lo Appears To Be Scene Of New German ‘Cassino’

BRITISH ATTACK FLAMES ALONG QMILE BATTLE LINE AS U.S. FORCES GRIND DOWN GERMANS   One of Biggest Battles Since Invasion Began Now In Making As British Catch Nazis Off Balance and Americans BrceaJden Springboard Salient for Matar Offencive

42 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out in Days’ Fighting   Rommel Throws Five Divisions Into Action Near Caen

Find City Heavily Defended   Cassino-like Battle In Prospect; British Gain on Five-mile Front in Caen Sector

Dawn Attack Sends Men Into St. Lo   British Second Army Advances Steadily On Nine-Mile Front

VITAL TOWN IS NOW DEFENDED BY BIG FORCE   Meanwhile, British Army Launches Drive to Break Nazi Hold

British Drive Hard To Break Through Lines   Fierce Battle Raging Below Caen As Montgomery Improve: Pacitione

Britishers.  Near City  Of Evrecy In Big Push   Heavily’ Defended Bulwark Is Broken

American Warriors Drive Into Heavily Defended Bulwark of St. Lo as British Throw in Strong Forces Near Caen.      Lessay, Western Anchor of Nazi Line, Apparently Lost to Allies

Yanks Drive Into Heavily Guarded Town   Lessay Apparently Lost To Germans; Bloody Battle Seen Ahead.      BRITISH TAKE 2 TOWNS

BRITISH ATTACK ON NINE MILE FRONT TO SOUTHWEST OF CAEN  AMERICANS ATTACK ST, LO EARLY MONDAY FOR SEVENTH DAY

ABloody Fight for City Begins   American Soldiers Also Reported in. Lessay; British  Try Again for Caen

YANK CAPTURE OF LESSAY IMMINENT   British Forces Drive On Nine-Mile Front   SAVAGE BATTLE   n Prospect Before Fall Of German Bulwark In Normandy

Heavy Battles Raging Over Entire Front   British Fighting in Streets of Two Villages; New Drive From Caen

British Fighting Blazing Battles   Capture Two Villages And Fight Furiously In Streets Of Two Others; Germans Lose Lessav

Britishers Give Nazis Hard Battle On The Left   Lessay Apparently Has Been Lost By Germans

BRITISH ATTACK FIERCELY FROM SOUTH OF CAEN   Battle of Normandy Nears Turning Point—But Bitter Fighting in Prospect

British Units Start Large Offensive, Capture 2 Towns   Expect Heavy Battle at Road Hub; Yanks in Position to Strike Final Blow at Lessay

British Storm Into Village. Of Noyers   Furious Batties Rage All Along Normandy Front

American Troops Drive Into St. Lo   British Fight Blazing Clashes In Streets of Two Villages

British Lash Out on 9-Mile Front, Storm Key Centers; U.S. Troops Due to Take Lessay ‘

British Are Slugging Southwest OF Caen   _ Drive Aimed at Bursting Out of Peninsula

Fr ench Say Capital F Free ‘Once More   Supreme Headquarters Announces Arrival Of More Troops In Paris

Surrender of Paris; Nazis Sign Papers   Unconditional: Takes Place at 6 P. M., Friday in Rail Station

INCOME TAX FORMS WILL BE MORE SIMPLE   House Ways and Means Committee Works On Simplification Bill.

New Invasion Force Lands Near Franco-Spanish Line; Americans Capture Grenoble

Nazis Say U. S. Troops Landed On French Coast Near Spanish Border

AMERICANS MAKE NEW INVASION LANDING CLOSE TO SPANISH BORDER   French Patriots Said To Be Aiding Landing Op erations.

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIF  Germans May Pull Troops From Norway   New York Stocks

SAYS GERMANS CRACK UNDER NAZI TERROR   Swedish Report Tell: How Gestapo Rule With Iron Fist _

ASSERTS TERROR REIGNS IN REICH   Swedish Industrialist Says » ‘Huge Crowds’ Hanged or Shot Daily

TRIES 10 HALT OPPOSITION T0 NAZI REGIME   Swede Reveals “Huge Crowds” of Dissidents Slain Daily

Soldiers Eat Rats: Harrowing Experiences of Bomber Crew Downed by Japs Is Revealed

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News   AMERICANS PUSH MAJOR OFFENSIVE AGAINST RET EART CAP

BATTLE RAGES FOR RELIEF OF AERIAL TROOPS   Censorship Blackout Shrouds Fluid Developments On Battlefronts

Strike Against Belfort Gap   British Battle To Save Army At Arnhem

Little Otficial  Information {s Given On Battles   German Report Says U. §. Third Army Launches Offensive At Belfort Gap   ARNHEM BATTLE RAGES FURIOUSLY

Air Experts Hail Besinning Of ‘Shuttle’ Runs To Soviet    By Joseph A. Bors

Soviet Units Within Sight of Warsaw   Big Guns Reported Sheiling Suburbs of Polish Capital

RED VANGUARDS WITHIN SIGHT OF POLISH CAPITAL   Believe 20,000 Nazi Troops Trapped Along Western Bug River

Red Troops Approach Pole Capital   Advance Units With Cavalry, Scout Cars, Tanks Are Believed Within Sight of Goal; Artillery Takes Position for Bombarding Foe

RED GUNS OPEN ON SUBURBS OF POLISH CAPITAL   Soviet Advance Units ‘Less Than 20 Miles From. Warsaw

Soviet Cavalry May Now See — Polish Capita   Nazi Battle Line Reporied Cut In Two By Lunge Into Latvia Rail Hub

Reds In Sight Of Warsaw As Guns Hit City   Escape For 20,000 Nazis Believed Out Of Question

Dead and First Survivors Back From Invasion   Minesweepers Pick Up 19 Men at Sea

First Yankee Dead  Are Sent To Britain Brought Back On Mine Cwapner

HALF OF GUAM INU. S. HANDS AFTER 9 DAYS      Gains in New Guines Also Made By   Awericans

Less Cotton Seen By Wickard as Way Out for the South   Suggests Large Scale Reconyersion to End Cattan Tranhlac

FUTURE OF COTTON MAIN SUBJECT FOR FARMING LEADERS  SECRETARY WICKARD BELIEVES ACREAGE REDUCTION IS REST CURE

B-29s Attack Heart Of Jap  Industry Area   Typhoon Slows Leyte Battle To Walk; Foe Feels 4th Manila Carrier Raid.   DOWN 118 PLANES

Large Force Of Bombers Raid Kyushu   Manila Attacked Again: 100 Ships  Lie Wrecked There

Jap Aireratt Centers Hit By Supertforts   Nip Plane Losses Total 1,000 in One Month in Philippine Battles with B-29°s

SUPERS STRIKE JAPAN   B29s BOMB KYUSHU, OMURA AND NAGASAKI; MANILA RAIDED AGAIN   Typhoons Batter Leyte

FIGHT ON LEYTE SLOWED UP BY RAGING TYPHOON   Carrier Planes Knockout Three More Ships and 118 Planes At Manila

FLIERS DESTROY 118 NIP PLANES IN MANILA RAID   Yanks Renew Leyte Gains After Third Typhoon Delays Offensive

Superforts Bomb Heart Of Japans Aircraft Industry  118 Ni ee -_ eo NIPPONese — AD Biot

Super-Forts Blast Heart Of Japanese  Aircraft Factories   Washington Places Attack At Kyushu, Southernmost Of Nippon’s Home Islands; Tokyo Says B-29s Hit At Omura. Plane Center, And Nagasaki

SUPERFORTS STRIKE JAPS AGAIN TODAY   Close To 1000 Enemy Planes Destroyed

OUPERFORTS BOMBED HEART OF JAPAN'S AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY  SEA-BORNE AIR RAID ON MANILA COST JAPS 118 PLANES. THREE SHIPS

B-29s Blast Japan Again  Ty rhaan Slane Randi) Rattle far Lonte Island

Plants AtOmura, Nagasaki Blasted By Superforts   Manila Raid Nets 118 Nip Planes, 3-More Ships; Leyte. Yanks Advance

B-29s Blast Japan Again  'Tuphoon Slows Bloody Battle for Leute Island

ENEMY LOSES 118 PLANES AT MANILA   Typhoon Slows Action On Philippines Front   AIRCRAFT CENTER   Main Target Of Bombers; China Is Cut In Half By Nips’ Drive

SUPERFORTS IN ATTACK ON JAP HOME INDUSTRY   Large Task Force His Island of Kyushu.—Other Developments In War In Pacific.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN ‘AP War Pditer)

118 PLANES AND 3 MORE SHIPS ADDED TO OVER 100 SHIPS NOW WRECKED IN HARBOR ATMANILA

Superforts Bornb Japan Homeland  Aircraft Industry on Kyushu Island Smashed

Raid On Manila Nets 118 Planes. 3 More Vessels   MacArthur's Men Gain Through Mud On Leyte

RAID HEART OF JAPAN'S AIR INDUSTRY   More Destruction Rained On Manila; Storm Grips Leyte

Rip Plane Centers In Home Islands   Manila Suffers New Carrier Raid; Leyte Battle Slowed By Typhoon.

B-29's Pound Heart of Nippon Aircraft Industry   Sea-borne Raid: on Manila Wipes out 118 Enemy Planes

Superforts Rip Japar As Carrier. Planes  Again Lash Manila   Heart Of Japan’s Aircraft Industry Blasted B: .  Giant B-29s; 118 Nip Planes Wiped Out In Sea Borne Air Raid On Manila

Super-Forts Blast Aircraft Plants On Kyushu, Japar  118 Nip Planes, Three Ships ;

‘SUCCUMBED 10 LONG ILLNES‘   Service for George Wil - liams, 79 at Trinity Church Today

DAIRY FARMER R LONG TLLUNESS            Service for George Wil liams, 79 at Trinity Church Today

Several NaziDivisions Are Being Trapped   British Troops Wipe Out German Pocket in Anzio Beachhead: Hit Rail Yards °°’.

Kin of Bataan Victims Send Protest fo FDR   Demand Help Be Sent MacArthur

ATROCITY REPORT DELAY DENOUNCED   RELATIVES OF 82 BATAAN PRISONERS SEND PROTEST TO ROOSEVELT.

LORENZEN GETS LIFE SENTENCE   Put Poison in Wife's  Vitamin Capsules

~ How Press Of Nation Feels About NominationsOf Dewey-Bricker By GOP

MEXICAN CITES POSTWAR PLAN   National ‘Industrialization Project Being Studied

County Exceeds Fifth War Loan Drive Goal by $430,602.77, Report Shows

County Exceed: Bond Quota by $275,189.02   Total of $1,500,089 Invested in Jackson County to Keep Record Clear, Report Shows

WIPE OUT MALE CITIZENS   Swiss Newspaper Tells of Killing  By the Germans

Jap Execution of 3 Yanks Revealed   Enemy Claims Trio  Killed Police Official

Japs Slay Three U.S. Prisoners   Trial Follows Flight, Red Cross Is Told

Nazis Pull  In Armor ‘From Caen   Rommel Stages Fierce Counterattacks in Effort to Stem American Smash Toward Paris

TANK DUELS IN GANISY SECTOR REPORTED TODAY   Enemy Forced To Leave Hedgerow Protection

Rommel Battles Harc To Halt Americans   Encircling Movement Which Drove Enemy From Positions Above Coutance: Being Repeated in Drive Toward Sea.

COUTANCES FALLS T0 AMERICANS   Thousands Of Enemy Troops Trapped By Breakthrough

tommel Reaets Violently To Allied Drive   Offensives Near  Coutances Threaten To Burst Nazi Lines Blocking Paris Road

Fierce Battles Rage As U. S. Troops Advance   Rommel Sends Units From Caen Sector To Coutances Area

WLB Approves Coal  Mine Pa y Agreement   Withdrawal of Government Control of Mines Covered by Contract Now Appears Certain: Two Industry Members Dissent

Agreement Applies To 70 Percent Of Coal Indusfty;  Southerners Dissent   OPERATORS LIKELY TO REGAIN CONTROL

COAL MINERS’ PAY APPROVED BY WLB VOTE   YEAR - LONG DISPUTE IS COVERED BY WAGE PACT

WLB Approves Agreement in Mine Wage Case   All but Southern Operators Accept

Miners Receive $40 Back Wage For Travel Pay   Lewis' UMW Agreement Is Approved By War Labor Board

BOARD APPROVES MINE WAGE PACT   Pact Between UMW and industry Heads ts Ratified

WLB Avows Coal Workers Agreement   Truce Follows Long Controversy And Four Strikes

Coal Trouble Looms Again   WLB Settlement Still Leaves Many Problems To Be Cleared Up

'WLB APPROVAL  REVIVED YEAROLD COAL CASE   Approval of Bituminous Wage Agreement Today Gives Back Pay to Some. Skips Others

WLB Approves  Coal Agreement   70 Per Cent of Industry Affected by Pact

WLB O. K.’s Agreement After Year   OF PARLEY AND FOUR GENERAL STRIKES IN COAL INDUSTRY; DOES NOT CLOSE CASE EN TIRELY.   Court Test

Mine Pay Pact Approval Fails To. End Dispute   WLB.-Devision Makes No Change in Daily Wage Rates: Most Mimers to Get Back Pay

WAGE AGREEMENT OF COAL MINERS GIVEN APPROVAL   Southern Operators Challenges Legality of Alton Reviving Dispute, Fails to Settle Point.   DAILY WAGE RATES UNCHANGED BY DECISION   Claim Is Made Some Operators Are Not Party to Ag _ peement Submitted Recently to WLB.

“MINES INCLUDED   Approval Folows Long Dis:  . pute, Four Strikes   10 TO 2 DECISION   Southern Operators Not Party to Agreement, However; Test Pending

“PACT IS GIVEN ‘WLB APPROVAL   Decision Permits End Of Government Control

Coal Industry Wage Accord Receives OK From WLB   May Bring Withdrawal Of Government Contro Of Soft Coal Mines Covered by Contract   SOUTHERN MINES NOT PARTY TO PACT

WLB Approves Miners’ Pay   Grants Lewis’ Demand for Portal-to-Portal Compensation After Bickering.

WPB O.K.’s Bituminous Agreement   $40 Back Pay Will Be Given Miners In Northern District

Miners Win Long, Bitter Pay Dispute   Are to Receive Pay For Portal-to-Portal Time in Traveling

Undeclared War Rages Between Finns, Germans   “Nazis Reported To Have Surrendered In Attempted Invasion

Finns Wage — War OQn:Huns   “New. Problems Face’ Defeated’ Nation

teenies  “Wolf Pack? Sex Oro ganization Exposed With Arrest ‘Of Youths

PLAN TO CHECK ON GAS STAMPS   8-Day ‘Compliance Drive’ To Open March 6

New Draft Schedule In Prospect   Mass Deferment Likely; Hershey, State Heads Mee’

TOBIAS IS NAMED — JO VETERAN POST      Local Man to Aid in Mapping Assistance Pro aram

TOBIAS IS NAMED ~ TO VETERAN POST   Local Man to Aid in Map_ ping Assistance Proqram

Allies Lose 70 Aircraft  In Invasion  12 American Troop Petia en 69   12 American Troop Carriers and 12  Gliders Included

Allies Take Full Command of Air In Invasion Area   Stream of Explosives Pour. ed on Nazis Moving Up  Reinforcements.   All Types of Planes Fly at Low Levels

BEGIN WORK ON BASE TO REPAY JAP ATROCITIES   Tanks Lead Advance Down Valley From Beachheads

Engineers Repairing Captured Airfields On Philippine Island   Warships Move in Close To Blast Jap Positions; Steady U. 8. Advance Continues, Says MacArthur

JS. Planes tip Enemy tir Bases   Free Philippine Government Re-Established

Occupied Air Fields Are Put Into Shape; Positions Extended   Engineers Clean Up Bases At Dulag And Tacloban For Use As Advance Centers By Land-Based Planes; Enemy Almost Cut Off From Help By Water

TOWNS SEIZED 1N- PHILIPPINES   Yanks Make Captured Area Poweriul Base to Avenge Bataan

Break Foe’s Key Points   Enemy Virtually Cut Off from Sea; Hunt for 16th’ Divisiott Starts so

BRITISH PLANTS CURTAIL OUTPUT   Government Orders Cut in Power for War Factories Due to Strike-Induced Coal Shortage.

British Coal Strike Cuts War Output   Stocks Dwindling Rapidly, Every Factory in Country Has Power Supply Reduced

Strikes Cut ‘War Output   Britain Orders Less Use Of Power Supplies

POWER SUPPLY CUT BECAUSE OF STRIKE   British War Factories Face Possible Sharp Drop in Production.

Power for British War Plants Reduced   Step Necessary Because of Coal StrikesElectric Supplies Cut 10 Per Cent and Allotment of Gas 25 Per Cent. —

STRIKE SLOWS BRITISH OUTPUT   Power Supplies Are Cut As Coal Stocks Owindle

A Cut Ordered in Power Supplies   British War Factories Face < Possible Sharp Drop in Production.

Labor Crisis In Britain   Output of Vital War Material Threatened By Continued Strikes

Strike Slows British Plants   Cut in Supplies Ordered Because of Coal Strike

STRIKES FORCE BRITISH TO CUT PLANT OUTPUT   Cut Power Supplies Due To Coal Shortage Induced by Mine Walkouts ,

BRITISH COAL STRIKE CURBS WAR FACTORIES   Possible Sharp Reduction in Arms for Invasion Foreseen as Cut in Power Supplies Ordered   SITUATION GRAVE   Less Than 5,000 Yorkshire Miners Return After Vote, 250,000 Other Miners Restless

Victory Greatest Of New Offensive   Large Proportion of Nazi ‘Chute Division Is Reported Wiped Out   Alexander Says Gustav Line South of Appennines Ceases to Exist: Toll of German Dead High

Esperia, Drive 3 Wiles Into Adolf Hitler Line   British Eighth Advances To Join Polish Troops, Threatening Trap To Nazi Garrison

NAZI TROOPS — ABANDON RUINS   Great March on Rome Stailed for Four Months by Axis Troopa in This Itallan Stronghold — Battle: tor Gustav Line Drawing to Close,

Allies Outflank Enemy To Seize Nazi Stronghold   Formia, Coastal Anchor Position of Hitler Line, Said Endangered

Town Taken By Flanking Movement   British and Poles Catch Nazis in Pincers—Yanks  Take Formia

BULK OF ITS DEFENDERS ARE CAUGHT IN TRAP   ‘Yanks Gain . Coastal City

Germans Have Withdrawn Frorr City of Cassino   Seck to Avoid Jaws of Eighth Army's Trap

Temperatures   Americans Bending Nazi Line South Of Farmisa Sector

Deadlock on Rome  RoadFalls   Yanks Mark Biggest Advance in Capturing Mount Ruazzo

‘Substantial Portion of One  Division Destroyed —Town  Hed Been Evacuated.

OUTFLANK MANEUVER IS SUCCESSFUL   Large Proportion Of Nazi Division Is Wiped Out

STUDENTS WILL BE _ GIVEN DEFERMENTS   Those Studying for the Ministry Not to be Inducted

Famous Aerialist  Has Close Call   But He Is Determined To Continue Double Backward Somersault.

Mayor of Paducah, Ry. Pleads Guilty to OPA Rent Violation Charge

AFL Rejects Lewis Bid For Reunion   Offers to Take Back ~ Miners Under 1936 Regulations

LEWIS TURNED DOWN BY UNION   AFL Refuses Terms Offered By Lewis For Readmission Of Miners’ Union; Door To Negotiations Not Closed, However.

AFL Rejects Lewis’ Offer   Readmission Of United Mine Workers Into Federation Denied,

LEWIS’ DEAL 1S STUDIED BY AFL   UMW Chief Hopes To Con. trol Chemical Workers

Lewis Is Ready To Present Deal To AFL To Take Over Chemical Workers’ Union

Lewis Ready To Deal With  Federation   His Offer Would Giv< Him Chemical Workers And Mine Workers

Will Take Lewis On  Old Terms   But,.A.F.L, Executive Coun cil Rejects Proposal Offer. ‘ed by Mine Leader '-”   ‘SOME PROGRESS .. -MADE,’ HOWEVER   Green:Declines Further In. terpretation of: Action: by -'" Beaderation

AFL Rejects Bid Of Lewis’ UMW   Action Does Not Close Door  to Further Negotiations by Union.

AFL Rejects  Lewis’ Plan   Agree to Take Mine Union Back Only On Status of 1936

A.F.L, REJECTS TERMS OF LEWIS   UMW Wants Control  Over Chemical Worker:

LEWIS IS READY TO MAKE QEAI   Terms to Assure Him Chemical Workers in Addition To Mine Workes.

AFL Rejects Lewis’ Terms   Ford Motor Charges Union With Slow Down Efforts

LEWIS PRESSES DEAL WITH AFI   Asks Chemical Workers It Addition To Mine Union

AFL. Rejects Lewis Terms For Return   Federation Will Take Miners Back Only os They Were in 1936

Lewis Proposal Rejected by AFI  Miners Must Return on Old Status

LEWIS READY TU ~-DEWWITH A   Wants Chemical Workers In Addition To Miners Tf Readmitted   STTLTETIN

Reject Lewis’   AFL Executive Council Offers to Reinstate UMW on Same Status Held There Until 1936

And He Still Wanted To Fight!  te meee i a ee           Doughboy Refuses To Qu Quit When Eye Shot Out—Four Yanks Survive Barrage Hell

Alternates to WLB Named By President   Public Members Listed— Labor and Industry Have Alternates

Would Increase War Labor Board  Four Alternate Members to Be Named

GREATER FOOD SUPPLIES URGED BY DR. SYMONS   Appeal Is Made To Maryland Farmers By Exten sion Service Head

Japs Say 70 B-29s Take Part   Use of Bases in Southeast Puts 2 Two-Way Squeeze On Japan Wit Other B-29s in China

Blazes Continue for Hours After Bombing; Only Two Big Planes Fail to Return

RAID MARKS FIRST BLOW AT JAPAN FROM MARIANAS   HUNDREDS OF TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON JAPANESE CAPITAL

Japanese Radio Admits Damage From Heavy Bombers in First Attack Since Doolittle Raid; Arnold Declares More to Follow

Superfortresses Strike Out From Bases On Saipan  Attacks To Continue 06.228 touweateon foe   Attacks To Continue Until Invasion Of  Nippon; Raids Will Be Intensified In Future

Surprise Attack Carried Out From Base On Saipan   No Fighter Resistance And Only Meage1 Anti-Aireraft Fire Encountered By Size able Fleet Of Superfortresses In Firs Raid From Their New Base

Temperatures   Big Bombers Roar From New Fields . Jn Mariana Islands

Gigantic Fleet of Superfortresses Drops Hundreds of Tons of Bombs or Capital; Smash Heralded as Start Of Sustained Raids Over Mainland

Japanese Capital Under Attack by Armada of Superforts  THE PALACE SPARED      Industrial Area Is Objective _ of the Heavy Bombing Raid

Aircraft Factories MainTargets Of B-29 ‘Supers’ In Saipan-Launched Raid

GEN. ARNOLD GIVES PLEDGI TO PRESIDENT   Promise of Consistent Aerial Assaults Comes in Report..on Today’s Heavy “Superfort”  Bombing of Nip Capital.

Attack Opens On Home Isiand: Of Pacific Foe   Arnold Promises No Let-Up in His Battle on Japan

Report Nazis Have Seized Hungarian Leaders, Set Up Puppet Government

Occupation Of Country Completed   Set Up Nazi Puppet Gov. ernment to Prevent Hun garian Peace Move

Three Hungarian Officials Seized By German Units   Action By Hitlerites Said Designed To \  Forestall Peace Move ~

Puppet Regime Takes Over Hungarian Rule.   ‘Nation Yields to German Army; Admiral Horthy Under Arrest

Nazi Army Seizes Hungary   Key Officials Arrested To Forestall Peace Move

The Weather   Armed Clashes Are Reported; Gestapo Nabs 600 Patriots   Hungary Is Occupied By German Troops as Red Army Approaches

Eden Takes Encouragement in Nazi Split   Sudden Crisis Is Considered by British Cabinet

MORE DRASTIC DECREES PLAN FOR GERMANY   ‘Very Decisive’ Measures Aimed To Tighten Hitler’s Grip

Eden Says Allies May Draw Encouragement From Nazi Revolt But Warns of Over-Optimism

BRITONS MEET ON NAZI CRISIS   Allies ‘Might. Justly Draw Encouragement’—Eden

BRITISH HIGHUPS TALK NAZI CRISIS      Foreign Sec’y Eden Makes Statement to Commons Today

German Revolt Encouraging: Anthony Eden   Reveals British Cabinet Discussion Of Sudden Crisis

FDR Links Bonds With Polio Fight  Contrasts Care Of Crinples In U. S.  > fl anwrmanw

62d Birthday  Bond Appeal By Roosevelt   President Links 4th Drive With Annual Assault on Polio Scourge

FDR Links Bonds With Polio Fight   Contrasts Care Of Crinples In U.S. And Germany

American Planes Hit Again at Kurile Islands  — Series of Six Raids Conducted; One Near lan Mainland

BIAK ISLAND IN PHILIPPINE AREA INVADED   BASES ARE SECURED FOR NEW THRUSTS IN PACIFIC

U.S. Troops Land On Island Only 900 Miles Away  New Invasion Within Ea ry Bombing Ra nge OM Se: ee

YANKEE FORCES PUSH ASHORE ON BIAK ISLAND   Japanese Open New Drive In Central hina

Yank Infantry Invades Biak Island   Leapfrog Tactics Take MacArthur to Philippine-Blow Base

Biak Island Landing Marks End of New GuineaOperations; Chinese Troops Take Warong

Yanks Invade Biak Island   Meet Fierce Opposition, Will Mark Real End Of New Guinea Campaign

STIMSON WARNS DISUNITY MIGHT LEAD. TO DEFEA   Secretary Says There Should _ Be No Division as Nation Approaches Climax in War Effort.   ADDRESSES SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS   Rear Admiral Radford Tells Group Air Attacks on Japan May Be Nearer Than Tokyo Thinks.

Lisbon, Sept. 2.—(AP)—Adolf Hitler will broadcast: a “sensational speech” sometime tomorrow, German diplomats said today. ‘ . Pe

Berlin Reports Americans ‘Within 11 Miles Frontier   Liberation Promised Low Countries Already Flooded by Germans—Weekend Likely to Put Yanks in Reich

American Columns Pounding on Close to German  Border Today   MAY BE IN BELGIUM   British Columns Push North ~~ to Within 14 Miles  of Belgium

HIGH SPEED AMERICAN FORCES . SLASH OUT FROM VERDUN AND TOWARD BELGIUM-LUXEMBOURG

Patton Forces Dash Through Maginot Line   Gefmany Places Ameri cans Within Some 20 Miles of Saar River Siegfried Line Area   Other Units Near Border Of Belgium   May Already Be in Lux embourg; Possible Ger:  > man Soil Will be In. vaded Over Weekend

NAZI RADIO PUTS ALLIES NEAR SAAR   Pace Suggests U.S. Troops May Reach Reich Border Soon

30-Mile Front Maintained In Belgium Drive   Berlin Says Push Has Neared Within 11 Miles Of Border

AMERICAN COLUMNS POUNDED TOWARD GERMANY TODA)   Fisrt Army Comrades i Within 5 to 8 Miles of Belgium.      Berlin Radio Declared Verdui Push Had Neared _Phronville.

Yankee Troops Press Against Enemy Borders   Swift Liberation Is Anticipated of Low Countries

Verdun Push Brings U.S. Nearer Goal   Battle for France Is Ending in Blaze of Victory

U.S. Army Transport Planes Downed By Allied Gunners, Veteran Reveals

MRS. ANDERSON. 72. DIES EARLY TODAY   Widow of Carl J. Andersor Dies at Home After Brief Hiness.

MAS. A. ANDERSON DIES WERE TODA)   Funeral Services for Matron To Be Conducted Friday Afternoon.

NAZI PRISONERS  BALK AT RETURN   Exchange Made in Six Hour Armistice

ROBOTS LET UP IN LONDON AREA   Launching Sites Knocked Out Between Calais And Cap Gris Nez

GERMANS HURL SECRET WEAPON AT BOMBERS   ROCKET-PROPELLED FIGHTER PLANE DEFEATED IN FIRST FIGHT; STUTTGART FACTORIES HIT

Rocket-Propelled — Nazi Plane Revealed   Secret Weapon Is Launched In Attempt To Halt American Aerial Offensive.

NEW SECRET WEAPON PUT OUT BY NAZIS   Latest Is a Rocket-Propelled Fighter Plane

Soviets Reject U.S. Mediation   Refuse to Restore  Polish Relations

Hull Reveals Russia Has Rejected U. S. Offer to Mediate Disputes Between Soviet and Polish Gov't.

Soviets Reject  Offer of U. S.   Reply Follows Eden’s  Refusal of Acceptance

Race Riot Flares In South Carolina   State Guard Called Out To Quell Disorder

Points Down _ on Vegetables, Up on Fruits   Sweeping Reductions Made on Canned Peas, Tomatoes and Corn   CHANGES WILL BE EFFECTIVE SUNDAY   Victory Gardens and Home Canners. Given Credit by OPA

Court Decrees Texas Primary Vote to Nesre   Supreme Judges Revers Stand of 9 Years Agos Roberts Dissents

Negroes’ Right To Vote Upheld   Supreme Court Hands Down Far-Reaching — Decision In Case.

NEGROES CAN VOTE TEXAS PRIMARIES, RULED HIGH COURT  NHOECICION AL FAD PRAM’   DECISION OF FAR REACHING IMPORTANCE IN MANY SOUTHERN STATES -

NEGRO BALLOT RIGHTS UPHELD   Supreme Court Upsets Texas Ban On Color Line Voting

High Court Rules Negroes Can Vote In Texas Primary   Decision Far-Reaching In Effect

u, 5. Supreme Court Rules Negroes [Have Constitutional Right to Vote In Texas Democratic Primary Election

Negro Right to Vote in Primary Upheld   Participation in Texas Democratic Primary Granted

Supreme Court Rules Negroes Have Texas Vote   8-1 Majority Says 15th Amendment Grants Right

High Court In Reverse On Elections   UNDERTAKES TO OVERRULZ RIGHT OF TEXANS TO DETERMINE QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS AT PRIMARY   Justice Roberts Protests

Negro Voters Win in Court  Primary Balloting Ok'd by Tribunal in  Reversal of Ruline

Rules Negroes May Vote   Can Ballot in Texas Primary, High Court Rules

TEXAS PRIMARY VOTE GRANTED TO NEGROES   Far-Reaching Ruling Given By Highest U.S. Court

Court Upholds Negro Voting Right in Texas   Supreme Tribunal Rules on Exclusion Of Race at Primaries

TRIBUNAL UPSETS NEGRO VOTE RULE   Texas Decision Topples Ore of Nine Years’ Standing On Primaries

Negroes Can Vote In Texas ‘Primaries   Have Right To Select Congressmen, Supreme Court Holds

Court Decides Negroes Can  Vote in Texas   Justice Roberts Hits Majority Ruling Affecting 571,000

High Court Rules Negro Is Eligible  In Texas Vote   Reverses Decision  Of 9 Years’ Standing On Texas’ Democratic Primary Elections   SHARP DISSENT MADE BY JUSTICE ROBERTS   Georgia, “Mississippi Leaders Say Their States Not Affected

Court Rules for Texas Negro Vote   Has Right to Cast Ballot in Primary, Supreme Court Rules

GIVES PRIMARY VOTE TO NEGRO   Court Rules Colored Race Has Right of Ballot

Court Rules Negroes Can Vote in Texas Primaries   Eight-To-One Decision Upsets Position Of 9 Years Standing; Far-Reaching Implications In South

Negroes Can Vote In Texas Primary,  U.S. Court Rules   Decision to Have Far-Reaching Effect In Southern States

Allow Negroes Vote In Texas   Supreme Court Decides Negroes Have Right To Vote In Texas Primary.

NEGRO VOTING IN TEXAS IS DECREED   Supreme Court -Reverses Self—Roberts Assails Majority

Vote Right To Negroes In Texas   Supreme Court Rules State Cannot Prohibit Them from Voting in Democratic Primaries

supreme Court Rules The Have Right to Ballot In Congressional Primaries  8 to L Decision      Majority Opinion Holds Coustitntion Gives Them Franchise: Boberts Dissents

High Court, Reversing P osition of 9 Years Ago, Holds Negro Can Cast Vote in Primary in Texas

High Court. Allows Texas Negroes Vote   Justices Rule Color Does Not Affect Man’s Right:

NEGROES CAN VOTE TEXAS PRIMARIES, RULED HIGH COURT   DECISION OF FAR REACH. ING IMPORTANCE IN MANY SOUTHERN STATES

COURT UPHOLDS NEGRO RIGHT TO PRIMARY VOTE   Rolds Texas Democratic Primary Tantamount to Election, Righ! Guaranteed by Constitution

UYU. $. SUPREME COURT—  ‘White Primary  Invalid   HIGHEST TRIBUNAL HOLDS, @ TO 1, NEGROES HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN TEXAS

Court Reverses Its Position of Nine Years Ago and Justice Roberts Bitterly Condemns Decisions. . Mississippi and Georgia Leaders Say Will Not Affect Voting in White Primaries in These States

Negro Right To Primary Vote Upheld   Supreme “Court Decisior of Far-Reaching Importance in the South

Japs’ Central Pacific Bases  Under Attack   Five Islands in Truk Atoll Blasted by Big Navy, Army Planes; Other Areas Also Hit

FRESH RAIDS ON JAP BASES ARE REPORTED   By General MacArthur; Truk And Woleai Targets Of Catalinas And Liberators During Early Morning.  Tishten Squeeze

JAP STRONGHOLD OF TRUK BOMBED AGAIN BY YANKS   Second Blow Dealt Stronghold by MacArthur's. Airmén  “-Woleia Isiand Also:  BRiasted.   ALLIED GROUND FORCES SCORE. NEW ADVANCES   Troops. in Admiralties Land “On Pityilu While Others  . On New Guinea Move  - Toward Boradiim.

MacArthur Ha:  Navy Planes Hit Fortress   Continuation of Attacks Against Big Stronghold Expected

Planes strike new blows at  Paeific isles Woleai and Truk  hammered again

Kerr Is Elected NMEA President   Santa Fe Wins Next  State Convention

NEW OFFICERS OF NMEA ELECTED: BY STATE TEACHERS      Philip Ludi ‘Named to Executive Committee; Artesia Man Named President

OHIO STILL IN GRIP OF DROUTH   Recent Showers Inadequate; Water Table Drop ~~ ‘Alarming’

STOPS ACTIVITY OF AIR FORGES   Germans Strike With Deadly Probing Skill Into Anzio Beachhead.   SITUATION VERY TENSE

NAZI ARMORED UNITS REPORTED STRIKING WITH DEADLY SKILL  WEATHER HOLDS AIRFORCE AWAY AND

Allied Force Ringed BySuperior Numbers   Germans Claim Capture of Carroceto Rail Stations but Allies Indicate Fighting North of Town   SMALL GAINS MADE AT CASSINO   Stubborn Resistance of Nazis on Fifth Army Front Credited with Preventing Allied Extension of Beachhead

Allies Battling Desperately To Hold Beachhead   Germans Claim Anchor Of Allied Line Near . Rome Is Captured

Rain Aids Germans In Attack   Robs Allies of Their Most Potent Force for Defense

Clouds, Rain Block Allied Air Defense   No Confirmation Of Nazi Claim Of Carroceto Entry

GERMANS PROBE NORTH FLANK OF ANZI0 BEACHHEAC   ALLIES THROW FULL» POWER INTO GREAT DEFENSIVE ACTION

AERIAL HELP GONE BECAUSE OF WEATHER   Unmolested From Skies, Nazi Armored Unity Probe With Deadly, Skill at Northern Flank of Anzio Bridgehead. -

Combat Planes Support Ground Forces At Anzio  Fifth Army Faces Underground Fire At Cassino

NAZI ARMORED UNITS STRIKE ALLIED FLANK   Rain, Clouds Halt Aerial Support of Besieged U. S. Forces

Enemy Claims Town 10 Miles from Sea; Envelops Expedition With Greater Force

GERMANS STRIKE INTO THE NORTHERN FLANK AT ANZIO   Nazis Took Advantage of the Rain and Clouds to Strike . With Skill.   AIRFORCE IS GROUNDED   Allies Had Concentrated Virtually Every Combat Plane for Action.

Air Assault Slows Nazis Below Rome   Germans Continue to Mass Larger Forces in Becchhead Struggle

Cover of Planes Denied Allies by Rain and Clouds   Nazi Armored Units Are Capitalizing on New Advantaqae

Every Plane In Whole Area Called Upon   Nazis Probing With Deadlv Skill at Allies North Flank Today

Germans Probe Ally Beachhead   SITUATION SERIOUS AS ALL ALLIED COMBAT PLANES IN MEDITERRANEAN THEATER THROWN INTO FURIOUS DEFENSE OF COASTAL FRONT

Every Plane = hh Whole Area  Called Upoe   Nazis Probing With De ly Skill at Allies No Flank Today .”

Rain, Clouds Halt Allied Plane Raid   Nazis Capitalizing On Bad Weather At Beachhead

Blows Indicate. Seriousness of Anzio Situation   Allies Hurl Great Masses of Planes Into Defense of  Italian Beachhead

Weather Retards Allied Air Defense   Germans Take Advantage Of Relief From Plane Attacks to Drive Furiously Against Anzio Beachhead.

NAZI ARMORED UNITS ATTACK WITH ALL FURY   Weather Hampers Allied Air Operations; Situation Is Precarious

Say Carroceto Rail Station Seized; Rains Halt Allied Air Attacks.

Robs Them of Air Advantage Which Was Helping Hold Off Germans; Enemy Now Is Striking Skillfully At Northern Flank Of  Beachhead; Defense Artillery Is Effective

GERMANS CLAIM FRESH GAINS AT OUR BEACHHEAL   Huge Allied Bombers Sent Against Nazis In Effort To Aid Hard Pressed Ground Forces

Commando Raid on Riviera   Destroy New Fortifications on ‘Itelian Coast, Fascist Press Reports

Commandos Attack Coast Defenses Along Riviere   Allies Warn Underground Teo Listen Closely For In structions Ou What To Do When Invasion Opens: Rowmet tnspeets Htalian Front  pani: sa

ROMMEL VIEWS DEFENSE ALONG SOUTHERN LINE   Germans Resort To Trickery In Efforts To Uncover French Patriots

Commandos Raze Fortifications On Italian Riviera   Daring Raids Reported By Fascist Papers As Invasion Tension Grows

FRENCH GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS ON INVASION   Tension Over Coming Assault on Coast Mounts In Britain and Europe.

Newly Built Defenses Demolished   Attacks Made as Invasior Tension Mounts—Blast  Fortifications

Commandos Are Landed Along ltalian Riviera   Newly Erected Fortifications Are Destroyed

COMMANDOS HIT FORTRESSES ON ITALIAN RIVIERA   Largest Raid Of Kind Paper Reports; Invasion Teasion Up

Commandos Make Raid or Italian Coast   Nazi Fortifications on Riviera Destroyed {n Series of Attacks

WORKING FROM SARDINIA AND CORSICA BASE   Commando Attacks Increasing  Number, Evidently Pointing to Big Push.

French Told to Listen to Radio   ‘Germans Threaten Invasion of Britain; Air Landing Practiced

WnEGK FORTS IN COMMANDO COASTAL RAIDS   French Riviera Under Attack as Invasion Tension Keeps Rising.

RAIDING UNITS STRIKE ALONG RIVIERA COAST   Allied Commandos Make Landings, Destroy Defenses

Commandos in Riviera Raid   Series of Daring Raids Levels Coastal Fortifications, Italian Radio Declares, as Invasion Fever Mounts on Continent

Allied Commandos Rip Up Axis Fortifications Along Italian Riviera   British Broadcasts To French, And Paratroop Rehearsals Hint At Nearness Of Invasion

 INVASION TENSION MOUNTS  Allied Commando Raids On Italian Coast Reported

ITALIAN PRESS TELLS ALLIED RIVIERA RAID   Invasion Near, _ Rumors Spread

Allied Commandos Destroy. Fortifications In Daring © Raids. nvasion Tension cow

DARING RAIDS SEND INVASION FEVER HIGHER   Dritish Warn French te Await Official News Before Acting

Commandos Lash Nazi Defenses on Italian Riviera   Daring Raids Held Preliminary to © Invasion of France

Destroy Fortifications Along Italian Riviera By Weekend Raids   GIVE FRENCHMEN INSTRUCTIONS DAILY  Warned ( sestapo Agent 332  OD Wak is es ee

Newly - Constructed Fortifications Along Hatian Riviera Hit — Invasion Tension Mounts In Both Britain and Axis Europe. «

Italians Tell Of Attacks  On Riviera   British Tell Trench To Listen To Radias

WARD SEIZURE DEMANDED BY ‘BIDDLE, JONES   Government Offcial Ad. mits Company Was Protecting Legal Rights   CABINET OFFICIALS ORDERED SOLDIERS

OFFICIAL TELLS OF SEIZURE OF PLANT   Company Officials ‘“Courteous,” Taylor Tells Committee

Ward Seizure ‘s Described   Taylor Calls Avery Actions ‘Courteous’

Helsinki May Be Sparring For Position   By Dewitt MacKenzie Aceariated Press War Analyst

Vritten. Today and Aoved by Telegroph Cable.   Hospital Saves Many Chinese During Year

[Press Of Finland Hostile Toward Peace ‘Proposals Submitted By Russia; Fear Of ‘Nazi Troops Back Of Finnish Hesitancy

The War Today— Finland's Capitulation Would Free: Red Armies For Final Blow On Nazis

FINNISH PRESS TAKES HOSTILE VIEW OF ARMISTICE TERMS LAID DOWN MOSCOW’S GOVERNMENT

FINLAND BELIEVED SPARRING FOR POSITION IN PEACE PARLEYS WITH RUSSIANS WHO HOLD KEY TO FATE   Finnish Capituletion Would Mean Much to Allied Cause As It Is Believed Bulgaria Might  Follow Suit. Both in Somewhat Similar Position

The War Today   Finns Seen Unlikely to Agree  TM. ’Mincannrve Arwmtetinn Tawra

Resistance Pockets Being Mopped Up  to Climax Operation   American Tanks Capture Avranches on the Threshold of Brittany; Seize Fine Atlantic Harbor and Turn Entire Nazi Fron?

Avranches, Granville Fall to U.S. Tank Columns; Eight German Divisions _ Shattered During 44-Mile Onslaught

INTER-AMERICAN ~~ MEET 1S PLANNED   All Western Hemisphere Nations Except Argentina Invited.

War contract ‘termination’ plan in effect   Preliminary step to demobilization

North Africa Training Site   Troops Are Preparing  fh en See ere pr meee

TROOPS DRILLING IN NORTH AFRICA   American, British and French Forces Preparing for Stabs at Germans

Allied Troops Undergo African Invasion Training   Preparing For Coming Assaults Across the Mediterranean; Yanks, British and French Mingle. .

DEMONSTRATION OF ORCHARD BUDDING   Buds That Were firatted Two Years Ago Show Good Growth. More Work to BE Dono

BRITISH EMPIRE STANDING SOLID      Churchill Explains Major  Reason For Commonwealth Conference Now In Progress In London.

British Parley Aims Bared: By Churchill   Conference to Remind World That Empire ‘Stands Together’

MASON CITYAN SELECTED FOR FEDERAL BENCH   Nomination Referred to Judiciary Group Before Senate Action

Nazis Try To Stop Allies Near Rome   But Fifth Army Is Routing Them With Bayonets And Shells

Germans Battle Desperately 15 Miles From Eternal City   DESPITE WAVE AFTER WAVE OF COUNTER BLOWS, AMERICANS ROUTING NAZIS WITH BAYONETS AND SHELLS; BRITISH THREATEN GERMAN COASTAL FLANK   (By the United Preece)

Americans Within 15 Miles Of Italian Capital; More Than 40,000 Nazis Reported Killed

300 OTHERS ARE INJURED   Two Large Vessels Blasted to Pieces At Dart Chicago (‘al

Yank Advance On Rhineland Threatens Metz   Fortress City May Be Encircled, Isolated

Overrun Key Hun Defenses on West Front      Patton’s Troops Canture Chateau Salins on Southern Flank of Metz Assault

Seven Divisions Threaten To Ring Germans At Metz   ‘Red Wedge Shatters Nazi  Tisza River Defenses:  Forli Taken By British

ANMORDIDUCO Wir Adah £UMI?  CITY WORKERS ACCEPT TERMS TO END STRIKE

American: Kill  650 JapsInBurmea   Campaign Cost Only Seven U. S. Men

REPORTS FROM BURMA FRONT   American Troops Have Suceess in Hukawng Valley — American and Chinese Fighting Successfully in Driying Japs Back.

AMERICANS KILL 650 JAPS SINCE ENTERING BURMA   300 Nips Mowed Down In Moonlight Attack When They Tried to  Croce River

Demo and GOP Chieftains Select Quotations Which They Believe Summarize Campaiqn

Japanese  Make Steady Gains In War With Chinese   Claim Further Advance Toward Vital Railway; Situation At Changsha  1s Reported Honelesce

Japs Advance Closer Upon Vital Railway   Drive Beyond Captured Chuchow, By-Pass Changsha andThreaten To Cut Last Line Of Retreat For Chinese Defenders.

Jap Forces Advancing ‘On Hengyang   Vital Canton-Hankow Railway Junction; Capture Three Other Strongholds

Japanese Get Reds Nea New Advance Viipuri C Against Rail As Fort 

JAPANESE LUNGE AHEAD IN CHINA   Enemy Forces Advance Below Chuchow—Chinese Admit Loss of Lungling

Stilwell Recall Bares Tempest  Qn China War   Brought About By Combination Of Political And Strategical Developments

Stilwell Recall Sign of Greatly Changed Siu  } ation in China  AN ORIENTAL TWIST     ase. . J ™ 9¢.9° #F   Military and Political Changes of Importance May Be Near

SECRECY STILL SHROUDS CHINA SITUATION FOLLOWING REMOVAL OF STILWELL AS COMMANDER

Chiang Demanded Stilwell Ouster To ‘Save Face’   Had Agreed to U. 5 Commanders and Cabinet Changes  = Pap aie!  it les i eee

U.S. Airmen Down 84 Nazi Fighters at Cost of 29 Bomber: 8 Fighters Also Fail  to Return After Raids on Holland

Targets AE Brunswick Gilze-Riten Ard North ern France Raided   GERMAN FIGHTERS IN FIERCEST DEFENSE

Yanks, Nazis Fight . Fierce Air Battle   Brunswick and Dutch Air Base Blasted During Vicious Running Conflict in the Skies—37 Allied Planes Lost to Over 80 for Nazis

BRUNSWICK, GILZE - RIJEN ARE BLASTED   In Coordinated Raids By Fly. ing Fortresses And Liberators; 84 Nazi Aircraft  Nouwned.   Marauder Lost

84 Nazis Shot Down On Raid   U.S. Loses 29 Big Bombers, 8 Fichters In Double Blow

Yanks Shoot Down  84 German Planes   Brunswick Given Knockout Blow by Big Armada of American Planes; 29 Bombers Fail to Return From Attack

Down 84 nazi eraft in blow onBrunswick   29 bombers, 8 fichters lost

mericans Set ecord in Day lack on Nazis   29 U. §. Bombers, 8 Fighters, Lost

ESCORT BAGS 30 FIGHTERS; AIRBASES HI]   FORTRESS CREWS GIVEN VICIOUS OPPOSITION

Americans Sweep 84 German Planes From Skies in Raids on Nazi Air Bases

 84. Nazi Planes Downed in Raid  By Americans   Yanks Lose 29 Borbers In Attack on Bruuswick And Air Base in Holland

AMERICANS DOWN B4 NAZI PLANES, LOSE 37 IN RAIDS   Heavy Blows Are Dealt Brunswick, Germany, and GilzeRijen Air Base in Holland.   VICIOUS RUNNING FIGHT STAGED OVER REICH   Enemy Sends Up 200 to 300 Craft to Put Up Stiffest Defense Yanks Have Met.

YANKS BAG 84 NAZI AIRCRAFT IN TWO RAIDS   37 U. S. Planes Lost in Brunswick, Holland Attacks

U.S. Bombers Hit City  of Brunswick   Down 84 German Fighters; 37 Planes Are Lost

Nazis Report Russians On German Soil   Entry Made Noon Yesterday, Enemy Broadcast Says

NAZIS, REDS AT ODDS AS TO ‘GERMAN SOIL’   Reich Map Makers Already Have Foes In Prussia

Soviets Deny They-Are On  German Soil   Nazi Map-makers Have Extended Boundaries Of East Prussia

Soviets Deny They-Are On:  German Soil      Nazi Map-makers Have. Extended Boundaries; Of East Prussia bee ee

‘Germans Ship Guns Back to Reich Nazis in North Italy Believed ‘Pulling Out

AFL IN OHIO BACKS FOR'S FOURTH TERN   Standing Vote Made After Three Hour Debate

OFL TO BACK FD FOR 4TH TERN   Asks All-Out Support to Reelect Roosevelt

74 New Polio Cases Reported   ‘Health Director Calls ‘Situation Alarming:

BECOMES BRIDE   Weds Glen Majorowicz on Tuesday Evening—To . Live in East 

TOOMSEN-KENINGER   Marriage Ceremony at St. Mary’ Church Tuesday.

Ceremony at  Grace Church   Alan B. DeRoss of  Congress Park Weds Eastern Girl

JOHNSON-HARMS NUPTIALS FRIDAY   Young Couple To Be At Home Near Akron  on Farm

Set. Majorowicz Weds Helen Hoefs  - Fellow Students At Western Union

Sgt. Majorowicz  Weds Helen Hoefs  -F ellow Students At  Weatern Unio:

YOUNG COUPLE EXCHANGED VOWS   MISS BETTY BOND AND KENNETH HARMS MARRIED IN ROCK FALLS >

GERMAN PEOPLE URGED T0 RALLY BEHIND HITLER   Goebbels Says Damage Fr \Wied Raids Will Be Cleared Away   FUEHRER OBSERVES 55th BIRTHDAY TODAY

Hitler Has An Uneasy Birthday   Celebrates Fifty-Fifth Birthday As D-Day Eve Appears Drawing Near.

ECLARES  ‘WAR. AIMS ‘CANNOT BE CHANGED   Goering Urges Steady Loyal. : &, to. Dictator ‘in’ More

Reich Observes Hitler’s Birthday, Hears Appeal for Lovaltv to Chief

TO GERMANS   Goebbels on Eve of Hitler Birthday Calls for Support of People

GOEBBELS PLEADS TO GERMAN PEOPLE   Minister Calls on Nation to Rally Behind Hitler —

Goebbels Defends Hitler on Eve of 55th Anniversary   Says Great Leaders All Have Setbacks

Nazis Greet Adolf Hitler On Birthday   Goebbels Appeals for Support, Admits Setbacks

Goebbels Voices Unusual Appeal  Urges Rally Behind . Bdolf Hitler

BACK FUEHRER, COEBBELS PLEA   Propaganda Chief Admits All Is Not Harmony Within Reich

Nazi Bosses Betray Anxiety by Appeals on Eve of Hitler's Birthday

VET. JO. RETURN. “AFTER 14 YEARS   “Former College” Professor _ “Eound’’ Driving Truck  in Eaet

Nazi Convoy estroyed  Off Norway   Nine Ships Blowr ‘Up or Sunk,  10th Run Ashore

GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE IN WARD SEIZURE   Avery Says Federal Agencies Conspired To Aid  “Unioneers”

WARD HEAD SCORES FEDERAL AGENCIES   Sewell Avery Tells How  Labor Troubles Were Fomented

BRITISH GAIN STRONG POINT NEAR KOHIMA   Jap Garrisons Trapped On Road Leading to Imphal

Deadly Land Mine Which Cannot Be Located by Detection Instruments ‘Makes Appearance on Italian Front

NEW LAND MINE ~ NAZT INVENTION   Ingenious Device Cannot Be Located By . Detectors

New Nazi Weapon Slows Italy Drive   New Land Mine Looks Like Bar of Soap; Undetected By Instruments.

MUST CONSIDER SCHEDULE   Vacations Wil] Be Determined by tion and Manpower

STAGE OF WAR IS BECOMING ‘DECISIVE’   Japanese People Told of Fighting ‘Two Hours Away

Marine Ace Major Joe Foss Again on Prowl for Japs: He Adds Another

Corn And Grain Show At Armory Opened Thursday  Exhibits In Nearly All Classes Are

Corn And Grain Show At Armory Opened Thursday  Exhibits In Nearly All Classes Are  Excellent

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS  Capture Of Myitkyina Would - Be Double Blow To Japs

Dems, GOP Chiefs Make Soldier-Vote  Ath Term Issue   Sen. Bridges Insists Ballots Have Names Of Nominees

German Peace Bids Fall Short   Reported Nazi : Peace Feelers Not Merely Rumors; Do Not Meet Allied De mand.

PEACE BIDS: CONTINUING, STALINSAYS   Fall So Far Short Of the Allied Stand Thev Fail

This Has Tendency Te _ Drive All Germans Closer: Together   UNITED" ‘IN E BONDS  OF DESPERATIOIN

Fire Nearly Destroys Town in Alaslka   Germans Launch Scores of Pilotless Planes  Against Britain but Damage Is Not Heavy

Germans Launch Scores of Pilotless Planes Against Britain but Damage Is Not Heavy

Americans Throw  Germans Back in  Italian F ighting Fifth Army Gets to Point 38 Miles From  P Srgpe, Mena P pt Pee   aS

YANKS TAKE FOLLONICA IN DRIVE ON PISA   French Colonials Fighting East Of Americans Score New Gains By Routing Nazis From Civitella Paganico

FOLLONICA SEIZED - IN ITALIAN DRIVE      American: Units Hurl the Nazis Back All Along Line

Fao SEIZED IN ITALIAN DRIVE      American Units Hurl the Nazis Back All Along  Line

Germans Thrown Back in lfaly   Americans Advance On City of Pisa

Fifth Army Makes Gain Near Pisa   Nazis May Be Evacuating Big Halian Port   Of Livorno

KING'S REPORT REVEALS MANY SHIPS DAMAGED   Official Report By Admiral Gives Details On Damage Done To More Than Score Of American War. ships.

U. 5. SHIPS DAMAGED IN WAR LISTED      King Reveals Names of More Than a Score— Most Hits Previously Reported, but Craft Were Not Identified.

Damage to More Than Score of American Warships Is Disclosed By Admiral King

KING REVEALS SHIP DAMAGE   Admiral Lists Warships Sunk Or Damaged

King Lists Damage To Navy Ships   Japs Hit Score, Report Reveals

New Disclosure  Reveals Score OfU.S. Ships Hit   Damage To American Craft In Pacific Battles Not Made Public Before

Damage To U.S. Warships Revealed By Admiral King   Report Shows Same Vessels Were Hit In Move Than Gre Actior In Pacifie Area

Pope on Radio Pleads Peace  Pontiff Says War Is Nearing Close; Mercy  ®t. II Ow YU newb

HOPE FOR NEW WORLD   Pope Pius Says: Humanity and "Justice Will Prevail

CAROLINES HIT. 37 TIMES   American Bombers Started Their Raids in Mid-January

British Pressure Government For Compromise Enc Of Civil War; Place ELAS Casualties At About 1,000

GREEK REBEL FORCES IN PEACE MOVE   British Reported Pressuring For Settlement

Ex-Premier Seeking Ow For Nation   Peince Stirbey To Meet Soviet, British: Missian

Demos Still In Muddie For FDR’s Mate      Both Wallace, Truman Forces Claim the President’s Support.

Balloting For Vice Presidency Will Begin Early Tonight   dannes: in Silent On Truman Letter   President Will Address Convention Sometime During Tonight

FD. R. Support for Truman Is Being Claimed   Wallace Forces at Convention Still Confident

FDR’s Position Secure as Both Wallace and Truman Backers Claim His Support

TO NOMINATE F.D.R. FOR FOURTH TERM   Wallace, Truman Forces Both Claim Backing of Chief

Lopez Resumes Power in Colombia   Officers Who Kidnapped President Are Taken

LOPEZ RESUMES COLOMBIAN ROLE   Rebel Kidnapers Captured In Frontier Village

REBELS SEIZED IN COLOMBIA   Kidnaped President To Resume Official Power

‘STOLEN’ COLOMBIA CHIEF FREED; REBEL LEADERS SURRENDER   Lopez Resumes Power After Revolt Is Smashed

Colombia..Revolt Leaders Jailed   Kidnaped President Returns to Power

TRIALS SET FOR REVOLT LEADERS   PRESIDENT LOPEZ TAKES REINS AFTER KIDNAPING

F.R. Names 4 Alternates To Wallace, Scribe Says   Wallace Text Overruled.

STILL FIRST CHOICE OF PRESIDENT   Letter Expresses Willingness To Accept Four Others .

Assault Greatest Of War   51 Bombers and 1° Fighters Are Lost In Titantic Raids

3.100 Allied Planes Blast  Nazi kurope   Oil And Production Centers Hit In Greater Coordinated Raids

Would Form Organization in _ Which All Free Countries Could Have Part

50 MILLION ~ TSOLATED ” IN BRITAIN   Isle Completely Cut Off as Invasion Precaution

7 . Britain Isolated As Invasion Nears   More Restrictions Are Placed On Travel To Prevent Leaks About The Invasion Plans

BRICKER HOME FOR REST BEFORE CAMPAIGN TaIPS   HASMANY SPEAKING DATES ON 8 C HED ULE—PLEASED WITH RECEPTION OF AC CEPTANCE SPEECH *.

Js Set to Sto Rum  Runners   Highway Patrol Campaign Gets Under Way

Run Competition to Liquor Monopoly   Most of Liquor Goes to . Des Moines Night Spots   Patrol DBictricic

Want Highway Patrol Districts Increased To Fourteen     State Capitol News Letter Aan Raviawad hv Gantinel’a

3 RAILWAY UNIONS CONDEMN OTHER 2 FOR ACCEPTING FDR ARBITRATION   Strikes and Labor Disturbances Big Handi cap To Country In War FE flart

Stettinius to Revamp State Department   New Assistants Are Sworn in After Confirmation

BRITISH AND POLES SEVER: GOTHIC LINE   Way Paved at 3 Points for Drive Between Apennines and  Adclrinatic

LL  Same Hote Hotel But Separate Meetings   Neither Wentz Nor Halliburton Getting Out of Race

Same Hofel But Separate Meetings   Neither Wentz Nor Halliburton Getting Out of Race

IT’S GOOD FOR CROPS   Moderately Warm Week End With No Rain Forecast

Montgomery Ward Probes Assured   House Approval” Of Move Forecast

Congress to Act On Seizure Of Ward Co. Soon   Separate Probes By House, Senate Virtually Assured

BRICKER RAPS TRUMAN SHIFT   ‘Says Dem’s Second Choice Cited FDR As Cause of Confusion Waste

BRICKER DECLARES TRUMAN HIMSELF CLAIMED ROOSEVELT ‘ADMINISTRATION LAX IN DETERMINING WAR POLICIES

Truman’s Criticism Of F.D.R. Administration: Quoted By Gov. Bricker

Bricker Quotes  Truman Article o  Confusion at Top Charges Adminisiration With  Inadequate Planning, Delay © in Formulshns War Paliriec

BRIGKER CITES TRUMAN TALKS   Charges Administration With Inadequate Plans

Says Truman  Rapped FDR   Bricker Quotes Article Finding Confusion Tht War Effort

DEATH RELEASES SIAMESE TWINS   TINY BLONDE GIRLS FAIL TO SURVIVE PNEUMONIA ATTACK

SIAMESE TWINS DIED TODAY IN PENNSYLVANIA   Doomed Never to Have A Separate Existance, Death Came As A‘ Re lease to Stierly Twins

Siamese Twins Lese Six-Day Fight For Life; Largest Of Oddly-Joined  Sisters Dies First; Had Pneumonia

DEATH COMES TQ SIAMESE TWINS   Largest of Girls Dies First Keep Word from Mother

PRACTICES HIT IN COMMITTEE REPORI   investigation tion by Depart: ment of Justice Asked _ by Farmers -

BELGIANS GLAD TO SEE ALLIES   Correspondent Greene Not So Sure About The Dutch Welcome.

TO END CONTRACTS   Bill Establishes Procedure in 200 Millions of War Work

Congress Votes  On Plan To End  War Contracts 200 Billions  Are Involved

Defeat Hidden From Jap People   Tokyo Radio Declares Fighting Continues In Marshalls

Yanks Capture Kawjalein in Marshall Islands  Jap Dead Listed 2.01309 and   Jap Dead Listed At 8,122 and Americans at 286

JAP MARSHALL TOLL IS 8,122   Capture of Kwajalein Cost _ the Lives of Only 286 U.S. Servicemen

NAVY BLASTED PATH 10 EASY MARSHALL WIN   Nimitz Reveals Terrific Bombardment Resulted in Death of 8.122 Japs at Cost of 286 Americans.

Japs At Home Kept In Dark   NO WORD OF PACIFIC _ LOSSES GIVEN TO ' PUBLIC

MORE THAN 8,000 JAPS KILLED AS YANKS CAPTURE MARSHALLS    American Losses Only 286 as Result of Naval Bombardment  That Wiped Out All Life on Kwajalein Atoll Before Invasion;  Japan Blacked Out After Naval Blasting of Homeland

NIMITZ SETS U. 5. DEAD AT 286   Campaign Is Called Most Perfectly Executed   Continue Raids On Rabaul: Admiralty Islands, Thailand Hit

JAPS NOT TOLD OF HEAVY LOSS   Home Front Will Be Shocked To Learn of Defeat in Marshalls

BRITON LAUDS U.S. ASSAULT IN MARSHALLS   Royal Navy Commander Terms It Most Perfectly Executed He Has Ever Seen—Jap Nation in Dark on T ngcad

U. §. Victory Stunning Blow fo Japanese   Marshall Conquest Cost Enemy 8,!22 Dead As Against 286 for U.S.

Japs Not Told Of Atoll Loss   American Dead Totals 286 Compared With 8,122 Japanese

Jap Homeland Kent In Dark Over Disaster   Casualty List Show. One-Sided Battle Paramushiro Is No ‘Invasion’

Japs Stunned By Yank Blows      Kwajalein “Drive . Costs Enemy 8,122 Dead

Jap Losses On Marshalls Very Heavy   Dead Exceed Those of Ameri_ cans by 20 to 1; 264 Enemy Soldiers Have Been Taken Prisoner ;

Nips Silent On Yank Victory   Japs Lose 8,122 To 286 American Dead In Capture Of Kwajalein Island.

JAPS SILENT ABOUT DEFEAT AT KWAJALEIN   Comparison of Casualty Figures Shows Thoroughness of American Victory  on Island   ENEMY LOSSES 8,122

THE MARSHALLS BOX SCORE! 8,122 Japanese Killed In Kwajalein Fight;  286 Yanks. Slain   Jap Homeland: Remains In Dark About Stunning Nipponese Defeat; Perfectly Executed Amerjean Action Wins Hich Praise

Kwajalein Death Score--Japs 8,122, Americans 286   Nipponese Homeland Still Not Informed Of U. S. Victory in Marshall Islands

KWAJALEIN CAPTURE BY AMERICAN FORCE WAS BIG VICTORY  JAPANESE DEAD, 8,122; AMERICAN DEAD, 286, IS CASUALTY RATIO

WITHHOLD NEWS FROM JAPS OF MARSHALL LOSS   Kill Nips at 28 to 1 Ratio ir Swift Victory; U. S. Dead Total 286

 JAPANESE HOMELAND REMAINS IN DARK ON STUNNING DEFEAT ASBATTLELOSSES TABULATED   Air and Naval Bombardment Preceding Marshalls “Invasion Was One of Most Terrible in. History. Jap Loss in Dead, Wounded and Missing Heavy

Nothing Is Left Alive   Kwajalein Barrage Simply Wiped Out Every Living Thing

Tokyo Fails To Tell of Big Defeat   Total Cost of Victory To U. S. Reported By Adm. Nimitz

Japs Not Told of Kwajalein Defeat   U. S. Loses Two More Submarines

Chest Campaign To Open Sunday   Formal Ceremonies To Inaugurate Drive

CHEST OPENS SUNDAY   Volunteer Workers to Attend Dinner-Meeting At Whitcomb

RINGED FORCES SHUN DEMANDS FOR SURRENDER   Patton Smashes Nazi Lines on Both Sides of Road to Belfort .

U.S. Soldiers Called Upon to Remove Large Mail Order Plant President Who Refuses to Comply With a Dir ective From Pres. Roosevelt,   Refuse to Turn Over Books So That Government Could Operate Plant

Ward Head F louts U.  . Directives             Military’ Detachment: In Plant — tae: Takin ~ Charge ~"

TWO SOLDIERS CARRY AVERY OUT OF BUILDING   Army Detail Seizes Mail Order House in Carrying Out FDR Labor Order

Army Used To Con: trol Montgomery .. " Ward Company ~ LABOR TROUBLE Action Caused By Re. fusal Of Head To™  Conform

Manager Resists Order'to Leave “His Office and {s Carried Bodily Out

Avery Carried From Office. By Soldiers After Biddle — Makes Plane Trip to Chicago   Chairman of Maif Order Company Refuses to Cooperate as U.S. Takes Over Chicago Properties

Ward Co. President Carried Bodily Out Of Chicago Building   Action Follows Government Seizure of Mail Order House In Labor Dispute; Troops On Guard As Biddle Directs Proceedings

Carried Bodily From Office : When He Refuses To Yield. To U. S. Seizure of Plant

Head of Ward's Ejected From Chicago Office   Government Takes Over Concern in Labor Dispute Move

Troops Throw Avery Out Of His Office   Montgomery Ward's Chief Refuses To Yield Control

—FIRM SEIZURE—  SOLOIERS CARRY HIM FROM PLANT   Refusal To Cooperate Brings Removal Order, Says Biddle   U.S. IN CHARGE   Government Official Takes Over Operation Of Chicago Firm

MONTGOMERY WARD'S MANAGER FORCIBLY EJECTED FROM OFFICE  SEWELL AVERY REFUSED TO YIELD AUTHORITY TO PRESIDENTIAL ORDER

Chairman Avery Is Carried Out of His Office by Soldiers   Militant Foe of WLB Re. fuses to Admit Its Authority

‘AVERY FORCIBLY - JECTED FROM HIS OFFICE IN CHICAGC   Montgomery Yard & Co, Man. ager Was Carried From the Store Office.   FAILED TO COOPERATE?   Attorney General Biddle Is in Chicago in Charge of Proceedings.

‘Sewell Avery Bodily Ejected ‘Government Seizes Chicage ‘Montgomery Ward Property

WARD PRESIDENT IS CARRIED OUT   U. S. Troops, Taking Over Montgomery - Ward Company, Find It Necessary To Forcibly Remove President Avery From His Of fi nae

 Army Troops Take Over Control f Montgomery Ward Plant: Company Claims Seizure Is Unjustified

Firm Operated By Goverment   Biddle 11 Scene Te Direct Federal Ferces’ Activities

GOVERNMENT NOW RUNNING WARD STORES   Soldiers Patrol hicago Plant; Heavily Avined

Eviction Takes Place After Avery Refuses Requests Made By Attorney General

TROOPS TAKE OFFICIAL OUT OF BUILDING   Chairman of Large Mail Order House Refuses to Yield to Authority of President   BIDDLE IS IN CHICAGO

Avery Defies Federal Order Involving Plant   Biddle Asserts Government Will Run Business In Its Own Manner

Attorney General Francis Biddle and Crew of Assistants Arrive in Chicago to Enforce Government Demands on Firm Which Defied Executive Order to Sign

Federal Government Now In Control Of Montgomery Ward   Detachment Of Troops Takes Possession Of Chicago Plant; Business To Continue As Usual: Presidential Order Defied.

Ward Executive Ejected In Row With Governmen’   Biddle In Legal . Command; Troops Patrol! Plant

SOLDIERS EJECT PLANT HEAD. FROM OFFICES   Carry Sewell Avery Bodily Out Of Montgomery Ward Building

MONTGOMERY WARD'S MANAGER FORCIBLY EJECTED FROM OFFICE  SEWELL AVERY REFUSED TO YIFLD AUTHORITY TO

Ward Head Flouts U. S.  Directives   Military Detachment In Plant — Taylor Taking Charge

SOLDIERS OUST SEWELL AVERY, HEAD OF WARDS   ‘Refused to Cooperate Says Biddle, Who Gave Order

Montgomery Ward Head “Given the Boot’ by Soldiers   Is Forcibly Ejected From Own Offices When He Ignores Roosevelt Order

WLB Faces Crisis In Ward Co. Seizure    Army Takes Over Chicago Plant When Belligerent Head of _ Concern Defies Government Edict Concerning Labor

Biddle Says Firm's Head Had Refused to Co-operate   Attorney General Takes Command of Legal Aspects of Seizure After Troops Carrv Out Roosevelt Order for Seizure

FAILS T PRESIDENT’ DIRECTIVE   Montgomery Ward Property Patrolled By Troops   GOVERNMENT   To Remain In Control Until Situation Again Becomes Normal

TEMPERATURES:   WL  IN WARD’S SEIZURE  B FATE AT STAKE   [Avery Forcibly Ejected From Offices

Wards Head Carried Out By Soldiers   Avery Still Refuses To Admit Any Government Right to Plant Seizure

Avery Carried ‘ForciblyFrom Own Offices   Refuses. to ‘Yield Books of Seized Firm or Obey President   BIDDLE IN CHARGE   Soldiers Patrol Property —Retail Store Open for Business

AVERY CARRIED OUT OF BUILDING   Soldiers Have To Use Force To Eject  Ward Head

Sewell Avery, Montgomery Ward Head, Ousted Bodily EF rom Office:By Soldiers

Head of Montgomery Ward Defies Government in Dispute with WLB; US Army in Control

Montgomery Ward Co. Manager Taken. From Plant By Soldiers; Prestige Of WLB Seen Risked

AVERY FORCED. OUT OF PLANT ~ BY SOLDIERS   SERGEANTS CARRY CHAIRMAN OF BOARD OF MAIL ORDER HOUSE OUT OF ‘ BUILDING .

Army Ejects Head Of Ward Company   Montgomery Ward Man Thrown Out After Military Takes Over

U.S. GOVERNMENT  TAKES CHARGE OF  MAIL ORDER FIRM AVERY CARRIED OUT  BY SOLDIERS WHEN HE RESISTS SEIZURE

U.S. Troops Eject Company Head In WardPlant Battle   Avery Carried Bodily From Building In Chicago Wher He Refuses To Yield To Government’s Seizure; Roosevelt Acts As Chairman Stands Firm

SOLDIERS CARRY CHAIRMAN OUT   Campany Chairman Refused to Yield to Authority Of Roosevelt.   GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE

Montgomery Ward President Forcibly Ejected By Troop:   Army Seizes Mail Order Plant; Avery. President Of Firm, Defies FDR

Ward's Head Taken From Office By 2 Soldiers   Forcibly Removed When He Refuses Te Cooperate, Says Biddle’s Resume

Ward Chief Thrown Out Of Plant   “Ejected Bodily” Upon Refusal to Cooperate _ With Government Of ficials Now In Charge

Ward President Loses Fight To Federal Troops   Nation’s Second Largest Mail Order Firm Taken Over by Government to Enforce Order   Legality Of Move Is Sul Disputed   Avery Carried From Office by Soldiers Stationed on Property: Biddle Backs Roosevelt

Soviet Pianes Smash at Rail Junction   Lull on Long Land Front Enters Ite Saraond Waar

Soviet Bonihers Open Fire on latvian Rorde   Stalin Makes Announce ment in Triumphant May Day Speech

Red Planes Hit Rail Hub Near Latvian Border   Lull on Land Front Enters Second Week; Stalin Says Twin Blow Can Crush Germany

SOVIET FLIERS RAID JUNCTION   Explosions Set Off At Latvian Border; Lull Continues

RAIL JUNCTION IS BLASTED BY RED BOMBERS   Big Fires, Explosions Set Off at Idrista  Near Latvia Line

U. S. Fliers Sink 16 Jap Ships; Bag 72 Aircraft   Wipe Out Heavy Cruiser, Destroyer Damage Five Other Vessels In Fifth November Raid on Luzon

72 NIPPONESE AIRCRAFT ARE ALSO BLASTEL   Over 250 Foe Vessels Now Immobilized  By Third Fleet

Following Failure Of Latest Cassino Offensive, Anzio Beachhead Is Now Regarded As Liability

Anzio Beachhead Named Liability  Military Authorities Concede Cassino

Anzio Beachhead Seen As Liability as Cassino Drive Fails   Ground Situation in Italy Said to Be Secur But Is Difficult From Military Standpoint; Weather Hinders Air Operations

Cassino Drive Meets Failure   Anzio Beachhead Now Liability; Situation May Not be so Serious

CONCEDE FAILURE OF NEW CASSINO DRIVE  THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD IS NOW REGARDED AS VIRTUALLY A LIABILITY

Ground Situation in Italy Said to Be Secure But Is Difficult From Military Standpoint; Weather Hinders Air Operations

Fights Break Out In French Capital As Yankees Near   Patriots Increase Action Against Germans; Control One Whole Province

WOULD INDUCT MEN, DIRECT  THEM 10 JOBS   Patterson Says All Who Refuse Could Be Put in Work Units

UNDERSECRETARY OF WAR ADVOCATES 4-F'S BE PLACED  IN ENLISTED RESERVE. AND GIVEN JOBS °.

Allied Ships May Bolster Red Fleet   Russia in a Deal For Dozen British and American  Warships.

ITALY’S FLEET TO REMAIN I HOME WATERS   To Release More Than 30 U. S. and British Ships to Reds

Berlin Area Again Hit By U. S. Bombers   Its Second Attack In Two Days; 125 Nazi Planes Downed Wednesday

Fires Still Are Burning From Powerful Raid of Tuesday.   NO MAJOR CHANGE ON ITALIAN FRONT

American Heavy Planes Back To German Capital   Large Number of Planes in Armada That Took 30 Minutes To Cross Channel; Yesterday’s Air Battle Over Berlin Netted 125 Nazi Planes Shot Down.

TODAY’S WAR ANALYSIS  Loss Of Bases In China Real Blow To Allies

HOLLAND HIT BYU.S. BOMBS   Force of German Planes Manages to Drop Incendiaries Near London

INVASION COAST BLASTED AGAIN   Incendiary Bombs Dropped on London by Nazis

GERMAN FIGHTER BASEIN HOLLAND POUNDED BY YANKS   In Another Daylight Attack Targets in Northern France Pounded by RAF and Allied Bie rate

London Hit: Allied Planes Pound France   Fifteen Nazi Bombers Break Through To Rain Incendiaries

LONDON AREA IS FIRED BY INCENDIARIES   Fifteen of 50 or 60 Nazi Planes Which Cross the Channel Reach Capita! District—Allies Attack Base in Holland. 

LONDON HIT BY GERMAN BOMBS TODAY   Nazi Claims Are Disputed; RAF Stops Raid

Allies Pound Nazi Fighter Base In Raid Over Holland   Attack Was 5th In Eighteen Days

Yanks Biast Plane Base In Hollanc   Parts of London Suffer Damage and Casualties _-in Nazi Raid

BERLIN RADIO ‘LEVELS’ LONDON IN WORD ATTACK   Actually Only 15 Planes Break Through British Defenses To Hit Capital

Blast German  Base In Holland   German Night Raiders Scatter Incendiaries Over London.

GERMAN FIGHTER BASE IN HOLLAND POUNDED TODAY   0. S: Thunderbolt Fighter Bombers Did Not Lose a “Plane.   LONDON WAS HIT AGAIN   Nazi Night Raiders Scattered Incendiaries Over London, It Is Stated.

Nazi Fighter Base Attacked   U.S. Planes Strike  At Rnemve In Uolland

Bombers  Speed Attacks   No Let-up in Air War On Nazis; Hit Back at London.

BERLIN BOASTS OF NEW RAID IN LONDON AREA   Incendiary Bombs Fall in Suburbs As U. S. Planes Today Blasted Nazi Fight er Base in Holland

Americans Pound  Base In Holland   German Night Raiders Set London Fires

FIGHTER BASE   Target in Holland Is Hit By U. S. Bombers; No Loss Reported.

Nazi Base In Holland Raid Target   German Planes Scatter Inéendiaries Over Lon- “don In. Night Attack -.

YANKS POUND NAZIS’ BASE IN HOLLAND   Berlin Claims London Bombed In Great Force

Thunderbolts Hit Nazi Fighter Base in Holland  Air Armada Delivers Vicious Blow,  eae  Steele =a  teem

Americans Hit Base in Holland   German Raiders Drop Incendiaries In London Area

U.S. Planes Pound Holland Base With No Loss; British Down Invaders

U. S. Planes Flail Base in Holland   Blow Struck Without Loss; Nazis Scatter Bombs on London

Bombers Raid Fighter Base   Thunderbolts Pound Base At Gilze-Rijen In Holland Without Loss.

U, §, THUNDERBOLT FIGHTER-BOMBERS IN NAZI AIRBASE BLAST  GERMANS RAID LONDON ___ AREA LAST NIGHT, BUT

NAZIS CLAL BIG FIRE BOME LONDON RAID   British Belittle Size of Attack as American Planes Hit German Fighter Base in France Today.

ENEMY FIGHTER BASE BLASTED BY U.S, PLANES   Gilze-Rizen, Holland, Given Hard Pounding—Germans Raid London Anew

YANKS POUND ENEMY BASE; LONDON HIT      Incendiaries Dropped On British Capital; Coastal Area Raided

POUND NAZI AIR BASE IN HOLLAND   SMALL FORCE OF GERMAN BOMBERS ATTACK LONDON

Nazi Base in Holland Hit Again   Americans. Make New Raid Without Loss; Germans in Raid on London Area~   INCENDIARY BOMBS -ON COASTAL ARES   Today’s .- Actions .- Follow -. Heavy Blast. at: French “Invasion Coast

UJ. 5, THUNDERBOLT FIGHTER-BOMBERS IN NAZI AIRBASE BLAST  GERMANS RAID LONDON AREA LAST NIGHT, BUT DAMACE SLIGHT

Foray Answered by Allied Fliers With Heavy Fighter Bomber Attack on Holland

Dutch Airport Used By Reich . Fliers Bombed   U. S. Thunderbolt Fighter Bombers Carry Out Raids  Early Today With Loss Of Plane   Huns Drop Bombs In England Aréas   Attack Touted By Berlin As Made By “Several Hundred Planes;” Not Over Sixty Used

Thunderbolts Attack Nazi Dutch Base   Germans Send ancs With Fire Bombs Over London

Thunderbolts Raid Holland   Attack German Fighter Base After Night Nazi Attack on London

Thunderbolts Hit Nazi Fighter Base in Holland   Air Armada Delivers Vicious Blow, Returns Home Scfe

BASE IN HOLLAND RAIDED AS NAZIS: ~ BLAST AT LONDON      Considerable Force of German Bombers  Attack London  ~   SIX OF RAIDERS ARE SHOT DOWN

Nazi Fighter Base In Holland Blasted. .... Thunderbolts Strike At Continent As Germans  Drop Bombs On London

THUNDERBOLTS STRAFE NAZI FIGHTER BASE   London Crowds Waich Fireworks as 50 to 60 German Planes Dump Incendiaries in Suburban Areas

ENDORSE GAS COUPONS OR LOSE RATION BOOK      Investigators Will Be Around Making Cheek of All Conpons In Gas Huyer’s Possession

Nation-wide Gasoline Coupon Check Planned by OPA to Start on March 6

Exdorse Gas Coupons or Lose Ration Books   oPA Will Make Check of Gasoline Books

OPA WILL MAKE SPOT CHECK OF RATION BOOKS   Could Lose Gas Coupons If They’re Not Properly:  Endorsed.

U.S. Accuses Argentina of  Proaxis Beni Minister ‘Replies  Yk g a pce a cette   Minister Replies Present Course . Will Continue

DRAFT ORDER FOLLOWED IN VARIOUS WAYS   State Boards Halt In2 duction of Older Men Tomorrow

BOARDS CONFUSED BY DRAFT RULING   No Set Pattern Is Followed in Order Delaying inductions

Services Held for 61 Unidentified Victims of Explosion at Cleveland

Yanks Deepen Wedges in Nazis West Wall, But Armored Spearheads May Yet Encounter More Rigid Defenses; Report Fighting in Aachen Streets

First Army Cuts Nazis’ West Wall   Breach in Siegfried Defenses Deepened and Widened Today

ALLIES BREAK THROUGH LINE NEAR AAGHEN   Great Siegfriec Fortification  May Be Fake

DEEPEN 2 OTHER WEDGES; EFFECT FOURTH CROSSING   GERMAN BROADCAST REPORTS FIGHTING IN STREETS OF AACHEN

Allied Staff Hints Break-Through In West Wall Looms   U.S. First Troops May Have Fought Into Aachen Base; Berlin Says Patton’s Forces Approach Rhine; Fourth Crossing Of Border Announced

- Wide Hole Torn in. Defenses At. Aachen, While Third Army Fights Through Voges

STATE PURCHASING SIXTH LOAN BONDS   Frederick And Nearby Counties Will Be Credited With $394,500 Of $6,600,000 Total

lexas Faculty Renews Stand   FDR, DEWEY BOTH MAKE MAJOR SPEECHES TONIGHT

VETS OPPOSE “SCET PEACE   Legion Adopts Resolutions And Names Albany Man New Commander   Caruso on Trial Shakes As Horror Story is Told

Caruso Trembles At Trial for Life   Admits Hostages Given To Nazis for Slaying

Important Witness in Opium-Smuggling Case Reported Shot During Quarrel

Girl Witness In Dope-Running Probe Is Shot   Arrested in El Paso Last Month With $24,000 Payment

ITALIAN LAND FRONT QUIET   Patrol Activity Is Stressed  em eee  Bombs Rock Southern France

ink Jap Ship = Lu In Davao Gulf (   Lull In Fighting ull Onltalian Fror   Air Force Bombers Shift Assaults To Nazi Bases In Southern France Ry FAMERS FT. KRAVCL ALIEN

HMAN- INSTALLATIONS IN . RHONE VALLEY ARE TAF- _ GET OF MA8SED ‘AIR.  poinen BLOWS +”

BUCKS CORN YIELD WILL BE SHORT THIS SEASON   Attempts Made to Salvage Crop By Placing It in Silos   SUB-SOIL IS AFFECTED

CORN CROP TAKES A CHANGE FOR WORSE   Situation in Bucks County Serious, Says W. F.  Greenawalt

HITLER IS TOLD BREST NEAR END   Nazi Commander’ Radios Bad News To Nazi Leader: Fires Rage In City.

Finnish Press Asks. Citizens  To Keep Cool   Move For Peace Seen  ane  Newspaper

uu. = Prepares ToPut Workers  On Peace Basis   Plans Developed To Re. convert) Functions Of Government

3RD ARMY DRIVES TO WITHIN 12 ML. OF 1ST ARMY   Gains of 1 to 6 Miles Hammered Out as Nazis Driven Back Across Luxembourg Border in Germany

First, Third Armies Only 12 Miles Apart   U. S. Guns Pour Shells Into Pocket; Sneed of Armored Drive Increasine:

‘Patton Directs 100,000 Men In Flanking Drive   Yanks Roll Forward With Increasing Speed; Nazis Fall Back From Luxembourg  ea~ep =. =a eeeer «a. oe we ent tanwe.s. ee

Converging U. S. Armies Less Than 12 Mi. Apart, Shell Foe In Ardennes   Patton Attacks With 100,000 Men, Hundreds of Tanks, Hammers Out One To 6 Mile Gains

PATTON'S MEN MAKE GAINS OF 1 T0 6 MILES   Nazi Troops Are Driven Back Across Luxembourg Border Into Reich.

100,000 TROOPS AND HUNDREDS OF TANKS PERIL NAZI SALIENT   3rd Army Attacks On 45Mile Front, Narrowing Belgium Bulge; Yanks Halfway Across German Pocket   Re  FDWART MIRRAY

TWO MILE GAIN SCORED BY ALLIES ~ONTTALIAN FRONT   French Forces Capture Ac quafandata ‘Northeast at Cassino.

GERMANS INRETREAT ON ALL SECTORS   Encirclement Of Germans In Marshes Looms

AWAIT WORD ON VICE PRESIDENCY   Roosevelt May Give Weak Endorsement To Wallace

EXPECT ROOSEVELT LETTER TO CLEAR DEMS’ V. P. MUDDLE   “Recommendation” on Selection of Fk, PD. 1944  Running Mate Avwvited   sienna  Cuffer Racks Wallace. Delewates Interested

Argentine Policy Called Unchanged   Foreign Minister Issues Statement

Argentina Not To Change Policy   Government To Continue Strict Observance of Its Pledge Toward Neuttalitw.

HIT BRITISH IN EFFORT 10 BREAK TRAP   Attock Along 10-Mile Front After Artillery Barrage

BRITISH NEAR MAAS RIVER IN BIG PUSt   Canadians Extend Gains Despite Savage Foe Resistance

SOUTH BEVELAND BEING OVERRUN BY CANADIANS   Pocket South Of Schelde Is Doomed, Shrinking

Nazi Assault Runs Into Fire Curtain on Holland Sector   Desperate Attack on 10. Mile Front Fails, Front Line Says

FIRE GREET GERMANS   Von Model Is Making Desperate Attempt To Avoid Pincers

Attempt To Break British Pincers Along A Ten-Mile Front On Holland Frontier

Nazis Make  Heavy Attack On Salient O% British Army   Canadians Land On South Beveland And Set Up Beachhead In Move Toward Antwerp

Germans Loose Counterattack Against British   Von Model Striving to Re  eve Forecs Caught In Tightening Pincers .   Yankees Attempt To Make Landing   Canadian Forces Establish Seven-Square-Mile Beachhead On Beveland

Nazi Thrust. Is Launched   Von Model: Attempts: To Relieve Germans

Germans In Holland  Desperate   Trying to Relieve Forces Caught in Series of Pincers; Canadians Reinforce

--WEST FRONT—  Tope To Avert Closing Of Allied Trap In Antwerp Fighting   Charging Germans ans Met By Wall Of-Fire And Steel; Canadians Are Belintoncet By ‘Newly- Landed PRrtich Penans’. ~

Von Model Counter - Attacks On 10 Mile Front Trying To Escape Allied Pincers —

Try Desperately Te Relieve Pincer Movement  NEAR ANTWERP  German Attack Runs Into Wall Of Fire -

ATTACK MEETS FIRE AND STEEL OF U.S. TROOPS   Canadians On Schelde Front Reinforced By English; Allies Capture Base

NAZIS FIGHT HOLLAND TRAP   Launch Fierce Counterattack Along 10-Mile Front

Germans Attack On Holland Front   Counterdrive Launched by Enemy Runs Into Wall of Fire and Steel

Nazis Strike To Break Pincers   Bridgehead Formed By British and Canadian Troops

YANK SECTORS STILL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT   British and Canadians ir Fierce Battles To Get Antwerp Port Control

Von Model Hits With Strenath, But Strikes Wall  Attack Is Speared Fr om Holla nd Town On Venlo On Borde:

Nazis Counterattack  In Holland Battle   Attempt Runs into Wall of Fire; British Landing on S. Beverland  Reinforcee Canadian Advancrec

German Lines Hold Against . Counterblows At Holland Salient As Germans Seek To Escape Trap.

NAZIS ATTEMPT COUNTERATTACK ON VENLO LINE   Trying To Free Forces Caught In Holland

Counterattack By Nazis Hits British Troops   Measure Is Attempt To Relieve Forces Caught in Tight Holland Pincers

[ARMY PLAN-TO PUT OUT BOOKS ON RACE [EQUALITY NIPPED   House Military Committee After Investigation of Affairs Officially Bans Plan

RACIAL EQUALITY PUBLICATION WILL STAY IN STORAGE   “The Races of Mankind”  _ Proposed For Use of Army  - In Orientation Cause Is te Be Watched. .   MILITARY COMMITTEE ACTS BEFORE ISSUING   Kentucky Representative Is gues’ Statement’ to Give  Motive. Behind Plan to Teach Equality.

Axis Jubilant Over FD Move   Labor Draft ‘Weakness’ Or Dictatorship Move

London Hails FDR’s Draft Labor Move   Axis Radio Broadcasts Says It Is Sign Of Dictatorship

British Praise  FDR Message      Call It a “Challenge To American People” ; Axis Cries “Dictator”

VARIED REACTION ~—TOFA'S MESSAGE      London Papers Praise President's Request for National Service Act,

Capt. Richard . Bong Proclaimed J. §. ‘Ace of Aces’; Shoots Down 127th Jap Plane In Air Combat

Wisconsin Farmboy Gets 26, 27th Planes Bong Proclaimed American Ace

Wisconsin Boy Richard Bong, Ace of Aces   Gets 27 Jap Planes in Sk  Ti whitnw One Cath igang VItr GOiuk  DManihn:

CAPT. BONG IS CALLED ‘ACE OF ACES’   Has Bagged 27 Enemy Planes in Actual Combat ©

Democrats Talk At Union League  aiVaArnarc Entactminad   Governors Entertained By Phila. Republicans

OHIOAN IS CANDIDATE FOR SECOND PLACE   New Yorker Presented as Man Best Qualified to Drive Out New Deal.   BULLETIN

DEWEY GETS REPUBLICAN NOMINATION   Bricker, Stassen Withdraw For Party Harmony

Aurora Calls Off “Leap Year Day” Because of Shortage of Bachelors

SECURITY SYSTEM COST TO BE LESS   Board Discovers Billions of Dollars V7ill Be Saved

BOARD SEEKS “INCREASE IN — SOCIAL TAXES   REPORTS COST OF OLD AGE ANNUITY SYSTEM WILL BE BILLIONS BELOW ESTIMATE

een SYSTEM COST TO BE LESS.   Board Discovers Billions of Dollars. ill Be Saved. 

ASKS HIKE THEN PAY TAX FREEZE   Security Board Finds Costs To Be Billions Under Estimate

Japs Plan to Leave Burma   Air Force Discloses Enemy Retreating From Mandalay Toward Bangkok

Japanese are Evacuating  All of Burma   Leaving Behind Only Suicide Units At Key Points

Japs Fall Back In Burma Area  Believed Enemy Ma Evacuate District

Drafting of Men Gver 26 Halted Pending New Play  Only Persons in Non-Vital Work   Only Persons in Non-Vital Work May Be Inducted

Report Nation's Huge Shell: Program May Be In For Temporary Cutback

Survey Shows Soldiers Abroad Want to Vote  Army Newspaper   Army Newspaper Urges Congress To Enact Measure

Yanks Reported Anxious To Vole   Stars and Stripes Demands Action

Soldiers Request Uniform VoteLaw   Soldiers In Combat Theatre Vote Overwhelmingly for Participation In U. 5. Elections.

SOLDIERS WANT BALLOTING LAW   Senate Measure Called Disappointing By The Stars And Stripes

U, S, AGREES. 10 ASSIST SPAIN   Export Of Foodstuffs To Great Britain Will Be Aided By U. S.

U.S. HELP FOR SPAIN PLANNED   Exports To Aid Economy 0 Nation Get Approval

Virginia Press Hears General      Vandeerift Tells Member: Japan Is Being Jolted  Hard And Often

FOUR CITIES ARE TAKEN BY ALLIES. ~ REPORT REVEALS   Two-Thirds «of Normandy. Beachhead Held By Bradley's Forces, Armor Ring Is Put Around Caen.   ALLIES PROBABLY OUY=. NUMBER ARMY OF ENEMY   Churchill, Other Top-Ranking Military Leaders Visit Respective Troops to Make Observations.

Germans Mass A Fourth Of All Their Armies On Invasion Line   STREET FIGHTING NOW IN PROGRESS   Caen, The Most Stubborn Strong Point Encountered In Invasion

Yanks Reported to Be Half Way Across Peninsula   Germans Rally Around Carentan  and Monteboura ~*

Troops Approach Vital Nazi Held  Peninsula Port   Fighting Reaches New Peaks As American Army Pushes Forward

Germans Rally At Montebourg And Carentan   Street Fighting Reported Under Way In Both Towns After Allied Capture

Invaders Seize Pont LAbbe   American Armies Slash Half Way Across Norman Peninsula; U. S. Patrols Probe Cherbourg Port Defended by 15 Divisions

PATROLS ARE REPORTED PROBING APPROACHES TO BIG PORT OF CHERBOURG

Allies Report Capture Of Half Dozen Towns Around Vital Port  ,   Nazis Fight Back Into Two Cities   Fighting Reported Resumed In Carentan And Montebourg

Capture 3 ‘Villages On Paris-Cherbourg Road: Occupy Montebourg   Patrols Probe Approaches To Port As Allies Threaten St. Lo; Fierce Fight At Caen

Nazis Rally However At Some Points.   STREET FIGHTING REPORTED =” IN CARENTAN; MONTEBOURG AND PONT L’ABBE FALL TO ALLIES *-

HEARINGS ON BiG ~ SIOUX AND FLOVD   War Dept.: Announces July 18 and 19 For Talk On Plans

HENKE NAMED TA GOP COMMITTEE   Charles City Man Chosen by Third District.

RAID ON NIP CAPITAL MADE IN MID-DAY   Industrial Region Believed Hit by Superfortresses

Kanfo Area of Nip Capital Hit By B-29's, Claim   Attack is First Since Doolittle Raid of 1942

GFFICIAL RADIO SAYS ‘SEVERAL’ PLANES ATTACK   Kanto Industrial Area One Target in First Blow Since Doolittle

PASSENGEAG ob  ADRIFT FOR HOURS   Sub Threatens Torpedo Ves@sel: Berlin Orders Release   THREE LOSE LIVES   @wo American Citizens Are Taken Captive; Vessel Reaches Philadelphia

Lighted Refugee Ship Halted by Nazi Submarine   Two American Citizens Held

Nazi U-Boat Captures Refugee Ship And Sets 385 Passengers Adrift

U- BOAT SPARES REFUGEES’ SHIP   Orders From Berlin Halt Torpedoing Of Vessel Off Bermuda

NAZI SUB TAKES 2 HOSTAGES OFF NEUTRAL REFUGEE SHIF   385 Passengers Aboard Serpa Pinto Forced Into Life ) boats In Mid-Ocean When German U-Boat  ,   - Captain 'Threatens To Torpedo Vessel

Galehouse Slated Against Cooper In  First Of Series   Cards Listed Favorite To Take World Series

SERIES OPENS TODAY; BROWNS-CARDS   All Available Space Sold Out Early

ROBERT HOOPER, 62 ISCALLED BY DEATH   Funeral Services Will Be Held Here Tuesday Afternoon.

JAMES ANDERSON CALLED BY DEATH   Funeral Services To Be Held Here Thursday Afternoon

Solons Back Move To Curb Ickes — In Sale of Power   Congress Observes Thanksgiving By Taking Day Off

Republicans Muster Votes To Restrict Power Sales   Wherry Says If Efforts To Work Out Modifications Are Successful Restrictive Amendment To Flood Control Bill Has “Good Chance” Of Adoption

STRONG SUPPORT TO RESTRICT ICKES IN SALE OF POWER SEEN   RESTRICTIVE BAILEY AMENDMENT HAS “GOOD CHANCE,” SENATOR DECLARES

TIRE OUTPUT IS TO BE BOOSTED   Seven-Day “Week Planned To Meet Military Needs

Tire Manufacturers Go on 7-Day Work Week for 4 Months   Follows Eisenhower's Report of Extremely  Serinue Tire Shartana

PLAINS OF WARSAW NOW OPEN TO REDS   Fall of Siedlce Paves Way For Drive to Pokish Capital.

Big Aerial Drive Goes Into 6th Day   RAF Mosquitos Stage Night Strike Against Cologne

Marauders And Havocs Hit France   Indications Ave Also That ‘Other Formations Wing Over Europe Today

Other Attacks From Sky Made By U.S. Planes   Huge Bomber Formations Carry Thunderous Bont bardment of Europe Threugheut Morning      All Mosqui tos Back FromRhineAssault   Liberatore From Htaly Blast Prime Rail Targets in Bucharest and TurnnSeverin Near Romariia

Invasion Area Targets Smashed By Raiders Today   Great Formations Cross Channel to Break Down Axis

Allies Keep Up Air Attack  From Britain   Yanks Take Over Day Run Following British Night Raid on Cologne

BOMB TARGETS IN NO. FRANCE   OTHER FORMATIONS “SEEN WHNGING WAY TO THE CONTINENT

U. S. Bombers Deliver Cross Channel Blows   Non- “Stop Air Offensive Roars into France; a Night Strike at Colocne

AIR OFFENSIVE CARRIED INTO FIFTH DAY   Bucharest, Turnu Raided By Italy-Based Planes   Stab At Burning Cologne; Invasion Coast Hammered By Daylight

NORTHERN FRANCE MILITARY TARGETS  HIT BY AMERICANS   (Carried Forward the Allies Biggest Aerial Offensive From Britain.   [FIFTH DAY OF FIGRTING   Morning Flights Soared -@ut as Announcement is Made of Friday’s Blow.

Allied Planes Again Smash Nazi Targets   Air Invasion Carried Into Fifth Straight Day of the Week —.

No Let-Up in. Day And Night Allied Blows   American Planes Bomb Northern France and Other Objectives Today; ‘Many Mines’ Laid

U. S. Fliers Carry War Into France   Maraaders and Mavecs Carry on Invasion Preparation, Giher Bombers Wing Over Europe

Air War Roars Into Fifth Day   American Bombers Blast Targets in North France; Strike Rail Keys in Balkans

Big Offensive For Fifth Day   Constant Bombing Of Invasion Coast  Precedes Big Push

Northern France Is Hit Today   Mosquitos Bomb Burning Cologne; Strike From Italy.

Pre-Invasion Attacks Blast German Military Targets Throughout Northern France   Daylight Flights Over Continent Follow Disclosure of Heavy Raid On Balkans by Italy-Based Bombers

TARGET TODAY      U. S. Bombers Carry For. ward Allies’ Greatest Aerial Offensive,   COLOGNE /S HIT BY RAF

STAGE RAID ONN. FRANCE   Marauders. and Havocs, Carrying Great Air Of-fensive Into Fifth Day, - Blast Military Targets  in Strength. —

Allied Bombers, Fighter Strike Europe Again   Russian Pressure In Mounting On Eastern Battle Fronts

1000 PLANES HIT NAZIS IN ITALY   MUD SLOWS GROUND BATTLE OF BEACHHEAD

FDR HITS NAZI USE. OF ROME   Reaffirms Allied Plano! Sparing Religious Monuments if Postible

Luce Still Champ   Won the Decision Over Three New Deal Aspirants for Title

Surge Ten Miles Into Brittany Behind Germans   Hitler’s Crack Armies Threatened As British Crash Into Center Of Defense Line Toward  Junction With Advancing Americans.

Americans Swerve Toward Paris, British Advance on Major Enemy Base of Vire

ALLIES GAIN ON 100-MILE FRENCH FRON]   U. S. Tanks Swerve Eastward From Avranches

Nazi Diplomacy Slipping  'Von Papen, Other German Officials Leaving Turkey

Details of Polygamous Life Bared At Trial of 32 In Salt Lake City

Woman Relates Details of Her Life dimong ‘Fundamentalists’   - 32 Defendants Tried on Charges Growing out of ‘Plural Marriage’ Probe

Polygamous Wife of "Fundamental" Cult Member Tells of Experiences

Tope For Aid From China As Fading   Severe Losses Cuttmg Down Manpower

Chinese Growing More Pessimistic  Denies Division in   Denies Division in U. S. Councils

CHINESE SUPPORT FOR ALLIES FADES   CHUNGKING LEADERS HOLD ARMY COULD GIVE LITTLE - AID TO LANDING FORCE,

JAP SUCCESS IN CHINA MAY DELAY PEACE   Prospects of Effective Chinese. Support Fades

Chinese Support for Allied Landings Fades; Morale of Chiang’s Government Fast Ebbina

Germans-Claim Red Drives Are Halted  Russ Guns Still Fire On  Sevastopol

Even War Has Its Quiet Interludes  There Is Time for Love and Prayer

STATE FINDS RABIES SIENS IN ANINIALS   Health Dept. Urges Safe Poliey For Humans In Avoiding Infection.

Jap Fanaticism ls Emphasized   Only 337 Captured  Ac \lae Detennave

IMONTGOMERY WARD SEIZURE CASE A ‘POLITICAL ISSUE   Nation’s Capital Bubbling With Arguments Between Pros and Cens —~ Biddle Scores Subcommittee’s View

SENATE GROUP'S REBUKE AROUSES ADMINISTRATION  PUT STEAM BEHIND  noive Tn ocvcocec

Ward Case Offers  Political Issue Biddle Assails Report O!  Senate Group

Ward Plant Seizure Political Issue After Report of Senate Committee

Ward Seizure May Be Major Issue of Political Campaign   “Opening Gun’ Will Be Fired in Radio Address This Evening

Ward Case May Become Prime Issue   Biddle Calls Findings of Senate Body “Absurd”

WARD CASE MAY BECOME BIGGEST POLITICAL ISSUE   Washington in Up Stir As Result of Seizure and Subsequent Senate Committee Report

WARD CASE IS ‘HOT ISSUE   Fast Becoming Prime Political Matter In Washington

NAZIS REPORT SHUTTLE-RAID   U. 8. Bombers In Russia To Italy Flight

RENEW ROBOT BOMB ATTACK   Germans Take Advantage Of Cloudy Weather

ENGLAND IS HIT BY MORE ROBOTS TODAY   Some Casualties Result in South Part of Country

NAZIS LAUNCH STEADY ROBOT BOMB ATTACKS   Take Advantage of Bad Weather Re-. stricting Allied  Planes

Daughter of Clare Luce Is Killed   Gir) Hurled From Auto in Collision At Palo tlie

Clare Luce’s Child Killed In Palo Alto   Girl Meets: Death in Auto Collision at Street Intersection

TRAGEDY STUNS WOMAN SOLON   Daughter Of Mrs. Luce Fatally Injured In Automobile Crash

Mrs. Luce's Daughter Killed  Girl Hurled Against Tree When Car Is Hit By Palo Alto Auto

Victorious Soviets Capture Krivoi Rog   lron Ore City Falls On Anniversary Of Red Army; Stalin Pays Tribute To Men

Nazis Placed on Verge of Defeat by Reds   Russians Celebrate Capture of Industrial Center

KRIVOI ROG IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   On 26th Anniversary Of Red Army; Stalin Announces Nazis Pushed From ThreeQuarters of Russia.   Million Pounds Shale

Capture Of Krivoi Rog By - Reds Celebrated In Moscow   Premier Stalin Announces That in One Year Russians Have Swept Nazis From Three-Fourths of Occupied Russia

SOVIETS TAKE UKRAINE TOWN “OF IRON MINES   Krivoi Rog Capture is Celebrated on Red Army Anniveraary

KRIVOI ROG FALLS TORUSSIAN ARMY IN BITTER FIGH!   Way Opened for Soviet Advance to Black Sea-—Ger  . mans Flee Westward for  . Stand on Bug River.   REDS TAKE 300 MORE  VILLAGES IN NORTH   Stalin Announces That in One Year Nazis Have Been Swept From Three-Fourths of Occupied Russia.

Red Forces Clear Way  For Plunge to Rumania   Moscow Says German War Machine On Verge Of Complete Defeat In Russia; Stalin Sounds Warning

Stalin Announces That Nazis aye Bec Swept From Three Fourths of Occupic? Russia In One Year

Reds Take . Krivoi Rog, Iron Genter   Northern Drive On Pskov Sweeps Up 300 Villages

re Of Krivoi Rog By elebrated Tn Moscow           Premier Stalin Announces That i in One Year. Russians Have Swept Nazis From Three-Fourths . of Occupied Russia

Victorious Soviets Capture Krivoi Rog   Jronm Ure Uity Falls On Anniversary Of Red 1 Army; Stalin Pays Tribute To Men  By TOM WARRROICH

Birthday of Red Army Celebrated   Stalin Reviews Year's Progress

Krivoi Rog Falls To Soviet Army   Ukranian Front Forces Take Iron Ore Town by Storm; More Towns Taken In North; Nazis Flee Pskov

City Detendes Four Months By Germans   German War Machine On Verge of Defeat, Soviet Bureau Asserts  CAINS ATADE IN NORTH

Reds sweep  nazis from  Krivoi Rog   Soviets celebrate 26th anniversary

Germans Swept Off Three Fourths Of Russian Soil   Soviets Say Nazi War Machine on Verge of Collapse

Jap Forces Ring Key Rail Center   City Stands Against Severing of China

HENGY ANG FALL IS IMMINENT   Key Rail Junction i: Cireled by Japs

RICHWOOD FAIR WEEK OF JULY 26   Richwood Independent Agricultural Society Making Extensive Plans for 1944 According to Secretary

FIRST RICHWOOD FAIR SINCE 1942 SET JULY 26-29   Elaborate Program Set As Annual Exposition  Ve Reaumnd This Vear

Get Gunman After Battle In Fulton Co.   BELIEVED TO BE PAIR WHO HELD UP AND ROBBED 2 STATE POLICE -NEAR HUNTINGDON   Gotten in Farm House

Gunnien Believed Pair Wiio Held Up Patrolinen Caught  lwo _ Fugitive s Take   lwo Fugitives Taken By State Police in “Fulton County

Political Strife Grips Canal Zone and Cuba   Resignation of Cabinet in Balboa Pints aT. Ss. Military Forces on Alert

U. S. Forces In Panama  Under Alert   Political Stir Causes Action

PANAMA CANAL ZONE FORCES ARE ALERTED   Political Agitation Rises or President’s Resignation

GAIN CONTROL: OF FOREIGN OFFICE IN MOVE TO BLOCK “DECLARATION OF WAR

Kavieng, Duke of York Island Shelled   Not One Jap Plane Is Seen During 18-Hour Offensive

THREE ENEMY SHIPS SUNK IN PACIFIC   Brief Action Off New Ireland Is Reported; Also Bomb Kavieng Enemy Base With No Opposition From Japs.   Bomb Madang

U. 8, DESTROYERS SINK 3 JAP SHIPS   ONE GOES DOWN WITH. 325 ENEMY TROOPS—KAVIENG ' HEAVILY SHELLED.

TORNADO TAKES ABOUT 40 LIVES   Twister Sweeps Through Georgia And South  Carolina

ATORNADO TAKE        Georgia And South Carolina Towns  Hard Hit   TOLL OF INJURED _ RISES ABOVE 500

South Carolina And Georgia In Twisters Patt   Strikes First Near Gainesville; Red Cross \s Active

Tornado Rips Over Two States, Kills 40   More Than 500 Injured in Georgia and South Carolina as Twister Cuts Wide Path; Seven Communities Are Struck

‘100-Mile Swath _ Mowed by Winds   Georgia. South Garolina’s * Property Loas Hich

Tornado Kills 38 Persons,  Injures 500   Seven Communities in Georgia, South Carolina Hit

96 KILLED o00 ARE HURT IN TORNADO   Georgia and S. Carolina Hit Along 100 Mile Course Sunday

3B DIE IN SOUTH AS TWISTER HITS   500 Others Hurt as Tornado Cuts 100-Mile Path of Destruction

36 NLLEV DT WIND STORM IN THE SOUTH  Tornado Rips Path Across Georgia and South - Carolina  HOUSES LEVELED _   HOUSES LEVELED IN ROYSTON AREA   Property Loss Will be Severe, According to Reports

Night Tornado Claims 40 Lives In Southern Aree   500 Others Injured As Gale Hits Georgic And South Carolina

40 Die, 500 Hur As Tornado Rip: Into Two States   Much Damage Is Done In Northeastern Georgia, Western South Carolina

38 Killed, 500 Hurt as Tornado Hits Two States   Seven Communities In South Carolina And Georgia Struck

Tornado Leaves 38 Dead, 500 Injured in South   Rips Through Northeast Georgia, Western South Carolina; Seven Communities Suffer Damao

38 KILLED BY WIND STORM INTHE SOUTH   Tornado Rips Pat Path Across Georgia and South Caroling   HOUSES LEVELED EIN ROYSTON AREA   Property Loss Will be Se. vere, According to Reports

40 Known Dead, 500 Injured, in Southern Tornado   100-Mile Path Swept Across Two States

Japs Prepare Last Defense   Enemy Digs In On Saipan As Americans Push Into Northern Tip Of Island.

Japanese Base Struck; Saipan Fighting Increases   BY HOWARD HANDLEMAN (Representing the Combined Allied Press)

PRESENT WAR HAS TAKEN TOLL OF 24 HIGH-RANKING OFFICERS   THIRTEEN OF DEAD GENERAL OFFICERS AND ADMIRALS DIED IN CEASHES OF  « PLANES

“Brass Hats’ Die      In Battle, Accidents, Suicide and Also Through Sickness

Aaron W. Parker Fatally Burned   Flame Envelopes School Superintendent Trying to Start Bus

Nichols Named To Central State Legion Post  Rhoads New State  Commander; Favor i ncn, i, gee ie ee

QUEBEC MEET NEWS RELEASE SLATED TODAY   Roosevelt, Churchill Will Reveal Big  Secrets

DOMENCLAIMS = - 4U.S, TRANSPORTS HAVE BEEN SUNK   Japanese Attacks Against an . American Convoy Which ‘Is Cruising Northward.   FOUR JAP PLANES LOST   Domei Said U. S. Convey Consisted of 30 Transports Escorted by 20 Ships.

4 U.S. Ships Hit, Japs Say   Hit by Bombers in Leyte Gulf, Tokyo Claims

Puppet Premier Set Uy In Hungary; Bulgaria, Rumania Face Same Fate   Russians Close In on Nikolaev; Bombers Hit Berlin, Go Back to Raid Frankfurt; Allies Advance Slowly in Cassino; Rome ‘Open City’ Claim Doubted

Puppet Regime Established in Seized Hungary   Germans Plan General Mobilization of All  Southeastern Europe; Rumania Wants Truce

Germans Feverishly Extend Satellite Strangle Hold. . As Soviets Funiie Oninard

GERMANS EXTEND ~ GRIP ON BALKANS   RUSH PLANS TO MEET REDS— SET UP PUPPET GOVERN' “MENT IN HUNGARY,

PUPPET RULE IS ORGANIZED FOR HUNGARY   GERMANY PREPARE: TO SEIZE MORE SATELLITES

Germans Tightening Grip On Satellite Nations as Defense Against Soviets

Germans Feverishly Extend Satellite Strangle Hold As Souiets Lunae Onward

German troops Make Hungary Pupnet of Nazis   Former Army Officer Will Take Post Of Quisling Premier

Nazi Horde — Mobilizing. Satellites   Hitler Taking Over All Southeastert Europe As Fortress fo Check Onrushine Red Armies

Nazis Extending Stranglehold on All Satellites   Quisling Premier Named in Hungary

NAZIS EXTEND STRANGLEHOLD ON NEIGHBORS   {n Feverish Rush To, Mobilize All Of Southeasterfn Europe To Keep Back CQahng Red Armies. .   Prevented Return

Germany Extends Strangle Hold. Over Satellites   General Mobilization of All Southeastern Europe Announced

WOMEN PERISH IN DETROIT FIRE   Tent And Awning Blaze Traps Employes On Second Floor

‘AN ENDORSED   Two  Congressmen® Return After Five Weeks’ Trip Abroad

PEACE BY FORCE PLAN ENDORSED   Two Congressmen Return After Five Weeks’ Trip Abroad

100 Miles of German Frontier Given Terrific Pounding by Allied Fliers

AIR ARMADAS SWEEP OVER 100 MILE LINE   Ten Main Traffic Centers Subjected to Attacks te Prevent Enemy From Moving Troops.   Railroads Hit

LEGISLATORS JAM STATE CAPITOL   Face Housing Problem as the Date for Inaugural Nears.

Purchasing Agent of Reds Quits   “DOUBLE-FACED” DEALINGS WITH'U. S., BRITAIN CHARGED

Yanks Launch Assault Along 3-Mile Front   Doughboys Push Over River Seille, Capture Dozen Villages; Heavy Fighting Rages at Vossenack

PATTON DRIVE CRACKS NAZI LINE AT METZ   Infantry Smashes Way Across Seille River to Reqister 3-Mile Gain

THIRD ARMY SWINGS OVER RIVER SEILLE   Patton’s Doughboys Stage Swift Attack on Threemile Front Between Metz and Nancy.   Heavy Losses

Germans Lose Five Planes in Air Fights   Most Enemy Fighters Refuse Challenge of the Thunderbolts

Finnish Decision On Peace Awaited   Finn Paper Says Russo Bombings Hindering Peace Negotiations; Germany Getting Ready For Expected Armistice

FINN -SOVIET PEACE TALKS MAY RESUME      Nation Reported. Moving Toward Armistice With  Ricca   BULGARIA FACING GRAVE SITUATION   More Men Called to Arms to Meet Spreading Clashes

FINN UVIET PEACE TALKS MAY RESUME  RBLITMABDIA PAIAIE      BULGARIA FACING GRAVE SITUATION   More Men Called to Arms to. Meet Spreading Clashes

Finnish Diet To Meet Today On Armistice   Excitement Over Pros: pect Spreads; Nazis Take Precautions

Finland’s Exit Arouses Hope  Of Bulgarians      German Satellite Seen Due To Follow Finn Lead  Ther &.

Finn Situation Stirs Bulgaria   More Men Called As Clashes Spread  By JUDSON O’QUINN Reeociated Preag Staft Writer

Finland Moves Toward Armistice   Bulgaria Reported Facing Peace Crisis

HITLER ALLY EXPECTED 10 DESERT SOON   SOVIETS POUR ON PRESSURE WITH AIR ATTACKS

Finn: Situation: Stirs Bulgaria.   - More Men ‘Called AS. Clashes Spread:

FINNISH PEACE MOVE STIRS BULGARIANS   Disorders Reported in Balkan Country With Police Trying to Suppress Bands.

Many Are Dead In Train Wreck At Jellico, Tenn   Train Carrying Troops In Disaster — Details On Crash Are Meagre   FEAR DEATH TOLL MAY REACH 75 (RTITITT RTD,

32 KILLED AS TROOP CARRIER LEAVES TRACKS   200 Injured In Nighttime Accident Near Jellico, Tenn.

JAPANESE SHIP LOSSES MOUNT   Destroyers Sink 7 Vessels In Bismarck Area

HITS 14 MORE TAP VESSELS   Destroyers Sink Seven, Damage Equal Number in Bismarck Area: Truk Victory Scope Increased.

UNPROTECTED JAP SHIPPING   Roving Destroyer Squadron Sinks Seven Enemy Vessels In Bismarck Sea

Roving Yankee Destroyers Bag 7 Jap Vessels And Damage 7   Enemy Losses at Truk Revised Upward to 23 Sunk

Jap Shipping Smashed Hard by Americans   Lacking Support of Japanese Fleet It Falls an Easy Prey

NEW REVERSES FOR JAP NAVY IN SW PACIFIC   Roving Destroyer Squadron Sinks Seven Vessels, Damages as Many More in Attacks.   Rv ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. WARSHIPS LASH 14 MORE ENEMY CRAFI   Destroyers Are Unopposed ~ In Bismarck Area; Truk   Losses Jump To 23

JAP SHIPPING SUFFERS LOSS BY AMERICANS   Roving Squadron Is Credited With  Seven Sinkings

Raise Truk — Losses to. 23; Bombers Busy   hilied ‘Air Blows ows Dealt Rabaul, Kavieng, .. ‘Wewak Ponape; Meet Little Resistance

Losses of Japs at Truk Are Now Put at 23 Ships Sunk   Nipponese Shipping is Left Unprotected by Timid Jap Navy

PHOTOS REVEAL 23 JAP SHIPS SUNK AT TRUK   J. $. Navy Sinks or Damages 14 Nip Vessels in Bismarck Archipelago

Destroyers Sink Seven  Jap Ships   Roving Squadron Attacks Vessels While Navy Boosts Total Of Jap Losses At Truk

93 Jap Ships Sunk, Six ‘Probably’ Sunk At Trul   New Enemy Reverses Are Recorded In South Pacific Fighting

NAVY BOOSTS TOLL OF JAPANESE SHIP LOSSES IN PACIFIC   Seven More Enemy Vessels Destroyed in Bismarek Archipelaas Clash

TAKE NEW TOLL OF JAP SHIPS   Seven Sunk, Seven Damag:ed By Yanks; Nip Opposition Dwindles

Japs Take New  Blows in Pacific   Allied Reports Show Litthe Defense By Nipponese Navy

JAPANESE SHIPPING, LEFT UNPROTECTED, ‘SUFFERING HEAVILY  LACK OF OPPOSITION ‘SHOWN BY JAP NAVY OR AIR FORCES

‘NAVY INFLICTS _ NEW LOSSES ON JAP SHIPPING   Seven ‘Sunk, Seven Dam: maged in Attacks on Bismarck Archipelago.

JAP SHIPPING © HIT AGAIN IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Destroyers Sink Seven Ships In Bismarck Archipeligo

JAP SHIPPING SUFFERS. BLOW   J. §. Destroyer Squadron Bags 7 Unprotected Vessels: Truk Loss Raised.

Japanese Lose More Ships   Enemy Ship Losses At Truk Boosted By U. S. Navy

Jap Shipping Given Heavy New Blows   Toll of Losses  Boosted by Navy; 23 Sunk at Truk

MORE JAPANESE SHIP LOSSES REPORTED AS JAP NAVY STILL REFUSES TO MEET AMERICANS   Roving Squadron of U. S. Destroyers Sinks 7 More Jap Ships and 7 Others Have Been Damag ed in Attacks Along Bismarck Archipelago

MORE JAP’ SHIPS SUNK BY YANKS   Heavy Toll Taken in Seizure Of More Island Bases

Unprotected Jap Shipping Hard Hit In Pacific   Roving American Squadrons Take Heavy Toll

Yanks In Action Beyond Rhine; Siegfried Line SoonMayBeOutflanked

The Enemy’s Troops Are Facing Very Serious Double-Threat   ‘GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF BREST, FRENCH PORT ON ATLANTIC   American Seventh Army Draws Closer To Route To Southwestern Germany

Flood Wafers Pour Info Kaw City’s Streets   Little Oklahoma Town Has Worst Flood Since 1923; Missouri and Kansas Streams Rise

Floods Recede Over State   Arkansas River Up But Little Damage Expected * On Major Streams”

SOVIETS GA BELOW WARSAW SECTOR TODAY   200,000 Germans Attempt To Get Out Of Trap

Reds Liquidate Nazis Trapped At Sandomierz   Drive Closer To Praga And Take More Than 150 Places In Estonia.

REDS SMASH 3 DIVISIONS NEAR WARSAW      Concede, However, That They Yielded to German Attacks to Free Troops Isolated on the Baltic Front. _

9 NAZI UNITS:   Reds Yield Slightly Befere Frenzied Push On Baltic Freat

Russians Smash Three Divisions  Germans Attempt To Rescue Troops

3 Divisions Smashed By  Red Forces   Other Soviet Forces Yield Slightly Before German Attempts to Rescue 200,000 Isolated Troops’ —

Reds Smash Three Nazi Groups   Enemy Is Crushed In Fighting In Warsaw Sector

Russians Smash” -3-Nazi-Divisions Below Warsaw   Other Reds Yield Before Efforts Of Enemy To ’ Save Isolated Troops

Soviets Smash 3 Nazi Divisions In Warsaw Area  Other Red Armies Giv: Ground Before Costly German Attempt To

Soviets Smash ‘Hun Divisions Below Warsaw   Other Red Units, Mean while, Yield Slightly Before German Attacks On Baltic Front

Russians Smash Three Divisions Below Warsaw   Germans Trying To Rescue Troops Along Baltic Sea

REDS SMASH @ NAZT OWISIONS   Other Soviet Forees Yield Slightly Before German Attack.

SOVIET FORCES SMASHED THREE NAZI DIVISIONS   When Eixemy: Refused to Surrender Most of Enemy Troops Were Killed

REDS LIQUIDATE  THREE TRAPPED  NAZI DIVISIONS GERMANS REFUSED TO SURRENDER in  e®asanImAnasicrody? AD

Reds Smash 3 Divisions Near Warsaw   Soviets Forced To Yield Slightly in Baltic Sector

‘Reds Give Ground in. - Trap Sector   Germans Launch Effort to Carve  Escape Route for Biq Baltic Army

Reds Capture: Vital Points In-Northeast And At War'sav   Enemy Attempts To Free Trapped: Army.

Liquidate 3  Nazi Divisions      Russian Farees Ailvauce In Waveaw Area

RUSSIANS SMASHED 3 GERMAN DIVISIONS SOUTH OF WARSAW  RED ARMY UNITS YIELD SOME GROUND TO COSTL'

SMASH 3 DIVISIONS   Russians Gain Below Warsaw, Give Ground in Baltic Reegion

Three Nazi Divisions At Sandomierz Are Smashed   Bui Germans Claim Tanks Crash Russ Lines On Baltic  Wreant

Reds Smash 3 Nazi Divisions At Sandomierz   German _ Counterattack Forces Russians Back Slichtly In Latvia.

Reds Smash Three Nazi Divisions   Other Units Yield Slightly to Germans On Baltic Front

THREE GERMAN UNITS SMASHED BY RED ARMY   Encircled Nazis Mowed Down When They Refuse to Surrender. Draw Nearer to Warsaw

Smash 3 Nazi Divisions In Broad Sweer   Reds Report New Vic tory, Slight Withdrawa In One Sector

Reds Smash Nazi Divisions Near Warsaw   Russians Admit Slight Re verse on Baltic Front

Russians Smash Nazi Divisions   THREE GERMAN. ARMIES ROUTED IN WARSAW BATTLE

Reds Smash Three Nazi Divisions in ~ Sandonmierz Trap   German  Counterattacks Cause Slight With drawal in Latvia

In Ukraine Crumbling   APPEARS LIKELY THAT GERMAN ARMY WILL BE THRUST BACK : AT LEAST TO DNIESTER RI

Soviets Smash  Tattered Nazis In Ukraine Area   Frantic Troops Fall Back From Bug River; Enemy Stand Weakens,

LOSS OF KHERSCN CAUSES ENEMY T0 BECOME PANIGKY   Soviet Armies, Operating. Ir Concert Smash Forward on 500-Mite Front to Reach Nikolaev.   1000 JAPS KILLED IN BOUGAINVILLE BATTLE   DVVUATING Tht k Lore k Fone  British Imperial Forces Attempt to Qutflank Jap Forces Retreating In Hukauna Valley.

Resistance Of Germans Ineffective   Enemy Reported in Panic as Reds Advance Toward Black Sea

Wallace, Truman Uree Re-Election Of Roosevelt   Speak At Demo Rally In New York City

Wallace, Truman  Addvess Rally   ‘Chief Executive Termed ‘Doorway to Future’

NAZIS MASS NEAR BOSNIA   Thousands Occupy Towns  en ee  Believed Poised To Drive on Tito

GEAMANS MASSED WN YUGOSLAV   Recognized As Site of Possible _ Allied Invasion Thrust— Partisans Ready.

Fourth of July Salvo From American Cannon Hits Nazis in France   Allies Near La Haye du Puits, Enemy Defense Anchor on Cherbourg Peninsula, and Capture Carpiquet; Enemy Pushed Steadily Back in Italy

REDS CLEAR FOE OUT OF COUNTR}   Minsk, Polotsk Seized With 135,000 Nazi Prisoners; Allied Forces Gain in Normandy

President's Health Good, Says  Physician, in Denying Rumors   Drawn Appearance in Recent Photographs Declared Due to Dieting to Keep Down Waist Line

FINAL DECISION BY FINNS DUE SOMETIME TODA)   Russia Reported to Have Offered Three Concesgions to Then.

ST. JOSEPH HONOR — ROLLIS POSTED   It’s For Six Weeks Period Ending April Eleventh

ST. JOSEPH HONOR ROLL RELEASED   List Pupils V Who Were Awarded Merits For Work

Yanks Lose 19 Bombers, Six Fighters   Berlin Among Targets Of One of War’s Biggest Daylight Raid Armadas  TRANCE ATSO RATHER

34 Nazi Planes Destroyed by Raiding Force   Berlin and Aircraft Plants Blasted by 2.000 Planes: Allied  Aerial Blow Continues

U.S. Heavies Pound Berlin   19 Bombers, Six Fighters. Lost: 34 Nazis Destroyed

Nazi Capital ls Bombed By US. Planes   - Force Of Possibly More Than 2,500 Planes "Is Over Germany And Invasion Coast Area Of Fronce In Heavy Aerial Attacks Tuesday

Rain Explosives On Vital ‘Air Craft Factories   Other Forees Blast Foints In France, Meeting With Little Resistance, Nineteen Ameriean Bombers and Six Sighters Lost In Raids

Estimated 2,500 War Planes Wage       , ;  Attacks on Europe   Enemy Offers Only Weak Resistence to Invading Planes in Devastating Blows Acainst Enemy Industrial Areas

Vital Industrial Targets Bombed   Attackers Lose 19 Craft, Destrov 55 Enemics

2,000 American Bombers Attack German Capital   19 U. S. Planes Lost in Action

BERLIN PLANE PLANTS HIT IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Fierce Aerial Battles Are Fought Over Reich Capital

US Airmen Rain Bomb: On Nazi Plane Cities ‘After Great Air Battle   Pierce Through Strong German Sky Defense Over Berlin in Breakthrough; Down 34 Enemy Fighters at Loss of 19 Bombers, 6 Plane

BERLIN BOMBED BY AMERICANS; 95 PLANES LOSI   Thirteen Nazi Ships Blasted From Skies and at Least 21 Others Destroyed On Ground.   2,000 SKY GIANTS . AND FIGHTERS ON RAID   Fleet. Runs Flaming Gantlet _ of Fire From Enemy Craft as It Presses Toward Targets.

Despite Contmuous Heavy American Aerial Assaults   GERMANS GAIN Il MILES IN NEW DRIVE   Reinforced By Possibly Three Full German Field Armies

Temperatures   U. S. Rinforcements Seek to Relieve Doughboys Encircled at Bastogne; Hlitlerite Paratroops Are “Mopped Up”

iERMANS ONLY   MILES: FROM AEUSE RIVER   Gain Despite Air Assaults

Germans Drive Spearhead: Within 4 Miles of Allied Lines Along Meuse River

Enemy Drives Spearhead Near Meuse River Line   Allied Defensive Positions In Center of Nazi Salient Crushed By Advance

Spearhead Only Four Miles Away   AMERICANS REGISTER) SLIGHT GAINS ON SOUTHERN SIDE OF GERMAN SALIENT” 

Runstedf Hits Yank Lines with Two Full Armies   Liege, Namur and Dinant Objectives Of Enemy Drive

YANK POSITION WIPED OUT IN PANZER DRIVE   Two, or Three, Full German Armies Smash West in New Strength.

Aerial Assault Fails To Stop Von Rundstedt   German Spearhead Is Planted Within Four Miles Of Meuse River

NAMUR, DINANT THREATENED BY NEW GAINS   Russians Break Into Budapest; Iwo Jima Hit

German Drive Aqain Sneeds Toward France   Yank Offensive in Cente Crushed as Foe  Moves Forward

Air Assaults Continued on Racing Nazis   Nazi Armored Spearheads Roll Westward; Rochefort, 4 Miles From Meuse, Falls to Enemy Forces; German Salient Widenec

Most Forward Points Reached By Nazis Are Celles And Ciney; Claim Hitler Personally Planned Offensive   MEUSE INITIAL NAZI OBJECTIVE

THREE GERMAN ARMIES MAKE NEW ADVANCES   American Defense Positions Are Crushed In Center of Enemy Salient.   German Gains.

Yanks Register x Slight Gains  Attacks On Southern Side Of German Salient

Germans Are Still Unchecked   Two or Three Full German Armies Are Now in the Field

American Defenses In Collapse   Germans Have Liege, Din.        ant, Namur and Meuse  Mask River as Objecti es

“Stinging New Blows Dealt . Tojo's Hordes   Ground Forces. Get A Breather

Jans Fee! Sting Of Naval Craft As Troons Rest   PT Boats Sink Four Barges Laden With Japanese Soldiers

U.S. PT Boats Sink Four Jap Troop Barges   PT Boats Also" Shell  Big Japanese Bara  At Madang, New Guinea It Is Disclosed

Ships, Planes Deal Japs Heavy Blows   Enemy Loses Barges Loaded With Troops in Pacific

Revalue Beef and Pork Points This Sunday; Spare Stamp No. 4 Now Valid

Gandhi Proposes Partition India   Make Separate Hindu and Moslem States To Break Deadlock.

Holiday on Beverage Alcohol Making Ends   War Production Unaffected by Diversion of Program

TEMPERATURES NEAR NORMAL   Observers Find Mid-West January Weather Has Noa Comparison.

44.956 Japs Slain in Three Marianas Island Campaigns   Americans Lose 4470 in Capturing Isles; New Blows Against Jap Fleet Revealed

ROCKETS SENT OVER IN ARCS 70 MILES HIGH   Miktary Men Declare Weapon, Going Faster  Than Sound. Is Flop

England, Tar get OF V-2 Rockets. - For Two Weeks   Churchill: Telts. Commons . Vengeance Weapon Also Fired On Paris, Antwerp.

REVEAL LONG RANGE ROCKETS USED BY NAZIS   Churchill Tells. of New Type Aerial  eens en Be,   TERRIFIC SPEED   Flying Bombs. Now Reach Height of Seventy Miles

Robot Attacks ‘Insignificant’  ~ Up Until Now   Ave 70 Miles Into Air. Travel 700 Miles an Hour; Greater Dangei

NEW ROCKETS HIT ENGLAND; LITTLE DAMAGE   Churchill Says New Type V-2 Bombs Used

V-2 Bombs Hit Britain   Damoge Slight From Germans’ Newest Of Terror Weapons

COMMONS TOLD OF NEW RAIDS BY CHURCHILL   Vengeance Weapon Travels Faster Than Sound; Casualties Are Light

Nazi V-2 Weapons Faster Than Sound   Churchill Reveals Rockets Have Been Crashing on England for Weeks From Arcs 70 Miles High—Casualties Light to Date.

(ERMAN ROCKETS SENT INTO ENGLAND BUT DAMAGE SLIGHT  CHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS OF ATTACKS; ANT WERP. PARIS INCLUDED

New Rockets Sent Into England Travel Faster Than Sound And Strike Without Warning, Churchill Tells Commons

DAMAGE FROM NEW OGKETS CALLED LIGHT   Churchill Admits Attacks by Newest Secret Weapon; Some Hit England.

V-2 Rockets  Hit Britain  Nazis Say Antwerp, Paris Also Targets  Ry DWIGHT [{.. PITKIN

Prime Minister Says V-2 Rockets In Use Against England For Weeks

Damage Small  From Nazis’ V-2  Churchill Says Giant Robots Are   Giant Robots Are Highly Inaccurate And May Be Flop; Into Air 70 Miles

V-2 ROCKETS ARE FASTER THAN SOUND   Churchill Says New Vengeance Weapon Plunges From Arc Seventy Miles In Air

CHURCHILL SAYS + V-2 IS CAUSING ~ LITTLE DAMAGE   “Enemy ‘Flying Telephone Pole’ Discussed by Briton for First Time

Churchill Tells Of New Nazi Rocket Weapon   Military Declares Huge Rocket Is “Flop”

V-2 Rockets Travel Faster  Than Sound   Churchill Says Germans Have Been Plunging New Weapon Into England for Weeks; Little Damage Caused 

COME IN FROM STRATOSPHERE AT 700 M. P. A   Describe Arc 70 Miles High As They Come From Launching Spots In Holland Or  From Planes.

Say V-2 A Flop   Newest Nazi Secret . Weapon Tico Inaccurate ‘To Be Very Effective

Germans Send V-2 Rockets Into England   Prime Minister Churchill Savs Little Damage Has Reen Done.   CASUALTIES ARE LIGHT

10 MPH Speed Of New German V-) Rocket Bomt   Churchill States Minor Demoge Done By Latest Weapon

Nazi V-2 Bombs Plunge Into England Faster Than Sound, Do Little Harr

Hitler’ s V-2s Hit  England   NAZIS’ NEW VENGEANCE WEAPONS THUS FAR HAVE CAUSED LITTLE DAMAGE

New Robot Assaults on England   ‘Flying Telephone Pole’ Bombs, Faster Than Sound, Dron From Stratosphere   CASUALTIES ARE. REPORTED LIGHT   Germans Boast ‘Their New Vengeance Weapon Will Make Antwerp Unusable

German Weapon Exceeds Sound In  Speed Of Travel   Churchill Reports England Has Suffered Little Damage Up To Present Time From Y-2 Rockets Which Germans Are Sending From Camouflaged Sites On Continent

—hOLOTS—  Nazis Shower England With Speedy V-2 Bombs   Churchill Reveals Germans Have Been Carrying On Air Campaign For Weeks But Says Rockets Have Caused Little Damage

V-2 Rockets Do Small Damaae      Ghost Bombs Lack Military Value

Germans Say Antwerp, Paris Also Blasted By ‘Flying TelephonePole’   New Weapon Travels Faster Than Sound From Height Of 70 Miles; Nazis Would Make Antwerp Unsuitable For Use; Speed Buries  V-2 Too Deeply For Damage

FLYING BOMBS ALSO SHAKING PARIS, ANTWER!   V-2 Rockets Plunge on England Faster Than Sound But Damage Has Been Light.

German V-2 Weapon Used On England   Churchill Says "Flying Pole’ Is Ineffective

700 Mile An Hour V2 Rocket Rain On Britain Is Revealed By Premier

Penna. House Contra} In Doubt; GOP Still. E  Dominates the Senate.

Last Hungarian Railway Escape Route Blocked   Berlin Admits Russian Gains In Liquidation Of Trapped Nazis.

LAST RAIL ESCAPE ROUTE FOR GERMANS IN HUNGARY 15 COT  BERLIN REPORTS FURTHER RUSSIAN GAINS ON NORTHERN FRONT

RUSSIANS BLOCK NAZI RAIL ROUTE   Escape Line Cut For Enemy In Northeast Hungary

Csap Seized As Russians ¢ dear Coast: Of Enemies      Vs Bete Extended

Last Northeastern Hungary Escape Route Is Blocked   Further Russian Gains Noted in Liquidation Of 100.000 Germans

Germans Lose Escape Route From Hungar "y   Russians Capture Railway Junction of Csap On Upper Tisza River

RUSSIAN DRIVES ’ NET NEW GAINS   Foe Loses Last Rail Escape , Route From Hungary As Csap Falls

Nazi Escape Route In Hungary Is Cut   Russians Capture Railhead To Tighten Vise on Balkans While Far to North Liquidation of 100,000 Germans In Baltic Area Progresses

Russians Cut Last Nazi Escape Route   Northeastern Hungary Is Cut Off as Latvian Drive Gains

RUSSIANS TAKE CSAP; GERMANS CAUGHT IN TRAP   100,000 Nazis Pinned Against  Baltic Sea

NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE FROM HUNGARY CUT   iunction of Four Rail Lines in Liberated Ruthenia Is Occupied By Fourth Ukraine Army  00,000 LIQUIDATED

Hungary Escape Route Blocked  Csap on Upper Tisza Captured by Soviets

GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE IN EAST HUNGARY IS CUT   Russians Block Last Rail Route By Capture Of CSAP On  Tisza River.

NAZIS LOSE KEY RAILWAY ESGAPE HUB IN HUNGARY   Germans Announce New Soviet Gains in Baltic Sector

Block Rail Route  To Fleeing Nazis   Russians Cut) Escape Road for Germans in Northeast Hungary   DRIVE IN THE BALTIC   Berlin Reports New Gains Pinning Nazi Troops Against Sea

Russians Block Escape Route  Navzie Trapped   Nazis Trapped In Hungary Area

Reds Capture -Csap; Gain In - Other Sector:   Cut Nazi Escape Route From Hungary; Seize Latvian Rail Hub

Reds Seize Hungarian Rail Key   Capture of Csap Cuts Last Nazi Rail Escape Route in North Hungary: Gain.in Latvia 

Cut Nazi Rail Escape Route From Hungary   Reds Occupy Csap Ir Czechoslovakia, Seize Latvian Rail Hub Of Auce In Offensive

REDS BLOCK ESCAPE FROM N. E. HUNGARY   Soviet Troops Cut Last Rail Route Which Germans Could Use by Capturing the Important Junction of Csap.

Last Escape Rail Is Cut In Hungary   Reds Occupy Csap- And - Gain In Liquidation Of 100,000 Nazis Trapped   Against Baltic.

Reds Close Nazi-Trap In Hungary   Berlin Reports Soviets Shredding Baltic Pocket Defenses

German Rail Escape Route Cut By Reds   Csap Occupied By Soviets; Gains In Baltic Reported

—EAST FRONT —  NAZI ESCAPE IS. BLOCKED BY REDS   Rail Route In Northeastern Hungary Cut As Reds Capture Csap

LAST RAIL ESCAPE ROUTE FOR GERMANS IN HUNGARY 15 CUT  BERLIN REPORTS FUR  BERLIN REPORTS FURTHER RUSSIAN GAINS ON NORTHERN FRONT

Reds Block Hungarian Escape Route   Berlin Reports Further Soviet Gains in Baltic Sea Region

Reds Cut Rail Gap in Hungary   Germans Also Face Fresh Disaster in Raltie Theater

Last Nazi Rail Escape Route Out Of Northeast Hungary Blocked By Reds

Aid  Refused Lewis’ ‘Foe.   ‘No: ‘Jurisdiction’ ‘Is Court’s Ruling

BOMB WOLEAI, JAP BASE HIT BY U. §. FLEE   Yank Planes Fly 2,000 Miles Round - Trip From Solomons

Seven Army Bombers Hit at Truk   Strike ai Jap Base Is First by Land-Based Planes

Woleai, Outlying Jap Post East of Philippines, Hit ©   Runway, Supply Areas Get Brunt of Bombs  From American Planes

WOLEAI RAIDED BYU, S. PLANES — INS. W. PACIFIC   Outlying Jap Outpost Is Midway Between Palau And ~ Truk

U.S. Air Force Again Blasts Jao Truk Base   First Raid by Heavy Land-Base Bombers On Enemy Fortress

Land based bombers hit Truk bastion  Oroluk hammered bv 7th air force

Army Bombers Blast at Trak   Liherators Fire Supplies Qa Jan Atall Fartresse

U. $. Bombers Raid Woleai, Jap Post 1,200 Miles East of Philippines

American Bombers Raid Woleai, Outlying Jap Post 1,200 Miles Fast of Philippines — Runway and Supply Areas. Smashed.

LeMars Public Schools. Providing Educational Service In- Wide Area   . Preston Township _ : Bears Distinction. -In Number Of Pupils

NEARLY HALE OF LHS. PUPILS ARE OUT-OF-TOWNERS   Large Territory Served By LeMars Public School System

eE_” °°”  Wage Earners Over 65 May Be Interested In This Statement

BOND PREMIERE ~ PROSPECTS F000      Numerous Prizes Being Donated For Purchasers of Bonds

Gangsters Head Prison Rioting   80 Per Cent of Inmates “Want No Part of It”

BITTER DEBATE DEVELOPS OVER LEND- LEASE   House Passage Of Extension Bill Expected Over Strong Opposition

BILL TO EXTEND LEND-LEASE ACT SURE T0 PASS   Administration Foes May Be Able To Impose Curb On FDR Authority   HOT DEBATE DEVELOPS   Knutson Refers To U. S, Donor As “Uncle Sap’— Elmer Fires Blast

PRESET ee ee  Medicine Making Great Record ier omiceeeneaecantt ag ee ae ane  More Than 97 Per Cent Of Wounded Live, General Says

 Medicine Making Great Record  More Than 97 Per Cent Of  Wounded Live, General Says

Senate Passes  Stirplus Propet ly ‘Uisposal Measure Sends Bill to White  House; Congress --Plans Recess

Congress Soon Will Recess  Reconversion And Surplus  _ Property Bills Are Passed

RECEIPTS WILL NOT BE APPLIED ON DEBT   Money Obtained From Disposal Of Surplus War Properties Not Beins Earmarked

Senate Approves Surplus Material, Reconversion Bill   Measures Are Passed Over Protests of Numerous Members

Senate Okays Surplus Plan   Bill Sets Up 3-Man Unit; House Wins Poinis

BATTLE RAGES IN BUDAPEST   Reds Push Toward Heart of Hungarian Capital in Bitter Fighting

HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE RAGES FOR BUDAPES   RED SHOCK TROOPS REACH HEART OF GUTTED CITY

VIOLENT STREET FIGHTING RAGES   Soviets Break Into New Sections of Budapest   CITY PARTLY GUTTED   Reds Kill and Oapture Thou. sands of Trapped Foe; Much Equipment Taken

Reds Fight Tn Streets Of Budapes!   Garrison Trapped Inside Capital Numbers 100,000

Russian Fury - Hits Budapest   Hand-to-Hand Battle Rage In Henearinn dn

Attack on Palau Islands Still May Be Under © Way Today. .   DARE JAP NAVY TO COME OUT AND FIGHT   172 Jap Aireraft Are Destroyed in South  Pacific .

AMERICAN NAVY HITS JAP BASES OUTER DEFENSES OF PHILIPPINES   U. S. Battleships Again Challenge Jap Navy Te Come Out and Battle.

DEWEY GIVES OUT POSTWAR PROGRAM NATION'S FARMERS  - POSITION OF UNITED  STATES AMONG NATION

DEWEY GOING NTO MIDWEST   To Give Summary of Postwar Farm Program at Minneapolis.

DEWEY GIVES OUT POSTWAR PROGRAM NATION'S FARMERS  POSITION OF UNITED   POSITION OF UNITED STATES AMONG NATIONS ROOSEVELT SUBJECT

FARM SPEEC TO BE GIVEN BY GOV DEWEY   Plans Minneapolis Talk : Following F. D. R. Cam  paign In New York

Campaigners Argue About Farm Policy, Stake After Peace   Speech-Making Drive is Stepped Up As Run in Stretch Looms

Orators Touch International, Farm Issues   Dewey Travels into Midwest; Sen. Ball Supports Roosevelt

FARM QUESTIONS TAKE POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT NOW   nll  Sen. Ball, a Republican, Backs Roosevelt as Dewey Heads For Midwest Campaign

State Chamber Pledge: Full Support to Montana Advertising  Montanans, Inc., Agrees to Develop Outlines Of Program for Submission to Government Officials for Approval

State Chamber Pledges Full Support to Montana Advertising  _ Montanans, Inc., Agrees to Develop Outlines

lowa Farmers Plan for Expenditures Totaling $420,000,000 For  Postwar Improvements on Property

80,000 Want To Buy Land Of Their Own   Also Want U. S. to Improve Roads, Survey Indicates

NAVY AIR ARM HARD ON JAPS   Corsairs And _  Helleats Destroy S8S4 Enemy Planes In 1943

Yankee Airmen Hit Hun Lines  Vicious Blews   Blast Enemy Below Caen and Range Widely Over France Attacking Airfields, Installations

1800 Tons of Bombs Blast Path for Army   1000 U. S. Heavyweights Attack French Airfields

U. S. Sends Heavy Load Of Bombs Crashing On Enemy Robot Sites   German Lines Quiver Under Tremendous Blow Dealt by Fliers; Caen, Many Points In France Are Hit: Airfields Are Struck

BOMBERS Ht OVER EUROPE   Raid German Lines Below Caen, Targets in France, ‘And Poland.

Hundreds of Allied Planes Pound Nazi Lines in Day and Night Blows

American Bombers Blast Nazi Line Hinge Near Caen  Day Attack, Following Night Assault, Paves Way for Ca-

FLIERS ATTACK NAZIS IN FRANCE   Support Push Below Caen; Hit Robot Ramps

J. S. HEAVIES STRIKE HARD )VER FRANCE   ‘housand American Bombers Hit Secand Tremendous Blow at Hinge of German Lines   \ID CANADIAN DRIVE

Bombs Blast Nazi Front   Great Day, Night Assaults Send Foe Reeling in Confusion

THOUSAND AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS STRUCK BIG BLOW ON GERMAN LINES AT CAEN   Estimated 1,800 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Germans Before Advancing Canadian First Army in Same Area Pulverized  ast Night with 1,000 Heav: British Bombers Dropping 6,700 Tons

1,000 BOMBERS BLAST LINES TO SUPPORT ATTACK   First Night Support _For Ground, Forces Scored Against Enemy

BOMBERS SLASH AT ENEMY LINES   STRIKE TREMENDOUS BLOW BELOW CAEN; RANGE OVER FRANCE

Way Paved ‘By Bombers For Attack  Below Caen   1,000 Hit German Positions, While Others Knock Out 163 Nazi Tanks

AAF Beats Up  Boche Defenses   x RK Nazis Abandoning Southwest France

1,000 Yank Bombers Hit Caen Sector   Blow Aimed at German Line Hinge; Roar Over France

CHEER DEWEY IN HOMETOWN   Owosso Stages Community Celebration After Nomination

Hard Fighting Continues on Italian Front   Fifth Army Blocks Main Escape Route of German 10th Army and Fights Bitterly in Ruins afk Velletrs

Oth Army Wages Bitter Struggle Inside Velletri   Main Escape Road Used By Retreating Germans Cut Near Valmontone

Trap Retreating Forces In Bitter  Fight Near Rome   Fifth Army Penetrates Strong Enemy Defenses

ALLIED FORCES NEAR ROME IN FIERCE FIGHTING   Meanwhile, U. S. Warplanes Hit Invasion Area of Europe Hardest Blow

Cabinet in Italy Upset By Leftists   Bonomi Resigns After Two Weeks of Crisis  And New Cabinet   To %e For wed

IN ITALY CRISIS      Bonomi Government Foreed Out by Attacks of Left Wing Groups

Forrestal Named for Navy Head   ROOSEVELT SUBMITS NAME TO SENATE AS KNOX SUCCESSOR

Roosevelt and Churchill Pledge Swift Jap Defeat   Agree on Use of Forces; Commands  Will Be Unchanged

Japs Lose 14,067 Men on Guam anc 15,144 on Saipan   Few American Troops Killed

TROOPS AND SUPPLIES POUR INTO HOLLAND AREA FOURTH DAY  Beret iMrEerdr Sm AAarw iA BTR   ALLIED SKY TROOPS AND GROUND ARMOR MOVING AT BLITZKRIEG SPEED

Supplies Flown for Ath Day,   Fall of Boulogne, Breet Tuproves Shipping Prospects

Push Germans Back On Direct Road to Berlin   Nazis ‘In South “Holland Menaced With Entrapment

SIEGFRIED LINE CRACKING UNDER YANK ASSAULTS   Airborne Reinforcements Pour Into Low Country for Fourth Day in Row

Major Battle Over Sweden’s Ball-Bearings   Neither Side Is Able to Force Issue to Full Conclusion

Wage Major ‘Trade War   Decision in Sweden Probably To Be Forcd By Invasion Not By Axis or U. S. Agents

Swedish Ball Bearing Exports, Center Of Fight   Finland Likely To Come To Terms With Allies Soon.

Polish Leader Joims Moscow ‘ Conferences   Prime Minister Mikolajezyk Of Exile Polish Government in London Wilk Diseuss Situation

Mending of Rift BetweenReds, Poles Hoped from Parley   Charchill Summons Exiled Polish Ministers To Confer With Stalin in Moscow Talks

POLES CALLED TO JOIN TALK WITH STALIN   ‘ Summons Quickly Follows  Churchill’s Arrival  H in Moscow.

Yanks Close Upon Rhine, Berri ers. :  Welz Captured  By 9th: Army

Yanks Battle Mud, Cold to Win Rhine Bar   Ninth Army Patrols Cross Swollen Inde To Encirele Innich In Closing Trap

Solid Assault Lines Before  -Roer And Saar   Ninth Captures Welz; Arch Drawn Around Town On Road to Mim chen Gladbach   U.S. Patrols Stab Across River Inde   French Take Possession of Huningue Ou West Side Of Rhine Without  Resistance —

THREE AMERICAN ARMIES REPORT HARD-WON GAINS   Reach Important Barricrs To  Rhine River

ASSAULT LINES SOLID ALONG ROER, SAAR   Threat To Ruhr, Rhineland Grows Steadily   Lost Daily As Prisoners By Nazis: Offensive In Twenty-Fourth Day

THREE AMERICAN ARMIES BEAT QUT HARD WON GAINS   Drew Up Solid Assault Line: Along the Roer and Saar Rivers.   IMPORTANT BARRIERS.   The Ninth Army Captured Welz, One Mile South of Linnich.

—WESTERN FRONT—  GAINS MADE ON DO-MILE FRONT   Patton’s Third Army Captures Two Towns In Push To River   HAMMER ‘KEYS’   Allied Drive Shaping Into Three Wedges For March On Berlin

Sledge-Hammer Ninth Army Takes Welz NearLinnich   Patton’s Doughboys Gain West Bank Of Saar River Opposite Merzig On 12-To-15 Mile Front

Assault Lines Form Before T wo Rivers   Ninth Army Takes Welz: Third Presses Against Saar, Siegfried; Heavv Losses in I ivec Enrecaan

Short Gains Consolidated Along Reer,  Saar Rivers   Welz Taken: Patton Picks. Up Half Mile.

3 Armies DrawUp Solid Lines Along Saar, Roer Rivers   Batter. Approaches To Three Key Cities Barring Way To Rhineland   Air Liner With 23 On Board ‘Crashes; At Least Seven Dead ‘San Fernando Valley Is Scene   Passengers Included Civilians And Military Personnel; 2:Crewmen Dead

American Patrol Units Drive Across Flooded Inde River   Allies Average Capture of 3,000 Germar Troops Daily; Number of Enemy Killed, Wounded Higher

Three U.S. Armies Drawn Up Along Roer and Saar, Vital Barriers To Rhine

Gen. Patton's Third Army Pushes Against West Bank of Saar and Siegfried Line on 12-15-Mile Front

Americans Point Toward Cologne And Dusseldorf   Oth Army Captures Welz; Patrols Cross The Inde; Tanks Advance Half Mile

Allied Drive Shaping into Three Wedges   Germans Battle Hard to Establish Winter Line West of Rhine

Solid Assault Lines Formed By Americans   Ninth Army Draws Close Arc Around Linnich _ As Patton’s Men Press Against Western Edge Of Saar Valley, Siegfried Line

ar of Nerves ontinues t Faster Tempc   i Perfect Invasion Weather Prevails as Nazis Say Capture of Rome Will Be Sianal for All-Out Attacks

Letter Said Instructing Nazi Agents to Break U. S. Bloc Is Published

Jap Fighters Manage to Bag Their First Two U. S. Superfortresses

ENEMY AIRMEN BAG TWO B-298   Home Of Huge Aircraft Works Bombed By Superfortresses

YANKEES MOP UP KWAJALEIN ATOLL ISLETS   Occupation of Japs’ Defense Center Is Nearly Complete

U.S. Forces Are Driving Ahead OnMarshalls   More Islands Taken As Mopping Up Continues On Kwajalein Atoll   JAPANESE FLEET FATLS TO APPEAR

Yanks Seize Control  of Marshalls REPAIR RUNWAYS  ervisenanomramnds  More Islands Taken Kvery Day

“BOING PLACES IN 1944," PRES, ROOSEVELT SAYS   Reports on Lend-Lease Which Has Run More Than 18 Billion Dollars Up to Dee, 1

Lend-Lease Aid Over 18% Billion, F. D. R. Discloses   Has Boosted Power  Of Offensives; Sees 1944 As Year of Decisive Actions

Lend-Lease Total Exceeds 18 Billion   President, in Reporting America’s Aid to Allies Through November 30, Says 1944 Will See Decisive War Actions.

FDR Paints 1944  As Decisive Year   President Reports on Lend-Lease Aid: Figure Tops Eighteen Billions

ROOSEVELT REPORTS ON LEND-LEASE   Russia Has Received By Far the Most

Lend-Lease Aid Totals $18 Billion   President’s Report On Activities Includes Promise Of Decisive  War Action This Year

President Sees 44 As Year Of  Decisive Action   Teheran, Cairo Talks To Speed Victory; Is Sure Of Unconditional Surrender

Reports To Congress On American Lend-Lease Expenditures — Now  Total More Than 18 Billions— Report Sent To Congress Clerks   YEAR TO BE ONE OF ACTION. HE STATES

FDR Reports Lend-Lease at $18 Billion   Large Part of Docu. ment Intended to Reply tn Cea

LEND-LEASE AID 10 ALLIES PLACED AT $18,608,000,000  PRESIDENT DECLARES 1944 WILL BE YEAR OF DECISIVE WAR ACTIONS

PLANS ARE MADE FOR BIG DRIVES TO CRUSH AXIS   Lend-Lease Report Is Used To Show Congress How Enemy To Be Beaten

Roosevelt Gives Report On Aid to Soviet Union And Other United Nations   Emphasizes Again That Program Will Save American Lives and Shorten War; Russia Gets F ourth of All Exports

FDR Tells Congress That Lend-Lease Expenditures Above $18,608,553 ,000

Lend-Lease Aid To Allies Totals Over 18 Billion:   President Credits Our Help With Increasing Power of Offensives.   Says 1944 to Be Year Of Decisive Actions

Allies Have. Increased Powers To Beaf the Axis   Ronee Sharniv In 1942

13th Report On U. S. Aid To Allies 1944 Will Be Decisive .  Year In War Says F. Ra  Lend-Léase 18 Billions

PRESIDENT ISSUES 13TH LEND-LEASE REPORT   Tehran, Cairo Plans Will Sneed Day of Vietaryv Save FT) R-

FDR Reports on Lend Lease Aid to Allies   Says 1944 Will Be Year of Decisive Actions in War

LEND-LEASE IS 135 PCT. OF US. WAR COSTS   President Voices Allied Optimism In Reporting Total Of 18 Billions Spent

Lend-Lease Aid Over 18 Billion   FDR Report Shows 13.5 Cents of War Dollar Goes to Allies; To Peak in August

FOR Lend-Lease Report Answers Waste Charges   $18,608,000,000 Worth Delivered Through November

FDR Declares 1944 Will Be Year of Action   Places Lend-lease Aid to U.S. Allies At $18.608 000.000

Over 18 Billions. Helped Allies In Attacks On Foes   Emphasizes Decisive Action To Bring Unconditional Surrender

FR Pledges Real Action In Year 44   President Submit: Periodic Report On Lend-Lease

FDR DECLARES '44 WILL BE YEAR OF DECISIVE ACTION   United Nations Have Increased Their Powers to Lick Axis and Have Whipped Them Back on Every Front

LEND.- LEASE PASSES 18 BILLIONS, REPORT UF PRESIDENT SAYS   War Aid Program Major Factor In Shortening Conflict, He Tells Congress; Russia Got 7.000 Planes

Send 7,000 U.S. Planes To Russians   Great Quantities of War Equipment to Soviets —  President Makes Report

Lend-Lease Totals $18,608, 000,000, President Reports   He Tells Congress United Nations Have Increased: Theis. Powers to Defeat Axis © And Have Beaten Enemies on All Fronts

Lend-Lease Aid to Allies Totals Over 18 Billion Dollars   Roosevelt Sends 13th Report on Agency to Congress Today

FDR Reports » On Aid Given Other Lands   9 Lend-Lease to America's Allies Amounted to More Than 18 Billions Through Nov. 30, President Informs Congress.

[Th REPORT ON LEND-LEASE      FDR Credits Aid With Increasing Power of Altied Offensives.   $18 BILLION To NOV. 30

Lend Aid Cost 18.6  Billions   Takes 13.5 Cents of Each Dollar U, 5.  Is Expending Upon War Prosecution

Lend-Lease Aid Far In Excess  Of 18 Billions   Furnishes Punch For Decisive 1944 War Action, Savs President.

Total Lease Lend Aid at 18 Billions   1944 Will Be Year of Decisive Actions in War, FDR Declares

Action in 1944 Is Forecast  By President   Roosevelt Reports  On Lend-Lease Aid— Says United Nations Increased in Power

1944 To Be Decisive War Year, FDR Claims   Lend-Lease Report Is Given Congress; Plans Were Made For Maior Drives

SAYS ENEMIE’ BEATEN BACK ~ EVERYWHERE   Lend-Lease Bill Is Placed Over 18 Billions   Credited With Increasing Striking Power, Improving Relations

REPORT MADE ON LEND-LEASE AID TO ALLIES   President Declares United Nations Have Increased Powers To Defeat the Axis   TOTALS $18,608,000,000

Report Bares Detailed Lease-Lending figures   U.S. Spending Excecds 18 Billion; Chicf Executive Answers Critics

ALLIES POISED FOR DECISIVE BLOWS ON AXIS   Roosevelt Says. Lease-Lend Aid to United Nationse Has Increased Powers For Offensive — 

M to Be Year of Decisive Actions, SaysF. D.R. in Lend-Lease Report Placing Aid to Allies at 18 Billions

Lend-Lease More Than 18 Billions   More Than Fourth Of Materiel Aid  Went to Russia

LEND.LEASE AID REACHES $18,608,000,000   President in Report Asserts Allied Power to Defeat Axis Increased   ANSWERS CRITICS   Table Shows Peak Reached in Avgusi, Monihly Totals Lessening Since Then

LEND.LEASE REPORT  Aid Total To Allies 18 Billion   1944 Will Be A Year of Decisive Actions—FDR

FDR Reports Over 18 Billion. Lend Lease Aid; Says 1944 To Be Year Of Decisive Actions   Declares Plans Already Made To Speed Allied Victory Over Germany, Japan

President Bares U.S. Lend-Lease   TOTAL AID TO AMERICA’S ALLIES PLACED AT $18,608,000,000; CHIEF EXECUTIVE SAYS “ENEMIES BEATEN BACK ON EVERY FRONT”

Will Speed The Day Of Victory Says President In Report To Congress

LEND-LEASE AID TO ALLIES PLACED AT 518 608,000, O00  CMAP nr   PRESIDENT DECLARES 1944 WILL BE YEAR OF DECISIVE WAR ACTIONS

TOTAL LEND-LEASE NOW 18 BILLIONS PRESIDENT SAYS   Agreements At Cairo and Tehran Will Speed Victory, He Declares.

Lend-Lease Aid Report Listed   ROOSEVELT SAYS 1944 TO SEE PLEIN NITY WAR ACTION

Roosevelt's Report Says “44 Will Be j Year of Big Action    Huge Increases in  Munition Shipment ls Emphasized

fend -Lease Total Tops $18 Billion:   Roosevelt Report Predicts This ‘Will Be Year of Decisive Actions’   RUSS SHARE LARGE   Presidential Summary Is Designed as Repty to Criticism

DECISIVE WAR ACTIONS THIS YEAR, SAYS FOR   Greater Blows To Be Struck On All Fronts

LEND-LEASE THROUGH NOV. $18 BILLION   FDR Declares in Report 1944 Year of Decisive Actions

* President Roosevelt Says 1944 Will Be Year Of Decisive Actions In War

F.R. Lists Lend-Lease at 18 Billion; 1944 to See ‘Decisive Actions’

$183 Billions To Our Allies Through Nov. 30   Much of Report Deals ia Criticisms Offered By Various Quarters

COAST STRAFED IN P-47 ATTACK   Versatile Planes Make Roof-Top Raids Over Northern France

H COAST AREAS RAIDED   Thunderbolts Make Straf. ing Attacks Without  Nazi Opposition

U.S. Thunderbolts Make Strafing Raids In France Without German Opposition

JAPS STOPPED AT KOHIMA ON INDIAN FRONT   CAPTURE OF IMPHAL BASE FORECAST BY TOKYO

JAPS THROWN BACK IN FIGHT ABOUT KOHIMA   Hard Fighting Report  ed in Progress to North of Imphal

Japs Are Beaten Back At Kohima   -Penetration Of Defenses Ninned.

Japs Claim Imphal's Fall  Imminent   Allies Hurl Back Attack Reaching Kohima Outskirts

Hard F ighting In Progress  For Kohima   Allies Repel Strong Attack Against Town by Japanese

BRITISH BATTLE. ~ JAPS FOR KOHIM   ENEMY THROWN BACK AFTER PENETRATING OUTER DEFENSES OF STRONGHOLD.

Japs Are Beaten Back in India  “© Allied Stronghold Is Under Assault

J aps Pierce Outer Ring Of Defenses   ‘Attack Thrown Back: ' Supply Road to North Held Open by Allies  IMPHAL MENACED

Nips Claim Imphal Is DueTo Fal!   Allies, However, Repulse Strong Jap -Force In India

Fierce Battle Rages For Big Indian Base   Japs Claim Capture of Kohima, Say Fall Of Imphal Imminent; Allied Defenders Hurl Back Nips Who Penetrated Lines

Foes Hurled Out Of Kohima Fort   Nipponese Probing West Of Teanhal-Tiddim. Road

BATTLE RAGES AROUND KOHIMA   Allies Hurl Back Raid That Penetrated Edge Of Town

BITTER FIGHT IS RAGING FOR - KOHIMABASE   Japanese Forces Hurled Back by British and In-— dian Fichters   ASSAULT LAUNCHED ON BASE ON FRIDAY   Invaders Closing Steadily on Imphal, Reports  Sav

HARD FIGHT FOR KOHIMA IN PROGRESS   British And Indian Troops Hurl Back Strong Japanese Attack, “Eliminating” Enemy Penetration.   Press Down Valley   Far From Bases

i aE ei sinaniahiianeicateaal —_7  2,000 Tons J Boonie Daily on Nazi Europe

2.000 TON AVERAGE OF BOMBS DROPPEL   1,081 German  Planes Destroyed During March, RAF Yank - Reports Reveal

BIG LANDSLIDE IN ELECTORAL VOTE POSSIBLE   Observers Predict Many Sur. prises In States Listed As Doubtful

OBSERVERS OF OPINION ELECTION WILL HINGE ON NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA AND MASSACHUSETS 

FOR AND DEWEY «SPEAK TONIGHT ON BALLOT EVE   Some 50 Million Americans Ready to Register Choice ae Tuesday

Three Eastern States Likely to Decide Issue   Landslide Could Occur Either Way Thru Action of Many “Silent Voters”

Deming Men Accused Of Transferring Gasoline Without Getting Coupons

Mountain of Mail Shows Nation Agrees — -Pruth of War Is Best, Gen. March Says

“Tell ‘Em the Truth— : They Can Take It’ Says ‘World War  Genera!

‘GENERAL MARCH ‘SAYS OUR WAR JOB IS TOUGHEST ONE   Says Just Wait Until Germans and Japan Get Beck on Their Own Hamme Sai} -- “

STATE. TOURIST BOARD NAMED   W. G. Armstrong of Niles Made Member of  Council

Bimson Uurges Each American Have A Postwar Plan, Buy War Bonds .

Bimson Urges All Citizens To Buy Bonds   ‘State Chairman Says Future Depends On It

Lupe Velez Dies Called Suicide  Note Left Reveals Blasted Romance he Caren nh Mend

LUPE VELEZ FOUND DEAD WN HER HOME   Actress Believed to Have Taken Overdose of Sleepina Powder.

Lupe Velez Found Dead Today at California Home  Police Say Actress Took Overdose Of Sleepina Powder

LUPE VELEZ ISFOUND DEAD IN BED   Screen Star Had (Taken Overdose of Sleeping Powder

Film Actress  Kills Herself   Overdose of Sleeping Tablets Apparently ‘Taken Intentionally by Lupe Velez

LUPE VELEZ FOUND DEAD EARLY TODAY   From An Overdose Of Sleeping Powders. Leaves Note

Allies Repulse Japanese Forces In Indian Drive   Attack Column Pushing On Vital Road Junction

Allied Troops Push Jans Back   Attack Enemy Force Moving on Important Highway Junction

Advancing Japs Driven From Three Positions   Allied Troops Attack Enemy Advancing In Burma And Now Only 29 Miles From Imphal

Twin Japanese Drives Menace Base In India   Allies Attack Nip Column Advancing On Manipur Valley

JAPS MOVING INTO INDIA ARE ATTACKED   Allied Troops Drive Ene my From Three Posi: tions Covering the Tid. dim-Imphal Road—Dis perse Other Columns.

Hit Japanese  Drive In India   Allies Attack Column Advaneing Toward Imphal 60 Miles Over Border.

JAPS ADVANCING FAR INTO INDIA   Enemy Within 30 Miles of Imphal Against Stubborn Allied Resistance

India-Invading Japs Repulsed; Losses Heavy   Allied Forces Battling Enemy Advancing On Imphal.

India Invasion Halted By Allies _ On Vital Road   Mountbatten Headquarters Claim. Invaders Driven _. From-Three Positions

ENEMY DRIVEN FROM POSITIONS ON IMPHAL ROAD   N ips Sustain Heavy Casualties; Are 30 Miles From Junction

jAPS DRIVEN FROM MANIPUR RIVER VALLEY   Japanese Column Near Imrhal In Tiddim Area

DESPITE MOUNTAIN OUTPUT OF WAR SUPPLIES IN PAST THREE YEARS NEED FOR MORE NOW IS VITAL’

U. 8. Plane Output to 230, 137 35. Billion Bullets, Made to “Date

Violent Air Fighting In Italy Today   Allied and German Fliers Battle Over the Rome Front

Believe Enemy Is Laying Groundwork For Counter Offensive Against Americans.

Germans Send Out E-Boats In Dark, Find Allies Ready   Patrol Clashes With British Destroyers And Motor Torpedo Boats Near Dieppe; British Move Under Continued Secrecy

Nazis Patrol Coasts for Invasion Hint   E-Boats Ranging Channel Find Allies in Control

NAZI E-BOATS KEEP WATCH IN CHANNEL   Bombers Also Reported Active a: Keich Flings Out Outposts Agninst Invasion,

Germans Patrol Invasion Coast   Send Out Nightly Fleet of Bombers

NAZIS LOOKING FOR INVASION WITH E BOATS   Making Nightly Patrols Along Channel To Find  Invasion Site

First Army Hits South of Aachen   Advance Carries Troops Through Forest Ta Within 26 Miles Of Key City Of Coloane

Surprise Blow Delivered « at the Siegfried , . _ Line —  1ST ARMY DRIVES  THROUGH FOREST  Invaders Now Only 26 Miles From 7 Cologne “S

YANKS WITHIN 26 MILES OF GERMAN RHINE   GROUND REGAINED IN RUHR VALLEY SALIENT

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Smash Through Forest in Great Surprise Blow   American Troops Within 26 Miles of Rhine; Beggendorf is Retaken; Bad Weather Hampers Patton

Yanks Advance In New Blow South of Aachen   Drive Within 26 Miles of Cologne; Regain Beggendorf After Earlier Setback in Counterattack

HODGES’ MEN GAIN SOUTH OF AACHEN   Stalled Above Fortress, They Deliver Surprise: Blow — Reach Point 26 Miles From Rhine. —_. =   AMERICANS LOSE, REGAIN BEGGENDORE   Withdraw Temporarily Before Terrific Attack by Nazi Tanks, Infane try and Artillery.

Doughboys Take Beggendorf in Furious Battle   Lost Town Regained In Tank Assaults

Yanks Strike While Nazis Concentrate  AtBeggendorf   Drive Through Forest Of Hurtgen to Within 26 Miles of Cologne And Strategic Rhine  PETAKE RECCENDORE

Nazis Caught Off Balance   Hodges Pulls Germans North of _ Aachen, Then Strikes South of City

Surprise Blow Delivered at the Siegfried , — Line -.     1ST ARMY DRIVES. THROUGH FORES1  Invaders Now Only 2 Miles From  Cologne

Nazis Push U, S. Troops Back Out Of One Village   Clearing Weather Gives Allied Planes Opportunity to Strike

GREAT SURPRISE BLOW DELIVERED BY FIRST ARMY   Gen. Hodges’ Troops Strike Through Forest 26 Miles  From Cologne.    BEGGENDORF RETAKEN AFTER BEING LOST

Surprise Blow Dealt 10 Miles Below Aachen   Too Early to Determine If New Attack Caught Enemy Off Balance; Good Gains Are Made

Lausche “Tough” Republicans Admi  Say Stewart Will  fo ~6 Diirenl Vaen

Well Known Young People Married Last Saturday  - Ceremony Performed At Adaville United Brethren Church

EVA GABEL WEDS KENNETH BROWA   Pretty Ceremony At United Brethren Church Saturday Evening

WAR MOVE POSSIBLE, TURK MINISTER SAYS   Tells Countrymen Not To Be Surprised At Arms Call

TURKEY: MAY RESORT 70 ARMS   Foreign Minister Says Air-Raid Precautions Invoked

LONDON HIT  BY BARRAGE. FROM CORS)         URCHILL REVEALS 2752 PER AONS HAVE BEEN. KILLED— : - AVERAGE ONE PERSON   ‘ ‘PER BOMB

EAKER DISCLOSES FATAL ACCIDENTS IN CASSINO BLOW   DECLARES SOME OF THE BOMBS MISSED TARGETS BY MISTAKE

U.S. Bombs Kill Allied Soldiers In Cassino Area   Gen. Eaker Reveals Many Aceidentally Dropped Far From Their Target

Allies Hit. Own Troops In Cassino ©  Air Attack   “Mechanical Failure  Is Blamed By Faker

Ailied Bombs Killed Own Troops at Cassino   Exptosives Accidentally Fell Far from Target, General Eaker Discloses

Eaker Reveals Allied Cassino Bombing Error  Mistake Causes Soldiers’ Deaths

Bomb Raid Error Costs Yank Lives   Gen. Eaker Bares Story of Mishap In Cassino Attack

ALLIED SOLDIERS KILLED BY BOMBS FROM ALLIED PLANES   Lt.-Gen. Eaker Reveals Accident at Time of Bombing of Cassino Which Cost Number of  Livesc

Eaker Admits Own Bombs Kalled Yanks   Accident Occurred in Assault on Cassino, Commander Says

GREAT BOMBING OF  CASSINO COST LIVES  AMERICAN SOLDIERS GEN. EAKER DISCLOSES  ANOTHER ALLIED ERROR DISASTER

‘Several Allied Soldiers Killed In Cassino Bombing; Discusses: Some Details of Effects of Blasting

TRAGEDY IS REVEALED IN CASSINO RAID   Lt. Gen. Eaker Discloses Number Allied Soldiers Killed When Bombs Fall Wide of Mark   PRAISES AIR POWER

Allied Troops Die  l'rom Allied Bombs   Lt. Gen. Eaker Savs Bombs Fell Far From Target in Error

Allied Army Men Killed  By Dropping Own Bombs   Gen. Eaker Discloses Casualties Caused  By Unusual Accident At Cassino Blasting

Allied Soldiers Killed In Cassino Bombing Atfack   Mechanical Failure Is Cause; Blasting Aecomnilished Purpose

ALLIED MEN KILLED WHEN BOMBS FALL   Cassino Fight Could Have  Been Worse

Number of Allies  Killed in Cassino  . Bombs Accidentally Fell From Target  DNireing Bin AcenilFt

Bombs Kill Own Troops   Eaker Tells of :Accidents During Allied Bombing of Cassino

HOW SOLDIERS DIED   Eaker Discloses that Bombs Accidentally Fell Far From Target.

—BOM.  sOLIVERS KILLED ay ALLIED BONE:   General. Baker Reveals _ Mishaps During Bomb ing Of Cassino

Eaker Says Allied Soldiers Killed by Bombs of Own Men   Blames Mistakes During Cassine Bombing on Mechanical Failnres, Errors in Target

Allied Bombs Kill Own Men Eaker Reports   Air Force Head Discusses Piane Activity in Italy

‘Comstratair’---New Strategic Task Force To Give Japs Real Taste of Aerial Warfare

BRITISH TANKS BREAKING THRU GERMAN LINES   City fs First Obstacle On 120Mile Path Leading To Pabie

British Plunge Through Crumbling Nazi Defense - In Drive to Seize Caen

‘ON TO PARIS! MAY BE CRY OF ALLIED ARMIES   New British Drive Developing Around Caen—Advance  Is Steady——Enemy Tinad

SIEGE ARC 1S THROWN ABOUT GAEN   Tanks and Infantry Plunge Through Widening Gap In Nazi Lines.

British Capture Tourville ‘in Smash Toward Paris as Yanks Mop Up Caught Hun

Allied Armies Plunge Forward 3 Miles In France   Outflank Caen, Cross Odon River In Steady March

2 Invasion: Columns Reinforced With Men & Ar. mor; Other Columns Thrust Upon Fron.  tier At 2 or More Other Paintc-

Invasion Armies Push Five Miles Into Reich   Patton’s Troops Push Across Moselle, Advance on Luneville, Allied Artillery Blast West Wall Defenses

2 Invasion Columns Rein. forced With Men & Armor; Other Colum Thrust Upon Fron. tier At 2or More Other  Daintc.

Several Yank Thrusts To Or Near Frontier   Ninth Army Under Gen. W. H. Simpson Joins Americans

BITTER FIGHTING RAGES ALONG WIDENING FRONT   Multiple Attacks and Speed Complicates War Picture; Advances in South

Fresh U. 8S. Troops Pour Into Front Across Nazi Border   Germans Refuse To Announce Sector of New American Advance Inside Germany

Germany Admits Fall Of Outpost To U. S. Invaders   Powerful American Reinforcements Pouring tn: Counter-Attack Repulsed

Twin Drives Pound at Nazi Lines   Enemy Account Fails to Disclose Sector Where Americans Pierced West Wall; Several Yank Columns Probe Weak Spots

Fresh Tales Concerning Gen. Patton Spread in Wake of Swift Maneuvers

GESTAPO TO TAKE “ENERGETIC STEPS’ AGAINST THICK-HEADED CITIZENRY

Rodney Q. Selby, who EXPANSION is secretary of the  Tacden Te Dee Be 8A a 8 Pee

CAPTURE OF RAILROAD’ TOWN VIRTUALLY SEALS __ALL AVENUES OF RETREAT. FOR TROOPS HOLDING     BLACK SEA PORT-—MEDITERRANEAN-BASED ALLIED PLANES SHOWER BOMBS ON RAILROAD YARDS IN ROMANIA CAPITAL

SENATEO.K.'S BALLOT BILL   Ohio's “Model” ServiceVote Measure Awaits House Action

FDR SHARPENS PRUNING KNIFE   Nearly 5 Billions to Be Saved; GOP Urges Greater Reductions

Congressmen Hail Cut In Cost Of War   $4,800,000,000 Saving, Says FDR

Roosevelt Reports War Expenditnures For Next Year Will Be Cut; Congress Pleased

THREE DIVORCES ASKED IN SUITS   Partition Action Dismissed by Plaintiff; Wives File Complaints

DIVORCES ASKED, JUDGE FINES TWO MEN IN COURT   Earl Squires and Cecil W. Benson Plead Guilty; Case Dismissed

FOUR DIVORCES ASKED IN SUITS   Three Husbands and One Wife Bring Only New Court Actions

THREE ACTIONS FILED IN COURT   Two Divorce Suits Brought Here; To Take Property At Appraised Value

THREE DIVORCE GASES IN COURT   Writ of Mandamus Granted; Two Cases Settled; One Divorce Allowed

DIVORCES ASKED IN NEW ACTIONS   Three Husbands File Suits; One Decree Granted; Only New Cases

THREE DIVORCES - ASKED IN SUITS   Two Wives, One Husband File Actions; Order of Sale Issued

FIVE SUITS FILED IN COURT; THREE DIVORCES ASKED   Fertilizer Company Asks for Judgment; Man Fined and Sentenced to Jail

A HARVEST OFFICE   Will Be Established at Great Bend June 10 to Aid  Farmers

FORM NEW AIR FORCE   Will Support Resistance Forces in the Balkans

Capital Ponders FDR's ‘Left’ Course   Trying to Define “Left of Center’ for Home, World Affairs

Capital Ponders Roosevelt's ‘Left Of Center’ Course; Indicated He Will Ziq-Zaq   FDR Says In Future He Will Continue To Edge To Left

ROOSEVELT SAYS WILL CONTINUE TO FOGE TO THE LEFT   ADMINISTRATION COURSE FOLLOWING WAR’S CONCLUSION PROBLEMATICAL

Capital Ponders FR’s ‘Left of Center’ Course; Past Indicates He'll ‘Zig-Zag

FDR to Keep On Edging To the Left  But He May Leave Zig-Zag Tracks

Nips Say Many Yankee Ships “Knocked Out”   Tokyo Claims Impending Anvasion of Philippines Set. Back By Two Months   Superforts Raid Formosa Again   Second Mission Within 48 Hours Accomplished Without Loss Of Aircraft

TOKYO RADIO CLAIMS KNOCKOUT BLOWS ON U. 5. NAVAL UNITS  JUBILANT JAP BROADCASTS REPORT FROM 40

SAYS INVASION OF PHILIPPINES ‘GIVENSETBACK   Superfortresses Again Attack Formosa as Fight Continues

SUPER FORTS STRIKE AGAIN AS JAP IMPERIAL FLEET IS SAID TO COME OUT FOR BIG BATTLE

Formosa sea Battle On: Nimitz Mum on Losses   Tokyo Says 40 to 52 U.S. Ships Sunk or Hit, Invasion of Philippines Set Back 2 Months; No Confirmation From Any Allied Sources

Tokyo Claims Attack on American Task Force Is co Successful   REPORT UNCONFIRMED   Broadcast Says Over 40 U S. Warships Are Sunk  or Damaged

Enemy Claims Thaf Fleets Are Now in Combat   Nimitz Reports Air-Naval Duel Is Continuing

Japs Declare Naval Battle ‘Now Raging Off Formosa   -Superforts Again Attack - Island

TOKYO RADIO CLAIMS KNOCKOUT BLOWS ON UJ. 5. NAVAL UNITS  JUBILANT JAP BROAD. CASTS REPORT FROM 40 TO 52 U.S. SHIPS LOST

JAPAN CLAIMS TO AVE KNOCKED OUT “MANY U;S, SHIPS   Set Back “Impending -Invasion of Philippines at Least 2 Months, Tokyo Says.   REPORT NOT VERIFIED      Total Loss Varies From 40 te 52 Warships, Sunk or ~ Damaved.

Nimitz Reports Hold No Word Of Naval Fight; Nipponese List 40-52 Ships Hit

‘Knocked Out ‘Scores of U. S, Warships   Philippines Invasion Delayed Two Months, Save II] ncanfhirmed Rena:

Land And Sea Forces Covered By Hurricane Of Air Assaults   Bombers Hit Airfields As Far Away As Marseille, Meet No’ Ack-Ack At Rome

American “Rangers and British Commandos Swarm Ashore — to Seize Depe, Miles Long Beachhead —Locale of Landing Identified in Special Communique.

2 BOMBS DAMAGE JAPANESE CRUISER   EXPLODE OFF BOW OF WARSHIP DURING ATTACK OFF NEW GUINEA,

Deferments of Key Men Listed   Rules Concerning Student Deferment Being Tiahtened

Critical War Activities List is Issued   Information to State Directors On New Deferments

Hershey Issues Deferment List For Men Under 2¢   Deferment Activities Do Not Include Coal Mining; Pre-Students Included.

Activities Listed for  Deferments   Some Students in Professional Scheels May Quality—Specia Orders Granted on Miners

ACTIVITIES ARE LISTEN   Hershey Submits Lists To Draft Boards Today

Deferable Jobs List Issued — By Draft Chief  Only Key Men in Vital Work —  Mm DM. Bin mite

GEN, HERSHEY ISSUES DEFERMENT LIST FOR CRITICAL ACTIVITY  STATE DRAFT BOARDS AUTHORIZED TO HOLD

Occupation Deferment List Given  By Hershey   13 Critical Activities -To Keep Young Men

Issue List Of Critical Activities   Deferment Of Key Men In Certain Occupations Is Authorized By Director   Lewis E. Hershey

Deferment Jobs Listed By Hershey   Affect Men Under 26; Coal Mining Not Put on List

Hershey Lists Critical Industrial Deferments   Key Men Under 26 May Be Kept Out of Draft-—Others Are Weaaded fax Armad Service :

Selective Service Lists 12 Critical Industries  Which Will Rate Deferments For Men Under 26

DEFERRABLE OBS FORWAR EFFORT ARE NOW LISTE   Preprofessional Students Get Consideration In Orders to Draft Board For Men Under 26 Years.   MUST BE ELIGIBLE TO ENTER SCHOOL JULY 1   Men to Be Recommended When Form Is Filled Out For Work in Limited Industry.

Hershey Lists Draft-Free Jobs   Selective Service Catalogs Occupations ‘Considered Vital to Winning the War; Key Men Under 26 to Escape Conscription

Directive Lists Critical Workers   SELECTIVE SER VICE IN REPORT TO BOARDS

Few Occupations Call For Deferment Hershey Releases List  Of Deferable Jobs For  Men Under Age Of 26

Threaten Nazi Flight From Odessa   War Jobs Rating Determents For Men Under 26 Announced

brshey Of Vital ar Activities   tate Directors lay Defer Key Men . 2%6-Year Group

KEY LIST FOR DEFERMENTS IS ANNOUNCED   Selective Service Director Cites Critical Activities For Guidance of State Officials   STUDENTS ARE INCLUDED

‘Key Men in Critical Industries Listed by Selective Service   Last-Minute Change Defers Local Men

Critical Activities Are Listed By Hershey   Coal Miners Not Included But Lecal Boards Given Power To Handle Cases

Critical Job List Issued By Official:   Registrants Under 26 Now Able To Tell If They Have Chance Of Gaining Deferments

Guide for - Deferments Announced   Critical Activities Listed in Instructions Given State Directors   CAN DEFER KEY MEN UNDER 26   No Student Deferments Be* yond July 1 Except Those in Specialized Fields

CRITICAL ACTIVITIES GOOD FOR DEFERMENTS ARE LISTED   KEY MEN UNDER 26 MAY BE EXEMPT FROM DRAFT IF ENGAGED IN MILITARY INDUSTRIAL WORK

LIST 1a Woaled BY L, HERSHE'   Covers a Considerable Catolog of Work Vital to Winning War.   COAL MINERS NOT LISTED

HERSHEY LISTS JOBS REGARDED VITAL FOR WAR   Men Under 26 Holding These Key Positions May Get Deferments

Deferment List Omits Coal Miners, Includes Some Medical Students

Lists Activities Of Registrants For Deferments   State Draft Directors Get  Hershey’s Rulings On Key Workers Under 26

‘Hershey Lists ' Jobs to Defer -MenUnder 26   Critical Activities Compiled, Authorizing Young Selectees to Remain on Key Jobs

Hershey Lists Critical Jobs  For Defermeut   Applies to Key Men Under  26 In Certain Activi ities; Special Order Coverine Coal Mining

= ‘ —DRAFT— a  HERSHEY HIMES DEFERMENT JOB!   Draft Head Announces Critical, Activities For ‘Men Under 26

Lists Jobs To Defer Key Men Under 26   Hershey Cites Critical Work For Men Under 26 Years

Deferment List Is Made Public   Selective Service Director Hershey Names Critical Occupations in Which Draft Boards May Give Consideration to Men Under 26.   MINERS NOT INCLUDED

SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICIALS GIVE. LIST OF CRITICAL ACTIVITIES WHICH RATE DEFERMENTS FOR MEN UNDER 26

Draft Proof — Key Jobs Are Listed Today   State Directors Allowed To Defer Men Under 26 In These Categories

COAL MINERS UNDER 26 MAY BE DEFERRED   Not Included On List But Special Authorization Being. Given

ENEMY SHIPS GO IN HIDING AFTER BATTLE   Pacific War May Be Shortened by Epic Sea Fight

POLAND PARTITION ACCORD ANNOUNCED   U. S. Won't Balk at Bor. der Changes, Stettinius States

U. S. Agrees To Partition Of Poland   Backing of Principle Hinges on Agreement Among Nations Affected

No Opposition Will Be Made to Partitioning of Poland, Says Stettinius

U. &. WON'T BALK ON POLE BORDERS   Providing Lines Are Changed By Agreement: Action ReStores Some Harmony to Ranks of Big Three

Agreement Conditiona “On Mutual Accord by __ Nations Directly -. Cancerned. _....

U.S. Consents to Polish Partition To Restore Unity Among Big Three

U.S. Will Accept Polish Partition if by Mutual Accord, Stettinius Says

U.S. to Acquiesce In Changes in Polish Borders   Stettinius Takes Position to Restore Big Three Harmony

SUPPORT OF RED POLISH POLICY BY U.S, INDICATED   Secretary Stettinius Issues Statement Agreeing in Principle to Partition of Poland.   ACCORD WITH RUSSIA AND BRITAIN IS AIM   Says It Wil! Aid in the Prosecution of the War—Connally Thinks Dispute Should Wait.

FIRST INVASION DEAD INTERRED   Fill Mass Graves in Army Cemetery in England

First American Dead From French Invasion Front Buried in England

First American Dead From France Sleep in England  Military Funeral Seemed to Drive Home Increase Cost of War in France

Rows of Flag-Covered Cas kets Lay ‘st. Bottom of Mase Graves Opened by Steam Shovel .

Oil Well Fire Out of Control   Shawnee Truck Driver Burned, Is Reported In Good Condition

~-MANPOWER—  SURVEYS I MADE BY MEDICAL GROUF   Favors Armed Services », Shortage Be “Made Up from. Family Men        REVIEW ORDERED   Cases. Of Men In Occupa““tional Deferments To Be Scrutinized

SPECIAL BOARD HITS LOWERING OF STANDARDS   Would Impair Efficiency Of Armed Services, Report Says

Family Men To Supply Army Needs   Commission Against Digging Deeper Into 4-F Category

Commission Finds Family Men,Others Must Fill In Gaps   Says Current Conditions Can Not Be Changed Without Impairing Efficiency Of Armed Services

Medical Commission Against Lowering Of Physical Standards For Draft

Lowering Physical Standards Fails To Get Approval!   Medical Commission Says None Needed For Limited Service

FAMILY MEN 10 HELP MAKE UP DRAFT SHORTAGI   A Special Medical Commission Reported Today, Must Not Lower Physical Standards of Service Men   PROPOSE CHANGES

Family Heads And Others To Be Put In Army   ‘Medical Commission Say:  Groups Must Furnish   Manpower Shortage In  Armed Services

Army Shortages Must Be Made Up From Family Men, Special  Board Informs White House   Commission Advises Against Lowering Physical Standards In Building Army

Holds Family Men Must Fill Draft Deficit   Medical Commission Against Lowering Physical Standards

Fathers Must Moke Up Shortages dn Forces Says Medical Commission

Medical Officials Say Manpower Deficit Must Be Filled By Family Men

Army Manpower Must Now Come From Family Men   Special Board Makes Report To White House

SERVICE LOOMS FOR MANY MEN NOW DEFERRED   Draft of Family Men Likely To Be Increased To Meet Knockout Punch Needs

Lower Physical Standard For Military Services Is Opposed By Medical Group

INDUSTRIAL WORKERS ALSO 10 BE TAPPED   Lowering of Physical Standards Won't Help, Medical  Pe oe: ee. en

Army Will Not Lower Stan dards   Opposes Easing of Current Physical Requirements

Commission Advises Making Up Army Manpower Shortage From Family Men and Others

WOULD IMPAI EFFICIENCY OF FORCES   Medical Commission Says Other Must Go First   NEED 75,000 MEN   Monthly To Replace Casualties And Others To Be Discharged

Fathers Only Left For Draft   GAPS MUST BE FILLED FROM PHYSICALLY FIT

Relaxations Of Medical Requirements  Are Opposed   Manpower Problems ‘Given Closer Study

FAMILY MEN TO FILL SHORTAGES IN U. §, SERVICE   Rule Physical Standards Will Not Be Lowered   REPORT GIVEN   Means No Delay In ~ Drafting Of Fathers

“Medical Board Asserts Draft - Standards Cannot be Lowered   ‘Special Commission Appointed at Behest of Con gress Reports Manpower Shortages Must Be Made Up from Fathers, Others

DECISION OF MEDICAL UNIT IS ANNOUNCED   Family Men, Others Faced With Bearing Brunt In Manpower Shortage

White House Told Manpower Shortage Must Be Made up From Family Men and ' Others

Committee Makes Report On Manpower   Medical Men Say Physical “Standards in Armed Forces Should Not Be Lowered 

Family Men, Others Must Be (alled   Physical Standards Not To Be Lowered to Fill Service Manpower Shortage

MEDICAL GROUP REPORTS ON DRAFT NEEDS.   Declares Shortage Must Be Made Up From ~~ Family Men

Army Shortage Must Be Made Up From Family Men, Medical Board Renorts To White House

RULING I$ MADE BY COMMISSION OF PHYSICIANS   Manpower Shortage Must Be Made Up From Fathers, Deferments

Means Dratting Of More Fathers  Can’t Fven Tlae The AeFi'c   Can’t Even Use The 4-F: For Limited Service —   MANPOWER POOL DANGEROUSLY LOW

White House Given Finding: Of Special Board Asked By Congressmen

Can’t Relax Army Tests   _ Medical Commission Reports Draft Shortage Must Be Made  Up Some Other Way

More Family Men To Enter Services   Relaxation of Physical Standards Not Considered by Commissioners

New Rule ToSuprly Soldiers   Physical Standards o Be Maintained  With Fathers

Physical Standards Cannot Be Lowered   Armed Forces Must Be Made Up Of Family Men And Others Physically  Wit, Caommiccian Binde

‘Grand Jury Begins Probe i of Walkout; Sabotage   of War Effort Seen   by U. S. Official

Politics May Have Been Real Cause Of Strike   Guards Continue To Ride Every Bus, Trolley And Subway

Yudge Links Tieup With US. Election   ‘Politics’ Hint Voiced To Phila. Grand Jury As Strike Probe Opens

WELSH BELIEVES TRANSIT STRIKE POLITICAL JOB   Says ‘Investigation Might Reveal It Was Intended To Effect National "lec ac

INQUIRY INTO PHILA. STRIKE IS LAUNCHED   Judge Welsh Tells Special Jury Walkout May Have Been Called to Effect Campaign

Connects Strike And  Election   Tie-Up ‘At Philadelphia May Have Connection With Presidential Race, Judge Tells Jury

Sees Political Link In Strike  U.S. District Judge Views Walkout

Hints of Politics in Strike   Philadelphia Judge, With Anger in His Voice, Calls for Thorough Probe   ASKS INQUIRY OF ENTIRE SET-UP   ‘Can’t Shut Your Eyes to the Fact Election Is Comine.’ He Says

‘Orphan’ of Guam Won’t Meet Press   Refuses to Tell Stor; Until Given Release By Washington

Senate Sends Service Vote  Bill to House   Administration Forces Attack Federal Ballot Plan to House Act

Soldier Vote Likely to Go To Conferees   Federal Ballot Move Tacked on ‘State's Rights’ Bill

Federal Ballot Plan Attached To House Bill   Major Victory Scored By Administration In Ite Fight In Behalf Of Green-Lucas Bill

ADMINISTRATION  WON MAJOR VICTORY  ON SOLDIER VOTE TACKS FEDERAL BALLOT  PLAN ONTO HOUSE-PASSEL STATE RIGHTS BILL

Federal Plan Is Voted   Senate Approves It As Amendment To House “States’ Rights” Bill

Vote Fight Goes Back to House   ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL BALLOT PROPOSAL IS ATTACHED TO POLL BILL

Soldier Ballot Back to House  Likely Measure Will Go to Conference

Senate Sends Soldier Vote Back To House   Tack Modified Green-Lucas Federal Vote Fian Te States” Rights Bill.   OPPOSITION IS DOWN

Senate Rearranges Ballot Bill, Gives It to House  Measure Now Carries  Clause Favoring  Administration Plan

Soviets Near Latvia Line   Nikolayey Said Near Canvture By Russians

Russ Renew Drive Inside Dnieper Benc   Advance to Within 7) Miles of Nazi Strongholc of Nikolavevy   SWEEP OVER RIVER:   Only Meager Details of Battle for Pskov Are Given

NEW OFFENSIVE — ATRIVER BEND      Black Sea Stronghold Is Threatened

Biggest Fire Raid is Made   Targets in Both France, Germany Hit By Americans

ancy, Metz and Dijon Given Pre- nvasion_ Pounding  RAVY NICHT PLOW         EAVY NIGHT BLOW   rilish Assault Staged on Three Rail Hubs in Germany

Attacks Maintain Continuity Night And Day Campaign—# Offensive In Ninth Straig Day; Three Nazi Fields Hit      BOMBERS ALSO OVER SOUTHWEST GERMAK

U.S. Planes Hit Nazi Air Fields   Yancs Carry on by Day After RAF Smashes at Rail Centers

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Willkie Given Hard Snub in Foreign Plank   California’s Decision Leaves Choice Up  to Dewey

Germany s Siege Line in Russia Is Ripped to Pieces   Along the Baltic the Russians Are Only 39 Miles  rom Estonian Border.   Capture of Volosovo  Gives Reds Good Base

} . Russians Roll Germans Back   Nazis Fight Hard To Hold Last Towns On Leningrad Railway

Mauled ‘Germans Hurled “Back Toward Border of Estonia  HOPELESS FIGHT         Nearly 100,000 Nazi Troops Isolated North of Lake Ilmen

Smashing Red Onsurge Nears Estonia Border   Nazis Unable To Prevent Cutting Of Vital Rail wav lines.

Nazis Hurled Back By Reds In New Rush   Leningrad Siege Lines Of Germans Ripped To Pieces

MAULED NAZE FORCES OLD LITTLE HOPE   Yesterday’s Battle Cost Germans 3800 Fightine Men

SOVIETS BATTER NAZI POSITIONS   Germans Forced to Yield More Ground After Losses In North

NAZI HURLED BACK BY REDS   Forces in Northwest Russia Pushed Toward Line _ Through Narva.   PATTLING NEAR KERCH

RUSSIANS TAKE TWO MORE MAIN RAIL JUNCTIONS   Having Liberated Leningrad, Reds Deal Nazis Another Heavy Blow By Capturing Volosovo And Tosno.

Charging Reds Batter Germans On Wide Front   Enemy Line Broken Around Vital Leningrad

Soviets Hurl Back Germans On Long Front   Capture Two Strategic Rail Junctions in North; Germans Put Up Battle

GERMANS DRIVEN 4 TO 60 MILES FROM LENINGRAD   RUSSIANS CAPTURE RAIL JUNCTIONS OF VOLOSOVA AND TOSNO

SOVIETS PUSH FORWARD IN NORTH RUSSIA   Hurl the Nazis Back To ' ward a Line Extending   Through Narva (in Estonia), Luga and Ctapayg Rissa.

CONTINUE TO PUSH FROM LENINGRAD   City Celebrates; Reds 39 Miles  From Estonia

GERMAN FORCES IN  NORTHWEST RUSSIA  BEING HURLED BACK CHARGING RED ARMY CONTINUES TO RIP  WATT CEILC TINE

SOVIETS CAPTURE KEY RAIL CITIES IN BIG OFFENSIVE   Germans Report Heavy Fighting Near Kerch in Eastern Crimea

Drive West to Within 39 Miles of Narva, Latvia, and Within Two Miles Vitebsk Railroad   DRIVE IN UKRAINE   Large Tank Forces Contest Vaiutin’s Advance Agains! OdessaWarsaw Rail Line

Russians Hurl Germans Back Toward Narva   Nazis Fight to Keep Russian Troops From Streets of Lyuban and Chubovo

GERMAN FORGES RIPPED-TO PIECES BY THE RED ARMY   Russian Captured Strategic Rail Junction of Volosovo and Tosno.   IN A FIERCE BATTLE   Nazis Fighting to Keep Soviet Troops From Streets . of Lyuban and Chudovo:-

Nazi Troops Are Retreating Toward Narva   Russians On Way Tc Estonian City After Ripping Siege Line: Around Leningrad

Nazis Mauled By Red Drives   Fight Desperately to Hold Russians From Rail Line

Yernmraiure Record.   Ainerican, Filipino Prisoners Tortured, Starved to Death, Murdered by. Japanese

Make Charges Of Brutality By Japs   Army And Navy Issue Joint Statement Charging Jap ‘*Tortures’’ Of Prisoners   ACCUSATIONS BASED ON REPORTED FACTS

Japs Brutal Treatment Of Prisoners _ Revealed By Official U. §. Statement

House And Senate Seek To Adjust  Tax Bill Issues   Measure Passed By Senate And Sent To Confzrence To lron Out Differences

TAX MEASURE ~_1$ APPROVEL   SENATE PASSED NEW REVENUE BILL LAST NIGHT—ADMINISTRATION DEMAND  _ i. REJECTED -.

Japs Shell Mindoro; 3 Ships Sunk   American Task Force Bombards Iwo Jima As Foes Trade Blows

lwo Jima Guns Hit Ships in U.S. Raid Force   Fury of Allied Air Attacks Routs Jap Sea Raiders

JAPS LOSE 3 DESTROYERS Ih MINDORO RAID   Battleship and Cruiser Also Damaged’ Two American Warships Hit While Attackling Iwo Jima.

wrk MAZES E ELEN ED  AMERICAN AN SHIPS BLAST (WO JIN   Nip Battleship And Cruiser Damaged; Two U.S. Ships Are Hit   AIRFIELDS LASHED   Manila Targets Lashed For Fifth Straight Day By Planes  a

Japs Worsted In Foray At Mindoro Base   Task Force Shells Mindoro, Loses Three Destroyers to PT’s, Planes

Blows Traded By Task Forces; Enemy Beater   Nip Battleship, Cruiser Two U. S. Warships Are Damaged

\Japs Take Naval Defeat in China Sea Off Mindoro   Lose Three Destroyers In Raid of tsland Defenses; Battleship And Cruiser Damaced

Nip Vessels Take Beating When Task Forces Trade Attacks On Island Bases’

HEAVY U, S.-JAP NAVIES TRADE BLOWS   Manila Airfields Bombed; Report 827 Japs Dead

Americans Sink Three Warships And Damage Two   Two U. S. Warships Damaged In Attack On Iwo Jima tsland

JAP AND YANK NAVAL FORCES TRADE BLOWS   Nipponese Come Off the Worse in Exchanges of Punches On Bases 1,500 Miles Apart   U. S. SHIPS DAMAGED

Jap, Yankee Naval Task  Forces Raid Island Posts   Nips Blast Mindoro; “Yanks Hit Iwo Jima.

Japanese Lose 3 Warships In Mindoro Raid   Enemy Accomplished Some “Fruitless and Inacecurate Shelling’’; Yanks. Raid Iwo Jima

Sink Five Jap War’ Vessels   Part of Task Force Which Shelled U. 8. Positions On: Mindoro “Inaccurately”

lask Forces “Trade. Blows; Japs Beater   3s Enemy. Destroyers ‘Sunk; Americans Make’ Raid On lwoJima.-

Nip Task Force Raiding Mindoro Island Is Badly Battered with 3 Destroyers Sunk, Battleship and Cruiser Damaged

Sink 3 Jap Ships in Battle   PT Boats and Planes Sink and Damage Ships Near Mindoro

SINK THREE NIP DESTROYERS IN MINDORO RAID   Damage Two Other Japanese Warships; U. S. Fleet Shells Iwo Jima

Americans Trade Blows With Japs   Nipponese Come Out Sec. ond Best in Battle on Island Bases   DOWN JAP DESTROYERS   Two United States Warships Are Dealt Slight Damage by Enemy

Japs Lose 3 Destroyers In Shelling Of Mindoro; Other Warships Damaged

Death Of DuBotsite Is Probed   Mrs. Yerda Paydock, Found Dead At Emigh Run, May Have  Been Beaten.

Little Steel Formula Will Be Held   WLB Report Places Any Change In Wage Prac. tice Now Used Up te President, Via Vinson

‘No Tinkering With Pay Setup Until Nazis Fall   Little Steel Formula To Be Held Where It Is Until Victory In Europe, High Administration Spokesman Declares

WAGE FORMULA TO BE RETAINED   io Change Seen Until V-E Day Can Be Named

Wage Formula To Stand Until V-Day Is Claim   War Labor Board ‘Passes ‘Issue to Roosevelt; Vinson_to Have Last ‘Say; 5 Opposes Breaking It

Retain Wage Formula Until Victory Day   Official At Washingtor Expresses Doubt That There Will Be Changes Before November

Little Steel Formula To Remain Until V-Day, Say: ‘Administration Adviser

Wage Formula Will Not Be Changed Now  Administration Will Not Tinker With Delicate Balances of Economy  MUST WAIT UNTIL GERMANY FALLS     Door Left ‘Open for WLB Action in. _Case of -Any _ “Change ‘in Poliey.      Administration Will No’ Tinker With Delicate Balances of Economy   MUST WAIT UNTIL GERMANY FALLS   Door Left Open for WLB ; Action in, _Case of -Any “Change-in Policy.

Little Steel Formula To Be Held until Victory in Europe  : No Tinker ing Policy Outlined

LITTLE STEEL FORMULA TO HOLD UNTIL HITLER WAR ENDS, WHITE HOUSE HINT

Wage Raises: Are Unlikely   Little Steel Formula Expected To Hold

PAY DISPUTE PUT UP TO PRESIDENT   Official Claims Formula Wil Stick Until Nazi Defeat

NO PAY HIKES SEEN UNTIL REICH FALLS   In Any Event, Little Steel Formula Is Not to Be Broken Until V-E Day Can Be Safely Fixed, Official Reveals.

a cnenRInEEREERnIenEieneEEnEneEneneeneene ene ee  No Little Steel Formula Wage Basis Change Ti'l Victory Seen

Little Steel F ormula To  Stay, Report   Little Chance of Its Being Changed Before V-E Day

Liffle Steel Formula Won't Be Changed Until Allies Gain Victory In Europe

Wage Boost Must Wait on Victory   Action Unexpected Before Election

WON'T GHANGE WAGE SCHEDUL   Official Says There Will Be No Change Until Victory In Europe.

LITTLE STEEL PACT TO STAND UNTIL V-E   High Official Says End of War to Mark First Revision of Wages

Army To Release Textile Workers   Shortage of Heavy Duck For Tents; Need Thousands of Workers.

Huge Paris Underground Army Awaits Signal for Uprising Against Germans

396 Japanese Planes Shot Down In Formosa Fighting   Sixty-Three Surface Ships Sunk or Damaged and Shore Defenses and Installations Are Seriously Damaged

63 Surface Ships Either Sunk Or Damaged And Shore Installations Wrecked   COMPLETE SURPRISE _ GAINED BY RAIDERS

U.S. Vessels © Escape Damage  In 2-Day Raid   45 Yank Aireraft Are Lont In Attacks on Icland, Nimite Renorta

In Strike Against Formosa; Enemy Says Attacks Continuing; 221 Planes, 35 Ships Out.   Cost 22 Planes

Governor Asks Extension of Voting Hours   Lauer Approves Recommendation te Keep Polls Open Until 9 O'clock   Statement By Lauer.

Churchill, Stalin Said to Agree on Balkans Control   Post-war Course Charted at Moscow Conference, Report

BALKAN DIVISION RED-BRITISH AIM   Washington Believes Stalin and Churchill Work Out Plan of Influence

DIVISION CF BALKAN STATE 18 WORKED GUI   Wash/ngton Cfficials Taink Churchill and  stalin Ectiled Problem

BMSION OF BALKAN STATES (5 WORKED QUT   -Wash-ngton. Cfficials Taink Churchill and Stalin E-ttled Problem

The War Today   Hitlerites Run Like Rabbits To Reach Siegfried Line

ARMY CONTENDS LABOR SOLUTION IS SERVICE LAW   8 Pct. Under Arms Lowes of Any. Belligerent Says Official

Flying Forts Hit Targets In Frankfurt   Allies Blast At Nazi War Machine

WASTE PAPER IS THE MOST NEEDED SCRAP REQUESTED BY GOVERNMENT NOW  os   Rural Youth organization wil tour county today to pick uf your contribution. Place paper: conveniently at curb.   YOUR COOPERATION IS VITAL   SHOPPERS BREAK BUYING RECORD FOR LAST YEAR   Government Figures Show That Sales During This Year Are Running Way Ahead Of Boom Period Of 1929.

REDS ah / SWIFT RIVE TO HUNGAR)      SFEARHEADS SMASHING 5 TAROUGH' MOUNTAIN ‘} PASBES IN'ALL-OUT OF FENSIVE THROUGH  - CZECHOSLOVAKIA  

Russian Forces Now Threatening Famed Tatar Pass   Soviet Troops Also Extend Front Along Border Of Czechoslovakia   SWEEP TOWARD HUNGARY SEEN

New Red Drive Threatens Tatar Pass; 100 Localities Captured As Nazis Retreat

Air Crew Training Program Will Be Terminated June 30 at Montana University, State College

AAF College Courses To Stop   Air Crew Students Assigned To Fields

Tech’s Aircrew Program To End   Five Other Texas Colleqes Involved

Goebbels Orders New Restrictions   Children Must Work; Women Dig Defenses

Danish Patriots dattling Germans   Violent Street Fighting In Copen hagen With Luftwaffe Taking Part

Danes Battle Nazisin Copenhagen   Luftwaffe Planes Strafing Patriots, Reuter States

Saipan Fighting Unequalled In Pacific War; Americans Wipe Out Nafutan Garrison

Yanks Annihilate Japs Defending Point on Saipan   Nimitz Reports New Victory; Carriers Blast Pagan Island

Stubborn Jap Garrison  Is Wiped Out   U.S. Carrier Fleet Hits Pagan Isle, in North Marianas

Army Releasing Men for Combat   Lagging Inductions Result in New Plan

RADING UNIT DRIVEN BACK FROM IMPHAL      Sino-Yank Contingent Outflanks Nips In Upper Mogaung

Multi-Pronged Push Slowly Converging On Manipur Capital   Yank, Chinese Warriors Outflank Enemy in Upper Mogaung Valley, Capturing Town Near Rail Center

Jap Forces Move Deeper Into India   Yanks, Chinese Outflank Enemy In North Burma

_U. $.-Germans Are Locked in Bitter Battle   Fighting Rages Between Town, Rail Station to North

STIFFEN BATTLE LINES ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Showdown May Be at. Hand. :

Nazi Commander of Atlantic Wall Defense Removes   Marshal Kar! Von Rundstedt Is Replaced

Yanks Gains Slowed In LaHaye Area   Kluge Succeeds Rundstedt As German Commander  In West.

Have Bitter Fighting in Normandy   Yanks Take Villages and Hills—Driven Out of  One Town

Hitler Fires. Von Rundstedt On West Front   Von Kluge Takes Defense of France; Yanks Hit La Have

Rundstedt Fired as Nazis Stiffen La Haye Defense   Eject Shock Troops, Retake Rail Station, Slow Yanks’ Drives

Blows at Palau Continue, Nimitz Says   Huge Sea Force Used In Smash 600 Miles  Feom Phillnnines

JAP NAVAL UNITS FLEE AS ARMADA APPROACHES BASE   ATTACKS CONTINUE ON BASTION 600 MILES FROM PHILIPPINES

NOT COMMON   Prematurely Born Quadruplets Reported As “Active Babies”

ZARIEG QUADS GIVEN FIRST FEEDING TODA}   Pr obably y First Quadrupléets In New York City’s History

Quadruplets Doing Well   Mother of Quads, Born Prematurely, Rests Comfortably

ZARIEF QUADRUPLETS GET ALONG VERY WELL  Three Girls and One Boy Born To Woman in New York Hospital

PLAN CHECKOP ~ ON SHORTAGES   RENEWED EFFORT TO BE MAD: TO INCREASE PRODUCTION IN KEY WAR INDUSTRIES

London Enjoys Bomb Respite   Fewer Robot Missiles Permit Night's Rest

Raids Also In Belgium   Americans In Air After  R.A.F. Night Attacks

French Close On Chaumont   Assault On Belfort bs Drawing. ‘Near’.

FRENCH TROOPS NEAR CHAUMONT   Headquarters Of General Pershing In First World W ar—Germans Battle Bitterly. ss

French Near Chaumont   Marne River City Pershing’s Headquarters In First World War

Yankee Armies Hammering Home Series of Offensives Against the Siegfried Line   Assault Being Carried Forward on Wide Front with Resistance Surprisingly Weak at Some Points; Big Gains Expected Soon

FRENCH TROOPS PUSH UP MARNE RIVER SECTOR   Near Cheumont, Gen. Pershing’s Old Headquarters

Allies Drive Steadily On Belfort Gap   Americans Enter Villersexel; French Take Pont De Roide

Flooded Roads Open To Traffic; Roanoke Rising   River Reported To Be Reaching Fifty Foot Level.

FDR Promises to Lift FilipinosFromSlavery   Says Liberation Hour Draws Nearer; Barbarous Nazis Warned of Crimes

Vital Nazi Base Falls To Tito   Yugoslav Partisans Take Gradina; Fighting Heavy Around Rails.

Yugoslavian Army Captures German  Base of Gardina   Heavy Assault Directed Against Supply Line Of Nazi Army

8 owns Fall to 5th Army   Nazis Cleared From 30 Square Miles; Front Ils Advanced

‘ir Power Disrupting Nazi Lines   # Italian Based Planes Strike Deep in Reich

Planes Spread Chaos Among German Troops   Bombers, Fighters From Italy Smash at Munich

Activity Indicates Japs Are Slated For Two New Blow:  Leaders Confer, Hint Of More, Heavier Bombing of Islands

House Would Halt Lend-Lease For Some Nations  Ban Tentatively Put Into Bill Hits Nonfighting Allies

SOLONS FACING BUSY SESSIONS   New Dealers Rap Recenversion; Doll Bill Is Considered

Reconversion Measure Faces Rough Future   New Deal Group Assails Proposal Passed by Senate

RELIEF, SURPLUS BILLS ATTACKED   Report Terms Unemployment Compensation Bill ‘a Skeleton;’ Property Clauses Hit

House, Senate At Odds Over Plan For Reconversion  Congress Starts  Debate’ Tuesday

RECONVERSION PATH IS STONY   ‘New Dealers Assai! Senate's  Compensation Plan

Conversion  Fight Seen   Uncertain And: Rough _ Program 1s Predicted

Unemployment Act Draws Fire  New Deal Democrats MAavy Take Actinn

Reconversion, . - Surplus Propert Bills Debated  Administration Men   Administration. Men To Fight For Higher ‘Federal Johlesc Pay

DISABLED VETERANS HAVE 4-POINT PLAN   Training for Handicapped by War Wounds   Battle Over Reconversion Program Looms as Bill up Before Congress

Reconversion [s  Hot Debate Topic   New Deal Democrats. Government Agencies Oppose Congress

G. 0. P’s-Demos bitter Widely On Reconversion   New Dealers Seek Higher Payments For the Unemployed

Reconversion Program Is Due For Arguments   Various Amendments and Suggestions on Postwar Benefits Will Tie Up <Action by Congress.

New Deal Demos Blast Reconversion Plans   Democratic Group Seeks  Hich Unemployment Benefits

BOLD SWEEP IN PACIFIC BY CARRIER UNIT   89 Japanese Ships Destroyed or Damaged and 8 Planes Are Wiped Out in Philippines   AIRFIELDS LAID WASTE

First Allied Carrier Raids  On Philippines Costs Japs 89 Ships And 68 Warplanes   U.S. Task Force Scores 100 P. C. Mark In Great Blow At Mindanao

Naval Force Destroys 90 Jap Ships   U. §. Victory Near Philippines Includes Sinking of 52-Ship Convoy; Down  , Sixty-Ficht Planes

First Allied Seaborne Attack on Philippines Wipes Out 68 Planes, Many Installations Vital to Jap Defense of Conquered Islands

89 Jap Ships Sunk In Carrier: Mindanao Strike  68 Planes Wiped Out In Blows At Airfields In South Philinpines

89 Japanese Ships Wiped Out When ‘Carrier Force Hits the Philippines

Yank Carrier . Planes Wreck Five. Airfields On Mindanao.   Japanese ‘Report. “Still More’ Blows

Carrier Raid On Philippines Hits Japs Hard  89 Enemy Ships   89 Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged In Aerial Foray

U. S. Carrier Forces Hit At Mindanao   89 Jap Ships Destroyed or Damaged—-Five Airfields Smashed

NAVY ATTACK AT MINDANAO BIG SUCCESS   Carry Out First Seaborne Air Assault In Philippine Area

‘Second Attack 0 n Philippines Made, Japs Say   Nips Suffer Worst Sca Loss Of War In Friday Blow; 89 Euemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged

Carriers Deal  Blow to Japs   U. S. NAVAL FORCE’ IN ATTACK NEAR PHILIPPINES

Carrier Force Strikes Mindanao, Blasts 89 Ships   Five Airfields Laid Waste, 68 Enemy Planes Destreyed—Japs Repert Naval Ferce in New Blow

Airmen Destroy  89 Jap Ships   Philippines Bombed By Navy Aircraft

Wheeler Backs Press of U. 5.   Hits Discrimination In Press Rates in Favor of British

Wire Rates Untair, Says Sen. Wheeler   Claims U. S. Newsmen’s Reports Are Held Up

TWO KILLED IN TRAIN CRACKUP   ‘Six - Hour Rescue Effort : Fails to Save Trapped Trainman

QUADS PASS CRITICAL TIME   SLIGHT RESPIRATORY TROUBLE ONLY PROBLEM

Fighting Rages as Germans Battle . In Effort to Seal Off Wedge Driven Into Siegfried Line by Yanks

American Troops Forced Out Of Beggendorf In Bloody Counter - Attack

Battle in Siegfried Breach Equals in Intensity Any Fought by U. S. Forces

HILLMAN TOPS PURGE LIST OF G.0.P. NOMINEE   Browder, Ickes, Perkins And Hopkins Also Are Named

DEWEY HEADING EAST FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL TRIP   Puts Browder, Hillman At Top Of Purge List If Elected

C10, Communist Leaders Tagged For Dewey Purge   Ickes, Perkins and Hopkins Also on List or Banishment

Dewey — Promises  Purge   Browder, Hillman Followers to  Be Ousted, GOP Nominee Declares

Dewey Pledges Purge Hillman And Browder   Ickes, Perkins and White House Adviser Hopkins are Included

Predicts Era Of Whirlwind  Air Commuting   William Lear predicts United — States will have 100000) lahditig: strips after’ war.

HUNT SOUVENIRS BUT KILL JAPS   Three Knock Out Machine Gun Nest After Advoncing Too Far

Dewey Wonders FDR Depression   Curious As To How One Man Could Prolong De pression for 11 Years.

DEWEY STRIKES OUT AT ROOSEVELT   TELLS WYOMING CROWD PRESIDENT PROLONGED DEPRESSION 11 YEARS.

DEWEY DISCUSSES CAMPAIGN ISSUES   Governor Hits Roosevelt for Prolonging Depression

Dewey Step: Up Attacks On New Deal   Attributes to One Man The Accomplishment OF Prolonging The Depression

11-Year Slump Prolonged by FDR, Dewey Says   GOP Candidate Scores ‘One Man’

750 BOMBERS OVER PLOESTI   Continue To Battle Oil Centers  17 Heavies Are Lost Last Night

Pope Urges Allies Ease Peace Terms   Declares Unconditional Surrender Terms May Prolong Conflict

Pope Appeals To ‘Military Leaders iTo Spare Rome   Warns Total Victory Demands May Prolong War Unnecessarily

Pope Pius Pleads  for Rome   Total Victory Demand May Prolong Struggle, Pontiff Asks Peace

Spare Rome, Po pe Pleads  With World   Pontiff Warns Demands For Total Vietory Will Prolong War, Suffering

POPE URGES BELLIGERENTS SPARE ROME   Warns Demands For Total Victory May Prolong War

Pope in Plea Against Long Drawn Out War   Says Demands for Total Victory Will Prolong Struggle

Pope Warns Peace Terms Prolong War   Pontiff Appeals To Army Leaders To Spare Rome

F inland May Be Out Of War By End Of Month   Viipuri Evacuation Has Already Begun As Russians Push On

Now Fighting Alone with  No Help From Ger' mans, As Reds Smash  Ahead.

Finland May Be Out Of War By July Soviets Roll On Despite Resistance

Finland May Be Out of War Soon   Rapid Soviet Advances May Send Finland Out By July. Belief

Expect Small Aid from Nazi Army In Fight   But Extreme Nationalism Of Nation Will Prolong Battle

PREDICT FINNS MAY BE OUT OF WAR BY JULY 1   Russian Offensive Rolls On Toward Viipuri And Helsinki Against Stubborn Resistance; Finland To Make War Debt Payment tev. &

THINK FINNS WILL LOSE BY END OF JUNE   pinion Freely Expressed ‘in London as Small Nation, Despite Fierce Resistance, Fails to Halt - Red Steam Roller. _

Finland May Be Quickly Knocked Out   London Observers Expect Nation To Fold This Month

Soviet Forces Keep Pushing Hapless Finns   Little Nation Must Go It Alone; Nazis Helpless

FINLAND'S EXIT FROM WAR CLOSE   That's Concensus as Finns Battle Desperately Against Attacks

See Finland Knocked Qui During June   Finns Apparently Dazed by Offensive; Seviets Moving Fast

Finns Fail To Halt Reds In Advance  On Viipuri .   Russia’s Offensive Comes As Surprise

Finns Might] Be Out Of War By Close Of Month   Opinion. Freely Expressed As.Russian Drive On Vii‘pari and Helsinki  Goes Unchecked

Russians Surge Ahead In Finland Offensive; Feel Finns May Be Licked Soon

PREDICT DEFEAT OF FINLAND BY END OF MONTH   Russians Drive Ahead in Push For Viipuri, Finn Capital

EVACUATION OF VIIPURI BEGUN BEHIND DRIVE   Russians Seen Aiming At Helsinki, Clearing Of Gulf Of Finland

Allies Predict Finland’s Fall Within? Weeks  Russians Surging Throw gh Defe enses

_RUSSTA—   New Soviet Offensive Smashing Ahead On  Karelian Isthmus   Finns Putting Up Stubborn Resistance But Fail To Halt Red Steam Roller; Russians “Reported About 40 Miles From Viipuri .

Reds Press Drive  To Smash Finland  Rirecinn Avia; KAnkile [leite hdl   Russian Army Mobile Units-Move Deeper into Karelian Isthmus

Finns Facing  Final Stand   Russ Expected to Knock Nation From War This Month

GERMAN urFith) KILL EACH QUHER   Pistol Battle Across Conference Table At Athens

Six Nazi Officers. Die in Pistol Duel   Brawl Takes-Place -At: Athens Pow-Wow

Strike Picture Brightens, but 19.500 Still Idle   Truck, Tram Men Tie Up Transport In U. S. and Canada

Approval of Truck Drivers’ Pay Hike F ails to End Strike   Midwesi Operators Enroute to Washingion for Conferences with WLB on New Schedule

STRIKES STILL MAJOR PROBLEM ON HOME FRONT   Three Disputes Settled; 8500 Still Idle

ESTIMATE 4,500  TRUCKERS IDLE  IN THE MIDWEST QUIT ROAD OVER  WAGE DISPUTE; CAR STRIKE ENDS

TWO STRIKES IN SPOTLIGHT   Settlement Of Three Walkouts Sends 14,400 Back To Work

Two. Major Labor Disputes Still & Unsettled: 14,400 Return To Jobs

Labor Ky ront. Spotlight — Is Shifted — On Weekend   New Transportation. Problems ‘Are Faced

SENSE OF HUMOR KEPT BY WILLKIE    First Lady One of Speakers on  Program With Him

PAPA Re ARORA ede e dads ff Hitch-Hiking Tar, Most Impolite,  Eats Sis’s Cone

St. Louis Browns Hold Edge in Fourth of Series   National Champs Still Favored. To Win, However

Weather Ideal For Series Tilt   Brecheen, Jakucki Starting Pitchers

DEWEY LASHES OUT AT NEW DEAI   GOVERNOR FEARS PEACE: TIME OHAOS IF ADMINIS: ; TRATION IS CONTINUED.

Few Wish to Risk Peacetime Chaos Of New Deal Rule, Dewey Declares   Republican Leader Rips Into Koosevelt A deinietration in Lincoin Day Speech

CHRISTMAS SEALS FINANCE PROGRAM   Concrete Results Reported in County's Anti TR Work

Seventy Plymouth County People Given Chest X-Rays In Recent Clinic   Fifteen Gave Positive. Reactions To Tests Administered © .

DEWEY TELLS. FARM PROGRAM: = FOR PERIOD ‘AFTER THE WAR   LEAVES FOR MINNEAPOLIS TO MAKE SPEECH ON AGRICUL. TURE AFTER ISSUING STATEMENT

DEWEY STARTS MIDWEST TOUR   Candidate in Minneanolis to Discuss Prosperity for Agriculture

CHICAGO CONVENTION STRIVES FOR SHORT PLATFORM; RACIAL ISSUE STILL STUMBLING BLOCK

Racial Plank Considered By Demos  Proposed Plank AAtalhse Adnan Cinhes

SHORTEST’ DEM PLATFORM READY   Racial Issue Stitl Boils; Document Has FDR Approved IPermanest Peace Plank

 Shortest Platform Written Hurriedly By Chosen Group Of Democrats At Chicago

Negro’s Equal Right To Vote In Party Plank   Southerners Expected To Make It An Issue, Take Fight To Floor

BATTLE L ON RACE PLANK   Permanent Peace Reported Contained In Platform

Soviet Spearheads Push Towar  Pskov; Germans Still In Re  treat On Baltic Front; Helsink  Heavily Bombed By 400 Plane   GERMANS USE HEAVY ARTILLERY AT ANZIi

FLOODS TAKE TEN LIVES IN MIDDLE WEST   Pressure Area Moves Eastward Leaving Flooded Streams Behind It

Storm Area Is Moving to East   Leaves Hight Dead, 150 Hurt in Arkansas Tornadoes — Storms in Kansas

Heavy Storm Sweeps Into  Ohio Valley   Leaves “Flooded - Streams, Tornado Damage In ‘ts Wake

Second Leyte City In Hands of Yanks   Flame Throwers Spearheading Infantry adssaults Toward Inland Areas of island

Control In Italy To Civilian Hands   Another Step Toward Restoring Independence

TODAY’S TOULON MARKETS.   Start Church Training School In Toulon; Church School Association Is Sponsor

MacArthur Battling His Way Back To Keep His Promise To Men On Bataan

‘MacArthur Whittles Out Another Big Gap On Way Back ITo Philinnines: Hollandia Base Is In Bomber Range

Italian Cabinet Falls in Discord   Crown Prince Hubert Seeks New Ministry .

OPA Gains Momentary Advantage in Saquabble With WFA Over Rationing

Ration Dispute Rages In Capital   Present Point Values  Will Be Extended

OPA, WFA Dispute Over Food Ration   Vinson Rules July Points to Continuc Until August 13

OPA Wins First Round In Battle For Authority   Interagency Squabble On With the Food Administration

6,000 Planes Hit German Targets   Allied Air Fleets Drop 11,000. Tons:of Bombs

2,500 At Capital, Hit More Largets; RAF Takes Over   Blow Up More Aviation Industries In First Daylight Visit To Berlin In Month; British Off For Nicht Call To Continental Points.

Strike Two Manufacturing Cities, Targets iv Belgium, France; RAF Forces Roar Over Continent

MORE MEN JOIN LUMBER STRIKE   Union Refuses To Recommend Return To Work

Assembly Passes Soldier Vote Bill  Changes Primary Date To Ane. 15

Senate To Take Action . Thursday      ieenats Provides For Advancing Date Of  . Wisconsin Primary To August 15

Lt. Gen. Leese, Eighth Army Chief, Will Head British Forces In India

OFFER BABY AS ‘GUINEA PIC’   Parents Of Dying Girl Agree To Any Experiment That Might Save Her Life

OFFER CHILD T2 SCIENTISTS   Frantic Parents Will Give Daugh. ter for Experimental Purposes in Eifort to Find Cure for Leukemia.

Politics   Dewey Opens Attack On Administration’s ‘Personal Squabbles’

INew Deal Controlled by ‘Corrupt Big City Bosses—Dewev   Disunity in Washington Threatens . Country’s Foreign Relations, G. O. P. Presidential Candidate Save

ewey Charges Bosses fommunists Control  trife-Tom New Deal   ong Administration’s ‘Little ©  Bivong As Nominee Hits Quarreling Men Rattling Around in Big Jobs’

Sen. O'Mahoney Savs Candidate Trying To Sidetrack International Issue

Dewey Adherents Back Senator Taft  Want Ohio Man to Head Platform Group

Harmony in  .. GOP Soughi   Dewey Supporters Reported To Favor Taft for Chairman ship of Platform Committee

Dewey Supporters Said To Be Backing Sen Taft For Important Chirmanship

Taft To Shape GOP Policies   New York Republicans Want Him On Convention Platform Committee.

DEWEY BACKERS PLAN HARMONY AT CONVENTION   Sen. Taft (O.) T: Head Platform  Committee

Dewey Supporters Backing Senator Taft For Chairman Of Platform Committee

Taft May Head Platform Group    Ohio Senator Gets Support of Dewey For Important  Position.

Allies and Germans Drop Fighting Men From Skies  On Invasion’s Second Day

Nazis Drop Armed Men  From Skies  Great Battle Said to Be Raging in Cherbourg Area

Berlin Admits Beachheads Seized and Held Over 50 Mile Stretch of Peninsula; Invasion Action Moves Ahead

German And Allied Paratroops Clash  Over Wide Section; Nazis Are Confused

Invasion Beaches Cleared of Enemy As Allied Troops Advance Inland; Both Sides Rush Reinforcements

GERMAN CLAIMS UNCONFIRMED BY ALLIED LEADERS   Bridgeheads Are Established In  Several Areas

Sorry after whipping daughter, 14, father asks young newlyweds home

Mother of Girl, 14, Who Married Youth, 18, Says It Was “Pretty Cute of Them’—Two Other Youngsters Made Up a Wedding Foursome—None of Four Appear Worried ” Over What Parents Think of Their Big Adventure.

BIG SEA BATTLE [5 STILL RAGING   AMERICAN TASK FORCE HURT, BUT IS POUNDING FLEEING ENEMY WARSHIPS.

Transports And Gliders Pour Army Into Holland   ‘Land at North Tip Of Siegfried ‘Line In Flank Attempt  a cc Me   BRITISH SECOND ARMY ENTERS NETHERLANDS   American First ‘Army Halts Counter-Attacks In Push for Cologne

Nazis Claim Landing Was Near Nijmegen, 12 Miles North of Other Crossing

Jver 1,000 Air Transport and Glider Loads Descend on Dutch Territory in Bold Attempt to Skirt Siegfried Line and Drive on Berlin.

Bold Attempt Made to Skirt Nazi Westwall   1,000 Transport and Glider Loads Strike at Foe; First Army Hits Through Siegfried Line Hole

Sky. Troops Take Villages, Fan Out as British Army Pushes In to Join Them

Drive for Berlin Gets under Way From New Point   1,000 Planes Carry New Invasion Force

JUNCTION WITH BRITISH ARMY EXPECTED SOON   Yanks Drive On Cologne Through Breaches In Siegtried Line   20,000 GERMANS QUIT WITHOUT FIRING SHOT

Bold Attempt to Skirt Siegfried Line Takes  Germans by Surprise   Several Dutch Towns Taken by Sky Soldiers In Drive for Berlin; Nazi Counterattacks Fail  East of Aachen; Reds Set Death Trap in Balkans

Germans Reported Driven From Dutch Towns ---, Near Border .   DRIVE-OPENED-BY——— BRITISH 2ND ARMY   Assault Timed Perfectly With Airborne ©  invasion

NAZIS DRIVEN FROM — - FEW DUTCH TOWNS   Foe Says Sky Troopers Dig In Near Nijmegen, Close To Penetrated Siegfried Line; British : Forces Also Into Holland

Germans Reported Driven From Dutch Towns hee Near Border      DRIV BRITISH 2ND’ ADD   Assault Timed Perfectly With Airborne’  Invasion

Solons Face  Big Calendar   “Reorganization. Plan  ‘Is Being Considered

No Pause For Congress At Sessions-End   New Bills Out For House; Postwar Highway Bill, Flood Control Debated

Mcscow Says Soviet Forces Have Repelled Nazi Counter-Attacks   BERLIN CLAIMS REDS HAVE OPENED UP NEW BALTIC OFFENSIVE   Russia Reported To Have Concluded Armistice Negotiations With Bulgaria

EAST PRUSSIAN BATTLE GROWS IN INTENSITS   Germans Throwing All They Have Into Effort to Stop Soviet Offensive.

Farmers To Meet Tomorrow Night  Will Elect Members Of Cooperative Boards

Infantry Pushes Into Mefz Today   Suffer From Crossfire Of Forts But Advance Into City Itself

Dixon Tells How Americans Fight Way Into Metz   Former Hobbs, N. M. Football Coach  Direcis Regiment

U, 5, CASUALTIES HEAVY AT METZ   GERMANS SHOOT WITH ACCURACY AS THEY FIGHT SAVAGELY TO HOLD CITY.

Hardest Vighting Ahead. Tee Says   Nazi Resistance In Italy Foreshadows That To Come

Pearl Harbor, Littell Inquiries Demanded   War, Navy Departments Find No Reason For Court Martial In Pearl Harbor Case.

Kight Speeches By Bricker   Asserts New Deal Scheme of Class Against Class

Bricker Warns Of Federal Domination Of Education   Doesn‘t Want Social Theories of Hillman, Etc., Made ‘Must’ in Schools

GREEN GIVES WELCOME TALK   Assails F. D. R. Administration for Meddling In Army, Navy

Accuses FDR Of Meddling With Conduct Of War   Green Says GOP  Won’t Interfere

‘Green Welcomes GOP To Chicago; ‘Dewey Backers Have 651 Delegates   By The Associated Press CHICAGO STANDIITM .

HOWEVER, HALT BE ONLY TEMPORARY   Violent Armored Battle Reported in Progress Near Bastogne

Allies Lift Embargo on Spanish Oil   Various Concéssions Made by Franco To Allies

LIFT EMBARGO ON SHIPMENT 0 OIL TO SPAIN   Action Seen As Invasion Hint

U.S.LIETS SPANISH OIL EMBARGO   Spain to Cut Wolfram Shipments To Germany

EMBARGO ON OIL SHIPMENTS 10 SPAIN LIFTED      Get Spanish Agreement To Cut Wolfram To Germany To 95 Percent .

ENBARGO LIFTED ON GIL TO SPAIN   U.S. Settles On 75 Per Cent Cut On Wolfram

United States and Spain Come tc Agreement Today on Embargo   Spain To Get U.S. Oi In Return For Other Concessions

LIFT EMBARGO ON SHIPMENTS OF OIL TODA   in Return, Spain Will Cut Down Amount of Wolfram Exports Consigned For Germany.

U. S. Lifts Spanish Oil Ban   Spain To Limit Vital Ore Shipments To Germany

FRANCO LIMITS WAR MATERIAL SENT TO NAZIS   Wolfram Exports Cut To 25 Per Cent of 1943 Figure

In Return, Spain Cuts Wolfram To Germany 75 Pct.   Axis Agents To Leave Spanish Zone Of North Africa

Oil Embargo Against Spain Lifted by U. S.   Get Agreement for Reduced Wolfram Supplies to Nazis

New Agreement Curtails Spanish Aid to Germany   Wolfram Exports Cut 75 Per cent; Ships Released

SENATE MIXED UP ON BALLOT   Federal Service Voting Measure Put Off Another Day

Senate, in Tangle Over Soldier Vote Bill, Delays Action   Federal Ballot Nearly Wins Before Foes Halt Passage

FEDERAL BALLOT LEGISLATION IS STILL MUDDLED   Administration Suffers Rebuff After Apparently  Winning In Senate   COMPROMISE WITH HOUSE HOPED FOR

House Votes For Soldiers  In Senate   DEFEAT OF MOTION TO GIVE GREEN-LUCAS BILL RIGHT OI WAY RESULTS IN DAY’S DE LAY.   Taft Fights Federal Ballot

senate Delays Service Bal. lot Action as Battle Becomes Complicated

Revenues Have Held Up In Surprising Manner in  Spite of Restrictions   HUGE PROGRAM AHEAD

Allies Close. OnThree Airfields;   Rin.Acsa Lackead  vig: LGU beh I OEE AS

Allied Flyers Use Newly-Captured Jap Airdromes   Hollandia Advance Continues; Tokyo Gains  Only in China

AERIAL POWER BACKS TROOPS AT HOLLANDIA   DUTCH NEW GUINEA PUSH HAS FEEBLE OPPOSITION

Planes Aiding ‘Double Edgec ‘Allied Drive   «American Infantry Forces Push Forward In * Jungles Of New Guinea To Hollandia Airstrip tn Third Day Of Newest South Pacific Attack

ins Apparently lan Sacrifice f a Division   Attack on Road Block Repulsed

MERIGAND LOOSEN JAP HOLD IN QRMOC VALLEY   Nips Seems Ready to Sacri fice Entire Division to  , Hold Present Positions   MISERABLE WEATHER HINDERS OPERATIONS   ® Weary Units of 24th Infantry Division Beats Off Deter mined Counter - attacks Japs in“Limon Cling Stub  ° bornly to Positions

Weary 24th Division Units Repulse Bloodily Third Enemy Attack on Road Block.   Extreme Difficulty

King Urges Speed Up in Production   Navy Chief Says War In Pacific Now Using Supply Reserves Fast

; Production  Is Problem   Speed Of Advance -Straining , Supplies

Offensive Speed Creates New Supply Problems   Production of Some Vital Items Is Behind Needs

Soviets Roll On In Their Drive   Germany Tells of New Attacks by Red Army

ne FORGE PUMH ATCA IN POLAND   Gen. Vatutin Changes Tactics  nme Sn   TRIPS UP NAZIS   Hitlerites Flee on 40Mile Front

First Penicillin - Treatment Here   ‘Wonder Drug’ In Use At Mercy Hospital

LIEUT.. CHAPMAN ~ ADDS TO LAURELS   Sharpabiatg Airman Bests _ Nazis i in Recent Aerial _<Scrap -

LIEUT. (HAPMAR ~ ADDS TO LAURELS   Sharpsburg Airman Bests Nazis in Recent Aerial -Serap -

Nation Mourns for Formet Presidential Candidate; Bury in Indiana

RIGH TRIBUTEBEING. PAD “CHARACTER OF > DYNAMIC ~ LEADER ‘WHO DIED  . SUDDENLY -

ENTIRE NAT i MOURNS DEATH OF WILLKIE   Funeral Services to Be Held Tuesday Afternoon

Trap i in Holland   man. Resistance Smashed Along -Mile Front; 70,000 Germans ‘nin Northward in Escape Attempt

70.000 NAZIS SEEK TO FLEE FROM HOLLAND   Flame-throwers Used By British; Take *S Hertogenbosch

(Continued on page 4.)   Expiration Dates Listed Ration Calendar

De Gaulle Unit To Be Recognizec   Expect Complete Allied Approval of Government

SEEK TO STOP HARD-DRIVING RED FORCES   Moscow Admits Stiffening Resistance on Several Sectors

RESERVES ARE SENT TO FRONT: AGAINST REDS   GERMAN HIGH COMMAND MAKING FRANTIC EFFORTS TO : HALT ONRUSHING RUB-:  ‘SIAN FORCES:

Report Germans Rushing Reserves To Eastern Front   Nazis In Desperate Attempt To Halt Red Sweep On East Prussia   BATTLE CONTINUES IN WILNO STREETS

MALTY PUI AEOERVES NTU LINES   Try Frantically To Stop Rout  WILNO  TOTTERS  tec amie mam  Germans Trapped In Pripet Marshes

NAIZ RESERVED ON EAST FRONT   Steadily Advancing Russians Make i5 Miles a Day

SAILOR HOME AFTER MIRACU“LOUS ESCAPE FROM ENEMY DURING OCCU. , PATION OF ISLAND -

Blocd, Blood, and More Blood Is Call From Doctors Who Work To Save Lives of Wounded Yanks

Navy Palrol Ship: Sinks Following —Crash Off Jersey   Former Pleasure Yacht OF Heiress.--Strikes © Merchant Vessel -

Navy Patrol Ship Sunk In Collision   Nothing Known As To Casualties; Hit Merchant Boat

NAVY PATROL SHIP IS SUNK   Barbara Hutton’s Former Pleasure Yacht, Cargo Vessel Collide

PATROL VESSEL SINKS IN CRASH   Navy Ship And Freighter Collide; Survivors And Bodies Brought In

G. O. P. Gains in Six States Noted as Presidential Clue   UTAH, PREDOMINANTLY DEMOCRATIC FOR 20 YEARS, POLLS 34,014 REPUBLICAN VOTES

American Doughboys Capture Formia Against Fierce Resistance of Germans   Town Taken and Mopped Up in 24 Hour Battle Against Strong Defenses, Snipers, . and Sweeping Artillery Fire

Report From Formia Base   Nazis Threw All Fire Power Against Americans

Enemy's Best Nof Enough To Slow Up Yank:   Americans Drive Ahead In Face. Of Maximum Nazi Fire Power

Nazis Threw Everything They Had Against U. S.  Forces Storming Formia

Nazis Threw Their Full Power Into Advancing Troops   U. S. Captors of Formia Were Not Even Slowed hy German Tricks or Snipers

Nazis Unable To Stop Yanks   Used Everything The; Had to Hold Formia Against Doughboys

Nazis “Shot the Works” at Formia But Guns Didn’ t Even Slow Yanks

MARINES-ARMY BLASTED GUAM “JAPS TO HELL      Landing So Effective Casualties Said Very Light

Wallace Needs 48 More Votes   Truman’s Chances Dim med by Illinois Action

Draft System Is Revised   Abolish ‘Screening’ Tests and Furloughs

Local Draft Examinations Abolished: Selectees Get 21 Days Before Induction

REVISIONS IN DRAFT RULES ANNOUNCED   New System Wil! Give Inductees Three Weeks’ wWlatica   FULLY EFFECTIVE ON FEBRUARY 1ST   Uncertainties About Phiysical Tests to be Removed

Draft Heads Abolish  Screen Tests  ‘OnlyExamSlated 21 Days Before Actual Induction

Selective Service System Revised   ‘Screening Exams.  Ordered Abolished

Screening Tests Are Abolished By Selective Service  Change Is Made  In Examination

PRE-INDUCTION TEST RULE IS BEING CHANGED   Inductees Will Be Giver Three Weeks Notice To  Remove Uncertainties      NEW SYSTEM TO BE LAUNCHED FEB. 

SYSTEM REVISES -- INDUCTION RULES   Chanae to Give inductee’ Wise _, Notices. Abate

NEW SYSTEM [S SET UP FOR DRAFTING MEN   ..xamination to be Given Several Weeks Before Induction

Physical Test, Draft Induction System Revised   ‘Screen’ Tests Stopped: ]1-A’s to Take Entire Examination: To Get 21 Days Before Call

SELECTIVE SERVICE MAKES WIDE CHANGES IN INDUCTION SYSTEN  ee   Order Halts Screening Examinations; Furloughs Changed

Admiral Hails El Paso Hero; Old Friends Meet in Honolulu   Japs Will Be Roped and Branded, Nimitz Tells ‘Texas Roundup’

RED WRITER SEES POPE PRO-FASCIST   Izvestia Article Denounces Policy of Vatican

American Tank Unit  In Burma   Stilwell’s Forces Grow Steadily and Success Expands

TANK FORCES ARE BATTLING JAPSINBURMA   Second Anniversary of Allied Retreat Marked By Announcement of Growing Activities   CAMPAIG IS EXPANDING

NEW BATTLES UNDERWAY IN BURMA AREAS   Japanese Forced To Retreat On Many Fronts

Yanks Start Burma Fight   First All-American Tank Unit Sees Action On Asiatic Continent.

YANKEE TANK UNIT JOINS IN BURMA BATTLE   Reinforced Stilwell Forces Push Nearer Vital Rail-road Junctions

All-American Tank Unit in Action on Asiatic Continent   In Battle Against Jap Supply Line in Burma; Chinese Lose Pass

U.S. Armored Force Enters Burma Battle   Stilwell Throws > Tank Unit Against Jap Supply System

U.S. TANKS ON BURMA FRONT   Appearance Testifies To Stillwell’s Growing Strength

Yank Tank Unit Fights In Burma On Anniversary   Engaged In Action 2 Years To Day Of Allied Army’s Start On Noted Retreat

TILWELL FORCES. PLUNGING AHEAD   Jungle Fighters Ap- proaching Vital JapHeld Rail Areas   STRENGTH GAINS   Allies Hope-To Reopen Overland Supply Line To China

U. §. Tank Corps Into Burma War  Indicates Growing Strength of Stilwell

YANKS USING TANKS NOW IN ~ BURMA DRIVE   ‘Stillwell Uses Mechanized  Equipment In Battle  With Japs

U.S. Tanks Blast Nippons in Fight for Burma  45 Miles From Jap Supply Base

All-U. S. Tank Unit In Burma Fight; Historic Hulao Pass Falls To Japs

Yank Tank Units In Burma Action   Growing Strength Of Stilwell's Forces Indicated

Tanks Rumble Into Action Through Jungle To Cut Supply Lines as Invasion of India Chopped to Pieces—Planes Continue To Pound Island Bases

Tank Unit Joins Stilwell March Back into Burma   By RICHARD C. BREGHOLZ Assoriated Peess War Editor

Announce First Unit of Kind To Enter Action in Indian Area.   ? YEARS SINCE RETREAT

FIRST ALL-AMERICAN TANK UNIT THROWN INTO BURMA FIGHT  GEN, STILWELL HAS 7 GAINED STRENGTH IN

First American Tank Unit in Actior In Burma Theatre  Allies Clean Up Japs Around Kohima, Prepare for Indicaled

ALL-AMERICAN TANK UNITIN BURMA FIGHTING   Is First All-American Group to See Action on ’ Asiatic Continent

All-American Tank Unit Noy  In Burma Fight   Is First To See Action on Asiatic  Continent—Japs Take Hulao Pass

American Tanks Battle Japs in Northern Burma   New Offensive Is Reported From Chungking

First All American Tank Unit Smashes  Japanese In Burma   Stilwell Forces Make Gains To Aid Chinese

4 INCUMBENT GOVERNORS TRAILING   Green of Illinois Among Those Who Appear Defeated

GOVERNORS OF 4 STATES ARE FACING DEFEAT   Three Republicans, One Democrat Trail In Balloting

DRASTIC STEP FOR SECRECY IN BRITAIN      Neutral Diplomats’ Mail Subject to Censor and None May Leave Country TJntil Invasion.

New Ban on Diplomats In London   Industrial and Communica. tions Centers Blasted by British, Americans

Censorship Regulations Tightened   Diplomatic Staffs Of 43 Nations Affected by Orde

Britain Seals Door Against Invasion Leaks   Diplomatic Corps Of 43 Nations Virtually Interned Under Drastic Order

Britain Interns Diplomatic Corps of 43 Nations in Step to Safeguard Invasions Secrets; Bans Code Messages

INTERNMENT OF ENVOYS ORDERED TO GUARD SECRETS   Diplomats of 43 Nations Cannot Leave England or Use: Their Codes. 

‘Democrats To Hold State Convention In  Des Moines April 15   State Capitol News Letter 4s Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

at Des Moines ue This Week End      To Name 24 Delegates _ to National Convention

SOVIETS MAKE 12-MILE GAIN AT LENINGRAD   KEY TOWNS TAKEN; 20,000 GERMANS ARE SLAIN

Next Inaugural  To Lack Chairs   Economy Won't Permit Building of Stands

Seventh army in eight mile drive from Haguenau   First virtually eliminates nazi salient on Roer: French gain in Vosges hills

SEVENTH BATTERS DOWN DEFENSES   Storms More Than 8 Miles Northward From Haguenav   FRENCH FIRST GAINS   American Third Crosses Blies River Forcing New Edge Across Border _

General Hodges Men and Armor Crash Through Six Towns in Six-Mile Are Near Duren; Other Groups Make Advances All Along fine.

Seventh Army Gains North ‘Of Haguenau   New Spearhead Forced. Across German Border Near Sarreguemines  GET AIR STIPPORT

JU Towns, Villages Fall As Allied Armies Pound Toward Industrial Arens

GERMAN LINE COLLAPSES IN DUREN SECTOR   AMERICANS WITHIN HALF MILE OF KEY CITY

Troops Drive Through Seven Fortified Villages  DUREN 1S NEARED——~—  BY HODGES‘ FORCE  Third and Seventh Armies Also Report Some Gains

irst American \rmy Advances learly to Duren   Seventh Gains Eight Miles to Northward

Nazi Roer Salient About Eliminated   More Than 30 Towns And Villages, Seven Inside Germany. Overrun in Rapid Advance

Allies Roll Up New Gains   Seventh Storms Eight Miles; First Virtually Clears: Coloane Réad Block

8-MILE ADVANCE ISREPORTEDBY SEVENTH ARMY   First American Army Drives Within Half Mile Of Duren Bastion   GERMAN RESISTANCE BEGINS TO WEAKEN

Tank Battles Rage Inside of Budapest   German Defending Forces Split in Two When Russian Forces Force W ay to Danube East Bank

BUDAPEST GARRISON SPLIT UP   Capital Is in Flames As Nazis Hold Grimly

Step Up Post-War Planning   At Least Ten International Conferences On State Department Calendar, Or in Making

Long Series of Postwar Conferences Are on State Department Calendar

Diplomatic Machinery Has Already Begun Rolling  Ten International PostWar Conferences On Tap

Ten World Conferences On Calendar OfState Dept   Diplomatic Machinery For Post-War World Is Beginning To Roll; Schedule Arranged

MULTIPLE PLANS BEING OUTLINED FOR AFTER WAR   ‘Fight for Life of OPA Is On In Congress and Axe Out For Appropriations

Plans for Post-War World Will Require  Many Conferences   Diplomatic Machinery Begins Rolling; At Least 10 Carded

DIPLOMATS PLAN 10 INTERNATIONAL POSTWAR PARLEYS   ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL TALKS SCHEDULED AS FIRST IN THE SERIES

CONFERENCES LAY GROUNDWORK FOR POST-WAR PLANNING   State Department Has in ‘its Calendar 10 Conferences Booked or. in Preparatory Stares---Oi} Parlevs First

HULL'S OFFICE MAPS ALLIED CONFERENCES   At Least 10 International Post-War Meetings Scheduled To Be Held

Ten International Conferences Are Planned To Shape Post-War World

Conferences On Post - War Plans Mapped   Ten International Parleys On State Department Calendar

CONFERENCES BEING PLANNED FOR TALKS ON POST-WAR WORLD  DIPLOMATIC MACHINERY} BEGINNING TO MOVE IN MANY DIRECTIONS

NEW EFFORT BY PAASIKIVI SEEN   Expected to, Seek Formal  Peace Negotiations

FORMER FINN PREMIER TO GO TO RUSSIA   Will Begin First Formal  Peace Talks

House Committee Recommends Funds For Yuma and Parker Dam Projects

Dew ey Assails Di plomac: v ot Administration   Deplores “Personal. Secret” Actions in  Conferences Making Peace of World

G.0.P. Warns Of ‘Disaster If Individual Rulers Try To Map Peace Alone

Dewey Opposes Reservations   Against Moves That Might Nullify World  Peace Organization

Dewey Flays Secret Deals Made by F. R.   Opposes Reservations That Might Nullify Woarld Peace Group

Dewey Scores FR s Secret Diplomacy   Governor Declares For U.S. Participation In Peace Organization

Flays ‘Personal’ Diplomacy      Dewey Charges FDR Has Muddled U. S.. Foreign Affairs By : “Qaoepet” Commitment:

‘Dewey Assails ED. R. Secret’ sForeign Policy   Opposes _ Reservations Which Might Nullify A World Peace Setup.

Dewey Attacks Roosevelt For “Secret Diplomacy”; Backs World Peace Plans

Gov. Dewey _ Hits Secrecy - In Diplomacy   Reservation In Matter Of Peace Organization Opposed By Candidate In New York Ttalk

DEWEY SCORES ‘SECRET DEALS’   FDR’s Talks With Stalin On Polish Situation Hit By Governor

Dewey Puzzled by “Secret Diplomacy” of Pres. Roosevell   Attacks New Deal Hand. ling of Foreign Affairs at Forum

DEWEY FLAYS U.S. DIPLOMACY   Declares Roosevelt's Secret Conferences Endanger World Peace

DEWEY AGAINST PEACE BLOCKS      Hits Reservations Which Might Nullify World Security Setup 

Dewey Charges Romania _ Agreement Signed for U. S. By a Russian.

DeweyDenounces F.D.R.'s Secrecy InForeign Affairs   Says Red Official Was Allowed To Sign Romanian _ Agreement For United States—Hull Knew ‘Nothing About It

Secret Plans  In World Peace Hit By Dewey   Republican Candidate Scores “Personal, Secret Diplomacy” Being Practiced by President.

Dewey Opposes Reservations To Nullify Peace      Expresses Foreign Policy; Administratior Handling Of World Affairs Assailed

DEWEY ATTACKS F.D.R.’S PERSONAL FOREIGN POLICY   SECRET PARLEYS TO SHAPE PEACE INVITE DISASTER, HE SAYS

Denounces Roosevelt ‘Secrecy’   Dewey Calla for ‘Open Covenants Openly Arrived at®

Secret Deals In Diplomacy t aid to FDR   Dewey Opposes U. S. Policies That Might Imneril League Plan

KWEILIN FALL ~1S CLAIMED BY JAPANESE   Chinese Admit Only Fighting in Suburbs

IRVIN S. COBB, FAMOUS AUTHOR LECTURER, DIES   One Of Top Humorisi: Once Denied His Death: Was 67

Unionists Oust Supervisors af Mofor Factory   Detroit Strike Holding Up War Materials, Claim

UNION RIOTING CLOSES CHRYSLER HIGHLAND PLANT   “‘Union People Going Crazy” Says Company Spokesman.

VIOLENCE AT CHRYSLER PLANT TODAY   ' CIO Members and Supervisory Workers In Ardent Quarrel

STRIKE AGITATORS SUBJECT 10 FINES   British Provide Heavy Penalties to Maintain Needed Production.

Stiff Penalties for All British Strike Leaders   Gov't Provides Sentences Up to Five Years

ADOPT DRASTIC PENALTIES FOR STRIKE ACTION   British Government Cracks Down To Prevent Calling Of Strikes

SWEDEN FEARS NAZI INVASION   Shipment Of Ballbearings : Cited By Stockholm

Americans Wipe Out Germans Cornered in French Chateau   By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Correspondent  (Representing the Combined Allied Press)

Synthetic Oil Plants Crippled  1,250 Heavy Bombers Keep Up Assaults

1,300 Planes in New Blast at Oil Bases   American Attacks Follow Yesterday's Record As- sault by 4,000 Planes   ALL OIL CENTERS BADLY CRIPPLED

MASSIVE FLEET OF  AMERICAN PLANES IN  ATTACK ON GERMANY REFINERY AT MERSE BURG AND IMPORTANT -«s DANLVARNG RIACTEN

Oil Plants, Railway Yards Are Hit By 1,250 Bombers  Heavy Air Assaults On Reich Are  Cantiniued Tadrw

Forts Bomb  German Oil  Refineries Austria Also. Hit By Heavies -

Yank: Planes Hit Germany   2,200 Craft Strike. Nazi Oil Refineries

Batter Three Railroads  And Oil Plant   Three Bombardment Air Forces Took  Part in Assault

2-Way Attack On Foe Plant:   Britain-Based Bombers Raid Leuna;  Italy-Based Hit Blechhammer.

HUGE BOMBER FLEET OVER REICH TODAY   Almost 2,200 American Planes, Including 1,250 Forts Raid Oil Refinery and Rail Yards   THIRD FORMATION OUT

Blast German Oil Refinery  2,200 Yank Planes Raid Three Vital Points During Day

7200 WARPLANES BITTER GERM   American Airmen Smasl  Synthetic Oil Refinery Rail Yards

Great Armada Planes Bomb Nazi Tarcet:   Flying Fortreeses and Lib erators Loose Explosives On Refinery and Railyards

ENEMY TARGETS GIVEN ANOTHER HARD POUNDING   1,300 Heavies Batter German Rail, Oil Centers in Mighty Air Sweep

England and Italy-Based Bombers Roar Over Reich Today to Hammer Vital Railkeads and Synthetic Re fineries

BIGGEST GERMAN  BOMBING RAID ON  LONDON IN MONTHS HUNDREDS OF AMERICAD  - SOLDIERS EXPERIENCE FIRST AIR RAID

Doughboys Stand in London Doorways To Watch Biggest Raid in Months

U.5. SOLDIERS UNDERGO FIRST ENGLAND RAID   Newly Arrived Troops On Hand As 90 Enemy Bombers Roar Above

FIRST RAID FOR YANKS IN LONDON   Doughboys Cluster in Groups As Big Air Show Goes On

Nomination Is Assured Gov. Dewey   651 Votes Pledged New Yorker Two Days Before Taking GOP Roll Call

Running Mate For Tom Dewey Next On Slate   Wendell L. Willkie Criticizes Peace Plan Of Republicans

DEWEY FAR IN. LEAD; BRICKER KEEPS UP FIGHT   State After State Goes For New York Governor At Convention

CONVENTION SEEMS DEWEY  BANDWAGON   Rapid-Fire Action By Several States Swells His Lead

EXPECT DEWEY NOMINATION ON FIRST BALLOT   Peace Policy Is Great issue In  1944 Platform

REP. MARTIN CITES ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN   Permanent Chairman Declares ''Day of Reckoning for the New Deal Is at Hand"   OVATION FOR WARREN

GOP. Awaits Decision by  Gov. Warrer   Convention Rushes Toward Climactic Developments After Agreement Is Reached by Platform Drafters

CALIFORNIAN’S ANSWER SOUGHT   WENDELL WILLKIE RAPS AT PROPOSED GOP PEACE PLANK

DEWEY LEADS AS FAVORITE TO HEAD GOP   Delegates Arrive From All States Over Week End

Warren Keynotes Tonight   California Governor Strongly Backed For Running Mate

—GOP CONVENTION— F New York Governor Has Insurmountable Lead As Session Opens.   Main Business Of Republican Party Convention All But Settled In Advance As Convention Gets Tinderwav-” Rricker Still Honeful

DELEGATES NOT SURE WARREN WOULD ACCEPT   Many Events Scheduled for Second Day of Session in Chicago

Dewey Swing Becomes Last Moment Riot   New York Governor Going Into Convention With 681 Delegates

List 660 Votes As Convention Session Open:   Mass., Vt., Cal., Ala. Swing To New Yorker; Bricker Now Out Of Running

Republican Convention Underway   Dewey Takes Big Lead to Head Ticket Main Business All But Settled Now

PEOPLE TihtD OF FUMBLING MARTIN. SAY!   Convention Chairman Brands ClO Activities Vital Campaign {ssue.

People Are Tired of Bungling, Waste and Dictatorship Asserts Chairman Joe Martin.   KEYNOTE SPEECH MADE BY WARREN

Put Pressure On — Warren to Accept Vice-Presidency   Californian Adamant Against Nom ination, However; Bricker, Green  And Griswold Still in Race

Nomination ls In Bag; Votes Jump Up To 660   Vice - Presidential Selection Is Set For Warren

WILLKIE MA QUIT PARTY ~ REPORT   Foreign Policy Plank Wins Committee Support   Says Day Of Reckoning Is At Hand; Keynote Address Cheered

TEAMMATE FOR DEWEY HOLDING GOP INTEREST   Warren Favored for Job His Answer Is Expected Tonight

Hoover and Clare  Booth Luce Speakers On Program Tonight: Criticism by Willkie

SPANGLER RAPS FOR ORDER 47 WINUTES LATE      vz. Turns to Vice President as States Swing to Dewey Banner.

Talk Turns fo Warren fo Wit Second Place   With Dewey Apparent In," Californian Is Strong Favorite as His Running Mate

Dewey May Be Named Or First Ballot At Chicago   Far Ahead Of Field With Pledged And Claimed Delegates; Bricker Sticks

EXPECT GOP TO NAME DEWEY ON FIRST BALLOT   California Adds 50 Delegates to Majority of New York Governor

Republicans Hear Martin  Predict Win   Dewey Is Reported Ready To Come to Chicago Meet, With Election Assured

Martin Declares Day of Reckoning ‘For New Deal Ordained by People   Warren, Urged by Own California Delegation to Accept Vice Presidential Nomination, Sounds GOP Convention Keynote

Bricker Declines Withdraw From Nomination Race   Bandwagon Looms For Dewey With 589 Votes Pledged - Claimed.

Dewey Certain Of Nomination At Convention   Republicans Open Chicage Session; Warren to Talk

Vote Near On — Vice-President   Dewey Set To Fly West To -Accept Vote: “Willkie May Bolt Party, Hinted

GOP’s Push Forth Decision  On Vice-Pres.   Platform Committee  Approves Foreign Policy Plank Retaining Pledge.   ‘NEW DEAL IS DOOMED

Push Toward Decision on second Place   Dewey Reported Preparing to Go to Chicago  Tomorrow

Republican Convention Under Way   New Yorker's Nomination Is Assured

Governor of New York Now Has More Than Enough Votes Pledged; Warren May Be His Mate.

Nomination “in — The Bag” for New * York Governor   Total of Pledged And Claimed Votes Soars to 681 As Convention Opens

DELEGATES ARE “CLAMORING FOR ~ WARREN'S “YES   Friends Again Urge Californian To Accept Vice Presidential Nomination

Candidate Is Sought For Vice Presidency; Dewey Locks Top Spot   Platform Committee Approves Foreign Policy Plank Pledging ‘Peace Forces’ To Enforce World Security in Defiance Of Willkie’s Criticism—Republican Governors Irked

State After State Pledges Dewey Republicans Convene  At Chicago And Begin “Draft Dewey” Drive

Martin Declares Day of Reckonine Is Now at Hand   With Dewey Certain Talk Nows Turns to Vice Precidency

Consider Running Mate For Dewey   Pressure Being Brought on Governor Warren To Accept Post   N. Y. GOVERNOR IS IN   Former President Hoover Will Address Convention Tonight

Massachusetts Congressman, Permanent Chairman Of Republican Convention, Declares “People Are Tired Of Bungling And Fumbling, Waste And Extravagance, Arrogance And Bureaucratic Dic tatorship” -- GOP Platform Due Late Today

Californian Is First Choice for “Vice Presidency   Governor May Make Decision by Tonight; Willkie Critical of  Foreign Policy Planic

Republicans Pust Warren Ahead For Second Spot   Dewey Makes Preparations to Reach Chicage On Short Notice for Acceptance Speech; Californians Back Governor

New: York. Governor Is F: Ahead; Backers Claim Over Half of Delegate Votes   Bricker’s Forces  Keep On Fighting   Nomination Wednesday On First Ballot Is Seen By Powerful Dewey Machine

Willkie Assails Foreign Policy Plank of Party   New Deal Doomed Says Martin: in Afternoon Address

Convention Nears Climax   Agreement Is Reached On Platform, and Gov. Warren May Toss in  Hat for Vice-Presidency

Pressure On Warren ~ to Accept   Californians: ‘Join Move. te  - Draft Him.as Running. _Mate:for Dewey:            BRICKER:FORCES *°": 5 CONTINUE FIGHT      Rep. Martin Lashes’: “New "Deal: Sees Day-of; ReckoS onine at Hand 9 72:

Warren Urged to Be Dewey Running Mate   Answer Expected by. Nightfall as G. O. P ‘National Convention Moves Toward Climax—Platform Ready for Submission.

SECOND PLAC -T0 BE GIVEN GOV. WARREN   New York Governor Controls 681 Delegates   ACCEPTANCE SPEECH   Is Expected On Thursday; Gov. Griswold To Enter Easterner’s Name

WARREN otEMs TOBE FAVORED   Convention Chairman Martin Says Reckoning Day at Hand for Demos.   PLATFORM IS IN MAKING

BULGARIAN CABINET BEING RESHUFFLED   Police Heads in Six Cities Alsc Changed as Result of Turkey’s Break With Germany.

Trapping Of 50,000 Announcec   On All Fronts  Russian Armies Making Gains Against Slipping Germans,

Soviet Smash  Traps 20,000 Nazis in Vitebsk  Four Armies of More Than WH2ts.. MALL, Dow renwtun ee Cn.   Four Armies of More Than Million Men Battering Foe Along 285-Mile Eastern Front

NEW DEALERS SAY FRANGES PERAINS WILL RETIRE   Predict Retirement Before Roosevelt’s Fourth Term Begins

EXPECT PERKINS TO QUIT BEFORE ATH TERM DATE   Cabinet Vacancy May Bring First Test Among Four Party Factions

ZAMETARY OF “ABOR MAY SOON RETIRE   Rival New Deal Groups Have Candidates Ready for Post

NEW DEALERS SAY FRANES Ks WNL RETIRE   Predict Retirement  Before Roosevelt's Fourth Term Begins

FIRST INNER BATILE OF ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION TO COME WHEN PERKINS RE. SIGNS HER POST

HOUSE COMMITTEE PROBE OF CCG IN DALLAS CONTINUES  E M. BICGCERS. HOUSTO!   E. M. BIGGERS, HOUSTON PRINTER, FORMER CORSICANAN. TO TESTIFY

HOUSE COMMITTEE PROBE OF CCG IN DALLAS CONTINUES   E. M. BIGGERS, HOUSTON PRINTER, FORMER CORSICANAN. TO TESTIFY

Nazi Armies In Leningrad Area  Hard-Pressec   Penned In Nazi Forces Are Exposed To Red On. slaughts From Rear   DISASTER MAY RIVAL STALINGRAD ROUT

Americans Hit  Back in South   German Advance Checked on Northern End of Bulge; Greeks Adopt Regency —

GIs Hold Open Relief  Corridor to Bastogne   Reds Storm West Side of Budapest; Agree to Greek Regency

TANK-SUPPORTED DOUGHBOY ATTACK MENACES GERMANS  SALT TERA ra aes Tr aT   VON RUNDSTEDT MADE NO PROGRESS IN STAVELOT SECTOR 24 HOURS

VON RUNDSTEDT TROOPS FACING NEW REVERSAL   Enemy's Southern Flank Hit By Yanks——Foe Checked Near Stavelot

TANK-SUPPORTED DOUGHBOY ATTACK MENACES GERMANS  VON RUNDSTEDT MADE N'

Belgian Bulge Threatened By Yankee Assault   Nazis Unable To Gain, Retreat [s Indicated

 Nazis Pull Tanks Back  In Center   May Plan to Withdraw Armor, to Escape Capture, But Possibly  Plot Renewed A-ssault

STRONG OPPOSITION EXPECTED IN SENATE ON TREATY CHANGE   PROPOSAL FOR PEACE TREATY RATIFICATION BY MAJORITY NOT FAVORED

Ratification Rule Changes ‘Face Check   Anything Less Than Old Two-Thirds Ruleqwill Draw Fire

Tanks,Infantr Join Drive. On F lorence   . Eighth Army: Slugs. Ahead Against Crack Nazi Troons

Battle Almost in Outskirts lof Florence   Fall of City Now Is Imminent, London Reports

EIGHTH ARMY ON OUTSKIRTS OF FLORENCE   Nazis Say Parts Of Pias Have Been Evacuated

Eighth » Ar ‘my Opens Battle  For Florence   British, Germans Fight On City’s Outskirts: Nazis Quitting Pisa

British Slug Ahead To Gain On Florence   Tanks, Infantry Sway As 8th, Nazis Lock In Tank Battle

Germans Say City Of Pisa Evacuated   Heavy Fight Rages On Entire Front Before Florence.

Capture of Florence by British Near   Germans Putting Up Stout Resistance

British, German Forces Locked In Titanic Struggle   Allied Units Push Almost To Outskirts of City of Florence.

Fall of Florence Reportec Imminent—Germans Call  It an Open City

Battle For Florence Is Under Way With Allies (Gaming Ground Slowly

WE LOSE 13 FIGHTERS IN FIERCE FRAY   Two-Day Toll Hits 240-Mark for  Germans

American Flyers Down 102 More German Planes   13 Yankee Fighters Lost in Savage Reich Air Battles

RANK Ur dhPo OTH DcPLETED   Suffer Heavy Losses in First Aitempt for Freedom °

AMERICAN INFANTRYMEN RE PULSE FIRST ASSAULT BY ENCIRCLED TROOPS.  OF ENEMY

RANKS OF JAP OTH DEPLETED:   Suffer Heavy Losses in First Altempt for Freedom: *

CHAPLIN WINS JURY VERDICT   NOTED MOVIE ACTOR AND PRODUCER ACQUITTED BY. FEDERAL SURY-LATE———  YESTERDAY

Ve( ACQUIS c-(APLIN ON AANN ACT   Grateful Comedian Rushes Home to I18Year-Old Bride

PURGE OF 1934 CHILD'S PLAY COMPARED TO THIS ONE, AUTHORITY DECLARES

aps Plan Hlasts  t China   Troops Mass for  Four-Front Battle “at Allied Air Bases

Powerful Carrier Force in Action   Progress of Assault Lacking Due to Close Censorship; Japanese Pearl Harbor Possible;  Many Japanese Warships Sighted in Harbor

Japanese Tell Of ‘Fierce Fighting:’’ Official Radio Silence Gags U.S. Report

Details Lacking But Salty Old Skipper Unable to: Draw Jap Fleet Out for Battle Has Set About oq Wreck Naval Base with Aerial Attack

Tokyo Radio Asserts. Fighting Continuing.   Naval Task Force and Planes Open _ Assault on Great Jap Base — 40-Mile Wide Lagoon Crowded with Warships

NAVAL TASK FORCE GOES WITH CARRIERS   Tokyo Radio Reports That “Mechanized Units” Also Are in Action

Truk, Jap Naval Base. Attacked   Silence May Indicate Force Has Prolonged The Assault

BRae CROWD WITH WARSHIPS   Silence Leaves Open Possibility Forces Have Prolonged Assauit.   ATTACK ON WEDNESDAY

Mighty Naval Base Assailed   Planes From Carriers Blast At Key Enemy Atoll   POWERFUL FLEET ALONG   _ Americans Take Fighting To Jap Navy’s Hideout

SITUATION AT TRUK VEILED IN SILENCE   Powerful American § Aijrcraft Carrier Task Force May Have Prolonged Heavy Attack   TOKYO SEEMS CONFUSED

U.S. Planes Make Heavy Attack On Jap Base At Truk   Navy Silence Indicates Action May Be Going On

Washington Keeps Mum OnProgres: Of Fighting   Body Blow Dealt Great Japanese Naval Base

Vital Jap Base Is Crowded With Warships, Other Vessels   Official Silence Veils Outcome Of Major  Attack; Japs Admit Serious Assault   SERIOUS SETBACK FOR NIPPONESE   YONIUSD OEIDAULA FUR NIPPUONEOSE  Approaches To Philippines, Jap Mainland Cracked; Pacific Domination Ends?

Japan's Great Naval Base a Truk Attacked by Heavy U. 5. Aircraft Carrier Task Force   Carriers, Protected by Battleships, Cruisers and Destroyers, Start Assault Wednesday; Lack of Details Indicates Battle Is Still Raging

Truk Under Attack for First Time   Silence of Officials Indicates Assault Is Continued

POWERFUL FORCE BOMBARDS GREAT JAP NAVAL BASE   TOKYO INDICATES FIERCE FIGHTING NOW IN PROGRESS

Task Force Carries Out Bold Stroke   Warships Invade Caroline Domain;  Officials Silent

secrecy Shrouds Attack   Assault Carried  Out By Hundreds of Naval Planes May Still Be in Progress

Nimitz Words LeaveWay for Speculation      Recent Photographic Trip Over Truk Reveals Big Concentrations

Yankee Forces. Maintain Tight Radio Silence    Heavy Assault. May Be. Con - tinuing; Many. Enemy Warships at Base   NO INDICATION OF : A NAVAL BATTLE      Pilog Reports More Ships at “Truk Than’. Ever Seen.at.” One Time at Pearl Harbor

Airmen Smash Hard at Balkan Railway Lines  AIRCRAFT FACTORY ALSO IS. BLASTED  Great Air Battles Over the City Reported by * the Nazis

BOMBER FLEETS LASH BUDAPEST   -irst Large-Scale Raid Made On Hungary By Americans From Italian Bases

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST BUDAPEST FOR FIRST TIME   Great Fleet Delivers Blow— Railways Linking Germany With Balkan Front Are Targets.   BERLIN REPORTS BIG AIR BATTLES FOUGHT   Hungarian Capital Is Only 400 Miles From Russian Spearheads Storming Into Rumania,

YANKS BLAST AT RAILWAYS IN BUDAPES}   Planes Make Trip to Hungarian Capital From Italy

Red Salient" Is Extended To Slovakia In New Gain   Infantry; Tanks Move. W est Towards. Vienna’

Soviets Gain 17-30 Miles in Northeast   Germans Reported Reeling Back On 125-Mile Front Into Slovakia

GERMANS REELING BACK IN SLOVAKIA ON 120-MILE FRONT   Reds Pushing Toward Country’s Capital of Bratislava —Other Units Smash Toward Vienna.   NAZIS FIGHT SAVAGELY BEFORE BUDAPEST   Berlin Admits Two Gaps Were Cut in City’s Defenses, but Says They Were Later Sealed.

Soviets Sink 3. - Nazi: Warships   Reds’ Fleet ‘Also. Destroy: 6 Raluc Transnorts.

- Reds Near Border  Russian Forces Crash Onward ‘Toward Vienna in New Gains

GERMANS LOSE 3 DESTROYERS INBALTIC SEA   Attack On Latvian Pocket Foreseen As Reds Hit Liepaja

Red Army Salient Extended Almost To Slovak Border  Other Russian Forces Are Pressing Drive Toward Vienna

Russian Salient Extended Virtually To Slovak Border   Other Red Tanks Push Westward Towards Vienna From {polysag

Red Forces Pushing  O. IT aes adel V7. V8 pana 7 LOwWarTa V i€NiNnaA

‘Huns Retreat In Face Bitte  Soviet Blows   Red Army Salient’ 100 Miles: Northeast of Budapest Extended Virtually io Slovak Border

Russian Juggernau Sweeps West After New Gains  Germans Withdraw Under Constant Battering Assaults

Berlin Heralds 'Hell Hound’ Robots As British Solve Ghostly Rockets

Winged Comet Bombs Again Blast Sections Of England   Damage is Caused as Berlin Trumpets Fanciful Accounts of Devastating Effects of New “Secret Weapon”

Comet bombs Continue  Destruction But Damage Is Less  OP eee: Se: BR oo   But Damage Is Less Than That Pictured By German Radio   PILOTLESS PLANES ARE EASILY VISIBLE

COMET BOMBS OVER ENGLAND FEW DOWNED   No Longer Secret to British Ground Gunners Who Train Sights on Strange Targets

BERLIN PICTURES HORROR IN WAKE OF NEW WEAPON  Comet Bombs Scatter Destruction In Southern England Again Today

Hitler's Robots Less of Menace   British Getting Range on Rockets

Robot Planes Cause Scattered Destruction and Casualties But Fail to Bear Out Fantastic Pictures Conjured Up by Berlin

Winged Comet Bombs Streak  Across Channe!   Hitler's New Weapon No Longer Secret to British; Nazis Draw Pictures of Horror

-- or a To. “SOLOS. C.. ai wee ~ wine O cat '  np Comet oc a, he Pon,

Senate Approves  Ban of Subsidy   Price Rollback Plan Loses By 10-9 Vote

Subsidies Plan Hit in Close Vote   Committee Votes 10 to 9 Against Program; Senate Decision Near

Committee Acts To Ban Bubsidies   Bankhead Measure Approved, 10 to 9

Farm Bloc Victorious Byl0-9 Vote   Senate Banking Commit tee Approves Bankhead Bill Today

BANNING OF SUBSIDIES GETS OKEH   Senate Committee Votes Approval of Bankhead Measure

Democrats Clash  At CLO. Probe   ‘Sniping’ Claim Denied In Presidential Race

REPUBLICANS TO TOUR DOWNSTATE   STATE CANDIDATES OPEN SEVEN-WEEKS CAMPAIGN JAN, 24

Russ Take Iasi, Drive On Bucharest Gateway   37,675 Nazis Killed or Captured in Three Days; Reds Advance 43 Miles

RIVERS, CREEKS OVERFLOW BANKS   Melting Snow, Rain Cause Streams to Block Highways, Flood Several Towns In State

FIFTH OPENS: BATTLE FOR PORT OF LWORNO TODAY   Germans Attempt to Hold Strongpojnts; Throw All Into Fight

American Forces Drive On Livorno   Battle For Strategic West Coast City Of Italy In Opening Phases

NAZIS EXPEC EXPECT NEW LANDING   KEACH DEFENSES MANNED BY  GERMANS AS FIFTH ARMY: ' - » DRAWS CLOSER TO  ’ BIG PORT :

' OPEN DEBATE ON - WAR SURPLUSES   Affects Biggest Merchandising Job‘

DEBATE: OPENS ON SIPLUS PROPERTY   House’ Begins Debate as “Ways and Means Group — Considers George Bill --

DeDATE UPCNS ON  SURPLUS PROPERTY   House Besins Debate as Ways and Means Group Considers George Bill ©

Troops In Stiffest Of All Sectors; Run Into Double Strength Nazi Power, Gain Ground

Polish Troops On Italian Front Remain In Thick Of Fighting Against Old-Time German Fo

POLES FICHT NAZIS AGAIN; OLD ENEMIES   In Thickest Of Battles Along Gustav Lines

POLES TACKLE WORST PART OF NAZI LINE   Meet Crack Units, in Double Strength, in a Cassino Sector Which Allies Previously Had Dared Not Attack.

POLISH TROOPS FIGHT IN ITALY   After Long Wait, They're Getting Another Chance ot Gustav Line

: Ps * RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE EN WARSAW AREA WOULD DIVERT FLOW OF NAZI SUPPLIES

BOND DRIVE NEAR HALE - WAY MARK   Sales Reported to Treasurer Pass Five Million Dollars; Reports Lag Behind Actua’ Sales

ADVOCATES OF ECONOMY RULE   Gain Upper Hand As House Debates Security Ouestion

Advocates Of Federal Contral Have Upper Hand In Unemployment Debates

CLOSE STEEL TRAP ON JAPS ON GUAM   New Advances by Yanks Bottle Nips in 40-Mile Area

YANKS BOTTLE UP NIP FORCE ON GUAM ISLE   Trapped In 40-Square Mile Sector   DOOM IS SEALED   U. S. Bombers Pummel Truk

Nimitz Announces Fresh Advances Bottle Nips In Small Area On Guam Island

Allied Bombers Attack Vienna  OT es aco i Ba Ek al Cee   Targets in Holland. France Also Hit

Vienna Pounded By U. S. Planes   Others Lash Nazis  In France, Holland Be WW WW. YWERCUwFnA

ATTACKED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Nazi Communication Points In France, Holland Also Blasted; Cacena Hit By  Raw he   Heavy Flak

Railway Communications in Northern ‘Ataly and Balkans Also Pounded; ”. Raids Made on France, Holland: —

Britain-Based Planes Attack France, Holland   Nazi Aircraft Factory In Austrian Capital Target of Americans;  RAF Fliers Out Again

American Forts Roar Over Alps To Hit Targets   RAF And U. S. Heavies Bombard Wide Area Of Europe

New Air Assaults Aimed at Other Austrian Targets   Yugoslavia, Northern Italy Bombed, Hit at Enemy Facilities

Targets in France, Bule _ garia and Italy Also  Attacked  AIRCRAFT PLANT 15  HIT DURING RAIDS  Small Numbers of Enemy Fighters Met by Attackers

Capital Of Austria Hit Heavy Blasi   Coordinated Raid Covers Vienna, France, Holland

Vienna Pounded By U. S. Planes   Others Lash: Nazis In France, Holland

Allied Bombers Attack Vienna  Targets in Holland, France Also Hit

Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire I: Encountered Over Aus trian Capital   CREIL IS IMPORTANT RAILROAD TERMINAL

AIRMEN HIT RAUL, “CENTER IN FRANGE   AIRFIELDS IN NORTHERN PART OF COUNTRY AND IN HOLLAND BLASTED..

Lt. J.C. Morgan, Holder of Medal Of Honor, Lost in Raid on Berlin

Frontal Assault Readied   Other Spearheads Flank Fortress to Seize Rail Lines

Allies Won’t  Feed Germans   Eisenhower Bluntly Tells Foe They Must Rely  On Own Resources.

GERMANS TOLD BY EISENHOWER TO RAISE FOOD   General Advises People of Reich To Prevent Destructive Acts by Nazis

General Says No Help Due Germans   Gen. Eisenhower Tells German People To Feed Themselves

Eisenhower Warns Germans They Face Economic Collapse   “Scorched Earth Policy Of  Retrealing Huns to Mul-_  liply Sufferings,”  General Declares

Eisenhower Warns Germans Policy Of Destruction Means Future Suffering

GERMANS TOLD TO EXPECT NO ALLIED HELP   Eisenhower Urges People To Oppose Nazi Scorched Earth Policy

Warns Germans On Devastation  Eisenhower Says No Relief Farthcamina

Germans Told Not To Count On Allied Food   Must Rely Upon Own Resources

ARE ON THEIR OWN   Military. Government Will Take Ne Care of Nazi Citizens .

Nazis On Their Own Resources   ‘Scorched Earth  Policy’ Will Affect Them Only, Allies Have Own Supplies

Allies Can't Aid, German People Told   Must Rely on Own Resources  For Food, Fuel,  Eisenhower Warns

Nazis Warned Scorched Earth Dooms Germans   Population Can’t Count on American Food, Eisenhower Statement Savs

Allied Fliers Hit Axis Europe; Yank-Nazi Airmen Battle Over Brunswick

Pound French Invasion Coast For Third Day; Brunswick Scene of Huge Air Rattle

Allies Are Stepping Up Air Attacks   Their Bombers Batter Tar gets In Germany, Hollanc and France

Some Japs Jump In Ocean To Escape Fiery Blasts   Jap ‘Can't Run Us Off’ Guam now, Says Yank General Tinian Invaders Make Swift Progress, Split Garrison

U. S. Forces Lay Siege to Trapped Japs on Guam   Yanks Now Have Firm -Hold ‘on Island; Mow Down Enemy 6n Tinian

‘Yanks Move In on Japs Trapped on Guan As Tokyo Reports Naval Raid on Palat   Americans Firmly Established on Invaded Island, General Says—Japs Also Report Naval Plane Raid on Yap

Yanks Established On Island of Guam   Japanese Trapped by Americans Behind Port Apra; Many Wiped Out

JAPS UNABLE T0 COMBAT FIRMLY EMPLACED YANKS   Fiery Siege Laid To Trapped Enemy In Port Apra Area

YANKS FASTEN FIRM HOLD ON GUAM, TINIAN   Trapped Japs Jump Into Sea as Americans Close In  On Foe On Orote Peninsu1.

SECURE ON GUAM ISLAND   Troops Lay Siege to Japs Trapped by Juncture of American Units Behind Port Apra, Dispatches Sav.

Besiege Japs Trapped at Port Apra   Invaders Have Firm Hold On Guam; Yanks Split North and South Defenders of Tinian

American Invaders Of Guam Are Entrenched on Isle  General Says Nothing Japs Can Do Will Run U. S. Forces Off

Japanese Unable To Move Yankees   Invaders Are Digging In; Establish A Firm Hold  ~ on Guam   TRAP . THE NIPPONESE   No Enemy Plane Has Been Seen Over the Area Since July 8

Meantime Hold on Guam So Firmly Established American General Says “There’s Nothing Japan Can Do Now to Run Us Off”. Remaining Japs Being Sought Out

Japs Trapped By U. 5. Forces   Some Hapless Nips Jump Into Sea to Escape U. S. Fire

Yanks Secure Foothold on  Guam Island   Bitter Fighting Ahead; Airfield Secured and Capital City Threatened

Can’'tRu J. S. Offoff imNow   Americans —e Firmly Intrenches Seal = Off  Orote P: «insula.

Japs Wiped Out of Guam Beachheads   Some Pressed to Limit by Yanks Jump Into Sea

SOME JAPANESE JUMP INTO SEA TO ESCAPE GUNS   Yanks Have Enemy on the Run in Guam Drive—Gains On Tinian

VICTIMS OF V-BOMBS:   716 Bersons Killed and 1,511 Injured in England

British Heavies Join In Bloody Greek Battling   English Headquarters Hit By Shell; Shortage Of Food And Danger  Of Epidemics Mounts

716 KILLED BY NAZI V-BOMBS   1,511 Seriously Hurt in Britain in November

Greeks Call Up Army Reserves  To Fight ELAS   British Also Being Reinforced For A Showdown Battle At Athens.

American Airmen Get in Blows at Japanese in India  Destroy 13 Jap Bombers on Three Airfields, Drop 200 Ton

Allied Chiefs List Initial Gains In Indian Battle  U. S. Planes Down 13 Jap Craft, All Return Safely

Fighting Stepped Up On India-Burma Front . . Thirteen Jap Fighters  Destroyed In Assaults  On Jap Fields In India

Allies Advancing In Kohima Clash  U. S. Warplanes Strik« At Enemy Airfields  =. Ranprnre Aa s*erragris’ es

Allied Troops Make Initial Progress; Yank Airmen Batter Enemy Airfields In 200-Ton Asscult

Clear Japs from Hillside Posts   Allied Troops Drive Japs From Southern Outskirts of Kohima

GOVERNOR SAVES LIFE OF MURDERER   Leniency Granted Two Days Before Time Of Execution

PRUT CROSSING BEFORE IASI IS IN RUSS HANDS   Thousands of Nazis Trying to Scramble Across River Slain

RUSSIANS IN FORCE REACH PRUT RIVER   Soviet Mobile Forces Kill Germans By Thousands In Panicky Rout.   BULLETIN

SOVIET ARM DnWeo oOUTH IN BESSARARII   Shuts Rail Line of Retreat for 100,000 Germans in Sea Salient.

BERLIN RADIO ADMITS SOVIETS ARE OVER PRUT   Until Late Today There Was No Verification of Rumanian Entry.

174 German Aliens Are Indicted   Failed To Reveal Nazi Membership, ‘Is Charge

174 GERMAN ALIENS INDICTED FOR FRAUL   Some Are High Nazi Officials Charged With Conspiracy

ACCUSE 174 ALIENS OF BEING NAZIS   Four Former High German Officials in Group Indicted on Charges of  . Concealing Their Party Affiliations.

174 GERMAN ALIENS INDICTED IN NAZI TIE   Former High Reich Officials Are Among Those Named

NAME T74 ALIENS WAT -NAZI TIES      Indictments Ct Charge Germans With Concealing Party ° Affiliations

174 GERMAN ALIENS UNDER INDICTMENT   Conspired to Defraud U. $ By Concealing Nazi Affiliations.

174 Nazi Aliens Are Rounded Ur  Many Are Indicted In N. Y.-N. J. Area

COMMUNISM REPUDIATED BY ROOSEVELT   President Makes Reply to GOP Charges of “Selling Out Democracy.”

FDR 7 Flouts Communist  Support   President Makes Urgent Plea to Qualified Persons to Register and Vote

F.D,R. REJECTS COMMUNIST AID FOR 4TH TERM   Answers GOP Charges In Broa‘cast To Party Workers

President in Fine Mood fo: Radio Speech   Appeal Is Made To All Voters to Exercise Ballot

FDR Denies Radical Aims By New Deal   Left Wing Adherents Repudiated in Talk T. Dory Workers

ROOSEVELT REPUDIATES COMMUNISTS      Says He Does Not Seek or Want Their Support

FR Repudiates Communist Support in Campaign Blast At “Labor Batters, Bicots’’

ROOSEVELT DENIES AID OF COMMIUNIS!   Broadcast Directed Te Thousands Of Democratic Party Worke’s

FDR Repudiates Support of Communists   Many Wonder How Left Wingers Will Take His Speech

COMMUNISTS ARE REPUDIATED BY PRES, ROOSEVELT      Support Not Welcome, He Tells Group In New York Garden

TDR Repudiates Communist Aid: Lauds Russia   W Hits “Loose” Use Of Word ‘communism’: Asks Everybody Vote

ROOSEVELT NOW IN GOOD HEALTH   PHYSICIAN’S REPORT STIRS NEW TALK OF FOURTH TERM OR WAR VOYAGE.

PRESIDENT IS IN EXCELLENT HEALTH   Admiral McIntire Reporis On Recent Physical Examination At Medical Center

CINCINNATI SCHOOL PUPILS ON STRIKE   Superintendent’s Removal One Of Demands

Better Days for Russians   People of U. S. S. R. Not Neglected by Government

Soviet Warplanes Sink Two German Transports; Keep Up Ceaseless Vigil Behind Lines   Americans Storm Maffin Bay Rirdrome; Threaten Capture Of Field In Sarmi Area

“We Want A Change,’ Is Chant   Home Siate Throng Gives GOP Candidate Big Reception  At Buffalo.

Dewey Declares Fourth. Term Freedom Threat   Charges Promises of Roosevelt Worthless to Business, Labor; Outlines Eicht-Point Peace Progran

British Forces Drive Ahead In  Florence Area   Italian Patriots And Allies In Clearing Streets Of Enemy In City   ADRIATIC SECTOR DEVELOPS ACTION

U. S, BOMBERS BLACKEN SKIES OVER EUROPE   Raiders Blast Reich. France

Washington Man Sees 10 Direct Hits   Bombers in Raid Over Southwest Germany Do Much Damage

Fortresses. Liberators  Hit Reich   Marauders Strike Creil Railroad Junction 25 Miles North of Paris

Southwest Nazi Holdings Blasted In Allied Raids   Second Attack In Three Days Made On Area; Number of Town's Hit

MARAUDERS RAID CREIL NEAR PARIS   Night Assaults Made By RAF; Klagenfurt In Austria Hit

U.S. FLIERS RAID TARGETS IN GERMANY   Nazis Say Towns Attacked Thru Cloud Cover

Smiles Away. Dewey Charge  Of ‘Defeatism   President Declares Is An “Awful Thing” to Say That America Has Passed Prime

Debates on Compensation. Bill Continue   House Resumes Debate on ’ Highway Patrol Bill; Four Appropriations Bills Passed By House

U.S. Faced By Rockets   Englishman..Predicts. Bombing Of America

Nazis Aim To Send Rockets Against U. 5.   Report Attack May Come Soon

Declares Rockets Can Reach U.S.  British Writer Quotes    British Writer Quotes  Information From Stockholm

Germans Say They Can Shoot Rockets To U.S.   London Newspaper. Man Says Germans Have Completed New Series of Experiments.

SERVICE VOTE DELAY FLAYED   ‘Congressional Action De  layed Too Long, Bricker  Tells Pittsburghers

BRICKER BACKS RIGHT TO VOTE   Men in Service Should Get Same Ballot as Home Folks Ohio Governor Says

JAPS ON GUAM FIGHT HARDER   Another Airfield Captured in Battle for Last Third of Island

ANOTHER GUAM AIRFIELD 1S IN YANKS’ HANDS   Stiffer Resistance by Japs on North Part of Island

U.S. Forces In Guam Hammer Jap Defenders   Jap Resistance In Northern Third Of Island Is Somewhat Stronger   LOSSES IN TINIAN BATTLE REPORTED

JAPS ON GUAM ~IN-DEATH TRAP   FULL FURY OF. ATTACK NOW CENTERED ON . ENEMY. ° AT NORTHERN PART « E OF ISLAND

TEMPO OF GUAM SCRAP MOUNTS   Resistance of Japs Stiffens  soem ne  Tinian About Cleared of Enemy

Second Lieutenant Merton Sanborn Jr., Marine Corps Reserve, Awarded.  Wi ings and Commission Recently —

Pilot Dies From Injuries Received. In Plane Crash            Second Lieutenant Merton’ Sanbor  ee Corps Reserve, Awardee L

U. S. Discussing Repatriation Of Wounded Prisoners Held By Japan

Repatriation Of Prisoners In Japan Seen   Discussions Being Held Through Swiss In New Move

Push Tokyo.  On Prisoners   U. S. Seeks Repatriation of American Sick and Wounded

ASKS RETURN OF WAR PRISONERS   U.S. and Tokyo Governments Discuss Return of Sick and Wounded.

TECH. SGT, W. CARMAN MISSING IN ACTION   Husband of Minnie Van. Soest Carman Has Been In France

10,000 German Prisoners Of War Now At Work Harvesting Midwest Crops

Major Battle in Making As Nazis Mass Forces On Outskirts of Rome   U. S. Planes Pound Channel Regions Without Loss of Plane; New Aerial Thrusts Made at London: Berlin Hit Hard

Russian Troops Now Have Vital Rail Connectior   Allies Get Reserves For Crucial Clash Just :* South Of Rome

Deep Flank Maneuver Succeeds; Hint Nazis . Flee to Escape Trap —

Minsk Has Fallen   ANCIENT INVASION ROUTE OPENED; GERMANS FLEE T0 ESCAPE TRAP; STALIN ORDERS 24 SALVOS FIRED

Polish Gate City ‘Is Taken   White Russia Prize Captured by Flanking Maneuver of Soviets

URGE STERN TREATMENT. OF SWEDEN   Negotiations Over Exports To Germany Take On Urgent Tone

Stern Action For Sweden   Ballbearing Shipments To Nazis Cause Trouble

Detroit Drivers  To End Strike   90,000 Idle Because Of Labor Disputes

BAKERY DRIVERS RETURN TO JOBS   Back-to-work Efforts Take Shape in Other Labor Disputes; WLB Asks Murray Help Settle Lumber Strikes

Churchill: Britain Backs Tito; Turkey Disappoints;  Avert Crisis with Spanish

NAZIS RETREAT IN ADRIATIC AREA TOAVOIDTRAP   Allied Troops Drive Forward Along Entire Italian Capital

lies Advance long Entire  ront In Italy   Germans Retreat In Order to Avoid Being Encircled

ALLIES ROLLING ALONG ON ENTIRE ITALIAN FRON]   Germans Guarding Adriatic Start Retreat to Avoid Encirclement 

Cermans Start Retreat Along The Adriatie   Allied Troops Roll Forward Along Entire Italian Front for First Time in Month   Bulletin

Viterbo Captured By Yanks   Germans Trying To Reorganize To Turn Tide

Nazis Fleeing Along Entire talian Front   Allies Roll Forward as Germans Fail to Make Dete: mined Stand

Germans In Adriatic Sector Begin Retreat   Allies Roll Forward On Entire Front In Italy: Foe Quits Tarquinia

Nazi Army Flees Before Allied Rush Over Italy  Enemy Resistance Is Feeble;  P'etst AL... wm

No Sign Yet Nazis Planning Stand In Norfhward Retreat   Allies Roll Forward Along Entire Italian Front North, Northwest of Rome

GERMAN FORCES START RETREAT ALONG ADRIATIC  ermans Fail T  G Make a. ve Rome Sec

ENTIRE ITALIAN FRONT GAINS   Germans Start Withdrawal on Eighth Army Sector To Avert Encirclement.

TOWN 55 MILES ABOVE ROME IS WON BY ALLIES   Nazis on Adriatic Begin Withdrawing, Fearing Encirclement Maneuver

Nazis Quit Adriatic Sector _   Pull Out to Escape  Trap; Allied Troops Roll Forward Along “Entire Italian Front

Rome, Jame 9 (P-Allied headquarters“ announced: today the canture of Viterho, Vetralla and Yarquinia.

GERMANS MOVE. 10 AVOID ANY ‘ENCIRCLEMENT   Forces Guarding Adriatic Sector in Italy Menaced by Rapid Allied Ad vance North of Rome

Nazis Fall Back on East italian Coast   Fifth Races  Steadily North Germans Quit Tarquinia, They Say

ALLIES ROLLING ON ALONG WHOLE ITALIAN FRONT   Retreating Germans Have Not Yet Shown Any Inclination To Make Determined Stand; Bent On Trying To Avoid Encirclement.

Nazis Flee Adriatic  Lines   Advancing Allied Armies Unopposed, Enemy Avoids Battle

Germans Begin Retreat Along Adriatic Side   Allies Gain Rapidly North Of Rome As Enemy Evacuates 55 Miles North Of City

Nazi Army Flees Before Allied Rush Over Italy  Enemy Resistance Is Feeble; Fifth Army Gains

Nazis Start On Retreat In Adriatic Area Today   Allied Troops Roll Nazis Back On All  Italian Fronts

RETREATING UPCOASTTO ESCAPE TRAP      Allies Rolling Ahead At Rapid Pace Across Entire Italian Front

Battered Germans Retreat in Italy   Allied Troops Make Deep Advances. Along Entire Front North of Rome

ALLIES MOVE FORWARD ALL ALONG FRONT   Fifth Army, Driving Be  yond Rome, Seizes Prize ( Junction ot Viterbo , and Tarquinia, 55 Miles ! ‘Above Capital.

‘Foe Retreating Along Adriatic Coast in Italy; Tarquinia Falls   Germans Admit Loss of City 55 Miles Above Rome   RIG eTIEAT

ALLIES OCCUPY THREE TOWNS   Capture Viterbo, Road and Rail Junction, Taruina And Vetralta.   NAZIS CAN’T REORGANIZE

French Port Ts Objective  Of Americans   Invasion Forces Reported To Be Gaining Ground Through German Counter-Attack in Swelling Battle of Tanks

Nazi Troops  On Adriatic Side Retreat   Action Taken to Avoid Encirclement;  Allies Roll Ahead

Roll Ahead On Entire - Italian Front   Germans Guarding Adriatic Sector Start Retreat to : Avoid Encirclamens

Allies Gain Along Entire Italian Front   Germans Withdraw on Adriatic Side lo Facane Eutranuent

Nazi Forces On Adriatic In Retreat   Allies Advance All Along Freat, - Yanks Occupy Lake Bracciano Area. Capture Caprarola

Allied Armies In Italy Forge Rapidly Aheac   Germans Retreating !n Attempt To Avoid Encirclement

FLEE TO AVOID ENCIRCLEMENT   5TH ARMY UNITS RACE STEADILY NORTH OF ROME

Nazis on Adriatic Front in ltaly in Speedy Withdrawal   Retreat to Avoid Encirclement; Allies Advance Elsewhere

SEEK 10 AV ALLIED TRAP IN EAST   Caprarola, 34 Miles North Of Rome, Is Captured   GERMANS SHOW   No Sign Of Making Stand; Withdrawal Is First In Adriatic Area

Germans Retreat On Adriatic Side Of Italian Front   55-Mile Advance Northwest of Rome Threatens Flank

Troops Roll Forward On Italian Front Follow Nazis Fleeing  ~ North, Northwest Of Rome ~  AIRMEN HIT POLA Attack Trieste Area, Railroad Yards In  "Yugoslavia   Follow Nazis Fleeing ~ North, Northwest OL Rome   AIRMEN HIT POLA

Advances Made On Whole Front In Italy   Germans Retreat To Keep Allies From Encircling Units

Allies Pushing ~ Forward Along Italian Front   Germans Guarding Adriatic Sector Retreat to Avoid Encirclement.   Town 40 Miles North Of Rome Is Captured

Nazi Forces On Adriatic Front Also In Retreat   Allied Armies Forging Ahead Along Entire Ital ian Line Now.

By The Associated Press  LONDON — The German high command today § announced the abandonment of Tarquinia in Italy. Tarquinia is about 10 miles north of Civitavecchia.

Foe Retreating On Adriatic   Viterbo, Vetralla and Tarquinia, 55 Miles From Rome, Captured; Clark's Men Occupy Entire Area Around Lake Bracciane

* ALLIES ROLL ON ~ NORTH OF ROME   Yanks Pursue Enemy to Capture Caprarola, 34 Miles Above Eternal City

Viterbo “Junction Seized by Allies   Important Center 40 Miles Northwest of Rome  Is Captured   TARQUINIA IS. TAKEN   Germans in Adriatic Sector Retreat to Avoid En ’ circlenient ©

5th Rolls On In High Gear   German Forces Guarding  Adriatic Seetor Start To  Retreat.

Probe_Finding _ Of Three Bodies On Lonely Road   Two Brothers, Companions Found In Automobile; Girl Reveals Tragedy

49 Billions Voted  By House To Keep’ Invasion On Move; Exnenses To Be Higt

49 Billions Voted) Army In The House   MeNarney Warns Fight in Europe Will Eclipse Anything Experienced

49 Billions For Army Is Approved   House Commiitee Okays Bill; Total 390 Billions

Committee Votes 49 Billion For  Army Expenses   House Group Warned Scale of Fighting Fo Reach High Level '

BILL GETS APPROVAL   House Committee Okays 49 Billion Appropriation

49 Billion Voted To Meet Army's Needs This Year   Generals Testify To Scope Of Fighting Facing Allies

Badoglio Has Control Over Southern Italy   Conditional Civil Authority Restored to Large Section of Country   SOME RESTRICTIONS

Allies Extend Badoglio Power  Surrender Control of Southern Italy

Poles In London See Red Reunion  Remote Prospect   View Guerrillas Imprisoned By Russians Even If They Fight Germans

High School Music Groups Give Their Annual Fall Concert Tuesday   Personnel Of Groups  To Appear Are T.istead

Walsh Situation Cleared By Call  From President   Roosevelt Train Will Stop At Worcester To Pick Up Reconciled: Senator

JAPANESE WITHDRAW   Nigerian Troops In An Attack in Northern Burma

WILD PURSUIT YIELDS ROBBER   Soldier Caught Near Charlotte Is Held For Highway Robbery Of Hickory Man.

Brave ‘Chutists Who Held Bridgehead 9 Days Beaten in Body But Not in Spirit

MORE JAP TROOP BARGES SUNK IN EVACUATION TRY   > J, F. MGOVERN, 76 IN CASS DEMOCRATI RY LEADER. SUCCUMB

Barges Loaded With Jap Troops Sunk By Alhes   Destruction In New Guinea Area Is Announced By Gen. MacArthur   LIGHT NAVAL UNITS ATTACK JAPANESE

Lieut. Peay ls Missing   Was Bomber Co-pilot; Lt. Bishop, Former East Centralite, Killed in Actior

Allied Treo ps Advance. Along  Imphal Sector   But Jap Forces Are Atiack. ing In Fort Hertz Valley, Admiral Mountbatten Reports

Allies Advance  On Imphal Plain   Gains Announced in All Sectors of Battle Front in Eastern India But Ene my Is Launching Attacks in Northern Burma.   WAKE ISLAND RAIDED   Spethacks Met he Tuanc

Gains On All Sectors In Iinphal Area By Allies   Many Dead Left By Enemy; Yesterday's Communique Reportins Jap Offensive Erred

Allied Troops Advancing on Imphal Plain   Enemy Stages Attacks Today In North Burma

Allies Advancing  In India, Japanese  Aitack in Burma Japs Suffer Heavy Losses Whil   Japs Suffer Heavy Losses While Allied Troops Take Village, Hills in Imphal Arez

Allied Troops Advancing i in  Imphal Sector   750 Japs Killed at Kohima; Enemy Forces Attacking Fort Hertz

ALLIES ADVANCE IN IMPHAL AREA   Chinese Launch Counter-Offensive South Of Loyang

ALLIED SUCCESS ON INDIA FRONT INOW REPORTED _   Japs However Continue To Make Determined Atlacks ‘in Northern Riirmea

Allies Advancing On Imphal Plain   Japs Attack in North Burmz To Offset Offensive

Allies Advance On Imphal Plain: Japs Attack Hertz   Jap Losses Heavy Around Kohima As Leave More Than 750 Dead.

Allies Advance In All Areas _ Around Imphal Plain; Enemy Attacking In North Burma   Reveal Communique Yesterday Erred In Reporting Nip Offensive At Maninur

ADVANCES SCORED BY ALLIED UNITS ON IMPHAL FRONTS   Japs Are Reported Altacking In Fort Hertz Valley. in North Burma Wherc Allies Are Driving On Myitkyina

Japs Attacking In Northern Burma  Allied Forces Advance In All Sectors Around Imphal Plain In India

A. P. Nears Red Cross Goal With $2,100 Reported   Plans For Final Drive To Be Made March 20th.

§2,350 Collected In Red Cross War Fund Orive in ALP.   Committees Asked To Make Final Canvass.

Yanks Tighten Trap Around Japs at Ormoc  7th Division Moves   7th Division Moves Three Miles Up West Coast of Leyte

Move Closes Steel Trap  On Japanese   Several Thousand Japs Are Pinned Against Camotes Sea

Fight Way Into Ormoe From South   MacArthur Indicates That Clean-Up of Texte [Ts Near

Tokyo Radio Says "Outlook Is Bleak   Joponese Now Cornered on One Small Strip of Coast Along Ormoc Bay Sector of West Coast

Tighten Trap on Japs Caught Beside Sea   B-29s, Liberators, Fleet Give lwo Jima Record Pounding

LEYTE BATTLE NOT GOING ol GOOD FOR JAF   Tokyo Draws Dark Picture as Yanks Tighten Trap at Ormoc.

Final Peninsula Stand Likely Six Miles From Port  Capture of All Elba Reported; Reds Push Close to Viipuri

ARTILLERY GUNS - SHELLING TOWN   Whirlwind Yank Attack Drives Ten Miles Northward After Sev ering Peninsula

STATE GRANGE TO HOLD MEET HERE   Full. Program Arranged for Sessions Opening _ ~ Dec 6 F

STATE GRANGE TO HOLD MEET HERE   Full. Program Arranged for Sessions Opening “-  . Bee §  -

ltri And Gaeta Taken By Yanks   .. Enemy Changes Name of Hitler Line To “Dora”

Army At Maximum Strength, But Draft To Keep  Huse Force To Back Up Voice At Peace Tabi

MIGHTY ARMY ESSENTIAL AT PEACE TALKS   Director Hershey Declares U. S. Will Be Heard Only By Military Strength

Only Military Strength Will Make Voice Of U. S. Heard At Peace Table, General Hershey Asserts

U. 5.10 BACK PEACE PLANS WITH BIG ARMY   Army At Maximum Strength; Inductions After War Predicted

Must Continue to Pour Men Through Draft Channels   U. S. Voice at Peace Table Dependent on Military Strength, Hershey Declares

Military Might U.S. Best Asse   Hershey Says Army Tc Be Kept At Maximum Strength

Heavy Draft Calls To Be Continued   No Time For Slowing Down; Military Power to Be Important At Peacetable

Large Military Forces After War Seen   Hershey Says Draft May Be Continued For Some Time

Army Reaches Full Strength Of 7,700,000   Heavy Inductions to Continue; May Give America Strong Voice At Peace Conference

7.700.000 In Army  Now, Hershey Says   150.000 Replacements Are Needed Each Month

Army Reaches 7.700.000-Asks For More   Hershey Estimates 1ISO.000 Men Each Month Must Be Drafted for Forces

Big Draft Calls To Be Continued   U.S. to Keep Armed Forces at Strength Until War Picture Changes.

BIG ARMY SEEN GIVING POWER AT PEACE TABLE   Hershey Says Induction Rate Will Remain At 200.000 Monthly

Hershey Says U.S. Need Arm At Peace Table  150,000 Men A Month Needed To Maintain Forces At Full Rate

Army {o Be Kept Strong, Says Hershey   - Droft Director Warns Armed Forces Needed ” To'Win the Peace’

PARI NEE S—  MILITARY NEEDS CONTINUE HEAVY  Hershey Says Strong      Hershey Says Strong Army Will Help U. 8. At Peace Table   .GOAL IS REACHED   Army Today At Maximum Strength Of 7,700,000, He Says

Armed Might To Aid America At Peace Table   Hershey Says Draft of Men Must Continue

Army Quota OF 7,700,000 Is Acquired   It Is Estimated By Planning Board Will Require 150,000 Month ly Replacements

Hershey Declares Only Military Strength Will Make America’s Voice Heard At The Peace Tables

Military Strength Will Make America’s Voice Heard at Peace Table

Induction May Continue Even in Peace Days   Hershey Holds U. 5. Must Be Prepared to Enforce Demands

Army To Be Kept Up After Victory Won To Back Peace, Tip   U. S. Military Force Now at Full Strength of 7,700,000 Bu Inductions To Continue for Replacements, Gen. Hershey Reveals

May Draft « * Men After . War Ends   Gen. Hershey Emphasizes U. 8. Must Show Strength “. and: Force   ONLY WAY WHETHER - WE LIKE IT OR NOT   Must Win the Peace as Well " “as: the ‘War; Slow ° De-jnobilization Necessary

Might — To Back Peace   Hershey Says U.S. Must Maintain Power. ful Military Force After War Is Over

May Continue Draft Calls After War  Draft Will Continue To Require Huge Quotas Of Men, Gen. Hershey Says

Gen. Hershey Says Only Military Strength Will Make America’s Voice Heard At The Peace Table

Army Reaches Its Planned Maximum Might; 7,700,000  Huge Monthly Quotas  of Replacements to > er ten

CAUTIONS DRAFT BOARDS NOT 10 RELAX EFFORTS   ESTIMATES ARMY AND NAVY NEED AT LEAST 150,000 MEN MONTHLY

Army Vital ToU.S.Role In Peace Era   Hershey Urges Military Power To Back Demands

GEN. HERSHEY FOR BIG ARMY AFTER PEACE   Says a Strong Force s Needed to Back Up  American Demands

Hershey Says U.S. Needs Strong Army   Military Strength To Back Stand At Peace Tables

SAYS BIG ARMY IMPORTANT 10. PEACE PLANS      Her shey .. ‘Repor ts 1, 700, 000. ‘Now. Wear- “Ine Khaki- °:   PEAK. - STRENGTH   Inductions «Might Continue Even‘After War Ends -

MILITARY STRENGTH BE NEEDED TO BACK U.S. AT PEACE TABLE   DESPITE ARMY HAS REACHED ITS MAXIMUM MORE MEN BE NEEDED

Need Big Army To WinPeace, Says Hershey  Army at Peak But Rate of Draft  Case w'*h Cheelam

Gen. Hershey Hints at Continued Induction After Conflict Ends   "Tommyrot,’ Bradley Says, To Prediction of Heavy Losses

MILITARY POWER MUST BACK U.S. AT PEACE TABLE   Hershey Confident Now That Army Is at Planned Maximum Strength of 7,700,000 Men, But Draft Must Continue

Huge Army Held Vital to U.S. At Peace Table  Drafting of Men May Continue

Hershey Asserts  Military Strength  Peace Essential Army Now ai Planned Maximw of 7,700,000 but Will Need  TEA RAR B.. B..s:L1..

Army Reaches Goal of 7.700.000, But Many Men to Be Needed to Maintain Armed Forces at Desired Strength

DRAFT DEMANDS CONTINUE HEAVY   Army Hits 7,700,000 Peak, But Calls Must Go On

Army Is At Peak Strength Of 7,700,000   Military Power Must Be Behind U. S. At Peace Table, Says Hershey In Reviewing Inductions

LARGE ARMED FORCE NEEDED, HERSHEY SAYS      Predicts Continued Monthly Inductions, Postwar Standing Army

Arms Strenath Necessary For Voice In Peace   There Can Be No slowing Up Of The Slowing Up Of The

Ballot Fraud Pefition Sent Federal Judge   Authorities Urged To Make Inquiry Of Absentee Voting

American Swing Music Rings Out at Belgian Spa, Under Shadow of Seigfried Line

Slavs Demand New Growth   Congress Of Royalist Faetions Calls For Creation Of Federal State.

YUGOSLAVS PLAN 10) EXPAND AFTER WAR   Congess of Royalist Factions Demands More Territory.

AIRMEN WRECK LEUNA REFINERY   Over 1,100 U. S. Planes Hammer At Hitler’s Oil Supplies

» YANKS AGAIN HIT NAZI OIL CENTERS   ” Follow up Raid on Refinery At Merseburg; German Port Of Bremen Blasted; British Hit Frankfurt

New Assaults. . Smashes Leun: Oil Refineries. At Merseburg  Port. Of ‘Bremen’ ‘Is ~ Also. ‘Allied: Target

RAF BOMBERS RAID HAMBURG BERLIN AGAIN   New Fires Set in Nazi Capital; 28 Planes * Lest in Attack

ANGTHER LOAD OF EXPLOSIVES ON BERLIN   RAF Opens 1944 By Blasting Nazi Capital For Ninth Time; Also Hit Hamburg Heavily.   12,000 Tons

RAID HAMBURG. BERLIN AGAIN   New F ires Set in Nazi Capital; 28 Planes Lost in Attack

1,000 Tons Bombs Blas! Doomed City   Hundredth Attack Of War Starts  Roaring New Fires

RAF Lancasters Also Blast Big Port of Hamburg   German Capital Reported Ablaze

Roaring New Fires Are Set by Fliers in Raid on Capital  BOMBERS LOST — IN TWO WO ASSAULTS Berlin Virtually Finished  as Administrative Cantar  28

Roaring New Fires Are Set by Fliers in Raid on Capital  287 ‘BOMBERS -LOST-— IN TWO ASSAULTS Berlin Virtually Finished as Administrative Center

Ah BOMBARDMENT SURPRISES GERMANS   British Watch Preparations From Trenches, Send Werd to Air Unit,

Tommies Look — On as Planes Smash Nazis   ‘Cheer as Pilots Break Up Formation for Counter-Attack.

Nazis Taste Rocket Warfare  yy FF ¢     Tommies Cheer As Bombs Destroy German Troops, Tanks

WELL INFORMED   More People Reading Newspapers Than Ever Before, Survey Shows

Party Groups. Of State Plan For Platforms  Drafting Meetings Of Both Parties Due In September

State Political Parties Face Job of Writing  Platforms For Campaign

ANCRIGANG Thar 2500) Aro   U. S. Strategy Calls for Constant Aerial Blitz and Blockade

Von Papen to Go fo Berlin   German Ambassador To Turkey to Report On Turkish Situation

A GermanTurk Break:   Berlin Radio Says Von Papen Won’t Take Nazi Reply Back to Ankara

Taxpayers May Re Freed of Returns in “44  iF arm Labor Draft  ot a. 7   Farm Labor Draft Blow Seen By  est Congressmen

DEATH OF TAX — BLANKS SOUGHT   House Committee Offers  Hope to ‘Victims’

ASHPILES HINT BERLIN'S DOOM   Rule Of Swastika Over Once-Proud City Goes Back To 1933

RUSSIA HOLDS ANT ON REPLY   Asks Reduction. in Contribution to Etabilization Fund

RUSSIAN STAND DELAYS ACTION   Soviet Reply On Financia Proposal Is Awaited

REDS 23 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   Germans Driven Across Tisza In Hungary

SOVIETS CRACK BUDAPEST RING   Hammer Nazi Positions 23 ' Miles From Hungar-: ian Capital

ENTER BUDAPEST DEFENSE ZONE      Reds Within 23 Miles of Hungarian Capital

Reds Smash Outer Ring In Defenses  Of Budapest   oO Towns, Villazes ‘Seized Jn -Adyance

Russians Push Info Budapest Outer Defense   Capture Rail Station Of Damsod and Drive Within Less than 23 Miles from Capital

Red Troops May Enter Budapest Over Weekend   Fight Into Outer Defenses Of City; Thousands Captured

DEWEY HEADED FOR TALKS IN MIDWEST AREA      Speaks At Minneapolis Tuesday Night, In Milwaukee Wednesday

West Concord Man  Killed In Action On Biak Island      Parents of Private (fc) William Stew: ard Gray, Jr., 19, Receive Message  - From War Department

Parents of Private (fc) William Steward Gray, Jr., 19, Receive Message From War Department

Lewis Is Set To Lambast Fed. Leaders   Ina Speech Before 2500 United Mine Worker Delegates

UMW AUTONOMY CAUCUS BROKEN UP BY BLIZZARD   Meeting tn-Cineinnati Opens With Lewisites Battling Autonomists

Blizzard Unit Routs UMW Autonomusts   Caucus of Lewis Crities Broken Up In Seuffling Melee

AMERICAN LOSSES. LOW INi-JARSHALLS   Total of 8,122 Japanese Killed During In yasions

United State: invasion loss  is 286 killed   8,122 Japanese die in Marshalls

8,122 Japs Die In U.S. Attacks In the Marshalls   American Losses Placed at 264

PARIS OUTSKIRTS, COLOGNE, 2 RAIL CENTERS ARE HIT   17,000 Tons of Explosives Unloaded In Four Days as Part of Plans Before tnvasion Opens.   ALLIES BOMB BRIDGES NEEDED BY GERMANS   German Radio Says Ship¢ Are Concentrated For Invasion With Men Moving to Enalish Ports.

BRITAIN SENDS 1,100 BOMBERS FOR NIGHT RAIDS ON CONTINENT   Largest RAF Fleet Of War Hits Cologne, Other Targets; 9,000 Planes Drop 17,000 Tons In Four Davs

Largest Air Fleet Ever Sent Out By The R.A. F. Strikes Paralyzing Blows At Reich

U. S. Eyeing Argentina’s New Revolt   Army Group Force Resig. nation of Pres. Ramirez  At Gun Point.

Eighteen Hurt By Train Wreck Tn Bay State   Servicemen Are Among Victims

Fewer Marriages  This Year Than "43 In Big Cities  Census Bureau Te s mm ye g

NOTARY PUBLIC Elizabeth M. Culler A04.406 Fallowheld Ave.   BIG SLIM THE LONE COWROY aWn Uic ei 4£DANS

2 CAPTURED AFTER ESCAPE   2 Trusties at Anamosa  Farm Ouickly Caught

FINNISH PEOPLE TIRED OF WAR   Move Begun To Oust Axis Sympathizers And Make Peace With Russia

CONFEREES AGREE TO PRICE CONTROL LIMIT   Agree To Continue Present Pregtam Until June 39, 1945: May Ban Subsidies Then

U.S. PLANES IN BATTLE OF EAST FOR FIRST TIME   15th Air Force Flown From Italy To Russia For Drive

AMER. PLANES IN BATTLE OVER POLAND   Enter Battle Of the East For First Time

Enter Battle For First Time A: Russians Advance To Point Only 150 Miles From Eastern Borders Of Germany   GUN EMPLACEMENTS UNDER PLANE FIRE

Rake Lines In Rear of East Fron¢   Reds Reach Wisla On 50-mile Line

Butte High Will Graduate 26] Friday Morning  Dr. H. G. Klemme of Bozeman Will Be Speaker

Butte High Will Graduate 261 Friday Morning  Dr. 4. CG. Rlemmea   Dr. H. G. Klemme of Bozeman Will Be Speaker

POLLS. INDICATE PHOTO FINISH ~ Presidential ' Campaign , Surveys Show Dewey, FDR In Close Race   Three Nationwide Polis. Decline To Forecast Which Candidate Is Likely To Gain The.266 Electoral Votes Needed To Win

May Be Photo Finish for  Candidates   President Leads In 20 States, Dewey In 13: 15 Uncertain

Four Nation-Wide Polls Agree Presidential Race Too Close to Warrant Trving Pick Winner

Presidential Polls Indicating. Photo Finish With Roosevelt Having Slicht Electoral Edse

Poll of Polls Gives Roosevelt Lead In Close Race for the White Hous

Photo Finish’ for ‘M4 Race Is Seen   National Polls Say Presidential Race Too Close To Pick Winner.

PRESIDENTIAL POLLS INDICATE IT MAY BE VERY CLOSE RACE  THREE NATION-WIDE oy POLLS GIVE PRESIDENT Cc  rear. TR TUBA Tey CcTrAT Rr

POTS GIVE ROOSFVEL'T'  SLIGHT EDGE AS US. GOES 10 BOO'THS 'I'ODAY

Polls Show  Photo Finish In Election.   Race Is Too Close “For Any To Attempt - To: Forecast Winner  3 GIVE F.D.R. EDGE

PHOTO FINISH IN PRESIDENT RACE IS SEEN   THree Polls Give Candi dates Nearly Equal Electoral Votes

Presidential Poll Indicates a Photo Finish Between Roosevelt and Dewey

PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST EVEN BET, POLLS SHOW   Election Experts Refuse to Guess On Outcome of Next Week’s Votine

POLLS INDICATE PHOTO FINISH   REPORT FDR AHEAD IN 20 STATES AND DEWEY LEADS IN 13

Race Too Close  To Pick Winner, Four Polls Agree   Gallup-Dewey; Crossley Newsweek, FortuneRoosevelt: All Close

PHOTO FINISH IS PREDICTED   Three Nation-Wide Polls Indicate Close Presidential Race

Photo Finish Indicated  In Presidential Contes   Three National Polls Revecl Close Division Between Roosevelt And Dewey; President Has Slight Edge In All Surveys

Photo Finish Indicated by Election Polls   All Fail Te State Who Has Edge in Race for Necessary 966 Electoral Votes

POLITICAL RAGE APPEARS 10 BE PHOTO FINISE   Roosevelt Holds Slight Edge In Three Polls And Dewey Leads In One

Polls ~_ Election  Be Photo Fai   3 Nationwide Survey: Give The Presiden 198 Electorals Anc Dewey 143

PHOTO FINISH S PREDICTED   Surveys Fail to Agree. Decline to Forecast Winner Nov. 7.

Photo Finish In Election Is Predicted   Three Poll Takers Unwilling To Risk Choosine Winner

Polls Suggest Photo Finish  Three Figure F.R. To Have 20 States With 13 In Dewey Fold

Polls Indicate  Close Finish In  Presidential Race Roosevelt Tops

PRESIDENTIAL RACE CLOSE, POLLS SHOW   Leading Opinion-Samplers Indicate: PhotoFinish

Polls Envision Presidential Race Photo Finish: Many States Close

Polls Predict "Photo Finish’   Three Nation-Wide Reports Show FDR Leading in 20 States

J. S. Troops Advance Street by Street and House by House, Nazi Dead Left along Way.

U.S. Troops Advance Street By Street And House By House In Order To Reach Port Held By Faraticallv-Resisting Nazis

GUAM ISLAND AGAIN ‘UNDER U.S. CONTRO   Yank Forces Finish Conquest; Japs Surrounded

Conquest Of Guam Island Is Completed   Small Jap Pocket fs Only Resistance Left

Chest Drive Is Close To Goal   Collections Reported At $101,429 At Workers’  Meatine.

GOAL IS NEAR IN CHEST DRIVE-HERE   Final Meeting Today _ With $101,429 Already _ Reported

Japanese Army Must Be Beaten, Says MacArthur   Blockade, Bombs Alone Won’t Win

rthur Airs Views On The Pacific  MUST ENGAGE JAP FORCES IN DECISIVE GROUND FIGHTING TO WIN WAR, SAYS GENERAL

Can't Defeat Japs by Blockade and Bombing   Victory in Pacific Depends On Contact with Ground Forces, MacArthur Declares

Blockade Or Bombing Cannot Stop Japs, MacArthur Says; Urges Infantry Action

JAPAN GANNOT BE DEFEATED THROUGH BLOCKADE, BOMBING   Our Ground Forces Must Be Brought Into Contact With Enemy, Says MacArthur.   AT DECISIVE POINTS   General’s Statement Issued Eight Hours After Communique Was Issued. _

BOMBS, BLOCKADE ARE INSUFFICIENT   MacArthur Says Decisive Blows Must Be Made on Ground to Bring Victory.

GENERAL MACARTHUR DECLARES ARMY MUST DEFEAT JAPANESE  AIR AND NAVAL UNITS ALONE CANNOT WIN PA-

“Must Defeat Jap Army”   MacArthur Says Nipponese Can Never Be Beaten By Blockade And Bombing Alone

Japan Can't “Be Defeated By Bombing   @ MacArthur Declares Air Raids, Blockade Alone Won't Be Enough — Nipponese Army Must Be Crushed.

Must Meet, Defeat Jap   GENERAL MacARTHUR SAYS CANNOT WIN BY BLOCKADE, BOMBING

No Short Cut Tc Victory, Says Mae ‘Arthur   United Ground, Air And Naval Action Necessary, He Says

No Easy Way-MacArthur —   Must Reach Jap Army, Crush It; All Three Forces Required to Do It

THINK TROOPS OUTFLANKING VITEBSK BASE   *So Badly Is.It Being Cut Off, in Fact, That the  Big Nazi Garrison Has  No Railways Running } Into It.

Enemy Losses Are Placed At 11,000 Since Start Of India Invasion Attempt

ONE OF HEADLESS ‘BODIES FOUND IN ‘LAKE IDENTIFIED   Urs. Pearl Fairfax. of La Monte, Mo., Victim—Other Woman Slain Believed Her Daughter.   @ DISAPPEARED SHORT ° ("IME BEFORE TRAGEDY   -- Developments Furnish First Vangible Clew in Month-. Old Mystery—No — Arrests Made.

Officers Identify ‘Body of One of 7 dHeadless Women   Believed to Be Mrs. Pearl Fairfax *Vho Has Been Missing

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Heavy (Casualties Inflicted on “Jans” at Arakan

Reds Push 21 Miles Inside East Prussia   Russian Forces Also Drive to Norwegian Borde

Arguments Neat End In South’s Freight Battle   New Orleans Fears Change In Rates Might Avoplvw To Raw Materials.

Portugal Stops Aid to Germany   Stettinius Reveals Agreement on Mineral

Politics Forgotten In Sapuipa  Dewey Takes Back Seat As Crowds Welcome His Wife

WALLACE YOUNG DIES THURSDAY   Started First Gas Station In County In 1915

Evidence From Hearings Up To Senate Group   Full Committee In Washington To Discuss Matter

Yank Artille:”* Barrage Makes Shambles Of Jap’.  Reinforcements, Equipmen'

600 NIP TROOPS * KILLED IN STAB — TO HOLD LEYTE   wa Town of Limon Pictured As Flaming Wreckage—Thousands Believed Trapped

600 Nip Soldiers Killed In Bloody One-Day Battle   Yank Artillery Traps Reinforcements, Slaughters Personnel, Wrecks Equipment

Night Barrage Traps Enemy in Leyte Town   Yanks Slay 600 in One-Day Fight; Oonosition Set at 60.000 Soldiers ©

U. S. Artillery Traps Japs in Town of Limon   Jap Reinforcements And Equipment Wiped Out by Barrage From American Bia Gune

Nips Hit by US Artillery  ‘Rarraqge   Enemy Force Is A Bloody Shambles

Jap Troops Are Decimated hy Yank Artillery   Reinforcements and Equipment Caught in Barrage Are Made A Bloody Shambles

Trapped Japs Slaughtered   Artillery Makes Shambles Of Limon Where Large Force Concentrated

Barrage Catches Large Jap Force   Limon on Leyte Heavily Bombarded as Amer- — icans Move Up   COUNTER BLOW BROKEN   U.S. Advance Is Slow, But Americans Hold the °  Initiative 

Town In Flames After Barrage As Yanks   Move On Ormoc    Enemy Reinforcements And Equipment Become Bloody Shambles When Trapped By American Artillery Barrace: Nin Losses Hich

Japanese Trapped  In Limon   Bodies of More  Than 600 Dead Enemy Soldiers Were Counted

Yank Artillerymen Smash Japs in Attack on Limon  Enemy Reinforcement: Turned Into

Shells Wreck Town As Nips Roll Forward   24th Division Commander Reluctant to Say Enemy Was Knocked Out   BUT LIMON APPEARS TO BE UNINHABITED   Americans Continue Slow Advance on Ormoc Road; New Elevation Seized

Japs Raked By Fire   Garrison of Ormoc Road Town May Have Been Wiped Out By Artillerv: Barrage

NIPS TRAPPED If LIMON BY GREAT NIGHT BARRAGE   Equipment Flows In, Artillery Roars, Town Is Flaming Shambles

YANK BIG GUNS SMASHES JAPS REINFORCEMENT   Enemy Concentrations Ir Limon Reduced To Bloody Shambles

COUNTERDRIVE BROKEN UP BY YANKS   ; Nips Have Five Divisions In Philippines Action   ARTILLERY   Rakes Nips In Ormoc Pocket: Report Opposition Increasingly Strong

SHELLS POUR INTO TROOPS INSIDE LIMON   Town Becomes Mass of Flaming Wreckage, With 600 Dead Enemy Soldiers Counted After One Dav of Fighting.

YANK ARTILLERY SMASHES ENEMY CAUGHT IN TRAP   Reinforcements Left Bloody Shambles? Manila Reported Hit by Air Armada

Americans Make Bloody Shamble: Of Limon Japs   Trapped Nipponese Feel Brunt Of Yank Heavy Artillery

Yanks Halt Jap Plans  For Attacks By Advance   ‘Potential Assembly : - Areas “Are Invaded

New Mevico-Oklahoma Outfit Cited For Distinguished Conduct In Battle Vor Rome; Resume Of Battle Of Italy.

CHARGES R.R.'S BLOCK RATE GUT   Biddle Suit Asks Courts Dissolve Carriers’ Association

Col. Douglas McNair, 37, Only Son of Late Gen. McNair Falls in Battle

COL. MeNAIR KILLED IN GUAM FIGHTING   Son Of General Who Lost Life In France On July 25, Victim  Of Japanese

GENERAL'S SON IS KILLED ON GUAM   Col. Douglas McNair Dies Less Than Month After Father

COLONEL M’NAIR 1S DEAD IN GUAM   OFFICER WAS ONLY SON OF GENERAL RECENTLY KILLED IN NORMANDY.

MCNAIR MEETS DEATH IN GUAM   Son Of General Killed In France Is Also Victim Of War

Flier Races With Death   Flies From England To Arkansas Home To See Sick Mother

Strike Closes Briggs Plants      More Than 20,000 Sent Home After Maintainanc Workers Ouit.

BATTLE RAGING IN AREA BEHIND SIEGFRIED LINE   Americans Break Into Fort Guarding Metz — Civilians Evacuated from Dunkerque

Big Battle Raging at Fort Driant   ‘Troops In North ‘Pound Defenses Guarding Coleane

Americans Strike Into And Beyond Germany's Line   Attack Cologne's Backstop Defenses; Yanks Break Into Great Fort Near Metz

YANKS BATTLE TO WIN FORT NEAR METZ   Hit Beyond Siegfried Line North Of Aachen   ARTILLERY FIRE   Of Germans Heaviest Since Invasion; Counterblows Of Nazis Repulsed

5rd Army Clings To Fort Driant Holds In Furtous Battles   American Troops Attempt To Burn Germans Out of Underground Posi- , tions Guarding Metz

RECORD RAID IN MOLUCCAS, OTHER POINTS   Great Fires Rage at Several Places Bombed By Liberators in South Pacific.   167 Enemy Vessels

188 Tons. Loosed  On Amboina Fresh Raids On Bonins Reported By Nimitz

RECORD HEAVY RAIDS STAGED ON MOLUCTAS   JAP BARRACKS AND HARBOR IS MASS OF FLAMES

Heavy Raid In Moluccas   188 Tons Fall There To Estublish Record For Spice Islands Blastings

U.S. Bombers Set Big Fires In Moluceas   Amboina Target in Air Drive to Carve Road Back to Philippines

THe Fighting Is Reported “To Be- Violent And At Close. Range .      AMERICAN 18T ARMY 18 BARELY 50 MILES FROM GERMANY   In Eastern Italy Germans Are Fighting Hard To Hold Bimini

GOP Leaders Think General May Be Drafted   Incline To Believe. He Would Accept. Nomination If Offered To Him —

GOP Vanguard Heads For Chicago... . . General MacArthur Still  Apparently Willing To - Accept The Nomination

GOP Leaders Seek to Solve IGeneral’s Bid   Try to Read Between Lines of Disavowal Enroute to Chicago to Make Plans

PITTSBURG DOCTOR SLAIN BY WOMAN   Former Patient Accused Vic.  tim of Attack

GERMANY TO BE IN HANDS OF MILITARY   Plans Completed For Such Rule  During Occupation

Attack On Palau   Forty-Six Jap Vessels And 214 Planes Sunk Or Damaged In Assault   NAVAL BASE ALSO LEFT IN WRECKAGE

TASK FUR WIFE OUI PALAU BASE   Three Other Strongholds Blasted   BATTL ESHEE HIT  25 Planes Competes Nimitz Losses

Destroy  Or Damage 46 Jap Vessels   214 Enemy Planes Included In Toll

Japan's Palau Naval Base Fire And Shell-Scarred Wrec! After Visit By U.S. Armada

Disagreement Among Nazi  Leaders Cited   Generals at Odds With Hitler Over Strategy in Russian Campaign 

Hitler’s_ Generals At Odds   COSTING GERMANS GREAT TOLL OF LIVES AND PRISONERS, SAYS CAPTURED GEN. HOFMESIETER

Captured German Commander Says Nazi Generals Disagree   Disputes Over Strategy in East Costing Many Lives, Russian Quote Prisoner as Saying.

Captured German Commander Bitter In Criticism Of Hitler’s Strategy

Captured German General Sees Wide Disagreement Among Hitler’s High Chiefs

Says German  Generals Row Over Strategy   Nazi Of ficer Declares Heavy Losses in East Are the Result.

Hitler Order Costs Great Toll Of Lives Says Seized Leader   Gen. Hofmeister Quoted In Moscow: Fuehrer’s Face Swollen, Voice Thick As He “Forbids Retreat”

Hitler's Mistakes Taking Heavy Toll, Captured General Tells Russ; Older Officers Know Better but Are Qusted {f They Criticize

Disagreement Among Hitler Leaders Admitted By Nazi: General Captured By Soviets

HITLER IN ROW WITH GENERALS   ‘Talentless Commands’ 0 Nazi teader *ttacked ¢

Hitler's Order Is Criticized   German General Puts Blame on Fuehrer for Defeats in Russia’

Captured German Commander Declares Friction Exists Among Generals Of Hitler Over Eastern Front Strategy

Captured German Commander Says Hitler's Insistence On Holding Costing Great Toll   Reports Generals In Disagreement, Scores Fuehrer’s Talentless Command

Nazi Generals And Hitler at  Swords Point   Captured” Officer Says Mistakes Losing Many Lives

Nazi Generals Disagree, Claim   Russian Press Quotes Captured German General on Disagreement

Captured Nazi General Blames Hitler For East Front Debacle  Older Commanders Ignored; Fuehrer’s Face Qaynllan Unina T news “Sinaach Te Tnmblad

Captured German General Tells About  Disagreement Among Hitler’s Generals

Grim Notice ls Served On Nazis   Normandy Termed Only A Beginning

Grim Notice Is Served On Nazis   Normandy Termed Only A Beginning  Re WMOWARH FYFCER

BLOOD DONOR QUOTE IS BUT HALF FILLED   188 Volunteers Needed; Unit’s Five-Day Visit Begins Tuesday

NEED 85 MORE BLOOD DONORS: BOAL IN SIGHT   Saturday Last Day Of Operation For Mobile Unit

Red Forces Are Massed For Attack   On Germans   Blow From Eastern Front Is Expected -

Nazi Opposition Less Effective Than Expected   4,000 Ships Carry Troops Across Channel From Britain; Landing Made on Strip Of Coast Between Cherbourg and Le Havre  -_ ane ame ae wen 2 @ 4 OU ee eee,   New Drive By Russians   Massing Forces to Join Allied Smash Against West Defenses

Russiaas Massing ForEastern Blou; Celebrate D-Day   Literal Dancing With Glee Accompanies Invasion News In Moscow Early Today

REDS MASSING — FOR OFFENSIVE TO CRUSH NAZIS   Russians Dance With Glee A News Of Long-Awaited 2nd Front.

Russian Troops Ready For Drive   Russians Jubilant Over Fall of Rome; Berlin Next.

RUSSIANS PREPARING FOR INVASION ROLE   Said to Be Massing to Perform Part in Joint Allied Task.

Soviets Ready To Strike Out  Russians Dance With Glee Over Invasion

New Drive By Russians   Massing Forces to Join Allied Smash Against West Defenses

All Eyes On Tomorrow’s Primary  Fourth Term Gets First Real Southern Test In Florida Voting Tuesday

Nationally Important Issues Are Wrapped Up In Florida’s Hot Democratic Primary Tuesday

NATION EYES - FLORIDA VOTE   Issues Worthy of Many States Wrapped Up In Primary

REDHOT PRIMARY WAR IN FLORIDA   Issues Of National Im’ portance ‘To Be Decid” ed Tuesday   INTEREST IS HIGH   Nominees For National And States Offices To Be Selected

FLORIDA TO HOLD RED:HOT DEMO. PRIMARY   Full Slate Pledged to Byrd, Test Fourth Term Strength. Negroes Will Trv to Vote

FLORIDA VOTE DUE TUESDAY   National Tests and Issues Await Decision In Democratic Primary

POLES PESSIMISTIC OVER SETTLEMENT   Polish Spokesman Says Members Of Underground Are Being favntured Be BPussians

WAR WORKER CHOKES HIS GIRL FRIEND   Says She Teased Him About Dating Other Men

Spread of Machine Politics Through the Nation Will Spell the Doom of Liberalism—Warren

Liberalism Imperiled Says Warren   MACHINE POLITICS WILL SPELL DOOM GOVERNOR WARREN WARNS IN RADIO SPEECH LAS1 NIGHT,   Urges Dewey’s Election

Legion of Merif Awarded Sooner   For Gallant Action Of Sgt. Rine, Who Died in November

Roosevelt Family, Friends Pray For Peace At Service Marking 11th Anniversary

President, Family Pray for Peace   Commemorates 11th Anniversary of Inauguration

PRESIDENT ASKS DIVINE GUIDANCE   Prayers For Peace Mark Anniversary Of Inauguration

Missouri Delegates Back Truman   Support Senator As Running Mate On Demo Ticket

MINDANAO BOMBED BY ALLIED AJRMEN   Explosives Rained on Jap Installations in the Philtppines

Reactionary Natives Are Fuming  AMERICO-JAPANESE CITIZENS LIBERATED

Government Revokes Its Ban   California Governor Calls On People To Prevent Civil Disorder

POPE, ARCHBISHOP DENY PEACE PLAN   Reports Published Here Are Term ed False By Church Officials  In Rome

LARGE JAP FORCE — CAUGHT IN A TRAP   Enemy y Headquarters Town on Leyte Is Ceptured

No Organized Resistance on Mindoro Island   Captured Airfield Used by Americans

NIPS FAIL TO RESIST YANKS UPON MINDORO   77th Division Rolling Last Remnants Of Yamashita’s

Largest Nip Leyte Force Now Trapped   Enemy Caughi By Converging Yank Philippines Army

NIPPONESE FORGE CAUGHT IN TRAP   Believed Largest Force Still In Action on Leyte; No Resistance Encountered on Mindoro

YANKS CAPTURE HEADQUARTERS OF JAPS ON LEYTE   Troops Not Only Take Enemy Center at Valencia, but Also Seize an Airfield Intact.   FIRST CAVALRY GETS THE TOWN OF LOLOY   Americans Still Unopposed in Invasion of Mindoro Island and Drive Is Ahead of Schedule.

Aimee McPherson Dies in Oakland   Doctors Say Sleeping Tablets Possible Cause

Apodaca Resigns  As Dona Ana Sheriff   Auto Licenses Sent To 10 More Counties   Where Are the Yanks?

Huge Cargo Planes  Will Supply Chinese   Stilwell Says Coolies Already Toiling To Prepare Marm.math Airfields

Stillwell Pledges Pacific Aid to US      Air Fields Now Under Construction For Long Range Thrusts Against Japs.

GROUND AND AIR OFFENSIVE IS BEING PLANNED   Gen. Stilwell Promises Aid In Landing U. S. Troops In China

Stilwell Plans Great Offensive   Will Aid Nimitz In Coming Drive

New Huge Cargo Carriers To Fly Supplies to China When Airports Completed

OFFENSIVE IS PROMISED BY STILLWELL   From China In Coordination With Nimitz’ Pacific Offensive; By Land And Arr Savs General.   Sink Trawler

US Land, Air Forces Will Aid Chinese   Stilwell Gives Attack Program

AIR BASES ARE. BEING PREPARED IN FREE CHINA   Advances Made In Burma; Japan To Receive Air Blows

OFFENSIVE IN CHINA PLEDGED BY STILWELL   Aggressive Land and Air Action Being Prepared, Airfields Built, Deliveries Stepped Up   HONG KONG RAIDED   Enemy Shipping Blasted Off China Coast, Rabaul Twice Hit and Kavieng Given Pounding

ALLIED FORCES HAVE WRESTED TERRITORY FROM ENEMY CONTROI   LONG WAY TO GO BEFORI JAP HOMELAND "REACHED, HOWEVER

Japs Are Cleared From Vast Space In Pacific Area   But There's Still a Long Way to Go to Get to Homeland Territory.   Three Allied Drives Are Aimed at Tokyo

Marines Successfully Land On 2.More Palau Islands; Opposition Light Thus Far   ‘American Forces Now Control Eight Of Group 515 Miles East Of Philippines; MacArthur’s Airmen At: tack Japanese Shipping; Chinese Situation Bad

MARINES LAND ON TWO ISLETS IN THE PALAUS   Yanks Speedily Over. Run Ngesebus and Kongaurau

U.S. Negotiates To Block Swiss Goods To Nazis  Vital Supplies Flow To Reich

Seek Further Trade Ban   Agreement With Swiss Would Cut Shipments Of Precision Instru-ments to Germany

United States Has Taken Another Ste, In Plugging Flow of War Goods To Germany; Swiss Talks Are Opened

Plugging How O01 Nazi War Goods   Negotiations Underway Reduce Swiss Shipments To Germany.

LUMBERMEN’S UNION DEFIES LABOR BOARD   Oficiats OF CIO Organization 32: Ther Cannet Recommend End Of Walhent

Drouth Damage Feared in State ®   Corn, Other. Crops Expected ‘to Suffer

Jap Troops Claim Capture Of Foochow   Communique Issued Al Tokyo Reports Fall Of Important Port On Coast Of China

Last Chinese Port Taken   Japanese Forees Also Advance in Kweilin Offensive

JAPS CLAIM THE CAPTURE OF FOOCHOW   City Is Capital of Fukien Province and the Last Major Chinese-Held Port on the Allied Nation’s East Coast.

CHINESE CITY IN JAP HANDS?   Foochow Vital Objective in Drive to Seal Off Part Of China.   PACIFIC BOMBERS BUSY

JAPAN REPORTS SEIZURE OF KEY FOOCHOW PORT   Nipponese Also Smash Near Other Chinese Bases In Bid To Split Country

Important Port In China Taken By Japanese   American Bombers Continue Raids Against Shipping

Tokyo Claims Capture Of Foochow, Important Port In Southeast China   ieee Te “Staircase”

CHOW KEY I NFWNIP DRIVE   Tokyo. Communique Declares City Was Occu‘pied 3 Days Ago   BOMBERS BUSY   Allied Airmen Continue To Patrot Pacific Shipping. Lines

JAPS CAPTURE FOOCHOW, BIG CHINESE PORT   Capital Of Fukien Province Falls To Enemy Troops

CAPTURE OF FOOCHOW CLAIMED BY THE JAPANESE   An Important Port Objective in Drive to Seal Off Southwestern China.  7   BEFORE ALLIED THRUST   Tokyo Imperial Communique Said Foochow Was Taken .. Three Days Ago.

Japs Claim’ Capture — Of Foochow   With Changning Taken And Posching.:Doomed Chinese Editor Calls: For “Second - Front”

JAPS CLAIM FOOCHOW TAKER   U.S. Bombers Continue Attacks on Shipping i

Japs Capture China’s Last Big East Port   Claim Foochow Fell Three Days Ago; Meanwhile, Yanks Blast Shipping

Foochow Is Captured by Jap Forces    Nip Minelayer, Two Merchantmen Sunk; Advance Jap Units Only 25 Miles from Kweilin

TOKYO CLAIMS FOOCHOW FALLS TO NIPS IN CHINA   American Airmen Sink More Japanese Vessels in Pacific

Foochow Falls; September Toll Of Jap Ships 210   Enemy Seizure of  Chinese Port Blow To Invasion Plans; Victories in Burma

Foochow, Important Chinese Seaport Falls fo Jap Hordes   Situation Becoming More Alarming Hourly; Second Front Appeal Made

NIPPON TROOPS TAKE FOOCHOW   Yank Bombers Sink Three Jap Ships, Close In On Tiddim

Vital Foochow Apparently In Japanese Hands  Tokio Claims Port In /   Tokio Claims Port In A Drive To Seal Off South  east China.

Foochow Falls to Japanese   Bombers Sink Cargo Ships, Minelayer in Celebes, Amboina

Japs Claim Foochow Has Been.Taken    American. Ramhexs.. Continue To’ ‘Slash At Ship Lines’

Jap Threat in China Is Growing Serious   Nips Claim Capture of Important Port of Foochow, Superior Air Force, But Yanks Continue To Blast Enemy Ships

Japanese Report Foochow Captured Last Chinese Port   Allied Bombers Continue to Add To Ship Total

iekyo Reports Capture Of oochow, Last China Port;  U. S. Bombs Hit Jap Shins

JAPANESE CLAIM FOOCHOW PORT HAS BEEN TAKEN   SOUTHWEST PACIFIC BOMBERS CONTINUE TO SING JAP SHIPS

FOOCHOW IN ~ ENEMY HANDS   Japs Claim Capture of Chi. nese Port, Thwarting Allied Drive

Japs Capture Foochow, But [Lose in Burma   Yank Bombers Continue Heavy Raids on Japanese Shipping, Bases

JAPANESE ANNOUNCE CAPTURE OF FOOCHOW IN NEW CHINA DRIVE  SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

Borough Council Held Quiet Sessior Monday Night   Little Business Was Transacted at Regular Meeting

Borough Council Names Instructors  F or Playground   Little Other Business Transacted at Regular Meeting

Borough Council  Met Monday   Only Routine Business Needed Attention

Army Tr ransport Plane Crashes,  Ten Die. 17 Hurt              raft Hits: ‘Moutifaine 3 And Catches Fire ‘Near New Cumberland Field:

TEN KILLED IN CRASH   Soldiers Were in Transport Plane That Fell On Mountain

TEN SOLDIERS DIE AS PLANE CRASHES      Seventeen Others Injured in Mountains Near Harrisbura

10Killed, Ar Hurt in Plane Crash   Acmy_ Craft Hits Side OF “Mountuin Neéam New Cumberland_ wa. Airports.

Big Army Plane Strikes Mountain,  10 Dead, 17 Hurt  Firemen With Axes Save Soldiers Caught

10 KILLED IN CRASH OF TRANSPORT PLANE   Seventeen Others Injured as Ship Plunges Into Mountain Near Harrisburg. Pa.

Ten Soldiers Killed, 17 Injured in Crash of Transport Early Christmas

10 SOLDIERS KILLED IN TRANSPORT GRASH   Seventeen Others Injured in Pennsylvania Disaster

UNITY AT HOME   Secretary of State Tells LeGion It Is Necessary to Prevent War.

Co-operation Needed at Home Hull Tells Legion Delegates   ‘FEW WARTIME STRIKES, SAYVS API, LEFADER

MILITARY CHIEFS TELL LEGION NEW BLOWS IN MAKING   MAC ARTHUR’S JOB RETAKE PHILIPPINES, SAYS ADMIRAL NIMITZ

YANKS PRESS ADVAN" 4c ON! ls a 7 ie   O «2S Fall Paves \.* for Annihilation of Remaining Japs

ENEMY LINE. NEAR ORMOC IS SMASHED   ENTIRE JAPANESE GARRISON AT ORMOC WAS DESTROYED . IN DESPERATE FIGHTING

SOVIET UNION FORCES. JAPS YIELD RIGHTS   Nipponese Yield Coal, Oil - Possessions on Sakhalin Island   RUSSIANS SCORE IN MOSCOW. AGREEMENT   Prolongation of Fisheries — Pact fer Fiye-Years~— Announced

Russia Forces Japs To Yield Sakhalin Fuel   Soviet Cancels Long-Term Coal, Oil Pact in Major

Soviets Compel Japs To Yield  Oil Concessions      Newest Diplomatic Coup Aids U.8. in Pacific War

Reds Force Japs To Surrender Sakhalin Oil, Coal Concessions   Also Disclosed Inducing Japs To Cease Exploiting Certain. Fishing Grounds

Russia Recalls Rights To Japs    Nips Deprived Of Vital Coal, Oi1

Japs Forced to Yield Oil Fields to Russia   Great Diplomatic Victory For Soviet Union Cuts Off Concessions On Sakhalin Islands;  Blow To Tokyo

SOVIETS FORCE JAPS TO YIELD OIL AND COAL   Win Return of Sakhal3 in Concessions by New Pact

Liquor Shortage Probe Broadened   Subpoenas Issued For Distillers

Lock Haven. Has Bad Fire   Destroys One, Damages Three Other Four: Story Buildings

WAGE RESTRAINTS CAN BE SHATTERED   War Labor Board Panel Says Presi dent Has Power To Modify Controls

Hike in Wage  Formula Seen   Labor's Effort to Break “Little Steel? Gaing

NEW GAIN MADE IN PAY JUMP BIL   Second WLB Panel Asserts Formula Can Be Broken

WLB PANEL AGAIN UPHOLDS FORMULA   Finds FOR Has Power to Modify Wage Controls

HOLDS WAGE TOP CAN BE BROKEN   WAR LABOR BOARD PANEL FINDS ROOSEVELT HAS POWER TO CHANGE CEILING.

ATTEMPT ON HITEPR’S LIFE SEEN AS REVOLT AMONG HIS OWN PEOPLE DESPITE CLAIM ONLY FEW INVOLVED   Older German High Officials Are Tired of Hitler Using His Power of Life and Death Ruthlessly To Enforce Orders and Have Started te Rebel

WAR TODAY   Rebellion In Germany Believed .of Daugerous Size As Army Officers See Nation Falling to Ruins

Himmler Working Up Another Bloody Purge—~ ome DY MCVV ILE NAACKHO TL!  Rebellion Shaping Against Hitler Regime

Idaho Halts Induction of  All Over 26   Order to Local Boards Cancells  Calls This Month

1 STATES TODAY TO TEST F.D.R   Alabama And Florida May Reveal Feeling Regarding Roosevelt TY DINGS IS WINNER

Florida Voting Being Watched  By Democrats   Political Attention Today Focused on State for Signs of Possible New Deal Opposition.

ADVANCE RETOOLING OF AUTO INDUSTRY FOR POSTWAR WORK  SUCH ACTION FORESEEN AS WPB DIRECTOR NAME! CPECIAT COMMITTEE

Advance Retooling of Au ‘tomobile Industry for Postwar Cars Seen Strong Likelihood

Auto Industry — May Retool Soon   May Permit Motor Car Makers Get Ready For Postwar Cars.

Advance Retooling Of Car Plants Predicted for U.S.  Committee to Study Plan to Speed Postwar Car Output

Restricted Release of Hunting Shells Planned   — Industry May Be Allowed To Retool for Post-War Output

Labor, Industry Fight Wage Law   Attack Little Steel Formula Revisions

Wage Policy Due To Change   Labor and Industry Muster Forces for Final Fight Before Wear Labor Board

Schools Close Throughout State, Motorists Are Advised To Stay Off Roads

ONOW BLITZ HITS MOUNTAIN STATE   Industry, Travel, Communications Feel Effects ‘   RECORD DEPTHS   Schools Closed With Few Ex. ceptions; Countless Communities Cut Off

INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS TURNING OUT   Generally Fair Weather for Contest Between Roosevelt and Dewey.

Rural Sections To Swell Vote To High Total   First Scattered Returns Indicate Close Race With Record Ballotine.

Count Running Ahead Of 1940 In Many Areas   Polls Crowded As Nation Ballots In First Wartime Presidential Election Since  1864; New Records Expected

HEAVIEST VOTING TODAY WN HISTORY   First Returns From Vanec County, N. C. Unanimously For Roosevelt

Siegfried Line Remains Dismantled; Atlantic Wall Not Figuring Heavily In Hitler's Plans; Germans May Try Great Offensive After Invasion.

WHAT S GERMAN PLAN?  Former Injecned American Is Doubiful of Nazi ‘Forivess’

Released Prisoner Says Siegfried Line : Dismantled: Nazis Ready for Land Battle   Vichy, recently returned from internment in Germany).

Former AP Writer Believes Nazi Defenses of Atlantic Wall Are Largely a Myth   Says Everything Points te a Knock-down and Drag-out Campaign Rather Than a Defensive Struaagle

GUAM INVASION PROCEEDING SMOOTHLY   New Point of Attack in Pacific Will Provide Fine Airfield

Churchill Warns  German Frontiers May Be Reduced   Re-Affirms Unconditional Surrendes Terms in Review of World War  _ Before House of Commos:;

CHURCHILL SAYS GERMAN BORDERS MAY BE REDUCED   Declares Changes in Reich’s Frontiers Will Be Made If They Seem Necessary For Peace.   GIVES EXHAUSTIVE REVIEW OF WAR   Advocates Post-War Organization of Nations Similar to League, But Armed  : to Teeth.

NAZI FRONTIER TO BE REDUCED IF NECESSARY   Churchill Reaffirms Un conditional Terms  With Axis

WORLD BODY PROPOSED 10 ‘KEEP PEACE’   Churchill Warns German Frontiers May be Reduced

May Cut Down Nazi ages      Churchill Reduce y" Needed for Peace

German Frontier May Be Reduced, Says Churchill   Premier's Foreign Policy Announced

Churchill ‘Warns Nazis On Frontiers  After War   Says Germany May Have Home Borders Reducec If It Is Necessary Rar Future Peace   REAFFIRMS STAND ON. AXIS SURRENDER   Urges Organization Backed by Military To Maintain Peace

FRONTIERS OF GERMANY MAY BF REDUCED   If Necessary for World ' Peace, Avers Prime Minister Churchill in Review for Commons..   Praise For Russia

Churchill Says Nazi Frontiers  May Be Sliced   Reaffirms Surrender Terms; Will Reduce German Frontiers lf Necessary for Peace

FRONT LINES ARE BROADENED TO 75 MILES   Gale-Lashed Rains Enforce Uneasy Luil In Eastern Slovakia

RED OFFENSIVE BROADENED IN EAST SLOVAKIA   Rains Enforce Uneasy Lull On Front Elsewhere In East

Russians Make Gains In Slovakia   Widen Front and Driv: Wedges into Germans’  Mountain Defenses

WIDEN FRONT IN SLOVAKIA   Storms Enforce Lull On Remainder Of Eastern Front

RED MOUNTAIN TROOPS PIERCE NAZI DEFENSES   Threaten Link Between German Armies In Poland, Hungary

SOVIETS WIDEN SLOVAKIA FRONT   ARMY WEDGES 5 TO 9 MILES INTO MOUNTAINS

Reds Widen Front in Slovakia  Rains Enforce Uneasy Lull In Fight ¢ On

Soviets Drive On  In Slovak Area.   Wedge Nine Miles Into  Mountain Defenses

Soviet Army Broadens Slovak Front   Gale-Lashed Rains Slow Long-Awaited Winter Offensive

British Assemble Two Large Fleets For Pacific War   Defeat of Germany As Sea Power Is 1944 Accomplishment

English Ready Two Big Fleets To Strike Japs   Adm, Fraser Indicates Sen Air Power Will Bo Main

British Assembling Two Big Fleets For Use in War against Japanese

British Assemble Two Mighty Pacific Fleets  Will Help Yankees Finish Up  Ten pew mem sam IOAE

2 BRITISH FLEETS ‘BEING ASSEMBLED TO FIGHT JAPAN   Both Will Have Greatly Increased Carrier Strength and Be Ready for Action in 1945.   ONE.TO OPERATE UNDER U. S. COMMAND   Task of Second Will Be to Push Nipponese Out of Indian Ocean and: Win Back Singapore.

British Assemble Two Mighty Pacific Fleets  Will Help Yankees Finish Up

SNOWSTORM MOVES TO EAST   Gale Warnings Given on New England Coast  Re UNTTEN peocee

7,000-Ton Bomb Load Crippling Hitler Defense   Nazi Anti-Invasion Lines Given Staggering  Rlaw 

ASF NAZI RAL POINTS   Anti-Invasion Transportation System Is Target «

Soldier Tells How France  Fell To Nazis   New Englander Is Home Again

STUDIED ITALIAN PLAN AT QUEBEC   FDR DISCLOSES ONE OF MANY SUBJECTS DISCUSSED AT PARLEY

Italy Discussed At Quebec Meet   Hope to Restore Full Authority of People There

Big-Two Study Italy Problems   Roosevelt Disclosed Plans Of Restoring Italy To People.

FDR Lauds Gen. Hurley   President Reporis Goad Relations With Chliane Kai-shek

FDR Reveals Italy Studied  In Conference   President, nt, Churchill To Give Italy Full Home Authority

Italy To Run Its Affairs, FDR Reveals   Gives Report On Quebec Talks

People Of Italy: _Assured: Return  OfFull Authority   President Says Much Time Devoted To Subject At Recent Quebec Parley

Italian Problem Is Given Study   rN I BES)  Eventual Restoration Of Power to People Je Aim Snuce EM BB

President Pleased With Security Conference; Says Situation In China Is Not Satisfactory

PLANS MADE T0 FEED ITALIANS   Roosevelt Reveals Quebec Talks Included Discussion Of Food Problems

Italian an Plans Are Mapped   Future Of: Tealy “Talked At:Quebec

Monetary Meet Said Successtul   U. S. To Be Center of  World Trade Operations

SENATORS TO PROBE CIGARETTE SHORTAGE   War Inyestigating Committee to Conduct Preliminary Investigration Without Delay.

Invaders ‘Advance at  Blitz Rate   Tremendous Bomber Cover Protects Racing Spearheads

ARMORED DIVISIONS OF U.S. FIRST ARMY HAVE INVADED REICH   DRIVE INTO HITLER’S HOMELAND REPORTED TO BE “IN FORCE”

DEVELOPMENTS AT BLASTED GUAM THOUGHT IMMINENT   New  Significanct Moves Appear Likely For Jap-Filched Isle Following.‘Heavy U. 5. Sea-Air Assaults

Battle Wagons Join Attack Against Guam   Tojo Worried As U. S. Presses  Into Marianas

Guam Appear‘ As Next on Invasion List   Biggest Battleships, Rocket Guns Assault Enemy Isle

Ships and Plane: Reducing Guam  Airforce Destroyed; Troops Weakened

GUAM SMASHED ANEW IN HEAVY PACIFIC ACTION   Battleships, Planes Give Added Significance To Continued Attacks

Guam, Battered By Bié Guns And Rockets, Totter:   Local Jap Airforce Wiped Out; Island Is 1565 Air Miles From Tokyo

Record Siege  On Guam Made   America’s Biggest Battleships Ripped Into JapStolen Island.

Jap Air Force On Guam Now Nil   Battle of Guam Now Appears To Be On Threshold of New Move.

Navy Attack Rocks Guam   Biggest Battleships Shell Jap Positions

BIGGEST U. $. SHIPS. LAV FIRE ON GUAMIN 13TH DAY OF ACTION      Significant Developments Loom on Former American : Island Held by Japs   JAP. TROOP. SHIP SUNK

Jap-Stolen Guam Battered Almost Into Submission   Big Yank Battleships, Bombers Rip Island For 13th Dav -

 Bomhbarded Guam On Threshold Of Developments   (sets Mast Intensive Fire Ever Loosed On A Pacific Island; Airforce Wiped Out, Ground Force Being Smothereat.

(Bombarded Guam ‘On Threshold Of Developments   Gets Most Intensive Fire Ever Loosed On ‘A Pa. cific sland; Airforce Wiped Oot, Grounc Force Being Smother: ed.

Battleships Blast Guam Fifth Time; Planes Follow Up.  Jap Airforce Apparently Wipec Out, Nimitz Says, Naval Ship: Undamaged by Batteries

Phillips Jury Selection Slow   Prosecution Reveals Will Use Several Convicts In Clemency Conspiracy Trial

PROGRESS SLOW IN RED’S TRIAL   Selection of Jury Taking Much Time As Phillips Confers With Lawyers

Senate Passes Tax Bill, Less Eight Billion:   President and Treasury Request for More

Anti-Roosevell Tax Bill Passes   Senate Refuses To Grant Request

SENATE PASSES NEW TAX BILL   Roosevelt's Request For Full $10,500,000,000 Is Ienored

Tax Plan Given Senate Approval   Measure Heads For House Conference  wR... Emaerere Fr wer Ff Ww

Senate Okehs And Sends Tay Bill to House   $2,.275,.600,.000 Total Increase Provided in Measure: Liberalizes Renegotiation Law

Tax Measure FDR Opposed  Passes Senate   Upper House Grants Unanimous Approval  of Revenue Bill

NEW TAX BILL APPROVED BY SENATE VOTE   Measure, Criticized by Roosevelt, Is Sent to . tha House   AMENDMENTS ARE VOTED IN MEASURE   Operations of the Rene ' gotiation Law Are Modified

Senate Ignores President's Plea,  Passes Tax Bill   Upper House Retuses To Boost Revenues  To 10 Billions

‘Tax Measure Passes Senate Unanimously   Bill Now Heads for House Conference; Liberalizes Contracts

Tax Plan Given. Senate Approval   Measure Heads For House Conference:

SENATE VOTES TAX MEASURE  UNANIMOUSL!   ‘Adopts Amendments To Liberalize Re negotiation Law

Senate sends modified tax increase measure to house   $2,275,600,000 bill unanimously approved despite FDR’s criticism

TAX BILL F.D.R. CRITICIZED. WINS SENATE APPROVAL   Chamber Votes Unanimously for $2,275,600,000 Measure President Called Too Small,   HIGHER EXCISE. LEVIES PUT ON MANY ITEMS   Legislation Hits Individuals for Another $664,900,000— Heads Toward House for Conference,

SENATE PASSES NEW TAX BILL   Measure Heads for House Parley; President's Figures Unheeded

lax Measure Is Approved  President's Plea !s lonored By Senatare

CONTROVERSIAL TAX MEASURE PASSES SENATE   Bill Criticized By President Now Headed For Conference With House

BRITISH LAUNCH KOHIMA ATTACK   Chinese Break Through Jap Lines in Mogaung Valley

British Launch Kohima Push Stilwell’s Troops Take Town   ARMORED FORCES SMASH JAPANESE SIEGE ARC; ALLIES ADVANCE ON MANDALAY-MYITKYINA

British Launching  All-Out Offensive   Stilwell’s Troops Smash Through Road Blocks and Use Tanks  Asainst Enemv Tuncle Fichtere

SIEGE ARC ATTACKE D BY BRITISH   Yanks, Chinese Smash Through Jap Lines In Mogaung Valley

Imperials Launch Counter-Drive, Jap Strong Point Falls to Stilwell

U, S.-CHINESE FORCE GAINS 16 MILES IN BURMA   Rainy Season May Aid Allies

STILWELL 'S FORCES TAKE BURMA TOWN   Advance Toward Jap Base Of Kamaing

Big Battle Rages Near Kohima  British Forces Launch Ganaral   British Forces Launch General Counter-Offensive In East India

British Launch  Counterdrive In Kohima Sector   “Tank-Led American, Chinese Troops Burst Through Main Lines

FIFTH WAR LOAN DRIVE OPENS TODAY   COUNTY'S QUOTA OF $668,600 CAN ONLY BE RAISED IF EVERYONE DOES FULL SHARE, SAYS CHAIRMAN FARBER

Campaign For Fifth War Loan Sale Of Bonds Launched Next Monday   Urge Every Citizen To Give Measure In Fullest Capacity

DUCKETT SURE QUOTALL BE MET   Must Have: Mohey’To' Keep Up Flow of ‘Supplies To Battlefields

BLAST 67 JAP - SHIPS IN BLOW — AT PHILIPPINES   Halsey’s Carrier Planes Also Destroy 36 More Aircraft

67 More Jap Ships Sunk In Pacific Raids   Halsey’s Fleet Blasts ‘314 Ships In One Month’s Action

Sink 67 Jap Ships Near Philippines   Renewed Attacks on Ship ping—Transport, Freight er Destroyed

67 Jap Ships Damaged Sunk In Philippines   Heavy Blow Is Delivered By Car. rier Planes, Big Transport Sent To Bottom

HEAVY BLOWS HIT JAPS IN PHILIPPINES   At Least 67 More Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged by U. S. Air Attacks.

67 MORE NIP SHIPS HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS   Navy Planes Blast 65 Vessels and 36 Aircraft

Japs Lose 6/  More Vessels  In Philippines Carrier Planes, Rambore Seara   Carrier Planes, Bombers Score New Successes

RENEWED AIR ATTACKS PUT CRIMP IN JAP WAR ARMADA   Nips Lose 67 More Vessels To Fliers

At Least 6/ More Japanese Ships Are Hit   Heaviest Blow in New Attack Delivered Saturday

67 MORE JAP SHIPS HAVE BEEN SUNK   Damage Done in Southern and Cent. Philippines

At Least 67 J ap Vessels Knocked Out   American Planes Score Victories In Philippines.

Enemy's Maritime Losses To Halsey Carrier Force Now ‘Total 514 for Month

67 More Nippon Vessels Reporte’ Sunk Or Dama   Carrier Attack Is Followed By Southwest  Pacific Bomb Force

Churchill Accepts Challenge, Says Government Will Resign Unless Commons Changes Education Bill

EDUCATION BILL PUTS COMMONS INTO REBELLION   Minor Issue Precipitates Dispute Bringing Differences to Head

Churehill Government Faces Test   Minor Issue Gives Rise to. Stand-orFall Dictum

Churchill F aces Crisis In Vote — On Education Bill   Minor Issue Brings Dispute; Premier Accepts Challenge

Churchill Will Face Test Vote In Commons   Government Is Beaten in House On Minor Issue

Many Disputes  Delay Adjourning (Date of Congress   Administration Heads Look To New Solons  To Improve Relations

CONGRESS AND FOR DISPUTE ON SEVERAL POINTS   Adjournment ~ Sched uled December 15 Likely to Be De layed

Red - Backed Polish Gov’t ‘Lists Aims   ‘Announcement Apparently Means That Russia Does Not Consider London Unit

POLISH COUNCIL DEMAND POWERS   Soviet - Sponsored Group States Exile Government Has No Authority.

National Council Of Poland Claims All East Prussia   Soviet-Spensored Group Asserts Londen Polish Regime Imposter, Sets Forth War Aims

: ew 1 is) Counci. Scores - Toncon Srour, Seexs Serman “erricorv:

Poles in Russia Claim Sole  Authority Over Homeland   Manifesto Claims German Territories And Denounces Exile Reaime in London

Poles Demand Slice Of Land   Council Wants Large Chunks of German Territory; Promises Cooperation

Polish Council Announces Hts Post-War Anns   Seeks Pomerania  And Prussia

‘Council of Poland Asserts Authority   Rival Group Calls Exile  Government ‘Impostrous

Polish Group Demands All East Prussia   Postwar Aims Announced by Soviet-Sponsored 1 Council .

East Prussia to Be Claimed by Postwar Poland   Soviet-Sponsored Council Also Will Demand Other Parts Of Eastern Germany

HOUSE-T0-HOUSE FIGHTING CONTINUES   German Air Force Gives Meager Support to Defenders of City

Soviet Northern Army Pressing Pincers Drive   Swift Moving Campaign Is Threatening 25 German Divisions   NAZI DEFENSE IN NORTH MAY COLLAPSE

SOVIETS FIGHT IN STREETS. OF CHUDOVO   Rush to Close Gigaritic Pincers in Leningrad Area .°

Mighty Naval Unit Supports Landings   Reports From Pacific Headquarters Says Beachheads On tslands Are Established

30,000 Invaders Establish Firm Isle Beachheads   Secret Weapons, Navy, Air Armada Back First Attack on Territory Yeld by Japs Before Pearl Harbor

Harbor Facilities Turned Into  Inferno Of Destruction,. Message Savs —

Ber ‘lin W rites rites Off City Although Garrison Holds ‘Out in Séetions of Port:

CLV S ow .0) 0: Ceaning  ae.  _ -0, =) 2 . Cut uen-er Oo: Prize Por, Xemains Yor” riumian: ou 1)y0VS

French Port “Almost In Our Possession,” Allied High  Command Announces   HARBOR FACILITIES DESTROYED BY NAZIS

Teday in Washington  FDR To Get Simple Tax Bill Today      Drys Suffer Setback As House Group Puts Off Hearings On Wartime Liquor Bans

NEW TAX BILL GETS APPROVAL OF LAWMAKERS   Ward Seizure Probe Opens And Feed Situation for Livestock Studied

YANKS NINE MILES NORTH OF LIVORNO   Germans Fall: Back Across Arno River in Italy

Germans Fall Back Across Arno River   Foe Flees So Fast In Italy Americans Cannot Keep Up

YANKS ADVANCE TO ARNO RIVER: NAZIS RETREAT   oth Army Moves Toward Pisa As Germans Flee North In Italy

Germans Routed North of Livorno   Strong Stand Seen Alona Arno River

Retreating Nazis Fall Back Before City of Pisa   Yanks Establish 25 Mile Front on Arno River

NAZIS RETREAT IN ARNO RIVER AREA OF ITALY   American Fifth Army Advance: Nine Miles Beyond Tuivorne

Americans Reach Arno On Wide Front   Germans Flee North to Defend Pisa

Retreating Germans In ftcly Fall Back Across River On 25 Mile Front   Germans Put Up Only Small Arms Resistance And Light Artillery  SUNKEN SHIPS IN ANCONA HARBOR Italian Units Operating Further Inland Occupy Santa Maria Nuova

Yanks Establish 25-Mile Front Along Arno River   Germans Put Up Only Small Resistance To Advancing Americans

NAZIS FLEE NORTHWARD TOWARD PISA   Americans Form 25 Mile Front Along Arno River

Close In On Japs In Mytkyina Area   Report American Troops  Nearing Edge of City

Red Army Will Strike Final Blow Against Nazis This Year.   SOVIET BIG GUNS POUND TRAPPED HUN   Germans Are Making Last Effort to Supply Encircled Troops.

PREDICT NAZIS WILL BE DRIVEN OUT OF RUSSIA BEFORE END YEAR   Soviet Troops Are Striking Hard In the Ukraine. Finland Again Bombed.

Britain Starts 4th Term Rumor   Editor Says Political Foes Ready To Block 4th Term With $50,000,000.

VoTE FOR REPRESENTATIVE   Official Bureau County Democratic Primary Vote

Japs Report Heavy Fight For Islands   Tokyo Radio Says Attempted Landing Made On Two Isles

IS GAINED, NIPS HINT   Invasion Of Saipan, Tinian Claimed By Tokyo Broadcast

Japs Report Yanks — Landing in Marianas   Tokyo Claims Heavy Fight Raging; U.S. Navy Chiefs Refuse ta Cammen

Jap Headquarters Reports — _ U.S. Landing On Marianas, ' 1500 Miles South Of Tokyo  

Taps Tell of Yank: Landing Attempts   Report Fighting ‘On Two Islands

Reds Isolate Krivoi Rog; Win Nikopol   East Endl of Nazis’ Salient Collapsing; 2 Seanosts Periled

Japs Caught Off © Guard By Landin  By MUALIN SPENG! A”  cemrintead Deace Gtatk Ulelttas

Yanks Invade Isle 300 Miles From Philippines, Anock OutJap Air Force   Americans Catch Enemy by Surprise In Landings on Morotai; 501 Planes Downed as MacArthur Nears Manila

Vimor losses claimed; edge  at t Philippines  nnn   Units within 300 miles of objective

Axis Railroads  In French Area Paralvzed   Officials Estimate These Lines Have Been So Heavily Pounded That They Will Not Carry Anti-Invasion Load

Pre-Invasion Air Offensive in 20th Day o Bombing  bes Dastlwrau  inaé   Nazi Railway Lines Virtually Finished Off by Poundings

20th Day Of Raids Breaks Over Reich   Not A Single Plane Lost In . Pas-De-Calais Blow

Mystery Target Raids Continue On Larae Scale   Air Offensive In 19th Day Is Credited With Damaging Rail Routes; Germans May Be Unable To Even Rush Up Reserves!

Huge Formations of RAF Bombers Head for Continent  MILITARY TARGETS — IN FRANCE RAIDED  Chacs Created in the German Held Railway  System  

Roads Supplying Germans Defenses Heavily Bombed   American Planes Strike ‘Mystery “ Installations On French Coast Without Loss of — Single Romber As Air Inyasion “Sees 20th Day

20th Day of Allied  Aerial Offensive  Hits New Targets Russians Step Up Bomb . Woke fe! Rosai

NAZI TRANSPORT SYSTEM CRIPPLED. BY AFRIAL BLOWS      Demands Invasion Will Bring.      GREAT OFFENSIVE THROUGH 19TH DA           Calais Area Attacked With Loss of Single Plane—~ Rest Taken By Part of Bie Fieet. -

KEY NAZILAND RAIL CENTERS ARE CRIPPLED   THUNDEROUS ALLIED AERIAL INVASION ON 20TH DAY

Heavy Aerial Blows Go On   Nazi Rail Lines In France, Belaium Sharply Impaired

BY 20 DAYS OF UNINTERRUPTED AIR OFFENSIVE OF ALLIES; WIDE-SPREAD THRUSTS WITH NO ALLIED LOSSES YESTERDAY.

No U.S. Planes Lost in Thrust At Calais Area   Berlin Warns Raiders Over Frankfurt and Stuttgart Sections: Allies Unchallenged

Allied Planes Cross Channel For 20th Day   Chaos Has Been Created In Enemy Rail System, - British Ministry Says  19TH DAY ‘BREATHER’

GREAT ASSAULT CARRIED INTO TWENTIETH DAY   Berlin Issues Warnings Of New Raids; Little Resistance Is Encountered

Germans Unable To Move Troops To Coast Areas   Bombing Continues For Twentieth Day

YANK PLANES BLAST FOE IN CALAIS AREA   Assault on European Targets Runs Into Its 20th Day

PARATROOPS ARE LANDING NEAR SIFCFRIED LINE   Ten Forts of the Old French Maginot Line Are Toppled

DRIVE DEEPER IN FORTIFIED SAAR BASIN   Pation’s Forces Make Advances As Small Groups of Paratroops Land Behind Sieafried Line.

Nazis West of Florence Retreat   Falling Back Towards Fortified Gothic Line

PELUFFO aAYa ALLIES AIDED BY ARGENTINE   La Prensa Views Statement as Opening Road for U. S. Favor.

NO HIGN OF LIFE FROM EASTERN OHIO MINE WHERE 66 _ MEN WERE TRAPPED

TRANSPORTS REPORTED MOVING WETSWARD HEAVILY GUARDED: NIPS SAY SIX SHIPS SUNK

“Big U.S. Convoy On Move’   Japs Claim Six of Fifty Vessels Sunk In Two-Day Attack In Mindanao Sea

Tokio Reports Big U. S. Troop Convoy Attacked   Claims Six Transports Sunk In Inland Philip.  nine Water.

JAPS REPORT U.S. CONVOY IN PHILIPPINES   Nips Claim Six Americar Transports Sunk in TwoDay Attack

Japs Sight U.S. Convoys   New Philippine _ Invasion Hinted by Nervous Nip Reports

UNCONFIRMED TOKYO REPORTS ANNOUNCE NEW U. S. CONVOYS   DECLARE GREAT MOVEMENT OF VESSELS IN PHILIPPINES AREAS

Big American Convoy Moving On Philippines   Tokyo Reports Endles: Number Of Ships Bringing Troops To Philippines

Japs Report Large U.S. Convey Moving in Philippine Seas   Claim Six Heavily Laden Transports Sunk in Two-Day Battle

Report Heavy Movement of US Troops   May Indicate Invasion of Other Philippine Islands; Tokyo Says 20 Transportes in Convoy t

CLAIM BIG U. 5. CONVOY MOVING IN PHILIPPINES   Japs Report 30 Yank Transports Escorted by More Than 20 Warships

Japs Report Big Convoy on Move   By LEONARD MILLIMAN “Associated Press War Eultor

Big American Convoys Reported On Move in Philippine Waters   McArthur’s Troops Believed Receiving Reinforcements for Next Strike

Would Indicate MacArthur's Troops Are Being Heavily Reinforced.   39 TRANSPORTS IN GROUP

Convoys Swell Invasion Unit   30 Transports Reported Reinforcing MacArthur   Japs Tell of Attack on Mindoro, Claim Is Groundless, Yanks Say

Tokyo Report: Yankée Convoy  Under. Attack   Japs, Say American. Fleet .? “Frying .to Force ‘Way’  Ween Bewctica WES cece:

U.S. CONVOYS REINFORCING PACIFIC UNITS   Japs Claim Six Sunk As MacArthur Maps Next Invasion Move

NEXT 10 BE rt FOR JAPS—MITSCHER   Says Jap Navy to be Fairly Well Cleaned In Another Year      [ Early New Blow Seen 

U.S. Convoy Hard Hit, Japs Claim   Enemy Reports New Sea Action Near Philippines

Japanese Claim Six U.S. Transports Sunk In Convoy  Ac ‘ieee pels mle 22 Cee ace or

Yanks Reinforce Troops for Philippines War  Heavy Bombing   Americans Continue Heavy Bombing Of Halmahera Isle

‘Claim Six Transports Sunk in Two-Day Attack on Fleet in Philippines; Renort Tnconfirmed.

Japs Report Huge Transport Convoy In Philippines   Admiral Says A Year Needed To Finish Jap Navy   Bulletin

NIPS SAY   Vessels Sailing West Toward Mindoro Or  Luzon, Is Claim

Train-Stop Turnouts Increased In Size As Trip Progressed—Assails Bureaucratic Regulations

JOBS BECOME MAJOR ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN  _ Dewey Back Ir Albany After

Dewey Back Home After Three-Week Tour Through Wes!   Trans - Continéntal Trip Covered 21 States, 28 _Addresses Given

DeweyKeeping Up His Attack  On Bureaucrats   Train. Stop :‘Turnonts, . Increasing Daily, Cheer Candidate’s Promise to “Clean House”

DEWEY BACK IN ALBANY: FACES BUSY PROGRAM  TELLS MUNCIE, (IND.) CROWD DESIRE IS TO

DEWEY BUSY AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM HIS TRAVELS   Back in Albany After Three Weeks’ Campaigning: “Tour Across Nation’ — Confers  With Herbert Brownell, G MD Cheleman

Dewey Ends Tour of US.   G.O.P. Candidate Back tn Albany, Completing 8500-Mile Campaign

Campaign [rip Over 21 States Ended By Dewey   GOP Candidate Back Home After Covering More Than 8.000 Miles and Making Many Addresses.

bu EERE CY si Yugoslavs Smash. New Nazi Thru usts In Western Bosnia

Rodgers Appeals for Party Unity As He Takes Democratic Helm   Grudges Must Not Hurt Chances In General Election, Savs Atherton Successor

TT A1L re! on ori eed 2 ie Sal NAc ALASLLGAA OCS  Hull on Russ Peace Hints   Soviet Gives Wide Publication to British Denials of Cairo Rumors

British Newspapers Placated By Moscow Broadcast Of London’s Denial

Hull, Halifax Confer on Peace’ Rumot   Both ‘Mystified’ by Russion Publication Of Parley Report

Dark Horse Keynoter Looms fer GOP Confab   None of Prospects Mentioned to Date Enjoys Favored Position as Leaders Of Party Watch Oklahoma Election Test

President Kime Stresses Need Of Careful Planning  College Trustees Commend Work At Western Union

TRUSTEES’ MEET. INGS ARE CLOSED   Rev, Thompson Formally Inducted As Head of Religion Dept.

Enemy Escape Route Is Narrowed   Pocket of Choked Enemy Traffic Battered by Bombs

At Least 12 Nazi Divisions Believed Caught Without Chance of Escape; U. S. Bombers Exact Enormous Toll

100,000 Soldiers, Hundreds Of Tanks Impaled On Prongs   Bomber-Fichters Dog Every Step Of Retreating Germans And Exact Terrible Revenge  For British Dunkerque Ordeal.

U. S. AND FRENCK POUR THRU GAP IN WEST ITALY   Are Within 20 Miles of Leghorn and -Seven Miles of Siena —-

Fifth 20 Miles From Leghorn   German Line in . West Italy Cracked

Allies Pouring Through Holes in Nazi Line   Race Northward to Within 20 Miles of Livorna

GERMANS ON RUN TO REACE PISA LINE   Yankees And French Are Keeping Them Moving Through Great Gap In Present Line of Defense.!

Nazis’ West Italy Line Is Smashec   U.S. and French Troops Pouring Through Gaps on 59-Mile Front

ALLIES PURSUE NAZIS NORTH IN ITALIAN DRIVE   Pour Through Gaping Holes as Germans Again Make Headlong Flight

« GERMANS AGAIN ‘ON RUN ALONG * ITALIAN FRONT   Full Retreat Resumed Toward Last Line Of Defense

ALLIES CUT NAZI LINE IN ITALY   Americans Within 20 Miles Of Livorno

dtaly Nazis In Headiong Flight North   Allies Plunging Into Broken Line, Moving on Livorno

Khace North To Within 20 Miles Of Liborno And 7 Miles Of Siena  A®wW?w?TwTac rt iA TOSR TT ee COU

Yankees, French Push Big Holes  In German Lines   Nazi Forces Driven _ Into Headlong Flight In Western Italy

ALLIES TAKE DOZEN ITALY TOWNS IN 9-MILE GAINS TOWARD LIVORNO   GERMANS RETREAT ALONG 50-MILE FRONT; BRITISH CAPTURE CASTIGLIONE DEL LAGO, MONTEPULCIANO

Gossett Leads District 13 Vote; Three Runoffs In Congressional Races Slated; Combs Is Victor

REVOLUTION IS REPORTED IN SPAIN   Maquis, Released, Armed By French, Invade Pyrenees

Spanish Civil War Again Appears Near  Maquis Take Four Villages Near

Spanish Civil War ‘Renewed By Maquis   Republicans Capture Four Villages In Penetration From French Frontier

Seek Revival Of Spain’s Civil War   Maquis Forees Cross From France, Fight Franco Army

Important. Gains Made By Yanks.   First Army Gets Foothold  Strategic Roer River On  -Western Front .

GCN, PATTON BLITZ THRU RANGE GAINS MOMENTUM   Only 69 Miles From Belgium Border—Threat To Reims May Trap Germans   EISENHOWER LAUDS PATTON SPEED

Situation Tense In Brussels a   Protest Strike Said At A Standstill

BELGIAN STRIKE CALL FAILS TO TAKE FORM   Demonstrators Claimed To Be Moving On Capital

SNOW COVERS ENTIRE STATE   Season’s First Cold Wave Brings Low Temperatures to State

WINTER GRIPS MOST OF NATION   Forecast Colder for Tonight: Michigan’s Cold Wave Is Even over State

Allies Attempt ’'o Valley Drive   Kighth Army Battles Nazi Dug-in Positions

Lajatico Taken By Fifth Army   Allied Forces Drive Ahead Toward Livorno On Italian Front   NAZI RESISTANCE IS STILL STRONG

Dewey’s Coast Campaign Will End Tonight   GOP Presidential Nominee To Speak From Los Angeles Coliseum

Dewey in L. A. Takes Rap at Henry Wallace   Denies Lewis Support; On Air Tonight in Final Coast Speech

MAY USE ARMY INL. A. STRIKE   City Water, Power System Paralyzed

Water And Power Plants Idle Ten Days Cause Hardships For 1,750/000

‘War Becomes More Acute’  POM   Premier Of Japan Warns People Of Increasing Ferocity Of War.

Tojo ‘Admits © Fate of Asia™ Now at Stake   Fotal Mobilization of Japan Needed as ‘War Grows More Acute’

JAPS TOLO BY TOMO FATE OF ‘BEA AT STAKE    War Growing in Ferocity Day by Day, Premier Says in Diet Speech. 

Japan's Fate af Stake, Tojo Says   Rise and Fall of Japan to Be Decided, Jap Premier Says

Japanese Diet Told Ferocity Of War Mounts   Tojo Says Pending Bat “tles To Decide Fate of Greater East Asia and Imperial Japan

Bee News For Japs  Tojo Warns People Of Japan That War Keeps ‘Increasing In Ferocity Day By Day...

TOJO TELLS DIET GRAVE SITUATION NOW FACES NATION   Declares Fate of Empire Now Is at Stake in Fighting That “Increases in Ferocity Day by Day.”   TOTAL MOBILIZATION DECLARED NECESSARY   Premier Emphasizes Need for Unity in Face of Thrusts at Defense Outposts bv Americans.

Tojo Advises War Hits Fever Pitch   Jap Chief Declares Nippon Must Be Ready for Trouble

Tojo. Admits Mighty War   Sees Japan’s Future’ At Stake In Pacifie

Critical Times Nearing—Toje Premier Notes Increase  In War's Ferocity

Vatican"Deeply Concerhed" Over Violation Of Extra-Territoriality

Patrol Action on Anzio Beachhead   Allies and Germans Trade Heavy Biows, as Bad W eather Grounds: Air Forces

Weather Grounds Anzio Air Force   Allies, Germans Trade Continued Heavy Blows

Heavier Blows Are Traded on Anzio Beachhead   Most of Air Forces Grounded by Bad Weather

ASSURED AID FROM GERMANY BY RIBBENTROP   Minister Hints Nazis Would Occupy If Finns Falter

Maybe He Took Drug to Alter Blood,’ Infers Joan's Attorney; Chaplin Still Faces White Slavery Charg

RAIL UNIONS ~~ IN SQUABBLE   CONTROVERSY OVER HANDLING OF-RAILROADERS  WAGE DEMANDS NOW — INVOLVES SEVERAL ACHARGES

Superforts Strike Tokyo, Near-By Japanese Islands   Enemy Radio Tells of Raid by Americans Also Describes Naval Shelling; Yokohama Is Among Airmen’s Objectives

Field Marshal Smuts Says 3-Way Assault on Europe Soon Will Squeeze Adolf Hitler's Fortress

Smuts Sees Big Three- Way Drive  On Nazi Fortress    Says Final Decision May Be Sooner Than  Pessimists Forecast

Smuts Sees Early Endto European War   Final Decision May Come Sooner Than Expected

BIG SQUEEZE ON HITLER EUROPE MAY COME SOON   Smuts Sees Triangular Attack Coming Earlier Than Frpected

Smuts Looks For Swift Nazi Defeac   Japan May Also Fold Up Sooner Than Expected, He Says

“3 WAY DRIVE T0 SQUEEZE NAZIS”   Smuts Says Attack Will Rall On Remorselessly

Jan Smuts Sees Early Assault Against Nazis   Expects Decision Sooner Than Many Anticipate

Thrust on Belfort front adds impetus to growing struggle   Aachen segment is only silent area; Metz heavilv besieced from 3 sides

FRENCH OPEN: ATTACK NEAR BELFORT GAE   Strike on 25-Mile Front as Patton’s Third Army Closes Grip on Bastion: of Metz.   BRITISH SCORE  , GAINS IN HOLLAND   All Segments of Battle Line Ablaze Except Area Around Aachen Held by Hodges’ Troops.

Sending 2 leaders to China  ~~ Nealean. Hnrlev   Nelson, Hurley will .see: Chiang

The Crossley Poll  Dewey Holds Voters Who Backed Willkie   Seventy Per Cent Of Roosevelt Vote In 1940 Election For Fourth Term

CROSSLEY POLITICAL POLL   Analysis Of The Political Trend Since 1940

COUNTER BLOWS BRING GERMANS SEVERE LOSSES   Foot Rise in Roer River Provides New Barrier Farther North

NAZI ATTACKS FAIL TO STOP YANK ADVANCE   THIRD ARMY WITHIN FIVE MILES OF BIG GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CENTER  "AT SAARBRUC

Russians Widen Breach In Enemy Lines; Finns  May Evacuate Helsinki

RUSSIANS HAVE CAPTURED 142   FINNISH TOWNS   WIDEN BREACH IN ENEMY LINE TO MORE THAN 46 MILES; ARE WITHIN 32 MILES OF VUOPURI.

PHOTO PILOTS WATCH ALLIES HIT FIRST BLOV   No Opposition Seen to Ground Forces; Bom_ bardment Pictured

Photo Pilots Watch Allies Strike Blow   Towns Burning All Over Area— See Infantry Advancing

SMASH JAPS' FACILITIES IN MARIANAS   Nimitz’ Forces Sink or Damage 29 Ships, Destroy 141 Planes

2.200 HEAYY BOMBERS HIT RY DAVIIGHT   7,500 Tons High Explosives Fall On Nazi Targets

New Engineer's Skills Learned  By “Invasion” ¥.   War a great proving ground for automotive -equipment;. must be: better: than. good.

Argentina Accused of Having Deserted the - ommon’ Cause of All American Nation:

Argentine Put On Pan Among Its Neighbors   U. S. Statement. Charges Government With Haying Deserted “Commou Cause”?

Argentine Is In Dog-House   “Deserted Common Cause” of American Republics Signed Statement Asserts

Argentine Government Stamped As ‘Deserter’ In Statement Circulated Among U.S:Neighbors

Argentina Accused Of ‘Desertion’   U. S. Charges Failed Com. mon Cause Of Americas

VIIPURI REPORTED TAKEN BY REDS,  HINT NEW PREMIEK   Russian Tanks and Infantry Converging on City Take Prisoners and Equipment From Fleeing Finns. ‘   RETREAT IS TURNED ; INTO NEAR DEBACLE   Finnish Politicians Said to Have Conferred With Ryti, President, Regarding New  ” Government.

BABY I$ STRANGLED BY UNWED MOTHER   ‘ Hate Her,’ SI She Says ir Confession To Police

Airborne Units Believed Still Holding Bridge   Linkup Of Forces May Be Near As Allies Advance

RHINE BRIDGE STILL HELD BY AIRBORNE UNITS   Steady Gains Reported Made Against Stiffening Nazi Resistance

ALLIES NEAR SKY UNIT HOLDING HOLLAND BRIDGE   Expect. Push Around Siegfried Line Into Ruhr Valley Soon

Allies Push NorthFrom Nijmegen   New Nazi Tanks— Paint Barely Dry— Thrown Against Patton’s Army

British Troops Join Hard-Pressed Paratroopers in Attempt to Turn Sieafried Line and Race Up Rhine

TRIPLE SMASH AT NIP OUTPUT BY SUPERFORTS   Shanghai, Nanking, Omura Suffer  B-29 Blows

NEW YORK FERRY / GOT LOST IN FOG   Commuters Have Rare Excuse for Boss

Churchil] Stands Pat On  Greek Poliey  Wells Brands Churchill As

British Fire Criticism  At Churchill   H. G. Wells Flays tres - Policy, esignation

WELLS ASKS CHURCHILL JO RESIGN   Britain Seethes in Dispute Over Greek Reds

CHURCHILL BIDS ~ FOR PEACE TASK   SPEECH INDICATES HE HOPES TO REMAIN AT HELM AFTER WAR IS WON,

Knox Says It's Foolish To Assume That Jap Fleet ls Afraid To Fight In Pacific

Hannegan to Heac Roosevelt Drive At Convention  Byrnes and Hopkins To Stay at Home; Figh

DEMO MEET PLAND NEAR COMPLETION   Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic Chairman to Represent Roosevelt’s Interests At 29th Convention’ July 19

FDR Pieks Convention  Floor Chief   Gov.Dewey Plans Huddle With  Running Mate

HANNEGAN HOLDS CONVENTION KE}   Democratic Chairman Said —— Representing PORe oie

SARKLEY 10 HIT AT COMPROMISE “SOLDIERS VOTE   Stand Places Senate Leader * Behind FDR With Veto Looming

Jap Airmen Attack Saipan   Enemy Loses 13 Planes in Raid On B-29 Base

ENEMY MADE. ATTEMPT TO. — BLOCK RAIDS   ‘THIRTEEN NIP AIRCRAFT SIOT DOWN DURING ATTACK ON 5B-29 FIELDS ON SAIPAN

NIPS ATTACK SAIPAN  2 Jap Planes Destroyed as Enemy ‘Attempts to Halt B-29 Operations

JAPS STAGE AIR ATTACK ON SAIPAN   Lose 13 Planes; Island Is Base for B-29 Raids on Tokyo

250 Towns Taken in the Past Five Days in Kussian Advance.   SECOND TRAP GETS 75,000 NAZI TROOPS   $UgVUY ANSE EIS BEVIS WO  Russian Bombers Blast at Helsinki for Second Time in 24 Hours.

Red Cavalry / Advances:  Mounted Troops Taking Bia Part In Russian Advance against Nazis

HANOVER IS NEARING ITS WAR BOND QUOTA   Total Subscriptions Up To Las Evening $2,119,700—Show At State Next Monday

SEATS ARE TAKEN FOR BOND SHOW   Chart Exhausted This Morning—Service Cast Will Be Entertained By Veterans O1 Foreign Wars   Soon Will Be Over Top

Spaatz Times Luftwaffe Door  Knockout of German Air Force by Coming Summer Predicted

Weather Rules Bombing Raids   Allies. Set For Knockout In Summer, Declares ’ <s General Spaatz

Money Meet Builds Future Morgenthau   F.R. Calls for New World Economy As Conference Opens

FDR Pleads For Dynamic New Economy   Morgenthau Presides = At United Nations Monetary  Canterenre.   TALK OVER FINANCES

AANATIONS AT ~ MONEY: PARLE}   FDR Calls For Dynamic World Economy

WORLD MONEY PARLEY OPENED   Roosevelt Calls For Dynamic And Sound Economy

Monetary Conferees in Session   Sound World Economy Uraed by Roosevelt

Reds Lunging Ahead; Allies Fight in Pisa   London—(?)—Premier Stalin announced Monday night the capture of the rail center of Lublin in southeastern Poland.

ANZIO BEACHHEAD WOUNDED VETERANS BACK AT M’CLOSKEY  THEY TALKED GRIMLY 0 THE EASY LANDING AND

WIFE OF SCION OF WEALTH OFFERS TO TRADE UNBORN BABY FOR DOG, HE CHARGES

lieinz Heir Charges Wife Agreed to Trade Unborn Child for Cocker Spaniel

—- PpOQy War onus — ASHLAND YOUTH KILLED IN MOTORCYCLE COLLISION

RUSSIANS ARE SURGING AHEAD ‘THRU HUNGABY   Gain 17 Miles In Advance Yesterday

REDS PUSH CLOSER TO THE AUSTRIAN FRONTIER   Soviets Taking Positions to Swing .  Around Both Ends of Lake Balaton

RUSSIANS GAIN ON EAST FRONT   Red Troops Are 12 Miles Closer To Austria; Gained 17 Miles At One Place.

Red Army Only 60 Miles from.  Austrian Frontier   Take Positions to Swing Around Lake Balaton to Austria

SOVIETS MASS SIXTY MILES ROM AUSTRIA   Aoscow Bulletin Says One Column Is 37 Miles South of Budapest and Advancing

Soviets Mass For Assault   Move Through Western Hungary to Outflank Resieged Budapest

Russians Mass Only 60 Miles From Austria   ‘Red Army Forces Push Forwar dfor One Gain Of 17 Miles, 60 Miles From Naaybajon. Austric

Reds Surge To  Austrian Border   Lake Balaton Drive Outflanks Budapest In 17-Mile Advance

RED ARMY FORCES SURGING THROUGH WESTERN HUNGARY  BESIEGED BUDAPEST OUT  ELDANRKED AND ADSTRIAN

REDS WITHIN SIXTY MILES OF AUSTRIA   Outflanking Besieged Budapest, Soviet Forces Mass Along the South Shores of Lake Balaton in Western Hungary.

Russian Army 60 Miles Out Of Austria   Marshal Tolbukhin’s Troops Pile Up Gain Of 17 Miles

SOVIET ARMY ONLY 60 MILES FROM AUSTRIA   Reds Sweep Through Hungary In Drive Outflanking Budapest

RED FORCES GAIN   Russian Troops Are Only Sixty Miles From Aus- trian Frontier

 Soviet Forces : Only 60 Miles  » From Austriz   Surging Through Western Hungary In Drive Outflanking Besieged  Budapest ~*~

Red Legions Set for Push Around Lake   Swift Drive Carries Army to Balaton, 60 Miles From Austria

Russian Armies Only 60 Miles From Austria  Tolbukhin’s Forces Prepare To Swing Around Balaton

Red Forces Roll To Lake Balaton  Desrw em ec -_   Russians Now Only 60 Miles from the Austrian Border

Outflanking Reds Drive _ Along River. For Budapest   Back’ Door Is Only ‘37 Miles Distance

Reds 60 Miles  From Austria Offensive Outflanks Hungarian Capital

Say Nazi Drive ; May Speed Defeat   Claims Germany Taking Gamble With Offensive

Says China Agreement   Foreign Minister of  ‘China’ Denies’ U.S.  ~ Pressure on His = Country

SOONG EXPLAINS STILLWELL SHIFT   Vinegar Joe And Chiang Didn't Get Along, Says Minister

U.S. AND CHINA ‘IN AGREEMENT’   ~Reported-Pressure-to Settle Communist Problem Denied

Soong Denies ‘Pressure’  By Americans  _ Official Says China And U. S.-Have Reachec  » br pg gy

New York City Tour Planned By Roosevelt   President To Make Swing Through Four of City’s  Fiwe Roranoh<

Roosevelt Plans Daytime Tour Of New York   Schedule Is Incomplete But Will Precede His Address on Saturday Before Policy Group

FD. TO TOUR NEW YORK CIT}   PRESIDENT PLANS DAYTIME VISIT TO FIVE BOROUGHS NEXT SATURDAY.

FDR To Tour New York’s Boroughs Next Saturday   President’s Movements To Be Public Outside Washington First Time Since War

FDR WILL TOUR NEW YORK CITY   Plans to Visit Five Borough: On Saturday Before Making Address

FDR To Make New York Tour   Globe Reports President Will Also Make Speech In Boston

Roosevelt Plans  Tour Of New York   President Will Appear Al Rally For Wagner

ROOSEVELT PLANS TOUR ON SATURDAY   President Expected to Visit Four New York Boroughs

N.Y. Borough Visits Slated By Roosevelt   To Spend Day in Cit Prior to Talk  On Foreien Policies

FLOODS RAGE; MANY FORCED FROM HOMES   Thousands of Homeless Being Cared for by Red Crosse      ROADS BLOCKED AS RIVERS OVERFLOW   Scores of Highways in Missouri and Kansas Impassable

THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN WESTERN FLOODS   Streams In Missouri And Kansas Aire Not Expected To Begin Falling Until Wednesday

Thousands Flee From Floods in  Missouri, Kansas  Kansas City, Wichita Homeless Get Army And Red Cross Aid

Ward Seizure  Called Legal   WLB Official Explains Position of Board To House Committee

Ward Seizure  Defended as Vital To Avert Strikes  WLB Head Testifies At Opening of Conoressional Probe

WLB Chairmar Defends Ward Plant Action   Davis Maintains That Course Was Both Legal and Necessary

WLB Chief Says Seizure _ Of Ward Plant Was Legal   Contends His Agency Had To Act To Avert Epidemic of Strikes ‘Thrangh Natian   HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARS TESTIMONY

Head of WLB Defends U. S. Ward Seizure  Declares Action by .   Declares Action by . Army Legal; ‘Averted Epidemic’

SEIZURE STARTS   WLB Head Says Action Taken to Halt Strike Wave   EXPLAINS ANGLES   Holds Wards Important Cog In War Effort Because Of   Sales to Farmers

Davis Calls Seizure Of Ward Legal   SAYS BY SELLING TO FARMERS BIG REYAIL ESTABLISHMENT IS COG IN THE WAR EFFORT.   Refers To Anti-Strike At

WAR SITUATION DARK IN CHINA   Nipponese Continue To Advance On Key City Of Kweilin

NAZI MARSHAL REPORTED HURT   General Kesselring, Command er of Foe Troops in Italy, Hit in Attack

IS REPORTED WOUNDED   German General Was in Command of Forces in Italy 

Production Lags, Warns ~ Patterson   Declares War Production —falls Cight Fer Cent Behind Schedule In Quarter

War Production ls Slowing Up   Down 8 Percent For Last Three Months; Manpower, Big Problem.

Germany Sulfers Manvower Shortade   Army Declares War Production Fell 8 Per Cent Behind Schedule During April-May-June Quarier

Army Declares War Production Fell 8 Per Ceni Behind Schedule During April-May-June Quarter

New Sinkings By Yank Subs Are Revealed   Latest Bag in Pacific Brings to 724 Number of Enemy Craft Destroyed, Probably Destroyed or Damaged in War

Sermon Rally And Meeting Here Saturday  Candidate for   Candidate for Governor Will Open Campaign

Campaign for Roger Sermon  To Open Here   Music and Talks On Courhouse Lawn Saturday Night

Pacific War Swings to Philippines For the First Time within 2 Years

War in Pacitie Swings Back  To Philippines   Reconnaissance Plane Sinks Japanese Ship Off Minandao Coast

YANK PLANES SINK NIPPON COASTAL SHIF   General MacArthur Announces First U. S. Naval Action Off Philippines

U.S. Planes Strike Near Philippines   Jap Vessel Sunk Near Mindanao

BOND DRIVE SPURRED BY INVASION   Fifth War Loan Gets Early Boom as Result of D-Day

FUEHRER’S GAS SUPPLY I$ CUT   Aircraft Fuel Output Is Trimmed Two-Thirds By Allied Bombings

German Aircraft Production Off   Gasoline Needs Also Critical   Proof of Allied Might

C omedian To Surrender To U. S. Marshal   Charlie Chaplin to be Fingerprinted and Booked on Conspiracy Charge   SIX OTHERS INVOLVED

150 ILL FROM POISONED FOOD   100 Sailors In Hospital; Ate Rice Pudding

190 IN HOSPITALS IN CHICAGO AREA DUE 10 PIOMAINE   Rice Pudding Served By Restaurant Chain Cause of Wideenread Paltaninn.

Rich Wins Nomination   Ex-Congressman Who Asked About Costs, Is Nominated

Science Predicted: Births Accurately  Zarief Quads Are Doing Nicely

‘QUADS’ BORN, AS PREDICT   Doctors’ Forecast Correct; Mother Of Three Girls, One Bov. Is Bbx-Ballet Dancer

U.S. Bombers Smash Japs At Davao Again   Campaign To Prepare For Philippine Invasion Is Being 5 pre  SY oeana PNW HN RPO NTOD IRA =e rUunrO NY FM FE

CONTINUE RAIDS ON DAVAO AREA   Yankees Expand Perimeter . 12 Miles on Morotai in Halmaheras

Wilson Hints At voning it Attacks  Southern France  y F *h .f. 7%,

WLB PLANS 10 PROBE DAYTON PHONE DISPUTE   Inquiry into Industry’s Wage Rate Structure Is Planned

SPEED DRIVE   Blasting Way Through Outer Defenses of Pskov at Almost Mile an Hour Pace.

Fall of Rail Junction Is Near Today   Russians Advance a Mile an Hour—Would Open Way to Baltic Sea

RED ARMIES REACH CITY OF PSKOV   Vital Base Guards Routes to Latvia And Estonia

PSKOV MAY BE UNDER SHELL-FIRE   Toroshino and 450 Other Towns Captured by Reds

Russians Blast Through Outer  Pskov Defenses   Mile-An-Hour Gains _ Made By Red Armies Along Northern Front

CAPTURE OF CITY TO OPEN WAY FOR ASSAULT ON RIGA   Enemy Troops Remaining In Estonian to Be Cut Off, Bitter Street Fighting Is Exoected,   PT-BOATS FIGHT JAPS IN RUNNING BATTLE   Tokyo Has Been Expecting An Air Raid For Past Two Days, Talk Permitted Kiska Escape.

Nips Lose Nine Battleships, Three Carriers and Seven Cruisers, Besides Destroyers

Foe Trounced In Philippines Sea-Air Action   Liberation of Islands Speeded By U.S. Victory

CRUSHING DEFEAT HANDED IMPERIAL NIP FLEET IN BATTLE OF PHILIPPINES   Enemy Loses at Least 19 First Line Warships in Three Separate Naval Engagements; Total May Be 50

Godollo Taken In Red Drive   Soviet Artillery in Close Formation at Budapest Outskirts

Budapest Siege Lines Tightened   Reds Move Artillery Into Position; City’s Evacuation Beaun

INHABITANTS OF BUDAPEST FLEE   SOVIET ARTILLERY DRAWS UP ON TWO SIDES OF CAPITAL

USSTANS AIM GUNS AT GI   Artillery Draws Up in Close Formation for Budanest Attack.

Russian Artillery Is Drawn Up To Pound Budapest  German Garrison Has Dug In to Fight Show-Down Battle

Artillery Units Threaten Budapest   Red Semi-Circle  Niance Tianhtens

Inhabitants Of Budapest Flee Westward   Russians Observe Many Fires Burning  In the Capital

Godollo Taken In Drive Upon Vital City   Russians Report Many Fires In Hungarian Capital

Nazis In Hungarian Cap. ital Have Dug In To Withstand Red Siege.

Soviets Tear New Hole In  ~ Nazi Defense   Point Toward Budapest From Godolla, Northeast of Capital

Russians Poise Assault Forces  Red Artillery Massed At Budapest Outskirts Civilians Fleeing West

REDS TIGHTEN STEEL RING ON HUNGARIAN CITY   Thousands of Residents in Capital Have Filed as Germans Dig in For Last Ditch Fight.

REDS TIGHTEN STEEL PINCERS ON BUDAPEST   Thousands Flee Hungarian Capital as Huns Plan Death Stand

Reds Tear Hole In Nazi Ranks Above Budapest   Germans Lose Last Base Controlling Northern Approaches To Capital

GERMANS DIG IN AT BUDAPEST   Artillery Drawn Up At Outskirts Of Hungarian Capital 

RED ARMY SHATTERS NAZI LINES   Soviet Artillery On Outskirts Of Budapest

ARTILLERY IS WHEELED UP AT BUDAPEST   Soviet Guns Assembled in Close Formation at Northern and Southern Outskirts of Nazi-Held Hungarian Capital. 

Nazi Defense Lines Severed rom Godollo   No Mention Of Fall Of Hungarian Capital Being ‘Im miinent   INHABITANTS FLEE

Russ Keep Up Advance   Forces Point for New Budapest Drive From Captured Godollo

Reds Pointed AtB udapest From Godolle   City’s Inhabitants Flee By Thousands As Nazis‘Prepare For Lasi-Diteh Stand

BUDAPEST IS TARGET TODAY OF RUSSIANS   Inhabitants Flee City; Germans Have Dug In

SOVIET BUG GUNS BATTERBUDAPES   Assault Forces Point Toward Capital From Captured Goadollo-

SERGT. ELLIOTT 5 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Mattoon Air Corps Mechanic, 24 Years Old, War Victim

Advance Declared Deepest Dent Yet Made in Nazi Line Across Peninsula

Troops Smash‘ Center Of Line, Press On Caen   Germans Can Never Break Foothold, Say Officials; Progress Called Gratifyin3

TROOPS OCCUPY CERISY FOREST   Push in Middle of Normandy - Beachhead Deepest Dent In Nazi Line.   CARENTAN FALLS TOO

DRIVE 18 MILES THROUGH MIDDLE OF BEACGHHEAD   Score Deepest Dent in Nazi Line so Far; Capture Forest of Cerisy.

Climax in Battle for Changsha, Kev Rail City, is Near   Jap Capture of Place Might Prolong War in China Years

PROMINENT FARMER OF COUNTY DIES AT HOME; ILLNESS SUDDED   HEART ATTACK FATAL TO MONROE MEADE, CARROLLTON TWP. TRUSTEE

TIP BROWNELL AS CHAIRMAN OF COP DRIVE   Dewey's Aide Expected To oy ws Harrison pangler

"Draft Dewey” Group Prepares To Take Over G.O.P. Master Controls

DEWEY’S BACKERS TO TAKE OVER PARTY CONTROLS TODAY; EXPECT BROWNELL TO BE MADE CHAIRMAN

CHARGES’ SOME AAA GROUPS ARE LINKING GASOLINE . AND DEFERMENTS WITH ©. ( .° OROP. SIGNUP

Tipsy Soldier Sets Off Irish Nerves   Fires Few Wild Shots, Eire’s Army Stands to Alert

EIRE SUFFERS FROM JITTERS      Few Wild Shots Stir Up Irish Rumor Factory

Capture Of Dutch City Important   PINS 50,000 GERMANS AGAINST MAAS RIVER; ALSO LAND ON BEVELAND ISLAND

BRITTON TAKE HUG OF OUTCR CPPLY LINES   *§ Hertogenbosch, Town of 50,000, Falls Before Surnrice Attack.

2 Dutch Cities Fall  to British   Strike to Relieve Forces Trapped in Holland Meets Fire

PAITISO JOIN WITH CANADIANS IN ATTEMPT TO CLEAR SCHELDE   American Sectors  Without Change

Easterp = “chor of Wilting Nazi Pocket Crumpled   More Than 50,000 Germans Are Pinned Against Maas River

Big Transport Center Falls to British Troops   Hertogenbosch in Holland Ie Cantured

In A Swift Drive To Reopen Great Port Of Antwerp To Alli   NAZI DEFENSES IN HOLLAND BROKEN   Allied Build-Up Of Men And Equipment For Big Push Into Germany

NAZI LINES IN HOLLAND (RUMBLING   30,000 Germans Pinned Against Maas River Line

GREAT PORT QF ANTWERP IS OBJECTIVE   Powerful Tank and Infantry Columns Hit Nazis In West Holland.   BULLETIN

GERMANS TRY TO WITHDRAW AGROSS MAAS   Schelde Estuary May Also Be Abandoned To Escane Tran

Two-Pronged Attack Forged To Open Port   British Amphibious And Canadian Infantry Troons In Ficht      TWIN CENTERS OUT   °S Hertogenbosch And Tilburg Fall To Crumble East

Two-Prong Drive Aims  For Antwerp   Tanks And Infantry Crack Defenses In Holland.

Dies Committee To Investigate Political Action   Seeks Activity In CIO Case

1 DEFEATED MEN TO MAKE PROBE   Plan Investigation Of C. 1. O. Political Action Committee

Patton’s Men Feel Weight Of Attacks —   Retreating Germans Halt and Turn on U. S. Seventh Army

PUSH UP PO VALLEY   Polish and Indian Troops Near Forli Junction

ITALY POSITION IS REINFORCED   Poles, Indians Advance To Bolster Bridgehead

Troops: Near  Po. Junction   Eighth Army Force Joins Bridgehead 

Willkie Men Lead N. H. Vote   Nation's First Test Vote For Delegates Shows Dewey In  Second Place.

FARCE TO BACK PLAN OF PEACE e URGED BY HULL   Secretary Tells Security Parley Joint Action Necessary —  *

FUTURE PEACE CONFAB OPENS   Force Necessary For Security  Hull Delivers Opening Talk

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON JAPS LIMON SALIENT   Artillery “Continues Its Havoc”’ Despite Tor rential Rains   30 ENEMY BARGES IN HARBOR DESTROYED

Infantry. And Cavalry Forces Tighten Grip On J: ap Salient      Long- Range Artillery “Continues Its Havoc” Through out Ormoc Corridor—Operations Restricted by Tropica! Rains -

U.S. Tightens Trap on Leyte Big Guns Bombard Ormoc   New Yank Invasion Force Mops Up Enemy’s Outpost on Mapia Islands

GRIP ON JAPS TIGHTENED ON LEYTE ISLAND   LONG - RANGE GUNS CONTINUE HAVOC AT ORMOC

ARTILLERY FIRE RAKES JAPAN'S LINES AT LIMON   Long Range Patrols Comb Intricate Hill Trails

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON JAPS ON LEYTE ISLE   American Guns Con.tinue Havoc in Or moc Battle Sector

_———ea=-””~~~<;73 }SCS™#F  LEYTE BATTLE PROGRESSING: JAPS WEAKER   Moves Toward Climax; Americans Seize Mapia Islands Off Coast of New Guinea,   Converge On Ormoc

‘U.S. Fighters Sink 30 ‘Enemy Barges   Nipponese Motor Pool at Valencia Destroved

BATTLE OF ORMOC NEARING CLIMAX   American Artillery Continues Havoc Throughout Ormoc Area; Yank Force Seizes Mapia Islands

M’ARTHUR’S MEN TIGHTEN GRIP ON JAPS AT LIMON   Americans in the Mountain Ranges East of Ormoc Corridor Consolidate Their Positions.   FIGHTING RESTRICTED BY TROPICAL RAINS   More Than 30 Barges Sunk by U. S. Airmen Off Port Where Foe Prepares for Stand.

YANKS SQUEEZE CRIP ON LIMON SALIENT JAPS   Long ~- Range Artillery Continues Havoc Around Ormoc Corridor

Nazis Struggle to Keep Lid On Revolt Within Reich   Hitler ls Thankful Germany Has ‘Man Like Me Who Would Not Capitulate;’ Is Not Afraid

Hitler Asks For. Home Front Faith   Makes Bid For Confidence In Broadcast To Nation.

BONOMI FORMS NEW CABINET   Sforza And Action Party Left Out Of Group

Count Sforza and Party Excluded From New Italian Cabinet; Move Seen Triumph for Royal Family

British Win Over Sforza  Settlement Reached   Settlement Reached In Italian Crisis

U.S. Raps News  Leaks in London   Protests Made By State Department

U. §. PROTESTS NEWS LEAKS   Complains to Britain, But Reiterates His Denial of Political Censorship

Four News Leaks In London Bring American Protest   State Department Denies lt Seeks British Political Censorship

Lausche Says Crime Boosts Welfare Cost   Governor-elect Promises to Enforce Laws

Army Setitry Dog Unable To Adjust To Civil Life Had To Be Destroyed.

SLL OOOO OO II(IN—Gr Discharged War Dog Can't Nidlsarn Ferocity, te Killed

LEND-LEASE FUTURE (5 NOT DISCUSSED   Stettinius Says Governments Are Busy With War Campaigns.

Many Pointed Yank Drives May Turn Cherbourg Into Second German Sevastopol   Last Rail Link Severed by Americons at St. Sauveur le Vicomte While Another Group Attacks Last Main Communication Junction

ALLIES REPEL ATTACKS NEAR CAEN, TROARN   Yanks May Turn French Port Into Another Sevastopol

Stimson Urges Single Command   Opposed to Change  Before War Ends

Ask MMrver For Armed Services      Stimson Urges Consoli dat; As Soon As Pode@b\c After War.

Unification ‘Necessary   Stimson Backs Single Army-Navy Department

Stimson Favors  One Department  Would Bring All Forces Under Office

URGES ONE CHIE FOR ARNNY, NAY   Stimson Favors Combination Of Departments After War .

ONE DEPARTMENT OF ARMED FORCES 1S RECOMMENDED   Congress Gets Recommendation Embracing War and Navy After Present War

ARMY AND NAVY MERGER URGED   Stimson Backs Proposal As  Post-War Program

COMBINE ARMY, NAVY DEPARTMENTS ASKED   Stimson S aid Unification Would Wait Until After War

Post-War Merger Of War And Navy Departments Is Favored  Vg gf Pim ne s'enatinm £2 Ginglo   Secretary Stimson Urges Creation Of Single Arm Of Government For Command Unification

Stimson Asks Combining of U.S. Forces   Says Modern War Makes One Department of Xecurity Necessarv

Single Department of Nations Armed. Forces Is Urged by Secretary Stimson

Single Department For War, Navy Bid   Stimson Recommends Statutory . Unification Of Post-War Control

Stimson For Single U. S.  Armed Force   Favors Merger Following War

Unification Of Command After War   Essential to Nation. For Proper Protection Says Stimson

STIMSON ASKS SINGLE HEAD OF ARMED FORCES   Recommends To Congress That Consolidation Be Made Post-War

WELFARE COST FOR. MONTH ANNOUNCED   Total of $14,150 Spent for Old Age Assistance  ara -

WELFARE (COST FOR MONTH ANNOUNCED      Total of $14,150 Spent for Old Age Assistance  Mare

Patton’s Men Said To Have Established Bridgeheads Across Moselle River   BRITISH SECOND ARMY IS ADVANCING SLOWLY IN HOLLAND   Unconfirmed Report Says The Germans At Brest Have Surrendered

Clyde Pelton LeMars Youth Reported Dead  Family Receives’  Confirmation. Of Bawls, © ee Dane ee

Clyde Pelton LeMars Youth Reported Dead  Family: Receives: ‘Confirmation Of  Ke mwl? oe D.....,. :

Jap Sea Losses in August Almost 300 Ocean-Going Ships   175 Known to be Sunk; Nipponese Pounded on Many Fronts

Allies Eimmate 300 Jap Ships In Past Month   18 Combatant Craft Among 175 Known To Be Sunk; Halmalkera “Again Hit

atoll AUGUST HEAVY   Nearly 300 Ocean - Going Ships Were Knocked Out in Month.   IHALMAHERA HIT AGAIN

JAPANESE LOSE 300 VESSELS DURING AUGUST   At Least 175 Sunk; Stepping Stone To Philippines Hammered Anew

Nippon Suffers Terrific Losses In Pacific War   Figures Include Only Ocean-going Craft; Halmahera Bombed

300 Jap Ships Knocked Out In August   175 “Known To Be Sunk; Fourth Heavy Bombing ‘Blow in Two Weeks Aimed at Halmahera

Allies Destroy 300 Japanese Vessels  During This Month   Yankee Bombers Soften Philippine Approaches

Gate to Philippines ~ Blasted By Yanks   Nearly 300 Ocean-going Jap Ships Knocked Out in August as Invasion Threat to Homeland Increases — Nip Drive Slowed Down by American Bombers and Chinese

"PACIFIC —  JAPS LOGE a00 SHIPS IN MONT   Japan’s Ocean-Going Ves‘sels Badly Mauled By ‘Allies .   175 ARE SUNK   Ameriéan Bombers Continue: To = Soften - Path ToPhilippines ©

JAPAN'S LOSS ON SEA GREAT HIRING MONTH   Nearly 300 Ships Knocked Out Of Battle By U. S.

JAPANESE HAVE LOST APPROXIMATELY 300 SHIPS DURING AUGUST  EIGHTEEN OF THIS NUMBER WERE CLASSED AS COMBAT VESSELS

ALLIES BAG 300 JAPANESE SHIPS IN AUGUST: HALMAHERA HIT AGAIN   PHILIPPINES APPROACHES GET SOFTENING BLOW; AIR PINCERS ON NIPS SNAPPED WITH IWO RAID

REVEAL 300 JAP SHIPS KNOCKED OUT IN AUGUST   175 VESSELS KNOWN SUNK; 36 CRIPPLED IN PAST TWO DAYS

Japs’ Shipping. Losses Heavy  During Month   Allies Knock Nearly :300 Ocean-Going Vessels Out of Tokyo's Merchant and Fighting Fleets in August 4

Nearly 300 Jap Ships Knocked Out   Allied Reports Show At Least 175 of These Are Known to Be Sunk

AMERICANS SINK 175 JAPANESE SHIPS IN AUGUST   Damage Nearly 125 Others; Airmen Pound Island  Guarding Philippines

August Costs  Japs 300 Ships   U.S. Fleet Expands Rapidly As Bombers Continue Heavy Raids

Says Mills Now  (On 48-Hour Week '   Union’s Research Specialist Says 88 Percent of Mills On New Week.

fPnien’s Research Special. Says 88 Percent of  - Mills On New Week.

Yank Bial  Invaders  Hard Hit   Japs in Fierce Struggle to Keep Mokmer Airdrome

Reds Capture Or Kill 75,000 Enemy — Troops in 10 Days     Evacuation Movement Forecasts Complete Collapse of German Resistance on Southern Flank in Russia

Russians Drive on Toward Odessa, Sea Port of Evacuation   Complete Collapse of Nazis’ Broken Southern Flank is Seen

Report Ships Rushed to Port   Advances Indicate Possible Collapse Of Enemy in Area.

Vast Nazi Dunkerque Looms As Black Sea Ships Rush To Aid Nazi Hordes Pinned At Odessa   Half Million Germans Battle To Hold Last Hope Of Sea Borne Escape From Ukraine Graveyard But Reds Are Pounding Onlv 75 Miles Awav.

Black Sea Ships  Steam to Odessa   Collapse of German Ukrainian Front Declared Imminent—75,000 Enemies Killed, Russians Say

Ships Rushed To Big Port As Russians Drive Ahead After Seizure Of Kherson   Collapse Of Reich’s Broken Southern Flank Would Pull _ Battleline Back Into Rumania; Nazis Continue To Resist Fiercely In Outskirts Of Tarnopol

ALL AVAILABLE SHIPS ORDERED TO VITAL PORT   ‘Hints Evacuation of City; Nazi Line Near Com plete Collapse

COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF BROKEN SOUTHERN FLANK IN RUSSIA IN NEW DUNKERQUE INDICATED   Every Available Ship in Rumania’s Black Sea Ports Being Rushed to Odessa As Red Armies. Speed on from Kherson and Other Points to Sout

GERMAN LINES COLLAPSE ON FRONT TODAY   Nazis To Attempt Seaborne Escape  On Blac: Sea

Complete Collapse ‘Of Nazis Is  Imminent   Flight Of Enemy Would Throw Battle Line Into Frightened Rumania; Russians Roll On

Istanbul Says  Ships Rushed To South Port   Jomplete Collapse Enemy's Southern Russian Flank loreshadowed.   ADMIT KHERSON LOST

ALL BLACK SEP SHIPS SENT TO PORT   Nazis To Try “Dunkerque,” Authorities Believe   Falls To Advancing Reds; 75,000 Enemy Troops Killed In 10 Days

Turks Say All Available Ships Rushed To Black  Sea Port   75.000 Men Killed In 10-Day Battle   Enemy Battles Desperately To Hold Inland Anchor At Tarnopol

Battered Nazis Reported Rushing Ships to Odessa   Evacuation of Black Sea Port Would Mear Complete Collapse Of Southern Flank

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Germans Preparing To Quit Odessa As Reds Drive On   Vessels in Rumania’s Black Sea Ports Speeded Northward — Foe’s Southern Flank in Russia on Verge of Collapse, Defeats Indicating a ‘1944 Dunkerque’ Is Near.

MOVE INDICATES GERMAN RETREAI INTO RUMANIA   PUT TNIV  SECOND DUNKERQUE APPEARS IMMINENT; RENS TAKE KHERSON

Cvacuation Shins Rushed To Seaport   Russian Capture Of Kherson Threat To German Positicn

EVERY AVAILABLE SHIP IN RUMANIAN PORTS PUT TO SEA   ACTION FORESHADOWED COMPLETE COLLAPSE NAZIS IN SOUTH RUSSIA

BELIEVE otllPS GO 10 ODESS!   Action Foreshadows Colapse of Nazi -Broken Southern Flank.   PREPARING TO LEAVE?

Fierce Battle Continues in Tarnopol, Inland Anchor.of Shattered Front   RETREAT LINE CUT

Rumania Rushing Ship: To Escape Port; Ger. man Collapse In South reste Indinabail

Panic-Stricken Germans Trying To Escape Reds   Enemy Massing Ships At Black Sea Port; Front Collapses

‘44 Dunkerque Developing On Black Sea   Russians Pressing Forward As German Lines Collapse

Nazis Moving Ships North .  With Dunkirk Threatening .   Major Calamity May Clear Russian ‘Soil:

Ships Rushed From Rumania  To Aid of Huns   Flight By Sea Weuld Pull Battle Line Back Inte Obviously Frightened Bucharest Regime   ‘Reds Drive Toward ‘Goal from Khersou   Moscow Announced 73.000  Nazis Killed and Cap tured In 10-Offensive In Lower Russia

Nazis Seeking Flight Throug the Black Sea   All Available Ships in Rumenian Ports Meviaa Toward Russia

‘Attempt Made to Save  Nazi Armies   Russians Driving on Great Seaport After Capture of Kherson

All Available — Ships Hurried Toward Odess:   Complete Collapse Of Germans’ Broken Southern Flank Is Indicated by Move

Rumania Is Frightened   . « 75,000 Germans Slain, Captured In 10 Days

Russians Menace Balkans After Fall Of Kherson   Reason For Germans’ Stand At Tarnopol Seen As Attempt To Hold Pivotal Point For Retreat

Odessa Evacuation Looms After Russians Capture Kherson, 90 Miles Away

Nazis Mobilizing Every Available Ship In Black Sea In AHlempt To Escape Death Trap Being Sprung By Russians In Ukraine

GERMANS MASS SHIPS FOR EVACUATION OF SOUTH RUSSIAN FLANK’   Available Rumanian Vessels Rushed North, Apparently To Odessa   ‘WOULD FLEE TO RUMANIA

Istanbul Report Says Ships Rushed From Rumania   Russian Forces Pushing Rapidly Toward Seaport

MAY BE MOVE TO EVAGUATE SOUTH FRON   Collapse of Defense Flank Would Throw Line Into. Rumania.

RUSH SHIPS ik BLACK SEA T0 AID RETREAT   Vast Scale 1944 Dunkerque Would Pull Battle Line Back Into Rumania

Giant Soviet Pincer Closing on Remnant Of Ukraine Forces   Sattelite’s Ships Rush to Rescue; Dnieper Bastion of Kherson Falls: Worth Aras in S50 Miles of Rumania

BATTLE LINES MAY BE PUSHED INTO RUMANIA   Reds Drive Against Nikolaev After Making Capture Of Kherson

‘Nazis Prepare To Evacuate  Odessa Now   Complete Collapse of Enemy’s Southern Flank Is Foreshadowed as All Available Rumanian Ships Are Rushed Into Danger Zone

Germans Prepare For Vast Scale “Dunkerque” When Collapse Of Armv Looms

Ship Movement Indicates Complete Route of German Flank in Southern Russia

German Move To Quit Odessa ‘Reported   Istanbul Dispatch Indicates Evacuation Ree Gan Pascihla

Ships Rushed From Rumania As Reds Gain   75,000 Germans Slain, Captured In 10 Days In Ukraine; Enemy’s Retreat OQuickening

REDS POISED FOR ATTACK ON BLACK SEA   Big German Dnieper River Base of Kherson Is Cap tured by Russians.   75,000 Nazis Taken In Ten Days of Battle

Russian Troops Drive at: Odessa   1944 Dunkerque Faced by Nazis If They Attempt Flight by Sea

ODESSA NEXT OBJECTIVE OF RED ARMIES   Advance From Kherson. Black Sea Port Captured Monday to Be Fast: Thou sands of Nazis Slain.

EVACUATION OF ODESSA IS HINTED   Reds Capture Kherson And Pose Threat To Port Of Nikolaev

New Jap Carrier Hit By Torpedoes   Abandoned Defenders of Saipan Are Planning Fanatical LastDitch Fight

RUSSIANS RACE TOWARI GALATI GAP   Two Armies Gain In New Offensive In Romania

2 RED ARMIES RACE TOWARD PLOESTI AREA   Seek to Knock Romania Out  Of the War

RACE ACROSS PLAINS TOWARD GATEWAY GAP   Seek To Seize Ploesti And Knock Romania Out Of War

TWO RED ARMIES IN NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST ROMANIA   To Deprive Germany Of It’s Last Major Source Of Oil   37,675 GERMANS KILLED OR TAKEN

Red Armies 70 Mi. From Galati Gap   New Offensive Designed to Knock Romania Out of War

Two Soviet Armies Launch New Offensive Designed To ‘Knock Romania Out Of War

Two Red Armies Race Over Plains Toward Galati   Russians: Said Within 70 Miles of Gateway To Bucharest, Ploesti

REDS DRIVE 10 KAYO ROMANIA; GAIN 43 MILES   Capture Iasi, Sweep Up 350 Localities, Kill 37,000 Germans

REDS IN GAINS  = UP TO. 43 MILES   Push Across Plains to Within Less Than 70 Miles of ~ Galati Gap.

Soviets Launch Drive Aimed to Silence Romania  mb *4 82 oe hh me      Nazis’ Last Major Oil Suppy is Goal Of Red Campaign

NEW OFFENSIVE IS OPENED BY SOVIET ARMIES   By HENRY SHAPIRO Staff Correspondent

Two Red Armies Race Toward Galati Gap   Ukrainian Armies Punch Out Gains Of Up To 43 Miles In Three Days

Reds Racing For Gateway -To Bucharest   Offensive Designed To Sweep Romania Out of War’s Grip

FOUR-DAY FIGHT WON BY FRENCH PATRIOTS   BY CAPT. JAMES ©, McNAMARA  Written far Tiniteartld Deare   Kussian Offensive is Designed to Knock Romania Out of War

Viola Bornhorst  Becomes a Bride  Weds Emmett Barrett At Hollywood

Viola Bornhorst Becomes a Bride —  Weds Emmett Bar rett ‘At Hollywood © _

Five Missing ‘In Blizzard ©   Servicemen’s. Wives Lost in Texas Storm

What Do You Expect??   Survey Reveals That Intelligence Is the Most Important Characteristic

What Do You Expect??  Survey Reveals That Intelligence Is the Most  Tennartant fharartarieti«

Mass Crimes By Japanese Are Kixposed   Filipinos Robbed, Murdered, ‘Tortured And Ravished By Oppressors

JAPS BURNED FILIPINOS ALIVE, LOOTED HOMES   STORY OF TORTURE, MURDER, PILLAGE, RAPE TOLD BY HEAD OF 4000-MAN GUERRILLA ARMY

Guerillas Aid MacArthur's Forces on Leyte; Tell of Atrocities of Japs ‘During Past Two and a Half Years

Sufferings Of Filipinos Told By Guerrillas   Details Of Atrocities Perpetrated By Japs Revealed By Leaders OF Resistance Bands

GERMANS WARNED   Constantly Replenished Food Supply Essential, Administrator Jones Says

Hardest Battles Fought on Hospital ‘Cots, Says Chaplain Back From Wars   Reports Yanks’ Biggest Fear Is Not Getting Home Again

THANKSGIVING CAME TO AMERICAN TROOPS ENGAGED IN BATTLE   TURKEY FOR MEN IN TRENCHES EVEN THOUGH CIVILIANS HAD NONE

THANKSGIVING CAME TO AMERICAN TROOPS ENGAGED IN BATTLE  TURKEY FOR MEN IN   TURKEY FOR MEN IN TRENCHES EVEN THOUGH CIVILIANS HAD NONE.

Chaplin’s Attorney Makes New Move To Question Joan About ‘Other Men’

Finland-Nazi Break Is Due   Decision To Get Out Of _ War Reported

Signs Point to Quick Withdrawal of Finland  From War With Russia

TOULON P.-T. A. HOLDS FINAL MEET MONDAY  Osceola Pastor Will Speak At   Osceola Pastor Will Speak At Meeting; To Name New Officers.

TOULON P.-T. A... HOLD REGULAR MEET NOV. 27   Meet At Toulon Township High School; Kewanee Principal Is Speaker.

KEWANEE MAN IS SPEAKER, P.-T. A. MEET   High School Principal Will Address Group; Show Colored Films.

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PRINCIPALS IN FORGERY NOT CALLED   cere ae aa JURY FAILURE TO QUIZ HOPKINS, BRIGGS, .MYSTIFIES CAPITAL,   Briges In Deeper   Typewriter Linked With Letters —Hopkins-Ickes Feud Bitterness Exposed.

Mrs. Mary Gilmore Mother of Bishop, Is Called  IIIness Takes Matror   IlIness Takes Matron WhoHad Lived ~ In State Many Years

Mrs. Mary Gilmore, Mother of Bishop, Is Called  Iliness Takes Matron Who Had Lived  In State Many Years

Ernie Pyle Says-  Army Messes Get More Exclusive As They Get Smaller, But All Are Swell Places

Connally Asks Congress Delay Defining American Delegate Powers Until Senate Approves Security Plan

For Delaying World Couneil  Authorization   Sen. Connally Urges Con  gress Write Own Ticket  On Security Delegate’s Powers

Congress Urged To Delay Defining Delegate’s Powers   Connally Would Wait Until Senate Gives  A ninvauet al TeanwkG -.

Warn against hasty grant of authority  ‘Congress should write own ticker

Rationing at End “or Inner Tubes   Occupational Drivers To Get More Tires

YANKEES BAG 49 JAP SHIPS   ‘Deal Smashing Blow In Celebes    Leave Cruiser Badly Crippled

Americans Will Lead: U.S. Aviators To Spearhead Aerial Invasion of Hitler's European Area

Reports Yanks, French Enter City Unconfirmed; Street Fighting Goes On

4,000 Planes Plaster Nazi Installations      U. S. Flying Forts Open Day's Raid On Mystery Targets

‘Air Barrage At New Peak   RAF Night Riders Follow Record Assaults By Yanks

BLOWS BY AIR AT FOE GROW IN INTENSITY   Records in Blasting Set As Assaults Enter 14th Day

Air Invasion Increases In Intensity   U.S. Eighth Air Force Hammers Double Blow At Points in France  OPPOSITION LIGHT

Heavy Air Raids Batter Germany, Invasion Coast  England Bans Civiliar Travel Out of island; Quiet on East Front

RAF Follows Up Terrific TS. Attack   Merciless Pov_ding of German Installations Wings Into 14th Straight Day

Yanks launch record blows  on continent  10,000 tons fall in eighteen hours

Air Offensive Reaches  Record Pace   More Than 60,000 Tons Explosives Have Been Dropped on Continent Since April 15 by More Than 40,000 Aircraft

NAZI FORTRESS HIT BY 10,000 TONS OF BOMBS   Allies Lose 9 Bombers, Sx Fighters In Day; Enemy Opposition Reported Weak

Spectacular Double-Header Blow Dealt Nazi Installations      IENEMY OPPOSITION IS REPORTED WEAK   More Than 4,000 Allied Planes Take Part in Savane Attack

British Carry Air Offensive Into 14th Day   4,000 Allied Planes Pound Continent in 18-Hour Period; RAI Hits Friedrichshafen

FAIEDRICHOHAFEN HIT HARD BY RAF   Smash Follows Record American Doubleheader Blow   NEW HIGH SET   9 Bombers, 9 Fighters Fail te Return; Enemy Opposition Declared Weak

School Heads Top State’s Salary List   Presidents Friley and Hancher Receive;  $12,000 Yearly

Hancher, Friley Still Paid Most   State Salary List Is Released Today

School Heads Drawing Most Pay In lowa   They and 7 Others Get More Than Governor ir Past Fiscal Year

Jap-Held Hainan Island Raided   Japanese Claim Four Planes Are Downed

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   FIFTH ARMY FORCED TO MAKE WITHDRAWAL

AVERAGE FAMILY OWES SOME $8,200 FOR COST OF WAR   Survey Shows That Each Grouy Already Has Paid $1,400 Of This Amount—War Bond Pur. chases Average $1,000.

38 Planes Shot Down on 2 Fronts      Infantry on Leyte Drives to Push Routed Japs ‘ato Sea; B-29s Survey Tokyo

JAPANESE AERIAL CANDLE BURNS AT BOTH ENDS IN SKY BATTLES OVER HOMEKAND AND PHILIPPINES

JAPAN'S AIR POWER  BEING CONSTANTLY,  RAPIDLY REDUCED BATTLES OVER PHILIPPINES ann D HOMELAND  rartap

YANKS BATTER NIP AIR POWER   MacArthur’s Troops Push. ing Japs On Leyte Into Sea

DESTROY 38 JAP FIGHTER PLANES IN SKY BATTLES   77th Division Drives Toward Nip Escape Port on ) Leyte Island 4)

Jap Port on Leyte  Shelled   Air Battles Cost Nips 38 Planes; B-29s Raid Nagoya Again

Yanks Mop Up Leyte As Fliers Continue ‘To Cut Jap Planes   Doughboys Tightening Vise on Enemy in Philippines With No Ground Fighting on Mindoro — Superforts Hammer Factories in Japan

Jap Air Force Suffers Heavily   38 Nip Planes Destroyed Friday; Yanks Continue Advance on Leyte

Japanese Lose 38 Pianes In Battles With Yank Airmen   Americans Drive Trapped Letye Defenders Into Sea

38 Jap Planes Shot Down In  Friday Action   Doughboys Killing. More Than 1,500 Nips Daily In Leyte Rout.

p Air efense  iffer   ortreseés Return Safely  lowever, All Super. rom Nagoya Strike

Japs’ Aerial Candle Burns  _ At Both Ends   Sky Battles Rage Over Homeland Industrial Areas. Philippines

Jap Aireraft Factories Hit In Sky I ights   Yank Offensive Over Philippines Net 38 Planes as Infantry Drives Enemy To Sea

WHITTLE JAP AIR STRENGTH   Down Planes In Battles Over Mitsubishi Plant And Philippines; More Nips Die On Leyte.

Big Jap Losses  Over Homeland  And Philippines   U.S. Troops Near Ormoc : Burma Allies Advance; China Status Unchanged

38 JAP PLANES DESTROYED: AIR PLANTS RIPPED   Yanks Only 10 Miles From Nippon Escape Port on Ormoc Isle

Nippos Punished In Sky Warfare   Lose 38 Planes On Home Philippines Fronts

WILLKIE AND DEWEY TicB IN EAD PAL]   Large Numbers Of Republicans Not Yet Decided

DEWEY, WILLKIE TOP LIST OF POSSIBLE CONTENDERS FOR G. 0. P. NOMINATION

DEWEY AND WILLKIE FAVORED IN POLL      Top Possible Contenders for Republican Nomination As President,

Dewey, Willkie Tie As Choice \In Secret Poll   Members Of Republican National Committee Vote On Nominee.

PREFERENCE OF GOP 1S LISTED   Dewey, Willkie Top Poll of Party’s Nomination Preference

Poll Shows Willkie And Dewey Tied   By JAN HARTNETT and WILLIAM J. CONWAY

Déwey, Willkie Top Possible GOP Presidential Contenders In Poll Taken Among Leaders

Willkie and  Dewey Lead  in GOP Poll      Each Receives 21 Votes in Canvass of Committee; ' 23 Are Open-Minded

DEWEY IS TOPS IN POLL OF GOP   Ohio’s Bricker Rated Third Among Contenders

U.S. Airmen Blast Jap Island Town   Reported to Have Destroy ed Main Town on Ponape,  450 Miles from Truk

CONTINUE WITH OTHER ASSAULTS ACROSS PACIFIC   Main Base on Peninsula in New Britain in Allied Hands After Four-day Conquest.

Americans Gain Up to 3 Miles in Normandy   New Offensive Opened by Gen. Bradley's Troops

Fight Arises Over Facts of Living Costs   Members of Special Presidential Group Fail to Agree

Living Costs Up 43,5 Per Cent, Sa Labor Officials  Report by Two on   Report by Two on Presidential Board Protested by Others

COST OF LIVING DISPUTE FLARES   Committee Members Split On Truth of Report

NOW 50 MILES FROM AUSTRIA   Capture Marcali Near Lake Balaton, Gain In Hungary

AUSTRIA ONLY 50 MILES AWAY FROM RED ARMY   Russians Establish Themselves On Lake Against Light Opposition

SHOT FORTH BY VESUVIUS      Flames Shoot 200 Fee Above Crater and Mol ten Stream Reaches First Houses of Village of Cercola.

Molten Lava Flow Swells   Fresh Eruption at Vesuvius Apparently Dooms Third Town

MT, VESUVIUS THREATENING COASTAL TOWNS   Fresh Eruptions Reported Today; Flee Cercola

Sea Of Molten - Lava Advances   ANOTHER ITALIAN TOWN COVERED BY HOT COALS

Gets Chance To Be Doctor   ‘Foxhole Surgeon’ I: Elated Over Offer  From University

Expansion Proposed For Ohio Hospitals   Appropriation of $36,710,000 Is Recommended for State's Mental Institutions by Governor’s Committee - - Program Set Up for 10-year Development

Drive Deeper In Myitkyina   Yanks, Chinese Force Way Deeper Into Jap Burmese Base From Two Sides

ALLIED ARMIES CRUSHING JAPS   U. S., Chinese Forces Gain 400 Yards in Drive on Myitkyina

—PACIFIC—  TEP UP cron ON OTHER FRONTS   Japs Trapped On Bongainville Facing New Allied Move   CHINA WORRIED   Report 280,000 Nips Are Ready To Open New - Offensives

Chinese And Americans Advance In Myitkyina Gain 400 Yards In  Southern Part Of Burma Town; Closing

Bribe Indictment — Faces Prosecutor   Grand Jury at Springfield Takes Sensational Action as Result Of Investigation of Gambling—Sheriff Also Accused

Prosecufor in Bribery Denial  Grand Jury Indicts Clark Co. Official

FIFTH NAMED IN BRIBERY PROBE   Ciark-co Prosecutor Denies Indictment Accusations

NEUUSFICNG, “BRIBERY CHARGE   Clark County Prosecutor _ Indicted By Jury, Denies Charge

Reds Capture Three Nazi Strongholds   First White Russian Army Drives on Toward Warsaw

BREST LITOVSK ~ TAKEN, PRAGA ~ FALL IMMINENT   Czech Line 13 Miles From Southern Forces

Russ Troops Reported in Outskirts of Praga; Other Red Forces Capture Brest Litovsk. Przemvs] and Jaraclaw

Clear Skies Free Allied Air Power   Big Armadas Again Harass Germans

- Clearing Weather Releases _ Allied Air Power In Its Full Power Over Europe °

EDW. J. HUGHES DIES SUDDENLY   ILLINOIS SECRETARY OF STATE VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK INN. Y

MERCURY DIPS TO 8 BELOW   Continued Cold Wave Predicted for Iowa

Americans Seize Liege Less Than 18 Miles From Reich   British Advance in Drive Toward Dusseldorf, Cologne; Patton Groups Units for All-Out Push

GEN. PATTON’S MEN DRIVE THREE NEW. BRIDGEHEADS. ACROSS THE MOSELLE RIVER IN VIOLENT FIGHTING

: ee a ea : es e te “ . / egertag ge Bi, : a  ¥ e i ed a : tre  ei ite - on tj er      British Second Army Now Only 25 Miles from Prussia Boundary; Moselle Bridgeheads Are Widened

Chinese Gain Hochih Gates   Japs Driven Back Nearer Linchow Base

Spirit of Confidence in Chungking Increases as Chinese Report Gains

Americans And Japs Trade Aerial Blows With Yanks Getting In Hardest Licks

U. §. Planes Pound New Jan Atoll   Eniwetok Blasted In Six Attacks; Enemy Attacks Roi

YANKS, JAPANESE TRADE AIR BLOWS IN MARSHALLS   Nips Hit At Roi Isle, Eniwetok Installations Blasted

Bricker Hits Capital Excess   Also Congratulates Kentucky For Its Republican Governor.

ENEMY LOSSES HAVE REACHED 113,221 MEN   ‘MOPPING-UP STARTS AFTER LAST JAP STRONGHOLD JS TAKEN—2,758 PLANES DESTROYED

PALOMPON PORT TAKEN BY YANKS   Amphibious Landing Made by 77th; Leyte Battle in Mop-Up Phase

Claim Allies Establish Bridgehead In Warsaw Proper  AND WIPED. OUT IN A VIOLENT BATTLE  Moscow Has Been Silent On Warsaw Battle For Some Time

SOVIET BALTIC DRIVE CRUMPLE: GERMAN FRONT   Reds Within Sigt of Riga

Soviets Cross Vistula   Big Baltic Drive Surging Ahead And Nearing Riga

Nazis Announce Red Crossing of Vistula River   Moscow Says German Defenses In Riga Area Are Collapsing

Huge Waves Threaten Apartments, Residents At Redondo Beach, Cal.

Nine Killed: In Train Wreck   More Than 75 Injured At Missouri Valley

Nine Are Killed In Train Wreck   Believe More Than 75 Injured In Train Crash In Iowa During Night

FEAR DELAY PEACE MAY BRING RAIDS °   Sunday May Be Deadline; Government Balks on Two Points

Would End Rationing of Meat Until-?      SENATOR THOMAS PROPOSES TO SAVE SURPLUS SUPPLIES FROM SPOILING BY SUSPENDING DIOCLETAIN RULE.   Bureaucrats Obstinate

Seeks Suspension of Meat Rations   Solon Declares Tons Destined to Spoil

FILE MANY CLAIMS   Corporations Ask Refunds of Excess Profits Taxes

NAZIS CAUGHT IN DUNKERQUE BLASTED BY AIR ATTACK AT EXACT MINUTE TRUCE ENDS   Arnhem Attack Failure To Prolong War, Belief

TRUCE ENDED AT DUNKERQUE   Bombers Attack Port The : Minute It Expires

Battle Rages At Dunkerque As Truce Ends   Fighting Halted To Permit French Civilians to Leave Channel Port

Dunkerque Battle Again Underway   Mad Been Halted to Permi Exit of Civilians; Full Seale Attack Avatied

Allies Open Big Drive On Italian Front   Making Progress In Fierce Battle; Bombing In Western Europe Continues

Ballot Valid After Death Of Soldier   MILITARY VOTES BY PENNSYLVANIANS, LATER KILLED IN ACTION TO BE COUNTED BY BOARDS.   Ruling By Jackson

Negro Servicemen Riot In Boston   Negro District In Turmoil, 29 Arraigned

Children Flee Robot Bombs   ‘Doodlebug Express’ Moves 50.000 Tots

WAR DEPARTMENT IS “HEDGING” ON PROMISED LEAVES   Rep. Smith Attacks Limitations on the Eo.2.ion Syv3tem

WAR DEPARTMENT ShiDatNa UN PROMISED LEAVES   Rep. Smith Attacks Limitations on the .o.a lon Sysiem

Men At War  Front Have Trench Feet   Many Casualties, Doctor Reports

YANKS PLUNGE DEEPER INTO SIEGFRIED LINE   Nazis Withdraw After 10 Hours House-To-House Fighting

12 PILL BOXES DESTROYED WITH FLAME THROWERS   Patton’s Men Mass Strength on Siege Are for Grand Assault on Saarbrucken, In. dustrial Center

YANKS KNOCK. OUT 12NAZI PILLBOXES   Plunge Deeper Into Vaunted Siegfried Line

YANKS CUT ~ DEEPER INTO GERMAN LINE   Third Ar-ay Troops Smash Jtrong Nazi Counter-Attack

Yanks Shatter Counterattack at Dillingen   Vicious 10-Hour Battle Sways Through Saar Town; Americans Finally Retake Key Village; Patch’s Army Nears Nazi Border

Saarbrucken Knockout Jab Being Shaped   Gen. Patton Muaasing Troops and Guns for Assault on Capital

REPEL COUNTER ATTACK IN 10HOUR BATTLE   Nazi Resistance Stiffer In Defense Of Vital Saar Regions

Yanks Win 10 Hr. See-Saw Battle Inside Saar Basin   German Steel Factory At Dillingen Taken By U. S. Troops

Clark’s Fifth ArmyDriving ‘Up Appian Way ToRome   Other Villages Are Encircled Or Captured; British Enlarge Their Garigliano Bridgeheads

U.S. Success Depends on Its Economy   GOVERNOR BRICKER DEFENDS DYNAMIC ECONOMY FOR POSTWAR PERIOD; ENDS BUREAUCRATIC RULE.   Pricker to Get Degree

U.S, DOUGHBOYS HOLDING FIRM AGAINST NAZIS   Germans 20 Miles inside Belgium Today

U. S. Doughboys Holding Firm In Some Sectors   German Infantry Follows Nazi Armor To Advance 20 Miles -

U.S. Armored Units Hold Firm In Some Advance Sectors   First Army’s Situation Termed as Better Last Night; May be Seeking American Supplies

Doughboys Hold Firm In Some Sectors; First Army Situation Called ‘‘Better’’

Germans Hurl Infantry Into  4-Pronged Push   Allies Admit Enemy Is Rolling Forward In Some Sectors Along Front

‘REPORT FIRST ARMY SITUATION 'RETTER WITH AMERICAN FLANKS  HARDENING AROUND NAZI DRIVE

Armored Columns Strongly Supported -By- Infantry- Units   Report Enemy Pincers Movement Cuts Off Some Elements Of U. S. Division In Vicinity Of St. Vith

Russ Closing Encirclement  of Pskov Area   Govorov Forces Halt German Rail Moves;  Slaughter 800 Nazis

TRAFFIC ON RAIL LINE PARALYZED   City, Three-Quarters Encircled, Is Under Artillery Fire

PSKOV NEARLY ENCIRCLED BY SOVIET ARMY   German Garrison Has One Rail Supply Route Left

NAZIS IN PSKOV CUTOFF BY REDS (IN THREE SIDES   Govorov’s Men Hurdle Last Water Barrier East of City and Capture Fomkino on East Bank.   AMERICANS ADVANCE IN LOS NEGROS AREA   orient: Says Sharp  Fighting Occurs, Japs  Beam Report to United States In English.

ENCIRCLEMENT CF PSKOVIS NOW COMPLET!   Gateway to hale: and Estoniu Held by Reds -

LUMBER TIE-UP IN NORTHWEST CUTS WAR WORK   Daily Production Loss of 9,500,000 Board Feet Estimated As 21,000 to 51,000 Men Strike

Strike Ties Un Lumber Industry   100-Octane Makers Out at St. Louis

General Lumber Tieup In Northwest Affecting Daily ~ put of 9,500,000  Is Unsettled —   MANY OUT IN DETROIT

Lumber Tieup Heads List Of Fight Strikes   Loses 9.500.000 Board Feet Of Daily Production; 20,000 Off Work.   IDETROIT SANS BREAD

Thousands Idle as Result of Walkouts   Estimates Wary; From 20 to 51 Thousand Men Are Off Jobs

Thousands of Workers Ouf or Strikes in U. S.   Estimates of Number Affected Vary From 20,000 to 50,000, Survey Reveals

8 Walkouts In Nation   Detroit Virtually Without Bread Due to Drivers’ Strike

Wage Disputes  Hit Industries   Lumber Tieup in Northwest Heads List of at Least Eight Walkouts in Nation

Eight Walkouts Halt Production Throughout U. $  Up to 51,000 Men Reported Idle in Plants

Lumber Tieup in Northwest Heads List of 8 Walkouts   Estimates of Total Idle. Varies From 21,000 to. 51,000

Lumber Strike Heads List Of Eight Walkout:   Tens Of Thousands Idle Today

MOST WALKOUTS  IN U.S. DUE TO  WAGE DEMANDS OWNERS OF LUMBER  MILLS INVITE THE GOV'T TO TAKE OVER

Lumber Tieup Tops Strikes  9.5 Million Board Feet Being Lost Daily

STRIKES TIE-UP WAR PRODUCTION IN MANY PLANTS   Lumbermen Fail To Report For Work Today

BRITISH HIT INVADERS IN . ROT ATTACK   Artillery and Aircraft Chase Nipponese Back to Hills

Naval Fliers Attack Ships   Crews Due for Leave Plead for One More Chance at Japs

Ready To Go On Back Now   Navy, Marine Fliers Got Chance At Japs They’d Pleaded For

Warsaw’ s ‘Fall Ruins Chances:  Of Poles Uniting   British Env. oy's Trip Home ‘Indicates ~.No’” Speedy - Solution’ To Problem

MINING CENTER IS THREATENED   Russian Troops Are Closing In On Hungarian City Of Szendro

RED ARTILLERY RIPS BUDAPEST   Rich Hungarian Iron And Coal Center Menaced By Soviet Drive

RUSSIANS POUND GERMAN DEFENSES AROUND BUDAPEST   Two Suburbs Blasted to Rubble—Next Few Days, Nazis Say, Will Decide Bitter Struggle.   SAVAGE AIR BATTLES FOUGHT OVER CAPITAL   Red Units to North Close In on Rich Iron and Coal Center of Szendro After 6-Mile Advance.

RedsClese In-on Rich -dron Center   Other Units Hammer at Narrowing German Defense Ring at ‘Budapest

Hitler Seems To Be Slipping Fast In France   Various Allied Army Drives in France Are Forcirg Hitler’s Forces Back to Homeland.

HITLER SWIFTLY LOSING FRANCE; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS DECLARES PARIS IS NOT FULLY LIBERATED

Lightning Advances By Allies Crumble Nazi Hold in France   Port of Bordeaux Falls to Fast Driving Americans and French; Patton 150 Miles From Germany

Nazi Grip On France Slips Fast   Patton’s Men Push East, 150 Miles From German Border

INVASIONS LESS THAN 200 MILES FROM JUNCTION   Marseille, Paris, Bordeaux Fall Within 30-Hour Period

Hitler. GripUpon France Is Slipping» With Heurs    Minister To Swaden’ Hurries To. Capital

HITLER'S GRIP ON FRANCE IS SLIPPING FAST   Several Importa nt  Strongholds Are In Allied Hands

‘TWO. MANCHURIAN INDUSTRIAL — ‘CENTERS HIT BY BIG U. S. BOMBERS "JAPANESE RADIO REPORT SAYS

SAYS ROME'S FATE _ RESTS WITH NAZIS   Allied Position Reiterated by Roosevelt in Letter i. to De Valera

FATE OF ROME UP TO GERMANS   Roosevelt Tells Irish Premier U.S. Can Not Save Eternal City

Rome’s Fate Still Rests With Nazis, F. D.R. Says   Reiterates U, 8. Stand In Reply to de Valera, Who Asks Belligerents _ To Spare Holy City WASHINGTON FEARS CITY WILL SUFFER Germans Contend Rome Open City, But Use It For Military Purposes

ROME FATE UP TO NAZIS, EIRE iS TOLD BY FDR   President Replies tc Irish Request for Allied Promise

Hope of Saving Rome Dashed by German Forces   Nazi Occupation ‘May Doom Capital

With American Forces In Normandy, July 18. —St. Lo fell to the Americans today.

VIOLENT BATTLES. CLIMAXED AFTER HEAVY FIGHTING   Shock Troops Stand Firmly In Eastern Suburbs—Also Capture SuburbanCity Ste. Croix De Lo.   GERMAN HIGH COMMAND ANNOUNCE CAPTURE   American Air Fleet of 1,250 Planes Strike at Rehot Bases In France and at German Targets.

Take Suburb In Violent Close Fight   Driven Out By Nazi Tanks After Entering Monday

Russians Near Brest Litovsk On Warsaw Road Mass For Smash Into East Prussia; Germans Counter-Attack In Normandy

INTIAL BLOW WN DRIVE DESIGNED ~ TO REACH PARK   Immediate Objectives. Ex. ‘pected’ to Be. St. Lo anc La Haye, West Coast Rail  - way, Highway Centers,   RAF HEAVY BOMBERS . ATTACK BUDAPEST   Germans «Step ‘Up Attack: ‘With Robot Bombs Afte: - Lull of Twenty-four Hours  —Casualties Renorted.

Americans Wallow Through Mud. Attack May Be First Full-Scale Blow To Knock Out  Germans At Caen.

First Blow Struck in Offensive Which Is Expected To Carry  Allies Into France Proper

Offensive Hits On West Coast Of Peninsula   Bradley Sends Troops Over The Top ln Driving Rain Over Sea Of Mad

BOTH SIDES MASS MEN NEAR CAEN   Yank Offensive Opens In Western Sector Despite Weather

YANKS OPEN NEW DRIVE IN FRANCE   Two Columns Head South On West Coast of Peninsula

Japs Lose 12 Merchant Ships   ENEMY VESSEL LOSSES REACH 558 AS AMERICAN UNDERSEA CRAFT RANGE PACIFIC; 12 JAP PLANES BAGGED IN WEWAK RAID

Solons Debate Insurance Law  May By Legislation Cancel Out Court’s Opinion, Leave Control With States

LEGISLATION FOR  BLOCKING SUPREME COURT 1S PLANNED   CONGRESS IS RACING TO. WARD SUMMER RECESS IN RAPID MANNE? _

Legislate To Cancel Court Insurance Order   riouse Considering Ruling Out Insurance Anti-Trust Verdict.

CAUSE OF DEATH ~ TOBE DETERMINEL   Autopsy Conducted on Body Of Aimee Semple Mc_ Pherson.

Autopsy Made On Evangelist   Aimee. McPherson. “Taken. By Death -

Mrs. M'Pherson Dies In Hote   Evangelist Stricken In Oakland, Calif.

New Zealanders Leave Army For Civil Pursuits  Produce. Food, War Materials

Major Decisions Being Won All Long Russian Front By Soviets; Baltic Land Gap Gateway Is Sealed.

 . oe Major Decisions Won By Reds On All Sections Of East Front   Another Massive Attack In Vicinity Of Vitebsk Reported; Leningrad Army 9 MilesInside Estonia

MAJOR DECISIONS BEING WON FROM BALTIC T0 UKRAINE IN GREAT ATTACKS BY RUSSIANS   Reds Reach Narva River in Estonia As German: Fall Back While in South in Dnieper Bend Red Army Tightens Noose About 100,000 German  Tk ninne

Victorious Red Armies Reach Mouth Of Narova River In Wide Advance

REDS WIN ALONG LONG FRONT   feal Land Gap Forming Gate To Baltic Sea

Soviets Push Forward Along Entire Front; Nazis Trapped   Encircled Germans Attempting To Escape By Air Transport

MAICR DECISIONS ~ BEING WON ON THE BROAN FRAT   The Onslaught Against Hitler’s Battered Armies Continues.   Is NOW IN FULL SWING   Gen. Govorov’s Leningrad  Army Has Reached the Mouth of Narova River.

Major Decision Being Won Alone Russian Front   Battered Armies Of Hitler Suffer Disastrous Blows

SOVIETS WIN NEW POINTS FROM NAZIS   Germans Attempt To Save Trapped Men Are Vain

NAZIS ATTEMPT EVACUATION OF TROOPS BY AIR   Russian Aerial Conirol Promises fo Balk Effort, Force 100,000 to Surrender or Die   DOWN TRANSPORTS   Advance in Esionia Seals Off Nazi Escape Route — Stockholm Reports Red Subs in Baltic

Russians Shut Off Corridor of Escape for 100,000 Germans   Shoot Down Transports Trying to Ferry Nazi Troops From Trap

supply Planes Downed   Hitlerites Try To Escape In Air Transports

Nazis Reel To Savage Red Blows   Russians Winning  Major Decisions in Continuing Assault Along Entire Front

Job of Mowing Down Enemy Planes Sounds Easy, as Ace Describes It

District Court Convenes Monday  Grand Jurors: iExcusec  ' Subject To: Call

District Court  Meets Monday  Judge Thomas To Preside At April Term

Red Terms For Finland Announced   Comparatively Mild De mands Made bv Russia  for End of War

Reds Offer Finns  Terms for Peace   Proposal Conveyed To U. S., Britain

RUSS-FINN PEACE TERMS CALLED MILD   Are Conveyed to American and Brit. Governments

REPORT SOVIET HAS OFFERED FINNS SIX MILD PEACE PLANS   Suggest, However, That Proposals May Be Trial Balloon

PEACE TERMS GIVEN FINLAND   Russian Armistice Offer Reported Comparatively Mild

Supply Lines Disrupted By Allied Raids   Luftwaffe Fails To Offer Opposition To New Aerial Assaults

‘WEST WALL’ POUNDED BY HEAVY WEIGHTS   RAF Resumes Forays Over Heart of Germany

Germans Threatened With Complete Paralysis of Troop and Supply Lines in 100-Mile Deep Coast Area

POISON GASIS USED BY ENEMY   Chinese Make Charge;  Situation Around Heng‘yang Considered Critical

Japs Use Poison Gas! Kill Many Chinese in Advance On Outer Defenses of Hengyang

Labor Disputes Keep 33,000 Idle   General Motors Strike Affects 7000 in Detroit

Thousands Idle In Labor Disputes New Strikes Break Out At Five Chevrolet Co. Plant:

Thousands Idle In Labor Disputes  em abor Disputes  New ‘Strikes Break Out At Five Chevrolet Co. Plants

RENEW OTRIKES IN FIVE PLANTS   Protest Discharge of Seven Workers Involved in Original Dispute.   ABOUT 27,000 ARE IDLE

Over 33,000 workers idle Tuesday as Istrikes continue thruout the nation

STRIKES KEEP MANY OFF JOB   Ranks of Idle Workers Are Swelled As Walkouts In Nation Spread

Powerful Red Drive UnderWay   Nazis Report Heavy Pressure Achieving Success On Iasi  Rail Juncton.

Soviets Drive on Romania Junctior Germans Report   Moscow Says: Enemy Push Again Hurled Back in Old Poland

DEWEY CALLFD MAN U.S. NEEDS   Republican Candidate Is Hailed As Inevitable For Presidency

DEWEY, CONGRESS LEADERS CONFER   Nominee Hailed as ‘Inevit: - -able Man for U.S. A.’   HAVE LUNCHEON MEET   Republican Governors Meet August 2, and 3 At St. Louis

Dewey Hailed As Inevitable Man for USA   Clare Boothe Luce Champions GOP Leader After Meet

Clare Luce Says Dewey ManforUSA   CONGRESSWOMAN FROM CON NECTICUT ONE OF SIX MEM- BERS OF CONGRESS WHO HELD  LUNCHEON WITH CANDIDATE,   Gevernors Attend

Dewey, Second 6.0. P. Group Hold Conference   Candidate States He Will Meet With Republican Governor:

Dewey Is Hailed as Nation's ‘Inevitable Man’  Republican Leader  Po a Ce er ee   Republican Leader Calle Meeting of State Governors

Dewey Is Hailed By Rep. Luce as Inevitable Man   Six Connecticut Leaders Back Him

DEWEY CONFERS ON ~ CAMPAIGN ISSUES   Governor Hailed as “Inevitable Man” by Rep. Luce

Representative Luce terms Dewey the “Snevitable man for the U.S.Ac

Dewey Is Hailed as Nation's ‘Inevitable Man’   Republican Leader Calls Meeting of State Governors

Security Tax Freeze Urged   Sen. Vandenberg Sees No Need For Doubling Of * Payroll Levy -

Vandenberg Seeks Freeze Social Security Tax Rates For Remainder Of Year ’44

SENATOR WOULD FREEZE SOCIAL SECURITY RATE   Opens Fight Against Rise; Points To Reserves

2,400 Planes  Take Parti in. Great Air Battle   U. Ss. Fighters Down 130; 41-Bombers; 28 Escorts  Lost by Americans

U.S. Loses 41 Bombers, 28 Fighters   1,100 Eighth Air Force Heavies, 900 Escorts  In Battle Over Synthetic Oil Plant, Rail Centers

While U. S. Eighth Air Force Losses Are Reported to Be 41 Bombers, 28 Fighters.   23,930 Sorties

Dewey Campaign Gets Underway   ‘Country Cannot Face Another Roosevelt Depression’ He Says   ‘New York Cotton   Fulbright Campaign ‘Shifts Into High Gear’ With Laney And Sims Pledging Their Suppor

JAPS CAPTURE POINTS NEAR CHANGSHA   Wkile New Battles Develop for Two Enemy Objectives in Hunan Province Offensive.   Amass Troops

PATROL LEVEES OF MISSISSIPPI, ILLINOIS RIVERS   RECORD BREAKING RAINS BRING NEW THREAT OF FLOODS

AFL, CIO Start Drive To Organize 20 Million White Collar. Workers

Work Bill Endorsed at Hearing   Navy Approve the New. Proposal   COVERS ALL MEN FROM 18 TO. 45   Would Be Subject to the Draft If Refusing Job in” - Essential Industry

Dutch, Aussies ‘Beat Off Japs in New Guinea   Action Reveals: - an Alliec Position That.Had Not - Been Disclosed.   FIRST. MENTION : OF DUTCH TROOPS   Enemy Forces -: Attacking _ South New. Guinea, Coast ” “Suffer Heavy Loss

JAPS HARD HIT IN NEW GUINEA   LOSE FOUR TROOP BARGES AT MOUTH OF THE EILANDEN

Jap Losses In  ~ New Guinea High Most Of Underside In Allied Hands

Dutch-Aussie Forces Throw Japanese Back   Four Barges Sunk, Nips Repulsed In Attack 600 Miles Northwest of . Port Moresby

FIGHT ALSO O SOUTH SUINEA   Official Report Indicates Al. lies Control Good Share’ Of Area.

Yanks Turn Back  Counterattacks   Nazis Offer Fierce Resistance In Italy

Bombers Give Enemy No Rest   German Army in Normandy Battered, South Coast Of France Heavily Hit

U. 5. Planes Try tc Annihilate German Arms in Normandy  Italy-Based Bombers Rake Southern Coast,  ‘lta baw Bien

Planes Batile fo Annihilate German Armies   Bombers Block Off Fresh Enemy Forces in Normandy

Planes Deliver Cripplina Blow To Nazi Forces   Bombers Plaster South France; Tactical Unit Gives Record Support

Allied Bombers Hit Nazis at Normandy, North, South France  Clouds of Planes Lash at Airfields,  Submarine Racec

AMERICANS DRIVE ON KEY TOWN   U. S. Troops In Sight Of Garapan; 13 Nip Barges Destroyed

U.S. TROOPS NEAR CAPITAL OF SAIPAN   Engage Japs In Bloody Battle For Air Field

YANKS CONTINUE” TOORVECLOSER TO SAIPAN CIT)   Chinese: Troops * Run Offen: sive Assaults to Near: Riv er Bank of Jap Held Tow of Mogaung:   FRENCH FORCE NAZIS TO~ HILLS ON ELBA ISLANC   Russian Armies: Close In on Retreating Finns Around Viipuri;; May Bring an Early: Capitulation,

YANKS ON SAIPAN FIGHTING TOWARD CITY OF GARAPAN   Enemy Attempt to. Land Amphibian Force Behind Our Lines Renulsed.

U. S. LCIs Sink 13 Jap Barges   Bloody Battle  In Progress for Aslito Airfield, 1449 Mi. from Tokys

Yanks Drive on Jap Center in Marianas   Hammering. at Approaches to Garapan

Yankees Are Near Adm’n Center of Marianas Invaders  Are Not Far   Jap Amphibious Counterattack Ends in Failure

JAPS FAIL IN SEA BLOW AT SAIPAN BEACH   Yanks Sink 18 Troop Barges In Battle Off Shore

JAP ATTEMPT TO LAND TROOPS ON SAIPAN SMASHED   U. 8. Troops Hammer Approaches To Garapan — Thirteen _ Rareres Sunk

Japs Putting Up Bloody Fight For Key Island   U.S. Navy in Control of Air; Nips Using Tanks

Saipan Invaders Nearing Garapan  In Bloody Clash   Jap Attempt To Land Amphibious Force On Beachhead Thwarted

Jap Counterattack Smashed at Saipan   Enemy Attempts to Land Troops Inside American Beachhead on Isle

UJ. §. DRIVES FOR AIRDROME ON SAIPAN   Jap Attempt to Land Forces Behind American Lines Frustrated.

WALLACE OPENG DAY BADGER TOUR   Vice - President’s Itinerary Includes Appearances in 25 Places.

Seeks President's . Help in Hiccuping   21-Year-Old Girl Now ix 44th Day Wants Doctor in Army for Trestment

NEWSWEEK POLL AGAINST FOR   Shows Four States May Decide Nov. 7 Election

Politics   Fortune Poll Shows Roosevelt With Edge  Of 53.5 Per Cent

Survey Now Gives  Dewey Slight Lead   ‘Observers Report Idaho Shift to Roosevelt

SUBS WILL TRY TO ESCAPE   Expect Gerntans to Attempt te Move From France to Norway

President Roosevelt Declares U.S. Will Hold Great Circle Control

ROOSEVELT SAYS JAPANESE NEVER BE TRUSTED AGAIN  FDR TANNED AND HEALTHY LOOKING RETURNS FROM PACIFIC

‘Can’t Trust Japan’--FDR   President Addresses Nation After Return From Pacific Jaunt

PRESIDENT IN SPEECH SATURDAY PROMISES JAPS WILL NEVER BE ABLE 10 START ANOTHER PACIFIC WAR   Roosevelt, in Week-End Speech on West Coast Declares Word and Honor of Japs Cannot Be Trusted And That We Must Remain Fully Prepared at All  Times to Prevent Reoccurance of Jap Sneak Attack

CANNOT TRUST WORD OF JAP%, FDR DECLARES   Sees Need for Years of Probation for Nipponese After War

FDR Pledges End to Jap Militarism   Tells Nation of Progress in Building Up Pacific Bases; ‘Japan Cannot Be Trusted’.

Japan Faces Probation for  Years, Says FD   Must Not Be Allowed Chance for Agression, He Tells Nation Upon  Return From Pacific

President Reports on. Pacific War   FOR in Speech Declares es Made to Carry  --~ Struggle to Jap  VThrechold _°¢.

FDR SAYS PACIFIC - WAR PATTERN LAID      President Reaches Bremerton After Trip — - of Month

FDR Says Word Of Japan Can Not Be Trusted   Gives Solemn Assurance That Never Again Would Japanese Empire Be Given Leeway to Start Another War

FOR Says Japs. Can’ {Be Trusted For Long Time.  “ dn Review Of Pacific,  : He. e Declares ‘Alaska: hfe De Ci medad

Chief Executive Reports on Tri In Radio Talk   ~ Long Period of Probation For Japan Must Follow Her Defeat, F.D.R. Says .

‘THE WORD AND HONOR OF JAPAN CANNOT BE TRUSTED’   FR Promises Nips Will Never Aaqain Be Aaarecsive

Roosevelt Catches Fish Near Juneau   COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF RETURNS TO BREMERTON WITH HALIBUT AND FLOUNDER TO NAVAL BASE.   fcnth’s Campaign Tour

Japs Can’t be Trusted, FOR   Never Again Will They be Given Leeway To Start Another War

Rabaul Receives Another Effective U.S. Air Blow   Area Blasted On Monday ;Two American Planes Lost.

Raids Resumed Against Japs In Rabaul Area   Two American Planes Lost In Attack Monday When 88 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Exemy

RABAUL HEAVILY HIT BY BOMBS   Effective 88-Ton Load Is Dropped On Area, Two Planes Lost  CALL KOHIMA VITAL

Stand against Political Censorship Between Nations Is Taken by Hull

‘So Solly’   a cee ene  That’s How Jap Felt As Yanks Sewed Throat

FINNS UNEASY, HAVE NO WORD ON RUSS PEACE   No Assurance That Envoy Has Made Any Direct Contact With Government of Soviet

FINNS UNEASY OVER PEACE MOVE RUMORS   Official Silence Of Government Worries People

Allied Troops Begin Closing In On Cassino   Advanced Troops Of Fifth Army Smash Forward To Rapido River   SHOWDOWN FOR CASSINO NEARS

JAPS ATTEMPT SUICIDAL BREAK   45,000 in Wewak Arez Isolated Since April by U. S. Trap

AST OF JAPS' 18TH ARM IN  SUICIDE DRWE   Hungry and Diseased, 45,00 Attack in Desperate Final Fight.

Jap Forces In  Suicidal Move In Wewak Area   Desperate Japanese Forces Seek To Break Out Of New Guinea Trap   PROBABLY 45,000 OF ENEMY CUT OFF

TRAPPED JAPS ~ LAUNCH PUSH “NEAR WEWAK   ENEMY FORCK ESTIMATED AT 45,000 MAKING ATTEMPT _TO BREAK ALLIED  BING

Hitler’s Birthday is Celebrated By Prisoners; Thev Get Bread. Water

SOVIET TROOFS SMASH MAZL AOUNTER- THRUST:   Advance Toward _ Communication Centers; Cut Vital Rail Line

Poll Tax Battle Renewal Threat Agitates Senators  Sponsors Urge Action; Southerners Warn Tha It May Split Party

BRICKER AND DEWEY WIN MORE SUPPORT FROM GOP LEADERS   Leaders Name Chicago As Convention Site, June 26 As Date

-GOP Push Ballot  For Servicemen   Governor Warren May  Run For Vice President

GOP Leaders Seek to Get Servicemen  A Ballot   Boom for Warren As Vice-Presidential Candidate Started

Japs Being Pushed Out Of India  US Air Stabs Have Nips Badly Worried

Japan Fears Activity Of U.S. Forces   Expect More Bombing Raids On Homelands

TROLLEYS MOVE IN PHILADELPHU   Soldiers Guard Carriers as  ity's. Transit Tie-up  Fiys, Transit Tie a

WILLKIE [5 NOT PICKING CANDIDATE   Close Associates Say He Will Not Interfere in Republican Convention; Give Platform Views.

Willkie not to help pick  "44. nominee  Intends to say what he thinks

BE SILENT ON NOMINEE:   Will Take No Part in Selection  Of Candidate

WILLKIE GIVES UP PART IN ELECTION   Abandons Part In Selection of Candidate, May Talk on Platform.

‘Hands Off’ Policy Seen For Willkie   Pre-Convention Talk On Favored ‘Planks’ Believed Scheduled

"DESERT FOX" ROMMEL ANTI INVASION BOSS   Twice Defeated German Reported In High Post

ROMMEL WILL BE GERMANY’S NO, 1 DEFENDE!   ‘Desert Fox’ to Inspect Hitler’s Defenses as AntiInvasion Chief

Rommel Given Defense Place   ‘Desert Fox’ Is Appointed Inspector-General Of * Hitler’s Europe

Adolf Takes Good Care Of Pal Rommel   The “Desert Fox” Is Named To Post Of Inspector Gentral

HITLER NAMES ROMMEL  AS ANTI-INVASION CHIEF Von Rundstedt in Active Charge: Of Defending European Coastline

Hitler Names His Twice-Defeated ‘Desert Fox’ Inspector General for Defense of Europe

ROMMEL 19 MADE CHIEF OF OEFENGE   Hitler Appoints Twice-beaten Former ‘Desert Fox’. Inspector - General for De - fense of Europe

Rommel In Charge Of Defenses For Europe   Twice-Beaten ‘Desert Fox’ Named By Hitle: To Be His Anti-Invasion Chief

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION OPENS TODAY   Nomination Of Vice-President ' Greatest Issue

Democrat — Convention Opens Today   "V. P. Nomination Holds Spotlight; Sen. Tru { man Strong Possibility

DEMOCRATS SET FOR OPENING OF CONVENTION   Delegates Alert for F. D. In: timation On Suitable Running Mate

Democrats To . Open Convention   ROOSEVELT’S RUNNING - MATE HAS CHIEF  INTEREST

Home Front Accidents Kill Injure More Than War   Annarent Causes

FDR, Truman In Agreement On Command   But President Says Merger Cannot Come Until After The War

Supreme Court Rules Exclusion Of Japs Constitutional But Must Be Allowed to Return if Loyal

Say Jap Removal Constitutional   Claim Citizens Must Be Permitted To Return

Polio Drive Ends, Dimes Still Coming   Bring in Yardsticks Now, Filled or Not, Say Leaders

se ipeparncac on i 4 COIUTNN .     Polio Drive Ends, Dimes Still Coming   Bring in Yardsticks Now, Filled or Not, Say Leaders

PFC. CHAS. H: OBYE AND SIOUX CITY GIRL TAKE NUPTIAL VOWS.   Ceremony Takes Place In Methodist Church At Monahans, Tex., Feb. 6

LOCAL SOLDIER AND CALIFORNIA GIRL ARE MARRIED   Adaville U. B, Church Scene Of Happy Event Thursday, February 17

AKRON SOLDIER ~~ MARRIED FEB. 6   PFC. Charles H. Obye, Jr., and Fern Dunn United At Monahans, Tex.

Akron Soldier Weds Westfield Teacher   Miss Lois McInnis and Pfé. Wm. Milbrodt Are Principals In Event At Akron

DONNELL APPEARS PROBABLE WINNER   HOLDS 3,788-VOTE LEAD. WITH ONLY 21,000 ABSENTEES TO BE COUNTED.

GERMANS TRY DESPERATELY T0 HOLD CITY   Latest Russian Offensive One-Fourth of Way to Berlin

South Is Solid For Byrd, Barr Informs Nation   New Deal Defeat Looms, He Asserts

City Wiped Out-Former Gavette Writer Tells Of Terrific Ponape Bombings

YANKEE FLIERS DESTROY MAIN TOWN OF PONAPE   Airmen Ii Widespread Sweeps Over Pacific—Island Apain Hit

Ponape And Plane Base Wiped Out   Marines Head Toward Ra. baul After Capturing  et ee:

American Planes Destroy Ponape, Key Jap Base   Island Strongholds East of Truk Hit In Combined Attacks

SOVIET TROOPS REACH GRODNO, NAZIS DECLARE   Hitlerites Also Admit Withdrawal of Forces in Area West of Luck

Red Armies Only 20 Mile From Reich   Grodno, Near Border, Penetrated; Germans Announce New Retreat

Temperatures.   Pinsk Is Captured, Stalin Reports, Along With Wilno

TWO DVGRG: suITS ARE FILED   Actions Are Entered by Persons in Tipton and Prairie Township

TWO OVEAGE SUITS. ARE FL   ‘Actions Are Entered  by. Persons in Tip on.  and Prairie~Lownship-

CEPTION OF NEWS BANNEL   Argentine Government Stops Reception of Wireless From New York,

Binelish Strike Snureedc«   Argentina Bans AP News Wirelessed from New York

Show Superiority In Air Attacks   Almost Unopposed In Drive In Pacific

HUGE INVASION FLEET READIED   Nazis Claim Coastal Defenses Will Stop Allies

Fleet Masses For Invasion, Say Nazis   DNB Reports Landing Vessels Gathering, Cites Counter-Measures

Germans Convinced Channel Blow Near   Foe Boasts of Defense Measures; Remind Allies of Bloody Failures

MONTGOMERY 13 IN ENGLAND   Arrives for Coming Invasion of Europe

CLOSE RESULT IN VOTING SEEN   Three of Four Surveys In dicate Slight Margin For Roosevelt

SOFIA IS HIT.   ALLIED NIGHT RAIDERS SMASH .AT RAILYABDS TO DISRUPT ‘WAR SUPPLIES TO BALKANS

OPA Restores Point Values fo Canned Corn   But Removes Some Jams, Preserves from Ration List

Jap Losses in Pacific May Mount to 50   Tokyo Radio Claims Whole Pacific Fleet is on the Prowl

REDS CAPTURE IMPGRT POINT SOUTH OF LWOW      1 a and. Hungary Created 7

REDS CAPTURE IMPORTANT PEAK   Surprise Attack Made  on Approaches to Lwow  eee On: SES TERI

Soviets Capture Strategic Height   Surprise Attack Made ‘On Lwow Approaches

RED ARMY TROOPS SEIZE INITIATIVE   Capture Important Point Southwest Of Stanislawow

REDS IMPROVE POSITION NEAR LWOW, REPORT   Local Attacks Made To Widen Springboard For New Drive

Makes New Crossing of German Line   First Thrusts Into Hurtgen— Other Forces  Capture Frenz

U. S.. Forces Make Fresh. Crossing Of  German Border  DRIVE NEAR SAAR   First ‘Army. Gathers New Power, Reaches Hurtgen. Today

Underground In Fierce Revolt Within Capital  Tanks Establish Firm Beachhead On Seine, Opening Path Towar«

Airmen Still Are Surprised   Though Attacks On Air Bases Ahead of Invasion May Be Why Few Nazis Up

fRattle Is Raging Qn Price Control   Question Of Increasing Living Costs Is Raised

Congress to Seek Revamping on Navy Rank Standards; Diseriminations Hit

Standards Sought For Postwar Navy   Personnel Status Tc Be Studied

Rep. Hamilton Fish Renominated Despite Dewey, Willkie Opposition; Sen. Clark Trailing in Missouri

Fish Is Winner; Clark Trailing   Rep. Marcantonio Is Renominated

Fish Wins in N.Y. Clark Lags i Missouri Voting  Marcantonio: Wins Nomination  On Both Tickets

Rep. Fish Wins Renomination  a Tree   Senator Clark Loses in’ Missouri

Hamilton Fish  Renominated   Sen. Bennett Champ Clark of Mo. Is Evidently Beaten

“WITS FRANE!   Welcomed By Liberated  People; Relations With  Allies Clouded.

Truman Flays  Dewey Allies   GOP ‘Isolationist Bloc’  Sunnort Denoannced

Allied Airmen Blast Key Nazi  War Factories   Major Scale Battles In Han nover Area Reported By Berlin: Mediums  Hit Airdromes    Strong Support By Fighters Is Given   RAF Mosquites Hammer Duesseldorf In Night, Attack and Return Without Losses

YANK PLANES HIT HANNOVER   Major Scale Air Battles Ir  Progress, Says Berlin

U. S. Bombers Hit Germany   Berlin Claims Major Scale Air Battles Occurred Over Reich

American Fliers Hit Nazi Targets  Daylight Raid Follows Assault on. Dusseldorf

NAZI RADIO REPORTS RAIDS NEAR HANNOVER   American Blow Follows RAF Attack on Duesseldorf Without Loss

U.S. Air Fleets Strike At Reich Targets Today   Germans Say Major Scak Air Battles Fought.

U.S. Heavy Bombers Hit Targets Deep In Germany   Strong Fighter Escort Accompanies ‘Medium Sized Forces,’ Strategi Headquarters Reports

THOUSANDS OF BOMBS BLAST MAJOR AREAS   Allied Bombers ,Smash a ' Military Targets in Germany.

MAJOR SCALE AIR BATTLES ARE UNDERWA\   Central Germany Under Attack Following RAF Attacks on Duesseldorf Last Nizht

Yank Planes Hit Targets In Germany   Touched Off Major Scale Air Battles, Berlin Says

YANK BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   Mojor Air Battles Reported By Nazis After Attack Early Today

Heavy Bomber Groups Strike Into Germany   Hannover—Mentioned—as Possible Target of Daylight Attack

NAZIS REPOR} MAJOR SCALE AIR BATTLES   Attack Centers In Hannover Area, Berlin Announces

Nazis Rule War Camp   Three Suicides By Anti-Nazi Germans Reveal Persecution

Nazi Fear Holds  Over Prisoners   Suicides of Three German Prisoners Attributed to Reich Control

2 Suicides Forced hy Nazi Order   Kangaroo Court Operating in Prison Camp, Army Probe Discloses   ACTED AGAINST THE ANTI-NAZIS   One Captain Hangs Himself After Being Accused of Speaking Against Hitler

Three Suicides Reveal Ruthless Nazi Hold on Captives Held in Kansas Camp

GOP Senator Defeated in Oregon Vote   Politicians Wonder at Upset: Dewey Wins More Support

Senator Holman Loses to Morse In Oregon Race  Dewey Gets 15 More  elegates; Communis a. £ m8

Morse Winner In Ore gon As  GOP Ne ominee   Former WLB-Member And Law Professor Beats Holman; Dewey Gets More Support

Fight To Death Talk Given By Ex-President   Hoover Delivers Most , Scathing ‘Speech —  Of Convention

Hoover Lashes New Deal Home, Foreign Policy   GOP Convention Cheers Fighting Speech By Fy-President

HOOVER FLAYS NEW DEALISW   Delivers Scathing Denun. ciation At Republican Party Convention

HOOVER BLASTS. DEMO POLICES. ~—ATCONVENTION   Delivers Most Scathing of All Denunciations Heard at Republican Gathering; Hits New Deal. ‘   ASSERTS HE 1S IN FIGHT TO FINISH   Declares New Deal Smacks In Milder Form of Same Tactics Followed By European Revolutions.

Hoover Sees US Imperiled By New Dea!   Says Only Change of Administration Will Preserve Freedom at Home

Hoover Charges New Deal has ‘Forged Shackles for Liberties of Our People’

HOOVER DELIVERS FIGHTING SPEECH   DENOUNCES POWER DIPLOMACY OF FOR’ NEW DEAL POLITICS

PHIL DOMINICK EXPECTED HOME   Taken From Front Lines In Italy and Will Be “ Fattened Up”

Fraud-Suspects to Lose Deferments   136 War Workers Fired From Jobs

NAZIS’ PLANES ABSENT DURING YANK ASSAULT   Raid Ends Three-Day Lull Enforced by Bad Weather

Lack Of Resistance Retlects Success Of Last Week’s Pounding   Liberators Escorted By Fighter Planes Hit Coast Of Caladis In All-Day Assault

Raid Brunswick, Aircraft Center Guarding Berlin   Forts Meet Little Resistance In Attack; Bombers Plaster France

Nazi Aireraft Center Hit By New Raid   First to Return  Say No German Plane Interfered

Again Blast Big German Air Center   No Fighter Resistance En countered Over City 120 Miles from Berlin

LIBERALIGM CAUSE AIDED BY REBLUIKE?   Demos Who Joined in Actior On Veto Think It Wit Helo Party.

VAST FORCES ~ ARE MASSED BY RUSSIANS   Final Assault on Hitler’s Fortress Be. lieved to Be Near at Hand.

REDS MASSING VAST FORCES FOR ASSAULT   Berlin Expects Blows From Arctic To Danube During Winter Drive

Vast Red Forces ‘Mass For Major Push On Germany   First Blows ILikely In East Prussia, Say Nazi Broadcasts

Berlin Sees Offensive As Imminen’   Winter-Equipped Forces Gather from Arctic to Danube

RUSSIANS MASS FORCES FOR WINTER OFFENSIVE   s Predict East Prussia Will Bear Brunt O Expected Drive

Nazis Expect Blows Along Soviet Front   Stalin Seen Ready To ‘Hoist Victory Flee Over Berlin’

All-Out Red Drive Against Nazis Seen   Winter ‘Offensive :  ‘Imminent, Both Sides Report

Both Meseow And Berlin Sav Great Offensive Is Imminent   Line Prepared, Arctic To Danube   Fighting Slacks Off Around Budapest; Local Skirmishes In EK. Prussia

RED ARMY PREPARING FOR DRIVE   Cossacks Planning Tc ® Water Their Horses In Rhine River

BIG. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IMMINENT   Ready for Large Scale Winter Attack

Grand Scale Red Army Winter Offensive Against Germany Is “Imminent”

RUSSIANS PREPARE FOR FINAL ASSAUL!   Grand Seale Soviet Winter Offensive Against Germany Imminent

BIG WINTER DRIVE IS 10 START SOON   Both Moscow and Berlin Admit New Push Is Scheduled

Red Army Set For Gigantic Winter Drive   Soviets Prepare _ For Final Blow Against Germany

MOSCOW AND NAZIS FORECAST WINTER DRIVE   Red Dispatches Say Vast Farces Ready to Hit Germany

Moscow and Berlin Agree Events Impend   Germans Say Armie: Gather for Blow at Pruccia

Winter Drive On Wide Front Held Imminent   fast Prussia Expected To Receive  First Blows Of Red ‘Final Assault’

Weaknesses Of German Forces Seen In Battle For Normandy Peninsula

‘Sverage Ability ‘of Nazi Troops Not Impressive   Number of German Weaknesses Revealed In French Operations

Hit DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SLOW GETTING UNDER WAY  AFTER FOUR HOURS’ DE. . LAY FIGHT STARTS ON DALLAS DELEGATION

Mark McGee Recommended As Keynofer   PRO-ROOSEVELT GROUP WINGS CONTEST

elrategy Apparently Wlapped At leheran— —By Kirke L. Simpson (  Allied Air Power Teamed With Red Offense

~ HAS THRILLING EXPERIENCES   ist Lieut. Felix Lukosus In Gun Duel Over Germany

PILOT BRINGS HIS DAMAGED BOMBER BACK TO ENGLAND   Lt. Lukosus Of Spring Valley Tells About His Plane Being) Crippled Over Germany, And  Of Return Trip.

Red Tanks Storm Southeast Fringe Of Polish Capital   Nazi Resistance Fades As Soviets Forge Arc On City

SIVIETS STORM OUTER DEFENSES OF WARSAW   German Resistance Evuaporates ag First White Russian Army Approaches

RUSSIAN FORGES CLOSING GAP 10 WARSAW. RIGA   ~ fled Troops Reported to Have  * — - Reached Outskirts of Polish Capital After “~ -Mile Advance,   BRITISH DRIVE WITHIN 5 MILES OF FLORENCE   Yanks Capture Second Airstrip on Tinian; Gain 2 Miles on Guam; Siln’ Two dan Shins:

STORM DEFENSE OF CITY AFTER O5MILE DASH   Report Germans Wil Make No Attempt to Hold East of Warsaw

RED TROOPS STORM WARSAW’S DEFENSES   Outskirts Of Polish Capital Reached By Russians

Nazi Resistance Melts Southeast Of Capital City   Brest Litovsk Fall Releases Troops in Polish. Campdiqn. -

RUSSIANS STORM DEFENSES POLISH CAPITAL AFTER 25-MILE PUSH   By-Passed Stronghold of Brest Litovsk Falls To Advancing Reds.

2 Powerful Armies Converging on City  Russian Tanks and Cavalry Hit  Chuthaactarn Area af Canial

Defenses of City Crumble Before Reds   Russian Ist Army Drives at Capital From the Southeast

Nazi Resistance Southeast of City Said ‘Evaporated   Huge Forces Released By Brest Litovsk Fall East of Key Citadel

Approach City From Southeast   TANKS AND CAVALRY MAKE  25-MILE DASH UP EAST BANK OF VISTULA RIVER IN POLAND

RUSSIAN TANKS, GAVALAY REACH WARSAW LIMITS   German Resistance Southeast 0: Polish Capital Has Evaporated

BEEF IMPORTS — —ARE STUDIED   PRESSURE MAY BE FUT ON AR  - GENTINA THROUGH CANCELLATION OF CON TRACTS FOR MEAT

ROME'S RAILROAD YARDS BOMBED AGAIN   Damage Reported Heavy—Nazis _ Express Fear Many Casualties . Were Caused.

ROME BLASTED BY PLANES OF AMERICANS   Tiburtina Railroad Yards Hit By Marauders Escorted By Spitfires; Rolling Stock And Warehouses Hit.   Blown Sky-High

Rail yards in Rome struck  by air force Heavy damage  tn inctallatiannge

Rail Yards At Rome Battered   Nazi Dead Clutter Beachhead Ground

ROME FREIGHT YARDS BLASTED   Rolling Stock And Warehouses Explode From Direct Hits

ANOTHER RAID MADE ON RAIL YARDS IN ROME   U. S. Bombers Report. ed to Have Done Great Damage

BLOUNT HELD IN ‘GERMAN PRISON   Parents Receive Notification Saturday That Fighter Pilot Is Prisoner

His family overjoyed at good news; shot down near Kassel; six members of bomber renorted alive.

U.S. Jury Indicts Army Colonel   Charges Conspiracy To Defraud Governmen

Army Man, Three Others Indicted   Two Corporations Alea Are Choraed

N avy Reveals Loss of Ten War Vessels  Include Destroyer, ° 2 Destroyer Escorts.

LOSS OF 10 SHIPS -REPORTED BY NAVY   Destroyer, Two Destroyer Escorts and 10 Lesser Craft Go Down in Pacific.

Navy Reports Ten Vessels Lost Af Sea   Brings Total Losses During War to 228

PLAN TO FIND WAR JOBS FOR DEFERRED MEN      All 4-F Draft Registrants Asked To Get Essential War Work

A-F'S SHOULD GET DEFENSE J08   Military Affairs Com. Studies Manpower Shortave

Four-F’s Under 26 Asked to Find Essential Work  Drive Pressed to   Drive Pressed to Free Men for  Service in Army

All TU! nder er-2t 6 428 5. Soug g nt  For War Jobs   New Drive’ Is Pr essed to Free Younger Men for “Armed Forces   HOUSE GROUP ACTS   ‘Hershey Asked. ‘to Furnish List of Appropriate Exemptions

4F SELECTEES ASKED TQ GET INTO WAR JOBS   Men Given Chance to Take Places and Save Themselves Being Forced Into Army Service.

GET INTO WAR JOBS, PLEA TO YOUNGER 4-F’S   Appeal To Under-26 Mer Made By House Committee

455 URGED 10 SEEK WAR JOBS   PRESS DRIVE FOR ABLEBODIED YOUNGER MEN

AF MEN ASKED TO. FIND “ESSENTIAL EMPLOYMENT NOW   House Committee Makes Appeal for Voluntary Action - Before Law Passes.

4-F Registrants Urged To Obtain Essential Jobs   Draft Chief Asked  To Prepare List of Appropriate Activities

MORE ACTION CONCERNING 4-F GROUP   Those Under 26 Asked to Enter Industry Voluntarily

Finland Transmits Reply on Russian Peace Demands to Moscow, tt Is Reported  re >. Mee   Red Offer Is Again Published by Pravda, Official Newspaper; It Is Indicated Russia Still Ready to Talk

AIR a OF CONTIN IN 24TH DAY   Fourth Anniversary of Invasion of France and Lowlands

AIR DRUBBING. OF CONTINEN IN 24TH DAY ©   Fourth Anniversary  of Invasion of France and Lowlands

LICENSES GO ON SALE SEPT. 5   Auto Drivers Must Have Licenses By Oct. 

APS THREATEN .S, AIR BASE ND CHUNGKING   Gain 40 Miles In South China

Chungking imperiled by Japanese   American Airforce Bases in China Endangered by  Enemy Moves

UPL. WILLIAM TERRELL CASUALTY IN PACIFIC   New Britain Marine Thrilled Seeing Jap Planes Fall   DESCRIBES THE JUNGLE

SEES 4 ‘JAP’ PLANES FALL AT ONE TIME   New Britain Leatherneck Back from Bougainville, Is Hospitalized   WOUNDED IN THE LEG

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CUTS OUT LUNCHES  FIFTY MILLIONS FOR SCHOOL LUNCH PRO. CRAM REEFIISED APPROVAIT

House Group Votes Agains! School Lunch   Appropriation of Fifty Million Is Cut From Billi

SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM CUT BY COMMITTEE   Ag Department Supply Bill Cut 93 Million  Below Estimates

Funds Denied School Lunch Plan and FSA   Crop Insurance Also Cut From Appropriations Measure

FARM SECURITY REFUSED FUNDS   School Lunch Program Hit by Economy Move

Funds for School Lunch Program Not Included in Appropriation Bill

Funds Also Rejected For FSA And Crop  Insurance Revival In Agriculture Ril]

Wage Stabilization Control for Farms  in About 20 States   WFA Official Declares Program Will Be Necessary in 44

HOUSE COMMITTEE SLAPS SCHOOL LUNCHES, GUAYULE EFFORTS   APPROPRIATIONS GROUP JETTISONS FSA AND CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM IN BITTER REPORT

School Lunch Program Funds  Cut From Bill   Cash For FSA Denied; No Revival Of Crop In esstamen Gabor

Battle Ends In Nazi Victory; Allied Forces Invade Albania As First Phase of Balkan Push

YANKS BLAST JAPS AT TRUK   Many Foe Planes Destroyed In Attacks from South west, Central Pacific

MaeArthur’s Bombers Hit Big Truk Base   49 Parked Japanese Planes Destroyed: Other Isles Raided By Pacific Fliers

JAPANESE BASE AT TRUK IS ATTACKED      Pacific Bombers Report 200 Direct Hits on Airdrome

TRUK BOMBED BY AMERICAN LAND PLANES   STILLWELL’S TROOPS SLAUGHTER 400 IN BURMA

MacArthur's Planes Make Truk Raid   Bombers Make 200 Direct Hits: 43 Planes Destroyed

Simplification of Tax Payment Near Completion   Amount To Remain At Level, Individuals To Avoid Computation

Early Enactment Of Tax Simplification Plat ‘Expected: Would Not Be Used Until January 1

Early Enactment of House Committee's Tex Simplification Plan Is Expected

SIMPLIFICATION PLAN OF TAXES SEEMS ASSUREL   Law Designed to Relieve 30 Million Taxpayers From Complex Forms

A SIMPLER  INCOME TAX ASSURED   Early Enactment Of House Com.  Plan Foreseen

Sunplified Method of Computing Income Tax May Be Used First Time in 1945

CROUP_DRAFTS SIMPLER PLAN TO PAY TAXES   Early Approval Seen For Method Starting Next Jan. 1

clo OFF OPPOSING BALLOT PLAN   MURRAY ‘DECLARES PROPOSAI “BEFORE CONGRESS WOULDBAR VOTING BY ELEVEN  _.. MELLION

Murray Denounces Vote Law   Claims Compromise Would Deprive 11,000,000 Men And Women Of Vote.

Democrats Back F. R. as Leader In ‘War, Peace’   Committee Meeting Becomes Virtual Fourth-Term Rally

Democratic Meet Turns Into Fourth Term Rally  Robert E. Hannegan Named Chairman Cliceann Salacetad ac Canvantian Clery

FOURTH TERM RALLY STAGED BY COMMITTEE   Rbt. Hannegan, New Chairman, to Decide Convention Date

DEMOCRATS TO ~ MEET IN JULY   Chicago Named Convention City — FDR Already Indorsed for President

loin in Move to aft’ Roosevelt  Dodge Fourth Term - Phrase But Ask Him

Democrats Ask F. R. fo Run Again   National Committee Makes Plea; Chicago Picked for Convention

Hannegan Is Named Head Of Committee  Chicago Chosen for 1944 Convention; Theta wast wae eS

Demos Gear Program For Fourth Term   Committee Calls Upon F. R. To Continue As Leader; Pick Chicago  Bar Canventian

Dem Gathering Virtual Rally For A 4th Term   National Committeemen Call on Roosevelt to  “Continue as World   - -Homanitarian Leader”   Chicago Selected  Convention City   ‘Rayburn. and Wallace Laud Roosevelt; Hold Sach _ Leadership Needed in Postwar Period

Democrats Give Fourth Term Boost   Pick Chicago for Meet; Elect Hannegan Chairman .

Party Leaders Ask 4th Term,  Pick Hannegan   Sit. Louis Atlorney Heads  Democratic Commitices he fod

DEMOCRATS WILL MEET IN CHICAGO   Robert E. Hannegan Chosen - National Chairman; Meet  ~ Turns Into Roosevelt Fourth Term Rally

Party Heads Approve Fourth Term   Chicago Meeting Urges Roosevelt To Lead in Peace

Democrats Seek FR as Leader Again   Would Draft Him for Fourth Term: Hannegan Chosen

DEMOCRATS STAGE {TH TERM RALLY   COMMITTEE CALLS ON F, D. R. FO RUN—NAMES CHICAGO CONVENTION CITY,

EXECUTE RAPIST IN GAS CHAMBER   Farrell, Durham Taxi Driver, Dies Still Denying He Raped Eight - Year - Old Stepdaughter.

-. 26,000 LESS JAPS IN PACIFIC! ©  That Number Killed By. Yanks “In Recent Island Campaigns -

16,000 Japs Die In Pacific War  Stimson Releases Results of Allied Bnet Kn Tew hdnnths

Stimson States 5,370 Dead Toll  On Bougainville   Figures Include Only Japanese Who Have Died Within American Lines

STIMSON AIRS HEAVY ENEMY TOLL ON LAND   Total Does Not Include Foes Who Died Of Wounds And Disease Behind Lines

26,000 ENEMY ~ DEAD COUNTED   Give Southwest Toll Our Total Given

26,000 Jap — Dead Counted After Battles   War Secretary ‘Outlines Recent Parifie Activities

STIMSON REVEALS NEW CASUALTY LIST OF PACIFIC   Announcement Shows United States Has Lost 134,632 Men.

26,000 Japs Siain in Action   Figures All Counted Dead and Don't Include Death From Wounds

Americans Kill 26,000 Japs      Casualties Given All Counted Dead, Stimson Asserts

26,000 BODIES OF JAPS FOUND   Toll in Pacific War Does Not Include ‘Probables’

Hurricane Death  Toll Rises to 28   Damage Is Estimated At Thirty Millions

HEAVY DAMAGE LEFT IN WAKE OF HURRICANE   Property Loss Estimated At 30 Millions; 33 Lives Reported Lost      STORM DECREASING OFF NEWFOUNDLAND

MOVES NORTH; OVER 28 DEAD   » PROPERTY DAMAGE OVER 30 MILLION IN FIVE STATES

Plan Regency  In Yugoslavia Plebiscite To Decide ~ On Monarch’s Future

Meadows, Lausel Lead W. Virginia. Ohio Races  Governor Contests Outshine Interest in

STOVER SEEKS TO REOPEN VOTE RECOUNT TODAY   Contends County Court Failed To Comply With Law

GermansReporied To Be Evacualing City Of Barneviile   By KINGSBURY SMITH, INS Staff Correspondent.

Battle For Cherbourg In Final Phase   Germans Evacuate Two Towns

Time To Check The Breeding Of The Fly   The Prominent Saying and the Goal Is “Kill The Fly Before Ht Can Multiply”

War Plant Pay Increases 0.K.’d   Foundry Hikes Granted To Aid Arms Output

lfalian Air War Stepped Up Suddenly   Virtual Stalemate Is Reported On Ground; Supply Lines Raided

Anti-Liquor _ Groups Heard By Committee   Prohibition Demanded -As Essential in Interest Of Better War Effort

Organized Drys Hit ‘Payday’ Drinking  Ask for Enactment, Of Bryson Bill

“Dry” Leaders Open Campaign   Fire Guns In Congressional Drive For National Proh:bition.

DRY LEADERS FIRE OPENING -GUNINDRIVE   “Pay Day Drinking” and - "Week-end Sprees” Candemned.   HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARS WITNESSES   Professional Prohibitionists Attacked by Ohio Solan

OPENING SALVO FIRED BY DRYS   Week-End Sprees Called Handicap To National War Effort

Organized Drys Have Their Say   "Pay-Day Drinking’ Deplored at Hearing

DRYS TESTIFY TO COMMITTEE   “Pay-Day Drinking” Anc “Week-End Sprees” Are Condemned

MRS. AL SIMS ~— BIFD MONDAY   Funeral For Mother of Pearl Sims Held Wednesday  Afternoon 

Mrs. Augusta Sims  Taken By Death   - Resident Here Past Five Years .

Assault Seeks To Encircle Metz Fortress   Nazis Report 1,000 Tanks, 500,000 Men Massed by Americans

TWO DIVISIONS DRAW PINCERS AROUND METZ   Third Group Crosses Swollen Moselle To Seize Cheminot Stronghold

Patton Hurls New Troops Into Saar Fight; Nazis Say Huge Allied Drive Due Soor

New Offensive _ Being Widened In  Northeast France   1,800. Warplanes Join In Pincers Drive On Powerful Fortress

Fresh Units Enter Fight  For Saar   Division Crosses Moselle River To Take Town.

In Pineers Drive Qn Fi ortress   TROOPS ARE SUPPORTED BY. OVER 1800 PLANES; BROADEN OFFENSIVE ON 87-MILE FRONT

Temperatures   Three U. S. Divisions Smash Toward Nazi’s Saar Basin

ATTACKS ON SECTOR 50 MILES WIDE   Over 1800 Planes Aiding In Drive Against Forts

PATTON PUSHING PINCERS ABOUT CREAT BASTION   New Divisions Thrown Into Plan To Roll Uo Nazi Line

ENVELOPMENT OF FORTRESS [S OBJECTIVE   Northeastern Battle Front Ablaze as Allies Strike at Saar Basin.

Pacific Air Raids Cover Wide Range   Enemy Air Fields Bombex and Truk Attacked for 36th Time

FR’s Strength To Be Tested   Anti-Roosevelt Slate. Planned In Massachusetts

U.S. Carrier Planes Attack Guam in Raid on Marianas   Fierce Fights Cost Japs 135 Planes To Six Americans

U. S. Carrier Planes Attack Guam in Raid on Marianas  Fierce Fights Cost Japs 135 Planes   » on es... A rem iwi 2 Pa eee

NEW DISPUTE ~ OVER LETTER   SPARKS SAYS HE WILL NOT REVEAL SOURCE OF LETTER HOPKINS SAYS 18 ‘FORGERY

BATTLE FOR CITY, GAP TO RHINE BEGINS   , French Take Great Metallurgical Works As Dijon Is Menaced

ALLIES CLOSING IN ON BELFORT   PATCH’'S TROOPS ONLY 25 MILES FROM GAP BEFORE GERMANY’S FRONTIER.

Allies Race On Belfori   Southern France 25 Miles From Gate to Reich

Germans Flee To Strategic MountainGap   City Bars Way Into Plains Before Reich Frontier on Rhine   STAGE TWIN DRIVES:   French Overrun Steel and Coal Region South of Dijon

Allied Thrust Draws Near Belford Gap   Advancing Armies 25 Miles Away From Sentinel City

ALLIED COLUMNS NEARER BELFORT   Within 25 Miles of Cit Whose Fortifications Ba Way Into Germany’s Fron tier on the Rhine

Allies Close In on Belfort As Nazis Run   Yanks Rush for Gatewa To Southern Germany After Crushing Nazi Defense at Besancon

Drive on Belfort Menaces Nazis In Dijon Region   Capture Would Cut Shortest Escape Route to Homeland

Allies Strike North Toward Gap On Rhine Frontier  Germans Break, Run Before Blows Of Yank Doughboys

Germans Flee Yankee Blows   ’ Allied Columns ‘Are  Closing on Belfort

ALLIED SMASH NEARS BELFORT   Two Columns Are 25 Miles From Nazi Escape Gap

U.S. Threatens ‘Ward Seizure   Mail Order Firm Gets Ultimatum From WLB

ATLANTIC BASES SHOULD BE RETAINED      Adm. King Says U. S. Should Keep Them After War

Put Pressure On Budapest  Reds ‘take Monor,   Reds Take Monor, Close To Capital

Russians Key Pressure On Budapest   Monor’s Fall Clears Almost All of Sznolok Trunk Line

RED PRESSURE ON BUDAPEST GROWS   SOVIETS CAPTURE MONOR, BASTION 14 MILES SOUTHEAST

RUSSIANS ADVANCE. -INBUDAPEST DRIVE   Town Seven :Miles From Hungarian Capital Taken

Several Nearby Towns Seized By Russians in Rush Toward Hungarian Capital.   Take Prisoners

REDS REPORTED BATTLING NAZIS INSIDE BUDAPES!   Moscow Broadcast+Says Troops Are Pouring Through Gap Ripped in Capital’s Defenses.   MAJOR RAIL FORTRESS TO NORTHWEST FALLS   City Under Attack From Three Sides With Germans Apparently Resisting  Stubbornly. —

Reds Take Monor Bringing Fal! of Budapest Nearer   Soviet Gains Ara Rapidly Isolating Capital; Fail with Counter Attacks

REDS CAPT NEW POSITIONS NEAR BUDAPEST   Fierce Counter-Attacks Fail to Dislodge Russ Forces in Suburbs

‘Noose Tightens About Budapest   Pressure On Hungarian Capital Increased When Monor Falls.

Reds Clear Budapest-Szolnok Railway; Fierce Battle Rages East Of Danube Capital City   Russians, Already In Southern Edges Of City, Steadily Increase Pressure

Russians Step Up Offensives   INCREASED PRESSURE ON GERMANS IN THE BALKANS

Soviet Army in Outskirts of Budapest   Nazi Counterattacks Fail to Dislodge Russian Spearheads

Red Pressure Is Increased: On Besieged Danube Port   Germans. Are Driven’ . From Trunk Railway

Russ Tighten Budapest Vise   Large German Force: Squeezed In Trap

BATTLE RAGES IN BUDAPEST      Reds In Suburbs, Capture Vital Road Junction  Northeast of City

GAIN IN FIGHT FOR BUDAPEST   Russians Capture Important Towns Near Hungarian Capital

Russians Increase Pressure Against Besieged Budapest   Monor Taken; Enemy Positions Thirty Miles East of Capital of Hengarians Seized in Push

RUSSIANS INCREASE PRESSURE. AGAINST HUNGARY CAPITAL  MOSCOW COMMUNIQUE

RUSSIANS INCREASE PRESSURE AGAINST HUNGARY CAPITAL   MOSCOW COMMUNIQUE REPORTS FALL OF IM DANDTABAIT AIT ADDY DSNIATI

Soviets Capture Monor In Attack Toward Budapest   Nazi Swept From 50-Mile Budapest-Sznolnok Railway; Tito Storms Skoplje In Yugoslavia

Russians Get Two Places  Near Budapest   Germans Putting Up Strong Defense of Hungarian Capital

Soviets Clear Germans From Trunk Railway   Russian Troops Are Already In Southern Outskirts Of Ridanest.   KOE COUNTERATTACK

Reds Break Into Hungary s Capital City   Rail Fortress Is Captured by Advancing Soviets

Multi-Pronged Drive Closing on Budapest  Soviet Armies Step Up Assault  _ FF

REDS ADVANCE INTO SUBURBS OF BUDAPES]   HUNGARIAN CAPITAL DOOMED; LAST RAIL FORTRESS FALLS

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON BUDAPEST   Pressure Increased On Nazi Positions Near Hungarian Capital

Reds Capture Railway Point   Fall of Monor Adds To Pressure on Germans Defending Budapest

Russians Keep Pressure On Budapest  Monor’s Fall Clears A nau. os . =   Monor’s Fall Clears Almost All of Sznolok Trunk Line

Cross Danube To Flank Budapest   Russians Say German And Hungarian Losses Are Heavy

REDS TIGHTEN BUDAPEST RING   Town To Southeast Is - Taken By Soviets

Monor Taken: Pressure Great On Budapest  Budapest Outskirts Occupied As Soviet  me gm

Tito’s Men Storm Skoplje, Yugoslay City On Belgrade-Athens Rail Line

SURGING REDS ACROSS DANUBE. REPORTS CLAIM   Pressure on Hungary Being Increased with Russians In Budapest Outskirts

Godollo falls as Russians press ahead  Claim units have entered Budapes

Pressure on Budapest Increased   Monor, 14 Miles Southeast of Capital, Falls To Soviets

Red Army Pushes On   Increase se Pressure On  Besieged Budapest By. Capturing Rail City 

ESSURE ON JDAPEST IS ICREASING   ians Sweep the Enemy om Nearly All of 50Mile Trunk Railway  to Capital   °9GE OVER DANUBE

REDS PUTTING MORE PRESSURE ON SIEGE CIT)   Fight Way Into Outskirts Of Bud apest, Sweep German Forces Back From Trunk Railway

Pressure On Budapest  Is Increased  ‘Monor Captured  By Red Army

RUSSIANS CLEAR BUDAPEST RAIL   PRESSURE ON_ BESIEGED CAPITAL INCREASES

Monor Is Taken By the Russians   Red Army Increases It:  Pressure on the City of dapest   CLEAR TRUNK RAILWAY   Fierce Counter Attacks by Nazis Fail to Check ' Soviets

Red Pressure On Budapest  Is Increasins   Russians Capture Momnor, 14 Miles Southwest Of Metropolis; Other Nazi  Pasilions Seized

New Pressure On Budapest   Advancing Red Troops Capture Monor; Sieze Other Enemy Positions

REDS CLEAR WAY INTO OUTSKIRTS OF BUDAPEST   Russians Capture Godollo, Last Fortress Outside Battered Hungarian Capital

Red Gains Outside Budapest Increases Pressure on City   Monor, 14 Miles East of Capital, Falls: Other Points Seized

Russians Enter Budapest from Eastern Side   Germany Admits Breach in Lines

—RUSSIA~—.  REDD PRESSING TN ON BUDAPEST   Monor, 14 Miles From Danube River Capital, ~ Js Captured   FIERCE FIGHTING   Large Numbers Of Russian Troops Reported Crossing Danube

Russians Increase Their _ Pressure On Budapest As Fighting Is Stepped Up -

Reds Bolster ~ Budapest Are   Germans Reported Moving Actrinon Supplies

REDS INCREASE PRESSURE UPON CAPITAL CITY   Kisalac, Seven Miles From Budapest, Falls To Russian Arms   MORE STRONGPOINTS ARE BEING ENGULFED

REDS CAPTURE MONOR; TROOPS IN BUDAPEST   German Troops Swept From Wide Front

U.S. Industrialist Tells Soviet Of Differences  Johnston Describes Variances in Nations’ Ideology

U.S. Industrialist Tells Soviet Of Differences  Johnston Describes Variances in  hLtinrset Lis lai

PRESIDEN ASKS GONERESS ERAGI 5 NEW PROGRENS   Says Service Act, Food Law and New Tax Program Ne-ded

One of Five  Points Offered   Asks Adoption of Program To Help Win War

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   President Asks Congress to Adopt Five-Point

Yanks Facing Tough Job Now   Germans Mean to Battle For Livorno, Bring Up Reserves To Halt Yanks

Nazis Dig In For Stand At Livorno   8th Army Troops Advance Despite Stuff Opposition

Joi From South and Southwest and Drive to Point Five Miles From Important Communications oy on Road to Elaveance

Nazis Fighting. Allies Fiercely   GERMAN RESISTANCE IN ' ITALY STIFFENED

IGHTH ARMY NEARS CITY. OF AREZZO   British Within 5 Miles of That Important Communications Center on Road to Florence — Yanks. Alen Cain.

ALLIES EXTEND ITALIAN: GAINS   Believe Germans to Offer Fight : at Livorno

Heavy Blows  Throw Nazis Back in Italy   Foe Battles Fiercely to Stem Allied Drive But Fails

Allied Troops Drive Nearer Vital Communication Site  American Units Are Moving North On Western Coast

Allies Converge Upon Arezzo  8th Army 5 Miles From Rail Center; Americans Advance

‘Eighth Converges  Upon Arezzo City   American Units Move Toward Outskirts of Rosignano in Italy

GERMANS RUSH RESERVES INTO LIVORNO FIGHT   American Units Onl 13 Miles From fe ian Port; British Eighth Within Five Miles Of Arezzo.

Eighth Army Now 5 Miles  From Arezzo   Americans Advance to OutSkirts of Rosignano Against Stiff German Resistance

EIGHTH ARMY ONLY 8 MILES. FROM AREZZ(   American. Unite ® ‘On "West Coast: ‘Also . Gain .

Fifth, Eighth Armies Keep Up Advance  German Resistance On Italian Front

Fifth Army Battles Nazis 15 Miles South Of Port At Leghorn   Advancing Allies Beginning To Meet Stiff German Resistance At New ‘Gothic Line’

Yankees Come Up  Against New Nazi  Lines at Arezzo Stillened Resistance Also Given British Eighth as Foe Prepare  7. wi3. WwW... O21...

Nazi Resistance in ltaly Growing  Unable to Check Advance of Allies

(Twin Advances Are Made in Italy ‘Against Stiff German Resistance

Nazi Defense  ‘Stiffening  ' Near Livorne      American Ui Expec Bitter Battle for Prize Ttalian Port

Allies In Italy Move Forward Or  Both Fronts   Advances Are Re corded Against Stiff Resistance

Fifth, Eighth Armies Forge  Ahead In Italy   Americans Enter Rosignano In Their Advance On Livorno.

MOVE UP IN ITALY   Two Advances Recorded Against Stiff German Resistance

Allies Threaten Key Italian Towr   Eighth Army Within Five Miles Of Arezzo And Yanks Drive Nearer To Leghorn

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS NEARING CITY OF FLORENCE   American Units on Italy’s  West Coast Move Up Against Stiff Nazi Resis tanca

‘Germans Yield More Ground In Italy Under Continuing Hammer Blows Of Allies   Eighth Drives Within 5 Miles Of Arezzo: Fifth Reaches Rosiqnane

ALLIES IN ITALY AGAIN ADVANCE   Drive To Within Five Miles Of Arezzo, Communications Center

Advance Made Against Heavy Opposition; Progress Expected To “Be Slow With Germans Making Every Attempt To Hold Port of Lrvorno-Longs As Possible.

Advance Against Stiff Resistance   Americans in Italy Only 13 Miles from Port of Livorno

Two. Allied Forces Near Rosignano  And Arezzo   ' Advarices Recorded. Over Traly’ s Front’

ALLIES ADVANCE ON 2 FRONTS IN ITALY   Eighth Near Communications Center; Others Push Nearer Livorno.

Eighth Army Nears Arezzo   American Forces Push Within Less Than  -¢ Miles of Liverno

ALLIED ARMIES PIN IN TAL   Eighth5 Miles From Communications Cen. ter Of Arezza

SCT. BURK WINS FLYING CROSS   Medal Awarded After 300 Flight Hours in Asiatic Theater

C10-Endorsed Tobin Is Conceded  Massachusetts Governor Nomination   Sen. Thomas Leads Two Democratic Opponents  In Oklahoma; Fry Ahead in Michigan Race

Senators Okay State Jobless * Benefits Bill   Committee Acts Rapidly On Unemployment Phase  gt Diicnnensrmmennes

SENATE UNIT OXEHS STATE RIGHTS BILL   Battle Lines Drawn Over Post-War Jobless Comnensation

Denies Army Wil Induct Older Mer  peas Bracket Not Con  sidered—Patterson

Lightning Pilot Gets 21st Plane   Leading Ace Fighting Now In South Pacific

COUNTY 16 NEARING 1 F-BONO QUOT   Little by Little Small Buyers Are Closing Gap; $52,588 l aft tn Rn

TOLD BY FDR ~ OF U.S: PLANS    ernie ee  Chief Tells. Congress Dollar. Matching Settlement Ou

Lend-Lease Should End. With Conflict F.D.R. Says   No Effort To Match Dollar for Doar — In Final Settlement, President Makes Clear  WRITES TO CONCRESS

Lend Lease To End When War ls Over   President Roosevelt Warns European Nations That No Effort Will Be Made to Match Funds

Lend-Lease Will End With Victory. Allied World Is Told By President

WALLACE HUB ‘AFWDE OPEN PHAR FIGHT   Second Place on Democratic Ticket Main Topic as Leaders Gather.

Demo Vanguard Storms Chicago. Ready for Battle   Leaders Predicting © “Wide-Open’ Fight Over Vice-President

Democrats Await Roosevelt Advice On Vice-President   Hannegan Said To Have Letter Favoring Wallace

Demnorai Party Leaders Predict "Wide Open’ Battle for Second Place

BATTLE MAPPED FOR DEMOCRATS   Vice Presidential Race At Chicago Convention To Be “Wide Open”

Hannegan s Silent Over Second Place   Believed to Carry Letter With FDR Wishes on Wallace

Battle for Vice Is "Wide Open’   "Many Candidates in Running for Second Place on Ticket

L0-Ld Seeking Second Place OnFDR Ticket   Chief Reported to Prefer Wallace But Wide Open [ea eee

Open Battle Due on F. R. Running Mate   Hannegan Silent on President's Views on Filling Nomination

“Hannegan Silent On FR. s View Of Running Mate  Wide-Open Battle Predicted for ®@ Vice Presidency

Hannegan Says He’s Not Ready To Give Views   Chairman Reaches Chicago But Ducks Curious As Democrats Await Roosevelt Choice

MORE DEMOCRATS. REACH CHICAGC   WIDE-OPEN FIGHT FOR VICE , PRESIDENTIAL ‘NOMINATION IS PREDICTED.

Gov. Arnall of Georgia Certain FDF Favors Incumbent As Running Mate

Coalition On Ballot  Measure   Favor Federal Ballot Only If State Fails To Provide For State Supervision.

Soldier Vote Bill Speeded   Debate Is Limited To Bring Measure To Vote

FDA SETS NOV, 23 NS THANKSSWING   Five States to Eat Turke Nov. 20; Two May Cele brate Twice

FDR Proclaims Nov. 23 As Day Of Thanksgiving Six States Will Observe Nov. 30

Roosevelt Proclaims Fourth Thursday As Thanksgiving Day Virsinia Sticks To Nov. 30th _

Thanksgiving Da Proclaimed On November 23   Six of States Plan to Observe Last Thursday

President Calls Fer National Day Of Thanksgiving   Under Federal Law Observance This Year Falls on November 23; Bible Reading Uraed

F. D. R. Sets Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving   COMPLICATION OF TWO HOLIDAYS PERSISTS AS MONTH HAS 5 THURSDAYS

Thanksgiving Set Nov. 23   F. R. Proclaims Fourth Thursday in Month; Five States Observe Nov. 30

Roosevelt Follows Federal Law and Proclaims Nov, 23 Thanksgiving Day

When Citizens Offer Assistance Nation’s Disabled Could Turn Healthy Producers  ee ee ag

FINNS MOVE TO FORESTALL COUF   Observers Believe “Big Events” Are in Offing

FINLAND oURMONG AANNY UNITS BACK   Deferments fcr Men Lisgualified Would Be on Lesser Basis.

FINLAND SUMMONS AAMY LINITS BACK   ‘Deferments fcr Men Disqualified Would Be on Lesser Basis.

FINNS REPORTED TO FEAR — NAZI SEIZURE OF CONTROL   HELSINKI DIPLOMATI( CIRCLES BELIEVE RUSSIAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS MAKING BEADWAY

FINNS SEEK T AVOID BEING “HUNGARIZED”   Expectation of “Big Events” No Secret in Helsinki

FINNS HOPE 10 BALK GERMAN ‘PROTECTORA T E’      Drastic Steps Taken To Prevent Land Becoming A New Hungary   ‘ALL SOLDIERS RECALLED   Fighters Not Returned Tc Front But Retained At Strategic Points

RAID ON TRUK COINCIDES WITH PALAU ATTACK   Allied Bombers Over Area Are From  Newly Won Bismarck Sea Bases

Strongholds Of Japanese Are Pounded By Airforce   Bismarck Sea Bases Are Used By Planes

Jap Bases in Carolines Hit   MacArthur Tells of Strikes at Truk, Woleai. Hollandia

Planes Strike From Newly Won Bases  Jap Strongholds In The Carolines Feel Initial Blows Of Allied Bombs

Great Naval Base at Truk Bombed for First Time; Hollandia Smashed

U.S. Land-Based Planes Strike At Carolines   Jap Base At Hollandia. Dutch New Guinea Smashed.

Japanese  shipping, bases hit   US. fliers active; rain halts troops

Tropical Rains Force Halt In Levte Battle   Warplanes Stage Series of Raids In Pacific Area

Warplanes Bomb Three Jap Vessels   Widespread Raids Made In Philippines And East Indies.

Work Started On Great Base Says W Arthur   Japanese Withdrawing Westward After Initial Defeat; Their Supply  Problem Said Difficult

‘Americans — Gain Steadily On All Fronts ‘On Leyte   Preparations Begin To Groom 2 Airfields For Use by Yanks, Island as Great Base  AIR RAIDS CONTINUE

‘ '  Yankees Gain On Leyte; Start Work On Great Base   MacArthur Tells Philippine Peopl . Forces Come As Liberators  For Archipelago

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   British 8th Army Smash es Across Ghiaia Cana!

OPA REDUCES POINTS FOR VEGETABLES   Increases Ration Values of Canned Fruits, However

CUT VEGETABLE POINT VALUES   OPA Boosts Canned Fruits; Lard Points Reduced to Zere

OPA MOVES TO SLOW UP HIGH FRUIT SALES   Boost Canned Ration Values  CUT VEGETABLES     Lard Is Free After Sunday

OPA CUTS VALUE FOR VEGETABLES: RAISES FRUITS   Changes To Be Effective Sunday; Details Listed

POTS GO COW UN VcGE TABLED GO UP ON FAuiT,   OPA Administrator Reduces Precessed Vegetables Sharply.

FRUIT POINTS INCREASED) AND VEGETABLE POINTS LOWERED—LARD POINTS ARE ELIMINATED’

FDR Gains 70 Delegates In Ghio Vote   Governor Bricker Gets 50 Delegates In GOP Primary

FDR Gets 70  Delegates. Total Now 525   52 Come From Ohio And 16 Received  From West Virginia

FOURTH TERM RACE IF F. D. R. DECIDES   Democratic Nomination Now Dangles With 677 Delenates

BRITISH AND SOVIET PRESS WARN AGAINST NAZI PEACE GESTURES   Russian Publication Advises People of Nazi Efforts to Sow Disunion   Moscow IS. JITTERY

Britain Puton GuardAgainst ‘Peace Rumol      Pravda Report Still I: Diplomatic Mystery in Allied Quarters

BRITONS WARNED ON ‘PEACE TALK’   All Moscow Remains Jittery Over Rumored Meeting —

Britons Warned To Guard Against Nazi Propaganda  Insidious Wave rf Oe a

WARNS PEOPLE   Britons Told to Be on Guard For Insidious Peace-Talk Pronacanda.

TELL BRITONS TC GUARD AGAINST NAZI PEACE TALK      Must Not Let Propaganda Issued by Germans Split Allies

Wave Of Peace Rumors Likely   Britons Warned Against  Nazi Moves; Russian Claim ‘Stirs Reds

British Told Peace Talks  AreRumors   Nation Is Warned To Be On Guard Against Trick

British People Warned To Be Wary At Deace Rumors Coming From Nazis

WARNING IS ISSUED  AGAINST PEACE TALK  RUMORS BY GERMANS LONDON PRESS AND  MOSCOW MAGAZINE SAY IT IC PROPACANDA

Give Warning Against Wave of Peace Talk   Both Britons and Russians Told to Be on Guard Against Rumors   ‘MOSCOW JITTERY,’ AP. WRITER SAYS   Pravda, Article Continues as Main Topic of Conversatlon Among Russians. ~

ALLIES WISING UP TO RUMOR DANGER   Britain and Russia Both Warn Against Peace Talk

Peace Talk  ‘Propaganda’   London and Moscow Papers Brand Rumors As Nazi-Inspired Lies

WARN BRITAIN OF PEACE TALK   People Told Propaganda Is Inspired by German Sources.

NAZI PEACE  TALK WARNING   Britons Told to Be On Guard—Echo from Moscow

Wave Of Nazi Propaganda Expected.....  Britons Warned To Be On Guard For Rumors

PEACE-TALK PROPAGAND! IS ASSAILED   Britons Warned Against Wave Of Nazi Trickery ©

BRITISH GET WARNING ON PROPAGANDA   German Peace-Talk Seen As Dangerous

Warn Britons of Loose Peace Talk  Pravda Story Has Moscow "dittery'

Nazi Propaganda Designed T.0 Sow A fi j Di °. ty,  Countries Told

Nazi - Inspired Peace Rumors  Disturb Allies   British Press Warns Against Letting. Propaganda Upset Cordial] Relations

Warning Is Issued On Peace Talk   Germans Charged With  Making Attempts To . Split Allies _

PEACE-TALK TALES CALLED NAZI STUNTS   British Press Warns Readers to Be on Guard Against Attempts to Sow Seeds of Confusion and Dissension.

Britons Warned to Guard Against All German Peace Tall   Moscow Magazine Also Cautions Russians to  be on Guard

ALLIES WARNED  AGAINST GERMAN PEACE GESTURES   Britons Told to Be on Watch for Nazi Inspired Rumors Designed to Divide Allies

Hit Germans’ Peace Rumors   Britons Warned To Guard Against Wave Of PeaceTalk Propaganda.

U.S. Navy Foree PoundsGateway To Philippines  Rita Mile tee WVaml -UWlaw   Nips Claim Yank “War ships Assault Yap in Raid Follow-un

U. $. Ships Blast Palau Islands   Carrier Planes Also Hi: Japs Neor Philippines

Warships, Planes Batter Islands  Enemy Bases Are Heavily Damaged

TROOPS SIX MILES FROM: GREAT CIT)   American Lines Tight, ened Around Vital Saar Basin and Its Big War Factories.   COUNTER-ATTACKS ARE BEATEN OFF   Hodges Pushes Closer to Roer River—Ninth Army Wipes Out Resistance in Julich.

BIG INDUSTRIAL HEART OF SAAR PATTONS GOAL   Americans Hurl More Men And Tanks Forward In Expanding Siegfried Bridgehead

3rd Army's Big Guns Pounding Industrial City   Nazi Counterattacks are Repulsed As Saar Bridgehead is Expanded; 9th Army Drives to Julich

Hurl shells at greatest city in Saar basin  Nazis mass for assault on Roer

NAZI FACTORY CITY POUNDED BY ARTILLERY   GAIN OF OVER TWO MILES MADE BY THIRD ARMY

Lash Out on 21-Mi. Front to Within Short Distance of Saarbrucken$3 Organized resistance at Julich Collapses.

Heavy Artillery Hammers Saar’s Big Industrial City; Ninth Holds Julich

Advance Menacing German Coal Mines   Siegfried Lines’ Big Guns Turned on Bridge At Saarlautern Which Was Captured by Yanks

Saarbrucken Being Shelled by Eight-Inch  Artillery  CITIES IN FRANCE ALSO 2 UNDER FIRE  Ninth Army Fig Fights in Julich and Linnich on Roer

Allied Lines Tightening Around Vital Reich Basin   Most of Saarlautern Controlled by Allies, Who Gain Steadily  Against Alarmed Foe

Yanks Punch Ai Vital Saar Basin   Germans Bolster Lines To Protect Mines, Factories

Saarbrucken Is Hammered Hare By Heavy Guns   Three American Divisions Advance

TROOPS ONLY SIX AND HALF  MILES FROM SAAR BASIN’S GREATEST INDUSTRIAL CITY

Great German Industrial Area at Stake   Americans Enlarge Bridgehead Gained  at Saarlautern

Saarbrucken Being Shelled by Eight-Inch Artillery  CITIES IN FRANCE   Ninth Army Fights in Ju: lich and Linnich on Roer

OUREENING CITIES ARE ALSO MAULED   Third Army Fights Deeper Into Siegfried Line   NAZI THRUSTS HALTED   Ninth Drives to Roer River At Julich; Winter Drive Gains Momentum

‘SAARBRUCKEN IS HAMMERED BY BIG ARTILLERY   Third Army Hurls Armor Into Expanding Saar River Bridgehead  ?   NAZIS DRIVEN ACROSS OTHER RIVER BARRIERS

Yugostavs Claim ~ - Adriatic. Island Of Hvar Capture   ito Report Indicates Nazis Moving Troops .  “Thte Hungary

Spain Discusses Allied Requests. - On War Policies  In Tangier One of Madrid Tanirce

SOVIET SEEKS U, S, TUTELAGE   Millions Offered For Right Of Plant Observation— — Factories Study Bid

U.§. B-29s Bomb Mukden Area  In Manchuria  Raid in For dag At Jap Indu istri

1400 TANKS AND 84,000 MEN TRYING TO BREAK BRITISH ASSAULT ON POR]    British Withstand Repeated Assaults on: Wedge Which Is Almost at Outskirts of Town; German Blows Described as “Heaviest of War.”’

Tommies Battle To Close Trap On Caen Forces   Rommel Hurls Tanks At Allies To Avert Normandy Disaster

Nazi Tank Forces Beth&  Thrown Into Battle In. Reckless Manner. Ger- * mans Don’t Know Cher- ; bourg Has Fallen. J

FDR. Popularity is at Low Ebb   Party Split Wide Open at Present

Election On Issue Today ‘Would Mean New President   Overwhelming Defeat Of FDR Seen In Mixing Of Factions

AFL Reiterates No-Strike Pledge   Green Points Out Production Needs

A. F. L. Calls for Strict Adherence to Pledge ‘Against Calling Strikes

Remember ‘No Strike’ Pledge AF of L Cautions   6 Million Members Warned of Great Military Developments

Kills Five, Then Ends Own Life   Farmer, Classed -A, Wipes Out His Family

Crazed Draftee Shoots Family   Farmer Placed In 1-A » Kills Five and Self

Reclassified In 1-A, Farmer, 33, Kill Wife, Four Children And Slays Himself

Roosevelt Names James V. Forresta! As Navy Secretary   Speedy Senate Approval Predicted for Promotion of Undersecretary to Succeed Frank Knox

Approval of Forrestal Seen   Appointment as Secretary of Navy Well Received

SENATE EXPECTED TO GIVE QUICK APPROVAL JAMES FORRESTAL   UNDERSECRETARY OF — NAVY NAMED TO SUCCEED LATE FRANK KNOX

Expect Speedy Senate Approval Of Forrestal To Succeed Late Secretary

CONFIRMATION OF FORRESTAL ANTICIPATED   Speedy Approval for President's Promotion of Undersecretery Expected Today   ‘SUCCESSOR TO KNOX

Senate Is Reported Ready To Confirm James V. Forrestal As Navy Secretary

Speedy Senate O.K. Of  Forrestal Is Seen   Former Assistant To. The Late Frank Knox Is Nom‘ inated For Naval Post By President Rooseveit; See Ns Change In Policies ~

‘Senate Expected To. Approve Forrestal.for Cabinet Post Without Delay.

Expect Quick Senate Okeh On Forrestal   New Cabinet Member To Continue Policies  Of Former Chief

Forrestal to Be «New Navy Chief; No Policy Change   Senate Approval: Of Nomination As _ Successor to Knox Is Exnected Snan

Forrestal Up For Navy Head   Expect Speedy Approval; Served With Late Secretary For Four Years.

Forrestal to Be Navy Secretary   Swift Senate Approval Expected for Nominee Named by President

Quick Senate 0. K. Foreseen For Forrestal   President Nominates Undersecretafy To Be Secretarv Of Navy.

Quick Approval Of Forrestal As Navy Chief Seen   Senate Ready To Confirm —Privacy-Lovi Working Official.

FORRESTAL OKAY BY SENATE SEEN   FRONT OFFICE DUTIES ADDED BY PROMOTION

Forrestal Named Navy Chief By FDR, Expected To Receive Speedy Approval By Senate   Privacy-Loving, Hard-Working Aide To Knox Chosen As New Secretary

Forrestal Named Navy Secretary   Speedy Senate Approval of Promotion  Is Predicted

Name Forrestal as Knox Successor  Speedy Approval by Senate Expected

FORRESTAL IS NAVAL CHOICE   President's Appointment of Knox Successor To Be Confirmed

FDR Names Forrestal   Quick Senate Approval Of Nomination As Navy Secretary Expected

PREDICT SPEEDY SENATE APROVAL OF APPOINTMENT   NEW SECRETARY IS A DEMOCRAT; SERVED WITH KNOX 4 YEARS

KNOX’S AIDE IS CHOSEN   PROMPT SENATE APPROVAL LOOMS FOR FDR SELECTION

FORRESTAT APPROVAL INDICATED   New Democratic Secretary of Navy Appointed by President Will Be Speedily Confirmed.

‘Forrestal Nominated  Navy Head   Senate Expected To Approve Ouichh

FORRESTAL TE GETOUIGK OK AS NAN HEA   Knox’ Successor a Man 0 Few Words Who Deals in Hard Facts,

SPEEDY APPROVAL OF FORRESTAL. IN SENATE EXPECTED   Undersecretary’s Promotion tc Boss of Navy Post Soon To Be Confirmed

Senate Ready ToConfirm New Chief Of Navy   James V. Forrestal, Lover Of Obscurity, Named ito Sueceed Knox As Secretary

Quick Approval Seen in Senate For Forrestal  Navy Secretary   Navy Secretary Is Selected by Chief Executive

EXPECT SPEEDY FORRESTAL 0, K.   Senate Due To Approve President's Nomination Promoting Knox Assistant To Secretary Of Navy.   —RY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER—

Senate Approval ‘Predicted   For Undersecretary Jas. V. Forrestal to Become Secretary of Navy

Forrestal Named to Succeed Knox Sec. of the Navy   Former Undersecretary Promoted by President To Post

JV. Forrestal Named New Navy Secretary By FD   Speedy Approval By Senate Is Predicted: K nox Successor Popular

J. FORRESTAL SUGCEEDS KNOX      Speedy Senate Approval of Promotion By FDR fs . Predicted.

NO CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY AFL   Pres. Green Says Members Will Be Urged to Vote

Sole Dissenter at GOP Convention Didn't Like ‘Steamroller Tactics

hob Ad VUVTY U. 5. Casualty Hurt in Kissing Branrh AAdidae   and She Had Her First Crv in This World’

2-DAY HOLIDAY PROVIDES RUSH OF TRAVELERS   Buses, Trains Crowded; Buying Rush Depletes Store Stocks

Commission May Handle Nazi Industry   Seen as Compromise Between Groups Disagree - ing on Terms

Control Board Mav Oper ate  Nazi Industr \   Cominission Proposed For Running Plants During Postwar Era

DEBATE RAGING OVER NAZI FATE   Allied Commission Likely to Direct Germany's PostWer Production

Compromise Policy Seen   Some European Nations Against Industrial Destruc tion of Germany

B-29 Output Lag May Delay Raids   Krug Says Production Falls Below Schedule

REDS DEEPEN REICH DRIVE   Nazi Lines In Holland Wavering Before Allies

New Allied Gains: Hammered Out. OnDutch Fron   Great ‘Russian Push hiito German Territory Nets ' 400 Prussian Villages

Reds Roll Deeper Into East Prussia  To Threaten Tilsit   Nazi Lines Waver In Northwestern Holland

35-Mile Push Into Land Of The Junkers   Russigns Maintain Drives _ on Other. Fronts; Wide Sweep in Hungary   3 BRITISH FORCES GAIN. IN. HOLLAND:   Nazi Road Hub’ Appears: About to Fall; Aachen Ares Inactive: Snow Falls:

{Nazi Defenses in Holland \Reported Tottering Before ‘New Canadian Offensive

POWERFUL RED ARMY OFFENSIVE OVERRUNS 410 GERMAN TOWNS.  ALLIED FORCES HAMMER OUT NEW GAINS ON WEST ERN FRONT ALSO

Soviet Troops Penetrate 19 Miles into Reich   Allied Forces Hammer Out New Gains in Holland Sector

Allies Close Escape Path from Holland   Canadians Forge Ahead in Push to Free Port of Antwerp: Essen, Berlin Hit

The War Today  Think First Army Lunge Presages an All-out Offensive

Decisive Developments To Come In October—. —By De Witt Mackenzie   German Defense Crust Expected To Crack

a0C Wal i:0Gay  Decisive Developments May Come If October Weather Is Good.

WAR TODAY   Impending: General Allied Offensive: on Wesiern Front *Expeeted “to. Develop Quickly, Decisive Developments Loom

GENERAL ALLIED OFFENSIVE DURING OCTOBER WITH POSSIBLE DECISIVE RESULTS NOW BELIVED IMPENDING

Dents Hammered In German Lines   Patton's Army Restores Lines After Repulsing Counter-Atfacks

OUND NEW DENTS N NAZI DEFENSES EAR METZ, NANCY   etermined Doughboys Restore Lines in Wake of Counter-Attack   INITS ARE ADVANCING   en'l Patton’s Embattled Troops on North Flank Restore Losses

TIGHTEN JAWS OF PINCERS ON CITY OF METZ   Patton Forces Maintain Bridgehead Position Despite Fierce Nazi Attacks

Jigh Officials, Idaho ‘lection Figure in  robe of C.I.O. Grour   Administrationists in League With Political Action Committee, Dies Charges; Report Cites Clark Defeat

BERLIN CLAIMS NEW LANDING OF TROOPS AS CARENTAN FALLS   Germans Admit Loss Of Main Defense Point Between Caen And Cherbourg; Yanks Make Important Gains

Nazis Say City Taken   London Reports Americans Drive  18 Miles InJland From Beachhead

Carentan falls to allies after struggle; situation ‘better than satisfactory

U.S. Troops Have Seized Carentan Germans Report   Situation On 60-Mile Normandy Beachhead ‘Better Than Satisfactory;’ Bitter Fighting For Caen Is Continuing

PENETRATION OF 18 MILES INLAND ALONG BEACHHEAD   Normandy Situation O"icially Announced “a Little Better Than Satisfactory” at End of Week.   GREATEST GAINS ARE MADE BELOW CARENTAN   250 German Women Who  . Manned Guns Taken Prisoners In France, Will Be Treated Same as Men. -

Some Troops Eighteen Miles In Jand From Invasion Beaches Swing Up Peninsula Towar: Great Port Of Cherbourgh   CERISY FOREST IS OCCUPIED BY U. ¢

YANKEE UNITS LEADING PUSH ON CHERBOURG   Smash Across Narrow Walst Of Normandy Peninsula Is Expected

Deepest Penetration O) 60 Mile Long Allied Beachhead id   NAZIS ANNOUNCE FALL OF CARENTAN   Improving Weather Enabled Allied Air Forces To Resume Support

RecordBombLoad Dropped on Aitape   Japanese Base On New Guinea Coast Hit By 284 Tons; Allies Return To Pound Truk Again

Big Bomb Load. Hits Jap Base   Aitape, Truk Are Targets For American Attacks

Truk, Aitane Raided By Yank Planes   Airmen Complete Raid Despite Strong Opposition

‘Administration Has Handed Leadership: To Browder—Hillmar Charges Gov. Bricker

STATE TROOPS GUARD WEIRTON   Distribution Of ClO Organization Bills Brings Arrests

Troopers Go On Guard at Weirton Steel Factories   Proclamation By Neely Posted By Police Upon Arrival

Patton's Army Expands Front West of River   Saarbrucken Is Threatened From Two Sides

SOLDIER VOTE THOT ASSURED   Mouse Expected’ To Pass Bill Today   Predict Veto Wont Be Forthcoming

SERVICE VOTE. ACTION TODAY      REPORTS HEARD PRESIDENTIAL VETO WILL NOT BE USED " AFTER FINAL PASSAGE "> SODAY

ALLIES REVEAL BASE IN BURMA   Glider And Transport Units Land Behind Jap Lines

Daring Assault by Gliders and Air Transports in Deep 'Jungles of Burma Revealed

Glider-Borne Yank And British Force Carves Out Allied Airbase Behind Jap Lines In Burma Jungle

Supply Lines Broken   Yank Airmen Land Troops In Daring Assault -

ENEMY CAUGHT BY SURPRISE BY DARING ATTACK   Air Base Established as New — Route To China Begins To Be Put in Service

Allies Build Air Strip Back Of Jap Lines   Men Landed In Burma Jungle By Transport And Glider Planes

Airborne Engineers And Infantrymen Land To Harass Foe; Air Base  Set Up Quickly

Daring Allied Assault in Burma Puts Big Force Astride Jap Supply Lines

A Daring Coup in Burma   Jap Supply Lines Cut By Strong Force of Glider-Borne British And American Troops

JAPS CAUGHT OFF GUARD BY BOLD ASSAULT  ALLIES ESTABLISH   ALLIES ESTABLISH STRONG AIR BASE IN BURMA JUNGLE

American Gliders, Transports Place  Force Behind Nips   Details of Daring Assault Fortnight Ago Disclosed Today

Landing in Burma  Details of Daring Assault and Building of Airstrip Are Described.

Yank Engineers, British Troops, Land Behind Foe In North Central Burma

GLIDERS AND TRANSPORTS USED TO LAND ALLIED ENGINEERS BEHIND JAP LINES IN NORTHERN BURMA   Japs Caught by Surprise in Giant Attack in Whicl Infantrymen Landed and Supply Lines Cut. Allied Forces Quickly Cut Out Big Air Base

American Engineers, British Infantrymen “stablish Base In Burma Wilds; Gliders Used To Carry Men Ard Sunplies To Valley

ALLIES LAND BACK OF JAP BURMA LINES   Supply Lines Are Cut Off In New Surprise Raid

Airborne Engineers, Troops Build Base in Burma Jungle   American Gliders and Transports Establish Two Airstrips, Cut Supply Line Between North South Japanese Forces

A Daring Assault Is Made in Burma   Allied Forces Carve Out Air Strip Behind Japanese Supply Lines.

AIR STRIP IS QUICKLY CARVED OUT   Heavy Equipment, Troops, Workers Flown To Base

American Engineers And British Infantry, Landed By Gliders, Carve Air Strip Behind Japanese

Yanks and British Carve Out Land Base and Air Strip In North Burma

U. S. GLIDERS. TRANSPORTS HELP SPRING NEW SURPRISE ON NIPS IN JUNGLE   Allied Troops Landed Behind Japs In Burma

RELIEF PROGRAM IS. ~ DASSED BY SENATE   Contribution of of $1, 350,000,000 Voted to — NURRA- t

APPROPRIATION GIVEN APPROVAL   Senate Agrees To Contribute More Than Billion To UNRRA

RELIEF PROGRAM IS PASSED BY SENATE   Contribution of $1,350,_ 000,000 Voted to NURRA- :

Willkie Dies In New York   G.O.P. Candidote In 1940 Succumbs To Heart Attack

Farm Task Force Is Planned by WFA to Rush Labor to Critical Areas

‘Mobile Farm Army Is Now Planned For Shifting To Emergency Areas

“Task Force’ For Farmers   WFA Plans 200,000Man Emergency Corps To Aid in Harvest

‘Task Force’ To Aid Farmers   Mobile Force of 200,000 Workers To Be Established

AGRICULTURAL ARMY OF NATION TO HAVE ITS OWN TASK FORCE  PLAN MOBILE FORCE OF 200,000 WORKERS WHO CAN BE EASILY SHIFTED

AGRICULTURAL ARMY OF NATION TO HAVE ITS OWN TASK FORCE  PLAN MOBILE FORCE OF  Anh AAA WAN WMVMRrO Were

Agriculture Has (Own ‘Task Force’ 1944 Food Battle   Plan Establish and Maintain Mobile Force of 200,000 Workers To Save Threatened Crops In Labor Short Areas.

ALLIED ARMORED WALL DRIVES TO THE MAAS RIVER  NEWS BLACKOUT HIDES FATE OF  s2ccwr metas

Offensive ls Resumed On 40-Mile Front   Wall Of Men And Armor Moves To Within Three Miles Of German Frontier, Supplementing Anglo-American Thrusts To South

Sky Remnant Escapes Trap   Monty’s Land Drive Fails to Reach ‘Red Devils’ in Time; Bad Weather Halts Flow of Reinforcements, Troops

British, Belgian Forces Within 3 Miles of Germany   Men and Armor React Meuse River Along 40-Mile Front

Brave Airborne Troops Have _ Lost Toehold Into German Ruhr With Losses Reported Large.   BATTLE OF HOLLAND SLOWLY IMPROVING

Number of British  Troops Withdrawn From Arnhem Trap   Berlin Claims 1,500 Parachutists Killed, 6,400 Captured, But Our Allies Fail To Disclose Exact Figures — Britain's Forces Start New Drive in Holland.

Black Cats Of Navy Sink Jap Merchant Ship   Enemy Planes Raid Saidor

Yank ‘Black Cats’ Sink Jap Ship in New Ireland Raid  Two More Vessels in Convoy Set Afire; Nips Bomb New Guinea, Lose 17 Planes

The “Blackcats” Sink 16,000 Ton Merchantman   Jap Raid Over Saidor Cost Enemy 17 Fighter Planes; Nimitz Says Japs Will Be “Smoked Out’’.

Pacific Fleet Carrier Task Force Hammers Wake and Marcus Islands

Marcus And Wake Islands _  Pounded By Carrier Force   Admiral Nimitz Announces Successful Raids in the Pacific—American Losses Are Slight— Little Opposition Encountered

Churchill for Russia in Row With Poland   Russian Demands for Territory of Poland Reasonable, England’s Leader Declares

Atlantic Charter Is Called — ‘Ghost’ As Churchill Agrees To Red Territorial Claime

BRITAINS VIRTUALLY ABANDONS LONDON POLISH GOVERNMENT  CHURCHILL DISAPPOINTED DELAY IN ANOTHER BIG THREE CONFERENCE

BRITAIN WILL FAVOR SOVIET BORDER PLANS   London Polish Government  Abandoned

AGAINGT EXILE POLISH GROUE   Prime Minister Disappoint ed Over Delay of ‘Big 3’   Meeting.   MAKES PLEA FOR UNITY

CHURCHILL TO ‘BACK RUSSIA'S ‘POLISH STAND   Favors Curzon Line as Border: Would Give East Prussia to Warsaw: Asks New Big Three Meeting.

Churehill in Support of Soviet Demand   Believes Request For Territory in Poland Reasonable

Churchill Backs Up Russian Demand for Polish Territory  Prime Minister Calis For Conference To lron Gut Vital Diplomatic Problems

Britain Virtually ‘Abandons London. Polish Government   Churchill Supports

Churchill Says Russia Has Righ! To Polish Lands   Expresses His Fears of Future Disaaqreements

Territorial Demand Seer .As Justified   Churchill Deserts London Polish Government In-Exile.

CHURCHILL IN FAVOR OF PLAN MOSCOW WANTS   Virtually Abandons Poland’s Exiled Rulers in London

Asks Roosevelt, Stalin to Meet Him at Earliest Time Possible   Asserts Allied Quarrel Would Wreck Peace Structure

CHURCHILL FOR * REDS IN THEIR POLISH CLAIMS   “Turning Back op Exiled Gov ernment, Briton Accuses Setup of Delays

SAYS SOVIETS ENTITLED 10 TERRITORY   Poland Would Get German Land As Compensation   PRIME MINISTER   Hopes For Early Meeting Of Three Great Powers; Speech Criticized

Tosses London Exiles Overboard; Calls For ‘Big Three’ Meeting   Poles Slated To Be Given Danzig, Half Of East Prussia In Return For Lwow, Eastern Poland

Future Peace Of World At Stake   . Prime Minister Warns Of Tragic Results  If Big Three Fail “To:Work Tovether

Churchill Asks Poland Accept  Red Demands   Urges Early Meeting Of FDR. Stalin and Churchill as Members Disagree on Policy

Early Meeting Of Big Three Needed, He Say:   Sidetracks Poland's Government In Exile; Reds Are Entitled To Territory. He Says

}Churchill Favors Moscaw Getting Lwow With Warsaw Being Given Slices of Germany   Situation Critical ‘He Telis Commons   Bespeaks Unity Among Al.  Hes Lest New Structure  World Government  Dies In Inception

SUPPORTS RED DEMANDS FOR EASTERN SLICE   Says Poland Should Be Given Parts Of Germany

Churchill Sides In With Soviets In i. ish Row; Urges Unity Ai: og Allies

Churchill Urges Roosevelt, Stalin Come To Britain   Sides With Russia In Matter of Dispute Over Polish Boundaries.

RED TERRITORY DEMANDS WITHIN REASON, HE SAYS   BRITAIN VIRTUALLY ABANDONS LONDON POLISH GOVERNMENT

QUIT LONDON POLISH GOVERNMENT  Churchill Supports Russia's [Demand for Polish Territory

Churchill Agrees To Russian “Territorial Demands In Poland; Early Allied Meeting Unlikely

“BIG 3° IS REQUESTED   Soviets’ Demands For Territory Approved By British Leader

Churchill Wants ‘Big Three’ Meet Scon As Possible   Supports Russian Demands Of Polish Territory

Soviet Way With Poland Approved   "port of Polish Government in Exile   TO HOLD ALLIED LINE   Only Chance to Save Future Peace’ ‘Alliance, He Says

Churchill In Sugaestion For Karly Meeting   Prime Minister Wants Conference With FDR and Stalin Over Polish Boundury Questions,

New Churchill Stand on Poland   Sides with Soviet, Virtually Abandoning  Byjle lnyvarnwannt

Churchill Favors Reds in Polish Row;  Says Territorial Demands Reasonable

Ferritery Demands  Viewed Reasonable By Prime Minister   Churchill ‘Appeals To F. D.; Stalin For Early Meeting of Big Three; ~ Hears’ Charter Called’ “Ghost”

URGES EARLY MEETING OF BIG ~ THREE POWERS AND CONFESSES DISAPPOINTMENT OVER DELAYS

CHURCHILL BACKS AUSCIAN DEMANDS   Poles Will Be Compensated for Land Given to Reds by German Annexations

REDS WILL GET BIG SLICE OF POLISH NATION   Churchill Tells” Commons Poles Will Gain Ger man Territory

CHURCHILL URGES BIG THREE MEET   Appeals For Session At Earliest Possible Moment

Polish Government in London Abandoned; Calls Russian Demands Reasonable; Unity of Great Powers Asked to Prevent World Peace Break   Churchill’s Six Major Points

Winnie Sides With Russia  In Pole Row   Confesses Disappointment At Delays In Big Three  Canfareanred   (ABANDONS POLE RULE

WOULD GIVE POLES NAZI TERRITORY   Poland Would Get Tracts Of Eost Prussia And Danzig

Britain Sides With Reds In Pole Disp ute   Churchill Discloses Poland to Get German Land; Calls for Parley

Entitled to Polish. Territory   Exiled Government. Tosse Astray, Poland in Effeci Told to Accert:Demands:.   MARKED CONTRAST . TO U.S. POLICY   Prime Minister Appeals for Meeting of Big Three, Invites Leaders to London

Declares Poles Will Be Compensated By Land Taken From Nazis   British Prime Minister Expresses Disappointment At Delays In Reconyening Big Three; Polish Exiled Covernment Abandoned

Reds Get Territory Owned by Poland   Warsaw Compensation is Partition Of Reich Land; Member of Commons Savs Atlantic Charter Now ‘Choc?’

England Joins Russia on Pole Question   Churchill Is Seeking Three-Power Meet in Near Future

Britain And Russia Have Made Deal ~ To Cut Up Europe, Churchill Reveals

No Meeting of “Big 3° for Adjusting Crying Problems Likely Before End of January   In Meantime England Yields to Demands of Russia in Settlement of the Critical and Much Discussed Polish Border Question

Soviet Way With Poland Approved   Churchill Ab&ndons Support of Polish Government in Exile   TO HOLD ALLIED LINE   Only Chance to Save Future eace Alliance,  He Says

Churchill Backs Soviet Demands In Poland, Hints Allied Unity Is Slipping

Grim Fight   Geimans ‘Come Out of _Toxholes After Air ‘Assult to Rejoin Furious Ratile i}

BATTLE FOR PO VALLEY REVIVED   Siagpering Air Assault Fails To Knock Enemy Out Of Bologna

Nazi Troons Keep Grip on Bologna   Record Air Assault Fails to Crush Foe

Great Aerial Assault Launched      Tremendous Strike Reported  Gn Installations Of Nazis

Heavy Fightin: Reported on  Italian Line   Nazi Troops Emerge From Foxholes After Heavy Aerial Attack  And Rejoin Struggle

Nazis Come Out of Fox. holes to Battle Fiercely After Bombardment

ARMY SEIZES L. A. POWER   GREEN ISSUES WORK ORDER TO ELECTRICIANS

LOS ANGELES STRIKE ENDS; ARMY CALLED IN   Walkout Halted War Production

REDS STILL ADVANCING: ON VIIPURI   Russians Also Strike Toward Lake Ladoga

FINN DEFENSE BEING BROKEN   Russians Capture Five “Towns in Advance of Up to, Six' Miles — Reis Driving Hard to Complete Destruction , of Enemy Lines,

Soviets Smash Eastern Half Of Finland’s  Defense Line   Red Tanks, Artillery Advancing Steadily On Citv of Viinuri

SOVIETS NAB FIVE FINNISH TOWNS IN SMASHING OFFENSIVE   RUSSIAN ARMY STRIKES ACROSS WAIST OF KARELIAN STRAIT IN SAVAGE THRUST

Soviet Army Strikes » Toward Lak Ladoga   Eastern Half Of Finland’s Defenses Methodically Smashed By Red Forces.

Soviets Smash Eastern Half Of Finn Line   Strike Across Waist Of The Karelian Isthmus

Reds Strike In Lake Lagoda Area   Russians Capture Five Finnish Towns

SMASHING FINN LINE   Red Army Cuts Across Waist of Karelian Isthmus

Reds Smast Half of  Finn Line   Marshy Terrain Forces Artillery Units to Drag Guns by Hand

Russians Smash Half of Finn Line   Strike Northeast Across Isthmus

REDS SMASH AT EASTERN HALF Of FINN’S DEFENSES   Army Strikes Northwest Acros: Waist Of Karelian Iethmuc

Entire Finn Line Folding Before Reds   Blazing Assault Perils buportant Pert of Viipuri

RED ARMY PUSH ACROSS WAIST OF KARELI   Smash Eastern Half of Finns’ Breached Tina

a ARMY PUSHES ON OWARD LAKE LADOCA   inemy Installations in 3 Countries Are Bombed

SOVIETS SHIFT OFFENSIVE ON FINNISH FRONT   Smash Eastern Half Of Already - Cracked Defense Line

Kelly, Childers Tell of Deeds   Medal of Honor Winners Almost  Apologetic

Heroes Return From The War: Both Are Shy   Lieut. Childers, Commando Kelly Almost Apologetic For Feats

Doughboy Heroes Tell Their Stories  Lieut. Childers, Kelley In Washington

2 WAR HEROES SEE STIMSON   ‘Lieut. Childers, ‘Comman _ do’ Kelly, High Medal Recipients, Home

KELLY, INDIAN HERO RETURN FROM EUROPE   Tell Apologetically Of Heroic Actions

FACE CAPITAL PRESS Conaressional Medal of Honor Winners Back Home

Doughboys Get Highest Medal   Indian Childers From Oklahoma, Irishman Kelly From Pittsburgh Talk

Childers and Kelly Tell Haltingly Of Their Exploits   Two American Heroes Arrive Home From European Front

Removal Of: Ceilings On Beef Urged  Cattlemen Want FAD A flanwed ile

MAY SUPPORT ~~ SUBSIDY PLAN   LEADERS OF MAJOR FARM OR ’ GANIZATIONS CONSIDERING >  ‘ CHANGE IN SUBSIDY STAND .-° -

STRANGULATION FATAL 10 GIRL   DEATH CAUSE REVEALED; BODY FOUND IN BATHTUB

Holiday Worker Absenteeism  Cuts War r Output  oe eS   WPB’s Drive for ‘Work as Usual’ Meets Half-Hearted Response In Big Production Centers of U. S.

Greatest Battle of Campaign Rages Near Caen   American Troops Surge Past Montebourg. Still Hotly Contested, to Capture Quineville on East Coast of the Peninsula

HOT BATTLE. STILL RAGING IN CAEN AREA   Nazis Use Shells to Fire Lines With Flaming Oil

Annual Dinner Meet Red Cross Elects Officers  Reports Of Year’s Activities Are Mad

Annual Dinner Meet Red Cross Elects Officers  Reports Of Year’s Activities Are Mad  Y 2 ane i een

CRAMP SHIP CO. STRIKERS DEFY ORDERS TO WORK   Orders Of Navy Dept., WLB Are Jenored Ry Men

Ship Workers Defy Orders   17,000 Men Hold Up. Philadelphia Output

MACHINE SHOPS ORDERED SEIZED   Navy To Operate Shops Refusing To Run Overtime

Navy Orderec To Operate War Plants   Refusal To Lift Ban On Workers le Cause

AVY TO cide MAGHINE SHOPS   ill Operate Plants Producing War Materials on the West Coast; Union, Overtime Ban Causes Move

59 West Coast Shops Seized By Roosevelt   Orders Navy to Take Over San Francisco Plants on War Work

President Orders Seizure of 29 Machine Shops   Navy to Operate Them Because of Continued Union Overtime Ban

President Has Navy Take Over Machine Shops   Ninety-nine Units Are Involved In Seizure By Government

99 Plants Seized On FDR's Order  Tlnitnne Rafiucad Tn   Unions Refused To Lift Overtime Ban

F. R. Orders Seizure of Coast Plants   Is Move to Speed Up Production of New War Materiel

99 Planis Seized On FDR's Order  Tleatnen Dafuauan   Unions Refused To Lift Overtime Ban

HORT’ SOCIETY RAPS BUREAUS   Adequate Representation In Washington Is Demanded

Willkie Enters  Primary Race   On Nebraska Ballot For President —- Democrats To  File Roosevelt.

ELECTORS CONTEST GF TEXAS DEMOCRATS BE HEARD WEDNESDAY  STATE SUPREME COURT GRANTS PERMISSION FILE MANDAMUS SUIT

Dem Elector Fight Opens Wednesday   Arguments Due To Begin At 9 A. M. On Pro-FDR Group’:  Effort To Qust Men Named At May 23 Convention

Jurors Being Chosen to Serve for Murder ‘I'rial Of Corporation Lawyer

STATE FUNDS © AT NEW PEAK   CASH BALANCE AT END OF YBAR MORE THAN 131 MILLION DOLLARS, AUDITOR REPORTS

~~ Buy War  R eport Ohio. Cash Balance Largest In State’s History

FOGGY OVER KANSAS   Several Towns Report Heavy Rains and Cool Weather Remains

INVASION PRESS COVERAGE GREAT   215 American, 91 Britishers Await Drive Upon’ Continent

CHURCHILL CONFIDENT  OVER AN EARLY VICTORY   Grave Signs of Weakness In Germany, He Tells Troops   ON VISIT TO THE FRONT

Nazis Shoot Each Other ---Churchill   Tells Soldiers War Might End Earlier Than Expected

 French Troops Hammering A’ Dijon Outskirts’   Only Weak Resistance Offered Before Largest City In Central France

Dijon, Vital Transport Center, Captured By French Forces   Patch, Patton Nearing Junction   Gap Between Two Armies Narrowed To Less  Than 50 Miles

TWO TOP NAZIS QUIT GOLD, Ltt MEN FIGHT OK   General Schlieben Tells U. S. Commander “Diehards” Cause Delays.

LT. GEN. VON SCHLIEBEN iN CUSTODY   German Chief at Cherbourg Gives Up

TO FORCE CAR POOLING   Supplemental Rations Will Be Re, fused: Those Not Conforming

13 Yanks Killed By Own Warship   Destroyer Shells Landing Barges

Yanks Shell Own Landing Barges   Accident Kills 13 and Wounds 46; Occurs At Eniwetok Atoll.

‘Landing Craft Shelled  Accidentally By U.S.  Destroyer: 13 Killed

Normandy Defenses Shatiered   Escape Route of Seven Divisions  Under U.S. Guns

Coutances  Is Nearly Taken by  Yankees Armor Closes  In From  Two Directions

Yank Troops Close Trap on 7 Nazi Divisions   Americans Blast Out Four-Mile Gains on Heels of Battered German Troops Fleeing in Disorder; Marguerite Falls to Yanks

U.S. Consolidates Normandy Gains Germans Trapped  Attack Coutances After Junction

Armor Columns Join, Tightening Noose on Nazis   Vital Transport Hub’: Fall Expected Soon; British Sector Quiet

Bradley's First Army Throws Steel Noose Around 7 Enemy Divisions Before Coutances

SEVEN GERMA DIVISIONS FACE NORMAN TRAP   Troops Advance On Whole Front

Americans Are in Outskirts of Coutances   Great Armored Break-Through Staqed by U_ S.

AMERICANS CLOSING TRAP ON REMNANTS OF 7 NAZI DIVISIONS IN NORMANDY

Reach Outskirts of German Troor Transport Center   Seven Nazi Divisions Encircled In Drive By Armored Columns

GERMANS FALL BACK ON THREE MAJOR LAND  FRONTS ON THURSDAY   ANOTHER TWO-WAY   ANOTHER TWO-WAY AMERICAN AIR ATTACK ON GERMAN HOMELAND

Normandy Deadlock  Continues   Allies Regroup to Mount Next Phase of Attacks

Allies, Nazis At Standsfill   Weather Stops Action Along 100-Mile Front

ALLIES MASS FOR NORMANDY ATTACK   Deadlocked Armies Trade Inconclusive Blows

American Yield Village Of Seves And Withdraw To Positions Two And A Half Miles  From Perierse

Regroup Forces For Next Phase Of Great Drive   Weather Causes Delay in Action

While Only Two Actions Are Reported Along 100 Mile Front; British Advance to Troarn.   Allies Hold

Unconfirmed Story Says Tanks Across Narrow Straif   Mud and Bitter Jap Resistance Slows MacArthur Advance

Australian Claims “Yank Bridgehead  Formed On Samat   U.S. Tanks Drive 7 Miles Inland For Deepest Leyte Valley Gain; Say Manila Assaults Continue.

Tank Column Ferried Across Narrow Channel To Island Adjoining Leyte

Gross Strait From Leyte, Writer Says   Samar Only Land Link Between Leyte and Luzon, Main Island

Samar Island: Landing Reported  Not Confirmed, But Mob enld tn pReAre

YANKS LAND ON ISLE LINKING LEYTE. LUZON   Driving Forward Through Muck And Increased Jap Resistance

REPORT YANKS IN LANDINGS NEAR LUZON   Vicious Jap Counterdrives Repulsed On Leyte   Liberated, Three Islands Completely Conquered, MacArthur Says

Tanks Invade  Samar Island   American Forces Draw Nearer To Manila; Enemy Resistance On Leyte Stubborn, Reports Say

Samar Isle Is Invaded By Yanks   Tank Column ts_ Ferried Across to One of Largest Islands in Philinnines

INVASION OF SAMAR REPORTED   ONE OF LARGE ISLES IN THE PHILIPPINES ,

Advance on Leyte Island  Continues  Japs Putting Up’ Bitter Racietcicea”s

YANKS SEIZE BEACHHEAD ON SAMAR ISLAND   New Foothold Taken In Drive Toward Manila; Fighting Increases

Yanks Make Gains Jn Both Ends Of eyte East Coast   ough Going Is Encountered By Americans Near Palo Where Divebombers Are Helping To Smash Jap Attacks   wane DINGAT AND HOMONHON OCCUPIEL

Set Up New Philippines Bridgehead?   Yanks Battle Mud And Japs To Keep Leyte Ad vance Roalling.

AMERICAN INVASION OF SAMAR ISLAND 15 ANNOUNCED TODAY   ADVANCE ON LEYTE ISLAND CONTINUED DESPITE HEAVY RESISTANCE

JAP POSITION IS CRITICAL, KOISO WARNS   Invasion Forces Widen Front On Strategic Island To 23 Miles

lacArthur's ‘oops Score ew Advance  Manila Bombed [fo Block Aerial Kid to Leyte

‘Column Crosses By Ferry   MacArthur Quickly Capitnlizes on North Leyte Advance

Aussie War Writer Reports U.S. Tank Invasion of Samar   Doughboys Advance Through Neck Deep Slime on Leyte Isle, Liberate 11 Towns

11 Towns Freed As Troops — Struggle Through Deep Mud To Keep Advance Rolling

YANKS MOVING  NEARER LUZON, -DISPATCHSAYS   Keep Advance Moving On Leyte Against Stubborn Foe

OFFICIALS HOPE 70 EASE TENSION   Russia Shows No Interest In Polish Leader’s Visit

British Push Akyab Drive   Capture Jap Posts North of Buthedaung

Massachusetts Puts Fourth . Term to Test   Five States Pick Congress, State  Lineups Tuesday

SIX STATES HOLD ELECTIONS TODAY   PRIMARY IN MASSACHUSETTS TO PROVIDE TEST OF 4TH TERM SENTIMENT.

FIVE STATES PICK NOMINEES TODAY   Massachusetts Democratic Gubernatorial Primary Also Scheduled

Rabaul Raid  Costs Japan 23 Fighters   Allied Fiyers Hit 4 Ships in Harbor, One a Destrover

RABAUL GETS ANOTHER POUNDING   Ground Fightine In Southwest Pacific Steps Up

RABAUL TAKES NEW POUNDING: DESTROYER HIT   Allied Airmen Down 23 Jap Planes, Damage Four Ships

U. S. Expands Beachhead At Augusta Bay   8 Jap Barges Attack To Lose 4 Ships, 60 Troops

U.S. FORCES ADVANCE ON BOUGAINVILLE   Airmen Down 23 Planes In Raid On Rabaul Base

Rabaul Pounded By Allied Fliers   Japs Lose in Air, Ground Fighting

PROVISION SOUGHT 10 MAIL BALLOTS   Secretaries Stimson and Knox Send Vote Rec ommendation

Ask provision mail ballots   Minimum 30 days in U.S., 45 outside

BRITISH SUBS SCORE NEW WINS AGAINST JAPS   Believe Japanese Aircraft Carrier Sunk, Along With Enemy Cruiser and Two Cargo Ships.

Jap Airplane Carrier, and Two Cargo Ships Are Sunk.   JAPS LOST 4125 PLANES LAST MONTH   Allies Lost 43 Planes in Southwest Pacific in February.

British Submarines Score New Successes Against Japanese In Pacific

RUSSIANS GET 7,000 PLANES   Lend - Lease Equipment Big Assistance In Offensives

Lend-Lease’s Role Stressed By President   U. S. Supplies Said To Be Big Factor in  Success of Russians

F.D. R. Reports On Lend-Lease   Says Supplies Aided Russian Offensive

RUSSIANS AIDED BY LEND-LEASE   Equipment From U. §. Has Big Role In Savage Red Offensive

Lend-Lease is Credited With Big Role of Reds’ - Drive and Air Assaults

1944 CALLED YEAR OF DECISIVE ACTION   Roosevelt, in’ Report, Says Lend-Lease Playing Maior Role

Lend-Lease Credited With Aiding Soviets   Roosevelt Reports Help Over 18! Billion; Oil Agreement Seen

51 JAP PLANES © KNOCKED DOWN   Allies’ Bag at Wewak anc Rabaul May Reach Sixty-Five

Jap Air Arm In Pacific Hit Heavily Again   At Least 51 Jap Planes And Probably 63 Lost To Japs In Air Battles   AIR BATTLES OVER WEWAK, RABAUL

Real Might of U. S. Forces  Directed Upon Besieged City as Germans Refuse To Surrender.    FULL WAR EQUIPMENT BOMBARDS THE CITY

A Major Battle Develops as Nazis Rush in Reserves   Germans Reject Offer For Surrender; Yanks Begin Systematic ° Wrecking af Cleyu

FATE OF CITY SEALED, NAZIS STILL HOLDING   Destruction to Serve As Warning to Other German Cities

GERMANS RUSH RESERVES FROM EAST FOR FIGHT   By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE iaAaNhD DON WHITBHRAD

MIGHTY CONCERT OF AMERICAN BATTERIES QPENED UP ON CITY  DraYT MICLUT OF ADMEG

Smoke From Mighty Allied Guns Clouds: Aachen as Drive Opens to Obliterate City

(pl. Hopkins Of Pontotoc Wounded   Named Among Eight Oklahomans in List of Wounded

wren s Wounded   Pvt. Harold C. West, Son of Mrs. Ethel Winton Reported Wounded

Soviets Sweep Up 8 Finnish Village: In Karelian Push   Smash Mannerketen Line In First Phase Of New Offensive

Finnish Mannerheim Line Broken By New Red Drive   Soviets Take 80 Towns In 15-Mile Advance Toward Viipuri

Gov. Dewey Plans Cross-Country Tour; Snubs Demo Effort To Curb Speeches

Governor Dewey Makes Bid for California Vote   Political Front Grows Warmer as Drive Progresses

New Deal ‘Fearful’ Republicans Will . Win, Says Dirksen   Summary of Campaign Activities During Past 24 Hours

DEWEY TO MAP SECURITY PLAN   Speaks In San Francisco Tonight, Campaign At White Heat

Most Important Speeches of _ Dewey’s Campaign Expected In Brief. California Stand

Dewey Speaks Tonight From San Francisco   Republican Candidate Makes Bid for State’s 25 Electoral Votes as Campaign Warms Up.

Presidential Campaign Is Warming Up   Dirksen Says Fourth Termers Seized with Fear; Ewing Says Dewey’s’ Election Would Prolong War

GOP Says Fourth-Termers Are Seized with Fear; Demos Say Election of Dewey Would Prolong War

GOP SPOKESMAN HINTS 4TH TERM BACKERS UNEASY   DEMOCRAT CONTENDS ELECTION OF DEWEY WOULD PROLONG WAF

Dewey In Fighting Mood; Speaks Tonight   Biggest, Finest And Most Com plete Housecleaning In Natien’s History Is Goal

Mixed Charges Warm Up Race IF or Presidency   Dewey Swings Into Cali. fornia In Bid For State’s Twenty-Five Electoral Votes

Dewey To Speak  At San Francisco   Presidential Race Warms up with Charg es by Both Parties

DEWEY SCHEDULES TWO SPEECHES ON VISIT TO CALIFORNIA   "Frisco Talk Thursday Night, Los Angeles Friday Slated

Dewey Invades California in Hunt for Votes   Statements in Former Speeches Bring Retort from FDR Supporters

Dewey, Intends Shake-up   Broadcast Tonight To Describe Capital “Housecleaning’

Dewey to Speak At Nine P. ML In San Francisco  Roosevelt Plans  First Campaign.

Dewey Ready To Give GOP Security Plan   Swings Into California In Bid For Its 25 Electoral x = gone hn   ISPEAKS AT 10 P. M

Election of Dewey Will Prolong War Says Demo; Dewey to Speak Tonight

DEWEY SCARE NEW DEAL, SAYS REP, DIRKSEI   Os€ar Ewing Warns GOP Victory Would Prolong World War

Dewey's Aides PlanningDrive   Presidential Nominee May Fill Date in Oklahoma About Sept. 25

Bombs Dropped On Naval Base, Industrial Area  Second B-29 Attack Comes Three Weeks

Bill to Probe Ward Seizure Reaches House   Firm Goes Into Court To Fight U. S. Action As Avery Applauded

Angry Coalition of Republicans and Democrats Forces Vote   NEXT, SAYS SOLON   General Attack on Seizure Is Made by Republi-   cans in Senate

House Gets Resolution  In WardCase   RULES COMMITTEE FORCES IT TO FLOOR BY 6-5 VOTE DAY AFTER ITS INTRODUCTION TO BODY.   Angry Words Abound   Unusual Events

ANGRY WORDS MARK ACTION OF COMMITTEE   Shareholders Give Avery Vote Of Confidence; Company Begins Legal Battle

‘Probe Of Ward ‘Case Demanded   Resolution Calling For Investigation Is Forced ® To House Floor; Angry Words Mark Committee Session

Draftee Units In Italy Drive   Smash Southern Flank  of German Army

Resistance Of Germans Stiffening   Enemy Sends in Reinforce ments — Allies Take 15,000 Prisoners

Fix Date To Gather Addresses   Local Workers To Collect Absent Vote Addresses June  14 To July 7.

CONVICTS AGREE TO END REVOLT   Publication of Grievances  Demanded by Rebels

Administration Wins in House   Surplus Property Bill Amendments Beaten

Property Bill Passes Hurdle   House Expecis Vote Today On War Goods Disposal

= WEN AND a WOMEN — THE SERVICE   CADET HORACE C. SELF JR. IN PREFLIGHT 'TRAINING

GERMAN COUNTERS FIZZLE OUT ON EAST PRUSSIAN FRONT   RED ARMY IN POLAND POSES NEW THREAT TO EAS’ PRUSSIA FROM SOUTHEAST AS THOUSANDS 0 HUNS EXTERMINATED IN BALTIC TRAP.

B-29s Strike at Strongholds of Nins in China    Results Told of Latest  Raid by Yanks’ Flying Rattlechins

Japanese Supply Base In China Hit   Super Fortresses Bomb Japs on Chinese Mainland, Is Reported Today

Jap Bases In China Pounded By Superforts That Raided Nip Homeland

Superforts Hit Supply Base: eS ‘Occupied “ eS: 4   a ies Hanko” & ao Get Blast’ = & aes Retr. . chout Loss

JAP BASES IN CHINA ‘TARGET OF SUPERFORTS   No Planes: Lost in Raids

Promise Of Progressingly Increasing Air Blows At Heart Of Japan Given; Sasebo Naval Base, Yawata, Omura Hit   RAIDERS STRUCK AT HANKOW ALSO

Yanks and French Make Steady Progress in South   Storm Eight Miles in From Beaches; More Air Troops Dropped

ALGIERS SAYS CANNES, NICE “ABE CAPTURED   Thousands of New Troops on Beachheads; Air Units Flown ‘Inland,

All of First Objectives Are Taken   Additional Forces of Skyborne Troops Block Roads at Rear

50 Mi. Skytrain Drops Troops Behind Strong Cannes-Toulon Front   Radio Algiers Reports Capture Of Cannes By Allies As Casualties Continue At A Minimum

Troops Smash Inland 8 Miles, Nazis Say Ports Destroyed   Thousands Invasion Forces Gain Objectives; Reported Linking With Paratroopers

Allies Storm Eight Miles Into So. France on Wide Froni Between Toulon and Cannes

Airborne Army Lands To Block  Nazi Reserves   Reinforced Invasion Troops Storm Eight Miles Into Southern France.

Airborne F Troops Lan Farther In n              AMERICAN AND FRENCH . ... TROOPS OCCUPY 40-MILE STRI BETWEEN CANNES AND TOUL®

90-MILE GLIDER TRAIN LANDS FRESH TROOPS   Block Path of Enemy Reserves

initial Objectives Are Taken   Casualties Are ‘Extremely Light’ In Invasion Area

ACTION PROCEEDING ACCORDING TO PLAN: CAPTURE FIVE TOWNS   Engineers Move In To Prepare Air Fields And Troops Parachute Force; Planes Provide Umbrella To Cover More Landing Operations

Nazi Officers Die in Duel   German High Command Entangled in Bitter Discord Over War Policies

NAZIS FIGHT OVERPOLICY, “SIXAREDEAD      High Officers Fight in Athens Over Military  Strateqy —

6 NAZI OFFICERS KILLED IN FIGHT    DISAGREE OVER STRATEGY ! AT PARLEY, DRAW PISTOLS AND BEGIN SHOOTING.

6 Nazi Officers Slain in Fight Over Policies   Military Leaders Split with Hitler   By RICHARD R. KASISCHERE

\Generals of the German High Command Scrap Among  Themselves as Result of Defeais on Three Fronts

NAZIS FIGHT OVER POLICY, SIX ARE DEAD   High Officers Fight ir Athens Over Military Strateqy

Wehrmacht Quarreling Over Strategy of War   ‘Monty’ Asserts 156,000 Nazis Are ‘Written Off

JAP FALL PREDICTED SOON AFTER NAZIS’      Chennault § ays Japanese Strategy Is Poor

Freeing Of Bastogne Troops And Fierce. Yank Prsh Menaces Whole Nazi Salient

CONVICT IS UNDER INDICTMENT MURDER IN HUNT KILLINGS  LAMB COUNTY GRAND _ JURY BILLS MAN LONG  pewee om ney page

Chinese security  aims told Koo lays stress   Koo lays stress on eicht points

CHINA FAVORS AN ADAPATBLE PEACE AGENCY   Dr. Koo Outlines Country’s Plan To Security Conferees

Nazis Reported Fortifying Paris  Network of Barbed Wire, Block-Houses, LS Me? RE Eee: te. Sc

Germans to  Defend Paris   Former French Capital Fortified for Street By Street Defense

Nazis Fortify Paris Streets   WILL DEFEND CITY FROM ALLIED ARMIES

Blinding Rains Bog Fighting On Leyte Isle   American And Jap Planes Trade Stiff Blows; Hopes For An Early Decision Dim

Bombers Blast Jap Airdromes In Philippine:   Americans Move hy Inches In Bitter Leyte Battle;

Air Blows Are Fierce At Islands   American Fliers Make Another Raid On Airdrome At Luzon, P. I.

American Planes Attack Japanese Air Bases Throuchout Philippines

AIRBASES OF ENEMY PUMMELED   Heavy Rains Continue To Hamper American  Land Offensive 

BOMB ASSAULTS HIT PHILIPPINES   American and Jap Planes Trade Vicious Blows

JAPANESE PLANES BLAST U, S-HELD AREAS ON LEYTE   American Bombers Attack Enemy Bases in Philippines to Minimize Aerial Flank Threat.   HEAVY RAINS HALT GROUND FIGHTING   Nipponese Communique Reports Landing of Assault Troops on Eastern — Side of Island.

HARD RAINS ARE SLOWING YANKS DRIVE ON LEYTE   Desperate Foe Defense Squelches Hopes For Early End To Campaign

Japanese Atfack American Stands On CarigaraBay   Yanks Blast Enemy Air Bases on Isles Threatening Leyte

TWENTY MILE U. 5. CONVOY LANDS TROOPS   Americans Sworm Ashore Within 155 Mile Of Manila “With Little Lose’

PANEL T0 HEAR PHONE DISPUTE   Swift Action is Planned As Operators Return to Their Jobe

"Phone Hearing Goes To Panel   3-Man Board Is Scheduled  Cay een Pe py eer

WLB Acting Swiffly in -PhoneRow   Keeps Pledge of Fas Action on Case If   _ Operators Would   Refurn

ATHENS STREET ° FIGHT RENEWED   Further Peace Effort Seen as British and EAM Chiefs Confer

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES UP 10 15 MILES   Germans Lose Heavily in Men and Equipment as Southern Half of Their Front Yields Ground.   ENEMY IS HEADED TOWARD NEW. WALL   British to North Score Gains and French Punch Deeper Inte Mountairis in Center. i

Yanks, French Smash Through Hitler Defenses  Only 35 Miles From Anzio Beachhead On Southern Front

Nazi Troops Reel Back In Disorder   Capture Of Hitler Line’s North Anchor By Poles Reported; U. S. Spearhead 35 Miles From Anzio Beachhead Forces

SMASH ENTIRE SOUTH HALE OF DEFENSE WALL   Move Within 25 Miles Of Allied Troops On Beachhead

Noted Hitler Line Crumbling Rapidly   Nazis Lose Heavily As Mighty Assaults Of Allies Smash Forward Toward Anzio’

Tottering Hitler Line Pounded   U. S. and French Troops Force The Nazis Back Up  To Fifteen Miles

Noted Hitler Line Crumbling Rapidly   Nazis Lose Heavily As Mighty Assaults Of Allies Smash Forward Toward Anzio  =>... wewenustan Te Be Ee ee ee et ee EP

Nazis Caught {In Anzio Pincer Grip   Poles Seize Northern Anchor of Hitler Line, Extend Patrols

AMERICANS POUR THROUGH NAZIS’ FORTIFIED LINE   French Troops Also Pierce Detenses as Allies Push On in Italy

SEEK REFUGE IN   Enemy Forces Lose Heavily  In Men, Guns And Tanke   [ALLIES NEARING JUNCTION WITH ANZIO BEACH TROOPS

Hasty Retreat Costs Enemy  In Men, Guns   Nazi Troops Foreed Back In Disorder By Mighty Comhined Assault.   APPROACH TERRACINA

Allied Beach  Thrust Begun, Nazis Report   Piedemonte, North Anchor, Said: Fallen to Poles;

GERMANS ARE ON RUN ALONG ITALIAN COAST   SURGING AMERICANS ONLY 25 MILES FROM ANZIO

Fifth, Eighth Armies Begin First European All-Out Ground Assault

Highway Detour. Report Made   State Roads Announces Program During Work In County Next Week.

Detours During Highway Qiling   a) Roads Commission Issues Bulletin On Road Conditions This Week.

FARM BUREAU DRIVE HUGE oUCCESS IN LIMESTONE COUNTY   1,665 MEMBERSHIPS ARE SECURED. GEORGIA WINS Ist

Bureau Attains All-Time Record Of Memberships  1,665 Are Signed Up   1,665 Are Signed Up By Saturday Night; Local Bureau Laraest

Action Ends Deadlock, it Is Indicated   Missouri Senator Likely to Beat Out Wallace on First Ballot

Wallace Now Appears To Be Runner-Up To Mo. Senator   Democratic National Convention Opens In Chicago Today

Democrats In Session; Routine Business T, dae   By LYLE. @. wirpen~w

Truman is Seen As Compromise To Stop Wallace   Roosevelt to Talk To Convention on Radio Thursday _

BYRNES 1$ NOT CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT   Abandon Formal Candidacy A: Hour Before Meeting Opens

Byrnes Quits Vice Presidency. Race As Convention Opens; Truman Awarded FR’s Backing

Word From Roosevelt Clears Convention Fuss   Dr. Schoen Reporis Truman Has Backing Of CIO and AFL

SCHOOL, VOTING BILLS ENACTED   Educators Get $8,860,000; Black Pencil Law Killed

SCHOOLS GET STATE FUNDS   Time of Spending Argument Looms; Approve Black Pencil Law

Vichy Leaders Reach Belfort   Transfer Of ProAxis Regime Now Under Wavy

U. §. Patrols in Suburbs of Capital   Germans Demolish Their Installations as Paris Capture Nears

Evangelis ’s Son  Chief Beneficiary      Aimee McPherson Leaves $2,500 to Daughter, S10 to Mother

Take Additional 21 Square Miles Of Territory For Tota) Of 81;  British Make Slow Progress In Liri Valley   GERMAN FIGHTING SEEMS DIMINISHING

Deadlock Seen On Soldier Vote   States’ Rights Advocates Plan To Renew Fight On Federal Ballot.

Fraud’ Vote Bill Gels New Push   “States Rights” Advocates Undismayed By Defeat 

STATES RIGHTS IN NEW STEP      SN Open Third Week of See-Saw Debate on Soldier Votes

AREA PLACED IN GROUP 1 TODAY   WMC Classifies It One Of “Acute Labor Shortare”

War Leaders Praise Labor Co-operation   Eisenhower Credits War Workers With Big Part in Victories

War Chiefs Laud Labor For Production Record   Eisenhower Confident Homefront Will Deliver Supplies To Make Final Punch Sure And Certain; Union Leaders Stress Need Of High Postwar Wage Level

LEADERS LAUD U.S, WORKMEN   Labor's Port./ir Wivturies Clied By: Eisenhower

Special Session Of Legislature To Open Monday   Soldier Ballot, Post-War Plans

[WO SOLDIERS CARRY AVERY FROM OFFICE   Gov't in Possession at Chicago Plant and Intends to Conduct Business As Usual 

IS CARRIED FROM OFFICE BY SOLDIERS         Action Taken on Biddle Advice After Head Mail Order Firm fuses to Turn Bool Over to UT. S..~          J

ONE OF QUIETEST PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN RECENT MONTANA HISTORY FORSEEN

TEMPERATURES -:.   Arraign Score In Legislature Bribe Scanda   Present, Ex-Members Of Michigan Governing Body Are Named

FINANCE FIR CHIEF ADMITS PAYING BRIBES   First of 26 Indicted By Grand Jury To Be. Arraigned

Post War Mental Health A Problem   It is A Family Fask, For Soldlers Will Need Help In Adjasting To Civilian Groove

Navy Catalinas Sink Or Damage four Jap Freighters in Sweep Over Philippines

Navy Catalinas Join In Attacks In Philippines   Bink Or Damage Four Jap Freighters In Southern Philippines Area   CARRIER PLANES EXTEND ATTACKS

Navy Planes Sink Additional Ships In 2-Day Sweep      By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.

PLANES SINK _ JAP VESSELS   RAIDS BY. BOMBERS OVER. THE SOUTHERN COORDINATED _)S WITH MANILA AREA ¢ 7 ’ ATTACK *

Funds Refused New Dea! Units   Roosevell To Have Less for Agencies

“Cotton Ed’ Smith, Hattie Caraway Lose in Primaries   Dean of Senate and Only Woman Member Decisively Defeated

BLAST REICH PLANTS AGAIN   Yank Bombers Cross Alps For Second Successive Day to Raid Steyr

PLANE PLANTS IN AUSTRIA ARE BOMBED   By Americans Who Cross Alps From Italy, While Allied Planes From Britain Also Head East.   Heavy Losses

AUSTRIA PLANE FACTORIES HIT   Two-Way Offensive Ag: ainst Reich Hits Fast Stride

BLAST 2 AIRCRAFT PLANTS IN AUSTRI:   U. S. AIRMEN BATTLE MASSED GERMAN FIGHTERS IN RAID ON STEYR.

American Airmen ‘Trom Italy Raid ~ Austrian Plants   Cross Alps for Second Straight Day to Hit Plane Factories

Nazi Plants. In Austria  Are Blasted   Source Of Enemy: Planes Drvs Up

Heavy Bomb From Italy Batter Nazi Plane Plants   Important Factories In Austria Hard Hit la New Attacks: Nazis Hit At London Again

German Airplane Plants Bombed   New Air Assaults Making Progress

Yanks Blast Plane Plants Tn Austria   Bombers from Italy Pound Two Factories; Onnasition Strone   49 AMERICAN PLANES: DOWNED. NAZIS CLAIM   U. 8. Bomber Losses Only 3.1 Percent Since August. 1942

BOMBERS HIT NAZI PLANTS IN AIR DRIVE      Italian Based. Fliers Deliver Attack: -on Steyr, . “> Austria «:   GREAT SUCCESS. IN RAIDS ANNOUNCED   American Heavyweights in Britain Remain at Hame -

DUMBER) Hil NAZI PLANTS IN AIR DRIVE  Ita ne Bas ‘cased Fliers De er Atta ck o n Ste eyr, ‘Austria   GREAT SUCCESS IN RAIDS ANNOUNCED   American Heavyweights in Britain Remain at Home

REAL SETBACK GIVEN GERMAN AERIAL POWER   U. S. BOMBERS ROAR OVER ALPS, BLAST PLANE PLANTS

Italian based planes strike vital German aircraft production   Austrian plant lashed as nazi fighter losses mount

Italian -Based Bombers Rake Plane Plants   Americans Batlle Swarw  Of Aggressive Nazis ho hag,

U.S. Bombers Hit Vital  Nazi Factories   Strategic Campaign Is Declared Very Successfiu]

REDS CIRCLING KRIVOIROG: PUSE FOR SEA PORTS   Collapse East End Of Dnieper Salient; Nikopol Captured

GERMAN LINES COLLAPSING IN DNIEPER BEND   Soviets Take Nikopol, Great Source Of Manganese

2 Russian Armies Smash  Closer To Black Sea Ports   WORLD WAR II—TODAY

Russians Drive Toward 2 Ports On Black Sea   23,000 Germans Dead In Last 10 Days Of Hard Fighting

Reds Push Towards  Black Sea   Nikopol, Valuable Mineral Center, Taken From Nazis;  15,000 Germans Die

Russian Armies Smash Toward  Black Sea Ports   Whole Eastern End  of German Salient On Dnieper Threatened

RED ARMIES HEAD TOWARI BLACK SEA   Eastern End of Nazi Salient is Collapsed

Arivol Rog Isolated From  Three Sides   Whole Lower Left Bank of Dnieper In Russian Hands

DROWNED !N ICY WATERS   70,000 Germans Are Routed By Red Army Units

Yanks Sweep To North End Of Leyte, Japs Disintearate’’: Samar Landing Confirmed

JAPANESE ARE CORNERED ON LEYTE ISLAND   American Landing On Adjacent Island Now Confirmed

Americans Control One’ third of Kwajalein in Marshalls.   MOPPING UP LAST  JAP RESISTANCE  .

Last Japs Mopped Up On Namur in Marshalls Invasior   Conquest of Island Group Will Give Allies An Open Road to Tokyo.

London Hit By  Enemy Raiders   Air Fleet Starts Fires, Explosions In Attack

PLANES COME TO ETROPCLIS IN 3 WAVES   Heaviest Casualties Singe Blitz; Amerieans, Canadians in Rescue Squads

NAZI PLANES GROSS COAST, BOMB LONDON    Heaviest Damage, Casualties Are Inflicted Since The ‘Blitz’

Quits Presidential Race After Defeat m Wisconsin; Future Intentions An Enigma.

Spotlight Is On Thomas Dewey Today   Willkie’s Withdrawal From Presidential Race Sets Stage For N. Y,. Governor

Leyte Japs’ ualties  Pass 53,000   Enemy Suffers 10 Times Greater  Losses Than U. S.

Ten Times Greater  Than Ours   American Forces Drawing Another Noose In Trapped Japs In Limon Pocket.

Japanese Philippine Forces Cut in Two When MacArthur Lands in Heart of Islands   Strong Land Forces Put Ashore in Leyte Gulf to Establish Three Beachheads After Heavy Bombardment from the Sea and from the Air

Senator Heaps Mixed Praise On President   Brewster Calls Him Grea Politician Bat Poor Administrator of Affairs

Brewster Raps Administration Foreign Policy   Meddling Makes Muddle Abroad

CHAOS AT HOME, ABROAD CHARGED   BREWSTER BLAMES INTERMEDDLING BY WHITE HOUSE AIDES

SEN. BREWSTER TERMS FDR BAD ADMINISTRATOR   Attacks Underlings’ Interference In Domestic, Foreign Affairs

TO FLY FRUIT NEXT SUMMER   Air Line Official Confers With Local Transportation Men

JAP BLOW FAILS AT BURMA RIVER   Heavy Loss Handed Enemy By American Troops

Red Forces Gain Below Leningrad   ‘Headed for Berlin’ Through Holes in Germany’s Northern Lines

SOVIETS POU ~ THROUGH GAPS IN NAZI LINES   Indications by Russians That Ber. lin Goal of Red Drive as Stalin Men Rush On

Soviets Tear German Lines Near Leningrac   Moscow Confident Triumphant Armies Bound For Berlin

We're Berlin Bound, Say Rus   Stalin Aide Issues Official Statement As Naxi Rout Grows

Triumphant Reds Pour Through  Nazi Defenses   Soviet Official Hints Russian Army Bound On Road To Berlin

Reds Pour Thru Gaps In Nazi Line   Soviet Official Indicates Berlin Is Objective  Of Red Army

NAZIS SEEK TO ESCAPE SOVIET TRAP   Fleeing In Panic From Positions Near Leningrad

RED ARMY IS BERLIN-BOUND, OFFICIAL HINTS   Nazi Defense Line Shredded

Red Army Opens 2nd Leningrad Moscow Railway   Soviet Trap Threatens 300,000 Nazi Troops

{Continued on Page Two)   EXPRESS FEAR GERMANS WILL DESTROY PARIS

YANK PLANES ALSO HIT FOE CARGO BOATS   191 Nippon Aircraft Are Destroyed in Surprise Raids

SUB CHASER IS SUNK BY U.S. PLANES   Winging From Flattops of Adm. Wm. F. Halsey’s Third Fleet; Also Hit Cargo Ships.   Hit Jap Bases

JAP AIRFIELDS WRECKED, FIVE WARSHIPS HIT   YANK PUSH TOWARD ORMOC ON LEYTE GAINS 4 MILES

JAP SUB CHASER SUNK IN PACIFIC   Third Fleet Damages Five Other Vessels in New Attack by Halsey’s Unit

Jap Vessels Bombed in Manila Bay   191 Planes Destroyed And Heavy Cruiser Probably Sent Down  2 NESTROVERS HIT

One Ship Sinks; ive Warships Badly Damaged   191 Nipponese Planes Are Destroyed and ‘Much Damage’ Is Done to Five Enemy Air Fields in Surprise Raids

VESSELS HIT MANILA BA   Sub Chaser Sunk, Heavy, Cruiser Left Sinking, Light Cruiser and 2 Destroyers Damaged. ..   191 ENEMY PLANES — BAGGED BY YANKS   Airfields in City and in Other Parts of Luzon Pounded — American  Pr =r ,a gsemees

One Sunk, Several Warships, Cargo Vessels Hit; 191 Planes Destroyed

Sub Chaser Sunk in Air Attack in Manila. Bay   AIRFIELDS HIT BY CARRIER AIRPLANES   Light Cruiser and. Three Destroyers Reported Damaaed

AIRCRAFT FROM THIRD FLEET IN MANILA ATTACK   “Much Damage” Reported To Airfields On South a   HEAVY CRUISER IS PROBABLY DESTROYED

600 Germans at St. Malo Polish Boots, Toast with ‘Cognac, Then Surrender

ee a erie.) > mee a  Tears, Cognac And Boot Polish - All Were Part Of St: Malo Surrender

Nazi Hold-Outs Drink Toasts, Weep Before Finally Hoisting White Flac

MAD COLONEL VACATES CAVE JUST IN TIME   Death Blow Stayed By Allied Airmen As 600 Germans Surrender

Guerrilla Fighter Kills Wife and Baby To Save Them From Japs in Philippines

American Task Foree Attacks Bonin, Volcanos      Carriers Stage 2-Day Raid On Isles 700 Miles From Tokvo   SAIPAN FIGHT HARD

Raid Stuttgart Railway Yards  Munich Area Blasted By Other Heavies

FLYING FORTRESSES ATTACK RAIL YARNS   Two Ply Air Attack Made on Germany From West And South.

STUTTGART IS SHAKEN IN RAID   Flying Forts Blast German Railvards

THREE PLANES LOST ON RECORD TWIN MISSION   Enemy’s Greatest Oil Center Enveloped In Towering Flames

NIGHT ATTACK ON AIRDROMES ARE REVEALED   First Bombing Since Fall of Corregidor Announced By M'‘Arthur Following  Historic Parley   GUAM CAMPAIGN OVER

Superforts Strike jap Homeland {n Record Attack   Three Planes Remain Unaccounted For; Enemy Suffers Keenly

Superforts Hit Again   Three Lost in Blow Against Japanese Industrial Targets

AMERICAN FLYERS BOMB NAGASAKI, JAP OW CENTERS   Results Good at Palembang, Sumatra, and Mainland Island of Kyushu-—Three Forts Missing.   BLOWS ARE 3,500 MILES APART BUT ON SAME DA’   U. §. Raiders Also Attack the Philippines For First Time Since Fall of Corregidor In 1942.

Only 3 Bombers Missing in Raids * By Superforts   Strike Nagasaki  And Sumatra Oil Installations at Palembang, Sumatra

Three B-29’s Lost On Raids  Against J apan   Excellent Results Obtained In Long-Range Night Offensives

Allies Step Up Offensive on All Fronts   FDR Sets Sights on Tokyo in Historic Conference with MacArthur, Nimitz

PRaMME PLIES DIA   Nagasaki, On Nippon Home Island, Pounded By Yank Sky Giants  oe Worn * * in “A wae .

FIRE BOMBS RAINED ON NAGASAKI   Superforts Hammer Big Japanese Oil Center At Palembana In Sumatra

3 Superforts Lost in Dual Aerial Raid   Fourth Plane Down On Friendly Soil; Attack Suceessful

TOKYO ADMITS AIR ATTACKS ARE FIERCE   dFull Liberation Of Guam Announced  By Allies  19 nnn IADC   Lost In Last Month On New Guinea; Marianas Called Greatest Navy Victory

3 Superforts Lost in Twin Blows at Japs   Bombing Results Reporte Good at Nagasaki And Sumatra Refinery

U.S.Sky Giants Deliver Heavy Blows On Japs   Raids On Nagasaki and Palembang, Sumatra, Devastating, Reports Indicate

FIRST BOMBING OF ISLANDS IS MADE BY AMERICAN PLANES IN FIRST PHASE OF RECONQUEST   After Historic Conference with President Gen. MacArthur Announces First Attack on Philippines Since Fall of Corregidor to Japs May 6, 1942

B-29’s Blast at Industrial Spots   Two Forces Take Part in Raids 3,500 Miles Apart  Three Pianes Missing.

Three B-29s Unaccounted For in Raids  Fourth Downed in China Afte Sivation Manacak: Jasan.

SUMATRAN REFINERY, JAP CITY BOMBED      Pladjoe Oil Installations and Nagasaki Are Targets of Fourth Operation

3 Sky Giants Missing After Night Attacks   Raid on Sumatra Refinery Largest Air Mission Ever Flown

Industrial Areas In Japan Hit; Oil Centers At Palembang Pounded   Davao Blasted As American Planes Strike Philippines First Time Since Corregidor

Three B-29s Lost In Japan, Sumatra Raids   Fourth Forced Down In Friendly Area; Do Heavy Damaae

‘Nagasaki and Oil Center Under Attack   Fourth Bomber Downed In Friendly Territory; Bombing Results Good

Three Planes In Attack on Japan Missing   One Super-Fortress Was Forced Down in Friendly Territory, Headquarters Says

BLAST CENTERS OF NIP WAR INDUSTRY 3.500 MILES APART   Oil Facilities at Palembang, Sumatra Attacked. by One Force and Nagasaki in Japan by Another — Three R.20’. Unaccounted For

B-29's Hif Jap Targets Heavy Blows   Smash Oil Refinery in Sumatra, Industrial Targets in Nagasoki

Widespread Damage In Raids By  Superforts   Hits Scored On Palembang Target; Large Fires Rage In Nagasaki Yards

4 SUPER FORTS LOST IN HEAVY RAIDS ON JAPY   Palembang in Sumatra Home Land Blasted; ; Bomb Philippines 

Three B-29s Missing in Two Attacks   Super-Forts Hit Nagasaki and Palembang in Sumatra

Two Raids Carried Out By B-29s   City Of Nagasaki On Kyushu And Refinery Town On Sumatra Are Targets Of Bombers

Attack ‘Left Three Superfo tresses Unaccounted f 8 8 ore” se   TWO FORCES INRA      A Fourth Aerial Giant We : ' Down in Friendly Territory.

3 B-295 LOST IN NEW RAID   Fourth Superfortress Is Forced Down In Friendly Territory

GOOD RESULTS REPORTED IN 2 B-29 ATTACKS   Met Jap Fighters at Nagasaki, Bomber Command Says

Jap Industrial Centers Attacked  Superfortresses Raid Nagasaki And Sumatra Gas Plant as Well

3 SUPERFORTS MISSING FROM DUAL ASSAULT   Hit Nagasaki Plane Plants in Japan; Fighting Ends on Guam

3 FAIL TO RETURN   Mighty. B-29 Superfortresses Lambast Jap Industrial Center

Giants Blast Sumatra and Kyushu City   Three Superfortresses Unaccounted for in Terrific Attack

Huge Planes Again Over Jap Homeland   Three Fortresses Lost, One Down in Friendly Territory

Three Planes In B-29 Raid Are Missing  Bombing Results Are Termed Good

Holiday Greeting: Sent Servicemen   President Hails U. S. Military Progress _

Jap Wake Island Base Blasted By Naval Planes   American Warships, Aircraft Continue Assault on Marshalls

NAVY BOMBERS HAMMER WAKE   U. §. Planes Continue to Blast Japs Still in Marshalls

PACIFIC ATOLLS BLASTED AGAIN   Wake Island ‘Bombarded While Fleet Shells Enemy Positions

Another Wake Island Raid Reported By Admiral Nimitz   New Attacks on Japanese-held Atollsi in the Marshalls Also Announced—Not a Plane Lost _ in Onerations

WARSHIPS AGAIN SHELL MARSHALLS   ATOLLS HIT ARE UNIDENTIFIED—NEW AIR RAID MADE ON WAKE ISLAND.

BATTLE FRONTS SURROUND NAZIS   Enemy Will Be Crushed From All Sides, Says (en. Eisenhower

Sweden Apprehensive over Finnish > Attempts To End War with Russia

SENATE PROPOSES SALE OF U. 8. REAL ESTATE IN SEPARATE PLAN   PUTTING LAND UNDER JURISDICTION OF INTERIOR, AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENTS SUGGESTED AS SOLUTION

SENATE VOTES BOARD TO HANDLE ‘SURPLUS?   Legislators Talk Of Recess Until After Election

Congress to Seek Recess   Hope for Mid-Septembe Vacation After Passing War Goods Measure

Civilian Employes Of Army Charged With Food Theft  Seven Held For

On North Italian Front Gallant Polish Corps Fights Through Terrifying Terrain to Take Anchor of Hitler and Gustav Lines   ‘FRENCH REACH STRONGPOINTS IN CENTER AREA

ALLIES TROOPS NOW REPORTED IN CONTACT WITH HITLER LINE AS OFFENSIVE IS BROADENED   Prisoners Now Total 4,500 for Present Drive with Total of 20,000 Since Italian Campaign Opened Last Fall. Cassino Evacuated Under Relentless

Americans Capture Formia   Fall of Two German Strongpoints Marks End of Gustav Line; Bombers Blast Ploesti

Smash Gustav Line, Storm Toward Rome   Yanks Capture Southern Anchor Of Hitler Line

ALLIED TROOPS ARE STORMING STEADILY AHEAD TOWARD ROME  TREAT Wk Fh RETA

Strongpoints Fall in ‘Steady Allied Advance   Formia Taken by Americans, Cassino By British; Gustav Line Destroyed, Troops Battering at Hitler Line Now.

British Forces Uncircle City, Cut Highway   Take Strong Points Of Hitler Defenses In ltaly As Planes Pummel Enemy

NORTH ANCHOR OF TWO NAZI LINES SEIZED   Gustav Line No Longer Exists, Communique Says

Storm Steadily Ahead Toward Rome After Capturing Cassino And Formia In Central Italy -- Gustav Line Is Wiped Out -‘Allied ‘Bombers Hit Ploesti, Belgrade And Nis

CASSINO FALLS AFTER 5 MONTHS FIERCE FIGHTING   Yanks Drive Germans Out Of Formia, Southern Anchor Of Main Hitler Line

East Prussian Rail Hub of Tilsit Shelled   Push Brings USSR Forces on Border Of Memel Territory

SOVIET GUNS SHELL EAST PRUSSIA CITY   Key Railway Hub Of Tilsit Is Bombarded

Both Town And  Farm Activity  In Real Estate Many Farms And   Many Farms And Town Properties Changing Hands

Both Town And Farm Activity, In Real Estate  Many Farms And Town Properties Changing Hands

Damage In Hooper-Winslow Area Estimated Over Million Dollars   May Reach 19 Feet.

DEBRECEN, CITY IN HUNGARY, IS TAKEN BY REDS   Nazis Report Russians Provide New Threats in E. Prussia Invasion

Debrecen in Hungary Falls 'To Red Troops   Third Largest City Of Nation; Russians  Gerem Taward Ridanec

Cluj, Szeged Fall to Drive Of Russians   Tilsit' in E. Prussia Under Artillery Fire In Baltic Offensive

° Russians Liberate  Belgrade   Debrecen, Third Largest City’ of Hungary Has Fallen To the Red Army

REDS MENACE ANOTHER EAST PRUSSIA AREA   Berlin Says Soviets Mass  Tanks in Kaiser’s Deer Forest, 20 Miles Below Previous Crossing of BRrontier.

U.S. Subs Bag 17 More Jap Ships   Nips’ Latest Losses Include 2 Destroyers

ALLIED PLANES HIT - JAP ISLAND BASES ~ IN3. 000 MI. CHAIN   Liberators Bomb Oil Refinery On Borneo; Celebes Wharf Area Hit   RABAUL A TARGET AGAIN

Allied Fliers In8,000-Mile — Blow at Japs   Isle Bases From Borneo to Bougainville Lashed;  Marines Storm Hill

Airmen Smash Japanese Bases   Widespread Raids Staaed in Pacific

JAPANESE TROPICAL ISLAND BASES FEEL WRATH OF BOMBINGS  ONE OF MOST EXTENSIVE ALLIED OPERATIONS IN

Allied Planes Hit 3000-Mile Chain . OF Japanese-Held Tropical Bases, - Inflictins Heavy Losses On Enemy

From Borneo To Bouganville Japs Fleeing Allied Air Might; 7,000 Ton Cargo Ship Burns.

WIDEN. AERIAL FRONT 10 3,000 MILES IN AREA   Blast Japanese Militar Targets from Borneo To Bougainville

ALLIED PLANES RIP JAP BASES   Yank Bombs Fall On Islands From Borneo to Bougainville

CH  APLIN MANN ACT CASE IS UP TQ JURY   Instructions From Bench Follow Dramatic Summations

FINLAND’S SPECIAL ENVOY IS RETURNING   Peace Emissary Departs Stock. holm Givins Impression OF  Failure

Advances in bloody but unspectacular St. Lo battle measured in hedgerows

FINNS WAGE 4AR AGAINST GERMANS   Nazi Assault on Island of Hogland Starts Fighting

GERMANY AND FINNS AT WAR   Former Allies Battle When Nazis Attack Island of Hogland

Hideout By Jap Navy Discloses Weakness— -  —By Kirke L. Simpson  Marshalls Are Threat To Jap Base At Truk

JAP FLEET FACES A NEW CHALLENGE   FAILURE, TO SEND IT TO MARSHALLS WOULD BE CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS. .---

Eisenhower Carrying Too Heavy A Load   Suggceis Some Of Duties Be Deleqated

Reds Bomb City on Riga Rail Line; Situation on Land Front Unchanged

Reds Join In ‘Air Barrage   ‘Blows From East Similar To Air Strateay In West

RUSSIANS BOMB CITY OF POLTSK   Large Scale Red Army Offensive Hinted In Near Future

Navie}s Continue. Aerial Campaign Against Germany  Nazi Held City Nea;   Nazi Held City Near Latvian-Polish Line Heavily Bombed

China Pledges Early Victory   Greater Power to People’s Aesemblies Urged

Meats & Vegetables Return to Ration List On Tuesday   Moeny Red and Bive Points Are Cancelled; Butter Now Calls for 24 Red Points

UPA JUGGLING POINTS TO HiT HEAVY EATERS   Some Food Supplies (For Civilians) Reported at a Low Figure.

Vandenberg Hits Labor Draft Plan   Regimentation No! Needed, He Asserts

Prefers Anti-Strike Law To Regimenting Everyone To Achieve Same Result

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT MERSEBURE, BINGEN POINTS   Over 2,000 Warplanes Raid Syn thetic Oil Works And Rail Yards

Garand Inventor Receives Medals   Medal Also Goes to Scientist Who Helped With Radar

RAINS HAMPER YANKS CLOSING TRAP ON JAPS   Enemy Remnants Are Being Cleared Up On Mapia Islands

U. 5. INFANTRYMEN MET BY TORRENTIAL RAINS PHILIPPINES  TOLL OF JAP SHIPPING IN MANILA BAY REVISED UPWARD

Invasion Troops Crush Resistance  ‘On Pegun Island   Yank Leyte Offensive Halts Under Heavy Tropical Rains

RAIN SLOWS OFFENSIVE ON LEYTE   Yanks Complete Occupation of Pegun Island

STORM CHECKS U.S. ADVANGE ON LEYTE ISLE   Yanks Meet Light Resistance In Invasion of Mapia Islands

Rains Slow U.S. Infantry Leyte Drive   Toll Of Jap Shipping In Manila Bay Raised; MacArthur Surrounds Ormoc

Mapia Occupatior Completed By American Troops   Tropical Downpours Slow Up Offensive On Leyte Island

Rains Slow Up War in Philippines   Yanks Encounfer Little Trouble Cleaning Up Enemy '_ Remnants on Mapia_Islands: 30 Barges Destroyed

Downpours Slow Yankee Drive On Levte Island   Last Resistance on Pegun Island Crushed Says Gen, MacArthur

Rains Slow U. S. Infantry In Push Against Japanese   Yanks Cleaning Out Enemy on Mapia Island

Enemy Barges In Ormoc Port Hit by Planes   Mopping up of Jap Remnants in Mapia Islands Reported

Yanks Slowed Up On Leyte By Big Rains   Encounter Little Trouble Cleaning Up Remnants On Mapia Isle.  TROPICAL STORMS

Heavy Rains Slow U. S. Advance on Leyte; Pegur In Mapia Isles Occupied

DOWNPOUR HALTS YANKS ON LEYTE   Americans Mop Up Mapia in Another Action.

Rains Bog Trapping Of Japs   Planes, However, Continue Havoc With Levte Shinning

Rains Slow Land Action on Leyte   Yanks Encounter Little Trouble Wiping Up Japs on Maria

TROPICAL STORM HAMPERS AIR ACTIVITY: JAP SHIPPING LOSS. IN MANILA BAY GOES HIGHER

Tropic Rain: Slow Yanks On Levte   MacArthur Says U. S. Occupation of Mapia Islands Compieted

GRIP TIGHTENED ON 3,000 JAPS IN LEYTE TRAP   Yanks Occupy One Mapia Island, Mop Up On Another

ISLES ARE CONQUERED   Grip On 3000 Trapped gJaps In Philippines Tightened, Report

Tropical Downpours Slow Action On Leyte; Last Resistance On Pegun Island Crushed By U. 8. Troovs   LANDING PARTIES IN ISLANDS SMALL

Rains Slow Yanks In Leyte, but ~ Mapia Isle Seized   Americans Mop Up Japs on Island Off New Guinea

‘Tropical Downpours Slow American Offensive On  Leyte In Philippines   16 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK IN MANILA BAY   American Landings On Both Islands Were Small With Slight Opposition

JAPS CRUSHED BY YANKS ON MAPIA ISLANE   Remnants of Enemy Garrisons at Warning Bases Are Eliminated.

Florence Bombed fo1  First Time   Seventh Raid in Fight Months Made on Rome

Soviets Capture Kherson in Big Nazi Disaster   Germans Lose 22,500 In Black Sea Port; Finns’ Offer Rejected

‘SAIPAN LOSSES ARE QUITE SEVERE   Admiral Nimitz Tells Pres: Conference: “However, We Are Not Pessimistic.”

Dewey Speech Put Under Fire  By Democrats   Chairman Connally Calls For Peace Machinery Backed by Armed Powers

Weasels and Rodents Figures in Smith's Criticism of Dewey   Sen. Connally Critical of Dewey Acceptance Speech

PRAVDA GIVES BRITISH DENIAL OF PEACE TALK   Observers Believe “Bombshell” Exploded Monday Will Fizzle Out

‘Wild Rumor’ Puzzle To The World   Moscow Broadcast of Unity Quoted

Russian Papers Print British Denial; Sweden Hears New Nazi Propaganda

Pravda Presents British Denial   Russian Paper Publishes British Official Denial Of Alleged Conference

TAKE MIME. CHIANG TO PRIVATE. HOME   First Lady of China Removed From Medical Center in New York

ritish Repulse apsal Kohima Bitter Battle   Buthedaung in westert Burma Evacualeé Y British and Indians: Chinese Repel Attack

WITHDRAWAL IS MADE BY ALLIES AT BUTHEDAUNG   Readjustment Of Positions In Western Burma  Is Announced

WITHDRAW AT BUTHEDAUNG; NEW POSITION   British and Indian Troops - Beat Off New Japanese Attacks on Indian Frontier Base of Kohima.   Hold Manpin

British and Indian Troops Withdraw From Buthedaung  —_——_— =: F == a, a oe om Es me CUE CU   ALLIED POSITIONS BEING READJUSTED   Japanese Strike Viciously  as Monsoon Season Nears

British and Indian Troops Withdraw From Buthedaung   'ALLIED POSITIONS BEING READJUSTED

British Block New Jap Blow ~ Near Kohimse   Allies Leave Buthedaung: Stilwell Advance Unit Onitiwnscs Base

Britistt, linian  Thuaps Pail Out . Of Westen Base   Movement Descrit sd a: “Res ARenmd by Lerd Mountl stisn

British Retreat From Western Base in Burma   Beat Off Japanese Attacks on Kohima

British Withdraw From Burma Base; New Stabs Beaten   Troops Withdrawn From Buthedaung To Adjust Positions; Battle Flares At Kohima

JAPS THWARTED TRYING TO LAND ADDITIONAL MEN   Enemy Loses 2,400 Troops Trying To Land At Borgen Bay   TROOP - FILLED BARGES ARE SUNK BY MARINES

JAPS REPULSED ON NEW BRITAIN   Landing Attempt Halted By Marine Artillery; » 100 Slain

Japs Repulsed In Attempt To Land Soldiers   Marines Advance Near Borgen Bay

Marines Smash Jap Move to Aid Troops   Nip Effort to Halt U. 8S. Advance on Cape Gloucester Costs 2.400 Enemy Dead;  Two Troop-Laden Barges, Others Sunk

Marine Guns Smash Jap Nighi Attack   Attempted Landing on Gloucester Is Costly to Nips

City Blasted From Land, Air In Death Throe:      jianks Drive Wedges io Sea on Both Sides Of Port .

OUT SMASH TAKE THE CITY FCAN LATE TODAY   nervourg Encircled—Planes fy) Thousands Aid In Wasting It Wide Open..

Final Assault On Cherbourg Is Underway   Allies Hoping for Victory Momentarily

AERIAL SHOW IS GREATEST SINCE D-DAY   Massed Artillery, Bombers Blasting Path for Troops

Cherbourg Attacked by Land, Planes   All-out Assaults Expected to Effect Capture in Short Time

ASOAULTS BY LAND AND AIR CHASH TOW   Encirclement on All Sides _Cuts All Avenues: ' . of Escape.

American Siege Forces Virtually Isolated German Garrison In City.   BULLETIN

Aerial Assault On Cherbourg Among Greatest   Nazis Overwhelmed At Martinvast, Defense Outpost

Encirclement Of Besieged City Reported   Wave On Wave Of Light And Medium Bombers Pound German Troops In Inner Defenses Of Cherboure   EXPECT VICTORY IN MATTER OF HOURS

Fortifications Undergo Raids By Gigantic Force   Troops Virtually Complete Encircling of French Port

HUNDREDS OF PLANES BLAST BURNING PORT   Troops Battle In Suburbs

Greatest Aerial Display Since D-Day On Big Normandy Port   BLAST GERMAN — FORTIFICATIONS   Allied Encirclement Of Cherbourg Is Virtually Completed 

RAF Raids Ulm, ~ Industrial Cily “On Upper Vanube  Follows . Up Hea my Rela  By US. P Plan s On

143 GERMAN PLANES BAGGED IN WESTERN FRONT BATTLES   Luftwaffe Rose In Force Sunday To Support Nazi Counter-Offensive Suffering Greatest Loss  Since November 26; 35 U. S. Planes Lost

Debate German  Propaganda Blame  Unions Deny Charge They Aided Germans

Says Steel, Rail Strike Threats Ended Hope Of . Early Eruption in Reich

Nazis Use Rail Seizure To Bolster Own Nation Hold Down Occupied Ones

U. S. Spokes Cites N ew Propaganda   . i: 2a ae 2 are’? ce ec? ee

High Source Says Threats Of Strikes  Delav Vietory   QAStu as alleen Cad — bedetehasbed By Germans, He Says, And Thus Revolts  In Reich Postponed  STEEL UNION MAN ASSAILS CHARGE  3 Rail Labor Heads Say Administration Delays Pay Settlement

U.S. Labor Rows Slow Nazi Defeat, Nation Is Told   German Propagandists Tell Subject Peoples Chaos Reigns Here

Nazi Propagandists Said to Have Seized on Steel-Rail Troubles to Stave Off Possible Revolts,   PUPPET STATES TOLD CHAOS REIGNS IN JU. S.   Statement in High Washington Quarters Says Resistance Allies Counted On Has Died Lown.

FAMILY HEADS DON UNIFORMS   Draft Revisions Take Two Million Men Out Of 3-A

2 Million 3-A’s  Reclassified in  Past Two Months 90,000 Fathers Into  Service January 1; New System in Effect

DEFERRED RANKS BEING DEPLETED   ewer Classifications Take moll Since Father Induction

1,100 AMERICAN PLANES SMASH NAZI SUB BASE   Wilhelmshaven Main Target in. Fresh Round-Clock f Offensive

Yanks Smash at Truk for Fifth Time   Attacks Damage Air Strips,  Rerraecke Arar

Truk Given Fifth Pounding In 72 Hours After Jap Night Fighters Are Brushed Aside

Truk Given th Bombinc In 72 Hours   Three Bases on Atoll Hit in Backstopping Palau Naval Strike

TRUK POUNDED FIFTH TIME IN UNDER 72 HOURS   Jap Pacific Bastion Being Blasted From Two Sides

American Airmen Enter Battle Against Germans on Eastern Front to Aid Reds

FLIERS BACK UP SOVIET ATTACKS   American Planes Based In Russia Destroy 38 Nazi Craft

AMERICAN AIRMEN SUPPORT RED ARMY   Flying From Bases in Soviet Union They Destroy 38 Nazi Planes in Tavow Area.

ORMOC REGION PERILS ENEMY   28 Planes Destroyed By Americans in  Manila Raid

BOLIVIAN MINE OWNER MISSING   DIPLOMATS AND POLICE SEARCH FOR MILLIONAIRE

Yanks Occupy Important Jap  Island Air Base In Smashing Attack On Briwernl (tenn

Airdrome on Engebi captured   U.S. loss light:  = other isles fall

JAP FORCES IN FULL RETREAT ON N. BRITAIN   May Make Last Stand at Rabaul  cate ce  ARMY BATTERED  eeeetee ete  Leave Thousands of Dead

Japs In Retreat Toward Rabaul   Japanese Legions Stumble Backward Through New Britain’s Jungies   ABANDON GASMATA AND CAPE HOSKINS

Churchill In New Tempest   Blocks Full Review of War, Greece,. Defends Interventien in Belgium

Riot Steps in Belgium Told By Churchill   Prime Minister Tells Commons Troops Acted Under U. S. Instructions

COMMONS TOLD ORDERS ISSUED BY EISENHOWER   Debate About Greece Is Delayed by ‘Great Battle’

CHURCHILL SAYS BRITISH ACTED AT AMERICAN REQUEST  BRITISH PREMIER FORCE!   BRITISH PREMIER FORCED INTO ANOTHER HOT-TEMPERED COMMONS DEBATE

Churchill Is Forced Into Hot Exchange   He Is Expected to Speak Again Tomorrow;Sidesteps Greek Issue Today   LABOR PARTY ‘ASKS ANOTHER SESSION   ‘Belgian Questions Brought Into Debate; Great Battle Under Way, House Told

‘ORDERED BY U. S.   Churchill Defends Suppression of Leftist Riots in lgium

Situation In Greece Improved   Churchill Makes Statement; Defends British Troops’ Part in Belgium

Churchill, Commons In ‘Sharp Debate   Prime Minister Refuses Review Of War Situation

Says Eisenhower Ordered British Belgian Policy   Churchill’s Speech Hotly Defends Use Of Foree Against  November Rioterc

Churchill Blocks Efforts te Get Review of War, Greek Situation,   DEFENDS INTERVENTION

GREECE ISSUE TO BE DEBATED BY COMMONS THURSDAY   Announcement cf  Discussion Made After Churchill Sidetracked Attempt to Get His Comments: on That Situation

Churchill fo Be Quizzed o1 Greek Policy   Lobor Party Makes Formal Demand for Debate in Commons

Churchill Again Drawn Into Hot Commons Scrap   * Angrily Defends British Troop Intervention In Belgian Disorders.

Blacklist Policy After War, Too   U. S., Britain to Punish Axis-Aiding Business

German Flight May Open Port Of Antwerp Soon   Berlin Reports Reds Mounting New Major Offensive in Latvia

Allied Forces Rip 50-Mile German Line   Nazis Abandon Strone Defenses to British, Canadians

STETTINIUS IS EXPECTED TO ADD ‘STREAMLINING TO STATE DEPT.   Nomination Goes Up For Approval

STETTINIUS MithT CHANGE POLICIES   Significant Changes Seen In Department Of State By New Appointee

House Overrides Presidential  Veto of Tax Bill 299 to 95   Similar Jolting Action Is Expected by Senate Today to Put Act on Books

House Overrides Presidential  Veto of Tax Bill 299 to 95  Crenilewse TaAltimner Aetian Te Famactad hy   Similar Jolting Action Is Expected by Senate Today to Put Act on Books

Overriding Of Tax Veto By Senate Is Expected Today   Bitter Congressional Rebuke Handed to President by the House: by an Emphatic 299 t0.95 Vote— : ~ Attack on Treasury Made’ -

House Rides Over Veto of Tax Bill   WAYS AN  D MEANS COMMITTEE  CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON LEADS PARADE OF BITTER LAWMAK ERS IN REBUKE.   Vote 299 to 95

Mine Workers In Wales Call Wage Strike  Output of Coal Dwindles Today As Pits Close

60,000 Mine Workers in Britain Out   Welsh Coal Fields Practically at Standstill

BRITISH AND ELAS CLASH FURIQUSLY   Fighting in Greece Grows Heavier; British Infantry, Paratroops, and Armored Units Attack

FIGHTING HEAVY IN ATHENS AREA   BRITISH MAKE GAINS IN ALIOUT EFFORT TO DEFEAT ARMED LEFTISTS.

BATTLE IN ATHENS REPORTED FIERCER   British Forces Meet Stiff Resistance From > . Elae

British-Greek  Warfare Grows   ELAS Units Offer  Stiffer Resistance

Resistance — In Athens — ~ Is Heavier   Battle Moves Toward Piraeus as- Elas. _.... And. Tommies \ Clash

Mr. Smith In Washington Takes Floor   Budget Bureau Director Airs Views On All These Probes

Governor Warren Declines Vice-President Nomination   HOOVER {5 SPEAKER» AT NIGHT SESSION   Former President Is Given Ovation by the Audience

SAYS U. S. NEVER TOTALLY IN WAR   Parliament Member, Fear_ ful of Export Trade, Speaks Out

Kesselring’s Army Meets Catastrophe  Navic Comnletely Disorganized. Flee

Fifth Army Takes Tuscaniz  And Advances   Gen, Clark’s Forces Pursue Germans al

CATASTROPHE FACING NAZI FORCES TODAY   General Retreat From Italian  Fronts Seen

Nazi Flight “In Italy a .Near Rout   For the First Time Allied Communique Bescribes Reverses As a Catastrophe

Nazis Flee Northward From Rome Under fire   Allies Call Flight ‘Catastrophe’ For German Forces

NAZI TROOPS FLEE IN ITALY   Allies Pursue Disordered Forces Far North Of Rome

ENEMY FLEEING NORTH OF ROME      Kesselring’s Troops Run Away From Yanks With Increasing Disorder

Nazi Retreat In Italy Is Now Rout   Allied Headquarters Describes Move As “Catastrophe”

oth Army Slashes At Retreating Foe . Fleeing Northward   Yanks Unable To Catch Up With  Racing Kesselring Forces;  _Réport. Disorder Increase

CATASTROPH  BEFALLS NAZIS   Allies Announce German 14th Flees With Increasing Disorder.   CAPTURE ANCIENT TOWN

Retreat in Italy Is ‘Catastrophe   German 14th Army in Headlong Flight Northward With Allies Slashing at Foe—Ancient Town of Tuscania Is Latest Success Announced.   FAIL TO CATCH ENEMY

Disaster to Nazi Armies in Italy   Increasing Disorganization of German Retreat Is Reported   PURSUIT IS SPEEDIER   Demoralization Increased by Steady Pounding _ From the Air

NAZIS FLEE ITALY IN ‘DISORDER   Allies Declare Kesselring Suffers A ‘Gatastrophe’

GERMANS RETREATING IN ITALY FASTER THAN ALLIES CAN PUSH UP   Allies Spokesman Speaks of “Catastrophe” That Has Befallen Kesselring   MANY DESERTERS TAKE

Disorganized Foe Trying To Escape Yank:   Major Catastrophe  -Suffered By Hitler's Broken Armies

German 10th Perilled by Wild Flight   Americans Speeding in Pursuit Unable ie Catch Up With Large Elements of Fleeing Kesselring

—JTALY——  Fifth Army Unable To Catch Up With Foe   Allidd Command For First Time Declares Officially “Catastrophe” Has Befallen Field. Marshal: Kes-.  celring’s: Forces

Retreat A Rout In Italy   Flight of 14th Nazi Army Called ‘“Catastrophe” By Allied Commind; Tuscania Taken

Nazi Retreat Is Disorderly North Of Rome   German 14th Army, Fleeing Before Allied Pursuers, Reported Disorganized in Flight Northward.

German 14th in Wild Rout, Seeks Escape   Clark's: Army Unable to Keep Up With Disoraanized Nazis

Fifth Army Drives 15 Miles a Day   14th German Army’s Flight Imperils 10th

Germany 's Defeat In Italy Officially Called Catastrophe   Fifth Army Unable To Catch Up With Hitler’s Fleeing Army

German Army Flees North in Disorder; Allies in Pursui   Allies’ Fifth Unable to Keep Up With Run nine Nazi Force

ENEMY FLEES IN DISORDER NORTH OF ROME   Ailied Command Reports “Catastrophe” Has Befallen Germans

‘CATASTROPHE’ HITS GERMAN FORGES IN ITALY   Nazi Army Flees Northward, Fifth Averages 15-Mile Advance Daily

‘CATASTROPHE’ IS GERMAN LO? ABOVE ROME <   Allied Command Declam es Nazis Fleeing So Fast Allies Can’t Catch Up ‘: With Them aE

Nazi 10th Army In Italy Faces ‘Catastrophe’   Flight Of 14th Army So Rapid Other Left Witheutt Elank Protection.

GERMAN RETREAT IN ITALY BECOMES DISORDERLY ROUT   Allied Command Says ‘Catastrophe’ Has Befallen Kesselring’s Fleeing Troops

YANKS UNABL TO CATCH UP WITH ENEMY   Clark’s Men Move At Rate Of 15 Miles Daily  EIRuUTH ARMY   Pushes Up Adriatic Coast; Tuscania, Tarquinia, Vetralla Taken

14TH ARMY'S ‘DISORDER IS INCREASING   Forces Flee Along Coast in Disorganized Fashion, Leaving in Peril Slower . Moving Tenth Army on Fast of Tiher.

Fifth Advances, But Too Slowly To Catch Nazis   Allied Troops Reach Tuscania, 50 Miles Northwest Of Rome

German Armies In Italy Flee In Disorder   Retreat Turning Into Rout As Allies Push Steadily Ahead

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES 15 MILES   British Troops Also Surge Forward On Adriatic Front

Catastrophe For  Germans In Italy Allies Smash Ahead At Rate  ‘ay 4 J = hAslac A , a D..«ke

German Armies Flee in Italy   AMERICANS SLASHING  FORWARD NORTH . OF ROME

“CATASTROPHE” FOR GERMANS   Kesselring Troops Still on Run North of Rome.—Allies Averaging About 15 Miles Daily.

Nazi Armies Flee  Ahead of Allies   High Commander Officially Notes “Catastrophe” for Enemy in Italy

German Rout In Italy Described As ‘Catastrophe   Fifth Army Takes Tuscania In Swift Pursuit OFf Fleeing Foe.

Allies Capture Tuscania in Italy Offensive   Germans Retreat in _ Disorder; Italians  Form New Regime

Allies Average 15 Miles a Day; 14th Army In Utter Disorder   10th Army Perilled by Re~ treat of Von Mackensen’s Force

NAZI RETREAT IS TOO SWIFT FOR YANKEES   Catastrophe Befalls Kesselring’s Forces Fighting in Italy.   Germans Continue to Lose Flanking Support

Marines Blast Foe From Hill  In Saipan Gain   Yanks Secure Full Control  Of Magicienne Bay, Go Penna Tne Mn.

CAPTURE OF MARIANAS IS ASSURED   Americans Take Mountain on Saipan Win Complete Control of Magicienne Bay.  Start Fires

U. 5. SOLDIERS MAE NEW GAINS ON SAIPAN ISLAND   Push Deeper Into Capital of . Garapan and Scale Dominating Height of Mt. Tapotchau.   JAPS LOSE CONTROL OF MAGICIENNE BAY   Admiral Nimitz Reveals Defense of Marianas Has Cost Nipponese Forces 756 Planes.

Yanks Capture Strategic  Saipan Heighi   U. S. Task Force Pounds Japs On Guam, Rota

Americans Take Prize Saipan Peak   Mt. Tapotchau Scaled By Yanks: Control Bay Won

YANKS SCALE MT. TAPOTCHAU ON SAIPAN ISLE   Doughboys Gain Control Of Magicinne Bay Eastern Crossroads To  Japan, China And Philipines

MT, TAPOTCHAU IS SCALED BY U, §. MARINES   American Troops Have Complete Control Of  Macicienne Rav   TASK FORCE POUNDS GUAM, ROTA ISLANDS

Early Capture of Saipan by Americans Seems Assured      GUAM IS POUNDED BY CARRIER FORCE   Dominating Height Scaled by Ground Forces

HEINZEN STATES NAZIS DEFENSE ~ SYSTEM NO MYTH   Writer Tetig Young Journalists Enemy’s Preparations Are Extensive.

Nazis in Control  Of Armed Forces   Eastern Front Leader Sends Congratulations To Hitler on Escape

Nazis Plan to Tighten Home Front Grip  Strongly Entrenched. in the Driver's Seat,  a a re  ae

Eastern Front: Marshal Sends Hitler Pledge   Message Taken As Tacit Admission Nazi Party Now In Driver’s Seat

NazisTighten Gripon Weary  Home Front        ew Measures  May Be Expected Soon,  Sars Berlin  Drastic 3

MORE DRASTIC AGTS EXPECTED   Message Hints Nazis Will Tighten Grip on WarWearv Home Front.   HITLER CONGRATULATED

BELIEVE NAZIS CONTROL ARMY   ®General On Russian Front Congratulates Fuerher Upon Escape

NAZI EXECUTE OFFICERS; PURGE MISSES LEADERS    Military Salute Abolished In Favor of “Heil Hitler’ Salute

HITLE HARSH MEASURE ON HOMEFRONT   Germany Herself May Become New Battle Ground

Party Believed In Control Of Reich Armed Force: Eden Says Events Of Last Week Encouraging Await Changes In Commanders

New Decrees Expected To Affect All   Hitler Believed To Be Ready To Fight To A Finish

Soviet Forces Open Powerful Offensive Toward Tilsit And Memel In East Prussia

REPORT ALLIES IN YUGOSLAVIA      Military authorities in London Have No Confirmation: of Dispatch.   ‘MAY BE GERMAN FEELER

Yugoslav Landing ByAllies Reported   United Nations Headquarters At Algiers Denies Story Of ‘Crack Division’ Moves; Specialists Mentioned

CRACK FORCES PARTICIPATE SWEDES SAY   Algiers Brands Dispatch Completely False   Enter Yugoslavia To Aid Tito’s Units, British Leader States

Stockholm Claims _ Specialist Troops Occupy Vital Sites   British. Observer. Admits ‘Passage OF Officers ‘Across Adriatic But . Doubts Troops Landed. In F orece.

RUMOR FROM CROATIA MAY BF A FEELER   Headquarters in Algiers Calls ‘Completely Erroneous’’ Story of Landing In Yugoslavia   ACROSS THE ADRIATIC

Allies Deny Landings in Yuvoslavis   Algiers Calls. Swedish Report of Landing Wholly Erroneous’

Report Some Allied Forces Landed In  ‘Yugoslavia   No ‘Crack Divisions,’ However, Headquarter: Asserts; Rumors May  Ra Carman Foeelerse

ALLIED LANDING IN YUGOSLAVIA IS REPORTED   London Says Nazis May Be Fishing, Stockholm Hears Specialiets Divisions Landed   ZAGREB NERVOUS   Some Basis for Reports Seen in Allied Aid to Tito — Yugoslavs Withdraw from Banja Luka

Allied Troops Land On Coast Ot Yugoslavia   Roundabout Reports Reach Stockholm Of Landing At Strategic Points.   SUFFER NERVOUSNESS

STOCKHOLM CLAIMS ALLIES LANDED ON YUGOSLAVIA COAST  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, HOWEVER, DISCLAIMS INVASION

Report Allied ‘Troops Landed  At Yugoslavia      Specialist Troops Said To  Pave Landed At Sev:  eral Strategic Points— landing of “Several Crack Divisions” Denied,

REUTERS SAYS CRACK ALLIED’ TROOPS LANDED   Roundabout Rumors Called “Completely Erroneous” By Algiers Leaders

DENY THAT CRACK ALLIED DIVISIONS ARE IN YUOGSLAVI!   Reports Reaching Stockholm Say Specialist Troops Had Landed at Many Points.   BELIEVE GERMAN PLANT   Reports Gave No Indication of the Size of the Forces or Nationality.

Allies Deny Crack Allied Divisions Enter Yugoslavia   Qualified Squrce in London Declares Reports of Allied Invasion of Balkans Were Probably Planted by Germans

Special Allied Troops Reported hh Yugoslavia  Coastal ee N Not. In F

ALLIED SOURCES DENY REUTERS’ NEWS REPORTS   Stockholm Hears ‘Crack Troops’ in Surprise Action; Algiers Disagrees

ALLIED SOURCE CLAIMS STORY GERMAN FEELER   Reuters Says British Forces Also in Invasion, Fighting in Progress Now

Report Allied Units Land in Yugoslavia      Forces Said to Be Specialists, but Rumor Is Roundabout—Headquarters Denies Story That “Crack Divisions” Attack. 

INVASION FROM ADRIATIC TOLD BY STOCKHOLM   Crack Divisions Reported In Action; Allies Lae bel Story False

Specialist TroopsAid  Yugoslavia   Arrival Of Some Units Indicated But Story Of Large Landings Is Called Erroneous

Allies Say Nothing True In Balkan Landing Report   Roundabout Reports Credited to German ‘Feelers’ Rumoring Allied Troops At Points in Yugoslavia

DENY INVASION OF YUGOSLAVIA   Reports Claim Landings on Adriatic Coast

Report Troops Stab at Coast   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS LABEL RUMOR OF SMASH “COMPLETELY ERRONEOUS”; LONDON WARNS OF “PLANTED FEELER”

Pugoslac Landing Is Denied   Reports Interpreted As German Feelers

Special Allied Troops Land on Yugoslav Coast   Reports From Zurich Say That Parts of Seventh Army Are Concentrated.   Special Missions Are  Active Several Weeks

ALGIERS TERMS LANDINGTALK WHOLLY FALSE   Unofficial Source In. Lon: don Says Report About Allies Probably Planted By Germany:   CRACK DIVISIONS — “LINKED IN: ACTION.   Reports: From Zagreb, Crotian apital, Places U.S. Seventh Army On ~   - Yugoslavia Coast 

Reports. of ” — Landings in  Yugoslavia   Unverified Stories Tell 0 Allied Specialists Going In At Several Points   SIZE.OF.- MOVE is NOT INDICATED   But. Allied Headquarters Deny Any ‘Landings By : ‘(Crack Divisions’”’

Algiers Says No Divisions Are In Push   War Is Producing Many Conflicts In Reports

Serbia Seethes With Reports Of Allied Landing   Round-About Dispatch To Stockholm Causes A Sensation

Invasion Rumors  Doubted   Allies Deny Army Landed on Coast Of Yugoslavia

ALLIED TROOPS REPORTED LANDED IN YUGOSLAVIA   Circitous Report from ‘Croat Capital Printed in Stockholm But Not Confirmed by Allies

Specialist Troops Land At Strategic Coastal Points, Stockholm Disnatch Saves

ALLIES DENY LANDINGS MADE IN YUGOSLAVI!   Another Report Says Specialist Troops Being Used There

Report Landing In Yugoslavia  But Rumors of Allied Hop Are Branded False

Allies Deny Troops Land  In Yugoslavia   Reports From Stockholm Probably Planted as “Feeler’? by Germans

ALGIERS DENIES ALLIES LANDED ON YUGOSLAV COAST   Stockholm Invasion Rumor  Believed Planted as fMarman “Ealther”

INVASION OF YUGOSLAVIA 1 REPORTED   Several Divisions Are Said To Have Landed On Coast

Hatch Sees Republican Rule In George Reconversion _ Bill Passage

Senate Controlled for Two Years  By G. O. P. Minority, Hatch Says

Steady-Yank-Advance__  Has Aachen Encircled   Penetration of Germany As Deep As 10 Miles Toward Rhineland Cities: Finns Invaded _

Line breached OnWideFront And Aachen Surrounded  .. Siegfried Defenses   Weak in Some Places ..  -. And Fakes in Others, Infantrymen.Find  YANKS PUSH TOWARD COLOGNE, COBLENZ  Indications Germans In Fighting Retreat °

Legion Tables Resolution On Immigration   Wisconsin Legionnaires Take No Action On Proposal To Set Up New Restrictions

Total Victory Demand Means Prolonging War   —POPRR Fits. Pontiff Warns Belligerents Not To Make Rome A Battlefield.

TOTAL VICTORY IDEA PROLONGS WAR, POPE SAYS   Declares Those Attacking Rome Will Be Guilty Of Matricide

Pope Pius Now Hopeful of Peace   Pontiff Broadcasts Hope and Courage To Italian People.

 Demand For A Total Victory © May Prolong War, Pope Says; Voices Hope For Paged Sean   Pontiff Declares Anyone Lifting Hand Against Rome Would Be Guilty Of Matricide

SPARE ROME. ~ POPE PLEADS   Declares Demand for Total  Victory May Prolong War

Pope Pius Appeals For Peace Throughout World  Pontiff Asks Armies To Spare Rome As Fighting Nears

Plea For Leniency In War Aims Made ~ By Pope In Speech   Pontiff Also Warns That ‘Whoever Would Dare Lift a Hand Against Rome Would Be Guilty of Matricide,’ but Adds Eternal City ‘Receiving More Considerate Treatment’ from Air Raiders

Pope Pius Again Pleads For Rome; Expresses Hope For An Early Peace

PONTIFF CALLS ON VICTORS TO SPARE ENEMIES   FEARS DEMAND FOR TOTAL VICTORY MAY PROLONG THE WAR

Pope Warns Rome Must Be Left © Untouched As Battle Surges Near   Pontiff, In Address To College Of Cardinals, Declares Demand For Total Victory Micht Prolong The War.

Pope Voices Hope For Early Peace   Pontiff Warns That Any Demand For Total Victory Will Prolong War

POPE ASKS EARLY END OF CONFLIC   Victors Asked to Give Hopes to Vanquished, Urges Rome Be Saved.

Pope Pius Says Demand For Total Victory May Prolong World War Il

‘Come Soon   Demand For. Total Victory Might Prolong War, He Declared

Total Victory Prolongs War  ~~ POPE   Pontiff Speaks To Cardinals Saying He Hopes For Peace Soon.

rFOoOnuUIr oOays Lting Frianad Against Nome iViatricide...  Pope, Fearing For Rome, Asks Reasonable Peace

Pope Appeals For Sanctity Of Rome Again; Says Violator To Face God

Pope Hopes for Peace Soon   Total Victory Demand May Prolong War. Pontiff Says

Pope Again Appeals for Security of Rom as Battle Nears Outskirts of Eternal City

Pontiff Fears Allied Demand Lengthens War   Tells Cardinals Many Peo' ple Fear Theory of “Full Victory Or Complete Destruction”   Asks For Hope Anc Faith For Defeated   Declares Whoever Daret Lift Hand Againet Rome ~~ Would Be Guilty Of Matricide

spare Rome --Plus   POPE FEARS DEMAND FOR TOTAL VICTORY MAY PROLONG WAR

Prolong War By Total Victory Aim, Pope Says   Pontiff Calls On Victors To Give Hope And Faith To Those Who Are Vanquished

Demand For ‘Total Victory’ Will ‘Prolong War,’ Pope Warns, Calling On All Belligerents To Spare Holy City Or Be Guilty Of ‘Matricide

Pius, Hoping For Peace,  Warns World About Rome   Says Total Victory May Prolong Battle

A Danger in Total Victory, Pope Says   Fears That Demand Would Result in Woar’s Prolonoation

Japs Amazed as Superforts Rain Chaos   EYEWITNESS DESCRIBES HAVOC TO STEEL MILLS WROUGHT BY BOMBERS

sun Dragon’ Gets Answer to Dec: 7 Steel Mills Reduced to Glowing Ruhhl

 Eyewitness Roy Porter Reports Tons On Tons Of Bombs Were Dropped Upon Jap Steel Mills

BLOW AGAINST NAZI TRANSPORT CENTER FOLLOWS 13TH BRITISH ASSAULT ON REICH CAPITAL   Allied Fliers Aim Three Crippling Blows At German Homeland In 36-Hour Period; Coastal Fortifications Smashed: Templehof Airdrome Wrecked

HESTERN RAL: GROUP OUED Aa ILLEGAL TRUS]   U. S$. Charges Rate-Fixing, Collusion in Preventing Better Service.

Charges Railway of Rate-Fixing —   Banking Houses Also Included In Complaint

ALLIES ARE MOVING IN ON CASSINO   5th Army Takes Towns North: And South of Base

Yankees Break Nazi Defense Before Cassino  French Assist Allied Move On Rome Road

FRENCH HELP IN TURNING OF ENEMY FLANK   Cervaro, Four Miles Out of Cas. sino, Falls as Allies Pound Steadily, Slowly On

Yanks Crack Center of Cassino Line   French-American Unit Helps Smash Nazi  Defense Force

Yanks Prepare For Attack on City of Cassino   Franco- American Force Turns Enemy Flank

Blast Gap In Nazi Mountain Defenses, Heraldins Early Capture Of Stronghold Guarding Valley Gateway To Rome

F ranco, Ame..can Troops Launch Sudden Thrust   Fortress Town of Cervaro Collapses  Before Allied Blows

cape. Fa en ae  Relief Given  sur Vivors: in Tor nado Ar e2   Red. Cross Sets Sets Up “Bood Kitchens,. ‘Opens Shelters for Homeless   DEATH ..TOLL IS 39   Victims ‘Tell Ho How - Wind. Ripped Towns in Geor gia and South Carolina

Tornado Kills 39, Injures 30 in Georgia and S. €.   Scores Homeless In 100-Mile Path of Twister

‘Two States  Are Ripped By Twister   Property Damage In Millions; Many Families Homeless

At Least 39 Persons Killed By Tornado   Property Damage In Ga. and S. C.  Te Tramandane

TORNADO KILLS 39, INJURES 300   Twister Cuts 100-Mile Path In Georgia, S. Carolina

Tornado in Georgia, South Carolina Lasted but 5 Seconds, Yet Killed Nearly 40 Peopl      “Express Train” Twister Wrecked Hundreds of Build dngs Early Sunday Morning—Disaster a Crewa Now At Scene .

TORNADO TOLL: 39 KILLED 300 HURT IN SOUT   > Georgia, South Carolina Struck By Twister; Relief Rushed

39 Killed, 300 Injured In Southern Tornade   Scores Made Homeless as Storm Rips Through S. Carolina, Georgia

Tornado Hits Georgia And South Carolina, Toll Of Dead Now Stands At 39

COUNTY 6.0.P RALLY JAN. 3   Delegates to State Convention to Be Named At Berrien Springs

TAKE  NEW. ISLAND   81st Infantry Division Units Hop to Islet North of Peleliu

Tokyo Reports Heavy U. 5. Raic On Formosa.  1,000-Plane Attack On Island Off China; New Island Taken _

ll Palau Isles Now Controlled  By U.S. Forces   Tokyo Reports Continuing Attacks Against Oil Bases In Borneo

11 Palau Islands Held by Yanks   Second Landing in Three Days Reported by American Forces .

11TH PALAU ISLE FALLS; BORNEO OIL CENTER HIT   Fifth Attack On Japan’s Aviation Gaso line Center Scores

New Palau Landing   Americans Unopposed At Bairakaseru Islet; . Now Hold 11 of Palaus

SECOND NEW LANDING ON THE PALAUS   Invasion of Bairakaseru Islet Northwest of Peleliu Is Announced By Admiral Nimitz   BORNEO BOMBED AGAIN

Americans Invade Eleventh Island  In Palaus Group  Japanese Air Targets Blasted At Berneo, Formosa, Hitting Oil Refineries, Railroads

Take Another Palau Island   Yanks Unopposed on Islet; Tokyo Reports Continuing Bombing of Borneo

Yanks Control Eleven Islands In Palaus Group   81st , Infantry Unopposed In New Landing Tuesday.

Military Secrecy For Security Obscures Positions Of Yanks   Correspondents’ Reports Are Heavily Censored; British-Canadian Gains Are Revealed In Area South Of Caen

Storm Hits Memphis: 3 Hurt A i Jackson: Light Damage Here   Bleciriec Slocm Flere   S Beccaridu skyvaon BItt

GIANT HAILSTONES PELTER MEMPHIS      Eight Are Injured When Hail, Big as Baseballs, Hits City

Hail Storm * ‘Hits Memphis   Windows, Roofs And Windshields Smashed

HEAVY U. 5. BOMBER TASK FORCES STRIKE AT NAZI OBJECTIVES   PLANE FACTORIES AND AIRFIELDS IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE ATTACKED

—AIR WAR——  AREAS INPOLAND PRUSSIA ARE HE   Third Straight Day Of Fierce Blows At German Air Power   STRIKE NEAR PARIS!   Important Rail Center At Villeneuve-St. “Georges Also Lashed

1500 U.S. Planes  Rip Nazi Dromes   _ Yank Air Task Forces Smash at Plaries, “Factories, Airfield.in Belgium and France

1,000 To 1,500 U.S. Planes Hit Belgium And France Today In New Blows

Bomber-Fighter Task Force Rips Belgium, France   Daylight Fleet Pounds German Plants, Airfromes

DAY AND NIGHT ATTACKS MADE   Strong Force of Yanks Back Over Europe After Roaring Deep Into Poland

American Air Task Force: Also Struck in France Today.   THIRD STRAIGHT DAY   Drew the Enemy’s Coastal Fighter Defenses Into Action.

BRITISH BLAST FRENCH RAILWAY TARGETS HARD   Fliers Also Hit Poland, Prussia Northeast Reich in Week End Raids

Strong Enemy Fighter Resistance Encountered As Planes Attack Aircraft Plants, Repair Depots And Other Installations. 3 a nheayy Bombers and 4. Fighters Lost

Bombers Hit Nazi Air Power   Huge Forces Smash AntiInvasion Installations, Plane Plants, Fields

ATTAGK ENEMY COAST TARGETS   American Forces Total 1,000 to 1,500 Bombers And Fighters.   3 U. S. BOMBERS LOST

U. S. Raids Are Staged In Belgium And France   German Air Power Is Reing Reduced

1,000 to 1,500 Bombers anc Fighters Hammer Germans Third Successive Day,

Americans Raid Plants In France   Large Force Strikes At Nazi Air Power In Various Centers In France And Belgium

Put Damper Upon German AirPower   U. 8. Air Task Forces Hit Axis Anti-Invasion Installations   IN FRANCE, BELGIUM   Allied Raids Extend as Far ast Prussia and Poland

Over Thousand Allied Planes Attack Europe   Strike At Germans AntiInvasion Air Installations In Belgium.  cco rotenone

Airfields in France ‘And Belgium Bomhec   Force of 1,000 to 1,500 U. S. Bombers and Fighters Out Third Straight Day in Blows Against Nazi Air Power.

U. S. Aerial Task Forces Blast At Anti-Invasion Bases In France, Belgium

Nazi Airfields Targets of Daylight Raids   French and Belgium Installations Attacked by Yanks

GREAT FORCES PARTICIPATE IN ATTACK   148 German Planes Downed In Brunswick Operation   In Poland Also Pounded: Busy Night Reported By British Force

FRANCE AND BELGIUM HIT BY BOMBERS   Aircraft Plants Hit; Only 11 Ships Lost

American Bomber Forces Strike at Belgium, France   Anti-Invasion Air installations Given Heavy Pounding in Multiple Assault

PLANE FACTORIES. IMBELGIUM AND “FRANCE BLASTED      More Than Thousand Bombers Hit Nazi Air Power   AIRFIELDS GET LOAD OF BOMBS

REICH PLANE FACTORIES HIT AGAIN   American Raiders Continue Third Day After FivePronged Attack on Sunday; RAF Active.

HIT FACTORIES AND AIRFIELD DEADLY BLOW   U.S. Force of More Than 1,000 Planes Bomb Holland, French Taraets.

R.A. F, MAKES NIGHT RAIDS ON LILLE, PARIS   Pas-De-Calais Area Attacked Again

Aerial Armada B Smashed. Bases   GERMAN PLANTS AND AIRFIELDS ON COAST  BOMBED.

British, U.S. Airmen Team Up  In Stiff New Blows At Nazis   Hull To Work With Congress To Keep Foreign Policy Out Of Nation’s Political Campaign   Charter Expresses Objectives, Is NotA Code Of Law, Says Hull

Plane Factories In Europe Hit By U. 5. Airmen   Much Damage Done In Extensive Raids Toadav

Enemy Airfields, Aviation Plants Bombed In Raid:   American Attacks Follow Heavy RAF Assaults On Lille, Parisian Suburbs

British, American Airmen Team Up in New Blows at Reich   U. S. Air Force Reports 240 Nazi Planes Knocked Out in Two Days

Planes Hit Nazi Installations in Belgium, rance   Little Fighter Opposition, Only Light Flak  Encountered

Yanks Deliver Fierce Bleeder Blows On Nazis   Foree Up to 1500 Planes Banter Airfields and Faetories In Belgium and Franee

U. S. FORCES VISIT FRANCE AND BELGIUM   Armada of 1,000 to 1,500 Bombers and Fighters Smash Factories and Flying Fields   R. A. F. VISITS Ghia   By AUSTIN REFALMIEAR

British, American Airmen Team Up  Strike Fierce Bleeder Blows Against Nazi

Great Force Of American Planes Hits (Nazi Areas .   Plane Factories And Airfields In France And Belgium Under Heavy Attack

Knock Down 240 German Planes in  Weekend Sortie:   Allied Air Forces Also Smash at Plane Factories in Belgium, France.   Strike Out Today For Raid Against Brussels

Huge Air Force Strikes  At Invasion Coast American Fleet of 1000 to 1500 Planes Raids Belgium and France

EIGHTH ARMY ON OUTSKIRTS OF ROAD HUE   Fierce Resistance by Germans on the Cosina Front

British Push  Near Faenza  ee ee Le   Eighth Army Breaks Long Stalemate.

ISTUTTGART 3 HIT BY RAF DURING MGHT   Russians Cut Off Escape Of  Narva Garrison

TEMPERATURE LEAPS IN OHIO   Mercury in 20's as Snow, Rain Hampers Traffic

First Presbyterian Congregation Accepts Dr. Raynal’s Resignation, Praises His Work

Labor Living Cost Figures Are Inflated   But Report Came Out First, Which Was Smart Move

AIR FORCES: “FORM. “ARMY   MACARTHUR COMBINES TWO AIR. FORCES UNDER ONE  HEAD TO COORDINATE _ BLOWS AT JAPS - 

NEW AIR ARM PERILS JAPAN   Gen. MacArthur Announces Far Eastern Air Forces Organized

East Front Quiet With Few Changes      Reds Move tip Roservas And Big Operations Will Probably Start Soon

LULU ENVELOPS EASTERN FRONT   Big Operations Hinted: Russians Bring Up More Troops

EAOTEAN FRONT FIGHT SLACKENS   Close Siege of Budapest Impeded by Torential Rains; Civil War Said Raging Inside City

Nazis Back Toward. Bug River   In General Retreat After Expulsion from Krivoi Rog; Positions In. Italy Unchanged

Nazis Fall Back to Bil River Front.   Fifth Army,. Fighting. at Rome Beachhead, Repulses: Two Local Attacks

STALIN DECLARES * NAZI DIPLOMATS IN VAIN PEACE SEARCH  MODERATE ACTIVITY RI   MODERATE ACTIVITY RE PORTED FROM GROUND AND AIR FRONTS

GERMAN DEAD LITTER STREETS OF SOVIET CITY   Allies Maintain Air Attack On Naziland - - London Is Hit by Night Raiders

BACK TO BUG RIVER TODAY   Stalin, Says Germans Hunting Separate Peace   ‘ALLIES HOLDING   Two’ Léeal Attacks On Beachhead  ~ Raniiiead

Nazis Retreat Along Entire Russian Front   Allies Repulse Beachhead Attacks As Stalin Notes Peace Offers

Red Steamroller Rumblinse West   .. Enemy Attacks On Rome Beachhead Repulsed

Stalin Says Envoys Work  In Capitals   Germans Rush Toward Bug River, Carpathians

New Income Tax Schedule Is Effective On January 1   Changes Effective On All Wages, Salaries Paid Beginning January 1

Fifth Occupies Junction Tow:  Of Modigliana   Surprise Nazi Withdrawal Gives Allies Advantage

Take Italian Road Town   . Nazis Suddenly Pull , Cut of City After - Week-Long Defense

FIFTH ARMY TAKES HIGHWAY JUNCTION   Surprise Nazi Withdrawal Follows Week of Stubborn Defense.

GERMANS PULL OUT   Fifth Army Makes Unex pected Gain South of Bologna Highway

Germans Abandon Town To 5th Army   Allies Move Up After Desperate Fight In Italy

MODIGLIANA IS OCCUPIED TODAY BY FIFTH ARMY   Germans Leave Town But Set Booby Traps

RIVAL PARTIES “MOVETO OPEN BIG CAMPAIGNS   Active Drives Shaped By G.O.P., Demoerats Tr Pa.

RIVAL PARTIES. ‘MOVE TO OPEN’ BIG: CAMPAIGNS   By a O.P., sees erats Th Pa.

McCarran Plan On War Plants Hit by Martin   Fears Many To Lose Job: In Pennsylvania “Tf Proposal Accepted

Substantial Gains Made by G.0.P. In Maryland, Chairman Tait Says

KNOXVILLE MARINE DIES IN NEW GUINEA   Sergt. Major Leslie A. Himes, 42 Veteran Of 23 Years’ Service, Succumbed September 5

WILL ERECT NEW BUILDINGS NEAR OLD ONE   Expect to Employ 800 More Persons, Making Total of 1,300

Defeated Enemy Stampedes East Hunting Escape   British Staff Officer Says Germans Can't Make Stand at Seine

SOVIETS ON  RAMPAGE ALL ALONG FRONT   Balkan Situation a Nightmare As Nations Attempt to Escape Allied Wrath.

Turkey Busy Preparing Her Defenses   Enemy Intelligence Agents Rounded Up

TURKS, FEARING AERIAL BLOWS, RUSH DEFENSES   Round Up 100 German Agents; Von Papen Leaves By Plane

Turks Prepare For Germans:  Rush Defense:   Turks Round Up Nazi Intelligence Men; Guns In Street

Turks Speed Defense for Nazi Attack   Anti-Aircvaft Guns Being Hauled Thiough Streets of Ankara

Turkish Defense Plans Rushed  As Precaution   ‘Over 100 Nazi Agents Rounded Up; Okay Bill  To: Evacuate Cities

TURKEY RUSHES DEFENSES, FEARS RETALIATION   Ankara Dispatches Said 100 German In. telligence Agents Rounded Up.

Turkey Rushing Its Defense Plans   Evacuate German Colony in Ankara

DES MOINES RIVER STILL HIGHER NOW   West Of Boone, However, Stream Dropping Today. Red Cross To Aid Those Hard Hit

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Changes In Soldier Vote Bill Sought   Proposed Amendments To Iowa Measure May Delay Enactment.

Amendments Slow Iowa Vote Action   Three Changes in Bill Are Proposed During Morning Session

Demos See Big Gains By State   . Lujan Requests Recount; Campaign In Final Phase

Invasion Coast Hit by Biggest Allied Air Blow   1500 Planes Pound Pas-de Calais Area; Balkan Railvards Raided

Jap Resistance On Wakde End:  Enemy Overcome in 3 Days in Amphibious

M’Arthur Says J apanese Quit  On Wakde Isle   Resistance Ceases,- Two Strategic Bases Now Under Yank Control, Leader Reports

Wakde Islands Taken By U. S., MacArthur Says   500 Japs Killed While Yanks Lose Only Sixteen Men

Allies Lift Oil Ban as Spain Cuts Nazi Trade   Wolfram Shipments To Germany Are Reduced Nine Tenths

Spain Slashes  Nazi Tungsten   Wolfram Exports Reduced Te Renew Flaw af Oil

Spain Agrees To Slash Tungsten Supplies to Axis   Portugal Seen as Next Object of Allied Diplomatic Pressure.

Air Blitz Sets New  Record   500 Tons Explosives Per Hour Hit Europe in 12-Hour Offensive

FDR Refuses to Act on Vote Bill  Becomes Law Without Is Sianeature

SOLDIER VOTE LAW WITHOUT FR SIGNATURE   Inadequate, Executive Says

F.R. Not to Sign Service Vote Measure   Will Allow Bill to Become Law Without Signature, He Says

Lets Soldier Voting Bill  Become Law   Roosevelt Says It’s “Inadequate” But Lets it Pass

F. D. R. Lets Service Vote Bill Become Law Without His Signature

Is Inadequate Says President In His Message   20 States Planned To Do Nothing To Authorize Voting Plan

Roosevelt To Let Vote Bill Become Law Tonight   Informs Congress He Will Not Sign It But Asks Best Be Made Of ‘Inadequate Measure’

SOLDIER VOTE BECOMES LAW   Roosevelt Allows Bill To Become Law Without Signature

BALLOT BILL BECOME LAW   Will Not Sign [t Because He Holds Bill Inadequate

SOLDIER VOTE BILL ALLOWED TO BECOME LAW   President, Refusing To Sign, Says Measure Is “Wholly Inadequate”

Won't Sign It, Considers It ‘Wholly Inadequate’ To Give Service People Vote

Ballot Measure Held Inadequate By President   States Urged To Cooperate as Much as Possible

President Lets  Vote Bill Pass   Notifies Congress Of Letting Service Ballot Measure Become Law.

ie toBebaw “By Defau itt      ng A OT eg!  Roosevelt Announces” ‘He Will Neither Sign Nor . Veio Measure         Considers © Congress Ef fort tor ‘Solve Issue ‘Wholly Inadequate’

ROOSEVELT SAYS HE WILL NOT ACT ~ ON BALLOT BIL   Congress Notified Executive Will Neither Sign Nor Veto Measure Effective at Midnight.   HOLLY INADEQUATE PRESIDENT DECLARES   Wants All In Armed Forces to Exercise Use of Ballot Without Making Advance Anolication.

Roosevelt Lets Service Vote Bill Become Law Without His Signature

Vote Bil l To Be Law At Midnight   Measure Will Become Ef_ fective Without Rooseyelt’s Signature

F.D.R. Permits Service Vote Bill  To Become Law Sans Signature   President Calls Legislation Wholly Inadequate And Asks States And Congress To See That Everyone Given Chance To Vote.

BILL 10 BECOME LAW WITHOUT FDR'S SIGNATURE   President Roosevelt Claim: Service Ballot Wholly Inadequate

Won't Sign Vote Bill   FDR Lets Measure Become w WithOut His Signature

SERVICE VOTE BILL 10 LACK FDR SIGNATURE   Tells Congress He’s Letting Measure Become Law Automatically

Roosevelt Won't Sign Soldiers Vote Measure   Will Permit It to Become Law With out Signing the i

F.D.R. Will No Sign Soldier's Ballot Bill   Controversial Measure Will Become Law Without Signature At Midnight Tonight

SOLDIER VOTE BILL BECOMES LAW   President Will Not Sign or Veto the Measure.

F.D.R. Not to Sign Service Vote Bi      Tells Congress He Will Let It Become Law _ Without Approval, Even Though He Considers the Measure Inadequate.

Soldier Ballot Bill Becomes Law Without 0K   Roosevelt Appeals For Protection Of Veteran Rights

ROOSEVELT NOT TO SIGN ARMY VOTE MEASURE   Considers New Bill Inadequate to Meet Servicemen’s Needs

Service Vote Bill To Become Law Without Signature  FDR Notifies Congress He Considers  Measure Inadeauate

SOLDIER BALLOT BILL TO BECOME LAW TONIGHT   President Will Let tt Become Effective Without Siqneture —

ote BALLOT BILL LAW MINUS F.D.R. SIGNATURE   President Asks Amendment to Permit Wider Use © * of Federal Form

Service Vote Bill to Become Law Sans F. R.’s Signature   PRESIDENT APPEALS THAT “INADEQUATE” MEASURE BE MADE EFFECTIVE AS POSSIBLE

Roosevelt Not to Sign Soldier Vote Measure   Bill Which President Declares Is Inadequate to Become Law at Midnight; Few Ex  nected to Vote

Roosevelt Lets “Service Vote , Become Law   Measure Not Signed, But Best Under Circumstances He Says

SOLDIERS VOTE LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE   President Says, How: ever, That It’s “Inadequate”

CONGRESS TOLD  BY FDR MEASURE  WON'T BE SIGNED APPEALS TO STATES  TO HELP MAKE THE Rill EFFECTIVE

Vote Bill Becomes Law Unsigned   Considers It Inadequate to Permit Troops  To Vote

[Roosevelt Won’t. Sign Soldiers Vote Measur«   Will Permit It to ‘to Become Law With ~~ out Signing the : i

Congress Gets FDR's Message On Voting Bill   President Tells Congress That He Is Letting Service Vote Bill Become Law Without Signature.

PRESIDENT PERMITS SERVICE VOTE BILL TA BECOME LAW   FILES MEASURE WITHOUT SIGNATURE AND BELIEVES IT WHOLLY INADEQUATE

Service Vote Measure to Become Law   Bill to Go Through Without President‘s ' Signature; Considers It “Inadequate”

SERVICE VOTE BILL BECOMES LAW OF LAND   President Roosevelt Lets It Become Law Without Signature, Saying It Is Inadequate

FDR Allows Vote Bill To Pass  Rut Critteivac   But Criticizes Measure as  ‘Wholly Inadequate Urges State Action

Vote Bill Inadequate _ FDR Holds   But. He Will: Permit. 11 To Become Law Without: : His Sicnature   APPEALS TO STATES, “: “ QONGRESS TO: ACT   Makes Strong Plea: For Action;- Present: “System Highly Confusing ©

Soldier Vote Bill Becomes Law Without President's Signature   Roosevelt Considers Measure Inadequate To Assure Voting: Privileges To Service Men in November.

SOLDIER VOTE "BILL ESCAPES  ~ VETO ACTION   PRESIDENT TELLS CONGRESS WE 16 PERMITTING BILL TO  _ [BECOME LAW WITHOUT }, ’ BS APPROVAL  eu

Becomes Law Without Signature, He Says It Is Inadequate.   'ASKS FOR COOPERATION

PRES. DOESN'T  SIGN SOLDIER VOTE MEASURE   Allows It to Become Law Without Signature

DEADLINE FOR ACTION FALLS AT MIDNIGHT   President's Intention Is Announced in Note To Congress

Fails To Sign Bill, — Terming Measure  Wholly Inadequate   Requests Aid Of States In Making It ‘As Fully Effective As Its Defective Provisions Will Allow’

President Will Permit Soldier Vote Bill To Become Law; Says It’s Inadequate

Soldier Vote Measure To Become Law   President Will Not Sign or Veto It, He Tells Congress

FDR Lets Service Vote Bill Be Law Without Signature   Tells Congress Measure Is “Wholly Inadequate’”’

—FDR Decides Against Veto Or Appreval—  Service Vote Bil Will Become Law Without Signing   President, Terming Ballot Measure ‘Wholly Inadequate,’ Urges States To Co-operate In Making It As Fully Effective As Possible

F.D.R. fo Let Service Bill Become a Law   Informs Congress  Of His Intention  Appeals to States to Make Act Effective

BILL, OKAYING SOLDIER VOTE, BECOMES LAW   Roosevelt Refuses To Sign Measure   ASKS FOR CHANGE  anton,   Sateen  Tells Congress Bill Is Inadequate

Service Vote To Become Law Automatically   Roosevelt Advises Congres: He Will Not Sign Bill; Considers It “Wholly Inadequate”

Rooseve!t Will Allow Measure To Become Law   Calls Bill Inadequate But Says He Will Not Sign or Veto Measure

NEED CHANGE, ~- BRICKER SAYS   GOVERNOR DECLARES NEW _ DEAL PHILOSOPHY SHOULD BE DISCARDED BY NATION

BRICKER HITS NEW DEALERS   Michigan Address Important  Lo * aentapintinantie  Says Politics Can’t  azn7Te? 0 8=—0pUGlEFr

HITS THINKING — OF NEW DEAL   Bricker Says U. S. Need: New Philosophy as Weil as Leaders

CHINESE REGAIN RAILROAD TOW!   Victory Below Hengyang  Reported As U. S. Fliers Pound Jap Positions

300 Planes / /¢ Lost k y Ja’ » InA ? rh e   American Bat  hips and Cartiers Fend {ff Enemy At= tack at se} ‘in as Ground Forces Sei-- Vital Airstrio

DISPERSE GERMAN SHIPS   Enemy Vessels Fire at Each Other and British Suffer No Loss

Corn Shuckers Idle For Lack of Gloves   Stores Sold Out and Farmers Wire Capper to Intervene with WPR

BUTTER AND SUGAR ~ SEIZED IN RIOT      STOCKS OF WATERTOWN, N. Y., STORE CLEANED OUT BY NEARLY 200 WOMEN.

Quadruplets. No Longer A&B CandD.   Cimiin-llo Babizs Now Have Names; Qu-ds Aud Moller voing   ‘Nicely ~

ANNUAL FLAG DAY PROGRAM JUNE 14   Elks Club Will Have Charge —Municipal Band Program Arranged

BRICKER CALLS EXTRA SESSION   Opens April 26 to Revise Absentee Voting Laws

Legislature Will Meet On April 26 To Shape Service Ballot Action

BRICKER CALLS STATE SOLONS   Legislators Will Act On Absentee Voting Laws April 26

CURFEW IN COPENHACEN   No'Praffic Allowed on Streets Between § p. mi. and 5.a. in.

REMNANTS OF PALACE FOR GOERING FOUND   Vast Underground Village Was Near Paris

Grand Jury Mulls Phila. Strike Today   SECOND WAR POWERS ACT TO BE USED AGAINST TRANSPORTATION STRIKES AND OTHERS ALLIED.   Absentees Fewer

Will Probe Transit Row ‘Thoroughly   Investigation Will_Ga -§-youd- Provisions OF   Smith-Cow.cily Me_ceture 9°"

GERMAN BROADCAST REVEALS SUPPLY VESSELS BOUND FOR ANTWERP ALREADY IN RIVER

‘ALLIED VESSELS ‘ARE EN ROUTE TO ANTWERP PORT   Berlin Says Ships Carrying Supplies Have Entered Schelde Estuary   COMMANDO LANDING MADE ON WALCHEREN

Germans Say War Shipping Already Has Entered Schelde Estuary; Harbor Will Supply Push on Reich

ALLIED SHIPS READY 10 60 INTO ANTWERP   Schelde Nearly Freed Of Foe as Walcher en is Invaded

Berlin claims supply vessels seen heading for port of Antwerp   Flushing virtually under control; renoart new landines on Walcheren

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. ALLIED SHIPS NOM BOUNI Z FOR ANTWERT      “SEVERAL” ULS. Al SHIPS HURT SAYS NIMITZ FL   As Troops Land on Wal.  cheren From Three Sides, Protected By Warships.  Blast Cologne

Allies Start Shipping on The Schelde  Last of Nazis’ rs, « PF  a   Last of Nazis’ Big Guns Are  Silenced

BARRING nn 1) CITY SILENCE       British and Canadians a wud on Walcheren Island 1        2ND ARMY BROADEN: FOOTHOLD ON M      da Pocket in Holland Ss Bulk of 40,000 Enen . Troops.

From the four corners—  Late News Flashes   ALLIED SUPPLY SHIPS HEAD FOR ANTWERP

Commandos, ShockTroops Land On Isle   Skillful Enemy Withdrawl Saves 40,000 Nazi Troops

Allied Ships — Already Move Up Schelde   British Troops Land On Walcheren Island And Silence Nazi Guns  AIDED BY WARSHIPS

ALLIED VESSELS ENTER SCHELDE RIVER ESTUARY   Second Army Extends It  Foothold Along Meuse;  Bulk Of Enemy’s Force Escapes

ALLIES MOVE SUPPLY SHIPS INTO ANTWERP   LAST NAZIS’ BEING CLEARED OUT OF ESTUARY

Berlin Tells of Movement Toward Belgian Dart   BRITISH LANDED ON  WALCHEREN SHORES   Half of the Schelde Believed Cleared of the Enemy

Fifth Army Seizes Several Towns And Peaks in Italy  British Troops Gain Bridgehead on Pisciatello River

APPROACHES 10 BOLOGNA TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Bridgehead Is Established  Across River

YANKS IN ITALY CAPTURE PEAKS   Several Villages Taken On Bologna Road

Fifth Takes Several Peaks   Eighth Army Forces Bridgehead Across Pisciatello River

FIFTH GAINS IN BOLOGNA DRIVE   Seize Several Towns, Peaks Leading to City

FORGE STEADILY TOWARD BOLOGNA   FIFTH ARMY TROOPS CAPTURE POINTS ON SOUTHERN APPROACH

ALLIES ADVANCE IN ITALIAN CAMPAIGN   Fifth Army Takes Peaks and Villages on Road to Bologna.

NAZIS REPULSED IN BOLOGNA ARE!   GERMAN - TRAINED _ITALIANS SURRENDERING BY HUNDREDS TO ALLIES.

FASCIST TROOPS PROVE FAILURE   Italians Fighting With (;ermans Surrender By Hundreds

Republican State Campaign Opens in Southern Illinois   Governor Green Leads Group’ of — State Candidates

GOP CANDIDATES OPEN CAMPAIGN   BEGIN 40-DAY STATE TOUR AT EFFINGHAM WITH HARMONY PLEA

Nazi Plane Plants © Raided By Airmen   Greatest Daylight Assault Follows Raid on Leipsig oe by RAF in Blows Costing the Record  Number of 79 British Aircraft

Arnold Hails Air Blow at Germany:  Extend Beachheac  U. S. Tanks Push Nazis   U. S. Tanks Push Nazis Backward at Anzio;  London Raided Again

2000 Planes Blast Nazi Fighter Plant:   Allied Air Forces Cripple Defense To Coming Invasion

2,000 Allied Warplanes Blast Nazi Factories   American Marine Torpedo Planes Employ Air-Borne Rockets in Attack on Rabaul

4 UUU Planes . Stage Greatest Raid 0 on Reich   6S}L” TT...   Arnold Says 25 Pet. Of Fighter Plane Production Smashed   POSSIBLY THOUSAND BOMBERS IN RAID ~

25 Percent Of Nazi Fighter Plane Production Destroyed By Attack   RECORD ASSEMBLAGE OF AERIAL STRENGTH

YANK PLANES USE NEW TYPE ROCKET GUN   Destroy 40°  oe rt fan.   Destroy 40 Jap Barges At Rabaul

Peace Clue May Appear This Week   Next Few Days May Decide Lenath Of War Both In East And West

Quick Stab Outflanks Tilburg Base   Nazis Withdraw Men Over Maas, Rhine to Escape Entrapment

BRITISH BY-PASS NAZI STRONGHOLD IN SOUTH HOLLANE   ‘Lightning Stab Threatens Encirclement of Tilburg and Entrapment of Its   Garrizgon.   MORE CANADIANS LAND ON SOUTH BEVELAND   Germans Fight Savagely to Block Efforts of Dominion Troops to Open Port of Antwerp.

British Troops By-Pass Stronghold of Tilburg   Threaten to Encircle City on Left Flank of Blazing 15-Mile Battlefront; Fresh Landings On South Beveland Islands by Canadians

British Threaten to Encircle Tilburg, Nazis Report Fresh Landings in Antwerp Sector

Encirclement of Enemy Stronghold ls Threatened  LANDING REPORTED BY CANADIAN FORCE  Troops Drive to Clear the Antwerp Approaches

British Drive To Cirele Holland Fort   By-Pass Germans On Left Flank Of Tilburg Front

British By-Pass Tilburg and May Encircle City   Canadians Make Fresh Landings

"Enemy's Attempt to Escape Northward Across Maas Rhine Is Jeopardized; German Troops Urged Delay Occupation of Antwerp

Threaten to circle nazi fort   British jab thru wobbling defense

Nazis Resistance Crumbles cln Face of British Drive   One Column Moves Four Miles North- of City As Others Slash Into Towns East Defenses

ALLIES LAND  BEHIND LINES   ON BEVELAND   German Reports Indicate in Drive to Clear Antwerp Approaches; May Eneircle Telbure.   New Counterattacks

GERMAN ARMY IN HOLLAND IN GRAVE PLIGHT   British By-Pass Til. burg, Pierce Wobbling Nazi Line

British Force Threaten Nazi Stronghold   Germans Tell of New Canadian Landings on Island in Scheldt

British By-Pass Tilburg in Blazing Dutch Battlefront   Drive to Open Antwerp Continues as Nazis Report Canadian Gains

Stronghold Is Bypassed By British In Holland   Threaten To Encircle Germans in Tilburg;  More Canadians Land On South Beveland  DEFENSES WOBBLE

HOLLAND LINE OF NAZI ARMY GETS WOBBLY   BRITISH THREATED TO CIRCLE KEY STRONGHOLD

Stronghold Of Tilburg By-Passed   Troops Reported Invading Island To Free Antwerp

In Accord On War Benefits   Broad Relief In The Plan Formed  For The Veterans

Agree On GI Benefits Bill   Committees Together On Hospitalization, School Aid. Job Assistance

APPROVE BENEFITS FOR WAR VETERANS   HOUSE AND SENATE CONFEREES GET TOGETHER ON “G. I. BILL OF RIGHTS”

WAR VETERANS PROGRAM OK’D   Broad Plan Approved B) Joint Committee

Conferees Reach Agreement on  GL Measure  Speedy Action Due In Both Houses On Veterans’ Bill

Army Denies Ban on Luce’s Neat Phrases   MILITARY COMMITTEE INSPECTING BRITAIN’S DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS

BRIDGMAN BOY LOST IN CRASH   Lt. Vance Whitten’s Plane Plunges Inte Gulf  of Mexice

ALLIES EXTEND THEIR GAINS IN ITALIAN SCRAF   Beachhead South of Rome  Strengthened — Russians Capture Rail Center

HUMBLE PRODUCES 1,000,000,000TH GALLON HI-OCTANE   Baytown Refinery Celebrates Prodigious Feat December 14

iFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE---HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. 1PFIOTISTON TEWAS

YANKS FIGHT WAY TO JAP AIRFIELD   STIFF RESISTANCE MET BY SIXTH ARMY UNITS ON DUTCH NEW GUINEA.

YANK FORCES REACH MAFFIN BAY AIRFIELD   Battle Through Stiff Jap Resistance on Dutch New Guinea

U. 5. Sixth Army Units Fight Way To Maffin Bay   Overcome Stiff Jap Resistance

Maffin Airfield In Dutch New Guinea Captured   Pacific Fleet Task Force Hits Marcus and Wakelsles

American Jap Tanks Fight Blazing Duel   Advance on Enemy Airdromes Reported Halted

British Bombers Strike Again af Invasion Coast   Weather Slows Flights Across Enalish Channel

Three-Way Drive Is Now Seen   British-Based Bombers Botter 60-Mile Storms

Caponetto Returns to Army Without Infant Son With Whom He Reported

CORRESPONDENT DIES AT WORK IN FRANCE   Texan Working for Reuters Was Only 27

FINLAND FEARFUL   Worries About Collapse of Nazis in the Baltic States

AMERICAN FIRST ARMY STRUCK SOUTH ON FORTY-MILE FRONT   RUSSIAN TANKS AND COSSACKS CHARGE TO WITHIN TEN MILES OF MINSK

U. S. Submarines Sink 17 More Jap Vessels   MacArthur’s Airmen Blast Island Gateway to Philippines Fourth Time in Less Than Two Weeks

17 More Japanese Vessels . Sunk By U.S. Submarines   Bag of 52 During August Sets New Record for Month ~—Navy Trebled in Strength in Five Years, Forrestol Savs

SUBS SINK 17 JAP VESSELS   Brings Underseas Fleet's August Bag To 52 Enemy Ships

17 Jap Ships Are Sunk by  Submarines   2 Destroyer Included In Latest Report as  Total of Vessels Sunk In August Reaches 52

SUBMARINES SINK 17 JAP VESSELS   Makes Total of 52 Jap Ships Sunk During August   2 DESTROYERS BAGGED   Fourth Heavy Aerial Raid in Less Than Two Weeks Hits Halmahera’.

17 MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK BY YANK SUBS   Bag for August Biggest for Any Month So Far This Year

Bing Crosby Leads Parade At Theater Box Offices;  Cooper, Hope, Grable Next

CONTROLS ON MAGNESIUM IS LIFTED BY WPB   Dr. Willard Dow Urges Action Taken Before Association

BELAY ott h IN GRAFTING OLOER MEN   Numter of. Men Under 25 May kil! Summer Needs

SELECTIVE  SERVICE “SURVEY _REVEALS  LARGE: POOL OF.  MEN UNDER. 26 NOW  AVAXLABLE —

Legislators Near Unanimous on Service Voting   But They Oppose Complete Repeal Of Income Tax Law

lowa Legislators Almost Unanimous For Giving Soldiers Chance to Vote, Indicated by Iowa Daily Press Poll

Sailing Knowledge Helps Stranded Marine  meta at with -« @e2ae Of oe orm

Smythe Says Not Aware Of Sedition Trial   Faces Charges Of Conspiracy

Nazi Troops Scattered On Island   Allied Forces Battle At Perugia On Mainland Front

CAPITAL OF ELBE TAKEN BY FRENCH   Allied Troops Advance On Two Fronts In Italy

FRERCH TROOPS  TAKE CITY OF PORTOFERRAIC   Fight Way Acros Narrow Waist of  Elba Says Communique

French Colonials Seize Capital Of Elba, Control Isle   On Italian Mainland Allies Pound Foe  Before Perugia

Island of Elba Captured by French Troops   Driving Rains Slow Action on Italian Front

FRENCH IN CONTROL OF MOST OF ELBA   Allies Also Pound Ahead In North Italy

French Capture Portoferraio,  Capital of Elba   Allied Forces Battle Heavy Resistance  On Italian Mainland

Capital Captured And RAF Planes Bar Escape For Garrison; Germans Put Up Stiffer Fight On Mainland

LONDON (.P)—The Allied controlled Algiers radio said today that French forces have completed the occupation of Elba.

French Troops Rout Nazis on Island of Elba   Germans Put up Stiffer Fight in Northern Italy

French Seize Elba Capital, Mop Up Nazis   Germans Left On Island Unable To Escape: 8th Army At Pegruia

French Troops Fight Way Across Narrow Waist ) Of Elba   CAPTURE CAPITAL OF PORTOFERRAIO   And Now Control Most Of The 85 Square Mile Island

Party Chiefs, Army Heads Snub Leader   Major Retreats Seen As Only Way to Curb Allied Power

Butte Miners Vote To Go Back to Their Jobs Today  Three-Day Walkout Ends as Miners Accept WPB Plan

Chinese Retake  Nantan From Japs   Continue Drive South Into Kwangsi Province

Ancient City Is Attacked First Time   Care Is Taken To Spare Cultural Landmarks Of City.

RAIL YARDS AT FLORENCE FEEL WEIGHT OF BOMBS   Famous Italian City Spared Until Now Visited By Allied Planes Yester.  dav

IS BOMBED   Attacked With Reluctance As Military Target, Allies Say

Bombers Lash Railwa; Facilities in Florence   GERMANS USED CULTURAL CITY   Most Experienced Crew: Avoid Artistic Centers

Tanks Thrust Into Sectors Around Paris   “End of the War in Sight, Gen. Montgomery Tells Troops  

BANK DE? ~SITS IN MARYLAND HIT PEAK   Total Exceeds £900,000,000 For The Time In History Of Bank  Commissioners

3rd B-29 Raid In 24 Hours Blasts Japan  Kyushu Plants Hit After Strikes

State Demos See Harmony For Election   More Than 17,000 Attend Convention To Hear Candidates

Illinois Democrats Are Lined Up Solidly Behind Party Say Leaders

American Bombers Over Brunswick, Germany, Again Today.   NOT ONE NAZI PLANE ROSE TO CHALLENGE   Allies Improve Their Positions in Italy Below Rome.

THIRD ATTACK ON CITY IN A WEEK   Germans Make no Resistance From Ar, Indicating Blows at Plane Factories Beginning to Tell.

Rivers In Kansas Rampant   Worst Flood In Forty Years Has Inundated Greater Portion Of  Wichita, Kan.

§ 000 Tons of Bombs Dumped in Nazi Region   Warplanes Raise Curtain on Battle for Germany

Amazing Success Of Philippines Blow Receounted: Force Off Island 15 Days

Gates Describes Carrier Attack On Islands   Naval Official Tells Of Sailing Off Central Philippines.

France Observes Wartime Holiday   FR Says French Free By Next Bastille Day

Mrs. Peete Judson Says She Alone Guilty of Murder, Protects Mate

SWEAT - STAINED YANKEES READY FOR ONSLAUGHT   Hitler Continues To Pour Reinforcements Into Breach

Powerfully Reinforced Foe Prepares To Launch Heavier Onslaughts on Allies on Anzio Beachhead

Germans Repulsed in Counter-blows in . Rome Area  REAL TEST AHEAD, CORRESPONDENT SAYS  ‘No Appreciable Gains Are Made by Allies for ‘Over a Week

[Beachhead \Not Suited  For Defense   Latest Nazi Assault Reyelled by Yankees, But New Ones Coming  CASSINO HOLDS OUT

NAZIS RENEW ONSLAUGHT IN ROME SECTOR   WEARY INFANTRY STILL HOLDING GERMANS

NAZIS GATHER FORCE FOR BiG. ASSAULT   Repulsed In Counterblows Below Rome Now Preparing For Heavier Onslaught Against Americans, British   Bomb Highways

Enemy Prepares For Heavier Blow South of Rome   Enemy ‘Feeling Out’ Allies in Each Local Blow Reporter Says

Powerfully Reinforced Foe Prepares To Launch Heavier Onslaaghts on Allies on Anzio Beachhead   American Guns Destroy One End of Kwajalein

Battle weary allied forces  holding firm   Enemy prepares “heavier assaults

Nazi Divisions Forced Back in Beachhead Drive   Critical Battle Raging in Italy

MUST COMPLETE CONSERVATION FARM REPORTS   Final Date Is Dec. 31 On Al Practices For Credit; Start Census.

Argentan-F alaise Pocket To Cost Nazis 100,000 Soldiers   Patton Opens New Drive Along Seine Toward English Channel: 1.200 Tanks Destroyed

Canadians Cut Lines On Coast   Forces Driving Toward Mouth Of Seine, Le Havre

LITTLE GHARGE 1 FARERO STATUS   Unit System Et ll Yardstick in County; 463 are Deferred.

LITTLE CHARGE FARMERS STATUS   Unit System Stl . Yardstick in: County; ‘463 are Deferred. -~

SLAYER-OF WOMEN ~ SIGNS CONFESSION   Janitor - Waiter. Admits Mutilation of Two Bodies

Reds Tightening Grip On Budapest   Armored Forces Are Closing In

Soviets Approach Nazi Defense Key   Nazis Report Enemy At Danube Fortress

HOT STRUGGLE FOR BUDAPEST NEAR CLIMAX   Soviet Tank Forces 16 Miles North Of Capital

Another General Taken In France   Americans Add Gen. Spang to Their Captive List

Soviets Rush Unrestricted  Into Bulgaria   Capture Danube Port Of Ruse and Black Sea Port of Varna; New Dives Ofietied

Soviets sweep far into Bulgaria; take Ruse, Varna ports   Alpine troops pick up 48 miles in first day of push on Hungary

RED FORCES SEIZE PORTS IN BULGARIA   Wide Sweep Made by Sov. ss ict. Troops During 7 Dov =;

RED ARMY MOVES INTO BULGARIA ON [30-MILE FRONT   Seizes Two Ports in Drive Aimed at Crushing 250,000 Germans in Yugoslavia and Greece.   ADVANCE UNOPPOSED BY BALKAN COUNTRY   Russians Open New Thrust at Hungary — Dislodge Nazis. Above Warsaw in Bitter Fight.

SOVIETS MOVE INTOBULGARIA, TAKE 2 PORTS   NEW DRIVE OPENED ON IMPERILLED HUNGARY

Reds Sweep Into Bulgaria Unresisted to Take Ports On Danube and Black Sea

Reds Capture Big Danube Port; Start — Drive On Hungary   Russians Have Their Ow: Invasion Going

RED FORCES SEIZE - PORTS IN BULGARIA   Wide Sweep Made by Soviet. Troops During Day 

Soviets Cross Into Bulgaria,  Enter 2 Ports   Red Invasion Unopposed: Other Blows Menace  wr...

‘Soviets Sweep Unresisted Into Bulgaria   Danube, Black Sea Ports Fall to Onrushing Reds

NO-RESISTANCE TO INVASION BY BULGARI   Big Danube River Port Of Ruse Falls To Rus sian Troops   ARRIVAL OF SOVIETS HAILED BY PATRIOTS

Defense Demands State Disclose Cause Of Death  5g Oy et See  ES Ree

Truman at Providence,  R. L, Tonight   Walsh Announces He is for Entire Democratic Ticket

BIG GUNS, TANKS SLOW U.S. DRIVE ON WEST FRONT   Americans Retake Portion of Ground Given Up Thursday

GORGE CLEARED IN TRAIN WRECK   Tennessee Disaster Toll Reaches 33; More Bodies Found In Cars

OPA to Modify Canning Sugar RationingPlan   TWO. APPLICATION PERIODS TO BE IN FORCE UNDER NEW SETUP

Yank Air Base i At Hengyang Is _ Taken By Jans   Advance Field Lost;  Severe Blow

JAPS CAPTURE U.S. AIR BASE ATHENGYANG   First Major Win for Nips in Offensive to Split China

U, S, AIRFIELD AT HENGYANG TAKEN BY JAPS   Other Sectors Being Won By  Americans

Hengyang Field Said Abandoned By U.S. Airforce   Honan Province Center, Surrounded By Japs, Is Reported ‘In Flames

JAPS CAPTURE UJ. $. AIRFIELD   ‘Hengyank Base Falls As Enemy Seeks To Cut China In Two

Nippons Capture U.S. Airbase at Hengyang, China  Of ‘Saipan Island In Furious Fighting’

ITS LOSS IS HARD BLOW ~ JO ALLIES   Field Is at Hengyang, Fall. ‘‘of Which Would Great‘ly Advance Nips’ Cam paign to Slice. the Re. public in Two.

U.S. Air Base At Hengyang Is Taken By Japs   Loss Of Advance Field In China Is Hard Blow To Allied Forces.

Key Point on Henkow-Canton Railway Surrounded; Marines, Infantrymen Advance on Saipan

Chennault’s Air -Force  Quits Vital Field As Nips Close In —      Loss fs Severe Blow To Allies. In Fight To Stem Japanese Drive To Cut China In Two; City Is Renorted In Flames

Japs Capture U, §. Airfield   Americans Abandon Advanced Base Near Hemgyang, China

Japs Take U. S. Airbase in China   Hengyang Falls in Nippons Major Drive to Slice China in Two.

Lose U.S Air Base In China   Japanese Seize Air Field in Drive On Hengyang; Yanks Gain In Tough Saipan Battle

Japs Capture U.S. Airbase   Overrun Hengyang Base; Saipan Battle Now ‘As Rough as Any’ in Pacific

Japs Take Chennault Air Base   Foe Battles Savagely on Saipan— Aussies  Take Hansa Bay

Allied Loss Is i Major Success © To Enemy's Drive   Battle on Saipan Continues Against Bitter Oppdsition

Japs Capture U.S. Air Base  Near Hengyane   Nip Victory in  Drive To Halve China Offset by Losses at Saipan

Japs Capture American Air  Base in Chin:   Enemy’s Success at Hengyang Is Partial Recompense for Progressing Conquest of Saipan by U. S. Forces

Enemy’s Victory Offsets Defeats   Hengyang Taken in Nips’ Effort To Split China—Saipa: Fighting at War’s Fiercest

Japanese Capture American Airforce Base at Hengyang  City Surrounded hy Japs and On Fire, Chungking Reports— Yanks Destroy One Runway

Japs Capture U.S. Air Base At Hengyang   Enemy Reaps One Of Richest Prizes Of Drive; Saipan War Rough

JAPS CAPTURE U. S$. AIRBASE   Hengyang Battle Mounts; Nips Hold Tenaciously On Saipan

(CAPTURE OF VITAL CHINA AIR BASE IS PART OF PLAN TO CUT CHINA IN TWO SEPARATE AREAS   Hengyang Is Key Point on Hankow-Canton Rai way. Chungking Admits Fall of City. 20, Japs Battle Furiously with Americans at Saipan *

HENGYANG BASE OF THE U.S. AIR FORCE CAPTURED   LOSS OF AIRPORT TO JAPS IS HARD BLOW TO ALLIES

U. $, AIR BASE IS SEIZED BY JAPS   Victory At Hengyang Is Vital Threat To China

JAPS CAPTURE U.S. AIR BASE AT HENGYANE   Move Seen Vital To Splitting China In Two

Loss of Field » af Hengyang _a Hard Blow   _ Key Rail Point Now Is Sur. » rounded; Japs Moving te Block Allies   CHENNAULT’S FLIERS _ INTO THE BATTLE   20,000 Japs Battling Fur‘jously to Stem Yanks’ “2 ‘Drive on Saipan

Japanese Take Airforce Base At Henavana   Vital Chinese City Blazes Under Strong Pressure Of Attack

Japanese Take Airforce Base  At Hengyang   First Success in Attempt to Slice China in Two

Yanks Forge New Gains on Saipan Island   Enemy Admits Situation Is Growing Graver By The Hour

AERIAL BASE AT HENGYANG IS ABANDONED   Report States That Vital Chinese City Is In Flames After Terrific Assault   LOSS IS SEVERE BLOW

TROOPS TARE U0, AFIELD AT HENGYANE   Vital Chinese City in Flames Under Hammering of Jan Attacks,

Japs Capture  Allied Field   Hengvang Is Surrounded: Base Fall ls Hard Blow Ta Allies.

KEY CHINA CITY SEIZED BY JAPS   Meanwhile, Bitter Fighting Continues on Saipan

Carrier Damaged In Genoa Harbor   Enemy Aircraft Vessel Bombed By Thunderbolts

Eire Now Isolated From British Under Rigid Restrictions   Ud is Clamped Down On Travel Between Islands In Action Designed To Halt Leakage Of kailigacse Pace te. chat.

Restriction Aimed   To Balk Axis Spies   Communication Is Limited Retween 2? Countries

Britain Puts Restrictions on Eire Travel   Action Comes Afte: Trish Rejection of American Note

Drastic Order Issued To Curb Nazi Activities   Sanctions Unlikely But Held Possible

TRAVEL BETWEEN BRITAIN AND’ IRELAND TIGHTLY RESTRICTED :   Stern Action Is Taken To Prevent Seepage Of Informa: ‘tion After De Valera’s Refusal To Oust Axis Diplomatic : Representatives; Thousands Are Affected

BRITAIN CLAMPS RESTRICTION ON IRISH BORDERS   Drastic Step Taken To Prevent Seepage Of Information On  Allied Armies

Britain Restricts _  Travel To Ireland   Restrictions Come as Swift Aftermath to Refusal of Eire t8 Oust German and Japanese Diplomatic Representativec 

Britain Puts Restrictions  on Eire Travel  Action Comes After Teiek Ratarctan   Action Comes Afte: Irish Rejection of American Note

Nazi Resistance In Metz Crushed: Mulhouse Seized   Strategic Town of Saverne is Taken By French Troops; Whole German Position in South Threatened

Senate Seeks To Reach Early Vote ‘On Disposal Of Surplus War Goods

~TOGIVE ADDRESS   Baccalaureate Services Will Be Held Tomorrow. ~~ . at K.U. F ;   IN HOCH AUDITORIUM

BAKER PRESIDENT TO GIVE ADDRESS   Baccalaureate Services Will Be Held Tomorrow ~  at K. U.

WORK IS COMPLETED ON $30,000,000 DAM   Last Concrete Poured on Roadway Across Structure Built in Arkansas. 3

P T ap : eff mT ast 0  hte Hi 1 fore e B a s e   Four Barges Are Sunk: Airmen Plast Enemy

Troop-Laden Enemy Barges Sunk by Torpedo Boats in Daring New Guinea Forays

Major Candidates Vying For Heavy-Vote States: Dewey Saus New Deal ‘Bankrun?’

FDR, Dewey Seek Votes In NLY., Pa   Both €andidutes Plu m Campaign in States Controlling Many  Electoral Votes

J.S. Offensive  In Pacific Area Being Extended   Landing On Strategic Eniwotek Atoll In Marshalls Is Reported   NO DETAILS YET ON TRUK VICTORY

SCATTERED RAINS AN AID TO CROPS      More. Precipitation, However, Needed in the _ County

SCATTERED RAINS ~ AN AID TO CROPS   More. Precipitation, -How~ ever, Needed in the ‘County.

War Fund and Community Chest Drive Faltering   Less Than Half of Quofa Subscribed With Final Day Near

Jhio Air Ace, Capt. Gentile of Piqua, Prays  Before Shrine In Carey Church Yesterday

ACE AIRMAN AND FAMILY AT CHURCH      Capt. Gentile Attends Service in Carey, Ohio Church

REDS WITHIN 74 MILES OF AUSTRIAN. LINE   Hammer Budapest In Drive To Open Road  To Vienna

Reds Seek to Cut Behind Budapest   German Rail Lines To South Smashed

Halsey’s Fleet Executes Bold Raid On Marcus   American Naval Guns Shell Installations At Big Pacific Base

American Warships Strike 1100 Miles From Tokyo To Bombard Marcus Island

Ex-Service Men, Women To Be Granted Special Rail Rate Sentember 1

Beef Subsidy May Be Increased In Move to Reduce Cattle on Range   WFA Wants 2 or 3 Million Head Marketed Within Next Four Months

FINNS TAKE UP PEACE BURDENS   Settlement In Porkkala  Peninsula Evacuated For Red Navy Base

 —AERIAL—  RAIL ARTERIES. BOMB TARGET!   American Heavies, Escorted By Fighters, Fly Far Into Reich

2,200 Planes Hit Rail Lines  1,000 Fighters With Bia Bomber Force

YANK BOMBERS SMASH 5 RAIL LINES TO FRONT   All Previous Bombing Records Broken During November

U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS SMASH FIVE NAZI RAIL ARTERIES FEEDING FRONT LINE AREAS

Rail Arteries Supplying Nazis Smashed hy Yanks   1200 Heavy Bombers Escorted Deep into Reich hy Thonsand Fighters: Nazi Plance Ae, s

AIL ARTERIES UNDER ATTACK   1,200 American Bombers, 1,000 Fighters Hit Ger‘man Supply Lines.

Five Rail Arteries  ~ Smashed   1,200: American Bombers Ge Deep Into Germany to Make Heavy Attack   AIR OFFENSIVE TO NEW PEAK   All Records Broken Last Month and Even Greater Action. Is Ahead

Rolls Forward Despite Lashing Defense of U. 5. First Army and Allied Air Blows Which Take Heavy Tank Toll; Germany Uses New V-Weapon

Lashing Defense by First Army Fails mg Halt Enemy Advance; Heavy Censorship Clamped On   Fighterbombers Lend Priceless Aid to Ground Troops, Many of Whom Had Their Positions Overrun; New Secret Weapon Is Used by Germans

Nazis Reported At Least 18: Miles Inside Of Belgium— — New V-Weapon Used ~

CRACK TROOPS THROWN INTO GREAT BATTLE   YANKS ARE BLASTED BY NEW NAZI V-WEAPON

Fliers Smash 95 Tanks As Fluid Battle Swirls To Block Enemy Attack

Germans Drive Ahead Against  Fierce Defense   Yanks Strike Hard by Land and Air To Halt Foe; Many Enemy Tanks Destroyed; Nazis Use V-Weapon

Yanks Hit 121 Tanks In Bold Defense   Allied Planes Brave Bad Weather To Bombard German Lines; __ Full Censorship Clouds Front News

USE ANEW WEAPON IN. OFFENSIVE   Yanks Stage Slashing Defense With Infantry and Planes in Effort to Check German Tide.   95 TANKS AND 45 PLANES DESTROYED   ‘New Enemy V-Weapon: Rocks Front With Exe plosions — Many Belgians Fleeing Homes.

Yank Bombs Knock Out 95 Enemy Tank   German V-Weapons Bombard First, Ninth Army Sartare -

Yanks Pound AtGermans On Ground And from Air   Stop 95 Enemy Tanks And Damage 26 More, But Germans Advance In Great Offensive  CENSORSHIP TICHT

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HAMIMIER DENT IN AMERICAN LINES   Nazis Advance Despite Lashing Ground Defense   HEAVY CENSORSHIP   First and Ninth Army Sector Bombarded Day, Night by New V-Weapon

Germans Gain Despite Knockout Of 95 Tanks By Slugging First Army  —_ Gain 1t5 blag In Greatest Of  ty uc a, tian r. 7 or Yee gn ih a, ai   Huns Gain 15 Miles In Greatest Of Enemy Attacks Since Invasion;  Battle May Decide This War

Americans Destroy  95 German Tanks   Nazis Hurl Thousands of Crack Troops and Hundreds of Tanks Into Battle Against Yank:

Yanks Forced Back in Great Ground Battle   95 German Tanks Are Knocked Out

Enemy Troops Advance Despite Loss Of 95 Tanks And Armored Vehicles   NEW V-WEAPON BEING  USED AGAINST YANKS

Allies Clamp Censorship Lid on Front as Fee's Attacks Centinue -

Argentina Frees Axis Diplomats  Police Report Three Espionage Groups

REVEAL GERMAN ATTACHE IS SPY   Three Axis Rings Working In Argentina, Is Claim

Military Attache - Named Spy Chief  But Nazi Won't Face Trial In Argentina

German Military Attache Released In Buenos Aires  Police Report Three Axis Organizations _ ‘Work in Argentine

gent Frees Alleged Spy Ring Director   German General Will Not Face Trial on Charges

Argentine Frees  Nazi Spy Chief   Espionage In U. S. Is Revealed

PLAN OUTLINED + BY ROOSEVELT   als for Representative Body and Global Court for Disputes

Dewey Silent Concerning Race   Claims Affairs, Matters of State Only Interest

Say Reconversion Prices Can Be Held to Levels Of 1942 If Wages Rise

ie es ee ee E COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA:   Man Drowns When Thrown by Street Car

FR. NEEDS ONLY 56 MORE VOTES   Fourth Term Supporters Already Have 533 Convention Votes Pledged Or Claimed; Political Round WY.

[FDR MAY CLINCH NOMINATION ON IPLEDCED VOTES   Fourth Term Nominatior For President May Be As sured on Basis Pre-Convention Pledges

DEMS INE ENOUGH 41H TERM VOTES   Elections This Week Expect‘ed to Swell Publicly Pledged Deleqates: mo

Six States Name Party Delegates   Roosevelt May Get Enough Votes This Week for Nomination

56 More Votes Needed by FDR   Democrats Report Nomination Certain

See FD Pledged Sufficient Votes For Nomination   ‘Democrats In Six States Will Select Convention elevates is Week

Democrats Preparing To Vote In Six States  Nomination May Fall In F.D.R.’s Lap This Week

si States Name Delegates To Conventions   Week May Give FDR Sufficient Strength to Win

FDR To Get More Pledged Votes  Enough Soon On Hand To Clinch ist Ballot

Fnough Votes For FD Win In Sight   Demos In Six States Name Delegates

FDR Is Near To Clinching Fourth Term   Boasts Nearly Enough Votes

533 Votes Now Pledo@i 4th Term   Dewey Leading Republi. can List; Colored Head “Makes Poll Tax Appeal.

‘Fourth Term Nomination May ‘Be Clinched For President ‘At Convention This “leek

Democrats Will Pick Delegate:   Nomination Is ‘FDR's -1 He Wants It

Delegate Elections This Week to Furnish Omer On President's Chances for His Fourth Term

FDR May Clinch ith Nomination During The Week   Democrats Assured 95 Delegates Needed Will Be Forthcoming

MEREDELEGATES SEEN FOR E.OLR.   Needs Only 56 More Tc Insure First Ballot Nomination

VOTES PILE UP FOR ROOSEVELT   Six States. This. Week May Assure Sufficient Delegates: for Nomination.

More Delegates Pledged To FDR  _ Negroes Ask Dewey aPoll Tax Support

4TH TERM VOTE TOTAL TO GROW   Democrats In Six States Pick Delegates This Week

FIFTY - SIX VOTES NEEDED TO ASSURE FDR’S NOMINATION   First Ballot Selection Grows More Certain as Delegates  Are Pledged

‘Alamo’ Is Word Holding Key to Solution Of Hopkins Letter Puzzle, Author Asserts

SAYS LETTER HAS KEY WORD   Akron’s Ex-Mayor Asserts “Alamo” Will Solve Hopkins Mystery

Sparks Suggests ‘Alamo’ As Key For Grand Jury To Follow In Investigation Of Mystery Surrounding ‘Hopkins Letter’

Sparks Claims *Alamo’ Answet To Letter Case   Former Akron Mey r Says Ickes and Lee &  Should Be Grilled

Hopkins Riddle Hinges On “Alamo”   Sparks Hints Code Word Will Help Unravel Letter

ARMY FURLOUGH PLAN REVEALED   Men in Central Pacific to Receive Leaves

ROTARY PLOWS SPEED RESCUE   32 Marooned Travelers Are  Snowbound on Mountain

Efforts Settle OWI Controversy   “Negotiated Peace” hoped For In Row Between Davis And Sherwood Over Policy.

5 th OpensftalianPush; San Vittore Under Fire   Troops Storm Key Stronghold Behind Artillery, Air Barrage

Fifth Army Yanks Run Nazis Out Of San Vittore Along Ten-Mile Front

ALLIES GAIN MILE, ENTER SAN VITTORE   Wedge 10 Miles Wide Driven Into Nazi Defenses

TEN RAIDERS ARE DOWNED   REVEAL NEW TYPE “ROCKET “GUN BEING USED AGAIN! ar. . NAZIS BOMBING ~ LONDON

Thirteen Nazi Planes Are Lost In London Raid   Germans Make Sixth Consecu-. tive Night Bombing Attack On London

Carrier Task Forces Deal First Blow To Marianas   Eniwetok Conquest Has Been Completed

NAVAL FORCES . RAID MARIANAS IN TRUK AREA   Carrier Based Planes Bomb Jap Bases in Thrust Carrying 700 Miles Nearer Japan   DETAILS CLOAKED   Strong Forces Under Command of Mitscher, Who Lashed Truk. Made Possible Raid on Tokyo

Marianas Hit By CarrierBased Planes   Eniwetok Atoll Captured In 12-Hour Attack By U. S. Marines

RESULTS OF ATTACK ARE NOT REVEALED      Nimitz Makes Announcement Also Tells of Completion of Chiwetank Camnaion

Navy Deals Blow ‘At Mariana Isles   Vitai Link in Jap Defense Chain Blasted by Planes from Carrier Force

War’s First Blow Against Mariana Islands Is Carried  Out With Powerful Planes

Carrier Planes Strike 1,300 Miles OF Tokyo      i fimportant Plarbor Also bit Eniwetoh Atoll Conquest Completed. 

U. S. Strikes Nearer And Nearer The Heart Of Japan  Attack Mariana Islands. 1300 Miles From Tokyo

Navy Raids: Marianas in Guam Region:   Saipan. and Tinian. : Islands Are. Strafed : By Carrier Bombers

ENIWETOK ATOLL INVASION ENDED AFTER SIX DAYS   Ponape, Kusai Are Pounded In Preparation For Mariana Action

MARIANA ISLES HIT BY U. S, TASK FORCE IN PACIFIC   Islands 700 Miles Northwest of Truk, Sniwetok Atoll Falls

Carrier Planes Strike 1,300 Miles Of Tokyo   Important. Harbor Also Hit — Eniwetok Atoll Coriquest Completed.

NAVAL FORCES HIT MARANA. AFTER TRUK KNOGKO     HT   Jap Fleet Given Every Possible Chance To Fight   SITUATION LOOKS - BAD FOR TOKYO

Hundreds Of Carrier-Based Planes Used   Islands Include Guam; » Are 700 Miles West Of Truk.

MARIANA ISLES RAIDED BY US. CARRIER FORCE   Navy Moves 700 Miles Northwest of Truk to Strike New Blow

Jap] Base Near Guam Island  Under Attack   Planes From U. S. Aircraft ‘Carriers Deliver Blow Against Marianas, Nearer Tokyo

Blasting Of Jap Positions In Moluccas, Celebes In Pacific Theater Continues

( :rraduated From the Naval ATTC   Lloyd Story Has Completed Course at School in Norman Okla,

BLUE TOKENS GO OUT ON OCTOBER 1 AS CANNED FOODS LEAVE RATION LIST

Blue Tokens On Way Out   Most Canned Foods Going Off Ration Lis!

TO SCRAP BLUE TOKENS OCT, 1   Most Canned Goods to Be Off Ration List

BLUE TOKENS WON'T BE USED NEXT MONTH   Some Canned Foods To Stay On Rationing, However

FISH HATCHERY IS PLANNED ON BEAVER GREEK   $269,000 Project Would Produce 1,750,000 Fingerlings Annually

PLANS ARE DRAWN FOR BIG HATCHERY   Post-war Project May be Located in Frederick — County

‘Valley’s Fate Depends On Bollworm Control’   Alarming Spread Of Pink Bollworm Cited By U. S. Chief; New Rules Stringent

PARTICULAR ALARM FELT AT SPREAD OF PINK ROLL WORM   ““FATS‘OF COTTON: BELT* — HINGES ON CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF PEST

PARTICULAR ALARM FELT AT SPREAD OF PINK ROLLWORM   ,_ FATS OF COTTON BELT . "HINGES ON. CONTROL.AND “’ BP ADICATION OF PEST ..

Dish-Smashing Girl Freed By  Boston Jurist   Teapot Tempest, Court Declares

G. 0. P. Governors Near End of Vital St. Louis Parley   Executives of 26 States Predict Party Victory in November

Danish Palace © Guards Open Fire On Nazi Marines  Show Fight After Seizure of  Government Buildings, Polic  EO Be

Finns, Reds  Sign Terms   Danish Palnee Outbreak Reported By German: Radio

Lepke Silent as He Dies in Chair   Gangster Executed, Refuses to “‘Sing”’

GITY MUST WAIT FOR WAGE ARISE    “ . ve  WLB Doesn't. Have  Control but’ S:ate - Does, City Learns.

CITY MAUoT Wall FOR WAGE RAISE   WLB Doesn’t Have Control but State Does, City Learns.

HULL IN REPLY “TO POPE'S PLEA   . “ f OM ROME SHRINES, HE SAYS WILL NOT BE SPARED UNLESS NAZIS LEAVE THEM.

Story Unfurled Of Rangers Fate In Early Days Of Anzio Operation:

ANGER DIED TASTING HELL AS PER ORDEE   Tragedy of Two Battalions at Cisterna One of Guts and Bad Luck,

900 Rangers Who Fought Behind Lines Wiped Out   Two Battalions Got Through Enemy Lines Before Germans Closed In on Them

Two Battalions of Americans Made Daring Effort in  Anzio Beachhead

 TWO ‘LOST BATTALIONS’ 900 Rangers Pierce Naz Lines But Are Trapped,

Heroic Story of Rangers Told   Americans Who Tried To Take Cisterna Fouaht to End

Two Ranger Battalions _— Run Into Cisterna Trap   Infiltrating Unit By Passed Nazi Troops, Stole Tank, But Was Surrounded When Second Unit Ran Into Heavy Fighting

U, S, RANGERS KILLED WHEN » MAKING RAID   Nine Huncred Try To Break Nazi  Defense Line

Urge Army Free Key Workers First   International Labor  Office Submits Plan

ALLIES GOING FORWARD IN ALL SECTORS   Of India-Burma Front; Seize Air Field, Occupy Villages and Rout Enemv in Disorder.   Renulse Counterattack

ECUTION ENDS TS CASE   Defendants in. Graft Tria Will Have Their Say Next Week.

STATE RESTS BRIBERY CASE   22 Defendants To Have Inning; Seek Dismissal Action

HEROIC 9-DAY STAND MAY BE TURNING POINT   Fight Against Massed Armor of Nazis Enables British to Take Bridge

TRAPPED FORCES: AT ARNHEM. AN SrEN WITUNRAWA   Airborne Units — . Were. Pulled Back Dur ine the Nisht- -

TRAPPED FORGES AT ARNHEM TANI BEEN WITHDRAWN   Airborne Units Were Pullcd Back Dur.ng the Night -

HOLLAND CORRIDOR NOW EXTENDED TO 20 MILE WIDTH   Blackout Continues   Fresh Waves of Airborne Forces Landed on Dutch Airfield By 200 Planes.

BRITISH SHIPS SUPPORT THRUST ON NEW FRONT   Dominion Troops On West Front Seize Five Mile Sector Along Maas   RUSS CONVERGE ON RIGA   American Airpower Rakes Jap Shipping, Airdromes In Pacific War

Airborne Army Withdrawn From  Arnhem Sector   Cross During Nicht

Lynching of Airman Reported   A Purported Eye-Witness - Account Sent-From Ber-  lin te Stockholm,    REPORTS GERMANS -“MOBBED AMERICAN   . No Verification ‘of Story Which: Closely. Follows Nazi Propaganda Pattern

American Airmen Reported Lynched By Nazi Villagers   Swedish Newsman Tells of Assault by Infuriated Crowd  After Air Attack .-

Lynching Of U.S. Airman Described  Eyewitness Account Of  Killing Given

NEW DETAILS ON FLIER - LYNCHING   Swedish Newspaper Publishes Purported Eyewitness Account To Lynching Of American Airmen By Mad (lerman Villagers.

HE HANGS BY FEET TO SAVE HIS PLANE   Sgt. Frees Jammed Control in Flak-filled Sky

Storm to point 150 miles from Silesia   Great gaps ripped in German lines; Pskov falls: fight in Lublin streets

Sovet Troops Attack Northwest Of Brest Ltiovsk And Are Within 75 Miles Of Warsaw

Great Holes Ripped in German Lines by ' Russians  MANY NAZIS SLAIN      Pskov Falls to Reds as  Fighting Opens in Lihbe

Soviet Armies Topple Pskov, Pierce Lublix   Warsaw Major Objective As Russians Surmount Cenmbline Baretacan

Gain 32 Miles, Wipe Out Four Hun Divisions   Greatest Advances in Summer Drive

Great Holes Ripped in German Lines by Russians  MANY NAZIS SLAIN      MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN POLAND BATTLE   Pskov Falls to Reds as - Fighting Opens in Lublin

Pskov Falls, Lublin Entered As Russians Rip Huge Holes » In 750-Mile German Defense   Red Armies Report Greatest Gains Of Month-Ole Offensive From Estonian Border To Foothills Of Carpathian Mountains In The South

Velez Friends Volunteer To  Be Pallbearers   Johnny Weissmuller, Her Former Husband, Among Those Offering Services at Funeral

Plan Last Rites For Lupe Velez   Film Celebrities Offer To  Be Casket Bearers

FILM FRIENDS MOURNING LUPE   Celebrities Volunteer As Pallbearers for Dead  Actress

Show Put On For Lupe At Fight Arena While Funeral Being Planned   Celebrities of Movieland, Including Only Man She Eve Married, Volunteer as Pallbearers - - No Further Probe of Suicide Contemplated

DROP INQUIRY OF VELEZ’ SUICIDE   OFFICIAL SAYS NOTES PROVE THAT ACTRESS TOOK HER OWN LIFE

U. §. Bombers Hit Berlin In Day Raid   Eighty Nazi Fighters Are Downed in Battles Over Capital

U.S. BOMBERS DELIVER NEW BERLIN BLOW   Drop 2,000 Tons of Ex plosives, Shoot Down 80 Nazi Planes

YANKS DOWN 80 PLANES IN BERLIN RAID   Almost 2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on German Capital in First Attack Since October 6— Munitions Plants Hit.

Yanks Blast Berlin Again   Attack Industrial Targets In Capital, Munster Rail Yards

AMERICAN HEAVIES BLASTED BERLIN IN DAYLIGHT ASSAULT  FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN 80 NAZI PLANES OVER ery A’

Berlin a Target For U.S. Bombers   “Capital Is Raided For First Time _In Two Months

American Planes Blast Berlin 1st Time In 2 Months   Rails At Munster, Suburban Factories Get Taste Of 2,000 Bombs Dropped

BERLIN BLASTED ~ WITH ALMOST 2000 TONS OF BOMBS   Fighter Escort Planes Shot Down 80 Planes Over the Nazi Capital.   FROM BRITISH BASES   Munition and Tank Factories Blasted Inside and Near Berlin.

Heavies Renew  Berlin Assault 800 Fighters Travel With 550 Bombers

Daylight Raid First on City In 2 Months   Yanks Pushing Deeper Into Seer Territory

BERLIN BOMBED BY U.S, PLANES   Fighter Escorts Shoot Down 80 German Planes Over Capital.

BERLIN 1S HIT BY LARGE YANK PLANE FLEET   Fighter Escort Downs 80 Nazi Craft; 2,000 Tons of Bombs Drovned

Berlin Hit By 2,000 Tons Of Yankee Bombs   Factories Targets, 80 Nazi Planes Downed

YANK AIRMEN BLAST BERLIN   Drop 2,000 Tons of Bombs on Capital, Down 80 Planes

EAL BOMBED ALU, S. NBME   Almost 2,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On German Capital

UNLOADED BY AERIAL FLEET   Eight Hundred Mustangs and Thunderbolt Fighters Fly 1,000-Mile Trip Ta Raich Canital   FACTORIES ALSO HIT

YANK BOMBERS POUND BERLIN   Raid on Nazi Capital Is First Since Oct. 6 — Large Force Strikes

SAIPAN INVADERS ADVANCE IN BITTER FIGHT WITH JAPS    Resistance at Nafutan Point  _ Collapses After Heavy  Losses Are Inflicted on _ Enemy by Yanks.   HALF OF ISLAND . HELD BY AMERICANS   Attempt to Encircle Nipponese Forces in Center May Develop Into Decisive Engagement.

Japan’s Strategic Base in Marianas Scene of Stubborn Enemy Resistance, Fight from Caves.   20,000 Japs

Americans Gain On Saipan Front   Overcome Fierce Enemy Resistance

SMALL GAINS MADE ON SAIPAN ISLAND      “Severe” Defense Being Put Up by Enemy, Report Save

SMALL GAINS MADE ~ ONSAIPAN ISLANE   "Seyere” Defense Being Put Up by Enemy, Report Says

NO INDISPENSIBLE?   Dewey to Discuss Topic After Slugging New Deal Labor Record -

DEWEY RAPS FR INEPT LABOR POLICY   Teat of Speech on Page 10 Re NOV THOWAG

BRITISH START NEW DRIVE IN HOLLAND, STORM ACROSS TWO CANALS. OCCUPY TOWNS

British Cross 2 Canals in  Dutch Drive   Americans Only Two Miles From Famous Fortress; Thionville Reported Surrendered

American Troops Crash In Upon Big Fortress City From Three Directions

TROOPS SMAS TO TWO MILES OF VITAL CITY _   Attack From Three Sides Lidhtly Opposed; British Oven Drive in Holland

Fall. of German Stronghold Expected Momentarily  STRONG DRIVE BY BRITISH LAUNCHED  Forces Storm Across Two Canals and Take Towns

DOOMED CITY ATTACKED ON THREE SIDES   BATTLE FOR FAMED FORTRESS NEARS QUICK CLIMAX

YANKS ONLY TWO MILES FROM METZ   Crash in on Fortress From Three Directions   FALL SEEMS NEAR   British Lash Out in Southeastern Holland Behind Roaring Artillery Fire

FALL OF METZ TO AMERICANS HELD IMMINENT   British Second Army Launches Strong Drive In Southeastern Holland   GERMAN RESISTANCE IS NO LESS BITTER

Fall of the City Appears to Be Matter of Days if Not Hours; British in North Launch Attack Against Germans   Sinking of Tirpitz Is Described by Flyers Who Dropped Heavy Bombs

Yank Forees Only 2 Miles From Metz   British Second Army 150 Miles to North Gains Anew in Holland  PROCRESS IS COON

3rd Army Only 2 Miles From City on South   British 2nd Army Forces Storm Over 2 Canals and Occupy 2 Towns in Launching Drive in Holland   Ry HOWARD COWAN

Fall, Front Line Dispatch States, Appears to’ Be But a Question of Day: A If Not Hours. ce   BRITISH START NEW: DRIVE IN HOLLANSB   Tommies, in. the Initial Stages, Storm Across Two Canals and Ocewgy at Least Two Town

Fall of Fortress Believed Near: Attack in Holland   Artillery Assault Precedes British Move East From Nederweert

FALL OF METZ IS IMMINENT; FORTS TAKEN   Patton’s Army Meets Astonishingly Light Re. sistance as They Press On “Impregnable” City.   “Serves Purpose”’

Yanks Reporled Only Two Miles From Objective   Nazi Resistance Less Formidable

Disclose loss of huge luxury liner President Grant after Pacific storm

Reds Surging Westward In  Slovakia Drive   Press Offensive By Ford. ing Flooded Streains Pouring Down From the Carpathians

Reds Drivine Westward  In Slovakia More Than 60  - Tawne Cantured

Russians Take More Than 60  Communities   400 Nazis Killed. 15 Taken, in Battle For Vysni Svidnik

Reds Surge West Taking 60 Towns   Nazis Cleared From Tisza River in North Hungary Bitter Fight

FRONTS LINKED BY RED FORCES   Gains Up To 14 Miles Scored In Hungary And Slovakia

RUSSIANS FORCE DANUBE NORTH 0} DRAVA IN FIERCE EASTERN SMASH   ARMORED COLUMNS SLASH ACROSS DANUBE SOUTH OF BUDAPEST, CAPTURE MOHACS

SOVIETS SWEEP EAST SLOVAKIA   Red Army Holds Breadth Of Eastern Slovakia, Attacks Nazis At Tisza River, Hiunearv.

Reds Cross Danube and Take Pecs   Bridgehead 90 Miles Wide and 25 Deep Established in New Sweep   MANY POPULATED PLACES SEIZED   Wide Gains Also Made in Eastern Slovakia, 60 -Towns Being Captured

Nazis Expect Russian Drive   Reds Surge Westward In Eastern Slovakia

Russian Columns Push Way Into  Hungarian Fort —   New Flanking Sweep Made By Red Armies  Toward Austrian Border

Reds Nab Three Warsaw Bases   Russians Capture German Anchor Strongholds in Series of Advances; First Baltic Army Captures Jelgava, Closing Latvian Trap

SOVIET FORCES CAPTURE SIXTY TOWNS IN PUSH   Russians Clear Enemy From Tisza River

Red Army Scores Advances on Widely Link_ ed Fronts .      MANY TOWNS HELD IN DAY’S ASSAULTS   Rainfall Reported ‘to be '  Hampering Soviet Operations 

NAZIS CLEARED OFF RIGHT BANK OF TISZA -RIVER   Advances Of-14 Miles Along 110-Mile Front Reported Tuesday   SOVIETS ARE SILENT ABOUT OPERATIONS

Russian Forces Surge Westward  Germans Lose Ground in Hungary Campaign

—hUSSTANS—  RUSSIANS SURGE AHEAD 14 MILES   Capture Over 60 Communities In Push In  Hastern Slovakia

SOVIET SURGE ENGULFS 60 COMMUNITIES   Surging Down From Carpathians Red Army Drives Westward on Eastern Slovakia Line   OFFENSIVE IN DANUBE

New Red Drive In South   Russians Cross Danube 100 Miles South Of Budapest; Seizing  Two Important Towns

Soviets Cross Danube, Heac for Austria   Meet Bitter Enemy Resistance in Hungary, Slovakia

BERLIN SAYS SOVIETS REACH PECS IN DRIVE   Moscow Silent On Push Below Budapest

Soviets Smash 14 Miles Ahead - On Wide Front   Nazis Cleared from Tisza  An Northern Hungary a: ee or

Red Troops Surge Ahead In Slovakia  esecow Silent   Moscow Silent On New Aftack {In Hungary -

STALIN OFFICIALLY  ANNOUNCES RED ARMY  CROSSING OF DANUBE BRIDGEHEAD 90 MILES  WIDE AND 25 MILES DEEP NEAR RINAPECT

‘FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News ‘Today.      Defense:

Russians Cross Danube !n Force   Other Forces Strike West In Slovakia

Soviet Army Plows Over East Slovakia; 69 Towas Captured   General Red Advances Recorded to Hungarian Border, Moscow Says

Red Army Surging» Through Slovakia   » Russians Make No Mention of Nazi Reports of New Offense But Say Emphatically They are Finished With Polish Government-in-exile

Reds Cross Danube and ~ Gain 25 Mi.      Powerful Soviet Blows Engulf 330 Towns In Westward Sweep.

Russians Sweep Across Slovakia In Swift Advance  Clear Germans From East Bank Of Tisza River In Hungary; Nazis Fear New Blow

Reds Surge Westward In Slovakia   More Than 60 Communities Taken, Soviets Report

SURGE ALONG FULL BREADTH OF SLOVAKIA      Gains In Northern Hungary Claimed In Moscow Report

Russians Gain In New Sweep   Advance Up To 14 Miles Across Czechoslovakia In Swift Drive,

SOVIETS CAPTURE 60 SLOVAK TOWNS   PUSH WEST ALONG FULL BREADTH OF EASTERN SLOVAKIA

Soviet Army Surges Across East Slovakia   Westward Drive Overruns Over 60 communitics; New Danube Offensive Reported and New Winter Offensive Awaited Tenscly.

60 Communities Taken by Reds   RUSSIAN ARMIES ROLL ON TOWARD BERLIN GOAL

Red Army Over [Danube South Of Budapest   Stalin Announces Bridgehead 90 Miles Wide, 25 Miles Deep; Several Towns Taken

RUSSIAN FORCES GAIN 14 MILES, FREE 60 AREAS   Soviet Troops Sweep Across Eastern Slovakia; Nazis Hint New Red Push

Sixty Towns Fall to Soviet Army   Red Army’s Troops Ford Flooded Carpathian Rivers

SOVIET FORCES CROSS DANUBE   Establish 90 Mile Wide Beachiead South of Budapest

REDS TAKE 60 COMMUNITIES IN SLOVAKIA   Surge Westward Along Full Breadth of Easterm Part of Country and Clear Nazis From Tisza Riverin Hungary.

Berlin Reports New Red Drive Has Reached Coal Mining City   Russians Also Surge Westward Along Full Breadth Of Eastern Slovakia, Capturing More Than 60 Communities.

00 CZECH TOWNS CAPTURED BY REDS   RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN RAIN ALONG ENTIRE BREADTH OF COUNTRY.

OOVIETS aUnGE INTO SLOVAKIA   Ford Flooded Streams to Capture More Than 60 Communities.

Soviets Ford: Full Streams In Advancing Alongs Tisza   60 Villaves ‘Taken  In. “Westward Move

Soviet Troops Cross Danube   Stalin Says Forces Hold 90-Mile Wide Bridgehead Near Budapest

SOVIETS EXTEND SLOVAKIAN HOLD   Win More Than 60 Places: Clear Hungarian Bank

Reds Reach Pees In New  Flank Drive   Soviets Link Up 90-Mile Front Across Flooded Mountain Roads

REDS DRIVE FOR BORDER OF AUSTRIA   New Flanking Sweep Is Made Below Budapest

More Than 60 Communities Captured   Enemy Cleared From Right Bank Of Tisza River

Red Army Scores Advances on Widely Linked Fronts .  MANY_TOWNS HELD _ IN DAY'S ASSAULTS  -~ « &€ FE ee i   Rainfall Reported to be ‘  Hampering Soviet Operations -

Smash Foe Yanks Told   Doughboys Gain On Flaming Road To Vital Cherbourg

550,000 NAZI TROOPS LOST ON ‘RUSSIAN FRONT   Enemy Is Also Reported To Have Lost 6,000 Tanks In Two Months   NORTHERN OFFENSIVE 1S MAKING PROGRESS

Reds Advance ‘West, South Of Leningrad   46 German Divisions Smashed in 2 Months, Russian Writer Says  OTHER DRIVES GAIN

DEFENSE LINE SHATTERED BY RED ARMIES   Dffensives Apparently Aimed At Clearing Germans From Around Leningrad; Heavy Losses For Germans.   No Changes

DRIVES AIMED AT CLEARING OUT GERMANS   Enemy Driven From Area Surrounding Second Largest City   46 DIVISIONS DESTROYED IN TWO MONTHS CONTEST

(ERMANS DRIVEN FROM LONG-HELD FORTIFICATIONS   Blows Dealt by Red Tanks and Masses of Infantry North of Novgorod and South of Oranienbaum.   BOTH OFFENSIVES REPORTED DEVELOPING   Forty More Towns Fall to So. viets in Latvian Front—— General Vatutin Pushes Closer to Rovwne,

Two Offensives Shatter Long Standing German Lines  MANY NAZIS LOST IN RECENT FIGHTS     Total of 46 Di Divisions Reported Wiped Out in  "en bdo ek!

Soviets Gain South of Oranienbaum. North of Novgorod; Russian Baltic Army Sweeps Ahead

NAZI DEFENSE IS SHATTERED AT LENINGRAD   SOVIETS ADVANCING ALONG SHORES OF BALTIC

Action Flames in Sector  Near Leningrad   Two Offensives Launched by Soviet Forres

Moscow Says 46 Nazi Divisions, About 550 000 Men Lost In Last Two Months

Double split in northern enemy lines   Vatutin closing Rovno bub trap

Red Armies Shatter German ; Defense Line Near Leningrad; Advance in Southern Sections:   Two Offensives Aimed at Clearing Enemy From Lines Near City; Report German Casualties 550,000 Men in Past Two Months

Soviets Shatter Nazi Lines in  Leningrad Area   Two Offensives Aimed At Clearing Germans From Sector; Enemy Loses 46 Divisions

Nazis Admit Two Soviel Fronts Gain   Ukranian ‘Armies Close In On Rovno Objectiva

) New Northern: Offensives Are Launched by the Russian Army   successfully Shatter Longstanding German De -fense Lines West and South of Leningrad

SOVIET REPORT SAYS GERMANS LOSE 550,000   Reds Crash Defenses Put Up Over Long Period; Waves Of Tanks Employed

Two Offensives Shatter Long Standing German Lines MANY NAZIS LOST  IN RECENT FIGHTS Total of 46 Divisions Reported Wiped Out in Twa Manthke

‘Woman Holds Key to Solution Of Murder   Was Seen Driving Away From Hotel After Slaying Of Chicago Resident

CHICAGO HOTEL SLAYER HUNTED   Clue Intensifies Search For Woman In Black And Speeding Car

Chicago Murder Case Unsolved   Mysterious Woman Hunted as Slayer

to Identity Killing, Given y of—Murder of  omat’s Wife Hill Unsolved

ALLIES DRIVE. BACK ATTACK OF THE NAZIS   British and Canadians Cement Positions Below Caen

TANKS CLASHING IN PARIS DRIVE   British, Canadians Smash ed Nazi Counter-Attack In Driving Rain

MUD HAMPERS ALLIED DRIVE TOWARD PARIS   MENACE TO VIMONT IS CHECKED BY ROMMEL

Allies Secure Hold  Five Miles Below Caen   Montgomery’s Forces Capture. Village of Monts Three And A Half Miles From Center Of Villerehacace

MUD MIRES MAIN ORWE TO PARI   Allied Infantry Cement Positions Below Caen   SMASH COUNTERATTACK   Enemy Thrust Develops Near  §t. Martin De Fontenay,  South of Caen

Allies Smash Back Nazi  Counterattack   Rain, Mud Mires Main Drives Aimed at Paris

Allied Infantry Cements Hold  In Caen Sector   Nazi Forces into Slow Retreat; Mud Boge Drive Toward Paris

Allies Smash Back Nazi  Counterattack Rain, Mud Mires  Weiw Pintwae   Rain, Mud Mires Main Drives Aimed at Paris

German Atfacks Near Caen Fail   Mazis Using Tanks in Bitter Battle

Maj. Andrews Heads Photo Group   Determining Enemy Bomber Losses - Former N. U. Back Is Veteran Of 80 Missions

RED FORCES REACH BUDAPEST LIMITS      Communique Tells of Clamping Vice on Hun-  garian Capital:

Soviets Clamp Budapest Vise, Surge to West   Reds Report Enemy Losse:  OF Men, War Materials Messen UEsstecee Dales

BUDAPEST IS ALL BUT SURROUNDED BY RED FORCES   Only 10-Mile Opening in Steel Ring—Last. Rail Escape Lines Leading Westward From City Cut.   12,000 ENEMY TROOPS SLAIN IN FOUR DAYS   Other Soviet Units Surge Westward in Southern Czechoslovakia Toward Vienna and Bratislava.

RUSSIANS CUT NAZI LINE OUT OF BUDAPES}   Reds Within 10 Miles Of Encirclement Of City

SOVIETS DRIVE 10 EDGE OF BUDAPEST   Cut Last Railway Escape Routes to the West From Hungafian Capital; Push Toward Vienna Continues

REDS DRIVESEA AND AIR TO LIMITS GF BOMBARDMENT BUDAPESTOF INO JIMA

Nazi - Hungarian Forces Defending City Have Only A Pathway To Escape

RUSSIANS DRIVE TO OUTSKIRTS OF CAPITAL CITY   Last Railway Escape Route Westward From Budapest Cut By Reds   THOUSANDS OF DEAD ENEMY TROOPS SEEN

eaves From War Correspondents Notebook  Doolittle Is Flier’s Flier

The New A-26 Invader Most Versatile U. S.-Built Attack Bomber In Action

Europe Hard Hit Tuesday.   New Record Number O: Planes Leave Britain

AIR AND RAIL DEFENSES HIT BY BOMBERS   Behind Atlantic Wall 5500 Tons of Bombs Dropped from 3500 Allied Planes, 1 ase 13 Planes.   Fleven Targets

4,000 WARPLANES ATTACK INVASION DEFENSES OF FOL   Fleet Sent Against Airdromes  and Rail Yards Probably Greatest Ever to Cross Channel.   POINTS IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM BLASTED   ‘Some Targets Behind Atlantic - Wall—Yanks Lose 6 Bombers and 7 Fighters in Forenoon.

CONCORD ARC. SOUCTORS      Given Instruction Regarding Collection of Concord’s Quota of $34,000 _

BATTLE EXPECTED ON PRICE CONTROL   Roosevelt May Have tc Use Veto Power to Prevent Revisions

OPA Storm Is Brewing In Congress   CAPITOL WEATHERVANE INDI. CATES PRESIDENTIAL _VETC FOR PROPOSED CHANGES I PRICE CONTROL PROGRAM.   Rent Controls under Fire

PRICE CONTROL BATTLE LOOMS   Fight in Congress for Re. visions of OPA Pro. gram Expected

New Fight Seen On Price Control   Veto May Follow Move:  To Revise Program

Price Control Conflict Looms   FDR's Veto May Bc Used  To Save Stabilization

OPA CONTROLS FACING CRISIS   Capitol Storm  Foreseen Involving Congress  And White House

ALLIES KEEP UP ATTACKS ‘ON SCHOUTEN   Americans Slugging Way Through Jungle Lines In New Guinea

Gen. Somervell Says Bluntly That U, S, War Program Is Falling Behind Schedule

300,000 New Workers i in U.S. Sought   Victory Yet to Be Won. Gen. Somervell Tells  Manufacturers

SLOW UP NOW WILL ADD 10 GUST IN DEAD   ‘Somervell Says 27 Per Cent   of War Supply Program : Behind Time.

Gen. Somervell Pleads for 300,000 Additional Workers Immediately   Munitions Are Not Being Made As Fast As They Are Being Used

NATION NEEDS 300,000 MORE WAR WORKERS   Somervell Says Munitions Used Faster Than Made

PLY CHIEF EGS FOR MORE JAR WORKERS    To Save Lives On Battlefront

300,000 More Workers Needed in War Plants, Says Gen. Somervell; Warns Jap War Will Be Biggest

U. S. Needs 300,000 Workers At Once T< Bolster Nation’s Lagging Munitions Outpu

Victory “In Balance” Says Somervell In Stirrmg Plea  For 300,000 New Worker:

Somervell Ple. ~  For Accelerated War Production   300,000 Additional Workers Said Needed To Attain Schedules

3WLB Members Delay Quitting   President Persuades Tris To Continue Service.

Three WLB Members to Remain   Roosevelt Persuades Trio of Public Representatives to Stay on Job   ALL HAD ASKED TO BE RETIRED   Senate Also Speedily Approves Renomination of  War Mohilizer Byrnes

Jap Destroyer Fleet Routed   New Attempt To Aid Biak Foe Thwarted; Ship Probably Hit

ap Flotilla ‘Chased From Guinea Area  Efforts To Sneak In Supplies Fails

Japs Are Again Foiled In Move To Reach Biak   Allied Navy Intercepts Five Nip Destroyers and Chases Them For Hour

Ja Hotilla ‘Chased From Gaines Area  Efforts To Sneak Tee Cie iine Enile

Hunt Arsonist in Fire; Seven Dead   Chicago Pélice Sift Apartment Blaze

TORCH SET TO FRONT AND REAR OF APARTMENTS   "‘6cores Of Children And Women Sealed Inside Burning Building   @0 SAVED BY FIREMEN   Six Extinguishers Missing From Regular Niches . In Structure

FLAMES KILL 7, HUNT FIREBUG   More Than 60 Carried tc Safety by Firemen

JAPS STRIKE BACK AT MACARTHUR'S BEACH-HEADS, B-2$ BASES ON SAIPAN   Enemy Makes Claim Of Heavy Casualties

Russ StaFt HugeFir 8) in   Bombers Pave Way for New Offensive by Red Army

RED AIR FORCE -PAVES WAY FOR NEW OFFENSIVE   Six Military Trains With Troops And Ammunition Set A firo

Red Airmen Paving Way For Offense   Six Military Trains Loaded With Troops Fired in Lwow Raid

LWOW IS FIRED BY RED AIRMEN   Soviets Lining Up Forces For New Offensives

201 enemy aircraft destroyed and over 50 others damaged   Americans lose 17 planes; seven additional ships hit

Seven: Other Vessels Probably Seat To Bottom in Attack on Ennis Great Island Base in Pacific -

U. S. Fleet Sinks 19 Japanese Ships Destrovs 201 Planes In Truk Attack

Other Heavy Damage Done At Bastion, Nimitz Says   ‘Partial Settlement? For Dec. 7,194.1, Raid On Pearl Harbor,  Commander Aesertc   ENEMY SURPRISED, RAID LASTS 2 DAYS   Two Light Cruisers, Three Destroyers Sunk, Seven Ships Damaged

DAMAGE Al TRUK HEAVY SAYS NIMITZ   ‘Partial Settlement” Of Pearl Harbor Debt Is Made With 19 Ships Sunk, 261 Planes Destroyed.  30 Years Work

7 More Jap Vessels Probably Sent Down; 50 AircraftDamaged   Nimitz Attributes Victory at Enemy’s Lagoon Base to Surprise; Reports 17 Bombers, BRiohterc Lact 1 Naval Unit Hit

201 Enemy Planes Destroyed And Other Damage Wrought By Fleet   PARTIAL REVENGE FOR PEARL HARBOR BLOW

Nimitz Reports Partial Payment For Pearl Harbor   201 Enemy Planes Destroyed in Raid

Partial Settlement For Pearl Harbor Blow Made   Two Cruisers Sent Down By American Bombers And Warships; No Capital Ships At Bastion When Yanks Struck

PICKUP MAIL PLANE CRASHES INTO TREE   Pilot and Mechanic Are Seriously Injured

DIES, WINCHELL EXCHANGE BARBS   CONGRESSMAN SAYS COLUMNIST IS TOOL OF SINISTER FORCES

Dies, Winchell Exchange Personal Jibes After Acid Air Accusation:

Feud Goes On — And On  Dies, Winchell ‘Tell More +Lies About Each Other’

WINCHELL BIDS DIES TO MORE ‘LIE’ SWAPPIN(   Congressman Says He'd Have to Gx Some io Beat Commentator, Af ter Acrid Aerial Exchange

DIES ANSWERS SMEAR ARTIST   Charges Winchell Heads Ef. fort To Undermine Congress

Winchell-Dies Swap Acid Words   Exchange Classic Cracks in Unexpected Meeting

PRE-WAR TRADE POLICIES WILL NOT BE DROPPED   Britain Says Empire Pre ference Plan Will Not Be Abandoned

Nazis Express Concern Over Soviet Assault South of Lwow   ‘Attacks Growing Heavier By the Hour’, Hitler's Paper Says

Hitler Press  Appr ehensive    Over Red Push   ‘Fuehrer’s Newspaper Says Soviet Attacks Growing Heavier Day By Day  i And Hour By Hour   Russiaus Racing — Toward Rumania   Last Westward Rail Con.  nection For Germans  Battling In Seuthern Ru<sia Severed

Nazis Show Alarm Over Red Drive   Apprehensive Of Giant Offensive In Lwow Sector

Hitler's Paper Asserts Climax _ Of War At Hand   Odessa- Warsaw Rail  Line Cut As Reds ' Race To Rumania

Germans Are Worried By Great Russ  Drive South   Berlin Calls It Final Attempt To Annihilate Nazi Army

CAPITAL EXPECTS FRENCH MISSION   Group Will Discuss Lend-Lease and Part of France in Pacific

Red Forces _ Are 7 7 Miles  From Silesia.   ‘Patriots Are Reported “To Have: Seized Control ’ Of Heart-of Warsaw

REDS EXPLOIT BREAK - THROUGH ALONG VISTULA   Russians Are Now Within 37 Miles Of Poland’s Fifth Largest City   HEART OF WARSAW HELD BY PATRIOTS

TANK UNITS ARE 77 MILES FROM SILESIA   Spectacular BreakThrough Endangers Last SBastion Barring  Invasion of Reich.   POLES CAPTURE HEART OF WARSAW   First White Russian -Army Locked in Fierce Struggle With Enemy East of Polish Capital.

REDS FANOUT BEHIND NAZIS OVER VISTULA   POLISH PATRIOTS CAPTURE HEART OF WARSAW

Polish Patriots Seize Heart Of Warsaw; Nazi Morale Cracking Rapidly      Germans Announce New Soviet Smash Toward Carpathian Gateway To Czechoslovakia

Surging Reds Widen Break   Kefugees Report Great Panic inside Menaced East Prussia

Russians Exploit Vistula Crossings   Red Van Only 37 Miles From Vital Krakow

Red Forces Sweep Close To Krakow   Soviets Are Within 77 Miles of German Silesia: Poles Seize Heart of Warsaw

SOVIET DRIVE NOW CLOSING IN ON KRAKOW   Vistula Bridgeheads Expanded As Reds Surge Ahead

Russians endanger  Krakow  Tank tinned nnits   Tank tipped units  drive nazis hack

Soviets Sweep Southward in Major Push   Drive to Within 37 Miles of City of Krakow

Vistula River Line of the Germans Is Shattered  HEART OF WARSAW HELD BY PATRIOTS  Surge Toward - Krakow Threatens German Forces

175,000 Germans Trapped by Reds  Nazi Troops Face Certain Death Or Cantire In Ilkeninian Packate

175,000 NAZIS FACING THREAT OF STARVATION   Liberation of Entire Southern Russia  Is Predicted

f Reich’s Finest  ‘ace Annihilation  pr of 175,000   aptured German Officer Reveals to Russians That Soldiers in Cherasky Trap Are Getting But One Meal a Day   -APTURE OF JUNCTION SEALS FIVE DIVISIONS

Reds Wiping Out Trapped Nazi Units   Further Tighten Noose About Remnants Near  Cherkasy

75,000 MORE NAZI TROOPS IN RED TRAP   Five Divisions Encircled at Niko pol, Bringing Total Trapped to  Near 175.000   JUNCTION TAKEN   Seven German Divisions Routed ir Four Day, 37 Mile Drive—All South Russia Nears Freedom

Soviets Trap Another Body of Nazi Foes   Five Divisions at Nikopol Encircled Facing Destruction

Narva, 3 Mis. Tn Estonia, Entered By  Russian Ar my   Five More German Divisions Encircled At Nikopol Being Cut To Pieces

AALS £PUuGps PinnedinNew  Dnieper Trap Total of 175,000 Facing  Death or Capture in 2  Ukrainian Pockets   RAIL LINE SEALED;   Russian Troops Capture Key Junction West of — Nikopol

MORE DIVISIONS CAUGHT INTRAP   Tighten Noose Around Remnants of 100,000 Others Encircled °

5 New Nazi Divisions In Red Noose   “Order! bo Fight — Vo Last, 175,000 Face Certain Death

Jap-Held Port ls Devastated   Harbor Area and Shipping in River Reported By Chinese as Disastrously Hit; Jap Agency Admits B-24 Raid but Minimizes Damage

Heavy Fighting Rages Along Road to Ormoc   Filipino Guerrillas Disrupt Enemy’s Movement Freedom

Civil Supply Of Penicillin   Distribution Through 1,000 Hospitals Set Up Through WPB

TEMPOIS INCREASING   Foreign Policy To Play Bigger Part from Now On

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World: News ‘Today.   Tangiers Call Conference,

Friends Conduct Campaigns for Men Serving Overseas; Sam Rayburn Wins

Army Captains In Texas Election  One Wins Congress” Seat: Another Close

Army Captains Provide Texas Primary Fights      Lone Star Congressional Incumbents Battle With Officers Overseas

ACCUSED AS JAP AGENT   FBI Says Corporal Did Not Notify State Department.

War Production Pace Stepped Up   Krug Says Plants Getting New Workers

LAG IN ARMS PRODUCTION I$ BEING LIFTED   PECONVERSION MAY BE DELAYED BY WAR NEEDS

Reconversion Retarded by Pacific \ War   Army Makes Revisions In Cutbacks for V-E Day

NEW PLANTO TU PRODUCE SHELLS   ‘Armament Task to Retard  ~ Reconversion Plans; Cam ~ paign Get Production up Makes Progress

FIGHTING ON BURMA FRONT ON INCREASE   AMERICAN, BRITIGH AND CHIN ERE PFORCES STRIKING  : BACK FURIOUSLY AT  {JAPANESE JUNGLE  UNITS

Allied Infantry Columns Inflict Heavy Casualties On Nipponese Patrols

ALLIES GAIN NEW GROUND IN BURNA   Japs Blunder Into Traps and Suffer Heavy Losses

Allied Columns Making Progress In Burma Drive   American, Chinese, Ant British Troops Push Ahead Against Japanese

Opponents Of Argentina's Break With Axis Gain Control Of Government At Buenos Aires

NEW REVOLT STAGED IN ARGENTINA   Vice President Is Placed In Power By Pro-Axis Group

Argentina s President Is Forced Out   Vice President Is Named New Chief of State

Argentine ArmyOusts Ramirez   Ultra Nationals: Officers Force Resignation, Anc Seize Control.

FORCE RAMIREZ TO RESIGN POST AT POINT OF GUN   Revolt Keeps President From Announcing New. Liberal Government

CIVILIAN PRODUCTION MUST BE SECOND TO  WAR GOODS---NELSON   Donald M. Nelson Would Not Hesitate to Cancel Steps to. Restore Civilian Production

War Factors _ Delay Goods  For Civilians   WPB Chief Testifies on Reconversion Problems Of War Plants

SOVIETS  PUSHING BEYOND CERNAUTI_ON ONE FRONT :1: WHILE OTHER 8PEARHEADS CLOSE on‘ - ODESSA

SOVIET FORCES PUSH BEYOND CERNAUTL =   Spearheads 15 Miles From Czechoslovakia and North Rumania 

FORC PUSH BEYOND CERNAUTI   Spearheads 15 Miles From Czechoslovakia and North Rumania

NEW LANDING ON ISLE IN ADMIRALTIES   Americans Now On Main. Island; Near Airfield

Capture of Base Provides Yanks With Great Range   Fighting Goes On In Bougainville Area;  Nips’ Attack Repulsed

Lapture of Airfield Would be Big Loss to Nips   Attack is Made With Only “Minor  I neene”’ in Vanke

Yanks Land on Principal Isle In Admiralties   Fight to Within Half Mile of Jap Airfield

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE ON MANUS ISLE   Fight Way to Within Half Mile Of Jap Airfield

YANKS PUSH ON IN NEW LANDING ON ADMIRALTIES   Inyade Manus, Within Half Mile of Vital  Adirdrome

Occupy Principal Admiralty Island -—Trosps Quickly Fight Way to Within Half Mile of Main Japanese Base.

British Shells Hit Monastery   Concentration of Fire Probably Greater Than When Allies Opened Drive

azis Are [Thrown ‘rom Positions At outh of the Liri   erican Warriors Fight Way Into Castellonorato, Heavily Fortified Town Less Than Four Miles From Formia   LENCH CONTINUE SPECTACULAR ADVANCES

British Guns Pour Screaming Mass Of Shells into Cassino Monastery

Princess Elziabeth Becomes of Age, But Royal Fanfare Is Dispensed With

B00 PRISONERS STAY IN GELLS   Action By “Warden Follows In Wake of Outbreak of Rehellion.

Shakedown Of Prison Inmates  Is Ordered   Prisoners Are Kept In Their Cells Pending Fixing Of Blame For Trouble At Waupun

Investigation Ordered fo Find Instigators of Riots at State Prison

2 RED MEDALS PRESENTED HULL   American Servicemen Gain Recognition In War Against Hitler

22 HURT, MANY DAZED WHEN TRAINS COLLIDE   Commuters Hurled To Floor In Philadelphia Crash

22 INJURED IN A TRAIN WRECK   Five-car Train Carrying 350 Persons in Philadelphia Crash

COMMUTERS’ TRAIN CRASHES, 22 HURT   haetetseemeencmiin _amael  Hundreds Dazed as Brakes Fail in Philadelphia

Train Crash In Station — Injures 22   Philadelphia Local Crashed Into Standing Cars

 22 Injured in  Train Collision   Hundreds Of Others Dazed When One Crashe: Into Rear Of Another.

Many In jured In Commuters’  Train Wreek   Trainman Says Brakes Failed as Train Slowed Down

22 PERSONS ARE HURT IN TRAIN WRECK   Hundreds of Others Are Dazed When a Commuters’ Local Crashes Into Parked Coaches in Philadelphia Station.

Twenty-Two Injured in  Train Wreck  Feira "Terew LI LJta   Moving Trian Hit One Parked In Phila Station

McKellar Asks Senafe To Oust IVA Chairman   Senator Charges Lilienthal Made Private Contracts

Town In East Prussia Given Un By Nazis   Germans Say Reds Pouring Forces Into Drive

Russians Take — Border Towns   GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF EAST PRUSSIAN CITIES

Advance 5 Miles, Fan Out Toward Rich Rhine Area   Fanatical Counter Attacks Beaten Off As Infantrymen Break Through North Of Aachen; Two-Way Drive Starts To Clear Up Antwerp.

INFANTRYMEN ‘PUSH TOWARD ~ RHINE VALLEY   Robot Tanks Attack; Flamethrowers   Used by Yanks

Po werful Elements of Uo S First Army  Swarm  hrough Breach   Attacks Continue Against Va rving Nazi Resistance as Vlen and Armor Seek to Outflank Ruined Stronghold of Aachen

British Navy Aiding Slavs   Enemy Shipping And Installations Raided

Navy Ace Clears Up Unfinished Work   Flier Refuses Transfer Home for Jap Fighting

BITTER AERIAL DUELS FEATURE LATEST RAIDS   Allied Bombers And Fight ers Encounter Skilled Nazi Fliers   GERMAN FACTORIES ARE GIVEN POUNDING

Twin Attacks by Air  Made on Nazis   Units Operate From Italy and Britain Bases

LOSSES OF UL 8. FORCES INCI ine: ‘AL BIG BOMBERS   Craft Based in England and  Italy Strike Simultane ously at Nazi Air- — craft Factories.           FOUR-HOUR STRUGGLE FOUGHT BY ONE GROUP      Enemy Uses Rockets ‘and  Sends Up Heavy Anti.  Aircraft Fire—Air— Fields Blasted.

British Based Planes Strike in Coordination  London Is Target of Nazi Raiders:

F ighter Plane Plants Target In Deep Raids      41 Big Planes Based  In Britain Are Missing,  Escorts Down 58 Nazis FIRST DEAT. ASSATITT

GREATEST FORCE OF ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST MESSERSCHMITT FACTORIES, WHILE GERMAN-HELD PORTS ARE ATTACKED.

LIUCHOW BA IN EAST CHINA LOST 10 JAPS   Destroyed, Evacuated By Yanks As Japanese Columns Advance 

Yanks Evacuate Luchow Airbase  In Eastern China   Loss Virtually Pushes 14th. Airforce Back To Field At Kunning

U.S. Airmen Blow Up Liuchow Base Ahead Of Enemy   ATC Made 44 Trips In Bad Weather To  Ewacuate Mean

14th Air Force Loses No.  Base  In East China   Field Destroyed When Japs Advance Within Three Minutes Of It

OCCUPATION OF YUNNAN SUCCESSFUL   Chinese Troops Mop up Trapped Japs; May Use  Portion of Burma Road io Move Supplies. hs   Strong Roadblock

13 From State Killed in Action   Names of 2818 Are Listed in Washington

LIBERATION FOR BELGIANS ENDS; GERMANS BACK   Their Freedom From Nazi Slavery All too Short, They Resent Re. sent Return of “Masters”

Retreat Jams Roads to Rear   Tiny Nation Fears Conaqueror’s Heel

oreo QUIZ OF NOMINEES   Hearing Marked by Verbal Clash Between MacLeish and Clark .   INTO CLOSED SESSION

More Than 3,000 Bombers Pour Destruction Into Nazi Ranks to Open Allied Offensive

OVER 3,500 BOMBERS PAVED WAY FOR DRIVE   Westwall Troops, Defense Pounded In ‘L’ Shaped Area

3,500 Bombers Support Opening Of New Offensive   Rhine Approaches Blasted For Five Hours By Armadas

3,500 Planes Pound Nazis For 5 Hours   13,000 Tons Dropped— Heavier Than at Caen  Or St. Lo

eee ii SUES a) ees  ‘Approaches To the Rhine River ‘Are Blasted by 3,500 Bombers  

3.000 Big Bombers Open Offensive   Greatest Air Fleet Of Wat Blasts Rhine Road

3,500 BOMBERS JOINED IN DRIVE   Approaches To Rhine Torn For 5 Hours In Softener

GREAT AIR FLEET CMIASHES NAZIS   More Than 3,500 Bombers Take Part In Allied Of fensive

3,500 Planes Blast Path For Troops      Fleet Greatest — Ever To Go'Into A Single Action

Planes Pace Reich Drive   3500 Big Bombers Pave Way for Ike’s Great Winter Push

THOUSANDS OF BOMBERS AID SROUND UNITS   Greatest Air Fleet Ever To Go Into Single Action In Support of Army Blasts  Rhine Approaches   13,000 TONS DROPPED

Halsey Gets What He Wanted-Fleet   May Even Now Be Taking Fleet Into Action In Pacific

ADMIRAL HALSEY IN NEW SCRAPPING JOB   Named Commander of 3rd Fleet Under Orders to Operate in Pacific.

Miscellan y Roundup At Washington   Nazi Captives Decided Peanuts No Allied War Aid

JAPS HANDED — SETBACKS ON TWO ISLANDS   ENEMY FORCES SPLIT ON NEW GUINEA AND NIPS.ON GUAM POCKETED IN 20. MILE AREA

} mericans Split Remnants Of Jap 18th Army In New Guinea Into Three Groups

JAP FORCE IN NEW GUINEA IN 3 GROUPS   Yank Attacks Split Up Units of Enemy in That Sector

Germans Strive to Keep Bulgaria in Axis; Troop Withdrawal Begun, Report   Re VMADE WERNER

PUSH JAPS BACK ON BURMA FRONT   Nips Continue to Suffer From Widespread Air Blows.

British Push Nip: South In Burma   Jap Radio Reports Allied Air Raid On Iwo Jima Yesterday

FUTURE OF SEDITION CASE MAY HINGE ON LEGAL PRECEDENTS   Government Trying Te Find Way To Keep 7Month Trial Going

Subsidy Dill Amendments  Would Relax Wage Control  Pepper Also To Ask Boosting of Benefits For Dependents  Of Men in Service  ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL   ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL PASSAGE CONCEDED

Pepper Seeks Relaxing of  Wage Control:   Action Follows Senate Blow At Subsidy Bill

Food Subsidy Backers Plan  New Tacties   Senator to Seek to Bring Wage Issue Into Bankhead Bill

SUPPORTERS OF SUBSIDIES SEE SENATE. DEFEAT   Clique Pinning Hopes or Veto by President Roosevelt

Ban on Consumer Subsidies Looms   Sen. Pepper Plans Change in Tactics

Pepper Would Lift Wage Lid If Ban On Subsidies Wins  Clark Wants Senate To Abolish Food ‘Support Prices’ Too

SUPPORTERS OF SUBSIDIES SEE SENATE DEFEAT   Administration Group  Depending Upon Veto , By Roosevelt   TAFT’S COMPROMISE 18 ROUNDLY BEATEN

Pepper Warns Subsidies Ban To Hike Cost:   Bankhead Bill Opponents See Veto Only Barrier * To Erasing Payment«

Senator Pepper to Urge Relaxation of Formula Limiting Wage Increases

CONGRESS SET TO. VOTE SUBSIDY BAN   Senator Pepper Plans Bills -¢toRelax: Wage - Controle

152 PLANES ARE DESTROYED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Airfelds And War Plants Of Germany And Romania Are Battered   RAF RAIDERS OVER TARGETS LAST NIGHT

RAF Goes Out After Great Raid by Day   Luftwaffe Suffers Heavy Losses From Invading Planes

BRITISH BLAST AT KARLSRUHE, MUNICH AREAS   RAF Follows Up Day: light Attack by 3,000 Planes

Karlsruhe. And Munieh Main Targets   Night Raids Follow 3.000-Plane American Daylight Blow Monday  LGSSES ARE HEAVY

War Industries Blasted and Over 100 Planes Shot Down  ATTACKS ARE/ ARE MADE _.. FROM_.TWO__BASES.  Allied Aerial Assault Continues Into the Night

Germans Are Bled For 152   “Nazi War Industries Over Wide Areas Pounded Hard

Hitler’s Aerial Strength Bled  in Air Assaults   100 Nazi Aircraft Are Shot Down and War Industries Are Raked in Powerful Attacks by Over 3.000 Planes

Follows Up 3000-Plane Dual Blow Bagging 152 German Aircraft, AtLoss of 38 Bombers, 17 Fighters

Mighty RAF raid strikes at two cities  U.S. airmen get 152, nazi planes

Daylight Raid On Reich Nets 152 Aireratt   Night Attack Follows Two-Way Blow by Over 3,000 Planes; Munich Is Objective

Karlsrhue And Munich Targets Of Night Attack   At Least 1000 Big Bombers Strike After Great Day Raid

RAF Off on Night Raid — Over Reich      British AVI Ou. ry * perial nivaffa. OF -" Continent Into.  Checamsh Meee UE

War Industries Blasted and Over 100 Planes Shot Down  ATTACKS ARE MADE FROM...TWO_ BASES Allied Aerial Assault Con tinues Into the Night

52 Nazi Planes hot Down or iton Ground   Two-Way Aerial Raids Continue

BOMBERS MAKE TEAM RUN AWAY   Farmer Advised to Take Off Blinders

Magerstonian About italy ; ; Big Shipment Of Christinas  Packages Arrives In Italy

Hagerstonian About italy — a Big Shipment Of Christmas Packages Arrives In Italy  of De Oe

PLANES CLEAR INVASION PATH      Over 2,000 Craft Blast Way For Allied Airborne Landing in Holland

2,000 PLANES CLEAR PATH FOR LANDING   Of Air-Borne Troops By Blasting Enemy Gun Sites, Flak Towers and Airports.   Railroad Stock

More Than 2,000 Planes Clear Path for . Landings —   BOULOGNE RAIDED BY RAF BOMBERS   Rail Yards. and Refineries  Neor Budapest Also hd sa

ESCORT VESSEL ~ DOWNED BY SUB   First Such Ship Reported Sunk During War

Benefits for Veterans: Senate-House Committee Agrees To $2,500 Loans To Build Homes

GI Loan Limit Set at $2,500   House-Senate Also Agree On 2 Pet. Interest

Reach Agreement On Veteran Loans   Conference Puts  Limit at $2500

$2,900 LOANS TO SERVICEMEN   Veterans Can Borrow Money To Buy Property At Low Interest

Bricker Makes Kentucky Vote Bid Tomorrow   Roosevelt and Dewey te Face Mild Challenges This Week in Race ¢ to Gain Support

Mild Challenges Are Faced By FD. R., Dewey   State Conventions This Week Will ’ Show U. S. Trends

More States To > Pick Delegates ‘To Conventions   Kentucky, Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, South Carolina To Vote

BRICKER HOPES KENTUCKY WILL OFFER SUPPORT  BIDS FOR SHARE OF  DELEGATES TO BE NAMED TOMORROW

FDR AND DEWEY HOLDING LEAD IN DELEGATE VOTE   Dizzy Pace Being Set by Backers of Respective Candidates in Getting Votes

Roosevelt And Dewey, Top Runners In Presidential Battles Face Mild Challenges This Week; Bricker Hopes For Gain

Jap Defenses on Guam Weakened  Island Undergoes Naval, Air Attack

Eleven Days Of Assaults Rounded Ou   Former U. S. Base Believed Prepared For Invasion Move.

Ameriean Attacks Weaken Guam And Rota Detenses   Assaults Carried Out On Jap-Held Bases Without MenAssaults Carried Out On Jap-Held Bases With Seant Ground Fire And No Interception;

PLYMOUTH CO. BETTEROFF THAN ~— MOST-CLAMPITI   In Some. Parts They Are Using: Potatoes For - Animal Feed

~ MOST-CLAMPIT   In Some Parts They Are Using Potatoes For Animal Feed

JAPS REPORT NEW - AIR RAID ON TOKYO   Says Only Few Incendiaries Wore Dropped—Callis Attacks “War of Nerves.”

STETTINIUS -REORGANIZES DEPARTMENT   New Post Created: White House Liaison

BRITISH FORCED ~ BAGK IN INDI   ALLIES RETREAT BEFORE FIRES SET BY JAPS EAST OF THREATENED IMPHAL.

Japanese Fire  Jungles, Rout Allies in India   ‘British Supplying Imphal By Air After City  on i 

British, Indian Troops Withdraw East of Imphal   Fires Set in Tinder-dry Jungle by Japs Rout Allied Soldiers

FIRES DETER ADVANCEMENT IN BURMA      linder-dry Jungle Ignited By Japs Forces British And Indian Troops To Withdraw Onto Mainpur Plain.   Hundreds of Sorties

Carefully Set Jungle Fires Force Allies  in India to Retreat.   900 Japs Are Killed in Week of Hard Fighting: Allied Troops Perish as They Seek tc Escape Through Flames

JAPS GAIN IN IMPHAL AREA   Set Fires in Dry Jungle to Force Allied Troops To Withdraw

J apanese-Set . F ires in Jungle  Thwart Allies   Foree Defenders Back In Battle for Imphal: Jangnezse Losces Heavy

Jap-Set Fires in Indian Jungles Force British Imohal Defenders to Withdraw

TWO NAZI ARMY COMMANDERS IN RUSSIA FIRED   Reports from Eastern Front Indicate Changes  Involving Two High OVEL nave

BORDEAUX IN HANDS OF FRENCH FORCES   British Reveal Fate of Port Reach ed by Americans and English Troops.

. BAD WEATHER JINXES AIRMEN   r Vienna Suburbs Raided From Italian Bases

Yank Bomb Sights Pointed Toward 10 Different Areas; Bag Freighter, Other Craft

Sweeping Raids Are Continued In Pacitic Area   Gen. MacArthur Announces At Least Ten Different Jap Areas Hit

‘Democratic Invasion Of Primary May Give Penna. ‘Campaign Old-Time Zip

 DEM. INVASION OF GOP PRIMARY TOCREATE FIGHT   Spring Campaign Will Be Full of Partisan Polities, Speeches; Fight Pointed at Ex-Governor James   JUDGESHIP RACE

Invincibility Myth At Truk Exploded   owiit And Varing U. >. Thrusts Lay Bare Jap Defenses And Show Cause Of Enilite

Navy Explodes Myth of Truk’s Invincibilify   Bastion’s Principal Weak ness Is Lack of Supporting Air Bases

Reds Pushing Along Gulf  Of Finland   Reich Kirgisepp, Gate te Reach Kingisepp, Gate of  Reported in Bend

NEAR BALTIC GATEWAY IN DRIVE WEST   Berlin Announces New Soviet Drive In Dnieper Bend *

RUSSIAN FORGES NEAR GATEWAY TO. BALTICS   Govorov’s Army Approaches Kingisepp: Passes Veimarn

Gateway to Baltic Near Fall fo Russ   Kingisepp Menaced as Army Pushes Ahead in Bitter Cold Weather

Russian Troops — Reach Baltic Gate   Pushing Rapidly West From Leningrad Alona Gulf of Finland

RED ARMY SWEEPING TOWARD ESTONIAN FRONTIER MONDAY  SOVIET FORCES REPORT  SOVIET FORCES REPORTED WITHIN FEW MILES LAST RAIL STATION

Russians Reach Baltic Gateway After Hard Push   Red Troops Have Pushed Rapidly West From City

Russians Only ‘17 Miles From Estonian Border   German Colonists Flee - Baltic States To Escape Onrushing Reds.

Soviets Surge Closer Toward Baltic Gateway   Govorov's Army Reache: Approaches To Kingi. sepp, Which Control: Entry Into Estonia — Big Scale Soviet Attach In Dnieper Bend Re ported.

Reds Pushing Along Gulf   Nearing Gateway to Baltics; Launch Big New Attack In Dnieper Bend

Russians Now Reaching The Baltic Gateway   Govorov’s Army Passes Veimarn 17 Miles From Estonia; Popov’s Troops 60 Miles From Latvia.

Russians Push To Approaches ( Kingisepp   Gen. Govorov’s Army Passes Veimarn, 17 Miles From’ Border Of Estonia.

Russians Reach Baltic Gateway   Push West From Leningrad; Second Pre-Baltic Front Maintained.

RED SOLO BID TO BADOGLIO CLOUDS EUROPEAN ISSUES   Wonder If Soviets Deliberately Avoiding Consultation With U. S. and Britain On European Political _Questions

RED'S ACTION WITH ITALY CAUSES STIR   U. S. And England Puzzled Over  Recognition

RUSSIA BEFOGS ITALIAN PICTURE   QUESTION LIKELY TO BE DISCUSSED BY U. S., BRITAIN

Stalin’s Action Raises Question   Wonder if Soviets Are Deliberately Avoiding Consulting Allies

Couneil Ignored  By Russian Move  Stettinius Is Likely To Discuss Situation

Russian Recognition Of Badoglio Government Will Be Main Topic Of Stettinius London Visit

Raises Question Whether Stalin Is Deliberately Avoiding Consultation With Allies

Ankara Reports Are Cited   Pravda Promises To Publish Furthe: Evidence Of  Negotiations.

No ‘Peace Story’ Passed Cairo Censor; Russ May Have Deiiberately Printed It

Commando Band Cuts Jap Lines In North Burma   Also Smashes Enemy Drive to Infiltrate Their Jungle Airstrip

GLIDER-BORNE COMMANDOS CUT JAPANESE LINES   Enemy Is Frustrated In Attempt To Infiltrate Allied Airstrip      SHOWDOWN FIGHT FOR IMPHAL IS FORECAST

Commandos Cut _Ail Arteries to - Jan Burma Base   Glider-Borne Troop: Sever North-South Communications

Showdown Develops For Impizal   Commandos Cut North, South Communication

COMMANDOS CUT LINES IN NORTH BURMA      fo Smash Enemy Efforts To infiltrate Airstrip Behind Jap Lines; Described As “Battle For Imphal.”   “Wingate’s Raiders”

German Populace In Occupied Area Cooperating With AMG   Four Women Fined, Two Men Held: Nazi Leaders Fled Wiih Reireating Forces

Germans Obey . ~ Allied Command   CIVILIAN POPULACE _ GIVES AMERICANS _ LITTLE TROUBLE

Allies Report Little Trouble With Civilians   First Allied Military Government Set Up in Germany Reports Nazis Cooperating Very Well. —

Reveal Operations of U.S. Military’s Rule Inside Reict   German People Treated Well Although Strict Watch‘is Always Kept

NAZI POPULACE ~ BEHAVES WELL   Stringent Restrictions Fixed By First AMG In Reich

Civilian Violence Lacking as Aaneriquns  a De hte Cannerates With Yanks     Advanee Inside Reich Borders

:Germans Causing Yanks No T rouble; ‘Had Expected Troops To Kill Them

But They Don’t Like Stringent Restrictions, First Time They‘ve Felt War

GERMAN POPULACE REPORTEDLY IN FULL COOPERATION WITH ALLIED AUTHORITIES OCCUPYING TOWNS

GERMAN CITIZENS  COOPERATE WITH  OCCUPATION ARMY CIVILIANS LEANING  OVER BACKWARDS TO OBEY REGULATIONS

First AMG Unit In Germany Finds Reich Citizens Co-Operating Well With Allies

Populace In Occupied Part Of Germany Is Cooperating With AMG; Civilians Orderly   Only Six Tried For Violation Of Strict Laws Of Military Government

Germans Cooperate Well With A. M. G.; Civilians Expected To Be Tortured   Obey Regulations

1. B. EXAMINATION I) PLANNED HERE Al FIVE FACTORS   students Also Will ~ Be Examined by X-Raj Unit to B2 Brought He.

T. B, EXAMINATION PLANNED HERE AT FIVE FACTORIES   Students Also Will ‘Be Examined -by K- Ray: Unit to Bs Brouzht He.e

aetna  LINDBERGH IS GIVEN IMMUNIZATION SHOTS   No Comment on Whether He Will Go Outside USA

Daylight Raiders Sweep Over Channel After British Strike Berlin Again.

FRENCH COAST TARGET AFTER BLOW AT KIEl   Light Attack On Berlin Climaxes Sweep By 3,000 Planes

Soviets Press Nazis As Huge Fleets Of Allied Bombers Batter Europe

‘2d Front’ Coast Ripped Anew; Yanks Smash Kiel; Mosquitoes in Berlin Blow

Millions of Chinese to — Be in Allied Offensive               Allied Bombers Step Up Pre-Invasion Softening of French Coas

KIEL AND MUNSTER FEEL FUL FORCE OF ALLIES” NICHT   Today’s Daylight Raid Carried on By 1,300 American Bombers and Eiahtare.

Mass Exodus Of Berlin’s Millions Told   New Raid on Nazi Capital As Yanks Pound the French Coast

SmashAnew  At 2d Front ~ In France   RED ARMY BNDEAVORING TO rRAP: AbPHOMIMA TILE MILLION NAZIS.  em

‘Record American  Blow Struck At Kiel, Msnster   British Nuisance Raid Made On Berlin To Continue Air Attack

ALLIED BOMBER FORMATIONS HIT FRENCH COAST      Daylight Raiders Sweep Over Channel With Fighter Escort

US. Airmen Pour It on 3 Nazi Bases   Kiel Blasted Again; Bordeaux and Tours Are New Targets

1,250 Planes In Invasion Coast Attack   Yanks Set Great Fires at Kiel and Munster, Nazi War Centers

INVASIO COAST IS BLASTED   Follows Allied Air Biows At Kiel, Munster, Berlin

NAZI, BALKAN CITIES RAKED BY EXPLOSIVES   Kiel and Muenster, Cities in Reich Among Points Hardest Hit by Allied Bombers

Plan Test of Soldier Vote in High Court   Senator Hatch to Submit Plan to Conaress Monday

BALLOT DISPUTE COES 10 COURT   Congress May Seek Test Of Absentee Vote For Armed Forces

Crop Insurance  Bill Approved   75% Coverage Given Wheat, Cotton, Flax

Political Action Committee Strength Is Being Tested 'As Voters In Maine Ballot

ClO Gets Test In Maine Vote   ‘Moore Predicts Nomination of Bricker For  G.O.P. Candidate.

CIO Strength to Be Tested in Maine Vote   Congressional Primary To day. to Show Power of Political Action   DEWEY. FORCES - ~.. MOVE TO CHICAGO   Headquarters Se Set’ Up ag . Bricker Backers. Claim Gains for Ghican:

Maine Voters  Cast Ballots   ClO Political Action Committee’s Strength To Be Tested in State’s Primary

Bulgaria Seals  Turk Frontier   Hungary Apparently Near Internal Collance

Crack-up Looms n Hungary; Traffic Blocked   Swiss Reports Say Austria, Bavaria Are Nearing Crises’

HUNGARY BELIEVED ABOUT TO:CRACK-UP   Neighboring Slovakia ‘Falls Under Control ‘oof Czechs -

Romanians, Bulgarians _  Await Terms   “Slovak: ‘Armed Forces ‘Rapidly: Taking Control In ‘Czechs’ Homeland»  DAT ICANG IN TR MOIT,

Hungary Is On Vere Of New Crackup   Neighboring Balkan States Seek Peace

Hungary Near Crack-up Stage   Report Railway Strikes In Hungary; Country On Verge of General Strike.

President's Signature All That Is Needed To Continue CCC Till July.

LAMAR DRESSES UP AS TRUMAN RETURNS HOME   Missouri Town Ready for Big Party in Honor of Favorite Son

Lamar Is In Party Clothes   Crowds Assemble There Today to Honor Truman,  A Native Son

WFA DENIES FOOD SPOILAGE CHARGE   Replies to G. O. P. Accusatan of Wocte

Soviet Troops Overwhelm, Take Mogilev  Eee Tea ay Amey   German Infantry Division Is Wiped Out

Soviet Troops Overwhelm, Take Mogilev   German Infantry Division Is Wiped Out

Hold President Of Colombia   Vice-President Takes  Reins in Emergency

Negroes, Whites Fight in Flareup In Philadelphia   Trouble Follows Tieup Of Transportation When Employes Quit

Racial Row Ties Up Philadelphia Transportation   Whites and Negraes Clash; Strikers Deaf To Army-Navy Pleas

BLACKS BEAT WHITE MEN IN PHILADEPHIA   Strike of Street Car Employes Ties Up City; Unjust Discrimination Against Whites Alleged.   War Work Hindered

RACE DISORDERS FLARE IN STRIKE   ‘WHITE MEN AND NEGROES CLASH IN PHILADELPHIA TRANSPORTATION TIEUP.

RACE DISORDERS MARK STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA   Groups Of Negroes Attack Auto And Truck Drivers; City Paralyzed   MILITARY OFFICIALS’ APPEALS ARE IGNORED

Race Riots Mark Strike In War-Busy Phila. Area   Police Called Out. ‘To Restore Order.  In Negro Section ‘sd Casnival Clased   ‘ALL TRANSPORTATION HALTED BY WALKOUT

STRIKE IS MARKED BY RACE DISORDER   Fights Rage as Philly Transportation {s Tied Up

REPORT RIOTS IN TRANSPORT SYSTEM TIEUP   Negroes, Whites Clash In Bus, Car Walkout In Philadelphia

\Nafional Farm Safety Week Observed By 4-H Clubs   Awards of Medals, Scholarships, Trips, Bonds ta be Made

HIGHEST AWARD GIVEN TO INDIAN   Congressional Medal Of Honor Issued) Only Twice In Italy

Venue Change In Conspiracy  T rial Refused   Judge Fails to Rule On Ford and _ Lindbergh Subpoena Motion

Defense Fails To Halt Trial . Sedition Case   Federal Jadge -Overrules Motion for Postponement and Change of Venue

Judge Blocks Effort to Halt Saboteur Case   Overrules Motion to Halt Trial; Refuses Chanae of Venue

Hitler Guard Tells of Fuehrer   Relates How Hitler Danced Jig At Signing Of Russian Pact.

Bonomi Chosen [talian Premier   Former Official Succeeds Badoglio

Bonomi Named Italy Premier   Veteran Foe of Fascism Will Ferm Cabinet

IN EFFECT JULY 10   Set Prices on All Used Cars for Duration of War; Examples Are Given Public.

OPA Announces Ceiling Prices  On Used Cars   Price Ceilings Go Into Effect On July 10

PRICE CEILINGS ON ALL USED GAR!   OPA Announces a Maximum Sale Price By Dealers Or In dividuals To’ Become Effective July 10th.

Aerial Assaults Against Japs Over Thousands Oi Miles Of The Pacific Ocean

AIR AND LAND ‘BLOWS STRUCK AGAINST JAPS   BOMBERS BLAST ENEMY BASES FROM. KURILES TO_NEW : GQUINEA—HOLLANDIA’  CAPTURE NEAR

Larry Allen Reports Germany Has Built Strong ‘Second Atlantic Wall In France

‘Hew Pensions For Congressmen Drive Info Open Today   Bilt Into Hopper Along With Raise-in-Pay Measure Far President, Others. .

Congress Starts Pension Drive For Its Members   Leading Figures Support Proposal

Officer Runs Wild, One Person Slain   Reports Are Two Others Killed in Army Camp

ARMY OFFICER SHOT TO END WILD SPREE      One Killed and Two Wounded As He Runs Amuck

Miss Phillips Wins Contest   Chosen as Ardmore’ Representative in Legion Event

Congress Convenes After Its Easter Recess and Faces Some Controversy

BENGAL BAY, MANIPUR HIT BY NIPPONESE   May Hope To Force Diversion From . North Burma

House Votes For Extension  Of Lend-Lease   Curb on FD’s Power Written Into Measure. Which Goes to Senate

VOTES TO EXTEND ~ LEND-LEASE. AID   HOUSE APPROVES, $34 70 21, CONTINUATION OF PRO. GRAM ANOTHER YEAR.

’ House Approves New 22 Billion Lend-Lease Plan   President Must Consult Congress on Making Commitments

HOUSE APPROVES ANOTHER YEAR OF LEND-LEASE      Body Votes 334 To 21 To Put Curb On President ial Commitments

House Approves More Lend-Lease   Curb Put On President's Power To Incur Post War Obligations For Nation.

HOUSE VOTES TO CONTINUE LEND - LEASE   Extension for Another Year Approved by  334 to 21 Vote   CURB IS PLACED ON PRESIDENT’S POWER   Measure Unanimously Approved by Foreign Affairs Committee

Vote by House Adds One Year To Lend-Lease   Senate Receives Measure After Congressmen Put $a ee Penct dank

House Votes To Continue Lend-Lease: Includes Curh On Postwar Oblivations

Jap-Held Kavieng Is Again Raided   Seventeenth Bonb Attack On New Irelani Base In As Many N ghts   ‘SOFTENING-U.?”’ TREATMENT GIVEN

MacArthur Softens New Ireland Isle for Yank Invasion   Jap Rase at Kavieng Hit for 17th Striight Night ty Ra‘ders.

BLAST KAVIENG FOR 17TH NIGHT   Japs’ New Ireland Depot Gets Heavy Pre-Invasion Softening

Another Wallace Protege Out In Washington   Party Leader Blasted Dr. Black Into Quitting

BLACK EXPECTED TO QUIT FEDERAL JOB   Durgan Or Goss Reported In Line As Governor Of Farm Credit Admiuistration

Pointed Announcement.   Black Expected To Leave Post As FCA Governor

NEW SECTION OF COLOGNE TS BLASTED   10,000 Tons of Bombs Hit City In Four Days

MOP UP IN ITALY   IMPORTANT BASE OF PERUGIA NOW IN BRITISH HANDS; 27%,000 NAZI PRISONERS TAKEN IN PAST MONTH.

British Mop Up Nazi Rear-Guard In Perugia; Germans Resume Retreat

ONE AND ONE HALF YEARS WITH JAPAN   After The Defeat Of Germany, The OWI Reports

Victory In East Sure, Will Take About 2 Yrs   Odds Favor Allies. But Plans! Based On Assumption Years Necessary

Allied Military Leaders Believe Jap Defeat Will Not Come Earlier Than Year and Half After Nazi Fall

See Pacific War Lasting 2 Years After Nazi Fall   Despite ‘B-29 Raids Jap Industry Is Fairly Safe

OWI Says Jap Defeat Needs War Of Years   Official Analysis Predicts Minimum Of 112 Years For Victory In Pacific

Hitler Tighten Control Over Balkan States   Rumor Declares Premier Anonescu Of Rumania Summoned By Der Fuehrer,  RID DEFENSE WALL   BUILD DEFENSE WALL

HITLER MOVES 10 TAKE OVER ‘RUMANIA   Maneuvering Swiftly To Tighten Balkan Defense Against Advancing  Riresiang

Balkan Dike:        Bulging Russian Lines‘ Danger of— Engulf Him From East.

Nazis Call - in Premier ~ of Rumania   Hitler Appears Ready “to Saduap Antonescu. as. He Did: Hungarian: Regent    “BRITISH WARNING “tO. THE RUMANIANS   But Nation Is:Not. Likely to e Avoid Abduction;Red Tide Rolls. Near Balkans...

Rumanian Ruler Is Summoned to  See Herr Hitler   There Are Widespread Reports Government to Be  Kidnaped by Nazis.   Country Already Is German Armed Camp

Puppet Regime Rules Hungary; ‘Rumania Next:   Germans Desperately Trying To Bolster Balkan Defenses

HITLER MOVES TO SEAL His BALKAN DIKE   Summons Rumanian Premier for Hearing; British Sound Warning

Rumania Next On Hitler's List   Antonescu May Be Kidnaped by Nazis

HITLER 15 BELIEVED PLANNING T0 KIDNAP RUMANIAN PREMIER   GERMAN ACTION EXPECTED TO FOLLOW CLOSELY THAT TAKEN IN HUNGARY

RULES HUNGARY BY INSTALLING PUPPET REGIME   BULGARIAN RAILWAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS SEIZED BY GERMANS

ANTONESCU 10 BE ABDUCTED?   Hitler Maneuvers ta Streng. then Balkan States Against Russia.   RUMANIANS ARE WARNED

Making Despetate Ef fort to Halt } Hus         ANTONESCU TO BE KICKED OUT

Hitler May Next Kidnap Rumanian Top Officials   Premier Antonescu Is Called Before Adolf  And May Be Kicked Orit

HUNGARY IS NOW HEADED BY QUISLING   Berlin Propagandists Justify New Regime as Counteracting Allied  "Intruques'   SEIZURES IN BULGARIA

Germans Fear Efforts to Make Peace   Premier lon Antonescu Summoned to Appear Before Nazi Chief; British Tell Rumanians to Help Allies or Take Results

Hitler Sets Kidnap Trap For Rumania   Antonescu Repor tedSummoned by Fuehrer: Bulgarian Rails Seized

ABOUT READY TO KIDNAP ANTONESCU.   Developments Show Rumania. To Meet Hungary's Fate

Air-Borne Germans Grab Communicatior System in Bulgariz   Hitler Appears Ready to Kidnap Rumanian Government Next

WOULD CHANGE RULE BUT LITTLE   Hitler Tries to Boost Balkans Against Reds

Moving Fast To Caulk Up Balkan Dikes   Bulging Russian Lines in Danger of Engulfing Him From East

wnfall Of manian te Seen   mier Antonescu ported Called to rman Headquarters

Rumanian Premier Next?   Hitler Believed Ready To Abduct Antonescu As Next Move in Swift Drama of the. Balkans

HITLER SET T0 CRAB RUMANIA   Premier Antonescu Said To Have Been Called By Fuehrer

Hitler Moves. to Grab the Balkans   Appears About to Gain _ Custody of Rumanian:  Government Heads   A CALL TO ANTONESCU   British Radio Broadcasts Warning ta People of : Rumania

Hitler Apparently Is Moving To ‘Kidnap’ Rumanian Government Also

- Paperhanger Plans To Take Over Balkans ‘With Aquisition Of Rumanian Government

Hitler Summons Premier   Méves Swiftly to Firm Control  ‘On Balkan States.

Hitler Installs Puppet Regime In , Hungary; Rumania  May Follow Suit

Rumania Near Seizure by Hun  London Hears      Reports Widespread Pre mier. Antonascu Has Been  Summoned to ‘Hitler to   °° Be Kidnaped-

Nazi Armies Moving Into Balkan States   Saving Nations From Allied Intrigue, Say Berlin Propagandists

Hitler Would ‘Stop Soviets ‘In Balkans ©   Rumania and  Bulgaria Next to Fall in Move for A Defense Wall -

Premier Called to Fuehrer’s (Headquarters; Cabinet Ouster Believed Sure, Occupation Neat

EXPECT MOVE 70 REINFORCE BALKAN LINES   Claim Premier Called To Hitler's Side For ‘Scrutiny

REPORTS SAY HE WILL OUST ANTONESCU   Speculation Is Based or German Suspicions That Premier Was Involved  jn Peace Overtures te  Rucoaia

Rumania Now Facing Fate of Hungary   Hitler Apparently on Eve of Taking Over That Country

wees UPID 2 TE PVE  Armored Columns May Smash Into Reich Before Nightfall.   Well Beyond French Fortress City Of Verdun, Hard-Hitting Yanks Are Believed Close To Frontier: British Near Flanders Fields

BRITISH SHAPE GIANT TRAP IN CALAIS REGION   U.S. Third Army May Push Into Reich By Nightfall If Fast Drive Keeps Up

Casualties Reported Moderate   Marine and Army Units Overcome Strong Onnosition

Marines and Infantry Land as Ship Barrage is at Height; Defenders Putting Up Fierce Opposition

Beachhead Secured at Two Poinis   Japs Are Putting Up Strong: Opposition ‘on Islands They: “.: Have Held 25 Years...   U.S. CASUALTIES 20. -.« “MODERATE SO.PAR.   Invasion Is First. Tried: on: Territory Japs Held Before Pearl: Harbor

wines Land In Roi  bland Area While  Infantry Strikes At  Ywajalein Island

Beachheads Are Established Near Major Strongholds   Early Casualties Moderate Following Long Bombardment

Marines And Soldiers Establish: ___ Beachheads, Admiral Nimitz Renorts

MARINES AND SOLDIERS LAND. ON ATOLLS, TWO YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER FIRST AMERICAN OFFENSIVE IN  “PACIFIC.

Yankees Win Beachheads on Two Islands  Japanese Forces on cos   Japanese Forces Put Up Strong Fight Says Report

Beachheads Established By Troops   Japs Putting  Up Strong Opposition. Losses Moderate

U.S. Forces Establish Beachhead   Yanks Encounter Strong Opposition in Firs! Invasion of Tefritory Held by Japs Before Pearl Harbor; Casualties Moderate

PBeachhead Seized  In Pacific Drive   Invasion Is First Involving Territory Held By The Japanese Before Pearl Harbor; Our Losses Described As ‘Moderate’

BEACHHEADS ESTABLISHED, NAVY REPORTS   Japs Offer Strong Opposition But U. S. Casualties Are Reported Light

YANK LOSSES ARE MODERATE, REPORTS SAY   Beachheads Secured by Invasion Troops in New Offensive

UNITED STATES TROOPS LANDED IN  MARSHALL ISLANDS   Have Established Beachheads  on Roikwajalein Island.   U. S. CASUALTIES LIGHT   Japs Are Putting Up Strong Opposition, Admiral Nimitz Said.

BEACHHEADS ON ISLE SEIZED IN HEAVY BATTLE   Points Near Roi and Kwajalein Are Taken by U. S. Treops

Marines Land In Marshalls    113 Jap Planes Destroyed As Two Beachheads Set Up

Americans Invade  Marshall Islands   First Invasion of Territory Held By the Japanese Prior to Pearl Harbor

American Invasion Forces Strike at — . Heart of Island Chain and Establish . *Beuchheads: Suffer Moderate Losses

Army, Navy Planes, Guns Blast Bases  Wake Island Also Put  ot. 3... ££ gen. 8 Oe iii

First Invasion OfLandHeld by Japan Before Pearl Harbor   ‘Casualties’ Moderate ir Bold Push, Says Nimitz   By MORRIE LANDSRERG  ii inl ee he i ie i A ai

Establish Beachheads Near Roi And Kwajalein Atolls; Casualties Said Moderate

Beachheads Are Established Near Jap Bases On Rot - And Kwajalein   CRACK ENEMY TROOPS IN FIERCE DEFENSE

Marines Take Beachheads   Boldest Stroke in Pacific War Thus Far;  American Casualties Reported Light But Enemy Putting Up Strong Opposition

In Marshalls   113 Jap Planes Destroyed . As Two Beachheads Set Up

sapanese Defenders Put Up Fierce ‘Opposition   Invasion Follows Three-Day Pounding Of Islands by Planes And Ti. S. Naval Unite   Fourth Marine Division. 7th Infantry Division In Action. Nimitz Says

Beachheads Are kstablished in Marshalls   Strong Opposition Is Encountered by Amphibious Forces in Audacious Thrust; U. S. Casualties Reported Moderate

Yanks In Furious Fight For Vital Jap Islands   Nazis Sag In Ttaly

JAPANESE REPORTED PUTTING UP STRONG OPPOSITION THERE   MARINES AND INFANTRY MAKE TWO LANDINGS AND ESTABLISH BEACHHEADS

ROOSEVELT SAYS OUR OPERATIONS. ARE GOING WELL   Marines and Army Units Land on Kwajalein Atoll” Near Two Powerful Enemy Bases. °°:   AMERICAN CASUALTIES REPORTED MODERATE.             Invasion Follows Sea-Air  Bombardment in Which  113 Nipponese Planes Are Destroved. _

Americans Invade Marshall Islands  Beachheads Established  Fie Teun lelae   i  Pearl Harbor, Feb. 1—(AP) —United States troops landed in the Marshall Islands near  Roi and Kwajalein and have actahiichad haarhhaade 

U. S. Troops Land Near Roi, Kwajalein and Establish Beachheads,   ‘CASUALTIES MODERATE

Extra      Americans Invade  Marshall Island:   First Invasion of Territory Held By the  Japanese Prior to Pearl  Harbor -

YANKS STRIKE AT HEART OF ENEMY BASES IN PACIFIC  LANDINGS COVERED BY HEAVY NAVAL AND

NEAR RO, KWAJALEIN   Admiral Nimitz Says Nips Put Up Fierce Fight, but Invaders ‘Establish Beachheads With Blot: erate Losses.

Berlin Says Manchester, In Northern England, Struck By V-1 Bombs

Myitkyina Falls To Allied Forees After Long Siege   Conquest Seen Leading To “~Openisig Of Ledo Roads Guam Airstrip Seized

‘GOP. Solon To Fight Tax Freeze Veto   Adjournment Likely To Be Delayed if Measure Is Rejected

SOCIAL SECURITY TAX HOLDS PAT   Tar Heel Solons Mostly Opposed Change; Senate Considers Freezing Bill Today.

GOPs Want  More Time.            Maneuver: To Keen. Congress On Hand

‘Russians Continue To Gain In Old Poland; Casualties Of Defenders Over 539,000   Germany’s Peril Reported Increasing Steadily As Rec Army Advances Upon Warsaw At Better Than A Mile-An-Hour Clip; Resistance Is Being Divided

Nazis Believed Quitting South Ukraine Positions; Report San Vittore Falls   Offensive in Italy Rages Through Third Day; U. S. Loses 19 Planes in Raid on Southwest Germany as 42 Enemy Craft Are Downed

Kirovograd Encircled  [In Dnieper Bend Puss      Soviets Gain 25 Miles In Three Day Along 62-Mile Front; Bombers Raid Seuthwest Germanw - :

Yanks Secure Southern Part ‘Of Mindoro  In Philippines   Penetrate Six Miles — ‘Past San Jose Town, Jap Yamashita Line  Outflanked on Leyte  YANKS IN BURMA

Americans Push Japanese Back  On Mindoro Isle  Foe Loses 581 Planes In Four Days; Leyte Line Is Outflanked

Russians Score New Successes   Drive Germans Out Of} Key Rail Junction

Govorov’s Troops Driving Toward Estonian Border Day Of Fighting Below Leningrad Costs Nazis 3,800 Casualties, Soviets Report

RUSSIAN ARMY FORCES DRIVE NEAR ESTONIA   Reds 39 Miles from Border Capture Two More Rail Centers

RUSSIANS TAKE KEY TERMINALS   Nazis Meet New Reverses In Lower Ukraine;  Near Estonia

Soviets Surge Beyond Fallen Rail Centers   Heavy Blow Dealt Ger   man Communications By Capture of Volosovo and Tosno —. Leningrad Now. Entirely Out of Danser’:

Soviets Seize. Two Important Rail Jimetion:   Voloseve aiid Tosno Captured In Wake of Victory At Leningrad:  " Near. Estonia City

RAIL TOWNS CAPTURED ‘BY LENINGRAD ARMIES UNDER GEN, GOVOROV   Volosova and Tosno Fall; Leningrad Celebrates Lifting of Siege   STARAYA RUSSA MENACED

‘SEEK-NEW TRIAL FOR KILLER OF 2   Claim Cleveland Slayer Victim of Mass Attack

Heavy Losses Inflicted ‘on Japanese   Bloody Battle Is Developing in Aitape Region

GRECIAN KING MAY ABDICATE IN PEACE MOVE   Meanwhile Fighting Rages With Renewed Fury in Athens

GREEKS RENEW SAVAGE FIGHTING   Week-End Hope For Peace Now Appears Shattered

LONDON HEARS GREEK KING MAY ANNOUNCE ABDICATION   PIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ATHENS DESPITE ATTEMPTS TO REACH AN AGREEMENT

SAVAGE FIGHTS  FOLLOW LULL IN ATHENS BATTLES   Increcscd Tempo of Figi.ting Precludes Se.tlément Hopes

Three-thousand Tons of Bombs Hit the German Capital,  BRITISH LOST 45 PLANES IN RAID  Americans Nearing Ruined Monastery in Italy.

IBERLIN HIT AGAIN IN MOST DEVASTATING RAID OF WAR, 1200 BIG BOMBERS TAKE PART

Berlin Again Hit Hard By The R. A. F.      In Italy New Battle Is Shaping Up On Slopes Of Cassino

£,900 Gallons of Gas a Month for _ Eleanor? Tain‘tSo Says White House

START WORK OF REHABILITATION IN STORM AREA      Dead In Tri-State District 1  Counted At 147, With 1.000 Injured

TRAIN, CARRYING ~ TROOPS, WRECKED   Several Dead ond Many Injured in Tennessee . ’ Disaster

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE  Aeancianted Presa Var Analvat

Today’s War Moves   Main Counter-Attack by Germans Still to Come

Hitler’s Newspaper Quoted As Saying That Success for the Allied Invasion Would “Simply Mean The End.” This is Agreed by the Allied Command and Is Their Aim

County Democrats Bar Mongolians, Malayans, Ethiopians From Convention   Anthropologists Say It'll Take a Solomon to Decide Who Will Vote

Dallas Precincts Bar Negro Voting   Dalias County Demos Make Decision for May 6 Conventions

MORE GAS FIRST TO ‘B’ AND TRUCK   Officials Think Nazi Defeat Also to Benefit Lowly ‘A’ Motorist

"BY MOTORISTS GET PREFERENCE   “A's” May Expect No Early Hoist In Gas Supply After Hun Defeat

War Outlook Unfavorable, Japs Admit   Continuous Pounding Of Guam Reported By Nimitz

NO LET-UP IN U.S. RAIDS ON JAP-HELD GUAM   Setbacks for Orientals on Every Front Except China, Creating Spirit of Pessimism

CLOTHING ITEMS FACE SHORTAGE   Possibility Of Rationing Mav Haunt Country For Months

AIR ATTACKS ON BIG SCALE.  ALONG-COAST   HUGE FORMATIONS ‘OF ALLIED PLANES BLAST TARGETS _ON INVASION COAST AND INLAND BASES’: ‘+

MONETARY MEETING TO END TONIGHT   ‘Signing of Documents All That Remains of 44 United Nations

EXPECT MONETARY MEETING 10 END   Signing of Ducuments for Fund, World Bank Expected Tonight.

Deadly Climax of War Near, Says Churchill   United Nations Striving for Early Victory

VICTORY SOON IS WISH OF CHURCHILL   Tells Premiers of Empire “Most Intense Efforts” Being Made; Solidarity in World Needed.   Two Opinions in India

Churchill Speaks British Premiers   Stresses Unity In Empire As Climax Of Deadly Conflict Nears.

Allies Pressing for Early Victory, Churchill Tells Empire Leaders   ‘In Deadly Climax in Conflict’ Now,  Conference of Premiers Is Informed

rime Minister Says Most Intense Efforts Made To Compel Early Victory   AUSTRALIANS FREED FROM MORTAL PERIL

EMPIRE PREMIERS MEET IN LONDON   Churchill Tells Meet Fear of Defeat Is Past, Intense Efforts Made Toward Early Victory .

LIMAX SEEN BY CHURCHILL   Tells Empire Premiers Defeat in Conflict is No Longer Feared.

Empire Premiers Meet Churchill; Exchange Views   Vital Conference Held in London   By RICHARD R. KASISCHRKE

‘Most deadly climax in the conflict of nations,’ Churchill tells empire heads

CHURCHILL TELLS _ OF VICTORY PLANS   Prime Minister Gives Welcome to Empire Ministers 

ALLIES PLAN FOR AN EARLY END OF WAR   Chur chill Tells Empire  Premiers  Although - There Is No Fear of De* feat, Goal Is to Compel a Quick Victory. —

Churchill Tells of Intense Efforts to Compel Victory   Prime Minister Curtin Informs Premier Conference in  ondon Australian People Have Been Delivered From Mortal Peril

Croat Capital Heavily Bombed   U. S. AIR FORCE MAKES RAID ON GERMAN BASE

 Air Battle Flares Over Balkan Taraet   Airfield in Croatian Capital Is Plastered; Quiet on Halion Ere ne

U. S. Forces Are Assured   Talk Of Losses Hit By General Bradley

120 German Planes Stage Hot Defense of Balkan City, 16 Shot Down — Nazis Ring Anzio Beachhead With Huge  Chins.

Little Ground Action Noted _ Through Italy   Aerial Blow at Zagreb Is - Principal Activity For  That Sector

ZAGREB BOMBED BY U.S. AIRMEN   HAMMER GERMAN _ MIRFIELD. [N-THE. CROATIAN -CAITAL

—AIR WAR—  ZAGREB SMASHED. —-AYULS BOMBS   Croatian Capital Target In Balkans Air Assaults ;

CREB BOMBED BY U.S. HEAVY  BOMBING FORCE   German Airfield in Croa. tian -Capital--Object. of. Attack. 120 German™ Planes Defended Attack

Croat Capital Airfield Is Hit By U.S. Fliers   Zagbreb Vigorously De  fended By 120 German Planes; Sixteen Are   Shot Down   Ground Action On Italy Fronts Quiet   German Patrol Attack On Allies On Anzio Beachhead Driven Back With Small Arms Fire

ALLIES MEET OPPOSITION AT ZAGREL   Germans Said To Have Guns  Covering Allies

HEAVY BOMBERS OF FIFTEENTH AIRFORCE ATTACKED ZAGREB  CRATING, ACTIAN OW ITAT   GROUND ACTION ON ITALIAN FRONTS AT VIRTUAL STANDSTILL

Zasteb Blasted - By Heavy Force Yank Planes   Germans Mount Hugs Guns To Ring U. S$ Anzio Beachhead Drive Repulsed

Ground Activity In Italy Still Small; Nazis Are Hurled Back At Anzio Beachhead.

German Airfield in Croatian Capital ls Hammered in Thursday Raid.   ITALIAN FRONTS QUIET

NAZIS’ BALKAN AIR FIELDS HIT   Heavy Bombers of 15th U. S. Air Force Attack Bases in Croatian Capital.

U.S. Heavy Bombers Hit Croat Capital   120‘ German Planes in Vigorous Defense at Zagreb

Bombers Raid Airdrome Near Zagreb   Ground Action Along Italian Fronts Remains Unchanged

Capital Of Croatia Is HitBy U.S.  Air Force   Nazis Ring Beachheac At Anzio With Huge Railroad Guns; Shoot 20 Miles .

Heavy Bombers Attack German Field In Zagreb   Ground Action on Al Fronts Remains at Virtual Standstill

U. 5. Bombers Blast Zagreb   Bomb Nazi Air Field In Croatian Capital, Allies Announce

Nazi Airfield At Zagreb Is Raid Targe'   Sixteen German Planes, Three U. S. Bombers s Lost In Action Over Northern Yugoslavia

ALLIES RAID AN AIRFIELD AT ZAGREB   Bombers Hit Croatian Capital From Italian Bases as Ground Action on All Fronts Remains at Standstill

U.S. Bombers Pound Balkan Target Again   Ground Action in Italy Remains at Virtual  Standstill

AMERICANS HIT NAZI AIRFIELD IN ZAGREB RAID   Ground Fighting Remains ai Standstill on All Italian Fronts

GROUND ACTION IN ITALY KEPT AT STANDSTILL   Zagreb Attacked By l5th Air Force; German Guns Ring Anzio. Beachhead Area; Balkan Bombings Improve American - Russian CoOperation.

ITALIAN-BASED U. 5. BOMBERS STAB BALKANS   Nazi Patrol Driven Back On Beachhead Perimeter

U.S. Bomber Hit Airfield At Zagreb   Ground Action On Italian Fronts at a Standstill

Italy-Based Planes  Hit Nazi Airfield  In Croatian Capital Zagreb Vigorously Defended by  120 Planes, 16 Shot Bown— a a a er’

U.S. BOMBS AGAIN ON BALKAN TARGET   Zagreb, Croatin Capital, Hammered to Cripple German Air Field   DOWN 16 NAZI PLANES

U. 8. BOMBERS IN DAYLIGHT RAID ON AXIS EUROPE   Follows Last Night’s British Smash Over Berlin

U. S. Bombers Join Parade  To Berlin .   Take Up by Day Where British Mosquitoes End

MUST PREVENT SMALL WARS.   Bricker: U.S. Must Use  Force to Keep’ Peace

Watch Airborne  Armadas Form >   Eisenhower Witnesses Spectacle From Roof

EISENHOWER SAW MIGHTY ARMADA FORM   Watched Formation From Housetop In London

‘ke’ Looks On From Rooftop   His Mighty Airborne Armada Goes Forth To Battle After Visit From Commander; Chief Full of Confidence in Soldiers

‘Today's War Commentary   In one sense America is winning a battle for the Japs, although it’s strictly a negative victory.

HALMAHERA ISLAND ROCKED BY NEW BOMBING ATTACK   LANDVBASED  PLANES ° DROP. RECORD LOAD OF-EXPLO -. BIVES ON STRATEGIC  i STRONGHOLD

RECORD SMASH AT HALMAHERA   Japs Report Allies Beaten Off in St. David Island Assault

BISMARGK SEA BASES BLASTED   American Bombers Defy Jap Ack-Ack and Bad Weather to Carry Offensive Against Rabaul, Wewak -

BOMBERS LASH RABAUL, WEWAK   Enemy Fails To Send Up Aerial Opposition; Cargo Ship Sunk

30 PCT. MARK IS NEAR IN” BOND DRIVE   Chairman Easley Expects County to Pass Halfway Mark This WeekeEnd— Warns of Hard Task Ahead. However.

Russians Within 44 Miles Of Pre-War East Prussia; Grodno, Kaunas Outflanked

Grodno And Kaunas OutFlanked: Germans ReDrive On Lwow   Take Opochka, Advance On Brest   First Ukrainian Army Launches Offensive Below Tarnopol

Assault Passes Grodno, Kaunas: Opochka Falls   Germans Report Polish Front Attack Spreads South

Reds Within 14 Miles Of East Prussian Line   Berlin Reports Russian Army Also Has Launched. New Drive.at Lwow in Poland

Drive Opens * From South  e For Lwow   Russians Plunge Within 44 Miles Of East Prussia.

New Push Opened — in Poland   Red Army Now 44 Miles From Old  Prussian Border

Harriman Home For Vital Talks   General European Review Foreshadowed; Winant Visit Hinted

U.S. DENIES BOLIVIA RECOGNITION; CALLS ITS ENVOY HOME   ‘State Department Plans Drastic New Steps, Is Belief

U. 5. State Department Is Expected To Take New Steps to Cope With Axis Agents in Argentina, Bolivia

Parity Prices MavineludeAll  Farm Products   House Votes It After Beat. ing Down Bankhead Cotton Amendment

Administration Get: Victory in Vote  On Price Controls  Major Gain Is Won In Balloting on Textile Amendment

PRICE CONTROL BILL PROVIDES PARITY PRICES   Farm Commodities Would Be Given Price Parity Under Administration Supported Measure

HOUSE REJECTS BANKHEAD-BILL   Vote to Guarantee Parity For Farm Commodities

House Votes Parity Prices   Amendment Attached tc OPA Extension Bill;  Penalizes Processors

Amend Price  Control Bill   House Acts to Guarantee Par. ity on Farm Products by Penalizing Processors

Amendment Of Parity Passes   Penalize Processors Who De Not Pay Parity; On All Commodities.

GUARANTEE FOR PARITY VOTED   House Would Penalize Processors Not Adhering

17 MORE JAPS VESSELS 60 TO BOTTOM   Secretary Forrestal of U.S. Navy Says “The War Goes Well,” But “Will Be Lone One”

17 Jap Ships Destroyed by U. §. UBoats   Bag Includes Light Cruiser and Destroyer Forrestal Reports

2 WARSHIPS INCLUDED IN GROUP   Garapan, Capital Of Saipan, Captured; Bonins Raided

More Blows At Japanese Are  Listed Today .   Navy Secretary Reports 17 Jap Vessels Sunk in Pacific Waters and Attacks Made on Bonin Islands.

17 MORE JAPS SHIPS SUNK BY AMERICAN SUBS   Action on All Pacific  Fronts;  Paratrooper Used on Noemfoor 

SINK 17 JAP SHIPS   Forrestal Credits Subs in Slowing of Nipponese Conquest

Subs Blast 17 Vessels.   _ Cruiser, ' Destroyer: - Among: Jap Losses

‘American Subs Sink 17 More ap Vessels   Latest Bag Includes A Light Cruiser And De stroyer.

17 More Nippon Ships Sunk By  U. S. Submarines   British Underwater ‘Craft Add Nine Jap Vessels To Toll

Fast Pace in Pacific War Areas   Moving Along Better Thaz Expected, Forrestal Says, Telling of New Jap Losses   SUBS KNOCK OUT. _  17 MORE VESSELS   But Bitter and Costly Battles Lie Ahead and Long War Is Indicated.

Yank Subs Sink 17 Jap Ships   Light Cruiser and Destroyer Included In Latest List

I) JAP VESaELS SUNK BYU, $. SUBS   Forrestal Discloses Latest Bag of Underseas Craft _ At News Meet.

2 Warships Are Among US. Victims   Battle for Saipan Island Neors Victorious End

BRITISH SUBS ALSO SINK NINE JAP SUPPLY SHIPS   Navy Secretary Forrestal Says Japanese Are Disorganized On Saipan  Island.

2 WARSHIPS INCLUDED IN NEW SINKING!   American and British Subs on Prowl for Targets

17 MORE VESSELS   Forrestal Praises Work Of Subs In Pacific Waters

Subs Knocking Props From Under Nip Conquest- JAPANESE SHIPS Are sunk

Forrestal Reveals ‘Cruiser, Destroyer  - Among Sub Victims      Navy Secretary Says Pacific War Moving Faster Than Hoped Fot; Submersible Toll Reaches 791

U. 5. SUBS SINK 17 JAP VESSELS   FORRESTAL PRAISES UNDERSEAS OPERATIONS

American Subs  Sink 17 Jap Ships   Light Cruiser and Destroyer Included in New Fiaures by Navy

iT AIRCRAFT DESTROYED BY CARRIER FORCE   Tokyo Alarmed; Raid Compelling Invitation To Jap Fleet

U.S. Subs Get 17 More Jap Vessels   Destroyer and Ligh Cruiser Sunk In Pacific Waters

Destroyer Also Among Enem Ships Sent Down In Pacific; War There Movine Faster   Main Battles, ‘Bitter And Costly,’ Still To Come, Forrestal Warns; Our Forces Near Position To Make Enemy Stand Up And Fight

Bonin Islands, 615 Miles from Japan, Raided   Tokyo Says Task Force Still in Action; Five Ships, 88 Planes Toll

Sinking of 26°More Japanese Ship Submarines Is Announced by U. S

War Against Japan Moves At Fast Pace   Bag Includes Light Cruiser. Destroyer: Main Battle To  Came   7OTAL SUNK [5 79:1

. —PACIFIC—  PRAISES WORK OF UNDERSEAS CRAFT   Forrestal Stresses Their Importanée In Pacific - Conauests    Five Enemy Ships Sunk In Attack On Bonin Islands

SINKING OF 17 JAP SHIPS IS ANNOUNCED    All Were Sunk By American _ Submarines

DOWN CRUISER AND DESTROYER   15 Other Vessels Included In Bag Of American Submarines

U. S. Subs Sink 17 Jap Vessels   Navy Secretary Forrestal Lauds Submarine Action

U.S, SUBS SINK 17 JAP VESSELS   Forrestal Says War Moves Faster Than Expected

OR meek, Be ae Be  Jap Cruiser, Destroyer Go Down. With 15 Others

EEO  U-BOATS SINK 17 JAPANESE SHIPS   Light Cruiser, Destroyer Included in U. S. Bag

Subs Sink 17 Japanese Ships   Include Light Cruiser, Destroyer; Jap Merchant Fleet Dwindling

U.S. Subs Sink 17 — More Jap Vessels   {Further Welalls oof Pacific fighting on Page 5A.)

Fleet Hits 615 Miles from Tokya   All Four War Fronts in Pacific Flame Into Action

Trap Threatens Nazis in Hungary   Berlin Reports Huge Battle With Russians

100,000 RUSS TROOPS SURGE ON BUDAPES}   Baltic Area Drive May Be Opened Shortly

Reds Surge Around  Pole Capita!   More Than 60,000 Nazi Troops Slain as Russian Army Closes In on Polish Capital; Railroad Is Threatened

Reds Surge Pole Capita.      More Than 60,000 Nazi Troops Slain as Russian Army Closes In on Polish Capital: Railroad Is Threctened

All-Out Air Attack Aided Yank Advance   Saturation Bombing Left Nazis Stunned As Biq Drive Started

HEAVY BOMBING PRECEDED PUSH   Saturation Raid Helped Yank Break-Through

Allies Drive on India Invaders   Imphal Defenders Strike Back at Japs

STORM MOVING RAPIDLY NORTH NORTHEASTWARD AT NOON AND HIGH WINDS AT JACKSONVILLE

Capital Falls After 4 Days Of Fighting In Streets; Forces Drawing Up From Riviera Reach Grenoble

CAPITAL TAKEN IN 4-DAY FIGHT BY BIG FORCE   Thousands of Nozi Prisoners In Normandy—Units in South Score Gains

Patton's Army In 160 Miles Of Germany   French Capital Reported Freed By Patriots; Nazi Retreat Across Seine Assumes Pro portions Of Rout; 50,000 Captured

NEW VIOLENCE IN BUDAPEST BATTLE   Red Army Rams Narrow Edge Through Enemy’s N.E. Defense Line

Heavy Fighting At Budapest Violently Renewed   Thousands of Germans Trapped in Bukka

SOVIETS CUT NAZI LINES AT BUDAPEST   Breakthrough Made Five Miles From the City

Reds 5 Miles From Budapest   Another Drive Traps Germans in Bukkas

Reds Penetrate Nazi Defenses at Budapest; Violent Battle Renewed

WEDGE DRIVEN INTO BUDAPEST DEFENSE LINES   New Red Breakthrough At Point 5 Miles From Capital

RUSSIANS RAM WEDGE AGAINST BIDAPEST FOE   Battle Flares Up With Renewed Violence As Reds ‘ei Score Gains

Battle of Budapest Flares Up   Ram New Wedge Through Defense Five Miles of City

Reds Dent Nazi Budapest Line      Soviets Drive Wedge Within Five Miles Of  Capital; Russians Near Slovak Border

3,000 Centers Freed By Reds In Bia Push   Greatest Smash Of All By Soviets Reported Ahead

Riga’s Fall ToRed Army imminent   Baltic Campaign Is Believed Opening Phase of Great Autumn Offensive

Massive Baltic « Drive by Russians   First Phase of Big Autumn Offensive

ROLL GERMANS BACK IN LATVIA   Massive Baltic Drive Threatens Riga And Foretells Its Early Fall.

First Phase Of Russ Fall  Drive Begins   Germans Are Rolled Back Steadily On Baltic Front  ~ me mear etd 22m

Massive Baltic Drive Rolls Nazis Back on Latvian Front   First Phase of Russia's New Autumn Offensive Menaces Riga; Infantry and Tanks Push Deep into City’s Defenses

Germans Defend Finland   Finland Pays Dearly for Defeat By Russian Army

Reds Roll Huns Backward Over  Latvian Front   Sinash ‘Throngh Hun’ Defeuses On 75-Mile Front;. Fall of Riga. Believed  Near

Russian Army Nears Baltic Port of Riga   Furious Attack of Russians Roll Back Germans on Entire Front in Latvia

Russian Baltic Drive Rolls Germans Back   Riga Likely to Fall any Time Now, Offensive is On Woy to Clearing Baltic Nations Before Winter

Fall of Riga Expected At Any Time   Red Army Attempting To Clear Baltic States This Autumn

Riga’s Doom  Sealed   Reds Encircle City In Furious Baltic Offensive; Step Up ‘Pressure On Warsaw

Reds Rush On Riga   x «kK k& * Finns Flattened By Armistice Terms

Fall Of Riga Expected At Any Moment   Massive Baltic Drive By Reds Rolls German: Back on Wide Front

Soviets Start Furious Drive in the Baltics   Autumn Offensive Gets Under Way With Fall of Riga Imminent

Roll Back Nazis  On Latvian Front   Motorized Red Infantry Have Pushed Into Riga’s  fenses _   IN: SMASHING ATTACK   In Five Days Germany Has Lost 570 Tanks and  Planes

Fall of Riga Imminent As Soviets Strike   Russians Capture Almost 3.000 Communities in Smashing Attack

Big Baltic Drive Rolls Nazis Back   Soviets Menace Riga—Take  3,000 Communities In Four Days

Germans Being Beaten Back into Trap on Baltic While ir South Russians Surge Toward Yugoslavia — Finland Faces Tough Future After Getting Out of War

BALTIC DRIVE GAINS POWER   Fall of Riga Imminent; Race Forward On 75 Mile Front

Germans Driven Back Near Riga   Russian Troops Reported In City’s Major Defenses; 3000 Communities Liberated

Soviets Rout Enemy Along 75-Mile Front      Russian Adyar Periling Germans In Latvian Capital

GREAT BALTIC DRIVE OF RUSSIANS ROLLED NAZIS BACK STEADILY  SUPREME SOVIET AUTUMD OFFENSIVE MENACING CITY OF RICA

NAZIS ROLL BACK  BEFORE MASSIVE  DRIVE IN LATVIA ADVANCE UNITS OF  RED ARMY PLUNGE THRII RIGA DEFENSE

Reds Tearing Nazis Apart In Fierce Attack   Soviets Slashing Down Toward Riga In New Drive .

RIGA DEFENSE PENETRATED BY RED DRIVE   Massive Baltic Offensive Rolls Enemy Back Steadily With Imminent Fall of City Threatened   3,000 TOWNS ARE FREED

Russians Near Riga In Break Through Nazis  Smash Through Ene l ines Alana 75-Mil,   Smash Through Enemy Lines Along 75-Mile Front; Fall Of City  Believed Imminent

ane :  Fall of Riga-ts.Imminent As Reds Make Great Drive  Balkan Drive Is First Phase

Riga’s Fall Is Imminent  In Red Drive   ‘Advance Tank, Motorized Infantry Uniis Push Deep  Into City’s Defenses.  those lined

Russian Fall Drive Gains Along Baltic   Break Through Enemy Lines..in 43-Mile Gain, Is Report

HIRST Pride OF FALL OFFENSIVE   German Troops Are Rolled Back Steadily Over Latvian Front.   'EXPECT RIGA FALL SOON

Baltic. Driv : Turns Germans, Menaces Ri i ga a   Red Forces Gross Vistiila At Warsaw:

Germans Roll Back Steadily — Over Latvia Front   Reds Imminently. Menace Riga and Threaten Fall Soon

Russian Armies  Drive on Riga  From Three Sides 3,008 Communities Captured i Drive fo Gust Mazis in BalticArtillers Blasic Warsaw

Stern Armistice Terms Drafte? Against Finlane   Russian Troops March Into Nation To Enforce Tough Pact

Nazis to Fight for Finland   Soviet Troops March Into Country to Enforce Harsh Armistice; Reds in Sight of Riga as Armies Crack German Defenses

Soviet Smash Threatens Riga With Early Fall  Warsaw Is Shelled From Across Riv

ROLL GERMANS STEADILY BACK ON LATVIA LINE   Drive Paving Way for Autumn Offensive at New Peak of Intensity

BALTIC FIGHT OPENS REDS’ FALL DRIVE   Steady Roll-Back of Nazis on Latvian Front Seems Indicative of Fury Soviets Will Show Else ah rat by at ann ;

Reds Capture Nearly 3,000  Communities   Massive Baltic Drive Steadily Rolling Germans Back; Big Gain Made on Southern Front

Russians’ Advance Columns Reported To Be Hitting In Riga Defenses

Reds Open Big Fall Offensive On Baltic Front   Nazis Are Rolled Back Upon Riga; Capture Of That Canital Near.

SOVIETS BREAK THROUGH 1 . DEFENSES IN A THRUST NORTH OF ESTONIAN —:%eITAL OF TARTU AND TAKE 1,500 COMMUNITIES-—STALIN’S ORDER OF THE DAY DISCLOSES FIVE BALTIC OFFENSIVES

Stalin Tells of Big Sweep Thru Estonia   1,500 Communities Taken in 43-Mile Gain On a 75-Mile Front  BIGGER ASSAULTS WAT RE PYPRCTED   Russians Appear Intent: on Clearing the Baltic Before Snow Falls

MASSIVE BALTIC DRIVE HURLS GERMANC BACK Red Tanks and Infantry Units  Dich Daan Inta Mafancac af Riag

Defenses Of Riga Said Penetrated By Russian Units   Strategy Indicates Staliu Forces Will Tear Into.  Enemy On All Sectors

Red Troops Crack Riga Defenses  Latvien Capital  Expected to Fall   Latvien Capital Expected to Fall At Any Moment

Red Armies Push Within Sight Of the City and Fall  _ Offensive is Getting Into Full Swina.

RUSSIANS OPEN FIRST PHASE OF AUTUMN DRIVE   Soviets Launch Huge Attack in Baltic Sector; Threaten Riga

Soviet Army Smashes Way Into Riga   Reds Get Set To. Launch Mammoth Autumn Offensive

Baltic Drive  Turns Germans,  Menaces Riga   Red Forces Cross Vistula At Warsaw.

SOVIETS ROLL GERMANS BACK IN RIGA AREA   City Expected To Fall Any Time; Warsaw Shelled

GERMANS ADMIT EVACUATION OF CARENTAN, PIVOTAL POINT OF FIGHTING IN NORMANDY   Eisenhower Tells of Continued Progress, While Berlin Persistently Reports Major Battle Shaping Up

MACHINE GUNNED ~ FIELD HOSPITAI   This Devastating Work Followed Bombing of Instition Monday.

Heavy Fighting In South China   Japs Spring Forth With New Attacks; Chinese Retake Three Points.

Huge Russian Drive Smashes 31 Miles Into Czechoslovakia   ‘East Wall’ Forts Also Cracked by Soviet Armies, Germans Indicate

JAPS REPORT YANKS TRY 10 LAND ON ROTA   Island Between Tinian and Guam   SEIZE SANSAPOR   MacArthur Closer To Philippines

Supreme Court Ruling  Cities’ Closing Ordinances  Invalidated By State Law

FLIERS BATTER RABAUL, BAG 23 ENEMY PLANES   American Losses Ligh’ In New Attack On Major Base

FLIERS RAID RABAUL, HIT AIR FIELD   Down 13 Jap Planes; 10 Others Listed Probables

23 Jap Planes Shot Down In Rabaul Attack   Drive To Neutralize Major Enemy Base Gathers Momentum

RABAUL BATTERED _ BY ALLIED FLYERS   Japs Lose 23 Planes in New Britain Raid

New Battering Of Rabaul Given By Allied Planes   240 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Jap Base

Allies Batter Rabaul, Down 23 Jap Planes   Cape Gloucester Has Air Raid, Suffering Some Wounded

Report Nazis Fit: Subs, Ships to Launch Robots From Sea at TJ. S. Cities

GERMANY REPORTED FITTING { 3 WITH LAUNCHING DEVICES FOl ROBOT BOMBING AMERICAN Cl

Germans Reported Preparing To Attack ‘American Cities With Flying Robots

Battle — Climax In China   Furious ‘Fighting For Important Chinese City of Changsha

Jap Drive In China Mounts. = Toward Climax At Changshe      BY J. B. KRUEGER

Japs Encircle Changsha, Fall Of City Feared   New Offensive May Be Serious To Allied Cause

Furious Sattle For Changsha On   Chennault Sees War Prolonged If Japs Build Wall

Chinese Say Changsha Is Encircled   Japs Are Assaulting Hunan Capital From All Directions

. —PACIFIC —  CHANGSHA SCENE OF BITTER GLAS   Chungking Reports Indi. cate City Is Encirclec By Japanese   CLIMAX IS NEAR   Chinese Defenders Ordered To Fight To Last Man

Japs Assail Changsa At All Points   Late Bulletin Indicates City Surroonded—Chennault Warns War May Be Prolonged

Nippons Encircle Capital of Hunan   Japan’s Drive to Seal Off Eastern China Rages to a Climay.

Changsha May Be Encircled by Japs   Chennault Describes Enemy’s Offensive

Japs Open New Smash   Battle In China At Greatest Pitch Since 1938, Says Chennault

Changsha City Encirecled  By Japanese   Allies Doing Well On All Four Other  Pacific Fronts

Hold Attorney  After Death Of Psychiatrist   Self-Defense Is Claimec By Washington Mar In Case Involving Love Triangle

 One American Bulldozer Conquers Littoria; Allies Enter Without Firing Shot; Civilians Polite

Reporter Observes — Invasion From Sky   UP Correspondent Describes Assault As Seen From Marauder Formation

Correspondent Witnesses Allied Landings Has Grandstand Seat of Invasion

t ; e e Common Respiratory Diseases  ‘Are Prevented by Sulfa Drug

SULFADIAZINE TS EFFECTIVE   Winter Respiratory Dis. eases Among Service  Personnel Reduced

Sulfadiazine prevents most of winter respiratory diseases in service men

15 to 90 Per Cent of Respiratory Diseases Helped by New Sulfa Drug

Shetch  Contested Offices   Lightest Primary Vote In History Expected

Light Vote Predicted In Primary Election ‘Next Monday, June 5   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial. Correspondent

Body Of Actress Lupe Velez Moved To Catholic Mortuary   Will Not Be Buried From Catholic Church’ With Formal Rites Although Friends At-  tempted Obtain Dispensation 

ANOTHER ATOLL IN MARSHALLS SEIZED BY MARINE FORCE   Meet No Resistance; Landing Made By Small Unit

U. $. MARINES KAVE TAKEN WOTHO ATOLL   American Troops Encounter No Resistance

Wotho Atoll Taken By U. S.  ‘Marines In Drive   Small Island To Be Used As New Base For Air Operations. -.

U.S. MARINES TAKE ATOLL IN MARSHALLS   Wotho Is Fourth Atoll Seized In Past Six Weeks

Marines Occupy Wotho in Pacific   No Jap Resistance Offered on Atoll

Atlantic Coast Cities Warned  Of Hurricane   Great Storm Expected To Strike Mainland: Flood Feared In Alabama

CALL LOAN ORNE MOST SUCCESSFUL   Director Predicts Final Tota of “Not Less” Than $16.250.009.000

GERMANS TRYING TO GUESS WIAT ALLIED ARMY WILL BE ASSIGNED TASK OF SMASHING DEFENSES

BIG ALLIED BLOW MAY COME SOON   Weather Probably Will Be Main Factor in Timing of Grand Assault

The War Today   Berlin Doesn’t Know When Gen. Ike Will Swing His Haymaker.

WAR ANALYST FINDS NO FAULT WITH BERLIN CLAIM NORTHERN IWING TO DELIVER BIC BLOW

WAR TODAY   Powerful Allied Flanking Move on North. ern Wing of Western Front to Crush Ger. many May be in Offinwv.

Réds Capture Key Rail Town to Free Line to. Moscow; Thousands of. Germans Killed By Russians 

IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTION TAKEN BY RED FORCES   Capture Of Mga Frees Line Between Moscow And Len ingrad After Two Years   GERMAN SITUATION IS GROWING WORSE

Soviets Continue Steamroller Push From Leningrad   Soviets Capture Rail Junction of Mga, 30 Miles Southeast of Northern Bastion. and Free Roundabout Rail Line to Moscow — Army in Full Offensive Killing Thousands

NAZIS BEYOND LENINGRAD   In Greatest Disaster Since Staingrad, Killing Thousands Of Germans as They Batter Through Fortified Defenses.   Toward Estonig

‘Many More Fortified ‘Places Fall   Mga Gives Red Army Roundabout Rail Line Moscow to Leningrad  OTHER DRIVES GAIN

Nazis Retreating Under Heavy Blows   Leningrad Given First Rail Connection With Russion Capital Since Sieae Beaan

Russians Roll Back Nazi Line From Leningrad; Encircled German Troops Are Liquidated

Capture of Mga Gives Liberated City First Rail Link With Moscow  In Two Years

Reds Continue To Roll Germans Back   Soviets, In Full Offensive Tide, Kill Thousands Of Nazis Capture Manv Towns

Steamroller Batters Through Enemy Defenses   Rail Communication Opened_With Moscow as Mga Is Taken

Reds Capture Important Rail Junction   Leningrad Again Is in Contact With Soviet Capital

Soviets Batter Through Defensive Areas, Kill- — ing Many   RAIL LINE OPE OPENED __. TO SOVIET CAPITAL   Fourteen More Towns in the Mga Area Are  Seized

Cull Hens Now For Efficient Production And Make More Room For The Workers

98 GERMAN PLANES . ~ DOWNED IN BATTLE   Greatest All-Fighter Aer ial Battle Is ’ Staaed.

98 GERMAN AIRCRAFT BAGGED BY FIGHTERS   Victory In Greatest Ali Fighter Battle Boosts Total Kills For Twe Days To 212

Yanks Boost Kills in 24 Hours to Record-Smashing 212— Lose Three Fighters and One Bomber in Day’s Operations—Nazi Interceptors Engaged as Airports and Military Transport Centers Are Strafed.

Germans Bring in Fresh Armored Troops and Turn on Big Guns from the Siegfried Line.   INVASION IS SPREAD ON 17-MILE FRONT

Heavy Guns Of Siegfried  Tne Roar   Germans Bring Up More Troops to Try And Stop Yankees

7th Army Push Meets Savage Nazi Defense   Yank Invasion West Of Rhine Battles Armored Divisions As Border Is Crossed

Yank Columns Gain On New German Front   Big Guns Of Siegfried  Line Blast At U. S. Spearheads

Battles Rage In Palatinate   Armored Reinforcements Are Rushed South To Meet New American Invasion Of Reich

BIG GUNS DUEL AS WEST FRONT ACTION BLAZES   Four 7th Arm y Columns Smash Forward Into Germany

Struck Against Four U.S. 7th  Army Columns Spearing a New Invasion of Germany.   ALONG 17-MILE FRONT WEST OF THE RHINE   Heavy Fighting Reported as  U. S. Infantry Pressed Toward the First Pillboxes.

ARTILLERY DUEL AT RHINE GATE   First Army Punctures Duren Defenses—Reds Invade Western Slovakia

HEAVY GUNS OF SIEGFRIED LINE STRIKE ALLIES   Bitter Fighting Reported Along Bavarian Area

Germans Battle To Halt New Invasion   Enemy Moves Fresh Division Into Lines To Stop U. S. Seventh, Now Up-Against —— Heavy Guns Of Siegfried Line.

Biddle Backs FDR. Seizure In Ward Case   Presidential Power In Wartime Is Claimed Sufficient

WARD'S FIGHT PLANT SEIZURE   JUDGE HEARS FIRM'S PLEA FOR RETURN OF PROPERTY BY WLB

FDR’S POWERS ARGUED TODAY IN WARD CASE   Chicago Firm Is Seeking Control From Army

President's War Powers. At Stake       udge Holly Studies Waid Case Decision

Biddle Upholds Ward Seizure   Declares No Business Of Any Kind Immune

Warships Shell Rabaul And Kavieng   Shore Batteries Silenced and Fires Started, MacArthur  Cn

Alhed Planes Bomb Marcus  Island Base   Enemy Bases In Marshalls, Bonins, And Celebes Under Fire

LAND PLANES RAID MARCUS FIRST TIME   All Important Jap Bases in Great Trianale Now Hit

British Break Across Upper Reaches of River in Burma.   JAP BASES BLASTED IN SOUTH PACIFIC   One Thousand Japs Are Killed in Attack on — Bougainville.

sritish Imperial Troops -nter Battle To Clear aps From Supply Roac

NAZI CASUALTIES 109, 575 IN AUGUST   Patton’s Third Army Gets Credit for Them

Disorders In Capital Are Now Reported   Defiant Patriots Raise Allied Flacs Within Former French Capital

US ARMORED COLUMNS ADVANCING ON BOTH SIDES PARIS MONDAY   Third U.S. Army Inflicts 109,575  Casualties Nazis

THER FRONTS QUIET EXCEPT FOR AIR RAID   Three Sharp Clashes Signal . Renewal of Activity in - Main Sector.

ONLY MINOR ACTION: RE: : PORTED ‘At ANZIOZ AND _, CASSING—-NEW: LAiDING ON New Gute

BAD WEATHER HALTS BATTLE ON BEACHHEAD   Report Sharp Patrol Clashes  HIT SLAV COAST  Germans In Cassino   HIT SLAV COAST

Report Sharp Clashes Between Allied and German Troops at Cassino

HERBERT WILL STAY IN RACE   LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ‘TO FILE PETITIONS FOR NOMI: NATION AS GOVERNOR ’ "NEXT WEDNESDAY

F.D.R. May Let Convention Decide Whether To Name, Reject Wallace   Doubts Removed As To Fourth Term Nomination For President, But Inner Circles Of Party Hear Wallace Must Stand Or Fall On Own Record.

Wallace Stands On His Record   Roosevelt May Let Convention Select Vice-Presidential Nominee.

Hear FDR May Keep Hands Off   May Leave Wallace Decision Up to Convention

AGREES TO SERVE AGAIN IF PEOPLE COMMAND HIM   Tells Hannegan He Would Like to Retire But Will  Be Good Soldier

Demos Say FDR Will Not Demand Wallace Support   Vice President-—§\— Advocates Parity Of Rail Freight Rates

Vice President Choice Leit Up to Convention  Will Not Insist, Upon Henry Wallac

ROOSEVELT WON'T DEMAND WALLACt   President Will Let Conven: tion Decide on Candidate For Vice-President.

rear Roosevelt Will Be Neutral  Wallace Left to Stand on His Record

Report Roosevelt Will Leave Selection Of Vice President Nominee To Convention

FDR May Turn Vice-Presidency Over To Conventior   By DOUGLAS B, CORNELL  AT Gia WW Ub eitane

Will Accept Nomination ‘Reluctantly’   Says He’d Rather Retire But Will Carry On ‘As Good Soldier.’

LEAVES Igoe TO CONVENTION   FR Will Not Dictate Second Place Choice to Demo Meat.

WORD SPREAD THAT  WALLACE T0 FALL OR  STAND ON RECORD REPORTED ROOSEVELT  LEAVE MATTER UP TO CONVENTION

FDR MAY LET WALLACE STAND ON HIS RECORD   Choice of Vice-presidential Nominee To Rest With — Convention

[FDR Plans To Let Convention Decide Whether ‘To Nominate Or Reject Wallace. Politicos Hea:

FDR May Give Up Fight for Wallace   Democrats Hear That President May Let Convention Name His Mate

ete eee  Deter te reer etter  Wallace May Get Roosevelt Pat On Back

F.D.R. To Let Wailace Stand Or Fall On His Record, Capital Hears

Roosevelt Has Reportedly Decided Wallace To Stand On Record At Convention

Wallace To Stand Or Fall On Record   BL DOUGLAS B. CORNELL Associated Press Staff Writer

LETS WALLACE RECORD DECIDE      Roosevelt To Leave Vice Presidential Choice Up To Convention

AWAIT FDR WORD ON TICKET MATE      Capital Now Thinks Wallace * to Receieve Roosevelt Backing

FDR MAY LET WALLACE STAND ~ ON OWN RECORT   May Express Preference, But Wilk Nat Dictate to Corivdntion.

WALLACE STAND ON HIS RECORL   F. D. R. Will Not Take Hand In Vice Presiden. tial Selection

WALLACE BID UP TO CONFAB   FDR To Let Delegates Select His Running Mate

DEMS TO SELECT SiATE AT CHICAGO   Roosevelt, Who Will Be Renominated, Will Not Insist on Wallace, Insiders Believe

SAY FDR TO LET CONVENTION PICK VICE PRESIDENT   Roosevelt To Let Henry Wal “Jace Stand Or Fall On His Own Record, Democratic Circles Claim Today

F.D.R. MAY LET WALLACE STAND ON OWN RECORD  PARTY LEADERS HEAT PRESIDENT DECIDES

Wallace May Have To Seek Own Support   Word Spreads Among Democrats That FDR Will Let Wallace Run on His Own at Convention.

a a a> a  FDR Is Set On Wallace   “Conveiition Is. Left. Its. Choice However

Vice President To Be Chosen By Convention  Roosevelt Prefers Wallace, But Will.

WALLACE MUST WIN BY SELF, REPORTS FOR,   Democrats Arrive In Chicago For  Convention

FDR May Not Select V. P.   Favors Wallace, May Let Demo Convention Do It’s Own Selecting

REPORT 2 YANK ARMIES. DRIVE AT REICH SOI   Claim Escape Route for All Nazis in Western France, Belgium Cut

Patton’s Army Reported Taken German Village Of Perl   BRITISH LIBERATE BELGIAN CAPITAL   After 70 Mile Sweep Across Flanders, Drive Toward Netherlands

Patton Forces Plunge Through Maginot Line   Fall of. Antwerp Expected Hourly; Robot Coast Points Fall Swiftly

DEFINITELY FOR ROOSEVELT TODAY   SANTA CLAUS PROMISED MORE AND BETTER TOYS

BRICKER CALLS EXTRA SESSION   Second Special Meet to Start on Sept. 5

SPECIAL MEET SET SEPT. 5   Additional School Funds Only Matter In Call

FUEHRER VISITS CANCELED   Report Adds Fuel to Report That pe Hitler Is Dead

Hope Japs Will Accept Supplies  U. S. Demands Nippon Cease Abuses

POLICY OF TORTURE   State Department £ mands “Immediate Steps”  By Tokyo to Stop Brutali tine

British Soldiers Take Japanese Base   Chinese Troops Repulse Three Enemy Attacks

BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE BASE   Ukhrul, North of Imphal, Wrested From Japs by Attacking Units

PRISONERS RESCUED FROM JAPS DESCRIBE CRUELTIES OF ENEM   INDIAN BSIKHS SAY CHINESE AIDING AUSTRALIAN QUERRILLAS IN MALAY ARE CRUCIFIED IF CAUGHT

CAPTIVES CITE JAP TORTURES   Prisoners Taken in Malaye Crucified, Rescued Men Charge

Nazi Radio Mum on New Allied Landing   PROPAGANDISTS SILENT AS UNITED NATIONS OPEN ANOTHER FRONT

‘Howard County Salvage Committee Pleads for Christmas Paper Saving

Nips Learn Horrors Of Night Raid   ‘Bombers Moon” From Now On To Stir Fear In Japanese Capital

B-29's Blast Tokyo at Night For First Time   Moonlight Helps Superfort Crews To Hit Targets

Santa Claus To Remember Service Men   Millions. of . packages will reach destination in time for opening Christmas ‘morning.

AMERICANS EXPECTED BY NAZIS TO STRIKE BETWEEN NOW AND MONDAY   HITLER’S OWN NEWSPAPER ADMITS GERMANS POWERLESS TO PREVENT INVASION OF REICH.

Christmas Fatalities Total 248   TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS KILL 155; CALIFORNIA DEATH TOLL HIGHEST

Death Toll For Holidays Reaches 293   Toto! of 177 Killed In Traffic Mishaps

Death Toll for Three-Day Period Mounts  Traffic Mishaps Claim Greatest Number of Lives

NATION'S HOLIDAY DEATHS REACH 290   TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ACCOUNT FOR 177 FATALITIES—35 DIE IN FIRES.

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL PASSES OL   Christmas Fatalities Mount As Three-day Festive Period Closes; Traffic Accidents Take 186 Lives 

Dewey Might Causes Worry Among Others   Supporters of Other Candidates Start Tightening Lines

DEWEY ENEMIES TIGHTEN LINES   New York Governor's co ing Strength Has Backers Of MacArthur, Bricker And Stassen On The Spot,

—————x&x- =: -:-:~-~- ~~ —”—  Rumored Stassen, MacArthur, and Bricker Support May Join Dewey

POLITICAL HALLS BEGIN TO ECHO DEWEY DRUMS   MacArthur States Position Diplomatically - - Bricker Forces Stand Firm

Dewey Bandwagen Rumble Causes Backers Of Other Candidates To Cheek Lines

Signs of oe a Swing _. to Dewey   Some Backers of Ottier Favorites Favor Getting On. the Bandwagon   BUT “OTHERS” WILL. s “NOT GIVE UP   Willkie’s Withdrawal Has Ended. Hopes of Any Dead. lock. in Convention

12,000 UNDER 2¢ TO BE EXAMINED   Essential Agricultural Workers Not Covered; to Concentrate on Younger Men

LOCAL BOARDS TOLD 10 SEND MEN AT ONCE   Order Calls for Men Under 26 Now Deferred In 2-A or 2-B

PLAN CONFERENCES TO DISCUSS (SSUE   Group Will Talk Over Subversive Activities of Youthful Group.

Superfortresses Make Double Strike at Japs   Smash at Singapore and Great Oil Retinery on Sumatra

Mighty Double Strike at Jap Power; Second Largest Source of Fue; for Planes,   From Marianas

B-29’s hit vital Jap fuel base   Singapore naval facilities strack

Four Draft-Dedging Brothers Captured in Canyon Hideout   Catron County Quartet Living on Wild Game When FBI and State Paliee Clace The

A Brothers Living in Caves To Dodgé. Selective Service Caught By the FBI

B GAS RATIONS 10 BE INCREASED   ‘Supplies Are Improved, OPA  May Allow 720 Miles of   Travel Monthly.

TO SET 8 RATION T0720 MILES   Action to Apply to All Areas Except in (East; Change by End of Month

Girl Slain in Capital Cathedral   CAPITAL LIBRARIAN FOUND DEAD NEAR CITY’S “SHOW PLACE”

Librarian Found Beaten To Death   Washington Officers Investigate Slaying

PLANES SWARM OVER EUROPE IN 25th DAY OF AIR INVASION: SPREAD CREEPING PARALYSIS

Allied Planes Are Paralyzing German Defenses—Lines   Reds Cracking Sevastopol as Nazi Defenders lee

U.S. Planes Strike Rail, Air Facilities   2,000 American Craft Blast 10 Separate Objectives.

NAZIS BACK UP IN ITALY -- MOVE IS UNEXPECTED   e Reds Break Through Outer Defenses of Sevastopol To Mop Up Trapped Forces

Airports and Rail Facilities Again Targets of Bombs   Russians Gain at Sevastopol; Germans Draw Back in Italy

HEAVIEST DAY OF AERIAL WAR OVER EUROPE      Reds Pound Sevastopol;  Nazis Withdraw . In Italy

Rain of Bombs on 25th Day Undiminishe od      Reds Continue to. to. Pound Axis Survivors in Sevastopol. AW ‘Evacuation Shins Sunk’

2.000 AMERICAN PLANES STAGE: HEAVIEST DAY OF GREAT AIR OFFENSIVE IN FRANCE - BELGIUM.   Attack Today Follows RAF’s 3,360-Ton Bomb ' Raid on Tactical Targets Last Night.. Continent  Sull Shudders from Incessant Rain of ‘Great Bombs 

Committee Favor: Stettinius Aides   Much Parliamentary Gymnastics Behind Closed Doors Reported Before Tie Vote is Broken

6 Nominations To State Dept. Gain Approval   Senate Committee Submits Recommendation After Rirntee Nelhata

Nominations Are Approved by Committee  MacLeish Finally Wins Out by ©

BACK 6 FOR STATE DEPARTMENT JOBS   SENATE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CONFIRMATION OF F. D. R. NOMINATIONS. .

6 NOMINEES © APPROVED BY SENATE BODY      Vote of Senate. Committee Is Close on MacLeish 

UK NOMINEES WIN APPROVAL   Proxy Favoring MacLeish, Named as Assistant Secretary of State, Solves Muddles of Tie Vote

Senate Committee Accepts All Six Stettinius Selections After Dispute   MacLeish Vote Is 11 to 10 When Efforts to Find Scnator Nye to Get His Proxy Prove Fruitless

Names of Six State Dept. Nominees  Approved   Committee Chairman Gets Proxy Vote  Favoring MacLeish. To Break Ballot Tie  SENT TO SENATE

Strong Allied Convoy In Philippine Waters, Japs Claim:. Fliers Hit Luzon.

Japs Report 400 Plane Bombing Of Luzon Today   Carrier Attack Seen As Continuance of Softening Blows

Camera Perfected To Take Pictures Through Periscope of Submarine

C. R. Forecast: Cold with Snow    Light drizzle with glaze turning ite snow tonight. Wednesday snow and colder; lowest temperature ionight, about 20 degrees.

Soviets Start Drive on East Prussia   Red Army Broadens Wedge Northeast of Embattled Wilno

Battle Rages For Control Of Dutch Rhine Delta As Sky Troops Endangered   Fate of Germany’s Ruhr Valley And Safety of Nazis’ Northern Flank Hinges on the Outcome

Trapped Sky Troops Still Holding Out   Allies Rushing Relief Across Bridge Taken  Intact From Enemy

BRITISH ARMOR AND  AMERICAN SKYTROOPS  CAPTURED BRIDGE GERMANS ADMIT CUTOFF  AIRBORNE TROOPS IN YOLLANN PELIRVEN

Main Bridge Over Rhine ls Captured   Swift American-British Action Keeps Germans From Destroying Nijmegen Bridge; Arnhem Is Next Target; Nazis Claim Success

British Take Rhine Bridge, Rash North Toward Ruhr   : CK OlUCOCKK U. S. Casualties Exceed 400, 000

Seizure of Span Opens Way Into Germany; Cutoff AirBorne Troops Are Relieved

Span Taken Intact And Paves Way For Drive Into Germany   Surrounded Sky Troops Relieved   Tanks Battle Along Mo. selle; Bitter Fighting In The North

Mile-Long — Bridge Is ~ Captured   British Race to Relief of Troops at Arnhem in Growing Battle   TO DECIDE FATE OF RUHR VALLEY   100,000 Euemy Troops Are Virtually Doomed by Great Actions in Holland

ENEMY BATTLES DESPERATELY 10 SAVE RIVER LINE   NIJMEGEN BRIDGE CAPTURE RELIEVES AIR-BORNE POCKET

ritish Tanks Strike Toward Airborne Unit SurroundedinHolland   lile and Half Long Span Across Waal Taken Intact, By English Supported By American Paratroopers; Berlin Claims 2,800 ' Airborne Troops Captured.

Swing Across Bridge Toward Cutoff Troops   Germans Claim 2.800 Of  British First Airborne Division Captured,   DRIVE CLOSE TO FLIN

Speed to Relief of  Suivoinded Kithowi   Bridge Captured Intact; Germans Fight Desperately to Save River Line Protecting Northern Flank of Long Front.

Victories By Allies Set Way To Germany   Nazi War Plants Being Moved To Avoid Capture

Crossing of River Opens Gateway To Ruhr and Northern Germany; 3rd Army In Ferocious Tank Fight   Bridge Is Taken Intact By British Armor From South, Yank Paratroopers From North: Nazis Attack From Land and Air

Armor Pushes For Northern Branch Of River After Yanks' Daring Feat

PREPARING WAY INTO GERMANY   Swing Toward Arnhem -to Relieve Sky Troops Surrounded There. «.5

Yanks and British Seize Span in Holland Before Nazis Can Destroy It.   DRIVING TO RELIEVE AIR-BORNE SOLDIERS

Vital Nijmegen Bridge Captured By British Army  100,000 Germans May Re Cauacht In Wester   100,000 Germans May Be Caught In Western Holland; Enemy Claims Division Relieved

NIJMEGEN BRIDGE CAPTURED BY BRITISH-AMERICAN FORCES TO. OPEN GATEWAY T0 GERMANY

Forces Cut Off in Holland Contacted by British Troops   Allies Capture Nijmegen Bridge, Vital Span to Reich, Intact

Jobless Benefits Plan’s Backers  Offer Compromise   Organized Labor Starts Applying Pressure For Kilgore Scheme

TRY FOR TENGCHUNG.   Chinese, Supported by Chennault’s Air Foree, Mass for Attack

EMPLOYED IN NEW ATTEMPT   Heavy Nazi Pressure Continues at  Beachhead

Germans Open Powerful New Attacks Between Carroceto, Cisterna on Anzio Beachhead   Allied Artillery, Rainstorm Hold Nazis to Starting Positions; New Tank, Radio -Directed, Proves Unsuccessful

Destroy Railroad Train and Strafed Jap Troop Column.   MARINES CAPTURE TWO MORE ISLANDS   New Landing Brings Allies Within 580 Miles of Truk.

Green Contracts to Mow 25 Acres of Timothy Dressed in Lamour's Sarong

Army Units Mass Along Prut River   Wav Cleared for Grand Scale Surge  Into Rumania

Signal Awaited For Invasion Of Pre-War Rumania; Claim Nazi Retreat Is Disorderly On Southern Front   Rv HARRISON SALISBURY

Fleeing Germans Slain —  By Thousands. As Soviets  Hammer Rumanian Plain   By HARRISON. SALISBURY Tinited Preece Correspondent:

CERNAUTI AND IAS! ARE UNDER HEAVY ATTACK   Allied Artillery Breaks Up German Thrust North Of Cassino

Air Bombing Aiding Soviet  Drive In East   Mcscow Admits Big Aid Being Given By Allied Smash Attacks   PANICKY EVACUATION OF BERLIN REPORTED

U. 5. SHIPS AND PLANES LEAD ATTACK   Invasion of Jap Stronghold May Be Imminent

Indiet Norden Manufacturers   Rombsight Makers Accused of Conspiring To Slow Praduction

INORDEN BOMBSIGHT CO., NAVAL OFFICER INDICTED FOR DELAYING PRODUCTION

Nordon Officials Indicted By Jury   Charged With Slowing — Down Bombsight Output

Confession of Heiress Killing Called Vague   L. A. DEPUTY SHERIFF GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO TO QUESTION SUSPECT

Russ Storm East Prussian Border   Cross In Three Places; Nazis Rolled Back Like Driftwood

KILL 475 NIPS AT MAFFIN BAY   Fresh Defeats Dealt Ta Japanese On Dutch New Guinea

 Jap Casualties in Mafin Bay Area of Duich New Guinea Are High, MacArthur Reports   Large Pockets of Trapped Enemy Troops Are Being Methodically Wiped Out by Advancing American Forces

Fortress Pilot Rigs Up Gun So He Can Shoot, Too, and It Works Fined Pius

‘Homemade’ Weapon Bags Focke-Wulfe   Gun in Cockpil, ‘Cockeyed Idea,’ Pays Dividend

CHURCHILL FACING   Showdown on British Policy An. Greece Develops Sisidenly

ELAS TROOPS HOLD PRISON   Fortify Building After i Is Taken From British; Greek Quisling Flees

HOUSE COMMITTTEE PUSHING WORK PLAN FOR 4-F GROUP   MANPOWER COMMISSION ASKED FOR DATA IN CONNECTION WITH PRO.  FCSED WAR WORK °_ PROGRAM —

PLAN TO RULE 4S PUSHED BY COMMITTEE   Orders WMC to Offer  List of Appropriate War Activities

FEDERAL “KEY MEN” DENIED DEFERMENTS   Only Seven Out Of 245 On War Production Board Are Defer red By Selective service

FEW WPB MEN ESCAPE DRAFT   Only Seven of 245 Key Workers Seeking Deferments Win Requests

WPB Deferment Pleas Rejected   Labor Turnover In 1943 1 Per Cent Higher Than ’42

WPB Loses 238 Draft Appeals   Wins Only 7, Among Its Key Emploves

WPB Appeals When Board Grants Only 7 of 245 Draft Deferment Requests

Carpiquet Is Captured  By Canadians   Great Artillery Barrag Laid Down by Yanks In Drive on La Haye  7~s29y FF aQlr wimax

Heavy Fighting Rages Along 20-Mile Front From Carentan To Sea On West Side Of  Cherbroug Peninsula

Fourth of July “Serenade Reported More Powerful than Artillery Barrage in Egypt.

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Yanks Shake Nazi: Anchor   La Haye’s Fali Imminent Under Mighty Allied Blow

Fall Of Nazi . Anchor City  ls Imminent   Yanks Take Last Ridge Overlooking , Road-Junction of La Haye; British Gain Southwest of Caen

Last Ridge een Normandy Anchor. Seized      DISPATCHES STATE     Hundreds of Guns Send Shells Into Nest Targets

Barrage Said Greater Than At Alamein   Canadians Take Town Near Eastern End of Nazi Line

GOP Platform Will Pledge U. § To Keep Peace   Bricker, Vandenburg And Dewey Voice Practical Plans

FOREIGN POLICY OCCUPIES 6. 0. P   DEWEY, BRICKER AND VANDENBERG TALK

British Subs Sink 32 Ships   Jap Vessels Hit Near  Christmas Island, Java

FBI PROBES BURNING OF AAA RECORDS   Three Darke County Offices Under Investigation

Asks Cotten Industry To Previde Fund For Post-War Period   Will Be Used To Increase Consumption Of Cotton Producte

FINNISH PRESS DEMANDS PEACE   Social Democratic Party Also Asks Seeking Of Terms From Russia

Plea Results From New Soviet Gains   New Cabinet Formed; Status of Nazi Army Is Uncertain

Germans Bomb London Again   Planes Concentrate  On Outskirts of City

RESCUE SQUADS DIC FOR DEAD IN RUBBLE TODAY   2 German Reconnaissance Planes Sweep Over England Suryeving Damage

175 GERMAN BOMBERS RAID LONDON   Level Two Blocks Of Workers’  Apartments

METHODISTS PLAN ELABORATE EVENT   75th Anniversary To Be Outstanding With Historical Pageant

Methodist Church of LeMars” Will’ Observe Seventy-Fifth Anniversary   Plans Outlined For Observance In Fitting Manner

Ic ongress-White House Feud Future   Report Of Baruch Had Timely Thought On Subiect

Charge Finland Not Living Up To  - Armistice Terms   Soviets Claim Finland Not Disarming Germans But Allowing Them To Escape

RUSSIAN PAPER ATTACKS FINNS   Nation Fails To Live Up To Armistice, Claim

Weather Forces Halt in Major Aerial Activities After Three-Day Spurt; Germans Employing New Tricks

A HALT IN BOMBING   Bad Weather Forces Letup for Britain-Based Planes

Actor Files Suit After Dorsey Fracas   ALLEGES INJURIES IN $40,000 DAMAGE SUIT

CONGRESS RECESS IN TWO WEEKS NOW APPEARS PROBABLE   House Banking Commit. tee Unanimously Approv es UPA Extension for Another Yea

Congress ea Recess in 2 Weeks      “Battle On Food Subsidy Apparently Avoided, But --Qther Issues Pending      SEPARATE OPA BILLS TO FLOOR   @Several Changes. Sought.1 Action to. Extend.” 22 Price -Contrals-:

ONLY 3 TEMS ON FOGD SUBSIDIES   Meat, Butter and Flour Left on List, Consumers Price Aid ls Denied.

Shuns Fight On Subsidies   Committee Approves Extension of OPA, Avoiding Touchy Issue

Prospects Bright Congress To Quit Within 2 Weeks   House Committee Approves Price Control; Conventions Ahead.

“Seabee Mascot’   Six-Year-Old Pittsburgh Lad, Ill 5 Years, Honored By Organization

BLAST LEVELS PORT CHICAGO IN CALIFORNIA   AMMUNITION CREWS WIPED OUT; BOATS TORN TO BITS

Death Toll May Be 350 — In Explosion Of Navy Ship:   Perhaps 1,000 Hurt, In Ammuition Blast At Port Chicago Depot  Dhan San Franciecen Rav   FELT 80 MILES AWAY, 14. COUNTIES SHAKEN

350 DIE WHEN 2 AMMUNITION SHIPS LET 60   While Loading at Port Chicago Two Freighters Explode Shaking 14 Navy Calif. Counties.   250 Navy Men Wiped Out

350 FEARED DEAD IN EXPLOSION OF 2 AMMUNITION SHIPS   Vessels Blown to Bits While Being Loaded at Port Chicago, Calif.—Town Is Shattered.   LIST OF INJURED ‘MAY REACH 1,000   Wires, Trees, Poles and Buildings Fiattened — Most of Those to Lose Lives . Were Negroes.

NAVAL POWDER CRAFT BLOWN UP ON COAST   14 Counties Shaken Explosion Felt 80 Miles Off

Death List From Explosion May Reach Total . f 350 .  THUNDERING BLASTS ~ FELT EIGHTY-MILES  Port Chicago, Town Of 1,500 Population Stalled ,

‘Two Navy Ships ‘Blow Up in  Upper 5S. F. Bay   Disaster Worst of Kind in History Of Nation; Rocks 14 Counties And Shatters Coast Town of 15,000

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Navy Munitions Blast Toll Near 350 Mark   Two Ammunition Ships Explode at Port in California

Ammunition Ship Explosion Toll May Grow to 350; Town Shattered   last, Felt 80 Miles Away, Injures 1,000; Most o Dead Are Negroes o! Navy Loading Crews

Most of Dead ¢ Are Loaders For Vessels   « Cause of Blast Is Not Yet Determined

MANY MISSING IN EXPLOSION   Death Toll Reaches 350 As Rescue Workers Search For More Bodies

ICKES BUDGET QUT FAVORED      CRITICISM MADE OF NUMBER OF DRAFT DEFERMENT REQUESTS OF INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

ICKES HIT IN FUND REPORT   ‘Asked Too Many Defer ments, Committee Says

ICKES FLAYED IN DEFERMENT OF PERSONNE   Charges Made in Connection With Recommendation for Fiscal. Fund.

Congress Still Talks of Inquiry On Pearl Harbor   Some Members Not Satisfied With Army-Navy Secrecy

Conaress Irate Over Hush-Up ” On Pearl Harbor      Sen. Vandenberg Wants to Know Who is to Blame

NAZIS CLAIM 4 TRANSPORTS HIT BY BOMBS   Heaviest Air Raid on Italian City Which Had Been Made in Past Several Months.

FD.R. SAYS WE MUST NEVER AGAIN TRUST THE JAPS   Says Japs Must Never Again Be Allowed To Set Foot On Aleutians.

Aleutian Islands Visited By F.D.R   President Declares U. S. Will Never Again Trust Japs; Gets In Some Fishing On Brief Stay

FDR In Aleutians Says U. S. Must Never Trust Japs   Stresses Potentialities  For Post-War Farms 1, leland ee

Roosevelt Tours Aleutians Base   Says Japan Out of Islands for Keeps

President Visits Aleutians, Declares U. S. Will Never Again Trust The Japanese

Roosevelt Visits — Aleutians  President Says   President Says Strong U. S.. Bases Must Be Maintained To Bar Japs

AMERICAN FLEET OCCUPIES KEY JAP NAVAL BASE IN MARSHALS   ‘United States Army Troops Mopping Up Japanese On Kwajalein Island.

American Army Troops “opping Up On Island; Allies Raid Paramushiru

F.D.R. WARNS EIRE SHE MAY ‘STAND ALONE’   U. S. Rejects Irish Request To Purchase Merchant Ship

Uld Warning To Irish By FDR Revealed   British Pressure Also Is Recicted

Canadian Wheat To Be Purchased For Stock Feed   Announcement Follows Setting of New Top Prices On All Types

WENDELL WILLKIE — ENTERS PRIMARIES   Name Will be Placed on the Maryland Primary - Bealins

Volcano Eruption Kills 30 Persons      Scores Injured Near Mt. Vesuvius

Stettinius Pauses  In North Africa   Conferences Held  With Diplomats

Stettinius Now In North Africa   Conferring With Russian Ambassador and Mediterranean Adviser.

Stettinius In Africa to See Officials   U. S. Envoy to Russiz and Robert Murphy Attend Conference

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GEN. MONTGOMERY COMMANDS GIANT SEA, AIR ATTACK   Seamanship pleyed to Minimize Risks te Allied Landing  Forces.

INVASION GREATEST PROBLEM - IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE   TREMENDOUS’ AMOUNT OF * DETAILED TRAINING AND : “. PLANE NECESSARY BEFORE OPERATIONS “OPENED. ~

Deaths Blamed On Cold Wave   Sub-Zero Temperatures Move Eastward

STEP UP RAIDS TO ERASE JAPS IN MARSHALLS   Jaluit, Biggest Isolated Base, Hit 240-Ton Bomb Blow

TWO-DAY AERIAL “ATTACK S MADE UPON JAP BASES   240 Tons of Bombs Dropped  ~-on -Isolated Jaluit Atoll, Enemy Gives Moderate Rasistanne.   GERMANS ATTEMPT TO BREAK UP RED ARMY   Russians Are Concentrating  _ Great Force of Men at Es tonia For Possible Battle on Polaond Plains.

Press Campaign To Clear Japs From Marshalls   U.S. Bombers Pound Jaluit Atoll Two Days

YANAS STEP UP BLOWS AT JAP BASES   Move Seen to Clear Enemy From Island Group; Northern Islands of Nips Also Raided.

NEW NAVY HELLCAT DOWNS JAPS 31 T0 1   Armor Improved - and Speed Increased to Over 400 MPH

RICH IRON ORE CITY REACHED BY RED FORCE   Soviets Smash Into Out. skirts of Krivoi  Rog .

Soviets Break Into Outskirts Of Krivei Roa   New Offensive May Crush Enemy Holds on Bug River

Report Russians On Outskirts Of Krivoi Rog   Claim 190,000 Nazis Killed or Captured In Last Four Weeks

Russians Seeking Dnieper Iron Ore   New Soviet Gains Reported In Triple Pskov Push

Reds Exacting Heavy Toll  on Nazi Forces   Industrial Center Threatened in Latest Drive

RICH IRON ORE CITY REACHED BY RED FORCE   Soviets Smash Into Out. . skirts of Krivoi “Rog   MANY-NAZIS SLAIN JN RECENT ATTACKS

Red Army Battles Germans In Outskirts of Krivoi Rog   Entire Nazi ‘Position in Southern. Ukraine Menaced by Soviet . Advance on ‘Stronghold - — Moscow Announces That in: sour Weeks 190,000: ‘Enemy Troops Have Been Killed or ‘Captured on Two Battle Fronts, _ z

UJ. 5, MARINES HAVE CAPTURED ISLAND OF ROI AND AIRFIELD      LITTLE ENEMY RESISTANCE REPORTED IN EARLY MARSHALL ACTION

Marines Grab island of Roi   AIRFIELD FALLS TO U. S. ASSAULT TROOPS; NIMITZ SAYS LANDINGS MADE ON KWAJALEIN, NAMUR, ACTION PROGRESSING FAVORABLY

Resistance Is Surprisingly Low, Report   Western Strangpoints Seized as Surprise To Japs

Key Airfield Now ls in  Yank Hands   Admiral Nimitz Reports Favorable Progress Of American Invasion; Warships, Planes Blast Other Atolls in Steady Raids

Marines Land On Kwalalein   Americans Open Major Assault From 10 Beachheads Under Protection of Largest Naval Striking Force in History

Marines Take Roi, Capture Key Airfield   Japs Offer Lie Resistance in Forward Sweep

New Cabinet IsNamed By Hirohito   Koiso Is Premier; Yonai Becomes Minister of Navy

Koiso New Premier as Japs Reform Cabinet in Face of Crisis From American Gains

Gen. Koiso Is Jap Premier  Adm. Yonai His Aide And Navy Minicter:

Gen. Koiso’ Heads Japan’: New Cabine   Army Veteran Is ; Named Premier With Adm.

KOISO 1S NEW JAP PREMIER   New Cabinet Installed To Succeed Tojo’s Government

Koiso Takes Over As New Premier Of Jap Regime  Yonai To Be Deputy;   Yonai To Be Deputy; Cabinet Appointed To Carry Out Dream For Expansion

NAMED NEW IAP PREMIER   Advocate of Nip Expansion Forms Cabinet That Includes Admiral Yonai as Navy Minister. Tokyo Says.

-¥anks Lose Four Dead, 47 Wounded. One Missing Ju Action at Torokina

300 JAPS KILLED IN SUICIBE _ DRIVE ON BOUGAINVILLE BASE   2,000 Nipponese Hurled Themselves Against Ameri. cans On Torokina; Four Yanks Killed And 47 Missing After Attack; Wewak Pounded Again

AT AMERICANS AT TOROKINA   In Another Suicide Offensive. Thrown Back After Heavy Fighting With 300 Nips Dead And Abandoned.   Bomb Rabaul

PUBLIC HEARING ON  COUNTY BUDGET HEL  THURSDAY MORNING REDUCTION IN EXPENSES  SOUGHT---EXPENDITURES MIST MERT REVENIIE

PUBLIC HEARING ON  COUNTY BUDGET HELD  THURSDAY MORNING REDUCTION IN EXPENSES SOUGHT-- “EXPENDITURES  Barter Ge rertT Tre ete Freer

Jnited States Troops Will Smash Into Europe With New Weapons More Powerful Than Anything Ever Before.

Rain Halts Air Attacks By Allies   Some Bombs Dropped On Nazi Defenses; Germans Repulsed At Anzio

TOLL SET AT 211   California Leads Country in Patalltier for Week-

MISHAPS TAKE LIVES OF 210   Traffic Deaths Total Over 120, Far Below Normal Holiday Toll

14) Lives Lost Over Week-End   Auto Crashes Take Toll of 96, Fires 46

PATTON'S MEN ALSO OPEN FINAL ATTACK ON METZ FORTRESS   New Smash Into Reich Made Near Luxembousg Border; U.S. First And Ninth Pound Across Cologne Plain   Rv JI. EDWARD MURRAY

Attack Futile And Costly To  German Forces      Tanks And Infantry Fail To Dislodge British Forces

BASE ON SAIPAN RAIDED BY JAPS   One U.S. Plane Wrecked And Several Damaged; Six Men Wounded

Jap Planes — Hit af US. Saipan Base   Iry to Cripple Yan Fields Used in wosoa, VS, AGgiNst  Japan —

Jap Civilians Must Get Out of Shanghai--Have No Way Do It   American Air Power Forcing Them From Port and From Amoy, But Also Cuts off Rail, Ship Routes Home

Civilians Told To Leave City, Chungking Say:   Escape Made Difficult By Ship Sinkings; Huge Toll Bared

Yanks grind out gains on  Leyte island  Inflicting heavy losses on enemy

Heavy  Losses Jar. Defenders  Of Levte Isle   U. S. Troops Cut Out New - Advances in Fighting *  Weaetls nf SObeensan

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES ABOVE ORMOC   SHIPS BRINGING AID TO TRAPPED LEYTE TROOPS SUNK

JAPS TRIED TO RETAKE AIRFIELD   Yanks Repulsed Them on Adfniralty Islands

JAPS FAIL TC RETAKE YANKHELD AIRFIELD   Attack On Newly - Wor Admiralty Base Beaten Back

Yanks Beat Back Heavy Jap Attack   Planes Aid Ground Troops In Repelling Enemy At Airfield,

Americans Beat Off Jap Attack   Consolidate Positions On Los Negros and Continue Assaults On Southwest Pacific

JAP ATTACK ON MOMOTE IS REPULSED   Los Negros Field Being Repaired By Americans

Invasion Forces Beat Back Jap  Counterattack   American Position Consolidated After Repulsing Assault

JAPS FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO RETAKE ADMIRALTY   Enemy Installations Damaged bv Wake Attack

Nips’ Effort To Retake Los Negros Is Failure; Repairs To Airstrips Are Rushed

LOS NEGROS AIRSTRIP IS NOW BEING MADRE REARY   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses in Fichtine at "Drome

Offer to Trade Carton Of Cigarets for Bike Brings Many Applicants

PEACE MAY BE NEXT JAP MOVE   Joseph Grew Says Nips Will Offer Surrender

Warns Americans Not To Be Fooled  Grew Expects Jap Peace Bid Soon

Grew Warns Of Oily Offer From Nippon   Ex-Envoy Believes Attractive Terms to. WS Are in Offing

Japanese Given  Advance Warning   Says No Compromise Peace To Be Tolerated

Solon Campaigns For Fat Men :  Skimpy Clothes Squeezing — Obese Men; Hebert Assert:

Japs Warned New Attacks Are On Way   Island Strongholds Are Heavily Bombed

GOP Proposing To Put Younger Men In Office   Movement Designed To Offset Democratic ‘Experience’ Claim.

GOP IS PLAYING ON A NEW THEME   Republicans Adopt Tune That “Younger And Fresher’? Men Are Needed In Government.

Younger Men Declared Need In High Office  Republicans Offer  Frecher Talent to

GOP Develops “Youth” Move  For Campaign   To Offset Democratic “Experience” Claim: Hold Postwar Problenis Require Fresh Minds

REPUBLICANS 10 STRESS ‘YOUTH FOR FIRST TIME   GOP Would Say Dewey Has More Strength for Job Than FDR

G. 0. P. DEVELOPING “YOUTH” MOVEMENT T0 OFFSET DEMO CLAIM OF “EXPERIENCE”

‘Younger Men ‘In Politics; ‘GOP Leaders   This Seems to Be Theme Propeesd to Offset “Experience”, Cried By Democrats

REPUBLICAN ‘YOUTH’ CAMPAIGN OFFERED   Plan Designed To Offset Democratic Claims of Experience

Roosevelt Really Starts Something in Revealing His Bet on Electior

That Two-Bit Roosevelt Bet: Under New York Law It Could Prevent Him From Casting Vote

NEW WAGE POLICY — CONSIDERED BY WLE   Chairman William H. Davis Says It Should Fit Changing Economic Conditions.

107.000 British. Homes Destroyed Since 1940   Waae Increases Held Inevitable

WLB Chairman Says New Wage Policy Certain  Davis Studies V-E Dav Plan

ITALY-BASED PLANES BLAST FACTORIES   in Austria, While Bitter Air Battles Rage over Croatia and Hungary According to Nazis.   “Limited Attack”

Vienna Area Is Assault Target   German Factories Hit By Americans Bombers; Aircraft Factory Hit.

Heavy Bombers Blast Nazi Plane Factories   Vital Targets Near Vienna Are Heavily Pounded

FALLS FROM PLANE; » AVED BY PARACHUTE         in {nstruotor Dangies , Head nward*¥rom: Craft Until “Shoes Come Off.

PROBE CAUSES OF ACCIDENT   Southern Pacific’s Challenge - Leaves Rails, Killing Nine ~ Jniuring 79

FBI Probes Train Wreck   ‘Nine Are Killed ‘As Challenger Crashes.

Investigation of Challenger Wreck Opens; Nine Dead   79 Injured in Derailment of Fast Southern Pacific Train

American Officer Gives His Life To Make Raaaed Little Italian Girl Stop Crying

PRASANTS REPRESENTED   Army Officer Loses Life Trying To Rescue Puppy

Freeing Of Paris By Loyal Natives Recalls To Populace How Nazis Entered Capital Over 4 Years Age

Paris Reconquest Recalls Grim Days When Nazis Goose-Stepped Up Champs Elysses

PATTERSON FIELD FIRE INVESTIGATED   Second in ~ Recent Months Causes $40,000 Damage

BABY BOOM IS OVER,  DEPARTMENT STATES   Slight Decrease In Birth Rate Noted Last Quarter In  Baltimore

U.S? SMASHING TRUK VICTORY ROCKS TOKIO   High Command: Out’ After Losing 26 Ships and 201 Planes .

- - ae 7 7“ ew 7” 3d  Invasion Rumor Unconfir “med; Jittery Nazis Await Attack

BERLIN GAYS AlN INVASION STARTED   War of Nerves Keeps Germany Tensely Expectant   LANDINGS RUMORED   Nazis Say Captured Airmen - Regard Themselves as   Invasion Troops

Germany Expects Momentary Landings As Allies Keep Up War Of Nerves; Some Say Invasion On

Nazis Would Like To Think Invasion Is Already Under Way   Nerve-War In Reverse Hits Germans Where They Can't Take It—In Their Morale

Nazis Expect Landings at Any Moment   Air Offensive , As Called Actual Start of Invasion

Berlin Sees Heavy Raids First Steps  In Invasion   ‘Allied Nerves War Upsetting Germans

Germans Tense  For Land Blow   Prisoners Said Spearhead; Finn Rumor Unves,

Allied War of Nerves Keeps Germany Tensely Expectant   Berlin Says Invasion Began Week Ago With Great Allied Air Armada in ‘Round the Clock Bombings; Reserve Air Crews Used

Finns Express Belief Landings Now In Proares:   Helsinki Newspaper Report Unconfirmed By Allied Sources

All of Europe Suffers From. War of Nerves   Germany Certain That Dramatic Climax to Struaale Is Near

WAR OF NERVES GROWS INTENSE   Germans Say Invasion Airforce Now In The Fight

Allies Keep Nazis Jittery   Germany Tensely Waiting For Landings, Rumors Blossom Over Continent

Finland Reports Landings Already Staried   Fast-Flying Rumors Reveal Europe's phattered Nerves

NAZI INVASION TENSION GROWS   MOMENTARY LANDINGS ON CONTINENT ARE EXPECTED BY GERMAN LEADERS.

Nazi Continent Impatiently Waits Blows   Momentary Landings Expected by Nervous Germany

Invasion Rumors Keep Europe’s Nerves on Edge   Berlin Says Air Attacks Mark Start by Allies

INDIVIDUAL “BOND SALES. ARE NEEDEI   TOTAL  BALES $9,000 _ ABOVE _GOAL BUT PURCHASES BY  ‘ INDIVIDUALS WERE BE-’  .. LOW EXPECTATIONS .

CORPORATE SALES HELP COUNTY TOP WAR LOAN QUOTA   Individual Purchases Are Disappointingly Low And Will Continue Throvgh July

BOND DRIVE QUOTO PASSED   UNION COUNTY’S WAR RECORD IS KEPT CLEAN. INDIVIDUAL PURCHASING WAS SHORT

Ward Co. Asks For Dissolution Of Injunction      Expect Court Ruling Tuesday

Montgomery Ward Case Before Court   Injunction Sought by Company But. Government Seizure Ended After Agreement for Labor Bargaining Election Reached—Congressional Investigation Stalled

CHURCHILL GOES INTO WAR AREA   Eisenhower Also Makes Trip To Inspect Battle Zone

Marshall. Joins Gen. Eisenhower On Battle Tou  Churchill Also Visit  mew cera baci

Churchill Pays Visit to Beach   Eisenhower, Marshall Aliso Go fo France

Eisenhower Leads Party on Tour  Churchill Sets Foot on French Soil for First Time Since 1940

Allies Have Rocket Plane   Fighter Using “Jet Propulsion” Has Been Pronownced! a Success

Allied “Rocket Plane Revealed   FIGHTER USING “JET PROPULSION” HAILED AS SUCCESS; ANNOUNCE CRAFT OPERATES “AT HIGH ALTITUDES AND EXTREME SPEED”

Allies Reveal Rocket Plane  Is Successful   British, American Air Forces Announce Development of Fighter Using Jet Propulsion

Allies Claim Perfection of Rocket Plane   Weapon ‘Jet Propelled’ and Pronounced to Be a Complete Success

Planes Using “Jet Propulsion’ Tried Out; Are Success   Mass Production of New Fighter Planes Will be Started Soon

Allies’ ‘Secret Wor son   General Electric and Bell Aircraft Co-operate in Developing New British-American Fighter of High Speeds, High Altitude

STRATOSPHERE ROCKET PLANE ‘DEVELOPED BY ALLIES WILL BE USED AS SECRET WEAPON

ALLIES DEVELOP “ET PROPULSION” ROCKET AIRPLANE      Several Hundred Test Flights Have Been Completed Without Mishap   NO PROPELLOR 1s USED

"Jet Propulsion’ Is Used In New Type Fighter Plane With Speed Up To 400

Air Forces Show New Rocket Plane   Fighter From Buck Rogers’ World Is Explosion-propelled

Rocket Plane Success, Allies Prove In Tests   Quantity Production Of ‘Jet-Propelled’ Craft To Regin Soon.

ROCKET PLANE HELD SUCCESS   Allies To Use Fighter With “Jet Propulsion”

Rocket Plane Carries New Peril fo Foes   Super-Speed Marks Craft; Fighting Power Kept Secret-

LARGE, NEW VISTAS OF AERIAL TRAVEL OPENED BY THE JET-PROPELLED PLANE

Allied Rocket Plane Success; Mass Production Is Planned   Ry KARL BR. BALMAN

ALLIES REVEAL ROCKET PLANE   Propellerless Ship Termed Success After Tests

Allied Rocket Plane Success   Revolutionary Type Ready For Action

Rocket Ship Perfected By Allies      Revolutionary Design Is Used By Yanks

Propellerless Warplane Opens New Air Vistas   Rocket Transportation May Follow—Mass Production of Tet Ensine About To Bevin

ROCKET PLANE SUCCESS USING “JET PROPULSION’   Allied Air Forces Make Report Mass Production To Start Soon

Allied Rocket  Plane Success   “Jet Propulsion” Lsed by Planes  Of AAF and RAF

Rocket Plane Opens New Vista Of Air Travel   New “Jet Propulsion” Plane Developed For United Nations

C. G. Harford Dies In Navy Hospita  Graduate Of Germai Twp. High

Jet Propelled Aircraft May Be Used In Invading Europe When Command Is Given

ROCKET PLANES MAY PLAY PART IN INVASION   Terrific Speed Is Answer To Quick  Surprise Raids

\‘Jet-Propelled’ Aircraft May Become Principal Tactical Weapon--Seversky

Major De Seversky Predict: Jet Propelled Aircraft With Terrific High Speed

ROCKET PLANES IN INVASION?   Major de Seversky Predicts Widespread Use By Allied Forces

Jet-Propelled Aircraft May Be Used In Coming Invasion  Principle May Double Speed Of Ordinary Planes. Cause Other Chanoves Save Do Sevarek:

Jet Planes Called Important Tactical Weapon; May Be Used in the Invasion

Allies May Use New Rocket Plane  When Invasion Of Europe Started

Expert Sees Big Field for Rocket Plane   New Engines Might Be Attached to B29'a, Says de Severaky

May Be Used In The Coming Invasion.....  De Seversky Sees Vast Possibilities In The Jet-Propelled Aircraft

Terrific Speed and Proven Efficiency of New  Planes. Is Great Aerial Weapon

Views Jet-Propelled Aircraft as “a Highly Important Tactical Weapon”

ROCKET PLANE MAY BE USED IN INVASION, CLAIM   May Install New Type Motors in Bombers To Aid in Take Offs

De Seversky Predicts Rocket Plane May Be Used In Invasion Of Europe

Japs Capture Railway City Of Hengyane   Railway City Major Objective in Drive to Cut China; Allies Gain at Other Points

Defenders Of Important Chinese City Wiped Out To The Last Man   TENGCHUNG’S CAPTURE BELIEVED IMMINENT

Probe Of Cleveland’s Black Market Ordered:      iChairman Of House Interstate Commerce Group  Approves Inquiry; Irregularities In Food Ra- tioning Also Under investigation

GOUNTY KITCHENS BECOME TIN MINES   Enough Tin Involved To Build 105 i lying Fortresses

SILENCE HIDES FULL STORY OF PRISON MUTINY   Troops Called, Then Dismissed

Hull Outlines U.S. Role in World Affairs   Appeals for Unity In Support of International Ties

Hull Calls on Nation Not To Let Disunity at Home Peril World Cooperation   Secretary Makes Appeal in Giving Outline of His Foreign Policies in Radio Talk; Denies Secret Agreements Made

Hull Appeals  for Unity  of Americans Secretary of a.  Discusses U. S. Pasaliesen Dallines

Hull Urges Worldwide  Peace Collaboration   Secretary Of State In Radio Talk Outlines U. S. Foreign Policy, Appeals For Unity Among Americans

Hull Pleads For Unity on Home Front   SECRETARY OF STATE OUTLINES ROOSEVELT FOREIGN POLICY ion. WAR AND POST-WAR PER  No Compromise with Enemy

Sec. Hull Pleads For International Collaboration In ‘Organized Peace’

Co-operation By Big Allies Called Vital .   Says It Is Necessary If We Are To Avoid New War in 25 Years  ATM CHELKYP CT a~alrrnpnonc

Hull Appeals” for Unity of Americans   Secretary of State Discusses U. S. Foreian Policy

Hull Appeals For Unity In Program   Secretary of State, in Discussing Foreign Policy, Urge: People Not to Let Election Controversies Affect World Affairs Program   Hull Tells Stand Regarding French

Foreign Policy Is Outlined By Secretary   No Secret Agreement Or Commitment Made: Allied Collaboration In Peace Is U. S. Aim

Appeals tor maintenance  of home unity Foreign policy  wan cow witiwinnwiwe

Tragedy Due It U.S, Fails World Needs   No Compromise on Nazism. Stable Europe Sought,  T ccumestereees, ‘Reaccccces:

Allies Must Stay In Italy After Wa Expert Reports   Reconstruction Should Be Aided, Says Rome  Region Commissioner

Big Force May Remain in Italy   Long Occupation Urged by Poletti

Nipponese Given Severe Blastings . Jap Forces Reel Under Powerful Air Blows Of U.S

Nipponese Given Severe Blastings “ipponese Given Severe Blastings  Jap Forces Reel Under  ~ Powerful Air Blows Of U.S

Mighty blows rock Nippon  island bases Philippines are  controlled by an

LIBERATORS BEAT OFF FIGHTERS   Bomber Gunners Blast, Nazis Out of Skies Over Bucharest -

Bombers Pound Bucharest Again   Thirty-Five Nazi Intercepting Planes Are Shot Down In Attack   OTHER BALKAN POINTS ATTACKED

RIOTOUS VOTE ENDS RULE OF KING'S PARTY   Seventeen Hospitalized As Fights Flare in Canadian Ballot

GOVERNOR ASKS. QUICK APPROVAL OF VOTING PLAN   REFERS TO SOLDIER VOTE BILL AS MODEL FOR ENTIRE NATION

SERVICEMEN'S BALLOT SYSTEM IS EXPLAINED   General. Assembly Hears Plan In Sneciz! Meet

Cov. Green Submits Proposals to Give Ballot to Soldiers   Sends Message to Extraordinary Session of General Assembly

JAP FORCES ATTACKING IN PALEL AREA   Reported “Heavily” Beaten Off, While Patrol Clashes Continue Raging in Hills.   Nearing Mogaung

Japs Atfack Near Imphal   Mass Assault On Big Allied Base Looming

British Repel India Thrust ‘Tn Palel Area   Japanese Try To Reach Allies’ Imphal Base  omy

JAPS ATTACK BELOW IMPHAL   Enemy Is Expected To Open Mass Assault On Allied Base

Jap Invasion Forces Strike Below Imphal   Mass Assault on Big  Allied Base Foreseen;: Air-Borne Troops Kill 1,000 Nips in Burma

JAPS LAUNCH STRONG DRIVE NEAR IMPHAL   ‘Mass Assault on Big Allied Base Expected Soon

JAPANESE ATTACK ~ SOUTH OF IMPHAL   Mass Assault on Big Allied Base Soon Ex~ pected

NEW RATIONING BRINGS DEMAND FOR FOOD CZAR   Five Canned Vegetables. Many Meats Restored: Butter 24 Points

CANNES, GRASSE FALL TO ALLIES   French Take Toulon Arsenal; Mop Up of Marseille Continues

CANNES FREED: GERMANS HOLD OUT IN TOULON   Mop-Up In Liberated Marseilles   GRASSE SEIZED   7th Army Takes 20,000 Prisoners

A.C. A. Ready to  Make Corn Loans: Sealing Price 88   Sealers Have Been Appointed In Each Township to Take Samples for Testing

County A.A.C. Ready To Make Corn Loans   Corn Sealers Appointed in Each  County

Claims Drive May Hasten War’s End   Says Push Primarily Made To Halt Yanks

FAILURE OF NAZI DRIVE MAY END WAR   Gamble On Stopping Drive To Cologne

SECRETARY OF WAR MAKES STATEMENT   Has Utmost Confidence In The Wisdom, Energy Of Our Leaders

Yanks Nea Near Main Po Volley Road   Triple Drive Reaches Livergnano Outskirts

JAMES NOLAN, JEFFERSO} COUNTY “BO8S",: VICTIM OF ACCIDENT: AT  ‘CHICAGO °°

John F. Nolan, State Democratic Leader, Scalds to Death in Bathtub

OHIO DEMOCRAT LEADER SCALDED   John F. Nolan Dies After Incident tn Chicago Hotel

FRENCH REVOLT IS UNDER WAY!   Full - Seale Action Near Swiss Line

American Jungle Fighters Call Their Officers by First Names: Precaution

JAP’S ATT TO FOOL ARMY OFFICERS FAIL   Enlisted Men And Officers Called By First Name

Army’s Officers Waive Formalities While Engaged In Jungle Campaigning

Japs Listen To Americans   So No Officer in Jungle Is Addressed By Rank of “Sir”

“Uificers Strip Sel Selves « of Titles,  lnsignia i in Jungle Fighting

Ohio Soldiers, on Bougainville Now, Call Officers by First Names to Cross Up Japs

“That You Doug?” Lor’, If It Ain’t Private Jenkins Talkin’ To Gen. MacArthur

U.8. Planes Aid Chinese   Yanks Move In At Tung Ti ing Lake  As Chinese Prepare For Showdown

U.S. PLANES HiT JAPS ON CHANGSHA   Reds Repulse Germans With Enormous Losses Inn Romania Fighting.

U.S. Planes Aid Chinese at Tung Ting, Lake   Major Battle Imminent in Chanasho Area

U.S. Planes In Battle of Tung Ting Lake   Chinese Ready for Desperate Defense Of City of Changsha

U.S. FLIERS AID CHINESE AT TUNG TING   Japs Converging On Changsha From Three Directions

aa tin a he  U.S. Planes Aiding Besieged Chinese At Tung Ting Lake

American Planes Enter Battle of Tung Ting Lake   Chinese Forces Fall Back, Prepare For Defense of Changsa

Chinese. Retreat Along 60 Mile Front Before Jens     'U. S. PLANES HIT TAP SITPPLY BAST   Allies Capture - Isolated Jap Strongpoiat Of Malakawng

AID CHINESE AT TUNG TING   Japs Converging On Changsha From Three Directions

* KE ATPASE ARES <a EAGLES SATURDAY NIGHT  fwrhaoactesn ana Aonen ain

Yanks Take Over 3 Italian Heights   Nazi Units Cleared  From Vital Positions

ANOTHER. REPORT CIRCULATED - PHAT “FAT HERMANN” was "ARRESTED BY. GES.  TAPG i

Fr. Wagner Dies ‘Of Infirmities eAt Hospital   Pastor Emeritus Of Osage Bend Church Was 79

Torrential Rain Hampers Allies On Italian Front   Progress Is Impeded As Result Of Weather Conditions In Po Valley   NAZI THRUSTS ARE BEING REPULSED

65 PLANE CARRIERS ACTIVE WITH FLEET   Cembined Flight Deck Area Is Equal To 129 Football Ficids, Official Sarvs

Foreign Trade- Credit Sousht   Uncle Sum’s Allies Want BIN Rillian ‘nan -fuff?

ALLIES TO SPEND BILLIONS IN U. 5.   Governments to Purchase Supplies for Recon etruction

Allies To Spend 10 Billions in United States   Ry TOHN M. HIGHTOWER

ALLIES WILL SEEK POST-WAR GOODS   Propose to Buy at Least 60 Billion Dollars Worth of Material for Post-war Reconstruction

ALLIES T0 SPEND BILLIONS IN U. S.      Governments to Purchase Supplies for Recon—- struction —s_—s—=s

Allies of U.S. Plan To Spend Ten Billion in This Country   Conservative Estimate  Of Post-War Deals _ Provided Financing  Can Be Arranged PLANS BEING MADE

ALLIES PLAN BIG POSTWAR BUYING IN U. 8,   To Seek at Least $1( Billion Dollars Worth of Goods

POSTWAR ROADS ‘MEASURE SIGNED   Government To Contribute $1,673,250,000 To Program

AMERICAN TROOPS ANTICIPATE ‘D’ DAY   Yanks Taught All The In: And Outs Of Street Fighting

YANKS ANXIOUS FOR “D’ DAY   Group Told They Will Spearhead Invasion Want to Get Going.

BRITISH FORCED TO YIELD GROUND QN DUTCH FRONT   40,000 Germans Already » Captured in Allies’ Offensive

FRENCH CONTROL. WESTERN HALF OF STRASBOURG   60.030 Nazi Troops Face Entrapment in Vosges Mountains

Republicans Work On Precinct Organization Job  Dewey {fs Preparing Speeches to Be Given Next Month

Gastine Station. Attendant Admits tabbing of Gir  Storyof Ki Hi Or Sit Do ump Told ty ard Vin

BIG AIR PUSH IS STARTED IN PACIFIC AREA   B-29's to Spearhead At. tack Against Japanese _

GREAT AIR BATTLE OF JAPAN BEGING   B-20’s to Undertake Destruction of Jap Air Force   PATTERN UNFOLDS   Enemy Sees Plan as Clearly As Anybody Else and Be» gins Counter-moves

Attempt to Smash Jap Air Power   Air Batlle of Jor i S-gins With B-29s Spsashcading The Alfuck

AIR BATTLE OF JAPAN STARTED BY AMERICANS   ‘Superfortresses Are Now Concentrating On Nippon’:  Plane Production   PACIFIC STRATEGY IS EVIDENT TO ENEMY

REVERCOMB hlTa NEW DEAL AIMS   Declares Powers Seized Ove People Will Be Taken Awa\ In Wovember; Addresse: Roanoke Meet

SENATORS VOTE TO RETAIN SEN. BARKLEY AS THEIR SENATE LEADER   Action Follows Resignation Of Party Head Against President Roosevelt’s Tax Veto.

KENTUCKIAN   Devout New Dealers and Foes Alike Make Choice Unanimous

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Draft May Continue To Take 75,000 Monthly

Draft To Go Ahead After Nazis Fall   Selective Service Calls May Continue As Large As At Present

ESTIMATE FROM 75,000 TO 100,008 YO ENTER. SERVICE PER ‘MONTH FOR SOME TIME ..

Soviets Improve Lomza Position   Nazis Tell of Heavy Red Blows in Poland

SOVIETS OPE GATEWAY INTO EAST PRUSSIA   GREAT PUSH BEGUN TO BREAK NORTH POLISH FRONT

RUSSIAN TROOPS CLOSING IN ON LOMZA FORTRESS   Fall of the Bastion Guarding Southern Approaches to East Prussia Seems Imminent.   BERLIN REPORTS NEW RED DRIVE IN POLAND   Declares Powerful Soviet Armies Have Begun Supreme Effort to Break Through Northern Front.

LOMZA'S FALL NEAR PRUSSIA IS IMMINENT   Coordinated Push Aimed At Breaching South Polish Front

Reds Threaten  Lomza Bastion   Germans Report Russian Olfensive in Poland

Red Army Driving  For East Prussia   Fall of Lomza Appears Imminent as Soviets Announce Improved Positions—-Germans Declare Supreme Drive Launched by Russians

LOMZAS FALL TO RUSSIANS APPEARS NEAR   Fortress Guarding Approaches to East Prussia Doomed

Russ Army Driving ~ [In Full Force For  East Prussia Area Reds Are Closing In On  Warsaw Fortress

Fall of Key East Prussian City Nears; Nazis Say Reds Have Begun Supreme Drive

FALL OF LOMZA TO RED TROOPS HELD IMMINENT   Poles And Germans Are Fighting In Streets Of Warsaw   DEEP PENETRATION INTO TRANSYLVANIA

Soviets Start -Out Push, Germans Say  _ Seek Break-Through ° to East. Prussia, tes at Moscow Silent   CAPTURE OF ‘LOMZA : SEEMS. IMMINENT ©  “Deeper Penetration. =: Into: ‘Transylvania =                 :   eek ‘Break- -Through to East. Prussia, -" at Moscow Silent         CAPTURE OF LOMZA SEEMS: IMMINENT ©

‘azi Officials Reported To Have )rdered the Evacuation of Berlin

VET OBSERVERS OF WAR SEE NO GERMAN COLLAPSE BEFORE SPRING   Internal Fold-Up Seems Only Hope

United Press Chiefs Believe War in Europe Will Continue Into Next Year

) TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  - Germans May Be Trapped  West Of Rhine

Germans Burn Own Towns as They Retreat   Russian Forces Are Reported to Have  Crossed into “Holy Soil” of Germany

Germans Burn Own Villages Alona Border   New Policy Adopted in Defense of East Prussia Against Reds

Nazis Burn Own Towns. Soviets Say   Reds Reported To Have Crossed Border Into  East Prussia

Burn Their Own Towns in Prussie   Germans Using Torch as They Retreas From Russians: 14 Divisions Attack   REPORTED TO HAVE. CROSSED BORDER   Gains in Other Sectors as Soviets Continue to Mop Un in Baltics

Nazis. Burning Own ‘EastPrussian Towns   Applying Torch Along Junkerland Frontier, Moscow Says—One Report Declares Reds Have Crossed Over to German Soil.

Germans Burn Own Towns on Prussian Border   Soviet Forces Are Poised for Plunge Into Nazi Territory

Red Forces €ross River Into Prussia   dial Nazis Setting Fire To Own Cities Along Szeszuppe Frontier

Nazis Burn Villages In E. Prussia   Russians Reported Already Across Berder as Germans Retreat—Mop Up in Baltic

E. PRUSSIAN CITIES SAID IN FLAMES   Russian Forces: Poised For Dash Across Border

(Germans Apply Torch ToTowns In East Prussia   Hope to Prevent Use By Russiaris Advancing Swiftly Toward Soil Of Reich   Moscow Places Reds In Germany   German Communique Says Soviets, Mopping Up Huns In Baltic States, Cross Lake Peipus

GERMANS BURN TOWNS, VILLAGES ALONG FRONTIER   Destroving Them So They Cannot Be cf Use to Russians Who Are Reported on Nazi Soil

‘Nazis Burn  Own Towns On Prussian ‘Border Zone   Report Soviet Army Has Crossed Into Reich; Lithuanian City Lost In Battle

RUSSIANS IN GERMANY: SET TOWNS AFIRE   Germans Burning - Own Cities In Mass Retreat

Reds Reported Across East Prussia Border   Retreating Germans Burn Villages Along Escape Route

Nazis Burn Own Towns On East Prussia Border   Reds Reach Boundary; Crossing Into German  Territory Reported.

Nazis Burn Own Cities in East Prussia  Red Fliers Report Spotting Fires Along Whole Frontier RUSS AT BOUNDARY Soviets Mass for War's First Penetration of German Soil   RUSS AT BOUNDARY

Germans Burn Towns, Villages In East Prussia   Russians Report ‘200,000 of Enemy Trapped in Baltic

Paper Charge: Nazi Blockade Runner Flew  Argentine Flag   Ship Carried ‘Number of Argentine Seamen’ O Globo Says

Argentine Flag On Nazi Vessel  Blockade Runner Was Scuttled, Report

PAPER SAYS” ARGENTINES ON NAZI SHIP   Also Charges That Blockade Runner Sunk Last Week in South Atlantic Was Camouflaged and Flew Argentine Flag.

Argentines On Destroved Nazi  Blockade Ship   Argentine Newspaper Savs Flag Was File fat Sunk In Ne le eo   INTERN 145 CREWMEN

Brazil Charges Blockade Runner Had  Argentine Sailors and Flew Its Flag

MEET WITH NELSON   Senate Committee Wants tc Hear More About  Fyeconversion

Russians Bomb Communications  a ee ee wei  ie-iene ae   Continue Aerial Attacks Behind German Lines

290,000 GERMAN TROOPS MENAGED IN NEW DISASTER   Red Army Pouring Throug! Massive Hele Knocked in Volkhov Front

BY FALL OF GIT}            Soviets Seize 180 More T in Balkan Country as Thi Push Toward Ploes  OW Hields..          OPEN DRIVE AT TOP. OF CRIMEA. PENINSI         Muscovites Break 5 Heavily-Fortified Ene

SOVIETS MAKE J0-MILE PUSH INTO ROMANIA   OFFENSIVE SURGES TOWARD PLOESTI OIL FIELDS

Russians Take Odessa, Stab 50 Miles Inside Rumania In Ploesti Oil Fields Drive

USE AIRSTRIP JUST TAKEN   Invasion of Hollandia Continues and Three Forces  , Converge on 3 Airfields; Sav Few Javsc Seen.

EXPANDING NEW GUINEA BEACHHEADS   One of Three Newly Captured Ai¥strips in Use

Beachheads in Northern New Guinea Extended   Planes Fly From Newly Captured Landing Fields

Captured Airstrips On NewGuineaExpandJU.S. Offensive In Pacific   Ground Troops Closing In On Three Airfields At Hollandia  189 ENEMY PLANES WERE DESTROYED  Capture Huge Quantities Of Supplies And Equipment In Advance

TROOPS MOVE INLAND FRO * AEACHHEAD   Planes Join Jungle Fighters Pushing on Objectives in New Guinea.

Fighter Planes Already Using Newly-Won Airstrip To Aid Land Forces Closing On Big Hollandia Airfields

AMERICAN JUNGLE FIGHTERS EXTEND THEIR BEACHHEADS   Yanks Near Hollandia Airfield With Fighter Planes Assisting In Operations From Tadii.   JAP ROAD BLOCK 1S SMASHED BY BRITISt   Jap Troops Capture Yushik to Improve Enemy Control of Large Area In China’s Central Plain.

FISHTER PLANES JOIN AMERICAN - JUNGLE TROOPS   Come From _Newly. Captured Airstrip At Tadii

AMERICANS EXPANDING BEACHHEADS   Tacji Airstrip Near Aitape Being Used By Yanks

GROUND FORCE SUPPORTED RY AIRPLANES   Vanks Close In on 3 Hollandia Airports; Dutch Land

Planes Join Fight For New Guinea   Newly Won Airfield Enables Fighter Planes to Protect Advancing Allies

Newly-Captured Airstrips Already ‘Placed In Use   Troops Move Within Striking Distance of Aitape Village

Fighter Planes Cover Jungle Troops Closing On Hollandia Airfields   Enemy Opposition  Light So Far, But Japs Push Northward From Wewak, Cyclops

U.S. Troops Expanding Beachheads   Fighter Planes _Join American ‘Jungle Troops  In New Guinea

‘Rain Checking Philadelphia Racial Riots   Meanwhile “Thousand: Walk Or Hitch-Hike to Jobs in Transportalion-Sirnck City

Army Readied In Philadelphia   Seizure Would End  Tram and Bus Strike

US. MOVE SEEN IN TRANSIT TIEUP   Philadelphia’s Racial Strife Curbed By Drizzling Rain

Hitch hiking Philadelphians Look To Capital      City Hopes Washington Te End Transport Tieup; Negroes Rioting

Transportation Tieups Plague Two Big Cities   Racial Strife in Philadelphia Enters Third Day As War  Workers Stav Home

ARMY ACTS 10 TARE OVER IN STRIKE TIEUE   Officers Confer with Company Officials as Rioting ‘Tabae nit.

Army Apparently Preparing to Run Philly's Transport   Gen. Hayes Coalers With Local Officials, Strike on Bus. Trolley Lines Unbroken

TRANSIT STRIKE CONTINUES IN PHILADELPHIA   Many Workers Walk to Job in Rain, Report More Race Disorders

Transportation In Philadelphia Going To Army  Government Seizure        Government Seizure Of System Expected; 36,000 Workers In Nation Are Idle

Army Ready vlo Take Over Phila. Lines   Military, Transport Officials Confer on Third Day of Tie-up

PHILADELPHIA WAR WORKERS STILL WALKING   Expect U. S. to Seize Transportation System Soon

PREPARATIONS ARE BELIEVED UNDER WAY FOR ARMY CONTROL   TRANSPORTATION STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA CAUSES RACE VIOLENCE

TRANSPORTATION TIE-UPS PLAGUE TWO LARGE CITIES   PHILADELPHIA AND MONTREAL HARD HIT BY WORK STOPPAGES

LOOK TO WHEE HOUSE INTIEUE   Philadelphians Walk, Hitch-Hike To Jobs In -Drizzling Rain

Army May Operate Busses and Trolleys   Chief of Third Service Command Arrives in Philadelphia, Scene of Racial Troubles and Transportation Tie-Up.

Transportation Strikes Plague Two Major Cities — More Than 36,000 Workers Idle

U. S. Prepares To Take Over Paralyzed Transportation System In Philadelphia

Philadelphia Strike  Disorders Continue   Steady Rain Curbs Racial Clashes Between Whites And Negroes: Transportation Tieup Hurts War Plants

ARMY TO ACT IN STRIKE, RIOT   Gificers Arrive in Philadelphia with Transportation Still Paralyzed.

Action By Army Appear s Ready In Walkout  AtPhiladelphia   Troops Mays Take Oser As Diansportation Pieup Contimes: Mayor Cally Tt Sabotage,

ARMY 10 HALT PHILLY STRIKE   Set To Take Over Transport System; Race Violence Wanes

PHILADELPHIA WAR WORKERS STILL HOOFING IT TODAY   Transportationless City Looks "Lo the: White :-House: to ‘Put Stop" to ‘Tieup—-Race Fights Dampened By Downpour

Rioting Stops  In Philadelphia  Travel Strike City Expects Action Soon

TIEUPS PLAGUE 1 MAJOR CITIES   36,000 Workers Are Idle In Continental Labor Disputes

Army Preparing  To Take Over  Phila. Transit Dispute Referred To  White*House; Many Walk In Rain Tadayv

LOOK TO PRESIDENT   Violence Feared in Transportation Tie-Up in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Walks Or Hitch-Hikes   Rain Slows Racial Disorders; FDR May Act to End Transportation Mess

Racial Disorders Checked by Rain  Philadelphians Walk or Hitch-hike to Work

Philadelphia Still Tied Up By Walkout   Appeal Will Be Made To Washington; Race Rioting Continuing

FDR ACTION IN PHILADELPHIA TIE UP AWAITED   Violence Continues In Wake Of Stoppage By Transit Workers

Army Prepares to Run Philadelphia’s Transport Systems   Continental Labor Disputes Render 36,000 Laborers Idle

Look to White House for End to Strike   Maj. Gen. Philip Hayes Moved Into Philly to Take Over Transportation System.

IDLE WORKERS EXCEED 36,000   Transportation Tieups in Philadelphia and Mon- — treal, Que.,   AFFECTS OVER 3 MILLION

Air combat training pays big dividend Needed all tricks to beat death tray

Start offense with arrival of Mustangs  Vicious assaults cripple luftwaffe

Ruthless air duels end in  nazi’s death US. pilots depenc  upon teamwork

JU-88 first victim under Gentile guns  Instructorship  wd at dace Yape

Fighter pilot first learns ability to kill Germans prove vicious teachers

Outwits Hun  after using  ammunition Saves life with  brilliant flying

High-scoring allied team  sets record 434 Huns shot down by group

LT. TOMMY HARMON BACK IN AMERICA   Hero of War and  Football Has 20-day Leave

ATTACK MILITARY OBJECTIVES IN THE PAS DE CALAIS AREA   United States Marauders Fol. lowed in Wake of RAF Raids into Germany.   RAIDED NIGHT BEFORE   Fires, Meanwhile, Reported Still Burning in Berlin From Previous Attack.

BOMBERS ROCK GERMANY HUBS   18 U.S. CRAFT MISSING IN NEW EUROPE STAB

Invasion Coast Of France Gets Heavy Bombing   American Foray Follows R. A. F. Mosquito Raids  Into Western Germany.

Allies Attack  Pas De Calais   Bombers Raid “Rocket Gun’ (.oaat: Mosquitos Raid Western Germany.

Germany’s Defense Is Crumbling   Nazis Driven Out of Russia in Kiev Sector—Berlin  Hit Again

Air War SteppedUj By Allies   Allies Continue Air Offensive to Soften Up Nazis

U. §. PLANES BOMB FRENCH TARGETS   British Raid Objectives Wectern Germany

U.S. Bombers Hit Germany   Attack Objectives in Northwest After Marauders Hit French Coast

Yank Planes Hit AtPas De Calais; RAF Over Reict   Heart Of Berlin After Previous Night Assaults

FRANCE, REICH, ITALY BLASTED BY EXPLOSIVES   Bombers From Mediterranean Bases Crack Axis Targets Across Farflung Air Front

U. S. Bombers Hit France; RAF Lashes Germany  Objectives Include Rumored Site Of “Rocket Guns”

DI TE GHLAIS BONED BYU.S   Yankee Airmen In Strong Air Attack On Military Objectives

Bombers Raid ‘Pas de Calais    U. S. Mediums Are Escorted by Fighters In Latest Raid

Allies Blast At France-Germany   Marauders Heavily Attack Reported Rocket Gun Emplacements In France; RAF On _ Forays Into Western Germany. . 

U.S. BOMBERS AGAIN ASSAULT FRENCH COAST   Fires Reported Still Burning in Berlin From Heavy Raids by RAF

Mosquitos Hit Targets In Germany   Nazi-Controlled Norwegian and Danish Radios Off the Air

French Coast Suffers New. Air Pounding   U.S, Attack Follows RAF Raid on Targets in Western Germany

YANK BOMBERS POUND FRANCE   U. S. Planes Return to Bases Without Loss — RAF Strikes Germany

U.S, BOMBERS BLAST FRANCE, RAF HITS REIGH   Americans Attack Targets ir Pas De Calais Area

YANKEE PLIERS POUND FRENCH! (COASTAL AREAS   Fas De Calais, Rumored  Site of “Rocket Guns”  Emplacements Target; - Other Sectors Hit

‘Rocket Gun’ Area Is Hit Heavily By U.S. Bomber:   Western Germany Is Also Assaulted; Fires Still Rage In Berlin, Traffic Is Paralyzed

Big Planes «Roar Back Into Reich   48 American Bombers Lost in New Heavy Blows on Northwest Germany   SomE ENCOUNTER ~ INTENSE FLAK   More Raids on France and Still Other Areas May  = Re Targets

BERLIN STILL BURNING; RAF POUNDS REICH   Dane, Norse Radio Stations Leave Air

German Targets Again Smashed  Air Raids Continue Monday Nich?, Tuesday

U.S. MEDIUM BOMBERS HEAVILY ATTACKED FRENCH OBJECTIVES   ADDITIONAL BOMBERS SWEPT OUT IN DIRECTION “ROCKET GUN” SECTOR

Yankees Lose 18 Bombers Over Reich   Marauders Also Raid ‘Rocket-gun’ Coast of France

Marauders Attack, Pas De Calais  Area of France RAF: Bombs Western   RAF Bombs Western. Germany; All Planes Return From Both

YANKS LOSE 18 BOMBERS OVER REICH   “Heavies” Make Day Raid in Northwest Part of Nation as Mediums Blast “Rocket Gun” Area in France.

DUCE GRANTS CIANO’S WISH   Count Permitted To Die WithOut Blindfold

MUSSOLINI'S SONIN-LAW EXECUTED   Ciane Shot, Along With Mar. shal De Bone.

DUCE GAVE CIAND “PRIVILEGE” 10 FACE FIRING SQUAD   Mussolini Credited with Last tronic Gesture to  Saas en: Devas

Son-in-Law of Benito Mussolini Killed by Nazis — Mussolini Grants Ciano Privilege of Facing Firing Squad.

King of Italy Retires in Favor of Son  Will Turn Over Power Day Allied

Allies Launch Major Blow.  Below Rome   Air Victory Recorded a: 62 Enemy Planes are Shot Dawn

German Gustav  Line Crashed By  American Troops   Allied Planes Bomb, Strafe Enemy Targets, Bag 62 Nazi Planes

ALLIES GAIN NORTH OF CASINO   Also Push Inland South of Rome; Nazis Resisting

American Tanks Break Up Gustav Line At Cassino   Allied Airmen Strafe Nazi Front, Down 62 Planes

NAZIS HURLED FROM HEIGHTS OVERLOOKING RAPIDO VALLEY   Other 5th Army Forces Smash Germans Not Far From Eternal City

Yanks Cut Nazi Line At Cassino  Cab Anes PheiGnc   5th Army Drives Inland From: * Beachhead:20..:'. Miles From: Rome.

U.S. INFANIKY CUTS THROUGE ‘GUSTAV LINE’   Tanks Lead Successful Assault in Cassino Area: Invasion Beachhead Near Rome Expanded.

AMERICANS PIERCE NAZI GUSTAV LINE   Allies Push Inland From Anzio; Six Divisions Landed

Troops Near Rome Advance   Cassino Fight Called Bloodiest Of Italy Drive

U. S. Panzers Rip Nazi Gustav Line; 62 Aircraft Bagged   Tank-Led Troops Shred Wall Befo re Cassino; Invaders Meet Suff Attack; Taufivatfe Smashed in Aerial Fioht

German Line North of Cassino Broken by Yanks   Resistance of Foe South of Rome Stiffens

GERMANS MINE AND EVACUATE ETERNAL CITY   American Tanks and Assault Troops Smash Deeply Into Enemy Defenses.

Soon to Be Fighting on German Soil   Russians Breaking into Kaunas, After the Capture of Grodno

Germans Order Civilians Out ‘Border Region   Indicate Russians » May Have Crossed Disputed ‘39 Border

HEAVIES HIT ROBOT BOMB SUPPLY POSTS   Livorno Under Assault From Twa Sides

Red Armies Advance on Broad Front After Taking Grodno, Gateway to Reich

City of Luxembourg Taken by American Ist Army; Siegfried Line Placed Under  U.S. Artillery Fire

‘British Troops Smash Throug   Albert And Escaut Defens   Lines Inte Holland Is Repor Yanks May Be In Holland   EISENHOWER AND MONTGOMERY CONFER!)

Siegfried Is Under Fire of Yanks Guis   American Fighter Squadron Shoot Dewn 130 German Planes.

Germans Hint Hodges Storming Fortress Of Maastricht   Drives Obsecured By News Blackout   Luftwaffe Makes Attempt To Defend Reich Against U. S. Bombers

Americans Capture City Of Luxembourg Near Siegfried Line   BRITISH SMASH IN HOLLAND DEFENSES   News From Advancing Armies Still Obscured As They Near Germany

130 Nazi Planes Downed   Luftwafte Rises To Challenge Air Might of Allies

1,700 BOMBERS POUND GERMANS   Bad Weather Prevents Close Support for Infantry

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED  HEAVY BOMBERS HIT  NAZI RAIL TARGETS BRITISH AND AMERICAN  HEAVIES MEET NO AIR  APPNCITION

Allied Bombers Hit Opladen With 2,500 Tons Bombs   Attack German Railroad Workshop Despite Storm Restricting Visibility.

Ke K  KR Kx Raiders Strike Thra Storm   x «* «*& - ¥ Siege Of Bastogne

BOMBERS HIT GERMAN FRONT   Blast Enemy Repair Centers Near Cologne Despite Sleet Storm

1,700 HEAVY BOMBERS IN RAID ON REICH   Despite Bad Weather, 11 Rail Targets in Germany Are Hammered By Allied Planes   AID TO GROUND FORCES

2,000 Pieces Of Transport Lost By Nazis   American, British Air Forces Based In England Hammer Foe

Bad Weather Curtails Air Operations  But 1700 Planes Hit Nazi R‘Roads

GERMAN SECTOR HIT FROM SKY   1,700 Allied Heavies Jar Junction Point in Western Reich

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED HEAVY. BOMBERS HIT NAZI RAIL TARGETS  BRITISH AND AMERICAN HEAVIES MEET NO AIR

Heavy Bombers Hit Rail Targets  In West Germany  Bad Weather Hampers Close Support For Ground Troops

BOMBERS BLAST GERMANY’S RAIL TARGETS TODAY   1700 Planes Make Raids Despite © Bad Weather

Dewey Pledges Self to End ‘One-Man  Government, Crush Japan, Germany   Young GOP Nominee Tells Convention Roosevelt Administration Is ‘Old and Tired,

‘New Deal Hit In Speech of  l Aeeentance   Asserts Administration Has Grown Old, Tired,  Quarrelsome in Office   MADE NO PROMISES TO ANY PERSON   Rewinning Freedom ‘At Home Big Task After Winning of War

End 1-Man Government Says Dewey   ACCEPTS. NOMINATION, TELLS VAST AUDIENCE MERE Wottss: WON'T MAKE PEACE: SUPPORTS MACKINA( DECLAKATION.   “Future Has No Limit”

Complete Victory in War, "Rewinning Freedom" for U.S. at Home Dewey's Goal

os  PNR  “D ae  mre *F m7 al ¢~  het he   Says War Must Remain Out of Politics; Victory in War, Freedom at Home Goals

Plans to Devote Self to Rewining Freedom at Home   Accepts Nomination and Says That Present Administration Has Grown Old and Tired And Quarrelsome in Office, Is Unequal to Great Pressing Problems of War and Peace

Jap Battleship, Cruiser Sunk In North Bornec   53,000 Foe Casualties In Philippines; Our Losses 5,691

Japs May Attempt To Encircle American Troops  infiltrating Units Seem Aimed At Leyte Invaders

Benton Harbor Hero Woundec   Sgt. Joseph V. O'Signac Out Of Action

LOCAL MARINE HERO WOUNDED   Sgt. Joe O’Signac Hospital ized, Parents  Notified

Franklin’s Park Hotel  Burns   None Injured; Woman, 75, Rescued from Ledge

Fire Destroys Large Hotel In Franklin   Nearly 100 Persons Are Driven From Rooms and Apartment Homes  oe nee  PROBABLE LOSS $300,000

5 Aircraft Plants End Boss’ Strike   UNION. BOWS TO MAR LABOR  BOARD DIRECTIVE TO END WALKOUTS AT PATERSON, N. J.   Gain Nething By Strikes

B-29 Strikers - Ordered: Back   Union Bows to Stern ' Call Of War Labor Bourd

Union Officials Bow to Demand  By Labor Board   Call off Five Strikes Holding Up Production Of Super-Fort Engines

STRIKE CALLED OFF — BY UNION LEADERS   Officials of f Wright Plants Bow to Demand of WLB. ,

Wes Gallagher Says: Eye Witness of American Advance In Normandy Describes Great Drive

GERMANS TRYING TO ESCAPE TRAP   PLANES HAMMER NAZIS FLEEING BEFORE AMERICAN TROOPS IN NORMANDY.

Writer Sees U. §. Precision Attack C rack French Front Wide Open

Reds Rip Major Gap in German Budapest Line   Capture Fortified Transport Hub East Of Hungary Capital

Main Battle Declared Already Over   Yanks Are Within 150 Miles of Germany's Borders

SWIFT DRIVE OPPOSED BY: AIRMEN ONLY   Reich Border Imperilled With No Sign Enemy Troops Are Rallying to Make Stand.   PRISONERS STREAM BACK IN TRUCKS   Noose Tightened About Tens of Thousands of Hitler’s Soldiers in Siene River Loop.

Marseille Also Falls to Allies’ Rapid Advance   No Sign of Major Nazi Stand Seen; Actior At Bordeaux Gove On

MacArthur Opens Drive to Clear  Admiralty Isle   Reinforcements Aid Numerous Cavalrymen To Rout Japanese

Fresh Troops Hit Admiralty   Blow Originally Intended As Just A Reconnaissance

Yanks Soon May Be Using Momote Field   Reconnaissance Force So Surprises. Enemy Occupation Develops  SEABEES ARE BUSY

AIRFIELD WON IN ADMIRALTY ISLAND FIGHT   TEXAS CAVALRYMEN REINFORCED; JAPS PUT TO FLIGHT

Reinforcements To Aid of Texans On Admiralty   Cavalrymen Under Heavy Mortar Fire; Destroyers Shell Bases

 Resignation Of Dr. Dykstra Is Accepted   President Of University Will Leave U. W. In February To Assume Los Angeles Post

‘DYKSTRA TO NEW POST    Former K. U. Staff Member to  University of California

Nazi Targets In ltaly Raidec  By Fortresses   Rail Lines at Turin.  Roller Bearing Works Smashed: Land Armie. Stalled in Heavy Snow

Nazi Supply Artery and Roller Bearing Works Smashed by Bombs   Hundred Direct Hits Are Scored in Railway Yards at Turin

GERMAN SUPPLY ARTERY BOMBEL   TURIN RAIL YARDS AND NEAR- ? BY ROLLER BEARING WORKS HIT BY AIRMEN.

German Supply Traffic Halted  Fortresses Shatter Ball-Bearing Plant

German Supply Iraffic Bombed   Rail Bottleneck at Turin Is Target

U.S. PLANES BLAST LINES IN NO. ITALY   Railway Bottleneck At Turin, Ball Bearing Plant At Villar Perosa Shattered; Land Armies Hampered By Snow   Destroy Trucks

NAZIS’ SUPPLY LINES BLASTED   Fortresses Pound Rail Network at Turin, Shatter Bearings Plants

German Supply Artery Smashed In Fortress Raid   Roller Bearing Works at Perosa Blasted; Land Armies Stalled

Blows Leave Railway Bottleneck At Turi Corked; Opposing ‘Land Armies In Italy Remain Stalled

Allies Wreck Bearing Plant   Turin Railyards Snarled By Raidera in ltale

TURIN SUPPLY YARD BLOCKED BY U.S. BOMBS   FLYING FORTRESSES HIT BALL-BEARING WORKS AGAIN

PAY CONTROLS RECEIVE STUDY   Prospects Of Early Peace In Europe Spur Fresh Inquiry

Peace Prospect Prompts Study Of Wage Control   Think Labor Leaders Must Ponder Move To Break “Little Steel’? Formula

RENEW STUDY OF WAGE CONTROLS   PROSPECTS OF EARLY PEACE SPURS WLB TO PREPARE FOR IMPACT

1,00 HEAVY U.S, BOMBERS BLAST ROCKET COAST   Record Force Sweeps Across Channel In Attack On New Hun Weapon   GERMAN TARGETS HIT   Fortresses And Liberators Accompanied By Strong Fighter Forces

Negro Held For Church Slaying  Became Angry When Victim Reprimanded Him Palice Claim

CAPITAL SLAYING SUSPECT TAKEN   LIBRARIAN REVENGE KILLING ADMITTED

Lost: Atlantic Charter Valued As Keepsake, ‘Return to United Nations

Lost: One Atlantic Charter, Slightly Used. Finder Will Get Liberal Reward

HUNT FOR CLUES — IN AX MURDERS    Meanwhile, Ozar Ozark Women Keep. Their’ Doors . -Tirhtly Locked

Still No Clue To Killing of Ozark Wien   Officers Trying To Find Where Clothes Were Bought

Yanks Hasten Harbor Repair ’ At Cherbours   German Losses at Seaport  Raise Total to 70,000;  Cammaniler Canteec.3

Front Dispatches Indicate Tank- -Supported British Had Cut Caen-Avranches Truck Highway  Across Base Of Normandy Peninsula

British Quickly Exploit U. . S. Capture of Cher: = bourg :  AXIS LOSSES SINCE D-DAY REACH 70,000  Attacks Cuntinue ‘Agatnet ’ Last Remnants of Opposition

Allies Start New Attacks On Normand\   British Launch Major Attack Near Caen as Cherbourg Surrenders

MAJOR ATTACK IS LAUNCHED BY BRITISH TR20PS   German Bastion Of Caen, On Road To Paris, Outflanked By Tommies   THOUSANDS OF NAZI PRISONERS CAPTURED

Axis Losses Reach 70,000 Since D-Day   Cherbourg Port Being Cleared for Use of Allies

SENATE SCRAPS FDR SUPPORTED FOOD SUBSIDIES   House Expected To Follow In Steps Of Irate Solons

Senate Votes Subsidy Bar By 43 t025   Roosevelt In Expected To Veto Measure

Senate Votes flat Ban Upon Food Subsidies   pill Sent to House After Compromise Plan Rejected; Veto pv. President Looms

PUTS THROUGH SUBSIDIES BAN   Compromise Plan for Food Stamps is Shouted Down

Senate Passes Ban on Subsidies: Veto Expected   Compromise Food Stamp, Wage Increase Proposals Reiected

Senate Votes Subsidies Ban; Veto Expected   Honse Passage Seen Sure,  Real Test Will Come Din Over Bidding

Senate Vote No Against Payment Of Food Subsidy   Refuses Food Stamp Compromise and Pay Control Proposal

SENATE DEFEATS FOOD SUBSIDIES BY 43-28 VOTE   House Is Expected To Concur In Amendments;  Veto Is Predicted

SUBSIDY BAN BILL PASSED INTHESENATE   ‘Measure Sent to House for Amendment Concurrence   VETO AWAITS BILL,. IT 18 INDICATED   Real Test Will Come on Question of Overriding Veto

CONGRESS BANS FOOD SUBSIDIES   Compromise Is Shouted Down: Presidential Veto Expected

Food Subsidies Shouted Down In the Senate   Flaf Ban  Approved By Vote of 43-28

Senate Approves Ban on Subsidies By Vote of 43-26   Stamp Plan, Proposals  TS*Relax Control of  Wages Defeated

SENATE, 43:28 PUTS THROUGH SUBSIDIES BAN   Compromise Plan for Food. Stamps is Shouted Down

SENATE APPROVES BAN ON SUBSIDIES BY 43-10-28 VOTE   Bill Calls for Cessation June 30 of Payments That Have “Rolled Back” Some  " Food Prices.   AMENDMENT TO RELAX WAGE CONTROLS LOSES   Roosevelt Believed Certain to Veto Legislation After House Acts Upon Measure.

Yanks Hold Eight Of Palau Islands   Bombers Hit Enemy Ships in Philippines

Three Additional Islands In Palau Group Conquered   Southwest Pacific “ Bombers Sink Or Damage 12 Jap Ships

YANKS TAKE 3 MORE OF PALAU ISLES   Bombers Sink or Damage 12 More Japanese Vessels   8.717 Jans Dead

TWELVE MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK, DAMAGED   American Forces Extend Their Grip to Eight of Palau Islands In Pacific.

EIGHT PALAU ISLANDS--ARE NOW SECURED       Invastort Forces Extend Conquest To More Islands In Pacific

PHILIPPINE SHIPPING IS AGAIN HIT   17 More Jap Vessels Sunk Or Damaged » By Bombers

'WLB TURNS: WAGES DISPUTE OVER TO  F.D.R. UNATTACHED   No Recommendation Made or Plea to Eleminate Little Steel Formula

Labor’s Wage Demands Sent To Roosevelt   War Labor Board Makes No Recommendations In Regard To Breaking Little Steel Formula

Insist state water rights be protected   ‘Serious threat to irrigation needs’

(944 QUTPUT JF MAGNESIUM WILL SUFFICE   Truman Committee ‘Completes Its Investigation

Truman Committee Indicates 1944 Magnesium Production Will Exceed War and Essential Civilian Needs

DEMO MEET IN CHICAGO SEEN   [Mayor Kelly Arranges for : Discusion of Plans

Reds Thrust — ‘Into Crimea  _ At Fast Pace   Another Army Cuts Down Toward Ploesti Oil With Equal Speed -

Soviets Keep Pushing Deep Into Crimea   Fight Way Into Streets Of Tiraspol; Capture More Romanian Towns

Reds Advance [In Romania And Crimea   Momentary Setback at Skala Suffered by Soviet Forces

Soviet Armies Pounding Down Through Crimea   Other Red Forces Pus Rapidly Toward Vita Rumanian Oil Fields.

Red Conquest of the Crimea Moves Rapidly   Armies From East and West Sweep Foe: From Their Paths

Early Ballots Give Scant Hint Of Vote Trend   Texas, Alabama, Massachusetts First ta Report

AMERICANS HELD BY ENEMY GIVEN ‘GOOD TREATMENT   So House Military Group Reports

House Committee Reports Americans Held in German, Jap Prison Camps’ Treated.in Accord. with- Convention :

Stalin Tells of Army Success   Re-Take Three-Fourths of Lost Area

REDS 10 PURSUE GERMAN FOE   Combination of — Big Three Will End Nazi Regime: Stalin.

Russ Forces Drive Across Into Slovakiz   Conquest of Ruthenian Territory Complete With Fall of Chief City

Bishop Advocates Unity In Churches   Calls For Organization to Back Doctrine of Social Linity.

Witnesses State Action “Worse Than Normandy Ever Was;” 77th Division Lands on Lightly Defended Beaches; Air Attack Starts. .. .. _.

AMERICANS DRIVE TO OUTSKIRTS OF BESIEGED ORMOC   Guam Veterans Advance Two Miles in First 24 Hours After Surprise Landing Near Port.   NIP FORCE TO SOUTH FACES ANNIHILATION   Enemy Units Caught in Squeeze Play—Yanks Moving Toward Stronghold All Along Front.

Yanks Reach Outskirts Of Ormoc Base   Vets Advance Two Miles After Quick Attack Behind Lines

Japs on Leyte Are Squeezed By Americans   Super-Forts and Navy Co-ordinate Attacks  On Strategic Iwo Jima  IGTANN DIT UPAVITYV

YANKS ADVANCE TO OUTSKIRTS OF ORMOC PORT   Large Jap Force South Of City Faces Annihilation, MacArthur Says   TRANSPORT IS SUNK OFF LUZON ISLAND

Hem Japanese Inside 5, Mile Death Pocket   Yank Flievs Blast Enemy Ships Trying to Free Pig Cnerican  *

ENEMY FORCE SPLIT UP ON LEYTE ISLAND   PART OF GARRISON AT ORMOC FACES ANNIHILATION

VETERAN TROOPS ADVANCE 2 MILES   Yanks Mark Anniversary by Gaining on All Fronts   DIVISIONS NEAR LINK   Enemy Paratroops Dropped On Leyte Hunted Down by Organized Groups

Large Jap Force South of Port Faces Anni-  hilation  AMERICANS DRIVE TO TRAP JAPANESE  13 Enemy Freighters Destroyed or Damaged

Germans IHlay Be Caught in Death Trap   Fifth Army Forces Extend Beachheads  Biatne, Wéinwteaal ('t4 oe

Stronghold Of Nazis Is Threatened   Reported Some Yanks Havs Already Entered Town  Below Rome

OTH CLOSES DEATH TRAP ON CASSING   German Stronghold All But Encireled In Italy

INFANTRY AND TANKS SHATTER GUSTAV LINE   Showdown Fight For Rome To  Be Climax Of Bitter Bat: tle Now Raging

Cassino Encircled By Yanks; Nazis Face Death Trap   Rome Beachheads Extended By Allied Fifth Army

Fortress City of Cassino Nearly Surrounded   Strike Swiftly to Take Advantage Of Break-Through

WEATHER   ALLIES BREAK INTO STREETS OF CASSINO   Center of Nazi Line Doomed

U.5, TANKS AND GROUND UNITS RING CASGIN   Americans May Have Closed Death Trap on Nazis Left in Town,

ERCIRGLING CASSING TOBAY   Allies Extending Peachheads Below Rome in Face of IncreasingtyHeit Counter-Attacks.

DYING BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN   U. S. Liberators Hit Invasion Coast

Invasion Coast of France Again Battered   Indicettions Point to Another Attack on Berlin

Official Berlin Is  Fleeing   Americans Down 1/0 German Planes In  13 Victories  On 3 Days.

Giving Japanese Notice That Giant Planes Mean Business; Coordinated Attack With Navy.   Heavy Clouds

ARMY AND NAVY BOMB IWO JIMA   Sea Forces Tie Up With B-29s To Blast Jap Island Bases

Navy Pounds Two Japanese Island bases   More Ship-Losses By Enemy Also Reported

Extremists Cause Greek Conflict   Wilson Says British Found Deserters From Nazi, Bulgaria Armies

Smash to Within 16 Miles of Closing Line Completely Around City; Patton Widens Moselle Br idgehead

6TH ARMORED DIVISION IN METZ ASSAULT   Need 16 More Miles To Completely Close Gap

Third Army Drives to Encircle Metz, Widens Moselle Bridgehead; Eight  Divisions Now in Growing Offensive

U.S. Relations With Finland Near Break   Finnish Representatives in Washington Handed Passport:

U.S. Break With Finland Believed  To Be Imminent.   Passports Given Finn  Minister, Counselors:  With Orders To Leave

FINLAND ENVOYS ORDERED OUT BY STATE DEPT.   Action Follows Request To Get Out Of War With Russia

FINLAND IS ON BRINK OF BREAK WITH AMERICA   Ministers To Washington Unde Surveillance In Their Homes

Finns’ Envoy Told To Quit United States   Break With Former Friendly Nation Anuears Near

Dewey Tells Untruths Says House Leader   McCormack Also Points io False Demohbilization Issue

McCormack Hits Dewey Statement   Demobilization Plans Made, Says Democratic Leader

SYRACUSE OFFICER  FIRST PARACHUTER  TO LAND IN FRANCE CAPT. LILLYMAN DIDN'T  KNOW WHEN BUT KNEV HOO WACTPANOPR MAN

» Polities— (Continued cn page 8)   Old Age Assistance for  January Totals $13,679

Ex: Willkie Manager To Aid Dewey Campaign   Massachusetts G. O. P. Leaders  To Confer with Dewey on Issues

Dewey To Meet Massachusetts GOP Delegation   Republican Candidate Deals Members of Congress In on Campaign

DEWEY WILL MEET GROUP ON MONDAY   Massachusetts’. Delega tion to Confer on Caompaian -.

SOVIET SHIPMENTS BEATING SCHEDULE   Many Tons of Arms and Supplies Shipped This Year

“Priority” Cuts Air Mail Letters   Passengers Get Preference Over Postoffice Materials

Identify Body of Woman in Trunk   Police in Chicago Continuing Probe

TRUNK BODY IDENTIFIED IN CHICAGO   Mrs. Louise Villegas Slain, Shipped to Los Angeles

Halt Turk Shipping    Move Considered Further Hint of Coming Turkish-German Break

Bulgaria Tells Germans To Get Out Of Country   Withdrawal Of Nazi Divisions Scheduled As Sofia Government Negotiates With Allies; Turks Mobilize For Action

Nazi Troops May Leave Bulgaria   Report Request of Bulgaria Is Being Considered Favorab)\

Turkish Break With Germany Appears Near      Report Coincides With Bulgarian Demand Of Nazi Withdrawal

TURK STEPS TOWARD WAR   Declare Numerous Suspensions of Shipping Have Taken Place and Sum. mer Military Maneuvere Are Secret.

Nazi-Turkish Break Near   Shipping Suspended, Men Drafted Into Army for ’Maneuvers’

TURKISH BREAK WITH GERMANY MAY COME SOON   German Radio Thinks It Is Imminent. Turks Say Bulgars Demand Naz: Withdrawals

$46,176,321 Recommended For Congress   ' House Committee Lowers  Budget For Legislative Branch

VOTE EXPENSE MONEY   Capitol Dome Will be Painted But Library Gets No Addition

Urge Cut For House. Senate   }  \ppropriations Co m mittee Recommends Decrease For Legislature.

Asks Federal Salary Hikes   Presidential Ineome  Of $100,000 Sought

Huge Increase in Its — Artillery Ordered by Army on Invasion Eve

Stepped Up War Demand for Ammunition Will Delay Nylon and Whisky Output

Heavy Artillery Program Hiked   Schedules Stepped  Jn Tremendoriss!ly

 Heavy Artillery Program Boosted  \Production Schedule To Be  Stepped Up, Officials State

Blt; PRODUCTION BOOST ORDERED IN HEAVY ARTILLER}   Current Schedules for Some Sizes Increased as Much as 1,000 Pct. On Eve of Invasion,   SHIFT FROM LIGHTER WEAPONS UNDER WAY   Program to Require More High-Speed Tractors to Move Guns and Addi tional Heavy Trucks.

ARTILLERY UIPUT TO BE STEPPED UP   Tremendous Increase Noted on Invasion Eve of _ Heavy Pronram

Looking for a Long War in Europe? Army Orders Vast Increase  In Output of Heavy Artillery

Heavy Artillery Program Boosted prone cael er a-ha aided  Production Schedule To Be Stepped Up, Officials State

Heavy Artillery  Program: Hi Hiked   Schedules Stepped Up Treamencously

HAVE AN IDEAL DAY   No Better Kansas Thanksgiving Weather on Record

REDS SMASH 19 WHLES IN EAST PRUSSI   Allies Maintaining Western Front Pressure

‘Soviets 19 Miles In East Prussia, Stalin Announces   Western Front Hit By Bad Weather, Sees Little Action

Scientists See Possible Blow To Pacific Foe   Marks Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor

Violent Quake Hits Near Japan   Scientists Call It ‘Catastrophic’

VIOLENT TREMORS . NOT YET LOCATED      Earthquake Strikes in Ja. pan Vicinity, .Recordings Show

VIOLENT QUAKE HITS IN VICINITY OF JAPAN   Seismographs Throughout The World Record ‘Quake Of Terrific Intensity, Probably Centered On Jap Mainland

w~———MAV@ Waste Paper——— Sees Home Building Settina Postwar Pare

Casualties Number Over Half Million   Fall Of Lwow Leaves Last German Barrier Before German Border tn Hands Of Soviets

Men Dragged From Ratts By Sharks After Transport Is Torpedoed By Jap Submarine

Red Cross Sets War Fund Goal   200 Million Needed For War Activities, Chairman Announces

Downey Get: Wide Lead In Coast Poll  Senator Appears Certain of Primary Victory

CURIOSITY ALMOST KILLED CORSIGANA MARINE ON TARAWA , PFC. JAMES D. TAYLOR POKED OUT JAP WHO  Cone Be CLINT

CURIOSITY ALMOST KILLED CORSICANA MARINE ON TARAWA  PFc JAMES D. TAYLOR

French Coast Scene of —  Great Fight   100-Mile Front Is Established With Tw Great Ports on Flanks to Serve As Bases for Landing of Men, Supplies

Germans Report Landings Along More Than 100 Miles of Coast _ From Le Havre to Cherbourg

GERMANS ADMIT LARGE FORCES GAIN FOOTHOLD   Fierce Fighting Reported Along Cannes Coast

LANDINGS BETWEEN NICE AND MARSEILLE   GALLS ON FRENCH PEOPLE TO FIGHT

RIVIERA IS SCENE OF NEW OPERATION      Naval Force of 800 Ships Lands Troops; Defenses . Hit By Planes, Ships

WORLD FREEDOM OF PRESS AIM OF U. S. EDITORS   MAINTAIN TRUTH ONLY GURANTEE OF LASTING PEACE

Constitution No Adequate Protection? ....  Editors Back A Strong Demand For Worldwide Freedom Of The Press

World Freedom of Communications _ and Press Is Demanded by Editors

EDITORS: BACK ‘DEMANDS. FOR. A FREE: PRESS   Concerned Over, Fu ture of News Dis- tribution -'

World-Wide Freedom Of the Press   Newspapermen Contend Unhampered News Publicity Insurance ° of Peace

Editors Back Demands For Worldwide Press   Free Communications Necessary For Peace

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INDEPENDENT OIL OPERATOR LIVES IN FALSE HEAVEN  THOMPSON AND JESTER HEARD RV HNtiecr cin.

VAN WERT EDITOR HIT BY LIGHTNING   In Hospital for Treatment of Severe Burns

Smash Through Second Belt In Siegfried Line   Belgium Liberation Said Completed; Patrols Stab Into Aachen, Withdraw

Temperstures   Patton’s Blitz Army Said ‘Going Well’; Fall of Metz Expected Momentarily; Danish Freedom Council Proclaims Strike

Hull To Invite Three Powers To Join In World Organization   First Inter-Governmental Peace Planning Since League Of Nations Will Have Object Of Avoiding Third World War By Cooperati

Hollandia  Doomed   20 Planes Destroyed; Jap Opposition Lacking in Invasion

POISONS WIFE, CHILD   Littleton, Colo., Sheriff Says Man Admits Double Killing.

SAY MAN ADMITS POISON KILLINGS   Sheriff Claims nape Says Brey lined

GEN, MAC ARTHUR WINNING PRAISE   Classed- With Bong as Moral Leader as. Well as Military Power

INDICT EIGHT FOR STRIKES   FEDERAL GRAND JURY TAKES ACTION ON STRIKES AT GOvERNMENT-OPERATED OHIO MINES

SUPERFORTS, SEA FORCES BATTER JAP STRONGHOLD   Attack On Iwo Jima Marks First Time B-29’s Operate With Naval Surface Vessels, Aireraft In Joint Assaults

Roosevelt Wins Texas Skirmish   President’s Forces  Win Out In Initial "Tk wet

Pro-Roosevelt Delegates Apparently in Control of Texas Convention as Test Ballot Is Won

RUSSIAN HOSTS 91 MILES FROM GERMAN SILESIA   ANOTHER ARMY IS WITHIN FIVE MILES OF CZECHO-SLOVAKIA

Republicans Ask ‘Poll- Tax Amendment   33 in Senate Seek Banas Voting “Preteauisite:

POLL TAX AMENDMENT INTRODUCED   33 G. O. P. Senators Would Amend ‘Constitution —

Poll Tax Issue Brought Back Into Limelight By Action of 33 Republicans

Iwo Jima Base Gets Terrific \Sea, Air Blow   Mightiest Attack By U. S. Warships And Planes Qn Japanese Buse Listed By Navy

Draft To Cut Production Of Tires One-Third  Rubber Director uro6é«  , ae ee ee Sa

First Official Complaint From The Production End  Draft Policy To Knock Civilians Out Of Tires

Says Draft Will Cut Tire Output   Industry Opposes Draft of Men Under 26 Years

Russian Troops Within 43 Miles Belgrad-Nis Railway, Escape Gap For Nazi Troops

REDS IN SERBIA DRIVE TOWARD ESCAPE ROUTE   200,000 Nazis Threatened With Entrapment in Lower Balkans

SOVIET DRIVE NOW MENACES NAZI SILESIA   Russians Advance on Kracow   VISTULA HOPPED   200 Towns Near East Prussia Captured

Nazi Robot Blitz Cracks Defenses   - Parliament Members Restive Over Silence

Lowell Bennett Escapes  ..War Correspondent Flees German Camp: Sends Storv

10 MILLION MAY GET EMPLOYMEN   ment Interference Must Be  ‘Senate Group: Says Govern:  Held at Minimum.

Allied Might . In Europe Is ‘Stupendous’   AP Writer .Contrasts It With the Last War in Tour of Front

Veteran of World War One Compares  It With No. Twe   Finds Infantry Still Force That Puts It Over at Finish

4-F Cooperation Said Negligible   Recommendations Made By House Committee

RUSSIAN FIGHTER - BOMBERS SWARMED OVER YUGOSLAVH   In Round-the-Clock Raids on German Forces, It Is Announced.   GROUND TROOPS GAIN   Moved Along Curving Mountainous Front 70 to 100 Miles of Belgrade.

Russian Bombers in RoundThe-Clock Raids Over Yugoslavia.   FOE DEFENDS FIERCEL‘

SOVIETS DRIVE TO BOTTLE UP 200.000 NAZIS   Red Bombers Hit Germans Defending Yugoslav Lifeline

200,000 NAZIS NOW FACE TRAP   Success in Baltic Battle Looms for Russians Too

REDS STRIKE DEEPER INTO YUGOSLAVIA   Ground Troops Gain Steadily Along Curving Front 70 to 100 Miles Southeast of Belgrade   200,000 IN POCKET

Soviet Armies Strike Deeper  In Yugoslavia   Drive By Reds Bottling Up An Estimated 200,000 Nazi Troops In the Lower Balkans

Reds Driving To Cut Nazi Balkan Line   Advancing Along Front 70 to 100 Miles Southeast $f Belgrade; - Russian’ Fighter Bombers Attack Germans

Reds Strike  Deeper Into  Yugoslavia  ’ Russian Planes In Heavy Raids

Russians Gaining  On Balkan Front   Fierce German Defense of Their Escape Line Is.  nted   MAY BOTTLE  200,000   On Northern Front, Battle of Baltic State Nears  Last Phase

Soviet Bombers Said Swarming Over Yugoslavia   Red Ground Troops Gain Steadily On Curved Line “~Sontheasr Of Belarade

RUSS PLANES SWARM OVER YUGOSLAVIA   Red Ground Troops Are Bottling Up 200,000  Nazis In Balkans

RUSSIAN ARMY PUSHES DEEPER - IN YUGOSLAVIA   Nazi Escape Route In Balkans Imperilled By Drive

Planes Pace Red Invasion Of Yugoslavis   Bombers Pouring Explosives Into German Defens

Red Army Advancing Nearly Mile An Hour Across Yugoslavia       Belgrade-Athens Railwav Periled   Moscow Silent On Hungarian Drive And Operations At Warsaw

Russian Drive Trapping 200,000 Nazis In Balkans   Unofficial Reports Say Reds Aiming New Offensive At Budapest.

Red Planes Back Drive to Bottle Nazis in Balkans   GE GERMAN COUNTER-BLOW oe TO THROW ALLIES OFF B. tL. AN

Russians Advance Along Balkan Line   Sovet Troops Penetrate Hungary; Battle for Riga in Last Stage

SOVIET PLANES HIT YUGOSLAVIA IN HEAVY RAIS   Russians Gain Steadily on Curving Front Southeast of Belerade

Reds Bottling 200,000 Nazis In the Balkans  Russians Cut Across Yugoslqvia o coc... fey

Russians Moving Ahead to Cut Off Nazi Troops; Air Ac tivity Increased   TARGETS IN “YUGOSLAVIA. BATTERED: BY: BOMBERS

Reds Bottle Up 200,000 Nazis In Lower Balkans   Fighter-Bombers Hit Yugoslavia In Effort To Clear Out Enemy  Resistance

Yugoslavia  Hit From Air   Russian Planes Keep Up Steady Assaults  On German Ferces

RUSSIAN AIRMEN RAID YUGOSLAVIA   Soviet Ground Forces Gain Steadily On Curving Line

SOVIET FORCES STRIKE DEEPER IN YUGOSLAVIA   Red Army Tightens Trap on 200,000 Nazis in Lower Balkans

RUSSIAN AIR FORGE AIDS GROUND TROOPS YUGOSLAV INVASION  DRIVE THAT IS BOTTLING UP 200,000 NAZI TROOPS SBEAnirrn arrarnm

RUSSIANS GAIN IN YUGOSLAVIA   Estimate 200,000 Germans Trapped in Balkans

NAZI DEFENSES DENTED SUNDAY BY RED FORCES   200,000 Germans Believed Held In New Trap

Drive Trapping Nazi Forces In Lower Balkans   Gains Made Into Hungary, Dispatch From Turkey Says

Round- Clock Attacks Made By Russ Planes   Steady Gains In Mountainous Terrain In Belgrade Area

Bottling up Germans in Lower Balkans   Moscow Silent on Critical Situation In Warsaw

Reds Closing Trap On 200,000 Balkan Nazis   Russian Bombers Swarm Over Yugoslavia As Germans Fiercely Defend Balkan Lifeline Below Belgrade.

Reds Gain In Planned Trap In Balkans   Nazis Fiercely  Defend Life Line * Southeast of  Belgrade

SOVIETS GAIN IN YUGOSLAVIA   Troops, Aided b by Fighter Bombers, Advance Toward Objectives

Soviel Planes Hit af Germans In Yugoslavia   Red Troops Gain Steadily on Front 70 to 100 Miles — From Belgrade

BELGRADE LIN IS DENTED BY REDS   Round-The-Clock Attacks Made On Yugoslavia   FALL OF RIGA   Expected Soon By Pravda: Turkey Reports Drive Toward Budapest

Red Bombing Raids, ‘Ground Gains, Dent Nazis’ Balkan Line   Estimated 200,000 Ger man Troops Bottled Up by Soviets in Balkans

SOVIET PLANES SWARMING OVER YUGOSLAV SOll   Steady Gains by Ground Troops Who Are Bottling up an Estimated 200,000 Nazi Fighters.

Soviet Planes Assaulting Slav Cities   Ground Forces Gain Steadily in Bid To Trap Nazi Army

May Bottle Up ” 200,000 Nazis In The Balkans   Day-Night Bombings Of Foe In Yugoslavia Fea: ture Red Offensive.

Reds Tighten Trap Around Nazi Troops   200,000 in Lower Balkins Menaced as doviets Make Gains

Soviet Planes Swarm Over Yugoslavia   Red Ground Troop: Gain Steadily.  Dent Fierce Nazi Life Line Defenses

Soviets May Cut: Off 200,000 Nazi ‘in Lower Balkans   Goal Is Near as  + Reds Pour into Yugoslavia; Riga Battie Growe Eracee.

Russian Drive in Yugoslavia Backer By Soviet Planes   Tito’s Partisans Advance Scouts for Red Army Columns

sMIET BOMBERS ni YORNSLAUI   German Forces Lashed In Round-The-Clock Air Raids   FIERCE FIGHTING   Nazis” Battling To Save Balkan Lifeline South Of Belgrade

SOVIET PLANES * CLEAR WAY FOR SLASHING PUSH   wy Objective Will Be Reached Shortly, Reports From Front Indicate

Reds Striking Near Belorade: Nazis Stiffen   Russians Imperilling Escape Route Of Foe In Balkans; Soviet’s  Airmen Hittina Hard

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE AIDS GROUND TROOPS YUGOSLAV INVASION  DRIVE THAT IS BOTTLING UP 200,000 NAZI TROOPS MOVES AHEAD

Heavy Raids By Russians.  Silence Guns In Yugoslavia   ‘Partisans. Leading. Z ‘Soviet. Advance ©.

Reds Roll Nazis Back In Balkans   Scores of Planes Support Drive Across Yugoslavia; Threaten to Trap 200.000 Germans

200,000 Nazi Troops Being Bottled Up   50 Batteries Of Enemy Are Reported Quiet

Scores of Villages Occupied By LightningLike American Advances Which Were En gulfing Peninsula.

LIGHTNING ADVANCES MAY SOON CUT OF BRITTANY PENINSULA   American Tanks Only 40 Miles From Two Big U-Boat Bases; Nazi Losses Put At 190,000 Since D-Day

Official Returns In Scott County For General Election 1944   SIKESTON

FINNISH PORT CITY ‘CLOSED BY GERMANS   Dispatch. Says Nazis Have Acted to Forestall Acceptance of Ruaslan Armistice.

CFVERAL FILE IM STATE PRIMARY   Mrs. Chauncey Hinerman Is Only Woman to Seek State Office so Far; Other Candidates Send Certificates

HOME FRONT NEWS INCLUDES WARNING   WLB Rules Gasoline For Winter Vacation Trips Is Out

Plays Heroic Role   Courageous Stand of Outnumbered U. S. For. ces Enables British To Clear Antwerp Por

U. S.. Seventh Division. Heroic  “Saved” ‘the. ‘Antwerp ‘Campaign

7th’s Holland Stand Prevented Disaster For Antwerp Armies      ‘Unbelieveable Heroism Agzzinst German Forces Cited by Allies

Reveal Valiant Yank Stand Saved ‘British-Canadian Antwerp Campaian

MEN OF ARNHEM ‘NEVER LOST HOPE’ DURING ORDEAL OF TANK, MORTAR FIRE

British Sky Troops Who Survived Battle Tell How They Were Bombarded Night and Day as They Lay in Trenches, Unable to Leave to Bury Dead—Promised Relief Never Came as Struggle Grew Rougher and Rougher.   By ROGER D. GREENE AND ROBERT C. WILSON

Siegfried Line — Assault Goes — Into Second Day   Berlin Admits 9-mile Wedge Drive by Yanks Near Aachen; Polish Resistance in Warsaw Ends

MARINES TAKE USHI POINT AIRDROME   On Tinian [sland After Night of Fighting; Jap Losses Heavy in Futile Counter Attacks.   “Well in Hand”   American Prfess)

MARINES CLOSING TRAP ON JAP UNITS ON GUAM  Treading Yanks Have Main

China ‘New Deal’ Urged by Wallace   Pacific Era Envisioned By Vice President

Wallace Urges  New Deal  For Chinese Calls for Closer  Cooperation  7” —, 7 —

TAX ADJUSTMENTS DUE WITH PEACE   Spadework Proceeds; Doughton Promises Action Soon as War Ends

AAF Holds 4 to 1 Ratio Over Enemy in 43, Destroy 11,042 Planes While Losing 2,885

AAF DESTROYED 11,042 ENEMY PLANES IN “43   War Secretary Gives Report To Nation

US Army Air Force Holds 4 To 1 Edge   Stimson Gives Combat Figures

AAF Destroys 9,463 Planes In Air, 1.579 Upon Ground During 1943, Says Stimson

Yanks Destroy 11,042 Enemy Planes: In 1943 Compared to Loss of 2,809;

Claims Army Ruined 11,000 Axis Planes   Stimson Gives Figures Of Aerial Combat Of Past Year

ENEMY AERIAL LOSSES LISTED   11,042 Destroyed, Stimson Says; U. S. Total 2,885

AAF Smashed  11,042 Enemy  Planes In Year U.S. Has Nearly A  AM. 1 QWilaen Dinuroc   U.S. Has Nearly A 4 To 1 Edge, Figures By Stimson Show

OTIMGON GIVES REPORT ON Abt   Forces Have Destroyed Total of 9,463 Enemy Planes in the Air.

PLANE LOSSES OF ENEMY 4 10 1 AGAINST YANKS   They Destroyed 11,049 ir 1943 Stimson Says - - Draft Of 4-Fs Still Considered

U.S. LOSSES OF 2,285 TOLD BY WAR SECRETARY   STIMSON SAYS BOX SCORE FAVORS ARMY BY NEARLY 4 TO 1

AIR VICTORIES ARE STRESSED   Army Forces Destroyed Over 11,000 Planes in ‘43; About 2,900 Lost

STRIKE CAUSES BREAD PROBLEM   Ciucinnati and Toledo Has Unusual Situation — Truck Drivers Expecting to Walk Gut in Sympathy with Bakers,

JAPANESE ISLANDS . SYSTEM COME UNDER HEAVY AIR ATTACKS  ADMIRAL NIMITZ BELIEVES JAPS CAN BE WHIPPED

War In Pacific Is Moving Fast Toward Japan   Adu. Nimitz Says Invasion Of Japan May Not Be Necessary, But Navy Will Shell Mainland

Chief Says Might Move. Headquarters To Mariana Isles.   ~ Be. Closer: by 1 ,000 Miles to Tokyo. Than. Now Is‘San Francisco

New US Air Attacks Hit Jap Islands   Nimitz Pledges to Put Heat On as Hard and Fast as We Can in Pacific War; Japs Still Hold Henyang

Invasion of Japan May Not Be Necessary   Possibility U. S. Warships May Bombard Country

Nimitz Says Japs Will Capitulate   Thinks Invasion of Japan Not Necessary For Victory But For Peace.

Admiral Will Move Closer To War Front   Recen tly Invaded MariJanas May Be Chosen for : Headquarters   TEMPO SPEEDS UP   ‘Heat to Be Put on Hard and Fast as We Can,” Save Nimitz

Jap Island Fortresses Spanning 3,500 Miles Under New Allied Attack

NIMITZ BELIEVES JAPS MAY QUIT BEFORE INVASION   Philippines Bombed Fourth Time In Five Days of New Air Offensive

War Moving So Fast in Pacific, Nimitz May Have To Advance Headquarters

Tempo of Pacific War Speeded Up   Nimitz Foresees Possible Collapse of Japan Sans Invasion

U.S. Bombs Nips FromHalmaher To Paramushiro  Invasion of Jap Homeland Mav   Invasion of Jap Homeland May Not Be Necessary

Raids Emphasize Pledge By Nimitz To Push Jap War   Chief Of Pacific Fleet May Advance Headquarters; Doubts Nippon Invasion

Invasion Of Japan May Be Unnecessary   Adm. Nimitz Seeks New Site For Headquarters In Pacific

Allied Planes Hit Jap Island Bases In Westward Drive   Nimitz Promises Turn  On Heat Hard And Fast

New Air  Hits Rock Nip Isles   Nimitz Pledges Quick Smashes in Pacific; Move Headquarters

Westward Push In Pacific Gets New Momentum   Not Necessary To Invade Japan Reports Nimitz

Jap Collapse Seen Before U.S. Invades   Every Form of Attack Must Be Used to Beat Nips, Nimitz Says

PACIFIC OFFENSIVE GAINS WITH — FOURTH BOMBING OF PHILIPPINES AND NEW AIR BLOWS ELSEWHERE   Nimitz Tells Press Conference War May Be Won’ Without Invading Japan. May Have to Advance His Headquarters to Keep Up with Offensive  A gainet Jane

Nimitz Forced to‘ Advance Headquarters By Gains Made In Western: Pacific.

Bombers Back Up Nimitz s Pledge   Admiral Questions Jap Will to Fiqht

ADVANCE HIS QUARTERS      Philippines Hit 4th Time; May Not Have To Invade Japan

Nimitz Views Marianas;May  Adopt Island   Pledges to ‘Put the Heat On as Hard and Fast as We Can’; Phillipines Hit Again

Yank Pilots Again Blast  Enemy Isles   Nimitz “Is Putting Heat On Japanese.

Nimitz May Move Headquarters To Mariana Islands   Says Invasion Of Japan May Not Be Necessary To Win Pacific War But Occupation Will Be Vital To Peace; Philippines Are Bombed Again

Rain New Aerial Blows Closer to Japan Homeland   War May Be Won Without Invasion of Japan, Admiral Nimitz Savs.   Bomb Philippines For 4th Time in 5 Days

ADM. NIMITZ WILE MOVE TO WAR ZONE.   Pacific Fleet Commander Wants to Get Closer to Japan; May Not Need Invasion, He Says.

Nimitz Says Japan May Be Defeated Without Invasion   Pacific Commander Eyes Marianas, Other Islands for Headquarters Nearer Fighting Fronts

Adm. Nimitz May Move Quarters Ahead To Saipan  Bw f'. Moe... j1..   Pacific Commander Says War. May Be Won Without Invacian -

Nimitz Plans Moving Up His Headquarters   Commander Has Eyes On Marianas And Feels That Invasion Of Japan May Be Unnecessary

INVASION OF IAPAN NOT NECESSARY BELIEF OF NIMITZ   Pacitic Fleet Commander Does Dispose That Occupation of Enémy Mainland Is Necessary to Peace. «   DECLARES ‘HEAT’ WILL ' BE ‘HARD AND FAST’   Quoted as Saying That Not Any Single Form of Attack Will Defeat The Wily Nipponese:

PHILIPPINES HIT AGAIN; NEW AIR LOWS AT KURILES   “WE ARE DETERMINED TO TURN THE HEAT ON JAPAN”--NIMITZ

Philippines Bombed Again, Fourth Time in Last Five Days   Nimitz Seeks New Headquarters as Lightning Offensive Goes on

BONINS HIT BY PLANES. BASED IN MARIANAS   Fleet Chief Sees Victory Possible without in-* “vasion. =

U. S. Raiders Hammer Jap Island Fort:   Philippines Blasted Anew As War Moves Closer To Japanese Mainland

NEW ALLIED AIR ATTACKS MADE AGAINST JAPS      Nimitz Pledges To Put Heat On, In The Pacific   Philippines Bombed Again, MacArthur Reports

‘Nimitz Says War May Be Won Without An Invasion Of Japan   Allies Hand Philippines Fourth Bombing In Five Days As Broad Pacific Offensive Increases In Tempo

Warship Attack on Japan Is Foreseer   Pacific War Moves West: ward Fast; Nimitz May Move to New Base.

New Air Blow At Philippines 4th In 5 Days   Nimitz May Have To Advance His Headquarters  To Keep Up With War.

PACIFIC CHIEF MAY ADVANCE HIS QUARTERS   Adm. Nimitz Says Invasion Of Japan May Not Be Necessary to Insure Winning Peace

NIMITZ PLANS NEW OUTPOS]   Admiral May Move Headquarters To Keep Up With U. S. Forces

PACIFIC WAR MOVING FAST, NIMITZ SAYS   Japan Should Be Invaded; Peace  Insured Then

Philippines Bombed Again   Fourth Time in Five Days; _ Nimitz About to Move Headquarters Westward

BOMBERS RAI PHILIPPINES ATH TIME   Admiral States Occupation / Necessary To Peace   BONIN ISLANDS   Under Steady Bombardment: 52,323 Japs Killed In Central Pacific Area

War Moves West At Greater Speed   Admiral Nimitz May Have to Move Headquarters. “ : in Pacific   EYES' THE MARIANAS   Air Forces Carry Fighting Nearer Japan.and the Philippines

Raiders Maul Jap System Of Defenses   Fourth Attack in Five Days Hits Targets In Philippines

BOMBERS RAKE JAP ISLANDS   Nimitz Promises To “Put Heat On Enemy” Hard  And Fast

MAY: NOT NEED JAPAN INVASIGN, NIMITZ REPORTS   Airmen Bomb Philippines for Fourth Time in Five Days

Bombings Point: To Faster Tempo Of Pacific War   Nimitz May Move Headquarters Closer To Fighting; Hints New Blaws Coming

AMERICANS WIN 3 BEACHHEADS ON ISLAND OF LEYTE   JAPAN’S DEFENSES OF PHILIPPINES SPLIT IN HALF

Powerful Invasion Forces In Surprise Landing Split Jap Defenses In Half  Rwy the Acenriatad Peace

U. S. Forces Quickly Seize Three Beachheads On 11-Mile Leyte Front

Seize Three Beaches   Under Complete Cover Of Navy and Air Units Men and Supplies Pour Ashore: Losses Licht

POWERFUL INVASION FORCES LANDED ON PHILIPPINE ISLANDS   GROUND FORCES QUICKLY SEIZED THREE STRONG BEACHHEADS

Invasion Force Splits Japs’ Defense; Filipino President Goes Ashore

Corregidor Survivors In Surprise Landing   Yanks Leave Jungle War Behind As They Storm Leyte Beaches

All of the Able-Bodied Survivors of Corregidor Land with Gen. MacArthur

GEN. WARTHUR LANDS 250,000 MEN ON LEYTE   Yanks Must Cover Just 415 More Miles to Reach Manila

Ground Forces Entrenched On Philippines   Invaders Are 415 Miles From Manila; Japs Are Surprised

Strong Force Pours Ashore   Corregidor Survivors Among MacArthur's Invasion Troops

JAP DEFENSES ¢ SPLIT IN HALF   Ground Forces Quickly Seizq Three Strong Beachheads  On Levte.    OSMENA IN PARTY ALSO

Jans’ Defenses Split In Half By Americans  MacArthur And Nev   MacArthur And New President Of Isles Ashore With Troops

Three Strong Beachheads Seized by ‘Americans Along Eleven Miles: of Leyte: Island’s East Céaste!Stivivars of Corregidor Go Ashore With MacArthur as Invasion of Philippines Gets Under Way. :

Three Landings Established OnLeyte;PresidentOsmena Arrives With First Forces

GREAT FORCES LAND OK LEYTE; ONE OF WAR'S GREATEST CONVOYS   Islands Cut In Two By Task Forces; President of Philippines Asks His People For Cooperation With UV. S.

Chinese Seize New Foothold On Burma Road   Japs Suffer Series of Reverses on All China Fronts But Changsha

Polish Groups  Receive Terms  Premier Reports To Government In Exile

Raiders Again Over Germany   Moon Nearing Right Phase For Bombing Eurone

Americans Bomb Northern France   Climax in Aerial War Approaching

Forts Wallop North Franee Coastal Area   Decisive Period of Air War Approaches With Waning Moon

Small Force Lashes Nazis Along Coast  Renewed Heavy   Renewed Heavy Blows Indicated

RAF Bombers Out After Day Attacks Made   American Planes Hit at German Positions in Northern France

NIGHT AIR ATTACK ON REICH INDICATEL   Frankfurt Radio Warns Planes Arc Over Germany—Daylight Assault Made On France.

Small Force  Lashes Nazis Along Coast  DO oamseeie ne Lo nme   Renewed Heavy Blows Indicated

HITLER'S FRONT LINE 1S BOMBEL   Flying Fortresses Hit Targets In Northern France Sector

Smash Forward  German Positions Late Last Night   Attack Presuges Decis. ive Period of Air War Germans Fail to Send Fighters Up In Opposition, Only Two B-17's Bad te Returns

Germans Fail fo Offer Resistance  French Positions Wanvily Bambeq

U.S. PLANES SEEK OUT NAZI FIGHTERS TO DESTROY GERMAN AIR FORCE; COAST HAS BEEN ATTACKED 58 TIMES IN 90 DAYS.

Allies Discover Nazi Positions Are Undefended   Germans Fail To Send Up Fighters To Battle U. S.   Heavies In Sectar Closest To Britain; Rocket ‘ PX Bho! Dien. hess LIS

Rivers, Harbors . Measure Dies  No Action Taken as Conaress Adiourns

Seventy- Eighth Congress Adjourns New One to Be More Strongly Demo

SENATE PUTS APPROVAL ON 6 APPOINTEES   CONGRESS ADJOURNS WITH MUCH LEFT UNDONE

ROOSEVELT NEAR MAJORITY NEEDED FOR FOURTH TERN   Delegates to Be Selected Thi Week Expected to Assure Hominatilan. - -

Latest Theory Of Slaying Has Little Support   Possibility That Quarrel With Daughter Led To Mrs. Williams’ Death Promptly Discounted

Churchill Sees Victory Soon   Delivers His Most  Optimistic Speech

Churchill's Most Optimistic  Speech Hints Allied Victory  In Europe May Come Soon

Final Victory Now in Sight, Churchill Says   Allied Triumph May Come Soon, House Told; Yanks. Reds Praised

Churchill s Elated Over War Progress   Says Victory May Perhaps Come Soon

PREDICT SHOE PRICE CUT   OPA Action on Leather Also Will Reduce Repairing Costs.

BIBLE- CARRYING LEADER WRECKS ON MOUNTAIN   American, Transport Noting Fire Behind British Lines Discovers Wreckage on Ridsre

BIBLE-CARRYING GENERAL DEAD  Wingate, British Hero Of Burma, Colorful Warrior. Killed In Plane Crash

WINGATE ONE OF WAR'S COLORFUL FIGHTING MEN   Was Touring Bases When He Was Killed In Plane frach

ALLIES SCORE SLIGHT GAINS IN ITALY   Fifth Advances Mile West of Venafro to Seize New Height

"ORE SLIGHT GAINS IN ITALY.   Fifth Advances Mile West of Venafro to Seize New Height —

Prepare To Make Attacks On Main Rome Highways   Allied Armies In Italy Move  Up At Both Ends Of Trans-Peninsular  Front    BITTER FIGHTING IN SEVERAL AREAS

TE TT  SCORE DOUBLE GAINS IN ITALY   U.S. Bombers Blast Ke Rail Bridge 50 Miles from Sofia

DAVIS TO PROTEST _ ANZIO CENSORSHIP   OWI Director Says He Will Seek to Lift Ban on Direct Dispatches From Reachhead.

First. American Warship Sunk in Palau Invasion   ‘Navy Reports Losing ‘3. Ships, Including Mysterious Sub Loss

Pound Japs In Southern Philippines   Two Southernmost Islands of Palau Virtually in American Hands; Loss of Three Shins Announced _.’"

More Bombers Hit Jap Defenses   Yanks Lose Three Ships in Attack On Philippine Guardian Islands

PALAU ISLANDS SERVING YANKS DURING MOP-UP   Mystery Surrounds Loss of American Sub—Situation In China Serious

TWO SOUTHERNMOST PALAU ISLANDS NOW IN HANDS AMERICANS  AIRFORCE TAKES UP TASK OF KNOCKING JAPS FROM PHILIPPINES AREA

ISLANDS ABOUT CAPTURED NOW   Two Isolated Pockets of Japs Remain on Angaur To Be Cleaned Up.   YANK LOSSES REPORTED

An gaur, Peleliu Virtual V Taken   Few Pockets Remain— Bombers Hit Enemy in Southern Philippines

Two of Palau's Southern Islands Nearly Conquered   Loss of Three U. S. Ships in Invasion Revealed by Navy

)Palau Isles How Virtually in, S. Hands   Medium Bombers Oper Assoult On Japanese In South Philippines; Ship Losses Told

Palaus’ Conquest Nearly Completed by Yankee Forces   Mitchells Strafe Jap Air strip on Mindanao; 29 Jap Ships Sunk

Near’ End On Palau Islands   Yanks Cleaning Out Remaining Pockets of Japs; Morotai-Ba Planes Hit Philippines

U. S. Pushes Conquest Of Palau Isles   Islands Virtually In Our Hands; Warship, Submarine Are Lost

Southern Isles Of Palau Group ~ Io Yank Hand:   Report Japanese Defenses  In Philippines Targets  Of American Bombers  :

YANKS PRESS CLEAN-UP OF PALAU ISLANDS   Loss Of Three Ships Told As Bombers Hit Southern Philippines

Mop Up In Palau Islands   Navy Announces Less 3 Vessels; Bomb Mindanao

MEDIUM BOMBERS START WORK ON JAPANESE DEFENSES IN. SOUTH ‘PART OF PHILIPINE ISLANDS

Yank Victory In Palau Group Nears   U. S. Warship Was Lost in Invasion, Navy Reveals

Americans Mopping Up Palau Islands   Three, Ships Lost— “Sub: ‘Mysteriously Sunk

S Medium ombers Raid  indanoa  oss of Three US  Lime Anmnaun ead

JAP DEFENSES IN PHILIPPINES HIT BY BOMBERS   Two Islands Of Palau Group In Allied Control

Nipponese Make Ineffective Night Raid on Morotai,  U. S. Air Base

JAP RESISTANCE VIRTUALLY ENDS ON TWO ISLANDS   U. S. WARSHIP SUNK IN PALAU INVASION; SUB FLIER MISSING

Isolated Pocket Of Japs Remain ToBe Destroyed   Medium Bombers Make First Raid On Philipplines

Air Superiority and Greater Firepower by Allies.  FIERCE FIGHTING IN THIS SE( Te  Infantry of Fifth Army! Mowi ing Down Advanc-  ing Germans.

Eisenhower Masses 100,000 Landing Craft: London Newspaper Declares

NAZIS BOLSTER DENMARK AND NORWAY UNITS   Fear Allied Thrust Over Shortest Route To Berlin

3 Palau Islands In Secure Grip  Of Yank Force:   Fall Of Peleliu Imminent; Jap Resistance Fails To Halt American Advance

MORE LIGHT RAINS   Night Temperature of 65 to 68 Degrees Forecast

FRIENDLY TOWARD SPAIN   PACKED BY FORCE   Mild Weather fo Continue

CARTER GLASS IS 86 TODAY   Has Fall Confidence in Present Alhed Leaders

SE ee a ET aE Te  First Negro Vote Cast in Primary Election in Dallas

Black Market In France Is Big Combine   U. S. Troops In . Money, Gas And White Slave Trade

Black Market Is Gigantic in France   Tentacles of Paris Combine Cover Nation

3,684 NEW VOTERS ADDED TO THE LIST   2,571 of Those Enrolled Are Republicans and 878 Are Democrats  220 HAVE NO PARTY

i604 NEW VOTERS ARE REPORTED IN COUNTY   31,966 Republicans, 13,135 Democrats Registered   1782 GIVE NO PARTY

RED ASSAULT ON NAZIS   Soviets Take 11,000 Prisoners and Capture Much Equipment

RED ASSAULT ON NAZIS. MOUNTS   Soviets Take 11,000 Prisoners and Capture Much Equipment

Allies Are Nearer To Rome Today   Juncture Of Anzio Beachhead Forces With 5th Army Units Effected

Seventeen German Divisions Remain In South. Linking Of Two Land Fronts Is Tactical Victoryv.

Far East War Is Interesting Nazi   Transocean Propagands Agency Takes Note Of Roasevelt’s Statements

Concord  : Boy ‘Scouts Make  Retord Time; Another  + Drive in- January ~

COLLECT  14 TONS OF - WASTE PAPER   Concord Boy Scouts Make Record Time;. Another . - Drive in January

Drive To Within Six Miles Of Big Toulon Navy Base   Allies Smash Inland Eicht Miles On 70-Mile Front; Spreads Over 120 Mile Coastline From Toulon To San Remo In Riviera.

GERMANS ADMIT FALL OF NICE. CANNES, TROPEZ      Churchill Observes Invasion From Destroyer

PRESIDENT “SAYS “ONE UP AND TWO 10 G0   Final Victory “Still Lies Some D'stance Ahead”

PRESIDENT NG : ‘ONE UF AND WO 10 G0”   Final Victory  ‘Still Lies Some D: Stil 14 Ahead”.

Dies in Hame With Her Cats Where All Humans Were Denied Admittance

Realtors Report Better Farms Are Now In Demand  Prices About Same As Thirty Years Ago At $133 Per Acre

Realtors Report Better Farms Are Now In Demand  Prices About Same  As Thirty Years Agc  As ©1299 D_.. A...

SERVICES FOR ‘TWO PERSONS IN CONCORD   Dr. Mark H.. Wentworth ae es 7 Interred  Week 

SERVICES FOR TWO PERSONS IN CONCORD   Dr. Markt H. Wentworth Emma Kelley Interred This Weel

Lonergan Trial Nears End hassel. eee aadehitan eileen iad  State Asks Death Penalty For Accused Slayer Of Wife

en WITHOUT PILOTS PUT INTO -- USE-BY GERMANS      Drove Into Southern England € - Today ‘and Last Night.    THE “SECRET WEAPON”   These Craft: Explode on the «. Ground. or. Close to It, ‘Causing Death.

Pilotless Planes Hit Britain; U. S. Troops Advance   Yanks Nearing St. Sauveur Point; Weather Worse.

Southern England Is Target of Nazi “Secret Weapon”, Pilotless Planes

THE ART OF WAR: Nazi Flame-Spiiting, Piloiless (Planes Raid Southern England

Germans Hurl Secret Weapon At England   Damage Is Wrought By Pilotless Planes In Southern Britain

Germans Uncover First “Secret Weapon” Reaction to Allied Invasion of Western Europe

‘Pilotless Planes, Used By Germans, Explode, Damage Area In Britain

Swift, Pilot-less Planes Loaded With Bombs New  German “Secret Weapon”

Pilotless  \Planes Used By Nazis To Hit England   Explode On Ground Or Close To It And Cause Deaths And Considerable Damage

Raiders os Fire, ‘Tino   Germans: Send- Their’ “New ‘Secret “Weapon': Aircraft: ‘Into Southern England’   HOPE.TO DIVERT. ..“ALLIED. STRENGTH   Considerable Damage: Caused: by Attacks; Anti-Aircraft: Action Is Heavy.

Germans’ Secret Pilotless Plane  Goes Into Action   These Craft, Exploding on Ground, Cause Deaths and Damage in England.   Self-Destroying Craft Fly at Great Speed

Germans Send Wave Of Pilotless Planes Into Southern England, Causing Damage

Flame-Spitting Craft, Apparently Ra dio-Controlled, Sends Anti-Aircraft Guns of Southern England Barking Extensively for First Time Since Early Blitz Days of 1940—Deaths _and Considerable Damage Reported bv the British.  

Pilotless Planes Hurled at England  fraremane Naw Ileinn ““arcrat Wanannar   Germans Now Using ‘Secret Weapon’ To Counteract Invasion of France

GERMANS LOOSE SECRET WEAPON IN RETALIATION   Radio - Controlled Or Rocket Planes Sent Against Britain In large Numbers; Explode On Landing; Causing Death And  Destruction.

Radio Controlled, Pilotless Planes Used By Germans In Attack on Southern England

Enemy Unveils ‘Secret Weapon’   Midget Bomb-Laden Planes Fly At Terrific Speed In Straight Line And Explode On Cround Or Close To It.   Show Yellow Glow At Rear

Nazis Turn "Secret Weapon’ Loose on Southern England   Pilotless Rocket Planes, Filled With Explosives, Swarm Across Channel

GERMANS USE SECRET WEAPON DURING ATTACK   Small, Pilotless Planes Damage London Area

Flame-Spitting, Pilotless Planes, iNazi Secret Weapon, Raid England

Pilotless Plane Used by Nazis   Germans Loose “Secret Weapon” Against England

Nazis Send Pilotless Exploding Planes Into South England  New Secret Weapons Cause Deaths, Considerable Damage

Rocket Planes Blitz England   Pilotless Craft Cause Damace. Casualties

NEW GERMAN SECRET WEAPON HITS ENGLAND   Flame-Spitting Pilotless Planes Explode Close to Ground

Spitting Flames, Exploding Near Ground  Pilotiess Planes Strike Enaland

Pilotless Planes Hit England   Germany Looses ‘Secret Weapow; Damage Reported Heayy

Pilotless Planes Stage Raids On Great Britain As Germany Unleashes Her Secret Weapon

Nazis Use Flame-Spitting Pilotless Planes itn Attack on England with «Secret Weapon’

GERMANS BONIB BRITAIN WITH NEV! ACECRET WEAPON   Self-Destroying Aircraft Are Reported to Develop High Straight Line Speed With Destructive Powers.   ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, RAF ANSWER ALERTS   Planes Are Radio- Controlled and Germans May Have Evolved New Automatic Davice to Set Course.

mes Spit . Unmanned riers   aths Caused  on Damage and Speedy Craft

NEW GERMAN “SECRET WEAPON’ FLAME SPITTING RADIO-CONTROLLED PLANES CAUSE DEATHS AND DAMAGE IN BRITAIN   Midget Type Planes, Apparently Rocket Propelled Do Damage in Southern England. _Pilotless Planes Fly at Terrific Speed in a Straightline

Declares ifffers More han Privilege  ‘hing, He Says, Ths strats Cannot Fut

cret Offer lled Brazen nd Dishonest   Baltimore Gives Him Great Welcome

‘SECRET DEALS’ ARE DENOUNCED   Dewey Assails Corrupt Special Privileges Of $1,000 Club

Dewey Again Hits “Special Privilege” Proposal Of FDR   Governor, in Swing Through Maryland and Pennsyl. vania, Greeted by Large Throngs—Ad- . ministration Bitterly Scored

Dewey Talks To Keystone State Folks   GOP NOMINEE U DECLARES IN WY.KES-BARRE ONE THOUSAND CLUB OFFERS MORE THAN SPECIAL PRIVILEGE,   Baltimoreans, Also

Dewey Renews His Assault on ‘Thousand Club’   Says Democrats Offer Something More Than ‘Special Privilege’

Gov. Dewey Blasts ‘Brazenness of  OOO Club Offer  Renuhlican Nominee Declares Societ   Republican Nominee Declares Society Offers Things Which It Doesn't Dare to Put in Writind’

NIPS SHOWING WEAKNESS IN ORMOC AREA   Resistance Steadily Decreasing, Says MacArthur’s Communique, Which Announces Yank  ‘Advances on Leyte.

Jap Resistance Around Ormoc ls Decreasing  Stubborn Defense Prevents Advance In Limon Sector

Yanks Keep Up Push To South On Leyte Island   Jap Resistance Reported to Be “Steadily Decreasing” In Vital Ormoc Corridor

Yanks Continue Leyte Advance  Planes Sink 16 Jap Warships in Manila Region

NIP RESISTANCE DECREASES IN ORMOG SECTOR   U. S. Infantrymen Continue Slow Southward Push on Leyte Island

Infantry Continues Slogging Ahead Over Leyte Island  Japs’ Resistance Weakens But Fiaht Is Tough

Jap Troop Ships Sunk   Enemy Still Trying To Reinforce Leyte; Resistance Decreasing

INFANTRY MEN CONTINUE TC PUSH SOUTH   Jap Resistance Weakening On Leyte Island

Pull Back On Leyte   Jap Resistance Lessens Under. Steady Pressure By Yanks

YANKS CONTINUE SMASH ON LEYTE   Jap Resistance Decreases In Vital Ormoc Region

Steady Decline: in. Jap Resistance’ in Area of Key Ormoc Corridor» Noted— Rain, Mud Slow Advance on

Yanks Prepare Drive Against Ormoc Corridor; Pilots Sink Three Ships

U.S. DOUGHBOYS PUSH SOUTHWARD ON LEYTE: RESISTANCE DWINDLES   JAPS LOSE 17,000 MEN AT SEA, 33 VESSELS IN ATTEMPT TO LAND NEEDED REINFORCEMENTS

SURGE TOWARD ORMOC HARBOR   Jap Resistance Decreasing In Vital Corr:dor On Leyte

PUSHING ON SOUTH   Bad Weather Helps to Slow Operations on. Ormoc ‘ Corridor

FOE WITHDRAWS EROM WEST END OF FRENGH LINE   @S. Troops Stab Within - 2000 Yards of Lessay Below Cherbourg

Useful American Advances Reported  CAPTURE AUXAIS  cee ene  Enemy Yields Under Terrific Fire

New Robot Attack Stirs Up Commons   Some Members Renew Demand for Secret _ Session on Problem

—ROBOT. BOMBS—  ENGLAND. A 18M “HIT BY. ROBOTS   Latest Attack. Stirs Demand -For House Of Commons ‘Probe-

LONDON BOMBARDMENT STIRS PARLIAMENT ANEW  Atlee Denies Suggestion Today _

Nazis Send More Robots At Englanc     Commons Members Renew Demands for Secret Session

Robot Bombs Stir Commons To Questions   Pilotless Planes Used Against Americans in France

BRITISH DEMAND ‘ROBOT SESSION   Secret Meeting on Problem Urged Anew in Commons Today

New Batch Of Robombs   Fall Again After All-Clear Night; Secret Commons Session Asked

VOTING PLEA MADE BY HEAD OF BUREAU   D. Eldred. Rinehart Urges Citizens to Go to Palle

County Farm Bureau President Urges All to Vote at Election Nov. 7; Non-partisan Plea

County President Of Farm Bureau — Urges Farm Vote   First Phase Of Good Government Starts With Action On November 7

Stettinius Is . FDR Choice For Position   Secretary of State To -Remain As Adviser To White House.

STUTTGART BATTERED BY TWIN AIR ASSAULT   RAF Also Pounds Nurnberg In Smashes At Reich

RAF Shatters Stuttgart In Twin Attack:   Double-Header Acrial As. saults Hit Industrial Center 4. Hours Apart

Stuttgart Given Severe Blasting   RAF Bombs City Twice Within Four Hours

Stuttgart’s Plants Hit   : RAF ‘Stages Double Attack * Upon  Nazis

JAP GARRISON AT ORMOG HAS BEEN ASOLATED   American Infantrymen Battle Up West Coast — Japs Claim Paratroop Attack ~

Yank Infantry Battles Ten Miles From Ormoc   Strong Japanese Line Is Cracked: Garrison Isolated From Sea Routes.

U.S. INFANTRY “BATTLING UP LEYTE COAST   Completely Isolate Enemy. Garrison .: From Sea-Botte:  ‘ Supnlieg -\ _.

YANKS ON LEYTE HIT FOR ORMOC   MacARTHUR’S TROOPS CRACK JAP LINES

YANKS CRACK LEYTE JAP LINE: NEARER ORMOC   Enemy Claims Landing Of Sky Troops; 8 Foe Planes Shot Down

Ormoc Garrison Isolated From > Reinforcement —    Infantrymen Battle Up West Coast Within 10 Miles of Ormoc

Battle Up West Coast of Leyte   Yanks Ten Miles Away from: Ormoc

YANKS CRACK JAP LINE NEAR ORMOC   Drive to Within 10 Miles of Ormoc Pocket

Yanks Crack  Jap Lines On Leyte   Infantry Batters Up West Coast To 10 Miles of Ormoc

Doughboys Are Within 10 Miles Of Ormoc   Enemy Garrison is  Isolated from All Gaa.Rarna HWaln

Nazis May Be Trying To Get Out Of Trap   They Are Reported Tc Have Started To Evacu. ate Cherbourg

Advanced American Units Smash Through First German Line Of Defense At Cherbourg.

Japan Envoy Duped Fleet?   RKurusu Trick Paved Wav for ‘Back Stal’

JAP TREACHERY IS DISCLOSED   Californian Explains Why U. S. Fleet Was Docked at Pearl Harbor

PACIFIC =STORY ANSWER URGED   Jap Envoy Held To Blame For Pearl Harbor

Japs Made ‘Patsy’ Of State Department, Report Claim:   Story That Kurusu Caused   S. Fleet To Be In Pearl Harbor Disclosed By Rep. W. G. Magnuson

 Congressman Demands Denial Or Confirmation  Of New Story Of Jap Treachery At Pearl Harbo   Leaves Granted

Report Says Kurusu Responsible For U. S. Fleet Being In Pearl. Harbor When Japs Struck Dec. 7

Germans Steer New Freak Terror Bomb At Areas In Southern England

STATE DEMOCRATS ARE BEGINNING ACTIVE WORK ON COMING FALL CAMPAIGN

State Democrats Beginning Active Campaign Work   Dempsey Petitions Out Talk Drafting Miles For Santa Fe Mayor

Draft Boards Told to Induet More Fathers   Military Calls Not Met-fer Five Months: Comb Job Deferments

Draft Boards Are Ordered To Call More  Pre-Pearlers   Local Boards Also-Told To Resift Ranks Of Those Deferred  Wh oectsr es nf Wren Windle   1,160,000 NEEDED BEFORE JULY FIRST   Boards Fail To Meet Military Draft Calls By 100.000 a Month

Boards Ordered To Draft Many More Fathers   Military Needs Held Lagging

BOARDSTOLD TO CALL MORE FOR SERVICE   Drafting of More PrePearl Harbor Fathers Ordered by Hershey   PLANT DEFERMENT LISTS TO BE CUT   Selective Service Has Failed to Meet Calls for Five Months

DRAFT BOARDS MEET QUOTAS WITH FATHERS   ARMY AND NAVY TO CALL 1,160,000 IN 5 MONTHS

CALLED ON FOR MORE FATHERS   1,160,000 Men Needed Before July 1, Hershey Says

Draft Boards Urged fo Call More Fathers   Fail to Meet Quotas By 100,000 Monthly For Last 5 Months

Would induct more fathers  for services Will investigate industrial ranks

[Local Draft Boards Ordered. ‘To Induct More Fathers And ‘Comb Industrial Deferments   Selective Service Has Failed To Meet Military Calls For Last Five Months, Hershey Says; Rules For Deferring Farm Workers Have Been Tightened

More Fathers Needed hy  Armed Forces   Hershey Calls for Combing of Detfermeni Lists

Draft Will Take  More Industrial Workers, Fathers  Farms Must Give Up 250,000, Says Hershey In a New Order

Draft Boards 500,000 Men Behind Quote   Fathers, Workers Must Be Called, Hershey  a, eee

bouras Ordered To Call More Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers: Big Deficieney Cited

Gall on Local Boards to Draft More Fathers   @Comb Industrial Deferments for Men Hershey Orders

trial al eons to. Get. ‘More Men:   FIVE-MONTH QUOTAS — ARE 600,000 SHORT   Bans Preferred Treatment for         Wor ustry.: Must: Give: Up 900,000 to 250.000.

Flier Tells How It  Feels to Be in  First Raiding Ship Leader of Attack Says  Enemy Took Severe Beating From Bombers

DARK NIGHT; JAPS SLEEP; YANKS RAID   Rabaul And Kavieng With Heavy Shells, Suffering No Casualties Or Damage Of Any Kind.   Rained Out

American Destroyers Make Daring Attack on Japs at Rabaul, Kavieng   Blast Rabaul Area

AMERICANS GAIN 3 TO 5 MILES IN ALSACE-LORRAINE   DESTROY LARGEST NUMBER OF ENEMY TANKS SINCE D-DAY

Third and Seventh ‘Armies Advance Up to Five Miles   Knock Out 82 Nazi Tanks in Smash on Southern Front, Heavy Fighting in North

3 to 5 Mi. Gains Hammered Out By Patton’s and Patch’s Armies   Former’s Troops Knock Out 82 Tanks in : Day’s Battle

MAKE GAINS OF THREE TO FIVE MILES   Push by Third and Seyenth Armies Overcomes Fierce Resistance, Pat« ton’s Men Blasting 82 German Tanks.

2 Armies Score Impressive. Gains; First Advances Mile At Echterbosch; Take Remich

U.S. SOLDIERS ON OUTSKIRTS OF SAN PABLO   Amphibious Tanks Cross Strait, Invade Samar

More Leyte Towns Taken By Americans   Yanks Fight Way to San Pablo Outskirts

Leyte Forces Enter City Of San Pablo   Landing Reportec On Important Isle of Samar

YANKS NOW USE MINDORO FIELDS      Air Activities of Japanese in Sharp Inerease Over Island

Sexauer Declares Farm Prices in Disequalibrium   Dairymen’s League Head Says New York Farm Income Up Only 107 PC Against 148.7 For Country as a Whole

Refuses to Limit Poll Tax Debate   Senate. Action . Indicates Measure Affecting South - Will Be Shelved:   MAJORITY. AGAINST LIMITING DEBATE   Proponents of Measure Ap'- proved by. House May. Dron the Bill

Senate Turns Down Cloture   Rejects Debate-Limit Move On Anti-Poll Tax Bill, Little Chance for Measure

Senate Shelves Poll Tax Bill  Measure Set Aside After Rejection of Cloture by 36 to 44

Senate Votes Not to Limit Debate on Tax   All Indications Anti-Poll Tax  Measure is Lost

Several Items Hold Attention As Week Starts   ‘Senate and House Have Busy Schedules Ahead of Them, and Supreme Court Also Convenes.

Senate Sets Aside Poll Tax Bill, Deemed Source Of Endless Discussion

Senate Denies Debate Limiter   Rejects Cloture Petition Designed To Halt Anti-Poll Tax Filibuster.

CLOTURE RULE REJECTED BY SENATE VOTE   _ Move to Shut Off Debate In Poll Tax Bill Is Lost. George and Russell Voted “No

SENATE VOTED LAY ASIDE ANTI-POLL TAX BILL; CLOTURE FAILS  DEBATE LIMIT FAILS OF MAJORITY; TAKE UP SOLDIER AID BILL

POLL TAX BILL 5 SET ASIDE   Senate Rejects Petition for Cloture to Halt Filibuster.

Senate Refuses To Curb Debate or Anti-Poll Tax Bill  Proponents Fail Even io Get Maiority, Need Two-Thirds,

Anti-Poll Tax Dies in Senate  Laid Aside After Cloture Motion Fails

Congressional Grou y Rejects Petition Te Limit Debate To End Filibuster

14 Holiday Fatalities in Northwest   Minnesota Leads With  Nine; 13 Deaths Due 7. TU fe Carnene

14 Holiday Fatalities in  Northwest  Minnesota Leads With   Minnesota Leads With Nine; 13 Deaths Due To Traffic Causes

Need 50,000 More Men   McNutt Says Workers Wanted for Heavy Ammunition Plants

Quigley Named To K.U. Athletic Job   Widely Known Sports Of. - ficial Assumes Director- . ship August] =   NO CONTRACT SIGNED   Promises an Aggressive - Sports Program At the ©  University

K.U. Athletic Job   ay Kiera 5 Brecon, “ship August-I   INO CONTRACT SIGNED   Promises an Aggressive ~ Sports Program At the a  ° University .

Athens Peace Meeting Opens; Explosives Are  Discovered In Sewers

CHURCHILL CALLS. FOR A QUICK END TO GREEK STRIFE   Prime Minister Addresses Party Leaders at Undisclosed Place in Athens as Gunfire Sounds Outside.   SPEAKS OF OLD TIES BINDING 2 COUNTRIES   Evidence Lacking That Dynamite Found Near Hotel Was Plot Against Lives of British Leaders.

Dynamite Cache Discovered In Sewers Near Hotel Where. (Churchill Talks With Greeks

CHURCHILL ASKS END OF STRIFE   Appeals to Representatives Of Greek Parties to Cease Hostilties; Dynamite Cache Found Near Hotel

Dynamite Plot Scare Heralds Athens Parley   Greck . Politieal Delegates Meet at Churchill Call *. Gank- Brana PWlare

Churchill— Appeals for Greek Peace   Asks for Quick End to oerak seal Strife. shee ‘Mccting of All Greek Parties

TALKS BEGIN  TOEND REIGN OF VIOLENCE   Churchill and Eden Meet Greek Leaders as Dynamite Plot Foiled

Withstand Three German Attacks ‘On Anzio Beach.   British Front Holds Against Thrusts In Aprilia Stronghold

SMASH THREE NEW ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAI   JU. S. Artillery Beats Off Nazi Infantry And Tank Thrusts

ALLIES BREAK NEW ASSAULTS ON BEACHHEAD   Cassino Front Stil] Quiet

ARTILLERY BATTLE Is MOST VIOLENT   American Guns Again Demonstrate Their Superiority Over Enemy Forces.

3 NEW NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED   U. S. Artillery Again Shows Superiority in Anzio Battle

U.S, BACKING — ~ PEACE MOVES   CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN HELBINKI TELLS FINNS U. 5. HOPES NEGOTIATIONS - WILL CONTINUE ©

Uo, INTER: Evo WN FINRISH-hleo ARMISTICE TALK   Charge d’Affaires in Eelsinki Delivers Teace Hope Message.

CAPITAL FEARS REJECTION OF SOVIET TERMS   » Helsinki Advised America Hopes Conversations On Peace Will Continue   p BALK OVER SEVERITY   Little Nation Objects To Two Proposals Made By Moscow

CLAIMS WAR FIRM GAVE FOE SECRET   Optical Firm Head Defends . Concern, Says Allies Wera Helned :

Nelson Given Cabinent Rank As FDR Aide   Former WBP Head Moves His Desk Into White House Offices

President Gives Cabinet Rank to Donald M. Nelsor   To Be F.D.R.’s Personal Representative On Special Missions

Soldier’s Wife Gets Christmas Gifts From Plane   Nylon ’Chute With Package

THIS WILL HAVE TO DO:  GI SANTA CLAUS DROPS IN FROM SOUTH PACIFIC

Santa Claus Drops Gifts for Detroit Woman by ‘Chute: Army Investigating

BOMBERSROAR OVER ALPS TO HIT GERMANY   Munich Area Target for 500 to 750 Planes, Channel Weather too Bad for Operations from There.   Rail Yards

Aircraft Unable lo Aid me  Rain, Clouds: Gre Planes: yey Bombers Are Active.

U. 5. BOMBERS BLAST TARGETS IN MUNICH ARE   Attack on Southern Germany  Seen as Part of Plans to Seal off Normandy From Supply Areas.   SWARMS OF NAZI FIGHTERS ARE MET   Raid Carried Out by Fleet Based in Italy—Bad Weather Grounds Air Fleet in  England. “

Russians, Czechs Reach Agreemen  Soviets Will Have Military Authoriiv

Third Army Sends Armor  Close to Edge Of Saar Basin   Several Towns Fall As First Advances; Ninth Army Smashes Nazi Counter-Attack  we. eT OTS BSE TOR” MTT mM kat   BRITISH, FRENCH GAIN

Ukraine Army Ts Ouiflanking Budapest.Nazi   Raigsian Units Advancing  And Have Captured  46,000 Prisoners Since October 26

Reds Capture Fight Villages and (ne Rail Station   Raise Total of Nazi Prisoners  To 46,009.

Red Army Outflanks Budapest; Main Siege Is Continued  Nazi Counterattacks Are Held Off by Main Sieae Forces

SOVIETS HOLD AGAINST RAIDS NEAR BUDAPEST   Reds Gain Along Key Railroad Northeast of Hungarian Capital

REDS HOLD ON IN BUDAPEST   Move To Outflank Cit: On Two Sides Begins

SOVIETS TRY OUTFLANKING OF BUDAPEST   One Force Edges Westward North of the Hungarian Capital and Another Group Push Toward Pees From South.

REDS SLAP SikbE ARC ON BUDAPEST   UKRAINE ARMY EDGES WESTWARD FROM TISZA

BUDAPEST « VISE IS TIGHTENED BY NEW RED DRIVES   Besieged Hungary Capita May Be Isolated by Flanking Attacks

HOLD AT BUDAPES1   Desperate Nazi Counterattacks Fail to Shake  Soviet Forces

Reds Advance From 2 Ways on Budapest   Wide Outflanking Movement Rapidly Assuming Shape

Allied Troops in Burma Expanding Mayu Bridgehead   Japanese CounterAttacks Beaten Off Wednesday Night

DOCTORS BACK CHAPLIN PLEA   'Couldn’t Be Father of Joan  Berry’s Child, Med : ics Agree

Germans Flood Marshes  in Italian Area   Allies Reported Preparing for Major Attack

New Italian, Russian Offensives To Be Synchronized With Second Front Opening Badoglio Paper Predicts

Nazis Flocd Italy Marshes to Slow Allied Offensive   Preparations f Big’ _ Drivevoti Nazis Reported at Naples

Also Big Oil Refining Area at Palembang, Sumatra; Considered Two Strategic Points.   18,000,000 Barrels

AMERICAN PLANES. ATTACK NAGASAKI ON JAP MAINLAND   Military Port and Shipbuilding Center of Key Value to Enemy Is Target of Superfortresses.   SUMATRA REFINERY HIT SIMULTANEOUSLY   Largest Oil Plant in Orient, It Had Furnished Nipponese Supplies of Aviation Gasoline.

B-29’s Blast Jap Mainland, Sumatran Oil   American Tanks Fan Out As Bradley Strives  H. Wowk Mantes.

Palembang - On Sumatra  Also Bombed   Huge Oil Refineries And: Industrial’ Plants Are Targets of B-29’s  PHILIPPINES HIT

BiG BOMBERS HIT NAGASARI JAP MAINLAND   OIL REFINING AREA ON SUMATRA ALSO HAMMERED

Great Oil Refining Area Of Palembang On Sumatra Also Under Attack   BOTH TARGETS VITAL _ TO JAP WAR EFFORT   BY WILLIAM FRYE

Jap Mainland  Again Bombed: Davao Raided   Superfortresses Strike Double Blow—City of Naga saki Blasted While Other Airmen Attack  ~ Philinnines farFirch Time __

fnemy Mainland Blasted by Big American Planes   Nagasaki, Palembang Dealt Hard Blows

Pre-Invasion Aerial War Against Reich Goes Into 6th Day   U. 5. Bombers, Hundreds Strong, Sweep Out Over Channel to Hit Germanv Following Coloene Raid

PRE-INVASION  AIR. OFFENSIVE IN SIXTH DAY   Diher Allied Bombers And Fighters ‘Shuttle Across Sunlit Straits Of Dover —

Bombers, Fighters Rip Atlantic Wall   Record-Shattering Raid Indicated for Sixth Straight Day Following R. A. F. Night Attack on Cologne

ALLIES GIVE: THE NAZI COUNTRIES NO REST. PEACE      Pre-invasion Bombings Shake Paris, Cologne, Ali Other Sections.

Cologne Is A City Of Flames            HUNDREDS OF FOUR-ENGINE. AMERICAN BOMBERS STREAM, ACROSS CHANNEL AGAIN TOD,

EUROPE REELS AGAIN AS RAID FURY MOUNTS   U. S. ‘Heavies’ take Over Offensive; Cologne Fires Rekindled

RECORD AIR OFFENSIVE IN 6TH DAY   U. S. Bombers Take Up Day Shift After RAF Hit Cologne

RAIDERS FOLLOW NIGHT ATTACK OF RAF ON COLOGNE   Burning Ruins of City Light Up Way For Airmen Who _ Drop Blockbusters Upon Rhineland.   FLYERS EXPAND OPERATIONS IN ITALY   Moscow Indicates Assault on Germans In Connection With Invasion of Allies In France.

Steady Stream of Planes Pound Nazi-Held Bases .   RAF Concentrates on Cologne While Medium Bombers Blast Atlantic Wall - "8

WHAT'S TO HAPPEN TO COLORED WORKERS?   Roger Babson Chides Negro Citizens; Asserts Many Display Disposition To Be Lazy And Wasteful of Earnings.

Babson Advises Negro Workers   ECONOMIST IN SOUND STATEMENT TO PEOPLE

Woman, Daughter Beaten fo Death Near Lubbock  Dl‘... CC... B...f.J   Police Seek Paroled Convict as Possible Principal in Crime

PRIMARY VOTE LIGHT IN MOST PARTS OF IOWA   -Rains Keeping Farmers From Fields May Boost Totals in Some Parts

REMOVE BARRIER ON STATE TAXES   BARRETT DIRECTS CERTIFICATION TO CLERKS AT ONCE

STATLER CASE DEMANDSINCREASE   Sen. Green ‘‘Undecided” Whether His Group Wi.1 Make a Full Inquiry

STATLER CASE TFMANDSNDRES   Sen. Green “Undecided” Whether His Group Wi: Make a Full Inquiry

Willkie To Enter Nebraska Primary  - §tassen Has Already Entered Same Contest

Willkie To Run In Neb.- Primary  Buffalo Paper Urges . FDR-GOP Joint Ticket

Festung Europa Showing Cracks   Three Allied Armies Are Converging In Europe, Pointed Towards Roarhlin

MYITKYINA AIRDROME CAPTURED   Merrill's Marauders Pouring Fire Into Jap Burma Base

SOLDIER VOTE DECISION NEAR   I’. D. Waits Answer of Six Governors

COULD BE COUNTED IN QP ONLY SIX STATES, SUR-—— ~  ” VEY REVEALS ;

Senators Assail Wallace's View   Trickery Charge Draws Heavy Fire

SENATE VOTES TO CURB TVA POWER   Would Strip Authority of Its Financial Autonomy; Senators Angrily Override Wallace’s Ruling

Wallace Angers Senators By Use Of Words “Parliamentary Trickery”   Vice-President Denounced, Then Body Votes to Strip TVA of Its Financial Autonomy

CUT IN POWER OF TVA VOTED IN THE SENATE      Action Follows Denounceing of Wallace by Senator   BARKLEY OPPOSES AUTHORITY LIMIT   Amendment Would Strip Agency of Financial Autonomy

Senate Votes to Clamp Down‘on TVA Spending  Wallace's” Remarks .De  Wallace’s “ Remarks - De nounced in-Hot-Temnered Session”

CURB IS VOTED ON TVA MONEY   Wallace Remarks Called ‘Damnable’ In Warm Senate Session

Senate Curtails IVA Authority   Hits New Dealers After Hot Battle

SENATE VOTES CURBONTVA’S MONEY AFFAIRS   Amendment Makes Power Agency Dependent On Congress For Its  Funds

SENATE-TVA ROW “SLAP AT WALLAG   Votes to Require Agency to Get Funds Via Conaress

Senators Assail Wallace's View   _ Trickery Charge  Drawe Henvy Eira

Senate Strips TVA Fund Power   Angrily Denounces Wallace’s “Parliamentary Trickery” Terms.

Enemy's Flank Endangered by Breach; Yanks Capture Spigne   ter  Allied Casualties Li Than Expected, “ ander Reports’ Pa  ft oliriw

MORE DELEGKTES FOR FOURTH TERM   Nomination Of President Roosevelt By Acclama tion Is Seen   Refuses To Break Silence As List Of Delegates Increases

FDR’S SILENCE ON FOURTH TERM HAS LEADERS GUESSING   But Fourth ‘Termers Have Sufficient Support te Put Nomination Over

FDR Closing In On Fourth Term   President Remains Silent But Still Adding Pledges; Dewey Gains.

Demos Note FR Silence On Election   Report He's ‘Not Angry’ At Evidence of More Support

DEMOCRATS PUSH TOWARD FOURTH TERM NOMINATION   ROOSEVELT REFUSES TO BREAK SILENCE ON POLITICAL PLANS

Lose 250 Fighters   Roosevelt Remains Silent About Fourth Term; Nomination By Acclamation Is Held Probable

STILL SILENT ON 4TH TERN   President Declines To Talk A Delegate Total Continues To Grow.

S. C. Democrats Meet Today; Political News Roundup  President Still Mum On Political Plans In Future

Dead Hand Of Toyama, Jap Conquest Head, Continues To Instigate Turbulence

J Japan’ ’s Advocate of f Conquest. Dead But His Spirit of Evil Lives On

Dead Toyama’s Fanatical Societies To Continue Domination of Japan

U.S. PAID ADS BILL 10 PASS   Would Make $15 Million Annually to Boost War Bonds

Red Troops Prepare for New Drive   Expect to Force Hungary to Quit and Riga To Fall

Poles Cease Fighting In Warsaw City   City Reported as Greatly Destroyed as Stalingrad: Thousands of Insurgents. Cross Vistula to Russian Lines

REDS GETTING SET FOR NEW ALL-OUT-DRIVE   Balkans to Baltic Onslaught Expected’ to Break Loose in Near Future   CAPTURE OF RIGA LIKELY AS NAZIS ARE SQUEEZED

R. &P.Coal. Co. Mines In Operation   Miners Returned to Wor! Last Night; Govern ment Now In Contro of Workings

AFL TRUCKERS VOTE TO HAVE WALK OUT   Threat To Bring Action by WLB Directive

Serbs Engaged In Heavy Fight   Germans Using Tanks, Motorized Equipment

Reds, Germans Battle In Dno Gate To Pskov   Street Fighting Rages for City .as Other Force: Meanwhile Threater Pskov From 2 Other Directions.

Russians Enter Last Nazi Held Baltic Base   Hand To Hand Struggle Now On In Gateway City.

Bitter Hand Fight Rages ToHoldDno   Pskov Threatened From Several Directions

Reds, Nazis F ight Bitter Battle Over City Of Dne   German Base East Of Baltic Gateway

Reds Fighting In Streets Of Last Nazi Base East Of Pskov   Soviet Forces Drive On Westward From Captured Krivoi Rog To South

Last Important Base Kast of Baltic Gateway of Pskov.  FOE ADMITS GAINS  Russian Advance Clears Parts of Two Vital _ Rail Lines

NAZIS ADMAT LOSS OF REY BASE OF ONG   Aliso. Acknowledge Loss of Rogachev In White Russia

Nazis Admit Loss of Dno, Rogachev   Reds Plan Powerful Nev Offensives Along All of Long Front

BNO FALLS 10 SOVIET FORCES   Nazis Evacuate Last Big  Base Before Pskov,   Baltic Gateway

Russians, Nazis Battle Fiercely In Dno Street:   Pskov Also Threatened By Two Other Drives As Reds Sweep In North

Soviets Battle In Dno Streets   ‘Fight for Possession Last Important Nazi Base East of Pskoy

BITTER BATTLE RAGES IN DNO   Pskov Threatened By Soviets Moving Down From North

Dno, Key Nazi Rail Junction,  Falls To Reds   Rogachev, Central Area Base, Also Admitted Lost

Russians Close In On Baltic Gateway City   Battle With Nazis In Streets Of Dno, Last German Base.

GERMAN LINES WAVER BEFORE SOVIET FORCES   Fall of Kingisepp, 8 Miles From Estonia, Is Expected Soon

LONDON (The Red army has captured Kingleepp, Moscow acy mnieerenidl derelalai:

JAP SHIP IS SUNK NEAR PHILIPPINES   First Mention Of Islands In MacArthur Dispatch Since Their Fall

Extension of  OPA Signed   F. R. Approves Another Year for Price Control And Stabilization Acts

Rebukes Congress For ‘Winking’ at  Price Violations   But President Also Praises Solons For Extending Life of the OPA,   Ends Long Legislative Wrangle Over Policy

FDR SIGNS BILL EXTENDING OPA ANOTHER YEAR   President Commends Congress In Part, Lashes Out at Amendments

Price Control Act Extended for Yea   President Signs Bill but Pegrets Relaxation of Violation Penaities

OPA ACT EXTENDED   President Signs the Measure Continuing Price  Controls

FDR Signs Price Control Extension   President Praises Conaress’ Action

OPA EXTENDED FOR ONE YEAR BY CONGRESS   President in Signing Bill Today Mildly Rebuked Congress for Relaxing Certain Penalties

ANOTHER YEAR   FDR. Signs Act Extending Price Control and Stabilization.   CONGRESS IS PRAISED

FDR Extends  Price Measure   Mildly Rebukes Congress kor Relaxing Penalties Against Law Violators.

FDR Approves OPA Extension   Congress Rebuked Or Replacing Penalties

Price Law Extension Apnroved   FDR Mildly Rebukes Solons For Relaxing Penalties

Price Control Act Extension Signed by F.R   President Mildly Rebukes Congress For Relaxing Law

FDR SIGNS OPA EXTENSION BILL   PRICE CONTROL AND STABILIZATION ACT IS RENEWED FOR 1 YEAR

FDR Extends Price And Wage Stabilization But Rebukes Congress For Easing Penalties

FR OlGNS OPE EXTENSION BILL   Praises Congress, But Adds a Mild Rebuke. ~

POSSE SEEKS TWO ESCAPEES   Identified By Pictures As Pair Who Beat Aged Woman, Abducted Youth

Asylum Fugitives Hunted Near Lima   Elderly Woman Beaten with Iron Pipe and Another Couple Tied Up and Robbed Whe n Son Abducted—Threats Made To Kill Resident of Delphos

U.S. Forces Smash Into Coutances as  Tank Battle Grows   Americans Threaten tc Burst Lines Blocking Way to Paris

GREAT DUELS FOUGHT WITH NAZI "TIGERS   DNB Says Germans Set To Withdraw Western Wing And Shorten Lines

-U. S. Armored Outfits Show   Burst of Speed and Are  Now 11 Miles Below Coutances.     Bg 8 ne ee ere ae —_ «© x GO

Shermans and Great Tigers Clash Near Captured Coutances  CERMANS IN .TRap      PEELE a  Fight Desperately to Hold Open Road Along Caacl

Germans Prepare Entire ‘Withdrawal of Western Wing for Fresh Stand

U.S. Forces Iz N ormandy Gain  New Victorie:   Occupy St. Denis-Le Gast, 9 Miles Froin Coutances; and Press on to Gutskirts of Lengronne   Tank Guns Cover  Nazi Escape Route   Enemy Lines Blocking  Way to Heart of France  Threatened After Rommel Altack Fails

Nazi Lines Blocking Way To Heart Of France Threatened In New Burst Of Speed By Yanks; Germans To ‘Shorten Lines’

PUSH SOUTHWARD FROM COUTANCES   ROMMEL TRYING TO EXTRICATE TROOPS FOR FRESH STAND

\merican Armored Forces Drive Southward In New Burst Of Speed Against German Lines Blocking Way Into Heart Of France — Enemy Counter-Attack Hammered Back East Of Captured Coutances—Rommel Moving Part Of Armor From Vicinity Of Caen

JAPS FIGHTING TO HOLD GAGK LEYTE DRIVE!   U. S. Troops in Hand-toHand Combat; Halt Bayonet Counterattack.

Japs Fight Back Fiercely Against American Forces   Yank Invasion Units Extend. Gains Along Wide Front On Leyte

20,000 War Workers Are Threatened With “Full Penalty” For Striking

Strikers Confronted With Threat of Full Sanctions And Penalties.

STRIKING WORKERS DEFY WAR LABOR BOARD  Men Prepared to Meet Penalties And Will Continue Their Walkout

Federal Officials Condemn Strike Of 20.000 in Michigan-Ohio Area

TWENTY THOUSAND WAR PLANT WORKERS CONTINUE STRIKING  REPROACHES SPOKESME! . FOR ARMED FORCES

Striking War Workers Ignore Reproaches, Penalty Threat   Navy Demands That 20,000 Return; WLB Threatens Full Sanctions

SCORE. 25,000° FOR STRIKING.   Navy, U. Si. Spokesmen ~ Hit. Mechanics’-Actions

WLB THREATENS SANCTIONS TO HALT WALKOUT   Strikers In Michigan And - Ohio Teld They Hinder War Effort

20,000 War Workers Are Idle  As MESA Defies Government In Detroit, Toledo Plants

Armed Forces Reproach 20,000 Out On Strike   Union Chief Defies Threats Of Sanctions From War Labor Board.

25,000 Out in Ohio, Michigan   War Labor Board Threatens Sanctions And Penalties

OPA Gives Fish Aristocratic Names But They May Be Expensive Luxury

Big Fire Losses Of Nation Cited   Oct. 8-14 Is Proclaimed Prevention Week

STIMSON OKAYS RAIL PAY LEAP   BACK WAGES GRANTED AFTER STRIKE BAN

RETROACTIVE: WAGE INCREASE 1S APPROVED   Non-Operators’ Pay Studied

MAJOR JAMES HOWARD IDENTIFIED AS HERO RECENT AIR BATTLE  FLYING KNIGHT CTACKLED  an BATE CIC UTOCRS   FLYING KNIGHT TACKLED 30 NAZI FIGHTERS SINGLE-HANDED

HOWARD ‘ONE MAN AIR FORGE   Find Pilot Who Attacked 30 Nazi Fighters

(Ex-Flying Tiger Outlights- 30 Nazis to Protect ‘Forts’  Yankee Hailed as ‘One-Man’ Airfnrro

Former Flying Tiger Drives Off 30 German Fighters on Oschersleben Raid

‘“One-Man Airforce’ Identified As Howard   Yank Outfought 30 Nazi Fighters; ‘Seen My Duty And Done It’

First Air Hero of Two Continents Just ‘Sees Duty, Does It---to the Germans

Missouri ‘Flying Tiger Who Outfought 30 Nazi Fichters Called One Man Air Force’

One-Man Air Force Hailed by Mustang Pilot-Mates Today   Former “Flying Tiger’ Outfights 30 Nazi Fighters Alone

Hero On Two Fronts \ Flying Tiger Does His Stuff  In Routing 30 Nazi Fighters

Missourian Two-Way Hero   Flier Who Tackled 30 Nazi Fighters Ex-Flying Tiger

Yank Drives Gain Speed Thru France   Thousands of Dirty Enemy Troops Surrender At Rennes.

British Advance Being Held Back By German Tanks   Thousand Troops In Garrison of Breton Capital Surrender

SEVENTEEN “YEAR-OLD YOUTH : BEECTROCUTED: FOR MURDER   ATTITUDE . OF DEFIANCE FADED AS LOUIS HAND APPROACHED ‘DEATH CHAIR AT OHIO PENITENTIARY

Yanks Hit North of  Peleliu   36 Enemy Planes Downed as Airmen Hit Philippines

Yanks Drive Deeper Into Burma Base   Cut Japs’ Escape From Myitkyina; Chindits Forced to Withdraw

Yanks Go Deeper Into Myitkyina Chindits Fall Back  : Another Japanese Exit  From North Burma Base

Allies Deeper In Myitkyina   Struggle for Jap Base in Burma Goes Bitterly On; Chindits Forced Back

Allies Gain [At Myitkyina   Advance Deeper Into Defenses; British Fall Back Near Mogaung

Allies Penetrate  Deep Into  Japs’ India Line British Force Yields  In One Region After Heavy Battle

ARMY SEIZES EIGHT PLANTS   Acts To Reopen StrikeBound War Plants In Toledo

Army Ordered To Take Over Toledo Plants   Roosevelt Acts To End Strike of Employes That Je Impeding War Effort

Army Seizes 8 Struck Plants  U.S. Order Does Not Mention Any Labor Union in Action

—STRIKE—  MORE MAY JOIN MESA WALKOUT   Union Not Deterred By U. S. Threat To Seize Plants :

Hope Chiang’s Cabinet Shakeup Will Be Followed by Move to Unite China In All-Out War Against Japanese

500 Bombers Hit Budapest Rail Yards   Four Refineries In Hungary Also Pounded By Planes

Rail Yards, Oil Plants At Budapest ‘Are Bombed   Aggressive Nazi Resistance Over Hungarian Capital: Freizht Trains Hit

Kx KK OK OK Enemy Railyards, ~ Refineries Hit ©      Robot Night Raids Appear Checked

 American Heavy Bombers Attack Budapest Rails   Four Oi Refineries In Hungary Also Blasted; Nazi Fighter Planes Offer Opposition.

RAIL YARDS, OIL CENTERS TARGETS OF U. S. BOMBERS   Budapest Railway Facilities And Hungarian Oil Installe., tions Pounded by 500 Escorted American Heavy Bombers Today

HEAVY BOMBERS OVER BUDAPES) RAILWAY YARDS   Determined Effort in Progress to Destroy German Fuel Supplies, Communications

HEAVIES BLAST BUDAPEST ANEW   Rail Yards, Four Oil Refineries Are Main Targets of American Forces

Yankee vale Blast Budapes Hit Oil a   London Experiences Fourth Free Night From Robot Planes

American Bombers Attack Budapest Railway Yards,  Hungarian Oil Refineries

Nazi Fuel Supply Target of Allies   American Heavy Bombers in Raid on Budapest and Hungary   WEATHER IS HANDICAP   United States Flying Fortesses Drop Bombs on 3 Refineries

BUDAPEST HIT BY ALLIES IN DAY ATTACK   Oil Refineries _ Are Targets i  en OY cniins in ones

U.S. Heavy BombersHit Oil Supplies In Daylight   Every Effort Made To Destroy Huge Nazi Supplies

Forts Blast Oil Plants   Budapest Refineries Targets of Yank ltaly-Based Planes

Airmen Attack Budapest: Oil Installation:   Determined Effort To Destroy German Fuel Sup. plies, Communications.   MEET OPPOSTTION

RUSSIAN ARMY SWARMS OVER DANUBE RIVER   Aim Great Offensive At Freedom of Belgrade

Red Army Crosses Danube River to  Enter Jugoslavia   Historic Invasion Presages Major Junction Between Red Army Forces And Tito’s Army

Red Legions Plunge Over Slav Border   Major Offensive Aimed at Freeing City of Belerade

beigrade Is Seer ks Prize   Russians Attempt to Open Route to City of Vienna

Reds Advance Toward Lucenec   American-Made Tanks Used in Sweep Around Besieged Budapest

Russians Advance Toward Lucenec   Fan Out From Seized Stronghold 40 Miles Northeast of Budapest

REDS ADVANCE ON BUDAPEST INVASION LINE   Tanks Springing Forward  From Gyongyos; Battle  Enters New Phase

Slovak-Hungarian Border Threatened by Red Tank Sweey   Soviet Columns Aiming At Lucenec, Key Nazi Hub on Borderline

SOVIET SHOCK TROOPS SEIZE RAIL JUNCTION   Russian and U. S.-Made Tanks Deepen Sweep Around Besieged Budapest   CLEARING RIGA GULF

REDS MOVING ON KEY HUB OF LUCENEC   Communications Cente! Lies on the Slovak-Hun garian Frontier-—Sovie Pressure on Budapest Ts Increasing.

Reds Are Closing Budapest Noose   American Tanks Are Spearheading Gains Toward Lucenec, Key Communications Hub

Russian Tanks Sweep Around Magyar Capital  Drive Toward Key Naz Oo Se Re ae ee   Drive Toward Key Nazi Road Junction On Slovak-Hungarian Border.

Reds Extend Sweep Around Budapest, Advance Toward Hub On Border Of Slovakia   Russian And American-Made Tanks Advance; Nazis Report Baltic Drive

Reds Deepen Cirele Around Budapest City   Rolling Along In Ameri. can-‘Made Tanks Toward Lucenee On Sloyak Hungarian Border

Soviets With Yank Tanks Push Ahead   Wide Sweep Around Besieged Budapest and Move Toward Lucenec

Reds Sweep Over Invasion Routes North Of Budapest Toward Austria, Bohemia

Russian Sweep Around Besieged Budapest Is Deepened By. Tank Unit

Russian Tanks Push Toward Lucenec, Key Town On Hungarian-Slovak Border

RUSSIANS USING TANKS IN SWEEP AROUND BUDAPEST  RUSSIANS ALSO REPORT ED IN RENEWED ACTIVIT) IN BALTIC AREA

Budapest Push ' Given Impetus  By Red: Armor   Russians Nearing Lucenéc, Nazi Communications Hub At. Magyai. Border

SOVIETS SPREAD OUT IN DRIVES NEAR BUDAPEST    Berlin Reports New Russian Attacks In Baltic Sector

Soviet Forces Drive Toward  Key Nazi Hul   Russians Fan Out From Captured Stronghold Northeast Of Budapest.   TRY TO CLEAR RIGA

REDS FAN OUT NEAR BUDAPEST   Near Attempt To. Clear Riga Gulf Indicated

—RUSSIA— ,  AEDS SMASHING TOWARD AUSTRIA      trations. Around ‘Buda. pest; Tanks Advance -

Reds Swinging Past Budapest  Tank Blow Unleashed By Soviet Forces

Tanks Advance In Soviet Push   Shock Troops Seize Gyongyos in Budapest Railway Thrust

RUSSIANS USING TANKS IN SWEEP AROUND BUDAPEST  RUSSIANS ALSO REPORT. ED IN RENEWED ACTIVIT

Tanks Spearhead Russian Drive      NEW GAINS MADE INTO BALKAN AREA BY REDS

SOVIETS ADVANCE TOWARD LUCENEC   RUSS SHOCK TROOPS SEIZE GYONGYOS IN BUDAPEST CAMPAIGN

SOVIET SWEEP AT BUDAPEST DEEPER   Russian and American Made Tanks Advance Toward Lucenec.

SOVIET FORCES ADVANCING TO LUGENEG AREA   Entire Russian Army Moves To New Positions

REDS ADVANCE TOWARD AUSTRIA   Far to North, Baltic Battle Flares Near Riga

BUDAPEST HIT AT NEW POINT   Soviet’ Tanks Surge Forward From Captured Gyongyos

Reds Advancing Toward Lucenec  Key Nazi Hub   Russian-U. 5.-Made Tanks Fanning Out From Captured Stronghold.

REDS DEEPEN SWEEP AROUND ANCIENT CITY   Further Gains on Invasion Routes Leading Into Austria, Czechoslovakia from Hungary

Russians Advance On Front Near Besieged Budapest   Use Three Divisions In Baltic Drive Toward Riga Gulf

SOVIETS SWEEP INTO SLOVAKIA   Red Army Swings Around Budapest In Armored Race Along Hard - Surface Highway.

Reds Advance Toward Key Border Town   New Russian Attempt to Clear Gulf of Riga Reported By Nazis

Tank Drive Advancing Along Road To Austria.      ‘Reds Presh ‘Around Besieged Budapest’

Tanks Speed Russian Slavic Drive   Machines Are Rolling Toward Nazis’ Communication City

RUSSIAN TANKS PUSH FORWARD   Peril Communications Base In Sweep Near Budapest

Nazis Entering Sixth Year of War Warn People Even Boys Must Fight

Michigan State Sets Up 2-Year  ‘Basie’ Course   Devised to broaden the student’s cultural background; all fresh‘men must enroll,

JAPS WIPED OUT ON SAIPAN POINT   Yanks Face Severe Going: 12,000 Planes and 1,400 Ships Destroyed

REFINERY BLAST SHAKES TEN MILES   Fire Confined to Gasoline Storage Tanks

Floyd S. Brehm © Among Fallen  Heroes In France  Former Soloist With Band In This Territory 

Lembach Captured   Vermont Lady Who Lives On Border Has Parrot Problem

U.S. Bombs Fall Only 400 Miles’ From Jap Mainland     ey rt a  Tal ae   Attack on Kuriles Includes Blasting Of Shimushiri and Ketoi Islands

Kuriles Shaken By Bombing   Audacious Attack Made By Allied Fliers  Within 400 Miles  Of Japan.

Push to 14 Miles of Nazi Bastion: Cut Bayeux Road   Showdown Expected as ‘Monty,’ Rommel Throw in Huge Forces

GAIN OF HALE MILE MADE BY US TROOP!   U.S. Troops Cut Highway Leading To City of Bayeux

Gen. Montgomery Unleashes Ne  Offensive From End To EB Of French Front; Battle Normandy Gains In Violence   THUNDERBOLTS HIT NAZI TRANSPORTATIO

PIERCE BASTION'S OUTER DEFENSE ON NAZI FRONT   Enemy Being Worn Down; 2 Observation Heichts Gained

Allies Battering Ahead In Most ‘  Sectors of Line,   Battle of Normandy Gains In Violence As  New Forces Join Clash

Invaders Cut City Defenses   British, Canadians Leave Louvigny, Keep Orne River Ground

Yanks Drive Through St. Lo Defenses   Hammer Qut Slow but Steady Gains All Along Battle Front

Showdown Battle Expected To Determine Course Of War In West   GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS BROKEN   However Americans Pull Back Their Positions Slightly —

U.S. TROOPS NEAR CITY OF ST. LO   First Army Drives To Within 11/2 Miies of City

All Steel Coaches Saved Many Lives   Toll on Santa Fe Chief Might Have Been Much Worse

TRAIN DEATHS DOWN TO FOUR   All Steel Streamlined Equipment Saves Lives Of Many

INVESTIGATORS SENT TO - PORTSMOUTH BY HUMMEL TO. MAKE CHECKUP OF ALLEGED IRREGULARITIES

Scioto Vote  Under Probe By Hummel   Tom Herbert Asks Accurate Count Of Ballots By Republicans

Italians Beat Off German  Attack On Cassino Position   Action On Other Fronts Confined To Patrol Clashes And Heavy Artillery Exchanges; Ground Forees Planning New Offensive

Italians Stave Off German Attack in Hills  Above Cassino   Allied and German Artillery Engaged In Hat Tnel

Italians Atop Marrone Beat  Off Germans      Armies Brace Selves for Resumed Cassino Drive

Italian Troops Stop Nazi Drive Above Cassino   Action On Other Major Battle Sectors Slow; _ Artillery Kept Busy

NAZI ATTACK ON MARRONE IS REPULSED   Italian Units of 5th Army Hold Hilltop Position

Italians Hold New Positions in Cassino Hills   Action on Other Battle Fronts Is Limited

ITALIANS KEEP HILL POSITIONS   Beat Off German Attack Above Cassino ©

War In Italy Goes Into Eighth Month, ‘Artillery Action Is Growing Violent

Allies Repel Nazi Attack  Near Cassino   Italian Units Halt German Thrust in Hills Above Town

UMW Appeal Denial of Travel Pay      JUDGE BARKSDALE AT LYNCHBURG, VA. HOLDS COAL MINERS NOT ENTITLED TO PORTAL ¥O PORTAL.   Seek Speedy Review

Only 700,000 Men Available To Fight Allies   Former Powerful Forces Depleted

Germans Declare All  ‘Hope for Peace Lost   London Estimates Nazis Have Total of 67 Divisions in Western Europe to Meet Allied Inrasion: Rea-F ront DF erces Same

ESTIMATE NAZI ANTI - INVASION ARMY 700,000   Observers Say Hitler Has Not Moved Men From East

PEACE HOPES ABANDONED BY AXIS LEADERS   BERLIN READY FOR INVASION WITH 700,000 MEN

GERMANS RESIGNED TO ALLIED ASSAULT   Hope Reported Abandoned for Negotiated : Peace

Nazis Resigned To Meeting Allied Invasion   Conclude There Is No Chance for British Peace Negotiations

GERMANY HAS 700,000 TROOPS TO MEET EUROPEAN INVASION   There Is No Substantial Evidence That Great Reserve Army Is Training Inside Reich; People Realize Hopelessness Of Negotiated Peace

Germans Admit They Can’t Split Allies and-That Final — Climactic Battles Will Come Soon

Foe Prepared For Defense Of Continent   Has Possibly Fewer Than 700,000 Troops To Meet Push in West  POWER SCATTERED

GERMANS ARE RESIGNED TO INVASION      Conclude “with Sorrow” That Chance for Last Minute Peace Over; Less than 700,000 Men.   Most Bloody Phase

GREAT BRITAIN TRIES 10 SETTLE CREFK UPRISING   1,000 Casualties Reported Among Leftist. BLAS  ‘orces  Alone’ ”

Great Britain Patting Pressure on Greek Government in Effort to Arrange Compromise Settlement’ of Civil War — At Least 1,000 Casualties Already Reported. ,

Forfresses Blast Plant   Knock Out Bearing Plant In Italy; Little Ground Fighting

Raid Beyond Garigliano Reported   Fifth Army Drives Into German Positions, Radio Algiers Declares

U, S. BOMBERS BLAST BEARING PLANT, RAILWAY   Large Scale Land Battle Stymiedc By Storms

FORTS BLAST VILLA PEROSA BEARING PLANT   Blast Turin Rail Yards in Italy Lend Aid to Yugoslav Partisan: —Indians Seize Hill

ITALIAN BEARING FACTORIES HARD HIT BY U. 8. FORTS   Yank Airmen Also Pound Turin Rail Yard As Eighth Army Advance Inland After Taking Hill

Bearing Plant Knocked (xi in \Fortress Raid   Turiz Railway Yards Battered; Srowbound AXIS True! fo Bert.

BAD WEATHER SLOWS ITALIAN FRONT ACTION   Eighth’s Indian Troovs Take Key Heicht

U.S. Forts Bomb Italian - Bearing Plant   Turin Railway Yards Also Battered — Slight Greund Advances

U.S. Forts Batter Italian Factory, Turin RR. Yard:   Soggy Land Halts Fighting Among Ground Forces;  Yanke Hit Nazi Detensé.

BEARING PLANT AT VILLA PEROSA HAS BEEN KNOCKED OUT   U. S. Flying Fortresses Alsa Battered the Turin Railway Yards.   A HILL TO THE 8TH ARMY,   :  The 5th Army Carried Out  New Raids Beyond the  Garigliano River.

OBJECTIVES IN CALAIS AREA ARE ATTACKED   United States Marauder Medium Bombers Stage Raids in Wake of RAF Mosquito Forays   ALLRETURN SAFELY

Forts Blast Bearing Plants   Factory in Northern Italy Battered; Eighth Army Captures Hill

Air Smashes Spearhead Drive in Italy   Bombers Strike Into  Industrial Areas; 8th Pushes Ahead

U.S, Bombers Wreck Ball Bearing Plant   Knock Out Plant At Villa Perosa li North Italy —Turin Rail Yards Hit —Sth Army Indian Troops Advance.

MADE EIGHT PER CENT OF NAZI OUTPUT   Other Fortresses Batter Railroad Yards at Turin —Soggy. Terrain Stymies Large-Scale Ground Action.

Villa Perosa  Bearing Plant Knocked Out By Fortresses   Turin Railway Yards Battered; Indian Forces Advance On Soggy Italian 8th Army Front

Forts Blast Villa Perosa   Bearing Plant Knocked Out: Batter Turin Railway  Yards.

U.S. PLANES BOMB BEARING FACTORY AT VILLA PEROSA   Eighth Army Indian Force: Advance on Italian Ground Front

Turin Railroad Yards Blasted: Rains Balk Arm   8th Seizes Hill As Soggy Terrain Is Blamed For Delay In Offensive

FLYING FORTS SHATTER PLANT   SMASH TURIN RAIL YARD AS BRITISH GRAB HILL

15th Air Force Fliers Wreck Jtalian Plant   Eight Per Cent of Nazis Output of Ball Bearings Halted by Americans

Italian Plant Wrecked By U. S.   WAR FACTORY IS HIT BY BOMBS IN RAID

NRECK NAZI BEARING PLANT   Fortresses of 15th Air Force Knock Out Main Building at Plant.   BATTER RAILWAY YARDS

SMASH BEARING PLANT IN ITALY   AMERICAN TROOPS PROBE DEFENSES OF SAN VITTORE

ALLIED FLIERS BATTER TURIN RAILWAY YARD   Fortresses Also Knock Out important Bearing Plant At Villa Perosca In North Italy

Bearing Plant In Haly Hit By U.S. Forts   Muddy Tefrain, Raina Hinder Ground Fighting

U.S. Troops Knock Plant Out In Italy   Indian Army Gains Hill In Ground  Engagement

U. S. Fortresses Knock Out Bearing Plant   Yugoslav Ports of Sibenik and Split Are Other Allied Targets; Dozens of German Trucks Destroyed; British Gain

Bearing PlantKnockea Out By Fiying ‘Forts’   American Bombers inflict Widespread Damage 01 Important Plant At Villa Perosa In Italy; Tur in Railway Yards Battered

FORTS FLATTEN BEARING PLANT IN NORTH ITALY   Turin Railway Yards Ripped By Air Forces — Indian Troops Score Gains

Yanks Bomb Turin: Yards, llaly Factory   Eighth Army Drives_ Inland From Adriatic As Planes Rake Foe

FLYING FORTRESSES BLAST BALL BEARING PLANT NORTH ITALY   SOGGY GROUND PREVENTS ANY BIG-SCALE ACTION BY GROUND FORCES

Heavy Bombers Strike Hard at Northern Italy   Knock Out Bearing Plant at Villa Perosa and Batter Turin.   Soggy Terrain Halts Large-Scale Fighting

Batter Turin Rails   Eighth Army Indians Troops Seize Hill and Advance From Adriatic Inland; Allies Bomb Port of Split; Nazis Shell Mignano.

American Prisoners of War in German War Camps Develop a New “Slanguage”

Yankees Develop Double Talk In Nazi Prison Camp  Avoid Boredom  In Canfmement

Brewster Workers End 2-Day Stay In  Demonstratior   Ready Themselves For New Work Sought By Government for Firm

Stay-in Strikers Score Victory  Government May Provide New Contract

BREWSTER CORP. WORKERS END / 2-DAY STAY IN ©   5,500 Brewster Aeronau tical Workers Return to  Work After Unique  Strike Demonstration

Aigiers Radio Is Source   Cabinet Shuffle Is Also Reported From Argentina

Algiers Radio Reports Argentina Has Declarec War On Axis Countries

Service Vote Is: Doubtful   Deadlock On Method ‘Is Feared At Capital .’

ALLIED INVASION TIME-TABLE CALLS FOR RAILWAY DISRUPTION   Brenner Pass Has Been Blocked; Lines In Italy and All Over Europe Rlaectad

Say nazi peace plan offered British Jand United States but not to Russians

Peace Uffer to-Allies by Nazi Rulers Repo ted  Eight Points Set Forth   Eight Points Set Forth In Prepesal to U.S., Greet Britain

PEACE OFFER MADE DEC. 17, PAPER CLAIMS      London Daily Mai Cites Neutral Source

British Say Nazis Make Peace Offer   Include U. S. But Omit Reds

Nazi Peace Plan Rumored Again   Eight Point Peace Offer Given To Neutral Diplomat; May Be Sent to U.S.

Coastal Area of France I Pounded by Bombers From England.   Hil bY AMERICAN?  Fifth Army in Italy Bea Off New Nazi Attank

Fresh Fighting Breaks Out In Greek Capital   Reports That Truce Was In The Making Heard This Morning

INVESTIGATIONS BY  HOUSE BRINGS NEW  NAME SUGGESTION REP, COCHRAN WANTS  BREAKS PUT ON NAMIN OF PRORE COMMITTEES

Would Slow  Down Probes   Otherwise, Congressman Says, Call Lower Body ‘House of Investigations’

INVESTIGATIONS LEAD TO JIBES AGAINST HOUSE   Winchell-Dies Feud Flares Over Radio While Politics Rattles On in Capital

MEN 26 TO 30 NEXT   Hershey Reveals Formula for Those Not in War Work

SECRETARY HULL HAS RESIGNED REPORT STATES   High Government Source Says Cabinet Member Quit Because Of Health   BYRNES OR WALLACE . LIKELY SUCCESSOR

Hull Resigns, ls Report In Capital   Byrnes, Wallace, Stettinius Mentioned As Successors

Report Hull Has R esigned Post  Quick Action From White House Seen

Rumors Hull Gives FDR Resignation   President Expected te  Accept; Successor May  2: Byrnes, Wallace . Or Steillinius —

Hull Submits Resignation, Government Source Says   Byrnes, Stettinius, Wallace Mentioned As Successors  Of Secretary of State

QUICK ACTION IS EXPECTED   Secretary in y in Hospital .For Last Five . Weeks

Cordell Hull Resigns Post, High Capitol Source Says   PHOTO XMAS GREETINGS

Hull Quits Post. Due to IIIness, Official Reports   Resignation Sent to White House; Quick Acceptance Expected; Speculation Hints Possible Return

HULL TO STEP OUT, CAPITAL REPORT SAYS   Byrnes Mentioned for the Secretary of State Post

Hull Submits  Resignation To Roosevelt   Secretary of State To Leave Post Due to [ll Health: Indications Chief to Accept It

Yanks Break Into Cassino After Winning Savage See - Saw Battle On Northern Outskirts In South Italy.

Nazis Fail — To Hurl Back  Our Forces   Allies Come Through First Big Test On Beachhead Battlefront Below Rome

1943 Strikes Cost 13,500,000 Idle Man-Davs   Second Largest Number Of Work Stoppages Since War Began

U. S. Had 3,758 Strikes In 1943   Involved 1,900,000 Workers. Perkins Reports

13,500,300 Hours Lost by Strikes in 1943, Secy. Perkins’ Report Reveals

Strikes Cost War Effort 13 MillionDa.   SECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS REPORTS 3,750 STRIKES DUKING 1943; MINE STRIKES MOST COTY   Miss Perkins’ Soft Words

THOUSANDS SEIZED BY NAZI OFFICERS   All Communications. In. side Germany Are Cut Off

NAZIS PROPOSE ALLIES MAKE ROME OPEN CITY   Germans Admit Fierce Battles Northeast of Italian Capital

Nazis Admit Rome’s Fall   Last Minute Effort To Have It Declared An Open City Fails

Battles Rage North of Rome   Hitler Admits Fall Of Capital; City Spared War's Ravages

German Side Of The Allied Occupation Of Rome. . . . . Nazis Seek To Minimize ~The Importance Of Rome

Hitler Admits Fall of Rome   Germans Seek to Minimize Capture  By Allies

Fight Rages inNortheast After Hitler Admits Fall   Two Broadcasts Do Not Bring End To Struggle

Nazi Radio. Acknowledges Fall of Rome  "Open City"  Offer Made at DL awod bhdtmesd cmalad

LANDMARKS IN ROME SPARED BY ALL ARMIES   Germans Report Fighting To Continue

Open City Declaration Fuils, Germans Moan   Foe Acknowledges Loss Of Capital and Seeks To Minimize Event

FIGHTING RAGES ABOVE ROME, IS ENEMY REPORT   Adolf Hitler Announces Loss Of Eternal City — Tties To Bolster Morale

Military Rule Is NaziBalkanPlan   Réd Siiccéss in Crossing Dniester Forces Hitler to Work for Full Occupation of RuMania and Bulgaria, Hungary Subdued

[Hitler Moves Frantically In Attempt To Bolster His  Defenses Against Russians

Nazis Move In On Bulgarians And Rumanians   Bolster Defenses In  Battle Of Balkans

HITLER TAKES NEW STEPS TO HOLD BALKANS   Hungary Appears Subdued Despite Some Scattered Fighting At Border

Take 20,000 Prisoners in Crimean Area   Reds Cut Off Nazi Escape Routes As Record Air Raids Start’ Seventh Day   Bulletin

FALL OF GREAT NAVAL BASE IN PROSPECT TODAY   REPORT AXIS TROOPS FLEEING AS RUSSIANS DRAW NEAR OBJECTIVE

Reds’ in Haste to Get Crimean Port   Rival Armies Slash Thru Disorganized Germans and Romanians.   A RACE TO THE COAST   Many Axis Units Give Up __ and Surrender to Pursuing Russians

Red Take of Crimea  Speeded   Last-Ditch Nazi Fight Anticipated at Huge Naval Base

Axis Forces Surrender by Battalions   Enemy Defenses Crack Under Tank Assaults; Troops Flee in Disorder

Red Army Only 18 Miles From Black Sea Base; Foe Mopped Up South of Odessa

Thousands Of Germans Surrender As Soviet Troops Drive Toward Sevastopol Naval Base

SEVASTOPOL MAY FALL 10 REDS TODAY      Soviet Writer Says Enemy Has “Cracked at Seams” in Crimea, With Fleeing Axis Troops Ont af Cantral

Battalions of Germans Surrender   Fall of Sevastopol Near, Disorganized Germans-Rumanians Rush for Seaport

Force of 1400 Aireraft Spreads Ruin In Enemy Assembly Plants; Nazis Admit They Met Superior Foe

Wipes Out Three Plane Factories;  “Costs 64 Planes   Luftwaffe Squeals After Major Setback By 1400 U. §. Planes That Shot Down Over 100 Nazi Fighters And Destroyed Vital Plants.

LEATHER CAUSES SHOE SHORTAGE   WPB Planning Order Cutting Supply for Normal Ci-vilian Usee

DeGaulle To Set Up Rule For France   Expects to Occupy Rhineland for A Long Period After War.

DE GAULLE PREPARES TO RETURN HOME   , Says Object of Talks with F. D. R. ’Was Attained

Gen. De Gaulle Says Main Object \OF Talks With F. D. R. Attained; ‘Plans Occupation of Rhineland

De Gaulle Says Object Attained   Intends Returning To France In Near Future

De Gaulle To Instati Capital In France   French Leader Says ‘Principal Object’ Of Talks With President Attained

- GAULLE SEES TAL FRENCH NST-WAR ROLE   Hopeful After Talks With FR

France Must Occupy Rhine, De Gaulle Says   French [Leader Says Talks Here Are Satisfactory

HITLERITES FEAR TROUBLE WITH SLAVES WHEN THEY ARE FREED-MOST OF THEM WILL WANT REVENGE   Many of Them Have Seen Their Loved Ones Tortured and Killed by Germans and Are Praying for the Day When They Can Retaliate Against the Nazis

The War Today   Liberated Peoples May Take Own Reprisals Against Nazis

N azis Fear Retribution   ‘Slaves’ May Indulge In Slaughter Orgy

Allies Faced by Problems of Vengeance  i i ll ee el i i i i i i ii

Ohioans Feel Earth Tremors   Shocks Last Minutes; No Damage Reported

QUAKE ROCKS NORTHERN OHIC   No Damage Reported, Tremor Felt in Six Cities

EAM-ELAS Grou Seeking Peace   British Labor Party Demands Immediate Greek Armistice.

BRITISH LABOR PARTY DEMANDS CESSATION FIGHTING IN GREECE  ’ DIRECT DENUNCIATION Ar CUTIDCUN Te DnTIcy

Weather Thorn In Allied Side   Unfavorable Weather, That Postponed D-Day, Continues Handicap.

~ And It's Just Beginning Weather in France Hinders Allied Military Operations

WEATHER STILL AGAINST ALLIES   A Thorn Since D-Day and Before, It Now Intertferes With Big Operations

Thomas Dewey Leads in Wisconsin Republican Primary Yesterday   Willkie’s Campaign Dealt Staggering Blow.

LIBERATORS til JAP-HELD ISLAND   Elast Bastion Between Philippines and Dutch New Guinea Positioss

UIBERATORS A JAP-HELD “ISLAND:   Blast Bastion’ Between. . Philippines and ‘Dutch’ New Guinea Positioss’

GERMAN BOMBERS ATTEMPT TO ATTACK KN ALLIED CONVOY   Were Repulsed by Carrier Rased Grumman Fighters.   IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC   intercepted a  Junkers-290 Aircraft) Equipped With Glider Bombs.

Republican "Landslide ‘In Kansas   State Goes Heavily For Schoeppel, Reed, ‘Dewey, and Six  U.S. Representatives

GOP Sweep In Kansas   Shoeppel Piles Up  Biggest Majority; All-Republican Delegation to Congress

Schoeppel Leads Voting in State   Partial Returns Give Gov_ ernor and Dewey Over  ’ b   REED STAYS IN SENATE   G.O.P. State Candidates Elected; Solid Delega tion in Congress

viets Crash ‘Miles Into fast Prussia   Germans Are Squeezed From Three Sides as  {lies Rock Foundation (f Their Inner Defense

ALLIES SEIZE 3 NAZ-HELD MAJOR CITIES   Aachen, Belgrade and Debrecen Liberated During Day

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Knights Columbus Initiated Large Class On Sunday  - Atty. T. E. Diamond   Atty. T. E. Diamond Delivered Principal Address At Banquet

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Hard Struggle For Port Looms   Americans Hold Seven Miles of Peninsula’s West Coast

Happiness Is Hard To Find AndTo — Keep, Finds Glamorous Lana Turner

Safawan Blasted By Allied Planes   Mapia, Kai Islands Hit Off New Guinea

TRUK AIRBASE KNOCKED OU]   Liberator Bombers Hit Satawan Airstrip With 34 Tons of Bombs

Blow Is One More Step To Truk; Rabaul Base and Kai Isles Blasted.

YANKEE BOMBERS WRECK AIRDROME   Jap Installation On Atoll Near Truk Is Rendered Useless   NO OPPOSITION   Thirty-Four Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped By American Airmen

BASE GUARDING TRUK SMASHED   Air Strip On Satawan Island Takes 34 Tons Of Bombs

JAP AIRPORT ON ISLAND RUINED   Bombing Neutralizes Another Enemy Airstrip In Defense Ring Around Truk.

Yank Bombers Raze Airdrome In Truk Sector   Japs Put Up Aerial Oppo sition: Allies Hit New Guinea Buses Held By Nips

ANOTHER JAPANESE AIRDROME IN TRUK AREA BOMBED OUT   Force of Liberators, Dropping 34 Tons of Bombs, Make Useless the Airstrip on Satawan Island Sunday

Yank Bombers Fly 2000 Miles to Hit Satawan With 34 Tons of Explosives

3 Towns Battle Big Farm Fire  $10,000 Less Suffered Near Emerson

FALL OF JAP AIRFIELD ON MANUS NEAR   Dismounted Cavalry Gains in Newest Pacific Invasion

Advancing Americans Open Battle for \Cherbourg, Prize of Normandy Invasion

BATTLE FOR CHERBOURG HAS BEGUN   Within Two Weeks after Landing Yanks in Sight of Port City m Sensational Advance.   Fight To Last

Rapid Advances Bewilder Nazis   Enemy Unable To Gather His Dead  By DON WHITEHEAD Resccianted Praag Staff Writer

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LAST-DITCH FIGHT BY NAZIS. LIKELY   AMERICAN ADVANCE TOWABD CHERBOURG ONE OF MOST -: SENSATIONAL OF WAR. *

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WILLKIE OUTLINES HIS FARM PROGRAM   “Good Old Doys” Are Gone, He Tells Rural Men

Willkie Gives Farm Policies   Government Control Of U. S. Agriculture Called Necessary

Mayor Asks All Business Houses To Close For Bond Rally Saturday Afternoon

31 JAP VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED   AMERICAN SUBMARINES SEND DOWN 11, INCLUDING 3 COMBATANT SHIPS.

First Raid On Japan Since Doolittle Raid In, April, 1942.  j  FEW DETAILS OF TODAY’S BOMBING  Hailed As Opening Step In New Type Offensive Against Japanese

Targets Not Revealed in Today's Raids   Attack Made From ‘Distant Bases,’ Report.

Americans Take War to Nipponese  IBPAW HIT-TONAY RY FORTRECCEC         JAPAN HIT TODAY BY FORTRESSES!   ‘Cherbourg Partly Cut Off   UNITED PRESS FLASH

ATTACK OPENS NEW TYPE OFFENSIVE AGAINST: JAPS, DECLARES GEN. MARSHALL

Huge B-29s Attack Nippon on Ist Trip      Allies Break German DefensesAboveRome

SUPER FORTRESSES     “RAI JAP HOMELANE   WASHINGTON, June 15 (UP)---American “super fortress" B-29 bombers today attacked Japan proper in what Gen. George C. Marshall hailed as the opening step in a new tvne oaffensive aaainst the Jananese.

B-29 Fortresses Attack Japan In Surprise Raid   Believe Planes Took Off From Bases In China-India Theatre

War Department Declines To Give Details On Places Raided   First Attack Since Doolittle Bombing   Raiders Smash Japan From Somewhere In ChinaBurma-India Area

New Super : Bombers Hit Mainland —   B-29 PLANES TAKE OPENING -STEP IN NEW TYPE OFFENSIVE: JAPS CLAIM YANKS HAVE ~~. LANDED IN MARIANAS

Radio Claims Of ‘Heavy Fighting’ Hints Foothold Gained On One Or Two Islands Of Inner Defense Chain

Japan Proper is Bombed by Fortresses   No Details of Attack Upon Mainland Given

Huge 8-29 Fortresses Blast Enemy   First Time Known to Have Been Used — Places Raided Not Told

Attack on Enemy Homeland Is Hailed as New Type of Offensive In Pacific War

HITLER SHUFFLES DEFENSE SETUP IN OCCUPIED EUROPE   '  ‘Marshal Rommel Named In  spector General; Von Runetadt Trancterrad

ROMMEL NAMED DEFENSE CHIEF      Hitler Completes Anti-In. vasion Command; Allied Transport System Set

PLANS FOR INVASION TAKE FORM ON BOTH  SIDES OF CHANNE!   ‘Shadow Supply Service’ Is Organized by Allies

Rommel Picked To Halt Allies   Hitler Reshuffles His High Command, Says London Paper

HITLER FINISHES RESHUFFLING HIS HIGH COMMAND   Rommel As Inspector General Will Have Charge Of German Anti-Invasion Forras

ROMMEL REPORTED NAMED DEFENSE HEAG GERMANIZED EUROPE  HITLER HAS COMPLETED HIS ANTI_IN.

Marines Attack On Large Scale In New Brifain   Japanese Put Up Tough Resistance

600 Japanese Slain During  Fighting At Cape Gloucester   Enemy Losses Since Landing of Marines on December 26 Mount to Over 2,000—Marines  Ceara Same Advance

600 Japs Slain In Bitter Battle At Gloucester   Strafing U, S. Planes Support Attacking Marines; Vadaa Hit «

MARINES KILL 200 JAPS Oh NEW BRITAIN   SIXTH ARMY UNITS DRIVE TOWARD MADANG

MARINES KILL 600 JAPS, CAIN “IN CAPE DRIVE   Yanks Continue Slow,  Arduous Push for Borgen Bay

Marines Kill 600 Japanese  On New Britain   Battle Continuing At Cape Gloucester, MacArthur Reports

O00 JAPS KILLED IN BITTER FIGHT ON NEW BRITAIN   Casualties Increase Nip Losses to More Than 2,000 Since Marines Invaded Cape Gloucester,   MADANG, NEW GUINEA, IS HEAVILY BOMBED   Two Enemy Destroyers Damaged in Raid on Kavieng— 10 to 15 Planes Downed ‘in Rabaul Sween.

G00 JAPS SLAIN DURING HEAVY JUNGLE BATTLE   More Than 2,000 Of The  Enemy Killed Since Land ing At Cape Gloucester   MORE NIP WARSHIPS RAIDED AT KAVIENG

Resistance At Cape Stiffens  Madang Battered And Dozen _ Japs Shot Down Over Rabaul:

BITTER FIGHT IN JUNGLE OF NEW BRITAIN   Enemy Losses 2000 Since Marines Landed December 26; Fierce Resistance Causes Casualties.   Liberators Out

HULL TO SPEAK ON FOREIGN. POLICIES      Secretary of State to Answer Critics on Sunday Niaht

Hull Will Reply To His Critics  InSunday Talk  ull Deis Speech Broad.   Full-Dress Speech Broadcast By CBS At 6:30 EWT Tomorrow

SHAFT THIRD OF WAY TO MINERS   Rescuers Hold Little Hope An' Of 66 Trapped Miners Still Alive

BUSINESS MAN SUGGESTED FOR VICE PRESIDEN}   Stettinius Mentioned; Nev Dealers Are Still For Wallace

Urge Business Mar As Running Mate For Roosevelt   Stettinius Talked As ‘New Blood’ For Fourth Term Drive

SPARK WANTED BY DEMOCRATS   Talk Heard Of Business Man Candidate For Vice President

President Hears. Nothing of Boom For Running Mate  Talk of Business Man   Talk of Business Man For Vice Presidency Unconfirmed

Some Democrat: Urge New Blood  In Campaign   Want Business Man For F.D.R. Running Mate:  Stetiinius Mentioned

HINTON RESIDENT DIES IN SIOUX CITY   Eugene Beaulieu, 38, Succumbs, Following Long Sickness

Eugene A. Beaulieu Taken By Death  _ Member of Plymouth County Family

HELLY PLANS ‘RESORT BOARD   Nine-Member Commission To Promote Tourist Program

State Tourist Board Planned   9-Member Commission  _ Studied By Kelly

GRAHAM MURDER CASE GOES T0 JURY AT NOON   Five Women, Seven Men Hold Fate Of Janice Graham In Three Deaths

HOUSE GROUP WOULD FREEZE PAY ROLL TAX   Poll Shows Committee Stands 15 to 8 in Favor of Retaining 1 Per Cent Levy.

SIX NAZI MILITARY TRAINS SET ABLAZE BY SOVIET AIRMEN   Bombers Kindle 30 Huge Fires In Fourth Raid On Rail Hub

REICH SUPPLY BASES RAIDED   5,000 Allied Planes Take Part in Weekend Pounding of Nazi Targets

SUPPLY BASES ARE POUNDED FROM ITALY   Nearly 5,000 Allied War. planes Loosed on Ger. many for Second Con secutive Day.   Hit Cunkerque

Soviets Crash Inner Budapest   Hungarian Defenses Crumbling as Reds Near Slovak Border

Budapest Is Under Fire Of Red Artillery  Inner Defenses Of  et   Inner Defenses Of Hungarian Capital Shelled By Russians

Red Cannon: Throw Steel On Defenses  Of Budapest   Army. Navy. Journal Answered. By Pravda

OMELLS POURED INTO BUDAPEST   Red Army Units Reach Slovak Border; Emphasize Scone of Action.

Great Soviet Guns Hammer At Budapest   Russians Claim 220 Nazi Divisions On Eastern Front

Soviets Train Big Artillery On Budapest   Send Avalanche of Steel Crashing Against In..-ner Defenses Capi° fal Cir

Report Puts Red Troops Within Bude   Crossing of Danube In Magyar Capital Broadeast by Paris

BUDAPEST IS UNDER SIEGE OF RED GUNS   Soviets Fire Upon Inner Defenses of Hungarian Capital From NewlyWon Positions Only FIA Miles Away.

220 German Divisions Tied  Up in the East   Russia Claims To Have Fulfilled  Military Decisions

Budapest Lies 514 Miles From  Soviet Troops   Crash Avalanche Of Steel Against Inner Defenses Of Canital.   MEET MANY GERMANS

RED ARTILLERY IS POURING STEEL N TO BUDAPES!  OTHER SOVIET UNITS   OTHER SOVIET UNITS REACH THE SLOVAK LINE AT NEW POINT

Rain Steel on Inner Defenses Of Budapest   Reds Shell Capital From New Positions Estimate 220 Nazi Divisions in East

Russian Guns Hit Defenses of Budapest : Poe: Way Far  ‘Be 6=—6§ Tenth met

Russia’s Big Guns On Budapest   Heart of City Shelled By Forces 544 Miles Away;.Press Slovakian Drive: Flareup in North

West Budapest Said In Hands Of Red Troops   Paris Radio Also Reports Violent Street Fighting In Progress At Buda

Soviet Big Guns Crash Avalanche ‘Of Steel Into Budapest Defenses

Say Reds Cross Over Into Buda, Fight in Streets   Pravda Claims Reds Engage 200 Nazi Divisions

RUSSIAN GUNS RIP BUDAPEST   Prive To Slovak Border At New Point 78 Miles From Capital

Soviet Artillery Sending Shells Against Defenses Of Hungarian Capital .   Big Guns Firing From Positions . Within Five. Miles Of Budapest

SOVIET BIG GUNS BATTER AT DEFENSE BUDAPEST MONDAY  RED ARMY UNITS REACHED SLOVAK BORDER AT J NEW POINT TODAY

MANY GERMAN TROOPS HELD UP BY REDS   ‘Reach Slovak Border At New Point, Pour Avalanche’ of Steel on Budapest Defenses

AACHEN AREA BATTLE NEAR CLIMAX NOW   Action Involving U.S. Ninth Army Called One of War's Greatest Battle by Nazis

Cologne Fight Near Climax   Conflict on Roer River Increasing in Fury; French Armies Near Junction at Colmar, Closing Trap on Vosges Nazis

War Depar tne Ubeaas BR cin oro  th Year- ‘ld Boys   College Presidents Ask _Pre-Induection. Program - For 100.000 .

NTS QUADRUPEETS BORN ENT TO ALABAMA FAMILI   Committee Urges War Depariment To Enroll 160,000 Volunteer 314-Year-Olds

One Alton Man Dies; 2 Others  Hurt in Aetion   J.W.Davis Killed, Richard McCormick and Glen Campbell Wounded

Local Soldier ‘Dies In Battle: Two Others Wounded   S/Set. Butts Was Employed Here;  Pfc. Portner And Pvt. Shaffer Hurt

Voters  Flock  To Polls   Heavy Balloting Is. Reported Throughout Nation; May Reach a Total of 50,000,000

Polling Places Swamped; Roosevelt Carrying Texas   TODAY’S ELECTION AT A GLANCE 

Election Being Held in Nation   AMERICANS TO CHOOSE PRESIDENT AT POLLS ’

Wartime Election Decides Leaders For Next 4 Years   Roosevelt, Dewey Urge Big Volume Of Ballots

RECO IN TOTAL VOTES CAST IN UL $.   Citizens Hurry to Polls at Early Hour in Unprecedented Numbers

Men and Women Who Make Up America. Took Control Today, Deciding Winners  by Ballots.   DEWEY, ROOSEVELT CAST THEIR TICKETS

May Pile Up ~ Fifty Million Votes Today   Women’s and Service Ballots Will Be All-Important in Election :   The Weather

4h Millions May Visit Polls Today.        Dewey, FDR Make Last-minute Appeals to Nation; Both Urge  Big Turnout of Electors

Millions Go To Polls To Vote For President   Heavy Balloting All Over Country Is Under Way

May Pile U Fifty Milli Votes Todi                Women’s and Ser: Ballots Will Be Altportant in Election

Men and Women of Nation fo Polls to Decide Leadership of Country for Next 4 Years   Forty-four Million Expected to Participate in Selection, Exclusive of Three and a Half Millios Servicemen, Women; Closing Speeches Made

Czechs Seek  Home Rule   Walt Allies to Set Up Native Government

WIN 2 TOWNS IN SLOW PUSH ON VITAL CIT   Forces in South Are Less Than 18 Miles  From Strasbourg

Troops Battle Through Mud   Koslar, Barmen Captured in Drive Through Roer Valley; Cold Pelting Rein Hampers Great Allied Advance

Both Towns Are on Hitler Super-Highway. From Aachen to Berlin; Push ‘Carries ~~ Yanks Within 26 Miles of Calogne

Americans Ram Way Through Koslar, Barmen in Slow Advance Toward Coloane

Yanks, French Move Swiffly On Strasbourg   Nazis Abandoning Lorraine, Probably Alsace; 70,000 May Be Caught In Trap

‘ake Two Ruhy Valley Towns 26 Miles From Big City; . Navzic Mace O)\n Wiohwav

Fierce Fighting Confronts Yanks In Rhine Battle  British Clean Out

Major City on Rhine Is Only 26 Miles Distant; Ninth Army Leads Drive

Koslar-Barmen In Roer Valley Are Captured   Fierce Fighting Takes Place As Allies Advance

NAZIS USE BEST MEN IN EFFORT TO HALT DRIVE   Only Spotty Resistance Is Encountered Before Strasbourg by Allies

Push’ Thru Mud and Ger. man Opposition to Roer alley. Villages   ‘CLOSE ON STRASBOURG.   U. S, Assault Teams Meet Weak Opposition on ° Voges Front

Drive Through Mud: Steel Into Koslar a Barmen in Area Whe ' Enemy Has Most and Ract af Hig Tranns.

WEATHER BAD RESISTANCE IS STIFF   Yanks Stand 26 Miles From Arsenal City   On 70,000 Nazis In Vosges Hills: Allies Within 19 Miles Of Strasbourg

2 Other Armies Pressing Closer To Strasbourg   Yanks And British To North Battle Mud, Rain-Against Stubborn Defenses

RAIN AND GALE ADD TO MISERY   On Southern Flank Yanks: And French Fan Out on ;, Rhine Plain. tr   AIR POWER 1S GROUNDED.

Wichita, Kan. Pillbox On  Home Front   Wide-Awake Community Has Right To Take A Big Bow

Curfew Ordered to Forestall Looting After California Powder Blast

POWDER BLAST ROCKS 3 TOWNS   California Plant Blows Up, Breaks Windows For Miles Around

(Powder Plant Blast Probed On West. Coast   Two Workmen Killed And 50 Injured As Hercules Buildings Blow Up; Cause Unknown

BLAST KILLS 2 ON WEST COAST   About 50 Persons Believed Injured After Powder Plant Explosion

Curfew Is Ordered Two Killed as Blast Wrecks Powder Plant in California

Powder Plant Explodes, 2 Killed   “Curfew: Ordered . Early Saturday Night For 3 Towns Nearby

THON NS OVER aEPUBLIGIN   Carson Defeated For Re election As 16th Dis. ’ trict Congressman

News From Che Homeroy Churches   ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Father James A. Kane, Pastor

ALPS SPANNED BY BOMBERS FROM ITALY   Hitler’s Realm Blasted When City of Normal 2.000.000 Is Attacked

‘Vienna Area Struck From New Direction   RAF and Yanks Pound Across Channel; Bag 126 Nazi Defense Planes

SNOWFALL OF 34 INCHES.-SHOWN:   Slippery Roads in Many Sections Are-Reported

SS Oe  Lt. C. B. Hahn, Missing In Action, Had Completed 37 Missions

Launch Move fo Change Hatch Ac  Legislators Would Tighten Provisions

Polish Group Charged With Thwarting Aid   National Committee Stood In Way Of Help, Is Claim

‘Moscow -Sponsored Polish Committee ‘Accused of Blocking Aid to Gen. Bor

TEN GOVERNOR CANDIDATES IN LAST APPEALS   Four GOP And Six Demo Aspirants Gather At Cleveland

P. Herbert Hda. Sure Of Victory; Lausche Berated   Thomas Herbert Claims Most Newspaper Endorsements

Campaign for State Offices Draws to Close   Hubbell Makes Bitter Attack. Against Lausche

Coroner To Probe 4 Violent Deaths  Three Auto Fatalities Are Heard On Friday

YANKS ADVANCE IN NEW GUINEA   Count 677 Dead Japs In Hollandia Area

HILL POSITIONS IN HOLLANDIA TAKEN BY U, S$   677..Japs Killed Since Invasion Of Area 10 Days Axo

GAINING ON NEW GUINEA   677 Dead Japs Counted In the Hollandia Area

Enemy Loses 677 Men In Hollandia Area Fighting; Shipping Lines Hammered

MARY DIE IN NEW GUINEA   U. S. Troops Count 677 dapanese Dead in Hotlandia Area — Allies Reducing Tnemy Lill Positions North of Lake Sentani,

Reduce Enemy Positions Near Lake Sentani   Count 677 Jap Dead in Area Around Hollandia

Report 677 Dead J aps In Hollandia   Enemy Hill Positions Reported Reduced

Alhed Planes Pound German Oil. Transport      Raids Carried Out On Ploesti. Germany And France

HEAVY BOMBERS IN NEW RAIDS OVER ROMANIA   Enemy Oil, Installations Are Hit Contittue Raids On Germany

FOR SPEAKS IN NEW YORK GIT)   Renews Call for Gompletion Without Delay of United Nations Set-up: Addresses Foreign Policy Group

Will Not Bargain  With   Ml « 1 LVNAZIS  _       Roo €evelt States There Must Be Will And Available Power To Enforce Peace

Renews Call-For United Nations Organization, Asserts Germans Must Be Piniished

ALLIED BIG GUNS AND PLANES HIT CITY DEFENDERS   Great Fleets of Bombers Pound Cologne and Other Centers

BODY OF SLAIN MONTEREY YOUTH 15 EXHUMED IN HUNT FOR POWDER BURNS

Problems Facing FDR's Fourth Term Greater Than at First Election

FDR Facing Growing Job   He And Congress Must Meet War-Peace Problems With Many Sub-Divisions

Problems Ahead for  Roosevelt   How Things Are Done Will Affect World’s Coming Generations

Study Plans For Post-War U. $. Finances   Govt. to Stimulate Public Participation In Federal Financing

Red Armies AtNew High _JnRescryes   Russia-- Not Slackening   EMots Despite ___ Possible Nazi .- —   Collesse =

Move fo Demand Wider Ilo Powers Meets Opposition   In Effect Would. Create Super- State, Mexican Delegate

POSTWAR COURSE OF ILO CAUSES DEBATE PHILADELPHIA MEET  WHETHER BODY STRIVE FOR POWER TO ENFORC)

New Britain Beachhead Is  Extended By U. S. Forces   Allied Air Power, Supporting Marines in Advance. Deals Heavy Blow to the North in the Admiralty Island:

Marines Seize Natamo Point On New Britain   Beachhead Extended Mile and Half: Fliers Alake New Attack on Rabaul Unchallenged

Marines Expand Hold On New Britain Isle   American Bombers Blast Rabaul, But Meet No Jap Jap Opposition; Other Ground Gains Made

Turkey Veer: o War on  Allied Side   Germans Make Ready to Quit Country

DECISION LOOMS IN SKF INQUIRY   U. S. Seeks Means To Halt Flow Of War-Vital Product To Huns

Asks Probe Of  Mexican Story   Says Americans Living In Luxury Off LendLease Funds. -

RATION OFFICIAL WILL VISIT HERE      New Ration Token System to be Explained on Feb. 15.

ant. OFFICIAL — WILL VISIT HERE   New Ration on Token ‘System to be Explained on Feb. 15; :

Eight Jap Planes Downed Over Yap   Liberators Return Safely to Base

Eastern Front Battles Grow   Russians Smash Three German Divisions

TUKOMS WW LATVE   Crashed Through Soviet Cor. ridor to the Baltic West of Riga.   CONTACT GTHER UNITS   Russians at Midnight Admitted Local Reverses in That Sector.

Allied Planes Maintain Air Protection   Keep Constant Cloud of 2,000 Fighters Over Invasion Trocps

OUTNUMBERED BY 200 TO   Continuous Cloud of 2000 Fighters Cover Allies

Stilwell Via ps Drive Against Burma Capital   Vinegar Joe Thinks Allies Can Take Rangoon In Speedy Thrust

Soviet Forces Enter Sofia, Shell Warsaw   New Drive Reported Closing in on Latvian Capital

Warsaw Now ls Burning   Under Soviet Shelling And With Germans Carrying Out Demolitions

SOVIET FORCES ADVANCE ALONG EASTERN FRONT   Reds 30 Miles From Yugo— glavie — Berlin Reports  Drive On Riga

SEIZE SOFIA: PREPARE FOR WARSAW DRIVE   Three Armies Start OF fensive Against J Riga

Reds Roll  Into Sofia   Warsaw Assault Looms New Drive In North Is Indicated

Reds Pass Sofia on Roadto Yugoslavia   400,000 Men, Nazis Say, in Mammoth Russian Assault Force Hitting at Riga

REDS OVERRUN SOFIA, START DRIVE ON RIGA   BRIDGES TO BURNING WARSAW ARE LAID ACROSS VISTULA

Soviets Enter Sofia, Drive Close to Riga  Oiher Russian Units Lay Pontoon Bridges for Warsaw Drive PATROLS IN CITY Moscow “Silent on Nazi Report of New Offen pee We TE

RUSSIANS PUSH THROUGH SOFIA   Other Red Forces Shell  Burning Warsaw

Soviets Ready For Frontal Warsaw Drive   Third Ukraine Army Now Only 104 Miles From Greek Port Of Salonika

Russians Shell Burning Warsaw From Praga Area   Soviets Sweep Past Bulgarian Capital, Near Yugoslavia

Tr ‘oops of Reds Roll Thr ‘ough Bulgar Capital   German Report Says Soviets In  Drive On Riga

. i Museovites Are Driving Near Yugoslav Line      Sevicts Within 60 Airline Miles From German Escape Route From  Greeee   BURNING WARSAW BEING SHELLED   Russians Laying Pontoon Asswul, Br idees Across Vistula Toward Dot ehh Capital

BALKAN CLEANUP APPEARS LIKELY AS SOVIETS GAIN   Troops Enter Former Czechoslovakia, Contact Partisans

Russ Troops Enter Sofia, Shell Warsav   Kremlin Is Still Silent On Nazi-Reported Red

Russians Roll Through Sofia, Shell Warsaw   Unconfirmed Report In Berlin Says Soviets Using 400,000 Men In New Offensive

Russians Roll Through Bulgar Capital   Oiher Forces Shell Warsaw; Berlin Reports New Drive

Reds Roll Throust Sofia, Other Units Attacking Warsaw  Russians Start Putting Pon toon Bridges Over Vistula os om ..

Bulgars Aiding Red Onslaught: Seeking Treaty   Romonion Troops Assist Russians

Report Reds Launch New Baltic Drive   Berlin Says Upward to 400,000 Men Being Used in New Movement

Red Forces Rell Through Sotia For Yugoslavia   _ Soviets Lay Pontoon Bridges Across Vistula Near Praga

RUSSIANS SHELL BURNING WARSAW; PATROLS IN CITY   Begin Laying Pontoon Assault Bridges Across Vistula from Captured Praga.   OTHER SOVIET TROOPS ROLL THROUGH SOFIA   Berlin Reports Reds Are - Driving on Riga With One Spearhead Only 20 Miles From City.

First Army Appears To Have Developed Four Spear-Headed Drive With Definite Goals

FORMING OF BEPARATE SPEAR. ‘HEADS AFTER BREAK. THROUGH CAUGHT EN. EMY BY SURPRISE

TAX BILL A GAIN ON HOUSE FLOOR   Compromise Bill Is Expected tto Pass Easily

HOUSE EXPECTED TO ACT ON BILL WITHOUT TROUBLE   Little or No Opposition Seems Possible on New Tax Act to Provide Funds of Over Two Billions.   AMOUNT IS 8 BILLIONS — BELOW GOAL OF FDR   Direct Income Tax Not Affected But Public Will Pay More For Entertainment and Some Needs,

TAX MEASURE BACK TO HOUSE; LITTLE CHANGE EXPECTED   Bill Involves No Radieal Direct Increase In Income Levies

New Tax Bill Near Final Enactment by Congress   Only Senate Approval Needed as House Prepares to Pass Measure

ARGENTINA BREAK WITH AXIS. CAME JUST BEFORE “FREEZE   U. & HAD MADE FINAL PLANS TO STOP ALL ECONOMIO AND MONETARY TRANS ‘ACTIONS

Fatal Crash During Raid On Engebi   Clapper Gives ThumbsUp Greeting Moment _Before Bombers Collide, Crash Into Sea

Yank, Chinese Troops Cut Off Retreating Japs   Stilwell’s Main Army  Forcing Nipponese Units To Fall Back

Jabs Lose North Burma Town   JAP BASES IN SOUTHWEST PACIFI” ARE HIT WITH NEARLY 400 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES

ALLIES GAIN INNORTH BURMA   Cut Path of Japs Retreating Before Stillwell Army

Path Of Retreat Cut Off For Japs In North Burma   Slight Progress Made By Jap Column Driving Into India

YANK, CHINESE FORCES CUT OFF -JAPS IN MOEAUIN   In india Nips Reported to Be Advancing But At Great Cost.

Three Children Perish In Fire At Milwaukee   Lower Flat On City’s -Northside Is Swept By Fire While Parents Are  Away From Home

P. G. Wodehouse Arrested In Paris   Withhold Details On Charges Against Author

Our boys must keep on fighe ing—we must keep on buy ing WAR BONDS unit! vio tory is won. Keop ou BACH ING THE ATTACK.

Germans Gain In Yugoslavia   Yugoslav Troops, However, Advance In Slavonia

$1000 A Minute Spent By Navy For Air Force   Admiral Young Reports Supplying Fliers For Air Offensive Costly

Navy Flying Proves Costh   Expenditures Set At $1000 a Minute, $1,500,000 Every Day

AVY SPENDING. PMORE THAN $1000 > ~ AMINUTE NOW      his . Is Necessary to. Keep “Planes in‘ the Air and i Knocking Down Enemy. .       ALSO MOVING. SUPPLIES   ACompilation of ‘Statistics * “Released Today by Rear _ Admiral W. B. Young.

$1,000 A MINUTE KEEPS NAVY FLYING   Fuel for Planes Costs Billions Yearly

Vichy Calls Up Militia To oA ttack Own People   Partisan Sabotage Units Launch Large-Scale Actions Assia Nazis

HEAVY BOMBERS IN GREAT RAID OVER COLOGNE      Dump 2,600 Tons Of High Ex plosives On Rhine ‘ City

COLOGNE VICTIM OF AIR ATTACK  Llaa ersamot VWhwenc  Heaviest Day Attack of War  On Single City

Drop Heavy Bomb Load On Cologne   Apparently Germans Plan Resistance on the Cologne  Plain

Allied Bombers Blast Cologne   One of Greatest Air Attack On Single City

Cologne Hit Hard By 8th   German City Is Given Heaviest Bombing of War

2,000 PLANES POUND EUROPE      Munich and Other Targets In Reich Are Mauled

3000 Americar Planes Attack Nazi-Europe   Munich and Bucharest Assailed; ~ AtrGelds Bombed

EXILED PRESIDENT OF LITHUANIA DIES   Antanas Smetena, 69, Succumbs Te Suffocation Afier Fire In His Sen's Cleveland. Home

Antanas Smefona, Exiled Lithuanian President. Suffocates as Home Burns

ERILED LITHUANIA PRESIDENT KILLEL   Antanas Smetona Perishes In Fire At Cleveland Residence

Exiled President Of Lithuania  Victim of Fire   Antanas Smetona Dies As Blaze Sweeps Home Of Son in Cleveland

Lithuanian President Dies  Following Cleveland Blaze   Antanas Smetona, 69, Exiled Head of War Swept Na. ' tion, Expires of Suffocation When Brother's Hoame le Dactraved

Exiled Head Of Lithuania Dies in Fire   Antanas Smetona, 69. Tiny Republie’s Only President, Suffocates In Cleveland Blaze

Exiled President Of Lithuania Dies   Suffocates In Burning Home  of Son; Others Escape.

NEW ALLIED BOMBINGS OF FRENCH COAST   German London Raid Cost Enemy 14 Planes

Bombers Hit ‘French Coast   Air Ministry Tells Of British Victory

THIRD LARGEST CITY IN POLAND IS ENCIRCLED   Other Soviet Forces, Driving for Warsaw, Near Wisla River

PLANES BLAST . ~- ARMS CENTER   ‘SOVIET TANK-AND CAVALRY FORCES ALONG MAJOR  EFENSE LINE ON 30-MILE FRONT AND WARSAW  - MAY BE OUTFLANKED FROM SOUTH—RAF  STAGES SECOND SATURATION BOMBING ATTACK ON STUTTGART

Hc THUUPS VLEAR BANK DF VISTULE   Polish Capital Last Barrier to Berlin  DRIVE ON KAUNAS  nd  Hitlerites on Verge of Debacle

'ALLIED PLANES BACK INTO FIGHT   Nazis Believed Re-Grouping Forces For Another Try.

Advance Another 200 Yds, Into Town of Cassino,  ALLIES ARE ON OFFENSIVE AGAIN  Germans Are Regrouping Their Forces for an All-out Push.

Latest Dispatches Tell Of Maro Fighting Below. British and‘ German Troops Below Rome.

Americans Drive Wedge Into Cassino   Advance 200 Yards; Fierce Fighting There and Below Rome

FINLAND WAITS FOR RED REPLY AS BOMBS HIT   Parliamentary Group to Hear Report From Foreign Minister

Heavy Bombers Continue To Pound West Germany; Ground Armies Supported   Industrial Cities Of Munster And Bochum Blasted By RAF

Election Interest  ~ Increased   Attention”. in Tomorrow's - Voting ‘Centers on Race for City Collector   WRITE-IN CONTEST _ FOR COUNCIL SEAT      Prosecutor Warns Against Giving:of - Information; PollsOpen Until 7:25

city May Fall Within 48 Hours. Allied Military Quarters Say   American Seventh Army Plunges Nearly 35 Miles Into Maritime Alps in Drive to Join Forces in Northern France; French Resistance Groups Contribute Largely to Successes

Outer Detenses Crashed; Troops 22 Mi. From City   Chartres, Orleans, Dreux and Chateaudun Seized By Armored U. S. Dynamo; Fall Canital Expected Within 48 Hours.

ALLIED UNITS INSIDE CITY, ~ SAYS REPORI   Orleans, Chateaudun, Chartres Fall to Invaders   'NAZI LAST STAND   Another Trap Face: Foe Fleeing Over The Seine

Truman In Campaign On Pacific Coast   Confers With Party Leaders

Mexicans Become Like Americans   Their Lunch Period Now 30 Minutes

ts ‘Prominent of Jeweler 25 Died Today   U.S. Protests /P Nazi Killing of J G.I. Captives D

U. 3. PROTESTS NAZIS AILLING OF PRISONERS   Vigorous Complaints Made Through the Swiss   ASSAIL THE MASSACRE

South Seas Rich in Tales of What Happens to American Troops There

Army, Navy Asked to Serap  Training Plans   House Committee Urges Sending 200,00 Pupils Inta Camhat

200,000 Fathers May Be Saved   Committee May Ask End To Specialized Training

ip South Seek: reTo Put Mar rsin 2nd Place   House Group May Yet Save Many Fathers

May Halt Army’s Special Training   House Military May Recommend Abolition of Specialized Program To Save 200,000 Pre-War Fathers  From Induction.

May Abandon Special Army  Training   Would Put Youths Rather Than Fathers Into War

PROBE SPECIAL ARMY COURSES   Seek House Ban On Studies; Would Delay Call of Dads

STUDENT CLASSES MAY BE SCRAPPED   Military Affairs Committee Considers Plan to Boost Combat Forces.

MAY SCRAP STUDENT TRAINING PROGRAMS TO SLOW DAD DRAFT   Move Would Put 200,000 Younger Men In Line For Combat

Scrapping of Student Training Program May be Recommended   Move May be Made to Slow Down Father Draft

May Cut A. S. T. P.   Move Designed to Save About 200,000 Pre-War Fathers from Induction

SOME OF PROGRAM ~ MAY BE ABOLISHEL   Lessening of Army’s Specialized Training May Be Recommended.

Army College Training May Be Curtailed   Solons Propose Move To Slow Up Droft of Pre-Pearl Harbor Dods

‘Committee Seeks Action To Slow ‘Draft of Fathers   Hearings Being Held By Military Affairs Unit In Congress

Would Abolish Army Students   Would Be Aimed At Saving Many Fathers From Induction.

May Ask Army ‘Slash Training Of Specialist:   ‘Move Is Designed. To Save 200, 000: Pre-War Dads From. Call- To ‘Service

Letter Fuss ‘Good Break For Hopkins   Attempt To  Discredit F. D. Adviser Missed Fire, Belief

Stettinius Is Expected to Push Reorganization of State Department When He Formally Takes Over

STETTINIUS PLANS — TO REVAMP DEP'T   No Shake-up But Step-byStep Changes Pre dicted _

State Department May Be Revampec By New Secretary   Stettinius Expected To Con: linue Streamlining Step-by-step

Stettinius To Streamline State Dept.   NEW SECRETARY IS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW SEC’Y. HULLS POLkulES AS TO TRADE BARRIERS.   Br'ngs in Colleagues

STATE DEPARTMENT FACES REVAMPING   Ne Drastic Shakeup Is Planned But Agency Will Be Sireamlined Ey Stettinius

Reorganizatior By Stettinius Expected Soon   No Drastic Changes In State Department Seen; Streamlining Slated to Continue

‘Major Crisis’ Seen Near In Germany   Swiss Commentator Say: Confidence Is Dwindling, Nervousness Growing

‘MAJOR CRISIS’ DEVELOPING FOR GERMANY, HINT   Nazi Nervousness Indicated By Massacre in France; Turkey New Headache

Inhice MAJOR SANUIDATES Hut   Hoimes, Hull ani Hiol; F-le Fe‘itions with Ccuaty Cler..

THREE MAJOR CAUNITATES FILE   Holmes, Hull and Hol; Fle Fetitions with Ccuaty Cleri.

French Army Chief Won't Step Down   Challenges - Gen. de Gaulle To Oust Him

Giraud Defies Gen. de Gaulle To Oust Him   Conference Fails To Settle Thflferences

Showdown in French ‘Committee   General Giraud Refuses tc Yield. Military Command to Gen. DeGaulle   DECISION MAY ’ COME TONIGH   DeGaulle Reported Having Trouble Getting Commit- tee to Approve Ouster

Giraud Refuses  To Give Up Post   He Challenges DeGaulle to Oust Him as Commander of French Army.

GENERAL GIRAUD REFUSES 10 QUI   Showdown Arose From Ef forts to Relegate Giraud to Unimportant Post.

NEW FREE FRENCE STRIFE FLARES   GIRAUD, DE GAULLE CLASH IN AFRICAN CONFERENCE

—GIRAUD ="  GIRAUD REFUSES TO GWE UP JOE   Challenges Gen. DeGaulle To Oust Him In ‘Dis- agreeable’ Session :

GIRAUD HOLDS FRENCH REINS   Ignores DeGaulle’s Challenge to Step Down as Commander-In-Chief

Gen. Giraud Refuses. To. ' ‘Step Down   Will Not Relinquish His Command to De Gaulle; ‘Decision Near

DEGAULLE FAILS TOOUST GIRAUD   General Stands Pat in Face o' Demands He Give Up  Army. Command.

GIRAUD REFUSES TO BE SHELVED   FRENCH COMMANDER DEFIES DE GAULLE IN OUSTER ATTEMPT.

Gen. Giraud Refuses To Give Up Command   Challenges dé Gaulle to Oust Him as Leader of French Army in a Morning Meeting Characterized as “Disagreeable.”

6 iraud, Head Of French Armed  F orces, "Refuses To Step Down Challenges Right Of DeGaulle To Oust Him At

Won’t Bow To DeGaulle   Giraud Defies Order; “Would Rather Quit Than Be Humiliated”

Gen. Giraud Refuses To Step Down  As French Leader  Army Chief Challenges DeGaulle to Oust Him From Post

Giraud Refuses To Give Up Post Of Army Chief   Challenges Gen. De Gaulle To Onst Him During  Pisgerecable” Parley

Giraud Defies De Gaulle in Ouster Fight   Challenge Hurled in Bitter Conference on Commander Removal

DEWEY FETURNG AMID SGN5 OF PARTY UNITY   ‘Crowds Greet Nominee at Train Stops Whiie En Rouie to New York

Governor Dewey  Back In Albany   Republican Presidential Nominee Forced To Appear During Many Stopovers   PEACE OFFERING TO WILLKIE SEEN

Reds in All-Out Attack   Rail Town Near Budapest Scized By Soviet Army

REDS INAUGURATE ALL-OUT ATTACK NEAR BUDAPEST      Armored Columns Close Rapidly On Capital, Cross Open Plains

RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON BUDAPES!   Sweep Across Hungarian Plains Following Capture Of Jaszbereny

RUSSIANS GAIN NEAR BUDAPEST   Red Army Swinging North in Move to Envelop City

GAIN NEAR BUDAPEST   Red Army Swinging North In Move to Envelap City

Invest Budapest From All Sides   Red Forces Take Nazi Stronghold To East; Other  Units Batter Nearer To City From  Other Directions

RED ARMY CAPTURES RAIL TOWN   Malinovsky Swinging North In Wheeling Move On Budapest

FLOOD THREAT DISSIPATED BY COLD WEATHER   Preezing Rains Due In Area To night—13 Mines Forced To Close

BILL RELAXING BAN ON SOLDIER READING. PASSES, GOES T0 F. D. R.   LEGISLATION LIFTS RESTRICTIONS ON POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, BOTH SIDES MUST BE PRESENTED

Many Goods Being Made  For Civilians   No Surplus On Market. Says WPB

BEGIN TO MAKE CIVILIAN GOODS   Number of Items Will Fall  Short of Demands

Ohio’s Bricker Teams With Dewey In Battle To Drive Out New Deal   Nominee Pledged To Restore The Presidency Of United States To American People

ODT May Seize Truck Firms  Stri ike Threatens  a a .   Strike Threatens To Paralyze Over Road Shipments In Midwest

U.S. May Seize Trucking Firms   Strike of 50-000 Workers Continues

TRUCKING LINES MAY BE SEIZED   Action Looms As Strike Par. alyzes 8-State Area

Americans Mopping Up Last of Japs   Reconquest of Guam Practically Completed

WALLACE CONFERS. ON TRIP-T0 CHINA      Vice-President Denies _ Talking Politics With   Prasidant

WALLACE CONFERS ON TRIP-TO CHINA   Vice-President Denie 5 _ Talking Politics With President

Wallace Talks’ With President About China   Political Situation _ Not Discussed, He says: ‘Silent on Candidacy

WALLACE CHANCES ~ STILL IN DOUBT   SAYS POLITICS WAS NOT MEN  TIONED DURING 2-HOUR  TALK WITH ROOSEVELT.

Japs Surrounded On Guam Expected To Surrender Or Be Annihilated Shortly

ONLY NIPS LEF] ON GUAM HELD IN POCKET   Jap-Seized American Sol Retaken 20 Days After Battle Began.

IN POCKET   Jap-Seized American Soi] Retaken 20 Days After Battle Began

CONQUEST OF ~— GUAMIS OVER   U2 S. “erces Win Baek  Stolen Isle   Thousands of Japanese Killed

Breach in Gothic Line Is Widened   Monte Citeena Captured; US Troops on Threshold of Futa Pass; High Ground North of Firenzuola Occupied

Yankees at Threshhold of Futa Pass With Capture of Two Cities in Italy

Widen Breach ‘In Gothic Line iINorth Italy   Capture of Monte Citerng and Monte Pronale Announecd hy Allied Headquarters

WIDEN BREACH IN GOTHIC LINE   AMERICAN TROOPS PUSH TO FUTA PASS, GATEWAY TO BOLOGNA

Allies Pounding Toward Po Valley  5th and 8th Armies Both Making Gainc

BREACH WIDENED IN GOTHIC FRONT   Yanks Near Futa Pass After Capture Of Two Heights

Allies Widen Breach In Naz Gothic Defenses   Fifth and Eighth Armies Aim Drives Toward Futa Pass.

Gothic Line Push Gains   Breach Widened With Capture of Monte Citerna by Yanks

Yanks Within 20 Miles Of Bologna; British Drive North From Rimini And Cross Marecchio River

BREACH IN GERMAN GOTHIC LINE IN ITALY ts BEEN WIDENED  EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS O}  ADRIATIC END BEGIN

GOTHIC LINE I$ BREACHED BY AMERICANS   Monte Citerna Falls; Gives Allies Break

Americans Widen Breach in Gothic Line Across Italy  Capture Monte Citerna and Monte Tronale to Win Place on Threchold of Futa Pass

YANKS WIDEN GOTHIC BREACH      British Troops Advance or Adriatic Sector

WIDEN A BREACH   Allied Headquarters Report Capture of Monte Citerna in Italy

Americans Widen Breach in Nazis’ Fortified Line   New Gains Bring Allied Forces to Important Futa Pass: Air Force Active —

BREACH IN NAZI GOTHIC LINE IS BEING WIDENED   American Troops Fight To Threshold Of Important Futa Pass

Widen Gothic  Line Breach.   Americans Near Futa _Pass After Capturing Two Mountain Forts

WIDEN GOTHIC LINE BREACH   Yanks Capture  Monte Cit erna, Drive On For Bologna

ALLIES CAPTURE MONTE CITERNA   AMERICAN TROOPS BATTLE FOR STRATEGIC PASS

Surplus Property Disposal Rule Okec   House Sidetracks Temporarily George Bill Passed by Senate

Reconversion Bill Delayed   Surplus Property Legislation Shoved in Front Of George Bill By House

OPA Demands Use of Car Clubs   Home-to-Work Gasoline Rations to Be Limited

LAKE TONNAGE NEAR RECORD   Accomplishments In 1943 Almost Miraculous,   ODT Asserts

NAZI SOLDIERS QUIT BULGARIA   Men Massed In Hungary To Slow Up Westward Drive Of Reds

State Department Reveals Scheme To  Sell “Ghost Guns”   Americans Attempt To Make Deal With Allies

C TARE NAZI STRONGHOLD   Estimate 40,000 to 60,000 Germans Trapped i in West Holland

"ALLIES DRIVE _ STEADILY ON IN WEST HOLLAND   % Capture Of Coastal City Increases Plight Of 40,000 Nazi Troops   * YANKEES SCORE GAINS   Liberation Of Ruthenia Virtually Completed By Russians

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   PERCEN OP 700M IS CAPTURED

THREATENED IN HOLLAND   Netherlands City Of Bergen Op Zoom Falls To Allies

ENEMY LOSING COASTAL AREA: -TO-THE ALLIES   ADVANCES BY BRITISH AND CANADIAN TROOPS ‘THREAT« ENS. SEVERAL DIVISIONS —  . OF GERMANS -—-

Canadians Take Nazi Stronghold In Netherlands   Bergen Op Zoom Falls; Big Enemy Force Is Periled

Sen. Vandenberg ls Favored For Keynote Speect   Other G. O. P. Leader: Also Want Mrs. Luce And Johnston

Mrs. Luce Loses  To Vandenberg   Keynote Choice Debated By GOP Commitice

VANDENGERG FELT KEYNOTER CHOICE   Republicans Said to Shy From Selection of Mire.

VANDENBERG LEADS IN KEYNOTER RACE      Michigan Senator Likely Choice for Republican Post

Vandenberg In Lead for Keynoter   MRS. LUCE LIKELY TO BE LAID ASIDE THOUGH SHE _  DOKS MAKE SOME VERY CRACLEING SPEECHES.   Thumbs Down on Johnston

VANDENBERG IS FAVORED T0 BE GOP KEYNOTE!   Rep. Luce And Eric Johnston Also Mentioned For  Convention Task

HOICE EXPECTED TO BE MADE TODAY              Supporters of Cofgressman alleck atid Gov-._

Pontiff Hits Absolutism In Regimes   Five Points Offered For Mankind to Avert Civil Wars

Southerner Believes South “Will Be There With Plenty” In Postwar World: Points To Minerais —

COLLECTOR OF GUND TELLS OF HIS HOBBY  Harold A. VanKirk Speaks to Kiwanis Club of Doylestown  f  GUN HONOR WINNER

COLLECTOR OF MUZZLE LOADING GUNS SPOKE   Kiwanis Also Had a Veteran Discuss Modern Rifles   FUTURE MEETING PLANS

Indiscreet Words of Inebriated SS Chief Reveal Story of Hitler Crisis

Hitler Quit Military Leadership In August   Free German Press Bureau Claims First Authentic Report Of Crisis

CHEW CARPET BUT SHUT UP FUFHRER TOLL   Report Via Stockholm Tells How War Was Taken from Hitler.

U.S. Troops Closing In   Reports of Allied Patrols  In Versailles

Report Allied - Patrols Reach Paris Vicinity   No Confirmation Or Denial Of Report Allied Patrols Have Entered Versailles   HUSS MESSAGE SAYS   ALLIES NEAR PARIS

94 Die in Crash at Hanford   Authorities Seek Clues to Mysterious Midair Explosion

Luxury Liner Explodes in Midair Flinging 24 Persons to Their Death

Bipartisan Accord on Peace Plans Sought  Hull and Adviser to Dewey Confer on Foreign Affairs

Hull and Dulles Hold Meeting; IF. D. R. Greets Security Conferees

DULLES AND HULL WAKEPROGRESS IN PEACE PLANS TALK   Dewey’s Advisor and Secre: tary of State Confer Two ® And One-half Hours   EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES _ OF BI-PARTISAN ACTION   Dulles and Hull Will Meet Again This Afternoon; Former Thinks More Informa % tion on Security Conference Should Be Released

HULL CONFERS WITH DULLES   “Considerable Progress” is Reported; Foreign Delegates See FDR

Dulles and Hull Discuss Peace: Report Progress   Overshadows Conferences   50-Year Watch Likely

Progress Reportet On Bi-Partisan  Peace Accord 0   Dewey Aide and Hull Confer for Two Hours and Half

DULLES CONFERS WITH SECRETARY   Dewey’s Foreign Policy Adviser Will Meet Hull Again Today

DULLES SEES ~ HULL; TALKS ~ PEACE PLANS   Dewey Advisor Confers With Secretary of «State

Bombers Hit Luzon  In 3-Day Assault   Fleet Aided Mindoro Invasion; Hailed as Greatest Naval Victory in Western Pacific Warfare

AR ATTACKS AIDING FIGHT FOR MINDORD   Smash 17 Jap Ships and 373 Planes While Troops Take San Jose.

Attacks Aided Invasion of Mindoro Island  Offensive Assume: Proportions of Major Victory

ASSESSORS. SET TAX VALUATIONS   -Roler Anzounces Figures for Basing Current Payments,

AddtooURd ot] TAX VALUATIONS   Roler Announces Figures for Basing Current Payments.

Yank Troops Only 70 Miles FromBelgium  B29 AAR © ow eee   122,000 Germans Killed or Captured Along Lower Seine

Seize Soissons 55 Miles From Belgian Border   Mounting Drive Heads Toward German Reich

120,000 Nazi Casualties Counted West of Seine   Reds May Enter Bucharest Wednesday, Report Nearly 275,000 Germans Taken Prisoners in Romania; Eighth Army Three Miles from Gothic Line with Germans Expected to Stand and Fight

Historic Cities Of First World War Taken By Yanks In Sweep Toward Reich

Columns Plunging Thru Historic Battlefields, ‘10 Miles From Belgium   122,000 German Casualties Reported Along Seine As 85-Mile Front Surges Northward Toward Reich

May Call Fewer In Month of June   Murray Hopes to Reduce Oklahomans Inducted During Coming Month

COMMUNISM SPREADS IN EUROPE   Belgium, France, Italy Viewed With Alarm by Americans and British

RED ACTIVITIES IN FREED LANDS STIRS CONCERN   Belgium, France, Italy Are Being Viewed With Particular Alarm   COMMUNISM EXPLOITED   Resistance Movements: Believed Encouraged For Political Ends

COMMUNIST PARTIES ARE BEST ORGANIZED POLITICAL GROUPS IN LIBERATED  COUNTRIES  :

Belgium, France, Italy Viewed With Alarm by Americans and British

Bulgaria, cpienie Weakening As Romanians Erase 1 German Divisions; Nazi Troops Slovakia  Ocarpy

Bucharest Attacked By Nazis   Hitler Battling  To Hold Deserting Belkan Satellites In Line

Nazi “New Order’ Rapidly Falling Apart In Balkans   Bulgaria Reported Set To Declare War  On Germany

Diplomats Sent To Sofia To Stop  War Declaration   Germans Say Fierce Fight Raging Between Nazi, Romanian Troops

Hitler Opens Major Attack On Bucharest   Capital, Cut Off From Rest of Country, Circled bv Nazi Troops

Hitler launches _ Bucharest attack  Trouble shooters rushed to Sofia to block war

Hitler Battles Desperately to Hold Balkans   Launches Attack On Bucharest; Threatens Sofia

NAZI FORCES KNOCKED OUT BY ROMANIANS   Hungarians Called Upon to Drive German Invaders from Country.   BULLETIN

Nazis Turn Threats And Guns On Balkans   Hitler Battles To Hold Satellites From Turning Against His Armies

HEAVY GERMAN ATTACK OPENED ON BUCHAREST   Hitler Desperately Trying to Hold Axis Satellites in Line

HITLER ATTACKS ROMANIA ARMY; EVES BULGARIA   Claims Bucharest Encircled; Secks To Haht Qnfia War Unva

Cut Romania Capital. From Rest of Country As Rival Camps Battle:

Disintegration of Nazis ‘New Order’ In the Balkans Gains Momentum

Capture Of Seventh Army Aim Of Battle   Still Three German Armies In France Not Engaged; Little  Dencnart Of Armictir:

Capture of Nazi 7th A Army Is Aim: of Present Battle   Representing the Combined American 5 Networks —-

Senate Uplifts  Cotton Pricing   Bankhead Plan Gets Okay. Despite FDR Onposition

THIRD ARMY DRIVE CRACKS VAUNTED LIN   American Forces Get Firmer Holds in Germany

Americans Cross Saar, Push Into Siegfried Line   Russians Take Three Hungarian Objectives;  Allies Gain in Italy

Two Fleets of RAF Bombers Converge On City   34 Planes Lost in Night’s Operations Including Raids in France, Germany and Hel goland.

Air Raid Alarms Sound Over South Germany  American Bombers Hit Mannheim cond Tiudwidnchatfarn

Strong Bomber Groups Blast Rhine Sector   Three German Cities Are Hit by Heavy Load of Explosives

Rhineland ~ Again Hit ByBomber:   Allied Planes Follow Up Heavy Daylight Raid on Mannheim,  _ Ludwiashafen

SPEEDY. OKEH PREDICTED FOR NEW TAX BILL   Income Tax Figuring To Be Eliminated For 30,000,000 Under 1945 Program   SLIGHT BURDEN SHIFTS      Legislative Drafting Board Whipping Proposal Into Presentation Form

SIMPLER TAX PLAN VOTED BY COMMITTEE   Streamlined Program to Be Submitted to House Next Week

WAYO AND MEARS MEMBERS URAFI NEW PROGRAM   30,000,000, Would End Figuring: Other Return: to Be Simplified.

READY 10 OFFER SIMPLIFIED PLAN FOR TAX RETURN   House Plan Will Eliminate — Figuring by 30 Million a on Income Levy   ‘Pay-Go’ Receipts Will Be Accepted on Earnings J Up to $5,000

WITHHOLDING OF . TAXES. BY  EMPLOYERS. BASIS .OF. NEW- SYSTEM—CHANGE IN ~ EXEMPTIONS _

(2 enemy craft are  shot down Yanks bag five   Yanks bag five  more Jap ships

Carrier Task ForeeStrikes Near Bonins   Nimiiz Reports Daring New Dash Into Inner Jap Deiense Perimiter   1 U. S. PLANES LOST   Enemy Force Available to Assist in Marianas Severely Cut

Five More Jap Ships Sunk; 72 Planes Downed   ‘ Speedy Yank Task Force Sends Its Planes Against Jap Island Nearer Tokyo

Five More Of Ships Of Japs Sunk By U.S.   In Addition 72 Planes Destroyed By Yank Fliers

Jap Island 800 Miles From City ‘Of Tokyo Hit      Five: Ships Sunk and 72 Planes Destroyed in Blows Against Four Areos

Five Nip Ships Sunk In Blows Against Isles   Iwo Jima In Bonins Area Hammered; Tinian Battered By Planes And Ships In Heavy Attacks; Five U. S. Planes Lost

72 Aireraft Are Bagged Over Isles  Near Tokyo   Task Force Strikes New Blow At Nips

PLANES ATTACK OLE STRONGHOLD   Islands in the Bonins and Marianas Blasted   72 PLANES DESTROYED   Smashes Designed Neutralize Jap Air Power Within Range of Saipan

Five More Jap Vessels Sunk In Pacific   Island Within 800 Miles of Tekyo Hit by U. 8. Bombs

Grim Battle Rages. for St. Lo.   “Yanks Capture . ‘Four Villages; : “General German “Retreat. Reported   ‘Warin Brie€<:

Will Investigate War News Delay   Committee To Check On Hold Up of Releases

Use Their New Armor Plated Lorries Packed With Assault Infantry   GERMANS HINT AMERICANS HAVE TAKEN LORIENT   Between Normandy And Brittany Nazis Are Trying To Split Yanks’ Front

WEST END OF FORMER BEACHHEAD TO LIFE BELOW CAEN   British and Canadians Gaim 34 Miles First Hour As They Spring Armored Troop Carriers On Unwary - Germans.

BEGIN DRIVE ON SHORTEST WAY 10 PARIS   Armor Plated Lorries Carry Men into Battle  RY <ONTTEN Preredc

80, 000 More Troops Sent to Defend North  Dispatches Say Large Gatherings of A Isad Fanvactan €hincg @iaghtod

Nazis Expect Allied Invasion Forces To Strike From Iceland; Rush Troops

Marshall, Other Officials On Plane Inaugurating Direct Passenger Hops From America To Paris

 Christmas Shopping No Job for Mere Man,.   Especially in Unmentionables. Department.

Othman Has Narrow Escape on Capital Shopping Tour; He's Trapped In Underwear Section of Store

3,800-Mile Trip Takes 18 Hours  First Non-Stop Flight Made From London to Washington

Yanks Blast Way 100 Yards Into Underground Chamber at Fort Driant

‘Yanks 100 Yards Into Underground ‘Chambers Of Massive Fort Driant

Franco Told To Stop His Playing With Both Sides   U. S., Tired Of TwoTiming, Cuts Off Oil  Shipments To Spain; Madrid Must Choose

Drastic New Steps Against Spain Impend   Oil Stoppage By U. S. Warns Franco To Quit Aiding Axis.

NEW ALLY ACTS ON SPAIN   DRASTIC FRANCO BLOWS MAY FOLLOW OIL SLASH

OTHER BLOWS MAY FOLLOW   Franco Must Decide Whict Side He Wants to Play Ball With.

SPAIN HARD HIT BY BAN ON OIL   NEW BLOWS EXPECTED UNLESS FRANCO STOPS PLAYING WITH HITLER

Franco- Warned Of Aiding Axis  State Department Will Force Stand

Other Blows May Follow Oil Cutoff   Spanish Regime Told It Is Time to Decide What To Do

America Getting Tough With Franco  Os Bh itmaise RAs   Other Blows May Follow Oil Embargo

Franco Facing Fresh Drastic Allied Action   Further Moves Likely Uniess Spain Complies With Allied Demands

SPAIN UNABLE TO GET OIL FROM ALLIES   Other Drastic Blows May Hit  Gen. Franco

Planes Sink Nazi Battleship Tirpitz   Giant of Hitler’s' Fugitive Navy Sent to Bottom When Hit by Three Six-Ton Bombs Dropped by RAF Laneactore

‘Nazi Battleship + Tirpitz Is Sunk   Last Giant Of Hitler’s Fugitive Navy Sent Tc 8 Bottom By Earthquake Bombs Dropped By Daring British Fliers

RAF. Sinks Huge Nazi Ship, Tirpitz   $50,000,000 Vessel Never Had Engaged In Surface Battle.

British Airmen Hit Vessel In Tromso Fjord   Long Chase Ended as Giant Vessel Explodes I nside, Capsizes After Three Six-Ton Bombs Strike It

Three Earthquake ‘Bombs Hit Vessel   Sister Ship of Bismarck, Which Never Got th an Encounter. No Lonaer Threat to Allie:

TIRPITZ 18 SUNK BY RA, E, PLANES   SIX-TON BOMBS CAPSIZE $50,000,000 BATTLESHIP, LAST OF NAZI NAVY.

German Battleship Targei For Bombings by RAF For Severai Years; Hid in Norway.   Moves To Tromso

Germany's Last Battleship Is Sunk by British   ‘Hitler's Navy Now Practically Useless

Big Bombers  From Britain Blast Tirpitz   3 Earthquake Bombs Hit Warship Squarely In Norwegian Fjord  pe aa aaa te ae

Direct Hits Scored By 6-Ton Bombs On 41,000-Ton Dreadnaught   ATTACK WAS EIGHTH AGAINST NAZI PRIZE

Infantry Patrols Reported Within Mile of ~ Waterfront  PROGRESS IS MADE, COMMUNIQUE SAYS Fall of Important Port  Appears But Matter ~ of Hours

Assistance of U. S. and Britain To Russia Is Appreciated — Harrima

ADOPTS A WAR PRISONER   Canadian Correspondent Has Named German Dog “Two-F”

Cite Kingsley Man For Valor  - Lieut. Davis Awardec  Oak Leaf Cluster -

DAVIS WINS NEW HONORS   Kingsley Officer Gets Oak Leaf Cluster In Lieu of Second Silver Star

DEMOCRAT VICTOR IN OKLAHOMA FOR JOB IN CONGRESS   Stigler May Win Over Clark By 4000 Majority, Republicans Blame New Deal In Causing Defeat.   B10 CLAIMS CONTROL - IN NEW YORK VOTING   Left Wing Wins In Labor Party, Losing Side Thinks Results May Affect Roosevelt In November.

DEMOCRATS HAIL VOTING RESULTS   New Deal Happy Over Victory of Stigler in Second District Race

Democrat Wins In Oklahoma  Democrats Claim   Democrats Claim Nationally-Important Triumph

NEW DEAL WIN CHALKED UP IN OKLAHOMA TEST   Effects Minimized by GOP As Democratic Machine Held Responsible

Republican Challenge’ in Border. State. Area - Js. -Turned. Back

DEMOCRAT WINS OKLAHOMA VOTE   Left Wing Group Victor In ‘WN. Y. Labor Party Fight

Democrats Win In Conaress Contest   Claim Approval of New Deal in Stigler Victory; Republicans Blame ‘Machine’ For Tuesday’s Defeat

Democrats Hail Their Oklahoma Polls Triumph   See A National Significance; GOP Lays It To New Deal Machine.

DEMS WIN IN OKLAHOMA RACE   Claim Significant Triumph ir Congressional Election

New Deal Wins in Oklahoma; G.0.P. Minimizes Results   Democrats Claim a  Significant Triumph As Candidate Wins . Conaressional Seat

Democrats in 2nd District Score Victory   Turn Back Republican Bid for Congressional Seat as They Rally Behind Roosevelt

Democtats Win ir Oklahoma. Fight  : Elect Congressman *. Caeand Pichried

Hollandia Invasion Costs U.S. Only Slight Casualties   Commander Warns That Philippine Victory Won’t Be Easy

CASUALTIES TOTALLED 123   Admiral Reveals 28 U. S. Troops Killed in 17 Days

U. S. INVASION LOSSES LIGHT AT HOLLANDIA   Only 28 Dead, 95 Hurt In Biggest Operation Of Pacifie War

U. S. Casualties At Hollandia Are Reported Slight      PE arther 3 ch Easy Victories Unlikely, Says HightOfficial

EASY VICTORY PERIOD ENDS —— INS.W, PACIF(   Americans Lost Onl; 28 Dead, 95 Wounded First 17 Days

‘Easy Victories Are Over   Only 95 Wounded During First 17 Days of Battle

Sinks 11 Ships, Hit 30 Others, Shell Chichi Island in Bonins, 600 Miles From Tokio.   Destroy 6 Planes

Five Warships  Among 11 Sunk By Task Force   American Ships Shell Isle 600 Miles From Tokyo;  Crifcor Gor Afivn

Americans hammer ‘Nippons barely 600  ‘miles from Japan   Il vessels destroyed, 30 damaged as  carrier force pounces on foe convoy

U.S. Task Force Sinks 11 Jap Ships; Damage 30 Other Shins      Strike Within 600 Miles Of Tokyo

ETHEL HUNN WEDS: K. WUNDERLICH AT ST: GEORGES CHURCH   Marriage Ceremony Performed @ 9:00 O'Clock Tuesday Morn. ine, July 18th.

IS BRIDE OF THOMAS ENO   Impressive Ceremony At Streator Church Sat. Morning

U. S. Heavies Lash  Rhineland to  Aid Land Attack On Allie! Path  mR. pea ent

Blast Transport, Factories At Stuttgart, Karlsruhe And Ludwigshafen

Big German Cities Hit   Heavy Yank Bombers Smash at Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Ludwigshafen

x * *& * Raiders Slam  German Bases   Nazis Fight  Harder In Italy

U. §. Heavies Lash Rhineland to Aid Land Attack  Important Centers On Allies’ Path Are Given Pasting

PLANES BLAST PATHWAY FOR ALLIED ARMIES   Waves of WarplanesDarken Skies Above Britain in Flights Straight to the Rhineland   HAMMERED FROM EAST

BOMBERS SMASH AT RHINELAND TARGETS   Transport and  Industriai Centers Are Objects Of Attack.

RAIDERS BLAST RHINE CENTERS   Pound Stuttgart, Karlsruhe Ludwigshafen In Blows

1.750 American Planes Bomb Industrial Centers  In German Rhineland

RHINELAND CITIES IN PATH OF YANKS POUNDED FROM AIR   Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and LudWigshafen Bombed by U. 5. Heavies — Ntaly-Based Planes Hit Targets in Hungary. Italy

Planes Blast Way For Allied Troops   Strike Ahead of Armies on West And East Fronts Karlsruhe a Target

Yankees Smash At Rhineland Rail Centers   Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Ludwugshafen, In Path Of Advancing Allied Armies, Are Targets

Airmen Blast Advance Path   Heavy Bombers Smashing Transport, Industrial Centers Just Ahead of Armies

HEAVY PLANES HIT RHINELAND   Centers Of Stuttgart, Karlsruhe And Ludwigshafen Bombed

BOMBERS PAVING WAY FOR ALLIES INTO GERMANY   Most Significant Attack Was That On Karlsruhe, Just Over Franco -German Border, Focal Point  For Nazis.

AMERIGAN HEAVIES SMASH RHINELAND TRANSPORT:INDUSTR  OTHER AMERICAN AIRFLEETS FROM ITALY AIDING RUSSIANS

Planes Blast Three Cities In Rhineland   Other Fleets Hammer a Hungary in Support of Russians

Rhineland Hit By U.S. Bombers   Other American Fleets From Italy Striking In Hungary.

Heavy Air Attacks On  Germany   Rhineland Transport And Industrial Centers Are Hit Hard

NAZIS PUT UP NEW DEFENSES ON ROME ROAD   Planes, Guns Prevent Counterattack on Minturno

Indicates Waning Hope Of Holding Gustav Line As Allied Forces Gain

NEW DEFENSE LINE RUSHED BELOW ROME   ENEMY HAS LITTLE HOPE OF HOLDING ALLIES LONG

Italian Labor Used in Erection of Barrier Bearing Name of  Adolf Hitler —

Another Hitler Line’ Is Rushed   Forced Labor Used  On Rome Defenses Rw FHWARTD KENNEDY

HOPE OF HOLDING “GUSTAV LINE DIM   Planes Smash Nazi Counter» Attack on Minturno   FRENCH CAPTURE   ghazi Strongpoint Across Ra. pido River; Patrols Probe Cassino Defenses

Nazis Prepare New Defenses   Report Gustav Line ds Crumbling Fast

Battalions of Forced Italion Labor Work on Project  GUSTAV LINE FALL -  1§ SOON EXPECTED  Allies Continue to Ad. vance on All the Other Fronts

Nazis Prepare New Defense  Line in Italy   British Hold Firmly to Minturno in Face of Attack

NAZIS BUILD NEW “ADOLF HITLER” LINE   For Defense 65 ‘Miles from Rome, Which Indicates Fall Of Gustav Line to Yanks, British and French Soon.   ‘Spray Airfields

Another ‘Hitler Line’ Is Rushed   Forced Labor Used On Rome Defenses

Germans Building New Defense Line   Forced Italian Labor Forced to Erect ‘Adolf Hitler’ Barrier, Indicating Present Front Is Weakening

Ground. Forces Land From Huge Convoy That Meets Incredible Lack Of Opposition As Enemy Is Caught Off Balance.

Jap Army Split by  Invasion   General Reports Light Casualties In Surprise Landjne:

LEYTE LANDINGS PRECEDED BY INVASIONS OF ISLANDS GUARDING ENTRANCE T0 GULF   Ground Ferces, Put Ashore From Huge Convoy Under Terrific Naval and Air Bombardment, Quickly Seize Points   OCCUPATION SECURED WITH SMALL CASUALTIES

Three Strong Beachheads Are Soon Seized, Mac ‘Arthur Says; Supplies Poured Into Islands   Commonwealth President With American Army: Units In Liberation Action Identified; Our Forces Rule Sea And Air With Huge Armadas

More Men And Supplies Pour Ashore; Corregidor Survivors Return With General For Revenge.

Ground Forces Pour Ashore in New Offensive   Stiff Resistance Reported After Beaches Are Taken

Extremely Light Losses. He Declares   Enemy Caught Strategically Off Guard by Attack

round = Forces Tan Ferom  Pluge  Conves That Meets Pnercdityh Lach Of Opposition \. Knemy [s Caught Of Ralance.

Invasion Splits Jap Philippine Borees In Half   Three Beachheads Seized Along Eleven Miles Of Leyte Island’s East Coast   : Corregidor Vets Seeking Revenge a gs   Mer and Supplies Poured Ashore to Meet An Es timaled 225,000  Janganese

STRASBOURG 19 MILES IN FRONT POILUS   Eschweiler, But 28 Miles From Cologne, Also Swept Into Net as Allied Armies Plunge

Eschweiler Captured ~ To Unhinge Nazi Line; Mulhouse. Metz Taken

Yanks Unhinge Enemy Defenses Wit th Capture of Eschweiler  Road Cleared for Three Army Drive On Roer River and Eastern Germany

Britain Acts to Shroud Invasion   Steamer Service  To Cork Stopped

Steamer Service Between Cork And Britain  Is Suspended   Curbs Are Giving Germans Jitters

FURTHER STEPS TAKEN TO CLEAR INVASION PATH      Steamer Service Between Cork, Britain Suspended As Nazis Sow Mines

Germans Jittery As Invasion Nears   New, Precautionary Steps Taken By Britain to Protect Allied Force

Suspend Steamer Service Between  Cork And Britain   Germany Closes West Coast Of Jutland, Sows Mines

Britain Closes Shipping Lines Serving Erie   Precautions Taken To Prevent Leaks In Plans For Europe Invasion

Britain Moves to Clear Way for Opening of Western Front; Suspends ‘Ejre-to-England Steamer Service

PLAN HEARING ON PAMPHLET   ANQUIRY INTO ATTACK OF . (TAFT TO BE TEST OF UNION  POLITICAL “CONTRI “> BUTION” —

U.S. Working On World Free Press Proposal To Go Before United Nations

FARMERS RUINED NATION'S LAND BROMFIELD SAYS   Author Claims They Mined The Ground Rather Than Farmed It   CONSERVATION THEME OF ONE-DAY MEETING

Nazis Trying To Fight Way Out Of Trap   No Way Now For German Forces To Make Their Escape

Will Shorten War Tank Men Eager for Nazis To Try To Fight Out of Trap

GERMAN FORCES ARE TRAPPED BY YANK SPEARHEAD   Panic Stricken Germans Try to Stab Through 12-Mile Bottleneck

Death Takes Ex-Premier  Career of Caillaux  Ringnlar in Politics

Stilwell Army Cuts Off Japs   Anglo-Indians — Attacking Fiuemy Near Kohbime

TRAP JAPS IN NORTH BURMA   Stilwell’s Men Flank Gar. rison; Offensive Opened Near Kohima

JAP GARRISON TRAPPEDIN BURMA   STRONG ALLIED OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED IN KOHIMA AREA OF EASTERN INDIA.

CHINESE TRAP JAPANESE. IN NORTH BURMA   Smash through HotlyContested Village while British and Indian Forces Launch Offensive.   Better Weather

ECONOMIC CONTROL OF GERMANY STUDIED   Over-All Tri-Power Commission Expected To Run Reich Follewing Collanusa

Formulate Plans for ReichRule   Propose Commissions Te Govern Economic Life Of Germany During Occupation

Economic Plan For Reich Made   Tri-Powered Economic Control Commission Be Hub of Administration.

Reports Say Rumania Looking Intc Possibilities Of Separate Peace

RUMANIA TAKES STEPS TOWARD QUITTING WAR   Russia, Meanwhile, Has Reportedlv Given Finland Until Sunday to Accept Peace Terms

Peace  Move  By Rumania Ts Reportec   Special Enyoy to Contact Soviet Ambassador to Sweden

Hint Rumania Plans Peace   Believe Country Will Sound Allies On Subject

RUMANIA FEELS OUT ALLIES ON PEACE. REPORT   Special Envoy Sent Te Sweden For Contact, London Hears

RUMANIA TAKES STEPS TO QUIT WAR WITH AXIS      Sounds Ont Allies On Chances Of Securing Separate Peace

RUMANIA SAID SEEKING PEACE   Follows Finland’s Ex ample; envoy to Stoekholm

Rumania Reported to Want Peace   Envoy Sent to Contact Soviet Ambassador. Word

AMERICAN AIRMEN AGAIN BOMB KURILES   Attack Made Through Intens: Antl-Aircraft Fire—Truk and Ponape Biasted.

GERMAN OIL PLANT RIPPED   RAF Also Makes Heavy Raids on 2 R. R. Yards

British Bombers — Attack Merseburg’s Synthetic Plant   ‘Refinery Once Gave. 50,000 Tons of Oil Monthly to Nazi Wor

War Could End By Oct .1---But May Last Longer  PA yr ea ee ee ee ee ee ee a ee ee, ee ee, ee, ee ee ee, ee ee   Yectruction of Germans in Italy. Poland Necessary for Early Peac:

HOUSECLEANING’ URGED BY DEWEY   Third Major Coast Talk Set At San Francisco Tonight

U.S: SECURITY TALK MAPPED BY GOV. DEWEY   Republican — Candidate In - San Francisco; Calls for “Housecleaning”

Dewey Pledges Housecleaning   Third Major Speech Scheduled Tonicht

Dewey Calls For  Housecleaning in  Federal Gov't. Would Put ‘People Whe Hav: Lived Clese te the Poeple’  am Bdenteicirates Pecic

Dewey Will Talk Of Relationships Inside Country   Involves Fresh Approach Between Government And American People

Dewey to Ait Party’s Plan For Security   G. 0. &. Candidate Asks Housecleaning In Federal Ranks

Gov. House Cleaning Is Due, Dewey   Men Close to the People Should Hold Administrative Posts, Today

Third Dewey Speech Tonite;  Nominee Calls for Sweepit Washington Housecleanine

Dewey Proposes House Cleaning   Will Deliver Third Major West Coast Speech Tonight

Dewey To Make Third Speech On WestCoast  Will Be Broadcast Taniaht At 1) (EWT)   Will Be Broadcast Tonight At 11 (EWT) Over NBC

Farmers Facing Draft: Many Not Producing Likely To See Action, Selective Service Asserts

DRAFT BOARDS ~ TURN TO FARMERS   TO CALL FOR SERVICE GROWERS FAILING TO PRODUCE THEIR SHARE.

Quota Upped For Farmers  Of Draft Age   16 Instead of 8 War Units Set as Local Boards Run Far Behind

All Deferments For Farm Wort. To Be Reviewed   Draft Boards To Reopen Cases of 1,700,000 Men  In Two Clacsifieatians

State Feels Grip Of Cold Wave Friday   Night Expected to Be Another Cold One; Some Snow With Cold Wave

MERCURY DIPS TO 9 IN STATE   Guymon Has Coldest Reading Overnight—Minimum Here Is 21

Post-War Housing Need Calls For Big Construction  Plan Million Units A Year

Million Housing Units Each Year Needed In U.S.      Estimate Home Building For Next 10 Years Will Create Million Jobs

Socialists Denied Speech To Troops   Said Roosevelt Gave Political Talk At Bremerton, Why Couldn’t They.

War Department Withdraws Its Previous Agreement to Permit Socialists to Broadcast

BOND RALLY IN HASKELL'S STADIUM   County-Wide Affair, With Much Entertainment, * toBe June 20

BIG BOND RALLY INHASKELL’S STADIUM   Connie Affair, With “Much En rtainment, " # to Be June 20    WILL EXHIBIT HORSES

Gen. Ike Likes Mail Call, Too   Wife Says Commander Praises Work of WAC

Examiner Approves Air Service Here   “NG-Oppoésition-Of fered“ te- Branitf Plan; “Line Expected To Start In’ Short Time

W ar Within W ar Labor Board Over Unior Security Device Step’ Nearer Showdown —

MAINTENANCE OF MEMBERSHIP HIT   Industry Members Of WLB Open Attack

WLB Opinion Hits Union Maintenance   Terids Toward Monop oly by Labor, Industry Members Claim

Union Security Test Is Sought  WLB Industry Members Open War On Clause

Labor Board In Split On Policy  Union Maintenance Of Morberaliin Issue Ck tie wel Bhoveer

WLB Faction Opens Battle  Over Decision   Tudustry Members Aban. don Passive Resistance Over Board’s Union Seenrity Device

Labor Board’s Split on ‘Open Shop’ Widens   ‘Labor Monopoly’ Charged By Industry, Unions.

PATRIOTS FREE ITALIAN PORT; BRITISH BATTLE COUNTER-ATTACKS   Porto Corsini Is Seized From Enemy

SUVIETS SLASH GERMAN LINES IN POLAND   Deprive Hitler of Country’s Largest Oil Center

REDS DRIVING RELENTLESSLY TOWARD REICH   Thrust Into Czechoslovakia Near    eentenememennd  TAKE OIL CENTER  ee ne  Smash Ever Closer to Warsaw

RUSSIANS TAKE BIG OIL CENTER   Drohobycz’s Capture Leaves Foe Only Battered Ploesti Fields

Russian Forces Smash Closer To  German Silesia   Poland’s Largest Oil Cente: Is Taken From Nazis By Soviet Troops   MAY DRIVE INTO CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Free Picture Show Here Friday Night   Pearl Harbor Bombing Included in Salvage Boost Program

It's Lively Program Tonight's Feature.   Everybody Who’s Helped With Salvage Drives Especially Invited

Jan Defenses On Guam Given Pounding Today   Heavy Guns Of Pacific Fleet Pound Former U. S. Possession Mercilessly   JAP PRISONERS ON SAIPAN 1.620

4) Liberators Raid Mindanao   Tokyo Reports Attack On Philippines

Offensive Roars Into  Second Day   Americans and British Battle Rar Farh Hance

NAZIS’ DEFENSES REPORTED BROKEN  BY HEAVY ATTACK   Artillery Coupies With Aerial Bombs In Clearing Road for infantry

Huge Allied Offensive  In Italy Continues   Marines Battle To Smash Jap Strength In New Britain

Fifth Army Gains Mile in Offensive   Infantrymen Battle im Sam Vittore After Advance on 10-Mile Front

BITTER BATTLE OPENS WAY TO VITAL GASSINO   Offensive in’ High Gear

ALLIES FIGHT HARD 10 GAIN ANOTHER MILE   Smack Head-On Into Main Ger. man Defenses on Road to Rome in Massive Offensive Action

10-Mile Gap Made In Lines   San Vittore Is Entered as Allies Step Up Big Push

SAN VITTORE STRONGHOLD IS ENTERED   American and British Infantrymen Push on Astride Road Leading to Rome.

YANKS OPEN 10 MILE GAP IN NAZI ITALY LINE   Offensive Strikes Down Each Side Of The Rome Road

Definite Allied Gain Recorded    INFANTRY ON BOTH SIDES OF » ROAD TO ROME TEAR OPEN’ “** 10-MILE GAP IN NAZI DEFENSES

40 Hurt'as Patriots, Police Clash During Parade in Brussels Streets

Disarmament Riots Flare In Brussels   Citizens in Protest Over Disbanding of Resistance Armies

Argentina Loses Right To SitIn on Peace Talks   To: Be Exchided: Also ° ‘From 1944 Conference . Among Allied Nations  On: Reeuritc Agenes   PLANS FOR MEETING NEARLY COMPLETE  ~ Stettinius Ts Named: To: Head Delegation - Representing U.S: --

Argentina Out of Post War Talks   Say Pro-Axis Country Has Forfeited Right To United  Nations Conference.

Argentina Loses Allied Benefits   Support of Axis Brings Reprisals

“oise 3on ) uicauaces Lrgenine ~enons raion: .. S. “ies *)r-ei-s

BOMBERS oMAah ATLANTIC WAL   Yank Bombers, up to 750 Strong, Continue Ceaseless Pounding of Invasion Coast Taraets

Heavy Bombers Raid Continent   Invasion Coast Targets Pounded   Details Not Known

BIG BOMBERS HAMMER GUN COAST AGAIN   AERIAL ONSLAUGHT RUNS INTO ITS ISTH DAY

Warmer Weather Is Due In Oklahoma   Frost, Believed to Have Caused Slight Damage

Weather Man Says Warmer”   Spring to Return To Most Sections Of Oklahoma

Rail Travel Ban Ordered in France; Allies Hold Giant Glider Maneuvers

Capture of San Pablo Air. drome Gives MacArthur’s Men 3 Airfields On Leyte; New Grains In All Sectors Against Bitter Obstacles.

Gains Made Upon Leyte.   “San® ‘Pablo: Airport. ‘Is: Reported. ‘Taken:

HITLER EUROPE GIVEN RESPITE FROM BOMBING   London Reports No Plane Departures but Vichy Tells of Attacks

Senate Disputes May Delay Flood Control Measur  Some Fear Bill Close Doors on Agencies Ciucek Ae TVA

Flood Control Issue Bogs Down   Debate Over Whether It Would Bar Further Projects Such As TVA.

GIANT GLIDERS BEING USED ~ JO TAKE TANKS TO FRANCE   MOTORLESS PLANE AS LARGE AS BOMBER IS EASILY  ‘  PYLOTED AND LANDS —  . IN SMALL SPACE

Navy Reports Loss of Two Ships   Macaw Sunk In Pacific While Leopold Goes Down In The Atlantic.

War's End ir Sight, Says Montgomery   Road Blasted Open In Direction of  Robot Bomb Coast

AMERICANS, BRITISH AND CANADIANS CUT NAZI ARMY TO PIECES  GEN. MONTGOMERY URGE! SPEED AS HE SAYS END OF WAR IN SIGHT

Troops Gaining Slowly  Through Burning City   62 Enemy Tanks Are Knocked. Out: Soviets Capture the Baltic - Port of Rica

DECISIVE ACTION IS TAKING PLACE IN AACHEN SECTOR WHERI ALLIES AND GERMANS BATTLING

FIERCE BATTLE RAGING NOW IN AACHEN SECTOR PROVING TEST OF DEFENSIVE-OGFFENSIVE POWER

WAR. TODAY   Battle In Aachen Seetor In Critical Stage; Allied Victory Will About Complete Noose for Hitler.

Capture of Bayeux on Road to Capital of France Reported   Stiffer Resistance is Met; Progress Reported by  _ High Command ~ :

NEW UPROAR — —QVER' VOTING   ROOSEVELT AND DEWEY TAKE OPPOSITE SIDES IN HEATED CONTROVERSY STILL BE « FORE CONGRESS ©

LUCAS ASSAILS DEWEY'S STAND ON VOTE BILL   New York Governor Is Strongly Opposed to Federal Ballot

4 BIG FRENCH AIR BASES BOMBED BY HUGE FLYING FORTRESS FORCE   HUNDREDS OF YANK BOMBERS, FIGHTER PLANES STRIKE AT GERMAN-HELD RHEIMS, CHARTRES

Fortresses Strike Nazi  Air Bases   Fields at Chartres, Chateaudun, Rhiems _And Dijon Hit for Second Straight Day

U.S. Bombers Strike French Fields Again   Airdromes in Many Parts of France Pounded by 500 Fortresses—Britain Is Attacked

Fields in Paris Area Are Hit   Raid Is Second Straight Made By American Bombers

U.S. FLIERS BLAST FIELDS NEAR PARIS   Big Force Continues Attacks On Nazi Air Bases

Four Big Fields: Devastated By Allied Bombers.   Nazi Airdromes Hit In Wide-spread. Bomber Attack ,

AMERICAN BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST BIG ‘AIR FIELDS IN FRANCE, PENETRATION IS DEEP

FORTS BOMB NAZI BASES IN FRANCE   Around 1,000 Planes in Flee! Raiding France for Second Straight Day.

Forts Bomb German Air Bases Again   Raids in France Follow Another RAF Blow at Essen

BOMBERS HIT BIG BAoto IN FRENGH ARES   Carry.on Campaign to Stash Strength of German Air Force.

NAZI AIRBASES ARE BATTERED   EEE  Yank Heavy Bombers Pounc ) Airfields In France

U.S. Forces Make Attack Only 500  Miles From Japan   Daring Raids Is Made On Islands Comparatively Close To Tokyo   FIVE JAP SHIPS VICTIMS OF RAID

NIP BASES NEAR TOKYO BLASTED BY U. §. NAVY   Iwo Jima and Haha Jima Hit by Carrier Planes and Warships

Robots Attack in Record Numbers From New Bases   Nazi Bombs Reported Launched 100 Miles From French Coast

Nazi Airfields And Railyards Hit By Yanks   Around LOGO American Heavy Planes Participate In Raids to Follow Up RAF Night Attacks

IENEMY SHIPPING ATTACKED   Carrier Planes in Raid on Coast of Norway Yesterday

Planes Hit Targets In Norway   Shipping, Shore Installations Hammered by Carrier Planes

Norway Coast Is Attacked By Aireraft   Carrier Planes Hit Aircraft Hangars, Enemy Shipping

MOSCOW KEEPS CHURCHILL BUSY   Held 3-Hour Conference  With Stalin Monday

STALIN CONFERS WITH CHURCHILL   British Staffs Also Figure Ir Moscow Conferences

Churchill Confers With Soviet Chief  on European Views   Plan Defeat, Rebuilding of Reich, Outline Post war Europe

KREMLIN CONFABS DEAL WITH PLA OF FOUR NATIONS      Churchill Presents Ideas Whicl Were Endorsed by FDR in Quebec Talks:

Churchill, Stalin Talk > Hours   Harriman, U. S, Ambassador, Was Not Present, but Was Kept Informed

Russians Firm For Unanimous Security Vote   Churchill And _ Stalin Talks Coincide With  Duasce Tuhatatanna

Churchill Confers With Marshal Stalin   Russian Aspirations Face Review As Reds Seek Veto on Aggression, Participation in Iran Oil Fields

—_ LLL ALLL LLL LLL ALE LLL LLL  CHURCHILL AND STALIN HOLD — CONFERENCE ON WORLD MATTERS

Soviets Firm in Stand on Security Pact   Announcement Comes With the Arrival of Churchill in Mescow

PRIME MINISTER CONFERS WITH RUSS PREMIER   Churchill Meets British Staff Before Second Meeting With Stalin

Churchill And Stalin Discuss War Strategy   British Premier And Russian Leader Confer For Three Hours: Second Meeting Planned After Conferences With Diplomatic Military Staffs In Moscow

Churchill And Stalin Hold 3 Hour Session   VITAL TOPICS OF WAR HAVE. BEEN DISCUSSED

Talk Over Problems   Churchill ani and Stalin Spend Three Hours in First Davy’s Conference

CHURCHILL MEETS WITH STALIN FOR TALKS IN MOSCOW   U. S. AMBASSADOR KEPT INFORMED OF SUBJECTS DISCUSSED

Churchill and Stalin Confer For Three Hours   Soviet Press Backs Russian Stand at Dumbarton Oaks

Stalin, Churchill Consult   MARSHAL AND PREMIER WEIGHING PROBLEMS OF EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE

Stalin Holds First Meeting With Churehill   How To Finish War And Keep the Peace Are Discussed

BAIT TOR VIEW GIVEN Al ulA BY GHURGHIL   One Moscow Paper Protests Proposed Altering of Security Plan. ,

CHURCHIL IN S-HOUR TAIK WITH STALIN   British Prime Minister Reported Presenting Program Endorsed at Quebec Meeting With Roosevell.

Churchill Confers With Russ Premiet   Britain’s Prime Minister Talks For Hours with Marshal Stalin

Churchill And Stalin Talks Are Continued   British Leader Said Giving Views on Europe Gained at Quebec

CHURCHILL AND STALIN PONDER ALUED FUTURE   Views ladorsed at Quebec Conference  Presented to Premier

CHURCHILL IN MOSCOW: MEETS WITH STALIN   Roosevelt Kept Informed Of Daily Talks

Task Force Raids Sabang, Japs Say   Base Off Sumatra Hit Twice Previously By Planes

SUMATRA IS SHELLED   Japs Say Carrier Pianes Took Part In Attack Tuesday

Allied Navy Task Unit Hits Sabang For First Time   Japanese Communique Reveals Attack On  Jap Sumatra Base

LONERGAN UP FOR 35 YEARS   Could Have Been Given 20  Years on Conviction

Eastern States Swept by Snowstorm  SME  As Coll { Damages Southern Peach Crop

Winter Storms  Hit South, East   Fear Fruit Crops Heavily Damaged

S.C. Peach Crop Is Damaged   Winter Weather Plays Havoc With Southern Fruit Crop.

COUNTY RED CROSS DRIVE STARTS SOON   Committees Appointed To Contact All Families; Quota Of $21,500 Is Set

REPUBLICAN KICKOFF RALLY TO BE HELD  AT ROX ELDER   Former State Sen. W. T. Cowan Will Preside Sat. Night

ASKS BADOGLIO VOW TO RESIGN   Sforza Demands Promise to  Follow Emanuele

Negro Confesses  He Killed Three   Oklahoman Rounded Up After One of State's Greatest Manhunts.

Lieutenant James L. Netts Serving With Veteran Combat Unit Of First Armored Division Fighting In Italy

AACHEN AREA GAP IS THREAT FOR COLOGNE   Six Allied Armies Press Titame Of fensive On Nazis

3-Russ Armies Get Important Area In Drive   Leningrad Forces Cap ture More Towns, Moscow Says

PSKOV FEELS PRESSURE OF RUSSIAN ARMY   Junction On Last German Escape Line Is In Battle Line; Other Armies Sweeping Up North Sector Towns   Claim Successes

SOVIETS GAIN ON ALL FRONTS   Smash to Within 17 Miles Of Estonian Border and Take Key Rail Towns

Veimarn Falls To Reds; Nazis Flee Baltic   Veliskoe, Junction On Last Nazi Line Of Escape, Taken

Soviet torces only 17 miles  from Estonia   Reds seize 50 more localities

One Section of Russian Army Nears Estonian Front  ADVANCES SCORED           Germans Making Effort to Cling to Railway Lines

fed Sweep Gobbles Up 100 Villages   More Railways Taken As 3 Soviet Armies Press Northern Drive  VEIMARN CAPTURED

Important Rail Junction 17 Miles From Estonia Falls To Rede   ONE RUSSIAN UNIT KILLS 800 GERMANS

JAP-AIR FORCE. S DRIVEN FROM MINDANAO BASE   50 Liberators Hurl! 130 Tons of Bombs on South Philippine Telp

th Grim Couraae, Man Trapped In Plane Eight Days, Helps Rescuers Removing tam *

Permanent Peace' Possible If Christian ~ Peoples Join Forces; Adm. Leahy Assert

BOND SALES IN CHARLERO! TAKE JUMP YESTERDAY   Tota! For City Now $164,023 And For District Is $461,943.95

SOME GAIN IS SHOWN IN BOND CAMPAIGN HERE   Report To Date Indicates Total Of $150,572 In Charleroi Arena

FIFTH WAR LOAN DRIVE SLOWS UP IN-THIS SECTOR      Charleroi's Report For Weekend Shows $191,082; District Has $693.863

ATTACKED BY AIRMEN   Enemy Stronghold Or ‘ New Guinea Is Hit 2 Heavy Blows

Enemy Base in New Guinea Is Badly Damaged   125 Jap Planes Probably Wrecked At Hollandia

125 Jap Planes Said Destroyed In Allied Raid   15, 600 Fragmentation Bombs Are Dropped On New Guinea Base

Working Way Through West Wall Of Nazis   Allies Expected To Report Gains Soon; Germans Hard Hit

YANKS REPORTED IN TRIER; 3RD BLASTS FORWARD   Patton’s Men Open Attack With Terrific Aerial Barrage

SRD ARMY SMASHES ACROS THE MOSELLE 10. MEURTH RIVER: THREATENS. NANG

Move Intended To Flank Nazi Aachen Arsenal   Hun Opposition Surprisingly Wee

Britisher Says That He Didn't Mean U. S- Provoked Jap War   Secretary Hull Says This _ Country Had To Fore-: « ‘ stall Jap Moves

American Forces Drive Into Brittany; British And U.S. Armies Effect Junction   Our Boys Fighting In Percy; Good Progress Made On Both Allied Sectors; Columns Of  Panks Starm Arragc Salanna River

Armor Units Seize City of Pontaubaulf   Overrun Ducey and Close in on Villedieu From North and West Headquarters Says

BATTLE FOR HUNGARY SOON OVER-REDS   Heart of Budapest Scene of Bitter Street Fighting

Red Army Takes Nazi Rail Base   Uman in Western Ukraine, Controls Large Area on Approaches to Rumania

German Troops Abandon Strong Base at Uman   Great Offensive Under Way to Cut Defenses of Nazis

Near Kherson And Nikolaev   Russians Gain 25 To 47 Miles Along 108-mile Front.

Reds Battle Into Tarnopol; Menace  Nikolaev, Kherson   New Russian Drivé Opens Southwest Of Krivoi Rog; 8,000 Nazis Are Killed

UMAN FALLS 1 REDS IN DRIVE FOR BLACK SEA   Soviets Storm Tarnopol, Knock At Nikolaev And Kherson

MOSCOW SAYS WHOLE GERMAN LINE “FOLDING”   Nazis in Retreat on 340-Mile Front as Russians Strive to Encircle 50,000 Hitlerites

Nazis Quit Uman.Strong Base, In Face  OfRuss Drive   Nine German Divisions Routed By Third Ukrainian Army Under Gen. Malinovsky

Reds Breach Line Guarding the Black Sea   Third Ukrainian Army Pushes Over Southwest in Surprising Move

Reds Capture Uman, Storm Rail Junetion   Allied Commandos Under Capt. Churchill Land on Island  Off Yugoslav Coast   Bulletin

Nazis Admit Loss of Uman Base   Soviet Forces Storm Other Ukraine Enemy-Held Cities

Germans Admit Base Abandoned Near Bug River   Staro-Konstantinov Taken; Black Sea Defenses Breached

German Lines. Guarding Black Sea Breached   Base At Uman Latest  To Be Abandoned By Fleeing Enemy

—RUSSIA~  SOVIETS DRNING TOWARD RUNENI   Horses Used. By Troops ‘To Make Way Through _Ukrainian-Mud   NAZISIN FLIGHT   Last Germans Being Driven From South. _ west Corner Of Russia .

GERMANS ARE LEAVING UMAN TO RUSSIANS   Southern Ukranian Front Blazing;  Reds Push On

Red Forces Capture Key Base of Umar   Black Sea Ports Menaced by Rapid Soviet Advance

Reds Storm Rail Center. lof Tarnopol   RAF Busy over F ‘France;.” Gér: many Following Big  Berlin Raid: Mud Rules Italy =

ARE NEAR BUG RIVER   Reds Tighten Squeeze On 500,000 Germans  In Southern Area

LOSS OF IMPORTANT  WESTERN UKRAINE  BASE 15 ANNOUNCED RUSSIANS ALSO REPORTE STORMING RAIL JUNCTIO  APF FAR AARH'

Nazis Flee . Uman, Reds. At Tarnapol      Molinovsky Sweeps Toward. Outer Defense-of Nikolaey

REDS CAPTURE AML HEAD WN WEST UKRAINE   Uman Abandoned as Soviet Troops Breach Lines. Near. Black Sea.

New Red Drive Knocks Nazis From Key City   LONDON —?\— Premier Marshal Stalin announced Russian capture of Uman, in a broadcast order of the day.

Rail Head Is At Hinge Of Russian Drives Into Ukraine   Battles Are Raging On Southern Front   Several Hundred Thousand Nazis Face Entrapment In Odessa Campaign

Fighting in Italy Subsides as Armies Bog Down in Mud anc Bad Weather — Allies Continue To Blast Berlin And Nazi War Plants

Uman, Strong Nazi Bastion,  Falls to Reds   Entire Southern Ukrainian Front Blazes With Great Offence.   Nine German Divisions Routed in New Drive

Stalin Says Break-Through Sweeps Up 300 Occupied Places.   I HEAVY DEFEAT ON NAZIS

Southern Ree Front Ablaze With Action   Several Vital Points Reported Captured. By Moscow

Russians Reported Storming Inner Defenses of Vital Town of Tarmopol  Pa ae a ema ek A ke wawerciiter*

All Southern  Russia Front  Ablaze Today   Stalin Reveals New Drive South of . Krivoi Rog Routs 9 Divisions ,

Russians Take Uman, Base in WestUkraine   Entire Southern Ukrainian Front Blazes With New Soviet Offensive

 BREAK-THROUGH OF RUSSIAN FORCES IN UKRAINE UNCHECKED  STRONG GERMAN BASE OF ULMAN FELL TO ADVANC JING RED ARMY TODAY

South lront Atlame   Reds’ Smashing New Offensive Captures Staro-Konstantinov

Uman, German Base In West Ukraine, Falls   Reds Capture Strategic Railhead; Press TwoWavy Offaencive

Rail Center Evacuated  As Russians Stage Drive   Whole Front Blazes Under Heavy Attack

Rout 9 German Divisions In 4 Day Offensive   Nazis Abandon Umaga, Strong Rail Head Base As New Red - Drive Rolls —. Entire Southern Front. Blazes: ©

REICH’S TROOPS YIELD BASE TO SOVIET FORCES   Whole German Line in SouthWest Russia Cracking; Reds Seize Uman

Vital Rail Hinge Falls I n Blazing Red Attack   Uman Function. East of Bue Riv er,   Uman Junction, East of Bug River, Evacuated in Face of New Thrust

300 TOWNS AND VILLAGES WON WITH ADVANCE   10 German Divisions Defeated; Vast Booty Is Reported Seized

German Troops  Evacuate Umar   Berlin Announces Important Rail Head in Western Ukraine Is Abandoned in Face of Latest Russian Offensive in That Sector.   ENEMY LINE BREACHED

Major Point In West Part Of Ukraine   Premier Stalen Reveals Break-through After Nazis Announce Withdrawal

Nazis Quit Ukraine Rail Head   Whole Southern Front Ablaze As Reds Drive On.

REDS REPORT MAIOR GAINS IN ALL AREAS   Strong German Base of Uman Taken, Stalin  Informs Nation

Germans Admit Loss of Uman in Western Ukraine   New Russian Drive Toward Black Sea  Pranreccina Ranidly

Strong Nazi Base in Ukraine Falls to Advancing Reds   Front in Southern Ukraine Blazes With  Soviet Offensive

ENTIRE SOUTH UKRAINE BLAZES WITH FIGHTING   Nazis Announce Flight From Strong Base In Western Ukraine; Reds Breach Enemy Lines Guarding  Black Sea Ports.

Nazis Quit Uman, Base In Ukraine   Hinge Betweer Two Russian Drives in  The South

As Reds Smash  bs Empty Last Defenses   Penetrate Minsk, Roll West To Warsaw, East Prussia   NAZIS BEHIND REDS   Prisoner Bag Counts At Nearly 135,000 From Minsk Offensive

NEWS R RULING .. ~TS-ASSAILED   BROWNELL CHARGES CENSOR , SHIP POWERS VIOLATED BY ROOSEVELT AT POLITI. © ‘ "\> GAL MEETING

Democrats And ClO In Limelight   DEMOCRATS TO SELECT KEY. NOTER THURSDAY WHILE CI MAPS ITS CAMPAIGN IN WASHINGTON CONFERENCE,   Texas Scene Of Rumpus

Texas Showdown, Idaho Primaries  Hold Spotlights  Lone Star Democrats Decide Today on Plan

COALITION TICKET PROPOSAL IS MADE   Texas Official Suggests Bricker and Byrd ~ Line-up

Naval Vessels Of Japs Hit In Airraid   Two Cruisers and Two Destroyers Suffer in New Ireland Attack

Japanese Vessels Reported © Hit In Assault By Airmen      Two Cruisers Set Afire at Kavieng, New Ireland — First Chapter of Third Offensive Blow in New Guinea Arec Closed

FOUR JAP WARSHIPS REPORTED DAMAGED   Ivo Heavy Creisers And Pair Of Destroyers Hit By CarricrBased Planes In Pacific

Massed Forces  Make Gains in New Push   Naval Guns Assist In Drive On Road To Rome

Fifth and Kighth Armies Hit Gustav Line: Berlin Savs ‘Invasion’ Under Way

U.S. Scores Win In Luzon Swoop  Planes, Warships An   Planes, Warships And Cargo Ships Damaged

New Guinea Bombers Pound WakdesSarmi Area   Vulnerability Marked Of Jap Pacific Posts By Land-Based Raids

Enemy Bases North Of New Guinea Get Heavy Bombing  Japanese Lose Bulk Of Fighters in Intercepting Yanks

Enemy Bases North Of New Guinea Get Heavy Bombing  Japanese Lose Bulk mal @.banen i   Japanese Lose Bulk Of Fighters in Intercepting Yanks

Jap Air Losses In New Guinea Attacks Heavy y   American Fliers Strike De. _-vaslating Blows Against Wakde Island-Sarami  Sector

CAROLINES, NEW GUINEA, KURILES AND GUAM RAKED   Enemy Loses Most Of Intercepting Fighter lanes In Battle Over New Guinea; Liberators Blast Guam In Daylight.

State Ready ToBeginDua Road When U.S. SaysSo   Only Sanction Of Federal Government Awaiied, Whiiman Tells Committee

HIGHWAY PROGRAM WILL BE PRESSED   Committee to Contact Congressmen and Governor

Allies Extend Drives Through Gothic Line   Canadians, Yanks Smash Dee er Into Enemy’s Powerful Italian Defenses

CANNES SEIZED AS YANKS PUSH TOWARD LYON   Fail Of City Will Cut Nazi Es. cape Routes In Southern France

Jighten Ring Of Encirclement “Around Toulon   Report Maquis Are y In Control of Lyon, Big Industrial Center

YANKS CAPTURE CANNES, ANTIBES   TROOPS FIGHT GERMANS 15 MILES BELOW LYON

YANKS TAKE RESORT CITY OF CANNES   Reported Battling Germans 15 Miles South of Lyon

RESORT CITY OF CANNES TAKEN BY AMERICANS      Yankees Now Fighting Enemy Only Fifteen Miles Below Lyons

Cannes, in South France, Captured      Yanks Said Only. 15 Miles Below Lyon

Doughboys Take Cannes, Battle On Toward Lyon   American Column Expected Momentarily At City of Annecy

CANNES IN HANDS OF AMER. FORCES      Battling Nazis 15 Miles Below Lyon ..

Maquis Hold Rhone Valley War Center   Germans Fight To Prolong Drive On Industrial City

Americans Capture _ Cannes   Yanks Eattle  Germans 15 Miles Below Lyon After Grenoble Advance

Yankees Take Riviera Resort  City Of Cannes   Battling Germans 15 Miles From Lyons  In Rhone Area

Cannes and Lyon Taken by Forces Of Mediterranean   Germans Still Clinging To Naval Arsenal at Great French Base

LONDON — (UP)—Fren‘h Interier forces entered Lyon yesterday, FFI Headquarters announced in a special communique today. NORWay  Yanks Seize Cannes PUBL oe Ic pes no ee tee ee

170 Miles Inland From The Mediterranean Coast   FRENCH MAQIUS IN CONTROL OF LYON   Fall Of Lyon Would Cut Off Main Escape Route In Southwest France

Quaker State to Move. Crude Office   Transfer Made to Sneed Administration

Directors Give Community Chest Budget for 1945   $6,000 Will be Raised Locally Between Oct. 30 and November 4   Quaker State to Move Crude Office   Transfer Made to Speed Administration

Stylists Are Eager To See Paris Again   Franch Capital Still to Be  Laboratory of Fashion New York Termed Production Center—No Conflict.

Man Held For Shooting Into Auto”   Boldier and Wife ‘Norrowly Escape Flving Bullets

Rioting Breaks Out In Protest Over  Belgium’s Premier  Crowd Roars Through Brussels, Calling For Coal and Butter

Blood Flows  Along Streets of Brussels  Residents Protest Against Orders of Premier Pierlot

Montgomery Uses Pioneer Tactics in Modern Phase To Blast Town Off Man

President Bars Approval Of De Gaulle Committee   Executive Says French Decision. Must Atsait Invasion; Torme Crantod ltaley Romain ‘Military Sorret

President States French Policy   Asserts Self-Determination To Be Core Of American Relations.

Yanks Bag 84 Tanks Ir  Alsace-Lorraine Surge   Two American Armies, Prying At Four Main Passes Through Vosges To Rhine, Take Heavy Toll As Germans Attack.

Patton's Forces  Alone Knock Out 82. German Tanks   Gains Made In Alsace-Lorraine While British Mass Power For Holland Drive

WAR OUTLOOK FOR ALLIES MUCH BETTER   Gain Considerable round Today In Lorraine Area

TEMPERATURES:   NAZIS YIELD GROUND ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Calais Garrison Asks Surrender Terms; 82 Tanks Knocked Out

Surge Forward 3 To 5 Miles In Alsace Area   3d Army Bags 82 Tanks; Resistance Said Fierce; Calais Nazis Ask Terms

il Nazi Tanks Knocked Out by Patton’ § Troops   Wide Gains Made At Belfort Gap In New Offensive

British Mass. . New Strength For Offensive  Inside Hollanc   Yanks Surze Forward: “Tn ‘Muate-Larraitié.-

Advances Made By Troops In French Area   Germans Lose 82 Tanks Battling Third Army

Doughbeys Pry At Belfort Gap In Stiff Battle      Knocking At Four Main Passes Through Vosges to Rhine; Score Gains On Allied Front   82 German Tanks Are Knocked Ont   Hun Losses Heavy As Counter Blows Are Shredded; Nazis Ready to Surrender Calais

3tind Three To Five Mile n Alsace-Lorraine; Cala “ommander Asks To Surrender

Third and Seventh Armies Surge Toward Belfort Gap and Four Main Passes Through the Vosges to the Rhine

AIMING FOR BELFORT GAP TO GERMANY   Fierce Resistance by Germans Beaten Off in Alsace-Lorraine. 82 Tanks Knocked Out.

YANK ARMIES PUSH NEARER BELFORT GAP   Fiercest Fighting on 500-Mile Front Hits  Southern Sectors

500-Mi. Front Blazes; Allies Press Forward   3rd and 7th Armies Make Gains Against Desperate Resistance

Smash 82 German Tanks In New Push In Alsace - Lorraine   Doughboys Advance Three to Five Miles Against Heavy Resistance by Hitler’s Troops

Push af Belfort Gap Makes Most Progress in West   British Move Up To Maas River on Twenty-Mile Front

Germans Lunge Our Repeatedly In Terrific Counterattacks Americans Give Ground:

Supertforts From Saipan  Make Attack   Scope Of B-29 Raid Is Not Revealed By U. S. Army.

Bombers From Marianas Bases In Raid; Evacuation Of More Su. burbs Ordered By Japanese Anthorities   JAPANESE CLAIM DAMAGE WAS SMALL

New Fires Started i in Tokyo Raid   Luzon Bombed Again anc Jap Resistance on Leyte  Is Diminishing

Superforts Raid ©  i ae    ‘Saipon-EBased . Bombers Shower Jap Capital With ‘Incendiaries

NEW B-29 RAID SHAKES TOKYO, BERLIN CLAIMS   Evacuation of Several More Suburbs Ordered As Raids Continue

FIGHTING ON MINDORO i$ STEPPED UP   Jap Headquarters On Leyte Seized By U. S. Troops

TOKYO AGAIN RAIDED, SAY JAPANESE   Report Several Fires Started By Superfort Bombs

SAYS PROPOSAL WOULD NOT AID LABOR SUPPLY   Only Limited Number Of Men Available in Younger Group

DRAFT AGE NOT TO BE LOWERED, HERSHEY STATES   Denies Knowledge Of The Report Army Plans To Lower Age To 31 Years

ARMY T0 LOWER DRAFT AGE? NEWS T0 HERSHEY   Denies Knowledge Of Reported Plan And Doubts It Would Meet Manpower Needs Of Military Forces

Hershey Denies Knowledge of Army Plan to Lower Draft Age From 38 fo 31   Says He Doubts If Such a Program Will Meet Mancoower Needs of Services

Yanks Hack Away at Jap Stronghold   Foes on Limon in Philippines May Hold Positions At Any Cost

Limon’s Japs Under Attack   Nipponese Position Termed Precarious

Death Stand At Limon   Japs Seem Determined To Hold at All Costs; 32nd Puts On Pressure

32ND DIVISION PUTS PRESSURE ON JAP FORCE’   Brings Relief To Tired Troops On “ Leyte Island

JAPS DEFENDING THEIR POSITIONS AT HEAVY COS]   Increasing Pressure Applied to Enemy in Fighting for Leyte Objective

Yanks E-ack At Last-Ditch Limon Deirses As Japs  Prepare To 1<zht To End

MEN ON LEYTE FIGHT GRIMLY   24th Infantry Bears Brunt Of Battle On RainDrenched Slopes of Limon  Cantar

Leyte Infantry Hacks at Japs   MAC ARTHUR'S INFANTRY CONTINUES FORWARD ADVANCE

Americans Hack At Limon Defenses   Japs Intend to Hold Positions In Leyte Despite Cost of Lives

Hammer Away At Limon’s Defenses   Japanese Intend to Hold Positions at Almost Any Cost   Americans Putting Jap In. stallations Out of Commission

Japs - Sacrifice Heavily to Hold Limon Defenses   Appear Ready to Use Up an Entire Division in Defense Of Leyte Villade

Yankees Still Hack Aw ray At  Limon Defense   Japanese Deterniined to Hold Positions On Leyte Island Against U. S,  At Any Cost

YANKS HACK AT JAPS’ DEFENSE   Fresh Units nits Reinforce Philippine Fight

YANKS SMASH BACK STRONG JAP ATTACKS   Communique Declares Enemy Has Committed First Division in Effort to Hold Bastion  POCITIAAl DDOCT ADIMIIC

Hack at Japs _ Still Holding — Out in Limon   One Division of Enem Troops Is Making Death Stand;Pressure Increased.

Fresh Units Giving Help do Infantry:   Suicidal Nipponese  Holding Stronchoeld

Ickes Accuses Bricker. Edge: LaGuardia of Race Prejudice In Opposing Jap Transfers

Ickes Charaes Racial Discrimination  Scores LaGuardia, Governors Bricker and Edae

‘Ickes Flays LaGuardia, Edge, Bricker For Alleged ‘ Racial Discrimination’

Ickes Lashes At WRA Opponent:   Trio Accused Of  Diecrimination -_

NEW YORK MAYOR — SCORED BY ICKES   Charges: Racial Discrimination in .Japanese-— American Problem

Ickes Charges Racial Discrimination Scores LaGuardia,  Governors Rrickar and Fanaa

NAZIS MAKE PLANS FOR ANOTHER WAR      Economic Forces Being Deployed, Senate Committee Finds

Senate Committee Warns That German)  Is Deploying Reserves For Third Wa:

REICH IS PLANNING FOR THIRD CONFLICT   Senate Subcommitiee Says Ger man Indusiry Must Be Placed Under Rigid Centrols

Nazis Readying ‘World War Ml, Kilgore Avers   W. Va. Senator's Prober Fiud Germany Framing Poeonamic enanrne

AMERICANS HOLD LINE IN JUNGLE   @ Repulse Enemy Night Probing Attack Against Allied Line in Torricelli Mountains Of British New Guinea

Americans Hold British New Guinea Positions against Japanese Atfack

Growing Tire Shortage Seen  Service Curtailment Becomes Disturbing

i I ROBERT D. BLUE  Lt, Governor of Iowa ‘  Headquarters for Blue Opened at Kirkwood

ALLIED INVASION CASUALTIES IN TWO WEEKS 40,549   List Includes 24,162 Americans of Which 3,082 Were Killed, 13,1 Wounded: and. 7,959 Missing—Nazis: Lose 70,000

First 2 Weeks. Invasion Cost  Allies 40,546   Americans Lost 24,162: In Killed, Wounded and Missing; Cherbourg Not Included

40.549 Lost  In Landings   3.082 Are Fievured  Killed In 2 Weeks

CASUALTIES OF ALLIES 40,549   Figure Is for June 6 to 20 in Normandy

INVASION LOSSES TO ALLIES 40.545   American Casualties Number 24,162 Including 3082 Dead, 7959 Missing.

Total Allied Casualties  In Normandy ‘Are 40,549   24,162 Are Americans, With 3,082 Of Them Killed, 13,121 Wounded And 7.959 Missing

Allied Casualties In Normandy Now Total 40,549  American Losses Are 24,163 for First Twa Weeke af Drive

American Fatalities 7.6 Percent of Total Battle Casualties In Normandy

40, 549 Allied Casualties In France During First 2 Weeks Of Invasion; 24162 American   U.S. List Shows 3,082 Killed, 13,121 Wounded, And 7,959 Missing Saldiexs

CASUALTIES OF INVASION GIVER   First Two Weeks of Drive Cost Allies 40,549 Dead, Wounded. Missing.

Allies Lose 40,549 Men During Early Invasion;  U.S. Casualties 24,162

NORMANDY CASUALTIES REPORTED BY ALLIES  294147 Amaricans Killed. Wounded   24,162 Americans Killed, Wounded Or Missing During First Two Week:

ALLIED CASUALTIES PLACED AT 40,549      24,162 Americans Killed, Missing or Wounded in Invasion

AMERICAN WA CASUALTIES IN FRANCE 24,162   Total Includes Killed, Wounded, Missing for First 2 Weeks of Invasion

AQ, 549 Allied Invasion Toll   3082 Americans Killed, 13,121 Hurt, 7959 Are Missing

U.S.CASUALTIES TOTAL 24.162   First Two Weeks of Invasion Cost Allies 40,549 Dead, Wounded, Missing

Allied d Casualties i in:2 Weeks Of Invasion Total 40,549 of Which 24.162 Are Americans

U.S. Losses iin France ~~ fo 24.162   Casualty Figures for . First .Two Weeks. Do Not Include Cherbourg Assault    ALLIED CASUALTY/ LIST TO, 40,54   American - Losses“ Highest With-3,082 Killed, Mostly - ‘on D-Day...

Allied Casualties Number 40,549.   List Includes Dead, Missing and Wounded

ALLIED COST OF INVASION TOTALS 40,559 CASUALTIES   FIGURES INCLUDE 24,162 AMERICANS, 2,815 CANADIANS ~°

Invasion Casualties Set at 40.549 Men   - American Losses in Killed, Wounded and AMissing Are 24.152

Christmas Spirit Lacking in Reich Amid Efforts to  Bolster Morale

Reich Faces Gloomiest Christmas; Token Rations Fail to Lift Spirit

Dreariest War Holidays Face German People  Little Yule Cheer Found

Christmas In Germany To Be  AG loomy One   No Trees, No Toys, No Victories, No Joy, Nothing Bui Hitler

Christmas Joys Few in Germany  Gloomiest Since War Started 6 Years Aao

(Contin ed On Page_8,. Galunin. 5  Nazi’s: Christmas Appears. Gloomy; Spirit Is Lacking

-Dreariest Christmas Since War Began Will Face German People This Year

GERMANS FACE DREARY XMAS   Yuletide ‘Spirit Can’t Be Found In Reich, Berlin Reports

UAW Told Wage Boosts Certain   Little Steel Formula Revision Assured

Bradford Man County Head of Veteran Affairs      Michael Ferko Appointed by County Commissioners

Michael Ferko County Head of Veteran Affairs   Retired Police Officer Assumed New Duties  Aug. 1: Post Formerly Held by Present Sherif!

Parachuting Parson at Carentan   FIRST DIRECT NEWS FROM FRANCE TO U. S. DESCRIBES CITY SIEGE

PARTY DRUMS BEAT LOUDLY IN OKLAHOMA   2nd Dist. Elections Campaign Features Many Speakers

Refugee Board Named by FDR        Cabinet  Tembers Selected To Aid  azi-Oppressed

AID PROMISED WAR REFUGEES   President Creates Board To Rescue Those In Danger Of Death

President Names Board to Rescue War Refugees   To Save Minorities From Nazi Persecution ;  Speed Demanded

Take Over Spotlight Convention   Republicans Political With Ohio

GOP LEADERS ARE MEETING FOR PRE-CONVENTION TALKS   PRELIMINARY STEPS BEING TAKEN IN ADVANCE OF STATE ONE-DAY CON . “VENTION TOMORROW

Two Million Tons Naval  Might Assists   Bypassed Atolls May Be Attacked or ‘Left to Wither on the Vine’   EXTRA!

Bypassed Atolls May Ve   Bypassed Atolls May Bé Attacked or ‘L eft. ts Wither on the Vine’.

Fall of Hansa Bay Revealed   Captured June 15th But News Withheld; Aussies Keep Marching

Abandon Huge Quantities of Equipment   Russian Campaign in Poland Sweeps Forward Toward Sarny   Germans Admit They May Be Forced to Withdrav From Russia

Nazis Abandoned Huge Quantities of Supplies in Their Flight.   EIGHTY MILE WIDE FRONT IN POLAND   Russians Aiming at Another Vital Nazi Railroad,

SGT. MIELKE ~ BAGS PLANE   Stevensville Gunner Bags German Craft Over  Czechoslovakia

CONCERNED ABOUT ~ SMALL BUSINESS   Maverick Cites Growing Super-Concentration of Industry.

DEMANDS AID FOR SMALL BUSINESS   MAVERICK SUGGESTS ACTION TO PREVENT INDUSTRIAL MONOPOLY

Maverick Urges Effort to Save ‘Small Business   Smaller War Plants Corporation Chairman Sees Growing SuperConcentration Big Business

New Jap Cabinet Pled oes Finish Fieht Against U.S ,   Gen. Kuniaki Koiso Takes Over As Premier; All But One Member Of Tojo’s Regime Dismissed; Tojo Is Relegated To Political Obscurity

New Japanese Cabinet Meets   Pledges Japan Will Fight ta Finiech

New Premier Pledges To Step Up Assaults   Empire Told New Blows Due Against U. S., British Forces

Staff Sergeant Coon Has Flown 50 Missions; Winner 9 Oak Clusters.

Charles L. Coon Wins Air Medal   Staff Sergeant Coon Has Flown 50 Missions; Winner 9 Oak Clusters.

Grip On France Lost After 4 Years   Hitler’s Four-Year Grasp of Evil At Last Being Loosened.

THREATEN NAZI GRIP ON FRANGE   ALLIED ARMIES’ SQUEEZE PLAY MAY BREAK HITLER'S HOLD ON COUNTRY.

War Prisoner Camp To Be Opened Here About Sept. 8 8  eS ae 2 CRS ee. 9 PO & SOMmEY & Vermemmnerae” ferme   Approximately 350 Germans To Be Quartered On Former CCC Camp Site, Authorities Say

Hoover To Take  Active Part In  Coming Campaign Stay “In F ight Until Death

‘In This Fight Until I Die?   Hoover To Campaign Vigcorously For Party

00,000 MISSOURI. DEMOS ‘MISSING   Republicans Cail Primary , Vote Sign of GOP Win in November.

AAA Leader Sticks To Job Despite Threat   Chairman Of Committee Rejects Demand From Farmers That He Quit Position In Ohio

oh es —AAA BATTLE—  Fellers In AAA Office. Mannix Calls Off Visil   Agricultural Adjustment Administrator Works ; Under Police Guard; Farmer Changes Plans On Advice Of Cotinsel

Famed Air Group Which Hung Up Brilliant Record in Pacific Theater of Operations to Be Relieved

War Factories Undergo Raid By U. S. Planes   Enemy Broadcasts Say Another Formation Bombs Jap Capital

Mukden Hit ln Big Raid   Super-forts Down 26 Jop Fighters; 13 More ‘Probables’ Registered

2 UPERFORTS ATTACK TOKYO   Drop Bombs While Making Reconnaissance Flights Over Capital.   CITY BRIGHTLY LIGHTED

Tokyo Also ls Hit by Big Planes   Sixty-Three Japanese Fighter Planes Are Downed or Damaged, One Bomber Lost; Sky Giants Start Fires in Capital

Superforts Hit Jap-Dominated Manchuria   Claim 26 Enemy Fighters Downed: Strike Plane Plant

Giant Planes  Bomb Tokvo Last Night and Today; City Well Lighted

B-29’s Raid Two ‘Jap Ports   ‘26 Enemy Planes Destroyed Over Manchuria; Tokyo Also Is ‘Bombed

Heavy Raid Is Made on Manchuria   26 Jap Fighters Destroyed by Superfortresses and Others Are Damaged   JAPANESE ADMIT DAMAGE AT MUEDEN   Bombs Also Are Dropped On Tokyo By Big Forts Checking On Weather

B.2%s Attack Jap War Plants in Manchuria   At Least One Fire Started in Tokyo Itself

B-29s Attack Tokyo, Too, Japs Claim   Fearing Revenge Raid on Pearl Harbor Day, Nips Raid Saipan

Prison Bill Gets Committee 0.K.   Establishes Dept. Of Correction

Ten Nazi Air  Bases Bombed   American Bombers Strike At Landing Strips In Belgium And Germany

U.S. BOMBERS ” ROCK BERLIN   1 Day Raiders Leave Desolate Scenes  se amc  All Parts of Reich   OS 6 an eee

ALLIES BOMB 10 NAZI AIR BASES   Assault Follows RAF Blow on Berlin Monday Night

Bulgars and Nazis Fight Near Border   Berlin Says Former Ally Loses Ten Tanks in Series Of Local Engagements; Russians Drive On Riga

BERLIN ADMITS SOVIETS ARE IN YUGOSLAVIA   Numerous Key Points Taken In HungarianHeld Transylvania

Soviet Drive Mounts Below  Port OF Riga      Violent Gserman Armor: cd Attacks Smothered.

To Flood Millions Of Acres   Mississippi River Has Climbed To Its Highest Flood Stage In 100 Years.

Floodwaters Rise; Vast Area Periled   Thousands Flee As Mississippi _ Smashes Levees

Court Orders Bioff Freed   Extortionist John Browne, Fellow Convict ‘Also Turned Loase

Americans In Slight Gains Against Japs   Enemy Preparations For Attack Thwarted

Americans Tighten Vise  On Ormoe   . Advances Dislocate Enemy Preparations For Counter-Attack  JAPS INVADE ISLET

ATTACK NEAR ORMOC UPSET   Yanks Make New Gains in Hard Fighting on Leyte Island

Five Jap Divisions On Leyte Opposing Yanks   JapsLand On ‘Small Island lOff Peleliu

Jap Plans for Leyte Attack Are Checked   Short Gains Made by Americans in  Philippine Fighting

Yanks Break Up Jap Plans For Leyte Counterattack By Continued Ground Gains

Says Convention Can Finish Work In Three Months  But Legislature Mav Come Here

Con-Con to Seek New Meeting Site   Expect Special Sesson Call From Governor on Soldier Vote Issue.

COX BACKS FDR FOR REELECTION   Says Allied Leaders Best Be for Lasting Peace

Yellowstone Floods 8,000 Acres of Dawson Farm Land   Army Proposes Bombings Start in Lower Reaches of Missouri to Avert Peril to Still Larger River Areas

Sub-committees Named by Berry  Lays Ground Work far Pactwoar Plons

Berry Selects lowa Postwar Subcommittees   Groups To Plan Peacetime Rehabilitation Ef forts Announced.

U.S. Demands — Currency Answer   Issues Ultimatum To Red Delegates On Stabilization Fund.

Virtual Ultimatum Served Russians at Bretton Woods; Want Fund Quota Answer

DEMAND REDS’ QUOTA ANSWER   Money Parley Awaits Word From Moscow

FUND QUOTA SCRAP   U. S. Monetary Delegates Press for Final Answer From Russia

Ultimatum to Russian . Deleratas   Americans at Monetary Conference Demand Final Answer on Quotas   MOSCOW’S REPLY EXPECTED SOON   Language Difficulties Believed to Be a Factor in Misunderstandins

Soviet Union Is Given Ultimatum   Question of Quotas May Be Decided On U. S. Proposal

Give Ultimatum To Red Group   American Delegation Demands Answer On (uotas For Curreney Fund.

Soviet Union Is Given Ultimatum  Question of Quotas   Question of Quotas May Be Decided On U. S. Proposal

RED FUND QUOTA ANSWER SOUGHT   UNITED NATIONS. SEEK QUOTA COMMITMENT

Council Of War Held By Hitler, High Command   Mussolini Attends Parley Called By Fuehrer Over Week End   GERMANS NERVOUS   Vague Account Of Meet Given To Bolster  Nazi Morale -

Harried Hitler, Mussolini Confer on War   TWO MEET AT FUEHRER’S HEADQUARTERS FOR PREINVASION COUNCIL

Fuehrer, Duce Confer In Hasty War Parley   Axis Powers Reach Decision To Carry Fight to Bitter End

Seek Future Air Control   U. S. Commercial Lines Vie for Supremacy . In Atlantic Air Lanes

FIERCE STRUGGLE BETWEEN U. S. AIR INTERESTS FOR ATLANTIC LINES SEEN -

REDS WITHIN 15 MILES OF RAL HUB OF PSKAY   More Than 210 Towns and Villages Liberated in Sweeping Advance

Russians Take Two Centers, Encircle One   Gain New Ground Within Old Polish Borders

eat TROOPS NEARING PSKOV   Russian Sweep Cuts Down Nazi Reinforcements,   210 Villages

Sevthe-Like Sweep Cuts Down Fresh German Reinforcements and Liberates 210 Towns

Russ 15 Miles From Pskov In Baltic Drive   Nazi Reinforcements Unable To Hold Up Red Offensive

Reds Closing About Pskov; Fresh German Force Routed   Enemy Lines Broken Upon Lower Dnieper

RED ARMY NEARS PSKOV, GATEWAY TO BALTIC STATES   Russians 15 Miles from kail Center; Nazi Reinforcements Routed

Russian Army  Moves Closer  To Big Rail Hub   Fresh German Troops Are Overwhelmed By Reds eas Gppreenll Dharma ites eset ype teapot

REDS WITHIN 19 MILES OF PSKOV   More Than 210 Towns And Villages Liberated By Russians In New Drive Toward Baltic Gateway.

Soviets Drive to Within 15 Miles of Railroad ~ Hub  KEY STATIONS FALL   AGL OsAlViy PALL Moscow Announces New Break in Axis Lines in  Dinienay Rend

Mighty Scythe Bears Down On Baltic Gateway   Other Russian Forces Sweep Forward [In Lower Dnieper Bend & White Russia In Attempt to Break Vhrough: Toward Bobruisky.

CARS MIGHT BE ON RATION AFTER WAR   Dole May Continue To Avoid Inflation

ALLIES SMASH AT CASSINO   UNEASY EIRE OBSERVES ST. PATRICK'S HOLIDAY  Recent Warning of Churchill Cree EFactivitioe in Onblin

Day Quiet In Eire   Gaiety Of Former St. Patrick’s Day Lacking in Uneasy Dublin

An Uneasy Peace Troubles Eire   Warning of Isolation Hangs Heavy Over Country St. Patrick’s Day.

ST, PATRICK'S DAY IN IRELAND DRAB   War Restrictions Temper Spirit of People

LYON CLEARED OF ALL ENEMY hESISTANCE   Allies in Southern France Only 120 Miles From Yanks

Cartel Ruled Match Market U. S. Charges   Anti-Trust Suit - Brought. To: Break Cimbine

Declares Making Of Peace Should  Not Depend upon ) or 3 Persons   Says Roosevelt Is Unable to Foster Teamwork in Own Administration and with Congress

WR ARE NO -WOSPERSABLE “Wel, SAYS: DEWE   PACE WE SEEK TOO V. fAL TO DEPEND ON suo OR THREE: MEN   jet's Have No More Pretense About “Jndispensable. Men”—Roosevelt :: Cannot Work, With-Party.

Dewey Declare: Peace Making NoOneMan Job   F riendship Ties Insufficient For World Security, He Says

DEWEY BLASTS IDEA FDR IS INDISPENSABLE   On Three Men Alone, Peace Must Not Depend Nominee Says

nis] ensable Man’ Theme _ Refuted by Dewey ¢ at Portland, Peoples’ Peace Is Demanded

‘Peace must not hinge on a few men’  Dewey: No man is indisnensable

Dewey Asks For A Solid Peace   Says Issue Must Not Depend On Friendship, Says No Man Indispensable.

Dewey Says FDR Unable To Keep America Unitec   Refers To ‘Big Three’ In ‘Indispensable Man' Speech

Corn Crop in lowa Too Tal  to Cultevate   Some Fields Now Shoulder High With Outlook Favorable

Petit Jurors Are Drawn for Next Term of Court   Judge F. C. Davideon to.Preside at Session which Con. venes on March 27

JUDGE GIVES ~ RESTRAINING INJUNCTION   ‘Will Prevent Ward’:  Officials From   . ‘Interference’

Hectic Day Results From Government Efforts To Operate Big Retail Business.

TO DENOUNCE SERVICE LAW   But GOP Legislators Back FDR, Prepare Draft Bill

Tighter Rationing Ordered, Effective Tuesday; utter, Meats, Sugar, Canned Goods Affected

Expanded food rationing program in effect Tuesday  Tighter controls necessary for fair distribution: vesetables included

(Rationing Program To Be Revamped   The rationing changes as they affect processed foods will be found on page 8.

4 CORRESPONDENTS WOUNDED IN ITALY   Bombs Hit Headquarters at Anzio Beachhead

U.S. Takes Stern Stand On Politics In Europe   Tells Britain, Russia People Must Be Free To Pick Governments Without Interference

U.S. Gets Foot In Europe  Polities Door   Supports Liberated People Choosing Own Governments

U. §. POINTEDLY CAUTIONS NATIONS   Note of Warning to Britair Also Russia, Indirectly   ITALY IN VIEW,   Declares European Peoples Should Be Allowed Work Out Own Governments

BRITISH, REDS TOLD EUROPE MUST BE FREE   U. S. State Department Sticks Foot In Door Of Russian, British Political Race

INTERFERENCE SUBJECT OF US. WARNING   To Britain and Incidently Russia That Peoples of Europe Be Permitted to Govern Themselves.   Any Opposition

U.S. Warns Reds Britain to Keep Hands Off Italy   Opposes Interference With Any Nation’s Governmental Choice

BRITISH TOLD TO LET ITALY - DECIDE RULE   U. S. Warning Against Interference Applies to Other Nations

Call NCPAC A ‘Front’ of  Red Group   Dies Sub-Committee Gives Report On Goals of CIO  Committee.

Dies Committee  Attacks CIO-PAC   Says Communists Want Major Party Control

SECRETARY TO FDR FOR YEARS IS DEAD   ‘Missy’ Le ‘Hand Dies After Resigning Last December

FR’s Ex-Private  Secretary Dies   Miss Lehand Served President :20 Years

Service Bill Awaits Fate   Headed for Either Roosevelt's Desk or Deadlock in Congress

Showdown On Service Vote Bill Delayed       Lack Of Quorum Forces Senate Into A Recess

Lack Of Senate Quorum Delays A Showdown On Federal Service Ballot

Showdown or Soldier Vote Due Monday   Lack of Quorum Forces Senate to Recess Saturday

Showdown Ballot On Soldier Vote Postponed  Lack of Quorum Puts Off Decision  Dives] Meawmiun inn

SOLDIER BALLOT STILL UNDECIDED   SENATE IN baat UNTIL NEX SRT SHOWDOWN

Service Ballot At Crossroad:   Bill Faces Either Quick O. K. Or Long Delay

Showdown On Service Vote  Faces Delay   Failure Of Agreement May Delay Legislation Indefinitelyv

Deadlock Over Federal Ballot   Senate Defeats Move to Shelve Measure; Compromise Plan May Come Out Of Deadlock.

SENATE DELAYS DECISION UPON SOLDIER VOTI   Lack of Quorum Today Forces Recess Until Monday. — House Measure Offers Showdown

DELAY SERVICE VOTE DECISION   Senate Forces To Recess  When Quorum Fails  To Appear

ABSENT SENATORS PREVENT VOTE ON SOLDIERS’ BILL   Six Less Than Quorum Present For Saturday Business, Recess Is Ordered Until Monday Noon.   TW) MEASURES NOW READY FOR ACTION   Roosevelt Has Criticised One as Fraud Upon Pubtie. Green-Lucas Bill Provides Ballot.

Showdown Ballot On Soldier Vote Postponed  Lack of Quorum Puts Off Decision «Until Camina Week

LACK OF QUORUM POSTPONES ACTION. ON SOLDIER VOTE CONGRESSIONAL DEAD LOCK APPEARS IN OFF.  ING ON LECISLATION

QUORUM LACK DELAYS VOTE   Showdown on Service Vote Law Postponed Until Next Week

Special Meet on Service Vote   May Go to FDR or Faces Long Delaying Congress Deadlock

-—BERVICE DAMN s-—  Soldier Vote In Balance   Bill Faces Swift Ride To FDR Or A Deadlock

Quorum Lack Kills Action ~ On Vote Bill   Showdown on Service Vote Postponed Until Next Week .

Only 43 Senators “Appear For Special Saturday ~” Session: “49° Needed

SHOWDOWN ON THE FEDERAL BALLOT BILL NEXT WEEK   Senate Goes Into Recess Today  as Lack of Members Blocks  a Quorum—Bill May Go to  EDR or Be Stymied

SENATE CAN'T MUSTER QUORUM   Postpones Soldier Vote Showdown Until Monday

No Quorum, Vote  ~ Measure Held Up  Senate Unable To Take Up Soldier Ballot

Lack Of Quorum Delays Soldier Vote Showdown   Congressional Deadlock May Kill Chances For A Service Rallot.

Senate Action On Soldiers’ «Bill Delayed   Lack-’ of - Quoruni~ “Forces  Recess and Postpones Un - tik Next Week ‘Showdown on Measure -

MAIL FORMS FOR TAX ESTIMATE   All Declarers of Last Fall Will Receive Copies

Wide Gains Are Made hy Allies ‘in South France   Spearhead Drives Ahead to Trap Fleeing Germans

REPORT NAVY LOSS   Three Small Vessels and Motor Torpedo Boat  Sunk in Pacific

Navy Loses 3 Ships, PI Boat   Ammunition Vessel, U.S.S. Mount Hood, Explodes in Accident

3. U.S. Ships  Lost in Action   2 Mine Sweepers aud Landing Craft Sunk In Central Pacific

HEING CLOSE   Allies Drive -in Hot Pursuit Of Enemy Along 270Mile Front,   CANADIANS TAKE DIEPPE   BULLETIN Third army headquarters in France —?)}— American forces Nees ik MBN ee ec:

, Verdun Taken: U.S. Troops In . *Maginot Line   Belgium Border Reached; Argonne Forest Crossed; British Threaten Big Trap Near Calais, Dunkerque

U.S. TROOPS AT GATEWAY TO REICH AS BRITISH SWEEP UP ROBOT COAST NEAR BELGIUM

Take Verdun, Sedan — as British Virtually — Shut Off Rocket Coast

American Avalanche Rolls Past Sedan and Verdun Up to the Belgian Border

American Troops Sweep Pas! Verdun and Head for Reich As War in France Nears End   Canadian Troops March Into Dieppe: Patton's Men Speed Beyond:Argonne; Other U. S. Forces May Be in Belaium

U. S. Forces Roll: Up To Or Across Belgium  Border. And Threaten To Smash. Into Germany: Before — Nightfall — British Forces Closing Off Rocket ‘Coast.

British Fast Sealing Off Robot Coast   Americans Expected To Be In German Territory By Nightfall

Border of Belgium Reached   Allied Armies  In Big Pursuit All Along Front From Sea to Reich

Verdun, Sedan Are Captured   Patton’s Armor Gains 65 Miles In Day; British Virtually Isolate 80 Miles Of Rocket Coast

May Reach Germany By Night   British Block Off 80 ‘Miles of Rocket-Bomb ‘Coast, and Canadians Seize Port of Dieppe

GERMAN BORDER IS NEXT COAL DF AMERCANS   Reported To Be In Belgium In Sedan Sector

Allied Avalanche Rolling Ahead In Landslide Drive   Roll Up To Or Across Belgian Border; Nazis Trapped On Long Stretch Of Coast

Doughboys Are Believed Over BelgiumBorder   American Avalanche Of Men wud Tanks Expected To Spili Over Into Reich by Nightfall   80 Miles of Rocket Coast Sealed Off   British Advancing On Calais, Dieppe and Dunkerque, With Huns Trapped In Area

Verdun, Sedan Liberated On Way To Border   Historic Fortress Cities Entered as Large Forces of Men and Tanks Go Thundering On.   BELGIAN BORDER IS ALSO BEING CROSSED

Tank Spearheads Have Smashed To Lorraine, Report   Nazis Say Fight For France ‘Over;’ Dieppe Taken By Canadians; British In 10 Miles Of Abbeville; Belgian Border Near

2/0-Mile Front Moves East Fast   Historic Fortress Cities of Verdun and Sedan Fall; Yanks Race 66 Miles in Day

Americans Beyond Verdun, Sedan; Threaten To Spill Into Germany By Nightfall

Yanks Spear through Sedan, Verdun, In Advance so Rapid Headquarters Can’t Tell Where Troops May Be

Nazis Pursued Across Border Into Belgium  Smashing Gains Are Reported on

BUZZ BOMB AREA BEING CUT OFF; NAZIS IN FLIGHT   Allies in Southern France Catch Up With Germans; Reds Close in from East

U.S. Tanks Roll Through Fallen Sedan, Verdun   Dieppe Falls, British Seal Off 80 Miles of Rocket Coast

 SPREE OF TEXAS SERIES ‘E’ BOND PURCHASERS  BOOSTS STATE SALES IN SIXTH WAR LOAN DRIVE

SOLDIER WINS $80 ON SHOVELING BET   Buddies Collect $800 Wher 19 Tons of Sand Moved

Loiwing And Paghkan Captured By Allies   D- E Lures Jap Planes To Waste Torpedoes, Save Allied Convoy

Raids Clogging Up Nazi Facilities   Allied Blows Greatly Hindering Transportation and Repair System.

141 Planes Shot Downin Big Attack   Powertul Carricr Force Strikes et Martona Islands

141 ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   Naval Task Unit And and-Based Bombers Hammer At Nips

37 Jap Ships Sunk, Damaged Off Marianas   U. 8. Naval Task Force, Bombers Hit Foe — 141 Planes Wrecked

KELLEMS, GOFFEE DEMANDING ACTION   Principals in Verbal Duet Want Officiais to Take Part.

Urge Action On Kellems  Accusation   N. E. Woman Hits Back At Solon

Joe Smith, Jim Shott Disagree. As To Who Will Carry State Next November

WEaT VIRGINIA I) POLITICAL BORDER STATE   State’s Position Receives Expected Divergent Interpretations   GOP, DEMOS AVOW VICTORY IN FALL   Bricker Lists Mountain State As Territory Where Out. look Is Good for Republican Slate; Demos Forecast Victory for FDR

FDR Warns: Argentina On Policy   Says “Nazi - fascist’ Trend Will Hurt Country in the Post War Era

Tojo Says Japs Prefer Long War  Says U.S., Britain Showinea ‘Unrest’

Tojo Says Japs Want Long War   Tells Diet Allies Are Growina Wear,

Tojo Says Japs Prefer Long War  Savs U.S.. Britain   Says U.S., Britain Showing ‘Unrest’

Tojo Says Japs Want Long War   Time Favors Them, Premier Asserts

WARNING IS GIVEN TO GREEK LEFTISTS   Elas Given Until This Morning to Quit Firina

Scobie Says Attack Will Be Made Today on Leftists Continuing to Fire

Elas Given Ultimatum By British   Leftists Must Lay Down Arms or faca Alluck From Tommies in  Athens. Piraeus

BIELEYTE BATTLE EKS IS DRAWIN( CKTG A CLOS   GEN. SCOBIE WARNS GREEKS OF ATTACK

Army Getting To Point Of Taking What It Can Get, Selective Service Chief Says

Army Getting To Point Of Taking What It Can Get, Hershey Asserts

erin ee  Increase in Draft _ Is Now in Prospect   Armed Forces and Industry Need Men, Selective Service Chiet Says Adding ‘Army Is Getting To Point of Taking What It Can Get With Men Under 26 Not So Plentiful

1,300 American Heavy Bombers Attack Germans   Explosives Blast Nazi Front Lines

4,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES DROPPED ON NAZI TROOPS   1,300 American Heavy Bombers Give Close Aerial Sup port To Gen. Patton’s Third Army In Vicinity Of Metz; 33 Aircraft Failed To Return

POUR BOMBS UNTO TROOPS NEAR MEIZ   Eighth Airforce Supporis Patton’s Army With 2,000 Planes and Escorts; Opposition is Lacking.   Backs Of Enemy

ARE BOMBED   Close Aerial Support Given Patton's Forces in Metz Drive

Heavy Bombers Blast Nazis in Metz Region  33 Allied Planes Fail to Return From Onperations

ITALIAN FRONT SKIES CLEARING   Opposing Patrols Skirmish With Fierce Fighting Expected

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  ‘Coriee” af Fnemy Attacke Renuleed in Adriatic Serto

Pinpoint Accuracy of U. S. Bombing Leads Germans to Suspect ''Some New Weapon’

Bombing Accuracy of Yank Fliers  In Raids on Berlin Amazes Citizens

Nazis Convinced  Of U.S. Weapon   Attribute Pinpoint Accuracy of Berlin Attacks to Invention

BERLIN BOMING BY AMERICANS VERY ACCURATE   Germans Convinced Americans “Must Have Some New Weapon’”’ to Get Such Fine Hits

New Weapon Is Blamed   Making ‘It Possible for Such Pin-point Aceurate Berlin Bombing

Soviet-Polish Rift Widens   Pro-Russian Council Sends Envoys to Moscow

‘Question Periods’ Before Solons For U.S. Department Heads Urged

On The Carpet   Legislation In Sight To Have the Cabinet Members Interrogated

ALLIES GAIN IN BATTLE OF MYITKYINA   Net Ticghtened On Deomed Japanese Garrison In City

BOMBER GOAL 1S REACHED   WILLOW RUN PLANT... NOW TURNING OUT A BOMBER AN HOUR, FORD OF-. FICIALS REVEAL

FIRST FACTS ON NAZI OFFENSIVE   U.S. Army Suffers Worst Setback Since Loss Of Philippines

Prime Minister Churchill,. “Anthony Eden Fly To Paris” For Parley With De Gaulle

Churchill In Paris   Joins With De Gaulle In First Armistice Service in 5 Years

Battle Bitter In Vicinity Of Velletri   Anglo-American Units Force Way to Point West of Key Position 

British Forces Edging Through Mine Fields South Of Pescarella Nuova 14 Miles From The Eternal City

Germans Cling Stubbornly To Stronghold of Velletri; Sth Drives Up From South

Nazis Make Stand To Delay Advance   British Eighth Army Pushes Steadily Ahead Toward Eternal City Despite Resistance

rious Fighting Progress for ome’s Defenses   Savage German ‘Attack Repulsed

Smash through Defenses  16 Miles from Rome, Near Pope’s Summer  Palace.

BATTLE &  FOR VELLETRI   Nazi Shock Troops Fight Fiercely for Possession   VITAL STRONGPOINT   Allies Reach Point Near Cag. _ tel Gandolfo, Summer  Home of the Pope

STIFF BATTLE ASSURED FOR ETERNAL CITY   NAZIS THREW FULL POWER INTO LINE TO HALT ALLIES

Frank A. Anderson, 32, Was Gunner’s Mate First Class, U.S.N.©.; Citation Awarded Posthumously

ee i pee ie        pranie A. Anderson, 32, Was Gur ner Mate First Class, U. S, N.R.; Cita- _ tion Awarded Poithumoule pee

UNDERGROUND POLES HELPING IN WARSAW AREA   Have Regained Control Of Stawki Area Controlling Railway to Danzig

PRESENT CAMPAIGN IN BURMA. SEEN AS PRELUDE TO THE FINAL BIG DRIVE AGAINST JAPANESE

The War Today   Big Goal in Burma Campaign Is to Join Two Supply Roads

ANALYSIS OF BURMA SITUATION INVOLVES STORY OF TWO ROADS, THE LEDO AND THE BURMA ROAD

WAR  TODAY   Developments In Burma, Where Yanks and, Allies Are Fighting Under “Roof Of Vv 8 id? Fascinating

Ensign Petersen Elsa Hansen Wed  Ceremony In Miami Lutheran Church

Postoffice Out Of Red, for eh  First Time in 24 Veare   First Time in 24 Years Department ‘In Black’

LEPKE RELEASE BY U.S, HINTED   Assurance Of N. Y. Electrocu. tion Not To‘Be Demanded

Another Air Landing On Beachhead   Reception From Nazis Was No “Milk Run’ Claims Vet Pilot

NEWS WRITER FINDS TRIP OVER FRANCE IN GIANT TWIN ENGINED C-47 WITH GLIDER ATTACHED IS NO “MILK RUN” WHEN. GERMAN GUNS OPENED UP

It Was Like This on Airborne Invasion Newsman Describes Tracer Bullets And Flak

Unlike First Operation, Airborne \Landing in France No “Milk Run”

Second Airborne Landing Anything But Picnic; Writer Flies In First Ship; Admits He’s Scared

New Air-Borne Landing Back Of Nazi Lines No ‘Milk Run’, Says AP Man Who Went Alona   Howard Cowan, In Graphic Stary, Says Germans Were Ready For It This Time

Airborne Operation Described   No “Milk Run,’ Writer Says; Plane Riddled By Bullets

TELLS LANDING OF AIR TROOPS BEHIND NAZIS   Planes Flew Down ‘Avenue Lined With German Machine Guns’

BLACK BEAR CLAWS VIRGINIA CAPTOR   Escanes From Exhibit Before Waging Losing Fight 200 nencad

Hershey Cites Need For 4-F's   Men Under 26 Preferred by Armed Forces. Says Director

NEED 4-F MEN, SAYS HERSHEY   DECLARES HE WILL INSIST UPON CALL OF SOME UNDER 26

Declares Men In 4F Class Will Be Called   Hershey Tells R. 1 Rotary Club He Will Insist On  Doing A “Little Mining”

Army May Dip Into 4-F Group   Young Men In That Classification May be Drafted and Assigned to NonCombat Duties:

‘Antonescu in Soviet Held Bag ‘Of War Criminals   Russia Remembers  German Atrocities in Reundup of Guilty; Punishment Promised

No Escape For War Criminals   Russia Announces Twofold Policy Regarding Treatment As Balkan Nazis Are Captured

RIMINALS 10 GET FULL PUNISHMENT      Soviet Believes Allies’ Attitude May Prove Softhearted.

Seek Accord On A 2-Point Penal Policy   Finland Signs Armistice;  Soviet Forces Advance » In Baltic Area

Chinese Drive Japs Southward   Say U. S: Air Base At - Liuchow May Be Retaken

Chinese Troops Push Beaten Foe Back In Kwangsi   Army Spokesman Has Hopes of Retaking Liuchow Base

CHINESE HAVE JAP COLUMN ON THE RUN   Former U. S. Air Base at Liuchow  May Be Retaken

Chinese Near Liuchow Base   Beaten Japs Driven 25 Miles Southward

PLANS ARE MADE FOR OCCUPATION   Full Liquidation Of Nazi Con: . trol Is Mapped

'Nazi Control Liquidation Plans Are Neat Completion, Await Approval of “Big Three” at Forthcoming Meeting

Allied Plans For Occupying Reich Mapped   Include Full Liquidation of   Nazi Control: Final Ap proval of Details Awaited

WAKEY FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON   Well Known Resident Died Suddenly On Friday  Afternoon

Japs Launch New Chinese Attacks   Supieng aptured In. Latest Offensive

ANNU CLOTHES SHOW   United Charities Expects to Collect Hundreds of Garments

READY F ANNUAL FREE CLOTHES SHOW   United Charities Expects to Collect Hundreds of Garments

Condemns Negotiated Peace Legion Urges Adoption of National Military Training

Legion Demands Youth Training  Faver's Year's Course for All Young Men

Universal Training Urged ‘by Legion   Veteras Also for Retaining Bases Needed for Defense

OL SCT LO AR  MILITARY TRAINING IMMEDIATELY ASKED   Legion Suggests Congress Approve Legislation

»PROPOSES YEAR OF INSTRUCTION » AT END OF WAR   Vets Urge Action on Program Affecting Every Young American’

Military Traini ng  Approved   Resolution is Adopted at American Legion Annual Convention

‘You RE WISER PHILIP MORRIS   —the cigarette proved less less.i irritating to the »ose.and throat... and finer-tasting, too!

—the cigarette proved less less irritating to the nose and throat... and finer-tasting, too!

U. S. Planes Hit Mako in Pescadores   Pound Jap-Held Islands Between Formosa and  China

LIBERATORS HIT JAPANESE BASE   Mako, in the Pescadores Is lands, 400 Miles from Philippines, Target

'U. S: LIBERATORS BOMB NAVAL BASE OF MAKO  Japanese Holdings on Wide Front Attacked by American Warplanes

BOMB JAP NAVAL BASE   Is First Blow at Pescadores Islands tolen From China

BOMB JAPANESE ~— ISLAND BASES   Enemy Groups Between Formosa and China

B. Dh's Bomb: Pescadores  “Aslands’ Off: ‘China ‘Hit By: ‘14th: ‘AAE 

FORMOSA, MAKO HIT   JAP BASE ON PESCADORES BATTERED BY LIBERATORS

U.S. Liberators Blast Jap Base In Pescadores   Marks First Raid On Enemy Islands Lying Between Formosa And China

NEW DRIVES Ih PACIFIC PEND   Yanks Hit Jap Islands From Halmahera To  The Kuriles

JAP PESCADORES NAVY BASE TORN   Mako Raided By Liberators In First Blow At Islands

Japan Naval Base Bombec   Pescadores Islands Between Formosa, China Hit First Time

AIR ATTACKS PAVE WAY TO JAP ISLES   INCESSANT AERIAL BOMBINGS SOFTEN: ENEMY FOR TROOPS

Mako Naval Base Bombed First Time   Liberators Smash At Peseadores; Takao Harbor Is Pounded

Yanks Bomb Pescadores Jap Navy Base   First Blow Hits Mako; Takao in Formosa Alse Air Target .

CRISIS IMPENDING IN BULGAR CABINET   Midnight Tonisht Has Been Sei BRussia For End Of Dealings With Germany

V-DAY SUGGESTION -OFFERED-BY MAYOR   City Official. F Frowns: on Mass Celebration  ‘Idea -.

V-DAY SUGGESTION OFFERED BY MAYOR   City Official. cial. Frowns o1 Mass Celebration  Idea” ;

ENEMY BOMBERS RAID SAIPAN BASE   Marks Strongest Counter: Blow Staged on Island   INFLICT DAMAGE   One Superfort Destroyed, Two Others Damaged; Six Bombers Shot Down

Peacemaker Of 1940 Goes To Stockholn   Government Expected te Seek Direct Contact With Moscow   PRESSURE GROWS   Even Nazis Doubt Nation Can Long Oppose Allied Influence:

CREWMEN BAIL OUT, § REPORT   Hunt Being Made in Wilderness for Tenth Man of Army Bomber.   PLANE FALLS IN FLAMES

Army Bomber Crashes In U. P   10 Bail Out In Porcupine Mountain Area Today

Dawson, Meadow: Win Nominations In West Virginia   Holt, Funkhouser Concede Defeat

FUNKHOUSER LOSES TO BOONE DAWSON   Charles Town Industrial. ist Concedes Defeat in Primary

SCRAP PAPER WANTED Ohio Paper Products Oo Dia} 3128 vin   NactToR'S ORDERS TO QUIT

Maynard Mourns ~ Death Of J 4 4 Howard A. Wilson         Townspeople Pay Tribute to Outstand: ing Citizen at Family Hone. aota r Close, Flags at Half-Staff —

Townspeople Pay Tribute to Outstand: ing Citizen at Family Home; Stores — Close, Flags at Half-Staff

PLAN TO BLOCKADE, STARVE THE NAZIS   Intensive Allied Plan De veloped for Coming Months

Allied Blockade To Starve Nazis   Drive To Be Coordinated With Western Front Offensive for Early Victory.

Berlin Bombed Twice During  Sunday Night   Three Industrial. Metropolises Enveloped by Fire and Heaped. With Rubble   Ominous Silence  Falls Over Reich   Loss of Only 33 RAF Planes Indicate Heavy Drain On Hun ; Fighters

REPULSE JAPS’ ATTACKS NEAR KOHIMA BASE   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Editor

Jihs Strive  To Capture Indian Base   Approaching Monsoons Will Put Stop To Fighting

JAP ATTEMPTS TO TAKEKOHIMA ARE REPULSED      No Let-up In rp In Fighting Along Burma-IndiaFront i.

REPULSE JAPS NEAR KOHIMA   Chinese Fight Desperately To Check Nips  In Honan

Allies Repulse — Enemy Attempt To Take Kohima   BarmaIndia Front Scene Of Continued Fighting; Rabaul, Woleait Bombed

Jap Attacks on Kohima Beaten   Enemy Battle to Take Town Before Monsoon Rains

Japs Racing. Monsoons- Are Repelled   Kohima Withstands All Raids and Fighting Is Continuing Severe

REPEL STRONG NIP ATTACK IN EASTERN INDIA   Japs Fail in Drive for Kohima; Monsoon Rains Due in Two Weeks

JAP ATTACKS IN BURMA FAIL AS FIGHTING RAGES IN CHINE   American Bombers, Meanwhil e, Continue To Carry Brunt ot Pacific Island War by Blasting Bases Over Wide Area

No Let-Up in Burma Fighting With Rains Near   Japanese Making Desperate Assault On India’s Kohima

ALLIES REPEL KOHIMA DRIVE   Enemy Redoubles Effort Tc Capture India Bases Before Monsoons.

REPULSE JAP DRIVE ‘ON KOHIMA   No Let Up On Fighting Along Burma-India Front

JAPS STRIVE TO BEAT MONSOON   intensify Drive Against A! lied Base In Burma

No Let-up on Burma-India Battle Front   Japs Making Furious Attempt to Take Kohima Before Rains   By Richard C. Bergholz Associated Press War Editor

FURIOUS DRIVE BY JAPS SEEKS ALLIED BASES   Allies Repulse Attacks at Kohima But No Indication' of Let-Up in Fighting Seen

JAP BLOWS FAIL INKOHIMA AREA   Enemy Bids To Occupy Base Before Monsoon Rains

JAPANESE MAKING  FURIOUS ATTEMPTS  TO CAPTURE KOHIMA MONSOON RAINS DUE ID  TWO WEEKS AND ALLIES STILT. HOLDING OUT

JAPANESE RACE AGAINST RAINS IN INDIAN WAT   Nips Speed Up Assaults in Efforts to Seize Vital Allied Base

Jap Attacks on Kohima Repulsed   No Indication of Let-Up in Fighting on Burma-India Front

Beat Back  Jap Drive On Kohima   Status of: of Fighting At Imphal Unchanged; Two U.S. Planes Down In Mixup at Rabaul

Foe Making Last-Gasp Assault on India Keys   Japs Striving to Beat Monsoon Rains in Blows At Kohima and Imoka!

FURIOUS BATTLE RACING IN INDI  Japs Strive "To Capture Kohima Before Mon     ATTACKS BROKEN   Allied Headquarters Says Enemy Raids Are Re pulsed

No Let-Up In Burma Battle   Japs Attempt To Capture Allied Base Before Mosoon Rains.

EIGHT JAP WARSHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED   FOUR DESTROYERS SENT TO BOTTOM AT ONE TIME BY 10 BILLY MITCHELL BOMBERS.

Wants Taxes Cut In Post-War Era      Senator Visions 40 Pct. Reduction

POSTWAR TAX CUT OF 40 PCT, CALLED POSSIBLE IN U. S.   High Budget To Continue For Year After War, George Believes

SENATE TO SET UP COMMITTEE ON FUTURE ARM)   To Study Post-War Compulsory Training,

Talk Post-War Military Policy   Measure To Set Up House Committee To Develop Policy Seems Assured.

Compulsory Military Training Step Nearer In Bi-Partisan Move   Only House Approval Necessary For Appointment Of 21-Man Committee To Develop Post-War Military Policy.

Reds Cite Victory: Allies ‘Adjust Beachhead Grip   Heavy Fighting Goes on In Italy; Helsinki Hit By Heavy Air Raid

90,000 Germans - Are Beaten Off Around Dniepe!   Allies Adjusting Positions In) Crucial ‘Battle For Rome

Mrs. Willkie Asks That Politicians Stop ‘Predicting How Husband Would Have Voted

The War Today   Fixing of Blame Is Matter for Military Authorities : Not Observers. ;

WAR TODAY   ‘German Break Through on Western i Front Was History of Underestimating  Enemy Strength Being Repeated

IT’S MILITARY MATTER YET MAN IN STREET PUZZLES OVER RECENT NA7Z] COUNTFERDRIVE

QUICK VICTORY PREDICTED ON ISLE OF GUAM   J. S. WARSHIPS USE HARBOR, PLANES ON AIRFIELD

Seize south  half of Guam  . Attack last Jap  _, Tinian defenses

Yankee Troops Seize Southern Half of Guam   Jap Troops Caught By Surprise Sweep Of American Forces

Peppers Under Price Control   Hothouse Cucumbers And Large Variety of Melons Also Affected

Pin-up Girls--and Valuables--Forgotten When Order fo Abandon Ship Given

Hope Is Still Seen In Soviet  Border Dispute   State Department Believes Matter Can Be Settled With Poles

STILL HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT OF BORDER DISPUTE   Russian Rejecticn Of American Offer Is Courteously Given

Express Hope In Russ Dispute   Soviets Stall U. S. Hope Until Later Date

Draft Policy To Be Clarified   General Hershey © Promises to suf Complete Statement

EW DRA POLICY DUE   Clarification of Deferments Expected This Evening

Draft Ruling Set for Today   Director Hershey to Make Known Policy For Future Deferment«

Hershey Plans Long Time Policy  Draft Deferments Go to New Racic

Former Taylor Man Among New University Regents Named by Gov. Stevenson

Taylor, Woodward, Warren Will Succeed Harrison, Bicket And Weinert On Texas University Board

PARISIANS HAIL A‘JOAN OF ARC   Heroine Credited with Promin. ent Role in Driving Germans from City

France Has A Modern  Joan of Arc  She Was Herojne Of Paris Battles

Modern Joan of Arc Is Hero of Patriots’ Battle to Liberate Paris

Modern Joan of Are Is Heroine   40-Year Old French Woman Helped Fight  Nazis in Paris

Miami Prophets  qn  nowy Yuletide   Santa’s Sleigh O. K. For Rocky Mountain,  Sierra Nevada Areas

LT, R. V. MCALMONT PRAISES: PILOT   Chillicothean Picked Up Final Message of a For- . tress. Pilot... -

Fortress Pilot Battles 4 Nazis   Loses 3 Engines, Finally Crashes

BULGARIA GOES TO WAR ON HUNS   Former Ally Of Hitler Now On Side Of Russia And United Nations

BERLIN CLA WAR DECLARED ~BY BULGARIANS   Reds Poised for Yugoslavia ®Drive Aimed to Cut Off : 250,000

Vast Fires In Inland Port  tri   Britains Night Raid Follows American Attack

ONLY SUN NOT NILLED LISTED FOR FURLOU   Mr. and Mrs. Leidy K. Lewis Told He Will Be Returned   ONE SNIPER’S' VICTIM

Hoffman Lashes Out At Enemie:   Flays Communists And  CIO-PAC In Speech

HOFFMAN RAPS C10 ATTACKS   Villified By Hoffman, He Tells Audience At Bainbridge

POLICY ON DRAFT DEFERMENTS SEI   Whether Men Under 26 in Railroading, Coal Mining, Other Essentials Will Keep Deferment Doubtful

“Tough’ Policy On Deferment Hits New Snag   Selective Service, WMC  Question Forces? Plan Wee AT cect OE cc Moses:

Army, Navy and WPB Agree on ‘Tough’ Policy for Granting Men Under 26 Occupational Deferments

DRAFT PLANS HIT SNAG, IT IS REPORTED   Deferments of Young Men in Certain Industries Uncertain   UNIFIED PROGRAM ASKED BY HERSHEY

DRAFT PLANS HIT SNAG, 11 IS REPORTED   Deferments of Young Men in Certain Industries Uncertain   UNIFIED PROGRAM ASKED BY HERSHEY   Army , Navy and WPB Said to Have Adopt-—— ed Proacram

Carriers Rake  Palau Island:   U.S. Blows Echo Hirohito’  Warning to Nippon  By Ray Cronin

Navy Hits Japs Over Wide Area   Blows Revealed as  Hirohito Warns People

Red Army Assault Columns Smash Nazis Back On 110 Mile Front In Lithuania

RUSSIAN FORCES IN EAST PRUSSIA   Soviets Strike New Blow at Riga; Maintain Drive in Transylvania

Modern “Bluebeard” Is Sought In Paris; Eerie Murders Come To Light

Paul Wood And Louise Hofling Exchange Vows   Wedding Takes Place At Methodist. — Church Saturday

Paul Wood And Louise Hofling Exchange Vows  Wedding Takes Pla At Methodist

Butter Ration Not Practical, OPA Asserts   Separation “From MeatFat Group Impossible; ” More Jam Spreads Due

COLLETT TRIAL OPENED MONDAY   Farmer Faces Triple Murder Charges For Slaying Family

Former Victoria bAan fs Killed in Hiahway Mishap   Kin of Jap Prisoners Will Stage Marchon  “shinaton

SAAR BASIN DEEPLY PENETRATED, ROADS TO COLOGNE OPENED      MONTE FORTINO IS RETAKEN BY NAZIS

Plunge Up 4. Miles Into Saar Basin   Capture a Third Of Encircled Fortress of Metz

ADVANCE THRU BELFORT GAP TO RHINE BANKS   Capture Third Of Encircled Metz; Push Nearer Outskirts Of Cologne i

Drive Gains \Viomentum Along Front   One-Third Of Metz Is Captured; Nazis Flee Everywhere.   Re Tiniied Preece

PLANS ARE OUTLINED FOR ITALY’S FUTURE   Food One of First Needs in War-torn Country

Asks Soldiers To Continue Fighting   Reports Say Top-Ranking German Generals Have Been Killed Following Novi Revolt

Armed Units Put Under   lron Fists  Reports About   Reports About Revolt Are Divergent.

High German War Chiefs Reported Killed in Purge; Revolts Rumored in Reich

PATRIOTS Al IN CAPTURING PELOPONNESUS   Nazis Wreck Bridges In Retreat From Southern Greece

CORINTH FALLS TO BRITISH, GREEK ARMIES   Nearly Fourth Of Country Free

Entire Area Delivered  From Nazis   Other British Units Storm Porto Edda, Port For Corfu

British Invasion Troops And Greek Patriots Are Completing Conquest Of Peloponnesus

Greek City of Corinth Taken by British   Springboard to Be Used in Drive to Capture Athens

British, Greeks Capture Corinth   Porto Edda, Supply Base, Under Attack

BRITISH TAKE CORINTH, KEY GRECIAN CITY      Secure Springboard For Push Against Athens To East

Porto Edda Is Stormed   British, Greek Armies Advance Toward Athens

Tommies, Greeks Capture Corinth, Push For Athens   For 1st Time In 3 Years Church Bells Ring, People Sing

BRITISH, GREEKS TAKE CORINTH   SPRINGBOARD FOR PUSH AGAINST ATHENS WON

Cor, ah Captured B A 3 sh With © ae v7. Patriots —   ther Forces Storm “Into Porto Edda, South Albanian Key

NIPS OUT TO KNOCK CHINA OUT OF WAR:   * Hungry, Disecouraged Orientals Giving Selves Up In Campaign In Northern New Guinea

TALS FUTURE 10 BE DISCUSSED   -F.D.R.cand-Churghill ~ to Deal With European Political Froblems ~~ -

NALY'S FUTURE 10 BE DISCUSSED   F.D.R.-and Churchill to Deal With European Political Froblems

Rum! Offers §-Point Plan for Recovery   Urges Reorganization of Government Branches Dealine With Fiscal Policy   CALLS FOR CLEAR, CONSISTENT POLICY   Private Groups Cannot Do It All, Must Have Federal Leadership, He Says

Senate Votes New Revenue Bill For Nation   Measure Goes To Conference For Adjustments

Congress Reaches Last Lap On Tax Bill Before Payers Get Their Pencils Whittled

New Tax Bill On Last Lap ire Gongress      Senate Approves. Measure,  Increasing’ Some Items,  Sends It to Conference   INDIVIDUAL TAXES MAIN DIFFRRENCE      Other Variations. in’ New Revenue Raiser Near Passage After 8-Week Debate.

SENATE OKAYS NEW TAX BILL      Revenue Measure Heads For Final Conference Survey

SENATE PUTS ~ TTS APPROVAL ON TAX BILI   $2,275,600,000 Added Revenues Now in Conference

Senate Votes Two Billion  Tax Measure   Congress Agrees on Increase in Corporate  Excess Profits Tax

CONGRESS REACHES  FINAL LAP ON NEW  REVENUE MEASURE TWO AND QUARTER BIL LION DOLLAR TAX BILL SENT CONFERENCE

2 BILLION NEW TAXES APPROVED   SENATE PASSES AMENDED FORM OF VOICE VOTE

Increased-Tax Measure Sent To Conference   Senate Approves Added.Revenues Bill In Amendad Farm.

Revenue Bill On Last Lap   Senate Passage Sends Plan to Conference

Senate Puts Its Approval On Tax Bill   Increase Over House Version

To Last Lap On Tax Bill   Measure to HouseSenate Conference to Adjust Differences

SENATE SENDS ~ REVENUE BILL TO CONFERENCE   Measure Passed by Voice Vot Adds Near $130,000,000 Ove: House Version

‘Senate Places 0. K. On New Tax Measure   Bill on Way to HouseSenate Conference to Adiust Differences

SENATE APPROVES AMENDED TAX BIL   Measure Goes te HouseSenate Conference for Adiustment.

Senate Passes New: Tax Bill  ~ Differences Must Be “Reconciled First —

Senate Puts Its Okay On Tax Bill  Committee To Adjust Differences

‘Fanatics Can’t Lick Tanks’  Never-Defeated Jap Outfit Slaughtered by Americans

Eden Outlines ~5-Poimt Plan To Keep Peace   World Police Force, Close Cooperation by Allies Are Foundations

POST-WAR ERA PLAN OFFERED   Eden Presents to House of Commons Outline for Peace Organization

Eden Offers 2-Point Plan For After War   Built Around Big 4, Proposal Calls for Pooling of Military Power in Constabular

EDEN PRESENTS POSTWAR PLAN   Organization Built Around Big-4 U. S., England, Russia. Ching,

JAPANESE SEE DANGER AHEAD   German News Agency Says Man-in-the-Street Worries About Attack.

JAPS AWARE HOMELAND IS ENDANGERED   Man On Street Is Prepared; Fear Mass Invasion

Japan's Man-In-T he-Street Aware That Island Is Now Part Of Front

Japs F eel Pres sure  At Home   Public Realizing Islands in ‘Front Area’

Jans Realizing Home Nearer Front   Axis Broadcast Says Bombs May Come

PACIFIC GAINS JOLT JAPANESE      Jap Man - in-the - Street Aware Island Is Part of War Front.   MAY BE TARGET SOON

JAPANESE NOW KNOW DANGER FACES NATION   American Fleet Advances Over Wide Area Have Brought War Close to Home Ieland

Japan's Man In The Street Aware Homeland May Be Target For Air Assaults At Any Time; Subs Get 14 Jap Ships; Review Of Action At Rabaul And Truk.

Japs Jolted By Progress Of Americans   Front Is Expecting To Become Target In Near Future

EWIS, IN TIGHT DEADLOCK   Federation Would: Welcome Him Back But Not on Hic Terms.

ALF REAFFIRMS STAND ON LEWIS   OFFER WELCOME TO UMW BUT NOT ON APPLICATION TERMS

DEMOBILIZATION PLAN REVEALED   Armed Forces Impose Day Of Secrecy on Story

RUSSIANS JUMPING INTO NAZI TRENCHES   Red Army Patrols Seek Information for Coming Invasion

RED ARMY DRIVE GAINS SPEED ON EASTERN FRONT   Pressure on Hitler’s Europe Increases on All Three Sides of Fortress

British Plow Through Nazi Lines 5 Miles   Yanks Mop Up in St. Lo; French Sabotage Grows; Reds Near Polish Border

Heavy Blows Batter Nazis From All Sides   Russ Storm Brest Litovsk’s Outer Defenses And 2,500 U. S. Planes Lash Inner Fortress

U. 8. Tanks Forge Trap Around = Japs in Burma  15,000 Nips Slain Tn India and  Di, Eg Se eee oF

STILLWELL’S TROOPS CLOSE TRAP ON JAPS   Drive Down Both Sides of Mogaung Valley

CHINESE-YANK FORCE CLOSING TRAP ON JAPS   Escape Almost Cut Off For Garrison At Kamaing

By Directive? Or Law--That  Is Question!   Senator Feels Baruch Plan Overlooks Province of Levislative Body

Postwar Committee Of Senate to  Have Own Program  George Says Baruch System Planned For Byrnes’ Control

CONGRESS TO DRAW UP OWN PLAN FOR POST-WAR CHANGES   Feel Baruch Report Poses Question Whether Economic Destiny Is to Be Settied by Executive Directives

GEORGE FEARS BARUCH PLAN DANGEROUS   Georgia Senator Says It Poses Question ‘Whether Nation Is to Be Operated by Executive Directives’

SENATOR GEORGE SAYS HIS POSTWAR COMMITTEE T0 ACT   GEORGIAN SAYS BARUCH PLAN APPEARS BE EXECUTIVE ORDER JOB

Postwar Committee Of Senate to Have Own Program  George Says Baruch   George Says Baruch System Planned For Byrnes’ Control

Fight Develops on Postwar Plan  Senate Committee to Present Own Program

Red Forces Advance 48 Miles Into Pre-War Poland As Pre-Invasion Air Assault On French Coast Continues.   AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE ON CASSINO

Yap Island Is Again Bombed   Eight Of 23 Jap Zeros Seek ing To Resist Attack Shot Out Of Air   OTHER ISLANDS ARE ALSO BLASTED

Sunday Will Be Nubbins’ Christmas   Gifts, Messages, Trees Pour in for His Celebration

Santa Claus To Make Early Visit To Stricken Tot  Many Gifts For Nubbins Sunday

U. S. Casualties Extremely Light   ‘Seventh Army Makes Headway fn Clearing Japs From Laraer Islands In The Marshalls Group

Americans Driving Japs from Kwajalein   Japanese Hold on Marshalls Being Pried Loose by Yankees; Roi Airfield Being Put Into Shape

Marines Capture Namur and Four Nearby Islets   Jap Casualties Reported Heavy

Four Islets Also Taken By Yanks in Marshalls Offensive; Nipponese Attack at Kwajalein Repelled

Jap Losses OSuinumber  U.S. 46 to!   Latest Gains Provide Troops  With Air Bases

1,250 Japs on Atoll Slain at 46-1 Ratio   7th Division Annihilating Remnant on Kwajalein; 3 Strip Roi Airfield Readv for Renaire x!

Fresh Troops, Equipment Enter Fight   Enemy Casualties on Kwajalein Reporied Heavy

KEY AIRFIELD ON RO! OPEN TOU.S. PLANES   NAMUR IS CAPTURED BY MARINES WITH LIGHT LOSSES

U.S. DRIVING JAPANESE OFF KWAJALEIN      Also Take Namur And Four Other Islets Which Gives Forces Opportunity To Repair. Use Airsirips.   Maps Useless

Desperate Counter-Attack Fails; Nips Forced Back to Eastern End, Face Slaughter

LETS FALL TO YANKEES   Mechanized Equipment’ Now in Use in. Marshalls ‘and - Japanese Are Being Annihilated,   46 KILLED FOR. EACH FALLEN AMERICAN:   More Than 60° Per Cent of One Garrison Wiped Out — Nipponese Fleet Remains in Hiding.

{NEARBY IOLETo ALSO OCCUPIED   Will Give Yanks Use of Three Airstrips on Roi   JAPS LOSE HEAVILY   American Casualties Light; Many Japanese Defenses Blasted to Rubble

Japs In Corner Of Island Being Annihilated; Base Utterly Destroyed   BATTLE CHALLENGE IS DECLINED BY ENEMY

16 Islets Already Enveloped in Marshalls Group   Enemy Loses 46 to Every 1 American; Resistance Continues

Twelve Beachheads Are Developed At Comparative Light Cost By Fourth Marines and Seventh Infantry; Japanese Resistance Is Increasing.

Four Islets Near Namur  Also Taken   Japanese Casualties On Kwajalein Heavy, Yank Casualties 126  FRESH TROOPS LAND

Japs Continue Stiff Fight For Marshall:   Americans Now in Full Control of Airfield on Roi

SOVIET SIEGE GUNS TRAINED UPON WARSAW   Soviet Armies Reach Gulf of Riga   KAUNAS CLEARED   Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Isolated   BULLETIN

 American Fighters ' a00P eee ee  ‘Tokvo, Berlin Axis Bonding At Both Ends

Allied Airmen Harass Japs In South Pacific   1,500-Ton Enemy Ship Damaged In Philippine Waters

— um Daeitiane WULTEH Fb VOTING  Are Blasted By. MacArthur Fliers

Artillery Covers Ten Mile Gap Through Which Nazis Might Try Escape

Nazi Eseape Corridor Cut To 10 Miles   Gap Sealed Off By Bombs and Artillery Shells

Plight Of Germans Appears Hopeless; Thousands Of ) Enemy Surrender And Eisenhower Sees Climactic Week

ST. LOUIS PAPERS, MOVIES STRIKING   Radios, Owned By Papers, Air News, Describe Comlee to Citizenry

Jap Drive On Imphal Nears   Probing Attacks Are Hitting British Line

Japanese Press In on Imphal  Co-ordinated Attack  Pyenartiagnd Gann

BIG ASSAULT ON MANIPUR CAPITAL DUE   Nip Troops Threaten Supply Line To Sulwell Army

Gas Rationing Cufs Sfafe Income   Were 37.1 Per Cent Below December of 1942

ITALIAN LABOR LEADERS PLAN TO GO AHEAD WITH THEIR PROTEST STRIKE

Hirohito Is Getting Realistic   JAP PEOPLE TOLD WAR IS “BECOMING MORE PRESSING”

FNexon"T rid! aa al  Wouldn't t Have Child Placed  In Institution

Noxon Opposed _Patting Infant_ In. Institution   Police Interviews Quoted To Show He Denied Death Was Act Of Merey 

ae, SN. iy, cea RCE I BAS vy. ot  Additional Percival Survivors Listed

McCormick and MacArthur Names Filec  'In Illinois Presidential Primary

BACKERS FILE FOR M’CORMICK AND M’ ARTHUR   Two Entered Without Own Consent in Ilinois Preferential Primary —Willkie Wanis Debate      No Word from MacArthur

McCormick. MacArthur Named on Petitior As Renuhlican Presidential Nominees

FILE PETITIONS FOR MCCORMICK AND MAC ARTHUR  PETITIONS OF GREEN AND 8 REGULAR GOP c  ALRIAINA

Sweden Protests Over U.S. Planes   Neutrality Violation By Yanks Claimed

LANDING MADE AFTER HEAVY POUNDING   Convoy Of 15 Ships Sunk In Bismarck Sea   Jap Report Of Fighting On Truk; Other Nip Bases Hit By Airmen

U. S. POWER OF ATTACK SHOWN ANEWINPACIFC   Navy Continues With Silence on Results of Assaults on Truk

Marine and Army Troops Swarm Ashore on Eniwetok in Marshalls as Sweep Throu gh Pacific Intensified—15 Ships in Big Jap Convoy Sunk by Allied Fliers

US Troops Are Fighting For Eniwetok   Beachhead Established on Jap Island in Marshalls; 15 Ships Sunk in Three-Day Attack on Nip Convoy

Eniwetok Atoll Invasion Parallels Attack on Truk   Western Marshalls Offensive Only 18 Days After Kwajalein

Westernmost Of Marshall islands Hit In Unbroken Yank Sweep Of Jap Bases

Japanese Battled In Eniwetok; Knox Sees Truk Victory   Marines And Army Infantry Establish Beach-Heads In Latest Pacific Offensive; Radio Silence Still Screens Result Of Raid On Naval Base

AMERICANS NOW BATTLING FOR ENIWETOK IN MARSHALLS: WORD AWAITED ON DAMAGE TO TRUK   Warships and Low-Flying Planes Led Attack on Westernmost of Marshalls Islands. Tempo of Pacific Offensive Grows From Day to Day

AMERICAN INVASION TROOPS BATTLE FOR ENIWETOK ISLAND   U. S. FORCES STRIKE AT WESTERNMOST ATOLL OF MARSHALLS THURSDAY

Soviets Hurl Back German Offensive   Berlin Reports (Indicate White Russian City OE Vitehek Will Be Evacuated In Retreat

Reds Beat Back German Blows   Vitebsk Report Is  Cited As Premature By TOM YARBROUGH

Reds Beat Back German Blows   Vitebsk Report Is _- Cited As Premature  SD. Tr VWanuonarramrr

N azi Losses Are Heavy In All Areas   14 Counter-Attacks North of Rogachiev In White Russia Fail  MAY LOSE VITEBSK.

Nazis Fight To Bridge Minsk Gap   Red Army Repulses 14 Counterattacks Around Rogachev

GERMANS FAIL IN ATTACKS Oh WHITE RUSSIA   Also Hurled Back By Reds At Pskov; Berlin Reports Nazis Evacuate Citadel Of Witohclk   Drive Into Poland

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON GERMAN BASE OF PSKOV   Berlin Says Vitebsk Evacuated To Russian Troops

GERMAN ATTACKS IN WHITE RUSSIA STOPPED BY REDS   Nazis Lose 2,500 Men in Unsuccessful Effort to Repair Gap in Lines North of Rogachev.   SOVIET TROOPS GAIN : IN DRIVE ON PSKOV   Occupy 54 Villages as They Move Toward City—Vitebsk Still Held by Enemy Forces,

NAZI ATTACKS ON ROGACHIEY FRONT FUTILE   14. German Assaults Fail to Repair Gap in Lines

NAZI ATTACKS ON ROGACHIEV   14 German Assaults Fail to Repair Gap in Lines

NE GAULLE LANDS, INFRANGE BERING LINES OF ALLIES   General Tours Liberated Towns and Villages Accompanied by Members of His Staff.   HIS TRIP APPROVED BY GEN. EISENHOWER   Spokesman Denies Orders for French Officers to Cross Channel on D-Day Were Cancelled.

De Gaulle ‘Refuses Co-Operation In — France, Cancelled Invasion Orders

DIES AND WINCHELL FEUD. AIRED IN RADIO PROGRAM   TEXAS CONGRESSMAN . SAYS COLUMNIST 18° “TRANSMISSION BELT" FOR “SMEAR” —WINCHELL ASKS TO TESTIFY

I LD  Snow Blankets Middle West Highway Traffic Hazardous As Result Of Severe Storm

Heavy Snow Falls From Denver East   Traffic Deaths Occur In Three States

‘Nine-Inch Early Winter Snow Blankets Five States: Brings 3 Traffic Deaths

Snow Blankets Middle West Highway Traffic Hazardous s y As Result Of Severe Storn:

ABRIDGEREADS STRENGTHENED   Defeat of German, 7th Army Has Decided Battle of France.   BREST BEING ATTACKED

Doughboys Slash Into Lines With Little Opposition   People of Luxembourg, Alsace-Lorraine Get Eisenhower Warning

Yank Columns Drive Past Reims, Troyes   Tell Residents of Border Countries, Not to Aid Enemy

POWERFUL ALLIED COLUMNS NOW DRAWING NEAR BORDER SECTORS FOR ASSAULT ON GERMAN SOIL   Four Bridgeheads Southeast of Paris Strengthened For Great New Eastward Assault As Liquidation of 40.000 Germans West of Paris Goes On

VANGUARD PAST REIMS IN 100-MILE DASH   Cut Path of Fleeing Nazis

Alsace-Lorraine  And Luxembourg  Warned of Drive   Battle of France Decided by Fall Of Seventh Army

PATTON MEN STRIKE FOR     GERMAN BORDERBEYOND TROYES, REIMS, REPORT:

Troyes Captured By Yanks; Reims Entered, Report   Marne River Is Crossed By Patton’s Troops And Gen. Eisenhower Tells Citizens Of Alsace-Lorraine To Expect Allies

Strengthen Bridgeheads In Paris Area   Allied Armies West Of Capital Smashing 40,000 Trapped Nazis

Allies Prepare Bridgeheads  for Advance Toward the Reich   AIM AT ROBOT COAST   Operations Are Intensified for the Capture of Brest

Yank Spearheads Strike toward Robot Bomb Coast, Push Toward Marne from New Bridgeheads Across Seine

Yanks Capture Town Only 130 Mi. from Border   Battle of France ‘Decided,’ Supreme Headquarters Asserts

Border Provinces Warned War Approaching Them; 130 Miles From Frontier   United Nations’ Forces Take Troyes; Yank Troops Strike Out For Robot Bomb Section

Four Bridgeheads Widened For Push on Belgium, Reich; 40,000 Trapped Nazis Raked

Troyes Also Taken As Allies. Push Eastward At Fast Clip; Romania Has Declared War

Prepare to Move East and North After Cleaning Up  Paris Area and Normandy

Eisenhower Asserts That Destruction Of Seventh Army Ends French Battle

Peopleof Alsace-Lorraine And Luxembourg Told War Soon May Reach Their Lands.   Bridgeheads Strengthened South Of Paris; Troops in South France Whshin 90 Milec af Malian Barder

Tank Columns Cross Marne Below Reims; Residents of Alsace Warned of Raids

A Bridgeheads Strengthened  For Advances   Artillery Plastering 40,000 Germans In Trap Near Mouth Of Seine River mi

Patton Column Only 100 Miles  From Germany   American Armor Speeds Beyond Troyes, Reims

Tanks Enter Troyes 130 Miles From NaziBorder   Remaining Nazi Forces South Of Seine River Rapidly Being Liquidated—Start Assault On Brest

PROVINCES ON BORDER NEXT, ALLIES WARN   Elimination of Fighting Seventt Army of Germany Spe'ls Full French Liberation Claim   Re WES GALLAGHER

—NORT ANCE—  BADLY BATTERED NAZIS IN FLIGHT   FKisenhower’s Order Declares Battle Of Franee Is Decided   LOSSES MOUNT   Germans May Not Be Able To Make Stand Before Rhine

Marshall Altacka Continue   Admiral Halsey Confers With FDR ‘on Weather’

Philadelphia Has 5-Alarm, Fire Oil Plant Explosion   Early Reports Say Eight Or Ten Persons Are Iniured

Ordnance Depot Explosion Takes  Lives of Eight   33. Get Minor Injuries In Hastings, Neb., Blast Felt 125 Miles Away

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO BELGRADE   Also-Capture Nis and Push To Within 50 Miles Of Budapest

Reds Fight Hand Battle For Belgrade   Stranglehold On Rail Route Blocks Nazi Greece Retreat

Balkan Allies Exploit Gains To Trap Foes   Belgrade’s Liberation Near As Reds Smash in City Main Rail Line Taken

Battle for Belgrade ‘Develops Into Hand-to-Hand Struggles: Nazi Escape Routes Closing

Russ Fight Hand-to-Hand Belgrade Battle; Choke Off Nazi Retreat From Greece

Belgrade Battle Is Hand-to-Hand Struggle in Streets  Reds and Partisan Continue Widespread Gains in Yugoslavia

HAND - 10 - HAND FIGHTING RAGES INSIDE CAPITAL   Russian, Bulgarian And Yugoslav Forces Closing In On Belgrade   FIGHT FOR HUNGARY IS BEING MOUNTED

TROOPS BATTLE FOR BELGRADE IN STREETS OF CITY    Nazis Said to Have Been Driv en From Two-Thirds of Capital—Bulgars on Side of Allies.   GERMAN NIS GARRISON REPORTED ANNIHILATED   Reds Seize Rail Route Lead-ing From Athens, Threatening to Stop Enemy Flight From Greece.

BELGRADE oUENt OF STREET BATTLE   Hand-to-hand Fighting Occurs in Center of City   RAIL CENTER FALLS   Hold on Rail Line Threatens Cut Off Retreat of Nazis From Greece

FIERCE BATTLE IN BELGRADE STREETS   Combined Forces Spread Out Along TransBalkan Railway

CHURCHILL GETS COMMONS’ VOTE   House Support, 279 to 30, Given Prime Minister on Position in Greek Strife

CHURCHILL WINS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE   As He Vigorously Defends Interventions in Greece and Italy; Responsibility America’s, Also, He Avers.   Clear Athens

Intervention In Europe —  Is Defended By Churchill   Wins Overw helming Vote of Confidence, Contends Problem Also Belongs to U. S$.  MUST KEEP ORDER

ie sei ved  CHURCHILL WINS CONFIDENGE VOTE   House of Commons Supports Prime Minister on Intervention Stand; Offers Vigorous Defense of Policy

CHURCHILL UPHELD FOR USING FORCE IN GREEK STRIFE   Commons Gives Him Vote of Confidence on Policy of Maintaining Order in Liberated Countries.   SAYS U.S. SHOULD SHARE RESPONSIBILITY   Reiterates Opposition to Count Sforza of Italy— Had Staked Fate of Government on Issue.

CHURCHILL 1S” UPHELD; WINS -BYHUGEVOTE   House Votes’ Confidence in Foreign Policy of Intervention —

Confidence VoteGiven Churchill   Premier Defends Role England Is Playing In Italian and  Greek Affairs

GREEK CRISIS TEST IS WON BY CHURCHILL   Intervention Againsi “Mob Rule” Backed By Commons

Churchill Wins Confidence Vote By Wide Margin   Suggests U.S. Cannot Wash Its Hands of European Problems

This Reported By Nazi Radi¢ As New Enforcements Rol! Ta Tuo Invasion Armies

REICH INVADERS REINFORCED AS BATTLE WORSENS   Americans Hitting Siegfried Line Are 3% Miles From Rhine

SHEGFRIED LINE DENTED TODAY BY AMERICANS   Reinforcements Aid Allies To Make Advance

Americans Seize  West Wall Outpost. AtUnspecifiedSpot   ry  Berlin Declares Grenadiers Halt Forward Momentum Of Drive; New U.S. Army Enters Campaign

TIGHTEN TRAP ON MYITKYINA   Allies Pressing From Three Directions

Stilwell’s Troops Take Malakawng   Communique Says Jap Garrison Wiped Out

Cities Service Must Break Up Vast System   Ordered To Dispose Of Utility Interests Or Oil Enterprises

Report Chiang to Work With Reds   Winston and Joe Won’t Get Wire from Rosie, After All

JAPAN SHOWS NEW SIGNS OF NERVOUSNESS   Tokyo “Air Alert” Reveals Fear of Bombing Attack

Tokyo Nervous As American: Prepare For Fresh Thrusts Against Japanese Forces

Director Lists Five Factors Essential For Rent Increase   Amendment Limits Landlord's Right to Charge or Retain Security Deposits

NEGRO SEAMEN WHO MUTINIED ARE SENTENCEL   8-15 Year Terms for Refusing to Load Ammunition

Senate Committee Hears Charge of Immorality at ‘U   50 Negro Sailors Convicted of Mutiny

Army Speeds Discharges   Separation Procedure Has Been Arranged By War Department

Procedure For Aiding Soldiers  Is Announced      Secy. Stimson Announces . .  Plan for Getting Dis _ charged Veterans Into Ci— vilian Life.

Speed Army Discharges   Streamlined Plan Puts Vet Back Into Civilian Life in Just 48 Hours

PLANS MADE FOR ARMY DISCHARGE!   Stimpson Has Simplified “Senaration Procedure” When War Is Over.

Discharge Of Soldiers Is Stepped Up   Takes Only 48 Hours To Make Return To Civilian Life

Army Streamlines Discharge Process, Stimson Reports   Fort Dix Experiment Shows Men Can Be Homeward Bound 48 Hours After Reaching Base

SPEED PROCESS OF DISCHARGING MEN FROM ARMY DUTY   Separation Procedure Simplified To Get Men Back Into Civilian Life

SIMPLIFY ARMY DISCHARGE PLAN   NEW PROCEDURE TO RELEASE VETERANS WITHIN 48 HOURS

Storm On Coast Submerges Land   Where Read 2 Was Ferry Ferry Runs Now: New Shoals Hazardous.

Liberation Of Balkans Approaches   Red Armies Pour Into Ro mania in Drive for Oil  Fields, Bucharest

LIBERATION QF BALKANS NOT FAR OFF   Powerful Soviet Armies Pour Through Galati Gap Into Romania.   BULLETIN

PLUNGE OVER GALATI GAP DEFENSES   Germans Fleeing in Disorder and Romanians Join Allied Forces as Soon as Possible.

CONGRESSMEN TURN BACK FROM WAR AREA   Impressed With Army’s Efforts To Save Materials

s With Emotion As He Announces He Will bh Term “Reluctantly. Ae Good Soldier”   Definite Opinions. Ara Fynraccad Hara

With Emotion As He Announces He Will Term “Reluctantlu. As Good Soldier’

WAR: TODAY   Campaign In Maly Has Been Disappointing To Allied Leaders:  _ Moral Effect Para mount

The War Today   Ch urchill’s “Disappointmen ” May Clear Air on Italy Snac

WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES ALLIED FAILURE IN ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, BUT EXPLANATION NOT TOO GOOD

Russians Are Mopping Up Remnants Of Beaten German Garrison; Two Ships Sunk

Modern ‘Jack the Rinper’ Admits He Killed Two Women at Los Angeies © -

Man Adm‘'ts Two Savage Slayings   ATTENDED HORROR MOVIE BETWEEN MUTILATION KILLING OF WOMEN

Reds Caoture Dnestr Hill   Germans Are Repulsed In White Russia Area

Russians Canture Important Height   German Tank Attack On Dnestr Repulsed

Closest Election Since 1916, Seen  By Forecasters Soldier Vote Is Vital;  Roosevelt, Dewey Plan Radia Talke Tanight

G. 0. P. Sees Best Chance For Victory Since 1928   Vote in Pennsylvania May Swing Election And Soldier Ballot May Delay Decision  LARGE VOTE LIKELY

POLL TAKERS WON'T TRY 10 PICK WINNER   Soldier Balloting is One of Complicating Factors

Chances Of Republican Victory Best Since 1928   President Roosevelt And Governor Dewey Settle Back To Await Both Will Speak Tonight; Polls Jittery   BY WILLIAM T, PEACOCK Associated Press Staff Writer

GOP CHANCES HELD BEST IN MANY YEARS   Dewey and Roosevelt to Make Final Talks Tonight

Dewey, F. D. R. Sit Back to Await Verdict  Both to Make Short Last-Minute Addresses Tonight

FINAL SPEECHES OF CAMPAIGN T0 BE DELIVERED   Roosevelt And Dewey Will _ Make Last Appeals Tonight By Radio   CLOSE ELECTION IS BEING PREDICTED

ectic Campaign mes fo Close Most States   Hannegan, Brownell Both Claim Victory

MODERN ANTAEUS   Remarkable = Recuperative Power of Japs Likened to   Mythical Greek Character.      SINK JAP CRUISER   Japs Sending in Endless Reinforcements to Threatened Areas of Island Empire.

GERMAN ATTACKS ON ROME BEACHHEAD ARE REPORTED BE WEAKE!  CRASH BARRAGES FROM ALLIED GUNS DEAL

German Drive Now SHOWS Signs Of Slowing Down   Enemy Regained Some  High Ground And Sinale Town

Heroic Resistance Stopped The Nazis Savage German Counter  Offensive Shows Signs Of Losing Momentum  oe 2 2

REFINERIES ON BORNEO AGAIN   Another Heavy Blow is Struck at Balikpapan by Yanks

JAPAN FEARS NEW ASSAULT BY U.S. FLEET   BORNEO OIL SUPPLY SOURCE BOMBED FOR 4 HOURS

U.S. Troops Land on Small Pacific Isle   American Grip on Southern Palau Group Is Made Tighter

AMERICANS LAND ON ANOTHER ISLE IN PALAU DRIVE   Army Forces Invade Bairakaseru, Seven Miles From Garakayo, Without Meeting Ovposition.   AMMUNITION DUMP ON PELELIU EXPLODED   Tokyo Expresses Fear U. S. Third Fleet Is Still Near Raided Islands 200 Miles From Mainland.

GOV. EDGE PREDIGTS N. J. WILL 60 FOR DEWEY   Effective Peace Depends Upon Election of Dewey   ALSO NEED CONGRESS

Democratic House Control Assured   Definite Returns Give  Party 17 New Seats .

First Front Situation Better Now   Nazi Armored Columns Ranging Far and Wide, Writer Says

SITUATION SAID TO BE ‘BETTER’ ON MAIN FRON’   Shoulders’ of Our Force’s Defense Are Reported Hardening Today

Situation of First Army Is Said Definitely Better  Nazi Columns Range Far and Wide in Grand.Scale Puch

Red Offensive Rolls Ahead Through 200-Mile Gap; Nazis Admit Grave Plight

YANK PLANES ALSO ATTACK NAZI AIR BASE   Two Ball-Bearing Factories Pounded by Americans

Fifth Army Cuts Enemy In Italy   Encircling Fortress Guarding Inland Road to Rome; Take Key Ridges

BI ZZBOMBS NOT CONQUERED YET   Berlin Boasts That V-1 Is Mobile; Troops Bag Launching Sites

Flying Bombs hit Inndon, Allies Take Many Roosts   Nazis Boast of V-1's Mobility to Hearten German People

Battered Rabaul Again Pounded   American Airmen Strike New Powerful Blows In Southwest Pacific

THRUST 125 MILES UP NEW GUINEA COAST   MacArthur Reveals Seizure of  Wakde Island

RE-CONQUEST OF STRONGHOLDS IN S, PAGIFIC SEEN   American Troops Seize Wakde Island Against Feeble Opposition

New Thrust Announced By M’Arthur   Win New Air Bases Closer to Philippines — Make  Gains in Burma

JAP ISLAND SEIZED IN YANK THRUST   Breakthrough in North Burma !s Also Announced

RECONVERSION UP TO. BYRNES   Compromise Seen In WPB, Armed Forces Squabble

Editors Demand Freedom Press   Unhampered Flow Of Truthful Information Is Peace Guarantee.

FREEDOM GE PRESS, COMMUNICATIONS ASKED BY EDITORS   American Society of Newspaper Editors Claim WorldWide Free Press Vital to Prevention of Future Wars

-Wide Freedom # Press Is Asked   The American Society . of Newspaper Editors Made the Appeal.

FREE WORLD PRESS URGED   American Editors Want Re strictions .. Removed : from _ News, Conimunications.

Backs Demand fo Freedom of Press  American Newspapers Take Staunch Stand

Newspaper Editors Demand World Wide Freedom for Press  tions Can Cearanioe World Peac

x iy } oe AY Ura: ee  NAZI AIR BASES       Railroad Yards. Kept Busy Tene fe The Debris   BERLIN PEOPLE KEPT ON THE RUN

9,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED WEDNESDAY      32 Bombers and 16 Fighters Lost By U. S. Forces; Rritich  neon FR

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN  Al Ararrena AIL OLIN . Lid  Air Ra Also Rambhe q. "Re rlin

BATTLES RAGING TOWARD CLIMAX, IS BELIEF NOW   Supplies, Mainly Ammunition, Dropped for Doughboys Trapped at Bastogne

West Front Battle Now Approaching a Climax; Reds Fight in Budapest

Enemy Tanks Are Repulsed In Meuse Area   Armored Spearhead ‘Greatly Slowed If Not Fully Stopped’ Near Celle; U. S. Troops Holding At Bastogne Receive Help

Enemy Spearheads Are Thrown Out of Celles—   Nazis Drive Toward Antwerp, Liege; Street Fighting Rages in Budapest

FOUR CHILDREN DIE IN BLAZING HOUSE   Trapped Upstairs, Rescue Is Balked by Flames

Responsibility I: Placed on Finns   Statement Issued  on Peace Moves

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2000 WARPLANES STRIKE AT NAZIS   EVACUATION PORTS, OIL AND OTHER AIRCRAFT PLANTS TARGETS OF FLEET.

Bomb Ships Evacuating Nazi Troops   Planes Also Smash A  ! German Industrial ~  Po Targets Over Wide Area

BOMBS SHOWER UPON NAZILAND   Industrial Targets And Escape Ports Hit By 5,000 Planes

Planning Ordered For Reconversion   War Agencies In Capital To Begin Folding Up On ‘V-E Day,’ FDR’s Letter Hints

F. D. R. ORDERS BUDGET DIRECTOR TO PLAN FOR WAR AGENCIES’ END   STEP INDICATES PEACETIME DEMOBILIZATION TO BEGIN AFTER VICTORY OVER GERMANY

FDR ORDERS BUDGET DIRECTOR TO PREPARE NOW FOR PEACE-TIME DEMOBILIZATION WAR AGENCIES

Plans Ordered To Liquidate War Agencies   Some Will Begin Folding Up As Soon As Germany Falls

‘Roosevelt Indicates War Agencies Will Fold With Defeat of Nazis

WITH DEFEAT OF GERMANY MANY WILL PASS OUT   President Orders Government Heads To Prenare For Prompt Liquidation Of Sprawling Bureau Setup.

PLAN: CUTAN: FEDERAL: POLLS   Demobilization Is  Directed by F. R.

FD Orders Plan: -For Peacetime ~ Demobilizatior   Jndicates:. War. Agencies  - apital May. o .- Fold: With Nazis’ Defeat.

Indicates Some of War Agencies to Begin Folding When Germany Defeated  TO PLAN PERSONNEL TRIM  President Calls for Planning Now to Be Ready as Soon as Switch-Over Possible

Prepare War Agencies For Demobilizing   Fall of Nazis Will See Government Units Start Folding Up

President Looks to Peace Footin  Orders Plans at Once for Demobilization

Government To Cut, Too   FDR Orders That Plans Be Made Now to Cut Bureaus After War

Government Told To Prepare Now For Demobilization   FDR Indicates Some  Agencies May Fold Wks Peas ie Ce

Prepare To Cut Federal Rolls  F.D. Asks Cutback When Germans Quit

.D. Directs Gov't. Agencies t ‘repare for Demobilization   Some of the Big"Washington Bureaus Will Fold Up With Germany's Defeat

Quick Action Is Demanded By President   Reconversion Program to Be Ready When War Ends in Germanv   SMITH IN CHARGE   Reduction of Personnel to Peacetime Footing in Roosevelt Edict

resident Indicates Defea Of Germany Will See Enui Sonie Capital War Agencies

FDR Asks Plan For Scrapping War Agencies   Directs Government To Plan Own Reconversion Back To Peacetime Organization

START PLANNING TO DEMOBILIZE WAR MACHINERY   Time Now To Do Planning Is Order Of FDR, Even ~ With War On

WAR AGENCIES TO DEMOBILIZE   FDR Tells Gov’t Units To Prepare Now For Return To Peace

FDR Asks Plans To Liquidate Govt. Agencies   Budget Bureau Told To Plan Reduction Of Federal Payroll

Demobilization of Vast Bureaus Ordered Planned   Outline Reduction to Peace Time Footing

FDR DIRECTS WAR AGENCIES TO PLAN OWN DISPERSEMENT   Budget Director Ordered to Plan Now to Liquidate War Bureaus and Reconvert Government to Peace

FDR Asks Plan fo Cut Agencies   Wants Setup Ready for End of War

Get Ready To Liquidate, War Agencies lold   Some To Fold Up When  Germany Beaten, Roose: eonlt Veaolontan

War Agencies Ordered To Prepare Cuts   President Directs Plans Be Made For Demobilization

Orders Plans Made For Demobilization   Roosevelt Says War Agencies Must Be Ready for Peace

Federal Agencies Told To Prepare To Disband After Defeat Of Nazis -

. F.D.R. Directs Government To Prepare Today For Own Peace-TimeDemobilization

START POST-WAR ABANDONMENT OF WAR MACHINERY   Budget Bureau Told by FDR to Start Planning Now.

Rich Oil Wells Captured by Russians   Heavy Blows Shape Up Against Nazis in Several Sectors

Budapest Is Now Nearly Encircled   Russians Cut Retreat Roads After Swift 25-Mile Advance   DRIVE INTO SLOVAKIA   Section of Budapest -Vienna Railway Is Taken ~  by Reds

Nazi Escape Route Cut Near Budapes!   Enemy Garrison Faces Trap as Reds Advance

Flood Damage in Southeast Iowa   Levees Threatened in Berlington Area — Damage Done in Hreak Vesterday

RTA IGN INET ILE ELE ONT DE  HITLERITES ON CANARIES MOSCOW RADIO REPORTS

Himmler Forming Three "Crews" to.  Keep Nazism Alive After World War

Prominent Germans Will Be Tried On Treason Counts  Editor of Goering’s Newspaper Is One of Defendants

Hoefgen Goes to The Gallows; Is Calm to the End   Confessed Slayer of: Bruce Smoll Is  First Man Executed.  In Kansas Since 1870

Slayer Dies On Gallows   Hanging of Hoefgen First Execution in Kansas Since 1870

Death Toll Down Over Labor Day   Traffic Heaviest Since  U. S. Entry Into War

KELLY AND FRY VIE FOR VOTE   GOP Candidate Cites Record of Progressive,  Stable Gov't

ESTONIAN CAPITAL OF TALLINN FALLS TO RUSSIAN ARMY   Reds Storm Into Important Naval Base on Baltic After 50-Mile Sweep in 24 Hours.   INVASION THREAT TO HUNGARY GROWS   Soviet Forces Moving On Axis Satellite Nation Engulf 50 Towns Near Her Frontier.

NAVAL BASE OF TALLINN FALLS TO RED TROOPS   Three Transports Jammer With German Troops Reported Sunk   ENTRY INTO HUNGARY IS EXPECTED TODAY

Reds Capture Capital of Estonia   Russians on Verge of Crossing Hungarian Border

REDS CAPTURE TALLINN, NAZIS FLEE ESTONIA   Another Soviet Army On Verge of Enter ing Hungary

TALLINN NAVY BASE TOPPLED BY RED ARMY   GERMANS EVACUATE NORTHERN PART OF ESTONIA

Late August Cool Spell Continuing   Ada Has 58 Degree Minimum After Cool Sunday

Red Army at Gates of East Prussia   Russians In Sight Of Great Fortress Citv of Lwow

Reds Hammer At Gates Of Prussia; Lwow Under Fire   Drive In Poland Splits German Front In Great Victory

ADVANCE UNITS ONLY 8 MILES FROM FRONTIER   Tanks Open Attack In South Against Polish Fortress Of Lwow

Russians Hammer At East Prussia   Red Army Engaged in Stiff Battle Only Eight Miles From Frontier

Russian Forces Pound At Gates  of East Prussia   Reds Drive Within Sight of Fortress of Lwow In Poland

REDS POUND AT GATES OF EAST PRUSSIA   Farther South Are Within Sight Of City of Lwow

RED ARMY HAMMERS AT GATES OF EAST PRUSSIA; BORDER 8 MILES AWAY .

Reds Eight Mile: From Frontier Of East Prussia   Within Sight Of Lwow in  Lower Poland

Red Force Only Eight Miles From Frontier of East Prussia, Reported

RUSSIANS SPLIT NAZI LINE AND SHELL LWOW   Kanev’s Army Pours Over And Crosses ’41 Boundary

Stiff Battle At Lwow In Poland   Berlin Reports Fighting 8 Miles From Frontier.

Russians Splitting The German Eastern Front Wide Open a  NOW AT THE GATES OF EAST PRUSSIA  50 German Tanks Ate Destroyed, Remainder Turned. Rack

Soviets Nearing Poland's Lwow, And East Prussia   " Russ Tanks Start Fortress Attack, .  Russians Declare

RUSSIAN. ARMY WITHIN SIGHT OF LWOW CITY   Heavy Fighting Also Reported Eight Miles From. East Prussia Reorder

Nazis State That Soviets Are Only Eight Miles From Soil Of Germany  Proner.

CAR THEFTS IN U. S. INCREASE   FBI Report Shows Several Oth er Types of Crime On Decline

Dual Raid Cost U.S.53 Planes   8th Air Force Bomber  I asec kee , re

53 BIG BOMBERS LOST BY U.S. IN ATTACK ON REICH   ASSAULT CRIPPLES ENEMY AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION ANEW

Bomber Loss 3.1 Per Cent   SINCE BEGINNING OF YANK AIR WAR AGAINST GERMANY

‘Smash Made In Wake of Twin Attack   133 German Fighters Destroyed Yesterday in Pincers Air Assaults

U. S. Plane Losses Over Europe Have Been Only 3.1%   Ratio in Past Three Violent Weeks Was Cut Down to 2.2%

Glorious Resistance of Tommie Enabled Yanks, Others to Get Firmly Set For Real Push

Nazis Left in Control North Bank of River   y Announcement Gives Lie to German Report Force Was Liquidated

Survivors Ferried Across Lines Monday Under Hurricane Barrage of Gunfire  From Hell They Never Dreamed Could Exist

AIRBORNE FORCE COMPELLED T0 LEAVE WOUNDED   How Many Got Out Not Yet Revealed - - Two New Drives Have Been Launched

Germans Left In Full Control of — North River Bank   Second Army Fails In Attempt To Bring Relief To Division

SECOND ARMY SWINGS WEIGHT TO EAST SECTOR   Closes In On Meuse Line

2nd Army Swings Westwarc Broadening Holland Front: Close Against Meuse Line

Where For Almost 160 Days They Fought Overwhelming Odds  TWO-DAY BLACKOUT OF ARNHEM BATTLE  Number Of Unmovable Wounded Had To Be Left Behind

Nazis Left In Control of North Bank   Airborne Troops Gain South Bank of Neder-Rhine in Holland

BATTERED BRITISH AIRBORNE DIVISION BEEN WITHDRAWN   NINE-DAY STRUGGLE OF TRAPPED FORCE END. ED MONDAY NIGHT

Devils Withdraw As Germans Hold All North Bank  Only Remnants, of Pearatroons ive

NO ‘PRIVILEGES SOLD BY FOR SAY DEMOCRAT   Dewey Misinterprets The “Thousand Club,’ Hannegan Charges

YANKEES THINK SOUTH IS OKAY   Nelson And Lillenthal Both Predict Rosy Future For The Southern States.

BUY A BOY BOND FOR CHRISTMAS   GOEBBELS ORDERS GERMANS TO STOP DISCUSSING WAR

GERMANY FORBIDS DISCUSSION OF WAR   PEOPLE TOLD BAN IS NECESSARY TO CONCEAL NATION’S SHORTCOMINGS.

FILM PEOPLE ACCUSED OF BUTANE DEAL   Said Use Gadgets tc Sidestep Use of Gasoline

a  Improved SUNDA  Uniform  International SCHOOL -- LESSON =  By HAROLD DL. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of The Moody Bible institute of Chicago.   Lesson for September 3

improved  SUNDAY International SCHOOL  - LESSON «=   Lesson for January 30

AUTOMOBILES AGAIN AFTER NAZIS FALL   Plan Made for Resumption of Production

Car Makers fo Perfect Plans   To Prepare to Start Partial Resumption After Nazi Collapse

Swiss Report Says U. §. Bombs Are Dropped In Town on Nazi Border

U.S. Seizes Strike-Bound Truck Lines   Union Leaders Say All Men Will Return to Their Work

FDR DIRECTS ODT TO TAKE OVER SYSTEM   Acts To Halt Tie-Up Of Military Cargoes

General Patton Arouses Congress Criticism Again  ee ee es   Remarks Americans British, Russians Fated World Rulers

PATTON LANDS IN "VERY WARM WATER AGAIN   War Department Disclaims Knowledge Agreement With Statement

Patton Again in Hot Water; He Talks Too Much to Suif Congressmen

Congress in Furor Over Patton's Views   War Department Issues Disclaimer for Talk

Exempt Only  Vital Worker:   Ask Deferments For Men Under 26 In ‘Critical’ Defense Industry.

Deferments for Men Under 26 in Critical Lines Only   Tough Policy Is Laid Down by WPB And Armed Services

WPB Stresses Invasion Need: In Draft Stand   Army, Navy also ‘Tougl’ on Deferring Those Under 96

Hinge Deferments  On Critical Jobs  Establish Tough Policy For Men Under 26

Military Announces Tough Program Of Drafting Men  Service Will Allow Deferments to / Only Few Workers

TOUGH POLICY IS DRAFTED ON DEFERMENTS   Tentative Instructions Said to Re quire Men be Critical, Urgently Needed on War Work

Critical List For Draft Namec  High Priority War 2 Industries Listed ~~

“Very Tough Draft Policy      Deferments to Skilled Workers Only in War Vital Industries

Labor Deferments Tightened on Men Under 26 Years Old   Unless trreplaceable In War Plants, All Must Fidht—WPB

MEN UNDER 26 NEEDED IF NOT IN VITAL JOBS   Aviation Branches Opposing Program to Round Up New Soldiers,

Tougher Policy On Deferments Is Scheduled   Army Transfers Air Trainees To Ground Duty

NO DEFERMENTS FOR MEN UNDER 26-WPB   SS ea  ‘Tough Policy’ Letter Tells Manufacturers What To Do

HILL FOUND GUILTY OF 1ST DEGREE MURDER   Jury Returns Verdict After 5 Hours Deliberation   LIFE IS RECOMMENDED   Judge Katzenbach Did Not Set Sentence Date   CITES MOTIVE OF CRIME

CIGARET PROBE GETS NOWHERE   Hodge-podge of Subjects Hold Congress Interest

INVASION COAST AND REICH BATTERED BY YANK PLANE FLEETS   Great Bombing Drive In 18th Day; 800 RAF Night Raiders Hit Arms Depots In France; 49 Planes Tost   (RULLETIN)

British Strike At Night   Three Supply Bases in France Blasted By RAF

Blaze Wrecks Big Warehouse Of Avers Bros   Incendiorism Suspected in Third Major Biaze Here This Month—Firemen Do Effective Job-— No Estimate-of Less-Given——____

Blaze Wrecks Big Warehouse Of Avers Bros.   Incendiarism Suspected in Third Major Blaze Here This Month—Firemen Do Effective Job— Na EFctimata nf Lace Given ees cee

HEMORRHAGE FATAL TO HARRY LANGDON   60-Year-Old Movie Comedian Ai One Time Made $7,500 Weekly Salary

GEN, MARSHALL VISITS ITALY   Staff Chief Confers With Gen. Clark

New Sources Of Oil Needed, Study Shows   Authoritative Magazine Says Post-War Demand Will Pass Output Now-

POST-WAR PETROLEUM DEMAND TO BE HEAVY   Civilian Requirements For Oil And Gasoline Will Exceed Output Of War ¥ears

A NOTED SPORTSMAN DIES.   Thiele Was First White Child Born at Junction City

New Order to Affect 88,100 Men in Stale   --President Roosevelt Direct Thorough Review of Deferments To Moke Up Deficit

Estimate 88,100 Sooners Affected   Farm, Industrial Deferments Facing Review

World Peace Plar With Real Teeth Is Revealed   Use of Force Included, Roosevelt, Three-Power Conference Announce

WORLD PEACE AGENCY PLAN BARED BY FDR   - General Approval Given By Dumbarton Oaks Parley

WORLD SECURITY ORGANIZATION IS DISCUSSED   Roosvelt Says Assembly Will Have More Teett Than League Of Nations   CONGRESSIONAL ANGLE STILL UNDETERMINED

Parley Okays General Plan  For Security   President Says Conf. ‘erees  Agreed on Plan to Use  "Baene: Te’ Menno

FDR Outlines Unit to Keep World at Peace   3-Power Meet Adheres Closely To Original Roosevelt Plan; Chinese Submit Similar Ideas

CONFEREES AGREE ON WORLD COUNCI   Role of. Small ‘ Powers in Post-war Plans Still ‘Undecided

Super-Power ToUseForce toRuleWorld   ANGLO - AMERICAN PROPOSAL WOULD TAKE DECLARATION OF WAR OUT OF U. S. CONGRESS’ AUTHORITY.   Dumbarton Oaks Secret Out

World Council To Have Teeth Says President   Proposed Peace Unit Outlined: FDR Warns Against Any Carping Discussion of Details

38 Irish Firms Blacklisted in U. S. Economic War Acainst Neutrals

Nazis Taught To Feign Sickness Pamphlet Is Circulated Among Troops

LOCAL WOMAN DIES IN DALLAS   Dr. J. A. Old’s Death Followed Prolonged Period Of Illness

YOUR ESTIMATED INCOME TAX  DECI AR A TION ANITY DIIpDDANcLr rvpD!I AIaArmnr   DECLARATION AND PURPOSE EXPLAINED

Income Tax Declaration For 1944 Must Be Filed By April 15th And The First Quarter Payment Made

TOWN sad TAs ° in W  Prepered by WARTIME     Ewin @   WHO MUST FILE DECLARATIONS

Churchill ° To Address House Today   Commons Expscls' To Hear Comprehensive Repart WF Recant Eva.ds 7 in Eurocy

LEWIS BALKS AT AL'S DALLYING   Head Of Miners Says He May Withdraw His Application

ATL Recommends: - Commission -onReconstruction   Employers, Labor and ““Agritultdre Would Be Represented -

‘SUPPLY ROUTES (OF JAPS RAIDED BY U.S. FORCES   Attack Made From French Indo China To The China San

CHENNAULT’S AIR FORCE HITS JAPS   Bomb s Dropped on Vinh in-French Indo-China

HEATED DEBATE EMBROILS SENATE   Probe of Assurances of Help In War Given to Churchill Before He Became Prime Minister Urged

FOREIGN POLICY ~ ROW IN SENATE      Churchill - Roosevelt Link -Causes—Heated—___ Dehate   ‘Full Success’ of Freedom’s  Cause Near, Churchill Says

Yank Captives Are Liberated In Philippines   Two Elect to Remain With Guerrillas; Eighty-One Others Safe In Hospitals.

83 Prisoners Of Japanese Rescued After Endurine Untold Brutalities

83 U.S. Troops Held 212 Years By Japs Rescued; Many Other American Prisoners Massacrec   Those Sayed Escaped From Jap Ship Torpedoed And Sunk By U. S. Forces

Liberated U. S. Soldiers Tell Story Of Murder By Guards Ac Shin Sinke

83 Yanks Held By Nips Escape   American Survivors Of Torpedoed Prison Ship Tell Of Brutalities; Men Shot To Death On Sinking Vessel

Smoke Screens Used by Enemy Fliers ‘In Blazing Air Battle over Germany

Sergeant Reveals Nazi Air Tactics  Fighter Planes Fire Rocket Broadsides

Germans Fought in Air \As Ships Battle at Sea,  ‘Smoke Screens. Salvos

8288 JAPS ARE SLAIN: I] PRISONER   Army Reinforces Marines on  Peleliu

Amy Joins in Final Drive Across Peleliu   Marines Push Within Less Than Mile Of Northern Tip in Heavy Fighting

‘Mindoro Air Field in Use   Japanese Resistance On Levte Ils About At An End

NEW PORTIS GRAVE THREAT TO JAPANESE   2,032 Enemy Dead Are Counted In Ormoc Mop-Up On Leyte  Wednesday

U.S. BOMBERS USE AIRFIELD ON MINDORO   New Base Will Aid in Har assing Japanese © _ Shipping

U.S. Cavalry And Infantry Form Junction   Pincers Closed On Enemy Force

POSE NEW THREAT Tf) JAPANESE. FOE   Field Constructed Less Than @ 150 Miles From Manila   ‘PINCERS’ CLOSES   merican Nutcracker Move Forms Junction in Ormoc Corridor on Leyte

Deadly U. S. Fighter Planes Battle Japs From Mindoro Bases, 150 Miles From Manila

BREACH IN NAZI LINES EXTENDED   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Editor

Ernie Pyle, Dyed-in- -Wool Newspaper Reporter, Can’t Get Away From News

INVASION COST TOTALS 116,14!   United States Casualties 70,009 British 39,594; Canada 6,545.

11,156 Yanks Are Losi In Invasion  Piya, FEE ia hl Lt. e Ba   Casualty Total Is 70,009 With Wounded, Missing

Invasion Cost  116,148 Men   Toll Includes Men Lost From D-Day to July 10 In France

116,148 LOST IN FRANCE INVASION   AMERICANS KILLED IN DRIVE TOTAL 11,156

Casualties" Are Listed   ‘116, 148. hee, Killed, “Wounded hi Invasion

U. S. Losses In France Are  Set At 70,009   Total Of 11,156 Killed Up To July 10, With 52,701 Wounded And 6,143 Men Missing

GERMAN TROOPS BEGINRETREAT FROM NORMANDY   GIVE UP 50 SQUARE MILES OF TERRITORY IN ODON-ORNE VALLEY

11,156 Yanks Are Lost In Invasion   Casualty Total Is 70,009 With Wounded, Missing

70,000 AMERICANS LOST IN. FRANCI   CASUALTIES FROM JUNE ¢ THROUGH JULY 20 INCLUDE 11,026 KILLED. 

GERMANS KILL RED EMISSARIES   BUDAPEST STREET FIGHT RAGES FOR FIFTH DAY

Red Forces Rolling on in Fast Drive   Germans Leaving Latvia, ' With Reds Only Ten Miles Away

RED ARMIES ADVANCE AT RAPID PACE   Within 10 Miles Of Latvian Border, 55 From Wilno

Last Strong Point East Of Bug River Lost By Nazis; Start ReMoving Civilians From East Prussia.   SIZABLE AREA IS YIELDED TO REDS

Red Army Captures Kowel   Germans Now Acknowledge Loss Of Strong Point On Bug River Line

Kowel Is Taken By Russians   Nazis May Give Up All Baltic States Soon

Stage Set for. Soviet Pincer Assault in Polish Capital As ~ Part of Great Drive on Berlin   Eliminates Last German Stronghold East-of Bug. River — Fresh Panzer  _ - Divisions Fail to Halt Rusce Ie 4

Red Armies Roll Toward  Kast Prussia   Kowel, Last German Point Sast Of Bug, Is Evacuated

‘Enemy Civilians Evacuating East Prussia   USSR Has Springboard For Lower Pincers Against Warsaw

OLD POLAND BORDER TOWN QUIT BY NAZIS   Russian Army Rolling Along at Rate of Mile an Hour With Warsaw Next Major Goal,

RUSSIANS WEDGE GERMAN ARMY IN SOUTH POLAND   “Splil Threatens To Isolate Warsaw From North And Soulh

REDS THREATEN TO SPLIT NAZI POLISH FORCES   Germans Fight Bitterly To Protect Defenses Before East Prussia

RUSSIANS DRIVE GIANT WEDGE IN SOUTHERN POLAND   Soviets Battle to Within 18  ~" Miles of Kielce, Threaten ing to Split Germans and QOutflank Warsaw.   ALLIES SEIZE KEY HEIGHTS IN ITALY   Chinese Repulse Japs In Burma Road Area; Enemy Effort to Help Yunnar Fails.

RUSSIANS NOW THREATEN 10 SPLIT GERMAN ARMIES IN POLAND   Nazis Sacrifice Whole _ Divisions In Attempt To : Halt Fast - Moving . Soviet Troops.

Two Other Soviet Columns Forge Ahead North And South Of Warsaw In Drives To Outflank Capital

Ist Ukrainian Army Drives — Wedge Across South Poland; Qutflank Warsaw From South

SOVIETS DRIVE WEDGE ACROSS SOUTH POLAND   New Within 18 Miles Of Kielce  May Split German ’ Armies

Soviet Wedge Threatens to Split Nazis   Germans Throw Caution to Winds in Using Tank Reserves   KIELCE IS PERILED   Capture Would Cut Main. Warsaw-Krakow Rail Link

New Russian Push ‘Threatens to Split “Germans in Poland   Nazis Throw Caution to Winds In Hurling Tank Units Against Sovieis Advancing on Warsaw

Reserves of Tasks Are Sacrificed   Germans Throw Caution t the Wind in Defense of   East Prussia 

REDS DRIVE. __ WEDGE ACROSS SO. POLAND   Threaten to Split German Armies There

REDS AIMING TO SPLIT UP NAZI ARMIES   Strategy Appears te Be Outflanking of Warsaw from North and South.

DRIVE CLOSE TO KIELCE   Threaten to Split German Armies, Outflank Warsaw

RUSSIANS MAY SPLIT "GERMANS   4f lanking Moves Loom Against Warsaw In  North And South

Ukranians Drive Wedge Into Poland   Three Red Forces Close On Warsaw In Great Strides

SUPREME HEADQUAR.TE “RS OF ALLIED EXPE DI a*t a et. ] . a. a oo 

Brittany Assault  Speeded   Armored Forces Make Swift Advances, Take Towns in Advance

May Have Reached Bither Of Big Objectives By This Time; 100 Laneasters Bomb U-Boat Base  “To Prevent Sub Escape   ONE SPEARHEAD HEADS FOR BREST

RAF Bombers Blast Brest U-Boat Pens   Whirlwind American Drive  In Brittany Picks Up  Momentum.

Bradley s Whirlwind Sweep Through Brittany Outstrips Headquarters News Communique

EXPECT CAPTURE OF THESE CITIES WITHIN 24 HOURS   British Bombers Plaster Port  of Brest to Prevent Escape of Any U-Boats That Are Sheltered There.   ADVANCE DEVELOPS INTO NEW MARCH ON PARIS   1100 Allied Planes Attack Reich Oil Refineries and Aircraft Industries Losated at Brunswick

BRITISH BOMBS PLASTER BREST, U-BOAT PORT   Peninsula May Be Cut Off

LiGn T RING ADWANUL 1     BRITTANY PORT TOLD; NANTES, LORIENT NEXT   Doughboys Begin Race fo Paris as British Break Nazi  Lines at Caen

British Bombers Plaster Brest Submarine Fens   Early Capture of Strategic Brittany  Cities Is Predicted

Temperatures   Lightning American Drive Approaches Prize French Ports

Legislature Has Completed Work   No Dissenting Votes On Final Passage

AIR FORCES CONTINUE TO HIT GERMANY   Non-Stop Attacks Continue; Armadas Out On New Raids

1,300 PLANES ATTACK NAZIS   That Number, With Crews Totaling 48,000, Used In Four Days

Aerial Blows — Are Continued   Nazi War Industry “Blasted With Bombs

Allied Airmen Keep Up Non-Stop Invasion of Reich   Armadas of 1,000 Bombers Wii!  790 Fighters in Escort Over  Germany Daily This Week

Cavalrymen Are Aided by Naval Guns   Allied Bombers Strike at Former Dutch  Naval Establishment

JAPS ROUTED IN DRIVE ON   U. S. Now Controls All Airfields On Admiralties

MANUS ISLA AIRPORT HELD BY AMERICANS   SPEEDY OFFENSIVE KILLS NIPPONESE BY THOUSANDS

Enemy Counter Drive Breaks At Empress Bay   Two-Pronged Attack Succeeds as Yanks Take Plane Field

Thousands of Enemy Slain as Bougainville  Offensive Is Smashed   Allied Bombers Strike Soerabaja, Bali Islands; MacArthur Promises Great Drive To Free Philippines Will Be Launched

Robot Bombing Dies Down as Brit Newspapers Demand Reprisal Bombing of Undefended Nazi Towns

Miscellany Tales From Washington   Barkley Resignation Tip Staggered Senate Elevator Boy

FDR Names Navy And Army Men for Five Star-Post:   Sends Nominations o - Admirals, Generals - To Senate

Former German Fighters Disdainful of Americans and Still Think Germany Will Win War - - - 2,500 Captured in Africa and Several Hundred Taken in Invasion Now in Stockade at Camp Perry

FALL IN PUSH TOWARDS BAY   Marines Go Eastward From Cape Area On Bettain

U. 5. Marines Meet Stiffening Jap Resistance   600 Enemy Are: Killed in Battle MacArthur Reports

Marines Push On Eastward   Borgen Bay Area Is New Allied Obiective

Targets of Air Dreadnaughts Reported to Include Tokyo; Army Chiefs Hail Offensive

ft okyo Declares Industrial  Areas Are Hit   War Department Fails to Mention Targets, but Stimson Says Several Larae Cities Were Bombed

Yawata, Moji And Kokura Blasted  From China Base   Tokyo Reported Among Targets Of New B-29’s As Great Havoc Is Spread Over Industrial Areas Of Mainland Of Nippon.

STRIKE FROM SECRET BASE INSIDE CHINA   Large Cities Bombed, Secretary Stimson Announces

NEW AUTO STAMPS ARE NOW ON SALE   Federal Auto Stamps for Year Beginning July Ist Must Be Bought in June. -

NEW AUTO STAMPS REQUIRED JULY 1   All Motor Vehicle Owners Must Display New Auto Stzemps After July 1st.

BUY AUTO STAMPS BEFORE JULY 151   Federal Auto Stamps for Year Beginning July lst Must Be Bought in June.

ROADS JAMMED WITH RETREAT OF AMERICANS   Yanks Fight Fiercely To Slow Advance Of Panzers

Yanks Fall Back Fighting To Seal Off Big Advance   Panzers Roll On Despite Heavy Toll As Europe’s Biggest Battle Develops; No Breakthrough Believed Likely By U. §. Authoritie:

JAPS OPENING ‘LONG-DELAYED “INDIA. THRUST   UNITS REPORTED TO HAVE CROSSED. BORDER IN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE TO BURMA DRIVE

Churchill Tells Nazis Of Bigger  Blows From Air   Claims Hitler Plans To Make Attack On Britain

British Leader Says Germany Sull Powerful   Affirms Unanimity Among Allies— Soviets Twenty-Five Miles From Pskov

Sees Germany ‘Still Strong, Hitler In Control  AERIAL ATTACKS  Nazis ‘ Are Bombed; Bigger Raids Coming

Allied Bomb Load Delivered on Europe Sun day and Monday Is 10,080 Tons; “Americans Strike Brunswick ‘Aircraft Factories;  Soviets Storm Krivoi Rog Defenses

JAP FORCE ON LEYTE ISLAND IS REINFORCED   Strong Foe Mechaniz. ed Troops Landed Under Attack

Japs Land More Tanks, Men OnLeyte   Japs Counterattack In Attempt To Break Out Of Ormoc Trap

ORGEMENTS LAND AT ORMOC   gimerican Airmen Have Field Day Strafing Japs   SLASHING ATTACK   S . Japs Lose Two Transports And 25 Planes; Trucks, Tanks Also Destroyed

MECHANIZED REINFORCEMENTS LANDED BY ENEMY ON LEYTE   Enemy Begins First Potentially Formidable Attempt To Avert Disaster In Philippines; 30 Trucks And Two Tanks In Convoy Are Destroyed

More Japs © Reach Levte   Strong Force Land, But 25 Planes And Two Transports Lost In Battie

Strong Mechanized Reinforcements Are Landed  FLARE-UP IS SEEN IN LEYTE FIGHTING        Convoy of Enemy Ships Hit in Ormoc Bay

‘ounter Attack Begins With Attempt to Break Out of Ormoc Trap, Presages Flareup in Contest for Leyte; Japs Lose Two Transnorts

Reinforced Army Hurled against American Forces   Atiack Believed Certain To Fail

Leyte Yanks Gain Despite Counter-Blow   25 First-Line Planes And Two Transports Lost by Japanese  PYITaANESC DIT CONVOY

WSA Will Not Recruit Men 26 Or Younger   Selective Service May Not Draft Those Now In Maritime Service

STILWELL CAN TELL HIS STORY IF HE DESIRES   War Department Put: No Restrictions On Press Interviews

UP TO STILWELL TO REVEAL STOR)   He Can Tell It When He Returns If He Wants Too

Rome Awaits Same Fate as Berlin, Report   ALLIED HEAQUARTERS, NAPLES.—(.P)—The 5th army has captured Sezze, town of 20,000 in the mountains north  of the Pontine marshes, it was announced Saturday.

Battle Ranks As Bloodiest In Pacitie War   Figures Include 1474. Killed, 7400 Wounded

HIGH PRICE BEING PAID ON SAIPAN   As Yankees Grind Ahead Pitting Modern Weapons against Caveman Tactics; Losses Heavy.   Assault Yan

SAIPAN GAINS PROVE COSTLY TO AMERICANS   CASUALTIES TOTAL 9,752 FOR JUST TWO WEEKS

Saipan Battle Costs Yanks  9.752 Casualties   1,474 Dead, 878 Missing And 7,400 Wounded In Campaign So Far

Nimitz Reports Americans Lost 9,752 on Saipan   Highest Price Paid in Pacific

SAIPAN ISLAND BATTLE HAS COST U, 8, 9,702 MEN   Losses in Two - Week - Old Struggle Include 1,474 Killed, '7;400 Wounded and 878 Missing.   4,951 JAP TROOPS BURIED TO DATE   Yanks Pound Out Gains at Center and on Right Flank Despite Intensifed Resistance.

U. 5. LOSSES IN SAIPAN DRIVE PUT AT 9,752   Grim  Figures. ‘Are Announced by Adniiral . Nimitz

SHIRT-SLEEVE DAYS   Summer Temperatures to Continue  Thru Sunday

STH, 8TH ARMIES MAKE NEW GAINS ON ENTIRE FRONT   Polish Troops Battle Nazis Inside Anchor City of Piedimonte   RULLETIN

DFFERSINE DALES Uk BEAGHHEAD   Yank Armies Only 25 Miles Away   a  COLLAPSE NEAR  Kxpect General German Retreat

<FOR INLAND PORT RICE   Defenders, Outflanked te ~ Southwest as Montgom. -ery’s Troops” Storm Across River Odon.   NAZIS’ LONG RANGE GUNS ARE OVERRUN   English Units Pressing ‘. Down From North

Big Battle of Tanks Rages In N ormandy   Inland Port Caught in Nuteracker by Allied Advances

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U.S. NOW PAST ~ WAR JOB PEAK   Babson Says Unemployment Not Far Off as Next Major Problem

BABSON SAYS UNEMPLOYMENT WILL BE NEXT BIG PROBLEM   Cancellations of War Contracts, Now Amounting to Bilions, Must Be Replaced With Other Peace or War Orders.

Unemployment To Be Next Problem   ROGER BABSON TALKS ABOUT NEED FOR TORS .

He LED IN COURT   eal Estate Partition, wo Divorces Sought ‘New Court Actions

THREE ACTIONS FLED WN COURT   Real Estate Partition, Two Divorces Sought in New Court Actions

SHAKEUP SEEN IF STETTINIUS GETS HULL JOB   Armour Is Probable Nominee as Undersecretary of Department

STETTINUS 1S. HULL'S SUCCESSOR SHAKE-NP LIKELY.   “Siettinius Approval Seems Assured; Armour May Be Undersecretary

ng place.” Ect TE Killed, 32 Hurt\P reserve NOM™s Se ae, Collide Vatican Appeal:

Gen. Frederick Is Commander of 45th   Born in 1907; Served in N. Africae, Ftaly and in Southern France

Rangers Land Upor Vis Lissa   Alhies Strengthen Adriatic Supply Line To Jugoslavian Front,

Green Calls For Higher Wages At AFL Convention   Says they Are Needed To Maintain Postwar Prosperity

Green Sounds Keynote for Higher Wage:   Opens AFL Parley; Declares Boost Vital to Prosperity

AFL Stresses ~ Higher Wages   William Green Opens Doo For Return of CIO

Hull Seeking Karl v Accord On Peace Plan   Leaders Reported Divided Over Harsh Terms For Defeated Germany

Cabinet Is Split Wide Open Over Fate Of Germany   Morgenthau’s ‘Ruthless’ Plan Opposed By Hull And Stimceon

Hull Hopes For Agreement On (Terms for Huns   Cool to Morgenthau. Plan to Destroy Germany Industrially, Converting Nation to Agriculture

Washington Shaken by Furious. Debate Over German Peace   Cabinet Group Splits on Vital Question of German Industry

AGREEME TERMS URGED   Morgenthau’s Plan For Defeated Reich Opposed By Hull

HULL HOPES ALLIED OFFICIALS SOON WILL AGREE ON GERMAN PEACE TERMS

“Manus Island Is  .Invaded By U. S.   High Naval Official Predicts U. S, Fleet Will Soon Be Able To Blast Japanese Navy

Yanks Invade Manus Island   _-bargest Ut Admiralty Group » Stormed: Truk Lashed Adain’

US Forces Ashore Under Cover of Warships Fire   Liberators in First Blast at Truk; New Air Successes

LANDING MADE UNDER COVER OF SHIP GUNS   Land - Based Planes Raid Trok For  First Time

JAP FORTRESS IN CAROLINES UNDER ATTACK   LOSSES ARE MINOR FOR AMERICANS IN NEW PUSH

J. S. Losses Small As Troops Land On Manus Island  On Empress Augusta Bay Hurled Back

Yanks Invade Manus Island   Largest Of Admiralty Group Stormed; Truk Lashed Again

Hard, Careful Fighting  By 37th Division Shows Weakness In Jap Tactics

‘Efficiency Of 37th Far Superior To Jap ‘Guerrilla Tactics In’ Jungle Warfare

Marines Drive  Ahead on Guan   Seven Jap Troops Killed For Every Yank Lost

SIX PERSONS ARE. INJURED DUE TO STORM   Snow And Ice Cause Fractures And Sprains   Falls Responsible Fo ~ Most Of Emer cencies

LITTLE GIRL KILLED BECAUSE SHE CRIEL      Young Man Tells Police He ‘Walked on Her’

Axis Wili Not Quit, Ribbentrop Says   Speaks On Third Anniversary of German-JapaneseItalian Alliance.

Thousands Of Nazis Trapped In  Pocket To North Of Coutances;  Other Forces Roll Up Gain Of  Bight Miles In Few Hours   LEAPFROG TACTICS EMPLOYED BY J. 5S.

McNutt Warns of Ball Tumbling  e AllQut EF ffar   Urges All-Out Effort To. Defeat Japan And Germany.

Helsinki ls Bombed Twice by Large Forces of Russ Planes Sunday Night

Russ Pound Helsinki in 2  Heavy Raids   May Be Start of: Offensive to Knock Finland Outof War...

SOVIET BOMBERS POUND HELSINK IN TWO ATTACKS   Raids Indicate Offensive te Knock Finland Out at War

Red Bombers Attack Finnist Capital Twice   Start of Allempt To Knock Country Out of War Seen

BIG RUSSIAN BOMBER FORCE HITS HELSINKI FOR 2ND TIME   Effort Is Being Made to Knock Finns Out of War

Russian Planes   Smash Helsinki   Large Force Set Afire Finnish Capital In Raids

Russians Storm Across Vistula River Defenses  Soviets Advance All Along Vast  Eastern Front

Nazis Get First Feel Of Enemy   Two Armies Face Prussian Border On 100-Mile Front;  Cross Vistula.

Colombian President Held As Prisoner By Revolting Army Group   Rebel Leader Seizes Lopez At Maneuver Near  Pasto; Loyal Troops Marching On Garrison As Enraged Nation_Terms Act ‘Individual Madness

Relief Gets To Eneircled Allied Force   Merrill’s Marauders hh Burma Gain Help; Jap: At Hollandia Batterec In Air Attack

Aune Leads In Ottertail Race   Election Makes 1945 Legislature All Male

1,080 Communities Overrun, Estonia Liberation Virtually Completed as __ New German ’Winter Line’ Smashed

Fifth Army Advance:  20 Miles to Capture Viterbo   Second Allied Column Gains 12 Miles Up Tyrrhenian Coast to Take Targuinia, 50 Miles Northwest of Rome

20 Miles to Capture Viterbo   Second Allied Column Gains 12 Miles Up Tyrrhenian Coast to Take Tarquinic, 50 Miles Northwest of Rome

Wins First Phase of Great Battle, Inflicting 9,000 Casualties on Enemy—Tank Losses on Both Sides About Equal— Light but Powerfully Gunned U. S. Vehicles Pitted Against Monster German Tiger Tanks.

Yanks Knock Out 118 Nazi Tanks In Seven Days   Achieve Victory Despite Superiority Of Enemy Mechanized Units

MYSTERY DEEPENING IN DEATH OF CHILD   ‘Human Being Suspected,’ but Officials Baffled

KEEPS ON KEEPING ON   August Weather in October Mysti. fies Forecaster

Russians Push Toward Viipuri  Fan Out Over Wild Karelian Isthmus

Red Army Widens Front, Drives on Mannerheim Line   Saviet Troops Push Within 37 Miles of Finns’ Gateway City

January Tire  Quotas Slashed   To Release 10 Per Cent Under December Total

Murder Syndicate Reported Active   Gangsters Working in Larger Cities

Satawan Base Neutralized by Allied Raider:   Airstrip on Approach To Truk Is Battered: Rabaul Also Blasted

IslesNear * Truk Suffer Heavy Raids   Solomons-Based Liberators Hamme: Statawan Air Base

SATAWAN AIR BASE NEAR TRUK IS NEUTRALIZED   First Strike In Force On Nomoi Group Of Caroline Islands

Allied Bombers Neutralize Jao Airfield   Base South of Truk Blasted; Rabaul is Also Attacked

Jap Air Base Near Truk Neutralized   Raiders Fail to Meet Any Enemy Resistance

Japanese Airbase Wrecked  In Attack By. Allied Fliers   Airmen Strike in Force on Nomoi Group of Caroline _ Islands—Rabau! Handed Another Blow— Many Bombs Are Dropped

Jruk Approaches Neutralized by U.S. Air Forces   Liberators Pound Japanese Bases

SATAWAN BASE NEUTRALIZED IN CAROLINE RAID   Airstrip Demolished Ir Midday Attack With No Opposition From Japs

League May Challenge Validity Of Petitions ‘For Gas Tax Amendment

‘SGT. FLOYD M°CAIN — ' DIES OF FEVER IN  ;   NEW GUINEA HOSPITAL   FARENTS WERE UNAWARE 01 SON’S ILLNESS UNTIL TOLD OF HIS DEATH

Rail Yards Crammed With TroopsBombed   RAF Heavies Hit Germans Caught At Reims And Laon

ROCKET-BOMB COAST HIT AGAIN   Allies Raid Pas-de-Calais Area, Night and Day

ROCKET -BOMB COAST IS HIT EIGHTH TIME   Liberators and Fortreses  Stab Through Clouds In  Reund-the-Clock Attacks Over Channel   R. A. F HEAVIES BUSY

ROMANIAN OIL WORKS BOMBED   Italy-Based Planes Smash At Ploesti; Rocket Coast Hit From England.

Oil Installations In Romania Dealt  Terrific Air Blow   Italy -Based Ships Strike; British Attack France

Allies Bomb Ploesti and Rocket Coast   Other Planes Strike At Rail Yards Jammed With German Troops

aly. Based Bombers Slash at Ploesti   “Recket. Coast” Also Gets a Pasting from American Heaviec

Plane Fleet Again Smash Nazi Targets   Rocket-bomb Coast Given Attention in Widespread Assaults

Bombers Raid Oil Targets   Italian-Based Planes Hit Po— Jesti, Romania While Oth ers Hit France.

U, 5, BOMBERS RAID PLOEST   Planes Also Hit Rocket Coast After Night Attacks by RAF

Big Bombers Maintain Sky Assault   Seven Missing After Attacking Key Rail Points

ITALY-BASED BOMBERS HIT ROMANIAN Olt   Installations at Ploesti Blasted. Air Offensive from England Continued. Too

Planes Batter Rocket Coast   RAF Heavies Blast Troop-Crammed Trains At Reims and Laon

One of Biggest Air Operations Since D-Day; Planes Smash Network of Mines, Nazi Rocket Bases In France.

Italian Based American Bombers Rain Destruetion on Vital Oil Reserves of Hitler’s Dwindling Empire While British Planes Rake the French Coastal Area

Italy-Based Bombers Hit Ploesti Oil   Hitler's Supplies Estimated Cut 65 P€—Troop-Crammed Bail Yards Strafed

Railroad Yards Crammed Witt  Nazi Reinforcements Target  Of RAF Night Bombing Fleet   Supply Network To Normandy Hard Hit; 8,000 Tons Bombs Hit Behind Lines

Romanian Qi] Wells Blasted By U.S. Raiders   Spokesman Says German Fuel Output Is Cut 65 Per Cent

Ploesti !s Hit Againby — U.S. Bombers   Planes from Britain Attack French Rocket-Gun Coast

Air Fleets Sweep Over Axis Lands   Rocket Coast Hit; Attack on Cherbourg ‘Aided - From Sky  :   HIT NAZI OIL SUPPLY   Italy-Based Bombers Smash ‘Romanian Oil Installations ° ‘

Nearing Fields ()f Flanders and Calais Coast  Jump Over Meuse And Argonne In Spectacular Drive

Montgomer y Drives in Behind Rocket Coast As: AEF Passes Verdin   . Argonne and Meuse Whistling Posts for Palion’s Speeding Armor; New Dunkerque Tran Yawns—Tlic Time Foe Titectc

Battle for Reich May Be Launched Before Nightfall   Patton’s Third Army Races Past Captured Verdun, Within 49 Miles of German Border — British Tank Units Push Toward Belgium's Flanders Field.

Net 65 Mis. In Day  To Seize Verdun,  —lorest-Of Argonne   Nazis Around Calais, Dunkerque _ Menaced By Montgomery Units; Canadians 3 Miles From Dieppe

Pushes Through Verdun In Fast Pace Which Promises To Reach German Border Tonight If Continued

ARMIES SWEEP THRU VERDUN TOWARD LINE   Landslide Offensive Also Cuts Off Coast. Speeds Toward Belgium

U.S. Drives Beyond Verdun, Gains 65 Miles in 24 Hours   British Threaten New Trap in 80-Mile Advance Toward Belgium in 3 Days

U.S. Army May Cross Frontier During Day   Verdun Captured In Swift Advance; Nazis In Headlong Flight

FEW GET OUT; 49,000 FIGHT DEATH RATTLE   Germans Struggling to Keep a Battlefront Against Four Armies.

BOMBS, SHELLS SEAL GAP FOR TRAPPED NAZIS   Von Kluge’s Forces Writhe in Coffin Pocket in France

Battle Of Annihilation Opened On 100,000 Cornered Nazis  we zs      Germans Regroup For Death Stand   U.S. And Canadian Armor Narrow Escape Corridor To Ten Miles

Germans Seek to Break Trap in Normandy   Gen. Etsenhower Directed Action in Field Personally

Allied Forces Open Battle Of Annihilation   Von Kluge Reforms Weary Troops for Fight to the Death

NAZIS HURLED BACK IN TRAP AS FLIGHT FAILS   Only 49,000 of Original 100,000 Remain In Pocket; Some Escape Through Fire

Allied Planes, Tanks, Infantry Continue Attack   Patton's Third Army Virtually Slams’ Shut Last Escape Route

Workers Strike fo Stay on Job  Brewster Employes Refuse to Quilt

Communists  Control New Deal Party   ol, Rob’t _ McCormick Declared Today; Trying to Handle GOP

Tomado Kills 73 In Eastern Area   West Virginia Storm Hits Pennsylvania

650 Injured In McKeesport And Nearby Counties   Tornado Causes Tremendous Damages In Allecheny, Westmoreland, Green, Washington And Indiana Counties And West Virginia.

Unreal Serenity Pervades England As Armies Tense  Civilian Population Picnics And Dozes in Sunshine Brinving Anrieni Bolidaw

Il Serene hit Monday   British Civilians Take Ancient Holiday With Tranquillity

Dewey Proposes To Let Others Talk For Awhile   GOP Organizes, Limits Oratory

Republicans Stressing Organization   Would . Leave Oratory Until Late In Campaign; Dewey Works

DEWEY PLANS LATE CAMPAIGN   Republican _‘ Presidential Candidate Withholds Personal Efforts Now

DEWEY TO HOLD SPEECHES BACK   Plans To Wait Until After Labor Day To Launch Campaian

DEWEY WILL HOLD FIRE UNTIL FALL   Nominee May Make Speech or Two During Summer But Plans Are Indefinite.

Russia Takes Up Treatment Of Prisoners   -Appeal Made Tc Japs For British

id Requested or Prisoners  nd Internees  Demand Red Cross Be Given Right  To Inspect Camps

N OVER 26 NOW EXPECTED   New Selective Service Policy Will Be Announced On Thursday Night

NO DRAFT FOR MEN OVER 29   Indefinite Deferment Hinted If In Essential Industry

Deferment of Men Over. 29 Predicted   DRAFT POLICY RULE TO BE ANNOUNCED; ENOUGH YOUNGER MEN

Plan To Defer All Men Over 25   New Program Will Bi Announced Thursday

Deferment Of All Men Over 29 Said To Be Next Step   Wide Liberalization Fa Older Men Said to  Be on Program

150,000 Move In As Red Threat Mounts   Government Leaders Reported Lured Into Conference In Germany, Paving Way For Hitler To Send In His Army

Sreat German Army Octupies  Country In Effort To Block Russian Army In Bessarabia

Hitler Strengthens His Balkan Line in Face’ of Unrest; Brief Resistance Expected

GERMANS SEIZE HUNGARY: REDS THREATEN AREA   Hitler Moves to Avert Collapse of Balkan State’s Resistance

Hungarians Resist Invasion by Nazis: Fighting Reported   Germans Occupy Land in Effort to End Soviet Advance

100,000 Men Take Over as  Russ Advance   Only Scattered Fighting! Top-Flight Leaders Seized in Germany

100,000 Germans  And Rumanians ir  Occupation Force   Resistance Is Feeble As Russians Move Close to Borders; Leader« Kidnanead

100,000 Nazis Seize Hungary   Hitler Acts Swiftly to Strengthen Balkan Line in Face of Advancing Russians, Who Continue to Push Forward Into Bessarabia.   SCATTERED RESISTANCE

Fuehrer Moves To Plug Carpathian Gaps With  T «sstusnethew Tl ranme.

\azis Fortify State Against Soviet Threat   Top Hungarian Leaders Reported Virtually Kidnap ed In Germany.   SCATTERED FIGHTING

Hitler Acts To Bolster Balkans   Germans Meeting Only Scattered Resistance Swiftly Take Over Control of Country

Seize Key Points With 100,000 Men As Russians Drive Within 100 Miles of That Nation; Trying to Protect Balkan Flank

OCCUPATION OF RUMANIA SEEN   NAZI ARMIES CROSS OVER FROM HUNGARY

NO IMPORTANT OPPOSITION EXPECTED   Official Confirmation Of Move Still Lackina   SCATTERED FIGHTS   Are Put Up By Hungarians; Several Thousand Arrested In Budapest

HAVE LITTLE TROUBLE IN. OCCUPATION   Only Scattered Fighting Indicated as Hitler Sends Forces Into Couns try to Meet Menace of Advancing Reds. aa

Little Resistance: To German Troops   100,000 of Hitler's Legions Reported Occupying Strategid Points As Russians Drive Toward Boundary.

RUSSIAN FORCES CONTINUE THEIR SWIFT ADVANCE   150.000 German Troovs In Full Control Of War Weary Nations In Balkans Area

BARELY 100 MILES FROM BORDERS   Nazi and Rumanian Troops Occupy Stratevic Points

HUNGARIANS RESIST NAZI OCCUPATION   Upwards of 100,000 German and Rumanian Troops Reported Apparenily in Control   HORTHY TRAPPED   Regent and Aides Tricked hy Hit ler After Fuehrer’s Demands Refused—Kallay Heads Fight

Rumanian Troops Occupy Country   Only Scattered Resistance Reported; Hitler Government {s Being Set Up

HITLER TURNS ON SATELLITE, ARRESTS MANY   Claim German Chief Tricks Hungarian Officials Into Trap

Hitler Sends Heavy Force Into Huneary   Move Believed to Be Effort to Strengthen His Batkeon Line

Fuehrer Reported to Have Lured Regent to Headauarters   DEMANDS REFUSED   Pro-German Regime Set Up: Reports of Resistance Are Discounted

Hungary Is Taken ByGermanTroops   Rush to Plug - Mountain Passes. Against On- ° coming Russtans   MAY BE. RESISTANCE   But Germans Hold Essential Centers; Leaders  Kidnapped

Nazis Taking Over Hungary As Safeguard   Hungarian Leaders Made Virtual Prisoners  in  Germany

GERMANS SAID IN CONTROL OF MAIN CENTERS   Magyars’ Governmen Officials Thought Held By Hitler

STRATEGIC POINTS TAKEN OVER WITHOUT HEAVY RESISTANCE   GERMANS SEEKING TO STRENGTHEN OPPOSITION 110 ONCOMING RUSSIANS

Meet Little Resistance As Russians Near   Germans Continue To Hold at Cassino—Allies Raid Europe

SOVIET ARMIES NOT FAR AWAY   Some Fighting Springs From Occupation, No Difficulties for Hitler.   BELIEVE LEADERS HELD

Hitler Moves To Strengthen Balkan Line Against Reds   pwards of 100,000 Troops Believed to be Driving Into Axis Satellite Country to Oppose Russians Already in Bessarabia   IIGH OFFICIALS ARE REPORTED HELD PRISONERS

Hitler Moves In Effort fo Check Russians   Hopes of Allies For Early Balkan Peace Dwindles

Scattered Fighting Reported As Nazi, Rumanian Units 7 March Into Country

Invasion Resisted in Spots But Nazis Control Central Part of War-Weary Country   Horthy Believed to Be Prisoner At Hitler's Headquarters After Turning Down Plea for All-Out Aid

German and Rumanian Troops Occupy Hungary   Scattered Fighting Reported; Nazis Hold Kiurgarian Leaders

ALL STRATEGIC POSITIONS ARE HELD BY ARMY   Drastic Move Ordered As Russian Menace Moves Closer

100,000 Nazi and  Rumanian Troops Occupying Hungary   Kidnaping Rulers Part of Germany’s Plan for Defense

Soviet Armies Only 100 Miles Away   Scattered Fighting Springs From Occupatior Of Axis Partner; Hungarian Leaders Are Virtual Prisoners of German Reich

Hitler Seeks to Plug Holes in Carpathians as Reds Approach   Regent Horthy Said to Be Virtual Captive in Reich

Sunday’s Advance Places Them About 12 Miles Distant   Great Tank Battle, Perhaps Opening Phase Of Counter-Offensive, Breaks Out Sunday Near City Of Caen.

American Invasion Forces Capture _ Lison, Storm Carentan; Landing. Beaches Now Beyond Enemy Range

Allies Storm Imphal Height   Battle Reveals Japanese Are Eneircling Base

Japs Driven Off Hill in Imphal Area   British and Indian Troops Engage Enemy Outside Kohima in ‘Battle  Of Clouds’

Japanese Lose Hill Position In Imphal Area   Hand-fo-Hand Batfle Reported

JAPANESE LOSE HILL AT IMPHAL   Allied Troops Hold All Strongpeints Outside Indian Base

JAPS LOSE HILL IN IMPHAL AREA IN BITTER FIGH   Big Allied Base Now. Sur. Foutided by Enemy—Tokyo - Meports Troops Only . Three Miles Away.   “BATTLE OF CLOUDS” UNDER WAY AT KOHIMA   General Stilwel!’s Forces in Burma Take Ohpum Ga and Inflict Heavy, Casu : alties on Nins.

JAPS DRIVEN FROM HILL IN BITTER FIGHT   Nethwest or Imphal; British and Indians Engage Invaders Outside Kohima   Capture Ohpum Ga

FOE PRESSES BURMA DRIVE   Japs Driven From Hill in Imphal Area; Fighting Fierce at Kohima

Japs Driven From Hill Location In Close-up Battle   Enemy Presses Attacks On Two Allied Bases In  Eastern India

Japs Pressing Attacks on 2 Allied Bases   Secretary Stimson Says Allied Troops In Eastern India Have Men, Supplies

Looked a Year, Found John Murphy ‘He Was in Plot B, Row 5, Grave 84

GERMANY READY FOR INVASION SAYS HITLER   Nazi Chieftain Hints of New Weapons and Revival of Sub Warfare

A Gloomy Hitler   Trys. to Explain Away Nazi Reverses in New Year Address te Reich

HITLER HINTS NEW OFFENSIVE   FUEHRER ASSERTS NAZIS READY FOR ALLY INVASION

TOULON IS BESIEGED BY ALLIED ARMY   Other Forces are Within 15 Miles Of Marseille

Yanks, French Tighten-Siege’ Arc on Toulon   Opposition Light As Allies Advance Near Marseilles -

Toulon ° Besieged on  Three Sides  Allies Stabbing  To Within 15 Mi. of Marseille; Threaten Escape Rout

Hilltop Town, Two Miles North Of City, Taken Americans, French 15 Miles From Marseille   Ry FKLBRANOR PACKARD

Naval Base Outposts Captured   Other Invaders Stab Through Opposition Near Marseille

HEAVY FIGHTING CLOSE TO BIG FRENCH CITY OF MARSEILLE   Americans Are Supported By Heavy Air and Sea Bombardment.

INVASION ARMY THROWING ARC AROUND TOULON   Stab To Within Fifteen Miles Of bt Marseille, Escape Route Threatened

JAPANESE WARSHIPS IN MANILA HARBOR DAMAGED BY 400 PLANE ATTACK ON MANILA, CAVITE BAY

Yanks ‘Shatter Enemy Attempts To Seize Offensive on Leyte   Ameriéan Troops Capture Mountain Peak Dominating Japanese Lines

Heavy Toll of Jap Leyte Concentrations   Tokyo Reports Plane Attacks On Nip Ships in Manila Bay; Enemy Attacks Retake Northernmost of Palau Islands,

CLAIM ATTACK MADE BY 400 U.S. AIRCRAFT      American Riflemen Count More Than 640 Jap Dead In Leyte Battle

Huge Force Destroyed; Manila Hit   MacArthur Reports Yank Advance on Leyte Disrupts Jap Counterattack

Parts of Five Jap Divisions  In Leyte Fight   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses as Carrier Planes Attack War Ships in Manila Bay

Some Damage To Warships  States Enemy   24th Division Count 640 Japanese Bodies On Slopes Of Breaknec ‘k.  REIN PARC IP MENTS IN

Hundreds of Nip Dead Counted in Leyte Battle   Enemy Recaptures Ngreregong Islet in Palaus but Marine Garrison Withdraws Without Loss; Chinese Resume Sweeping Advances in Burma

Kill 640 Japs In Single Day In Philippines   Biggest Toll of Campaign As 400 U. S. Planes Hit Warships at Manila

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses In Leyte Battle  400 U. S. Planes Renew Raids on

Heavy Toll of Jap Dead on Leyte Front   Tokyo Reports 400 US Planes Attack Warships in Manila Harbor; Chinese Gain in Burma 

HIGHEST ONE-DAY TOLL OF NIPPONESE DEAN OW LAYTE   TOKYO REPORTS 400 CARRIER-BASE PLANES RENEW ATTACKS ON MANILA BAY

Yanks Batter Enemy Troops On Levie Isle   640 Nips Killed While Warplanes Raid Manila Bay

Americans Hit Jap Warships In Manila Bay   But Enemy Recaptures Islet In Palau Group; Advances  Made In Burma

Jap Warships In Manila Bay Bombed: Tokio   On Leyte, Yank Attacks Take Record 1-Day Toll Of Enemy Dead.

HIGHEST TOLL IS SCORED ON LEYTE ISLAND   Enemy Force Demoralized By Bloody Battie In Philippines

Yanks Bomb Warships in Manila Bay   Enemy Death Toll on Leyte Reaches New One-Day High

US Planes Damage Japanese Warships In Raid On Manila   Enemy Death Toll High In Western Leyte Attack

Claim Yanks Bomb Cavite, Clark F ield, ~ Damage Jap. Ship:   Record Nip. Death 7. oll: Reported; : _ Chinese. Gain In. North Burma;  akes- Islet In Palaus.

‘ GAULLE IN. ~ HAPPY MOOD   FRENCH GENERAL CONFIDENT  OF VICTORY AND “OF EsTABLISHING HIS “  YL RADERSIUP

Californian Saves’ 1126 ® Yank Fliers   Kelseyville Officer Flees Romania, Plans *Rescue’ of Prisoners

Salamanca Airman May he Among 1,126 Liberated Fliers   38 Flying Forts Bring American: Who Had Been Prisoners in Bomaniz io Italian Soil

Allies Blaze Aheac On Western Front Towards Falaise   Stuttgart And Berlin Hit Again By Night Bombers

Nazis Say Allied Preparations for Invasion of Europe Nearly Completed

ALLIED D-DAY PREPARATIONS NEARLY READY   Checkup Made On Al American Troops In Britain

Check American Troops In Britain  Before Big Push   Radio Paris Sees Zero Hour For Europe Perilously Near

Plans For Invasion Seen By Nazis As  Almost Complete, Admit Outcome Doubtful   Troops Confined To Barracks A: Men In Uniform Are Checked Up

NAZIS FRANKLY ADMIT THEY CANT PREDICT OUTCOME   Claim Allies’ Invasion Plans and Preparations Nearly Complete.

NAZIS SAY OUTCOME DOUBTFUL   Non. Soldiers, Deserters Are Doublechecked

Pre-Invasion Check-Up On All U.S. Troops Made   Germans Say Plans For Allied Assault  Ae, “SAleiant Camalaéd a

GERMANS NOT SURE ABOUT FINAL RESULI   Axis Commentators Quit Boasting of Victory and Take Sober View.

OHIO DEMOCRATS BACK 4TH TERM   Ferguson Is Favorite Son: Delegates Appointed

PENETRATES GOTHIC LINE   British Divisions Now Under Gen. Clark's Command

GERMANS NEAR LUCA OVERCOME BY CLARK ARMY   Americans and Brit ish Pentrate Into Gothic Line

cori LINE INITALY      , ‘Allied Troops Meeting Increased Resistance

Allies Dent Cothie Line  Qbastmact Pac   Outpost Positions Are Overwhelmed.

Clark's Troops Knife Gothic Line   Yanks, British Join In Smashing Ahead

Allies Push Well Into Gothic Line   British Divisions  Fighting nder Clark

FIFTH ARMY PENETRATES GOTHIC LINE   British Divisions Now Under Gen. Clark's Command

Nazi Outposts on Gothic Line Overwhelmed   Allies Penetrate Well Into German Defenses in ltaly

QUICK ACT ‘TO STOP WARS BASIC POLIC)   “SHOOT FIRST AND TALK AFT: ERWARD” EMERGES AS FOUN DATION OF PLAN TO: °° "END AGGRESSION "!

“SHOOT FIRST” POLICY AGANST AGCRESSORS SEEN   Dumbarton Delegates Lean Toward Use of Force for Feace

SEVEN HOSPITALS HIT AS NAZIS UNLEASH FURIOUS BARRAGE OF ROBOT BOMBS

Robot Bombs Rock London   Many Killed os Salvos Hit Seven Capital Hospitals

National Leaque   Hail Of Robots, Many Silent, Rocks London. South Enaland

ROBOTS HIT SEVEN ENGLISH HOSPITALS   German Murder Machine: Take Heavy Toll in Mur.  derous Barrage Today.

7 Hospitals Hit, Hundred Are Killed   Toli Heavy as New : And-Bigger Gliders Blast City

Murderous Robot Barrage Launched Against England   Flying Bombs Strike Seven Hospitals, Piling Up Heavy Toll Of Killed And Wounded Civilians; Giant Pickabacks Also Used Against London

GLIDER ROBOTS FALL ON ENGLAND   SEVEN HOSPITALS IN FLYING BOMB STRIKES

Targets Include Seven Hospitals, Where. Many Were Killed And Wounded   i §. TANK FORCES _ IN FRANCE REPORTED AT GATES OF RENNES   British Troops In Italy Win New High Ground Overlooking’ Florence .

LONDON ROCKED BY ROBOTS, MANY PFOPLE KILLED   Seven Hospitals Hit, Heavy Bar tage Over South Encland

Robot Barrage Takes Heavy Toll In Hospital Hits   Germans Using ‘‘Glider’ That Drops Silently, Kills Quickly

Heavy Toll Of Civilians Is Exacted   Seven Hospitals Struck By Bombs In Night Assault.

Seven Hospitals In England Hit  By Robot Bombs   Murderous Barrage  Rocks London, Parts of Southern England

ENGLAND IS ROCKED BY ROBOT BOMBS   New Glider Weapon Attacks Silently

ROCK LATOR   Seven Hospitals Among Other Targets Hit — Heavy Toll of Killed and Wounded Civillans.

Le Mars Municipal Band: To Finish Concert Sea~ gon Next Wednesday

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UNIONS SEEKING TO CLEAR STATUS IN WAGE DISPUTE   Must Be Settled Before U. S. Can Restore Railroads Ts Owners

Three Rail Unions Ask Government To Clarify Status Of Wage Dispute

Unions Want Wage Clearance   Railway Holdout Still Without Any Decision

HENRY WALLACE OFF FOR CHINA   Vice President Plans  Several Stops  In Siberia

WALLACE BEGINS JOURNEY TO ASIA   Takes Message of Cheer  From Roosevelt

Nazis Claim Russian Drive Is Frustrated   Soviets Sato a New Aggression From Carpathians to Black Sea, With Berlin As Objective

Gen. Richardson Is Pardoned In  Contempt Case By President Roosevel

Last German Escape Road Threatened   American Patrols Slash Westward As Nazis Flee.

Yank Artillery Bombards Fleeing Enemy   Americans Drive to Within Five Miles of Germans’ Last Lifeline With Capture of St. Jacques de Nehou

BOMBS, SHELLS BATTER ROAD — BOTTLENECK   Band of Expendibles Left to Defend Prize Port

Highway Under Steady Rain of Bombs, Shells   Small Force Left For Defense of Cherbourg

Staff Cars Clutter Up Only Highways   No Indication Is Seen That They Intend To Leave Key Port Without Resistance

Beaten Nazis Running ‘Gauntlet of Shellfire   French Army of Interior Opens Full-Seale Assault on Germans

BIG PORT IS NEARLY ISOLATED   Bombs, Shells Rained On Fleeing Enemy; Allies Advance

Allied Trap ts Closing   Suicide Group Left te Defend  Peninsula Port

Marshal Tito Envisions A Federal Democracy For Balkans After War

Jueer Shenanigans During Convention  Like New Deal Plar   Edson Says President's Double Crossing Can’t Be Explained

SUBMARINE FLIER IS REPORTED LOST   Vessel Sent Down in Operations Against Enemy

SUBMARINE FLIER ~— [SREPORTED LOSI   Vessel Sent Down in Op. erations Against. Enemv

Russian Force Point Toward Serbia Sector   Skirting Transylvania Alps  Area Apparently Headed  Toward Yugoslav Partisan Battleground

Red Army Heads Towards Serbia  Junction with Tito’s Partisans Sought by Triumphant Russians

Russian Vanguards Heading For Junction With Tito Partisans   Sweep Across Romania After Entering Bucharest With Germans Still In Disorderly Flicht Up Danube Valley.

RUSSIAN TROOPS REACH BORDER OF BULGARIA   Reds Push Through Bucharest, Nazis Attempt New Defense Lines

Red Armies Speec Toward Serbia Line to Aid Slavs   Soviet, Partisan Forces May Join Soon; Foe Seeks to Establish New Defense; Russians Parade Triumphantly in Bucharest

Russians Race Toward Junction With Tito’s Army   Armored Scouts Approach YugoslavRomanian Frontier

Fast-Moving Soviets Head For Serbia  Skirt ‘Transylvanian Alp: After March Through   4ZIS IN DISORDER         Germany ‘Trying to Form: New Defense Line Along; Olt River

SOVIETS MARCH PAST BUCHAREST IN RADIN PIICH   German Command Organizing New Defense Line

RUSSIANS MARCHING THROUGH BUCHAREST SEEKING JUNCTION  WITH YUGOSLAV ARMED FORCES

SOVIETS HEAD FOR SERBIA'S MOUNTAIN AREE   Good Prospect for Yugoslav Parti. sans, Russians Meeting.—Nazis Call Red Drive Failure.

RUSSIANS DRIVE TOWARD SERBIA, NEW CONQUEST   Red Forces Will Help Marshal Tito’s Partisans Against The Nazi Hordes

Russians Head For Junction With Tito’s Men   Reds 120 Miles From Romanian- Yugoslav Border; Say Germans Plan New Stand

Reds Strike Toward Serbia In Effort to Join Forces With Tito’s Partisan Army   Germans in Disorderly Retreat Up Danube Valley as Soviet Troops Drive Ahead After Capturing Buchares!

SOVIETS SEEK TO JOIN WITH THTO’S FORCES   Sweep Across Rumania After Bucharest Falls; At Bulgarian Border

Russians to’ Join With Tike      eer Colas lead: Toorth.  ; pel : easter Mountains i   PUSH THRU. ROMANIA   On’ Black: Sea” Chast; Red F orces Range ins oo * ‘garian Frontier.

SOVIETS DRIVE TOWARD SERBIA   Reds March Through Bucharest; Push to Join Tito’s Forces

SOVIETS GO ON AFTER TAKING OF BUCHAREST   Junction Between Soviet Ant Tito’s Troops Looms In Mountain Sector

-—-RUSSIAN FRONT—   Streaming Through Rucharest Toward Junction With Tito

Russ Pushing To Join Tito’s Partisans   Army Heading for Serbion Mountains On Yugoslav Border

Bucharest Is Engulfed by Russian Tide   Triumphant Soviets Surge for Junction With Forces’ of Tita

REDS MAY JOIN THTO PARTISANS   Soviet Flying Columns Head In Direction of Serbian Mountains.   BATTLE COMMON ENEMY

Red Army Plunges Westward   Early Union With Tita Possible As Russians  Sweep Toward Serbia; In Gain Near Warsaw

Red Forces  Are Heading For Serbian Territories    Transylvania Alps Skirted By: Soviet

REDS HEAD FOR JUNCTION WITH TITO PARTISANS   SWEEP AHEAD AFTER TRIUMPHANT MARCH THROUGH BUCHAREST

Soviet Rushing To Join Tito’s Serbian Forces  Germans Reported Building Defense

Russians And Tito s Armies May Be Joined   Soviets Head In The Direction Of Serbia’s Mountains

JUNCTION WITH THOS FORCES MAY COME SOON   Columns Skirt Alps After Tri umphal March Thru Happy Bucharest

Russians Head Toward Serbia   TRIUMPHANT RED ARMY COLUMNS MOVE SWIFTLY

Russians May Soon Form Junction With Tito's Army   Soviet Spearheads Advance on Serbia After Bucharest Falls

SOVIETS HEA FOR JUNCTION      ‘After. Marching Through _ Bucharest, Reds ‘Turn , in Direction of Serbia’s _. Mountains, Where Tito  Wehta

REDS HEAD FOR JUNCTION. WITK TITO’S FORCES   Drive Toward Serbia’s -Northeast Mountains: . Skirt Transylvania Alps

AEDS RAGING TO JOIN THTD IN MOUNTAIN   Soviet Legions Roll Through Liberated Capital of Romania.

Russians to’ Join  With Tito’s Men   Flying Columns Head Toward Serbia's Northeastern Mountains   PUSH THRU ROMANIA   On Black. Sea Coast Red Forces Range Along Bul garian Frontier

RUSS DRIVE TO JUNCTION WITH TITS   March Through ‘Bucharest, Dash Toward Serbia

PUSH TOWARD  MOUNTAINS OF SERBIA   Triumphant Entry Is Made Into Bucharest   NAZI STAND   Expected Along Olt River; Report Little Progress In Warsaw Battle

Romania’s Capital, Wrecked by Nazi Air Attack After Deserting Axis, Welcomes Russians While Bulgaria, Checked in Double-cross Neutrality, and Hungary Trying to Cut Ties

Partisans Of Marshal Tito To Be Aidec   Junction of Forces’ in Prospect in the Near Future

Soviet Army May Join with Marshal Tito   Advancing Red Forces Reported Only 120 Miles from Yugoslavia; Nazis Say Russian Summer Drive Stopped

Reds Head *For Serbia In New Push   Russian Juncture With Tito’s Partisans Appears  In Praenect.

RED ARMY CAPTURES BUCHAREST   ussians Within 120 Miles Of Frontier Of Yugoslavia

ed Columns ading West  ver Balkans   Nazis Reported In Disorderly Flight Us  Danube—U. S. Bliase Ervaad

Reds Rush Onward for Junction With Marshal Tito’s Mer   Head Toward Serbia Mountains After Bucharest Victory

RED ARMY FLYING COLUMNS HEAD FOR JUNCTION WITH TITO  GERMAN COMMUNIQUE  CLAIMS RUSSIAN SUMMER OERENSIVE REEN STOPPET

Flying Columns Strike on West From Bucharest   Germans Reported To Be Fleeing in Disorder Up Danube; Gain Near Warsaw

Soviets Smash Toward Serbia fo Effect Junction with Tito as Bulgarian Regime Crumbles   Germans Reported Making Effort to Organize Defense Line Along Oit River; Bulgaria Fails in Attempting Easy Way Out of the War

Bucharest In Hands of Reds   Troops Race West Toward Junction With Yugoslavs; Nearer Warsaw from North

Reds Skirt Alps ; Head for Junction with Tito’s Troops   Approach 120 Miles Of YugoslavRomanian Frontier.

SOVIETS SKIRT © ALPS; DRIVE TOWARD SERBIA   Continue. -Push> After *Mar rch ‘Thr ough ~ Ruecharest- :   JUNCTION SEEN   Russians” May Meet Yugoslav Partisan  Roayrac.

Soviets March Triumphantly Into Bucharest   Move Toward Serbia’s Eastern Mountains; Seek Junction With Tito

Red Armies Drive West On Serbia   Seok Juncture With Marshal Tite's Partisans After Parade Threngh Bucharest

Reds Pound On After Freeing Bucharest, Reaching Bulgaria   Roumanians Impressed By Tremendous Amount Of Russian Equipment, Much Of It American Made

Reds Head For ad For Serbia To Link Up With Tito; Reach Bulgaria As Neutrality Regime: Falls   Armored Scouts 120 Miles. From Yugoslav ‘Border After Speeding Through ‘Bucharest.

Soviets Head For Junction With Yugoslav:   March Triumphantly Through Bucharest Toward Serbia, Tito’s Partisans

4 Millions © Deployed in Battle   Army Has 60 Divisions in Field; Eight More Sailing This Month      GENERAL MARSHALL GIVES THE FIGURES   Urges Home Front Not to Relax, Calls for an End to Bickering

Whisky Rationing To Be Continued   Now Allowed Fifth Every Two Weeks

Third Superfort Raid Leaves City Flaming   Japan Closes. Schools at 11 A.M... ‘As Americans Step Up Aerial War

NIGHT RAID ON TOKYO   Japs Admit Fires ‘Raged Uncontrolled Nearly An Hour

3100-MILE TRIP FROM SAIPAN ~ WITHOUT LOSS         Jap Radio Says ] Capital After , B-29 Bombers  Teed

Forts Raid Tokyo At Night; No Loss   Japanese Threaten Parachuting B-29 Crewmen With Death At Hands Of Pecple

Fires Raging in Jap Capital   Cloud Cover Protects Giant Bombers in First Night Raid on Nippon City; Third Attack Within Six Days on Vital Area

No B-29’s Lost To Enemy In Tokyo Night Bombing; Yanks Sink 13 Jap Ships Off Leyte

Super Forts Bomb Industrial Targets In Tokyo Night Raid Resistance Reported Meager

No. Losses Due. To Enemy Action Suffered In Blast   Japanese Radio Admits Fires Uncontrolled  For Hour After Attack

SUPER-FORTS REACH BASE WITHOUT LOSS   Industrial Targe:Are Hit During First Night Mission by Bombers.

FIRES RAGE JN CAPITAL OF JAPAN   "None Of Giant Planes Lost In Third Blow Within Six Days

Superforts Hit Tokyo In First Night Raid   Mission Completed With Loss To Enemy; Tokyo Admits Raging Fires Are Started.

B-29s Hit Industrial Districts   Meet Slight Resistance During Round Trip Of 3,100 Miles From Base On Saigan

Night Raid on Tokyo Reported as Successful   Superfortresses Return Safely to Their Base

B-29S MAKE NIGHT RAID ON TOKYO   Japs Admit Fires Raged Uncontrolled Nearly An Hour

Jap Planes Raid Saipan Naval Base   Strong Enemy Force Hits in Daylight, All Shot Down

FLIERS TRY RAID ON SAIPAN BASE FOR FORTS ATTACKING TOKYO   Two Assaults Are Costly To Enemy

Retaliation Raid Made On Saipan   Thirteen Planes Are Lost By Japanese In Two Attacks On Base Of  Superfortresses

Japs Strike At B-29 Base   Tokyo Raiders Lose 13 Planes in Attack

Retaliation Raids Cost 13 Planes   Two Attacks Made On American Base In Mariana Islands

Seek Retaliation For Tokyo Attacks  Japs Raid U. S. Bases On Saipan

Desperate Attempt To Retaliate For Tokyo Bombing Is Disastrous   Daylight F ighters Strate Air Field:   Bombs Dropped By Night; Jap Pilot Killed When He Draws Gun

JAPS STAGK TWO RAIDS ‘ON MARIANAS   Net Result Is Loss of  13 Planes

Red Panzer ‘Troops Ring Vital Cities   : Foe Slaughtered Tn Panicky. Flight ‘From 2 Strongholds

Positions   SKI BATTALIONS AND CAVALRY MASSACRE GERMAN TROOPS : : ALONG BOTH BANKS OF PRIPET i RIVER 3

BLAST WIDE GAP ~INENENY LINES AT KALINKOVIGt   Ski Battalions and SaberSwinging Cavalrymen Infiltrate Into German Rear, Massacre Many.   PRESSURE INCREASED ON JAPS IN PACIFIC   Three Jap Ships in Small Convoy Sunk In Maleolap Lagoon, Two Airplanes Are Damaged.

REDS STORM STRONGHOLDS   Armored Sheck Troops Blast Wide Gap Deep into Enemy Fortifications.

Axis Starts Wild Flight Along Pripet   Two Strongpoints Guarding Pinsk Corridor Are _-Threatened   THOUSANDS SLAIN   Other Soviet Units Drive Along Kiev-Warsaw Railway

Russians Drive Germans Into Panicky Flight Along Pripet River   DESERT IN DROVES   GERMAN FORTRESS TOWNS IN DANGER

Reds Crast Nazi Line In Russia   t   Germans Fleeing   In Panic Before   6 6 CL Fenane Sahar.   Germans Fleeing In Panic Before Ski Troops, Saber Swinging Cavalry

Soviets Use Cavalrymen To Rout Nazis   Germans in White Russia Put to Flight

REDS PRESS ON FORTRESS TOWNS IN WHITE RUSSIA   Pinching Germans In Pripet Marshes; Storm River Banks

German Fifteenth Army Reported Half Since Start Of Offensive In Holland Two '   Half Destroyed Two Weeks Ago

LOSES * 65,000 IN CASUALTIES   British And Canadians Claim German Force Half Destroyed

Dutch Battle Destroyed Enemy Army   British Commanders Say 65,000 Nazi Troops Killed, Captured or Wounded in Fight; — Yanks Temporarily Lose Town of Vossenback

ALLIES DRIVE GERMANS BACK ACROSS MAAS   Hold South Bank of River Along 50-Mile Front; Mop Up Dutch Isle

HITLER'S ARMY LOSES HALF OF ITS STRENGTE   Nazis Able to Hold Only Two Slight Pockets on 50-Mile Front In Western Holland.

GERMANS RPEORTED THROWN BACK ACROSS MAAS FOR 30 MILES  BRITISH OFFICERS DE- ' CLARE 15TH NAZI ARMY BEEN HALF DESTROYED

15th German Army Reported Half Destroyed   Allied Minesweepers And Dredges Are Clearing Approaches To Antwerp

ALLIES PUSH NAZIS BACK OVER MAAS   RAF Bombers Raid Stuttgart; Air Assaults Continue on Reich Proper

Allies Smash Germans Back On Wide Front   Half of Nazi 15th Army Is Now Destroyed

Allies Nazis Along   (id  Troops Mass For New Offensive Alo 50-Mile Sea Front

New Front Is Set Up. By Allies Alone Bank   German Army Suffers “Very: Serious Setback

Battle of Estuaries’ Costly to Reich Army  Yank Gains Held to Yards Along —  C.1. sd Reant Inside Germany

ALLIES T NAZI FORCES ACROSS MAAS   Germany's 15th Army Half Destroyed In Fierce Holland Offensive

Hurl Nazis Back ‘Across The Maas   ‘Allies Launch An Assault + Along.a 50-Mile Long Front   AGAINST 15TH ARMY   British ; and Canadians ’ Throw Up Barriers Near Rotterdam

Germans Blast Great Bridge in Retreat   Span After Span “of The Moerdyk Bridge Over Maas Blown Up   GERMAN 15TH ARMY SMASHED BY BRITISH   §5,000 Germans Killed, Captured or Wounded in Holland Battle

Nazis Thrown Across The Maas on a 50-Mile Front   Serious Setback Suffered By the German 15th Army

Slight Gains Made by Yanks  selow Aachen   British and Canadians Units Draw up Along New Front 16 Miles South of Rotterdam

Throw Nazis Back Across Maas River   Allies Go Forward On 50-Mile Front; Germans Weakened By Holland Battle

HOLD FRONT OF 90 MILES ALONG RIVER   Only Two Pockets Remain, as British Announce Destruction of Half of German Fifteenth Army Se Peo Wi ankec:.

Only Two Smal! Pockets of Enemy South of River   German 15th Army ‘Half Destroyed’ In Holland Drive

NAZIS BLOW- UP BRIDGE ON MAAS   ALLIES HOLD 50-MILE STRETCH ON RIVER

Germans Suffer Serious Setback And Heavy Casualties; Threat Of Smashing Allied Offensive Hangs Omniously Over Western Front.

EMY IS HOLDING TO 2 POCKETS   25,000 Prisoners Are Taken In Offensive In West Holland

ALLIES THROW NAZIS BACK ON S0-MILE FRONT   ‘Foe Retreating From ‘S-Hertongenbosch To The Sea

Destro Foal Of 15 In Bie iy      Only Two Small Nazi  Pockets Remain; Report Navie Camniletele Banted

Allies Assaults Push Nazis Back Along A 50-Mile Front;  Enemy Suffers Great Losses

Germans Hold Schmidt; Americans Counterattack  At Vossenack. '   ‘GERMAN LOSSES HEAVY

Sustain Crushing Defeat   Half Of German 15th Army Destroyed In Two Weeks.

Allies Throw Germans Back Across Maas   German 15th Army Half Desireved In Fierce West Holland Offensive.   RAH 35.600 NAZIS

Germans Blow Up Big Span   Enemy, Forced Across Mans, Blasts Rridce

German 15th Gets Setback   Half Destroved  In Fierce Holland Offensive That Began 2 Weeks Ago

ALLIED DRIVES FLATTEN NAZIS ON MAAS LINE   Gen. Von Model Sends Troops Over River In Retreat

FIERGE WEST HOLLAND FIGHT TAPERING OFF   - Allied Assaults Throw Germans Back To.Sea

Hitler Has Lost Over65,000Men In West Holland   West Schelde Approach To Antwerp Being Cleared

65,000 NAZIS CASUALTIES AND PRISONERS INFLICTED IN BIC DRIVE NORTHWARD IN HOLLAND

British Say Half Of German 15th Army Smashed in Holland   Estimate Huns Suffer 65,000 Casualties in Last 14 Days on Northern Front  In Western Europe

Nazis Routed Lose 65,000   Allies Drive Foe Across Maas River; 15th Army Smashed

Pull Their Troops Back Across Maas — Yanks Fight Fierce Battle In Vossenack Streets

CRACK GERMAN ARMY SUFFERS HEAVY SETBACK   British Field Officers Say 15th Army Half Destroyed In Fier West Holland  fensive

Nazis Thrown Across Maas River On 90-Mile Front   Germans’ 15th Army Half Destroyed, British Claim; U, S. Advances Slowly

HURL NAZIS BACK ACROSS MAAS ON A 50-MILE FRONT   BRITISH SAY HALF OF MODEL’S ARMY KILLED OR CAPTURED

Nazis Facing Major Drive Into Germany   Threat Hanging Over Entire Western Front as Gains Continue

—WEST FRONT—  GERMANS SUFFER COSTLY SETBAGK   Von .Model’s 15th Army Half Destroyed In Fierce Fighting '   25,000 CAPTURED   Battle For Southwestern Holland Results In Allied Triumph

German 15th Army Hacked to Ribbens by Fierce Tommies   50 Per Cent of Von Model’s Troops Destroyed in  West Holland Fight

British and Canadians Have Drawn Up at Water Barrier on Potential New Assault Line.   ESTIMATE 65,000 NAZIS ELIMINATED

Nazis Forced Back  Along Maas Front   Half of German Fifteenth Army Destroyed in Holland; New Assault Brewing in Vicinity of Rotterdam

German Defense Failing   Nazis Retreat Across Maas On 50-Mile Front

Nazis Throw Yanks Out of  Forest Town   Americans Attack Later; Fighting Rages in Center of Vossenack

A Roaring Baile in Big Fores!   Acre Upon Acre Fired By Allied Planes As Yankees Push On   BATTLE REACHES  INTO HURTGED   Yanks Push Back After Giving Ground Under Heavy Artillery Fire

YANK ATTACKS CONTINUING ON SOUTH SECTORS   West Holland Offense Has Taken Big Toll of Germans In Killed and Captured

Germans Still Hold To Schmidt Despite Concentrated Air Assaults  BRITISH MOVE FORWARD  Pushing Ahead Along 40Mile Front on Maas River In Southwest Holland

Nazis Retreat Over Moerdijk spanin Holland, Then Destroy It   Yanks Fight Back Into Vossenack After Being Driven Out

British Estimate 65,000 Germans Had Been Killed, Wounded or Captured While Being Pushed Back ae

U. S. FORCES ARE LOCKED IN BITTER BATTLE   Field Officer Estimates German 15th Army Has Lost More Than Half its Strength   POUNDING ON ARNHEM

REDS ENCIRCLE BUDAPEST AREA   Battle In Hungary May Seal  Fate Of Vienna

Budapest Rail Lines Severed   Russians Virtually Surround Capital

REDS SEAL FATE NAZI DEFENDERS   FORCES ENCIRCLE CAPITAL CITY AS TWO BATTLES RAGE

SOVIET FORCES RING BUDAPEST   Two Heavy Battles Beyonce Capital May Seal Fate of Vienna

ALLIED PLANES JOIN ASSAULT ON CHERBOURG   Also Carry Out Widespread Attacks On Lines Deep Jn France

   Blast Nazi Posts Deep In France   Allied Planes Bomb >  German Communications

9494 Japs Are buried On Islands   U.S. Troops Capture Rennes In Drive

Roosevelt To Speak Tonight   Will Deliver First Official Campaign Speech In Washingtor

Sewey Triumphs In Wisconsin Republican Test  Willkie Is Fourth, e Trailing Stassen And MacArthur

DEWEY WINNER IN WISCONSIN'S PRIMARY VOTE   Has Wide Lead In Test With Willkie Over GOP Delegates

Churchill Visits Fifth Army Front   Pledges Hitler Tyranny Will Be Obliterated

Mrs. Luce Criticizes Administration tn First Of Series Of Speeches

ROOSEVELT ERA CALLED FAILURE BY CLARE LUCE  Republican Representative  Time Kip Btansutdae Seankinegn Trae

Asks New Army For Occupation After Victory   Congressman Wants Tc Replace Fighting Men With Fresh Troops

CALLS FOR NEW OCCUPATION ARMY   Congressmen Believe Combat Troops Should Not Be Forced to Remain in Service After  War.

Huge U. S. Fleet Enters Lagoon In Marshall Group   Invasion Fleet, Safe From Subs, Occupies Japan's Main Naval Base East Of Truk; May Not Invade Other Atolls   (RELELETIN)

HUGE INVASION FLEET MOVES IN; MARINES MOP UP   World’s Largest Lagoon East Of Jap Truk Base

Fall of Entire Atoll Imminent   More Troops, Guns and Tanks Land to Wipe Out Surviving Japs; American Losses Continue Licht: Most of Islets Captured

Jap Naval Base ls Occupied by Invasion Fleet   Army Mops Up Last of Enemy On Kwajalein

Army Takes Over Last Air Base As Marines Mop Up Japs In Namur   Over-All American Losses Are Comparatively Low Totalling 100 Dead, 400 Wounded

JAP’S MAIN BASE “ATRWAIALEN TAKEN BY FLEE   Most of Greatest Array Ever  "Assembled In Pacific Is   Ordered to Enter Heart of Marshalls.   JAPS REMAINING ON NEW GUINEA BOMBED   Alexishafen Airdrome With Concentrated Aircraft Is Blasted, Paramushiru Is Navy Target.

Troops Mop Up Last of Enemy In Onslaught   Marines Knock Out Smaller Islands In Cleanup of Jap Bases

2 Tractors and Beans, Grain, Lost   Tommy Howard Burned About Face, and Hands near Mallard

Tom Howard, 14, Seriously Burned  In Farm Blaze  Attempted To Extinonich The Bla-

5 NAZI GENERALS — WAR CASUALTIES   One German: ‘Admiral Als , ‘Is Listed. ‘as _ Dead

25 NAZI GENERALS WAR CASUALTIES   one German’ an‘ Admiral Alse ‘Is Listed. ‘as Bead -

- GRANTED DIVORCE   TESTIFIES PRESIDENT’S SECOND SON ASKED HER TO “START PROCEEDINGS.

RUTH ROOSEVELT GETS DIVORCE   Says Husband Said He Cared For Her No Longer

ACTRESS ON STAND ACCUSES CHAPLIN   Auburn-haired Joan Berry Recites Story of In> timacies

Trial of Movie Comedian Opens InLos Angeles  Joan Berry, tar fol Prosecution, Takes Stand in Cart

Joan Berry Bares Details  Of Relations With Chaplin   Tells Federal Jury Of Intimacies With Film Actor-Producer In Beverly Hills And New York City

COURAGEOUS STORY OF A TAIL GUNNER   Continued Firing at Enemy Zeros From Severed  Tail of Ship.

HEROIC U. 5. GUNNER  STILL FIRING AT JAPS - Ac DLANE CANK IN CEA

RELIEF WORKERS OF RED CROSS Al) HOMELESS   Wind And Rain Followed By Bright Sun; State Militia  . ee ee

Over-The-Road Truck Drivers Go On Strike   1,000 At Minneapolis Out; Philadelphia Transport Still Tied Up: Army Takes Steps

Troops Reported Being Speeded To Philadelphia   Newspaper Says Indications Seldiers Will be Used to Operate Vehiclec

CALL GUARD TO PHILADELPHIA   State Troops Back Army Effort To Restore Bus and Trolley Service.

 IN PHILADELPHIA   Army “to Take a Hand” in City’s Transportation trike :   MAY TAKE OVER BUSES

TROOPS COTO. PHILADELPHIA   Indications Are Soldiers Wil Be Used to Operate Vehicles, ad   OTHER LABOR TROUBLES

GUARD CALLED TO KEEP ORDER IN TRAM TIEUP   However, Transit Strikers Defy Army Order to End Stoppage.   To Bring in Troops To Operate Buses

Soldiers May Take  Over Line   Two Regiments Reported on Way to Philadelphia to Break Car Tie-Up   STATE GUARD WILL MAINTAIN ORDER   Arrests Also Indicated. in Government Moves to Restore Transportation

Troops Rushed ‘To Break Strike   Two Regiments on Way to Operate Phila Lines, With State Guard Units Mobilized to Keep Order; Showdown Approaching

Army Troops Being Sent to Philadelphia   Take Hand in City’s Transportation Strike; State Guards Mobilized

Amy “to Take a Hand” in City’s Transportation Stike —   MAY TAKE OVER BUSES

Troops Are Mobilized In ‘Strike Crisis   Showdown Imminent Be: tween Defiant Transii Workers And Army.

SOLDIERS MAY 8 USED TO OPERATE TRAFFIC VEHICLES   Five-Day Transportation Tie-Up Has Caused Racial Violence and Cut War Production

Tram Strike Crisis Near: Army Detied   Three Regiments of State Guard Called to Maintain Peace

U.S. Army Will Man Vehicles   ... Three Regiments Of State Guard Called

British  Advance 10 Miles   Russians Report German Armies Are Cracking ‘Up; 2.000 Plane Raid

YANKS SMASH FOE TRYING TO RESCUE TRAPPED TANKS   Enemy Column Shattered, 30 Tanks And 50 Supply Vehicles Knocked Out By U.S. Artillery

Northernmost Prong Of Huns’ Push Checked   Veteran First Army Troops Collide Head-on. Against Crack German Soldiers   Artillery, Tank Destroyers Aid   Germans Had Driven 35 Miles. Into Belgium Beyond Malmedy Before Being Halted

Yank Forces Fighting Back In Their Greatest Battle Of War: T osces Are Heavrx7

LaFollette Asserts Aluminum Company ‘Prevents Production for Civilians

SENATOR CRITICIZES MONOPOLY CONTROL   Disastrous Consequences I They Dictate Reconversion Program.

SUPPORT GROWS FOR ROOSEVELT   Petitions From 13,000 In Michigan Ask That Dewey Be Nominated

May Have to Continue : Collection of Tin Cans Until After Peace Comes

New Superfortress Airfield Being Made  Ready in Marianas   Field On Tinian Within Easy Flying Distance of Tokyo.

Yanks Enlarging Airfield On Tinian; Smash Jap  Counter-Attack On Guam

Republicans Are Making Issue of Congressional . Row on Soldier Vote -

Woldier Ballot Js Major Campaign Issue   G. O. P.-Backed State Vote Bill Termed Fraud By Roosevelt

ROW OVER FEDERAL BALLOT BILL NOW ‘A CAMPAIGN ISSUE   G. O. P. Leaders Tune Up For Major Speeches at Some of the Party’s Many Linocln Rirthdav Dinners

Service Ballot Becomes Issue  Republicans Pledge Votes for Fighters

GOP Leaders Preparing to Lambast FDR \\fo: Stand on Soldier State Ballot Plan

Cleared Calendar Sets GOP Nominee Free to Devote  Most of Time to Polishing Up Campaign Speeches —

French Coast And. Bulgaria Under Attack   Allies: Keep Up_. Drimfire on” ‘Enemy Installations

Targets on Continent Are Biasted   Americans and_ British Keep Up Pace of Air Attacks on Europe

Halifaxes Hit Bulgaria   American "Médilms" Hit Targets on Continent

Weather Slows Air Assault   But Marauder Medium Bombers Atteck Targets in Northern France

AGAIN BLAST NAZI TARGETS   Weather Reduces Scale of Record Bombardment

Allied Medium Bambers, Including Marauders, Left After Noon To.Pick Up Interrupted PreInvasion Assault Of Europe   640 PERSONS ARE REPORTED KILLED

Marauders on Raids Over Continent   Halifaxes Strike From Italy at Junction of Povwdiv

eather Cuts: Ss ¢ rae e Of Air Raids   Marauders . “Pound. Targets” on Continent; “RAF  Attacks Plovdiy

FR Shrugs Off Dewey Charges   Plan For Industrial Demobilization Set

ROOSEVELT SMILES AND SAYS NOTHING   Of Dewey’s Charges Administration Is Afraid To Release Soldiers

F.D.R. Silent On Dewey's Charges   GOP Nominee Claims Administration Fears Another Denreccian

Cooks, Clerks and M. P.’s Hold Off Nazis   Epic American Stand at Luxembourg Week Ago Revealed

Few Doughboys Hold Off Entire Nazi Division   Save City of Luxembourg From Being Engulfed By Epic Stand.

Single U.S. Regiment Stops Entire Nazi Division; Colonel Tells How Battered Force Saved Luxembourg

TOKYO’S ISLAND BASES FLANKED   American Troops Occupy Manim To Aid Drive On Noemfoor

SPEARHEADS 4) MILES ON BELGIAN SulL   Allied Armies Called on by Supreme Commander to Administer Crushing Nazi Defeat

Severe Quakes Sway Buildings   Tremors Continue Today In California; Most Severe Since 1933.

Southland Center Sways in Earthquake   TEMBLORS HEAVIEST SINCE 1933 SHAKE L. A., NO LIVES LOST

Quakes Shake Los Angeles   Coast City Jolted Twice Sunday; Lighter Quakes Recorded Today

‘QUAKE SHAKES LOS ANGELES   Buildings Sway, Homes Tremble In Area

Primary May Bring Another Negro Vote Test   Token Vote Will Be Attempted in Georgia Election As Groundwork

Negroes to [ry To Vote Today in ‘Georgia Primary  Democrats Pick Two Women for National

*DRIVE LO RELEASE GREAT RUSSIAN CITY HAS STARTED  Ist Ukramian Army Routs Nazis in South

RED ARMY OPENS GREAT DRIVE IN NORTHERN RUSSIA   Soviet Tanks Cut Through Nazi Defenses West of Leningrad

Reds Employ Record Artillery Barrage To Hurl Back Nazis   German Fortifications Are Paralyzed By Bia Red Guns

WAR'S FIERCEST BATTLE RAGES NEAR LENINGRAL   Nazis Rendered Dumb by Guns

7 NAZI DIVISICNS THROWN BAGK IN BLOODY FIGHTING   Russian Push at Oranién: baum Co-ordinated With Strong Drive Lasting For Nearly One Week.   [BUSHM:.3TERS IN AC- ” TION FOR FIRST TIME   0“ Tribes of American Indians With National Guardsmen Represented In Hard Hitting Outfit.

7 DIVISIONS OF NAZIS THROWN BACK IN ATTACK   Devastating Barrage on North Front Made Before Tanks Advance

Nazi Forts Topple As Soviets Strike   Devastating Artillery Barr age Leaves Eyeuiy Troops Speechless

Bloodiest Battle of Entire War Reported Raging   Long-Awaited Soviet Offensive Under Way Over Lengthy Front

RED ARMIES GAIN NEAR LENINGRAD   7 Nazi Divisions Are Thrown Back 7 to 12 Miles

POWERFUL NAVAL. FORGE ASSISTING “AMY SEUF RO   Another Force of Flying Boats Makes 600-Mils Trip to North For Heavy Attack on Wake Island.   RABAUL AIRFIELDS TEMPORARILY KNOCKED OU1   14 More Jap Vessels Sunk By American, Subs, Chin. ese Defeat Jap Columns on Hukawng River.

NAMED BY PRESIDENT   Joseph Grew Will Be New Undersecretary of State

FDR Has Shaken Up Top Strata of State Department:  Joseph C. Grew Named Undersecretary; Three Officials Quit

F. R. Shakes Up Dept.; Removes 3 Top Assistants  Clayton, MacLeish And Rockefeller Replace Berle, Long And Shaw.

Diplomat Grew Given  High Pos!   Ambassador Who Served Long in. Tokyo, Named Under Secretary   OTHER CHANGES IN ' STATE DEPARMENT   Breckinridge Long Among Threé Assistant Secretaries Leaving Office

Grew Nominated Undersecretary Of State by FDR   Resignations of Three Assistant Secretaries, New Successors Told

GREW NAMED UNDERSECRETARY   FORMER AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN NOMINATED

IN MASON City   GREW IS NAMED STETTINIVS AIDE   Chosen Undersecretary  of State by F.R.

Grew Chosen As Stettinius Aid   Three New Assistant Secretaries Nominated

APPOINTS GREW TO HIGH OFFICE   Veteran Named Assistant Secretary of State

Expect Germans To Renew Attack On West Front   Enemy Is Seeking Weak Spot for New Smash, Is Official Opinion

Final Assault Forthcoming   Military Forecasts One More Nazi Blow

Believe Nazis May Launch ~ Second Drive   Military Men Think Germans May Be Preparing New Reserve Units

Military Men Expect Nazis  To Renew Push   Belicved Hitler Will Order One More Major Effort to Break Out of Salient  Before Withdrawal

Military Men Speculating On Possible New Nazi Offensive   Patton Deals New Blows After Record Race To Bastogne Relief   Hard-Hitting Doughboys Also Lift Threat To Cit Of Luxembourg; Patton Accomplishes Feat Swiftly And Expertly.

 MILITARY CIRCLES’ IN WASHINGTON SEE GERMANS — MAKE ONE MORE MAJOR EFFORT TO CRACK ALLIES

Nazis Will Make (ne More Effort To Break Out   Opinion Expressed Despite German Withdrawal and Allied Successes.

Nazi Spearhead Pushed Back More Than 10 Miles; Escape Gap Is Narrowed to 17 Miles   Ten More Towns Captured as Patton in Epic Drive Smashed Germans Back More Than 20 Miles and Captured 5,351

EXPECT HUNS TO ATTACK AGAIN      Report Fresh Troops Near Base of Salient

Believe Nazis May Launch  Second Drive   Military Men Think Germans May Be Preparing New Reserve Units  Wty wr aseyY 6©FtUC A 

Von Rundstedt May Strike At Allies Again  Another Major Effort   Another Major Effort To Break Out Is Held T'o Be Possible

Germans May Make Another Major Attack   Military Men Say Despite Von Rundstedt’s W it h drawal, Idea Possible.   WATCH NORTH FRONT

Expect Germans to Make at Least One More Major Effort To Break Through

Washington Military Circles Believe Germans Will Make New Strike On West Front   General Withdrawal Seen If Nazis Fail To Break Out OF Salient

GERMANS MAY TRY NEW PUSH   Fresh Nazi Divisions Re. ported Standing By Near Salient

[Military Men Believe (Nazis Will Make Another Major Breakout Effort

NAZIS MAY MAKE ANOTHER MAJOR DRIVE   Military Observers Watch Northern End Of Wester Front .

Expect N azis To'Try Again   Actions ‘Of Patrols’ Take ‘Curious Form

NEW GERMAN MOVE STUDIED   Nazis May Make Another Major Attack, Military Men Say

Germans May Make Another Major Etfort   Fresh Troops Standing Ry

EXPECT NAZIS TO TRY ONE MORE THRUST   U. S. Military Men Foresee Enemy Attempt to Break Out of Salient Before Pulling Back Into Siegfried Line.

LIFT PRESSURE ON OLDER MEN   New Draft Regulations Formulated At Parley

LOWER DRAFT QUOTAS SEEN   Pressure on Men Over 26  Eased Further

WONE DRAFT CALLS 10 BE CUT SHARPLY   Pressure Eased on Over-26 Men; Clarification Thursday

SOVIET GOVERNMENT NEWS, PAPER SAYS "SHAM" AT=~, TEMPT ON DEWEY'S:  2 . LICE PLANNED _

Anti-Polio Drive Goes "Thru 3st   ‘THOUSANDS, OF LETTERS TO MISS GARSON. TELL ‘GRATITUDE. 

Ford Canadian Employes Vote To Resume Work  Grievance Will  Be Clarified

FORD STRIKE ENDS IN GANADA PLANTS   Only 50 of 14,000 Workers Vote To Stay Out

Ford Strikers Vote To Return   Canadian Plants Will Resume Production

Footing For Oil Probers Real Slick   Extent Of U. S. Reserves Even Has Experts Baffled

SAYS LEND-LEAGE. PLAN (5 NOT CLEAR      Ellender Is Not Opposing Bill, But He Wants Procram Definite.

SENATE VOTES LEND-LEASE All   Senator Langer Casts Only Dissenting Ballot

REDS REACH QUTSKIRTS OF BUDAPEST   Fate of City To Be Decided Within 72 Hours

Soviet Armor Smashes Into Budapest Suburbs As Resistance Collapses

Fall of Hungarian Capital Expected Over Week End— Resistance Before Clty Callanse:

Reds Smash Thru Enemy Lines To  Edge Of Budapest   Fall Of Capital Reported Imminent As Foe’s  Defense Breaks

Red armored spearheads reach Budapest outskirts  Fate of last German satellite

BUDAPEST UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE   Fall to Russians Expected Within 72 Hours.

REDS AT EDGE OF BUDAPEST IN SWIFT THRUSTS   Fate of Hungarian Capital May Be Decided Within Next 72 Hours

Budapest Capture Is Imminent   Last Satellite Capital Of Hitler’s Germany I: Under Pressure O¢  Russian Vanguards

Says FDR Can Not Avoid Blame For Pearl Harbo:   Clarence Budington Kelland Charges Administration Neglect Of ‘Elementary Precautions’’ — Also  mma eee  re Oi cia

Potential Escape Routes Being Cut off for War Criminals and Doors of Possible Havens Being Slammed Shut as Allied Victory Nears

Fear Adolf Hitler May Attempt To Hide - InGerman Underground After War Defeat

RESCUERS SEARCHING FOR CRASH VICTIMS   Mexican Clipper Runs Out of Gas in Mountains

Robot Bomb War Thought Near an End   Fight Against Vengeance Weapon Has Been Cesily

Bedraggled German and Romanian Prisoners Number 31,000; Armies Are Joined

AAA. ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD DEC 4th TOS   Townships to ( Choose Committeemen and the Delegate to Co. Meeting

A.A.A. Elections Early Next Month   Procedure Will Be Similar To Last Year

Farmers to Pick ~ Committeemen  December 11-16   Men Named in AAA Elections to Face War and PostWar Problems

CLAIM HITLER PLANS FLIGHT   U.S. Official Advances Possibility Hear Big Airplane Stands Ready

REPORT HITLER AND GOERING © _- PREPARED FOR QUICK ESCAPE   FLIGHT TO BPAIN, ARGENTINA OR JAPAN REGARDED POSSIBLE IF NAZIS ARE  OVERTHROWN ~

SUPREME COURT RECONVENES FOR SESSION; LIKELY TO BE STORMY   Stone Beginning  Fourth Term At Helm

VANDALS SMEAR FAMED CATHEDRAL   [Red Designs Painted on New York Edifice

SHELLS, BOMBS POUND KLUGE'S FLEEING ARMY   Yanks Shape New Trap for Nazis in Northern France

BATTLE MOVES TOWARD PARIS SET NEW TRAP   Patton’s Army Drives On Routed Germans, in Full Flight Raked By Shell Fire.   100,000 Casualties

Nazi High Command Reports Heavy Fighting Around Chartres-Dreux Area Forty Miles West Of Paris

Rivers, Harbors Bill Dies When Senate Adjourns Without Decisive Vote

Senate Action Kills Big Harbors Bill   California Project Exemption Rider Helps Beat Measure

Congress Ends Hectic Session In Quiet Mood   Rivers and Harbors Bill Still Unpassed

RIVERS, HARBORS BILL 13 KILLED   SENATE ADJOURNS WITHOUT ACTING ON HALF-BILLIONDOLLAR PROJECT.

Rivers And Harbors Bill Not Passed   Measure Killed When Conaress Adjourns

Heavy Bombings Of Japan May Cause ‘Quakes, Tidal Waves, Geologist Says

CASUALTIES SHOW BATTLE NO PICNIC   42 Veterans in Group Have One or Both Legs Shot off.

MAIMED VETERANS ITALIAN CAMPAIGN REACH WOLOSKEY   MOST OF MEN WOUNDED BEFORE THEY WERE ABLE TO ENTER ROME

SUBSIDY FIGHT NEARS AN END   Administration And Solon Ready To Bury Hatchet

ALLIES HEAR. ROMMEL OUT   Removed From Command Against Invasion, Report

Rommel Reported Relieved \Of Command Of Army Massed To Counter-Attack Invaders   He Wanted To Throw Full Power Against Allies; Von Runstedt Opposed Policy

Gen. Von Rundstedt Replaces The ‘Fox’   U.S. Troops $ Seize 3 Towns t  Crack Cherbourg Defenses Widen Beachheads

RUMOR ROMMEL QUT OF COMMAND   ARGUMENTS WITH VON RUNDSTEDT IS BELIEVED REASON

Rommel Reported Oui as Commander ‘Due to Differences with Yon Runstedt

Gen. Von Rundsted Replaces The ‘Fo:          U. S. Troops Seize 3 Towns. te Crack Cherbourg Defenses Widen Beachheads .

Nazi Marshal Had Been Head (Of Two Armies   “Desert Fox’? Known. To Haye Been At Odds With Superiors Over. Defense Plans   Urged Full Power: AgainstBeachhead   Marshal Karl You Run. atedt Favored Policy Of Holding Back  * Reserves

REPORTS SAY ROMMEL NOT IN COMMAND   “Unconfirmed Reports Said Marshal Erwin Rommel .Had Been Removed from  Command 

MarshallRommel Reported Ousted Following Dispute With His Superior Officer

Heinz’ Wife Denies Beating  Pickle Heir Declares She Kicked Son, 4, Over Eve Durina Raac

Christians, Jews Begin Celebration of Good Friday, 8-day Passover

Yanks Take Lorengau In Admiralties      Control of Islands No     and Fleet Anchorage Within 700 Miles: Of Trak and 1,300 Mail  Philinpnines.

Yanks Rout Jap Forces In Lorengau   Fall of Admiralty Hub Opens Gate  To Bismarck Sea

Yanks In Lorengau; Admiralty Campaign Said To Be Complete   Japs Driven From Last Vital Area Of Island Group On Manus; Allies Control Two Airdromes, Important Harbor 700 Miles Southwest Of Truk

Lorgenau Is _ Cleared Out By Americans      Japs’ Headquarters at the Gateway. to Bismarck Sea Captured

Admiralties   Are Cleared ©   Japs Desert Their Dead Upon Islands

YANKS VICTORIGUS -INSPEEDY DRIVE   Two Airdromes And Five - Harbors: Now Control“Ned ‘By, Allies   “orPARTED FEB. 29   Japs: Abandon. Hundreds Of. Dead, Arms And Equipment ©

William A. White, Famed Editor, Taken by Death  Publisher of Empori Gazette Had Been  eee

NOTED EDITOR OF KANSAS DIES TODA   William Ailen White Has Been in Ul Health Nearlv a Year.

Famous Kansan Is Dead      William Allen White, “Sage of Emporia”, Dies After a Year  Of Failing Health

William A. White Dies at Emporia  Noted Kansas Editor, Author Dead at 75

WHITE, NOTED KANSAS EDITOR, DIES. AGED 75    Sage of Emporia Never Regained  Health Afier Suffering Attack of  Influenza

Editor White Dies   “Sage Of Emporia’ Was A Friend And Counselor Of U. 8S. Presidents

Death Claims Editor White   Nationally Known ‘Sage of Emporia’ Succumbs at Age of 75

WILLIAM A. WHITE, VETERAN EDITOR, DIES AT AGE OF 7¢   Staunch Republican, Adviser of Many Presidents, Was Liberal Newsman.

WILLIAM A. WHITE, FAMOUS EDITOR, DIES IN KANSAS   Won National Recognition Through Writings in Emporia Gazette

Sage of Emporia  Dies at Age of 75   William Allen White Suecombs After Nearly Year of Illness.

Death Takes Weil Known  Kansas Editor  Wm. Allen White Passes On At 75

NOTED EDITOR DIES IN KANSAS   Willitm Allen White, “Sage of Emporia,” Hears “Thirty”

William Allen White, 75, Sage of Emporia, Is Dead   Famed Editor Had Been in Failing Health Over Yearly

NOTED EDITOR, “IS DEADAT 7E   Death Ends Year of Declining Health for Famous Kansas Writer.

Famous Kansas  Editor Succumbs   Wm. Allen White Dies Early Today

WALLAN WHITE rANOUG COUNTHY EDHOR 15 GEAD   Gained National Fame Through H's Editorials in Emporia Gazet'e.

Sage Of Emporia  Is Dead '   Long Illness Ends Career - Of William Allen White At 75°.

Famous Editor  Whitels Dead .   White Of Emporia, Kas. Gazette In Ill Health Nearly Year.

Famous Editor Dies Saturday         William Allen White, 76. Had Been In Declining Health For. Year

FAMOUS KANSAS EDITOR DIES   William. Allen. White Dies .at Age of 75 After Year’s  Itinace

White, Famous Editor, Dies   Owner of Kansas Paper Started Career At 14

“THE SAGE OF EMPORIA” DIES AT 75   William Allen White, Editor and a Counselor of Presidents, Had Been in Failing Health Almost a Year.

. wee ee 2) eee ee eee  William Allen White, Famous Editor, Dies

"Sage of Emporia” Was Friend and Advisor of - Presidents: Passes This Morning at 75.

WM. A. WHEE, * EDITOR, IS DEAD   RENOWNED WRITER SUCCUMBS AT HOME IN EMPORIA, KANS,

The Sage of Emporia  Died Today   William Allen White of IXmporia, Kan., Was Seventy-Five

W. A: WHITE, 76, er EDITOR, DIES IN KANSAS   Journalist Comes  Long a of Emporia o End.

FAMED EDITOR DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT 75   ¢ Wm. A, White, Sage Of Kansas, Long A GOP Leader.

DEATH CLAIMS FAMOUS EDITOR   Curtain Falls on Distinguishec Career of Wm. Allen White, “Sage af Emporia.”

William A. White, Famed Editor, Taken by Death  Publisher of Emporic Gazette Had Been ill for Nearly Year

N. O. Cotton   Death Ends Career Of Famed Kansas Editor, W. A. White

William Allen White  Dies In Emporia   Famous Kansas Author And Editor Taken By Death Early Today

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, THE ‘SAGE OF EMPORIA’ IS DEAL   Seventy-Five Year Old Editer of the Emporia Gazette, Died Today.   BOUGHT PAPER IN 1895   He Was the Friend and Counsellor of Presidents and Governors.

WM. ALLEN WHITE DIES AT EMPORIA   Famed Kansas Journalist Passes On at 76

WILLIAM A. WHITE, FAMOUS EDITOR OF EMPORIA, IS DEAD  IN FAILING REALTH FOR MONTHS “SAGE OF EMPORIA” DIES QUIETLY

William Allen White,  Famous Kansas Editor, ~ Dies Suddenly At Home

FAMOUS EDITOR DIES IN KANSAS   William Allen White, “The Sage Of Emporia,” Dies At 75 After Lingering Tilness.

‘SAGE OF EMPORIA’ DIES TODAY AT 75   William. Allen: “White Wor Wide Fame as Editor ‘and Author

Noted Edifor, William A. White Taken By Death   Kansas Sage Was Friend of Many Presidents

FAMcD KANSAS EDITOR DIES   WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE SUCCUMBS AT AGE OF 75

Powerful Ai Fleets Hit Oil Plants   Yankee Planes Follow on Trail of RAF Night Bombers

Bombs Rain On Naziland  f° Piesltoles BD ttacbee   Daylight Attacks Follow Berlin Raid.

Big Italian Port Suffers. Heavy Blows   500 Heavy Bombers Strike For Third Successive Night

Allied Planes Raid Genoa   Port Attacked Following Assault of Milan Rail Yards and Other Targets

Allied Planes Again Blast Port of Genoa      M ilan Raily ards Bombed: ' Gun Duels and Patrols  Only Ground Action

Leyte Battle Won; Yanks Close Trap On Japs On Island   ‘Greatest Defeat’ Suffered by Japan in Phillippines Says Gen. MacArthur and Nip Premier Tells Plight in ‘Sacred War’ Becoming ‘More Critical’

Yanks Capture Jap Ports in Double Push   Virtual End to Leyte Campaign Seen As Nip Army “Sustains Greatest Defeat” in Annals

LEYTE BATTLE WON; 113221 TAPS KILLED   MacArthur Also Reports Enemy Ship and Plane Losses; Situation “Critical” Hirohito Tells Diet.

GT-DAY LEYTE FIGHT ENDS WITH SURPRISE MOVE   77th Captures Last Jap Por in New Amphibious Attack

Japs Suffer Creat Deleat —MacArthus   Says Enemy Forees In Philippines Sustain Worst Defeat In Nip History.   SEIZE FSCAPE PORTS

JAPS SUSTAIN WORST DEFEAT IN PHILIPPINES   Leyte Island Campaign At End; Hirohito Admits _, War More Critical

POSSIBLY ONE OF GREATEST OF ‘ALL DEFEATS SUFFERED BY NIPS SAYS GEN. MACARTHUR IN REVIEW

Leyte Defeat Worst In Jap Army History   Yanks Seize Only Nip Escape Ports In Yule Cleanun Action.

Yank Divisions Seize Palompon Cutting Escape   67-day Battle Costs Nips 113,221 Men, 68 Ships

Japs Destroyed On Leytein Greatest Defeat  Nip Air Attacks Fail to Check 1 Yank Offensives —

YANKEES WRITE END 10 LEYTE ISLAND BATTLE   Emperor Tells Japs Plight 01 Nation ts “Becoming More Critical’

Japs Have Met Greatest Defea' In Philippines   MacArthur Says Leyte Campaign Virtually Ended

2748 Nir Aircraft  Smashed   Greatest Defeat in History Inflicted Upon Enemy Forces

Japs’ Worst Defeat Hailed By MacArthur   Leyte Campaign Virtually Ended; Foe's Losses Heavy

Yanks Complete Final Conquest Of Leyte Island   Termed Great Victory By MacArthur; Jap ‘Losses Large

‘Last Escape Ports Sealed by Americans   Destruction of Japs So Far in Philippines Rivals Anything in History

67-Day Battle, MacArthur Says, Cost Japan 113,221 Men.   MATERIAL LOSS HEAVY

ELCO SERGEANT TS WOUNDED IN FRENCH BATTLE   Wife Receives Word Of Her Husband’s Injury In Fiehtine

NEW P-70 PLANE MOUNTS 4 CANNON   Is Third New Pursuit Plane Announced by Army Since  January 1.

Wisconsin Vote To be Watched   May Bring Boost Or Downward Shove For Some Candidates

Wisconsin Vote In Spotlight in Political Week   Republicans Eye Decision on Party Candidates

REPUBLICANS EYE WISCONSIN TEST   PRIMARY EXPECTED TO INDICATE TREND IN FALL ELECTIONS

WISCONSIN'S . VOTING CLOSELY      Considerable Signifi. cance Attached To. Primary

G. 0. P.' s0ks For Trends ‘In Wisconsin   Primary Vote Tuesday Expected to Give Clue to Strength Of Willkie Candidacy

POLITICIANS KEEPING EYE ON ELECTION   Wisconsin Primary Is Watched By  Republicans

Both Major Parties Eye Wisconsin   Political Trend Sought in Primary Election There Tomorrow

Willkie Chance ° May Be Shown © In Wisconsin .   Success Or Failure In Primary Tomorrow To Determine Future

GOP TO WATCH BADGER VOTING      Expect Boost Or Downward Shove for One Or More Candidates.   ELECTION IS IMPORTANT

Willkie, Only Republican Actively Seeking Nomination, Eyes Wisconsin

POLITICIANS EYE WISCONSIN FOR ELECTION TRENDS   Tomorrow’s Primary Watched for Possible Boost for GOP Presiden tial Candidates

Politicians Turn Eyes on Wisconsin  Willkie Making Bid;   , Ee  —— 3 =

DAYLIGHT RAID CONDUCTED ON INDUSTRIAL SITE   Anshan. With Population Of 200.000; Vitai To Jap Munitions

Ist Daylight Raid Made By Fortresses   Anshan Suffers Heavily From, Aerial Barrage

LASH AT ANSHAN, IN THE MUKDEN INDUSTRIAL AREA   TARGET IS VITAL TO PRODUCTION OF ENEMY MUNITIONS

FIRST ASSAULT IN DAYLIGHT FOR SUPERS   Bombed Area Is Location Of Many War Plants  OPERATION   Believed Test In Precisior. Work For Big Ships; No Report On Losses

In First Daylight Mission   Big B-29’s Loose Bombs From High Altitude On Anshan, Key Industrial City

Big Plants  Smashed in  ~ Heavy Raid   Tt Will Take a Year to Re vuild Intricate System, Officials Say   FIRST DAYLIGHT “BLOW BY B-20°S   Diversionary Attacks Mace on Other Areas; Yankee Liberators Also Strike

Blast Japanese Targets In Mukden Industrial Region   AVECAIRMEDC IE SEIRACEOEF ERLE ZAC REVUE  First Daylight Assault of Giant U. S. Bombers Rips Anshan, East Manchurian War Production Center

Nipponese War Industries Hit By Superforts   Ansban in Exstern Man. churia Attacked From High Altitude in Day.  light This Morning   Japs Say Penhsihu Also Was Raided   As Usual, Tokyo Minimizes Effectiveness of Assaults Believed to Claim One B-29 Shot Down

Blast Japanese Targets In Mukden Industrial Region   First Daylight Assault of Giant U. S. Bombers Rips Anshan, East Manchurian War Production Center

 Industries At Anshan ‘Are Struck   Daylight Raid  Is First Against Japan’s Greater East Asia Arsenal

Superforts In First Daylight Raid On Enemy   Large Force Strikes Target Area From High Altitude

B-29 BOMBERS HIT MANGHURIA IN RAID TODAY   City Of Ansban Target Of New  Super-Planes

GIANTS MAKE 1ST DAYLIGHT ASSAULT   ‘Anshan in Mukden Industrial Region Chemical Center

Conscription Hits Canada; Vote Is Asked   Prime Minister King’s regime Hangs in Balance as House of Commons Meets

CANADA DRAFT BATTLE RAGES   Prime Minister Asks Con: fidence Vote On Con scription Issue

Canada Moves To Keep Order Among Draftees   Bitterly-Torn Parliament To Be Asked For Vote Of Confidence By King

Prime Minister King Asks Vote Of Confidence   Government's Fate In Balance; Soldiers Kept Off Streets

Disciplinary Measures Extended In Canada As Conscription Crisis Grows

Disorders Spread As King Asks Confidence Vote On  Conscription For Canada

Bitter Fight. Over Draf t  Canadian Covernmer   Canadian Government Now Facing Crisis

Russ Bomb Minsk Gain in Poland   6,800 Nazis Slain on Dnestr in 5 Days

Russians Push Aerial Drive Aaainst Nazis   Blast Minsk and Rail Junctions in Poland; Army Scores Gains

Soviet Bombers Attack Nazi  Rail Junctions   Land Fighting Continues  Ta Be Dull

NAZIS OCCUPY RUMANIA, 100   Occupation Is Confirmed Today By Rumanian Legation in Turkey.   INFORMATION IS. BRIEF

Germans Rush More Men Into Balkans   Full-Scale Occupatior Of Black Sea Area Is Indicated

Rumania Now Occupied By Nazi Troops   Confirmation Of Move Comes From Legation; Turkey Worried Over  German Movement<«

lurkey Fears Germans May Enter Thrace   Closely Watching Troop Movements Into Rumania and Bulgaria

TURKS UNEASY OVER BALKAN DEVELOPMENT   Widening Flood of Hitler Forces In Danubian Basin Re-Awakens Anxieties of 1914   PURGE ON IN HUNGARY

Report Nazis Rushed To Black Sea Coasts   Germans Believed in Control of All Rumanian and Bulgarian Seaport Cities; Rumania Being Occupied.

Black Sea Coast Seized by Nazis   Turkish Advices Say Germans Rush Reinforcements to Ports in Rumania and Bulgaria, Preparing for Last Ditch Stand.   ANKARA IS CONCERNED

Nazis Occupy Coastal Cities On Black Seg   Turkish Reports Declare Germans Reinforce Rumanian. Bulgarian Ports.   CONFIRM OCCUPATION

NAZI RESERVE UNITS RUSHED TOBLACK SEE   Turks Report Germany Has Drawn Off 25 Divisions From Home Guards

Germans Rush More Troops Into Balkans   Occupy Points on Rumania and Bulgarian Black Sea Coasts

NAZIS RUSH TOPORTSON BLACK SEA   Turkey Keeps Wary Eye On Developments

Full-Scale Occupation Of All Rumania For LastDitch Stand Indicated ~— Advance Arouses Turkish Anxiety—Germans Said’. to. Have Drawn Off 25 Divisions Prom Home: Reserves.

Coast Area Occupation  Is Rushed  By Germans   Bulearian, Rumanian Ports Being Snatched

Turkey Fears German Incursion Into Thrace   Reich Troops Reported Oce upyiig Stratesic Ports Along Black Sea

Turks Uneasy As Nazis Flow Into Balkans   Hitler Reported to Have Sent 25 Reserve Divisions to Periled Points

GERMANS RUSH MEN TO POSTS ON BLACK SEA   Full Scale ‘Occupation of. Ru ‘mania ‘and Bulgaria. Made To Halt Reds.

Reich Sends Heavy Reinforcements to Black Sea Coasts   Turkey Keeping Wary Eye on Balkans De velopments

Occupation ~ Of Rumania Has Started   Reinforcements Placed on All Coastal Points of Bulgaria Also 

GERMANS RUSHING REINFORCEMENTS TO BALKAN COAST AREA  TURKISH REPORTS SAY 25 NAZI DIVISIONS USED IN OCCUPATION

HITLER TAPS HIS RESERVE. IN GERMAN)   Reinforcements Rushed to All Points on Rumanian and Bulgarian Coasts and Turks Eye  Manvoac Anvtianalv.

NAZIS DRAWING CORD TIGHTER ON SATELLITE   Chances for Germans Making Stand on East Bank of Prut River Frustrated by Reds

Turkey Keeps Wary Eye On Balkan Froni   Report Germans Rush Reinforcements Into Rumania, Bulgaria

BALKANS ARE THREATENED IN NEW MOVE   Reinforcements Or All Borders; Fear New Outbreaks

Hitler Rushes His Armies To _ Balkan States   Turkish Reports Say Nazis Preparing for Last-Ditch Stand Against Advancing Russians

Germans Rushing To Black Sea Coast Points. . Nazi Troop Movements  In Southeastern Europe Have The Turks Nervous

Arrival Of Fresh  German Forces Seen As Effort To Ward Off Soviet Advance

KERCH TAKEN; WEDGEDRIVEN TOWARD CENTER   11 Enemy Divisions Sealed Off On  Peninsula

Cutting Ur Germans  In Pocket   165,000 Facing Death Or Surrender As  Two Armies Slash  37 Miles Ahead.

Series Of Triumphs s Proclaimed   More Than 100,000 Nazi Troops Facing Annihilation By Reds

»British Widening Gap Near Caen; Reds Rolling On   New Allied Drive May Develop Into March On Paris; Germans Hurled Back On Wide Front In White Russia

NAZIS TIGHTEN THEIR DEFENSE INSIDE CASSING   Reportedly Using 400-Year-Old Tunnels Under City

STAGE CLOSE - PROBATE RACE   Hastings Tops Hatfield In Initial Skirmish Between Pair

VOTE FOR SHERIFF   Hastings Leads Hatfield In Close Probate Court Race

Attempt to Buy Election Charged   Bricker Blasts New Deal Tieup With Hillman

Red Warplane:  ‘Batter ‘German Base   Fires Started Amid Axis. Troop Trains

REICH GAMBLE MAY LEAD 10 GREAT DEFEA   EISENHOWER CALLS ON TROOPS TO CRUSH NAZIS

DESTROY FOE. ORDER OF DAY   Eisenhower in Call to His Men, Says Nazis May Suffer Worst Defeat

Eisenhower Declares Yankees Have Done Much to Foil Germans Great Gamble’ on Western Front

ATTACK 1S CALLED LAST BIG GAMBLE   Eisenhower Says Much Already Done to Foil . the Germans 

Berlin Is Again Ripped By Bombs   Large Yank Air Force Hammers City

Americans Bombers from Italy and Britain Join in Attaek on Monich —No Details of Fighting Given.

WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES IDEA — OF SINO-RUSSIAN BOUNDARY AND IWONDERS IF WALLACE INFORMED

WALLACE TALKS ON RUSSO-CHINA BE PREMATURE   Whether He Talked Out Of Turn in Speaking to China About Russian  Borders Remains to Be   [ enn

WAR TODAY   Wallace Takes Russian Good Will To China, But Border Problem Must Be Settled In  Post-War Era

Condemned Man  Wins New Trial   Court Of Appeals Rules Jury Failed To Get Some Testimony.

Ward’s Rejects WLB Directive   Sewell Avery Replies To Threat of Seizure

Twin Offensive Opens in Italy   Americans Cross Arno In Many Places

GOTHIC LINE IN ITALY IS PIERCED   Sth and 5th Armies Launch Offensives

U.S. STH OPENS OFFENSIVE IN — WESTERN ITALY   Field Marshal Késselring Rushes German Reinforcements to Stop Flow of Allied Infanirvmen

GEN. WILSON ASKS AID FROM FRENCH   APPEALS FOR UNITED EFFORT IN DRIVING OUT NAZ AGGRESSOR

‘Remember 1918’ Wilson Exhorts French As Allies Invade Mediterranean Coast

New Offensive Gains Ground On West Front   British Flatten-Nazi Bulge West Of Maas River; Ninth Army Alone Seizes Dozen Small Towns

Alexander Funeral Held Last Sunday   Passed Away in Des Moines Following Stroke And Beart Attack

Polish Boundary Problem Makes Brifain Uneasy   Early Meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt Urged

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL AND  STALIN ARE TO. HOLD   CONFERENCE EARLY  NEXT YEAR

SOYBEANS VERSUS © COW AS SOURCE OF MILK IS SUBJECT   Henry Ford Starts New Argument by Advocacy Of Soybeans for Milk And Other Foods

K loodwaters Of Big Rivers  Nearing Crest   Further Damage From Great Streams of Midwest Anticipated

ALLIES ROLL PAST SEDAN AND VERDUN   Bolt of Armor Thrown Around 80 Miles of Area From Which Nazis Launch Robots

Finland Loses Democratic Way of Life   German Troops Swarm Through Country As Parliament Meets

Semblance Of Democracy In  Finland: Fades      Government Now Appears To Be Disintegrating As Doom Approaches

eee  All Democratic Government Of Finns Near Fall   Five Cabinet Members Scheduled To Withdraw Today.

Democratic Rule Of Finns  Is Facing Utter Collapse As Nazi Troops Take Over

FINLAND 1S FACED WITH COLLAPSE ALL FREE GOVERNMENT  NAZIS SWARM THROUGH COUNTRY NOW IN FULL HITLER COLLABORATION

Finnish Gov't. Faces Collapse   5 Cabinet Ministers Slated ‘To Withdraw In Protest To. Collaboration With Germany.

Finns Lose Government   Nazi Control Ends Democratic Effort ty nm

x KK Nazi Curse -Engulfs Finland   5th and 8th Near Pisa-Florence Line

Jury Finds Rice Guilty Of Fraud —  Prison Term and Fine Are Imposed

SAYS WARSHIPS SENT TO RUSSIA   Senator Claims Old Cruisers Have Been - Sent. to Russia

London. Free Of Nocturnal Robot Raids   Fourth Night Without Attack Reported in British Capital

Robot Raids Appear Checked   Germans Now Forced To Use Make-Shift Launching Platforms.

Few F lying: Bombs Fall   Londoners. Fearing  - Nazi Super Weapon.

Robot Raids Taper Off    Problem Not Solved ~ But Aerial Bombing of Launching Sites Con- . sidered: Major Factor

British Gain in War U por Robot Bombs  Raids Appear Checker at Least During Hours of Darkness

London Free  Of Bombs For Fourth Night   Germans Now Using Makeshift Platforms For Launching Robots

Flying Bomb Raids Fall Off   Bombing of Launching Platforms and Fighter Patrol Have Effect

Says WPB Units Must Cooperate   Krug Determined In Promoting Harmony

PUSH ORIN TU DCSTAUY ~ LUFTWAFFE   Armadas on 5th Day of Onslaught  HEAVY FIGHTING  Yanks Shoot Down 126 Nazi Planes

GREAT ARMADAS CONTINUE BLOW AT NAZI PLANTS   Wiener Neustadt Factories Near Vienna Blasted from South

Red Army Surges Across Carpathian Mountains To Drive Into Czechoslovakia

ARGENTINA QUINTS HAVE 1ST BIRTHDAY   Group Apparently in Perfect Health and Full of Zest tor Life.

HUSH POLITICS IS CONDEMNED   Stassen Supporter Says Candidates Should Come Out In Open

Quinn Not For Hush-A Bye Politics   STASSEN’S MANAGER JOINS BRICKER IN CALLING FOR CANDIDATES TO TELL WHERE THEY STAND.   Indiana Primaries

GOP ‘Hush-a-Bye Politics Rapped   Stassen Backer Hits Candidates

Russians Trap Ten Divisions In the Ukraine   150,000 Germans Cut Off; Nazis Withdraw from City 70 Miles in Poland; Allies Gain in Italy;. Americans -_Bomb Wilhelmshaven

Over Thousand U.S. Bombers Hit Naval Base   Americans Storm Cassino As Planes Drop Death and Reds Plunge on

GERMAN LINES ARE REPORTED RIPPED OPEN FOR 100 MILES   RUSSIANS DECLARE 150, 000 GERMAN TROOPS HAVE BEEN TRAPPED

» GERMAN LINES ARE REPORTED RIPPED OPEN FOR 100 MILES  RIISCIANS HECLARE &/0.

Russian Forces Join Two Ukrainian Fronts   300 Towns in Dnieper Bend Fall As German Lines Ripped Open for 100 Miles; Towns in Old Poland Abandoned.

Germans Lose Polish Cities, Rovno, Lutsk   Staggering Blows Dealt Nazis Before Cassino; Rome Battle Rages

BERLIN ADMITS EVACUATION OF LUTSK, ROVNO   Nazi Lines Ripped Open For 100 Miles; 2 Red ’ Armies Join

Ten Germ 2 Divisie £ é x in Sov, fran   Reds Strike y kraine and Also in ru. £ as Americans Storm Italian Strong! hald from Front and Rear

Finn Position Is Critical   Dr. Juho Passikivi, Peace En voy, Leaves Stockholm, Car ries Key to Negotiations

Save Country From Fate Of Haly Or Stave Off Smashing Air Attacks Dilemma Faced Today By Finland

F.D. IS FACING BIG SHOWDOWN   Barkley Affair May Affect 4th Term  od  Must Make Choice of

BARKLEY. RESIGNATION INCI: DENT THROWS ENTIRE PRESI-. DENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF DEMOCRATS INTO CONFUSION

F.D: RIN JAM IF HE MANTS (TH TERM   “Barkley Incident” Means He Must Stop Demo Rebellion

Barkley’s Move May Have Effect On Fourth Term   Roosevelt Is Confronted With Rebellious Democratic Leadership On Capito! Hill   PRESIDENT FACES SEVERE HANDICAPS

Outflanking of Livorno By Yanks Near As Leaning Tower of Pisa. Is Sighted

Yanks Capture Peaks Near Italian Port  Americans Grind   Americans Grind Back Bitter German Attacks

Yanks Capture Peaks Near Italian Port   Americans Grind Back Bitter German Attacks

US. Forces Push To Within Two  Miles of Livorno   Yanks Nearing Tower Of Pisa in Drive . Toward Florence Road

FARM LOANS 10 AID TENANTS IN BUYING   War Food Administration Sets $15,000,000 for Loans

Superforts Hit Jap Island   Sizable Force Attacks Targets On Honshu

SUPERFORTS BOMB “INDUSTRIAL BASES   Targets on Honshu and in Manchuria Are Sky Raid Targets   FORCE FROM SAIPAN

Jap Industries Suffer a Heavy Attack by B-29s   Possibly 100 Planes Strike on Honshu; Nips Report New Raids Over Luzon

B-29’s Attack Honshu Island   Big Force Hits Principal Jap Shipping, War Production Cities.

B-29s Back To Honshu      About 100 Superforts Hit Main Jap Island; Report Luzon Raided

aN RR je kane icin alacant tnccae  Superfortresses In New Affacks On Jap Industrial Centers

- INDUSTRIAL BASES   Targets on Honshu and in Manchuria Are Sky. Raid Targets   FORCE FROM  SAIPAN

Superforts Hit Honshu   B-29s Resume Attacks On Japan’s Home Production Centers

‘They Ought to Wipe That Monastery Off the Hill,’ U.S. Soldiers in Italy Say   BY LYNN HEINZERLING

Blast Monastery, Doughboys Urge  Germans Use It for Observation Post

Dewey Confers With Congress Group From N. J   Picks Curran To  Run For Senate

Great Fleets Of Warplanes. Continue Merciless Blows. Against Fortress Europa   ‘Allied Heavies From Italy Spearhead ue Methodical Destruction Of Nazis Areas:

Yank Heavies From Italy Highlight Attack on 26th Day of Gigantic Aerial Assault on Nazis

[Approximately 3,000 Planes Drop 4500 Tons of Bombs   MANY TARGETS HIT DURING THE RAIDS Berlin, Paris and Bucha rest Pounded During ~ Night

RAIL CENTERS AND AIRPORTS ARE WRECKED   ATTACKS LAUNCHED FROM BOTH ITALY AND BRITAIN

Massive Attacks ‘ontinue with increased Fury   Night and Day Raids Reported

“Allies Continue Jo Rain Fury  Over Geemany   3,500 Fa Italy, Eng European

Nutcracker Assault Hurls 6000 Tons of Bombs on Axis Europe; Blasts Romania Third Straight Day

Invasion Coast Gets Heaviest Attack of War   Allied Air Fleets Drop 4.500 Tons of Bombs On Europe on 26th Day of Aerial Assault

Yugoslavia And Austria Are Targets   Planes from Britain And Italy Continue To Blast Many Points  RAF POUNDS BERLIN

ITALIAN - BASED WARPLANES JOIN IN AIR ATTACKS   Smash Rai! Junction in Yugoslavia and Airfield Near. Vienna On 26th Day of Offensive,   CRAFT FROM ENGLAND HIT FRANCE, BELGIUM   Widespread Daylight Raids Follow Heaviest As-.sault of War On Invasion Coast. ~

AMERICAN AND. BRITISH BOMBERS SPEND 26TH DAY IN BLOWS AT RAIL CENTERS AND AIR FIELDS.

Liberators and Fortresses Are Inactive For First Time In 17-Day Stretch

Three Towns Fal! To Invaders in Italian Campaign  Soviets Mop Up Few Remaining Germans On Crimean Beaches

Rail Centers, Air Fields Maior Taraeis   U.S. Heavy Bombers Remain Home for First Time in 17 Dave

Veteran Enemy Unit Re. ported as Becoming _ Disorganized   “CHINDITS” HOLDING SWAY OVER REGION   Enemy Supply Lines Disrupted, Communique  States

4500 Tons of Bombs Drop  On Continent Night Attacks Are   Night Attacks Are Indicated by Axis Radio Stations

Cigarette Dearth Unreasonable Says Officer for OPA   Hoarding hy Consumers, Black Market Practices Account for Shortages; More Fags Produced

ExpressConcern Over What, Ts Termed “Growing Black Market”; Tramediate Aclion Ordered

OPA CHECKS UP ON CIGARETTES   No Good Reason for an Acute Shortage, Says Chiet Enforcement Official

Civilians Must Stay Out of Forward Zone   Eisenhower Also Lays Down the. Law For German Towns

RECORDS FALL IN HEAT WAVE   Midwest Gets Respite; Fog Halts Shipping At Soo Locks

is Said Likely   Von Rundstedt Reported Preparing Stiff Defense In Southwest

Holland Stand sy Germans  Is Said Likely   Von Rundstedt Reported Preparing Stiff Defense In Southwest

88 Nazi Planes Downed And 21 Trains Wrecked   Nazis Admit Damage: Invasion Is Claimed ‘Underway Now By Finland Paper

O00. $. BOMBERS, 14 FIGHTERS LOST   German Fighters Charge by Hundreds Into Combat   88 SHOT DOWN   Great Fires Left Burning im Berlin; Italy-based Planes Attack Toulon

Hundreds of Nazi Fighters Down 63 Big Bombers  Germans Admit Own Damage Is Heavy; Deecte Itale (hasat

DEWEY ON TRANSCONTINENTAL TOUR IN SEPTEMBER   Expects to Visit Most of 48 States in GOP Presidential Campaign.

TWO ALLIED PLANES AND P-T BOATS IN ‘MISTAKE’ BATTLE   Confused Over Signals; Casualties Are ‘Light’

Planes, P-I Boats Fight Each Other   Americans Fail to Recoqnize Sianals

In’ Err r Or Duel   Ali Wreeked bu but, »Yank Casualties: Are Light, MacArthur Reports.

U.S. PLANES A PT:BOATS WRECK EACH OTHER   Apparently Failed Teo Recognize Signals; Casualties Are Light

my  BOATS BATTLE   Fight Each Other Near Rabaul, New Britain — Apparently Fail te Recognize Signals.

2 American Planes, 2 P-T Boats Are Wrecked Near Rabaul; Fail to Recognize Signals, Fight Each Other

Yanks, Faces Black With Cooking Soot, Wipe Out Entire Nazi Garrison

Yanks Wipe Out Nazi Garrison   Make Daring Night Raid Behind German Lines and Return

South Opposes. Henry Wallace   Man From Dixie Wanted For Vice ‘President

Southerners Plan To Weld Solid Front —   . Hope ‘To Agree Early. On Candidate To Run Ju Placée of Wallace”   PRESIDEN PhS Vit TO BE KNOWN SOON  - Letter to Con: ention Permanent Chairman -Dune Thdav or Tuesday

END OF PROBING BY DIES GROUP NOW IN OFFING   New Draft Policy Is Given Endorsement - - New Air Bases Are Discussed

DIES SOMMITTEE IS APPARENTLY ON THE WAY OUT   DECISION OF DIES TO RETIRE VIEWED AS SWAN SONG

Dies Committee May Be Finished   Decision of Dies To Retire Regarded As Group's Swan Song

Today In Washington Swan Song ls Sung By Dies Group  Un-American Affairs   Un-American Affairs Committee Expected to Pass With Chair man’s Retirement

FINNS WITHOUT REAL FRIENDS FOR FIRST TIME   American Flag Fails To Fly In Helsinki

ExpertsSee Revolution _ For Finlanc   U. 8. Break in Relations Ts Expected to Contribute to Decision

FINLAND ENTERS NEW WAR PERIC   U. $. Treasury Department Bars Messages, Orders License For Dealings.

FINLAND FACES CERTAIN DEFEAT   ENTER NEW PHASE OF WAR WITHOUT ALLIED FRIENDS

FINLAND FACES FUTURE WITH UNCERTAINTY   Filled with German Troops and Without Benefit of U. S. and Other Friends

Defeat Or Internecine War Looms For Finland Shorn Of Friends Among Allies

Warships Again Bombard Guam   Troops Continue to Mop Up Saipan Japs

NEW SHELLING OF GUAM BY U.S. WARSHIP'   Many Japs Found Swimming in Sea  Off Saipan

British Reach Caen Docks As Yanks Advance   American Big Bombers Attack Central Germany

Fleet of 1,500 U.S. Planes Hit Reich   Hitler Shakes Up Command, Teaming Field Marshals Rommel and Von Kluge, Ousting Von Rundstedt; Reds Drive to Within Ten Miles on Wilno; Allies Halted on Italian Front

Yanks Open Drive ‘North Of St. Lo   "Russian Forces Reported Only 10 Mile: From Wilno; Latvia, Lithuania ih Threatened

Drive to Start Next Monday in County, State   Amount Less Than ‘ That Set for the  Previous War Drive.

GTHIOWA LOAN $178,000,00   County Quotas Set for Drive Opening Nov. 20

SIXTH WAR LOAN TO START NOV. 20   County Quota Is $793,000; Organization Meetings Soon

Fisenhower Urges Home’ Front: t   Carroll County 6th War Loan Total Quota Set at $1,205,000

Announce Sixth War Loan Quota of $178,000,000 for Iowa; Opens in Week

British Storm Key Towns on Road to Paris   Street Fighting Takes Place in Vimont, Troarn

British Armor Fans Out On Road To Paris      Storm German _ Stronghold Of Vimont Astride Key Highway

TANK BATTLES BACE ON PLAINS   "Allies Hold Main Roads, Rail Lines Below Caen

Tanks Fanning Out Against Stiff Fighting   Tommies Storm Into Vimont—Rommel Counterattacks

Tanks Fight On Plains Of Normandy  Troarn, On East Flank Of Nazi S 2 ¢*  Zae ee eee,

VIMONT RAIDED BY ARMORED BRITISH FORCES      Furious Tank Rattles Swirl Over Normandy Plains; Thrusis Made Bight Miles Bevond Caen

BAIT Von TANK STORM 2 HAZ  STRONGPOINTS   Battle in Vimont and Troarn “After Thrusts of Eight , Miles Past Caen.

Vimont, Troarn Reached By British Force Todav   GERMANS RETREATING IN AREA ABOUT PISA

FLORENCE ART CENTER SPARED   City Is Occupied With Minimum Of Damage To Treasures

FLORENCE I$ OCCUPIED BY ALLIED ARMY      Without Extensive Damage to Art Treasures; Expect City to Return to Normal Life.   13,171 Prisoners

Occupation of Florence Is Completed   Skill and Patience Are Factors in Taking City

Occupation Of Florence 1sComplete   Troops Able to Finish Task. Without Causing Serious Damuye To Art Center

DAMAGE LIGHT AT FLORENCE   Allies Complete Occupation Of City; Cultural Treasures Spared

AMERICAN SHIPS ARE IDENTIFIED   Destroyer Mahan And U S. 8. Ward Sunk Off Veyte Island

LOoT WAROHIPD ARE IDENTIFIEL   Destroyer Mahan and Destroyer Transport Ward Lost Off Leyte; Crews Removed, Sunk by Own Force

Tw elve Killed ‘As Army Car g0  Plane Cr ashes   ‘Four-engined Ship Hits Mountain In Southwest Virginia; Bodies Are . Burned In Wreck

12Killed As Army Cargo Plane Crashes  In Virginia   Newspaperman Counts Bodies Blackened By Fire Scattered Amonge Wreckave

12 Killed in Plane Crash   Army Cargo Plane Goes Into Mountain Peak in Virginia

12 PERISH IN BOMBER CRASH   Four - Engined Plane Hits Mountain In Virginia and Burns

12 Die In Crash Of Cargo Plane   Plunges Into Peak Of Bull Mountain In Southwest Virginia.

Plane Crash Takes Toll of 12 Army Mer   Accident Happened Near Bull Mountain About 11:40 Last Night

Report 12 Dead In Plane Crash  Army Craft Found On  Mountain Summit

12 DIE IN ARMY PLANE WRECK   Graff Crashes Into” Top” ot Virginia Mountain Peak

Reds Now Only 70 Miles From Rumania; Allies Keep Up Blows in Italy   U. S. Fifth Army Pushes Two Miles Nearer to Cassino; Swedish Writers Say Nazis Frankly Admit Big Defeat in East

CHAOTIC RETREAT ° HAS BERLIN AGOG   American Fifth Army’s Offensive he  Italy Shows No Letup Veasterdayv

Jap Escape Route In India Cut by Column of Tanks   Long Line of Enemy Trucks Wiped Out By Sudden Maneuver

iJ. Frank Dobie, Back From Engtand, Jotns Detense UT IDainon Sane Reaente Trying To Build ‘Maqinot Line

Dobie Attacks Regents and Gov. Stevenson   Professor Returns From Cambridge and Joins in Battle

Cossacks Cut Escape Lane From Mozyr   Russian Horsemer Sweep Beyond City—Speed Drive to Pinsk

Russian, Chinese Trade Will Keep  Americans Busy i   Wallace Reports Qn Pacific Trip

3 divisions of Germans  ‘in confusion’ Tanks engaged in heavy battle   Stambaugh loses big part of lead

NAZIS SPEED —- JASCE DRIVE   More Armored Units Attack Slavs   Super-Fortress May Have Come Too Late To Help Beat Hitler, But---Japs Beware

B-29’s Raid Industrial Targets in Tokyo In Sth Raid on Jap Capito!

Ward Seizure Court Battle Is Resumed  In Chicago    Lacks Legal Basis, Attorney Maintains In Asking Dismissal of Restraining Order OPPOSITE POSITION 1S TAKEN BY BIDDLE  Asserts No Business Immune from Power Weld hye President

Wards aver no legal right for seizure  ‘Close parallel to King John’s rule’

WARD BATTLE IS STARTED IN CHICAGO COURT   Investigation Proposal May Be Drafted By House Friday

Biddle Says  FDR's Power ls Unlimited   . None Are Immune, -Attorney Araues

BIDDLE ATTEMPTS “TO LINK WARD'S WITH WAR EFFORT   Argues in Court, That Han* dling of Farm Machinery :. Definitely Pute Firm:  in Picture.   POMERSS CONTENDS SEIZURE ILLEGAL   Attorney General Says President Roosevelt Has Power to Take Over Business of Any Kind.

Two Allorneys it Mass Trial of 30 Rebuked igh  “Other ‘Fine’, de. , Panel Dis; vend   Fight Over Ward_ _ Seizure-Resumed' Thy Federa. Ceurt   CUO" -F UG

WARD SEIZURE ~— GOES TO COURT   Battle Over Government Control Waged By Chicago Firm

Saar River Bridge   British Drive Forward To The Maas   Four Towns Taken By Allies In Push Against Germans   EE  Battle Of Roer River Expected To Be Bloodiest Of War

Roer River To  Rival Argonne Great Battle In U. S. History To Be Fought

See Big Clash Along Roer   Bloodiest Fighting Yet in Western Front May Be in Prospect

Roer River Battleline To Be As Well Known As Argonne  German Strength Concentrated There To Cive Oth Army Rloodiest BRattlne Of War

Roer niver Battle      Nazis Must Block Allies From Ruhr and Writer Says Fight May Rank With Argonne of 1918 in History Books Decade Hence.

GREAT BATTLE FOR ROER SEEN   Most German Armor, Third Of Infantry on 19 Mile Front.   FIGHTING TO BE BLOODY

TWO ARE SCRATCHED  LONE YANKEE FORT RETURNS AFTER BATTLING 60 NAZI FIGHTERS. i

7,824 STRIKES RESULT IN BIG LOSS OF LABOR   3,177,000 Workers Lose 19,496,000 Man-Days Of Work 

Stimson Warns Allies Will Attack Parts Of Rome Put to Military Use by Nazis

Stimson Places Attack on Rome Up to Germany  Only Course Open Is Used by Troops

oa BATTER »FLEEING ENEMY NORTH OF ROME   Nazis’ Resistance Weak ) as Fifth Fans Out Beyond Tiber

Big Fortresses Follow 800 Briti Raiders Which Devastat Three Nazi Anti-Invasion Ba: In France; No Fighter Op  sition.   ENEMY NOT LICKED, SAYS STAFP SERGEAI

lure RENEW” BOMB ATTACK   eke “BACK PLANES MAY ‘HAVE BEEN USED IN BOMBING SINCE  . AUGUST 31ST.’

More Of Robots Land In Britain   Some Casualties And Dam. age Caused By Renewal Of Bomb Attacks

AXIS SPY RING   Argentina Promises Complete In vestigation of Alleged Plot.

Comedian Defends Self   Chaplin Overcome As He Denies Testimony of Protege

Germans Try To Save Trapped Men  Fire Curtain Used To Keep Russ  ee Pec Mints

Nazis Mass Guns At Sevastopol   Concentrates All Artillery Saved In Crimea Retreat

Germans Try To Save Trapped Men   Fire Curtain Used To Keep Russ Air Forces Away

NAZIS THROW CURTAIN OF CANNON FIRE AROUND SEVASTOPOL, BESIEGED BY RUSS

SEVASTOPOL NOW DEATH TRAP FOR THE AXIS ARMIES   Many German Escape Boats Being Sunk in Black Sea As Reds Tighten Noose on Thos Remaining

Thousands of Workers Reported Needed fo Can Plentiful 1944 Crops

RUOSEVELT FIRES NORMAN LITTELL   Biddie’s Assistant Let Ou For ‘Insubordination’; Mat ter Probably Will Be Aire By Committee

LITTELL FIRED BY ROOSEVELT   Feud Inside Justice Department Shifts Over To Coneress

F.D.R. Fires Littell In Justice Dept. Rou   “Insubordination”™ Is Given as Reason for Ousting Assistant Attorney General: } oorhis Urges Matter Be Aired by House Committee

Littell Firei Fired  By Roosevelt   Assistant Attarney General Termed ‘Insuboridinate’

FDR Backs Biddle, Fires Asst. Littell   BLAMES ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR MAKING STATE: MENT TO SENATE WAR INVES: TIGATING COMMITTEE ON FUSS   Congress Takes A Hand

LITTELL FIRED BY ROOSEVELT   Justice Department's Feud Moved Over Into Congress

JUSTICE DEPT. FEUD WILLBE INVESTIGATED      Norman Littell Fired by Roosevelt for “Insubordination”

Littell Fired By President; Case Not Closed   Rep. Voorhis (D-Cal) Call Fer Full Investigation By. Judiciary Connnittee

LITTELL FIRED BY PRESIDENT   ‘‘Insubordination” Given as Reason as Roosevelt Acts in Quarrel

Littell Fired But House May  Investigate Case President Upholds Riddlo in Raw

Gen. Eisenhower Reports Advance Despite Strong Defense by Nazi Troops   Bloody Invasion Much Easier Than Expected   CRUCIAL MAJOR BATTLE FOR NORMANDY ERIDGEHEAD APPEARS TO HAVE STARTED

Nazis Claim Aprilia, 10 Miles From Shore, Taken—Armor And Men Hurled on Defenders

Liberators And Forts Rush Aid To Imperiled Allied Ground Troops ~   German Armored Forces Threaten Entire Allied Front In Worst Crisis Since Salerno

ALLIES STILL HOLDING AS NAZIS HURL EVERYTHINE   Slaughter of Attackers  Great But They Still Come Forward.

American Bombers Try To Stem Powerful Drive   Germans Capture Aprilia Station; — Smash On In Feverish All-Out Attack

NAZIS LAUNCH FURIOUS ORWE “TOWARDS SE   Germans-Claim Key Point ¢ _ Miles From.Ocean; U. S.. Rushes Bombers.

GREATEST CRISIS OF STH ARMY IS DUE FOR DECISION   Planes Spread Fire and Death Through Great Number of Nazis Streaming Into Battle Area.   VATICAN BOMBING 1S WORRY TO POPE   Frankfurt, Arsenal! and Transport City Is Bombed For Fourth Time During Past Two Weeks.

ALLIES THROW IN AIR POWER TO SAVE HOLD   Next Few Days Termed Critical

American Beachhead imperiled         HEAVY AMERICAN BOMBERS ‘ARE THROWN INTO BATTLE; NEXT“ FEW DAYSTOBECRITICAL

GERMANS LALINCH GREAT OFFENSIVE IN ANZIO SECTOR   Enemy Reported Striking in Great Strength on 14-Mile Front

Germans Claim Capture Of Aprilia As Fight For Beachhead Grows Increasingly Critical

14,430 Persons Killed In Traffic Accidents In Eight-Month Period

14,430 Persons Killed In Traftic   Accidents Claim 790 Lives Over '43 Total

3 iiitKs Barancing Ledger  For Japan’s Brutal Trail Of Conquest and Cruelty   Inexorable’ Power Massed for ‘Victory March’ to Tokyo to Avenge Barbaric ‘Death March’ After Bataan

2 U-BOATS SUNK INRUNNING FIGHT   BRITISH. FRIGATE PICKS UP 64 SURVIVORS AFTER VIO‘TORY IN ATLANTIC,

SANG AS THEY TOOK BEACHES   American Morale Reported At High Pitch

FIRST INVASION ATTEMPTS ARE DESCRIBED BY WOUNDED   BTORIES OF TERROR AND HEROISM ARE TOLD BY WOUNDED ‘WHO. RE _ ° TURN TO ENGLISH’ Por

Threaten to cut off main nazi defense   Sleds tused over ice to Estonia

GERMANS IN RETREAT G0 NEAR RSKOV   one  While Reds Send _ Sleds Across Ice lw Attempt To Reach Estonia,..,.Fighting Continues In Many Sectors   New Cold Wave

SOVIETS PUSH NEARER PSKOV   2,500 More Nazis Killed in Effort to Break Out Of Ukraine Trap

Red Forces Are 45 Miles NorthWest of Pskov   Frustrate Frenzied Nazi Effort to Break Through Ukraine Trap

German Baltic Army Retreats   Reds Slaughter 2,500 More Germans Caught In Trap In Korsun Area; Nazi Defense Of  Estonia Imperiled

ESTONIA MENACED BY REDS SWEEPING DOWN FROM NORTH   Russians Attempt to Reach Country on Sledges, but ‘Berlin Says They Were  .. Beaten Back,   OTHER COLUMNS PUSH CLOSER TO PSKOV   Soviets Kill 2,500 More Germans in Ukraine Trap and Wreck 107 Tanks in Fierce ‘Fighting.

Reds Hammer Germans at Estonia Line Russian Armies  Gain on All  OQahewn Wonwiee

Red Tr oops: From North -NeurPskoy   Russinis Send Sledges ‘Over Jeo. in Attempt  __To Gain Access to ----- Lower-Estenia —-

GERMAN BALTIC ARMY RETREATS TOWARD PSKOV   Russians Use Sledges In Attempt To Enter South Rg   NAZIS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK FROM TRAP

Reds Baiile To Border Gf Estonia   Germans Held In Soviet Trap Fight Fiercely

Reds Set To Slash Across Into Estonia  D.-~L,-4-74 hf’.   Pocketed Nazis Fight Furiously

Russians Near Pskov, Rail _ Center, In Fierce Campaign   Some 2,500 Germans Killed and Tanks Wrecked it Attempted Break-through—Four Communities  West of Korsun Taken by Reds

Allies Threaten All Enemy Holds On Dutch Front   Nazis Fall Back In Greece; Italian Height Seized; Slavs Hold Danube City

Drive Is Linked With Push in East Prussia   Germans Fall Back Along 15-mile Front In Holland Sector

‘Huns Stiffen  In. Russia   KK KOK OK Odessa Guerrillas Gave Jerries the Jerks

Nazis Trying To Escape By Sea Lanes   Germans Also Using Air Transports to Evacuate Troops

‘TOWERS OF SEVASTOPOL BECKON TO RUSSIANS WHO CROWD AXIS [TROOPS INTO WATERY GRAVES —   Germans and Rumanians Making Desperate Attempts to Get Away by Sea But Reds Sinks  Many Boats. Germans Put Up Bitter Fight on p.hok Fant ’

NAZIS REPULSED TOWARD LWOW AFTER ATTACKS   Reds Take Fedyukhiny Heights Near Big Crimean Port

Only Small Axis Groups Escaping From Sevastopol   Germans Putting Up Last Desperate Attempt to Stop Russians.   Nazi Attacks in Old Poland Reaten Rack

Nazis Rally For Flight At Sevastono   Many Germons Die In Attempt to Flee Over Sed Route

Germans Trying Desperately To Escape   Soviets In Sight Of Sevastopol Towers; Few Getting Away

Russian Troops See Towers of Sevastopol  ~~ wwewmee oewoenu:s....

Sevastopol Towers In View Of Russ Attackers   Axis Making Final Effort To Escape: Inemy Beaten Back In Old Poland

Slattery Resigns As Head Of REA;  No Reason Given   Adiministrator’s Decision Accepted By President; No Successor Named

STATE'S LARGEOT MINE 1S CLOSEL   Bituminous Coal Production Receives Another Setback As Result of Strikes; Barrackville Mine Down

FOREMEN STRIKE IN FIVE MORE UPSTATE MINES   2,152 Miners Employed At Operations Are Idle

Strikes Close  5 More Mines   Pit Closures Now Total 1% With Others Forcseen

HUNT FOR BODY OF LEST CHILD   Believed te Have Perished With Mother Who Lost Life In River

(anks Also Close In On Twe Other Road-Line Bases At Lessay, Periers

Three Towns Fall ,/n Biggest Gain ” Since Cherbourg   U. S. Troops Ahead Yard by Yard in Face of Nazi Fire; British Still. Wait

Yanks Hammer 4-Mile Wedge In Nazi Line   Largest 1-Day Advance  Made Since Fall  Of Cherbourg

B-CARD RATIONS TO BE BOOSTED   Mileage Allowance May Be Increased To 720 A Month

DELAY FORECAST IN ‘B’ GAS HIKE   OPA Ration Chief Discloses Decision Must Wait 2% Davs

NEWDEAL MACHINE      “In Europe They Have Fascism—Here It Is the New” Deal’—GOP Is “Bill of Rights” Party.

WAR FUND DRIVE 10 BE PLANNED   Organization Meeting Will Be Open to the General Public

Luxembourgers, Freed Of Nazis, Demonstrate In Favor Of Duchess’ Return

British Heads Meet at London   Endorse Global Strategy— Turn to Post-War Problems

“BEAT HITLER FIRST” INDORSED   Premiers of British Empire Continue Parley

BRITISH EMPIRE LEADERS CONFER   ENDORSE POLICY TO BEAT HITLER FIRST; PRESSURE ON JAPS

British Empire Premiers, In Pre-Invasion Talks, Endorse Global Strategy Of Allies   Officials Turn To Post-War Problems After Discussing Coming Operations

BRITISH PREMIERS TO TALK ECONOMICS   First .Week of Discussions Brings Complete Unity on War Policies

BRITISH HEADS PPROVE ALLIED WAR POLICIES   Disagreement Expected On Post-War Economic Program

PREMIERS AGREE ON STRATEGY IN INVASION PLANS   Beat Hitler First Policy Endorsed  In Conference

British Empire Meeting Full Military  Agreement is   Premiers Turn to the Transportation and Economic Fields

(British Empire Meeting Full Military  Agreement is  "Now Reachec   Premiers Turn to the Transportation and EcOonomic Fields

British Empire Premiers 0). K. Global Strategy   Parley At London Turns To Discussion Of Post.  war Problems.

4F’s ‘Ordered’ Into War Work   House Committee Issues Sharp Fdict

ARMY REJECTS URGED TS TAKE ESSENTIAL. JARS      ‘Told Other Men Are Taking Their Places On Battle Fronts

In Wat Tobs   Told. to" Seek US USES ‘Help and Replace Men Who Fieht for Them

‘PRESSURE’ DRIVE ON 4-FS CONTINUED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE   Renew Efforts To Force Rejects To Take War Jobs

ASK (-F MEN TO ENROLL FOR WAR WORK   House Comm. Urges Them to Contact  Employment Office

Destroyer Reported Lost   U. S. Vessel Sunk In Atlantic on Christmas Eve by Torpedo

Loss of Destroyer. on Christmas Eve  Revealed by Navy   Announcement Follows Sinking of Warship Off Sandy Hook

GAIN OF ONLY 62   Hiring at S.0.W. Barely Exceeds Terminations in November

REDS OPEN NEW DRIVE ON MINSK   2200 NAZIS SLAIN, 114 TOWNS SEIZED IN PSKOV SECTOR

ROMANS GIVE VENT TO JOY AT LIBERATION   Natives March Along Soldiers. Partisans Join In Final Skirmishes

Nazis Offer Pony Alibi for Rome   2 Nazi Armies Blasted--Clark.   Homans Fight, Cheer and Die Aiding Allies  Fifth's Entry Into Rome Triumphant

RED FLAGS FLAUNTED AS ALLIES ENTER ROME  Reporter Moves With Troopers Into Captured Italian Capital

talians of All Ages and Degrees of Poverty Found by Americans as They Move Forward in ~ Street Fighting - - - Some Found Dead on Nazi Guns They Tried To Silence and Others Wait Patiently for Their Liberators To Dress Their Wounds

“(Doman Partisans Fan Fires Of Liberation As U.S. Army Encircles 1! Dude's Old Office

Rome Joyfully Welcomes Allied Army of Liberation   Halian Communists, With Red Flags, Take Lead in Clamorous Reception

World Cradle Rocks  Fifth Army Stirs Wind Of Freedom  Through Invasion

Italian Reds Aid Allies Freeing Rome   Romans, Wearing Arm and Sickle ‘Bands, Serve as  Screen for Troops

Nine-Tenths Of American Island’s 225 Square Miles Under Control   JAPANESE CEMETERY REVEALS MASS BURIAL

Americans Push Northward Tn Conquest Of Guam Island   Advance Sweeps. Over Large, New Japanese Cemetery Where There Is “Evidence of Mass Burial Co , of Dead”—Bonin Islands Blasted

AMERICANS SWEEP THREE MILES IN DRIVE FOR GUAM   Advance Puts Nine-Tenths of Island Under U. S. Con- . trol — Completion of Conquest Near.   DEVASTATING BLOW DEALT NIP SHIPPING   Task Force Sinks 11 Enemy Ships and Damages 30 Other Vessels in Smash at Bonin Islands.

GUAM ISLAND ABOUT WIPED UP BY YANKS   TRAPPED REMNANTS OF JAP GARRISON TO BE CRUSHED

American Troops Hold Nine Tenths Of Guam Island   Five Destroyers Lost By Japs in Shelling, Bombings of Bonins

THREE MILE GAIN SCORED BY AMERICANS   On Center of Guam, Sweeping Over Large New Japanese Ceme. terv.   Wipe Out Convoy

Life Of C.C.C. May Be Extended   Resolution Is All That’s Needed

Roosevelt and High Command Send Christmas Messages to Armed Forces

PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF HIGH COMMAND SEND GREETINGS TO ALL MEMBERS OF AMERICN ARMED FORCES

‘Allied Shuttle Planes Blast Athens Airfields. Fleeing Nazis   Berlin Blasted for Ath Night in Row

ITALY-BASED PLANES TEAM WITH SHUTTLE BOMBERS IN RAIBS  GERMAN OBJECTIVES IN SOUTH CENTRAL EUROPE HEAVILY BLASTED.

SHUTTLE PLAYS BACK AND FORTH OVER GERMANY   Planes From Italy And Russia Shuttle Over South And Central   Furope.

SOUTHERNERS EYED  HIGH COURT RULING  IN ADVERSE MANNER CLAIMED 90-ODD FEDERAI  AGENCIES SHARE JURISDICTION OF LANDS

Tok ight Supreme Court VoteRuling   Judges Decide That Negroes Can Vote in Primarics,; Southern Legislators Map Senate Action to Block Fulfillment: oe  Decision  °-

Louis Lep ke Is Kxecuted At Sing Sing   Two Henchmen Of Head Of “Murder, Ince..” Also Put To Death

LORENGAU IS CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Virtually Completes Drive For the Admiralty Isles

YANKS HOLDING ALL KEY AREAS IN ADMIRALTIES   Lorengau Last Big Jap Base, Falls; U. S. Losses Low

Admiralties Now in Full Yank Contro!   Way for Blows From New Guinea to Truk

Drive Staged By Japanese On Changsha   Key Link ‘in Hankow-Canton Railway Under Assault from All Directions—Chinese Ordered To Ficht to Last Man

NIPPON CARGO VESSEL TOLL BOOSTED 10 TOTAL OF 60/   Palau Ripped in Daylight Bomb Raid; 22 Enemy Planes Destroyed on Ground

Lend-Lease Food Shipments Listed   Alhed Nations Get 9.3 Per Cent of Meats

Lend-Lease Report  Covers 11 Months  Ship 10,500,000,000 Pounds to Allies

7 YOUNGSTERS DIE WHEN HOME BURNS   Aged Man, who Was With Children, Burned Trying To Save Them.

HITLER PLOT LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH  Former Mayor of Leipzig Named  - band «fb faeman Cancniratare

Disclose Leader Of Hitler Plot   Nazis Claim Karl Friedrich Goerdeler, leipzig Mayor Was The -Rinaleader

' Dr. Goerdele: Given Death . Sentence   Was Former Mayor of Lipzig; Six Others Found Guilty With Him

Goerdeler Is Sentenced To Death As Ringleader Of Piot Against Hitler

NAZIS SENTENCE FORMER LEIPZIG MAVOR. 6 OTHERS   Ex-Mayor Goerdeler. Facing. Death Sentence As Ringleader of July 20 Plot to Kill Hitler and Take Over  Qqavernment

Sentence Of Death in Plot To Kill Hitler   Former Leipzig Mavor Described  As Ringleader

Former Leipzig Mayor Sentenced To Death by Nazis   Named by Plotters To Succeed Hitler As German Chancellor

Former Leipzig Mayor Held Rincleader Of Hitler Plot   Dir, Karl Friedrich Gocrdeler and Six Other “Politicians” Sen tenced to Death

NAZI ASSASSIN LEADERS NAMED   Ex-Leipzig Mayor, And Six Others Condemned To Death

Perpetrator Of Plot Against Hitler, Six Politicians Sentenced To Death

Nazis Nail Key Plotter   Former Leipzig Mayor Named As Ringleader In Plot: Against Hitler

Goerdeler Named. As Head Of Plot To Kill Hitler  Berlin Radio Gives More Retaile OF Plot

Nazis Sentence Former Leipsig  ‘Mayor To Death With Six Others   Dr. Goerdeler Identified As A Ringleader Of Plot To Assassinate Hitler And Was Selected By Plotters To Succeed Him, Say Nazis.

Planned. To Take Hitler’s Place.  Former Leipzig. Mayor ‘Sentenced To Die

EPIDEMIC OF ae HITS WAR EFFORTS   WALKOUTS SERIOUSLY CRIP PLING PRODUCTION ‘AND Dis-.  TRIBUTION FACILITIES OF NATION

20,000 CIO-AUW Workers At Wright Plant Return To jobs; Trucking Tieup Is Reported Spreading

WeTalk Too Much   So Says Gov. Martin Al 28th Division Shrine At Boalsburg

PELOPONNESUS “PENINSULA. 1S  GOALOF PUSH   Patrai Airport Falls As Nazis Blow Up  Corinth Canal

Germans Flee As British  Invade Greece   Airfield, Town Falls Turkey Claims Nazis Quit Athens

Young Mother of Quadruplets Thrills As Babies Reported Gaining Weight

YANK IS FATHER OF QUAD BABIES   English Girl, 23, Happy; Hopes To Marry Her American Sergeant

Churchill Tells Of Aid fo Reds   Huge Quantities Of Arms Supplied

Henry County Men In 1-A   Another Group Classified Under Selective Service

County Group Tn Class 1-A      Recently Classified Under The Selective Service

Men Placed In Class 1-A   Group Classified Under The Selective Service

Nearing Outskirts  Of Chateau- Thierry; Report Vitry Fallen   U. S. Troops Within 10 Miles of Historic Forest of Compiegne; Make Second Marne Crossing At Meaux.

Positions On Rocket Bomb Coast Flanked   Marne Crossed At Two Points By Americans

Second Crossing Of Marne Made Near Campiegne   Northern France Escape Corridor Is Narrowed To 76 Miles By Allies

Allied Bombers Resume Attack Unon Germany   Planes Go Roaring Over Channel To Attack After Brief Respite   WEATHER IMPROVES; RAIDS ARE RENEWED

ALLIES RENEW GIANT BOMBING OF CONTINENT   Createst Aerial Offersive in History Resumed After Lull

Russians: ‘Storm East Prussia;. ‘Threaten. Tilsit   . Reds ‘alse Fight * In’ Outskirts of .  * Memel; Hungary Out af Wor Saan

Soviet Army Is Racing For Austria   Other Russians Cross Into East Prussia In Drive Upon Tilsit

REDS STORMING EAST PRUSSIA, TOWARD TILSH   Victorious Reds in Hungary Race Forward, Evying 160-Mile Distant Austrian Frontier.

Reds Storm Into Land Of Junkers      Carry Battle Onto Soil Of East Prussia; Roll Swiftly Across Plains Of). Southern Hungary

Reds Race For Austria From Hungary Posts   Soviets Only Nine Miles From Tilsit —Fall of Hungary Expected Hourly

Capture of Riga, Latvian Capital, Announced Tonight   Open Plains Lie Ahead of Southern Drive Into Hungary

JUNKERS. LANDS... ~ STORMED BY. THE ~ RUSSIAN: TANKS   The Attack:in East Prussia ‘Was Barely 9 Miles North_ of Pilsit. .   THE FRONTIER CRACKED   Was Hit in the Memelland . Sector, Annexed by Hit. ler. in 1939.

hussian Forces. ‘Only Nine Miles ~ Fron Vital Titsit      Victorious _ Soviets Race: . Over Doomed:.Hungary Toward. Austriaiz . Line

Soviets Storm East Prussia, Smash Deeper Into Hungary   -ast-Moving Reds Crack Frontier In Memelland Zone; Berlin Urges Austrians To Dig In For Lives

E. PRUSSIA IS STORMED BY ARMOR   Other Soviet ‘Troops Sweeping Rapidly Through Hungary

OTHER FORCES ARE RACING OVERHUNGARY   Hitler's Balkan Ally Expected To Give Up Any Moment

Reds Storm East Prussia And : Hungary Becomes Racetrack For Unchecked Blitz  pon Aust       pon Austria      Hard Fighting Rages  - As Reds Storm Home Of Junkers But Russian Tide Moves Like Scythe Through Hungarv.

Russian Forces Race  Over East Prussia   German Border Crossed in Three Places; Hungarian-German Army. In Flicght on Southern Front

SOVIETS SMASH EAST PRUSSIAN DEFENSE LINES   Red Tanks, Infontry Slash Through Foe Positions 9 Miles from Tilsit

Red Forces  Open Drive or East Prussia   Tanks and Infantry Storm Junkers Land;  Hungary Near Collapse

Campaign In Hungary Looks Like Pushover   Heavy Slugging Is Taking Place On Baltic Coast

EAST PRUSSIA STORMED BY RED ARMIES   Russian Tanks and Artillery Barely Nine Miles Northeast of Important City of Tilsit   DRIVE ON BUDAPEST

Russians Race For Austrian Frontier   German Divisions In Hungary Rolled Back By Reds

[Reds Invade East Prussia,. Junker Stronghold; Vienna  Digs In As Hungary Wilts.

East Prussia Near Tilsit   Victorious Russians In Doomed Hungary Open 160-Mile Race For Austrian Frontier

Soviet Might: Pushes Back. Nazi Troops. On All Front:   ‘Russians ‘Racing Toward: Austria

Soviet Tanks, Inf antry, Storm Prussia   Forces in Hungary Race for the Austrian Frontier

Soviet Troops Storming Info East Prussia   Other Russian Army Forces Race Through Hungary For Austrian Frontier

EAST PRUSSIA STORMED TODAY BY TANK FORGE   Russians Advance Toward Hungary Border Front

AUSSIAN TIDE ROARS NEARER JUNKER LAND   Drive on Tilsit, Memet as Reds in South Sweep Through Hungary.

Russian Tank:  Smashing at  East Prussia Red Army Also  Sweenine Across

TWO RED DRIVES SMASHING NAZIS BACK TO REICH   Russians Crack Memel Line And in South Dash Over Hungary to Austria

SOVIET ARMED FORCES $ TORM EAST PRUSSIA   Russians Nine Miles From Tilsit; Others Race For Austrian Frontier

Reds Across Prussia Line In 3 Sectors   Tanks, Infantry  Moving on Tilsit; Haneary Fall Near

Hungary’s Admission Of Defeat Expected Hourly; Reds Storm East Prussia

Red Tanks And Infantr y Rac e  Into Prussia   Paris Radio Reports. Rassians Have Crossed Into Centuries-Old Jamkers Land at Three Places °

GREAT OFFENSIVES DIRECTED AT NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF REICH MOVE ON

Red Army Storms Into East Prussia   Russian Troops Race Across Hungary for Austrian rder   ROLL GERMANS BACK   Fight in Prussia Is Slug. ing Match; Advance in  South Easy

Congress Inquiry Into OPA Urged   Agency Charged With Ignoring Mandates

Admiral Foresees Naval Battle  Says Nips Now Face Do-or-Die Fight

ANOTHER CRACK AT JAP NAVY PREDICTED   Admiral Mitscher Says He Expects Remnants Of Nip Surface Force To Come Oat

MITSCHER SUMS UP JAP POWER   Will Have Jap Navy Cleaned Up in Year, Predicts   EXPECTS ACTION   Enemy Bombers Raid Ameri can Superfortress Base On Saipan Isle

Claim: Germans : Occupy Papal - Palace Grounds   Allies “Announce. ‘Pope's Summer Home Will Be ‘Bombed. As A’ Result

NAZIS SEIZE POPE'S PALACE   Allied Headquarters Say Summer Home Now Subject to Bomb Attacks.

POPE’S PALACE IS UNDER FIRE   Allies To Bomb Area As Nazi Troops Use Papal Grounds

Explain Bombing Palace Grounds  Being Used by Germans, Allies Say

Germans in  Gandolfo   Allies Give Reason For Bombing Premises; Vatican Reported Attack

Pope's Summer Home Now in Battle Area   Germans Install Themselves —in’Papal Grounds at. Castel Gandolfo   AREA IS THEREFORE SUBJECT TO BOMBING   Some: Hits’ Reported,, . “But British Deny German Claim That Vatican Has Protested

Castel Gandolfo Subject To Bombing, Since Nazis Are There, Allies Explain

NAZIS OCCUPY GROUNDS OF PAPAL PALACE   Premises at Castel Gan‘dolfo South of Rome Therefore Subject to Bombing, Allied Head quarters Announces. 

Pope’s Summer Home Subject  To Bombin o   Allics Announce Germans Occupy Palace Grounds

ALLIES REPORT NAZIS OCCUPY PAPAL GROUNDS   Propaganda College al Castel Gandolfo Reported Hit, Germans Claim 500 Killed by Bombs

CASTEL GANDOLFO, PAPAL GROUNDS NOW OCCUPIED BY NAZIS   Premises Subjected to Allied Bombings and  Many Are Reported wn

Light Primary Vote Predicted   War and Lack of Issues Reponsible

LIGHTEST PRIMARY VOTE IN DECADE IS PREDICTED IN OHIO   No Real Campaign Issues Are Developed By Kither Party

PREDICT LIGHT PRIMARY VOTE   Ohio Voters Will Go to Polis Tues. day — Election Officials Believe Total Primary Vote Muay Dip Below 600,000.

RUSSIANS IN NEW THREAT TO VIENNA   Cossacks Break Through German Line In Hungary

Russian Tanks Break Into Hungary Plain   Berlin Broadcasts Hint New Soviet Drive in Poland

Russian Forces — Drive On Vienna   Push Into Broad Plains Of Northwest Hungary

COSSACK, TANK UNITS DRIVE TC HUNGARY PLAIN   Reds Crack Defenses On Road To Vienna And Slovak Capital

REDS CRACK NORTHWEST HUNGARY DEFENSES IN NEW VIENNA THREAT   BERLIN HINTS GIANT NEW RUSSIAN SMASH IN POLAND; RAINS SLOW DRIVE FOR BUDAPEST

NEW THREAT TO VIENNA BY RED TANKS, HORSEME   Break Into Broad Plains Of E gary — Budapest Assault Slowed Down

RUSSIANS IN NEW THREAT TO VIENNA      Break Into Plains of Northwest Hungary

Flanking Move Aimed to Split France in Two   Yanks Converge On Chateaudun And Chartres

Americans  Jabbing at Foe There   18ST UKRANIAN DRIVING  GIANT WEDGE ACROSS SOUTH POLAND

Powerful Allied Column Driving Toward Orleans In Move That Threatens To Cut  Franca In Twa

ONE COLUMN NEARS CHARTRES, ANOTHER HEADS FOR ORLEANS   U. S. Armored Units Driving Straight For French Capital; Yanks Also Cleaning Up Brittany And Ports

PUSH TOWARD ORLEANS THREATENS TO GUT” FRANCE. IN TWO PARTS         American Armored Forces Probe Outer Defenses of Paris While “Ant other Column Pushes Forward in Oulflanking Drive ‘

GOP Presidential Candidate Hits ‘Indispensable’ Claim By Roosevelt Supporters

‘Indispensable’ Claims Made for F. D. R. Are Challenged:  Dewey Indicts Administration

State Police Sent To Keep Order In Weirton Area   Five CIO Agents Injured in Fighting; 25 Arrests: Made

Hassett Namec. F.D.R. Secretary   Former Newsman Will Succeed Mcintyre On White House Staff

Sixth Army Men Establish Three Huge Beachheads   Daring Stroke Unlocks $ea Approaches To China; Filipino Guerrillas Aid.

Allies Open New Offensive   1400 TONS OF BOMBS HURLED ON TARGET BY 3000 PLANES; RAID ECLIPSES ALL PREVIOUSLY INFLICTED; FIFTH ARMY POUNDS ENEMY POSITIONS

SENATE-HOUSE AGREE OH PAIGE PONTROL Bil   Conferees to Make Effort to Dispose of Bankhead Amendment

SENATE-HOUSE, AGREE 0 Pl CONTROL BILL   -Conferees td ‘Make  : Effort to Dispose of ‘Bankhead . Amendment

ROOFS INTO SOUTH CHINA   Men Well Trained, Equipped, With Intention of Fighting Out the War on Asiatic Mainland

Pr ob aS Started.  M ’Carran Savs   Senator Reveals. He Al. ready Has Investigator on Job in Chicsigo; Other Inquiries Urged

Ward Plant Is Calm But Storms Gather On Two Sides of it   Congressional Investigations With Many Possibilities Loom While Court Test of Government Seizure Set for Monday

Senate Committee Starts Probe Of Ward Co. Seizure   Investigator Already On The Job In Chicago

Senate Speeds Ward Seizure Investigatior   Judiciary Committee Moves Swiftly To Determine Facts

Nl, BPCARRAN IS NNER IN RACE TO ROBE SEIZURE        clon Discleses He Already “Has Investigator on the Job ‘at Chicago — Acts Under Authoritv of Racelution

Senator Rushes Investigator  To Get DataOn Ward Seizure   McCarran Outdistances Spirited Competition In Drive To Probe Administration’s Action At Chicago

GOP Presidential Candidate Starts For Chicago by Air   New York State Leader Controlled Convention From Start, MacArthur Polls One Vote

New Yorker Swamps All Opposition   Flys to Chicago to Formally Accept This Evening

EXTRA!   New Yorker Swamps All Opposition   Flys to Chicago to Formally Accept This Eve ning

New Yorker Given All But One Vote on Initial Ballot   Bricker is Assured of Second: Place After Warren Declines

Bricker Has Second Spot Upon Ticket At Chicago   New York Governor Sweeps Opposition

BRICKER HIS RUNNING MATE FOR CAMPAICH   One Vote Given Gen. MacArthur in Nominating Convention Session Today in Chicago

1,300-JAPS KILLED ON PELELIU ISLAND   92 Americans Kiiled, 622 Wounded And Five Missing, Nimitz Declares

1300 Japanese Slain on Peleliu, Only 92 Yanks   Nimitz Reports On Island Battle

Yanks Kill 1,300 Japs, Capture 14? on Peleliy   U.S. Losses Set at 92 Killed, 622 Wounded, 5 Missing

GOOD WEATHER STAYS   Temperatures in 70s to Continue Tomorrow, With Clear Skies

Anti-Poll Tax Plan Criticized   O’Mahoncey:, Tells’ Party His Resolution Better

Our Beachhead South of Rome Has Been EnLarged., Stronger.   NEW 16 MILES OF  ITALIAN CAPITAL         Enemy Reinforces en Launch Small Scale  Counter-attack.

‘Have Cut Appian  Way, Say Reports   Drive For Rome Indicated As Swiss Say Allies Now At Tiber River Mouth.   ONLY 16 MILES AWAY   Germans Begin to Split Forces to Bring Up Reinforcements.   

Germans Rushing Reine forcements, But the Allied Troops Have Yet To Run Into Any Really Big Opposition.

Yanks-British Advance 12 Miles Inland; Nazis Rush Up Reinforcement

Eastern India Drive Of Japs At Virtual Halt   Tenacious Resistance Of Allies Is Encountered by Japs In Invasion Attempt   HEAVY PRESSURE EXERTED BY JAPS

SUPPLY GASES DRIVE HALTED   Sap. INVASION FORCES STOPPED BY. DEFENDING TROOPS IN KOHIMA AND  “. IMPHAL AREAS

SAIPAN FIRING HOTTEST SINCE TARAWA ISLANI   Savage Land Battle After Fight to Land on Beach.—Cleaning up Japs Won't be so Easy.

United States Assault Troops Fight Inland in Saipan After Conquest of Charan-Kanoa

Roosevelt Shies At Questions on Political Stand   Chief Executive Delivers Lecture But Little News

F.R. Wards Off  Political Quizz No Direct Reply On 4th Term Question

F. D. R. DUCKS QUIZ BARRAGE   Refuses To Give Direct Replies To Political Questions

FDR REFUSES 10 » DISCUSS DEWEY   President Remains Silent Regarding Opponent and . Political Plans

Flying Bomb Real Menace:  seer caine niet mene Re MeaenNNARER NERS CnRIANN che Amemine RSL EERE ORG EAI aN  No Nation ls Safe with Enemies Making Them, Says U. S. Scientist

fying . 3om) :fenace So 5 rea: ne ‘bery twee “ourse 07. 2eace 2-ans

Coroner's Jury Recommends Grand Jury Action For Death  Of Jane McLeod, .

Physician Given 5-Year Sentence   Counselled Prospective Inductee To Evade Selective Service.

Five Years For Aiding Evasion  Of Draft Law   Judge Coleman Gives Maximum Sentence To Dr. Hens

Gov. Dewey Urges Unity   See-Saw Swings In Michigan And Ohie Cloak Size Of Fourth Term Victory

Outcome in Ohio And Michigan Is Still Uncertain   Democratic Edge In Congress Has Been Strengthened

FDR Victory Is Sure But Size Unknown   Several Localities Sway To and Fro During Count

451 Electoral Votes May Go To President   Constant Change Throws Doubt On Victory Marain

Strength In Saute Also Is Increased   Late Switchover by New Jersey Sends Roosevelt's Electoral Figure to 407

Democrats Retained in Power in Outpouring of Votes Tuesday Election

Sweeps Up 413 Electoral Votes As New Jersey And Oregon Return To Demos

Some States Are Still Uncertain   - Dewey Lead Dwindles In Ohio and Michigan; FDR Victory Still Less Than in 1940

PRESIDENT HAS 400 ELECTORAL VOTES ‘BAGGED   Takes New Jersey and Oregon From GOP In Late Rally

407 Electoral Votes Seen, 140 for Dewey   Working Majority In Senate and House  Appears Assured

34 States Ride With ‘the Champ’   Electoral Margin Stands at  407 to 124; May Exceed Third Term Triumph —   MICHIGAN, OHIO SWINGING OVER      Democrats Make Gains in All Other Contests as Victory Steadily Broadens

Dewey Gaining Sligi Slightly As Key States Stay Uncertait But Concedes FR Is Victo

Indicated Electoral Count For FDR Is 413; For Dewey 124: N. J. Goes Democratic

V ote Totals in 3 - States Make FDR’s ~ Win Margin Unsure      Roosevelt Threatens to ‘Capture Michigan, Ohio; «Dewey Leads N. Jersey

See-Saw Swings In 3 Key States Feature Returns   President Wins But Margin Kept Doubtful By Several Close Races

Three Key States Stage Close Fights   Outcome Undetermined in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey; President Has Chance for 45] Electoral Ballots

ALY aTATES HULDING BACK FINAL FIGURE   Shift May Boost Efectoral Vote to 451 Against * 80 for Dewev.

President Gains Popular Vote Of 20,434,190 While Governor Dewey Polls 17,994,641

'President’s Vote Margin Increases   Democratic Candidate Threatens to Engulf Both Michigan and Ohio; Party Tightens Grip on Congress; Roosevelt Holds 407 Electoral Votes

Results in Three Key States Are Uncertain   President’s 1940 Electoral Vote Total May Be Exceeded

Dewey Gaining Slightly As Key States Stay Uncertain, But Concedes FR Is Victor

New Jersey Flops Back To Demo Side; 407 Electoral Votes To F. R.

Victory Size Is Uncertain  Due To Shifts   Electoral Vote Total May Be Run Up To 451

MICHIGAN, OHIO, NEW JERSEY IN DOUBT IN VOTE   President’s Electoral Count Is 407 to 124 for GOP Nominee

President's Electoral Vote Jumps To 407 to Dewey's 124 as Later Returns Pour in; Democrats Gain Firm Control in House and Senate

Defeat Conceded By Thos. Dewey At Early Hour   See-Saw Swings In Three Key States Won't Chonae Result

See-Saw Shiff Keeps Three States in Doubt   President Gains In Michigan, Ohio, Holds New Jersey

President’ 5 Total Mounts to. 413 as Oregon and New Jersey Swing To Him in Late Returns

Electoral Total Already A! 407 To 124 For Dewey   Foreign Nations Show More Interest Than in Any Previous Election

See-Saw Swings In 3 Key States   Dewey Inches Into Lead in New Jersey With 400 Lead — Roosevelt Threatens To Capture Ohio and Michigan — Detroit Vote Adds to FDR’s Total

Margin Of F.D.R. Triumph Uncertain   three Key States See-Saw' As Returns Roll Ant Today Showing Prebident Roosevelt  ; et ek St a

Turkey Ponders Hull Plea On Nazi Trading   Depends Upon Germany For Many Commodities Stores Display. —

HULL PLEA RECEIVES TURKEY'S ATTENTION   Ankara Studies Appeal Fo! Halting German Trade

Turks May Heed Hull Trade Plea   Considering Cutting Off Trade With Germans; No Decision Reached Yet.

Turks Give Hulls Plea On Trading Full Study   No Decision Seen From Conferences

HALF MILLION TO GO ON BOND DRIVE   Three Days Remain ig Which to Meet Douglas County Quota

British Government Releases Gandhi Because of Indian Leader's {I Health

Travel Time Coal Pact O.K.   WLB Approves PortalTo-Portal Pay With Flat $40 Back Pay For 70 Percent Of Men.

Powerful American Formations Again Invade the Reich  Railway Lines in France Were Last Nicht’s RAF      TARGET WAS BERLIN

Victory Gardeners Will Be Given Extra Gasoline Rations, OPA Savs

GASOLINE RATIONS WILL BE GRANTED   Victory Gardeners May ' Drive to Garden Plots.

Allies Gain Around Imphal   Throw Enemy Out of Important Position Dominating Plain

Allied Troeps Gain Positions Around Imphal!   Dislodge Jap Invaders From Post Dominating Plain: Occupy Base. ,   ISTYMIE ENEMY DRIVE

India Defenders Oust Nips From Vital Point  All-Out Jap Drive  On Imphal Seen — Stymied By Allies

ALLIED FORGES SLOW INVADERS   Throw Japs Out of One Vital Position Dominating Plain Of Imphal; Improve Other Posiions in Area

Allies. Make India Gains   Japs Are Ousted In One Vital Position

Allies Oust Japs From Vital Imphal Position   Outlook In India More Cheerful As Japs  Rocked By Counter Offensives 

Allies Gain Vital Point From Japs North Of Imphal   Tokyo Claims Capture Of Kohima, 40 Miles Inside Indian Border; English Take Important Village In Akyab Push

Allies Oust Japs From One Spot And Occupy Another   Successes Stymie Nips Iu Imphal Area; Battle Loom: Near Kohima

Allied Defenders Report Gains On Imphal Front   Japanese Indian Drive Meets Strong Opposition

em af  Burma I Fore ce Cust japs in Imphal Posts  Captured Positio Positions ‘Dominate Hotly Disputed Plains Area ;  ENEMY STYM [ E D  Chinese Push’ for Vital Town as..Planes Slam Foe’s Rails in North         EXEMY STYMIED   Chinese Push’ for Vital Town as. Planes Slam Foe’s Rails in North

Allies Improve India Position   Japs Stymied for © ~ Time Being; Tokyo Claims Kohima Taken

LAST IMPORTANT BARRIER BEFORE RHINE REACHED    Gettin Dead Are Piled Up Inside Beeck, Report States~   10 COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED BY YANKS

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ST al aed  STRIKE BEHIND BARRAGE OF SHELLS WHICH CAUSED HUGE ~ TOLL OF ENEMY CASUALTIES

Battle on Cologne  Plain Is Described As War’s Bloodiest   Nazi Counterattacks Slow Progress of U. S. Third Army; 3000 Planes Continue Deadly Assault on Vital German Industrial Regions

Yanks Strike Behind Heavy Barraae   First Army Takes Two Fortified Towns to the Right

Batter at Approaches To 3 Cities   Reach Roer River. Last Water Barrier Before  The Rhine

Oth Army Stabs For Dusseldorf In Fierce Battle   U. S. Forces Find German Dead Piled High; Assault Gates Sunnort From the Air

Yanks Take Flossdorf, Roerdorf And Lindern   Two Fortified Towns Also Are Captured  By Hodges’ First Arnvy On Hurtgen Forest Edg:  RESISTANCE STERN

as “American : ‘Armies’ Hainimer Along 20i Mile Front. Today At Approaches To  . Linnich; Julich And Doren—-Five Enemy: : ‘Strongpoints Are Blasted.

YANKS SEIZE THREE MORE REICH TOWNS   First Army Also Surges Ahead; Foe Makes  Counterattacks

NAZI DEAD FOUND PILED IN STREETS   Germans Reel Back Before Bayonets of Doughboys   PLANES STRAFE FOE   Nazis Counter-attack Fre. quently and Hard in Al. most Every Sector

Reach Roer Bank On Long Stretch In Julich Area   Nazi Dead Piled High in Streets

Presidential Appointment 0 Administrator Voted By Conferees; Reports Tc Congress Ordered

REACHED 98 AT TOPEKA   Flora Predicts Cooler Weather Without Rain for State

Gen. Harmon Predicts Mass Bombing Of Japan and Eventual Occupation

! 000 Plane Raids on Japar: Envistoned for Near Future f Japs Hold Out That Long

2000 Planes Hammer Nazi Supply Lines   Foe Spearheads Pushed Back Farther From Meuse River

Big Nazi Force Caught in Trap East ot Celles   Enemy Spearhead Driven Back 3 Miles; Most Advanced Penetration East of Dinant; Bulk of U. S. Air Force Grounded by Fog

ACTOR 10 TELL LOVE AFFAIRS WITH PROTEGE   ‘Defense May Rest In White Slave Case Before  Night

Chaplin Case Before Jurors   Charlie Chaplin Fails In Plea For An Acquittal Verdict.

Chaplin Will Testify Today   Comedian Scheduled To Tell His Story

Chaplin May Take Stand During Day   Case To  Be Closec By Tonight

CHAPLIN WILL TAKE STAND   Defense Attorney Jerry Giesler Announced { i, Taday. as - ae ay

fF veo  ‘Germans Lock Over 1,000 Persons in «Buildings, Set Fire to French Town

Germans Wipe Out French Village ot [,00U  ‘In Savage Stroke of Hitlerite Vengeance

Nazis P Packed French Church. Then Wiped Out All Inside   Be FOWARD KENNEDY

GHASTLY VILLAGE, CHARR ED, TOTTERING WALLS  DISCLOSE STORY OF GERM AN HATE AND TORTURE

Story of Oradour is Tale of Bitter, Unbelievable Hate   Over 1,200 French Refugees Massacred by Infuriated Nazis

DEWEY SPEAKING aT CHARLESTON   Plans Answer To Roose velt’s Speech In Radio   Address Tonight

Gov. Dewey To Discuss  Red Support      GOP CANDIDATE SAYS HE IS COMPELLED TO CONSIDER IT IN HIS CHARLESTON, W. VA., SPEECH,   Charelston Speech 9:45 P.M

HINT ON DEWEY TOPIC IS GIVEN   Roosevelt's Disavowal Of Communists Will Be Discussed

Dewey To Reply To Roosevelt's Speech Tonight   Will Discuss Aid Of Radical Groups

DEWEY TO ANSWER ~ ROOSEVELT SPEECH   Governor Will Dis cuss Means by Which FDR Seeks Election

DEWEY TO DISCUSS ROOSEVELT TALK   SAYS F. D. R. “WOULD LIKE TO DENY MEANS” BY WHICH HE SEEKS FOURTH TERM.

RADICALS GET RIVALS” GRIP.     BRICKER SAYS   Future FDR Plans Hazy; O’Mahoney  Challences -

Dewey to Attack  Roosevelt Speech In Talk Tonight   President’s Statement On Communist Support  Brings GOP Retorts

Dewey Will Speak Upon Race Issues   To Answer Roosevelt In Charleston Talk

Communists to Draw Dewey Fire   FDR Backers Subject For Address Tonight

Dewey to Reply a EUR Speech _ InTalk Tonight  Says President Would _ Like to Den y Means Of Elec:

REPLY 10 FDR TALK TONIGHT   Will Discuss President’s Disavowal  Of Red Support

rermans’ New Rocket-Propelled Plane Called Fastest in Controlled Flight

Rocket Plane Is Sensation   Nazi Fighter Craft Is. Terror. Of Skies

Nazis Jet-Plane Reliéted To Be Fastest Existing   ‘Flying Wing’ Passes Heavy Bombers At Speed So Great That All Descriptions Are Sketchy  Ry FRANKLIN RANKER

NEW NAZT PLANE FASTEST IN AIR   PASSES BOMBERS 80 QUICKLY CREWS FAIL TO REALIZE WHAT THEY ARE.

Germans Using Rocket Planes  Described as Fast Short-distance Ships

Rocket-Propelled Nazi Plane      pte oe aa = ee eee gy ar erred Boom @saashaAL Bon Fis fanaa Art BU A pee ya ros ere

Nazis’ Jet-Plane Believed To Be Fastest Existing   ‘Flying Wing’ Passes Heavy Bombers At Speed So Great That All Descriptions Are Sketchy

Nazi Rocket Plane Used Over France   Speed So Fast Few Have Really Seen I+

boiciteee a Te a a   Marshall Isles Softened Into  Invasion Stage

Japs Rushing in Men to Meet Yank Attack   Army and Navy Bombers  Lash Atolls in  Troestion Geos:

‘U.S. Aerial Offensive Against the Marshalls Reported at Pre-Invasion Intensity; Japs Rush Reinforcements

INVASION OF MARSHALLS THOT NEAR   Aerial Offensive At Pre-Invasion Intensity

No Increase Seenin Meat Ration Values   Little Chance of Cut on Butter; Sugar Outlook Gloomy .. x

ITALY'S PEACE ~ ROLEIN DOUBT   Churchill Hints That Nation Cannot Be Con sidered Full Ally

End Of War May Not Be So Far Off, Churchill States In Talk To Italians

BRITISH PUSH ELAS FROM PIRAEUS   Battle Continues Near Athens’ Main Port

War Spreading in North Greece   Lett Wing Porcees Reported to Have Captured Hight Villages—Nazi Propaganda

WAR SPREADS 10 NORTH GREECE   RESISTANCE STIFFENS IN INTERIOR AREAS

CIVIL WAR SPREADS TO NORTH GREECE   Report Left Wingers Take Eight Villages

Say Civil War In Greece Spreading   Claim Eight Villages © Captured By ELAS *

GREEK REVOLT IS SPREADING TO MACEDONIA   Bulgarians, Albanian: Reported Joining In Civil War

Report Northern Greece Seething With Civil Unrest   British Troops Cross Piraeus Harbor, Drive Inland

War Spreads From Athens Into North   ELAS Forces Mass In Border Sector For New Fighting.

Miss Berry Takes Stand In Chaplin Mann Act Tria   Actress Tells  Relations

Joan Berry On Stand Again In Chaplin Trial   Defense Grills  Dramatic Student

Admits Many Illicit Trysts   Charlie Chaplin’s RedHaired Protege Recalled To Stand.

JOAN IS WITNESS IN CHAPLIN TRIAL   Admits. Intimacies With Former Movie Star

EDEN ARRIVES AT QUEBEC T0 JOIN MEETING   Believed to Bring Information on Many Subiects

EDEN FLYING “ATLANTIC: TO" JON TALKS   Churchill Anxious for . Secretary at ; Quebec :

Covernment To Renovate Personnel   Objective Not Achieved By Present Cabinet, Statement Declares; Delay Announcement

Tokyo Hopes To Strengthen Tojo Cabinet   Says Present Group Has Not Been Able To Achieve Objectives  DOCDARVTIE HET AVEN

Tojo Regime’s Ouster Points To Peace Move   Tokyo Admits Failure of War Party As Emperor Summons Civilian Leader: Former Premiers Assemble

Action Is Termed ‘Apology’ to Army For War Losses   Guam Bombardment Continues; U. S. Subs Sink 14 More Ships

Hirohito summons  minister Takes steps to   Led Nation into War.

JAPAN STARTS OVERHAULING OF GOVERMENT   Japanese Board Of Information Asserts That A New And Strong Cab inet Is Anticipated Soon

NOME! REPORTS 'fOJO'S ENTIRE CARINE QUITS  _ TN DRASTIC SHAKE-UP

Tokyo Announces Resignation of Entire Cabinet   Tojo and His Gang All Forced To Quit

TOJ0 AND ALL MEMBERS OF Hid CABINET RESIGN   Japanese Government Steps Down as Reverses of Nipponese Armed Forces Pile Up.   FOLLOWS A SHAKEUP’ IN HIGH COMMAND   Marquis Koichi Kido, Ho me Affairs Minister, Apparently Slated to Form New Regime.

New Personnel Is Said Needed  For Total War   Apology for Government's ‘Weaknesses’ Is Made To Fighting Men

Entire J apanese Cabinet Of — ~ Premier Hideki Tojo Quits   " Statement Says Government Has Decided to Reno. vate Its Personnel Totally in Order to  Prosecute War Totally

Emperor Orders Kido To Organize  New Goverment   Anticipating Loss Of War Emperor Believed To Have Chosen Civilian In Hopes Of  Getting More Favorable Peace.

Grave Crisis Causes Move   Action Called Apology To  Hirohito For Its Failure

TOJO*S ENTIRE CABINET QUITS   Government Shakes Up Personnel To Speed Up Losing War

U.S. CONTINUES REICH BOMBING   Heavies Guarded by Fighters in Daylight After Night Raids

NEW ASSAULT  ~ BY BOMBERS   AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS OVER EUROPE AFTER RAF " HAMMERED TARGETS LAST NIGHT

UY War Peers ---~  Lt. West, Missing Since April 20th,  Now Prisoner

Allied Bombs Fall Heavily . on Germany   American and British Air Forces Complete Heaviest Month of War

Mobilize Nazis Between 16-60   Will Be Storm Units To Defend Germany

Carrier-based.Planes Hit at Eniwetok Atoll for Three Days; Westernmost Enemy Marshalls Base

More Marshall Atolls Blasted   Three-Day Lashing Is Given Eniwetok

Fleet Garrier Based Planes © Heavily Pound Enemy Atoll   Admiral Nimitz Announces Three Day Blasting in the ‘Morshalls-—Enemy, Attack on Roi Island ot : Ys: Announced.) :

Navy Planes Hit New Jap Island   Eniwetok Island Hammered By Torpedo Bombers Japanese Make First Retaliatory Stab At American-Held Kwajalein

Japs Get 134-Ton  Blasting   SOLOMONS-BASED PLANES STRIKE AGAIN IN “HIT ‘EM HARD AND OFTEN” PLAN

More Marshall Atolls Blasted   Three-Day Lashing  Is Given Eniwetok By WILLIAM HIPPLE

German Supply Lines Hit Hard By Americans   Milan Rail Yards Heavily Damaged

Supply Lines Of Nazis in North Italy Are Bombed   Explosives Rained Upon Rail Yards In Milan,  Turin And Ancona

Port Facilities Are Hard Hit by Big U.S. Bombers   Raillines in Milan, Bolzano, Turin and Ancona Are Struck

Heavies Batter. Northern Italy.   Nazi Supply Lines; Rail Yards Lached

Waves Of Allied Warplanes Blas Vital Nazi Base:   Important Rail Center ,At Angers, France, Major Target

Hint 8,000 Allied Warplanes Assault Europe in 2-Ply Raid   1,000 American Bombers Blast Two Polish Aircraft Plants; Others Attack Air Plants in Germany

LARGE FLEET BOMBS NAZIS   Allies Might Have Sent Out 8.000 Warplanes Again Today.   HIT FROM WEST, SGUTEK

f,000 PLANES MAUL REICH IN TWIN ATTACKS   Objectives in Poland  Also Hammered by Yank Raiders

U.S. Bombers Hit Six Nazi Plants   Allied Planes in an Attack Spanning Length of Germany   BOMB INVASION COAST   Bridges, Railroads and Ardromes Were. Also Among Targets

Split Into Several Spearheads to Confuse Enemy;  Sky Battles Reported

MIGHTY AIR FLEET ATTACKS  2.200 U. S&S. SHIPS BATTER NAZI FACTORIES IN POLAND AND EASTERN GERMANY   STRIKE AT VIENNA

PLANE PLANT IN NAZILAND » ATTACKED   Factories In Poland, Germany Are Targets   OTHER AIRCRAFT   Hammer At Invasion Coast: Raiders From Italy Also Join In Offensive

U.S. Planes Strike Staggering Blows In 2-Way Assault   ‘Distant Targets. Are » Pounded by Great.  Armadas Based in.  Britain and leniv

Yank Formation Of 2200 Planes Bomb Air Pints   Fliers Streak Clear Across Continent In Raids On Germany And Poland

Bombers Rip Reich Plants,  Invasion Area      Gigantic Fleet of Planes Pounds Europe After Heavy Sunday Raids

Bombers, Fighters by Thousands Keep Up Steady Attacks   Face of Continent is Scourged ‘by Great’ Allied Air Power

1,000 BOMBERS, 1,200 FIGHTERS BOMBARD REICt   Other U. S. Forces Pound at Vienna Area—Objectives in Eastern Germany Are Hit

Strike Hard From Italy And England   Whole Length of Germany Hit, Along  With Invasion Coast

TWO-WAY Ah ATTACK AGAIN HUATS HITLEF   Bombers from Britain Strike to Poland, from Italy at Danube.

All Germany Rocks Under Lash of Allied Air Horde   U. S., British Fliers Shatter Enemy Factorie: At Six Towns; Record American Fleet Participates; Other Planes Strike at Coast

Berlin Reports  Allied Air Fleets  Deep in Germany Snew-Balling Air Otiensive Bells a Unchecked. We

4 PLANTS ARE IN GERMANY, ~— IN POLAND   ‘All Blows of Day, Includ_ ing Raids in Vienna and  . Wiener Neustadt Areas, i Require Estimated 8, 000  } Dilanac _

Other Fleets Raid Vienna, Wiener Area:   Hit Polish Factories At Pozan, Kreising; Hot, Sums ery Weather.   MANY SKY BATTLES

AIRMEN BATTER EUROPE   Allied Fliers Bomb Across Germany Into Poland

1,200 FIGHTERS ESCORT FLEET ACROSS EUROPE   Huge Armada Equals Record Breaking U. S. Assaults af Sunday

AIR BATTLES FOUGHT OVER GERMAN AREA   Allied Bombers Fly Deep Into Pomerania

2,200 U.S. Planes Hit Nazi Plants In Poiand   Four Other Areas  In Eastern Germany Alsu Bombed; Strike Into Lower Saxony

Hundreds of Lesser American Bombers Strike Heavily at Invasion Coast

1,000 Heavy Bombers and 1,200 Fighters Span Reich to Cast Bomb Loads on Vital Areas and “Confound Germans. RAF in Heavy Attack Last Noioht .

2-Way Raid On Germany Is Staged During Day   Attacks Follow Up RAF'’s Pummeling

DAY ASSAULTS CAP NIGHT OF RAIDS BY R.A-F.   Snowballing Aerial Offensive Kept Rolling Unchecked Over the Continent   ANGERS NEW OBJECTIVE

Bomber Attack   Continues   For Third Consecutive Day Allied War Planes Rain Death on Nazis

VIENNA, GERMAF FACTORIES ALSO HIT IN ATTACKS   4,200 Planes Included In Sorties From England, Italy

Yank Bombs Blast Polish Plane Plants   Airmen From Italy Carry Out Raids In Vienna Area

Great Fleets Sweep Over Nazi Taraets   New Raids Monday Comparable to Great Blows Given Sunday

Poland, Germany Aircraft Plants. Bombed Monday   Italy-Based Forces Struck from South At Vienna Sectors

All Germany Bombed Today By U.S. Planes   4,200 Ships Attacking In Daylight

LENGTH AND BREADTH  OF GERMAN OCCUPIED  CONTINENT BLASTED THOUSAND HEAVY BOMB. ERS BLAST WAR PLANTS  IW DAT ANH

HUGE FLEET ‘TAKES LONG AERIAL TRIP   Invasion Coast Targets  And Vienna Also e Blasted

Sunday Mark EqualledIn Today’s Raid   Heavies Strike Deep In Nazi Territory While Lesser Craft Assault  Invasion Coast

Bomb Loads Hit Poland   Far-Ranging Warplanes Take Destruction Also To Plants In Germany   Austria Visited   Heavies From Italy Pound Plane Plants At Vienna And Wiener Neustadt

Bombers Out Again Today   A Thousand With 1200 Fighters Hit Germany and Poland

PLANES STRIKE FROM ITALY AND GREAT BRITAIN   Factories In Poland, Germany And Austria Bombed; Day's Total Operations May Match Sunday's Record Attack By 8,000 Planes.

Plane Plants Objectives of ‘Huge Armada   Plants in Poland, East And Central Germany And Austria Blasted

1,000 Heavy Bombers in Sweep Today   Fleet May Equal Record Number Of Planes  Out Sunday

Conservation Club To Hold Important. _ _ Meeting. Monday, Oct. ‘

Pittsburgh Plan: Big Celebration For Kelly Today   Medal of Honor Winner Enjoys Day of Rest And Reunion with Family

HEIRESS’ HUSBAND TAKES ONE ON GHIN   Lt. Pat di Cicco Messed Up In Night Club Fight

AMERICANS DOWN Q{ NAZI PLANES   LOSE 12 BOMBERS AND 22 FIGHTERS IN AIR BATTLE OVER BERLIN.

AMERICANS DOWN 91 PLANES OVER BERLIN   More Than 500 Flying Fortresses Drop 1,500 _ Tons Of Bombs bn Capital; Twelve Bombers Are Missing

Shoot Down 91 Planes Over Berlin   ‘American Dombers Hit  German Capital and Big Rail Center Of Munster

91 NAZI AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN BATTLE   Berlin and Munster Areas Are Hit by  Bombers

FIGHTER PILOTS DOWN 91 NAZIS   Flying Fortresses Drop 1,500 Tons Of Bombs Upon Berlin

Fighter Pilots Down 91 Nazis  (Over Berlin   550 Flying Fortresses Pound: German. Capital ; 12 Bombers: Missine

NAZIS LOSE 91 WARPLANES IN BERLIN BATTLE   Yank Bombers Blast Reich Capital, Mun ster Rail Center

American Planes Down Nazis on 8-to-1 Ratio   Berlin Region Is Battered by Huge Bomb Loads

ji GERMANIYA LANES SENT/BA BUT OF SKYIBY   In Flames by American Fighter Pilots As 1,500 Tons of Bombs Are  Dropped.   Destroy Truck

91 NAZI AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN BATTLE   Berlin and Munster Areas ~. Are. Hitcby.. -Bombers ~

Political Party Asks Government to Find Russian Terms   lowa Is Lagging On E Bond Sale

Yanks Occupy ‘‘Jump Off’ Position; British Repel German Counter-Thrusts

British Smash Nazi Assaults Near Caen   Rommel Believed To Be Preparing For Bia Counter-Blow

Two Killed At Front; One Missing   One Other Southtowner Is Listed as Prisoner of Germany; 2 Wounded in Marshalls, Italy.

Two Killed, One Missing In Battles   Flier Dies on Mission Over Indian Ocean; Veteran of Italian War Dead; 3 Others Wounded.

FORCES JOINED IN NEW BRITAIN   Eee  Marines <And_ Soldiers (et Set To Clean Out Yellow Men

PARIS SAYS INVASION DU! TOMORROW   Civil War Is Predicted When Attack Is Begun

War Fund Campaign Will Be Opened  In Butte on Monday   Morgan H. Wright to Head Local Drive: 200 Volunteer Workers Will Meet Mondav Evenina to Receive Instructions

iW ar Fund Campaign W ili Be Opened In Butte on Monday   Morgan H. Wright to Head Local Drive; 200 Volunteer Workers Will Meet

DeGaulle Discusses French Future, Predicts Nazis Cleared During ‘44

LIMITS EXTENT OF CONFERENCE   Question of Recognition Out, Says Roosevelt

MONTH'S RAINFALL WAY OVER NORMAL      Potomac River Rising as Result of Recent a ‘Raine

MONTH'S RAINFALL WAY OVER NORMAL   Potomac River Rising. a: Result of Recent >> Rains

U. S. Warships Blockade Isle   Negeregong Under Heavy American Bombardment

U.S. Warships Blockade Isle To Trap Japs   Enemy Force On Tiny Ngeregong Stalled In Atte ‘mpt To Hold Island

Greatest Carrier Task Force in Action at Truk   Mighty Assault Staged 2000 Miles  From Tokvo

Report Carriers Blast Jap Ships, Planes In Port .   Announce Raid Began On Wednesday Morning: Vast Air Fleet Involved

10 $700,000,000:   Latest Report Adds 78 Miltion Dollars te Total

No Change Likely In Draft Policy   Young Men Expected To Meet 44 Quotas

PAC DENIES SLUSH FUND   Declares Records Open Tc Anderson Congressional Group

Fierce Battle Is Now Raging In Tarnopol Streets   Red Army Now Controls Most Of City In Old Poland Despite Nazi  Defense   FIFTEEN GERMAN DIVISIONS IN TRAP

Hand-To-Hand Fighting Is Raging In Tarnopol; Fall Of City Is Imminent

Viipuri Reported Captured   Reds Sink 16 Enemy Ships, Down 22 Planes; Viipuri teported in Flames

INFANTILE PARALYSIS IS WORST. SINCE 1916   Malady Continues To Spread Survey Discloses

NEW BROADCASTING STATION TO GIVE PRE-INVASION NEWS   BBC Announces New Medium and Short Wave Setup Which Will Give  News to Continent

Several Cullman County Men Wounded In Action In The European Area

‘Several- Cullman. Co., Men Reported Killed Or ‘Wounded in Action.

Free Speech Big  Issue In Trial  Defendant Leads Off Opening Statements

44 TAX ASSESSING IS COMPLETED: COUNTY SHOWS GAIN IN GOODS   EARL THOMPSON, ASSESSOR, ISSUES TAX REPORTS OF ALL TOWNSHIPS

REDUCE RATION VALUE ON PORK   Slash Averages 1.7 Points per Pound; Some Beef © Cuts Included

BEEF AND PORK VALUES ARE CUT   , Ration Point Reductions Are  Effective Sunday

DITATION GIVEN LIBERATOR GREW   Set. Donald F. Clayton Of Switz City Member Of Group

Italian Offensive Indicates U.S. Has Swung to British  View on Rome’s Capture

Reveal Meeting OFF. R., Clark  U. S. Swings To British  View, Aims For Rome

Rome Now War Plum   Current Drive Indicates Belief Capture Of Holy City Would Be Important Victory

Offensive Indicates Americans Accepting British View That Capture of Rome Is Desirable

Allied Capture Of Rome Is Now Held Imporfani   Effect On Axis Nations Believed Of Great Moment

Rome Seen as Goal in Italian Offensive With American Swing to British View

Rome Capture Appears Aim Of Allies   Americans Agrce With British As to Objective

American High Command Comes Around To British View  Capture Of Rome Is One Aim Of Big Italian Push

CAPTURE OF ROME OF GREAT IMPORT TO ALLIED CAUSE   American High , Command Has Altered Views and Swung ver.to British Opinion

Rome’s Capture Now .Seen Vital By U.S. Leaders   New Offensive Indicates High Command Swings To British Viewpoint

Capture of Rome May Be Goal Now   Progress Through Mountains Is Hard

‘talian Offensive Indicates Allies Put Price on Rome   Believe American Command Have Agreed With  Britain on its Value

Capture of Rome of Great Moment  No Quick Achievement Believed Possible

CLARK INTENT ON CAPTURE OF ROME   RECENTLY VISITED U. S, FOR SECRET PARLEY WITH FOR

U.S. Swings To British Views Regards Rome   Clark’s Secret Conferences With Roosevelt Signify Italian Campaign Considered of Importance

Indications of U. S. Swing to ~. British View   Change of Attitude on Value of Taking Rome Is Apparent.   GENERAL CLARK “PALES WITH F.D.B.   Secret Conference Taken: as Evidence of Italian Drive

Rome Now Regarded As Major Objective   U.S. Swings to British View; General Clark Secretly Visits F, D. R.

FALL OF ROME SEEN AS BOOST TO ALLIED CAUSE   American Commanders Have Now Swung Over to British View That It Is A Coveted Prize

Rome Now Is Looked On As Worth Taking   Drive In Italy Marks A Definite Change Ir  American Viewpoint.

BELIEVE U. S. “NOW FAVORS TAKING ROME   Observers Say New Offensive in Italy Indicates Nation Has Swung to British View That CapStal Should Re Orcunied.

Rapie- Expansion Blamed By Navy ~ For Many Faults   Lo.o fing, Inefficiency And Over-Manning Admitted

7-Year-Old Judy ~ Sightless 3 Months,  Beginning to See. Was Blinded Last. .   Was Blinded Last... ‘September Trying.to Save Dog From Car:

Seven-Year-Old Judy Koch, Blind Three Months, Beginning To Regain Sight

VETERANS’ AID PLAN HIT AS ‘INADEQUATE   Green Asks More Help Foi Disabled Servicemen

NEGRO BOY EXECUTED FOR DOUBLE MURDER   Two Girls Beaten To Death With Railroad Spike

War Labor Board Refuses Request To Postpene Monday Hearing In Case Of War Plant Strikers   STRIKERS REPROACHED

OHIO IN LINE FOR NEW INDUSTRY   Plan Production of Oil From Coal in State

OIL FROM COAL PLAN FOR Ohid   State Scheduled To Be Center of Great New , Industry, Lewis Says

New Industry May Center In Ohio When Oil Made From Coal After Wat

Rain Impedes Preparation for Tha Rally *  Hope for Break In Clouds; Expect Crowd of 20,000

Rain Falls Steadily At Lamar   Decorations for Truman Celebration Drenched; Hope Sun  Will Shine Thursday

Vacation Church School June 12-23  Sessions At First Methodist Church

VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL IN JUNE   Dates For —‘Interdenominational Sessions Are June 12 to 23

WESTBROOK PEGLER   Post War “Test Strike’ Now Being Tried Out By Reds

VESSELS SCARCE, RICE 1S LIMITER   Japs Adopt Axis Terms of “Cooperate or Starve,” Effective April 15.

RIVER CRESTS ~ NEAR RECORD OF LAST YEA   NLLLION ACRES OF ‘LAND * ALONG MISSISSIPPI AND MISSOURI RIVERS VAL- a ‘LEYS ARE UNDER. ‘ WATER.

Million Acres Under Water in Mid-West   Missouri-Mississippi Rivérs Still Rising; 5700 Families Homeless

Polish Exiles Ask Allies To Prevent Soviet Swallowing of Gains   Government Maintains Underground Forces Inflict Large Losses on Germans To. Suonart Claims for Recoanition

Drive Within Ten Miles Of Cherbourg   British Sweep Seven Miles, Seizing Troarn

fais TL BOUGHT TOBE I   ifles Collide Over - Florida, Wreckane Falls Into River

18 Persons Die In Air Collision   Fighter and Naval Air Transport Involved

“Dear, ‘Dear! You Don't 1 Suppose Anything's the Matter With Their Engine. Do You? .   BACK OF THE NEWS  What's Going on Behind  the Seenes and What Jt Means, As Seen Through ihe Eyes  an eee thc he BME cee Fnmdnen nf Galietese UWShaewasn- onl TaAdiicten      Paul Mallon

AIR CORDON PUT AROUND BEACH AREAS   German Reinforcement Routes in France: Pounded, Rail Junctions Hit.

Allies Throw Tight Aerial Cordon Over Beachhead Area   German Reinforcement Routes are Scourged—At Least 70 Enemy Airplanes Shot Down During the Day

BOMB CURTAIN BACKS ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   AIRMEN HELP CUT OFF SUPPORT FOR NAZIS

Allied Airmen Cut Off Escape. Help for Nazis   Tight Aerial Cordon Thrown Over French Beachhead; Fighters Shoot Up Cars. Truck:

AERIAL CORDON SHIELDS TROOPS   Bombs, Bullets Cut Off Help And Escape for Germans   WEATHER BAD   Fighters in 50-Mile Arc Strafe and Bomb in Advance of Invasion Forces

Flyers Defy Bad Weather  Over Targets   Luftwaffe Loses 70 Planes Rising in Belated Defense

HEAVILY BOMB AREA AROUND BEACHHEADS   in France; Allied Fighter Planes Hold Aerial Cordon Which Spells Death Warrant for Enemy.   Fuel Train Blasted

Heavy Aerial Cordon Held About Troops  Mastery Of Air Is Clearly Exhibited

‘Major Parts of Two German Armies’ Smashed, Says Clark; Rome Turned Into Near Carnival Greeting Troeps   Near Climax Re ENMWARD KENNEDY

Leapfrog Operation Isolates 140,000 Japs   American Casualties Slight As Enemy Air Resistance Breaks Down; Yanks Now 1,200 Miles From Philippines

OPERATIONS HELP FO ISOLATE 140,000 JAPANESE FROM SOLOMONS TO NEW GUINEA. UNDER GUNS OF NAVY AMERICANS LAND WITH SLIGHT LOSS

140,000 Japs Isolated by  New Invasions   Landing Made on Both Sides of Hollandia and 150 Miles Southeast at Aitape; Losses Slight

\Allied troops leapfrog 500 miles up New Guinea coast;  140,000 Japanese isolated   Bid for four airfields; casualties light, MacArthur watehes landing

Mighty Aircraft Task Force Helps Invaders Reach Hollandia and Aitape in Drive Placing Them Only 1,200 Miles from Philippines; MacArthur Watches Aftack from Bombarding Cruiser

Landings Made at Aitape and Hollandia_   Attack Is Declared Mightiest Air, Land and Sea Operation Ever Staged in Southwest Pacific Theater of War

Huge Carrier Task Fleet Covers New  Invasion of New Guinea; 140,000   Wipponese are Now Isolated

MacArthur Men In Major Raid On Dutch Area   Land On Both Sides Of Island; 140,000 Japs Are Trapped

General MacArthur Sees Operations From Cruiser  ‘CASUALTIES SLIGHT, “COMMUNIQUE STATES Invaders Strike Quickly  Toward the Aitape Airdrome

‘Yanks Land On Both Sides Of Hollandia And at Aitape   Operations Covered  By Tremendous Carrier  Task Foree and Helps  Isolate 140,000 Japs MACARTHUR WATCHES FROM CRUISER DECK  No Vessel Damaged,  Yank Losses Slight  In Initial Landings

Powerful American Army Forces Land At Hollandia And Aitape, New Guinea   OPERATIONS COVERED IBY LARGE TASK £URCE

Allied Armies In Franee Led By Kisenhower   Bradley Commands American Forces And Montgoury Leads British

Three Huge Red é'es Storm   * dc Pocket   Speedy Liquidation of Nearly 100,000 Germans In Sight

THREE RUSSIAN ARMIES STORM BALTIC POCKET   Capture Of Riga Is Quickly Ex ploited By Soviet ‘Troops

RUSSIANS STORM TRAPPED ARMY IN BALTIC POCKET   Liquidation Of 100,000 Troops Goal Before EK. Prussin Assault

 Warships and Planes Back the Attack ‘On 100,000 Germans Trapped in Baltics

RED ARMY CAPTURES RIGA PORT   Germans Try To Send Aid To Encircled Forces By Sea

RED ARMIES STORM NAZI BALTIC POCKET   Turn On 100,000 Trapped Germans After Riga Captured

CLOSE IN ON BALTIC AREA   100,000 German Troops Hemmed In By Red Armies

Soviets Smash At Germans In Baltic Trap   Seek Liquidation Of 100,000 Nazis; Riga Falls to Reds

THREE RED ARMIES STORM BALTIC AREA      Seek Liquidation Of 100,000 Trapped Germans

President of Colombia Returns to Capital City After Two-Day Revolt -

CCC Loses Its Policy- -Making Power On Food   Control Divided Between New Office of Distribution and-Office of  ‘Prina *

REPORT ohUWo WAR THERDD   *Many Vehicles Leave Reads, Acccrding to Asscssmeat Records

REPORT SHOWS WAR TRENDS.   ‘ el ‘Vehicles’ ape : . Reads, Acccrding to Assessment Records

Small Attacks Made On Italian Front By Nazis   Allied Fifth Army Improves Position After Hurling Them Back   ANOTHER NAZI DIVISION ADDED

IFTH AR IMPROVES POSITIONS.   Repels Nazis on — Beachhead and Gustav Line

TWO ASSAULTS ON ALLIED TROOPS ON BEACHHEAD HALTED AS GERMANS ALSO FAIL IN GUSTAY LINE ATTACK—RED ARMY CAPTURES ROGACHEV AND GERMAN POSITION IN NORTH > RUSSIA IS IMPERILED

William Werth Retired Farmer Taken By Death Suffers Stroke _ "While At Farm Overseeing Work

William Werth —  Retired Farmer  Taken By Death Suffers Stroke 7 While At Farm  fy. oe EEF

Reds Launch Offensive InKarelia   Finns Report Heavy Attack On North Front

Finns Report Gener: ral Russ Attack North Of Leningrad   Communique Broadcast By Berlin Radio; Red Troops Crumple Local Assault By Nazis

Claims Reds Have Started a New Drive   Nazis Report Heavy Fighting In Progress on Karelian Isthmus

Nazis Report Soviet Drive   General Offensive on Karelian Isthmus North Of Leningrad Opens

Russian Attack In Full Swing, Finns Report   Artillery, Tanks - Support Offensive On Karelian Isthmus Into Finland

FINNS REPORT RED OFFENSIVE   Claim Most Attacks on Isthmus Beaten Back

GERMANS SAY FINNS REPORT RED DRIVE   Declare Russians Attacking on Karolian lethmiice

Reds Attacking, Finns Declare   Launch General Offensive in Karelian  Isthmus, DNB Says

FINNS REPORT SOVIET ATTACK   Claim Reds Start Drive or Karelian Isthmus

Finns Report Red  Offensive Started  In Karelian Area Say General Attack Supported By Artillery, Tanks Repulsed.  Maw: Attack te Poenetentad

Finns Say Reds On Offensive   Karelian Isthmus Drive ls Reported

STATE GUARDSMEN ~ LEAVE FOR CAMP   Local Men to Take-Two _- Weeks Training at — >. Ft. Meade 

STATE GUARDSMEN LEAVE FOR CAMP   Local Men to Take-Two Weeks Training at Fr. Meade

Oklahoma Afloat Again   29,000-Ton Battleship Was Victim of Jap Attack at Pearl Harbor

Germans Yield To Red Forces On Baltic Front   Withdrawal Called Move To Strengthen Homeland Defenses

GERMANS START WITHDRAWING FROM BALTIC FRONTS   Believed Giving Up Baltic  States to Bolster Prussia.

Allied oth Army It Attacked by German Planes   19 of Enemy’s Warplanes Are Shot Down

Russ Kill 15,000 Nazis in Taking Manganese City   Clear Extensive German Bridgehead On Left Bank of Dnieper River; Capture 2000 Prisoners, Take Booty

NIKOPOL IS CAPTURED; NAZIS GONE   Russians Clear Nazis From Bridgehead Across Lower Dnieper And Routed Seven  - Divisions; 15,000 Dead.   Evacuate Helsinki

Russian Troops Take Nikopo! Bridgehead   1,500 Square Miles Of Area Fall To Soviets; Fate of City Virtually Sealed, Kamenka Captured. 

SOVIETS TAKE NIKOPOL, ROUT ‘BIG FOE ARMY   Clear Nazis From Low: er Dnieper Bridgehead, Kill 15,000

Rout / Enemy Divisions in Lower Dnieper   Soviets Storm Into City; Send Germans Reeling in Retreat

Russians Push Germans. Back  From Nikopol   Nazi Dive Bombers Hit American Hos mital in Italy

15.000 ENEMY SOLDIERS DIE IN BIG FIGHT   72-Mile German BridgeHead Wiped Out In Four Days

Seven  Enemy Divisions Routed in Sweep of Reds  LARGE INDUSTRIAL   LARGE INDUSTRIAL. +~—~- CENTER RETURNED   Important Victory Scored by Ukrainian Front EF nrcec

ssian Forces  plure Nikopol, ar Bridgehead Lower Dnieper   en Nazi Divisions outed; 15,000 Gernans Reported Killed; 0 Other Towns Fall

RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE CAPTURED MICH TERRITORY   NIKOPOL BRIDGEHEAD OF 1,500 SQUARE MILES ‘FALLS TO SOVIETS

SEVEN GERMAN DIVISIONS DEFEATED.   Last German Stronghold On East Bank of Dnieper River Has Been Liquidated

Allies Smash Nazis Halian Defense Line   Noose Drawn Tighter Around Nazi Forces

Americans Fan Out toward Eternal City beyond Velletri; Infantry Hits Nazi Strongholds.

Americans Spear Closer To Rome   Fall Of Capital Is .  Believed Imminent pp. NOT ANT NORCALAD

Victories Foreshadow. Beginning of the End of Battle for Eternal City

Valmontone and Vellet: Fall to Americans Af er Days. of Furiow  Fighting.   BATTERED ENEMY  ‘MOVES NORTHW               Maree Miles of Vital Vi _ Casilina Now in Ha ‘of Clark’s Victori  Forces. ' 7

Drive Beyond Two Fallen Cities in Alban Hills; Cut Casilina Escape Road

Valmontone And Velletri Fall to Allies   Both Sides Reinforce; Noose Draws Tighter. On German. Remnants  20,000 PRISONERS

German Troops Are Caught in 2 Allied Wings   Valmontone, Velletri Fall as Yanks Push Toward Junction With Canucks 18 Miles Away

Nazis Lose Two Strongholds To U.S. Armor Unit   Americans Cut Casilina Escape Route For German Army; Yanks Fan Out Toward Rome Bevond Contured Velletri

“la mon-one anc “/e_.ecr1 4a. Hs Sac < is -rawn ig 1er on ‘e- 7-- Tarman “ivisions

Lt. General Mark W. Clark’s Victorious Forces Continue To Pound Back The Powerful Herman Goering Division

Americans Speat Closer To Rome   Fall Of Capital Is  Believed Imminent  By NOLAND NORGAARD Aasociated Press Staff Writer

BOARD 2 SENDS MANY INTO THE SERVICE   Young Men Commencing Training in Army and The Navy   2, AVIATION CADETS

NEWTOWN BOARD HAS 27 IN OCTOBER QUOT!   Eight Men Enter Navy and 19 the Army; Inducted From Board 2   ‘NAMES MADE PUBLIC

Charles H. Boyer A. C. M. Chief Auditor, Retires  _ William E. Quigley Is Named to Succeed Him

Charles H. Boyer A. C. M. Chief Auditor, Retires  hf small E. Quigley Is Nam to “mal Him

War Prisoners Held In U.S. To Be Put To Work   General Dissatisfied  At Idleness Now

Prisoners of War In U.S. to Work, Generals Announce   ‘Manpawer Shortage ‘Calls for Eligible Prisoners’ Labor

MORE ROBOTS HIT SOUTHERN ENGLANE   Two Cause Damage and Casualties in Residentia! Areas.

Blackout on All News of Operations   Report Trapped British Paratroopers Still Hang ing on Grimly

Censorship Put On Reports of Holland Battle   Arnhem Skytroopers Lose North End of Bridge Across Rhine

Security Censorship Clamped On Wild Battle In Holland; Berlin Claims Airborne Troops Are “Wined Out”    PERIMETER DRAWN IN  BY ARNHEM FORCES

CENSORS CLAME DOWN ON NEWS FROM HOLLAND:   Alles Massing For New Attack

SITUATION IS: DESPERATE NOW. SAY DISPATCHES   Battle for Lower Rhine Crossing and. ‘Gateway to Germany Blazes Inte 10th Day —

Front Dispatches Hint Situation Has Become Desperate   CONVOYS TRAVEL SECONDARY ROADS   Supplies Slipped Acros: River In Boats At Night

Trapped Forces Battling Grimly To Hold Position         Security Blackout Is Clamped On Sector By _ Eisenhower As Fighting Blazes Into 10th _ Day; North End Of Bridge Lost, Report

MAROONED UNIT CLINGS GRIMLY TO RHINE GATE   Arnhem Bridge Lost And News Blackout Ordered

NIP Mt TOW Cereereu aver a railway span running into Oosterbeek, two miles west of Arnhem.

Air Troops Lose North End of Arnhem Bridge   20 to 30 German Divisions Face Allies Along Front

Situation Becoming Desperate   RELIEF MUST REACH BAND  OF PARATROOPERS QUICKLY IF RHINE GATE IS TO BE HELD

Arnhem Unit Forced Into Tight Pocket   U. S. 1st Army Masses for Break-Through Try, Ger mans Say.

German Losses Since D-Day Exceed 800,000   More Than Half Million Have Been Captured

Front Reports Hint Situation Is Desperate   Eisenhower Orders News Blackout  On All Operations In Holland.

Blackout on Wild Battle in Holland   LUNUUN (Ul jie Der lin radio reported today that the Red army had completed the occupation of Estonia.

500,000 Germans Captured   Secrecy Clamped On Movements of Army in Holland

) Draftee Groups Leave Next Week For Preinduction   Both Local Boards Sending Registrants For Physical Tests

Local Board No. Two Calling Many Men To Leave For PreInduction Examination Dec. 15 <i aessiicestali iit   LARGEST GROUP THAT HAS BEEN CALLED FOR SOME TIME, AROUND 136 TO REPORT FROM COUNTY

LOSS OF CITY IS ADMITTED BY BF   Latest Russian Communique Tells of Fighting There

Berlin Says Yanks Make Gain On St. Lo; Are Repulsed   Eleven Miles Separates British Flanks To Southwest And Southeast Of Caen  PriririrTin

VOTE RIDDLES TO BE SOLVED   Ohioans Find Governor Contest Biggest Question Mark

CANDIDATES T LEARN FATE I OHIO TUESDAY   Aspirants for Major Offices Return Home Today After Whirlwind Finish.

OHIO VOTERS TO SOLVE ELECTION RAGES TUESDAY   Some Predict Weather May Be Deciding Factor in Contests

'B-29s Pound Japan Again   Noemfoor Cleaned Up, And Jap Henayana Sieae Broken

TROOPS CAPTURE      Chinese Counter - Offensive Siege of Hengyang, Reverse — Foe Advance in

Nazi Armor ° Breaking Up  Partisan Army   Germans Strive To Wipe Out  Yugoslav Resistance

Germans Break Bosnia Defense   Report Nazis Took Partisan Headquarters

SLAV PATRIOTS ADMIT SETBACK BY NAZI TANKS   Fall Of Jajce, Seat Of Partisan Regime, Is Reported

GERMANS CRACK PARTISAN LINES   Tanks Break Through in Bosnian Battle

PLANE FLEETS RAID GERMANY BY NIGHT, DAY   Report Yank ‘Heavies’ Attack In HanoverBrunswick Area

Hatch Promises Cénsideration     Will Be Given to All Propased Projects

Lt. Col. Durrette New Commander For Fort Brown   Veteran Will Take New Post About Jan. 7; Maj. Schupp To Kansas

The War Today  Landings On New Guinea Brings MacArthur Nearer Goal.

WAR TODAY   MacArthur Takes Big step Toward Heart's Desire —— Recapture Of Philippine Isl. ands From Japs

MACARTHUR - NIMITZ BROTHER ACT IN NEW GUINEA ISOLATES 60,000 JAPS WHO NOW FACE ANNIHILATION   Moving 500 Miles lip Coast of New Guinea at Hollandia and Titape, Allied Forces Seal Fate of Many Japs and Crowd Nips Back into Other Areas

MACARTHUR-NIMITZ BROTHER ACT IN NEW GUINEA STOLE BIG PART OF WEEK-END LIMELICHT

IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL FOR FRANK KNOX   Full Military Rites Honor Secretary Navy

WARDEN SUGGESTS OHIO INTERMEDIATE PRISONS AS NEED FOR POSTWAR PERIOD

ANNIVERSARY 5 OBSERVED      Honor Roll for City, Two Townships to Be Dedicated Tonight.

ANNIVERSARY      Japanese Attack on Pear Harbor to Be Remember-. ed Tomorrow.

JUDGE LANDER TO BE SPEAKER   To Give Address on Program Honoring Late Pfc. E. Paviovich.

Repatriates Tell Of Terrors on Nazi “Hell Train”  Civilians Still Wait To Disembark From Exchange Ship

Tell of Travel on Nazi Train   Prisoners Locked in Cok Coaches for Trip To Board Gripsholm.

REPATRIATES AR SLOWLY UNLOADED FROM GRIPSHOLM   36 Wounded Are First Among Those From Germany to Leave Ship, 374 Non-officials Are Last.   149 DEBARKED DURING NIGHT, 103 FOR S$. A.   Passengers Compose Strange Group, Some Come Home First Time In 30 Years, Woman Dies.

REPATRIATES ON FREE SOIL AGAIN   AWAIT RELEASE FROM EXCHANGE SHIP NOW IN NEW YORK HARBOR

Final German Crisis In Russia Coming To Head-— ~—By Kirke L, Simpson (/  Beds Weave Trap For Nazis With Rail Net

Kirke L. Simpson Says: -Gaie Closing on Largest Section Of Germans Trapped by Pincers

Superforts Bomb Tokyo In Two Raids   Japan Claims Raids Are Indiscriminate

Two Separate  Attacks Are Reported   Japs Admit Blazes Started but Minimize Damage

B-29s Hit Jap Capital Again   Churchill Indicates That Victory May Be Delayed

B-29 FLEETS START FIRES AT NIGHTTIME   Nips Vow to Lynch Any Parachuting Americans

TOKYO IS ATTACKED BY SUPERFORTRESSES   Third Time In One Week Jap Capital Has Been Hit; Enemy Admits Fires Were Started

Japanese Admit Giant Bombers Started Fires   Marcus Island Also Atfacked

NEW AIR ATTACK MADE ON TOKYO; FIRES STARTER   Nips Report Two Blows Struck, First From Midnight to 2 A. M., Second Between 4:15 and 5.   CASUALTIES “SLIGHT,” ENEMY DECLARES   Superfortress Raid Was Third on City in Week—Shizu-oka Perfecture Below Capital Blasted.

Enemy Admits Fires Started By Two Separate Forces of Giant Bombers; Nips Vow to Kill Parachuting Fliers

HUGE BOMBERS STRIKE TWICE IN DAYS RAID   Jap Radio Concedes Fires Started In Double Blow Wednesday

Superfortresses Blast Tokyo For Third Time   Japs Say That Two Fleets Hit Capital; Admit Fires Are Set

Capital fs Hit Third Time in a Week by Superforts 4,000 —SAPANESE—-——  DROWNED iN SEA Ten Jap Transports, Three  Destroyers Are Sunk

Giant Transport Plane Sets New Mark By Crossing U: S. iné Hours 58 Minutes

Constellation, Carrying 17 Persons, Crosses ~ Continent at 355-Miles-An-Hour Speed

New Air Giant Sets Record In Crossing The Continent      Lockheed Constellation With 17 Aboard Travels From California to Washington in Six Hours and 58 Minutes

Giant Plane Sets Speed Record  Crosses Nation in 6 Hours 58 Minutes

NEW AIR GIANT CROSSES NATION IN RECORD TIME   Huge Transport Flew From California In Less Than 7 Hours   100 SOLDIERS COULD RE CARRIED IN SHIP

es From West: Coast;: tH whington in 6 Hours 45. utes, Averaging. . Nearly 355 M. PSH,   Ship, With Capacity of 100, ~ Being Turned  Over to” * Army for: Use as _-"eoop Transport: *

Giant Airplane Crosses U. S. In Record Time   Lockheed Constellation Averages 355 Miles Hour In 6-Hour, 58-Minute Hor

REPOPT ROMMEL. BADLY WOUNDED   Allegedly Has Shell Splinter In Brain

WHEELER URGES ARMY SIZE CUT   Proposal Aimed At Limiting Induction Of Fathers

WHEELER WANTS ARMY TO CUT ESTIMATE OF FORCES NEEDE!   MONTANA SENATOR ADVOCATES IMMEDIATE HALT ON. THE INDUCTION OF . FATHERS

City Rocked By History's Bigsest Raid   Tonnage Tops 2,800; RAF Loses 43 Planes; Thousand Craft Used In Night Operation

Over 2,800 Tons Hit Nazi City   Forty-Three Heavies Lost by British In Heaviest Assault

Greatest Load of Bombs in History Dumped on City   RAF Spills 2,800 Tons in 30-Minute Assault; 43 Planes Lost in Operations

Forty-Three RAF Planes Are Missing After Raids   Greatest Bombing In All History Hits Germany

AN RAF ARMADA SMASHED BERLIN AGAIN LAST NIGHT   Well Over 2800 Ton of Bombs Dropged on the Capital of Germany.   43 AIRCRAFT MISSING   Believed Armada Comprised Greatest Number of Planes Ever to Hit City..

2,800 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED BY HUGE FORCE   British Lose 43 Aircratt—800 To 900 Bombers Deliver Blow

800 10 900 © BOMBERS IN RECORD RAID   Load of Missiles, Largest Ever Dropped on a Single Target, Falls in a 20-Minute Period — 45 Aircraft Toost.

Record Load Smothers Nazi City   2,000 Tons of Bomb: Dropped by RAF in Thirty Minutes

2,800 Tons Of Explosives Hit Capital   Greatest Load of Bombs Ever Dropped On Single Target

2800 Tons Fall In 20 Minutes   More Than 1000 RAF Warplanes Over City— Smoke Rises Four Miles High

R.A.F. Drops More Than 2,800 Tons After Short Lull   Largest Number Of Planes Ever Over Germany Carry Out Sweeping Twenty Minute Night Attack  ee ey ee ay Ra ae Ae ve ey emer ee NEES gprs em,

Record Attack Crushes City; 45 Planes Lost   Over 2,800 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Capital By -- Huge Fleet of RAF, Canadian Craft   Frankfurt Is Hit, Nazi Waters Mined   15th Major Blow to Wipc Berlin Off Map Made By 800 to 900: Heavy British Bombers

B00 10 900 PLANES ATTACK NAZI CAPITOL   Diversionary Sweeps Build Force to Greatest Fleet Ever Sant Over Reich

Lose 45 Planes   R.A.F. Waited Two Weeks Before Delivering Blistering Attack; Billows of Flames Sweep City; Second Heaviest Raid.

1 000-Ton Bomb Load Dropped In 20 Minute:   Battered Nazi Capital Burning Again After Record Blow

Over 2,800 Tons of Bombs   Hundreds of Planes Used in Attack; — Other Points Hit.

Bomber Force in Nazi Smash   MORE THAN 2800 TONS CASCADE DOWN IN SMOTHERING 20-MINUTE SATURATION ATTACK; 43 ALLIED PLANES MISSING

Greatest Massing Of Explosives Ever Consigned To Single Target Cascades Down Upon German Capital In Smothering Twenty-Minute Attack—45 British Aircraft Missing From Nocturnal Operations— Objectives In Northern France Blasted

Flames Sweep City as Raid Is Completed   Between 800 and 900 Heavy Bombers Take Part; Smoke Rises Four Miles in Air

809 to 900 Planes Drop 2,800 Tons of Bombs on Capital Last Night.   43 AIRCRAFT IS MISSING

Air Attack in All  istory Launched  hi Concentrated   etween 800 and 900 Heavy British ard Canadian Planes Dump Destructive Shells In 29 Terrible Minutes on Reich Capital   LINDING CRIMSON FLAMES BLOT CITY FROM VIEW

GREAT LOAD DROPPED IN 20 MINUTES   Nazi Capital Smashed By ‘RAF Tuesday Nicht

Greatest Fleet Of RAF Planes Ever To Fill Skies Over Reich Drons 2.800 Tons Of Boambhs

2,800 Tons Dropned in 20 Minutes   45 RAF Planes Missing in That and Other   Forays

Great Fires Follow Huge RAF Attack ‘Last Night   2 Aircraft Missing 3’ Flak Over Target Area Intense But Wac Inacenrate

BERLIN PASTED  WITH HEAVIEST ' LOAD OF BOMBS   2,800 Tons Dropped on Siricxer  Reich Capital by RAF, Grea  Fires Left Burning   OTHER TOWNS HIT   Feint Raid Made on Frankfuri-on Qder, French Invasion Coast! Strafed Again

City Again a er: Field > of Flames       ‘Smoke Rises Four Miles to Air; All Sections-of © “="" Capital “Bit      45 PLANES LOST... 02 TN? RAF “ASSAULT:        Bomb’ Load ‘of 140: Tons: Pe Minute Greatest. Ever: -- Dropped. On ‘a: Target.

BIGGEST AIR RAID IN WAR HITS BERLIN   City Dealt Crushing Blow When 1200 Planes Strike

British Drop 2000 Tons in 20 Minutes   Make New Record in Concentration Over Germany’s Capital In Latest Raid

More Than 2,800 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped On City In Attack lasting 20 Minutes

New Record Set By RAF In Berlin Bombing--2,000 Tons Within 20 Minutes

RAF Hits German Capital With Greatest Load Of Bombs Ever Dropped On a Single Target; Allies Lose 45 Planes In Raid

2800 TONS OF BONBS FALL ON NAZI SAPITAL      RAF Delivers Heaviest, Most Concentrated Blow of War

RAF Blasts German Capital With 2,800 Tons Of Explosives.   Greatest Number of Planes Ever Used Over Germany In One Night; 43 Bombers Lost; All Sections Of Berlin Showered With Explosives and Incendiaries

Obliteration Raid on Reich's Capital Fifteenth of War   43 of British Aircraft Missing; Planes Hit Other Targets

TEMPERATURES:   City Smothered Under 2,800 Tons Of Explosives   Expiring Reich Capital Is Dealt. Death Blow; - 45 Bombers Missing

20-Minute Assault History’s Heaviest;  _45.RAE Ships Lost   Between 800 And 900 Planes Used; Large Area Of Capital Set Afire; Nazis Offer Light Opposition

Berlin Crushed Beneath Great Load Of Bombs   Hit By Greatest Load Of Bombs Ever Dropped On Single Target.

RAF SMASHED NAZI HEADQUARTERS CITY DEVASTATING BLOW  GREATEST LOAD BOMBS EVER DROPPED ON SIN. GLE TARGET UNLOADED

Greatest W ight of Bombs Ever Dropped Hits Berlin In RAF Obliteration Raid

Heaviest Bomb Load Hits Berlin   More Than Thousand Planes Hit Dying Capital; 43 Lest.

British Aerial Might Smashes At Nazi Capital  Attack On Berlin   Attack On Berlin Greatest Single Raid Of Air War

RAF Unloads 2,800 Tons in 20 Minutes   Never Before Ha Has Single  — Target Taken Such a  Pounding  45 AIRCRAFT LOST Smoke Rises Four Miles  From Huge Fires in   Pattered Canital

2800 BOMB TONS DROPPED ON NAZI CAPITAL BY RAF   PETWEEN 800 AND 900   BETWEEN 800 AND 900 BOMBERS IN ATTACK; 43 FAIL TO RETURN

Strange Disappearance of Adolf Hitler From the German Scene Arouses Comment in Allied Circles

GOP Supports Hospital Plan   Albuquerqne Meeting ‘Goes on Record for Progressive Legislation

Republicans To  Hear Candidates On Friday Night.  ‘Robert Blue And.  ‘Charles: Hoeven To Be Speakers 

Republicans To Hear Candidates On. F riday Night.   “Robert Blue And.  : ‘Charles’ “Hoeven

Garrison At Metz Makes Death Stand   Ninth Army Turns Back German Attack and Knocks Out German Tanks North of Aachen

All Six Of Hisenhower’s Armies Grind-—Eastward. In  Winter Offensive

Patton Stabs Near to Saar Border; First Drives Further Into Reich; Ninth Turns Back Counterattack

Yanks Smash Nearer Saar   Six Armies Of 1,250,000, With Some Number In Reserve. Drive Eastward:

Surprise Blow Falls As First Army Plows To Within 28 Miles Of Rhine River

U.S. 9th Army Beats Off Nazi Attacks   Possibly 1,250,000 Men Are on the Move Against Reich

NINTH URLS BACK COUNTER:ATTACKS   First Army Plunges 14 Miles Inside Germany   YANK THIRD ARMY   Tightens Screws on Metz, Pushing to Within a Mile Of Fortress City

PUSH CLOSE T0 ENEMY'S SAAR BASIN   General Hodges’ First Army Plows Forward to Point Only 28 Miles From Rhine.   NINTH BEATS OFF COUNTER-ATTACK   American Seventh in New. Gains — French First Advances in Drive Toward Belfort.

Third Army Tanks Gain Five Miles Across Moselle   Infantry Forces Seize More Towns

Third Army s Tanks Close  To Saar Basin   Nazi Garrison at Metz Fighting Under Guns of Gestapo

11 Of 45 Tiger And Panther Tanks Destroyed By First Army Near Aachen   THIRD ARMY DRIVES TOWARD SAAR BASIN

All Six Of Eisenhower’ ‘sArmies —-—GrindEastward. In  Winter Offensive

Repot  Pat lisans Of Tito Nearing nee Capital  5, Chetniks, ‘ond. Silva r Troops

TITG'S FORGES AT ENTRANCE TO BELGRADE   Battle with Mixed Groups of Germans, Puppet Troops and Chetniks; Two Cities Entered.   Hit Grounded Planes

Tito’s Troops Near Belerade   Ankara Reports Yugoslav Capital Has Fallen

DRIVE CLOSE TO BELGRADE   Tito’s Partisans Put Chet niks to Rout; Ankara Reports City Liberated

Marines Closing On Saipan Capital   2-Way Drive Begins; Big Guns Shatter City

DIONNE QUINTS TO BE 10 YEARS OLD SUNDAY   FAMOUS FIVE SISTERS TO CEASE BEING WARDS OF GOVERNMENT AFTER JUNE 30

Finish Plan Of Occupation   Big Three Expected to Agree to Deal for Controlling of Germany

Agreement Reachec On Ruling Over Defeated Germany  Three-Nation Program Will Be Directed By Supreme Council

Three-Power Control Of Germany is Agreed   Advisory Commission Sends Reports to Three Capitals

Reach Accord On Occupation Of Germany   Supreme Allied Council _ To Rule Defeated Reich, Terms Provide

PACT FOR CONTROL OF GERMANY GIVEN TO THREE POWERS   Agreement for Post-War Occupation Sent to Washington, London, Moschw

Sign Agreement On Reich Rule   Control During Military Occupation Split Among Three Powers

Agreement Reached On Reich Rule   Advisory Commission Of Three Powers Submits Recommendations To Each Government 

Pact Signed For Control \Of Germany   Supreme Allied Council to Rule Over Defeated Reich

Allies 65 Miles from Florence   Germans May Make Stand at Gothic Line

Major Jap Offensive On Chindwin Front In Burma Reported Under Way; Allies Clear Hukawng Valley

Japs Launch   Burma Drive   Attempt To Outflank ‘Allied Army Reported

Near Battie Grounds of War in1918   Storm Through Marne Val ley—-Germans Trapped on Banks of Rhone

Americans Clinch 3rd Battle Of Marne With Reich Only 90 Mi. Away   British Push On Rob Robot Bomb Coast Puts Allies On 200 Mi. Front Against Belgium, Germany

Approaching’ Historie Battleground Of Chateau-Thierry  BARELY 90 MILES OF GERMAW FRONTIER  65,000 Enemy Prisoners Taken And 16,000 Are Killed

Powerful British Force Streams Over Seine River   Battered Nazi Armies of Northern France  Said In Full Retreat

GERMAN UNITS OF NORTH IN FULL FLIGHT   Americans Southeast Of Paris Barely 90 Miles From Reich

British Uncork New Push   American Troops Near Battlefields Where Dads Fough'

ROBOT BOMBING 'BASES CENTER OF \o-EDCE THREAT   Germans In Retreat As Americans Push Noayrer Hame Keantier

APPROACH HISTORIC F IRST WORLD WAR BATTLEGROU! OF CHATEAU-THIERRY — .

Temperatures   British Are Midway Between Towns of Vernon and Elbeuf

British Push Twin Drives  Above Paris   Nazis’ Robot Bases And German Border: Are Threatened

2 Drives Imperil Germany   Patton’s Men Push Ahead With Little Resistance From Nazis

Battered German Armies In Full   Retreat; British Armored Force   Grosses Seine In Threat Te Nazis’ Robot Bomb Base   ) OPPOSITION FROM ENEMY IS FEEBLE

Yanks Fighting Nazis Again In Marne Valley   British Armor Streams Across Seine River To Threaten Robot Bomb Bases; American Forces 90 Miles From German Border

British Make Power Thrust Across Seine   Yanks Approach ChateauThierry, Historic Battleground.

Allies Threaten Robot Bases and German Border   American Troops Storm Through Marne Valley

NAZIS IN FULL RETREAT THRU NORTH FRANCE   Yanks Reported at Marne 10C Miles Southeast of Paris.

NEW RIGHTS GIVEN SOVIET REPUBLICS   MOSCOW TO LET THEM DRAFT OWN FOREIGN POLICY AND HAVE ARMY UNITS.

Soviet Union Grants New States’ Rights 16 Republics May Now Make Own  PHoreton Polipiec

Monty Wins (Caen, Opens Newest Drive   Red Troops in Wilno, Allies Within 10 Miles of Liverno in Italian Campaign

GRAFT HEARING IS POSTPONED   Feb. 28 Is Fixed As New  Date; Last Delay, Carr Says

House Has Refusec To Accept Cut In Cabaret Tax  Federal Debt Limit Bill Is Sent to Conference Group

HOUSE REFUSES TO ACCEPT SENATE — AMENDMENTS TODAY   One Amendment Refused By the House Was the Rider Calling for Reduction in the Cabaret Tax

SEUETOWN, HARBOR IN  NEW BRITAIN   Obtain New Base for Future Drive on  Rabaul

Jap Airstrip on New Britain Taken   Advance Continues on Los Negros, in Admiralty Group

South Praises Partv’s Plank  On Rail Rates   Delegation Disappointed, But Not Bitter, Over Stand On Racial Issue

ALLIED ARMIES SPRING STRONG ATTACK TODAY   Caen-Falaise Highway Is Objective

HEAVY SUPPORT GIVE BY PLANES AND GUNS   Four-Day Stalemate Broken; Montgomery Sidesteps  FE Sg geen PE a ee Pee

SLASH FORWARD ON FOUR - MILE LINE NEAR CAEN   Nazis Fight Desperately To Keep British From Good Tank Ground

Powerful Assault Pounds Out Gains   Montgomery’s Tommies Strike From Caen and Yanks Drive Forward From St. Lo

British-Canadian Tanks and Infantry Gain in Push South of Caen on East Flank

British Move Down Road To Falaise  Americans Strike West From St. Lo on Front of 25 Miles  OPPOSITION IS STIFF  Monigomery’s Advance Carries at Least 5 Miles Daenand fran

ENEMY OFFERS FIERCE FIGHT, GAINS SMALL   Yanks, Tommies, Canucks End Four-Day Lull In Battle

Americans And British Advance, End 4-Day Stall   Thunderous Artillery Aud Aerial Barrage Comes Before Dawn Attacks

Dual Forces Open Major Drive Inland   Co-Ordinated Blow Designed to Break  Western Stalemata

Americans And British Push Forward   Planes Give Support To Offensives; Some Gains Reported

New Thrust By Yanks, British Catches Nazi Forces By Surprise   Advances Up To One Mile Gained In Early Hours Of Dawn Assault; Paris — 110 Miles

HELP YANKS IN THEIR ATTACK   British-Canadian Forces Hit South Of Caen; U.S. Blow Reported Near St. Lo

FOUR INJURED OVER WEEK-END   Miss Nellie Shields, 68, ‘in Hospital with. Skull Fracture

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest Tc All In The Various  Communities

Six Hurt, Two Seriously in Storm Accident  City Man, Lock Haver Woman Hespitalized

PEDESTRIAN IS SEVERLY HURT WHEN STRUCK   Accident Toll In Area For Week  lis Nine

4 Men Injured In Bus Crash  ‘m= Mishap Occurs On  Ri. 60 at Snow Hill

FOUR PERSONS ARE INJURED IN AUTO MELEE   Pedestrian Killed When Struck By Car

Four Hurt as Mishaps Ocew  In Loeality   Indianapolis Woman In Hospital Here—Bo Struck by Auto at Kast Edge of City

Four Seriously Hurt  In Two-Car Collision   Three Olean Persons and Lewis Run Man in Bradford Hospital as Result Of Crash on Highway at South Bradford

PITILESS PEACE SEEN FOR JAPAN   Nation Would Be Stripped 01 Ability To Wage War

JAPS TO FIND PEACE TERMS MORE SEVERE      Atrocity Stories Harden U.S. Plans for Enemy At End of War

HARDER PEACE TERMS FOR JAPS ARE NOW ASSURED   Ruthless Treatment of War Prisoners Brings Determination for Pitiless Treatment

Pitiless Peace For Japs   U. S. Determined Japan Shall Be Stripped of Power Ever to Make War in the Future

PITILESS BUT JUST PEACE ON JAPAN URGED   Must Be Sure That No War Plants Can Be Used

TO BANISH SAVAGERY IN PACIF Ic ———eEE Ee ee  Just But Pitiless Peace Facing Tapan

Determination To Give Just But Pitiless Peace To Japan Strengthened By Stories Of Barbarism

U.S. Aims To Strip Japan Of All Power   3-Point Plan Ic Advacated

ATROCITIES . OF. -JAPS HARDEN PEACE TERMS   Advocate Program -To- Strip Nips . oO

U.S. Plans To  Wipe Japan Out   NIPS TO BE STRIPPED OF ALL INDUSTRIES ' AND SHIPS

U.S. Hardens Peace Program ~ For Japanese   After Enemys Ruthless Treatment Of Prisoners. Plan Strenethened.,   STRIP WHOLE EMPIRE

U. S. ADVOCATES PITILESS PEACE PLAN FOR JAPAN   ATROCITIES AROUSE DEMAND FOR STRICT ECONOMIC BARRIERS

Authorities Urge Program to Strip Japs of War Power   American Government Determined to Impose Just; Pitiless Peace

U.S. Authorities Would Strip Japs OF War Powers   Plan “To Remove Ability O£ Foe Ever To Wage War; Bans Sea, Air Units

America Hardens Stand Toward Jap:   Pitiless Peace Terms Ordered As Result of Atrocity Reports

Nippons Facing Pitiless. Peace  Recent Revelations Strengthens Program

PITILESS BUT JUST PEACE FOR JAPAN 1 GOVERNMENT'S PLAN   POST-WAR PROGRAM HARDENED FOR NIPPON BY TREATMENT PRISONERS

U.S. to Clamp “Hard Peace” On Japanese   Atrocities. -to Prisoners Bolster- Plan .to Block  4,  Future W ar-Making’ ‘7

PITILESS PEACE AIMED AT JAPAN   3-Point Program To Strit Foe Follows Atrocities

PEACE FOR JAPAN 15 GOVERNMENT'S PLAN  POST-WAR PROGRAM HARDENED FOR NIPPON B} TREATMENT PRISONERS...  ra BUT JUST

Japs Facing ‘Hard’ Peace   Foe May Be Stripped . OF Heavy Industries

U.S. Government Decides To Impose Just But Pitiless Peace OnJapanAt WarEnd

Japan Doomed To Hard Peace Terms By U.S.   Three-Point Program ‘to Strip Nips of Economic Ability Ever to Make  War Again Advocated

3-Point Plan Considered to Control Japan   Some Experts Favor Moves to Make Nippon Into Agricultural State

Naval Aviation Cadet Charles O. Hinson To Start Flisht Trainine—

Reds Cut, Capture Axis Armies, Rush  Toward Sevastopol   Most Of Crimea Free As Thousands Of Foe Perish

JOINT ALLIED MILITARY REGIME WITH EISENHOWER AS HEAD SEEN AS POST-WAR GERMAN GOVERNMENT   London Reports from Reliable Sources Indicate ‘American - British - Russian Set-up Which Will: Practically Dominate Entire European Continent

Russians Scoring New Speed Record In Liberating Land   Unprecedented Bomb Attacks on German Air Power Continue

Armies Speeding» Over Last 25 Miles’ ‘Toward Sevastopol   Report 7500 Square Miles In Crimea _ Liberated In Less Than Week; 20,000 Prisoners In Cages

Hitler’s Invading Forces Demoralized as Surging Attack : Pressed Toward Balkan Gateway; Fighting in Italy Quiet By Comparison; Invasion Rumor Stirs Belligerents

20,000 Germans Lodged In Prison Cases By Reds   Jap Reinforcements Of Planes, Ships Sent To Bottom In Pacific

RUSSIAN TROOPS DRIVING SWIFTLY FOR. CRIMEA CMP.   RED ARMY FORCES ONLY 25 MILES FROM FINAL PENINSULA OBJECTIVE

German Thrusts Falter   Americans Tuch Ahead hy Use Of Flamethrowera

AMERICAN INFANTRY BATTLING HOUSE T0 HOUSE INTO AACHEN   ALL ATTEMPTS OF GERMANS TO MOUNT HEAVY RESCUE BLOWS FAIL

Nazi Artillery Slows Up Drive To Aid Patriots   Allied Field Guns Thrown info Action

EPUDIATE PARIS ARMISTICE   Complete Liberation of Capltal City Delayed   Some Yanks Said to Have Entered Paris; Celebrations Are Premature

Senate Beat! Taft Ceiling On Subsidies   ADMINISTRATION LEADERS PIN HOPE ON VETO OF BAN ON SUBSIDIES; FINAL VOTE DEFERRED.   Rankhead Bill’ll Pass

SUBSIDY BAN VOTE DELAYED   Senate Rejects Taft Pro posal for Ceiling on Spending Program

STORM KILLS AT LEAST 40, INJURES 500   Tornado Sweeps Over Parts of Georgia, South Carolina

Pound dents in stout nazi  defense lines  Yanks advance alons new front

Big B-29 Raid Made on Jap Homeiand City  Omura Airbase on Kensehes Leland Said

Allies Give Ur Key Town, Rhine Bank   Battered Division Leaves Behind Unmovable Wounded

Drive Is Set for October   Organization Meet Held at Osceola on Friday, July 7, to Learn Quotas.

County War Fund Quota Is $10,200   Campaign Will Be In October to Raise Funds.

U.S. Action Likely In Truck Strike   Army or ODT to Take Over, Washington Hints

U.S. About to Intervene in  Truck Strike   Army or ODT May Take Over Operation of Transport Lines

STAGE REVOLT   Seek Presidential Nomi nation for Sen. Byrd Of Virginia

President Gets Physical Checkup,  Parries Questions on Fourth Term

ROAR TO ATTACK  FROM BASES IN  ITALY, BRITAIN GERMANS TELL OF  FIERCE COMBATS AVUCO WINCRARY

6 Political Parties In Italy Will Share  Posts in New Regime   Junta Reaches Accord in Session Marked by Stormy Exchanges; Action Gives Badoslio Anthoritv

PROBE OF WAR NEWS BY CONGRESS LOOMS   OW! Not Given All Facts Former Director Says

WAR PLANT STRIKES SETTLED IN DETROIT   7,200 Workers Go Back to Jobs Monday

Americans Score  Spectacular 10-Mile Advance   Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance  10 Miles in Italy   Mauled Germans Have Lost 70,000 Men in Last Month; Pescara and Avezzano Are Captured by Allies

36th Infantry Division Battalion Has Been Awarded A Presidential Citation

JOB ‘SHOPPING’ ABOLISHED BY NEW PROGRAM   Prepare To Put Drastic Manpower Control In Effect Soon

ALL-AMERICAN AIR LINE OPPOSED BY 2 U. §. DEPARTMENTS   Congress Advised Not To Establish A Monopoly

Nazi Plane Works. Rail HubsBombed   Communications Lines Funneling Supplies To Italy Ripped Up

ROOSEVELT SAVES MAN FROM GALLOWS   President Commutes to Life Im prisonment Death Sentence Given Army Private.

THOMAS SCORES STEEL FORIULA   ” Dissatisfaction i Growing in Aircraft and Auto Plants

THOMAS SCORES STEEL FORMULA   : Digsatisfaction Is” oe Growing in. Aircraft: and Auto Plants.

THOMAS CLAIMS LABOR UNREST   Wage _ Dissatisfaction Alarming Increase, WLB Advised

Governor Refuses Clemency  To Youthful Killer of Boy  17-Year-Old Parolee Scheduled Ta Die Exnidaw in EFlaerdete Clhatc

LOUIS HAND, 17, TO DIE FRIDAY IN STATE PEN   No Mitigating Circumstances Found, Governor’s Aid Reports

Much Blood To Be Shed—W. C.  Refers To Offensive Against Germany

B29’s Bomb Na Nagoya, War Plants Center  ee ee    One of Largest Fleets of Superforts Visits Region In Daylight; City Heavily Industrialized, inflammable

Superforts Blast At Nagoya, Third City Of Nippon, In Force   Highly Inflammable City Of Japan Attacked; Tokyo Radio Admits There Was ‘Some Damage’

‘BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 2 —Heavy explosions and large fires were reported by B-20 filers who ralded Nagoya today.

Bombs Rock Big Industrial  Center J apan   Pilots Upset Enemy Defenses By Making Feint Toward Tokyo and  Cutting Back   B-29’s Slow Speed  To Gain Accuracy   City Boasis Largest Concentration Aircraft and. Parts Plants In  Tenan

NAGOYA HIT AS NEW BOMBING FIELD OPENS   Huge Bomber Fleet Raids Nippon’s Most Inflammable City

Bomb Nagoya {n Record Raid By Superforts   City One of Japs’ Most inflammable Targets—An Aircraft Manufacturing Center

Nagoya, Jap Tinder-Box City, Hit By  Superforts   Built Mostly Of Wood And Plaster: Planes Feinted First At Tokve

Armada Batters Nagoya   One Of Jap’s Principle Industrial Centers.

Nagoya Hit Hard by U.S. Planes   Superfortresses Fool Jap Defenses With Feint Toward Tokyo

Second Japanese City Is Home Of Aircraft Plants _   Americans Upset Enemy Defenses By Feinting At Tokyo

Big Jap Ldustrial City 0! Nagoya Bom4  Today By Large F orce Jf B-29s

Nagoya Pounded by Heavy Superfort Raid   Large Industrial Center and Inflammable City on Japanese Mainland Target of Attack, After Feint at Tokyo '

GREATEST JAP PLANE CENTER POUNDED HARD   Saipan-Based Bombers Report Success After  3.000 Mile Trip

[JAPAN'S MOST INFLA M MABLE (TARGET, INDUSTRIAL CENTER OF NAGOYA, BLASTED BY B-20S

B-295 DELIVER NEW AIR BLOW   Record Air Fleet Flies From Saipan To Hit Aircraft Plants

UPSET JAP PLANS BY TOKYO FEINT   30,000 Jopanese Soldiers Have Drowned Off Leyte

Record Aid Fund Asked for State   Security Commission Makes  Request for $92,399,532 for  Next Iwo Years   TO MEET DEMANDS OF POST-WAR ERA   Biggest Increase Proposed Is for Direct Relief; More ‘Asked for Pensioners

RC OM sictieaiiacimaathiein meetininaieimmeet atin  YUGOSLAVS DRIVE INTO SERBIA, FIGHTING HARE

Messages of Heartbreak and Hope  War Dep’t Casiialty Reports Put In Hands Of Specialists

Grief Carried Hourly by Sackful ‘Into Capital’s ‘Heartbreak House’

Graveness of job reflected by faces of employes in army casualty division

Allied Bombers Blast Jap Ships In Marshalls   Believe Two Sunk, Enemy Destroyer Reported Damaged

Politics   Hottest Political Campaign Since ’28 Enters Home Stretch

THIRTY ON TRIAL ON SEDITION CHARGES   Face 10 Years, $10,000 Fine or Both; Face Charges of Conspiring With  ee en

zoP0 NEAR END of ROPE ON BOUGAINVILLE.   1,000 Die in “Last Gasp” Attack on U. S. Positions

EAR END i; ROP ON BOUGAINVILLE   1,000 Die in “Last Gasp” Attack on U.S. Positions

JAPS NEARING ROPE’S END ON BOUGAINVILLE   1,000 Killed In Sharp Battle     NIPS DESPERATE  eee cee  Wake Island Suffers Heavy Blow

BRITISH TAKE FOES THRUST QUITE LIGHTL'   AMERICAN FLYERS SLAM ENEMY BASES

Americans Have Maniged ‘To Shripk German Salient ' Into Belgium   THEY'VE ATTACKED ON ITS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN SIDES :   Relieved American Garrison At Bastogne Is. Praised For Its Bravery

AIR, LAND PINCERS CLOSING TRAP ON CRIMEA GARRISON   Largest Nazi Force Since Stalingrad Face Peril of Being Rottled-uo.

Reds “Reach” Outskirts of Simferopol   Near Feodosiya in Pincers Drive Toward Sevastopol Base  We. EW eet Sin i chee mas

TWO ARMIES TAKE PART IN DRIVE ON SEVASTOPOL BASE   150,000 Germans Presumably Bottled as Russian Motor Units Advance Toward Two Cities.   26,000 DEAD JAPANESE COUNTED IN TWO AREAS   Allied Troops and Orientals Engage In Hand-to-Hand Fight at Imphal, Enemy Is Forced to Retire.

Shock Troops Knife Deeper Into Crimea   Dual Force Hammering at Rim Of Simferopol and Feodosiya

Red Tanks Roll Across: yrimean Plains Toward Sevastopol Naval Base      Sea And Air Blockade Bottles Up Largest Axis Force Since Stalingrad Siege

Nazi Troops Deserted by  Commanders   Soviets Converge On Simferopol And Feodosiya

SOVIETS SPEED ACROSS CRIMEA AT BLITZ PAGE   Disorder Spreads Among Trapped Axis Troops, Moscow Save

FDR to Endorse Wallace But Leave Final Decision To Convention Delegates

WALLACE WILL GET CHANCE AT SECOND PLACE   Vice Presidential Controversy Is Big Event at Democratic Meet.

Wallace To Get One-Ballot She  At Renominativ-.   Chance Will End If . President Suggests Other Name For Post

* FLASHES   Leasnd Wire Bulletins on Lates' World News Taday.   Pres, Roosevelt Will Endorse.

17 JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK BY SUBMARINES   Two Nipponese Destroyers Also Sent To Bottom; Total Is Now 58 Lost To U-Boat Action

17 JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U. S. SUBMARINES   Bag Includes Two Destroyers ane Two Tankers From Hard Hit Fuel-Carrying Fiect.

Loss of Destroyer And 18 Other Craft Hurts Japs  Enemy Is Deprived _ Of 974-Ship  Total Up to Now

U.S, SUBS SINK 18-JAP VESSELS   Destrdyer Included in Latest Bas by Yauks

250 AIR MILES OF CHUNGKING   Chinese Officials Say Threat Is Not  Serious

Japanese Push Near Chungking  Are Only 250 Miles From City by Air

Japs Push Closer To China Capital   Chungking Asks Calm; Foe 250 Miles Away

GLIDER CARRIES 30 IN FORD TES   Also Transports 2 Jeeps Dur. ing Successfut Dearborn Trials

GLIDERS WILL HAUL 2 JEEPS   Iron Mountain. Plant Te Build New Ship With Room For 30 Men

ITALIAN HIGHWAY RETREAT SEVERED   Germans In Lici Valley May Yet Withdraw Thracgh Mountain Paths

German Lines Disentegrate Along Front   Americans Broaden And Deepen Advance In German Territory

Other Columns Sweep West ‘'Loward Brest   Entire Breton Peninsula Appears Likely to Fall in Surprisingly Short Time as Most of German Line Disintearates

NEAR RENNES; BREST FACES MAJOR THREAT   Stupendous Victory Due in Campaign For Paris

American Tanks Rolling Toward Big Port Of Brest   German Rout Spreads Over 50 Mile Front As Americans Sweep 30 Miles Across Brittany In A Day: While Line Is Disintegrating.

GERMAN UNITS ARE FLEEING IN HASTY RETREAT   Eisenhower Promises “Great Developments” Within Next 12 Hours

EISENHOWER PROMISES BIG DEVELOPMENTS   Nazis “Advancing Backward” Along Line From Emmerich To Ruhr Valley   NANCY AND BREST FALL   Yanks Crack Gothic Line And Russians Take Heavy Toll Of Enemy

UP-T0- PRESS- TIME WAR BULLETINS  a a se Seis Alaware Ge   GERMAN TROOPS FLEE ACROSS RIVER RHINE

Developments Of Great Importance Reported As Near   German Commentator Asserts ‘‘Decisive Operation’ Is Now In Progress   ALLIES CONTINUE TO DRIVE AHEAD

HAUPT SENTENCED FOR LIFE: 1S FINED   Father of Executed Saboteur Convicted Second Time of Treason —

LIFE IMPRISONMENT DECREED FOR HAUPF   Father Of Nazi Saboteur Who Tas Executed In 1942 Also Fined $10.660 By Court

Total Casualties. 189,309 To Date   Reports Show Increase  of 10,450 In 14 Days

GERMANS ADMIT SOVIETS GAINING ON IASI SECTOR         N lazi Agency Claims Russian Advance Now Covers Broad Front

BERLIN REPORTS RED OFFENSIVE   Major Drive Launched in  lasi Area, Is Claim

Yanks Pouring Rifle Fire On Bologna Road   Hammer’ German Transport Movements From Heights; Rain Halts Operations

5th Army Troops Inch Forward to Po Valley   Bologna-Rimini Highway Brought Under Fire

rifth Army Shells Road  To Bolo ona   Long Toms, Firing Ove Mountains, Seer To tut Nazi Supplies

FIFTH ARMY DRIVES NEARER PO VALLEY   Troops Hammer Way Through Mud Filled Fields

Bologna-Rimini Highway Blasted By “Long Toms”   Fifth Army Moves Less Than 10 Miles From Po Valley

Govt. Seeking Showdown in  Mont. Ward Case   Union Attorney Sues Firm for Attorney's Fees and Damages

EXPLOSION CAUSE 7 YET KNOW, PASALTIES HIGH   Sinking of Destroyer Remains Mystery as Navy Holds Silence

BLAST CAUSE. ~ NOT REVEALED   NAVY SOURCES SILENT RE» GARDING BLOWING UP OF ‘ DESTROYER-—FEAR. 65 DIED

Cause Of Blast On U.S. Destroyer Remains Mystery   Toll Of Explosion And Sinking Of Destroyer Not Yet Known

Workers Vote To Return to TheirJobs —   Submit Dispute To Labor Office For Arbitration

Great German Retreat On in Holiand   Allies Soon To Get Use Of Antwerp To Bring In Supplies

GERMANS FLEE ACROSS MEUSE PIVER VALLEY   Leaving Holland By Thousands; Abandon City

ALLIES SOON 10 GET USE OF BIG ANTWERP PORT   Estimate 10,000 to 20,000 Nazi Troops Left Below Maas River

NAZIS RETREAT UNDER MIGHTY ALLIED BLOWS   Yanks Occupy Big. Metz Fortress; Russians Oven New Drive

South Beveland Captured As Use Of Antwerp Near   German Columns Blacken Roads Of Retreat As Yanks Regain Ground From Broken Axis Drive On East; Maizieres-les-Metz Taken By Patton

Ts Eseaping Under Cover Of Heavy Fog  Across Maas   Enemy Fleeing While Altied Planes Are Grounded; U.S. Clears Sector

Soviet Forces Slice Ahead  In Crimea   Aerial Offensive From Britain and Italy Continues.

Some Confusion Caused By Reports Concerning The Situation In Warsaw   ONE REPORT SAID THE FIGHTING HAD STARTED UP AGAIN.   It Is Possible Pro-Russians Under Bor Are Refusing To Surrender

Patriots Cease Fighting After Exhausting All ‘Supplies And Ammunition

NAZIS IN GREECE ARE TRAPPED   ‘leeing From _ British, Germans Headed For Russian Forces.

British-Soviet Junction Near  British In Greece But 50 Miles From Reds In Bulgaria

Begins To Look As If The Nazis Will Run Tits Dead End —   INDICATIONS ARE HITLER MAY WRITE OFF. YUGOSLAVIA   Rugsians Are Stepping Up Campaign To Knock Hun. * pary Out Of War

ritish, Greek oops March to Athens   Germans Reported Fleeing North In  Desperate Attempt To Escape Capture

Germans Give Up Capital City Without Struggle   Operation Conducted By Seaborne, Airborne Forces

Athens Clear Of Germans   British Moving in Forces To Push Up Peninsula; Rush Supplies to Greeks

Converging By Sez And Air, Allies Also Recapture Port Of Piraeus

British, Greek Troops Regain Piraeus Port   ea, Air Forces In Operation With Yank Planes Taking Part; Opposition Not Told

Athens Freed Of Nazi Yoke Allies Report   Port of Piraeus Also Captured, Special Communique Says

British and Gresko Enter City   Relief Expedition, With. Food. and Other. Supplies, on Its: Way

New Landing Force Drives Deep Inland   Citadel of Corfu Falls To British Without  Rint Reing Fired

NAZIS GIVE UP CORFU ISLAND WITHOUT SHOT   AMERICAN PLANES HAMPER ENEMY EVACUATION

Allied Forces Occupy Athens And Its Port   Entry Of British, Greeks Into City Ends ThreeYear Nazi Reign

Athens Freed By British, Greek Force   Sea, Air Attacks Lift Tyrannical Rule From Ancient Capital

ALLIES OCCUPY ATHENS; MOVE IN BY LAND AND SEA   Nearby Port of Piraeus Also Seizéd—British and Greek . Troops Take Part in Operation.   NO OPPOSITION MET, REPORTS INDICATE   Germans Surrender Island of Corfu Without Firing Shot —Capitulation Comes as Surprise.

Chinese Make 8 Mile Gain Along Jungle Road  From Maingkwan, Burma

‘Allied Circle Slowly  Closing On Japanese   Large Force of Nips Trapped In Burma; American Air Power in China Steadily   Built Up.

Japs Pressing Home Attacks Tn India Area   Meanwhile. Allies Cotitine Operations to Clear” Enemy Frou TiddimInrphal Road

Japs Pressing Indian Attacks  In Ukhrul Area   Allies Continue Operations To Clear Enemy From Tiddam-Imphal Road

ONE COLUMN PRESSING ON TO IMPHAL   Allies Holding Two Other Enemy Forces In Sharp Actions

Determined Attacks Made By Japanese   But Allied Troops Are Clearing Tiddim And Imphal Road

British Smash German Plans [For Conterattack In Italy  ‘Allied Bombers Hammer Outskirts Of Rome iIn Three Raids On Alrfields In Sector

Most Of The Men Who Went To Induction Center Accepted For Navy   Reports Are Lacking About Ten Of The Grouy

Benno Krull And Remsen Girl Wed  _ Marriage Took Place At Fort Riley

Cardinals Find Batting Eyes, Beat Browns, 5 to 1  Even World Series At Two-All With 19.Hit Attack

CARDINALS SHOW HITTING POWER TO EVEN SERIES   Redbirds Ride to 5 to 1 Vic: tory Over Brownies to Strength of 12 Blows   STAN MUSIAL PACES CARDINAL OFFENSIVE   Gets Homer, Double and Single and Drives in Two of Winning Tallies; Opening Game Starters Cooper and Galehouse Clash Today

Cards Blast Out 5-to-1  Series Victory   Pound Out 12 Hits in Sudden Surge of Power

Cards Even Series With p-1 Victory   Breechen Defeats American Leaguers; Fifth Game Today

llitting Power Takes Cards To 5-1 Victory   Hickory Attack Sends Jakucki to Shower in 4th Frame

CARDS’ HEAVY SLUGGING TIES SERIES COUNT   Galehouse Likely Browns’ Mound Choice To Face Big Mort Cooper

“Cardinals Rap «Out 12 Hits to Beat Browns 5  Musial’s Circuit Blow Evens Series Between Two St. Louis Clubs

200 PLANES SENT AGAINST RABAUL   FORCE LARGEST EVER TO RAID STRONGHOLD—20 — JAPS SHOT DOWN.

RABAUL RIPPED BY 250 PLANES   Twenty More Nipponese Fighters Shot Down Over New Britain

20 Jap Planes Downed in ‘Raid on Rabau!   At Least 30 Enemy Barges Are Sunk by Patrols

Dubois Farmer  Wins Corn Title   Huntingburg Man's Yield Is 163.8  Bushels Per Acre

Huge Fruit Crop Will Be Problem   How To Secure Harvest Labor Poses Question

USUAL ROVING PICKERS SEEN   Community Farm Volunteers Only Hope, Love Says

—AERIAL—  FLIER DESTROY. NAL VERIGLES   (More Than 3,800 Piece: Of Equipment Lost B;  Foe In France - -

Blistering Attacks Destroy Much }f Nazis’ Aircraft  Long Series of Raids Results in Heavy  Lracene far Carmnane

ALLIED AIRMEN — DESTROYED 3800 GERMAN VEHICLES   Also Struck Fresh Blows To day at Shattered Enemy Divisions.   RAF BOMBERS BUSY   Set Fires at Port of Bremen and. Blasted Oil and Rail Installations.

Allied Airmen Have Good Huntine As Germans Flee   Take Heavy Toll of Transport, Blast Supzly Dumps, Bridges, Set Fires At Bremen

Nazi Armor Is Heavily Damaged By [Air Raids   3,800 Vehicles Hit, Many Destroyed; New Blows Are Struck At Enemy: Bremen Raidec

Von Kluge’s Remnants Are Reeling Under Incessant Merciless Allied Strafing   3,800 German Vehicles Destroyed Yesterday In Air Attack -

IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Allied Airmen Destroy ot Damage 3,800 German  Vehicles

GERMANS LOST 3800 VEHICLES T0 U. S, FRIDAY   Enemv Divisions Receive Fresh  Blows Today

Germans Take  Air Pounding  3,800 Vehicles Destroyed Or Damaged by Planes Chasing Fleeing Nazis

Take Huge Toll of German Transport   Allied “Airpower Wrecks 3800 Vehicle: In Blistering Attack

Germans Lose 3800 Vehicles To Allied Fliers   Second Assault Is Made On Robot Supply Depot; Fly 5000 Sorties In Day

BERLIN, BREMEN HIT BY BRITISH   Allied Fliers Hit Fleeing Nazis in France Again Today

Fliers Have Field _ Day Over France   3800 German Vehicles Destroyed As Airmen Fly 5000 Sorties; Bremen, Berlin Hit

HUNTING GOOD FOR AIR FORCE   Blistering Attacks Smash German Men, Vehicles

Planes Wreck Thousands Of Nazi Vehicles   Enemy Divisions Hit, Berlin Bombed By Allied Fleets

ALLIED AIRMEN DESTROYED 3,800 GERMAN VEHICLES IN BATTLE NORTHWEST FRANCE   Blistering Daylight Attacks Upon Remnants of Gen. Von Kluge’s Reeling Army Came After More Than 1,000 RAF Heavy Bombers Blasted Oi  Installations of Germeny France and Belzium

Sergeant’s Salute To His Infant Son Brings Down Ten Nazis in Germany

Miami Woman Cares Fo Graves Of British Boys Killed While Trainina

Shortage of Corn Becoming Threat to Nation's War Work   WPB and Army Seeking Ways to Get Grain Into Markets

WPB, War Department, Press WPA For  Action To Relieve Corn Shortage

Solution of Corn Problem Being Sought   War Industries Being Hampered by Lack of Supplies

WPB ASKS RELIEF OF CORN SHORTAGE   Commercial Supplies Curtail Production in War Plants

Says Elmer Davis. OWI Chief In Interview With Reporters-—More_ Ration.  ing After War.

DAVIS REPORTS GN CHANGE OF VICTORY   ‘Arnhem Affair’ Makes Prediction of War’s End Out of Date.

Chances For Victory This  ~ Year Remote   Failure of Allied Air Army at Arnhem Is Reason, OWI Reports

OWI Says Chances Victory Ih Europe This Year Remote   Says. Arnbem_ Setback “Means Allies. May: Be -.-Fighting: ‘Germans“€   til Spring.

Arnhem, Changed ‘Scheaule  OW! Sees Slim Chance of Victory In 1944

CHANCES FOR EARLY V-DAY NOW REMOTE   Failure of Allied Airborne Troops at Arnhem Makes Out of Date Previous OW! Prediction   SURVEY ON RATIONING

“Arnhem Affair”  May Extend War  Into Next Year Davis, OWI Head,  Expresses View

Allied Airborne Troops Failure In Arnhem Fight Makes 1944 Victory Chances ‘More Remote —OW

ELMER DAVIS, OWI  HEAD, DECIDES NAZIS  NOT QUIT THIS YEAR _ FAILURE OF ALLIED AIR BORNE FORCES AT ARNWee CITED AC CATICR

OWI HEAD SEES CHANCE OF 1944 VICTORY REMOTE   Failure At. Arnhem ‘Changes Schedule  $c TYAtte   REVEAL REPORT   Expect: Five: Million "To Change Jobs After V_E' Dav:

"Arnhem Affair" Nullifies Prophecy by OW! Concerning Hitler's Defeat

Arnhem Set V-E Day Back   German Collapse More Remote Than When Recent Report Was Made

Chances For 1944 Victory More Remote  Previous Prediction   Previous Prediction Is Now Out Of Date, Head Of OWI Says

ARNHEM DEFEAT MAKES EARLIER PREDICTIONS OF GERMAN DEFEAT IN 1944 OUTMODED PROPHECY

EARLY EUROPE VICTORY BIMS, DAVIS REPORTS   Failure of Arnhem Force Lessens Chances For  Nazi Fall In °44

Prospects of  1944 Victory  “More Remote’   Failure at Arnhem Has  Changed Outlook; OWI  Tells Probable Rationing Trends

Arnhem Loss Delays Peace   Says OWI Head, Who Also Predicts Ration Trend: After V-E Day

SOVIETS PUSH INTO SUBURBS OF BUCHAREST   Captured Oil Fields Undamaged  eects nero  TAKE 300 TOWNS  Admit Red Advances Near Warsaw

Plans Laid For Hy.67 Completion   WORK IS NO. 1 PROJECT ON POST-WAR PROGRAM OF WESTEX DIVISION

Growing Peril to Japs Told by MacArthur   Losses Force Enemy to Keep Ships Back of Philippines-Ceram Line

CONRMTCTOP KRrre   Tightening of Congr ‘ess’ Hold On Purse Stri ‘ings Is Demanded

DRIVE TO TAKE JAP AIR BASES   Yanks Force Crossing Of River On N. Guinea

Yanks Extend Bridgehead In  New Guinea   Americans Apparently Push Towards Maffin Airdrome West Of Tor River

U.S. Bridgehead Enlarged on New Guinea Mainland   Cross Tor River Under Heavy Jap Resistance

Cross Tor River on Dutch New Guinea Maintiund Under Vigorous Japanese Mortar and = MachineGun Resistance,

Greeley, Ia., Boy Loses Life During Rescue of Friend From Elk Creek

De Gaulle To . Carry-On. With  ~ Franco Spain      Clears the: Way-by. Restrict ing Spanish. Republican Activities Along French Border

DeGaulle Curbs Activities Of Spanish Rebels   Ties With Franco Will Be Resumed

The War Today  War Analyst Predicts Barbarians Will Pay For Atrocities.

The War Today   Mikado’s Barbarians Shall Pay For Torturine Bataan Heroes 

GRIM CLASH AT BUDAPEST DELAYS REDS   Hungarian Capital Radio Silent All Day

Soviet Forces Swinging Toward Vienn;   Two Armies Slash Deeper Into Budapest's Streets

Russ Tanks Swing Toward Vienna on 90-Mile Front      Drive for Austria Speeded While 2 Red Armies Fight Through Budapest

Several Hundred. ‘Denied Access to ~Cartadian Bridges  Border Patrolmen Report   Border Patrolmen Report Spans Closed Because — ~~ Of Work Dispute

Flee From * Russians , at Odessa   Great Panic in Villages Near City As Red Ring Is Drawn Tighter   SEVERAL GERMAN UNITS ENCIRCLEL   ~Great Confusion In Some "Areas As Reds Push On; Heavy Battle at Tarnopol

WESTWARD OFFENSIVE OF RUSSIAN ARMIES REACHES FRONTIERS  REDS REACH CARPATHIAN FOOTHILLS ON 124 MILE FRONT

Says Many Held Were Deferred   124 of 137 Arrested Under 38 Years, U. S. Attorney Says

PAYROLL RACKET TOP IN SHIPYARD FRACAS   Workers Are Charged With Defrauding Government

STAFF 1S TRAINED FOR HIRING VETS   Will Be Able to Cope With Problems Confronting Service Men.

EMPLOYMENT GROUP WILL ASSIST VETS IN GETTING JOBS   Plans Made to Make it Far Easier for Returning Service Men

MUD IN DUST BOWL   Western Kansas Getting More Rain Than It Wants

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  ! Master War Plan Of Allies  Being Carried Out

INJURED FILL HOSPITALS IN EAST DISASTER   Wind Levels Blocks in Some Sectors, Continue Search for Victim:

HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES ARE TRAPPED IN HOMES AS THE TORNADO SWEEPS OVER AREA

Red Forces Massed To Hit Warsaw   Flanking Drive or Polish Capital Under Way

POISED ON NAZI BORDER   German Civilians Are Fleeing From East Prussia

MASSING FOR FIRST PLUNGE  INTO GERMAN   Evacuation of East Prussia Under Way; Civilians Flee in Panic.

German Civilians  Said Evacuating In East Prussia *  25,000 Poles Reported Battling Nazi Troops In Streets of Warsaw

Nazi Civilians Begin Fleeing East Prussia      Soviets Poised At Border For First Thrust Onto German Soil

Russians About to Enter E. Prussia ‘While Other Forces Near Silesia; Warsaw Is Virtually Outflanked

FOR FIRST THRUST ONTO REICH SOIL. AFTER BIG DRIVE   Roads of East Prussia Jammed With Civilians Seeking Escape From Battle Front.

kas Prussia Cyacuation of Civilians Begun   Red Army Masses at Frontier Ready to Attack

WAR NOT OVER, IS WARNING OF NELSON   No One Can Lie Down on the Job, WPB Head Says

Five More Jap Pacific Islands Seized By U.S.   & Destroyers Join In Continvous Bombardment Of New Guinea Coast

AVAL FORCE S UNOPPOSED Y JAPANESE   merican Warships Run tring of Enemy Destroyed Planes to 232 Within a Week   LOASTAL SHIPS SUNK

HUGE CARRIER FORCE BLASTS JAPS AT TRUK   126 Enemy Planes Downed; 1,700 Nipponese Barges Smashed Since 1942

800-Ton Blow Hits Jap Base   232 Enemy Planes Destroyed in Week by Navy Forces

232 Jap Planes Downed in Week: Truk Blasted: by U: 5. Task Force’

SMASHING HIT ON TRUK ATALI   800-Ton Blast By CarrierBased Planes Dropped On Island.   LITTLE RESISTANCE MET

232 PLANES IN TWO BIG BLOWS   Fleet Forces Roam at Will Te Smash at Truk Base and Hollandia.

HEAVIEST BLOW OF PACIFIC WAR FALLS ON TRUK   200 ENEMY BARGES DESTROYED OFF THE NEW GUINEA COAST

Naval Force Destroys 232 Enemy Planes   American Carrier-Based Aircraft Takes Heavy Toll In  Carolines. Truk.   SMASH JAP BARGES

HUGE U, S. TASK FORCE ATTACKS TRUK ISLAND   American Airmen Down 272 Nip Planes in Last Air Offensive

232 Japanese Planes Destroyed In But Few Days: 800 Tons Hurled fie. Nin Race

TRUK TAKES NEW BEATING FROM PLANES   Another Victory Rung Up by U.S. Task Force Roaming Across South Pacific Waters

Announcement Of Jap Losses   Allied Activity Is Hard on Enemy Throughout Area.

U.S. Task Force Unchallenged By Nippons Fleet   800-Ton Blast, Delivered Powerful Enemy Base In South Pacific

Roving U.S. Pack Delivers Blows 1000 Miles Apart   By RICHARD C, BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Editor

NAVAL FORCE ROAMS SOUTH PACIFIC AREA   Unchallenged By Japanese Navy: Truk Fronts

232 Jap Planes Said Destroyed “Tn: Week's Time   Southwest -Pacific Forces Sink 1727 Enemy Craft, : Damage 3548 . Others

Yank Task Force Pounds Truk Atoll   232 Jap Planes Are Destroyed In Little More  Than Week

U.S. Forces Smash Truk in Terrifie Blow   Naval Force Losses Light—Stilwell Continues Advance In Burma. India

ROAMS SOUTH PACIFIC   Batters Truk From Air and Sea and Destroys Many Aircraft Without Damage to Any Shins.

ENEMY LOSES 232 PLANES IN WEEK   1,727 Nip Coastal Vessels Sunk Since April, 1942   POSITIONS   North Of Kohima Taken By Allies: Loyang, China, Is Threatened

Pounds Truk After Aiding in Invasion of Hollandia Base   Runs String of Victories  to 232 Japanese Planes in Week

JAPS L PLANES DURING WEEK'S ACTION   Steady Advances Reported B: Allied Troops Along Burma Front

Closing Trap on Enemy on Leyte   Converging Americans Seize Valencia and Airport Intact   ROLLING UP JAP LINE   U. S. Forces on Mindoro Are Without Ground  Interference

Narrow Ormoc Corridor   Remaining Jap Troops Trapped Between Two U. S. Divisions; Yanks Unopposed On Mindoro

Capture Jap Headquarters   Town of Valencia and Airfield Seized Intact By Yanks on Leyte

Japs’ Leyte Center Falls   Valencia Seized by Yanks; Nip General Flees to Hideaway

Japanese Lose Valencia, Near Ormoc Americans Corner Japs  Still On Leyte Island

Tighten Trap On Japanese In Northern Leyte  Americon Pincers Six Miles Apart  Sf. 2. PRE UP Bt

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON JAPS ON LEYTE ISLAND   Take Valencia, Nip Headquarters Town, Airfield, Move on North, South

Jap Headquarter: Town, Airfield Captured Intact   Trap Drawn Tighter On Largest Enemy Force Left On Island

JAPS CAUGHT IN A TRAP ON WEST LEYTE   Force Pinned Between Two American Sectors Believed Largest Organized Group Remaining on Island.

Yanks Sieze Valencia As Ring Closes About Japs   Nip ‘Headquarters. Airfield. Captured *

Enemy Troops Pinned Between 2 U. S. Divi sions; Advance on Mor: oto Continues.

Yanks Seize Leyte Airport . Intact, Headquarters Town, Cutting Jap Forces To Pieces

Headquarters Of Japs Taken On Leyte Isle   Trap Tightening On Big Enemy Force As 2 Divisions Move In For ‘Kill’

—PHILIPPINES   AIRFIELD SEIZED BY YANK FORCES   Largest Organized Enemy Force On Island Caught In Trap   GENERAL FLEES   Japanese Truck Convoy Caught In Mountains, Destroyed

AEYTE NIPS CUT OFF FROM LAST PORT OF ESCAPE   Activities On Mindoro Continue Uninterrupted Bv Opposition

Jap Headquarters On Leyte Captured; Trap Tightens On Great Enemy Force

ALENGIA WO BY AMERICANS   Airfield at Jap Headquarters Town on Leyte Captured Intact.

NOOSE ABOUT LEYTE JAPS TIGHTENING   Yanks Seize Headquarters Town of Valencia and Drive Forward North and South  —=—s Some so oot  . Smet un.. 4 Seaina

ENEMY FORCES ON LEYTE ARE INU. , NOOSE   Valencia Seized By Division; Cut Oft Japs

M’ARTHUR UNITS SEIZE VALENCIA   Nip Headquarters Town North Of Ormoc Grabbed By 77th Division

AMERICAN ARMY — SEIZED JAPANESE HEADQUARTERS   The Town of Valencia and Its Airfields Were Taken Today.   CONTINUED THEIR DRIVE   Tightened Noose About Largest Organized Enemy Force on West Leyte.

LEYTE TAKEN   Jap Headquarters Town Is Seized By Yanks Tightening Trap

Airfield Taken In Twin Drive  By Yank Forces   Japanese Troops Trappe North of Orinec; 77th Division Smashes Inte Valencia   1,484 Nips Killed, _ Only 22 Captured   Yamashita Line Broken South of Ormoc, While Yanks On Mindoro Are Unmolested

Valencia, Enemy Headquarters on ‘Leyte Captured   Battle for Island Enters Final Phase; Still No Resistance On Mindore Island

TIGHTEN NOOSE ON JAP FORCES LEFTON LEYTE. ,   YANKS PUSH AHEAD AFTER CAPTURE OF JAP HEADQUARTERS

Germans Begin Evacuation of Lublin, Poland   Russians Force Nazis To Yield Important Rail Junction 115 Miles From Lwow

Russ Front Lull In Second Week  Red Offensive Soon To Be Unleashed. Hint

Hint New Red  Assault Soon   Will Burst On Germans With Force Of Hurricane. Says Paper.

RUSSIAN LULL NOW (SIN SECOND WEEK   Soviet Government Newspaper Suggests New Offensive to Start Soon.

Soviets Hint’ Early End of Battle Lull   New Offensive W: Will Burst Like Hurricane, Says Newspaper

REDS SAY LULL WILL END SOON   New Drive to “Burst With Hurricane Force”

Russians Sink Two Transports InBlack Sea   Soviets Planning Surprise Movement Against Germans

Soviets Map Big Offensive   Regrouping Forces for Hurricane Blow; Await  For Ground to Dry

FUEHRER'S ASTROLOGER TOO EFFICIENT  Poisoned Coffee Halted in Air—Hitler Talks to Majestic Alps

Astrologer Saves Hitler’s Life   Poisoned Cup of Coffee New Plot   Throws Darts at Churchill, FDR

George Simpson Again Heads County Committee   Democrat Leaders Met in Bradford Saturday for Caucus

Europe Quakes Under 500 Tons Of Bombs Hourly   U.S. Planes Blast France as Assaults Go Into 12th Day

§ Bomb Tons Each Minute Allied Rate   Terrific Pace Of Aerial Invasion Maintained In 12th Day; Targets In Paris Area Hit, Ger mane Say   Ry PHT, AULT

Drop 8 Tons a Minute   Allied Air Offensive Swings Into l4th Day

12th Straight Day Of Preinvasion Bombardment On Europe  ANTIAIRCRAFT FIRE ONLY RESISTANCE Germany's Atlantic Wall  And Rear Area Battered On 24 Hour Period

More Robot Bombs Fall On England   Southern) England And London Again Hit By Robot Bombs, Some Casualties

MORE THAN FIRST NOTEE   Foe_Lores_23 Ships, New Photoeraphs Reveal

NEW REVERSES FOR JAPS ON ALL FRONTS   Truk Damage Larger Than First Report; U.S. Warships Hurl Salvos On Rabaul: Marshalis Bombed.   Bombs in Indo-China.

BLOW A'l ''RUK RESULTS IN SINKING OF 23 JAP _ SHIPS, CHECK-UP SHOWS

Bombers Hit Reich on Armistice Hour   Ruhr, Rhineland Oil, Railway Targets Blasted

Ruhr, Rhineland Bombed By Allies   Armistice Day Raid Strikes Oil Targets

THE BLYTHEVILLE ARMY ATR CORPS NEWS   Plan Air Courses for Teachers To Keep Abreast of Youngsters

BAKERY DRIVERS DEFY WLB ORDER   Toledo Strike Continues, Cincinnati Walkout Ended

SHERIFF DIXON — ; RE-ELECTED ON F FIRST BALLOT /   Dixon Polls 639 Majorit: Over Three Rivals. Holton Secures 539. 2,397 Votes Cast

Foe To Pick Up Supplies   ‘Japs Agree To Move Goods Of Prisoners

Supplies for Yank War Prisoners May Be Delivered  Enemy Will Dispatch Ship to Russian Port for U. S. Aid

Japs Agree fo Handle Supplies   To Send Ship to Vladivostok to Pick Up Supplies

Japan Is Ready To Move  War Prisoner Supplies, Tokyo Broadcast Claims

Japs Says They Will Move Aid   Prisoners Supplies Are at Vladivostok

Japs Ready To Send Ship   Announce Plan to Pick ‘Up Supplies for U. S. Prisoners of War

TOKYO RADIO SAYS JAPAN TC AID PRISONERS   Supplies Shipped To Prisoners To  Be Delivered

JAPS TO PICK UP U.S. SUPPLIES   Agree To Get Supplies For U. S. War Prisoners At Viadivostok.

READY TO PICK Ui? PRISONER SUPPLIES   Jap Government Declares She Is Set to Send Ship Ta Viadivastok.

Jans Declare Readiness To Pick Up Supplies For American War Prioners

JAPS WILLING TO COOPERATE ON PRISONERS   Ready to Send Vessel to Viadivostok to Pick up Supplies for Prisoners ‘com U, 8.

NEW ASSIGNMENT IS GIVEN ADM. INGERSOLL   Naval Officer Transferred As Commander Of Atlantic Fleet to Suppiy Pacific Fleet

Allies Driving Down Railroad  Line In Burma   Scattered Jap Units Are Routed In Area

wow E fei fh ts  AACE DISORDERS BREAK IN STRIKE   8 Whites Are Injured In Philadelphia Transpor tation Trouble - -

RACE FIGHT IN EAST SPREADS   Philadelphia's Bus, Street Car Systems Stopped—10 Persons Hurt

Race Disorders Spread In Wake Of Phila. Strike  By ‘Transportation egos mee

RACE RIOTS RAGE IN PHILADELPHIA   8 Whites Injured As Armed Negros Roam Streets

RACE DISORDERS IN PHILADELPHIA   ARMED BANDS OF NEGROES INJURE 8 WHITE PERSONS

Negro Gangs In Philadelphia Attack Whites   Race Trouble Flares Following Dispute Over Hiring Men

Race. Violence  Seen. In Tieup   “War Production Is Cut; Travel Halted.

RAGE RIOTS IN PHILADELPHIA   Clashes Between Whites, Negroes Follow in Wake of Transit Strike

RACE TROUBLE FLARES UP IN PHILADELPHI   Armed Negroes Roaming Streets in Transportation Strike; Jail 300

Eeneit Strike Causes Friction ‘Race Rioters Shatter IPhiladelohia Windows

Race Riots Flare In Philadelphia Transport Strike   “1,500,000 Stranded As Trolleys, Buses, Subways Are Idle

RACE VIOLENCE ENTERS STRIKE   Negroes Injure Eight White Persons in Transit Tieup

Race Rioting Breaks Out in Philadelphia   Gangs of Armed Negros Roamed Section; Transportation Tied Up

 Reds Hurdle Rives  In Vienna Drive   Nazis Say Budapest Of No Further Value

DYNAMITE CITY HALL OF CAPITAL   Bridges Blown Up, Palace Ringed With Fires

DEBATE OPENED INHOUSE = ON CROP INSURANCE BILI   PROPOSED MEASURES WOULD GUARANTEE PARMERS AGAINST LOSS ON WHEAT, COTTON AND FLAX   By RAYMOND WILCOVE Internutional News Sereicoe

U. S. Loses 23 High Officers   That Number Listed Dead Or Missing In War Action

23 U. S. Army, Navy, Marine _ Corps Commanders Have Met Death Since Start Of Conflict

World War II Took 23 High U.S. Officer:   13 Army Generals, 8 Navy Flag Officers, 2 Marine Generals Listed.   PLANE CRASHES FATAL

Koch's Planning Views Outlined   Auditorium And Ai  Fields Discussed Re WT. WIFFER

Koch's Planning Views Outlined   Auditorium And Air Fie! ds Discussed

“NO POST OR JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTIONS ACCEPTED AFTER THIS WEEK. E. H. WHITE.  19.97 .dl.aay

Soviets Strike Toward Baltic  Battle In Lithuania Reported By Berlin Germans Face Trap

U. S. GUERRILLA HELPEL KILL 800 LEYTE JAPS   OFFICER MISSED LAST PLANE TO AUSTRALIA 2! YEARS AGO, SPENT TIME HARRASSING NIPS

Fire Still Guts Ploesti Fields   Main Rail Yards of Bucharest Capital Now A Tangled Mass.

GERMANY’S OL SOURCES RUINED   Ploesti Refineries Hit: Bucharest Railroad Yards Wrecked

1500 AMERICAN BOMBERS, HGHTER PLANES BLAST WESTERN GERMANY   ATTACK FOLLOWS 1000-PLANE R. A. F. NIGHT RAID ON FRANKFURT; ENEMY AIR FORCE BASES HIT

1500 PLANES FOLLOW UP RAF VISIT SECOND DAY INROW: WESTERN GERMANY IS TARGET   RAF Hit Frankfurt and Other Targets Last Night While Americans Go After Brunswick and Strong Nazi Air Bases in Western Part of Empire

21 BOMBERS, 6 FIGHTERS LOST INU. S. ATTACK   20 German Fighter Craft Shot Down in Battles Over Eurape

BOMB GERMAN AREAS   Targets in Five Centers Hit in _ Widespread Operations

RAF in Crushing Blow At Frankfurt, Yanks Bomb Home Bases of Luftwaffe

Soviets Drive Almost Into Budapest  Slash Remaining Nazi Holdings Fast of the Danube

RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN BUDAPEST DRIVE   Capture of Town 5// Miles Away Announced by Reds

Reds Mop Up ~ East-Huneary   Budapest Lines Tightened; Rail Hubs Captured

SOVIETS PUSH LINES CLOSER TO BUDAPES!   Russians Report Town 5!, Miles From City Captured

Senate Passes Bills To ills To Improve Highways, Rivers and Harbors

FRENCH, AMERICAN TROOPS OF SEVENTH ARMY FIGHT NORTH   FRENCH UNITS OCCUPIED CITY OF DIJON 150 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARIS

F rénch Tear Nazi Defense   ‘Troops Penetrate’  Dijon. Outskirts,

French Enter Outskirts of Rail Center   As Troops Enter Dijon Other Forces Meet Bitter Opposition of Germans in Battle for Belfort Gap

French Forces. Capture Dijon And U. 8. 7th Army Troops Drive Within 75 Miles O'  Nancy,

F rench Forces From the South Occupy Dijon   Americans Close Pocket on Nazis Who Fought Desperately

French Troop: Reach Dijon   Penetrate Outskirts Of Important Nazi  Camensestocatiamne f'antan

French Occupy Dijon to Close Trap on Germans   Paich's Forces Take Command of Bhone Valley, Push Within BE Milac of Patton's Troone

Third Of Metz Is Overrun By U.S. Troops   Yanks Fight In Center Of City, Now Encircled

Yanks Taking More of Metz   Four-Way Squeeze Crosses. Up Germans Who'd Planned  House-to-House Defense

Sharp Fighting At Cassino; Anzio Lines Hold Firm   Military Installations In Rome And Toulon Heavily Hit As Air War Is Stepped Up On Italian Front; Weather Quiets Beachhead.

American Planes Blast U-Boat  Base at Toulon   Other Bombers Assault Railway ’ Yards at Rome, Florence; Airfields Just North of Italian Capital City

Arnall Raps Anti-F ourth Term Forees   Georgia Governor Attacks Those Afraid To Fight Under G. O. P. Bannec

'ARNALL PLEADS FOR SUPPORT  OF PARTY   Asks That Pledges Be  Required of Party’s Presidential Nominees Be- “: fore Being Named

Curator Ora Williams Tells of Steps Being Taken in Iowa 100 Years Ago for Statehood

CORRESPONDENT’S FAMILY JOINS WAC   His Praise Sends Wife and Daughter To Enlist

Argentina Will Break With Axis Says New Report   Report Indication Of Move Has Been Given To United States And  Byjtain

ARGENTINA SEEN READY TO BREAK AXIS RELATIONS   South American Country ¢ 'ndicates Intention to , U.S. and Britain

ARGENTINA MA\ END RELATIONS WITH AXIS   Action Would Represent Allied Diplomatic Victory

AUTHORITATIVE CIRCLES SAY SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY WILL SEVER DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

AXIS SETBACK IN ARGENTINA IS PREDICTED   Intention to Cut Off Relations Hinted to United Nations

GERMANS PURSUED NORTH OF LYON   AMERICAN UNITS TRYING TO CUT OFF RETREAT OF ENEMY’S MAIN FORCE.

BOCHE RACES TO SAFETY OF REICH BORDERS   Yank Units Speed Northeast To Cut Retreat In South France

Americans Race Up Saone River   Germans Flee From Center of Lyon

Yank Columns Race To Shut Belfort Doer   120-Mile Road Facing 19th To Swiss-German Border; “LL Well Bevand Ivan

Allied troops pursue nazis  fleeing Lyon Last resistance in city quelled

Nazis Flee in Haste From the City of . tyuan      AMERICANS MOVE — TO HALT RETREAT      Allied Planes Take Toll of Withdrawing Nozis

TTh ARMY IN PURSUIT OF FLEEING NAZIS   Fifteen Miles North of Lyon; French Pressing Drive to Keep Enemy From Fatherland.   1,000 Vehicles

NAZIS CHASED NORTH OF LYON   American and French Units Endeavor to Cut Off Enemy Retreat

Enemy Resistance In Lyon Silenced   Yankees Continue Pursuing Fleeing Nazis North After Taking Transportation Center   GERMANS FLEEING

Shipyard Unions Ask Wage Hike   Official Implies Strikes Mav Follow Refusal

Caution Against The Eating Of Raw Pork   Tells of the Danger ef Infection From the ‘Trichina Worm Which May Iniest the Pork

Pacific War Is Conference Topic   Realignment a . Allied Forces !s Discussed by F.D.R. And Mr. Churchill

Quebec Parley Emphasis Is On War In Pacific   Roosevelt And Churchill Map Plans For Japan’s Swift Destruction.

Strategy Talks Get Under Way   Military Chiefs -Mapping Plans for Big Drive ‘Acainst Japan   F.D.R. AND CHURCHILL TO MAKE DECISIONS   Big Chiefs Exchange Views as Military Staffs Work Out Program

Pacific, Asiatic War Featuring In Quebec Meeting   Military Leaders Having Second Conference In Canadian City.

Realignment in Pacific Studied   Swift Developments Changing Problems

EDR., Churchill Map Early Defeat of Japs   New Pacific Lineup Hinted Due to Rapid U: S. Progress

Quebec Meet Primarily Military   Concerned With Pacific War— Service Heads  Are Conferring

Pacific Blows Considered by FDR-Churchill   Realignment of Forces In Face of Shifting Fortunes of War Now Regarded Imperative

Emphasis Put On Pacific As F.D.R. Churchill Meet   Reported Considering Thrust To Sever East Indies Lifeline.

Japan's Swift Destruction Is Primary Military Aim Of Roosevelt, Churchill Talks

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL TALK OF PACIFIC WAR   Chiefs Of Staff Discuss Tactics For Japan War

(QUEBEC MEETING CONCERNED WITH ‘WAR AGAINST JAPS   Churchill and Roosevelt Con_ ferring .With Their ‘Military, Staffs Today on the Japanese Conflict—-Term Confovance Peimarily “Military”

MILITARY ROLE OF TALKS CITED   Roosevelt, Churchill Renew Conferences At Quebec

FDR, Churchill Say Meeting. Is Military   Concerned with Pacific War Against Japan; Personal Talks Between Leaders Very Informal

FDR, Churchill Continuing Military Talk   Quebec Conference Is Concerned With Japanese War

Allied Chiefs Map Victory  Over Japan Big Strides in Far East Force Readiustment of   STALIN INFORMED.   Thrust to Isolate Rich Dutch Indies Seen as Major Proposal

QUEBEC PARLEY IS UNDER WAY   President and Churchill Exchange Views On Pacific Warfare

Quebec Parley Will Revolve Around the Defeat of Japanese   Joint Military Staffs te Plot Pacific War With FDR, Churchill

A Double © Conference   Roosevelt and Church. ill Exchange Global Views While Military Chiefs Map Strategy

FDR PLEASED WITH PRESS   Meeting With Churchill Primarily “Military” —

DEFEAT OF JAPS MAIN PURPOSE OF FDR, CHURCHILL   Tremendous Strides Made in Pacific by Yanks Cause Changes in Plans

CALL MILITARY IN SESSIONS AT QUEBEC   Meet With Roosevelt And Churchill

MILITARY ONE   FR, Churchill Summon Military Staffs for Real Business Meet.   CONCERNS PACIFIC WAR

Informal "Talks At  Conference   Subjects are Military, Rather Than Political,  Secretary States

MILITARY AIDES SUMMONED FOR NUEBEC PARLE)   FDR and Churchill ‘Getting Down to Real Business,’ Reporters Told

Fate of Japan Theme of Talk   Roosevelt-Churchill Conference Works on Adjustment of Forces in Pacific

FOR, CHURCHILL MAP WAR PLAN   Call Military Leaders Into Parley On Pacific Strategy

Allied Leaders Call In Military Staffs To Discuss Pacific War At Quebec Meet   By W. L. BEALE, JR, Associated Press Staff Writer

War Chiefs Plot Course In Pacitie   FDR And Churchill Emphasize Conferences Are Primarily Military

U. S.-BRITISH PACIFIC WAR JOBS STUDIED   Realignment of Nations’ Land, Sea and Air Power Figures Heavily in Roosevelt-Churchill Conference.

MILITARY STAFES “ARE MET IN . > QUEBEE TeDAt   Conference Held This After. noon With. Roosevelt -and “2. Charchill:   MEETING IS “MILITARY”      Stephen. Early, Presidential Secretary Said “They Were Getting Down to Business”

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL TALK AT QUEBEC DEVELOPS INTO WAR PLANS FOR DEFEAT OF JAPAN

FDR And Churchill Summon Military Staffs; Meeting Centers On War With Japan   Realignment Of Power Of 2 Nations In Pacific Theater Taps Proqram

Military Aides Conferred With At Quebec Meet   Summoned by Roosevel!  and Churchill to Air  ~Nexe Steps Against Tanan

FDR AND CHURCHILL CONFERRED TUESDAY WITH MILITARY MEN   MEETING PRIMARILY MILI. TARY AND CONCERNED © WITH PACIFIC MOSTLY

Military Chiefs  In Conference Roosevelt, Churchill Summon War Leader.

Stress Put On Pacific At Quebec   Roosevelt and Churchill Pat Official Emphasis Purpose of Meeting Is Military

STAFF CHIEFS ARE HEARD AT CONFERENCE   ‘President and Prime Min ister Summon Military Heads for Afternoon Session at Quebec  TALKS ARE INFORMAL

QUEBEC MEETING DEALS ONLY WITI THE PACIFIC WAT   Roosevelt and Church. ill Continue Te Stress That Confer. ence Is Primarily Military.

DEWEY FORCES CLAIM 480 DELEGATES   Many Are Not Formally Pledged  However

DELEGATE STRENGTH OF DEWEY ALREADY NEAR 530 QUOTA   Can Count On 480 Votes On First Or Second Ballot

Dewey Chances Continue to Gain   Nomination Daily Grows More Certain

Nomination of Dewey Expectec On Early Ballot   Prospects Grow Daily; Bricker Camp Confident

tY OF 480 ON FIRST OR 2ND BALLOT!   femination Daily Beoomes Mere Likely But Bricker Mekes No Concessions.

U.S. Armored Foree Drives IntoGermany   Mystery Fort Eben Emael Captured; Le Havre Taken By British   Planes. Guns Blast At Fortifications   Eisenhower Tells Civilians To Evacuate Ruhr Valley

TROOP ROTATION PLAN REVEALED   Announce Furloughs for Men in Action Two Years

FOUR RED ARMIES DRIVE WESTWARD ON 28-MILE FRONT   jussians Gather Largest Con centration In Move to Win War -Thie Summer.

ENCIRCLE KEY TOWN   Red Army Is Chopping Down Enemy Forces Trapped In City

Reds’ New Drive Roars Forward   Batter Encircled Vitebsk Fortress

4 RUSSIAN ARMIES GAIN IN NEW DRIVE   Thrust Toward Capital of White Russia

Troops Hoist Red Banner   Russians Encircle Vitebsk to Trap Nazi Defenders in White Russian Stronghold

RUSSIAN STORM BATTLE THROUGH VITEBSK STREETS   Chop Down Survivors Of Its 50,000 To 75,000 Defenders

Twins 11 DaysAparl   Boy and Girl Babes Are Children Of a Clergyman

Roosevelt Announcement For Fourth Term Creates Drama For Newsmen

WLB Increases Labor Trouble, House Is Told   Board Policies Are Condemned By Committee

WLB'S UNION MEMBERSHIP POLICY SCOREI      Congressional C.o m mittee Desiiznates it as Menace to Con atitutional Gov’t

Airmen Punish Fleeing Enemy   Nazis Hiding in Woods Feel Wreath of Alita? Ble.

SMOKE NAZIS GUT OF WOODS TOWARD ARNO   RAF Typhoons, Spitfires and Mustangs Strafe Fleeing Germans and Set Woods Afire.   East Of Le Havre

Marines Gain  On Peleliu Isle   ' Stalemate Broken By U.S. Troops:

Stalemate on  Peleliu Ends  Yank Invaders Made Faster Progress; Air

Yanks Making \Rapid Advance In The Palaus   Air. Arm .Maké Southern Archipelago ‘Waters . Unsafe For Enemy Shipping

Americans Move. Faster In Hard Peleliu Fighting:   Marines. And Infantry Close. In On Two Tso. lated Ridges.

MacArthur’s Planes Make Record 3,000 Mile Run Against Batavia In Java

Peleliu Battle Is Nearing End   Yanks Control Entire Island Except for “Bloody Nose” Ridce

CONQUEST OF PELELIU IS PROGRESSING   Marines and Soldiers Move Faster Toward Complete Occupation of Air Base island in Palaus   LASHES FROM THE AIR

Yanks Speed Palau Moves   Air Arm Makes Southern Archipelago Waters Unsafe Even for Jap Barges

Stalemate Is Broken on Peleliv      Rapid Progress Now Being Made Toward Sonquesi of Air Base Island   MOST OF ISLAND UNDER CONTROL   MacArthur’s Bombers Carry Air War to Batavia and Catch Nips Napping

Pounce On Jap Barges   MacArthur’s Fliers: Sink Five ¢ Off Coast

TWENTY-FIVE MEN FOR INDUCTION   Twenty-fire Others Lett West Union December 6 For Pre-fnduction Examination

INSPECTION TOUR MADE BY HITLER   With Particular Attention to “Atlantic Wall”; Denmark Leader Moves Against Saboteurs.   No Talk

HITLER INSPECTS ATLANTIC WALL   SPECULATION RIFE IN GERMANY AND FRANCE OVER INVASION DATE.

INSPECTION OF ATLANTIC WALL MADE BY HITLEF   Germans Acting Swiftly T Crush Wave Of Sabotage  In Denmark   FLOOD OF INVASION TALK FROM ENEMY

Hifler Inspects Coast Defenses As D-Day Looms   Goebbels Predicts Gigantic Attacks

‘French Airfields Take Peak Destruction of Invasion Sky Fleet:   » Hitler Inspects Last Hope for Safety

HITLER, AIDES INSPECT NAZI DEFENSE LINE   German Leader in Denmark Moves to Curb Rising Sabotage

HITLER MAKES INSPECTION 0 F WEST DEFENSES   Prepares For Invasion And Threatens Saboteurs With Being Shot

Defenses Inspected By Hitler   > Gives, Atlant(: OY Re  Approval Prior...  Pe: Deeep t cee

Adolf Views Defenses As Unrest Rises  Denmark Restive Under Blockade

Hitler Inspects Defense Lines   Selected Aides See  Nelantic Wall’

Nazis Seck To Blot Out Rising Danish Sabotage With Execution Threats

Hitler Reported Inspecting His Atlantic Wall Defense:   Check Being Made in Preparation for the Allied Invasion—Sub-Fuehrer in Denmark Moves to Crush Rising Sabofaace

Adolf Views Defenses As Unrest Rises  Denmark Restive  Lindar RiaeLada

Germans Clamp Down on Denmark  Hitler, Aides Make 11th Hour Secret Trip to Atlantic Wall

HITLER INOPEGTs ATLANTIC. WALL   Fuehrer Makes an Eleventh: Hour Inspection in Prepar: ation for Invasion; Den: mark Is Under Blockade

litte Hitler Inspects The Wall   Makes Last Minute Check Up of Atlantic Wall: Meets Duce.

GERMANS’ POSITION UNTENABLE   wall Of ‘Yugoslavia’s Capital To Soviets Is Believed Near

—eeeEeEeEEEeyyeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEaEEeEeE=>=>>=EE—————— ee ees HER re  Red Spearheads  Move On Pancevo

BELGRADE MAY FALL TO REDS IN NEXT FEW HOURS   Russians Storm To Pancevo, Nine Miles From Yugo - Slav Capital -— Germans Faltering.

NAZI POSITION AT BELGRADE IS UNTENABLE   Russian Armored Spearheads Advance to Within Less Than Nine Miles of Yugoslav Capital   GAINING IN LITHUANIA

BELGRADE FALL EXPECTED SOON      Russians Advance Upon Rail Junction, Nine Miles From Capital.

FALL OF SLAV CAPITAL NEAR FOR RUSSIANS   Soviets Have Tactics Ready in Case Germans Try to Dig in and Hold at Belgrade.

_ BELGRADE SEFA   Red Spearhead s Less Than 9.Miles.From Yu- -poslav-Capital ~

Russian Troops Are Within Nine Nine Miles of the Yugoslav Capital

SURRENDER OF BELGRADE SEEN IN FEW HOURS   Russians in Suburbs of Capital City, Rome Radio Declares

Red Forces Closing In On Belarade   Led by Yugoslav Partisans Russian Troops Advance 27 Miles in 24 Hours; Northern -End of Front Quiet

BELGRADE LIES BUT NINE MILES FROM RUSSIANS   Yugoslav Capital May Fall In Matter Of Hours, Reports From Front Indicate

Reds Are 9 Miles from Belgrade  Fall of Yugoslav Capital Imminent

REDS CONTINUE MAJOR ASSAULT FOR BELGRADE   Front Reports Indicate Fall of Yugoslav Capital Imminent

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON’ BELGRADE   ADVANCE ON PANCEVO, LESS THAN NINE MILES OF YUGOSLAV CAPITAL

Reds Close in On Belgrade   Armored Spearheads at Rail Junction City Nine Miles From Capital

Belgrade Near Capture By Red Army   Rail Lines Cleared By Russian Forces; May Block Escape

Russians On Edge Of Belgrade   German Position -in  Whole Area Declared _Untenable;. Berlin Reports New Red Drive

RUSSIAN ARMY DRIVE 9 MILES FROM BELGRADE   Capture Of Capital Of Yugoslavia Expected Hourly

RED ARMIES DRAWING CLOSER TO PINSK ONROAD TO WARSAW GERMANS NOW BEING HARD HIT   Polish City of Lwow Also in Danger of Early Capture by Russians Who Are Putting Two-Way Saneeze on German Troops in Pripet Marsh Area

rench Pus a On Cassino Front;Bomb Rome Fields   Russian Front In Old Poland Now Claimed Widened To 80 Miles; See British Moving On Pescara

French Also Advance At Cassino While Nazis Thrown Back At Cervaro   LONDON (AP)— The Red Army has captured Mozyr. Moscow radio announced tonight.

RUSSIANS SURGE AHEAD 11 MILES MORE IN POLAND   Fierce Fighting Rages on Both Sides of Hitler's European Fortress   By RICHARD McMURRAY

Senator Asks For Whisky  Production   Blames WPB For Market Shortage

Small-Scale Whisk) Manufacturing Might Be Started  U. S. Is Considering Use of Potatoes In Making Alcohol

Re-Examination Of Alcohol Outlook To Permit Manufacture Of Whiskey Will Be Sought By Michigan Solon

To Investigate Liquor Shortage   There Is Belief There Is Enough Alcohol To Resume Blended Whiskey.

Thousands Slain After Capture   Government Releases Story of Atrocities on Prisoners of War Taken on Kataan

Former OWL Chief. Blames Stupid Censorship Mn 25,000 Prisoner Deaths

Ex-OW! Official Charges More Than 25,000 Prisoners Killed by Japs; Criticizes Censorship Practices

HOYT SAYS JAPS HAVE MURDERED D5 O00 CAPTIVES   J Former OWI Director Raps Federal Censorship for Concealing Facts

Big Bombers Blast Brest   Seeking to Prevent Germans From Pulling U-Baats From Port

RAF Planes Pound Brest U-Boat Pens   Tove to Prevent Germans From Pulling Subs Out of Port

SUB PENS BOMBED   Germans Are Unable to Pull U-Boats Out of Port  at Brest

Jap Carries Christian Message To Condemned American Soldiers For Fear of Being “Haunted”

SOVIETS CAPTURE RIVER FORTRESS   Red Shock Troops Scale High Walls of Moated Garrison Of Osowiec in Northern Poland; Bayonet Defenders

Berlin Sees Great Trial . Of Strength   Reds Capture Osowiec. _ River Fortress. Towns  17 Miles from Border CATALIN CCTONTA

‘Reds Capture Moated City   Mighty Forces Are Set For Smash Into East Prussia

Red Troops Near Former Fast Prussia   Armies Now Fighting 15 Miles From Border

‘Reds Capture Moated City  takey Earene Ava Rat Ens ,   Mighty Forces Are Set For ° Smash Into East Prussia

Russians Take Fortress Near East Prussia, Race Across Southern Estonia

100,000 Trapped Germans Facing Annihilation   Red Army Captures Osowiec in Poland

FORTRESS TOWN BEFORE PRUSSIA SEIZED BY REDS   Russians Capture Osowiec and Begin Crossing River 15 Miles From Imperilled Province.   GERMANS IN ESTONIA ARE FACING DISASTER   Soviet Sweep Half Way Across Country in Drive Aimed at Cutting Huge Enemy Force in Two.

Russians set for crossing  Biebrza line Sweep half way  arernage-Retania

Allies Advance-on  4 Italian Sectors   Fifth Army Drives Wedge in Nazi Lines

Residents Of Seaside Area ‘Flee Inland   Brunt Of Storm Will > Hit In New England

Will Have To Occupy Japan. Nimilz Says   Expeets Jap Fleet To Attack When Conditions Favorable

U.S. Invasion of Japan Essential To Win Peace   Nimitz Points to Possibility Result Of Steady Attrition Of Japanese Navy

Nimitz Builds Up To Greater RaidsOnJ apan   To Hit From Bases Much Closer to Nip With Rate of Delivery of Bombs to Enemy Increasing

EXPECTS MORE NAVAL BATTLES   Says Japs to Use Fleet Under Favorable Conditions

Nimitz Says Navy Is Ready for Expected Attacks  Pacific Commander Says Closer Bases Are Needed

Allies Drive Invaders From 3 Positions, Nips Cut Vital Road In Burma

Japs Are Scattered Over 180 Mile Front in That Area.   ALLIES SMASH THE THIRD JAP CONVOY   Sank Two Freighters, 23 Barges and Several Coastal Ships,

BRITISH THROW JAPS BACK FROM THREE POSITIONS   Communique From Lord Mountbatten Reveals Japanese Cut Vital Road In India.

Attacks By The Enemy Repulsed    Japs Cut Vital Road In Bur. ma; Much Action In India Reported

Today in  W ashington   A Roundup of Developments From the Nation’s Capital

Wagner Opens Drive to Extend Price Control   Asserts Failure Would Seriously Disturb Morale of Fighting Moen and fivilians

CCC Will Lapse After Thursday   House and Senate Conferees  . Unable Agree; Expect No Complications From Temporary Lapse.

Final Action On Subsidy Delaved   House and Senate Confer. ees Cannot Agree On Wording of Legislation

American Subs Sink 18 More Japanese Ships   Destroyer Is Listed As Victim; Nippon Navy Is ‘Dead Bird’

18 ADDITIONAL JAP SHIPS SUNK BY SUBMARINES   Destroyer And 14 Cargo Vessels Included In Recent U-Boat Bag   35,000 NIPPONESE ARE KILLED IN BATTLES

U. S. Submarines Sink 18 More — Japanese Ships   Toll Includes Destroyer; Jap Fleet ‘Dead Bird,’ Naval Official Says

DEWEY LEADS IN OREGON CONTEST   Stassen and Bricker Follow in Early Returns   Instructs 14 Delegates to Support Dewey; Utah Republicans Choose Today

DEWEY IS LEADING IN OREGON VOTING      Governor Has Wide Mar. gin in First Precincts Reported

Dewey Far Ahead  In Oregon Count   New Yorker Also Gets Alabama Vote

Chaplin Case Testimony Ends   Case Expected to Go to Jury On Tuesday

All Evidence Completed In ~ Chaplin Case   Arguments Will Be Given Before Jury Monday; Then Jury Gets Case

CHAPLIN'S CASE TO JURY ON 4TH   Evidence All In, Movie Comedian’s Mann Act Case Goes To Jurors Next Tuesday.

CHAPLIN TRIAL NEARS FINALE   RIVAL ATTORNEYS SQUARE AWAY FOR FINAL ARGUMENTS

Chaplin Jury Will Begin Deliberating His Case Tuesday   Testimony in Actor’s Trial All In; Final Arguments Monday

Charlie Chaplin Courtroom Drama — Moving Swiftly Toward Its Last Act

CHAPLIN JURY T0 GET INSTRUCTION IN BERRY CHARGE   Final Arguments Monday Will Be Followed With Charge to Jurors, All Evidence Is Presented.   DEFENDANT IRRITATED WHEN CROSS-EXAMINED   Movie Comedian Faces Term In Prison, $5000 Fines In Each of Two Counts If Found Guilty.

Chaplin Case Goes fo Jury Next Tuesday   Last of Testimony in Salacious Case Friday Afternoon

MARCUS UNDER FIRST ASSAULT   Six Jap Admirals Believec Killed by U. S. Navy Liberator

Has Not Been Announced Officially, But It Is Plain That Hitler’s Power in Germany Is Getting Weaker Daily. German Morale on Verge cf Snapping

Canadians Also omasn 10: : Miles Below Caen, As’ Allies Gear For Parte   Hitler And Gang In Constant Threat of Violent Deaths

THE es  WAR TODAY   erman Leaders Facing Violent Deaths From Countrymen As Nazi Defeat Draws Closer, Home Front Worakens

Hitler Regime Leaders Face Violent Death   Dictator is Using the Lash to Keep Them in Line

MacKenzie Says—  Death Seen As Fate of Nazi Chiefs   Hitler and Coherts Live In Fear of Assassination as Suppressed Peoples Near Break ing Point In Reich

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF  Aeevoiated Proves War Anais af

Himmier Death — Story Diseredited      Nazi Armies Fuce Retr eatss Death  Threat Tightens On Hitler Gana

Leaders Of Hitler Regifte I Increasingly In Danger Of Violent Death As Fuehrer Tightens Recimentation Of German People

YANK GAINS ON GUAM CONTINUE   Finegayen Town Seized Ir Two-Mile U. S. Advance

U.S. Is Planning Pipeline for Mediterranean  Ickes Reports Terms Very Favorable For Military Force

PIPE LINE IN EAST PLANNED   Cost Estimated at More Than $130,000,000

U.$. Maps Persian Gulf Pipe Line   Military Reserve, Ickes Declares

Finland Sends Officials To Stockholm   Concrete Developments Expected Within Near Future

FINNISH-SOVIET PEACE AWAITED   Helsinki Expects Steps Soon To Take Finland Out Of Conflict

Indications Are That Something Will Happen in Near Future; Finnish Representatives Reported in Russia Negotiating For Peace People Demanding

Pe Step  Expected i in ~— a Few Days   Negotiations. Already Are » Under. Way, It Is Believed;  No-Official Statement   SEEK TO ‘AVOID -.. “JTALY’S FATE   “Germans Might Try to Hang Onto: Mines: in North- : ‘ern Finland”

Finland Is Hopeful Of Peace Soon   Concrete Developments In Efforts To Reach Terms With Russians Expected This Week

FINNS SAID TO BE IN CONTACT WITH SOVIETS   Report That High Officials Of Helsinki and Moscow Have Met is Unconfirmed

REPORTS INDICATE FINLAND SEEKING TO GET OUT OF WAR  ’ PRESENCE OF 3 FINNISH LEADERS IN STOCKHOLM LEND SUPPORT RUMORS

- —FINLAND  NZL REPRIHL FEARED BY FINNS   Three Prominent. Finnish Leaders Reported In —. Steckholm   PEACE.IS URGED   Germany May Be Reluctant-To Give Up Hold ’ On-Ore Mines ~

Finns Reported In Contact With Reds On Peace   Fear Of German Reprisals May Slow Action By Finland.

FINNS REPORTED CONTACTING REDS FOR PEACE TALK   3 FINNISH LEADERS NOW IN STOCKHOLM AS RUMORS GROW

Finn-Russian Move Likely   Some Concrete Development in 2 o: 3 Days Expected

Developments ‘In Finn Peace “Moves Awaitec   Reports. Indicate- Possible . Action Within: Few:Days; . Pressure: On: Govern- _ ‘ment Continues’

Finnish Action Expected Soon   Helsinki Awaits  Momentarily Some Definite Gov: ernmental Step.

AWAITING oT EP TOWARD PEACE   Finns Expect Some Develop: ment in Relations With Russia Soon.

Stockholm Looks For Peace News For Finns   Concrete Development Within Two Or Three Days Expected, Says Swedish Capital

Finnish Peace Step Is Expected Soon   Continued Pressure Being Exerted on Government te Seek Terms with Russia.

Finland May Be Seeking Way Ou Reports Assume   Speculation Based On Activity Seen Around Capital

Finn-Russo Peace May ‘Come Soon   Next Two or Three Days May See Official Action, Envoys in Sweden

FINNS REPORTED NOW IN CONTACT WITH RUSSIANS   Stockholm Reports Indi cate Steps Being Taken To Negotiate for Peace

REPORT FINNS SEEKING NEW PEACE OFFER   Three Offici2zls In Neutral Country; Meet Soviets

Concrete Developments In Finnish-Russian Relations Loom; Peace Move Indicated   Helsinki Officials {n Stockholm; Finns Feeling Way Cautiously

Report Finns Contact Moscow; Peace Action Seen In Few Days; German Reprisals Are Fearec

ALLIES SHOW GAINS IN U-BOAT WARFARE   More Nazi Undersea Craft De stroyed in January—Allicd Ship Losses Small.

German Garrison With. draws Under Terrific  Pressure — Cheering Cypawde Creat Tammia            FLEEING ENEMY ~ BEING PURSUED         New Gains Scored in All Sectors of Canadian Front in Holland — Yanks on Dutch Soil.”

DRIVE NAZI GARRISON FROM TILBURG   Strategic Town Taken In Push to Trap Foe 15th Army

TRAP FORMING FOR NAZIS ON DUTCH FRONT   TILBURG, KEY TOWN, NOW IN HANDS OF BRITISH

British Capture Bastion of Foe’s  Line in Holland   Forces Unite in Push To Clear Region Around Antwerp

German Keystone Bastion Falls to Allied Forces  TOMMIES. 5-GREETED BY LARGE CROWDS  Other Units Join in Pursuing Harried Nazis

RAIL CENTER OF 81,000 TAKEN, NAZIS RETREAT   ar resh Gains Scored On All Sectors Of Canadian Front; Forces  Linked

‘Key Nazi Bastions  ‘Taken by British   Gen. Montgomery's Forces Cut German Army Retreat Route Before Tilbura is Captured

Cheering Crowd Greets Tommies In City Streets   German Garrison Escapes Capture

KEYSTONE CITY OF TILBURG IN BRITISH HANDS   Cheering Throngs Greeted Tommies; Germans In Retreat   FIGHT CONTINUES TO LIBERATE ANTWERP

Liberated Dutch Stage  Celebration   - Nazis Abandon City After Break-Through ‘To North by British  CANANTANS ANVANCE

Nazi Troops Pull Out Under Fire   City Stages Wild Celebration As Tommies March In

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British Take ‘Nazi Bastion   Tilburg Falls And Cheering Throngs Greet Tommies; Nazis Hotly Pursued

Set. B. D. Bova Of Duke Center  Dies on Saipan   Family Informed of His Death in Action June 23: Leaves Small Son

Voters Hear Both Sides   Flannagan, Liieotn ‘Get: Bristol: Crowds:

FIGHTING NINTH CAMPAIGN RAGES   GOP Chairman Says if People Vote Like They Talk There Will Be New Ninth District Congressman

136% Over Quota On February 19   Chairman Watts Praises Minute Men and Organizations

Pocahontas Co. Again Does Part In Bond Drive   Chairman Watts Gives Percentages Purchased; Thanks Workers

‘A’ Gas Drops March 22 to 2 Gals. Week   Reduction Forced By Operations OF Black Markets

‘A’ Gasoline Ration Stamps To Be Good For Two Gallons   Coupon Values To Be-Same A! Over Nation In Letest Reduction For West And Midwest

Judge Grants Divorce Because Husband Failed Naturalization Pledge

Russian-Born Hillman And Philip Murray Run Sessions —Their Position Considered In Every Decision

SHUTTLE RAIDERS BLAST GERMANY   YANK BOMBER FORCE HITS NAZI AIRDROMES

FDR DISAVOWS GOP CHARGE OF COMMUNISTS   Makes Spirited Defense Of His Work In War And Peace

COUNTY GROUP REGISTRANTS TO ENTER SERVICE   Report To Army And Navy; Board Meets Next Week; List Transfers.

Group Leave For Navy, Issue Induction  Army Call.   BOARD MEET NEXT WEEK

SEEK SERVICE MAN IN DEATH AT CAPITAL   18-Year Old Government  Clerk Murdered

Believe Churchill Will Broadcast to World Sunday Night, Urge Greek Armistice, Tri-Power Conference

Churchill To Carry Fight To. All World.   Prime Minister Reported Planning Broadcast Defense Of Foreign Policies.

CHURCHILL TC TALK ON RADIO THIS WEEKEND   U. S. and British Relations In Need Qf Improvement

EXPECT REPLY BY. CHURCHILL:   Think Prime Minister Will Broadcast Views

Churchill Mav. é Answer Cri’ #  This Week. ~d   British Prime Minister Expected To Appeal For Greek Armistice

Critics Stress Growing Rift Among Alltes   Leslie Hore Belisha, Manchester Guardian Join Rising Storm

Churchill May Make Plea For Unity Of Allies   Broadcast Probable Dealing With Issues in Greece, Poland

BROADCAST BY CHURCHILL ON POLICY HINTED   Greek, Polish Problems Likely Topics For Full Review

Churchill, Under Fire, May  Broadcast Tomorrow; Press  Cc. Mo. -1 Ditt Kn... VASA rearsrac tit, ING W VY ai

Churchill To Defend Stand In Broadcast   Papers Are Critical Of Recent Attitude

NEW DRIVE Ih ARNHEM AREA   Battle to Clear Antwerp Harbor is  Nearly Ended

BRITISH LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE AROUND ARNHEM   “Sabotage Parachutists” Are Dropped Behind Vital Bridge, Berlin Says   AMERICANS BATTLE TO RETAKE SCHMIDT

U.S. Force Lashes Out On Front 100 Miles Below Aachen; Schmidt Battie Rages

NAZIS REPORT NEW ASSAULT NEAR ARNHEM   British Parachutists Drop Behind Bridge, Enemy Radio Says

Allied Armies Reach Maas. At2 Points   Yanks Fight To Regain Schmidt, Town Lost In Nazi Counter-Blow   MAKE ADVANCES

Berlin Reports Parachutists  Were Dropped   Anglo-American Armies Punch Up to Maas River on 40-Mile Front, Virtually Ending Battle to Clear Port of Antwern

Bloody Battle to Clear Antwerp Harbor Vir- ~ tually Ended  RIVER IS REACHED AT SEVERAL POINTS  Allies Drive to Recapture Flattened Town of Schmidt

Over Million  Flood Damage   Two Norfolk Residents Hospitalized; Merchandise Is  Ruined.

Monetary Parley To Be Extended  More Time Needed To Complete Work

Conference On Money Extended  Settle General Plans, Details Ironed Out

MONETARY PARLEY EXTENDS SESSION   Delegates Continue Meetings to Saturday — Work on Plan For Ten Billions.

MONEY PARLEY I$ EXTENDED   Agreement On All Matters Seen By Wednesday

World Monetary Pariey Extended   lime Granted To Complete Maze Of Technical Work

MUD-CAKED FIFTH ARMY MAY HAVE FOUND SPOT-THAT WILL BRING IT INTO SIGHT ROME

Historie City Of Sedan Is Battle Area *;   Way Seems Clear for 55-Mile Advance to Frontier of Germany

U. S. Troops Gain as Brit-ish Seize Historic , . Amiens ares NAZI BUZZ-BOMB —COAST IS SLICED: Spearhead Near Near Sedan Is: Second Aimed at = _Reich.

Anticipate but little resistance short of Siegfried defenses   Span Meuse river in push to Belgian border: British troons pass Amiens

Tidal Offensive Sfabbing into Historic Battle City of Sedan   Field Dispatches Say Yanks Unlikely To Callide with Germans Short of Sieafried Line

Germans Swept  Out Of France   Yanks Leap Through Argonne Forest; British Capture Amiens And Cut Off Buzz-Bomb Coast

Plunge Across Muese, 2 Miles From Beloium   Americans Expecting to Meet Little Resistance Short of Siegfried Line

Little Opposition Expected Short Of German Frontier, Now. 55 Miles Away

‘Americans Reported To Be (Only 70 Miles From Famed Siegfried Line In Germany   Yanks Cross Meuse River Near Ardennes Forest Ox Belgian Frontier; Little German Resistance  Expected Short Of Reich Frontier

Meuse River Is Crossed At Sedan   Go Through Argonne Forrest in Single Day In Pursuing Fleeing Germans Back Homa

BATTLE PREDICTED OVER NOMINATION      Nome of Barkley May Go : Before Democratic Convention ©

BARKLEY BOOMED FOR SECOND PLACE   NAME OF SENATOR TO BE PLACED IN NOMINATION FOR VICE PRESIDENT.

Zarkley to Be Put n Nomination for ice-President  Truman Says He Doesn’t Want It; OF is Alea © nen Ca

Democratic Convention Seen Wide Open As Move Begins To Place Barkley on Ticket -

FOR ‘DROMES IS EXPECTED   American Invaders’ of Schouten Islands Strike at Growing Jap Resistance; Near Mokmer.   Support By Air

Grain Shortage Looms in U. S.      Cut in Hog, Cattle Production Urged

Fear Inadequate Grain Supplies   WFA Head Disturbed By Heavy Demands

Le Mars Public Schools Will Join In Observance Of Education Week   Series Of Events Are Program For Annual Event - .

MAJOR RICHARD BONG NERVELESS IN AIR; FEARS MICROPHONES  CREDITED WITH 27 JAP

U.S. Arabian Pipeline Plan. Is Assailed   Moffett Declares It Is Unjustified And Bureaucratic

Moffeit In Biffer Charges On Ickes As Oil's Head Man   Assails Arabian Pipeline Plan, Charges ‘Shortage’ Pleas Unjustified

FORTRESS CITY FALLS TO REDS   Pace Of Assault Aimed At Budapest Speeded Up By Soviet Army

JASZBERENY TAKEN "BY SOVIET TROOPS   Germans Are Falling Back Ip Hard-Fighting Ketreats Aleng 106-Mile Frent

Red Army Frees $0 Communities As Nazis Flee   Russians Increase Pace of Assaults

Rail Center Taken  By Russian Forces   Red Assault Forces Capture More Than 50 Hungarian Villages—Germans Drive to. Hard Fighting Retreat on Wide Front

‘Soviets Seize Fort of Jaszhereney   Germans Fall Back Along 100-Mile Front in Hungary

Russians Take Jaszbereny  In Hungary  Red Army Moves to  Outflank Budapest

3rd Whisky Ration Opens On Feb. 14  Will Extend For Full 7  Weeks

Allies Roar Past Rome, Cross Tiber   General Clark Visits Fallen ltalian City

No Sight-Seeing For Fifth Army   Eternal City Is Liberated Almost Without Damage; Germans Suffer Loss Of Prestige

Yanks Pouring Through Rome On Grim Drive   Give Germans No Chance for Rest

CHEERING GROUPS MEET LIBERATORS   Gen. Clark Prociaims Occupation of Rome   LAUDS SOLDIERS   Little Damage to Eternal @City Is Visible; Germans Abandon Supplies

NAZIS LASHED     ABOVE OME   German Dead Litter Route of Retreat —  ‘Allied .Planes, Infantry and Armor in Pursuit.

Allied -Armies  In Italy Rolling On Northward   Battered Nazi Forces Fleeing as People of Rome Wel come Victorious Troops—General Mark W: Clark Sneaks

While Troops Continue North of Rome in Pursuit of Fleeing and Havassed German Army.

Planes Harry Fleeing Nazis On Highways   Motor Vehicles Rush Men and Artillery Through Eternal City

TWO SISTERS SUSPECTED OF HOTEL MURDER   Fail To Satisfy Investigators;  Get Lie Test

Quiz 2 Sisters In Slaying-At Chicag 001] Hotel   ‘Wealthy Wife of Diplomat  Was Shot By Woman   Who Entered Room   - And Opeued Fire

DOUGHBOYS ENCIRCLE ENEMY   FORCE NEAR. WEWAK—  .  GUAM .CAMPAIGN IN FINAL STAGE .

New Push Breaks  Three Months Lull In Monschau Area   Greek Leftists Open Full Scale Attack On British

Advance Under Heavy Artillery Barrage, GI’s Race Thru Rollesbroich   Gen. Patch Reported Hurling 12 To 15 Divisions In All-Out Dash To Palatinate Gateway

Plunge Thru 3 Towns In New Attack      Patton Forces Capture Fort  Jean O’Arc Close To  Metz.

Yanks Take Their First Objective   Rollesbroich, Near Duren, Captured as Army Drives Toward Rhine

Patch Rolling Through Hole For Karlsruhe   First Army Gains Twe Miles in Drive on Colorne

Duren Suburbs. Being Stormed By Hodges’ Units   Patch’s Seventh Army Races North Through Fastern Tip of France

ATTACK ENDS 3-MONTH LULL IN FOREST ARES   Two-Mile Gain In First Day

Ist Army Gains 2 Miles in New Monschau Push   Thunderous Artillery Bombardment Covers Doughboys Going Over Top; Drive Linked With Cologne Front Where Duren Periled

BATTLE FONT FLAMES FRUM MIDDLE AREA   Long Dormant Sector Going Into Action Supporting Duren Drive.

Yanks Storm Outskirts of Key Citadel   Three Months Lull Broken by Hodges’ Forces New Smash

Front Extended; Yanks Storming Duren Suburbs   Latest Attack Breaks Lull in Central Area; Patch Sights Siegfried

BURMA DRIVE .. IS UNDERWAY      ADVANCE BEING MADE ALONG. BAY OF BENGAL COAST AS  WELL AS INLAND

Shipyards Rackets Exposed by FB]   Over 100 Arrested in Roundup of Checkers ) Alleged to be Part of Payroli Paddina Deat

@ THEY WANT TQ VOTE   Poll of Servicemen in Pacific Slightly Favors 4th Term

SOLDIERS OPPOSE ARMY MAN  ‘PAT RORENSON TAKES POLL. OF FIGHTING MEN

RUSSO - POLISH BORDER QUESTION HAS ARISEN AGAIN   Smouldering Problem- Con fronts Allies Again—Reds May Stand. Fast.

DEWEY AT ALBANY, SURE OF HARMONY IN PARTY RANKS   Candidates’ Train Given Cordial Greetings in South Bend. Other Cities.

Dewey Promises Gigantic Effort To Save Republic   Dewey, New Chairman Brownell, Hope For Willkie Support

DEWEY TO OPEN N.Y. QUARTERS Ih CAMPAIGN PUSH   Presidential Nominee Home Today From Chienro Convention

GOV. DEWEY EN ROUTE TO ALBANY   Confident that Harmony Prevaila In Rep. Party

DEWEY CITES GOP HARMONY ON TRIP HOME   Party Chairman Brownell Plans Early Start Of Campaign

Air Commandos Strike at Japs   Move to Isolate Jap Base at Yetkyina; Jap Invaders Stopped

Smash At Jap Base   Allied Air Commandos Strike at Rail Key Behind Myitkyina; Chinese Cut a Road

Glider Troops Hit Jap Base   Allied Air Commandos Strike At > Mohnyin = In Isolation Of Myitkyina.,

Tide Turning in Burma in War With Japs   Struggle Growing in Vielance as Chinese Preve Bia Factor

Allied Air Commandos Cut Enemy Communications in Burm: Jungle—Mop-up Fighting Continues on Pacific Islands While Planes Blast Jap Bases

SKY TROOPS HIT MORNYIN   Air Commandos Strike In Move to Further Isolate Myitkyina

Air Commandos Strike in Burma  Apparent Move to   Apparent Move to Further Isolate Big Jap Base

Seek To Cuf Off Myitkyina   Air Commandos Hit Rail Town to South, Stilwell’s Men’s Press From North

Allied Air Commandos Strike at Mohnyin in Effort ta Isalate Japs

Commando "Force Aids ~ Stilwell   Glider- Borne’ Troops’ Hit Ss ap: Communications. ae in Burma:       “AMERICAN: N-TRAINED © = TROOPS PUSH. ON      Plies ‘Blast Japs Heading “Toward: Imphal; Pacific Raiders::-Hammer Foe.

AIR COMMANDS STRIKE MOHNYI   General Stilwell’s American-Chinese Forces Kill 5,423 Nips   FIGHTING GROWS   Important Enemy Base At Myitkyina Goal Of Allied Drive

Airtroops Landed In ~ Mohnyin  Seek Isolation o}  Myitkyina, Key  Jap Base

Allied Air Commandos Raid Jap Headquarters In Mohnyin  nv TFT DYD wWpaoaienrpeyp

Air Commandos in Slashing Attack On Burmese. Key   Allies Attempt to Isolate Jap Base;  U. S.-Trained Chinese Push Toward Goal

Gen. Stilwell’s Troops Shatter Enemy Column   Allies Continue Drive On Myityina, Strong Nipponese Base

NIP QUARTERS AT MORNYIN » WRECKED   2,500 Enemy Troops Slain In Myitkyina Drive   PAKIN  SLAND   In Carolinas Given First Attack: Continue Raids On Rabaul, Ponape

Planes Hit Nip Troops Near Imphal   Another Thousand Japanese Are Trapped Near Shaduzup: Planes Busy

COMMANDOS HiT JAP BASE AT MYITKYINA   Fighting Grows More Violent Thruout Burma Battle Territory

COMMANDOS STRIKE VITAL BURMA BASE   Glider-Borne Troops Make Slashing Attack on Communications To Isolate Japs at Myitkyina   1,000 IN CHINESE TRAP

Commandos Hit Jap Base ‘At Mohnyin   Nip Headquarters Damaged: im Slashing Attack 5,423 Japs Killed in Drive on Mvitkvina

ALLIED AIR COMMANDOS HIT AT NIPPON BASE   Assault Is‘-‘Made On Mohnyin By Glider Troovs   CHINESE GAIN   American Trained Troops Kill Many  - . Japanese.

RECORD SET ~~BY: RAIDERS   EVERY BOMBER AMONG °: 2,000 AMERICAN ‘PLANES IN. RAIDS YESTERDAY RETURNED  ‘ SAFELY =:

FRENCH ARE “ORDERED” TO BE ON ALERT   B. B. C. Tells People to Keep Out of German Hands and Hold Themselves in Readiness fox Action on D-Day.

Patriots of France Told To Be Ready   Firm Military Approach Adopted by Allies; Invasion Troops Readied

French Patriots Told To Stand By For D-Day Axis Radio In Paris Says Sabotage Is Great

Give D-Day “Orders”   Blunt, Military Note To Latest Allied Instructions to French

Underground Given Orders   French Told to Keep Out of German Hands And Be Ready to Act

Order Freneh To Stand By  For Invasion   Pre-Invasion War Of Nerves Continues; Adopts Military Approach.   GUNFIRE IN STRAIT

‘Duty Of Every Frenchman’  Allies Order Underground  To Remain In Readiness

Order French to Be in Readiness  Allies Adopt Firm Military Approach

Allies Adopt Firm Approach For Invasion   Frenchmen Ordered By British Radio To Be Prepared

Order Patriots On Continent  ‘To Stand By   Military Aproach Adopted In Summoning French To Prepare For D-Day

French Patriots  Get D-Day Order:   Pre-invasion War of Nerves Continues Throughout Europe

Allies Order European Patriots to Get Ready for Their Role on D-Day

British Radio Orders Frenchmen To Stand Ready To Support Invasion

Allies Order French to Aid   No Longer Question Of Voluntary Service, Broadcaster Says

Underground To  Get New Orders  Be Ready For Action, Broadcast Advises

French Told to Keep Out of Hands Of Germans and he Ready for Action

Chsterfield Girl Completes ‘Indoctrination Course vat Naval Training School

POUND FLEEING NAZIS BACK 10 REICH BORDERS   Germans In Full Flight From Rocket Coast; , Lose Vimy Ridge

Allies Hope To Prevent Nazi Stand   Other Allied Forces Are Maving Swiftly Toward Belgium  On 100-Mile Front

AMERICANS ARE ONLY FEW HOURS FROM CERMANY   Racing Germans To Siegfried Line Today

But Few Hours Drive From Germany   Vimy Ridge Falls To British Force; Flood Gates Opened

Historic Verdun, St. Mihiel, - Compiegne Forest Fall to Onrushing Yank Forces.  VIMY RIDGE TAKEN  Tyer wywewreryoeyry rergrxy er fr Voc

British Troops Within 20 Miles Of Belgium; Patrols May Have Crossed; Rocket Bomb Coast Is Abandoned.

Nazi Leaders: Said To Have Issued Order   Russian Gains Continue Ip Hungary, East Prussia and Yugoslavia, Mos cow Reports ¢      Red Army 19 Miles ‘Over Nazi Border   Two Great Russian Armies Cut Off Tilsit and Memel As Drive Moves To-: wards Capital

Appeal Court Rejects Dr. Hunt Testimony That He Identified Newtons At Scene of Shooting: Hearsay Evidence Figures in Reversal of Case

Newton Assault Case Reversed   Part Of Testimony  le Riyglad ILranroner

Newton Assault Case. Reversed   Part Of Testimony jc: Rigled’. lps wor

GOV. DEWEY RAPS. PLANNING SECRECY   Ickes Charges Republican Group Seeks to Plant Isolationism in U. Ss.

Political Campaign Takes a Further  Turn Down International Avenue

DEWEY ATTACK ON “SOFT DISCLAIMER” OF ROOSEVELT; HILMAN WITHDRAWS FROM HERALD-TRIBUNE FORUM

Foreian Affairs Looming Larger  Dewey Demands Less Secrecy in Planning

‘Gustav Line’ Outtlanked By Move At Sea   Germans Place Scene 16 To 28 Miles From Rome On Flat Coast.   LIGHT RESISTANCE

SURPRISE MOVE QUTFLANKS HITLER AND GUSTAV LINES   Troops Move Inland From Breaches Without Oppo- — sition From Germans   NAZIS ADMIT LOSS OF NETTUNO HARBOR   Naples Correspondent Reports Germans Facing Old Front in Lira Valley Start. ing to Break; Vehicles Reported Moving North

Seaborne Blow Lands Troops South of Rome   Nazis Admit Loss of Nuttuno Harbo: As Surprise Move Outflanks Custav. Hitler Defense Lines

Resistance To ‘Americans And British Light   'Word From Front of New  Offensive Says Hitler ites in Liri Valley “Be  ginning To Break”

200,000 Nazis Are Threatened With Entrapment As Yanks and British Go Ashore in Surprise Move

Big Headway Made on 3rd Italian Front  Landings Few Miles South of Capital Virtually Unopposed  INVADERS RULE AIR  New Move Timed With Resumption of Fifth  Army Drive Ahead

Allies 16 To 28 Miles South Of Italian Capital   Daring And Successful Blow Catches German Defenders Flatfooted; Slight Resistance Met By Thousands And Thousands Of Troops

Daring Angla-American Amphibious Operation Breaks Stalemate on Italian Front; Sets Germans in South in Retreat

American and British Troops Swarm Inland Unopposed Toward Roads Leading to Italian Capital — Advance Threatens to Entrap 200,000 Nazis and Open Undefended Path to Eternal City.

Swift Invasion — Surprises Nazis   Powerful ‘Gustav’ and ‘Adolf Hitler’ Lines Outflanked; Fifth Army Has Little Opposition

Nazis Caught Flat Footed —   troops Amazed At Success;. Germans Face Entrapment.

Seaborne Landing Is Made Almost Without Opposition   Battle For Rome Officially Opens; Nazis Are Caught Off Base, Resistance Is Slight   Fasier Than Salerne

Rome Thrust Takes Enemy By Surprise   Invading Thousands Press Inland to Main Roads; Air Power Isolates Beachhead Belew Tiber:   Reporter Flies Over Beachhead, — -  Soee No Sians of Onnosition

Mighty Yank-British Force Vaults Up Italian West Coast; Outflanks Powerfiil Navi Tine

Troops Smash Rapidly Onin Italy   Surprise Overwhelms Enemy; Forces Speed Toward Rome

Seaborne Blow Catches Germans By Surprise   Allies Outflank Gustav-Hitler Lines in Maneuver

Nazis Appear Nonplussed by Sudden Move  Powerful Defensive Lines of Germans  Now Outflanked

German Defenses Flanked . In Surprise Attack; Push  Toward Goal Gathers Speed

Surprises Nazis, Outflanks Line  Geahnamena A ceart?   Seaborne Assault Aided By 5th Army Ground Offensive

Landing, 16 to 28 Miles South of Italian Capital, Meets Little Opposition   Little Opposition Met as Yanks Surge Inland on Large Scale; Ola Nasi tine Renarted Breaking

Seaborne Attack Flanks “Gustav” Defense System   Nazis Reported Pulling Back From Fifth Army Front; “Third Front” Completely Surprises Germans Fighting In Italy

START DRIVE INLAND AFTER NEW LANDING   Nazis Unprepared for Surprise Maneuver  By Fifth Army

Top Norwegians Sent To Germany   Seek To Deport Those Who Might Be Leaders

68 Enemy. Planes Destroyed In U. S. Naval Strike At Southern Philippines   ATTEMPT TO ATTACK BIAK IS FRUSTRATED

92 Vessels In Japanese Convoy Sunk By Airmen   Destructive Raids on Mindanao Island Made by Cartier Based Planes—Submarines Sink Nine More Ships _

Navy Planes Wipe Out 5? Jap Vessels   Destructive Raids Of f Mindanao Account For Entire Convoy Of Enemy Ships

“OF 52 SHIPS: WIPED OUT   American U-Boats Also Sink Nine More Vessels

Ward s Defies FR, Order fo End Strike   Notice Served on WLB That Chicago Dispute Will Not Be Settled

Wards Refuse to Comply with New Roosevelt Order   President of Company Sends Telegram to White House— Employes Return to Work

Air Route Via Alaska Making USSR Neighbor   Two routes developed. under. military see~ recy; many bombers follow route to Russia.

Congress Seeks New Contracts for Brewster Plants   Take Steps to Warn All War Contracts Of Termination Orde

Bigger Army Is Demanded  Stimson Recommends   Stimson Recommends Permanent Strength

Xankees Barn Village When  Fava, Qeaten  E ae OL... Ds. ! anu Oi pCrs OW a FOETESS

HOPITAL G03! STUDY CONGUGTEL   County Nurse Probing Indigent Patient Expense

HOSPITAL. COST:  STUDY CONBUCTEL   County Nurse Probing Indigent Patient’ Expense

Eisenhower Asks War Loan Support   “We Must Redouble Our Efforts,” Says General

EISENHOWER MAKES WAR LOAN APPEAL   Says F ighting  Men Still Face Grim Task

Yanks Pounded By V-Weapons Ask When Allied Flying Bombs Will Be Tossed Back At Nazi:

GrS DEMAND YANK V-BOMBS   H:tler’s Robots Are Ne Joke To Soldiers In Foxholes

Where’s Our V-Bomb, Gls Ask   Gran Secret Weapon: Cau’t be Shrugged Off, Soldiers Say

GIS WISH FOR LWN V-ROCKETS   Americans Along Western Front Want To Hear VBombs Whizzing The Other Way.

‘Where Are U. S. Flying Bombs?   American Soldiers Hear We Have Superior Type And Wonder Why They’re Not In Use

Gls Want fo Know When Our Flying Bomb Will BeReadh   - Fighting Men Know Hitler's Secret .— ‘Weapons no Tovs

Where Is U.S V-Weapon?   Yanks, on Receiving’ Eni of Rocket Attacks, Would Like to Know

Yank Troops Feeling German V-Weapon Attacks, Ask Why We Aren’t Using Ours

DOUGHBOY ASKS ABOUT OUR USE OF NEW BOMBS   if U. S. Flying Bomb So Effective, Why Not Turn It Loose?

V-WEAPONS NO JOKE T0 U. 5. TROOPS      They Would Like To See Flying Bombs Going the Other Way

AMERICAN TROOPS. WANT TO KNOW WHY WE HANGING BACK   IF WE HAVE BETTER FLY.

Remnant of Arnherr Pocket Airborne Force Withdraws   Less Than 2000 of Sky Troops Saved After 8-Day Battle to Hold Ruhr Gateway ; U. S. Third Army Opens Assault Near Metz

CROSS MEUSE OR STAND AT WEST WALL   Deep Allied Corridor Into Netherlands Now Firmly Held and Is Being Expanded.   SKY TROOPS’ FIGHT  AT ARNHEM ENDS   Americans Under Patton Launch Violent Assault Against the Main Fort Guarding Metz.

British Troops Drawing Closer  To Gothic Line   Long-Awaited Drive In Northern Italy Awaited Momentarily

Brit. 8th Army Troops Avproach Cathic Defenses   Enemy ‘Chutists Are Driven From Ridge Before Fortifications

Southern Coal Operators May Sign Contract   Trave! Time Pay Is Single Obstacle

Four Persons Hurt In Early Morning Blast   Cause Of Gas Damage Is Not Determined: Sparta Business Are: Shaken

New Teachers Are Employed   Six New Instructors Hired For Local Schools

NEW TEACHERS ARE HIRED FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS   Three More Resign But All Vacancies But One Are Filled

2 Japanese Destroyers  Are Damaged   10 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Carrier-Plan Attack on Kavieng. New Ireland

ALLIES MENACE BASE IN MADANG   :@oun t: 600 Japs ‘Dead . at Cape Gloucester

ALLIED TROOPS MOVING CLOSER TO MADANG   American Marines Count 600 More Enemy Dead In Fierce Jungle Fighting

Allies  Close on  Madang   YANKS KILL 600 MORE JAPS IN FIERCE FIGHT AT CAPE GLOUCESTER

Allied Troops Press for Jap Madana Base   American Marines Across Vitiaz Strait Court More Than 600 Jap Dead in Fighting

Push Drive On  Madang Base   Marines Tally 600) Dead Japs In Fierce Fighting On Cape Gloucester,

ALLIES MOVE TOWARD JAPS' MADANG BASE   Fierce Jungle Fighting Is Reported From Cape Gloucester Area

Allied Troops On Madang   Marines Kill 600 More Japs at  _ Cape Gloucester; Two Nip Destroyers Are Damaged & at Kavieng

Both Yankees and Aussies Score Gains   Two Columns are Moving Toward Madang In Battle Of New Guinea   -PURTHER GAINS IN NEW BRITAIN   Air Sweeps Continue And Halsey Gives Hint of Much Greater Air Blows

Allies Blasting Japs On Several Pacific Fronts   Threaten North Guinea Base; Marines Score Heavily

Menace Jap Base At Madang   American and Australian Soldiers Close in  As Fliers Blast Town With 243 Tons Bombs

YANKS MENACE MADANG BASE   Marines Kill 600 Japs In  Fierce Fighting On  New Guinea

ALLIED TROOPS IN  MENACING DRIVE ON  JAP MADANG BASE NEW CARRIER-PLANE AT TACK DAMAGES DESTROY  rec NAWNC DI ANEC

ALLIES MOVE ON AGAINST ENEMY BASE   Meanwhile Admiral Halsey Hint Mighty Air Offensive May be Near Against Tokyo.

Allies Move  Toward Madang   Jap Base Endangered As Marines Kill 600 At Cape Gloucester

Allied Forces Nearing Madang  600 Japanese Die in Fierce Fighting

600 JAPS KILLED  BY U.S. MARINES  ON NEW BRITAIN BAG 10 JAP PLANES,  DAMAGE 2 DESTROYERS IN RAID ON KAVIENG

Allies Move NearMadang,  New Guinea   Cape Gloucester Forces in Further Advances On New Britain

ALLIES MOVE ON MADANG IN JUNGLE WAR   Japs Report New Landing by Aus _sies on New Guinea — Marine: Slay 600 on Cape Gloucester   KAVIENG BOMBED   Two Jap Destroyers Damaged, 10 Planes Downed — Halsey Says Tokyo Will Be Razed

‘Allies Menace Japanese Base ‘On New Guinea   Punch Closer to Madong As U.S. Marines Count  600 Enemy Dead

Allied Pacific Troops Near Base; Marines Engage in Fierce Jungle Fight.

Allies Are Closing In on Japanese Base of Madang   Halsey Predicts Tokio Will Be in Ruins Before Yanks Arrive

COLLETT OBSERVES BIRTHDAY IN PRISON   But, Condemned Killer Has Ne Gifts or Visitors

Adolf Hitler's Special Train Blown to Bits During Recent Allied Raid

Land Near Two Major Strongholds   [wo Navy Squadrons Hit Wake To Prevent  Air Base From Getting Into Maior Operation

Voters In Two States Slated To \Name Delegates   California, Jersey Elections Held; Two Other States Nominate

Charges 30,09 Officers Idle   Iilinois Solon Plans Investigation

CHARGES 30,000 OFFICERS IDLE   Sabath Says Civilians Commissioned for Prestize

Lounge- ‘Lizard Army. Officers Are Scored   Congressman Would  Probe Bars on  Me Ser pee

‘Grim U.S. Warning to Finland to Quit War   Get Out or Suffer the Consequences Is Uncle .Sem’s Ultimatum

Hull Sends Request To Helsinki   Government Of Finland Told To Make Peace With Soviet Russia Or Accept Consequences

U.S. CALLS ON FINNS TO QUIT   Hull Advises Finland ° Make Peace With Reds

FINNS RECEIVE NEW WARNING   Hull Discloses Action, Saying Nation Urged Anew to Quit the War

FINLAND HAS BEEN WARNED BY ALLIES TO GET OUT OF WAR   Secretary Hull Discloses Efforts to Help Unfortunate Nation Out of Plight

New Warning To Finland To Quit Fight   Hull Says Nazi Ally Must Take Military Comenuencen

U.S. Advises Finns To Quit Hull Declares   Americans Exert Tressure on Behalf of Russia

U.S. Again Warns Finns To Quit War   Get Out or Accept Consequences of Fighting on Side of Germany, Warning

FINLAND TOLD TO QUIT WAR   U. S. Renews Warning of Consequences to Ally : of Germany

U.S. WARNING: SENT FINLAND   “MAKE PEACE OR FACE CONSEQUENCES”: HULL

TOLD TO MAKE PEACE OR TAKE CONSEQUENCES   State Department Has Sent Finns Notes In Past

Hull Says U. S$. Has Warned Finns They Must Make Peace With Russia

‘Or Take Results U.S. Warns Finns   Bia Discloses Axis . Ally Has. Again Been: “Told : To: Give Up. Strugsle

U. ». bells Finis to Give ip   Make Peace With Russia, Britain, Finns Are Told

Finland Again  Warned ToQuit   U.S. Served Notice, Secy. Hull Discloses

FINNS WARNED AGAIN BY HULL   United States Reminds Finns They Had Better Get Out Of The War Or Take The  Consequences.

TO MAKE PEACE   Moscow Warns “Hour of Rettribution Near for Hitlar’s Portner”

FINNS WARNED TO QUIT WAR, HULL REVEALS   Changed Military Situation Confronts Helsinki With- Likelihood ~ Bussia, Allies Will Act

SOLONS LOSING RECESS HOPES   Pre-Election . Vacation  Likely To Be Delayed

BRITISH WIDEN BREACH AROUND ENEMY AT CAEN   Germans Putting Almost Full Strength of Two Armies Into Battle for Inland Port

DanielleNo Nazi, Says Writer, But Being a Gent He Won't Tell What She’s Wearing

RED CROSS IS READY TO ACT   When Disaster Strikes Group Is Ready To Render Aid

Red Cross Campaign Begins Today To Raise $11,400 Quota   Glenn Laskey Serves As Parish Chairman  Mrtrina Pracent Drive

Soviet Planes Hit Heavily  at Sevastopol  Nazis Hint Axis Defense Lines  Tie, OD. .. Pe

HEAVY ATTACKS ARE LAUNCHED AT SEVASTOPOL   Soviets Destroy 22 Nazi Planes In Attacks On Crimean Seaport

Final Red Drive For Sevastopol Seems Imminent   Russian Planes Attack Germans

Russians Continue —_ Air Raids   Soviets lnflict Pon gy   On Nuzis in -ralude   To Land Drive on Sevastonol

Russ Planes  Blitz Nazis At Sevastopol  Take Heavy Toll   Take Heavy Toll Of Enenzy Troops, Arms, Ships, Aircraft

REDS DESTROY NAZI PLANES FIRE DUMPS   Damage Ships, Silence Batteries in Attack Saturday; Inflict Losses on Nazis and Romanians:   Huge Scale

Soviet Planes Hit Heavily al Sevastopol   Nazis Hint Axis Defense Lines Have Been Cracked

Russians Blast 2? Nazi Planes At Sevastopol   Final Land Drive Against Crimea Port Appears in Making

22 German Planes Destroyed By Russian Aerial Attacks     Ammunition Dumps Blown Up and Artillery Batteries Silenced During Raids on the Crimean Part anf Sevactonyl

Canned Tomatoes Peas, Asparagus Rationed Again  OPA Hints Other Vegetables to Be Returned to List

VEGETABLES TO BE RESTORED TO RATION LISTS   Canned Peas, Tomatoes And Asparagus To Require Points Starting Sunday

VEGETABLES BACK “ON RATION LIST   OPA . RESTORES POINT VALUES FOR PEAS, TOMATOES AND ASPARAGUS,

Tomatoes, Peas  Again Rationed   Asparagus Also On Points. Others Ta Fallaw

Points Back On Canned Goods   Canned Peas, Tomatoes, And Asparagus Put Back On List.

POINTS RESTORED ON CANNED GOODS   Peas, Tomatoes and As paragus to Again be Rationed

Combination Senate Committee To ~— Investigate Foreign Oil Situation

APPLICATION MADE TO TAXING GROUP   The County Commissioners Would Go Above Limit to Build Bridge

The County Commissioners - Would Go Above Limit to Build Bridge   HEARING TO BE AUG. 21

Marshall Plans Small Army With Citizen Reserves  Reveals Program Rar Dact.War Era

Marshall Favors Universal Army Training Program   Staff Chief Asserts Small Professional Force Is Sufficient

NO BIG ARMY FOR AMERICA, SAYS GENERAL   POSTWAR MILITARY POLICY REVEALED BY MARSHALL

GEN. MARSHALL GIVES POST WAR PICTURE   Favors Military Training; Small Standing Army

PLANE CENTER ON JAP ISLAND AGAIN RAIDED   TOKYO SAYS ONE HUNDRED B-29s TOOK PART IN LATEST ASSAULT ON’ “FINDER CITY"

Superforts Kindle Huge Fires in Naaova, Japs’ Third Laraest City

Swiss Border Reports That Patton’s American Third Army Forces Have Captured Saarbrucken Unconfirmed

Official Report Diseloses Entry Effected Sunday   Heavy Force Of Americans Cross Moselle At Point _..Between. Nancy, Mets

Made Penetrations Last Sunday, Ranged About in Germany, Then Withdrew

Yank Patrols Carry War to German Soil   Main Force Reported Moving Steadily en: City of Saarbrucken

Patrols First On German Soil Last Sunday   British Pushing On In Netherlands, But Information Limited

GERMANS FIGHT MORE BITTERLY ON HOME SOIL   Americans Meet Strong Forces  Early Today

U. S. Third Army on German Soil   PATTON’S FORCES PUSH  ACROSS MOZELLE RIVER

Velez Funeral Awaits Coming go  Of Her Par earl      Actor. Belieyes Misinder standing Between Him and Lupe Due to His Faulty English

Londoners Prenare to Go Underground to Evade Bombings   Fear Germans May be Planning Super-Robot Attacks Soon

Nazi Airman  Had Problem   Had Hard Time Getting Someone to ‘Capture’ Him

LONDON BARRAGE. HALTS NAZI RAM   GERMANS TURNED BACK SOON AFTER APPEARING OVER BRITISH CAPITAL.

German Raiders Turned Back by London's Guns   Nazis Fail to Follow Up Terrible Attack of Tuesday Night

Cooperation Bond Keynote   Everyone Doing Par Put Area Over, Says Spencer

DEMOCRATS HAIL ‘BREAK’ BY BALL   Eye Willkie-Stassen Ranks For New’G.0.P. Recruits

Demos Eyeing Willkie-Men For Recruits   Seek to Expand Ball Breakaway Into Swing of Willkie-Stassen Republicans

BYRNES LAUDED INTHE SENATE      Social Security Tax  May Upset Quiet

Drive for $20 Jobless Benefits  Gains Momentum  Byrnes for Compromise With States Control, House Committee Told

Slip Hillman Bill Top To $20 a Week   BUT NEW DEALERS INSIST ON UNIFORM AMOUNT FIXED BY CONGRESS; BYRNES  BLESSING FOR IT   Celler Defends Infamy

REP. CELLER TO FIGHT FOR KILGORE BILL   Administration Seeks To Put Floor Under State Unemployment Benefits

Drive for-$20 — Week Jobless Pay Is Begun   Rep. Celler Declares He Will Make Floor Fight For Kileare Rint

$20 JOBLESS PAY PROPOSED   Drive Begun in House for Compromise Figure Recommended by Byrnes

STEPS TAKEN © TO FIX RATES _ OF BENEFITS   $20 Weekly Minimum Is Proposed for the Un- employed

French Will Face Strict Nazi Rule  Petain May Quit or Remain as Pleaces

Arabian Oil Pipeline Plan May Be U.S. Ace-In-The-Hole In International Game

More Japs Hurled Into China Drive .   Enemy Forces Attack Along 140 Mile Front

100,000 RUSSIANS ATTACK GERMANS BELOW BUDAPES!   Strong Offensive Opened on 40-Mile Front, Aimed at. . Strangling Besieged Capital.   ENEMY LINES BROKEN AT SEVERAL POINTS   Nazi High Command Reports Reds Are Using “Many Bombers” and That Fichting Is Bitter.

Offensive Opened on Front ' Southwest of Budapest  ASSAULT AIMI AIMED AT STRANGLING CAPITAL Berlin Says. Re Reds Using  : 100 ,000 Troops in - ‘the Drive

Mighty  Soviet Attack Rolling  Toward Vienna   Shock Troaps Brenk Nazi + Lines South of Besieged  Hungarian Capitd 

Death March From Bataan   By LT. COL. W. E. DYESS United States Army Air Forces lc Told to CHARLES LEAVELLE

Bataan Death March Colonel Tells of Jap Cruelty   As told to CHARLES LEAVELLE

English Lassie’s Kiss Brings Yank Gunner Back To — Life, but His California Swe-theart Is Burned Up

alaTERG TRIED FOR TREASON   Prisoner Testifies They Helped Him and Comrade Escape.

“STIFIES JAP SISTERS AIDED   rman Witness Asserts  He Wanted To Fight  Against Hitler

Charge Three Jap Women With Treason   Recaptured German Testifies to Having Received Aid

TRY 3SISTERS ON TREASON CHARGES   PRISONER OF WAR TESTIFIES WOMEN AIDED IN ESCAPE

8,000 Indian Skeletons to Tell Weird Story About ' Americans Since 300 A.D.

U.S. and Britain Agree to Exact Punishment From Firms and Agents Which Have Aided Axis Powers

Fifth Army Moves On New Objeciive   Hole Punched by French Widened; Prisoners Taken— Rritich Meet Siiff Recictane,;

Bitter Fight Flares Along Eighth Front   French Moroccans Spearhead Drive on Adoloh Hitler Wall

ALLIES DALE TOWARD LAST ~ BEBNMAN LINE   Fifth Army Takes Six More Towns and Another 1.000 Prisoners.

Plains Of Rome Lie Just Beyond Enemy Defenses   Vengeful Frenchmen Spark Allied Drive Through Wide Breach

Tommies Gain Steadily Extending Bridgehead Across Rapido 2 Miles   Allies Seize 81 Square Miles In 4 Days’ Fighting, Capture 3,000 Nazi Prisoners

Allies Approach Last Defense Belt Of Nazi In Italy   Six Mere Towns and a Thousand More  Prisoners Are Captured in’ ‘Two-Mile Advanroa

G MORE PLACES, {000 PRISONERS TAKEN IN ITALY   Americans and French Advance Almost at Will Toward Hitler Line, Probably Last ta Rome.   INVASION ARMADA REPORTED MASSING   Clensar Approved Photographs Make Disclosures, Germans Send Planes to Get D Day Clew.

FRENCH, U, S, CLAWING WAY INTO DEFENSE   German Positions South of Liri River Crushed. Another 1,000 Nazis Taken Prisoner

Nazi Defense System Crumbling As Yanks And French Bag 1,000 More Prisoners; British Progress Is Slower

Last Line Before Rome Next Stop   French Moroccans Spearhead Drive As Foe Flees Fortified Territory

Allied Troops Still Pour Through Widening Gap in Nazi Lines in Italy

Six More  Towns Fall To Allies    MOVE FORWARD TOWARD HI LINE, BELIEVED TO BE LAST _ DEFENSE BELT BEFORE => ROMAN PLANES

Capturing Six More Towns In Two Mile Advance   ALL OUT OFFENSIVE TO CAPTURE ROME  Over 3000 German Prisoners Taken In

Petroleum Industry’s War Council ‘Denounced Ickes’ Pipeline Plan

New Penetration Of German Soil By Allied Forces   Sudden Allied Thrust Is Made East Of Nijmegen With Success   SOME AID REACHES BESIEGED FORCES

REDS THRUST (C70 RUMANIA NEARING IASI   While To North First Army Is Credited With Killing Or Capturing 208,260 Axis Troops.   Drive on Lwow

Russians Nine Miles From lasi; 208,260 Axis Troops Killed  Or Seized in 28 Days

Soviets Capture 108,260 Enemy Troops in North   Remnants of 15 German Divisions Are Encircled

Staggering Losses Suffered By Nazis   German Lines Are Also Crumbling In Sector Where Russian Armies Are Threatenina Lwow

183,310 NAZIS WERE SLAIN IN 98 DAYS, CLAIM   Soviet Siege Arc it Being Tightened — At Odessa

FIFTEEN NAZI DIVISIONS ARE HELD IN TRAP   GERMANS HUNTED DOWN; LINES CRUMBLE

Reds Capture 50 Villages In Smashing To Within 9 Miles Of Iasi; Over 200,000 Casualties Claimed

CHAPLIN IS INDICTED BY iS, Cauat   Six Others Are Indicted With  Film Comedian

Charlie Chaplin is Indicted as Alleged Mann Act Violator   Film Star Also Accused of Conspiracy; Six Others Indicted

CHAS. CHAPLIN INDICTED IN JOAN BERRY CASE         Tramp Comedian Faces Realty of the Federal Law, Charging Him with Violating Mann Ant   OTHERS NAMED

Indict Chaplin For Violation  Of Mann Act      Comedian’s Attorney Asks Public To Withhold Judgment

Charlie Chaplin Will Face The Grim Realities Of Life When Mann Act CaseCalled

FEDERAL JURY BILLS CHAPLIN   Comedian Indicted On Mann Act And Conspiracy Charges

Famed Mimic Faces Charge Of Conspiracy   Charley Chaplin Accused of Violation of the Mann Act

Charles Chaplin, Film Comedian, Faces Mann Act Violation Charges

Chaplin Held On Mann Act In Barry Case   Six Others Are Named in Indictments Charging Civil Rights Plot

CHARGE CHAPLIN WITH VIOLATION OF MANN ACT   Indict Six Others With Actor on Conspiracy Against Unwed Mother

CHAPLIN MAY GO T0 PRISON   Movie Comedian Indicted By Federal Jury For Mann Act Violation

CHAPLIN WAITS MORALS TRIAL   Film Comic Indicted - For Mann Act Violation, Other Counts

Chaplin, Long Idolized As Little Tramp, Cast In Villain Role By Federal Grand Jur

Chaplin Cast In Villain Role   Retired Movie Comedian Charged With Mann Act Vislation.

Charlie Chaplin Accused Of Mann Act Violation; Prison If Found Guilty

Chaplin Is Indicted   Accused By Federal  Jury of. Mann Act Violation in Relationship With Miss Joan Berry

TEMPERATURES:   Indictment Returned By Grand Jury After Long Probe’

Chaplin Faces Charge Of Mant Act Violation   U. S. Indictment Casts Film Comedian In Vil lian Role.

CHAPLIN FACES FEDERAL COUNT   Six Others Named In Conspiracy Against.Joan Berry

illinois Farmers Hauling Water for Livestock in Increasing Numbers

Allied Advancing Units Discover  Janos Build Strong Burma Defenses

R. A. F. Bombers Attack Toulouse. Deep In France   Plants In Southern France Communications Center Are Bomb Target   U.S. FLIERS MAKE 1200 MILE MISSION

RAF BOMBS PLANE PLANTS AT TOULOUSE   U.S. Mustangs Attack Bases in Berlin and Munich Areas

SOUTH FRANCE Hit BY BOMBS DURING NIGH   AIRCRAFT PLANTS AT TOU. LOUSE BATTERED BY FLEETS OF HEAVY RAF PLANES —

Russians Make 63-Mile Gain On Wide Front   Offensive ls Aimed At East Prussia; Also Cross Danube

Russian Armies Advance 63 Miles Through Nazi Lines on 175-Mile Front in Four Days   Massive Break-Through, With Double Purpose Of Lopping Off East Prussia and Trapping Thousands of Germans in Riga Area and in Northwestern Latvia, Announced by Stalin

Soviets Seek To Lop Off  East Prussia   Break German Lines Along 175-Mile Front 45 Miles from Memel  ADVANCE IN HUNGARY

REDS LAUNCH DRIVE TOWARD EAST PRUSSIA   Push Ahead 63 Miles On 175-Mile Front In 4 Days

Reds Gain 63 Miles Near Memel   Russians Reported Using 200,000 Men In Baltic Drive

Soviet Armies Smash 63 Miles Through  Nazi Lines in Drive   Attack ls Aimed at German East Prussia: Penetrates Within 45 Miles of Baltic Port of Memel in Bia Advance

Russians Smash 63 Mites Through Nazi Lines  ATTACK IS AIMED AT EAST PRUSSIA  Red Crossing of Danubs Near Belgrade Reported

Stalin Reports Breakthrough or 175-Mile Front   2,000 Localities Freed by Soviets

REDS SMASH 63 MILES ON GERMAN LINES   Overrunning 2,000 Localities in Drive Aimed at East Prussia; Nearing Baltic Port of Memel.   Call Hungarians

GEN. MARTHUR LIBERATED 33 ON LEYTE ISLE   GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, PHILIPPINES, Oct. 23—

NAMES OF AMERICANS WHO HID OUT AFTER. SINKING OF JAP SHIP ARE. . REVEALED.

Seize Villers - Bocage, Caumont, Flank Caen At Tilly-Sur-Seulles   Hold Violent Counter-Attacks At Montebourg, Carentan And British-Held Troarn

Send Some Patrols 30 Miles Inland   Armies Battle for Montebourg—Battleships Bombard Caen, Troarn

Trip-hammer Advance to Within Six Miles: of :  Bastion   THREE DIVISIONS =: REPORTED ROUTED   Enemy Being Forced to Surrender at Many* Points, it Is Stated ©

‘Reds On Edge ‘Of Key Base   Many Nazis Slain, Others Routed: 450 Towns Freed

Many Germans, Lose Live In Desperate Defense Of Baltic Rail Bastion .

Russ Offensive Sweeps Toward Baltic Bastion   Soviet Are Is Closing On Gateway Of Pskov Af _  ter Big Gains

SOVIETS SWEEP UP MORE THAN 450 LOCALITIES   Germans Throwing Everything Into Defense Of Base

WHO STRUGGLED AT BLOODY COST TO HOLD RAIL JUNCTION ON WHICH BALTIC DEFENSE IS PREDICATED.

Russian Army Drives on Pskov: Enemy Routed  fn ee ee EO Ne er ih Pome   Germans Retreating Surrendering and Dying, Moscow Says

Germans Fighting at Heavy Gost to Hold Key. Railroad City; Russians Also Advance Near Novorzhev

Russ Troops Six Miles _ From Pskov   Drive Brings Capture Of 450 Towns; . Other Fronts Quict

Nazis Struggle To Retain Hub Of Baltic Area   Three Enemy Divisions Routed at Novorzhev;. 650 Communities ~ Liberated in Drive

Nazi Hold On Pskov Weakened   German Troops Struggle At Bloody Cost to Retain Bastion ~ Of Baltic

Trip-hammer Advance t Within Six Miles: of ©: Bastion:  THREE DIVISIONS _ REPORTED ROUTE  Enemy Being Forced -: Surrender at Meny’ Points. lt be Stated .

PSKOV NEARLY ENCIRCLED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   NAZIS ATTEMPT TO HOLD BASE; COST IS TERRIFIC

GERMANS BATTLE FIERCELY 10 SAVE RAILWAY BASTION   Three Divisions Routed by One Russian Column Moy-  ing on City From Southeast.   700 SLAUGHTERED AT ANOTHER POIN   Nazis Report Heavy Fighting Around Krivoi Rog With Soviets Trying to En-  circle Them.

Germans Fighting at Heavy Cost to Hold Key Railroad City; Russians Also Advance Near Novorzhev   Hitler Orders City Held

Congressmen fear corn demand will exceed supply in Nebraska and Iowa

Bond Quotas For Communities In County Revealed   Chairman Asks Every Citizen To Contribute In Fifth Loan Drive

Moorhead Area ‘Workers Slated To Meet Tonight   Campaign Will Open Here November 20,.. Close December 16.

Collapse Of Germany May Rule Out New Anpropriations For U.S. Army

Say Collapse of Nazis Within Sixty Days Would Cut Apprepriations

Broken Fidelity Pact Leads To Murder Of Mate   Canadian Tells Story Of Crime

ALMOST HALF EAST ROMANIA - NOW OVERRUN   Soviets 50 Miles From Bucharest, 60 From Bulgar Border

RED ARMIES. IN 30 MILES QF BUCHARES]   Capture Romania Seaport On Black Sea and Take German Warships and Submarines.

Requested Numbers To Fi eature Concert   "n:.ed Chbius To Present Highlights From Spring Concert In Program Sunday.

Favorites Featured — At War Bond Concert   Spring Concert Highlights On Program; Admission Is By 25-Cent War Stamp.

New Quake Hits Argentine City      Medical Supplies Rushed To San Juan

Argentine City Has 10th Quake   Temblor Hits While President Visits

Another Quake Hits San Juan   Stricken City Rocked As President Addresses Survivors.

Huge Bridge Collapses Near Rio   TENTH MINOR QUAKE STRIKES SAN JUAN AFTER MAJOR TEMBLOR

STRICKEN CITY HAS "ANOTHER TREMBLOR   Tenth Minor Earthquake Is Experienced By Ctty Of San Juan.

The War Today— Wholesale Disaster Faces Germans In Italy; Reserve Strength Thinner

Foe Backing  Into Corner   Wholesale Disaster Dogs Reich Legions

 THE WAR TODAY : ’ ty ‘i 'Germans Position Grim  \As Allies Smash Forward

GERMAN ARMIES IN ITALY IN SERIOUS DANGER ALTHOUGH HEAVY FIGHTING 1S ‘STILL IN OFFING ENEMY IS DEFEATED

‘WAR ANALYST SEES DANGER OF — WHOLESALE DISASTER TO GERMAN ARMIES IN ITALIAN BATTLE ARFA

Reds Preparing Push In Romania   Supplies Are Moved Beyond Prut River To Carpathian Hills

REDS GET SET FOR ROMANIAN DRIVE   Moving Huge Amounts of Supplies Into Areas of Car pathian Hills.

SOVIET TROOPS PLANNING FOR BIG OFFENSIVE INTO ROMANIA   Russians Continue Blasting Enemy By Air In  Softening Up Process For Drive.

REDS MOVE AMMUNITION. _ SUPPLIES BEYOND PRUT: ATTACK ALONG SIRET RIVER

Rains Hamper Allies in Italy   Eighth Reaches River Ronco; Fifth Also Gains

Russians Mass Before Nazi Borders   Battles Continue As Germans Make Counter-Attacks

Russians Flanking — Warsaw, East Prussia   Communications Center South of Prussia Abandoned by Germans; New Soviet Advances in Baltic States

ZERO HOUR FOR  EAST {ite DRIVE AT HAND  7   Russian Armies Massed in Great Threatening Arc Before Borders.

‘Soviet Army Poised For Drive On “Sacred Soil”   Huge Russian Forces Massed In Great Are Surrounding German Province

Russians Ready — For Big Drive   ZERO HOUR IS NEAR AS REDS START NEW CAMPAIGN

Reds Prepare For Assault On E. Prussia   Great Tank Battles Raging West of Vistula South of Warsaw and Within 3 Miles of Krakow

Soviet Units to South Are Only 15 Miles From Border   ZERO HOUR NEARS   Twin Forces Clear Nazis From 180 Settlements Near Warsaw

Little News From Siege of Warsaw Where Russians  Are Outside City

RUSSIANS "MASS FOR ZERO HOUR   Enemy Stronghold Of Lomza Threatened By Red Armies

Red Assault Approaches Zero Hour   Russian Armies Mass For Major Attack On East Prussia

NAZIS PREPARE FOLLOWERS FOR MORE DEFEATS   Berlin Radio Announces Man‘ New Soviets Gain on Wide Front

ABANDON KEY FORTHE TD EAST PRUSSI   Germans Withdraw to West as Russ Armies Gain Momentum.

POISED BEFORE FAST PRUSSIA   Zero Hour For Drive Into Junkers Homeland Is At Hand 

Russian Forces Mass For All-Out Drive On East Prassia: 10 Milas F-om Border

ZERO HOUR FOR SOVIET ADVANGE I$ APPROACHING   Nazis Withdraw South Of East  Prussian Line

ASSAULT IS LIKELY FROM ALL POINTS   Osowiec is Evacuated Inside Border as Soviet Armies But Seven Miles Away: Other Gains.

Two Armies Race to Seal Off Warsaw   Red Baltic Army Eliminates 70,000  Germans in Month

GATHER TO ATTACK   Russian. Forces Lined Up for Major: Assault’ on  East Prussia

D DRIVE ON PRUSSIA NEAR   Soviet Armies .Mass_ in Threatening Arc on Border of Province.   TANK BATTLE CONTINUES

Zero Hour for New Russian Offensive Near   Great Arc Draws Up to Borders Of East Prussia

London, (7) —Capture of the fortress town of Osowiec, Polish communica-

REDS TIGHTEN RING AROUND NAZIPROVINCE   Russian Drive Menaces Stronghold of Lomza, Vital Communications Center Link to Warsaw   COUNTERATTACKS FAIL

East Prussian Zero Hour Believed Near   Soviet Forces Are Drawing Up a Threatening _ Are Around Land of the Junkers From the South, North and the East.

Zero Hour Near: For All-Out  Russian Assault   Soviet Armies Are Massed in Threatening Are Before East Prussia; Nazis Admit New Red Army Advances in Poland

REDS PUSH WAY TO BORDERS OF NAZI HOMELAND   GAIN ON ALL FRONTS; GERMAN LOSS OF LIFE HEAVY IN BALTIC AREA

Nazis Admit J Withdrawal At Osoweic, Rail Center    Railway: Is. Cleared ‘Of Ger man Forces «

ovief Forces ake Osowiec, ermans Admil   Russian Offensive  Flanking Both East Prussia and Warsaw Gains Momentum —

Zero Hour Near For Red Assault On East Prussia   Russians Closing Gar Between Defense Area Laid Down By Enemy   Germans Admit Losses

Zero Hour For Russian  Push On Prussia Near   ~Red Armies Mass Before German Province As Berlin Admits Withdrawal Of Lines And Evacuation Of Key Center Of Osowiec.

Vital Polish Base Said Abandoned By Nazi Force:   Zero Hour For All-Out Red ~~Attack- On’ East Prossiz Is Believed Imminent

Zero Hour Near For Red Drive On East Prussia   Russians Mass Great Army on Province Border

Hour Is Near for Drive on East Prussia   Russian Hordes Close on Berders From Three Different Directions

Red Armies Mass Along  E. Prussia   Soviet Assault Appears Mear as Armies Converge. on Borde: —QJazis Abandon Osewiec

Reds Mass For  Huge Drive on Nazi Provinee   Thousands of Germans Taken Captive by Swift Russian Forces

Zero Hour for Nazis * in Prussia   All-Out Soviet Assault Ap® pears Near as Reds Mass on Border   VARIOU $ UNITS ARE MOVING IN   a + ee ee Virtually No News Comes From Warsaw; Great Bat tles West of Vistula

REDS MASSED FOR DRIVE ON EAST PRUSSIA   ‘Zero Hour’ Reported Near For Smash; Great Tank Clashes Continued

RAIL CENTER EVACUATED BY GERMAN FORCE   Berlin Admits Fresh Soviet Advances In Baltic States

NazisGive Up Osowiec, Near Prussia Border   :  Polish City On Biehrza   River, Which the Soviets Foreed Yesterday, Vital Communication Center   Germans Withdraw  Few Miles to Wes!   Berlin Also Ackowledge: Fresh Russian Advances In Baltie States Southwest of Lake Pskov

ZERO HOUR AT HAND FOR RED ARMY ATTACK   All-Out Offensive On Eas! Prussia Is Believed To Be At Hand

Russians Massing For All-Out Drive  on East Prussia   Osowiec, 15 Miles South of Prussian Border, Evacuated by Nazis

Reds Mass For All-Out Attack  On East Prussia   Russians Draw Up Men acing Arc; Surge On Ir Drive Across Latvia.

Evacuation  Of Osowiec Announced. By Germans   Nazis. Also Preparing Home Front For More Bad News In Latvia; Russ Push Moves On

East Prussia Assault Near  Nazi Casualties On Baltic Front Heavy

THREE SOVIET ARMIES READY NEAR BORDER   Berlin Admits Fresh Russian Advances  In Baltic Area

ZERO HOUR FOR ALL-OUT SOVIET PIISH SEEN NEAR      Russians Mass Troops On East Prussia Border   TANKS BATTLING   No News Comes From Besieged City Of  Warecaw

East Prussia Faces Invasior Momentarily   Important Communications Center Of Osowiec Evacuated By Germans

All-Out Assault On Prussia Nears  For Red Forces   Reds Mass in Great Threatening Arc Before Border  of Province.   Try to Rip Defenses In Prussia Wide Open

MASSIVE RUSSIAN ASSAULT ON EAST PRUSSIA 15 NEAR  Nr ADRAICG BWACCET, al   RED ARMIES MASSED IN GREAT THREATENING ARC ON THREE SIDES BORDERS

SOVIETS SWEEP FORTH AMONG BALTIC NAZIS   Voru Taken In East Prussia As Troops Drive Toward Sea

SIDNEY R, FLEISHER, NEWCOMER, TOPS Blt SALARIED PEOPLE  MOAVING DICTIIDE NECNTI   MOVING PICTURE NEGOTI ATOR OF NEW YORK DRAWS DOWN $645,000

NEWCOMER TOPS U.S. SALARY LIST   SIDNEY R. FLEISHER RECEIVED $645,000 DURING YEAR 1942

List New Mar in High Salary U. §. Bracket   Sidney R. Fleisher Pulls Down $645,000 in 1943 to Top All Others

Fleisher Tops Salary List   Received $645,000 During Year—Eugene Grace $537,724

Secret Finn Parliament ‘Studies Peace   Important Government Statement Expected After Session

FINNS SECRETLY CONSIDER PEACE   Members of Parliament Meet to Discuss Ending Conflict With Russians.

PARLIAMENT IN "FINLAND MEETS   Presumably Discussing Red Armistice Terms

Finns Meet To Talk Peace   Parliament To Talk  Over Separate Terms

DANUBE DELTA IS IN HANDS OF SOVIET FORCES   Russians Approach Ploesti and Bucharest With Smashing Drives

BOWL NAZIS OVER   ONE RED COLUMN KNIFES 15 MILES INTO TRANSYLVANIA

Russians Near acharest   Hungarian, Nazi Troops  Massing in. Transylvania

Reds Pour Across The Danube River   Swift Russian Drives Approach Oil Center of Ploesti   TAKE GOOD BASE TOWN   Soviet Troops Racing for the Black Sea Port of  Constanta

ROMANIA KEYS   Nazi Treops Massing In Transylvania For  Suicide Stand

Red Troops In Sight Of Big Ploesti  Oil Fields   May Reach Bucharest Wednesday; Germans Reported To Be In Wild Flight

Russians Smash 15 Miles Inside Transylvania   Red Columns Approach Ploesti and Bucharest As Other Forces Occupy Danube River Delta :

RUSSIANS NEARING BUCHAREST   Reds Pouring Across Transylvania In Smashing Drive

Soviet Army Pours Over Danube River   Germans Massing To Stop Drive Into Hungary

Soviet Drive At Edge of Ploesti Area   Second Red Army Knifes Into Hungarian Land

Reds Slash 15 Mi. Into eTransylvania   Second Russian Force In Swift Approach To  Be At . Becalsadined

Soviets approach Ploesti, Bucharest  in swift drives  Whole Danube delta held as Russ near Constanta

Swift Drive Through Romania Bring Reds Near Ploesti, Bucharest.   ENEMY TROOPS MASSING?

REDS STRIKING AT BUCHAREST   One Army Knifes Across 75-Mile Stretch Of ’ Danube  BRDETClII «ac CQriIiZVTEenRrR

Russians Near Ploesti and Push Into Transylvania   Soviet Forces Are Racing Across Danube Delta

Ploesti’s Oil Fields ‘in Sight of Soviets   Hungarian, German Troops Mass; Reds Hold Entire Danube Delta

THE DANUBE DELTA NOW “IN RED HANDS   “Troops Race for Constan~ ta on Black Sea—Other Forces Knife 15 Miles Inside ~ Transylvanian Cantar.

Another Army Pushes _Into Hungarian-Held  Transylvania as Nazis Mass for Defense

Reds in Swift Drives Toward  Rich Oil Field   Push Through Romania and  Occupy the Entire Danube Delta.   Russians May Reach Bucharest Wednesday

Red Army Races Across Romania, Seize Big Port   Troops Are Within Sight Of  Ploesti Oil Fields; Nazi Defense Weakens

Red Capture Of Bucharest, Ploesti Near   Russ Columns Knife Deeper Into Romania, Speed Toward Hungary

Russians Roll Near Bucharest, Ploesti Fields   Hungarians, German: Reported Massing In Transylvania To Put  Up A Struaale

Hungarians, Germans Mass Before Drive   Russians Take Buzau. Braila, Control Entire Danube Delta

Reds Nearing Gil Derricks of Ploesti Fields   Entire Danube Delta in Hands of Russiens Racing to Black Sea

Russ in Sight Of Derricks of Ploesti Fields   Another Force Knifes 15 Miles Inside Transvivania

Reds Push Twin Drives In Romania   Strike Into Transylvania, in North, and Toward Bucharest and Black Sea. in South

Soviet Path To Bucharest Is Wide Open   Red Army Knifes 15 Miles Inside Transyvlvania in Sudden Rush   RAIL IUB CAPTURED   Entire Danube Delta Is Under Control of Russians

Ploesti And Bucharest Objectives   Russians Within Sight Of Rich Territory

Reds Near Ploesti Oil Area, Bucharest in Two Offensives in Romania

Russians Within Sight of Oil Fields at Ploesti   Reds Near Bucharest. Capture Ship Flotilla on Danube

Russians 15 Miles Inside  Transylvania   Only 40 Miles from Ploesti Oil Field and 60 Miles from Romanian Capital; 275,000 Prisoners Taken

REDS FIFTEEN MILES INSIDE TRANSYLVANIA  Hungarian And G erman Troops

Reds Approach Bucharest And Ploesti’s Oil   One Army Pours Across Danube; Another Knifes Inside Hungarian-Held Transylvania   Buzau, 40 Mi. From Ploesti, Seized   Hungarian and German Troops Reported Massing In Transylvania for Stand Against Reds

Penetrate Fifteen Miles Inside Of TransylvaniaAlps   Danube Delta Area Is Firmly Held By Russian Arms; Fleet Already Using Black Sea Ports

Cessacks Sight Gil Derricks of Pleesti Field, Scout Buckarest, Take Danube Port

J   Troops Approached the Oil  Center of Ploesti and Bucharest Today.   'TWO SEPARATE ARMIES   One Across 75-Mile Stretch on the Danube; Another Inte Transylvania.

Two Big Armies »Pour into Areas _ Vital to Germans   Nazis, Hungarians Mass to Oppose Russian Forces Now In Transylvania

Red Troops Drive Near Oil Fields   Hungarians and Nazis Reported Massing in Transylvania

SOVIETS CONTINUE FAST BATTLE PACE THROUGH ROMANIA   One Army Crosses 75-Mile Strip of the Danube As Auother Pushes 15 Miles Inside  -- Hungarian Transylvania:

HUNGARIANS AND GERMANS NOW REPORTED MASSING FOR GREAT — BATTLE IN TRANSYLVANIA AREA.   Russian Drives Carry Red Troops Near Great Oil Center of Ploesti and Bucharest in Rumania. Re Claim 275,000 Prisoners in Romanian Campaign

Russian Armies Move Swittly In Romanian Drives    Reds Are Approaching Great Oil Center of Ploesti as - Troops Have * Streamed Across Danube.

DANUBE DELTA OCCUPIED BY SOVIET FORCE   Russian Drives Through Romania Approach Great Oil Center of Ploesti and Bucharest   FLOTILLA IS CAPTURED

DANUBE GELTA IN HANDS OF SOVIET FORCE   Germans Report Russians Are Closing in on Them From All Sides in Satellite Territory.

Ploesti Oil Center, Bucharest, Near as Reds Cross Danube   Russians Knife Way Into  Hungarian-Occupied  Transylvania

Reds Drive Swiftly Toward Ploesti And City of Bucharest   Hold all Danube Delta, Ships Using Lower Danube Fight Looms in Hungary

BIG CROWDS ‘HEAR DEWEY AT STATIONS   GOP Nominee Surveys Results of 6,700 Mile Sortie

‘Pour It On, Tom” Messages Being Received In Vast Number By Dewey

Governor Dewey Weighs Results Of Campaign Tou   Platform Talks Increase as GOP Nominee Returns fo the East

Dewey Followers Clamor for More Two-Fisted Verbal Blows Against New Deal Regime

Big Crowds Meet AndCheer Dewey On Return Trip   Station Gatherings Show Increased Enthusiasm Over Nominee

 DEWEY PLEASED WITH ‘RESPONSE TO SPEECH   Enthusiasm Of Station Crowds Has Increased Since Oklahoma City Address

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“POUR TT ON TOM”, NATION TELLS DEWEY   ENTHUSIASM SHOWN BY CROWDS WHO HEAR NOMINEE

Dewey Plans camnaionof  Next Month  ealte anf West Can   Results of West Coast  Tour May Cause GOP   Nomine> to Alter Strateny

DEWEY TAKING OFF GLOVES AS RACE CONTINUES   Nominee Switches Tactics In Response To Encouragemet

Station Crowds Clamor for  Talks by Dewey   G.O.P. Nominee Respond: As He Heads for Albany ‘After Canipaign Tour —

‘Dewey Talks To Crowds AtEachStop   PEOPLE FORCE CANDIDATE TO DIGRESS FROM HIS LIMITED SPEECHES TO GREET THEM,   Reaches Albany Today

Anderson Seen As Party ‘Healer’   No Faction Candidate,  P. J. Vidal Declares

Time Change is Effective Ap. 1 But Not in:-Yuma   Wot Effecti Yume

lime Change is Effective Ap. 1 But Not in Yuma   Not Effective in Yuma

Soviet Armor Breaks Nazi Pskov Lines   Germans Routed In North Russia: Battle For Baltics Nears

REDS REACH OUTSKIRTS OF PSKOV   Gains Promise Early Battle For Baltic States

REDS BREAK INTO CITY OF PSKOV   Turn Nazi Retreat Into Rout 6 Miles From Vital Railroad

250 Towns Recaptured By Red Armies; Nazi Retreat Is Rapidly Turning Into Rout

Retreat of Nazis Turns Into a Rout   War in North Becoming Battle for Possession of Balkan States

Reds Break Into Pskov, Key to Baltic Invasion   Nazi Retreat Turns Into Rout in  Northern Russia

Reds Break Into Pskov Outskirts   Nazi Threat Turns Into Rout in North

Soviet Army Breaks Into Baltic Bastion   Armored Forces Strike Deep At Pskov

Soviet Armored  Units Break Into Pskov Outskirts   Early Battle For Baltic States Seen As Drive Continues

Soviet Tanks Smash Into Pskov Lines   Companion PushTurns German Retreat Into Rout

REDS OVERRUN 290 TOWNS IN PSKOV SECTOR   Peril Last German - Held North-South Railway In North Russia

Soviet Forces Break Into Pskov Outskirts   Early Battle for Baltic States Seen

Woolarowers Favor U. 5. Purchase Until Stock Piles Are Exhausted   Other Resolutions by Montana Group Rap Federal Subsidies and Plowing of Grasslands

Suicide Easy For Japanese   Religious Teaching Makes Nip Soldier See Death As Release

West Coast Guesses, Too.   Onlyy It’s On Dates For Invasion of Philippines, China Coast and Japan

Vast Force of Police Prepare or Outbreaks   CHANCTES AREF GOn0OD

German Military Minds Face Crucial Choice. . Super-Gestapo Ready To Go To Work In Western Europe On Invasion Day

Nazis Create Super-Gestapo  For Invasiou   Lisis of Political Unreliables and Prominent Individuals Marked For Sommary Seizare

Hitler Forms New Gestapo for Invasion   Report Hundreds Are Listed for Seizure by Nazis

Gestapo To Act Swittly When  Invasion Comes   Super-Sleuths Plan Roundup

Super-Gestapo Set Up By Nazis As  They Plan One Big Invasion Gamble

Threat of Gestapo Hangs Over Europe «As Invasion Nears   Hitler Creates Super-Police Body In Readiness to Round Up Enemies; Hundreds Marked for Death Purse

NAZIS CREATE SUPER-GESTAPO   Mass Roundups Plannec When Invasion Starte

Nazis Prepare Patriot Lists Round-Up Expected When Invasion Starts

GESTAPO SETS UP SUPER GROUP 10 CHECK UPRISING   London Hears Many In Europe Are on List For Arrest as Hostages When Allies Open Invasion.   FIRING SQUADS WILL HAVE VERY BUSY TIME   Gen. von Woyrsch, Notorious Disciplinarian Reported as Hitler’s Choice to Handle Police,

Nazis Ready For Roundup Of Political Unreliables   Super-Gestapo Plans Arrests Over Europe

Super-Gestapo Set Up By Foe In Occupied Countries To Seek Out Allies’ Friend«

BLAIR COUNTY GOES OVER TOP IN BOND DRIVE   Sales Total $5,650,548.25, But “E” Bond Purchases Continue to Lag.

BLAIR IS OVER TOP IN SALES QF WAR BONDS   Total Now Is $5,854,494, With Campaign to Formally Close Tomorrow.

New Chairman in  Prospect for WLB   Resignation of Davis Reported in Capital

Ships Leave Finn Harbor ‘With Troops   Other Germans Flee By Truck Into Norway

ELECTION BALLOTS FOR THE PRIMARY   Auditor Guenther Preparing for Coming Election.   Soldiers Desiring to Vote Should Call for Ballots Now.

AUDITOR WILL SEND BALLOTS FOR PRIMARIES   Soldiers Wishing to Vote In Primaries Should Ask for Ballots Now

NAZIS IN NORWAY FEAR INVASION   Neutral Sources Report Foe Along West Coast Is Jittery

2 Nazi Generals Killed in France, Patriots Insist!   Rommel Fatally Wounded In Air Attack, Stuelpnagel Commits Suicide

Coast Alerted As — Storm Approaches   Tropical Storm: of Hurricane Velocity Reported Moy. vo ing Toward Atlantic Coast—No Sign of ‘Disturbance at Midnight

Truk and Saipan Are Useless   Adm. Nimitz, In Washington, Declare: Jap Strongholds Are Liquidated.

Dewey to Stale Views on Way to Achieve Pears   To Address Newspuper Forum on “This Must Be the Last War”

Governor Dewey To State Views On World Peace   On Herald Tribune Forum Wednesday; To Be  Broadcast

DEWEY WILL SPEAK — ONLASTING PEACE   Governor to Give Views in New York Speech Wednesday ~—

Dewey Talks On _ Lasting Peace Plans   GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE WILL DELIVER HIS ADDRESS BEFORE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE FORUM,   Next Wednesday

DEWEY 10 GIVE PEACE VIEWS   Nominee to Speak Before Herald Tribune Forum  Next Wednesday

Dewey Will Outline His World Peace Views in New York Speech Wednesday

Santa Claus Visits Orphans   So Do Jaycees and Everybody Has Big Time at Annual Party

Santa Claus Visits Orphans   Se Bo Jaycees cad  Everybody Hes. Big Time of Annual Party

BRITISH VETS HOLD ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE   Exercises at at Bedford, Con. cord and on Cemeteries

British Gain  In Burma  Allied Warnlanac   Allied Warplanes Support Infantry

FIX CAMP HERE FOR 300 NAZIS   To Be Housed In Old NYA Camp and Work On  Farms

AMERICAN FIRM CHARGED WITH AIDING HITLER   Bausch Optical Company Gave German Firm Valuable Military Secrets Under Cartel Agreement,

NAZIS BOAST ~ OF DEFENSES   Leaders Give Pep Talks to People as Preparations For Blow are Pushed

Nazis Drum Up Peppery Palaver   Super-Defenses fn Many. Areas Cited

Navy Task Force Battled Jap ‘Fighters For 1] Hours Before Hammering Mariana Island   Leif Erickson Tells Of 4,800-Mile Sweep By Enormous U.S. Naval Unit

New Landings Are Made in Marshalls   Seventh Army Troops Invade Ebeye Island. Nimitz Savs

FLEET RESTS IN MARSHALL ISLE LAGOON   ADDITIONAL ATOLLS TAKEN OVER BY U.S. TROOPS

New Challenge Hurled © At Tokyo By Yanks   Mighty Yankee Navy Anchored in Kwajalein Len Hirohito’s Powers in Islands Are Suspended

Yanks Storm More Atolls —   Others Under Attack With  No Naval. Air Resistance

Unchallenged by Jap navy  or airforees   Air-naval assault hits 2 other isles

Central lowa Floods Move Downstream   Crest at Ottumwa tc Pass 2 Days Ahead Of Schedule

Flood Is Easing Up at Ottumwa; Crest May be Past   17.6 Feet Yesterday Afternoon Highest Point Reached There

Flood Waters Subsiding in lowa Sectors   Stage at Ottumwa Hits 17.6. Feet But Goes Ne Higher .

lowa Rivers  Are Falling   At All Stations Except Ottumwa: Reach Stage Of 17.6 Feet.

Flood Waters Halt Rise in Ottumwa Area   Heavy Rains Fall at Newton, Perry; More Is Forecast

An Antique Doll Dealer Is Held   Woman Charged With Send_ ing Code Messages to South America.

WOMAN DOLL DEALER ACCUSED OF SPYING   FBI Claims New Yorker Sent Cod¢ed-Messages To South America Through Forged Names

CLOSE IN NEVADA   Senator MoCarren Has a Slight Lead Over Pitt man in Primary —

COMING INVASION MAY BE. GRIMEST PHASE OF WAR   Invasion Troops Will Be Equipped With Finest War Mater’al

U. S. Fliers Blow Up Lake Dam, Diverting Water Through Important German Transport Center Of Dieuze   Rey T RNWARD MITRRAY

Dam Bombed Nazi Supply Line Flooded   Thunderbolts Rip Structure at Dieuze, Northeast of Nancy

50-FOOT BREACH BLASTED IN LAKE DAM NEAR NANCY   Traffic Drowned: Out at Collection Point of German Armored Supplies; Nazis Lay Dewn Barrage Northeast of Aachen

Senators Urge Big War Fleet To Back Peace   Record Navy Bill Passed After Speakers Expound Post-War [deus

Senate Speeds Huge Navy Bill   Predict U. S. Will Possess Mightiest Fleet ‘World Has Ever Known.

Tension Eases As Strikes End In War Plants   Chrysler Employes Return To Work In Michigan City

END STRIKE AT CHRYSLER PLANT   RESTORE OPERATIONS ‘AT SAGINAW PLANTS OF GENERAL MOTORS

—STRIKES-—  TWO BIG LABOR DISPUTES ENDEL   Workers Return To Joh: _ In Chrysler, Genera! Motors Plants

7,300 Returr To Work In Detroit Area   “Rebel” Strike Comes To End

MICHIGAN LABOR VIEW BRIGHTENS   Workers Return at Chrysler, Chevrolet Plants

Chrysler, GMC Strikes Ended: Work Resumec   Workers Heed Thomas’ Warning That Public Has Had Enough

‘Von Rundstedt Is Replaced By Von Kluge   AS LEADER OF NAZI FORCES IN THE WEST

OUTFLANK WEST ANCHOR OF NAZI NORMANDY LINE   AMERICANS REACH LAS DU JARDINS, 3 MILES SOUTHWEST

CHANGE AT FRONT   Marshall Von Kluge it Charge of Nazi Forces in the West

GERMAN ARMY HEAD RESIGNS   Von Rundstedt, Commander In West Replaced Due to Ill Health

DEAD IN FIRE REACHES 157   CORONER’S INQUEST INTO CAUSE OF. CIRCUS TRAGEDY . © WILL BE OPENED TOMORROW 

Soviets Take Rail Line Out Of Leningrad   Fleeing Germans Lose 70 Towns as Reds Surge Ahead

Control! Of Railroad Center  Falls To Soviet Offensive Thousands Of Germans Slain In Drive Aimed  At Railrand Conters Many Tawne Receantiured

WISCONSIN il] BY WINDSTORN   Causes Blockatle of Main Highways; Four Killed In Accidents.

A AND M COLLEGE EXPENDITURES LESS THAN AUTHORIZED   OPERATING COSTS OF INSTITUTION ARE NOW BEING STUDIED

PARAMUSHIRO, STRONG BASE IN NORTH, HIT   Victory on Kwajalein Nearly Complete, Nimitz Says

FIRST U. 5, NAVAL BOMBARDMENT HOME JAPANESE TERRITORY  INVASION OF MARSHALL!   INVASION OF MARSHALLS CONTINUES TO MOVE TO VICTORIOUS CLOSE

Paramushiro Attacked By      Tokyo Dispatch Speculates Landing On Jurile Isles In Spring.   ‘TAKEN BY SURPRISE

Navy Shells Jap Homeland For First Time   U.S, Force fomhards Paramushiro Point; Not a Shin Hip

PARAMUSHIRO AREA BATTERED BY TASK FORCE   Mopping-Up Continues As  Yanks Extend Conquest  Of Marshall islands

Naval Attack Is First Upon Home Territory of Japs   Mopping Up of Kwajalein Atoll Islands Continuing

Paramushiro Hit By Task Force In Surprise Attack   Bombardment Catches Nips Off Guard; Occupation Of Marshalls Nearly Complete

PARAMUSHIRC ATTACKED BY TASK FORCE   Harbor and Land Installations of Kurabu Point Badly Damaged in Assault

Southern Stronghold Of Paramushiro Hit   First Attack by U, $8. Warships On Japanese Home Territ ort In Kurile Islands Which Include ip Mainland.

“FIRST U. §. NAVAL BOMBARDMENT HOME JAPANESE TERRITOR}  INVASION OF MARSHALL! _ CONTINUES TO MOVE TO ° VICTORIOUS CLOSE

CONCESSIONS AID OPIUM GANG, SAY   FBI ARRESTS TWO ON NARCOTICS RING CHARGE

U.S. NAVY FORCE COMPLETES ROUT QF GRAND FLEET   Chased From ‘Waters East Of The Philippines—Flees Back Of Istands

Philippine Sea Battle }Costly Rout For Enemy   BY WILLIAM L. WORDEN  Representing Combined American Press   (Distributed by United Press)

F leet Routs Japs: Without  Firing Salvo   Huge Task Force Tries . To Reach.’ Enemy .., For Battle °

Ni ipponese Ships Flee Afs  ter Setback Near  Marianas  ‘STRENGTH OF U.           “s Largest Th Histere Of World

Here Is the Complete Story of What Really Happened In the Recent U.S.-Jap Sea Fight

Yanks Crash Through to 1 Gothic Li ne   Virtually Outflank Big  Port of Livorno In _ Wast As Eighdl Alen Gains

Outflank Livorno-to Take Pontedera, between Pisa and Florence, City Badly Wrecked.   Besiege Monastery

YANK TROOPS REACH NAZIS GOTHIC LINE   Polish Forces Driving Up Adriatic Coast Score Breakthrough Of Important Port Of Ancona

ALLIES ADVANCE TO GOTHIC LINE   Great Port Of Livorno Outflanked; Americans Close In On City

OTH ARMY DRIVES TO GOTHIC LINE   OUTFLANKS ITALIAN PORT OF LIVORNO IN 3-MILE SWEEP INTO PONTEDERA,

Yankees Reach German "Gothic Line” in Italy   Americans Sweep inte Pontedera; Poles ql hreaten Ancona

U.S. Made. Futile Attempt To Get Pacific Islands After World War 

Moscow Attacks Vatican Policy   Declares Catholics Disillusioned; Italian  Masses Irked for Fascism Support’

WEDGE DRIVEN IN LAST DITCH DEFENSE LINE   FIFTH ARMY TROOPS PUSH ON TOWARD ETERNAL CITY

Clark Forces Hurl Back  Counterblows   Battle Doggedly Only 16 Miles From Eternal City,

Fight For Rome Mounts In Fury   Allies Wedge Into ‘Last. Ditch’ Line

Counterblows Fail to Delay British, Yanks   Allies Wedge German Line 16 Miles From Eternal City; Three  Divisions Destroyed

yrious Battle aging within ight of Capital   American Tanks Aiding Infantry

Allies Push Wedge Into Last Defense   Nazis Attack In Desperate Attempt To Aid Withdrawal

Americans kngage In Fierce Fighting With Germans  On Alban Hills   Nazi Varees ._ Defend “Last Ditch” Line 16 Miles’ Southeast of  aean

Allies Drive Wedge Into Foe’s “Last Ditch’ Defenses   Rome, Less Than 16 Miles Distant, Now Within Gun Range; Battle Fury Mounts

Germany's “Last Ditch” defense Line Threatened, Less than 16 Miles from Eternal City.

‘Bomb Scourge Hits Deep in Poland      Battle for Rome Raging With New Fury

Battle Rages With Mounting Fury as Yanks Drive Wedge Into ‘Last Ditch’ Defense Line

NEM TURN IN ~ PRICE FIGHT   MEASURE PROVIDING SUFFORT PRICES FOR FARM PRODUCTS MAY TEMPORARILY   . “ LAPSE

Commodity Credit Corporation May Die, ¢ at Least Temporarily, to Punish Farm Bloc

‘Soldier, Who Stuck by Gun To Kill Or Wound 30 Germans, Is Decorated

Connecticut Youth Gets Medal _  \Pr ivate Johnston Beat ort Two Nazi Counter-Attacks

Japs Driven From Strong Points In North India   Gains Made By British In Difficult Country : Stilwell’s Troops Alou  Continue Advance

British Troops Supported By Tanks Push Invaders From Stronenoints In Kohima Area

Tank-Supported Battalion Of British Soldiers Strikes Hard Against Japs In India

British Drive _ Japanese Back   Recapture Strong Points in Kohima Sector of India

DRIVE JAPANESE BACK IN INDIA   Enemy Knocked From Several Strong Points West Of Allied Base At Kohima

Chaplin Admits ‘Sporadic’ Affair . With Joan Berry, Tells of Yacht Trip

Chaplin Tels Of Yacht Trip With Joan   Comedian Admits Miss Borry Visited ‘Home ‘Sporadically

Blockade of Crete Keeps Germans From Fleeing Isle  Succession of Sea, Air Attacks Pound Nazi Bases

GERMAN FORCES ON CRETE ISLE ARE ATTACKED   Enemy Assaulted From Ai And Sea — Blockade To Prevent Escape

Blockade Crete To Foil Escape.   Allies Pound Enemy On Island While Preventing Flight.

(rete Blockaded And Under Attack   No Chance for Germans to Escape From Island

Blockade Is Thrown Around Crete To Foil Nazi Escape   German Garrison Subjected To Air And Sea Attacks By Allied Forces

Report Plot To Kill King Peter   Slav Sovereign Guarded Following Information

IRE AROUSED BY MRS. LUCE   Men of Committee Irked By Her Penchant of Hitting Headlines

POPULAR MARINE OFFICER LT. COL. DYESS GAVE LIFE LEADING HIS MEN   No New- Action From Marshalls Reported Today. Admiral Nimitz To Drive For China Bases.

Counter-Attacks By German Troops  Are Hurled Back   Moscow Reports Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses In Attacks In Latvia   GERMAN BOMBERS SEEKING TO AID

German Counter-Attacks Against Reds Hurled Back With Heavy Nazi Losses

NAZIS, MAKE RIGA: STANE   GERMANS. TRYING DESFEEATELY. T0 PREVENT BUSSIAN “ DRIVE TO THE BALTIC. , ~

Snowstorm Sweeps Across Most of State   Traffic Hampered Few Hours Before Spring’s Arrival; Cold Continues

Snow, Sleet Winter’sLast Fling for ’44   TRAFFIC HAMPERED IN AIR AND ON HIGHWAYS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA; ALTOONA, UNIONTOWN WORST   Wind Whips Snow

Eight Killed, 10 Injured in Several Blasts   Series of Explosions “Shakes Refinery at Coffevville Ka.

EIGHT ARE KILLED IN REFINERY BLAST   Ten Persons Injured in Explosion at Coffeyville, Kas.

Kansas Refinery  Blast Kills Nine   Ten Others Hurt At Cofteyville

Allied Guns Mass Fire on Cassino Foe   Begin Pounding Nazi , Hotel Posts to Piecees: Anzio Raids Repulsed

Cassino Fight Changes Into Artillery Duel   Allied Raiding Parties Probe Center OF Enemy Line At Roearhheaacd.   RAID RAIL TARGETS

Guns Roar on Cassino Front   Third Allied Attack On Ground to Drive Out Germans Fails

Big Guns Are Turned on Italian City   Allies Attempting To Knock Nazis From All Cassino

An Artillery Duel Raging at Cassino   Allies Seek to Knock Out the Remaining German Positions

CASSINO FIGHT SLOWING DOWN   Artillery Duel Begun by Allies To Knock Out The German Troops

Big Guns Duel At Cassino   Allied Assault in Lull, Stalled Short of Objective Of Ground Forces

ALLIED CANNON SHELL CASSINO   Heavy Guns Turned on Naz Strong Points in Bomb Wrecked City.

Big Guns Due For Ruins Ot  Italian Town   Allies Change Cassino Attack

Cassino Battle Stalled: Becomes Artillery Duel   Yanks Concentrate Fire On Hotels

Superior Ally Artillery Duels  Nazis At Cassine   Hotel Fortresses Get Bulk Of Shells As Systematic Attack Starts

Allies Turn Superior Mass Of Artillery On Nazi-Held ‘Hotels In Ruins Of Cassino   . Seek To Knock Out Troublesome Enemy Positions; Allies Make Heavy Raids

Allies Stalled  On Cassino Front   Little Ground Activity Reported As Artillery Duels Get Under Way

ALLIES TURN BIG GUNS ON CASSINC   SEEK JO KNOCK OUT GERMAN POSITIONS IN CORNER OF TOWN

Big Guns Roar to Break Stall Over Cassino  Artillery Being Used in Effort te Drive a a” 6 Se ce es Pe

Artillery ‘Duel Roars al Cassino   Allies, Turn Big’ ‘Guns or Two Hotels Nazis: Have - Made: Into: Fortresses   GERMANS SHELL ALLIED POSITION      Little’ Troop “Activity as Ground. Drive-Remains' Temporarily. Stalled

Allies Mass Guns And Shell Cassinc   Batteries Endeavor to Knock Out Two Hotels, _ Which the Germans Have Converted Into Strong Points in S. W. Part of Town.

Big Guns Duel At Cassino   Allies Attempting to Break Up German Defenses in Southwest

OPEN ARTILLERY DUEL AT CASSINO   Repel Two Light Nazi Drives on Beachhead

CASSINO FIGHTING HAS CHANGED INTD AN ARTILLERY DUEL   ALLIES SEEKING TO KNOCK OUT GERMAN STRONGPOINTS IN TOWN

ALLIES TURN ARTILLERY ON CASSINO INNS   Big Guns Try to Knock Qui Germans Ground Troops Failed ic Budge—Germans Regrouping   ACTION AT ANZIO   Two Small Nazi Raiding Parties Driven Back—Airmen Hit Por!, Rail Targets in North Haly

Cassino Battle Turns To Heavy Ariillery Duel  Allied Big Guns Seek To Destroy QDlaeman Blaata

Allied Warplanes Attack Scattered Points In Italy  Battle For Cassino Has Become Artillery Due

Allies Seek - To Silence  Hotel Guns   Ground Activity Stalled In Cassino Sector — Beachhead Active

Allied Guns Pound Nazis In Cassino  Seeks to Knock Out Positions In Southwest  Corner

Germans Stal Cassino Drive   Infantries Active on Anzio Beachhead; Artillery Duel Rages

Heavy Gun Duel  In Cassino Area   Allied Assault on Ground Stalled by  Germans and Efforts are Now  Turned to Blasting Foe Out of Posi tions, With Artillery Fire.   HALT BEACHHEAD RAIDS

(ARTILLERY ‘DUEL UNDERWAY TODAY. IN CITY OF CASSINE   ‘Allied Assault, Temporarily Stalled Short of Its Objective, Has Changed.   A TROUBLESOME CORNER   Allied Guns Are Seeking to Knock Out This Section of the City.

Allied Assault On Cassino, Stalled Temporarily, Made Artillerv Clash By Allies

Big Guns Duel  For Cassino   Superior Allied Artillery Seeks To Knock Out Resistance.

OFFENSIVE IN CASSINO STILL SLOWED DOWN   Allied Assault Changes Into Artillery Duel in Which Allies Seek to Knock Out Hotel   INFANTRY PROBES LINE

ASSAULT ONCASSINO = MARKED BY ARTILLERY = DUEL TO KNOCK OUTNAZIS "sj   Allies Seek to Knock Out Continental and Des Roses Hotels Which Serve As German Fort:

Assault On Cassino Is Changed To Gun Duels    Third Allied Attack  On Nazis Imbedded There Unsuccessful; Two Hotels Are Target

ALLIED ARTILLERY SEEKING TO BLAST TOUGH GERMAN POSITIONS IN CASSINO

Class Admitted  To Citizenship =: Includes: Eight    ‘Countv Residents

Scotland Yard Probes Strikes   Cabinet Drafts Order Specifying Strike Incitement as Criminal Offense.

Strike Total In Britain Now Up to 110,000   Incitement of Labor Unrest Is Ruled as Criminal Offense

British Move To Find Backers Of Wildcat Strike:   Scotland Yard Conducts Raids On Trotskyite Office In London

STRIKES PROVE AID TO HITLER   British Labor Stoppages May Soon Imperil Allied Victory

Scotland Yard Sees Danger in British Strikes   Holds Stoppages imperil Victory

NINE CALLED FOR -BUTY THIS MONTH FROM NICKINSON C1   PASSED PRE-INBUCTION AND NOW GO TO INDUCTION CENTER

Maybe A Case Of Love At First Sight Yanks And Russians Doing Very Fine Indeed. Thanks

Maybe A Case Of se Of Love At First Sight Yanks And Russians Doing lVeru Fine Indeed, Thanks

Americans Like Russia: Fifteenth Airforce Boys Enjoy First Days in the Soviet Union

J. §. Industries Shelve Programs For Reconversion  Give Precedence to The Production of Needed War Materials

Industry Puts Reeonversion Plans Back On Shelf. _   ‘: More War Goods Now.  - Civilian Goods Later Is Keynote Sounded By Manufacturers  SEE POST-WAR JOBS

House Passes Big Navy Bill By 257-0 Vote   Fund Expected to Build Mighty Armada Up to 6,623 Ships

NAVY BILL 1S APPROVED BY HOUSE, 259-0   Big Appropriation Measure Is Sent to the Senate   GREAT ARMY BILL SOON WILL FOLLOW   War Outlay Since July 1, 1940 to be Close to Half Trillion: DoHars~

Unanimous Vote »As House Passes Navy Fund Bill » 6,623 Ships to Be  Built; $50 Billion for Army Supply

‘House Unanimously Passes Naval Appropriation Bill Calling for $32 647.134.336

HOUSE PASSES NAVY FUND BILL FOR 32 BILLION   Unanimously Approved In Roll-Call Vote; Army Supply Measure Taken Up

NAVAL FUNDS BILL PASSED   House Takes Unanimous Action on Huge Appropriation Measure

Nazis Report Target City Is Flattened   Syrrender of Hungary DeCclared iimminent;. Fighting in Italy Grows in Ferocity

Nazis Shift Armor From Dutch Front  Mass Heavy Force To Face Oncoming Yanks

LIGHT BREEZE OVER CHANNEL   Weather Becomes More . Calm:;. Clouds Light

No Shortage Of Candidates   Rush of Filing for State Jobs on; It’s Stigler And Clark Again

Says War Will Go Through Winter   Rickenbacker Warns of Tough Battles To Come

Air Attacks Hint Drive Against Philippines Near   Tokyo Reports New Heavy Mindanao Raids Made by Navy

Tokyo Preparing Philippine Blow   Big Air Blows and New Canada Conference Add To Jap Headaches,

PHILIPPINE GUARDIANS ARE BOMBED   Tokio Reports by Radio; 1,000 U. S. Planes Attack Yap and Palau; Raid Formosa.   Attack Rail Line

BIG AIR SMASHES MADE IN PACIFIC   Major Military Operations . Against Philippines May be Near

MADE IN PACIFIC   Major Military Operations Against Philippines May be Near

Band Leader Faces . 7 4 Induction Charge:   Teddy Powell Accused Of Couspiring to Evade Military Service

450 KEEP BiG FACTORY IDLE   Wright Plant Closed as Few _ Strike Over Transfer   ----gf-Workers,

Russians Nearing Mountain Barrier   Drive Into Old Rumania Brings Them in Sight of Carpathians   CHAOTIC NAZI FLIGHT   Soviet Flank Attacks En. . danger Enemy Forces  Holding Odessa

Disaster Looms For German Army  Cal Aves Trnane Ciwnce Naiectac   Red Army Troops Cross Dniester And Pour into Pre-war Rumania

Pravda Calls For Allied Invasion   German Predicament ls Described as on the Verge of Chaos

Red Troops In Sight Of Carpathians   Soviet Newspaper Says Tite Ripe For - Decisive New Blows

New Base For Smash Into Rumania   Reds Within Sight Of Carpathians; Germans Abandon Vinnitsa.

Wheeling Moves Folding Back All Nazis In Russia   Phree Red Armies Now Concentrating On Immediate Task of Wiping out . Trapped German Forces In Ukraine As Other Red Troops Burst Into Balkans.

Temperatures   Germans Use Tanks To Drive Wedge In Arnhem Sector

Reliet of Sky Army Expectec Hourly as Mobile Units Gain A Miles {o Free Small Force

One Band Rescued As British Tanks And Armored Cars Careen Through Corridor Of German Guns On Lower Rhin   SITUATION OF SKY TROOPS IS SERIOUS

PARATROOPERS STILL HOLD OUT ON NORTH BANK   German Tanks Wedge British

Armored Group Saves Part of — Arnhem Pocket   In the South, Nazis Drive Wedge Across British ond Aemy Carridar -

Allies Battle for 2 Bridges to Aid Skymer   Sky Troops in Grim Fight to Hold Doorway to Germany; Yanks Capture Reich Factory Town of Stolberg After Bitter Battle

Armored Columns Cain South Bank  of Lower Rhine   , Band of Paratroopers Rescued; Race To Aid  Main Airborne Force

Male Plea  Even The Hobo King Believes Women Belong At Home After  The War

STRIKE PERILS MOTOR OUTPUT   Patterson Says Detroit Hal Blow to Mustang Fighter Production .

STRIKE CUTS WAR OUTPUT   WALKOUT. OF FOREMEN’S UNION: AT. DETROIT  CRIPPLING BLOW TO AVIA-- TION PROGRAM

Terrific . Explosion on French Coast   Germans May Be Doing Some Blasting on Westwall

German Atlantic  Wall Is Pounded   2,000 Allied Planes Slam 6,000 Tons of Bombs on Targets as Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Continues Into 13th Day—RAF Strikes in Night Assault.   ESSEN BLASTED AGAIN

HUGE FRENCH COAST EXPLOSION HINTS HASTY NAZI DEFENSE PREPARATION

London Puzzled By Heavy Blast=:   Towns Along Dover Coast Rocked By Explosions Aeroas Channel.

Americans _ Inch Toward Po. Highway   Hard_ Fighting Continues To Gain - Difficult Ground

Americans Near Key Po Highway   Frassinetto Village Captured By Americans,

oe  Texas Heavily For Roosevelt   Regulars Trail In Three-Way Battle

Texas Heavily For Roosevelt  Regulars Trail In Thraae.\W/av Rattle

Texas Overwhelmingly for FDR; Regulars and.GOP: Battle for Second Place

AIR CRASH KILLS TWO NEAR GAITHERSBURG   Civilian Instructor And Woman Companion Lost Lives In Accident Saturday Night

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES RIMINI IN ITALY   Victory Opens Gateway for Drive Into Po River Valley

peapture Of Port Of Rimini oan Gateway For Allied Drive Into Po River Valley

‘WEITE COLLAR” ACCOUNT HEAR               Engineer’s Testimony Giver to Senate Group Proberg

Mrs. John Linnan Claimed By Death  Early Settler In Maurice Vicinity

NAZI STRONGHOLD IN ITALY FALLS   YANKS TAKE LAJATICO IN BITTER FIGHTING AND MOVE TOWARD ARNO RIVER.

ENEMY BASTION FALLS IN ITALY   Clark's Fighters Press Northward Toward Port Of Livorno

Yanks Take Lajatico in Hard Battle   Battering Way Toward Arno-River Defenses but Resistance te Bitter

ENEMY STRONGHOLD IN ITALY CAPTURED   American — : “Troops - Take _ bejatice After Fierce ; ~-Battle--

Yanks Capture Lajatico After Bitter Fighting   Troops Approaching Arno River in Drive On “Gothic Line”

WAR PARLEYS OPEN TO PLAN JAP ATTACKS   British and American: Ex perts Gather at ~ Quebec

WAR LEADERS IN QUEBEC 10 ~ PLAN VICTORY   STALIN TOO - BUSY, BUT WILL BE IN ON FINALE

CHURCHILL AND F.D. R: MAKING NEW WAR PLANS   Prime Minister Of Grea Britain Confers With President In  Quebec

FDR, CHURCHILL WEIGH MEASURES TO DEFEAT JAPAN   Strategy Talks Open in Quebec—Highest Air, Military and Naval Commanders Are Present.   STALIN IS ABSENT FROM DELIBERATIONS   Stephen Early Says President’s Recent Pacific Tour Was Necessary Prelimi nary to Meeting.

F.D.R.-Churchill Open Sessions or Jap Campaign   Meeting !s Described As Largely Confab On Military Matters

Roosevelt, Begin Talks   Mapping of Strategy For Defeat of Japan’ “Taps Ouebec Avenda   FIRST CONFERENCE ‘SINCE DECEMBER   Statesmen ‘Understand’ Inability of Stalin To Attend Meeting

W52 VESSELS ING8 PLANES IR IDESTROYEL   MAPPING NEW 92 STRATEGY ON GE ACIFIC §=WAR DE   Roosevelt, Churchill and Experts Meeting in Quebec’s Ancient Citadel Begin Gigantic Task.   Smile Of Welcome

PACIFIC WAR STRESSED AT QUEBEC MEE]   Roosevelt, Churchill Map Strategy of Fight on Japan

Strategy for Victory Being Forged   F. D. R., Churchill Planning Fall of Japanese Empire

Difficult Road Faces Amendment ‘Permitting House Vote on Treaties

Underground Waiting for Word to Act   Eisenhower Tells People of Europe To *Be Patient, Prepare’

UNDER-GROUND FORCES AWAIT BID TO STRIKE   EISENHOWER WILL GIVE SIGNALS FOR REVENGE

Ee  Hidden Guerillas Awaiting Signals   Revenge Thirsty Populace Of Europe Awaits Startine Gun.

ENEMY WARSHIP DESTROYED NEAR MALACCA STRAITS   london Reports Three Jap Supply Ships Sunk by  Cama Suhkmarine

Jap Cruiser Destroyed By British Suh   Warship Of 5,100 Tons Sent To Bottom By Submarine Operating Close To Singapore

British Submarine Penetrates Singapore Vicinity to Destroy Jap Cruiser in Daring Foray

BRITTOH UNITS OPERATING IK PAGIFIG SEAS   Cruiser of Kuma Class Blasted To Bottom of Bay of Bengal In Approaches To Malacea Straits; Supply Shins Sunk.   SUB PENETRATES NEAR SINGAPORE

BATTLEWAGO VICTIM OF A BRITISH SUB   U. 8S. Submarines Get 12 More Enemy Vessels In Pacific. Bombers Get 5 Cargo Boats

BRITISH SUB SINKS JAP CRUISER   Proclaims Britain Full Partner In Pacific Sea War

IPPONCRUISER 1S SENT DOW BY BRITISH SUE   Victory Within Few Hundred Miles of S'nganore Reported

Jap Ship Sunk By British Sub Near Singapore   Proclaims Full Partnership in Pacific War

Nip Warship Destroyed in Bay of Benga   British Become Full Partners of U.S. In Pacific Sea War

British Sub Sinks 5,100 T  Jap Cruiser   Action Takes Place In Vicinity Of Singapore

British Sub Sinks Japanese Cruiser Near Malacca   Action Indicates Full Partnership In Pacific Sea War

JAP CRUISER, 3 VESSELS SUNK BY BRITISH SUR   Action In Singapore Area Points Shift Of Naval Units

Nip Cruiser of Kuma Class  Sunk by Sub   Three Large Supply Ships Are Also Sunk Rv British Craft

STRIKE MT ante   WALKOUT. LEADERS: DECLARE HEY: WILL: OPPOSE. .REPLEDGE OF..CI0;

ALLIED FORCE ON BEACHHEAD HOLDING FIRM   Position Actually Improved  LUFTWAFFE IDLE  amare cesta  Artillery Duels Continue

FIFTH LAUNCHES SUDDEN ATTACK’ IS VICHY REPORT   Germans Warding Off Blows on Cassino Front ? .- Radio Says

BISHOP PARDUE CONSECRATED   ‘Solemn - Ceremony At. tended by 1,500 in  Pittsburch Rites

Dereliction Cases Are Coming to Head   Short, Kimmel Will Either Be Cleared Soon or Face Charges

SURPLUS CORN SUPPLY ‘FROZEN’ BY WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION   MOVEMENT OF CORN’ FROM FARMS TO ELEVATORS IN'+125 COUNTIES RESTRICTED  ' FO CCC BALES

SURPLUS CORN SALES FROZEN R 60 DAYS    WEA Seeks to Supply 80,000,000 Bushels of Grain to Army.

FARM PRICES UP IN LAST PERIOD   Hogs, Lambs Only Products To Show Decline in °43

CLOSE ELECTION IS FORECAST BY OPINION POLLS   Only: FDR and Dewey Considéred by: Magadine® Forturté: amd -

PUBLIC OPINION POLLS INDICATE CLOSE ELECTION   Hotly Contested Race of 1916 Recalled as Similar to Situation This Year.

Trends Show Danger Signs For Democrats   Business Men Seem To Favor Dewey Over Roosevelt

NAZIS BATTERED CLOSER CASSINO IN BITTER FIGHT   3000-Ft. Mont ‘Majo Falls; % Street Battle Rages in San Vittore

Fifth Army In  ltaly Smashing Nearer Cassine   itter Street Fighting Is Still Raging For Posses sion Of San Vittore   GERMANS RESIST WITH FEROCITY

NAZIS FORCED BACK IN ITALY   Allies Smashing Toward Cassino   Battle Kor San Vittore Continues

Launch Two-Way Drive in Pacific Yank Planes Pound      Yank Planes Pound Marianas. Palau

TWO-WAY AERIAL OFFENSIVE HITS JAPANESE BASES   Islands Frotecting Philippine: are Hard Hit By Powertil Fareas.

Two-Way Aerial Offensive against Jap Bases Protecting Philippines

PROTECTING THE PHILIPPINES   U.S. Fleet Again Attacks: Marianas and Palau Island

[Aerial Offensive ‘Under Way On Jap Pacific Bases   Liberator Bombers Make Land-Based Raid On Palau Isle

SOLDIERS TAKE FLAG FROM PICKET’S SIGN   Man. Protesting Use Of Non-Union Painters On Job, Warned By Overseas Veterans

Vets Take Hag From Striker   Returned Soldiers Remov: Flag They Fought For From Striker’s Placard.

Senate Grout Frowns On New  Soldiers’ Bill   Administration Bloc Terms “Meaningless” Substitute Ballot Measure Offered by Coalition

SERVICE VOTE BATTLE RAGES   Sponsors Oppose Substitute Proposal of GOP Demo Coalition

ALLIES BLAST AIRFIELDS, RAIL YARDS IN ITALY   130000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Nazis — Prelude To Invasion

AIR ASSAULT ROUNDS GUI FIRST MONTH   Bombers Based in Britain and Italy Fly 90,000 Sorties; Drop 130,000 Tons of Bombs.   Heavy Losses   Hit Rail Yards

Enemy Loses 700 Planes  During Perioc   Allied Losses Heavy, About 600 Bombers And 6,000 Personnel  NORTHERN ITALY HIT

‘OF BOMBS HIT FOE IN MONTE   'talian Railways, Airfields Targets 30th Day of Assault

SHORT AND KIMMEL HEARD IN INQUIRY   Pearl Harbor Commanders Reported to Have Told ' - gf Attack

Testify On Peart Harbor Attack   Admiral and Army Officials Discuss Matter Before Investigation Board.

FINNS SOON 10 BE OUT OF WAR REDS BELIEVE   Russian Terms Expected to Be Acceptable to Helsinki

Huge Loss in Army Depot Mystery Fire   DAMAGES $2,500,000 OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY; INVESTIGATION ORDERED

Fourth Service Ordnanc: Warehouse In Atlanta ls Destroyed By Fire

Giraud Shelved IntéRetirement   Loser of Free French Feud to Write Memoirs; Put On Reserve Command List.

Amerieans Slog Muddy Way Ahead   Eighth Army Also Makes Slow Progress In Italy

FIFTH AND EIGHTH — ARMIES MOVE SLOWL) FORWARD IN ITALY  ‘HIT AND RUN RAID BE~ HIND GERMAN LINES IN WEST HELD SUCCESS

J. S. Troops seize Three taly Heights   EIGHTH ARMY SLASHES THROUGH MINEFIELDS AT MILE-A-DAY CLIP

Important Heights Captured by American Troops  P British Forces Return  From Hit-Run   Daid Rehind Iimae

Fifth Army Gets Three Big Heights   Sectors Overlook Principal Road Toward Rome

Fifth Army Takes Heights   Yanks Tighten Grip On Road to Rome as Eighth Perils Pescara

YANKS TAKE HEIGHTS ON CASSINO ROAD   Now Hold Three Positions Overlooking Highway,  Most Important Road to Rome—British Advance on Adriatic.

Americans Seize Three Heights  Fifth Army Progresses Toward Cassino Road

Important Heights Captured by American Troops  British Forees Return From Hit-Run Raid Behind Lines

OTH ARMY TAKES NEW HEIGHTS ON ROAD TO ROME   Three Points Overlooking Cassino Highway Are Captured; Eighth Army Picking Its Way Through Minefields.

Der Fuehrer In Eclipse   Hitler Apparently Has Vanished From The German Scene

oo  Fuehrer Out of Picture Since D-Day  Where Are You Hiding, Adolf?

Yanks * Driving On City Near Belfort Escape   French Units Race To Junction With North  France Forces

YANKS, FRENCK GAIN AT WILL IN TWIN DRIVE   Nazi 19th Army Fleeing Toward Belfort Escape Gap

ALLIES THREATEN NAZI ESCAPE GAP IN SOUTH FRANCE   French Push Toward  Junction In North

Allies Closing Belfort Esea pe  sap in France Gay In    French Race Toward June: tion With Northern Invasion Forees

Besancon Is Target For Yanks   French Units Race Toward Junction With North Army.

American Units Near Besancon In Drive North   French Troops Race Toward Junction With Other Invasion Forces

Cash Bonus is Proposed for Illinois Vets   State Senator D. J. Collins to Submit Plan at New Assembly

Hull Criticism Brings Apology  Lyttelton Says Fault One of Expression

HULL REFUTES STATEMENT BY CAPT. LYTTELTON   Ignores Apology, Correction; Says U. S. Acted In Self Defense

Hull Replies To Lyttleton  Statement on Wa   Statement on War Brings Rebuke

37TH DIVISION KILLS 9,000, BEIGHTLER SAYS   Hold 30 to 1 Margin Over Japs Who Send Wounded Back Into Battle

BOUGAINVILLE JAPS DOOMED   Gen. Beightler, Commander of Ohio's 37th, Gives Enemy 10 More Days

Japs Being Wiped Out On Bougainville -- Loss Of Life Means Nothing   Commander of Ohio Outfit Says He Can’t ‘Conceive of Them Lasting Longer Than 10 Days’ - - - Killed at Ratio of 30 Nips To One Yank

Report Japs on Bougainville are already impotent as fighting force

Memel Is ~ Encircled hy Soviets   Germans Also Report Frontier Bastion of Taurage Abandoned   BIG RED DRIVE ON, BERLIN DECLARES   Two Powe erful Thrusts North of Warsaw Directéd at East Prussia

Port of Memel Surrounded By Russians   Berlin Also Reports Two Heavy Attacks North of Warsaw

Memel Surrounded by Russian Troops, Says Berlin Radic   Soviet Army. - Fashions Second Death Trap Near Nieman River

Proposed Tax Bill Will Stabilize  Amount of Income Tax Exemption

Bombers Hit Reich Heart   Unending Procession of Planes Sweeps Over Channel to Invasion oCast

2,000 American Planes Attack Nazi Oil Centers   Daylight Bombing Follows Night Blasting by R. A. F,

Bombers Batter Germany s Oil Reserves   1,100 Fortresses, Liberators Hit Vital Targets

Planes Hammer Nazi Oil Supply   3.000 Tons Of Bombs Fall On Leuna Refinery

British Relief Held Up Short _ of Advanced Airborne —  Forces  IN CFTICAL POSITION      Third Army in Fourth. Day ofFierce Tank Battle in  Vosges

Arnhem Plight Critical   British Admit Army Stopped Cold After 2-Mile Advance

Relief Units Pound Vainly at Strong Trap   German Attack Forces Yanks Back North of Trier

HEAVY GERMA COUNTERBLOWS REPULSE YANKS   Troops Retreat In Trier Area

British Army Has Failed in Relief Effort   German Resistance Has Stopped Dempsey Weather Handicaps _ Airborne Supplies

Yankee Army Beaten Back In Trier Area   First Major Nazi City Falls; Sky Army in Serious Plight

Nazis Halt Dempsey Advance   Patton’s Men Fight Biggest Nazi Tank Force Since Normandy

Rescue Forces Blocked   Fierce German Coun‘terattacks Halt Brit ish 6 Miles Away; Tank Battle Into Fourth Day

GERMANS HALT RELIFF ADVANCE OF SECOND ARM)   Tempo of Nazi Resistance Quick ens All Along Flaming Battlefront of West Wall

Trapped Air Troops Periled   British Rescue Army Halted by Stiff Nazi Resistance Six Miles From Goal; Yanks, Tommies Hurl Shells on Arnhen

Allied Fifth Army Opens New Drive «In Western Italy   General Advances Are Scored Along 10-Mile _ Front Straddling Main Rome Road; Battle ' For Town Of San Vittore Is Still Roaina

House to House Fighting Inside San Vittore Rages As Allies Attack in Snow

Attack In Storm Is Surprise   Germans Caught Nap ping, Yield On 10 Mile Front Astride  Roman Highway.

REPORT FLOOD IN MARSHALLTOWN   :Northwestéin Tracks to TaMoille Are Covered

Storm Halts Trains Near ‘(Marshalltown   North Western Re-Routing Traffic on Milwaukee at Tama

New Crisis For Poles   Situation Growing Out Of Warsaw Plight May Hasten Showdown Between Rival Leaders:

Pole General's Verbal Attack Brings Crisis   Exiled Cabinet Meets to Patch Up Differences

POLISH RULERS IN NEW CRISIS      Premier Objects To Statement Nation Abandoned By Allies

Crisis Seen For Exiled Cabinet   Polish Cabinet In London May Meet Over Country’s Reorganization.

Polish Army Chief Flays Allies — For Failure To Relieve Warsaw; Special Cabinet Meeting Called

Some Principals Get Pay Increases   Board Adopts New Salary Schedule For Next Year

FUMIGATION OF BURMA PLEDGEI BY STILWELL   Says Jups ‘Co Be Kliminaled As Allied Junction Near

Burma Armies Near Junction   Japanese Continue Retreat ‘Before Allied Drive

General Estimates Nipponese Have Lost 50,000 Killed Since Last Christmas—Chinese Thrust Across Irrawaddy River After Capture of Myitkyina and Seize Two-Thirds of Waingmaw—Wessels New Commander of Marauders. 

BEATING GIVEN JAPS IN BURMA   Stilwell Determined To Clean Nipponese Out, Reopen China Road

Stilwell Still ls Defermined   Means to Drive Japs Out Of Burma; Says Japs Just As Tough as Ever

a  STILWELL'S MEN CONTINUE GAINS   General Reaffirms Determination Drive Japs Out of Buma Where He Once Took ‘Hellava Beating’

Gains. Made By Chinese   Parts” Of Waivemiaw Seized By Stilwell -

GEN, STILWELL’S FORCES PUSH ON IN BURMA DRIVE   Allied Leader Promises Aid to Ease Serious Situation In China

HOTEL BLAZE “TOLL MOUNTS: ARSON CAUS!   22 Killed. 30 Iniured _ In Conflagration at Chicago

1? Persons Die In Hotel Fire: 30 Are Injured   San Francisco Hostelry Turned into Whirlwind of Flaming Death

Arsonist Sought In Deaths of 22   30 Others Injured In Hotel Blaze

22 Die in West Coast Hotel Fire   BELIEVE BLAZE TO BE WORK OF INCENDIARY; 10 OTHER FIRES PRECEDED IN SAN FRANCISCO AREA. "   Leap to Death

22 PERISH WHEN HOTEL DESTROYED      Arsonist Blamed for Fire at San Francisco Hostelry

Toll Is Heavy in Hotel Fire   Arsonist Is Sought in San Francisco

ARSONIST FIRES HOTEL, 22 PERISH   THIRTY INJURED. ‘AS BLAZE SWEEPS 8-STORY SAN FRAN-~ CISCO STRUCTURE.

De Gaulle Reverses Stand SUPREME HDQRS, ALLIED  CvnoNn mst. pt OPT Ana Ad

CARL FRIEND INTO “U.S. SENATE RACE   Former Lieutenant Governor in Contest for   Reed's Seat ISSUES A STATEMENT,

ALLIES CAPTURE CASSINO RAIL WAY STATION   Battle for City Seen In Last Stages; Nazis Smashed On Anzio

Bombers Lash At Nazi Lines.  On Das abhoassd! Uli peat nnéat:   Pulverize Enemy Posts; Cassino Hills Still Held by Germans

CASSINO IS CONTINUING   New Zealanders Gain In Bitter Battle Through Rubble

ALLIED EFFORT SEEN TO BREAK LONG DEADLOCK   5th Army’s Two - Month Fight For Cassino Nearly Won

RUBBLE HEAP OF CASSINO IS REDUCED   Air Activity Stepped Up Along Front Below Rome to Break Stalemate.

Bombers Hit Nazi Lines in Anzio Sector   Enemy Maintains Stubbom Hold In Cassino Area

STILL BATTLE FURIOUSLY IN CASSINO RUIN   Meanwhile Waves of Allied Bombers Pound at German Lines Aroung Anzio Beachhead

Planes Smash at  Beachhead  Heavy Air Attack : Indicates Allies Hitting Germans Around Perimeter

ENEMY LINES AT AND BEACHHEAD IS BEING SMASHED   Nazis Who Are Lodged in Some Hills at Cassino Still Hold Out, Others In Rubla and Caves.   AiR BATTLE STAGED IN S. GERMAN RAID   Strong Raiding Force Ac companied By Fighter: Participates In Bombing of War Industries.

Bombers Rake Enemy Lines In Heaviest Attack   Battle For Cassino Nearly Won As Troops  Pulverize Nazi Pockets

ALLIES WORK ON SMASHING GERMAN LINE   Two Month Battle Appears Near End

Bombers Repeat Performance Of Cassino At Anzio   Pulverizing Air Blows Aimed To Break  Stalemate

At Cassino—   HEAVIEST BOMBING OF ROME BEACHHEAD CAMPAIGN: INVOLVED; REDUCE RESISTANCE IN SCUTH

FLIERS POUND NAZI LINES NEAR ANZIO   Allied Troops Slash At Germans in Cassino Ruins

WAVES OF PLANES SMASH AT ANZIO IN NEW ATTACKS   New Zealand Troops In Process of Cleaning Out Nazis In Cassino.

Bombers Hit Nazi  at Anzio   ALLIES DELIVER FIERCE AIR BLOWS AS TROOPS POUND AT CASSINO

Russians Using 60 Divisions cs In Leningrad Front Offensive   20 Tank Divisions to Support Their Big Drive On Leningrad.

BIG SOVIET DRIVE ON LENINGRAD FRONT FORCES NAZIS TO RETREAT   Germans Claim Russians Are Using 20 Tank Divisions To Back Up Their Campaign.

RED ARMY CONTINUES ADVANCES   Warsaw Is Threatened By Smashing Drive On Polish Front

Red Cavalry Units Reach Wisla River   Severely Mauled Germans Battle To Stem Advance

Nazis Driven To East Bank Of Wisla River   Russians Break Into Lwow; Reds But 358 Miles From Berlin

BERL RADIO. ADMITS SOVIET BREAKTHROUGH   Russians Say Enemy Makes Desperate Efforts to Re Areraniza im Dalapw-t

Soviets Push onto Warsaw; Lwow Circled   Hard Riding Cossacks Push Mauled Germans to East Bank of Wisla

RUSSIA - BASED U.S. PLANES AID RED ARMY   Cossacks Drive Foe To Bank Of Wisla Near Warsaw; Enter Lwow

‘Russians Break Into . Lwow, Greal  Rail Center   Hard-Riding Cossacks  Pursue Mauled Nazis; _Soviet Forces Within  358 Miles Of Berlin

LIGHTED DOME WILL MARK DEBT FREEDOM      Michigan Capitol, Dark Since Pearl Harbor, Will Be Lighted Wednesday

LIGHT CAPITAL DOME ON WED.   Celebrates State’s Freedom From Debt

FDR REMOVES —BIDDLE’S AIDE IN LEGAL FEUD   Insubordination Is Charged After Littell Refuses to Resign

LITTELL OUSTED BY FDR'S ORDEF   Removed From Office for ‘Insubordination’

Airmen Strike  Pas de Calais   Raid Follows Up Blow On French Bases Where Robots Are Launched.

ROBOT BASES TARGETS FOR ALLIED BOMBS   RAIDS CONTINUE ON PAS DE CALAIS COASTAL AREA

Calais Area Of Robot ts Pounded   Powerful Blows Rain On Normandy

~— pUy War DUunGds -— ‘Comes The Revolution,  ‘He’ ll Be Sacked - Plenty

DAYTON’S PHONE STRIKE SPREADS   Threatens Complete Halt of Ohio Communication Svstem

400 OPERATORS AT DAYTON QUIT *SWITCHBOARDS   Hundreds Of Others In Columbus And Toledo Quit In Sympathy   CLEVELAND THREATENED   Male Operators Take Over Duties Of Women In Capital City

400 Ohio Bell Operators af Dayton Strike   Walkout Spreads To Columbus, Toledo Exchange:

Government Gives Mines To Owners   Labor and Management  Now On Trial Says ' Secy. Ickes

Reach Suburbs ‘Of Liege, Metz   British Second Army Breaks Nazi Defense at Albert Canal: Yanks 25 Miles from Aachen Gate to Reich

Japs Repulsed at China Rail Center   Chungking Reports Bitter Fight Raging

GERMAN ARMY SMALLER NOW THAN IN 1918  Casualties Are Reporte dd At  ACih>, Try... °1..

EXTRA!   Cargo Plane Crashes Near Blue Mound:   Searchers Remove Body Of One Man, Find Three Crew Members Burned To Death

AutonomylIn Soviet Union Stalin’s Pet   Change In_ Political Setup Doesn’t Seem A Trick

Capture of Kaweajalein ~ Atoll Near   American. ¢ Occupation : Virtually Complete, Nimitz Says in  Cam... eles \

Encircling Of Germans Is Probable   Rome Reports Say Gunfir: Can Be Heard from Two  Directions

Fifth Army Only 13 Miles From Italian Capital   Hard Fighting Along Velletri-Valmontone Line Is Announced >

5th Army Drives to Within Sight of City of Rome   Outflank Two Strongholds of Germans

IS PIERCED BY ALLIES   Fifth Army Within Sight of Eternal City, Enemy Is Outs flanked.   BULLETIN

Yanks Put  Pincer on Velletri   Fifth Army Outflanks Velletri, Lanuvio, in Alban Hills Drive

Rome In Sight of Troons   Allies Plunge Deep into Alban Hill Fortresses

Yank Soldiers Smash Last of  Rome Defenses   Doughboys Within Thir_foon Miles of Italian __ C'anital .

CAPITAL OF ITALY NOW IN PLAIN SIGHT   U. S. Troops Smash 3/2 Miles North Of Velletri

/ MEDICAL. MIRACLE. — Army Neuro-Surgeons Develop New Technique for Fixing” Skull Fractures:

Yankees Land On New Britain, (lose to Rabaul  m Americans Complete

Marines Seize ‘Area Only 170 Mi. From Rabaul   Americans Prepare To Use Airfield  oe a

Marines Leapfrog 110 Miles From —  Cape Gloucester   Troops Win Control  of Los Negros Isle; Bombers Blast Rabaul

Marines Land on North Coast of New Britain and Capture Positions.

‘Americans Win Control of Los Negros Island   Jap Naval Base Was Occupied at Time of Cononeet af Kwaialeain

MARINES LAND 170 MILES FROM RABAUL  Make 110-Mile   Make 110-Mile Jump from Cape Gloucester Base

New Landing Only 170 Mile: From Rabaul   MacArthur Tightens Hold On New Britain; Negras Now Occnnied

Marines Land or Northern Coast Of New Britain   Yanks Less Than 170 Miles Fram Rabaul

MARINES LAND ON N. BRITAIN, NEARER RABAUL   Control Of Los Negros In Admiralty Group Complete

U. $. MARINES ON NEW BRITAIN FOR RABAUL ASSAULT   Japs Offer Little Opposition Near Talasea Less Than 170 Miles From Fnemy Stronghold.   GERMANS ATTEMPT T0 CHECK REDS ADVANCE   Chinese Troops Are Fighting With Americans For First Time In War, Capture 2000 Japs.

U.S. MARINES ADVANCE ON NEW BRITAIN   Americans Win Control Of Los Negros

Russian Troops Pound Past Gyoengyoes, Crack 80-Mile Nazi Line, Threaten Hatvan

Chaplin May Not Take the Stand   Geisler Considers Move for Dismissal   Chaplin May Testify

Soviet Vanguards Are 365 MilesFrom Ruined Berlin   Lwow and Lublin Become Battlegrounds; Reds Only 25 Miles From Vistula River

Russians Are 25: Miles  From Vistula   Fifty German Divisions Knocked Out; Rec Army Approaches Within 70 Miles Of Warsaw: Soviet Momentum Increases

Nazis Flee From Poland In Disorder   German Resistance Is Cracking Along — Russian Front

Nazis Admit Soviet Army is 50 Miles  OutWarsaw      Russians Battling Through Streets Of Lublin

RUSSIANS NOW 30 MILES FROM WARSAW GOAL   Foes "Fight Desperately To Stave Off Direct Attack ) On Germany

BATTLES RAGE IN STREETS OF LWOW, LUBLIN   Red Juggernaut Gains 30 Miles In Day, Takes 1,400 Villages

SOVIETS DRIVE ONLY 50 MILES FROM WARSAW   Other Red Columns Battle In Streets Of Lubin, Near Hitler’s River Lines

Germans Report Russians Within 50 Miles Of Warsaw   Huns Announce Evacuation of Siedlce, Jaraslaw in Front of Charging Soviet Troops

Nazis Retreat Over Rolling Polish Plains   Armies in Disorder as Soviets Press Closer ta Warsaw

SOVIET TROOPS INTO LUBLIN; NAZIS CRACKING   Entire German Lines Show  Weakness

REDS SMASHING GERMAN LINES ON BROAD FRONT   Germans Can’t Even Slow Surge of Russian Army Toward Fatherland

Soviet Troops Reach Lwow And Lublin  German Forces Fleeing in Disorder Through Central Poland RUSS GAIN SPEED Red Army Strikes Close  to Defenses of Hungary, (sorhnaclovakia

Catastrophe Overtaking Nazi Armies   Russians Also Strike Deeply Into Baltics

Reds Move Deeply into Baltic Republics and in South Strike Close to Carpathian Defenses of Hungary, But Make Most Gains on Polish Plains. Reds Cain 220 Miles in 31 Daves

General Makes Good His Pledge ‘t Shall Return’ By Landing on Leyte Island in Move Splitting Forces of 225,000 Enemy Troops Defending ‘Area

Thousands of Troops Pour Ashore, Drive Swiftly For Island’s Major City

Nazi Demolition Squads Blow Up  Port Installations   Initial Objectives Taken By Combined ‘Yank, French Forces

FRENCH SEIZING ESPERIA, NEAR HITLER LINE   British Armored Reconnaissace Troops Drive Across Via Casilina at Two Points to; . Reach Poles

French Capture Hitler Line Post   U.S. Forces Advance 44 Miles: Battle for Gustav Line Near End

French Colonials Seize Outpost Of Esperia In Southwest   DRIVE THREE MILES INTO HITLER LINI  Ov er 4,500 Germans Ar

Kirke L. Simpson Says: Russian Forces Are Hurling Most Deadly Offensive Blow af Nazis

FO MECN Pidgesir Uil Ficlas— —By turke L. Stmpson il  Battle Of The Danube Delta May Decide War

50-Mile Path of Destruction Cut by Bombers  Planes Go Aloft in Nasty Weather to Battle

“This ls Where 1 Came In” “Mars” Broadeast That Upset United States Panies Chile

Red Army’s  Encirclement Draws Tight   ., Nazis Report Russians at * Danube North of City After Fall of Vac

SOVIETS SEAL ~ OFF BUDAPEST   Berlin Admits Retreats All Along the Hungarian  Battle Front

ALLIED TROOPS NEARING RIMINI IN NORTH ITALY      Pour Through Gap In Gothic Line Yank Troops Capture Altopascio

Allies Stream ThroughBreak In Gothic Line   Advance To Within Four Miles Of Rimini Is Reported

Breach Widens In Gothic Line   Bologna Endangered; State of Siege Declared

BELIEVE WILLKIE WONT BOLT G0   : RepublicanLeaders  Generally Think! . He'll Support: Party.

CAPITAL THINKS WILLKIE WILL STAY IN G.0.P.   Dewey Still Silent; Bricker Determined to Carry on Fight

BELIEVE WILLKIE WONT BOLT GOP   Republican Leadervs Generally Think He'll Support Party.

WILLKIE KILLS RUMORS HELL BOLT GOP CAMP   Returns To New York Today   NO THIRD PARTY  zwarewe  omar: th  Sa se re

GRENADE HERO SLAIN BY JAPS   ‘Pineapple’ Pucket Is Cut Down By Hidden Machine Gunner

“Pineapple” Puckett !s Victim Of A Hidden Japanese Machine Gunner

‘Pineapple’ Puckett, Who Killed 75 Jans, Cut Down by Machine Gua

‘Chiang Tells Defenders of Changsha to Fight to End Against Japs

Red Legions Plan Battles  In Germany   Russians Intend To Push Inside Reich’s Borders

Soviet Reports Heavy Losses tc Armies of Axis  1944 Offensive To Be Continued  gg.) Od wt Om ak

Allies to Finance Reconstruction   U. S. to Bear Large Share of Expenses

Consider Two World Money Organizations   Final Capitalization of Twenty Billion Is Urged in Meet

Monetary Conference Plans Huge Program   Two World-Wide Organizations Would Have $20,000,000,000 Capital

GREAT AERIAL ATTACK MADE ON NAZILAND   TROOP TRAINS ARE SHOT UP, RAILWAY JUNCTIONS HIT

Fighters Make Heaviest Raids Since D-Day         . Pp Of American ‘Aircraft °

Planes Slash Troop Trains   Big Bombers Travel Far To Cut Nazi OH Flow

CONTINUGUS ATTACKSMADE OVER EUROPE      By Fighter Planes Ranging Over Thousands of Square Miles; Shoot Up Troop Trains, Planes.  Hil Refinery

RAILWAY TARGETS “BOMBED BY FLIERS      Heaviest Raids ‘Since D_ Day Cover Wide > Area -

RAILWAY TARGETS BOMBED BY FLIERS   Heaviest. Raids -Since D- Day Cover Wide =  Aran

Also Raid Nazi Fuel Dumps And Ammunition Stores Along French Front

NEARLY DECAPITATED WHEN HIT BY A GAR   Sailor Killed Was Identified As Seaman R. C. Stoughton   BODY BADLY MANGLED

Finns Await Russ Peace Terms Reply   Word Expected “Momentarily” on Finland's Answer to Soviet Proposal

Finns Await Word on Reply   To Russians   No Particulars Known on - Character of Reply to Armistice Terms

FINNISH AWAIT RED REPLY TO COUNTER-OFFER   Details Of Statement Are Not Revealed

Finns Await Russ Reply   Story Of Peace Talk  Boe Thee A ci Sc es

Finns Awaiting  Word On Reply   Moscow Has Yet To Answer Finland’s A cinoawlédceaement.

FINNS WAITING SOVIET REPLY   Expect Word Shortly On Finland’s Answer to Peace Terms

FINNS NOW AWAIT WORD FROM REDS   Dispatch Direct From Fin land First Definite Information on Progress.

LeMars ‘High Wins _ : F ourth Straight. Game Defeatine Elk Point 

SHIPS. BOMBED   ENEMY HEAVY CRUISER HIT; DESTROYER SUNK; ANOTHER DAMAGED.

Aid from Allies A Big Factor in Russian Success   Bombing of Germany American Equipment And Western Fronts  Gave Reds a Break

FINNS FLEEING HELSINKI AFTER “RUSSIAN RAIE   38 Reported Killed, 232 Injured, Sky Reddened with Clow ol Fires in Seven-Hour Bombing

FINS START TC ~ LEAVE HELSINKI   Hint Move Underway To Oust Finland from War

HOUSE COAS.OERS KC OSKOUT PUNGH UY SUPPLY BILL   War Leaders ‘‘Hope” G.rmany W:ll Be Out ot War ty Jan. 1

HOUSE GOKS:DERS ASOCHOUT PUNCH AaHY SUPPLY BILL   War Leaders “Hope” G.rmaiy Will Be Out of Warky Jan.1 .

The heuse late today paced and sent te the senate the much debated army supply bill.

T44 NATIONAL WAR GHEST DANE T0 OPEN OCTOBER 17¢   W. A. OWENS TO BE LIMESTONE COUNTY CHAIRMAN

Carriers Jom — - Italian Battle   Planes Clearing Enemy Benm Adwetastac

42-Mile Beachhead Is Linked   Two-Pronged Drive Threatens Deep Water Port

Cherbourg Threatened   Solid 42-Mile Beachhead Belt Joined:  Americans Drive Across Peninsula.

Allies Holding ~ Solid 42-Mile - Coastal Belt   Two-Pronged Drive Has Cut Halfway Across Peninsula; All-Out Effort Is Launched To Break Deadlock At Town Of Caen

Refuse To Limit Anti-Poll Debate   Action Apparently Dooms Bill This Year

SENATE VOTES TO LAY ASIDE POLL TAX BILL   Refuses Cloture Rule Before Ballot to Table Measure

2,240 Tons of Bombs Dropped  On Plane Center   38 Heavy Bombers Are Lost By British In Concentrated Attack

2,240 TONS DROPPED ON BRUNSWICK   R. A. F. In Most Concentrated Attack

2,240 ‘ons oi ‘BombsHurled At Brunswick   R.A.F. Night Raiders Try to Burv All Plants in City of 200.000   BERLIN LASHED, TOO   Feint Upsets Defenses; Mosquitoes Hit Capital and Magdeburg

Nazi Airplane Plants Get 150  ne ze Tonge eo Minnta Ears Ch LURESERRUL

REACH PEAK AS RAF DROPS 150 TONS A MINUTE   Fires Visible 150 Miles as Smoke Rises 3 Miles Into Sky

AIRCRAFT CENTER HEAVILY BOMBED   Capture of Acquafondota By Fifth Army Caps Success of Offensive.

 Wind and Water Kill and Damage \ in Northwest and Central Areas

FIVE DEATHS, DAMAGES OF 2 MILLIONS   Boone County Roads Take Bad Beating: Heavy Glass Loss At Kemble-Smith Greenhouse

Five Die in Iowa Storms   20 Others Injured And Property Damage Placed at $1,000,000

Sioux City Area _ First To Suffer; Fort Dodge Loss Heavy; Train Is Derailed In Washout

Study Post-War Red Shipments   Reconstruction Goods To Be Shipped But on Credit

Russia to Rebuilc With Lend-lease  Officials Tackle Mammoth Preblem

LEND-LEASE PLAN FOR RUSSIA CHANGES      Officials Tackling Problem Of How to Help Soviet Rebuild and Exvand.

U.S. to Aid Russia In  Rebuilding   Lend-Lease Officials Plan Help For Reds After War

Lend Leasers Plan To Aid Reds Rebuild   Expansion Of Industry Aim

PROBLEM OF SOVIET REBUILDING UNDER STUDY LEND-LEASE  REBUILDING OF SHATTE!  OPT, DIICCrAN DI ANITC IC   REBUILDING OF SHATTER ED RUSSIAN PLANTS IS BEING PLAINED

Alter Soviet Lend-Lease   Program Undergoing Profound Change in Planning for PeaceTime Trade Exchange

JAP BASE GIVEN KNOCKOUT RAID   720 Tons Of Bombs Erase Hollandia From War

Air Transport Fires Houses  In Calif; Crash   8 in Plane Are Killed; Residents In Narrow Escapes

U. 5. Transport Plane Crashes   Goes Into House and Crew Killed; Those In House Escape

Conquest of City About Completed   Other Allied Armies 01 Border Make Consistent  Advances

BREAK THROUGH BELFORT ROUTE INTO GERMAN}   Picture Rosy for Rest of Allied Forces as They Seize Mountain Passes to Rhine

YANKS CAPTURE METZ; GENERAL ALLIED ADVANCE   Enemy Stand On Cologne Plain

Rhine Bridged By Allied Engineers; Swiss Indicate —   French Forces Thrus: Through Belfort Gap To Hit Germany Proper

3 Armies Smash Into Rhineland   Three Armies Punch Forward on Cologne Plain Against Stiff German Resistance; Yanks Make Five New Crossings Into Saat

U.5. 1st, 9th, British 2nd Smash Deep Into Rhineland  Paris Radio Says French Forces   Paris Radio Says French Forces Gain 28 Miles in Rhine Valley

Hero’s Fiancee Fells How He Routed Nazis   Crawls into machine gun’ nest» alone ‘and wipes out thé ‘crew; ‘gets medal of honor;

Normandy Battles Destroy Fewer. Historic Buildings Than Exnected

Guam Inhabitants Never Quit Hoping   Natives Prayed for Return Of Americans So Japs Closed Churches

Martial Law Is. Declared As Slovakian Revolt Menaces —  Safety Of Nazi Balkan Wall

Slovaks Shake  Germans’ Rule   Rising Forces Hitlerite: To. Invoke Martial Law

Shipyards{Operated By, Maritime; Board Aico’ © SEU YSENY ERoPS N

STOCKS OF RUBBER AT LOWEST POINT   Problem Far from Solved for Allies, Is Report

YANKS, BRITISH, FRENCH TAKE PART IN INVASION: NAZI RESISTANCE LIGHT   Weather Good

Wool Hoard Alarming to  U.S.Growers   CONGRESSMEN FROM WOOL PRODUCING STATES SEEK TO PREVENT RUIN OF AMERICAN PRODUCERS.,   Would Stop Imports

Troop Laden Barge: Sunk Near Talasea; Tanks in Burma Area   Hitler Leaves Berlin For Breslau

BRESLAU MADE HITLER CAPITAL   Government Seat Still Within Easy Range Of Allied Bombs

Germans Move Capital?   FLORENCE SLASHED BY BOMBERS, BLOWS HIT FRENCH INVASION COAST

Government Transferred To Breslau   Bombings Too — ‘Heavy in Berlin, Reports Indicate

Nazis Move Capital Of Germany From Berlin To Breslau   New Silesian Quarters Are Still Not Beyond Range Of Anglo-American Bombing Missions

Florence, Italy Gets Its First Major Air Raid   Toulon, Nazi Naval Base In France, Hit Hard; Padua le Ramher   MUENSTER HIT   Allies In Bismarck Area Advance, Win New Ground; Japs Sluggish

Air Bombings Force Nazis to Move Capital to Breslau  New Headquarters Is Not Out of Range Of Heaviest Bombers

Air Bombings Force Nazis to Move Capital to Breslau  New Headquarters Is  Not Out of Range FPré Llawrsitast Baswlkane

Hear Germans Move Capital to Breslau   Berlin Abandoned Because of Frequent Allied Bombinas

‘Allied Bombings Force Seat ‘Of Government from Berlin;  Shift Under Way for Weeks

[Newest Seat of Operations  Not Out of Reach of Al  lies, But More Diffi  cult Target

RAILROAD YARDS UNDER SIGHTS OF MARAUDERS   First Time for Bombing of This Italian City. Meanwhile West Germany Raided, Too   MOVED OUT?

Nazis Move To Breslau      Neéw Capital Within Allied Bomber Path

ENGEL ATTACKS BIG PENTAGON BUILDING GOST   Michigan Congressman Says War Department’s Claims False.

GREENLAND BASES ARE FINISHED NOW   Hundreds of U. S. Workmen And Army Engineers Were on Projects.

10,000 Acres ; OfRiver Land  Are Inundated  3 More Levees Fail On   3 More Levees Fail On owa-Nebraska Line; No Grave Danger

COMMITTEE FORMED TO FIGHT NEW DEAL   “Farmers For Freedom” Slogan Of Democrats Pledged To Defeat Roosevelt

Smith Attacks Fourth Term   “Cotton Ed” Favors Byrd Says New Deal Has Shackled The Farmer.

Security ‘Tax Faces Test Vote Tuesday   Measure Threatens To Precipitate Swift Veto Action

Congress Faces F ight in Its Dying Hours   Move to Block Increase In Social Security Tax Expected to Bog Down On Presidential Veto

Congress Faces Major Battle  Fireworks Caused . Sys = Mee ee fe 6 SRE

Congress to Dare Presidential Veto  Cc ———— ee ene eae ee ee   Expected to Freeze Social Security Tax

Not Closing WeekOf78th Congress   BUT IT WILL BE PACKED WITH  USINESS. WITH ENOUGH LEFT  FOR ANOTHER WEEK MORE 4HAN PLANNED.   Was Designed To Be

Seven die, 16 injured in transport crash in west Pilot and copilot of T. W. A.  airliner amone victims

Airliner Plunge Kills Seven, Injures Fifteen   Plane Was Néaring Jis Destination At Burbank Calif.

SEVEN PERSONS KILLED IN CRASH   Sixteen Were Injured Wher A TWA Plane Crashed in a Heavy Fog.

TWA Crash Kills 7, Injures 15   Fog Blamed for Fatal Accident at Burbank; Plane Strikes Ground Near Destination After Flight From San Francisco En Route to N. Y.

1Killed, 16 Hurt In Airline Crash   TWA Plane Demolished Near Burbank, Calif.

9 Known Dead As TWA Airline: Crashes in Fog   23 Aboard Passenger Plane Downed in California Valley

At Least Nine Die In Crash Of TWA Plane   Arkansan Among The Injured; Cause Of Accident Not Known

Nine Die Wher Plane Crashes In California   Disaster Occurs in  San Fernando Valley ' As Air Liner Neared Burbank Destination

Airliner Crashes In Heavy Fog   At Least Nine Of 23 Aboard Killed In San Fernando Valley.

West Coast Airline Crash Takes ] Lives  Cun h*   San Diego Moyor Hurt In Accident

AIRLINER CRASH TAKES 7 LIVES; 16 ARE INJURED   TWA Plane Cracks Up Near Burbank, Calif.—Joplin Seaman Is Killed

TWA PLANE FALLS   Seven. Were ‘Killed This Moming in Crash Near Burbank, California —

Airliner’s “Crash In Fog Kills Seven   Sixteen Others Injured In Tragic San Fernando  Valley Wreck.

TWA Passenger Plene Crashes; Seven Are Dead   Craft Smashes Up In Fog as Pilot Attempts Landing  Near Burbank, Calif.

7 DIE, 16 HURT IN AIR ACCIDENT   Airliner Crashes in Fog Near Burbank Airport

—PLANE CRASH—  7 Killed In  Coast Crash Of Airliner   San Diego Mayor Is Among 16 Persons Injured Near Burbank

-Nine Known Dead As Giant Airliner “Crashes on Coast   Mayor Knox of San Diego Inj ured; 2 Crew Members Die as Plane Rams Into Earth Through Blanket of Fog

Several. Military- Personnel “Anong Victims of Tragedy Over San Fernando. Valley   Plunges In Fog Near Home Port   Iwo Members of Crew Are Killed; Plane’s Hostess, Donna Marr, Suffers Leg Feaecinre

7 Killed In Crash of Air Liner   Goes Down in Heavy Fog in San Fernando  Valley

Seven Persons Die inCrash of Plane in West This Morr   Tragedy Overtakes TWA Liner in Fog Near  Burbank, Calif.

7 Are Killed in Air Crash Near Burbank   i a ee L  City Manager of San Diego  Among Deadin TWA Airline Wreck

Passenger Plane Crashes in Fog  At Leas? Seven of 23 Aboard Killed

AIRLINER CRASHES IN FOG; 9 KILLED    Many of 23 Passengers Re_ ported Injured In Californis Mishap  .

FREEZING RAIN HITS MID-WEST   Weatherman Expects Mercary To Start Upward Today

BOMBERS LASH ROCKET COAST   German Transportation Fa cilities Also Hit

More Fathers, Deferred Men Being Sought   Army Must Have More From Industry, Agriculture Asserts Hershey

Hershey Urges Father Drafting Be Increased.  ‘Army Naadc Ovar   ‘Army Needs Over Million Men By July, 1944

Father Draft Speed Urged   Selective Service Heac Orders Boards to Induct More Men

Draft Boards to  ‘Dig Deep for Dads   -Manpower Shortage Forces an Induction — Speedup Says Hershey

DRAFT BOARDS URGED TO SPEED INDUCTIONS   Calling Up Of Fathers And Men Now Needlessly Deferred Ordered By Director Hershey

FATHERS SEEM MAIN OBJECTIVE OF DRAFT MACHINERY HEANS   LATEST BLAST IN MAN. POWER SITUATION CALLS FOR INDUCTION STEPUP

More Fathers Facing Draft   Manpower Needs of Military Runs Behind 100,000 Men a Month

Boards Told to Take Men Needlessly Deferred in Industry, on Farms.

Draft Chief Urges Boards to Give  Fewer Deferments  Hershey Says Fathers Farmers, Men in Industry to Be Called

Local Beards Told te Speed Father Draft   Comb-Out of Deferred Nien in Plants and on Farms Is Urged

Places Pressure on Draft Boards  Induction of Fathers, Deferred Men Uraed

MORE FATHERS SOUGHT TO MEET DRAFT CALLS  Military Needs Fail Behind 100,000 Men a Month Says Hershey

Draft Quotas Must Be Met  » Hershey Orders Board To Speed:Up:Calls ©

U, S. MUST BE IN SERVICES   Draft Boards To Be More Strict  On Determents

Must Dig Deeper      Draft Boards Urged to Step Up Inductions of Dads and Deferred Men

DRAFT OF MORE FATHERS URGED   HERSHEY CALLS FOR INDUCTION STEP-UP TO MEET ARMY NEEDS

Hershey Wants Hard-Boiled Draftin  Draft Running Short By 100,000 A Month

Sheed Seen In Drafting»   More Fathers Asked To. Meet New Quotas

FATHERS SEEM MAIN  OBJECTIVE OF DRAFT  MACHINERY HEADS LATEST BLAST IN MAN.  POWER SITUATION CALLS LOR INDIICTION CTEDPTIp

DAVID FILGAS 15 HELD FOR MURDER   cuss (Evidence Supporting Warrant for Youth’s Arrest

RATION MOVE MAY NOT LAST. JONES. WARNS   Uncertainty of Food Supply of Future Painted Out

Sabang Harbor [Badly Damaged   Task Force Destroys Installations In 35-Minute Bombardment.

Yanks Hold Part of Pisa   Fifth Established Along Water Barrier Of Gothic Line

Fifth Army Holds South Part of Pisa   Has Not Yet Crossed Arno River Into Remainder of City—Other Forces Drive Northward to*Within 12 Miles of Florence. .

ALLIES ENTER PISA; FLORENCE 12 MILES AWAY   5th Army Holds Southern Half Of City Four Towns Taken

Yanks Occupy Part Of Pisa   Make Successful Landing; Others Isolate Key Objectives on Guam

Sth Army Holds Part of Pisa   -Takes Enemy Positions On Southern Banks Of Arno River

Yanks Holding Historic Pisa’s South District   Allies Push North Within 12 Miles of Florence; Nazis Shell Livorno!

YANKS 12 MILES FROM FLORENCE   WIPE OUT NAZIS ON SOUTH BANK OF ARNO, OCCUPY PART OF PISA

AMERICANS OF FIFTH ARMY HOLD SOUTHERN DISTRICT CF PISA   ENEMY POSITIONS ON SOUTHERN BANKS OF ARNO RIVER WIPED OUT

SOUTHERN PISA HELD BY YANKS   German Positions Smashed On One Side Of Arno

Yanks Make Big Gains In Italy   Fight In Pisa; Strike 12 Mi. From Florence

AMERICA’S FIFTH HOLDS SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF PISA   Established Firmly Along Nazi Gothic Line 20  Miles from Florence

SOUTHERN PART OF PISA HELD BY AMERICANS   Most of German Positions on the South Bank of Arno River Have Been Wiped Out by Fifth,

Americans Push Way  Into Pisa   Yanks Hold Southern Bank of Arno, 20 Miles From Florence

FIFTH ARMY IS NEAR FLORENCE   Part of Pisa Already Occupied As U. S. Units Advance in Italy

SOUTH SECTION OF PISA IS HELD-BY AMERICAN FORCES   In Addition, Fifth Army Yanks Also Destroyed All Nazi Defenses on the South Bank of the Arno From the Sea to Empoli

FIFTH ARMY IN “HISTORIC PISA   Hold Portion of Key City; Move To Menace Gothic Line

YANKS OCCUPY PART OF PIS/   Other Forces Orize Nazis   from Southern Banks of Arno River

American Troops Now In Piso   Fifth Army Now 12 Miles From Florence

Yanks Capture Pisa Outskirts   Fifth Army Holds Southern District, Drive Nears Florence

Fifth Army ,Holds South Partof Pisa   Enemy Positions on Southern - Bank of Arno Aiver Wiped  Out; Other Columns Within  ;   422 Miles of Florence

Americans Occupy District of Pisa South of Canal   Advance Elements Cross Arno and Other Columns Advance Within 12 Miles of Florence

5TH DRIVES INTO HISTORIC PISA   Yanks Within 20 Airline Miles of Florence

YANKS ENTER HISTORIC PISA   Drive Into Southern Edge Of Ancient City

‘Americaris Smash Into Pisa, Crush All Nazi Positions On iSouthern Banks Of Arno River   Other Allied Forces Push Inland To Within 12 Miles Of Florence

bth Army Enters Historic Pisa  Positions South of Arno River Wiped Qu’

sritish Columns Within 12 Miles Of Florence; Foe Still Holding Out On Upper Portion Of Arno

SOUTHERN AREA OF PISA HELD BY AMERICANS   Fifth Army Continues Advance Northward In Italy

U.S. TROOPS HOLD GROUND NEAR EMPOLI   Parts Of Pisa Held Firmly;  Cross Canal

ath Occupies Part Of Pisa   Other Forces Wipe Out All Enemy. Positions On Southern Arno Banks.

Yanks Holding South Part Of  Historic Pisa   Americans Establish Positions Along Nazi Gothic Line In North Italy

SOUTHERN HALF OF PISA TAKEN   Yanks Push to Within 12 Miles Of Florence; Mop Up Arno River

Canned Meats Cost fo Drop   Effective Aug. 4, OPA Says in Adjusting to Lowered Raw Meat Prices

SET CEILING ON CANNED MEATS   OPA ANNOUNCES PRICE REDUCTION BEGINNING AUG. 1

Secrecy Shrouds Steps Taken By Finn Leaders   Minister of Interior Jains Two Other Officials in Stockholm

FINN LEADERS IN STOCKHOLM FOR PARLEYS   ‘Former Negotiator In Swed - en And Rumors Fly Thick And Fast Over Peace With Russia.   “Another Italy’

ALLIES SEAL OFF CORINTH GULF “DOOR   More Than Half of Peloponnesus Area in Hands of British Troops, Greek Patriots.

Writer Tells Of Landing   Troops Knife Ashore Under Heavy Fire From Warships

 Eye-Witness To Philippine Invasion, Fascinates  Veteran Correspondent

—A Reporter Also Comes Back—  Warships Hurl Tons Of Shells To Cover American Landings

Troops Landed Under Cover Ot Warships   Correspondent Describes Invasion OF Philippines

AP Man Returns With MacArthur To Write Story   ‘First Eyewitness Story of ‘Philippines Invasion Told By One Left There.

Yanks Land At 3 Points On Beaches   Eye-witness ‘Story Tells of Pre-invasion Blasting

One of Last Reporters To Leave Bataan Describes U.S. Return To Phippines

Beachheads On Leyte Island Seized By Yanks With Unusually Light Opposition 

58 TO BE CALLED FROM THIS COUNTY   That Number to Armed Services py April 7

HAVE CALL FOR ONE MAN   Draft Board Already Has Order For Nine to. Go December 29

GET CALL FOR 36 MEN   Will Be Sent for Pre-Induetion - Physicals September 25

A CALL FOR 25 MEN   County Will Send Group November 15 for Induction ams

ELEVEN MEN ARE CALLED      Group From Douglas County To Report for Induction

TWO CALLS RECEIVED   Board to Send Men to Leavenworth for Physical Exams

Make Plans To  Raise Funds For War Activities.   County Committee  Meets To Approve Campaign Plans -

Make Plans To © Raise Funds For War Activities _ : - County Conmaittes  * Meets To Approve Campaién Plans -

Soviets Happy Over News Of  Big Invasion      Tokyo Says It Can Imagine Jubilation Over Receipt  whe er   LIBERTY BELL RINGS

TOTAL VOTE<-MASON CITY   Russians Dance With Glee on Hearing of Invasion of Europe

PRESIDENTIAL VETO ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL SUSTAINED BY HOUSE   PRESIDENT VITROLIC IN DENOUNCING MEAS. URE IN VETO MESSAGE

House Backs Roosevelt Vetc Of Action To Erase Subsidies   President Sustained By 151 To 226 Vote After Attack On Measure As Inflationary And Price Boosting

DRAWN BY CONGRESS   Declares Major Warring Nations All Pay Subsidies

CHIEF EXECUTIVE “ASSAILS ACT IN . OFFICIAL REPORT   President Claims It’s ‘Inflation Measure’ — House to Vote on It Again

ANTLSUBSIDY BILL VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT   WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—  "President Roosevelt today vetoed the anti-subsidy nill an@ the House promptly sustained the veto by a vote of 226 to 151.

Roosevelt Wins Subsidy Battle   President's Veto of Bill Ending Food Aid Sustained in House by 151-226 Vote; Executive Dubs Measure Inflationary

President Vetees Anti-Subsidy Bill   Sends Strongly Worded Message To Congress

226 Vote to Sustain Veto: 151 Opposed   Can’t Hold Wage Line If Bill Becomes  Law, He Says

House Votes 151 - 226 to Uphold F.D.R   No Major Country Has Beer Able to Gurb Costs With‘out a Subsidy, He Says   WOULD REVERSE. ENTIRE POLICY   Repeal Received a Big Vote in Second Attempt to Change Program

Subsidies Bill Killed By FR, And House Vote.  President Declared Measure Would Boost Living Costs

-FDR V Vetoes “Subsidy ‘Act   Sees Inflation At Stake In Measure

FDR Veto Kills Ban on Subsidies  cae cel EY a   151 Congressmen  Sustain President's Veto As Two-Thirds Majority Is Needed

 President Vetoes Anti-Subsidy Bill; Cites Its Effect On Living Costs; \Think Congress Cannot Override

SUBSIDIES BAN VETOED BY FOR   Says Bill Means Inflation Food Shortage, Higher Living Costs

House Vote Uphotds Food Subsidy Vete   Swift Ballot Backs President's Action by 226 {o 151

ANTISUBSIDY BILL—   President Terms It Inflation And Food Shortage Measure   House Vote 151-226

ANTI-SUBSIDY AGT ISVETOEL   FR Says It Will Lead to Inflation, Higher Living Costs.   CAUSE FOCD SHORTAGE

PRESIDENT WINS SUBSID} PLAN FIGHT   Veto of Antisubsidy Bill Is Sustained By Lower House

SUBSIDY REPEALER VETO SUSTAINED   House Unable to Muster ite Necessary Power to Override

ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL VETOED: IS NOW DEAD      House Sustains President  jn Objections to Measure, Branded .as Infla ’ tionary, High-Cost-ofLiving Law.

House Upholds Anti-Subsidy Bill Veto   Opponents of President Fail To Get Enough Votes

He’ll Also Veto The New Tax Bill House Sustains F.D.R.’s  Anti-Subsidy Bill Veto By Vote Of 151 To 226

 Anti-Subsidy Veto Sustained   House Fails To Show Two. Third Majority After F.D.R. Returns It.

HOUSE SUSTAINS ROOSEVELT VETO   Commodity Credit Corp., Is Virtually Ended Under Veto of 226 to 151.

House Backs F.R. Veto Of Subsidy Bill 151-226 Vote Short Of  Vot es Required To Override; President

House Sustains President's Veto of Anti-Subsidy Bill   Measure Rejected by Roosevelt in Vigorous Message. Pointing i to Danger of Living Cost Rise.

President Roosevelt Vetoes the Anti-Subsidy Bill This Morning   Denouncing It as an inflation Measure, Making Living Higher.

HOUSE SUSTAINS ROOSEVELT VETO ON FOOD SUBSIDY   Blouse Action Kills Bill As TwoThird Vote Is Necessary

SUBSIDY VETO SENT CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT   Message Sent With Document; Senate  May Override Bill

House Vote Ends Long  Controversy   FDR Says Measure Would Boost Food Pricee 7 Pct

Anti-Subsidy Bill Vetoed By President Who Terms it "A High Cost of Living Measure”

President Vetoe: Anti-Subsidy Bill   CHIEF EXECUTIVESAYS BILL IS INFLATION MEASURE AND WILL HIKE COSTS OF LIVING   Veto Sustained When Howe Lacks 25 Votes of Required Number to Over-ride Action. Republican Voted Preponderantly to Over-ride the Veto

Anti-Subsidy Measure Sent Back To Solons With Veto; House Sustains It 151-226   Roosevelt Regards Bill As Highly Inflationary

Subsidy Ban Vetc Won't Stop Fight   House Refuses to Override, But New Attack Started at Once

SUBSIDY BAN VETO UPHELD - BYTHEHOUSE   Action on 1 the Much. De. bated ‘Measure Is Quick —   PROGRAM IS VITAL, EDR MESSAGE SAYS   Bill Called d “Inflationary” and “High Cost of Liv' + tne” Measure

FDR Emphatic With Veto Of Subsidy Bill   “Legislation Is Inflation Measure,’ President Claime

Veto Message Calls Subsidy  - Repealer “An_ Inflation Measure, High Cost Of Living And Food Shortaze Measure.”

HOUSE SUSTAINS ROOSEVELT VETO OF FOOD SUBSIDY BAN   Votes 226 to- Override President, 151 Against but Foes « Subsidies Lay Plans to Continue Battle — FDR Urges Quick Action on New CCC Bill

Roosevelt Wins Subsidy Battle   His Veto of Bill Upheld by House

President’s Veto Of Bill To Kill Food Subsidies Sustained By House Vote

Roosevelt Vetoes Anti-subsidy Bill, House Sustains  President Calls — It High Cost OF Living Measure

Lower Branch of Congress Votes 151 to 226 to Kill: . Measure It Passed 278 to 117

Anti-Subsidy Bill Is Vetoed By FDR Today   Message Telling Why He.Vetoed Measure Came as No Surprise to Members of Congress.

FR Veto of _ Anti-Subsidy Bill Stands   House Lacks 25 Votes of Necessary Two-Thirds To Override

Anti-Subsidy Bill Vetoed By President   House Fails to Override Veto; Roosevelt Says Bill Inflationary

Roosevelt in Triumph Over Anti Subsidy Bloc  i House Sustains * President After He

in. the Much. De‘Ns ‘bated reasirs is oe ‘ Quick:            PROGRAM: AS. VITAL,      Bill, Called “infl “Inflationary” ahs” “High Cost of Liy-” 1 ie eM neue

FDR VETOES ANTI SUBSIDY MEASURE   House Sustains Action, Which Kills the Bill,

ANTISUBSIDY BILL VETOED BY F.0.R   Executive Says Bill Is Inflation Measure, Boosts Liv ing, Reduces Food.

FDR’S VETO OF ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL SUSTAINED BYHOUSE   Commodity Credit Corp Is Now Technically Dead

VETOED BILL IS SENT BACK TO CONGRESS   ROOSEVELT DECLARES IN MESSAGE THAT BANNING OF SUBSIDIES WOULD LEAD — TOINFLATION ~

Anti-Subsidy Bill Vetoed By FDR As An Inflation Measure   _ President’s Emphatic Disapproval Says It Would Hike Prices Cause Shortages

Fail To Get Tally Total ‘To Override   Measure Called Inflationary By President Is Killed by  Action.

Dec: res It “Inflation Measure’’   President Insists Subsidies Must Be Continued to Hold Down Living Cost

House Fails To Muster Sufficient Votes To Override His Veto Of Anti-Subsidy Bill

Anti Subsidy : Bill Rejected: Tax Veto Seen  Roosevelt Says End Of Subsidies Would  Daetam  tele Con cte

Subsidy Veto Is Upheld   House Fails By 25 Votes to Pass Subsidy Ban After Message. from FDR

FDR Wins Sudsidy  Battle.   President’s Veto of Bill Is Sustained Upon House Vote Of 226 to 15 i

House Upholds Veto for Subsidy Bill   FDR Attacks Measure As Inflationary In Message Today

HOUSE UPHOLDS FR'S VETO OF SUBSIDY BAN   Vote Today Kills Measure

President Vetoes  Anti-Subsidy Bill   House Sustains Action in Vote; Measure Called Inflation Move

[House Sustains  President’s Veto ‘of Subsidy Bill   Action Follows FR’s Argument Against Food Legislation

HOUSE UPHOLDS FDR'S REJECTION BY 151-226 VOTE   Claims Legislation Woul Make Living, War Costs Too High

House Sustains President’s Vete Of Subsidy Bill   Chief Executive Calls It High Cost of Living, Inflationary Measure

Anti-Subsidy Bill Killed as Inflationary   President Terms  It High Cost of Living Measure, Food Shortaqe Measure

Administration Scores Over Farm Bloc By Vote Of 226 To 151   FIGHT TO CONTINUE, WOLCOTT DECLARES

HOUSE SUSTAINED  PRESIDENT’S VETO,  ANTI SUBSIDY BIL   Mr. Roosevelt Fired Measure Back to Congress With a Veto Today.   HOUSE VOTE, 226-151   The Antis Were 25 ‘Votes Short of the Necessary Two-Thirds.

Anti- Subsidy Measure. I Vetoed. By FDR; Action. - Sustained By. House   Bill Called ‘An Inflation Measiire, ‘A High Cost Of Living Measure, A Food enguage Measure’ By Chief Beacntive .

Anti-Subsidy Veto Is Upheld   Opposition Fails Te Muster Strenath

House Quickly Sustains Veto, Saves Subsidy   Majority. ‘Lacks 25 . Votes To. Kill Food

FOOD SUBSIDIES REPEAL BEATEN   House Lacks 25 Votes To Pass Bill Over White House Veto

F.R. Vetoes Bill to End Food Subsidy   Returns Legislation to Congress; Calls It An “Inflation Measure”

SUBSIDY FIGHT WON BY F:D.R.   House Opponents Unable To Override His Veto Of Anti-Legislation

Chinese Face Jap Drives on Four Fronts   Nips Believed in Smash at Changsha To Clear Rail Line

Japs Are Reported Making Another Attack on Railway  Move Is Considered Attempt to Clear Canton Line Defense

2 RE “eee nnn nen ee  Sid F eder Says First Air Raid Puts More Lumps in Your Throat Than a Bad Case of Tonsilitis

CAMACHO SEIZES GUNMAN AFTER RULLEY MISSED ITS. MARK BY INCHES—-GERMAN DOCUMENTS FOUND

Attempted Assassination Of Mexican President [s Linked With Nazi Cause

Fresh Vegetable Ceilings Changed   Attempt To Forestall Sharp Increases

Fear of Nazis Said To Be Cause of War Prisoners Suicides  “Kangaroo Courts’ Held to Judge =. Accused Men

Two Germans In Prison Camp  Kill Themselves   Acts Attributed to Fear Of Persecution by Nazis; Halifax Sees Big Problem

Yanks Pursue Remnants of Beaten Army   Drive 10 Miles North In Push Up Rhone,

HERCE BATTLE RAGES ON RHONE   U. S. TROOPS SLASH AT STRAGGLING 19th ARMY

Predict Nelson Ready To Sign Order Permitting Some Civilian Production

NELSON EXPECTED ~TONGNORE LEAHY   Military Objections Against Production of Civilian Goods Not Effective.

CIVILIAN GOODS MAY BE PRODUCED SOON   Nelson’s Reconversion Plan Won’t Be ‘Watered’

Nelson Okays Civilian Output  To Authorize Work Despite Obiections

Nelson May Override ‘Army, Navy Protests   WPB Chairman fs For limited Production Of Civilien Goods

RUSS TROOPS WITHIN MILE OF BUDAPES!   Hurl Germans Back Into Eastern Slovakia

PRIZE AIRFIELD ON TINIAN HELD BY YANK FORGES   Northern Fourth Of Island Conquered, Adm. Nimitz  Announces   12 MILES OF GUAM COASTLINE TAKEN

FOURTH OF TINIAN TAKEN IN ASSAULT   Yanks Forge Solid Line Across Northern . Sector

Section With One Of Finest Airfields ‘In The Marianas !n Possession Of Americans; ° Forge Solid Line Across Sector

ISLES BETWEEN MARIANAS AND TOKYO ARE HIT   Enemy Broadcast Said Detailed Reports Not Yet Available

Huge Mass For Victims Of Germans   25,000 Mourners For Poles Slain In Extermination Camp

Lublin Mourns Its War Dead  Nazi Prisoners Dig Up Victims’ Bodies  — ere sr aes

Huge Mass Held for War Victims  25,000 Poles Join in Prayers otf Lublin

Busy America Gives but Scanf Pause To Honor ‘Hero Dead  luhilatian af Nav 11

Armistice Day Is Observed By A World At War   America and Allies Observe Day On Note Of Prayer and Hope.

Jubilation Lacking As People Pray  For Early Return Of Peace Throughou All Nations; Unknown Soldier's . Grave Is Visited  By President

Nation's Factories Keep Busy Turning Out Tools of War on 26th Anniversary of Armistice

Armistice Day 1944 Is Observed on Note of Prayer and Hope   Finds Doughboys Taking Up Where Pershing Left OFF in 718

ARMISTICE DAY FINDS U, S. BUSY   Nation Engaged In Global Conflict Has Time For Only Scant Pause To Honor Heroes.

GOP Keynote Is Harmony   Party Members Leave Kansas Day Fete Full Of Confidence for °44

Reveals Secrets of Jet Propulsior  New Disclosures Made About New Weapon

Jet Planes Add 100 Miles Hour   Details On Mystery Ship Revealed By Army

Jet Planes Not Ready Yet For Combat   Indicates New Fighters Have 100 Miles More Sneed

JET PROPULSION. ~~ PROMISES ANOTHER 100 MILES AN HOUR  PLANE WOULD BE CREA’

American Planes Propelled by Gas Jets Mav Increase Speed 100 Miles an Hour

 Claim Jet Propulsion Will Add — 100 Miles an Hour to Plane Speed

Flustered  Atter 6 Years of Conni Writing, He t Address of is Fiancee

Japs Handed Sharp Blows   MacArthur-Nimitz Team Batters Enemy Along 800 Miles of Islands

Philippine Japs Said Cut Off Fron Formosa Suppites   Speculate Carrier Fleet Still In Action Against Japanese.

Formosa, Important Outpost, Has Been Blasted For Two Davs by Carrier Plane Attacks.   JAPS LOSE 63 SHIPS AND 396 WARPLANES

Supplies for Jap Philippine Army Believed Severed   Formosa Attack to Have Far-Reaching Consequences; New Raids Are Reported

Raids Cost Japs 63 Ships 396 Planes   Bombers Pound Formosa As Land Invasion of Philippines Looms

JAPAN'S ARMY IN PHILIPPINES STRANDED TODAY   American Bombing Of Fermosa Hard Blow To Japs

apanese Army Philippines Endangered   Believed To Be Cut Off From Source Of Help

BOMB ATT ON FORMOSA HURTING JAPS   Heavy Raids Cut Reinforce. ments To Philippine Garrison

Jap Army In Philippines May Be Cut Off From Aid   Islands Appear Wide Open For Invasion When Nimitz And MacArthur Strike

FORMOSA AIR RAID WRECK JAP BASE   Believed To Hove Cut Japanese Philippine Army Off From Reinforcement Source

CARRIER PLANES BLAST JAP BASE FOR THE 3RD DAY   TOKYO FEARFUL OF AMERICAN ATTACKS FROM LAND AND SEA

Reinforcements For Philippine Japs Cut Off By Formosa Attacks   Enemy In Islands Sorely Harassed By Guerrillas Even Before United States Invasion; Jap Shipping Troubles Aggravated.

Heavies Follow Naval Assaults On Enemy Base   Japs In Philippines  Cut Off From Aid By Pounding; Foe’s Loss In Attacks Are Hiah

Raids Cut Off Jap Army   Philippines Troops Isolated From Source Of Reinforcements

Enemy Units In Philippines Now Isolatec   Japs Cut Off By Formosa Raids; Lose 140 Ships, 525 Planes

Philippines Are Largely Cut Off From Jap Supplies   Great Air Raids This Week Precede Invasion Attempt

JAP SUPPLIES TO PHILIPPINES BELIEVED CUT   Nimitz Carrier Planes Hit 63 Jap Ships, Wreck 396 Planes

Formosa Pounding Cuts Relief For Philippines Japs   140 Ships, 525 Planes Knocked Out By Yanks

Formosa Raids Crippling Japs In Philippines   150,000 Nips Believed Cnt Off From Main Source of Reinforcement by Amcriean Attacks

ROUND-CLOCK BOMBING CUTS OFF SUPPLIES   Believed 150,000 Jap Soldiers Denied Reinforcements;  Formosa Was Chief Source Of Assist ance,

Philippines Wide Open  For Invasion   Jap Army, Harassed By Guerillas' Believed  lated Now From Main Reinforcement Source

Philippines Appear ~ Open for Invasion   Two Days of Carrier Strikes, and B-29 Raid, Believed to Have Cut Japs Off From : ’ Reinforcements From Formosa.

Want Alarm Clccks, Radio Tubes, Is Finding —  Ter A side ee a ak ee

Making Planes Larger Than B-29   Far East Developments May Take Spotlight

MAMMOTH BOMBERS TO AID SUPERFORTS IN HAMMERING JAPANESE HOME. — LAND

Two Others Are Under Assault In Marshalls   Half of Vital Seaplane Base Taken After Resistance

Two Others Under Navy, Air Assault   Half Of Important Seaplane Base Of Ebeye Island In Kwajalein Atoll ls Now Occupied

. Patton Leads: Tank. Attack...   Audacious Third Army Won Ports Then Turned East To Trap Nazis

Patton Puts New Meaning Into Lightning Warfare   Colorful And a Genera! Leads Thies Army Across  Brittany To Tre vy a~y No i ae Made Reflire

LT. GEN. PATTON DID GREAT WORK BRITTANY DRIVE   When Bradley Launched His Great Break Out Offensive July 25

RUSSIANS SMASH SERIES OF STRONG ENEMY ATTACKS   Communique Admits, Hewever, Slight Wedge Is Driven Into Lines.

REDS BEAT OFF LATEST NAZI ATTACKS   Germans Near lasi Striking With Tanks, Infantry

REDS SMASH NAZI ATTACKS IN ROMANIA   Slight Wedge Is Driven Into Russ Lines Near lasi

SOVIET TROOPS SMASH STRONG GERMAN ATTACK      Nazis Drive Slight Wedge Intc Russian Line On Front In Romania

Reds Smash Nazi Infantry Attacks   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses in Thrust in lasi Area

Red Troops Smash Nazi lasi Attack   Heavy German Losses On Romanian Front

Bombs Jolt Calais Area   ‘Rocket Coast’ Again Under Yank: Attack

PULVERIZING ASSAULTS HIT INVASION COAST   Aerial Traffic Heavy Over Channel; Mosquitoes Bomb Western Reich

RAID FOLLOWS NIGHT ATTACK BY RAF UNITS   Dayight Blow Landed On Pas De Calais Coastal Area

Pulverizing © f Assault By ~ i Yank Planes      CHANNEL VIRTUALLY ALIVE WEFH AERIAL TRAFFIC; BRITISH CARRY. OFFENSIVE INTO WESTERN  GERMANY

Marauders Hit French Invasion  Coast In Raid   British Mosquitoes Carry Out Offensive On Western Germany

BERLIN STILL BURNING FROM MASS ATTACK   Night Offensive Against Europe Likely In Rhineland or Ruhr Areas.

FRENCH GOAST AGAIN HIT BY U.S. MAPRAUDERS   British Mosquito ‘Bombers Carry Offensive With West Germany Attack

Raid French Coast Again   U. S. Medium Bombers Pound Invasion Area Across Channel After RAF Blows At Western Germany

DIPLOMAT'S FIRST WIFE SOUGHT IN CHICAGO SLAYING   Investigate Love Triangle o' Decade Ago In Murder of Mrs. Wliams.

OLD LOVE TRIANGLE ENTERS INTO KILLING OF DIPLOMAT’S WIFE   Hotel - Room Slayer Is Hunted; Revenge Motive Seen

DEWEY CALLS FOR TAX CUT   SLASH IN PERSONAL INCOME TAXES AND ABOLISHING OF SOME OTHER LEVIES. URGED —¢"

EWEY PLEDGES CUT IN TAXES   Bricker, Speaking in Centralia, Offers No Utopia

FIELDS SEIZED ON BIAK ISLAND   Conquest Of Jap-Held Dromes Completed In Schoutens

Borokoe and Sorido Landing Fields On Biak Island Captured by Yanks

TWO OLD DEMOCRATS, GARNER AND FARLEY, DISCUSSED POLITICS  FARLEY SAYS TIMES ARE   FARLEY SAYS TIMES ARE DARK, BUT HE STILL HAS FAITH IN AMERICA

TWO OLD DEMOCRATS, ARNER AND FARLEY, DISCUSSED POLITICS  FARLEY SAYS TIMES ARE NARY RIT BE STILT. HA!

Two Pacific Subs Missing   Zapelin And Seulpin fictims Of Japanese

Allies Capture Two Burma Sites   Garrisons South of  Bishenpur Wiped Out

Eric Johnson To Visit In Russia   Invited to Inspect Produc tion Facilities There

Spotlight On New York For November Hints   Politiciars Keeping Eyes On Vote Registration.

Revistralions in New York Watched By Politicians   Look for Indications OF Possible Results On Novemier 7

Election Spetlight Now on New York   First Day Registrants Less Than in 1940

Escape Gap For Nazis Forces Is Narrowed Down   British-Canadian Forces Storm Into Outskirts Of Falaise In Normandy   YANKS ARE WELL BEYOND ARGENTAN

ANNIUNEES PET   $94,106 Contributed, Group Informs Congress; One - For $100

Hungary Seeks Peace Terms From Allies   Germans Take Over Capital, Gestapo Arrests Regent

HUNGARIANS ASK PEACE WITH RUSSIA   As Red Armies Sweep Across Central Plains Toward Budapest; Petition Signed.   $$ To Capital

Hungary Sues For Peace As Germans Seize Capital City   Petition for Armistice Broadcast by Regent Horthy Over Budapest Radio—Gestapo Reported Making Mass Arrests

Adm. Horthy Seeks Peace  With Allies   Plea Is Broadcast Over Radio; Countr: Reported in Hands Of Hungarian-Nazis

Nazis Seize Budapest As Soviets Gain   Regent Horthy Said Seized By Gestapa After Appeal

Nazis Seize Full Control In Budapest  Hitler Strikes As Hungary Sues for Peace

Hungarian — Government Seeks Peace   But Nazis Take Over After Regent Horthy Makes Radio Appeal  ARRESTS REPORTED

Budapest Seized By Germans as Hungary Revolts   Horthy Government Asks for Armistice

ASKS COUNCIL TO ENACT CURFEW LAW FOR THE BOROUGH   Letter Addressed To Borough Legislative Body by Bristol Travel Club   GIVEN TO COMMITTEE

K BRISTOL COUNCIL TO ENAGT GURFEW LAW   Women’s Organization in Town Asks Authorities for Action   ‘REASONS CITED BY CLUB

Japs’ Swift Drive On Loyang is Seer As Serious Threat   Part of Garrison Evacuated, May Give Japs Base For Drive Inte Heart of China

Japs Nearer City Of Loyang   Capture May Petmit Thrust Into Heart of China; Chennault’s Fliers Hit Japs

Japs Advance Again in China Drive   Enemy Columns Are Only Six Miles From Ancient City

Honan Front Is Flaming  With Action   Threat To China Proper Grows As Nips Drive Ahead

i FIGH ONLY SIX MI FROM LOYANG   Chinese Greatly Apprehensive Of New Advances

Japs Close in On Loyang   Chinese Admit That Situation on Honan Front Grows Serious

Chinese Battle News Serious; Japs iAdvance   Jap Thrust at Heart of ~ China Looms as New Possibility

Japs Advance Toward Loyang   Enemy Only Six Miles South of Ancient Chinese City

SITUATION IN PROVINCE OF HONAN GRAVE   Fall of Historic City of Loyang Imminent as Nipponese Advance Within Six Miles of Base   ENEMY SHIPS PLASTERED

Occupation of Huon Peninsula Is Completed  ARH   14,000 Japs Are Annihilated; Yanks, Aussies Are Joined

Yank Bombers Hit Marshalls; ~ Armies Joinec   Japan's Hold On South ern Flank Of Ocean,  Corridor Broken

U.S. Vessels Shell Atolls   Fliers Report Madang Seems To Be Deserted

YANK, AUSSIE TROOPS JOIN   Most of Jap Force on Huon Peninsula Is Wiped Out

SOVIET FORCES SMASH WITHIN SIGHT OF RIGA   Remnants of Battered Nazi Army In Bal. tics May Be Chop. ped Up.

Russians Have Nearly 1,000,000 Men In Battle; Seek To Close Trap On Thousands Of Nazi Troops In Baltic Area   GERMAN FORCES FIGHT FIERCELY

Russians In Sight Of Riga   Remnaats of Battered German Army Facing Annihilation Threat

Collapse of Nazi Baltic Front Seen   Reds Push Within Sight of Riga—Still Silent on  Warsaw

Soviet Troops Drive Within Sight of Riga   Offensive Presages Quick Crumpling of Nazi Front

Baltic Push May Crumple North Front   Nazi Army Remnants Face Annihilation By Soviet Guns.

Reds Within Sight of Riga   Big Offensive Crumples Nazi Front in Baltics

BALTIC DRIVES PRESAGE SWIFT COLLAPSE FOR NAZIS IN EAST   German Plight Grows Hourly

SOVIET ARMIES PRESS WITHIN SIGHT OF RIGA   Early Developments Of Maior Import Expected In Warsaw Battle

Yugoslav King  Ousts Mihailovic  As War Mmister May Offer Cabinet  Post to Tito, Head OM Biehtinae Dartieane

KING PETER QUSTS TIS WAR MINISTER   MIHAILOVIC REMOVED TO .APPEASE TITO—LATTER MAY  BE OFFERED POST.

Tito May Be Offered War Minister Job   Gen. Mihailovic Ousted By King Peter; Chief Of Partisans Might Reiect Offer

CHETNIK LEADER EJECTED FROM SLAV'S CABINET   Cabinet Post May Be Offered To Tito In Hope Of Agreement

King Fires Mihailovic   Tito May Be Named War Minister in New Cabinet, Claim

King Peter Ousts War Minister To Appease Tito    Churchill May Lay Before Commons This.  Week Plans And Hopes For World Security

iPresident Asks Creation of MYA Endorses Stand Taken by Governors At Omaha Meeting; Wants Action Now

May Announce  Vichy Removal   Say Laval, Officials Fleeing To Nazi Border

2,000 American ‘planes blast five German cities: lose 54 aircraft

+ RAF Follows Up With Night Raid At Frankfurt Plants  @ Probably 2,000 American Heavy Bombers And

DEWEY WILL REPEAT CALL FOR A CHANGE      Theme to Be Hammered at Voters Tonight in Presidential Candidate’s Speech in Madison Square Garden.

Dewey Views Promises Of FDR as Worthless  oC AD Bide fae Naw Enoland Vate   G. O. P. Bids for New England Vote With Data on Unemployment Issue

Dewey, FDR Set for Their Closing Talks   Both to Be on Air Saturday Evening; Seek New York Vote

DEWEY CHARGES FDR’S PROMISES ARE ‘WORTHLESS’   Candidate Scores President’s Speech

Dew ey Prepares  To End € ampaign   Last Speech Before Election to be at Mad. ison Square Garden

—DEWEY—  G. O. P. Candidate To Continue Attack —   Gov. Dewey Expected To Call Again For Washington House Cleaning’ In Madison Square Garden A dd voce

Dewey to Speak at 9:30 P.M.   Calls President's Promises ‘Bogus’, “No Good’ and ‘Worthless’

Dewey To Speak In New York Garden Tonight   Renews Call For “House Cleaning”

Dewey, Roosevelt Broadcast Tonight   Candidates to Make Final Bids for Votes

Final Appeal for “House Cleaning”   Dewey’s Last Speech Of Campaign in New York Tonight

DEWEY ON AIR AT 8:30 TONIGHT   Will Address the Nation From Boston,

DEWEY T0 HIT HARD TONIGHT   oak TO APPEAL OR HOUSE CLEANING ‘IN NEW YORK SPEECH

Dewey Charges U. S. Foes Seek  To Seize Nation   Radio Talk Tonight Wil Attack “Subversive” T BP Gannartare

Labels FR’s New Pledges ‘Worthless’      Entire Roosevelt Regime One of Broken Vows, Dewey Charges.

Dewey, Roosevelt Both Go on Radio Tonight for Final Public Speeches

“T'S TIME FOR A CHANGE,” DEWEY'S THEME FOR TONITE   To Talk On “Change” . Issue At Medison Square Garden After Two Months Of Active Campaigning That. Has . Taken Him 20,000 Miles

20,000 HEAR GOV. DEWEY AT BUFFALO   Calls Roosevelt Promises ‘Bogus’ And ‘Worthless’

GOP CANDIDATE ADDRESSES BIG N. Y. GOP RALLY      Will Pull No Punches In Last Attack On FDR And Henchmen

DEWEY TO SPEAK BEFORE BIG GOP RALLY TONIGHT      Will Talk From Madison Square Garden In Last Big GOP Mectine

DEWEY CLOSING DRIVE IN N. Y.   Nominee Will Review His ‘Campaign Tonight

Dewey Speaks in New York Garden at 9:30 Tonight: Will Pull No Punches

Dewey Carries Drive For Votes To New England      “Subversive Elements ‘Supporting Fourth . -Term Challenged

Dewey to Speat In New York in Major Address   Time for Chonge Theme Expected To Be Presented

‘It’s Time toChange. Dewey Tonight                  soe ara  V's speech will pew nationally broadcast tonight at 10:30 o’elock,

Dewey ta Call for Change   Expected to Appeal for House Cleaning, Hit F. D. R. Policies

Dewey Begins Swing Into New England   Says FDR's Campaign Promises Proved  ‘Worthless’

‘Clean-up’ In Washington Need--Dewey   Speech Tonight to Stress Need For Capital ‘House-Cleaning’

Dewey Speaks In New York  Will Address Rally In Madison Square Carden at 10:20

DEWEY LABELS F. D. PROMISES AS WORTHLESS   Boston Talk Wednesday Night To Hit Hillman And Browder

DeweyEnds His Ballot Bid In New York City   Theme to be. “It’s Time for a Change;*” Will Pull -»No- Punches, It Is Indicated

Dewey Vows To Renovate Washington   New York Address Tonight Will Climax War on New Deal

FDR’s Promises Are “No Good” Says Dewey   GOP Candidate for President to Talk At Roston Tonicht

DEWEY TO TALK IN NEW YORK THIS EVENING   Will Ask Nation To Help House Cleaning Job

DEWEY INN. Y. TALK TONIGHT   Brings Campaign to White Heat from Madison Sq. Garden

TIME IS UP:      ae la UP: Two German Generals Appeal  For Armies to Lay Down Arms

NAZI GENERALS » URGE ARMISTICE   Two Captured Officers Ask German People to Give Up Their Fight

Captured Generals Ask End Of War   ‘Irresponsible Hitler’ Stra/ogy Hit; Russians Continue To Squeeze East Prussia Pincers

2 NAZI GENERALS CALL FOR PEACE   Urge Germans To End War, See 30 Divisions Doomed

CAPTURED GERMAN GENERALS  APPEAL TO PEOPLE AND ARMY TO BRING WAR TO AN END

Workers Continue To Search Rune In Cleveland Disaster; Board Of Inquiry Named To Conduct Probe

CLEVELAND FIRE TOLL NOW 98   10 Man Board Begins Inquiry in Disaster

ue TOLL... “REACHES 99      THIRTY: BODIES MAY STILL BE CMINCOWREOKAGE ‘LEFT BY!  EXPLOSION AT CLEVE-.

FireDeathToll Reaches 98; Many Still Missing   Board of Inquiry Set up To Probe Cleveland Catastrophe

Launch Inquiry Cleveland Fire.   Death Toll Soars To 98 While 108 Persons Still Are Missing.

Transports Make JU. 5. sma Record Flight to Moves In 0  Open Burma Roadisland Lavoe

35 U.S. Transport Planes Cross Atlantic With Overload of 5 Tons Each Then Carry Freight to india Base

EXPECT SERIES E _ BOND SALES TO HIT $2,500,000 QUOTA   Penna Salec Sk Per cant

SERIES E BOND SALES EXCEED BILLION MARK   Sixth War Loan Campaign Was Been Oversubscribed; Drive Yo End Saturday

Interdepartmental Feud Rages Over Agency to Dispose of U. S. Lanc

‘Europeans  F ace Winter Of Suffering   Food Is Scarce In Both Liberated And German-Held Areas

Kurope faces black: winter of sufferi  Death and unrest seem inevitable

Europe Moves Into Worst Winter of War  Continent to Suffer Because of Inadequate Supplie:

Europe Faces Black Winter Of Suffering   Death, Destruction To Be Unparalleled As Warfare Rages

BLEAK WINTER WILL CONFRONT ALL EUROPEANS   Starvation, Disease Anc Political Unrest Seen On Continent   HOLLAND ESPECIALLY HIT BY OCCUPATION

Europe Moves Into Blackest Winter Devastation Faces Reich;  Many Lands Short Of Food

FIGHTING IN ITALY SHIFTS   New Battle North of Arezzo   Germans Continue To Hold Florence

WARNS STATE SHOULD MAKE ECONOMIES   Tax Group Says Surplus Should Not Increase Spending

Istanbul Curbs Nazi Agitators   Desperate Hitler Held Using  Undereround Pressure

IMPOSE MARTIAL LAW ON ISTANBUL   PRO-GERMAN TURKS ROUNDED UP AFTER PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS IN CITY.

MILITARY RULE IN ISTANBUL IMPOSED      Action Taken Due to Activities of Pro-Nazi Group

Declare Martial Law in Istanbul  Turks Seek to Curb Pro-Nazi Group

Invoke Martial Law in Istanbul To Check Nazis   Public Demonstrations Caused by Pro-Axis Group, Ankara Says

‘OLD ANTHRACITE MINE TAKES TOLL Frantic Woman Sees Niece of Two  Disappear Through Sidewalk Crack

Fabulous Texas Political ,Career Closes as Death "Comes to Farmer Jim

Terrific Blows Loosed In I taly   German Shipyards, Ha rbors Pounded  ees ee eot ie eee      Famous I ndian Collection Disnlaved At Tech Museum

ALLIES HURL 2,000 SORTIES OVER ITALY   Targets at Head of Adriatic Sea Catch Brunt of Assault; Shipping on Roth Ceasts Hurt.   Take Up Mines

Terrific Blows Loosed In Italy   German Shipyards, Harbors Pounded  Ry NOLAND NORCGCAARD

Nazi Shipping Ports and Railroad Centers in Italy Bombed by Allies

hed Birds Even Series at 1-Al In 3-2 Triumph   Vi Inning Pinch Single. ‘Brown Errors Give Y pe” . een pl

Cards Win 3 to 2 In 11 Innings To Even Series   Four Brownie Errors Contribute to Defeat; O’Dea Is Batting Hero

CARDS EVEN. SERIES WITH CITY RIVALS   Pinchhitter: O'Dea : Drives _in Winning Run’ in'the Eleventh .

CARDS EVEN — SERIES WITH CITY RIVALS   Pinchhitter 1 O'Dea: Drives n Winning Run in ‘the ‘Eleventh -

Cardinals Even Series With  3-to-2 Victory   llth-Inning Single by Pinch-Hitter Scores Winning Run

BORGEN BAY BASES GOAL OF ATTACKS   Nip Cruiser Suffers Direct Hit From Liberator

22 Zeros Downed, 3 Ships Hit   Marines Bearing Dowr On Enemy, Widen Airstrip Perimeter  \t Gloucester.

Say Japs Pouring Men Into Canton   Attempt To Reinforce Army Facing Kweilin

Fourth Term Test In Texas Tuesday   Dewey, Bricker Also Face a Showdown

Large Crowd Hears Rayburn Speak   Says Under Present Administration, Your Privileges Are Safe

West Texas Democrats Hear Rayburn Charge Dewey Endorsing New Deal Law

Surrounded U. S. Battalion Holds Of! Crack German Unit for Five Days   Captain Notifies Nazis He Would Surrender Only When Last Bullet Was Gone; Finally Rescued

Battalion rescued after 5 and a half days’ isolation on hill near Mortain

LOST AMERICAN BATTALION SAVED   CUT OFF ON FRENCH HILL FOR 6 DAYS, UNIT REFUSED TO SURRENDER.

Break Through To Rescue ‘Lost’ Yank Battalion  Heroic Americans Ha: Reiacted IIlltimatum   Heroic Americans Hac Rejected Ultimatum Of Nazis To Give Up Or Die In Battle

Lost Battalion Rescued After 5 Days; Got Plasma in Shells Fired by Long Toms

**Lost Battalion” Rescued After Five and Half Days Surrounded by German Army

Defiant Baffalion Finally Rescued  Cut Off for Five and Half Days By Germans

‘Houston Commander Of ‘Lost Battalion’ Defies “Germans: American Unit Rescued On Sixth Day

Canadian Infantry, Tanks Pour Through Breaches 110 Miles From City   U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS _ BATTLE INTENSE FLAK   BY JAMES M. LONG

D. TROOPS CLOSING IN ON LE MANS   Advance 10 Miles as Canadians Smash Some of Enemy’s Strongest Lines Before Capital.   NAZIS PUTTING UP FURIOUS FIGHT.   Battle Americans in Besieged Port of St. Malo and Offer Stiff Resistance Below Vire.

American Forces Pounding at Gateway of Le Mans GERMANS-CONTINUE— TO FIGHT FIERCELY. Bombers Defy Flak to Bat  ter at Enemy Positions

American Forces Pound: ing at Gateway of Le Mans  ANP tty  TO FIGHT FIERCELY  Bombers Defy Flak to Batter at Enemy Posi-  tions

YANKS START POWER DRIVE INTO LE MANS   TWO GREAT ALLIED THRUSTS AIMED AT PARIS

Faris 1s imperiled by smash  Americane nannd   Americans pound Le Mans satewayv

Canadians Smash Lines Below Caen   Shatter Enemy Lines And Drive to Within 110 Miles of Paris

Americans Poung at Gateway of Le Mans; Enemy Strongholds Blocking Roads to Paris.

German Garrisons Being Depleted   Americans Reported At Gateway To Le Mans One Of Kev Defense Points In German Line

American Troops Pound At Gateway Of Le Mans;  Canadians Launch Drive   Yanks Advance Ten Miles Southwest Of Vire And Threaten To Pinch Off Enemy Forces Around Cherence-Le Roussel

American Vanguards Reach Big Rail Center; Canadians Drive 5 Miles Through Bitter Resistance

Invasion Coast Raked By Allies   Bombers Blast. Site Of Nazi ‘Rocket Guns’

Nazis Hit Avain By L.ZOOUS Air planes   Cities In Southern Section Of Reich   Principal Targets OF American Air Foree

1,000 Planes Bomb Germar War Plants   RAF Mosquitos Smash Trains In Night Attacks

NAZI AIR FIELDS, WAR PLANTS HIT   Blow At Cities Follows RAF Train-Busitng Forays

US. S, Planes Blast Reich   War Industries. And Airfields Bombed 

1,000 Planes Hit 3 Reich Cities   Factory, Tank Works, and Air Base In Today’s Schedule.

Plane Fleets Keep Up Fire Behind Lines   Industry and Transport Blasted in Day and Nicht Raids

AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST REICH IS MOUNTING   More Than Thousand American Heavies With 700 Escorting Fighters Attack War Industries

ith Allied Raid  In Nine Days Fits Nazi site:   Nurnberg Among Southern _ German Cities Blasted  "By 1000 U. S. Heavies

A9 Jap Planes Lost At Borneo   Allied Attacks Net Greatest Haul In Any Single Pacific Raid.

REDS START TWO NEW OFFENSIVES AGAINST FINLAND   Strike From Northeast and Southeast as Army on Karelian Isthmus Plunges Beyond Viipuri.   GERMAN DIVISIONS IN NORTH MENACED   Helsinki Threatened From South — Reports Say Regime’s Leaders Are Considering Armistice.   RYULYVLETIN,

Troops Angered By Strike News, Stimson Asserts   Repeats Demands For Service Law

Visited Here Recently   Senators Cool To Stimson Plea   Secretary Liges Labor Draft Action

MEN OVERSEAS RESENT STRIKES   National Service Law Needed, Stimson Tells Senate

Men Overseas Said Angered,  Senators Hear   House Committee Pigeon-Holes Measure Asked by President

Stimson Says Men Overseas Are Bitter About Strikes Holding Up War Effort

NATIONAL SERVICE LAW APPEAL MADE   Stimson, Urging Labor Draft, Says Soldiers Resent Strikes

Senators Told Servicemen Resent Strikes   Only Congress Needs Impressing Stimson Says

Stimson Says Public For Labor Dralt  Secretary Of War Declares Soldiers Resent Strikes

Stimson Urges  Worker Draft   War Secretary Declares Service: Moen: Annrnce

Poles In London Anxious To Fight   Want Permission To Join Warsaw Partisans

CHINESE CAPTURE IMPORTANT TOWN   Two Great Jap Forces Complete Link Severing China;  . Unbroken Link From Manchuria‘to Hong Kong

CHINESE ENTER. JAP BURMA BASE   FIGHTING RAGES IN BHAMO— NIP KWANGSI INVADERS EFFECT JUNCTION. °

Chinese -in-Bhamo; Win Road Town   Command Hints, Enamy Has Succeeded in Cutting China  In Two -

Chinese Hint Nation Split By Japanese   Kai-shek’s Soldiers Take City On Burmo Road, Enter Bhamo

Fighting Rages for Burma City  Enemy Victorious on Another Front

1.3 Million Loss In fowa Buildings   Red Cross Checking Cost of Storms

BUILDING LOSS IN FLOODS PUT AT $2345 000   Red Cross Survey So Far Covers Only 15  Counties in lowa

Damage Is Set At $2,345,000 By Red Cross   Seven Red Cross Workers Direct Relief Activities

M’Arthur Forces Extend New Drive   Paratroops Reinforce Troops on Noemfoor

Lines Extendet With Aid  of Paratroops   Tanks, Naval Air Forces Are Reducing Enemy

Major German Counteroffensive Beaten Decisively   American Forces Push Down Highway To Gain Nearly Eight Miles

Bradley's Men Reach Coast in French Drive   §-Mile Gain Recorded 2500 Tanks Pound  Beer Timas *

AMERICANS WIN BIG TANK BATTLE: THOUSANDS OF NAZIS CAUGHT IN TRAP

U. S. Troops, Taking Coutances. Continue Drive Despite Bitter Nazi Resisiance

U. S. Forces Resume Drive as Thousands of Germans Eace Ultimate Surrender 

Powerful American Tank . — Column Traps. Thousands Of Germans Against The Sea

Crush First Counteraction By the Germans   Thousands of Nazi Troops are Trapped North of Coutances

German  Attack Is Smashed   American Forces Rush Past Coutances for 8-Mile Gain

Tank Drive 'To Sea Cuts Off Enemy   Coutances Seized By Arsericans In LTeanfros Maneuver

Yank Tanks Crush Nazi Armor In Savage Fight   Foe Retreats Under Hail Of Bombs  As Americans Resume Offensive

Morell Given 6-12 Year Term   Must Provide $1,000 Security Bond On His Release

French Units Thrust Thru Belfort Gap To Frontier Of Germany   Nazi Retreat Along 400 Mi. Front Ranges From Stubborn Stand At Cologne To Rout In East

Reach Broad River Oppesite Bavaria, Germans Evacuate Humingue And St. Louis, Opposite Swiss Town Of Basel   ‘LIGHTNING THRUST IS MADE BY FREWCH

Germans Are Retreating All Along The 100 Mile  Offensive Front   SLASH TO WITHIN 26 MILES OF COLOGNE   (;cn. Patton’s Army Forees Make Five New Crossings Of German Border

Temperatures   German Resistance . In Fortress Ends As Area Encircled

Resistance — Of Germans Collapses   GEN. HODGES’ ARMY, EAST OF AACHEN, REACH POINT 26 MILES FROM COLOGNE

French Race Down Rhine To Frontier   Thousands of Nazi Priscners Bagged In Allied Of fensive.

FRENCH UNITS ARE FIRST TO REACH RHINE   All-out Offensive Against Reich Gains Momentum on West Front.   BULLETIN

PLANE GRAZES BED OF SLEEPING CHILD   Two Year Old Escapes Injury; Blanket in Plane Wreckage

Plane in.Crash Landing Tears Blanket Off Baby’s Bed; Child only Scratched

INDIAN TROOPS OCCUPY TIDDIM   Key Tokyo Troop Base In Burma Falls In Long Struggle

Program for. Education of Returning Service Men Takes Shape   'AXE JIS THE DIRECTOR

POST WAR PERIOD   Program for Education of Returning Service Men  Takes Shape

Russians Advance 3] Miles along Dnieper River   Kill 12,000 Nazis, Trap 75,000 More

Berlin Intimates Part of Nazis Huge Dnieper Bend Army Already Fighting for Life Against Pincers   Soviets Sweep Into Poland Along 32 Mile Front; Enemy Faces Greatest Danger in Roll Toward Rumania; Many Invaders Killed

GERMANS REEL UNDER BLOWS OF VATUTIN   Hammered Half-Way From Kiev To Warsaw; Reds Whittle Down Survivors Of Over 100.000 Nazis.   Near Krivoi Rog

Berlin Indicates Huge Nazi Army it Dnieper Bend Fights for Its Life; 3,000 More Germans Killed

NAZI DNIEPER ARMY MENACE! BY RED TROOF   Berlin Admits Conce Over Huge Force Figh ing Entrapment *   RUSSIANS ADVANCE DEEPER INTO POLAI

Russians Also Get Closer to Railway Line   Berlin Intimates Its Dnieper Bend Army is Fighting for Life

12,000 Nazis Annihilated In Four Days   ' Reds Plunge Westward From Captured Revno In Polish Territory  MUCH BOOTY IS TAKEN

Reds Drive On In Old Poland   Berlin Fears Dnieper Bend Army Now Fights For Life

Reds Menace Rail Lifeline Of Germans   Now Within 39 Miles Of Line Nazis Need - To Flee Dnieper Bend  LIPOVETS CAPTURED

BERLIN INTIMATES GERMAN ARMY OF OVER 500,000 FIGHTING FOR LIFE IN DNIEPER BEND AREA.

Reds Sweep 10 Miles Into Old Poland   3,000 of Retreating Nazis Killed: Rakitno Taken: Soviets Gain  On 32-Mile Front

SOVIETS MAKE 10-MILE PUSH ~— INTO POLAND   WARSAW -ODESSA RAILWAY LINE MENACED

New Soviet Offensive In Ukraine Cuts Escape Route of 75,000 Nazis

REDS SWEEP TO 39 MILES OF RAIL LINE   Berlin Admits Nazi Forees Are Fighting for Life Against Pincers   3000 FLEEING GERMANS FALL TO SOVIET ATTACK

Trapped nazi army fights  pincers move   Rail lifeline is imperiled

Rakitno Captured, 3,000 Killed In Soviet Dash; Nazis Throw  In Reserves

Drive Aims at Last Railroad Line For Hundreds of Thousands; Reds Also Slice 10 Miles Inte Poland

Soviets Push 10 Miles Into Poland   Reds Are Within 39 Miles of Vital Railroad

Eric Johnston to Be Stalin Guest   National C. of C. Chief Begins Journey Today

Allies Repulse Japs Around Imphal Plain   Enemy Being Stopped Cold Or Thrown Back At Every Point Of Contact; 10 Killed To One Of Mountbatten’s Men

Allies Repulse Japanese In Fierce Fights In Imphal Arez   Invasion Forces Stopped Cold or Thrown Back at Ey. ery Point of Contact, Mountbatten Discloses— Enemy Casualties Reported Heavy

Enemy Stopped In Campaign  On Imphal Plair   Ten Casualties Suffered By Japs to Each One ‘By Mountbatten Forces

Japs Stopped Cold  In Eastern India   Nip Casualties Estimated 10 To ] And Supply Line To Area Menaced By Allies

Allies in India Hurl Baek Jap Attacks   Defenders of Imphal Inflict 10 to One Casualties on Enemy

ALLIES CHECK JAP DRIVE ON IMPHAL PLAIN   Foe Stopped Cold oF Thrown Back at Every Point

Allied Tanks Engage Japs Hear Imphal   Japs, Shorn Of Cover, Suffer 10-To-] Losses

Allies Locked Tn Battle With Japs in India   Nips Stopped Cold or Thrown Back at Every Point of Contact in Big Jungle Perimeter

ALLIES REPULSE ~JAPSINFURIOUS. FIGHTING IN-INDI:   Enemy. Stopped: at Points and _ Thrown Back at.Others _ in dungle Perimeter” of Imphal Plain, © >.   TANKS AND INFANTRY ARE TAKING PART   Nipponese Driven From One . Commanding Position Near Trail Southwest of Big .Base.

JAPS SUFFER SETBACKS AT EVERY POINT   Mountbatten’s Headquarters Report; Casualties 10 to One of Allies, Consider Imphal Protected.   Penetrate Burma

British Hold Before Imphal   Tanks, Infantry Stop ‘Jap Thrust in India

Former Sardis Boy Wounded Overseas   HURTS .. ARE SUFFERED BY ROERERT EK. MeCLELLAN OF ARMY.

Former Sardis Boy Wounded Overseas   # HURTS ARE SUFFERED BY RORERT FE, McCLELLAN OF ARMY,

Luftwaffe Suffers New Heavy Loss   Hitler Paying Ruinous Air Price

‘Anti-New Deal Parly Organized By Democrais   Pre-Convention Caucus Planned In June To Pick Candidates

U. S. POPULATION UP 3   Greatest Increase Ia in Souther and Western’ States

Population Moves  To South, West   Census Department Shows That Missouri Gains Some in Two Years.

State Population Has Big Increase   Is One of States Gaining—Population Up Over 50.000

iW ashington Column “War Business As Usual” Aim Of Some Nation Groups

Supply Of Sugar Tight   Number Of Factors Are Involved In Situation

British Push.  Across River   “Laiione Bridgehead. Firmly. Established. °

SMASH ACROSS LAMONE RIVER   8TH ARMY TROOPS HOLD BRIDGEHEAD IN FAENZA SECTOR

Allies Cross — lamone River Below Faenza   Eighth Cleaning Out Captured Rayenna

BRITIGH AND POLES GAIN A BRIDGEHEAD   Smash Across Lamone River, Southwest of Faenza, Italy.

Allies Cross Lamone River  Additional Progress In Italy Reported

Allies Smash Across Lamone   Other Units Clean Out Isolated Enemy In Captured Ravenna

Solons  Reject Poll Plan   SENATE GROUP BLOCKS JORDAN’S PROPOSAL TO COMBINE PRIMARIES

July Production of Some Vital War Items Dropped as Much as 53 Per Cent: August Outlook Gloomy

“God Is Good To Me,” Says Hero As Sight Returns To His Sinele Eye

RESTORE SIGHT OF BLIND HERO   Gets Award For Making Rescue After Gunfire Blinds Him

24 Killed In Crash OF U. S. Hospital Plane.   Blind: Honor: Medal “Winner: Regains Sight

3,000 Bombers Aid Offensive In Normandy   Greatest Fleet Of Four-En gined Aircraft Carving Path For Americans 1a Franee

YANK AIR ARMADA OF 1,500 BOMBERS HITS IN NORMANDY   Is Greatest Fleet of Heavy Bombers Ever Sent on Single Mission—Carve Path For Bradley’s Advancing Gr ces ‘Troops

Planes Blast Way for Troops In Normandy   Allied Air Forces Take Part in New Coordinated Effort; Bomb Stuttgart

Planes Suppor! Drive Of Allies On French Soil  Berlin Is Bla ad Oil Plants Suff

Great Bomb Fleet Blasts Out U. S. Path   1500 Heavy Planes Join in Normandy Offensive

Allied Planes  Over France   Hit Both Ends of Germans Lines to  Aid New Assault

1500 American Bombers Support Yankee Offensive   Greatest Fleet of Heavy Aircrafi Sent on Single Mission Backs Up Undefined Drive in France

LARGEST AIR RAID OF WAR STAGED TODAY   Helping Ground Forces Along Front Lines

Gov. Bricker Urges Federal Tax Cut, Balanced Budget For Post-War Perioc

Bricker Bids U.S. Balance Her Budget   OHIO GOVERNOR SAYS NATION BULLT ON DEFICIT FINANCING CANNOT BE POWERFUL IN WORLD. ie   Would Cut Taxes

ALLIED PLANES HAMMER ANEW AT AIRBASES   Nazi Fields in France Ar Blasted by Yanks—RAF Pounds Plants

BOMBS DELUGE NAZI AIRFIELDS   German Planes Attack Con: centration of Ships in British Coastal Ports.

Waves of Planes Swarm Over Targets  In Europe Today, Hit Radar Plants

WAVES OF ALLIED PLANES SWARM OVER INVASION TARGETS   DAYLIGHT RAIDS FOLLOW BLASTING OF FRIEDRICH.  SHAFEN BY NIGHT :

Nazis Blasted For l4th Successive Day   Allied Planes Resume Pounding Afte Heavy RAF Raid; Hack At German  Airfields in France.

AR ARMADAS SWARM. ACROSS FRENCH AREAS   Two- Week Bomb Delivery  On Europe Totals  65,000 Tons

Allied Aerial Armadas Blast Axis Industries   Explode 3,500 Tons of Bombs on Plants in France and Belgium.   Dynamite a Path For The Invasion Troops

64,000 Tons Dropped in Past Two Weeks by Allied Planes. Friedrichshafen Under Attack Today. Germans Speculate on Date for Big  : ° Ten wren mien

Another Big Day For Allied Planes   Invasion Date Is New Guessing Game

Dynamite Invasion Pathway   Allied Planes Swarm Over Europe As NonStop Air Offensive Roars Into lith Day

Air Raids ‘Boaring on ~~ Non-Stop   World Never Before ' Has Known Anything Like 4}: -“s Gand Fronts Quiet:   BUT NAZIS. BELIEVE 2 SSSAULT IS NEAR      Invasion. Vessels . Reported “+ Bombed “by: Anxious” German: Forces

Allies Are Battering Away Again       British Report Loss Of 36 Planes On Raids  Last Night.   By RICHARD McMURRAY AD War PFadaitar

RAILWAYSHIT: 36 OF ENGLISH RAIDERS LOST   13,500 Tons Of Bombs Rip Vital German Targets In 24-Hour Period

Non-Stop Air Invasion In lourteenth Day   (ruessing Rampant Concerning Ground Invasion Date—  Nazis Hit Back

Dies Mav Ask Civil Service  To Make Purge   Number Of Federal Work ers Suspected Of Hatch Act Violations

Allied troops improve both Italian fronts   10 nazi divisions at beach sector

Nazi Strength Increased in Beachhead Area   Both Sides Await improved Weather

Allied Holds Tightened In Italian Scrap   Germans Send In ‘Another Division

ALLIED POSITIONS _ IMPROVE IN ITALY   Several German Attacks -. Thrown Back During the Day

Allies Better. Holds in Italy   Combat Patrol, Artillery Dine] Mark Fiehtiine

POSITIONS ON ITALY FRONTS   Nazis Force on Beachhead Strengthened  By a Division

ALLIES BETTER POSITIONS ON ITALY FRONTS   Nazis Force on Beachhead Strengthened By a Division ©

BIG PUSH DUE SOON IN AREA BELOW ROME   WEATHER HOLDS UP YANK ASSAULT ON CASSINO

WAR BOND SALES TOTALED $900.53 DURING MONTH OF AUGUET IN WYOMING

Big Battle In Marshalls Is Indicated   Tokyo Radio Tells of Heavy and Fierce Fighting In That Area

SIGNS INDICATE BIG OPERATION IS UNDERWAY IN MID-PACIFIC   \Believe Americans Have Started Long-Awaited Invasion Of Marshall  Islands.

Japs Broadcast Hint That Americans Have i Landed. os,  U.S. NAVAL FORCES BOMBED ISLANDS  Jap-held Territory Before Pearl Harbor Being Invaded.

Capture 3 Towns In Great Drive Into Inferior   Battle in Brest, §. Nazaire, Lorient

British And Canadian Warships Sink Seven German Vessels Attempting A Minature “Dunkerque” From St. Nazaire

Invasion is  virtually up  to timetable Infantry is close  on heels of armo

Armor and Infantry Move  After Overrunning -Brittany  AMERICAN-GRIPAS—. ©  REGARDED AS FIRM  U. S. Soldiers Battling  Way in Outlying Streets.  of Brest 4,

Invasion of France Back on Timetable   Turn to Page 8 for man of French front

Armor and Infantry Move After Overrunning  ‘Brittany ©      REGARDED AS FIRM U. S. Soldiers Battling  Way in Outlying Streets.     of Brest

American Units Within 140, Miles Of Paris; Brittany Is F irmly In Control Of Yanks,   Seren Ships Of German Convoy Attempting To Flee St. Nazaire Sunk By British And Canadian Warships; Street-By-Street Fighting In Port Of Brest

TWO PLEAD GUILTY TORATION CHARGES   Hagerstown Residents Finedi in Federal Court: : “Friday. 2?

TWO PLEAD GUILTY -TORATION CHARGES   Hagerstown Residents Fined in Federal Court  KEpiday  #

19 MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK BY BOMBERS   Action Extends From Kuriles  To East Indies

19 More Jap Ships Blasted   Freighter-Transport Baeced OFf Celebes

‘Sink Or Damage 19 Jap Vessels   Staged Softening Attack On Halmahera Bases

19 More Jap Vessels Sent To Bottom   Heavy, Medium Bombers Make Softening Raid  Again an HMalmahara

ANCIENT PERUGIK NEAR CAPTURE   Eighth Army Pushes Nazi Rearguards From Streets And Buildings; 1,900 Prisoners Captured on Elba

Allies Pursue Nazis in Italy   Perugia Won by 8th Army Im Brive Northward

FRENCH ROUND UP GERMAN PRISONERS   Allied Mainland Armies Continue Drive Northward

ALLIED DRIVE CONTINUES UP ADRIATIC COAST   French Colonial Troop  Crush Last Enemy Re  sistance On Island Of Elba, Capture 1,900  Germans

NAZIS ARE KEPT ~ ON RUN IN ITALY   EIGHTH ARMY DRIVES LAST. GERMAN REARGUARDS  FROM CITY OF PERUGIA, ©

GERMANS ARE KEPT ON RUN TOWARD PISA   FRENCH TAKE 1900 PRISONERS ON ELBA ISLE

MOP UP ELBA PUSH ALONG ON MAINLAND   French Take 1,900 Prisoners on Island as Allies North of Rome Slog through Mud.   “March On Rome”

French Colonials Hold Elba Island   Capture 1,900 Nazi Prisoners

Yanks Slosh On After Germans   Heavy Rains Fail To Halt Big Push:

Legislators Face Many Big Issue:  Home Front Problems ba Ba Narcidead Saan

Congress Returns From Easter Recess April 12; All Eyes On Issues.

Congress Faces Many Issues On Home Front   Veterans’ Benefits, Price Control, Slated on April 12

CROWD OF 26,000 CHEERS LAUNCHIN( OF HUGE WARSHIE   45,000-Ton Missouri Slides Down Ways After ‘Truman’s _ Daughter Splashes Bow  ’ With Champagne. —   CALLED TOUGHEST . _ / FIGHTER IN WORLD   Hope Expressed Sea Giant _ Will Help Avenge. Wanton, Murder of.the Heroes _ ‘of Rataan.

U.S, S, MISSOURI IS LAUNCHED   45,000 Tonner “Mightiest Battleship.” !

U. 5. Launches Mighty Ship   Battleship Missouri World’s Largest, Most Formidable

Iruk Bombed, Tanker Sunk  Ponape and 4 Atolls In Marshall islands Also Are Raided

Fierce Ait Battles Raging   Counter Measures Being Prepared for Enemy Penetrations

DEWEY FAVORS AAA PROGRAM   CANDIDATE ABANDONS PREPARED FARM TALK

DEWEY SAYS GOP WOULD USE GOOD ELEMENTS OF AAA   will Give Major Foreign Polics y  i “Speech” Fonight:  apolii—Promizes, ti Blanks” He: Found in: ‘FDR's Saturday Talk «°

Dewey Says Party Committed to Good AAA Points  Major Foreign Policy Speech to Be Made  In Minneanolic Toniah;'

DEWEY SAYS HE WILL FILL GAPS IN FDR’S SPEECH   GOP NOMINEE ON AIR TONIGHT; DISPUTE ON FOREIGN POLICY HOT

Only 16 Veterans of Civil War in State; Ogle Co. Man is One   George Washington Ling of Franklin Grove An swered Taps in Year

Truck Needs Of Civilians And Armies   Small Chance Military Requirements Will Be Curtailed

RHINE, RUHR VALLEY BASES ~ ARE BOMBED   U.S. Warplanes Strike Mighty Blows for the Allies Poised at German Border.

Supply Trains Are Principal Targets   ‘Ardennes Forest, Moselle River Barriers Smashed by Troops, Tanks

Germans Move Up Troops and Supplies For Final Defense; Patton Strengthens Bridgeheads

Britain, U. S. Set Up Pact   Churchill Reveals Lend-Lease Accord

TAKE SUMMIT OVERLOGKING SEVASTOPGL   Belief in London Is That Russians Are Preparing for Offensive to Coordinate with Allies.   Air Fleet Active

SUMMIT CAPTURED BY SOVIET FORCES   Another Great Russian Offensive Believed in Offing

New Drive By Russians Is Expected   May Be Co-ordinated With Allied Invasion Fram West and South   LULL IN EAST FIRST SINCE LAST SUMMER

Russians Preparing For Biq New Offensive   Beat Nazis On Italian  Fronts

Russians Gain Summit Over Sevastopol   Evidence of Big Red Drive to Come Continues to Mount

Hill Above - Sevastopol   Lull Expected To Be Followed by Fresh Seviet Drives on Two Fronts

SOVIETS REFORMING FOR NEW OFFENSIVE   Next Drive By Russians Expected To Be Coordinated With Allied Invasion Atuack

Soviet Forces ‘Preparing New Offensive   Russians Report No Important Chonces an Feant

@ HE'S ALREADY IN CLOUDS  Former Marine May Fly Again—Thanks to Halsey

@ ME ALREADT IN VELUUDO  Former Marine May Fly Again—Thanks to Halsey

ATTACKS ARE LAUNCHED O} NA7ITROOPS   Patriots Aiding Allied Invasion, Says Eisenhower

California May Expect Heavy Temblors Within Next One Hundred Year:

Retreating Nazis May Be Caught — In Allied Trap:   Seyenth, Third Armies 100, Miles from: Junction. Thar. Would: Close Jaws”:

{Yanks In South Far Beyond Lyon In Chase (Of Nazis Facing Deadly Trap At Belfort

Allied. Forces Sweep Past ‘Macon, North of Lyon      NAZIS ARE FLEEING TO REICH BORDER   Junction With Allies it _ the North Reported  Waar

ALLIES SMASH NORTH OF LYON   Yanks and French Advance 68 Miles Beyond Captured City

PATCH’S FORGES ADVANCE 18 MILES   FLEEING NAZIS MAY BE HEADED FOR TRAP NEAR THE NORTHERN SWISS BORDER.

ALLIES SWEEP ON 19 MILES INS. FRANCE   Troops Approach Tournus 20 Miles Beyond  Macon

ALL SEMBLANCE OF ORGAN! RESISTANCE GONE THRUOU' FRONT FROM PARIS TO COAS

One Allied" Spearhead Is Reported To Have Reached Versailles .   COLUMN OF YANKS REACHES) POINT 30 MILES ABOVE PARIS   Hundreds ofA “Allied Planes Spread Chaos Through German Line Of Flight

Northern Battle Degenerates Into. Bloody Slaughter; New, Greater Pocket For Germans Looming

Lt. Gen. Patton’s Troops Continue Move Toward French Capital; Battle Now Bloody Slaughter.

Germans Fleeing  To Stand on Border   Fast-Moving Allies Slash Into Enemy in Mad Flight Toward Banks of Seine

PORT BOU, Spain, Aug. 19.—The German army was reported reliably today to have withdrawn its troops from the entire Franco-Spanish frontier.

Dwight Brown. eure etary of State, i is Dead   Passed Away Early Today at Hospital In Poplar Bluff

After Whirlwind 14-Day Offensive, Decisive Roman Battle and Extermination of Nazis Near

Anzio and Fifth Armies United For New Assaulf   Warplanes Pound Retreating Nazis

Nazi Forces Withdrawing  From Coast   Reinforcements Sent To New Defense Line North of Appian Way  PLAN TO HOLD ROME

German Defense  Lines Crumpled   Battle Of Beachhead And Hitler Line Finished; Allied Armies Start Decisive March On Rome

Anzio Battle Ends After Four Months   Allied Planes Pound Nazis Retreating Crushed Hitler Line

Nazis Being  Relentlessly Hammered By Infantry In “Last Ditch” Effort Before Eternal City

Germans Massing for New Attacks   Fighter Planes Rake German Reinforcements Beina Rushed to Scene of Unequal Bottle

Fleeing Nazis Are Pounded Mercilessly  Battle For Rome ic Baljeved Near

Germans Rush Reserves to Prevent Rout   Anzio and Main Fifth Army Forces United; Cisterna Defenses Under Heavy Attack

NAZI TROOPS MOVING DOWN TROM NORTH   Long Columns Bombed by Low-Flying Allied Airmen With Explosives Taking Heavy Toll.   CLARK’S 2 FORCES. EFFECT JUNCTURE   Germans Reported Withdrawing to New Line— 10,000 Enemy Prisoners Taken in Offensive.

NAZIS FALLING BACK, SUFFER HUGE LOSSES   Reported to Be Massing to Make Counter-Attacks

YANKS WITHIN FOUR MILES OF LIVORNO   French Colonial Troops Engaged In Fierce Battle For Road Junction  Of Poggibonsi

(AY YANKS THRUS W ; EVER CLOSE ANSTO LIVORN   While Advance of Eighth Army beyond Arezzo Surprises Enemy; Forget to Blast Bridge.   Repulse Tanks

Greatest Co-ordinated’ ‘Al. lied Drive Since: D-Day Reported: _ _  A Bmhimknt eRanmmanpewa hk x      AIRMEN HET HARD  ~ «IN MANY SECTORS   CTN MAINE JEW IVA     Secretary Stimson Taken  Over the Battle  hoe ce ,

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel Uses Five Divisions In Attempt To Check British Advance

Greatest Co-ordinated Alfied Drive Since: dD. Day Reported   : HIT HARD. © «IN MANY SECTORS   Secretary Stimson Taken Over the Battle Area:

German Defenses In Italy Smashed   British Troops Capture Arezzo

GREAT THRUST IN NORMANDY CRACKS ST.L0   ENEMY BAYONETED IN FOXHOLES BY AMERICANS

Alfies Push © Forward on - Wide Front   Advgnce Beyond Arezzo ‘In Genter and Near Livorno on Coast  _In Ralv

Nazis Crack Under Allied Pressure On French Front      Allies Bore Steadily Into German Defenses In Ttalu

Greatest Allied Offensive Since D-Day Reported   Americans Batter Way into Suburbs

INTO BASTION   Germans Fight Fiercely and Reduction of Stronghold. Appears Several Days Away. _   BRITISH TROOPS SWEEP INTO EVRECY.   Greatest Co - Ordinated Allied Drive Since Invasion Is Under Way in Normandy,

acd Srack k Under Allied       Allies Bore Steadily Into German Defenses In Italy

British Also Drive Ahead On Normandy   Rommel Is Caught Off Balance by Offensive

FIGHTING RAGES “IN STRONGHOLDS   Americans Less Than Mile From Highway to Periers   AY RIVER CROSSED   Vgenks Driving Enemy From Positions in Lower Cherbourg Peninsula

GERMANS YIELD GROUND IN ITALY   YANKS FOUR MILES FROM LIVORNO — BRITISH PUSH ON BEYOND AREZZO.

SPURT IN ITALY SURPRISES AXIS   ‘ighth Army Units Cross Bridge Before Nazis Can Blow It Up

Greatest Drive Since DDay; Fighting Rages on Streets of Both Strongholds: Go toward Paris.

House Sets Up “Body To Study —U.S. Defense   Committee of 23 Granted $25,000 To Examine Post.Wur Neaadc

Lwow And Jassy Rail Hubs Being Neared By Red:   Russian Advance Brings Troops In Area Of Vital Rail Junctions   ESTIMATE 225,000 NAZIS ARE TRAPPED

Reds Menace lasi in Ruman Push: Move Near Lwow, Odesse   Nazi Losses Heavy, Moscow Reports; Zhukov “Hunts.Down'" Axis Remnants

Civilians Told, To Quit Tokyo   Superfortresses Reported Over Canital dik Time

Berlin Radio Reports Japanes kwacuating Tokyo Civilians   Stream Through Breach In German Defenses, Disable 43 Nazi Tanks

5th Army Units. Gate Two Miles “Tn Ttalian. Ares   Report Nazi’Forces Work. .  Frantically To.Remoye OE ee 2 ee ne

Yanks Advance Nearer Bologna   Germans. Work Frantically Fd Remove War Materials To Reich.

YANKS CARVE OUT TWO-MILE GAIN IN PO VALLEY DRIVE   NAZIS STRIVING TO EVACUATE MATERIALS FROM NORTHERN ITALY

2 MORE MILES PHINED BY ATH   Advance to Within 12 Miles Of Bologna, Communications Center.

AMERICANS PUSH NEARER BOLOGNA   Drive 12 Miles From Base; Nazis Evacuate Supplies

Fifth Army In Two-Mile Gain  foayvmane Cael Ta   Germans Seek To Save Materials

U.S. 5th Army Units Crack Nazi Line: _° Shove Within Twelve Miles Of Bologn

hth Army Nears City of Bologna  Germans Reported Looting Po Valley

Fifth Army In Italy Nearing City Bologn:z   Only 12 Miles From P< Valley Communication Center; Huns Try to Salyaze War Materials

Report Germans Ripping Up Italian Rail Lines, Shipping Them To Reich

NAZIS EVACUATE WAR MATERIALS   Work Frantically Before Fifth’s Italy Drive

HFTH ARMY ADVANCES 2 MORE MILES   Troops Are Now Within 12 Miles of the Po Valley Communications Center of Bologna—Resistance Is Great.

Allies 12 Miles  From Bologna   Nazis Work Desperately to Evacuate Materiel From Northern Italy

U.S. 5th Army Gains 2 Miles  Nazis Try To Evacuate Strategic Materials

Seventh Army Rolls Inside Belfort Gap; Calais Fort Totters   German Panzer Force Waylaid In Wooded Area East of Nancy; Rritish Widen Holland Corridor

Chateau Salins Recaptured by Patton's Army   Big Push Across Rhine and Meuse Rivers is Near

SEVENTH ARMY  HITS INVASION ROAD T0 REICH   British Are Widening Salient In Area North Of Nijmegen {

Push Breaches  Historic Road Into Germany   Patton’s Men Smash 82 Nazi Tanks: British Widen Corridor In Holland.

While U. S. 3rd Army Recaptures Chateau Salins   oO NA RAED SATS ABA R4eeat Fe  WERE DESTROYED  Fighting At Port Of Calais Halted Briefly. Nazis Ask For Armistice

Yanks And ia renc h Bot h Bb TCA k Thru   FURTHER NORTH, PATTON'S — = ARMY REGAINS CHATEAU SALIN NAZIS ASK TRUCE NEAR CALAL

BATTER NAZI WEST WALL DEFENSES AT BOTH ENDS, CENTER   British Widen Corridor In North As Yanks, French Break Into Pass Leading To Reich; Patton’s Army Destroys 82 Tanks

Third Army Destroys 82 German Tanks   British Strengthen Lincs for Big Push Across Rhine River

All Occupaticnally-Deferred Registrants to be Checked in Effort to Meet “Substantial Increase” in February Draft Call.

2,000 U.S. PLANES RAID NAZI PLANTS   Plane Factories Are Targets Of Aerial Assaults

2,000 PLANES ROCK NAZIS IN TWIN ATTACK   Germany and Hungary - Are Targets for Allied Raiders

Pincers Put on Germans   Bombers Based In Britain, Italy Hammer Factories

U. S. BOMBER FLEETS OVER GERMANY AND HUNGARY, IS REPORT   Pre-Invasion Air Offensive In Sixth Day; Two-Way Attack From Britain And Italy Hinted Ry Rerlin

Europe Given Worst Blow Since ‘Pre-Invasion Bombing Was Started 6 Days Ago

2-Way Attack Rages Along 400-MilleArea  One of Most Staggering Blows Struck Against  Luftwaffe  FACTORIES BOMBED  Targets in Hungary and ‘ t  _ South Germany Get   -Heayy Pounding

Luftwaffe Caught in  Cross Blows   Planes From Italy Britain Join in Heavy Assaults

2,000 American Warplanes Strike At Nazi Plants   Augsburg, Schweinfurt Aircraft Factories Undergo Bombardment

HUNGARY AND GERMANY HIT FROM 2 SIDES   Bombers Out of England and ltaly Deal Staggering Blows at Axis.

Vital Cities In Hungary, Reich Joltec   2,000 Bombers Hurl Explosives Into Factories

9000. Planes Hammer at  Naziland  Americans Fly” From British and,  TisHan Airfields

Strike from Britain, Italy In Big Raids   Pre-invasion Bombings 11 Sixth Day—Quiet On Italian Front

Come From Both Italy — And Britain   PRE-INVASION BOMBING . CAMPAIGN NOW IN SIXTH DAY; HIT SCHWEINFURT, AUGSBURG

PINCERS BLAST STRIKES FROM BRITAIN, ITALY   Smnashes 400-Mile Front Into Hungary; Blast Sehweinfurt

Babson Writes on Homesteading   MANY REQUESTS .COME TO NOTED U. S._ ECONOMIST

WHERE 10 LOCATE SUSTENANCE FARMS   Babson Offers Suggestions In Reply To Queries Regarding Suitable 5-Acre Farm Home Tracts.

Round Out Week of Air Assaults on Continent   2000 American Bombers Hit France, Belgium

Skies Filled With Planes Lugeging Bombs      Bombs Burst Across France From ToInn ta Lieve

U. S. Planes Hammer France   Heavy Bombers Hit Targets in Lyon and Toulon; Belaian Railhubs

7,000 Bombers Shatter Nazi Europe in Savage Two-Way Aerial Attack

AIR BLOWS FROM SOUTH AND WEST ROCK CONTINENT   Germans Put Up : Heaviest Flak. -

Bombers Strike From Bases In England, Italy   French, Belgian Centers Bombarded By Large Forces

TWO-WAY AIR BLAST HITS AXIS RAIL AREAS   Targets In Belgium And France Pounded; Lyon. Toulon Ripned

Air Pincers Is Clamped On Centers   Italy-Based Force Hammers Lyon And Toulon.

Thousand rignters Join Fray   ttaly-Based Force Penetrates Deep Into South France

U.S. BOMBERS FROM BASES IN BRITAIN AND ITALY HIT NAZI TARGETS IN FRANCE

HEAVY BOMBERS SMASH BELGIUM, FRENCH TARGETS   Rail Yards, Airdromes, Other Objectives Hit Hard By Allies

U.S. Heavies Hit West Wall As Allies Throw  “Everything” At Axis   Today’s Raids Rival Intensity Of Yesterday’s Near 9,000 Plane Assault On Continent

Urge Dewey to Be  Avowed Candidate   Warren May Get Second Place

DEWEY URGED “TO PROCLAIM “HIS CANDIDACY   Republican Leavlers Afraid of Willkie ictory Otherwise

TRIPARTITE MEET MAY BEIN AIR   Stettinius Trip to London May Be Forerunner

Planes Help : With Rescue   Guide Land Parties To Stranded Flyers

Proposed Experiment With Free Government Crop Insurance Rejected

Last Big Enemy Defense Center in South Holland Falls, Thousands  Of Germans Driven Into Swamplands

Canadians Capture Roosendaa   Remnants Of Germans Driven To Riotous Flight From Swamps Of Lower Maas.

MONTGOMERY'S ARMIES CRACK SECOND LINES   Nazi Grasp Below Maas Reduced One-Third

Old Age Security Is Controversial. ... . 78t Congress May Close With Clash On S.S. Tax

Security Tax Pact Sought   Compromise Adv sed In Brewing Wrangle

Compr omise On Securit y Tax Freeze Sought   One Group Indieate Wii ingness to Split Differences and Agree to  114 Percent Levy

CONGRESS - FOR BATTLE LOOMS   Security Freeze, Othe: Controversial Issues May Cause Split

Willkie Scores Doctor’ Policy   Claims Nation Must Have Best Of Health To Get Through 1944

WILLKIE RAPS ROOSEVELT ON “PARTY SLOGAN   Says “Doctor --Win -The. War” Would Make Moral Hypochondriacs of All  _ If Accepted

NAZI DEAD FILL FIELDS AND ROADS   ALLIES RACING FOR SEINE PASS HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF CORPSES.

CUNFERENGE OF POUR. BIG POWER APPEERS LIKELY   Washington Seems to Be Logical Site  for Next Meetings

Vivian Calls For End To Rureaucrats   . - - Sees Griswold In ‘Nomination Picture’

Vivian: Griswold’s name sure * ” * to be considered by convention

Request Every Precaution To  Avoid Polic   Outbreak In Wisconsin Found More Serious Than Week Ago With 92 Cases Reported

Red Cross Offers  Suggestions For  Soldier Gifts Tells Of Things 7  Men Overseas)  Sau Thev Want °-

Ground Action In_ the Italian Theatre Again Limited To Patrol Clashes.

Willkie Funeral  Scheduled Today   Thousands Gather To Pay Tribute To Leader

New England ‘Encourages’  Gov. Bricker   Has Praise For Gov. Saltonstall

Bus Workers Defy Order To End Strike   Citizens in St, Louis Face Another Day of Hitchhiking

CANDIDATES TRY FOR FAST'S VOTES   Dewey Speaks Tonight and Roosevelt Saturday.

Nazis Dismantle Giant Vessel   Gneisnau, Sister Ship of Scharnhorst, Docked

ARMY TAKES OVER PLANTS TO AVERT BIG WAR STRIKE   Dismissal of One  Worker Is Cause

13,000 IDLE IN 6 OHIO PLANTS   WLB Orders MESA Officers Tc Appear in Washington

US. MAY SEIZE MESA PLANTS   Threaten to Extend Walkout to Cleveland

WLB IS DEFIED BY OHIO UNION   Approximately 13000 Workers In Six Plants Strike

MESA Strike Closes: Six’ “Northern Ohio Plant:   falkout, Of 13,000 Union Members Threatens To Spread As Leader, Matthew Smith, Defies War - Labor Board .

MESA DEFIANT OF FEDERAL SEIZURE   Threat To Extend Walkout to Cleveland Made

MECHANICS AT 6 PLANTS QUIT   Strike Spreads As WLB Order Is Defied By MESA Union Head

Detroit Strike May Spr ead To \Cleveland, Ohio   Plants Production War ; Equipment Closed by.  “. Dispute Between Rival Unions

Twin Airstrips Seized From Jap: By U. 5. Marines   Jap Counterattacks Bloodily Repulsed; Airdrome Cleared

Marines Repulse Jap Attacks On Gloucester  Seabees Speedily Clearing Airdrome 1]  a pea. Roe

POLICE ON TRAIL OF NURSE AND BABY   Believed Kidnapper of Daytor i Child

Fateful-Drama as Young Romanian King Defied Iron Dictator in Break With Axis

STORY OF COUP ENDING ROMANIA'S TIES WITH HITLER   King Mihai Exchanged Shots With Enemy and Queen Mother Went Armed on  Night Journey.   DICTATOR LOCKED IN FIREPROOF VAUL!   Small Group of Determined Men Carried Out Plans That Led Nation to Cast  Lot With Allies.

NINE SOLONS WIN. IN TEXAS PRIMARY   One Defeated and Three Run-offs Are Indi. cated

Nine Congressmen In Texas Renamed  One Is Defeated   Speaker Rayburn Wins in Primary; Gov. Stevenson Also

NINE SOLONS WIN ~ INTEXAS PRIMARY   One Defeated a and Three -Run- offs Are Indicated -

NAZIS LAUNCH TWO-WAY PUSH AT CORRIDOR   Foe Fails to Halt Patton Drive On Salient

Foe fails to stem tide of Patton’s advance; Yanks fioht in Rochefort streets

Germans Pound Corridor From Both East and West: Gap Between First and Third U. 5. Armies Now Is Placed af Fram 1? fo {6 Miles by Renorts

SEEK TO oTOP ALLIED DnWve INTO SALIENT   Patton’s Troops Reported to  Have Gained 5 Miles to Northwest.

Crucial Tank Clash Raging at Bastogne; Yanks Holding Firm   Germans Attack on Both Flanks U.S. Armor, Infantry Storming Rachefort Road Pivot Head On

fierce New Battle Fails To Stem Big Yank Drive   Doughboys, Tanks Push Forward Into Road Center Of Rochefort.

Patton Continues Advance to North   Germans Launch New Attacks From East And Wack in Attamnt to Keen Eceane Route Open

CHICAGO FIRE I$ FATAL 10 7   34 Tenants Rescued from Apartment Buildin,

FNWlOt-AUool PEACE PROBLEM STILL DUBIOUS   Next Move Up to Reds; Stalin May Take Over Peace Negotiations.

FINNS REJECT PEACE OFFER   WAY LEFF OPEN -FOR . MORE NEGOTIATIONS IN REPLY TO. RUSSIA'S RECENT  "PROPOSALS 7

“ANS FAIL TO ACCEPT SOVIEN PEACE OFFER   What to Do With German Troops Proves Greatest Problem

FINNS REJECT ~ PEACE OFFER   Internment of Nazis Difficult  Next Move Now Up to Moscow

First Wife of Charles Chaptin  Dies of Preumonia Aft er Operation

Smash Japs From Air   Widespread Attacks By Allied Fliers Keep Nips on Defensive

Rabaul Gets 24thPoundin; This Month   Allied Airmen; A ‘Aroused over’ Jap Atrocities, ‘Smash; at Enemy. Bases in. New Fury,

Planes Smash  All Jap Fronts   Widespread Air Attacks Keep Enemy Guessing On Next Invasion

Aerial Smashes Dealt Jap Bases Throughout Pacific   Widespread Attacks Keeps Enemy Guessing As To Where New Invasion Blow Will Fall

WIDESPREAD AERIAL ATTACKS ON JAPS BASE INPACIFIC KEEP THEM GUESSING AS TO ATTACKS   Rabaul Undergoes 24th Raid This Month And Close to 400 Jap Planes Have Been Destroyed  There. Marshall Islands and New Guinea Bombed

ANGRY ALLIED AIR FORCES BLASTED AT JAP-HELD ISLANNS   NEWS OF TERRIBLE TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS BRING MORE RAIDS

Japs Pounded With New Vigor  22 to 30 Planes Shot Down in New Battle Over Rabaul Airdrome

AERIAL BLOWS IN PACIFIC GIVE JAPS NO REST   Rabaul Battered in 24th Raid This Month: 26 to 30 Planes Shot Down.

Widespread Aerial Attacks Continue On Japanese Bases  No Respite Is Given Enemy; Rabaul Is Assaulted Again

Rabaul Gets 24th Attack This Month.   22 to 30 Japanese Planes Shot Down to Loss of Four Allied Planes; Admiralty and Marshall Islands Bombed

No Let Up in Aerial Blows on Japanese Bases   United Nations Are Pledged to Avenge Enemy Atrocities

AIRMEN CONTINUE TO BATTER. AT ‘JAP ISLAND BASES   Fledge to Help Avenge Jap Brutality to Allied Prisoners —~Knock Down 22 to 30 Nip Planes Over Rabaul

United Nations Fliers Give Japs No Respite As Cruelty Revenge Vowed

Angry Allies Deal Heavier Blows at Japs   Rabaul Blasted In 24th Raid Within Month

No Let-up in Aerial Blows on Japanese   Aroused Forces of the United Nations Continue Pounding Enemy Keys   A NEW INVASION THRUST INDICATED   Feeling Runs High as Word of- Jap. Artrocities. Is. Revealed to World

Aroused Allies Hammer Nippon:  Enemy Kept Guessing Where Blows Wil! Fall

Jap Brutality Stirs Allies To Avenge Acts  Aerial Blows Keep   Aerial Blows Keep Nips Guessing  On Next Invasion

BOMBS POURED ON JAP BASES IN RETALIATION    Rabaul Battered Again, Keeping )  Japs Guessing as to Where  We Will Strike Next

YANK BOMBERS HIT NEP ISLES   Rabaul Raided 24th Time; Admiralty, Marshalls Chains Also Raided

BACK HOME, GETS XMAS BOX SENT TO HIM IN PACIFIC   Thompson's Safety Box Yields $1,466,250 Cash

Wright Workers Guards Engage it Pitched Battle  Disorder Flares at , 3, ey Vee < Ee ol eines Fo

Von Runstedt Says Nazis Are Set To Meet Invasion  German Commande: Says Obstacles Prepared for Allies

GERMAN INVASION COMMANDER SAYS THEY ARE READY   Field Marshal Von Rundstedt Says Allies Have Completed Plans and Nazis Are Ready

Rundstedt Says He's Quite Calm   Thinks His Arms Will Balk Allies

Italians Call Off Strike   Allied Control Board Wine lic Fired Tect

Italian Left-Wing Capitulates To AMG, Calls Off Anti-British Strike

Denverite, Trapped on Third Floor, Dies in C.U, Fraternity House Fire

Jap Resistance on Kwajalein Stubborn   Fought Back From Pillbox to Pillbox; Other Areas Occupied by American Troops in Marshall Islands.

British Clear Nazis From Peloponnesus   Minister of Grecian Government Takes Over Control of Peninsula; Shins of Fleemo Germans Sunk

British Make Gains In Greece   Great Part of Peloponnesus Now Clear of  Germans

Greek Peninsula In Allied Hands   Aegean Islands Being Abandoned

BRITISH TROOPS CLEAR MOST OF PELOPONNESUS   Island West Of Truk Coast Overrun: Six Nazi-Held Air Fields Pounded

BRITISH DRIVE GERMANS FROM PELOPONNESUS   Minister Of Greek Exile Government Moves In, Takes Over

ALLIES MOP UP GREEK COAST   British Take Levitha Island. Planes Hammer Fleeing Nazis

Lower Greece Is Cleared of Nazis   Exiled Government Is Taking Control

Peloponnesus Swept Clear Of Germans   Minister of Exiled Greek Government Has Taken Over Control

ALLIED FORCES SEIZE ISLE OFF TURKISH GOAST   Airmen Strafe Six Airfields on Greek Mainland, Smash 12 Planes

Peloponnesus Is Virtually Cleared Of German. Forces   Invading British Push to isthmus Of Corinth; Nazis Give Un Islands

Allies Take Peloponnesus   British Pushing on To Corinth; Germans Quit Isle of Patroi

CORINTH ISTHMUS ~ WET ORJEETIVE   Minister Of Greek Government-In-Exile In Liberated Area   LITTLE RESISTANCE   Nazis Believed To Have Abandoned Islands Along Turkish Coast

GREAT PART OF PELOPONNESUS FREE OF NAZIS   Allied Planes Strafe Six German - Held Air Fields Near Athens; Get Convoy Trying To Escape.

NAZIS EVACUATE GREEK PENINSULA   PELOPPONESUS FREE; BRITISH HEAD FOR ISTHMUS OF CORINTH

GREEK PENINSULA PELOPONNESUS.IS VIRTUALLY FREED   British Strike Out For Isthmus Of Corinth — Minister of Greek Government-In-Exile Takes Qver Administration

Pull Back In Greece   Germans Apparently — Plan No Major Stand; Evacuating Islands .

MOST PELOPONNESUS VIRTUALLY CLEARED GERMANS SATURDAY  MINISTER GREECE GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER ANMINICTRATION OF ARE:

Nazis Scuttle From Greece »  Massive Air Blows Aid British Thrust

American Navy Takes  Heavy Toll of Jap Ships   Woleai and Yap as Well as Palau Attacked; More Atolls Fall to Yanks

Cleveland Bronze Strike Continues   64,000 More War Plant Workers May Be Called

1,000 JAPS ON NEW BRITAIN ANNIHILATED   M’Arthur Announces All of West Part of Island Captured

OPA Slated For Another Tough Bout   What To Look For When Price Control Act Expires

Stanley Tindall And Miss Lois Kern Take Vows  Pretty. Evening: . - Wedding: Held. At.  Doe ees OE

Stanley Tindall. And Miss Lois _ Kern Take Vows  Pretty Eventi: - Wedding’ Held. At.

Marines Releasing — Over-38 Veterans 'No Change Is Made By  War Dept.

GIRAUD SAYS TREASON CASE IS PREMATURE   Declares Proof Lacking in North Africa and Corroborates Story of Accused, a Former Vichy Minister. 

Giraud Wanted Petain to Quit His Nazi Deal:   Gave Report to French Leader Urging That the French Aid the Allies.   Thinks Treason Trial Should Be Delayed

Giraud Testifies  In Defense of  Vichy Minister French Chief Believe:  Trial Should Not Ra Heald in Africa

4 Navy Men Dead, 4 Missing On Tamalpais   Flying Boat, on Way Over Pacific, Flies Into Mountain

Opposition To New Draft Highly Vocal   Republicans and Some Democrats Join in Condemning Proposal

Solons Offer Messace Views   National Service Law Oppasition Arises

FIGHT ON F. B. R SCHEME CERTAIN   CONGRESSMEN RISE UP AGAINST HIS PROPOSAL TO CONSCRIPT WORKERS,

Bloc Rises in Opposition lo Executive's Plan for National Service Law

FDR SERVICE PLAN OPPOSED   Strong: ‘Congress. “Group Loud in Denunciation Of Labor Draft

Service Act Irks Bloc in Consress   Some Members’ Reaction To Proposal Indicates Hard Ficht Ahaad

SLUCH RIVER LINE CROSSED BY RED ARMY   SOVIETS KILL OFF 15,000 GERMANS IN FOUR DAYS

RUSSIANS FORCE RIVER IN BITTER FIGHT FOR SARNY   Reds Closing In on PeliSh Rail Hub From Three Directions—One Column in Outskirts.   SGVIETS GIVE DETAILS OF KIROVOGRAD VICTORY   Stalin’s Troops Destroyed 293 Tanks and 336 Big Guns and Captured Quantity of Material.

  Torpedo Bombers Trap Grand Armada Off Philippine Isles   Crippled Task Force Turns, Limps Through Channel Into China Sea; Carrier, Four Tankers Sent Dew.

Jap Fleet In Channel Be. - tween Luzon And Formosa   FOU R JAP AIRCRAFT. CARRIERS ARE SUNK  Americans Lost 49 Planes, No: Mention Of Ship  losses

ENEMY CARRIER, THREE. TANKERS SENT-10 BOTTOM   American Planes Catch Jap Force Off Philippines; Defeat It Before Fleet Units Can Engaae.   40 AMERICAN PLANES LOST DURING BATTLE   In Same Communique Admiral Nimrtz Reports 35¢ Enemy Planes Shot Dowr Off Marianas Sunday.

American Planes Hit Enemy Task  Force In Pacific   49 U.S. Airships Lost. In Raid On Nipponese Fleet of Warships

BATTERED NIP . FLEET RETURNS TO OWN WATERS   U. & Loss Is 49 Planes

Planes Sink Or Damage 14 Warshini   U. S. Scores One Of Greate est Victories Of War Off Philippines   Japanese Flee, Refusing Battle   Four Carriers, Battleship Among Vessels Attacked; U. 8. Loses 49 Planes

U.S. Planes Catch Carriers, Battleships, Cruisers North of Philippines; 14 Ships in Toll   At Least Two Carriers Sunk; Other Vessels Damaged —U. §. Fleet Never Contacted Enemy * Vessels Which Finally Fled

Nimitz Tells Of Nip Defeat   Toll Includes Four Carriers, Battleship, As Enemy Runs For Cover; Majer Victory For Air Arm of Yank- Navy.

U. S. SCORES ONE OF GREATEST NAVAL VICTORIES    Jay Carrier and Battleship Sunk; 12 Others  Badly Damaged in Action Near  Philippines” ey

Carrier - Based Planes Sink, Damage 14 Jap Warships Off Luzon   Surface Units Of 2 F leets Never Closed Before Japs Fled; 49  American Planes Lost

14 Jap Warships Are sunk or Damaged In Brief Plane Action   Jap Navy Breaks off Fight in Might to Race Home Defeated

Nips Trounced in Air-Sea Fight   Airmen Smash Nip Navy Units in Channel Between Luzon, Formosa; Bag 353 Planes Near Marianas, American Damage Light

14 Enemy Vessels Hit By Bombers   Air Arm of American Fleet Scores Victory—Lose 24 U.S. Planes

Yank Pineers Trap Japanese In Leyte Push   Enemy Headquarters. Airfield Seized As Gumbling Yamashita Line Falls to U. S.   Enemy Escave Harried.

Jap Headquarters on Leyte Island Is Captured, Entire Enemy Line Wanes

Niopons Crumble Under Doughboys  Genter of Leyte Defense Cantured

Infantry Tightens Grip On Trapped Leyte Japs While . Bombers Hit Tokyo Again

YANKS CLAMP TRAP AROUND JAPS ON LEYTE   Invaders Continue Unopposed On Mindoro; B-29’s Over Tokyo Again

Widdoes To Take Over 0.S8.U. Job   Former Local Coach To Serve In Absence Of '. Paul Brown —

British Tanks Move In to Halt Revolution  Disorders Sweep Greek Capital; Casualties Heavy

Allies Hold Beachhead  Below Rome   Counterblows Win Respite for Troops In Anzio Sector

Nazi All-Out Drive Beaten   Heavy Artillery Fire, Fierce Infantry Clashes Still Mark Beachhead Fighting

NAZI ALL-OUT DRIVE BEATEN   Allied Resistance Beats Effort to Push Beachhead Troops Into Sea.

Savage Defense Beats Off Nazis In Anzio Battle   American And British Halt Fierce Beachhead Drive And No Ground Gained

Small Clashes Occur in Italy   Artillery Duels Mark Battle as Nazis Are Repulsed

Nazis Detinitely Beaten Back At Anzio Beachhead   Neither Side Gains In Bitter Fights On Monday; But Nazis Now Weaker

BEACHIEAD ACTIVITY CENTERS IN ARTILLERY DUEL, SMALL CLASHE   German Drive To Wipe Out Allied Forces Beaten, Officers Say   CASSINO AREA IS QUIET

Artillery Duel Chief Action On Beachhead   Nazi Drive Is Definitely Beaten Off — We Hold 100 Square Miles

Guns Active In Fray on Beachhead   Fierce But Small Infantry Clashes Are Reported

NAZIS ARE HALTED BY COUNTERBLOWS   Positions Along Beachhead In Italy Unchanged; Savage Clashes

oe ¢ 8 3 2  Scanll. Pies halontey Citeias eperted All-Out Nazi Drive To  Push Allies Into Sea Is Definitely Beaten

LINES STABLE ON BEACHHEAD   U. S. and British Troops Hold as Germans Strike with Entire Strength.

Tired Armies Pause Areund  Beachhead.   ‘Artillery Duels Fought; German Push Halted

ALL-OUT NAZI DRIVE BEATEN AT BEACHHEAD   Heavy Artillery Helps Allied Troops Stop German Attack

Nazis Beaten In Drive To Push Allies Into The Sea   Heavy Artillery Barrages And Fierce Infantry Clashes Mark Fivhting

SECOND ALL-OUT ASSAULT BEATEN OFF BELOW ROME   COMPARATIVE LULL MARKED BY HEAVY ARTILLERY DUELS

‘Are Stationary   Heavy Artillery -Barrages and Small-But Fierce Infantry Clashes ‘Mark  S20 Fighting

Forces Stalemated At Anzio Beachhead   Heavy Artillery Barrages and Small, but Fierce, Infantry Clashes Mark Fight, but Neither Side Makes Any Gains.

Allies, Nazis In Stalemate; Big Artillery Put In Action   All-Out Drive Has Definitely Halted

‘Heavy Artillery Barrages, Fierce Infantry Clashes {n Anzio Beachhead Mark Battle   -Counter-Attacks Said To Have Beaten Nazi All-Out Offensive Definitely

YANKS REPULSE ANZIO ATTACKS   Heavy Artillery Duels, Fierce Engagements,  Mark Fighting

Artillery Barrages And Infantry Blows Win Short Respite  ' For Weary Troops

ALLIES STOP GERMAN DRIVE ON BEACHHEAD   Neither Side Gains Ground Yesterday: In Hard Battle

Artillery Fire Near Aprillia Breaks Lip Nazi Preparation for New Attack

NAZIS DEFEATED IN DRIVE AGAINST ROME BEACHHEAD   Fighting Dies Down on Italian Front; Leghorn Bombed hv Alliec

Allied Counter-Attacks Beat Nazi Supreme Drive Against Anzio Beachhead

Hard Clash Is Reported By Infantry During Day   Savage Resistance Being Put Up By Allies

Small Clashes — Are Continued On Beachhead   Nazis Definitely Have Lost In Their Effor! To Push Allies Inte Sea, Officers Claim

Lull in Italy ~ Following. Big. ; 2-Day Battle   All-Out Nazi Offensive Detinitely. Beaten; No Ground Gain Either Way

Beachhead Drive  Of Germans Fails   Savage Allied Resistance Halts Nazi Offensive on Italian Front

Artillery ts Active on Anzio Front   Big Guns Join Allied Infantrymen in Halting Nazi Drives

NEITHER SIDE GAINS GROUND ON BEACHHEAD   Heavy Artillery Barrages And Fierce Infantry Clashes Mark Fight ing Below Rome   NO DECISIVE ACTIONS

HEAVY ARTILLERY BARRAGES FEATURE ITALIAN FIGHTING   SMALL BUT FIERCE INFANTRY CLASHES IN BEACHHEAD AREA

Germans Fail fo Push Allies Into the Sea   Neither Side Able to Make Gains in Desperate Struggle

Fighting Is Sull Fieree At Beachhead   Fierce Artillery Fire Ex. changed’ and Troop: Clash Heavily on Smal. Seale Local Fights — German Pressure Ease: After Failure of Coun. terattack.. —

NAZI ALL-OUT DRIVE SLOWED BY ALLIED FIRE   Savage American and British Counter Attacks Have Stalled Germans at Anzio

INFANTRY, ARTILLERY HIT NAZIS   Foe Ringing Beachhead Apparent ly Beaten by Savage Resistance Counter-Attacks   BIG GUNS IN DUEL   Only Patrol Activity Reportec Around Cassino—Marooned Brit ish Unit Rescued

HEAVY FIGHTING STOPS ON BEACH SOUTH OF ROME   Savage Allied Resistance Repels All-Out Nazi Counter-Attack

BigGunsBeat Back Nazis in Anzio Battle   Fierce Infantry Clashes ! Seesaw in Beachhead Front Lines

LINER BRINGS IN REPATRIATES   Voyage Is Uneventful For Gripsholm; Yanks In High Humor

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To All In The Various Communities  CIRFANCN RV COCDPDIREC

YOUNG MEN CHARGED WITH THEFT OF AUTO   Warminster Youths, Suspects, Failed to Get Bail   ABANDON WRECKED CAR

Americans Now Face Task of Hunting Down Enemy Units Still in Hiding and Repairing Airfields for Blows at Heart of Japan—U. S. Gréund Casuaities Heaviest of Any Campaign in the Far East.

Six Escape In  Early Accident      Cars Sideswipe On Leitersburg Pike At 2 A. M. Todav.

Churchill To Tell Allied Aims of War      Premier Speaks  Qn Radio Sunday

CHURCHILL 10 GIVE ADDRESS ON SUNDAY      Speech Awaited As Possible Key to Position on Many Problems.

Churchill Will... Speak Sunday  Will Make Address To Great Britain At 4 P.M. EW.T.

Churchill to Clarify War’s Aims Sunday   Hint Speech May Be Followed by New RooseveltSialin Parley

Major Drive Is Opened By Stilwell   Chinese Attack Trio Of Main Enemy Bases in New Move

Chinese Open Drive On Japs’  Bases In Burma      amaing, Mogaus + and Kyithyina Reported Geals of Stilwell Forces in   Worth Burma Area 

MAJOR DRIVE BY: STILWELL OPENED IN NORTH BURMA   ‘Attack Along Two-Mile Front With Tanks, Planes, Artillery—Megaung, Myitkyina, Kamaing Objectives

Stilwell Opens What May Prove Major Offensive   Chinese Forces in Burma Attack on Two Mile Front With Tank, ‘Bomber, Artillery Support

Major Drive By Stilwell In Northern Burma Gain:   Three Jap Bases Are Objectives: Enemy Commanders Among Casualties

Stilwell Opens Drive In Burma   Attack Japs  On 2 Mile Front With Tank, Gun Support

REMOVE 21 BODIES FROM TRAIN RUIN   Four Others Have Been Located in Wreckage of Troon Train.

25 KNOWN DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK   21 SOLDIERS’ BODIES ALREADY TAKEN FROM RUINS IN TENNESSEE

At Least 25 Dead In Gorge Crash Of Troop Train   21 Bedies Removed, Four Mors Located in Wreckage, Police Report—FBI Probes Cause

Dewey Endorses U.S. Post War Security Plan   Criticizes Secrecy Around Conference  At Dumbarton Oaks

Big 4 L Can’t Monopolize Police Job   GOVERNOR DEWEY DEMANDS PLACES AND VOICES OF SMALI NATIONS FOR WORLD PEACE ORGANIZATION.   Speech In Louisville

Dewey Favors Policing Setup; Hits Wasters   Aligns Himself With Those Favoring Forceful Preservation of Peace.

INSISTS SMALL NATIONS HAVE PART IN PLANS   Calls for Complete Crushing of Germany and Japan

DEWEY APPROVES USE OF FORCE 10 MAINTAIN PEACT   Speech Before 15,000 at -- Louisville Demands Voice for Small Nations in Post-War Agency.   CANDIDATE DENOUNCES ‘WASHINGTON WASTERS’   Tells Throng “They Propose to Buy International Power Out of Our Pocketbooks.”

TIPTON COUNTY MAN 1S. RETIRED   Carl Watson and His Wife Complete 55 Years of Teachine

TIPTON COUNTY. MAN. (S RETIRED   Carl Watson and His. Wife Complete 55. ‘Years of. Teachine °

SENATE REFUGEE CONFIRM DOWNEY   ®ember State Board of Control Pushed Out of Officia Family; Dell White and Irv: . ing A. Cohen Rejected

Chas. Chaplin Is Indicted In Berry Case   Mann Act and Couspiraey To Deprive Girl of Rights Involved in Five Counts

Charlie Chaplin Is  Indicted by U.S.  Jury for Conspiracy Charged with Mann  Act Violation Also; Judae Also Accused

US, British Beat Off Nazi Attack  Germans, Yaitks Tangle in Bitter

American and British Hold ing Tight to Line Near  Carroccio, 24 Miles From Capital   Nazi Losses Held Extremely High   “Scores of German Prisoners Appear Dazed and Giggle Hysterically;” Cassino Battle Rages

BRITISH SMASH FURIOUS DRIVE ON BEACHHEAD   Nazi Casualties Heavy As Thrust Is Beaten South of Rome

Allied Forces Hurl Back Nazi Shock Troops Near Rome; Cassino Battle Gains in Fury

Allies Hold Tight fo Line N. of Carroceto   Allied Forces Are Regrouped to Meet All Out Drive

Nazis’ Losses Running High   Americans Inch Forward In Terrific Struggle For Heart of Cassino

SHOCK TROOPS TANKS SUFFER HEN LOSSES   Fifth Army Battling Through _ Streets of Cassino with Snipers, Tanks.

Furious Nazi Attacks Fail   Blows Near Rome Thrown Back: Enemy Losses Heavy

British Beat Back Panzer Beach Thrust   Enemy Losses Heavy, Foe Probes Anzio Sector for Weak Spots   TANKS IN CASSINO   Yanks and Germans Duel Toe-to-Toe for Liri rt Valley Key  

Allied Forces Beat Off Nazi Attacks   German Prisoners Are Dazed by Artillery Pounding

Americans anc British Beat Back Germans   _ Hold Beachhead Tight Against First Heavy German Attacks and Ractore Breacheac

37 Killed By Trolleys In 23 Months   SAFETY DIRECTOR FAIRLY SAYS OVERLOADING AND SPEEDING ARE IN EVIDENCE COUNCIL WILL GET.   Pittsburgh’s Record

aH ADVANCES THROUGH DEEP MUD IN ITALY   Gen. Clark’s Troops Now Fifteen Miles Below Pisa

MUD SLOWS UP ITALIAN DRIVE   Fifth Army Is Approaching Nazis’ “Gothic Line”

PETA ADVANCES 10 GOTHIG LIE”   Troops Are 15 Miles Below Pisa, Western Anchor of Line

Yanks Move Against German s “Gothic Line” 15 Miles Below Pisa Despite Weather, Mud

1,000 Bombers Close in On Nazi s Europe   Romanian Oil Fields Are Blasted by Planes From Italy

U. s. Heavy Bombers Blast — Kurope From West, South   Approximately 1 000 Heavies and Big Escort Fleet = 3 Close i in on. Hitler’ s Europe to Starve”  Out War-Machine

Heavy Bombers Open Starve-Out Drive on Nazis   Blast Bridges, Oil Refineries; Also Hit Rocket Installations

1,000 Bombers. 1,000 Fighters Assail Europe   Strike from West, South In Campaign To Smash German War Machine

Hitler's Eurone Bombed by Fleet Of 1,000 Planes   Tours Area Hit By U. S. Heavies

Allies throw twin blows at nazi Kurope  Huge armadas - roam continent

1000 Heavies Blast Oil Field, Bridges   Air Offensive Aims To Starve Out Nazi War Machine

Big Air Fleet Bashes Europe   Bridges in Tours Area Hit By Heavy Ramh Ia]

RAINFALL LATE; CORN CROP HIT   Paulding Reports Crops at Standstill in Survey

Surprise Explosion In Texas And Result Of Florida Vote Hints At Southern Revolt

Reds Refuse To Reveal Internal Economy Secrets   Bars Information From Monev Group

—CHINESE—  JAPS REPORTED QUITTING BURN   Opening Of Ledo Rout  May Come Too Late Te  -Help Chinese

Nip Defense Shift To China Expected ~ in Asiatic Circles   Chinese Situation  Fails to Excite Military Experts

Jap Withdrawals Clear Ledo Road   Burmese Retreat May Be Too Late—Airline Hub City Threatened

Industrial Areas Of Moji And   Shimonoseki Hit, Tokyo  Radio Declares  }   SIX CF RAIDERS ARE SHOT DOWN, REPORT

General Marshall Says New Offensive Is Beginning; “Great Destruction” Is Reported.

Super-F ortress Airfleet Hits Jap Homeland   Report That Tokyo Was One Target Lacks Confirmation

‘Huge B-29’s Fly From Bases In Burma Area; Attack Industrial Points

Japs Admit Raids on Moji. Shimonoseki   Reports Liberators In Yank Sky Fleet And 6 Planes Bagge   rOKYO WAS TARGET  War Dept. Says Only Theatre of Takeoff:  China-India-_Burma

No Confirmation, But Japs Admit Raid on Mainlanc   War Department Silent on Attack

Tokyo Suffers _ Heavy Damage   Long-Secret Flying Giants Make Raid From Chinese Area To Start “Softening Up” Of Nippon

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Tokyo Believed Target of Raid By Huge Planes   Japs Say Industrial Cities Hit in First Action by B-29s  From Asiatic Bases

Delinquency Suit Accuses Jackie Cooper   FORMER MOVIE ACTOR, NOW NAVY STUDENT, CHARGED AFTER PARTY

MISSING CAP PLANE IS HUNTED IN OKI   Hope Held That It Landed in Isolated Area

Eastern Gas To Be ‘Tight For Months      PAW Reports Tank Cars Gone To War

Dewey Drive To Be Packed Into 9 Weeks   Brownel) Says Organization of Campaign Will Take Through August   PREDICTS VICTORY   Is Wary of Comment on C.1.0. Support or Attitude of Willkie

INTENSIVE 9-WEEK CAMPAIGN MAPPED FOR DEWEY, BRICKER   GOP Chairman Wary Of Lewis Offer To Help Cause

DEWEY TO DELAY START OF CAMPAIGN   Will Compress It Into Last Nine Weeks Before Nov. 7

American Armor Rolling Again ln Germany   Begrimed Gls Break Nazi Crust Along West Wall   AMERICAN 9TH ARMYAMERICAN 1ST ARMY

NINTH ARMY UNITS REACH OBJECTIVES   Americans Push Through Mud Against Hitler's West Wall-Capture Three Towns,

Sugar Beet Crop 4.4 Percent Above’ 1943 But Under Average of 10 Years.

CITY SCHOOLS GET READY FOR MON MORNING OPENING   Call Attention To Regulations

RUSSIAN TROOPS AND POLES PRESS DRIVE ON WARSAY   Moscow Believes Some Units Have Entered City While Others Are Battling Outside.   NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE BELOW RIGA REPORTED   Berlin Says 400,000 Men Have Been Thrown Into Attack  ‘Designed to Crush 2 Nazi Armies.

Reds, Poles Hurl Germans  Into ‘Sack’   Russians Reported To Have Thrown 40 Divisions Into Fresh Offensive

Russians and Polish Steadily Envelop the Capital  MANY MEN HURLED IN LATEST ATTACK  River, 37 Miles Below Riga, Crossed by Troops

*Russian, Polish Troops ° ~ Hurl Germazs‘into. Sack ‘Formed by: Two Rivers.

Nazis Report Powertul ‘Red Offensive   Soviets and Poles Hurl Germans Into River Trap

REPORT REDS ARE STORMING INTO WARSAW   Russians and Poles Capture li Localities on East Bank of Vistula; Begin Offensive.   Hurl Shells

Reds Believed  Inside Warsav   Nazis Repert New Soviel Of leasen te BRatlitn

CAPITAL OF POLAND FACES ENVELOPMENT   Russian And Polish Troops Are Hurling Germans Into Sack Fermed Br Two Rivers

Final Filing Day For Trial Cases  - ext Term  ee   Judge Van Oosterhout Holds Court Session Wednesday

Final Filing Day For Trial Cases At Next Term  Judge Van Oosterh«   Judge Van Oosterhout Holds Court . Session Wednesday

POSTMAN APPEAR ON CURRENT SEAL   Linton Residents Will Receive Seals On Nov. 27

10 More Jap Ships Go Down AtHandsOft U.S. TaskF orce;  Guam, Tinian Gains Widened

Task Force Sinks 10 Ships In Carolines   Clear Skies of Jap Planes; Point Offensive Finger at Philippines

Yanks Sink 10 Jap Ships On Road  To Phillippines   Bag: Tricludes: Destroyer; Palau ’ Heavily: .Damaged; ‘Adv ce Contin-

Assault Centers At Palau   Task Force Levels Ground Defenses, Bags 10 Jap Planes; Spread Out On Tinian, Guam

Points Finger of Offensive At Philippines; More Of Guam, Tinian Taken

Japs Lose  Ten Vessels In Attacks On Islands   Skies In Carolines Are Cleared Of Jap Planes

MacArthur Announces Sinkings Off Truk; Eyes Turn Towards Philippines

New Attacks Indicate Drive To Philippines   “U.S. Task Force Pounds Defenses In Carolines; Japs Lose Ten Shins

PHILIPPINE OFFENSIVE IS INOW ENVISAGED   Naval Task Force Clears Skies of Nip Planes in Day and Further Saps Enemy Strength

SINK 10 JAP SHIPS   Two Day Attack of Carrier Planes in Pacific  Reported

U.S. Task Force Sinks 10 Ships   Sweeps Jap Planes From Skies, Attack Western Carolines

Ten Enemy Ships Sunk by Planes   Yanks Overrun Third of Tinian; Proaress on Guam Unreported

Presses Closer _ To Philippines   American Task Force Destroys 10 Jap Ships and 26 Planes in Latest Blow at Enemy in Pacific—Palau Is Heavilv Battered.   ISLAND ATTACKS GAIN

4 Jap Vessels Sunk by U.S. In  Pacifie Areas   Defenses In Western Cars. lines Leyelled: Skies Cleared Of Nipponese Planes

Yanks Slay 2000 Japs, Beat Off Counter-Atfack on Guam   Nimitz Reveals Heavy Fighting on Island: More of Foe Being Captured

FLEET SINKS 10 JAP SHIPS   Accounted For By Task Force Which Destroys Palau Naval Base

Ten Japanese Ships Sunk by US Task Force   Skies in West Carolines Cleared Of Enemy Planes

TASK FORCE CLEARS SKIES OF NIP PLANES   Americans Level Jap Defenses In Western Carolines

oar  Feat  GREAT STRUGGLE: 1S FOUGHT ALONG PATHS T0 CAPITAL   U. S. Fliers Encounter Fierce Resistance From Fighters; ' as Well as Heavy Fire From Ground. ex               DAYLIGHT ONSLAUGHT . . IS IN GREAT FORCE   Precision Assault Starts Big  Fires—Returning Airman:  Says City Is a Long Way From Gone. -

68 U. S. Bombers Lost In Powerful Blow At Berlin   Nazi Air Force Lay 14 . Wait — Greatest Aerial Battle In History Fought — Spectacular Battle Takes 83 Nazi Planes, At Least. 40 Others Destroyed For Total of Over 123.

At Least 123 German Planes Destroyed In Savage Aerial Engagements   HEAVY BOMB LOAD IS   DROPPED ON CAPITAL

Powerful Attack Made on City Through Fierce Opposition  GREAT AIR BATTLE RAGES DURING DAY, Fires Rage in C in City After  Bombs Are Rained  by Fliers

Record Loss Is Suffered by U. S. Airforce   Terrific Blow Is Delivered on German Capital

U. S. Loses 68 Bombers Over Berlin   Yank Pilots Say. Reich Capital Far From Destroyed

FDR Victory In Maryland — Is Indicated By Returns   President Gets Majority of 44,215 in Baltimore Cit But Counties Cut Into Lead—Heavy Vate Ic Polled

‘Democrats Make Gain Of One Seat  ‘From State   Tydings Easy Winner; Roe Leads Davis; Large Majority Is Given To Beall

Tydinge Carries Maryland By More Than 110,000; Demoérats Pick Up  . Congress Seat

SAIPAN JAPS ARE DOOMED   Yanks Squeeze~Enemy. Into Island Trap; New Airfield Captured

Japs Facing Slaughter at Sainan’s Tir   Fanatic Troops and Civil. iang Crowd Caves as Yanks Close Trap   NEW AIRFIELD WON   “We Are Moving Westward Fast,” Says Nimitz as Noemfoor Falls

MASSED JAPS FACE SLAUGHTER IN MARIANAS   American Troops Capture Kornasoren Airfield on Noemfoor

Japs. Facing   American Victory Is Seen Certain   Japanese, Massed Together On End Of Island ‘Await Inevitable As Grim Battle For Pacific Island Nears Climax

Saipan Japs Await Death   Crowded Into Corner They Know They Can’t Stop American Advance

Japs Massed For Slaughter   Crowded ‘Body to Body’ For Last Ditch Stand On Saipan

Japs Mass . For Last _ Ditch Stand   Thousands Await Doom They Know They Can’ Halt; Yanks Seize Air Field On Noemfoor

Nimitz Sees New Gains As Yanks Move On Saipan   Fighting Tough On Saipan As Nips Resign To Fate

Predicts Slaughter Of Japs on Saipan   Nimitz Says Enemy Troops Are Bunched For Last Ditch Stond

Japs Face Slaughter on Saipan   ‘Thousands. Massed’ Body to “Body in Caves °-in' Frantic Gesture Against Americans

Nimitz Views Future With Confidence  Lessons Learned   Lessons Learned At Saipan Will Aid in Assaults on Other Positions

Japs on Saipan  Massed For Death   Swift Seizure of Second Enemy Airfield Predicted by Nimitz.

‘NIMITZ PREDICTS NEW SUCCESSES IN THE PACIFIC   Impending Fall of Saipan and MacArthur's Capture of Airfield Adds Real Emphasis to Admiral Nimitz’ Forecast

“We Are Moving Across the Pacific As Rapidly And We View Future with Confidence”, He Says. Have Progressed 3,800 Miles Across Pacific in Past Year

Japs on Saipan Prepare to Die; Kornasoren Seized  Nimitz Says Lessons Learned » Saipan Will Speed Advance— Paratreens Take Airfield

ADMIRAL NIMITZ 18 CONFIDENT FUTURE TO BRING VICTORY  TELLS OF IMPENDING SLAUGHTER OF JAPANESI OW CAIDAN

MacArthur Wins New Bomber Base On Noemfoor Isle   Fighting In Marianas Conceded Tougher Than Was Expeced

REPORT LELAND LETSCHE MISSING   Remsen Boy Last Accounted for on Anzio Beachhead April 28

Report Pvt. ‘Leland  Letsch Missing  .Waé In Action At _Anzio.Beachhead —

WARDPLANTIN SPRINGFIELD IN OPERATION   Early Shift Returns to Work  After Government Seizure Over the Weekend

Hummer Factory Seized when WLB Order Rejected   Operations at Montgomery Ward Subsidiary Resume Under Army Control: Manager Co-operates

GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS AGAIN   This Time Administration }: Running Hummer Co. At Springfield, Ill.

ARMY TAKES OVER A WARD PROPERT!      Huinmer .Company . Plant Resumes Operation ‘Under. Government.:Direction:

Army Takes Over Plant   Second MontgomeryWard Plant Seized By Order of President

Production Resumed Under Gov’t Operation At Hummer Plant, Montgomery Ward Subsidiary

WARD CO. PLANT SEIZED BY ARMY   : Operations, Halted 17 Days by Strike, Resumed

ARMY OPERATES IND WARD PLANT AFTER SEIZURE   Production Schedule To Be Resumed Under Government Today

Seized Ward Plant Resumes Production, Ending Strike   Second Property Of Firm To Be Taken Over Ends Walkout Lasting 17 Weeke

Ward Subsidiary Resumes Work; Army In Control  -47-Day: Strike: Ends; i “Machinists Protested. KIA Cantract Canina :

Army Operates Hummer Plant   Employes Report for Work and Management Cooperates With Army

Ward-Owned War Plant Opens Under Government Operation After Being Strike-Bound 17 Dav:

Resume Work At J. §.-Seized Plant Of Ward Company  No Trouble As Army Takes Over

ARMY SEIZES WARD PLANT   Hummer. Manufacturing Co Resumes Operations After 17-Day Labor. Dispute.

WARD-OWNED CHICAGO PLANT RESUMES WITH WORKERS UNDER U. S; DIRECTION

Hummer Plant Back in Operation After Occupation by Arm   Soldiers Take Over at Order of President; No Disturbance

WORKERS RETURN TO THEIR JOBS; ARMY IN CHARGE   SEIZURE OF HUMMER CO. PLANT ORDERED BY FDR YESTERDAY

ARMY SEIZES 2ND WARD FIRM   Workers End 17-Day Strike After U. S, Order

U, S. OPERATES WARD CONCERN   Takes Over Illinois Plant Tc End 17-Day Stoppage

ARMY RUNNING WARD FACTORY   Hummer Manufacturing Co.,  ~ Montgomery Ward Subsidiary, Taken Over By Army.

Army Seizes Ward's Plant   Hummer Manufacturing Company Resumes Production

ARMY TAKES OVER WARD SUBSIDIARY   HUMMER PLANT OPERATED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Work Again At Hummer   Employes Back at Jobs As Ward Property Is Taken Over By Army

Commando Kelly Is Awarded New Meda  Gets Silver Star In Rapide Battle

Channel Ports. Fields Hit by 1700 Raiders   Planes Near Paris Fail to Sight Single Interceptor

TOJ0 RELINQUISHES TOP ARMY POSITION   Allied Successes in Pacific, Burma and China Reverberate in Tokvo

SAYS REAL WAR IS YET TO BE FOUGHT OUT   Admits: Loss of Sainan ™ Jap Home Waters. Another Powerful Militarist Takes Place

Tojo Yields , Post To New ~ Army Leader   Gen. Umezu, Powerful Militarist, Now Head of Jap Army Staff

TOJ0 OUT AS CHIEF OF STAFF   Shift In Cabinet After Pressure Of Japanese Defeats

HAD SNAPPY NIGHT   Cold Will Remain Another Day, Says Forecaster

U. 8. SUBMARINES DESTROYED 14 MORE JAPANESE VESSELS   ALLIED AIRMEN SPREAD FURTHER DESTRUCTION IN SOUTH PACIFIC

Jap Shipping Again Struck Costly Blow   American Submarines Send 14 Japanese Ships to BeHiom

Secretary Of Navy Tells Of  New Sinkings   370 Tons Of Explosives Spread Over Japan's Is. land Defenses.   WEWAK TAKES BLOWS

American Subs Get 14 Jap Ships For Total of 611   Rabaul Is Given Its Twelfth Consecutive Day of Bombing

200 Planes In {Ot Ton Raid Over Rabaul   Seventh Time Enemy Fails to Offer Opposition

14-MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK   Subs Further Cripple Nip Supply Lines; Continue Aerial Blows

YANKEE SUBS DESTROY 14 JAP VESSELS   Destruction of Nippon Shipping in South Pacific I: Increasing.   Rabaul Gets Another Mauling From the Ai

CONTINUE RAIDS ON RABAUL PORT   Drop 164 Tons of Bombs on 12th Straight Day Attack

Allies Hit © (Rabaul  12th Straight Time   Seventh Consecutive. Raid ‘in Which No Air Oppabition: 's Met by Bombers poe s

Yank Subs Sink 14 More Jap Vessels   Airmen Spread 370 Tons of  Bombs on Foe’s Island Defenses   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Writer

BRINGS TOLL TO 641 SHIPS, KNOX REVEALS   370 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Jap Defense Islands, With Rabaul Oftenest the Target

Allied Airmen Drop More Than 370 Tons of Explosives Over Nipponese Island Defenses   Newest Victims. of American Submarines in South Pacific Include Eleven Medium Cargo Vessels, Small Freighter, Transport and Tanker   ABAUL HARBOR AND AIRDROMES BLASTED AGAIN

MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY SUBS FOR 611 TOTAL   Japs on Rabaul Ready To Collapse, Belief - - 8,000 Nips Wiped Out in Burma   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

Bombers Blast Kurile Shipping   Island 200 Miles From Philippines Lashed by China-Based Planes; Halmahera, Big Jap Fortress, Neutralized by Airborne Explosives

Famous Units, War Veterans. Head Invasion   U.S. First Infantry Division. British Fiftieth In Battle  fee   IN THREE THEATERS

Reports Reaching London Say Germany On Verge Of Civil War; Terror Reigns

ON VERGE OF rivil WAR   Neutral Diplomats Learn of New Reign of Terror

Civil War Fear Brings Gestapo Reign of Terror Inside Germany   Thousands Reported Arrested; Nazi Press Chief Warns of Deportations if Allies Win the War

Reich on Verge Of Civil War; 2,000 Arrested   Reports to Diplomats Hint Rebellion May Already Be Underway; Nazis Call For Hatred, Scorched Earth Tactics

NATION GRIPPED BY REIGN. OF GESTAPO TERROR   People Get First News Of Approach Of Allies In ‘ Victory Drive   NAZIS ADMIT THREATS   Hitler Appears Readying ’ For Death Fight Rather Than Surrender

VIENNA BOMBE BY U, §.-AIRMEN   OTHER TARGETS IN AUSTRIA, . YUGOSLAVIA AND NORTHERN ITALY HIT.

Wallace Claims 319 Votes, Needs 589 To Triumph   837-Ballot Block Remains Unpledged

SPANGLER SAYS NEW DEAL NOW TIRED. CYNICAL   3,000 Attend GOP Platform Convention; Committeemen Chosen

SPEED RAIDS ON JAP DEFENSES   Littl2 Peace Ahead For Bonin Isles

Deferred Men Due For Draft   Hershey Says All Fit Men Must Go Soon

Med Cross Plans Largest Drive ‘In History To Mee! Greatest Needs: : Confrences Planned Throughout Stale.

Nazi Flight May Smash Home Front  Disorganized Army May Cause Chaos Withis   Disorganized Army May Cause Chaos Within  Hitler’s Machine

ALLIED MECHANIZED FORCES ARE ADVANCING AND CUTTING GERMANS TO PIECES IN THEIR BIG RETREAT   BEATEN NAZIS FLEEING FROM LAST BLACK SEA STRONGHOLDS AS RUSSIANS MAKE NEW GAINS

 allied Leaders Now Wonder If Hitlerites Will Seck Sanctuary— —By De Witt Mackenzic  German Retreat May Disrupt Reich Itself

THE  WAR TODAY   Fluid Warfare Is Moving So Fast Anything May Happen As Allicd Armies Near Gerniunny

ALLIES AT ANZIO MAINTAIN LINES   Repeated Attacks Repulsed as Air Arm Unleashes Greatest Blow

FRANTIC GERMAN THRUSTS BEATEN   Allies Take Everything Nazis Can Give at Anzio Beachhead, Give No Ground

Copper, Lead Shortages to Reduce ‘Production of Goods for Civilians

MILITARY DEMANDS TAKE SPOTLIGHT   Shortages of ‘of Copper and Lead May Force Withdrawal of Those Items from Market

COPPER, LEAD SHORT INU, 8.   Gaeeeeeeers  Threaten to Cause Further *‘Belt-Tightening’

Further Civilian Belt-Tightening Next Year Threatened by Shortaaes

Civilian Use Of Metal May Be Cut   Shortage of Copper, Lead Plus Army Demands For Bullets Create Shortage.

Shortage In Copper, Lead   Threatens To Cause Further Civilian B ee t-Tightening In 1945.

Civilian Use Of Lead Cut 40 Per Cent  Metal Shortage Affects Civilian Manufacture

Production Ot Civilian Goods  May Be Curtailed   Shortages Of Copper. Lead

Less Metal  For Civilians   Rising Army Needs for Copper and Lead Nicks Home-Front Stockpile

Daylight Raids  Are Continued   Fifth Successive Day Of Aeria! Onslaughts Against Nazis Reported   NORTHERN FRANCE HEAVILY BOMBED

Unidentified. Planes Drop Bomb: On Stockholm   Citizens Panic Stricken; Report Raiders Are Soviets

London Skies Glow From  Raider Fires   Bombs From ‘Foreign Planes’ Cause Damage in Stockholm

BOMBS DROPPED IN. ~ SWEDISH CAPITAL   Some Property Damage Reported Caused in ’ Stockholm: :

BOMBERS ROCK SWEDE CAPITAL   Stockholm Raided For First Time; City “In Panic”’

BOMBS FALL IN STOCKHOLM   Thousands of Windows are Shattered; No Casualties Reported

General Ike Declines To Sign French Honorary Renister Ahead Of DeGaulle

ALLIES FIGHT GERMANS HAND TO HAND TODAY   Nazi Soldiers Unable To Flee City

Yanks Fight Nazis. House-to-House in Cherbourg Battle   Other American Columns on East and West Advance Swiftly, Threatening to Cut Naxi Forces into Three Segments

TERRIFIC BOMB POUNDING GIVEN NAZI DEFENDERS   Then Artillery Furthers Destruc. tion Being Poured on Fortress Held by the Axis

Yankees Continue Gains About Forts and Advance Despite Severe Defense af Navic.

‘Tear Hole In Nazi Defenses   Six-Mile Breach in  Enemy Line Opens Way For Greatest Armored Clash of Present Drive

Lock Horns in a  Big Tank Battle   British Burst Thru Axis Defenses Into Open Near Caen   NAZIS: HARD PRESSED   American Troops Battling Germans at Foot of Cap  La Hague

Allies Approach Orne River Line; Germans Reported In Wildest Confusion

MOODY RECOMMENDED AS TEMPORARY STATE CONVENTION HEAD,  ALSO RECOMMENDED   ALSO RECOMMENDED THAT THERE BE NO CONVENTION KEYNOTE SPEECH

ALLIES MAP BULGARIAN ARMISTICE   Military Operations Ends; Anti-Nazi Regime Named

Bulgaria And Russia End Four-Day War   Is Third Satellite To Abandon Germany

Nations Draw Peace Terms For Bulgaria   Georgiev Named Nev Premier of Sofia’s Ani-Nazi Regime

Bulgarian-Soviet 4-Day War Ended   United States And Britain Join Russians In Working Out Conditions For Armistice

Russia Ends Short War On Bulgaria   Allies Draw Terms For Armistice; New Regime Formed.

HAVE TO SCRUB IN HASTE   Belgians Are Busy Removing AntiNazi Slogans From Walls

Fighting In Europe Stabilizes   Observers See No Hope For Getting Boys Out Of Foxholes  By Christmas.

U. §, RAID ON BUCHAREST KILLED 2,942, WOUNDED 2,126, ROMANIA REPORTS

Partisans Strike  in Nine Sectors  Tito Reports 1,000  Germans Killed

Nazis Nave’ Base is Hit   Germans Are Struck In Nine Battle Areas

TITO'S FORCES RENEW ATTACKS   Heavy Fighting Spreads To Coastal Area in Fiume Section

Yugoslav Chief Claims Gains   Says 1,000 Germans Killed by Partisans

Loss Of Two U.S. Subs Is Announced  By NavyDept   Modern Cisco, Put In Service In May, And 18-Year-Old S-44 Have Been Sunk

2 U. S. Subs Lost;  109 Men in Crews   Submersibles Are 8-44 and New Cisco, Com_missioned Only Last May—Presumably, Are Victims of Japs in the Pacific. #

Cisco, $-44 Sunk in Pacific   U.S. KWAJALEIN VICTORY COMPLETE AS JAP DEAD REVEALED AS 8122, AMERICAN LOSSES 282; TOKYO REPORTS “BITTER FIGHTING” RAGES

2 More U.S. Subs Missing With 110 Men   New Cisco and Old S-44 Fail to Return and Are Considered Lost

2 American Subs Lost  Cisco and 8.44   Cisco and S-44 Presumed Lost In Pacific

TWO AMERICAN SUBS ARE LOST IN THE PACIFIC   Navy Reveals Loss of Cisco And S-44, Both Active Against Japanese

THOUS. UBS, REPORTED LOSI   Announcement Of Loss ‘Of Cisco And S-44 Is Made By Navy

TWO SUBS LOST BY U.S. NAVY   Cisco And §-44 Sunk In Pacific While Hunting Jap Ships

LOSS OF 2U.S. UNDERSEA BOATS UPS TOTAL TO 19   OLD S-44 AND BIG, NEW CISCO FAIL TO WIN BACK TO PORT

U.S. Loses Two Submarines  Cisco and S-44 Are Reported Lost, It Is

Cisco And $-44  Apparently Were In The Pacitic   Had Been Taking Big Toll Of Jap Ships; 19 Subs Now Lost During War

Two American  Submarines Lost  Skippers of Cisco, 5-44 Listed as  tee a Rk

Pair of American Submarines  Lost in Pacific  Cisco and S-44 Bring U. S. Total to 19 During War

Loss Of Two Subs Reported By Navy  Cisco, S-44 Said Sami With (Crawe

Two U. S. Submarines Lost, Evidently In Pacific Area; One, Less Than  Year Old, Commanded By Hoosier

TWO AMERICAN SUBMARINES LOST, NAVY ANNOUNCES   Cisco and S-44 Believed tc Have Gone Down in Barcific Waters

Navy Diseloses Two Subs. Lost Jn Pacific Ares   Men_in_ Two. Crews; Cisco "Skinper Missing. "Sub Losses Now Total 19

U.S. Reveals Loss of Subs   One of Newest and Another Older Type Lost In Action

2. SUBMARINES BELIEVED 1081   Presumed to Have Been: Operating in Pacific Waters Against Jaos

TWO U. S. SUBS LOST IN PACIFIC   No Details Given - - One Old But Other Was Modern

TWOU, S, SUBS LOSTIN ACTION   Skippers of Both U-Boats, Cisco, $-44 Missing

Two U. S. Subs [Are Missing   Navy Reports Cisco And s.44 Unreported And Presumed Lost.

TWO YANK SUBS REPORTED LOST   Cisco And S-44 Believed Operating In Pacific

Hitler Declares Traitors All Wiped Out or Arrested   * Brauchitsch, Rundstedt, List, Mannstein Rumored Among Army Leaders Executed, Revolt in German Navy Unconfirmed

Bomb Nazi Warships  Ships Sheltered in Baltic Port of Gdynia Under Attack

NAZI SHIPS IN PORT OF GDYNIA HIT   Centers Feeding Western Front  Hit In Daylight

THREE DEAD IN HOUSTON FIRE   Victims Trapped In Flimsy) Rooming House

} Government Plans Sale Of Millions of Acres of Farm Land After War

Public Land Sales May Be Postwar Plan   Strong Sentiment Develop: For Disposal in FamilySized Farms at Low Cost

NATION-WIDE BACK TO LAND MOVEMENT ENVISIONEN TONAY   POSTWAR SALE MILLIONS ACRES GOVERNMENT. OWNED LAND PLANNED

Vets and.Former Owners Will Get First Chance to Buy Federal Land

Legislative Action Plots Return of ~ Farms to Pre-War Owners, Veteran:

Reconversion Plans Needed NAM Contends   Manufacturers Pledge Continued Production For War Until Victory

N.A.M. ‘asks reconversion preparations  ‘Proper wartime halancre needed’

RECONVERSION PLANS NEEDED NAM INSISTS   Postwar Job Goals Prompt Stand By Group

NAM PLEDGES PRODUCTION TIL LAST SHOT   Roosevelt Asks That We Not Let Our Enemies Rise, Now That We  Have Them Down

Pomona Grange  Will Meet Dee. 6   Sessions Will be Held In Port Allegany

4-H Fair Plans to Hold Night Shows   Two Evenings Full of Entertainment at Big Awewal hharane

Air Attacks At Rabaul Disclosed   Follow Japs’ Admission That Situation in That  Area ‘‘Very Grave’’

Gurkhas Didn't Understand Gliders   Natives Wanted io Go, But Plane Had No Motor

HITLER QUIET ~ ON HERO. DAY   FUEARER FAILS TO. MAKE A SPEECH FOR FIRST TIME SINCE START OF WAR.

85 PERCENT OF VITAMINS ARE UTTER WASTE, PHYSICIAN SAYS   Gardens And Fields And Not Drugstores Continue To Be Source Of The Suitable And Multifarious Diets Nature Has Made For Man, He Says

AMERICAN TROOPS  BATTLED WAY INTO  LANGERWEHE TODAY BATTLE FOR GERMANY  RAGED FIERCELY IN AIR AIS. GA NATIS NOWNED

EstArmy Assault Toward Cologne Gathering Power   Report Double Red Drives Roll Against Budapest; British Circle Faenza

AMERICAN TROOPS BATTLED WAY INTO LANGERWEHE TODAY  _ BATTLE FOR GERMANY _ RAGED FIERCELY IN AIR  ALSO: 94 NAZIS DOWNEL

FIRST UNITS TO HURTGEN AFTER FALL OF FRENZ   Americans Slash Through Forest—Ninth Army Scores Neor Aachen

Cigarets $4.00 a Pack: Black Market Has Them in Paris:  Officers Rationed, None for GI's

OCTOBER 1 CROP REPORT ISSUED   Predict 25% Of Corn Will Be Sub-Normal

INTENSIVE FIRE RAID CAUSES LONDON DAMAGE  Berlin Expends Scarce Planes In Attack to Build Home Morale

LONDON FIRED BY HEAVIEST ATTACK OF YEAR   Two Districts Sustain Heavy Damage By Incendiaries

London Digs Out From Ruins Of  Fierce Fire Raid   Pre - Midnight German Raid Almost Equal. To ‘Attacks OF 1941.

LONDON DIGS QUT OF BIGGEST FIRE SINCE 1941 RAIDS   Thousands of incendiaries Are Dropped By German Planes in Night Attack   U. §. RAIDS HANNOVER

London Suffers Worst Fire Raid Since Blitz.  Thousands of Incendisries Ave:   Thousands of Incendisries Ave: Showered Upon City by Raiders

London Is Hit In Aerial Fire Raid By Nazi:   Flames Sweeping Section: OF€ British Capital As German Bombers Stage Assault

GERMANS SE 130 PLANES « OVER CITY   At Least 13 Nazi. Raiders Reported Shot Down   BERLIN CLAIMS   Super Bombs Are Dropped: U. S. Soldiers Join In Fighting Blaze

Incendiaries and High Explosives Showered On City In Short Attack.

LONDON DEALT BLOW FROM AIR   Rescue Workers Search Wreckage After Heavy German Attack

ead And Wounded Left In ondon After Fierce Midnight ir Assault By Nazi Planes

Nazi Bombers Raid London   Greatest Air Attack Since Big Assaults Made Back in 1941

Nine German Planes Destroyed  London Suffers One Of Worst Air Raids Since 1941; Rescue Units Busy

London Hit Hard by ‘German Night Raiders   Rescue Workers Search For Dead and Injured; Rivals 1941 Attacks

LONDON HIT BY NAZI FIRE RAID   Short But Concentrated Attack Does Heavy Damage

LONDON DGS QUT FROM FIERCE RAID   German Attack Last Night Rivals in Intensity of 1941 Assaults.

London Is Digging Out After Big Night Air Attack  Incendiary Assault Rivals Raids By Nazis in 1941

LONDON HARD HiT BY NAZI DUMBER FORCE   Riva's 1941 Raids In Size; Damage Reported Heavy

Air Attack On London Rivals Intensity Of Big Nazi Raids Made During Blitz Of 1941    Rescue Workers Dig Smoking Ruins For Bodies Following Heavy Assault

LONDON IS HIT — BY FIRE RAID   Workers Toil Throu gh Ruins In Search Of Dead And ‘Injured

Attack Recalls Big Blitz Raids   Many Believed Killed; Damage Extensive

London Subjected To Fierce Fire Raid That Rivals 1941 Assaults   : Rescue Workers Toil Through Ruins In Search Of Dead And Injured; Warehouse Over Shelter Fired Bv Bomb.

Britain’s Capital Digs Out Of Raid That Rivaled Great Enemy Blows Of 1941; Germans Report Big Air Battles Take Place In Hannover Region

Nazis Shower London With Heavy Attaek   U.S. Heavy Bombers Smash At Military Targets In Central Germany.   DUESSELDORF BLASTED

FIRES FOLLOW GIANT BLITZ OVER LONDON   ‘sscuers Toil Through the Ruins In Search of Dead end Injured After Visit of Planes   LASTS LESS THAN HOUR

London Hit By Big Fire Raid   Attack Short But Concentrated, Sets Many Fires In British Capital

Rescuers Seek Blitz Victims   Search in London Ruins Following Heavy Nazi Raid

Nazi Bombs Start Huge London Fires   Midnight Raid Rivals Intensity of Nazi Attacks of 1941

LONDON DIGS OUT AFTER RAIDS   Intensity Rivals That of "41 Nazi Attacks

Smeking Ruins Probed Toda By Rescue Crews in Search of Injured and Dead—At fack Short But Concen. trated

London Workers. Searching Ruins For Baid Victims      Pre-Midnight Attack Worst -Visited- On British: City Since Bombing Of 1941

MANY DEAD AND INJURED IN WRECKAGE   Rescue Workers Toil Through Smoking Ruins Of Widely Devastated  Arene

GERMAN AIRMEN BATTER LONDON   SHOWER THOUSANDS OF BOMBS ON CITY IN FIERCE ATTACK

Fire Raid On London   City Suffers Heavy Damage in a Brief, Fierce Air Attack

Premiers Favor Allied Strategy   “Beat Hitler First” Policy Approved: Nazis hept Guessing

Premiers Approve Allied War Plans      "Beat Hitler First’ Urged at Conference

Premiers Approve Invasion of Reich   British Leaders Announce Zero Hour Is Nenr

JAP OIL. SOURCES . ~ RAIDED BY FLIERS   Balikpapan on the East  Coast..of Borneo... Attacked

Move Designed Thwart Landings by U. S., Forces Said; Planes Blast Dutch Borneo Oil Fields

Naval Chiefs Plan Moves Against Japs   Nips Make Surprise Invasion Of China Coast, Tokyo Says

Nelson Opposes Liquor ‘Holiday’   Senate Committee Seeks To Relieve Domestic Distillers

Senators Propose Importing Less Gin and Rum  Action Is Intended To Get Better Beverages in U. S.

Proposal Made For Importing Cuban Alcohol   Less Gin And Rum For Neighbor Isles Committee Is Urging

MORE WORKERS TO BE NEEDED BY RED CROSS TO MAKE SURGICAL DRESSINGS DURING APRIL MAY

REMEMBER MRS. DEWEY   Sherman, Tex., People Recall Wife of Nominee

Japs Battered By 5 Separate Allied Thrusts   Yank Air Raid Into Carolines Destroys 10 Nip Ships. 26 Planes.

Allies Sink 10 Jap Ships In Palau Raid   Enemy Forces Mauled On Kight Land And Sea Battlefronts

Jap Empire Bleeds From Five Thrusts   10 Ships and 26 Planes Wiped Out by U. S, Stab at Palau

Japs Reel under 5 Allied Offensives   Victories Scored at Palau, Truk, Sabang and on China’s Two Land Battlefronts; British Reveal Subs Get 21 Jap Ships; 26 Planes Downed by Yanks in Caroline Action

SCORE VICTORIES AT SABANG, TRUK PALAU, IN CHINA   WIPE OUT 10 JAP SHIPS, 26 PLANES IN RAID ON PALAU

New Blows Rock Japanese Empire   Palau Raid Wrecked 10 Ships, 26 Planes

U.S. Destroys 10 Jap Ships, 26 Planes at Palau   Yanks Advance on Guam and Tinian; Jap Losses 19 to 1

Planes Sink 10 Jap Ships   Five New Allied Thrusts Made Against Nipponese Holdings

10 Jap Ships Sunk By U.S. Task.Borce..   Allied Victories at Palau, Truk, Sabang, China, Guam, Tinian -

Five Victories Scored Against Nippon Bases   Palau, Carolines, Truk Raided By Task Force

U. §. And British Forces Destroy 3) Nippon Ships   Japs Suffer Stinging Defeats On Eight Land, Sea Fronts

JAPANESE BLEED FROM 5 THRUSTS   Stab Into Carolines Wipes Out 10 Ships And 26 Planes  ALLI#Ce BAIN BATE A BY

Allies Strike 5 New Blows jat. Shrinking Jap Empire ‘im Pacific: Palau Raided

Japan Bleeds From 5 New UN Thrusts   Victories Scored at Palau, Truk, Sabang, and China’s Two Battlefronts; 10 Jap’ Ships, 26 Planes Wiped Out 

10 MORE JAP SHIPS MEET DAVEY JONES   Carrier Planes Raid Palau And Other Enemy Bases in Carolines —   BRITISH SUBS SINK 2

SHRINKING JAP EMPIRE GIVEN FIVE NEW RAIDS   Many Ships And Planes Lost In Past Few Days

U.S. Navy Planes Sink 10 Jap Ships In Caroline Raid As Allied Gains Continue

Japs Bleed — From Five Assaulls   Devastating U. $, Blows in Carolines, Carrying Nearer Philippines   10 SHIPS AND 26 PLANES DOWNED   Gains Are Recorded on Oth er Fronts on Road to Manila

Japs Tremble As Allies Push 5 New Thrusts   Devastating U.S. Stab Into Carolines Wipes Out 10 Enemy Ships, 26 Planes

Victories Scored at Palau, Truk, Sabang, Two Chinese Fronts.   /ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY

Hew Sea, Air Blows Dealt lo Jap Bases   10 Ships Destroyed, 26 Planes Downed; Palau Again Blasted By Americans

Task Force Wrecks Palau and Shipping; Truk Pounded; Enemy Cut Down in Marianas

U, 5. TASK FORGE SINKS 10 SHIPS OFF CAROLINES   Brings Total of Jap Vessels Sunk To 50 Since Invasion Of Marianas

Ten Jap Ships Sunk As Yanks Smash On Back to Philippines   Decisive Allied Assaults Made on Key Island Bases on Palau, Truk and Sabang While Americans Move in To Annihilate Thousands of Enemy Cut Off on Three Other Islands

Jap Empire Shrinking As Five Allied Thrusts Hit Nips On Land, Sea   American Jabs Wipe Out 10 Ships And 26 Pianes

 ‘Memory Lane’ To Be Started Nov. 19 County’s ‘Living Memorial’ To Be Treé-Lined Higshwav

‘Memory Lane’ To Be Started Nov. 19  County’ s ‘Living Memorial % Be Tree-Lined Highway

Nazi Resistance Before Paris May Collapse, Belief   Yanks Continue Advance Marking Record Victory In Brittany Attacks   GERMAN STRENGTH IS TURNED BACK

NAZI UNITS IN FRANCE NEAR COLLAPSE —   U. S. Troops in Vire, 140 Miles From Old French Capital

Soviet Push May Isolate 'Nazi Armies   Russians Smash Into Yugoslavia In Great Offensive

Russian Troops Go Over Danutx Into Yugoslavia   Red Forces Seek To Reach Allied Units in Albania

3 Killed, Many Hurt In Blast   Grain Elevator Blows Up Burying Many Under Tons Of  Blast Dust.

City’s Fall Is Expected Very Soon   LUNVDUN (UF )—A torce of British Lancaster bombers attacked a synthetic oil plant at Dortmund in Germany’s Ruhr valley today.

Patton Shock Troops Close In On Metz   Three More of Key Outposts Are Captured

THREE MORE FORTS TAKEN BY AMERICANS   British Hurl Germans Back on Last Defense Line In Holland.   BULLETIN

BRITISH 2ND ARMY GAINS IN HOLLAND   Advances 5 Miles Against Light Resistance

Seize Three M ore fy ry I ts Outposts   GERMAN DEFENSES CRUMBLE. FAST AS YANKS DRAW WITHIN MILE OF CITY FROM SOUTH.

Capture of City Nears; Seize Forts   British Make Continued Gains in Holland Cam paign Today =,

Corridor for Nazis Escape Cut fo 7 Miles   British Plunge Forward 5 Miles In New Offensive

SEIZE 3 MORE OUTPOSTS; FALL OF CITY NEAR   British Drive  Gains 35 Miles

3 More rorts Are Captured   German Escape Gap Is Whittled Down to 7 Miles

Hull Is Not Satisfied With Sweden’s Reply To Exnort Of Rall Rearinges

United States Dissatisfied With Sweden's Reply ToNote   Secretary Hull Reveals, Officially, That Request Had Been Made To Stop Shipments

SWEDEN'S REPLY To NOT SATISFACTORY   U.S. Attaches Great Importance to Question of Supplies for Nazis.

HURRICANE SHOWS SIGNS OF VEERING   Takes Course Which Would Lessen Threat To Florida, Bahamas

New Guinea Forces Join   Aussies Reach Saidor And. Jap Annihilation Finished

Forces Meet After Disposing Of Bulk Of 14,000 Japanese   WEWAK AND RABAUL BASES HIT AGAIN

AUSSIES AND YANKS MEET NEAR SAIDOR   Putting Both In Position To Thrust ‘Toward BombParalyzed Madang; Japanese Flee To Mountains.   Modern Highway

Nearly 3,000 eraft thrown at enemy fort  Shoot 25 more WW ee BO re ee

ANTI-INVASION CAMPAIGN SETS NEW RECORDS   Three American Forces Strike Nazi ‘Dromes And Defenses; New  Raid Under Way

Allies Staging Triple Assault Over Continent   American Heavy And Medium Bombers Blast French Targets [n Ceaseless Air Offensive; April Bombings Set New Record   German Fighter Force Is Guessing On Where  Invasion Will Strike

Yanks Attack On 16th Day Of Offensive   2 Bombers. 4 Fighters Lost in Operations, 25 Germans Downed  RAF OUT AGAIN

FRENCH TARGETS AREBLASTEDIN AIR OFFENSIVE   100,000 Tons Of Bombs Hurled On Continent During Last Month   NIGHT RAIDERS HEAD FOR AUSTRIAN CITIES

NESTS BLASTED   Assaults Also Aimed At Crumbling Nazi Transportation System   TENTH ATTACK LAUNCHED ON CALAIS ROCKET RAMPS

U.S. Bombers Blast 8 Nazi Rocket Ramp:   Weather Unfavorable During Most Of Day; Hit Ro c manian Oil Fields,   BOMB BERLIN. AREA

FLYING - BOMB NESTS BLASTED   Allied Bombers Hit Nazi Transportation, 0+ Centers

9 FLYING-BOMB NESTS BLASTED   Yank Heavies Attack Targets On French Coast—Weather Is Unfavorable

Japanese Claim Occupation Of Foochow; Vital Port in South China: Near Kweilin

TRIAL OF LONERGAN IS RESUMED TODAY   Insurance Company Clair Examiner Named As Foreman of Jury.

MUSTER OUT GIVES SOLDIER FACTS OF HIS CIVILIAN LIFE   (EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a series on veterans’ benefits, ranging from demobilization to jobs and pensions.)

Here’s What Happens To a Soldier On His Way To Becoming a Veteran

 The War T oday— ‘Credit For Allied Successes Must Be Attributed To Brilliant Leaders

hermans Haye vay ROoutNe bag Vi APenoe™  Allied Generals Have Outsmarted Prussian:

The War Today  Hails Generalship As Chief Factor In Route of Nazis

ALLIED INVASION OF GERMANY BRINGS WONDER THAT UNITED NATIONS HAVE COME SO FAR

THE  WAR TODAY   Allied Generalship, Topped by Eisenhower, Giveu Credit For Bringing Germany to Defeat So Soon After D-Day

RACE QUESTION BEFORE DEMOS   ‘White Supremacy’ Issue Arises  In Georgia ond Texas Primaries

Race Question Injected Into Georgia Vote   Whites Say Negroes Will Be Barred, But Blacks Plan “Token Vote”

Political Front Activities Comprise Issue In Georgia  And Dewey Plans Big Push

Wants Early Action On Training Bill   Roosevelt Suggests Year of Government Service for Youths

FDR For Youth To Give Year   Wants Legislation Requiring Year of Government Service to Country

FDR Favors Full Year  Of Training For Youths   “Hoping: Legislation May Seon Be Passed

FDR Outlines Youth Service   Year Of Training ~ Would Help Physically

Stresses Need for  ~ Training   Roosevels Hopes Legislation Will Be Passed This Winter, He Tells Reporters   YEABR’S SERVICE Ig SUGGESTED   Youth Needs Training as Shown by Draft Reeords: He Says

cme  Training of Youth Has FDR’s Support      Year’s Service Not Designated as Military and Girls May Be Included—President Late to News Conference Because of Watching War Developments

FOR SERVICE YEAR   President Hopes to Get Compulsory Training Bill This Winter

Year’s Service Is Urged Again  By Roosevelt   Legislation To Require Nation’s Youth To Undergo Training For Year Is Proposed

Year's — For U.S. Youth Asked By KDR   President Hopes Legi-lation Will Be Passed By Congress This Winter

TRAINING OF YOUTH (5 WANTED BY FOR   Doesn’t Answer Directly It Training Should Be Military.

FDR Favors Year’s Trainin  For All Youths   Hopes Congress Will Pass Necessary Law This Winter

President Eager Youth Training Measure Enacted   Universal Service May Include Nation’s Girls

F.D.R.URGES PASSAGE OF BILL FOR YEAR'S SERVICE OF YOUTHS   PRESIDENT STRESSES PHYSICAL ADVANTAGE OF TRAINING; PARRIES MILITARY QUESTION

Boy, 7, Breaks Strange Silence; Says Wading Companion Disappeared

RETAILERS PLAN V-DAY PROGRAN   Want To Be All Set For Coming Victory In Furone

Entire Jap Force Wiped Out in  One Engagement  Enemy Units Trapped In Surigao Strait Destroyed by Yanks

Singapore Fleet Of Japs Wiped Out By U.S.   At Least 2 Battleships And 5 Cruisers In Surigao Strait Were Sunk By Americans

Invasion Casualties Less Than Estimated   50% Lower Than Predicted By High Command

DISCHARGED MEN MAY BE CALLED   Those Discharged From Services Can Be Reinducted Into Armed Forces

Green Accuses Marshall   Discharged Men Being Recalled   Draft Officials Announce New Rule

RESORT BUSINESS OUTLOOK 1S GOOL   Wisconsin Official Believes Travel Factor Will Be A Boon.

Gideons Challenge Solon’s Statement   Stimson Urges National Service Law Passage: Cites Walkouts in War Plants

MANPOWER SHORTAGE CAN'T BE REMEDIED BY LOWER STANDARD  ANATUCD DIIDCAIT AD   ANOTHER BUREAU OR © AGENCY’ STEVS HEAVILY INTO DRAFT SITUATION

SPECIAL BOARD ADVISES DRAFT OF FAMILY MEN   LOWER PHYSICAL STANDARDS WON'T MEET ARMY NEEDS

Family Men To Make Up Army Need:   Special Board Advises Against Lowering Of Physical Standards For Military Forces

Manpower Shortage in Armed Services Studied by Group   Special Commission i: Opposed to Lowering Physical Standards

FATHER DRAFTING DRAWS OPPOSITION FROM CONGRESS ©   Indications That Fathers _ And Not Reclassified 4-F’s  Will Be Taken Meets  Obtection

CAPITOL ILL HAS OBJECTION   Thinks Insistence About _ Physical Standards Is  All Wrong.   COULD RECLASSIFY SOME

May Assails Greater Trend To Dad Draft   Military Committee Head Opposes Report By Medical Groun

OBJECTIONS ARISE. OVER ARMY'S NEW DRAFT REGULATION   Capitol Hill Stirred Over Army Plan to Take Family Men Rather Than Reclassified 4.F’s.—May Raps Draft Re gave tere cee

MANPOWER SHORTAGE CAN'T BE REMEDIED BY LOWER STANDARG  ’ ANOTHER BUREAU OR © LATA? CT MN TIT A TTI UF   _ ANOTHER BUREAU’ OR © AGENCY STEPS HEAVILY INTO DRAFT SITUATION

induction Ot Fathers Favored   Armed Forces Do No’ Need Any More Mer for Limited Service Commission Reports

Protests ‘Policy On ~ Induction   House Military Committee Head Objects to Taking Dads Ahead of 4F’s   FOR LOWERING OF MEDICAL STANDARD   Medical Commission Says It Can’t Be Done. Safely, — Points to Needs

Physical Level To Stay High   Army Must Supply Needs Mainly From Men With Families

ITALIAN RULER SET 10 RETIRE   Crown Prince Prepared To Act As Deputy In War Government

Crown Prince Umberto Says Emanuele Plans to Hand Over Powers to Him—Whether This Will Be Done Before Allies Reach Rome Is Uncertain—Decision Paves Way’ for Coalition War Government of All Major Parties,

Way to Be Cleared for Coalition of Italian War Government Parties

AY. CLEARED IN ITALY BY UMBERTO ACT   Prince To Be Deputy ——For-King-Upon  Retirement

Blast Death Toll Mounts To Over 160   Is Worst Disaster in Britain’s War History

160 FEARED DEAD IN BOMB DEPOI   RESCUERS RECOVER 23 BOD1ES FROM DEBRIS OF BRITISH ARMS STORE.

160 Are Feared Dead in British Munitions Blast   Rescue Work Continues following EarthquakeLike Explosion

160 Feared Dead From Bomb Blast   Radio Claims * Explosion, Caused By V-Weapon

NAZIS OAY V-BOM EXPLODED DEPOT   Fear More Than 160 Met Death in Explosion of RAF Bomb Storage; Huge Blast Shakes Countryside

THREE MORE STEEL FORTS ARE OVERRUN   British Break Into Outer Defenses Before Maas

Reinforced Nazis Battle to Escape Trap; British Break Through in _ Holland, French Advance Five Miles

CAMACHO FOGIVES _ ASSASSINATION GROUP   Refuses to Punish Old Men Whi Pianneqd to Take His Life.

U.S. Not Opposed To Nev Polish Frontiers, Unless Those Concerned Object

U §. Takes Stand On Polish Issue   Approves New Border lf Poles Agree

U. S. Stand or Poland Given   A VUIGAIIU VZIVCE  U. S. Has No Objection To Frontiers If United  eae.  ee

STETTINIUS GIVES: VIEWS ON POLANE      U. S. Doesn’t Object to Future Frontiers, if Nations Anree.

No Objection To Pole Lines   Secretary Of State Stettinins Savs United Nations Must Avree.,

U.S. Will Okay “Friendly” Settlement Now Of Polish .  Border Issue—Stettinius _

Stettinius Issues Statement on  Borders of Poland  U. S. Will Not Objec If All Nations Concerned Are Agrees

U.S. Has No Objection To  Change In Poland Boundaries  7 Be eee A bee: Bivdvee DiSecored inser Aber   Agreement On Future Frontiers Approved If United Nations Invelved Sanction Them

U9. AGREES ON POLISH BOUNDAR   No Objection: If. United Nations Agree, Says Stettinius

POLISH BORDER CHANGES OKAY. SAYS STETTINIUS   DECLARES U. S. HAS NO OBJECTIONS TO RUSS-BRITISH PACT

LABOR HEADS MEET WITH PRESIDENT   Green, Murray Summoned to Talk Over Labor Draft

Murray, CIO Head, Calls Proposai “Quack Medicine’; He And AFL Head Invited To White House   HEARING BEGUN BY SENATE COMMITTER

MOVE FOLLOWS WORKERS’ DRAFT HE ADVOCATED   Fireside Chat Is Condensed of Annual Mes: sage to Congress; Draft Violates Union Principles .

BITTER BATTLE FORECAST ON LABOR DRAFT   Proposal Receives Chilly Reception From Congress And Workers

U. §. Airmen Operate From Soviet Bases   Plan Decided Upon at Teheran Ends in Historie Shuttle Raid

FINNS CLAIM PEACE TERMS ARE T00 HARSH   Observer Reports Reds Made Little Modi fication

FINNISH PEACE TERMS CHANGED STILL SEVERE   Acceptance Thought Unlikely Even By Most Eager Pacifists

RED T:RMS TOO HARD ON FINNS   Advocates Of Peace See Little Chance For Armistice Now

Finnish Terms  Called Too Harsh   Swedish Correspondent Tells of Red Demands

Finns Say Red Terms Impossible   J Correspondent Declares Nation Unwilling to Yield

0 NAZI AIRPLANE PLANTS SMASHEE   GENERAL ARNOLD SAYS TUESDAY’S RAID CRIPPLED GERMAN AIR FORCE,

INCENDIARY BOMBS HURLED ON TOKYO; B-29'S MAKE RAID   Radio Tokyo States That No Explosives Are Dropped Bv Planes   OVER 7-HOUR PERIOD   “Japs” Admit Later Raid Continues For An Hour

AMERICAN FCRCES PO'SE FOR CRE WW SOUTH PACIEIC   Rear Admir 1 Carney Says 100,000 Japs Virtually Trapved

FIFTH DRIVE  _ BY JAPANESE "18 EXPECTEL   ANOTHER “ENEMY~SPEARTIEAD F BELIEVED MASSING FOR JPURIE ACROSS BORDER  IN INDIA:

HEAVY LOSSES ~ FAIL TO CHECK JAP. COLUMNS   Tanks Lead 4th Invasior Column for Consistent Gains But Nips Lose Planes.

PLANES HiT STUTTGART   Only F our Craft Lost © In British Smash; France Bombed

Jolts the Reich  - Pummeling by U. S. - Planes Foliows RAF  Gmoach mt Cérittanetd

Allied Fliers Bomb Reich Around Clock   Forts, Liberators Hit Hard Following R.A.F. Attack on Stuttgart

U.S. Warplanes Follow UP RAF Raid On German   Stuttgart, Munich Targets Receive Heavy Pounding

STRONG FORCE OF BOMBERS BLASTS REICH   Day Attack by American Craft Follows 600-Bomber Raid by R. A. F. on Important War Centex of Stuttgart.

RAF Smash At Stuttgart Followed Up   Strong Daylight Fore Also Attacks Northern France   NAZIS HIT LONDON   British Lose Only Fou Planes During Night Assault

FLYING FORTRESSES  AND LIBERATORS IN  SMASH AT GERMANY RAIDS FOLLOW ON HEELS OF HEAVY BLAST  £6) COUMYPTH ADR RY Dian

Flying Forts Hit Same Area After R. A.F. Night Raid   Munich Hit In Light Mosquito Diversionary Raid As 1,900 Tons Of Bombs Fire Industrial City

FOLLOW HEAVY R. A. F. ATTACK   British Report Record Low Loss Of Four Planes Out Of 600  ENGLAND HIT AGAIN

~ALLIED AIR WAR—  Batter Nazis   600 RAF PLANES LASH AT STUTTGART; LONDON RAIDED

Bombers Smash At Nazi Targets   Fortresses Carry on Raids After 600-Plane Assaul! by the RAF.

GREAT RAF FLEET SMASHES ATVITAL NAZI WAR PLANTS   STRONG AMERICAN FORCE HAMMERS AT SOUTHWEST GERMANY

Big Bombers Hit Germany   RAF Hammers Stuttgart Hard, U.S. Heavies Rip Intec Southwest Germany

Heavy RAF Bombers Hit Stuttgart Severe Blow   Large Fires Left Burning In German Industrial Center, Air Ministry Savs

Fortresses, Liberators Hit Germany   American Target Not Announced, But It Is Suggested It Likely Was Stuttgart

Stuttgart Hit By British During Night   Four Allied Planes Are Lost in Heavy Assault On Reich by RAF and RCAF; Other Bombers Make Diversionary Stab at Munich

HEAVY AERIAL PUNCH GIVEN AEICH PLANTS   ortresses and Liberators smash Germany on Heeis of Night Assault Ry 2@ A EE   ‘OUR PLANES ARE LOST

RAF Smashes Stuttgart In Heavy Attack   U. S. Planes Follow Up Night Raid Into. South Germany _

Southwest Germany Pounded in Double Night-and-Day Rai   Stuttgart War Center Feels Weight of RAF American Attacks

NIGHT AND DAY  RAID ON NAZIS   U. $. Attack Today Follows One By RAF Last Night On Stuttgart.   IMPORTANT WAR CENTER

Heavy Air Thrust. Southwest Germany   Over 600 Bombers Blast Fiercely At Stuttgart and Other Centers With Loss of Only Four Planes

Stuttgart Is — Shattered By Double. Blow   Light Losses Indicate the Effectiveness of Faster Pace in Air War

LIBERATORS HIT NAZI TARGETS IN ‘DAYLIGHT FORAY   U. S. ‘Forts’ Follow RAF Raic On Stuttgart by Bombing South Germany

Night And Day Attacks Made On Enemy Area   Mosquitos Stage Diversionary Raid On Shrine City “Of Munich During Night Raids   Only Four Planes Lost By British   German Airforce Hit Lon- don Again In Small Scale  Raid, Causing Some  ‘Camialties

FLYING FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS IN SMASH AT GERMANY   RAIDS FOLLOW ON HEELS OF HEAVY BLAST AT STUTTGARD BY RAF

U.S. Bombers Raid Reich, Rocket Coast   British Blast At Stuttgart, Munich

FOLLOW UP RAF NIGHT ATTACK ON STUTTGART   British Lose Only 4 Planes in Raid; Nazis Assault London

RAF Bombers Smash Again at Stuttgart   U. S. Fortresses Follow Up Pounding With Daylight Blow

Allies Renew Air Assaults  On Continent  Allies Renew Attack As RAF Comes Back From

Fort’s, B-24’s Hit Southwest Germany Thursday  600 RAF Bombers: Blast Stuttgart Wednesday Night.

STUTTGART IS BLASTED WITH MANY BOMBS   Nearly 2000 Tons Dropped by RAF on Industrial Center. U. S. Planes At tack Southwest Germany

Big Fleet of Yank Planes Over Reich   May Be Second Half of Day And Night Raid On Stuttgart

AMERICAN FLIERS ALSQBLAST NAZIS   Only Four British Planes Lost In Attack On War  Center   BRITAIN RAIDED   Target In Southwest Ger“many Is Goal Of U. 8. Bombing: Force

Heavy U.S. Daylight Blows Batter Germany On Heels Of Big RAF Raid On Stuttaart   Direction Of Attack Suggests Double Night-Day Punch On Same Target

Americans Hit Reich Targets   Flying Fortresses. Liberators In Strong Force Smash At Germany.

ENEMY SUFFERS LOSSES BURING DAWN ATTACK   MacArthur Says American Casualties Negligible; Airmen Are Active

Low Nations . And Munich Also Pounded In Night Blast   Four Planes Missing After Major ‘Attacks

RAF AND YANKS STAGE NEW DAYNIGHT ASSAULT   Stuttgart Heavily Raided By British Planes; American Raid Today May Have Been Follow  Up On The Same Target.

Stuttgart Hit —  By The British   Some 1,800 Tons Bombs Dropped On German War Center   OINLY FOUR PLANES FAIL TO RETURN

YANKEE BOMBERS FOLLOW UP RAF. ATTACK ON REICH   Southwest Germany Blasted Today by U. 5. Heavies in Raids Following Britain's 600-Plane Assault on Stutt mark      piv

LERGE YANKEE FORCE BLASTS $ W. GERMANY   100.Nazi Bombers Hit England in Retaliation, Killing Several Persons

GERMAN GITY SUFFERS HIT BY BOMBERS   Stuttgart Bombed By Americans In  Daylight Raid

3 German Divisions Hit Beachhead: Stuttgart ‘May Be Today's Target

Stuttgart Hit By Great Force Of RAF Bombers   Fires Rage In German Industrial Center; Only Four Planes Lost.

Stuttgart Hit By 600-Bomber Night Assault   U. S. Heavies Smash At Germany By Daylight After RAF Attack.

Finland Hurls F resh Reserves  To Stall Reds   Soviet Armies Advance -~On Wide Front 40 Miles ‘From Viipuri Outskirts —

FINNS HURL RESERVES INTO BATTLE   Reds Still  Advance Toward Viipuri, However

FINNS HURLING FRESH TROOPS AGAINST REDS   But Soviets Still Advancing On Broad Front Near Viipuri

Finn Reserves Thrown in to Battle Russians   Invading Reds Are Reported Still Advancing

Finns Hurl Reserves in Reds’ Way   WORK DETERMINED STAND BEING ‘TAKEN BY FINNIS FORCE,

FINNS SEEK 10 HALT RED PUSH   Soviets Gain Six Miles, Overrun 3G More Towns

Finns Hurl  Reserves Into Battle   Despite Heavy Resistance  Reds Advance   Russian Troops Leas Than 40 Miles From Viipuri

FINNS THROW RESERVES IN AGAINST REDS   Soviets Sti'l Claim to Be Advancing on 40-Mile Front Despite Stiffened Opposition

FINNS STIFFEN, SLOW RED ARMY ADVANCE   Soviets Held To 6-Mile Gain, But Engulf 30 More Towns

REDS ADVANCE IN FACE OF STIFFER FINN RESISTANCE   Vilpuri Threatened By Rus sian Advance Now Within 40 Milas of City.

Reds Advance On Broad Front Less Than 40 Miles From Viipuri   Civilians Fleeing Karelian Powns   Finnish Resistance Stiffens As Troops Pour Into Prepared Defenses

Urges That Ruhr Be Neutralized  Dewey Declares It Is ‘Fire Trap’

ROOSEVELT HAS 363 DELEGATES   Challenge To 4th Term Trend Failure In Massachusetts

Large Force Of Germans Face  Disaster France Allied Triumphs   Allied Triumphs At Caen, St. Lo Set Stage

Most Concentrated Bombing In History Shatters Defenders   ‘American Troops Capture Bastion of St. Lo; Threaten 25 German Divisions With Complete Disaster

Smashing of Enemy Line by British Tanks, American Capture of St. Lo Cuts Communications of 25 Divisions

BRITISH SECOND ARMY FORCES DRIVE FORWARD   Advance North of The Waal Branch of The Rhine  River   GAIN TWO MILES   In Great Effort To Relieve Embattled Airborne Units Locked in Grim Combat

285-Mile Trains of Planes Take Reinforcements   Nazis in Reich Stiffen Resistance, But Yanks Regain Lost Ground   RULLETIN

Battles Flame On Seven — Soviet Fronts   German Army Shows Signs of Breaking West of Nieman River; Reds Smash Through Bug River Defense

Reds ers Triangle’s. Base, Cities. May Tumble   Bug -River: Defense Cracked, By ' Soviets

Lwew, Brest Lilevsk, Bialysick, Kannas and Dangavpils Totter, Seviets Cress Bug River

Reds Fight Ahead For Big Cities   Breakup of Nazi Army Near the Niemen ‘River  Is Impending

Soviet Troops Take Augustow. Before Prussia   Town Is Only Eight. Miles From Pre-1939 Fron tier of Germany’s Homeland   Seven Red Fronts Flamed In Battle   Fall of Lwow, Brest Litovsk, Bialystok, Kaunas aud Daugavpils, Held By Boche, Near

BATTLE RAGES ON SEVEN FRONTS   Russians Drive To Eight Miles Of East Prussia   FIVE CITIES   Held By Germans Tottering Before Red Advance; Gain In South

Nazi Army Near Breaking Point On Russian Front   Reds at Outskirts Of Lwow; BrestLitovsk Tottering

NAZIS MAY BE CRACKING UP ON RED FRONI   Seven Fronts Flame in Battle With Russian March to Warsaw Apparently Under Way

FIVE CITIES IN NAZI GRIP TOTTERING   Soviets In 8 Miles Of East Prussia; 7 Fronts Aflame

ON VITAL EAST PRUSSIAN LINE   Reds Reach Point 8 Miles From. Pre-War Polish-Prussian Front

Soviets Only & Miles From  Kast Prussia   German Army West Of Nie men River Shows Signs  Of Breaking Up

NAZIS BREAKING IN DEFENSE OF EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Report Soviets at Base of Suwalki Triangle

Say Soviets 8 Miles Fron East Prussia   German Army Shows Signs Of Breaking, Writer Says

REACH AUGUSTOW IN DRIVE THAT THREATENS MAIN GERMAN KEY POSITIONS ON POLISH FRONT

Lwow, Brest Litovsk, Bialystok, Kaunas And  - Daugavpils Under Mounting Threat: Reds Surge Into Middle Latvia; Indications That March to Warsaw May Have Begun.

SHOW SIGNS OF BREAKING IN ONE AREA   7 Fronts Flaming With Battle as Reds Push Ahead

Lwow and Brest Litovsk Near Capture as Reds Strike Directly for Warsaw

German Cities Tottering As Reds Near Lwow   Crash Through Bug Defenses; Nearing Latvia

Russians Push Ahead On Seven Battle Lines   Bug River Defense Penetrated; String Of Cities Totter

Reds Pushing Big Drives On Seven Fronts   Difficult to Say:. Which Is Worst for’Germans, Hard Pressed Everywhere   RUSSIANS HEADING : TOWARD “WARSAW        ower: Packed” “Punches “Near Prussia Show Signs of “Breaking Nazi’ Morale

Russ Reach Suwalki, Part Of NaziReich   Fall Of Lwow Likely; German-Held Cities Totter; Enemy Army Breaking

RUSSIAN ARMIES ATTAGKING ON SEVEN FRONTS   Red Troops at Outskirts of j.wow, Brest Litovsk

String of Cities  North From Lwow  Are Threatened   Russian Airmen Giving Unequalled Support to Troops

Soviets Fight On Seven Fronts   German Army Shows Signs of Breaking in Niemen River Sector

Nazis Tottering On Battle Front West Of Niemer   Reds Said In Augustow AY Suwalhi Triangle Base;   Fighting In 7 Sectors

Germans Shov Increasing Power Losses   Russians Continue Surging On in Furious Battling

German Army Shows Sign of Break in East   Morale Grows Weak Under Russian Drives On Flaming Front of More Than 600 Miles

GREEK SCLDIERS END CIVIL WAR   Guerrillas Agree to Join Forces Against Nazis

.ssnsattbinamaneen ‘esi Gtbecssies mamiall iit hier ince een ia ee jc eiial mRNnieni as  BANDS AGREE T0 END GREECE'S CIVIL WAR   Guerrilla Factions Will Give Full Attention To Nazis

Greek Factions Bury Hatchet   Peace Pact Will Send Both Guerrilla Bands Against Germans.

U.S. Artillery In Position To  Blast Nazi City   First Army Troops Drive Deeper Into Siegfried Line at Aachen; Russians Surge into Yugoslavia

Dominate Ground Before City; First Army Widens Gap   Capture Of Fort Driant Gives Americans Position From Which To Fire Point Blank Into Key Nazi Base; British Beat Off Enemy Attack In Holland

In Line To Pour Fire Into Metz   Push Farther Into German Defenses

 INTO MINES ON SUNDAY   Ickes's Call Is Heeded by an Esti Mated 46,000 Anthracite Miners.

FINNS CHASING OUT AXIS ARM!   Cruelties And Plundering Reported As Germans Fall Back

Strike Leaders Shout Defiance at Army Altempts to Restore Service

Philadelphians Walk: Transportation Resumed for Two Hours, but Men Walk Out Again

TRAINS, BUSSES CEASE ROLLING IN PHILADELPHI!   Strike Leaders Shout Defi ance as Army Attempts to Restore Transportation   Service.   THOUSANDS AGAIN FORCED TO WALK   Absenteeism in War Plants Is Placed at 10 Per Cent— Race Disorders Subside.

PHILADEPHIA CARS RESUME STGP AGAIK   But Attacks by Negroes and Whites Continue Wednesday; _ Citizens Seeks Martial Law.   Travelers Hitch Hike

Strikers Continue To. Shout Defiance   Attempt of Army to Restore Transportation Service in Philadelphia Collapses—Arrests Are : Promised by Officio]

Phila. Transit Lines Again Tied Up As Strikers Defy Army To Restore Service

Army Seizure — Fails to End  Transit Tieup   Night Operators Refuse  To Relieve Men Who Mawved fare Tadau

STRIKERS DEFY BACK-T0-WORK ORDER OF ARMY   Arrests In Philadel phia Transit Tieup Hinted By  Government   ONLY FEW VEHICLES OPERATED YESTERDAY

PHILADELPHIA S PARALYZED — DUE TO STRIKE   Workers Quit Again After Working Two Hours;  Situation Is Critical

Walkout Again Halts Transport In Philadelphia   WPB Makes Appeal To F, BD. R. to End Work Stoppage

Philadelphia. Still Tied Up, Strikers Defy  Government.  ‘Army: ‘Leader Confers With Dept. of. Justice:    ‘Army: ‘Leader Confers With Dept. of. Justice: And FBI, Indicating  5 2,

‘Appeal Made to President _ To End Work Stoppage on Phila. Transport System   “War Labor Board Asks Immediate Action ir Tieup That Has Curtailed War Work and Brought Sporadic Race Clashes

leaders Shout Defiance of Government   Transportation Practically Ends

(3 HOSPITALIZED IN PHILADELPHIA RACE DISORDERS   White Men and Women Beaten by Armed Negroes— Windows Smashed, Stores Looted.   CITIZENS COMMITTEE ASKS MARTIAL LAW   First. Break Comes In Transportation Tie-up As Volunteer Crews Take Out Trains.

Clashes Continue  In Philly Strike   Complete Paralysis Grips City’s Transportation Sys - tem as War Labor Board Calls on Roose_-velt for Action on Situation

Philadelphia : Work Tie-Up Put in Hands Of President   ' Subway. Crews Return, Then Walk Out Again After WPB: Appeals.  WN ns gf Do gt   CALLED ‘SABOTAGE’. OF U.S: WAR EFFORT

ARMY FAILS TO END STRIKE ON PIC LINES   Night Shift Workers Refuse to Relieve the Few Operators Who Worked During Day.   Biddle Takes Hand

Todav... Don’t Miss   Dewey Block Leads Vote In Wisconsin  Incomplete Count Puts Willkie Fourth in Race

Dewey-Pledged Delegates Lead  In Wisconsin   Most of Politicians Eyed Voting as Test For Wendell Willkie

DeweyLeads In Wisconsin Early Count   STASSEN CANDIDATE ONE OF LEADERS DUE TO INCOMPLETE DEWEY TICKET AFTER DEWEY PROTESTED   Willkie Fourth

Dewey Delegate: Are Leading In Wisconsin   Stassen ls Running Second, MacArthur Third and Willkie Fourth

Candidates  For Dewey  Pace Returns In Wisconsin  Stassen, MacArthur   Stassen, MacArthur Candidates Follow,’ While Willkie Men Last in 4-Wav Race   HAD BEEN PICTURED TEST FOR WILLKIE. 

Dewey-pledges lead Wisconsin primary; Willkie running last   Stassen candidates close second with Gen. MacArthur in third place

DEWEY LEADS EARLY COUNT IN WISCONSIN   Wilikie Last in 4-Way Contest; Illinois Favora G.O.P.

DEWEY IS LEADING IN WISCONSIN   STASSEN RUNNING SECOND IN PRIMARY, WARTHUR THIRD, WILLKIE: FOURTH. —

DEWEY LEADING IN WISCONSIN   Willkie Trailing Other Candidates In First Poll Results

DEWEY SLATE LEADS IN VOTE ‘IN WISCONSIN   Willkie Ticket Trails f Fourth in Early Returns

DEWEY LEADS IN WISCONSIN PRIMARY VOTE   STASSEN - PLEDGED CANDIDATES ARE IN FIRST FOUR

Dewey Takes a Runaway Lead In Wisconsin   Stassen Second; MacArthur Ahead of Wendell Willkie

LEAD IS TAKEN BY DEWEY CANDIDATES   Willkie Slate Is Running Last in. the Wisconsin _ Primary

FOURTH TERM DRIVE OPENED   DEMOUKRATIO CHIEFTAINS MEETING IN CAPITAL . APPARENTLY AGREED ON ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN

DEMO MEETING SWEPT BY ATR TERM TALK   I. D. R.’s Decision Remains Unknown ‘Quantity

ROME RAILWAY YARDS STRUCK BY AIR FLEET   Nazi Troops Sent Reeling From Monte Cassino

Bombs, Shells Chase Nazis From Abbey   250 Bombers Are Used To Knock Out ‘Fort’ High on Mt. Cassino  RALLS DIVE-ROMREBED

MAIN HIGHWAY TOWARD ROME TO BE OPENED   BOMBS AND SHELLS WRECK GERMAN HIDEOUT

Nazis Blasted Frow Ancient Monastery   Troops Race Like Rats From Stronghold; Allied Planes Pound Rail Yasde At Danse

Planes and Artillery Rout Nazis From Famed Abbey _ FIERCE ATTACK ON  RAIL YARDS MADE  Two Operations Carried Qut fo Speed Push 1 aft Army

ALLIES TURN SHRINE INTO AN INFERNC   German Troops Flee From Abbey Near Cas: sino as Bombs and Shells Hit Buildings.   HAD RETARDED PUSH NORTHWARD   Railway Yards in Rome Hit by Airmen—Enemy: Fails to Renew At‘tacks on Beachhead. _

Germans are blasted from monastery   Use 250 bombers  to crush bastion

Monastery Used as Fortress by For Smashed to Speed 5th Army Push; Little Action on Beachhead

DRASTIC STEP MADE NECESSARY BY NAZI ACTION; RAILWAY YARDS IN ROME ALSO BLASTED BY ALLIES.

Nazis Driven, Off Lofty Peak In Action to Speed Fifth Army’s Push North   Heavy Damage Dealt Communications System In Capital’s Outskirts ; Russians Near Doorway To Baltic States; Allies Pound French Coast

Truck Concentration, Command Posts Destroyed: Machine Gur Nests Found in Benedictine Abbey   German Soldiers Sheltered in Buildings Flee as Explosives Hit; American Infantrymen Reported to Occupy One-Third of Cassino

\Monks of Mt. Cassino Ureed To Quit Abbey’   Leaflet Shells Bursting in Air Quer Famed Monastery - Carry Warnings to Inhabitants From Sth Araty; Nop Bombardment of Shrine Made as Yet

Anna Jobnson And Ervin Harms Wed Young People Will  ' Live In Preston —

Anna Johnson And Ervin Harms Wed  Young People Will! Live In Preston

Vast Power Goes —  To Reichsmarshal   Goebbels Made Lieutenant To Stave Off Defeat

Dies Probers Rap Aims Of ‘Peace Now   Charge Movement With Seditious Acts Aiding Axis

5 Super-Forts Shot Down, Japs Claim   Photos Show 40 Direct Hits On Nagoya Plane Plant

3 KEY JAP WAR CENTERS LEFT AFIRE IN RAINS   Direct Hits Scored on Nagoya, Rangoon and Bangkock Targets

Burma, Thailand Attacks Follow Nagoya Assault   One Superfortress Fails To Return From Jap Mainland Raid

Rangoon,  Tokyo Hit by B-29s   Photos Show 40 Direct Hits on Aircraft Works in Nagoya Raid

GTH WAR LOAN SALES IN CITY HIT $1,825,000      Over Quota by $447,260; To Also Reach ‘E’ Ouota

ST. JOSEPH IS OVER TOP IN 5TH WAR LOAN   County and City, However, Far Behind le Sale of E Bonds

ENGLAND'S ARMIES HAVE NECESSARY AMMUNITION, CHURCHILL TELLS HOUSE

COMMANDERS OF ALLIED ARMIES GIVEN CHANCE TO CARRY OUT FULFILLMENT GF ‘OATHS TO DESTROY GERMAN DIVISIONS

Explosion of Anzio Front Brings Allies Nearer  Annihilation of Germans in Italy

House Works On  Crop Insurance   Expect To Complete Action To Revive Plan

Packard Plant Closed By Strike   Workers Walkout In “Difference Of Opinion”

Aircraft and Marine Engine Production Is Halted by Strike  Packard Company Has Closed Plant Because of Dispute

Dispute Closes Packard Motor Company y Plant  39, 000 Engaged In War Indnuctru

Germans Admif South France Forces Retreat   Claim Installations At Cannes, Nice, St. Tropez Destroyed

Rural Area Bond Drive Outlined   Quotas Are Set At  Committee Session

Says GOP Is For Tired New Dealers  Self - Confidence Lost, Willkie Declares

Willkie Says Tired Demos Seeking Rest   Asks Republican Party Use Right Tactics to Attract Voters

Pacific leet Now Ready To Hit Japan   Admiral King Confers With Chiefs as Guam Invaders Roll

U.S. Navy In Position For Attack   China’s Coast, Philippines Also Possible Tarcels

REPULSED ON GUAM   Chief Of Navy Visits Saipan, Predicts Blows At Nips

Yanks Holding Peaks Above Guam Harbor   Admiral King Says Naval Units Are Pre. pared To Strike At Mainland

Palau Islands Get Heavy Blast   Attacks Made Without Plane Opposition

Germans Attacking Heavily in Hills Around Town,   R.A.F. BOMBERS OUT OVER NAZI EUROPE   British Inflict Heavy Casualties on Nazis Below Rome.

COUNTER-ATTACK FROM HILLS AND ON THE GROUND   Troops Brought Into City Through Secret U nd erground Tunnel.

Allies Meeting Reverses In Cassino Below Rome Nazis Take Heavy pa

New Developments In Battle For Cassino. Allied Forces In Critical Situation Inside City.

Germans Are Bringing In More Troops   They’re Using Secret 1200Yard Tunnel For That Purpose 

W. LANGENDORFER WEDS ILLINOIS GIRL   Marriage ‘Occurred Thursday At Council Bluffs: —Will Live on Farm

Marriage Takes" Place Thursday At Council Bluffs “Mary L. Kieffer A  Becomes Bride  Of Le Mars Man.

President, Cabinet Of Ecuador Quit  In Face of Revolt Action Follows   Action Follows Fighting That Killed 40 in Guayaquil

Uprising In Ecuador; 10 Hours Fight   RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT REPORTED; 40 PERSONS REPORTED KILLED; AIMED AT FORESTALLING ELECTION,   Residences Damaged

RED GOAL, NAZIS SAY   Russians Are Pushing Across Bulgaria Toward Greece

ERLIN TELLS NEW: RED DRIVE TOWARD. KRAKOW   Lull Ends on North Front

PORT OFF DALMATIA TAKEN BY PARTISANS   J.S. Officer Leads Troops Taking Pucisce On Brac

SLAV FORCES CAPTURE PORT ON COAST ISLE   Partisans Are Led By American Officer

YUGOSLAVS LED BY AMERICANS CAPTURE PORT   Pucisce, on Brac Island Off Dalma. tian Coast, Taken, Partisans Battle for Hvar Island

Yank-Led Yugoslavs — Capture U-Boat Base   Marshal Tito’s Partisans Take Adriatic Por Of Pucisce; Allied Naval, Air Forces Cripple Enemy Shipping

Yankee Leads Yugoslavs To Take Pucisce   Brac Isle Port Off Dalmatia

Slavs Under Command Of U.S Officer Capture Island Port   Dalmatians Claim Attention As Allies Strike 10 Miles From Solit

SLAY PARTISANS CAPTURE A PORT   Patriots Commanded by American oO, OFear

Tito’s Forces Capture Port   Yugoslav Partisans Led By L. 8S. Officer Take Pucisce On Brae.

Tito’s Troops; Led by Yank, Capture Port   Dalmatian Island Scene of Hot Fight; Nazi Vessel Sunk

. e        EISENHOWER POSES NEW THR TO WEHRMACHT WITH —.. FORMATION OF ENTIRELY AIR-BORNE ARMY 

Americans Surround Nantes And Submarine Base Of Lorient  YANKS HAVE NO MAJOR OPPOSITION  Formation Of First AirBorne Army In Military History

Unconfirmed Reports Place  Advanced U. §. Spearheads In 40 to 50 Miles of City

FORMATION IS ANNOUNCED BY EISENHOWER   New Striking Force  Appearsas Nazi Defenses Are Being Riddled.

Creation Of Sky Army Comes As Allies Near Paris   Unconfirmed Reports Place Yanks 50 Mi. From Capital

Air-Borne Army Poises  New Threat   Eisenhower Forms First Complete Unit In Military History

Air-Borne Army Tossec Into Battle For France   Amercian Armored Columns Fan Out  In Drive To Outflank French Capital

Reveal New Airborne U.S. Army   Parachute Troops in Largi Numbers Can Land Behind Nazis

First Entirely Air-Borne ‘Army Formed   New Striking Force Created by Fisenhower

General Hisenhower Poises New Threat In Form Of All Allied Air-Berne Division; Spearhead Fans Out From Le Mans   FEW DETAILS OF FIGHTING GIVEN

MACARTHUR WITHDRAWAL SURPRISING   Had Excellent Precedent to Remain Receptive

SAYS FQ ORDERS LAUSCHE TO RUN   Stewart Makes Charge at Columbus Meet

LABOR IS ISSUE IN OHIO POLITICS   Stewart Charges Lausche ls Roosevelt Candidate

Nazi Flying Bombs Can't Effect Outcome Nt War British Security Leader Says   Whittingfon Says He Prefers Roosevell, ‘Wallace Dolicies To Dewey, Willkie

FRY CHARGES GOP IS WAGING HATE DRIVE’   ICandidate At Whitcomb Attacks Hoffman’s  Tactics

HATE CHARGE IS HURLED AT G.0.P. BY FRY      Challenges Kelly To Pub ically State View  Of Hoftman

Bastile Day Celebrated   French Hold First Observance Since Nazi Occupation

Tricolor Once More Flutters Over France   Bastile Day Observed In Some Sections of Nufien As Hopes Rise

French Observe Bastille Day   In Liberated Areas Special Celebration Held

Americans Retaking Territory Lost in Nazi Attack.   R.A.F. STRIKE NEW GERMAN TARGETS   Nazis Make Weak Raids on England Again Last Nicht.

U.S. Bombers Over Germany Again Today   British Airmen Smash Stutgart; Hard Fighting On Beaches Below Rome

American lroops Un Beachhead Below Rome Fighting Hand-ToHand With Nazis.

SOVIETS HEAD FOR MINSK IN WHITE RUSSIA   FALL OF FORTRESS CITY PREDICTED IN FEW DAYS

REDS PLUNGE “TOMES ON TWO FRONTS   Séize Stronghold of Bo-bruisk ‘and Complete Liquidation. of Five ‘Trapped Divisions. .           ENEMY’S DEFENSES “COLLAPSING HOURLY   Minsk Menaced by Soviet . Sweep — Seven  Thousand Populated. Places Liberated in Drive.

Minsk’s Fall By Week-End IsPredicted .   110,000 Nazis “cilled, Captured in Fighting At Vitebsk, Bobruisk  DOTRVOFAVONRCkK TATTS

German Defenses In White Russia Are Collapsing Before:  Relentless Russian Drive   Moscow Dispatches Call Nazi Rout “Greatest’ Defeat In History” With Thousands Of Enemy Killed Or  Captured; Reds 30 Miles From Minsk 

“i_ anc Cagure __,. .. ~ aZis “n “Greaces: >ezea7 in —is orv”; Zou- tinns. Sear ‘“urmans< %. %.

Reds Only 30 Miles From Minsk   Bobruisk Captured as Nazis Face “Greatest Defeat in History ;” Supply Railway Cleared

Belgrade And Sofia Blasted   Huge Allied Fleets Round Out 24 Hour: Of Intense Bombing On Vital Poits.

RECONVERSION MONOPOLY SEEN   LaFollette Says Baruch Report Favors Big Business

GRANGERS OF RICHLAND ELEGT THEIR OFFICERS   Walter Landis Named Master To Succeed Albert Shaffer   /WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest Te All In The Various  Communities

BRITONS CANCEL HOLIDAY TRAVEL   Train Services Subject To Stoppage Without Notice, Is Warning

British Stay at Home: Thousands Cancel Weekend Travel Plans On Warning from Government

British Families Cancel Holiday Outings Under Warnings That Train Service May Be Stopped

ROMANIA IN-FRANTIC.HUNT =: FOR WAY-OUT OF THE WAR   APPROACH GF RUSSIAN ARMIES. SPURS PEACE EFFORTS CZECHS INCREASE GUERRILLA FACTICS

Hillman Prepares For ’45 Elections   CIO Punishes Political Foes, Delegates Told

ee Oe eee  PAC EXTENDED BY UNIONISTS   Hillman Points to Next Elections

JAP ShIPP CRIPPLED BY U.S. BOMBERS   FLEET OF BARGES CROWDED WITH TROOPS SUNK

Rail System On Verge of  Breakdown   ICC Says New Equipment Must Be Furnished

Guam Veterans Battle in Outskirts Of Ormoc; 22 More Jap Ships Sunk. . Or Damaged by Air and Naval Force:

22 Enemy Vessels  Sent Down   Increased Pressure Pul On Japanese Division By Landings  On Thursday.

American Infantry Reaches Outskirts of Ormoc, Enemy's Chief Supply Port on Leyte

FLORA CHURCH BURNS; STRUCK BY LIGHTNING IN STORM SATURDAY   LOSS OF BRETHREN CHURCH IS  ESTIMATED AT $5,000; PARTIALLY INSURED  :

Allies Advance On Whole Beachhead   German Broadcast Places Americans Near Montebourg, Only 15 Miles South Of Cherbourg, As Nazis Withdraw

FIRST DIVISION LED IN CAPTURE OF ISIGNY PORT   Maryland, Virginia Boys Of 29th Division Also In Battle

ASK CEILING ON PROPERTY TAX   DEMAND LEGISLATIVE SESSION TO AVERT DOWNSTATE TAX HIKE

GERMAN BLOCKADE RUNNER 1$ SUNK   SHIP CARRYING SUPPLIES FROM JAPAN TO REICH DOWNED IN ATLANTIC,

were Runner  ~ Sunk By Yankees  U. S. Planes, Warships Claim Credit

Power Sinks German Ship   Brazilian News Says Brazilian Warships And Planes Take Part in Battle

West States Against River Plan   Gov. Ford Attending Conference in Washington Today

Drive Nazis From Buffer Cities Before Maginot, Siegfried; First Army Closes In on Duren

Drive Succeeds  In Penetrating Nazis’ Main Line   Seventh Army Wins Haguenau, Saar Key, As First Pushes Foe Across Roer River; Third U. §. Army Captures Sarreguemines.

Germany Not Suffering From Shortage Of Critical Materials  Chief U.S Army Ordnance Offfrer Makac Bonar   Chief U.S. Army Ordnance Officer Makes Report In France; Our Materiel Classed As Much Retter

Rail Junction Of Iasi Under Artillery Fire; Germans Claim Soviet Advance Guard Annihilated At Prut River   REDS MASSING ACROSS RIVER FROM CERNAUT!I

YANKEES DRIVE TO COAST; TRAP GERMAN TROOPS   Advance Elements Of First Army Reported Five Miles From Coutances   RUSS THUNDER AHEAD   Soviet Masses Only 50 Miles From Riga—Huns Face New Trap

IMPORTANT GERMAN HUD GITY CLEARED OF ENEMI:   American Forces Slash To West Coast To Cut off Trapped Nazis   REPORT ENEMY IN RAPID RETREAT   Capt ure Many French Villages and at Least 0,000 German Soldiers

NOT HALTING THE ADAVNCE IN NORMAND’      RIPLE-PRONGED. OFFENSIVE UNDERWAY IN EFFORT. TO ENCIRCLE MORE GER .. MAN: TROOPS ~

Japs Threaten Capture of — U.S. Aix Base   Enemy, in 35-Mile Advance, Only 12 Miles From Lingline

MacArthur Jabs “War Optimists   Warns Nation That Nips  Have Continental Power

Gen. MacArthur Warns Allies Must Defeat Jap Army; Says Nippon’s Exterior Defenses Are Not Decisive

MUST DEFEAT ‘VAP ARMY’ TO WIN IN PACIFIC   Useless To Talk Of Short Cuts, MacArthur Declares

Ground Forces Must Be Brought In Contest, Asserts Southwest Pacific Commander

The MARCH OF TIME  a Ey ‘eekly Newemagazine   THE PHILADELPHIA STRIKE

Labor Recruiting Bill Is Signed   WEA Plans to Import } 20,000 Ahen Worker:

‘Slaughtered Inside Pocket While Other:  ‘Die Trying to Break Into Ring

1,800 Nazis Die In Fight   More Than 33,000 Are Slain Jn Russ Trap

Reds Slay 1800 More In Pocket   Cherkassy Cleanup Continues As Sovie?: Drive Toward  Pskov In North.

Gen. Clark Tours  Captured Beaches   oth Army Surges Forward on Rapido to Menace Germans. Now Also Threatened on Flank. Rear

Landings South From Mouth of Tiber Being Exploited as Nazis Still Are Confused By Surprise Attack

New Landings Along 80- Mile _ Stretch Are Reported By — Axis Broadcasts

Vichy Says Stabs Made From Tiber to Gaeta   Germans Still Confused Over Invasion South Of Capital; Reinforcements Of Men And Supplies Poured In

Nazis Caught Flat-Footed After Sending Tr oops South   Allied Landings Made Along 80-Mile Stretch From Tiber to Gaeta, Axis Broadcasts Sav   MEN AND SUPPLIES POUR IN RAPIDLY  Immediate Objectives Secured Virtually Without Opposition

Nazi and Fascist Officials Quit Rome As New Allied Landings Menace City;  Double-Header French Invasion Looms

SURPRISE “LEFT HOOK” INVASION SOUTH OF ROME PROVES EFFECTIVE; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS HAS NOT DISCLOSED LOCATION OF BRIDGEHEADS.

Sibley Woman Woman — Takes Own Life  Former ‘Student ‘at Western Union

Thundering Artillery Duel Rages as" Yank Armor Meets Panzer Reserves; Heavy Losses Inflicted on Germans -

NAZI PANZER UNITS MEET YANK ARMOR   Thick Banks of Fog Shroud Bloody Battlefield

American lank: Smash Into Cologne Plain   Last of the Siegfried Line’s Concrete Emplacements Hurdled; Yanks Plow Through Deep Series of Earthwork:

Greatest Armor Battle Of War Is Brewing Rapidly   Two-Mile Drive Meets Nazi Panzer Reserves Head-On; Beggendorf Captured At Apex 1H Salient, Storm Aachen And Geilenkirchen.

Officials Probe Death Toll of 15 _ After Plane Falls in Trailer Camp

Cologne Again Hammered In Continuation Of Allies’ Campaign To Raze City; Gelsenkirchen Blasted

 Eighth Air Fo Air Force Blasts Targets In Western Germany   New Fires Started In Cologne; Giant Oil Refineries Hit

Allies Repulse Japs Near Kohima, 30 Miles in India   ‘Southwest Asia Command Says Imphal Plain Virtually Under Siege; Tokyo Claims Annihilation of 54th Brigade

Japs Repulsed On Outskirts Of Kohima —   Imphal Plain, However, Is Under Virtual Siege As Enemy Races Monsoon

ALLIES BEAT BACK JAPANESE ASSAULT   British Battle Hard to Save Eastern Indian Bases

RELIABLE SOURCES REPORT ALLIES HOLDING OWN WHILE FIGHTING GOES ON AT PLAIN’S EDGES AND ROADS CONVERGING ON IMPHAL.

JAPS REPULSED AT KOHIMA OUTSKIRTS   Plain Of Imph2l Under Siege As Enemy Seeks Foothold Before Monsoons Start.

Battle at Kohima Said Continuing   Plain of Imphal Besieged  As Monsoon Nears

' Self-defense Claimed in Car Killing on Busy Street Corner; : Wife of Lawyer With Slain Man When  Fatal Scuffle Starts

Miller Is Held. on Open Charge  Claims He She = Hine in Self.defen

PSYCHIATRIST IS KILLED BY PROMINENT ATTY   Dr. Lind, Kin of Abraham Lincoln Is Victim, and Mrs. Miller, Wife of Killer Is In Near Collapse   LOVE TRIANGLE

LAWYER HELD IN DOCTOR'S DEATH   Street Slaying Believed Cli max Of Love Triangle

Noted Lawyer Held in Death of Physician   Municipal “Court Attorney Dean Robt. {. Miller Held After Dr. J. ©. Lind Is Stain:

Noted Attorney Held In Slaying   Prominent Psychiatrist Fatally Shot; Love Triangle. Police Sav.

Lawyer Held As Result of Fatal Shooting   Dean of the Washington Municipal Court Attorneys Involved in Case  PSYCHIATRIST IS KILLED

AFL MAY BOYCOTT TRADE CONCLAVE   “AFL Refuses to Meet With Russians at Wor d Trade. Tnion Parliy

ISVMA Urges Erecting of Veterinary College at University of Ill.

Urge Establishment Of Veterinary College \At University OF Illinois

Yank Troops Cut  Off kan Trying To Escape Trap   Bitter Fighting Taking Place in Jungles of New Guinea

JAPANESE CUT OFF IN AITAPE SECTOR      Americans Repulse Two Attacks by the Nip-. ponese

Starving Foe Falls in Trap   McArthur Guts Off Raiders Tn Atgane Sector

FIVE DEAD AS RESULT STORMS IN ALABAMA   More Than Two Score Others Injured and Damage Estimated in Excess Quarter Million

Five Killed in Alabama Storm   More Than 20 Injured And Property Damage Placed at $250,000

Five IKLilled By S storms In Aloha   Iwo Score Injured, 8250.000 Damage Caused In Scattered Sections

Allied Forces  Occupy Florence Nazis West of City  Dae et Ca. eb eg -

Alles Occupy All Florence   Germans Escape Northward, Open Gothic Line Guns

Nazi Attacks On Baltic Smashed; Troop Trains Hit   Large Forces Beaten Back In Estonia As Long-Quiet Front Flares Up; Axis Convoys Attacked

Lone Sea Route ls Turned {nto Ayis Dunkerque   Russ Units Also Repulse German Thrusts In Old Poland

Reds Beat Nazi Attack In Estonia; Smash Fleeing Foe At Sevastopo!

Russians Destroy  - German Convoys  Wildect Canfincitan Provaile

BALTIC FRONT FLAMES UP; SEA ACTION   With Havoc Wrought as Germans and Romanians Try to Flee Trap; Hit Narva River.   Harbor Jammed

DOG MASCOT OF DEAD “ARMY CAPTAIN HOME   “Snafu” Sent to Parents of Late Officer By Order of General’ Hisenhower.

{6 WILL REPORT FOR INDUCTION   Selective Service Board No. 4 Notifies Group Of Men They Are To Begin Their Army Careers

28 MEN ORDERED TQ REPORT TO ARMY   York County Board No. 4 Notifies Registrants — All Have Passed Pre-Induction  Eyaminationc

02 REGISTRANTS CALLED TO COLORS   That Number Represents August Quota Of Board No. 4—Will Report Within Next Fortnight

TWENTY-FOUR MEN WILL BE INDUCTEL   That Number Of Registrants With Draft Board No. 4 Receive Notices To Report For Service In Near Future

YUGOSLAVIAR OFFENSIVES INTENSIFIED   Heavy Fighting Continuing In Eastern Bosnia

PARTISANS PRESSING OFFENSIVES   Force Nazis To Occupy New Defenses

SOVIETS PUSH TOWARD POLAND   Aim At Outftanking Of Nazi Baltic Defenses

Reds Within 30 Miles of Wilno Today   Exploit Capture of Kowe. and May Outflank Baltic Defense Line

Reds Push Nazis te  Bug River   Believe Berling’s Polish Army May Be First to Cross  Polish Border

RUSSIANS DRIVE GERMANS BACK TO BUS RIVEF   Push North in Effort to Outflank-Enemy’s ’ Defense Line

REDS REEL GERMANS BACK TOWARD BUG   Move Also Made To Outflank Foe’s Baltic Defenses

Soviets Nearing Bug River Line Of Nazi Poland   Sizeable Ge Gains Registéred Along 350-Mile Front

Red Official Branded A Liar   Embassy Replies To Charges Of DoubleFaced Maneuvers.

Soviets Near Vital Town of Krivoi Rog   3,800 Germans Are Killed in the Last 24 Hours

Reds Closing On lron Ore Center   One Column Only Eight Miles Away

KRIVOI ROG THREATENED BY RUSSIANS   {ron City of Ukraine Goal Of Advancing Armies; Vise Tightening Around German Divisions.   Blackest Weeks

RON ORE CITY OF KRIVOI ROG I$ THREATENEL   Russian Troops Are Now Within Eight Miles Of  Important Base   GERMAN COMMANDER RESIGNS IN NORTH

REDS TIGHTEN UP THEIR NET AT KRIVOI ROG   BEATEN NAZIS ARE CHASED INTO MUD FLATS

Russians Stah  Closer to  Tron Ore City Advance 14 Miles  To Squeeze Vise ~ On Trapped Nazis

Red Armies Close — ~ In On Krivoi Rog   Fourteen Mile Advance Scored by Soviets in Tightened Vise—One Thousand More Germans Are Killed by Other Units

Russians Eight Miles from Big lron Ore Center   Near Krivoi Rog In South Ukraine

SOVIETS WITHIN * AMILES OF GIT   Other Units in North Kil 1,000 More Germans   SQUEEZE TIGHTENS    % German Attempt to Break In_to Ring Encircling Several Divisions Fails

Reds Within  Eight Miles Of Ore City   1,000 More Nazis Die As Russians Tighten Big Trap in Ukraine  LUGA THREATENED

BIG QUANTITIES OF BOOTY FALL TO RED TROOPS   Russians Roll Past Dozens of German-Held Towns

Reds Closing On lron Ore Center   One Column Only Eight Miles Away  we. FAAF VA BRBKFTTIS LY

ty 10 KRIVOI ROG   1,000 Nazis Slain as Trap on Foe Forces  Is Tightened

Hungarians Quit War, Say Reports   London Awaits Official Confirmation From Moscow

WAR DEPARTMENT (MAKES NEW SAVING   To Spend $27 Billion Less in Fiscal Year Than It Counted on,

HOME FRONT DEATHS EXCEED WAR FRONTS   Civilian Toll From Accidents 19, 000 As Compared To 32,678 Men Ip Armed Services

GIANT EXPORT PLANS BARED   Ask Republicans to Support Amendment to Change Treaty Ratification

CIVILIAN LABOR DRAFT FAVORED   Manpower Chief McNutt Changes His Mind On Service Legislation

M'NUTT BACKS LABOR DRAFT   Manpower Head Again Re  -veeses His Position * On Question

McNutt Reverses Position on Draft Of Civilian Labor   Manpower Chief Says Na tional Service Legislation Is ‘Inevitable’

Thrilling Battle Story Told by Allied ‘Chutist   Vivid Tale of Action Clearly Shows Invasion Was All But Easy

Invasion   WRITER TELLS AIRBORNE TROOPS’ PERILOUS JOB IN D-DAY SUCCESS

War Department Will Turn Back 27 Billions   Savings Estimate Upped 14 Billion, Congress Is Told

FALL OF RIGA RELEASES TWO SOVIET ARMIES   Will Move South Toward East Prussia Area

Riga’s Fall Frees Troops For Advance   Two Powerful Red Armies Turn to Drive  On East Prussia

Capture Of Riga By Soviets Releases Two Great Armies ‘For Drive Against East Prussia   To South, Silence Cloaks Decisive Russian Operations In Hunaary

Silence Cloaks Operations In Hungary  Fall Of Riga Releases Two Red Armies To Go South

Recapture of Baltic States Expected To Free Troops For Drive on Prussia

Capture of Riga Frees Red Force   Two Russian Armies Re leased for Drive Into East Prussia   Decisive Operations in Hungary Under Cloak of Secrecy

Riga Captured, Reds Turn On East Prussia   Amphibious Strike Attempted By Nazis Fails

SOVIET FORCES CAPTURE RIGA   Repulse German Attack At Meme!, Near Gates Of Belerade

TWO SOVIET ARMIES ABOVE EAST PRUSSIA   Capture of Riga Frees Them: for Assault on Junkerland—Mass Attack on Memel Already Te Renorted.

2 Big Armies AdvancingOn East Prussie   Silence Cloaks Major Activity on Red Army’s Southern Flank

Soviets Free To Move On As Riga Is Taken   New Red Landing Report: _ed on Saare af Estonjan Coast — South  Flank Is Quiet

FALL OF RIGA PAVES WAY 10 EAST PRUSSIA   Virtually All Nazi Invaders Are Chased From Russian Soil

Fall Of Riga Releases Two Strong Armies   Silence Cloaks Major Operations In Hungary

hey Russian Armies Released by Fall Of Latvia Capital   Silence Cloaks Decisive Operations Inside Hungary

Fall of Riga Opens Way fo East Prussia   Two Great Soviet Armies Released for Invasion of Germany

Reds Poise For Drive  In Prussia   Capture of Riga Releases 2 Arniics For Next Thrust

Riga’s Fall Paves Way for Invasions of German Prussia   Red Troops S$ Seize City After Storming Port Positions 2

Riga’s Fall Permits Two Russ Armies To Drive Southward  Silence Is Cloak For Russian Hungarian Push

Riga’s Capture Frees2 Russ Armies for East Prussia Drive   Foe Frustrated in Attempt to Burn Down Latvian Capital

Capture Of Riga - Frees:2 Armies For Red ‘Driv   Heavy Soviet Tank. Attacks -On Nazis’ Meniel: Base PHOT: ¥ ermoans

Aussians Silent on Hungary   Two Powerful Red rmies Freed For Other Offensives.

2 RED ARMIES READY TO HIT EAST PRUSSIA   Drive Nazis Out of Last City in Baltic Republics

RIGS CAPTURE FREES REDS FOR PRUSSIAN DRIVE   Latvian Capital Taken Ove By Two Armies; Silence Veils Hungary Push

Riga Capture Frees Soviets For New Blows   Virtually All German Invaders Are Chased Off Russian Soil In  Latest Developments

Fall of Riga Frees Armies F or New Drive  ' WT 2 06 6p, COD.   ‘Nazis Report Reds Already Attacking . East Prussia

Riga’s Fall Releases Two Red  Armies For East Prussia Drive   German Attempt From Sea To Relieve 10 To 15 Divisions Cut Off In Western Latvia Has Been Frustrated.

Fall Of Riga Releases 7 Two Soviet'Armies For Thrust On East Prussta

RIGA FALLS 10 SOVIET ARMIES   Its Downfall Releases Two Powerful Russian Armies For Action Against East Prussia

RIGA, LATVIAN CAPITAL, FALLS   Two Red Armies Releasec For Thrust South

Red Armies Turn To East Prussia  Fall of Riga Releases Troops Ear Theiuct Sauth Into New Reaion

Russia About Freed From Nazi Troops   Capture of Rigar Cuts Off 150,000 Germans; Drive for East Prussia

Capture of Riga Releases Two Red Armies For Thrust  East Prussian Border Menaced By Rassian Victory; Soviet

SILENT ABOUT HUNGARY DRIVE   Fall of Riga, Baltic City, Releases Armies for Other Operations.   TRIED TO BURN RIGA

RED ARMIES FREED AS RIGA FALLS   Berlin Reports Soviet Attacks Ou East Prussia

Reds Turn ‘To-Assault On Prussia   Fall of Riga Frees Two Russian Armies; Drive On Hungary Cloaked in Silence

Two Red Armies Are Released By Riga’s Collapse   Ready For Thrust Oui Toward Prussia; Moves In Hungarv Secret.

Two Big Red Armies Freed For Attack OnE. Prussia   Riga’s Fall Releases Great Force For Drive Southward; City Was Taken Ry Storm

Amy Band Arrives in London to Lead P arade  “Sn Paris and Berlin”

JOB PROGRAM ~ HITTING SNAG   REYNOLDS SAYS HE 1§ UNABLE TO GET COMMITTEE QUORUM ' TO DISCUSS POST. ‘  ” Waw PLAN

 Fwo Hatfields Feud In Court  ‘Nary A M’Coy In Sight At Hearing In Logan, W. Va. Cour

All-Clear Signal Given in Manila   No Indication Whether Allied Planes Have Raided: Capital or Just a Practice Alert

MANILA AIR RAID ALARM REVEALED AS JAP RADIO ANNOUNCES ‘ALL CLEAR’

 Three Dimensional Squeeze Put ‘OnHungaryas Allies Add Bomb [Rain t to dees Rule, Red Advance   i  AR Ab BA   American warships penetrating deep into Japanese territory in their attack on Palau in the Carolines also hit Woleai to the east

15,000 Nips Repulsed Ir Attempt To Escape From Aitane Eneirclamant _

JAPS HALTED IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT ON NEW GUINEA   4S, 000. Surviy ors  Action After Halt

JAPS HALTED IN ESCAPE ATTEMP1 ON NEW GUINEA   45,000. Survivors ~Regrouping For New Action After Halt

LEGION PLANS SERVICE GIFTS,   Every Hospital-zd Servicemin to Receive Christmas Package

LEGION PLANS SERVICE CIETS.   Every. Hospitalizrd Serviceman :to Receive Christmas Package...”

Foe Battles to Rescue Troops Surrounded in  Tarnopol Trap   Half of City in Hands of Reds; Street-Fighting  Ravgea

ARMY ORDERED TO HOLD PORT AT ‘ANY COST   German Situation Still Unfavorable in Other Battle Areas

Nazis Told Defend Port ‘At Any Cost   Zhukev's Troops Tighten Bing on Remnants 15 Divisions Encircled Near Skala

Lawall Ouster  Enjoiner Seen   Suit Holds Four of Board Dominated by Neely

Roosevelt's View On Ticket Mate To Be Disclosed   President Writes Note To Be Read at  National Convention

Vi iews OF FDR On Nomination Of Wallace Soon To Be Told   Party Chairman Has’ Letter From. President—Plans ~ Completed for Opening of Convention - on Wednesday —

Hannegan HasOrdersof Roosevelt   COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF DEFINES VICE PRESIDENTIAL AND PLATFORM MATTERS FOR NEW DEAL CONVENTION.   Byrnes Also on Job

: Sannegan ‘Recuses “o> LVL ge Son-en-s 07 2ooseve ~ Weser  oiving Vice--resit 2n7ia. 1ews

Roosevelt Tells His Views on ° Viee President   Letter to Senator Will Be Made Public Monday or Tuesday; Decision on Scrap Due Friday

Note To Be Read Today or Tuesday  Views on Bie i Reising Mate Said Chief's Mesance

FDR Sends Views On Running Mate   Secret Letter Is Held by Hannegan

Roosevelt Letter Sets Forth General Views   Hannegan Says Communication Will ‘Speak for Itself’; Will Have Reference To Democratic Vice Presidential Nominatior

Big Bomber  Crashes Near Atlantic, Ia.   Reported Involved in MidAir Collision High Above the Earth

REDS CHASE NAZIS FROM RIGA TODAY   Campaign in Hungary Stepped Up By Russians

GERMAN TROOPS PULL HURRIEDLY AWAY FROM RIGA      Three Powerful Soviet Armies Converge On Latvian Capital

Russians Clamp Battle Are Against City After Cleaning Out East Latvia   Southern Armies Drive On Hungary   Moscow Says Troops Pushing on Warsaw After Expanding Bridgehead

Fierce Battle Widens Front To 40 Miles   ‘Pounds Third of Way to  Cologne in Central  Aachen Area

U.S. Offensive In New Sector Gains Ground   Doughhoys Advancing in Three-Mile Wide Forest Below Monscheu, 25 Miles South Aachen   Battles Rage On Entire Hun Front   Germans): Sheved Back  From Beggendorf; Pat  ton’s Army Makes Steady Gains on Forti Driant

German Forts Being Pushed Behind Allies   Several Armies Ever Moving Ferword Witt Rhine Valley in Sight

First Army Strikes South of Aachen—British Continue  Push Into Holland

Fierce Battle. % Widens Front. To 40 Miles   Pounds Third of Way to. Cologne in Caneray Aachen Area ;

SIEGFRIED NOW 40 MILES WIDE   Third Army Gains Solid Hold On Fort Driant Near Metz

Infaniry Jumped Of in the Bark Forest Lands TwentyFive Miles South of : Aachen Today.   THE DRIVE BROADENED TO ABOUT 40 MILES   Newest Attack Launched in a Three-Mile Wide Forest Below Monschau, South of Aachen.

YANKS BATTER WEST WALL ON 40-MILE FRONT   Drive For Cologne Plain And Rhine Valley In  Fierce Assault

SOVIETS PROBE GERMAN LINES   Two Nazi Transports Sunk : By Russian Airmen

YANKS RESUME SLOW ADVANCE ON BIAK ISLAND   Destroy 30 Jap Planes: Truk Hit Two Days Without Loss

AMERICANS ADVANCING ON MOKMER   24 Jap Planes Downed In Dutch New Guinea Battle

Americans Advance On Mokmer ‘Drome   Fierce Japanese Resistance Broken In Fighting Over Difficult Ground

YANKS DRIVE CLOSER TO MOKMER AIRPORT   Advance § Slowly Against: Japs Over. ‘Difficult Térrain:

Say Yugoslavs Land On Korcula   Claim Over 800 Nazis Dead Or Prisoners

TOKYO HINTS LANDING MADE IN MARSHALLS   Secrecy Shrouds Movements o Creat Task Force that Attacker Islands Qver Weekend   ASSAULT ON WAKE   Strong Altack Reported by Seaplanes — Land-Based Army Bombers Sirafe Marshalls

Tokyo Hints At Invasion [Of Marshalls   Navy Makes Ne Mention ef Land Operations Against Mid-Pacifie ‘Island Chain;. Wake Island Bombed® e

Invasion Winds Blow Around Japanese Bases   Guns Roar From Probably Largest American Task Force

Japs Hint Yank Traops Already On Marshalls, Attack Wake   Greatest Task Force Of Pacific War Is Believed Involved  In Attacks

WAKE ISLAND ALSO BOMBED BY U.S. UNITS   ‘Pivotal Jap Bases Feel _ Heavy Assaults By  American Forces

NEW. JAP BASES IN  CENTRAL PACIFIC IN  LINE FOR INVASION BOMBERS AND WARSHIPS IN THUNDERING AS CatlinTe OA rer saane

WAKE ISLAND IS RAIDED BY NAVY   U. S. Fails To Comment On Tokyo Invasion Claim   Lost By Japs In January; Drive Against Rabaul Is On Schedule

Army and Navy Bombers and Big Guns of Biggest U.S. Naval Task Force Thunder Invasion Warning On Marshalls While Strong Force of Bombers Blasts Wake

Big U.S. Task Force Pounds Jan Islands   Strick Radio Silence Envelops Movements Of American Naval Forces in Attack

Launch Biggest  Attack on Japs   Tokvo Hints Invasion Of Marshall Islands Amid Heavy Bombings

Central Pacific Islands Blasted   Navy Maintains Strict Radio Silence As Large Force Of ‘Battleships And Carriers Attacks Marshalls: Wake Island Bombed

Tokyo Indicates U. S. Force Has Been Landed on Islands   Great American Task Forces Being Sent Against Japanese

DESTRUCTION ON GERMANS   Rail And Road ° Transport Hit; Essen Is Raided

Allies Keep . Up. Bombing   2 Transport 4 Blasted. . By: Mosquito: Fleet

Allied Airpower Slows Up Nazis   Hitler’s War Machine Slowed from Seine To German Border

Bombers Blast From Seine To German Border   Systematic Blasting of Ex: emy Railway and Road Transport Lines  In France

Nazi Rail Heads Blasted By RAF In Great Raid   Crossing Point On Seine Smashed

BOMBS RIP ROME RAlL YARDS: NAZIS REPULSED   Main Viterbo Airdrome Blasted By Americans as Beachhead Holds

Nazis Fail in Third Aitack; Losses Heavy   40,000 Bombs Dropped on German Forces in Heaviest Air Assault

Third Offensive on Rome Beachhead is Designated Failure   American Third Division Repulses Three Ger man Divisions

LIED LINES ARE REPORTED INTAGT   All Lost Ground Regained As Nazi Forces Are  Thrown Back   THIRD ATTEMPT   U.S, Third Infantry _ Credited With Smash ing Latest Attack

U. S. Planes Attack Rome Rail Lines   Hit at Yards Carrying Military Traffic to  Front Lines

Strong Stab Made By Germans Into Center Of The Anzio Line Described As Costly Failure

NAZIS HANDED COSTLY BLOW IN THIRD PUSH   -ifth Army Positions Intact; Clark Says Allied Control Firmly Established

INSTALLATION IN ROME RAIL YARDS RAIDED   American Heavy Bombers Pound Targets in France, Germany and Northern Italy   STAB ROCKET GUN AREA

halal tadlad Sadhediatadl Cuialladial   Sees 30,000, 000 Jobs An Five Industries. —

French Revolt Urged By BBC  Dlatiin ne Dineen Mota   Outlines Four-Point Program To Be Followed

Former Carpenter Nails Two Planes   Oklahoma Pilot Becomes Leading U. S. Ace With  =: 99 KO’s In Europe

U.S. Bombers Hit Closer to Japan  And Philippines  Planes From China Hit Radio Station ‘Close’ to Manila

ORNE FRONT IN FRANCE   Waves of Infantry and Tanks Spread Out in Caen Area

SQUEEZE PUT ON IRELAND   Air War Continues As Inva sion Plans Appear Matur ihg Rapidly.

British Suspend Plane Service To ire Capital   Take New Precaution To Guard Information Concerning Invasion

GHTER PLANES ARE DRIVEN OF   Japs Fail In Attempt Tt . Halt U. S. Superfor tress Attack   . ALL PLANES SAFE   Yanks Continue To Take Heavy Toll Of Enemy In Leyte Campaign

JAPS FLING 150 PLANES AT B29S ON NAGOYA RAID   SUPERFORTS FIGHT OFF ATTACK; BOMB ENEMY WAR PLANTS

JAPS ATTEMPT TO STOP 8-238 DURING RAIDS  Fighters Battle Superforts In Bey = eae ee ee

B-298 HIT PLANE FACTORY AT NAGOYA FRIDAY 2 1-2 HRS   Japanese Sent Up 150 Plane: in an Attempt to Check Raiders.   THEY TURNED BACK   Not One B-29 Was Lost to Enemy Action, Washingten Reported.

150 Jap Planes Battle B29s   Interceptors Fought Off by Superforts Over Nagoya

SUPERFORTS BRUSH OFF 150 FIGHTERS TO POUND NAGOYA:   No B-29's Lost: When U. 5. Raiders Brave Nip Air Umbrella: to Paste. Aircraft Plants’ in 212-Hour Assault BFeidau

Japs Swarm To Defense Of Nagoya   Biggest Fighter Attack Yet Fails to Down a Single Superfortress  In Fridav’s Assault

Nagoya Raiders Fight Off 150 Japanese Planes   Not a Single B-29 Is Lost and Jap  Industries Receive Another Plastering

Japanese Throw 150 Planes ‘Against American Superforts During Raid On Nagoya Plants   Enemy War Industries Blasted Over Two And Half Hour Period

B-29s Repulse 150 Nip Planes  No Superforts Lost In Nagoya Assault

Man Slashes Waitress, Flees as 500 Watch  In New York Restaurant

Enlistments For Sea Duty Restricted   U. S. Maritime Service To Accept No More Men from 18 to 26   CITES MILITARY NEED FOR YOUNGER MEN   Drafting of Young Mer Now on Ship Duty Being Considered

Maritime Service Will Enlist No More Men 18-76 for Merchant Sea Duty

NoMoreMen In Merchant Marine Now   BECAUSE OF ARMY AND NAVY NEEDS FOR YOUNGER MEN; POLICY RESULTS FROM  AGREEMENT WITH HERSHEY   Broad List

Maritime Service Halts Enlistments In 718.96 Age Groun Under New Adreement

Maritime Fleet Turns Down 18-26   Also Considered Whether Merchant Marines 18-26 Should Be Drafted.

Maritime Unit Not te Take Draft Age Men   Men Between 18-26 Group Already in, May Be Draftable

GERMAN ARMY SHOWS  SIGNS OF BREAKING  BEFORE EAST PRUSSIA LONG STRING OF GERMAN  HELD CITIES REPORTED Pre TATTLOING

GERMAN ARMY SHOWS SIGNS OF DOWNFALL   March To Warsaw Started; Large Gains Reported

Nazi Army Shows Signs Of Breaking   Russian Armies Launch Attacks on Seven Fronts; Driving for Warsaw

G00-MILE BATTLEFRONT FLAMES WITH NOTABLE ADVANCES MADE NORTH AND SGUTH BY SOVIETS   Kanuas, Daugavpils and Brest-Litovsk Nearly Within Grasp of Russians and Battle Scarred Lwow, Gateway to Central Evrope Totters Under Heavy Attack

SHOW SIGNSOF BREAKING, WRITER SAYS   Soviets Now Fighting to Outskirts of *Lwow, Gateway to Central Europe, and May Be in Brest-Litovsk Suburbs.

'Russians Push On Lwow, Outskirts Of Brest-Litovsk   surging Armies Are Eight Miles From Pre-War Reich Border; Bailystok, Kaunas, Daugavpils Tottering; Wedge Gained In Push On Warsaw

Nazi Strong Points Totter Before Reds   Russians Cr ‘oss «=—s 1989 Ruyssd- German Bound‘ ary Lihe a ae

Social Security Tax Is ‘Frozen’   One Per Cent Levy Unchanged in 1945

RUSSIANS CROSS CZECHOSLOVAK BORDER IN BALKAN ADVANCE   GERMANS EVACUATE LOMZA, KEY BASE ON NAZI DEFENSE LINE NORTHEAST OF WARSAW

Repulse Panzer Divisions In Counterattacks   Americans Battle Nazis In House To House  Clash For Cassino

NAZIS ARE REPULSED NEAR ROME   Fierce Battle  Rages In Town Of Cassino

British Smash New Assaults South of Rome   Yanks, Germans Fight to Death Inside Cassino

NAZIS SEEK WEAK POINT ON BEACHHEAD   Hundreds of Enemy Kilied In Bloody, Battle That Ends In Foe’s Repulse.

Vet Bonus Bill Gets Bad Start   Finance Commiitee Given Measure for Study

Veteran’s Bill Gets A Bad Start   Over Protest of Authors Bill Sent To Finance Committee For Study.

BOMBERS RAID TRUK IN WIDE AERIAL SWEEF   Seven Other Jap Bases In Caroline Group Attacked

U.S. FLIERS RAID TRUK, 7 OTHER BASES   Kuriles, Wewak, New Guinea Are Also Attacked

Truk, Other Jap Bases Attacked By U. S. Bombers   Ponape, Ant Island Bombarded, Kurile — Group Struck Again

YANK BOMBERS ATTACKED TRUK AGAIN      Seven of Its Protective Bases  Also Bombed

Bombers Attack Principal Truk Base of Jans   Seven of Its Protective Ractionc Hit

U. $. BOMBERS ATTACK TRUK   Combined Sweeps Made in South And Cent Pacific

BRITISH TELL OF REVERSE UF 2 LEASE   ” £* rt Contributions ‘fe Jnited States Over  25/0 Billion Dollars

> rt Contributions ae 4 « /nited States Over “° 0 Billion Dollars

Would Curb ° ‘Executive Authority   Senate Committee Adopts Two Amendments

EXECUTIVE RULE GETS NEW BLOW IN SENATE VOTE   Committee Action Shows e Assertion of Power by Congress

NAZIS TEACHING HATE FOR YANK   Hitler Spokesman Uses Radio and Press to Carry ¢ His Campaign.

U. S. Destroyers Sink Three More  Japanese Vessels   Allies Dominate Bismarck Waters

M’ARTHUR SAYS SEA DOMINATED NOW BY ALLIES   Thirty Enemy Vessels Destroyed Off New Ireland This Month

No Jungles Battles Ahead   Pacific Veterans Fighting in Different Terrain Now

LEYTE RELATIVELY WELL-DEVELOPED   First Time e MacArthur's Men Weren't Plunging {nto Jungle.

Leyte Well Developed   AllWeather Roads and Broad Valleys Rather Than Jungle Feature  Site of Yank Invasion

Navy Opposes Immediate Action for Consolidating Army, Navy, Air ae

2 Invasions Get Reinforcements   Many Thrusts Made To Confuse Foe “As To Where Heaviest Blows Will Be Struck;  News Blackout Cloaks Advances

Offensive Agains Moselle Line Is In Full Swing   Multi-Pronged Threats Seeking Breakthrough Points

CASUALTIES ARE HEAVY IN ITALY   Losses Of U. S. Troops Total 90,000; Axis Army Reinforced

‘U.S. LOSSES.IN ATALY PLACED OVER 90,000   No Signs of  Germans, Pulling Out, Gen’l  Alexander Says

Americans Suffer Many Casualties - On Italian Fron  Losses Total _50,000  In Campaign in 14 ~ Months’ Period

U1. 8. CASUALTIES “IN ITALY, 90.008   GERMANS SHOW. NO SIGNS OF LEAVING COUNTRY, GEN. ALEXANDER SAYS.

U. S. LOSSES IN ITALY PLACED OVER 90,000   No Signs of Germans Pulling Out, Gent Alexander Says ~

HOFFMAN RAPS SUIT BY OPA   Charges Action May Force Stevensville Co-Op to Close Doors

15 Jap Ships. Sent Down   Knox Says Major Victory ; Scored In Attack On Truk

ITALIAN FRONT QUIET   A Few Patrols and Some Artillery Fire the Only Action’

Roving American Forces Give Japanese Garrisons in  Pacific Areas Cause for Worry Enemy Troops Now Must Be Watching   Enemy Troops Now Must Be Watching  the Horizon Fearfully for Allied Ships After Two Years of Smug Security

Jap Island Garrisons  Can Well Worry Now   Smug Security Torn Apart, They Can Be as Anxious As U. S. Navy as to Whereabouts. of Imperial Fleet

NEXT AMERICAN BLOW AWAITED WITH ANXIETY   ‘Nipponese’ Garrisons Know Of Numerous Raids And Captures

Japs Now Have Worries Over Pacific   Strong U. S. Fleet Is Real Problem to Japanese Garrisons

Roving American Forces Give Japanese Garrisons in Pacific Areas Cause for Worry   Enemy Troops Now Must Be Watching the Horizon Fearfully for Allied Ships After Two Years of Smug Security

GASOLINE FLAMES WITH TRAIN WRECK      Blaze from 25 Carloads Is Seen 15 Miles Away

ee na Trai MRS ROOSEVELT URGES UNITY IN ADDRESS TO BALTIMORE NEGROES

Herbert, Adams. Elected Principal OF. Senior High School In Ames   Has Served LeMars Schools As. Principal Several Years "

Army Puts Ban On Female Form   .Advises Editors of Army Papers Not to - Use Such Pictures

U.S. Army Wistfully Goes on Record Aaainst. Cheesecake in Army Paner<c

 Army Editors Advised Not To Depict  Female Form In Service Papers; Civilian Competition Seen Too Great

RIVERS REACH FLOOD LEVEL IN OSTATES   State Guard Units Mobilized for Flood Duty

Rivers Rise To Flood Levels in  Middle West   Wichita, Kan., is Hardest Hit Point

Dewey Foresees Trade Agreement Replacing Tariffs  Promises to Oust Ickes and Perkins If He’s Elected

DAVAO STRUCK ~— IN HEAVY RAID   Ground Installations and Shipping to South Also Pounded

Below Zero Temperature In East And Midwest Ares   Eastern And New England States Gripped By Cold; 95 Relow In Penna.

Numbing Cold Invades East, New England   Brief Relief for State and Dakotas; New Cold Wave Due

NUMBING COLD GRIPS NATION; RELIEF ON WAY   Sub-Zero Weather Hits Northern Part Of State

Mystery Cloaks B-24‘s Explosion Over England; 24 U.S. Airmen Killed

Yanks Close In On Metz Whose  Fall Imminent   British Forces Advance  In Holland, Chase Nazis

Allies Open New Drive  in Holland   Russians Capture Thirty Towns in. Encircling Drive on Budanest

Hitler Hurls Reserves From Russia Into Fight To Back Up Cracked Sieafried Line

Try To Solve. ~ Death. Puzzle   Daughters of Slain Socialite : Agteé To Take "Any Tests” - Required by Police

FEW WAHSHIPS      Only 12 Destroyers Posted Along Coast From Norway to France.   TIRPITZ NOT A MENACE

Germans Have 12 Destroyers   Dwindling Naval Forces To Face Huge British Fleet on Invasion Date

Nazis H Have Small Fleet   Oily. 12 Destroyers Counted On. Coast

12 NAZI DESTROYERS PATROL LONG COAST   Allies Would Face But Smal Naval Force In Invasion

U.S. Bombers Hit Bucharest In Heavy Raid   Raid Follows Night And Day Blows At Capital Of Hungary; Fighters Accompany Heavies   Onl ly 12 Nazi Destroyers Guardins European Coast

GERMAN FLEET 1S DWINDLING   ONLY 12 DESTROYERS POSTED ALONG THE COAST OF EUROPE

German Naval Power Slashed To 21 Vessels   Has Only About 12 De stroyers to Guard Invasion Routes: 12 Other  Warships In Baltics: --

BATTLE AREA iS EXPANDING INGHINA   Japanese Take Mihsien, While Counter-Offensive Wins Back Land to Ease Lovang Threat.   Move Pivisions

Japs Continue To Make Gains In China Push   Take Town of Minsien, But Chinese’ Attack Eases Threat to Lovang

U. §. CONGRESS LAGS, SUMMER MEFT LIKELY   Faces Legislative Log Jam   RECESS NEARING  one   a ee Oe eee ee  Many Major Bills on Program

CONGRESS HAS MUCH WORK YET 10 00   McCormack Warns Against Failing to Break Log-Jam

Polish Forces  Abandon Warsaw   Evacuate Capital Because of Lack of Food ard oe  ons.

Poles Abandon Warsaw Battle  Defenders Leave to Form Guerrilla Greun:

Give Up In Warsaw   Lack of Weapons and Food Forces Patriots To Abandon the Fight

Half-Starved Pole Patriots Flee Warsaw   Nazis Maintain Rule Over Torn Capital; Red Armies Adyance

BATTLE INSIDE WARSAW ENDS   Resistance Forces Beaten,  Gen. Bors Admits

POLES ABANDON WARSAW FIGHT   Underground Forces Lack Food Weanene

Poles Abandon Warsaw Battle   Month-Long Fight Near End Because Of Food, Weapons Lacking.

Poles Ino Warsaw Quit Resistance   Evacuate Because Of Lack Of Food, Weapons

Polish Resistance Fo orcesAre Reported Abandoning. Long: Battle hiside Warsaw

Poles Quitting Warsaw Battle  Resistance Units   Resistance Units To Withdraw

Hollandia Fall Speeds Pacifie War  MacArthur, Nimitz Plan Marches

Hollandia Seizure Foretells March To Philippines   MacArthur, Nimitz Plan Coordinated  Pacific Blows

MacArthur And Nimitz Met Before Hollandia Invasion Which Is Now About Concluded.

Hollandia Air Fields Capturec By U.S. Forces   MacArthur and Nimitz Discuss Further Thrusts

Allied Bombers Alreéad Using Newly Taken. Hollandia Fields   1,200 MILES OF  THE PHILIPPINE   Gen. MacArthur An Adm. Nimitz Meet To Discuss Operations

Expect Success To Accelerate Philippine Drive   MacArthur, Nimitz Discuss Future Plans Against Nipponese _

Hollandia Campaign Nearly Finished — Next Major Pacific Blow May Come. Simultaneously with Invasion of Western Europe.

VICTORY SOON IN HOLLANDIA SEEN   March Toward Philippines _ Expected to Speed Up

HOLLANDIA CAMPAIGN COMPLETED   Resistance Ceases After 5 Day Drive By U.S. Forces

Hollandia Operations  Completed   Success Of Campaign In New Guinea Expected To Accelerate Drive Toward Philippines

MacArthur, Nimitz Discuss Tactics; Hollandia Campaign Nearly Completed

YANKS CAMPAIGN AT HOLLANDIA T0 BE FINISHED SOON   Allies Using Three Airfields In Dutch New Guinea, 500-Mile Jump Cuts Dis tanra tha Manila,   REDS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WITHERING ENEMY   British Armored Units Strike Jap Invaders in India, Chinese Batter Enemy In Burma Battle.

U.§. March in Pacific May Be Accelerated   Swift Completion of Hollandia  Drive Indicative

‘ALLIED CHIEFS MAP OUT NEW PACIFIC BLOWS   MacArthur, Nimitz Meet: Hollandia Conquest Is Completed

Pacific Blows T o Be Timed With Invasion   ‘MacArthur Expected to Move Fast After Clearing Guinea

M’ARTHUR AND NIMITZ MEET IN SW PACIFIC   Swift Completion 0 f Hollandia Campaign Exvected To Follow

TRAIN HITS BUS KILLING 23 MEN   Kingman Air Base Gunnery Students Are Victims in Arizona :

Other Columns Now 35 Miles ‘Inside Poland   Reds .Driving Toward Vinnitsa, 50 Miles Beyond Berdichev. — Ice In Lower Dnieper May Help In Closing Trap On Germans... ~

SERGEANT PEER IS KILLED IN ACTION      Word Received of . the , Death of Local . ‘Soldier

DANIELS AGAIN IRES SENATORS   Presidential Aide Refuses Tc Submit REA Files

SHAEF RELAXES ON DECISION TO WITHHOLD NEWS   Believe Germans Are Unaware Of True Situation In Belcium

Army Rejects Plea to End Ban on News   Eases Restrictions to Give Partial Story Of Developments

Newsmen Protest Censorship . . .  : Western Front News Security Blackout Partially Lifted

SHEAF REFUSES TO TELL PUBLIC WHOLE STORY   Fear to Enlighten Germans by Too Many Revelatipns

Three Others Are Listedas Wounded On Battle Fronts   Clarence Schwark, John Egan Killed; Ensign Ralph Culloden Lost.

One Killed; Two Others Are Missing   Robert Topel Dies at Sea; Lt. Harvey Dean, Pvt. Leonard Siorek Lost in Italy: Fourth Wounded.

PHOTOS REVEAL INCREASED JAP LOSSES AT TRUK   New List Announced by Nimitz Shows 23 Ships Sunk, Six Probably Sunk, 11 Damaged

Jap Losses at Truk Revised By U.S. Chief   Report Now Is That 23 Ships Were- Sunk, 6 Probables, 11 Damaged

Japanese Losses Mount at Truk   New Figures on Results of Raid Of Enemy Base Revealed by Nimitz

Jap Truk Ship Loss ‘Upped’   Later Figures Give 23 Sunk Six Probably Sunk

Photos Show 23 Ships Were Sunk And Probably 6   Eleven. Other Ships Also Found To Have Been Damaged In Destructive Blow at. Japan’s Pearl Harbor. ;

JAP TRUK LOSSES HEAVIER THAN FIRST REPORTED   Recennaissance Photos Show 23 Ships Sunk, Six Probably Sunk and 11 Damaged As Compared to First Report of 119

Nimitz Reveals Heavier -Losses  By Japs At Truk   Only Sporadic Return Fire Offered By Jap Defense To Americans’ Attack

AANST HS. ATTACK ON TRUK      A Much Heavier Blow Than At First Reported   JAP LOSSES ARE AROUND 40 SHIPS

BLOW AT TRUK HEAVIER THAN FIRST CLAIMED   Jap Losses Now Listed As 23 Ships, Six Probably Sunk and Eleven Badly Damaged   CRAFT NOT CLASSIFIED

_JAP LOSSES AT ® TRUK ARE HEAVY   American Attgck Nets 23 ‘ Enemy Ships Sunk With Six Probables

23 Ships Sunk, ll Are Damaged   AMERICAN DESTROYERS TRAIN GUNS ON RABAUL FOR 112-TON AERIAL BOMBING AFTER HITTING KAVIENG; SPORADIC RETURN FIRE SILENCED

JAP LOSSES AT TRUK EXCEEDED EARLY ESTIMATE   Latest Figures Show 23 Ships Sunk, 6 Probably Sunk and 11 Damaged

Germaiis ignore Bombers   ‘Fighter Belt’ Is Broken by Yanks Over Large Area

U.S. Warplanes, 1500 Strong, Roam France Far Past Paris As Nazi Luftwaffe Iqnored

Huge Armad Hits Europe   Vaunted Fighter Belt Penetrated [n Force 

1,500 American Planes Pound Bases in France   Attacks Extend From Coast To Beyond Paris

U.S. Planes Blast at French Areas   Big Bombers Are Apparently Out on Night Attack

BOMB FRANCE N GHILLENGE TO LUETWAFE   1,500 American Planes Meet Little Opposition ‘from Coast to Paris.

Invasion area gets  pounding   Bore thru famous nazi ‘fichter belt’

- Why Thousands 1 at Bexsors, 7 bave proscribed .  PERTUSS “A YUGHS

Farm Bloc Wins Round 'In Subsidies Battle   Group Scores Victory, 49-26, in Effort To Force Discontinuance of Program; Deseribes Policy as ‘Inflation Threat’

Heavy Air Raids Widespread Over Hifler's Europe   3,000 Planes Went Out From Britain During Single Day

Bombers Keer Up Raids Upon Europe   Day Attacks Follow Heavy Night Assault on Reich

Berlin’s Ruins Hit And Invasion Coast Blasted In Assault   Stragetic Positions in Balkans Also Raided by Part of 3,000 Plane Armada as Aerial Assault Against Nazis Intensified

3,000 TONS OF BOMBS RAINED ON NAZI AREAS   Record Allied Aerial Fleet Hits Kiel, Bertin, Muenster, Bulgaria

Bombers Keep Up Raids Upon Eurone  we; ie: cy   Day Attacks Follow Heavy Night Assault on Reich

Drop Tons Of Bombs On Nazi  Creat Cities   50 Percent Of Berlin’ Has Been Destroyed: 25 Per cent More Damaged.   _ HUGE FIRES AT KIEL

FLIERS SET NEW RECORD ON RAIDS OF NAZI TARGETS   Drop Over 3,000 Tons o} Bombs in One Day; Kiel, Berlin Hit Again

First Surface Blow On Jap Homeland  By LEONARD MILLIMAN Reancintad Praee War Fditae

Americans Only It Hours From Tokyo Japs Told   Bombardment of. . Parmushiro First on Home Islands

PARAMUSHIRO SHELLED BY U.S. NAVY   Push Into Japan’s Home Waters To Befuddle Terrified Japs Who Fire Everywhere Except At Ships.   Inferior Defenses

Marshall Invasion Casualties Slight   Naval Bombardment May Be Prelude To Wresting Home Islands

Compromise Price Control Extension Measure Enacted   Legislation continuing Program in Modified Form Sent to F.D.R.

Mine Workers Open Campaign For Gov. Dewey   Unionists Back G.0.P. Candidate

DEWEY IS CHOICE OF BLIZZARD AT MEETING OF UMW   ‘Neely Gave Us Bullets Instead of Bread,’ Blizzard Says

Jurors Named  For Service At April Session.   Panel of ‘Sixty Are   Panel of Sixty Are Drawn To Try Cases At Term

JurorsNamed — For Service At April Session.  Panel of Sixty Are Drawn To Try Cases At Term

Wickard Warns Of Disastrous Farm Land Boom   Secretary Urges Extra Money Be Used For War Bonde And Dehic«.

FEARS EFFECTS OF LAND BOOM   WICKARD DECLARES PRICES GOING UP AS SALES INCREASE

BOOM SEEN BY WICKARD   Secretary Warns WouldBe Purchasers to Buy War Bonds or Retire Debts Rather Than Pay Inflated Prices.

New Push  Opens at Anzio   Co-ordinated Strike Traps 17 German Divisions Near Rome

FOREIGN RELATIONS PLANK IS OPPOSED   Wendell Willkie Hits Proposed Plank in Statement

DESCRIBES. HOW. AMERICANS: ‘TOOK: OVER FORTRESS CITY OF VELLETRI

Bedraqgled Nazis Being Rounded Up   Daniel De Luce Tells Of Entry Into Velletri

Velletri Entry is Described   Town's Fall Quickened By Brilliant Night March by Yanks

VELLETRI WAS HARD NUT FOR YANK CRACKER   De Luce Tells Of Triumphant Capture By Tired, Dusty  * A wee Foe 8 eo) OO CO

Official Blackout On News   Allied Headquarters Silent On Movements Of Advance Forces For Security Reasons

100,000 NAZIS IN DEATH TRAP ON ROBOT COAST   Advances in Italy and Southern France Continue; Plartes Blast Path

ALLIED FORGES ARE REPORTED STORMING NAZI “HOLY SOIL”  UNOFFICIAL REPORTS PU! AMERICANS ACROSS GER

Yankees Sweep On, Reds Near Prussia   Aachen and Saarbrucken Reported Taken By Americans After British Occupy Both Brussels and Antwerp; Many Nazis Trapped

HUGH BOMBER ‘CRASHED   Crew of Fourteen Died in Flaming Wreckage Near Dallas

FIND FEW FLAWS IN LIBERTY SHIPS   Senators Approve War Department Move to Discontinue Use as Transports.

Baruch Favors More Liberal Benefits Bill   White House Adviser De clares House Measure “Inadequate

Baruch Raps Cuts in Jobless Bill.  - Veteran Adviser.   Veteran Adviser. Doughton Lock  On House Action

Doughton Defends Demobilization Bill's Economy  Baruch Comment On House Measure  Stirs Capitol Hill

GERMANS PUSHED BACK IN ITALY   FACE FLANKING THREAT AS BRITISH SET UP BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS LAMONE.

BOLOGNA BULGE IS THREATENED   Bridgehead Over Lamone River May Outflank Nazis In Italy

Weather Precludes New Bomber Raids   Six Days Continuous Attack Has Pasted Reich With Explosives

Raids Halted By Weather —   ‘Berlin 'Blasted® : By. Blockbusters

WEATHER HALTS RAIDS   Heavy Bombers Are Kept at Home For First Time in 6 Days

Weather Holds Bombers Back   Berlin Blasted Again in Part of 12,000 Ton Assault On Reich in 24 Hours

Berlin Rocked Under Deluge  ~ Blockbusters   Bad Weather Keeps Brit nin-Bused Bombers At Home Todays U. S. Planes Busy

BAD WEATHER KEEPS PLANES ‘ON GROUND   First Let-up After Six Straight Days of Plastering German War Industries.

Death Is Spread By Robot Bombs   Rescue Workers Work To Reseue Victims

Robot Raids Are Renewed  anes OF ni i in Uh) nel   Rescue Squads Work To Recover Victims

BURMA RAIL LINE IS CUT BY BRITISH   Airborne Commandos Threaten Jap Supply Lines.

British Sever Supply Line Of Invading Japs   Airborne Commandos Land Far Behind  Enemy Lines

Fifty Jap Planes Downed and Damaged, Seven Ships Are Sunk   Allied Bombers Make Raié on Feeder Base for Rabaul.

NAZIS SCRAPE BOTTOM FOR MORE TROOPS      New Decrees Put Servants Into Army Uniforms Or Reich War Industry

Reich Jolted BySweepins War Decree   Goebbels Seeks New Replacements For Crippled Army

GOEBBELS BANS PUBLIC MEETS   Sweeping Decrees Tighten Civilian Life In  Reich

Germans Scrape Bottom of Manpower Front  Sweeping Decrees End Sham Jobs  For Entertainers

Nazis Given  New Ediets   All Meelings and Entertain.  ment Not Connected with War Banned by Goebbels

GOEBBELS CALLS FOR PUBLIC AID IN WAR SURVIVAL   Public Meetings, Entertain. ments Cancelled: Seek New Troops

German Life Restricted By Goebbels   All Public Meetings And Entertainments Out; Men Go Into Army

co aft Ban All Meetings To Swell Army   Goebbels Seeks to  Dig Deeper into-Nazi © Home Front in Effort to Fill Depleted Ranks

ROLOGNA HILLS HELD BY ENEMY   Italian Campaign Not Written Off Yet By Germans

Yanks Attack Nazis near Bologna; Find Enemy Is Far from Defeated

GRANTS SECOND LIQUOR HOLIDAY   Krug Announces Periodic Releases in Future

TO REGULATE LABOR SUPPLY   WMC Area Director  Explains Requirements

USES Takes Over Workers Saturday   Area Director Outlines Labor Stabilization Plan

DRAFTING CG OF MEN ‘OVER 26 WON'T BE DELAYED LCQNG, MITCHELL SAYS

induction of Older Men Delayed One to Two Months  Colonel Mitchell Says Montana Has Few Eligible Men Under 26

Texas Oil Men Organize Group  Express Opposition. Of Anglo-American

JESTER SELECTING COMMITTEE OIL MEN TO OPPOSE OIL PACT  PROPOSED ANGLO-AMERI CAN PETROLEUM AGREE. MENT IS NOT LIKED

Dewey's Effort Hits Speediest Pace This Week   Speaks In Buffalo Tues day, Boston Wednesday New York Saturday.

Convention For Names on Tax Notices   Approve Sales As Jones-Munger Law Provides

Jones-Munger Bill Outlawed Sales Notices Must Carry Name of Property Owners

Luther Leaguers Hold Rally In LeMars Sunday   ‘Ten Eoininegations Send Delegations . ‘To Fall Meeting

Luther Leaguers Hold Rally In  LeMars Sunday Tet Congregations  Send Delegations  To Fall Meeting

FAMILY PLANS F-DAY   Will Have Feast for Sons and Their q Buddies

Efforts Fail In Search For Midland Girl   .. « Missing Since Saturday Night

Wide Search Is Begun. For ‘Missing Co-Ed   Iowa Girl Disappeared at Midland College, Fremont. Neb., Saturday

WAR BONDS SALES WILL END FEB. 29   Sale of E. F and G Bonds Must Be Made This Week to Count on 4th Loan Drive.

WAR BONDS SALES CLOSES SATURDAY   Sale of E. F and G Bonds Must Be Made This Week to Count on 4th Loan Drive.

GERMAN RETREAT TO RIGA REPORTED AS BEING STAMPEDE   NAZIS BATTLING DESPER - ATELY TO HOLD OPEN LAND ESCAPE ROUTE

¥« ¥K  Soviet Forces Invade Hungary  On 110-Mile Front, Berlin Says

Pursuing Reds Are Nearing ~ Baltie Port   Enémy Making Desperate Effort to’ Keep Escape Corridors to East Prussia Open   ESTONIA IS ALMOST FREED OF GERMANS   Hungary Believed Ready to Quit As Pressure There Increases; Soviets  Capture Turka 

ON A 110-MILE FRONT   German Communique Suggests Reds Have Invaded Hungary

Russians May Have Gone Into Hungary   Have Been Drawn Up On Border After Plunge Through Romania

Mid-Pacific Bases Developed for New os Blows  KWAJALEIN ATOLL IS NOW OCCUPIED  South and East Coasts of Paramushiro Island ~— Blasted 

WARSHIPS HIT AT JAPANESE TN HOMELANI   Fires Are Started on  Shore as Enemy is  Caught Napping

War Pushed Into Jap Home Waters   Paramushiro Heavily Battered By American Task Forces; Marshall Island Operation Virtually Over

Bus Schedule To Mackenzie Sfarts Soon  Pay Hike Denied Garbage Workers

Sir John Dill Dies After Long Iliness   British Officer Was Chief Of Staff During And After Dunkerque Evacuation.

Allies Gain On Burma Front  Wrenedtacws: Ji tet. els.   Wresting Initiative From Japs, It Is Said

Allies Take Reins On Burma Front   British, West Africar Troops Drive Japs From Arakan Points

Axis Satellites Given Warning   Allies. Say Results Will Be Disastrous

Satellites of Axis Warned   Four Countries Strongly Told To Forsake Hitler

Balkans Warned By Big Three To End Nazi Aid  Consequences Will   Consequences Will -Be Worse Later, ‘Allies’ Tell Group

MORE RIGOROUS TERMS TO BE IMPOSED LATER   Less Than “Unconditional Surrender” Hinted for Concerted Action Now.

Bulgars Ask An Armistice From Russia   Declaration of War Brings Axis Puppet Crinving on Knees

Bulgaria Asks For Armistice From Russians   Takes Action After Russia‘Declares War On . Balkan Kingdom.

[Russians Declare War ‘On Bulgaria   Sofia Pleads with Soviet: to Grant Her Ar Armistice

Bulgaria Asks Russia For Armistice   Strong Measures Declared Taken Against Nazis

Bulgaria Appeals To Russia For Armistice; Pledges Strong Measures Against Belligerent German Forces-

Bulgaria Appeals For An Armistice   Bolsters Plea With Declaration Government Had Ordered Strong Measures Against Nazi Forces

BULGARS SEEK ARMISTICE AS REDS MAKE WAR   Moscow War Declaration Interrupts Cabinet Meeting

Navy To Probe  Treatment Of  Overseas Vets Better Break  Naw Pramicad

1942 License Tags Should Be Removed   Only the 1944 State Plate Should Appear on the Automobile.

Nazis Take Over Inside Bulgaria  Germans Mon Fntire   Germans Man Entire Black Sea Coast

Germans Pour Into Bulgaria   Take Over Balkan Nation as They Did in Hungary

Nazis Take Over Inside Bulgaria   Germans Man Entire Black Sea Coast

[Phantom Upsets Tables, Yoo-Hous at Neighbors  Ghost Haunts Halifax Home; Eludes Amateur. Pro Sleuths

“Ghost” in Nova Scotia Home Baffles Amateur and Professional Sherlocks

WAR TODAY   Great Military Trap Continues to Close With Accelerated Speed About Desperate Hitlerites on Two Pronts

MACKENZIE SAYS—  NaziArmies Facing Twin  Allied Trap   Yanks, Russians Close In On Reich Frontier With Mounting Speed

War Today  Great Trap Closing As Desperate Nazis Continue Flight

Allied Armies Race Winter To Beat Hitlerites.   By DEWITT MacKENZIE  Agconrinted Prace Wan Annaluct

ADVANCE WITHIN LESS THAN FIFTY MI. OF BUCHAREST   RUSSIAN COLUMNS REPORTED DRIVING INTO TRANSYLVANIA   Allies Speed Drive to CrushGermansby Fall

_ WIDESPREAD SWEEPS HIT JAP SHIPS.  ii ee i ee ee, ea pin tp ae oe, eee, acam@Geae

BIG RED FORCE IN FINNISH DRIVE GAINS 15 MILES   Push om Karelian Isthmus Appears to Be General Offensive’s Start

RUSSIANS OPEN DRIVE AGAINST FINI AND   Blast Defenses and Capture 80 Towns — in Two Days

SOVIET BEGINS NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST FINNS   Claims 15-Mile Gains On 25-Mile Front in  Karelian Area

Foresee Use - Of Jet Plane  In Peace Era   Tests Now to Result in Startling Post-War Aviation Development

Expect Jet-Propelled Planes to Have Big Place in Peacetime Aviation

NEW JET-PROPELLED PLANE MAY BECOME PEACETIME LEADER  AARRMM TART mre rar re   OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXHAUSTIVE WAR COMBAT TESTS ARE WIDE _

JET- PLANE TESTS IN BATTLE LIKELY. ~ TO BRING NEW POSTWAR DEVELOPMENTS

Experts Think Jet Planes Will Play a Peacetime Role   Rv CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN.

 Jet-propelled planes may have tryout ‘in concluding days of war, postwar —

Texas Democrat Urges Defeat of Any Man Who Has Blessing of New Dealers

WARTIME STRIKES WITHOUT EXCUSES, PATTERSON STATES   Aimy and Navy Leaders Favor ‘Passage of Work or Fight  Legislation

Work or. Fight Law Supported  Potterson, Forrestal And Nelson Condemn Fe Pe he, i ed ST

Work or Fight Legislation Again Urged   War Department Joins in Plea For Drastic Act

Stilwell Shift Results From Chiang Demanc   Strategy. Diplomacy Loom Large in Talks By Nelson and Hurley On Chungking Visit   Two Requests Made.

New Shaping of U.S. Position in Orient Revealed   Change Occasioned By Combination of Strategy, Diplomacy

Stilwell Removed Because Of Mud7led Combination Of Strateo’-and Diplomacy

Haggle Over War Policies —   Japanese Only Ones to Gain in Chinese Mixup Ending in-Removal of :  Stilwell from Command

5. DROVE HAR BARGAIN IN CHIN   Stilwell’s Removal Re sults Of Oriental Diplo macy, Stratery   STRANGE SETIP   General’s Withdrawal Face-Saving Gesture For Chinese Leader

U.S. Putting Pressure On Chiang Kai-Shek   Forcing Him to Drop Reactionary Cabinet Members And Put American in Command; Chiang Balked at First

Newly Released Details on Stilwell’s Removal Indicate Serious Rift in Sino-American Political Relations

Removal From India-Bur: ma-China Command Result of Combination of  Strategy, Diplomacy   Face-Saving And Pacifying Gesture   Commitment Given Under Threat of U. S. Withdrawal of Her Support to Chiang

Removed in Gesture to Save Face   Stilwell Withdrawn. by U. 5. to Pacify Chiang, It Is Disclosed   LONG NEGOTIATIONS HELD IN CHINA   U..§. Demanding Greater War Effort of China; Ask Home Front Charyrtes

STILWELL’S REMOVAL RESULT OF STRATEGY TYPICALLY ORIENTAL  SOME FACTS CONNECTED WITH MATTER FINALLY RELEASED RY CENSOR

(ZEN. STILWELL— @ Chiang Maneuvered  Recall   A FACE-SAVING GESTURE AFTER VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM DELIVERED BY NELSON AND GEN. HURLEY   America’s Requests.

Chiang Wins in Maneuver to Save Face   Dismissal of Stilwell Unique Combination 0! Strateqy, Diplomacy

UE Or Ousted By Oriental Maneuvers   Chiang Also Told He Has To ‘Play Ball Or U.S. Is Through With Him

Strategy and Diplomacy ir China Shift   Condition Could Only Arise in Orient, AP Writer Says

Chinese Situation _Arose 60 Days Ago   Writer Says Kai-shek Adamant When Led to Believe by Hopkins F. D. R. Would Not Back Envoys Demanding More Co-operation.

Bitter Dissensions Caused Stilwell’s Recall; Chiang’s ‘Lack Of Cooperation Bared.   U. S. Threatened To Withdraw Support; Stilwell-Chennault Feud Is Reviewed

Strange Diplomacy Revealed BehindStilwell’sWithdrawal   Things Started To Happen When Hurley, Nelson Arrived In Bid To Obtain More Chinese Cooperation

General Ousted As Condition of Granting Ameri- . can Requests. 2   H. HOPKINS INVOLVED?

Effort of U.S. to , Bring Unity to " China Revealed   Report Cooperation Forced Under Threat To Withdraw Aid; Outcome Confused

STILWELL CASE CHINESE PUZZLE   Chiang Demanded Ouster After U. S. Ultimatum   (See page 9 for New York Times story on General Stilwell).

Stilwell Removal Said Result U.S. Dictum To China   Nelson-Hurley Visit To China Reported Beginning Of Moves; America Demands Shuffle In Chinese Government, Army, War Effort, Foreign Policy

Diplomacy And Strategy Cause Stilwell Shift   Censorship Ban Lift Lists Facts

Far East Air Force Leader Declares Jap Now Whipped   Lt. Gen. Kenney Says U. 5. Has Already Won Decisive Battle

More Retigiou-Demand  Prisoners Fed When They Offer to Kill Nazi Convicts

Writer Carries Out His Part of Bargain In Move to Appease Convicts in Rebellion

WHEW YORK COETON   EU DRLPANK COTTON   ‘Atlanta Newsman Publishes Complaints In Move To End Revolt Of 25 Federal Convicts

CONVICTS FAIL TO END REVOLT   Paper Prints Grievance: In Effort to Stop Rebellion

Hold Shipyard Worker In Death Of McGrath Girl   Pleads Innocent  When Arraigned

Japs Threaten Indo-Burma  Supply Route   British Defenders Check Invaders In Other Sectors

Manipur Road ls In Danger   Japs Invading India May Cut Central Burma Supply Line

Every Person in Plymouth County Urged to Back WarBond Campaign   Fifth War Loan Bonds Opened For Investment

? Deer Roaming the Wilds of = Toway Earl Buss, who lives 3 miles north of Le Mars, saw a. half-grown deer in a grain   EVERYBODY'S PART FOR BOND DRIVE   Simple Plan Suggested To -- Insure Success and  Make Work Easier

- ‘Deer. toaming ‘the Wilds of = Toway “°. Barl Buss, who lives 3  ‘miles north of Le Mars, saw a. half-grown deer in a grain   EVERYBODY'S PAR SPART ~ FOR BOND DRIVE   Simple Plan Su Suggested To ‘Insure Success and  Make Work Easier

JURY'S VERDICT TRIAL 15 AWAITED   Legislative Graft Case Is Given to Circuit Court ~ Jurors Today.

The Editor Answers  Negro Congressman Who Says He'll Run For Governor Of Mississippi

Deliver Stunning Blow At Largest Military Base Outside Of Japs Hamme Waters

U.5. BOMBERS BLAST ISLANL   Attacks Are Still Con: tinuing, Says Japanese Radio

YANKEES SWEEP 100 MILES FROM CHINA’S COAST   Sink or Damage 35 Nippon Ships; Japanese Fleet Failed to Give Battle; 22 U.S. Planes Lost

Mrs. Estell Swope Died This Morning   Passed Away at Home of Son, Buel Swope, Mechaniesburg, Ill.

Reds Bear Down On Big Black Sea Port of Odessa   Soviets Attacking on Ap. proaches fo lasi in Rumania

Reds Overrun 50 Localities in Aree Near Odessa   Usefulness of Rail Trunk Line as Enemy Outlet Is Destroyed

GERMANS AND RUMANIANS Ii ODESSA TRAP   Bearing Down On Black Sea Port Russians Take 50 Lo ealities, Destroy Useful ness Of Rail Line For Nazi.   Kill 3,080 Nazis

GERMANS ARE PINNED DOWN ON BLACK SEF   SOVIETS CAPTURE TARNOPOL IN OLD POLAND

Russians Beat Down on Escape Route   200,000 Germans Threatened With Entrapment

TARNOPOL ABOUT READY TO FALL INTO RED HANDS   Soviets Within 2 Miles Of Last Rail Escape Line For 200,000 Nazis   5 RUMANIAN TOWNS REPORTED CAPTURED

Remnants of 15 Nazi Di visions Cut tn Odessa Region   FORCES ARE NEAR  RICH OIL FIELDS   No Details Given of Progress of Rumanian Fiahtina

TRAPPED NAZIS NEAR DNIESTER SHOW WEAKNESS   Negotiations Sought By Rumania With Soviet, Unconfirmed Report  From Ankara Says

Russians Bear Down on Escape Route  200,000 Germans  ~ Threatened UR7saL. Petowmmant

200,000 Axis Troops Pinned Near Odessa   Planes Strafe Enemy Columns Retreating Toward Black Sea: Rec Forces Close to lasi

Soviet Planes Strafe Nazis Fleeing West   200.000 Enemy Troopa Now Virtually Pinned Against Black Sea .  rARNOPOL CRITIMPLES

Russ Close In on Foe At Tarnopol   Continue Push On Black Sea Port of Odessa

RUSSIANS WIN MOST OF CITY OF TARNOPOI   Smash to Within Two Miles of Odessa Escape Route

Ohio Political Cauldron Boils As Race Tenses  geen for —_ Big P  a uit Soe ty

Fernandez Asks Federal Grants   Seeks Land for Hospital, Vocational Schools

Canadians Gain In Battle To Clear Port Of Antwerp   Yankees Fight Forward Against Aachen Nazis

‘BATTLE OF BRETON PORTS IS PAPINLY APPROACHING CLIMAX   Germans Say That Americans Have Driven 2) Miles Revond Captured City of Le Mans

Germans Straggle to Escape Ports  Climax Nears for Two Breton Ports

Yanks 82 Miles Of Paris   Garrisons at Brest, Lorient Ready to Give in

Giant Air-Borne Force Stands As Threat To German Rear   Americans Drive  ¢ On Past Le Mans   Unconfirmed Reports Say Advance Columns Only 40 Miles From Paris

HEALTH UNITIS DUE TO REOPEN   Beaumont At Last Accept: State Requirements

Fournier-Pierce Marriage Sat. At Nuptial Mass   Bride Is The Daughter O; Mr. And Mrs. Leon C. Pierce

HOOKS SAVE CREW OF CRASHED BOMBER   Natives Guide Airmen Through Jap Lines in Safety

THREE-FOURTHS OF STATE IS ‘COVERED WITH WHITE MANTLE SNARLING COMMUNICATIONS   Highway Crews Work Throughout the Night and Day to  Open Main Arteries of Traffic; Many Rural Schools Remain Closed   THOUSANDS UNABLE TO REACH WAR INDUSTRIES

Snow Falls Over Most Of State   At Least Five Dead— Transport, Communication Systems Snarled

REDS BiG GUN' WITHIN RANGE OF PSKOV   Four-Pronged Soviet Offensive Overruns Thirty Towns

PSKOV DEFENSES NOW UNDER GUNS F RED ADVANCE   4-Pronged Offensive Takes @ More Than Thirty Villages

SOVIET PUSH NEARS PSKOV   Rail Center Within Artillery Range   Tighten Ring Around Trapped Nazis

Troops Storm Past Verdun, Maginot Line   Canadians, British Close Noose on Dieppe, Arras on Rocket Coast; Second Army Takes Hebuterne in Drive Beyond Captured Amiens

YANKS CAPTURE HISTORIC CITY OF ST. MIHIEL   Army Surges Past Verdun

Absentee Vote Barrier Upheld by  Supreme Court   Constitutional Amendment Needed. Says 3-2 Ruling

CALM RETURNS ~ TOJERSEY TOWN   15,000 Panicked in Accidental Burst of Machine Gun Fire

Axis Warns New War is Inevitable   Soys Nations Must Have Raw Materials

VICTORY IN WAR WITH GERMANY BY OCT. 1, TIP   Postwar Committee Is Told Date Forecast by Army Is ‘Tentative’

OCT. 4 TENTATIVE FOR NAZI DEFEAT      Congressman Says Army Sees Job Nearly — Finished

Woodrum Says Army Tentatively Sets October 1 for End of War in Europe

War on Nazis “Tentative” End Is Oct. 1   NAVY EXPECTS PACIFIC FIGHT TO CONTINUE TO 1945, SAYS IRISH

ARMY LOOKS TO OCT. 1 AS DATE FOR END OF WAR   House Member Offers Forecast But President Has None to Make

Rep. Woodrum Says Army Believes European War Will End in October

—WAR'S END—  OCT. 1 IS SEEN DATE WAR END   Army Tentatively Selects Date, Says Virginia Legislator

Says Oct. 11s Army's Opinion   Woodrum Doesn't Explain Why That Date Chosen as Tentative War-End Time

OCT. 1 DATE SET FOR END OF NAZI WAR   Chariman Woodrum Tell House Committee of War Department’s Guess

Woodrum States That Army Looks For End Of European War Oct. 1 But Gives No Source Of Belief

See erw> OOOO  : Army Looks To Oct, ay War's End With Nazis, Rep. Woodrum Asserts 

October: Set © Fo or ‘War End   “Woodrum Sees: Japs Taking Few Months

Declares. Army Expects. Reich To Fall About Oct. 1.   Admiral Irish. Says Navy Assuming Pacific War Will Last At Least Un“til End: O€ 1945.

Set End of Nazi War October 1   Prediction of Rep. Woodrum; No Amplification

Army ‘Expects’ War With Nazis To End on Oct. 1   But Navy Sees Pacific Fighting ‘Until End of 1945’

HOLD SLIM HOPE FOR 64 TRAPPED MINERS   Rescuers Sink Shaft To See If Men Alive

WORK CAMP TO OPEN JUNE 23 ‘IN CONCORD   Boys and Girls to Assist Local Farmers; Have Recreation Too

TORNADO IN FAST TAKES 123 LIVES   Over Thousand Injured in  Pa. and W. Va.

Hundreds in Hospitals in Pennsylvania and West Virginia Many of Whom Will Die.

TORNADO WREAK DESTRUCTION IK PENN, AND W. VA,   Mere Than 100 Dic and Damage Runs Into Millions

TEARS THROUGH WEST VA. AREA, THOUSANDS HURT   Many Homeless In Pittsburgh Rural Districts

Tornado Leaves Close to 1,000 Persons Injured   Many Homes Demolished by Strong Wind

123 KILLED BY TORNADO IN EAST   Twister Hits Pennsylvania and West Virginia

Tornado Tears Up Pittsburgh Area: 123 Known Dead   Buildings Exploded By Fury Of Twister; 1,000 Injured

INJURED LIST ESTIMATED AT NEARLY 1,000   Western Pennsylvas nia, Northern West Virginia In Storm’s Path.

_ Damage In Millions, With 1,000 Injured; Twister Sweeps Through Sections Of Pennsylvania, West Virginia

Liberated Paris Wears Deceptive Mask of Normality   Underneath: Remains A City Rocked to -Foundation By War

AF FTERMATH OF OCCUPATION: THOUGH FREED, PARIS IS ‘SUFFERING FROM WAB

Paris, Liberated From Germans, Shows Supreme Effort to Appear “Normal”; But War’s Ravages Are Ever-present

DETROIT STRIKE THREATENS HARD BLOW TO NATIONS WAR PRODUCTION   300 Plants May Become Affected

Strike Spreads To 20 Plants   Detroit Armament Firms Production Curtailed

ClO Strike in Detroit Cripples War Production   General Walkout in War Plants Started By Unit of UAW

OPA Asks Nudist Campers Explain Gasoline Rations   Travel Far On Class “A” Cards

U. S.-Finnish Relations Are  At Lowest Ebb   Minister, 3 Aides Put Under Guard; Ordered to Leave Country

Finn Minister To U.S. Under Guard af Home   U. S. Relations Badly Strained With Tiny Nation

FINN DIPLOMATS TOLD 10 LEAVE   MINISTER TO JU. S. HELD TO HOME, GUARDED

Ask Finnish Minister To Leave U.S.A.  Action Against  War Interects

Finnish Envoy Ordered Home   U. S.-Finnish Relations At Lowest Point; Procope Under Guard.

Finnish Minister Asked To Leave   Procope Under Police Guard Because of “Inimical” Activities

U. S.-Finnish Relations At Low Ebb As Procope Is Handed His Passport

Finnish Minister ‘Going Home   Requested By U.S. Gov: ernment; Not Actual Diplomatic Break

Diplomats Of Finland Asked To Leave U.S.   Government Serves Notice on Four Top Diplomats and Families To Leave as Soon as Possible.

FINNISH MINISTER ORDERED TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES   Three Counsellors and  Families Also, Advised They Are No Longer Welcome Here

Finnish Minister Is Invited ToLeave UnitedStates Soon As Facilities Are Available

[Finnish Minister Is [Handed His Papers   Action Puls Relations Between Two Nations At Their Lowest Point

FINN MINISTER GIVEN PASSPORT   HELD UNDER POLICE GUARD WITH ORDERS TO LEAVE COUNTRY

World Air — Conference Opens Today   Economic Control of  Postwar Air Transport Is Chief Issue Facing Conferees at Chicaro

ABANDON FIGHT ON SIX NOMINEES   New Deal Senators Yield to Personal Appeal by Rooseveit

Yanks Put Squeeze on End of New Leyte Trap In Philippines   APPROVES NOMINATION

First Army Corps in Normandy  Gets “Bargain” Prices on Fines  eee 1ITCAUEOS VON A WARP COARPRPERPONDENT’R NOTEROOR )

Await Churchill's Return To Londot  Prime Minister Is Fulh   Recovered

Jap Battleship, Cruiser Blasted By U. 5. Bombs   Tokyo Also Reports Carrier Attack On Manila Sector

Liberators Hit Jap Battleship  Heavy Cruiser Also Is Badly Damaged

‘FORTS’ RENEW AIR ASSAULTS ON BRUNSWICK   Fourth Large Daylight Blow To Plane Plant Center This Month

U. S. Bombers Pound German Plane Center   Brunswick is Hit in -Big Daylight Blow; Lash at French Coast

U. S. Bombers Pound Nazi Engine Works at Brunswick   Stage 19th Operation for February To Set New  USAAF Record

HEAVY BOMBERS OF  UNITED STATES HIT  BRUNSWICK TARGETS NINETEENTH OPERATION  FOR MONTH BY FLYINC RORTRESSES

YANK BOMBERS BLAST TARGETS AT BRUNSWICK   British Turn From Power Raids To New Twin-Attack Tactics

BRUNSWICK WAS  ATTACKED BY U.S. . HEAVY BAMBERG   It Was the Nineteenth Operation for February, London Reported.   FORTRESSES PROTECTED   ! ‘ .  (Brunswick One of Germany’s  Major Manufacturers of  ' . ° Aireraft.

BRUNSWICK AGAIN UNDER BIG ATTACK   U.S. Heavy Bombers Attack Aircraft Targets in  Great Manufacturing ‘City

YANKEE BOMBERS BLAST BRUNSWISK   U. S. Airmen Carry Out  19th Operation In February

Yank Bombers Attack Targets  At Brunswick   American Airmen Stage 19th Assault In Month; _ RAF Takes Part In Raid

FORTRESSES HIT NINETEENTH RAIL OF FEBRUARY   Allies Follow Up On Strikes At Coast Of France

American Fliers Smash Brunswick  Nineteenth Raid of Month Carried Gut

19th Attack For February By Air Force   U. S., British Fighters Protect Forts; French “Rocket” Coast Blasted

. &. HEAVIES RAID GERMAN CITY OF BRUNSWICK TODAY   Eombers Lash at Nazi Air-! craft Manufacturing Centey  In 19th Operation During, February -— Frencl} Coast  Pounded 

Forts Spread Blockbusters on Brunswick   u. S$. Operations in ‘February 7 Ahead of Any Previous Month

Blast Plane Plants Thru Heavy Clouds   Fourth Heavy February Blow At Target; ‘Rocket Craecet’? Mammered.

Aircraft Center Sirafed Through. Heavy Clouds Against Light, German Fighter Opposifion      RAID CALAIS AREA   ‘Rockei Gun’ Coasi Almost Daily Target—19 Operations Set New Record in February

Brunswick s Target in Daytime Raid   Other U. S. Bombers Hit Coast of France Steadily

RAID COMES ON HEELS OF COAST BLOW   Fighters Protect Bombers In New Daylight Attack

U. S. Bombers Hit Brunswick  Attack Nazi War  _ Center, Escorted B.,. Atlt.d CYebsaaue

Brunswick Hit By Fortresses   19th Operation For Februaryv: Fourth Daylight Raid Against City.

New Blow Struck At  Brunswick   Only Light Opposition I. Encountered By U. 5 Heavy Bombers hh Raid Over Germany

Dewey Enters Wyoming; Talks With Ranchers Regarding Cattle Surplus

DEWEY CONFERS IN DES MOINES   lowa Is First State in 6700-Mile Tour

IOWA DEWEY’S NEXT STOP ON CAMPAIGN TRIF   " Passes Quiet Weekend ‘Visiting Mother At Home Town

Dewey Talks With lowa Republicans   Spends Week-end at Michigan Birthplace

ltalian Parties Seek Agreement   Socialists Want Supplies from U. S.

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SAYS HITLER WiLL HIT EASTWARD   Throwing All Reserves into Gigantic Struggle, Despite Overwhelming Advances of Russians.   Near Latvia

Russians Take Two Important Rail Junctions   Red Troops Smash Closer to Wilno in Prewar Poland, Moscow Says

Reds Capture Strategic Rail Junction   Drive to Within 45 Miles of Nazi Base at Wilno

RED SOLDIERS ENTER LATVIA AND LITHUANIE   RAILWAY JUNCTION IN OLD POLAND CAPTURED

‘Hitler Moves To Halt Reds   Reports Say All Reserves To Be Sent To That Front

Decision Results From Russian Ability to Lunge Forward Almost at Will, Soviets Assert

Reds Smash Closer to Baltic States   Nazis Fail To Check Incredible Speed Of Soviet Advance  KOWEL EVACUATED

HEAVY ATTACK ON DAVAO AND AIRPORTS   Philippine Port City Target for U. S. Planes; Only Three Jap Planes Intercept.   Sink Freighters

FRENCH LAND TROOPS ON FLBA ISLAND   Isle Is Situated Between Italy And Corsica

French Troops  Take Isle of Elba  Napoleon’s Place of Exile Secured   Napoleon’s Place of Exile Secured For Allies in Surprise Landing

Historic Isle Vital Troop Springboard   Allies Assured Base Off Corsica And Italy Beaches

CAPTURE IT IN NAME OF THE ALLIES   Place Where Napoleon  Spent His Exile, Near  Corsica, Off Italy, Falls To French

It Is Not Believed Likely, However, That Germans, Will Be Able to Put Up a Pro. longed Fight Against Invaders.

Historic Spot Occupied to Guard Corsica; Allied Armies Keep Up Rapid Pace in Italy

Island of Elba Secured by French   Allies Continue Sweep in Italy

‘SUCCESS’ REPORTED BY ALLIES   5th And 8th Armies In Italy Continue To Drive Northward

French Troops Take Elba off Italy’s Coast   Flight of German? Up the Boot Ys Hurried

French Invasion Troops Take Over Island of Elba   Napoleon’s Place of Exile Is Secured For Allies; Sweep Northward in Haly

French Land on Elba island; Secure It for Allies, Report Says.   ‘CONSIDERED VALUABLE

French Land on  Island of Elba   Island Is Valuable To Allies Continuing Rapid Gains in Ttaly

YANKS DRIVE ON IN ITALY WHILE ELBA IS SEIZED   French Forces Move Into Strategic Island Not Far from Corsica

Allies Hold Base light: No Details Are Given   Strategic Island Is Taken To Camp  For Future

French Land On Elba   Secured For Allies, Says Headquarters; 5th and 8th Armies Sweep North in Italy

French Secure Island of Elba As Allied Base   Detachment of French Land on Barren Rocky Island, Exile of Napoleon.   Allies in Italy Push North Against Nazis

SPRINGBOARD BASE GAINED FOR ALLIES   Momentum of Advance Above Rome Is Being Maintained, Says Report.

French Forces Land on. Island of Elba as 5th Army Advances in: Italy

French Troops Land on Elba   No Details Given of Move; Germans Making No Stand In Italy

FRENCH LAND ON ELBA ISLAND      Invade Isle Near Corsica: Advance in Italy

Landings on Isle Near Italy Held Success   Rome Reperts Enemy Resistance to De Tassigny Strong in Parts

Hat ALI  LAND OF ELBA TAKEN BY FRENCH   Piace Where Napoleon Was Exiled Now Under Allied Control   NEAR CORSICA    Germans Show No Sign  Of .Making Immediate  ‘Stand In Italy

Island Of Elba Is Invaded By French Troops   Allies Sweep North In Italy With Enemy Making No Sign Of A Stand Below Florence

FRENCH LAND ON ELBA ISLE   Secure Strategic Island Near Corsica For Allied Command

French Forces Capture Island of Elba After Aerial Pounding   Strategically Valuable Isle, Once Exile For Napoleon, Falls Easily to Alltied Forces; ltalian Retreat Continues

Allied Armies in Italy Continue in Pursuit of Germans   French Forces Land on Island of Elba Close to Occupied Corsica

FRENCH LAND ON ISLAND OF ELBA; CLARK DRIVES ON   Momentum of Offensives By 5th and 8th Armies’ Con tinge IIndiminiehed.

French Troops Landed on Elba   Mediterranean Island, Made Famous by Napoleon’s First Exile, Invaded as Allied Forces Reach Foligno in   Jtalian Advance.   “GROSSETTO ALSO FALLS

Famed Island Near Italian Coast Taken   Allies Driving North in Italy; Opposition Light

French Take Elba Island For Allies   American and British Troops Continue Rapid Advance in Haly, Capture Towns

FRENCH SEIZE ISLE OF ELBA   Napoleon's Home In Exile Is Valuable To Allies

French Units Lanc on Island of Elba  In Meantime Allies Move Up in Italy

French Landing On Elba Reported  As Successful   Win Springboard Fo. Allied Coastal Flank Moving On Florence.

FRENCH LAND ON ISLAND OF ELBE   Allies Continue Advance Up Italian Peninsula

‘60 BARGE LOADS OF TROOPS ENTER FROM SOUTH END   Wins Springboard To Aid Italy Armies; Fifth Passes On

FRENCH TROOPS LAND CN ISLE OF ELBA TODAY   Allied Armies Advancing In Foligno Area

French Make Landing On  Elba In North And InSouth   Allied Armies In Italy Continue To Make Rapid Gains: More Towns Taken

FRENCH TROOPS HAVE LANDED ON ISLAND OF ELBE   Win Springboard To Support Coastal Flank Of Allied Armies In Italy

French Forces Seize Historic  Island Of Elba   Allied Armies In _ Italy Continue Rapid Northward Advance.

AIR ATTACK ON COLOGNE CONTINUES   Most-Bombed City Hit By 4,480 Tons Last Night

1000 PLANES IN ATTACK ON COLOGNE   Allies Trying. To Obliterate Rhineland City

RAF BOMBERS BLAST COLOGNE   Reich’s Fourth Largest City Faces Obliteration

4,480 Tons of 2 Bombs Fall (..-. Burning Cologne   Big RAF Raiders Attempt To Obliterate Germany's Fourth City

British Attem pt To Erase Cologne   Raiders Drop 100 Tons Of Bombs a Minute on City

COLOGNE NOW MOST-BOMBED CITY OF REICH   Anucher 4,400-Ton Raid Rocks Rhineland Factory Center

Cologne Is Target Of New Raid   Armada Of Over 1,000 Planes Unload Another 4,480 Tons Of Bombs On Burning City

Japanese Palau  Attacked by Navy   American Warships Open Assault  On Isles 600 Miles from Philippines

Navy Roars Defiance in First Attack   Enemy Deserts Harbor 600 Miles From Philippine Islands

Jap Warships, Warned by Planes, Flee © : Before U. S. Ships Can Reach Attack Positions, Indicating Size of U. S. Force

American Naval Force Opens Big Attack on Palau   Powerful Base Is Less Than 600 Miles From Philippines; Jan Fleet in Flight

Nippon Feet Flees Before Yankee Ships  Heavy Task Ferce   Heavy Task Force Assails Japanese Base at Palau

Yank Attacks Are Continuing   Powerful U. 8. Naval Force Strikes Within 600 Miles Of Philippine Isles

Japanese Warships Flee As Planes Approach Base On Route To Philippines

Deepest Penetration Toward Philippines; Japs Run   Warplanes Attack Palau 600 Miles From Bataan

NAVAL FORCES STRIKE CLOSE TO PHILIPPINES   Enemy Fleet Deserts Area As Planes Approach; Attacks Continue

JAP BOATS SEE U.S. SHIPS AND MAKE RETREAT   American Sea Assault Continuing Only 600 Miles From Philippines

American Ships Strike 600 Miles From Philinnines   Nip Veasels Pull Out When Warned Of Fleet's Approach:

U.S. Task Force Strikes at Palau, Big Enemy Stronghold, In Sustained Naval Smash

Jap Navy in Swift Flight   Attacks Continue in Daring Naval Island Penetration

NIPPONESE NAVAL ~UNTS IN FLIGHT   Scene Of Yankee Action Is Only 600 Miles From Philippines   TRUK IS RAIDED   Planes From General MacArthur’s Command Attack Stronghold .

SIX RUNDRED MILES FROM PHILIPPINES   Overshadows All Other Pacific Raids To Date

Strong Naval Units Strike Far Into Jap-Held Waters To Batter Island of Palau   Enemy Detects Approaching Force And Withdraws But Base 600 Miles Erom Philippines Still Under Attack

BELIEVE BiG NAVAL FORCE STRUCKPALAU   One Reason Is That Jap  Warships Fled Tokyo’s _ “Singapore” When U. S. “Opened Attack, Which - Je Continuine.

American Warships Roar Defiance of Enemy Within 600 Statute Miles Of Philippines   Nip Naval Units  Flee From Scene   Refuse to Stand Ground When Forewarned Of   Approach OFU. 8.5   Assault Continuing

ATTACK NAVAL BASE OF PALAU   American Warships Open First Assault on Jap’s. Important Base.   RAIDS ARE CONTINUING

Warships Open Fire on Jap Naval Base   Strike at Palau. 600 Miles From Philippines, in Big Naval Attack

Carrier Forces Smash At Jap» Base Along The Road To Philippines.

JAP SHIPS FLEE YANK'S DEEPES} PENETRATION   Base Attacked Is 4,595 Miles Southwest Of Pearl Harbor

JAP WARSHIPS DESERT AREA IN FLIGHT   “Attacks Continue,” Nimitz Announces   Deepest Made By American Ships In Jap Waters; Results Not Given

TRUK AND PALAU HIT AS YANKS PUSH ON-WEST   Allies Suffer Setback ir Burma But Register Successes Elsewhere

U. 5. CARRIERS HURL ARAB AT HUGE BASt   Navy Defies Nips 600 Miles “ From Philippines in Savage Assault.

J.S. Task Forces Strike At Powerful Japanese Naval Base Palau; 600 Miles From Philippines

U.S, Naval Force Hits Past Truk   Taunts Jap Fleet Within 600 Statute Miles a Philippines

Nip Navy Flees Palau   Escapes Blow By U. S. Naval Task Force On Jap Island Base 600 Miles from Philippines

Japs Palau Base Shelled   Powerful American War Fleet Hammers Islands 600 Miles From Philippines   JAP SHIPS HAD FLED   U.S. Navy Goes Deeper Into Enemy Waters, Seeking Fight With Jap Fleet

Russia's Demands On Finns Stated   Terms Revealed For First Time

‘Speedy Ratification of Proposed ) International Food Setup Sought

Allied Generals’ Elastic Strategy Proving Nemesis to Nazi Warlords

The War Today   Best Military Brains of Enemy Outsmarted bry Allied Generals

Yanks Ine” ¢ ‘Marsha’ ands ‘Bomb Intensity   Believe Campaign Under Way To Clear Out Remaining Japs

DEMOCRATIC LEADERS MEETING: TO ARRANGE ‘DRAFT ROOSEVELT’   COMMITTEEMEN MEETING IN WASHINGTON APPARENTLY HAVE ELIMINATED POSSIBILITY OF “REVOLT"

Texas Contest Goes Before Sub-Committee   One Delegation is Uninstructed, the Other Pro-Roosevelt

HUGE BOMBING BOOST IS CITEL   472,054 Tons Dropped Or Foes Since Jan. 1

United States Army Bombers Will Neec More Than 700,000 Tons of ‘High Explosives Before End of Year

Truscott Named Commander Of US Fifth Army  Succeeds Clark On Italian Front

Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. Native Texan, Succeeds Clark As Commander of Fifth Army

Truscott New sth Army Chief   Texan Succeeds Gen. Mark Clark, Now Group Commander

TRUSCOTT WILL LEAD 5TH ARMY   Former Oklahoma School Teacher Elevated to Post Clark Has Served

GENERAL TRUSCOTT NAMED COMMANDER U.S. FIFTH ARMY   VETERAN ANZIO BEACHHEAD, INVASION FRANCE, CHATFIELD NATIVE

Gen. Truscott Named Leader - Of Fifth Army   Succeeds General Clark Promoted to Consmand All Grounds Forces In Mediterranean

Fifth Army — Head Named      Truscott ‘Appointed® 1G Group's Commander

infantry The Army and Rest Just. There For The Ride    HUBBY SERVING IN USELESS BRANCH

London Sees Indications  Of Smashup   Hitler’s Axis Disintegrating, Is View Taken

NAZIS IN ITALY RESIST SAVAGELY   ENEMY ESTABLISHES NEW POSITIONS ALONG RIVER IN FAENZA AREA,

RAINS AID NAZI STAND IN ITALY   Allied Troops Supplied By Boats As Streams Overrun Banks

Tokio More Concerned In Ceylon Activities   Main Allied Attack On Dutch Indies And Malay Peninsula To The Bay Of Bengal

Kirke L. Simpson Says: American Air Raid on Andaman Islands Gives Japs New Problem

U. S. Bombers Hit Mille Again   Down Two Bombers In Sweep Over Marshalls

WAR IN CHINA WORRIES FDR   Says Conflict Going Toa Well for Enemy

War in China Not Going Well   President Roosevelt Soys We Are Concerned Over Outlook

War Is Not Going Well For Chinese   But Writer Says They Make a Comeback in Hunang Province.

President Says War In China Not Going Well   United States Shows Concern

War in China Outlook Bad -Roosevelt   Japs’ Long Supply Lines in Allies’ Favor, He Tells Newsmen

Britain Seeks 5 to 6 Billions In Lend-Lease   Asks That Amount in 194; For Civilian and Mili tary Supplies

Britain Seeks Huge Supplies   Six Billions Under Lend Lease Asked By Churchill in 1945

Brifain Said Asking 5 to 6 Billion   Lease-Lend Will Be in ‘Second Phase’

FOR PARRIES ON. ATH TERM QUER   ' Vice - presidential Candidate is Topic of Special Interest in Political Circles as National Demo Meet Nears

RUNNING MATE QUERY IRKS FOR   Dewey Gives Neighbors at Pawling Folksy — Ad drace

FOR TAUGHS: OFF ATH TERM QUERIES   President Refuses to Dis. cuss: Political: Sit- ° Rabon 

FDR TAUGHS: OFF ATH TERM QUERIES   President Refuses. to Dis- éuss. Political: Sit- “~ “uation ‘

FDR Turns Aside Questioners on Vice Presidency   Refuses To Discuss Wallace Candidacy

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VIOLENT FIGHTS RAGING IN SKIES ABOVE GERMANY   West Central and Southerr Reich Hit by Yankee Bombers

OPA to Clamp Down On Illegal Gas Sales   To Check Acceptance of Illegal Coupons by Dealers

 Dreary Yule For Mailmen  Senate Fails To Vote Postoffice Wage Raise

WILLKIE DRAFT FOR PLATFORM IGNORED BY GOP   Former Nominee Differs On foreign Policy, State’s Rights, Labor

CHINESE OPEN POWERFUL DRIVE   - Cross Salween in Push  to Break Jap Blockade

Big Drive  Is Opened ~ hy Chinese   ‘American-Made-. Pneumatic “Rafts: Used to-. Cross "the Salween.. <   IMMENSE MOVE: ~ WADE IN- DARK   American - “Trained. Troops “Seek to Effect. Junction ~ 2 With Stilwell’s “Force -..

Chinese Open New Offensive on a 130-Mile Front   Cross Salween River In a Drive Aimed at Joining Forces with Stilwell in Burma

390 WPB Bans To Be Revoked On Victory Day   Only Controls Necessary To Defeat Japanese Will Re Rateineg]

WPB 10 RELAX. CONTROLS V-E DAY   BOARD TO DROP 70 PER CENT OF RESTRICTIONS ON NATION’S INDUSTRY.

Y-E Day To Be Signal for Big Changes   Many Present Rules to End; Priority System to Differ

NEW WPB CHIEF JO GUT ORDERS   Plans To Rid industry Of 359 When War With Germany Ends

WPB Plans End Of 350 Rulings   Action Scheduled For ‘V-E Day’ Outlined By Krug; AAA Priority Will Remain

Nazi Defeat’ ToEnd Many WPB Rules.   Krug. Reveals Plan to. Promote _ Private Enterprise

RECONVERSION PLAN IS AIRED   New WLB Chief Says There'll Be No ‘Spoon Feeding Of Economy’

War Production Reconversion  Plan Announced  War Controls to Be Relaxed When Germany Defeated

WPB Will Junk 300 of Its Orders When Nazis Fall   Krug Announces U. S. Won’t ‘Spoon Feed’ Nation’s Industry

Krug to Drop 350 Existing WPB Orders   Chief Announces Plar For Reconversion  Of Industries

Plan Revealed To Speed —  Reconversion   Blueprint Would Rid Industry of 350 Of Existing 500 Board Orders Without “Spoon Feeding Economy”

RECONVEROION PLAN ANNOUNCED   WPB Chairman Krug Patterns V-E Day Project te Rid Industry of 350 of Existing 500 WPB Order:

hae is  SOVIET ARMIES ARK CLOSING IN ON LARGE NUMBER AXIS ‘TROOPS a ons

Alied Forces Push Forward Into Gothic Line; Battle At Rimini Continues

Allies Near Two Gothic Passes   Battle for Rimini In Italy Continues

Allied Forces Reach Strategic Apennine Passes  Push -te - Thresholds -- of   Push -to - Thresholds -- of Important Gateways To Po Valley

RICH PO RIVER AREA MENACEL   Allies Reach Two Main Passes In Apennine Mountain Barrier

Violent Battle For Guam Said Raging   Axis Reports Not Confirmed By Allies; Japs Believed Ouittina' Rohan! Mr uionk

Battle Still Is Raging, Is Tokyo Report Saturday   yKavieng Blasted Thirc  > Time By Warships Heart Of Rabaul I: Attacked

New York Robot Attack Planned   Diplomat Reveals Hitler's Project

Sarrounded Troops at Bastogne, Supplied by Air, Maintain Defense

Warsaw Battle Now Rages In  City’s Suburbs   Berlin Reports Soviets Have Stormed Over Vistula River   TIGHTENING ARC   Transocean Says Reds Hold Bridgehead °* On West Bank

Set Afire by Germans as Reds Near   ee rough Siburbs—Battl Nears * diimax Today

Nazis Put Torch To Warsaw; Reds Fight In Suburbs   Poles Join Russians In  Battle To Liberate Martyred City

Russians Storm  Across Vistula   Polish Troops Join Stalin’s Men As Battle for Capital Nears Climax

Warsaw Burns From Fires Sef by Nazis   Soviet Paper Says Germans Fire City Before Abandonment

BESIEGED NAZIS UT TORCH TO OLISH CAPITAL   Soviets Storm Across Vistula

Vistula Is Crossed By  Russians   Nazis Believed To Have Put Torch To City Of Warsaw As Russians ‘Attack Suburbs

NAZIS BELIEVED SETTING FIRE TO POLISH CAPITAL, PREPARING TO RETREAT

Russian Army Storm: Across Vistula River 55 Miles To S.E.  HITLER GIVES UP HOPE OF HOLDING  Evacuate Civilians, Leaving Only Troops And Gestapo Agents

Towering Smoke Pall [Envelops Sieged City   Russians Hurl Massive Forces Against Capital, Enter Suburbs

City Enveloped In Great Pall of Smoke   Enemy Apparently Getting Ready to Abandon Pole Capital

BATTLE NEARS CLIMAX FOR POLISH CAPITAL   Germans Apply Torch Preparatory To © Abandoning City

Red Troops Push Battle Into Suburbs   Other Soviet Forces Cross Vistula River To The Southeast.

Red Fc orces. es Storming Across Vistula River:   Last. Big: Water Barrier: East * OF Silesia. Forded: ais “Germans Move To Ouit Polish Capital

SOVIET TROOPS ~ BATTLING NEAR - EAST SUBURBS   Berlin Says Russians. Have Crossed Vistula River 55  Miles Southeast of Capital City   WARSAW BURNED IN ’39 DURING NAZI CONQUEST   Berlin News Agency, D. N. B., Announces Axis Forces Give Up Pisa—New Phil. ippine Drive.

Nazis Burn Warsaw as ‘Re ads Close in on City “Th Bh roe-Wav Assaults

Germans Admit Preparations To  Abandon City   Officials, Civilians Said Evacuating Polish Stronghold

SMOKE COVERS. TOWN AS RUSS, SMASH GATES   ‘Germans Apparently Intend to Abandon Poland’s Capital to Reds. 

Nazi Officials and German Civilians Said To Be Fleeing From Warsaw.

Nazis Set Fires in Warsaw   Armies Grind Out Gains on Approaches to Polish Capital

Fifth Army Makes Gains   Seize Monte Catino And Ponte Di Morian In Gothic Line Smash

Clark's Army Gains Ground  .Two Points In Main Gothic Line Taken

Allies Battering Nazi Gothic Line Capture Two Cities Monte Catino and — Ponte Di Moriano.

2 Towns Fall To 5th Army   Gen. Clark's Army 16 Miles Across Arno In New Penetration

FIFTH ARMY TROOPS  BATTERING AGAINST  MAIN GOTHIC LINE TWO IMPORTANT POINTS SEIZED IN SLOW AD WANCE IN ITAIYV

Two Italian. : Towns Taken   Main Gothic Line. Defenses. Battered :

sth Army Takes" ? ? Towns Against  Nazi Gothic Line   “anadians Cross Marano River In Adriatic; Hard Fighting In Both Sectors.

CLARK'S MEN OCCUPY TWO POINTS IN ITALY   Deepest Northward Thrust Made Along West Coast

MONTE CATINO SEIZED TODAY BY AMERICANS   Clarks Troops Now Beyond Arno River

Dies Threatens to Seek House  Action Unless Justice  Department Acts Acainst (.1.0.

Dies Demands Immediate Actior In PAC Activity   Threatens House Action Unless Charges Filed Against CIO Committee.

JAPS MASSING NEAR IMPHAL   Foe Believed to Be Preparing for All-Out Attack On Allied Position

Now Thrust By-Passes Bastogne ‘And Carries German Spearhead te Within 29 Miles of Sedan; Allied Air Force Is Re-entering Battle

Strone Central Wedge o Nazi Counteroffensive Takes Them 29 Miles  Northeast of Sedan.   BULLETIN INTIMATES ALLIES START DRIVE

TEMPERATURES:   undreds Of Planes Support Doughboys In Great Attack

Rough-Riding Tanks Meet Attack Head-on   Nazi Panzers 20 Miles From France; Acsanlt Mav Be on Verve of Failure

HUNDREDS OF HEAVY BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS HURLED AGAINST GERMANS AS WEATHER IMPROVES

GERMANS PULL — OUT OF FLORENCE   NEITHER ARMY SHELLED CITY AND ART TREASURES ARE BELIEVED INTACT.

NAZI FORCES SNEAKED OUT OF FLORENCE   ALLIES RUSH HELP TO STRICKEN POPULATION

Allies. Move  Tn Florence   Nazis Give Ground After Hard Battle.

Kighth Army Forees Take Over Florence   Germans Pull Out At Night, Freeing Ltaly’s Beautiful City

Germans Out  Of Florence   City Of Beauty In Italy Spared Of Being Shelled

Nazis Leave Florence  As Yanks Advance   Yank “Lost Battalion” In Harrowing Experience

Citizens of Florence Lack — Food, Water as Nazis Leave   Art Treasures Virtually Intact, First Reports indicate; Snipers Still Active

Germans Pull Out Of Italian City   Neither Side Sheiled Florence During Battle

Nazis Give Up Florence to Eighth Army   Leave Snipers Behind as  They Withdraw North  of Mugnone Canal

Germans Evacuate Florence   AMG Officers Enter Culttire Center To Assist Populace

Chinese Drive Japanese From Area In Burma   Inflict Heavy Losses On Foe

RESIDENTS OF ILUWOUS WARNED TA EVARIIATE   . Mississippi, Missouri Rivers Driving People Out of Their Homes

EOIBENTS Ut LUNGIS WARNED 12 EVAGHATE   Mississippi, M-ssouri Rivers Driving People Out of Their Homes

Imperial Jap Fleet Badly Crippled By Battle   U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADOUARTERS. Pearl

Fleet Remnants In Wild Flight; Attack Still On   Full Story Of Serious Crippling Of Imperial Nav; Still To Come As Planes Chase Enemy ;  American Losses Are Amazingly Low.

10 Battleships, Perhaps 21 Cruisers Or Destroyers, 3 Carriers Hit; U. S. Batters Fleeing Units of Fleet

Four Rabaul Airfields Put Out Of Use   Few Jap Fighter Planes Appear To Intercept Latest Allied Attack On Important Base

AIRFIELDS AT RABAUL ARE NEUTRALIZED   134 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped On Three Airdromes

ALL 4 RABAUL AIRFIELDS ARE LOST TO JAPS   Knocked Out Temporarily By Constant Air Blows, Said

‘Bag Eight Planes In Mass Attacks On Rabaul Sector   Plaster New Britain, Sink Six Barges In Heavy Air Assaults

RUIN AIRFIELDS OUTSIDE RABAUL   Allies Dump 124 Tons of Bombs in New Raids

4 AIRFIELDS — NEAR RABAUL NEUTRALIZE   134 Tons of Bombs Dropped in New Attack on Base

Four Airfields Guarding Rabau Are Neutralized   134 Tons of Bombs Dropped In New Attack

AIRFIELDS AT RABAUL ARE RUINED      New Allied Air Attacks Put Them  Out of Commission

JAP AIRFIELDS AT RABAUL USELESS AFTER BOMBINGS   *Dromes Protecting Base Virtually Neutralized By Rain at Exnlnacivec.

DROP MANY TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON RABAUL BASE   Four Airfields Are Virtually Neutralized — Damage Is Heavy

AMERICANS CLOSE IN ON NAZI SOM   Enemy’s Defenses. Before ‘Reich Border Are ’ Breached

AMERICANS CLOSE ~—IN-ON NAZI SOIL   Enemy's Defenses Before ‘Reich Border Are Breached

ENEMY TROOPS ‘APPARENTLY “PREPARING FOR ANOTHER — */ ) ATTEMPT TO-HALT :  “ADVANGE >

FETA (3 WITHIN 7 MILtS GF GT OF FOLLONIA   Advances in the Face of Stiffening Nazi Resistance

F.FTH 1S WITHIN 7 MILES OF CITY OF FOLLONIA   Advances ‘in the Face of Stiffening WNu2zi Resistance

Set Up New Crop Insurance Plan  Weuld Make Farming More Sound, Profitable

CROP INSURANCE PLAN PROPOSED   Vast New Program Urged By House Committee

Insurance Of Crops Asked   House Committee Urges New Program For Per: manent System.

Vast New Crop Insurance Plan Offered   System Would Mak Farming More  Profitable Career

Ist Army Clamps Death Grin On Besieged Aacher  7th Moves Within 3 Miles Of Belfort

Canadians Land on Schelde Bank   Allies Make Amphibious Landing West of Antwerp; Seventh Army Drives to 8 Miles From Belfort; Nazi Escape Gap Narrowed

Twin Drive by U. S. First Army Cuts Off Ancient  eutonic City      /W THIN ESCAPE ROUTE   Despite Three Heavy Nazi Counter Attacks, Last Major Road Is Cut

Yank. Doughboys .Cut Escapt Corridor To Only Mile And A Half Todav.:

YANKEES MOVE INTO EDGE OF FORTRESS CITY   Blows Threaten to Provide Breakthrough 20 Miles Wide in Line

Trim Aachen Escape Route   Fighting in City Itself; Canadians in Amphibious Stroke to Rescue Bridgehead

Germans Have Only Mile and Half Gap Left in Which To Make Escape from Capture.   GAINS ARE REPORTED ON SOUTHERN FRONT

OOPSIN TWIN DRIVE ON CITY   Hodges Men Cut Last Major Road and Most Secon- — dary Roads. ~ i   NARROW ESCAPE ROUTE

Seventh Army Eight Miles From Belfort   ... Canadians Make Bold Landing South of Schelde   Backs To Schelde.

Main Nazi Escape Road To Cologne Is Cut; Schelde Landina Perils 5.000

Left an Eseape Corridor. Only a Mile and. a Half. Wide Northeast of Fown..   IT WAS A TWIN DRIVE   Lt. Gen. Hoges’ Warriors: Cus Last Major. Road. Gat of . Aachen. .

Fight Rages In City’s Outskirts   Clean Out Germans In House-to-House Battle; Dig Out Nazis From Driant Tunnels

Twin Drive by U. S. First Army Cuts Off Ancient _  eutonic City Jy THIN ESCAPE ROUTE Despite Three Heavy Nazi  Counter Attacks, Last RA..2 .. Rw] Te Soot

Death Grip Clamped On Aachen   General Hodges’ Men Turn Back Three Enemy Counterattacks on Crucifix Hill; Seventh Army Is Eight Miles From Belfort

General Hodges’ Troops Cut Last Major Road Out Of Aachen, Check Nazi Counterattacks

U.S. FIRST ARMY CLAMPS DEATH GRIP ‘ON IMPORTANT POINT  AMERICAN CLEANUP SQUADS ALREADY OPER.  ATING AACHEN OUTSKIRTS

LONDON PRESS CLAIMS YANKS INSIDE AACHE   Canadians Stage Bold Amphibious Stroke At Nazi Garrison

FLOODS PREDICTED   Missouri's Crest North of Kansas City Is Higher Than in April.

High Flood Crest Feared at Rulo   Serious Situation Expected at St. Joseph From Missour: Overflow.

Compromise in Hawaii Dispute _ May Be Reached   Solution to Martia! . haw Controversy Being Sought

Blaze Traps 40 to 75 Men In Ohio Mine   Officials Not Sure As to Exact Number  . In Bellatre Workings   LITTLE HOPE HELD ANY: WILL SURVIVE.

FIRE TRAPS 79 IN MINE SHAFT   Entrances Are Cut Off; 100 Men Fight Flames At Ohio Colliery

Union Official Doubts Rescue  (Can Be Effected   100 Battle Flames In Ohio Coal Mine;  Versions Conflict

MINERS, TRAPPED BY FIRE, FEARED DEAD   Officials Express Doubt 75 Miners Would be Found Alive

Fear All Lost In Mine Fire   Between 40 & 75 Trapped In Coal Mine Fite; Fire Spreading.

Miners Facing Death in Pit Swept by Fire   Rescuers Working Hard, But Hopes Dim for 40-75 Men

Number of Coal Miners Trapped  By Fire in Pit   UMW Official Doubts If Any Can Be Rescued Alive from Ohio Mine

NEW MANPOWER CONTROLS MAY BE EXPECTED   Commission Plans New Employment Classification

MAPPING STERN WORK CONTROLS   “WMC EXPECTED 10 » CLAMP DOWN ON LUXURY EMPLOYES

PLAN 10 TIGHTEN MANPOWER AULES   To Lead Workers Back to War Plants if They Get Non-Essential Johs

Firm Controls  On Manpower  Are Ordered ‘Lurury’ Work  To Be Hardest ‘Hit by WMC

SEVEN PERSONS ARE DEAD FROM BUTANE GAS TANK BLAST  v NINE MORE IN HOSPITAL: AS RESULT TRUCK AND CAR COLLISION

Seven Killed in. Explosion, Fire In Denison Tuesday   Butane Gas Tank Truck Collides: With Auto: 27 Are Injured

27 OTHERS ARE HURT IN BLAST   Butane Gas Truck And Car Collide; Fire Damage Is Great

Soviets Break Through Nazis Flank On Left   Capture 350 Settlements in Drive Toward German Soil From Sector Northeast of Warsaw      Cross Last Major  Barriers In March   Swarms of Infantry, Supported From Air, Pour Through Big Opening Toward Frontier

Red Forces Score a Big Breakthrough  Cross Bug And Biebrza Rivers

JAP FIGHT FOR KWEILIN RAGING   Enemy Troops Gain 6 Miles in Advance on Chinese Kwangsi

Status of China At Peace Talks  Puzzles Capper   Senator Agrees With Demands to Relax Conference Secrecy

War’s Largest Convoy, Reaches Britain With American Troops, :   BAD WEATHER ON ITALIAN FRONT   Nazis Still Trying to Cut in Allied Lines With No Success.

SHOWDOWN ON ~ STRIKE LOOMS   CHRYSLER PLANT. EMPLOYES STAY ON STRIKE DESPITE  ORDERS OF UNION AND WLB..

Eisenhower, Quesada Lead Plane Flight Over Normandy Batile Area July Fourth

EISENHOWER 15 OW BRIGEHEAD 5 DAY?   Makes Observation Flight Over Normandy Battle Area Yesterday.

Eisenhower On Normandy Trip   Celebrates Fourth Of July By Flying Over French Battle Areas. 

GEN. EISENHOWER INSPECTS BATTLE LINES IN FRANCE  CELEBRATES FOURTH  IN FIGHTER PLANE OVER BATTLE AREAS

Disposal Of ‘Stored Butter Is Considered   Release Of Carryover T: Civilians Is  Opposec  ~ By Industry — Cthe Plans Suggested

Young Soldier Takes A Bride  ' Sgt. Anderson and Louise Tuttle Marriec

SUPER-FORTS ~ HIT MUKDEN PLANE WORK‘   33 Jap Fighter Planes Blasted During Air Combat

Superforts Down 33 Jap Fighters   B-29s Continue Sweep Against Japan, Asia

War Loan Drive Gets Under Way In Good Style   Five National Heroes And-Movie. Stars Help; Officials: Optimistic

Americans Are Within Two Miles Of Roer River Stronghold Of Duren   THREAT TO THAT  INDUSTRIAL CITY MOUNTS RAPIDLY   Seventh Army Captures Haguenau In The Eastern Tip Of France

BOND CAMPAIGN GAINING SPEED   Encouraging Reports Come From -Rural Area:

Soviets . Continue West: __ ward. Sweep Along Wide Front  MANY VILLAGES ARE , TAKEN IN A IN ADVANCE  2 Liquidation. sn. of. Encircled Enemy  Pockets Con' tinues

Russians Advance On Central Front   Rapidly Approach Gateway to Baltics

RUSSIAN RING AROUND WILHO IS TIGHTENED   GUERRILLAS READY TO GREET REDS IN LITHUANIA

Soviets . Continue . West: ward Sweep Along ~« : Wide Front      MANY VILLAGES ARE TAKEN IN ADVANCE   Liquidation. of. Encircled _ Enemy. Pockets Con tinues

Wilno Under Artillery and Air Pounding   Reds Capture Stolin In Poland, Bastion 38 Miles from Pinsk

Seal off exit in ‘bare fist’ tilt with tanks  Laud leadership of Norfolk man

PAULUS SAYS WAR IS LOST   ANOTHER GERMAN GENERAL CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS MARES BROADCAST TO  GERMANS ‘

Captured German Field Marshal Says War Is Lest   Continuation Of Fighting Is ‘Senseless Bloodshed’ Says Officer In Message

AIRMEN SUPPORT GROUND FORGES   Warplanes Hit German Troop . Concentrations   BLAST SUPPLY LINES   Oil Refineries Raided in Attempt to Check Flow of Vital Fuel

GERMAN LINES AGAIN POUNDED   Allied Planes Continue AllOut Aerial Support of Ground Forces

Allies Using Aerial Might To Advantage   Concentrations of German Troops Hit With 15 000 Sortiee

SUPPLY LINES HIT BY ALLIED FLIERS   German Troop Concentra. tions Are Also . Bombed

RAID ON BERLIN CUTS PHONE SERVICES   Nazi Capital Hit Third Time in Four Nights

BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS IAD.  -MERING INVASION COAST  TODAY AS AERIAL OFFEN-  SIVE CONTINUES

OVER HALF OF NAZI CAPITAL IS DESTROYED   ' Continue Attacks on Europe Today

Berlin Blasted For Third Time In Four Night:   Terrific Night Raid Follows American Attack On Brunswick And Hanover   BERLIN IS BEING STEADILY WIPED OUT

END OF STRIKE IS VOTED BY WORKERS   Ford Co. Employes Will Return to Jobs Today

TOKYO BLEATS ABOUT GREAT NATIONAL’ CRISIS By RAY CRONIN —  Dig ag ON eget xt

Tojo Relieved  As Army Chief Of General Staff   “Gen. Umezu Takes Post;: “Radio Blarés of ‘Crisis’, “Admits Loss. of Saipan

Earthquake Hits Mexico   Mexico City Suffers Damaae To Buildings

Nazis Holding Out In Cassino Corner   \ Fighting Continues on Peaks And Ridges West of   The Town   Local Attack on Anzio Beachhead Fails Under Heavy Fire

Alllied Troops Driving Nazi Soldiers From Cassino Strong Points   Fluid Fighting Rages Around Town; Germans Retake One Height in Counterattack; Tanks Being Employed to Wine Out Enemy

Nazis Cornered In Ruined Cassino   Allied Troops Driving Germans From Strongpoints On Italian Front

ALLIED TROOPS HURL NAZIS BACK TOWARD ROME   Fifth Army Moves Tanks Inte Cassino; Fighting Light on Beachhead

ALLIES REDUCE NAZI HOLDINGS   Drive Germans From One Strong Point After Another at Cassino.

FLUID BATTLES RAGE ON PEAKS NEAR CASSINO   Steadily Reduce German Positions in Rubble, Caves in Hillsides

Germans Hold Fast in Southwest Part of Ruined Cassinc   Nazis Shower Allies With Fire’ From Mountain Side

Germans Clinging "To Cassino Ruins In Fierce Fighting   Selidly-Entrenched Nazi Units Hold Town's Southwest Sector: Allies Clearing Mouastery Hil

GERMANS STILL HOLDING OUT IN CORNER OF CITY   Allied Troops Driving Enemy From One Strong Point After Another; Only Patrol Activity On Beachhead Front.

GERMANS HOLD ONTO CASSINO   Allied Troops Drive Enemy From One Sector To Another

ALLIED TROOPS ARE GRADUALLY DRIVING NAZIS OUT CASINO  DEVASTATING AIR AND ARTILLERY BLASTING FAILS ‘OUST GERMANS

Battle Rages Around Cassino And In Hills   Allied Troops Drive Germans From One Strong Point After Another; Deluge Of Bombs On Cassino Fails To Shake Enemy.

Nazis Cling To Corner Of Cassino   Fifth Drives Them From One Strong Point After Another

Allies Slowly *Ousting Foe In Cassino Battle   Nazis Still, Resisting  Stubbornly In Corner Of Wrecked Town.

ALLIES DRIVE NAZIS BACK IN RUINED CASSINQ   American Engineers Throw Bridge Acress Rapido River es New Zealanders Drive on Station   AIRMEN ACTIVE   Nine Enemy Aircraft Shot Down, Five on Return from Vienna—. 11 Allied Planes Missing

DRIVING — NAZIS FROM CASSINO   Germans Continue To Hold Out In Corner Of Town

Enemy Appears Taking Greatest Gamble of War   Decisive Failure In Big Push May Lead To Military Collapse

Believe Nazis  ' j  Take Greatest Gamble of Wai   Push is All-Out Bid to Halt Allied March on Berlin

BRITISH TROOPS NEARING ATHENS   Nazis Reported Fleeing From Greece By Air, Sea And Land

NEWS ON INVASION OF GREECE WITHHELL   Last Reports . Andicated British Were Racing Virtually Unopposed Acroas Peloponnesus.

High Post War Prices Will Wreck Country   Chester Bowles Says Diminishing Production and Unemployment Result.

Allies Seek to Break Hun Resistance   Soviets Drive from Grodno Toward Nearby East Prussian Borders

Yanks Capture St. Lo; — "Russians Launch New Drive On East Fr ront   Meanwhile, Greatest Allied Air Fleets Since D-day Cover Far-reaching Nazi Area From Two Directions

Yanks Capture St. Lo Following Big Comeback   Reds Launch Another Big Drive On East Front

Allied Action In Pacific Rumored With Invasion   Triple-Threat Conference Of Admirals Incites Speculation

Admirals’ Meeting Seen as Presaging Blows at Japan  Observers Believe Tokyo Will Be Given Ne Respite While

3 Navy Chiefs Map New Jap Island Drive      Halsey ing Parley Hints Strike to Clear Central Pacific

U.S. BigThree Admirals Hold Meeting   Something Is Being Plotted For Entertainment of Mr. Tojo

—PACIFIC—  NEW SEA BLOWS FACING JAPANESE   U. S. Navy’s TripleThreat To Tokyo Meets On West Coast   NIMITZ HONORED   Nips Sustain Heavy Losses In North Central Burma Fighting

FINNS INFORMED OF SOVIET PROPOSALS   Other Axis Satellite Nations Interested In Getting Out Of War Now

Finland Public Hears Russ Peace Térms  Britain Reportedly   Britain Reportedly Indorses Plan As ‘Moderate’

FINNISH PEOPLE TOLD OF RUSSIAN ARMISTICE TERM   Six Points of Propbsal Outlined in Broadcast—Helsinki’s Reaction Remains in Doubt.   DEMANDS SUPPORTED BY GREAT BRITAIN   Acceptanceof Conditions Would End War Not.Only With Reds, but With England as Well.

Marines Take 3 More Islands  in Palau Group   Win Another Airfield Within Easy Range of Philippines

SAIPAN IS BASE IN TOKYO DRIVE   Nimitz Declares Capture Breaches Japan’s Inner Defense

Japs Admit Raid  On Marcus Isles.   Report B-29’s Attack Minamitori Shima

Fitz’ Declares He's Innocent In Bribe Case   Indictment Is Another Blow In Career Of Local Promoter

FITZ ASSERTS IT’S SURPRISE   Innocent of Any Bribery Charges, Deciares Twin City Man

INVADERS WILL HAVE FINE ARMS   American Troops Storming Into Europe to Have Highest Developed Ordnance; Performances Proved

14 Are Charged With Plotting fo Kill Camacho  Three Other Mexicaz Officials on a

14 Are Charged With Plotting to Kill Camacho  Three Other Mexicar Officials on List for Liquidation

Hold 14 In Attack On  Camacho   Mexican Police Reveal Assassin Plot After Trigger Man Dies Of Wounds.

Russia Honors  Gen. Eisenhower Highest Decoration Is Awarded To American

EISENHOWER ITH GREATEST AWARD!      Highest Military Decoratiog Given American General '! And Russian Press Ap plauds

LANDING TRAPS NAZIS HOLDING CRETE, RHODES   Garrisons Cut Off After British Take Over Nearby Island

Germans Isolated On Crete And Rhodes   British Naval Ferce Lands On Scarpanto And Completes Occupation Of Island.

NAZIS ISOLATED ON GREEK ISLES   Escape Routes Closed Witt Seizure Of Scarpanto

BRITISH FLANK CRETE, RHODES   Scarpanto Isle Is Occupiet Without Nazi Opposition

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaner   WASHINGTON  ae) OS ee

State’s Individual Bond Quota Met   But Series E War Bond Sales Are Still Lagging.

Russians Tighten Pincer Squeeze On Hungary   Soviet and Romania: Armies Chop Holes in Axis Lines on Border

RED, ROMANIAN FORCES GAIN IN BALKAN DRIVES   Push Into Strategic Oradea; Nazis Ad mit Retreats

HOLES CHOPPED IN AXIS LINES   Russians Penetrate Into Strategic Rail City Of Oradea

REDS CHOP UP AXIS LINES AT CZECH BORDER   DRIVE ON TO KNOCK HUNGARY OUT OF WAR

Strategic Rail City of Oradea Is Penetrated  BERLIN INDICATES SMASH TO SZEGED  Germans Also Acknowledge Retreats in Transylyania

Strategic Rail City of Oradea Is Penetrated  RERIL EN] INIDICATEC   BERLIN INDICATES SMASH TO SZEGED      Germans Also Acknowledge Retreats in Transvlvania

Chop HOLES i AXIS LINE ALONG BORDER   Between C zechoslovakia and Poland and Northern Transylvania: Fight on Hungarian Soil.   Deep Trenches

Soviets, Romanians Score In Drive to Crush Hungary   Moscow Reports Great Toll of Germans Taken In Latvia Campaign; Budapest Unrest Grows

THE BALTIC  DOORWAY ‘ RED OBJECTIV   All-Out Drive Under Wa To Capture Important City on Anniversary of  Founding of Army   OTHER ADVANCES MADE

Jate Is Anniversary of the Founding of Red Army  SKI FORCES ACTIVE  Parachutists Reported to Have Landed Behind Nazis at Narva

Reds Pound South on 75 Mile Front   In All-Out  Drive to Take Pskov, Doorwoy To Baltic States

Australians Push Toward Nippon Port of Madang   Bogadjim, Protective Base, Captured By Tough Jungle Troops

BOGADJIM IS CAPTURED BY AUSSIES   Protective Base For Madang, New Guinea, Is Seized

BASE GUARDING MADANG TAKEN IN NEW GUINEA   Aussies Drive On Port; Kuriles Attacked Fourth Day

Bogadjim Is Held By  Australians   Drive Started Toward Madang After Seizure OF Protective Base On New Guinea Coast

AUSSIES IN BIG DRIVE ON MADANG   Have Captured Bogadjim, Port’s Protective Base

AUSTRALIANS ON WAY TO MADANG IN NEW GUINEA   Protective Base of Bogadim, 16 Miles South, Is Taken

May Retail Sales 10 Per Cent Over Period a Year Agc   Are Five Per Cent Above Record For April This Year

Retail Sales in lowa Increasing  February Sales 4 Pet. Over 1943

lowa Retailer Sales Increase  May Receipts Up [0 Pct. Over Year Ago

American Troops Are Short Distance From Third Field; Australians Seize Jap Base at Madang

Mighty Assault on Coast of New Guinea Is Continuing      AUSTRALIAN FORCES TAKE MADANG BASE   Enemy Resistance Has Ceased in the Aitape Sector

AMERICANS HAVE TAKEN ) AIRDROMES   On He'andia in Assault One .thern New Guine. ‘gies Seize PiaCette. Yaking Supply  ————  ae a ieee re   Not Fresh

Jap Resistance Virtually Ends In New Guinea   American Forces Nearing Junction

Americans Take Two Airdromes or  Dutch New Guinea  Australian Forces Capture Madang Base; Islands Are Bombed

AT HOLLANDIA A SFIFD BY. YANK   AUSSIES TAKE MADANG  “500' MILES SOUTHEAST              ‘Quantities. Of ‘Absndoned Sup: ‘piles and seenniien at; Base

Third New Guinea Field Is Expected To Fall To Allies   Fourth Day Of Leap-Frog Invasion Finds But Little Resistance Offered By Jap Defenders

TWO AIRDROMES IN HOLLANDIA TAKEN BY YANKS   Gen. MacArthur’s Invad ing Forces Draw Near  To Third Airfield

Yanks Take 2 Birfields Of Hollandia   Australian Troops Seize Japanese 'Madang Supply Bass

Americans Menace Third Jap Airdrome   Junction Is Imminent Between Two Columus Invading Hollandia  PLANES USE AITAPE

GOEBBELS SAYS CHANGE COMING   PREDICTS TOTAL WAR EFFORT WILL RELIEVE GERMANS

HITLER'S NEWSPAPER ADMITS GERMANY 15 FACING BIG TRIALS  GOEBBELS HAD ASSERTEI PRESSURE ON HOMELANI WOULD BE RELIEVED

FACES CRISIS   Hitler’s Newspaper Centradicts Goebbels’ Pep Talk

NAZIS MOBILIZE FORLAST STAND; PURGE PRESSED   More Generals Killed on Charge of Plotting Hiter Bombing

Total Nazi Mobilization Will Relieve Pressure  On War Front, Goebbels Says: Germans Baers!

Goebbels Promises  Relief   Hitler's Newspaper Admits War Nerves as Reds Close In

Burden Heavy Nazis Admit  Hitler's Paper Views Increasing Dangers

‘Hitler’s Own Newspaper Openly Admiis Nazi “Nerves And Hearts” Exposed Now To Heaviest Trials

GERMAN PAPER ADMITS TRYING TIMES IN REICH   Gobbels Predicts New Nazi Victories on Eastern Front Soon

\Voelkischer Beobachter [eompinins About Strain (As Result Of Lona War

Italy’ 5 West Ports Bombed   British Troops Start Drive From Minturne

Nazi Supply Line In Italy Heavily Hit   British Start Land Drive; Enemy Forces Active Around Anzio

Nazis Reported Leaving Finland   Evacuation To Norway Said In Progress

MORE NAZI TROOPS GOING 10 NORWAY   Germans Preparing for Arrival Possibly From Northern Finland.

NAZIS: TN FINLAND 0 €0 TO NORWAY   Report Preparing for Additional Germans Across Border: Study Peace Means

PRESENTS 5 POINT PLAN TO CONGRESS   Proposes Durotion Law To Make Every Able-Bodied Adult In Nation Available For War Production Or Other Essential Services

i-POINT PROGRAM BEFORE GONGRESS   Realistic Tax, Law And Cest Of Food Law Asked By Executive   DISCUSSES WAR   Declares Mistakes Of 1918 Will Not Be Reveated This Time

Realistic Tax, Cost Of Food Laws, ReRecommends To Congress Passage Of Enactment Of Economic Stabilization.   Says Millions Not In The War

A Five-Point Legislative Program Was Recommended to Congress Today by President Roosevelt.   A REALISTIC TAX LAW WAS ALSO INCLUDED   Chief Executive Was Prevented by the Grippe From Delivering Annual Message in Person.

EXECUTIVE SEEKS TOEND STRIKES, AND GET WORKERS   Tels Congress “Millions Not  In This War at All” and  Suggests Four Peints In  War Activities.   MESSAGE SUMMARY IS TO BE BROADCASTED   “Realistic Tax Law,” Continuation of Contracts, Stabilization Act Included In Suggestions.

PRESIDENT OFFERS 5-POINT DOMESTIC WIN-WAR PROGRAM     } j 7   Annual Message ‘Io Congress Calls For “Realistic ‘Tax Law” And “Cost Of Food Law;” "Vouches On War

POINT PROGRAM HANDED CONGRESS IN HIS MESSAGE   Every Able-bodied Adult Will Be Made te “Pitch in’ and Help.

CONGRESS TOLD T00 MANY NOT HELPING IN WAR   Report on State of Nation Sent To Legislative Branch Because President Ill

Continuation Of Act Permitting Renegotiation Of War Contracts Urged; Chief Executive Would Have Every Able-Bodied Man In Useful Service

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE SENT TO CONGRESS   Every Ablebodied Adult In Nation Would Be Available for Essential Work,

REALISTIC TAX LAW ASKED BY NATION'S CHIEF   Continuation of Renegotiations of War Contracts, - Reenactment Stabilization Act Requested   “COST OF FOOD LAW” ' ALSO IS CALLED FOR   Congress Urged to Lock Into Means of Implementing “Economic Second Bill of Rights”

Plan Also Calls for  National Service Law   Message to Congress Outlines Five-Point Legislative Action  To Mobilize All Manpower

Mobilization Of Capital And  labor His Goal   Legislation To Outlaw Strikes During War Asked Of Congress

Economic Second Bill Of Rights Suggested By Roosevelt Attacks Complacency

“Annual Message Today is . Highlighted with Recommendation for Passage of National ‘Service Act.   ASKS CONGRESS TO FORGET °44 POLITICS

‘Realistic’ Tax Act, Cost Of Living o Measure, Economic Stabilization Re- enactment

Urges Cost Of Food Law, Price Stabilization   Congress Gets Executive Recommendations For Winning Earlier Victory and Maintaining Fair and Stable Economy At Home.

Designed to Use Every Adult In U.S   Over Confidence Greatest Menace, President Says

Suggests Four Other Points To Congress   Speech Deals  With Domestic War Problems For New Year

FDR Presents 5-Point Plan to Congress   National Service Law Heads List of Needs as Seen by President

Every Able Bodied Person Would Help With War Effort   Claims Drafting of Labor Would Shorten Conflict, Save Thousands of Lives, Put All Americans in This War

Would Make Available  For Essential Services All Able-Bodied Adult:

Also Asks ‘Realistic Tax Law,” Cost of Food Law,”’ Economic Stabilization Act and Renegotiation of War Contracts 7

Realistic Tax and Cost of Food Laws Included in President’s Annual Message to Congress

U.S. Service Law Urged By F. R., With All in War   Five-Point Program Presented Congress in Message Dealing With Tax, Food. Stabilization

REALISTIC TAX LAW IS RECOMMENDED   Congress Also. Asked To Act On Law Fixing Cost Of Food

Price “Chaos” Feared By Summer; Five Point Program Is Advanced   President Calls For “Realistic Tax Law” In Speech To Congress; War Also Discussed

In Annual Message   National Service. Act Seen: Needed; “Would Tax Unreasonable Gains; _ Considers Farmers, Consumers

LEGISLATION TO ‘PREVENT STRIKES?   Asks ‘Realistic Tax Law,’ Three Other Points

ENR Acke Canaress For National Service Law; Offers 5-Point Program   Two House Groups Rush To Push Over Veteran Benefits   Holsey Says Jop Fleet Crippled, U.S. To Keen Hitting Uatil Tokyo Falls

BALLOTS FOR SERVICEMEN   Roosevelt Calls for ‘Second Bill of Rights’ to Guarantee Social Security Labor, Farmer, Businessmen, Families

LABOR POLICY — TS CRITICIZEL   FEDERAL LABOR EXPERT SAYS. ‘GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. HAVE CAUSED MUCH OF     PRESENT UNREST

Americans Gain ‘In Guinea Battle   Yanks Move Up, Trap  Advance Jap Forces

Land, Sea, Air  Forces Unite To  Halt Jap Escape Flaming Oil Runs  rough Jap  Base At Boela

Yankees Move Up to Trap Japanese Units   Three Nip Divisions Included in Forces Near Aitape

GOVERNMENT OF ITALY IS RECOGNIZED   Bonomi Regime Given Recognition  By Big Three

BUT 36 MILES AWAY AS LAON FALL REPORTED   Berlin Admits Loss Of Rouen, Guarding Rocket Coast

Laon and Reims Are Occupied by 6.5. Troops   Berlin Admits Rouen Has Been Ahandoned

TANK ARMIES UNCHALLENGED BY GERMANS   American Columns Storm Into Laon and Cathedral City of Reims.

Only Scattered Disorganized Nazi Rear Guards  Bar The Path  BRITISH AND YANKS LINK BRIDGEHEADS  Above Paris On Solid 50 Mile Front And Ad- vance 25 Miles i

Only German Rear Guards Bar Armor Columns   Nazis Report Troops Abandon Fortress Guarding Robot Coast

Allies Above Paris Smash Toward Robot Bases; Plane Swarms Bomb Fleeing Nazis

LITTLE GERMAN RESISTANCE 1$ MET IN DRIVES   Americans Pound East From Chalons: Reich Only 95 Miles Away

Reims is Reached By Yanks   American Troops Only 95 Miles to Germany's Borde:

Nazis Admit Evacuation Of Rouen   Plunge at Heart of Areg from Which Robot Bombs Set Off

TANK ARMIES PUSH TOWARD ROBOT COAST   Germans Admit Evacuation of Rouen; Riflemen Fill Breaches.

Aisne River Line Punctured In At Least Two Places, Spearheads Fan Out Over Farmlands Beond Beims.   LINK BRIDGEHEADS ACROSS THE SEINE

Rouen, Guard Of Robot Coast Reported Fallen In Twin Allied Victory      Other Allied Armies, 90 Mi. From Reich Link Seine Bridgeheads For Channel Assault

City Of Rouen Evacuated By Nazis, Report   U. S. Tank Spearheads Within 30 Miles Of Belgian Border; Aisne River Crossed; Allied Forces Aim At Amiens

German Losses Since D Day Now Stand A More Than a Quarte Million.

Nazi Net of Escape  Roads Cut   Smash at Channel Robot Sites Looms From Wide Front

Berlin Admits Rouen Abandoned By ‘Nazi Troops.   Powerful Armored . Spearheads Puncture » Aisne River Line

Nazi Rearguards Put Up Little Fight Against Speeding Tanks; Battle British Near Channel .

Aisne River Line Punctured By Ist and 3rd Yank Armie Rolling Toward Nazi Border

Two Days   GERMANY ADMITS THAT. HER TROOPS HAVE ALSO — ABANDONED ROUEN, IN WEST

Laon and Rouen  Seized by Yanks   Other Allied Armies Advance Fast and Northwest of Paris

Germans Flee Before Tanks  oru. S. Army   Last Few Miles Of Invasion Roads To Germany And Belgium Lie Ahead.

Tanks Race Unchallenged af Rhineland   Americans Smash to 30 Miles from Belgian Border

Hitler Concedes Fighting Front Nov North of Rome   Despite German Resistance in Rome, Says City Evacuated To Prevent Destruction’

°Nazi Fuehrer Vows -Fo Continue Fight “Until Final Victory   Annihilating Defeat Promised Allies During Year of Invasion; All of Rome Termed ‘Onen City

ROME ABANDONED TOPROTECTCTY MITLER DECLARES   Fuehrer’s Headquarters {ssules First Statements In Days on Fail of Capital, Urges It Be Open City.   ITALIAN FIGHTING [S NOT OVER REPORT SAYS   Marshal Kesselring Suggests  Boundries of Open City Less Than 24 Hours Before Aljies move In.

HITLER SAYS ROME MAY BE OPEN CITY   Asserts Fight in Italy Will Continue and Measures Taken to “Force Final Victory for Germany”.   No Destruction

Calls Rome Fall Gain for German:  Hitter Belatedly Tells of Capture

Hitler Admits Defeat   . +.» Says Will Fight To Final Nazi Victory

Hitler Asserts Fight in Italy Will Continue   Germans Withdrawn From Rome: Plan for  “Open City” Offered

2 More Alton Men Reported  Hurt in Action   Pfe. Robert D. Johnsor and Pvt. M. M. Sanchez Wounded

Alton Soldier And Navy Man  Hurt in Actior   Pharmacist’s Mate E. F Voiles and Pfc. Elvie O. Frazier

300 STRIKE AT NEW PRODUCTS   Company and Union Sileni On Causes Prompting Walkout

Wake Island Hit by Bombs   Only Moderate Enemy Anti-Aircraft Fire; Ponape Under Assault

Gothie Line Caves in; Allies Surge Forward   Nazis in Disorganized Retreat Into Po Valley. oth, 8th Armies Sweey Down Italian Peaks

HUNS ABANDON GOTHIC LINE: PO IMPERILED   Yanks, British Pursue Foe Toward Italian  Valley

Allies Shatter Eastern Half Of Gothic Line   Doughboys, in Sight of Po ~ Valley, Are 15 Miles from Bologna

Germans Retreat In Northern Italy   Mighty Blows of British and Americans Smash Gothic Line—In Sight of Po River Valley as Germans Fall Back

Allies Crash Gothic Line, Rush Po Area   Doughboys Leave Mass of Rubble, Force Nazi Rout

ALLIES SMASH EASTERN HALF OF GOTHIC LINE   Germans in Disorganized Retreat in  North Italy

Big Guns Pace Double Attaek Headed for Po   Amevicans Seize Futa Pass Scale Mountain Barriers Jer Parrcitt nf Linens.

Allies Shatter Eastern Half Of Gothic Line   Disorganized Retreat Made by German Forces As Yanks Near Bologna

Canadians Reach Estuary; Invaders Said Hitting Port   American Troops Said To Have Penetrated Down Biscay Coast 170 To Join New Landing In Fight For Bordeaux, Southwest French Region

TANK BATTLES RAGE IN FIGHT FOR BUDAPES]   Two Red Armies Thunder Ahead, Rolling Up Nazi Flanks

Tire Supply. Boost Asked   Military: Demands. _Above Production:

Survivors of Naval Battle  Off Philippines Reach U. S.  Tell How Sharks Grabbed Two Men  As They Leaped From Deemed Carrier

Sharks Got Mer On Doomed U.S. Ship  Others Died From Drinking Sea Water Off Samar Island

‘Berrien Springs Officer I:  Among Crewmen Rescued From Lost Carrier

‘Babson’s Authentic Statement   Copyright—1944— Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. INVESTMENT TRUSTS

Investment in Babson Letter   WRITER URGES AGAINST SWITCHING OF TRUSTS

OPPOSITION 10. GUT-BACKS, MAY BRING DISASTER   “WPB. Says War Must Be Fought; ™ on Paper Also .

OPPOSITION TG GUT-DAGKO MAY BHING DISASTER   WPB Says War Must Be Fought on Paper Also

Large American Unit Infiltrates German Positions   Marches 15 Miles Behind Nazi Line

Writer Trudges Along as U.S.Troops Silently Slip Behind Nazis in Night

 Hordes Of Troops And Hundreds : Of Tanks. Guns Moved Into Position On Outskirts Of City  For Pinal Battle   KILL 4,000 NAZIS IN SKALA POCKET

BYRNES ACTS TO CLOSE ALL RACE TRACKS   Move Taken to Save Labor At Critical Materials

Establishment of CIO-PAC on A  Permanent Basis Will be Discussed

Marshall Attack Over, Says Navy   All Organized Resistance Has Ceased, Adm. Nimitz Reports; Japanese Told Fierce Battle Continuing

JAPS CRUSHED INKWAJALEIN ATOLL ATTACK   MARSHALL ISLANDS COUP SPEEDS UP PACIFIC WAR

STEEL SHORTAGE: THREATENS U.S; ASK BRITISH AID   Allied Nation Agrees to Ship 10,000 Tons Each Month In Order to Keep Tank and Ship Production. .   MANPOWER SHORTAGES SAID TO BE FACTOR   American, Producing Companies Reported Operating With 50,000 Men Below Normal Reauirements. 

1,716,000 PUT T0 DEATH IN 2 YEARS   Jews Exterminated By Germans in ‘Extermination Camps.’

CLAIM 1,715,000 JEWS ARE SLAIN   “Extermination Camps” . of Nazis Revealed...

Nazi Attack Fails As Allies Gain  {n Anzio Fighting  U. S., British Score  Against Foe in Grim Italy Battle

Anzio Beachhead Raided 277 Times Since Landing   176 Gut of 2,472 Enemy Raiders Shel Down, 117 More Probably Besirsved. Figures Show

HWE ADOUARTERS MOVE   Artillery Fire Stops German Thrust In Italy

Italian War Front Quiet   Nazi Warplanes Have Made 227 Raids on Beachhead at Anzio

GAS FIRM T0 SETTLE CLAIMS   Over 300 Persons Already File Loss Statements

<cc~t ee eeeetEttttenats re,  fruman Charges Republicans Have ‘Rule or Ruin’? Poli¢ \

‘Rule or Ruin’ Policy of GOP Is Assailed   Isolationist Group Trying to Blackjack American’ People, Truman Says   CALLS ON DEWEY TO REPUDIATE THEM   Refers to. Dulles, Dewey's Foreign Affairs Adviser, as: ‘America Firster’

‘SILENCE’ PERIOD OBSERVED —— FOR BURIAL OF BATTLE DEAD   GERMAN BURIAL PARTIES PER_ MIFTED TO GATHER UP DEAD IN SALIENT OF THE CAS. BINO SECTOR

e TIME OUT!   Germans Granted Truce to Bury : Dead in Cassino Area

‘Oh Lord, Send Sister Aimee Back to Us,’ Evangelist’s Sobbing Followers Plead

Jap Fighter Plane Rams Superfort in Tokyo Raid but Fails in Effort to Bring Air Monster Down

GOP GROUP IS SELECTED 10 DIRECT DRIVE   Executive Committee’ of 15: Announced by Brownell

Executive Group Named To Direct 6.0.P. Campaign   Committee of Fiffeer Members Is Announced by Brownell

HITLER ALMOST CERTAIN TO USE GAS WARFARE   Futility of Its Use Against Troops Believed to Forecast Civilian Attacks.

Reds Tighten Loop Around  2 Nazi Forces   Attacks by Big Nazi Force at Tarnopol Beaten Off; Rumanian Front Remains Quiet

Germans a Tarnopoil and  Skala cireled  ‘High officers   fleeing sector’

Reds Tighten Nazi Nooses  Troops Closing In For Kill ©  Lumiwmn  ar a qua Sees

BONUS COUDON J       'HEADACHES (=  6OF VALUE,  ee ee   Nooses Around ] Nazi Forces   Close in to Kill on Foe at Tarnopol and Skala

RUSSIANS DRIVING CLOSER ON ODESSA IN OPERATION DESIGNED TO SPRING ANOTHER TRAP ON BLACK SEA PORT; CAPTURE SKALA.

NOOSE CLOSES AROUND SKALA AND TARNOPOL   RUSSIANS CLOSE IN FOR KILL, DRIVE NEARER ODESSA

TANKS, INFANTRY FAIL TO BREAK RUSSIAN ‘NOOSE   Soviet Draws Tighter Rin  Around Enemy. Forces’  Trapped at Skalla in Northwest Ukraine,           ADVANCE 13 TO 15 ‘ MILES IN ODESSA AREA           Moscow Still Silent Regar¢ Fighting in- Rumania— Axis Reports Drive Is Stalled.

ANUTHER SETBACK LOOMS AT ODESSA   Southern Front Moves Closer To Black Sea Port   SKALA IS TAKEN   Germans Fail in Effort to - Break Ring Hemming Com rades at Tarnopol

Soviets on Southern Front, Pushing - Wear Odessa, Capture Railroad Station 23 Miles From Port

Reds Tighten Nooses on Trapped Foe  Seize Skala, Gain In Tarnopol, Close on Odessa

Soviets Drive Closer Around Odessz   Tighten Nooses Around Nazis in Tarnopo! Areqd

Skala’s Fall Is Announced  By Russians   Strategy Is Aimed At Annihilation Of Trapped Germans  CAEN IN DEGCCAPARPTIA

Soviets Drive Closer to the Black Sea Port of Odessa   TARNOPOL ATTACKS BY NAZIS REPULSED   Capture of Skala Announced in Night Communique

STATE TRUCK CROPS IN GOOD CONDITION   Few Scattered Pickings Of Straw berties Reported From Eastern Shore

City Can't Deny Liquor Application  Court Order In Santa Fe Case

This Was Really a Close Shave—  G. . Hit on Head by Bomb   500-Pound Missile Bounces Off Helmet

SOCIETY MATRONS BATTLE IN STREET   Mrs. E. B. Heinz Clashes Witt Her Mother-iIn-law

NAZI CASUALTIES 100,000 IN WEEK   WRITER .. SAYS. BATTLE IN ~ WEST MAY SPELL DOWNFALL OF HITLERISM.

Showdown Battle Rages Near Roer   Germans Throwing Every Conceivable Weapon, Including Robots, Into Fight

20 Legislators Face Bribe Charges   Accused in Small Loan Legislation

STATE POLICE GIVEN COPIES OF WARRANTS   CORRUPTION STOR) DATES BACK TO 1939 SESSION

WAR BOND SALES   Two Changes In Methodist Pastors Made In County

CLELAND IS TRANSFERRED   Goes to Uhrichsville; Rev. Glenn Cornell Comes Here

MARSHALLS SKY RULED BY YANKS   Japs’ Opposition Meager Indicating Supplies Are Low

KNOX THINKS JAP SUPPLIES ARE LOW   U. S. Planes Operating at Wil in Marchalic

TOKYO EVACUATES ONE MILLION AS ALLIES DRAW NEAR   U. S. Battleships  Join Offensive

BATTLESHIPS ACTIVEIN.. PHILIPPINES:   Taking Part in. Offensive In Islands Area

7500 Tons of Bombs Fall in 24 Hours    Americans and British Hit ‘Enemy. Air Force Pools, Destro Rail Linds and More Factories

Yanks Stag ore a  Six- Pronged Raid on Reich  Nearly 2,0uU Aircrate HM  Germany for Second Straight Day ‘KASSEL IS POUNDED “Assault Follows Heavy  Night Blow by 1,000 P& Ee Pambore

Strong U. S. Force Hits Plane Lairs Deep in Germany   U.S. Raiders Battle Way Through Swarms of Nazi Fighter Craft To Caseade Bombs on Factories

Vital German City Menaced In Yank Drive   French Forces Cross Rhine River North Of Strasbourg; Ninth Army Reaches Roer In U. S. Offensive Aimed At Cologne

9th Thrusts 2 Wedges To Roer River, Forges Assault Are On Julich   Berlin Radio Reports German Rear Guards Cover Nazi “Withdrawal” From U. S. 3rd, 7th Armies

OUTPOSTS OF SAARBRUCKEN ARE OVERRUN   .  ‘American 9th Army  Drives Two Wedges to Roer River West  of Cologne.

Guam Invasion Follows, Within Twelve Days. The Conquest Of Saipan, 180 Miles To The North   JAPS TOOK GUAM IN EARLY DAYS OF WAR

Invasion Of Guam Follows Only 12 Days After Saipan; Expect Tough Battle for Stronghold.

REPORT MODERATE RESISTANCE FROM “JAPANESE FORCES   Invasion: of Asland, - 1579 Mites Southeast. of : Tokyo; Comes While-Japan' Is In. Its Gravest Crisis:   NAVY LIBERATORS HIT, - STRONG BONIN ISLAND   Red Army Is Hammering at Lwow;. American Ratrols Probe Nazi Defenses Over Arno River.

Marines, Infantry Hit Shore Under Cover Of Terrific Bombardment   Three Divisions Land “According To Plan” On First U. S. Base Seized By Japanese

Land Opposition Called Moderate After Barrage   Forces Still Pouring Ashore on First U. S. Isle Taken by Japanese

Troops Storm Ashore After 17 Days Of Record Air Sea Blows; Island Was First U. S.-Owned Taken By Nips

Landings on Island All Successful   Was First Island Seized by Japs in War—Seize  Beachheads

Assaults Come After Gigantic Air-Sea Blows   7 Days Of Bombing And Shelling Precede Thursday Amphibious Action Against Former U. S. Base In Marianas

U.S. TROOPS STORM ASHORE ON GUAM TODAY   Army and Marin Forces Pour Ashore in Sea and Air  Roambard ment

Beachheads Seized on First American Island To Fall to Japanese  (. 1.’s and Marines Pour Ashore After Heavy Naval Ramhardment

Yanks sweep Ashore   Island Blasted (7 Days Before fanks Move in

First American Isle Taken By Japs is Now in Process  Of Being Returned to U.S.

Army, Marine Forces Pouring Ashore on First American Island to Fall to Japanese

Made First Landings . Early Thurs          TROOPS STILL POURING ASHORE TODAY ON FIRST AMER. ISLAND” SEIZED BY JAPS AT START OF WA

PLANES, SHIPS AID LANDING ON BATTERED ISLE   Opposition Only Moderate

EFFECT LANDING DESPITE ‘MILD’ JAP OPPOSITION   Army, Marines Storm Island Taken From TS d)y Type TT 1011

Beachheads Are Seized In Landing   First American Island Taken By Japs Under Fire

ARMY, MARINE UNITS SEEK 10 REGAIN ISLAND   Mighty Bombardment From Sea and Air Headed Attack

Assault Troops Expand Foothold  In Enemy Zone   Only Moderate Ground Opposition Met By Army, Marine Invaders

Pour Ashore Under Mighty Bombardment   Invasion Follows By Only 12 Days Conquest of Saipan

Troops Land on Island Seized by Japanese in 1941   Army and Marine Forces Attack After Barrage

Yanks Gain. ‘Beachheads On Guam in ‘Drive Into Japan’s Inner Defense

Army And Marine Forces Pouring Ashore With Small Opposition UNDER COVER OF  SEA AND AIR HELP Presumably 3° Divisions Or 45,000 Americans In Invasion

Atlantic Atlantic Charter’s Goals Valid-FDR   Reminds Some Documents Thraagh History Haven't Yet Reached Objectives But Maintain Much Importance

Atlantic Charter Still Is Valid, ‘Says Roosevelt   It Is the Way to  A Better World, He Tells Reporters at Press Conference

FDR Upholds  Charter Aims   President Asserts Objectives Of Declaration As Valid Now As In 1941,

ATLANTIC PACT VALID AS EVER   Roosevelt Says Principles Of Historic Agreement Are Informal But Effective.

Aims of Atlantic Charter Are As Valid As They Were in 1941--Roosevelt

Atlantic Charter’s Goals Valid—FDR   Reminds Some Documents Through History Haven't Y: Reached Objectives But Maintain Much Importance

FR Declares _ ~ Valid Aine OF ‘Charter’   Tells Newsmen Principles Same Today as  Announced in 1941

Roosevelt Says” Charter Lives   War Objectives Remain Valid. He Declares :-

Charter Aims Remain Valid, FDR Assert:   Permits Direct Quotation in Defense of Its Principles

CHARTER oT VALID, SAYS FR   Doesn’t Compare It to 10 Commandments, But Says Its Good.   DISLIKES COLUMNISTS

WAR ANALYST TAKES OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF ALLIED GAIN THROUGH TAPANESE-RUSSIAN ISLAND MOVE

Metz Reported Falling to  Yankee Attack:   General Hodges’ Men Are Astride Hitler Military Highway to Cologne: Geilenkirchen Is Seized Farther North

YANKS SEIZE TEN MORE ISLAND ATOLLS   Occupied in Marshall Islands, It Is Announced

10 More Atolls In Marshalls Are Taken By Allies.   Early Intensification : of Assault On Other’ Jap Islands Expected

YANKS GRAB 16 MORE ATOLLS IN MARSHALLS   Four Remaining In Jap Hands Isolated; Truk Attacked Again

Intensification of Assault on Truk ls Expected Following U. S. Seizure Of 10 More Islands in the Marshalls

Intensification of Assaults on Carolines Seen   10 More Marshall Atolls Occupied by Americans

Hope Fades for Trapped Miners   Rescue Crews Renew  Efforts to Save Men

Eyewitness Of Raid On Japan  Writer Tells Of Trip To And From Yawata

Reporter Flies Over Nippon In Superfortress   Tokyo Is ltgnored A: Air Giants Bomb Vast  War Center

Planes Leave Great Steel  Works Ablaze   Bombs Dropped Squarely On Targets; Record Set For Distance Attack

DEWEY HEADING FOR CALIFORNIA   Escapes Wreck and Assails ‘Indispensable Man’ Theory

DEWEY TRAINS HIS CAMPAIGN SIGHTS ON CALIFORNIA   G. O. P. Presidential Candidate Shows No III Effects From Train Wreck   SPEAKS IN PORTLAND   Will Address Audience In San Francisco Tomorrow Night

Dewey Challenges Idea World, U. S. Could Not Get Along Without FDR

Dewey Hits Indispensable  Man’ Theory   Appeals For Election Of President Who Can Get Along With Congress   OVATION GIVEN AT PORTLAND. ORE

Dewey Calls 1-Man Rule Maior Issue   Oregon Speech Lashes at *Indispensability’ and Capital Quarrels   SLAMS DISUNITY   Uninjured in Train Crash, Nominee Sets Sights on California

DEWEY ASSAILS “INDISPENSABLE MAN’ THEORY   Urges His Election So He Can “Restore Unity” of Nation

DEWEY ESCAPES WRECK INJURY; “ATTACKS ‘INDISPENSABLE MAN   REPUBLICAN ° CANDIDATE ‘HEADS FOR CALIFORNIA TO , MARE FIFTH MAJOR “CAMPAIGN SPEECH

Wants. Income Tax. Figured By Collector   Thirty Million Would Bencfit Trom Pronposal

PROPOSES GOV'T COMPUTE TAXES   ROBERTSON OFFERS PLAN TO STREAMLINE INCOME TAX PAYMENTS

LET SAM DO IT, EH!   Solon Proposes ~ Government Figure Income Taxes

Proposes Govt. Figure Tax Of ‘Little Fellow’   Virginia Solon Submits Scheme For Simplifying Income Tax Setup.

Wants Revenue Bureau Figure Income Returns   Virginian Would Require Government Figure Tax Owed By Persons Earning Less Than $3,000 To Simplify Matter.

WOULD MAKE U.S. FIGURE INCOME TAY   Rep. Robertson Proposes That Revenue Collector Prepare Return for All Who Make Less Than $3.000 a Year.

FDR INDICATES TALK ON PEACE   DECLARES HE IS FED WITH TACTICS AIMED TO CAUSE DISSENSION

3 BOTTLES OF RUM BONUS FOR OHIOANS   Stock Up To Beat New Tax Is Liquor Chief’s Tip

SPECIAL LIQUOR BONUS ORDERED   3 Extra Bottles Of Rum Available Until March 127.

He’s Grandfather At 37, and A-t   Phil Regan Wonders If Draft Covers Granddads

Hearing On. Local Textile Wage Disputes Will Start Before WLB Panel Saturday

Nazis Fall for Oid Boxing Trick: Stalin Gives Them Sucker’ S Punch

GRAND STRATEGY OF STALIN NOW IBEING REVEALED   Germans Have Faiien Victim to “The Sucker’s Punch and Are in Desperate Plight

BLOOD PURGE PROGRESSING INSIDE REICH   Injuries From Bomb Attempt on Hitler's Life Fatal for Two German Military Chiefs   wrest min

HULL IN THE. DARK TOO      Tells Reporter He Wishes He Knew : at is Going on in’ Naziland

Long-Expected Counterblow On Saipan Costly   Casualties Heavy On Both Sides; Thousands Of Nips Charge West Flank Of U.S. Forces

Enemy Saipan Attack Costly   Charge Denis Yank Lines * Before It Collance«

Jap Attack on Saipan Shoves Yankees Back   Americans Break Up Desperate Attempt Of Enemy to Escape From Tightenina Rina

Saipan Japs In Desperate, Futile Attack   Thousands of Them, With Planes, Artillery Make Brief Gain, Driven Back

Ground Is Lost But Charging Nips Leave 1,500 Dead On Bloody Field

Japs Leave 1.500 Dead On Battlefield   Fierce Counter Thrust On Saipan Is Broken Up

1,500 LEFT ON BATTLEFIELD IN DESPERATE PUSK   Half Of Original Garrison Said Killed; Last Airdrome Menacec

Furious Jap Drive Broken Qn Saipan   Advanced 2,000 Yards Before Americans  Halted Attack

Jap Attack Thrown Back by Americans   Enemy Troops Lose Heavily in Plane Supported Drive

AMERICANS BEAT OFF JAP THRUST ON SAIPAN ISLANI   Nipponese Attack With Sup _ port of Planes and Artillery — Leave 1,500. _ ~ Dead on. Field.   NO ESTIMATE MADE _ ON U. S.: CASUALTIES   Fighting . Is ‘Bitter, Yanks Falling Back 2,000 Yards  _ Before Breaking Up Assault.

JAP ATTACKS HURLED BACK ON SAIPAN ISLE   Heavy Casualties Reported; Liling Is Recaptured

Use Planes, Large Guns Effectively —  Many Hours   1, 500'Nips Slain. As Yanks Move Forward

Wild Japanese Counterattack Drove Yanks on Saipan Back 2.000 Yards Before It Broke

MANY STILL HOPE FOR RUSS-POLISH TERRITORIAL PACT   Cptimism Prevails For Peaceful Settlement of Problems Despite New Red Rejection cf Allied Offer

SOVIET REJECTS ANOTHER OFFER   Briton Proposes Aid in Settling Russo-Polish Boundary Disoute.- ...

Soviet-Pole British Offer Turned Down   Washington Is Confident Despite Rejection of Plea by Churchill

Anti-New Deal Dems Promote  “Third Party”   Woodring Heads Group To Block FDR’s 4th Term

FD.R. Opponents Fail to Agree   Program Develops On Different Lines

Turkey to Halt Sales of Vital” Chrome to Reich   Anglo-American Governments Score Victory

Turkey Halts Shipment Of Chrome To GermanF actories  and Nielewakie Uletears Ie Baeunlt Of Kate   Allied Diplomatic Victory Is Result Of Note To Neutrals Requesting Halting Nazi Trade

CAA APPROVES 129 NEW OHIO AIRPORTS   Improvement of 77 Others Included In Recommendation to Congress

‘Set-Up Suggests That Paris May Be 0b jective Of Great Allied Drive

Assault Believed — Opening of Drive To Capture Paris   American First Army Advances Along West Side of Peninsula; Heavy Bombardment Hits Wazia

American ‘Army: Lashes Out Toward Heart Of Normandy, ‘Weather Is ‘““Most Miserable”

ATTACK AIMED TO KNOCK OUT CAEN, REPORT   First Army Opens Push At Dawn; British Set To Resume Offensive

Offensive Is Under Way in Hard Rair   seen as Opening Blow in Effort to Knock Enemy Out of Caen

Huge Offensive Begins at Dawn   Yanks Launch First Major Drive Since Cherbourg in Driving Rain

TIGHTEN BLOCKADE - ON THE GERMANS   Britain Declares Sea of Bis cay Belligerent Waters.

BRITISH CLAMP CONTROLS OVER BAY (IF. BISCAY   Measure Designed to Prevent Potentially — Adverse Observations

BAY OF BISCAY SHIPPING HIT BY NEW ORDER   Vessels of Neutrals Entering Restricted Area Do So at Their Own Risk.

EMBARGO PUT ON SHIPPING IN BAY OF BISCAY   Allies Move To Close Bases To Blockade Runners Aiding Nazis

Bay of Biscay Swept Clear; Invasion Due?   British Navy Clamps Pre-Invasion Controls  On 150,000 Square Mi

SHIPPING IS HALTED IN BISCAY BAY   Would Indicate '' Micht Be  Invasion Route

Britain Warns Neutrals to Keep Ships Out of Bay of Biscay; Seen As Pre-Invasion Move

Set up Blockade On Bay of Biscay   British Navy Paves Way for Invasion

BLOCKADE ON BAY OF BISCAY   Warns Neutral Ships to Stay Out of “Invasion Coast” Waters Between France, Spain, England.

Clamp Ban on Bay of Biscay   Area May Be Vital In Invasion Plans

U.S. Fighter Planes Seek  Nazi Airforce   Liberators Hammer Pas-De-Calais in Northern France

FIGHTER PLANES CO GUNNING FOR NAZI AIRCRAFT   American’ Fly To Berlin And Munich Seeking Air Combat   TARGETS IN FRANCE ARE UNDER ATTACK

American Fighter Planes Sweet Over Germany in Hunt for ‘Hitler’s Diminishing Air Forces

BERLIN, MUNICH AREAS BOMBED   American Fighters Stab Deep In Reich In Hunting Forays

Airmen Daringly Roam Nazi Skies   Fighters Hunt For Hitlor Air Farcac

Americans © On Unique Operations   Fighter Planes Pierce Deep Into Germany As Liberators Raid Coast

PRESSURE ON BEACHHEAD MAINTAINED   93 German: Planes Bagged During Allied Bombinas

NAZI ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD IS REPULSED   Germans Try To Slip Through Allied Line

Germans Maintain Pressure on Allied Beachhead  All Enemy Attempts To Slip Through Lines Are Broken

GERMANS MAINTAIN STEADY PRESSURE ON ALLIED BEACHHEAD  AMERICANS AND BRITISH SHELLED AND BOMBED, BUT STILL HOLD   CLIMAX TO ALLIED EXPERIMENT OF BOMBING HITLER OUT OF WAR IBELIEVED RAPIDLY APPROACHING

—_ ITALY —  mT ATTACK AT. ANTTD-REPULSEL   German Shells- And ~ Bombs Harass Allied ‘Forces On: Beachhead   WEATHER IS BAD   High Winds And, Snow Flurries: Keep Cassino Front Stationary

GERMANS MAINTAIN A STEADY PRESSURE ‘AN THE ATTIES   Americans and British Har. assed on-Beachhead Be‘low Rome.   REPULSED IN ATTACK   rhe Inffective Nazi Stab Was _Made on the Allies ’ Rizht Flank.

FIFTH ARMY HURLS BACK A SINGLE SMALL NAZI ATTACK   Ineffective Assault Made on Allied Right Flank Friday Near Pontine Marshes-——Cassino Front Quiet  PR. DICUADnR © MAGenrK

GERMANS FAIL TO MAKE GAINS ON BEACHHEAD   “High Winds and Snow Flurries Keep Cassino Front About Stai fionary   ARTILLERY ACTIVE   $5 Nazi Fighter Planes Desiroyed in Regensburg Raid, Elsewhere for New Mediterranean Record

NAZI ARTILLERY SHELLS ALLIES ON ROME BEACHHEAD   German Attack South of Cis terna ~Hurled Back,  However

NAZIS HARASS ALLIED FORCES   Maintain Steady Pressure on Beachhead, But Allies Push Them Back.

Allies Repulse German Attacks  Shells and Bombs Beat — Off Stabs at Anizo

German Stab In Anzio Area  Is Ineffective   All Efforts By Nazis To Slip Through Lines Of Allied Forces On Beachhead Are Fatile

Nazis Repulsed In Stab at U. S. Lines in Italy   German Guns Harass Allies Throughout Day

REPEL GERMAN ATTACKS BELOW ROME, CASSING   Strong Winds, Snow Check Heavy Fighting in Lower Italy

NAZIS HARASS ANZIO FORCES   All German Attacks Repulsed. Fight At  Cassino Stalls

Nazi Stab in italy Is Bounced Back   Foe Maintains Steady Pressure on Altied Troocs Below Rome

German Stabs At Fifth Army In Italy F utile   Single Small Attack by  Enemy Below Rome Thrown Back; Cassino Sector Lull Continues

Nazis Bomb And Shell Beachhead   Single Small German Attack Beaten Back By Fifth

Nazis Repulsed in One Small Attack on Anzio Front Friday   Winds and Snow Flurries Kept Fighting More or Less Stationary

Nazi Artillery Fire Harasses  Allied Forces '   Germans Maintain Steady Pressure On Beachhead Front

Nazis Repulsed In Single Attack  Wintry Weather Checks Cassino Battle  =... ewarse~eaer 4a ean i~ e864 3 @ ~~» eo.

Nazi Thrust At Beachhead Turned Back   Steady Pressure Is Held Throughout Day—dAer‘ial Forays Important

Nazis Again Knocked Back Below Rome   All Efforts to Slip Througt : Allied Lines Are Unsuccessfal   WEATHER SLOWS" CASSINO ACTION   Guns and Supplies Are. Kept Flowing to Allies on -Beachhead

Order of Day to Americans Leaves No Doubts That Great Battle Is Crisis on Which Western War Turns

But Germans Advance In  Luxembourg      EISENHOWER CALLS UPON TROOPS TO TURN HITLER’S ‘GAMBLE INTO WORST DEFEAT

LUXEMBOURG THRUST STILL NOT CHECKED   ‘Chance To Turn Greatest German Gamble Into Worst Defeat,’ Eisenhower Tells Yanks; koe Trying To Consolidate Gains

No Hint Given Ot Like Success  In Luxembourg   General Eisenhower Calls On Men To Turn Hitler’s Gamble Into Defeat.

Eisenhower Urges Men To New Peak ToSmashGermans   Enemy Stopped In Belgium But Veil Hangs Over Dangerous Situation In Luxembourg

LUXEMSOURG OFFENSIVE CONTINUES   Eisenhower Calls On Men to Rise To New Heights

Still Surging Forward In Center And South Reported  ONLY 40 MILES OF  FRENCH FRONTIER  Crisis To Determine If Germany Can Be Crushed Quickly

EISENHOWER ASKS — MEN TO TURN NAZI GAMBLETODEFEAT   First Encouraging Report Since Nazi Thrust Was Launched Six Days . Ago—Fierce F ighting Still In Progress To South

Supreme Commander Calls On Allies to Hand Germans Most Disastrous Defeat

Situation Elsewhere Considered. Critical   Great Battle to Determine Whether Huns Will  Be Crushed Now or War Prolonged for Months

DEWEY WOULD PROTECT LABOF   Wants Clearer Definition of  Workers’ Rights

Dewey Confers on Labor   G. O. P. Candidate Pledges Economic Development of West

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Ascociated Preay War Analyvet

—By DeWitt Mackenzie (¢P)   Holding Action May Explode War In His Face— ——By DeWitt Mack  Hitler Must Pull Armies Into Inner Fort

The War Today   Hitler Still Formidable if He Gets  Tennne Rar: Tneida Caormanr

When Jubilant Russians Heard of Invasion Yesterday They Cried “Victory This Year.” Germans Had Another Cry: “The Supreme Hour Hac Struck” .

- Russians Cry ‘Victory This Year’  ‘Moscow Elated Over ‘New Blow in France

,  WAR TODAY   “Final Hour’? Arrives For Hitler As Allies Drive Thru France and Reds Hit Nazis On Factern Front

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Nazis Have Chance For Last Stand   Reich Inner Fortress Will Preseat Large Obstacle For Allies Te Crack Open

FDR DELEGATE TOTAL IS 677   President Has Enough Convention Votes for 4th Term Nomination

Demos Put 86 Delegates Gn FDR's Side   Primaries Shove President's Total Above Majority

DELEGATES LINE UP FOR DEWEY   Democrats In California And New Jersey Give 86 To Roosevelt

ROOSEVELT GAINS MAJORITY OF VOTE   President Has Total of 677 Convention Delegates Pledaed

Roosevelt Gets Over Majority Of Delegates   Dewey, Warren Pick Up Votes in California, New Jersey Balloting

Rooseveli Now Has Majority Of Delegates   New Jersey and Californie Democrats Add 86 More to Total   Has Total of 677

JOAN QUIZZE FURTHER ABOUT CHAPLIN TRYST   Giesler Plans To Inquire  About ‘Newly Discov ered Facts

Joan Berry On Stand Again In Trial Of Chaplin   Defense Grills Star Witness

Russians Drive Between Two Polish Cities, Brest Litovsk Railway Only 12 Miles Away

REDS THREATEN BREST LITOVOK, is NAZI FORTRESS   Swift-Moving Russians Reach Crossroad Town of Wydomlya 16 Miles North of Stronghold.   410 PLACES CAPTURED IN DAY’S FIGHTING   Front-Line Soviet Planes Strafe East Prussia—Fresh —   Enemy Units Fail to  Stem Advance.

Soviet Offensive _ Pushes Forwarc   Vydomlya Near Strategic Railway Taken: Far Reaching Gains Place Reds With 17 Miles Of Bug River Partition Line

Reds Smash Ahead: Russians Gain 40 Miles in Drive For Bialystok and Brest Lifovsk   Strong Frontal Drives   Reds Extend Gains   410 Towns Captured

Today In Washington FDR Hints He Will go To Britain   Believed Planning Talk With Churchill And Getting Closer View Of War Activities

‘Nine Children Perish In Fires   Five In One Family, Four In Another Die

OPA CLAMPS DOWN ON SLAUGHTERHOUSE   Ration Point Shortage Admitted by Owner

Roosevelt Says Congress Will Work With Him      Charges GOP Builds Party Spife Fence

Need Teamwork o Assure Peace,  ys Roosevelt Charges GOP Threater  Cancreee Onnosition   Charges GOP Threaten: Congress Opposition If He’s Re-Elected

Charges By GOP Scored By Roosevelt   Declares Congress : Still Co-operating

IFDR Charges Dewey Using Panic Tactics   Says Campaign Mar red by Whisperings And Rumorings

Roosevelt Sees Party Spite Fence   NEW DEAL CANDIDATE SAYS IE CONGRESS DISAGREES WITH PRESIDENT IT WILL OPPOSE PEACE   Speaks From White House

ROOSEVELT IN NEXT-TO-LAST CAMPAIGN TALK   President Promises Orderly Reconversion; Warns Against Rumors   FOR CONTINUANCE OF NATIONAL TEAMWORK

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS TO RADIO AUDIENCE      Threat to Build Party Spite Fence Charged by President

Nazis Making Strong Effort To Defend Touton   Report Tank Paced Column Has Reached Outskirts Of Great Naval Base   INVASION FORCES EXTENDING GAINS

NAZIS RENEW CASSINO FIGHT   Repel Light German Drive North of Bastion

Nazis Attack  In Cassino   Allied Troops and Guns Repulse Move Against Hill Positions

Cassino Hill Driveof Nazis Thrown Back   35th Holds Fast to Castle ’ Ker: Fee’s Beachhead Thrusts Broken

ALLIES THROW BACK, SMALL NAZI ATTACK   Answer German Barrage or Castle Hill Near Cassino With Sharp Fire.

mal German flack Beaten   Nazis Renew Artillery Fire Castle Hill On Cassino Front

Nazi Attack Thrown Baek By Allied Troops: Other German Assaults At Anzio Repulsed

NAZIS LAUNG SMALL ATTACK AGAINST U. S.   Allied Bombers Blast Railway Junctions

Allies Repulse ‘Cassino Attack; ‘Gun Duels Rage   Germans Using 280 MM Long Range. Guns At Beachh ead.

Allies Repulse _ New Nazi Drive   NAZI ATTACK.’ HURLED BACK IN. CASSINO SECTOR.

Crea BASES ARE SOUGH   FOREIGN RELATIONS CHAIR. MAN REITERATES DEMAND ‘U, 8., RETAIN ISLANDS —

Need Island Bases   Sen. Connally Urges Acquiring Them As Defense Areas

1,500,000 Dead In Polish Town   Nazi Mass Murders Told To All Moscow

Four Persons Burn to Death Near Erie   Another Badly Burned When Blasts and Fire Destroy Cottage Home

4 Lose Lives In Erie Fire   Fifth Victim of Laike Shore Cottage Blast Not Expected to Live

PORTRAIT OF THE ENEMY: ‘How About Warsaw? And Rotterdam? And London?’

AIR BOMBING NOT WAR, ‘CRIMINAL,’ SCREAM ROUTED NAZI PARACHUTISTS

“Society of Goldbrick Papas’ Gets Members from Troop Carrier Unit

Screaming, Terrified Germans Run ‘Into Yank Lines te Escape Air Assault

When Nazi Bombs, It’s Defensive; When Allies Bomb, It 1s Criminal

' Air Bombardment Terrorizes Supermen  Yanks Flush Covey of       Nazi Chutists

Nazis Say Aerial Assault Criminal   Captured Parachutists Terrorized by Attack Over Normandy.

Soft Coal Shortage Forecast  Soft Coal Shortage Forecast .  Drastic Reduction Predicted By Administrator Of Fuels

Details of Daring Capture of German iGeneral from His Headquarters Told

British Capture Nazi Commander of Crete in Flawless Story-Book Coup

British Kidnap German General   Division Commander In Crete Captured On April 26

FDR Declares Fate Of Rome Now Lies With Germans  President Replies To Plea From AAinictar af Eira

Fate Of Rome Rests Entirely With German:   Rooseyelt Asserts In His Reply To De Valera That Nazi Troops Are Entrenched In Rome

Nazis Proclaim Rome Open City   Want De Valera To Induce Allies To Help Preserve City.

Germany Can Save Rome,  Eire is Told   Roosevelt Replies To Plea From Eamon de Valera

Fate of Rome Up to Nazis   F. R. Makes Reply to De Valera in Regard To Open City Policy

Fate of Rome Nazi Problem: ‘Asserts FDR   Replies to DeValera’s Re quest That Holy City Be Spared —

FDR Claims Rome’s Fate Up to Nazis   Replies to Plea From De Valera to Spare Religious Center —

Rome's Fate Rests With Germans, FDR Writes De Valera   President Replies to Plea Eternal City Be Declared Open

Germans Hold Fate Of Rome. KDR Declares   Statement Made After Nazis Re-Assert It Has Been Made An Open City

FR. Writes De Valera That Fate of Rome Rests With Nazi Government

Fate of Rome Is  In Nazis’ Hands   Roosevelt Replies to De Valera of Eire That Rome Be Spared.

De Valera Told F. D. Sees Rome At Nazis’ Mere;   Views No Question Arising On Eternal City’s Fate Tf Germans Decamped

Fate OfRome Up To Nazis, Says F.D.R.   Germans Claim ‘Open City’ Status For Capital Through Irish Prime Minister De Valera

Puts Rome Fate Up to Nazis   FDR Explains View In Reply to De Valera

NAZIS PROCLAIM ROME OPEN CITY   Irish Premier Acts As Intermediary to Save Area From Destruction

PROCLAIM AGAIN ROME OPEN CITY   GERMANS .REPLY TO DE VALERA REQUEST TO SPARE HOLY CITY

Berlin Claims Rome Actually An ‘Open City   Urge Eire Prime Minister To Get U. §, and Britain Agreement On Halting Aerial Attacks

Rome’s Fate Up To Nazis, F. D. R.   Germans Claim Rome Is Demilitarized And Is Open City.

Rome's Fate Rests With Nazis, Roosevelt Tells Eire's Eamon De Valera

ROOSEVELT SAYS THE FATE OF ROME _ RESTS WITH NAZIS   ‘This Announcement Made by ~ President in Response to a Plea.   (MESSAGE DATED APRIL 3      Hf German Forces Were Not Entrenched in City Then  No Question Would Arise.

NAZIS CLAIM ROME AS OPEN CITY AGAIN   Enemy Traffic Seen Moving In Citv

FDR Declares Fate Of Rome Now Lies With Germans  President Replies To Plea From BA atotne we Clea

GERMANS HOLDING FUTURE OF ROME ROOSEVELT SAYS   DeValera’s Plea That Belligerents Save Sacred, Ancient Crty Are Given to Public.   ROOSEVELT’S ANSWER REVEALED IN DUBLIN   President Says Efforts Hat Been Made to Spare Monuments, DNB Calls Rads Sensalass.

EIRE TOLD FATE OF ROME DEPENDS ON NAZIS ALONE   Statement Made. by FDR to ‘DeValera As Germans Seek to'Declare Rome An “Open “City” — Allies Spare Cul fieern!) Ohiaorke

First Army, Germans Fight For Small Town In Aachen Area; Most Of Foe Cleared From Below Holland Deep   (BULLETIN)

Parisians wheel buggies, bicycles into countryside in quest fer food

PARISIANS BEGIN SEARCH FOR FOOD   THOUSANDS STREAM OUT OF CITY TO SEEK SUPPLIES ON NEARBY FARMS.

Food a Problerr in Freed Paris  Great Exodus Starts to the Countryside

MARGARET SULLIVAN PASSES HERE TODAY   Private Funeral Services to Be Conducted for Old Resident.

KATHRYN SULLIVAN ONES THURSDAY EVE   Private Funeral Services to Be Held at Home Saturday Afternoon.

New Gains By Allies In Italy   Both Ends Of Enemy's New Front Is Being Smashed By Troops

Cisterna’s Fall Allows Occupation of the Pontine Marsh Area   PIEDMONTE AND EQUINO ALSO CAPTURED AS ALLIES SMASH FORWARD ON BOTH ENDS OF THE STRONG NEW NAZI LINE

Nazi Strongholds Of Piedmonte and Aquino Captured By Our Troops.

New Deal Hit in Hoover Talk   Totalitarianism to Result, He Says

ALLIES TAKE SEVEN TOWNS   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMUEG PUSH FORWARD DESPITE INCREASING NAZI  . OPPOSITION :

FRESH T ENTER TOWN BY ANCIENT CAVES   Underground Passages  Explain Why Germans Survived Air Attacks

-Tunnels Aid Foe to Block -Allied Effort   Artillery on Anzio Beachhead Smashes German Tank Push

NAZIS ENTER — CASINO = THRU TUNNELS   Have Re-captured One Quarter of Ruined Town

NAZIS TAKE ONE FOURTH OF CASSINO   Reinforcements Sent In Using 400Year Old Tunnels

ENEMY HOLDS QNE-FOURTH OF RUINED TOWN   Germans Reported Entering Through Series of Ancient Tunnels.

Germans Shuttle Troops Thru 16th Century Tunnels   Ancient Maze Believed Shelter Nazis Used Against Bombing

Ancient Tunnels in Use   General Situation Un - changed; Fighting  Is Heavy

NAZ IS RETAKE ONE QUARTER OF RUINED CASSINO   Heavy Fighting Continues, But Battle Lines Are LInehaneed

TUNNELS HELP NAZIS TIGHTEN CASSINO HOLD   Germans Recapture OneFourth Of Ruined Strong Point

Nazi Reinforcements Enter City Through Series Of Ancient Tunnels; Heavy Fighting Is Continua

German Troops Use Old Tunnels    Reinforcements Enter Cassino,  Where Heavy Fighting With  Allies Continues

Navy Man Tells Of Fist Fight Over Roosevelt   Beset by Teamsters When He Refused To Support F. D. R.

Two Naval Officers Beaten By Members Of Teamsters Union In Washington Hotel   Young Lieutenant Says Men Became Infuriated When! He And Companion Refused To Declare In Favor Oi Roosevelt’s Re-election; Friend Of President Involved

Brawl Breaks Out At Statler Hotel   Navy Men and Members Of Union. in Hotel Scuffle

Fight Occurs After FDR Talk   Naval Officer Says He Was Beset By Teamsters Union Members in Statler.

Teamsters “Hit The Deck” As Recuperating Vets Open Up Pair Claim Union Men Accuse Them Of Disloyalty To FDR

Teamsters “Hit The Deck” As Recuperating Vets Open Up Pair Claim Union Men Accuse Them Of Disloyalty To FDR         Critical Shortage Of Help Endangers Cotton Harvest Over Whole Production Beli

Fists Flew After F.D.R. MadeSpeech   TEAMSTERS UNION MEMBERS ACCUSED OF BEATING UP DIsABLED NAVY MEN FOR NOT FAVORING FDR.   Tobin Denies Participating

_ Fists Fly in Campaign: Officer Resents Political Quiz By Unionists in Statler Hotel

OFFICER FLOORS UNIONISTS IN CAPITAL MELEE   Lieutenant Says He Was Beset By Men After Roosevelt Speech

OFFICER TELLS OF HOTEL FIST FIGHT   Lieutenant Says Union Members Started Fight Over Politics ,

FOG PARALYZES OHIO TRAFFIC   Ground Planes, Advise Public To Stay in Homes

77th Division Gains 3 Miles in 24 Hours   Six Other Groups Tighten Pincers on Jap Garrison

YANKS THRUST INTO OUTSKIRTS OF ORMOC PORT   Japs Are Caught Off Balance by Amphibious Blow on Leyte Island

Yanks Tighten Stranglehold On Jap Troops   U. S- 77th Division Seizes Camp Downes, ® Threaten Enemy Rear

Americans Thrust Tc Outskirts Of Ormoc   Threaten To Roll Up Rear Of Enemy Forces On Leyte Island

Jap Forces — Are Caught Off Balance   YANKS MAKE THREE-MILE ADVANCE ON BEACHHEAD TAKEN 24 HOURS EARLIER

Drive Threatens , To Roll Up Rear of Enemy Forces   Speed of Advances Indicates New Landing Caught Foe Off Guard

Yanks Reach Ormoc’s Gate   Thrust Threatening Jap Force in North

U.S. 77th In Ormoce Outskirts   Six Other Yank Divisions Tighten Stranglehold on 50,000 Jap Troops

YANK N ORMOC; EXPECT CAPTURE SOON   77th Division Reaches Outskirts of Leyte Port: Other Units Tighten Noose on 40,000 Jans.

YANKS REACH OUTSKIRTS OF ORMOC   Believe Fall of Main Jap Leyte Base Imminent

New Guinea, New Britain Bases Hit   Jap Fighter Protection Said Very Light -

Cape Hoskins Base Pounded   MacArthur Reports On Japo Weaknesses

MEETS TITO IN LIBERATED AREA OF YUGOSLAVIA   REPRESENTATIVE OF ALLIED PRESS TELLS OF VISIT BEHIND LINES

Part Of Yugoslavia Liberated.  Foreign Newsmen Find On Trir   By STOYAN PRIBICHEVICH   By STOYAN PRIBICHEVICH

Experiences in Mountainuous Balkan Country Told by War Correspondents Who Find Partisan  Followers Sworn to Obtain Liberty or Die in the Effort ‘

Roosevelt, Churchill Cheered By Tito’s Battling Partisans   Hy SPOVAN PRIBICHEVICH Representing the combined Ameri. ean and Uritish Press Distributed  iae ttre SB emsrcciontded Peeaae.

CORRESPONDENT MAKES TOUR OF CERTAIN PARTS OF YUGOSLAVIA AND REALLY FINDS LIBERATION

Visit To “Tito” Chief — Of Yugoslav. Army Told; Story Held By Censor

Vital Saipan Height Taken By Americans   Planes Blast Guam, Rota; Japs Losing in India, Burma, China

Americans Take Strategic Peak On Saipan Island  Capture Control Of Magicienne Bay ; Cuam Rata Rambed

Yanks. Capture Mt. Tapotchau On Saipan   Developments Prompt High-Office Confidence All Marianas Will Fall

FOURTH TERM DRIVE BOOMED BY DEMOCRATS   Hannegan Named Chaitman; Chicago Gets  "44 Meet

Norway Troops Invade Homelanc   Join Russians In Operations Against Germans  On Home Soil.

Battle Germans In Icy Weather On Arctic Front      Nazis in Retreat To Defense Lines

Norwegians Operate With Reds  Against Nazis on Arctic Front   Retreating Germans Said To Be Leaving Trail Of Great Deyastation -

Norwegian Troops Join With ~ Reds On The Arctic Front   Forces Re-invade Their Own Homeland From the British Isles—Small Vanguard Headed by Col. Arne Dahl

NORWAY JOINS ALLIED DRIVE   Detachments Return Ti Assist Russians In Fighting Germans

OPERATING WITH RUSSIANS AGAINST NAZIS IN ARCTIC   Germans, in Retreat Over Barren Wastes, Prepare  Defenses for Feared — Western Invasion. _ .   VANGUARD NUMBERS  UNDER 500 TROOPS   Trail of “Nightmarish Devastation” Being Left Behind by Fleeing “Supermen” in Finnmark.

TINGRWEGIANS FIRETURN 10 TIGHT NAZIS   STAGE IS SEIN FOR FALL GFR! BUDAPEST   In Homeland As Retreating Enemy Devastates Country; Land in North From British Isles.   200,000 Nazis

Norse Troops Enter Norway, Join Russian:   Trained Commando Forces Ready to: Tackle Nazis  Blane Tne BMeita

Norwegians Go Back Home and  Battle Germans   Troops Re-Invade Own Homeland from Britain As Nazis Devastating Nation in Retreat

NORSE RETUR TO HOMELAND   Troops From British Isles Operate With Soviet Forces Aaqainst Nazic in Arctic

Norwegians Go Home To Aid Reds   First Detachments Swarm Ashore In Far North Since “4]

Norwegian Troops Invade Home Land to Fight With  Soviets Against Germans

THE WELLSBORO "HONOR ROLL   Pupils Who Had ‘Average Of B Or Better For The School Year, °

THE WELLSBORO-‘ HONOR ROL   the Felony bpd JE ave verage Or Better For The Second Six Weeks  Of Sehael

Nazi impositions in Netherlands Are Summarized  Executions Total 20,000; Butch Sabotage Grows

NAZIS SEIZING DUTCH WEALTH   Thousands Executed. Other: Exported For Slave Labor

Conquest Of Rome Cost 07.529 Men   U. S. Casualties For War Mount To 217,131

Rome Cost U. S. 2379 Lives   Since Landing In Italy American Casualties Totaled 57.592.

WAR CASUALTIES NOW AT 217,131   Rome Campaign Costly Stimson Reveals

Rome Battle Cost 2,379 U.S. Troops   Casualty Figures Given By Stimson

YANKS SEIZE KEY JUNCTION   Capture Civita Castellana Shortly After Taking  Civitavecchia

Germans Flee North In Ital   Fifth, Eighth Armies Drive Ahead Fast

Stimson Says Fight In Italy Took 2,379 U.S. Troops  Casualties Are Listed For 3-Day Period; Only 278 Are Killed

CASUALTIES 10 MAY 25, 207,48      Those in Italian Campaign To May 30 Amounted to 57.529.

\llies Capture (ivitavecehia, Port 38 Miles Beyond Rome   \yis Continue Flight in Bad State of Demoralization   9379 U. S. Casualties In 3-Day Rome Fight

STALIN TO URGE ALLIES KEEP UP WARTIME ARMIES   Wants “Big. Three” to Maintain Big Armies During Peace

DANOUIET   Elaborate Three And Half Hour Banquet Given Honoring Churchill

Nazis “Resist Desperately” As Twin Russian Armies Batter Sevastopol Defenses

Nazis Fighting ‘To Bitter End ‘At Sevastopol   Germans Heap Blockailes in Path Of Crack Red Units

Red Marines Driving On Great Port   Town Of Balaklava Taken By Russians In Furious Assault

RUSSIAN MARINES MOVING TO JOIN THE  STH UKRAINE ARMY   Pushed Through the. Valleys Southeast of Sevastopol, Soviets Report.   GERMANS RESISTING   Nazis Leaving as Many Obstacles as Possible in Way of Allied Troops.

Balaklava, Historical Town, Taken   Reds Tightening Gir On . Sevastopol, the Black Sea Port

AXIS TROOPS RESIST REDS IN CRIMEAN   Russian Marines  Now In Sight Of Sevestopol

a Aen ‘Kussian Marines Fight Tough Germans   Marines Apparently About to Join Fourth Ukrainian Army for Sevastopo]. Attack

Axis Garrison at Sevastopol Fighting Hard   Crack Soviet Marines Moving to Junction With Fourth Army

Resistance Stiffens at Sevastopol   Marine Units On Verge of Joining With Fourth Army

Soviets Report Enemy Putting Up Bitter Stand At Sevastopol   Nazis Machine - Gunning Romanians Who Try to Flee

Red Armies Batter at Sevastopol: On Verge of Juncture   Germans Offer Desperate Resistance as Reds  Forge Ahead

NAZIS BATTL TO PREVENT JUNCTION   Famed Balaklava Captured By Soviet Marines   OBSTACLES   Thrown In Route Of Reds: Retreating Enemy Hit By Many Warships

Vrach OHOviel Marimes On Verge of: “Mer: ger With Fourth Army.  BALAKLAVA SEIZED         Tremendous . Barricades Hurdled by Red Army Troops

AXIS RESIST CRACK SOVIET MARINE PUSH   But Russians Advance Toward a Junction of Two Armies at Sevastopol.   Romanians Are Fired  On If They Retreat

Soviets Encounter Stiff Resistance In Sevastopol Smash   Crack Marines Near Merger With Fourth Ukraine Army After Capturing Coast Town Of Balaklava; Nazis Hurl Every Possible Barrier In Reds’ Path

CRACK SOVIET MARINES PUSH TOWARD CITY   Expect to Join Fourth Army in Assault on Doomed Port

AXIS DESPERATELY RESISTING RUSSIAN ARMY AT SEVASTOPOL   EVERY POSSIBLE OBSTACLE THROWN IN WAY OF REDS CLOSING IN

Battle Swirls To Southwest Sevastopol   City in Flames as Rus sians Throw Crack Marines Against Rarricades

Sevastopol ' Defenders Are Waging Hard. Fight   Crack Red Forces Converze On Port

Sevastopol  Defense Is Desperate   Obstacles Heaped In Path of Crack  Soviet Marines

Soviets Face Stiffer Nazi Effort   Enemy Is Resisting Desperately as Reds Slash Ahead

GERMANS PUT UP HARD FIGHT rn SEVASTOPOL   ‘Defenders Try To Block Union  of Russian Marines with Main Fourth Army.

Reds Meei Senet: Resistance   Germans Are:Heaping Man} Obstacles in Path of ::* Russian Marines   NEAR A JUNCTION WITH FOURTH ARMY   @ Soviets Dominate Seas and “Air In Attack on ~* Sevastopol

SOVIET MARINES DRIVE NEARER SEVASTOPOL   Nazis Kill Rumanian Troops If They Attempt to Retreat or Surrender

Nazis Hurl Heavy As. sault In Western Ukra: ine To Halt. Red Ad: vance on Lwow Along Short Route to Ger.  WANA.

GERMANS RESIST DESPERATELY AS SOVIETS ADVANGE   TURN MACHINE GUNS ON ROMANIAN ALLIES AT SIGNS OF RETREAT

IS RESISTING      Crack Russian Marines Push Through Vatleys Near Sevastopol.

Nazis Stiffen Resistance To Russ Marines   Soviets Press Beyond Balaklava To Within Sight Of Besieged, Rasnine Gevestenel -.

Sevastopol Assault Is Intensified   Russian Marines Expected To Join Up With Main Body Of Ukraine Army For Combined Attack

Russians Report  ~ Severe Fighting   GERMANS RESISTING RED '. OFFENSIVE INTO CRIMEA.

PLACE MANY OBSTACLES IN _ WAY OF REDS   Defenders of. 3 of Big Black Sea . Port Blow  Up Bridges and Fire on Romanian Allies When They Trv to Give Up.

Russian Marines Nearing Juncture WithUkrainians   Declare Germans Heaping Obstacles In Way Of Advancing Red Armies

Noose Tightens Around Enemy In Sevastopo   Axis: Troops Fighting Desperately But Reds Gain Ground

Nazis Battle Fiercely At Sevastopol   Offer Desperate Resist. ance To Two-Way Rus: sian Onslaucht.

Russians Meet Stout Defense   Germans Pile Up Obstacles As Reds, in Sight of Sevastopol, Close In

Twin Red Armies Batter at Defenses Around Sector   Yeremenko’s Marines Capture Coast Town _OFf Historic Balaklava

Russians Push Closer To Key Black Sea Port   Red Marines Hurl Nazis Back In Valleys Near  Sevastopol, Capture  Historic Town   Soviet Warplanes Bomb Big Seaport   Two Huge Armies Driving On Han-Held Base; Many Nazis Killed Trving to Make Escape

SOVIET TROOPS TAKE BALAKLAV! EAST OF PORT   Russians Span River Valleys, Heights In Great Drive

dates Holding  n To Sevastopol   Crack Russian Marines Are 7 Pushing Thru Valley Near City   BALAKLAVA IS TAKEN   Nazi Troops Are Blowing Up Bridges Across Mountain Streams

RED MARINES AVANCE ON SEVASTOPOL.      Move to Join Fourth Ukraine Army For Assault On Port ©

Doomed Germans Fight Desperately At Sevastopol   Russian Marines on Verge of Joining Main Army for Combined Assault on Port

TWIN RUSSIAN ARMIES HIT AT SEVASTOPOL   Germans Put as Many Obstacles as They Can in Way of Blowing Up Bridges and Streams   NOW IN SIGHT OF PORT

JUNCTION OF TWO BED ARMIES NEAR   German Machine-Gunners Reported Firing “On Romanian Allies   BRIDGES WRECKED   Russian Maritime Army In Sight Of Important Sea Port .

Desperate Fight for  Sevastopol   Germans Pile up Many Obstacles  To Keep Russians From Taking City

Dewey Is Pleased With Results Of Conference   Presidential Nominee Starts Home From GOP Governors’ Meet

MATTOON FOLKS GREET NOMINEE   ® DEWEY CONFIDENT OF GOP POLITICAL JNITY IN NOVEMBER

Yewey Heads Home Confident 'That GOP Conference Harmony Will Bring Victory

DEWEY HOME BOUND 1S PLEASED WITH GOVERNORS’ PARLEY   Feels Results of Republican Governors’ Conference Will  . Greatly Aid GOP Cause at Election Time—-Makes Two Train Talks

Unrest Spreads Fast In France   Reich Itself Also Reported Restless

French Patriots Increase  Sabotage and Resistance  Every French Village Offers Medical Assistance, Information to Allies 

Unrest Spreads Fast In France   Reich Itself Also  Reported Restless By NED NORDNESS _

Resistance Of French Mounts  Sabotage Increasing; Unrest In Germany

Insurrection, Sabotage Hit France   Homeland Resistance Rises, Villagers Give Invaders Help _

Uprisings  Spreading  In France   Pitched Battles Reported; Many Pro-Nazis Slain

French Resistance Rises; Patriot Sabotage Spreads   Pitched Battles Flare Behind Nazi Lines; 2000 Nazis Engaged In One District Alone

FRENCH PATRIOTS ~ FIGHT GERMANS   SABOTAGE AND INSURREC- TION ON INCREASE ALL. OVER THE NATION,

Insurrections Growing Over Entire Natior   Maltiplying Blows Againat Germans Being Struck Since Allied  Invasion   Unrest Reported In Reich Itself   French Patriots Fighting Battles With Occupation Troops Behind Ger man Lines

PATRIOTS AIDING ALLIES; HAIL DE GAULLE AS HERO   Collaborationists Meet ing With Disaster; Unrest Prevails  In Reich

Nip Convoy Under Heavy Air Attack   Entire Group Of Vessels May Have Reen Wrecked

AIRMEN HIT 6 NIP SHIPS IN CONVOY   Rabaul Blasted In 2-Day Attack; 44 Planes Destroyed   Rebaul Hit Vard

Jap Convoy Smashed In Allied Raid   Five Freighters Caught Off New Ireland Sunk By Bomber Force.

Allied Airmen Take Toll of Enemy Convoy   Halt Supplies Being Sent to Bismarck Area

‘Allies Destroy: Six Jap Ships hh Bismarck Raid   Intercept Big Convoy; Down 64 Enemy Planes In Aerial Assaults

Allied Fliers Send Convoy To Bottom   Airmen Catch Five Ships—Trapped Division Gets Aid

MANILA ATTACK BLASTS 14 SHIPS AND 158 PLANES   Jap Shipping and Air Power - Reel Under Heavy Air Blows

‘NAVY AGAIN BLASTS JAPANESE SHIPS   GROUND INSTALLATIONS ALSO AIR FORCE. al   ‘At Least 14 Jap Ships And 130 Planes Bagged

MANILA RAID KNOCKED OUT _ MANY PLANES   CARRIER-BASED AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DEALT ANOTHER BLOW AT ENEMY PHIL IP. PINES DEFEN

INDIAN CORN PLANTING IS COMPLETED   Most of County’s Soy Bean Crop Also in Ground

RELATIONS WITH ITALY STRESSED   Stettinius Believes Progress Toward Peace To Result From New Action

FOR RETURN TO PEACE   Statement Is Issued to Clarify American-Italian Relations

TEN DIVISIONS ARE CUT OFF IN DNIEPER BEND   Russian Triple-Pronged Offensive Pushes On Pskov, Gateway To Latvia

DEATH RAID ON TRAPPED NAZI ARMIES NEARS   Reds Mass Swarms of Aircraft   GERMANS ROUTED   Russians Closing In on Pskov

Aur Feree Over Area   Planes Used In Battle To Wipe Out Nazi Army

SOLON DEMANDS INVESTIGATION OF GAS WASTE   Army Accused Of ‘Criminally Burning Carloads Of Low-Test Gasoline’   SCHOOL HEAD COMPLAINS   Says Idaho Base Destroys Fuel Below Standard Octane Rating

SAY LOW-TEST GAS DESTROYED   Rep. White Demands Probe Of Fuel Waste Stories

Reports Army. Criminally. Burns I\Carloads of Low-Test Gasoline .

 Japanese Command Again Shuffled  : Tojo Relieved As Army Chief;  {Says Nation Is Facing Crisis

Tojo ls Relieved as Chief of Army General Staff: Warns of Crisis   Marks Second Sweeping Shakeup of Japan s High Command in Two Days

Premier Toje Removed As Army Chief   Yokyo Admits Japan Faces Great National Crisis, Cites Loss of Saipan

TOJO OUT AS ARMY ~— CHIEF OF STAFF   PREMIER RETAINS. OTHER POSTS—SECOND SWEEPING SHAKEUP IN JAPAN,

Tojo Replaced in Sweeping Shakeup Of Nips Conunand  “Great Nuthaal Crisis” Causas Seco..d Change

TOJO RELIEVED AS ARMY CHIEF   Japan’s High Command Shaken Up Again In Great Crisis

Tojo Calls It “an Unprecedentedly Great National Crisis” But Does Not Mention His Status

New $2,315,000,000 Tax Bill Enacted Over Veto to Go Into Effect During March, April   Luggage Tax Begins March 1; Postal Rates to Be Upped March 26; New Luxury Levy on Movies, Furs, Jewelry, Liquor April 1

Postal Rate To Increase   Local Mail to Cost 3-Cents on March 2¢

JAPS LOSE 41 SHIPS AND 107 MORE PLANES   New Sea- Air Attacks Revealed On 4,000Mile Front

U.S. Attacks On Widespread Pacific Front   41 More Japanese Ships Sunk or  Damaaned

41 Jap Vessels, 107 Planes Hit In U. S. Air Raids   *-Bonin, Volcano Isles Blasted; Philippines Attacked Four Times

41 More Nip Ships, 107 Planes Lashed By U.S. Navy, AAF   Bonin, Volcano Islands. Philippires Given New Air Blows

MORE JAPANESE SHIPS, PLANES HIT IN ATTACK   41 Ships, 107 Planes Are Sunk 0: Damaged Off Bonin, Voleanoes

American Air and Navy Forces Destroy 41 Japanese Vessels   107 Planes Also Destroyed In Sweeping Raids Over Weekend.

Yankee Raiders Blast 41 Ships and 107 Aircraft in Heavv Attacks in Pacific

41 MORE JAP SHIPS ARE DESTROYED   107 Planes Also Victims of 4Day Bombardment

Dewey Says FDR Sold Out Party   GOP Nominee Denounces Cynical Alliance of New  Deal vs. Communist:

THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF PEARL HARBOR FINDS U.S. BACK AT LEYTE. SAIPAN CIIAM

WAR HEROES TELL OF NEED OF HELP.   Gen. Bhcahavre's Envoys Speak to-300:at Com-:  ‘munity Meeting re   GIVE PLEDCE ‘TO ‘MEN.

WAR HEROES TELL OF NEED OF HELP   Gen. Eisenhower’s Envoys Speak to 300 at Com munity Meeting   \GIVE PLEDGE TO MEN

U.S. BOMBERS HIT JAPANESE SUB AT RABAUL   Freighter is Set Afire 12 to 27 Foe Aircraft Downed

Jap Submarine, 34 Planes Blasted In Rabaul Raid  10,000 Japanese Face Extinction  In Marshalls

Carroll County Member: of Armed Forces Do Their Share for the  4th War Loan

Rationing May Abate This Year   Four Items Under Restrictior Likely Available In Better Supply   TIRES

Smash Death Stand of Nazis With 4000 Tons: Of Bombs; Enemy Flees.

Civil War Is Flaring On Spain Border   Spanish Republicans Minimizing Reports

Mystery Radio Calls Germans  To Down Hitler   Speaker Savs He Is Von Beck; Urges Peopl  To Imprison Nazis

SPEAKER URGES ~HMTLER REVOL   Mysterious German Broadcast t Says ¢ Goerdeler, eal Alive

Hitler Enemy Urges Revolt   ‘Voice of Von Beck’ Addresses Germans

ARKANSAS SEEKS IMPROVEMENTS IN TEACHER STATUS   Council of Education Would Boost Pay Two Millions Annually.

German Aircraft A)utput Crippled   Results of Big Raid On Tuesday Shown

GIANT ATTAGK ON REICH REGARDED  MAJOR SUCCESS   Stimson Admits Americar Losses Were Heavy ; “nt Warth 

RAID EXPENSIVE, DAMAGING TO AXIS   Knife-Wielding Moroccans In Bloody Battle io Help Capture Cassino.

64 PLANES LOST IN RAID; NAZI AIR PLANTS HIT   Huge Raid Over Reich Deals Blow  ™. Peoduction

American Loss Set at 595 Men, $15,000,000 Worth of Allied Planes

SMASH THREE: OF GERMANY’S PLANE PLANTS         Is Shattering Blow to AntiInvasion Plans

Three Aircraft Plants Blasted  In German Raid   Loss of 64 Planes Offset By Damage Stimson Declares

NAZI PLANE PLANTS ARE SMASHED BY AMERICANS   Major Military Success Achieved At Casualty Rate “Not Undulv High’

Alles Hammer Plant Near Turin   U. S. Flying Fortresses At. tack Ball Bearing Plant In Air Raid

SERIOUS OIL SHORTAGE Is FACING IIS   Predicts Further Decrease For  Gas Users

BRISTOL FIGHTERS SEE MUCH ACTION   PFC Guerino Caione = In “Most Perfect Shooting Gallery of War’  rT nA are rr’ sys VAY SFY wk A WS

ITALY’S REDS ~— ARE IGNORED   STALIN... RECOGNIZES BADOCLIO. GOVERNMENT DESPITE OPPOSITION OF ITALIAN. COMMUNISTS AND BOCIALISTS -

Turkey Break: Relations With Germany  Fiwnarwu Narita Ul ~wn   Angry Nazis Warn Action May Be Prelude to War

Turkey Breaks Relations With Germany   Angry Nazis Warn Action May Be Prelude to War

SOVIET ARMY MAY STRIKE ~ NEAR BALTIC   ROMBING RAIDS MAY INDICATE RUSSIANS ARE ’ PLANNING DRIVE ON ‘ NORTHERN FRONT

PLOESTI AND BELGRADE HIT   Attacked By Heavy Bomber Group  wee ee  Smashed By ThreeProng Blow

AWAIT NEW RE BLOW IN NORTH   Soviet Bombers Pound New Targets in Baltic Area and Old Poland

Part y Session  Opens Monday   Democrats Begin Gathering For State Conventian

SOLDIER'S WIFE - GIVES BIRTH 10   BABIES IN GOOD CONDITION— STORE’S GENEROSITY, DAZES HUSBAND.

Paris Among Targets of 5,040 Ton Assault; Oil Fields, Capital of Romania Reported Hit by Yanks

1100 BOMBERS SENT BY RAF OVER EUROPE   Cologne, Paris, Berlin Bucharest Targets Of British

Sledgehammer Blows Rock Bucharest And Cologne; Parisians Cry For Relief As Terrific Air Pounding Continues To Shake Continent.

Watch Schacht Lochner Says   By L.OUIS P. LOCHNER (Former Chief of the Associated Press’ Berlin Bureau)

Bulgarian Troops Leave Greece; Hungarians’ [Resistance Near Collapse

Furious Fighting Rages on Saipan   Japs Make Strongest Stand of Pacific War

Invasion Forces Await German  Counterattacks  Reds Clear Nazis From 20-Mile Radius Of Leninerad

Japs Fail To Break Out of Island Circle   Our Defenses Sag But Are ~ Restored With Only Light Losses Later

300 Japs Killed In Futile Drive ‘On Yank Lines   Enemy Target In Kuriles Bombed By Liberators; American Plane Lost

Japs Lose Many Men In Futile New Attempt To Break American Lines

IAP LOSSES ARE ABOUT 75 101   Continue to Get The Worst of Fighting In Solomons

U. S. Warships Raid Mili Atoll; Planes Hit Guam   Ponape, In Caroline Islands, Is Also Attacked For Tenth Time In March During Sweeping Central Pacific Action

More Civilian Produce Granted   “Spot”? Authorization Includes More  N. C. Plants.

Good News for Housewives  $152,441,000 Civilian Goods Production Is Given Okeh

PB AUTHORIZES CIVILIAN. OUTPUT   772 Manufacturing Plants Get Orders Totalling - $169 441.000

Plant Mines From Budapest To Bucharest... .  Danube Is Strewn With Mines By Allies; Enemy Water Traffic Held Up

Great Danube : Ts Mined, All -. Traffic Ended   Tanker Exploded,Spreading Flames.on Water Which Fire: Other- Ships   ‘PRIMARY GERMAN : SHIPPING ROUTE   Allied Air: Crews. Perform Difficult, Low-Altitude Operation

Allies Mine Danube River   All Enemy Traffic Between Budapest and Bucharest Halted

Allied Airmen Mine the Danube  All Enemy Traffic Reported Halted

Allied Planes Mine Danube,  Halt Traffic   Mines Strewn Along 300  Miles, From Budapest  to Bucharest, In Ger» many’s Heavy Shipping \ Route.

Danube Strewr with Allied Mines For 300 Miles: All Traffic Halted

Groat Nanuhe Waterway Strewn With Mines By Allied Bombers To Halt Traffic Of Nazis 

THREE BOX CARS DERAILED      Tie-Up Near Olathe Results in Rerouting of Trains

Assails Germany's Ads in Holland   Systematic Ruin And Destruction, Says Premier

RAIL JUNCTION IS SEIZED WN 45-MILE DASH   Defenses Between Brittany And French Capital Are Ruptured

Americans By-Pass Important French Rail Center In Push Toward Paris.

McFarland Is Held For Grand Jury Action   Jury Deliberates Only 14 Minutes After Hearing Testimony.

Yanks Capture Terracina; Allies Expanding Breaks On Both Fronts In Italy

Allies Gain On Italian — Front Today   They Now Control One Mile Segment Of Th Appian Way

Violent Fighting Underway. Allies Pushing Of- fensive In All Sectors.

American Destroyer Explodes   At Least 163 Of Crew Of 225 Saved In Mystery Blast Off New York.

NO CHANGE IN MEAT POINTS   Some Cheeses And Canned Milk Up; Butter Is Unchanged

MEAT BUTTER VALUES SAME   Supply of Better Cuts Ter Per Cent Less During September

RATIONING NEWS FOR SEPTEMBER   Butter And Meat Point Values Same Through Next Month

All Rationed Meats to Have Present Point ‘Values Through September --Supply of Better Grades of Meat to be Smaller.

BLIGHT INCREASE IN BUPPLY OF MEAT BUT FEWER CHOICE BEEF-CUTS AVAILABLE. -

Meat Values Unichatized   Cheese, Canned. Milk ‘Points Are Boosted _

Meat Point Values Will Be Unchanged   Some Varieties OF _ Cheese To Toke More

MEAT, BUTTER POINTS STEAD)   Present Values Are Retained For September, Report

Point Values of Meat Unchanged   Cheese, Canned Milk Values Rise

POINT VALUES ARE UNCHANGEL   Meats Remain on Same Ration Value; Cheeses Get More Points.

MEAT POINTS T0 STAY UNCHANGEL   SOME VARIETIES OF CHEESE AND CANNED MILK TO COST MORE

POINT VALUES OF MEATS WILL BE UNCHANGED      Better Meat Supply Smaller. Many Cheese Items Up Two Points

OPA Announces Present Point Yalues Of Meats to Continue in September:

Points on Meat Will Stay Same   Many Cheese Types to Require More

DeGaulle Heads New Government Setup In France   To Hold Office Until Election

DE GAULLE HEADS GOVERNMENT NOW   No Election Yet; Waiting for Deported Frenchmen

French Set Up Provisional Government   De Gaulle Heads Provisional Ministry As Head of Council.

Provisional French Regime Set Up Under De Gaulle  Some Communists, Others Wh   Some Communists, Others Who Bear Assumed War Names, Are Included in Ministry

Truman Declares All He Wrote On Pearl Harbor ‘And More’ Is True   Senator Replies Promptly to Kimmel Charge His Statements Are ‘Untrue’

TRUMAN DEFENDS KIMMEL ARTICLE      SENATOR DECLARES EVERYTHING HE SAID ABOUT PEARL HARBOR TRUE.

Truman And Kimmel Get Supporters   REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH SAYS ‘WASHINGTON WAS TO BLAME’ FOR THE DISASTER; MAY WITH TRUMAN   Truth Wiil Amaze

M > IDENTIFY RA ALLEN’ ~ gDAY   Woman Believed Former Greenup Resident Once Declared Dead

Capt. Bong Gets His 27th Jap Plane   Becomes Top-Ranking Ace in Southwestern Pacific Area

NEW YANK ACE HAS 27 PLANES TO NAME   All of 27 Destroyed in Air for : New Record  '

AMERICAN ACE TOPS RECORD IN AIR COMBAT   Capt. Richard Bong Shoots Down 27 Enemy Planes To Beat Score Made In World War    RICKENBACKER ELATED

Wisconsin Captain Downs 27th Plane To Lead American Aces   Richard Bong Becomes Leader In Air Fighting Aver Gentile, Rickenbacker In Two World Wars

Bong Is Top Fighter Ace   His 27 Enemy Planes All Shot Down in Aerial Combat Against Japs

Capt. Bong Takes Lead As Army Ace   Pacific Fighter Shoots Down 27th Enemy Plane

Capt. Bong Is Ace Of All I Aces   Has Shot 27 Jap Planes Out Of Air

Total Reaches 27, All Bagged In Combat; Capt. Gentile’s Mark Includes 7 On Ground

WISCONSIN AGE LEADS AIRMEN   Capt. Richard . Bong Bags 27th Jap Plane in Pacific Campaign

—ALL IN AIR COMBAT—  Capt. Bong Scores 2/7 Victories   To Top Gentile And Become Ranking Ace

Capt. R.I. Bong ‘Top Ranking  pee aoe ' American Ace   Has Shot Down 27 Planes, One More Than Rickenbacker

Pacific Flier Now All-Time American Ace   Wisconsin Fighter Pilot  Has Shot Down 27 Planes in Combat.

Wisconsin Flier Leads All Other Airmen In ‘Number Of Enemy Planes Shot Down

Badger Flier Downs 27th Enemy Plane   Sets American Record For Number Knocked Out of Sky

GROUP NOTIFIED OF SERVICE EXAM   Twenty-three County Men Receive Notices of Pre-Induction Checks

FINLAND BALKING AT REPARATIONS   Parliamentary Decision Held Unlikely Until After Facter Holiday

FINLAND LEARNS PRICE OF PEACE   Swedish Press Reports Reds Ask 600 Million Reparations

Report Russians Ask for $600,000,000 'Renarations in Finnish Peace Terms

12,.000.000 Guerrillas To Harass      Patriots—Norway To Balkans—~Already Given  Plans By Allies   Action Awaits Only Word That Troops Have Landed On Western Shores

12,000 Guerilla. tots Prepare To Act Underground Ready For Invasion

“BUY BRA DRIVE SHAPES      Churchill Government Aids Campaign in Postwar Glohal Markets

Briton Asks US To Curb Exports   British Boosting Own Post War Trade Wants  America To Cut Down.

Declares There Can Be German Victory Means While Russian Victory Eurose

HITLER RETURNS TO OLD THEME   DECLARES ONLY REDS OR GERMANY CAN WIN WORLD STRUGGLE

HITLER RETURNS TO OLD THEME      Says Soviet Victory Will End Europe

HITLER DECLARES  ONLY GERMANY OR  RUSSIA CAN WIN NAZI FUEHRER SPEAKS  BRIEFLY ON ANNIVERCARY OF HIS RULE

HITLER'S LINE ON WAREND CHANGED   On 17th Anniversary as Rul. er He Declares Germans or Russians Victors.

Hitler Tries Again to Separate Big Three Allies.  Says Nazi.Germary  Or Soviet-Russia: Wo Be. Victore

Red Units Forge Solid Front On Czech Border   ,»—. Thrust Northward ‘ To Bottle Up Nazis In Tatar Pass Likely

WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING TO — WIN THE WAR   S oe & &.4.6.4.4.0.4.8.8.

4 ClO MEMBERS IN WLB SEATS   AFL Representatives Refuse To Consider ‘Fringe’ Demands of Steelworkers

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Kirke L. Simpson Says: Fate of Rome Must Be Decided  Within Hours if City Is Saved

DECISION IS NEAR ~ ON FATE OF ROME   WHETHER NAZIS WILL DEFEND CITY OR MOVE BEYOND IT IS UNCERTAIN.

om YY PRI RO bee Ripe  3ig-Scale German Night Retreat Is Started—  Fa Of Rome To Be Decided In A Few Hour:

GRAPE PRICE CEILING UPPED   Raised From $75 to $85 After Most of Crop Is Harvested

POUND GUSTAV LINE BLOCKING WAY T0 ROME   First Reports Indicate Stiff Fight, But No Cause for Alarm

Dewey Gives Repl To Hull Note,  Proposes Meeting  Attorney May Visit Secretary on Governor's Behalf

DEWEY 10 START SPEAKING DRIVE   NOMINEE TO “INVADE” BORDERLINE STATES

Dewey Aide To See Hull  G.0.P. Candidate Names N.Y. Attorns Ace Poace Envoy

Flying Costs Must Be Cut, Meeting Told   CAB Speaker Puts Emphasis On Planes With Low Operating Expense

Democrats Reply  To Dewey Attack  On Foreign Policy James M. Cox Rallies  To Aid of Former Campaign Partner

GEN, VON KLUGE © REPORTED KILLED   STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER SAYS GERMAN COMMANDER IN FRANCE IS DEAD,

Patton's Armor Takes Troyes, Heads for Saar   Nazis Pull Some Units From Rocket Coast As Yank, Canadian Armies Join Forces

British Tanks Move Out From Athens   Fighting Is Resumed Northeast of Capital After Lull

BRITISH SEND PATROLS OUT FROM ATHENS   Tanks, Armored Cars On Way To Meet Advancing Greek Bands

Athens Fight  Dying Down Snipers Still Giving Considerable Trouble  —_—_ eee a® ae 2 Be ae? ae

NEWBATTLEIS "MORIN CREC   ‘British Move Out Of AthU. ens To" Meet Insurgent “Blas:

Revolt Spreads In Greece Dessite British Pairols   Tommies Push from Athens in Tanks, Armored Cars, ELAS Armies Await Reinforcements

CIVIL STRIFE CONTINUING IN ATHENS AREAS   ELAS Getttng More Reserves for Their Battle Against British Troops in Capital City.

British Push From Athens To Meet Foe   700 Insurgent ELAS Militiamen Advancing Acainst Greek Capital

BRITISH BATTLE «GREEK UNITS IN ACROPOLIS ARE   Bitter Fighting Rages on As Halifax Announces British, U. S. Accord

Farmers Protest AAA Regulations   Demand Resignation of County Committee Chairman: Violence Reported.

FARMERS PROTEST AAA REGULATIONS   Ohio County Chairman _ Defies Demand That He Resign Post

Ohio Farmers In A Protest Against Gov't. Regulations  Set a Deadline for Chairman to Hand in Resignation

Russians Suffer Setbacks In Nazi Counter-Attacks Near Warsaw-East Prussia

Counter-Attacks Near Warsaw And Along East Prussian Front Force Soviets To Give Ground

Nazi Pressure Mounts But U. S. Lines Still Hold   Storm Cancels Air Blows in Beachhead Clash

Indications’ of “More-Fav able Weather Which. W: Release Allied ‘Planes:        BEACHHEAD SECURE. :: - AFTER: 4 HAR            ‘Captured on Beachhead ¢ ‘Enemy ‘Losses. Are Heavy.

Churchill Report Is Hopeful   Generals Say Rome Battle Will Be Won

BATTLE FOR ROME — WILL BE WON IS WORD TO CHURCHILL   British Prime Minister Says Commander Confi dent of Final Outcome

AMERICAN FORCES MAKE NEW GAINS ON CASSING FRONT   Beachhead Lines Holding Intact Despite Heavy German Attacks

THEIR REPORT IS PRESENTED TO CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Sees No Causes for Pessimism— Says Allied Forces in Bridgehead Greater Than First Planned.

Red Armies  Poise for Giant Drive   Soviet Expected To Lash Out Within 48 Hours   Yaqui, Cherokee Braves Drop From Skies, Spread Havoc Among Nazis

Vast Russian  Power To Be  Loosed Soon Eight Big Armies   Dandy Ear Stand}

RAF BOMBERS OVER EUROPE DURING NIGH)   Railway Targets Near Paris, Lyon Engine Works Hit by BritishBased Heavy Bombers.

RAF BOMBERS RAID FRANCE, WEST SERMANY      Biock Busters Hit Targets Ir France; Fire Bombs On Kiel

Daylight Raids Plaster Axis Over Wide Area   French Targets Hit By RAF; Mosquito Planes Batter Kiel

RAF Continues Heavy Blasting Of Nazi Europe   Night Raids Follow Up Daylight Pincer  Acscaults-

RAF Fleets Hit France, West Reich   Lyon, Vaires Feel Sting of Bombers; Plywoods Hit Kiel

BOMB FRANCE, WEST GERMANY   Alhed Airmen Engage in Widespread Raids

Axis Europe Heavily Raided By RAF Bombers   Many Targets Are Hit in France; Kiel Stune bv Mosquitoes

-YANKS SHOOT DOWN .48 GERMAN PLANES   Reluctant Luftwaffe Fights Another Losing Battle: RAF Night Bombers Hit France, West Germany

BRUNSWICK IS STRUCK DURING DAYLIGHT RAID   Attack Upon Aircraft Center In Reich Stirs Luftwaffe to Battle.

Extra Rations_  For Ill Revised   Local Boards May Issue Extra Rations For Only Certain Illnesses.

EXTRA FOOD RATIONS FOR SICK PERSONS   Revised Procedure For Granting Supplemental Coupons Hag Been Announced

Double Attack on  Invasion Coast _   American Heavy Bombers Make Two Trips To Pound Pas-de-Calais and Boulogne

BRICKER RAPS — BRITISH PRESS   Says Presidential Election in U. S. ‘None of Their Business’

BRICKER OUTLINES HIS STAND. ON SEVERAL CURRENT ISSUES   CRITICIZES EDEN’S PAPER FOR  BOOSTING ROOSEVELT—  OPPOSES SUBSIDIES AND FEDERAL BALLOT: -— 

Committee Estimates Government to Own $103,828,000,000 in Surplus Goods at End of War

U.S. Wamed on Postwar Surplus   Government to Own 104 Billions in Goods

American Flame Throwers Wipe Out ‘Nazi Machine Gun Nests Impending Fifth Army Progress on Italian Front

VIVID TALES OF FLAME THROWING TOLD IN ITALY   Chemical Warfare Tac‘tics Used on Nests, Pillboxes' *

Rear Adm. Mills Tells 282 Reserve Midshipmen Of Building . Success At Commissioning Exercises

NIPS CLAIM ISLES HIT THREE DAYS   Halsey’s Fleet Is Ir @ Action First Time In Assaults

Hodges’ Outfit Stuns Enemy With Swift Drive from bac Rolling Headlona for Rhine

Lightning Advance  at Ubach   Twin Drives Resumed as U.S. Forces Charge Rail City Defenses   Hodges’ Men Achieve Major Breakthrough; Are Beyond Nazi Line

Hodges’ Troops Rolling Through  Nazi Defenses   Resistance To First Army Collapses In Some Sectors of Front

Schools of County Are Buying Many Stamps and Bonds   Students and Teachers Have ” Panthased Total. of $33, 439 ~: In. Three-Month Period -

County Schools Make Record In Sale War Bonds   Chairman J. R. Grant Reports Sales of $33,439

Devastation Spread As 5,000 Raiders Drop 8,000 Tons Of Bombs On Europe

BIG ALLIED AIR * FLEETS SHOWER BOMBS ON FOE   5,000 U. S., British Planes From England and Italy Attack Europe

Allied Aerial Drive Reaches Into Germany   5000 American and British Planes Hurl 8000 Tons of Bombs On Occupied Europe

JAP PLAN T0 FLEE SAIPAN SHATTERED   Enemy Escape Barges Blasted by U.S. Artillery

ie Ma ae . See NG ENEMY, CROWDED INTO. BMALL AREA AND FINAL KNOCKOUT ‘ ATTACK. EXPECTED  oe . ANY HOUR :

Famous Paintings To Be Put-On Exhibition Again In New York Museum

EDR, Churchill May Be Present For Paris March   French Troops Will Head Allied Parade Under Arc de Triomphe.

London Paper Predicts Roosevelt. And Churchill Will Witness Grand Parade Through Liberated Capital

FDR, Churchill Will See Paris Parade, Report   Leaders To Mee  In France Soon

PLAN VICTORY PARADE      Roosevelt and Churchill May View Allied March Into Paris 

CIO Leader Indicted By — ~ Grand Jury   De Lorenzo Charged With False. Statements in WLB Affidavit

Labor Leader Indicted for Telling Lies   De Lorenzo Falsified Civil Service Statement Is Charge

COUNTY GROUP REPORT SOON IN INDUCTION CALL   Enter Armed Forces Soon After Pre-Induction Examinations.

CALL GROUP OF DRAFTEES FOR EXAMINATIONS   Pre-Induction Call Includes Small Group; Also Call Induction Quota.

Draft-Age Men  Given Warning   Will Be Reclassified On Leaving Vital Tob

GERMANS BEGIN EVACUATION OF FINN TERRITORY   Moscow Says There Were Distortions In Peace  Proclamation

Finns Must Break With Nazis---Reds   Hitler Reported™ Pulling Out Of Northern Finland

SOVIET SAYS FINNS NOT YET OUT OF WAR   Armistice Terms Not Met In Peace Proclamation By Premier Saturday; Russians Demand Fin land Break With Germans

rman Garrison Faces HopeJess Situation as Escape is  Cor OFF      RITISH COMMANDOS TAKE OVER KYTHERA

Allies land on Crete; nazis said leaving Peloponnesus  British Commandos unopposed in invasion of Kythera off mainland

Nazis Evacuate Large Part of Greece, Report   Peloponnesus Peninsula  Is Given Up

RADIO SAYS ALLIED UNITS INVADE CRETE   Morocco Broadcast Declares Landing Is Made in Strength on Northwest Part of Nazi-Held Island.

In Northwest Part Of Crete   Germans Reported Withdrawing From Islands Riuging Tip Of Greece

SAY ALLIES. HAVE LANDED ON CRETE   Enemy Garrison in Hopeles: Position Since Landing On Kvthera.

No Details. Announced Over Radio  In Morocco   “Germans Believed Fleeing : Islands’.

Nazi Garrison Appears To Be In Bad Position  Details Of Assault   Details Of Assault Not Yet Known; Other Islands Taker

ALLIED TROOPS LAND ON CRETE   Strong Forces Reported To Have Invaded Island Near Greece

STRONG ALLIED FORCE LANDED ON CRETE ISLE   German Garrison Appears in Hope less Position Because of Occupation by the Allies

STRONG ALLIED FORCES MAKE CRETE LANDING   Action Follows Earlier Seizure  By British Of Three   Greek Islands

Allies Make Landings On Isle Of Crete   Nazi Position Is Regarded As Being Hopeless

Strong Allied Forces Land In Crete, Morocco Radio Announces; Many Details Are Lacking

LARGE ALLIED FORCES SAID TOBELANDING   Nozi Garrison In Hopeless Position Due To Blockade

REPORT NAZIS RETREATING FROM GREECE   Believed Trying To Withdraw Into Yugoslavia

An Allied Landing On Crete Reported   But Morecco Radio Report Is Unconfirmed Nazi Evacuation of Other Islands Claimed

Allied Forces Land In Crete   Nazis Reported Withdrawing From Islands South of Greece

ALLIED LANDING ON CRETE AIRED   Morocco Radio Says Heavy Forces Are Put Ashore

LOWER GREECE EVACUATED BY GERMANS, SAIL   Report Only Rear Guard Left At Neck Of Big Peninsula

BRITISH LAND ON GREEK ISLE   GERMANS EVACUATE ALL PELOPONNESUS: CAIRO

EXPECT QUICK WIN ON ISLAND NEAR GREECE   Allies Take Over Kythera, Between Crete, Mainland

Crete Invaded By Allied Army   Details Lacking But Ger. man Garrison Appears In Hopeless In View of Kythera Gceupation

ALLIED FORCES LAND ON CRETE   German Garrisons Fleeing Islands Guarding Tip Of Greece

Allies Reported Landing Forces In North Crete   Believe British Occupation ~—~ Of -Island~ Of--KytheraDooms Nazi Garrison

Nazis Reported Evacuating All Of Peloponnesus   Leave Rear Guard At Narrow Passageway  To Mainland

Allied: Landings On Northwest Part  Of Crete Reported   Kythera, Between Crefe and  Mainland, Occupied Earlier by  «British Commandos

RADIO REPORTS CRETE LANDING   Strong Allied Forces Ir Assault On Island

GERMANS FLEE SOUTH GREECE TO EVADE TRAP   Patriots Hold Peloponnesus

British Move To Revenge  Early Defeat   Germans Reported Quitting All  Pelnnonnesnus

Rear Guard Left Astride  Peninsula   Greek Patriots Hold Peloponnesus And Five Islands

TEXAS PRIMARY HELD ILLEGAL   High Court Protects Negroes’ Rights

SOVIETS SMASH FOE RESISTANCE   Red Tommy -Gunners_ Inch Aheed at Pskov—Vitebsk Drive Nears End

Freak Thaw Hampering  - Red Drive   Soviet Still Able to Go Forward Along Baltic Front, However

Reds Drive On Despite Freak Thaw   Caplure More Territory Between Lake Peipus and Finnish Gulf fo Tighien Grip on Narva   BATTLE FOR PSKOV   Berlin Reporis Renewed Russian Drive Toward Bobruisk, in Ditection of Minsk

Reds Continue Smashing Drive   Early Thaw Fails To Halt Move to Eree Baltic States

Melted Ice And. Snow  - Make Many Roads Im: passable But Reds Capture. More Territory. Tighten Grip on Narv: Communications, Figh Forward In Psko Suburbs. .

SOVIET ARMY CONTINUES TO HAPASS NAZIS   Germans Falling Back Daily On All Fronts

THAW HAMPERS RED ADVANCE   Many Roads Impassable But Gains Continue  po. enane CrUuAnE

REDS CONTINUE BIG OFFENSIVE   Troops Advance Despite Freakish, Spring-Like Thaw in Baltic Area.   POSITIONS ARE IMPROVED

‘New Russian iDrive Aimed At Minsk Is Reported   Red Army May By-Pass Pskov And Varna In North And PushToward Reval And Riga

Reds Continue To Drive Ahead   Makes Gains Despite Spring-Like Thaw in Region

SOVIETS CONTINUE DRIVE TO LIBERATE BALTIC REPUBLICS DESPITE FREAKISH WEATHER   More Territory Between Finnish Gulf and Lake Peipus Captured and Hold on the Narva Communications Tiahtened   TOMMY-GUNNERS INCH FORWARD NEAR PSKOV

Sovief Forces Gain Additional Ground In North   Reds Continue Determined Drive Despite Thaws

Reds Pushing Drive To Free Baltic Areas From Germans   Spring-Thaw Comes .To Battle Section

Freak Thaw Slows Reds Near Baltic   Germans Continue Retreat Over Roads Nearly Janne

Reds Make New Gains On Narva, Pskov Sectors   Renewed Drive On Cepital Of Minsk  launched Ry Ruecia

Weather Hampers Soviet Operations  Russians Reveal Gains Near Narva, Pskov  Re BENNY Cc. worr

REDS SMASH ON DESPITE THAWS   Melted Ice And Snow Make Many Roads Impassable

Red Army Driving Ahead Despite Freakish Weather  Melting Ice and Snow Make Going Very

Red Army Driving Ahead Despite Freakish Weather  Melting Ice and Snow Make Going Very Difficult in North

REDS IMPROVE POSITIONS IN BALTIC AREAS   Continue Their Smashing Offensive Despite Freak, Springlike Thaw Which Hampers Militarv Onerations.

Weather Turns Bad For Reds   Russians Still Aim At Liberating. Baltic ae Republics Soon

Taxes For War: Boondoggling Out For Her   Miss Kellems Stands By Decision Despite Morgenthau ‘Slur’

Woman fo Defy U. §. Treasury   _ Miss Vivian Kellems To Go Ahead With Plans Not to Pay

BANDIT HAUL — OF $30,000   AUTHORITIES OF SIX STATES HUNTING GUNMEN WHO -..TOOK CURRENCY AT MIDDLETOWN

American Legion Plans Made For Many Activities   Baseball Team, Honor Roll and Home Scheduled

Hurricane Moves WD Fast Coast: 16 Left Dead in Cuba, Two in Miami

JAPS PUSHED BACK IN JUNGLE FIGHT   ’ YANKS GAIN 1,000 YARDS ABOVE ARAWE—KILL 130 NII'PONESE TROOPS.

‘Allies Smash On At Arawe   New Mexico Bushmasters Reinforce Fexas Reaiment

New Mexico Men With Bushmasters  In Arawe Victory  Allied Warplanes Hit Jap Convoy, Sink Big Chin Hie Twa Othere

American Troops On New Britain Inching Forward   Yanks, Driving into Dense Jungle above Arawe, Gain 1,000 Yards

Bushmasters Stalk Jans   Texas And New Mexico Soldiers Head Drive

BUSHMASTERS IK STEADY ADVANCE AGAINST ENEMY   1,000 Yards Of Jap Territory Captured By U. SSunele Fighters   INDIANS INCLUDED IN COLORFUL REGIMENT

Yankee Troops Make Small Arawe Advance   Gain 1,000 Yards Of Jap Territory And Kill 139 Foes

STATE CAPITOL HUMS WITH ACTIVITY   Two Major Offices Prepare for Shakeups in Personnel

Airplane Factories  Wrecked   Allied Airmen Continu Furious Daylight Assaults; Hit  Coastal Points.

Plane Plants Again Target For Bombers   Schweinfurt And Gotha Roids Cause Heavy Tol! OF Fortress And Liberator Planes

Japs Strike At British Defenses On Manipur Road   Allied Forces Destroy Enemy Planes Caught Aground In Jungle ©

Nippons Attack. Main British India Defenses  Allies Gain in ~ Burma; Destroy 36 Jap Aircraft

Japs Attack Main British Defenses North Of Imphal   Allies in N.-Central Burma Gain Ground In Mvitkvina Puch

BiG BATTLE FOR IMPHAL IMMINENT   Stillwell Forces Advancing On Central Front

JAPS STRIKE INTO MANIPUR DEFENSES   Advance in Italy But Fall Back  -In Burma

Japs Strike Main British Defenses North of Imphal   Allies Gain Ground in North Central Portion of Burma

MAIN BRITISH LINES REACHED BY JAPS NORTH OF IMPHAI   Big - Seale Battle Near, Allies Advance In Burma Area

Allies Gain More Ground  In N. Burma   Japs Reported Striking Into Main _ British Manipur Defenses   Americans Bomb Allied Tow n  By Mistake In Cassino Raid

BRADLEY GIVEN NEW POSITION   GENERAL NAMED OVER-ALL COMMANDER OF U. S. FIGHTING FORCE IN FRANCE.

Twenty Millions Oil-Gas Coupons Stolen in East   OPA Discloses_ TicketShredding Machine Didn't Shred

USED GAS COUPONS PUT TO ILLICIT USE INSTEAD OF TORN UF   Four Being Held and Others Hunted in East

e FROM PREPARATION 1SLE—  Huss Says Both Sides Rushing Preparations for Invasion

Commander of Jap Fleet Killed, Tokyo Reveals   Death Follows  Predécessor’s By 11 Months

Jap Naval Commander  Ts Killed   Koga Second :Head Of Enemy Fleet To Die in Action

COMMANDER OF JAP NAVY IS KILLED   Nip Communique Says He Died Aboard Airplane

Plane Crash In Island Battle Zone Indicated By Tokyo; Was Key Figure In Seizure Of The Philippines

Highest Of Jap Naval Officers Slain In Battle   Adm. Koga Killed While Directing Operations From Warplane   'TOYODA IS NAMED   During His 11 Months’ Rule Koga Kept Navy Out Of Maior Fight

KEY JAP ADMIRAL KILLED IN ACTION   KOGA DIES IN FRONT LINES, TOKYO REPORTS

WAS DIRECTING OPERATIONS IN SEAT OF PLANE   Predecessor Met Similar Deatt About Year Age. Tovoda New Commander for Fleet

Admiral Koga Said “Killed In Action” ,  Jap Fleet Chief Reported Dead.

COMMANDER OF JAPANESE FLEET KILLED   Tokyo Says Koga Lost Life Aboard  Plane at Front

Reveal French Struck Early  Had 1,000 Losses To 53,500 For Germans

FRENCH HELP OUT   Troops Made a Surprise Attack on Nazis Ahead  of Schedule

RED ARMY DRIVES “TO WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF ESTONIA   Germans Abandon Guns, Heavy Motors and Supplies as They Fiée Before  Onslaught. .   LUGA RIVER CROSSED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Nazis Farther South Are Caught in Pincers Movement and Are Being Wiped Out.

Reds Eight Miles From Estonia in Drive for Narva   Germans Abandon Arms in Flight

Reds Drive Into Suburbs Ot Kingisepp   Much Heavy Equipment Abandoned by Enemy; 2 Armies Near Junction  (UGA RIVER CROSSED

Soviets Near Estonia Line   Kingisepp Is Taken By Heavy Offensive

Armies Surge Across Luga in Border Drive   River Crossed at Several Points, Nazis in Desperate Retreat

REDS NEARING ESTONIA IN BIG OFFENSIVE   Will Put Russians In Open Land Where Large Tank Battles ‘Could Be Fought; Nazis Leave Huge Stores.   Wine Out Regiments

Reds Enter Outskirts of Kingisepp   Russians Cross Luga River, Near Estonian Border

SOVIETS ENTER CITY & MILES FROM ESTONIA   Russians Cross Luga River In Drive On Fortress Of Narva   SECOND BALTIC ARMY MAKES FRESH GAINS

Reds Slash Nearer  Estonian Frontier   Soviet Spearheads Only 8 Miles From Little Baltic me Nation; Moscow Silent on Attacks  In Ukraine

Russians Stab Fight Miles  From Estonia   Assert. Nazis Throw Away Guns in Attempt to Flee

Soviet Forces Only Eight Miles From the Frontier  ENEMY RETREATING UNDER HARD BLOWS  Fresh Gains Scored by the Second Baltic Army

AMERICAN SRD ARMY INFANTRY BATTERED DEEPER INTO GERMAN  RUSSIANS SCORE HEAVY SUCCESSES IN AREA ABOUT BUDAPEST

7th Forces Huns Back in South   Patton Plows Up Saar Valley Towns with Aid of American Fichter-Bombers

90 Checkerboard Men Donate Blood   Thursday Devoted To Servicemen at Rec Cross Donor Station

90 Volunteers to Give Blood To Red Cross Mobile Unit Thursday Mornina in Paris

PAYROLL TAX AS UP AGAIN   CONGRESS ‘TO. STAGE ANOTHER < BATYLE-‘OVER DOUBLING.  _ SQCIAL SECURITY fae. , ', LEVYS ac

WLB FEARING NEW ACTION FROM MESA   Unien Chief Hints ' Strike Halt But  T aannararu

War Labor Board Moves Against Defiant Union  Threatens Civil,   Threatens Civil, Criminal Penalties  If Strike Resumed

WLB Plans Move To Avert Future Strikes by MESA   Board Calls Roosevelt’: Attention to Interruptions of Work

UNION DEFIANT OF WLB ACTION   Striking Mechanics Mas Invoke Criminal Penalties

SERVICEMENS’ BALLOT AS POLITICAL ISSUE   Demoeratic And Republican House Leaders Hint At Fature  Dervelonmenic

George Wright, Havre, Is New Commander Of State Legionnaires   Other Officials Named as Department Brings Convention Here to Close; Executive Group Is to Select 1945 Meeting Place

George Wright, Havre, Is New Commander Of State Legionnaires  Other Officials Named as Department Brings Convention Here to Close; Executive

TRUMAN GROUP PRODDING WPB   Some Factories Expected To Turn Out Goods  For Civilians

Easing of WPB’s  Rules Is Forecast   Truman Urging Brings Civilian Goods Hope

we r SPUR TO SURPLUS USE   Traman Unit Recommends Civilian Goods Become ’  WPB “Test Tube”

Spain- Reaffirms. Strict Neutrality: ‘Nazi-Deal Seen   Cabinet Called. By. Franco ‘Warns. Of. Atienipts To ‘Apply -War > Pressure

Allies Watching ‘Neutral’ Spain  Aim To Keep Franco That Way, Says F. R.

STRICTLY NEUTRAL,’ SPANISH EMPHASIZE   Press Charges British Use High Pressure Tactics

Se ee ee ee eT  Spain Re-Affirms Neutral Position  British Susnect Oil Deal With Nazis

Spain Decides To Continue Her Neutrality   Cabinet Makes Decision After Careful Study of the Situation   CLAIMS HIGH-PRESSURE

Spain Reaffirms Its Neutrality      Says She Will Submit Te No Outside Pressure; Accuses Britain.

HORROR ROLE IS GIVEN HIMMLER   Cold-eyed Executioner’s Job to Stamp Out Army and Civilian Revolt

RAVENNA IN ITALY FALLS   Other Localities Taken By British In Local Advances

SAY HAWAI STILL UNDER - MARTIAL LAW   Military Leaders Proclaim Controls Still Are in Force, Despite Court Decision Making Their Rule Invalid.

Martial Law , ‘Is Not Valid, Rules Judge   War Dept. Will Prepare  An Appeal to Higher Court, Essential For Hawaii Protection

Court Declares Martial Law in Hawaii Invalid   But Military Governor Continues jo Function Pending Appeal With Provost Court Operating

MARTIAL LAW IN HAWAI HELD INVALID BY JUDGE  But Military Leaders Proclaim _  .

MARTIAL LAW INVALID   Decision of Federal Judge in Hawaii Will Be Appealed

Military States Martial Law Still Is Valid   Hawaii Judge Rules Contrariwise But Army Is Firm

VOIDS MARTIAL LAW IN HAWAII   WAR DEPARTMENT TO APPEAL DECISION BY FEDERAL JUDGE

Babson Sees Way To Pay U.S. Debt   ECONOMIST DISCUSSES BIG FEDERAL DEFICIT

Yankees Make First Raid on That City   14 Bombers and 26 Fighters Reported Missing

Yanks in First Raid on Berlin   American Heavy Bombers and Fighters Carry Deylight Aerial War to Hitler's Doorstep; 40 Planes Fail to Return

FIGHT STORM. NN 08 BELOW ZERO WEATHER   Bombers Fly 600 Miles Into Heart of Reich with Mustang Escort,

No Tires For Cars Not Needed  In Occupation   Only Most Essential Drivers Get New Tires

REICH TROOPS QUITBULGARIA   Germans Bolster Hungarian Border Against Swift Moving Russians

PRO-GERMAN HUNGARIAN GROUP FALLS   Horthy Accepts Resignetions As Reports Say 2 ° Nazis Leave Buivaria

NATION SCARED BY RED MENACE IS REORGANIZING   Pro-Nazi Government Of Doeme Sztojay Falls; Germans Enter Slovakia   RUSSIA DEMANDING BULGARIA SURRENDER

FALL REPORTED OF ~ HUNGARY CABINE!   Nazi Troops Leaving Bul“garia,, Dispatches  Say

Balkans Boil  As Hungarian  Cabinet Falls   Nazis Take Over Slovakia Use Bulgaria Garrison To Rolster Haneary

FALL REPORTED OF ~ HUNGARY CABINET   Nazi Troops: Leaving Bule AEIGe, Pispotehes. Sav.

Spring a New Drive Along Lower Dnieper   Engulfs 250 Towns and Defeats Huge German Force; Encircled Nazis at Kiev  Being Exterminated.

‘Planet Atmosphere Proved ree      Gases Exist But Life Unlikely

ANTI-HOFFMAN CROUP FORMED   Independent Voters Lea. gue Organized At Meeting Here

Anti-Hoffman ‘Group Formed   ‘Independent Voters League’ Organized

a tec . j ar re cen  ai . i b Ph Re] i . a TOS ! ; : in      SHACKLES OF GERMAN CONTROL THROWN OFF AFTER FOUR DAYS OF BITTER STREET FIGHTING   All of Vichy Representatives Who Had Not Fled Are Captured in Great Surge of Nationalism by Patriots Who Strike Great Blow for Liberty

More Gasoline to Men on Vurlough Announces OPA   Rations Will Runee Prom Three Giullons Up to 30 Gallons for 20 Dinws

Bi-Partisan Support Of Security Conference In Capital Is In View

World Security Comes To Head   Session Moves Toward Detail For Organizing World For Peace

iBi-Partisan Support of Efforts at Postwar Security Seen as Possible

SIVERTSON WRITES ABOUT WAR WOUND   Kingsley Man ‘Says. It’s Not Serious, But Fighting Devs Are Done

Dead Man Slew Benefactress, Peete Story   Paroled Murderess Says She Buried Body for Fear of Police

Dead Japs Prove Allied Efficiency   Victims of Hunger and Starvation Lie Proof of Effective Air and Sea Blockade.

JAP SOLDIERS ARE DYING OF EXHAUSTION   Bodies of Nipponese, Apparent Victims of Hunger, Give Proof of Effects of Blockade   UNITS DISINTEGRATING

Hunger Kills Guinea Japs   Sea, Air Blockade Cutiing Foe’s Ranks

Blockade Of New Guinea Is Effective   Many Japs Die Of Starvation

JAPS SQUEEZED ON NEW GUINEA   ENEMY DEAD SHOWS SIGNS OF HUNGER AND EXHAUSTION

Southwest War ~ Hurting Japs   HUNDREDS FOUND DEAD FROM HUNGER ON ISLANDS

Nazi Cassino Front Near Collanse in Fifth’s Drive   Aussies Find Many Bodies Japs Starve onNew Guine«

JAPANESE DIE OF STARVATION IN NEW GUINEA   Aussies Advancing Along Norih east Coasi Find Liitle Resisiaace Many Rodies   NEAR U. S. FORCES   Tanks Brough! Into Use on Bou gainville—Japs Lost 567 Planes at Rabaul in January

JAP SUPPLIES . BREAK DOWN IN SOUTH PACIFIC   —Alties Advance On New Guinea,  Bougainville Isles

EFFICIENCY OF AIR, SEA BLOCKADE FELT   Evidenced By Dead Japanese, Apparently Victims Of Starvation.

COWIE “LEPKE”  ~ FLECTROCUTEI   Had Two Keys in Hand. ‘Chose Death, Not Informer —

Lepke Dies in Chair: Not Informer   BROOKLYN GANGSTER CHIEFTAIN CHOOSES KILLER’S DEATH

BUCHALTER PAYS DEBT TO SOCIETY   Dies in Chair Rather Than Turn Informer

 LEPKE REMAINS SILENT. DIES   Might Have Been Sparec Electric Chair if He Turned Informer

MURDER, INC., BOSS DIES IN SING SING   S ocnermieeeitinaintaneenndamntnatiomedl  -Lepke Goes To Death Without  Baring Scandals

GANGSTER CHOSES —AKILLER'S DEAT}   Life Possibly Could Have Been Saved Had He Turnéd Informer.

LEPKE DIES WITH HIS LIPS SEALED   GANGSTER REFUSES TO TURN INFORMER TO ESCAPE CHAIR

Lepke Executed, Didn't “Squeal’   Head of Murder, Inc., Chose Killer’s Death Rather Than Turn Informer; Underworld Is Relieved.

Lepke Dies in Chair Rather Than Talk:  Many Breathe Easier Says Prosecutor

Little More Than Mile From St. Lo   Germans Put Up Stiff Resistance; British In Gain

Yank Troops Smash Into Lessay Area   Nazis Fight Back Savagely as U.S. Pressure Mounts

BritishRetake Hill 112, Fight Back to Maltot   Germans Are Resisting _ American Pressure Savagely

LING IN CITY'S SUBURAS   Troop Little More Than Mile From St. Lo at Other End of Line.   ENEMY FIGHTS SAVAGELY

American Troops Ate Near Lessay   United States Soldiers Edg—— St. Lo  oad Junction   Street Fighting Was Taking Place in the Suburbs of City

Fight Rages In Suburbs Of Western  Nazi Anchor   Allies Are Within Mile Of St. Lo In Fighting

‘Gain Also In St. Lo Battle   Within Little More Than Mile of Key  Roar Tatetied:

Americans In Suburbs Of Lessay   At Other End Of Front Yanks Only About Mile From St. Lo.

YANKS FORCE NAZIS BACK IN NORMANDY   Americans Smash to Outskirts of Lessay and Only  Mile From St. Lo.   Germans Fight Back At Both Key Points

U. S. Soldiers Hight Way Into Lessay   Heavy Artillery Duel For St. Lo Is Continued Fifth Day

ST, LO WITHIN REACH; NAZIS INCHING BACK   Flaming Frent One Mile From St. Lo; Street Fighting Begins in Lessay Suburbs

Straighten Oui Loop ai Conier in Neavy Fighting, Capture 16 Towns and Villages

FIGHT NAZIS: IN WESTERN ANCHOR TOWN   At Opposite End of Their Flaming Front, Doughboys Edge to Within Little More Than Mile aft St Jo.

Yankee Troops Battle Nazis In Lessay Suburbs   Other Americans But Mile From St. Lo; Big Field Guns Turned On Advancina Force

Nazis Savagely Defending Anchor Points of Line   American Troops Push to Within Mile of St. Lo

U.S. Troops Smash to Edge Of Lessay, One Mile From St. Lo on Normandy Front

Mammoth. Artillery Duel Under Way As U.S. Forces Batter Down Stiff Nazi Resistance As St. Le Battle Nears Climax

ALLIED TROOPS MEETING STIFF RESISTANCE WITH NAZIS BIG GUNS POURING HEAVY FIRE   Constant Pressure from American and British Armies in Normandy With Fighting in Lessay, St. Lo and Caen Sectors Swirling Back and Forth

Severe Peace Terms Asked By Congress   Death Penalty For Germans Guilty Of Atrocities Is Urged

NAZI ATROCITIES STIRS CONGRESS   DEMAND PUNISHMENT FOR WAR CRIMES AND SEVERE PEACE TERMS

Relentless Punishment Of Germans Guilty Of Systematic Mass Murder

Congress Demands Germans Guilty Of Atrocities Be Given Punishment

Congressmen Demand Nazis Be Punished   Refugee Board Gives Report On Atrocities

_ Systematic Murder of Millions Described by Three Who Escape From the Nazis

Atrocity Revelations — Bring Congress Demands For Severe Peace Terms

Enraged Congress Vows Retribution  For Nazi Murder:   Atrocity Report by War Refuge Agency Stirs Coneressmen

Vengeful Retaliation Is Not Sought, But Punishment For Germans’ Atrocities  Is Demanded In Congressional Moves  so 2S

Congress Erupts With New Calls For Punishment Of ‘Nazis Guilty Of Atrocities

ASK STERN ACTION AGAINST GERMANS   Atrocity Report Stirs Congress; Severe Peace Terms, Punishment Needed

Demand For Punishment  Of Guilty   Congress Stirred By New Report Of Nazi Atrocities

CONGRESS IS WORRIED OVER NAZI MURDERS   No Angry Talk Of Retaliation Is Reported Now

‘Congressmen Demand Full Punishment Of Germans for Systematic 'Murder of Vast Throngs in Europe

NERVE CENTERS IN OTHER PARTS OF ASIA BOMBEL   Capitals of Indo-China and Thailand Also Raided by Heavyweights

Move to Cut Off Jap Base   Stilwell’s Men Kill 2500 Japs in Surge Toward Enemy Base

Truk !s Raided Again by U. S. Army Bombers   Liberators Encounter Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire at Fortress

Allies Claim Growing Toll Of Jap Lives   Air Commandos Strike At Mohnyin, Burma; Terrific Pounding Continues in Pacific

Two Truk Islands Bombed By Yanks   Big Bombers Went In Despite A-A Fire

South Pacific Japs on Run,  Says Reporter   Enemy Putting Up Little Opposition To Allies

Nipponese Almost On Run In South Pacific; Great Offensive Shapes

Raids Point To Pacific Landings   Enemy On Defensive in Southwest Pacifie- Three Landings Show Jap Weakness

JAPS PLACED DEFINITELY ON DEFENSIVE   Excepting Diversionary Raids at Arawe, Three Invasions Meet Little Opposition   TRAP BEGINS TO CLOSE

PUT JAPANESE ON DEFENSIVE   Nips Practically On Run After Three Island In vasions by Yanks

Japs Are On The Defensive  In Southwest   AP Evewitness Thinks They Are ‘Almost on The Run’

Invasions Have Been Carried Off Smoothly  Sixth Army Moved Against Few Japs  In Ite TV andingoc

Nips Reported Almost On Run South Pacific   Three Amphibious Landing: At Arawe, Cape Glouces. ter and Saidor Have Jap: On Defensive and Almos! : On Run.

—PACIFIC—  ALLIED CAMPAIGN BACKING WP JAPS   Enemy On Defensive Throughout Entire Southwest Pacific Area   LOSSES ARE HEAVY   Results Reflect Credit On Allied Intelligence Sec tions

Three Big Invasions Met Small Opposition ....  Japan On Defensive In The Southwest Pacific; In Fact Almost On Run

CLARE STUNNED BY DAUGHTER'S DEATH   Congresswoman Luce Neai Collapse in Hotel

Never Doubt A Kelly: Experts See How Sergeant Slung 60:MM: Mortar Shells Like Grenades At Germans

“SPY” RAIDERS SEEK TIPS OFF BRITISH COAST   Raiders Reported Over Various Places—None Shot Down

Resort City Of Nice Captured By American:   Benchhead Carried To Within 12 Miles Of Italian Border

Jomme Line is Broken   Speeding Tommies Capture Amiens in Dazzling Advance

Eisonhower Says Army 5 Days Ahead of Schedule in March Across Western Europe; ' Says Germany Can Be Defeated This Year

Objective Is Robot Bomb Coast Area   On Southern Front Yanks Take Nice—Twelve Miles  from Italy

RED ARMY SLASHED THROUGH BALKANS It THREE-PRONG DRIVE  OBJECT OF DRIVE IS TO POCKET ALL GERMANS  JN THREE NATIONS

Russians Cut Off Nazis In Balkan Area   3-Pronged Drive Threat ens to Smash Hitler’: Hold There

Russians Invade Bulgaria   Huge Co-ordinated Drive Closes Escape Roads for 375,000

Three-Pronged Drive Threatens ‘To Smash Hitler’s Hold On Balkans

Three-Pronged Drive Threatens’ To © Smash ~Hitler’s Hold On Bal - kanc

REDS SEEKING TO JOIN WITH TITO'S FORCES   Russians Smash Through Balkans In Three-Pronged Drive Threatening Hold On Vital Area  a al a a i,“ npn =e ae oe A Ok OS fn -A

British And Canadians Blast Nazis’ Northern Or Right Flank Below Caen   DOUBLE ALLIED DRIVE ON PARIS IS PROGRESSING   American Planes Bomb Ger . Man Industrial City: o! Stuttgart

SIMPLE PLAN IS PROPOSED BY GOVERNOR   Five-Point Program Agreed Upon At Bi- Partisan Conference Outlined In Message   800,000 ARE ELIGIBLE

Martin Calls For Simple Soldier Vote Measure  Governor Outlines 5-Point Plan As’  Leaiclature Onenc

RED TANKMEN RIP INTO OUTSKIRTS -OF BUDAPEST, OPEN BIG ASSAULT   ENTIRE NAZI FRONT IN HUNGARY COLLAPSES; RUSSIANS CARVE 185-MILE BREACH IN LINE

Tank-Riding. Reds Plunge Into Budapest   Moscow Declares Entire Hungarian Front Collapsing

Soviets Pour Thru 185 Mi. Breach On Road To Austria   Tank-Riding Reds Crash Into Outskirts of Blazing Budapest

RUSSIANS BREAK INTO BUDAPEST,  COLLAPSE ENTIRE GERMAN DEFENSE   Reds On Road To  Austria, Germany

SOVIET ARNIES COLLAPSE ALL HUNGARY FRONT   Threat to Hungary and Rest of Czechoslovakia Growing

Reds Break Into Outskirts of Blazing City   Moscow Says German Defense in Hungary Virtually Collapsed

REDS OPENING FINAL ATTACK ON BUDAPEST   Shock Troops Storming Into Outskirts Of Blazing Capital

Reds Enter Outskirts Ot Budapest   Soviet Troops Pour Through Wide Break In German Defenses

RED ARMY SMASHES INTO CITY   sVhole German Line In Hungary Collapsed, Moscow Asserts

RUSSIAN SHOCK UNITS BREAKING INTO BUDAPEST   Moscow Says. Reds Have Collapsed Entire Nazi Front In Hungary

Entire rront Is Collapsing Soviets Report   Fall of Capital Will Clear Way for Drive Against Austria

NAZI FRONT IN HUNGARY FALLS; CAPITAL ABLAZE   Reds Proclaim Threat To Vienna Grows; Street Fighting On

Russian Shock Troops Break Into Budapest; Nazi Defense Collapses

Russian Troops Breaking Into Edge of Budapest   Reds Pouring ‘Through 185-Mile Breach In  German Defense Line

Soviets Race Through Gap Toward Vienna   Shock Troops Fight Into Ruined Suburbs of Flaming Budapest   Escape Corridor Holds

RUSSIANS IN OUTSKIRTS OF BUDAPEST   German Front In Hungary Collapsed, Moscow Declares

RUSSIAN SHOCK TROOPS BREAK INTO BUDAPEST   German Front in Hungary Reported Collapsing

Urge Holiday On Green Food Stamp   Housewives Have Put Up Plenty Vegetables

Coverage.   Nimitz Confirms Attack Destroying 25 Japanese Ships And 221 Planes

German Power Seems _   Mounting In Beachhead   Soviets Exterminate Nazis Along th Low Ss

Germans Fiercely Resist Drive to Break Through To Menaced Beachhead   Anzio Defenders Hold Off Hard Attacks, As Nazis’ Power Is Reported Increasing ; Russian Armies Score More Ukraine Victories

Nimitz Extends Marshalls’ Drive   New, Secret Atfacks Reported by Navy

Navy, Air Forces Continue Drive On Marshalls   Policy of Secrecy Veils Latest U.S. Invasion Thrust

New Jap Targets Bombed by Navy   Tokyo’s Remaining Holds in Marshalls Get Pasting From Allied Bombers; Nimitz Has Eyes On China

NEW AND SECRET BLOWS AIT JAPD IN MARSHALL   Foe’s Communications With Islands Disrupted; Navy Silent on Attacks   WITHHOLDS NAMING OF LATEST TARGETS HIT   Allied Aircraft From Solomon Islands Hammer Japanese Base at Rabaul; Airmen Hit Surfaced Submarine, Bring Down Twelve Planes

AIRMEN ATTACK NAZIS IN BREST   Raid on French Port Lasts for Hour

GERMAN RADIO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT STRONG INFANTRY AND TANK FORCES HAVE DENTED DEFENSES IN CASSI NO AREA.

ALLIED GAINS BELOW ROME ARE EXTENDED   FIFTH ARMY DENTS GUSTAV LINE AT CASSINO

Allies breach nazis Gustav defense line   U.S. infantry and tanks make gains

Allies Extend ‘Bridgehead South of Rome   Yanks of Main Fifth Army Smash Part Of Gustav Line

ALLIES WIDEN BRIDGEHEAD IN ROME SECTOR   Yanks Smash Through  Part of Nazi Line Near Cassino

ALLIED BRIDGEHEAD IN ITALY EXTENDED      Americans Smash Thru Part of Powerful Gustav Line

Americans Hit Hard at Gustav Line in Italy   Germany Reports Strong Atfacks

Germans Gusta Line Is Pierced North of Cassino   Americans Push Ahead in Face of Terrific Opposition

Open Attack Near German Strong point   Allies Extend Bridgehead Below Rome vm By SuceessfubA ssoults As Fifth... Army Pierces Gustav Line

Allies Extend Bridgehead  Below Rome   Meanwhile Main Fifth Army Force Breaks Through Gustay Line

Allies Attack Successfully  Near Cisterna   Gain in Cassino Area, But Nazis Continue  Strong Defense Efforts AIR VICTORY SCORED

ALLIES EXTEND HOLD NEAR ROME, DENT GUSTAV LINE   Successful Attacks Made by Tank and Infantry Forces Near Strongpoint 26 Miles  . From Capital.   FIGHTING IS BITTER ON CASSINO FRONT   Sixty-Three German Planes - Blasted From Skies and Many Others on Ground Destroyed.

Reds Knock At Gates Of Rumania   Reach Prut River on 53-Mile Front; U. S. Air Armada on Wing Today Over France

NAZI OIL FIELDS IN RUMANIA ARE NEARED BY REDS   Russian Drive Now Within Sight of Rumania Proper; German Losses Heavy

- Nazis Pour. Armor “Into Area Hoping To. Hold Derricks ~\Needed'So Much”

RUSSIAN ARTILLERY SHELLED RUMANIAN SOIL ON MONDAY —   BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST ESSEN AND VAST KRUPP WORKS LAST NIGHT

Reds Less Than 200 Miles From Oil Fields ROMPERSC RTICY   BOMBERS BUSY   German Cities Again Are. Hammered ' From Air

Air Offensive Is Continued in New Fury      Soviets May Have Crossed Prut River; Artillery Duels Rock Cassino.

Soviets Within 190 Miles of Big Oil Fields   British Bombers Plaster Essen With Ex plosives—Nazis Shell Beachhead   Bulletin

REDS SHELL RUMANIA PROPER, 160 MILES FROM PLOESTI OIL FIELDS   Week-End Brings Russians Back To Original Border. RAF and-U. S. Hit Essen and Hannover

Yanks Repulse  Jap ‘Invasion’   Small Enemy Foree Tries Attack on Los Negros

ATTEMPT BLOCKED TOLAND JAPANESE   Momote. Airfield Put Into " Operation’ bythe ~ Seaheaac’ 

ATTEMPT BLOCKED TOLAND JAPANESE   Momote Airfield Put Into ‘Operation by the ~ ' Seabees

Reds Advance Nearer to Budapest   Russians Are Only 35 Miles From Austrian Frontier

Russians Gain On South Side Of Budapest   Germans Tell About Three-Way Drive on Hungarian Capital

GERMANS SAY SOVIETS ARE 13-MILES OUT   Russians Place Front AI But 35-Miles From Austria In Rapid Advances

Russians Advance to Within 15 Miles of Austria  TRIPLE OFFENSIVE ’ REPORTED STARTED Many Towns and Villages in Hungary Are Captured

Mighty Allied Force Expands Beachheads On South French Coast   Once-Formidable German Fortifications Are Breached Almost Without Struggle By Sea And Sky Invaders

Firm Beachhead Secured Along 100-Mile Stripe On Mediterranean   Feeble German Defense Smashed   Giant Land And Sea Oper: ation Pours Thousands Of Men Ashore

Resistance To Invasion Units Light, Report   Paratroops And Airborne Infantry Spearhead Attack; Invaders Strike Forward Swiftly In Drive Aimed At Rhone Valley

Sea and Air Forces Land in South France   Germans’ Defenses Breached Almost Without a Struqale

BREAGH COAST DEFENSES, ESTABLISH FIRM BEACHHEADS; OPPOSITION, LOSSES LIGHT

Seize I 00° Mile Strip Along Sea              OCCUPIED BEACHHEADS BETWE NICE AND MARSEILLE; OVER FEEBLE GERMAN RESISTANCI

Ailies Land Along 100-Miie Stretch of South France Coast   Landings from 800 Ships Meet With Feeble German Resistance

4th Land Front Opened Against Hitler’s Europe   Invasion Armada Of 800 Ships Put Americans  British, French Troops Ashore; Advance Is Progressing Swiftly

Allies Land Near Marseille and Nice; Establish Beachheads; Forces Already Racing Northward

Clouds of Paratroops Spearhead Assault That Sets Up Beachhead Against. Little Opposition—Fieet of 800 Ships Carry Army From Many Ports in Mediterranean. :

Feeble Nazi Shore Defenses Overrun in Southern France In Attack From Sea and Air

Firm Beachheads Are. Established Along A 100 Mile Strip Of Coast

Sea, Sky And Land Forces Establish Firm Beachheads Along 100 Miles Of Coast   German Fortifications Breached Quickly As Opposition Proves Feeble; Landings Reported Proceeding According To Schedule

Mighty Allied Forces Smash Nazi Defense at Nice, Marseille   800 Ships, Thousands Planes, Paratroops in New Blast Against Axis

Invasion Army Landed With Light Resistance   Glider, Transport Planes Lead Way In Mediterranean Assault

Feeble Nazi Defenses — Quickly Overrun Along 1100 Mile Coast Strip

Establish Firm Beachheads With Little Resistance From Land Or Air By Germans

Capture of Ninth Air Base At New Guinea Imminent   Field May Now Be In Hands of Allies; Jungle Fighting Bitter.

Entrapped Nazis *ad Liquidated  52,000 Said stat in,  I1TAKAnKY Deiennra

Entrapped Nazis Said liquidated   52,000 Said Slain, TT ONO: Deiennace

DEWEY ent ON LABOR WILL BE GIVEN TONIGH   EXPECTED TO INOLUDE ' OBARGE OF “POLITICAL FAVORITISM” IN BAND. JANG OF LABOR... -_PROBLEMS

Dewey To Make Labor Address   Republican Presidential Candidate To Speak Tonight At Seattle, Washington  LABOR PROBLEMS

DEWEY 10 TALK TO WORKINGMEN   Labor’s Rights Subjected To Favoritism, GOP Leader To Claim

BOMB-HIT BUDAPEST FLED BY THOUSANDS   Government May Be Moved To Another, Safer Site

Budapest Highways Crowded With Fleeing Refugees  Pre-Easter Parade Was Begun On Good Friday

UPA 10 CHECK GRUGERY PRICES   Survey Locally to P: Fort of Nationwide O. P. A. Check-up.

STORE SURVEY BY OPANEXT MONDAY   In Compliance With Al Ceiling Price Regulations.

Nazis Admit Allies Open ‘Fourth Front   Silence Tacitly Acknowledges That Invaders Gain Footing on South France Beaches

Germans Break Invasion Silence:   Admit Allied Footing On French Coast; German  Ninth Believed In Area.

Allies Said Between Toulon, Cannes  German Report Says Fighting on. 70-Mile  nekian af f® amok

TOKYO INDICATES GROUND FIGHTING AT PACIFIC BASTION   STRICT SILENCE FOLLOWS ANNOUNCEMENT OF ATTACK EARLY WEDNESDAY

Planes Smash at Jap Bastion   RADIO SILENCE INDICATES BATTLE STILL JOINED; TOKYO RADIO HINTS RAID MAY BE MORE THAN RECONNAISSANCE MISSION

Yanks Struggling To Maintain Bridgehead   Third Army Picked Troops Face Storm of Artillery Fire; Germans Pull Reserves from Siegfried Line Trying To Hold Moselle Barrier; British Win New Canal Crossing

PATTON’S FORCES — BEAR BRUNT OF BITTER STRUGGLE   Americans Caught in Withering Fire From Camouflaged Forts at One Point—Enemy Counter-Attack Cut to Pieces — British Make Second Crossing of Albert Canal Hodges’ Men Gain in Belgium. ~~

THREE ALLIED ARMIES CLOSE IN ON REICH   BRITISH NEAR WEAK LINK IN HITLER’S SIEGFRIED LINE

DALLIED ARMIES CROWD GERMANS   Meet Withering Nazi Fire at Mozelle Bridgehead   BRITISH SECOND ARMY,   Hammers Out Another Cross. ing of Albert Canal; Bomb. ers Plaster Targets

Picked Yankee Forces Hurl Nazis Back at the Siegfried Line   Fresh German Reserves Thrown Into Action in Heaviest Fighting Since Breakthrough in Normandy: Enemy Puts Up Withering Fire

1ST ARMY HITS FORWARD FROM FALLEN LIEGE   Heavy Battle Rages British Gain 2nd Crossing Of Albert Canal

Hidden Nazi Forts Pow  Withering Artillery Fire Bight Tarn Hald Rei dogo Laas

Artillery Fire Rages On Third Wedge   German Elect to Fight In What May Become Showdown

GERMANS MOVE OUT TO BATTLE ALLIED MENACE   British Force Another Crossing at Weak Albert Canal

Temperatures   British Secure New Crossing ‘Of Albert Canal   Heaviest Fighting Since Normandy Races Along River

Germans Open Fierce Attack On Third Army   Picked Troops Fight To Hold Bridgehead In Metz Area; Three Allied Armies Closing In For Showdown At Siegfried Line-

Picked Yankees Meet Storm Of Nazi Artillery   Heaviest Fight Since Normandy In Progress As Americans Cling To Their Bridgehead

Allies Aim at Weakest Point of Siegfried Wall As German Attack Fails

Fierce Artillery Duel Fury Mounts On Moselle Front South of Metz ‘As Foe Sallies From Siegfried Line

Stiffened Nazi Resistance Slows Drive Of 3 Allied Armies Heading For Reich   British Secure Second Crossing Over Albert Canal Germans Pull Fresh Troops Out Of Siegfried Line Defenses

Americans Wage Showdown Battle Against Germans   Heaviest Fighting Since Normandy On Near Siegfried Line

Nazis Come Out Of Siegfried Line To Battle Allies .   Germans Throw Artillery, Mortars and Machine Guns Into Furious Battle Against Patton's Troops Along the Meuse

Artillery Duel Is Raging On Moselle River   Germans Sally From Menaced Siegfried Line To Give Doughboys Fight For Showdown   Americans Hold Slim Bridgehead   Caught in Withering Fire Fron: Camouflaged Forts; Other Armies  Are Advancing

Congress May Miss Recess   Money Bills Jamming Program Must Be Cleared By June 30

Money Bills Jam May Stymie Congress Recess   Campaign-Minded Lawmakers Must Pay For Summer Respite in Advance By Working Long Days and Full Weeks

Swarm of Bills Face Congress Before Recess   Legislators Eager to Clear Up Work Before Campaigning

Appropriations Jam Congress   Lawmakers Must Hustle To Earn Vacation

Jam of Money Measures May Upset Campaign Recess Plans of Congress

Premier Wins Canadian V ote Of Confidence   House Okehs Motion For Favorable Ballot By 143-70 Margin

Ble FOUR NOT LIMITED IN PEACE   No Provision Mada toDeal With Aggressor’ if It’s One of -Four

Bla FOUR 0! LIMITED [iy PEAGE   No Provision Made to Deal With Aggressor if It’s One of Four

NAVY'S AIR FORCE GROWING AT RATE OF ABOUT THREE AN HOUR   CORPUS CHRISTI AND PENSACOLA MAKING UNBELIEVABLE RECORD

Tax Bill Veto Stirs Revolt   Reps. Doughton and Knutson Rap F, R.’s Overriding of Congress

BARKLEY IN FER REVOLI   SENATE LEADER RESIGNS IN TAX VETO PROTEST

FDR Blasted for Stand on New Tax Bill   Doughton and Knutson Ask House and Senate te Override Veto

Demo Leader Claims Slur On Congress   Says He Won’t Submit to Unjustified Assault By Executive

Action Taken. as. a Protest Against Roosevelt’s Veto of Tax Bill.   A SARCASTIC ATTACK   Deliberate and Calculated Assault Upon Honesty of Congress, He Said.

Democratic Leader And Roosevelt Split   Kentuckian Throws Bombshell Into Political Scene After Tax Billi Veto

Senate Majority Leader Quits in Tax Veto Squabble   Action Expected To Have Important Effect on Election

VETO OF TAX BILL BRINGS NEW RETORI   Rep. Doughton, Former Supporter of President, Attacks Action

SENATE DEMO LEADER FLAYS VETO MESSAGE   President-Congress Feud Explodes ‘Over Taxes

CONGRESSMEN CRITICISE FDR ON TAX VETO   Doughton, Democrai, and Knuison, Republican of House Committee, Issue Joint Statement   REPLY BY SABATH   Critics Charge Presiden! Usurping Tax Powers, Defend Bill He Termed ‘For Greedy’

Sen. Barkley in Sensational Split With President   Quits as Party Leader in Senate Over Tax Veto

QUITS AS DEM CHIEFTAIN IN VETO PROTEST   Kentuckian Assails FDR’s Action From Senate Floor

Barkley Quits Post In Senate   Democratic Leader Resigns in Vehement Protest Against Tax Bill Veto by F.D.R.

Senate Barkley Acts In Protest Over Tax Vete   Quits Post As Senate Major ity Leader Because Of President's Tax Bill Veto   LONG TIME NEW DEAL STALWART

DEMOCRATIC CHIEF OFFERS RESIGNATION   Statesman From Kentucky In Throwing Down Leadership Makes Attack  On Executive   IS ANGERED AT VETO

Barkley Quit As Leader Of Senate   WOULDN'T STAND PRESIDENT’S VETO OF TAX BILL; CONGRESS AFLAME WITH REVOLT OVER ATTACK.   Deafening Applause

BARKLEY IN SPLIT WiTH ROOSEVELT   Senate Democratic Leader Denounces Tax Bill Veto

Unanimous Vote Ot Contidence  Given Veteran   Irate Congress Cancels Tax Veto Despite Warning Of President

PARTY LEADER'S ACTION IS BASED ON ‘CONSCIENCE’   Roosevelt Reasoning Called ‘Fantastic, Grotesque Inconsequential’

Resigns As Leader In Senate   Break Follows Roosevelt Veto Of New Tax Bill

Party Leader Flays Veto of Tax Measure   Denounces F. R.’s Action As Assault of Honesty And Integrity of Coagress

‘Barkley Resigns In Protest of Tax Veto Action   Democratic Leader — Says FR Assaulted Congress’ Integrity

Barkley Resigns Post Over Tax Bill Veto   Angrily Attacks President Roosevelt's Attitude, While Senate Applauds; Urges Colleagues to Pass Bill Over Veto.

‘MEASURE VETO BY ROOSEVELT   Democratic . Party Chie! Makes Dramatic Speech to Colleagues Explaining Gonentional Action.

Long-Loyal Wheelhorse Refuses To Take President’s Bitter Excoriation Of Congress In Veto Message ‘Lying Down.’ FDR Pleads For Peace

Bitter Fend Between Nation’s Chief And Congress Blows Wide Open; Roosevelt Asks for Reconsideration

“WHO IS TO WRITE TAX LAWS” ASKS REP. DOUGHTON —   N. C. Congressman Says It Is Question Whether\‘Irresponsible Theorists or the  People’s Elected Represent.  ativae

Senator Quits Leadership; Colleagues Stand, Cheer   Inaccurate Statements, Deliberate Assault  On Honesty, Integrity or Cs vwepeSk Gharaack   SAYS HE WON'T TAKE ASSAULT LYING DOWS

Barkley Splits With FDR   Senate Dem. Leader Resigns Leadership   Squabble Arises Over President's Veta af Tax Rill

Barkley Resigns in Scorching Protest Over Tax Bill Veto   Resents “Deliberate and Calculated Assault” on Congressmen

Action Taken As Vigorous Veto Protest   Denounces President's Reversal As Slap At Legislative Honesty; Rocks Senate Chamber

Barkley: Resign: In Protest Of Tax Bill Velo”  Democratic. Senate ‘Leader’ ‘Attacks™ FOR   eh CRE RE oe

Senate Majority leader Re-Chosen; Veto Overridden   Kentuckian Is Indifferent to Political Results

Quits In Protest To Tax Bill Veto By President   Reads Resignation In A Surprise Move Before House Acts To Override

Breaks With President Cn Veto Message   Protest Roosevelt’s Attack On Congress

Barkley ls Re-Elected  ‘Unanimously   House Overrides FDR’s Veto of Revenue Bill by 299 to 95° Vote; Senate Expected to  Follow Suit 

SENATE LEADER TO QUIT POST OVER ‘INSULT’   Upheaval in Party Ranks

President Severely Criticized   Demo Senate Lead er Resigns and De. nounces. Veto O1 Tax Bill

Resigns Post  After Attack  On President   Terms Roosevelt's Tax Goals As “Fantastic” in Bitter Speech

Breach Widens Between White House, Congress   Senate Majority Leader Angered At Tax Bill Veto

Senate Chief Takes Rap At President   Solon Says Message Was Assault on Members’ Honesty

—Tax Veto Brings Violent Protest Barkley  Resigns   Kentuckian Quits As Democratic Leader Of Senate In A Break With FDR; Urges Congress To Override

Barkley Breaks With President in Protest Against Veto   F. D. R. Immediately Urges Solon Not to Resign Post and Expresses ‘Confidence’ in His Senate Leadership

Carried Flag of FR for 12 Years   Thunderous Applause Sweeps Demo and GOP Sides Of Senate When Tax Veto Is Assailed; Believe Senate Will Retain Him As Leader.

Senators Say Barkley Will: Be Chosen to  Succeed Self   ‘Vote of Confidence’ Likely; Washington Stunned by Break

CONGRESS’ IRE RAISED BY VETO OF TAX BILL   ‘Doughton Sees Act as Ques ) tioning Right of Lawmakers  To Write Measure.

Kentucky Senator and Party Leader and Close Follower of President Heretofore Throws Down Leadership, Denouncing President’s Veto As Unwarranted and His Tax Plans As “Fantastic”

WHO SHOULD WRITE TAX LAWS, ASKS DOUGHTOR   The 80-Year-Old Tax Leader; President’s Irresponsible Theorists or Representatives of the People?   HE IS A DEMOCRAT

Barkley Quits As Democratic Senate Leader   Protest Against FDR’s Tax Veto

Doughton In Hot Attack On Tax Veto   Says Raises, Question Of ‘Whe's te Write Tax Laws; Qverride Vote Thnrsday

CONGRESS LIKELY TO OVERRIDE VETO OF NEW TAX BILL   President Denounced for Following Advice of “Irreemancihlia Thonaricte”

ChargesPresident Attacked Honesty Of Congressmen   Kentucky Senator, Democratic Leader In Senate Since 1937 And Close Associate Of President, Delivers Vehement Protest Of Roosevelt Veto Of Tax Measure

DEMOCRATIC LEADER OFFERS RESIGNATION IN TAXVETOPROTES)      Senator Barkley Says Vetc Was Assault on Honesty of Congressmen   SAYS REVENUE BELITTLED

SEN. BARKLEY 10 QUT AS LEADE   Kentuckian Splits With Execiltive Over Roosevelt’s Tax Bill Veto.

Rep. Doughton Attacks Veto By Roosevelt   Says FDR Ignored Responsibility Of Congress

Roosevelt's ; Taw Rill Vota e  Brings Split’  'Kentuckian’s Action Direct Protest Against Ac-  tion of Executive  DOUGHTON VPPACKS      DOUGHTON ATTACKS   ‘Leaders of Both Parties Call Congress to Reassert Its Authority

Veto Of Tax Bill Flayed —   “Leader Stortis Back At FDR For Action

Sen. Barkley Attacks FDR; Would Resign   Quits Leadership After Sharp Attack Upon the President

BARKLEY OFFERS TO RESIGN AS SENATE LEADER   Protests Roosevelt’s Tax Bil Veto, Assault Upon Congressmen

. (Associated: Pema) Democrats. Expected To Retain’ Him and Override Tax Veto

Constitution Is Threstened Says Doughton   Angry Leaders Charge That President Is Trying to Write Tax Laws 

BARKLEY SPLITS WITH ROOSEVELT   Resigns Leadership of Senate _ Democrats in Sensational - Political Development.

SAYS ATTACK ON CONGRESS UNJUSTIFIED   Leader Resents FDR's Charges That He Favored ‘Greedy’

sen. Barkley Splits With FER. Quits Party Post   ~ Democratic Leader Assails President's Action on Revenue Leaislation as Unsound

SEN. BARKLEY RESIGHS HIS LEADERSHIP   Assails Roosevelt For “Unjustifioble Assault” In Veto Message *

Barkley, Senate Leader Breaks With President   Denounces Roosevelt’s Veto Of Two Billion Tax Bill

Split Comes After Veto — By President Of Tax Bill    Kentuckian Always’ Close To Roosevelt

BARKLEY QUITS SENATE - BREAKS WITH PRESIDENT   Colleagues Shake Hand anc Cheer as Chief Executive Bitterly Denounced

Barkley Resigns Leadership   Announces Decision In Speech Bitterly Criticizing President’s Tax Veto Messare

BARKLEY RESIGNS AS NEW DEAL CHIEF IN VEHEMENT PROTEST OVER PRESIDENTS TAX VETO   “IT Will Not Take This Unjustifiable Assault Lying Down,” Senator Shouts In Calling Upon Senate To Override Roosevelt's Action

EX-SUPPORTER HITS F.D.RS STAND ONTAX   Doughton Assails Treasury Dept. ‘Mheorists’’   BITTER RETORT   Charges Congress Is Shoved Into Backeround

DOUGHTON ASKS COLLEAGUES 10 OVERRIDE VETO   Rep. Knutson of Minnesote Also Calls on Solons to Vote Tax Bill

Shouts at F.D.R. Veto Message   Denounces Veto as “Assaull Upon Honesty and Integ. rity of Congressnien”; Heavy Applause Con.cludes Vehement Speech.

TAX LEADER ATTACKS ROOSEVELT'S VETO QF REVENUE BIL   North Carolina Democrat Says People’s Representatives Should Write Tax Laws   MAY OVERRIDE VET 0!

Barkley Out As Senate Leader In Veto Protest   Bitterly Assails President For Sending Tax Bill Back To  Cangrecc

BARKLEY HAS BROKEN WITH ~NEW DEALERS   DEMOCRATIC: LEADER. IN SEN. ATE RESIGNS AS PROTEST TO ROOSEVELT VETO  MESSAGE :

Barkley Resigns Dem. Leadership Of Senate In Dramatic Speech   Makes Scathing- Denunciation Of Roosevelt; Senate Gives Him Standing Ovation

People's Rights Usurped, Claims Rep. Doughton   Revolt Spreads To Ranks Of President's Former - Staunch Supporters

Denounces F. R. Tax Bill Veto As ‘Insulting’   Called Attack On Honesty Of Solons; Over riding Demanded.

SENATE LEADER BITTERLY FLAYS CHIEF EXECUTIVE   Denounces Veto as Attack on Honesty and Integrity af Caonareace

CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON SEVERELY CRITICAL OF TAX BILL VETO  ; DECLARES IT RAISES ¥  FLAT rare VIER CLEAT   _ DECLARES IT RAISES QUESTION OF WHO SHALL WRITE TAX LAWS

PRESIDENT’S ACTION ON TAX BILL STIRS BIG CONGRESS ROW  BARKLEY, ROOSEVELT FOLLOWER, VEHEMENT IN HIS PROTEST

Senate Demo Head Offers  Resignatior   Makes Vehement Protest Against FDR's Tax Veto: Applause Heavy.   CALLS FOR MEETING

Resigns As ‘Demo Leader   Denounces lax Bill Yeto ‘ As Deliberate Assault On Integrity of Congressmen  PLEADED AGAINST VETO  Carried Flag For Roosevelt 12 Years, But Conscience, Self-respect First

‘If the Congress of the United States Has Any Self Respect Left It Will Override This Veto” He Asserts   CALLS DEMOCRATS TO CAUCUS   Kentuckian Charges President Deliberate. ly Sought to Belittle Congress with ‘Re lief for Greedy’ Charge   Bitterly Assails President

Democratic Leader  Denounces Veto Message as Assault upon Honesty and  Integrity of Congress.

LEGISLATION PROTESTED   Kentuckian Held Position Since 1937   CONFERENCE   To Select His Successor Called For Thursday: Advised President

RESIGNS LEADERSHIP IX RESENTING FOS ATTAUK   Protests Assault on Congress—l irst Breaks With New Deal In Speech ACTION MAKES HISTORY IN CONGRESS Kentuckian Assails Roosevelt In Person— Voice Chokes With Emotion

AMERICAN TROOPS WITH SLAVS ON DALMATIAN COAST   Units Specially Trained Fer Guerilla Fighting Gperating With Partisans and British Forces in Yugoslavia

YANKS FIGHTING ~ WITH YUGOSLAYS   AMERICANS, TRAINED FOR GUERRILLA’ ‘WARFARE, ON DALMATIA: COAST.

U.S. Troops With Tito’s Partisans Losses Described As  Light In Operations

Germans at Garigliano Hold Fire ‘As Americans Broadcast Easter Service

Troops Join In Worship   Easter Is Celebrated On Every War Front Where Americans Fight

Doughboys Note Easter Midst Mud-Muck, Blood   Germans Hold Fire As Service Read In English, German

‘Allied and German Troops in Haly Hold Fire to Join in Easter Service

ALLIES FIGHT FORWARD UNDER SECRECY CLOAK   Eisenhower ‘Blacks Out’ Reports To Keep Hitler Forces In Dark   YANKS CAPTURE LIEGE   Russians Overrun Bulgaria, Claim New Gains On Other Fronts

Willkie Move Believed Leaving Field fo Dewey   Makes Dramatic Withdrawal From Republican Race

GOP LEADERS SAY WILLKIE NO BOLTER   Republican Candidate Who Withdrew After Wisconson Defeat Raps Dewey in Statement.

WILLKIE QUITS PRIMARY FIGHT FOR PRESIDENT      Possibility Seen That He May May Bolt Nominee Of Party

Willkie Withdraws From ‘The 1944 Contest For G.O.P. Nominatiati For President

Organization and Congressional Republicans Generally Waive Him Out of 1944 Race with Cheers and Misgivings,

Willkie Withdraws From Contest: Hits at lsolationists; May Bolt Party's Nominee, Start Third Party

Withdrawal Statement Hints He May Not Support Party’s Nominee; Dewey’s Stock Takes Big Boost

IRVING WeERLLA PROBE BEGINS   Justice Department Will Check Up on  Hidden Inramea

IRVING WEXLER PANE BECINS   ‘ Justice Department Will Check Up on BWiAdan Tanawn

SENATE GROUP  "HEARS GORDON   EX-BACKETEER OF, * PROWIBITION  DAYS ‘TELLS OF gUR-: PLUS WAR SUPPLIES . , OR ALS

French Coast Hammered by Big Bombers   Germans Send Air Fleet Over Southern Eneland

U. S. Fliers Hit Rocket Gun Coast   Germans Send  Big Squadrons of Scout Planes Over Southwest England

Air Assault In FifthWeekNow   Unchallenged Attack Is Made On Rocket Coast of France

COAST OF FRANCE IS ATTACKED   Americans Lead Heavy Daylight Smashes; Cologne Raided

NAZI ROCKET GUN COAST OF FRANCE STRUCK   Block-buster Attack Made on Cologne After Weather-enforced Lull.

British Mosquito Bombers Follow Through With Block-Buster Jab At Rhineland Industrial Canital   NAZI SCOUT PLANES SENT OVER BRITAIN

ClO GROUP IS LABELED ARM OF NEW DEAL      Charges Of Collusion With High Officials Made By Dies Committee

House Probes Dies Charge Of Collusion   Says CIO and Govt. Officials Support New Deal Candidates

Charges Of Collusion Between High Officials Of U.S. And C. I: 0. In Promoting Candidates Of New Deal Office Seekers Are Probed

SENATE GROUP PUTS 0. K. ON TAX BILL   Simplification Measure to Reach Chamber Friday and George Predicts Speedy Passare.

‘Senate Finance Committee Approves Streamlined Income Levy Measure

NIGHT CLUB TAX CUT IS OPPOSED   Streamlined Income Levy Approved In Senate Committee

NEW TAX BILL APPROVED BY COMMITTEE   Streamliner Measure Moves Forward Another Step   TREASURY FIGHTS CABARET TAX CUT   Speedy Passage of Bill in the Senate Predicted

Senate Gets Tax Measure   . Passoge This Week Is Being Predicted

PHILOSOPHY Of FRANAFURTER CHALLENGED   Justices Black and Murphy Call It “Dangerous Business”

Nas COURT ~ FEUD FLARES   TWO JUSTICES JAB AT FELIX FRANKFURTER IN DISSENTING OPINION IN PATENT   * CASE

LONG. f- TERMERS STILL HOLD OUT   Atlanta Convicts Holding Prison Officials As  Hostages

Rebellion At U.S. Prison  Force Not Yet Used; 4 Officers Hostages

Rebel Convicts Still Hold Hostages anc Segregation Unit in Atlanta Prison

CONVICTS HOLD OUT   Are Still in Control of Segregation Unit at Atlanta Prison

New Communist Political Group   Browder Announces Non-Partisan Setup

Rail Objectives ani Oil Plants Bombed Through Heavy Clouds; i0th Attack on Misburce.   No Opposition

1,300 BOMBERS BLAST LEIPZIG, SAARBRUCKEN   _ Oil Plants Hit In ear-Record Raid

2,300 PLANES ATTACK REICH   Vital Nazi Rail, Oil Targets Hit Hard Last 2 Days

FOUR REFINERIES HIT IN RAIDS ON GERMANY   1,300 Heavy U. S. Bomber: Also Blast Rail Targets

BOMBERS MAUL GERMANY AGAIN   Refineries and _ Railroad Facilities Pounded

Spiritual Awakenin g Great Need   GOVERNOR MARTIN WARNS AGAINST TIDE OF GREED, RECKLESSNESS AND RIOTOUS LIVING AFTER WAR,   Address In Pittsburgh

American Troops Are Advancing On La Haye Du Puits   Heavy Allied Attacks Near Carentan, Caen And St. Lo Imminent, Nazis Assert In Telling Of 1 oiling Activity’

Allies Drive on Into Myitkyina  Smash Jap Dugout   Smash Jap Dugouts and Pillboxes

PUSH FORW IN BATTLE 10 ENCIRCLE CITY   Drive On Thionville, Second Moselle Line Stronghold

Widen Front In Drive North   Snow and Mud On Battlefront Keep Down Air Support.

STRONGHOLD OF VERNY IS WON IN NEW THRUST   American Army Farther South Forced Back by Nazi Counter-Attack

EXPAND BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS. MOSELLE RIVER AT THIONVILLE TOENDANGER NAZI RAIL LINES.

Threaten Last Railway Line  To Fortress   Germans Admits Yanks Have Succeeded in Entering Thionville

THREATENS ONLY USABLE RAILROAD LINK WITH SAAR   AMERICANS EXPAND A NEW BRIDGEHEAD NORTH OF FORTRESS

_Temperatures.   Americans Fighting . Through Snow Without Air Support

Fort Verny the First in the Ring Guarding the City to Fall     CO INTO THIONVIIE   Battle Toward Saar Continues Thru Snow, Mudfields, Fog

Patton Breaks Into Fortress Ring Of Metz   rirst Fort Falls To Yanks; Germans Say American Force Has Entered Thionville

THREATEN RAIL! LINE TO NORTH   Patton’s Armored Spearheads Punch Forward on 20 Mile Front.   95TH CROSSES MOSELLE

New Bridgehead  Threatens Railway Nazis Use Between Metz and the Saar

Yanks Break Ring of Steel   Four Towns Also Fall ToU.S. Troops in Drive to Circle City

Force New Moselle  Bridgehead   Last Rail Line from Metz Threatened By Yanks Narrowing Nazi Escape Gap to 11 Miles

Defense Ring Broken by Yanks For First Time   Third Army Also Enters Thionville; Several Villages Fall to Americans

Infantry Seizes Fort 5/2 Miles South of City; Patton Swinging Blows Encircling Base

FORTRESS RING AT METZ BROKEN WITH CAPTURE FT. VERNY  SIXTH DAY OF PATTON’S _ OFFENSIVE FINDS YANKS  - TINCUECKER

Key Bastion Falls to U.S. Troops   Other Doughboys Penetrate Thionville, Key Stronghold on Moselle Line; Four Villages Taken as Fort Verny Is Captured

0 eee  Last Of The Japs On Strategic Saipan Island Biting The Dust

CLEANUP OF SAIPAN NOW IN PROGRESS   By U. S. Marines and Infantry Smashing at Enemy Bases; Japanese Squeezed into Corner.   Evacuate Garapan

Quick Cleanuy on Saipan’ Is Expected   Carrier Force Hits Bases on Islands to North and South

American Forces Press for Quick Cleanup of Japs On Saipan Island   Showdown Clash Is Being Fought; Paratroopers Aid Troops in Conquest of Noemfoor

Americans Driving  To Clean-Up Saipan   Marines and Infantry Battle Nipponese in Corner at North End of Island—Noemfoor Conquest Beina Pushed

Norman Thomas May Again Run For President   Socialists Say FDR Reactionarv

SOLDIER'S CHILE   Newfoundland Mother Lets 3 at Bring Oa Daughter to Home

Suspect Confesses Maniaca Slayings of Two Women   Second Victim Mutilated ‘Just for Cussedness,’ Los Angeles Police Told

CHINESE TAKE JAP TOWNIN NORTH BURMA   Troops Capture Warong, 12 Miles From Kamaing, and Inflict Heavy Casualties in the Mogaung Valley.

Chinese Take  Burma Town   Inflict Heavy Toll On Enemy; Capture Jap Supply Dump

Chinese Take Town In Burma; Japs Yield Much Ground  Enemy Forces Perish In Bitter Fight, Commanders Report

Burma Town Taken From  Japanese   Success Of Chinese Troops Announced;New Gains Made By Allies’

PUT SQUEEZE ON HOLLAND; PATTON BUSY   British, Canadians Sweep Forward As Nazis Are Pinned by Broken Dam; Third Army Lashes Out.   “Last” Message

Yanks, British And Canadians Attack Germans   American Third Army Advancing

Germans use robombs at front lines  British launch new offensive

Patton’s Army Lashes Out in Attack on Enemy Defenses   NAZI ESCAPE ROAD IS BEING NARROWED

Third Army Makes New Saar Thrust   Allied Offensives Threaten Nazi Hope Of Blocking Antwer]

Whole Western Front Flames Into Life With Sharp Gains Near Aniwerp; Robot Bombs Fired at Yanks in Aachen Area

ALLIES SMASH AT NAZIS ALL ALONG FRONT   British Open, Surprise Attack in Holland; Patton Gains

Patton’s Army Lashes Out in Attack on Enemy Defenses  NAZI ESCAPE ROAD 1S BEING NARROWED  Fierce Fighting Reported on Belgian-Dutch Front

GERMANS USING FLYING BOMBS AGAINST YANKS   Robots Employed For First Time In Front Line War Zone   BRITISH, CANADIANS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE

Allied Planes Smash at Enemy Bases   Marines Extend Defenses at Cape Gloucester

Marines Expand Positions On Cape Gloucester; Air Force Hits Madang, Rabaul

Thousand Japanese Left Dead On Cape Gloucester Airfields As Marines Drive Mile and Half

TO BE HERE ON APRIL 4      ) —_ ‘Representative of Old Age and Sur yivors Insurance to Be at P.O.

WILL BE HERE JAN. 7   Representative of the Bureau of Old Age Bureau Coming.

Total Defeat Of Japs !s Necessary To Prevent Another War, Say Chief:   Pacific Area Veteran: Aver U, S. Is Too _ Complacent

Japs Rate Number One On Our Hate Parade-—   NO ee FY   Pacific Commanders Fear Negotiated Peace

Two New Subs Are Launched In Yards  5,000 Workers Cheer The  eremonies

Entire Jap Amy in Full Flight on Guinea   MacArthur Says End Near for Enemy Forces; Heavy Casualties Indicated

PAIR OF BODIES ~——-FOUNDIN DITCH   Search Ended After Week: Killer Hunted Now

Allies’ Offensives in Burma Beat Japs Along Supply Lines   Tokyo’s Claims of Jap Advances in India Are Unconfirmed

TOKYO CLAIMS NEW GAINS IN INDIA SECTOR   Report Nip Troops Near Vita Bengal-Assam Rails; No Word From Allies

JAPANESE CLAIMS OF  REACHING VITAL RAIL  LINE UNCONFIRMED REPORTS FROM ALLIES,  INSTEAD, ARE GENERALL} OPTIMISTIC

Tokyo Declares Jap Offensive Nearer Railway   Report By Allies, Howéver, Claims Successes In Own Drive Into Burma

Enemy Says Kohima Fell 2 Weeks Ago   AP Correspondent Reports Nips Forced to Defend East Burma Supply Lines

Tokyo Declares Troops Menacing Indian Railroad   Report Invading Force Within Mile and Half Bengal-Assam Not Confirmed by Allies

TOKYO CLAIMS GAINS IN INDIA   NO CONFIRMATION RECEIVED FROM ALLIED SOURCES

GREAT ADVANCE REPORTED TODAY BY JAP TROOPS   Allies Fail To Confirm Most Jap Claims

Conflicting Claims In Battle of India   Both Sides Report Successes: Allied Confidence ts High

\ips Claim Gains Toward Railway   Reports Unconfirmed By Confident Allies. Relating Jap Defeats

Tokyo Claims Indian Gains   No Confirmation From Allied Sources of Enemy Advance

ALLIES MAKE FRESH GAINS IN N. BURMA   Nips Withdraw Troops From Eastern Sector to ~ Combat Forces Preying on. Supply Routes Feed ino Indian Drive.

100,000 Japs Reported Isolatec In South Pacitic   Bases In Carolines Receive Additional ° Blasting From Allies

Imphal Garrison  Cut Off   Two Hills Captured at Bougainville, New Guinea Drive

Philippine Area Raids Continuing   Axis Reports Say Carriers Still There

Carrier Raids On J ap Islands   Devastatine   Attacks From Palau to Philippines Carried Into— Fifth Consecutive Day By U.S. Friers

Aerial Armadas Blasting Jap. Island Bases   U. S. Carrier Planes By Hundreds Go Into Action; Formosa Hard Hit.

apanese Islands Receive Pounding  From U. S. Planes   ip Possessions Are Hit for Fifth Day in  Succession

Planes Keep Up Drunfire  On Japanese   Approaches to Philippines Are Continually Bombed

Carrier Planes Blast. Japanese. For Fifth Day   Axis Says 1000 Aireraft Used In Assaults On Palau, Yap -~ Islands

Yanks Pounc Japs Fifth Day in Row   Carrier Attacks Over Wide Area

U.S. Carrier Air Attacks From Palau To Philippines Reported Entering 5th Day   Land-Based Planes Attack Formosa, Also Halmahera And Celebes To South

DEVASTATING U. 8. CARRIER RAIDS IN  PHILIPPINES AREA  CRESCENT SHAPED BOMB  ING LINE BEING DRAWN  AROUND ISLANDS

ENEMY BASES IN PACIFIC BLASTER   Carriet-Based Planes In -Attacks-From Palau To Philippines ©   FORMOSA BOMBED   Devastating Aerial Attacks Now In Fifth Day, Says Tokyo

Carrier Planes Continue Sweet Of Jap Bases  U.S. Bombers Keep   U.S. Bombers Keep Busy Hitting Arc Around Philippines

U.S. Planes Hit Philippines, Yap, Palau Isles   ’ Raids Enter Fifth Day With Surface Ships Joining Fray

CARRIER PLANES RAID BARRIER TO PHILIPPINES   U. S. Airmen Increase Attacks on Japanese Islands in Pacific

Softening-Up Of Philippines In Fifth Day   Raids on Jap-Held Territory Reach Thousand-Plane Proportions in Drive

Carrier Raids Blast Japan's Pacific Bases  os _ based Aircra'  ca PES OS ME Deine   Land.based Aircraft Hit Formosa, Areas In East Indies

U.S. Planes. Blast  Bases _ From Palau.  To Mindanao   Land-Based Raiders  ‘Hammer ‘Formosa:

PALAU ATTACK IN FIFTH DAY   Bombers Step Up Raids On Vital Pacific Stepping Stones

Devastating Raids Carried Against Philippine Outposts   Bombers Smash At Formosa, Halmahera. Celeges, Pa lau. Yap And Philippines; Japs Say 1,000 Planes Batter Installations On Palau

AIR RAIDS IN PACIFIC NOW IN FIFTH DAY   U. S. Carrier Planes Continue Attacks In Philippine Region

Axis Broadcasts Report US Carrier Raids. From Palau To Phi tippines

1,000 American Planes In Raid On Yap, Palau  cectseng: sod nds   Nip-Occupied Lands Handed Hammering By Carrier Blasts In Widespread Blows

GREAT CARRIER RAIDS ON PALAU ENTER 5TH DAY   Southern Approach To Philippines Softened Up

(OWA FLOOD COST OVER 30 MILLIONS   Hundreds Flee Homes Located in Southeastern Area of State

Five Killed As ~ Plane Crashes ~ Into Hillside   Membsrs of Prominent _ Midwestern Family — Among. Victims -

5 Die In Smashup Of Plane At Elkins  iProminent Family Amana   Prominent Family Among Victims

Five Lives Lost In Plane Crash   Three Men, 2 Women Killed near Elkins

Two British Columns, Striking From North And South, Join Forces On Highway, Rout Jap Divisions   14,000 JAPS KILLED IN THRER MONTHS

British Regain Control of Vital Indian Highway   Two Columns Quickly Rout Japanese Units South of Kohima

British Gair New Control India Road   Defeat Jap Forces,. Afte! Killing Estimated 14,000 Japs in 3 Months

Vital Indian Road Now in British Hand:   Full Scale Offensive of Japs Ends in Disaster

SHAEF ISSUES ‘COMMUNIQUE ON - FALL OF BAYEU)   Allied Troops Cut Road From Paris to Cherbourgs

Chinese Army Of Stillwell Breaks  Japs’ Resistance   In Spectacular Advance To Take Manpin; Fed Ue. Savs Jan. Prisoner.

SLRAP MON SPLATTERS ALL OVER HILLSIDE  Yank Tanks Crawl Pik Frozen Valley

$1.50 A DAY FOR WORKING IN COLD ITALY   While Winds Whistle And Nazi Shrapnel Falls All Around, U. S. Soldiers Keep Right On Job.   Almost Dark

Eisenhower Praises Navy for Landings   COMPLETE CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED BY GENERAL AT ADVANCED POST

Eisenhower Says: ‘Allied. Forces Have Justified Full Confidence i in Them

EISENHOWER IS CONFIDENT VICTORY AWAITS ALLIES   Commander-in-Chief Praises Work of All Invasion Forces, Future Effectiveness

OUR FORGES HAVE. ALL NECESSITIES FISENHOWER SAYS   Armies, Navies and Air Forees Able to “Do All They Are Asked to’ Commander Declares.   NAVIES EXCEL WHEN INVASION OCCURRED   General Eisenhower Made Cruise Along Invasion Beachheads, Hold Conference With Others.

CONFIDENCE IN ARMIES   Genera} Eisenhower Is Sure of CoOperation in: Attacks 

Eisenhower Says Confidence in Allied Armies, Navies, Air Forces Justified

FLEET BEGINS BIGGEST MOVE OF JAP WAR   Heavy Attacks Continue on Palau Islands; Bases Wrecked Within 460 Miles of Philippines.

U. S. Planes Repeat Raids On Frankfur!   Fighter Support Sets Record For American Sorties

Americans Stage Greatest Aerial Attacks of War   Blast Frankfurt, Western Germany

FRANKFURT HIT BY FORTRESSES IN LATEST RAID   High Explosives Blast Industrial City; France Also Bombed   20 AMERICAN PLANES; 35 AXIS CRAFT LOST

Well-Cuarded Bombers Hit At Frankfurt   U. S. Increasing Its Fighter Plane Escort for Big Bombers

Forts Batter Frankfurt for 2nd Time   35 Enemy Aircraft Downed; 20 U. S. Planes Lost

Forts Smash At Frankfurt, Other Targets   35 Nazi Planes Shot Down in Day’s Work; Many Fighters Used

Gen. MacArthur Gets Third DSM On 64th Birthday      Successes In New Guinea And New. Britain Bring Reward From President.

Gen. MacArthur. Is Awarded DSM   ‘President and Other Allied Leaders Honor Him on Birthday

MaeArthur Is Given  War Medal   President Praises General on His  64th Birthday

MacArthur Given DSM   General Receives Award from President On 64th Birthday

FDR Praises War Conduct   Many Messages Pour In Ta MacArthur On Birthday

PRESIDENT AWARDS GENERAL MACARTHUR DSM FOR SUCCESSES  CITATION AND AWARD CAME ON GENERAL’S SIXTY-FOURTH BIRTHDAY

Japs Trying To Whip Up Home Fighting Spirit   Radio Fans Fires of Propa ganda With Assortment Morale Building Broadcasts

AP War Prisoner Returning ens  Larry Allen Is Exchanged; “Held By Nazis 20 Months

Larry Allen, AP Correspondent, Leaves Prison   Had Been Held by Germans Since  September 13, 1942

Allied Forces Linked As Nazis Flee to Hills   Troops Form Juncture After Fifth Army Advances 60 Miles In 14 Days; German Prisoners Exceed 10,000.

Fifth Army Advances 60 Miles fo Effect Junction With U. S. Troops at Anzio Beachhead   Germans Making Supreme Effort to Save Their 17 Divisions From Utter Destruction; Retreat Into Hills Northeast of Appian Way

Americans From Main Line Push to Anzio Beachhead   Germans Retreat Into Hills After Fall of Terracina

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCE OF SIXTY MILES PUT GERMANS IN DANGER   JUNCTURE OF BEACHHEAD FORCES AND CENTRAL FRONT UNITS REPORTED

Anzio, Central Front Patrols Meet At-Coast   Nazi Reinforcements Reported On Way Toh Hard-Presced Foes

5th Army Advances 60 Miles   Germans Rush Reserves As Appian Way Is Blocked and Kesselrings Take to Hills

Anzio, Central Italy Troops  Vake Juncture   Nazis Retreat to Hills To Prevent Utter Destruction Before Big Advance

AMERICAN FIFTH-ARMY MERGES ITS TWO FRONTS FOR UNIFIED DRIVE TOWARD ETERNAL CITY   -- Anzio Beachhead- and: Main Force Consolidated Above Terracina, Germans Withdrawing to Hills Northwest of Appian Way. .Nazis Reported Rushing Reinforceme nts to Italy

Germans Admit Defenders Have Withdrawn to Hills Northeast of Appian Way

Fifth Army Makes ContactWithAnzio Beachhead Forces   ‘ramatic Victory Comes Fourteen Days After Opening of Offensive and Four Months After First Landing Is Made   ‘-ANADIANS TOPPLE KEY POINT OF PONTECORVO

SKILLED IN OHIG HIGHWAY CRASH   2 Others Hurt as Truck, Auto Collide

Bombs Kindle Great Fires In Heart Of City   Vichy Radio Confirms An  nouncement With State  ment “Creat Fires Broke Gat”   '88 Nazi Planes  Are Shot Down   Other Parked Ships Are  Wrecked and 21 Loco. ' motives Are Destroved   During Attack

16th Day Of Allied Pre-Invasion Raids Started By R.A.F.   Toulon In France, Norway Also Blastec Over Ever-Widening Threatened Area

2,000 U. S. Planes In Great Assault On Reich Capital   Heart of German City Afire After 2,500 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped — War’s Biggest Daylight Air Battle Develops — 88 Nazi Aircraft Are Destroved.

United States Craft Bring Destruction   Americans Lose 63 Bombers In Fierce Fighting

Americans Lose 03 Bombers, 14 Fighters in Raid   88 German Planes Downed; Wreck 21 Locomotives

U.S. Planes Dump 2,500 Tons of Bombs on Berlin  In Record Daylight Attack   Loss of 77 Planes Admitted Following Air Battle With Intercepting German Planes Sent Un to Protect Capital

Greatest Air Battle Fought Over Germany   Germans Rise in Box-like Stacks to Battle Americans

Drive Through Hundreds of ‘Nazi Fighters   Greatest Aerial Battle of War Is Foucht

Fires Blaze In Capital; Heavy Plane Toll Taken   Record. Assault Is Made; Nazis. Fight

2,500 Tons Of Explosives Are Dropped On German Capital In Greatest Davlicht Raid Of War

Yanks Destroy 88 German Planes in: Combat and Set Great Fires in Heart of Berlin, Bombed Through Holes in Clouds

Nazis Lose 88  Planes After ‘ Caen aes  Fierce Fight  Nearly 3,000 U. S. Aiy craft Carry Offensive    ; Into 15th Day  GREAT FIRES SEEN  Bombers Drive T hrough   Hundreds of German    a fi, eS ae   GREAT FIRES SEEN   Bombers Drive Through  Hundreds of German  Fighters

(AVY BOMBING   Fnemy Fighter Planes Willing to Battle Against Attack

CAPITAL SEES GREATEST SKY BOUT OF WAR   ASSAULT COSTS 7 SHIPS, GERMANS LOSE 83

Greatest Air Fight Of War At Cost Of 63 Bombers Aner  Fourteen Fighters

7TH AIRBASE TAKEN WITHIN 800 MILES OF THE PHILIPPINES   U. S. Troops Make New Landing On Island Of Noemfoor

OCCUPY ISLAND GF NOEMFOOR   Unoppused Seizure of Namber Airdrome Annouuced — Not Single American Casualty ~;-Sufféred in QOnerations,

MUSTERING-OUT BONUS DEFEATED   Measure Providing $300 Top For War Veterans Started In House

HOUSE TAKES UP WAR VET AID BILL   MAXIMUM MUSTERING-OUT PAY OF $300 PROVIDED BY LEGISLATION,

MUSTERING OUT PAY WRANGLE   Widespread Disagreement Over Amount For Ex-Ser vicemen In House

$300 Vet Pay Bill Launched   Amendments To Raise Maximum Prenared

HOUSE TAKES UP VETERANS BILL   Amendments Calling For Increases Scheduled  For Debate Today

TEST IS FACED BY DISCHARGE ‘PAY MEASURE   Bill Providing Top of . $300 is Taken Up  In House

House Disagrees On Discharge Pay   Test Comes Today, on Proposed Amendments

2 CARS SMASHED ~ UP IN COLLISION   Two Colored Women Receive Minor . Injuries

NOT ALL FRENCH WELCOME YANK ~ INVASION FORCE   Correspondent Tells of French Women Shooting Soldiers  in the Back

Fast Moving Russian Offensive Accounts For  Death Of Over 20,000  German Troops. '

Germans Back To 1941 Lines, Russians Claim   Zhukov’s Army Ready To Launch Drive Into Bukovina Province

Little Ground Opposition Encountered By BattleHardened Allied Troops   Offensive May Not Be Too Costly A Campaign

Reveal Operations In Toulon Region  — Are All Successful   Seven Waves Of Infantry Sweep Ashore Shortly After Sunrise Backed By More Than 800 Ships

Invasion Fleet of 800 Ships Puts 7 Waves of Ground Troops Ashore on Mediterranean Coast

Beachhead Gained At Toulon   Little Opposition Met as Infantrymen Storm Beaches; Paratroops Drep Upon Inland Centers: Great Sea, Air Support Provided

New Invasion Strikes Mediterranean Coast   More Than 800 Ships Take Part In Huge  Landing Extending From Marseille To Nice; Germans Put Up Slight Opposition

Land on Broad Section Around Toulon; Little Opposition Met   Americans, British and French Troops Open Fourth Front

Mighty © Armies Involved   Great Force Engages In Landings Which Open a Fourth Front Against Reeling Nazis

- Huge Forces of Parachute, Glider-borne Troops Hit Southern France Before Dawn

All Operations Successful, Little  Opposition Met   “Fourth Front” Clamps Pincers on All Germans in France as Trap Shuts on Yon Klusce in North   ARMY OF FRANCE STRIBES WITH YANKS AND BRITISH

Battle Hardened Yank, British Troops Forge Fourth Front, To Effect End of Hitler's Regime

Vast. Force Encounters Little Opposition   x «*& «& * France On Eve _ Of Freedom

All Landings Are Successful   Considerable Length of Riviera Seized With Scarcely Any Ground Opposition -Unopposed from Air — 800 Ships  Back Greatest Air-Borne Force

Many Beaches Seized: French Army Fighting   Seven Infantry Waves Go Ashore In Two Hours Of Battle

ALLIED ARMIES STORMED ASHORE SOUTHERN FRANCE. IN ANOTHER BIG INVASION   As Planes Ripped German Defenses Thousands al Parachutists Vaulted Behind the Lines As 800:  Ships Backed the Assault; Little Resistance Bimcavinéarad

Allies Meet With Little Nazi Resistance In New Landing   Troops Land in 800 Ships Near Toulon Area After Air Forces Shatter Enemy Defenses Over Wide Stretch;  Airborne Soldiers Open Attack Behind Lines in. Dark   Ry EDWARD KENNEDY

Great Force of Battle Hardened Americans and British Make Success of Their Landings Along Broad Medi terranean Reach.   Penetrate Several Miles Inland; Land Between Toulon and Cannes

Hitler Faces His Fourth Major Front   Army of France Aided by Yanks and British Make Successful Landings Near Toulon Area; Meet With Little Opposition From Germans

Thousands — Land From  800 Ships   Bombers and Ajir-Borne Combat Forces Pave Way for Great Thrust   MUCH OF RIVIERA COAST SEIZED   Americans and French Go Into Toulon Area; Weak Opposition to Invaders

14,000 Troops Landed In First Two Hours; Move  Ahead On Schedule

Mighty Fleet And Air Forces Backing Up New Invasion   Initial Objectives Quickly Seized; Frenchmen in Invasion Forces

ALLIES INVADE. SOUTH FRANCE   Great Force Strikes Hitler on Fourth Major Front Today.   CANDINGS NEAR TOULON

Over 800 Invasion Warships in Largest Mediterranean Sea Armada; Forces Hit Shore in Daytime; Enemy Resistance Very Light

MIGHTY FORCE OF VETERAN TROOPS LAND AS WARSHIPS HAMMER SHORE BATTERIES   MORE DISASTERS LOOM FOR NAZIS

Considerable Length of Riviera Seized, Troops Quickly Move Several Miles Inland with Plan to Go to Paris   14,000 Land in T-wo Hours

Beaches Taken Near Toulon; Airborne Forces  on Beyond   OPPOSITION IS SLIGHT   No Enemy Concentrations Found by Pilots Rang ing Inland

More Than 14,000 Troops Reportedly Ashore in First Two Hours of Dawn Attack, and Broadcast Says Invaders Have Moved Several Miles Inland—Opposition Light—Air-Borne Units Open Assault-—800 Ships Used in the Overation.

Yankees, British, French Succeed in Lariding Maneuvers   Fourth Major Front is Opened “up Against Hitler’s Forces

Thousands of Airborne Forces Drop Behind German Coastal Fortifications Between Marseille and Nice   BEACHES ARE LEFT SPECTACLE OF DEVASTATION   By EDWARD KENNEDY

Parachutists Lead Assault; Allied Troops Drive Inland From Beaches Near Toulon

Landings Made On 125 Mile Stretch Between Port Of Marseille And Nice

Beachheads Made Between Toulon and Cannes, in Area Softened by Heavy Bombinc

NEW INVASION ON SCHEDULE, REPORTS SAY   Great Airborne Force Leads Drive; 800 Ships Used

BEACH AREA CAPTURED AT TOULON POR]   Army Of France Strikes With Am. ericans, British To Give Hitler Headache On 4th Front

French, American, British Forces Open Fourth Front: All Take First Objectives

Fourth Front Is Opened Against Hitler's Defenses   Allies Land Along Broad Section of : Beach Near Toulon

Italian Front Remains Quiet   Weather Limits Aerial Activities; Patrols Are Busy.

GEN. M’AULIFFE WAS AUTHOR OF “NUTS” TO SURRENDER DEMANDS  ~ -101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION COMMANDER FLIES ATLANTIC TH BIC TROND.

Von Rundstedt Threw All He Could Against — Bastogne But He Failed; Patton Again Hero

Trucked Airborne Division Rushed To Bastogne Rallied Army Morale

General of Bastogne Defenders Slips Through Lines to Rejoin Unit

Airborne Division Held Off Germans Sieging Bastogne   Acting Commander Brig. Gen. McAuliffe Gav ‘Nuts’ Reply To Nazi Surrender Demand; Group’s Officer Went To City From Washington In 3 Days

Fresh Details Released of Epic Stand Made at Bastogne and Patton’s Spectacular Dash

YANK COURAGE CHECKS NAZIS: ‘Nuts’, Commander’s Reply To German Demand For Surrender At Bastogne   Patton’s Third Army Finally Opens Relief Corridor “To Gallant Defenders; General Flies From Washington To Join. Besieged Outfit -

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIPF Reanoiniod Presne War Analw’t

FURTHER CLARIFICATION OF THE ATLANTIC CHARTER DECLARATIONS TO BRING SOME HARSH REALITIES   Rising Clamor for Further Elaboration of Plans by America, Britain and Russia Will Bring Statement from British Prime Minister Sunday

GREAT INTEREST ATTACHES TO CHURCHILL STATEMENT ATLANTIC CHARTER CONFERENCE DUE SOON

Churchill’s Review Recent Statement Receives All-Ears   Clarification Need ' Of Allied Pledge Long Been Apparent

The War Today  Historic Atlantic Charter Pledge Needs Clarification.

WAR TODAY   : jdantic Charter Discussion’ Held To Be 4s Full Of Explosive  (Asa Blockbuster  $+ ono wh

World Charter Said To Need  Clarification   Generalities. of Atlantic document no’ longer sufficient, = many ‘people believe.

The War Today   Allies to Discuss Application Of Atlantic Charter Promises

Soviet Armies Ready To Give Death Blow   Russians Prepared For All-Out Attack On Hitler's Eastern Front

Reds Launch Wide Attack, Germans Say   New Offensive Centers In Wyszkow and Small Penetrations Admitted By German Radio

GREAT ALLIED THRUST INTO EUROPE NEARS   London Press Hints at Proximity  PUSH AERIAL WAR  Recall Prelude to Italian Campaign

GRIM WARNING BY HITLER 10 GERMAN PEOPLE   Makes Desperate Appeal To His People To Keep On Pichtine

HITLER IN GLOOMY TALK TO PEOPLE   Makes Despérte Appeal for Added Production

Hiller Cries ror Greater Production   German Leader Makes Gloomiest Speech of Career

Hitler Gives Gloomiest Talk Of His Career   Exhorts Greater War Production Despite Difficulties

Hitler in Grimmest Speech of His Career Admits Allies Have Far Outstripped Germany in Production

FIGHT TO END, HITLER’S PLEA IN GRIM TALK   German Leader Speaks To Production Heads On Nazi Defeats

Hitler Warns Nazis Fight For Existenee Address Admits Allies Excel In Production

“Hitler Appeals » For Increased War Productior   Says Allies Far Outstrip the Reich In Gloomy Speech

ADMITS ALLIES. AHEAD OF REICH IN WAR OUTPUT   ‘Note of Gloom Pervades Speech

Hitler Grim As He Warns Of Dangers   Fuehrer Says Nerves Needed To Survive Allied Onslaught

HITLER ADMITS GERMANS TRAIL IN PRODUCTION   Says Future for Many Generations Being  Decided by War

Grim Fight Faces Nazis, Hitler Admits   FUEHRER PLEADS FOR FIGHTING DESPITE DEFEATS, GREAT ODDS

Adolf Hitler In Grimmest Speech Of War, Appeals To  Germans For More Supplies

Hitler Urges. Greater Effort   Says Allies Lead In War.Production

Invasion Trend «OF Stock Mart   ROGER BABSON WRITES ABOUT EFFECT ON MARKETS

INVESTORS WONDER EFFECT OF INVASION ON PURCHASES      Excess of Sellers or Two Many Buyers Wil Determine Bullish or Bearish Positien  While War!Progresses.

Reds Press Into Romania After Crossing Prut To Carry War To Axis Soil For First Time ,

Russian Forces Now Fighting On Rumanian Soi   Force Crossing Of Prut River Into Enemy Land Moscow Reports   FALL OF ODESSA IS BELIEVED NEAR

SENATE WILL TAKE - UP TAX SIMPLIFI CATION MONDAY   Ceiling On Salaries F rom Which Total Income Tax Will Be Withheld May Be Raised to $7,500.

DEMOCRATS TO USE STICKERS.      Will Run Full Slate Of Candidates In Primarv Flection

Sticker Slate Named By Dems   Vacancies On Ballot : To Be Filled

Soldier Vote Bill Runs Into Fresh Threat   State's Rights Men Ask Proviso That Might Invalidate Entire Law

SERVICE VOTE BACK TO PLAGUE   , “State’s ~ Rights” Issue Blocked Senate’s First Attempt

State's Rights Issue Menaces  War Ballot Bill   Many Other Senate Ob stacles In Pathway O Soldier Vote Plan.

Fight Against ~ Vote Proposa!   ‘State's Rights’ Issue Harasses Backers Of Fed eral Ballot Program,

“States’ Rights” Haunts Senate  Harasses Backers   Harasses Backers Of Revived Federal War Ballot Plan

‘State Rights *Again Blocks Soldier Vote   Local Election Officials to Retain Authority

ISSUE OF STATE'S RIGHTS BOBS UP IN SOLDIER VOTE PLAN   _ THAT, HOWEVER, '° ONLY ONE OF MANY OB. JECTIONS TO BILL

Soldier Vote. Measure Back Before Senate   Retains Federal Ballot Form For President, Vice-President and  Congress 

“STATE'S RIGHTS” ISSUE AGAIN IN WAR BALLOT FUSS   is Only One of Many Objections Standing in Path of New Service Vote Bill Rushed Into the Senate

STATES RIGHTS ISSUE BLOCKING VOTING MEASURE   Senate's First Attempt to Set Up Uniform Federal Voting System Still Held Un

War Ballot Plan Again Meets Block   Old State’s Rights Question Hampers  Bill’s Backers

SOLDIER VOTE — AGAIN BUCKING STATE’S RIGHT!   Southerners Seek Amendment tc Senate Bill Which Would Guaraniee State Control

States’ Rights Blocking Soldier Vote   Federal War Ballot Plan Attacked On Other Grounds

‘State’s Rights” Issue Cropping Up Again To fndanger Uniform Absentee Voting System

Polish Underground  Captures ‘Old City’ District of Warsaw   RUSSIANS FORGE ACROSS VISTULA

BATTLING POLES SEIZE WARSAW STRONG POINTS   Reds Mass on Reich Frontier

Polish Patriots Capture Large Warsaw District   Gen. “Bors” Reports Several Important Points Are Taken

Power Piant Is Grabbed   Russians Occupy City 100 Miles From Nezi Border

Polish Underground Patriots Seize Warsaw Strongpoints In Battle with Nazi Forces

GOOD FOR HARVEST   But Corn and Pastures in Eastern Kansas Need Rain

BOARD REJECTS AFL DEMAND FOR MODIFICATION   Labor's Attemnts To Smash Little Steel Formula Beaten By WLB

HOUSE BACKS FDR VETO OF SUBSIDY BAN   Republicans Prepare Another Attempt To Kill Plan

FDR Veto Of Subsidy  Sustained   House Ballot To Upset Veto Of Food Measure Fails By 66 Votes.

House Action Reprieves  Food Subsidy   Legislators Sustain Roosevelt Veto Of Antireculation

RAF Heavy Bombers Fire German Cities   First Reports Say Bochum Obliterated By Saturation Raid In Night Attack.

U, S, BOMBERS ‘GARRY ATTACK ‘INTO 6TH DAY   Reich Aireraft Plants Targets

ROYAL AIR FORCE BLASTS GERMAN AIRCRAFT PLANTS   Schweinfurt and Steyr Bombed as Fires Rage fram US. Raids

U.. FORMATIONS: BLAST TWO GREAT INDUSTRIAL SPOTS   Germans Bomb London on Fifth Successive Night, Churchill Makes Inspection After Bombers Leave.   VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUELS RAGE AT ANZIO   Striking Force of 100,000 Is Built Up By Germans In Third Major Assault on Allied Army.

SHATTERING RAIDS MADE UPON TARGETS   Allies Striving for Knockout Blow at Hitler’s Waning Luftwaffe.

British Forces Smash Steyr, Schweinfurt    Record Flight of Bombers Knock Out Key Regensburg

U.S. AIRMEN IN RAID ON REGENSBURG   Follows Attacks By British On Schweinfurt, Steyr

Yanks, British Team Up   Aircraft Works, Other Targets Bombed Heavily

County Fiscal Case  In Superior Court  Decision Will Be Giver Later

NAVY SMASHES IAPAN'S INNER DEFENSE BELT   U. S. Takes Offensive Into Nip Waters   POUND MARIANAS  a eters oe  Only 1300 Miles From  Tokyo

ARIANA DRIVE TAKES YANKEES « 10 JAP WATERS   Saipan and Tinian Islands 111 Miles from Guam, Pounded

YANKS ATTACK 1,300 MILES FROM TOKIO   Deepest Penetration of Jap Territory Yet Recorded

FROM TORO   Deepest. Penetration of Jap Territory © Yet Recorded —

Yanks Pound Tokyo s Inner Defense Belt   U. S. Mighty Sea Offensive Hits Bases Only 1300 Miles From Tokyo   JAPS ARE GIVEN ANOTHER SURPRISE   PFEARI HARBOR. Feb

Plant Mishaps Kill More Than Battle Wounds   Lagging Industrial Safety Program Constitutes Maior Problem.

ACCIDENTS KILL MORE THAN WAR   Industrial Accidents To January 1, Killed 7,000 More Than Battle Wounds.

ACCIDENTS: TAKE TERRIFIC TOLL   7,000 More Persons Killed In Industrial Mishaps Than On War Fronts

7,000 More Persons Dieln Wartime Inductrial Accidents Than In Battle

[Industrial Accidents Killed 7,000 More Persons In U.S. Than War Wounds ToJan. 1

7,000 MORE KILLED “IN-HOME. INDUSTRY THAN AT WAR FRONT      More Time Lost in Accidents Than by Strikes

PLANT DEATHS TOP WAR TOLL   Industrial Accidents Kill 7,000 More Than Battle Wounds

Allied Gains Now Total 3 to 8 Miles   Yanks Overrun Spigno—French Troops Take  Monte Fammera

Nazi Strongholds South Of The Liri Crushed By Allies In Terrific Fight

‘Advances UpTo [Eight Miles In Italy Scored   French Take Monte Fam mera, West of Ausonia  and North of Tyrchenian, In Bitter Battle   Eighth Repulses  Counter-Attacks   British and Indian Troops Recover Ground South; ~ west of Cassino; Berlin  Admits Evacuations

Front Line Detenses Are Smashed by Allied Forces Drivine Toward Liri River

‘Advances Up To Eight Miles Renorted   Spigno Overrun By Americans; Flanking Of Line Possible

ENEMY RESISTANCE ON LIRI RIVER WIPED OUT  er WOLAT ARTF RATLSRLOMA ADIN

ALLIED TROOPS SMASH THROUGH NAZI BARRIERS   Enemy Loses Capo Dacqua; Two Hill Tops

Spigno Is Taken;  Nazis’ Assaults Are Beaten Off   Last Enemy Resistance South Of Liri River Is Wiped Out, With 3000 Prisoners  Captured In Fierce Advance

Fifth Army Moves On Toward Nazi Second Line Of Defense: British Fiohth Gains Ground

Entire German Front Line Defense Smashed South of Stream; Yanks Take Spigno

ALLIED TROOPS WIPE OUT LIRI RIVER DEFENSE   French Thrust Threatens Flanking Of German Lines Around Cassino

Nazi Resistance South of Liri River Smashed  Advances Scored Of 3 to 8 Miles

Advance 3 To 8 Miles Since Launching Of Huge Attack   3,000 Prisoners Taken; Nazi Regimental And Battalion Commanders Takean Prisoner

Americans and French Drive Into Nazi Line   Yanks Occupy Spigno in Lower Carigiano Valley, Headquarters Says

Yanks, French Continue  Their Gains   All Enemy Resistance South of Liri River Wiped Out; British, Indian Troops Recover Ground Taken in Counterattack

German “Gustav” Defenses Being ‘Ripped To Bits   Blood-Thirsty French Troops Slamming Hitler’s “Supermen” Back; Several Towns Captured

Reported Advancing From 3 to 8 Miles  In Italian Sectors   American Troops Overrun Spigno In Lower Garigliano Valley; -, British, Indians Repulse Attacks

meh £ faa/ 4  ‘Enemy Forces South Of Liri River Wiped Out By Allies”   Americans Overrun Spigno In Lower .Garigliano Valley While French Warriors, Thirsty For Revenze. Pursue Battered Foe

Major Advances In Italy Made  On Gustav Line   Entire Front Line Defense Zone Of Nazis Wiped Out By Allies

Answer From Reds On U.S. Offer Awaited   Hull Says Offer Probably Did Not Reach Moscow Until Monday.   NO STEPS TO. REJECI

Await Moscow Reaction To U. S. Offer To Help Close Polish Breach

Label Russian Report False   SOVIET ATTENTION CALLED TO OFFICIAL DENIAL OF PRAVDA DISPATCH IMPLYING THAT ALLIED NATION HAS DISCUSSED PACT WITH NAZIS

Hull Thinks U.S. Offer to Aid Red-Polish Relations Didnt’? Arrive Until Monday

. S. Offer To ediate Not ejected Yet   Russian And Polish Relations Remain Broken

Christmas Trees To Be Plentiful, Government Forestry Service Says

GUEST REFUSES TO LEAVE JAIL   Talking Gangster Fear: Vengeance of Pals

MONTANA SENATOR SAYS. GERMANS SHOULD: BE TOLD PLANS TO DISARM. THEIR WAR MACHINE

Poppies Here For Poppy Day   Little Red Flowers Arrive From Vets’ ‘Muskogee Hospital

Legion Poppy Sale May 20   Committees Making Plans for Annual! Sale

12 OTHERS DAMAGED AS 3 NIP NAVAL FORCES ARE CAUGHT IN PHILIPPINES

Reds Drive On Tallinn  And Hungary   Germans Seek Escape In Estonia: Russians With Warsaw Poles

Poles Say Reds Fight Germans Inside Warsaw   Nazis Admit Retreat to Estonia as Russ Artillery Hits Tallinn

RUSSIANS 15 MILES OUT OF HUNGARY NOW   Push Germans Back in Drive on Tallinn. Make Contact With Polish Partisans at Warsaw

YANKS DESTROY  OD JAP PLANES   THREE ENEMY SHIPS AND FOUR TORPEDO BOATS SUNK IN PHILIPPINES.

Bedaux, Windsor’s Friend, Kills Self Before Hearing on Treason Charge

Two Shipyard Workers Tell Of Being Firec   Say CIO Union Tried Tc  ‘Blackball? Them From Other Yards Because of Conumunistic Protest

Hear Testimony In Baltimore Shipyard Case   Workers Testify Before Dies Committee

Tokyo Not Bashful In Making Claims   Talks of Sinking Battleships and Carriers

Bombproofing By Acquiring Proposed By   ft. SS Outposts McKellar

GASTONIAN WINS EASILY IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR   Less Than 300 Precincts Of State's ,9271 Yet Te Be Heard From; Clyde Hoey Swamps Morrison In Senate  Race; Other Results.

ALLIED TROOPS JUST 16 MILES FROM ROMI   Flanked 10th Army At Valmontone Cut Off

3 German Divisions Destroyed, Fresh Troops Rushed in to Save 10th Army; Americans 162 Miles From Capital

Three Divisions in Italy Said Destroved   Enemy Throws Reserves Into Battle but Is Forced to Retire so Rapidly That Vitel Bridces Are Abandoned Undamanad

ONE DEAD, FIFTEEN MISSING IN SINKING      United States Lighter Goes Down Following. Explosion -

arg VEN URY BY WORST eROBOT ASSAULT   Waves of Pilotless Missiles Continuing Almost ~ Non-Stop

JEALOUS BOY KILLS GIRL, 14   Commits Murder While Riding Bicycle

Ecuador's Cabinet Resigns As Junta Seizes Guayaquil   Revolutionists Control Main Commercial City After 19-Hour P sttle in Streets; 40 Persons Killed in Fierce Uprising

RUSSIANS REACH BANK OF BUG RIVER   Drive Deeper Into Lithuania and Latvia

RUSSIAN ARMY REACHES EAST BUG RIVER BANK   Other Soviet Forces Drive Deeper Into Lithuania, Latvia

Russians Drive To East Bank of Bug River   Other Soviet Forces  Push Deeper Into Lithuania, Latvia

Reds Battle For Chance To Hop River   Street Fighting Rages for Third Day in City of Wil Tred}

Russians Storm Bug River as. Hitlerites Flee.  Soviets in Latvia   Soviets in Latvia And Lithuania, Ficht for Wilno

SOVIETS SMAS GERMAN LINES AT BUG RIVER   Drive Deeper Into Lithuania Latvia In March Toward Baltic

First White Russian Army Crosses To East Bank Of Bug River  OTHER FORCES DRIVE CLOSER TO BALTIC  Hitler Moves Headquar. ters From E. Prussia Deeper Into Reich

Army Drives Forty Miles  From Kowel   Other Soviet Forces March Toward Baltic On Wide Front

LONDON—(4)—The British Press said tonight that the Russians had advanced to a point within 60 miles of East Prussia.

RUSSIAN ARMIES “ENCIRCLE WILNO,  ROSS BUG ANE   London Broadcast Said Hit_ ler Had Transferred East ern Front Headquarters k. Deep into German Reich.   ‘AMERICAN TROOPS ARE PAST VOLTERRA, ITALY   Complete Conquest of Sai pan Announced By Adm.  Nimitz Who Said Marines,  Army Troops In Control.

Soviet Armies Battle to East Bank Bug Rive   Fight for Crossings Into German Govt. General of Poland

Allies Gain in Assaults From Beachhead On  ltalian Coast   Twin Attacks Gain Ground —Americans Seize 250 Prisoners

Fifth Army Drives to Village 16 Miles Southeast of Rome   Nazi Defenses Above Cassino Are Beginning to Crumble

Yank Columns Crossing Marne   Americans Near Chateau- Thierry, Patton’s Forces Only 20 Miles From Old Soissons Battle Field

Russians Regroup For Major Drive   Expected To Get Under Way When Allies Begin Invasion.

RUSSIANS PLAN NEXT OFFENSIVE   Red Planes Blasting Rail Network BRuret

Soviets Planning Major Assaults  Regrouping of Armies Now Under Way

Red Army Is Regrouping for New Assaults   Presumably Will Time Its Offensive for Other Allied Blows

Russian Army Regrouping For A Maior Assault   Red Planes Start Large Fires At Polish Rail Junctions.

REDS REPORTED READY FOR NEW DRIVE IN EAST   Soviet Airmen Blast Nazis Bases In Poland

Le Mars Municipal _ Band Concert for Wednesday, July 26   Mr. and Mrs. M. F. ' Brodie Are Wed O Vears

le Mars Municipal _.. Band Concert for Wednesday, July 26   Foster Park, 8:30 P. M. Ira F. Vail, Director   Mr. and Mrs, M. F. » Brodie Are Wed 59 Vears

Jap Bases In Pacific Hit   Minor Engagements On New Guineo Reported

“Tokyo Ignored ..U.S. Protests on ar Brutalities   +) 89 Efforts in Behalf of Prisoners Since War Made by State Dept.

Japan Ignored 89 Protests, State Dept. Says   Fresh Criticism Heard In Congress Over Delay In Telling of Atrocities

N Tk NOTES ~~ FOR ATROCITIES   State ‘Department. Reveals 89 Protests Have’ Gone Forward Regarding  Mis- ~ - treatment of. Captives. .   LATEST CONCERNS. PHILIPPINE OUTRAGE   Complaints Called on Tokyo  to Live. Up. to Commit mients—All Apparently Were Ignored. _

89 U.S. Protests Unheeded By Japs   Almost Week-By-Week Futile Efforts By State Department On Situatian O thinned

U.S. Has SentJapan 89 Protests Over' Treatment Of Captured Americans

Soviet Union's Move Seen As Bid For Stronger Hand at Peace Table

SOVIET VOTES CHANGE IN ITS SETUP   16 Constituent Republics to Form Own Policies

‘Dissection’ Gives Reds Bigger Vote   Moscow: Liberates 16 Soviet ‘States’ For Peace Roles

Russia May Free Territories To  Handle Affairs   Molotov Bids For Strong Hand In Peace  By Grant of Votes

Soviet Gives Her 16 States Separate Votes   Move For Stronger Hand In Post-War  Organization

AT PEACE TABLE   Moscow Program May Be Directed Primarily at GQGraat Britain

Stronger Role At Peace  Table Seen For Russians)   Soviet Union Alters Political Structure In Bid For More Voting Power

Illustrious German Military Figures Slain In Purge, Say Reports   Attempt to Seize Government Offices At Time of Bomb Attack on Hitler Is Revealed; Fake Orders Sent to Troops

HIMMLER CARRIES UN BLOOD PURGE   Plot to Seize Government Offices in Berlin Fails   NAZI REGIME SHAKEN   Marshalls Brauchitsch, Von Rundstedt, List, Mannstein Are ‘Purged’

GERMAN OFFICER REPORTS REVOLT AGAINST HITLER   Promises Others Will End Nazi Regime; Purges  Will Be Broken   RESISTANCE IS NOT DOWNED, HE DECLARES

GOEBBELS TIP HALTS MARCH UPON CAPITAL   ANTI - NAZI PURGE CONTINUED BY GESTAPO

Nazi Chiefs Execute 100 For Revolt   Rebel German Officer Claims Revolt Hasn’t Collapsed; Unrest in Navy Also Reported

Rebel officer. avers revolt ‘still aflame,: appeals for support   '. tumor Hitler in protective custody3_ . tried.:to. seize sovernment quartéra

rAMOUS NAZI ARMY CHIEFS SLAIN. REPORT   One Thousand Persons Said to Have Been Ar ‘yested in Berlin in Widespread Raids.   PEOPLE ARE URGED. TO TOPPLE REGIME   Battalion Marches on Government Buildings in Capital, but Seizure Is Prevented.

Dioody Purge Of Anti-Nazi Leaders Still Under Way  Rumored Including Te. Net Clee chee

Socialist-Labor Party Will Have Ticket on Ohio Ballot in November

YANKS FOUR MILES FROM PISA, ITALY   Continue to Push Up the West Coast

American Troops Push Up. Within Sight of Pisa _   Fifth, Eighth Armies Capture Over Dozen Towns In Italy —*

U. S. Forces Four Miles  From Pisa Other Allied   Other Allied Troops Close In On Florence

American Troops Push To Within Four Miles of Italian City of Pisa

SNCIENT COACSS ACCERTEn   _ GERMANS IN UKRAINE Face Major Military Disaster

Eyewilness Says Snipers, Pillhoxes Make Futile’ Aftemot To Hold Qui Against Yanks Ai Cherbourg

Nazi Defense of Cherbourg  Ts Fanatical   Doughboys Find Cases Of Cognac, Champagne Left Behind by Enemy

Nazi Slaying of 300 Italian Civilians Told   NEW GERMAN METHODS OF TAKING HOSTAGES, MASSACRE REPORTED

300 Italian Civilians Are Reported to Have Been Killed at Moncio

Canned Vegetables To Be Returned to  Rationing Tuesday, MAante Nave Candau

Nation’s Supplies Of Food Are Good, OPA States   New Ration Program Is Said Designed For More Fairness

CANNED GOODS MORE MEAT PU ON RATION LIS)   Bat OPA Emphasizes There Are Ample Food Supplies for All

Food Ration — Regulations Tightened Up   Canned Vegetables. Added To Lists; Batter, Sugar, 1’ Beslan Pavicad

Nation’s Supplies )f Food Are 300d, OPA States  New Ration Program Is Said Designed ~  Ban Adare Eni omnce

State Capi tal Draped in Bunting Tor Inauqural To Be Held Tuesday

Decision To Hold Closed Hearings On FCC Assailed   House Committee's Action Termed ‘Unfortunate and Unwise’

House Probe OfFCCShut; Counsel Quit   CRIES OF “SCAND al” AND “WHITEWASH” FOLLOW AC: TION OF COMMITTEE, TWO MEMBERS PROTESTING ViOLENTLY   Sale Of Station WMCA

lo Conduct“ FCC Probe ~ In Secret   Counsel Resigns, Twe  Members Protest the  ~ Luding of Public ; Hearings

COMMITTEE VOTES CLOSED HEARINGS   Cries of “Whitewash” Fol. ‘low Decision on Radio Probe

BOMBARDMENT BY WARSHIPS AIDING ADMIRALTY CAMPAIGK   BARRAGES FROM SEA BLASTING JAP STRONGHOLDS AS GROUND TROOPS MOP UP STRATEGIC. ISLANDS

We Won’t Forget, You Sons Of Nippon!   ‘Here's A Summary Of Inhuman Japanese Atrocities

MRS. 7. WRIGHT IS DECAPITATEL BY BIG 4 TRAIN   Accident Occurs at Crossing Near Her Home

Japs Strike Near Changsha  U.S. Air Force Giving Assistance To China

JAPS DRIVE CLOSER TO CHANGSHA   Vanguard Within 25 Miles Of City; . U.S. Raiders Active

Japs Strike Within 25 Mile Radius Of Changsha, Capital Of Hunan Area; Yanks On Job

Japs Ready To Strike To Foil U. S. China Strategy, Says Tokyo   Says Moment To Cut China In Two Has Com As Armies Drive To Within 25 Miles Of Strategic Hunan Capital.

Japanese Advance On Vital  Chinese Sector  U. §. Airmen Help Defenders in Severe Fighting

—PACIFICWN   Foye Says Japs Ready To Launch Allout Drive On China   Nips Declare Offensive is Designed To Cut China  In Two And Foil American, Strategy; Allied " Air Blows Lash Enemy

Japs Strike Within 25 Miles Of Chinese ‘Provincial Capital      Strong Enemy Columns Continue Advances On Changsha; Chinese Gain In Counterdrive On Loyang, Cut Supply Road On Salween

OMITH CRITICIZES LETTER ON RECORD   Letter From Overseas Sol: dier Concerns Service Vote Issue.

U. M. W. Journal Predicts Another Woman Secretary Of Labor If F.D. R. Wins 

Infantrvmen Hammered By German Guns   Americans Take All Nazis Can Throw And Hold On To Vital Forest

RULES ON POWERS OF POSTWAR BODY   Disputed Questions Are Settled By Ohio Supreme Court Decree:

Yanks Renew Attacks Upon Kurile Islands   Paramushiro, Nearby Onnekotan Hit: Two Ships Sunk Off Ponape

Liberators Boni Kuriles With Predawn Strike   Renew North Pacific Hits on Paramushiro,  Onnekotan

LAST RITES. ARE HELD FOR WILLKIE   Nearly 5,000 Persons Gather to Pay Final Tribute

_ Us RITES. ARE AY HELD FOR WILLKIE   Nearly 5,000 ; Persons Gather to Pay Final Tribute

Reporl Says Finns Form New Cabinet   Attitude On Peace Considered Doubtful

New Government  Formed by Finns   Conservative Named Premier at Helsinki

NEW FINNISH GOVERNMENT IS ORGANIZED   Conservative T one} Peace Overture  Js Hinted

FIFTH WEEK OF BOMBING CAROLINES   Cargo Vessel Hit, Start Large Fires on Dublon, Moen Air Strip Raked; Wake Is Raided.   Lone Liberator

Key Islaiids of. - Trak Blasted by. ol. S. [ihereor   Atmy aint Navy Planes _ Open Fifth W- k of Daily Borntbin:i

46- Ton Blast,  ains on Truk   Two Islands of Atoll Hit Hard hy U.S. Ramhere

Offers To Help Poles Regain Old  “Area From Nazis   Soviet Will Keep Western Ukraine And Whit Russia Except Parts Predominated By Poles; Offers East Prussia And Strong Sea Outlet.

Curzon Line Will Be New Frontier   Russia Will Not Give Up Territories She Taok Back By Aoreement With Nozis In $939

NEW TIRES FOR ‘AY DRIVERS BY JANUARY, HINT   WPB Official’s Belief Based On Speedup Of Production

SEES NEW TIRES FOR ‘A’ DRIVERS   Official Expects Sale t Start After Jan. 

“A” Card-Holders May Roll On New Tires By January   Price Control May Be Necessary After Jap Defeat

Sees G.O.P. Leaders.   “A” Card Molders May Roll on New Tires by January

PUBLIC 10 GET NEW TIRES BY JANUARY   Passenger Tire Output Will Be 2,500,000 Per Month

A Holders To Get New Tires   Essential Motorists  Needs Filled Soon

ARGENTINA CRACKS DOWN ON PRESS   Decree Issued By President Ramirez Declares All Publications Instruments Of Public Interest.   Four Degrees

ROER RIVER LINE FOLDS UP RAPIDLY   Americans Waging Bitter Battle in Attempt to Open Gateway to City of Cologne.

Army Discloses Names Of Three In Plane That Crashed In Wisconsin

JONES “APPEALS — TO SOP UP GRAVY  mm. 2» pp.» 6 gy ig -  gotg..   Food Administrator Cite Wartime Waste vs. Manners

Five Children Die In Blaze  Family Left In Home While Parents Work

Red Hair  After The Best Flies Failed, a Strand of Flaming Red Hair  Caught Trout

FIFTH ARMY WITHIN 3 MI. OF CASSINO   Americans Take Two More Heights Near Nazi Base

[Americans Are But Three Miles From Cassino   Enemy Outpost of Cervaro Reported Encircled

American Troops Nearing Cassino,  Nazi Stronghold   U. S. Units Capture Two More Key Heights On Road To Rome

Two More Key Points Cantured   British 8th Army Strengthens Grip On River Bend

Special Session Of  Legislature Called  Meets May  To Liberal. ize Soldier Vote

Peacetime Army Plan Gains Favor   Backers Seek Passage Before War Is Over

Congress Backs. Training Move   Endorses Compulsory Military Training As —_ time Assurance’’. 

Finns Tell Why They Rejected  Peace lerms   Claim Made USSR Proposals Would Undermine Country

FINNS TURN DOWN RUSS PEACE TERMS   Saya They Would Put People Under Too Great a Burden

AIRMEN HELPING SAVE HENGYANG   Attacks On Nipponese Supply Lines Give Chinese Respite

Draft Deferment Plan Is Extended  More War Plants Put Under System

HARA-KIRI FOR DEPOSED JAP WAR CHIEFS   So Says Knox in Describing Signs of Jap Confusion and Failure.

HARRY CARLYLE IS CRUSHED IN SOUTH YARDS   Caught Between Car Couplings in Snowstorm at 3:15 A. M.

FightNew Weapon   ALLIES HOLD LINES AGAINST OFFENSIVE  ALLIES HALT SAVAGE GERMAN ONSLAUGHT

Hundreds Slain In Nazi Purge, Reports Claim   But Liberation Party Leaders Said To Be Alive And In Hiding

BERLIN AN ARMED CAMP   34 Generals Among Hun dreds Already Executed; Naval Personnel at Kiel and Stettin Mutiny.

Allied Land, Sea, Air Forces & Tito’s Army Open AU-Out Offensive To Seal Off Nazi Escape Route From Balkans As Reds Enter Yu toslavia.

ALLIES AND TIO OPEN HUGE DRIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA TQ CUT OFF NAZI ARMY

Allied Units, Tito Link Up  In Yugoslaviz   Start a Combined All-Out Drive in Conjunction With Russians

RUSSIAN FRONT   Allied Forces,  Tito Aid Russia’s Offensive to Cut off Nazi Escape Routes

Reds Crossing Danube To Yugoslav Soil”   Swift Advance Made Possible By Use of Parachutists

TROOPS SAID TO BE AT THE TURK BORDER      Advance Would Constitute a 160-Mile Drive in Two Days — Another Force. Reported Headed for Sofia.

ALL-OUT YUGOSLAY OFFENSIVE STARTED BY ALLIES, TITO   Combined Allied Forces Join Tito’s Partisan Army in Drive to Cut: German Escape Rantes

GREAT BATTLE BEING FOUGHT FOR WARSAW   Two Russian Forces Attacking Along 35-Mile Front Close to Eastern Approaches of Capital  791.000 ENEMY DEAD

BULGARS BREAK WITH GERMANY   Bulgaria Severs Relations In Effect to Avoid Russian Attack

Nash Across Bulgaria in ‘ono Drive   Also Reported Moving Toward Sofia; Sweep 160 Miles

Yugoslavia Drive Opens   Allied Land, Sea And Air Forces Join Tito’s Attack

Russian Army Crosses Danube Into Yugoslavia   Drives Within 90 Miles Of Belgrade; Reds Gain On Warsaw Front.

Soviet Forces Are Reported 90 Miles From Belgrade Now   Other Red Troops Crossed Bulgaria, Berlin Declares

Allies Support Tito In Offensive To Seal Balkans  Blows Co-Ordinated With Red Drive Th Black Garmoans

All Balkan Routes Are Under Fire   Allies and Russians Are Seeking to Cut Off German Escape Paths —   AMERICAN AIRMEN HAVE BIG EDGE   Gen. Wilson Reports On Attacks in Conjunction With Reds and Tito

Allied Forces Join Tito In Yugoslavia’s Offensive   Nazis Put Eighth Grade Pupils Into War Work

SMIETS NASH ACROSS BULENRI   Reds Reach Turkish Frontier After Sensational 160 Mile Drive   MARCH ON SOFIA   Bulgars Break With Germans In Effort To Hatt Invasion _

Tito’s Partisans Open Offensive   Aim Is to Join  Up with Soviets Who Have Reached Yugoslavian Border

Allies, Tito Launch Drive   Begin All-Out Offensive in Yugoslavia in Conjunction With Red Advances

Land, Sea, Air Offensiv. Seeks To Seal All Teuto:  Escape Routes In Balkans

HOSPITAL RAIDS NOT DELIBERATE   Captured German Pilot Says Bombs Were Jettisoned

REDS FORGE ARC AROUND WARSAW    Reported But-Ten Miles from Outskirts of City—New Drive Launched in South.

POLISH CAPITAL IS PUT TO TORCH BY NAZI TROOPS   Russians Take Rail Cities, Push 30 Miles Toward Koenigsburg

COLLAPSE OF “NAL DEFENSE “CLS INDICATE!   -ALL OF SMOKE OVER CITY  “A RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON  THREE SIDES OF CAPITAL, 

PALL OF SMOKE HANGING OVER NAZI BASTION   City Surrounded on Three Sides   DEFENSES SPLIT   Russians Free 2,140 More Towns

PALL OF SMOKE OVER CAPITAL OF WARSAW   Russ Armies, Forging Arc of Steel, Pound at Gates of City

OVER CAPITAL OF WARSAW   Russ Armies, Forging Arc of Steel, Pound at Gates of City

ALLIED DRIVE ON BELFORT   As Seventh and Third Armies Complete Function Near Chatillon, Closing Retreat.

Three 7th Army Columns Push Toward Belfort Gap,  Germans Resist Fiercely

OFFENSIVE AGAINST KEY JAPANESE STRONGHOLDS ' CAUSES GREAT DAMAGE     "TO INSTALLATIONS

a eit  MEN TO BE DRAFTED FOR REPLACEMENTS   Veterans of Fighting To Get To Come Home, Hint

20-Mile-Wide Air Fleet Joins Fight   Huge Armada Strikes at German Reinforcements anc Batters at Nazi Industry

Nazi War Plants Given Shellacking   Huge Air Fleet Hits Nazi Lines

[000 BOMBERS HIT PLANTS IN GERMANY TODAY   Allied Bomber Formation 4 Streams Against Nazi Europe

WAR FACTORIES DEEP IN REICH ARE ATTACKEL   Massive Bomber Fleets Strike Heavy Blows In Wide Area

1000-PLA  FLEET HITS AT ENEMY   Four Aircraft Plants Blasted By Giant  Aerial Armada

BOMBERS SMASH AGAIN AT NAZIS   Two Huge Groups of U. S.  Planes Over Europe

KNOX STATES © NATION NEEDS LABOR DRAFT   NAVY SECRETARY SAYS PRODUCTION OF SOME VITAL WEAPONS AND -EQUIP - MENT 18 BEHIND SCHEDULE  ~

KNOX DEMANDS AUTHORITY 10 DRAFT LABOR   Says Production of Some Vital Weapons Behind Schedule

Vital Production Off, Secretary Asserts; Job Switching Chief Manpower Problem

JOHN L. LEWIS DROPS REQUEST TO JOIN AFL   Charges Union Joins With New Deal After Rebuff

Allies Can Use Antwerp When Mines Are Swept  British-Canadians   British-Canadians Clearing Walcheren In Heavy Fighting

General, 2,500 TroopsCaptured   British, Canadian Forces Land On Walcheren Island; Allied Ships Already Using Schelde Estuary

British, Canadians Smash into Walcheren Island   Allies Bridge Ronco River; Yanks Clean Casettain Bologna Drive

Eleventh Suwraight Day Of Bombardment By Air; Sweeps Against German Airdromes In   France Also Carried Out   \SOME UNIDENTIFIED TARGETS ATTACKED

MASS SEDITION TRIAL RESUMES   Jury Of 6 Men, 3 Women Is Tentatively Seated

SEDITION TRIAL MOVES FORWARD   “Nine Pergons Are. Seatéd/ Tentatively on’ Rresent Jury

Senate Backs ECC Fund Slash   LaFollette Protests Citing Incident of Silencing of German Radio.

Rayburn Ready to Name Committee; Court Test Of Seizure Right Argued

House Gets Bill To Authorize Probe Of Ward Seizure   Sabath Says Inquiry Will Cever Question Why WPEB Gave Concern $106,000 000 Gevi. Business

WARD SEIZURE PROBE MAY 60 BELOW SURFACE   Rep. Brown Offers Plan To Curb Black Markets and More Inquiries Proposed   Ward Co. Seizure Case Argued Before Court

Extravagance of New Deal Assailed   360 Billions Spent by FDR, Bricker Reminds

Bombers Set New Records   Great Armada of Allied Planes Hit Nazis Double Bloy

900 Bombers Leave Capital ‘Of Nazis Afire   Flames Seen for 150 Miles Ynvasion Points Wht

BOMB LOADS DROPPED AT RECORD RATE   Powerful Formations of American Aircraft Make Another Thrust.   BULLETIN

RAIDERS FILL CHANNEL SKY IN MAJOR ASSAULT   Luftwaife in Hiding Again

AIR WAR ON AXIS EUROPE IS RESUMED   Over 2,000 Tons Are Dropped On Nazi Capital

Invasion Coast Softened By Yank Bombers  Raid Follows Heavy R.A.F. Blow at Berlin

F rench Invasion Coast Blasted By  American Planes   Over 2,300 Tons of Bombs Fall On Berlin In RAF Night Raid

Heavy Bombers Stream Across  Coast At Dusk   17 Day Respite Ends For Enemy Capital As 2,500 T. Of Bombs Hit

"FLAMES ARE VISIBLE 150 MILES DESPITE CLOUD BANKS   Pas de Calais Are: Raided by All Kinds of Planes

Fires Seen 150 Miles From Berlin   Record Number of Planes  Used in Raids—Reds Kill Many Nazis

100 Tons A Minute Fall On German Capital: U.S, Planes Carry On Today

MORE THAN 2300 TONS DUMPED ON GERMAN CAPITAL   Warplanes Boost Preinvasion Offensive To Greater Intensity on Nazi Occupied Territory.   BRITISH ADVANCE ON . OLD ITALIAN HIGHWAY   ‘Minturno, Coastal Anchor of Nazi Line Below Rome, Falls to Allies Helped By Warshins.

GERMAN CAPITAL *AFRE FOLLOWING “BRITISH ATTACK   American Bombers Blast French Invasion Coast in Davliaht Raid

CYCLONIC CONQUEST OF THE CRIMEA WILL BE FOLLOWED BY BATTLE = FOR GALATI, BALKAN GATEWAY   Nazis Must Keep 50-Mile Wide Gap Open for -Retreating Remnants of Once Great Army, an Must Have Reserves If Russians Are Held. Battle Will Re Decisive One —-°----

RED ARMY'S SWEEPING CONQUESI OF THE CRIMEA IS FINAL PHASE IBEFORE BALKAN DRIVE OPENED

Decisive Phase  Of War Develops   Hitler Must Defend Galati Gap Which Is Gateway to the Balkans.

WAR  TODAY   Red-Hun Decisive Bat—te-Expected at Galati Gap Between CarPathians and Danube

Today’s War Moves   Reds to Drive Into Balkans After Win in Crimean Peninsula

The War Today   abe War suuay ene All Lines of Endeavor Lead to 50 Mile Wide Galati Gan.

Final Phase . Before Battle of Balkans   Crimean . Struggle “Brings - War to Gateway of the Balkan Peninsula   GALATI GAP IS THE FOCAL. POINT   ‘Hitler Trying to Save. .and _Beorganize Forces;Strength to Be Known Soon’

STORK MAY-BELAY EXODUS OF FINNS   Mme. Procope Expecting Her Third Child Within 9 or 3 Weeks

A New Era Is Aim For Magnesium   War - Born Industry Has Future, Especially In Aircraft

FIND BODY OF MISSING BRIDE   YOUNG WIFE OF ARMY AIR CADET FATALLY STABBEL

DY OF YOUNG WOMAN 1S FOUND   Bride of Army Air Force Cadet Stabbed More Than 29 Times.

BRIDE'S NUDE BODY IS FOUND IN DITCH   Bloody Handkerchief Ma: Prove Valuable Clue

GREAT AIR FORCE CROSSES CHANNEL   RAF. Bombers in. Numbers . Head. for European .. ‘Continent

FIGHTER PLANE FACTORIES HIT BY U.S. ATTACK   Arnold Says German Air Force Loss Is Serious

Victory in Air Is Held Chear   American Air Chiet Points To Tresivendous Advantage Gained  In Great Fight.

Dewey Speaks Tonight at 9   In Pittsburgh Today . Torch Light Parade Planned

Man With Long Knife Sought in  Snelson Slaying  Officers Report Bo) Threntened hy Mar

GERMANS REPORT MUCH EQUIPMENT IN LONDON PORTS       Warn Belgian People Not Much Time Now To Complete  Preparations

Radio Berlin Says English Ports Crammed With Allied Equipment For Invasion of Western Europe

Invasion Jension Grows In Europe   Berlin Claims English Ports ‘Bursting’ With Landing Ships; Radio Warns Belgians ‘Little Time’ Before D-Day

English Ports — Claimed Jammed   Belgians Are Warned To Get Set For Invasion

FLOOD CRESTS SWEEP ALONG TOWARD OAST  a aks en   -U. S. Drive Westward Marks Corregidor Anniversary

American Bombers Continue ‘To Whittle Down Japanese Shipping In Philippines

Rolling U.S. Forces Are In Le Mans   Yanks Little More Than 100 Miles From Capital; Canadians Gain

TOKYO'S ISLAND BASES POUNDED   Hansa Bay, Wewak And Rabaul Included In Heavy Raids

OTREET BATTLE PAGING Ro KEY FORTS ARE HI   Headquarters Reports Fall o! City Appears Only Matter of Hours.

Hopes For Long Shortage ‘Good Time To Quit Smoking, Anti-Cigaret Group Suggests

‘Cigaret Alliance Says Cigaret Shortage - Would ‘Be Better lf It Were Worse And Lasted Longer

ODD TURN TAKEN IN JEWETT CASE   Asheville Ticket Agent Says He Believes Missing Woman Was In Union Station There Several Days Ago.

DOUBTS ASSASSINATION OF DE GAULLE WAS MEANT   Correspondent Says Shooting Came from Excited Persons   EXPLAINS THE AFFAIR

Amendments May Slow Up Soldier Vote   Latchaw Would Broader The Measure to Include Civilians Abroad

Farm Platform Ends GOP Meet   Milk Head Says Nation Must Be Assured Highe: Wages And Profits.

HIGH WAGE LEVEL NEEDED, HE HOLDS      Milk Federation Leader Speaks to GOP Farm Committee

GOP FARM PLANK GROUP CONFERS   High Levels Of Wages, Prices And Profits Needed After War

Says Roosevelt Would Go Home  Kentuckian Says He Doesa't Want to Run

- RECISTRATIONS WERE 109   Affice of City Clerk Will Be Open Evenings Until October 27

Waves of Allied Planes Head For Germany Again   Calais Target For Today's Operations; Rails Also Hit.

See Hitler Appeal As Admission Of Weaknes:   Asks High Nazi Party Men For Loyalty, Admits Sabotace

Wants Loyaliy from Party Leaders —Adn Sabotage by Anti-Nazi Generals Since 10338 — Regarded as Confession of Weakness,

JERSEY BUS PLUNGE DROWNS 18 IN RIVER   SIX RESCUED, TWO KNOWN DEAD IN PASSAIC RIVER CRASH; POSSIBLE BUS LOAD 50, OFFICIALS SAY

MANY DIE AS BUS SINKS INTO RIVER   Crowded Bus Skids Thru Bridge Rail; Only 8 Rescued

Navy Appropriation Bill Sent to House Largest in History  $26,647,134,336 Recommended b; Commitice io Provide Ships, Euuipment ta Whin Jacan

Congr ess Gets. Tare ‘gest Naval Funds Request   Over 32 Billions Asked To  ‘Help World’s Greatest Navy Win War: Expect Speedy Approval

APPROPRIATION FOR NAVY NOW AT NEW MARK   $32,647, 134,336 Earmarked For  Fiscal Year

Huge Navy Bill Goes to House   $32 Billions Asked for Year Starting July 1; Will Include Provision for 19,000 Planes, Thousands of Ships, Men

Appropriation for Navy Asked Today History's Biggest   $32,647,134.336 Is Rec. ommended for New Fiscal Year

GREATEST NAVY APPROPRIATION GOES TO HOUSE   Congress Told That Jap Empire Must Be Destroyed

Record Navy Bill  Goes to House   [hirty-Two Billions Designed to Build Biggest Fleet in World.

Largest Navy Funds Bill Presented   32 Billion Asked for Navy For 12 Months Starting July 1

G623 SHIPS WITH 19,035 AIRPLANES ARE SET AS GOALS   Adm. King Speaks Openly on Plan to Strike Early al Points To Do the Greatest Damage.   NEED 3,657,467 MEN TO FILL MANY PLACES   Task In Orient Is Great One, Hints Are Made of “Major Event” In Europe By MidSummer,

HOUSE GETS LARGEST NAVAL SUPPLY BILL INU. S. HISTORY  MORE THAN THIRTY-TWO BILLION DOLLARS FOR NAVAL ACTIVITIES

Navy Asks 32 Billion For War Against Axis   Largest Naval Appropriation In American History Before House; Total Of $32,647,134,336 Sought For 12 Months

To Provide for Use of Big Fleet, 19,000 Planes and 3.657,467 Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen

Naval Appropriation Bill Providing Over 32 Billion Dollars Is Sent To House   Record Sum Asked For Activities During Year Starting July Ist

Navy Appropriation Measure Asking 32 Billions Is Sent To House: Hard Seraps Seen

Record Naval Appropriafions Bill Designed To Help World's Greatest Navy Win War On Seven Seas Presented In Congress

BEFORE HOUSE   Largest Appropriation Bill For Navy Asks for $32 Rillion.   Pi AN BIG OPERATIONS

‘Huge Appropriations Bill to House Floor   Largest Naval Increasa In History Seeks 32 Billion For a 12-Month Period

Goal isTokyo,King . Tells House  Ut imate   16,623 Self-Propelled . Vessels, 74,925 Not Self- Pro “pelled on Program   CLOUDS OF PLANES   ‘Dif f icultiesTremendously Greater’ in Future, Savs Admiral

Navy Requests 32 Billions for Year of Conflict   Tokyo Objective Of Navai Forces Declares Admiral

FLEET NEEDS ESTIMATED AT THIRTYBILLION   Huge Appropriations Reported as Prelude to Major Operations in Pacific and Atlantic   PROGRAM IS OUTLINED

Record Navy Bill Goes To  House Floor   Measure Provides  $3?.647.134.336

House Unit O. K.’s 32 Billions Outlay For Vessels. Planes   Admiral King Says-It’s No Secret That Fund Will Pave W ay to Tokyo: Nearly 7.000 Sea Craft Provided

Largest Appropriations Naval Bill Carries Over  16392 Billlons for War

Admiral King Sees Bitter Fight Ahead   Tells Congress War In Pacific Will Not Be Won With Ease

32 Billion Naval Bill Given House   Record Sum Sought For Year's Activities Of Greatest Fleet

Huge Naval Fund Bill on  House Floor $32,647 ,134,336 Sought   $32,647,134,336 Sought To Carry Fleet Through Next Twelve Months

Will Boost Cost Of War Effort TO 350 Billion   Plan 81,543 New Vessels, 19,035 Naval Planes: To Train Over 3 Million

BIGGEST FLEET IN THE WORLD WANTED FORU, S   Record Appropriation Bil Before Congress With Other Major Problems

House Considers Country's Largest Naval Appropriations Bill ¢ valling For New Strength for Winning War

Record Naval  : Bill Presented  $32.6 Billion Sought For Coming Year

$32,647,134,336  Largest Navy Bill in U. S. History Goes to House Floor   Will Boost to Approximately $350,000,000,000 Obliaations Voted for War Since July 1, 1940

GnilaN GEATERo ADE THREATENED    covicts Take Vital Ra'l Centers of  Vitelsk end Zilobin

GERMAN CENTERS ABE THBEATENEA)   Soviets Talke Vital Rail Centers, of i NTital ele and Zalobin .

“Don't Worry! ” Begs the American Prisoner of War in His Letters

“DON'T WORRY” IS PRISONERS MESSAGE HOME   War Department Reveals This As Typical Greeting Nine Out Of Ten War Prisoners Send To  Mom And Dad.

65,000 U. 5. War Prisoners   Greatest Proportion Of Those Held By Enemy So Far Are Airmen

Ma jority of Prisoners Are Airmen  Public Can Expect More Infantry  To be Reported

Don’t Worry, Mom And Pop!   ae ee a ae  That's Subject Of Nine Out Of 10 Letters From American Prisoners Of War

PROPOSED FEDERAL REGULATION TO MEAN DEATH INDEPENDENTS  THIS IS DECLARATION ARCH ROWAN, PRESI-

Montana Grange Chief Protests PAC Farm  Workers Union Scheme   L. A. Sutherland, State President, Denounces Plan to Exploit Ranchers; Cites Gtrife Coused on Pacific Coast Area

NIP DEFENSE CRUMBLES IN NEW GUINEA   Australians Stage Break - Through In North

Allies Break Jap Defenses   U. S. And Australian Troops Near Juncture

SUPERFORTS FLEET HITS TOKYO AGAIN   Emphasize Increased Air Wat Tempo While Lyte Fighting Dwindled To Mop-Up

POLICE ARREST TRAILER OWNER AND 16 PATRONS   John F. Walter, Hanover R. D. 3 Charged With Maintaining Disorderly “House”

CHENGHSIEN ENCIRCLED BY JAPANESE   Expect Town to Fall under Attack Say Chinese, Object Is to Close Chinese-Held Part of R.R.   Road Useless

BOMBERS HIT NAZI TARGETS      Allies Shifts Great Air Offensive from British to Mediterranean Bases, “

STRIKE DANUBE AREA IN SHIFT OF AIR BLOWS   Kaker’s Mediterranean Forces Get Into Aerial Drive

4,800 PAIRS OF NYLON HOSE SOLD INSIDE OF HOUR    Thousands of Women Stood in Line As the Government Sold the Hose at Pre-War Prices

‘HITS SCORED ~ ON NAGOYA   Both Military and Industrial: Targets Suffered Heavily in Wednesday’s B-29 Strike, the Air Force Reports.

ARGENTINA NOT INVITED   Not to Be Represented Among Latin Americans at White House

RUSS MAGAZINE SCORES POLES   “WAR, WORKING CLASS” SEES INVASION CURB

Americans Mopping Up Last Zones of Unorganized Enemy Resistance; Formal Fall Due   Germans Surrendering by Increasing Numbers — Resistance Consists of Sniping — Harbor Wrecking Still Goes On.

ERIC JOHNSON, STALIN CONFER   interview On Postwar Matters Consumes 21% Hours In Russian Kremlin.

THEY'RE TO BE MINUS CHICKEN   East to Be Hard Hit Because Army Priority Placed on Supply in Producing Region

Ten Vichy Officials Convicted at French Purge Trials  Four Army Officers _ Are Sentenced  Pin Pimenthe baw Cesart

“Men Over 26 In Essential Industries Will Get Temporary Repriev From Induction In Army:

Gen. Hershey Sends Order to Director.   Effective Immediately, He Says; Action Taken On Army, Navy Request   i an MEN a ARE DESIRED   Processing of Older Men Delayed Pending Calls to Those Under,26

Hershey Halts Drafting Of Older Men   Those Under 26 Are To Be Taken First Under Plan

BUT MUST BE IN ESSENTIAL OCCUPATIONS      Excuse Until Younger Se lectives Are in Uniform Applies Even to Those Already Called Up for  Induction. a

Men Engaged In Aiding War Under Order   Draft Boards Told To Call Younger Men Up First

——Eershey Issues New Nationwide Ord  Induction Of All Essential Men Over 26 Halted   Workers In Agricultural, War Production And War Supporting Activities Affected

Essential Men Over 26 Given  Postponement   Draft Director Hershey Tells Boards to Postpone Their Processing.   Affects Missourians  For Only Thirty Days

“Aachen Kaput!”   Ceaseless Rain of Allied Sheils Leaves City a Skeleton

Demolitions Hint Nazis Preparing To Quit Holland   Rotterdam Docks Wrecked; Aachen Continues Under Bomb, Shell Attack

Slowly Drain City Of Aachen Of All Life   Civilians Cowering For Second Consecutive Day In Basements And Sewers Of Doomed City

Storm Areas At Sevastenal   Two Soviet Armies Inflict Heavy Lesses

CANDIDATES STEP UP PRIMARY.RACE   DEMOCRATS LAUNCH DOWNSTATE TOUR; GOP IN CHICAGO

8TH COMPLETES OCCUPATION OF CESENA INITALY   Other Allies Make 5Mile Drive Up Adriatic Coast

Occupation of  Cesena Near End   ‘Reports Say Enemy Now Cleared From City

\Anvin Harker is Like A Mechanical Heart Pumpiig fons Or suppies

Nazis Virtually Cleared From Seine Between Paris and Troyes oo  ROUEN AND LE HAVRE: MAY BE ENVELOPED  Germans Practically Elim     Germans Practically Eliminated From the _ Capital —

Nazis Virtually Cleared From Seine Between Paris and Troyes   ROUEN AND LE HAVRE MAY BE ENVELOPED   Germans Practically Eliminated From the " Capital

REV. KNUBEL BEATEN AS LUTHERAN HEAD   Delegates Elect Rev. Franklin Fry Akron, Ohio In Surprose At Minneanoli<

Blockbusters Hit Brunswick In Night Attack   RAF Feints Toward Berlin Then Turns On Real Objective

HOME OF GERMAN MESSERSCHMITT FIGHTER PLANE BADLY WRECKED   Hundreds Of Britain’s Biggest Bombers Heap 2200 Tons Of Bombs  On Brunswick.

Allies Reach Cassino Gates   U. S. Forces Battle in Outskirts of Nazi Stronghold in Italy; German Supply Line From North Reported Cut Below Rome

Pierce Nazi Defense on Wide Front   Americans and Frenct Score Important Gains South of Rome

OUTSKIRTS OF BASTION REACKED   Capture of City To Lead to Open Route to Rome

Americans And French Tear Away Several Miles Of Line Above German Bastion

Men Would Have Given Ur But Officers Not Willing   Aachen Commander, SS Officers Enforce Orders Against Surrender But Some Germans Had Enough, Slip Away   By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE and DON WHITEHEAD

AACHEN RAID IS DESCRIBED   Reporters On Hand As American Guns Hammer Border Fortress

BIG GUNS, DIVE BOMBERS BLAST AT GERMAN CITY   Aachen, Vital Cologne Gateway’ Blasted By Terrific Firepower

Aachen Is Being Burned   DOOMED CITY STRANGELY SILENT AS YANK GUNS, PLANES ATTACK   By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE and DON WHITEHEAD

NAZIS. REFUGE TO SURRENDER   Final Assault Has Not Yet Reached Fiery Scale Expected.   LITTLE ENEMY REACTION

U.S. INVADES SAIPAN ISLAND   Landings Are Made Against Strong Jap Resistance

US. Planes Bomb German Lines in. Area Near Fas   Also - Attempt -to Close Brenfier-Pass Route  OF Nazi Supplies —

REDS,KILL 2,700 FINNS IN FIGHTING ON THREE FRONTS   One Russian Force Gains Up to 15 Miles and Clears Section of LeningradMurmansk Railway.   SOVIET BRIDGEHEAD ON SVIR EXPANDED   Viipuri’s Captors Threaten to Cut Enemy’s Main Communications With 100,000 Troops.

Reds Batter Weary Finns, 2,100 Slain   ‘New Gains Rolled Up On All Fronts

REDS GAIN 10 TO 13 MILES AGAINST FINNS   FORCE OF — 100,000 THREATENED BY SOVIET TRAP

2700 Finns Annihilated By Russians   Red Army Keeps Up Its Advance Into Finnish Territory

RUSSIANS WIPE OUT 2.700 FINN TROOPS   Savage Fighting Rages on Three Fronts, Moscow Says

SOLDIER HELD! ~ INGIRL'S DEATH   Stabbed Her and Two Others, Police Say,, 

SOLDIER HELD IN SLAYING OF GIRL   SAYS HE REMEMBERS NOTHING OF FATAL STABBING OF FIANCE

Around Velletri, Whi Nazis Indicate vT Have Abandoned—Bri Soh Gaizo Frosinone:

Fifth Army 15 Miles  From Rome   Winning Advances Against Strong German Resistance; French Coast Hit

DOUGHBOYS DRIVE DEEP WEDGE IN ENEMY DEFENSES  8TH ARMY PUSHES   8TH ARMY PUSHES STEADILY ALONG THE VIA CASILINA

WASHINGTON MERRY - GOROUND     pREW = ex vq shannon   By DREW PEARSON

British Open New Assault From Caen   Fall of Important Normancly Bastions Blow to Military

BRITISH SECOND ARMY HITS NAZI LINE FROM LEFT   Town Of Caen Is Badly Battered

Germans Lose Eterville To Second Army   Flat Battleground Gained By Forces Of Montgomery

See Vesuvius’ Climax Today   Still Spewing Ash And Cinders; Crop Damage Is Heavy.

Vesuvius  Hurls Ashes   Crop Damage Greater Than Expected; Climax Of Eruption Seen Today

Rep. Thomas Calls for Resignation Of Mrs. Perkins fo Help War Effort

RATION TOKEN SYSTEMIS EXPLAINED      To Be Used for ‘Change’ After February 27

Senator Truman to Visit City  “Address From Trair   ‘Address From Train Slated October 20

Senator Truman to Visit City  Address From Train Slated October 20

YODER TELLS CF ITALIAN WOR   Kiwanians Hear of Reconstruction After Invasion

YODER TELLS: OF (TALIAN WORK   Kiwanians Hear ‘of Reconstruction After: Invasion .

INVASION IS CALLED MILITARY NECESSIT}   Nazis and Rumanians Fighting in Odessa Streets With Russians 19 Miles Awav

HAVING DESIGN ON TERRITORY   Moscow Formally Reveals Prut Crossings; Other Troops Near Odessa

REDS CROSS PRUT RIVER TO RUMANIA   First Soviet Military Dispatch of War Issued From Foreign Soil.   Are Only 19 Miles of Big Black Sea Port

REDS MARCHING INTO RUMANIA   First Soviet War Dispatch From Foreign Territory Telis Action.   STORM ACROSS RIVER

RUMANIA TOLD RUSSIA WANTS NO TERRITORY   Soviet Vice Commissar Molotov Tells Rumanian: Military Necessity Dictate: Invasion Move

Soviets Storm Across River  Into Rumania Fate Of 200.000 Nazis.  Rumanians In Balance As Russians Drive On Toward Odessa

Red Army Troops, In First Invasion Of Axis Soil, Are  Driving Toward Danube River

Soviets Storm River in Balkan Drive   Crack Troops Smash Across Stream at Several Points; Odessa Fall to Reds Nearer

Temperatures   Soviets Capture Rumania Towns, Cut Iasi Railroad   Soviets Cross the Prut River, Seize 50. Towns; Nearing Black Sea Port of Odessa

Invading Rumania Proper, Russians Head for Danube   Molotov Says Reds Have No Aim for Keeping Territory

Advancing Russ Drive ‘Into Rumania   Soviets Cross Prut River; Spearhead 19 Miles From Odessa

ARMIES DRIVE UNCHECKED ON DANUBE DELI}   Martial Law: Proctaimed ip Bucharest, According to Moscow.

Russians in Rumania After Crossing Prut   Disclaim Territorial Designs In New Move; Population Reported Giving Russians Good Reception.

Not After Territory Now, Says Molotoff   Assures Reds Will Continue Pursuit of Enemy; Fate Of Odessa in Balance as Powerful Forces Close In

‘Reds Drive into Rumania; Chinese  Violating Mongolian Border, Charge

ACTION FIRST ON GERMAN GROUND   Other Soviet Units Within 19 Miles Of Odessa   MAIN INVASION   Forces Cross Prut River In Vicinity Of lasi; Kuzov Captured

SOVIET ARMY MARCHES ONTO ERMAN SOIL   Enters Rumania After Crossing Prut River

 —RUSSIA—  ~* ‘Odessa In Flames  As Reds Approach      "Russian “Forces Only 19 Miles From Important Black Sea Port; No Rumanian Territory To Be Qoaisad

Odessa Totters As Other Force Nears Big Base   Reds Not To Claim Conquered _ Lands; 200,000 Of Enemy Being Encircled

NUMEROUS TOWNS a EPR      Local Population Is Giving Reds Good Reception    INVASION AIMED ONLY AT NAZIS

Reds Striking  Into Rumania in First Attack on Foe’s Territory   Not Seeking Any Land, Foreign Secretary Molotov Says

Reds Drive Across East Rumania   Won't Seize Any Territory. Molotov Tells  Rumanians

Within 200 Miles ‘Of Bucharest And Polesti Oil Area    Bitter Street Fighting Rages at Burning Odessa Where Fate of 200.000 Nazis Hangs in Bal. ance—Zhukov’s Army Drvies Nearer To HunSar

SOVIET ARMY FORCES DRIVE ~ INTO RUMANIA   Cross Prut River and Push On Toward Danube River Delta

STORM ACROSS PRUT RIVER IN DRIVE ON IASI   CAPTURE NUMEROUS LARGE AND SMALL RUMANIAN VILLAGES

Soviet Armies Drive Deep Into Rumania   Other Russian Forces Are Within 19 Miles of Odessa

Russians Strike To Within 19 Miles Of Seaport of Odessa   Main Soviet Drive Reported to Be in lasi Sector Less Tho Two Hundred Miles Northeast of Ploesti Oil Fields   MARTIAL LAW IS PROCLAIMED IN BUCHAREST

Reds Within 19 Miles Of Odessa   Prut River Crossed By Soviet Forces In Great Drive

Soviet Forces Smash Across the Prut Rive   Deny Intention of Seizing Any Part of Rumanian Territery

SOVIETS DENY AIM TO SEIZE ANY TERRITORY   Allies Smash German Flamee Thrower Attack Againat Beachhead j

SOVIET FORCES ARE  REPORTED DRIVING  ON TOWARD DANUBE OTHER RUSSIAN FORCES  ALSO NEARING GREAT PORT OF ODESSA

Red Troops Drive Toward  Danube Delt:   Moscow Announces Soviet Forces Striking Within 19 Miles Of Odessa.   DISCLAIM TERRITORY

/Moltov Asserts Invasion “ls Military Necessity -—Not-Grab For- Territory

Russ Army Crosses Prut And Invades Axis Soil   Now Driving Across Rumania Towards Danube Delta; No Purpose To Seize Land

Drive Toward Danube Delta, Carpathians   Make Big Advances in Push for Odessa

Soviets Disavow AimTo Take Over Invaded Country   local Population Giving Russians Good Reception; Headquarters Set Up

Numerous Villages Captured; Soviets Are Well Received   Red Spearhead Within 19 Miles of Odessa, Black Sea Port

Germans Fail To Halt Drive Into Rumanie   Invasion Reaches Axis  Soil For First  Time

Russians Strike On Soil of Axis   Red Troops Cross Prut River Int Eastern Rumania For First Inva sion of Enemy Land—Another Col umn Advances Within 19 Miles o Odessa.   STATEMENT BY MOLOTOV

Villages Fall To Russians in Great Offensive   Orders Given To Pursue Enemy Until He Is Routed

Soviets Cross Prut River fo. Fnter Rumania   Russians Ordered To Pursue Enemy Until ‘He Is. Routed And Capitulates

RED ARMY TROOPS IN FIRST INVASION OF THE AXIS SOI   Smashed Across the Prut River Driving Through Eastern Rumania.   TOWARD THE DANUBE   Other Russian Forces Have Struck to Within 19 Miles of Odessa.

Danube Delta. Carpathians Latest Goals Of Red Army   Odessa Is Besieged By Several Forces:

FRENGH WARSHIPS   ‘Wiped Oui a German Con* voy and Escorts in the  Adriatic.   NO DAMAGE SUFFERED   No Details Given as to the Time or Place of the Attack.

Nazis Fire Odessa As Reds Approach; Jassy Threatened   Berlin Admits That “All Rumanian Army Has Joined Battle With Russians”; Fight Rages On Former Czech Border For Tartar Pass

Russians Push Into Rumania Toward Danube   Iasi First Objective: Other Red Units Close In On Odessa.

RED ARMY STORMS ACROSS PRUT RIVER, TAKING MANY VILLAGES; BATTLE FOR ODESSA IS BEGUN   Russians Strike Five to Ten Miles Deep in Rumaania Proper and Get Warm Welcome from Natives. Other Russians Batter Defenses at Odessa   TENSENESS OF WAR INTENSIFIED BY RUSSIAN INVASION OF RUMANIA — AND POSSIBLE PEACE WITH FINNS.   \ One of Great Dramas of War Also Unfolding at  ~“Qdessa Now Where Some 200,000 Germans Are Reported Surrounded and Bitter Fighting Is  fi Tee elawtracy

ARMY STAFFS ARE SET UP ACROSS PRUT   Numerous Villages, Large and Small, Already Have Been Taken, Says Dispatch Captioned “Across  the Rorder.”? 

Soviets Cross Prut; Other Units Within 19 Miles of Odessa   Ploesti Oil Fields Goal of First Russian Invasion of Axis Soil; Declare Martal Law in Bucharest

Other Units Are 19 Miles From Odessa   Molotov Announces That Soviet Has No Territorial Ambitions

Russians Less Than 200 Miles  iF romBucharest   Ploesti OH Fields.- Main  : Source ef German Fuel  Supply, Also In the Path Of Reds      Martial Law Now On In Bucharest   Moscow Says Invasion Of Rumania Dictated By Military Necessity: Net To Retain Territory

Reds invade Rumania, Drive Nearer Odessa   Now Less Than 200 Miles From Bucharest And Valuable German-Held Ploesti Oil Fields; Rumanians Battle Nazis.

* SPRINGBOARD » FOR ATTACK ON TRUK BASTION   wy. S. Bombers Attack Kurile Isles  ee  ®NO PLANES LOST  — eee  American Casualties

Eniwetok Taken: Parry Island Is Now Under Attack   Admiral Nimitz Reveals Recent Attacks Also Made On Islands In Kurile Chain   REVEAL CASUALTIES IN ENIWETOK BATTLE   PEARL HARBOR. Feb. 22

SF TIGHTEN HOLD ON ENIWETOK   Parry Island to North Pounded in Pre-Invasion Attack

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45,000 Japs In Allied Trap Gu North British New Guinec   Making F urious Attacks In Attempt To Find Escape Route

45,000 JAPS TRAPPED IN NEW GUINEA   _ Also Lost Five ‘Men on Saipan © For Each American

STARVING FOE ON ie GUINEA TRIES TO ESCAPE TRAP   Furious: Attacks: Launched: By 18th Japanese Army. But Allies Hold: Fast.

TRAPPED JAPS TRY TO ESCAPE NEW GUINEA NET   U. 8. Casnalties In Saipan Campaign Listed; 2,359 Killed

Japs Fight To Break New Guinea Trap   Estimated Force of 45,000 Look for Escape from Pocket.

3 MORE JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN BY YANK   Ironton Pilot Gets One Tc Bring Total To Ten

BUMPER CROPS  FOR STATE EXPECTED   Corn and Soy Bean Yields Far Above 10-Year Average

ER CR FOR STATE EXPECTED   Corn and Soy Bean Yields Far Above 10-Year Average

eee te RE SanSimneaommaaim  PARTY FOR ITALIAN WAR PRISONERS CANCELLED

Refugees Stripped — - Before Departing  Gripsholm Heading Back  erica

Americans on Way Home from Nazi Camps Reveal Stories of Hardships   Last Rough Treatment

UJ, 5, INTERNEES ROUGHLY HANDLED ~ BY THE GERMANS   More Than 600 on Way Home Aboard Exchange Ship Tell of Hardships in Nazi _ Camps..   STRIPPED OF EFFECTS _ BEFORE DEPARTURE   ‘None Allowed to Carry Phot« or Line of Writing—Group of Nuns Virtually With‘out Luevare. —

Ship Picks Up 660 U.S.  Repatriates   Americans Relate Stories of Trials In German Camps

PARAMUSHIRO ~ BASE BOMBED   Guam Also Hit Second Time During War; 7  Planes Downed

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Bomber Formations From ~ Italy Blast Aircraft  ! Plants  SUBURBS CF ROME . AGAIN ARE POUNDED  Factories in Old Austria Bombed During the — Day

U. S. Bombers Hit Plant in Old Austria   Flyers Meet Swarms of German Fighters Over Alps

BOMBERS POUND AUSTRIA AFTER TILT OVER ALPS   Aircraft And Ballbearing Plants At Steyr Hit From Italy

Yank Bombers Cross Alps, Attack Austria   Ball Bearing Worlks At Steyr Hit: Also Blast Yugoslav Areas

Italy based bombers hit  nazi plants Fight off heavy  enemv annositior

BOMBERS CROSS ALPS TO ATTACK AUSTRIAN PLANT   Aircraft And Ball Bearing Works At Steyr Hit; Adriatic Coast Raided   35 SWISS KILLED IN ACCIDENTAL BOMBING

Bombers Chase Nazis Across Alps   Australian Ball Bearing, Plane. Factories Smashed

Yankee Bombers Cross Alps, Raid War Plant At Steyr In Old Austna

U.S. Planes in Italy Blast Aireraft Plants at Steyr   Attack Follows Mistaken Yank Bombing Saturday of Swiss Town Near German Border: Nazis Claim Rome Also Raided

YANKS BATTLE NAZi PLANES GVER ALPS   In Continued Aerial Invasion Of Germany; Blast Ballbearing Works at Steyr; Cross Adriatic.   Over Switzerland

STATE SLATE CUTLINED FOR PRIMARY RACE   Can Withdraw By Saturday; New Candidates

CARLSTROM IN GOVERNOR RACE   FILES PETITION’ JUST 12 MINUTES BEFORE DEADLINE

ARMY CAPTAIN RETURNS HOME WITH U. S. TROOPS   Dramatic Story of Paris Entry Amid Tears and Cheers Is Told

Caen Taken: Allies Driving Germans  Back To Orne Line   British And Canadians Strike Southward From Caen In New Assault   YANKS ADVANCE BEYOND LA HAYE

CANADIANS AND BRITISH OPEN NEW DRIVE   Nazis Fall Back to Positions South of River Orne

SD  FOURTH-TERM DRAFT FAVORED BY HILLMAN   ClO Power Sees Roosevelt As Only Hope In Crisis

Hiliman Ur ges Another Term  For Roosevelt   No Other Man to Whom We Can Safely Turn Over Helm, CIO Political  S ees Be:

Tire Dealers Given. 8g  ‘Instructions Aboat ‘' Selling New wipes

U.S. CAPTURES WOTHO ATOLL IN MARSHAL   String of Islar tween Kwajalei. and Eniwetok

U.S. Seizes Wotho Atoll in Marshalls   Amphibious Unit Lands on Island W ithoui Resistance; Military Government Set Up; Natives Receive Occupation Forces

ANOTHER MARSHALL ATOLL IS OCCUPIED   Wotho Taken by Amphi-. bious Unit Without Resistance

YANKS OCCUPY WOTHO ATOLL IN MARSHALLS   At Least 26 Jap Air. craft Felled in Wewak Attack

Marines Take Another Atoll In Marshalls   American Invaders Meet No Resistance in Capturing Wotho

MARINES LAND DETACHMENT ON ANOTHER ISLAND   Wotho Atoll Falls To Smali Amphibious Unit Of Pacific Fleet   26 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN WEWAK RAID

Yanks Advance On Leyte Island  - Counter-Attack by      Counter-Attack by Japs is Repulsed

Pennsylvani¢ TruckersEnc 9-Day Strike   YORK, LANCASTER AND HARRIS. BURG DRIVERS AND HELPERS COMPLY WITH AFL ‘NO STRIKE PLEDGE   Referred to War Dept.

TRUCKS ROLLING AGAIN AFTER 5-DAY STRIKE   More Than 700 Drivers And Helpers Return To Work—Vital War Materials Held Up

Allies Batter Encircled  Germans from All Sides   Many Surrender Booty Taken in Attack

Allied Forces Capturing: Thousands Of German Prisoners And Great Quantities Of War Booty

Nazis Surrender To Escape Death   Thousands Find Own Solution To Allied Trap In France

M’Arthur Planes In Biggest Raid   Celebes, Palau and Halmahera Battered

202-Ton Raid Is Made on Islands  Five Jap Vessels Sunk or Damaced

COLOGNE TORN AGAIN BY AMERICAN BOMBS   City Raided For Fourth Time In Five Days By Yanks

Casualties Of War  In District Liste:  ‘Names Released By The Army And Navy

District Men Are Casualties Of War  Reported Killed Or Miss ing In Action —~

LIVELY LUPE VELEZ DIES AS SHE LIVED IN SPECTACULAR WAY  MOVIE. ACTRESS DE-. ~. CLARED® SUICIDE; TWO

Overdose.Of Drug:Fatal; Was. -To: Become: Moth: ‘er In'5 Months °

LUPE VELEZ LEFT 2 SUICIDE NOTES   TOLD PREFERENCE FOR DEATH BATHER THAN SHAME BABY

Unrequited Love, Approaching Motherhood Disclosed As Motive Of Lupe Velez Suicide

Disillusioned in Love Lupe Velez Suicides Before Baby Is Borr   Two Notes, One to Man She Blamed, Found Tucked in Satin Pillow Case of Silk-sheeted Bed in Lavish Home — French Actor Denies He Jilted Her

LEZ DEATH HELD SUICIDE   Unrequitted Love and Approaching Motherhood Tragedy Motive

Prospect of Unwanted Bahy Promplec Lupe Velez’? Suicide. Note Reveals

Note Left by Colorful Ac. tress Says French Actor Wooed, Then Spurn. ed Her

Germans Admit Soviet Success On Baltic Front   Current Offensives May Be Followed By Third Near Warsaw

Nazis Say New Red Drive In Latvia Going Well: Reds Attack In Slovakia

PUT ATTENTION ON FARM VOTE   GOP Pictures Farmer As Man Harassed By ‘Overlapping Agencies.’

International Tinge Added   Presidential Campaign Veers Toward Internationa Afairs; Farm Vote Gets Attention

Farm Power Of Ballots Live Issue   Opposing Arguments O Candidates Begin Tx Gather Sneed.

American Farmer Dragged Into Nov. Election Campaign   Ickes ana GOP. Governor Schoeppel Exchange “Rural -Assértions

FARM VOTE IS SOUGHT IN GOP CAMPAIGN NOW   Speakers For Both Parties Making Tour Of U. S.

5 cieen, Farm Issues Enter Debate   “Republicans Rap ; New ‘Deal Agencies

IS SOUGHT   Ickes Points to to Increasec Fertility of Land Under New Deal

FARM VOTE GETS MORE ATTENTION FROM BOTH SIDES   GOP EMPHASIZES CONTROLS; HELPS TOLD BY NEW DEAL

Parties Plan New Foreign Affairs Talks   Roosevelt and Dewey  Schedule Speeches

Push Farm Vote Into Campaign  Schoeppel and Ickes Bring up Subject

FARM VOTE GIVEN MOST ATTENTION 'BY TOP SPEAKERS   Agriculture and Other Western Problems Discussed- by . Rival Spokesmen

Permission to Visif Red Front Desired  -Generals Planning ~tnvasion Wish to —  To ee

‘American and Brifish Generals Would Like to Know How Russians Maintain Supply Lines

Allies Cast Eye on Red Secret  Invasion Chiefs   Invasion Chiefs Want Trip to View Methods

OFFICERS TAKEN OUT OF ACTION   Army Recalls Generals From Overseas Posts, Lack of Efficiency Cited

Several Generals Overseas Recalled  From Command Jobs   Army Shakes Up Office _- Staff With Demotions for Inefficient Work

RECALL SEVERAL U. S, GENERALS   Demotion for Some Is Revealed by the War De"partment.

HGH OFFICERS LOSE COMMANDS   WAR DEPARTMENT INSISTING ON EFFICIENCY IN OVERSEAS FIGHTING ZONES.

LEGION HEARS SECURITY PLANS   Truman. Bricker Address Opening Of National Meet

VICE PRESIDENT CANDIDATES SPEAK AT LEGION: MEET   Problems for War Veterans of Current Conflict Weighed At Chicago Session

HARRY TRUMAN, BRICKER SPEAK   Rival Candidetes for Vice President Address Legion On Veterans’ Jobs

Bricker, Trumar Outline Views At Legion Meet   Rival Candidates For’ ~ President Heard By Veterans

LEGION OPENS ANNUAL MEET   Truman and Bricker Are Speakers at Opening Session Today.

RIVALS REVEAL PLAN FOR VETS   \Bricker, Truman Address Legion Convention  In Chicago

OUTLINE PLANS TO ASSIST NEW WAR VETERANS   Candidates Give Views In Addresses Before  _ Legion Convention

Truman, Bricker Address Legion  Chicago Conyention ~ Hears Views On Vets

Security Aims For Returning Soldiers Air ef   Vice Presidential Candi. dates Truman and Bricker Give Views Before Lerionuniit

TRUMAN, BRICKER ADDRESS LEGION   OUTLINE VIEWS ON SECURITY FOR VETS OF WORLD WAR TWO

Truman, Bricker On Same. Platform   Give Legion Views On Veterans’ Outlook

TRUMAN, BRICKER ADDRESS LEGION      Rival Candidates Outline Their Views On Security for World War II Vets

RICKER, TRUMAN PRESENT VIEWS ‘ON VET SECURITY   Vice Presidential Candidates Speak at Chicago at Opening Session of American Legion’s Annual Convention Today

Truman, Bricker Heard By American Legion On ‘Post-war Jobs For G. I.’s

ROLE OF CONGRESS IN WRITING OF PEACE TAKE SPOTLIGHT   STATE DEPARTMENT ABOUT READY TO OFFER SOME SPECIFIC PLANS

Long Announces State Department’s Plan for Maintaining Post War Peace

Role Congress Should Play In Writing The Peace Studied By House, State Dept.

Plan To Police World To Keep  Peace Formed   Proposes Major Nations’ Maintain’ Adequate Forces to Deal With Trowble-Makers

House, Senate Bi-Partisan Groups To Study Conaress’ Part in Peace

CONGRESS EYES POST-WAR PLAN   State Department Has World Police Plan Ready

Peace Proposals Before Congress   VARIOUS COMMITTEES TO STUDY PLANS AND TERMS.

CONGRESS ROLE STUDIED IN PEACE MAKING   Plans Are. Made For ~~ - Maintaining Peace. .  May. Ratify. Treaty By Majority  Vato

Long Announces State Department §  Plan for Maintaining Post War “soa

International Police Force Out As World Peace Making Plan Is Shaped

New Ideas From State Department And House  Postwar Plans Get More Attention: New Slants

Amendment of Constitutional Requirements For Post-War Treaties Asked In Congress

Congressmen Seeking Part On Peace Terms   When Time Comes for Peace, and Methods of Enforcing It, Congress Wants Power To Act.

Hee ALTA, FERS id. ee  ROLE OF CONGRESS IN WRITING OF PEACE TAKE SPOTLIGHT  STATE DEPARTMENT AROUT READY TO OFFER

Congress Role In Peace Talks Gains Attention   State Department Ready to Offer Postwar Proeqram

House And State Department Develop New Slant: On Role Congress Should Play In Writing Peace

PEACE PROPOSALS BLOOM IW CAPITAL   Efforts To Be, Made To Give-Congress More _ Important Role --

Fall Of Italian Capital Viewed As Important As Warning To Satellite:

FOOD TO BE GIVEN TO PEOPLE OF ROME   Measures Already Taken by Allies To Ease Shortage

Diplomats View Rome’s Fall As Hint To Nazi Satellites Of Coming Fate Of Berlin

Italian Regime  Will be Changed   Fall of Rome May Influence Wavering Axis Satellites

Allied Seizure  of Rome Speeds Climax Of War   Breakup Of Hifler’s Satellites Seen By Diplomats

Rome's Fall Sneeds Grand Attack, View   President to Speak Tonight, Summing Up Reaction

FALL OF ROME TIP TO BERLIN   FDR To Emphasize Importance of Victory In Talk Tonight

F all of Rome ‘To Affect Nazi ‘Satellites   Fate of Berlin Has Been Sealed; F. R. ‘To Speak Tonight

Prompt Measures Being Taken to Relieve Food Shortages in City.   ‘KING MAY NOT RETURN

Other American Troops in Push Near Reich Frontier; Units Driving Upon Duren

SIEGFRIED LINE BEING BATTERED BY ALLIES NOW   Reds Poised tor Knockout Blow at Budapest, Then Attack Via Germany

Yanks Advance  In New Assault Aimed At Bonn   Viake New Gains Close To Frontier Of Reich

Yankees Point Strong Thrust At Rhine City   Reds Mass Cannon For Final Assault On Hungary Capital

NEW ATTACK BELOW DUREN GAINS ONE MILE   American Right Flank Hammers Out Advances tn Wheeling Move

FIVE MILE STRETCH WEST BANK OF ROER FREED NAZI TROOPS   AMERICAN RIGHT FLANK ALSO HAMMERS OUT GAINS TOWARD SAAR BASIN

Bong Ranking Yank Air Ace   Wisconsin Flyer Gets 27th Jap Plane  Over New Guinea

Capt. Bong First To Get 27Jap Planes   He Shot Down His Last Over Hollandia Yesterday; All Are Confirmed Victims

The War Today   Answer to Atrocities Is  Clear Enough — Japs Are Barbarians.

Blames Jap Barbarianism For Horrible Atrocities Hitlerite Germany No Different

Only Explanation for Jap Atrocities Is That The Nips Are Barbarians

BARBARISM OF JAPS AND NAZIS . .; TOWARD HELPLESS PRISONERS. OF = / WAR RESULT OF SAVAGE INSTINCTS   ‘Japs Have Had Less Than Century of So-Called Civilization While Germans Have Reverted Back To Savagery Under Domination of Hitler and  Ly:  oe

Today’s War Moves   Japs, Nazi Population of Germany Are Barbarians

STORIES OF TERRIBLE JAPANESE ATROCITIES INDICATE THEY ARE REALLY AND TRULY BARBARIANS

Heel ADOPTS. NEW SYSTEM   NEW PLAN FOR VISITS HOME “OF MEN OVERSEAS AN ‘.  NOUNCED BY WAR   _ DEPARTMENT

ADM. SPRUANCE DELIBERATE AND CALM IN BATTLE  READS WHILE HE DIRECTS STRATEGY

REVISION OF LAW TO PROVIDE VOTE   Service Ballot Plan Gives  Michigan First ‘Hot Wea . ther’ Camopaian.-.

Goebbels Admits Revolt Leaders Not Wiped Out   Millions of Leaflets On Rebellion Dropped By American Planes

19 MINERS ARE KILLED IN BLAST   Half Acre of Ground Torn Up by Explosion

MINE EXPLOSION KILLS 15 MEN   FIRE-FIGHTING CREW ALL DEAD IN BLAST

HOPE ABANDONED FOR MEN TRAPPED IN VIRGINIA MINE   15 Men Known to Be Trapped 3,000 Feet Un. derground As Result Raging Fire

MEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION   Were Trying to Put Out Fire In Coal Mine When Explosion Occurs.   RESCUERS ARE HELPLESS

AIRMAN STRANDED ON CANYON GORGE   Rangers Ride Horseback Along Rocky Walls in Attemot to Rescue Him.

Airman Stranded In Grand Canyon   Rangers On Way To Inner Rim of Canyon Gorge Piateau Far Below

FLIER STRANDED IN GRAND CANYON   RESCUE PARTIES WORK CAUTIOUSLY TO REACH HELPLESS U, S, AIRMAN

Yugoslav Railroad:  Destroyed fo Bar.  Escape of Germans Organized Resistance io Red Thrast From Romania Held  Pw a a

THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS ON ~TTALIAN FRONT   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS  REVEALS THAT 13,009 GERMANS . “HAVE BEEN CAPTURED /°  -<DURING CAMPAION ~

ALLIED FORCES CAPTURE 13,000 NAZIS IN ITALY   Total Taken Since Invasion Began; Ground Action Limited

15,000 NAZIS HELD IN ITALY   Catured Since Sept. 3rd Invasion Beachhead Sector Is Quiet

Knox Death Called War Casualty By Roosevelt Navy Flags At Half Mast To Mourn Sceretary

Pay Tribute To Knox   Admiral King Pledges Navy Will “Carry On”; FDR Praises Ability

Highest Tribute Paid Frank Knox  Admiral King's Words Stand as Epitaph

ADMIRAL LAUDS KNOX FOR WORK   ‘Well Done,’ King Declares: Forrestal Supported

NAVY PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO KNOX   BRIEF WORDS SPOKEN BY ADMIRAL KING, COMMANDER IN CHIEF

‘Weil Done’ is Navy’s Tribute to Knox   Admiral King's Words Stant As Epitaph; a Wear Casualty Sovs EDR

HIGH TRIBUTE PAID FRANK KNOX, U. §, NAVAL SECRETARY  ADMIRAL KING AND PRES! DENT ROOSEVELT COM.

?  FRANK KNOX" SAYS ADMIRAL   Admiral Ernest J. King, Pays Marked Tribute in Epitaph to Departed Chiaf ‘

—— we SS Ve Nee ee OOF  ‘He Put Country First,’ Roosevelt Declares Of Knox

American  Priest Is Received by Stalin   “Well Done, Frank Knox." Highest  Tribute Navy Can Pay, Conferred

“Well Done, Frank Knox’ Is Tribute Of Head Of 'World’s Greatest Navy

Biggest Navy Ts Monument To Knox, Savs F.D.R.   Late Secretary To Be Buried In Arlington National Cemetery On Monday

‘Well Done, Frank Knox’ Is Epitaph Pronounced by Admiral Ernest King

King Leads Navy In Mourning For Knox   Secretary — To Be Buried At Arlinaton

KNOX PRAISED BY ADM. KING   “Well : Done,’ Frank Knox, 1s Tribute Paid Secretary; Funéral- ‘Monday.

“Well Done, Frank Knox’, ls Way Admiral King ' Pays Tribute To Late Secretary Of The Navy

SOLONS BACK FORRESTAL T0 SUCCEED KNOX   Undersecretary Has  Strong Support Among  . Solons — President Has  Given No Hint of Whom He Will Appoint.

PAY TRIBUTE TC LATE SECRETARY OF NAVY KNOX   To Bury Cabinet Official in Arlington National Cemetery Monday

PAY TRIBUTE TO SEC. KNOX   Navy Officials Commend Chieftain’s Efforts As Rites Are Arranged

Adm. King P ays Tribute to Knox   Says “Well Done, Frank Knox” as Epitaph for See’y of Navy

Forrestal Takes Over The Navy   Veteran Aviator Made Acting Secretary; High Tribute Paid To Knox.

Commander Of U. S. Fleet Pays Tribute To Secretary Of The Navy Who’ Diéd Yesterday Afternoon

Japs Encircling City of Changsha   Chinese Defenders In Fierce Battle

BERLIN RAIDED BY R. AF. PLANES   NAZI BROADCAST SAYS. ENEMY CRAFT RAN INTO — “VIOLENT BARRAGE.”

Berlin Raided. Bombers Hit. ‘Robot Coast’:   ROBOT BOMB’S EFFECT On War Likely To Be Nil

BERLIN IS RAIDED BY ALLIED FLIERS   Night Attack Follows Pas. De-Calais Raid in " Afternoon 

Berlin struck as allies shift  aerial tacties French coastal resion pounded

Proposes 50-50 Sefup For Gov't, Local Agencies   Investment Now Made ~ Would Not Count In Conaress Bill

CAA APPROVES LARGE SUM FOR LOCAL AIRPORT   Asks Congress For Funds To Provide Class 3 Field Here

Bomber Is Named InHonor of  Six West States   Montana Is Included Among Patrons of Heroic Air Fortress

Bomber Is Named In Honor of  Six West States  / Montana Is Included  a; a ae ae of

TELEPHONE STRIKE IS TO BE DECIDED   Operators Protest Importing Other Workers to Dayton

Elections Normal In  Ohio,W Va   Ohio Mayors Lead For Governor Nominations; Holt  Beaten In W. Va.

SCHWEINFURT PLASTERED BY AERIAL TEAMS   RAK Attack Follows U.S. Pounding   PRESS RESULTS   Tons of Bombs Dropred on Germany

R. A. F. Continues Bombing Attacks On Schweinturt   German Industrial City Smashed During Night Following U. S. Day Raid   ['WO RAIDS ARE MADE IN NIGHT

SCHWEINFURT SUFFERS NEW BOMB BLOWS   AMERICAN  DAYLIGHT RAID  _ FOLLOWS CLOSELY. ON  « HEELS OF DEVASTAT ING RAF NIGHT ATTACK

Men Leave For Induction   Others Take Pre-Induction  Examinations

6 Countv Men Are Inducted   Others Classified In 1-A By Local Board

MUSIC DRIVE "REACHES GOAL   Concert Memberships All - Sold Day-Ahead of —  Schedule

ALLIED WARSHIPS ATTACK JAP NAVAL BASE AT SABANG   At Northern Tip of Sumatra, Port Undergoes Bombardment at Same Time Another Force Was Attacking Palou.

U.S. Gives Red Army Much In Way Of Supplies   Planes, Tanks, Trucks Sent Under Lend-Lease

ALIBI DEFENSE IS BEING SET UP ON TIME TABLE   Witness Called To Give Car Mileage To Show It Had Not Been That Far

COLLET DEFENSE TESTIMONY OPENS   Hopes. "Eo, Prove He Was _ Not, At McCoy «House ‘Night or Slayings

DEFENSE OPENS CASE IN TRIPLE MURDER TRIAL   Will Draft Time Chart to Prove Collett Not Near Scene of Tragedy

Searching Now For Jewish Terrorists   Egyptian Police After Several Dozen of Them

U. 5. Heavies Pound Guam   Allied Attacks Blaze Over 5.000-Mile Arc Of Pacific

U.S. Marines. Take Another Jap Airdrome   At Least Seven Nip Planes Shot Down in Guam Raid; Truk and  Paramushiro Attacked

BACK PROPOSAL > FOR SMALL ARMY   SOLONS LINE UP WITH MARSHALL—PEACETIME DRAFT ACTION. LIKELY.

Small / Army:  Gains F avor.   Citizens’. Training  Ureed By “Marshall

Marshall's Small Army-Big Reserve Plan Is Favored By U. S. Congressmer

Senate May Act On U. S.-Anglo Oil Agreement   Stettinius Signs With Beaverbrook

EXPELLED FROM YUGOSLAVIA   ELEANOR PACKARD, U, P. WRITER, FORCED TO LEAVE COUNTRY

Alabama GOP Gives Dewey  14 Delegates   New Yorker’s Strength Climbs to 338; Oregon  Voters Hold Primary

Dewey Leads In Oregon’s Write-In Vote   Alabama Instructs All 14 Delegates To Back New Yorker

Alabama 6.0.P. Votes for Dewey   Entire Delegation Goes fo Governor

Full Delegation In Alabama  To Back Dewey   First Full G.O.P. Group In Any Southern State Pledged to One Prospcet

BELIEVE 14 DIE IN MINE BLAST   ENTERED PIT IN WEST VIRGINIA TO FIGHT FIRE —

BELIEVE 14 MEh KILLED IN MINE BLAST IN EAST   Fire Breaks Out While Men Are Working Mine

Coal Explosion Traps 15 Miners   Fire Fighting Crew Feared To Be Dead

BIRTHDAY BALL TO BE AT THE ARMORY   Will Be Celebrated Saturday Nighi, January Twenty-Nine.

All Lost Ground Ils Regained   GERMAN ATTACK IS “COSTLY FAILURE” AS DEFENSE POSITIONS REMAIN INTACT; THIRD ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ALLIES INTO SEA COLLAPSES

Peppers, Okra, Tomatoes Recommended For Skips In Your Spring Garden

Troops Reported Battling Former Nazi Ally   Third Romanian Army Reported to Have Joined Russians and Are Marching On Hungary

TRANSYLVANIA RETURN SOUGHI BY KING MIHAI   Troops Said Entering Province; Berlin Sets Up Puppet Regime

Dissolve All — Party Units Of Hungary   Germans Fear Intrigue To Take Nation Out of The War

Hurricane Hits  North Carolina   Much Damage Caused At Wilmington

Tropical Storm Hits Wilmington, North Carolina   Refugees, Evacuated from Nearby Beaches, Present Housing Problem   Storm Passes Inland   Several in Hospitals

Coastal Area Hit. By Tropical Storm   Wilmington, North Carolina and Environs Suffe: Greatest Damage as Gales Sweep in From the Aflantic

Thousands Evacuated Fror Beach Resorts In Face Of 60-Mile Wind   HOMELESS EVACUEES CREATING PROBLEM

— e isle. SG am ES NN Pg we Oo ETE.  pan Wn mo vy  WN No -~ "= §-¢~ ~   Moves Inland After Leveling Trees And Flooding Streets for Four Hours

V BOMB TAKES TOLL IN ENGLISH TOWN   Women and: Children Buried’ Un: der Wreckage of ‘Two Buildings —Bus Passengers Killed.

Five-Day Assault Gains Salween Bastion;  Last Obstacle To Junction Taken

Chinese Retake Lungling After Blasing Assault   Remove Major Obstacle Voward Reopening J.and Route Fo China; Japs Press Harder On Awangst.

CHINESE REGAIN LUNGLING BASE   Five-Day Assault Climaxed by Victory Over Foe Bastion Along Salween

Georgia, Florida Tobacco Markets Await OPA Word As TheyKeepClosed Today

Weed Growers Await Answer On Price Demanc   Markets Remain Closed; OPA Answer Promised Within 24 Hours.

RAF HeavyBombers Raid Freiburg, :  Neuss Before Dawn  German Rail, Supply Centers Pounded In Growing Assault

Nazi Supply Centers Hit By the RAF  US Heavies Hit ‘Rail Movements-

Rain Bombs on Supply, Rail Bases   Air Forces Strike Hard At Centers Supplying The German Front Lines   ATTEMPT TO SEAL OFF ENEMY ARMY   Air Assault Continues ¢4 Bours; Yankees Shoot Down o8 More Planes

1000 R.A. F. Heavy Bomber: Hit Key Depots   Shower Bombs on Center: Just Back of Western Front; Other Front Supply Centers Hit

1,000 BOMBERS ATTACK REICH   Hurl 4,000 Tons Of Explo. cives On Neuss And Freiburg   RAIL MOVEMENTS HIT

Heavy Bombers Continue Raids  German Targets   German Targets Badly Battered

REICH’S SUPPLY CENTERS RAIDED BY RAF PLANES   Freiburg and Neuss Jarred By 4,000 Tons of Explosives Today

1,000 BOMBERS HIT NAZI CITIES   Neuss and Freiburg Targets Of Pre-Dawn Assault

1,000 Bombers In Pre-Dawn  Raids Today   Hit German Supply Centers Just Back Of Western Front

Bomb German Supply. Centers   A Thousand RAF   Magviae Stetibn «2

Neighbor Tells. Of Loud Shriek Heard In Night   “You're. Killing Me Ys  Victim Screams

Neighbor Heard Slain Hollywood Girl Plead With Her Attacker in Her Room

ALLIES WARN OF NEW FRONT   Kisemaower Cautions Population  ee eae ee  Carry War Into New

Cramp Workers Ordered Back   Knox, Union Head,’ WLB Join In Order

17.000 Shipyard  Workers Still Out  ‘Navy, Union Head, WLB  Order Emploves Back

Still Idle At Shipyard   Work Stoppage Persists Despite Orders To Return to Work

HIGH-UP SOURCES ORDER STRIKING BUILDERS TO WORK   17,060 Cramp Shipyard Work ers Remain Idle Despite Order Pending General Meeting Sunday

SHIPYARD STRIKERS ORDERED TO WORK   Sharp Rebuke for ‘Aiding Enemy’ from Union Head

LT. BUCKMAN’S WILL ENTERED FOR PROBATE   War Dept. Letter Offered ~ As Proof of Death of Air Corps Navigator  OTLICD COLTIANITY WHIES

NOTARY PUBLIC Elizabeth M. Culler 404-406 Fallowfield Ave.   Th OACIE TY

Principal Aims Known As Big Three Prepare for Meeting  Setup of World Security Organization Is Apparent Inciuding Court, Executive Council, World Assembly

Leghorn Is Brought Within Range Of U. §: Artillery: Germans Retreat

GERMANS CLING TO ITALIAN CITY   But Great Port of Livorno Now Within Gun Range Of Yanks

ALLIES SCORE GENERAL GAINS ON GOTHIC LINE   Pisa Threatened As Nazi Lines Crumble In Era Valley

Livorno Under Fire of Heavy American Guns   Doughboys Capture Hills Overlooking Arno River In Qeveral Advanra

Livorno in Gun Range   Artillery Prepares To Blast Nazis Out In Prelude to Capture

‘Ameri ican Guns Shell Leghorn ‘As Nazis. Flee   Fall: Of Strategic Port Ex pected Hourly; Pisa Also hreatcned By  Ad-vancing - Yanks

Livorno Under Artillery Fire  Advances General  . gue TE xclS pee “Beeznad

LIVORNO NOW WITHIN RANGE OF YANK GUNS   HEIGHTS GUARDING FLORENCE AND PISA HELD

U.S. Doughbo' Push Carries Near Livorno   Bring Great Port Within Artillery Range of Big Guns in Mountain Positions .

Yankees Bring Livorno Into Firing Range   Occupy All Important Heights Nine Miles From Arno River.   OVERRUN PECCIOLI

LARGE SALT PLANT S GUTTED. BY FIRE   Damage to Morton Co Branch Estimated at $3 500,000

$3,000,000 F!  AT SALT PLANT   BLAZE SWEEPS FIVE BUILD- INGS OF MORTON FIRM — THREATENS SIXTH.

Flames Sweep Salt Plant; Los Is $3.500.000   Fire Rages Through Five Buildings in Marvsville. Mich.

LARGE SALT PLANT 15 GUTTED BY FIRE      Damage to Morton Co. Branch Estimated at $3 500.000 

GERMAN PLANE PRODUCTION IS ALLIED TARGET   Nearly 2,000 Americar Bombers Strike Brunswick

Nazi Plane Factories,  Fields Raided   American Heavies Pound at Brunswick And Northwest Towns  CREATEST OFFENSIVE

AIR FLEET OF 2,000 PLANES O’ER GERMANY   Practically Same Number As Participated In Assault Sunday; Huge Armada Strikes Brunswick.

2,000 U. S. Planes Hit. Another Heavy Blow at. Nazi Aircraft Factorie

Bombs Rain On Germany   Close to 8.000 Tona Fal In 36-Hour Period

Tanks Rescue Yanks Caught In Bastogne   Didn't Have Too Much - Trouble With Nazis, ~ Doughboys Claim

Relief Unit Horns In on Private War in Bastogne to End Seven-Day Siege

‘Nuts!’ Was Answer to German Ultimatum  Rescued Yanks Peeved Because Ald Came

Yanks Peeved As Relief Horns In at Bastogne   Welcome Tanks and Armor, But Say Do Not Need Infantry

Yanks Rescued at Bastogne Peeved by Others ‘Horning In’ on Fight

Help Reaches Heroic Troops at Bastogne   DOUGHBOYS WELCOME ARMOR, BUT “DON’T NEED ANY INFANTRY”

ATTAGK PREGoED CN BIAK (SLANE   Objective Is Airdrome—Capture Will Put Bombers Within 900 Miles of Philippines.

US. INFANTRY ADVANCES ON BIAK ISLAND   Meet Stiff Jap Resistance in Drive on Mokmer Airbase

INFANTRYMEN, FIGHTING. WAY POWARD. JAP AIRFLELD, WITHIN EASY. BOMBER  _ RANGE OF PHILIP. .  - 7 pENES . oo

IGHT STIFFENS S YANKS PUSH AHEAD ON BIAR   ericans Drive Toward Airfield on Isle Off New Guinea

Byrnes May Get South's Support   South Carolina Set to Push Nomination   Wallace to get chance on First Bal lot. (Story on Page 2.)

Byrnes Proposed For Wallace Job   War Mobilization Head Expected To Carry South

Close Vote Seen in the State  Both Sides Claim Maryland Victory On Eve Of Election

KELLY DEFENDS LABOR RECORD   Fry Cites Tncrease of Staie Payrolls In Detroit Talk

PEPPER LEAD CUT — IN-LATE RETURNS   Florida Senator, However, Continues Well in Front

ELECTIONS LEAN TO ROOSEVELT   Administration Backers Win In Florida And In Alabama

Pepper Holds Slim Margin in Florida Voting   Senator Hill Piles Up 25,000 Vote Majority in Alabama

PEPPER HOLDS LEAD IN FLORIDA CONTEST   Senator Has 164,612 Votes Agains Total of 156,882 for His  Oinnanentc.

PEPPER'S LEAD BEING REDUCED IN LATE COUN)   Florida New Dealer May Be Forced Into A Runoff  Election   HILL AND GURNEY IN PRIMARY VICTORIES

Florida, Alabama Ballots Arouse New Deal Hopes   But Anti-Fourth Term Leaders Point Out Large Opposition Vote

U. S. Awaits Russian Reply   Ambassador Harriman In Good Position to Act as Intermediary

Decrease In Costs Of Relief   Direct Costs At New Low, But Other Forms Of Relief  Continue To Mount.

AFL EXPECTED TO WELCOME LEWIS UNION   Reaffiliation Seen in Council Meeting at Miami Monday

Danish Coast Is Nazi Wall   New Fortifications Waiting For Allies

NAZIS NGREASE. TENISH DEFENSES   Gigantic Anti-Tank Ditch Constructed Along 1 Denmark’s Coast

Nazis Build   °  Concrete Ditch  To Stop Tanks On Opnadt OF Nanmark

Anniversary Hope   Germans Report Anti- Tank Ditch On Denmark’s Coast   On Wav to Win

Labor Party Turns Left: Browder and Communists in Control Of Group Organized To Support FDR   Left Wing Backs FDR

Communists Take Over Labor Party   RIGHT-WINGERS PLEDGE ANEW THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON BROWDER’S VICTORY.   Organization Splits

American Lanor Party Breaks Up ‘Over Communisn   Rightists Withdraw a: ~ Left Wing Dominates Tuesday Election

Communism Issue Splits American  Labor Party  Helped Roosevelt Win New York Votes in 1940

SPLIT DEVELOPS IN LABOR PARTY   Right Wing Faction Withdraws After Communistic Vote Tuesday

Bond Total Here Nears $3,000,00C   Last Day Purchases Push Fund $344,742 Over Quota

Minute Men of Brittany  Proudly Present Advaneing Yanks with City of 20 000

‘American Column Receives Great Welcome Upon Arrival at Vannes—Yanks Are Showered With Wine and Flowers With Admirers Begging for Autographs—Soon Kids Are Riding About in Invasion Forces’ Tanks and Jeeps.   Rv WES GALLAGHER

Yanks Given Tumultuous Welcome As French Minute Men Hand Over Vannes

Capture Is Climax Of Jungle Warfare   Japanese Abandon Equipment When They Flee And Allied Troops Gather Up Much Materiel

Aussies Take Jap Base — of Bogadjim   Sweep On Toward Nip Supply Area at Madana

BOGADJIM FALL PAVES WAY FOR MADANG DRIVE   Seven - Month Drive Across the Huon Peninsula

Vital Dutch Navy Center Blasted   Continue Intensive  Raids In Pacific Area

Says No Coercion Planned   Hull Declares Four Big Nations Won't Play Power Politics In Peace Meeting

‘Bull Denies Big Four Coercion hn Peace Setup   Says Dewey Can Rest As sured Fears For Small Nations Are Utterly Unfounded

Big Four Powers Do Not Contemplate Exerting Pressure On Rest Of World, Asserts Hull Ir Reply To Dewey — Welcomes Conference With Nominee On Non-Partisan Basis

Won’t Coerce World, Hull   Dewey's Fears Are Utterly Unfounded, Secretary Says

HULL EXPLAINS SECURITY PLAN   Secretary Says Big Four Do Not Contemplate Coercion

Dewey's Fears Of Coercion by ‘Big Four’ Are Baseless: Hull   Secretary of State Issues Formal Reply to GOP Candidate

COERCION FEARS UNFOUNDED: HULI   DECLARES BIG FOUR WILE NOT ATTEMPT TO COERCE WORLD

Secretary Hull Denies ‘Big 4 Plan Coercion   Assures Gov. Dewey Fears . Expressed: By Him Are Completely Unfounded

Hull Answers Dewey Attack   Assures That Big Four De Not Consider Coercion  Of Rest Of World.

Says Bic Four Not Planning Any Coercion   Secretary Hull Replies to Fears Expressed by Governor Dewey

Dewey Tells GOP. Views .   Party. Okelis: Small Nations. Take Part.

Big Four Plans to Coerce  Hull Says Phe Fears World Utterly  nfounded

No Coercion it — Peace Council Plan Hull Says is in Reply to Dewey

HULL DISPUTES DEWEY'S FEAR OF BiG-4 RULE   Denies It’s Intention of Great Powers to  Coerce World

Hull Gives Lie To Statement By Dewey   Says Conference Of ‘Big Four’ Merely Preliminary ; ‘Reports To Contrary Are Without Foundation In Fact’

Hull Denies Big Four Plans Using Force   Says Gov. Dewey’s Fears ‘Completely Unfounded’ on Eve Of Preliminary Conference on How to Organize for Peace

‘Big Four’ Do Not Plan Coercion of World--Hull   Says Dewey’s Fears Are “Completely Unfounded”

HULL ATTACKS DEWEY’S CLAIM   No Coercion Is Planned By ‘Big Four,’ He Asserts

Hull Replies To Dewey’s Speech On World Peace   Small Nations To Have Part In Post-War Orqanization

Hull Says Big Four Plans No World Coercion   Answers Dewey Peace By Force

Won't Coerce ‘Small Nations   Hull Tells Critic Dewey That His Fears Utterly Unfounded.

NA SUPPLY LINE   German Air Force Stays Out o Air As American Planes  Ruling Skies

Another Island Is Seized In Pacific; Marines Are Gaining  American Bombers Blast Protective Circle Around Kwatalein Atof! In Marshall isles

SEA’S SOUTH SHORE GRIP NOW SECURE   Marines Capture Gorissi Village; Aus.  sies Clear Japanese from Bian Penineuia

Move Extends Grip on Shore Of Bismarck Sea  Japs Strike Back by Air at Americans In Marshall Islands

Raid Marshalls Atoll; Continue Severe Attack:   MacArthur Reports Seizuré Of Bastion Without Opposition

Bombers Rip Siegfried Line Rail Centers   Aachen - Cologne Lines Hit: R.A.F. Riddles Rhine Troop Barges

RAIL CENTERS ON FRONTIER RAID TARGETS   Heavy Bombers Hammer Twin Towns of MunchenGladbach and Rheydt Behind Battlefield   ASSAULT ON BUDAPEST

FLIERS SUPPORT GROUND TROOPS   Blast Cities Just Behind Sieg: fried Line

NAZIS’ RAIL CENTERS GIVEN NEW POUNDING   Munchen-Gladbach, Rheydt Raided By RAF Heavies

Airmen Continue Smashing Centers  Of Nazi Supplies   Former Hitler Bodyguard Describes Idiosyncrasies

RAF Blasts Big German Rails  Hit Pointe Rehind   Hit Points Behind Siegfried and Near Aachen.

ALLIES BREAK ACROSS RAPIDO RIVER CLOSE TO CASSINO   American Flying Fortresses and _ Liberators Make Far - Ranging Raide Over Italy.

Stab Across Rapido River North of Cassino Stronghold.  'PRENCH TROOPS TOPPLED SAN ELIA  American Fortresses Led Far-ranging Raids Over Italy.

SIXTH WAR LOAN OVER QUOTA HERE   With Exception That Quota on E Bonds Has Not  Been Reached   TO PUSH E BONDS NOW

SIXTH WAR LOAN.      With Exception That Quota - on E Bonds Has Not ™Been Reached. i   TO PUSH E BONDS NOW:

Yanks In Italy Gain In Face Of Resistance   Decp Mud and Heavy En emy Opposition Slows Advance Toward Po Valley

GermansMine Garialiano   Artillery ts Active Near Cassino Sector

BRITISH FORCED TO GIVE GROUND AT CAEN, LA HAVE   German Marshal Rommel Threw Nearly 100 Tanks Into Attempts to Smash the Flank Threat.   AMERICAN FIRST ARMY CAPTURES 15 TOWNS   Berlin Reports U.S. Air Raids on Reich; London Gets Respite From Robots After 26 Nights.

Swift Advance Brings Troops Within 2 Miles Of Vital Transport Hub   British, Canadians Battle 100 Nazi Tanks Below Caen; Montgomery Counts 54,000 Prisoners

Blow Struck At Center Of Lines .   Offensive Carries Within Two Miles Of Transport Hub

TROOPS START NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST ST. LO   54,000 Prisoners Taken In Campaign, Says Montgomery

Enemy Attack Slows British Below Caen   Rommel Rapidly Using Reserves To Halt Advance

A AHISSING FLIERS HUNTED IN MAINE   Ohio Commercial Pilots Caught In Storm; RCAF Aids Search

PLANES SEEK 4 OHIO FLIERS   Canadian Airmen Search For Ohioans Missing In Maine Wilderness

4 MISSING OHIO PILOTS IN WOOD   3 of 9 Training Ships Still Unaccounted for in Maine; Lima Flier Safe

Nazis Surrender Cassino Hotel   Heavy Fighting Is Still in Progress

Reds Gain 4 Miles North Of Budapest   Endrcling Move Cuts Through Nazi Lines Toward Key Road

RUSSIANS GAIN 4 MILES IN HUNGAR}   KEY TO ALL AXIS DEFENSES EAST OF BUDAPEST UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE.

Reds Tighten  Encirclement Nazis Fear Blows In Poland, East Prussia

Latvian Rail Center Falls To Red Army   Successes Reported All Along Front as Nazis Retreat From Area Around Warsaw

CIRCLING MOVE SWEEPS NEAR VITAL ROADWAY   Hatvan, Key To All Axis Defenses, Under Artillery Fire

Soviets Smash Through Lines Near Budapest   Russian Tanks, Infantry Push Within 10 Miles Of Vienna Road.   CAPTURE BEY © 7 Y

Baltic Army Captures ‘Madona in New Ad yance      60,000 KILLED IN’   MONTH’S FIGHTING   German Casualties in the Summer Offensive Put at 609,526

Russ smash  nearer nazi  Lomza base Germans hurled beyond Biebrza

SOVIET TANKS ROLL CLOSER TO BUDAPES   REDS PRESSING FOR BREAKTHROUGH TO DANUBE

REDS ADVANGE AGAINST NAZIS   Gain of Four Miles Posted In Area Northeast Of Budapest

Soviets Smash ThroughBoche  Lines 4 Miles   Sweep To Within 19 Miles of Vienna High Road Running Along Danube  North of Budapest

Hatvan, Key To Defense, Under Fire Of Soviets:   80@ Germans Killed; War: Material Taken

Russian Forces Are Closing in Upon Budapest   More Than 40 More Hungarian Towns Captured by Reds

Reds Draw Noose About Budapest  Tanks, Infantry Drive Through German Lines

Nazis Hurled Across River  By hed Army   Several Strategic Points in Baltic States Are Captured

SOVIETS MOVE TO ENCIRCLE MAGYAR CAPITAI   Key To Axis Defense Under Fire; Hort Captured

IN DRIVES ALL ALONG FRONT   Push Within 16 Miles Of Lomza, Capture Town of Madona

Red Tanks, Infantr Smash Closer To Besieged City  Soviet Forces Sweep Within 19 Miles Of Vienna Highway

Russ Smash Ahead 4 Mile   Powerful Encircling Move Puts Reds Near Budapest Road

Reds’ Power. Increases in. Drive Toward East Prussia —   - Last Water Obstacle... Before Nazi Homeland. Only 15 Miles'Away, —  Crossed by Russians   ADVANCE STEADILY TOWARD BALTIC SEA   Writer Says Hitler ‘Willing To Sacrifice ~All Forces in Baltics:

Russians Gain Four Miles Near Budapest   Hatvan, Key to Nazi Defenses, Is Under Artillery Fire

Reds Smash Four Miles   Encircling Movement Gains North of Budapest _ Toward-Vienna Highroed

REDS PUNCTURE GERMAN LINES   Smash Through Four Miles Northeast of Budapest   KEY POINT MENACED   Hatvan, Main Junction Point For Nazi Reinforcements, Under Artillery Fire

REDS NEARING STRONGHOLD OF LOMZA   Northeast of Embattled Warsaw; Hurl Germans Across’ River Near East Prussia.   Baltic Forces

People Of Athens Warned By General Scobie That Bombardment Looms

RAF Headquarters Over-run : By ELAS; Scobie Warns of All-out British Onslaught

Germans Driven From Two More Bases In Russia   Dno and Rogachev Both Abandoned To Victorious Soviets

EAST PRUSSIAN RAIL HUB LOST GERMANS SA)   y Nazis Admit Goldap In Soviet Hands After Bitter Battle

GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF RAIL HUB IN PRUSSIA   Reds Pound Across East Prussia; Say 95 Miles In Reich

E. Prussia Rail Hub In Russ Hands   Germans Admit Loss, Say Russians 25 Miles Across Border.

Germans Admit Russian Gain in East Prussia Despite Resistance   Russian Forces Pounding Westward Across German Soil In New Drive

Important East Prussian Town Falls To Reds, Berlin Admits; Other German Centers !n Peril

East Prussian City Of Goldap ~ Lost By Nazis   Steady Progress Made By Russian . Troops In Advance Toward City Of Tasterburc

Soviets Grip Goldap Road Railway Hub   Street Fighting Reported Raging In Tilsit Bastion

RED ARMIES ADVANCING EAST PRUSSIA   Three Drives Are Converging On Insterberg

Nazi Command Admits Loss Of Goldap, Rail Hub In East Prussia   German Broadcasts Indicate Reds Penetrate Homeland 25 Mi. In Drive Against Konigsberg

GOLDAP FALLS TO) THREEWAY AED ADVANCE   Smash Along Roads Leading to Insterburg and Koniqsbera.

NAZI DEFENSES TOPPLING IN EAST PRUSSIA   German High Command Acknowledges Loss of Rail and Highway Hub.

REDS POUND WESTWARD Ih GREAT DRIVE   Moscow Silent On Operations On North Front

Nazis Admit Loss Of Hub  To Russians  Fall Of City Cracks  Core Of Resistance ’ Ralaw Inctarhiuerd

Huns Admit Goldap Fal To Russians Stalin Proclaims Liberation of  sm Arebsr Avawt

RUSSIANS FIGHTING N STPETS OF ONG      Nazis Admit Town Being Lost on Road to Pskov and Latvia.

Fall Of Goldap Apparently Cracked Strongest Core Of Resistance Below Insterburg, Russia On Drive   SHARP HOUSE TO HOUSE FIGHTING

GERMANS LOSE GOLDAP IN EAST PRUSSIA   Reds Now 25 Miles Into Nazi Territory

Russians Advance On Konigsberg Across Nazi Soil   Soviet Press Remains Silent On Reported New Red Offensive

GERMANS ADMIT DNO ABOUT 10 FALL TO RUSSIANS    Strong Post At Gateway To Latvia Almost In Hands Of Soviet  Troons.

Italian Stalemate Smashed — by 5th Army as Red Troops Extend Great Kiev Bulge —   Americans Make Strong Attack Along 10-Mile Front; Holf Million Germans Fight Desperately to Escape Trap

-Russians Extend Great Kiev Bulge  BRITISH BIG BOMBERS POUNI THE BALTIC PORT OF STETTI

10-Mile Front Attacked, Gain  Made At Cassino   Russians Extend Kiev Bulge; Drive Near Rumanian Frontier  Thursday

Hitler Fails To Hold Beer Hall Pow-Wow   Postponing Of Anniversary Bears Out Report Fuehrer Mentally Ul

peti ON ‘CONSPICUOUS BY ITS  ABSENCE WAS HITLER’S: ‘ouTSCH DAY SPEECH: ”

Yanks on Bougainville Repulse Another Suicide Jap Attack   1,200 Japs Killed on Island in the Past Six Days.

1,200 JAPS DIE ON BOUGAINVILLE   Six - Day Nip Campaign On  - Island Proves Futile As Yanks Throw Back Suicide Attacks by Hungry Garrison.

AMERICANS ON BOUGAINVILLE REPULSE JAPS   Admiral Halsey Announce Japanese Have Been Thrown Back  Again.

NAZI ROBOT BOMBS   SUCCESSION OF KILLS MADE BY ALLIED FIGHTERS—_ SOME FALL INTO SEA. ©

EISENHOWER IS MONTH AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, LEARN   ‘Sparks Flying To Get This Over,” Says Commentator; Next G. H. In Germany

EISENHOWER  MONTH AHEAD  OF SCHEDULE   His Next Camp Expected to Be in Germany

Next Eisenhower Camp in Germany   Campaign Reported One.Month Ahead

Reveals Gen. Eisenhower's Campaign Month Ahead of Schedule: His Next Camp Expected to be in Germany

YANKS STRIKE AT JAPSON CONTINENT   Infantry In Action in Hukawng Valley

‘Nazi Agency Declares ‘Rome Completely ‘Demilitarized by Germans

LEON PHILLIPS’ AID GUILTY OF BRIBERY   Robert R. Fitzgerald, Former Ok Jahoma Clemency Investigator, Given 30 Days,

Japanese Forces Advance in China   Seek To Occupy Vital Railroad

Japs Driving Hard  In Honan Province  Both Sides Report Losses  Are Heavy

Japanese Forces Apparently Seek To Occupy Lin   80,000 Treops Driving Nortl, and South: on Vital Roilway

Neuiralization Raids on Davao Proceed   Adverse Weather Fails to Halt Allied Warplanes

Raids Follow RAF Assault OnFrankfurt   750 Bombers With Strong Fighter — Escort Sent Over

American Planes Blast Brunswick, Ruhr; Lure Nazi Fighters Into Air   Believe British Night Bombers Dealt Frankfurt Knockout Blow Of 3,360 T. Bombs

SHIPPING LOSSES REVEALED 1 ODAY   United States And Brit ain Make Complete Report

Allied Ship Losses Total 5,758 Vessels   United States Loses 753 Merchantmen, Some 32 Per Cent Of Pre-War Total

Allies Reveal Great Loss of Merchant Ships   5758 Sunk From Start of War Through 1943

5,798 Merchant Ships Lost Thus Far During War   22,161,000 Gross Tons Toll Taken By Axis Up To End of 1943

'U.S., Britain List 5738 Merchant Ships Sunk in War   Allied and Neutral Countries Have Lost 2? [6&1 O00 Grosse Tone Since Start of Hoctilitie

ALLY, NEUTRAL LOSSES LISTED THROUGH 1943   32 Percent of World Shipping

FINLAND HEARS RENEWED TALK OF PEACE MOVE   Press Warns People to ‘Keep Calm and Await  Government’s Steps

Finnish Grout Favors Asking  Russian Term:   Important. Political Party ‘Suggests Government Move Toward Get * ting Out of War: -.

Nation's Press. Warns Citizens “Ty Keep: Cool   Helsinki. Trains: Reported Carrying Evacuees ‘To Summer Holiday Towns

FINNISH PRESS WARNED CITIZENS AGAINST HASTE   Told to Wait to See What Steps Government Took in Peace Movement.   DISCUSSIONS RENEWED   Reported 18 Trains Leaving Helsinki Daily Carrying Evacuees.

PEACE HOPES RISE AGAIN IN- FINLAND      British Radio Says Na: tion’s Cabinet Meets Fourth Time to Consider American Warning to Quit.

Renewed Discussions: of Possibility of Peace _. Arise i in Finland Today

Peace Talk Between Finland-Russia 1s Again Possibility   18 Cars Leaving Helsinki Daily Carrying Evacuees From City

  Government of Finlanc May Ask Russia  For Terms of Peace   Soviet Bombings Drive Helsinki Resident: To Summer Holiday Towns; Political Party Calls for Action to Get Out of War

Expressions Voiced Favor Peace Feeler   Political Party Asks Government, to Find Russian Terms

FINNS SEEK PEACE MCVE, PAPER SAYS   People Warned To Keep Calm; Many Leave Cities

Hopes For Early Peace Are Rising Tn Finland   Important Workers’ Paper Urges That Terms Of Russia Be Secured

PEACE: DISCUSSIONS  HEARD IN FINLAND,  EVACUATE HELSINKI GOVERNMENT URGED TO  MOVE AT ONCE TO TEARN PEACE TERMS

Finns Urge Gov’t Seek Red Terms   Renewed Discussions on Possibility of Peace Rises in Einland

REPORT FINNISH WORKERS URGE MOVE FOR PEACE  POLITICAL PARTY  a ae — hae le

Forces Of Germany Are Hurriedly Retreating Toward That. City .   INDICATIONS ARE NAZIS KNOW THEY'VE LOST BALTIC BATTLE   Russian Troops Reported Only 20 Miles South: Of Port Of Mel

Allies Liberate City Of Corinth, Turn On Athens   One Fourth Of Greece Now Free Of Germans; Quislings Aid Enemy

 Yanks Celebrate—  Every American Gun In Action Sends ‘Shell Screaming Into German Lines

Clashing Views On Foreign Policy Up To FDR, Churchill   Stalin Also Involved Ir Healing Rift Over Liberated Areas

Eden Paper Says Britain Has Sent Protest to U. §. on Statement Of Secretary of State Stettinius

Unfavorable British Reaction Reported to Secretary of State   “Hands Off” Declaration On Italy And Liberated Allied Countries

DRAFT BOARDS TO DEFER ALL MINE WORKERS      Virtual Order To Defer Ali M For Three Months Received

POLES REFUSE CURZON LINE AS BOUNDARY   Is Report And Allied Diplomats Express Belief They “Missed The Bus” For Accord With Moscow.   Legal Status

Yanks Drop150 Tons Of Bombs On Hollandia   No Single Japanese Plane Takes Air to Interfer With Process of De sirnetion of Base

Dramatic Stories Of Bravery on. Beaches Unfold:   How Fighting Kids Fought to Death Told in Dispatches

Force Must Back Peace,  Halifax. Says   “Ambassador Recalls Brave Words  Said in LOTR

Allied Invasion Forces Pouring Ashore In Balkans   German Garrison At Athens Is  Threatened   il Duce Reported  Fearing Death

Airdromes all appear  ‘forsaken’  Enemy fliers fail to oppose thrusts

Eyewitness Sto  Of Biak Invasion ‘Veteran’ Division In Latest Allied Move

WILLKIE RAPS BOTH PARTIES   Evasiveness On Security And Foreign Policy Laid To Candidates

ROMANIA GETS ~~ SOVIET TERMS   PEACE CONDITIONS OFFERED BY MOSCOW REPORTED TO_ BE RATED “EXTREMELY GOOD” .

Fourth War Loan Now Under Way  In Town, County   Mrs. Anna Megivern Organizes Corps of Workers in Smethport   NICE INVESTMENT

Fourth War Loan Now Under Way In Town, County   Mrs. Anna Megivern Organizes Corps of Workers in Smethport

FDR’s Veto Antisubsidy Bill Upheld   Republican Leader Calls Wallace’s Views on Fourth Term “Hooey;” Peacetime Economy Draft Ready

FOOD SUBSIDY REPEALER VETOED: HOUSE FAILS TO OVERRIDE It   Controversial Issue Right Back Where It Started After President Balks Attempt To Break Dam Against Inflation; Veto of Tax Bill, Called Inadequate, Promised Next Week

PRESIDENT VETOES ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL   House Fails to Upset Veto in 191-226 Vote After FDR Action -

FDR Vetoes House-Sponsored Bill To Kill Subsidies And House Sustains Him

New War Cabinet Being Formed by Marshal Badoglic  @ Represented in New Regitie ~ ~

BADOGLIO FORMING ENLARGED CABINET   Old Ministers Step Down So That More Democratic Government May Be Organized.

ITALY TQ HAVE NEW CABINET   Badoglio Forming Ministry In Which Six Parties Will Be Represented

Airfields, Railyards In France Are American Targets  Metz and Brest Are Raided; Berlin, Givors Hit in Night

American Bombers Hit Rail Yards,  Airfields France  U-Boat Shelters of Besieged   U-Boat Sheliers of Besieged Brest Pounded, Berlin Hii Second Cancecutive Nishi

Northern France Hit by Bombers  Rail Yards and Airfields Blasted

METZ RAILROAD YARDS BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBS   German Airfields in Northern France Also Come  In for Attack This Morn ° 33 ry

Allies Blast Rail Yards And Airfields   Factorybusiers Poured on U-Boat Shelters a Brest

er a  School Costs Up, Teachers Fewer   Also Number of Pupils ir State Declines 125,000 Within 10 Years

School Costs Up, Teachers Fewer   Ako Number of Pupils ir State Doctines 125,000 Within 10 Years

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIF  All Of Europe Now Subject To Aerial Attack

GEANAUT! obtilc Ur HAND-TO-HAND AED-NAZI FIGHT   Soviet; May Ma‘e Quvicx Break-Threugh into A:l Bi a.s.

U.S. Expected To Announ  ‘Soon Its Decision Not To  (Recognize Bolivian Regin

BOLIVIAN NAZI TIES WATCHED   U. S. Expected To Refuse Government Recognition

LUMBER 1S STOLEN ~ INBLAIR’S VALLEY   Four Youths Apprehended _ for Taking Road   Ratlactars

LUMBER IS STOLEN IN BLAIR'S VALLEY   Four Youths Apprehended for Taking Road  Reflectars

Nazi Thrusts Beaten Down Tn Normand;   Gen. Bradley's ‘Troops Figh  . Back Into Streets of Monte: bourg and Also Gain Grounc at Nearby Ouineville

Allies Repulse Heavy German Counterattack   Americans Make Gains  In Drive On Cherbourg

Warships Shell Rabaul Again   Destroyers Close In on Battered Base

CIO Retains Political Arm   Hillman Acclaimed As PAC Is Extended

Three Million Agriculture Workers Predicted to Be ‘Displaced After War .

3,000,000 Farm Workers to Be Looking For Jobs Decade After War, Is Forecast

DISPLACEMENT OF THREE MILLION FARM WORKERS IN SOUTH  THIS MAY HAPPEN DECADE AFTER WAR WHEN MECHINIZATION. COMES

DEWEY WILL GET DOPE ON RUSSIA   Recent Visitor To Soviet To Confer With Him

SAY ALLIES IN ~NEW LANDINGS   Won't Contirm Invas ion Rumor  Nazis Flee From Bey of Biscay Area

50 Nations Represented At Chicago Parley To Map Postwar Plans; Russian Delegates Are Recalled

KRIVOI ROG IN NORTH SOUGHT BY RED ARMY   Russians Drive On German Held City After Nikopol Falls

NAZI'S LAST STRONGHOLD THREATENED   Russians Continue Drive Toward German Soil

Russians Drive Toward Ore City   MANGANESE MINES -MAY BE TAKEN BY: REDS

15,000 Germans Slain In Lower Dnieper Battle   ‘Crushing Defeat Given Hitler's Troops By / Soviet Attackers

Important Town Furnishing Needed Metals to Nazi War Machine Past Two  Years Is Menaced   NIKOPOL IS CAPTURED

Reds Drive On Toward Great lron Ore Cits   Loss Of Kirvoi Reg On Top Of Nikopol Would Be Heavy Blow To Nazis.   ‘SOLD AT ALL. COSTS:

SOVIETS DRIVE ON KRIVOI ROG   Red Steamroller Scores  New Successes On All Fronts

Krivoi Rog Next Red  Objective   Its Capture Would Curtail Germans’ Manganese

FALL OF KRIVOI ROG IMMINENT   Soviets Take Nikopol; Wipe Out Nazi Bridgehead

Krivoi Rog Next Red _ Objective  Its Capture Woulc Curtail Germans  RA nen wen mnnn

REDS DRIVE ON FORKRIVOIROG, ARON ORE CITY   Sweep Ahead After Capturing Nikopol, Manganese Center

Reds Drive on lron Ore City Of Krivoi Rog   Loss of That Center On Top of Fall of Nikopol Would Be Heavy Blow to Nazis

Reds Smash on Into New fields  Point to Krivoi Rog After Nikopel Fall

1,727 Japanese Coastal-Craft Sunk Since 1942, MacArthur HQ Reports

Jap Losses Mount  ‘MacArthur Reports Hundreds  Of Nip Supply Craft Bagged

3548 OTHERS DAMAGED, SAYS ALLIED LEADER   Enemy Supply Efforts Paralyzed by Blows, Survey Claims

1,727 Coast Vessels Sunk In Two Years   3,548 Are Damaged In Keeping Troops And Supplies Away

CUT OFF SUPPLIES   ALLIED FLEETS LEAVE JAPS TO STARVE IN PACIFIC AREA.

Made in a Special Statement From Gen. MacArihar’s _ Headquarters.   A BLOW TO THE ENEMY   Paralyzed Enemy Efforts to Supply Reinforcements _ and Evacuation.

Anti-Barge Drive Works   ‘MacArthur Says 1,727 Jap Vessels Sunk Since April, 1942, Many Soldiers Slain

MacArthur Says Japs  Have Lost  Many Ships   Effect Paralyzing Supply Movements

3.548 Others Damaged. MacArthur Says In Special Report; Jap Efforts Paralyzed

Two Mainstays : In White Russian Lines Threatened   Nazis Acknowledge _ Imminent Danger  To Movilev, Polotsk

Victory Announced By Stalin   Germans Admit Russian Machine ls Going Places

JAIL - BREAKERS ARE CAPTURED   Two Allegan County Fugitives Apprehended In Chicago

Contributions To Red Cross War Fund Running Above Quotas Asked   Grant Township Above $1,000 Including Craig Pledges

PUBLISHER OF ENQUIRER DIES   Death Sends Reporters on Hurried Assignment

ENQUIRER PUBLISHER ROBBED THE MORGUE   a ieee men  No Biographical Data Was on File When He Died

JUNCTION OF TWO INVASIONS s APPEARS CLOSE   Besancon Reported Captured As Troops Fight Toward Belfort

Allied Forces Battle German Motor Unit on Way to Vital Belfort Gap -

Widespread Air Blows Rained On Japanese In Southwest Pacific; Ground Forces Gain

MEETING OF FOO BOSSES DUE SOON   Sharo Controversy Involving Four Agencies Snarls Rationing Order

SF. Prelate Dies in Rome  Archbishop Hanna Had Lived 10 Years In ‘Eternal City’

Los Negros Isles ls Seized By Yanks   One OF Most Brilliant Maneuvers OF War’ Results In Quick Capture Of Isle. Airfield

BISMARCK SEA HURDLED BY YANK ATTACK   Los Negros Island, 610 Miles From Truk. Falls

Bold Stroke Puts American Front  Closest To Tokyo   Fooothold On Los Negros Gives Americans Lant Base 610 Miles From Truk, 1300 Miles From Philippines; Bataan Hero Goes Ashore.

Dismounted Cavalrymen Seize Airfield Only 610 Miles Southwest of Truk in ‘One of Most Brilliant Maneuvers of War’. MacArthur Announces

Truk, Guam and Philippines  Now lUhreatened   Dismounted Cavalrymen Execute One of the Most Brilliant Maneuvers of the War in Seizing New Vital Airbase

Ranchers Prepare Attack on Live Cattle Ceilings  Meet Vinson Monday;

BIGGS KNEW OF POSSIBLE FATE IN JAP HANDS.   Thoughts on Corregidor Revealed in Letter to C. H. Douglas

Announce List Of County Men  Taking Exams   Most of Group Are Fathers—Official Results of Physicals Not Yet Known

Names of 76 Men Who Tool Exams Listed   Official Word of Acceptance of Draft Group Expected  In Few Days

Won't Investigate Strike Statement  Charge That Allied  “Victory Is Delayed. “Outside” Group’s  Jurisdiction

Believe Strikes — * Aid Nazi Morale  F. R. Thinks Along That  Line. Savs Secretarv

Investigation Of Rail Strike Statement OF   Turman Group Decides Not To Interfer With Opinion Of Official.   OUTSIDE JURISDICTION

PRESIDENT BELIEVED: THINKING SAME WAY AS HGH OFFICIAL   SECRETARY EARLY INDI CATES ROOSEVELT THINKS

Truman Group Won't Investigate Critic of Unions   Says Anonymous Statement on Strike Damace Out of Bound:

INVESTIGATION OF STRIKE TALK I$ CALLED OFF TODAY   Truman Committee Decides Nat to Probe Remarks of High Officials Who Stated Strike Threats Have DeJaved Victory

PRESIDENT BELIEVED THINKING SAME WAY AS HIGH OFFICIAL   SECRETARY EARLY INDI CATES ROOSEVELT THINK STRIKES AID TO ENEMY

COMMITTEE WILL ~ NOT INVESTIGATE STRIKE STATEMENT   Said Threats of Steel and Railroad Strikes May Have Delayed the Victory.   STATEMENT BY TRUMAN   ‘Outside Our Jurisdiction,” the Chairman Stated in Washington.

CRITIC ANGERS RAIL CHIEFTAINS   PLAN TO ASK PROBE OF STATEMENT ON DELAYING VICTORY

Early Quotes FDR on Effect Labor Strikes   Says Unknown Oficial Voiced View Already Taken by President

After 12 Days of Hand-tohand Fighting No AIlied Gains Made.  WILL MAKE AN ALL OUT ALLIED OFFENSE   Allied Airwar Goes on Over Western Europe Without Letup.

U.S. Troops In Lightning Seine Drive   Race Toward Sea; Tight en Noose Around Re Detimbiccm hme fe Beamecn

Surprise Thrust Carries Allies Almost to Rouen   Destruction of Enemy Forces Is Proceeding; Nazis Herded to Deita,

Paris Not Yet Wholly Freed, H.Q. Announces   Troops Diverted from Seine Battle to Go to Aid of Capital

CAPTURE ELBEUF. 30 MILES FROM MOUTH OF RIVER   FASHION NOOSE FOR ANOTHER NAZI ARMY IN NORTHERN FRANCE

3 Towans Die as Tornadoes and Floods Cause Damage in Central. Northwestern lowa

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE~—  Three lowans Die As Storm Sweeps State  Tornadoes, Floods And Hieaarw Raine Valzo TVFail

Storms In lowa Cost Lives Of 4   Central And Northwest Areas Suffer Heavy Tornado, Flood Damage.

Japs Expanding  Honan Offensive.   Famine Perils Millions as Japs Overrun Vast. Area in Heart of Wheat Countrv. :

ANCIENT CHINESE CAPITAL MENACED BY JAP COLUMNS   Northern Honan Offen: sive of Japs Being Expanded and Wide Area Threatened

State Republicans to Welcome Dewey at Capital Tuesday   Republican Presidential Nominee Will be Guest  of Greens

Dewey Asserts FD Failed On Reconversion   Another “Roosevelt De pression” To Be Too Much, He Says

DEWEY ARRIVES IN PITTSBURGH   Raps New Deal for Failing To Plan For Reconversion

DEWEY LOOKS TO PEACE ERA   G.0.P. Candidate Claims New Deal Fails To Plan PostWar Reconversion.

Dewey States New Deal Fails in Job   AFL Chief Declares Candidate Is Best Man for Labor

No New Deal Plans For  Reconversion   Dewey Criticises New Deal On Arrival Jn Pittsburgh

DEWEY DEMANDS POST-WAR PLAN   GOP Nominee Avers Nation Can't Stand ‘Another “ Roosevelt Depression’

New Deal “Fails” On Reconversion   - Dewey at Pittsburgh Warns Against a “Roosavelt Denraccian’

Dewey Hits New Deal Policies   Says Country Has Not Been Prepared For Reconversion & Unemployment.

DEWEY AIMS 10 PROVIDE JOBS   Asserts ‘Roosevelt Depression’ Lasted Eight Years

NEW DEAL FAILING TO “RECONVERT,” DEWEY DECLARES..   Says “It May Not Be Long Before the Most Vital Thing That Faces Every American Is His Opportunity” to Wark”

Dewey Tells Plans for Post-WarUS   Candidate Meets With Business, Farm, Labor Leaders in Pittsburgh

Postwar Plans Held Vital by Governor Dewey   Nominee Meets Party Members In Pittsburgh

GREET DEWEY INPITTSBURGH   Republican Nominee Says New Deal Fails to Plan For Postwar Days

Hits New Deal for Failure to Plan for Peace   Dewey Says Time Is Nearing When Chance to Work Will Be Vital

DEWEY STUDIES JOBS FOR PEACE   In Pittsburgh, He Warns of ‘Roosevelt Depression’

FAIL TO FIND ACCORD   Russia and. Poland. Still Apart on Exile Government

LASHED BY HURRICANE   Wind Velocity At Center Estimated 140 Miles An Hour

House Bill Keeps Jobless Pay-in~~ Hands of States   Shout Down. Substitute Bill LiberalizinyBenefits .._. .

HOUSE LEAVES JOBLESS PAY IN STATES HANDS   Passed Bill Goes To Joint Conference Committee For Revision

House Accepts States Rights Job Compensation Bil  Demobilization Measure Now Goes to Conference With Senate Group

STATE RIGHTS JOBLESS PAY BILL 1S VOTED   Broad Liberalization of Benefits Shouted  Down in House

AID FOR JOBLESS LEFT 10 STATES   House Rejects Federal Plar of Benefits During Demobilization

JOBLESS PAY BILL PASSED BY HOUSE   Measure Leaves Compen ‘sation n Entirely i in State . Hands =;

House Approve: ‘States Highs Jobless Bill   ’ Defeats’ ‘Federal Plan: For Larger’ Benefits...” “And: Worker. Retraining

STATE'S RIGHTS JOBLESS BILL PASSES HOUSE   Federal Measure Support__ ed By Labor Unions Is Badly Beaten   CONGRESS OPPOSES PREMIUM ON IDLENESS

Demobilization  Bill Approved   House Rejects Jobles: Benefits Provision

$32,647, 134,336 Asked for Navy   Little Opposition Likely in Congress

WORK STARTED ON HUGE NAVY FUND MEASURE   Congress Turns To Bill To Round Out Fleets For Victory As Recess Ends

Navy Requests Record Fund   Swift Approval by Honse Seen for 22 Billians

Record Navy Bill Eyed By Congress  32 Billion Fund   32 Billion Fund Asked to Push Defeat ef Axis

CONGRESS ENDS EASTER RECESS   Navy Asks Funds To Give Axis Final Knockout Punch This Year

Big Naval Bill-To Be Speeded  Large Sum Asked For Punch For Final Defeat Of The Axis

Congress Gets To Work on Big Navy Fund Bill   House Group Sends to Floor Measure Calling For $32.647.134.336

Huge Navy Bill Sent to House   Committee Pares  Little From Funds

KIO KOKI eK tok   , WHAT OUR BOYS  of 1% Fons      sees ARE DOING TO ~~ WIN THE WAR

171257 PLANES BUILT BY U.S DURING WAR   Production Rate Is 214 Times That of . Axis Nations

171,257 U. §. Planes Have Rolled Off The Assembly Lines Since Pearl Harbor

AMERICAN N PLANE PRODUCTION “EAD SURPASSES: AXIS. OUTPUT   WARPLANES NOW COMING OF! ASSEMBLY LINES AT TWO AND HALF TIMES GER- — MAN-IAP PRODUCION.

Sibuyan Sea Foe Retreats; Yanks Sink, Damage Dozen Shins. Lose One Carrier

FARM WORKERS ARE COMPARED   IMPORTED FARM. HANDS, GE7 “BREAKS” NOT GIVEN — AMERICAN HELP, OFFICIAL DECLARES

FAVORS FOREIGNERS   WEA Imports Farm Workers, Gives “Union Inducements,’ Puts Them Where Americans Sit Unemployed.

3000 ALLIED PLANES RAID AXIS EUROPE   First Triangular Shuttle Raid is Completed

First Triangular Shuttle Raid of  War Completed   3,000 U. S., British Warplanes Strike At Axis Europe Targets

ALLIED PLANES RAID OWN MEN IN FRANGE   Closeness Of Lines Results In Unavoidable Attacks

Allied Troops Hit By Own Bombardiers   .Normandy Action in Close Quarters

TURKISH RUMORS WORRY VON PAPER   Bulgaria Reported Looking for Way Out; Envoy Tabkee Plane

Invasion Coast of France Under Two Air Attacks Today   U.S. Heavy _ Bombers in Double Assault; Nonstop Raids Continue

Yanks Batter French Coast Area Twice  Big Bombers Batter Calais and Boulogne

Nazi Coastal Defenses Are  Pounded Again   Heavy Bombers Strike Twice Aeross Channel

Invasion Coast Dealt Two More Blows Today   U. S. Heavy Bombers Carry On Non-Stop Aerial Assault.

Coastal Area Under Heavy Bombings  Great Air Attacks Into 16th Day As

West Wall Pounded By Yank Planes; New Air Offensive Enters 16th Day

NAZI COASTAL AREA STRUCK TWICE TODAY  West Wall Hit Yesterday In

Intensified Pressure Used in Europe’s Non-Stop Aerial Assault.   SHUTTLE RAID TO RUSSIA

Double Blow at France   One Force of Heavy Bombers Hits Invasion Coast in Morning, Another in Afternoon

U.S. Bombers Hit Channel Coast Area   Fly Two Missions From Britain  For Second  Day

Bombers Hit Calais Area Second Day   U.S. Bombers Strike Twice Today After Heavy Baids en Friday—Leverkusen Blasted

‘Nazis’ West ‘Wall Forts Hit Twice By U.S. Heavies   About 1,500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped; Alliec Air Forces Expanding Pincers Campaign

Yanks Hurl 2 Air Blows At  French Coast   Attacks On Calais And Boulogne Areas Follow  RAF Night Blasting.

Invasion Coast Attacked Twice By U.S. Heavies   Greater Pressure Placed On Europe Following Russian Shuttle Raid

NAZI COASTAL INSTALLATIONS UNDER ATTACK.   U. S. Heavy Bombers Strike Twice at Pas-deCalais and Boulogne Areas of France

Blast Nazi Forts   U. S. Planes Trace Invasion Pattern In France ©

1500 TONS HIT AREA OF BOMBS   Invasion Coast Also Is Plastered By ® RAF Bombers

Non-Stop Air Attack Being Carried Out   Shuttle System To Russian Bases Strenathens Offens:

U. S. Heavies Strike Twin _ Blows At Coastal Fortifications Today

U.S. Bombers Hit West Wall Twice   Morning, Afternoon Attacks Made Upon French Coast

U. S. Planes Hit Twice At Coastal Defenses   Eurepe Under Intensified Pressure After Shuttle: Reid to Russian Beocac

U. S. Planes Blast  Invasion Defenses   Fortresses Use New American Bases Prepared in Russia for First Time

U. S. Bombers Hit Invasion Coast Twice   Blast Pas-de-Calais and Boulogne, After Shuttle Bombing From Italy to Russia Strikes Romanian Centers. ~

Yanks Batter French Coast Ayea Twice   Big Bombers Batter Calais and Boulogne In Non-Stop Assault

HIT TWO BLOWS AT NAZIS’ WEST WALL DEFENSES  PAa BnAMaERS   AMERICAN BOMBERS CARRY ON NON-STOP AERIAL OFFENSIVE

YANKS TWICE BOMB FRENCH COASTAL AREA   Two Forces of About 250  _ “Heavies” Each Strike Nazi Fortifications in Pas-de-Calais and Boulogne Sectors.

French Coast Again Blasted by Americans   Fortifications Along West Wall Feel Might Morning, Afternoon

—AIR WAR—  AMERICANS LASH FRENCH AREAS   U.S. Heavy Bombers Batter Pas-De-Calais And Boulogne   ‘FLY 2 MISSIONS   Hitler’s West Wall Forti_ fieations Are Heavily Bombed

YANK TROOPS — SURGE DEEPER INTO AACHEN   U. S. ‘Monty Barrage’ Thunders Into Nazi Armor

Destroy 64 Tanks In 36 Hours   Doomed City About To Become First Major German Prize For Doughboys.

London Hears Paris Officers Urge Revolt   Vv ichy-Controlled Stations : Remain Mysteriously Silent

Entire German Front From French Capita! To Channel Coast Is Collapsing In Rout

American Naval Guns — Blast Marianas, Kurile:   Pacific Fleet Shells Tinian Island, Chief Town Located on  Param

U.S. Warships Bombard Japs On Paramushiro  Americans Advance Two Miles in Fight For Saipan Island

Draft of Fathers Laid To Failure of Manpower Replacement Program

Services Held for Mrs. Alice Hurley   Lattreny > Jane grrr, Resident of Laurens For  ‘Forty-Four Years Dies at “Home June 1 

Services Held for Mrs. Alice Hurley   Resident of Laurens Fox Forty-Four Years Dies at Weame June 1

Reds Launch New Offensive   Soviet Juggernaut Aims For Pinsk, Brest Lilovsk

REDS UNLEASH DRIVE ON KEY POLISH CITIES   Soviets Charge for Pinsk, Brest-Litovsk; Smash On Toward Wilno

REDS UNLEASH FIERCE THRUST      New Offensive Aimed A Pinsk, BrestLitovsk

Russians Push For Pinsk and Brest Litovsk °   Another Russian Army Drives Within 45 Miles Of Wilno, Gateway to  Raletie Raniuhli-ee

Reds Launch Drive Toward Brest-Litovsk   Russians Unfold Another Phase Of Bia Offensive

RUSSIANS HIT ENEMY IN POLAND   Drive Aimed At Pinsk And Brest Litovsk Begun By Reds

Russians Open New Offensive   RED ARMIES DRIVING TO GATEWAY OF BALTIC

Russians Open Drive Toward Pinsk; Other Forces 45 Miles From Wilno   Fifth Army Is At Standstill; British Reach Umbertide Area

Reds. Thrust Near Pinsk;, F resh Force:  Seek Wilno.   : N ew. Drive Started ‘With’ Heavy Fiting

Great New Drive by the Red Army       Thrust Opened Feder Toward Pinsk And  Brect Litavek

Soviets Open New Offensive: Aim For Pinsk   Artillery Barrages, Great Aerial Blows Start Push; Other Armies Advancing

Russians Batter Nazis In Another Powerful Thrust   New Red Offensive May Be Under Way; Other Gains Revorted

Drive Headed Toward Pinsk, Brest Litovsk      Opened With Terrific Artillery Fire And Bombing; Reds 45 Miles From Wilno

Russians Unleash Great New Thrust In Old Poland   Terrific Artillery And Bomb Barrage Launch Offensive

SOVIET ARMIES UNLEASH GREAT NEW OFFENSIVE   Air Support Is Given Ground Forces

Reds Thrust Toward Pinsk   Open New Blow While Third Army Within 45 Miles of Wilno

EASTERN FRONT KINDLED ANEW: PINSK RAIDED   ‘Russians Surge To  Within 140 Miles Of Border Of East Prussia ae

Third Army 45 Miles From Vital Wilno   Eastern Front Is Aflame With Battles As New Offensive Begins To South

Russians Hit With Mighty Air Cover   Third White Army Only 45 Miles  From Wilno

Other Russians. ‘Within 45 Miles Of Baltic Gates   Launch Great New Thrust ‘With Heavy Air Support “And: Terrific Barrages

Soviets Seize Key Rail Center; Rol! on Toward Baltic   Unleash Great New Of. fensive Aimed at Brest Litovsk

Third White Russian Army Only 45- Miles From  Wilne As New Offensive Drives Back Demoral ted) Mewes Ae

Red Army Is Now 45 Miles From Wilno   Soviets Unleash Great New Thrust Toward Pinsk and Brest Litovsk; Mop Up in Minsk Region

Reds Launch a New Thrust Toward Pinsk   Third Army Neoring Wilno, Gateway te North Baltic States

INOTHER DRIVE   New Thrust Moves in Direction of Pinsk and Brest Litovsk.   OTHERS NEARING WILNO

Terrifie Artillery Barrage And Aur Attack   Third White Russian Army Only 45 Miles From Wilne, Gateway No Baltic Renublics

Pinsk Goal Of Russia's New Thrust   Terrific Artillery Barrage, Dive Bombing Open Drive as Bed Troops Push On Wilne

Is Directed  Toward Pinsk   Red Forces Now Within 45 Miles of Wilno, Gate To Baltic Countries

RUSSIANS MOVE TOWARD PINSK AND BREST-LITOVSK IN NEW ‘ATTACK OVER WIDEFRONT   Meantime The Third White Russian Army Is _ Within 45 Miles of Wilno. Other Soviet Troop Liquidating Battered Remnants of German Armies at Minsk

Yugoslavia Said Invaded Today By Red Forces   Attempts Of German Units To Flee From Riga Are Reported As Hopeless

SOVIETS ENVELOP 200 SETTLEMENTS IN LATVIAN DRIVE   DESCRIBE POSITION OF NAZIS AT RIGA PORT AS HOPELESS

POSITION NEAR RIGA HOPELESS   Germans Attempting Withdrawal From Port Along Hotly Strafed Road.   200 SETTLEMENTS TAKEN

CLAIM RUSSIANS CROSS DANUBL &VER JUST WEST OF IRON GATE AT ROMANIAN BORDER TOWN OF ORSOVA—REPORT UNCONFIRMED BY MOSCOW BUT REDS HAVE BEEN IN THAT AREA FOR WEEKS

Berlin Reports Russian Troops Invading Yugoslavia: Nazis Appear To Be Trying to Eseape From Riga

Ne ee ee ee  POSITION GERMANS  IN RIGA DESCRIBED  AS BEING HOPELESS ON SOUTHERN RUSSIAN  FRONT RED FORCES REACH SOll OF SIOVART

SOVIET TROOPS IN YUCOSLAVIA      Germans Report Crossing Of Danube; Nazis Are  Trapped In Riga

Nazis Report Red Invasion  Ot Yugoslavia   Soviets Said To Have Crossed Danube West Of Iron Gate; Situation Of .Germans At Riga Hopeless.

RUSSIANS DRIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA, NAZIS DECLARE   Germans Admit Invasion In lron Gate Area; Enemy ‘Hopeless’ At Riga

Reds Strafing Escape Route ‘Out of Riga   Germans Evidently Trying to Escape from Latvian Port

Reds Invade Jusoslavia, Nazis Say   Cross Danube West of Iron Gate, Berlin Declares

GERMANS ADMIT DANUBE CROSSED AT ‘IRON GATE’   Claim Soviets Repulsed; Slovakia Penetrated Near Uzok Pass

Riga Pocket Traps Nazis   Russians Call Position Of Enemy Hopeless; Reds Enter Czechcslavakia

Nazi Position at  Riga Is Hopeless   To Stay or Go Means Death as Russians Strafe Escape Route   REDS OUTFLANK UZOK   Gilda Thri Cacpeihiens: Soviet Forces Reach Soil of Slovakia

Nazi Position At Riga Listec As “Hopeless”   W idely-Separated Russian Drives  Keep Hitler Busy On Eastern Front

Nazi Position At Riga Seen ‘As Hopeless   Germans Attempt To Pull Troops Out Of Threatened Area

POSITION GERMANS  IN RIGA DESCRIBED  AS BEING HOPELESS ON SOUTHERN RUSSIAN  FRONT RED FORCES REACH SOIL OF SIOVARTL

POSITION OF NAZIS AT RIGA 1S HOPELESS   Russian Drive, Enveloping An Additional 200 Seftle_ ments, Approaches Close To Port Pocket  REDS ENTER SLOVAKIA

Reds Enter Yugoslavia . ‘At Iron Gate   Soviet Military Analysts Say German Troops at Riga in a “Strategically Hopeless” Position

GERMAN TROOPS HOPELESSLY IN RUSSIAN TRAP   Red Army Forces Reach Eastern Slovakia

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON YUGOSLAVIA GERMANS AVEF   New Invasion Reported Point Near Romanian Town of Orsova

Nazis, Retreating From Riga, Trapped; Cause is Hopeless   Soviet Forces Drawing Nearer to Latvian Key Port Today

Soviets Invade Yugoslavia At Iron Gate   Crossing of Danube Has Been Made In Orsova Vicinity

Russian Troops Have Pushed Over Yugoslav Border   Progress of Allied Invasion of Albania Not Revealed Today

Troops Cross. Danube West Of fron Gate   -Moscow Silent On Invasion; Berlin Says Soviets Are Repulsed

‘Nazi Position at Riga Strategically Hopeless Say Reds   Other Russian Units Outflanking Uzok Pass Reach East Slovakia

Russians Say Nazi Position Within Latvia Is.‘Hopeless’   200 ‘Settlements: Are: Enveloped ©

Soviet Troops In Yugoslavia, Germans Claim   Russians Making No Mention Of Report;  Nazis In Latvia Now ‘Hopelessly’ Caught

Nazis Caught In Latvia Are _ In Tight Spot   Poéition- of: Troops Trying to Evacuate Riga Is . Hopeless, Russians Declare

Reds Cross Danube, Enter Yugoslavia _   North Army Batters German Escape Route From Riea

Nazis Try To Escape Riga   Russians, However, Say Effort. Hopeless; Outflank Carpathian Pass

Russian Troops Invade Yugoslavia   Red Prisoners Taken at Warsaw Asserts Today’s Nazi Communique

Nazis Atfempting To Withdraw fron Riga Fight Reds   Rearguard Actions Fought Along Road is Lithuania—Ponetrations of Hungary, Slovakia Reported

Yugoslavia Is invaded; Trap Enemy At Riga   Moscow Says Doom Of German Army At Riga Use Reen Sealed.

Russian Troops Cross Danube   invade Yugoslavia Ir Westward Offensive

Nazis Report Russ Invasion Of Yugoslavie   Meanwhile Russians Say German Position at Riga Is ‘Hopeless’

REDS EXPECT TO WIPE OUT RIGA FORCES   Soviet Military Analysts Describe as ‘Strategically Hopeless, Position of Nazis Trying wo Flee City.

Allied Bombers Raid Marshalls   Encounter Little _. Oppasition. From... Jap Fliers

HILLMAN RAPS AT GOP HEAD   Labor Leader Declares Thomas Dewey's Foreign Policy Lacks Consistency

Dewey Is Not Informed, States Hillman   Declares GOP Nominee Has no Past Record

HILLMMAN GRUTICAL OF GOP'S NOMINEE   Says Party Nor Nominated Man Who Has No Record on Which to Stand.

IAPS LOSE 22 PLANES’IN 4 RAIDS BY U.S   Yanks Destroy Them at Bases Flanking Philippines

Nazi Observation Tower Destroyed  5 German Planes Bra Shat TDauwree

Allies Pour Vast Stores Into Russia   Soviets Expected To Crack Nazi Line In Initial Thrust

Allied Strength Sent fo Russia For Big Attack   Huge Supplies of Material Sent to Reds During Lull

U.S. Sets Up Guide for Job:  For Veterans   Interprets Provisions of Law That Guaranteed  Their Reinstatement

War Vets May Get Old Jobs   Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of Service is Proper Qualification

JOBS FOR VETS ARE STRESSED   Selective Service Defines Right Of Men to Return to Former Work

Selective Service Interprets Laws Providing Veterans Reinstatement

Clarify Vet Job Status    S. S. Interprets Law Guaranteeing Right To Former Positions

PROBING REMOVAL OF NAVY BALLOT OFFICER   Senator Ferguson Accuses Mayor Kelly And Senator Lucas Of Causing Ouster

NAVAL BALLOT: OFFICER MOVED   Senator Ferguson Says Rival Party Men Obtained Remavai

Sen. Ferguson Charges Politics Played in Navy   Kelly Accused of Obtain ing Republicans Removal as Ballot Officer

BIG BLACK SEA BASE NEAR COLLAPSE FROM SEA-LAND ATTACKS   ALLIED PLANES FROMITALY STRIKE BEHIND WEAKENING AXIS LINES

SOVIETS DRIVE 2 MILES FROM HEART OF CITY   Speeding Reds Shower Last Of Foe At Crimean Port With Steel, Flame

Sevastopol Fall Imminent, Red  Guns Hit Port   Allied Bombers Support By Blasting Balkan Cities

ESCAPE ROUTES UNDER FIRE AS COLLAPSE NEARS   American Bombers Blasting Factories and Supply Line Hubs in Balkans

BIG BLACK SEA BASE NEAR COLLAPSE FROM OEA-LAND ATTACKS  ALLIED PLANES. FROM ITALY STRIKE BEHIND

Retailers Seek io Triple ‘War Bond Quota  Third Army Drive Raises Sights  ee: ee, . . Se Ty

Retailers Seek to Triple War Bond Quota  Third Army Drive  Raises Sights re — Dacenm Te

Race Issue Still Big Problem  For Democrat:   On Answer Will Rest Measure of Solidarity In Campaign Months

RACE QUESTION 1S CAUSING CONCERK   C10 Makes Plea For Ra. jcial Equality Plank In Platform

RACE QUESTION {5 . CAUSING CONCERK   clo Makes Plea For Racial Equality Plank In Platform

Yanks Pursue 10,000 Japs in  Northern Guam   Resistance on Tinian Ends: Tokyo Declares Rota Island Invaded

YANKS ROUT JAPS ON GUAM   10,000 of Enemy Reported. Fleeing After Heavy : U.S. Bombardment

Bad Weather Puts Crimp In Air War   RAF Night Bombers Battle Squalls To Raid France  Re WALT? r crown iret

RAF Pounds Enemy Targets From Coastal Area To Paris   Bombers Brave Stormy Weather   English Coast Tlhuminated By Flashes From Bursting Bombs

Soviet Article Charges Poland » Favored Hitler   Magazine Says Polist _ Officials Prefer to . Be Antaaonistic

MONEY FROM CREW IS GIVEN TO NAVY   Navy Department Issues Statement About $412 From Coos Bay Men.

Army Airmen Feeling Fine After Rescue  Spend 9 Days Upon Plateau

ENEMY TRAPPED AT WALAWBUM   Centers of Jap Defenses Still Hold Out; All  Lines Severed

CLOSE TRAP ON JAPS IN BURMA   Stilwell Reports ‘Foe Com. pletely Cut Off by Wide Flanking Movement

RESISTANGE at WALAWBUM STILL HOLDS   Against American Jungle Forces, But Wide Flanking Movement Cuts Off Trapped Enemy.   Yanks Block Road

Army in Brittany ls Fastest Moving Outfit in War   Correspondent Says It's Near Impossible  To Keep Up With Front

Axis Source Says Germans Will Not Try to Retain  Control of Rome

GREEK REBELS READY 10 QUIT   Leaders Seek Quarantee That ELAS Will Not Be Prosecuted

Greek Leftists Believed Ready To Make Terms   Seek to Withdraw From Athens if They Are Not Prosecuted

Greek Leftists May QuitFight   British Secking Shawdown With 25.000 Partisans

ELAS FORCES MAY GIVE UP FIGHTING      Greek Insurgents Report. ed Ready to Quit Athens 

ELAS REPORTEL SEEKING TRUGE   Leftists Offer to Withdraw In Return for Guarantees They Will Not Be Prosecuted; Stiff Fighting

Elas Reported Ready to Leave Athens  Leftists Seeking Guarantees in Greek Dispute

PACIFIC WAR AT NEW PEAK   ARMADA OF SUPERFORTS BLAST ENEMY INSTALLATIONS ON STRATEGIC VOLCANO ISLAND AS AMERI. CAN TROOPS ON LEYTE MAKE SURPRISE LAND- , ING AND PLANES DESTROY THIRTEEN JAP CONVOY VESSELS

Yanks Attempt To Encircle Leyte Garrison   Stalemate in Fighting May Be Broken Soon

U. S. FLYING FORTRESSES FROM ENGLAND BOMBARD GERMAN WAR INDUSTRIES   Another Great Fleet of 750 American Heavy Bombers Struck from Italy at Military Objective South of France for Third Consecutive Day

Allied Airmen Blast Mannheim And Ludwiqshafer   Coastal Defenses of Southern France Again Blasted, German Troops in Escape Gap Strafed

3,900 PLANES BLAST REICH   American, British Shi ps Attack From English, Italian Bases

Ai Armadas Smash Nazi War Industry      Raids Covind Out On Supply Lines And Port Facilities

HUGE ARMADAS MAKE. ATTACKS ACROSS EUROPE   3,500 Planes Strike From British, Italian Bases in Many Thrusts

3500 PLANES Hil FRANCE, REICH   HUGE AIR ARMADAS HARASS FLEEING NAZIS

3,000 Planes ‘Hanmer At  Many Targets Over Europe   German Industries, Foe Installations In France Brest Shipping, Troop  Concentrations Lashed

HUGE AIR ARMADAS S/InIAL  Germany Takes A Pasting   3.500 Planes Hit Reich And France

‘Other Planes Pounce On  German Troops Trying  To Escape From The  Normandy Peninsula

3,500 Planes in Today's Attacks   Targets in Reich And France Pounded

3,500 PLANES BLAST CERMANS IN DUAL ATTACK   Strike Factories, Railroads, - Bridges in Germany;  French Installations

FLEETS OF OVER 3,500 AIRCRAFT HAMMER AT NAZIS   Chcose German War Industries, Installations in France and Shipping in Port of Brest—Harass Flecing Foc in Normandy

3,500 Planes Batter Reich, French Areas   Good Weather Bring: Swarms Of Craft Inte Skies; British Attack Port Of Brest

Blast the Nazis From Iwo Bases   American andBnitish Planes Drop Cargoes on German iargets   Rail Yards and Bridges in Germany and France  Are Damaged

Big Bombers Smash at Brest Again   Southern Germany Also Blasted By U. S. Attackers

Bombers Smash War Industries  Planes From England and Italy Hit Hara

GREAT AIR ARMADAS RANGE OVER EUROPE IN SMASHING RAIDS  WAR INDUSTRIES, SHIPPING AND FLEEING NAZIS RLASTED

Allies Hammer Refreating Nazis  Hit Enemy Shipping In Brest, War Plant: Aatl..idio.t ck Wr

3,500 Allied Heavies Rip Reich, France   1.500 Yank Planes Smash at Mannheim Area and TLurdwierschafen   STRAFE RETREAT   Harry Fleeing Foe in France. Hit Brest Sub Pens and Falaise

Over 3,500 Allied Planes In Air Today   Bomb Enemy Installations In France And Shipping

AIR ARMADAS HAMMERING AT NAZI TARGETS   More Than 3,500 Planes Knock At S. Germany, France And Aid In Normandy Offensive

Blast the - Nazis From Two Bases   pacers ane eh ees rop Cargoes on, Ger4 4 rman Ta  argets   13.800 SHIPS IN RAID   Rail Yards and Bridges in Germany and France  Are Damaged

Giant Fleets Of Bombers  Smash Nazis   Blast Ceaselessly at Fleeing Enemy, Hit German Factories

FOE HARRASSED FROM SKIES BY HUGE ARMADAS   Bomb War Industries, Installations, and Shipping. .

Huge Plane Fleets Busy   More Than 3,500 of Them Harry Retreating Enemy, Smash War Industries

3,500 Planes Bomb Nazi All Over Europe   War Plants In Germany, Installations In France and Shipping At Brest Targels

CREAT BOMBING FORCES ATTACK REIGH’S PLANTS   Over 3,500 U. S. and British Planes Lash at German Targets

Giant Armadas Blast German War Industries   Planes Also Batter Northwest Coast In Italy Again

Over 3,500 Allied Planes Blast Enemy  Targets Hit In France. Germany

Boches Butchered In Pocket Between LeMans And Caen   ~ Raiders Pop — A Lot of Skulls

68,156 AMERICANS KILLED THUS FAR   Of These, Western France, Has Accounted for 16,434.

Nimitz Says Navy Prepared to Meet Nip Pacific Power   Sinking of Tankers, Supply Ships Keeping g Enemy From Maintaining Heavy Fishtine Units Near Bastion.

U.S. Pacific Fleet Grows Says Nimitz   American Subs Sink Many Jap Tankers and Ships; More Time Needed

‘Admiral Nimitz Says Nips Probably Couldn't Maintain Major Navy Units At Truk Due to Huge Tanker Losses

Would Send ’Teen Age Girls Home ee eS ROME  Capital Is Described As Full - Of Pitfalls For Youngsters

Washington Dangerous for Girls In Teens, Says Social Authority   Recommends War Workers Under 20 Be Sent Home ; Mrs. Roosevelt Says ‘Self Discipline’ Best Remedy

\Social service expert proposes "teen laoe oirls in Vashineton be sent home

Would Send ’Teen Age Girls Home.  Capital Is Described As Full  OF Pitfalls For Youngsters

U.S. Urged ToSend All ‘Teea Age Government Girls Home As Wackinaton Debates Ruastion Of How To Safequard Workers

Rape-Killing Of Dorothy Berrum Sets Off Furore About Young Girls In Washington

WORLD MONEY AGREEMENT IS HAILED BY HULI   ‘Called Basis For Prosperity

Hermit’s Body Discovered  Near Crosby   Eric Hornquist, About 70, Found in Shack; Had Been Dead Two Months, Probe Reveals

Man, Dead Two Months, Found in  Shack at Crosby   Eric Hornquist, 70, Eccentric Hermit, Lived Alone in Shanty

No Whiskey For Maj. Bong   AVU VV FELOKROEY £2 UVF LVACEFe ZAPU ER Gen. MacArthur Turns Thumbs Down on Rickenbacker’s Reward To South Pacific Ace

French Patriot Mandel Slain   Vichy Radio Declares Leader Killed During Transfer to New Prison

PEARL HARBOR CHARCE. HURLED   Solon Declares Jap . Fieet Movements Known 72 Hours Before Attack

OLD RUMOR JS REVIVED   ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN REFER y. ATES: JAP TASK FORCE. ' SYORY DESPITE DENIAL _

Combat Troops Smash Across’  Moselle River °   Patton Masses Forces For Decisive Thrust At Siegfried Line

Over Border On Scouting Missions   Prepare for Assault on Seigfried Line—Battle for  Channel Ports

Third Army Troops Mass On Moselle   U.S. Patrol Stab Marks First Invasion  BP, A a PAN en amie oe

Moselle Line Is smashed   American Patrol Enters Germany, Returns Safely

Smash Across Moselle River In Drive Toward Siegfried Line  (CONFIDENT YANKS  WILL BREAK LINE  Third Army Reports Taking 76,000 Prisoners And Killing 19,500

U.S. Combat Troops For First Time In History Bring War Front to Nazi Soil

Americans Mass For Assault on Siegfried Line   Invade German Soil for First Time tn History

 Staff Officer Says Allies Can Break  Siegfried Line; Crossing Somewhere In Vicinity Of Thion.  stte Relieved   BREST, LE HARVE ARE STILL HOLDING OUT

3RD ARMY READ) FOR ATTACK ON SIEGFRIED LINE   Climax Near in Channel Battle

World Peace Code May Be Set Up Soon   'One-Step-at-a-Time Plan to Construct Peace on Solid Foundation

U.S. Planning Security Meet in Fall   United Nations Will Map World Peace Program at Session

Possibility of Worl Peace Agency Before End of War   Hull Discloses - Security Plans. . ’ Meeting Mavy.Be Held

‘Chance Seen For World Peace Agency Before End of Present War   i :

Peace Agency May Be Set Up Before Nazis Collapse In Europe   Cordell Hull Says American Participation In World Organization Must Be Non-Partisan; Pleads For Renewal Of Fiery American Pioneer Spirit

Peace Agency Possible Prior  To. War’s End   Machinery For Settlement Of Disputes Planned

World Peace : Agency Looms   Formation May Come.  Before End Of War:

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE MAY BE HELD IN FALL   Secretary Hull Believes This Is the Time for  Americans to Get Busy

Peace Agency Planned Prior To End Of Wai   Boundary, Other Claims - Could Be Dealt With  Later

NOTED RESORT TOWNS TAKEN BY AMERICANS   CANNES CAPTURED; NICE EXPECTED TO FALL SOON

YANK FORCES TAKE CANNES AND ANTIBES   7th Army Troops Within Less Than 20 Miles of Italy

Cannes, Antipes Fall as Yanks © Smash for Italy   Other Columns Drive Toward Hear Of France to Join Forces With Victorious Armies of North

Cannes And. Antibes Seized © In Advance Of Ameri icans   Nice, Within Short. Artillery Rarige, Expected t to. Fal ; ,Moinentarily<-Bither, Fighting Sell.  Ronnarted at Taulan

AMERICAN TROOPS CAPTURE CANNES   DRIVE TO WITHIN 20 MILES OF ITALIAN BORDER—NICE THREATENED,

YANK UNIT NEAR ITALIAN. BORDEY      Resort Towns.of Cannes, An tibes Occupied; Nice Threatened

South France Invaders Take Noted Resorts   Cannes and Antipes Captured; Americans  20 Miles From Italy

~ In Advance Of Americans   Paice, Within Short Artillery Range, Expected to Fall __ Momentarily—Bitter Fighting Stiil  Renorted at Toulon

FURTHER REDUCTION IN SCHOOL PLANNED   Number of Officer Candidate Schools to Be Cut To 11 By Fall.

Army Shuts ~ Down Many OCS Schools   Need for Junior Officers - Diminishing — Further Cuts Anticipated

More OCS To Close Soon  Only 11 Of 26 To Be Left When Fall Comes

OCS SCHOOLS   Junior Officer Requirements Diminishing. Sec. Stimson Reports

Further Reduction Of OCS Announced   Army Requirements For Junior Officers Reported Diminishing

Nazis Turn Ar tillery On City   British Plunge Four  Miles Alicad in New, ee WG hs che,

Yanks Hold A Third Of City; Fierce British — Attack Sweeps Up There Towns In Tilly Sector

Reach Port's Vital Docks; Street Fight   Germans Shell City From Final Refuge On Cape To Northwest.   20.000 PRISONERS

U. S. Troops Hold Most Of Cherbourg   More Then 20,000 Prisoners Have © Fallen in France

Break Backbone Of Resistance, Now Mopping Ur   Fleeing Nazis Shell City; British Open Powerful Drive At Other End Of Line

BREAK BACKBONE OF OPPOSITION IN PRIZED PORT CITY   3,400 PRISONERS TAKEN; REMNANTS OF ENEMY FLEEING

Yankees Mopping Up Nazi Suicide Troops   ..« American Fighters Peur Into Smoking Bastion

Americans Are Holding Third Of Vital Port   British Forces Surge Forward Four Miles On Eastern Front; German Guns Shell Seaport From Cap de la Hague

Nazis Still  Are Shelling From Final Cape Point   Fanatical Germans Battle To Finish In Street Fight

Yanks Reach Docks of Important French Port and Mop Up Nazi Suicide. Squads.   MANY WATERFRONT FACILITIES RAZED   London, June 26 (4?)—Premier Joseph Stalin in an order of the day announced today the capture of Vitebsk.

Hand-to-Hand Fighting Rages IIn City Streets as Complete Capture of Seaport Imminent   Germans Report Loss of Cherbourg  But Allies Say Fighting Continues * Bia American Sattleships Shell City

One Third of City In Allied Hands: Nazis Shell Port   British Making Powerful Drive on Eastern Beachhead

From Refuge at Cap de fa Hague, Northwest of Big Port, Germans Now Are Hurling Shells Upon Americans Inside City — Conquerors Take 3,400. Prisoners — Clean-Up Comes as British Open Powerful Drive at Eastern End of Front. ©

Americans Smash Way To Docks And Completely Hold One-Third Of City — Doughboys Mop Up Last Fanatical Nazi Resistance —— British Forces Gain In  — Eastern Flank In Normandy

‘Third of City Now in Hands Of Americans   Germans Shelling City From Final Refuge; Bitter Street Fighting

Backbone of Enemy Opposition Broken, City Not Yet “Entirely Ours”

—INV ASION—  Last Groups Of Fanatic Nazi Defenders Are  Being Wiped Out   American Doughboys Reach Waterfront In Prized Normandy Port As German Artillery Shells City From Cape To Northwest

ENEMY OFFERS ~ ALTER FIGHT   Germans Shell Cherbourg From Final Refuge on Cane to Northwest,   VITAL DOCKS REACHED

Mop Up In Rest Of City   Bitter House-to-House Fighting Still Rages  In Harbor Area; British Strike East from Tillv

Yanks Mop Up Garrison   British Launch Heavy Attack Near Caen; Doughboys Rooting Out Suicide Squads

Last Fanatic Nazis InBeleagueredCity Targets Of Assault   Report German Forces Pumping Heavy Artillery Shells Into Port From Final Siege Stand On Cape

Hold One-Third Of Big Port City   Germans Shelling Troops From Retreat  To Normandy Cape

Yanks Reach Cherbourg’s Vital Docks   U. S. Forces Mopping Up Last Resistance, Are Shelled by Foe From Final Refuce

American. Troops Reach Vital Docks, Hold One Third:of City =~   TAKE 3,400 PRISONERS   ‘Enemy Batteries on Northwest Cape Turn Fire - ¢  . on Part City

3,340 GERMANS ARE CAPTURED IN 24 HOURS   Third Of City Completely In Hands Of Allies  PORT SHELLED   By Nazis From Final Point Of Refuge On The Cape; British Open Drive

One-Third Of City Occupied By Invaders   British Forces Under Montgomery Advance Four Miles On Eastern Flank

Street Fighting Rages in Vital Peninsula City  Germans Shell Area from Final Dakin nec Camm

HHATI ARTILLERY POUNDS PLACE   Fanatical Groups of Nazis Fighting to Last Ditch And German Big Guns in One Area Pump Shells Into Port. House-to-House Fighting Goes on

Nazi Remnants Hee Prize Port in U. S. Cleanup   20,000 Germans Captured In 20 Day Death Battle.

‘AMERICAN TROOPS  IN FULL CONTROL OF  ONE-THIRD OF CITY INFANTRY AND TANKS  PUSH TO BIG PORT’S VITAT NOCKS MONDAYV

Reach Dock Sector; End Is In Sight   Second Ultimatum Sent To Doomed Germar _ Garrison ;

Senator Sees Allied Unity Cracking; Vast Spread of Totalitarianism

Senator Fears Hollow Victory, Flush Of Totalitarianism [f Trend Not Checked

Gillellelssties. ~ Warning About Hollow Victory   ‘otalitarianism Wit Spread Unlrcs. U.S, Takes Stand

Gillette Fear S Hollow Vietory’ Unless U. S. ‘Takes Fi irm Stand

Yanks Bomb Kurile Base  Paramushire Naval eae   Paramushire Naval Center Blasted; No U.S. Planes Lost

Two Planes Hit Paramushiro   Both Planes Return Safely to Base After Raid on Jap Navy Bose

Death Closes Book On Slaying   Judge’s Son, Charged In Killing, Killed In France.

ee ce ee ee  Phil Kennamer Is Killed In Action As U. 5. Paratrooper

Soldier's Death in France for Phil Kennamer Closes Book on Greatly Publicized Slaving

PHIL KENNAMER DIES IN FRANCE   Son of Federal Judge, a Poro trooper, Killed in Action Aug. 15

HAVE NAZI SECRETS   One-Man Submarine and _ Goliath fag Studied  jhies

‘Human Torpedo,” Robot Tank Captured —  Allies Study Nazi ‘Secrets’

‘Big 4’ Planning No Coercion Of  Rest Of World   —SECRETARY HULL Reassures Dewey As To Status Of Smaller Na tions In Peacetime.

DEWEY CHAMPIONS POST-WAR RIGHTS OF SMALL NATIONS   Hopes Hull’s Statement “Big Four” Won's Attempt to Coerce Rest of World Will Be Assuring to Smaller  Countries 8

DEWEY STUDIES PEACE PROJECT   Governor Hopes ‘Big Four’ Will Assure Rights of The Small Nations

DEWEY FAVORS  SMALL NATIONS  AT PEACE TABLE BLASTS AT REPORTS  OF BIG FOUR PLANS TO RULE THE WORLD

Dewey Hopes Allie Will Arrange Fair Peace Terms  Smaller Countries Shauld Be Given Some Voice

HULL DENIES FOUR BIG POWERS PLAN T0 COERCE REST WORLD  SECRETARY OF STATE ANSWERS EXPRESSED FEARS CANDIDATE DEWEY

Dewey’s Fear Unnecessar y,  States Hull  Tee ws cc   Big Four Powers Will Not Coerce Rest of World

Elusive Enemy Fleet Pounded By U.S. Fliers   Four Warships, Including Carrier, Are.Sunk and at Least 10 Others Damaged in Surprise Attack in Pacific

Elusive Nipponese Fleet Refuses To  Battle Americans   Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Reports That In Sunday Engagement Enemy Lost 353 Pianes In Addition to Carrier and Ships   NO EFFECTIVE COUNTER-ACTION IS OFFERED

AMERICAN PACIFIC FLEET PLANES HIT JAPAN’S GRAND FLEE’   SURPRISE ATTACK MON. DAY COST ENEMY SEVERAL WAR VESSELS

Carrier, 3 Tankers Sunk ; Battleshi Pp, Cruiser Badly Hurt   U.S. Loses 49 Planes; Score'353 To 21 At Saipan

CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS THINK DIES COMMITTEE SOON TQ FOLD   Democrats Unwilling To Back Continuance

Nazi Defenses Crumble in West Holland   Entire German Flank Being Pushed Back to Maas River

BRITISH TRAP 90,000 HUNS AGAINST RIVER   Entire Holland Front Moving

50.000 Nazi Troops Face  Dutch Trap   British Capture °S Hertogenbosch, Strategic Transport Center

ROLL BACK NAZI FLANK ON WEST HOLLAND FRONT      German Resistance Has Ended At “S Hertogenbusch, Report States

Nazi Flank Rolled Back Toward Maas   Second Army Drives Half-Way Through ’S Hertogenbosch.

Dutch Center Seized   British 2nd Army Captures Transport Metropolis Today

Complete Dutch Town Conquest   British Capture Transpor! Center — Wet Weather  Hampers War Moves

Transport Center of Hertogenboss Reported Tak.   Highways North 61 * Strategic City Cut By Allied Forces

British Battle Half-Way Through Dutch Rail Hub; ) Allies On Move Despite First Winter  Qnow

British Bar Main Escape Road Of Nazis In Western Holland; 1200 Heavy Bombers Hit Reich

Nazi Flank In Western Holland Being Rolled Up To Maas River  BRITISH MAKING SWEEPING PROGRESS  No Reports Of Large Scale kighting On American Fronts

WAVES OF ALLIED BOMBERS RESUME CHANNEL FLIGHTS   After Day of Little Activity Yesterday Due to Weather Bombers Again Take Un Work

Heavies Blast  Rail Centers  Allies Continue To Deal Bombina Blows

Probationers Fear Postwar Delinquency   Officers. hold youngsters are not entirely ‘to blame for waye of juvenile delinquency. -

Senate Meets In Attempt To Pass House-Approved Tax Simplification Bill

INFANTILE PARALYSIS REPORT — RIVES. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE   VACCINE MADE WITH ULTEAVIOLET BAYS HAS MADE MICE IMMUNE TO CRIPPLING DISEASE

INFANTILE PARALYStS, SERUM 1S UNDER TEST   New Technique Has Encouraged Hope by Experimenters   IS EFFECTIVE IN MICE

American Might In Air Pointed  Towards Japan   Capture Of Important Air Bases On Saipan Puts Japan Mainland Closer To Doom  JAPANESE AIR  TrIMDOMBOaAG ETADYV

DAGGER OF US MR POWER POINTS TO JAP HOMELAND   Moppink Up. Operations Progress Toward . Finish on Saipan

CIVILIANS LEAVE BURNING AACHEN   3,000 Germans Evacuated To Escape Bombing

A Strange Parade Of Evacuees   3,000 German Civilians From Aachen Trod Down Poad of Defeat   ABS TO GIVE FOOD, SHELTER   One’ Man Who Speaks English, Says ‘We Are. So Glad You Have Come’

Seized Trucks Ready To Move   Federal Manager Reports  Beaieht Tienn Ending

Midwest Trucking Strike ls Ending  mb ee OOS   Government Seizure Brings About Break

S Truck Drivers w Strike Broker sin Sioux Fall:   All Other Motor Trausportation Expected To Be Moving in Midwest  States Tomorrow   ‘Destroyer Eseort Fiske Sunk By German Submarine

Midwest Trucking Strike Is Ending   Government Seizure Brings About Break

30.¢ Sroxe incirc.es Cicy 0Te. en; Sif21 Army * foves ~ own -ia wav 7” owsrc zome

Yanks Encircle Enemy In Night Infiltration Move   Velletri Doomed To Fall Soon; 5th Now 15 Miles From Rome

Capturing a Towering Ridge of the Alban Hills, St. Peter’s Dome in the Eternal City Is Now in Sight

VELLETRI NOW ISENCIRCLED BY AMERICANS   NIGHT-TIME THRUST PIERCES GERMAN DEFENSE LINE

Allies Cirele Enemy's Base  Of Velletri   Capture of Towering Height in Spectacular Night Attack Brings Rome Within View

Key Nazi-Held City About To Be Captured   Germans Assert Town Already Abandoned Under Pressure

Seize Alban hills ridge in new gains  Parachutists to aid of Italians

Towering Ridge of the Alban Hills Captured in Spectacular Attack

ST. PETER’S—3 COL... aed  ‘Encircle Enemy Stronghold of Velletri to Capture Towering Ridge of Alban Hills

Americans Break Powerful German Line near Rome   Capture Ridge Of Alban Hills

Americans Capture Towering Ridge Commanding Approach to City; Surprise Enemy by Sneak Attack

TVOICE IN POSTWAR PLANS   Claim Buildings Are Not Needed in War Effort

German Tank Units Move Into France   Rommel Believes Invasion Is Imminent

Rommel Rushes Tanks, Guns Into France; Believes Huge Allied Invasion Now at Hand

Cartels Must Go, Says F. R.   President Requests Secretary Hull to Keep Eye on Matter

Vital Technical, Economic Data ‘Given Japs Through U. S. Business in Years Prior To Pearl Harbor

F.R., Hull Fight  Cartels   Official Tells How Japs Learned of U. S. Shipments to Hawaii

Says “Cartel” Systems Must Be Eradicated   President Declares’ Ger many Must be Deprived: of “Weapons of Eco-. nomic Warfare’?

Eradication Of Cartels Is Urged By Roosevelt   Defeat Of Germany Must Be Followed By Elimination  Of These As W eapons Of Economic Warfare, He Tells Hull In Urging Him To Watch Trends

Cartels Must Go, Says Roosevelt   Eradication of Economic Weapons Must Come After Military Victory

CIO Group Stages Sympathy Strike   Entire First Shift In Plane Plant Out

STATE SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON SUING UNION   Construction Man Seeks To Sue Bricklayers Union For $25,000

N.Y. TO MIAN TRAIN CRASHES   Meager Details Report All But Three Cars Leave Tracks

Report Wreck of Coast Line Train   Details Lacking on Disaster Occurring Near Jacksonville, Fla

Train Wreck In Florida   All But Three of 18-Car Train Leave Rails; Toll Unknown

New York, Miami train leaves rails  Ten injured as 14 ears overturn

Many Injured In Passenger  Train Wreck   New York-Miami Train Derailed Early Today In Georgia

FIFTEEN CARS DERAILED   A Score of Persons Were Injured This Morning in Georgia

A.C.L. Train Wrecked; 15 Coaches  Leave Rails   All Communication Lines Knocked Down; Score Of Persons Reported Hurt

ATLANTIC COAST  LINE PASSENGER  STRAIN IN WRECI OFFICIAL SAYS 14  CARS LEFT TRACK; DETAILS LACKING

TRAIN LEAVES RAILS, 20 HURT   15 Cars Derailed In Georgia Accident

Nazarenes In Convention  Four-Day Proaram Begins   Four-Day Program Begins Tonight, Delegates Assembling Here Today

POLES CAPTURE BASE IN ITALIAN CAMPAIGN   Planes Hit At Brenner Pas: By Ripping Transformer

Poles Capture Monte Fortino   German Resistance  In Italy Is Stiff

TAKE MONTE FORTINO   Poles Hold Important Center of Bologna-Rimini Road

Marshall, Arnold, King In London   Major Strategy Decisions Likely  .. . ¢reaezeerar ase ert o C2 Ae oe a

GEN, MARSHALL REACHES LONDON   CHIEF OF STAFF ACCOMPANIED BY ADMIRAL KING AND GENERAL ARNOLD.

MILITARY LEADERS ARRIVE IN LONDON   Three Top U. §. Com. manders to Confer on Strateay

U. S. War Chiefs Arrive In London for Parley   General Marshall, General Arnold And Admiral King to Attend Conference on Invasion Strategy

3 Top U.S. Military  Leaders in London   Generals Marshall and Arnold, Admiral King to Attend Meeting of Combined Chiefs Of Staff; Decision on Strategy Likely

Top Allied — Commanders In London   Army, Novy And Air Chiefs in Conference

HIGH AMERICAN MILITARY MEN REACH LONDON   Marshall, King And Arnold To Confer On Future Strategy   CRITICAL DECISIONS ARE YET TO BE MADE

Marshall, King And Arnold Now With Eisenhower   U. §. Commanders Arrive in London

U. §. STRATEGISTS, ARRIVE IN LONDON   3 Top Commanders There for Combined Chiefs of ~ Staff Meetinn

‘Combined Chiefs-of-Staffs May Pass on. Questions  ‘Of Hizh ‘Allied Stratégy

Saipan Thrust Carries Yanks  2 Miles Deeper   ‘Jap Plane Blow Foiled   U. S. Shells Kuriles, re eile

U-S. TROOPS GAIN: ON SAIPAN ISLAND   Rota and Guam Blasted by  Carrier Bombers

Town On Southern Tip Of Paramushiro In Kuriles Is Bombed   JAP TORPEDO PLANES * ATTACK U. S. SHIPS

Americans Gain In Saipan Drive   Advance 2 Miles From East Coast   Jap Planes Attack

British Cowboys Ride Torpedoes   Diver Straddle ‘Tin Fish’ Under Waterto Warships   New Oil Bombs Used By Yanks Are Successful

~ Men In Diving Suits Ride Projectiles  British Using Haman Torpedoes

SHIPYARD WORKER ACCUSES THE CIC   Man, Protesting: Commun: ~ istic Element, Testifies Before. Committee

Germans Throw Veteran Troops Against British   Allies improve Their Positions

Caen Battle Rises In Fury   Nazi Pull In Ail Reserves But British Smash Forward

(Germans Uhrow In Strong  Reserve Forces   Allies Improve Positions Despite the Costly Nazi Counterattacks That Reveal Concern of Enemy Leaders

Nazis Sacrifice Troops in Vain Blows at Allies   British Driving Toward Orne Have Caen Nearly Encircled; Germans’ Last Roads Covered

-REAT ARMORED BATTLE NOW RAGES SOUTH OF CAEN AS BRITISH PUSH TOWARD ORNE

Allies Halt Numerous Nazi Attacks  Creat Armared Rattle   Great Armored Battle Rages South of Caen As Enemy Reinforce  RESERVES DRAINED

British Drive on Despite German Reinforcements  GAINS ARE SCI SCORED IN FIERCE FIGHTS  Access to Open Country to South ts at Stake

Germans hur! veterans into  violent action  Report allied hold improved

Enemy Attacks Recklessl; in Effort to Halt All Advance on Partly En circled Port.                BRITISH IMPROVE.               Drive on Toward On  River—Germans Repo: U. S. Armored Divis Has Entered Struggle.

Battle Rages South of Caen with Germans Throwimg in Veteran Troops Right Away.

Supreme Headquarters Communique Reports Allies Pressing Nazis Back Toward Orne Compelling Enemy To Use Strong Armored Reserves

Martin Points To Communists,  CIO Tied to FDR   GOP Convention Head Says Party Will Save Constitutional Government,   ‘Day of Reckoning at Hand For New Deal’

G.0.P: Party. Platform Is. Completed By Convention Members For: Presentation

U.S, BOMBERS, WARSHIPS HIT VOLCANO ISLES   B-29’s Join Liberators in Coordinated Blow on Iwo Jima Defenses

Coordinated Attack Made On Iwo Jima   Superforts Join Liberators, Warships

Iwo Jima Hit Hard by U.S. Bombers   Surface Ships Join In Co-Ordinated Attack on Jap Base

Heaviest Such Raid Of War    Blow Aimed at Neutralizing Spot From Which Japs Harass  « ris ars  Sainan B-.*

—AIR, SEA ATTACK—  Warships, B-29s, Other U.S. Planes Bombard Japs On Iwo Jima   First Such Coordinated Blasting Of Any Japanese Base In Pacifie War; Substantial Tonnage Of * Rombhs And Shells Ratter Fao

TWO Jima’s Out of Luck   Jop Base 700. Miles From Fokyo Blasted by Heary Bombing, Surface Shelling

Jap Air Installations On Noleane Islands Battered By Strong Sea, Air Force

Cesena Is Goal Of3-Wav Drive By 8th Army   Americans Eke Out Small Gains In Offensive Against Bologna

ADVANCES. ON CESENA   ’ Heaviest Fighting Rages On 5th Army Front

Form Bridgehead In Cesena Area   Eighth Army Crosses  Pisciatello In Drive

ALLIES DRIVE AGAINST GESENA   Canadians Spearhead Attack on Germans

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS DRAW NEAR CESENA   Canadian Units Lead Way Toward Italian City

8TH ARMY ADVANCES ON CESENA   Heaviest Fighting Rages On 5th Army Front

Allied Eighth Army at Gates of Cesena Today   GERMANS FORCED BACK IN DUTCH FRONT AREA

Budget Sets Lend-Lease, UNRRA Func   HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES FUNDS ASKED BY TWO AGENCIES

GERMAN LOSSES IN ITALY NOW TOTAL 40,000   9,000 Casualties Inflicted By Fifth at Cassino.  Anzio Front Inactive _

REVEAL HEAVY NAZI CASUALS   9,000 Nazis Lost At Cas  sino: Italian Battle Fronts Quiet

Casualties Of Nazis 9.000 In  Cassino Battle   Total Enemy Losses In Ltaly Siyce End Of January Brought To 40,000,   ‘CRUSH TWO ATTACKS

Cassino Costs Nazis Heavily   Beachhead Losses Add 24,000; Italian Fronts Quiet, Airmen Busy

German Cassino Loss Is 9,000   Total Enemy Losses In Italy Now Raised To 40,000; 1,500 Captued.

Germans Sutter 9,000 Casualties  Around Cassino   Enemy Losses In  Italy Hit 40.000

Cassino Costs Germans 9000   Of This Number About 1500 Are Captured, Others Dead, Wounded

GERMANS LOSE 40,000 MEN IN ITALY IN MONTH   9009 Casualties Inflicted on Enemy in and Around Cassino Since End of January.   LULL CONTINUES   Germans Make Two Miner Stabs and Night Air Raid on Beachhead, Patrols Active Elsewhere

MINOR THRUST ON BEACHHEAD TURNED BACK   All Fronts Remain Relatively Quiet Aside From Routine Patrolling and Artillery Duels   WEATHER IS IMPROVING

Nazi Losses in Italy Heavy   Allied Reports Place Total at 40,000; Beachhead Losses 24,000

—-ROME BEACHHEAD—  azis Losses  40.000   . +. Since Allied Forces Invaded South Italy

GERMAN LOSSES ON BEACHHEAD SET AT 40,000   Other Losses In Italy To Allies Are Reported

FIFTH ARMY FORCES HAVE INFLICTED BIG LOSSES ON GERMANS  NATE CACITAITIEG AT CAC

Sth Army Beats vs Nazi Force Tn Cassino Area   9,000 Casualties Reported Inflicted On German Troops

Nazi Losses Are Boosted   9,000 Dead, Wounded Figured At.Cassino

German Casualties at Cassino Total 9,000   -Enemy Losses in All of Italy Since January 1 Are 40,000; Repulse New Stabs

Hun Casualties In Italy 40,000 Since Jamisiry   Disclosed In Communique _ Revealing Two Minor  German Assaults In Cassitio Repulsed

New Beachhead Thru  9 000 Casualties ie inflicted On Germans In The Cassino Arez

FIFTH ARMY IS SMASHING FOE   Estmoted 9,000 Casualties Inflicted on Nazis Near Cassino to Date

Nazi Forces In Italy Hard Hit   MORE, THAN 9,000 OF ENEMY KILLED ' BY YANKEES

Sth Army Inflicts 9,000 Casualties. On Cassino Nazis   Italian: Fronts.” Quiet; Two Minor Stabs Hit Beachhead  Reap EhwAen RPNNERY:

Casualties Of Nazis In Italy Put At 40,000   About 9,000 Of These Inflicted In Fighting Around Cassino

Allied Leaders Estimate ‘Dead, Wounded and Captured; Fifth Army Repels Two Stabs at Beachhead.

German Casualties In Italy Grow To About 40,000  Cassino Battle Has Cost 9,000 Men In Last Six Weeks

Cassino Costly To Nazi Troops  9,000 Casualties For _ Enemy, Report

CASUALTIES OF NAZIS 9.900   Germary Losses Near. Cassino Announcer!

9,000 Nazis Killed, Wounded And Captured Around Cassino By Allies Since February Ist   Two Minor Attacks On Anzio Beachhead Repulsed; Other Fronts Also Quiet

FIFTH ARMY FORCES HAVE INFLICTED BIG LOSSES ON GERMANS   NAZI CASUALTIES AT CASSINO REPORTED TO HAVE REACHED 9,000 MEN

(TALIAN FRONTS REMAIN QUIET      Only Two Minor Stabs on Beachhead; Patrol Routine Continues.

Soviets Launch Sharp Tank-Artillery Attacks Against Nazis At lasi

Romanian Front Becomes Active   Russians Reported In Tank, Artillery Attacks Near lasi

A New Soviet Offensive Is Expected Soon   Sharp Tank and Artillery Attacks Already Launched North of lasi, Romania

WARD OFFIGIAL IS ARRESTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS   Man Is Handcuffed Aiter Being Arraigned For  Removing Poster   CLAIMED HE WANTED TO PERUSE NOTICE

FBI Agents Seize Ward Co.  Officer For Poster Removat   Assistant Mail Order Operating Manager Arraigned Before United States Commissioner and Releaced on Band

Ward Executive : Is Arrested By Federal Agents   Charged With  Injuring Property Of U. 5.  *“Government

Seized Ward Aid Denies U.S. Charge  FRI Acents Hold Official for  Pamavine Pocter

FBI Handcuffs Ward Official   Sowell Is Charged With Poster Theft   Sowell Handecuffed

Wards Official Arrested While Removing Sign  Under FBI Control i a me

FBI Arrests Ward Official   Manager Charged With Removing U. S. Poster In Plant in Chicago

Removes Sign; Now In Jail   F.B.I. Arrests Montgomery Ward Official For Taking Down Poster.

WARD EXECUTIVE ARRESTED AS HE ~ REMOVES POSTER   - Accused. of Stealing Government Property—Says He " Took. Down -Notice  ‘to Read It.   ESCORTED TO. COURT WEARING. HANDCUFFS   Enters Innocent Plea and Is Released On $250. Bond " =— Hearing’ Is Set ; for May 11.

AGENTS ARREST WARD OFFICIAL   Paul D. Sowell, Charged With Removing Federal Poster, Taken to Marshal’s Office  In Handcuffs

Ward Official Is Arrested By FBI   Removal Of Poster In Plant Charaed

F BI Seizes W ardOfficial OnTriviality   ASSISTANT MAIL ORDER OPERATING MANAGER TOOK DOWS NOTICE FOR BETTER READING: CHARGE, THEFT.   Handcuffed, F ingerprinted

BIDDLE WARRING ON FALANGISTS   Charges Party Members Un: fit to Be United States Citizens

CHINESE ENTER LEIYANG; DRIVE AIDS HENGYANG   Yank Airmen Batter Japanese River Supply Lines

Senator Urges Act For Education OF War Veterans  Floridan Would Add New Benefits To Current Measure

Senator Urges Act For Education Of War Veterans  Floridan Would Add New Benefits

UNEMPLOYMENT MAY HIT BUT AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY TO WAIT   EITHER GERMANY OR JAPAN MUST BE KNOCKED OUT TO GET GREEN LIGHT

Auto Makers Must Wait Till One of Axis Knocked Out   Prepare for Partial Demobilization of Automobile Plants

DVEGLER TELLS OF HIGHWAY NEEDS   Ninety Percent of State  ‘Roads Need to Be Rebuilt,  Commissioner Savs

MUST REBUILD 90°, OF STATE TRUNK ROADS   So Asserts Ziegler Before Highway Hearing At Washington

ee et BREWS AT & at eee & Ws 4 awe da 3ST Qe  Anticipate Invasion Around April

We Did It! County Over In War Bonds   Rates Second in the State After Selling 111% of ‘E’ Quota

Navy Perfects New Rocket Gun; Great Demand is Reportes   Details Secret; U. S. Invasion Equipment is Called Superior

U. S. To Spend 35 Millions Developing  Secret Rocket Gun Now. In: Most Demand

Rocket Gun Of Allies Now In Great Demand   Navy To Expand Work On New Weapon; Appro priation Recommended.

39 MILLIONS FOR NEW ROCKET GUN WILL BE SPENT   Armed Forces Have Developed New Gun Which Is Now in “Great Damand’’

ROCKET GUN IS MADE BY NAVY   Vast Sum Asked to Turn Out Weapon for Which There Is a ‘Great Demand’

Develop New Rocket Gun   35 Million to Be Spent on Improvements  And Production

New Rocket. Gun DevelopedBy US. “Very Secretive’   Navy Asks 65 Million For More Weapons To Be Propelled By Rockets

$35, 000,000 to Be Expended On Rocket Gun   No - Clues: Given to Nature Of ‘Devices;, New Pro.pellant Now InGreat Demand

UMW MEETING IN CINCINNATI   Insurgent Bloc Is Opposed by John L, Lewis

WLB, PAW Enjoined from Seizure of Humble Refinery Plant at Ingleside

WLB AND PAW STAND ENJOINED AGAINST SEIZURE OF PLANT   FEDERAL COURT INJUNC TION GRANTED HUMBLE

HUGE CASUALTY RATE FROM WAR    Baltimore Paper Puts Total Of Allies And Enemy At 25 Millions

Survey Places War Casualties At 25,000,000   American Losses Below Britain's

RED ROSS APPEALS FOR MORE NURSES   Urges Public to ‘Ration Itself’ On Nursing Services

Nazis Cut Allied Corridor; Tanks In Showdown Battle   Massed Yankee Guns And Swarms Of Planes Open Earth-Shaking Bombardment Of Rhineland May Mean Grand Offensive Of First Army.

PATROLS CLASH IN ITALIAN MUD   BRITISH REPULSE GERMAN ATTEMPT TO CROSS MOLETTA

Duce’s Friend  Killed in Raid   Editor Gayda Found Dead Ja Bombed Reme Home

Bombers Blast Eternal City For 8th Time   Direct Hit Made on Home of Former Fascist Editor; Rail Yards Heavily Raided

yaPrey ; Attack, ‘ome Says   jad Fascist’ Edito ‘sorted Killed in feral Raid on  Holy City ~

REPORT GAYDA BOMB VICTIM   Editor Killed by Allied Raiders, Say Nazis

on: uid to Have: ded Life of Mussolini's i “oumnalistic Spokesman and All Members of His, Family “Editor Gained World-Wide Fame, for ‘Attacks on U.S, a “Britain: and: League: -of Nations, © pik Bees

Governor Of ~ lowa Lessens  — 9 Life Terms   Action Comes Over Protests of State and National Bank Groups

SHY OF HELP   Labor Shortage Again Bobs Up To Plague Fruit Growers

College Students Injured Enroute Home In Accident  Car Sideswiped By Truck Near Homer, Nebraska

Christmas Tragedy Averted For Five College Students   Driver Is Blinded by Grass Smoke Near Homer,  Nebraska

College Students Injured Enroute Home In Accident  Car Sideswiped By Truck Near

GERMANY SUFFERING BAD FUEL SHORTAGE   J. §. Air Commander Says Nazi Bomber Forces Been “Practically Abandoned”

Reich Sufferi ing Fuel Shortage, .. Gen: Eaker Says   -Boraber E orce ‘Abandoned, Pilot Training Centers ... ” ‘Reduced by Germans :

Yank Ground Forces in Action For First Time On Asiatic Continent

30 T0 50 JAP PLANES LOST OVER HAINAN   Toll Taken by U. S. Airmen in Raid on the Island, Off China’s South Coast — Admiralty Battle Near Climax.

JAP AIR POWER DEALT CRUSHING BLOW IN CHIN/   Meanwhile, Battle for Lo: Negros Isle Enters the Final Stage

AIR ACTIVITY STEPPED UP IN THE PACIFIC   Fighter -Escorted Mitchells Rip Into Japan's HardHit Air Strength On Hainan Island   REINFORCE LOS NEGROS

Last-Ditch Battle for Los Negros Is _ Believed Imminent   Victory in Store for Side With Greater Rein forcements

Yankee Troops Fight Japanese In Burma Area   Inflicting Heavy Casualties [hey Establish Pincers on Nippons.   U. S. Air Force Scores Big Victory in China

JAP AIRFORCE 5 HARD - HIT   Fighter-Escorted Bombers Bag From 30 to 50 Aircraft.   RAID ON HAINAN ISLAND

YANK BOMBERS BLAST JAPS IN HAINAN ATTACK   Last-Ditch Battle Reported Shaping Up For Los Negros island

U.S. BOMBERS HIT INTO JAP BASE SATURDAY   Last Battle For Los Neeros For Being Staged

Mitchells Bag Over Thirty Jap Aircraft   Last-Ditch Battle For Los Negros Near As Allied  Air Activity Grow:

Major Battle In Offing For Admiralty Islands ~ As Reinforcements Land

US Bombers Blast Jap ‘Air Strength   30 to 56 Enemy Aircraft Bag ged in on Hainan Island; Last-Ditch Battle for Los Negros Shaving Un

Final Battle  forLos Negro: Is at Hand ~   Side That. Can Ge Get - Most” 'Reinforcements in: First will Win Battle

Bag 30-50 Jap  Planes at Hainan   Last Ditch Los Negros Battle Shaping

Nearly 50 Jap Planes Downed   Stilwell’s Airforce Pounds Enemy in Raid On Hainman Island

Bombers Hit Hainan Hard   Island off China Coast; Both Sides Rush more Men Into Los Negros Battle

China Coast Raid Exacts Big Toll   _ Yanks Bag Planes in * Island Blow; Battle Looms on Los Nearos

Yank Troops Strike Japs In Burma Are:   China-Based Bombers ‘Take Heavy Toll Of Jap Air. craft In Hainan Raid.   RUSH REINFORCEMENTS

U.S. AIRMEN RAID THAILAND, HAINAN BASES   !China-Based Fliers Bag 40 to 50 Jap Aircraft in Raids on Japanese Holdings   ADMIRALTY FIGHT      Batile Shaping Up for Los Negros Island With Both Sides Sending In Reinforcements

30. to 50 Pianes ‘Bagged  it “Hainan Baitle: Near, Show: gown on Los “Wegros:.

BAG ATLEAST 39 JAP PLANES IN CHINA AREA   Moving in of Supplies May Decide Battle for Admiralty Islands

YANKSAND IAPS.  RUSH IN TROOPS FOR RIG GLAS   Nipponese Already Have Lost 3,000 In Admiralty Island Fighting   AIR RAIDERS BUSY   Americans Bag From 3: To. 50° Jap ,Planes On Hainan Island

JAPS PREPARE FOR SHOWDOWN   Rush Troops To Bolster Beleagured Nips On Los Negros

BOTH SIDES RUSH REINFORCEMENTS TO LOS NEGROS   U. S. BAGS 30 TO 50 ENEMY PLANES AT HAINAN ISLANC

U.S. And Japs Reinforce ‘or Los Negros Showdown   Last Diteh Fight Looms With Victory In Store For Side With The Superior Forces; Plane Attacks Pressed

NEW AIR BLOWS HANDED TO JAPS   Both Sides Speed Reserves To Los Negros Island

BOMBERS HIT JAP FORCES: IN PACIFIC TODAY      Reinforcements To Be Key To Los Neros

VETERAN AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHTING IN ALLIED BURMA LINES   CHINA-BASED MITCHELL BOMBERS DESTROYED MANY JAP PLANES

Jap Bases Pounded From Air On Wide Front; Los Negros Battle Shaping Up

BlG STREET PARADE SATURDAY AFTERNOON ARMY SHOW AT NIGHT   MILITARY PERSONNEL, EQUIPMENT ARRIVES FRIDAY: SCHEDULE CONCERT

BIG STREET PARADE SATURDAY AFTERNOON ARMY SHOW AT NIGHT  MILITARY PERSONNEL, EQUIPMENT ARRIVES FRI-

COLOGNE MAIN TARGET OF RAF NIGHT ASSAULT   Paris and Brussels Areas Blasted, Along With Invasion Coast

Gigantic Air Blitz On Nazis  Is Continued   Day Raids Follow Up Huge Night Attacks By Record Number Of Planes   CITY OF COLOGNE AGAIN HAMMERED

Sweden To Cut Sales To Axis   U. S. Wins Victory With Ball-Bearing Manufacturers.

More Than 1,500 Big U.S. Bombers Strike New Blows   War's Biggest Fleet t Heavies’ Blasts Vital German Targets

Heavy Bombers Spearhead Aerial Attack   Allied Warplanes Fly Up to 41.000 Sorties

SHORTAGE OF MERCHANT SEAMEN CRITICAL   Del.very of Supplies to Atlant’c, Pacific Theaters Threatened

SHORTAGE OF ENTE 1S CRITICAL   Delivery of Supplies’ to Ailant:c, Pacific Theaters Threatened

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Here Are Things for Family of Returning Serviceman to Remember When He’s Home

Certain Things Discharged G. I. Should Do When He First Gets Home

Trap on Northern  End of Ormoc  Corridor Closing Fall; Britsh Sue

Yanks Capture Cervaro, Nazis Report   Allied Bombers Hit Pireaus, Port for Athens, Greece

CERVARO FALL REPORTED BY ENEMY SOURCE   Eighth Army Cannon Duels With Foe  Across River

Yanks Capture Cervaro, Nazis Report  Allied Bombers Hit Pireaus, Port

Nimitz Reveals Possible Additions to His Forces Opposing Japanese

NIMITZ EXPECTS REINFORCEMENTS IN PACIFIC AREA   Wants To Accelerate Fighting Agains Japs—Airmen « Hit Philippines

DISASTER FATAL TO 35 CHILDREN   English Village Buries Victims Of Bomber Crash Tragedy

French Rail. Hub. Raked: by Bombs      ‘Italy-Based Planes. Continue Air War 

Vichy Reports Lyon Bombed Once More   Planes From. Britain Grounded By Bad Weather

LYON, FRENCH RAIL HUB, HIT FROM ITALIAN BASES   Vichy Reports Second Straight Raid On Big Transport Center; Bad Weather Again Halts Pre-Invasion Air Drive

Lyon, Biggest Transport Center of Al Southeastern France, Smashed by Bombs According to Vichy Radio Broadcast,

Air Attack Comes to Full Halt   Pilots Rest for Day as Weather Prevents Flying

U.S. Heavies Attack Lyon Second Day   Thick Clouds Stop Pre-Invasion Raids From England

LYON, FRANCE, IS BOMBED BY U. 8. HEAVIES   Attack Rail Hub Second Straight Day from Mediterranean Bases.

Vichy Radio Says Lyon Hit Again.   U. S. Planes Blast ~  Central France Area :

Lyon Bombed.,, Vichy Says   American Heavies Strike French Rail Hub; Weather Stops British-Based Planes

LYON BOMBED BY AMERICAN HEAVY PLANES   Strike At French Rail Hub Bu Repert Lacks Official Confirmation

Early End Of Nazi Air Force   ALLIED RAIDS TAKE BIG TOLL OF GERMAN PLANES.

BLOWS NOW ARE PART Of FINISH FIGHT   Statement Declares Offensive Has Smashed Nazi Plan to Quadruple Fighter Plane Output by This Month.

Allied Chiefs See Early Destruction Of Nazi Air Force   Joint Statement Hails Assault on German Aircraft Industry As Succes:

ALLIED FLIERS NEARLY ERASE REICH AIR ARW   Complete Destruction Seen Soon; Berlin Continues Guessing On Invasion

Nazi Air Force Doomed, Allied Chiefs Declare   German Aircraft Industry Crippled By Steady Bombings

Germany Being Forced to Knee: Declare Allies   Invasion Rumors Mount in Europe As D-Day Nears

Predict Early Destruction Of Nazi Air Force   Assault Upon Germany’s Aircraft Industry Is Said To Be Reaching Its Climactic Phase

—INVASION TALK—. - : Destruction Of German “Air Force Predicted.   Assault Upon Nazi Aircraft, Industry Now Reaching Climactic: Phase, Says Allied, Statement; Berlin Second-Guessinge On Invasion

PREDICT EARLY DESTRUCTION OF NAZI AIR FORCE AS INVASION PRELIMINARY

Fight Nears Finish  Allies Gradually Knocking Out Nazi Aircraft Industry  )

-Pre-Invasion Campaign To Wreck Luftwaffe Is Declared Success; ‘ Berlin Says Germany Is Calm And Prepared As D-Day Approaches

LUFTWAFFE 0 VERGE OF K. 0.   60,000 Japs Trapped Ir Great Amphibious Operation

Assault Upon Enemy Air Forces Reaching Climax in “Battle To The Finish” — Germany Claims Fo Be Calm and  _ Ready For Invasion.

Air Assault On  Foe Near Climax  Raids Bring Renewal Of Invasion Guessing

Allies Predict Early Destruction of Naz Air  Force Preliminary to Forcing Foe to Knees

Allies Predict Destruction Of Nazi Air Foree As Berlin  Again Starts 2nd Guesses

Hail Pre-Invasion Campaign To  K.O. Axis Air Force As Success   Aerial Offensive Has Smashed Desperate Germar Counter-Plan To Quadruple Fighter Production By This Month.

Luftwaffe s ‘Death Near, Predict Allies   Destruction of Nazi Aircraft Industry Approaching Climax

New Outbreak Of Invasion Gues  Nazi Air Force Faces —Certain Destruction

Predict Early Destruction Of Nazi Air Force   Offensive Smashed German Plan To Quadruple Fighter Production.

DEPARTMENT HEAD   Council Chooses M. C. Hager Last Night After  Interviewing Four   WITH HEALTH SERVICE

HIRES NEW WATER: "DEPARTMENT HEAL      Council. . Chooses M. '.C. ’ Hager. Last. Night. After.  Interviewing Four =:   WITH HEALTH SERVICE

Japanese Gaining Ground In Drive  Over Wild Hills   Allies Acknowledge Advances; Fighting On 1,200-Mile Front Heavy

JAPS GAIN IN DRIVE ON INDIAN CITY   Heavy Fighting Flares On 120 Mile Front

Russians Carry War into Rumania; Essen Bombed: Japs Advancing in Somra

HEAVY GATTLE FLARES ALONG NORTH FRONT   One of Five Enemy Columns Driving Across Hills to Cut Railway.

Heavy Fighting Reported Along Burma Border in Move on Assam-Bengal Railway

Heavy Fighting Flares In India   Japs Trying To Sever Cominunications

HEAVY FIGHTING FLARES ON 120 MILE INDIA LINE   Allies Admit Japs Gaining With Drive Across Somra Hills

Enemy Column Driving Across Somra Hills   Principal Fighting Said to be Along Tiddim-Imphal Road

Battles Rage To Keep Japs Out of India      Foe Thrusting Through Hills in Attempt to Cut Allied Line

One Of Five Invading Jap Columns Trying To Cut Supply Lines Of Allied Forces Battling Inside Burma

Foe Sweeping  Toward Main — Assam Railway   British Claim Nipponese Are Still Far From Objectives

Allies Assert Japs Gaining  Toward India   Rattle Rages Along 120-Mile Burma Front

Damages Sought For Injuries In Auto Accident —   Jurors Secured =. Monday Afternoon For First Trial’: -

Damages Sought For Injuries In. _ Auto Accident  Jurors Secured: <: Monday Afternoon For First Trial’ :

Expect Attack  Soon —   Report Americans And British: Ready For New Drive on Italian Front: =

Mrs. Roberts Dies At Her Home  Wasa Resident of   Was a Resident of County 60 Years

Mrs. Roberts Dies At Her Home   Was a Resident of County 60 Years

Chinese Forces Leave Changsha   Claim Enemy Armies  Suffer Great Losses

Nazi 7th Army Breaking Info Guerrilla Bands   Armor Believed To Have Escaped Trap; Safe Conduct Leaflet Dropped By Allies

MOST OF 71H -TSENTRAPPEL   Unit Breaking Up Into Roving Guerilla Bands Within Pocket.   REPORT ‘FEUHRER KAPUT

Resor! to — Guerrilla Warfare   Roving Bands Seeking Way Out in Desperate Small Forays   DRUNKEN GERMANS TERRORIZE FARMERS   But Army Is Shattered and Demoralized With Thousands Cut Off

Americans Strike Eastward, Within 40 Miles of Paris, Bitter Fighting On

Groups Of 15 To 50 Men Attempt To Escape From Pocket Formed By Allied Troops

GERMAN SEVENTH ARMY BREAKS UP INTO BANDS: BERLIN REPORTS ALLIES WITHIN 40 MILES OF PARIS   Germans Escape "TT wan tm Meance

Von Kluge Reported To Have Extricated Most Of Armor Through Escape Gap   Berlin Says Allies Have Moved To Within 40 Miles Of Paris; Nazis Showered With Surrender Leaflets

German Seventh Army Has Broken Up into Roving Bands of Guerrillas

U.S. Officers Think Bulk Of Men Trapped   Nazi Forces Are Demoralized by Terrific Poundina

GERMAN ARMY DISSOLVING INTO ROVING BANDS   Seek to Escape Allied Ring in Groups of 15 to 50 Men

Nazis Rush © Madly From Falaise Trap   Reported Patton Thrust Toward Paris Threatens New Encirclement.

German 7th Breaking Up   ROAM BEHIND ALLIED LINES TERRORIZING FRENCH POPULATION

Nazi Army Breaking Up Into Bands  Unable To Mass > For Breakthrouch -

General Patch ls In Command  Of U. $. Forces   Nazi Seventh Army vere ‘  Begins To Break Up aris.

GERMAN 7TH ARMY IS NOW BREAKING UP   Unable to Mass Its Remaining Men and Supplies for Breakthrough

Seventh German Army Appears To Have Passed Point of Any Organized System of Combat.   NEW INVASION ALSO  IS GAINING HEADWAY

Allies Scatter German 7th Army  One-Time Great Force Broken Up  As Americans Drive Close to Paris

Nazis’ Seventh Army In Guerrilla Groups   Disintegrating Forces Break Up Into Small Bands. Only Fanatical Captives Still Say Hitler Can Win ©

Allies Drop: Surrender  Leaflets As — Enemy Flees   Armored Spearheads Drive: ‘Toward. Seine

NAZIS CRUMBLE IN ALLIED TRAP   Seventh Army Beyond Point of Starting Escape Attack

Nazi Seventh Army Is Now Breakin 5 Up   Becoming Roving Guerrilla Bands, Troops Remaining in Pocket Not Expected to Be _ Able to Break Through to Seine. .

Once-Mighty Army Of Nazis Now is Feeble Body  Enemy Force Is Split into Wandering

Yanks Only 40 Mi. from Paris,  Berlin Reports   Patton's Force Near Dreux and Chartres, Foe Asserts

Nazi Army Falls Apart   Germans Flee in Wild Disorder as Escape Gap Narrows

British And American Bombers Blast Targets In Enemy-Occupied Territory

HINCKLEY NAMED 10 SETTLE CONTRACTS      Utah Executive to Direct Big and Vexing Proaram

TO ADMIT LOSS OF HOLY CITY   Also Try to Shift Blame to Allies If Battle Develops

Disney Expected To Run for Senate   Reported Planning to Make Race as Anti-New Dealer

URGE DEL RIOANS TO CO-OF uRATE IN WASTE PAPER COLLECTION BY ARMY TRUCKS FROM LAUGHLIN TUESDAY

Finns Turn Guns On Nazi Troops, Stockholm Says   German Fleet Fails In Effort To Seize Fortified Island

U.S. Fifth Army Moves Northward   Reaches Gothic Line; Eighth Army Held Back

Rimini Fighting Continues Bitter   Fifth Army Follows Lp German Withdraw al—Casualties Mount

Yanks Reach Gothic Line —   F ighting Rages. On Adriatic Coast.”

FIFTH ARMY FORCES REACHED NAZI GOTHIC LINE ON WESTERN END  HEAVY FIGHTING ON THE ADRIATIC END GAVE AMERICANS CHANCE

5th Punches To Outer Rim Of Gothic Line   Reaches Usella and Pistoia, Crosses Serchio .’ River. Hits Zezzera

FIFTH ARMY FORCES REACHED NAZI GOTHIC LINE ON WESTERN END  HEAVY FIGHTING ON THE ADRIATIC END GAVE

YANKS BATTER NAZI DEFENSES   American Troops to Gothic Line As Fight Rages on Adriatic Coast

Fifth Army Reaches Nazi Gothic Line   US Forces at Usella, 17 Miles Northwest of Florence, and Only 35 Miles from Po Valley

REACH DEFENSES OF GERMAN LINE   Some 5th Army Units Reach Usella, 17 Miles North Of. Florence.

US Fifth Army Forces Reach Line Defenses   American Troops Push Well Into Pistoia Outskirts

U.S. Fifth Army Reaches Gothic  Line Defenses      Advance  North Of Florence As_ Large-scale Bloody Fighting Halts British At Rimini.

Reaches Gothic. ,  ™ Line Defenses   Advance > North Of Florence AS ‘Large-scale Bloody’ Fighting. Halts Reitsh At Rimini.

—ITALY—  AMERICANS DRIVE TOWARD BOLOGHE   Follow German Withdrawal And Reach Gothic ‘Line Defenses

REACH GOTHIC LINE DEFENSES   FIFTH ARMY UNIT PUSH TO USELLA, 35 M:LES FROM BOLOGNA

REACH GOTHIC LINE DEFENSES   Yanks Chase Fleeing Nazis Above Florence

Nazis Pushed To Gothic Line   Usella, Key to Cities Of Florence and Bologna, Near Fali

ALLIES REAC GOTHIC LINES; WAIT FOR BREAK   Heavy Fighting Reported Near Rimini Area

U.S. Fifth Army Reaches Nazi's Gothic Line   Some Units Advance To Within 35 Miles Of Bologna.

BARUCH REPORT READY SHORTLY   fo Present Blueprint For Restoring Peacetime Economy At Close Of War.

AWAIT BARUCH POSTWAR PLAN   Due Momentarily ; Wartime Agencies Keep Fin  gers Crossed

Blast Berlin With 2 Aerial Assaults On Nazi Birthday   Complete Collapse Of City Expected In 25 Days

Berlin Blasted By Yank Fliers Tn Day Assault   Strong Fleets Keep Up Mammoth Offensive On Fifth Straight Day To Set Record   Invasion Coast Again Battered   Rail Yards Pounded In France, Belgium; RAF Planes Lay Mines In Evemy Waters

Strike from Britain and Italy   Ploesti, Railyards, Airfields, Invasion  Coast Are Bombed.

AMERICAN DAY RAID BLASTS FRENCH COAST   Strike After RAF Hit Berlin Twice; Pas de Calais Pounded ©

German Targets On French Coast Given Pasting   RAE Bombers. Leave Berlin In Sea of Flames After Attack

300 to 750 Bombers Hit At Refinery   * Air Base at Mulhouse, North Of Switzerland, Attacked

Big Forces Of U.S. Planes Strike Deep  Into Europe —   Germany Gets Blasted For Fifth Successive Day ; Invasion Coast Mit Rv RAF At Nicht

Bombers trem Italy Envelop 0 Plant in Flames While Other Fliers Hit Invasion Coast

3.500 PLANES STRIKE FROM BRITAIN. ITALY   Romanian Oil Refinery at Ploesti and German Railroad Yards Are Among Targets Today   RESULT UNASCERTAINED

U.S. CARRIES ATTACKS INTO FIFTH DAY   Swarms Of Planes Strike From Both Britain And Italy

Blast Berlin In 2 Raids; Coast Is Hit   American Bombers Raid Calais Area -— Destroy  Hundreds of Planes

Romanian Refinery  Is Bombed   Clouds Obscured Full Results of  Attack; German Interceptors Met

Bombs Batter Nazi Rail Yards, French Coast And Ploesti Ou   Dregne's Group Bags

U.S. Bombers ‘Rip Ploesti Oil Refinery   2-Way Blow By 3,500 Planes Also Hits Rail Yards, Air Base.

PLOESTI OIL REFINERY, FOUR GERMAN RAILROADS TARGETS IN DAY ATTACK AS RECORDS MADE

AMERICANS HIT COAST APEA AGAIN   255 Nazi Planes Are Destroyed in Unending Attack

R.A. F. MAKES TWO ATTACKS ‘ON BERLIN   Blazing German Capital Believed In Death Throes

‘Big Bombers ‘Hit Key Nazi Rail Targets   Oil Plant in Romania, Airbase in France  Also Pounded

REFINERY IS PLASTERED AT PLOESTI   v. S. Fliers Assault Four Railyards And  Coast Of France

Bombers Raid French Invasion Goast Area In Wave After Wave   Mulhouse Airbase In Old Maginot Line North Of Switzerland Blasted In Addition To Four Railyards At Hamm, Osnabruck, Schwerete, Soest  Wet? ATIYIC(MFrET Wert AT AA A WTR

Double Bombing Refires Berlin: Raids Continue   3,900 Bomb Tons Drop on Continent in Two-Day Period

Ploesti Refinery, German Cities Are Day’s Targets  French Coast Also Bombed in Two-Ply Assault

OIL REFINERY AT PLOESTI IS SET AFIRE   Americans, in Two-Way, 3,500-Plane Assault, Also Blast Four Reich Rail Centers and a French Air Base. .

3500 Planes Blast Europe   Ploesti Oil Center, German Rail Yards, Air Base Bombed

New Smash. al Ploesti~ and Coast   Major -Oil Refinery Is Bn veloped in:Flames as: Result. of Raid   WAVE AFTER WAVE:. POUNDING FRANCE   German Rail Centers. Are Hit. Again; Swarnis off: .. Fighters Go Along:

YANK AIRMEN FOLLOW RAF OVER EUROPE   Berlin Aflame In Twin Raids

3500 Planes Hit Reich, Romania, Invasion Coast   Ploesti Oi] Base Target; Bomb Maginot Base: ‘Railway Yards Blasted

3,500 Invading American Planes Strike From Britain and italy.   CLOUDS HIDE RESULTS

3,500 Yankee Planes Smash Rail Sector   Air Base Damaged Along With Oil Plant at Ploesti

Targeis in Widely Separated Parts of Continent Attacked   3,500. American Planes Strike From Britain and lialy Acain

3,900 U. S. Warplanes Hit Ploesti, .Railroad Yards, French: Coast

TERRIFIC AIR RAID ON REICH INFOURTH DAY   Allies. Continue Greatest Assault in History as Nazis Start 12th Year of Rule in Germany. . .

BLAST GERMANY FOR THE FIFTH SUCCESSIVE DAY   AMERICAN BOMBERS BORE DEEP INTO ENEMY TERRITORY

Another Great Fleet Of American Bombers Staged Daylight Raid Against Germany And France; RAF Struck Last Night.

3,500 Planes Hit Ploesti,  German Base:   Incessantly Attacked Freneh Invasion Coast; Hit Rail. yards.      MEET OPPOSITION

Aerial Attack Mainfains Fury   Allies Send 3,500 Invading Planes From Britain And Italy Over Europe   Ploesti Attacked   Oil Refinery There Bombed; Four German Railyards Also Heavily Raided

U. 5. Fliers Smash at Rai Yards in Reich   Strong Force Sails Out on 15th Mission on Germany in May

3,000 Craft From Italy And England Make Raids   Incessant Attacks  Made Upon Coast

COASTAL AREA OF FRANCE BLASTED - BYU, S, AIRMEN   Air Traffic to Sweden Suspended to Stop Travelers From Telling Damage in Berlin Raids.   GERMAN LINE NORTH OF CASSINO PIERCED   Refugees Inform Allies That Enemy Has Begun Evacu: ation of Rome Atter Min  ing Many Places.

NAZI CAPITAL HIT TWICE IN SINGLE NIGHT   U. S. Air Force Destroys 255 German Planes In Combat During Attacks.

SOVIETS MAKING SWIFT CONQUEST IN THE CRIMEA   Are Meting Out Terrible Retribution On Germans Left in Peninsula.

risoner Revolt, nds in ‘Atlanta   Group Vicious, Say Penitentiary .Chiefs

Santa Claus Makes Heartsick Trip to Arizona Ranch to See Dying Boy

Big London Crowd Hits Greek Policy   British Continue Bombing of ELAS

FIFTH ARMY TAKE THREE HEIGHTS   Cassino, German Base, Is Shelled By U. S. Artillery

FIFTH CIRCLES CERVANO, ITALY FORTRESS TOWN   Knifes Two Miles Into Enemy Defenses Guarding Rome

AMERICANS SMASH THROUGH GERMAN DEFENSES IN ITALY   Vervaro, Fortress Town, Al. most Encircled by Fifth Army Men

American Fifth Menacing Towns on Roman Route   4-Mile Advance (Rv Aceaciated Precc)

Yanks Encirele Fortress Town On Italy Front      oat Four Miles From Main Stronghold ‘Of Enemy   STORMING ‘HEIGHTS   Way May Be Cleared For Thrust Down Rome Road Soon

Americans Close In On Fortress Town of Cervare   Knife Two Miles Through Heart of  Mountain Defenses

ORAND JUR! PENS. SESSION NES. HEARD   Divorces, Rules in Court Grants Two Foreclesure Suit

aD JURY OPENS. SESSION BASES HEAR)   Divorces, Rules in’ Court Grants Two Forerlosnye Suit

CAIRO, GA. BOY AMONG GROUP OF 200 MARINES, VETERANS OF JAP BATTLES, ARRIVING IN ATLANTA   Travel Weary Boys After Two Years in Southwest Pacific Glad to Be Home. (Cpl. Milan R. Thorns by, of Cairo Says Japs Tough Fighters

STRONG YANKEE FORCES ATTACK “ENEMY FLANKS   Allied Planes Blasting Foe: Big U.S. Counter-Drive Now On, Says Berlin

THOUSANDS OF GERMAN RESERVES BEING POURED INTO OFFENSIVE AND PENETRATION TO WITHIN FOUR MILES OF MEUSE IS ANNOUNCED—AL LIED PLANES CONTINUE THEIR ASSAULTS ~ ~~

A QUALIFIED SPEAKER   Eliot Janeway, Here Monday, Has Done Research in Industry

Two Die In NitroBlast   . .. IN-COAST POWDER PLANT; MANY PERSONS INJURED

BLAST WRECKS ') BUILDINGS :   2 Killed, 25 Hurt in  ~ Powder Plant Explosion

WAR PLANT BLAST   Explosion at Hercules Calli. fornia Property Kills veral

U.S. Infantry Advances In New Guines   Jap Airstrips At Sarmi Are Near Capture—Many Jap Dead Are Found

(MORE) HEAT ‘LIKELY   Showers Predicted Are Not Ex‘pected to Bring Much Reliet

Hitler Makes Bid For Army Support; Navy Unrest Seen   Fuehrer Tells Troops Of Plot Against His Life; Washington  _ Believes Revolt Soon Scotched

SLAUGHTER OF TWO GENERALS IS REPORTED   Unconfirmed Reports Say Navy Units Mutiny; Gestapo Patrols Streets

Report Many Army Heads Slaughtered   Goverment Area In Berlin Blocked Off, Writer Says

Claim Gestapo Kills 100 Nazi Generals, Jails 1.000 Persons   Force Gen. Rommel To Place Young German Officers in Command at Normandy Battlefronts

rifier Moves in Effort fo Kill Revolt   "Welter of Reports Indicate Nation Is in State of Siege

FDR 1S: EXPECTED SOON AT QUEBEC:   Churchill Arrived. ‘Yesterday’ for. Séventh ‘War Stratecy. Meetins

FOR 1S EXPECTED SOON AT QUEBEC   Churchill Arrived. Yesterday for Seventh ‘War Strategy Meeting

Deer Roams Columbus Then Heads Southwest  After Eluding Pursuers

Allied Raids Proclaiming  Coming Blow   Invasion, Only Weeks Away at Most, To Be Marked by Shift in Aerial ‘Tactics, Now Reaching Crescendo

TELEGRAPH USED FOR 100 YEARS   First Message Sent From Capitol Repeated Over Rout During Observance.

Yank Planes Rake Luzon   22 Bombers Blast Air Fields, Meet Resistance, Japs Say

Samar Is Land Link Between Leyte, Luzon   Aincrican Forces Cross Sait Incinto Strait to One of Philippine’s Largest Islands   Eleven Towns Are  Captured by U.S.   Vicious Jap Counterattacks Repulsed; MacArthur Landing Reinforcenents Today

STRIKE PERILS BRIGGS PLANT   Production of Ball Turret: for Bombers Menaced by Walkout

STATE HOSPITALS — MAY BE LICENSED      Legislation to Assure Minimum Standards to be Drafted

STATE BANKERS FILE PROTEST WITH COUNCIL   Claim Federal Agencies Competing With Private Lending Groups

HITLER OUTDOES ALL DESPOTS OF HISTORY IN LATEST DECREES FOR GERMAN PEOPLE IN WAR CRISIS   Extension of tyrannical Power Means Blood on The Moon for the Reich and the Occupied Countries and A Fig':t to the Last Man

Hitler Will Fight To A Finish, Try  For Complete Reeimentation Shows p 4

New Hitler Order Means War toFinish  pow reeiasie +s 028 AP af & Ot wai

Bloody Himmler Chokes Germany Despotic Reich Rule ‘Likened:to Dark Ages

WAR TODAY   Hitler Squeezing Nazi Nation For “Cannon Fodder” In Frantic Effort to Stave Off inpending Doom

Attacks on Jap Mainland Near, Navy Chief Says   New Drives Await Conquest of Saipan, Forrestal Declares

American Advances in Pacific Open Up Japanese Mainland to Direct Air and Sea Assaults

SEDITION TRIAL TO BE RESUMED   Prosecution Works Against Time To Seat Jury

Encirclement of Germany by String of Air Bases After War Would Prevent Rearming

Encirclement of Ge irmariy by, String of Air -Bases After War Would Pr event ‘Rearming

SURGERY OR DEATH FAGED BY GIRL   Victim Of Hiccoughs Wants Own Doctor, No Other

U.S. Chief Poils States On Vote Bill  Compromise Plax Passed. Sent To White House

HOUSE PASSES SOLDIER VOTE ‘COMPROMISE      President Wants To Know How Many Get Ballots

Asks State Heads Hov Law Fits   Signing of State-Rights Bill Passed By Congress Depeyds Upon Votes It Will Make.

Service Vote Bill Sent To President   All Governors Wired F or Opinions On Bill; Roosevelt May Veto Measure Despite Critics

U.S. Property Is Not faxable   Court Declares Government Property Immune; Real Estate Tax Involved.

FDR PICKS SEVEN FOR NEW 5-STAR RANK IN SERVICE   Four General, Three Admiral Nominations Leave One Unfilled

SEVEN TO GET HIGHEST RANK   ROOSEVELT NOMINATES FOUR GENERAL AND THREE AD" MERALS FOR FIVE no STARS

Powerful Senate Minority Remains Opposed to U.S. Making any Commitments Yet to Preserve Peace; Hull Seeks to Win Support of House Members.

LaFollette Opposes U. S. Commitment On Security Before Peace Terms Written

Cartels Pose Big Problem at Trade Parley   Divergent Views Are Expressed by Netherlands, India

Declarations  Of Estimated Tax Are Mailed   1944 Declarations Are Due Not Later

WAR TODAY   Entrapped Airborne Troops at Arnhem Sing Against Gregt , Odds and Curse Enemy’s” Appeals—to Surrender.

e War Today: ‘Rescue’ Called Wrong Word For Troop Carrying Out Job

HARDLY PROPER TO CALL IT “RESCUE” OF DEFIANT, HARD HITTING AIRBORNE ARMY UNIT

a TAKE SEAT OF REBEL GOVT   Snipers Fire Fire On British Troops, Brisk Battle Raves

Greece Revolf Grows: Battle Rages In Athens   British Troops Engage ELAS Snipers In Heart Of Capital

Southern Troops Make Slow Push To Cassino   Americans Pour Artillery Fire On Nazi Positions From Their  Toehold North Of City

Allied Forces Hold Anzio Beachhead _ Under Heavy Attack   Germans Strike Repeatedly at U.S. Positions With Tanks and Planes; Weijeht of Nazi Drive Met by Britisl

Allies Lose No “Vital’’ Positions   All Attacks Repulsed ir Area Below Rome—Bat tle for Cassino

Southern Front Gains By Fifth Army Reported   German Units Strike Repeatedly Against Advanced Positions ©

Temperatures’   -Future Aggression  Must Be Blocked,  Says Russ Premier

Twenty-One Years Ago   Itema copied. from. the Renwick Times printed September:20. 1923.

Twenty-One Years Azo   items copied from the Renwick Times printed February 22, 1923:

Chaplin Jury Picked, Trial Is Speeded Ux      Prosecution Gives U. S. Mann Act Charges Inyolving Joan Barry

JURY PICKEOIN CHAPLIN TRIAL   Seven Women and Five Men, Mostly Elderly or MiddleAged, Selected.

STATE OUTLINES CHAPLIN CASE   Witness Parade Starts In Actor’s White Slave Trial

Congress In: Arms On Ward Seizure   “Angty Critics Charge Gestapo Tactics; Canta Cane Invectiantor: lo Chicago

‘Montgomery Ward Chairman Gets Vote of Confidence   Resolution Demanding Congressional Probe of Government's Seizure Forced to House Floor by Anary Sclons

Plan Montgomery Ward Case Probes: Avery Wins Support   VOTE AVERY CONFIDE:

WARN SEIZURE CASE ECHOED IN CONGRESS   CONFIDENCE VOTE GIVEN AVERY BY DIRECTORS

Congress In Arms On Ward Seizure   Angry Critics Charge Gestapo Tactics; Senate Sends Investigator To Chicaao

Ward Seizure Resolution Sent  To House Floor        Demands Investigation Of Government's Action: Angry Words Exchanged

MOTBY Gas Acts pe Dual Probe Of Ward Issue   Senate Investigator Sent To Chicago as Question Seco sa YE pe! oe

Investigator Goes to Chicago, McCarran Savs   House Committee Votes One, Too, as Court Fight Gets Under Way

Sicemiemetinenmel  CONGRESS PROBE IN WARD CASE DUI   Seizure of Chicago Plants Irks Solons; Avery Retains Berth

BABSON DISCUSSES FLORIDA PROSPEGTS   Predicts a Florida Boom Is Sure To Come. Calls It a Good Place To Be Unless One Has To Earn a Living.

Florida Boom Coming Again   ROGER BABSON BULLISH ‘ON ALL SOUTHERN STATES

BOMBERS BASED IN ITALY RAID NAZI RAILS REE MUNICH   Raid. Follows: Night, Attack on Rail, Oil Targets by Big - RAP Force

ATTACK THE RUHR   Two Raids in Quick Succession Hit Oil and Rail  Targets

No Let Ur In Heavy Air Blows      Targets in Munich And Salzburg Bombed Following Night Raid On Ruhr Oil Piarts

Heavy Bombers Attack Munich  and: Salzburg      Planes Based In Italy Take Up Air. Offensive Against Germans

14 BELOW ‘AT MARSHALLTOWN   Rising Temperature Monday Night Forecast

Report One Soviet Force Is Encircled and Being Cut Down,  RUSSIANS BEGIN BATTLE FOR ODESSA 19 German Planes Shot  Down in Dogfights Yesterday.

Planes Range Waters ‘ To Prevent Dunkirk   Rumanians Claim to Have Stopped Red Drive Into Balkans.

Report Has Not Been Confirmed By Soviet Command. Fierce Battle For Odessa Will Be Launch_

PRAVDA WARNING CAUSES CONCERN   Believe Statement Directed at DE C¢ wand Britain

SOVIET PLANS  OWN SOLUTION  OF PROBLEMS   ARTICLE CRITICIZING WILLKIE _ SEEN,AS VEILED HINT RUABIA WLL CONDUCT BOR-  DER NEGOTATIONS

Allies Score New Gains In Caen Fighting   Nazis Are Putting Up Desperate Fight To Hold Ground

ROMMEL HAS AVOIDED BIG ENTRAPMENT   British Only Find Few Tanks Opposing Advance And Small Gains Are Recorded In Normandy.

RECORD SIZE U.S. NAVY IS NEARING GOAL   Nation Turning Out Nearly 12 Sea-going Ships a Day In Great Program.

Labor Draft Must Come, Says Knox   Cites Mouriting Needs-of Navy’ ~

2 U.S. Airmen Tell T heir Stories - Of History-Making Berlin Raid

Americans Race Southward To Shear Off Nazi Left Wing And Trap Army   Periers And Lessay Fall To Americans   Swift Advances Expand Break-Through To Depth Of 12 Miles

Canisy Captured In Push Through Groggy Defenses   Advances Expand U. §, Break-Through To ---: Depth of 12 Miles

MINISTERS OF BADOGLIO QUIT   Shakeup Will Broaden Cabinet Personnel

Badoglio Will Or gantze New Italian Regime   Former Government Kesigns, Paves Way For Forming New Ministery

Premier Badoglio Cabinet Resigns   Expect Croce, Sforza Part of New Government

CHURCHILL STATES TIME FOR ANOTHER TRIPLE CONFERENCE  PRIME MINISTER SAYS MEETING MIGHT STOP FEARFUL DESTRUCTION

High Time For Another Conference   Churchill Praises Governor Dewey fo: His Sportsmanship

Goal Is To Speed Day Ot Victory   Points To Need For Full Exertion Of Three eGreat Powers Against German Resistance

Tri ple Talk Plan Helped  By Outcome Of Election   Churchill Cheered By U.S. Result; Praises Dewey For Good Sportsmanship

Churchill Wishes Meeting With FDR and Stalin  Gathering Might Help To Ease World’s Suffering From War

Conference  In Offing —   “Churchill Applauds -Election’s “Results

Churchill Wishes Meeting With FDR and Stalin  Gathering Might Hel

“High Time” For New Triple Conference To Hasten War's End, Says Winston Churchill   Declares Prospects Are Improved By FDR’S Victory; Says Antwerp Opened

U.S. Election Paves Way for Conference  oe pe a gt ee de   Premier Believes Meeting Might Bring Halt to World Destruction

SAYS HE, FDR, AND STALIN SHOULD MEET   Prime Minister Sees Roosevelt's Victory As Happy Omen

CHURCHILL: IT'S TIME FOR TALK BY BIG 3 CHIEFS   Declares Prospecis for Such Parley Improved by U. S. Elections

Time for Another  Triple Conference  So Says Churchill, Reporting Schelde F on Ts [a a Tee ee

Awaits New Triple Parley   Churchill Says Final Struggle With Nazis Will Take Full Effort. Of Three Great Powers

Churchill Says Time For Meet   Another Triple Conference Of Big Three Heads Needed, He Asserts

Time For Another Triple Conference Churchill Says In Discussing U. S$. Election

Says Meeting Of Big 3 May Shorten War   Churchill Hails FR Reelection; Sees Victory Possible ‘In 1945’

CHURCHILL ASKS MEETING WITH F.D.R., STALIN   Savs Triple Conference Might Stop ‘Fearful Destruction

Churchill Says  New Big Three Meeting Needed   U. S. Voting Improves Prospect: No Hope of Swift Victory Given

Churchill Says  ‘It's Time For  Triple Meeting Expresses British  Pleasure At U. S. Election Results

BIG3 MEET NEARS   BRITONS PRAISED FOR STEERING CLEAR OF JU. S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION   Sees Victory In 1945

Churchill Sees Need Of Parley With FD, Stalin   Improved By US Flection Result

Winne Praises Reelection Of I. Roosevelt   Prime Minister Speaks At Luncheon Given To Honor Lord Mayor.   THANKS PARLIAMENT

CHURCHILL STATES TIME FOR ANOTHER TRIPLE CONFERENCE  DDINRAC RMINICTED CAVE   PRIME MINISTER SAYS MEETING MIGHT STOP FEARFUL DESTRUCTION

Churchiil Says Big Three Will Meet Again To Quicken End To World War.

CHURCHILL READY FOR TRIPLE MEE]   ‘It Might Bridge Sufferings of Mankind’, He Says

Big 3 Parley Urged Soon By Churchill   British Chief Sees Little Hope of Swift Nazi Defeat

‘High Time’ for Allied War Talk:   Churchill Says Elections in U. §. Have Improved Prospects for Conference   HIGH PRAISE FOR UNITED STATES   Says America Has Given an Example to the World; Audience Applauds

PRIME MINISTER: READY FOR TALK   Says It's Time For New Triparte Conference

American Way Given Praise by Churchill   Commends Dewey fer Sportsmanship in Election Defeat

Triple Meeting Seen By W. C.  Prospects Improved By F. R.’s Election

New Parley Is Awaited — By Churchill   . Says Election in U. S. Improves Prospects Fox ‘Big 3’ Meeting  PRAISES COV. NEWE\

CALL IS MADE FOR ANOTHER BIG 3 PARLEY   Churchill Says It Is High - Time for a Meeting

OUTCOME OF U. S. ELECTIONS — IMPROVES PROSPECTS FOR BIG THREE MEETING SAYS CHURCHILL

Churchill Says High Time For ‘Big Three’ Meet  Reeseveli Beeleciion Cheerod

NEED MEETING “BIG 3” SAYS CHURCHILL   New Conference Might Easily Bridge Sufferings of Mankind and Stop Destruction.   “Example To World”

PRICE LEVEL 1S 25 PCT. LOWER THAN LAST YEAR   F. 0. B. PRICE IN CENTRALIA AREA $3.66 PER BUSHEL

MARKUPS FOR PEACHES   Will Establish Consumer Price for Fresh Product

SWARM OUT EARLY   Most Precincts Have Line Waiting Thru Day to Get Ballots   BIG REPUBLICAN LEAD

LAWRENCE VOTERS SWARM OUT EARLY   Most Precincts Have Line Waiting Thru Day to Get Ballots   BIG REPUBLICAN LEAD

European Wai Ace e’s Combat Career Euding   Captain Don Gentile May Have Closed Operational Fighter Record With His Latest Mission

Gentile May Be Through As Fighter   Crash May Have Closed Operational Fighter Career

Save Officers Disrespectful   Operational Fighter Career Is  Believed Over Fos Don Gentile

Air Ace Gentile . May Have Ended Operational Career  Fighter Pilot Who Get 30 Nazi Planes Missed Malan’s Mark {

CAPT. DON GENTILE’S FIGHTER CAREER 15 BELIEVED BE ENDED   OUT OF HOSPITAL AFTER CRASH LANDING HURTS _ HE MAY COME HOME

Don Gentile May Have Closed His Operational Fighter Career With Latest Mission Bringing Injury

Gentile Makes Crash Landing   Treated for Minor Injuries, Released From Hospital 

Capt. Gentile Gave Away Chance For 27 Planes In Air To Save His Friend

GENTILE MAY BE THROUGH   Piqua Ace Now Out of Hos: pital. After Crash Landing.

Rabbit and Pooch Team Entertain Military Police Unit in Brittany

CHINESE SEIZE BASE IN BURMA   Stronghold In Mogaung Valley Falls; Troops Meet Americans

Kamaing Falls To Chinese 22d       ilwell’s ; Pet r “Deeper in Myikvinsa-

Chinese Seize Base in Burma  Key Stronghold   Key Stronghold Taken From Enemy

BERRIEN GAINS IN POPULATION   Increase of Nearly 5,000 Residents Reported by Census Bureau

ENCIRCLEMENT FACES NAZIS IN VOSGES’ AREA   Armies Record Gain: On All Sectors As Weather Improves

“rench Forces Smash At The Remaining German Troops In Strasbourg

U. S. Troops: Swarm Along Marne- ‘Rhine Canal Banks   cE nemy le. Resisting. Dri ive On Crossings.

Nazis Fight Hard To Stop Advance  Near Strasbourg  U. S. Ninth Battles To Roer River on Cologne Plain Edge

Ninth Fights To Within Mile Of Roer River.   Germans Battle From Bridgeheads Inside City of Strasbourg In Effort to. Hold

3,000,000 FRENCH SAID IN GERMANY   ‘Believe That Many ‘Deport_ ees, Prisoners of War Held There

Teamsters Who Fought With Navy Men In "Battle Of The Statler” Identified

Measure Is Forwarded To Gov. Goodland After Passage By State Legislature

RAINFALL MARKED ~ BY MERCURY DROF   Only 13 of an Inch Meas® ured at Keedys- —  ville -

RAINFALL MARKED BY MERCURY DROP   Only .13 of an Inch Measq ured at Keedys ville

U.S. Warships Make Use of  Admiralties  Jap Shore Positions   Jap Shore Positions Are Falling Before American Attack

American Warships Move Into Harbor In The Admiralty Isles   Marines Have Virtually Cut Willaumez Peninsula in Two as Once. Mighty Rabaul Shows Sianhs of Detesjoration.

Jap Stronghold Showing Signs Of Breaking Up   Marines Advance Along Peninsula

UNOPPOSED INTO SEADLER   Harbor In Admiralty Islands; Marines Cut Peninsula On New Britain And Rabaul Is Deteriorating.   Push into Jungle

ADMIRALTIES HARBOR HELD BY U. S. SHIPS   Marines Gain on New Guinea in Bitter Fighting

U.S. W. arships Move  Into Seadler Harbor   Vessels Unmolested by Japs as They Steam Into Admiralty Logoon: Marines Virtually Cut Willaumex Isle in Two

U5, WARSHIPS. TAKE OVER HARBOR IN ADMIRALTIES   Steam Unopposed Into Waters to Support Troops, Ex‘panding Foothold on  7 Los Neprros.   MARINES GAIN THREE MILES ON NEW BRITAIN   Overcome Bitter Japanese Resistance—Al Serviceable Enemy Vessels Desert Rabaul.

U. S. warships take big Seadler harbor   Marines nearly sever Willaumez neninsula: Rabaul is deteriorating

Warships Help At Los Negros   Cavalry Extend Position: 1 Nefeneese Weak

U. S. Warships Unopposed in Admiralties   Marines Overcome Resistance on New Britain Coast

Parade and Dance Will Feature Scout Activities  Youngsters Arrive In Helena for Ca bicest Don: Bie ee:

Parade and Dance Will Feature Scout Activities  Youngsters Arrive In Helena for Statewide Meeting

Seizure of Ward’s Known by FDR’s Advisers to be Unfair, Says Avery

Republic County’s Goal i S6.T00: Mrs. HLS. (raham ts War Fund Head.

Military Experts Believe German Army in France Has Lost All ‘Capability of Offensive Action

Wide-Open Alliec Military Tactics. Doom Nazi Army   Say Yanks Gambled In View of Delicate Supply Problem

Says Germans Have Lost All Offensive Power in France  Credit Success ta Gamble by Amecicans, Nazis Miccaleulation ll S Aremarcd Farcrac

Dewey Would Exercise Purge   Assures Ickes And Perkins Not Be In Cabinet

ANYBODY SEEN HERB HOOVER?   Dewey, Replying to Charges He's Ex-President’s Protege, Spikes Rumor

Ickes, Perkins On Dewey's Cabinet Purge   Nominee Promises West Place In Official Group

33 Generals Lost fo. Nazis   Nearly One a Day Killed or Captured Since Invasion Date

Southern Segment of Line Below Ormoc Eliminated   ‘QUANTEPY-OF-ENEMY— SUPPLIES CAPTURED   Bombs From Liberators Flood Borneo Arescs

Enemy Troops Destroyed in Bitter Fight   Large Quantities of Nip Supplies Taken by Americans

JAPS’ ORMOC GARRISON I ~— ANNIHILATED   Thousands in Pocket To South Are Also Destroyed

Thousands More J aps — In Big Trap    ‘Southern Jaw Closes, Destruction of Enemy On Leyte Continues  SIVISTONS JOIN.

JAP GARRISON BELOW ORMOC IS WIPED OU}   CRACK NIPPONESE TROOPS HELD IN NARROW POCKET

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Entire Jap Ormoc Garrison Annihilated, Thousands More Trapped South of Port Slain

THOUSANDS IN TRAP BELOW CITY KILLED   American Seventh and Tith Divisions Close Pocket in Which Enemy, Force Was Caught. ~.   PORT CAPTURED _ IN BITTER FIGHT   MacArthur Announces Seizure of Great Quantities of Equipment arid Supplies in Victory.

NUTGRACKE CLOSES ON ENEMY   Yanks Capture Great Quantities of War Supplies   FIERCE FIGHTING   Loss of Ormoc Will Prove Blow to Japs; Destructive Air Blows Continue

Where Whole Garrison is Expected to be Annihilated; Equipment and Supplies Seized.   No Retaliation

Southern Segment of Line Below Ormoc Eliminated QUANTFFY-OFENEMY—  SUPPLIES CAPTURED  Bombs From Liberators   Bombs From Liberators Fiood Borneo Areas

Ormoc Garrison Annihilated by Two Divisions   Large Quantities Of Supplies Taken

Ormoc Garrison On Leyte Coast Falls to Yanks   Soviet Troops Close in On Budapest; Civilians Evacuate Capital City.   Raid Jap Island   U.S. Armies Push Nazis Deeper into Germany On Western Front.

Dr: ‘ag Lake for Wataid s Body   Wealthy Woman’s Grandson Still Held For Questioning

Professional Diver Hunts Slain Woman   To Search Lake Near Durham Which May Hide Murder Victim

Barkley Backs World Freedom Of News Plans   To Aid For Pussuge of Sen. ate Resolution Fuvoring U. $. Leadership  in Peace Program

INQUIRY OPENED IN SEA TRAGEDY   Coast Guards Bring More Bodies From Sunken Navy Patrol Ship

bn Patrol Ship  Versailles Seaman eads Men in Prayer on Sea-Tossed Raft

Bodies Coming In After Sea Crash  Navy Patrol Ship Sunk; 30 Men Identified  

INTIMATE JAP . ARMIES. JOINED   Chinese Report Nippon Gains in Kwangsi Area

Japs Feel Blow Of U.S. Artillery   Garapan Is Initial Capital To Fall

YANKS ASSAULT SAIPAN CAPITAL   Nimitz’ Forces Secure Southern Half Of Island

SAIPAN CAPITAL MAY BE UNDER AMERIGAN RULE   Last Communique Reports Garapan Crumbling; Nips Say Guam Raided

U.S. ARTILLERY HITS GARAPAN   Japs’ Capital City On Saipan Crumbling Under Heavy Assault

JAPANESE CITY OF GARAPAN IN ALLIED HANDS   First Japanese  ‘Capital Feels Mighty Power

First Japanese Capital City Is  Near Surrender   Garapan In Saipan Is Surrounded

Garapan Falling Under Assaults Of Yank Forces   Marianas Capital May Be In Allied Hands Nows Mogaung Lost By Japs

AMERIGAN ATTACK ~ BLASTS CARAPEN   Capital Of Saipan May Now Be Held By Invad. -- ing Forces :   ARTILLERY USED   Terrific Bombardment Softens City For Hook Soldier Drive

AMERICANS NOW BATTLING JAPS IN SAIPAN CITY   Gerapon, Island Capital of 10,000, Is Cracking Under Mighty Drive

Labor Breach Widens   Political Activity Is Bone of. Contention Which Makes Hope of AFL-CIO Reunion Fade

LABOR’S HOUSE DIVIDED BADLY, WRITER OPINES   Breach Between CIO and AFI Is Growing on This Labor Day

Breach Grows Even Wider For CIO, AFL   Union Heads Clash; Political Action Is Principal Cause

AFL-CIO Split Widens; Clouds  Labor’s Future   PAC Political Activity Main Factor In Broaden am Cr Reeach

LABOR DAY FINDS LABOR FACTIONS . DIVIDED IN HOUSE   Reunion of AFL and CIO Looks More Improbable Than Ever Before

LABOR’S HOUSE IS DIVIDED AS NEVER BEFORE AT PRESENT   REUNION OF AFL AND CIC  SEEMS FARTHER AWAY THAN AT ANY TINE

WEATHER   abor’s House Split Wide on  Anniversary   reunion of AFL and CIO Held More Improbable Than Ever      “TASH AT THE TOP   ndividuals and Ambitions, Political Tinge, Seen Broadening Rift

Holiday Finds Union Splitup   AFL and CIO Seem Never Wider Apart

\Millions of Workers Remain on Jobs Through Labor Day      Workers Divided as Never Before as Labor Day Te Oheervad

WOMAN'S BODY ~ FOUND IN LAGOON   Dissvered Near Pentagon Building Outside of Washinaton

Lausche, Stewart Share Platform  Bitter Ohio Campaign Drawina to Close

ARGENTINA MOURNS FOR QUAKE VIETIMS   900 Bodies Recovered So Far: Loss Is $100,000,000

ACCUSED KILLER TALKS RAPIDLY AS ALIBI GIVEN   Son Previously Had Said His Father Told Him He Had Killed ‘Uncle Elmer’

COLLET, BEGINS. FIGHT FOR LIFE   Declares, He Was Not In Fayette County Night Of McCoy Murders

COLLET DENIES SLAYING CHARGE   Defendant Takes Witness Stand As Trial Nears End

Big Storm Lashes  Carolina Coasts   Whirling Gale, Traveling North, To Pass Over Connectiont and RhadeTeland

‘SUBSIDY REPEAL GIVEN APPROVAL   House Expected To Concur With Senate Today; Veto Predicted

Conferee Bill On Subsidy Ban OKd by Senate   ¥.D.R. Expected To Veto After House Approval Which Is Likely Today

Senate OK’s Outlawing Of Subsidies   HOUSE IS EXPECTED TO APPROYN ®& LEGISLATION TODAY AND SEND BILL TO WHITE HOUSE FOR ACTION.

SUBSIDY BAN WINS SENATE APPROVAL   REPEALER NOW GOES TO HOUSE WHERE PROMPT ACCEPTANCE IS EXPECTED.

SUBSIDY REPEAL ACTION SPEEDED   Handicap To Roosevelt's Stabilization Program Faces Certain Veto

Senate Gives Final Approval To Subsidies Ban   House to Follow Today; Real Test Expected on Veto

Anti Subsidy Plar Gets a Final OK From Senate  Democratic Leaders Expect Roosevelt _ to Veto Measure

Less Than 15( Miles From Border   Germans Reeling As Minsk Falls; Reds Bag 135,000

Local Officer Commands Ship   Lt. Commander Chas. M. Cassel, Jr., Now On Destrover McCook:

CASSEL COMMANDS DESTROYER M‘COOK   Local Naval Officer Recently Given New As-  sianment

Russians Push German Force: From Railroad   Nazis Desperately Try To Avoid Encirclement From Sector South Of Captured Pushkin

NAZIS INBITTER — FGAT TO AVOID. ———_ENGIRGLEMENT   Pushed Down the LeningradVitebsk Railway by Soviet Armies.   GERMANS RETREATING   It Appears Nazis Are Faced With One of Worst Catastrophes of Campaign.

Russians Attempt To Trap Nazis   Soviet Troops Conduct Encirclement Drive: Against Germans In Leningrad Sector

Reds Pushing Down Railway   Nazis Frantically Try To Avoid Great Encirclement Near Leningrad

NAZI PUSHED (OWN FIAILWAY   Soviet Armies Use Armored Trains in LeningradVitebsk Sector.   FACED BY CATASTROPHE

GERMANS FACING   Red Army Flanking Move  Threatens to Trap 950 000 Nezvic

250,000 Nazis In Red Trap at Northern Front   Russians Using Armored Irains as Germans Retreat Down Rail Lines.   Soviets Close in on  Two Main Railheads

NAZIS FIGHT TO KEEP MEN OUT OF TRAP   Russians Pushing Germans Farther From Railroads

Rail Monsters Pour Salvos Into Germans Fleeing Down LeningradVitebsk Railway — Nazis Fight DesperateJy Against Outflanking  Movements.

[Red Army Closing in on Last Two Railways; Enemy May Retire to Baltic Area

Nazislaced By Greatest Catastrophe   Quarter Million In Possible Soviet Trap Today

Nazi Panic ' Increasing, . Reds Say   Armored Trains Are Used te Pour Salvos Into*the Fleeing Enemy   ATTACKS WAGED NIGHT AND DAY   Terrific Battles Along the Muddy Roads as Desperate Germans Seek to Escape

Russ Armoret Trains Hit Fleeing Nazis   Soviet Armies Push German Units Down Rail Lines

MIGHTY SOVIET TROOPS PURSUE eBATTERED NAZIS   Large Forces Face Encirclements Between Lenin* grad and Volkhov

Reds Blast Germans With Armored Trains   Push Enemy Down Leningrad-Vitebsk Railway as Nazis Fight Frantically te Avoid Great Encirclement in North.

Germans Face Loss Of Huge Army In Trap   Soviets Employing Heavy Railway GunsNazis Reported Disorganized

Reds Slash At Germans Supply Lines   Leningrad - Estonia Rail Severed By Soviets; Increase Threat To Trap 250.000 Nazis

REDS THREATEN ENCIRCLEMENT Ot 250,000 GERMANS   NAZIS FACED WITH CATASTROPHE IN LENINGRAD SECTOR

Nazis Fight *To Escape Entrapment   Reds Use Armored ‘Trains to Push Foe Down LeningradVitebsk Railway

Armored Trains Pace Russians   BULGARIAN MUTINY REPORTED BREWING

Russian Units Use Armored Trains  Germans Face Great Debacle; Lose Much E*uipment

One Rail Line Cut, Germans Have but Two Lefi, Both Closely Threatened by Russians   PUSHKIN RETAKEN      Germans Report New Red Attacks Between Pripet and Berezina Rivers, Fighting in Kerch

Nazis Frantic In Attempt To Avoid Red Trap   But Soviets Advance Beyond Pushkin

Russians Push To Vital Points   ARMORED TRAINS ARE USED TO ROUT GERMANS

RED ARMORED TRAINS POUND REF RESTING NAZIS AT LENINGRAD      Germans Now Hold Only Two Usable North - South Railway Lines   150 GUNS ARE CAPTURED

Says Plans for News Should Be ~ Made by Allies   Hoyt Says Arrangements  Should Be Made for Invasion Story

Publisher Urges  Invasion News Plan  Portland Man Leaves OW] Past

INVASION NEWS PROMISED NATION   Hoyt Relinquishes OW! Post to Healy. in Wash inatan

Grew Calls on Japanese to Surrender Unconditionally: Warns of Peace Move:

Grew Warns Against Jap Peace Offers   Former Ambassador Calls Upon Nipponese To Surrender Now

Grew Calls Upon Enemy ToGiveUp   At Same Time Issues  Warning Japan May   Offer Enticing Peace

ALLIES MASS FOR ASSAULT ON ARNO RIVER   Nazis Dig In On Both  Sides Of Florence And Continue To Toss Shells Into Eighth  Army Lines

ALLIES GROUP FOR ASSAULT QN ARNO LINE   Fifth, Eighth Armies ‘Prepare Blow on Italian Front

BATTLE OF ARNO” LOOMS IN ITALY   U. S. Fifth, British Eight! Readv to Tackle Next Wator Barrier

ASSAULT BEGINS AT ARNO RIVER   Veteran Allied Forces Prepare For Thrust At Gothic Line

BATTLE OF ARNO “TMPENDS IN ITALY   ‘ALLIES SET FOR ATTACK ON  RIVER BARRING PATH TO 3 NAZI GOTHIC LINE.

Mad Dash On Paris  Continues   Allies Get Set For Big Italy Push

RUSSIAN ARMY READY TO PUSH INTO ROMANIA   60 Miles From Czechoslovakia   one ee ee  oslovakia  KILL THOUSANDS  Soviets Drive Into Nikolayey

—ZSSIANS NEAR AORTH AREA OF RUMANIA   Threaten to Break Into Province of Bucovina

RUSSIAN FORCE NEARING BREAK INTO BUCOVINA   Soviet Troops Reported Battling in Suburbs of Nikolayev

Pulitzer Prize. Journalism Awards Won by Outstanding Figures in Field

Burma Stronghold Tn Allies’ Grasp   Chinese, British Chindits Drive on Myitkyina

Two Periods of Sugar Rationing      «es for Each Person in Family.  Will Allow 20 Poti:

AUSTRIA I$ TOLD TO TAKE ACTION   Hull Declares People Must Quit Germans To Secure Independence

Austria Warned  To Quit War Now   Hull Advises Them To Stop If They Want Freedom

‘Fight Now’; * Austria Told By Sec. Hull   Warns That Time Almost Up For Nation to Win Independence

TREASURY FINDS SALARIES HAVE NOT KEPT PACE   THINKS RAISES SINCE OCTOBER, 1942 HAVE BEEN FULLY DESERVED

Salary Raises Are Approved   Treasury Says Almost All Applications Based On Worthy Reasons

Activity t in Federal Departments Centers on Taxes. Salaries. Draft

Today in  Washington   A Roundup of Developments From the Nation’s Capital

ALLIES DESTROY Gb JAP PLANES IN FAR PACIFIC ZONE   Marshall Island Clashes Reach Pre-invasion Intensity

Blows by Air Point to New Pacifie Drive   Marshalls May Be Invaded—Japs Lose Many Planes

RATIONING ‘GIFT OF PORK ALLOWED DURING THIS WEEK      /Second Pork Bonus Permitted By Use Of Spare Stamp No. 2  Tn Latest Book

OPA Declares Second Pork Bonus   Stamp 2, Book 4 Is Good for 5 Paints

Production And War Costs   ‘Spare Sfamp 2 Good For Fresh  \Pork Purchases

OPA Announces  New Pork Bonus;  Validates Stamp 2 But Smoked Ham  and Bacon May Not Be Purchased

Fresh Pork Offer Made by OPA To Cut Surplus  Another Free Ration Stamp Designated; Is Effective Today

BRITISH ARMY DRIVES NAZIS BACK 5 MILES   ’S Hertogenbosch Entered by Tommies

TIGHTENS ARC ON BUDAPEST: EXPECT FALL   Reds Smash Through Artillery-Studded Defense Lines to Enter Flaming Capital Of Hungary.   March On Austria

SOVIETS ENTER BUDAPEST PARIS RADIO REPORTS   Moscow Silent Although Admitting Part Of City In Flames; Fighting Fierce

Funds For Polio Skyrecketed In Robeson In 1543   Near Six ‘Times as Large Last Year as in 1942.

Funds For Polio Shyrocheted In Robeson In 1913   Near Six Times as f arge. Juist Year as in 1942,

BERLIN HIT 2ND NIGHT IN ROW   Follows Heavy U. S. Attacks On Hannover  And Brunswick

THE SILENCE AS OF DEATH FALLS OVER WHOLE OF CERMANY   Third Terrific Blow In Four Nights “Struck   FIRST WORD TELLS OF “GREAT DAMAGE”

Berlin Left An Inferno:  Yanks Raid   Americans Strike French Targets In Daylight

RAF Smashes Berlin Again   Allies Keep Up Air Offensive; Yanks Hit Brunswick, Hannover, Frankfurt

CAPITAL AFIRE, RUBBLE HEAPED ALONG STREETS   RAF Bombers Blast Berlin, Then Mesquito Planes Strike Ruins ~

Day-Night Assaults Turn Nazi Centers Into Mass Of Ruins   Brunswick, Hannover And Frankfurt Also Crushed Under - Four Days Of Bombings; Large Fleets Of Allied 4 Planes Strike Out Toward Northern France

British Bombers Raid ‘German Capital Again; “Yanks Attack France

BERLIN BLAZES AFTER SRD RAF RAID IN 4 DAYS   Brunswick, Hanover And Frankfurt Also Blasted By Allied Bombers

R.A.F. Hammers Berlin Anew  In Follow-Up   Huge Formations Of Britain’s Heavy Bombers Hammer Capital.

HIT THIRD BLOW IN 4 NIGHTS AT GERMAN CAPITAL   AMERICANS STRIKE HARD AT BRUNSWICK HANOVER, FRANKFORT

12th Year of Nazi Regime Dawns Bleakly   8000 Tons of Bombs Have Fallen on Reich in 72 : Hours

REICH CITIES LEFT BURNING FROM BOMBS   Greatest Sustained Aerial Offensive Continued  Over the Week-End.   Suffer From 4 Days And Nights of Raids

Berlin Smashed Again By Two R. AR, Air Attack:   800 U. S. Heavies Hit Two Nazi Cities Yesterday

3,900 Tons OF Bombs Hurled  By Americans   Third Terrific Blow In Four Nights Upon Berlin; Rain French Coast.   CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE

HUGE BOMBER FORCE POUNDS WRECKED CIT}   Air Battle Continues During Day as New Assaults Strike

Mosquito Bombers Add to Ruin After Attack by Heavyweights      FOLLOW U. S. RAIDS      Brunswick and Hannover Pounded in Powerful American Attack

Berlin Is Hit Again By British   Third Terrible Blow In Four Nights Is Struck At Capital By RAF  Bombers

R. A. F. Bomber Forces Again Hit af Berlin   Mosquito Bombers Dash in After Big Planes Depart to Add to Wreckage

Germany Gels No Respite. From Aftacks   Raid on Capital Third in 4 Nights; Other Cities Hit

IGAIN LAST MGB   The Great Aerial Offensive Left Nazi Capital Afflame _ and Heaped With Rubble. —   OTHER CITIES ARE HIT   He! Was the Third Terrific Blow in Four Nights Upon German Capital.

Berlin Hammered Anew By R.A.F. In Follow-up To U.S. Daylight Assaults

Industrial Centers dn Ruins:   Brunswick, * Hannover ‘And Frankfurt Blasted By Yankee Bombers   LEFT EIN FLAMES   RAF Heaps Third Ter. tific Blow On ‘German Capital In Four Days

BERLIN HANDED THIRD TERRIFIC BLOWIN 4 DAYS   Three Other Industrial Cities Aflame, Heaped With Rubble

3rd Terrifie  Blow In Four Nights Keeps Up Offensive   Omnious Silence Covers Germany; Big Industry Area Cov ered: ‘By Ruins

U.S. Airmen Stage Heavy Raids By Day   Yanks Hit Coast After Sunday Assaults On Brunswick, Hanover; Enemy Losses High

Allied Planes Keep Up Raids On Germany   Berlin Blasted Again By Great Force; New Raids Under Way

Nazi Capital, Other Points Left in Flames   Germany Remains Silent After Third Great Smash in Four Nights

French Coast - Is Target of ~ “Today's Raid   Americans Keep Big Drive % Going; Germany Hammer‘ed Four Days and Nights   3 RAIDS ON BERLIN “IN LAST 4: NIGHTS   “R.AF: and AAF Have Rain. ed.8,000 Tons of Bombs on “Enemy in 72 Hours

RAF BOMBERS BLAST BERLIN AGAIN SUNDAY   City Left Flaming In Third Raid In Four Days

U. S. Daylight Fleet Blasts At Brunswick And Hannover   Industrial Centers Fired —Ominous Silence Over Germany

RAF Plastered Berliners Anew   HEAVIEST RAID TO DATE STAGED SUNDAY NIGHT

THIRD POTE ATTACK IN 4 DAYS   Brunswick, Hannover Hit By American Planes   Continue Aerial Offensive Today Against Invasion Coast Of France

British Rehit Nazi Capital Last Night; U.S. Attacks France   Berlin Gets Third Heavy Assault in 96 Hours; Other Large Nazi Cities Still Burning

HUNDREDS OF HEAVY RAF BOBMERS BLAST AT GERMAN CAPITAL  THREE OTHER GREAT NAZI INDUSTRIAL CITIES

Smash Berlin for Third Time in Four Nights   Capital Suffers Greatest Sustained Aerial Offensive

Night Bombers Of RAF Again  Smash Berlin   Terrific New Blow In Wake Of U. S. Attacks On Industrial Cities.

Hundreds of British Bombers Smash German Capital and Industrial Centers of Brunswick and Hannover Even as American Bombers Returning for Devastation Blow at Frankfurt

Bombers Batter Berlin   R. A. F. SMASHES NAZI CENTER IN GREATEST SUSTAINED SKY BLOW

BERLIN BOMBED AGAIN WHILE U.S. ATTACKS 3 INDUSTRIAL CITIES   Capital Pounded by RAF 3rd Time in 4 Nights; Report Frankfurt Mortaily Hurt   GREAT DAMAGE ADMITTED:

DEAL THIRD . GREAT BLOW. IN FOUR DAYS      R. A. F. Fliers Leave Caps ital Aflame in What Is Now History’s Greatest Sustained Aerial Offensive, © ge & ¢

RAF HAMMERS BERLIN ANEW: RAID FRANCE   Nazi Capital, Three Other German Industrial Cities Are Left Burning

Un DAYS OF STEADY RAIDS   RAF Bombers Smash at Ber. lin Again; Americans Hit Brunswick, Hanover.   FRANCE TARGET TODAY

—GREAT FIRES STOKED—  BERLIN AGAIN   Reich Staggers Under Unending Bomb Assault   Report Great Damage.

3d Big Blow At Capital In 4 Nights   33 Planes Lost Berlin Admits “Great Damage’ After Attack

Four German Cities Are Burning  After Allied Raids ©   Berlin Gets Third Blow in Four .Nights While American Planes Return to Nazi-Dominated Continent Aaain Today

Holocaust ‘Of Fire And ‘Explosives  Hits Berlin      ‘Great Damage’ Done, Stockholm Hears; Nazi Air Force Suffers Terrific Weekend Loss

Planes Continue Attacks on Berlin  Greatest Sustained Air Offensive   Greatest Sustained Air Offensive Causes Heavy Damaae to Reich City

Nazi Capital-A Holocaust of Fire After Greatest Sustained Aerial Offensive; Report Frankfurt Is Mortally Wounded.

FLOOD CONTROL UP IN CONGRESS   Bills to Be Debated by Northern and Southern Senators

Postwar Hood Control Bill Up in Senate   Bitter Three-Way Rattle Is Seen

BACKING GIVEN STORY OF ROMMEL’S DEATH   Information From Civilians Backs Strafing Report

ROMMEL KILLED IN FRANCE, REPORT SAYS   German Field Marshal Fatally Wounded By Strafing, French Civilians Claim

AGE OF PACIFIC SKIES GROUNDED   Maj. Bong Of Wisconsin Kager To Get Back In Combat

Bong Craves More Action   Anyway, He Says, He’d Gx Nuts if He Couldn’t Keep On Flying Combat

‘Statement is Issued on British Policy in Italy; ‘Opposition to Shifts Fades

May Restate U. § Policy of NonIntervention   Oppose Outside Influence in Liberated Areas

Stettinius Affirms U. S. Hands-Off Policy To Liberated Countries

Believe U. S. Will Further Clarify Policy of Frowning Upon Outside Influence in Liberated Countries

ROBERT NIPP AND A FENSKE SPEAK   Local F. F. A. Sends Del egates To Convention at Des Moines:

Corn Meeting In LeMars Tuesday To Head Appeal  Government. Needs  To Be Explained

Corn Meeting In LeMars Tuesday To Head Appeal  ‘Government: Needs To Be Explained  By Army Officer —

Russia Not Preparing To Extend Territories, Says Moscow Magazine

Reds Say New Territory Talk Nazi Inspired   Lord Lang Criticizes Allied Policy Of Bombing Nazi Towns

Stalin Receives American Priest  Results ‘Excellent,’ Says Clergyman

AMERICAN PRIEST TALKS TO STALIN   DECLARES RESULTS WERE EXCELLENT ON BEHALF OF POLAND

PRIEST AND STALIN IN UNUSUAL MEET   Make Plans to Campaign for A Poland Friendly to Soviet Union...

‘Polish-American Priest to Urge Democratic Poland   Fr. Orlemanski Conters With Stalin, Wants Poland to be Friendly to Sovie? Union

U.S. Priest Visits Stalin in Move To Assist Poland  Conference Is Said To Be Success; Camouaian I< Slated

Priest Visits Stalin   Polish-American Pas- : tor Goes “As Private ; Citizen”; to Campaign For Democratic Poland

Priest Talks With Stalin On  Polish Policy   Pastor Of Massachusetts Church Plans Campaign For Democratic Poland Friendly To Russia

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ELECTORAL VOTE LISTED IN TEXAS   Supreme Court Gives Order On Party Squabble

Hard Job Ahead, Eisenhower Says   Victory Is Certain— Struggle Will Continue Through the Winter

Americans Not To Frafernize. With Germans   General Eisenhower Says Allies Enter . Germany as Conquerors To Treat People Justly

Heavy Job Ahead Says  Eisenhower   Battle Will Continue ‘Throughout Winter If  Wer, Bh ce

Eisenhower Set For Winter War  If Necessary   Powerful Nazi Inner Defenses Hit; Says Collapse Still Possible

Eisenhower Says Hard Job Ahead Victory Certain  Field Tactics, Not ‘Goaneral Strateay

Delays Cannot Save Huns Says  Allied Chief   Might Require Months, Eisenhower Declares, But Regards German Collapse Always Passilile

rt 1,000-Plane  Upon. Formosa      is ees ie  European War  In   Sees No-Prospect Of German Collapse, Says ‘Hopeless Enemy Has Nothing To Lose By Fight To Death.

Gen. Eisenhower Hints Germany ~ May Crack Soor   Otherwise Allies Ready To Fight Through Winter

EXPECTS HARD FIGHT IN REICH   Eisenhower Says Fight May Last Through Winter, Sure of Victory

We Have Hard Job Ahead But Victory Certain Says ‘Ike’   Commander Asserts Fraternizing With. Nazis Not Allowed;

Long And Hard Job AheadSeen By Kisenhower   But Victory Is Certain General Says In Telling Of Fighting

Eisenhower Says Victory Is Certain   Allied Comitiandes, How ever, Says Hard Jol - Still Ahead -

HARD JOB AHEAD ISENHOWER IS CERTAIN GEN. EEMENT. TODAY DECLARES IN STATBUT VICTORY

Hard Job Lies Ahead But Wir  Certain =‘Ike   Permits No Fraternizing With Germans As Invasion Moves Deeper.   TREAT NAZIS JUSTLY

NO LET-UP IN. FIGHT, ALLIED CHIEF STATES   Eisenhower Say Says . Powers Ready to. Battle Through Winter

Offensive Will Continue Until Enemy Is Crushed,  Gen. Eisenhower Declare:   Allied Commander-In-Chief Orders Troops Not To Fraternize With Germans; “We Go {In As Conquerers,’ His Word

ENTER GERMANY AS CONQUERORS NOT BROTHERS   Will Be No Fraternization With German People —— Aachen Matter Of Field Tac tics.

‘Hard Job Ahead, But Victory Is  Sure, He Says   Eisenhower Discusses  Progress Of War And Praises Great Work Of Airborne Forces

Eisenhower Says, "We Have Hard Job Ahead But Victory Is Certain”

Certain Victory,  By Eisenhower   Supreme Commander To Allow No Fraternizing With Residents Of Reich

Eisenhower Says :  ‘VICTORY SURE? OVER GERMANS   Allied Leader Pledges Fight Until Nazis Are Crushed

Eisenhower Sees Hard Job Ahead But Declares That Victory Is Certain

‘Victory Is Certain’,  Eisenhower Declares Allied Commander Admits   Allied Commander Admits ‘We Have a Hard Job Ahead’

Victory In Ku rope Certain   Kisenhower Sure Of Success. But Declares There is  A Hard Job Ahead

Says Europe Fight To Last Winter   Eisenhower Says Allied Advance May Be Slow For Awhile.   ‘Aachen Gets Mighty Pounding; Berlin Bombed For 173rd Time

Allies Prepare. To Wage War Through Winter   But: Gen: Eisenhower . * Adtnits: ‘Possibility ae Of German: Collapse

VICTORY SURE. SAYS ‘GEN. IKE   Hard Job Still Ahead, - Supreme Commander  Indicates

INNER DEFENSES OF REICH REACHED   EISENHOWER SAYS ALLIES WILL FIGHT THROUGH WINTER IF NECESSARY.

Ready To Fight Through Winter, Eisenhower Says   Holds Nazi Collapse Is a Possibility

Inquiry Into Ammunition Ship Blast ls Planned by American Naval Court

‘CHIPS’ FIRST WAR DOG 10 GET D.S.C.   German Shepherd Captured Machine-qun Nest

Of High S School Wholesome Play Well -Rendered   Ry Younes. Actore -

1 Man, 32 Race Horses Die In Fire At Track   Two Barns At Michigan State Grounds Lost; Bell Buzzer Victim

HHILER oktho (0 COTABLIOH LIKE AGAINGT OUVIETD   Nazi Forces Clean Up Resistance in Jittery Hungary.

Nazis Completing Seizure Of Bulgarian Railways; Hitler Installs Puppet Government In Hungary

PUPPET REGIME RULES HUNGARY, RUMANIA NEXT   Air-Borne Legions Seizing « Bulgarian Railways and Phone Exchanges

PUPPET REGIMES IN BULGARIA AND” ROMANIA ARE NEXT ” ON HITLER'S, BALKAN SCHEDULE! 

GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OPENS OFF MARIANAS   TOKYO MAY THROW EVERYTHING INTO SEA SHOWDOWN

No Indication as to Whether Battle Again Joined  RECORD OF LOSSES NOT YET COMPILED  Invasion of Saipan Reported as Going Weill

Jap Vessels Attacked Wes Of Marianas   . May Be Opening Blow In Decisive Battle Of War in Pacific    FIGHT BROKEN OFF AT DUSK MONDAY

Major Naval Battle Appear: To Be Raging   Losses on Either Side Not compiled, Nimitz Reports; Ground  Forces Gain on Saipan

Contact With Powerful Enemy Armada Broken Off Menday Night   LOSSES ON EITHER SIDE NOT COMPILED

U. S. Carrier Planes Strike at Jap Fleet; Battle May Be in Progress

f  DECISIVE BATTLE BELIEVED OPENED   Armada Hit Between Philippines and the Marianas   DETAILS LACKING   Ground Forces Gain North On Saipan; Severe Fighting Continues

STRONG JAPANESE FLEET ATTACKED BYU. 8. PLANES   Blow Dealt Monday, Nimitz Reveals, but ether Bat_ tle Is Continuing Remains Uncertain.   LOSSES ARE STILL TO BE COMPILED   (Whether Decisive Naval En' gagement Takes Place May Depend on Maneuvers  of Both Armadas.  \t

Nimitz Reports Contact Made With Big Force   All-Out Battle Held Probable

Carriers’ - Aircraft Lash Nip Armada West of Marianas   Nimitz Reports First Clash Occurred Monday, Lacks Details, Believes Decisive Naval  wit Bo PD 8 OU ee

‘Admiral Nimitz Announ. ces Opening Stage of Large Battle; May Be Showdown.

ST. LOUIS TRACTION  WORKERS STRIKE BUT  SITUATION EASIER WORKERS IN SEVERAL IN DUSTRIES END ’ALKOUT:  TUAT TOECT ATARIV INE OC

—STRIKES —  STAIKE TIES UP ST LOUIS GAR   ‘All Street Cars And Buses Idie As 3,500 Join Walkout

TORNADO KILLS 31 IN ARKANSAS   More Than 100 Injured, Many Homeless In Western Storm

TORNADO KILLS 34 IN ARKANSAS   ONE HUNDRED. HURT, MANY HOMELESS WIDELY-“SCAT-. : “TERED TOWNS STRUCK.

Taft on Four Freedoms: Senator Says Americans Fight For Own Freedom, Not Ideology

Strong: Labor Gr. roup Sought   Pi rice, Wage: Fixing  W ill. Be. Abandoned

U.S. PLANES HIT KURILE ISLANDS   Carolines, Marshalls Again Raided; New Delhi Expects Enemy Troop Entrapment 

Jap Invaders Of India May Run Into Trap   U.S. Blasts Kuriles Islands; Hit at Carolines, Marshalls

Other Fronts Are Stripped Of Reserves   American Patrols in Advanced Sector Are Forced to Withdraw

Allies Yielding Some Ground In Showdown Fight   Kesslering Strips Adriatic Defenses For Final Decision On Unhinged Third Defense Line;  Allies Record Advances Elsewhere.

RUSH RESERVES INTO FIGHTING AT TERRACINA   Fierce Battle Rages At Mt. Leucio in The Center

Farm Determents To Be Reviewed By Draft Boards  Those Who Fail   Those Who Fail On Crop Goals Will Be Inducted

Draft Board Told To Sift. 1,700,000 Deferred Farm Workers At Once; Calls Up

DEFERMENTS OF FARMERS NOW STRICT   Draft Boards Will Go Through All 2-C Ratings

Cut Farm Deferment To Bone   Only Men Producing At Least 16 “War Units” a Year Will Be Held. Indispensable

They Must Show Big Broduction   Some 1,700,000 Men De.ferred As Essential Farmers   NEW RULE CALLS FOR 16 WAR UNITS

DEFERRED FARM WORKERS ORDERED REVIEWED TODAY   Cases of 1,700,000 Will Be Immediately Reviewed hy Boards,   MUST MAKE SHOWING   Cancel Deferments of Those Not Contributing Their Share to Production.

FARM DEFERMENTS TO BE REVIEWED   Draft Boards Must Cancel Those Of Men Not Contributing Their Share Of Production

Cases Of Farmhands Reviewed   Boards Are Instructed To Induct All Not Contributing Share Of Production

TO REVIEW ALL FARM WORKERS   Hike Limits on Production from Eight Units to 16 a Yeoor

Draft Boards Are Ordered To Review Farmers’ Statu:  At Once As Food Jumps

ee  Draft Boards Ordered To Review _ Cases of Deferred Farm Workers

Farm Workers Must Produce Or Jom Army   Selective Service Puts Screws on Deferred Men

DOUBLE QUOTA OF WAR UNITS’ FOR FARMERS   2-C Group To Be Investigated First; 3-C Class Also To Be Checked

Farm Workers Must Produce or Go to War   Production Goal Is Raised to 16.Units . to Merit Deferment

Draft Boards Make Review Farm Worker:   Wiil Cancel Deferments of  Those Not Contributing : Share of Production  7 On 1944 Goals

DRAFT BOARDS TO COMB FARM DEFERRED LIST   Ordered to Cancel Deferments o Men Not Producing ai Least lt War Units Yearly   DOUBLEOLD OUOTA   400,000 Single Men Below Age 22 Over Three Times Number it Indusiry

Review Of 1,700,000 . Deferred Pari Worker: Begun By Draft Boarc

gaft Boards . 2 & Recheck Farm Worker Deferments      Avriculture Value a a. To Decide Status

1,700,000 FARM WORKERS FACE DRAFT REVIEWS   Must Meet Higher Output Of Foods or Lose  Deferments

Deferments Of Workers ‘On Farms To  Be Reviewed:   To Cancel Those Of Men Not Contributing Enough Production Te Meet Crop Goals

DEFERMENTS OF FARMERS TIGHTENED   Draft Boards Ordered To Review Immediately Cases of 1,700,000 Workers

Deferment On Farm Worker In Stricter   Draft Boards to Review 1,700,000 Cases; 16 ‘War. Units’ Now Minimum

Dratt Boards To Study Farm Worker Status   Ordered To Cancel Defer. ments Of Those Not Con. tributing Share.   REQUIRE 16 UNIT:

Draft Boards Review Farm Deferments   Must Share In War Food Work

DRAFT STATUS OF FARM WORKERS 10 BE REVIEWED   Deferments of Men Lagging  in War Production To Re Canrcallad

Draft Boards Will Review Farm Workers   1,700,000 to Come Under Deferment Test; Drastic Action Seen

Produce Or Fight Farm Hands Told  Draft Boards to Reclassify Men Who Fail to Hold Un Their Share

Review Ordered Of All Deferred  Farm Workers   Each Deferred Worker Must Produce By Own Efforts 16 Units.

Will Review Farm Defermenis   Must Produce 16 War Units by Own Personal And Direct Efforts

Status To Stand ‘For Production — OF 16 War Units   No-Hstimate-Of How Many- Men Will Be Called To. Colors By New Policy

ORDER DRAFT REVIEW OF ALL FARM WORKERS   rsoga Not Producing Their share To Face Deferment Cancellation.

DEFERMENTS OF 1,700,000 10 BE REVIEWED   “War Unit” Figure Boosted To 16; Class 3-C Will Be Eliminated

To Review Draft Status of U. S. Farm Workers   Boards Ordered to Cancel Deferments of Those Not Producing Full 16 “’War Unjts/"

FEWER FARM WORKERS TO MISS DRAFT   ‘Hershey Orders Cancellation of Deferments for Those Who Do Not Personally Produce 16 “War Units” a Year.

Deferred Farm Workers Facing Reclassification  Immediate Review Of 1,700,000 Cases Has Been Ordered

Truk Attack Solves Myth of Fortress   First Eye-witness Account of Attack Released to Public

First Eye-Witness:-Account Reveals Attack On Truk Made By History's Greatest. Force   Fighters Crushed Aerial Resistance, Dive-Bombers Then Struck At Will

Says Allied Intelligence At Fault —   Much of Blame for Breakthrough Laid: To Underestimation Of German Strength

Allied Failure To Gauge Enemy Power Chargec   Intelligence Service Blamed For German Breakthrough

INTELLIGENCE 13 FACTOR IN DRIVE   Lack of Allied Information and Misjudging Germans Blamed for Nazi Successes

Intelligence  Error Aided  German Push   Failed To Detect Nazi Buildup On Weak Spot Of Front

Error Blamed  Vor Offensive   Mistake In Allied Intellivence Service Takes Part  Of Blame.

Dewey Denounces ‘Slippery Tactics’   Roosevelt Statement Draws Sharp Reply

Dewey Repeats: FDR Failed to Prepare for War   ‘Accuses President of Avoiding Issues by Hurling Epithets; Nominee En Route for St. Louis

Dewey Avers FDR’s Reply Affirms Case   Speech Quotations On New Deal Called  SA porate lo Comyn

Dewey Re-Iterates Charge  GOP Nominee Again Assails Faifure to Prepare

‘Dewey Reiterates His Charge Roosevelt Administration Failed to Prenare U. S. for War

Hodges’ First Army Near Breakthrough   Cologne, Dusseldorf Threatened As Fighting Reported in Aachen; Canadian I andine Cuts Garrison

West Front Has Big Breakthrough   AMERICAN FIRST ARMY OPENS 20-MILE  GAP

Yankeesin Aachen Fight in Effort to Win Breakthrough   _ First Army Moves Toward Cologne - And Dusseldorf Whole Seventh Army Pushes Within Seven Miles of Belfort

ALLIES SLOWLY THREADING WAY TOWARD BERLIN   Fighting Reported In Aachen; Nazis  Are Cut Off

Aachen Escape Gap Is_ Narrowed to Four Miles   Fighting Reported Within Aachen; 7th Army in 3 Miles of Belfort

END OF CAMPAIGN ‘CLAIMED IN SIGHT   American Liberation of Leyte; Samar Islands Near, MacArthur Reports Today

RUSSIANS NOW  FIGHTING NAZIS ON POLISH SOIL; DRIVE ON SARNY   Germans Admit They Are Feeling Russian Pressure Also In Other  Gartare

Reds Capture Rakitno 12 Miles Inside Poland: Head For Rai! Junction

HITLER IN HIDING   Living in Train Which Lurks In Tunnels at Night

Se ete ee eae eestpennementeneemntimmeeeneteneenl  HITLER STAYS AWAY FROM BERCHTESGADEN NOW

Paper, Rag Drive Ts Slated Here   Silver B’s Will   SHonsor Worle

Yanks Preparing Death Blow For Japs On Guam;  (Gen. Merrill Transterred

Browns Whip Cards, 6 to 2;  Lead Series   A. L. Club Piles Up Four Runs in 3rd; Never Overtaken

Kramer s Victor in 3rd Game   4th-Inning Explosion Gives Winning Edge to Sewell’s Athletes   THIRD INNING

8TH REACHES AIRFIELD AT FORLI, ITALY   5th Army Repulses Repeated Nazi Counter-Attacks

ALLIES IN ITALY CONTINUE ADVANCE   Eighth A rmy Storms Across Ronco River And Reaches Forlj Airfield

EIGHTH CROSSES RONCO RIVER WITH STRENGTH   Three - Way A llied Drive on BolognaRimini Hirhway

FORLI AIRFIELD ~ UNDER ETTAGK   ‘British Armor Spearheads Three-Way Allied Drive

Nation Prepares For Big Export Trade After War   U. S.-Private  Finance Plan

Roosevelt EF xpected To Seek - Federal-Private Financing For Biggest Export Program

Vast Export Program May Receive Joint Government- Private Support

Great Export Program Seenby FDR   First-Year Volume After War to Hit Record High

Joint Financing Of Exports Seen   FDR Expected to Suggest Government and Private Funding

HUGE EXPORT TRADE AFTER WAR IS SEEN   President Expected to Recommend Joint Government-Private Financing for Big Program in Peace Years. 

BVT aTUDIba FINANCING Ut EXPORT TRADE   May Provide Support in Case Private Money Doss Not Cover Needs.

Financing ‘Of Peacetime Exports To Be Sought   Joint Government And Private Backing Likely 'To Ke Sought By President

Great Export Program Being Outlined Now   Joint Financing Considered for Postwar Project

GREAT EXPORT PLAN EXPECTED   Think F. R. to Announce  Potswar Program

Vast Trade Loan Program Suggested   FDR May Offer Plan Early in 1945

Prepare For Export Trade  In Peace Era   President Expected to Rec onunend Joint Govern. ment-Private Finaucing Pregram

PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO URGE U.S.-PRIVATE INDUSTRY BID TO BUILD WORLD TRADE

Giant Peacetime Export Program  To Be Urged By Roosevelt, Beliet

‘JOINT FINANCING GREAT PEACETIME EYPORT PROGRAM   PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO RECOMMEND PLAN TO CONGRESS EARLY 1945

Postwar Export Plan in Making   Joint Financing by Government and  Private Capital is Basis of Procram

BOLTON TELLS CF LABOR RELATIONS   : Relations Aré Only - Common Courtesy, “Rotary Club Hears

BULION TELLS Ur LABOR RELATIONS   Relations Are Only Common Courtesy, Rotary Club Hears

United Nations Postwar Aviation Confat Has Been in Progress Since December

POST-WAR HIGHWAY PROGRAM IS VOTED   Senate Passes Bill Calling for $1, 475,250,000 Expenditure in Three Vears.

Senate Approves Highway Measure   Provides for Spending Of Billion and Half

POST-WAR ROAD BUILDING PLAN GIVEN APPROVAL   Senate Bill Would Permit Federal Expenditures Over 3-Year Period   STATES MUST MATCH U. S$. APPROPRIATION

SENATE APPROVES HIGHWAY PROGRAM   BILL CALLING FOR, $3,173,250,000 POST-WAR CONSTRUCTION VOTED.

Make 4-Mile Gain West Of St. Lo   Thrust Endangers Thousands of Battered German Forces

LINE SMASHED BY AMERICAN TANK FORCES   Yanks Pound Into Flaming Battle With Foe Armor In Marigny Streets

British Locked In Savage Battle Below Caen   SUPREME HEADQUARTERS Allied Expeditionary Force—(?)\—Marigny and St. Gilles are firmly in American hands, a field dispatch from Normandy said tonight.

U.S. TANKS ENTER FRST BIG ACTON WEST OF ST. Uf      Breach Four Miles Deep Cut into German Defense Line; Marigny Penetrated   FIGHT RAGES BELOW CAEN

US. TANKS SMASH FOUR MILE BREACH   Fighting Fierce In Most Areas In Normandy

‘Thousands — Of Battered  Foe Menaced By Bie Thrust   British Crumple Major Enemy Attack Near Verrieres; Americanc In Marigny’s Streets

Yank Armor Hits First Major Blow, Cuts 4 Miles Deep   Sharp-Shooting Doughboys Ride Atop Tanks Against Fanatical Germans; Battle In Marigny

WEDGE IN NAZI LINE AT ST. LO   Hammer Way Into Flam. ing Battle In Streets Of Marigny

Tanks In First Major Operation Sweep Four Miles   Sweep 4 Miles, Engaged in Armored Battle: Foe Fights Fiercely at Caen   Eighth Army Pushes Within 8 Miles Of Florence; Yanks Below Pisa Heavily Shelled   Americans Consolidate Hold Along Broad Front South Of Arno River

Americans Smash > Breach Four Miles Deep West of St. Lo   Infantry Riding Steel Tanks and Bombers Pace Way Into Streets of Marigny to Engage German Armor in Battle

ARMORED UNITS SCORE VICTORY WEST OF ST, LO   Four-Mile Push Menaces Thousands of Tiring Nazis at Marigny

Flaming Battle Rages In Streets of Marigny   Hitlerites Fight With Suicidal Fury to Halt Advance by British

Four Miles Are Gained In Defense Of Germans   Flaming Fighting Raging Inside Of Marigny

Breach 4 Miles Deep Is Opened   \merican Heavy Machines In First Major Operation In France; Forces Hammer Into Flaming Battle

Hammer Into: Flaming ‘Battle With Enemy In “Streets Of. ~ Marigny “After: Scoring ‘Breakthrough And. Threaten “Nazi Entrapment; Ger‘mans. Fight. With Suicidal Fury .

Allies Expand Entire Front in Normandy   Americans Score Four Mile Breach in Flaming Battle West of 3%. Lo

BARRAGE FORCES GERMANS BACK: BRITISH HALTED   Penetration By Americans Threatens To Trap Nazis On St. Lo-Periers Road

Sharpshooters Ride Into Marigny on Top Of American Tanks   U. S. Infantry Captures French Tow1 After Heavy Battle; Nazis Fight British With Suicidal Fury

Battle Breaks Out AfterInfantrymen  Ride Into Marigny   Yanks Aboard Shermans Pick Off Enemy Rocket Gunners With Rifles; Other Germans Fight Furiously To Halt British-Canadian Smash Below Caen

GAIN MADE BY ARMOR   Flaming Battle In Marigny Streets Is Reported

British Run Into Suicidal Nazi Defense  Vinet Avdillesc- and Dawlh.   Vast Artillery and Bomber Barrage Signals New . §. Advance      FIND TANKS DUG IN   Rommel Throws Second Panzer Division in Fighting Across Orne

First Armored Assault Staged By U.S. Forces   ‘Smash Through Line In - Face of Savage Battle Put Up By Nazis In Normandy Sector   Battle Enemy In  Marigny Streets   Waves of Warplanes Aid Ground Forces Driving Eastward From St, Lo  Tn New Offensive

U.S. Tanks In First Major Operation OnWesternFront   U.S. Tanks Smash Into Marigny; Air Support Very Strong

American Armor Gets First Big Test in Normandy   Gains Scored in New Offensives Southwest of St. Lo

A-MILE SLICE IN NAZI LINE IS REPORTED   First Major Armored Drive Since Invasion   SAVAGE BATTLE   Rages In Marigny Vicinity: Big Artillery Barrage Precedes Advance

Biggest Breach Since D-Day Carries Americans Four Miles Ahead in Earlv Fighting

—INVASION—   First Major Operation In France Pierces German Defenses   Doughboys Ride Steel. Tanks Into Spirited Battle , Against Nazis West Of St. Lo; Thousands of  Rammel’s.Trnane Budancered

Fight Way.  Into Town Of Marigny   First Biq Armored Blow Struck By Yanks In France

Mismanaging And Bungling Are Reviewed  By Committee   Engineer Colonel Criticism’s Tarcet

Pearl ‘Harbor Ruin Blamed On Army Man  ET. ccnan NE Tiec oc Vo an ceur Cu tha)   House Military Group Finds ‘Neglect . And Delay’...   Says He Delayed Use Of Detector a Gvuatem.

“Mismanagement' At Pearl Harbor   Colonel Charged With Contributing To Costly Delay

House Group Says “Mismanagement” By Army Engineer Delayed Defense Installations for Pearl Harbor

Committee Charges Army Colonel Delayed Aircraft Warning At Pearl Harbor

HOUSE GROUP REPORTS ON HAWAII CASE.   Blames Colonel and German-Born Contractor for Delay

Army’s Explanation of ‘Mismanagement’ in Hawaii is Asked   House Group Reports on - Probe of Delay in Defense Works

Blame Contractor For Pearl Harbor Delays  Charge Nazi Alien Aided Japs

 'arning S ystem Delay Blamed For ‘Much’ of  [Pearl Harbor Surprise

Investigators Say Civilian Concerns  Failed to Do Part   Report Tells of Wild Parties Given By German. born Contractor

Work Slow On Defenses  At P. Harbor   Shocking Story Revealed Of Failure to Have Them Ready in Contract Time   Explanation Demand   Colonel, German Alien Who Had Contracts Close Buddies in Business, Parties

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE SAYS ARMY DID NOT EN. .' FORCE CONTRACTS FOR ‘AIRCRAFT WARNING   sErUR

House Militory Committee Names Col. Theadore Wymon Jr, U.S.ondHons 4» Wilhelm Rohl, Naturolized in 1941 §

German Alien Had Charge Of Pearl Harbor Defense Work Before War, Solons Report   He Took Army Colonel Heading Program On Yatching Parties; Fix Delay Causes

Colonel Blamed in Alarm Delay   Pearl Harbor Officer Criticized in Report

REPORT SCORES PEARL HARBOR DEFENSE DELAY   Puts Blame On Army Of ficer and Nazi-Born  —  Contractor

Deal Between Army Col. and Builder Revealed   Contractor in Hawaii Had Pro-German Leanings Savs Comm.

Attack On Pearl Harbor  Laid To “Mismanagement”   Congressional Report Says Army Colonel's Collabora tion With German-Born Contractor Delayed Completion Of Aircraft Warning System

Put Pearl Harbor Blame On Army Engineer's Delay   Charge Collaboration With German-Born  Contractor

Congress Airs Pearl Harbor Defense Delay   Nazi Alien Held Contracts for Army War Work

House Group Blames Army Colonel, German-Born Pal For Pearl Harbor Affair

COLONEL BLAMED FOR PEARL HARBOR SHOCK   CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE REPORTS COLLABORATION DELAYED AIRCRAFT WARNING SYSTEM COMPLETION

Congressmen Charge Army Engineer, Ex-Alien Delayed Pearl Harbor Defense  Charges Rohl, Major Stockholder in Contractimg Concern, Became Citizen Only Three ° ‘Months Before Japanese Attack

German Alien Had Contract For Pearl Harbor Warning _ System. Inquiry Discloses

Colonel’s Mismanagement Blamed By House Group For Delays In Pre-Pearl Harbor Preparedness

DEFENSE PLANS WERE DELAYED      Report Highlighted By Description of Parties Given By Contractor.   BUILDER GERMAN-BORN

CITES NEGLECT AS AID TO JAPS      Committee Blames Officer and German-Born Builder at Pearl Harbor

Cite Delay in Warning System at Pearl Harbor   Name Colonel and German-Born Contractor

House Group ‘Makes Pearl Harbor Report   Mismanagement by Army Engineer Colonel Delayed Defense Installations

Charge German Held Hawaiian War Contract   Committee Report Or Pearl Harbor States Job Was Awarded To Alien Contractor

House Group Links Wyman To Pro-Nazi   Mismanagement And Collaboration Cited In Report.

Work Slow On Defenses At P. Harbo:   Shocking Story Revealed Of Failure to Have Them Ready in Contract Time   Explanation Demand   en of ——E—— ee aS eel UP eee a ee ee  Colonel, German Alien Who Hed Contracts Close Buddies in Business, Parties

Report Bares Negligence at ~ Peas! Harbos   Yachling Parties Given for Arniy Officer in Charge of Defense Construction by German-Born Contractor

Charge “Mismanagement” Delayed Aircraft Warning System At: Pearl Harbor

ARMY ENGINEER'S DEALS AT PEARL HARBAR REVEAT FT}   Col. Theodore W. Wyman, Jr., and Hans Rohl, Ex German, Caused Delays In Difidinga Enninmont.   WARNING SYSTER WAS INVOLVED IN CONTRACT   Congressional Report States  They Were Companions on ; “Wild Drinking Parties In + Honolulu.’”

ongressional Investigation Involves Naturalized German And U. S. Army Colonel in Construction Contracts; Probe Brings Out Stories of Riotous Living and Wild Parties Just Before Jap Attack

Charges Delay In Pearl Harbor  Defenses Due To Mismanagement   House Committee Says Former German Alien Headed Company Doing Installing Job; Critical Of Army Engineer Colonel.

Failure to Have Plane. Detection, Apparatus: Installed .On Time “Caused Disaster

Report On Secret Investigation : : Of Pearl Harbor Attack Released

PEARL HARBOR REPORT RAKES ARMY COLONEL   Mismanagement Delay In Aircraft Warning System Charged

House Questions Defense Delays At Pearl Harbor   German Native In Charge Of Installing Unfinished Plane Warning System

House Charges Neglect, Delay in Installing Raid Warning System ‘Mismanasement’ at Pearl Harbor Cited

Colonel’s Mismanagement Helped Japs Stage Raid At Pearl Harbor, Report

OPPOSE DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH VATICAN      Protestant Group Adopts Resolution Against Preferential Status.

Federal Church Council Opposes U. S.-Vatican Diplomatic Relations

Hull Ready to Begin “Big 4” Peace Talks   World Security Organization Parley Planned

CLIMAX NEARS IN DECISIVE ITALY BATTLE   B Soviets Take 130 Villages In Advance On Pskov

Issue in Critical Italian Struggle Still Undecided  Russians Closing In On Baltic Gateway From Three Sides

DECISIVE FIGHT NEARING CLIMAX AS ALLIES HOLD   Hitler's Great Gamble Appears To Have Lost—at Terrific Price

Russians Complete Destruction of Fatherland Line, Threaten Minsk; 1,150 Towns and Villages Captured

YANKS HELD OFF NAS A Week   American 101st Airborng’. Division Rescued from GermanRinged Bastogne.

Speed of Red Onslaught Foretells Warsaw Fall, March to Reich Soil

BLACK THURSDAY FOR NAZIS AS ARMIES APPROAL      Blacker Friday Portends With Red and U.S. Vietories

FROM EAST: WEST   Yesterday Proves Black Thursday For Shaky Cause   Nazis Greatly Outnumhbered On All Fighting Fronts

Major Allied Victories in Russia, Normandy Forecast Craater Doom for Hitler

THESE DAYS ARE BLACK FOR HITLER ~ BUT HE HASN'T SEEN HALF OF IT AS YET

Body Disinterment  Is Investigated  Reburial Outside Coffin Discovered By Girl’c Father

MEN MASSING IN NORMANDY FOR BiG PUSH   GERMAN COMMAND UNABLE TO STOP AVALANCHE

Dent. of Justice Fights Ingleside Seizure Ruling   Attorney Says Atwell Exceeds Authority Giving Restrain Order

Solons Say Byrnes May Succeed Hull as Secretary  Illness May Prevent State Leader From Keeping Post

Eye Byrnes As Possible Head Of State Dept.   Sec. Hull’s Doctors May Not Allow Him To Con:  tinue In Post.

See Byrnes as Next Secretary of State   Senators Regard ‘Him As Logical Successor Should Hull Resign

Increasingly Of Hull Refirement  Would Be Prosented Secretary's Post

Cabinet Post For Byrnes?   Senators Think Hull  Due for Successor

FOR HULL JOB   Solons Talk Increasingly Of Him Becoming Secretary of State

Senators Hint Byrnes May Be Hull Successor   Wer Mobilization Director May Move To Cabinet Post

Nazis Give Up Rail Center East Of Budapest   Byrnes May Get Cabinet Post If Hull Resions

Hull, Byrnes Swap Likely   “Secretary. Of State’ May Quit On Health

BYRNES TALKED FOR HULL'S JOB   HINT ILLNESS MAY FORCE RETIREMENT OF SEC'Y OF STATE

SAY BYRNES TO REPLACE HULL   Health of Present Secretary May Force Retirement

Byrnes Seen As Hull Successor   Senators See “Assistant President” Becoming Secretary Of State.

Eden Charges Nazi Murder of 51 Fliers   PUNISHMENT VOWED FOR MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR FLIERS’ DEATHS

Gunmen Slay  Old Gang Leader   Chief Of Remnant Of Old Capone Gang Shot To Death In Chicago

NAZI PRISONERS TO HELP FOOD PROGRAM   To Be Available for Peak Months in Canning

National Leaque   U. S. Shuttle Pilots Save  Pal Downed In Romania

Flier Rescued In Movie Style   Shuttle Pilot Braves  Romania Capture, Naz

Record Bombing Shatters Bologna   Assault Greatest of Mediterranean Area

DANUBE RIVER AXIS DEFENSE HUB BATTERED   RUSSIANS BELIEVE SEVASTOPOL WILL FALL QUICKLY

Russian Planes Join Allied Aerial Offensive With Mass Attack on Key Foe Position at Galati

‘Long-range Airmen Join in Aerial Attack Against Romania  MEKENZIYA SEIZED             Death Trap Being Drawn Around Stricken Stronghold

Roads Leading Info City Now Held by Reds   Soviet Air Forces Join in Assaults

Airmen Join In Mass Attack On Port of Galati   Armies Closing in on Stricken Enemy Stronghold in Crimea

THOUSANDS OF NAZI AND ROMANIAN TROOPS HURLED INTO 85-SQUARE MILE DEATH TRAP AS RUSSIANS GET WITHIN ONE MILE SEVASTOPOL BAY.

Romanian Units Are Pounded By Russian Airmer   Russ Troops Within Mile OF Prize: Foe {s In - Death Trap

3 Columns Converging On Port City   Germans Being Herded Into Ever-Narrowing Crimean Death Trap  REDS BOMB GALATI

Axis Evacuation Ships Sunk by Reds Jam Bay: Romanian Defense  Hub of Galati Raided

Reds Herding Nazis Closer  Death Trap At Sevastopol  Narrawe Carnanea hAninte

Long-range Airmen Join in. Aerial Attack Against Romania  MEKENZIYA SEIZED ——BY-UKRATNE-FORCE Death Trap Being Drawn Around Stricken Stronghold

Russians Are Within Mile of Sevastopol   Soviet Airmen Take Part in Aerial Attacks

Russians Plunge To Within A Mile Of Bay, Seize Two Junctions: Aerial Force Halnce Pannd Ramania

Russians Within Mile Ot Sevastopol’s Bay; U.S. Flyers Hit Balkan:   British Forbids All Neutral Diplomats To Leave Country, Censors All Pouches; Plane Blast Invasion Coast Unopposed in Air

Reds Herding Nazis Closer   Death. Trap At seyastopol  “Narrows, Carnagé‘Moiints:

Red Air Foree, Allies Hammer  Vital Oil Link:   Russian Fliers Lash Galati; Black Sea Harbor Said Jammed With Shins

Entire Defense System * Crumbling: Russians - Pushing Ahead At Narv

RUSSIANS MAKE NEW GAINS BOTH AT NARVA AND PSKOV   Entire Nazi Defense System Appears to Be Crumbling.

RUSSIANS POUND AT NAZI DEFENSE GUARDING BALTIC   Moscow Dispatch Says entire German Defense  System Appears To Be Lesiambiivag

Wherry asks  cars released  ‘Would stamp out illegitimate sales’

Yanks Capture Cannes, Thrus'  Swiltly Ahead   Germans Withdraw From Southern France As Patriot Troops Enter Lyon

YANKS CAPTURE CANNES TODAY   Thrust Within Less Than ~ 20 Miles of Italian:  : Frontier, a   FRENCH LIBERATE LYON?

Cannes Falls; Evacuation of  South Indicated   Germans Appear Abandoning Much Of Channel Coast

U.S. Troops Seize Cannes In Southern France And Drive To Within 20 Miles Of Italy

Allies Capture (Cannes in Drive Toward Italy   Silence Reigns on Progress Northward . Prisoner Pens Now Hold 20,000 Nazis:

CANNES FALLS TO YANK FORCE   Rerlin Announces Retreat From Southern France; Lyon Captured

CANNES FALLS TOU.S FORCES   Seize French Riviera Resort In Advance Toward Italian Frontier

Yanks Push Beyond Can nes Toward Italian Border; Germans: Said Retreating From South  _France; Assault Opened On Marseille. *

Cannes Taken   NAZI RETREAT APPEARS TO EXTEND OVER MOST CF SOUTHERN =FRANCE

th Army Captures Cannes With FiveMile March Today   ‘ankees-Drive For Allied Junction in North =’ France

Holdings Widened  In South France   Allied Eastward Drive Envelops Cannes and Grasse on Riviera   NEARER: RHONE VALLEY   Headquarters Silent on Position of Troops North of Grenoble

CANNES FALLS TO AMERICANS: FRENCH IN LYON   U.S. Troops in Southern France Now Reported Within Less Than 20 Miles of Italian Border

Announce Capture Of Cannes   Forces in Southern France Move Toward Italy As Prisoners Roll in By Thousands

U.S. Troops Seize Cannes  In New Push   South France Forces Now Less Than 20 Miles from Italian Frontier

Cannes and Grasse Fall To Yankees   Extending Hold on Southern France East Toward Italian Frontier

Patch’s Forces Within 20 Miles Of Italian Border   Advance After Seizing Cannes, Open Aitack on Marseille as Patriot Troops Enter Lyon

Enemy Squeezed Into Narrowing Pocket on Guam   3-Mile Advance Gives Yanks Control of All But One-Tenth of Isle

Scotch For Ace Taboa  Mar thur Bans Gift of V hisky  For Pacific Area’s No. 1 Pilot

BIG RED ARMY ROLLING OVER EAST PRUSSIA   Vast Force Of 750,000 Men Smashes Ahead On 87Mile Front Toward Great Nazi Port, Konioshero

Huge Russian Tank Army Drives Into East Prussia,  Takes 400 German Towns

RUSSIAN ARMOR SWEEPS ACROSS EAST PRUSSIA’   Drive Aimed At Konigsberg

The Weather   Red Tide Surges Across Prussia Toward Nazi Port   400 Towns Fall to Massive Soviet  Armored Formations

Push Is On Major Scale   750,000 Russians Make Deep Inroad Onto German Soil

Great Red Force Sweeps Toward Konigsberg Port   ‘Over 400 Villages, Towns Taken By Soviets Along 87-Mile Front

Soviets  Aim For  Konigsberg Cherniakovsky’s 3rd Army Captures  400 Towns and Villages in Push

Soviet Army Rolls Across  East Prussia   Armored Forces Advance Rapidly Toward Port Of Konigsberg Along Front Of 87 Miles

Reds Push 19 Miles Into Kast Prussia   Berlin Says Enemy Is 31 Miles Inside Reich Border

 More Than 400 Towns, Villages Taken As Spearheads Thrust As Deep As 19 Miles Into Nazi Taeri tor   FINNISH GATEWAY CAPTURED BY REDS

REDS DRIVE DEEPER INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Record Armored Force Is Heading Toward Konigsberg

Soviet Armor Makes Deepest Penetration IOf Nazi Soil in Blow Aimed at Port City

Oil Embargo May Force Spain to War   Worry Clouds Gaiety Of Neutral Land, Where Life Is Bright

Leyte Ex-( Is Now-{A Jail      And. He'd Like to Stay There For Safety Until Time For Trial

Leyte’s Former Governor Is Out of Job And in Jail; Successor May Permit Him to Remain There If He Is Good Boy

Leyte Ex-Governor Is Now In Jail   And He’d Like to Stay There For Safety Until Time For Trial

GOVERNOR NOW IN JAIL   Salazar Rules: Leyte Island Under the Japanese

special Manpower Priorities Granted To Boost Nation’s Output Of Munitions

Fix Employment In All Industry - Not Aiding War   Stee WMC pirscte een reven in War ‘Production

Move Designed To Free Workers For Vital Posts   Directive Issued After Conferences Between  High National Leaders

NONESOENTIAL INDUSTRIES 10 BE HELD DOWK   Order Is Answer to Armed Forces’ Plea for More + Production.

New Job Sanctions  Ordered   Byrnes Authorizes New Rules to Secure Production for War

Byrnes € lamps Ceiling On Non-Essential .   Action Taken To Free 200,000 Workers For Lagging War Production Programs; War Prisoners Also Used: Labor Will Be Imported From Mexico

Byrnes FixesEmploymentCeilings To Release 200,000 Workers for Lagging WarProductionPrograms

U.S, MOVES TO STEER 200,000 TO WAR JOBS   Byrnes Orders Employment Ceilings On Some Plants

LABOR TO WAR JOBS   Byrnes Orders Fixing of Employment Ceiling on Non-Essentials

Set Ceilings On Some Plants   Seek to Free 200,000 Workers for Lagging War Production

Sovernment Directive Would Free 20,000 Workers for War-Lagging U. S. Factories

THE WRATHEPR   Plane’s Dive “At Memphis Fatal-to 24   : Grab-Hooks Locate Transport Wreckage On Mississippi Bed

AIRLINER = CRASHES INTO MISS. RIVER   Found in 22 Feet Of Water; 24 Lives Believed Lost

PLANE FELL INTO THE MISSISSIPPI EARLY LAST NIGHT   Rescue Squads Have Located Plane. In 22 Feet of ' Water.

RESCUERS LOCATE MISSING PLANE IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER   Thirteen Members of U. S. Armed Forces and Two Wamen Amana Victims

Airliner Plunges Into Mississippi River; 24 Persons Believed Killed

Buttalo to Hear Dewey Tonight Then Boston   Will Speak Thursday In Baltimore and Then Visit This State

Dewey Talks In Maryland On Thursday   Leyislature Claas Way For Whirlwind Finish To Ca, sidalz's Campaian

Dewey Plans”  Thursday Talk  In Baltimore   Speaks. in Buffalo Tonight at 9 O'clock; To Visit Pennsylvania

Governor Dewey Will Speak In Baltimore Thursday Noon   Address at Lyric Theater Is Announced-—Additional Talks in Pennsylvania Cities Are Also Scheduled

DEWEY TO GO TO MARYLAND   Will Speak Thursday Noon In Baltimore; N. Y. Voting Time Extended

DEWEY TO MAKE WHIRLWIND FINISH   SCHEDULES ADDRESS FOR . BALTIMORE—TO SPEAK IN - BUEFALO TONIGHT.

Somerset Weather   (Reported Daily by David Grove, U.S. Weather Observer)   Weather Forecast

Patton’s Tanks Within 17 Miles of Saar Line As Drive Gains Speed   Soviets Clear Budapest-Szolnok Main Railway And Tighten Net Around Capital; British Troops Cross Nuovo Canal, Move Into Gambellara, Italy

Yanks Wheel In Arc Around Nazi Fortress   Threat of Entrapment Forces Enemy to Withdraw Toward the ~~

Enemy Admits 6 Warships Lost   Claims Toned Down In Later Reports

JAPAN ADMITS 6 SHIPS SUNK   Enemy Lists Carrier, Battleship, 2 Cruisers, 2 Destroyers As Lost

JAPS ADMIT LOSS OF SIX WARSHIPS   Also Tone Down Claims Of U. S.  Naval Losses

tes Plane Crashe Sin Montrea   Picture Indicates Strength of U. S. Force at Marshalls

JAMES FILES IN DEMOCRAT ORIMARY RACE   Candidates in Rush to . Present Papers Before Deadline

Ii ohter Planes  Strafe German ‘Communications   Rai] Lines Are Principal Targets *

Romanian Oil  Fields Blasted   Ploesti Refineries  Hit For Third Day.

SGHUTZ 10 SPEAK AT CORN MEETING   Prominent Speaker to Be Here Feb. 3.

FEDERAL AGENTS MAKING INQUIRY INTO DISTURBANCES IN AAA OFFICES IN DARKE COUNTY

ATTACK ON AAA PROBED BY FBI   Band of 50 to 60 Charged With Burning Gas Data in Darke County

ALLIES DUMP EXPLOSIVES OVER BASES   Around Bismark Sea Area; Hit Kavieng, Rabaul And Japanese Positions On Bougainville, Other Points.   Set Ship Afire

Allied Bombers Blast Jap Bases In Bismarck Sea   New Guinea Coastal Points Reported Toa Be Heaviest. Hit

ENEMY BASES ARE RAIDED BY FLIERS   Kavieng and Rebaul Are Again Attacked by Airmen

Allied Bombers Pound Jap Bases   Targets in Bismarck See Feel Weight of 292 Tons of Explosives

Older Men to Feel Effect of Draft Speedup   No Lessening of Induction as Result ef New Policy

Induction Pace For Older Men Will Continue   Call Order for Eligibles Over 25 Unaffected, Officials Explain

NEW DRAFT PLANS PUT INTO MOTION   Speeded-up Machinery Push es Men 25 and Under Closer To Service; Older Men to Take Regular Turns

BOARDS T0 TAKE ~ UP DEFERMENTS AS THEY EXPIRI   All to Be Considered Anew and Induction Delays Grant' ed Only to Men Held Irreplacable.   BOARDS WILL REVIEW YOUNGER MEN FIRST   But Those Over 25 Will Move Right Along on Assembly Line as the Others Are Called.

Draft Of Elizible Men Not Lessened  Calling Of Those Under 26 Not To Alter Setup

Early Draft Waits Men From 22-25  Induction Rate Goes On for  Die ee DL Lexa

WILL SPEED UP INDUCTION, PACE   Those Over 25 To Move Into Service When Deferments Expire

Deferments To Be Given New Checkup   Selective Service Order to Hit Some Essential Industries Hard   SCAN LABOR NEEDS

25-Year-Olds Move Closer To Induction   Deferments of Most Under That Age Not To Be Renewed

Speed Call On  Younger Men   But No Lessening Seen Of Induction Pace for Eligibles Over 25

MLL ELIGIBLE. MEN OVER 28 TO RE SOURHT   Gov't Agencies Given 4 Days fo Get Data on Industry Deferment Needs.

-aen Over 25 fc Be Inducted as Pace Quickens   Will Be Moved Into Service as Deferments Expire; Cases Younger Men to Be Reviewed

Men Under 25 Are Nearer Army Service   Eligibles Beyond That Age Still Will Be Inducted

MEN UNDER 26 CLOSE TO ARMY   Draft Boards Directed To Review Younger Groups First

U.S. Sets Young Draft Machinery Into Operation  No nies Sen In Inductio For Older ou Exee

“Not fo Lessen » Draft Pace For Men Over 25   Draft Boards Told to Call Them as Deferments Expire

DISTILLERS WANT TO MANUFACTURE LIQUOR   War Production- Board Makes No Comment On Request After  Closed Meeting

QUICK SECURITY ACTION SOUGHT   British Want Decisions to Prepare for Post-war Security.

Romania Fall Spurs World  Peace Move   Stresses Need Of Organization

SPUR WORK ON PEACE PLANS   New Meet of FDR, Chur. chill, Stalin Is Hinted

Speedy Action On Peace Plans  Now Foreseen   Evidence That Hitler’s Europe Is Collapsing Expected to Bring Quick Decision

Asks For Greater B-29 Production   ‘General Wants Output Doubled In Three Months

Ukraine Army Advances Within 5 Miles Of Nazi Escape Hatch, Ovidiopel

Crimean Army Crashes Defenses Of Isolated Foe   1000 Nazis in Trap; Russians Penetrate 65 Miles Into Romania

Reconquest of Ukraine Now  Virtually Over  (ek Ti inci Bek eS, ER   Red Forces Invading Romania Force Way Across Siret River

REDS THREATEN ESCAPE ROUTE   Push Nearer Rich Ploesti Oil Fields in South   DRIVE IN CRIMEA   Crashes Through Nazi Defenses Protecting Perhaps 100,000 Isolated Troops

RUSSIAN THIRD ARMY RECONQUERS BLACK SEA PORT AND DRIVES WITHIN SIX MILES OF NAZI ESCAPE HATCH AT OVIDIOPOL.

Another Arnzy in Romania Forces Siret and Suceava Rivers in  65-Mile Push. Taking 180 Villages

Fall Of Odessa Is Followed By New Russian Advances   Vital Black Sea Port Which Germans Have Held Since 1941 Falls Into Hands Of The Soviet Army: Reds Near Rumanian Oil Field

Reds Take Odessa, ‘Launch New Attack ‘To Reclaim Crimea   5,500 Said Slain In'New Drive, While: Other Troanse Lash Forward In Rumania -

Russians Seize City of Odessa On Black Sea   Another Army Forces Two Romanian Rivers In 65-Mile Stab Into Country; Many Killed

Soviet Forces Stab Sixty. Five Miles Inside Romania  MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN CRIMEA BATTLE Odessa Capture Avenges  Bitter Russian Defeat

Reds 6 miles from German  escape hatch Troops crash thru  enemy’s defenses

GRAVEYARD CITY OF ODESSA BACK IN REDS’ HANDS   ‘New Crimean Offensive Is Emerging Under Tolbukhin’s Fourth Army   STALIN GIVES REPLY TO PRESIDENT BENES

Reds Take Odessa, Launch New Attack To Reclaim Crimea   5,500 Said Slain In New Drive, While Other Troops Lash Forward In Rumania  =~. 2 eaoune OF Tr wT TE AAT ARES

SOVIETS TRY TO PUSH WAY INTO CRIMEA   Other Russian Forces - Drive Across Two Rumanian Rivers

Army Attacking In Crimea Crashes Into Defenses Protecting Perhaps 100,000 Isolated Troops

Reds Drive Inside Top Of Peninsula   Russians in Romania Move Rapidly, Menace Campulung Oil Fields   TWO. RIVERS CROSSED

Increase Disabled Veterans’ Benefits  President Signs Two Measures

F.D.R. Signs Two Measures Increasing 'Veis’ Compensation   Bills Raise Pay Of Disabled Veterans Of Both World Wars

Roosevelt Puts — ’ Name To Bills   COMPENSATION MEASURE APPROVED TODAY » BY FD.R. 

Allies Pour. Men, Materials Into Salient.   Gen. Rommel! Directs Elements of Seven Panzer Divisions

American Forces Virtually Conclude Mop Up of Upper Cherbourg German Pockets

British Regain  All Ground Lost  To German Units   Marshal Rommel Said To Have Taken Over  Command In Normandy

ecooceseoeeeneucuaceuseser"  Prepare German 4-F’s for Army Service

Ninth Army Captures Lind ern And Fights In Beeck Streets   MunchenGladbach Arsenal Periled   Men Of First Army Burst Into Open From Pines Of Hurtgen Forest

YANKS CAPTURE LINDERN, POUND BLAZING BEECK   Drive Out of Hurtgen Forest; Repulse Nazi At» tacks In Saar

Take Lindern, Battle Nazis In Beeck Streets   ‘Greatest Combat of Attri   tion in History, Ger.  mans Say

Floods Not  Stopping — Big Push   9th Army. Extends Drive, Taking: Two Towns; First ° -. Army Out of Forest”   THIRD HOLDS GAIN.  AGAINST ATTACK   ‘Bradley’s Forces in Greatest Battle of Attrition in... History, Germans Say

Ninth Army Holds Lindren and Fights In Streets of Beeck   Capture Elite SS Garrison Survivors Near Nazi Arsenal

German Lines Crack Along 25-Mi. Front   Defenders Before Cologne Yielding to Heavy Pressure

YANKS CAPTURE LINDERN, FIGHT THROUGH BEECK   Seesaw Battle Waged for Bridge at Inden in Stiff Fighting

Beeck Burns As Street  Fight Rages   German Stragglers Flee Deeper Into Reich As Allied Offense Cracks Roer River Line; Patton Holds Off Counterattacks

Extensive Gains Also Made Toward Dusseldorf Thru  Roer River Line   THIRD ARMY HOLDING   Stuff Nazi Counter Blows Are All Turned Back in Saar Region

Americans Storm Ahead Toward Rhine   Only 23 Miles From: Colagne At One Point

Take Lindern, Petts Nazis In Beeck Streets   Greatest Combat, of Attri~ tion’ in ‘History, Ger: mans Say

Lindern Falls To 9th Army As 1st Wins Towns  Find Many Of Enemy Troops Dead In Tow:

General Advances Made Al Along Crumbling Nazi Siegfried Crust; Flamethrowers Are Used To Rout Out Dug-in Germans

Ninth Fights By Streets In Beeck   First Emerges From Hurtgen; Seesaw Battle

Flame-T hrowers, Tanks, Frightful Artillery And  Air Barraces Used By U.S.   Even Cermans Call It One Of Greatest Battles Of Attrition In History; Roer River Line OF Enemy Reported Cracking Under Terrific Fire

Troops Fight In Streets Of  Burning Beeck   American First Army Captures Lamersdorf And Grosshau And Emerges From Hurtgen Forest Pinelands In Great Offensive Against Roer River Defense Line

AMERICAN PUSH FROM HURTGEN WINS 2 TOWNS   More Germans Dying In Effort to Halt Allied Advances

me AE ALY ELLY Fee  American. Offensive Is Cracking River Line — : Shielding Cologne      Hitlerites Fail To Check Drive By Opening Flood Gates Of Roer; Infantry Finds German Dead Littering Streets Of Reeck

Ist Army Takes Lamers. dorf and Grosshau in Bursts From Hurtgen Forest; Frightful Battie of Attrition Rages on Cologne Plains.

Ninth Army Cracks  Line at Roer River   Lindern Falls in Extension of Great Allied Offensive; First Army Emerges from Hurtgen Forest

Burning Towns Captured by Sth Army Fighters   See-Saw Battie Rages for Vital Inde River Bridge

Lindern Falls As 9th Army Extends Roer River Drive   First Army Captures Two German Bastions In Drive Out of Hurtgen Forest

Great Allied Offensive Shows Power Against Germans Holding Hard To Protect Cologne.   FIRST AND NINTH WORKING AS A TEAM

American Ninth Army StormsInto Lindern, Beeck   First Army Bursts Into Open From Pines Of Hurtgen Forest

Other Towns Fall Before Great Drive   Roer River Line Before Cologne and Dusseldorf Cracked

NAZIS SAY ‘IKE’ HAS THROWN 70 DIVISIONS FORTH   Minimum Of 850,000 Allies Would Be Attacks ing Rhine If So

Ninth Army Forces Also Fight in Streets of Burning Beeck; Lindern Garrison Survivors Trudge to Prison

Temperatures   U.S. Cracking Nazi Defenses Before Cologne   Yanks Capture Lindern, Storm Into Beeck On Crumbling Roer River Defense Line; ,  1300 Bombers Pulverize four Nazi Refineries

Second Soldier Is Plot Suspect   Held at Camp Hale in lveason-Escape Case   BLIND MOTHER, WITH FIVE SONS IN SERVICE. ASKS RELEASE OF ONE

First Army Is 10 Miles From Capital   Other Soviet Forces Sweep Approaches To East Prussia

RUSSIAN SHOCK  TROOPS WITHIN 10 MILES POLISH CAPITAL TODAY   Soviet Soldiers Seize Highway Junction At Gonendz; 1,000 Germans Killed At Rouge.

Russians Only 10 Miles From Polish Capital   Poised for Final Blow on Warsaw As Reds Rally .

RUSSIANS DRIVE CLOSE TO WARSAW   Other Forces Aim At Heart Of East Prussia

Other Forces Sweep Inte The Heart Of East  Prussia   SERMANS WITHDRAW TO “SHORTEN LINE”   544,000 Germans Killed, 157,000 Captured Since June 23

Reds Ten Miles From  Warsaw  Highway Junction Falls Toa Second   Highway Junction Falls To Second White Russian Army In Push To Prussia

Germans Withdraw East And ‘North Of Warsaw As Soviets Set Stage For Final Assault

Soviet. Forces Sweep Over Approaches to Corridor ‘Through Masurian Lakes into Heart — of Bast Prussia.

STAGE SET FOR FINAL ASSAULT ON POLISH CITY   Other Soviet Forces Sweep Over Appraches to East  Preicaa

Reds Massed To Close In  On Warsaw   Shock Troops Smash Within Ten Miles Of Besieged Polish Capital

‘Secret Weapon” Jeing Used to ferrorize People   BY Line CARSON International News Service Stail Correspondent

Adm. Oldendorf Says 14 Jap Warships Knocked Off Like Sitting Ducks

Entire West Front Afire With Action   American Ninth Joins Assault Inside Germany After LeapFrogging 800 Miles Across France from Bresi

SIX ARMIES OPEN MASS DRIVE AGAINST GERMAN HOMELAND  FOUR AMERICAN, ONE BRITISH AND ONE FRENCE ARMIES ENCACEN

British Rip Off 7-Mile ‘North Gains   Reds Cut Nazi Defenses East of Budapest; Allies Take Perrignone in Italy

"HOPKINS LETTER” MYSTERY DEEPENS   Information On Progress of Grand Jury Investigation Suddenly Withheld. 

FARM CENSUS STARTS JAN. 8   Catalog State’s Agricultural Resources, Opportunities, Needs

U.S. And Britain Agree On Plans For Development Of Postwar Commerce In Air

U.S. Agrees To Divide Commercial Air Routes   England Is Assured And Will Cooperate

U. S., Britain Reach Postwar Aviation Accord   America Won’t Hog Commercial Air; Use Of British Bases Assured.

Air Commerce Control Attempt Denied By U.S   Britain, In Return, Pledges Use Of ATE Tis Bases For All Nations’ Planes

U.S. Has No Intention of Squeezing Great Britain Out of Postwar Aviation

J. S. PROMISES NOT TO SQUEEZE GREAT BRITAIN OUT OF POST-WAR AVIATION

COURT UPHELD CONTROL OVER '” PRIGE LEVELS   UPREME COURT RULES CON. " . TROL POWRAS—MINE : PAY 38 UPHELD .

British Troops Rescue Kohima   Artillery Blast Dazes Japanese, Bayonets Finish Work

Allies Smash Through Jap -Line to India Base   British Regiment Rescued After Epic Defense; Fierce Barrage Paces Drive

ALLEGED ARSONIST FORMALLY ACCUSED      Warrant Is Sworn Qut Against Richard Cecil Grove

Airmen invent ‘Floogle street’ lingo to haze recruits, kill time

HOPE TO AVOID CLASH BETWEEN REDS AND POLES   U. S. May Make Effort to Smooth Out Differences Between Two Since Reds Now in Poland

U.S. May Act for Russia, Poland   An Attempt May Be Made to Bring These Two Nations Together, Hull Said.

More Wor kine O Hours for  CC Delegates   May Limit Debate to Shorten Length of Session

Final Appeal Made To Make Goal By Saturday Evening; Auction Added $50,000 To Fund

Democrats Favol  Aid To Teachers State Aid To Lift Real Estate Burden

POSSE CONTINUES HUNT FOR FUGITIVE   Complaint Charges Lumberjack With First Degree Murder.

Girl's Slayer Eluding Posse  File Murder Charge Against Lumberjack

F.R., Churchill Meeting Hinted  _ Berlin Broadcast Says They May Meet in Caribbean

FDR, Churchill To Meet: Nazis   Enemy Says They'll Confer in Caribbean

Nazis Hint At Allied Meeting  Say President And Churchill Together

NUNN RRCHANERR, neion cclpltietaisimmoscmal HANNOVER, MANNHEIM TARGETS OF BOMBERS

Armies Poised For Strike at Rich Oil Fields   Push Into Rumania on 52 Mile Front; Odessa Nazis Doomed

Reds Advancing, Nearing Kaunas, East Prussia Next   Russians Only Eleven Miles From Lithuanian Capital Of Kaunas   GAIN 100 MILES IN WEEK’S FIGHT   Germans Throw In New Troops, Fail To Stop Onrushing Red Tide  By NATALIA RENE

TAKE NORTHERN ANCHOR, STORM NEARER KAUNAS   Soviets Capture Junction After Hard Three-Day Battle

CAPTURE VITAL RAIL JUNCTION CITY OF GRODNO   General Advances Made Along Entire Length Of 550. Mile Battlefront

LITPUANIAN CAPITAL till BY SOVIET SHELLS   Reds Roll Over 350 Towns, Kill 3,20) Germans

COTRUANIAN CAPITAL HIT BY CHUIET SHEL S   Reds Roll Over 350 Towns, Kill’ 3903 Germans

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Polish Force In Warsaw  Surrenders   Berlin And Moscow Both Report Capitulation Of Bor’s Patriots

GEN. BOR SURRENDERS IN WARSAW   Polish Commander Says Ammunition Exhausted

WARSAW POLES CEASE BATTLE TO FREE CITY   End Resistance as Ammunition and Supplies Are Exhausted in Heroic 63 Day Struggle.

Poles Férced To Quit Fight Inside Warsaw   Supplies And Ammunition Exhausted In Two am Battle By Underground  -—. eseepear a = 2 Gh oe Mas

Nazis Smash’ Bor’s Army Within City   Two Months’ Battle Ends— Moscow Assails Londoners Who Ordered Il-Timed Uprisine

SUPPLIES, AMMUNITION EXHAUSTEL   Battle Started When Underground Came Out of Hiding Is Ended.

Gen. Bor Reports Fall Of Warsaw To Superior Foe   Pro-Soviet Poles Try To Reach Russians  On Vistula Bank

General Bor’s Troops Give Up Warsaw Struggle   Supplies, Ammunition of Polish Home Army Forces Said Exhausted

Polish Home ‘Army at Warsaw Forced to End  Resistance   Bor’s Forces Exhaust All Supplies and Their Ammunition

Underground Forces Give Up To Germans Afte Arms, Supplies Run Out; Fought In Capital Streets Since August

Ammunition, Supplies Exhausted Polish Army _ Defending Warsaw Quits

“General Offensive Ends Long Lull On Italy Front —   Eighth Army Pushes Within Eight Miles of Edge of Po Valley

OFFENSIVE RESUMED IN ITALY   Brit. 8th Army ‘Troops Eight Miles From Po Valley

Announce Force To Land In Greece   An Army Tells Of Future Intentions

TELLS GREEK NEW INVASION SOON TO LANL   Allied Commander Shows Supreme Confidence in Undertaking

T. E. Carey, State Treasurer, Dies  Body Is Found in Spokane Hotel

Yanks Blast Nazi Plants At Berlin Approaches, Targets on Baltic Coast

64 Bombers Shot Down   2000-Plane Attack on Reich Costly to U.S. Air Force

Shoot Down 126 Nazis In bitter Air Dog-Fights   Axis Is Due For More Punishment As RAF Follows Up Tremendous Round-the-Clock Attacks With New Sortie Across Channel.

MICHIGAN'S BALLOTS 60 TO PRESIDENT   Democrats Climbing In Senate, House Governors

Michigan Enters  Roosevelt Column   Popular Vote Plurality Smallest in 28 Years

Knox Reveals 92 Jap Ships Sunk, 3 Weeks   Navy Secretary at Same Time Warns Against Any Undue Optimism

Too Much Optimism, Knox Says   There Is Nothing to Justity _ Views of Early Victory in Pacific —~   WE HAVE NOT HIT INNER DEFENSES   Beachheads' Are No Joke, He Says, Pointing tothe Battle Below Rome

92Japanese . Vessels Sunk flIn 3 Weeks"   ‘Knox Says Estimates of Earfy  End of War in Paeific Um  justified; Jap Strength Une  teated a.

Knox Doesn't Expect Early End Of Pacific War Despite $2 Jap Ships Sunk in 3 Weeks

Knox Reports Jay Ship Losses - 93, Warns Optimists   Yanks Attack Parry Last Enemy Held Marshall Isle

Knox Warns of Over-Optimism   Japan Has Big Army, Well Equipped and. Brave, He Asserts

NINE OTHERS ARE LISTED AS “PROBABLES”   Knox Reveals Startling Toll, But Warns of Over-Optimism

SHIPS, PLANES ATTACK PARRY IN MARSHALLS   Landing Hinted As U. S. Job At Eniwetok Nears End

Knox. Airs Destruction Of 92 Japanese Ships In 3. Weeks But Is Not. Optimistic Over War

Nips Lost 92 Vessels In Three Weeks But America Warned Against Optimism

Secretary Knox Issues Warning  Japan Strength Not Yet Tested, He’ Savs

Secretary Knox Sees Nothing To Justify Any Estimates Of Early End Of War In The Pacific —- Reminds Public That Jap Strength On Sea And Land Has Not Been Fully Tested

92 JAP SHIPS DESTROYED IN THREE WEEKS   Number, Knox Reports. Includes 14 Combat Ves. sels and 53 Cargo Craft but Warns Against Un: due Optimism.

Knox Says Japs Lost 92 Ships in Past 3 Weeks; Warns Against Overoptimism Due to Truk Attack

Secretary Knox Warns Against Over-Optimism   Japan Far From Defeat, Chief Of Navy Tells Press Conference

Knox Says End Of Pacific War Ss ti illFar Off   Navy Secretary Declare:  ' Nothing Is Gained By Foolish Optimism lu  i Such a, Conflict

KNOX PLACES JAP SHIP LOSSES AT 97   secretary Worns Americans Aaainet Over-ontimism

Knox Lists Total While He Warns Against Optimisn:   Yanks Bonib, Shell Enemy From Paramushiro To Rabaul In Pacific Push

Knox Reports 92 Jap Ships Sunk In Last Three Weeks, But Warns Against Optimism

14 Combat Vessels Among Them, Navy Secretary Reveals   Japs Are Blasted Along Entire 3,000 Mile Front in Pacific

99 JAP VESSELS I$ 3-WEEK TOLL   Knox Says American Forces Probably Destroy Nine Others

Knox Lists 92 Jap Ships Sunk In Three Weeks   But Says Hope Of Early. End To War In Pacific Not Justified.

Knox Says 92 Jap Vessels Destroyed In Last 3 Weeks But Warns of Future

Knox Warns Nation Against Optimism  No Early End of War in Pacific  Ct uta. £.*.,..4a.f, ™bL.. fi... Fk.

Knox Warns Pacific War Still Means Hard Battle   Ninety-Two Ships In Three Weeks Only Starter

92 Jap Ships Sunk In3 Weeks, Knox  Announces   Navy Head Warns We Have Not Yet Entered Inner Defenses Of Nipnonese Empire

Japs Ready To  Aid Prisoners   News Comes On ‘Same ~Day Americans Land

Don't Pick Up Negro Hikers   Warning Sounded Over State That Slayer of Four Obviously Is Maniac

Appeal Made for Clues to Killer   Negro, Believed to Be Maniac, Is Sought In Slaying of Three

U.S. Task Force Attacks Island   POWERFUL AMERICAN NAVY UNITS MENACE “PEARL HARBOR” OF JAPANESE PACIFIC EMPIRE IN DARING FAR-REACHING RAID

Big Task Force Opens Atfack On Enemy Base   Operations Open Against Japan’s “Pearl Harbor”

Continuina   Lack of Details Hints U. S. Attackers May Have Trapped Jap Fleet in Lagoon And Inflicted Serious Blow on Nip Base

Heavy Raid May Be   Continuing   Lack of Details Hints U. S. Attackers May Have Trapped Jap Fleet in Lagoon And Inflicted Serious Blow on Nip Base

powerful Naval Force Steams Into Central Carolincs To Deliver Attack Against Principal Japanese Base — Report By Nimitz Indicates Raid Is Continuing

BULLETS SLASH CASSING RUINS   Salacious Leaflets Are Showered On Anzio By Hun Artillery

SECURITY PLAN PROPOSES NEW WORLD LEAGUE   Reveal Agreement at Oaks Meet   ALTER U.S. POLICY

‘BIG 3° ATTAIN ACCORD ON NEW WORLD LEAGUE   Assembly, Council, Means to Enforce Security Included

Army Casualties In Week 11,190   Total to 218,473 for Army, Including First Two Weeks in Normandy

ARMY CASUALS REACH 313.087   Unofficial Totals Include Normandy, Marianas Casualties

Casualties In Army Climb To 218,473   Secretary Simson Lists 11,190 for Week Of July 6 to 13

CASUALTY REPORT FOR SERVICES GIVEN   Army Total Is 218,473. Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, 51,871.

U.S. Casualties Reach 270,344   Army Loses 11,190 [1 Week. Stimson Says

CASUALTIES IN FRANCE 11,190 FOR ONE WEEK   Stimson Gives New Report on Army Losses—Total in War 218,473

Steftinius Seen As Presidential Possibility   Seen In Line For 1948 Democretic Nomination

SEE STETTINIUS 1948 CANDIDATE   Undersecretary Steps Into No. 2 Job of Washington

STETTINIUS HAS POSSIBILITIES   FDR's Nominee For Secretary Of State Can Take Pivotal Place In Political Negotiations.

Stettinius May Get Nod In 1948   Becomes Potential Candidate For President By  Tlamination.

Stettinius Seen Likely To Be ’48 Demo Candidate   New Secretary Of State Certain To Be Contender For Presidential Nomination If Work Toward World Peace Goes Well;  Said Compromise Choice

Stettinius Named As Hull Successor   Roosevelt Appointment Awaiting Senate Approval; Dumbarton Oaks Bivet Secratary af State Tacic   Stettinius Eyed as Presidential © Candidate Following Appointment

NAZI FIELDS IN FRANCE ARE RAIDED   Strong Forces Of Heavy Bombers Participate

Airfields Target Of U.S. Bombers   Strong Day Force Raids Nazi Airdromes In Central France

U.S. Bombers Hit Europe In 8th Big Raid   Follow 4th Straight Night Of British  Nuisance Raids

Labor Unions ‘Support Sen. Kilgore’s ‘Omnibus War Demobilization Bill”

SOVIETS GAIN MILE AN HOUR THRU UKRAINE   Reds Reach Middle Bug River On Steadily-Widening Front

4 AED ARMIES HURLING NAZIG BACK IN ROUT   Germans Throw Rifles Away in Panic; Thousands Die at Bug.

West Marshall Ring Is Drawn Tighter Today   CONTINENTAL TARGETS GHT HARD BOLWs TODAY FROM ALLIED WARPLANE BOMBS.

DRIVE CARRIES RUSSIAN ARMY TO BUG RIVEF   Germans Drowned By Hundreds; Reds Gain Mile An Hour

NAZIS PANICKY IN RETREAT IN ~ SOUTH UKRAINE   Russian Army Advances Mile An Hour te Bug River

NAZIS DISCA EQUIPMENT. IN RUSH TO FLEE   Advance Is at Rate of Almost 1 Mile an Hour Across Muddy Terrain

VOTE DEBATE "TS RESUMED   BITTER ARGUMENTS MADE ON FLOOR GN ISSUE OF "FEDERAL” OR “STATE'S RIGHTS” BALLOT

Air Bombardment at Luzon Goes  Into Sixth Day   Carrier Planes Destroy Or Damage 94 Ships, 461 Enemy Aircraft

FLEET PLANES ATTACK LUZON FOR SIXTH DAY   Hit 94 Ships, Destroy 461 Jap Planes In 72 Hours

LUZON BOMBARDMENT INDICATES , EARLY EXTENSION OF AMERICANS’ ACTIVITY IN PHILIPPINE AREA ~

FURIOUS AIR BLOWS RAINED UPON ENEMY   yround Campaign on Leyte In Final Stages — Mindoro Beachhead Secure.

3rd Fleet Plane Attack On Luzon: In 6th Day -- Filipinos Wait Invasion

BOMBARDMENT OF LUZON NOW IN SIXTH DAY   Carrier Planes of Third Fleet Credited With Fierce Destruction

NEW ROUND OF ATTACKS MADE AGAINST LUZON   94 Ships, 461 Planes Either Dam aged Or Destroyed In Raids

U.S. Carrier PlanesBlast  Luzon , Holsey's Third ©   Halsey’s Third Fleet Planes Sink ‘28 Enemy Ships, Wreck 461 Plones

‘Expect American Inya. sion Of Luzon Soon. Bombed For Sixth Day   CAMPAIGN ON LEYTE IN FINAL STAGES   China Based Planes Rejoin Aerial Offensive On Japanese Homeland

‘Carrier Planes Blast 94 Ships In Luzon Raids   ® Bombardment Goes Into Sixth Day; 461 Jap Planes Damacaced

94 SHIPS OF JAPAN BATTERED   Naval Airmen Destroy 461 Enemy Aircraft In 72-Hour Period

NAVY FLIERS CONTINUE TO BLAST LUZON   461 Jap Planes Wrecked, 94 Ships Sunk or Damaged

0-DAY EASTER HOLIDAY BEGUN BY LAWMAKERS   Busy Period Is Due When Congress Reconvenes

New U.S. 24-Cylinder, 3,000-H. P. Air Engcine Rated ‘Most Powerful’

TOKYO CLAIMS 17 U.S, VESSELS HAVE BEEN SUNK   Report 50-Ship American Convoy Under Constant Attack

REINFORCEMENT ATTEMPT MADE   Japanese Broadcast Says Conyoy is Approaching Mindoro Under Ceasetess Air Attack — Japanese Communique Claims 17 Ships.

DURAZZO WON BY ALBANIANS   New Gateway for Aid to Balkans Is Opened

Partsians Rout Nazis From Port   Germans Lose 1200 Dead In Albania Battle

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Would Use Filipinos Against U.S   ' Puppet’s Declaration - Of War Indicates Japs Intend to Force Na- tives to Fight ‘Invader’

Nips Will Try To Force Filipinos To Fight Yanks   But Cronin Figures Filipinos Released From Prison Camps Will Take to Hills and Guerrilla Warfare on Japan

British Salient Withstands 25 Counter-Attacks   Panzer Corps And Hundreds Of Tanks From Russian Front Thrown Into Battle Against British Below Caen.

Land, Air and Sea Barrage Breaks Up Attempt of Nazi Tank and Infantry  Divisions to Crack Lines Below Caen

GREEK PROPOSAL FOR TRUCE LAID BEFORE BRITISH   Three-Point Offer Submitted as Reply to Scobie’s Terms for Cessation of Hostilities,   LEFTISTS INSIST ON NEW GOVERNMENT   Attacks by Tanks and RocketFiring Planes Are Liquidating Elas Opposition in Part of Athens.

ELAS Submits Peace Offer To British   Greek Capital Gets Quieter as British Mop Up Resistance

British Get Peace Plans From ELAS   Study is Being Made Of Proposal of Truce

War Labor Board Warning Ignored By Union Heads   Strike May Extend To Several States

SUPERFORTRESSES IN ANOTHER ATTACK ON NIPPON CAPITAL  SAIPAN BASED HEAVIES HIT TOKYO: BANGKOK

OUPERFORTRESSES  IN ANOTHER ATTACK  ON NIPPON CAPITAL SAIPAN BASED HEAVIES  HIT TOKYO; BANGKOK RAIDEN FROM INDIA RAG

"B-29's Strike Tokyo, Bangkok In Twin Raids   Japan's Industries Are Targets Again; Nips Claim Damage At Capital Slicht

Jap Industrial Area Attacked By Forty B29:   Same Number From India Bases Hammer Bankok, Capital of Thailand, Tokyo Radio Says   Enenry Says Bombs Dropped Blindly   Again Mininiizes Damage Although Admitting As+ sault Lasted One Hour and Half

A Second B-29 Raid On Tokyc      Bangkok in Thialand Also Is Bombed by Superforts From Other Bases   ASSAULTS MADE AT SAME TIME   Not a Plane Is Lost in Either Mission; Heavy Clouds Over Japan

OTHER FORTS HIT TARGETS IN BANGKOK   Tokyo Declares 40 Superforts Took Part In Each Raid

Superforts Hit Thailand In Twin Assault   New Force Takes Of From Marianas In Strike At Industries

SUPERFORTS ALSO BOMB BANGKOK IN DOUBLE BLOW   30 JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK IN OTHER AIR RAIDS BY AMERICANS

Thaiiaiia is Also Under Superforts   Other U. S. Air Raids Sink 30 Jap Ships; Damage 18 Others

Twin B-29 Attack   Tokyo Bombed Agai From Saipan While India-Based Superforts Pound Bangkok

NEW SMASH IS DIRECTED AT ENEMY CAPITAL   Amazing Sustained Power Displayed: Thailand Also Blastec¢

Superfort Armadas Smash Again at Tokyo and At Bangkok.   SECOND IN FOUR DAYS

B-29s Blast Japanese in Two Assaults   Tokyo Hit for Second Time in 4 Days as Thailand Is Smashed

Targets In. Bangkok Are Also Bombed  "Raid Is Amazing Display of Power .

30 Jap Ships Sunk in Doubl. Bomber Strike   Bombardiers in Steady Hour and a Half Raid Despite Rain and Low Clouds Handicap

BANGKOK ALSO ATTACKED BY PLANE ARMADA   Industrial Targets In Japan, Thailand Are Goal Of Fliers

WAT PLE FACT ARE TARGETS   Super-Forts Fly From Saipan And India Bases For New Attacks

Jap Capital Hit 2nd Time In Four Days   India-Based Heavies Roar Over Thailand; Nip Reports Belittle Effect Of Assault

THAILAND ALSO IS TARGET FOR GIANT RAIDERS   Aj} Planes Return tc Bases, War Office Report Says

Jans Reel Back Chinese, Capture Hochih    B-29s In Double Strike On Tokyo, Thailand

Tokyo Bombed At Same Time Banakok Hit   Nips Claim Damage Insignificant, One Plane Shot Down

Not One B-29 Lost; Attack Thailand Aree   ‘Strategic Industrial Targets’ Hit; Strike From Saipan leland.   (DAYLIGHT MISSION

‘Superfortress Armada Raid on Tokyc Industrial Waterfront, Vital Rail Yards in Bangkok Made Without Los:

Giant Planes Batter Vital Japanese Industry Without Loss Of Single Craft

BANGKOK ALSO TARGET IN RAID BY SUPERFORTS   30 Nipponese Ships Are Sunk“in Scattered Yank Air Assaults

Two B-29 Commands Engage in Raids. One Over Tokvo and Other Strikes at Thailand.   JAP SHIPS ARE ALSO TARGETS FROM PLANES

Enemy Capita Hit Twice In Four Days   All Huge American Bombers Return to Saipan After Attack on Japan; India-Based Planes Hammer at Rail Targets in Bangkok

One Air Fleet Raids Tokyo From Saipan As India - Based Bombers Attack Bangkok °

Great Armada Of Bombers Hits War Factories   Bangkok Raided At Same Time by Another Force

Sensational Double Strike Made By Air   Industrial Area Of Jap Capital Again Damaged

Superforts Return To Tokyo Bombing   Second Sizable Force of B29s Hammers Japanese Capital While Other Planes Hit Thailand Center

B-29's Make Second Attack On Jap Capital   Other Superforts, Based in China, Bomb : Bangkok, Capital of ‘Jap-Seized Thailand

2nd Attack  In 4: Days  Carried Out By Bombers   ‘Thailand: IsAlsoPounded ln Force

Two Blows From India, Saipan Bases Hit Enemy   First Double-Barrelled Super-fortress Raid Termed Success; Nippon Capital Strike Second One in Four Days

VITAL TARGETS IN BANGKOK, CAPITAL OF THAILAND. ARE HAMMERED BY YANK AIRMEN   Enemy Broadcast Indicates First Coordinated Action of 20th and 21st Bomber Commands and Mighty Air Fleets   CLAIM of ONE B-29 SHOT DOWN UNCONFIRMED

Superfortresses Based in India Rip Vital Bangkok Targets; Japs Report 40 Planes in Each Attack

STRIKE AT NIP CAPITAL   ‘B-29’s Hit Home Island From Bases in Saipan, While Others Attack the Bankok Area From Bases in India.

DAYLIGHT RAID IS SECOND IN FOUR DAYS   B-29’s From India Strike At Targets In Thailand   TWIN ATTACKS   Take Place Simultaneously; Japs Say Only Slight Damage Inflicted

Hit Tokyo Second Time In Four Davs   Japs In Thailand Also Attacked In Double Demonstration Of U.S. Air Power

Second Raid In Four Days; Bankog Also Gets Blast From Yant B70’.

Soviet Politely but Firmly Rejects U. 5. Offer to Mediate Differences With Poles

Soviets Reject U. §. Proposal   Refusal Marked By Wrarmnese Of Tane

Russia Politely Rejects U. S. Offer To Mediate Russo-Polish Dispute

Reds Decline American Aid In Polish Rov   Soviet Note Is Reported Warmly Friendly. Firm In Rejectine Offer

Russia Rejects U. 5. Plan To End Riff with Poles   Hull's Proposal ls Turned Down

Soviets Reject  U. §. Proposal   Refusal Marked By  Warmness Of Tone Ry TOHN M HICNUTOWER

Britain Reaffirms Policy Of Recognizing Changes In Europe’s s War time ‘Mav

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REDS REJEGI U.S. OFFER T0 PACIFY POLES   ‘Don’t Want To Be Brought To Speaking Terms With Polish Government - in Vwiloa   Polite, but Firm

Russia Rejects U.S. Help in Polish Dispute   Hull Had Hoped Offe: Would Be Accepted; Time Not Ripe, Claim

REDS REJECT OFFER BY U.S   Assert Time Not Ripe fo Americans to Help Settle Border Dispute

Enemy Reeling Under Terrific Aerial Attacks   Navy Planes Bomb Two Jap Islands

SUPERFORTS SMASH JAP STEEL MILL   Ashan, Manchuria, Is Tar* get; New Island Invasion Expected

FINLAND GETS ITS ARMISTICE   Southern Finland Is Cleared Of Its Three German Di vieinne

WEATHERMAN UFFERS VARIETY   New York Sweliters in Heat Wave as Midwest Freezes

zug dae xis  East: ‘Ha. as ‘Stunmer But Midwest Gets ~ Touch of Winter

RUSSIANS CROSS SLOVAKIAN BORDER IN BOLD THRUST   Drive Aimed at Cutting Off Germans in Eastern Part of Country and Opening Roads to Vienna.   INVASION MAY FREE 25,000 CZECH TROOPS   Freezing Weather Descends on Hungary, Where Rains Have Impeded Encirclement of Budapest.

Russians in new advance  into Slovakia  Aimed to cut off ‘German forces

Soviets Crash  Into Slovakia   New Derive Aims to Oper Wax gag Bie.

Reds Strike Into Western Part of Country to Cut Off Nazis in East

SLOVAK TOWN CAPTURED BY SOVIET ARMY   BOLD STROKE AIMED AT OPENING ROAD TO VIENNA

‘Bouncing Putty’ Is Latest Synthetic Rubber in Use, It’s Made of Sand

SPEARREAD ON :ONE” BECTOR WITHIN MILE OF VITAL GERMAN DEFENSE ~ STRONGHOLD a

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES ON  GERMAN BASTION OF VELLETRI.   Planes Raid Calais      Lower Danube Area Pounded— German Bombers Cross Chanel in Light Foray.   RULLETIN

YANKEES LUNGE TO WITHIN MILE OF KEY TO ROME   Kesselring Pays Tremendous Price Trying to Keep Escape Open

Associated Press Warns of False Rumors of Armistice and Trickery. In Tales of Possible Peace Moves: -

Two Battleships Included; Entire Force Wiped Out   MacArthur Reveals Big Victory by Kinkaid Fleet: Bag Now Totals 40

Refinery Fire Fatal to One   Series of Explosions Ignite 16 of 25 Tanks Of Oil and Gasoline

Occupational Deferments To Be Curber   New Draft Edict Hits 18-21 Group to Gain 115,000 Non-Fathers

Drastic Curb Ordered on Deferments   Plan Will Take More 18-21 Year Olds Into the Armed Services

DRAFT DRAWS ABOUT 113,000 YOUNGER MEN   DEFERMENTS GIVEN FOR OCCUPATIONS ARE TIGHTENED

Selective Service Announces Drastic New Curb on Decunational Deferments for 18-21-Year-Old Men

PUT NEW CURB ON DEFERMENTS   Younger Registrants Face Earlier Call to Arms

JOB DEFERMENTS FOR REGISTRANTS 18°10 21 CURBED   None to Be Granted by Draft Boards After Feb, 1—Order Applies to Fathers and Non-Fathers.   WORKERS ON FARMS ARE NOT AFFECTED   Action to Make 115,000 Eligible for Military Service— Student Induction Postponements Curtailed.

Deferments End For 18-21 Group   Hershey Announces Nev, Draft Requlations

DRASTIC CURB PUT ONDRAFT DEFERMENTS   Occupational -Releasés: for: Younger Men Largely  Stopped Except for —  Farm Workers ~    CLASS 18 THROUGH 21 YEARS OLD HIt   Move Expected To Take At Least 115,000 More NonFathers Eligible for Military Service

Selective Service. : Announces Curb  On Deferments  15, 000: Non: fathers To Be Available — For Military. Service

Drastic Curb On Deferments For 18-21 Year Group   Move Expected to Make 115,000 Non Fathers Eligible

Younger Worker: Face Early Call to Arms  Selective Service Sets Curb on Job Deferment

Occupational Deferments Are Curbed   Farm Workers Are Not Affected By New SS Ruling

No Deferment ‘Will Be Given Men Under 22   Exceptions Are Farm Help and Industrial Deferments

Draft Deferments For Younger Men  Sharply Curbed   Fewer Students To Be Passed Over,  Hershey Announces

Curb Made On Occupational Deter ment   Expect Move To Make 115.O00 More Non-Fathers Eligible For Draft.   Hit 18 TBRUUGa 2

Sharp Cut In Occupational Deferments   For Registrants Under 21; Won’t Long Delay Pre-War Father Drafting

DEFERMENTS FOR YOUTHS OF 18-21 CURBED   Occupational Exemptions No Longer To Be Granted

Make Efforts to Block Reelection of McKay as National Committeeman.   iMcKAY GIVES WARNING

IGOP Leader: Have Block lof 31 Votes   Convention Climbs on Gov. Dewey’s Bandwagon; MeKay Still Optimistic

Frost Menaces South’s Truck Crops Winter’s Icy Preamble Chokes Mountain Roads

Los Angeles Basks in 71-Degree ‘Heat’ as Nation Shovels   Most. of U. S. Blanketed in Snowy Preview of  “White Christmas”

DEATH TOLL FROM STORM REACHES 30   Fatalities Directly Attributable to Heavy Snow, Which Extends From Colorado to Atlantic anc Into South.

COLD WEATHER SPREADING OUT   Snowfall Reported As Far South as Macon, Ga.; East Hard Hit

Storm Death Toll Mounts   Heavy Snow Blankets Country From  Caloaradan Fauctward

Wide Section Of Nation Is Covered By  Heavy Snow   18 Inches In Western Pennsylvania, 14 In West Virginia; Extends Far dnto South

Storm Penetrates To Georgia As All East Is Covered   Over 30 Deaths Due To Record Snowfall Recorded As Nation’s Traffic, Utilities Are Impaired

LARGE PART NATION  BATTLES ITS FIRST  HEAVY SNOW FALL SNOW COVERS AREA  FROM COLORADO TO ATLANTIC SEAROARD

Nation Fights Way Through Heavy Snows   Thick Blanket Spread Over Most of US.

Wide Section Of Nation Battles Season’s First  Snowfall; Damage Widespreac   Traffic Impaired; More Than Thirty Fatalities Reported

Nation Battles Season's First Heavy Snowfall   Traffic, Utility Operations Impaired; Traffic. Deaths Mount

First Heavy Snow Covers  Wide Area   Extends From Colorado To Atlantic Seaboard And Soanth: 230 Death<«

COLD FOLLOWS BIG SNOWFALL OVER NATION   Winter Strikes From Colorado to  Atlantic, Also Dips Into Southern States.

\Nation Battles Season’s First Heavy. Snowfall; West’s Falling Temperature Moves Eastward.

Axis Break Splits Rule Of Ramirez   Jap, German Links Slashed Despite Resignations In Government

fio      Resignations Quickly Fol low Severance of Re-__ lations With Axis Nations ___

BY RESIGNATIONS   Military Government. Suffers After Diplomatic Cut : With Axis

IN- ARGENTINA      ‘Axia Rips Wid Open Government of General Ramirez

Argentine Rulers Are Divided by Split With Axis  Proallied and Nazi Adherents at Odds en te?) ee. Sa

GOV'T OF RAMIREZ SPLITS WIDE OPEN   Rupture With Germany Brings Repercussions in Argentina

NEW ARUEN TINE REGIME SPLITS   Pro - Allied Ambassador To Brazil Quits; Axis Sympathizers Resign

N. Carolina Hit Hard By  Hurricane   Storm ‘Is Now Moving ‘In ‘land Toward Tennessee And Kentucky

Piper Cub Tangles With FW190's; Result--Trwo Nazi Fighters Down  I LEAVES FRAM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEROOK,)

Lincoln Man In ‘Flying Jeep’ That Thwarts 8 Nazi Fighters  ... Lt. Edewin Maxeu Has Narrow Escape

FOUR ARRESTED IN RAPE CASE:   Windfall Residents ' _in Custody Following . Attack Wednesday -

POUR ARRESTED IN RAPE GASE   Windfall Residents in Custody Following Attack Wednesday

U. S. Officials Admit Aid to China Inadequate; Point to Difficulty Of Transporting Supplies by Air

U. S. Officials Admit China Aid Small   PROBLEMS IN SUPPLYING NATION BY AIR, RAIDS BY SUPERFORTS CITED

STATE HUNTING TOLL ON GAIN   Accident Rate Soars In Face of Safety Drive

Food Situation Is Satisfactory   Jones Sees Supply To Meet All Needs

CAN'T FEED WORLD,’ WFA LEADER WARNS   Jones Says Military, Civilian Requirements To Be Met

U.S. To Meet Wartime Food Needs,  Jones Says   But Can't Be Expected To Carry Full Load Of Post-War Relief, Feeding, He Contends  RELEASES FOOD ‘BALANCE SHEET’

REPORT MADE BY JONES ON FOOD SUPPLY   Administrator ‘ Says U. S. Cannot Carry Post-War Relief Load      CIVILIAN, MILITARY SUPPLY SUFFICIENT   Nation Not Food Basket - of the World, It Is Pointed Out

Can't Feed World After War Ends, Says Food Chief   Marvin Jones Explains Relief Contributions Must Be Limited

TOMORROW IS OLD PAPER DAY   Citywide Pickup Of Vita Salvage to be Made In Afternoon

Losses Light, President Announces:   Says Japs. Will. Be Taught Lesson For Treachery

NATION EXULTS OVER INVASION   FR Announces Philippine Operations Proceeding On Schedule.

FDR EXULTANT OVER INVASION OF PHILIPPINES   Japon Will Be Taught Unforgettable Lesson, President Says

INVASION IS ON SCHEDULE IN PHILIPPINES   Roosevelt Says Slight Losses Are Renorted

Gen. MacArthur Reports Enemy Was Caught Strategically Off Guard By Attack   American Losses Extremely Lighi   President Says We Will Teach Japan the Cost O£ “Treachery and Deceit”

Japs to Learn Lesson of Treachery 'And Deceit, Pres. Roosevelt Avows

Enemy Off Guard, Gur Loss Light   Operations Proceeding on Schedule,, Roosevelt Tells Newsmen   ‘READS MESSAGE FROM MacARTHUR   Japanese Forces on Big Mindanao Island Are Practically Cut Off

MacArthur, Leading Invasion, Calls On Filipinos to Revolt; Jap Defenses Split in Two   .3 Beachheads Secured on Leyte: Many Survivors of Corregidor Among American Assault Treops

us. Losses © In- Invasion Are Light —  F DR Announces  MacArthur hehe

‘Extremely Light Losses’ Reported—Enemy Caught Unawares, Chief Reveals

American Losses Are Light; Catch Japs Off Guard   Yanks Press Inland; Broadcast Says Troops Are Having A Tough Time

SAYSATTACK CAUGHT JAPS DEFENSELESS   Reports Yank Losses Extremely Light During Landing

FDR Reports Philippines Losses Light   Operations Go  Upon Schedule

Losses Light  In Philippines, FR Declares   President Hails Invasion Of Former United States Territory

Japs Are Caught Strategically Off Guard, MacArthur Informs F.D.R.   As Result Operations In Philippines Proceeding On Schedule With Light Losses, President  Roosevelt Announces.

OPERATION IS PROCEEDING ON SCHEDULE   President at News Conference Says Enemy Caught Strategically Off Guard  mairr fe fr rc REMECRAACH

Losses Light in Philippine Landing  EY R Save lanan   F.D. R. Says Japan Being Taught Lessor

Operations In Philippines On Schedule  MacArthur Informs Roosevelt Losses Betpamaly Tight

FDR Says Landings  Caught Enemy  Off Guard in Isles Japanese Expectec  U. S. Attack to Hit Farther Sauth

GERMANS ADMIT VINNITSA LOSS TO RED FORCES      One Of Last Big Defense Bastion: In Northwest Ukraine

AIRMEN WRECK 15 JAP PLANES   Allied Night Patrols Sink Freighters; Aussies On Move

Allies Down 15 Jap Planes   Attackers on Raboul Lose Six Planes, Says General MacArthur

ALLIES DOWN 18 PLANES AND LOSE BIN RABAUL RAID   Australians on New Guinea Resume Advance ou Madang Following Air Attacks on Base.   ENEMY FREIGHTER AND TANKER SUNK   Fifty-Oue Nipponese Slain in Ground Clash on Bougainville in Vicinity of Augusta Bay.

Former Remsen. Resident Dead  Suffered Prolonged Illness In Hospital

Russia’s World Role, Now And In Future, Discussed By Moscow Correspondent   Soviet Union Will Co-operate In A Practical, Realistic International Organization To Preserve Peace: Aid Against Japs Seen

AUSOIAN HOLLING Oh 0) LATVIA   Reds 25 Miles From German Border  soa ect  OPEN NEW DRIVE  Berlin Admits More Reverses

SCORE GAIN OF dU MILES; TAKE 1.000 TOWNS   Also Reported Within 25 Miles of East Prussia at One Point

lowa GOP Retair Legislative Seats  Balloting in Special Elections Was Light

Republicans Are Winners In Election   Crawford and Marion Are Closest Among Fight (‘ontests

Republicans Win All Eight Seats For Legistature   Two County Races Were Close; Parish Won in Taylor

Charge Youth With Slaying ‘New York Girl   Body In Ruins Of Cottage Fire

GOVERNOR CALLS ON TEXANS TO LEND AID TO WAR INDUSTRIES  THREE IMPORTANT SUG. GESTIONS MADE TO TEX ANS BY STEVENSON

Needing 300,000 More War Workers, Stevenson Appeals to Texans to Help Supply Needs

AX LEADERS GIRD SELVES TO OVERRIDE VETL   President Prepares Message Explaining Opposition to 2Billion Levy

RESUME ROBOT ATTACKS   British Officials Report Both Damage and Casualties

FIGHT OFF LA ROCHELLE   British Naval Force Damages Nazi Supply Ships

CAB Hearing On Air Application   J. Henry Reisner Tells Of Advantages Of Union Airways. Inc.

HEARING HELD ON AIR APPLICATION      J. Henry Reisner, Union Airways Head, Before CAB

ALLIED PATROLS HARASS JAPS   Blows Aimed Mainly At Southern Philippines Area

PLANES BOMB JAP SHIPPING   Continue Patrol Of Area In Islands Around New Guinea

STRATEGY HURT BY CASUALTIES AT BEACHHEAD   Pull Crack Troops From Jugoslavia, France

Nazis to shake Up Defense   Heavy Loss to Revise Plans for Western Europe

Nazis Said Now On Defensive At Anzio   German Defense Plans For Western Europe And Italy Forced To Be Revised Due To Loss

PARENTS OF QUADS DAZED   Four Babies All Doing Well In Georgia  Hospital

QUADRUPLETS IN INCUBATORS   Four Tiny Baby Boys Apparently Have Good Chance To Live

QUADRUPLETS BORN TO MR. AND MRS. LEE AT GAINESVILLE. GA.   Average About Three Pounds Each and Have Splendid Chance to Liv

= a ze ea) rr  BUG OTE, Burt LO W OTT i  Georgia, Given Chance To Live

Army Private Is Father Of QOuadruplets   HIGH HOPES ARE HELD FOUR BOYS WILL LIVE

Mother  lof: “Quads Doesn't Know What Shed! "De, With “All Those Babies"

Mother, Finally Convinced, Doesn't Know What To Do With Male Quartet

Nine Persons In State Toll   Drownings Lead; 35 Persons Injured on Traffic-Crowded Roads

Nine Persons Die in State   Five Persons Injured When Bus Hits Parked Cat Near Pryor

Cleveland Fire Toll Is Growing   Many Stil! Missing As Search Continues; 112 Are Known Dead

Report Frontal Attack Launched Unon Warsay   Other Red Forces Fight Way Within 14 Miles Of Riga, Latvia

“INTHE DRE. FOR WARSAW   FRONTAL ATTACK LAUNCHED IN LONG BATTLE FOR POL- ° 16H CAFTFAL—RUSGIANS NEAR RIGA

a — ne  CHARGES FIRE RUINS LOOTEL   Liquor Stolen And Casi Register Rifled, Says Parnell Dwan

Heavy Storms Slow Attacks North Of Rome   Poles Capture High Ground Overlooking Cesano  River

POLES TAKE 3 TOWNS IN ITALY   Capture Hill, Send Patrols Across Cesano River

Polish Troops Making Gains Near Adriatic   Heavy Storms Deter Action Of 5th Army

Poles Seize High Area. _   Adriatic Coast Site: Of Recent Fighting

SITUATION AT FLORENCE NOW REMAINS SAME   Rains Reported To Be Slowing Down Advance

Poles Launch New Drive On Adriatic   as. S EN, ROME. (/)-Prime Minister Churchill has arrived in Italy,

Poles Launch Offensive On Adriatic   Three Towns Seized; Bad Weather Again Retards Operations

Poles Launch New Adriatic Coast Drive   Capture 3 3 Towns, Sweep Foe From River: Nazis Hang On in Florence

Polish Troops Send Patrols Over Cesano   Sweep Through Nazi Defenses to Seize Three Towns; Activity Limited on Fifth and Eighth Army Fronts

Poles Launch Offensive Along Adriatic Coast .   Capture: High: Ground Overlooking. Cesano;Make 2:Mile-Advance

POLISH TROOPS ATTACKING ON ADRIATIC FRONT   Launch Infantry, Tank Offensive on Six-Mile Are; Capture Lookout Area Over Cesano

POLISH TROOPS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE TODAY   Scapezzano, Monterado And Corinaldo Were Seized as Poles Swept Throuch .

POLISH TROOPS GAIN ON ADRIATIC SECTOR   Seize High Ground, Repulse Nazi Counter-Attacks

POLES SEIZE 3 ITALIAN TOWNS   Allied Patrols Cross Cesano River After Two-Mile Initial Advance

POLES LAUNCH DRIVE IN ITALY   PUSH AHEAD ALONG SIX-MILE FRONT ON THE ADRIATIC COAST   BULLETIN ROME, Aug. 11 7’—Prime Minis. ter Ohurchill has arrived in Italy,

POLES GAIN IN ITALIAN DRIVE   Infantry And Tank Of. fensive Advances Along Adriatic Coast

Poles Make Gain In Italian Fight   Seize Three Towns In Initial Advance Across Cesano River

Polish Troops Surge Forward On Italy Fron   Score Notable Gains Ir Six-Mile Sweep On Adriatic Coast

Polish Troops Launch Drive On Adriatic Coast Of Italy, Take 3 Towns In 2-Mile Gain   Capture High Ground Overlooking Cesano Valley: Patrols Cross River

DIVERSIONARY RAF ATTACK HITS BERLIN   Third Formation of Allied Aircraft Strikes Targets on French Coast.

MAGDEBURG, BIC INDUSTRIAL CITY, HEAVILY BOMBED   2240 Tons Dropped As Minor Raid ts Made on Berlin, 55 Bombers Lost in Fleet of 1000 Planes.   BOTH CITIES REPORTED FIGHTING FLAMES   Lt.-Gen. Spaatz Thinks That Lufwaffe Will Be Knocked This Summer, Weather fs Factor.

MAGDEBURG, A WAR CENTER, RAF TARGE]   Thousand Warcraft Believed te Have Participated in ThreeWay Raid in Night

2.240 Tons Of Bombs Spatter On Magdeburg   British Bomber Fleets Maintain Fast Pace Of Past 24. Hours

MAGDEBURG IS BLASTED BY BRITISH   2,240 Tons Are Dropped On Major War Center

RAF. Devastate: Magdeburg, Key Nazi War Center   55 Planes Fai! To Return From Big Raid

RAF Loses 52 Bombers During Series of Raids   Germans Retaliate By Blasting London With Small Force

Small Force Hits Berlin Again in Diversion Attack; Captial Still Burns

Ubilteration  Raid Madeon Magdeburg  French Invasion . Coast  - and Burning Berlin Also Attacked  55 BOMBERS LOST  Nazis Stage Heaviest . Raid on. London in More Than a Year

PLANES IN NIGHT RAID   British Drop 2,240 Tons On Magdeburg, Key War Center

ALLEGED MURDERESS ADMITTED TO BAIL   Alleged to Have Told Police She Threw Twins Into Canal   BAIL WAS SET AT $2500

COURT RELEASES COLORED WOMAN ACCUSED OF CRIME   ‘Mrs. Minerva Daniels, Yardley, Charged With Murder  and Concealing Births   $2,500 BAIL IS POSTED

APPROVE BUILDING OF LANDING CRAFT   House Adopts Naval Biils After Heated De hata

House Votes Big Landing Barges   Rep. Fish Asks They Be Sent fo MacArthur

LANDING CRAFT FUNDS VOTED   Demand Made Most of New Barges Be Sent to Gen. MacArthur

House Passes  New Navy Bill   Rep. Fish Demand Sparks Pearl Harhar Dehate

Landing Craft Boost Ok'd   Million More Tonnage Approved in Senate Amid Sharp Debate

Landing Forces Af Nettuno Are Limited— why MIPKe LL, JUTNPSsOor (ft;   Surprise Move May Open Land Path To Reme

big Airport ls Captured After Ficht   Light Fleet Units Patrol Apra Harbor Few Japs Escape.

“rote Peninsula Is Captured ry Marines in Outstanding ‘riumph of Invasion of Guam

“You Dian't Miss If Much’, Cables From Americans Inform Joan Ellis

Lift Restriction On Materials   Authorize Construction of Some Type Homes

Postwar Working Program Is Urged  AFL Head Could Have Unity Effort

NAZI COMMANDER - REPORTED OUSTED   Marshal Blaskowitz Loses East France Command

RUSSIANS PREGO NEARER BELGRADE   Reds Slash Into Yugoslavia On New Front 55 Miles Wide; Capital Under Virtual Siege by Partisans

SOVIETS LAUNCH NEW SLAV PUSH   Spearhead Strikes Within 37 Miles Of Belgrade

NEW FRONT IN YUGOSLAVIA IS OPENED BY REDS   Russians Press Spearhead ‘To Within 37 Miles Of. Belgrade   ESTONIAN ISLAND OF RISTNA IS CAPTURED

Russians Drive Spearhead into Belgrade Area   Reds 37 Miles From Capital

Bricker Blames New Deal Secrecy for Pearl Harbor Attack in Chicago Speech

Committee Adopts Voting Resolution  Mongolian, Malayan,  Ethiopian Races D_... J mow... Ase etl

Ohio GOP Platform Pledges Aid to War Veterans, Lower State Taxes

Leyte Japs Flee; Superforts Bomb Mukden Industries   4th Day of Mass B-29 Raids on Jap Targets Yanks Smash Yamashita Line; aps Break, Run Into Hills

BLOCKBUSTERS POUND BERLIN   Heavy Bombers Follow ir Daylight Attack

Leaves From War Correspondent’s Notebook  _ Naple’s Street Of Death

Bataan Death March Colonel Tells of Jap Cruelty   As Told to CHARLES LEAVELLE

\Enlisted Men on Bataan Offered Rations to Pilots to Keep Them Flying

Germans Launch Drive in France   French Patriots Driven fo Hills

Angelia Bissell Becomes Bride  Kingsley Girl Weds - Fhos. Watchorn

Soviet Forces Almost Un opposed Along Both Coasts  100-THOUSAND AXIf TROOPS BOTTLED UI  Russians Cross Dneste River Gateway to Oil Fields

SLICE INTO THE CRIMEA   Red Army Speeds On Toward Base Qé Sevastono!

Qlosing Trap On Over 100,000 Axis Troops Fleeing From Crimea; Officers Abandon Many German, Romanian Units   SOVIET MOTORIZED UNITS ARE FASTEST

Russian Forces Stream Toward Sevastopol Goal   Officers Abandon Units In Headlong Flight From Reds

Resistance Of Germans Is Negligible   I'ake Port of Feodosiya and Pushing On Toward Sevastopol

Ships. and Planes  Blockade Crimea   Reds Drive Through, Peninsuls -At Fwo-Mile. an Hour Clip— -Nazi Officers Abandon Men -

Plant Blast Fatal To 2.   “Chemical : Explosion Shakes Countryside

15 Flyers Killed In Clovis Bomber   Names of Victims  Revealed by Army

Plural Marriage Admitted by Four Defendants  They Will Accept Judge’s Ruling

Four Admit Polygamy Act   Defendants to Assert Plural Marriages . Allowed By Religion

Wallace's China Trip to. Assure  U S.. Wil Forestall. Collapse  

MacArthur Reported Sending More Troops Ashore on Leyte; ‘Yanks Move Rapidly Up Samar

APPROACH ISLE OF LUZON AT MORE THAN MILE AN HOUR CLIP; TROOPS STILL POURING ASHORE ON LEYTE.

Ground Fronts Remain Quict Ex. copt for Continued Patrol and Artiiery Activity —: Giant New Gun Being Used by Germans.

TALY'S COAST GETS 7-HOUR RAF BOMBING   Livorno, San Stefano, Piombino Are Targets.—German 30-Mile Gun Bombards Allies.

POUND PORTS USED BY NAZIS FOR SUPPLIES      American, British Bombers Sweep Over Leghorn. San Stefano and Piombino Friday.

TWO PLANTS ARE SEIZED, BOTH MAY “BE ORDERED SOLD   Roosevelt Hints Sale of Assets to Pay Retroactive Wages Ordered By WLB But ignored.   ACTION TO PREVENT WORK INTERRUPTIONS   Nearly 6000 Workers Affected By Long-Standing Orders, One Firm Says it Cannot Meet Increase.

Nazi Italian Sea Routes Are Bombed   Allies Seek to Prevent Move ment of Supplies to Armies Inland

‘Italian Coast Bombed By RAF   Attempt To Disrupt Axis Supply Lines

RAF Bombs Three Italian Seaports Used by Germans   Enemy Using Giant New Gun to Shell Beachhead, Belief

ALLIES BOMB 3 HARBORS IN NORTH ITALY   Anzio and Cassino Fronts Quiet Save For Artillery Duels

{TALY HARBORS BOMBED; GERMAN SUPPLIES HALTED   Leghorn, 2 Other Ports Get 7-Hour Allied Aerial Drubbing

Dewey Wins 18 Delegates In Wisconsin   BUT NEW YORK GOVERNOR HOLDS HIS TONGUE AS WELL AS HIS HEAD FOR NOMINATION.   Draft Dewey Move On

Dewey May Win 18 Delegates  In Wisconsin   Willkie Captures None; New York Governor Silent About Results

TWO JAP BASES HEAVILY BOMBEL   AMERICANS SMASH SHIPPING AND AIRDROMES ON CERAM AND BOEROE ISLES,

5 OF 8 PRISONERS IN ERIE CO, BREAK ARE RECAPTUREL   Sherifi’s Deputies In Livingston and Cattaraugus Counties Arrest Fugi éhuaa

IVE PRISONERS CAPTURED AFTER BUFFALO BREAK   Three Others, Including Two Murder Suspects, Still at Large

PENSION BILL GETS APPROVAL   Widows and Orphans of First War To Benefit

MRS. DICKINSON 1S INDICTED   Claim She Reported on Movements of Warships

Four Children Mother Perish   Dead Were Trapped On Second Floor of Burnina House

Mother and Four Children Die In Blaze   Trapped on 2nd Floor, Rescue By Father Failed; Badly Burned, Now in- Hospital

AMERICANS BLASTING CITY   Nazi Counter-Attacks in Nearby Areas Unsuccessful

Jap Planes Hit Superfort Base Saipan Area Under  tBtmnartl Tasira

JAPS RETALIATE FOR YANK BLAST ON TOKYO   13 Enemy Planes Downed by Yanks As Foe Twice Blasts B-29 Base

Nip Planes Raid Saipan in Attempt at Retaliation For the Bombing of Tokye

DOWN 13 PLANES RAIDING B-29 BASE ON SAIPAN   Japanese Send Over Two Waves of Fighters In Bold Strikes

B-29 Base on Saipan Attacked   Japs Make Two Raids, Losing 13 Planes; Burning Plane Over. Foxboles   SO CLOSE SOME MEN ARE BURNED   Negro Marine Kills Enemy Pilot, Who Starts Shooting After Landing

Japs Attack Superfort Base   Bomb and Strafe Saipan—-13 Jap Planes Downed

JAP PLANES BOMB, STRAFE SAIPAN BASE   Retaliation For Raid On Tokyo Costly for Nips; Ship Loss Raised

Attempt to Hit :. Superfort Base   JAPS SEEK REVENGE ON U. S. FOR TOKYO RAIDS

Japanese Bomb  5-29 Base   Lose at Least  13 of Their Planes: No Announcement Of U.S. Damage

Retaliate for Raid on Tokyo   Japs Raid Saipan Air Base, Losing Thirteen Aircraft?

3 Nipponese ircraft Are rought Dowr   Nimitz Reports More Jap Losses; Yanks Raid Bases

Japs Lose 13 Planes In Striking At Saipan  Light Raids On  Sanerfort BRase   Light Raids On Superfort Base Prove Costly To Enemy

Japs Strafe B-29 Base .      Raid Installations -On Saipan Twice,  “Losing 13 Planes

1,000 YANKEE PLANES LEAD IN MAY DAY BLOWS   Non-Stop Allied Aerial Offensive Goes Into Third Week

Long Procession Of Planes Soars Across Channel   Coastal Region Mistakes Drive For Big Attack

PLANE TRAFFIC OVER CHANNEL BREAKS ALL MARKS   Residents Leaped from Beds Expecting to See Boats. In Channel. i

AIR ASSAULT ENTERS ITS THIRD WEEK   Americans Lead Attack On Nazis’ Atiantic Wall

BLASTS SO GREAT ENGLISH THOUGHT INVASION OPENED   Procession of Planes Begins at Dawn After Night Airmen Wreck Rail Yards, Ammunition Dump.   498 AMERICANS LOST WHEN SHIP IS SUNK   Navy Reveals Sinking, Casualties Second Greatest In War, Nature of Attack Is Not Revealed.

Swarms Of Planes Cross Channel In  May Day Assault   May Set New Record In Bomb Tonnage  Hitting Axis

Many British Coastal Residents Thought Invasion Begun   FOLLOW HITS ON AMMUNITION DUMP  Non-Stop Aerial Raids Night And Day Into  Third Week

1,000 Yanks Bombarding AtlanticWal   ‘May Day? Attack Opens at Dawn; RAF Jolts Coast

Continuous Offensive in Third Week   Today's Raids May Estab lish New Record — Set Off Munitions Stores

Nazi Counterattacks Force British From Bridgehead Across Fiumcino; Yanks 18 Miles From Bologna 

NAZI ATTACK REPULSED BY FIFTH ARMY   Rains Flood Battie Areas of Fifth And Eighth Armies

NAZIS FORCE BRIT. BACK IN ITALY   ‘But Americans Repulse Attack ‘In Another Sector

y, fe + ¢-Attacks Pgs , Withdrawal  £ 1oss Fiumicino   Americans Repulse Similar Enemy Attack At Monte Battaglia

Heavy Rains Flood Italian Battle Areas   Slow Down Progress; Yanks Take Vital Highway Town

8th Army Forced From Bridgehead   5th Army Repulses Similar Nazi Attack

GERMANS FORCE: STH BACK OVER BRIDGEHEAD   Americans in Italy Repulse Similar -At‘tack at Battaglia

AP WAR WRITER KILLED IN AERIAL RAID ON TACLOBAN      Ace Bush Dies Instantly When Jap: Bomb Falls; Covered Many Engagements

WORLD'S BIGGEST CIRCUS COMING TO THIS VICINITY   RINGLING-BARNUM & BAILEY SHOW NOW BRIGHTER AND GAYER

Veterans to be Given Assistance In Buying Farms   Some Loans Already Being Made, According to County FSA Chairman

ACCORD IS NEAR ON LIBERATION PLANS      U.S. and French Officials May. Soon Reach an _ Aareement

Highest Dignitaries at Services   Last "Amen" to ° -Earthly Career. of Lowell-Born Prelate

Final ‘Amew For Cardinal   High Ranking Catholie Clergymen Pay Last Tribute

‘Behold A Great Priest...’  Lasting Tribute Paid Cardinal With Requiem Mass In Boston

‘Dennts Cardinal Dougherty Presides Over Service Hela At Boston Today

Wind, Snow, 4! 5-In. Rain In Southern California ; Many Travelers Marooned

Number of Strikers in Nation Mounting;  28,000 Men Now Idle   Philadelphia Transit System, Michigan Stores  Last Hit

28,000 ARE IDLE IN LABOR DISPUTES   6,000 BUS TROLLEY EMPLOYES STOP WORK IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.

CITES DAYS OF FORECLOSURES   Put Money In Bonds To Ward Off Inflation

Joplin Volunteer Workers Turn in $230,193, a Record High for Any Day This Week—Women’s Organization Reaches 67 Per Cent of Its Self-Assigned $1,000,000 Quota— County Tota! Is Believed to Be Nearing $2,000,000 Mark.

BOND DRIVE NEAR HALFWAY MARK   SALES BY WOMEN’S DIVISION INCREASE JOPLIN’S TOTAL TO $1,143,041.

CITY BOND SALES REACH $1,316,406   WOMEN MAKE BIG. TURNIN— . APPROXIMATELY 60 POT. OF .  “QUOTA © OBTAINED. ©

With: 80. Per Cont of. Quota ‘Obtained, Joplin Needs Only $439,316 to Go Over ‘Top—Workers Urged to Put Forth - Efforts : ‘to Finish’ Job. Quickty—Chairman Radley Pre- dicts ‘County . Will Reach Its Goal This ‘Week,

JOPLIN BOND SALES CLIMB ~-70$749,000   Nearly Third of Goal Is * Reached Third Day of  Fifth War Loan Drive,  Reports at Luncheon   Meeting Show.

Surge in Bond Sales Sends City’s Total to $1,172,788   Purchases Aggregating More Than Half Million Dollars in Single Day. Put Workers Past Half-Way Mark. of Goal— County Reaches 48 Per Cent of Quota With $1, 530,490 Pledged—Leaders Elated Over Results.

Save Your  WASTE PAPER  For The City Wide  PICKUP  Friday, March 31 (Pickups for rural areas wil  be at the schools on Thursday March 20. See story on page 7      GOP Hopeful In Sooner District

NEW DEAL SPUR. APPLIED IN HOT — OKLAHOMA RACE   Jobholders Warned Demo crats May Lose Oklahoma if G. O. P. Carries Second District Tuesday.   ‘BARKLEY. TO MAKE 2 SPEECHES MONDAY   Contest Seen as Barometer of 1944 Sentiment—Both Sides — Prepared to Get   Out Vote. 

Gov. Warren Not Active Candidate   Refuses Comment On His Position

Germans Moving Troops In Italy For New Attacks   Heavy Concentrations Of  Euemy Forces For Third Move On Beachhead   U.S. AIR FORCES SMASH AT ENEMY

Yank Fliers Bag  Ships   24 Jap Planes Shot, Down in New Raid On Harbor at Rabaul

Japanese Lose Se Seven Vessels A ToU.S. Bombs O   Senator Byrc Assails Cost Of WarEffort

Avengers Give Japs Taste Of Raid Accuracy   Make Every Bomb Count In Sinking 7 Ships In Rabaul Harbor

Skip-Bombers Cave In Sides Of Jap Ships   Avengers Raise Havoc With Varecale at Rahanul

Allies Down 24 Planes, ‘Bag 7 Ships at Rabaul   Avengers Make Every Bomb Count In “Hit-Skin’? Run Over Harbor

Seven Jap Ships Sunk And Many Planes Downed By Yankee Airmen At Rabaul

ARE LEFT SINKING   Yanks Give Japs Good Demonstration Of Accuracy

40,000 Tons Of Jap Ships Sunk In Rabaul Raid   Torpedo Planes Score With Every Bomb; Possibly 28 Nip Zeros Are Bagged

Torpedo Bombers Sink 7 Jap Ships at Rabaul  From 24 to 28 Enem) Planes Downed Ry ll CC Elaktéare

Torpedo Bombers Sink 7 Jap Ships at Rabaul  From 24 to 28 Enem  Planes Downed BD.. TE CF? Tw bearer

42,034 Tons Of Jap Ships Sunk In Rabaul Raid   Torpedo Bombers Score With Every Bomb; Down  924 Enemy Planes.

Rabaul Raid  Sinks Seven  Jap Vessels   Es-orting Fighter Planes Shoot Down Over Twenty Jap Planes in Fight

They Made Every Bomb Do Its Work... . Seven Japanese Vessels  Sunk In Rabaul Harbor By 18 Avenger Bombers

ENEMY LOSES 24 PLANES; FAIL TO BEAT OFF ATTACK   AMERICAN BOMBERS MAKE EVERY BOMB COUNT IN NEW RAID

JAPS LOSE 24 PLANES, SEVEN SHIPS AT RABAU!   Month’s Losses Over Base Total 350 Planes

18 Avenger~Bombers Sink Or Leave Sinking Seven Jan Ships.   FIGHTERS GET 24 PLANES

TB AVENGERS MAKE LOW LEVEL ATTACK   Japs Caught Completely Off Guard Despite Almost Daily Air Raids

Accurate Bombing Sinks 7 Jap Ships in Rabaul Harbor   Avenger Torpedo Bombers in Masterful  Exhibition

U.S. Torpedo Planes Blast Jap Shippine   Seven Vessels Sunk Or Left Sinking After Assault; 24 Nipponese Aircraft Downed

ho. aul Raid. Is Costly to . Jap Shipping   Seven Enemy Vessele Sunk or Left Sinking by Allied Bombers, and at least 24 Planes Are Destroyed   Planes: Drop Bombs: “In Northern France

AMERICAN OFFICERS LEAD CHINESE IN HENGY ANG BATTLE   Yank Losses On Tinian Only 200 to Over 3,000 Dead Japs.

) BELOW  BOONE FOR YULE NIGHT   Midwest Hit by Another Cold Wave With 22 Below Recorded For Rockford, in Hlinois.

3,000,000 Cheer FDR On Tour Of New York Streets   President, Crowds Brave Ali-Day Rain To Aid Sen. Wagner

F. D. R. DRENCHED ON NEW YORK TOUR   Changes Clothes at Stop on FiveHour Trip in Rain—Greeted by 38,000,000 Persons,

AMERICANS IN TOUGH BATTLE ON TWO ISLES   Japan Says U. S. Planes Operate From New Point

Nippon Soldiers Chained to Post:  Fighting Bitterly to Hold Palau Isles

U. S. Warplanes Operate Against Philippine Isles   American Ground Forces Drive Toward Climactic Battle For Islands.   Knock Out Jap Tanks On Peleliu Island

9,500 JAPANESE KILLED IN FOUR DAYS FIGHTING   Indicatiéns That U. 8S. Warplanes May be Operating From Third Island Against Philippines.

50D JS AE REPORTED SLAIN   Am erican. Forces Winning Stiff Clash For Peleliu Island   GUNS SILENCED   Japanese Found Shackled In Observation Posts And Caves

Enemy on the Run as Marines Sweep  Over Peleliu Island   Davao Bombed by Plane: Based on Newly-Won Morotai Islands

9,000 JAPANESE KILLED IN HARD PELELIU BATTLE   Climactic Fighting Looms As Yanks Advance On Two Palau Group Isles

US Warplanes Attacking the Phillippines   Nearly 5,500 Japanese Killed on Peieliu Island in Four Days; Marines Knock Out Enemy Tanks

ee  BITTER BATTLES CONTINUE ON PELELIU ISLAND   Kill 5500 Japs in Palau Group; Nips Hint Another Isle Invaded

End Is Near In Fighting  On ep Oe   Conquest Of Vital Palau Islands

Jap Tanks on Peleliu _ Destroyed   Most Enemy Artillery Also  Destroyed; Nearly 5,500  Taps Killed   GAINS RECORDED ON OTHER ISLES   More Raids on Philippines Are Reported; Sumatra Also Bombed

AMERICANS BATTLE FOR POSSESSION THO JAP-HELD ISLANDS.   ON PELELIU ISLAND MORE THAN HALF OF ENEMY GARRISON BEEN KILLED

End Is Near For Japs On  Palau Islands   U.S. Planes May Already Be Using Bases to Bomb Philippines

DRIVE TOWARD FINAL BATTLES   American Ground Forces Fight Over Some of Toughest Terrain,   MORGTAL BASE {N USE?

Climactic Battle. Tor Palau Isles Reported Near   Tokyo Sees Yanks Hitting Philippines From: Base  Invaded But Week Ago

Nearly 5,500 Japs Dead On Palau Islands   Bitter Battles Ahead As Yankees Advance Over Tough Terrain; New Air Bace In Ice

WRECK EVERY JAP TANK ON PELELIU ISLE   Say Yank Bombers Hit Philippines From New Base

Palau Climax Is Near: New Raids On Philippines   Planes May Already Be Using Morotai Island’s Airport

MARINES AND ARMY MAKING PROGRESS   By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor

First Division Marines Knock Out Nip Tanks   U.S. Planes Operate Against Philippines From Morotai

CLIMAX NEARS IN BATTLE FOR PALAU AND PELELIU WITH JAP LOSS IN MEN-MATERIAL HEAVY

Yankees Drive Ahead On Two Palau Islands   By LEONARD MILLIMAN  Aecnsintad Deace War Editar)

Over 5.000 Japs Die in  Peleliu F ight   Marines Take Main Town, Other Points As Army Meet Few Japs on Angaur

American Troops Steadily Advance In Invasion of  Angaur, Palau Isle

Marines Knock Out All Tanks On Peleliu   Tokyo Indicates Moratai Airfield Already In Use

E. R. Stettinius  Appointed to Succeed Hull   Senatorial Approval of Promotion Forecast; Hull Quits Cabinet Post Due to Health

Stettinius Appointed Secretary  Of State —   Undersecretary Named By President After Accepting with Regret Resignation of Hull  rALCLOC OMT aA Tacwe

Stetfinius Will Replace Cordell Hull   Ailing Secretary of Stete Has Retired

Stettinius Replaces Sec’y Hull   NEW SECRETARY OF STATE HAS RISEN RAPIDLY IN RANKS OP WASHINGTON ADMINISTRA NTORS   Former U.S. Steel Chairman

Stettinius Named State Secretary To Succeed Hull  President Accepts Resignation and  Quickly Fills Post

Climax of Big Disaster Near In Dnieper Bend   Red Artillery Lays Cross Fire on Germans Inside ‘Iron’ Ring

RUSSIANS CUT OFF GERMANS NEAR KORSEN   Exhausted Nazis Being Captured And Killed At Increasingly High Rate Under Merciless Hammering.   Near Krivoi Rog

Russians Are ‘Wiping Out’ Trapped Nazis   Greatest Disaster of Reich Since Failure at Stalingrad Due

SOVIETS START FLANKING MOVE AT KRIVOI ROG   Nazis Facing Worst Disaster Since One at Stalingrad

Russ Troops Trap Enemy   Large Nazi Disaster Sean In Korsun Aren

Reds Cut Off Germans In Korsun Trap   Exhausted Troops In Dnieper Bend Slowly Diminish

N NAZIS TRAPPED BY REDS BEING CUT TO: PIECES   Climax of Foe Disaster On Russian Front ~ Wage

More Nazi Groups Cul Off By Reds   Trapped Germans Hacked To Pieces

Several Groups Cut Off From Remnants of . Divisions  MANY ARE-SEIZED__ AS WAR PRISONERS  Biggest. Nazi Disaster  Gf... Cacti wwemk      Biggest. Nazi Disaster - Since Stalingrad - Reported

Reds Isolate And Wipe Ow  More Enemy    Continue To Mow Down And Capture Germans Held in Korsun Trap  TOWN UNDER FIRE

CRACK GERMAN TROOPS TRAPPED AROUND KORSUN   Moscow Bulletin Hints At Biggest Nazi Disaster Since Stalingrad   JUNKERS TRANSPORT PLANES SHOT DOWN

Russians Slaying Trapped Germans   Climax of Winter Drive Approaching

Increase in State Jobless Pay Favored   House Postwar Group Makes Recommendation As Debate Continues

House Group Urge States to Act On Postwar Funds  Committee Declares Reconversion Payments Too Small

TWINING HEADS [STH AIRFORCE   Successor to Maj. James Doolittle to Direct Attacks From South

Stalemate in India Seen   Start of Monsoons Will Curtail Fighting There And In India

STALEMATE IN BURMA-INDIA NOW SEEN   Approach of Monsoon  May Bring Offensives o Alliac and lane tan Halt

Kamaing, Jap Burma Base, (Captured By  ‘Chinese.   Is Key Point In Mogaung Valley; China-Burma Link Made By Stilwell

Kamaing Base Lost by Japs   Chinese Seize Front 40 Miles Northwest Of RBesjeced Mvitkvina

15-Year-Old Boy Sought For Slaying   Information Is Draws Against Doran Macho vec, 15, Humboldt

Conflicting, Sensational Reports of Revolt Come From Neutral Capitals   Russian Threat Increase: as Hitler Wars With  Enemies at Home

‘KEEP ’EM FLYING’ GETS OHIOAN MEDAL   Invents Self Centering Saw To Standardize Flak Holes

OPA Chief Raps  Pressure Groups   Says Agency Costs $1.10 Per Capita

Bowles Criticizes. ‘Pressure Groups’ fp Ratlio Address  OPA. Ch siof Replies “fe “Charges Aimed At.

American Soidiers In Alaska Begin Rehearsal ror Invasion Of Japan

Stigler’s Democrat Opponents Withdrav   E. O. Clark Will Oppose Congressman Again

Electoral Fight Rends Louisiana   Five Resign, Refusing To Support Roosevelt

Another Yankee  Submarine Lost   1,475-Ton Gudgeon Lost In Pacific Theater

AAA To Approve  Non-Highway (Jas   Plan Worked Out to Prevent Misuse of Gas. Supply Needs

ESSENTIAL GAS IS PROMISED FARMER   Must Give A.A.A. Committee Facts as to Needs for Entire Year.

Nazi Prison Treatment Better, Repatriates Say   German Civilian Morale W eahening But Nation Far From Licked; Crinsholm Passengers Report

Fifth Army Chases Germans At a Mile Per Hour; Nears Civitavecchia. Pert of Rome

Allies Advance 30 Miles in Drive Along Italy Coast   Fifth Army Nearing Port; Nazis Routed On Five Highways

40 Miles Beyond Holy City   Spearheads Hammer Germans Back 30 Miles A Day In Italy; Natives Help.

iF ifth army forces advance mile per \hour im pursuit of fleeing Germans

‘Allies Advance More Than Mile an Hour North of Rome   Approach Civitavecchia, Port 40 Miles Beyond Eternal City; Gain Nearly 30 Miles During the Last 24 Hours

JAPANESE TROOPS IN FULL RETREAT ON NEW BRITAIN   Enemy Falling Back on-Rabaul for Final Stand After Abandoning Supply Base of Gasmata.   NO RESISTANCE MET BY ALLIED PATROLS   Foe’s Positions on New Guinea Blasted by Airmen— 13 Heavy Guns Silenced  at Hansa Bay. :

ABOUT FIFTH OF ISLAND FORCES LOST BY ENEMY   Nips In Full Retreat To Gazelle Peninsula  For Final Stand

Japanese Quit Gasmata Base   JI-Fated Adventure Cost Enemv 10.000

Japs Abandon Gasmata Base On New Britain; Allies Lose Additional Ground in India

iGasmata Air, Supply Base ‘Abandoned By Japs; 4,679 ‘Enemy Killed, General Says

Japs Abandon Gasmata and Cape Hoskins   MacArthur Says Nips Plan Final Stand At Battered Rabaul

Japs abandon Gasmata and  Cape Hoskins  In ‘full retreat’ for Rabaul stand

Japs Abandon (asmata Base  Without Fight   MacArthur Says Enemy in ‘Full Retreat’ for Stand at Rabaul

JAPS ABANOD GASMATA BASE   By-passed by Allied Ocoupations on New Britain   JAP LOSSES CITED   Enemy Said in Full Retreat From Central New Britain To Northwest Tip

Japanese Abandon Gasmata,  _New Britain Air, Supply Base   Allied Patrols Meet no Resistance at Base or at Cape Hoskins, General MacArthur Reports— _ Gasmata Bypassed by Allies

FSA COUNTY LOANS SHOW HIGH RECORD   Good Showing Made In Paying Loans.

RUSSIANS SEEK TO ANNIHILATE 0,000 GERMANS   10,000 Nazis Already Reported Slain in Vitebsk Fighting

EMPLOYER CAN VOICE OPINIONS   Has Right to Express Views on Labor Unions

CLINTON DRAFT KNOT IN GOVERNOR’S HANDS   Executive Secretary Says Hope To Solve It Soon

Britain Widens Breach Witk U.S. Over Foreign Policy   Eden Reaffirms ‘Right’ to Interfere In Liberated Nations’ Governments

Eden Reaffirms britain’s Right Pass On Rulers   Widens Breach On Policv Between  U.S.-Britain

CALIFORNIA TRAIN WREGK KILLS TEN   At Least Ten Killed And Kighty Injured Early Today

10 Persons Die In Train Wreck   Derailment Causes California Accident

Patriots Control Southern Part Of Greece; Germans Retreating Below Albania   Reds Land Paratroops

NAZIS BEING SQUEEZED OUT OF GREECE   Greek Patriots Now Control Southern Half of Country.

Nearly 2,000 Ships Attack Plane Plants   Crippling Blows Struck At Oschersleben And  Bernburg Factories.

Attack Follows Record-Making 4000-Ton Raid By RAF Planes   J.8. Armada Accompanied by Equal Number of Fighters

RAF Assault Sets New Bomb Record   American Fliers Fight Tough Battles With Nazi Defenders

merican Bombers n Giant Attacks n Reich Defenses   Zoar of Motors During Early Morning Hours Is Deafeninc Along British Coast as Planes Thunder Across Channel for 45 Minutes   BRUNSWICK AND HANNOVER AREAS ARE TARGETS

Nearly 1,000 U.S.Bombers Blast Reich   Plane Facteries at Oschersleben Bernburg, Other Places Hit— BAF Bombs Rail Junctions

Bombers, Fighters Follow Up Recerd 4,000 Ton Assault By RAF.   4TH DAY OF-ONSLAUGHT

Mounting Air Attack  on Germany   2,000 American Warplanes Follow Up B.A.F.’s Biggest. Onslaurht   PRE-INVASION DRIVE INTO FOURTH DAY   Never Have ¢ the British Dropped Such a Big Load as They Did Last Night

RAF Drops 4,000 Tons in Night Assault Fer Largest Cargo of Death

2000 Planes Hit Germany   Americans Blast At Plane Factories In Two Cities

Air Battles Again Raging Over Germany   American Bombers in Strong Force Return for 4th Straight Day

2000 Planes Raid Germany   Giant U.S. Bomber Smash Follows  Record R.A.F, Attack on Vital French Targets; Air Battle Rages Over Reich

Gigantic Air Blows Rock Continent   2,000 U. S. Planes Wing Deep into Reick As Follow-up to Record RAF Smask

American Planes Keep Up Pre-Invasion Raids From Coast To Reich   2,000 Bombers And Escorts Fight Thru Interception To Blast Kassel, Air Center

Make Massive Assaults On Airplane  Factories   Oschersleben And Bernburn Principal Targets; First Men Home Sav Foe Wary

‘HAMMER REICH   Nearly 1,000 Bombers In 4th Straight Mission; Air Battles Rage

RAF Strikes at Bejgium, France   Seek to Dectroy Luftwaffe Before Invasion Launched.

FOURTH DAY OF AERIAL ONSLAUGHT   Nearly 1,000 U.S. Planes Take Part In Heavy Assault

900 RAF Planes in Night Raid   Equal Number Of Fighters  With Big Fleet Of U S. Bombers

2,000 Planes Heap .New Ruin on Reich; Air Battles Raging   Hoarse ‘Achtungs’ Crackle on Radio In Vast Pre-Invasion Bomb Foray; Oschersleben and Bernbure Tareets

4000 Tons Dropped in Single Night   2,000 U.S. Planes Over Germany Today

About 2,000 Yank Bombers Smash at Enemy s Factories   Oschersleben and Bernburg Among Targets Struck Deep Inside Foe Territory — Assault Follows Night Attack in Which 900 RAE Planec Particinate.

Pants At Obschersleben And Bernburg Blasted By Huge Task Force Of American Bombers

AMERICANS ROAR BACK TO ATTACK AFTER RAF RAID   TARGETS ALONG FRENCH-BELGIAN COAST HAMMERED

ka pane  Nea rl yl 00  See  U.S. Bombers — Blast Reich      Plane Plants  at Der nbury and Oscherslehen Hit in Massive Raids   60-HOUR ATTACK   ‘Daylight Blows Follow i Record RAF Assault on Rail Lines

‘Plane Plants Objectives of Day Assault   Follow Up 4,000-ton Night Smash by RAF; Batter Rail Centers

Many Yankee Bombers Used   Follow Record RAF Attack In Fourth Day of Onslaught On Rail, Plane Centers

Bomb Oschersleben, Bernbur; Berlin Reported Air Battles Over Brunswick.

Crippling Blows Aimed At Nazis’ Luftwaffe Might  Swarms Of Allied   Swarms Of Allied Planes Hit Bernburg And Oschersieben

Close To 2,000  Yankee Crafts  Make Assaults   Part of New Series Of AL tacks to Obliterate Luft. wafic Before Allied Juvasion   Five U.S. Planes Down In Sweden   ‘Returning Flite Say Re sults Goods Opposition   Not Particularly Heavy: RAF Blaste Railwavs

Nazi Railway Air Power largets Hit   Allies Continue With Massive Bomb Assault: On Plane Factories And Transportation

FOLLOW RAF'S RECORD BLOW DURING NIGHT   Plane Factories Blasted Ot Oschersleben and Bernbura

Massive Attacks  Against Air Plants Now In Fourth Day   Daylight Attacks On Oschersleben And Bernburg Follow Blasts At French And Belgian Railroads

Plane Plants Struck by Huse Force.   Pré-Invasion’ Attacks On Rail Lines Stenpned Un hy RAF

ANOTHER 2,000 YANK PLANES RAID GERMANY   OnslaughtAgainst Nazi Air Power Carried Into Fourth Day

Great Armada Carries Fight Far Into Reich   Attacks Aimed At Luftwaffe By Americans

German Plane Factories Hit   2.000 U. S. Planes Sweey Into Naziland: Big Battles Reported.

FOLLOW NIGHT BLOW BY 1,000 RAF BOMBERS   Massive Daytime Attack Smashes Heart Of Germany

Daylight Blows Designed to Wipe Out Luftwaffe Before An Invasion

‘2000 AMERICAN WAR PLANES. HIT NAZI AIR DEFENSES   Followed a Record 4000-ton Raid by the RAF Yesterday.   4TH DAY OF ASSAULT   Plane Factories ai Oscher. leben and Bernburg Were Attacked.

CENTERS TAKE NEW POUNDING   Bombs Blast Oschersleben, Bernburg, Other Targets . Deep Inside Germany

TARGETS DEEP IN EERMANY  ASHEN   Fourth Straight Day Of Massive Allied Air As eanlic    RAILROADS HIT   Nearly. 2, 000. Warplanes In Today s“Attack On Reich Areas

Massive Attacks Are Harled At  Plane Factories   Latest Pre-Invasion Blow Follows Attack Upon French and Belgian Railroads Last Night by Greatest RAF Armada Ever Hurled at Occupied Territory,

NEARLY THOUSAND AMERICAN BOMBERS BLASTED AT REICH   PLANE FACTORIES AT OSCHERSLEBEN AND BERNBURG ATTACKED

Yank Planes Blast Plants Near Berlin   Daylight. Raid Follows Heaviest Attack ' © Of Air War   WEATHER CLEAR   Returning Crewmen Say Nazi Resistance Te Feeble’

BLAST PLANTS AT BERNBURG, OSCHERSLEBEN   Blows Follow Record R. A. F. Night Attack in Which New Bomb Load of 4,000 Tons Hits 5 ‘Rail Centers.   *

LIBERATORS AND FORTRESSES Hl NAZI FACTORIES   \irplane Plants Raided At Oschersleben And Bernburg: Indicated 1,500 Planes May Have Taken Part In Attack.

1,000 Bombers Are Included In Big Armada   Germans Report Giant Air Battles; Factories Hit At Obschersleben, Raenhnea

Near New Tha Year Despite Cut   Large Increase in Taxpayer” Revenue is Responsible

 Sales Tax Revenue Hits New High For Year Ended June 30  rena 4,. sO. . 82.8 ear... WP _sé4d.ue

Jowa Tax  Js Absue Eaneciation   Sales Tax At New Record Last Year

REPORT INDICATES CIVILIAN SUPPLY MEAT BE REDUCED  PLENTY AT PRESENT; - SPRING AND SUMMER TO SEE SHORTAGE

Expect Cut In Civilian Meat   Agriculture Department Savs Supply Of Meat Large But Expect Drop.

MEAT SUPPLIES TOBE REDUCED   Cattle - Feeding ~ Operations Indicates Amounts Will Be Less Next Snrina.

Yanks Drive Two Miles Past Lioanao   Germans Said to Fail To Stabilize Front In Central Italy

Nazis Build New ltalian Defense  Frantically Seek to Salvage War Materials

Nazis May Try  For New Line Fail To Stabilize Central Italy Front

Yanks 12 Mi. From Bologna  Germans Fighting for Time, Trying to Build Rhace Pte to Mea cth

Germany Fails To Stabilize Lines In Italy        Trying To: Build. fense Further North as Americans Drive Beyond Loisna

Nazis Build More  Defenses in Italy   Foe Fails to Stabilize Central Front

GERMANS MAY BUILD ~ NEW LINE IN ITALY   Fail to Stabilize Front Now Under Attack—Americans Push Forward Two Miles.

Robots Take A Heavy Toll   Waves Of Flying Bombs Leave Death And Wreck age In England.

Robot Bomb  Destruction Very Great   Last Night Many Civilians Killed In Enolich Tawna

Many Killed as Hun Robot Blitz Rages   ‘Heaviest Night Barrage in  Two Weeks Inflicts Heavy  Casualties

LONDONERS ‘DIG OUT’ OF HEAVY ROBOT RAID   Britain Takes One Of Wors' Attacks In Two Weeks

MANY DIE IN ROBOT ATTACK   London Struck. By Heaviest Flying Bomb Raid In Weeks

Robot Bombs Fall Heavily Upon London   Death, Debris In Streets Of City

Several Democratic Senators And Many Congressmen Swept Into Office   PENN. AND MASS. IN DEMOCRATIC COLUMN BY SLIM MARGINS   Governor Dewey Conceded His Defeat At Early Hour This Morning

Japs Report  Carrier Raids On Sumatra, Palau Islands   ‘Claim Two Destroyers  -'And: Submarine Sunk.  ‘As Large Task Force : Blasts Sabang Harbor   YANKS FORGE AHEAD ON GUAM-AND TINIAN   - Fight for-Full Control Of Prize Airfields On Tinian’s Ushi Point

400 JAPS KILLED TRYING TO BREAK OUT OF GUAM TRAP   Twelve Kinemy Tanks Destroyed by Americans as They Fight Way Out on Orote Peninsula.   FOURTH OF TINIAN ISLAND IS CAPTURED   Marines Win That Portion Which Includes One of Finest Harbors in ~ Marianas.

Dixie's Fruit Crop Damage Is Heavy   Peach Loss To Run 40-50 Per Cent, Auburn Reports

Fruit Hard Hit in Southland   Dixie Peach Crop, Some Tender Vegetables Seriously Hurt.

Shepetovka Controls Lines Into Poland, Rumania and Hungary  NAZI SUPPLY POINT      Soviets Tightening Noose on Cherkasy Death Yrap

VITAL TO NAZI   Shepetovka Hub of Network Feeding Into Poland, Rumania, Hungary.   BASE FOR NEW DRIVES

Soviets Take Rail Center   Crush Strong German Fortifications Before Shepetovka in Ukraine

THE RAIL CENTER OF SHEPETOVKA I TAKEN BY SOV   Crashed Through Possibly 1 Strongest German Fortifications.   TIGHTEN DEATH TRA   Shepetovka Is Main Distril tion Point for German Reserves.

SOVIETS TAK RAIL CENTER FROM GERMANS   100,000 Troops   100,000 Troops Being Killed  By Russians

REDS CAPTURE KEY RAIL HUB OF SHEPETOVKA   Perils Nazis Supply Route to Ukraine; Tighten Cherksay Trap

RAIL CENTR =} OF SHEPETOVKA FAILS TO REDS =      Cherasky Death Trap Be ing Drawn Tighter Abquh Germans Now Being Liquidated

Soviets Tighten Noose Around Trapped Nazis   Breach Possibly Strongest German Defenses On Eastern Front.

Reds Crash On Through Heavy Nazi Army Units   Rail Center Taken As Noose Draws  Much Tighter

Reds Breaking  Stout Defenses  Soviets Capture Rail Center Near Poland

Reds Capture Nazi Rail Hub Of Sheptovka   Main Distribution Point  for Hun Reserves; Noose   ‘Tightens on Trapped   Germans 

Vatutin’s Army Cited By Stalin  Reds Tightening Noose  Around Cherkasy Death Trap Of 100,000 Nazis

Reds Draw Noose Tighter Around Nozi Death Trap   Capture of Rail Hub Sets Up Powerful Base for Drives at Odessa and Warsaw

Strongest Nazi Point On East Front Smashed   Noose Tightened Around Germans Trapped In Cherkasy Sector

SETBACK FOR PLANS OF OPA ISSUFFERED   Senate Votes for Bankhead Amendment, 39 to 35

Administration Ts Dealt Major Blow   Senate Passes Controversial Bankhead Amandmant tn Extendina Life Of OPA

Cotton Amendment Holds ‘As Senate Passes Price Control Extension Bilt

Price control extension bill  passes senate  Administration sets bie reverse

STABILIZATION STRUSTURE IS BEING MENACE!   Administration Loses Fight To Block Bankhead Amendment In Senate   FARM LOAN RATE ON COMMODITIES RAISED

Administration Plan Rout OF Price Control Has Nort Major Senate Reverse . (,,

Million Chinese. Reported Prey to ~ Famine, Cholera   ‘Natives- of Kwangtung Selling Children for Sustenance

JAPS SUFFERED HEAVY LOSSES IN MARIANAS   44,956 Killed In Defense Of Saipan, Guam And Tinian, Nimitz Says   4,470 AMERICANS KILLED IN ACTION

44,956 JAPS DIE. IN ISLAND FIGHTS      Nipponese Toll Heavy ir Saipan, Guam, Tinian. Conquests 

SOVIET UNITS “ARE DAMILES OUTSIDE PORT   Last Escape Route to Rumania Threatened By Red Advances

To Propose Gas Tax As City Aid   “Emergency” Levy Would Help Real Estate Owners, Governor Says

De Gaulle May  Visit America  During Summer FDR Extends  Invitation

De Gaulle to Visit F. D.R.   ‘President. Invites French Leader To Washinaton

De Gaulle Plans Washington Visit   Roosevelt Invites French Leader

EH. Be GAULLE 10 GOSFER HERE   Head of French Ccmmiitee to Arrive in Wastineton

General de Gaulle Expected On Visit   May Make Trip To: Washington In Mid July

FDR 10 CONFER WITH DEGAULLE   7 French Leader's Bid  For Conferences

GER. DEGAULLE TO CONFER HERE   Head of French  Ccmmiitee to Arrive’ in Waskingtsn  -   

GEN. DE GAULLE IS COMING HERI   French Leader. of. Liberation Making Plans to: Confer ” With Roosevelt.

De Gaulle to Visit F. R. in June or July   President Reveals His Invitation to French Leader for Parley

GEN, DEGAULLE TO VISIT FDR THIS SUMMEF   Two Dates, Between June 22 and 30 and July 6 to 14 Given

De Gaulle To See Him At ‘White House FDR States   Head Of French Nationai Committee Coming To U.S. This Summer

Gen. De Gaulle To Confer With  Roosevelt Here      President Says He Expects French Leader To Visit . Within Month

DE GAULLE VISIT EXPECTED BY FDR   INVITES FRENCH LEADER TO. COME ” HERE FOR PARLEY

F.D.R. REVEALS FRENCH LEADER EXPECTED SOON   Admiral Fenard Arranging Conference Within Next Month

MORE V-DAY PLANS HAVE BEEN MADE   Mayor Requests that All Business Places Remain Closed During Church Services.

The World Is Becoming Our Potato   U. S, Getting Involved In Many Things; Where To?

STIMSON TALKS WITH POPE Plus   U.S. Secretary of War and Myron ‘Taylor in Rome

STIMSON TALKS WITH POPE PIUS   Received in Audience jin Paval Library

Stimson Has Talk With Pope   Secretary of War In Italian Capital

BRITISH TAKE CESENA IN NORTH ITALY   Germans Thow 6 New Divisions Into Bologna Battle

Germans Put New Divisions  Before Bologns   ~ Yanks Forced Back Slightly—  British in Cesena

FOE REINFORCES BOLOGNA FRONT   Sends New Divisions Into Fight In Cesena Sector

NAZIS REINFORUE LINES IN UTALY   Germans Throw Seven New Divisions Into Battle For Bologna

Allied Submarine War Successful  Cargo Ship Losses Believed Larger

Allied Submarine War Successful  Cargo Ship Losses ; Relieved T cress

Russian War on Japan  Hinted in Washington   Crowley Statement Seen As Official Expectation of Soviet Aid in Pacific

Fourth Raid On  Carolines Base   Daily Attacks Being Made By U. S. Bombers On Satawan Airdrome  ATUL YD DANTRT HM

BOY, 10, CAPTURED BY BRITISH TROOPS   Youth, Wearing German Uniform, Between Sobs Says He “Never Shot Anyone.”

ONONGAHELA MAN IS FOUND DEAD IN N.Y,      W. K. Vance Was Graduate O Yale—Succeumbs In Hospital

Lieutenant Adelle Bowles, Women’ $ Army Corps Told of Work of WACS . And of Her Native Alaska

SOVIETS REVIVE BID TO POLAND   New Proposal Hinted = in Binlomatic Circles

SOVIET PROPOSAL TO MAKE PEACE WITH POLAND NEARS   Settlement of Difficulties Expected Momentarily In Washington Today   Healing of Breach a “Must” on Allied PreInvasion Program

Ask Revision In Wage Setup   AFL. Members Of WLB Say Price Control Unable To Preserve Living Standard.

CHANGE IN WAGE FORMULA SOUGHT   A. FE. L. Men on War Labor Baerd Protest

—LITTLE STEEL FORMULA—  Wage Freeze Lifting Urged  : _.. Bu 4 WLB Member

21 Jap Planes Knocked Down In Air Battles   Enemy Bases of Rabaul, Marshall Islands Pounded by Bombs

Army Bombers Battle Way Through 60 Japanese Zeros  Theaa Enamv Airfields In Marchall lelande   Three Enemy Airfields In Marshall Islands Are Raided: Rabaul! Again Blasted By Attack

Army Bombers Raid Airfields On Marshalls   Total of 21 Zeros Destroyed in Air Battles in Pacific: Marines Repel Attacks

Willkie Names Campaign Chiefs      Picks Oregon Man To Manage Drive

Willkie Sails His Hat Into GOP Ring   Ralph Cake is Named Indianan’'s Pre-Conv. Manager

Willkie Declares GOP Candidacy For President   Bricker Demands FDR Make 4th Term Declaration

Future Peace Of Europe May Hinge  On Parley    Co-operation Between Britain and Russia   Seen as Central Issue In Parley at Moscow

" FACES PROBLENS      BRITAIN CONCERNED OVER RUSSIA’S EXTENSION OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE,

Anglo-Russian Co-Operation In Europe Believed Chief Issue Before Moscow Meet

0 ee SR repay ame cere eee  The Gallup Poll— Robot Bee Skeptical of  Robot Bomb Attack on U. S

Eric Johnston Proposes ‘Bargain’ With Labor fo Safequard Workers

C.of C. Chief  Proposes  Job Insurance Asks Labor to Drop   Asks Labor to Drop Practices in Exchange for. Plan

Wickard Says Farmers Need Co-Operation   Speaks at Meeting of Texas Farm Leaders

19,000 (OLE IN WALKOUTS OVER NATION   Few Strikes Ended  When D-Day Arrives

15,000 Workers Idle in Strikes   Plane Production Halted in Ohio

Skipper of Carrier Princeton Tells How Single Bomb Caused Fire and Explosions That Wrecked Ship

INDUSTRY 10 ~ ‘GARRY BALL      Will Meet Post-War Chal lenge, L. C. Upton Tells Forum

A Sunday Forum Discussion  Industry And Labor Can  “Carry The Ball’--Uptor

Md. Democrats Seek a Man for  Vice-President   Rayburn,, Rumored as Choice, Is to Give ‘Harmony’ Address

Democrats Would Have Caucus Group Unpledged  Delegates Will Name Vice Presidential Choice at Gathering

TWO STATES PICK DELEGATES TODAY   DEMOCRATS MEET IN MARYLAND AND GOP IN INDIANA

Rayburn ! Asked To Harmonize  Party Gi Groups  Maryland  Factions - To _ Fight Against Any   Party Strife’. POLITICIANS IRKED Disgusted . 1. At Lack Of  Discussion. Of Testes       Disgusted .At Lack Of ‘Discussion, Of  YJssues -

Maryland Group Is Seeking Free Hand At Chicago Meet In Selecting V. P. Nominee

12 Roosevelt Budgets Total Three Times All Previous U.S. Expense

MAT PUNE LUFT WAFL FACTORIES   ANNE BRANES IR NPE OR get CINE  Mile Hop BERLIN WRECKED  Utter Chaos Reigns In City °

REPORT RAIDS ON STUTTGART AND AUGSBURG   RAF Strikes Dual Night Blow in Western Germany and France

REPORTS INDICATED TEXANS VOTING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE  CHECK FROM OVER STATE SHOWS VOTERS SWAMPING POLLING PLACES

seer nate — oye STOCKHOLM REPORTS ARMISTICE NEW IN RUSSIAN-FINN WAR:

OFFICERS PROBING HOME RANSACKING      Two Homes on South Prospect Street Are Entered

OFFICERS PROBING ~ HOME RANSACKING   Two Homes on  Soutn Prospect Street Are _ Entered —

NAZIS’ SECRET WEAPON CAN'T CRACK ALLIES   Germans Launch 3rd Beachhead Drive  *» NEW RADIO TANK Blow Up Devices Be , fore They Start

Fourteen Remote-Controlled azi Tanks Destroyed Below ome By Allied Artillery

YANKS DESTROY 14 ‘RADIO TANKS’ ON ANZIO FRONT   U.S. Artillery Thwarts New @ Weapon as Nazis Open: Third Offensive

Vet Writer After 29 Months wien Army “Gets It”; One More Dead, One More Shot Heard ‘And “Would Go Off My Nut’

Nazi Reserves On West Front  Berlin Minimizes   Berlin Minimizes Defeats in Italy

Berlin Prepares  ~ For Invasion   HOMEFOLKS T TOLD. ITALY _ SETBACK DUE TO DEFENSES

Germans Claim Invasion Imminent   Nazis Seek to Ease Shock of Defeat

> OF OW! RECEIVING AEST) = ADDED FUND:   SIDETRACKING OF REICH INTEREST:

Nazis Alibi or Retreat   Propaganda Lays Italy Defeats to Threat From West

Invasion From West Used to Divert German Thoughts From Italian Scent

NAZIS ACT TO EASE SHOGK OF ITALIAN DEFEATS   Germans Blame Invasion Threat From West for Losses in Italy

Six Armies Hurled At Nazi Defenses   Over 1,500,00 Men Taking Part in Gigantic Offensive After Artillery and Bomb Barrace

“Mystery” Ninth Leads Big Winter  Offensive Drive   Drive Four Miles Into Germany As Five Other Armies Of 1,500,000 Men Smash Hard All Along 400-Mile Front.

New U. S. ‘Mystery’ Army Spearheads Grand Offensive, Seizing 5 Towns; . Greatest Bombardment Rips Defenses

Yanks Gain In Battles Below Rome   I They Have Broken Through The Nazis Final Hill Defenses

Americans Getting Set Ta Storm Last Heights Before Italian Capital.

Only Small Pocket Of Japanese Left To Be Annihilated By  American Forces.

Report Conques Of Kwajalein Nearly Finished   Infantry, Marines Now Hold 21 Islands of Atoll

Clue Followed In Beheadings Of Women   Identification Of Two Tentative As Probe Continues

First Break. in Mystery of Lake Murders   Body’ of One Woman Now Tentatively Identified and Patrol Pushes Probe   A SECRETIVE AIR AT HEADQUARTERS   Indication’ That Officers Expect;an Early Break :. ‘dn the Case °”

Allied Headquarters Expects New Setback as Enemy Throws In 15 Divisions—Over 150,000 Men

First Army Strikes Back With Full Power Against Four Breaches . In Line; Conflicting Reports Issued

AT FLANK OF PANZER LINE   Great Offensive Is ‘Dented’ by Americans

T.B. ASSOCIATION BEGINS ANNUAL DRIVE FOR FUNDS   Group, Seeks - $3,500 _ to Continue Activities During Coming Year

1... ASSUGIATION BEGINS ANNUAL DRIVE FOR FUNDS   Group Seeks $3500 to Continue Activities During Cominz Year

First Sign of Hation’s Post- War Crime Wave Already Appearing-Hoover

Farm Workers Given Assurance   Say 2C Classification To Be Little. Disturbed

ALLIED BOMBS SHATTER KIEL      Nazis Blasted From Baltic Tc Bucharest; Fuel Depots Are Hit

RAF Drops 2,800 Tons On Kiel Base In Heavy Attack   Germany Reports More Air Attacks Developing Today.

Kiel Naval Base Has Bombing By RAF Air Fleets  Reich Also Pounded By Alli ad Bowlers

BOMBERS SMACK KIEL NAVAL BASE   2,800 Tons Of Explosives Placed On Key Nazi Port

Kiel Naval Base Ripped By Bombs   RAF Armada Unleashes Heavy Attack

Five Separate Bomber Forces  Lash At Reich   2800 Tons Of Explosives Dumped On Kiel ; New Attacks In Proures:

BRITISH BATTER KIEL NAVY BASE   Hurl 2,800 Tons Of Bombs Block-Busters Hit Berlin

BiG BOMB LOAD BLASTS KIEL   2,800 Tons of Exolosives Rained on Naval Base by RAF Planes.

Kiel Suffers Major Blow   2,800 Tons of Bomb: Fall on Naval Base

‘Suppose Truman Is Vice President ‘And GOP Carries State of Missouri

Invasion Force Nearer to Paris   AMERICAN DOUGHBOYS DRIVING DOWN ROAD TO CAPITAL

Daily Temperatures   ‘President Back In White House After ‘A Week's Rest

Soldier Vote Bill to Be Signed   President Expected To Act This Week

'22 000 Tons of Bombs Plow Up Reich Cities  wmnearDl (7? _   RAF Continues Steady Assault On Transportation Hubs Behind Siecfried Line

British Smash Into Suburbs Of Prized Seaport   Many Armored Fighting Machines Wheeling Into Escave Route Narrowed To Ten Miles By Vicious Advances Of British Armies.

HITLER RUMOR DELUGE LONDON   Psychologist Says He May Be in Last Stage of Mental Hliness.

Hitler Is Dead, Injured or Completely Insane, Mysterious Radio Silence of Leader Indicates

Why Hitler Failed To Talk Still Mystery   London Is Deluged With Reports That Hitler Is Dead Or Suffering   Nervous Disorders

Continued Silence of Hitler Stirs Rumor That He’s in Last Stage of Mental Illness

REPORT HITLER HAD OPERATION   Berlin Explains Silence on  : Munich Anniversary

WHERE '8 HITLER?   Fuehrer’s Silence Starts New Reports That He  ls Dead

Decision on WLB Hailed by Biddle   U. S. Courts Declared Without Jurisdiction

Elas Drive on Athens SeemsEnded  British Leaders Say . Most Dangerous Phase

Prime Minister Churchill Standing Firm On Britain’s. Policy In Greece And Italy   Might Hit Back In Another Address To The Nation

ELAS DRIVE IS. BELIEVED UNDER REIN   British Think They Have Halted Leftists Moving on Athens and That the Worst of the 12-Day Turmoil Is Over. _

First Army Moving Dowr Roer After Swinging Around Source of River  PRESS TOWARD DUREN  After Roer is Crossed, Yanks Still Have Three Lines, Erft River Ahead   Elas Athens Drive Seems Failing, Danger Phase Past

Leftist Drive in Greek War Loses Force   Rumored Leaders May Seek Agreement, But New Call Is Issued

Churchill Stands Pat On Policy  In Greece   Opens Commons Debate And Says He May Make Address Tu Nation About It

DRIVE OF GREEK  LIBERATION FORCES  IN ATHENS SLOWED RUMORS PERSIST THAT .  ELAS LEADERS TO SEEK ACREEMENT WITH RRITISI

Churchill Stands Pat on Policy   Military Situation Rules Greece, Italy and Changes Hinge on its Improvement

DRIVE OF GREEK rp ateat IN-ATHENS SLOWED “RUMORS PERSIST THAT  ELAS LEADERS TO ‘SEEK  ACDELMENT WITH ORITICL

Elas May Ask Compromise Peace Terms ‘British Stand   British Stand Firm on First Proposals

MANA ee  ul OF TURMOIL ‘SEEN BY BRITISH   ‘Blas Forces Of National Liberation Front Have Been Halted -.  TERMS UNCHANGED   Leftist Group Leaders Seeking A greem ent With Scobie —

HALT ELAS IN GREEK CAPITAL   British Claim Crisis Over in Athens

British Halt ELAS Drives   Most Dangerous Phase Of 12-Day Turmoil Believed Passed

CHURCHILL STILL STANDING FIRM IN (REECE AND ITALY   BRITISH GOVERNMENT LEADER UNDER ATTACK AGAIN ON HIS POLICIES

Greek Revolt Nears Finish   Leftists Reported Ready To Compromise

Leftist Drive On Center Of Athens Halted   British Say Most Dangerous Phase Of Greek  I loawtesener Daccad

Churchill Stands Firm On Policy   Might Talk to Nation on Greek And Italian  Policies

BELIEVE CRISIS IS PASSED IN GREEK TURMOIL   British Pushing Efforts To Reach Terms With Leftist Forces

ONLY SPORADIC FIGHTING HEARD ALONG STREETS   English Leaders Claim Most Dangerous Phase _Has Apparently Passed

Churchill to Stand Firm, He Announces   Will Make no Change in Policy On Greece, Italy

Churchill Stands Firm on Situation In Greece as ELAS Fighting Lessens

y BELIEVE GREEK BATTLE HALTED BY ELAS FORGES   British Position More Secure In  City Of Athens

British. Premier Says He Might Hit Back At Crities; Approves Coutin uance Italy King

Churchill Stands Firm  Gn Poliey   Says He Approved Emanuele’s Keeping  Of Throne

GREEK REVOLT PASSES CRISIS   Fight In Athens Slows As Leftist Leaders Seek  New Compromises

CHURCHILL MAY RETURN ATTACK   Defends British Policy in italy and Greece Against Critics.   GREEKS’ DRIVE HALTED

Greece, Italy Stir Commons  Churchill in Sharp Tilt With Members On British Policy

ELAS Athens Drive Seen Halted;  Churchill Upholds Intervention; _ Charge Papandreou Broke Pledge

CHURCHILL STILL STANDING FIRM IN GREECE AND ITALY  BRITISH GOVERNMENT LEADER UNDER ATTACK

Worst Phase Of Greek Revolt Over   Rebel Forces’ Drive Into Center of Athens Is Haltcd

Turmoil In Athens Seen As Subsiding   ELAS, Their Drive Halted By British, Ready for Compromise

Churchill Firm Under Blasts at Foreign Policy   May Address Nation, He Asserts in Commons  Debate

BRITISH HALT ELAS DRIVE INTO ATHENS   Most Dangerous Phase In Turmoil Apparently Over

ELAS DRIVE ON ATHENS HALTED   BRITISH SAY MOST DANGEROUS PHASE ON TURMOIL PASSED

Churchill Stands Firm on Greeks   British Control Athens Situation

Worst Part Of Creek Turmoil Appears Ended   ELAS Ready To End Strife If Papandreou Goes; Chiefs Seek Peace.   TERMS UNCHANGED

Winne Stands  Firm On Policy   Prime Minister Says He Might Hit Back In Another Address.

NEW ATTACKS ON CHURCHILL   Laborites Query Prime Minister On Policies In Greece, Italy

May Take His Decision To The Country   Premier Attacked For Policy In Two Countries

FINNS OPPOSE TROOP DEMANDS   Nation Ready To Accept Other Russian Proposals

FINLAND READY TO TALK PEACE WITH RUSSIANS   One Drawback Reported In Late Offer

Finland Seeking Change in Terms  Ask Soviets to Drop Part of Demands

}W itiaceearwenl Of All Finn Troops Stumbling Block In Peace Move

Finns Balk At Russian Truce Conditions   While Keeping Door To Peace Still Open, They Seek Easier Terms.

Finns. Stick  To 2 Points   Troop Withdrawals, Internment Denied

Border Issue Is Stumbling Block   Red Demand that Finland Return To 1940 Border Holds Up Path To Peace.

Nazi planes outnumbered by 13-L ratio   Disrupt enemy communications

ALLIED PLANES SWAMP NAZIS   Throw Powerful Protecting Canopy Over New Inva sion

SAIPAN CONQUEST MOST COSTLY TO U. S. IN PACIFIC   Way Now Open for Bombing of Tokyo, Which Is Only 1,449 Miles Away From Teland.

CONQUEST OF SAIPAN IS COMPLETED   x ee te Opens Way for New Air Blows Agains Japan

Final Battle for Leyte is Approaching and Is Expected to be Bitter One With Armor-led Yanks and Well Equipped Jap Reinforcements.

3 BLOODY NIGHT BANZAI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED   Yanks Make Four-Mile Leyte Advance Through  Jap Mountain Defenses   BITTER BATTLE SEEN SOON IN ORMOC AREA

AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE ON ORMOC   Infontrymen Go Forward — After Repulsing Count” er-Thrusts

Yanks Repulse Fanatical Jap Leyte Attacks   U. S. Carrier Planes Blast Nip Vessels ‘in Manila Bay

Yanks Beat Back Three Bloody Jap Attacks on Leyte, Advance Four Miles from Carigara Bay

ADD PANELS TO RATION BOARD TO LIFT LOAD ©   More Persons Made Responsible for the Rationing Program

 ‘Empty Tubes Ko Longer Required To Purchase Refill   . Urge Public To Turn dn All That May Yet Be tn Cabinets

GAS TANK TRUCK, CAR COLLIDE IN TEXAS, SEVEN. DIE   Twenty-seven Others Injured in Blast Which Rocked Bor der Town

7 Killed in Texas Blast   27 Injured When Gas Trick and Auto Collide a) Sherman

Denison Blast Kills Seven   Explosion and Fire Follow Collision of Butane Gas Truck, Automobile

Death Toll in Denison Blast Rises fo Seven   27 Others Injured, Nine Critically, as  Result of Crash of floae Tank Teael dud

Stewart, Lausche Stumping State   Democrat Nominee To Appear at Fair

BUSY CAMPAIGN WEEK IS LISTED   Lausche Will Invade Putnam, Van Wert-cos

House Banking Group Favors  OPA Extension   Plan Provides  For Checkuns

SICK BOY'S BLOOD SUPPLY CUT OFF   BILLY MEERS, 4, SHOWING EFFECT OF DENIAL OF LIFESAVING PLASMA,

Hospital Forced To Cul Off Plasma From Boy Who Must Have It To Live

British Forces Holding Grimly To Kohima Base   Defenders Still Hold Town In Face of Japanese Thrusts

Jap Troops Streaming Intc Burma   Fresh Troops, Equipment Rushed From Thailand

Nazi Position As Major Air Power Shaken   Pattern for Europe Similar to One Used in African War

Great Fires Burn Themselves Out in Augsburg and Ruins of 14 Other Centers Of Production Tell of Allied Victories 

Wives Tell Of Polygamy Life   Pretty Divorcee Says Teachings Estranged Her Husband.

Tax Simplification  Plan Agreed Upon   House Committee Drafts Measure

For $5,000 or Less : Simplified Tax Plan Brings  \Hove for Elimination of Forms

WAYNE VOTES CUT LEAD OF MICHIGAN GOP   KELLY HOLDS LEAD OF 66,000 OVER OPPONENT

Jap Assault on Allied Base in India Thwarted   Enemy Threat to Kohima Is Not Lessened

NIPPONESE PUSH AHEAD IN INDIA   Snipers Planted Along Allied Supply Lines Near Kohima

Japs Flanking  Base at Kohima   Snipers Already Harassing Allied Supply Road

JAPS PLANT SNIPERS ON SUPPLY ROAD   After Being Repulsed Is Direct Assault On Allied Base Of Kohima In Eastern In glia   Resistance Stiffens

JAPANESE MENACE ROAD TO-KOHIMA   CUTTING OF SUPPLY HIGHWAY WOULD ISOLATE ALLIES .  “DEFENDING BASE.

Little. Daughter ot 7... Navy Man. Kidnaped. ; ~ and Possibly Raped

FARM FORTUNES BOWLES AVERS   Oram Chtet Tells Grange [hat Decent Living For Farmers Depends On Wealth Of Wage Earner.

End of War Is In Sight Says Montgomery   U. S. Troops Now Near Marne Baiilefields of Previous War

Toward Rocket Gun Coast and Marne Battlefields of World War I on Other Side of Paris.

BRIDGEHEADS ACROSS SEINE WON BY YANKS   End of War in Sight, General Montgomery Declares

U.S. forces advance on  rocket coast Patton’s troops lash fleeing foe

Rocket Coast Of France Is Next American Objective;  General Sees War’s End   Montgomery Commends Troops On Victory Over Seventh Army; Bridgeheads Established Across Seine;  Fighting Nears Battlefields Of First World War

End Of The War Is In Sight, Gen’l Montgomery Says      Tn Message

Rridueheids. Across River-.  Established By U.S. Forces _ On Both Sides of Capital

MOVE MADE AS BRIDGEHEAD ON SEINE SECURED   Action Threatens To Push Germans Into Sea Or Drive Them Back Into Reich

Bridgeheads Kstablished  Aeross Seine   Complete Victory Wox In Northwest France, Montgomery Asserts  3 GENERALS TAKEN

GATE TO PARIS APPARENTLY OPEN TOU. 8. TROOPS   Germans Flee Capital in Tremendous Exodus—Others Battle Patriots Inside  City. .   YANKS ARE HEADED TOWARD ROCKET COAST   Fighting Bitter at River Bridgeheads, Indicating Nazi 15th Army Is in Struggle.

Battered Nazi Forces on Way To Reich Border   Capture of Paris Seems Imminent

First takes 4: towns in new triple assault  All resistance in Saarlautern ends

Clear Germans Out of Saarlautern; Take 4 Towns West of Cologne As British Open Assault at Venlo

British Make Assault in  East Holland   Enemy Resistance in Most of Saarlautern Brought to End

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Four Towns Are Taken by First Army   British Suddenly Spring to Attack in Holland

LLIED CAPTURE F SAARLAUTERN AVES THE WAY   Lunge Brings American Forces Into Defenses of German’s Sieafried Line

Organized Resistance Shattered in Saarlautern  Peaidoe Aarne Saar   Bridge Across Saar Js Captured Intact As Allies Increase . Tempo of Offensive  BOE EWrCrYT £2Amt74Atw Cm

Yanks Hurdle Stream, Hit at Siegfried Line   First Army Gains in Three Drives On Approaches to Duren; Ninth Reaches Roer on Broad Front

SRD ARMY GETS AGROSS SAAR IN DARING THRUST   German Air Force Shows Greatest Display Of Strength In Weeks   SIEGFRIED LINE’S ARTILLERY ACTIVE

Quick Opening of Battle. for Siegfried Line Seen  NAZI GUNS BLAST  ALLIED IED POSITIONS  Capture of f Saar Span Epic of American ~~ Daring

Impeachment of Regents Hinted by Cunningham   Ex Sports Edifor signs 3V  Texas Correspondent Dies on Leyte

Bitter Slugging Match Develops   Yanks Punch Holes in Gothic Line

Allies Advance In West Italy   Americans Drive Into Gothic Line Outposts

RED BIG GUNS WIPE OUT NAZIS ON LOWER DNSTR   Enemy Attacks In Waves At Tiraspol, Thonsands Are Killed

SAGADAHOC SENDS MORE MEN INTO NATION'S SERVICE   Some Go to Devens While Others Will Enter Navy

Won't Let Foes Quit---Roosevelt   Allies to Occupy Germany, Japan

SEDITION TRIAL JURY SWORN IN   29 DEFENDANTS ARE ACCUSED OF TRYING TO FORM NAZI GOV'T

Sedition Jury Picked   Will Try 29 “Accused of Conspiracy to Set. Up Nazi Form of State

Jiiry Sw rorn In At Tr rial Of 29 For Conspir acy   Group Accused Of Trying To Set Up Nazi Form Of _ Government In This Country.

JURY SWORN IN ON SEDITION TRIAL TODAY   Two Men And Two Women On Panel In Washington

Defense Lawyer in Sedition Trial is Accused by Client   New Yorker Alleges Un.holy Alliance Between Attorneys   Vacation-Bound Supreme Justices Take Time for Many Disagreements

Sedition Trial Jury Made Up   Composed Of 10 Men, 2 Women; To Try 29 Persons For Conspiracy.

Reds Get Mohacs AtRear Of Budapes!   Russians Hold Six Mile Line On Danube

HEAVY SNOW IN BUDAPEST AREA   STORM SLOWS DOWN ACTION IN BATTLE FOR CAPITAL CITY

Enter Slovakic From Poland: Snow Heavy   Action Said To Be Slowed Down Due To The Weather

RUSSIAN DRIVE SLOWED DOWN BY SNOW SLEFT   Capture of 50 More Hamlets in Slovakia Reported by Russians

Winter Storm to Halt Fighting   SEVERE SNOW REPORTED IN BUDAPEST AREA

Snow Slows Up Budapest Fight   Russians Make New Penetration, However, Of North Slovakia.

Heavy Snow ‘Slows: Reds In Advance —  On Budapest   Soviet War Bulletin ‘Says. 50 Towns Taken

Russians Cross Carpathians On Polish Front   Soviet Bulletin Reports Capture of 50 Additional Slovakian Hamlets.

Snow and Sleet Slow Russians Near Budapest    Moscow Reports New Gain In Slovakia, However; Fifty Towns Taken

Heavy Snowfall Slows Fighting Before Budapest   Soviet Progress Unmentioned in Communiques but Germans Tell Story of Flank Attack

HEAVIEST SNOW SLOWS ACTION   Situation in Budapest Is Tense; Russians Capture 50 Hamlets.

SLEET STORM HALTS DRIVE ON BUDAPEST   Russians Make No Mention Of Progress But Say Situation in Hungarian Capital is Tense  50 HAMLETS CAPTURED

Heaviest Snow Of Year Slows  Russian Army   Battle For Budapest Ham-pered. Although Hungurjan Capital Situation Remains Tense

Snow Slows Up War i in Hungary   But Moscow Reports Progress for Troops In Czechoslovakia

Snow. Sleet Slow  Budapest Battle   Reds Capture Fifty Villages in Slovakian Mountain Advance

SNOW STORMS SLOW SOVIET ARMY FORCES   Fifty Hamlets In Slovakia Taken By Russians

SNOW SLOWS THE BATTLE FORBUDAPEST   Heaviest Fall of Year Follows Severe Sleet Storm —50 Additional Hamlets Taken in Puppet State of Slovakia.

Heavy Snow Slows the Red Drive  4th Ukraine Army Widens Its Front  4

Heavy Snows Slow Red Army’s Push   Battle for Budapest Abates; Situation In Capital Is Tense

HEAVIEST SNOW OF YEAR DELAYS BUDAPEST FIGHT   Russian Forces Make Nev Penetration of North Slovakia

Heavy Snow Halts Russ   German and Hungarian: Occupy More Defense Posts Before Budapest

Sleet Storm, Snow Halting Soviet Attack   ‘Nazi Troops Now Defending 26-Mile Are at Budapest

Heavy Snow Slows Down Soviet Drive      Situation In Hungarian Capital Is Tense; Moscow Is Silent

Heavy Snowfall Slows Action In Budapest Baitle  si ituation Is Tense nH

Snow Slows Battle for Budapest   Soviets Report Capture of 50 Hamlets in  Slovakia

Snowfall Checks: Budapest Battle   Fee and  Hungarian Troops Occupy Defense’ Positions   CAPTURE 50 HAMLETS   Red Army Troops Have Crossed the Carpath ian Mountains

HEAVY SNOWFALL RETARDS SOVIET!   Action Near Budapest Slows Down; Reds Capture 50 Hamlets _

RED OFFENSIVE GOES IN SNOW   Battle for Budapest Swings Around Hungary Capital *

REDS RETARDED BY HEAVY SNOW   Action Slowed Down Along Line Around Budapest

Storm Slowing Soviet Forces  Nazis Report Russian Capture Of Mohacs

Toky o Reports ‘Naval Task Force  ‘Attac king Bonins   Japanese Say Heavy Fighting Is In Progress

—WAR IN PACIFIC-~  Bonins Target Yankees   Tokyo Reports Task Force Hits Islands; Ukhrul Falls to Allies

‘Tokyo Reports Naval Task Force Attacking Bonins   Japanese Sav H eav 5 Fighting Is In Progress.

Vast ‘Liquid Battle Which .M ay Determine Daration of Eu-! ropean Conflict Now Batliivwe Tin

WITH GERMAN COUNTERDRIVE CLUBBED TO STANDSTILL BIG BATTLE MAY BE AROUND CORNET

MacKenzie Says—  Europe W ar Is Nearing  Its Climax   Gen. Ike Has Chance To Trap Large Number Of German Troops

Suige Can Ge Cut At Base Like A Sore Corn— —By DeWitt Mackenzie (7?)  German Troops In Highly Danwerous Position

Yank Units Said To Have Entered Liberated Panis   Patton Interested Ir Chopping Nazis T« Pieces; Third O'  France Free

ALLIED TROOPS ENTER PARIS   Report French, U. $. Units in Capital

French, Yank Units Enter Paris As Patriots Seize Other Areas   A.P.’s Kennedy Finds That French, Inspired By News Of Paris Liberation, United As They Never Were In Peacetime.

GRANGE IN MIDDLETOWN SENDS SOLDIERS GIFTS   Over 100 Packages Taken To Valley Forge Hospital

(40 JAP PLA DOWNED IN WEEK IN PHILIPPINES   MacArthur Says 48 More Have Been Destroyed in the Mindoro Area by Navy and nti-Aircraft.   NEW GAINS MADE IN ORMOC CORRIDOR   Yanks Complete Destruction of a Japanese Division on Leyte—U. S. Losses Are Licht.

American (7th Reaches Drome ‘In. West. Leyte   Mindoro, Opposition Light ‘As'U.S. Troops Expand

NO OPPOSITION FOUND YET IN MINDORO PUSH   TOTAL OF 740 JAP PLANES BAGGED IN LAST WEEK

Week Of Wa Costs Japs 740 Planes   Leyte Division Advances To Enemy Valencia Field

Jay Shot Self, Mrs. Andrews Told Neighbor   Boy’s Footprints Tracec From Her Hoine to Death Scene

Byrnes Points To Great Need For Supplies   Artillery Ammunition Is Used Faster Than It Can Be Supplied, Says Mobilization Director

LONDON SAVED BY INVASION, BYRNES SAYS   Allied Armies Use Artillery Ammunition Faster Than Produced

FIFTEEN PROPERTY CHANGES LISTED   Real Estate Mortgages Recorded Drop; Chattel Reccrd.ngs Register Rise

MORTGAGE VALUE DROP RECORDED:   Releases Filed Alsi, Show Decrease; Seven Property Sales Listed

70- 70-F oot Wall of Lava Spews From Vesuvius and Rushes on Torens. Hurriedlvy Evacuated

VESUVIUS IN WORST ERUPTION OF MODERN TIMES   70-foot Wall of Molten Lava ‘Has Qbliterated Village of San Sehaatian.

Lava Destroys San Sebastian   Famous Volcano Sends Streams Of Lava Down On Italian Towns

PLANES DROP BOMBS ~ ON SWEDISH CAPITAL   Number of Windows in Buildings Shattered—Attacking Craft Unidentified.

COMMITTEES OF A.C. FOR 1944 NAMED .   Chosen by Kuehne as Standing Groups to Serve During Year

Germans +  Baek at Anzio   British Forces Win Allied Troops Attack, Recapture Strongsait

New Trap Closes On Nazi Troops      Third Army Tanks Plunge Beyond Meaux; Allies Only 118 Miles From Germany

YANKS PLUNGE ACROSS RIVER: CUT RETREAT   Meaux Seized As 20,000 Trapped Germans Are Slaughtered On Seine

Americans Slashing At Enemy s Escape Paths to Germany   Beyond Seine 20,000 Nazis Being Wiped Out By Ground, Air Assaults—Third Army Seizes Meaux, Scene of a Great Battle Against Kaiser in World War I.

Allied Offensives Swing Northward From Seine Lines   Newly-Established Trap Catches 20,000 Germans West Of River; Third Army Seizes Meaux, Where Foe Met Disaster In Great World War  Clash

V AVGSE LEScape frathn 20,000 Nazis Flounder In New Trap West of Seine: Germanvy105 Miles Aurav

Yankees Cross Marne, Attack Fleeing Nazis   Entire Allied Assault  Swings Toward Germany

American Units Plunge Across Historic Marne   Armored Spearheads Push Northward Along Flank Of Retreating Germans

BATTLEFIELDS OF FIRST WAR BLOODIED AGAIN   Germans Are Slaughtered in Rhone Valley; Half of Force In South Wiped Out

Report Tells of New Airfield in Philippine Areg  MacArthur Tells of New Aerial Strikes And Ground Action

HALSEY GIVEN ~NEW SEA TASK   Admiral To Get Fleet Of His Own To Run Down Nipponese

Halsey Commands l'. S. Third Fleet   Fighting Admiral To Con. tinue War Against Japs

HALSEY ASSIGNED A FIGHTING JOB   ADMIRAL GIVEN FLEET OF HIS OWN TO BATTLE JAPS IN ‘PACIFIC,

‘Admiral Halsey, Who Rid South Pacific   ‘Of Nips, Gets Coveted Job—   Fighting Command Against Japanese

DE GAULLE WORKING WITH ALLIES NOW   President Would Post-~ pone Civil Government for France

FR Asserts More of France Should Be Liberated Before Civil Units Set Up

CIVIL RULE WILL ~ COME LATER DA   Roosevelt Suggests Frecing of Greater Area of France Should Be First.

Foe Ordered to Defend French Port to Deatt   nitions in Renewed Vitebsk Offensive      FDR Frowns Upon Setting Up  Civil: Rule In France Now

Civil Regime Should Await France Gains   Roosevelt Hints De Gaulle Action Now Is Premature

Schedule Kept, President Says   Operations Around Cherbourg According To Plan, He Says

Too Early to Set Up French Rule   President Says More of France Should Be Liberated by Allies.

FDR OPPOSES FRENCH CIVIL RULE FOR NOV   Expulsion Of Finnish  Minister Does Not Sever  Diplomatic Relations With Finland. States  Roosevelt

DeGaulle Gets Rebuke By FDR   French Leader Going Too Fast, He Says

Americans’ Guns Rake Last Escape Route Of Germans   ‘Ninth Division, On High Ground Only Four Miles From West Coast, Makes Escape Of Nazis Desperate Chance

Thousands of — Bataan Prisoners Killed by Japs —   Starvation and Torture in Camps Revealed

SOVIETS SWEEP 200 TOWNS INTO OFFENSIVE NET   Red Army's Drive Integral Part Of Great Allied Squeeze Against Hitler's Reich.

EASTERN FRONT—   New Offensive Brings Russian Army Within 75 Miles Of Latvia

Battle Flood Waters, Mud In Big Drive   ‘Campaign Does Not In terfere With Push in  Finland

German Positions on Both Sides of  Vitebsk Broken by Red Divisions

RED DRIVE NEARS NUR  Newest Russian. Smas   THREATEN VITEBSK      First Phase Of Stalin’s .. Summer Offensive Un der Wav

DEWEY SET FOR COUNTERATTACK   Candidate Homeward Bound From Western Wars On New Deal

Dewey Maps Final Drive   In Syracuse Tomorrow -To Speak in Buffalo On Tuesday

DEWEY STARTS STRETCH DRIVE   SCHEDULES SERIES OF APPERANCES IN N, Y.. NEW ENGLAND

Dewey Plans New Blasts   Homeward Bound From Western Swing; Ready Ta Renlyv to F. R.

Dewey Lashes al Brain Trusters   Candidate Anticipates F. R. Counter-Attack On Oklahoma Soeech

Dewey Will. Invade East.   Syincsie ‘waaress . Planned ‘Saturday

Dewey Winds Up Drive in State And New Englan¢  Syracuse Selected Te Receive Majer Farm Speech; Optinism Pervades Resshlican Coheri<

Dewey Prepares Counterblow in Bout With FDR.   Next ‘Talk Slated Oct. 6, One Day  After Roosevelt's

Dewey Starts Stretch Drive   Lines up Schedule For New York State and New England; Farm Speech Saturday

Dewey: Begins Campaign, On  Eastern Coast   Shows Confidence In ~ Outcome At Start © Of Windup .

Dewey Expects Further Blasts On Republicans   GOP Nominee Indicates He Is Prepared To Deliver  Beettt Casneae g Ateaal-

DEWEY PLANS FARM SPEECH   Starts Stretch Drive After Campaign in West

DEWEY AWAITS NEW FDR BLAST   Heads Home After Triumphant Tour Of West

Dewey Ready For New FDR Attack   GOP Candidate Returning From Speaking Tour; FDR To Speak Oct. 5.

Dewey to Talk In W. Virginia   Will Speak in Charlestor October 6— Heads Back East

Cheers Greet Dewey as He Speeds Home   Ready for New Blasts From Roosevelt; Will Speak Aaain Oct. 6

Dewey Ready To ‘Slug It Out’ With FDR   Republican Nominee En Route Home After Western Swing

Dewey Opens Final White House Drive in Eastern States   Selects Syracuse, N. Y. For Traditional Farm Speech Tomerrow

Dewey Plans Counter Blow On Roosevelt   Republican Nominee To Make Speech at Charleston, W. Va., Friday, Oct. 6

DEWEY SCHEDULES WEST VIRGINIA ADDRESS 10 ANSWER F. D. R. TALK   WAR PAST CRISIS, JOBS FOR SERVICEMEN NOW PARAMOUNT QUESTION, PLATFORM CROWD TOLD

‘Dewey Opens Stretch Drive   © Last Appearances Scheduled for East

Dewey Talks In N. E. In Stretch Drive   Making Tour Of Home State

‘Oklahoma Is Sold On  ‘TomDewe;   Discloses His Monday  ‘ Night. Speech Was Written in 12 Hours— Mrs. Dewey Key: Figure in Home Town

Dewey Ready for = FDR Counterattack  Announces Plan to ~ Speak Oct.'6, Day. After Roosevelt Talk

Dewey Heading East, Ready To Resume Battle  All Set To Counter Ex: pected New Blasts By EF R In Newt Sneech.

Dewey Ready for Counterattack   Next Speech Will Be Given Oct: 6

Drunk Nazi Sniper Indignant Over Capture---Just Wanted Company  (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOK.)

Nazi Sniper Sought For Drinking Truce   Wanders Into American Lines Waving Bottle

WEATHER   Soviets Pose w Threat “Te Ramana  Spearheads of Red Army Within 25 Miles of Prut River  NEW DRIVE OPENS  Nazis Report Attempt te Trap Their Forces in Vinniten Area   NEW DRIVE OPENS

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE TO TRAP ENEMY   Red Spearheads Drive To Within 25 Miles Of Prut River; New Push Aimed At Trapping Germans In Vinnitsa Area.

Soviet Spearheads Advancing on  Rumanian Border  Germans Say Fighting Is Going on Far - Ahead of Russ Front

RED SPEARHEADS WITHIN 25 MILES OF PRUT RIVER   Onslaught Reaches Foothills Of Carpathian Range

SPEARHEADS OF “RUSSA ARMY         Berlin Reports Opening of New Soviet Offensive —   TRAPPING  G LARGE GERMAN FORCES

Red Spear ‘head Only 25 Miles  Fr om Rumania   Threat Against Balkan State Increases As Russia Widens Dniester Bridgehead

Russians Thrust Into Kovel, Deep In Poland; Push Within Sight Of Nikolaev Naval Base   Berlin Reports Fighting In Poland 50 Miles Further Than Reds Indicate

Soviets Drive To 25 Miles Of  River Border   Red Army Spearheads Push Toward Rumania: New Action Near Tarnopol.   BRIDGEHEAD WIDENED

Soviet Spearheads Advancing on Rumanian Border  Germans Sey Fightin:   Is Going on Far

Nazi F orces Lose Heavily In Red Push For Lwow   Report. Opening of New Red . Offensive Aimed At. Trapping . Large Nazi Forces. In VinnitSa Ares.

Red Army Is 25 Miles From Prut Boundary   Berlin Reports Offensive Aimed at Springing the Trap Near Vinnitsa

Red Spearheads “Near Rumania’s -Prut River Line   Berlin Reports ‘Soviets In New Offensive From Tarnopol Sector.

Red Spearheads Nearing Rumania  25 Miles From Border Below Mogilev Podolski

SOVIET FORCES NEAR RUMANIA   Vanguards Only 25 Miles From Prut River; Other Gains Reported

RED ADVANCES BOOST THREAT TO RUMANIANS   Berlin Reports New Russian Drive Around Tarnopol, Proskurov

Another Airbase Lost in China   Tanchuk Abandoned, Installations Smashed

Trial Features Freedom Speech   Mass Sedition Trial Scene of Defendant's Denial of Charges.

FIVE KILLED, SIX INJURED IN BLAST FT, WORTH PLANT  PAN-AMERICAN FIRE.   PAN-AMERICAN FIREWORKS COMPANY PLANT PRACTICALLY DESTROYED

PREDICT FROST SUNDAY NIGHT   Mercury to Dip to 28 - to 32 in Mason City

Nazis Facing RemaniaRout In Red Drive   More Native Troops Aid Offensive: Bulgaria Awaits Allied Terms

‘Germans Engaged In Fierce Fighting Against Romanian Army Formations In Bucharest   Nazi Troops Reported In General Retreat In Romania

This Was ‘Announced Today by the German Radio, * (London Stated.   ATTACKS REPULSED   German Troops Were- Engaged in a General Retreat in Romania.

Nazi Command In Bucharest Under Attack   Germany Says Fierce Fight Against Romanian Army Formation Rages; Jer ries Are Retreating

German Radio Says Fighting Rages In Bucharest City  Report States Envoy Is Unable to Contact Nazi Armv

Gen. MacArthur s Airmen Sink 4 - Jap Ships In Week   Thirteen More Enemy Ships Added To Toll In Southwest Pacific   SHIPS IN HIDING FOUND BY FLIERS

SINK 13 MORE JAP VESSELS   MacArthur’s Airmen Boost Total  cei  Rabaul Battered Into Rubble

PLANES SMASH AT FRANKFURT   Strong Formations of Fortresses Attack German Industrial City

Frankfurt Hit By Fortresses   Day-Long Aerial Attacks  Bt Pek POR po besarte: Coane

Non-Stop Aerial Assault Goes On   RAF Takes Over As  Day Raiders Return  By AUSTIN BEALMEAR RAeancrinitand BDeaaese Geafi Weiter

Frankfurt Again Hit ~By Bomb:   Attack by Strong Allied ' Formations. Climaxes All-Day Aerial Operations

Non-Stop Aerial Assault Goes On:   RAF Takes Over As Day Raiders’ Return  By AUSTIN BEALMEAR -

Americans Hit Frankfurt in Daylight Raid   Twelve American Heavy Bombers Lost; 19 German Planes Shot Down

Twelve U. S. Bombers Lost in Raid, Third on Industrial City in Last 11 Days—Attack Climaxes Day’s Operations in Which 2,500 Sorties Are Flown From British Isles—Berlin Radio Goes Off Air.

FRANKFURT IS POUNDED BY FORTRESSES   Supported By Fighters In All-Day Allied Air Operation; 16 German Planes Shot Down.   Harassed by Flak

Simplified Tax Measure Goes To Senate Floor   Early Passage Is Anticipated

Co-Premiers Named — To Revive Japanese   Gen. Kotso and Adm. Yonai Designated by Hirohitc To Replace Tojo, Coordinate War Ejfort of Nation

MILITARY RULE PLAN OF JAPAN   General And Admiral Are Chosen To Head New  Government

Hirohito Names Army, Navy Men To Succeed Tojo   General Kuniaki Koiso And Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai Chosen As ‘CoPremiers” Of New Government

By Emperor of Japan to Succeed the Deposed Tojo; Both Proponents of Japanese Expansion.   Fascist Leader

‘Japs 10 Carry Out 3 Point Plan   ’  Admiral and General Named ‘‘Co-Premiers”’ of New Government.

Co-Premiers To Be _Tojo’s Successors   General Koiso, Admiral Yonai, Exponents Of Japanese Expansion To Form New Government; To Strengthen War Effort

Tojo in Complete Eclipse After Nipponese Suffer Series of Hard Defeats At Hands of Americans -

OFFICERS 10 FORM JAPANESE CABINET   “Co-Premiers” Picked by Hirohito in Unprecedented Move —~—

2 NAMED TO FORM NEW JAP CABINE]   TASK ASSIGNED TO GENERAL KOISO AND ADMIRAL YONAI BY EMPEROR.

Germans Have Another  New Weapon   Seven Have Been Met; They Speed Rapidly Away

ROCKET DRIVEN FIGHTER USED AGAINST FLIER      Germans Introduce New Weapon Having Terrific Speed.

(Ssible Threat to Allied Air Posed By  ‘ast Nazi Rocket Fiahters

Nazis Now Using Rocket Planes   U.S. Pilots Report Encountering New Challenge to Allied  Air Susreameacy

lvasion' s aed      Disorganized Nazis Yield Themselves As. Prisoners   New German Rocket Plane Capable Of Great Speed Encountered By Allies In Bombings —

Germans Using Rocket Plane   New Craft Encountered by U.S. Pilots: Craft Flles at Great Speed.

‘ROCKET’ PLANES HURLED BY NAZIS   Allied Airmen Report Craft Have Terrific Speed

Germans Use Rocket Plane   New “Secret Weapon” Capable of Terrific Speed: Few Met So Far

Said To Have Terrific Speed  New Rocket Fighter Plane ‘Thrown Into FrayBy Nazis

Allies Encounter New Nazi  ‘Rocket Plane; Speed Terrific   Differ From Jet Craft

New Weapon Placed in Actior  Rocket Propelled Fiahter Je lL atact

NAZIS UNVEIL NEW HIGH SPEED PLANE   U. S. Mustangs Unable te Get Sights on Two They Try to Catch.

Germans Using Rocket - Driven Fighter Planes   Allied Air Supremacy Is Challenged With New Weapons

Nazis Have Another New Weapon Speedy, Rocket - Propelled Fighter

Nazi Rocket Planes Show  Terrific Speed   U. S. Planes Unable To Catch Newest Sky Threat Of Germans

Germans Unveil Rocket Fighter  Secret Weapon   Flys So Fast U.S. Airmen Unable to Train Sights On Craft

Full General Rank For Stilwell      New German Rocket Fighter Plane Appears

New Nazi Weapon Rocket Fighter  Allied Fliers Agree Planes Are Capable

CLAIMS GI BALLOTS OPENED BY CENSORS   Senator Willis Sends Coples of Envelopes to Stimson—Demands Investigation.

SOLON” CHARGES MAIL TAMPERING   Censoring of Vet Ballot En velopes Arouses Ire at Witlie

Hammer Japs On 4 000-Mile Front   Enemy Kept Guessing On Next Big Blow

Keep Japs Guessing In Pacific   American Sea and Air Forces Hammer Enemy Bases from New Guinea “To The Kurile Islands

Japanese Kept Guessing Where Next Blow Coming   Enemy Outposts on 4,000-Mile Arc Furiously Bombed

TOKYO AWAITS NEW INVASIONS, B-29 RAIDERS   30,000 Children Leave Enemy Capital To Avoid Superfort  Manacrea

American Chiefs Let Japs Wonder About Next Blow   Pound Pacific Posts In Expanding Attack

PACIFIC FORCES POISE NEXT BLOW   Nimitz and MacArthur Hurl Attacks at Length on Jap Empire

Japs’ Pacific Bases Pounded As Allies Mask Next Landing   Warships, Sea And Land Planes Rip Foe On 4,000-Mile Front From Ceram In Indies To Important Kuriles

Many Blows Keep Japs Jittery   Planes and Ships Active All Around Enemy Defense Line

Japs Ponder Next Move Of Americans   Yanks Pound Enemy’s Bases With Ships And Bombers

Keep Japanese Guessing About Next Big Smash  Nimitz, MacArthur Ham mer Away At Foe Ove

JAPS PONDER WHERE YANKS WILL HIT NEX1   ‘Enemy Strongholds From Ceram to Kuriles Hammered

LEADERS VEIL NEXT SMASH IN PACIFIC AREAS   Tokyo Desperation Grows As Drive On Nippon Gains Speed; 30,000 Children Moved From Capital To Escape Superforts.

Allies Hammer  Jap Strongholds   Tokyo Evacuates Children in Fear of Superfortresses

Japanese Ponder Next Big Smash   Accelerated Drive Across Pacific Has Japs In Quandary.

JAPS NOW WONDER WHERE NEXT GREAT SMASH WILL FALL   Tokyo Says, “Enemy Raids Against Our Positions Are Increasing in Intensity”

NIPS PONDER NEXT BIG PACIFIC SMASH   Accelerating Drive Across Pacific by Americans Keeps Foe Guessing

U.S. HAMMERS JAP BASES IN PACIFIC TODA   Keeps Nipponese Guessing As To Next Assault

Japs Left Guessing © Nearing Homeland   Stolen Island Bases Hit from Sea and Air Over Broad Expanse Of Pacific While Saipan Mopped Up as Landing Strips Built for Stepping Up Bombing

Sea And Air Blows Hurl ced > Over...4,000-Mile “Area, Jittery Tokye Keeps Feelers Out: Chinese Stemming Jap Tide In China.

JAPS GUESSING WHERE ALLIES TO STRIKE NEXT   Tokyo Concedes Great Damage  Suffered

PERSISTENT NAVY BLOWS CONTINUE   American Warships Pianes Busy On 4,000. Mile Front   LEADERS SILENT   Saipan And Noemfoor Island Victories Are Consolidated

Yanks Blast At Enemy on Wide Front   Let Japs Ponder Where Next Big Stroke Will Fall in Pacific

30,000 CHILDREN REMOVED FROM NIPPON CAPITAL   Tokyo Can Only Guess Where Next Blow Will Fall —

HAMMER LONG PACIFIC FRONT   Batter Jap Bastions By Land, Sea, Air From Kuriles to Geram

RAIDS EXTEND 4,000 MILES IN PACIFIC   MacArthur, Nimitz Keep Japs Guessing On Coming Moves

ALLOW JAPS TO GUESS ON NEXT U.S. INVASION   Sea, Air Forces Pound Nip Strongholds From Ceram to Kuriles

Japs Must Guess On Next Blow   Americans Hammer Many Strongholds At Scattered Points

Japs Ponder Next Pacific Smash by US   Ships and Planes Hammer at. Enemy Strongholds from Ceram to Kuriles; Tokyo Evacuates 30,000 Children

Allies Pound Jap Bases   Warship, Sea and Land Planes Hammer Many Points

Pacific Leaders Make Japs Guess   Nimitz and MacArthur Hit At Enemy Strongholds Everywhere   TOKYO ADMITS DAMAGE   Chinese Have Turned Nips Back From Besieged Hengyang

Americans Hit Jap Islands   Hammer Strongholds Of Enemy in Various Areas of Pacific

ON LONG FRONT   Jap Strongholds Stretched Across 4,000 Miles Hammered.   USE SHIPS: AND PLANES

JAPS GUESSING ON NEXT SMASH   Yanks Hit Strongholds Over 4.000-Mile Area

Japs Lett To  see : — Decide Move   Pacific Commanders Said Airmen Out To Hammer Enemy Strongholds,

Tokyo Getting Jitter s After Loss Of Saipan   30,000 Children Evacuat. ed From Nippenese Capital As Super-Fortress Menace Mounts

Nimitz, MacArthur . Have Nips Guessing on Next Big Smast   Pacific Fliers Raid Jap Strongholds in Routine Assaults

Mppons Ponder Next American Move j il Pacilic  ETT gc whee   Powerful U. S. Fleet Is Cruising Off Tinian, Tokyo Says

American Tanks Rip Nazi Lines   Everything in Their Path Is Cut Down

PUSH ELAS FROM THIRD OF ATHENS   Anglo-American Relief Feeds 798,000 Greeks During Past Six Days

British Driving Greek Rebels Out of Athens   Guerillas Have Strong Forces in ‘North Section

Soviet Forces Speed Toward Polish Border   British, Troops Maké Daring Raid Behind German Lines in Italy; US” Bombers Raid Two. Ball-Bearing - Plants in Paris Area 

REDS SPEED TOWARD OLD FRONTIERS   First Ukraine Army Pursues Fleeing Germans From Captured Zhitomir.   Yanks Take Strategic Positions in Italy

THITOMIR FALLS TO RUSSIANS ~ AND NAZIS ARE BEING DRIVEN BACK ALING 200-MILE FRONT   Gen. Vatutin’s First Ukrainian Armies Now Less Than 35 Miles from Poland and 90 Miles from Rumanian Border. Race Is on To Reach Borders

Smashing DrivesOn Thr ree x Sectors Roll Toward Frontier            Raiders Slash ‘At Continent

Speculation ls Rampant In Moscow   Rumanian, Polish Borders Beckon To Russians

CROWDS IN MOSCOW CELEBRATE NEWEST RUSSIAN VICTORIES  GEN. VATUTIN’S FIRST  UKRANIAN ARMY SPED BEYOND ZHITOMIR

SMASH THROUGH APPROACHES TO SEVASTOPOL   Black Sea Port An Inferno

United States Will Begin Discussions on Freedom of News   Purpose is Disclosed by Acting Secretary of State to AP

U.S. Plans New: Freedom Talks   Plan Discussions Looking to World  Agreements

For News Freedom   Talks On Unhindered Exchange of News to Be Sponsored By U.S.

U.S. TO OFFER FREE EXCHANGE OF WORLD NEWS   DISCLOSE DECISION TO SEEK AGREEMENT WITH OTHER NATIONS

NO DRAFT ON HOLIDAYS   Induction Machinery to Halt for Christmas and New Year's.

Past Week’s American Raids on Berlin Bring Shakeup in the Nazi Air Force

Nazis Shake Up Aerial Heads Over Berlin Raid   Hitlerites Fleeing Nazi Capital in Increased Numbers

U5. LOSSES DROP. 394 NAZIS DOWNED   Goering Will Take a Back Seat For Younger Men Who Know Fighter Tactics

Germans Make Changes In Air Force   American Raids Are Pushing Goering Far Back in Scene

DANIELS CONFIRMS BEPORTS. HE. SOUGHT TO OUST REA HEAD   ADMINISTRATIVE. ASSIST-

Daniels Says FDR Approved Plan To Oust Slattery  Move to Cite Aide For Contempt Collapses Today

DANIELS TELLS FAGTS OF CASE   Made Unsuccessful Attempt To Get Slattery to Resign REA Post,   ACTION MAY BE DROPPED

REA Inquiry Explained By Daniels  Tells Senators He Tried to Induce   Tells Senators He Tried to Induce Slattery to Resign

Move to Cite Daniels Ends  Testifies in Detail About Move to Oust Slattery

Move to Cite Daniels Is Abandoned   Presidential Aid Answers Satisfactorily in REA Inquiry

Daniels. Gives Testimony, Averts Trial   F, R, Approved Ouster Of REA Chief, Says Assistant at Quix

DANIELS’ CASE COMES TO ENC   Senate Subcommittee Abandons Move to Cite Him ’ For Contempt.

Asked Slattery To Resign Post   Jonathan Daniels Confirms Acti on Taken After Investigation Made at Request of Pres. Roosevelt, He Informs Senate Committee Today.   ATTITUDE IS CHANGED

‘Daniels Testifies On REA Dispute.   Says Roosevelt S Sought-To Get Agency... Operating ‘ More'Sino

Daniels Talks Freely   FOR AIDE TESTIFIES OF HIS EFFORT TO INDUCE SLATTERY TO RESIGN AS HEAD OF REA   NORRIS DECLINED

TALKS FREELY IN COMMITTEE PROBE OF REA   Chairman of Probe Is “Well Pleased’ With Witness’ Story

DANIELS TELLS SLATTERY DEAL   REA INVESTIGATORS HEAR ABOUT OUSTER TRY

Daniels Admits Trying Induce Slattery Resign   Effort Made After Personal Investigation Into  REA At Request FDR.

FR Assistant Testifies On REA Inquiry   Johnson Admits Attempt To Induce Slattery to Quit REA

DANIELS ADMITS HE ADVISED REA HEAD TO RESIGN   President's Assistant, Reconsidering Refusal To Talk, Tells Senate Committee He Tried To Make Slattery Quit Job.

No Citation For Daniels Likely   Now That He’s Appeared And Testified in Detail

Daniels Contemp! Charge Dropped   Daniels Answers All Questions Satisfactory; Request R.E.A. Files.

Halt Axis Ships Says Adm. Land   Post-War Control of Foe’s Fleet Insures Peace, He Testifies

Adm. Land Advises Banish Axis From Sea Lanes in Peace   Wants U.S. to Keep Up Its Great Merchant Marine After War

PROPOSES BAN ON AXIS SHIPS   LAND SAYS OVERSEAS TRADE SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED FOR YEARS

RESTRICTING AXIS SHIPPING NEEDED AFTER END OF WAR   ODDITIES  1H THE DATS HEWS         Achoiral Lane { Jains Japs Can Not Le Trasted: Warns of Future Blood Shedding

No Overseas Shipping For J aps After War Urged   Admiral Land Declares Nips Make Combatant Vessels Of All Types; Not Civilized Humans

Adm. Land Cautions Against Giving Foe Advantage in Trade   Merchant Marine Chairman Submits Appropriation Bill Testimony That U.S. Shins Offer Ace at Peace Table

LAND WOULD BAR AXIS POWERS FROM USE OF OWN SHIPS   SAYS ENEMY MERCHANT MARINE OPERATIONS SHOULD BE CONTROLLED

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   GERMANS SET TOWN ABLAZE

Allies Mounting Huge Offensive, Germans Claim   Foe Sets Fire To Baccarat in Southern France

NAZIS RETREAT BEFORE YANKS, FIRE BACCARAT   J.S. Seventh Nears Glomville in Assault Aimed at Strasbourg

ALLIES MOVE TOWARD STRASBOURG   American and French Forces Advance Lines Closer’ to Reich

PLAN WELCOME FOR RECIPIENT OF HONOR MEDAL      Lieut. Paige, Born In Charleroi To Be Given Reception At West Mifflin

Lull Is Ended In Siegfried Line Struggle   American First Army Makes Advance of Nearly Two Miles

TOWN IS OVERRUN IN DAY’S ASSAULTS   New Troops Poured Into  Fight for Great  Port

Patton’s Third Gain Broad Front Bet Metz ahd Nancy in age Fighting.          HODGES’ TROOPS “2 CAPTURE 2 TOW       British. Reinforceme at iD Pour Onto Walcheg for  Mop-Up ‘of Ate  ~ werp’s Approaches, 22

   Forces Spring Into Action   inside of Germany  TOWN IS OVERRUN "IN DAY'S ASSAULTS        ‘New Treegs Poured Into Fight for Great Port

LULL ENDED; YANKS SCORE 2-MILE GAIN   NEW DRIVE BELOW AACHEN TAKES TWO TOWNS

FIRST ARMY IN NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST DURE   Cologne And The Rhine Lie 20 Miles Beyond Nazi Road Center   GAINS REPORTED BY THIRD AROUND METZ

Labor Draft Act Appears Doomec To Sure Defeat   Senate Committee May Kill Measure

Labor Draft Bill Faces Real Fight  In Comnttee Only One Sure Vote  Seen in ae of Canate » (wasn

NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAM OPPOSEL      Only One. Sure Vote on Committee for the ‘Leaislation

WORKER DRAFT FACES DEFEAT   Only One Comnnittoeman’ Believed Certain To : Vote For Act :

U.S. Studies Break With Arcentina   Neaft Order Dooms Job Deferments

American Nations Watch Argentina, Break Possible   Exchange Information In Recent Change Of Administration

Members Cf Parish. Nutrifion Committees To Affend Tech Mee!   Miss Jessie Harris Will Speak About Nutrition Program

15 Parish Nutrition. Representatives To Hear Address Ai Tech   Meeting Sponsored By Lincoln Parish Nutrition Committee

Berlin Cut Off From Neutrals Again Last Night   No Immediate Explanation Given

Berlin Cuts Communications  To Outside  Goebbels Stops All Vacations

NO COMMUNICATIONS BERLIN TO NEUTRALS   Front Line Troops Required To Repair Highways

Berlin Again Is Isolated   City: Eur Off From, Neutral’ Countries

BERLIN COMMUNICATIONS WITH NEUTRALS CUT; VACATIONS HALTED   GOEBBELS GIVES “TOTAL WAR” ORDERS, DIRECTING FRONT-LINE TROOPS BUILD BRIDGES, ROADS

Berlin Again Mysteriously Cut From World   Circumstances Same As Night Befort Attempted Assassination of Hitler.

2500 PLANES BLAST MUNICH   BRITISH MOSQUITOES BOMB BERLIN, FRANCE

YANKS FIGHT WITH COURAGE  ‘Beachhead Battle Won After Shaky Start

U.SéDOUGHBOYS ARE TOUGH — More Troops, Supplies Needed To Repel Nazis

Newsman Says Allies Are Winning Fight  Battle of Supplies   Battle of Supplies On Beachhead Is Going Our Way

AMERICAN TROOPERS DISPLAY COURAGE, SKILL  Battle for Beachhead Develops Into Race to Get Supplies and Men

Resistance Strong At Point  Americans Swept Ashore Says Whitehead; Lauds Their Skill   A. P. Correspondent Bemoans Fact Army -Communications Failure Delayed Stories

Eyewitness. From Beachhead  Men, Materials Land In Number After. Shaky Start

Newsman Say: Allies Are Winning Fight   Battle of Supplies On Beachhead Is Going Our Way

Yanks Battle Gallantly   Race On Now to Get Men and Supplies Ashore

AP MAN SEES VANKS SMASH OUTER DEFENSE   Beachhead Battle Now a Race To Get Enough Men and Equipment Ashore.

Yanks Display Courage, Skil   AP Writer Describe: Invasion Battle

BATTLE OF BEACHHEAD NOW RACE TO GET ENOUGH DOUGHBOYS GUNS AND SUPPLIES ASHORE TO BEAT THE ENEMY BACK AND MIRACULOUS JOB BEING DONE

llies Winning Race to Get Men Onto Beachhead   Doughboys Have Smashed Through Outer Crust of Hitler's Fortress.   ‘Supplies and Vehicles Pile Up at Rapid Rate

'Yanks Fight Way Through  Nazi Defenses   Battle of Beachhead Developed Into Race For Largest Force

Great Sky Battles Predicted When U. S. Troops Invade Philippines   Pian Greater Bombing

NIPPON TOFRCE. 1) SAA MIGHT   Harmon Placed In -Command Of Ali Army Air Forces In Pacific   DRAFTS:CAMPAIGN   Fiv. More Jap Ships Sunk; Raiders Strike Anew At Mindanao >

Japs Dealt More Crippling Blows By Yank Planes   Five Nippon Ships Sunk Off Dutch Celebes; Mindanao Hit

General Sees Much Fight Left In Japs   Nips Held Hoarding Strength To Make Tough Scrap Later

Harmon. Named Commander Of Pacific Air   Sees’ ‘Japs’ ‘Hoarding — : ‘Planes. To ‘Repulse: : “(Philiopines Invasion

Attack on Islands Is Seen as  Prelude to Climax  Heavy Allied Raid May Herald Furious Air Fight

Japs Hoard Air Might   U. S. Air Commander Expects Savage Battle for Philippines

Six States In Grip Of Flood   Midwestern States Suffer Heavily As Result Of Huge Flood

FLOOD DEATHS MOUNT TO TEN   Five Members of Arkansas Family Wiped Out

FLOODS LEAVE TEN DEAD IN MIDWEST   Thousands Made Homeless: Much Farm Land Damaged  —7.-. —— -—. -. . = =. =. —<_

Alarmed Nazis Hurl Savage Counterattacks at Soviets Approaching East Prussia

Soviets Exacting © Heavy Reich Toll   ‘Russians Smashing Against Suffer Resistance

DIG. TRENCHES 10 PROTECT FATHERLAND   \larmed Germans Summon Every Able-Bodied Man and Woman From 15 to 65.   Tighten Grip

Nazis Suffer. Heavy Losses Along Border   - Hurriedly Dig Trenche To Try To Keep Reds Off Soil of Fatherland .  RED CAINS CENERAL

" FIERCELY 10 CHECK REDS   Counter Attacks Are Beaten Down With  Heavy Losses

ISCOUTS OF CITY TROOP HONORED AT CEREMONIES   Many Attend Court of Honor Program; Scouts, Mothezs Get Awards

Hull Will Back _ Measures for News Freedon  Says He Would Suppor  World -Recognition cae Danced

U.S. Subs Sink First ‘Definite’ Jap Carrier   Get 26 Other Ships; Super-Forts Bomb Tokyo Industries

TODAY   Big Moments In Invasion of France Arrive; Things Should Move Rap.adly From Now On

 Americ e Matches Naz Blitzkrieg——  ‘Rattle Of Normandy Now Battle Of France

Battle of Normandy Has Turned into Battle of France   HAVE REEN TOO CROWDED

Battle Of Normandy Turns Into Rattle OF France   By DeWitt MacKenzie Associted Press War Analyst

Now With Wider Spaces in Which to Work the Allies Can Use Their Greater Forces and Equipment to Better Advantage. Entire Nazi Line Now In Danger

OHIO CONVICTS TO GET $5,000 ~ FOR OVERTIME ON AUTO TAGS; MUST BE READY BY MARCH

LEWIS THREATENED WITH SLANDER SUIT   Asked To Back Statement FDR Financing Autonomy

MAY TAKE ACTION AGAINST LEWIS   Autonomy Fight Breaks Out In United Mine Workers Meeting

Lewis Rival Wants Proof   Edmundson Denies New Deal Backis     4

Supreme Headquarters Reports on Enemy Positions Are Given Only as of Noon Tuesday

Sweep 30 Miles Into Belgium, Cut Allied Life Line   Yanks Rolling With Nazi Punch, Hold Tight On Northern Flank; Desperate Battle Continues As Pea Soup Fog Holds Air Power On Ground.

FRENCH TROOPS PACE ADVANCE NORTH OF LYON   American Motorized Troops Take Pontarlier—Nazis Use Panks

ALLIED FORCES PUSH 40 MILES NORTH OF LYON   French Pace Rapid 7tk Army Advance To Macon

French Pace Allied Push Above Lyon   Only ‘Ineffectual Resistance’ Met In Southern France

FRENCH TROOPS DRIVE TO MACON CITY OUTSKIRTS   Americans Also Continue To Advance and Reports Say They Have Captured Pontarlier.

New Invasion War Council Ready to Meet   Master Plan Worked Out for Attack on Nazis

Invasion War Council io Meet Soon   Montgomery Hints at Action in Near Future

Invasion Council About To Convene   Leaders To Meet Soon in London

Supreme Wat Council Meets Soon   Master Plan Ready, Only Invasion Time to Be Set

Montgomery In London to Study Attack   British Ground Troops’ Invasion Leader Calls Situation “Good”

Montgomery, In London, Sees Victory   Britain’s Invasion  Chief Calls  Situation ‘“‘Good”’

New Invasion Staff Makes Master Plan   Only Starting Date Needs to Be Set  Before Allies Start, London Believes

INVASION STAFF TO MEET SOON   Gen. Montgomery Says He Will Not Be In London Very Long

MASTER PLAN FOR ONSLAUGHT IS WORKED OUT   Only Starting Date Needs To Re Set, London  Hears

nteomery in ipland, Allied. . Meeting Looms  ih Commander Say: Doesn't Expect to. Re There Lana ----

Invasion Council Ready to Meet   Master Plan For Stroke Against Europe Needs Only Starting Date.

"Don't Expect fo Be Here Long,’ Montgomery Tells Friends in London

“INVASION WAR COUNCIL’ SOON TO HOLD MEER’   Military Strategists Gather ing In London; Montgomery Says Victory Js In Sight

ALLIED INVASION CHIEFS MEET SOON   General Montgomery Reaches Lon: don—“I Don't Expect to Be Here Lonr,” He Says.

Council for Invasion Due  To Meet Soon   Montgomery Prepares to Take Command of British Troops

Mrs. Sadie Farrin  Claimed By Death  Resident of Plymouth , County Many Years

FORMER AKRON WOMAN-CALLED   Mrs. Sadie Farrin Was ‘Resident Of Anderson, Mo— Interment Here

CZECHS ISSUE 1ST DISPATCH   Underground Reports Capture of One Town

Russia In Full Control Black Sea And Ports   Red Army Near Bulgarian Border As That Nation Is ‘Fold Passive Neutrality Won't Do   Nazis Continuing Move Out Greece   Early Ront of Hungary I:   Forecast By Moscow; German Collapse -Matter of Days

Czech Army Yow Fighting Nazi Troons   One Town Taken Fierce Fighting In Four Areas Is Reported

Underground Of Czechs In Action Today   Captures 1 Town; Battles Germans Fiercely in 35 Areas

CZECHS REVOLT AGAINST NAZIS IN OPEN FIGHT   Underground Comes Into Open; Seizes Town From Oppressors

Czech Army in Open Fighting   Underground Army Takes One Town. Battles Elsewhere

Harold Eilers And Alberta Grindle Married Dec. 22  Will Live In LeMars; ’ Groom: Was Recently Given Discharge

Harold Eilers And Alberta Grindle Married Dec. 22  Will Live ren LeMars;

GRINDLE-EILERS NUPTIALS HELD   Popular Young Couple Married on December Twenty-two

Germans Dent Ist Army Lines In Huge Drive   Foe Makes Gains of Several Miles Southeast of Aachen; Battle Flares on 60-Mile Front

Germans Seize Initiative and Drive Into U. S. Lines   110 ENEMY PLANES:  DOWNED IN BATTLE  Forces of Nazis Strike Along 1940 Route of Conquest 

Dent Kirst Army Lines in Major Offensive   Inferno of Artillery Fire Plunges Into American Ranks; Parachutists Are Dropped Behind Yank Front Position:

110 ENEMY PLANESDOWNED IN BATTLE   Forces of Nazis Strike Aleng 1940 Route of ~ Conquest

German Offensive Makes Dents in U. 5. First Army Lines as Enemy Strikes With Thousands Of Troops, Scores of Tanks on 60-Mile Front

Luxembourg And Belgium Reinvaded  By Germans   Use Scores of Tanks  And Numerous Planes, But U. 8S. Headquarters Apparently Unalarmed  GAINS NOT REVEALED

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All-out push drives dent in  Ist army lines Mighty force is  hurled at Yanks

REP. SCHUETZ OF ILLINOIS IS DEAD   BODY FOUND IN HIS APARTMENT AT WASHINGTON

? NOTICE OF ELECTION   City Election To Be Held Be Tuesday, April 4, 1944

RENEW RAIDS OVER EUROPE ~ BY DAYLIGHT   AMERICAN BOMBERS HAMMER INVASION COAST AND OTHER  ‘POINTS APTER RAF ~  NIGHT RAIDS .

REDS ADVANCING TO SPRING TRAP   Threaten Thousands; Drive Carries Russians Near East Prussia

Early Invasion ()f East Prussia Now Indicatec   Soviet Fighters Drive Near er To Border Of Reich In Advance   POWERFUL AIR SUPPORT GIVEN   :

SOVIET TROO TROOPS PUSHING AHEAD   GERMANS ‘REPORTED: MAKING HEAVY ATTACKS NEAR . WARSAW IN EFFORT  TO DRIVE

SOVIETS PUSH EVER-NEARER TO PRUSSIA   Early Invasion of Nazi Territory Indicated

REDS READY 10 INVADE REICH   Drive Close To East Prussia Border  ea se Oe eee 2a 28

NAZIS RETREAT AS YANKS PUSH INTO ROAD HUB   BREAK THROUGH FOLLOWS FIERCE © COUNTER-ATTACKS

NAZI DEFENSE CRUMPLES   Last Enemy Troop Driven From Prize City By Savage American Attack

House-fo-House Stand By Enemy Is Not Expected   Allies Gaining At All Points On Normandy Front

Nazis Retreat In Face Of Opposition   Heaviest Battle In Weeks Raging In Caen Sector

Heavy Tobacco Sales Reported   Averages Range Near 43'% Cent A Pound Mark.

TR. Roosevelt, Jr.  Dies In France   Brig. Gen. Roosevelt Expires As Result Of Heart Failure Attack   WAS IN SERVICE ON FRONT LINES

GEN. ROOSEVELT DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT 5f   Great Inspirational Leader Described as Battle Casualty

SON. OF F 6 RMER PRESIDENT AND VETERAN OF TWO WARS: ‘SUCCUMBED TO HEART: .. : ATTACK

CHANGES EXPECTED IN MONETARY MEET   Five Nations Want to Con: tribute More in Order te Boost Votes

Six-Week Lull Broken By Assault   Battle Lines in Beachhead Area Little Changed

GERMANS ARE DRIVEN BACK AT BEACHHEAD   British Forces Effect Deep Penetration on Anzio Front In Italy.   BULLETIN

AVIATORS UNLOAD GREAT NUMBER OF BOMBS ON VISIT   Area of One Square Mile Gets Heaviest Bombardment Ever Concentrated On Small Tract.   BRUNSWICK AIRCRAFT CENTER 1S BLASTED   German Planes Ring London to Start Many Fires, Worst Incendiary Raid Since 1940-41 Blitz.

Hard driving reds smash eounterblow   9,000 nazis die in border area

Weak German Counterattack Smashed by the Reds  MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN FIERCE FIGHTS  Germans in the Dnieper Bend Area Face Annihilation

GERMAN FORTRESS INUKRAINE FALLS TO RUSSIAN ARMY   Reds Capture Belaya Tserkov, Protecting Nazis in Dnieper Bend, in Four . Day Strugzte.   REPULSE ENEMY ATTACK NEAR POLISH FRONTIER   Four Thousand Hitlerites Killed in Day’s Fighting—Soviet Gains Made in   “-WNevel Sector.

RUSSIANS PUT GERMANS 10 UTTER ROUT   As They Smash Weak Counterattack Near The PreWar Polish Border; Take Railway Town.   Retreat in Disorder

4,000 More Nazis Slain as Advance Guards Cross Old Polish Frontier   Siubbornly - defended Strongpoint of Belaya Tserkov and 40 Other Towns Are Captured

Soviets Smash Weak Nazi  Counterattack   4,000 More Germans Are Killed; 65 Tanks Destroyed

Escape Gap For Germans Nears Close   Mass Retreat Necessary To Save Half Million Troops

Fall of Fortress A Grave Threat To Nazi Hordes   Half Million Enemy in Dnieper Face Annihilation or Retreat

ENEMY FLANK CRUSHED; REDS ENTER POLAND   LATVIAN FRONTIER ALSO SCENE OF TRIUMPHS

40 Villages Captur ‘ed In Ukraine   German Strongpoint Of Belaya Tserkov Also Falls to Russians  NIATT ATTACK TAITS

RUSSIANS BEAT COUNTER BLOW BY NAZI TROOPS   4,000 More Germans Killed In Fight Along Old +Polish Border   VON MANNSTEIN IS COURTING DISASTER

(Capture Strategic Railway Station, Belaya Tserkoy   Russians Reported to ‘Have Advance Guards Already Operating Across Polish Frontier As Germans, Fall Buck In Utter Rout "

Reds Repulse Nazi Attack Near Old Polish Line and Advance in Nevel District

Half Million Germans Face Entrapment Drive By Reds   invaders Slain By Thousands As Soviets* Smash Ever Nearer Only -Escase Corridor.

Soviets Smash Nazi  Attack Near Poland   Rail Station of Belaya Tserkov and 40 Other Ukrainian Towns Captured; Many Nazis Slain in Fighting on Frontier

GERMANS FAIL TO HALT REDS ALONG BORDER   ‘Nine Thousand Nazis Killed  in Two Days of Fight ing ‘On the Run’   ENEMY TROOPS RETREAT IN THOROUGH DISORDER

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS SLAIN   Stubbornly-defended Belaya ® Tserkov Falls to Reds   ADVANCE GUARDS   @onerate Across Old Poland Border, Nazis Continue Disordered Flight

Planes Smash Four Transports, Killing 2,000 Nip Troops   New Victories Follow Destruction By U. S. Fighters of Three Transports, One Destroyer Friday — Yank Land Forces Continue Heavy Fighting in Ormoc Corridor — No New Gains Reported.

Three Transports Sunk, 4th Blazes; 2.000 Nips Drown   Third Convoy Was Destroyed Friday With 6,000 Troops Lost: Manila. Clark Field Blasted

Reinforcement Trys Kep: Up On Levte Isle   Japanese Continue Costly Efforts Although Four Convoys Destroyed.

TRANSPORT SHIPS SUNK   2000 Troops Lost By Enemy; Fighting On  Island Is Static

ATH LEYTE-BOUND. CONVOY SMASHED; 2,000 JAPS LOST   Three Transports Sunk by U. S. Airmen Off Cebu—Fire Sweeps Fourth From Stem to Stern.   DOUGHBOYS ATTACK ENEMY STRONGPOINTS   MacArthur's Troops Move Against Nipponese Positions in Mountains in Limon Area.

Another Jap Leyte-Bound Convoy Sunk   Four Troop-Filled Ship: Are Blasted to Bottom OLE Coha Isle

Yanks Smash Jap Convoy of Four Vessels   Estimated 2000 Enemy Troops and All Cargo Lost in Fourth Convoy Destroyed by U. S. Fliers

2,000 Nippons And All Cargo Sent To Bottom   Three Transports Destroyed aud Fourth Left Blazing Off Cebu at Dusk Yesterday   Ground Situation Remains Static   Doughboys Clear Japs From Heights East of Ormioc Road; Artillery Pounds Jap Positions

THREE JAPANESE TRANSPORTS SUNK   Fourth Transport Left Blaz> ing in Attack Off Cebu   2,000 JAPS DROWN   Marks Fourth Convoy De  rl  stroyed While Carrying Leyte Reinforcements

Fourth Jap Convoy Is Smashed   Estimate That 2.000 Troops And All Cargo Were Lost

SMASH ENEMY CONVOY, 2000 JAPS DROWNED   Four Transports Sunk Off Cebu: Tried to Reinforce Leyte

U.S. Flyers, Using Marshalls Bases For Blows, Is Hint  Caroline Islands Hit Again: Reinforcement}.

U.S. Bombers Range Over  Japs’ Islands   Nimitz May Be Using Plane Bases in Marshall Islands

NEWLY WON “AIR FIELDS BEING USED   U. S. Planes Hammer Jap Bases In Pacfic

Ponape Is Bombed Again; Yanks Continue Mop-Up Of Areas in Admiralties

Refuse Air Bases   To American-British Request for Russian Aid for Poland

Soviets Refused U. S. And Britain Bases For Aid To Poles, Is Claim

French Report. On Fall Of Kleve Is Unconfirmed   Germian “Message Claims: _.-British “Airborue_ Force. Holding Out At Arnhen

NEWS DIMOUT ORDERED IN RUHR SECTOR   Nazis Attempting To Hold Allies Until Winter

News Blackout Shrouds Action  On Reich Front   Security Cloak Accepted As Evidence Big Drive Ts Underway Or In Making   Sky Troops Sull Hold Arnhem Area   Meanwhile, British aud American Forees Fight Through Forest to Approaches Of Kleve

British and American Forces Fight Through to Approaches of Kleve, Northern Anchor of Siegfried Line

security News Dimout Put On Arnhem AreaAs New Spearhead Moves   French Broadcast Reports Kleve, Northern Anchor Of Siegfried Line, Has Fallen; New Push Launched By Patton In Epinal Sector Te South. Rerlin Save

Germans Battle For Time In Dutch Area   Little News Allowed Out On How Trapped Units Farina

Battle Below Rome Rising Steadily in Fury,  British Throw Back Big Nazi Counterattack.   ALLIES MAINTAIN AIR SUPERIORITY   Allied Troops Gain More Ground All Along Beachhead.

‘Allies Beat Off Second Nazi Counter-Attack; ‘Down 50 Enemy Planes

Our Airpower Destroys 5( Enemy Planes In Mediter. ranean Theater

Nazis Launch Second Counter - Offensive Against American Beachhead Below Rome But Fail.

French Strike At Belfort, British Move In Holland   U. S. Third Army Crashes Toward Border Fortress At Strasbourg; New Wave Of Paratroopers Drop Across Escape Route In Holland.

FRENCH PUSH FROM SOUTH AT BELFORT   British Move North From Nijmegen  In Holland

New Penetration of Siegfried Line ~~ By Yanks Near Aachen Reported; Sly Force Perils Enemy Escape Route

City Council Grants Project; Opens Oct. Ist Funds For Recreation

(City Council Grants Funds For The Recreation Project   Youth Center To Open October 1

iFive Hostages To Be Killed For Every French Soldier Shot by Snipers

SNIPERS WARNED IN STRASBOURG   COMMANDANT SAYS HOSTAGES WILL PAY~

FRENCH ISSUE DEAYH THREAT   CLAIM THEY WILL KILL GERMAN HOSTAGES

U.§. Bombers Strike Anew At Halmahera   Jap Cabinet Meets tc Hear Bad War News

ISLAND IS LASHED BY HEAVY BOMBERS   Huge Bomb: Load Drop Peds  Gen. MacArthur: : ~ Revorts 7

ISLAND IS LASHED BY HEAVY BOMBERS   Huge ‘Bomb. Load Drop. Bed, Gen. MacArthur ots Reporte io fe

Marines Use Secret Weapon On Tinian   Orote Field and Apra Harbor on Guam Reing I) sed

SQUEEZE JAPS ON TINIAN INTO SMALL POCKE]   Guam Airfield In Use; Another U. S. Secret Weapon Bared

Furious Battle of Annihilation Begins On Tinian   Apra Harbor Naval Anchorage Cleared; Supply Ships Arrive

Seek to Wipe Out Remaining Japs on Tinian   U.S. Now Using Guam Harbor and Airfield

U.S. PLANES USING GUAM AIRFIELD   Marines Near _ _End of Conquest Of Tinian

YANKS USE NEW SECRET WEAPON   Used First Time In Taking City On Tinian Island

Marines Annihilate Last Japs On Tinian   Devastating Secret Weapon Used For First Time In Taking Tinian Town.

Marines Use “Truly Fearful” New Secret Weapon on Japs. at Tinian

Nips Fal Back at Kohima   Stilwell’s Forces Take Two Villages, Advance in Mogaung

Truk Attacked For 34th Time; Ponane Romhed   Guam, Marshalls Also Hit; Wewak Planes Wiped Out

Ponape and Marshalls Raided Anew   U.S. Forces Expand New Guineo Bases; Airmen Cover Region

CIO WILL SEEK FREE AIR TIME   Committee To Demand Right To Tell Its Story

Intensive Bombardment on at Time  Blast of Allied Bomb Falling Short of Target Killed McNair

GEN. M’NAIR KILLED BY AMERICAN BOMB   Undisclosed Number of Casualties Caused as U. S. Fliers Dropped Explosives Prematurely.

McNair Killed By U.S. Bomb   Plane Drops Bomh Short of Target In Raid On German Lines.

SESSTON MAY END THIS WEEK   78th C ongress Hopes Busi ness Will Be Completed in Few Days

Conyress Starls on Last = Week It Hopes But ‘There - “Are Many..Hurdles Ahead   REORGANIZATION '0 BRING ABOUT ee ERERMTINED SPATE DEPARYMENS

ACCUSE POLISH UNDERGROUND OF TERROR REIGN   Failure of Government In Exile And SovietSupported Polish National Committee Responsible.

CANNOT AGREE   Compromise Between Polish Exile Group and National Unit Fails.

Civil War Threatens Liberated Polish Areas as Rival Governments Dispute

Knutson Flays Treasury Head   Would Strip Official Of Revenue Powers

LAWMAKER RAPS TAX DICTATION BY MORGENTHAU   Rep. Knutson Would Strip Cabinet Member of AR Authority Over Internal Revenue.   DEPARIMENT ACCUSED OF PLAYING POLITICS   Legislation to Be Urged to Make Bureau That Does Collecting an Independent Agency.

Nazi Shells Check Drive On Bologna   Nazi Line Cracking In Southwest Holland As Breda Falls

U. S. Fifth Army Meets Its Hottest Barrage Of War In italy; Drive On Po Stalled

BRITISH GAIN IN DRIVE ON FORLI, ITALY   Yanks Checked By Artillery Fire Below Bologna

HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE BY GERMANS   American 5th Army In Italy Encounters Nazi Resistance

Nazi Artillery  Stops U. S. Drive   Advance On Bologna Checked By Heavy Fire

ON BOLOSNA {S CHECKED BY MU   British Meet .Only Limited Resistance Pushing Toward  -  FBorli

German Artillery Stops Americans   Nazis Use Heaviest Fire Of Bologna Offensive

lap Resistance : In India Waties   Enemy Soldiers Retreat in Disorder

Lions Club and Moms Club Are Te Assist Blood Bank   180 Donors Needec to Go to Sinton This Fall.

Frenz, Nearer Cologne, Falls  To Americans   Patton’s Third Army Extends Lines Within Four Miles of Snar Border   Town of Hurtgen Entered by Yanks   ‘German Resistance Strong Near Edge of Bloody Forest; British Prehe Gutewayv to Ruhr

Hodaes’ Troops Into Hurtgen Near Forest   German Resistance Continues Strong All Along Line

Drive Helps To Extend  U.S. Front —  In Germany   : Hurtgen Pierced As Nazis Wage Battles’

FRENZ TAKEN IN DOUGHBOYS' COLOGNE DRIVE   Town Is 14 Miles Inside Germany: Third Army Extends Its Front

Hodges’ First 14 Miles Inside Germany; Third’s iF ront Now 19 Miles Lone   Americans At Edge Of Hurtgen Forest, Scene Of Bloody Fighting; Seventh Captures Two Enemy Generals: British Report Gains

BASE CAPTURED ONLY 25 MILES FROM COLOGNE   Hodges’ Columns Push Inte Hurtgen: Seventh Widens Strasbourg Corridor

HODGES’ TROOPS GAIN HURTGEN IN FOREST EDGE   Germans In Strasbourg Are Pushed Back; Yanks Sight Rhine

While First Army Moved Toward Cologne Third Army Extended Front Inside Reich

Krenz Taken in American First  Mile Advance   Germans Driven to One Edge of Hurtger Forest, But Show No Sign of Collapse

Yanks Across Reich Border at New Point   First Army Mile Nearer Cologne; Seventh Forces Inside Hurteen

FIRST ARMY IN ADVANGE TODAY; FRENZ CAPTURED   Heavy Fizhting In Aachen Area Is Reported

Valet Admits He Gave False Information After Band Leader's Arrest

Open Hearings on State Department Appointments Voted by Committee

Nipponese Lose Upward of 26 Major Fighting Vessels, Including 10 Battleships Sunk or Damaned. Five Cruisers. Two Carriers Downed

Enemy Loses Two Carriers, Five Cruisers   Two Carriers Only — U. S. Craft Reported Officially as Sunk

U.S. Victory Shortens War  - Blow Delivered in Philippines Fight  Is Almost Knockout

NEAR KNOCKOUT BLOW INFLICTED   Losses Include 10 Battle. ships Sunk or Damaged   FIGURES INCOMPLETE   Observers Hold Naval Victory Might Well Shorten the War by Months

NAVALVICTORY CONSIDERED KNOCKOUI   By U.S. Fleet Commanders While Japan Still ClaimsTriumph is Hers: Planes in Pursuit.   Force Turns Back

AIRPORT GIVEN OK FOR HANGAR   County Receives Priority For $43,350 Structure

BODIES UNFOUND IN MISSISSIPPI   Salvage Crews Seeking 21 Victims Of Tragic Airliner Crash

Strikers Face  Quick Induction   St. Louis Draft Boards To Crack Down On Many Quitting Work.

STRIKERS MAY GET DRAFT CALL   Plan To Reclassify Some Of 3,500 Street Car And Bus Drivers In St. Louis.

Striking Saint Louis Transit Workers Now 1-A   Reclassification Mad As City Remains Paralyzed By Shutdown

Stand Or Die Orders Are Disregarded   Yanks Broaden Coastal Center Of 2 Mantraps

Americans Hit Ormoc on 3 Sides   Sixth Army On the Move in All Sectors Against Bitter Resistance   NAVY CONTINUES TO PATROL SEAS   » More Enemy Ships Sunk as Ground Action Blazes in Central Philippines

YANKS STORM OUTSKIRTS OF ORMOC PORT   Recently Landed U. S. Seventy-seventh Division Causing Japs to Flee in Spite of Order to “Do or Die.”

COASTAL HOL IS IMPROVED BY YANKS   Many Japs Flee In Disregard To Orders   NIP Al& FORCE   Still Capable Of Hitting Hard Despite Losses In Philippine Campaign

77th Storming Ormoc Outskirts   Broadens Coastal Center of Two Traps On Leyte

Th Division In Outskirts Of Ormoc City  Yankees On Move    Yankees On Move In All Leyte Sectors; Move In On Nipponese From Three Sides

WS. 77 BROADENS ‘LEYTE TRAPS   Sixth Army On Move In All Active Sectors

Yanks Broaden  Two Mantraps On West Leyte   Veterans of Guam Battle Advance After Landing in Ormec Arca; Some  Japanese Flee .   Warships, Planes Shatter Jap Bass   B29 Bomhing Route From Saipan to Nippon Is Cleared by Attack  On Bonin Island

TTTH DIVISION BROADENED ITS HOLD ON ORMOC   Bewildered Japanese Fled in Disregard of Orders to Stand or Die.   BITTER RESISTANCE      The U. 5. 6th Army Was on the Move in All Sectors.

TEMPERATURES:   Americans Converge On Key Port! Nipponese Fight Desperately

ORMOC STORMED BY U. S, TROOPS   Jap Defenders Flee In Disorder, Front - Line Dispatch Declares,

Yank Advance May Seon Split Jap Leyte Forces   U.S. Sixth Army Drives Toward Ormoe In All-Out Effort To Capture Port

Japs Fight Fiercely As Yanks Close In On Trap at Ormoc   Superforts Raid Tokyo Again With Incendiaries While Other Planes Sink Another Transport and 14 Freighters In Philippines Area

U.S. Troops Converge on Leyte Capital from Three Directions; Heavy Artillery Rings City

'Mantraps Readied For Japs   Enemy Offers Bitter Resistance: 14 Nip Freichters Sunk

TITH POWERS WAY THRU JAPS AFTER LANDING   Bewildered Nipponese Flee, Disregard Stand Or Die Order

All Armies On Move In Leyte   Hard-Hiiting Yanks  Close On Ormoc from Three Sides in Effort to Wind Up Campaign

YANKS STORM PORT OF ORMOC FROM 3 SIDES   Japs Disregard Death Stand Orders, Retreat Say Front Reports

Two Mantraps OnLeyte Are Closing   Sixth Army Increases Pressure Upon Japs in Philippines

77th Division In Attack on Ormoc   Dispatches Report Japs Disregarding Orders and Fleeing _   BITTER NIP FIGHTING   American Sixth Army Is Converging on City From Three Ways

Yanks of 77th Division Drive 2° "Outskirts of Ormoc, Br. den Jap Traps

Mantraps Sef For Japs; Some Of Enemy Flees   Sixth Army On Move In All Sectors As Campaian Is Pushed

REDS TIGHTEN SIEGE CLANP ON AUDAPES   Reach Hatvan, Rail Junction 22 Miles From Hungary’s Capital City.

RUSSIANS RENEW BUDAPEST SIEGE   ANNIHILATION BATTLE PRESSED ON GERMANS

Red Armies Half-Cirele  Budapest   Hungarian Capital Placed Under Siege; End Near In Latvia.

Reds Extend Siege Arc At Budapest   Battle of Annihilation In North Reaches Final Phase

RUSSIANS BATTLE. TRAPPED GERMANS   Berlin Admits Russian Successes In Hungary Also

Battle Of Annihilation In Latvia Is Now In Final Stages   30 Nazi Divisions Face Soviet Trap   Germans Admit Russian Advance Into Highway Hub Near Budapest

ROLL UP BOTH ENDS OF NAZIS’ EASTERN FRONT   Berlin Admits Budapest Half-Encircled By Russians

Barbara: Fritschie Home Is Sold  Barbara’ Fritschie Home Is Sold  Historic Frederick Property To Be Continued As Museum

Barbara Fritschie Home Is Sold Historic Frederick Property . To Be Continued As Museum

WARDS LOSER ~~ INOPAFIGH   Price Violations Case Upheld In Court

LEND-LEASE MEASURE APPROVED BY HOUSE   Extension Bill Is Sent Tc President for Signing

Captured Nazi Officers Glum   Fulure Looks Black To German Leaders

THREE MORE NAZI GENERALS KILLED   ENEMY HAS LOST 394,000 MEN _ ‘SINCE. THREE-FRONT “STRUGGLE OPENED.

Killing of Three More German General: Reflects Magnitude of Nazi Reverses

Britain Gives Four Billion  In Lend Lease   Half Comes To This Country

i HIGH FIGURE      Us Received “Most Benefit With Next- Greatest Gaing ae To Rusclane

News Day And Night   Armored Forces Steadily Expand Firmly Held Orne-Odon Salient   German Counter Blows Shattered   Allies Now Hold Initiative On Every Part Of Front In “ormandy

BRITISH GAIN DESPITE NAZE TANK ATTACKS   Spearhead Over Odon River Broadened By 3 Miles

British Drive to Only Three Miles From Caen   Firmly Held Salient Steadily Being Expanded

Fresh Nazi Elements Rushed. Battle In Full Scale Attem: Stop Montgomery's Adv: All Nazi Thrusts Are Beate   NAZI SPEARHEADS ARE THRUST B

BRITISH PUSH TO WITHIN 3 MI. OF CAEN   Advance Despite intensified Nazi Counterattacks

Advance  on Odon Widened   Armored Forces Drive Perils Main Airfield, ' Cabourg Said Taken

BAIT ott GAIP IN GACN AREA STIGHTENEL   Expand Salient Between Orne and Odeon Rivers; Hurl Back Germatis.

Nazi Push Divisions in Struggle   Headquarters Reports Brit. ish Grinding Forward  Slowly for Gains

EXPAND GRIP ON AREA BETWEEN THE ORNE, ODON   Drive To Within Three Miles Of The Caen Positions

Counterattacks By German Units Said Intensifying   Fresh Nazi Elements Rushed Into Battle  Southwest of Caen .”

Heavy Nazi Blows Fail To Dent Line   Fresh German Troops Are Rushed Into Battle Sec tony

ck es Lae meen TN ° Re  - fetes 1h fete 2 yee     Drive To Within 3 Mi. of Caen   FRESH GERMAN TROOPS RUSHED INTO BATTLEFAILTOHALT .  BRITISH ARMORED FORCES

Dare Fierce Fire in Surprise Blow   135 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN NIGHT AND DAY ATTACK ON ISLANDS; U. S. LOSSES ONLY SIX PLANES; SEE FEW SHIPS

Nazis Drop Back To Set Up Defense   Move Follows Loss Of Major Rail  Junction

Reform For Stand Along Pole Border   Left Wing Of Red Army Steps Up Pace Of Drive  Toward Rumania.

New Position Established In Marshes      Soviets Increase Pace of Drive Toward Prewar Rumania   Vatutin Sweeps South After Capture of Berdichev

Mannstein Falls Back Into Marshes   Vatutin’s Men Sweep Toward Border of Rumania

Germans Retreat To Fortify Positions On Route To Warsaw   Enemy Maps Stand West of Olevsk. Re . port Russians 35 Miles Inside Old Polish Frontier

Sermans Retreat West of Kiev and Along Old Russian-Polish Border to Re-organize for Defensive Battle—Vatutin Rolls Toward  Dniester River.

Nazis Attempt Stand in Pripet Marsh   Soviets Speed Drive; Southern Poland Ordered Cleared

Nazis Retreat Into Pripet Marshes, Re-Form for New Stand: Reds Continue Gains

RESISTANCE TO ASSAULT INSIDE POLAND GROWS   Nazis Form New Lines To Stop Soviet’s Warsaw March

Berlin Says Dnieper Freezing, Increasing Threat io German Forces Within Bend   NAZIS IN MARSHES   Von Mannstein’s Position Reported Excellent for Deferse—River Russian Barrier

Fall of Berdichev Paves Way for Red  Drive to Dniester   Germans’ Position on the Russian Front Increasingly Grave

Soviets Push South at Faster Pace   Resistance Grows Stiffer but Ukrainians Gain

NAZIS REFORM DEFENSES FOR BORDER STAND   Stiffening Resistance Made Against Russians in Old Poland.   Flank Is Protected by The Pripet Marshes

SOVIET ADVANCE IS MOVING AT AN ACCELERATED PACE   Dniester River Is PreWar Rumanian Border   NAZIS MAKE STAND IN PRIPET MARSHES

Lines Stiffened On Old Frontier South OF Olevsk   Ukrainians - Speed . From.         _ Runianian’ Territory,

German Lines Reformed For New Stand   Big Ukrainian Army Sweeps Toward Borders Of Rumania

FORCES ARE REFORMED FOR A NEW STAND   Stiffened Resistance Develops on Kiev-to-Warsaw Route as Russians Sweep Southward Toward the Dniester.

Backs Into Pripet Marshes Reforms for Another Stand Near Glevsk.   RESISTANCE STIFFENED

GERMAN ARMY HAS  REFORMED FOR NEW  STAND AGAINST REDS STIFFENED RESISTANCE DEVELOPS AS RUSSIANS  CUICED COIMTLUVADNR

SOVIETS PUNCH NEW HOLES IN GERMAN LINES   Reds Drive For Dniester River Line; Near Rumanian Border

GERMAN ARMY RE-FORMS FOR NEW DEFENSE   Capture of Pivotal Rail Junction Wins Special Order of Day From Stalin   SLUCH RIVER BREACHED

Soviets Drive Toward Dnieste>   Retreating Forees Dig In To Increase Defense Pressnre

Germans Stiffen Resistance Along  Old Pole Border   Von Mannestein Retreats Into Pripet Marshes; Reds Plunge Toward Vinnitsa Rail Base

Nazis Take Stand On Poland Border   Enemy Stiffens Its Resistance On Main Route from Kiev to Warsav

Von Mannstein Retreats Into Pripet Marshes   Resistance Stiffens as the Germans Reach Rumanian Border

GERMAN STAND BEING MADE ON WARSAW ROUTE   Meanwhile, Other Soviet ‘Forces Sweep Toward , Dniester River, Prewar d Rumanian Border   PACE ACCELERATED AS BERDICHEV FALLS   Germans Destroy Bridges Over Two Tricky Rivers  After Retreat Into Pripéet Marshes

IS EXPECTED AT OLEVSK:   German Flank Protected By Pripet Marshes   BERDICHEY   Falls To Russian Forces; More Than 60 Towns Taken In Advance

Battered ‘Nazi Army Reforms   Resistance Stiffens on. The Road to Warsaw; Reds Sweep Toward Rumanian Border.

Vatutin's Army Pushes Toward Dniester River   Von Mannstein Takes Positions Favorable —  With Flank Protected By Pripet Marshes 

Reform Lines For Defense  Along Border   Gen. Vatutin’s Ukraine Army Meets Stiffening Resistence; Berdichev Falls

Nazis Brace, Make Stand At Marshes  On Frontier   German Army Reformed For Resistance; First Ukraine Troops Near Old Rumanian Rorder

Nazis Stiffen Resistance In Russia   Reds Sweep Towards Rumanian Border; Berdichev Falls

GERMAN ARMY HAS REFORMED FOR NEW STAND AGAINST REDS   STIFFENED RESISTANCE DEVELOPS AS RUSSIANS SWEEP SOUTHWARD

NAZI ARMY HAS RETREATED INTO PRIPET MARSHES   Field Marshal Fritz Von Mannstein’s Forces Reforming Alone Old Polish Rarder

Nazis Stiffen For Stand As Vatutin Sweeps South Toward Dniester River

Russian Drive Continues At Record Speed   Reds Thrust Deeper Into Poland, March Toward Rumania, Latvia

Throws Up New Defense Along Polish Line at Pripet Marshes   Vatutin’s Southern Wing Strikes Toward Vinnitsa

BROWN GIVEN INGALLS’ Post   CONGRESSMAN FROM THIS DiS5TRICT ELECTED NATIONAL . COMMITTEEMAN OF ‘ STATE .-—~

Penal Farm May Be Home Fot Juveniles  O’Conor Proposes - To Isolate Them From  Pt ES De ee

Study Plan To Use Roxbury Penal  Farm For More Youthful Inmates   Governor Discloses Study For Transformation Of County Institution To Keep Youths From More Hardened Criminals.

g _ COUNTY WiLL MEET AUG,-22   Meeting at Bedford In Preparation. for ,. Year's Work,

Lone Sooner Got Job Done   Entire Squad Shot Down, Angry Oklahoman Cleans Out Machine Gun Crew

Two-Arrested’ On Theft Charge  Held For Robbery of Akron Liquor Store

FIGHT FIERCE IN RIMINI AREA   Nazis Battle Desperately to Keep Allies Out of Po River Valley

DANE STRIKE DEFIES NAZI ULTIMATUMS   Germans Threaten To Starve, Bomb Copenhagen

SEDITION TRIAL MAY BE DELAYED   Whereabouts of Missing Defendant Still Is Unsolved

BIG SEDITION TRIAL FACES DELAY AS 24 PLEAD NOT GUILTY   Defendant No. 30. Still Missing; Bond Forfeited

Soviet Troops Cross Border Into Germany   Twin Red Break-Through: Pierce East Prussia,  be Pe Dy co, re

MORE OFFICIALS — OF CIRCUS. MAYBE “ARRESTED.IN FIR      Toll Grows to 153 Dead: and Others In Hospitals ” May - Die.

Warrants Issued for Circus Men   More Officials to Be Arrest ed at Hartford — Death Toll Reaches 153 Today

New Warrants Issued in Probe Of Circus Fire   Death Toll Reaches 153 with 15 Bodies Still Unidentified

CIRCUS FIRE DEATH TOLL REACHES 153   15 Unidentified; Manslaughter Warrants Issued

"153 VICTIMS IN CIRCUS FIRE AS * PROBE GOES ON   Issue More Warrants; 15 , Dead Unidentified 28 Missing

NEW WARRANTS ARE ISSUED IN CIRCUS BLAZE      Death Toll Reaches 153 With 15 Bodies Still Not Tdentified

ANCTHER RAID NEAR MANILA; HEAVY BLOWS   Rain on Strongholds in Philippines _Inflicting Severe .Losses to Japanese Planes,

Carrier Strike On Philippines Is Severe Blow   Navy Lists 37 Nip Ships Sunk; Airfields Are Blasted

205 Nipponese Planes Destroyed; 37 Ships Sunk in 2-Day Attack; U. S. Loses 15 Planes

JAPS REPORT YANKS AGAIN RAID MANILA   H arb or Installations, Airfield Blasted, Tokyo Says

Jap Report Of New Raid  Unconfirmed   - Enemy Says Carriers Targets of Attacks avd? Left Burnine:   CONTRADICTED.BY NAVY COMMUNIOUE

Finns Given Final Warning To Quit War   BBC Broadcast Asserts Soviet Terms Felt Moderate

FINNS WARNED AGAIN TO GET OUT OF WA   But Parliament $s Drafting Negative Moscow Reply

Britain Warns Finns To Quit War Or Perisl   “National . Suicide”? Face: People, BBC Says; After Russia’s Terms Are  Again Rejected ~

Finns Dig In to Fight   Britain Issues Final Warning; Nation Rejects Russian Peace Terms

Britain Gives. Final Warning to the Finns   Facing ‘National Suicide’ Says BBC Broadcast, If Terms Are Rejected

AMERICANS EDGE NEARER BOLOGNA   Hammer Within 10 Miles Of Communications Base

YANKS WITHIN 10 MILES OF BOLOGNA; GERMANS BRINGING UP HEAVY GUNS

DRIVE CLOSER TO BOLOGNA   Within 10 Miles Of Po Valley Road Center

American Troops Advance In Italy   Threaten Major German Communications Hub

DOUGHBOYS DRIVE AHEAD FOR BOLOGNA   Advance Against Stiffening Resistance Carries Allies Within Ten Miles  Of Po Valley City

Americans Push Nearer Bologna   Germans Continue To Mass. Reinforcements [In Front Of City

5TH ARMY GAINS NEARLY 2 MILES INBOLOGNA PUSH   Yanks Within 10 Miles 0 Key Communications Center

4APS’ PREMIER ADMITS PLIGHT * ‘UNFAVORABLE’   Calls U.S. Strength 10 Times © Nips’; Sea Toll 60 Ships; Invasion Loss Low

Economic Reasons Given by Warren For Shying Away From Nomination

Warren Shies Away From Vice Presidency   Declines to Suy He Would Not Accept Nomination

State Budget. 18 Million For ~ Next 2 Years   Requests $1,332,182 More han Appropriations Granted in Last Period

Supply Route  Cut in Guinea   M’Arthur Blow Threatens To Isolate Jan Force

New Italian Cabinet In   Takes Oath to Constitution, But Not to Crown: Rome Jittery

Italian Cabinet Takes Office, No Oath To Monarch   Premier Gets  Dutv Pledve

Bonomi Cabinet Refuses To Take Customary Oath   Pledge To Crown Worthless Until Italians Decide Monarchy To Survive

BONOMI CABINET ASSUMES OFFICE   17 MINISTERS NOT REQUIRED TO TAKE OATH TO THE CROWN

AMERICANS BEAT BACK ATTACK IN APRILIA SECTOR      German Morale Sinks "To New Low Ebb. Prisoner States

German Morale Getting Lower   Nazis in Italy Fail to Fulfill Hitler's Orders on Anzio Beachhead

NAZI ATTACK REPULSED ON ANZIO FRONT   Morale of German Troops Reported At Low Ebb

GERMANS ARE DEPRESSED BY ANZIO FAILURE   Nazi Prisoners Report Losses Heavy And Morale Low

NAZI MORALE IN ITALY AT NEW LOW   Depressed Over Failure to Take Anzio Beachhead

Armored Plunge Gains 65 Miles   Ancient French Town Of Sens Taken Noose Closes Around Thousands Of Nazis Along Seine

Column Spears Half Way Across France And Others Drive For Channel For New Pocket   Marseille Being Bottled Up In South As Patch’s Men Smash Toward Rhone Valley

{Column Spears Half Way Across France And Others Drive For Channel For New Pocket

65MILE GAIN MADE IN DASH OF U.S. TANKS   Belgians, British and Canadians Also Advance

ORED FORCES ENCOUNTER GER OPPOSITION, TROOPS 458 MILES BEYOND PARIS

Tank Group Is 165 Miles From Reich   Other Armored Forces Drive Northwestward ‘To Trap More Enemy  MANY TOWNS TAKEN

PUSH BEYOND THE ANCIENT ~-CHTY OF SENS   “Meager Opposition Encountered in Thrust Southeast of Paris Toward German Border.   SECOND COLUMN MOVES TOWARD SEA   Opens Great Drive to Encircle Thousands of Nazis Caught on South Side of Seine River.

AMERICANS PUSH WITHIN 165: MILES OF GERMAN FRONTIER   Armored Column Has Driven Past Ancient Town ( Sens In 65-Mile Dash Against Meager Opposi- — tion; Liberation Of Paris Up To Commanders

U.S. ARMORED UNIT CROSSES HALF FRANCE   Plunges Past Town  of Sens on Way to Germany

Starts New Drive West of Paris  To Close Second Trap on Germans   Plunges Past Ancient Town of Sens 58 Miles Southwest of Paris; Opposition Meager

Strong armored column slashes half way across France in brilliant drive

(U.S. Tankmen 58 Miles From Saar  Allied Offensives Meet Btact. sh... . _*s*..

Yanks Drive Southeast of Paris to Sens   Other Units Wheel Northward to Sea To Close Trap on Nazis On Seine’s South Bank

Allies Raid 3 Nazi Air tations; Yanks Tangle With German Fighters

Allied Airmen Use “Starving Out” Tacties Against Dodecanese Nazis

Hurried Shift Of Nippon Forces To Philippines, Formosa Is Reported

Byrd Presidential Drive under Way   Kansas Republicans Backing Virginian

TOKYO CHARGES U.S. ATROCITIES   Allies Try To Cover Up Their Own Crimes, Says Propaganda

Allied “Outrages”:     men mA eet pe  Many Atrocities Committed, Tokyo Broadcast to Berlin Declares

FORMER RESIDENT DIES   John D. Kuhn Movéd ‘to Ottumwa, Ia, in 1930

The Day's Almanac   Today's Herald   To the People of this Community

DEWEY HOLDS PARLEY WITH MAINE GROUP   Nominee Told of Fine - "Prospects” of Repub-   lican Victory

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PLANS TO EXPAND CAMPAIGN MEETS ARE DISCLOSED   Dewey Told of ‘Prospects’ Of Electing GOP Majority in Congress   NOMINEE MEETS WITH MAINE CONGRESSMEN   Dewey to Meet With Repub. ‘lican Congressional Lead. ers Enroute to Conference Of GOP Governors To Be Held in St. Louis

Allied Planes Pound Hollandia   Freighter Sunk and Nine Small Craft Left Burning

Mighty Blow Aimed at Foe’s New Guinea Base   Ships and Planes Left Burning at Hollandia . After New Allied Smash

10 More Jap Ships Struck At Hollandia   Big Bomb-Torn Base Take: Terrific New Pounding . From Allied Raiders

KURILE ISLAND: AGAIN HIT BY YANKS   Regular Pounding Of Truk, Other Bases, Continues   In Visit To Besieged Imphal: Escape Route Cut, Japs Say

JAP VESSELS ~ LEFT BURNING   Allied Bombers Deliver Smashing Blow to Hollandia Wednesday

Big Ship Losses Near Hollandia - Blast Jap Hopes   American Bombers Raid Enemy Positions From Dutch Timor To Trak

JAPAN LOSES MANY PLANES IN ISLAND BAID   Ships Left Burning In Harbors By U. S. Bombers

5th Air Force Smashes Jap Ships, Planes      Lands Heavy Blow Unon Hollandia

Erase a Threat Ot Jap Offense  In New Guinea   Coordinated Air Attack I: Made by Allies on Hollandia Harbor.   Other Bomb Attacks  On Japanese Targets

HOLLANDIA niAID 5 SUCCESSFUL   Jap Ships, Planes Left Burning, Battered After Air Attack.   BONG DOWNS 2 PLANES!

Massive Sea-Air Attack Wednesday Wrecked Ships Planes Assembled There

10 Jap Ships Blasted in Blow. ~ Against Rebuilding of Base   200 Planes. Revisit Hollandia; Of 20 jap Interceptors 8 Are i Shot Down, 2.by Major Bong.

Yanks Range from Kuriles to Solomons   British Bombay Paper Seeks More Information on India Situation

SHIPS AND PLANES BLASTED BY AMERICANS; NEW THREAT MADE ON ALLIED LINES IN INDIA   Smashed Jap Defenses in New Guinea Under New Attacks and Japs Lose One Freighter and 9  Others Burned, Military Situation in India WE gee

Jap Relief Planes and Ships Left in Ruins at Hollandia   Huge Coordinated Air Attack on New Guinea Base is Reported

Allied Planes Again Pound Hollandia Base   Besieged Imphal Base, Held by Allies, Threatened With Invasion

Yanks Smash At Hollandia   One Jap Freighter Is Sunk and Nine Small Craft Fired

NIPPON PLANES SHIPS BLASTED AT HOLLANDIA   Allied Aerial Forces Sweer Jap Positions Thruout Pacific

Jap Ships, Planes Left Burning at New Guinea, BDestroy Revival Hopes

At Least One Freighter Is Sunk and Nine Small Vessels Left Burning and Sinking   1,334 TONS DROPPED

Hollandia Hit by Bombs   Ten Ships Damaged In Attack; More Planes Knocked Down

JAP PLANE, SHIP STRENGTH AT HOLLANDIA BOMBED   Reinfercements Which Enemy Had Hoped to Strengthen Base With Left Battered and Flaming by A Aled Airmen

Reinforcements For Hollandia Are Destroyed   Jap invasion of India Continues to Grow More Serious

JAPANESE SHIPS AND PLANES LEFT BURNING AND BADLY BATTERED   EFFORTS OF ENEMY TO AID SMASHED HOLLANDIA DEFENSES FOILED

Ships and Planes For Jap Defense of Hollandia Smashec  Weak of Baide Vittles Arites

Heavy Bomb Load Dropped on Japs   Enemy Ships and Planes Left Burning in Southwest Pacific   8 PLANES SHOT. DOWN   Planes from 11th Air Force Hit Targets in Kurile Islands

FLIERS SET NINE LIGHT NIP SHIPS AFIRE IN PACIFIC   Sink One Vessel in Hollandia Harbor, Down Eight Jap Planes

IPSHPS AND BLANES BLASTED   Attempt To. Revise De: fenses At Hollandia, New Guinea, Smashed   FREIGHTER SUNK   Nine Other Small Craft Left Burning In Allied Air Attack “ —-

ALLIED SHIPS, PLANES MAKE SUMATRA RAID   . Vital Industrial Targets in Padang Area Blasted

Carrier Force Planes Bomb  Sumatra Isle   Unconfirmed Report Of Axis Says Shanghai Had Aerial Attack

Civilians Saic Leaving Manil:   Berlin Reports Shangha Raided by Americans

Carrier Planes And Fleet Units Attack Sumatra   J apanese-Are Reported To Have Ordered Civilians To Evacuate Manila. °

MORE EVIDENCE “JIGS UP” FOR NAZI DICTATOR   Not Seeing Any of Important Per_ sonages With Whom He Usually Permits an Audience.

Rumors Rise  As To Hitler   Swedish Reports Say Audiences Canceled

America Expected To Provide Third Of Huge Fund For  Postwar Purposes.

Allies Approve Program to Stabilize Money   Conferees Propose to Establish Fund Of Fight Billions to Seciire Postwar Werld Trade. Employment

7,000 Allied Planes Pound  Nazis Sunday   Air Fields, Bridges, . Communication Lines, Enemy Conyoys Targels

Phase of Securing Bridgehead Nearing Successful End, Report Says

Reds Sea  Trap on 75,000   Nazis Hammered Into Corner of Belgrade; Finland Escape Cut

Soviets Bash German Grip On Belgrade   Nazi Forces Backed Jnto Small Corner Of Yugoslav Capital

'IBERATION OF  BELSRADE S - NOW ASSURED   Yugoslay:.Partisans and Soviet ‘froops ‘Hanimer. German BRarriacg

Russians, Slavs. Near Victory in Belgrade Battle   Red Forces Capture Finnish Seaport, Trap 75,000 Nazis

MOST OF BELGRADE LIBERATED   Russians Drive On From Captured Port of Petsamo

Victory Near At Belgrade  oO see   Germans Driven Into Small Sector

Liberation of Belgrade Sa’ Nearly Com,   Russian Arctic Army Sweeps South To Trap Germans In Finland

Belgrade Is All But Liberated   75,000 German Troops Are Trapped in Finland hy Russians

NAZI FORCES ARE HAMMERED IN YUGOSLAVIA   Capital Almost — Isolated; Red Amy Sweeps South From Petsamo

Complete Plans For Third Annual Survey   ‘Continue Fight “Against T. B. in  Pocahontas County

Annual Survey on TB is Arranged   Aimed to Find All the Unsuspected Cases — of Phe Disease

French Set For Trials Of Hun Aids   Petain, Laval Others To Bs Accused In Special War Crime Courts

FDR Defends © Nelson’s Trip   President States Mission Preaesine. Imnariont

FDR States Nelson Trip Important   Assignment Does Not Mean WPB Chairman. Is Being Kicked.  In Teeth

KICK IN TEETH’ CHARGE DENIEL   Roosevelt Says Nelson Is Going To China On Important Mission

NAMA MISSION © — CALLED PRESSING   ROOSEVELT DENIES WAR PRODUCTION HEAD IS “BEING KICKED IN TEETH.”

CHURCHILL OR CUPID WHICH DRAWS KING?   Yugoslavia’s  ‘King Peter Reaches England

Social Benefit Plan Approved ByUS.C. of C.   Ballot Shows Chamber Backs Plan To Exiend Security Schedule

Hard Battle Is Expected Around Port   Some 30,000 Nazis Face Annihilation In Cherbourg Area.

New Gains . Scored Neat Montebourg:      CITY OF CHERBOURG ISOLATED BY WEEK-END DRIVE; NEW GROUND WON TODAY SOUTHEAST OF CITY

Hundreds of Planes Slaughter Trapped Nazis at Cherbourg   Firce Battle Brews as Americans Poise Frontal Assault on Seaport: Germans Expecting New Landings

TO TAKE ON F.D.R   Dewey May Make Personal Challenge of President's  Record

HOLLAND HAS ~ FOOD: eRisis   AMBASSADOR. DECLARES LARGER CITES WILL BE WITHOUT FOOD BY: END OF MONTH”. >

Watch Results Of Barkley Balt   Will Echo Through Ath Term Debate

BOLT BY BARKLEY ~ LIKELY TO AFFECT ATH TERM BOOM   Major Congress Revolt Against Roosevelt Is Possible

Repercussions of Barkley’s Explosion ‘Expected to Affect Fourth Term Issue

NEW SCOUT PLANE — DEVELOPED BY NAW   Congressman Says Craft. Wil “Revolutionize” Reconnaissance ‘ “From Warships,

PERSE FIRECO.. MARKSITS 95TH _ ANNIVERSARY   Quiet Observance Is Held On Tuesday. MR oht   Praises. Fine Recorc Made By Local Company. . .

Gr, DARVILLE DIED THURSDAY   Former Resident of This County Laid to Rest Saturday

‘Charles Darville Claimed By Death   Came Here In Covered  Wagon When Child

CPL.BELDING _ RECEIVES OFFICIAL RECOGNITION   Given Him. Through. Faithful and Exact. Performance of Duty - Food Behavior.

Mrs. Simms Takes Turn for Wors   ef rf  a .   Had Been Recovering After an Operation

Casualties For Armed Forces Of U. S. Reach 536,951   INDICATIONS POINT TO NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMAN NORTHERN FLANK ALONG ROER

SSS FOSS eee nn  Allied Allied Push In Northern Sector Near   Full Scale Offensive In Vital Zone of West Front Could Break Nazi Backs

INDICATIONS POINT TO NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMAN INORTHERN FLANK ALONG ROER

NINTH ARMY'S FRESH DRIVE MAY AN ALLIES ARE READY FOR NEW OFF OE ‘DESIGNED TO TURN FLANK OF:

THE  WAR. TODAY   Ninth Army’s Drive Against Huns Along Flooded Roer River Indicates Another   Big Pusk Is Lumirent.

 The War Teday—  Big Allied Offensive Believed Shaping Along Roer River Valley

SOME TIRE MEN GET FURLOUGHS   Army Moves to Boost Bus and Truck Equipment by 30 Per Cent

URGES NATION BE GRATEFUL   Halsey Asks Humble Thanks For Courage of Young Americans.

WIFE OF FEDERAL OFFICIAL KILLED IN CHICAGO HOTEL   Slaying of Mrs. Frank  Starr Williams, By Mystery Woman, in Hotel,  Being Probed

Mystery Woman is Sought in Drake Hotel Gun Attack   Wife of State Department Attache Shot During Night

1); AT LEAST £5 INJURED   Two C. & E. I. Passengers Collide Near Terre Haute

WILLKIE: VOTERS FACE 4. ISSUES   Has No Doubt F. R. Will Seek Re-Flection

ALLIED UNITS ARE REPORTED ACROSS RHINE   British Are Thrown From Hoven On Plain Of Cologne

Price Control To Be Given Stiff Checkup   Congress to Go Into Every Phase of Matter Before Extending Law

Probe of Whole Stabilization Program Seen   Senate Banking Committee to Open Hearing Wednesday

SEE CHECK ON STABILIZATION   Entire Program Likely to Come Under Scrutiny

FULL STUDY OF GROUPS LOOMS   Price Control Bill Due Tc Bring Overall Checkup

etna alta atria eiahatihiaeninaaiemienmeel  Congress May Check On FDR's Wage Stabilization Program

Price Control Inquiry Looms Tn Washinston   Senate Banking Committee Plaus To Probe Whole Stabilization Set Un

Senafe Battle Looms On OPA Extension Bill   Thorough Inquiry Of Stabilization Program Forecast

Drive Launched Over Orne River   Nazi Line Pushed Back: British And Canadians Seize Major Port

Jap Leyte Reinforcement Attempt Foiled; Tank-Led U. S. Infantry Drives On

‘Look Into Feasibility Of Increasing Cigaret Production, Rationing

Senate Concedes Smoke Shortage   CIGARETTE RATIONING TO BE CONSIDERED IN 7) S.

Senators Probe Cigarets; Find 2 Suggestions   Staff Investigators for Senate Suggest More Produetion and Rationing of the Stocks Now on Hand.

FIGHT AGAINST FEPC MAY DELAY  CONGRESS RECESS   Efforts of Southern Sen. ators Aided by Republi: cans Seen As Obstacle To Recess

TRUGK BLAST KILLS THREE      TWENTY OTHER. PEHSONS INJURED WHEN GASOLINE TRUCK EXPLODED IN OKLAHOMA CITY

Vatican City Unharmed by Allied Bombs, Rome Capture   ALLIES CHEER POPE

YANKS LAND ON BIG ISLAND NEAR LUZON   Six Airfields Now Occupied By Yanks In Philippine Arca

Ten Enemy Battleships’ and Three Airergft Carriers Sunk in Philippines; Ground ©:  Bhaseoncs T and   U. S. Ground Forces Seize Samar Coast

American Troop: Land On Samar In Latest Strike   Southern Coast of Third Largest Island In Philippines, Taken

U. $. TROOPS ON SAMAR, LAS LUZON BARRIER   Split Jap Force On North Leyte

LAST BARRIER BEFORE LUZON IS INVADED   Gen. MacArthur Announces That Gains on Leyte Have Been Extended.

Americans Land On Samar, Next  To Luzon Island   Hold 31 Towns on Leyte Jap Air Attack on Harbor Fails

YANKS INVADE SAMAR ISLAND, GAIN ON LEYTE   Win Coast Toehold On Last Barrier To Luzon

Last Barrier Below Luzon  Is Invaded   Other Forces Extend Holdings On Leyte To Six Airfields.

Yankees Invade Samar Island Close to Leyte   Nippons Lose 56. Aircraft to U. 8.  Guns and Airplanes

Americans Push Ahead On Leyte   Another Force Builds Up Bridgehead On South Coast Of Samar, Last Barrier To Luzon

YANKS LAND ON SAMAR IN PHILIPPINES      Seize South Coast Of Last Barrier  Before Luzon

Yanks Land on Samar Island in Philippines   Last Barrier Before Luzon Ie Seized

SAMAR ISLAND IN NEW THRUST   6 Airfields Under U.S. Control; 31 Towns Are Liberated

SEIZE SAMAR BEACHHEAD   Others Extend Gains On Leyte; Have Six Air Fields

Yanks Invade Samar, Third Largest Philippine Island; Take Six Airfields On Leyte

MacArthur Pushes Ahead—Six Leyte Airfields Now Under U. S Control—Raids Beaten Off

Pvt. Roman Kesse, Remsen, Wounded in Frnce   Former Produce Man Hit In Head and Right Arm By Gunfire

‘NIP LOSSES IN ‘SUNK, DAMAGED "SHIPS NOW 60   Three Additional Cruisers In Manila Plastered By U. S. Airmen   FLEET NOW ON SIDELINE   Nimitz Predicts Enemy Will Quit When Going Gets Too Tough

KOISO ADMITS _ JAP POSITION ~~ 1$ DESPERATE   AIR STRENGTH OF ENEMY ON LUZON BEING KNOCKED OUT BY AMERICAN AIRCRAFT 

Premier of Japan Admits Situation Bad   Foe’s Naval  Losses Mount To 60 Ships

KAVIENG SHELLED BY U. §, WARSHIPS   ONE JAP VESSEL SUNK, TWO SET ON FIRE—THIRD BOMBARDMENT IN WEEK.

U.S. Warships Shell Kavieng: Sink One Ship   Whereabouts of Jap Fleet Seem Puzzle To Defenders of Jap Pacific Islands

Compromise On Vote Bill Fails   Conferees, Unable to Agree Among Themselves, Preparing to Demand That Senate Accept State’s Rights Measure.

Service Vote Compromise  Is Unlikely   House, Senate  Fail To Agree

ICKES PROPOSES GIVING RETURNING WAR VETERANS SHARES IN WAR PLANTS OWNED BY GOVERNMENT

JAPS REPORT AIR ATTACK ON TOKYS   HINT PARTS OF CAPITAL WERE THROWN INTO PANIC - BY SUPERFORT RAID.

Jap Radio Reports:  U.S. Bombers Raid Tokyo For First Time Since 1942

RAID ON-TOKYO IS REPORTED BY JAPS   Radios Biurt urt Out ‘Confus- edly Story of B-29_ Attack ©

Confusion Marks Nip Broadcasts On B-29 Attack   Reports Indicate Panics In Factory Districts; No Allied Confirmation

KePORT HAS NOT SEEN CONFIRMED BY ALLIED HEADS   lap Sources Say Raiders Were FourMotored Bombers Which Would Mean P-29 Superforts.

RAID ON TOKYO IS REPORTED BY JADS   Radios Biurt Ou Out: Confus. - edly Story of B-29 Attack

MANY VERSIONS ARE BROADCAST   No Allied Confirmation of Reported Attack on Jap Capital.   CALLED ‘FACE SAVING’

SUPERFORTS BLAST TOKYO, JAPS REPORT   Hint Parts of Capital Thrown Into Panic  By Raiders

Instructions Given For Fighting Fires   ... Nip Capital Last Beombed In April, 1942

‘Panic’ in Sections of City Indicated   Unconfirmed by Allies; Japs Urged tc Guard Against Fires

TOKYO CLAIMS RAID BY B-295   Bombing, If, True. Would Be First Since Doolittle’s 1942 Attack.

WASHINGTON REPLIES “NO INFORMATION"   Confusion in Tokyo Radio Reports Of Superfort Raid on Rising Sun Capital City.   Ry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Japs Shaky Over Attack On Tokyo   Nipponese Radios Tell Confusing Stories About Superfortress Raids On Capital; War Department Silent On Report

Jap Reports Conflicting, Unconfirmed   ~ Would Be First Attack On Nipponese Capital Since Doolittle Raid  PANIC 18 HINTED

RADIO MIXES UP STORY OF U.S. AIR BLOW   JAP CAPITAL FEARS SPREAD OF FIRE FROM BOMBS

ENEMY BROADCAST TELLS OF ATTACK; NO CONFIRMATION  SUPERFORTRESSES DECLARED HAVE ATTACK

Broadcasts Are Picked Up In America   Fires Reported To Have Been Set In Capital

Foe Also Lists Yokohama As Target Of Super Forts From Mariana Bases

Us. Supertort Attack” ‘Causes -Panicin Tokyo   Jap Reports on Air Raid /Confused—Yank: Army  cence Wee ROE ca:

Allies Fail To Present Any Report Of Bombing   Workers Re Reported «To Have Lest -:  Calmnese’

War Department Claims It Has No Information  Nippon Hints Blow May Have Started From New U. S. Base

Confused Radio Broadcasts Tell Of Panic in City   U.S. Army Heads Fail to Confirm Report of Attack

HADIO CLAIM FACTORY AREA UNDER ATTAGK   Confused Broadcasts Finally Agree That One Plane Flew Over City.

Jap Radio Reports:  . Bombers Raid Pies For Fi irst Time Since 1942

Broadcasts Show Great Confusion In Enemy Capital   American Ground Forces Close Vise On Leyte Garrison

Japs Report B-29 Raid On Tokyo   No Allied Confirmation Of Confused Series of Broadcasts Picked. Up  Bv JU. S. Listeners

Jap Broadeasts Admit Panic At Enemy Capital   Considerable Confusion In Some Sections Of Metropolitan Area Indicated In Series Of Japanese Radio Reports' On Raid Which Is Unconfirmed By Americans

TOKIG SAYS FORTS BOMB JAP CAPITAL   Highly Inflammable City Under Attack Radio Re. ports; No U. S. Con. firmation.   Face Saving Stunt

Jap Radios Sa" F275 -RaidTokyo   Seth Confust! ond Confh i Nat cet and  Cie

Report B-24's Over Jap Capital; Big Hires Started   Japs Say Move Was Face-Saver For Recent Defeats

DEMS TO OPEN STATE CONFAB   Grand Rapids Meeting To Test Powers of  Ed Fry

CEMOS 10 NAME “BALANCE OF TICKET   Fry Faces Test of Ability to Succeed Where Diplomats Failad.

15 Killed in lowa  Plane Accidents All But One Were   All But One Were In Armed Forces

U. 0. CONTINUE AERIAL OFFENSIVE   Arnold Reveals Total of Japanese Planes Destroyed

AERIAL WAR IN PACIFIC 3 10 f IN U.S. FAVOR   Offensive Against Japs Continues With Unabated Fury

HUNT FOR WAR CRIMINALS ~ AMONG GERMAN PRISONERS   INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY ‘TO FIND MEN RESPONSIBLE — FOR ATROCITIES IN . EUROPE .

WAR CRIMINALS INU, S. CAMPS   Axis Murderers Hiding As Soldier Prisoners, Says Kentucky Solon

YANKS HOPEFUL   Climactic Stugging Match Indications Cheer US. Mav -

Navy Men Are Confident Of Victory In Slug-Fest With Japanese Fleet

Senate Probes Meat Ration, Studies Costs  ‘White-Collar’ Workers Get Murray Backing

lhomas Charges Large Quantities of Meat Spoilec   Senate Begins Investigatior Into Charges Meat Had t« Be Destroyed Because Of ficials Refused Suspenc Rationing.

‘DEWEY PLANNING CHICAGO TRIP IF NOMINATED   Republicans Expect To  Nominate Candidate On Third Or Fourth Day   SOUTHERNERS STIR DEMOCRATIC PARTY

PLANS CHICAGO TRIP IF NOMINATEL   ‘Gov. Kerr Named : Democratic Kevnoter

DEWEY READY FOR RUSH TRIP   Speech Of Acceptance Prepared In Case He’s Nominated

Dewey Reported Ready for Dash To Convention   Said To Be Ready For a Train Trip

Drive South Gains 18 Miles in Day; U. S. Forces Turn Foe’s Flank; Capture Prize City of Avranches

Six German Divisions Virtually Destroyed; Unable to Rally for Stand Against Americans.

Prize French City Taken as German Forces Flee    ar CICKr APPARENTLY OPEN   Highways Turned Inta Death Traps for Disor-. ; aanized Enemy

Prize French City Taken as German Forces Flee “al   (ROAD T   APPARENTLY OPEN   Highways Turned Into Death Traps for Disor-... ganized Enemy —

More Than 10,500 Nazis Taken in Week in France; Bitter Fight at Florence

Tanks, Infantry Smash Ahead on Normandy Front   Gain 18 Miles In Day's Drive

Brittany Peninsula Is Now Threatened   Late Communique Says Island Of German Resictance At Granville Being Monped Up

Western Flank Of German Line In Normandy Is Turned; ‘Avranches Falls To Yanks   Gaining Well Over 18 Miles In One Day, Doughboys Are Showing Enemy Sample Of American Lightning Warfare; Nazis Facing Debacle

Nazis Unable To Slow Pace Of Offensive   West Flank of German Line Turned by U. S. Tanks, Infantry; Planes Hit Retreating Forces

AVRANCHES IS CAPTURED IN 18-MILE GAIN   Port Cities Also Fall ~ As American Battle Units Roll Ahead /

Armored Dash Carries Yanks.  Off Peninsula   Nazi West_Coastal Anchor Unhinged by U. S. Force Sall Without Check

Tank Drive — Bursts Out Of Normandy   - Free To Strike Across Brittany Peninsula Ore Faet Toward Parig:   MANY NAZIS TRAPPED

a een rh iiehiehernenmennnmimeiahiiin,  STATE GUARD ASSIGNMENT FOR CAPT. DON CALDWELI

Strikes Between Metz And Nancy, Captures Four Villages and: Advances One Mile

4. Villages  Are Seized. With Gains Up To Mile   Germans’ Wrecking Bridges On Meuse.

rive Opened etween Met nd Nancy   Yanks Attack On A 25-Mile Front; Improve Line

YANKS LAUNCH METZ OFFENSIVE   Four Villages Seized In Light Fighting

THIRD ARMY MEN SURGE FORWARD IN METZ AREAS   Doughboys Of First Army Battle Germans In Vossenack ~~ Bloody Fighting In Hurtgen Forest.

SEINFORCED IAZIS STAGE ITTER FIGHT   ‘ird Army Substantially improves Line Between  Nancy and Metz, Dis - patches Declare   ROSS SEILLE RIVER

3rd Army Charges On Front Between Metz and Nancy   First Army Battles Strongly Reinforced Nazis At Vossenack Where Counterattacks Broken

3rd Army Troops  Lash Out   Advance On 25-Mile Front Between Metz And Nancy; Hurtgen Forest Battle Rages

Yankees Score Advances Alona }-Mile Front   U. S. Army Troops Open Offensive Aaainst Germans

Third Army Pushes Ahead Near Metz   Retreating Nazis In Holland Wreck All Bridges

Third Troops Charge Ahead  On Wide Front   Seize Four Villages Between Metz, Nancy; Score Mile Advanca   RESISTANCE LIGHT

BITTER LEYTE FIGHT SLOWS UP YANKS   Berlin Expects New Large Seale Russian Attack dn Polend

—WEST FRONT—  FOUR TOWNS BRE TAKEN BY YANKS   U.S. Third Army Pushes Ahead On 25-Mile Front  Near Metz

First Army Troops Fight  In Vossenack  & US Holds Half : Of The Village

Third Army In Assault Near Metz, Nancy  Ads amaase tin TT. A   Advances Up To A Mile Scored By American Forces

First Launches Dawn Offense Near Metz. Nanc\   Retreating Germans Wreck Bridges Between Sea and Hedel.

U.S. Troops Charge on Wide Front   Doughboys Advance, Capture Four Villages in Fight

Third Army Attacks On 25-Mi. Front Advanees   First Continues Battle With Nazis  In Vossenack; Forest Battle Raging

Yanks Open Drive on 25 Mile Front   Seize Four  Villages and Score Gains Up toa Mile

3rd Army Hits Nazi Line to Gain a Mile   To North Terrific Battle Is Raging in Vossenack Area

Patton’s Army Opens Drive On 25-Mile Front   Seize Four Villages aud Score Advances Up to Mile Between Motz. and Naney

Doughboys Battle Reinforced Germans In Vossenack & Bloody Fighting Continues in Hiurtgen Forest Area.

International Police Force Idea ‘[s Abandoned for Separate Units

WORLD POLICE IDEA DISCARDED   Plan For Using Foree To Maintain Peace Not Abandoned

U.S. Diseards Idea of One Police Force  For World   Experts Now Planning In Terms of Separate _ National Forces,  State Department Says   AIM IS TO MAINTAIN PERMANENT PEACE   Department Plans To Offer Proposals ‘To Other Big Allies

U. S. Diseard: Plans for World Police   Separate National Forces Proposal  Gets Experts Study

a I re   U.S. Discards World Police Idea  tn Honce idea  Experts Now Planning In Terms Of Separate Force:

SINGLE WORLD POLICE FORCE PLAN DROPPED   State Department Experts Find Proposals Impractical

U.S. Rejects Proposal for Single  ~ World Police Force to Keep Peace

U. S. Discards World Police Idea OE EE  Experts Now Planning In Terms Of Separate Forces

¢iope Big Nations Armies May Stave Off New Wars   New Proposals of Foreign Policy Experts to Go to Senate

Joint World Police Force  Plan Ditched   Peace Will Be Maintained By Force, ‘But Armies SST “Bic: Rewer:

Free College  Training Set  For Boys of 17   Roosevelt Urges All To Take Up Offer

Allies Plunge Closer To Big Fortress City   Yankees Now Within 1 1-2 Miles From Town; Seizure Is Imminent   Fort Is Lost

Three More Forts Seized, Pulling Fangs’ of Driant   Russians Continue Advance in Hungary  As Nazis Withdraw

BATTLE FOR SEVASTOPOL NEAR CLIMAX   Soviets Step Up Assault From NewlyCaptured Heights

CHANNEL COAST AGAIN BLASTED. BY AIR ARMADA   Bomb Offensive May Equal 3,090-Plane Raids of Recent Weeks

‘Allied Bombs Pound France   Other Formations Over  Channel on Night Raid

PLANES MAY TOP 3.000   Daylight Smash Follows Night Raid on Reich by R. A, F.

A OF PLANES MAY TOP 3000   Daylight Smash Follows Night Raid on Reich by R. A. F,

Allied Bombers Keen Pounsing At Nani Base:   Northern France And Westy ern Germany Undergo New Air Assaults   NIGHT AND DAY RAIDS CONTINUE

DAYLIGHT BLOW FOLLOWS NEW NIGHT ASSAULT   American Warplanes  Alsc Carry Out Devastating Attack Near Rome

Planes Collide In Air Killing Three   Shoe Store Manager Among Reported Dead

6th War Loan In Home Stretch Bond Sales Reach Total Of $1,207,151, Pass Half Quota

FUND MOUNTS TO $2,678,510   Bond Sale $755,510 ‘Over County Quota

Bond Total At $2,582,422   QUOTA PASSED BY $659,422; DRIVE TO END TUESDAY NIGHT

HALF OF BOND SALE QUOTA SIGHTED HERE   Total Reaches $1,034,031 With Large Report For Friday

ONLY $100,000 SHY OF QUOTA   County Bond Purchases Reaeh $2,207,033

Fourth Bond Sale Passes $2.000,00C   Greene Co. Now $121,229 Over Original Goal  In Drive

BOND PURCHASE TOTAL MOUNTS   County Sales Now Above $2,400,000, Report

‘BOND PURCHASE TOTAL GROWING   Field Man Credits Large Sum To County

SILVER WEDDING ECHO OF LAST WAR      Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Kromendyk Wed When He Re turned From France

Two Jewish Prisoners Confess They Killed Lord Moyne, British Envoy

German Lines Crumple Suddenly  U.S. Army Tanks Sweep Forward; Take 5 Towns; Greatest Air Assault Yet

DOUGHBOYS GAIN NEARLY A MILE IN HURTGEN FOREST   THIRD ARMY WINS SOLID HOLDS IN FORT DRIANT AREA

U. S. Forces Sweep Forward Three Miles, Take  Five Towns   NEW DRIVE IN SOUTH   Forty-Mile Front Flames as Yanks Hit Siegfried Line

TE ESE Ea RULE £  5 Towns Captured As First Army Sweeps ~ Deeper Into Reich   Lt. Gen. Hodges’ Men Driving Toward Rhine With Armor Fanning Out In Sweeping Moves; Fierce Battle Rages In Forest

Enemy Defenses Fold and Permit U. S. First Army To Advance Three Miles

THREE 10 SIX MILE GAINS ARE MADE   Five Villages In Germany Are Captured   Established Over Leopold Canal By Allies: Fort Driant Fight Goes On

First Army Tanks And Infantry Advance Three Points And Seize Five Towns While Other Units Surge Through Forest Below Aachen Despite Antitank Traps

Five Towns Seized hy U.S. Forces   Sudden Breakthru’ ' Comes After Day of Bitter Fight ing: Yanks Fanning Out   GAINS MADE ON... 40-MILE.-FRONT   New Drive Below Aachen Through Forest; Patton’s  Forces Gain in Savage’ Rattlo

Yanks Smash Rapidly Into Reich   Nazi Forces Retreat North of Aachen; Hodge’s Army Rushes Forward; Second Group Also Makes Good Gains in New Sector Toward South

NAZI DEFENSES NORTH AACHEN CRUMBLE UNDER NEW ATTACK BY AMERICAN INFANTRY-TANKS 

U.S. First Army Sweeps Ahead, Capturing Five  German Towns   Breakthrough, Not Enemy Withdrawal, Allied  Officer Asserts

Break Is Sudden; Yanks Surge Six Miles Into Reich   Capture Five German Towns in ThreeMile Advance Which Staff Officer. Says Definitely Is a Break-Through and Not Enemy Withdrawal—Simultaneously, Other Doughboys Strike Below Aachen and Fighting Flares on 40-Mile Front.  as

Yanks Break Enemy. Lines Near Aachen      U. 5. Offensive” Moves Forward: On 40-Mile. Fron?

GERMAN LINES ARE CRUMPLING   Tanks and Infantry Sweep Forward 3 Miles North. . Of Aachen. ?   NEW PUSH BELOW CITY

U. 5, FIRST ARMY TANKS AND INFANTRY IN FORWARD SWEEP  ANOTHER AMERICAN OF. FENSIVE SURGES AHEAD SOUTH OF AACHEN ©

Nazi Lines Crumple North of Aachen as Americans Sweep Forward for 3 Miles

Yanks Plunging Forward After Refreating Foe  No Indication Ahead   No Indication Ahead Of Time That Enemy Planned Withdrawal; Luftwaffe Active

stand-orDie Defense Folds   Breakthrough Sends U.S. Invaders Si» Miles Inside Reich; New Front Also Opened South of Main Battle Sector

U.S. Tanks And Infantry Surge Ahead   Break-Through By First Army Engulfs 5 Towns;  New Hole In Line South oy A ark Alen

New American Offensive Hits Siegfried Line   Savage Fighting In 6-Day Battle For Fort Driant

17 Killer Wien Passenger Th ain Strikes Another  to 45 Injured in Ra ibrone _ Saat at tation

12 PASSENGERS DIE IN TRAIN COLLISION   Between 40 And 50 Others Injured In Accident At Novice,  Texas Thursdar

eS ee ee  12 Are Killed In Rail Wreek   Sartte Fe “Frains Crash Ar Taxae Stattan

TWELVE DIE AS TRAINS COLLIDE   Passenger Crashes Into Rear Of Another; Many Critically Hurt

Yanks Capture 12th Century Moated Chateau   Had Been Converted Into: Military Fortress: Some Nazis Taken

Senate Committee Reports Nation Has Two New Navy Fighting Planes, Army Light Bomber of High Quality

‘STH ARMY HEAVILY SHELLED BY NAZIS   GERMAN DEFENSIVE - STEPS INDICATE THEY INTEND: -©0 FIGHT FOR BOLOGNA.

Germans Plant Mines, String Wire In Effort To Hold Bologna Sector

MUD GUMS UP FIGHT IN ITALY   German Artillery Adds To Misery Of Allied Fifth Army

Senate Group, Hull Agree on Peace Setup   Plan Calls for Creation Of International Body As Directing Group  Built Around Big Four

DRAWN BY UNIT   Senate. Liaison Committee Reported in Accord With Hull

Senate Liason Group Completes Plans for Peace   World Council Idea Viewed Favorably

ACCORD REPORTED ON PEACE PROGRAM      Senate Committee and Secretary Huil Reach Understanding

U.S. Peace Plan Is Worked Out   Secretary Hull And Senate Liaison Committee Aaree

Senate Peace —  Study Stallec   “Escape Clause’ for Treaty Bare Fell Aonnwt

PLAN OF POSTWAR PEACE SETUP IS ~ BIEN APPROVAL   Hult and Senate Group Is Re: ported In Harmony. Over International Council to Solve Points -™   FOUR ALLIED NATIONS” PRINCIPAL MEMBERS   Other. Countries Have Places In Organization, Courts Are Planned to Assure Justice.

MRS. PALMER DIES AT SON'S HOME.   Death Claims Doxiey, Woman After Several - Weeks’ Illness...

MRS. PALMER DIES AT SON'S ROME   Death Claims Doxiey Woman After Several Weeks’ lllness

Sie  Geen NeWo AN EINE         10 Killed in Bomber Crash in Florida

land Presents __ Argument for — Draft of Labor   Decline in Construction Of Ships Cited as Loaical Reason

Ship Building Drop Bewailed   Adm, Land Urges Serviee Bill as Answer

STALIN FORCED AGREEMENT ON SECOND FRONT   Shortage Of Equipment Delayed Invasion So  Long, F. D. Says

GIVEN 10 RED RULER   Stalin Brings Ahout Agreement With His Allies

STALIN AIDED IN PLANS FOR INVASION   Brot Amer. and Brit. Views Into Agreement

Allied Bombers Blasting Nazis’ Western Sector   France, Holland, Western Germany and Italy Feel Latest Air Blows.

POLISH LEADER, SOVIETS AGREE   Coalition Government Will Take Over In Warsaw

Louis Buchalter Signs Statement of Political In-' trigue; Repercussions Promise Scandal

Lepke Squeal Is Reported; Dies Tonight   Newapaper Asserts Confession Involves 3 Political ‘Biggies’

Report Lepke Gives Statement Of Intrigue On Execution Eve ©   Condemned Chieftain Of Brooklyn’s Murder, Inc Said To Have Involved At Least Three Names Known Throughout America.

Lepke, Set To Die Tonight, “Sings” Scandal Story Involving lich Officials

MURDER, INC; GHEE BREWS NEW SCANDA   ‘Doomed Killer Names Three Nationally-Known- Men in Statement,

CLAIMED BUCHALTER SIGNS STATEMENT OF SENSATIONAL NATURE  AT LEAST THREE PERSONS  VPRAWAD TLHDATICUNAITr   AT LEAST THREE PERSONS KNOWN THROUGHOUT AMERICA SAID INVOLVED

Lepke May Escape Death in Chair Tonight -On Reported Politics-Crime Confesston'   Three Nationally Known Personages Involved in His Story

Lepke Names ‘Three in Big Political Plot   _ Execution Stay Appeal Denied By Circuit Court

EXPECT REPRIEVE FOR BUCHALTER      11th Hour Decision to Talk May Save Murder, Inc. Chief - from Sing Sing Chair

Political Plot Told By Lepke  Dien Ancennadl Dluwcctaw   Condemned Gangster ‘Blows Lid Off?

Sensational N. Y. Political Scandal Seen   Another Reprieve for Buchalter Rumored After Confession

Lepke Is Scheduled to Die Tonight; N.Y. —  Newspaper Tells Sensational Develonmen}

New York Paper Hints at Scandal  Buchalter Said to Have Made Statement

Sixth Reprieve Seen for Leader Of Murder, Inc.   Louis Buchalter . ‘Sings’ About ‘Three National Figures -

Hint Lepke May Receive _ New Reprieve   Murder Chieftain Report ed to Have ‘Sung’ Nam_ ing National Figures  

SIXTH REPRIEVE SEEN FOR LEPKE   Silent On Report Of Sen~~ sational Disclosures By  Murder, Inc., Chief

His Appeal Denied, Lepke Will Keep Date with Death   On Eve of Execution  Slayer Reportedly “Sings’’ on Nationally  Known Figures

BUCHALTER MAY EXPOSE SCANDAL   Sensational Story Involves Three Known Throughout America   TELLS OF INTRIGUE

Paper Claims Lepke ‘Sang’ On Notable:   NEW YORK (AP) — The United States circuit court of appeals Thursday denied an appeal from a decision denying a writ of habeas corpus to Louis (Lepke) Buchalter,

INVOLVES WELL KNOWN NAMES   New York News Reports Scandal To Be Sensational

CONFESSION MAY STAY EXECUTION   Murder, Inc. Chief Said To Have Squealed on Aecomplices

NAT'L FIGURES IMPLICATED BY DOOMED KILLER   May Gain Reprieve For Lepke

Lepke Story May Unleash Scandal  Three Nationally Known Figures Involved

Dewey Is Silent On Lepke Story   New York Governor Declines to Affirm  - or Deny Report Printed That Con demned Man Had “Sung,” Involv‘ing Nationally Known Figures.  SIXTH REPRIEVE LIKELY      SIXTH REPRIEVE LIKELY

Louis Lepke In Story Of Crimes   POLITICAL SCHEMES ARE BARED BY NOTED KILLER _.

CLAIMED BUCHALTER SIGNS STATEMENT OF SENSATIONAL, NATUR   AT LEAST THREE PERSONS KNOWN THROUGHOUT AMERICA SAID INVOLVED

6th Reprieve Is Indicated   Buchalter May Have Implicated High Ups

Air Offensive Against Nazis  In Tenth Day   Brunswick Area Of Ger. many Target For U. S. Air Raids Today   RAIL LINES ARE BOMBERS’ GOAL

* NO BOMBERS LOST IN DAYLIGHT RAID ON “INDUS TRIAL TARGETS IN BRUNSWICK AREA AS ALLIES CONTINUE OFFENSIVE TO GAIN AIR 8U! PERIORITY AND SOFTEN. UP: GER"- MANY FOR THE INVASION © —   Ry INTERNATIONAL NIEWS SERVICE

PLAN OF PARITY PAYMENTS 18 OPPOSED: BY. ROOSEVELT   RECOMMENDS ‘PARITY SYSTEM BE ELIMINATED AND SOIL CONSERVATION COST — ‘. REDUCED

END PARITY PAY TO U.S, FARMERS FOR’S PROPOSAL   Executive Asks Support o Subsidy Program to Support Prices

YANKS NEARING BIAK AIRDROME   Advancing Units Supported  By Bombing Attacks

YANKS ONLY 7 MILES FROM MOKMER AIRPORT   Advance Half a Mile Along Jap-Held Ridves ‘

AMERICANS GAIN IN BIAK ISLE BATTLE   One Column Moves To Within Mile and A Half of Airfield

OBSERVE 29th ANNIVERSARY — OF MARRIAGE      Rev. and Mrs. I E. P. Daniels Have Two Daughters, One Son

Early Elimination of Luftwaffe Is Promised by Gen. Arnold; Says German: ‘Facing Certain Defeat, May Give Up   ‘Moscow indicates Poland's Claims ‘To Land East of Bug River Will Not Be Recoanized by Soviet Union

Nazis Face Ait Disaster.   Luftwaffe’s Doom Certain, Gen. Arnold Assures Nation

ride Gen Arnold ays      BLASTING O FINVASION PATH IS GOING AHEAD” . 552 VEGOROUSLY. oe  aie

Crushing Aerial Moves Promised By Gen. Amold   U.S. Army Air  Chief Makes 54 Pane Report

Luftwaffe on Way Out, Arnold Says in Report   Ar Force Chief Promises to Destro} Jap Industry From Bases in China

Arnold  Sees Air Victory   SKY CHIEF SAYS WIN BY FLIERS WILL BE “WAR TURNING POINT”

Gen. Arnold Sees Air Supremacy For Allied Fliers   Destruction of Jap Industry, Shipping Promised

Cotton Smith, Hattie Caraway Are Defeated   Mrs. Caraway Runs Fourth in Arkansas; Only Woman in Senate

German Transport Lines in Italy Hit By Allied Fliers   Airmen Support Ground Troops in Efforts te Isolate Gustav Line Delenders

Allied Warplanes Meet Resistance On Italian Front   Bombers Forcing Enemy To Draw Assistance

PO VALLEY RAIL YARDS ARE RAIDED   Allied Airmen Strike Heavily To Support Drive

TTALY BASED ALLIED WARPLANES BLASTING NAZI SUPPLY LINES  CONTINUES UNABATED AID CIIDDNADT END ITATIALY

Allied Planes Support Armies Aaainst Gustav   Both Long And Short Range Blows Loosed Aaainst The Enemy

Meet Only Slight Nazi Resistance   PORT OF NETTUNO WAS TAKE} INTACT BY NEW INVASION FORCES; EIGHT MILES FROM APPIAN ROAD

Threat Against 100,000 Germa On Old Battlefront Along Ga iglianc Is Developing—Nettw Overrun   [FRENCH INVASION COAST IS POUNDS

TERRIFIC ACRIAL FIG WAGED OVER GAPITAL   One of Largest Air Armadas of War Also  Drop 350,000 Incendiary Packets  omumemeamn, «caseemere   NAZI AGENCY ADMIT HEAVY ATTACK   ‘Second Smashing Daylight Blow Delivered Today— Great City Stunned

VITAL TARGETS CUTTED DURING YANK ASSAULT   Blow Touches Off Vast Air Battles; RAF Smashes LeMans Railways

Nazis May Fight Into 45, Churchill Warns   British Chief Curbs Over-Optimism But Hails Series of Allied Victories

Churchill Says Desperate Germans May Flee, Fight As Guerrillas After War

Alvah Knowlton ‘Claimed By Death   Among First Settlers In Fredonia Township

WPB Speed Plans for  Reconversion   Showdown Near Between Nelson, Military Chiefs

Carentan Falls After Bitter Fighting: Allies Gaining On All Fronts

Yanks Make Big News In France Today As They Storm German Defense Hinge Close To Cher bourg.

TWO KILLERS GO TO CHAIR AT SING SINC   Report Gang Leade: ‘Squeals’ Upon Other Thugs

Trio Get Two Days To ‘Sing’   Dewey Postpones “Until Later In Week’ Pending Supreme Court Ruling.

Bride-To-Be Hurt  In Auto Accident   Marriage of Miss Mary M Perry, Charles Town, W. ; ¥Va., Postponed

WPB Increases Quota Of Farm Machine Plants   Impossible To Meet Crop Goals

Farm Machinery Quota Is Boosted   WPB Increases Manufacture Where Plants Can Stand the Load.

BOOST QUOTAS OF FARM MACHINERY   WPB MOVES TO STEP UP MANUFACTURE OF NEEDED EQUIPMENT

REQUEST SENT 10 EXTEN. SER. OFFICIALS   Humboldt County Farm Bureau Office Made Request

DEWEY IS FAR AHEAD IN POLL   66° Of Delegates To Last Convention Favor Governor

POLL REVEALS ~ DEWEY LEADS   ue YORK GOVERNOR’ FAR AHEAD OF RIVALS IN UN-- OFFICIAL VOTE: BY ‘ DELEGATES

Jap Hunting In Pacific Gets Thinner Seaman On Leave Says Navy Power Beyond Imaaination

Jap Hunting In Pacific Gets Thianer     'Seaman On T AOLETD Says Navy  Rigs Witt Z/UUWUU Lo Za oa  \Power Beyond Imag ination

British Foreign Minister I: Reported Enroute to Quebec For Talks

Whistler Etchings--For 20 Cents   Famed Artist Couldn't Resist Drawing in Animal:

i AL Started With Those Etchings--                          Othman Makes Hi: Peace With U.S. Geodetic Dept.

Dewey Plans Tour To West Coast   Campaign Program Revealed by Senator

Willkie Asks G. O..P. Help for Parley   POSTWAR. SECURITY CONFERENCE PLANS CO-OPERATION SOUGHT

ESSAOGINATION IN “WICHY STIRS PEOPLE   Inspires New Wave of Desertions By Provincial . . Officials.

Killing of Philippe Henriot Also Stirs New Terror Among. Those Unable to Leave

New Terror In Vichy France   Assassination Of  Henriot Brings Resignations From Vichy Officials,

Japanese Steel Center of Anshan Is Blotched with Blackened Ruins by B-29’'s

Giant Planes Fly On Longest Raid   Bombs Hurled on Iron Factories In Area Where Japan Started Its Path of Conguest

Biast Steel Works in Manchuria   Leave Anshan, Near Muk den, a Heap of Blackened Ruins Today

CENTER Al ANSHAN HIT   Raid Acknowledged By Tokyo, Claim One Of Big Forts Shot Down—Ashan Is Great Industrig] Cite   DETAILS OF RAID NOT MADE PUBLIC

Mighty Bombers Pound Japanese Puppet State   Hurl Explosives On Area Studded  With Ammunition Industries

Giants Strike Mighty Blow at Asia's War-Nes!   Powerful Force Hits Anshan in First Daylight Raid

Prosecution’s Dismissal Move Denied in Dorsey Case  Noncommittal Sailor Witness Confuses TDefense Attorney with Vague.

Admiral Mitscher Says Losses Rate It Fifth   Yank Soldiers Push 5 Miles West Froth -Carigara; Planes Sink 2 Enemy Transports

BEST JAP PILOTS  BATTLE TO SAVE  FORCES ON LEYTE MAC ARTHUR MISSES  DEATH BY INCHES FROM AIR ATTACK

Eight-Hour Air Battle Fought Above Ormoe Reseue Convoy   Gen, MacArthur Escapes Death from Jap Bullet bv Inches

FIRST ENEMY CAPITAL FALLS TO ALLIES  Conquerors Of Rome Hailed By Italians As Liberators

New Phase in Life of Rome Begins With Allied Capture of Holy City

Rome First Capital Freed of Axis Price of Its Liberation Was Hich

HAMILTON CO, VOTE RECOUNT ORDERED   Tom Herbert Posts Bond $7,700 For Cost

U. 5. PLANES IN TRIPLE BLOW ON FRANCE   Blast Military Targets at Nancy, Metz and Dijon

10-Day Seasor For Pheasants In This County   Longest Season For State In History; Best Quail Prospects os

New Nazi Fifth Panzer Army Is Pitted Against Hodges’ Troops   Southern Wing of U.S. Ist Army Opens Offen sive   Mysterious Silvery Ralls Over Germany

BLACKBURN ANNOUNCES SUCCESS   Series E Bond Quota Is Also Passed in Drive

Attorney Asks Decision Rehearing In Newton Trial   Conviction Reversed As Court Admits Improper Testimony

KILL SALES TAX EFFORT FAILS   Proponents Blame Hummel’s Delay For Failure

Hummel Blamed for Blocking Vote On ‘Kill-the-Sales-Tax’ Movement

FAILS ON SALES TAX; THREAT PASSES   Group Blames Hummel For Inability To Put Issue On Ballot

Home State Asks Public Acceptance   Platform Drafters Still Hard at Work; Hoover Set to Speak

Gov. Warren Boomed For Second Place   Hoover to Speak Before Convention At Night Session

WarrenLooms As Gov. Dewey Running Mate   Bricker Forces Declare . Some Delegates Don’t ~ Like Pressure Tac tics For Dewey

CALIFORNIAN IS RATED HIGH FOR 2ND PLACE   Martin Opens Session Hoover and Luce On Program

GOP MAY DECIDE RUNNING MATE CHOICE TODAY   Ex-President Herbert Hoover to Speak at Republican Meet Tonight

Warren May 'Be Second on  IGOP Ticket   Members of California Delegation Urged Governo) To Accept If Chosen

Cal. Delegation . Urges Warren For Vice-Pres   Want Him To Team With Dewey Despite Protest; Hoover Talks Tonight

Warren Urged To Be Dewey’s Running Mate   Platform About Completed; Martin Assumes Permanent Chairmanship.

TRY TO FORGE WARREN TO RUN   Pressure Brought To Bear On Californian To Take Vice-Presidential Nomination; Hoover Speaks Tonight.

Warren Is Beseeched To Run With Gov. Dewey   California Delegation To G.0.P. Convention Meets With State’s Executive To Urge Him

Fleet Tossed By A Typhoon  Operation Performed While Carrier Rocks

Hopi Indian Arrested Fo Trespassing   Charged With Having - 167 Too Many Sheep

Dewey Asserts Govt. Fears New Depression   Says New Dealers ® Afraid to Let Men Out of Army

Dewey Opens Campaign by Declaring New Deal Administration Is Afraid to Let Men Out of the Army

GOV. DEWEY T0 SPEAK TONIGHT IN LOUISVILLE      Formally Opens Campaign Fo President Last Night In : Philadelphia

Dewey To Give Views On Preventing Future Wars;  Hit FDR At Philadelphia

‘Dewey To Outline Views On Preventing Future Wars   Tells Philadelphia Audience New Deal Has Fear Of Return To Peace Period

GOV. DEWEY'S OPENING TALK ON ODD THEME:   Says New Deal Afraid to Let Men Out of Army

Job Problem Stumps New Deal — Dewey   GOP Candidate Speaks In Louisville Tonight At 8:30.

Roosevelt Administration Incompetent to Handle Reconversion, Dewey Charges in First Major Talk   Willkie Accuses GOP, Democratic Platform Writers of Cowardice

‘Dewey ‘Brands New Dealers As Being Tired, Quarrelsome And Utterly Incompetent

DEWEY OPENS CAMPAIGN IN PHILADELPHIA   Republican Presidential Nominee Scores Post-war Views of Administration.

Dewey Says New Deal Is ‘Afraid’   Declares He Is  Sure of the Future of America~ Immediate or Distan:

DEWEY CHARGES © FDR “AFRAID” T0 REDUCE ARMY   Says New Deal Will Not Release Youths

MOSQUITOS HIT BERLIN   Beaufighters Blasting Helixoland  Meet. Antiaircralt Fire

REPORT PAVLOVICH KILLED IN ACTION   Death Occurred on Bougainville Mareh 19, Says War Office.

American Forces Making Progress InLa Haye Area   Within Mile Of Important Normandy Road Center —Resistance Heavy   BATTLING SEVERE IN CAEN SECTOR

STREET FIGHTING REPORTED AFTER SWIFT U.S, GAIN   Stiff Nazi Resistance Meets Allies on West Side of Peninsula

King Appoints Archbishop As Greek Regent   Archbishop) Damaskinos Of Athens To ‘Restore Order’  In Creece.   ELAS ASKS TRUCE

Damaskinos Appointed Greek Regent   King Reluctantly Yields to Blunt British Demand

Archbishop Named Regent  For Greece   King Appears to Hav Been Persuaded by Churchill and Eden

Greek King Yields, Sets Up Regency For Nation   Bows To British Demand And Names Ailing Archbishop

KING RETIRES IN FAVOR OF GREEK REGENT   Archbishop of Athens To Try to Settle Bloody Dispute

Regen t For Greece Is famed       Step Regarded  As King George Wf Relinquishing Right To Throne

ARCHBISHOP 1S NAMED REGENT   King’s Action Hints He May Give Up Greek Throne

Regent Heads Greek People   Damaskinos. Is Chosen ‘To Form Government

King Appoints Archbishop Regent of Greece Step Tantamount  — to Giving In Hie Throne

Greek King Names Damaskinos of Athens as Regent   Takes Step Generally Known Tantamount To Giving Up Throne

King Appoint: Archbishop Tc Greek Regency   Step Generally Regarded as Tantamount to Relinquishment of His  Throne

REGENT S NAMED BY GREEK KING   Archbishop Is Appointed Ruler Of Greece

Archbishop of Athens Named Greek Regent   King George Gives  Up Greek Throne by His Move to End Civil War, London Believes

REGENCY SET UP TO RULE GREECE: REINS TO PRELATE   Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens to Assume Duties Today—Stands Opposed to Dictatorship.   APPOINTED BY KING IN MOVE FOR PEACE   Action Regarded in London as Tatntamount to Ruler Giving Up Throne—New Cabinet to Be Formed.

King Appcints Archbishop Regent of Greece   Step Tantamount to Giving Up His Throne

Greek King Names DamaskinosRegent  'Report E. L. A. S. Sends . Message To Churchill

GREEK REGENCY IS ESTABLISHED   Archbishop Of Athens Wil Form New Government

DAMASKINOS IS NAMED REGENT BY CREEK KING   King Yields Reluctantly To Blunt Demand Of Great Britain

ELAS Reported ‘Willing, ' . To Stop War Under  “. New Caverenment .*

GREEK KING STEPS DOWN: NAMES REGENT   Move Made to Pacify All  Warring Factions

Troops Swarm Toward the Border of East 1 —Prucsig  —__   BIG BATTLE RAGES, BERLIN DECLARES   Nazis Hurl 16 New Divisions Into Defense of Homeland ©

Soviet Troops Storm Across Historic Narew Rive And Liberate Fifty Villages Near Southern Border Of German East Prussia

Nelson Role Post-China Is Obscure   PRESIDENT SAYS TOP OF WPE is STILL TOP; MAKES NO PROMISES FOR THE FUTURE.   Krug Has Blank Check

ROOSEVELT AaKa COOPERATION OF ALL AMERICANS   President, Ill Of Grippe, In New Year's Messaga  From White House   ;

STRIKES MAKE."95,381 IDLE   DETROIT INDUSTRIAL AREA ..PLAGUED BY EPIDEMIC OF  _ WALKOUTS AT WAR i.) UPLANTS

Slight Relief From Heat Wave  Expected Today   Needles, Cal, Reports 113 Sunday, Scattered Showers In Some Sections

LITTLE RELIEF FROM HEAT IN SIGHT   Needles, Cal., High Sunday With Temperature of 113

Fitzgerald Jury Tied Up   Foreman Reports It Appears Hopelessly Deadlocked

Fitzgerald's Jury Disagrees   Foreman Says ‘Badly Deadlocked’ Over Verdict

JURY STILL OUT IN PAYOFF CASE   Veniremen Deadlocked oat 8 To 4—Fitzgerald Stays In Courtroom

MRS. BUEL ULM, 72, . DIES AT RESIDENCE   WIFE OF JOURNAL PUBLISHER  WAS RESIDENT HERE FOR MANY YEARS

YOUTH 1S INJURED. — IN AUTO ACCIDENT   Robert Hurd Sustains Injuries When Hit. by Car

YOUTH IS INJURED. ~ IN AUTO ACCIDENT   monet Hurd Sustains In.  juries When Hit. by Car »

REPUBLICAN FARM EXPERTS MEETING   increased Farm Prodyetion And Decentralization Of Federal Contro] Amon« Pariv Planks

New Guinea Jap Bases Hammered   MacArthur’s Forces Seize Another ’Drome

Patton Is Moving Up From South   Nazi Losses Heavy On First and Third Army Fronts

NEW PRESSURE BUILT UP BY ALLIES TODAY   25 Mile Front Forged; New Push Made

Front Of 25 Miles Cut Out By U.S. Forces   Main Assault Against City Nears; Third Snaps Bulae

Doughboys Are Poised To Move Toward Rhine   Breakthrough to Indnstrial Reish Believed Near as Escape Gap to  Nazis Is Shut   Patton Scores In Nancy-Metz Fight   Snaps German Bulge in Sector Back Into Straight Line and Moves Into New Position

BUILD UP MORE PRESSURE FOR NEW OFFENSIVE   Germans Mount Savage - Counter-Attacks But Are Beaten Back

Pincers Snapped As Yanks Slice Way Into Reich   Frontier City Is Cut Off, Leaving Nazis Facing Withering Allied Fire

150 Heavy U. S. Bombers Blast Romanian Cities  LA adibarenmann Atr   Mediterranean Air “Offensive Against Germans Expanding

Big Scale Drive Opens In South   Five Key Romanian Centers Battered

Big Scale Drive Opens In South   Five Key Romanian  Centers Battered By NOLAND NORGAARD

Romania Gets Heavier Blow By Americans   ‘Round-the-Clock’ Armadas Smash 5 Rail Yards;

BOY SWALI WEN BY EARTH: FREEL   Near Town Piace Where Gir Killed in Similar Cave-ln

Northern Part Of Country Held In Winter’s Icy Grip   N. Y. State Storm Kills  Five, Freezing In South

ARE DEAD IN WINTER BLAST      Wind and Rain Lash Up - per New York State, Where Fatalities Occur  _—Northern Part of the U.S. Hit by Cold.

Winter Woes Widesoread   Five Beoths in, Upstate New York, No Relief ie Sight for Meany Sections

Most Of Nation Is In Grip Of Frigid Weather   New England Lashed By Damaging Gales; Frosty Even In Dixie.

In Grip Of Winter   Extreme Cold and Storms Cause Death And Damage in North And On Atlantic Coast

Ole’ Man Winter Arrives in U.S.   Freezing Conditions Extend Toward Gulf of Mexico

Bitter Cold in Northern Part of US  5 Storm Deaths In N. Y. State

Cold, Snow Hold Large PartOfU.S. In Their Grip   Eight Below In Iowa; 19 Inches Of Snow At Syracuse, N. Y.; Other Areas Also Covered

Cold Weather ‘Strikes North 'Area of U.S.   New England States Hit Hard; Middle West Section Coldest

JAP ATTACK REPULSED ON BOUGAINVILLE   1,200 Nips Killed In Suicidal Assaults On U. S. Positions

Americans Smash New Jap Attack   Kill 1200 Enemy Troops in Fight  On Bougainville; Expand Positions

Yanks Repulse Nip Counterblow In Close Battles   Only 123 U. S. Men Lost In Struggle; Planes Bomb Jap Bases

Heavy Jap Attack Stopped By Yanks      1200 Nips Slain In Six-Day Bougainville Fighting; Airmen Blast Enemy Bases

1,200 Japs Die In Attack on Bougainville   Enemy Defies Guns and Flame-Throwers in Fanatical Charge

3/th Division Kills 1,000 Japs; Mops Up On Bougainville   Wewak Bombed Fourth Straight Day By Yank Planes

Over 1200 Japanese Are Kiiled   Eneniy Troops Charge Fan atically Against Troops  on Bougainville

BOUGAINVILLE BEACHHEAD FIGHT HOT   Americans Kill More Than 1,200 Nips in 6 Days

WPB to Hold Back Broad Reconversior Plan Disclosure   Government Heads Claim Lack of Public War Consciousness

SUSPEND PLANS ON CONVERSIGN      ManPower Trouble, Shartages of War Goods Halts Post-War Talk

The Ranger and the Nurse , They Knew Love in Combat Zone Was Bad Gamble

hanger And Nurse ‘Just Belong Together But Gods Of War Enter. Rule Otheyinice

HIGH SCHOOL IS VERY BUSY PLAGE      Schedule Is Arranged Tc Avoid Keeping Anyone Waitine Long

Public Schools Preparing for School Opening Next Tuesday, September 5   Book Sales Planned,  Buildings Made Ready And Teachers Arriving

American Marauders And British Medium Bombers Cooperate With U. S. Heavies

First Yank Attack Since Regensburg   18th Operation Of Eighth Air Force During  Month

Sustained Air Blow Hits Nazis   HEAVY DAMAGE DONE TO GERMAN WAR PLANTS

U.S. Heavies Hit  ~ Northern France Resume Operations To End 2-Day Rest

British Score Major Victory Burma Front   644 Planes Downed in Week By Yank Fliers Pinch Hitler

Heavy And Medium Bombers Work On French Coast .   GERMAN AIR © POWER SHRINKS

Congress May Delay Closing   ‘Reconversion: Bills “Are Moving Slowly:

Surplus Supply Bill Jam Deters  Congress Recess   House Struggles With Measure

RECONVERGION HAS SOLONS STALLED   Plans for Vacation Fade as Legislation for War’s End Conflicts 7

Navy Destroys 53 Foe Ships In Jap W aters   Thirty-Three Others Damaged And 496 Planes Bagged In Raids

Methodical Destructior Of Jap War Plants Planned by Air Force  Army Leaders Hail Use of Superfortresses As Launching of New Type of Offensive to Hasten Pacific Victory

Nation's Holiday Deaths Reach 40   Traffic Crashes Kill 30; California Death Toll Tor

AUCIDENT TOLL LISTS 40 DEAD   20 Less Than National Safety Council Prediction

 The War Teday— ‘ pier anne One Of Biggest  Enemies Home Front Must Combat

aeume The War Today ——= Strong Home Front Needed  for [Invasion  RY DEWITT MACKENZIE

Today’s War Moves   Present Most Dangerous Time’ for U. S. on Home Front

PRE-INVASION TENSENESS BRINGS ALLIED HOME FRONT TO DANGEROUS MOMENTS WITH POSSIBLE SLOWING UP   . Too Much Optimism and Lack of Conservation of Gasoline and Other Supplies Could Hamper Success of This Greatest of All War Efforts

Ration Control Lifted On All Farm Machinery, Except Corn Pickers

Sec. Knox Predicts invasion of Jap Kurile Islands  Steady Bombings Give Hint of Attack Ru ll S Ienel Forrac

League O.K., Says Churchill   Prime Minister Says Work Achieved Shouldn't Be Lost

Knox Predicts  Kurile Invasion   Sees Invasion Of Chain Reaching North From Tan Homeland.

Raids On Bases Said To Point To Attacks   When Push To Come Not Known, Navy Head Asserts

Tnvasion  Of Kuriles Planned By U.S.. He Sav:   Knox Declares We Plan To Strike At Island Chain Near Jap Homeland

Knox Declares Kuriles Invasion May Be Expected   ‘Sometime, Sure, but Nobody Knows When,’ Secretary Says in Answer to Question

INVASION OF PARY OF KURILE ISLANDS MAY BE EXPECTED   Secretary of Navy Knox Made This Announcement Today.   \THE TIME IS NOT KNOWN   Among Bases Which Have Been Struck Recently Is Matsuwa.

NAVY SECRETAR\ INDICATES RAIDS ARE PRELUDES   Six To Ten Jap Barges Being Sunk In Pacific Daily

Kurile Chain Is Included In  Invasion Plans   blands North Of Japs’  Homeland Certain Tc Be Invaded, Reports Secretary Knox

Kurile Invasion Can Be Expected  va a, a Ta ee   Knox Says Attempt Will Be Made but Date Set Unknown

Invasion of Kuriles Seen   Secretary Knox Says Action Likely; Reveals North Pacific Plan

Knox Reveals Future Blows Upon Kuriles   Declines To Disclose  Date Of Coming Attack

Ruriles Will Be Invaded   That’s Promise of Knox But Just When Is Yet To Be Revealed

Kurile Island Invasion ByU.S.to beExpected   Some of Islands in Chain Less Than 500 Miles From Japanese Mainland; Other Island Bases Pounded Again.

INVASION OF KURLIE ISLE IS EXPECTED   Knox Says Group To Be Taken In  Near Future

NOTINE IGSET U.N  a a a a, So       American Bombing Raids OnJapaneselsland Chain Increased   AIR BASES RAIDED   Mountbatten Reports Successes. Ih Allied Drive Into Burma

Knox Says Jap Kurile Islands. To Be Invaded   Bombings of Chain Near  Jap Mainland Continues.

U. 5. Invasion Of Kuriles Is To Be Exnectec   U. S. to Attempt to Take Part of Island Group, Secretary Knox Intimates

Blow to Isle Chain Expected in Future, Navy Chief Revéals   Bases Between Japan and Aleutians Under Constant Attack by Bombers; Size of Defense Bulwark Unknown

Knox Anticipates Assault On Part Of Kurile Chain   Says Japs Trying To Get Supplies Into Isolated Bases In The Marshalls

NOBODY KNOWS WHEN IT WILL COME HE, SAYS   Jap Island Less Than 500 Miles from Mainland Has Been Bombed Often

Yanks Will Invede Kuriles, Knox Says   But Time for Blow Against Islands Near Japan [Is Uncertain

KNOX PREDICTS KURILE ISLAND INVASION SOON   Tells Reporters Americans Sure to Invade Chain Sometime

KNOX DECLARES U.S. TO INVADE KURILE ISLANDS   Chain Extending North From Japanese Homeland Will Be Taken Eventually

FRENCH UNDER GROUND STRIKE!   Starts Campaign of Assassi nation of Traitors With Phillippe Henriot, Vichy Official.

DEWEY'S CLAIMS   Increases Support for GOP Presidential Nomination to 209 Delegates; Delegates Not Bound by Convention

Dewey Increase: Lead with 41 Michigan Votes   Griswold Predicts Early Nomination

Dewey Delegate Total Now 209   G. O. P. Hope Is Far Ahead of Rivals

Dewey Gets 41 More Delegates In His Column   Convention Support Totals 209 as Native State Favors Him: Warren Not Candidate

ADDED SUPPORT IS GIVEN GOV. DEWEY      Michigan Republicazs in Convention Praise Native Son

209 DELEGATES SUPPORT DEWEY   New York Governor Has 175 More Than Nearest Opponent

209 Delegates Claimed for Dewey; Michigan’s 41 Votes Boosts Total

- BLOCKED BY UNIT ACTION   Other Officers Are  Obkehed; Capital  Hanvenings

Slap Delays Patton’s Promotion  Senators Favor Higher Ranks For 13 Others

BLOCK PROMOTION OF GEN. PATTON   SENATE GROUP SHELVES ADVANCEMENT OF OFFICER WHO SLAPPED SOLDIER.

Senate Group Blocks Patton Rise in Rank   13 Other Promotions Recommended: Two Incidents Are Cited Against Lieut. General

Court Employe Gladly Pays Tax Obligation:   Fayette City Woman Ex. plains Her Side Of  Americanism

Fayette City Woman Pays Income Tax Deductions At  \Her Job With Patriot View

Bridgehead Is Extended By Yanks, British   Push Four Miles Inland From Captured Nettuno

Fifth Army Takes Nettuno, — 30 Miles Below Eternal City   American, British Troops Extend Their Beachheads "Several Miles’

GERMAN'S ROUTED ~ BY GLARK’S ARM   NAZIS ABANDON DELAYING FIGHT AND FLEE. BEFons _ WALL OF ARMOR,

Allies Gain On 100 Mile Wide Front   Germans In Full Flight  Before Americans. On Westem. Coast  » OE Bealy-— -- ~-

ALLIES ROLL NORTHWARD GERMANS FLEE   Along 100 - Mile West Coastal Front in Italy; Reach within 20 Miles of Livorno.   225 Miles Away

CLARK'S ARMY CHASES ENEMY   Nazis On Italian Left Wing In Full Retreat

BATTERED AXIS TROOPS ON RUN   Allies Sweep Forward In Italy; Advance Nearing Pisa And Leghorn

TO WITHIN 27 MILES OF PISA   British Patrols Stab T Vicinity Of Magione On East Bank And Reach  Chiascio River Above  Perugia

Sees Development Of Robot Bombing   Stettinius Warns Efficient Peace Organization Is Only Safeguard

Robot Bombs Due For U. S. Unless  Peace Organized   In 10 to 12 Years Enemy Missiles Can Blast Us, Stettinius Warns.

Price Control, Pearl Harbor ~BillsUp Today   Court Martial Delay Seen: Fight Is Threatened ~ tie OPA Betenann

OPA Stirs Tempest In Congress   SENATOR BANKHEAD WOULD  TIE PRICE OF COTTON TO PRICES OF TEXTILES; VINSON OBIECTS.   Pearl Harbor Trials

NEW TAXES 60 INTO EFFECT   About Half of Levies Will Come Out of Nation's Spending Money

Secretary Hull Praises Stand On Foreign Affairs   Cabinet Member Gives  President Endorsement For Fourth Term

REPRESENTATIVE TO HEIP WITH INCOME BLANKS IN CENTRALIA AFTER FEB. 1ST

KANSAS HAS MORE AUTOS   Wore Licenses Issued Than a Ycar Ago In Spite of Gas Rations

MAYBACK UPTO BRENNER PASS AND PO VALLEY   Would Try to Regain Prestige by Leav- -. ing Holy City

Nation Receives Invasion Calmly   Citizens Join in United Prayer For Victory for Allied Arms

Nation Receives Invasion News Calmly In Prayer      Peace, Victory  Asked On D-Dav

INVASION NEWS TAKEN CALMLY BY AMERICANS   Few Demonstrations, But Thousands go to Churches to Pray:

‘Prayers Are Offered America Is Calm As Invasion News Reaches Country

America, Taking News Invasion Calmly, Turns To Its Altars of Faith

Battle Soon On Tax-Free Bond Issues   Test Case To Reach High Court; Fight Has Been Long

Gigantic Aerial beso Cripples      22 U. §. Bombers Missing in Raid

Soviels lake Height, Slay 600 Germans   Moscow Talks OF ‘Maior Operations

Soviets lake Height, Slay 600 Germans  Adan nanre,, Talbe frZ   Moscow Talks Of Maior Operations

Allied Forces Drive Ahead In Italy--Counter-Attacks Heavy   Hitler's Tottering Army In Rus sia Slapped By Red Troops

EIGHTH ARMY TWO MILES FROM CESENA   U. S. Spearhead Held to Virtual Standstill In Furious Battle South of Rolocna.

ALLIES PUSHING INTO PO VALLE}   Yank Spearhead’ Held To Standstill Near City Of Bologna

British Advance In Po Valley   Cesena, Road Junction  Town, Is Menaced

EIGHTH ARMY NEAR CESENA   Vanguards Are Reported Within 2 Miles Of  Road Junction

ALLIES ENCIRCLING JAP UNIT IN BURMA   British and Indian Troops Report. ed Forging Rings Around Force Estimated at 3,000.

American Federationist To Quote MacArthur in High Praise-of Labor

Anti-Aircraft Gunners and Fighter _ Pilots Gettine Range of “Buzz Bombs”

British Blast Robot Bombs From Skies   Fighters, Gunners, Get Range on Germans’ New Weapon

New Measures To Stop Nazi Robots Taken   Fighters Meet Nazi Planes As Gunners Shoot Them Out Of Sky.

Blast Robot Planes Out Of Sky As Gunners Get Range In Sixth Raid

Dozens of Robot Planes Knocked Out of the Skies   Snap-Shooting Anti-Aircraft Gunners and Fighter Pilots Appear to Be Getting Range on the New German Weapon.

ROBOT PLANES SHOT DOWN BY ANTI-AIRCGRAFT   Secret Measures Taken To Wipe Out Launchings

BLAST DOZENS OF NAZI ROBOT: OUT OF THE Sk’   Ack-Ack And ‘Fighter Planes Knock.Down. -.< Many Rockets. _

Fighter Planes Blast Robots Out of the Sky  Pen ue Wo. LL   Dozens Knocked Down as Allied Gunners Get Range

Flying Bombs Being Shot Down   Britain’s Defenders Are Getting Range

Getting Range On Buzz-Bomb   Allied Gunners Blast Dozens Out of Sky; “Blitz” Into 6th Day

GETTING RANGE ON NAZI PLANE   Gunners, Fighter Pilots Blast Dozens of Robot Planes Out of Sky.-

BRITAIN’S GUNS KNOCKING DOWN GERMAN ROBOTS   Flying Bombs Not So Effective After New Measures Taken to Combet Them

Robot Bombs Blasted Out Of the Sky   Fighters and Gunners Getting Range of Missiles

Allies Seem to be Getting Range of Nazis’ Buzz Bombs   Dozens of Pilotless Planes Shot Out of Air During Nicht

BLITZ BUZZ BOMBS   DOZENS OF HITLER'S NEW ROBOT PLANES EXPLODED IN AIR DURING FLIGHT

New Steps To Combat German Robots Mapped; Scores Shot © Down; Some Explode In Sky   Allies Appear To Be Getting Range Of Hitler's New “Buzz-Bomb” Blitz

GUNNERS BLAST NAZI ROBOTS   HEAVY BOMBERS AGAIN ATTACK LAUNCHING AREA

STILWELL MUTE ON CHINA QUERY   ‘Vinegar Joe’ Has High Praise For Yank Soldiers During First Interview

Stilwell Silent On His Remova!   Praises Training Of Service Men

Stilwell Silent On China Shift Praises Gls   The Washington Scene

Stilwell Quiet About His Recal  But Has High Praise for American Soldier

Hetusing to Discuss Recent Removal  Gen. Stilwell Praises U.S. Soldiers

Stilwell Silent on  Removal   General Gives High Praise to American Soldier in Interview

STILWELL LAUDS U.S. FIGHTERS   REFUSES TO DISCUSS SITUATION IN CHINA

“Vinegar Joe” Praises Gl’s.   Stilwell Refuses to Discuss China Affair In Press Interview

Gen. Stil well, Back In U. S..  Praises Troops   General. However, Refuses To Diseuss Removal From Command

Gen. Stilwell Lauds Yank:   Officer Submits to First Inter. view After Being Relieved of Duties in China

Bombs Smash 17 Rail Junctions In Invasion Area   Continuous Pounding Of Reich-Held Territory Grows So Intense Many British Think D-Day Is Already Under Way.

G. C. Morris Candidate For U. S. Congress   Greenville Man Seeks Election From 4th District

THEIR SECOND SON ON CASUALTY LIST   Mr. And Mrs. C. Edgar Lawyer Receive War Department Telegrams Less Than Three Months Apart

City Staggers Beneath 100th Aerial Attack   Bombers Lash at Hamburg To Decoy Nazi Planes rm. ae oe  bale

DOOMED CITY, HAMBURG NEW YEAR TARGETS   New Fires Are Added to Smoldering Flames; 28 Bombers Are Lost

Hamburghaid Used as Feit By British   100th Raid on Berlin Brings to 18,000 Tons 1943 Weight of Bombs  28 BOMBERS MISSING

ltaly-Based U. 5. Planes Raid Vienne   Port of Hamburg, Other West Germany Objectives Blasted

Heavy Bombers Hi Vienna, Silesia And West Hungary  Others From France Support Troops On Western Front

Italian Hills Scene Of Fresh Heavy Fighting   Pulverizing Raid Is Attempt To Blast Po Valley  Entrance.

Vienna Is Under Bombing Attack   British Bombed Hamburg Last Night; Nazi Railways Are Blasted.

Yank Bombers Hit Vienna Area   British Mosquitos Bomb Hamburg— 1,300 Sorties on Aachen

YANK BOMBERS HIT AT VIENNA AREA IN FORCE   German Silesia And Western Hungary Also Attacked By U. S. Planes

Captured Frositions Less Than 170 Miles From Rabaul.  WO CASTIALTIFS   NO CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED   1,500 Seabees Land in San Francisco for Furlough.

Ninth Army Gains Along Cologne Plain; 15 Miles From Rhineland Factories

Troops Strike To Take Back Lost Towns   Patton's Forces Mass Along Saar Valley For Attack

U. 5. STH ARMY ENTERS TOWN OF LINNICH   Other Forces Are Pounding  Toward Duren   STRASBOURG   Under Heavy German Fire; Savage Battle Rages Along Inde River

Nazis Fight to Hold Barriers To Rhineland   Americans Extend Front On Saar in — Plain Drive

Straighten Battle Lines   Allied Armies Drive Forward On Northern And Southern Ends Of:-Cologne Plain

Cities German Countercharges Seized Retaken by Gen. Simpson’s Army; Third Spreads Saar Front

DOUGHBOYS TAKE 9 - MILE SECTOR OF SAAR VALLEY   Ninth Army Reenters Twa Towns Lost in Nazi Counter - Blows

Flossdorf And Roerdorf Are In U.S. Hands   Both Lost ta Vicious Nazi Countercharges; First Gains Through Stiff Enemy Resistance   Rhineland Factory Cities Threaiened   Ninth Army Troops Battle to Within 15 Miles of Rheydt-Munchen Gladbach

WESTERN FRONT—  Yanks Move Back Into Two Towns Lost In Counter Attacks   Gen. Patton Masses Armor And Men Along 10-Mile Saar Valley Front; German Reinforcement Attempt Frustrated :

‘Third Masses On West Bank Of Saar River   Ninth Driving for Twin German Industrial. Cities on Cologne Plain

Arc of Battle on Cologne ah 15 Miles From Fwin Cities of Rhineland Area

Roer River Bastion Falls To Americans   Northern Arc Of Battle 15 Miles From Rhineland

Important Rhineland Factory Cities of Rhevdt and Munchen Gladbach Are 15 Miles Away.   PROGRESS MADE ON OTHER NAZI FRONTS

Northern Arc Of Roer Front Is Lengthened   Patton’s Third Army Tanks Mass Along Saar River Opposite Merzig; Doughboys In Eight Miles Of City Of Saarbrucken

Bitter Resistance Along West Front Is Combined With Mud and Rain To Slow Progress Of American Troops; Yanks Are Massex For Great Assaull

Nazis Yielding On River Line   Ninth Army 15 Miles From Twin Rhineland Production Centers

Rhine Factory Towns Aim in Cologne Battle   Yanks Chop Through Fierce Nazi Resistance to Recapture Key River Positions

Ninth Fights Into Linnch   Lengthen Front On Saar River; Patton Improves Position

Town of Linnich Is Penetrated by Ninth Army Men   Third Army Extends Front on Saar as Seventh Exploits Lorraine Caollanse

AMERICANS IN STEADY MARCH TO ROER RIVER   Germans Try To Reinforce Saar  Bridgehead

Shoved North Are of Colonge Plain Battle to Within 15 Miles of Twin Cities of Rhydt-Munchen, Gladbach.   FIRST ARMY CHOPPED ON TOWARD DURED   Third Army Tanks Lengthened the Saar River Front Opposite Merzig to Ten Miles.

British Reach Maas as Nazis Flee to North   Canadians Storm Last Pocket in Control of Estuary

Storm Last Enemy Hold On Antwerp   Sea Lanes Soon To Be Opened to Allied Cargo Ships

Allied Victory Nears on Lower Dutch Front   British Troops Smash Forward to Maas River

Hoards  of Nazis Routed   Complete Victory in Holland Shaped Up as British Reach Maas

GERMANS RACE TOWARD LAST ESCAPE BRIDGE   Canadian Units On Walcheren

CHIANG AND WIFE SAID ~ TO HAVE SEPARATED   London Paper Reports Open Break Between Couple—Mrs. Chiang May Live in U. 8S.

‘London Paper Reporls General Chiang Kai-Shek ‘And Wife Have Senarafed

Nip Production Center of Omura Bombed Again   Raid Comes Only 24 Hours After B-29's Hit Kokuki Plant

Superforts From China Strike At Omura Industries   50 Jap Planes Attack B-29s Over Nagoya Without Success

BiG BEMBERS SMASH TARGETS   China - Bused Superforts Rejoin Mounting Aerial Offensive Against dap Homeland — Industrial Tar gets Being Hit.

B-29s Strike Jap Homeland From China   Medium Force Of Superfortresses Bombs War Plant Center Of Omura.

China-Based ‘B-29’s Pound Omura Plants   Raid Hits in Wake Of Heavy Assault On Navova Tarcets

Japan Again Hit by B-29 Bomb Blast   War Production Center of Omura Target—Japs Say ‘‘Slight’’ Damage

Raid Comes 24 Hours After Other B-29s From Saipan Kindled Big Fires At Nagoya Visible For Seventy Miles   SUPERFORTS OVER TWO OTHER AREA‘

OMURA RAIDED BY B-298, JAP RADIO REVEALS   @ Superforts Krom China Bomb War Center Fourth Time

Americans Land Upon  New Guines   60,000 Japanese  Face Annihilation

Nips Stretching From New Guinea To Solomons Bases Are Neutralized

Nips Caught ™“ Off Base ‘By: U.S. Strategy   Last of Once Dangero Invasion  Forces, N Entrapped a

U, S. UNITS LAND AT HOLLANDIA, AITAPE APRIL 22   Gen. MacArthur Goes in With Troops on Both Waves; Threatens Philippines

Beachheads Established At Hollandia, Aitape   Thousands Of Yanks Land Under Naval, Air Blasting; MacArthur Present

BEACHHEADS AT HOLLANDIA AND AITAPE SECURE   MacArthur Witnesses Successful Invasion On Strategic North Coast Of New Guinea; Termed ‘Bataan In Reverse”

[Isolate 60,000 Japs; Arthur Goes Ashore in Second Wave   ‘Bataan in Reverse’ Says General: Opposition Light

60,000 MORE JAPS AWAIT DESTRUCTION   Hollandia, Aitape Invasion Follows Heavy Naval. Air Bombardment

Yanks Trap Jap Force. ~~ of 60,000   New Drive on. New Guinea a Bataan Situation in Reverse, MacArthur Says   BIG FORCE DOOMED : TO ANNIHILATION   Weak. Resistance to Big Operation, But It Will Take ‘Time to Crush: Enemy

Landing Seals Fate of Sixty Thousand Jans   MacArthur Establishes Beachheads Saturday at Hollendia, Aitape

Annihilation Js Under Way At Hollandia   140,000 Enemy Troops Isolated By U.S. Landing

Airstrips Seized At Aitape   Beachheads, Airfield Established 1,000 Miles From Philippines

Fresh Landings Made By Yanks On New Guines   MacArthur Watches Move Effected Under Cover Of Naval And Air Forces

Japs Caught Off Base By Allies; Resistance Weak   ‘It's Bataan In Reverse’ Says MacArthur; Beachheads At Hollandia, Aitape   YANKS DIG IN FOR JAP ATTACKS   New Airbases Put Philippines Within Raid Distance; Stubborn Stand Due Later

60,000 Enemy Trapped in New Guinea Offensive   Two Beachheads Are Established In Daring Attack

t Hollandia  rf Venture Is Successful   Beachheads Are Established At Vital Sectors

Allied Attack Isolates 60,000 Japs   New Beachheads Are Established at Hollandia, Aitape

Troops Move In Under Cover Of Naval Blastina   Action Termed Bataan In Reverse By General M’‘Arthur Who Saw It

U. S. Landings at Two Points on North Coast of New Guinea Trap 60,000 Japanese Troops   J Gen. MacArthur Goes Ashore with Men After Naval Ships if » Blast Enemy Defense Positions.

Nips Caught Off Base By U.S. Strategy   Last of Once Dangerous Invasion Forces Now Entrapped

60,000 MORE JAPS TRAPPED IN NEW DRIVE   Ultimate Fate Is Certain, Says General

GREAT FORCES OF AMERICANS LAND ON NEW GUINEA   SET UP BEACHHEADS AT HOLLANDIA AND AITAPE: TRAP NIPS

MaeArthur Views Allied Tri umph   Terms The Situation “Bataan in Reverse” In Communique

THOUSANDS AMERICAN TROOPS ESTABLISHED HOLDS ON NEW GUINEA _ TREMENDOUS NAVAL AND  AIR COVERAGE GIVEN NEW INVASION

Americans Move 500 Miles Up Coast Of New Guinea in New Drive; MacArthur Making Landing With Second Wave

TEMPERATURES:   Annihilation Faced By Enemy As Result Of U.S. Triumph

Nipponese Caught off Base Base by Feints in Direction of Wewak and Madang   AIRSTRIPS ARE TAKEN

Yanks Tighten Hollandia Grip   Leapfrog Landings On North Coast Of New Guinea Isolate 60,000 More Jap Troops In New Death Tran.

Thousands Of Americans Storm Ashore, Isolate Over 60,000 Japanese

M’Arthur Sees Three Landings  In New Guinea   ‘Powerful Yank Forces Dig  in For Expecied dap~ “Suicide” Attacks   on North Coast   Airdrome Taken, Supplies Seized   60.000 Nipponese Troops Trapped in Greatest Amphibious Assault of Pacific Area

Large American Forces  Establish Beachheads  In. Two Landings   U. 8. Troops Land At Hollandia And Aitape On Strategic North Coast Of Island After Tremendous Naval And Air Blasting

Big Yankee Forces Establish 3 Vital  Bases on N. Guines   MacArthur Watches as 140,000 Japanese are Neutralized

MacArthur, Witnessing Operation, Terms It Bataan in Reverse.   140.000 JAPS CAUGHT

Third Army Units Overrun Outposts of Saarbrucken   Assault Arc Around City of Julich Forced By American Troops

Ad vance Is Miles Wide        CENTER IS LESS THAN TEN MILES FROM SAARBRUCKEN; NINTH ARMY REACHES ROER RIVER

ANKS OVER-RUI UTPOSTS OF AARBRUCKEN   Only 10 Miles ‘From Fortress

WAR TODAY   All-out:. Offensive by Allies;in West Due; Vast Anount of War   Material ‘Assembled for Great Drive

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Big Push on West Front ls on Way   Waits Only On Completion of Bringing Up Tremendous Amount  Of War Supplies

WAR ANALYST SAYS NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT WEST FRONT, FOR BIG DRIVE IS REALLY ON WAY

THE WAR TODAY   —BY DeWITT MACKENZIE— Associated Press War Analyst

STATE WHISKY RATION SLICED   Purchases Limited to One Fifth During March

Soviets Push Close to German Soil   Yanks NearCompletior Of Occupation Cn Brest Peninsula

96 Planes Toll Of British Raid   Heaviest Loss Ever Inflicted on Allied Air Fleet, It Is Said

Reich Raid Costs R.A.F. 96 Planes   1000 Planes in Huge Armada Smashing at Nuernberg, German Conaress City; 2240 Tons Bombs Dropped on Industries

British Lose .96 Bombers Over Reich   Cily of Nuernberg Blasted at Heaviest Air Cost of War

HUGE TOLL Io GOaT OF BLOW AT NUREMBERG   Great Armada Shatters Big Industrial Center: Nazi Fighters Effective.

TOLL HEAVIES) EVER DEALT TO BRITISH   Nuernberg Is Main Target Of Allied Operation   GERMANS CLAIM   132 Big Bombers Are Shot Down; Over 2,000 Tons Fall On City

Aerial Attack Costs Roy al Air Force 96 Ships   Greatest Loss of War Suffered By British In Burning and Exploding  : Transport Center   More Than 1,000 Planes Over Target   One of Most Important Railway and Industrial Centers In Southern ~ Germany

9¢ BOMBERS ARE LOST AS NAZIS GET TOP TOLL   - City Is Important Railway, Industrial I: ’ Southwest Germany

NUREMBERG HAMMERED BY BRITISH   Daylight Forays Over Germany Hinted As Radios Shut Down

RECORD FORCE OF PLANES RIP SOFIA THURSDAY   Nazi Raiders Off Air Again Today; Reds Take Ochakov on Black Sea

Toll Heaviest Yet Suffered By Allied Fleet   (;ermans Move Into Positions Abandoned By Allies In Cassino Sector.   SOFIA RAID GREATEST

R.A.F. Loses 94 Planes Out Of Huge Armada In Raid Against Nuernberg

"96 ; Planes, New High   Nazis’ Prové They _ Still Posséés Fight are

ATTACKS MADE IN MOONLIGHT PROVE COSTLY   Great Concentration of Night Fighters, A-A Fire Encountered

Heaviest Loss Of War Suffered Thursday Night   Huge Bomber Fleet Hits Nuernberg And Other Cities In Reich

96 RAF Planes Downed   British Suffer Biggest Aerial Loss Of The War

RAID ON NURENBERG BY BIG FLEET RAF BOMBERS WAS COSTL)  GREAT RUSSIAN ARMIES - MOVE SWIFTLY OVER BESSARABIA AREA .

Record Loss Suffered In Night Attack   Nuernberg Target Of Assault; Nazi Radio Network Off Today, Suggesting New Blows  ae an @2* ; eee ea § . = -— =. -—  —_—=—

96 RAF Bombers Lost In Big Raid On Nurembers   Greatest Toll Ever Taken Of Allied Air Fleet Occurs In 17th Raid

High Losses Reported In Hard Fight   Transport Center Smash in One Of Largest Tilts

Over 1,000 In Attack or Nuernberg  Ahout 2.240   About 2,240 Tons Believed Dropped on  ¢ War Plants

R. A. F. Bombers—P sibly 1,000—Smash : Nuernberg—and Oth Targets—Day Assau in Progress,

Nuernberg Is R.A. F. Target   British Lose 96 Bombers in Violent Air  Battles Along Route; Reds Capture Ochakov

1000 BOMBERS HIT TARGETS AT NUERNBERG   Allies Lost 96 Planes, Biggest Loss Of War

HEAVIEST LOSS OF WAR SUFFERED IN RAF ATTACK   Reds Surge Toward Balkans And Jolt Jap War Supplies; Deadlock in Italy

BRITISH LOSE 96 PLANES IN RAID ON ENEMY CIT’   More Than 1,000 Bombers Rip Targets in Nuernberg During Night

British Lost 96 Warplanes   GREAT RAF ARMADA RAIDS SOUTHERN GERMANY.

96 British Planes Lost In Attack O1  ‘Nuernberg   More Than 1,000 Of RAF Craft Smashed German Industrial Center Last Nivht

Biggestziol Ever Takenin AML ed: Raid  i “ype ae co wl ne             Great. Fleet: of: Bombers  Blasts, Nurnberg: and  . Other Points   DAY FORCE IS OUT   Small . Group; -of., Nazis Gives London First’ Alert in Three Nichts

% Bombers Lost in RAF Attack   British Suffer Their Heaviest Single Plane Loss of War

96 BOMBERS LOST IN RAID ON NUERNBERG   Great Armada of RAF Fliers Smash at Southern German Transport Center and  Nazi Congress City   NETWORKS ARE SILENT

Great Armada Of Bombers, Numbering Probably More Than 1,000, Smashes At Southern German Transport Center And Other Points In Reich—Loss Of Planes Represents Heaviest Toll Ever Taken Of Allied Air Fleet In Single Operation

BIGGEST LOSS OF WAR TAKEN AT NUERNBERG   1,000 Heavy Bombers Blast Important German City; Attacks Go On Today

BRITISH LOSE 96 PLANES IN RAID ON REICH   Over 1,000 Bombers Hit Targets; Loss War's Greatest

GREAT AIR ARMADA OF 1000 BOMBERS BLAST CITY OF NURENBERG   LOSS OF NEARLY HUNDRED PLANES HEAVIEST SINGLE OPERATION TOLL

Record Loss For Single Allied Foray   More Than 1,000 Bomb: ers Burn And Batter  ie ie ie A

R. A. F. LOSES %6 BIG PLANES   Heaviest Toll Ever Taken Of Allied Fleet In One Flight

RAF Loses 96 Planes, New High   Nazis Prove They Still Possess Fighters

RAF BOMBERS HIT NUERNBERG   British Lose 96 ‘Planes In Large Daylight Attack  On. ¥

RAF. Loses. 96 Bombers   1000 or More Planes Blast Nuernberg, but At a Record Price

Russians Capture Ochakov, Drive Nearer Czech, Line   Nuernberg Bombed; Cassino Reverses Are Continuing

oSmash at Reich Brings Greatest , Air Loss of War   More Than 1 ,000 British Bombers Lash at Nuernberg; Out Again Today 

Nuernberg Is [Rail Target   First Ukrainian Army. Presses Toward Hungary, Rumania After Taking Czernowitz

RAF SENDS BiG BOMBER FORCE 70 NUERNBERG   95 Planes Lost Out of Armada yumbering Possibly 1.000.

HEAVIEST TOLL. SINGLE RAL  More Than 1,000 Allied ““Diguae Rattar Trang.      More Than 1,000 Alliec ’ Planes Batter Trans: port Center   NEW RAID TODAY   Sofia Also Hit By Record Force Based ‘In Mediterranean Area

1,000 British Bombers Hit Reich Targets   Raiders Suffer Record Loss of 96 Planes In Night Assault

Mammoth Air Armada Blasts Nazis’ Nuernberg   Tempo of Aerial Assault on Europe Rises to New Fury; Germans Claim: Big Victory for Night Fighters

Nuernberg Blasted © By Huge RAF Force   Costs 96 Planes, Greatest Loss of War For RAF; German Radios Warn More Raids on Way Today

Outflank Threat in Red Gains   Germans Hurl Tank Reserves on Russians on 360-Mile Front

MOTHER INTO WELL; FAILS TO SAVE BABE   Child Dies After Two, On Way Out Are Plunged Into Water as Windlass Breaks.

ARGENTINA 10 DEFINE POLICY   Radio Talk. To Answer Hull’s Charges

U. 8.-Argentina Relations Move Toward Swift Climax   Both Governments Prepare to Issue Policy Statements

MOBS CELEBRATE END OF NAZI RULE   FRENCH BEAT UP ENEMIES— SHAVE HEADS OF GIRL FRIENDS OF GERMANS,

PRIORITIES, « RA TIONING _ ANE PRICE CONTROLS URGED “FOR PERIOD. .  AFTER WAR So

“CONVERSION PLAN OFFERED BY U.S.C. OFC.   Retention of Necessary Controls, Tax Revision Urged

Assassination Blamed On Jewish Extremists   British Minister To Middle East Slain In Cairo By Youths Later Mobbed.

Briton Blames Jewish Sect F or Killing   Moyne’s Assassins Believed To Be Extremist Groun

BRITON KILLED IN CAIRO FRAY   Jewish Extremists Blamed For Death Of Official

‘CAST OWN HOROSCOPE WHICH TRUTHFULLY TOLD  We was TO BE ARRESTED

Bingo Tonight—-8 O'clock At HOPWOOD FIREMEN'S HALL   SPRCTAT, CAR TO

LL LLL LLL LL LLL LL OE  Iceland Plans to Proclaim Its Independence June 17

Miners Work Sunday Te Replenish Depleted Anthracite Stock Piles -

New Phone Directory Issued By Bell Telephone Company, March 23rd

Coal Miners — Are Ruled Out As Deferrables:   Loss of Men Under 26 May Cost Production  Of 15.000.000 Tons Yea

Coal Miners Face Loss Of Deferment   Referee Committee Rejects Plea of Solid Fuels Office

Miners Under 26 Not Included on . Deferrable Lis  Committee Makes Rulin;  Despite Warnings of

NOT TO DEFER COAL MINERS   Decision is Made by Group Set Up to Pass on Manpower Claims

Mining Ruled Out  _ AsDeferment Move  SFA Request Denied By Committee

Soviet Press Accords American Priest Coverage Reserved For World’s Most Prominent Men

Polish. American Priest, After Visit With Stalin, Tells of Plan for Nation

Asks.a Polanc Friendly fo Soviet Union   Stalin Receives Polish American Priest in Sianificant Parley

Finns fo Ask for Details of Terms   Peace Envoy Going Back to Stockholm

Finn Envoy Enroute To  ~ Stockholm   Reputedly Carrying Finn Answer to Peace Terms Offered By Russia

Finn Reply To Soviets   Reported to Express Desire to Coritinue Peace Negotiations

Finns Replying To Peace Offer   1940 Peace Envoy Enroute With Answer To Russian Terms.

Finn Envoy Brings Soviet Peace Terms   ‘Paasikivi on Way to . Sweden: Bulgaria Mov] ing Toward Pact

Finnish Reply To Soviets Prepared Paasikivi To Deliver  Answer In Stockholm

FINNS’ PEAGE PACT ANSWER IS EXPECTED   Representative To Give Reply In Stockholm

Report Finns Ask Further Negotiations   Clarification of Some Terms Requested in Note, Is Rumor

Finnish Minister Is ‘On Way Back For Peace Talks  Further Negotiations Are in Prospect Under Soviet Terms

Report Delayed On Pearl Harbor   Won't Be Released Till After Election

PEARL HARBOR ORT FILED      NAVY'S “BOARD OF ANQUIRY _ HAS SUBMITTED ‘FINDINGS... _2 JNO SECRETARY AND.  a eT: ae

PEARL HARBOR TC REMAIN A SECRET   ‘‘Not a Chance” of Public Report Before Election—Reynolds

Pope Appeals To Britons To Forgive  Robot Bombing Ar Tend.   Robot Bombing Of London  Is Resumed

ATTACK MADE POM oAIPAN, INDIAN BASES   Transportation Facilities in Thailand Main Target of Bangkok Raid.

Second Raid In 72 Hours   100 Giant Bombers Hammer Stretegic Industrial Targets  In Both Cities

AMERICANS CUT GUAM IN HALF   Squeeze Tinian Nips In Small Pocket

Jap Laws Revoked on Leyte, Civil Liberty Proclaimed   Rv RICHARD W. JOHNSON

VICTORY FOR MISSOURIAN ROUT FOR CIO   Cops Honor After 2nd Ballot Ends   WALLACE OUSTED

TRUMAN 13 NOMINATED ASF. 0. A. RUNNING MATE   Wins When Maine Changes Its Vote, Others Follow   HOW VOTE PROGRESSED

SOMINATION OF MISSOURI SENATOR ALSO SLAP AT PO“" BEICAL ACTIVITTES  _ OF THE CIO

AX MEASURE E LAW BY * SENATE VOTE   Revolt Against President is Carried Through, 72-14

Senate Sets Capstone On Tax Revolt   REVENUE MEASURE WICH PRESIDENT SCORNFULLY REJECTED IS ENACTED INTO LAW; ONLY 14 VOTES FOR VETO.   Senate Galleries Full

Senate Overrides Tax Bill Veto By 72-14 Vote   1. Democrats, One Republican Line Up ior President

ROOSEVELT’S VETO OVERRIDDEN, 72-14   Senate Follows House In Enacting Into Law Revenue Bil Af fectine Every Taxpavrer

SENATE OVERRIDES VETO AND REVENUE BILL BECOMES LAW   Upper Branch Votes 72 to 14 for Measure to Climax . Rebellion Against . Roosevelt.   GALLERIES FILLED FOR THE FINAL ACT   Pepper. Protests Rebuke to President, Asserting It May Change Character of “Our Party.”

Tax Bill Is Passed Over FDR’s Veto   Only 14 Senators Back Up President As Measure Hiking Most Levies Is Made Law

Tax Bill Is Passed Over FDR’s Veto   Only 14 Senators Back Up President As Measure Hiking Most Levies 1s Made Law  By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK

Overriding Of Tax Veto Is Completed By Senate   Bill Becomes Law   After 72 to 14 Vote As Anti-Climax  To Dramatic Revolt   LITTLE FANFARE’ BEFORE BALLOTING   Single Republican, Langer of N. Dakota, Votes To Sustain Veto

Senate Defeats  F.D.R. Tax Veto by /2 to 14   13 Democrats, One Republican Vote To Sustain President

TAX MEASURE ADE LAW BY + SENATE VOTE   Revolt: Against Prestident is Carried i See Sie Ley

Tax Bill Passed By Senate Over  Roosevelt Veto   Revolt Completed and Bill ls Made Law as Chamber Acts, 72 to 14—Brief Debate Precedes  Action of Salanc

Senate Rebukes FDR by Vote To Override Veto   Revenue Measure Passed 72 to 14

Earth Opens To Swallow 3-Year-Old Child in Pennsylvania Mining Town

Grim Miners Dig Teday in Search for Body of Child Swallowed by Earth

Child's Body Being Souqut   Cave-in Pulls Little Girl From Aunt’‘s ‘Hand, Swallows Her

Child Topples Into Abyss As Mine Caves hi   Earth Splits Open and Girl _ Disappears While Walking On Street In. Pittston, Pa.

EARTH SPLIT SWALLOWS TO]   Miners Dig for Body of Three-Year-Old at Pittston

ICHILD IS BURIED ALIVE _ WHEN OLD MINE CAVES IN  Miners Stage Grim Search for Girl Lost When Sidewalk Splits Open

Earth Splits Open, Swallows Tot Of 3 As She Walks Along Sidewalk Behind Aunt And 5-Year Brother

GIRL BURIED ALIVE IN STREET CAVE-IN   Pittston Miners Digging for  Child Vietim

Attacks Range From Yugoslavia  To North France   American’s 500-Bombers Assault On Austrian Fighter Plants Followed By R.A.F. Night Sortie Into West And Northwest Germany.

$255,000 LACKING FOR QUOTA IN FIFTH WAR LOAN SALES   Diamond Springs Is First Section Of County To Achieve Goal; Camino Pressing For Second Honore: Snecial Purchases Are Announced

$692,609 BOND SALES TOTAL   Committee Lauds General Effort As Insuring Success In Campaian Closed July 31

COUNTY SURPASSES QUOTA IN 4TH WAR LOAN CAMPAIGN   Final Figure Is Expected To Approximate $600,000 As Campaign Closes With Record OF $558. 412.5 Credited To Tuesday Nicht

CONQUEST OF ELBA ISLAND COMPLETED   Eighth Army Presses Near Perugia in Mainland Drive

Conquest Of Historic Elba Is Completed   1,800 Prisoners Taken By French

ELBA ISLAND IS CONQUERED BY FRENCH TROOPS   All ‘German Resistance Wiped Out; 1,800 Prisoners Captured   ALLIED ARMIES NEAR PERUGIA IN ITALY

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Colonial Troops Capture 1,800 Prisoners; Eighth Army Pushes Toward Perugia; Marshall Visits Italy   Rv LYNN HFINZERLING

French Colonial Troops Capture Historic Elba   1,800 Prisoners Taken on Island

Elba’s Conquest Ts Completed  By Frenchmen   1,800 Germans Captured: Perugia Is Threatened By Allies on Mainland

FRENCH TAKE ELBA AFTER HARD FIGHT   Allied Planes Bomb Germans off Coast; High Ranking Officers Visit Front.

300 Fortresses Join Battle On Western Front   Attacks Sweep Entire. Area From Trier To Gemund On Yank Line

Heavy Fighting Flares  After Yesterday’s Massive Air Assault   13 Ils His Number

Professor Predicts Half of War Marriages Will Fail   _ Philosophy and Religion Will Help Save Some: Army Prepares Text Books

Air Fleets Batter Cities in Germany   Bombers Plaster Rhineland, Ruhr

U. S. Ships At Truk Move In Close Enough To Blast Cruiser To Bottom

Battleships Dared Fight   Cruiser Is Blasted Close To. Truk Base

 U.S. Battleships Moved Close Enough To Truk To Sink Cruiser ' First Eyewitness Report Of Spectacular Raid On Base Reveals

Jap Ships Tried To Flee When U.S. Opened Attack On Truk  Battleships Moved In Close; 50 Enemy Qounlanac (taught On Vamn Ware Winged Oia

Warships Got Close Enough To Sink Jap Cruiser..... First Eyewitness Story  Of The Assault On Truk

U. S. Battleships Sank Jap Cruiser At Truk   “2 L PACIFIC= SURFACE RELERS “HIT JAP SHIPPINE   Enemy Destroyer, Two Cargo. Ships’ Sunk By . Little Beaver’ Group

-Eyewitness Describes Truk Attack   New Attacks Made Against Jap Bases; More Ships Sunk

Gls Forge Ring Around Chief Port   New Cabinet  Installed in Japan to Succeed Tojo’s ‘ Government

GUAM HARBOR 1S THEATENEL   Two Strong Landing Forces Converge Along West Central Coast.

Battle for Guam Moving Forward  Opposition Increases as Beaches Are Left

U.S. TROOPS THREATEN PORT APRA GEN. KOISO NAMED JAP PREMIER   COASTAL DEFENSES “EXCAVATED” BY SOFTENING BLOWS; YONAI INSTALLED NIP NAVY MINISTER

Yanks Menace  }  a Port of  Guam; Losses  AreModerate   Japs Install Gen. Koisc As Head of New Cahinet

Landing Forces Converging on Guam's Main Port   Japanese Have First New Cabinet Since Pearl Harbor

Two Groups of American In. vaders Threaten To Cut Off Island’s Principal Har ber, Port Apra.   INVASION CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED SLIGHT

Mile Gain Scored Against Nazis’ apsing South Flank; 3rd Army Heights Overlooking Saar River

Greatest Gains Since Normandy Invasion Scored   Gains Up To 12 Miles Made On Collapsing South Flank In Ruhr; Seventh And First Tear Off  Advances Into Crumbling Nazi Defenses.

© U.S. SEVENTH WHEELS UPON WEST BAVARIA   Beek, Siegfried Line Fortress, Said Entered

Drive Points Toward Ruhr Valley City of Dusseldorf   Teams Up With lst Army to Take Seven Rhineland Towns; 7th Army Tears Off Gains Up to 12 Miles in the South

Stabs for Metropolis of Dusseldorf; First Seizes 7 Rhine Towns; Nazi Line Weakens on South Front

Ninth Army Opens New Offensive Against Ruhr   Dusseldorf Is Objective Of New Drive

Dewey Charge: FDR Use of  Labor for Power   Says President Trying to Invoke ‘One-Man Rule’ Over Workers;  Cites *Ronelineo’ in Railwav Disnute

Dewey Pledges Center-of-Road Security Policy   Urges Coast to Reject New Deal Regimentation, Reactionary Dog-Eat-Dog Postwar Economy

Muster-Out Pay Starts  Veterans of World War   Veterans of World War li Already Discharged Must Make Application

HOOK’S MAR  IN SOVER 1,200   Bennett Defeated By 1,200 Votes; Hook Wins Fifth Term.

Congressional Tempest Is Expected In Few Days  Resolution To Continue OPA May Cause Battle

OPA Resolution Is Expected To Produce Tempest   Act Expires June 30 So Need For Early Action  Te Imminent.

NEW BATTLE OVEROPA IS BREWING   Congress Fight To Explode Soon; GOP Asks Changes

'7 Divisions Destroyed, 22 Mauled   ard and Ist Armies Drive Deeper Into Sieafried Line.

Third Army Stabs Deener Into Reich Beyond Saar River   Germans Lose 152,000 Men In Three Weeks

Third Army Stabs Deeper Into Reich; Reaches  Edge Of Saarbrucken.

Nazi Losses  Climb to 152, 000 Men   Supreme Headquarters Says Seven Germa Divisions Utterly Destroyed, 22 Others Badly Battered by Allied Troops

Nazi Steel Towns Afire; May Be In  Saarbrucken   12 More Pillboxes In Siegfried Line Seized; Thunderous Artillery Fire

Third Plunges Deeper Into Saar Section   House-To-House Fighting In Sarreguemines

Almost Fourth Of Nazi Force Believed KO'¢   Third Army Deepens Its Trans - Saar Bridgeheads

A New Crossing Made on the Saar by the U.S. 3rd Army Beating Against 8 Saar Valley Stee] Towns.   SMOLDERING FROM FIGHTER BOMBERS   Americans Were Within a Couple of Miles of Saarbrucken, It Was Announced in Paris.

U.S. THIRD ARMY ADVANCES IN SAAR SECTOR AND NAZI LINES ON WIDE FRONT BEGIN TO SAG

NAZI LOSoEo 152,000 MEN   Enemy’s Losses in Three Weeks Are Equal to 17 . Divisions.   7 UTTERLY DESTROYED

FIELD GUNS STILL BLAST SAARBRUCKEN   Other Steel Cities Smolder From Fighter-Bomber Blows— Yanks Fight Nazis in Eastern Part of Sarreguemines.

Third Attacks 8 Saar Valley Steel Towns   Patton's Men Close in on Battered City of Saarbrucken

Toll Is Equal To 17 Divisions Knocked Out   Meanwhile, Third Army. Advances Half to a Mile’ Deeper Beyond Saar .*

Patton’s Forces Strike Forward Mile and a Half And Battle Nazis In, Streets Of Sarreguemines; Seventh Advances In South Sector

THIRD ARMY DRIVES INTO SAAR SECTOR   Enemy Losses In Opening Of Winter Offensive Equals 17 Divisions

ADVANCE MILE BEYOND SAAR IN ONE DAY   No Confirmation Of Report Saarbriicken Reached   STRENGTH   Being Gathered By First, Ninth Armies For Push Against Cologne

THIRD ARMY STABS ON IN SAAR REGION   Losses by Germany is Opening Phases of Winter Campaign Equal to About 17 Divisicas.

Troops Battle § House to House In Saar Sector   Eight Steel Towns Under Massive Attacks by U. S. - Third Army; Airmen Aid Infantry   Yanks Reported In Outskirts Of City   12 More Pillboxes in Sicgfried Line Taken After Counterattack of  * Huns Repulsed — 1

Loss of 152,000 Enemy: In 3 Weeks of Winter Offensive Revealed; Saar Drive Gains

Temperatures:   Yanks Beyond Saar. Killing 6,600 Germans. Each Day

AMERICANS JAB  MILE ‘DEEPER IN SAAR SECTOR   Report 4th of German Divisions Along West Front Destroyed

GOERING DINNER PARTY DESCRIBED   THINKS HE’S ANOTHER NERO, SAYS GUEST

Allies Ready To  Take Initiative   Beachhead South Of Rome Firmly Established, Save Alexander.

Allied Leader Encouraged By Gains In Italy   Enemy Was Caught Completely Off Guard, Gen. Alexander Says

All Set To Take The Initiative  Allied Forces Are Well Established South Of Rome, Says Alexander

May Force Finn Break   U. S. Relations With Finland to Hinge On Russo-Bulgar Crisis

RUSSIAN BREAK WITH BULGARS HELD LIKELY   Action of Soviets May Bring Sterner Action by U. S. Toward Finland

EXPECT RUSSIA TO BREAK WITH BULGARIA SOON   American Policy On Finland Is Not Changed

View U.S. Forced To New Decision Regarding Finns   Expect Imminent Red Split  With Bulgare To Affect Standing Of 2 Nations

Reds May Break With Bulgaria. in Few Days   May Force New Decision: or American Relations: With Finland"

Soviet Break With Bulgaria Expected Soon   Move May Place Finland in Difficult Position

Russo-Bulgarian Break Possible  Gucech Action Would   Such Action Would Force U. S.Finn Rupture

AUSSIAN-BULGARIAN BREAK 16 EXPECTED   Will Force Decision on Ques~ tion of American-Finnish Retations.

Russo-Bulgurian Break Seen Within Few Days   Action Would Force a New Decision on U, S.Finnish Relations

Expect Russia To Break With Bulgaria Soon   U. S., Now Only Nation On Friendly Terms’ With Satellite.

Soviet-Bulgarian Break Believed Imminent; May ‘Affect Finland’s Status

Reds May Break With Bulgaria   May Force Decision On U. S. Break With Finland

WPB Orders Reconversion  To Start Soon   Staggered Program Ratified by Board; Plan Climaxes Storm) Inter-Agency Fight

Reconversion iz Full Effect About Middle of Augus!   Partial Program Goes Inte Effect Saturday After Struggle

WPB Orders Some Civilian Production.   Staggering of Dates Only Concession: Made To. Military Agencies.   NELSON’S PROGRAM EFFECTIVE SATURDAY

Nelson's Plan For Reconversion — Goes Into Partial Effect Saturday

Civilian Goods Pr ogram Of ~— WPB To Be Put In Effect   Announcement Climaxes Stormy Inter- Agency Battle Between Donald: Nelson, War and Navy oe : Departments: and McNutt.

WPEB Head Stands Firm Against Military In Plans For Shifting Toward Peace

First Steps in Program Looking to Ultimate Demobilization of Industry Will Be Taken Saturday—Announce‘ment Climaxes Stormy Inter-Agency Battle in Which War and Navy Departments Opposed Plans of WPB.

Reconversion To Civil Industry Will Start Soon  AMrRrYrmmMicac   WPB Compromises With Army, Navy

PRODUCTION OF CIVILIAN GOODS TO START SOON   Part Of Program Effective This Saturday

Yield Point To Military   But Nelson Plan For War-to-Peace Industry Shift Goes Into Partial Effect July 15

RECONVERSION WILL GET UNDER WAY SATURDAY   Nelson Makes Compromise On Civilian Goods Plan

Nelson wins figh for civilian output   Lone concession made to military; prosram voes into effect Saturday

Compromise On Nelson's Plan For Conversion   Program Partially In Effect Saturday; Wai Until Mid-August For Maior Chanae

Reconversion To Start Soon   Work on Some Civilian Goods to Begin in Mid-August

Pre-Peace Production Plan Upheld   Nelson Is Winner Of Dispute With Military Officials

'Reconversion Plan Effective Saturday   Nelson's Compromise Program to Permit Limited Reconversion

‘*Miniature Reconversion’ Plan Goes Into Partial Effect Next Saturday

Nelson's Program For Reconversion Begins Saturday   Only Compromise Puts Order In Effect By Partial Stages

Plants To Make  Civilian Goods   WPB Chairman Nelson’s Reconversion Plan to Go into Effect

WP. D. APTRUVES NELSON PROGRAM ON RECONVERSION  Preparation on of Indy Fo Civilian n Is Ora ei =  Sat  ALUMINUM RELEASED FIRST IN PROGRAM   Work to Be Resumed Gradually Until Nelson Plan Is Operative on Aug. 15— {‘odels May Be Made.

NELSON CIVILIAN GOODS PROGRAM STARTS SATURDAY   RECONVERSION ON MINIATURE BASIS APPROVED BY WPB

Program Of Nelson Will Begin Soon   WPB ANNOUNCES SATURDAY AS STARTING DAY TO PREPARE INDUSTRY FOR CIVILIAN PRODUCTION,   Police Orders

PROGRAM WiLL BEGIN JULY 1!   Compromise Reached in ‘Reconversion in Minijature’ Plan.

WPB TO LAUNCH CIVILIAN PLANS   Slight Concession Made To Army, Navy By Nelson

“Reconversion In Miniature” Plan To Go Into Partial Effect On Saturday

CIVILIAN 60008 TOBE REVIVEL   Industries Will Prepare For Production Under Orders Of WPB

‘Lower Wages in ~ U.S. Predicted   ROGER BABSON SAYS INCOME OF WORKERS , TO FALL .

YOUTH DloGOVERS FIRE AT LOWER SOUTHAMPTON   Blaze of Unknown Origin Did Little Damage to the School   LOSS NOT DETERMINED

timson Hits at er-Optimism   Home Front Stressed In Report on Tour

Grinding Pressure of Superior Power Being Applied to Germany; Stimson Calls for Continued Production

Recognize New Bolivia Regime   Seventeen Other American Republics Join In Recognition.

Bolivia Returns To Council Of United Nations  US., 17 Other  Lands Approve

BOLIVIA GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZED BY USA   Villarroel Administration Felt Pro-united Nations

U. S. Recognizes Bolivia Government   18 Republics End Diplomatic Isolation

Bolivia Regime Recognized By U.S., 17 Others   American Nations Find New Government Favor able To Allied Cause.

U. S. Recognizes Bolivia Regime   Six Months of Diplomatic Isolation Ends For South American Nation.

Recognize Gov er losiaiah  Of Bolivia   Decision is Present Regime Favors US Cause

New Bolivian Regime Given Recognition  by U.S. and 17 Other American Nations

U. S. Recognizes Bolivian Regime   Seventeen’ Other. American Republics Join Nation in Ending Six Months of Diplomatic Isolation of South American Republic.

GENERAL KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Two Colonels Also Lose Lives in Accident Ouring Storm.

U.S. General, A Die in Crash  5 Plunged to Death On Way to Toke Part In Camp Celebration

2 COLONELS, ~ GENERAL DIE ~— INAIRCRASE   At Least 2 Others Killed As Heavy Storm Rips Army Plane In Tennessee

Armored Division Chief  ‘Killed in Plane Crash   Gen. Newgarden, Two Colonels And Two Others Meet Death Ty Cenrsia Electrical Storm

Division Chief, 4 Others Die In Plane Crash   Army Plane Crashes During Heavy Storm Near Chattanooga.

Major General Dies bn Crash  Two Colonels Also Kille le Aeewme Bla.cen Weeck

DIE IN PLANE CRASH   Maj. Gen. Newgarden and Two Colonels Killed in Tennessee

General, Two Colonels Two  Others Killed   Die In Crash Of Plane During Storm In Tennessee

AIR CRASH FATAL TO ARMY OFFICERS   Maj. Gen. Newgarden, Two Colonels, Two Others Killed In South

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Gen. Newgarden And 2 Colonels Die In Crash   Army Plane Crashes In Chattanooga In Bad Storm.

Gen. Newgarden Killed In Crash   Four Others Perish fh Wrecked Airplane

Gen. Newgarden, Four Others Die in  Army Plane Crash Two Colonels Reported Among Victims of Accident During Storm af Chatlanooga

GENERAL KILLED _-IN PLANE CRASH   At Least Four Others Die as Maj. Gen. Newgarden’s Plane Falls in Storm

General, Two Colonels Die  In Air Crash   At least 2 Others Die In Army Plane Tragedy Near Chattanooga

General, Four Others Killed In Plane Crash   Army Craft Falls In Storm In Tennessee; Colonels Aboard

GENERAL, TWO COLONELS KILLED   HEAVY STORM IS GIVEN AS CAUSE OF PLANE CRASH

Major General, Two Colonels,  Killed In Crash   On Way To Review Troops; Storm Forces Plane To Land In Orchard

GENERAL DIES IN AIR CRASH   Army Plane Carries Five Brasshats to Death In Tennessee

ARMY GENERAL DIES IN CRASH   Two Colonels Among Five Victims In Tennessee

Commander Of 10th Armored Division Dies In Air Crash   Gen. Newgarden, Two Colonels And Two Others Killed As Plane Wrecks In Storm

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NAZIS REPULSED NEAR BUDAPEST   Assault Forces of Russians Poised for Decisive Blow at Capital City

Church Leaders. Meet In LeMars  To Plan For: College ~ Appeal’ Drive

CAPITALIZE ON VICTORY AT NIKOLAYEV   Develop Two-Pronged Assault on Nazis’ Last Black Sea Port

Russian Forces ~ Are Driving On ~ Port OF Odessa   Two Pronged Offensive Develops After Capture Of Nikolayev By Reds   REDS ALSO PUSH NEARER CERNAUTI

Fascists Plotted — Greek ‘Incident’   Mussolini Fixed Date Of War's Start, Says. Council Report

President Doesn’ Know Sife Of Football Game   Dismisses Army-Navy Questions In Bricf Sentence

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NOT SURE OF GAME SITE   Army-Navy Contest May Be Played in a Larger City

Bay City Strikers DetyWLE   30,000 Lumbermen Idle, Detroit Hit by Bakery Walkout

SERIOUS STRIKES CONTINUE   30,000 Lumber Workers Idle In Northwest

Strikes Are Prevalent in Nation   Over 30,000 Lumber Workers Still Out In Pacific Northwest

British Subs Sink 24 Japanese Ships  Brings Total to 69 Destroyed in Last Five Davs

British Subs Destroy 24 Jap Vessels   Sinkings Mark New Activity in Pacific

BRITISH LIST 24 JAP SHIPS SUNK   Raiding Submarines Bag Supply Vessels, Shell Harbor Craft

24 JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK BY SUBMARINES   British U-Boats Have Run Recent Total Up To 69; Enemy Is. land Kecently Shelled

BRITISH SINK 24 JAPANESE VESSELS      Submarines Bring to 6% Number Sunk in Five Dave :

BRITISH SINK 24 MORE JAP SHIPS   SUBMARINES’ 5-DAY BAG IN STEPPED-UP DRIVE. BOOSTED TO 6 VESSELS.

45 Jap Vessels — Sent To Bottom By British Sub:   Report 2 Supply Ships, Sub Chaser, 3 Landing Craft Sunk In Recent Weeks

SEVEN KILLED, HHURTIN TRAIN CRASH   Troop Train in Texas Skidded into  Passenger Train

SEVEN KILLED 75 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK   Santa Fe Train Hit By Troop Train In Texas

NINE KILLED TK ACCIDENT   Railroad Gflicials Seek Indentity of Persons Killed at Novice, Texas —Aceident Takes Place During Blinding Saow Storm.

SEVEN KILLE IN TRAIN WRECK. FIVE IDENTIFIED   Troop Train Skids Into Rear of Passenger Train In Texas

SEVEN KILLED IN TEX. TRAIN WRECK   At Least Seventy-five Other Persons Have Been Injured.

NINE ARE KILLED IN TROOP TRAIN   Collision Occurs Dur. ing Blinding Snowstorm

Nine Killed as Trains Collide   Troop Train Hits Passenger Cars.

TWO TRAINS COLLIDE IN SNOW STORM   Tragedy Occurs At Novice, Texas 75 Are Injured

Seek Names of Crash Victims   Train Wreck Kills Seven: Injures 75

Seven Die In Texas Train Crash   Identity of All Victims Not Learned

DSC’s Awarded To Three Fliers  European Ace's Wife Awaits Return Home

Full-Seale Offensive Under Way ‘Near Metz   Enveloping Movement North Of City; Nazis Fear Another Attack Coming In Holland

Advance of Ten  Miles Made in Three Day Push   Chateau-Salins and Other Places Fall As Americans Surge Through Heavy Mud

Patton's Army Surges Ahead In New Drive   Nazis Nervous At Possibility Of Holland Move

Seven Divisions Hurled Against Nazi Defenses   Dozens of Towns Fall to Third Army During Three-Day, 55-Mile Encircling Attack Against Metz.

Patton's Boys Move Forward on Wide Front   Battle Around Metz Assuming Form of a Full Blown Offensive

More Towns Captured by Yank Troops   Tank-Led Drive Gains Momentum South of Metz

YANKS GAIN 10 MILES IN SOME AREAS   Patton’s Men Take Chateau-Salins Along With a Dozen Other Towns and Villages in an Are Around Metz.

Shakes Off Mud Shackles And Sweeps Forward In 55 Mile Atc Around Metz Sector

CHATEAU-SALINS SEIZED IN NEW HAMMER ATTACK   Metz’ Outflanking Threatened; Saar Border Only 25 Miles Distant

ARCUND CITY OF METZ   Hodges’ First Army Worry Nazis In Aachen Region

Shakes Mud From Feet  To Pick Up Good Gains   Both-Sides Of -Maas Pounded With Shells

YANKS SPLASH AHEAD IN DRIVE TO TAKE METZ   Chateau-Salins Falls In Full - Bloom Offensive; Gains Up To 10 Miles

PATTON LAUNCHES BIG SCALE DRIVE   Dozens Of Towns And Villages Captured By Advancing Yanks   Seven’American Divisions Now In Action In Latest Offensive

Dozens of Towns Are - Captured   ‘Gain.of Ten Miles in’ Some: ‘Areas on 55-Mile Arc Around Metz    HEADING TOWARD SAAR BORDER   Germans Also. Nervous Over Possibility of New Drive ™ in Holland Area’!

Total Gain Of 10 Miles In 3 Davs   Nazis Fearful Of New Push Into Northern Holland

‘Ten Mile Advances Gained Near Metz   Chateau-Salins, Dozens of Other Towns, Villages Captured as Guns Pound Both Sides of Holland Maas

Steamroller Assault Rips German Line   Enemy Expeets Renewed Altack On Holland Front

Patton Begins Full Offensive With 7 Division:   10-Mile Advance Scored Along Broad Front; -Ist Army Gains

Ten-Mile Advance Scored In Full-Blown Offensive   Attack Moves to Northeast Toward German’s Saar Border

Troops Surging Forward On Big European Front   Nazis Beaten Back In Aachen Area With Metz Threatened By  Encirclement

Three-Day Push Has Gained As Much as 10 Miles   Sweeping Attack Hinged at Point 9 Miles From Metz

Western Front Offense Nets Many Towns   Artillery Pounds On Both Sides Of Maas River

AMERICANS IN RAPID ADVANCE AGAINST NAZIS   Gain Ten Miles Along Sector Near Metz

‘New Attack Moves Towarc \Saar Border   Reminiscent of Whirlwind Sweep Through Normandy

PATTON FORCES TIGHTEN ARC AROUND METZ   Artillery Assaults Give Hint Of New Drives In Northern Holland

ADVANCE OF 10 MILES MADE IN SOME POSITIONS   Patton Threatens to Cut Rear Lines Leading to Nazi Stronghold

Many Places Captured By Americans   U. S. Forces Move Toward Saar Border In Sharp Advance

DRIVE 10 CUT BEHIND CITY OF METZ   Possibility Of New Attack In Holland Seen   DOZENS OF TOWNS   Including Chateau-Salins, Captured: Big Bombers Support Offensive

GERMAN ESCAPE RAILROADS CUT   Reds Capture 30 Towns In Advance South Of Pskov

Push on Toward Ostrov 35 Miles‘South of Pskov On Railway to Warsaw

Thirty Communities Are Taken by Advancing Russians  NARVA BRIDGEHEAD POSITIONS BETTER Towns May be By-Passed in Fight for  Canitalc

Russians Gain In Drive to  Take Ostrov   Reds Also Improve Their Bridgehead on West Side of River

RUSSIANS MAY DRIVE AROUND NAZI BASTION   Russo Troops May Make Dash For Baltic Capitals

Soviets Drive Toward Ostrov: Rout Germans   Major Gains of Day Made in Fighting in Pskov Area

Reds May By-Pass Narva and Pskov  For Reval and Riga   Important Capitals of Estonia and Latvia May Next Witness Russian Action Against Germans; Reds Capture 30 Communities

REVAL AND RIGA OBJECTIVES OF SOVIET ADVANCE   Russians May By-Pass Pskov And Narva In  New Drive =,   ESTONIAN BRIDGEHEAD BEING CONSOLIDATED

SOVIETS TAKE 30 PLACES IN PSKOV REGION   Reds Also Make Gains Near Stronghold _  Of Narva

RED ARMY TRIES 10 GUT RETREAT LINE FROM PSKO\   Russians Move Toward Qs. trov, on Trunk Railway to. Warsaw, in a Flanking Attack.   IMPROVE BRIDGEHEAD IN THE NARVA AREA   Soviets May By-Pass City and Pskov in Plunge Toward © Estonia and Latvia Capitals.

RUSSIANS ARE DASHING FOR TWO CAPITALS   Estonia And Latvia Cities Goal Of Big Army Push; May By-Pass Narva And Pskov En Route.   New Bridgehead

Reds Capture 30 Towns Below Pskov   Cut Second Railway Of Three Which Nazis Might Utilize

Reds Capture 30 Towns In  Ostrov Drive   Moscow Says Troops May Head Toward Estonian Capital

Ostrov Target For Russ Push   Soviet Action Threatens Blankine af Pskav

Defective Plane Engines Blamed On 3 Officers   Courtmartial Brings Out Serious Charge

Plane Engines Defective Witness  Says at Courtmartial  8 of 12 Motors Selected at Random ere Danaerous

Court-Martial - Hears Experts   Dangerous Defects Listed  Tachientane Bocine.

Underbelly of France May Be Next on List   Late Developments Point Strongly to Invasion From Seuth

Alhied Aerial War in Italy Intensified   1.000 American Bombers Lash at Nazis 120-Mile Coastal Front

Mediterranea Invasion Is Expected   Heavy Bombers Hit Coast Defenses in Southern Area

Planes Batter Mediterranean Riviera Sector   Presence of High Officials In Italy Held Indicative WE Wksa Anttnn Ahsan

NEW INVASION THRUST HINTED   ‘Underbelly of Europe’ Hit By 1,000 Bombers

ALLIED AIRMEN FROM ITALY HIT SOUTH FRANCE   “Underbelly of Europe” ISoftened for Coming Attacks

Invasion-Like Pattern Seen  Myctery Surraunde (Gains   Mystery Surrounds Gains Of Yanks As Trap Tightens

‘Hurricane Expected To  Hit Jamaica   Storm Still Moving West Northwest, Says Miami Weather Bureau

YANK PLANES TAKE PART IN HEAVY ATTACK   Coastal Raid Follows Record Assault on Reich Capital

SAP-HELD ISLAND GROUP NOW UNDER ATTACK LESS THAN . 400 MILES FROM . MINDANAO

SHIP AND PLANE BLOW HERALDS NEW OFFENSIVE   Nippon Vessels Flee Mighty Armada; Truk Bombed to Cover Assault

Race Clashes in Philly   May Ask FDR To Seize Paralyzed Transportation System

Martial Law To Halt Race Clashes Is Asked By Philadelphia Residents

U.S. forces control 14: of major atolls   Sovereignty is well established

YANKS RULE 14 MAJOR ATOLLS IN MARSHALLS   Report Japanese Re. sistance There Has Disappeared

LENINGRAD ARMY DRIVES ON TALLINN   Spectacular Gains Made in Baltic  Countries

BATTLE FLARES ALONG ADRIATIC   Eighth Army Is Driving Toward Riccione

CHURCHILL, EDEN ARE IN MOSCOW   Purpose of Trip Not Disclosed in Russian Announcement.

Air Raid Plunges London in Darknes:   Few Flying Bombs Hurtled Across Enalish Channel

Germans Unleash  Bomb Attack On Lighted Britain   Wartime Blackout Revulations End

YANK PLANES STEP UP AIR OFFENSIVE   French Coast Hit After RAF Planes Raid Berlin Again

BOMBERS ROCK FRENCH COAST   YANKS HIT EUROPE AFTER R.A.F. STAB AT BERLIN

Resume Alr Blows Upon French Coast   British Mosquitoes Hit Berlin Fifth Time In Six Nights.

British Bombers Hit Burning Berlir In Nuisance Raid   RAF Reports Loss Of 200 Bombers, 1600 Crew Members

U. S. Bombers Blast Coast   RAF Fighters Hit _ Berlin In New Raids

U. S. Planes Hit French Coast Area   Big Bombers and Marauders Join  In Bombing Coast; Berlin Raided

Dinout On News  Ordered      Amphibious Trucks Maintain Contact With Trapped Units

Heavy Fighter Opposition Met by B-29's At Nagoya  In Third Raid: of 3 Days

Superfortresses Hit Nagoya for Third Time  Heaviest Fichter   Heaviest Fighter Opposition of Any Attack Listed

‘Hitler Divisions Spearhead ‘Gorman Smash Into Belatm  RES Cee sh

DEMOS’ PEACE PLANK STUDIED   Platform Chairman Hopes For Full Agreement

Democratic Platform To Call For Action Prevent War, Assure Peace

Chairman M’Cormick Says Democrat Platform Foreign  Policy Plank To Please All

Dems’ Peace Plank to Be to The Point      Chairman of the Committee Blasts as (Evasive GOP ‘Peace ‘Forces’ ‘Stand

Democrats fo Reach Accord   To Call for Sound Action to Prevent War and Assure Peace

SEES STRONG PEACE PLANK   McCormack Expects Full Agreement Next Week By Democrats

DRAFT BOARDS TO RECLASSIFY ALL REGISTRANTS   New Policy Adopted. May Close Induction Stations In State

Many Roads In State are  Stull Closed  North Approach   North Approach To J. C. Bridge Weighted Down

Floods Sweep Missouri And  Illinois Areas   Authorities Order People ‘To Evaenate Sections in Lowlands as Streams Break Levees

Evacuate Mississippi Lowlands   Mighty River Tearing at Levees in Illinois Towns

Flood Dangers Mounting Fast In Middle West   Toll Of 24 Lives So Far And 500,000 Acres Inundated.

FLOODS SPREAD OVER MISSOURIILLINOIS AREAS   Waters Pounding Levee Systems Along River

MINE RESCUE HALTS: WORKERS EXHAUSTED   ‘It’s a Gruesome Job and They Need To Rest Up’

Dewey Gains Support As GOP Choice   Bricker Manager Calls ‘Draft Dewey Move Joke

SUPPORTERS OF BRICKER SEEM VERY CONFIDENT   Ohio Governor’s Manage Says Dewey Will Only Have 381 Votes   INTERNATIONAL PEACE PROGRAM SUGGESTED

U. S. Fliers Knock Out Half of Nazi Armor and Transport in Belgium

Victorian on Way Home After 3 Years   Weather Fools Ally, Foe  Fiaif of German Armor Wrecked

Town of Celles Is Retaken   American Drive In German Flank Gaining Ground

Fliers Seek to lsolate: German Attackers in. Belgium, Luxembourg

WEATHER MAY BEAT GERMANS   HALF OF RUNDSTEDTS ARMOR IS DESTROYED

TOUGH FOR THE DUCE   Mussolini Broadcasts Account of His Troubles in War

SOVIETS CRAS THROUGH GAP IN NAZI LINES ©   New Ukrainian Offensive Thunders Ahead in 6th Day -

RUSSIANS ROUT * 210,000 NAZIS ALONG BUG LINE   Powerful ‘Mobile Coltimns ~ Pour Into 108-Nile ai Defense Gap

CANDIDATES LET SUPPORTERS D0 TALKING; BRICKER SCORES BUREAUS   Congresswoman Luce,  Actor Welles Speak

Russians Now Reaching The Baltic Gateway   Govorov’s Army Passes Veimarn 17 Miles From Estonia; Popov’s Troops  60 Miles From Latvia.

RED ARMY SWEEPING TOWARD ESTONIAN FRONTIER MONDAY   SOVIET FORCES REPORT. ED WITHIN FEW MILES LAST RAIL STATION

Montana Reclamation Association Members Gather for Annual Two-Day Meeting Opening Today

Larissa Is Occupied by Greek Force   Salonika, Big Gree! Harbor, Said to Be Partly in Hands Of Patriots

GREEK PATRIOTS FREE SALONIKA   Enemy Loses Air Base For Evacuation Of Crete Garrison

Dog 1s Rescued By Coast Guards   Irish Setter Breaks Through River Ice

SPEED SERVICE VOTE DECISION   Administration Backer: Seek Senate Action Today

Administration Solons Try  To Get Ballot Immediately ‘On Service Vote Question

Soldier Vote Bill Pushed  For Passage   Taft Calls President’s Plea Fourth Term Bid

SENATE DEMOCRATS SEEK QUICK ACTION: ON SOLDIER VOTE   Taft Calls Roosevelt Message 4th Term Announcement; Southern Shift Seen   SOME LEAVING CAPITOL

TOHURRY VOTE   Possible Week-End Delay on Attempt to Pass Uniform Soldier Vote.

Soldier Vote Bill May Be Passed Today   Senators Hoping To Rush It To Decision Before Tonight

Senate May Act On Soldier Vote  Taft Attacks FDR’s Call’ For Action

Try Hurry Vote Today Absentee Balloting Plan   With 15 Senators Leaving Capital Today, Administration Senators Try Get Quick Action To Avoid Week-end Delay.

Defenders Throw Back Another Japanese: Force. In Chidwin River Area

Jap Forces  Cut Allied — Supply Lines   Advance Base Of, Imphal Isolated — By Invasion Troops

Japs Cut Road: To Big Imphal  Base in India   Allied Official Says Crisis Can Be Met Shortly; Second Nip Force Thrown Back

BELGRADE AND DEBRE GHEN ARE CAPTURED   As Other Russian Forces Race Through = East Prussia to Punch Holes in Nazis Defenses.   Nearing Budapest

Berlin Lists 12-Mile Gain  In Prussia   Reds, Partisans Wipe Out Germans In Yugoslav Capita

ALLIED TROOPS SEIZE BELGRADE YUGOSLAV CAPITAL   Moscow Reports 17,147 Germans Were Killed or Captured in Trap Southeast of City.   REDS REPORTED SEVEN MILES INSIDE: PRUSSIA   Press Forward Through Smoking Villages—Thrusts at Province Made From  Poland —-

BELGRADE {5 CAPTURED BY ~ RUSS FORCES   Axis Garrison Annihilated in Street Fight-' - Ina

REDS PLUNGE SEVEN MILES INTO GERMANY   BELGRADE SEIZED; SOVIETS ON ROAD TO BUDAPEST

Soviet Troops Roll 12 Miles  Into Germany   17,147 Pocketed Enemy Are Slain, Captured Ro Read 1 aainna

Reds, Allied Troops Take Belgrade, Soviets Smash Forward in East Prussia

Penetrate Seven Miles Inside Pre-War Germany In East Prussia Drive: :

Belgrade Falls ‘to Soviets and Yugoslavs   Russians Advance Seven Miles Into East Prussia

GREAT WHEELING MOVEMENT NOW TICHTENING NOOSE   Onrushing Russians are Only 50 Miles fram Final Escane Railroad.

Drive Two Spearheads Forward    MOVE, IF SUCCESSFUL, WILL _ TRAP HUGE GERMAN FORCE IN DNIEPER BEND, CUT OFF ESCAPE

MILLION NAZIS MAY BE. TRAPPED IN DNIEPER BEND   Vatutin's Army in Wheeling Move to Cut Escape.   REDS STRIKE TOWARDS “ NAZE'BUG RIVER LINE

Russians Slash Deep ln Flanks of Trapped Men: Near Bug River   Nazi Admit Withdrawal from Vital Junction Near River

Red Army Move: Deep Into Flank of Nazi Troops   Germans Threatened With Entrapment In Dnieper Bend Area

Fury of Soviet ‘Attack Mounts; Nazi Flank Hit   New Spearhead Threatens Foe’s Last Hope of Escape

Reds Drive Spearheads On Dneiper   Soviets Threaten Odessa-Lwow Line, Foe’s Escape Path

SLASH INTO NAZIS’ FLANK   One Spearhead Is Within 50 Miles of Last Escape Route

Soviets Slash Deep in Flank  Of Germans   ‘Armored Columns Nearing Last Escape Rail  Line for Axis Troops   JIRUSS SWING SOUTH   VanguardSweepsThrough Villages Bordering Bug River Line

WHEELING MOVE BY REDS POSES NEW NAZI PERIL   East-West Line Is Threatened

Reds Try To Trap 500,000 Germans   Vatutin’s Onrushing Troops Swing South Like Great Door To Catch Bue River Defenders

BEDFORD aR      Elsie Peterson is Bride of Lieut. John H. Davidson, Jr., Old Town, Maine '

Elsie Peterson is Bride of Lieut.: John H. : Jr., Old Town, Mais

COLLETT TO DIE IN CHAIR JULY 26   Slayer Shows No Signs ot Emotion at Sentence

* —COLLETT— a  EXECUTION DATE: A GOLLET]      Convicted-Slayer Of ‘Three’ Ohioahs: To Die - In-Chair July 26

JUDGE ORDERS  COLLETT MUST DIE JULY 26   Convicted McCoy Family. Slayer Probably Will  Enter Pen Friday

Drive On Warsaw Expected After Fighting In Kovel   Moscow Celebrates Victory Over ‘German Valyrie’; Byeltsi Falls In Bessarabia

Americans Slash  Thru Appian Way   Beachhead Troops Smash Ahead To Trap Germans Below Rome

Main Retreat Route of Nazis Cut by Yanks   Sitiash More Than Mile Through German Line

Destroy 30 Nazi Tanks   Advance Steadily  To Overrun Hundreds of German Strong Points

YANKS SEEK TO ENCIRCLE NAZI FORCES   ‘Smash Ahead One Mile  From Anzio Beachhead and Cross Appian Way.  - BHeiachts Taken..

Fall of Cisterna Imminent   Massive Clash of Tanks Reported Just Below Rome

Yanks Capture Coastal Anchor  Qf Terracina   Canadians Crash Five Miles Into Last Part Of Hitler Line

Cut Appian Way On Twe Sides Southeast of Cisterna.   KNOCKED OUT OVER 30 GERMAN TANKS   Allied Planes Out In Full Force to Support All Offensives.,

CAPTURE COAST ANCHOR OF NAZI DEFENSE LINE   ‘Knock Out 30 Enemy Tanks

Terracina Laken By Units From Anzio Beachhead   Canadian Troops Crash Five Miles Into Hitler. Line Farther North

Slash It On Both Sides       KNOCK OUT OVER 30 GERMAN. TANKS IN FOUR-HOUR BATTLE NEAR TOWN 25 MILES BELOW ;  ROME 2

Southerners Drop Fight On Racial Plank   Committee Turns Them Down Cold And Opponents Lack Sufficient Strength

Wallace Hits Comeback Trail In Renomination Fight; Wins Over Delegates From Kansas   May: Indicate Trend; Truman Supporters Unperturbed: Nominate FDR Tonicht

South Drops Plank Fight   "White Supremacy’ Given Deaf Ear by Framers of Platform

DEMOCRATS Ih ACCORD WITH FOURTH TERM   Roosevelt Will Address Group By Radio

WALLACE COMES BACK IN FIGHT FOR NOMINATION   Many Predict That Wallace Will Go in on First Or Second Ballot

Demos Roll Toward — Crisis   . Nomination of FDR Expected By Nightfall; to Vice-Presi dential Vote Friday

Votes Are Gained By Wallace. As Showdown Nears. On Mate: Vruman Supporters Confiden

TRUMAN SLATED IN SECOND SPOT   Byrnes Quits Chicago Race Because of Convention Rebellion   BY WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON I N S&S Staff Caorresnandent

“White Supremacy”’ Plank Is Rejected   Southern Demos Lose Fight to Incorporate State’s Rights Measure Into Party Platform—No Contest on Floor Planned.

WALLACE BATTLES FOR SECOND PLACE   Party Leaders at Convention to Press Fight For Senator Harry Truman.

TEMPERATURES:   Wallace Wages Strong  Fight For Renomination   Lines Drawn By Democratic Leaders On VicePresidential Choice; National Chairman Honneaan Out For Missouri Senator

Democrats In Texas Split  Even Talk Of Holding Separate Meetings

SOUTH QUITS RACIAL FIGHT   Abandons Its Demand for White Supremacy Plank

Democrats To Tag Roosevelt Today   Wallace And Truman Both Claim Lead For No. 2 Spot         For Two-thirds Rule

Demo Factions Battle for 48 Texas Votes  Dewey and Bricker Contest for 33 G. 0. P. Delegates

Democrats Widely Split In Big Row Over Second Spot   Wallace Comes Back In Struggle With Truman

Demo Delegates To Re-Nominate  FDR Late Today   Cabinet Members Are Split Over Wallace and Sena tor Truman.   South Drops Fight On ‘White Supremacy

—DEMOCRATS—_.  Wallace Hits Comeback Trail In Fight To  Gain Nomination

Wallace Hits: ‘Comeback Trail For Second Post   Kansas Votes otes: Added To Towan’s Column «And Ickes Switches: Support To Wallace. —

Truman Appears To Be Choice Of Roosevelt   Wallace Refuses To Give Up In Race For Vice Presidency

DEMS SHARPLY DIVIDED OVER SECOND PLACE   Wallace-Truman Battle Lines Drawn By Leaders

4th Term Vote Being Prepared At Windy City   Ickes Informs President Of Favoring Wallace; Battle ls More Bitter

Demos Dratt Racial Plank   Consider Proposal Declaring Racial Minorities Entitled To Equal Vote.

Wallace Stagine Comeback After Troubled Start  But Tr uman n Backers

DEMS PREPARE TO VOTE FDR FOURTH TERM   Truman Boomed For Vice President Job Although Wallace Fights On

Roosevelt’s Name Given Convention   Barkley Speaks— Vice-President Fight Grows Bitter

FDR Nominated For: 4th A erm Amid Bitter Row __ About Vice. Presidency

Democrats Show Enthusiasm For  FR Fourth Term   Group To Discuss Protests Against Wickard, Governor Black

SECOND POST GHT AFTER FDA NAMED   Truman Only Contestant Lett Will Oppose Wallace for Nomination.

Wallace Hits Comeback Trail in His Fight for Renomination.   TRUMAN IS CONFIDENT

FOURTH TERM BOOM GROWS   Sentiment For Roosevelt Is Apparently Growing in Demo Committee Ranks.

Wallace-Truman Battle Flares At Convention   lowan Staging Comeback but Cards Stacked Against Him

Unexpected Assistance ls Booster For Truman   Roosevelt Will Be Renominated Late In Afternoon

Supporters of Wallace Make Decided Rally   Counted Out of Race For Vice President, Henry Wallace Makes Strong Comeback

Democrats ‘fo Name Roosevelt Today   President To Accept By Radio; Wallace Remains In Fight For Second Position.

Wallace Gains As Convention Showdown Nears  BP jie. m Tat FF.   Kansas Support Pledge May Indicate New Swing To lowan.

Term IV Nomination In Bag by Nightfall   Selection of Running Mate Set for Tonight   Choice Apparently Between Wallace  And Senator Truman, A Platform Fight

CLAIMS TOTAL OF 319 VOTES OUT OF 589   Hits Comeback Trail After _* All But Counted Out   TRUMAN BACKERS   Still Confident, Predicting His Nominati tion On First Ballot

Wallace Hits Comeback Trail  In VP Fight   Walker Favors Truman; Ickes. Biddle For Renom * * awa en ta sa Pr   KANSAS FOR LOWAN

HENRY A. WALLACE, HIT COMEBACK TRAIL TAURSDAY’S SESSION  "SENATOR “TRUMAN, “HIS LEADING RIVAL GAINS SUP PORT CABINET MEMBER

Leaders Split On Candidate: For 2nd Spot   FDR to Deliver Acceptance by Radio Tonight

Wallace Makes Gains In Contest   Truman Backers Concede NothingNo Campaigning, Senator Says

Truman Still Favored Over Vice President   Look for Break To Missourian y On Second Ballot

TEXAS NAMING TS DELEGATES   Demos Naming 48 to Na, tional Convention GOP To Pick 33.

Ath Term Fray On in Texas   Controversy Waxes At Meeting of Texas Democrats

But F.D.R.’s Fourth Terni * Nomination i in Bag me  Nightfall    BARKLEY TO NOMINATE   Acceptance Speech Ti night; Both Texas Dele” gations Seated i

Wallace Still Battles For VF Nomination   Sen, Guffey Challenges Rule of Party Bosses

FDR’s Nomination To Be Made During  Afternoon Session   Democrats Advance Program; Wallace Gains Strength

HENRY WALLACE HITS THE COMBACK TRAIL IN CHICAGO   Kegarded by Many as All Hut Counted Out 24 Hours Ago.   GETS 16 FROM KANSAS   Sen. Harry Truman Said He Would Win the Nomination.

Texas Votes Hinge On Future   Waiting For 4th Term Battle; Bricker Says CIO. To Spend $5,000,000.

ROOSEVELT :T0. BE NOMINATED FOR ATH TERN   Will Accept in Radio Address Tonight; Coalition Threat pne

Democrats To Nominate FR: Early Today   Farley Against 4th Term; To Support Byrd; Jackson Lauds President

Action Helps Candidacy Of Wallace   Mayor Kelly of Chicago Takes Action—Illinois Backs Lucas

PICKS UP 16 (ANSAS VOTES AFTER CAUCUS   But Truman Backers Forecast His Early Nomination

—DeMmOs Prepare £0 HNenominate Fama  Wallace Gains In V-P Battle

TRUMAN GETS SUPPORT FROM FRANK WALKEF   Wallace Cheered by Kansas Backing. Farley to Give His Support to Senator Byrd

Texas Democrat Battle Over: Ag Delegates  ‘Pro: 7. id Anti- FDR. ‘Fourth Term: ‘Factions An. Bitter: Fight: “

SELECTION OF RUNNING MATE PRESAGES ROW   319 1-2 Votes Are Claimeds Hannegan Directs Came paign For Truman ‘

Fourth-Term Nomination Set For Late Today   Cabinet Members Are Split Between Wallace and Truman

EAS POLITICAL CE SSLONG TORRIL   Democrats And Republicans Naming Dele. gates For Conventions

“Missourian _. Tells Friends . IT Will Win’   Two Cabinet Members Are Out In Open for Wallace, One for Truman   BALLOTING MAY & BEGIN TONIGHT   But It May Go Over . Until -Yomorrow; Roosevelt to ° Be Named Today

A FOURTH TERM NOMINATION IS EXPECTED TODAY   Democrats Will Then Plunge into Battle of Vice-Iresidential Nomination.   TRUMAN THE FAVORITE   Hut Fighting Henry Wallace Making It Tough for First allot Vote.

Democratic Bloc \Hits Farm Policy   No Opposition to Roosevelt Shown

But F.D.R.’s Fourth Term Nomination in Bag by - Nightfall   BARKLEY TO NOMINATE   Acceptance Speech T. night; Both Texas hag  gations Seated

Fourth Term Speech Waited   Wallace Gaining Ground in Battle for Vice-President Nomination; Cabinet Members Split Over Leading Contenders

FDR Nomination Due Amid Discordant Hue  Barkley Threatens Speech Holdup   Barkley Threatens Speech Holdup When White House Backs Truman

Convention Sweons Every Time Franklin-Delano Roosevelt’s Name Is Mentioned   GOP ‘Tired Old Men’ Cry Refuted

Kansas Pledges Its Votes Tc lowan; Roosevelt Set To ‘Accept’ In Address

WALLACE PICKS Ip STRENGTH   Postmaster ~ Frank Walker Throws Support to Sen. Truman for Vice President

PARTY LEADERS BATTLE OVER SECOND PLACE   Ickes Supports Wallace In Wire To FDR

May Nominate FDR During The  Late Afternoon   Democratic Chairman Say: Convention Is Being Speeded—Wallace Not Counted Out as Yet.

South Drops “Hs Fight On  Race Issue   Plan for Floor Fight On Platform Suddenly Abandoned   NOT ENOUGH FOR MINORITY REPORT   Requires 12 Signatures and Only Eight Southern States Sion

Souther ners Drop Fight on Racial Issue   Platform Committee Re jects Proposed “White Supremacy” Plank °

Roosevelt Will Accept Tonight  Name of Franklin D.  Rancevelt Thrawe

Party Looks fo F.D.R. fo Calm Bitter Disputes   President Talks Tonight; Rift in Ranks Widening

KANSAS TO BACK VICE PRESIDENT, TRUMAN MUM   Missouri Senator Claims ‘He is Not Campaigning for Anything’

NOMINATION OF FDR I$ DUE TODAY   Demo Delegates Will Hear President On Radio Tonight

Racial Plank Studied by Democrats   PLATFORM DRAFTERS MAY CHANGE VOTE PRACTICES

Democrats Prepare to Renominate F. R., Turn ito Bitter 2nd Place Fight

Ickes, Pepper Back Vice President, Postmaster Walker Says ‘For Truma:   Agriculture Chief Reported to have Told Roosevelt He Erred in Naming Truman as  Second Choice—Liberals Flock to Iowan

What's This Noise About Shortages?   FARMERS REPORTED TO BE PLOWING UNDER VEGETABLE CROPS

LOW PRICES CAUSE TRUCK FARMERS TO PLOW UNDER CROPS   Rio Grande Valley Scene of Most Widespread Destruction of Crops.

Germans Admit Breach In Lines Becomes Wider   British Contradict Nazi Claim That Some Of Area Recaptured

Germans, Still Fighting Hard, Have Brought Up Fresh Troops   YANKS MOPPING UP NAZIS NORTHWEST OF CHERBOURG   Allied Bombers, Crossing Channel, Apparently Hit Nazi Targets In France

Germans Still Resisting Hard, Have Brought Up Fresh Troops To Battle Front.

CENSOR OFFICE ASKS STRICTER CHARDON NEWS   Warns Against Publication Of Information Vital To Enemy

Black Market News Sources Frowned Upon   With Invasion by Allies Near at Hand, Censor Cautions Against Backstairs GosCi.

Silence Urged On Invasion  Americans Asked   Americans Asked Not to Gossip About Plans ©

OTRICT CENSORSHIP OBSERVANCE URGED; STATEMENT BY PRICE  TIME AND PLACE INVA. SION MUST BE PROTECT-

Moratorium On Backstairs ‘Gossip Due   Price Asks Caution When Coming Attack On Europe Discussed

Preinduction Quotas To Be Made Up Of  18-26 Group   After That Is Exhausted Those In 26 To 29-Year Age Are To Be Taken; A-BRe Teh Re Reviewed

Calling Of Older Men Not Barred In New Order   Those In 30-38 Year Group Can Be Taken To Fill Preinduction Quota For June

Britain And U. S. Plan to Isolate Southern Ireland From  Outer World, Says Churchill

PLANS STEPS T0 ISOLATE NATION   Asserts Allied Troops En. dangered Through Leaks In Eire  WORKING WITH tT Ss

Plan to Isolate Southern Ireland  To Seal Off Spies   Churchill Tells Commons Area Will Be Blocked Off From Outer World.   Implies Restrictions  To Be Made on Eire

Warns Eire Of Quarantine By  U.S.. Britain   Churchill Declares Allies Plan To ‘Isolate Southern  Fost aevel Mi   [EXTEND RESTRICTIONS

(30LAT  ION OF AREA PLANNED   U. S. and Britain Ready for Virtual Quarantine of Southern Ireland.   METHODS NOT DISCLOSED

Eire To Be Put Under Virtual  Quarantine   Churchill Reveals Complete Blockade Planned Bv Britain, U. 5S.

To Isolate Eire From the World   Churchill Tells Commons ‘ot Plans; But: Methods Are Not: Dis@losed ;   MUST SEAL OFF . ” ALL SPY¥-SPOTS   A Painful Task, But a Necessary One, the. Prime Minister Says.

OLATION OF EIRE. PLANNED, CHURCHILL INFORMS COMMONS   Potential Spy Post Will Be Sealed Off; Semi-Blockade Is Hinted   INVASION MENACE SGITED

Extension Of Bans Against _Spy-Post Sure   Churchill Discloses Inten-. tions As Critical Period   Of Allied Strategy  Approaches    Guar ding Against Army Ratastrophe   Prime Minister Savs Doweisions in Accord With Planned Action; Backs U. S. Stand

Allies Will Close Doors To lreland   Semi-Blockade Hinted By Churchill To Bar Spying By Axis Agents

SOUTHERN IRELAND WILL BE SOLATED DURING INVASION   “Generations Would Not Heal Gulf” lf German Spies In Erie Cause Disaster, Churchill Says.   RESTRICTED TRAVEL IS INITIAL MOVE IN PLAN   America Took Initiative to _ Protect Soldiers With Full Support of British Offic ers.

U.S. and Britain Will Enforce Isolation of Southern Ireland To Thwart Axis Spy Activities

CHURCHILL SAYS ALLIES PLAN T0 SEAL OFF EIRE   SOUTHERN IRELAND TO BE ISOLATED FROM OUTER WORLD

Churchill Says Eite To Be Isolated Due To Refusal To Break With Axis

SOUTH IRELAND TO BE ISOLATED FROM WORLD.   Churchill Telis Commons Drastic Steps To Be Taken by America and Britain

CHURCHILL SAYS STEPS REQUIRED TO AID ARMIES   U. S. Took Initiative, He Declares—Semi-Blockade of Nation Hinted

Quarantine Termed Necessary To Save Lives Of Troops, Prevent Espionage

Southern Ireland Will Be Isolated From Outer World   Potential Spies-Nest to be Sealed Off Betore  Invasion

PLAN TO SEAL SPY-POST TOLD BY CHURCHILL   Britain and’U. S. to. Quarantine Troublespot by Method Not Revealed.

U.S. and Britain to Isolate Southern Ireland, Churchill Tells Commons

Allies Acting. To Nip. Leaks On Invasion, Says Premier   U. S., Britain Work Closely Upon Moves

Allies May Isolate Eire From World   Churchill Explains Why Virtual Quarantine May May Have to Be Set Up

Britain, U. S. Plan Eire isolation From Outside  World, Churchill Warn:

TO ISOLATE $0, IRELAND FROM WORLD   Security Pieasure Taken To Keep Enemy Out

‘Quarantine’ On Eire Told By Churchill   Travel Curb First Step in Isolation Policy. He Tells Parliament   ARRESTS IN IRA   Catastrophe to Invasion Plans Danger, Says British Premier

To Isolate Southern Ireland :    Allies Plan to Seal Off Potential Spy-.  Post During Period Preceding Invasion

Quarantine of Spy Outpost Told By Churchill   Allied Plans May Include Blockade Of South Ireland

Eire To Be Isolated By Allied Move   Axis Spy-Post Will Be Sealed Before Troops Launch Invasion Of Continent—Churchill

Ireland to Be Isolated From Outside World   Churchill Asserts Potential Spy-Post Of Nazis Will Be Sealed Off bv Move

Eire Will Be Isolated From Rest Of World   —CnHURCUHRILML Britain And U. S. Plan Quarantine To Seal Off Potential Sov Post.

Churchill Declares South lreland Will Be Isolated  Virtual Quarantine To Be Result of  Undisclosed Plans

Quarantine Near For South Ireland   Potential Spy Center in Eire To Be Isolated from Outer World

Churehill Tolsolate Britain From Eire Soon   Travel Restriction  Is First Step, Says Prime Minister, To Protect Allied Forces

PARIS BOMBED LATE LAST NIGHT   Crash Startles Cit y Before 11 O'clock, Sirens Sound

Nazi Planes Bomb Paris!   Wounded Servicemen’s Club Struck by One Explosive

Nazis Stage Short Raid Over Paris   Is First Aerial Blow Struck at Captial Since Late in August

German Bomber: Blast Paris In Brief Raid   Slight Casualties, Damage Reported By U. S. Authorities

Paris Rocked in Nazi  Bombing Raid   Some Casualties and Damage Caused by Enemy

Americans Lead Slavic Patriots   Tilo’s Forces Altempting To Clear Adriatic

SULUTION sdvch! 10 GAS WENACE   Health Board Offic’al to Confer With City on Sewer Gas Escape

SOLUTION SOUGHT Th RAS MENACE   Health J Board Offic'al Confer With City bay Sewer Gas Escape

Politics  Bree Sneach Raing Exerriced Freely   Free Speech Being Exercised Freely

STEEL CENTER “CHEERS DEWEY   Crowds Line Streets of Pittsburgh   ereeentenenes Somes  Meets Business and Labor Leaders

Ickes To Take More Mines   Empowered to Seize, Operate Four Companies Tied up in Labor Disputes

Take Over More Mines   FDR Orders Seizure Of. Four Coal Pits Shut Down By Strikes

F. R. ORDERS ICKES TO SEIZE MINES IN COAL STRIKE: 70 PLANTS LISTED

Iekes Seizes  Coal Mines   Instructed By President — Roosevelt; Threaten 66 Other Mines.

Deny a Report Herriot Dead   Berlin Broadcast Had Put it on The Air Waves

PANZFESt STRENGTH AT CAEN   French Premier Dies In Custody of Germans

Herriot, OneTime French Premier, Dies   Berlin Broadcast Reveals Death; Vichy Reported Him Il] Last September

Rome Beachhead Attacks Beaten Off By Sth Army   Mountain Assault Is Preceded By Record Artillery Barrage   Pope To Broadcast Plea To Allies’ To Spare Eternal City

Herriot Dead Say Germans   Premier Of France Had Been Reported Dead From Time To Time.

Vichy Radio Says Hervist’s Death Report Is “Error”   Broadcast Says Health Is Good

F our Persons Killed In State. Traffic Mishaps   14 Others Suffer Injuries In Crashes  During Weekend —

NAZI BATTLESHIP  TIRPITZ BOMBED   Blasted In Berth in Norway;  Was Already Crippled by   Previous Blows.

U.S. Attorney Gen. Orders Grand Jury Investigation of Transportation Tieup

Admits Slaying Of Sheriff Al Warsaw Jail      Harold Goff Is Captured And Signs Statement Before Officers   SPIRITED AWAY FOR SAFE KEEPING   Didn't Intend to Kill the Sheriff, He Says; Officer Was Shot Three Times

american Doughboy Doesn't React to  Goebbels Book as Nazis Would Desire

Sen. Clark Beaten in St. Louis   Donnell Wins Hands Down in G.O.P. Race; Bradshaw Wamed for Governor   DONNELLLY WINS ON. DEMOCRATIC SIDE   About 30,000 Absentees Re- main to Be Counted in - Canvass Friday

Donnell Piles Up Big Lead in Republican Race   Donnelly Is Nominated by Democrats in the Race For Governor.   Ferguson Is Whipped By Jean P. Bradshaw

Clark Trailing Almost 20,000 Votes; _ Bradshaw Leads Ferguson Like Numbe:   Donnell, McKittrick Carry  Jasper County; Ferguson And Donnelly tor Governor

NEW DEAL NOW LIVES IN PAST DEWEY ASSERTS   Demos Have Turned Te Political Bargaining, He Says

‘One Man Type Of Government H: In Dewey Speech  Republican Candidate Says Roosevelt Using G. 0. P. Program —

EARN RT oON I OE SE ONES ON ES REE RTC Oe! CERO NRE MOM HF  New Deal Seeks To Live on Past,  Dewey Charges   Says President Trying To Make Political Capital -Gut. of Social Gains .

NEW DEALISM IS BANKRUP}, DEWEY THINKS   REPUBLICAN LEADER ASSAILS ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT

Dewey Looses New Barrage at l-Man Government   Says New Deal Is ‘Bankrupt Organization Living Only to Extend Its Powers Over Daily Lives of Our People’

Hannegan Will Head Committee   Hailed By Group As “Second Jim Farley”

FDR Asks Aid For Refugees  Suggest Free People Of Europe, Asia ~ a

OPEN GATES TO REFUGEES—FDR   President Chides Critics Who Say U. S. Lacks Foreign Policy

PRESIDENT ASKS REFUGEE HAVEN   Urges Free People Of Asia, Europe Admit Oppressed

FDR ASSERTS "AMERICA WILL AID REFUGEES   Proposes Free Peoples of Europe And Asia Open Frontiers to Victims of Oppression   WILL OPEN DOORS   President Sarcastically Answer: Crilics, Declaring Nation Ha: Foreign Policy

Urges Those Fleeing Hitle Be Received   Pledges Philippine Freedom, Guilty To Be Punished

FDR Pledges U.S. to Give Refugee Aid   Reaffirms ‘Decision of United Nations to Punish Axis War Criminals

Hull Calls On Hungary To Resist Nazi Forces:   “Doosevell Asks Free Peoples Of Europe, Asia Open Frontiers To Victims Of Oppression

HAVEN SOUGHT BY FDR FOR EUROPE’S OPPRESSED  America to Assist in Escape Of Refugees Marked for Death

Aid Is Asked For Refugees   Assistance. Sought  For Needy By FDR

FR. Promises Refugees Aid In Escaping   President Pledges Freedom, Independence To Filipino Nation

FR Proposes ‘Refuge, For Axis Victims   Free People of Europe And Asia Asked to Take In Oppressed

F.D.R. Asks Doors Opened To Oppressed   Reiterates U. S. Plans to Aid Escape Of Refugees Marked For Death by Enemy

F. D.R. Tells Refugees ‘Day Near”   PHILIPPINE FREEDOM PLEDGED IN FOREIGN POLICY STATEMENT

Asks Free Nations To Aid Eseape Of Refugees   Roosevelt Also Defends Foreign Policy; War Guilty Pay; Freedom Ear Philippines Urged

FDR Urges Open Door For Refugees   Reaffirms VU. S. Plan to Free Philippines

FR. Asks Haven For Refugees In Europe, Asia   President Lashes At Critics of U. S. Foreign Policy

FD Asks Free Countries To Aid Oppressed   President Raps Critics Who Assert US Has No Foreign Policy

HULL ASSERTS U.S. STANDS ON ATLANTIC PACT    ‘Fears Unity Break In Efforts To Compel Russian And British Adherence

—REF FUGEES—  Asks H “Help For Axis  Victims    Suggests Free Peoples Of Europe, Asia Open Frontiers ~

Petitions Aid For Relugees   President Declares U. S. To Fulfill Pledge Of Filipino Independence.

F.D.R. ASKS REFUGE FOR NAZI VICTIMS   Reaffirms ‘Pledge to Aid Escape of Those Marked for Death and Urges Free Nations to Oven Frontiers.

FREE PEOPLES  ARE ASKED TO HELP   Guilty Will Be Punished, President Declares   PROMISE   Of Independence To Philippines Is Reaffirmed; Appeal To People

FOR U AID FOR REFUGEES FLEEING NAZI YOKE  Tyrants Will BePunished   Many Innocent Peoples Being Starved, Frozen And Murdered By Axis Aggressors, Roosevelt Says: Philippines To Be Free

Roosev elt Calls For Open  : Doors To Fleeing Refugees   Reaffirms America’s Intention To Aid Escape Of Those Marked For Death By Axis

FDR ANSWERS CRITICS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLIC)   Reaffirms Intention of America to Aid Escape of Refugees

Paratroopers Heroic Crew   Fight Through Nigh! Against Vastly Superior Forces

Not Every Man Can Be A Hero In War, But  Many Heroes Among The  Invading Paratroopers

PARATROOPERS SCATTER NAZIS IN FIRST RAID   Many Prisoners Captured By Unsung Heroes

Paratroop Role Is Heroic   Correspondent Bows To Gallant Men Who Paved Way for Sea- . -horne Invasion Forees

Paratroopers Come Nearest To Being Army Heroes   FIRED AT BY GERMANS

Fight in Cowboy And Indian Style   Paratr. ers Who Land in  Normandy Are Heroes of  * * than  ei

Paratroopers’ Fight in Night Theme of Descriptive Stor)   Stoneham Writes of U. S. Troops’ Heroism Dur- ~ ing Invasion

PARATROOPS HOLD CLAIM TO HEROISM   Nearly Every One Who Hit Normandy Coast or D-Day Came Close to Reaching Goal

Nearly Every Paratrooper a Hero  First Blow i in: France  a. Nightmare

JAKE LIVORNO, THIRD LARGEST  » PORT OF ITAL!   Clark’s Men Smash_ Nazi Forces, Break Barrier @ to Po Defenses

Qutflank Nazis, Take Huge Port,  Poles In Ancona   Allies Now Threaten Gothic Line, Last Ditch Defenses In Po Valley

CAPTURED BY AMERICANS IN FIFTH ARMY   Only 250 Miles From Southern Gateway to Germany

OUT DF A BATTLE AREA   Party of Missionaries Safe After Grueling March

Weep, Gals! Sinatra’s Off the Air; Tibbett Mentioned for ‘Hit’ Role

it Will Be a Sad New Year, Girls; Frankie Sinatra Quits Hit Parade

Lord Lonsdale, Colorful English Sportsman, Dies   Once Fought John L, Sullivan For 5 Rounds Under Assumed Name“And Won

LEND-LEASE AID TO BE REDUCED   Return To Normal Trade _ Expected After Defeat  Of Germany

Britain Given Two Billion In Foodstuff Aid   This Element Lend-Lease Civilian Supply Will Require Adjustment After  Nazis’ Defeat

British Given Two Billion In Foodstuffs  Steady Curtailment In Lend-Lease Is

Lend-Lease To Britain  Two Billion   Reverse LendLease up to January  Billion and Half

LEND-LEASE OF FOODS STUDIES   Adjustment Expected On Shipments At War's End

LEND-LEASE TO BRITAIN SHOWN   U. S. Has Furnished British With Two Billion Worth Of Foodstuffs

Britain Gets Two Billion In - Food Supplies   Major Adjustment Problem in Lend-Lease After War

2 Billions in Foodstuffs Sent Britain  U.S. Makes Renort   U. S. Makes Report On Lend-Lease; Future Needs Unknown

AID GIVEN OVER YEAR PERIOD   EXPECT LEND-LEASE CURTAILMENT AFTER DEFEAT OF GERMANY

Leaders Plan ToAdjust Lend-Lease   Present Situation Necessitates Fewer New Loans

TWO BILLION IN LEND-LEASE FOOD TO THE BRITISH   is Most Vital Element of Civilian Supply to Be Adjusted When Struggle With Ger many Ends — Curtailment ee. Tok Demetd

EXPLAINS POLICY ON LEASE-LEND   ‘Most of Aid to Britain ' 7 Has Been in Food

LAND DEFENSES MAKE EFFORTS TO HALT FLIERS   At Least 21 Rail Centers And 15 Airfields Vital For Nazi Defense  Hit

Over 6,000 Planes Used ln Assault   tite. Egie Wa hE Exploding Rockets  Thrown Up by West Wall

ROCKET F ‘GREETSPLANES AT WEST WALL   Over 6,000 Allied Planes Attack Transportation Centers, Dropping 8,000 Tons of Bombs.   Cities Smoulder

6,000 Planes Hit Airfields, Rail Centers   “Few Aircraft Lost Despite Intense Flak And Rocket Barrage  LUFT WAFFE CAUTIOU!

11 Rail Centers, 15 Air Fields Bombed by Allie:   Nazis Use Rockets In Strong Defense

PLANES BLAST NAZI DEFENSE   Railways, Airfields in Europe Pounded; Foe Uses Rockets

6000 Planes Smash Axis Railyards, Airdromes   Blows From Britain, Italy Slam 8000 Tons of Bombs on Transport Bases, Meet Unprecedented Rocket Defense

NAZI AIRFIELDS AND RAIL CITIES. HEAVILY BOMBEI   Six Thousand Planes Make Assault — Spectacular Rocket Defense Put Up by Germans.   TOULON AND ANTWERP ARE AMONG TARGETS   ‘Americans Lose Four Bombers and 12 Fighters and. Blast Nine Enemy Craft  From Skies.

Allied Planes Attacking Nazis Meet Thick Veil Of Exploding Rockets   More Than 6,000 Aircraft Pound Airdromes, Transportation Centers

6,000 Airplanes Deliver Crushing Blow To Nazi Coast Defenses   Heavies Pene(rate Into Serlin. Germans Send Up Ruckels Ti Defense With) Small Donwee

Nazi Rocket Guns Fire Ai Allied Planes   Two-Way Aerial Assault Crushes German Airdromes

LEADING NAZI RAIL CENTERS ARE ATTACKED   EXPLODING ROCKETS MEET AMERICANS AT WESTWALL

ClO Steelworkers, Steel Corp. Each Blames Other  ermmerwerltsns «ma

TODAY’S WAR ANALYSIS—  Valuable Italian Ports Soon Will Serve Allies

Knows Nazis, Sure They Will Attack   Gen. Cannon Says Luftwaffe Has Wallop, But Is Whipped

Allied Planes Holding Sway At Beachhead   Nazis Definitely Whipped In Rome Sec: tor, Says Gen. Cannon

Valiant Chinese Stall Enemy Offensive At Banks Of Lung; 'MacArthur'’s Men Push Ahead

CHINESE STALL JAPS IN CHINA   Also Mark Up Gains Ir Burma Fighting.

Air Assaults Reduoed By Bad Weather   Heavy Formations Hit Three Bases

2,200 Tons of Explosives Drop on Freight Yards In Trappes, Teringer and Saumur; Vital German Supply Centers

British Bomb French Rails   Invasion Coast Attacked New Raids Indicated

FRENCH INVASION COAST BLASTED   BOULOGNE AND DIEPPE _AREAS BELIEVED POUNDED BY ALLIED FLEET.

FRENCH RAIL FUNNELS ARE UNDER FIRE   From Powerful Night Blow of RAF; Followed by Bomber Raid on InVasion Coast.   Danube Canal

France Again Target for Allied Bombs   Allied Planes Take Off After Murky Weather Clears

Allied Air Blows Tie Up Nazi Transportation   Bombers Pound Strategic French Railway Centers   German Troop Movements Are Cut Drastically

Bombers Continue Attack on France   Invasion Coast Blasted by RAF

RAIDS ON RAIL CENTERS KEPT UP BY ALLIES   REPEATED ASSAULTS DISLOCATE NAZI SUPPLY LINES

French Coast Objectives  Hit, However   Medium Bombers Out Following Night Raid: On Railroad Centers  RICUTERS FTY. TOO

Strong Bombing Forces Pound Invasion Coast   Formations Strike Out After Powerful RAF Night Blow on  French Rail Points

Union Talks New Walkout — At Ward Co.   Appeal. for Government Seizure Is Said Likely Again

EXPECT SECOND WARD WALKOUT   Committee Completes Probe of Government Seizure

POSSIBILITY OF NEW STRIKE AT WARD CO. LIKELY   If Another Strike Does Occur Union Declares Governmen: Will Again Be Asked to Take Over Plant

(Continued on Page %.) wave Your Tin Case—   Another Ward Strike Seen as Possible

Another Ward Strike Seen   Union Statement Says Government Will Be Called In If Happens.

WARD STRIKE THREAT LOOMS   Firm Denies WLB Righ to Extend Contract

Another Ward Strike Looms   Ward Official Challenges WLB Powers In Case.

Montana’s Future Is Splendid, H. J. Kaiser Says  - Nature Has Endowed  State With Many

U. S. Planes In New Raids On Germany   Heavy Bombers Leave England in Force for An other Daylight Attack

ANKS ATTACK GERMANY AGAIN: FOLLOWING RAF   Planes from England. and Italy Carry on With Pul-_ yerizing Smashes.

Move fo Streamline Congressional Committee Investigations Proposed

RUSSIANS GRAB 114 LOCALITIES IN PSKOV PUSH   Reds Reported 28 Miles From Bastion; Bad Weather Helps

Reds Close In Toward Pskov   Krivoi Rog May Be Made Second Korsun Trap

Russian Armies Are Closing In On Pskov Sector   Report That Soviets Are Within 28 Miles of Their Goal

REDS MOVE ON PSKOV; SEIZE MANY TOWNS   More Than 114 Localities Taken in the Ad-  - Vance _   BELATED BLIZZARDS  AID THE RUSSIANS   New Soviet Victories in _ Other Sectors An naiineed

Chinese Take Two Nip Bases   Tokio Terms Suichwar Yank Post, Within  Range of Homeland

POST-WAR TAX PLAN   Urges Reduction or Elimination of Corporation Levies

Cily Planning Is Deseribed By Koch As Just “Orderly: Preparation Fay Futuve”

City Planning Is Described By Koch As Just “Orderly Prenaration For Future’

SABOTEURS RAZE PLANT   Destroy Biggest Factory In Scandinavia  ——  Made War Supplies  Liaw ('anrnmantyr

DANES DESTROY BIG NAZI PLANT   Saboteurs Wreck Shipyard and Huge Metallurgical Factory

Valera Wroth Over U. S. Note   Shouts “This Is An UItimatum”; Censorship Grows More Strict.

De Valera Ired At-U.S: Appeal   Message Referred “To As Ultimatim

SOVIET TROOPS TAKE 2 TOWNS   Reds’ Fourth Army Advances Through Blinding Snow in Czechoslovakia

REDS TAKE THREE Rall CENTERS   Also Capture Germans Moved From Italian Front on Rest Pretext

Dewey Beats Stassen In  South Dakota   Senator Gurney Is Renominated

Germans’ Guns  Rake Florence   Allies Move Slowly Ahead Alone Thalian Frant

Bullets Fly In Streets Of Florence   Despite Declaration As  Open City, Cannons  a Shall British Ove Amo ‘“tunks

BULLETS WHISTLE AN CITY'S. STREETS      Germans, Despite Promise, Pour Artillery Fire Into Florence .

GERMANS FIRE INTO FLORENCE   a  Shelling Started Despite Promises to Hold Art Center Open City

Both Sides of Arno; Bullets Whistle in Streets of City: Nazis Use Artillery.   Poles Take Villages

Nazi Artillery Shells Florence  City Virtually Is in Allied Hands

EIGHTH ARMY SECURES GRIP IN FLORENCE   Despite Enemy’s Claim of “Open City”, Bullets Whistle In Streets Of Art Center

FLORENCE BESIEGED BY BRITISH TROOPS   Germans Pouring Heavy Artillers Fire Into City Despite  Promises

GERMANS FACE SHORTAGES IN WAR MATERIAL   Allies Believe Hitler’s Time About Up

War Metals Nearing Crisis   Germany Must Win Quickly or Lose Vital Alloys, as Allies Cut Source

GERMANY NOW FACES SERIOUS METAL SHORTAGE   Neutral Blockade of Tur-kish Chtome and Spanish Wolfram Means Nazis  Must Taper Off Produc tion

German Armament Industry Is Faced With Critical Choice in Its Policy

Reich Feels Trade Pinch   Effect on War Pro-' duction Greater As Allied Pressure on Neutrals Increases

ARMY TAKES OVER CUDAHY PACKING CO.   Seizure Follows Firm’s Alleged Failure to Comply With War Labor Board Order.

Military Stork vs Hospitals ---‘Doctor Charges ‘Conspiracy   Physician Turns Office Into Baby Ward

AP Plans World Wide Expansion of News Collection and Distribution

“Cultural Objects In Pe-l; Florence ‘Safe 3y Decree As British See Lights

Yanks, Nazis Duel Across  Arno in Italy   Battle for Pisa Is Opened; Florence May Fall Unharmed

As Battle for Pisa Begins; Florence Expecied to Fall Unharmed; Germans Using Tower.   Polish Cross Misa

BIG GUNS OPEN DUEL FOR PISA   Fate Of Historic Points Un determined; Vatican  Paper Intervenes

DOUGHBOYS IN BATTLE FOR CITY OF PISA   American Stage Artillery Duel With Germans Across Arno River

President Calls On Nation for Rededieation   Issues Proclamation For Observance of Armistice Day, Nov. 11]

1944 Armistice Day Proclamation Is Issued by President Roosevelt

Pacific Outlook Brighter Than In March, 1942 When MacArthur Left Philippines For Australia

2 Years Ago MacArthur Arrived In Australi«   Picture Of War In Pacific Has Changec Greatly Since; General Is Feted

MacArthur Confident As He Starts 3rd Year of War On Japanese From Australia

MacArthur's Dream to Return to the Philippines Grows Ever Brighter

Philippines Are Still  His Goal    MacArthur Has Never Swerved from Vow to Return; Nearly Ready For Drive Back Now

M’ARTHUR ON ROAD BACK AFTER TWO YEARS  SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF ARRIVAL IN AUSTRATIIA FINDS TAPANFESE ON DEFENSIVE

FINLAND BALKS AT INTERNMENT OF NAZI TROOPS   Little Baltic Nation's Reply to Russian Proposals for an Armistice Completed.

FINNS REPLY ON RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS   Reject Two  Demands of Soviet Government

Envoy Expected to Return to Stockholm Sunday or Menday With Finnish Reply

sins Turn Down Two Red Demands   Reply to Peace Terms Calls for Further Data on Details

FINLAND TC RESIST 2 SOVIET DEMANDS IN PEACE PROPOSAL   Report Finnish Reply To Russia Ready For Delivery

Finland Rejects  Red Terr   COUNTRY, IN REPLY, REPORTED REFUSING INTERNMENT OF NAZIS

Finns Reject Internment of German Troops   Parliament Approves Answer To Conditions  Laid Down By Russ

Cross Ar no  ROME; July 17, (PH Allied troops crossed the Arno river today,   6 Die:in Fire At Denver.

Fire At Denver Takes Six Lives   Amusement Park Crowd Caught In Flames

Six Persons Die Of Burns   Bodies of Two Soldiers And Their Wives Found in Gaily Painted Boat

Amusement Park  Blaze Kills Six   Fire In Tunnel of Love Claims Soldiers

SIX. PERISH IN FLAMES THAT SWEEP “OLD MILL”  Scenic Boat Ride in Denver Park Scene of Sunday afternoon Traged:

Fire Sweeps Old Mill, Boat Ride Concession At Elitch’s Gardens, Denver, Killing Six Persons

In Hospital Again Harry Hopkins In Sick Bay With Mild Case of Influenza

ENEMY AIR FORCE SUFFERS CRIPPLING BLOWS IN DESPERATE ATTEMPTS TO HOLD PHILIPPINES

‘U.S, POSTWAR TRADE CURBS NECESSARY IN ‘OPINION OF BRICKER   High American Standard Of Living Must Be Guarded, View

Bricker Favors Restricted Trade   Answers Questions Ignored by Willkie

COUNTIAN SERVING WITH FIFTH ARMY   Sgt. Anderson Paul Fights on Foot in Mountains

Army Officer Orders Son Confined  to Base to Prevent His Marriage

Surry Men Go To Army Camp   Mount Airy Board Sends Two Groups This Week

2870 Planes Lost By U.S.   The Complement of 10,284 Men Are Reported Either Wounded or Killed

ATTORNEY GENERAL BIDDLE IS ACCUSED   intervened in Corcoran Case, Littell Charaes

DPA CASE HEAR EIN CIRCUIT COUR’   JIDDLE ACCUSED Or BY BUREAU AIDE IN   Assistant Charges AttorneyGeneral Intervened in Case In Behalf of ‘Tommy the Cork’ Corcoran

Biddle Accused Being Unethical   Justice Asks For Littell’s Resignation Because of “Personal Differences.”

Biddle Accused of Intervention  Justice Department Differences Flare

Accuses Biddle Of Intervention In Special Case   Says Action in Behalf of Corcoran Contrary To Principle

ACTS OF BIDDLE DRAW CRITICISM OF HIS ASSISTANT   Littell Accuses Attorney General of Practices That Violate Principles of Good Government.   MESSAGE TO SENATORS SHEDS LIGHT ON FEUD   Cabinet Officer Said to Have Intervened in Justice Department Case in Behalf of Thomas Corcoran.

BIDDLE ACCUSED OF COLLUSION BY ASSISTANT   Attorney General Said T: Have Intervened In Behalf Of Corcoran   OTHER CHARGES ARE GIVEN COMMITTEE

Littell Accuses Biddle in Report To Senate Group   Attorney General Chargec with Intervening in Shipyards Case

Justice Official Refuses to Resign   Aide Assails Conduct Of Attorney General

New Friction  Develops in Department At Capital   Attorney Gen. Biddle Is Accused by Aide  Of Practices Contrary To Good Government  RESIGNATION ASKED

‘Interference’ Laid to Biddle   Littell Says ‘Boss’ Aided Corcoran

MURDER COUNT FILED AGAINST MERCER GIRL   Accessory Case in Dramatic End as State Lodges More Serious Charge   MOTHER SCREAMS, FAINTS: COURT THRONG STUNNED

Forts, Liberators Hit Enemy Lines   Bridges, Freight Yards Blasted In Germany

Pan-American Parley Urged _ By Argentina   Conference Of Foreign Ministers Proposed I: Move To Reach Bette Understanding

ARGENTINA ASKS TALKS ON STATUS   SEEK CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN NATIONS ON COLLABORATION

Argentine ‘Fate To Be Brought  To Ministers   Republic’s Government Asks Pan-American Union To Call Conference

ARGENTINA ASKS FOR CONFERENCE   Seeks ‘Adequate Solution’ on International Status

Argentina Calls Nations Meet  Pon-America Union Gets Summons to Review Nation Status

ARGENTINE REQUESTS PAN-AMERICAN UNION TO CALL CONFERENCE  WOULD DEFEND HER POSITION CONNECTION INTER NATINNAT ARTIC ATIANG

Union Is Asked By. Argentina To Fix Status   Pan-American Organization Urged to’ Decide “South American Prob lem at Conference

Argentina ASKS For Conference Of Pan-Americas   - Wants Consideration  Of Argentine Status,

ARGENTINA ASKS ‘STATUS PARLEY   Seeks Meeting Of Ministers From American Nations

‘Argentina Now Seeks - Accord With America:   Foreign Ministers O Other Hemisphere ’ Nations Asked

ARGENTINE ASKS FOR CONFERENCE   Convention Is Proposed to Iron Out Difficulties, — tc Pan-American Union

Colonel Arrested For Taking Army Material   Argentina Asks Conference To Consider International Status

BODIES OF WOMEN FOUND IN OZARKS      Missouri Peace Officers Start Hunt for Demented Fiend

BODIES OF HEADLESS WOMEN DISCOVERED   Hotribiy Mutilated Corpses Are Found In Missouti Lak-; Police Seeking Demented Fiend

Women SlainAnd Badly Mutilated   Demented Fiend Is Sought As Attacker

Find Bodies of 2 Headless Women:  Fiend Hunted   Missouri Lake Scene of Grewsome Murder Mystery

Sell $32,320 In Bonds At Royal Amateur Show  Event Sponsored B  Thaatwn Ma...

Sell $32,320 In Bonds At Royal Amateur Show  Event Sponsored B: Theatre Manager _

BEDAUX, FAnieD INDUSTRIALIST, ENDS LIFE   Under Arrest in Miami on Charges of Treason

French Informant Says Anti-Collaborationist Recently Killed by Nazis

Marines Make New Landings Near Peleliu   Nimitz Reveals Japs Lose . 65 Ships in Saturday Attack

YANKS ASTOUNDED BY LANDING EASE   Go Into Southern France With Hardly Any Opposition

Nazis Say, ‘Nothing To Fight For’   By HERBERT L. MATTHEWS (Representing The Combined L. 8.  Denace )

Feeble Resistance Amazes  Invaders; Find Nazi Spirit Cracked, ‘No Fight Left

Flabbergasted Yank Army Speeds Into Southern France;  -Jerries, Fight All Gone, Offer Only Light Resistance

"Pouring In , And Going Ahead Fas’   ® Allies Land Virtually With- out Opposition and Casualties Are Light   e ALL ASTOUNDED AT BASE OF MOVE   g:  No “Major Fighting Seen in ‘First. Hours in-.20-Mile Air Trip

RED ARMIES NEAR BORDER OF HUNGARY   Now Within 15 Miles of the Frontier

REDS WITHIN 19 MILES OF HUNGARY TCDA'   Czechs Claim to Be in Contact With Approaching Army

So-called Leaders Termed Too Timid  Woodring Quits Anti New Deal Past

Fate of Rome May Be Decided By End of Week   Germans Believed Likely To Retire

Fate of Rome May Be Decided Within 10 Days   Indications Are Germans May Retreat from City; Many Troops Menaced

FATE OF ROME IN BALANCE THIS WEEK   Germans May Retire with No Fight, Sparing Devastating Seige for Eternal City.   De Valera Fearful

Say Rome's Fate ‘In Nazis’ Hands: May Leave City   Week Or 10 Days May Decide Whole Turn Of Events

Fate Of Rome May Be Decided In Week      Nazis May Retire From Eternal City Without Fight, ‘Thus Sparing Historic Place the Devasta‘ting Ravaace of Sieaa

Russians Attack Port In Finland  Red Air Raiders Seek To Help Finns Decide

Paper Reports  Himmler Slain   Nazi Hangman Declared In Anti-Hiler Plot

SWISS REPORT HIMMLER USTED   Execution Rumored For Pict To Repiace Hitler

Execution of Nazi Terrorist Viewed likely After Plot to Replace Hitler

Superforts Batter Plane Plants on Jap Mainland   Big Fleet Centers Attack on Nagoya: 10 Enemy Ships Smashed Near Ormoc

Airborne Troops In Invasion Saw Action in Sicily    erica’s S2nd and 10Ist Divisions Are Leading Attack in Normandy — Third Assault for One Outfit.

Airborne Men Lead Invasion  82nd and 101st U. S. Airborne Divisions

CLOSING DATE FOR INCOME TAX FILING   Filing Income Tax  Reports; Must Be  Made by March 15

POLL TAX ISSUE UP AGAIN      Amendment Is Introduced That Would Ban Such Levies

G.0, P. SENATORS FOR AMENDMENT]   33 of 37 Express Themselves For Action to Prevent Poll Tax Levies.

Poll Tax Issue To Fore Again  Amendment To Bar   Amendment To Ban Levies Suggested

Pork Loin, Ham Canned Fish On Rationing Again   Low-Grade Beef, Lamb Made Point-Free In Latest OPA Action

OPA RETURNING PORK CUTS, HAMS TO RATION LIST   Utility Grades Of Beef May Be Point Free — Cheeses Increased

Ham Returns to Ration List 6th   Tnerease Cheese and Butter. Points.

Pork Loins, Hams and Canned Fish To Return to Ration List Sunday

COMPLETE BALLOT FOR SERVICE VOTE IS BRICKER’S PLAN   Legislature Won't Be Asked To Approve Federal Ballot

Club Directors and Supervisors to Meet   Post-war Program to Be Diseussed at Dinner

IOWA CORN CROP. 20% BELOW 1943   July Ist State Report Not Too Encouraging

HEAVY ATTACKS MADE AT NIGHT IBY RAF PLANES   Allies Continuing to Bombard Hitler’s Waning Air Power on West

Night Bombers Attack Mailly And Bucharest   Holland Raiders Return Without Losing a Bomber

TEAR TARGETS ~ INBUCHAREST   German Air Field In Holland Hit By Fortresses; 49 . British Planes Lost

Nazi Supply Systems Are Targets For  Night Flyers   British Strike At Munitions Depat Anc Bucharest; Other Stores Attacked

Flying Forts In Raid Today On Airfield   Aerial Softening Of Germany Roars Into 20th Day; Numerous Targets Struck

NAZI AIRFIELD IN HOLLAND HIT   New Biows By U, S. Heavy Bombers Coincide With Other Attacks.   BUCHAREST TARGETS HIT

More Nazi _ Bases Are ~~ Assaulted   American Raids“in France. . and-Holland- Practically  “TWTIhnannnced         49 RAF: BOMBERS: °° . “LOST LAST NIGH?   Big. ‘Nazi. Supply Dump: at - Bucharest Blasted; Raids: From Both ‘Allied Bases.

France, Holland Hit: Bucharest Raided At Night   Invasion Installations Of Nazis Blasted During Morning

BOMBINGS ENTER 20TH DAY IN ROW   None Of U. S. Bombers Lost In Raid On Enemy Airfield

NAZI SUPPLY SYSTEMS HIT BY AIR FLEETS   ars Pick Targets from sion Coast to Italy and Bucharest.

FORMATIONS OF FORTRESSES ASSAULT NAZI AIR ‘ BROME IN HOLLAND AND RETURN WITHOUT A LOSS  —ESCORTS DOWN NINE ENEMY CRAFT-—ANTH-INV-ASION TARGETS HIT DURING MORNING

BIG AIRFIELD IN HOLLAND BOMBED   Other Planes Raid Targets In Northern France   49 AIRCRAFT   Lost By R. A. F. In Night's Operations: Opposition To Americans Light

BUCHAREST HIT IN TWO RAIDS   Big Military Depot Of Mailly Attacked From British Bases   20TH STRAIGHT DAY

U. S. Planes Keep Air War Going   Big Night Fleets Hit Suburb of Reims, Capital of Rumania

Airfield in Holland Raided Without Loss   Attack. Made by Flying Fortresses, Carrying ~ Pre-Invasiqn Aerial Offensive Into Its Twentieth Consecutive Day.

GREAT ALLIED AIR FLEETS HIT EUROPE 20TH STRAIGHT DAY  RAF BOMBERS HAMM ERE! AT BIG MILITARY DEPOT W MANTY

ce Zh EY PP SRE  AERIAL ASSAULTS ENTER 20TH DAY   Bucharest And. Military Depot At Mailiy Hit In Night Raids   LOSSES ARE LOW   German Anti-Invasions Installations In France ’ Lashed © ”

Forts Hammer Air Field in Holland, Targets in France   U. S. Blows Follow Two Great Allied Night Assaults on ‘Bucharest and Reims

Nazi Bases, Depot Bombed   Anti-Invasion Installations Attacked By British And Americans in Morning

NO OPPOSITION ‘4 MET AFTER ~ NIGHT BLOWS   'Fortresses Follow Up 750 Plane Assault By  RAF Command

Huge Stores Of Invasion Equipment  Are Blasted   ‘Bucharest, France Also Bomb Targets

U. S. Flying Fortresses Hit Air Field   Americans Strike In Holland After Anglo-American Blows in France’

Drop 6,000 Tons Bombs In 24 Hours   Single Nazi Fighter Seen Today Shot Down but British Lese 49 in Night Attacks

Allied Planes   Waning Luftwaffe Powerless Against Giant Air Armadasz

AMERICAN AND BRITISH PLANES CONTINUE RAIDS   Nirfield In Holland Among Today's Targets; German Supply System Badly Pounded In RAF Night Assault.

srye  Is Pr eased For 20th Day  Fortress “Blows « Coincide With Earlier Raid on France ALL BOMBERS SAFE R.A.F. Loses 49 Aircraft in First Night Attack on Bucharest

Forts Pound Nazi Airport in Holland, All Planes Returr   Ludwigshafen, Bucharest, Mailly Hit in Two-Ply Allied Air Assault, 49 British Airplanes Lost

Pre-Invasion Aerial Attacks Pressed on Foe  Great Armadas   Great Armadas Range Over Europe During Last Night

_AAF Slams Airfield; RAF Loses. 49 Bombers In Heavy Attacks   Troops To Channel

Yankee Airmen Smash Balkan Area Of Enemy   Daylight Attack Follows Closely On Hevls Of RAF Assaults On Railway Lines In Romania   49 British Planes Lost In Night Raids   Meet Fieree German Fighter Opposition In Bright Moonlight: Mission Ineluded Ludwigshafen

British Lose’: 49 Bombers it Night Forays       Medium Craft All Return From This. ‘Morning Raids Over France‘:

MILITARY DEPOT OF MAILLY HIT BY RAF BOMBERS   49 PLANES FAIL TO RETURN FROM NIGHT OPERATIONS

RAF Hits Important Enemy Military Target in France; Bucharest Raided From ttaly   German Supply System Is Target Of Heavy Attack by Night-Raiders; U. S. Planes Over North France Today

AERIAL ASSAULT HITS EUROPE IN INVASION AREA   American Bombers Roar Back Over Hitler’s Fortress as British Come Back

Wage Formula Will Get Test In Steel Case   Steel Workers’ Demanis For 17-Cent Pay Hike Certified 1, WIR

People of Occupied Nations Are Told How to Help Allies   Germans Threatening

INVASION ORDERS TO UNDERGROUND   EISENHOWER’S SPEAKER BROADCASTS TO FRENCH

Eisenhower Explains How To Help Allies   Occupied Countries Can Give River, Road,  Bridge Information

INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN ON AID FOR INVASION   Broadcast Comes After Threat of "Terrible and Bloody Reprisals” Against Patriots   QUESTIONS ANSWERED

OCCUPIED AREAS TOLD HOW THEY CAN HELP ALLIES   Gen. Eisenhower’s Headquarters Broadcast More Information As Pre-Invasion Aid

INSTRUCT BY RADIO   Army Speakers Tell Patriots How They May Aid Allies

Eisenhower Tells Occupied Countries More Ways To Aid Invaders When They Strike   Wants Intimate Knowledge About Roads, Other Points; Nazis Threaten Reprisals

People of Occupied Nations Are Told How to Help Allies  Germans Threatening  Bloody Reprisals

Captive Nations Hear Further On Aiding Allies   Knowledge About Roads, Rivers, Bridges, Fields Sought By Eisenhower

EUROPEANS TOLD HOW THEY MAY HELP INVADERS   Eisenhower's Aides Want Information About Roads, Bridges, Landing Fields

Beam Word To Partisans   Allied Spokesman Tells Of More .Ways to Help At Time of Invasion

Ask Undergroun for Information  Eisenhower Sends Word to Patriots

Peoples In Occupied Countries Told How They Can Aid Invasion Armie:

New Invasion Plea Sent to Underground   Eisenhower Replies To Nazi Threat Of Reprisals

Eisenhower Tells People of Europe How to.Help Allied Invasion Armies

Radio Pleas  Again Heard   Eisenhower's Aides Ask Facts, Figures

lke Issues D-Day Instructions To Europe's People   Boosts Morale After Nazi Threat Of “Bloody Reprisals”.

Instructions on Invasion Given   Supreme Headquarters Broadcasts to Occupied Countries

ALLIED COMMANDER TELLS HOW PEOPLES EUROPE CAN ASSIST  BROADCAST TO OCCUPIEL COUNTRIES FOLLOWS

People of Occupied Countries Told Mere Ways They Can Aid in Invasion

More Ways To Aid Invasion Given Europe   Supreme Headquarters Want Information On Roads. Rivers. Bridges.   MAY NEED GUIDES

HOUSE TO ACT ON TAX FREEZE   ‘Solons Convene Early In  Effort to Speed End Of Session :

Three Hour Duel Between Warship and German Coastal Batteries ‘on D Day Graphically Described

BRIEF UPHOLDING: SENATE POWERS ON TREATY PUBLISHET)   TREATS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXECUTIVE AGREEMENTS AND TREATIES

 Winchell Again Under Attack  Dies Committee Votes To Start Probe Of Broadeast

CIVILIAN GOODS SECOND ONLY TO JAP WAR NEEDS   Army, Navy and All Other Government Agencies Agree on Policy

Controls Over Production  To Be Relaxed Immediately Upon Defeat Of Nazi Forces.

Production Controls To Be Lifted After Defeat Of Germany, Acting Chairman Of W. P. B. States

Control Over ProductionTa Be Removed   After German Capitulation; Civilian Need: Rasnmed

Industry Will Get Free Hand in Production   Controls to Be Removed After Germany's Defeat

EASE CONTROLS ON PRODUCTION   Industry To Resume Civilian Production When Germany Falls

NAZI DEFEAT TO LIFT MOST OF OUTPUT LIMITS   Industry to Have Nearly Free Hand in Mapping Production

Most Production Limits Off Soon   Few Controls Stay After Germany Falls

Controls Over Production Will Be Eased After Germany's Defeat   ‘Whatever People Want May be Produced After Needs of Japanese War  ‘are Met.

German Defeat To Bring Back Civilian Goods   Control Over Manufacture To Be _ Relaxed When Nazis Surrender

To Have Free Hand   Controls Off Production of Civilian Goods After Germany Falls

Plan Proauction Cutback After Nazis’ Defeat —   Will Continue Only Enough to Insure Defeat of Japan WPB Announces

REICH’S DEFEAT TO FREE GOODS   Only Essential Controls On Production Will Remain

All Except Essential Production Controls To Go Down With Germany

WPB to Drop Ban on Home  Goods Quickly   Making of Civilian Products to Start After Germany Falls

Manutacture Of Civilian Goods Will Be Permitted Soon As Germans Are Out

All Controls Over Production End  With Nazis’ Fall   Except Supplies To Defeat Janan

CONTROLS FOR PRODUCTION 10 BE TAKEN OFf   After Victory Over Germany, Only Restrictions Will Be for Assuring Japan's Defeat

All But Necessary Controls Over Production To Be Cut After War With Nazis Ends

Today... Don’t Miss   Strike Wave Spreads Over Nation  Detroit Tie-Ups In 17th Davy.

MOTOR STRIKE INTENSITY GROWS   DETROIT UNION SEEKS WLB RECOGNITION

30,000 Stay Away From Jobs In 21 War Plants In Detroit-Windsor Area

Army Orders More  Draft Inductions   More Men Will Be Called In February, March

DRAFTEE CALLS TO BE INCREASED   Boards Receive Orders to Speed Up PreInduetion Tests

Draft Test Calls To Be. Increased  Army Orders: Sharp. Boosts In State

Isolate two foe armies; 2,000 killed  7 é stations taken;  Kaunaseantured

eanehn Of Warsaw   Believed Near   Last Railway and Road From Baltic States” To, East Prussia Cut  VICTTIT A 12 CRARCTNH

Russian Troops In Powerful Sweep Cut All Roads Leading From Baltic To East Prussia

CUT ESCAPE ROADS INTO F PRUSSII   q Warsaw Ablaze With  Russians Pushing Arc of Siege Around Former Polish Capital.   ENEMY. EXPECTED © ~ TO. EVACUATE CITY   Soviets Topple Kaunas, Pre-War Capital of Lithuania — Capture Another Nazi General.

Russian First Baltic Army Cuts Communications  TWO NAZI ARMIES CAUGHT IN A TRAP  Capture of Kaunas Announced by Marshal Stalin

Russian Forces Trap Two German Armies in Baltic, Capture Kaunas   Cul Last Road and Rail Communications between North Baltic Sfates, Prussia

RUSSIANS CUT ALL ROADS 10 EAST PRUSSIA   KAUNAS CAPTURED; ARMIES DRIVE TO BALTIC SEA

ISOLATES TWO NAZI ARMIES   Cut Escape Route From Baltic States Into East Prussia

\Warsaw Siege Ring Narrowed IBy Russ Force   Two Entire Enemy Armie: Ave Reported Isolated Re Road. Rail Cuts

THOUSANDS OF ENEMY TROOPS SEEM DOOMEL   All Roads Leading From Baltic To East Prussia  Are Severed   WARSAW’S CAPTURE BELIEVED IMMINENT

Indicating Possible Evacuation of City; Russian Forces Closing in on East Prussian Frontier.   New Withdrawals

DEFEATS PROMPT BID FOR SUPPORT   NEW AMERICAN AIR BLOWS FALL ALONG 3,500-MILE FRONT

Japan Calls On Asia To Support Life, Death War   Tokyo Cabinet Meets After Superfortress Attacks On Kyushu

East Asia's Subjugated Peoples Called Upon By Japan To Support A Nipponese "War Of Life Or Death’ Against Allies

JAPS GALL ON EAST ASIA T0 RESIST ALLIES   Tokyo Adopts Familiar Naz Propaganda Measure

Japan Warned Pacific War In Decisive Stage   Issue Is One Of Life Or Death, Foreign Minister Declares

Japan Asks East Asians For Support   Peoples Told This Is a War of Life or Death; Air Blows. Soften Way for New In-  vasions

Cails For Aid From East Asia   Japan's Foreign Minister Asks Subjugated People To Support Japs.

LIFE OR DEATH BATTLE-TOKY0   Jap Ministers Plead For Support Midst New Bomb Raids

Japs Issue Cry For Help as 0. 8. Blows Fall  East Asia Slave Peoples Asked To Fight Allies.

Japs Urge Subjugated People To Support Nip "War of Life Or Death" Against the Allies   Associated Press War Fditor Re  FP KPI RCE PD

ii:  JAPS TURN TO PROPAGANDA AS STRIKING POWER   Nips’ Foreign Minister Asks for Help in East Asia; Cabinet Meets

Shigimitsu Asks Japs To Support ‘War To Death’   Plea Is Made As Japanese Suffer. Great Losses In Marianas, New Guinea

Japs Appeal To Asiatics For Support   Foreign Minister Resorts to Nazis’ Propaganda Triek

Japs More Jittery As War Tide Turns   Pleas for Support Made to Subjugated Peoples of Asia While Bigwigs Go Into Huddle on Superfort Raids On Homeland

Japanese Foreign Minister. Admits His Country Fights Now For Life Or For Death   He Broadcasts Message Emphasising The Seriousness Of Jap Position

Japan Calls For  Asiatic Unity   Crushing Defeats by Allies on All Fronts  Prompt Leader's Plea

Japanese Ape Nazis' Propaganda  Seek Support of Subjugated People

Crushing Defeats In Marianas, New Guinea Incite Plea:   Jap Minister Says Compelled to Fight For Own Existence

Jap Fans Eastvs. West War Spirit   Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Calls on Orien tals to Oppose Western Allies’ Offensive — Sings His Song While Bombers, Subs Sap Jap Military Might—Bombs Fall on Many Nip Key Points

JAP MINISTER URGES ASIA T0 FIGHT TO END   Discuss Raids By B-29 Fortresses On Homeland

Jap Leader Sees “War of Life or Death’   Asks East Asia’s Support as New Blows Hit Home

Air Sub  Smashes Hit Japs   Foreign Minister Asks Asia to Support War “of Life or Death”

JAP. OFFIGIAL CALLS FOR AID   Uses Nazi Propaganda Stratagem, Seeking to Arouse East Asia.   JAPS HIT BY NEW BLOWS

Japs Ask Support in Their Conflict “Of Life or Death’   Foreign Minister Calls on Subjugated People of Eastern Asia

‘LIFE OR DEATH, JAP PEOPLE TOLD   Minister’s Appeal For Help Copies Nazi Strategem

JAPAN CALLS ON EAST ASIA FOLKS TO SUPPORT NIPS   Says This War Is A Mat: ter of Life or Death to People of Asia

"FOR BRAVER:   Alfred J. Baptiste, Cited for Rescue of Frederick Put ’ nam, 7, from Drowning

"EARNS MEDAL POR BRAVERY   Alfred J, Baptiste, Cited for Rescue of Frederick Put“nam, 7, from Drowning

Four More Burma  Towns Captured   Chinese Nearing Base; British in Withdrawal

Americans Drive Japs From Streets Of Saipan Village   Bomb Bonins In Blast Of Foe Defense Ring

Street by Street Fight'ng Marks Seizure of Coastal Town and American Forces Meeting Stiff Opposition. Battle Is Combination of Guadalcanal and  Tawara Features

Yankees on Saipan Island Push Inland   Drive Japs From Streets of Town In Bitter Fighting

LAST LINK IN JAPS’ DEFENSE LINE ATTACKED   Coastal Town On Saipan Seized After Street-ByStreet Battle

U.S. CAPTURES TOWN, AIRSTRIP ON MARIANAS   Down 47 Jap Planes, Sink 2 Ships in Attack on Kazan, Bonin

Yanks Drive Inland on Saipan Isle   Street - by - Street Battle Fought In Marianas Bid

TOWN, AIRSTRIE THKEN BY YANKS   Grimly Fighting Americans Forcing Japanese Defenders Inland   STRONGLY HELD   At Least 30,000 Nips Be: lieved On Vital Japanese Island

TakeMoreGround On Saipan Island   “he Work Closeto Enemy ‘Airdrome After Capture  ofTown   RAID ISLANDS GROUPS   Task Force Shells Bonin and “Kazan Islands; ‘Sinks Two Ships.

Yanks Seize Saipan Town And Airfield       Stiff Fighting Under Way on Strategic island

Airstrip Seized In Marianas as Troops Advance   American Forces Driving Inland In Heavy Fighting

American Invaders Capture Coastal own on Saipan   * War's First Naval Assault on Bonin And Kazan Islands Je Alec Dieclaced

YANKS PUSH INLAND ON KEY ISLAND   Successes Scored In Big Coordinated Attacks By Yanks

“Like Guadalcanal And Tarawa Combined.” ... .  Americans Drive Slowly Inland In Saipan Battle

Landing Forces Seize Town and Airstrip for New Break in Defense.

Slowly Inland On Saipan   Americans Seize Sa And Airfield in Fi ing ‘Like Guadaleata And Tarawa Combine

Airstrip — Captured On Saipan   Bitter ‘Fighting In Prospect; Bonin Island At. tonlkad

BONIN, KAZAt ISLANDS HIT ~ BY YANKS   Destroy 47 Japanese Planes And Sink Two Ships   DESCRIBE CAMPAIGN   As Comparable To Tarawa And Guadalcanal In * Savage Fighting

Yanks Grimly Battle Inland On Saipan As Town, Airstrip Seized   Two Japanese Divisions Based On Key Island Of Marianas, Likened To Guadalcanal  And Tarawa Combined.

Marianas Coast Town Takes i Street-by-Street Batile— 3,006 Mile Freat Erupts

Yanks Punch Way Inland On Saipan   Win Town on Charan-Kanoa And Airstrip Bitter Fighting

Nimitz Bares Early Reverse; Airstrip Now Safely Ours; Jap Troops Set at 30,000

————eEO er S,”,—“—*™*t:tC—TOO  Committee To Probe  Racial Discrimination

Justice Stacy Named. To FEPC To Study. RR  Race Discrimination :

Storms Claim 26 Lives in South States   Floods Cause Heavy Damage in Other Central States

RAIDS REPEATED ON HALMAHERA   Japanese Planes And gre Wrecked By U.S. Bombers

PACIFIC ISLANDS ARE HIT IN NEW ATTACKS   Disappearance Of Jap Air Power Over Moluccas Islands Eases Advance On Philippines

“Tokyo Raid Eyewitness: ‘We Left Six Violent Fires’   there still were none in sight. Bugged Country

Vinson Approves Anthracite Pact   Cost to Consumer Will Be Higher

Reds Strike Anew; Yanks Ne ear Livorno   Allies Pound Paris Following Night Strike Against Robot Sites

Yankees Make  Signal Gains On Two Fronts   Reds Launch Big, New Offensive In Poland

Red Offensive Aims At Luck In South Poland  Bradley’s Men Draw Nearer 3 Key Towns; ,. 2; . rs meou[€©sm:hlUe

AMERICAN FORCES GAIN ON ITALIAN, FRENCH FRONTS   Five Russian Armies Surging Westward from Germany’s Fallen Eastern Bastions

Forces Pour Over Tiber R.   Germans In Disorderly Retreat Toward  Line 160 Miles Beyond Rome.

TWO TEXAS TRUCK DRIVERS HELD UP BY UNIFORMED MEN  BELIEVED TWO GUNMEN   BELIEVED TWO GUNMEN MAY HAVE BEEN ESCAPED CERMAN PRISONERS

GOP SELECTS TRIUMVIRATE   Senators Choose Taft White, Vandenberg

Hitler's 10th Army Facing Major Military Debacle in Fierce Battling Below Rome   Germans Fleeing Nort hward in Wild Disorder Before Victorious 5th and &th Armies; More Than 150 Villages Fall to Invading Forces

Swept From Hitler Line Strongpoints  by Allied Assaults   Germans Fall Back on New “Switch Line” Defenses Today

LAST MAIN LINE CRUMBLING AS ALLIES DRIVE ON   Yanks Smashing Nazis Back On Coast Road To Rome And Nearing Anzio

‘Hitler’ Line Is Re-Named as Its Strength Cracks   Heavy Air Attacks Again Paving Way For Invasion Soon

150 Towns and 5,500. Prisoners. - Fall to Allies   Germans ‘Change Name ™ of ‘Line-in Attempt to Save-. "Face at Home’:   FIELDS LITTERED’ ° ' \ WITH- ENEMY DEAD:   Fast-Rolling Offensive May Bring On Debacle tors. “Wazis-in Italy:

Flee North In Italy As Allies Advance   Germans Change Name of Hitler Line to “Dora” in Face-Saving Move

A Major Debacle Is Faced.   Only 20 Miles Now From Anzio Beachhead Prisoners Roll In  By The Thousands

Possible Debacle Seen OnHitlerLine   5,500 Prisoners, Much Booty and 150 Towns Taken in Italy

NAZIS FALLING BACK ONTO A SWITCH LINE   More Than 5.500 Prisoners, 150 Towns and Huge Quantities of Booty in Allied Hands

Report New Successes By  Allies On  Burma Front   Buthedaung Captured; Series Of Local Attacks Made By Force: Under Mountbatten

Drive By Allies Routs Japanese In Burma Area   Capture Equipment In Local Attacks

Allies Score Successes Against Japs   Buthedaung Village Is Taken in Main Burma Drive

Allies Advance On North, West  Burmese Fronts   Akyab Threatened By British Advances; Japs’ Hukawng Valley Sector Of Burma Road Falling To Sino-American Forces

Ejectment Order In Farm Dispute Signed By Court Alleged Tenants   Ignore Notice   Of Expiration

Ejectment Order In Farm Dispute Signed By Court  Alleged Tenants Ignore Notice

1,200 Planes Hit  German Targets   Railway Yards, Oil  Refineries Bombarded

15 Dead After Army Plane Hits Camp   Scores Injured When Craft Crashes And Blows Up

Crash Of Plane At Trailer Camp Takes 16 Lives   Report 23 Other Persons Hurt With Five Said To Be (Critically , Injured

16 Die in Maine Plane Tragedy  Army Fliers Crash Into Workers’ Trailer Camp, Scores Suffer Hurts

ARMY PLANE CRASH KILLS 13 ON GROUND   War Worker’s Trailer Came Hit With Tragedy

15 KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH      Army Plane Plows Into’ Maine Trailer ~. Camp

AVIATION TRAGEDY CLAIMS 15 LIVES   Army Plane Ploughs Into Camp of 100 Trailers and Blows Up

PLANE HITS TRAILERS; 15 DIE, MANY INJURED   Children, Adults Trapped In Flaming Gasoline, Oil

16 Killed As  Plane Crashes   Light Army Plane Plunges Into War Workers’ Camp Of 100 Trailers.

Plane Crashes Into Trailer Camp; 16 Persons Killed, Score Injured

Plane Hits Trailer Lot Killing 16   Scores Hurt At South Portland

REPORT HURLEY MAY HEAD NAV}   HOOVER'S SECRETARY OF WAR MAY BE APPGINTED TO SUCCEED KNOX AS NAVY SECRETARY

HURLEY MAY BE KNOX SUCCESSOR   Cap-tal Speculates on Army Man as Surpise Choice

NEW OXFORD COUPLE MARRIED FIFTY YEARS   Mr. And Mrs. W. Grant Mason Observe Golden Anniversary — Dinner Served In Their Honor

U.S. Need For Manpower  Lev eling o OF f   Sudden Readjustments To Meet Local Needs Still Present Problem

Manpower Need Leveling Off   W. M. C. Director Compliments Labor And Industry.

ALLIED PORT SINCE JUL. 16   Landing Treops, Supplies There Since that Date

Gen. Marshall Demands Promotions  Of 14 Generals As Personal Issue

PROMOTIONS . ARE HELD UP   GEN.” MARSHALL . DEMANDING COMMITTEE. APPROVAL OF ’ HIS PROPOSED PERMA - NENT PROMOTIONS :

MACARTHUR PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO ISLAND PATRIOTS  INADEQUATELY ARMED PHILIPPINE GUERRILLAS FIGHT TWO YEARS

HOW FILIPINOS AIDED INVASION   MacArthur Says Under.  ground Forces Active

MacArthur Pays Tribute to Patriots Of Philippines for Aid to Uncle Sam

Tribute Paid Guerrillas _ Who Gave Valuable Aid In Philippine Invasion

HOW AID WAS PROVIDED FOR THE FILIPINOS   Radio Signal From Panay Set Machinery in Motion for Giving Guerrillas Assistance.

WEAK RADIO SIGNAL TIP-OFF TO START OF AID FOR PHILIPPINE GUERRILLAS

MacArthur Reveals U.S. Submarines Smuggled Arms to Island Guerrillas

MacArthur Tells of Guerrilla Aid  Loyal Filipinos Have Reen Great Help

MacArthur Reveals Filipinos Had Vast Network Observing Japs, Reporting Every Move To Him

RADIO WORD FROM PANAY STARTED GREAT INASION  Machinery for Island Liberation

EE ee O——eE——eeEOeEeEeeEEEeeEeEEEeEeeEEeEEEeeEeEeEEeEeEeEeEeEeEeE——EaEEEE—EeEEyeee a ee —— ——_—  Filipino Patriots Supplied By Regular Trips Of U. S. Submarines; Weak; ‘Radio Signal From Panay Late In 1942 Brought First Word To Outside World:

MacArthur Reveals Dramatic Story Of Guerilla Action in Philippines

GERMANS ADMIT EVACUATING PART OF STRONGHOLD IN W. UKRAINE   Capture Of Berdichev Would Open Path For the Red Army Down To The Bug River.

Berdichev Expected To Fall Soon; Reds Drive To Trap Nazis Near Kiev

Germans Evacuating Berdichev, Key Defense Before Bug River.  DEMONSTRATIONS IN RUMANIA FOR PEACE  Mass Evacuation of Berlin Reported to Be Under Way.

REDS MASSING LARGE FORCES FOR OFFENSIVE   Expected To Produce Results On Poland’s Peace Plans Very Soon

REDS MASS BIG ARMIES IN POLAND   Plains of Poland To Be Scene of Future Battles

Objective Is Invasion of Germany   Prepare for Advance Ove.  Flat, Open Country on Way to Berlin

REDS TO TAKE SHORTEST WAY INTO GERMANY   Soviets Are Gathering Behind Central Front for Drive Over Plains.   Red Air Attacks.

Reds Mass For New  Offensive _   Soviet Reserves Reported Moving Up Toward Central Front From Interiot

REDS MASS DRIVE ON GERMANY ACROSS POLAND   Draw Armies From Interior For Great Summer Offensive

Soviets Massing Forces For Push On Central Front   Campaign To Be Made Along Shortest Route Into Germany Proper

REDS GROUP FOR SUMMER DRIVE   POLAND PLAINS ROUTE TO GERMANY OBJECT

Nazis Trapped By New Yank Break-Through   Tanks Spearhead American Drive In Normandy

Drive Five-Mile Wedge Near St. Lo, Fan Out Behind   St. Gilles And Marigny Captured, 16 Villages Occupied When Big Fleet Of Shermans Strike Surprise Blow Near St. Lo; British Take Mauling.

Huge Pockets of Enemy Are Trapped   At Least 16 Towns Are Occupied bv the Americans

Yanks Lunge 5 Miles to Reach Open Country in Greatest Invasion Drive; Enemy Dead Cover Route of Big Push

Frenchmen Are Urged to Strike   Appeal for Complete Action Is Voiced

FRENCH REVOLT SPREADS OVER CENTRAL AREA   Magquis Harass Nazi Retreat South Of Paris

Seventh Generation Christus Player With Passion Play   Black Hills Famous  Production to be le Shrauenarct

sed Yesterday in Attempt. ing To Defend Berlin  Against Murderous Attack ;   Acis Astounding  To One U.S. Pilot   Swarm Through American Formations Like Hornets, Without Svstem: Ram Planes Into Yanks

Finland May Get Peace In Few Days, Diplomats Say After Terms Given

Russo-Finn Peace Expected Despite   Karelian Isthmus, Nazi Troops Are Main Issues

Finns May Quit War This Week   Interning of 100,000 Nazis. "40 Border Are Snavs

Russo-Finn Peace Expected Despite Dislike For Terms   Karelian Isthmus, Nazi Troops Are Main Issues

TEXAS I$ SPLIT AS T0 4TH TERW   State Democratic Meetinc May Be Evenly Divided

“Nubbins” Looking For St. Nick Today   Christmas Speeded Up For Sick Little Tot

NATIONAL INCOME  TO ALL-TIME HIGH   Expected to Reach 142 Billions For 1943 Record.

BRITISH PLAN - STRIKE ACTION   GOVERNMENT REPORTED PRE’ PARING LAWS PROVIDING.  SEVERE PENALTIES FOR  . STRIKE AGITATORS

THREE RUSSIAN ARMIES PLUNGE OVER BALKANS   Seeking to Break Hitler's Hold. Trap His Troops Which Still Remain in That Area

Reds Drive To Frontier Of Turkey   Serbs In Rebellion, Fighting Bulgarian Troops; Tito Junetion Expected Soon

Forge Balkan Trap —   Smashing Red A:cmy Drive Aimed at Pocketing Nazis in Greece, Bulgaria and Albania

SOVIETS RUSH INBALKANS TO TRAP GERMANS   Thousands Face Pocket; Reds Drive Nearer Allies in Yugoslavia

Reds Moving West To Join Tito Forces In Yugoslavia   Thousands Of Huis Ave’ Facing Trap) ~

REDS CUT THRU THE BALKANS IN 3- PRONGED DRIVE   THREATEN TO SPRING TRAP ON THOSSANDS OF GERMAN TROOPS

SOVIETS SLASH THRU BALKANS   Three-Pronged Drive Threatens to Smash Hitler’s Held on Area.   MAY TRAP THOUSANDS.

Soviets Slash Rapidly On Over Balkans   Advance Troops Move Toward Juncture With Tito’s Armies

Three-Pronged Drive Promises  Major Results   Soviets Aim at “Juneture With Partisans. Key Center of Sibiu

3-Pronged Drive Thru the Balkans   Thousands of Nazis May Be Cut Off From Their  Horreland :   ADVANCING ON SIBIU   Ybjective of Campaign Is *to Build Steel Wall  to Coast

REDS DRIVE 3 WEDGES INTO BALKANS      Soviet Moves Threaten to Trap Thousands of Nazis by Cutting Communications With the Homeland.

Russians Seek To Cut Lines Of Supply   Three-Pronged Push By Soviets Advances Lines Against Nazis

Soviet Forces: Seek To Sprine Balkan Trap    Drive May Pocket Nazis in Greece, Bulgaria, Albania

Nazis Face Red Traps In Balkans   Three-Prenged Drive Cais Off Germans While Russians Drive Cleser io East Prussia

Three Russian Armies in Qain   RED TROOP SLASHING WAY INTO BALKAN SECTORS

Nazis Face Balkan Trap   Communications With Reich Periled By New Russ Drive

Reds Weaken Nazis’ Hold on Balkans   Fast Moving Soviets Threatening to Trap Thousands of Troops

3-PRONGED PUSI AIMS T0 TRAP NAZIS: AID TITO   4 Reports On Drive To Aegean By Berlin Still Unconfirmed

. LONDON, Sepi. 8 (7) —The Polish press bureau asserted today that German troops had evacuated Praga defense lines enact of Wares.

Russi:.ns Cut Into Balkans   Offensive Intended to Trap German Armies; Advance Near Warsaw

RED ARMIES ARE DRIVING ACROSS BALKANS TODAY   Three-Pronged Drive Which Promises To Trap Thousands Of Hitler's Troops In That Area.

Reds Drive Ahead In 3  Directions   Moving Toward Juncture With Allied Invaders

Russians Slash Through Balkans            Score Gains in land, Edging Closer

Red Armies Spur Balkan Offensives  To Trap Germans   Russian Troops Move Toward Juncture With Tito’s Men And Allied Forces Now Fighting In Yugoslavia; Soviets Edge On Northeast Of Warsaw

THREE PRONGED DRIVE AIMED AT SMASHING HITLER'S LAST — REMAINING FOOTHOLDS THERE

SOVIET TROOPS FANNING OUT IN BALKAN STATES   74 Nazi Ships Reported Sunk In Black Sea

U.S. Needs Woman Chief. Says Prof.   HARVARD MAN PRAISES “FORTHRIGHTNESS,” LACK OF SELF-DECEPTION

Paris Blasted   U.S. PILOTS BAG 8 JAP PLANES   Caught on Ground at Wewak

CONCORDIANS TO AID BOSTON WAR DRIVE   A. Page: Brown, Third Local Man to Be Named - Division Head

PLAN PASSED UNANIMOUSL!   House Takes Action; July 4 May Be Military Ballot Day

Blast Wrecks War Plant; Damage Totals $200,000   Series of Explosions Rips Through Huge Magnesium Casting Factory; 4 Men Hurt

“Trish Eyes Are Smiling’ In Continuous Show At The Lyric Theatre

Moscow Hints At Plans For A New Poland   To Ignore Emigre Govt. ; Warns Bulgaria, Finland To Get Out Of War.

OVIET PLAN ‘AVORS NEW OLISH STATE   p-Off on Russia's Intentions Comes in Moscow Broadcast Recorded In London   ILED REGIME SCORED

RUSSIA HINTS PLAN FOR NEW POLISH STATE   Moscow Radio Predicts ‘New Democratic Poland,’ Co-operation o: Slavic Peoples   HELSINKI BOMBED   Biller Verbal Attack on Bulgaria for Aid to Nazis

Soviet Hints Plan Formed For Poland   Would Ignore Exiled Government Under New Program

RUSSIA FAVORS NEW POLE STATE   May Give Official Blessing To New Polish Government Independent Of Government In Exile.

SOVIET WOULD APPROVE STATE   Strongly in Favor of Estab. lishment of Independent Polish State.

Bulgaria And Finland Warned   Told To Get Out Of War As Russia Hints Plan For New Polish State.

RUSSIA INTIMATES OHE IS READY GIVE AID NEW POLAND   MOSCOW REPORTED HAVING PLAN FOR SET_ TLING VEXING OUESTION

New Polish State Hinted By Russia  Bulgaria And Finland Warned To Quit War

New Polish State Backed by Russie   Finland and Bulgaria Given Attention

Moscow Hints Plan For New Independent Polish State   Development Coincides With Warnings To Bulgaria and Finland To Quit War

Moseow Hints Plan For New Polish State   Warns Bulgaria, Finland To Get Out Of War; Free From Exiled Rulers.   CREATE COOPERATION

REDS PLAN NEW POLISH STATE   Ignore Exile Government In Planning Future Status

REDS PLAN NEW POLISH STATE   Would Be Independent  of Exile Government

MEMORIES OF ANOTHER DAY . . . ANOTHER WAR:  GRASS IS NOW GROWING OVER THE CRAVES an

Thousands Are Idle In Nation's Labor Disputes  Total Now Between 58,000 And 74,000; Large Number Out /

Expect President To End Strike   Truck: Drivers Now Out.in-8 States." : ~: Nearly 74.000 Idie

LABOR DISPUTES SPREAD RAPIDLY IN NATION TODAY   White House Action Seems Only Way to Stop Strikes in Country

Possibly 80,000 War Workers Are Away From Jobs Throughout Nation

Labor Rows Spreading  Over Nation   Government Expected To Enter Truck Strike

Thousands — Still Idle in Strikes   Roosevelt: May Act Today to End Truck Tie-Up Involving 25,000   ARMY OR ODT MAY TAKE OVER LINES   Next Largest Stoppage Is in Wright Aeronautical Plants in New Jersey

EXPECT FA TO AGT IN STRIKE   Between 58,000 and 74,000 Idle on Nation’s Labor Front.

Workers Made Idle By Strikes Figured 40 to 80 Thousand  White Honse Action Expected in Midwest Track Drivers Strike—Deiroit Disvuies Grow

Newspaper Declares Two Regiments Will Man Busses in Army’s First Move to End Transportation Tie-Up.

Report 284 Dead In Bombay Fire   Waterfront Ablaze: Death Toll Mounting

TWO-PRONGED “ADVANCE "PLACES AMERICAN TROOPS WITHIN 13° MILES OF. CITY—WILSON WARNS ‘FATE. {OF ROME: ‘DEPENDS: ON ~ WHETHER NAzis ATTEMPT. TO-MAKE .T & DEFENSE STRONGHOLD .   By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

Finland Balks At Peace Term:   Russian Demands Are Held Too Extreme

Finn Press Hits Red Peace Offer As Too Severe   Preliminary Troop Withdrawal Is Main ‘Hitch’ In Plan

China’s Food Problem Is Our Solution   Corn And ’Taters Tale Example Of Good Neighbor Acts

Wounded Service Men Given right Of Way   All Train Reservations Sub ject To Cancellation After June 27th

morning an item obviously out of the question for reasons of price aye avallahitttc   TIQuUT RESISTANCE

Coroner Predicts Death Toll In Cleveland Fire May Reach 200 Mark

FATALITY LIST IN CLEVELAND DISASTER 112   Coroner Predicts Toll May Reach 200 as 110 Persons Now Missing: Committee Reagins Probe.

Republicans Ask Farm Leaders For  Party Plank Aid   For Submission June Convention

Republicans Search For Farm Plank   Ask Six Different Farm Organizations to Provide Basis For Gov ermental Policy

FINAL FIGURE PROBABLY WIL! RE HIGHER   U. S. Losses Light in Comparison; Enemy Still Running

Battered Enemy Ships in Flight   Forrestal Estimates Two Thirds Of Nip Fleet Has Been Smashed

Remnants of Battered Enemy Navy Are in Full Retreat   STATEMENT BY NIMITZ   six Major Enemy Vessels Sunk; Probably Three Others

CHURCHILL-STALIN - CONCLUDE PARLEYS   Progress Reported Toward Settlement of Polish’  Question

Churchill, Stalin End Conference   Make Progress Toward Settling Polish Question

Churchill, Stalin End Meet; Polist Progress Made   Joint British-Soviet Yugoslav Policy Is Also Announced

Conference At Moscow Concluded   mportant Progtess_Is Mele in Settlemant Of Yugoslav und Polish Issues

Official Interviewers On Way To See Tito Take Yank Writer's Greetings

 Yank Writer Shins Through Nazi Ranks:to Interview Tito: Censors Hold Story

Germans Fire Bigger Robots Over Channel as ‘Commons Told Damage Done Not Large

Nazi Terror Weapon Held As Impotent   Secret Defenses Control Attacks On South England.

NEW, HEAVIER ROBOT BOMBS HIT ENGLAND      British Leader Describes Them As ‘Impotent Weapon’

Germans Send More Robot Rocket Bombs   However, Morrison Says Defense Measures Minimize Damage

Barrage of Robots Hit Coast   Secret Defenses Worked Out to Control Nazi Terror Weapon

@ FROM PREPARATION ISLE  Huss Says Invasion Will Give Full View of Modern War

POLIGH PREMIER 5 WY MOSCOW   Stalin, Churchill and Mikolajezyk Attempt to Iron Out Differences in Joint Meeting

United Poland Being Sought At Moscow Talks   Rival Leadsrs Confer in Move To End Dispute

Compromise is Believed Near on Polish Question As Rival Leaders Confer

Hearing Is Started On  Union Issue   National Labor Relations Board Examiner Hears Union’s Request As Troops Leave Posts

Hearing On Ward Case Underway   NLRB Trial Examiner Hears Argument Bui Board Will Make Rulings   ELECTION ISSUE BROUGHT UP AGAIN   Re-Certification. .of Union Also Debated; Soldiers Are Withdrawn

ARMY WITHDRAWN FROM WARD PLANT HEARING PLANNED   Troops Moved Out of  Chicago Plant As Controversy Settles Into Hearing Before’ Labor Board!

ARMY OUT OF WARDS’ BIG STORE   There's No Reason For the Presence of Troops, Fed eral Official Says.   Issue of CIO Union Agent Up For Hearing

‘Troops: Withdrawn from. Ward Store; ‘Company and CIO Agree on Election

Army Leaves Ward Plant   NLRB Hearing on Representation by CIO Union Marks Controversy on Company’s Seizure by U. S. Government Officials

TEXAS ROOSEVELT DEMOCRATS IN PARTY. CONTROL MAP COURSE PUT TEXAS BEHIND NOMINEES

U. S. Navy Will Strike Powerful New Blows In Next Few Months, Says Admiral King

‘Adm. King Promises Powerful New Blow Against iJaps’ Bases, Fleet - - If Latter Can Be Found

ADMIRAL E. J. KING PREDICTS GREAT PACIFIC BATTLES   Powerful Attacks Will Be  Made Against Japs Within Next Few Months:

 More ‘Triphibious’ Attacks On Jap Bases and Warships Predicted For Near Future by Admiral King

Japs Won't Co-operate in Staging Their Doom, Adm. King Complains

House Republican Renew Demands  For Food ‘Czar’  Head Could Have Avoided Present Craetinn le Relaf

Republicans Renew Demand  For Food ‘Czar’   Present Food Situation Blamed on Failure To Name Single Head

DEMANDS FOR CZAR OF FOOD ARE RENEWED   House Republicans Plan Study of the Sit-  vation = —

News Behind The News  Copyriget McCluie Newspaper       WASHINGTON tty Pay ‘Tucker

Navy Base Is Target Of Supers   Steel Works at Yawata Also Hit By Biq Bombers

B-29 PLANES BLAST JAP  BASES AGAIN   Hit Naval Base And Industrial Plants This Time

STEEL CITY, NAVAL BASE ARE B-29 TARGETS   Second Attack On Yawata

B-29’s Again Attack Japan Sasebo and  Yawata Are  Taraate   Brief Communique Is Released by War Department

NAVAL BASE OF SASEBO IS TARGET   Industrial Plants at Yawata Struck Again by Giant B-29s.

B-29s Hit War Plants At Yawata   Super Bombers in Another Big Raid on Jap Home Land Today

Super-Forts Also Blast Big Steel Plant   Raiders Hit Sasebo, Fleet’s Arsenal, Mills at Yawata

Great Home Navy Base of Sasebo —  Target of B-29’s _   Industrial Plants At Yawata Also  Receive Blasting

British Planes Hit Germany and Bulgaria Last Night   NAZIS BEATEN BACK ON ITALIAN FRONT   Van RE LAAsELAGN RaVW/iN A  Badoglio Forming New Cabinet Along More Liberal Lines

Ward Election To Be Held Today   Government Brief  Upholds Plant Seizure

Ward Seizure s Defended   Election Is Set For Employes On Tuesday

Labor Peace Said AtStake in Chicago Affair   Election Among Ward Employes To Be Held by NLRB Today

Government Backs Up Ward Seizure  Chicago Employes Hold ‘Election Today

Many Butchers Reopen Shops   New York City’s Meat Situation Eased As Supplies Received.

FOREIGN TRADE — PLANS DRAWN   Diplomats Are Instructed to Prepare for Quick Re eiimntian

Consular Offices Make Ready For Foreign Trade   Gathering Information for Quick Resumption In Liberated Countries.

YANKEES NAZI OIL FIELDS   Battle Fighters Over  Vienna Area  Roumanian lields Visited

First Army ~ And Ninth. Give Ground   YANK FORCES TAKE TINY ) VILLAGE 24 MILESFROM "8

SHOWDOWN ON RHINELAND I BLOODY FIGHT   ‘American Forces Capture Tiny Village But Forced To Give Ground In Attack On Germans. 

‘NEW DUTIES FOR WAVES:   ‘Nayal Committee Gi Gives Approval reign Service

NEW DUTIES FOR WAVES   Naval Comn ittee Gives Approval of Foreign Service

Committee Approves Legislation Permitting IWAVES To Serve Abroad

Retreat Barred To Chinese Army   Japs Cut Lunghai Railway And Succeed In Fording Yellow River.

Japanese Cut Retreat Line Of Chinese   Slash Across Yellow River Southward and Sever Lunghai Railway

Japs Seize Full Control Of Railroad   Allies Strike Back Powerfully in India and Pacific

JAPS THREATEN CITY OF LOYANG   CROSS YELLOW RIVER: MAY HAVE CAPTURED MIENCHIN, RAIL TOWN

Chinese Army in Honan Cut Off by  New Jap Movement   Japs Force Crossing of Yellov River From Shansi Province

Jap Offensive lords Yellow River in China   Huge Mechanized Invasion Force Advances Swifily Toward Loyang   Bulletin

Well Mechanized Jap Army Forces River into Honan  600 Tanks and Armored Cars Aid Enemy's Advance on Lunuhai Railway Cenier

Japanese Face Disasters in India, Burma  Stilwell Continues Bloody Advance;  Foe Gains in China

Argentina Is Called Future Peace Menace   Report To State Department _ , Says Fascist Bloc Being Formed To Aid Axis

FIGHT FOR A RAILWAY   Chinese and Japaneses Losses Are  Heavy in Batile

U.S. Heavies Blast Aireraft And Oil Plants   Other Planes Pound Robot Bomb Ramps, Aid Ground Troops

YANK HEAVIES SMASH NAZI AIR PLANTS   Fortresses And Liberators  Blast Factories And Mili military Installations In Leipzig, Oschersleben And Aschersleben All Within 100 Miles Of  Berlin

Americans Strike Deep in Germany  Aircraft Centers  Kre Hammered

2,000 Planes Batter Nazi Plane Plants   36 Enemy Aircraft Bagged During Raids, 15 Bombers Missing   OTHER TARGETS HIT DEEP IN. GERMANY

2,000 Planes: Attack Reich   Plane Faetories, Refinery Blasted by Raidecc

PLANES STRIKE DEEP IN REICH   Robot Bomb Launching Ramps Hit; Support Given Infantry

1,000 U. S. Planes Batter Targets   Blast Airfields, Oil Refineries

2000 PLANES STRIKE DEEP IN GERMANY   To Blast Production Centers; Oil Refineries and Other Targets; Also Fly over Normandy Front.   1,200 Sorties

NAZI AIRCRAFT ~ PLANTS BOMBET   AMERICAN RAIDERS FLY DEEP INTO GERMANY— SHOOT DOWN 44 NAZIS.

EVENTS SHAPE UP N PACIFIC WAR   Top-Ranking Naval Officials. Complete ~ West Coast Conference.

Strategists Plan Crushing Blows   Navy’s Top Ranking Officers Meet On West Coast

Admira] Halsey’s Fleet Is Revealed To Be Continuing Its Attack   OUR WARSHIPS HAVE STRUCK ANEW AT THE PHILIPPINES      At Least 870 Jap Planes Have:.Been Downed In Last Seven Days

Flees On Sight, Nimitz Says,  But U.S. Bombers From China Get In Some Damaging Blows

‘Americans Continue Pounding Philippines And Formosa; Nip Losses Still Mounting

DAVIS PLANNING REST, FISHING   Morgan Congratulates Winner And Sympathizes With Losers

Drive Puts Troops Nearer Philippines   Japanese Defenders Are Taken By Surprise Despite Repeated Bombinas By U. S. Planes

Yankees Also Land on the Mainland   Quick Reconquest of All Dutch New Guinea Seen

WAKDE SEIZED BY AMERICAN FORCES      General MacArthur An. nounces Landing on  Island

Fall of Dutch New Guinea Now Held Imminent   Japs Pushed Back in Island Drive

Wakde Isles Seized By Yank Troops   Men Leapfrog Over 120 Miles Beyond Hollandic

YANK FORCES SEIZE WAKDE ISLAND GROUP   Also Establish Beachhead on Dutch New  Guinea Shore

New Guinea Beachhead Is Expanded   ’ MacArthur Forces Leap-Frog 120 Miles Beyond Hollandia  ONEATY CUIRPRICED -

Resistance of Japs Is Reported Light   New Guinea Battle Progresses at Rapid Pace

Reds Overrun Danube Delta In Sea Strike   New Bridgehead Is Forced Over Vistula 30 Miles Tt Wirenkeile Biaccaks

RED ADVANCE NOW SURGING INTO HUNGAR)   RICH PLOESTI OIL WELLS ARE GOAL OF RUSSIANS

Russians Penetrate Hungarian Soil in Mountain Drive   Swift Advance Into Transylvania May Trap Thousands of German Troops in Romania; Nazi Casualty List Hich

Soviet Army Drives Inside Transylvania   Russians, Cracking Last Big Natural. Defense Wall of  the Nazis in the East, Cross Carpathians in Drive to Trap Enemy Troops 

Russ lunge across Carpathians; troops enter Transylvania   Red marines take Sulina, Tulcea as tank tipped units lash at Bucharest

Russian Forces Crack Germany's Last Big Natural Defense Barrier   Troops Cross Carpathians and Penetrate Ten Miles into HungarianHeld Transylvania

"Reds Snap Nazis’ Last "Major Defenses in East   Cross Carpathians, Drive 10 Miles Into Transylvania to Trap Germans

Drive Is Aimed At Trapping Scores Of Thousands 0! Germans Caught South Of Carpathian Moun- .  tains; Romanian Seaport Of Sulina Is Captured se

RUSSIAN TROOPS INVADE HUNGARY, DRIVE 10 MILES   Second Force Seizes Danube Delta in Romania and Occupies Black Sea Port of Sulina,   THOUSANDS OF NAZIS ARE TAKEN PRISONERS   “Boviet Spearheads Only 50 Miles From Bucharest as _ They Move on Ploesti Oil Fields.

Planes Blast Long Range Recket Site   British Attack Concrete Structure in French Coastal Area

BIG ROCKET BASE BELIEVED RAIDED   Battered Structure Thought Link In Long-Range Plan

Report 300 Italians Executed by German In Rome as Reprisal for Bomb Attack

American First Army Mops Up Segments Of Siegfried Line Northwest Of Aachen

Some Siegfried Line Segments  Are Monped Us   Germans Counter-Attack In Aachen Sector—Blow Is Renulsed   THIRD ARMY IS NEARER METZ

British Forces Expand Holding In Netherlands   Americans Halt German Assault Near Wurselen

Continent Pounded By  Bombers   NAZI DEFENSES IN RUSSIA CRUMBLING BEFORE RED DRIVE.

FIFTH ARMY: ~ GOES AHEAD IN EUROPE   Bloody Street F Fighting On y San Vittore Streets; - Air Bombardment Continues.  tag eg”        areca Lose 25 Bombers “In Raid on Kiel, Other Nazi Cities.

OFFENSIVE IN SECOND DAY IN ITALIAN AREA   Telling Blows are Rained on Axis Europe By Allied Forces

GREAT BORNEO OIL CENTER IS HIT 2ND TIME   Allied Warplanes Set New Fires At Jap Fuel Base

Jap Oil Supply Hit Again by Heavy Air Raid   Large Refincrics At Balikpapan Aflame Seven Bombers Lost

Warplanes Strike For Second Time At Borneo Base   Toll of Japanese Dead In Southern Palau Islands Reaches 1! 1,043

NEW FIRES BURN ON BALIKPAPAN IN EAST. BORNEO      Two Score Jntercepting Enemy zl Fighters Shot Down’; Amboinn Attacked

Allied Bombers Sef Fire to Jap (Oil Refineries   19 of 24 Enemy Fighters Downed In Borneo Clash

American Liberators Strike Devasting Blow at Japanese Gil Supply Sources in Borneo   Strike For The Second Time In Five Days At Japs’ Oil Prize

New Fires in Jap Refineries Are Started   Eastern Borneo . Scene of Air Raids by Allies

AGAIN BLAST BALIKPAPAN   Jap Refineries On Borneo Smashed In Raid Wednesday

SMASH PORT BLAIR   American Planes Range Fa Afield to Blast Port im Bay of Bengal.

JAPS DEALT SMASHING BLOW T PORT BLAIR IN BENGAL BAY. ORE JAP LOSSES REPORTED   Japs Bragging

"NO ACTION YET , BY WARD'S FOR NIPPING STRIKE   Company Officials Silent As Deadline Approaches For Government Seizure

Tax Measure Meets Delay   Senate Is Recessed Without Taking Vote

Allies At Naples Hit By Enemy Air Retaliation   Raiders Kept At High Altitude By Ground  Antiaircraft Fire

Bombs Rain Upon Naples   Germans Strike Back After Allied. Ratds

Retatiation Follows Allied Air Blows   Prenestina Rail Yards in Rome Hiit hv Marandere

PRIME MINISTER CF CANADA MAY BE FORCED TO RESIGN   OPPOSITION TO VOLUNTEER POLICY IN SENDENG SOLBIERS OVERSEAS GROWS  IN PARLIANIENT

AVERS BULGARIA ACCEPTS TERMS   Hungary Junking Cabinet; Nazis and Romanians Battling

War Workers Removal Pa V Turned Down   House Refuses To Concur In Senate-Approved Measure

HOUSE STANDS FIRM AGAINST PAYING WAR WORKERS FOR MOVIN(  VOTE WAS 239 TO 90 AGAINST SENATE-APPROVED TRAVEL PAY

HOUSE TACKLES PEACE ISSUES   Reconversion, Surplus Goods Up; Aim for Recess Friday :

HOUSE STANDS FIRM AGAINST PAYING WAR WORKERS FOR MOVING  VOTE WAS 239 TO 90

SEVERAL YANK UNITS ORDERED INTO CAPITAL   azis Are Defeated by Partisans in Fighting in Streets

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK FLEEING GERMAN TROOPS   Americans And Canadians Driving Against Light Opposition   YANKS ASSIGNED TO AID FRENCH IN PARIS

Senafor Truman Urges Re-electiol Of Roosevelt   Warns Nation against Choosing a Man Who Lacks Experience

TRUMAN ‘ACCEPTING, LAUDS PRESIDENT   Vice-Presidential Candidate Devotes Speech to  _.. Roosevelt Praise’

Choose Experienced Man--Truman   Lauds Roosevelt In Ist Campaign Speech at Lamar

iat thehl Olt Go cetouees  Senator. Trurnsan. Urges Re-election ‘of FiD:R:

HOLD TRUMAN NOTIFICATION   Democrats at Lamar Hear Vice-President Nom inee Praise FDR

TRUMAN FLAYS INEXPERIENCE AT ACCEPTANCE   Roosevelt’s Running Mate Warns Against Choosing Dewey

Truman Urges FDR’s Return To Presidency   Formally Accepts Party's Nomination for Y. P.  Tees FE ees Pie

TRUMAN GIVEN NOMINATION AS VICE PRESIDENT   Pleads For Re-Election 0} Roosevelt As Man Of  Experience

JAP VESSELS SUNK. IN CONVOY ATTACK   Enemy: Shipping: Tracked and Blasted by Allred  ‘Elifiearc

cond Jap lonvoy Hit }y Bombers   Ale s Track Down Enemy tipping Attempting To Flee Heavily  _ Raided Rabaul -

Another Jap: Convoy Sunk in Bismarck   Six Freighters, Escort Destroyed

SIX FREIGHTERS ARE DESTROYED BY AMERICANS   Jap Ships Seeking To Flee Rabaul Are Pounded From Air   KURILE ISLANDS ARE BOMBED ONCE MORE

AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVING INLAND “ON SAIPAN ISLE   ‘Yanks Make Half-Mile Gain on Southwest Coast After Recoiling From Brief  : Setback.   FLEET STRIKES 588 MILES FROM YOKOHAMA   Nimitz Announces Raid on Bonins —- Two Japanese Ships Sunk, 47 Planes  Shot Down. .

Amerieans Fight Further Indand  On Saipan   Achieve Thurd - Wor Half Mile of Ground AL Charan - Kanoa, Duwn 47 » Planes And Sink Two Shins

First Thought Revenge On Oppressors Freed French Demonstrate Joy, Hatred

Thanksgiving To Be November 23   40 States To Observe Holiday Next Thursday

Five Jap Ships sunk, Damaged By U.S. Attack  Planes, Warships Hit Enemy Ships Over Pacific

Five Japanese Ships Are Sunk, Damaged  Widespread Attack: Made Against

Five More Jap Ships Blasted   Series of Air Blows Struck in Philippines

Nazis Lold Tide In East Will Change   Goebbels, Giving Re-assuring Word, Says Reserves On Wav To Front

Goebkels Promises a Channe   No Disasters Which Wil Not Turn to Our Faver, He Tells Germans   TO REORGANIZE RESERVE ARMY   Seeks to Reassure the Reich in Report. on the Attack on Hitler

Says U.S. In Hitler Bomb Plot   Gochhels Charges Allies Hal Heal in Assassination Attemp!

 Hitler Preparing Mobilizatior Of All Manpower for “Last Ditch” Defense of Naziism   Creating New Military Reserves From All Europeans In Occupied Countries; “Big Four” to Direct Reich's Death Battle

Virginia Area Hit Hard by Storm   Many Buildings Suffer Damage at Abingdon

Shifted Workers Can’t Expect Former Rate   RWLB Rules On CIO Request Where Welders. Shifted To Other Jobs.

Franco-American Problem Solved   FDR and DeGaulle Reach Agreement

CLARK RENEWS FIGHT AGAINST DC COMPANY   Gets Injunction Halting Sale of Assets Or  Reconversion

Dachel-Carter - Fight Resumed   Clark Gets Temporary Injunction Monday

Court Can tRule On WLB Orders  Doesn’t Have Right To Review Any Of

Court Can'tRule On WLB Orders   wees _ FE www  Doesn't Have Right To Review Any. Of.  Roard’« Dirartinne

Japs Prockaim Philippines in State of Siege  Americans Invade  Parry Island

State of Siege In Philippines  German, Japanese Reports Bare Crisis Under New Regime

REQUEST OF COUNTY 15 GIVEN APPROVAL   Gogebic Supervisors Want State-Owned Land for County Forests.

FELL TREES, RIP LIGHT AND PHONE WIRES   Services of Two Util. ities Disrupted in Parts of City

SENATE COMMITTEE IN CLASH WITH ROOSEVELT’S PROGRAN   VOTEE TO RECOMMEND CHANGES ‘IN WEB, FCC AND TVA THROUGH USE OF APPROFPRIATIONS BILL

SENATE 10 CUT AGENCY POWERS   Moves Against FCC, WLB And TVA Activities

 Describes Reconnaissance Pilots \As Most Unglamorized Kids in Air   (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRE SPONDE NT'S NOTEBOOK.)

50,000 Japs Killed Defending Marianas   Yanks Take Toll of Enemy at Ratio of 20 to 1 in Conquest Of Saipan, Guam and Tinian—lslands Now Being Mopped Up While Air Strips Being Used

DEWEY SWINGS INTO MIDWEST   Milwaukee, Minneapolis And Chicago To Hear GOP Nominee

Dewey Maps New Drive   G.O.P. Nominee Speeds East to Oklahoma; To Tour New England

GOV. DEWEY COMPLETES WEST COAST SCHEDULE   Nominee Will Speak In Oklahoma City Monday Night

Dewey Buoyed By Progress Of Campaign   GOP Nominee Maps Intensive Drive Through Midwest and New England States

Dewey to Swing Into Midwest  After Coast Tour  Candidate Greeted By 90,000

DEWEY LEAVES FOR OKLOHOMA   Nominee Is Cheered By Progress Of Campaign On West Coast

Dewey Plans Final Tour Of Midwest   Spoke Friday In Pittsburah  -

SPEECHES BY ~ DEWEY TODAY   GOP CANDIDATE TO SPEAK BOTH THIS AFTERNOON AND’ TONIGHT—OTHER SPEECHES SCHEDULED

Dewey Continues New Deal Attacks   New Yorker Promises Full House-Cleanings

Dewey Mans an Intensive Campaign Tour   Western Reception Obviously Heartens Candidate

Dewey Begins Tour Of Four States In East, Will Broadcast Tonight

Dewey Heartened By Progress Of Pacific Tour  Presidential Candidate _ Maps Midwest, Down East Campaign

Governor Dewey Ends Long Tow   Republican Presidential Nominee Returns To Albany After Campaign Trip   CHANCES IMPROVE NEWSMEN BELIEVE

DEWEY MAPPING NEW VOTE DRIVE   Intensive Campaign Planned In Midwest, East

DIPLOMATS LOSE PRIVILEGE OF UNCENSORED COM- MUNICATION AS MOVE TO PREVENT ' “LRBAKS”

GAG DIPLOMATS IND’ DAY MOVE   Precaution in Britain Ends Immunity, Increases Axis Jitters

ORDER COSTS ENVOYS LOSS OF IMMUNITY   Diplomatic Pouches Opened to Censors to Prevent Leaks

Diplomats In Great Britain  Are Silenced   Censorship Imposed To Pre. vent Any ‘‘Leak’’ On Coming Invasion Plans   ACTION TAKEN IS UNPRECEDENTED

Railroad Employee Dies “Ei: _ route To Rushville—Rites i Friday Afternoon.

U.S. MANPOWER NEEDS STUDIED   Roosevelt Says Few Men Under 26 Are Needed In Industry

FOR FEELS YOUTH CALL -NECESSARY   Contends Few Under 26 Years of Age Really List Indienaneahla

President Due To Emphasize Younger Army   Most of Persons Under 26, He Says, Can Be Spared Fram War Indusiry

YOUNGER MEN FACE — EARLY DRAFT CALL      Roosevelt. to Make Man power Statement Early Next Week

Roosevelt Plans Draft of Nearly All Younger Men   Will State Views Early Next Week

FREEDOM OF PRESS URGED BY BRICKER   ee  Lack of Freedom Blamed for Pearl Harbor Attack

Applicants Urged By Ration Board to Mail Blanks Now   Forms Are Now Available at All. Service Stations In County ,

PLANE CRASH » ~ KILLS SEVEN   SAN DIEGO .MAYOR AMONG SIXTEEN SURVIVORS OF ACCIDENT TO TWA PAS SENGER CRAFT

 Reporter on Board Dewey Special — Piled in Aisle Among Typewriters,  Chairs, Etc., When Crash Comes —

Death Was Neat Candidate Dewey  A. P. Writer Tells About Oregon Crash

‘Authorities Search German Prisoner of W ar  Camp in Colorado for Missing Weapons

Hunt Cache Of Missing Weapons At Camp Of German Prisoners   Knives And Home-Made Liquor Found, But Carbine And Revolvers Sought As Prisoners Stage “Sit-Down Strike” In Protest.

Seek Weapons In Prisoner Camp   Two Revolvers and Carbine Sought in Colorado Camp

Weapons Sought In Prison Camp   Search of German Prisoner Camp Reveals ache Knives-Liquor.

3 MISSING. WEAPONS SOUGHT BY OFHCERS AY PRISONERS ¢ AM P      Home Made Liquor and Knives Uncovered in Search at Colorado Camp   INVESTIGATION iS MADE

Search War Prisoners for Weapons   REVOLVERS, CARBINE MISSING, NAZIS MAKE KNIVES, LIQUOR

Guns Lost In Prison War Camp   MILITARY AUTHORITIES SEEK WEAPONS BELIEVED STOLEN BY NAZI PRISONERS OF WAR

Missing Weapons Sought Among Germans n Camp In Colorado; Nazis In Sit-Down Strike

Yanks Strike 1,300 Miles From Tokyo   Hit Mariana Islands in Latest Air Attack  Menacing Japan

(Carrier Planes Strike Mariana Island Bases,  1,300 Miles from Tokyo

Daring Foray Takes United States Warships 700 Miles Nearer Tokyo   CONQUEST OF PARRY ISLAND IS COMPLETED

Strong Navy Task Force in Attack 1,800 Miles South of Tokyo; Yank Troops Capture Parry

Saipan and Tinian blasted heavily by  U.S. earrier force   Complete Eniwetok conquest with capture of Parrv island

Jap Positions South of Tokyo Heavily Bombed   Other Jap Islands Blasted from Air

SAME TASK FORCE WHO MADE RAID ON TRUK AND SAME COMMANDER MAKE NEW ASSAULT; CAPTURE PARRY.

Tokyo- Truk Lifeline Blasted by Bombers   American Forces Range Well Past Truk Bastion To Smash At Jap Mandated Isle; Parry Island Japs Wiped Out

Task Force Strikes Only 1,300 Miles From Tokyo   Raid Is 700 Miles Closer to Jap Capital Than Attack on Truk Which Sank 19 Vessel:   COMPLETE CONQUEST OF ENIWETOK ATOLL   Land-Based Attacks Hit Ponape, Kusaie In Carolines Group

Governor Favors ‘Cooling Off Time In University Turmoil; Students Demand Explanation of Discharge

Stevenson Favors “Cooling Off” Period For Turmoil  Over Rainey Dismissal

GOVERNOR FAVORS COOLING OFF PERIOD IN UNIVERSITY ROW  STUDENT LEADERS REPORTED SUGGESTING STRIKE ON CAMPUS

("vde P. Haven, 81, Died Thursday   Funeral Services Were Held Saturday

Drive Northwest in Menacing Drive Toward Kwei- . chow, Chunging.

JAPS CAPTURE ISHAN   Enemy Is Thrusting Toward Chungking in Menacing Advance

Backs Charges Of Spending   Sen. Butler Claims 6 Billion Spent in Latin America

Senator Butler Files Report To Support Charges   Replies To Denial Of Administration On Spending In South America

Carol Ann Berry To Have Her Day  Chaplin Facing Paternity Charge

‘All Ohio  Ballots Impounded   Recounts Scheduled In Taft-Pickrel Senatoria! Race

Dudley G. Roe Announces He Will Be a Candidate for Congress   s Former Majority Floor Leader in Maryland State Senate

American Heavy Bombers Strike Ai Four Rail Centers In the Ruhr   No Enemy Opposition From Air Or Ground Was Encountered

BAD WEATHER IS IMPEDING AIR WARFARE   American Heavyweights Blast Away at Germany for Fifth Straight Day.

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT GERMANY ..   Filth Straight Day of ‘Pounding by American Planes — Four Rail Centers in Ruhr and Air Base in Northeastern France Blasted.

TWO HIGH RANKING OFFICERS OF FIETH ARMY AT W'CLOSKEY  — COLS, STYRON AND PRICI TELL OF TERRIFIC BAT-

TWO HIGH RANKING OFFICERS OF FIFTH ARMY AT MPCLOSKEY   COLS, STYRON AND PRIC! TELL OF TERRIFIC BATTLES IN ITALY

S.C. LINES UP BEHIND FOR   Delegates Pledged to Support Fourth Term Candidacy

YANKS PUSH ON IN PHILIPPINES   ‘Joep Resisiewce “WVeak As Doughboys Register New Gains on Mindoro

U.S.INFANTRYMEN ADVANCE 11 MILES FROM BEACHHEAD   ENGINEERS BUSY ON CAPTURED AIRBASES; RESISTANCE SLIGHT

Yanks at Work On Airfields on Mindoro Island   Drive 11 Miles Inland: Resistance Light; 581 Planes KO'd

AMERICANS HOLD ON SOUTHERN PART NF MINDORD SECIRE   Airfields Are Being Whipped Into Shape on Southern End of Island.   MET SCANT RESISTANCE   Infantrymen Eleven Miles North of the Beachhead Taken Friday.

Yanks Have Driven W Miles Inland  Yamashita Line On i Lavee O1¢flankad

High Ground Is Captured By Americans  In New Gain   Jap Yamashita Line On. Leyte Outflanked .

Airfields On Mindoro Being  ReadiedByU.S.   Snuth End of Island In Philippines Securely In American Hands; Jap Resistance Light

Command Strategic Heights   Airfields Being Whipped into Shape On Southern End Of Mindoro Island

 Yanks Secure Their Hold On  Mindoro Island   Push 11 Miles Inland: Prepare Airfields for Use Against Taps.

Airfields on Mindoro Safe   Hold on Southern Part Of Estland Secure, Yanks Pushing on [nfand

Yanks Hold South End © Of Mindoro   Meeting Only Scant Resistance. Americans" Advanee 11 Miles From Beach: Ahead On Leyte

To Use Airfields OnMindorolsland   Yank Infantry Is 11 Miles Beyond Established Beachhead   HAVE A SECURE HOLD   Construction Engineers Are Busy Readying Captured Airstrips

Rush Work on Mindoro Airfield   Yanks To Have Air Base Only 150 Miles—a Half Hour—From Manila   ‘TOKYO WARNED OF NEW U.S. THREAT   Yanks Have 7irm Footing, Troops Have Pushed On 11 Mi. From Beachhead

Air Strips On South End Of Mindoro Being Put In  Shape By Invasion Forces

Yanks Making - New Advances   AIRFIELDS ON MINDORO READIED FOR U. S. PLANES

Yanks Drive in Eleven Miles on Mindoro Island   Invaders Secure  Positions and Start Work on Airfields; Saueeze Levte Jone

YANK HOLD ON MINDORO IS SECURE   MacArthur Says the U. S. Controls Southern Half of Island, With Infantrymen 11 Miles From  _ Friday Beachhead.

Airfields Being BuiltOn Southern End Of Island   Only Scant Resistance Encountered By Americans

YANKS SECURE SOUTHERN END OF MINDORO   Airfield Being Whipped Into Shape for Use by American Planes in Biasting Manila

YANKS DRIVE DEEPER INTO MINDORA ISLI   Whip New Airfields Into Shape; Outflank Enemy On Leyte

Allies Smash Two Nazi Destroyers   Enemy Routed From Invasion Supply Line

Success Of Butire Invasion Hinges On Impending Counter Blow By Massed German Divie210ns   ALLIES EXPECTED THEY WILL HOLD To GAINS

Japanese Columus Push To Make First Penetration Of India in Manipur Hills

Oil Industry Hits Arabian Line Plan   Applies Term ‘Fascist Approach’ To Pipeline  Across Arabia

"Fascist Approach," Says Petroleum _ Industry of Ickes’ Pipeline Plans

Arabia Pipeline Denounced as ‘Fascist’ Idea   Oil Industry Issues ‘White Paper’ Upon Request of R. T. Zook

HER STORY OF DEHYDRATED LOVE WINS FOR WAC 10d4 AWARD OF THE BURLINGTON LIARS’ CLUB

Dehydrated Love Story Wins WAC litle Of World Champion Liar Of °44

Wae Wins Liar’s Club Award With Fanciful Tale of Dehydrated Love

‘Whopper’ About Dehydrated Blonde Wins Liars Club Championship for '44

! WAC Captain Takes Liars Club For Ride  Dehydrated Love Story Wins Crown

Hitler Issues Drastic Decree Mobilizing  All German Resource:   Herman Goering Is Named Dictator in Desperate Attempt to Sirengthen Nation for Impending Battle to Death

Goering Named Mobilization  Chief of Reich   Desperate Fuehrer Decrees All-Out Preparation for Nazi’s Final Fight; Goebbels Aids Marshal in New Setup

DRASTIC ORDER MOBILIZES ALL NAZI ENERGY   Life Subordinated To Necessities  Of Warfare

lowa Woman Killed Here During Storm   70-Mile Wind, Rain Storm Sweeps Area, Wrecking Buildings Utility Services

Allies Reach Vimont And Troarn On Road To Paris; Meet Stiff Resistance

Partisans   Cut Commy nications, Commit Sabotage And Help In Other Wavs

PATRIOTS SAID MARCHING ON VICHY   French Underground Is Striking Hard To Aid Invasion

France Rising Against Captors   French Underground Wrecks Nazi Communications.

PARTS AND VICHY UNEASY AS ALLIES PRESS OFFENSIVES   Broadcast Says Battle May Reach Capital “Any Moment”’—Famine Threatens the City.   PATRIOTS LASH OUT TO HELP BEAT NAZIS   Authoritative Sources Declare German Communications Throughout France Are Disorganized.

French Revolt Is Intensified   Patriots Disrupt German - Communication Lines

French claim German lines as destroyed  Partisans aiding invasion advance

HOPE OF HOLDING OUT ABANDONED BY NAZIS   ALLIED OFFENSIVES MEETING WITH SUCCESS ALL ALONG 275-MILE WESTERN FRONT AS GERMANS BEGIN TO WITHDRAW WITH ONLY MODERATE RESISTANCE.

Three More Major Forts Taken; Battle for Vital City May End Quickly

Finland Sends Revised Reply Red Demands   Stockholm Sources Believe New Reply May Be Basis for More Neaotiations

Finn Peace Reply Mild   Believed Acceptable To Reds As Basis for Further Negotiations

Finland Sends Revised Reply . To Red Demands   Stockholm Hears Peace Discussion Will Be Continued

Finns Asnwer Reds Demand:   Indicated In Stockholm That Finland Sends Reply To Armistice Terms.

FINLAND. SENDS REPLY T0 REDS   ORIGINAL REPLY REVISED BECAUSE OF SHARP WORDING

FINLAND REPLIES TO ARMISTICE DEMANDS   Toned-down Answer May Be Satisfactory To Russia

Report inland  Has Given Terms   Believe Finnish Reply To Soviets Will Be Acceptable

FINLAND EASES REPLY TO REDS   Blunt Rejection Changed to Ask New Talks

Revised Reply Boosts Finn Peace Hopes   Swedes Persuade Neighbor to Adopt Conciliatory Tone

Finland Sends Revised Reply To Russ Offer   May Be Basis For Con: tinuing Armistice Ne  agatation«.

Heavy U.S. Bombers Harl Fresh Bombs On Burning Berlin   New Finn Note Reported Milder

Finns Send Reply to Russ   May Be Satisfactory Basis for Furthering letinn Stasetia

FINLAND SENDS REVISED REPLY.   Terms Acceptable to Russia, Paper Thinks

NEGOTIATIONS MAY SPRING FROM NEW FINN PEACE REPLY   Revised Answer to Armistice Demands Sent to Russia by Finland——May Have Basis For Negotiations ,

Swedes Say Terms Suit  The Soviet   Further Explanation of Red Requirements Are Sought in New Answer

NEW FINNISH REPLY TO RUSSIAN PEACE DEMANDS (S REPORTED   Has Backing of Von Mannerheim and Other High Officers, Aftonbladet Says   SHARP TONES MODIFIED

AEVISED REPLY Is SENT TO RUSGIANE   Action May Be Satisfactory Basis. For Furthering. Negotiations   ORIGINAL CHANGED   Latest Step Reported Te - Have. Support: Of Vor -Mannerheim— -

Democrats Jo Mahe Strong Bid Gor State Offices   Anything Can Happen In Towa This Fall

Democratic Party To Make Aggresive Campaign for Offices   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent.

Two Large Transports Which May Have Been Carrying Troops Among Those Lost   Tanker, Freighters Included In Total; Some May Have Been Trying To Reinforce Enemy Positions Under Attack Now In Marshalls

Fleet Moves Within Miles Of Japan’s   Defense Area   Enemy Believed. Hiding In Fortifications Like Those Upon - Tarawa

US. FORCES STRIKE HARD ATJAPISLES   Shells, Bombs Are Hurled In Pre-Invasion Numbers Second Day In Row

Allies Sink 14 Japanese Ships AtSea   Far-Ranging Subs Blast Vessels At Marshalls

Cut Supply Line To Marshall Islands   Marshails Being Blasted By U.S. Air and Surface Forces   [TROOP TRANSPORTS INCLUDED IN LOT

2 Transports ~ Are Included in Sub- Score   May. Have Been > Carrying Troops to Marshalls; Eight ~ “ Preiohters Sunk...      CARRIED-SUPPLIES. oo ROR JAP: BASES         Submarines Have Battered 572 Enemy. Ships Since» “Start of War

History’s Greatest Naval Task Force Assaults Marshall:    a * Air And Surface Units Halted By Nipponese Defending Islands

Jap CONVOYS Trying to Aid Isles Blasted  Troop Transports Among Vessels Torpedoed in Yank Offensive   Tokyo Reports “Fierce Fighting”; Marshalls Landing Possible

Two Large Transports Which Could Have Been Carrying Reinforcements, Destroyed

U. S. Subs Sink 14 Jap Ships Believe Some Trying Te Reinforce Marshalls

U.S. Subs Gef 14 Jap Ships   Some of Victims May Have Been Reinforcing Marshalls

14 JAP SHIPS - SUNK BY SUBS, NAVY REPORTS   Marshall Islands  Battered Agdin From — Sea and Air .

14 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN PACIFIC   Sink Nip Vessels in Attempt to Reach Marshalls

NAVY. DISCLOSES  SINKING OF 14  JAPANESE SHIPS CREDIT LATEST BAG  TO OPERATIONS OF __U, Si SUBMARINES

U.S, SUBS SINK 14 NIPPON SHIPS   Jap Supply Lines Are Hit by Submersibles

Americans Sink 14 Japanese Ships In Marshalls Conflict   Air And Surface Forces Batter Pacific Islands

EAVY ATTACK’ (IN MARSHALLS   American Forces Dump Bullets, Aerial] Bombs in PreYnvasion Numbers.   SECOND DAY OF ASSAULT

14 NIP VESSELS REPORTED SUNK BY YANK ‘SUBS’   Novy Discloses Large Bag, But Doesn't Reveal Where Ships Were Hit

U.S. Subs Sink 14 Jap Ships on Way to Marshalls   Two Transports, Othe: Supply Vessels Are Sent to Bottom

Battle Off Marshalls, Tokyo Claims   Big U. S. Task Force Shelling Marshall Isles, Navy Says

Heavy Pounding Given Marshall Island by Yanks   Battleships Move in te Within 20 Miles to Bombard Atolls.   Carrier-Based Planes Drop Tons of Bombs   Ry The Associated Preece   Drop Tons of Rombe«

Tons of Shells and Bombs on Invasion Jittery Marshalls   Nipponese Suffer on All Fronts on War of the Pacific

14 More Jap Vessels Sunk   Air and Sea Forces Of U. S. Batter Foe's Supply Lines

TEMPERATURES:   Yank Lines Holding; Von Rundstedt Thrust At Meuse Stopped   ‘German Counter-Offensive Now Gives Signs OF Tapering Off, But Military Officials Warn  Aaninct Fyceeccive Ontimiem

Four-Mile Advance On All Fronts On Heels Of Battered Nazis Now In Disorderly Retreat — Germans Partially Trapped   VANGUARD NEARING NAZI TRANSPORT HUB

Gov. Bricker Says He Doesn't Expect to Be Offered G:0.P. Vice Presidential Nomination

Bricker Can’t See Position of Vice-President   Doesn't. Anticipate Nomination If Bid For Top Place Fails

Sedition I: Serious, Not A Side Show   Public Should Not Miss Real Meaning Of Present Trial

DEFENSE LINE   Two German Divisions Pulled Out of Front Lines at Aachen

Superforts Smash At Iitailand and Hnaerratmirosl india Rased Place Follow-Up of Grike  -. Aaainst Nagoya

SUPERFORTS HIT ENEMY OUTPOSTS   Thailand and Burma Targets Pasted: Heavy Damage Is Inflicted in Thursday’s Raid On Nagova

Supers Strike _ Thailand Japs   Bangkok, Rangoon Blasted From Indin Base

SUPERFORTS BOMB THAILAND, BURMA   BANGKOK AND RANGOON, MAJOR TRANSPORTATION CENTERS, BLASTED,

CUT IN CABARET TAX OPPOSED BY TREASURY  Morgenthau States His Position -In Letter to Houce Cammittee

Destroy 91 Jap Planes, Sink 3 Ships In Pre-Invasion Aerial Strikes At Island; Leyte Drive In Final Stages   Ry UNITED PRESS

U.S. Planes Blast Luzon: Hit Airfield   Softening Up Area Around Manila, Probably Prepura tory to Invasion

Pre-Invasion Aerial Attack Sears Luzon   Nippon Casualties Listed as 82,554 In 55 Davs on Leyte

CARDINALS ARE VICTORIOUS IN WORLD SERIES   Records Swept Off The Books By Redbirds

CHIANG YIELDS TO DEMANDS FOR HOUSECLEANING   ndicated By Shakeup In Which Ministers Of War And Finance Are Removed; To Retrieve China's Tottering Fortunes.

Chiang, Yielding To Pressure Of  Allies, Reorganizes Government   New Minister Of War Eager To Adopt Modern Methods And Work Closely With Americans;  Ousts Foe Gf Communists.

Net Par. Reaching   Obiang Under Pressure  ‘iene Gta Aoeewetiant ae Bowe’

STATE REPORTS HEAVY BALLOT      Lines Form At All Voting Places, May Set Record

MICHIGAN VOTERS RUSHING TO POLLS   Reports Indicate That Early Vote Heaviest in History; 1940 Record May Be Passed

U.S. Casualties Now Over 270 Thousand ©   Over 61 Thousand Listed As Dead

BUTTER RAISED TO 1G POINTS   Consumption Of Creamery Butter Ahead Of Schedule, Says OPA-

No Action Expected On Monetary Fund and Worle Bank By Present Congress

May Debate ‘World Bank  in January   Soviet Russia Dramatically — Ups Quota, Pushing Fund to 1.2 Billions

Congress To Get World Bank Data At January Meet   Russia Raises Her Share

Fifth Ariny Meets Minor Opposition On Italian Front   Raises Question About German Defense Of Gothic Line

WEDGES DRIVEN IN GOTHIC LINE   Gen. Kesselring May Not Be Able To Make Last Ditch Stand

Americans Jab  At Gothic.Line   Stalemate Continues In Rimini Region

Foe Retreats As 5th Probes   Nazis Oppose 8th Bitterls In Ficht Near Rimini

Americans Push Into Outposts Of Gothic Line   Moderate Opposition En: countered; British Eighth Still Stalled

OF GOTHIC LINE   Fifth Army Forces Advance Against Only Moderate German Opposition

NAZIS PULL BACK eee   YANKS ENTER OUTPOSTS OF GOTHIC LINE AGAINST MODERATE OPPOSITION.

GERMANS KILL 33 } MORE ALLIED AIR — MEN, SAYS GRIGG   Nazis Claim They Were Tryang to Escape.

Allies Knife Wav Closer  To Lee horn   Drives Threaten To QOutflank Enemy Strongholds On Routes To Bastion   ROME, July 4. (—French troops today captured Poggihonai.

FIFTH ARMY CUTSTHROUGH STRONG LINES   Troops ‘Seize Village of Pastina, 13 Miles Below Livorno and Drive on Two Miles Through  Gan Taree.

Land on Noemfoor In Surprise Attack Near New Guinea   General MacArthur Reports Americans Capture Airfield

Americans Take Noemfoor Island   Duich New Guinea Victory Reported   Island Often Bombed

Nine German Attacks Are Smashed   Caen Is Two-thirds Encircled by Driving Tommies

British Smash Major Nazi  Armored Force   Win Biggest Invasion Tank Battle As Nazis Counterattack Nine ‘Times to Forestall Capture of Caen

Gain Four Miles In Hot Fight   kleven German Armored Counter Attacks Bounce Back With Heavy Losses.

CRASH THROUGH ROMMEL CRACK PANZER FORGE   Breach Main Defense Facing Beachhead Near Caen

RUSSIANS RIPPING INTO SEVASTOPOL INNER DEFENSES   Counter Attacks By Nazis Leave Field Littered With Their Dead.

LEWIS CHARGES BRING DENIAL FROM DEMOCRATS   Claims That New Deal Politicians Had Wrecked Plans to Reunite Labor Groups Is Denied

Democrats Deny John L Lewis’ Charges New Dealers Wrecked Unification Plan

Lewis Charges! New Deal With BlockingUnion   Says. Politicians Wrecked Efforts to Reunite Miners With A. FLL; Brings Prompt Disclaimer

Dems Deny Lewis Claim   United Mine Chieftain Charged Politicians With Blocking AFL Unity

‘PALACE GUARD‘ UPHELD John L. Lewis Lays Labor Split at Door of New Deal

LEWIS CHARGES AFL SERVILE T0 THE NEW DEAL   DEMANDS RETURN OF UMW DEPOSIT FOR FIRST YEAR’S DUES

Lewis Charges New Deal Halts Labor Union   Louisiana Solon. Pins Blame  on Break Down on Lewis Himself

SENATOR DENIES LEWIS’ CHARGES   Tunnell Of Senate Labor Committee  Disclaims Knowledge Of Any Democratic Move To Keep CIO And AFL Anart.

Demos Deny Movement To Break Unions   Disclaim Lewis Charge Of Wrecking UMW, AFL. At tempt At Consolidation,   ASK RETURN OF DUES

Fortresses Inflict Crippling Blow   OFFENSIVE RESUMED AFTER THREE-DAY LULL, CONTINUING RAID IN WHICH 10,000 PLANES DROP 17,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON CITY

Flying   YANKS ATTACK PLANE CENTER DEEP IN REICH   Air Supremacy ‘Clearly In Reach’ British Chief Says

BLAST NAZI BRUNSWICK   Flying Fortresses Resume Attack After Three Day Lull

Kills Postal Pay Raise Bill   Bailey Says Legislation Would Destroy Little Steel Formula.

PRESIDENT'S SON, MAY SOON WED WAC   Col. Elliot Roosevelt, Capt ~~ Ruth Briggs Won’t Talk

American Bombers  Hit Plane Plants   RAF Drops Record Weight On Frnech Rail Points

LIBERATOR RAID ON CAROLINES A SURPRISE MOVE   gg ell lena Ponape Unawares Te  Drep 55 Tons Of Reale

Allied Armies Consolidating Tor Big Push   British Rescue Trapped Sky Troops Move Against Kleve

Yanks Punch Into Germany At New Point Near Beek; Driving Toward Essen ~

BRITISH BREAK RING AROUND PARATROOPERS   Bridgehead Consolidated For Main Push Into Northern Reich

American Troops Drive Onto German Soil From Holland   British Second Army Breaks Nazi Steel Ring Around Airborne Division Near Arnhem

U. 5. Troops Now Fighting In Reichswald   Forces But 50 Miles From Krupp Arms Center Of Essen

Yanks Punching Into Reichswald, BigGermanForest   British Army Forces Break Ring Around Besieged Parachutists

Engaging Germans In the Reischwald; British Break Ring  Around Parachutists

Kleve Objective. OfStrong Attack _In Reichswald   Ring Around “Red Devil” ~ Sky. Troops -At-Arnkem Said ‘Broken By: British

PARACHUTISTS RING BROKEN IN BHINE AREA   American Troops Engaging Enemy For Main Push

Besieged Parachutists At Arnhem Reached; More Sky Troops Landed By Allies

British Break Ring Around ‘Lost Division’   Heavy Fighting Continues Today Along Wide Front

Doughboys Are Driving Ahead Against Kleve   Germans Being Engaged Five Miles East of Waal River and 50 Miles From Krupp Works   Airborne Tonnies Being Bolstere d   New Crossing of Rhine At Two Paints Believed Accomplished Dur. ing Night

Airborne Troops Are Rescued   Steel Ring Around Arnhem Broken; Troops Penetrate Reich From Holland

Americans Engage Germans in Reichswald Troop Concentration Areo Five Miles East of Nijmegen

Senate-House Deadlock Seen On Soldier Vote   Administration Saves Green-Lucas Bill in Upper House

VOTE BILL LOCKS SENATE, HOUSE   Tie Vote in Senate Defeats Attempt To Shelve States’ Rights Bill; Saturday Session Is Called

House, Senate May Deadlock — On Soldier Vote   Senate Defeats Move  fo Kill Federal Plan On Tie Vote, 42 to 42

DEADLOCK LOOMS ON WAR BALLOT   TEST VOTE IN SENATE INDI_CATES TWO BRANCHES ARE DIVIDED ON ISSUE.

HOUSES FACE DEADLOCKON VOTING PLAN      Federal Ballot Supporters Win Tests inthe  Senate   PLAN REJECTED BY ACTION OF HOUSE   Eventual Outcome Expect—ed to be Compromise _ Plans tk:

Senate, House Leek on Service Vote   Administration Gains Two Victories In Senate Tests

DEADLOCK ON SOLDIER VOTE PLAN IS SEER   Federal Ballot Propos al Supported in Senate Tests

Service Voting Is Stalemated In New Tanele   Administration Is Vietor  Tn Action by Senate; u..... aL

Federal Ballot Legislation In For a Deadlock   Attempt to Shelve Green-Lucas Bill Fails by Tie Vote

Senate Keeps Alive Soldier Vote Bil  Deadlock With House }:  Looming Now

SERVICE BALLOT LEGISLATION IN SERIOUS TANGLE   Temporary Deadlock Is Reached In Senate Through  42-42 Tie Vote :   ADMINISTRATION IN TEMPORARY VICTORY

BUDAPEST TARGETS BOMBED BY AIRMEN   Bombers and Fighters From Italy Make DayJight Raids

YANK HEAVIES HIT YUGOSLAV RAIL TARGETS   Enemy Rocket Projectiles  Continue To Drop In  Southern England With Marked Intensity

Bombers Blast  (Germans From  Britain, Italy   RAF Attacks German Installations in. Unfavorable Weather

TR a Ae Sa ay  BUDAPEST TARGETS BOMBED BY AIRMEN   Bombers and Fighters From Italy Make Day: light Raids

Heavy Bombers Attack Budapest   Yugoslav Railway Yard Also Raided

VICE PRESIDENT HENRY WALLACE OFF FOR CHINA   He'll Bring Back  Report to   Roosevelt

Dewey Carries Campaign Into Cattle Country   Two Days Of Parleys At McKelvie’s Ranch In Nebraska.

SEES U. S. SWEEP   Dewey Comments on €.1.0. and Democrat Failure  in Maine

  Gov. Dewey Sees GOP Victory in Maine As Demonstration of Rising ‘Confidence in Republican Leadership

Sees Rising GOP Tide   Dewey Says Re Says Republican Sweep in Main a Forecast of November Vote

Election Of Republican Congress In November Is Forecast By Dewey

PLANTS DROP   Manpower Problem, However, Is More Acute Cushman Says

Navy Transport  Plane Missing   Six Oceupants of Aircraft Lost in Crash Near Nome, Alaska

U. S. Production of Rockets to Be Increased  Will Be Used to Blast Way to Enemy Beaches

NEW FORECAST FOR ELECTION   SENATOR “COTTON ED" SAYS SOUTH MAY WIELD BALANCE OF POWER IN ELEC  TORAL COLLEGE

4% COMPANY IN BUNKER HILL ~ DAY PARADE   Intimate. Incidents _ in i Line of March as Seen by : Reporter — 

ct F i,  IN BUNKER HILL DAY PARADE   Intimate Incidents in Line of March as Seen by Reporter _

LOUISIANA PRIMARY EXPECTED T0 POLL BIG VOTE TUESDAY   SEVERAL INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES SEEK TO UN. SEAT GOV. SAM JONES

LOUISIANA PRIMARY EXPECTED T0 POLL BiG VOTE TUESDAY  SEVERAL INDEPENDENT   SEVERAL INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES SEEK TO UN. SEAT GOV. SAM JONES

Seven Armistice Conditions Reported Presented Rumania   Seven Articles Of Peace As Listed In Reported Allied Offer. Are Given

Swiss Claim Allies Hand Peace Terms to Rumania  Sources State Russic To Get Restoration Of Her 1940 Frontiers

An Armistice Proposal Sent To Rumanians   Bern Hears of Terms. Pre senting Seven Conditions to Axis: Partner,   BESSARABIA WOULD GO TO RUSSIANS   Would Seek Return of Tran. sylvania to Rumania; No TIndemnities

Rumania Peace Terms Rumored  Seven Conditions for Armistice Reported; Old Border Restored

Johnston in Lead Over “Cotton Ed”   SMITH 40,000 BEHIND IN MORE THAN HALF OF THE PRECINCTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMA  New Dealers on Top

District Soldiers Killed In Action  List ls Announced By The War Dept.

Church Trustees Cancel Address  Threats Made Against "Peace Now’ Chairmar

EXCELLENT ‘INVASION WEATHER’ PREDICTED  FOR NEXT THREE WEEKS IN CHANNEL SECTOR

Good Invasion — Weather Sighted For Three Weeks   Germany Tightens  Hold On Dutch,  Danish Fortifications

Fine Invasion Weather Seen For Three Weeks   Germany Tightening Hold On Dutch. Danish Coasts As Precaution

Weather Gooc for Invasion, Says Paper   GERMANY TIGHTENS HOLD ON DUTCH, DANISH COASTS AS PRECAUTION

Germany Tightens — Hold On Dutch. And Danish Coast   {Nazi Radio Says Allies Preparing . Six ‘Ports  on South Coast as Bases

GOOD INVASION WEATHER SEEN   Germany Tightens Control Of Coastal Areas

Fair Weather For Invasion  Predicted   Ground in Europe Declared Dry And Hard

Announces Famed Com-mander Afrika Corps Died From Wounds Of Battle 

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Dead Of Wounds Berlin Radio Announces

Germans Admit Rommel Dead  Reels, & PEM ONS A map oes hea NE ee   Nazi Announcement Confirms Rumors

Berlin Admits Rommel Dead   Rarlio Says Marshal Was Fatally Wounded

‘Death of Rommel Admitted by Nazi:  Field Marshal Won   Field Marshal Won  Fame in Africa

Rommel Died From Wounds. Berlin Reports   Radio Announces State Funeral Planned For Famed ‘Desert Fox’

Rommel Is Dead, Wound Proves Fatal   ‘Hitler Orders State lu' neral For Noted Nazi  Field Marshal; Known By Achievements [In Africa

FIELD. MARSHAL ROMMEL DIES FROM WOUNDS   Hitler Orders State Funeral For Former Afrika Corps  Commander

DERLIN ANNOUNCES DEATH OF ROMIMEL   Germans Fail to Disclose Time of Death---Was One of Huns’ Best Generals

GERMANS WILL HONOR ROMMEL   Nazis Finally Admit Death Of “Desert Fox”

ROMMEL IS DEAD   Injuries During Normandy Invasion Fatal to “Desert Fox”

BERLIN ADMITS DEATH OF FAMED GEN. ROMMEL  Wounds Received in War in France Deava Ental ta Enomy Cammander

ROMMEL REPORTED VICTIM OF WOUNDS   “Desert Fox,” 5 53, Dead, German News Agency Savs

WOUNDS: RECEIVED ON. NOR -MANDY FRONT BELIEVED TO" ..* HAVE ENDED GAREER .‘ gy spp ot

PUSH 10 MILES FROM LIVORNO   Allied Armies in Italy Mee! Violent Resistance from Germans

ALLIES MOVE NEAR LIVORNO   Germans Offering Stiff Resistance In italy

ALLIED DRIVE ~ SLOWED DOWN   NAZIS ATTEMPTING NEW -STAND TO HALT STEADY ADVANCE ON ITAL-.  . JAN FRONT ;

Allied Forces In Italy Advancing Toward Livorna   Meet Violent Resistance But Continue To Drive Forward Steadilyv   FRENCH ELEMENTS ALSO ADVANCING

STATES RIGHTS FORCES BEATEN   FDR Beats Off 2nd Senate Attempt to Kill Federal Ballot

Senate Holds Fast for Federal Ballot for Soldiers Bill   It Refuses to Take Up State Rights Measure by 44 to 42 Vote

Senate Rejects House Measure  ‘States Rights’ Bill, Laid Aside 44-42

SENATE TIES UP STATES’ RIGHTS GI BALLOT BILI   Administration Gains Two Votes on Second Move to Sideirack Federal Ballot Plan

Federal Vote Loses Greund   Administration Beats Off Attempt To Sidetrack Fed eral Ballot Bull.

Senate Keeps — F ederal Vote Bill On Flom   Administration . Beats Off Attempt to Sidetrack and’ Take Up States RightsMeasure

Federals Beat Off Sidetrack  Defeat Move to Take Up States’ Rights CAldiar Vato Idan

SOLDIER VOTE DEBATE GOES ON   Beat Off Effort to Sidetrack Measure

 Move To Sidetrack Federal Servicemen’s Ballot ‘Again Beaten Back In Senate By 44 To 42 Vote

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Tank-Destroyer Unit Is Very Proud of Its Guns”  _ Combat Team Confident; Differs Little From Battle-Tried Outfit

OHIO POLITICS BEGINS TO BOIL   Internal Strife Looms for Both Major Parties

Willkie Volunteers Oppose Gov. Bricker’s Bid for Solid Ohio Delegation at Chicago

Greyhound Bus Drivers Halt Service   FOUR HUNDRED EMPLOYES IN PITTSBURGH DISTRICT STRIKE WHEN TWO ARE FIRED AS ABSENTEES   Contract Violated

ADMITS TAKING $1,200 IN LOOT INBANK HOLDUP   Dubuque Man Captured as He Sits in Car With Girl Near Her Home

Allies Control Huon Pen   Aussies And Yank:  Join Jungle Campaign; Wipe Out 14,000 Japs.

MAKING INVESTMENTS IN BONDS AND STOCKS   Roger Babson Discusses Investment Situation, Both Now and Post-war; Favors Second Grade Issues.

BABSON FAVORS BUYING OF SECOND GRADE BOND ISSUES   Believes Top Grade Municipal, Railroad, Industrial and Utility Bonds Will Be High In Price With Low Yield.

Advice On Bond Buying Is Given   ROGER BABSON FAVORS SECOND GRADE ISSUES NOW

Kehogls To Have Special Bond  Rally Wednesday   FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK

Capt. Bowden Did Not Shirk His Duty— Neither Can We—Let’s Buy More Bonds!  Ja a oie a t _—   Belton Officer Commended For  Exceptionally Meritorious Conduct

Capt. Bowden Did Not Shirk His Duty— Neither Can We—Let’s Buy More Bonds!   Neither Can We—Let’s Buy More Bonds!  Belton Officer Commended For Exceptionally Meritorious Conduct

Fifth and Eighth Armies Drive Toward Florence  French Push Inland on Elbe Island

Fifth and Eighth Armies Drive Toward Florence   French Push Inland on Elba Island at Three Points

U. S. Policy Still ‘Unconditional’   Hull Says He Has Heard Of No Change in Demands

Berlin Seared  In Record Raid   Industrial Area Hard Hit Re Mishiy RAF Fleet

BERLIN TRAFFIC KNOCKED OUT IN LATEST AIR RAID   Smoke Rises Four Miles High as Flames Sweep City on Heels of Shattering Explosions.   UNPRECEDENTED BOMB LOAD DROPPED BY R.A.F   Close to 1,000 Planes Take Part in Attack, Heaviest Ever Made on One Tar get—43 Lost.

BERLIN GUTTED BY TREMENDOUS RAF BOMB LOAD   Almost 3,000 Tons Of Bombs Hurled On Hapless City

s=_  UNPRECEDENTED LOAD OF BOMBS DROP ON HITLER’S CAPITAL; REPORTS OF CHANCELLORY BEING HIT; TRAFFIC, COMMUNICATIONS TIED UP.

Close to 1.000 Bombers Take Part in Operation, Smoke Rises Four Miles

Record Blow Hits Seared Nazi Capital   ‘Industrial Guter ‘Belt Is:Pounded

Berlin Aflame After RAF Raid; 2800 Tons Of Bombs on Can'tal   43 of 1200 Bombers in Attack Lost: Industrial Areas Hardest Hit

BERLIN RUINS SEARED AGAIN BY RAF FLEET   WELL OVER 2,800 TONS OF BOMBS JOLT CAPITAL

RECORDRAID SETS FIRES IN BERLINAGAIN   Heaviest Aerial Bombardment on Single Target Delivered   VAST NEW DAMAGE REPORTED IN: CITY   Traffic in Reich Capital Paralyzed by Aerial © lows ="

Western Front Now About 320 Miles Lone   Only One Break In Long  Line

Widespread Mine Fields Encountered in Area of Big Port  RESISTANCE {S_ STIFF Germans Admit British Ad vances in Belgian Fortifications

French Quisling Is Condemned   Former Vichy Cabinet Members Found Guilty Of Treascon.

Turkey Edges Toward Break With Germany   Nazi Diplomats in Ankar Openly Predict End OL BRoaletinnc

Hitler Faces Collapse in Balkans   Ankara Dispatches Hint Bulgaria Is Seeking Peace

Ankara Break With Germans May Be Near   ’ Bulgaria Is Reported Dickering with Allies. To Get Out of Conflict  WASHINGTON oT ENT

Hitler Facing Possibility of Balkan Collapse   Turkey May Soon Break with Nazis

Hitler Faces Possibility of  Balkan Crisis   Bulgaria Believed Ready to Tag Turkey In Break With Axis

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BALKAN BLOW-UP BELIEVED LIKELY   REPORTS INDICATE TURKEY AND BULGARIA ARE READY TO BREAK. WITH AXIS,

District Attorney George T. Cummins Declares One Man Released In Fatefur War Quarrel— Hospital Patient Still Guarded   EXPECT CHARGES TO CONFRONT ONLY ONE

Wallace Men Warn Hannagan Against Bossing; Guffey  Loud In Protests.

President Back  To Complex Duties  After Endorsement ‘Demonstrated That Democracy Is Living Force, Unite To Win  War BDaara’ Bancawalt Chatec

"Let Us Unite to Win the War and Achieve A Lastinc beace’ --Pres. Roosevelt

FDR Swings Back: To Job  ‘ Mdininietration. Policy  Endorsed: By Voters

PRESIDENT TAKES UP HIS DUTIES AGAIN’ AS HEAD OF GOVERNMENT  _ HAVE AGAIN DEMONSTRATED THAT DEMOCRACY WORKS. SAYS FDR

FDR SWINGS BACK TO JOB   Plans to Return to Washington Tomorrow  After Rest

NATION'S FAITH IN DEMOCRACY SEEN UNSHAKEN   Roosevelt Calls Vote Example Of Power Of America

DR Resumes Chief Duties   President Asks For “Unity To Win War, Achieve  Lasting Peace.”

Flames Half ‘Mine Rescuers   Hope Abandoned for 15 Men Caught in West Virginia Mine

BLAST IN MINE TRAPS 15 MEN   Underground Fire Bars Way To Bodies Deep In Coal Shaft

BLAZE IN MINE TRAPS 17 MEN   Fire Generates Poisonous Gases Underground

HOPE ABANDONED FOR 15 IN MINE   EXPLOSIVE GASES PREVENT SEARCH FOR BODIES AFTER TERRIFIC BLAST.

15 ARE KILLED IN COAL MINE   West Virginia Blost Fotal te Crew Fighting Underground Flames

Pennsylvania Bond Salesmen Invade Harlem: Get Father Devine's Hele

New Nippon thrust raises Loyang peril  China asks quick help from allies

Final Allied Victory Over Nazis  Promised Belgians By Eisenhower

GERMANS FLEE BEFORE GREAT ALLIED DRIVE   Escape Route Is Narrowed; Roads Under Fire

U; ‘Ss, ‘Tanks’ Push ‘Ahead   “Demoralized Enemy As’ Paying Penalty ©

Americans Are Ripping Open German Lines  Tanks Lunge Forward  vy. wet... Tk..°..... Om...   Tanks Lunge Forward In New Drives; Enem; Unable To Bury Dead

T. SGT. EULALIO LOBATO OF BLANCO REPORTED AS.  MISSING IN ACTION IN nh BATH USO Comer

Allied Chiefs Fail to See Easy Victory   Gen. Eisenhower Says Long and Bitter Fighting Is Ahead

Eisenhower Says Long, Bitter Fighting Ahead, Warns Against Over-Optimism

Supreme Head Warns World Of Optimism   General Eisenhower Says Long. Bitter Fighting   Ahead In Europe. NO INTERNAL COLLAPSE

Eisenhower Warns Against Growing Optimism; Long, Bitter Fight Ahead

Eisenhower Warns:   SUPREME COMMANDER CAUTIONS ALLIES AGAINST INCREASING OVER-OPTIMISM

LONG AND HARD FIGHT IS AHEAD   General Eisenhower Warns Against Optimism That ‘Quick Victory’ Is Near

Long Kighting Ahead * AP i Final Victory   Warning From Eisenhower on Over Optimism

General Says Nazi Collapse Is False Hope   Gestapo Has Too Firm a , Hold For Internal Fall, _ His Belief

Eisenhower Warns Against Optimism   >ees Long, bitter Battle for Victory

"LONG HARD FIGHT AHEAD,’ EISENHOWER WARNS IN FACE OF OVERCONFIDENCE

Americans And British Score New Gains In Bitter Fighting   ‘Montgomery’s British Second Army Threatens To Close Trap Of Germans In Caen; Yanks Surge  Forward On 7-Mile Front ‘

Eisenhower Predicts \Le And Bitter Fighting Bef  Final Victory in Eu   Long Before “Urope

Long, Bitter Battles Ahead, General Says   Allies Just Getting Into Po sition to. Hit Germany Where It Hurts   VIOLENT REACTION CAN BE EXPECTED   Weather Has Worked _Against Air Force; Flying Bomb Is a Problem

Can’t Count on German Collapse, Says Eisenhower   General Sounds New Warning Against Over-Optimism; Sees Hard Fight Ahead

Mopping Up of 2 Pockets By Marines and Soldiers Increases Number of Dead Counted.

JAPS CUT INTO TWO POCKETS ON PELELIU ISLAND   Less Than 2.000 Japs Believed Holding Out; American Dead Totals 686

2,000 JAPS REMAIN ON PELELIU; CUT UP INTO TWO POCKETS   U. S. Casualties 5,500 Of  All Types; 8,288 Enemy Dead

Army, Marines Split Japs On Peleliu Island   Enemy Unit Less Than 2,000; Isolated In Two Pockets

Income Tax Blanks Being Mailed to About 750,000 Iowans by U. S. Revenue Collector

Hun Brutality Widespread On  Cc rete Island   Residents Suffered From German Occupation To Greater Degree Than . Greek Mainland

State Draft Supply To Be  Exhausted Soor   Director Says Bottom of Barrel Will Be Reached Within Sixty Days

‘WILL MEET SEPT: 8   , Regular Monthly Session of War  Dads to Be at Country Club.

WILL MEET FRIDAY   War Dads to Have Another Feast at Country Club.

President  Also Warns Satellites       SAYS FIVE MILLION AMERICANS. TO BE OVERSEAS BY JULY 1; PROMISES NAZIS, JAPS REVENGE

Atrocity Victims To Be Avenged, President States   Five Million Troups To Be Overseas By .. July 1, Says FR

DEAL WITH (DIMINALS   ‘All Who Share The Guilt Shall Share Punishment

LM 10 DROP PENALTY FEE   Power Company’s Volun: tary Proposal Approved by PSC

I &M. Will Drop Penalty Charge   Voluntary Elimination Approved By State

GERMANS SUFFER 78,000 CASUALTIES TO DATE   CAUSE FOR ALLIED ENCOURAGEMENT, EDEN TELL: COMMONS IN SPEAKING OF UNREST IN REICH.

‘Thiee Convicts Get New Sentences   Given 30 Years In Prison At Ft. Madison

Three Warshins To Be Launched   Greatest Ship Launching Ceremony In History At Philadelphia Navy Yard

Launching Set For August 20   Aircraft Carrier Antietar Will Be Named By Mrs. Tydinegs.

Ohio Will See Gayest  Easter Parade In Years Merchant Marts Report

SCOFFS AT ALLIED LOSS PREDICTIONS   Gen'l Bradley Says Invasion Casualties Will be Light

INVASION TO BE NO BLOOD-BATR   Yanks Will Get Plenty Of Support, Says Gen. Bradley

Bradley Belittles Invasion Losses   Atlantic Wall To Be “The Greatest Show on Earth’’; Loss Talk ‘Tommyrot’.

Bradley Expects Light Losses In Big Invasion   Ground Force Leader Says Infantry Will Have Air and Naval Protection

Very Grim Fighting Continues   Anticipated Attempt To Drive Allies Into Sea Has Power But No Success.

New York Meat Strike Due Today   OPA Estimates 3500 Shops to Be Closed

BUTCHER SHOPS THREATEN CLOSE   Butchers of New York Cit Area Consider ‘Business: Holiday’; Dispute Over OP/ Ceiling Prices

LACK OF MEAT FACED BY N. Y.   Third of Butchers in Manhattan Threaten to Shut Shops in Protest

Many of New York - City’s Millions May Be Meatles: One.- Third of City’   Shops May Close in . Ceilinas Protest

BALLOT GAINS SEEN AS HELP FOR HARMONY   WHITE HOUSE SEEKS END OF CONFLICTS WITH CONGRESS

Nation Weighs  Harmony Chances At Washington   Many Controversial Problems Bound to Come Before Congress In Coming Years

GAPITAL STUDIES CONGRESS LINEUP   Would Favor Harmony Were It Not for Mementous Problems Embodying Broad Conflicting Opinions

Washington Considers. Prospects  For Harmony   Democrats Stronger, Situation May Help Relations Between’ F.D.R. and Congress.  ISSTIEFS. VOMENTOEUS

President, Senate, House Face Momentous Tasks __ ‘Embodving Conflicting Opinions In Next Four Years

Withdrawal of Red Devils in Holland May Delay Triumph   Eisenhower Builds Up Force of Over Two Million in Europe

Thrust To West, Mean: while, Threatens To Isolate 200.000 Nazis.

Tribute Paid Ist Airborne  Both Churchill, Nazi: Give Unit Credit

YANKS SECURE NEW LANDINGS AT HOLLANDI:   DUTCH NEW GUINEA THRUST EXTENDED BY 16 MILES

U.S. Troops Make New Landings on  Dutch New Guinea  Move Extends Hold On Coast; Bombers 450  Miles From Philinpines

DEWEY POSITION SATISFIES. EDGE   New Jersev Senator Says Nominee Favors Strong Postwar Organization

Allies Cross Last  Barrier to Faenza   Fifth Army Troops Storm Lamone River

DEWEY. EY PRAISES ~ GEN, MARTHUR   REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE SAYS  RECOGNITION. OF MACAR 1  DHOR'S TALENTS. 38.  LONG OVERDUE:

GOP CHALLENGE TO FOR HINTED   Dewey May Ask Dems For Pearl Harbor Story

DEWEY MAY RAP JAP WAR PLANS   Events Leading Up To Pear! Harbor Likely To Draw Candidate’s Fire

Foe Trapped Victory in ‘45. ‘Monty’   Noxis Con’t Escape Allies’ Sure Grip, War Workers Told

Eisenhower and Montgomery Express  ‘Confidence of Victory Over Hitler

GEN. MONTGOMERY SEES “40 VICTORY   BELIEVES ALLIES WILL ALMOST FINISH JOB OF BEATING HITLER THIS YEAR,

August Setting Divorce Record   Total Of 40 Suits Filed So Far This Month.

Robot Raiders Shackled, Belief   Bombers’ Activity Reduced Sharply

REPORT BRITAIN HAS ANSWER TO CRAFT ALREADY   RAF Wrecks Plant Used to Store and Launch Pilotless Jet Ships

RAF Hit Secret Weapon Storage Reduces Attack   Nazi Stories Tell Of Extensive Damage  Done By Robots

FLYING BOMBS FEWER AFTER BRITISH RAIDS   RAF Attaeks Area From Where Robot Craft Are Launched

BRITAIN HAS ANSWER TO NAZI ROBOT   Sharp Reduction In Activity Of Rockets Noted

British Unravel Mystery of Nazi Rebot Plane   Counter-Measures Reduce Activity Of Seceret Weapon

ROBOT BOMBERS ARE BEING SENT DOWN BY RAF   Straight Flying Craft Easy Targets For British Fighter Planes.

WAR TODAY   Candhi’s Release From Prison Looked Upon as Aet of Wisdom ou Great Britain’s Part

RELEASE OF GANDHI FROM PRIS(?—~ BY BRITISH SEEN AS WISE MOVE ,,,. TO PREVENT HIM BECOMING MART...   Death of Mahatama When It Does Come WiICESSweep India Like Prairie Fire and Vast Potapesty: ties Are Possible in That Far Away Land

Army and Navy Planes Bomb Kusaie And Ponape Islands in Marshalls

ALLIES IN 3-WAY. ASSAULT ON JAPS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Troops Push Forward tn Los Negros; New Landing In New Guinea Reported.

Three-Pronged Assault in  S. W. Pacific   New Landing is Made on New Guinea Coast

ALLIES STRIKE JAP HOLDINGS 3 NEW BLOWS   Extend Los Negros Gains, Make New Landing On New Guinea

NEW LANDING ON COAST OF NEW GUINEA   Allies Also Push Into Northern Part Of New Guinea

LAND, AERIAL FORCES SMASH ARAKAN FRON]   Indian Troons Also in on Majo Allied Victory in Which Many of Enemy Destroyed   2 te 1 Advantage

BRITISH WIN VICTORY IN WEST BURMA   Jap Offensive Is Smashed On Arakan Front

BRITISH IN BURMA HAVE WRECKED JAP OFFENSIVE   Mountbatten’s Forces Score  Major Victory Over Threatening Jans.

BRITISH SMASH JAP OFFENSIVE ON BURMA FRONT   Imperials Beat Enemy In Standup Fight By Skillful Leadership

T'wo Ohio Women Search For Plane   Wife and Sister of Losi Army Flier Visit Rug. ged Mountain Counters

WOMEN'S HUNCH CAUSE OF SEARCH   Ohioans Hope to Discover Plane Wreckage in Mountains

Two Ohio Women Begin Searching Wilderness In Smokey Mountains ‘For Army Plane Lost In January

Women Following  Hunch In Search      Two Are Scouring Rugged Smoky Mountains For Wrecked Plane.

NO SURRENDER TALK IS DENIED   Finnish Foreign Office Says  Legation Made No Such Statement

NIMITZ SAYS BASES NEEDED INCHINA   Says Japan Can’t Be Defeated by Naval Actjon Alone

MEXICO RATIHES OIL AGREEMENT   U. S. FIRMS WHOSE PROPER. TIES WERE SEIZED TO BE PAID $23,995,991.

JEMOBILIZATON LLG FlROT ON OoAESS LST   Legislators Get Short Vacation While Committees Work

CONGRESS IS <-> IN-SESSION   GREAT PRESSURE BEING. EX_ ERTED TO FORCE QUICK ACTION ON POST-WAR . BLUEPRINT

DEMOBILIZATION BILLS STUDIED   Post-War Problems To Be Tagkled By Congress

JEMOBILIZAT!ON SILLS FIRST ON CINGRESS LIST.   Legislators Get Short Vacation While Committees Work ~

Towns Captured   Demobilization Legislation To Be Speeded Up   Congress Resumes Facing Many Vital Problems Of Postwar Period

SOLONS TO BOW TO DEMAND FOR VICTORY LAWS   Committees To Consider Measures Dealing With Demobilization   RETURN FROM RECESS   Major Battle To Come On Jobless Pay For Millions Of War Workers

U.S. Fifth Infantry Advances   Capture Volterra, Five Road Center Five Miles Below German Held Pisa.

5th Army Troops Take Volterra   Smoke Columns in Livorno Reported

Yank Troops 30 Miles Above Nantes   Major German Retreat to Seine River  Probable

Thrust Nearly To Port Of Nantes   British And Canadians In Normandy Bringing ‘: Closer A Nazi Retreat ‘To Seine And- Opening Wav Ta Paris

‘Yanks rive At Brest and  St. Nazaire  Bradley’s Armored Units  Smash to Loudeac in   Breton State      CANADIANS GAINING

ALLIES SWARM BRITTANY; NEAR NANTES, BREST   Nazis Fall Back Before British Push, Opening Way to Paris

GERMANS BEGIN WITHDRAWAL IN ORNE VALLEY      Nazis Give Up 50 Square Miles In Retreat Before Canadians

Yankee Troops Swarming Over Brittany Area   Nazi Retreat Provides  Allied Thrust For Paris

NEAR NANTES, AIM AT BRESI   British - Canadian Offensive In Normandy May Bring Major Nazi Retreat

Germans Facing Forced Refreaf To Seine River   Yanks Swarm Over Half Of Breton Peninsula; Move On Nates

Nazis Retreat From Valley Near Caen   Confusion In Ranks Of Germans Reported By Canadians

Beaten Nazis Begin General Withdrawal From Odon-Orne Valley Southwagt  : Of Caen <

German: ‘Troops Also. > Ma cin General With “drawal From: Whole Southwest of. Caen pa Allies Continue te - Exert Great Pressure. On. ‘Nazis.

Half of Breton Peninsula Now In U.S. Hands   British-Canadian Thrust May Force General Retreat  From Caen Front

British Take German Key In North   Capture of VillersBocage Starts General Nazi Withdrawal As U.S. Forces Sweep On

HALF BRETOR PENINSULA OVERRUN   Willers - Bocage Captured ‘By British Forces   ST, NAZAIRE   Less Than 40 Miles Away: Other Units Advance Toward Brest

U.S. TROOPS NEAR NANTES = AS GERMAN BEGIN WITHDRAWAL. FROM VALLEY SOUTH OF CAEN   German Said To Have Withdrawn Over Five-  Mile Front in Great Confusion. Americans Moving Forward Rapidly Toward Great Port of Brest

U. 5. Troops Move Toward Two Big Ports   Nantes and Brest Both Threatened; British Make Gains

GERMAN TROOPS MILLING ABOUT WITH CONFUSION   Allies Splitting Attacks into Multiple-pronged Drives In All Directions

NAZIS RETREAT IN NORMANDY BELOW CAEN   American Troops Drive to Within 85 Miles of Brest

Yanks Closing In On — Ports Of Nantes, Brest   British Seize Villers-Bocage, Keystone Of German Defenses West Of Orne As

Speeding American Tanks Race to Cut Brittany Peninsul:      Thrust Nearly to Nantes; Within “85 Miles of Port of Brest

Brittany Peninsula Virtually Severed By American Units   Thrust. By British And Canadians m In Caen Sector Brings Closer « Possible Nazi Retreat To Seine

32-BILLION NAVY WAR BILL PUT UP TO- CONGRESS   Will Finanee America’ Effort During Fiscal Yoar Of 945

32 BILLIONS ASKED FOR NAVY   Fund Would Finance War Effort Until June, 1945

Over 32 Billions Asked For Navy   Appropriations Committee Of Congress Makes Report On Navy Financing For Year

75,000 Troops Thrown Into Italian Baitle   Three Divisions in Fight for Florence

Allies Cut Jap  Route in Burma   Yanks, Chinese Closing Trap at Myitkyina

Pond Attack Made Against Budapest   Daylight Raid Followed By Night Assault

BUDAPEST BEING BOMBED NOW DAY NIGHT BY ALLIES   Red Army Masses on Border Capital’s Dead Reported “ln Thousands’

Budapest Is Bombed Again By Allies   Germans Reported To Be Stripping Rumania of Supplies

Alked Bombers Pound Budapest   Kindle Big Fires in Hunganan Capital

John Sudtelgte Weds Mary Ahlers  Will Reside On Farm Near Struble

STATE CLOSER TO QUOTA   /Kansas Has $20,000,000 to Go in  Fifth War Loan Drive

JAP-LASHING B-29 SUPER-FORT FAST, TWICE SIZE OF FIGHTER   FIRST DESCRIPTION GIVEN OF PLANE DEVELOPED IN SECRECY BY BOEING; FLIES 300 MILES PER HOUR

 1 . * 7 Chute Burns, Illinois Airman Leaps to Saftey ‘Piggy Back’

VERDICT FOR-MRS. FRIDERES IN SUM. OF $7,840:89.   Trial Took.. Up- Practicat Week; Juty Excused For Term; Defendant May Apieat ‘Case.

KING PROMISES TO PUZZLE JAPS   Have Bases to Strike a’ Tokyo, Says Admiral

King Says Fleet Now Has Bases To Strike At Tokio, China, Philippines

Admiral Kine o  To Mari iene   Proposed To Keep Japan Puzzled As To Operations

HINTS. AT NAVAL ATTACK ON JAPAN   KING ALSO INDICATES BLOWS MAY FALL ON CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES.

Adm. King Visits Saipan; Plans Blows at Japan   Fleet Now Has Bases To Strike Enemy s Homeland, He Says

Admiral King Visits Saipan; Says Fleet Has Bases to Hit at Japan, China or Philippines   AMERICANS SECURE KEY POSITIONS ON GUAM

KING CONFERS TO PLAN FUTURE MOVES IN ASIA   Says Fleet Ready To Strike At Japan, China, Philippines

Japanese Barges Sent Down   Alhes Shaping Up For Final Grand Assault On Rabaul,  Japanese Stronghold,

TURK-NAZI BREAK Io EXPECTED SOON   Rumors in Ankara Say Tha Diplomatic, Economic Rup ture Due Shortly

LEND-LEASE SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION   Should Britain Receive It After German War Ends?

British Post-War Aid Faces Snag   Congress May Fight Further Lend-Lease

Congress Cagey On Continuing Lend-Lease Act   “Wait And See” What Britain Does To Aid Jap War

Hitler Makes Broadcast To Reassure  His People   Says He Is ‘Unharmed’ By Bomb Explosion, 13 Members of Staff “Aro Hurt One Fatally   ‘CRIMINAL ELEMENTS’. ‘TO BE EXTERMINATED   Count von Stankenberg Of. Junkers Group Named Bomb Planter

[ries to Reassure German People That He Is Well and Unharmed; Bomb Injures 13 of Party.

Peace Asked By Bulgaria   Neutrality’s: Dream Ts ‘Blasted .By Reds

Boche In Mass Balkan’ Flight, lt Is Believed   Meanwhile, Bulgaria Gives Up Brief Dreams of Edging Out of War Through ‘Neutrality’

NAZIS REPORTED IN MASS FLIGHT ~ OUT OF BALKANS   Allied Bombers and Fighters Blast Highways and Railways Over Which Enemy Troops Move.   BULGARIA RESUMES EFFORTS FOR PEACE   Fall of Cabinet Delays Coun- try’s Capitulation — Ro_ manian Envoys Wait to Sign Truce Terms.

MASS FLIGHT Ot GERMANS OUT Of BALKANS SIGHTED   Bulgaria Resumes Effort to Make Definite Peace With Britain, United States   ROMANIAN DELEGATES READY TO SIGN TRUCE   Wait in Moscow to Affix Signatures to Armistice With Russia; Rumors Continue Circulate Hungary Asking Allies for Truce

Herrenvolk Said Fleeing Balkan Area   Bulgaria Seeks Definite Peace Terms as Nasi Domination Fbhbe

Willkie May Enter Ohio Primary   Gives Hint of Plan To Meet Bricker On Home Grounds

WILLKIE MAY ENTER OHIO PRIMARY FOR TEST WITH BRICKER   Would Have Little To Lose And Might Gain Much

House Works On Conversion Bill   Plan To Sell Surpluses Under Discussion

NEAR VOTE ON SURPLUS GOODS   House Gives Final Touch To Bill, Governing Disposal 

L.A. Strikers Back on Job Under Army   Early Restoration Of Power Service Predicted by Colonel

SOONG TAKES ~ CHIANG’S PLACE   Madame Chia neg’s Brother Appointed in _ Chinese Cabinet

Same Report Says American 1st Army Has Sent Troops Into Germany .  NEW AMERICAN 9TH ARMY IS REPORTED IN FIELD IN FRANCE   German Communique Indicates Fall Of Brest May Not Be Far Away :

Giant Clash May Decide Entire Hiflerian War:   Nazis Gambling on Upsetting Eisenhower Plans, Prolong Fight

Germans Throwing Limost Strength Info ‘Effort To Turn Allies Back Qn Western iFront, Gain Time For Comprerafse Peace

WAR. TODAY   oman Offensive Could Be Turned Inio a Debacle by Ali lies; Dangerous Nazi @*tyation Created

WESTERN FRONT SITUATION IS MUCH BECLOUDED BUT ULTIMATE OUTCOME BE VICTORY FOR AT TIES

GERMAN COUNTER-CFFENSIVE ONE ‘OF DANGEROUS POTENTIALITIES FOR BOTH SIDES IN BIGBATTLE

THE WAR TODAY  Ultimate Victory For Allies Certain By beWitt Mackenzle

THOUSAND AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST TRIO GERMAN AIR BASES  . FOLLOWS BIG RAIDS ON MUNICH AND KARLSRUHE

FLEVENT OF GIGANTIC AIR DRIVE   Nancy. Metz, Dijon Fields Among Targets  DDITICU   Smash At Industrial Munich; And Karlsruhe; Opposition Light

FLIERS SMASH 181 PLANES IN MONDAY BLOW   Nazi Airports In France Hi' Today; R.A.F. Hammers Munich, Karlsruhe

Yanks Report No Fighter Opposition, Little Flak.   By RICHARD McMURRAY AP War Fditar

Whole Blocks Oi Munich Left Aflame By RAF Raid   U.S. Crewmen Catch Many German Craft On Ground At Metz; Karlsruhe Plastered

1,000 U.S. PLANES ON THE MISSION   Fortresses and Liberators Blast Bases at Nancy, Metz and Dijon in France in Drive to Knock Out Luftwaffe, :

3,000 American Planes In Raids During Tuesday   69 Yanks Lost I: Major Operations Sevastopol Is Unde: Final Raid

Nazi Airfields In France Hit On Allied Raids   Aerial Offensive Over Europe Grows In Intensity Today

Great Assault On Europe Kept Going   More Than 1,000 Planes Again Over German Targets

Daylight Assault On France   American Losses Monday Were 69 Planes, at Least 38 Heavy Bombers

OVER 1,000 US, BOMBERS POUND NAZI AIRFIELDS   War's Greatest Air Offensive Carried Into 11th Day By Yank Fliers

Reich Dealt. Heavy Blow In Bombings During Day   Nancy, Metz, Dijon  Targets Of Bombers

3 Airfields InFrance Bombarded   Allied Aerial Offensive Still Under Way

Others Hit At Calais Positions  Stranc RAF   Strong RAF Force Hits at Munich and Karlsruhe

Aerial Armada — In New Attack   OVER 100. AMERICAN re PLANES RAID   GERMANY.

Air Lash Applied By Russ   Nazis Say Sevastopol Under Final Assault

Over: 1,000 U. 5. Warplanes Smash Deep into Reich   Sertresses and Liberators From Britain Pound German Airdromes at Nancy, Metz and Dijon in an All-Out Effort to Humble Hitler's Forces Ahead of Invasion   Da aa a ew se RE SO se) hay, Cal ‘INDUSTRIAL MUNICH AND KARLSRUHE IN FLAMES

Heavy Force Of U.S. Bombers Plaster Airfields; RAF Raiders Batter Karlsruhe And Munich

R.A.F. HURLED AT KARLSRUHE, MUNICH DEPOTS   11-Day Campaign In Air Reaches 45,000Ton Bomb Total

1.000 AMERICAN PLANES IN RAIL   Three German Airfields — In France Today’s Yan kee Targets   RAF BLASTS REICH   Munich And Karlsruhe Battered By British in Night Assault

NANCY, METZ AND DIJON HIT   Liberators Smash Pas-De-Calais Late Tuesday

DAY AND NIGHT BATTERING KEPT UP BY ALLIES   Russians Getting Ready for Slaughter on Crimea; Italy Comparatively Calm

MUNICH LEFT ABLAZE AFTER AAIDS BY RAF   1,000 U. S. Bombers Follow Up With Airfield Attacks in France,

Epic Air Drive On German Sites In Eleventh Day   Mediterranean Air Force -- €ompletes 2000 Sorties In Action Over Romania

Daylight Blows  Follow Heavy RAE ‘Night Assault   Over 1,000 Bombers And Fighters Today Meet Little Opposition, Shoot Up Planes on Ground— RAF Leaves . Heavy Damage at Munich and Karlsruhe.

AIR FLEET: HITS EUROPE TODAY   Attack Bases In ‘France Following — Night Raids .   Russians Also Are Using Strong Air . ‘Attacks

U. §. Airmen Continue Air War Tuesday   Strong Force Launches Eleventh Straight Day Aaainst Nazi Targets

HUGE YANK AIR FLEET STRIKES FRENCH FIELDS   Munich and Karlsruhe Are Left Flaming In Earlier Assault

LARGE BRITISH FORCE BLASTS REICH TARGETS   Fliers From England Smash 152 German Planes in Monday’s Assault

Nazi Air Bases Bombed Again  Allies Keep Up Day And Night Assaults

MUNICH AND KARLSRUHE ALSO BOMBED BY PLANES IN RAIDS OVER PARTS OF FRANCE-REICH '   Fighter Bases and Industrial Targets Get Attention on Eleventh Consecutive Day of Aerial Bombardment Design ed to Wreck German Air fg F.. 8g

Air Invasion Goesinto 11th Straight Day   Halt Overseas Travel in .PreInvasion Secrecy Movement as Huns Predict D-Day Near

Over 1,000 U.S. Planes Are In Action   Gigantic Scale Bombing Sees Fortresses  Bring Destructior

Wibolt  Vy).  “ie   rianes Hamme At Air Fields   Heavy Bombers From Britain Smash at Nancy, Dijon and Metz, London Says

Bomber Fleets Pour Ceaseless Fire on Europe   Nazi Centers Made Pools of Flame By Njelit Assante

Mightiest Air Offensive Goes Info 11th Day   Daylight Raids Follow Huge Night Attacks Ry RAF Bombers

ALLIES RAID AIRFIELDS IN FRENCH AREA   Eleventh Day Of Air-Invasion;  Two-Way Raids

Airdremes ai Nancy, Metz, Bijon, Blasted Today, Munich and Karlsruhe Straied hy BAT

Ninth Day of Greatest Air Offensive   Allied Raiders Penetrate Southern Sector of Reich

Air War Roars On Unabated      ‘More Than a Thousand “American Planes Také “Up Assault Following . ‘Heavy RAF Night Raid

Atlantic Charter Thrown Into Scrap Heap By Churchill As He Renders Triple Service To Reds

Speech Hints Russ Will Get Part of Reicl   Atlantic Charter Scrapped by Prime Minister's Address

Churchill Supports Russian Demands   Would Give Polish Land To Russians

Lochner Interprets Churchill’s Tall As Three Concessions to Stalin

Nazis Ditch Dutch Group Of Settlers   Survivors Of Bombing Tell Of Noble Ixperiment

Withdrawal Of Axis Partner Forced By Russian Approach To Ploesti Oil Fields Not Confirmed In Big Three Capitals But Accepted As Correct.

Yankees Driving For Sea Threaten Huge Nazi Force   Shred Two Of Hitler’s Best Divisions In Seven Mile Advance That Squeezes Bottleneck Of Escape Route To Narrow Lane.

YANK COLUMNS AT COUTANCES ARE WELL IN   New Drives Threaten Trap of Normandy Germans

RECEIPTS INTO BONDS   sarees Theater Will Invest Week's Earnings.

An Allied Military Government To Run Germany Is Being Organized   Bulgars Told To Fight Nazis ‘Or Else

Work Started On Government To Run Germany   Robert Murphy Named U §. Representative To Help Set Up System

DIPLOMATIC POST HANDED MURPHY   United States Names Envoy For Occupation .of Germany

NEW OFFENSIVE WILL LIBERATE PHILIPPINES   General MacArthur Reiterates That His Pledge Will Be Kept.

Halmahera Is Given Heavy Pounding; New Guinea Is Hit  Island on Pathway To Philippines Gets Severe Attack

PHILIPPINES RAIDED WITH “GOOD EFFECT’   Liberators Destroyed Many Buildings and Spread Fires in Bivouac

Halmahera Isle Gets Heaviest Bombing Attack   1,647 More Japs Killed in Mop-Up On New Guinea

DROP RECORD LOAD   Allied Bombers in Successful Raid on Jap Held Island 

Soviets Capture20 Mile Stretch Of Railroad: Drive Toward Tarnopol

SOVIETS APPROACH  RUMANIAN BORDER   Marshal Zhukov’s New Offensive Pounds to Within 10 Miles of Tarnopol.

Finnish Chamber \ : to Continue Pes  JAPANESE PEO ‘WARNED BY LEAD  Fear Next Offensive Aimed At The Dutch East Indies.

Election Returns  In South   Hill Holding Lead In Early Pinan Count

Youths Plead Not Guilty -«   Culp To Be Tried First In Murder Trial

100,000 British Miners on Strike   Situation Called "A Little Worse”

NEED QUICK ACTION INLAKES” INDUSTRY   WMC Must Act to Prevent Dangerous Manpower Rottleneack _

BEGIN SMASHING SIEGFRIED LINE'S OUTER DEFENSES      12th Army Group Continues to Close Upon Nazi Frontier

Siegfried Line Outer Defenses ~ Being Smashed   Allied Armies Are Attacking In Gigantic Strength— Repulse CounterAttacks   AACHEN IS ONLY FIVE MILES AWAY

BATTLE FLARES NEAR VITAL HUN CITY OF AACHEN   First Army Advances After Repulsing Determined German Attack   PATTON PLANS NEW BLOW   Colossal Soviet Columns Smash Into Praga— Seize Fortress Town

IMOLOTOV WARNS  GERMANS ALLIES  BLOW IS:READY   Two-way Attack Faces Nazis. Another Red Front Lull Anoears.

Molotov Promise: New Blows from  Fast and West   However, Lull Has Settled Over Front

Lull Settles On Russian Front Af ter Fall Of Sevastopol But Al  lied Action From East An¢ West Promised   ; SEVASTOPOL COVERED j BY PALL OF SMOKE

DECISIVE BLOW NEAR--MOLOTOV   ‘Time Has Come For Joint Action,’ Commissar Says

Molotov Promises Germany Soon Will Feel Allied Blows from East, West

MOLOTOV PLEDGES AXIS ARE TO FEEL HARD BLOW SOON   Russians Enter Another Lull Presumably [n Preparation For Squeeze to Put Germans Out.   JAPANESE LOSE 4064 PLANES DURING WAR   Stimson Says U. S. Lost 1163 Craft, Enemy Hac 3072 Planes Shot Down During Combat,

Joint Blows By Allies Promised By Red Officials   Time For Decisive Operations Near, Molotov Asserts

a ee Veh a thts fay. Engagement of Miss H. Sebacher And Ensign Rothermich

GI TO FIGHT AND BUY    Eisenhower Says Armies Will Go  All Out for Sixth War Loan

US. Troops Outgeneralled, Not Outfought in Effor! Tp Check Nazi Counter-Offensive on Western Front

Both Sides Throw In Tens of Thousands of Men Every Few Hours in Struggle in Europe—American Armies Apparently Outgeneraled in First Few Days of Attack—Some Units Are Surrounded and Fighting Hard.

Western Front Battle Called Greatest of War   Constantly Growing, Gallagher Writes

Fourth Celebration To Be Quiet Ee eon ke Be fuel  Few Special Events Planned - Here On Independence Day

Fourth Celebration To Be Quiet  Few Special Events Planned Here On Independence Day

SERVICE MEN’S PAY HIKE ASKED   U. S. Veteran Groups Seek Equivalent of Civilian War Workers

CHAPLIN ON TRIAL TODAY   Faces Mann Act Charge Involving His Former Protege

(hawhe Chaplin Gors.On Trial   Faces Federal Mann Act Charge Today; No Inbatons of A Delay.

BRITISH HOLD ON IMPHAL FRONT   Japs Admit British Resistance to India Drive Is Stiffening.

READING OF PROCLAMATION REVIVES SPECULATION FUERHRER IS SERIOUSLY ILL OR DEAD ~

Chinese Observe Their New Year's Today And Talk Good Of Evervone

Tokyo Having  Great Victory Tells People Fleeing Fleet is Destroved

ALLIES GAIN IN BATTLE NEAR IMPHAL   Armored Forces Break Jap Siege Arc Around City

Armored Forces Smash Flank of Imphal Siege Arc   Counter-Blows Against Enemy Units Being Launched By Allies

Allies Halt Jap Drive On Imphal   Armored Forces Smash Through Seige Lines; Fierce Battle Continues

STRIKE THREAT IN STEEL PLANT   FOUR DISPUTES SETTLED; 9600 STILL ABSENT

3 MAJOR LABOR DISPUTES ENDED   10,000 Still Remain Idle Be: cause Of Strikes

German Slaughter of Captives Bared; horest Pits Yield Corpses of 11.000

Germans Charged With Murder Of 700,000 Men   Americans and British From Prison Camps Were Included

‘Composing Room   Russians Declare British, Americans “mong Lwow Victims

Reveal New Nazi Horror   Sotiet Commission Sa?s Nearly 700,000 Toztured and Slain

Moscow Reveals 11,000 Bodies Of Poles Slain By Germans Are Found

Nazi Tortures Kill 900,000   Children Declared Used as Targets for Huns’ Rifle Practice

700,000 Tortured. Slain By Nazis in Lwow Camp   Soviet Commission Establishes Americans Among Victims.

11,000 BODIES ~ FOUND BURIED      Russia Says Men Polish Prisoners Shot by Nazi Invaders

Reds Discover 11,000 Bodies   Moscow States Germans Shot Pole Prisoners Near Smolensk

Foe Tortures.  Slavs 700.000   Ineludes Undetermined Number Of Americans. British Prisoners.

700,000 REPORTED POT AWAY AT LWOW   Soviet Commission Finds Di rect Hand of Himmler i Operations

“Reds Claim Nazis Killed 700,000 At Lwow. Children Used as Targets

Germans Charged With Murder OF 700,000 Men  Americans and Britis!

RUSSIAN EXPERTS BLAME NAZIS FOR KATYN MASSACRE   Bodies of 11,000 Polish Soldiers Found Buried im FParact

Nazi Torture, Kill 700,000 at Lwow   CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED IN TARGET PRACTICE, MOSCOW RADIO REPORTS

Reports Finding Of 11,000 Bodies _ In Katyn Forest   Soviets/Claim Slaughter Of Polish -War Prisoners By German Invaders

SOVIETS CONFIRM NAZI ATTROCITIES   REPORT CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED IN TARGET PRACTICE

Britons, Yanks Slain In Reich Death Factory   Moscow Radio Reports Unit Finds Allies Among 700,000 Tortured, Killed - At Lwow Extermination Camp

Say 700,000 Slain in German Camp   Some Americans And British Murdered at Lwow, Moscow Says

Russians Tell of New Atrocities  Germans Use Children for Taraqet Practice

U.S. BRITISH TROOPS DIE IN TORTURE CAMP   Soviets Report 700,000 Siain By Nazis At  Lwow Camp

U.S. And British Prisoners  Tortured And Slain By Nazis ‘In Lwow Extermination Camp   Nearly 700,000 Persons Slain By Himmler’s Men

Russians Report 700,000, Including U.S. Prisoners, Tortured, Slam At Lwow

Atrocities By Huns Revealed By Red Probes   Established 700, 000 Per * sons, Tncliding Amerie cans, Tortured, Slain At Lwow Camp

Moscow Investigators Charge Germans  Were the Ones Who Killed 11.000 Poles

700,000 Slain By Germans in  Lwow Camp  Americans and British  in Da Radien GC eameneem   Americans and British From Prison Camps Included, Says Moscow

Soviets Uncover Nazi Murder of 700,000 Persons   Slaughter at Lwow Included Americans From Prison Camps; Himmler in Charce

Claim American, Br itish Captives . Among 700,000 Killed By Nazis“At Estortiitiation Camp In Lwow

ATROCITY —  700, 000 Are Put To Death   Americans, English Among Victims Livow Prison Camp, huss Say

MOSCOW CHARGES BRITISH AND AMERICANS AMONG 700,000 NAZI TORTURE AND MUR DER VICTIMS

Report Jling of 0 Nazis   ches From the  iet Capital Say opol Battle  in Final Stages

Berlin Reports Huge Soviet ‘Armies Moving Into Area   Germans And Romanians Fighting Each Other In Efforts To Escape From Doomed Sevactanal

Nazi Attacks Beaten Oft  By Russians   Appear To Be Aimed At Upsetting Russian Offensive Timetable  58 TANKS SMASHED

Fiery Fight Rages In Carpathians   Ukraine Army Kills 1,500 Germans In Polish Attacks

Nazi Attacks Beaten Back   Soviets Repel Germans in  Carpathian Foothills

Battle of Sevastopol {fs Reported in Final Phase  LAXIS -FLEET—TRIES TO EVACUATE MEN Soviet Naval Airmen In flict Casualties. on Fleeing Troops

Prelude To Red Drive for Berlin Gets under Way   Reinforced Soviet Army Battles Nazis   Fleeing Nazix Killed

BATTLES RAGE IN OLD POLAND. RUSSIANS SAY   1,500 Nazis Slain and 66 Tanks Destroyed By Soviets

OLD POLAND IS VIOLENT   Nazis Apparently See to Disrupt Fresh Russian Offensive Timetable by Heavy Counter-Attack.   “Serub Fleet’

Soviets Kill 1,500 Nazis ‘in Old Poland   Declare German ‘ Counterblows ’ Bre Driven Back

Dominion Leaders Open Session to Determine Terms for Nazi Defeat

Uni CROP L055 S49 MILLION   Corn, Soy Bean And Potato Crops Hard Hit By Drought —

Bombers Hit Nazis in Twin Blow   Munster and Vienna Are Taigets; 35 Planes Downed

Paris Orders Count Seized   Pretender to Throne Wegally in Country

Say Greece Will Soon Be Liberated   Observers Belicve Her Free. dom May Come Within Two Weeks

‘Allies Take Rion And Patrai; British Drive Eastward Toward Athen:

Reveal Existence of New Bomber Command Group   Superfortresses Are Operating From Bases In Marianas Islands

Union Miners Are Divided Over FDR  County Delegate Hits At Both Sides

Political Battle Breaks Out in  Miners Union   Hefferly Denounces Administration; Fourth Term Backers Reply

MINERS SPLIT ON ROOSEVELT   President is Denounced and Defended at Union's  Convention

Many Papers Have Stake in Election   Numerous Texans Editorially Select Candidates, Parties

Workers Demonstrate In Streets Of Brussels Against Premier Pierlot

SNOW, SLEET SLOW BATTLE AT BUDAPEST   Situation in Hungarian Capital Reported Tense.—Russian Gains Made on Other Frents.

ON STRIKE IN BELGIAN CITY   Demonstrate In Streets Agains Government Of Premier Pierlot

~~ Warrior Returns   Sgt. Vincent ‘Wilberding Arrives ‘Home ‘Tuesday After 28 Month. Overseas

Sgt. Vincent Wilberding Arrives _*° ‘Home Tuesday After 28 Month. Overseas

Establish Wide Beachhead in Surprise. Attack   Blow Puts Invaders Within 16 Miles Of Eternal City; 200,000 Nazis Face Trap Between Armies in Italy

New Invasion Puts Men Back Of Nazis   Defense Of Coast Astonishingly Light With Beachheads Threatenina Trao For Germans

REACH TIBER RIVER MOUTH   Surprise Landing May Cut Off 200,000 German Troops

15 Nazi Divisions Face Entrapment By New March on Rome   Beachheads Are Established By Commandos, Yank Rangers

Landing Behind Lines Perils 200,000 Nazis  Capital of Christianity Is Almost Within Grasp of Anglo-Americans

Concerted Onslaught Under Way As Americans Join in Solid Front; Nazis Retreat to Last Defense Line 

Open Solid Front Of 70 Miles © After Juncture   Hurl Nazis Into Ragged Retreat Toward Final Defense Line; Doughboys Smash Into Cisterna

Forces Join on Solid 70-Mile Front   Junction Climaxes Offensive Which Opened 14 Days Ago

Yanks Smash Into Terracina; Nazis  Flee In Disorder   Developments On Italian Front Surpass All Speed Estimates Of Officials; Germans Take Refuge In Final Roman Defense Line.

ALLIED ARMIES IN JUNCTION, UNITE FRONTS   Yanks in Cisterna, Outpost of Rome  Defense Line

BIDDLE CHARGED WITH POLITICS   HAYS ANSWERS BLAST AGAINST RAILROADS

Red Drive In Czechoslovakia  Rolls Up Gains   Mud Bogs Down Action On Budapest Front.

Soviet Forces Open New Drive  Fourth Army Returns to Hunaarian Strife

Major Push In Strasbourg Area Is In High Gear   City Almost Cleared; Germans Drive British From Two Towns To North   Reds Grind Out Gains Up To 16 Miles In Czechoslovakia   Fourth Ukranian Army Is On Move Aqain After Four-Week Fighting Lull

New Offensive Dushes Ahead 16 Miles   Thrust Is Aimed At Kassa, Highway And Rail Hub

Russian Fourth Army on Move   NEW DRIVE 1S LAUNCHED ON THE EAST FRONT

Soviet Fourth  On Move Again   After Four Week Fighting Lull, Forces Make 16 Mile Advance.

RUSSIANS ON MOVE AFTER MONTH LULL   Ukranian Army Thrusts at Czech Rail Hub

SOVIET FORCES GAIN 16 MILES IN NEW ATTACK   Russian Army Renews Drive In Czeckoslovakia, Seize 30 Towns

Soviet Forces Are On Move Again  In Czechoslovakia  Four-Week Fighting Lull Is Broken By Russian Troops

RUSSIANS OPEN ANOTHER DRIVE   Reds Spring Into Action On Eastern Czech Front

Red Fourth. Army Moves After Lull. Of 4. Weeks   . East Czechoslov akia ‘Is Scene Of: Drive

Russ 4th Army Starts New Push   Gains Made First Day of Fresh Drive On East Czech Front

New Red Drive Aimed At Road, Railway Hubs   Russians Renew Offensiv In Czechoslovakia, Gains 16 Miles. —

RED UKRANIAN ARMY ON THE MOVE AGAIN   Moscow Announces Fresh Drive By Marshal Petrov's Forces Has Gained Up To 16 Miles   KASSA AIM OF THRUST

Soviet Fourth Army Moves Into Slovakia   New Offensive Is Started By Marshal Petrov

BRITISH SUBS SINK JAP CARRIER   Successful Attack Is Also Made  On Pio (Crnicar

JAP PLANE GARRIER IS APPARENTLY SUNK   British Sub Drives Home Two Torpedoes, Leaves Big Warship Keeled Over; Cruiser Also Hit Off Malava

British Subs Torpedo Jap Cruiser And Aircraft Carrier Off Malaya

Jap Aircraft Carrier Sunk —  By British Subs   Blows Delivered At Nipponese Fleet Off Malacca Straits

Score Direct Hit On A Jap Cruiser   Carrier Sighted In Approaches To Malacca Strait   SHIP KEELS OVER AFTER EXPLOSION

British Sub Sinks Jap C arrier In Far East   Enemy Cruiser Also Damaged By Torpedo Hits In Malacca Strait Area

Japanese Aircraft Carrier Torpedoed By British Subs   Ranging Far Eastern Waters; Undersea Craft Also Score - Hits on Cruiser

Jap Carrier Sunk By British U-Boat   Cruiser Also Hit In Surface Battle

british Subs Hit 7000-Ton Jap Carrier   Ship Probably Sunk  And Torpedo Hits Are Scored on Jap Cruiser Admiralty Announces

JAP CARRIER 1S BELIEVED SUNK BY BRITISH SUB   Attack on Nipponese Cruiser Near Malacca Straits Also Revealed

JAP AIRCRAFT CARRIER SUNK, CRUISER BLASTED   Supply Vessels Also Destroyed by British Submarines Near Malacca

Japan Bares Navy Chief's Death in Wat   Commander Killed On Saipan Island In July Battles

13 MORE JAP ADMIRALS DIE IN ACTION, TOKYO ANNOUNCES: TOTAL REACHES 32

CHIEF OF JAP NAVY DIES IN SAIPAN FIGHT   Yanks Take Ormoc, Thousands of Japs Trapped In Narrow Pocket

NIPPON NAVAL CHIEF KILLED.   Vice Admiral Nigumo Dies in Saipan Action  Bye THE AgtnrrTaTren pocc:

Chief OF Nippon Navy Is Killed   Vice - Admiral Nigumo Dies On Saipan

LIST: DEATHS OF 13 JAP ADMIRAL   Many Probably Died in Philippines Territory  Rw Tre ACeEHMTATON prPrec

Head Of All Japanese Naval Forces  Is Killed   Tékyo Belatedly Admits Loss Of Admiral Nagume And 18 Generals

Jap Navy Head Killed In Juls   Japanese Officially Announce Death Of  ViceAdmiral Chiuchi Nagumo.

13 Japanese Admirals Die   Headquarters at Yokosuka Report Death; Many Tact in Philinnines

13 More Jap Admirals Are Listed Killed   Tokyo Announcement Brings Total To 32 In Three Months Of  Fierce Fiahtina

13 Jap Admirals Die in Battle   Losses Are Believed To Have Occurred In Philippine Action

Jap Naval Head Killed   Vice Admiral Nigumo Lost in Action Qn Seinan leland

JAP ADMIRAL IS LISTED AS DEAD   Leader Who Directed Pearl Harbor Atiack, Died Last July, Nips Admit

SOL NEWMAN, ILL. TWO YEARS, DIES   HEAD OF COMPANY OPERATING FOUR STORES IN JOPLIN SUCCUMBS AT 78.

CHINESE ADMIT LIUCHOW FALL   Japanese Have Advanced 250 Miles in Westward  Piich Fram Canton Area

Corp. G. Clark  Wounded Again   Local Paratrooper Is In Hospital in Holland; Wounded Three Times

GLUE GIVEN Ui NEW OPERATIONS BY RED ARAY   Ghservers Seize Roosevelt’s Statement as Good Indication

GLUE GIVEN OH NEW OPERATIONS BY RED ARUN   ; Cbservers Seize». ° Roosevelt's Statement as Good. Indi ation

French Arrest Admiral Who Gave Scuttling Order to Fleet at Toulon

WORLD STATE’ ~ NOT. FAVOREL   PROPOSED PLANK FOR G.0.P PLATFORM TO FOLLOW ) THEME OF THE MACKINAC CONFERENCE

GOP OPPOSES WORLD STATE   Plank Favors Directing Peace Forces To Repel Armed Aggression

Drive At Lorengau. Jap Base   Bitter Fighting Is Raging On Biggest Island Of Admiralty Group.

Yanks Drive Toward Jap Base On Biggest of Admiralties; Land-Based Bombers Attack-Truk

U.S. To Operate Bases In Liberia   Permit Given To U. S. To Build Naval and  Air Installations.

FATHER DRAFT FAR SHORT OF WULITARY GOAL    Only 90,000 Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Taken Up To Dec tr

NAZIS FLEEING ROM CRIMEA   Nazi Evacuation of Romanian Port of Constanta Reported

REPORT NAZIS. QUIT FLORENCE   Would Avoid City’s I Jestruc tion ‘  Other Italian Fronts Quiet

Yankees Capture Cecina in Stiff Fighting  British Forces on   British Forces on Adriatic Drive Near Anconc

Yankees Capture Cecina in Stiff Fighting   British Forces on Adriatic Drive Near Ancona

Americans Smash Through Cecina Tn Bitter Fight   Allies Advance Within 17 and 13 Miles Of Leghorn, Ancona

5th Army In Stiff Struggle   Capture Of Cecine Below Leghorn Entailed Unusually Hard Fighting.

RED ARMY SEEKS INITIATIVE ON ROMANIA FRONT   Destroy 166 Tanks. 12 Planes Ir Beating Off Three Assaults

REDS ATTACK IN ROMANIA   Beat Off 3 Days of  Vicious Nazi Assaults

REDS COUNTER. GERMAN MOVE NEAR IASI   Destroy 166 Tanks, 212-Planes In 3-Day Fight

REDS COUNTER ATTACK, STALL GERMAN DRIVE   Try To Regain Initiative North Of lasi Along Romanian Front

er nter - Attacks aaunched By Reds   Kussians Seek To Regain Initiative In Romania

ARMY TO BE CUT WHEN NAZIS FALL   Hershey Discusses Program of “Gradual -  . Bemobilization”

SEES RELEASE OF SOLDIERS   Army To Discharge Two Million Men After  Germanv’s Fall

aie  1-2 Million Men To Be Released From Army After Fall of Germany

ARMY TO BE CUT ~ WHEN NAZIS FALL   Hershey - Discusses Program of “Gradual ‘Demobilization”

ARMY RELEASES SEEN AFTER HITLER FALLS   Hershey Predicts Demobilization ‘of Between One and Two Million Men by Armed Services.

ATROCITIES ‘ARE DESCRIBED. = ~ BY ARCHBISHOP OF REECE   SCENES OF. TERROR STAGED BY GERMANS IN GREEK VILLAGES ARE PIC“URED BY DAM. . BCINOS

8,000 Miners Quit In East:   Employee Dismissal Blamed In Walkout

Both Parties Are Launching  Verbal Blows   Gov. Bricker’s Attack Upon Bureaucrats Brings Reply  from Attorney General Biddle.

BIDDLE OFFERS NEW DEFINITION FOR BUREAUCRAI   ASSERTS HE ISA MAN WHO HAS JOB REPUBLICAN WANTS

BRIGKER TALK ORAWS REPLY   Biddle Gives Answer to Governor’s Charge on Bureaucracy.

Biddle Defines Bureaucrat Cry   Bricker Repeats Charge of New Deal Confusion   Willkie’s Last Appeal was for Voters Check Statements Carefully

ATTORNEY GENERAL BIDDLE DEFENDS . NEW DEAL BUREAUS   Declares, i in: Retort to Bricker’s Butte Address, That Repuklicans Are Just Sour Grapes Because They Don’t Have ‘Rureau Jobs

Biddle Defines Bureaucrat As ManHoldingJob GOPers W ant   Dewey Declines Comment on Published Stories He ‘Might Retain Hull as Advisor if Elected to ‘Presidency; ‘Hull Says Support and Loyalty With Administration

Koiso Says War Situation  Now Is Critical Jap Premier Says  Nips Must Win  ee S60) ee ee

Flying Fortress Crashes al Texas Anny Ait Field  jen Ried: as rlane Tries to __.. ‘Far tan

U. S. Guam Radio Sends Message After Silence Of Thirty-One Months

LOSS OF AACHEN WOULD MEAN TREMENDOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL RIFT GERMANY’S DEFENSE PLANS

LONDON REMOVES F21052 CIVILIANS   Evacuation Constitutes Biggest and Speediest Program of the War.

ELAS: Agreement To Yield Athens Vicinity Ignored   Leader of Liberal Forces Reported Fails To Carry Out Pact

Chennault Sounds Warning   Nation’s 6,000,000 Farmers Set Three ‘Year Output Record

No Campaign of Slander on a State or Belittling Tts People Can Win at Polls   Bozeman Farmer Expresses Amazement Over Erickson’s Campaign; Says No Room for Political Charlatans

Gallatin Man Objects fo Erickson’s Minimizing of State’s War Efforts

Farmer, Legislature Leader Says Democratic Candidate Unqualified

Leif Sees Faults In Everything, Ecton Declares   Johnnie-Come-Lately From North Dakota Sneers At Progress for Which Montanans Work So Hard, Senator From Gallatin Points Out

FR DESTROYS STOKELY PLANT Ne WHITELAND:   Company Suffers ~ Third: Major - Fire Within Six Years ©

FIRE DESTROYS STOKELY. PLANT AT WHITELAND   Company Suffers © Third Major Fire Within Six Years

Group Named To Meet With Hull  Sen. La Follette Among Bioht Chacen

International Post-War Peace Plans Shape Up  Senate Committee Named To Confer With State Chief

Senate Peace  Group Named   Eight Senators Selected To Confer With Hull

‘Mixed Force of British and Indians Are Reported Isolated   Jap Flying Columns Endeavoring to Cut Communications

Jap Jungle Troops Close In  On Imphal From All Sides   Enemy fhreatens To Sever British Communications With Assam-Bengal Railway Line; Mountbatten Pays Flying Visit To Beleaguered Town

Jap Troops Converging  On Imphal   Garrison Of British And Indian Forces Virtually Isolated By Tightening Of Enemy Lines

Jungle Troops of Japs Close In On Imphal   British Force Virtually Has Been Isolated

Tying To ee Cie Net About Imphal   British: and’ ‘Indian Force Virtually Cut: Off by Jungle Columns

Japs Close in On Imphal ©   Advance Threaten: To Sever British  Communications

pied Communique Indicates fitish and Indian Troops a ara lealaiad.

JAP JUNGLE TROOPS CLOSE IN ON IMPHAL   Force of British And Indians Are Isolated

NIPS CLOSING IN ON TOWN OF IMPHAL   British Force isolated In Fortress Town

Japanese Forces Push In From All Sides On Imphal   Enemy Siege Line. Virtually Isolates Fortress Garrison

IAP FORGES ARE CLOSING IN ON ALL SIDES OF IMPHAL   Domei Declares Mounthattens Fourth Army Has Been Entirely Cut Off From Retreat In India.   NEARLY 4000 PLANES IN TWO-WAY BOMBING   Allies and Germans Continue Heavy Artillery Firing Be: low Rome, War Planes Hit   Nazi Centers.

Total of 23 Jap Ships’ Sunk in Raids ou Truk, Photo Information Shows

RABAUL BOMBED BY PLANES AND SHIPS   Japanese Base on New Bri tain Hit Again by Amoericanc =

Naval Shells Hit Rabaul  Second Time   Destroyers Sink Two Destroyers, Two Cargo Ships

SHIPS: ATTACK FOLLOWED BY BOMBING RAID   Navy. Now Says 23 Jap Ships: Sunk in Big Assault on Truk

Another Is Listed As  A Prisoner   ‘Three Southtowners Die in European Area, Two Others in the Southwest Pacific.

5 Men Killed, 3 Wounded, 1 Missing in War   Ensign Lost in Atlantic, All Others Are European Casualties.

Furious Fighting as Germans Try to  Attack Beachhead   Russians March Ahead After Freeing Leningrad From Siege

Woman Dies In Blaze Of  ~ Semi- Trailer  Wassnk Catehac Eira Aftai   Truck Catches Fire After Collision Near Marshalltown Today

Woman Dies In Blaze Of  Semi- Irailer   Truck Catches Fire After Collision Near Marshalltown Today

BURMA DEFEAT HANDED ENEMY   BRITISH FORCES DRIVES JAPS FROM IMPORTANT BASE IN: DRIVE TOWARD PORT

Wallace on Way to U.S. From China   RESISTANCE TO JAPAN SPIRIT REMAINS STRONG, VICE-PRESIDENT NOTES

NAZIS ACCUSED OF LIES   Regent of Hungary Says “Reich Has Lost the War”

Canners Ask Low Point Release of Vegetables Because of Slow Sales

HAIL AND WIND STORM   Damage Was Done Early .\This Morning in Barton County

'HITLER’S DESPERATE MILITARY ‘SITUATION HAS DRIVEN HIM TO ‘START ANOTHER PEACE CAMPAIGI

The War Today  Hitler’s Situation Drives Him To Start New Peace Campaign.

Hitler Attempts Bamboozling Allie: Overthrow Russia   Mackenzie Claims Fuehrer, Franco Start Propaganda

THE Se Ee  WAR TODAY   Hitler’s Campaign To Have Allies Turn Against Russia~Characterized As Infamous By Hull

Altempts To Cause America And Britain To ‘Dump Russia Overboard, Make Infamous iPeace With Reich: Is -Lafest Hitler Stunt

2,C00 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On German Capital, Other Planes Hammer Defenses Of Western Europe, Fortresses Rammed   STIFF OPPOSITION BY GERMAN PLANES

Three Ada Soldiers Wounded in Action   Listed Among 21 Sooners Hurt in Mediterranean Area

Americans Near  Jap Airfield   Enemy Still Gains In China Fighting  Re ¢hea ABesamiantad Senco

Japanese Attack New Burma Roae  R, A. F. Downs 13 Nipponese Planes

JAPS ATTACK TROOPS ON BURMA ROAD   New Highway To China Guarded By Allied Troops, Who Throw Back Invader; RAF Bags 13 Jap Planes.   Aerial Battle

Japanese Attack New Burma Road R. A. F. Downs 13  Nipponece Plana

- DIVORCE. TO:BLONDELL      Ciueity Is Basis. for Separation: From F Dek ‘Powell.  xz

12 SOLDIERS DIE IN MINE BLAST   14 Others Injured in  Field Demonstration

New Luxury Tax Goes Into Effect   Price Rise Hits Every Thing From Whiskey, Beer To Light Bulbs.

Eisenhower To Turn Power To De Gaulle   Frenchmen to Have Control Over Virtually All of France Except What Allies Need For Military Uses

DEGAULLE WILL BE GRANTED AUTHORIT)   Virtually Complete Control Of Most of France to Be Given Him.

To Return French Rule to De Gaulle   General Eisenhower Expected to Shift Authority Soon for All Except Combat Areas

De Gaulle Will Take Over Full French Control   Gen. Eisenhower Expected To Shift Authority

Expect Gen. Eisenhower ‘To Turn Over France 'To De Gaulle Faction

ority te eGaulle      General Eisenhower Will  Retail Control Onlyin Active French Military Areas

EISENHOWER DUE TO GIVE DE GAULLE FRENCH AUTHORITY   French General Will in a Few Days Receive Formal Administrative Authority Over All But Few Combat Areas

Dachel-Carter Case Adjourns   Accounting Suit Will Be Resumed April 3

MONTH RECESS  " BE TAKEN IN DC TRIAL      Clark Spends Day Identifying Bank Accounts And Checks

FINN MISSION. T0 NEGOTIATE WITH MOSCOW   Ten-Member Commission To Depart Tomorrow

a RA RSL ARS ES  Finnish. Peace Mission Plans Trip To Moscow   Terms To Be Negotiated Under Armistice Which _ Ended Hostilities On Finnish-Russian Front Sunday; Germans Leaving Country

Finn Mission To Go Moscow for Peace erms   Nazi Forces In South Finland Expected To Withdraw Soon.

Russians, Finns To Talk Peace Terms Tomorrev  Hoestilities End         Hostilities End Under Armistice

Finns-Reds Set For Negotiation Of Peace Term   Berlin Says Mission Leaves Helsinki Tomorrow To Attend Moscow Parley

FINNS WILL GET RUSSIAN TERMS   Berlin Says Delegation Will Visit Moscow Tomorrow

Finns Ready To Discuss Peace Terms   Mission Prepares tc Begin Moscow Trip Wednesday

Finn Mission To Moscow Tomorrow   Goes to Negotiate Peace Terms With Russia

2,000 Heavy Bombers and Fighter Planes Make Raid.   MEDITERRANEAN BASE PLANES IN RAID   1 American Planes and 35. RAF Bombers Kail to Return.

U.S. 8th Air Force Heavily Smashes Berlin   Almost 2,000 Bombers And Fighters Take Part in Rie Attaek

Rain And Wind Storm Lashes Pacitic Coast   Elements Cause Severe Damage

Storms Lash Los Angeles  6.97 Inches of Rain Fall In Three Days   LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22—(INS)— Southern California's worst storm in six years today forced closing of every Los Angeles school.

Pfe. Robert L. Speer Loses Life In South Pacific Action, Sept. 23

we  INCOME TAX AMENDMENTS IN ORDER Et eee eS IN VRDER  You May Want To Change Declaration

SET INQUEST IN AIMEE’S DEATI   Pharmacy Board Interested In Sleeping Powders

YANKS SMASH FORWARD ON WIDE FRONT   Nazis Destroy Own Vehicles; Bastogne Defenders Saved

Concentration   Of Nazis § seen      Bulgarian-Turkish’ Front - Retgiiet Well Armed; - Sofia’ Evacuated

GERMANS GUARD BALKAN BORDER   Troops Massed Along Bulgarian - Turkish Frontier Area

MCEATSITS ALP PCA A Piave LOSt atitikary ACUMErT: —By Hiton ©, Fay (4   Nazis Shaping Counterattack On Beachhead

F lying Forts Blast Rail Yards   Rhineland Bombed In Softenine-Up Blows

BRITISH PUSH TO RELIEF OF SKY TROOPERS   Airmen Still Clinging To Vital Bridgehead On Road Into Germany   REICH AGAIN PUNCTURED   Huns Forced Back From Escant Canal—Big Series Of Daily Gains Ends

2,000 PLANES HIT GERMANS   Widespread Softening IIn Te Carried Qhit

Fortresses Lead Attack On Naziland   Frankfurt, Coblenz And Ludwigshafen Are Main Targets.

1,200 U. S. Forts Blast Rhineland   Crushing Bombardment Thrown At Calais

PLANES SMASH NAZI PLANTS IN RHINELAND   Softering-up Bombardment Ahead Of Allied Armies In Cermany

FORTS SMASH CITIES ALONG RHINE VALLEY   RAF Also Sends Big Plane For. mations Against Nagi Positions

Pierlot Given  Support Vote   British Tanks Stand Guard In Belgian Capital

PIERLOT WINS VOTE IN CRISIS   British Tanks on Guard in Brussels as Chamber Of Deputies Meets

Planted Twelve Deep Elaborate Booby Traps and Mines Greet Yanks at Lessay

Lessay Considered One Most Heavily Mined Towns So Far  ame, i i i el a pe

DEFEAT FACED BY NIPPONESE AT MYITKYINE   SCHOUTEN ISLANDS MAY BE NEW GOAL FOR MACARTHUR

Japs Doggedly Cling To Base   Allies Poised For  Knockout In Burma By LEONARD MILLIMAN

Defeated Japs Cling to Base At Myitkyina  Ata. Whe so   Allies Fly in Reinforcements For Burma Battle

JAPANESE GLINC TO BURMA BASE   ALLIES AWAIT OTHER COLUMNS TO MAKE FINAL ATTACK ON MYITKYINA.

Jap Remnants At Myitkyina Still Resist   Nipponese Columns In Burma Isolated

Marcus Isle, 1,135 Miles From Tokyo, Bombarded By Strong U. S. Naval Force   15 Nazi Divisions Cut Off In New Baltic Offensive

Nippon Coast Defense Guns Are Silenced  By Americans   No Mention. Made ® f “Of Attacking. Planes:

Units of Third Fleet Hit Jap Pacific Outpost   Greater Part of Coastal Defense Batteries Silenced

NIPS REFUSE TC DEFEND ISLAND WITH AIR FORGE   American Warships S ma sb Coast Defenses in Oct. 8th Attack

STRONG YANKEE FORCES STILL MARCUS’ GUNS   Tokyo Claims Surprise Raid On Super-Fortress Base In China

U.S. Guns Silence Enemy Defenses On Marcus Isle   1000 Planes Hit Palaus; __Allied Gains Reported “On Ching; Bariia Frouts

MARCUS ISLAND BOMBARDED BY YANK WARSHIPS   Japs Sticking Close to Home For Inevitable Assault; Tough Going in China

YANK VESSELS BLAST MARCUS   Pound Island 1,135 Miles From Tokyo, Mop Up Peleliu Pocket

STRONGU. S. BATTLE FORCE SHELLS MARCUS, SILENCES NIP BATTERIES   GERMAN RADIO SAYS KOROR RAIDED BY 1000 PLANES; 12,233 JAPS KILLED IN PALAUS

Marcus Island Coastal Guns Are Battered   U.S. Battleforce Off Jap Position To Hurl Explosives At Enemy; Halsey In Command

American Ships Blast Jap Tiny Marcus Islands  Koror Is Smashed By 1,000 Bombers

MARCUS ISLAND LATEST TARGET   Strong Force Silences Coast Defense Batteries With Gunfire.   ISAY KOROR {tS RAIDED

HALSEY’S MEN BLAST MARCUS ISLE DEFENSE   Battleships Ik In Fleet That Shells Island For Whole Day

SHORE DEFENSES OF ISLAND BASE HIT, SAYS TOKYO   JAPS CLAIM 44 U. S. PLANES DESTROYED IN RAID ON CHENGTU

U.S. Battleships Wreck Jap Defenses On Marcus; Planes Raid Palau Capital

Battleforce Silences Greater Part Of Jap Coastal Defenses On Marcus

Marcus Island Is Pounded By Battle Force   Island 1,135 Miles From Tokyo Is Bombarded By Powerful Units Of U. S. Pacific Fleet

U.S. BATTLEFORCE  SILENCED GREATER  PART MARCS DEFENSE NO MENTION MADE OF AIR  ATTACK BUT HEAVY NAV. AL CUNS DESTRIICTIVE

Battleships Blast Jap Bastion Only 1,135 Miles From Tokio   Shore Defenses  Are Heavily Hit   Germans Report Mighty Attack Made Against Palau Stronghold

BIG PART OF MARCUS ISLE IS SILENCED   Surprise Attack By Americans Announced

3 Armies Extend Roer, Saar Holds in Bitter Fighting   Hodges’ Troops Set Pace in Preparation for Drive on Reich

Yanks Widen Roer Breach   Last-Ditch Stand Scheduled by Germans on East Banks of Both Saar and Roer Rivers as Americans Press Advantages Won in Fight

NAZIS ADMIT EAST PRUSSIA IS MENACED   Belgrade, Budapest About to Fall, Reds Say

FDR, Churchill Agree on Plan To Crush Japs   Commands Will Be Unchanged In Pacific War

Churchill Gives Word At Quebec   Says U. S. Wants To Shoulder Too - Much of Load

Britain Vows ‘Full’ Assault Against Japs   Pacific War Plans Mapped at Quebec For Joint Atlacks

DEATH PENALTY FOR ‘LONERGAN WANTED   Attorney Charges Young Man Killed Wife in ColdBlooded Murder.

Alhes in Normandy Drive on Mightily on Several Fronts   Seize Three Towns as Yankees Get Within 10 Miles of Port

Defenses of Cherbourg Are Cracked by Yanks   British Advance on East End of 80Mile Battlefront

Nazi Defenses Penetrated By Fourth Division   Forces Halfway Across Top Of Peninsula As Battle Rages

American Troops Crack  Cherbourg’s Defenses, _ Seizing Three Towns   Yank Patrols Within 10 Miles of Great Port; British Outflank Caen, Eastern Anchor of - 80 Mile Battle Front; More Airborne Troops Dropped.

Three Towns Seized, Within 10 Miles Port   British Outflank Caen, U. S. Troops Take Montebourg and Slash Half Way Across Peninsula, As Allies Advance Generally.

British Seize Troarn   Americans Take Montebourg.and Three Other Towns, Driving Within 10.Miles of Cherbourg

American Patrols: Drive to Within Ten Miles of The Port THREE TOWNS SEIZED  Recta Make Se Cake .         British Make Big Gains i Bitterly Contested Caen Area

Big Push Now In Ten Miles Of Cherbourg   Nazi Troops Leave Few Mines

‘Americans Crack _ Cherbourg Defense   Yankees Seize Three Towns and Drive Advance Patrol: to Within Ten Miles of Great French Port.   _ American Columns Slash Halfway Over Top of Cherbourg Peninsula

600,000 MEN ENGAGED IN THE STRUGGLE FOR PENINSULA; BEACHHEAD FRONT 80 MILES

British Forces Outflank Caen By Powerful Drive; 600,000 Troops Fighting   Progress Reported All Along Front Lengthened to 80 Miles; Nazis Said To Have 1.000.000 Men in Sector

Yank Patrols 10 Miles From Port   Cherbourg Defenses Cracked With Three Towns Seized — British Outflank Caen And Take Troan — Balleroy and Monteburg Captured by Doughboys

Yanks Crack Port Defenses   Patrols in 10 Miles of Cherbourg, Others Drive Deeper Inland, British Gain

Advances Made At All Points On French Front   British Capture Troarn, Just 111 Miles from Paris

80-Mile Front Is Held Along ~ Norman Coast   Montebourg Seized By U. S. Fourth Division As British Topple Troarn Near Caen And Other Yanks Occupy Towns Of Balleroy

Three Towns  Fall in Switt Drive   British Make Deep Flanking Drive to Sweep Beyond Caen; Other Yank Units Slash Ahead to Cut Across Normandy Peninsula

British Outflank Caen 7 Power Drive: 6 U. S. Divisions Now in France

IN NEW BURST OF POWER THE ALLIES CRACK DEFENSES AND CAPTURE 3 IMPORTANT TOWNS      British Troops i in Deep Power Drive Outflank Caen, Seizing Town of Troarn. U. S. Troops Captute Montebourg and Other Vital Points on  . Daniwarslew .

Allies Seize Ihree lowns In Drive On Big Seaport;  Hitler Fires Rommel, Report

British Outflank Caen, Capture Troarn, Nine Miles East of City; Allies Widen Battlefront

Americans Are Cracking Cherbourg’s Defenses and Battlefront Is Now Extended to 80 Miles.   HEADQUARTERS REPORT GAINS “SATISF? TORY”

Mighty Allied Drive Surges Forward ‘On All Fronts As U. S. Forces Crack cherbourg’s Defense; 10 Miles to Gc

600,000 Engaged In Fierce Battles On 80-Mile Front   Six U. S. Divisions Part Of Allied Invasion Army; Report Rommel Out; Five Landing Strips Built

THREE TOWNS ARE SEIZED IN PUSH   Advance Units Are Within 10 Miles Of Great Port   CAEN OUTFLANKED   By British In Powerdrive: Balleroy, Montebourg, Troarn Are Taken

ALLIED FORCES LUNGE AHEAD IN NORMANDY AREA   BRITISH REGISTER FIRST MAJOR GAIN, CAPTURING TROARN

Seizure By U.S. Troops Breaks Foe Stronghold   Two Other American Forces Plunge Halfway Across Top of Cherbourg Peninsula   Caen Outflanked By British Force   Troarn, Nine Miles From City, Captured In a Mighty Burst Forward On Al Fronts

MONTEBOURG CAPTURED BY ll © TROOPS   Ten Miles From Cherbourg, Prize Port

Montebourg, Le Ham Seized In New Gain; British Take Troarn   Caen Battle Rages As English Push Nearer Big Center; Americans 6 Miles From St. Lo; Allied Landings Reported On West Coast

Allies Smashing Ahead. On All Fronts In  Normandy Battle      Yank Power Drive Brings Fall Of Montebourg And U.S. Patrols Are Within 10 Miles Of Vital Port; British Bypass Caen

Allies In Normandy Slash Forward On All Fronts To Make Larcoe Gain:

Allies Bursting Ahead Mightly In All Sectors   Montebourg Among 4 Towns Captured German Defense Lines Crumble

Looms Unless Faster Change to Civilian Produc tion Is Made, Says Commitee

Unemployment Crisis Feared By Senate Grour   Manpower Draft Legislation Not Needed Says Report

Truman Sees Unemployment   _. IF NEEDED CIVILIAN ITEMS NOT PRODUCED

ee Te  Committee Warns Of Idieness Unless Production Is Upheld   Early Return To Civilian Production Is Favored; Government Obstacles Must Be Removed According To Truman Report

Congressmen Predict Large Jobless Army   Shift From War To Peace Work

Must Remove Obstacles To Civilian Production... .. Unemployment Crisis In Near Future Is Possible

Job Dearth Is Expected   ‘Truinan Comniittee’ 8 Fears -Are Reviewed

Winders Home Scene Of Happy Event Sunday  Old Residents And F riends Celebrate Golden Wedding

Winders Home Scene Of Happy Event Sunday  ol Residents Anc Friends Celebrate  mS? exr wire i.

Bordeaux Captured Today by France’s Forces of Interior   Last Great Port Held by Nazis in South France  Falls

French Forces Take Bordeaw)   Yanks Take Nice, Push North Toward Lyon

SOVIET TROOPS BLUNT STAB IN VITEBSK SECTOR   Germans Trying To Unbalance Red Army Preparations For Summer Drive

Soviet Troops Blunt Stab — Of Nazi: Ti anks, Infantry _ In Vitebsk, White Russia

Armistice Asked By Hungary   Regent Horthy, Who Asked For Peace Terms, Thrown Out;  Pro-Nazi In.

Germans Dig In Around Port ee AS   67.000 Make Preparations For Winter Stand

SEE OHIO WHEAT BELOW AVERAGE   18.5 Bushels Per Acre Set as Estimate for State by Crop Service

Reds Capture Rail Center  Of Novograd      British 8th Army Within Nine Miles of Pescara; Berlin Undergoes Another ~ Heavy Attack

zerman Losses Reported Mounting as Reds Widen Offensive and Roll on Swiftly on Three Fronis

STALIN ANNOUNCES NEW RUSSIAN TRIUMPH WEST OF KIEV WHICH ENDANGERS NAZIS IN UKRAINE   Russian Armies Speed on Toward Old Pre-War Polish Borders.. Reds Report Many Germans Taken Prisoner and Many Suffering Privations Aud Erneat: Rite   Old Man Winter Has Come to Aid of Red Armie And Devastating Attacks on German Armies Over Wide Fronts in Stalingrad Are Forcing Gradual Retirement

DOOMED BERLIN {5 BLASTED HEAVILY IN OUNDAY NIGHT RAID  RUSSIAN ARMIES WITHIN rear gaetpre Ar ATH   RUSSIAN ARMIES WITHIN “TEN MILES OF OLD ‘POLISH BORDER

Doomed German Capital Given Another Heavy Pounding, Tenth Maior Assault In Less Than Seven Weeks  —Russians Virtually Within Sight Of Polish Territory And Nearer Rumania In Campaign Which Threatens Enemy In Ukraine With Disaster

GERMAN CAPITAL ABLAZE WHILE ARMIES RETREAT   Wind, Rain and Snow Slow War in Italy But Allies Push Doggedly Ahead

‘Worst Night’ Since ‘Destroy Berlin’ Campaign Began Says Reports From Sweden

DOOMED BERLIN 1S BLASTED HEAVILY IN SUNDAY NIGHT RAID  RUSSIAN ARMIES WITHIN - TEN MILES OF OLD

Greece on Verge of Civil War   Martial Law Is Declared for City of Athens

PSKOV ALMOST WITHIN GRASP OF RUSS ARMY   Hitler Reportediy Has Ordered His Men There to Hold Fast “Until the Last Man”   Rw ASSOCTATEHD PRESS

Yanks Four Miles of Castel San Pietro Frassineto” Captured;  Jj...

NEAR PO JUNCTION   Fifth Army Forces Are Within 4 Miles of Castel San Pietro

Americans Four Miles From Key Italian Highway; British Troops Gain In Adriatic Sector

Big Po Valley Junction City Near Capture   U.S. Fifth Army Is Only Four Miles From Castel San Pictro, 13 Miles From Bologna

FIGHT STEADILY AHEAD INITALY   4 Miles From Large Po Valley Junction Town

Allies Advance on Italian Front  5th and Sth Armies Continue to Gain

NFAR CASTEL SAN PIETRO   Rough Terrain Is Facing American Forces In Italy

YANKS NEAR PO VALLEY STRONGHOLD   Drive Within 4 Miles Of Vital Junction Town

Essential Job Plea. Directed'to 4-F Grou   Men of Induction Age Divided Int Three Brackets; Boards Get . Instructions

DAAET AGE MEN PUT INTO GROUPS   Boards Ordered to Go Easier On 30-38 Bracket; 4-F’s Asked.to Seek Jobs in Essential Activties

4-P’s Asked to Seek Jobs in Essential Activities: Men of Dratt Age Divided Into Three Age Groups by Selective Service Rules

4-F MEN ASKED TO MAKE SHIFT INTO WAR JOBS   Orders Sent to Draft Boards on Three Age Groups

4-Fs Asked To Seek Jobs In Essential Activities    Refusal Will Mean  Forced Employment To Help War Effort, General Hershey Savs   DRAFT AGE MEN PUT  IN 3 AGE GROUPS Local Boards Instructed To Go Easier on Those  In 30 to 38 Bracket

Manpower Heads Urge 4Fs to Seek War Jobs  Those. Who Refuse May   Those, Who Refuse May Be Conscripted for Industry

4-F's: needed in essential employment  McNutt, Hershey  jom m anneal

Draft To Ease On Older Men   Jobs Outrank Fatherhood Jn Younger Ace Groun

Officials Ask 4-F’s to Seek Essential Jobs   New Regulations Divide Men of Draft Age into 3 Groups

CLASS AF GED TO OBTAIN ITAL WAR JOBS              “ducted and: Forced 4 te Works’      REGISTRANTS DIVIDED © INTO 8 AGE GROUPS   Nation’s 6,400 Draft Boards “Instructed to Go Easier ! On Those in 30-to88. Bracket.

TO MAKE SHIFT INTO WAR JOBS   Orders Sent to Draft Boards on Three Age Groups

Urge 4F's to Get Employment In Essential Jobs  Men of Draft Age Are Divided Into sf eee 4 ae Foe

MEN IN DRAFT SPLIT UP INTO 3 AGE GROUPS   GET USEFUL JOBS, IS APPEAL SENT TO 4-F’S

U.S. FIRST ARMY TAKES 1GTOWNS W LESSAY PUSH   Advances Range To Fou Miles Around St.- Lo Hinge of German Line Guardian of Roads.   EAST HALF OF FRONT. °HAS LITTLE ACTION   R. A. F. Bombers Pound Key Raoil Hub Near Paris — Tons of Explosives Showered on Rolling Stock.

Clamp Siege. Arc Half Way Around St. Lo   Forces Near Lessay And Periers, Anchors ® Of German Line

Draw ‘Near Lessay and Periers   SIEGE ARC IS CLAMPED HALF WAY AROUND ST. LO, HINGE OF THE GERMAN LINES

NEW ASSAULT IS LAUNCHED   Dispatch Glves No “Detalts of Attack — American Colunms  in General Advance Along 40-Mile Front,

PARAMUSHIRO HIT THIRD TIME IN THREE DAYS   Island Base Is Pounded By Air Fleet Based On Aleutian Islands

PARAMUSHIRO IS HIT THIRD STRAIGHT DAY   Several Fires Started By Exptoding Bombs, Returning Air‘men Report

Red Troops Smash ‘Nazi Vistula Line Jn Sweeping Drive   Germans Admit Another Strong Bridgehea Is Established But 30 Miles From Warsaw

Russian Troops Shatter German Line in Poland   Advance on Last Defense Barrier

RUSSIANS SMASH NAZIS’ VISTULA LINE IN POUAND   Red Army Crosses River South of Besieged Warsaw on Front Nearly 19 Miles Wide.   OTHER SOVIETS MOVE TOWARD EAST PRUSSIA   Dispatches Say Stalin’: Troops Are 3 Miles From Border and Preparing 'to Leap Across.

NAZI VISTULA LINE BROKEN BY RUSSIANS   Reds Smash 15 Miles Over River; Flank Warsaw City

Soviets Drive 15 Miles  Past Barrier   In West Lithuania Reds Near East Prussian Border

Reds Shatter Axis Vistula River Line in Poland, Speed On Toward German Silesia

Soviet Armies Drive 15 Miles Beyond Defense Barrier      WARSAW FLANKED IN LATEST ATTACK   Troops Speed Toward German Silesia, 100 Miles Away

VISTULA RIVER IS SPANNED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Russians Smash 15 Mile: Beyond Natural Defense Barrier To German Soil   EAST PRUSSIA ONLY THREE MILES DISTANT

Soviets Cross River South Of Warsaw —   “Go 15 Miles Beyond Last Natural Barrier . Short of. German Soil  oe Sie  TT aNWWErnh .

Reds Shatter Vistula Line In Poland   Soviet Troops Flank Burning Warsaw in Smash Beyond River 200 Villages Fall

REDS DRIVE OVER VISTULA NEAR WARSAW   Smash Close to East Prussia Along 70-Mile Front; Last Natural Barrier Short of “Holy Soil.”   Fighting in North

Reds Push Close To Reich Soil In Heavy Offensive; Nazis Flee In Disorder   Russian Troops Reported Sixty Miles From Krakow, Poland’s Fifth Largest City

American Planes Join Battle For China Rice Bowl   Allies Launch New Drive On Salween River Front

CHINESE SITUATION IN RICE BOWL AREA IS NOW VERY GRAVE   Valiant Defenders Being Giv. en Air Support By U. S. 14th Air Force, However.

Situation Serious In Rice Bowl Where Chinese Are Falling Back; Conditions Reported Better In Burma

EIRE REFUSED PLEA FOR SHIPS FROM AMERICA   Dublin’s Attitude Toward Axis Nations Prompts Action By U. S.   CARGO CRAFT NEEDED   Ireland Even Fails T Protest Over Sinkings By Germans

ELAND REJECTS JaAcWtol 1 GLEAN CUT AXI   America Responds by Refusing to Sell Two Cargo Vessels. .

tN te . A ALLIES AROUSED BY; ACTIVITY OF AXIS AGENTS WHO EN DANGER:LIVES OF UNITED  “: NATION TROOPS .

U.S. Refuses Eire Request   Permission To Purchase Two Ships Here Turned Down After Rejection Of American Demands

Army. Seizes.7 i Toledo Plants   Strikers Ordered to Return a seiko Bleasacliw

Seven Eastern War Plants InU.S. Hands   Flow of Ammunition Slowed; CIO Unions Involved

Leyte’ S Port  Is Captured; Jap Columns ‘Are In Pineer   Thousands Of Japs: aD ace E xtermination -

Ormoc Seized, Many Nip Troops Trapped And Left Helpless   Three Columns of Yanks Put Squeeze on Japs in Pocket Reinforcements Can‘t Get In To Nips After Loss of Ormox

ORMOC SEIZED, YANKS HOLDING NIPS IN TRAE   MacArthur Reports Thousands Of Enemy Troops Have Slim Chance Now

Ormoc Captured After American Surprise Landing  Forr Days Required to Take Strategic Porl; Thousands of Jap¢ in Natcracker Trap

THREE COLUMNS AIGHTEN NOOSE ON SMALL TRAP   Palompon On West Is Inadequate, Last Port Left To Nips

Seaport of Ormoe In American Hands. Was Taken Sunday By 77th Division

FOE CAUGHT IN NARROW PagKE   Thousands Of Nips Facing Annihilation In Nuterackér Squeeze   FOUR DAY DRIVE   Leyte Island’s Strategic Seaport Falls After Surprise Move

Jap Division  (Caught In Narrow Pocket By Action   Port Captured In Midafternoon Sunday By 77th Division Troops

ORMOC TAKEN. BY AMERICANS PN BiG FCT   Surprise Move Is Blow To Japs In Philippines

T rap J: aps By. Capture Of Orrmoc   But Enemy Is ] Is Expected TS: Fight for Every Remaining Inch of Leyte; Stilk Hold One Port

Victory Splits , Enemy Forces “On the Island   MacArthur's Men Are Putting Squeeze On Thousands of Trapped Nipvonese

American Forces  Hold Ormoc Port   Seizure Is Completed Four Days After Surprise Landings   ENEMY FORCE IN TRAP   Deadly Pressure on Units Caught Between U. S.  Columns

THOUSANDS OF  NIPS TRAPPED IN LEYTE POCKET   Yanks Take Reinforcement Center Sunday After Heavy Battles

Super-Forts Keep Tokyo In Jitters   MacArthur Says Jap Force on Leyte Being Destroved

Vital Seaport On Leyte Falls In New Landing   Three Columns of Veteran Yanks Put Nuteracker Squeeze On Thonsands of Jans   Nips Trapped In Narrow Pocket   Americans Pushing Toward Town; Resistance Nips Increasing; Hard Battles Ahead

Thousands of Japs Unabl. To Extricate Themselves  From Allied Pocket.

DRAW TRAP ON THOUSANDS OF JAPS   Strategic Town Captured After Quick Drive   ONE SMALL PORT   Left To Enemy On Leyte; Fighter Planes Active Over Combat Area

U.S. Forces On Leyte Put Squeeze“ Trapped Japs After Captu:’>¢, Ormoc-

Thousands In Yank Trap As Ormoc ls Won   Leyte Seaport Won Only Four Days After Landings; Foe Can't Eerane—MacArthur

Nutcracker Squeeze Being Applied On Thousands Of Japanese Troops

THREE UNITS CONVERGING ON NIPPONESE   Fall of Strategic Seaport Is Heavy Blow to Enemy In the Philippine Islands   CORRIDOR NARROWING

Yanks Apply Nutcracker On Japs Trapped After Ormoc Captured   Thousands Of Japs Being Squeezed In Narrow Pocket On Leyte After Strategic Seaport Is Captured.

Ormoc Taken Sunday ByUS77thDivision    Was Heavy Blow to Japs But Leyte Campaion Is Not Ended

Thousands of Jap Troops Held in Trap   American Forces on Leyte Ready to Apply Big Squeeze

Thousands of Japs in Tight Trap   Yanks Apply Nutcracker Squeeze in Capturing Port of Ormoc   BATTLE OF LEYTE IS NOT ENDED   More Desperate Resistance Expected Even Though Enemy Has Lost Main Port

YANKS TAKE ORMOC PORT FROM JAPS   Victory Now Puts Nutcracker Squeeze on Thousands of Nipponese Trapped in a Narrow Pocket by Daring Action.

No American Troops In Country   Britain Held Ready To Use Army To Keep Order

GOP CAMPAIGN GATHERS SPEED   Dewey To Open Hard-hitting Drive With Tax Speech

Goebbels Looks ‘For Channel Hop Within 90 Days   ‘Nazi Minister Declares “Germany Prepared .. For Invasion

MARSEILLE IS BUT 9 MILES FROM FORCES   Fighters Mop Up In Nava Base; Port Now Within  Easy Graasp

CLOSE TO CITY OF MARSEILLE   Yanks Surround City Of Valensole, 50 Miles Inland

FRENCH TROOPS ARE FIGHTING INSIDE TOULOD   Allied Spearheads Are Re ported Six Miles From  Marseille   TIME TABLE IS FAR AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

TOULON NAVA BASE HELD BY PATRIOT ARMY   ALLIES SWEEPING DOWN ROAD TO MARSEILLE

Allies Now 6 Miles East Of  Marseills:   ‘Total of Nazi Prisoners Taken In tnvasion of Southern France Has Grown to More ‘Than

French Hack Way  To Inner Toulon  Er. ¥..... 3... B... ¥..1....3

!On Southern Front In France—  French Fight Way ‘Into Naval Base

Toulon Captured, Allies 9 Miles From Marseille   Americans Drive 50 Miles Inland

Other Allied Forces Are Sweeping Toward Marseille      COLUMN ENVELOPS.._ CITY OF VALENSOLE   Gains in Other Sections Are Reported by  Alliee

TiH ARMY IN TUULUK; AEAR MARSEILLE   Largest Naval Base and Second City of France Puts Invasion Ahead of Schedule.   Capture General

Marseilles Is Also Close to Battle Area   Progress Inland Made by Another Unit of Allied Soldiers

AMERICAN TANKS, INFANTRY MOVING ON RHONE VALLEY   Whirlwind Invasion of Gener al Patch’s Forces Has Net-  ted More Than 14,000 Prisoners,   A GERMAN GENERAL . AND STAFF CAPTURED   Shore Batteries Between Two Great Ports on Mediterranean Shelled by Battleships.

Other Allied Forces Are Sweeping Toward Marseille  cauciil ENVELOPS:_ CITY OF VALENSOLE  Gains in Other Sections Are Reported by Alfies

Yank Column Third of Way T oward Lyon  _ French Inside Toulon -Mopping Up Pockets -

French Troops Battle Way Into Toulon, Other Allied Forces Drive on Marseille

White Collar Worker Gets His Chance To Show He’s Caught In Wartime Trap—Left There   Unorganized, He Can’t Bring Pressure to Force Claims For Adjustment of His Pay to Higher Cost of Living

White Collar Worker, Squeezed By Rise In Costs, Seeks Hike In Pay

White Collar Workers Tell Wage Woes To Senate Group   BY JAMES MARLOW AND

Says~Willkie Will Support - Dewey’s Race   Rep. Haleck, Who Nominated Willkie 4 Years Ago, Makes Prediction

Viiddle West For Dewey In Big War   REP. CHARLES A. HALLECK OF INDIANA HAS TWO-HOUR CON. FERENCE WITH GOP NOMINEE IN ALBANY.   GOP House in Sight

Says Willkie Favors Dewey For President   Halleck Predicts 1940 Standard-Bearer To Support New York Governor.   GOP HOUSE MAJORITY

MIDDLE WEST BACKS DEWEY ~ AND BRICKER      Rep. Halleck Also Predicts Willkie Will Support Ticket

Asserts Willkie Supports Dewey   Man Who Nominated Him in 1940 Expresses His  Personal View.

DEWEY PLEDGES GOV'T CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE   CITES GROWTH AND COMPLEXITY OF ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES

Willkie Will Back Dewey Friend Opines   Rep. Halleck Sees Man He Nominated for President Supporting RKepublican Vickey

Dewey May Receive Full Support Of Wendell Willkie  Rep. Halleck Asserts 1940 Nominee

Heavy Midwest Dewey Support Is Predicted   Rep. Halleck of Indiana Confident Willkie Will Support GOP Ticket

Dewey May Receive Full Support Of Wendell Willkie  Rep. Halleck Asserts 1940 Nominee Will Support Ticket

Willkie Behind Dewey, Belief  Halleck Expresses Personal Opinion

Middle West for Dewey: United Demand for Republican Candidate Reported by Rep. Halleck

SURVIVORS OF SEA BATTLE REACH U. S.   Tales of Heroism and Prayer Related by Men Who Battled Japs in Philippines.

Rep. Clare Luce Strongly Backed As GOP Keynote   No Objections From Spangler

Gi. 0. P. MAY GET ‘KEYNOTERIN WESI   BOOM STARTED FOR GOV GRISWOLD--CLARE LUCE  STILL IN RUNNING.

Hemans And Bribe Case In Michigan   Kept In Uniform So He Could Testify Role In Political Scandal

LARD RATION FREE FOR THIS MONTH   WEA Allocates Much fo Soap Mekina During Mareh

Lard Is Lifted From Rationing   Big Supply Also Is: Released For Saaqn

LARD IS REMOVED FROM RATION LISI   50,600,060 Pounds Are Allocated T Soap Msnufacturers; Near Record Surplus

OPA Frees Lard  From Ration List   Production Hits  Rex ord Level

U. §. Improves Saipan Position  Naval Units Batter at Isle of Guam

Positions Improved On Saipan Island; Air Strikes Made On Jap Kuriles

LABOR DEMANDS SHOWDOWN ON WAGE FORMUL!   Frances Perkins Calls Labor Report on Subject “Parisan”

DEATH TOLL 143 IN RINGLING FIRE WITH 225 HURT   Most Victims Are Children In Hartford, Conn., Tent Tragedy

Indications that Fire May Have BeenIncendiary; Children Made Up Great Number of Dead, Killed  During Panic in Their Efforts to Flee from Tent

AIR BLOWS OF ALLIES SMASH PLANE PLANTS   1,100 American ‘Heavies’ Start Day With Raid ~ On S. Germany

OHIO TELEPHONE STRIKE SPREADS TO CLEVELAND   Canton, Youngstown Operators May Also Join 20-City Walkout

UAIQ TELEPHONE WALKOUT SPREADS   1,300 Cleveland Operators To Strike as Soon as Picket Lines Can Be Set up; Phone Service Crippled

Telephone Strike Referred Back to WLB  Walkout Threatens to Spread

Phone Strike Spreads to (Cleveland   1,300 Operators There To Join Union Walkout

Attorney Is Shot Down On Street   Former Law Partner Held In Birmingham Shooting

DAY OF SUNSHINE      Temperatures } From 25 to 32 Forecast for Tonight

Keep Eyes Peeled 7500 Legion Delegates In Chicago for National Meet

IRENE OETKEN IS WED AT ROCKFORD   United To Cpl. Kelton E. _Pralle of amp Grant,  hinois.- .

IRENE OETKEN IS. WED AT ROCKFORD   United To Cpl. Kelton E _.Pralle’ of: Camp. Grant,  —~ HkKnois.. .

U9. PURGRASING UPS GRAIN LloT   Decision to Buy Cotton and Wheat at Parity Touches Of Swift Rise on Future Markets

aH BEATS OFF NAZI ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Ground Operations Elsewhere Confined to Patrolling

, ANOTHER NAZI ANZIO ATTACK > STOPPED COLD   » Allies Bomb German Coastal Points  PATROLS ACTIVE ] siasalaiaie Fighting on Cassino Sector Flares

DRIVE MILES BEYOND BORDER   Red Army's Youngest General Sends Fanks and Mobile Intantey Plunging into Part) of Prussia Amnexed from Potand in 1539.

WILKINSON FOUND GUILTY OF RAPE   CAPTAIN GETS 30-YEAR HARD LABOR SENTENCE

Army Captain Is Given 30 Years   Convicted On 6 Charges By Court Martial

Tenant Tells of Seeing Two Cars At McCoy Farm on Night of Murders

2 CARS SEEN AT MURDER SCENE   Tenant Farmer's Testimony  Heard In Collett Trial

ON NA RR  GOLLETT MURDER TRIAL RESUMED   Tenant Farmer Says He Saw. Two Cars Drive Into McCoy. Home.   TIME-IS CHECKED .   Defense Hopes To Prove Accused Not In Fayttte County

FARM WORKER TAKES STAND   Tenant Tells of Seeing. Twe © Cars Drive “Into MeCoy Barnyard. 3

Gen. Yamashita Clever as Possum: He Hears While He Nods and Dozes

QUITE A GUY, EW!   Jap General Can Snore anc Listen at Same Time

KOO WOULD CUT HEAVY COST OF KEEPING PEACE   Armies Would Be Used Only In League And To Keep Internal Order   PLEASES SMALL NATIONS   Statement Comes As Second Phase Of Conference Opens At Oaks

Byrnes Opposes Steel Industry Pay Increases   Industry Leaders Ask No Change Until Peacetime Production

Steel Operators Claim Workers’ Wages Doubled   Industry Opens Fight Against Change in “Little Steel’ Formula

Confusion Reigns in Italy Since Push Began   Food Deliveries Disrupted; 500,000 Fleeing Civilians Storming into Rome

Allied Assault Throws Italy into Confusion  Food Deliveries Are licrunted

!{LLIED PUSH IN ITALY DISRUPTS FOOD SUPPLY “SPRINGS WAVE OF SABOTAGE AGALNST GERMANS

Allied Push Hurls Italy Into  Great Confusion Partisans’ Sabotage Disrupts Food Lines of Country

Chaos Sweeps Through Italy   ALLIED DRIVE, BOMBINGS AND PARTISANS THROWING COUNTRY INTO CONFUSION

Confusion In Italy   Disruption of Food Deliveries, Fleeing Refugees, Partisan Sabotage Reported

ALLIED ATTACK THROWS ITALY INTO DISORDER   Food Deliveries Te Nation Paralyzed

Italy Is In Throes Of Great Confusion; Food Deliveries Disrupted; Civilians Fleeing   Chaos Is Reported As A Result Of New Offensive, Raids, And Sabotace

ITALY IN TURMOIL AS ALLIES ADVANCE   Sabotage Hampers Nazis and Food Gets Scarce

Partisans Baitle Fascists and Nazis In Italian Warfare   Food Situation Serious as Trans portation Facilities Bombed, Civilians Flee to Rome

Great Confusion in Italy Caused By Allied Offensive, Bombings, Sabotage

¢ onfusion In Italy Follows Allied Drive   Food Deliveries And Travel There Are Disrupted

Allied Drive Throws Italy  Into Confusion   Tottering Gustav Line Cou pled With Bombings and Partisan Sabotage Dis.  . rupis Food Deliveries

SUPPLIES BLOCKED   Confusion in North Italy; Partisan Sabotage Increasing

Italy Thrown Into Great Confusion By The Allied Offensive; Many Fleeing

CONFUSION GRIPS WAR-TORN ITALY   500,000 Italians Flee Inte Rome From Battle Zone

Gist of Army's Demobilization Plan After V-Day in Germany Announced

BASE RELEASES UPON 4-POINT PRIORITY PLAN   Overseas Service Combat Credit, Dependents, Main Factors   PLAN IN BRIEF

Jap Shipping Hit New Blows   Yank Bombers Range From Kuriles to Marshalls  Be Rar OCrnanin

Japs’ Outer Defenses Hit By Bombers   Suppfy Line In China Menaced By Chinese

American Flyers Give Japs No Rest   Four Freighters Hit In Celebres Area

Diplomatic War in Full Swing  Allies Seeking to Weaken German Swav

Diplomatic Preparations F or European Invasion  Are Now Well Under Way

DIPLOMATS WATCH  “FOUR COUNTRIES   Diplomatic Preparations  For. European Invasion “Under Way .

STAGE BEING SET FOR Rie 44 INVASION   Diplomatic Action Appearing In Few \ Headquarters

Pre-Invasion Diplomacy Aims to Sever German’ From Outside Help, Pave Way for Double Blow

INVASION PLANS IN FULL SWING   Washington and London Diplomatic Program Appears Two-Fold

DIPLOMATS PREPARING INVASION   Objective to Split Of from Germany All Outside Support

Diplomatic Preparations for Invasion of Europe Appear Under Way: Seek to Split Nazi Satellites

Preparations For Invasion  In Full Swing   Spain, France. Waly, Finland As Focal Points Of Foreign Poliev.   SEEK DEVELOPMENTS

Allies Make Diplomatic Invasion Plan   Italian King Likely To Go— De Gawlle Gains

DIPLOMATIC PREPARATONS FOR INVASION   Maneuvering in Full Swing  in Washington and London, With Spain, Finland, France On Spot   DEVELOPMENTS NEAR

Diplomatic Preparations For Invasion Of Europe Are In Full Swing Today

Diplomatic War In Full Swing Before Invasion   Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Focal Points Of Allied Strateqy

Diplomats Are Laying Plans  For Invasio1   Spain, France, Italy, Fin. land Focal Points Of - Dev eloping Foreign Policy

U. S., Britain Prepare Diplomatically For European Invasion   Spain, France, Italy, Finland Are Focal Points Of Allied Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy Invasion Plans  In Full Swing   See Spain, France, Italy, Finland Focal Points With Allied Diplomats

Diplomatic Plans For Invasion in Full Swing in Washington, London

DIPLOMATS SPUR INVASION MOVES   Try To Cut Off Nazis Fron Most Of Outside Help

Preparations For Drive Progressing   Spain, France, Italy, Finland Feeling Diplomatic Pressure

DIPLOMATIC PLANS  FOR INVASION BEING  RAPIDLY WORKED OU SPAIN, FRANCE, ITALY,  _ FINLAND APPEAR BE FOCAL POINTS .

Diplomats Pill Wires Ahead Of Europe Invasion   Spain,’ France,., 5 Italy, Finland ~ Are Focal Points

U-Boat Bases, 25,000 German Troops Periled by U.S. Triumph; French Say Enemy Digging In for Siege of Paris

Germans Retire To Dig In For Defense Of Paris   Two-Day 42-Mile Sweep Threatens To Seal Off Breton Peninsula And Four German Divisions British Put Squeeze On Villers-Bocage.

Yanks Menace U-Boat Lairs   Drive Over Breton Peninsulc May Trap 25,000 Germans; City of Rennes Falls

Plans Made To Administer Liberated France   State Department Works Out Agreement

Franco-U. S. Pact Goes Into Effee!   Provides For Administra tion of Affairs of Liberated France

To Administer Free France  Terms Of Agreement Are Effective Today

Arrangements to Administer Civil Affairs in Liberated France Signec

ClO Is in Politics Up to Its Neck,  Treasurer States  And Will Stay There In This Election, Canvan tian le Tald

British Minister Apologizes to U.S.   Disclaims Intent In Japan Statement

DIDN'T INTEND SLUR AT U. 3. SAYS BRITON   Lyttelton Apologizes To Commons for Jap Remark

Lyttelton Apologizes for Statement  Lend-Lease Provoked Japanese Attack

Lyttelton Apologizes for ‘Indiscretion   EXPECT HULL’S STATEMENT TO BRING APOLOGIES

RATION TOKENS WILL BE PUT TO USE ON FEBRUARY 27   All Ration Stamps To Have Same Value In Simplification Plar

Rain Slows — Stilwell’ S. * Burma Push   But Drive: Is Kept. Going “Despite Difficulties and » Chinese: Also Progress   NAVY SILENT'ON™: MARCUS ATTACK   Japs ‘Report: the Island.“ Attacked Througout. ae : “da-and’ Sunday~

Monsoon Slows Allied Drive   Stilwell’s Americans And Chinese Fight On at Myitkyina

Monsoon Rains ‘Hampers Allies Near Myitkyina   Stillwell Continues Drive To Connect Burma And Ledo Roads Into China

Rains Slow Allied  5urma Campaign   Silence Hides Assault On Marcus Island Japs

Monsoon Rains Delay Campaign In Burma Area   Marcus Isle Attack Still Vague   Stilwell Drives On

—PACIFIC—  Drive On Myitkyina Is Slowed By Heavy Rains   Allied Campaign To Capture Remainder Of Important Jap Base In Burma Slowed By Monsoon: Marcus Island Lashed By U.S.

MONSOON RAINS CHECK ALLIES INMYITKYINA   Japanese Claim Carrier Planes Raid Marcus Seven Times

OLD BURMA ROAD GUT BY CHINESE   Monsoons, However, Slow Up Allies Over Vast Area 

RAIKS HAMPE BURMA DRIVE   Stilwell's Men Fight Through Monsoon To Mop Up Japs in Myitkyina.

RAINS RETARD BURMA DRIVE   Presumed Attack On Marcus Island Shrouded In Silence

MONSOON RAINS FORCE LULL IN PACIFIC FIGHT   Japs Prepare To Die Rather Than  Surrender

RAINS RETARD ALLIED DRIVE AT MYITKYINA   Stilwell’s Chinese and Americans Fight Through Downfall to Wipe Out Holding Forces

Stilwell’s Drive ls Slowed Up By Heavy Rains   Apparently Allied General Won't Let Monsoon Stop Him

MONSOON RAINS SLOW ASSAULT   Fleet Remaing Silent About Marcus Attack

Chinese Cut Burma Road   Moneoon Rains Slow Down Slilwell’s Army

MONSOON HITS BURMA ATTACK   Action at Marcus Hidden in Official Silence

Monsoons Slow Up Allied Endeavor te Capture Myitkyina   Presumed Attack <n Jap: Held Marcus is Hidden  in Silence

ALLIES FlGnT IN HEAVY RAIN   Siow-Down Forced! in Drive On Key Burma City of Myitkyina.   NO NEWS ABOUT MARCUS

Rams Retard Burma Drive   Monsoons Force Slow-Down In Myitkyina Attack; No Word On Marcus Raid.

Monsoon Rains Stall Allies  In Burma Drive   Fighting Slow in Face of Heavy Rains—Chinese Nearer Junction

MONSOON RAINS HAMPER MIGHTY PUSH IN BURMA   Stilwell’s Troops Rout Jap Units Clinging To Portion of Myitkyina

MITCHELL BOMBERS NOW VIRTUALLY ARE LETHAL PINCUSHIONS   Pack As High as 14 50-Calibre Machine Guns Plus a 75-MM Cannon

Experts Speculate on Hitler Strategy Following Invasion   Decision Must be Made Within Week After Allied Landings

Foe Expected to Face Most Crucial Decision a Week After Blow Falls

German Strategists May Face Vital Decision Week: After Invasion Landines

German Strategy Makers Expected To Face Most Fateful Day Week After Ist Landine

FOE NERVOUSLY PREPARING FOR ALLIED THRUST   Nazis Must Decide Quickly On Plans to Resist Invasion Forces

Crisis Seen Week After ArmyLands.   German Strategy Makers Will Then   Face Most Fateful Hour of Invasion,   According to View Taken by Allied Leaders at London.   MUST COUNTER ATTACK

To Crisis For Nazis Ina Week   Ability to Smash AIl lied Invasion Expected To Be Decided Within 8 Days After Landings

Germany Faces Vital Rulings With Turasion   Must Gamble For Real Vietory Or Attempt to Stabilize Snrrounding Lines

trateny Makers To Face Fafeful Hour Of Decision On Coming Allied tavasion of f Europe

CRISIS EXPECTED IN6 OR 8 DAYS AFTER INVASION   ALLIED CHANCES FOR ACTUAL LANDINGS ARE REGARDED GOOD

Fateful Hour for German Decision About Week After Invasion Forces Land

GERMANY MUST MAKE DECISION ON DEFENSES   Strategy of Meeting Allied Invasion Calls for Fateful Decision by High Command

HITLER'S BEST STRATEGISTS FACE PROBLEN   Must Decide On Heavy Invasion Counterblow Or Delaying Action

Fate Of Operations May Be Tested In Week After Full-Scale Allied  Landings Commence

Tnvasion Plans - Wow Completed   GERMANY IS EXPECTING ~ ‘BLOW TO'LAND  SOON.

MANY MODERN TACTICS WILL BE DISPLAYED   Germans Prepare To Meet Allied  Invasion Arms

Nazi Strategists Ready To Make Fateful Decision   May Stabilize Surrounding Invaders Into The Sen

Allies Speculate On Nazi Tactics During Invasion   Expect Enemy To Mass Power

WARREN CHARGES DEMOCRATS USE MACHINE POLITICS IN ADDRESS   CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR LAMBASTS CAREERS OF TRUMAN, HANNEGAN; PUTS WINNING WAR FIRST

Resistance Of Germans Collapsing   May Be Across Frontier Today — Another Big Load of Bombs on Berlig

RUSSIANS CAPTURE NOVOGRAD   Red Army Is Now Within 12 Miles _ Of Polish Border

RED ARMIES PUSH ON IN RAPID DRIVE   Battle-groggy Germans Reeling In Retreat That Be. comes Flight.   B''LLETIN

REDS IN LATVIA. NEAR PORT MEME   New, Threat Pushes” “sh West to 70 ‘Miles From - Bast Prussian Port  7.

REDS IN LATVIA NEAR PORT MEME   New Threat Pushes West to 70 Miles From East Prussian Port

German Forces In East Prussia Face New Threal   Soviet Units Press Westward To Within 70 Miles Of Port Of Nemel   NAZIS FRANTICALLY RUSH DEFENSE WORK

NAZIS FACE NEW THREAT   From Soviet Units Nearing East Prussian Port of Memel By Natalia Rene

PUSH ON MEMEL SETS NEW PERIL -INEAST PRUSSIA   Russian Forces in Latvie Press Within 70 Miles of Port

Rule No Fraud In Chester Case   McClure and Purdy Need Not Repay $250,000

STIMSON PAYS VISIT TO OUR ITALY TROOPS   War Secretary Will Inspect Allied  Front Line

BERLIN RAIDS COST 193 U. S. AIRCRAFT   Toll in Five Operations Was 13’ Bombers, 56 Fighters-—Nazis Lost at Least 316.

Gavagan Resignation Cuts Democratic Majority; May Lose Control of House

Shift Perils Democrat Ruiein House   Resignation Cuts Margin to Lowest Since °31

Ye oung’? "Mother: ‘Div es To Death on ‘Beach  “ey On” Tr. cyrvit eas

“Very Critical’ Situation Seen By Berlin Press   Germans Openly Announce Crisis

Nazis Admit — Invasion Fear   Says Situation In Russia Is Very Critical; Berlin Rife With Invasion Theories.

Nazis Admit  Situation in Kast Critical   Reich Indicates That Its Armies May Have to Retreat Further

Germany Admits Wave Of Jitters   Russian Situation Is “Very Critical”

British-American ‘Rocket’ Plane Now Ready Extreme Speeds ar igh Altitudes Possible   Nazis Admit Red Attack Critical as Invasion Is Feared

Nazis Admit Reds Winning   Situation In Russia Said Very Critica}

Invasion Jitters Grow In Germany   Official Propaganda Preparing Germans For Even Worse News  RET CITANS WARNED

Police Probe Death Of Pair In Automobile   Father of Two Children and Woman Companion Believed to Have Been Murdered

REDS WILL BE FIRST TO REACH BERLIN   Appears Unlikely That Yanks Can Get There First.

Finland Has Signed Armistice   Terms Undisclosed By Russia, Britain

Finland Signs An Armistice. Fiehts Nazis   Swedish Sources Hear Harsh Terms Inposed  By Allies

Finns Sign Armistice With Allies   Russia, Britain Accept. Surrender; Terms Undisclosed

Finland Signs Armistice with Russia, Britain  Terms of Peace Pax GAs... f4 B.. Pa?. 8... JF   Terms of Peace Pact Won't Be Disclosed Until Later Date

FINNS AGREE T0 ARMISTICE WITH RUSSIA, BRITAIN   Terms Not Disclosed As Yet, But Will Be Announced, Reds Say

BRITAIN, SOVIET TAKE PART FOR UNITED NATIONS   Details Still Remain Secret, But Swedish Press Sees Them As Being ‘Hard’

Finland Signs Pact Ending Russian War   Terms Formally Approved by Parliament in Early Session

Finland Signs An Armistice   Terms Wil! Be Disclosed Later; Finns Battle Nazis

Finns Sign Armistice, Moscow Says   Terms Not Given  Swedish Press Describes Them As “Hard”

Finland Signs An Armistice   Terms Of Agreement With Russia And Britain To Be Announced.

British, Russian. Armistice Offers Signed By Finn   Official Report On. Terms, -. Characterized. As Hard, ”. To Be Made Later Today

Reds Announce Armistice Made With Finland   Terms of Pact Te Be Disclosed At later Date.

FINLAND SIGNS — _ AN ARMISTICE WITH  BUSSIA. BRITAIN   Terms, Which Were Not An'" nounced; Will Be Disclosed Later.   NAMED THOSE SIGNING   Britain and Russia Signed Terms as Representatives ; of the United Nations.

REPORT SOVIET PEACE TERMS TO FINNS ‘HARD’   To Reveal Agreement Soon; British, Reds Represent United Nations

Finland Signs Armistice With Russia, Britain  ; Stockholm Hears Reports Fi  Barliament hac Formally

REDS REPORT FINNS SIGN ARMISTICE   Terms Will Be Announced - Later, Perhaps Today—  Agreement Concluded _ in Behalf of United Na tang

DETAILS OF STIPULATIONS NOT REVEALED   Swedish Press Generally, On Basis of Fragmentary Reports, Characterizes Terms as “Hard”

REPORT FINNS SIGN ARMISTICE   MOSCOW DECLARES TERM ALSO SIGNED BY RUSSIA, BRITAIN

Finland Accepts Peace Terms  Of British, Russ   Terms of Armistice Are Secret But Knowr To Be Harsh; Allied Signers Act On Behalf of United Nations in Dealing

TRUCE TERM NOT GIVEN BY RUSSIA   Stockholm Says Document “Hard” On Finns   FINNISH TROOPS   Reported In Fight Against Germans In Northern Part Of Country

Halts War With Russia >And Britain   Truce Terms Not Disclosed But Are Likely To Re ‘Hard.’

lussia, Finland Jian Armistice   Will Reveal Terms Later; Reds, British , Conatures Represent United Nations

Finland Signs Armistice With Russ, Britist   Announcement Made By Moscow; Terms Not Reported

Russ-F inns Sign Pact   Terms of Armistice Not Announced by  BA anccaw f_avernment

REPORTED HARD TERMS SIGNED BY PARLIAMENT   Most Anxiety Said Caused By Loss Of Porkkala Naval Base

Accepts Armistice Terms With Russia and Britain; Swedish Press Characterizes Them ‘Hard’

Jap Targets Pounded by  Allied Bomb:   War Going Badly for Nips on  _ Most Fronts; Greund Fight ing in China Seesaws Indecisively

ButNipponese PlanPost-Wa:  Power Blocs   Fighting in China Seesaws indecisively; Nimitz, MacArthur Planes Busy

- PACIFIC~ _ 3. Bloes Of Nations Proposed By: Japanese   With War Going Badly For Nips On Most Fronts, Tokyo Comes Forward With A Plan For Post war ‘Co-Prosperity Of Nations’

Planes Carry War To Nipponese on ~ Far Flung Fronts   Pound Installations From Timor to the Volcano Z Islands

CONTINUE RAIDS ON JAPANESE ISLAND SCREEN   Japan’s Post-War Board Outlines Plan for World After Armistice

JAPS PLAN POSTWAR PROSPERITY” BLOCS AS ALLIES SCORE AIR HITS   MacARTHUR’S AIRMEN LASH MOLUCCAS AIRDROMES DAMAGE NIP MERCHANTMAN, DESTROY 14 PLANES

Allied Bombers  Pound Japs from  Timor to Iwo, Truk Japs Anneance Postwar Plan  for Blocs ef Nations, Rush BeJalareamanitc fata Benan

JAP DEFENSES POUNDED AGAIN   Toughest Fighting Now Is in China’s Hunan Province

Bombers Blast Jap Targets   Ground Fighting in China See-Saws Indecisively

Allied Air m en pe Ae Japs Over Wide Area   Meanwhile, Ground Fighting in China Seesaws Indecisively; War Goes Badly for Nips

Allied Planes Slug At Nips Daritic Bases   War Goes Badly For Jopan, But Tokyo Has Plan All Established Lear Pactwar Setun

ALLIED BOMBERS SCORE BIG HITS ON JAP ISLANDS   At Least 14 Enemy Plan es Were Destroyed and Jap Merchantman Hit

WAR GOING BAD FOR JAPS; MAKE POST-WAR PLAN   Two Islands Are Bombed Friday  By Americans

JAPAN DIVIDES UP THE WORLD   Tokyo Talks Victory While War Goes Badly For Her

Yanks Blast Island Bases   Jap Installations Gei Aerial Poundine

BOMBERS RAKE NIPPON EMPIRE   Hit Island Targets From _ Timor To Volcanoes;  Blast Shipping

ALLIED PLANES POUND ENEMY ACROSS PACIFIC   War Goes Badly for Ber Along Most . Fronts

U8. Bombs Japs From Timor To Volcano Isles  Nips Concoct Plan  To Divide the

More Jap Airdromes Hammered   But Tokyo Indulges In Some Hopeful . Pes?-Wer Planning

POUND TARGETS FROM TIMOR TO VOLCANO ISLANDS   WAR CONTINUES TO GO BADLY FOR JAPS THROUGHOUT PACIFIC

Allies Boycott — ~ Gold Hoards   Allies Serve Notice That They Refuse To Buy Any Gold With Hint of Axis Taint. :

United States, Britain and Russia Will Not Buy Gold with Axis Taint

U.S. Fifth Battles in Giusto, Artillery. Fires on Cassino   Summary of War Front News

YANKS DRIVE INTO GUISTO   Heavy Snow Drifts Stall Eighth’s Offensive

Giusto Falls: Yank Shells Jolt Cassino   Artillery, Grenades Keep Nazis Moving On halian Front

Yanks Train Artillery : On Cassino   Bitter Fight Put Up at Guusto By Nazi Troops

Ardmore Man Is Promoted   Clarence Woodard Given Rank of Major, Washington Says

Indian Artist Listed Missing   National Prize Winner For Best High School  Student’s Painting

Porter Is Named As ily Successor   Name Sent To Senate Todav By Roosevelt

PAUL PORTER IS CHOSEN TO FCC POSITION   Democrat. Publicity Chiet May Become the Chairman 

Democratic Publicity Chief Named _. To Succeed Chairman Fly of FCC

G.O.P. Directs Utah Delegates To Back Dewey   Vernon Romney Succeeds Morrissey As State Republican Chairman; Platform Deferred Unul Summer

ARMY CASUALTIES 351,293 TO SEPT, 21   Total of All American Forces Reaches 417,085

U. S. Losses Now 417,085 On All Fronts   Latest Casualty Figures Reported Today By Secretary Stimson —

New Casualty Report Issued   Total Dead, Wounded, Missing and Prisoners of Armed Services Reaches 417.085

Losses On All Fronts Mount  T0351,293 Men   Campaign In Italy Costs Country 82.111 Ground Foree Losses

U.S, CASUALTIES TOTAL 417,085   82,111 American Troops Lost in Italian Campaign

Create Supreme Agency To Deal  Qut Deferment:   Army And Navy Say Coa Mining War-Supportina Induetry

Superforis Hit Hardest Blow af Japs’ Homeland   Bombs Leave Big Steel Works at Yawata in Flames

Here's Chance To Sound Off   “Hoffman Will Meet All - Comers Tonight

HOFFMAN ‘ON PAN’ TONIGHT   To Meet Friend and Foe To Get Their Views First Hand

RED CROSS DRIVE BEGINS MARCH 1ST   Ansual Membership Drive Held During This Month; Ruth. ven Quota $600.

Canadians Split Nazi Troop Trains   Mission Is Called Most Effective Raid

1,000 Crowd Templeton Monday to Honor Msgr. Huesmann on Fiftieth Anniversary

Finland Signs Armistice; i Soviet Forces Advance b- In Baltic Area   1,000 Crowd Templeton Monday to Honor Msgr. Huesmann on Fiftieth Anniversary

Akron Resident Half A Century  Aloysius Weidenfelle: Taken By Death

Court Gives Insurance and Ballot Rulings   Turn Down Request For Quick Ruling On U. S. Ballots.

Court Gives. No Ruling OnGl Vote   Also. Refuses Rehearing  On Decision Declaring Insurance Interstate Cammerra

No Bob Tail Ballot Rule By High Ct.   REQUEST FOR HURRY-UP DECISION ON VALIDITY OF FEDERAL BALLOT REFUSED BY SUPREME COURT.   Insurance Rule Stands

Stettinius Asks Prompt Action On Nominations      Outlines Post-War Aims of State Department In World Affairs

Stettinius — Asks O. K. Of Nominees   Wants Quick Action to  Speed Reorganization Of State Department

Stettinius Asks Confirmation 0 Six Nominees   Outlines American Objectives to Senate Foreign Committce

STETTINIUS ASKS CONFIRMATION OF SIX TOP NOMINEES   Outlines Objectives Of State Department

POLYGAMY CULT MEN CONVICTED   Laws Of God Cannot Be Stopped, Says Leader Of Fundamentalists

Allies Plaster Jap-Held Gates To Philippine   Planes Raid Both End: Of Caroline Islands Chain

Allies Blast At Both Ends Of Carolines      Ponape Bombed for 41st Time; Fourth Attack  Rips Woleai

Japs In Caroline Islands Blasted In Two-Way Raids   --Penape, Weleai-— --Attacked In Addition To Satawan

ATTACK ON KURILE ISLANDS REPORTEE      Paramushiro and Shimu‘shu Bombed on Tuesday

HIT JAP ISLANDS   Central Pacific Raiders Attack Carolines:at Both Fnds y

LIBERATORS FIT AT TRUK ATOLL   Kurile Chain, Less Than Thousand Miles From Tokyo, Is Battered

Allied Fliers Hit Carolines   Raiders Start. Fires And Explosions in Supply Dumps

Carolines Hit By Yanks From  Two Directions   Ponape On East Gets 41st Attack While Woleai Near Western End  - Raided 4th Time

(aroline Islands  Hit At Both Ends   Ponape Is Handed 41st Pounding In Pacifie War

Bombers Raid Caroline Isles   Chain Guarding Philippines Hit at Both Ends, Ponape and Woleai

YANK PLANES ATTACK JAPS KURILE BASE!   Other U. S. Bombers Blast Truk Atoll And Marshalls

Island Chain  Hit At Both  Ends By U.S. Relentless Attacks On Carolines Kept  agree eo posoey

Slipper Lost By Cinderella Boys; Kick Game Away   Browns Downcast By Overtime 3-2 Defeat; Series Even With Wilks And Kramer Opposing Hurlers In Third Contest

NOTICE, VETERAN OF- FOR EIGN WARS. OF U. 5... : PARNELL POST NO. 3615°

Briton Favors World Peace Plan of FDR   U. S., Britain and Russia Have Already Discussed Subject

British Agent Okays FDR's Security Plar   London’s Delegate Feels ‘Optimistic’ 4 Powers Will Reach Accord

PEACE FORCE PLAN BACKED BY BRITISH   Delegate Endorses Broad Outlines Laid Down by President

BRITON ENDORSES PLANS FOR PEACE   World Security Conference Delegate Approves Raneevalt idea

Bricker Holds Jap Defeat Job Of All Nation   Speaks On West Coast Reconversion Preblem

Japanese Throw Power Into Twin Offensives   Danger of China Increases— Drive Launched in India-—— Enemy Convoy Battered

LABOR DRAFT BILL GOES IN PIGEON-HOLE   Measure Is Quickly Sidetracked by House Committee

BILL ON LABOR DRAFT UNLIKELY   Presidential Stimulant Comes Too Late: Action Pigeon - Holed

LABOR DRAFT BILL GOES IN PIGEON-HOLE   Measure Is Quickly Side. tracked by House Committee   WAY IS OPEN FOR ACTION IN FUTURE   Little Hope Held, ‘However, of Passage in the ~ earFuture—_

SERVICE DRAFT IS PIGEONHOLED BY COMMITTEE   Coolly Received Action All But Finally Frozen Out By  Legislators

Labor Draft Bill ls Sidetracked By House Group   Iwo Legislators Say Presi dent's Request Was Made Too Late

LABOR DRAFT BILL 15 SIDETRACKED   COMMITTEE ACTION SEEN AS PRECLUDING PASSAGE AT  PRESENT SESSION,

GROUP LEAVES FOR PHYSICAL EXAMS   ‘Men Included From Linton, Lyons, Jasonville And Terre Haute

WEEKLY VISITS 10 RETAILERS PLANNED   Merchants to be Kept In. formed, McCormick Declares

OPA PLANS VISITS TO STATE RETAILERS   Business Establishments Will Be Acquainted With Latest Price Regulations

Safeguards Are Taken to Prevent Another Erroneous “Invasion” Flash

INVASION NEWS TO BE CENSORED MORE CLOSELY   Announcement Of Invasion Sat.  Stirred World

AP Tightens News Bars   Takes Steps to Prevent Repetition of Erroneous Invasion Flash

Remsen Navy Man Home From Saipan Given Promotion  — Circles Globe _ While Serving   dD. et ( < ee  eee

Remsen Navy Boy Home From Saipan   Commission and Bride Won By Jos Wilberding, Jr.; Arrived Tuesday

Remsen Navy Man Home From Saipan Given Promotion  Circles Globe While Serving  Past Seven Years

Reds Advance Further Into East Prussia   Germans Admit Loss of Town In New Drive

GERMANY ANNOUNCES EVACUATION OF EAST PRUSSIA BORDER CITY  CLAIMED RUSSIANS HURLING MASSES INFANTRY AND TANKS INTO ACTION

Red Army Has Moved Into East Prussia   Soviets Employing 500 Tanks in Newest Invasion

BERLIN REPORTS NEW RED GAINS IN EAST PRUSSIA   Says Troops Backed by 500 Tanks Drive Deep Onto German Soil

Germans Claim Soviets Use 500 Tanks In Move For Big Break-Through

SOVIETS PUSH ON IN EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Admit Reich Border Town Abandoned As Russians Close In

Steel Wave Rolls Further Into) Junkerland Despite Heavy Opposi. tions Other Armies Drive Ahead Swiftly After Invading Czecho. slovakia.

Admit Reds, Backed by 500 Tanks, Penetrated Well Into E. Prussia

East Prussian Town Abandoned To Soviet Army   Russians Clear Czech Province Of Ruthenia In Sudden Jump As Hungarian Troops Leave Way Open

SERMANS QUIT BORDER TOWN; FRONT WIDEF   Soviets Hurling Great Numbers of Troops Forward in Effort to Effect Break Through

Reds Use 500 Tanks To Get Into Prussia   Nazis Evacuate Border Town Of Eydtkuhnen

GERMANS FLEE PRUSSIAN LINE   Quit Defenses Before New Red Drive; Invade  Czechoslovakia

MAJOR BREAK AVERTED, SAY NAZI REPORTS   Russians Using Great Forces in Effort, Berlin Claims

Berlin Claims Battle In Reich Grows As Reds  Free Czech Region ©

Tremendous Red Forces Push Ahead   Germans Admit Town Evacuated; Front Widened

East Prussia Border Town  Is Abandoned  By Germans   Berlin Tells Of Grand-Scale Assault For Break-Through At Any Cost

REDS SURGE ON IN OFFENSIVES ON TWO SECTORS   Russians Cross Border Into Prussia and Drive Through Balkan Mountain Barrier

Reds Penetrate Reich in Drive To East Prussia   Germans Announce Evacuation Of City Barring Way Junkers’ Home; Czechoslovakia Strack

500 Tanks Back Red Army Plunge Into East Prussia   Another Offensive Above Warsaw Is Reported by Berlin

be ni nl ee! on ae  Russ Drive Into Reich   Berlin Admits Reds, Supported By Tanks, Have Penetrated Well Into East Prussia

Soviet Forces Backed Up By 500 Tanks. Penetrate Well Into East Prussia”

Red Tanks Drive  Into Nazi Lines   Germans Claim Flexible De fense Is Absorbing Attacks   GO INTO EAST PFfrJSSIA   Front of Russian Advance Has Been Widened to45 Miles -

NAZIS REPORT RED GAINS IN EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Admit Loss of the Junkers Town of Eydtkuhnen in What ‘Berlin Terms a Power. ful Soviet Drive. :

Five Hundred Tanks Lead Grand Assault   Germans Give Up Border Town After Three-Day Battle

Deepest Russ Penetration Is  Acknowledged   Nazis Evacuate Border Town as Red Avalanche Pours Through Area

Deeper Int hito East Prussia “And  Plunge Across Czechoslovakia   Steel Wave Rolls Further  * Into Juokerland Despite. Heavy Opposition; Other Armies Drive Ahead Swiftly After Invading Czechoslovakia.

Reds Smash Into East — Prussia —   Using Huge Forces to  Achieve Major -Breakthrough, Says Berlin;  Cut Off Czechoslovaki

Russians With 500-Tank Wallop Penetrate ‘East Prussia Stronghold Of Junker Foes

PENN BOAT TOWN IS ELE   Reds, Backed By 50.0 ‘Tanks, Hammer Way Inte. East Prussia   FRONT WIDENED   Berlin Radio Acknowl: ‘edges Nazis Have Evacuated Eydtkuhnen

Russia Into East Prussia   Germany Admits Reds on German Soil, that Own Troops Have Given up Town

REDS HURL 500 TANKS IN PUSH INTO PRUSSIA   Germans ‘Admit Loss Of : Border Town To Soviet Offensive

TRUK, 2 OTHER BASES STRUCK BY NAVY UNITS   Large U. S. Carrier Force Batters Jap Islands For Three Days

‘UNSINK A BLE AIR FIELDS ARE BATTEREL   N.S. Naval Task Force Gives Truk and Protective Bases Going Over.

Japs’ Caroline — Outer Defenses: Appear Doomed   Smashing Three-Day. Sea-Air Attack Made On Principal Bases

Two Protective Bases Also Hit In New Attacks   Week-end Raids Inflict Heavy Damage on Enemy

CAROLINES’ LINE OF JAP DEFENSES AT MERCY OF US   Powerful Blows Directed Al Truk Show Yanks’ Overwhelming Power.

Outer Detenses of Japs at Mercy of U. §. Fleet   Disclose Attacks on Truk and Its Protective Bases

JAP BASES AT MERCY OF RAIDERS   126 Enemy Planes Are Blasted In 3-Day Sea-Air Assault

\Navy Task Force's Attacks on Truk, Ponape and Satawan Indicate Vulnerability of Jap Outer Defenses

Mighty U.S. Task Force Hammers Carolines In 3 Day Sea-Air Attack   Blast Truk First, Then Pound Ponape And Satawan To Climax Operation

HARD BLOW STRUCK AT. TRUK BASE   Two of Its Protective Bases Also Hit

Congress To Ac On Ward Seizure   ClO Asks Postponement Of’ Voting Date

Patch’s Army Passes City In New Gain   Only 50 Miles From Rhine and Great Black Forest of Germany.   WIPE OUT 82 NAZI TANKS NEAR NANCY   British and Germans Still Deadlocked in Holland.

Americans Ram Way into Belfort Gap While British  Expand Holland Position

GENERAL PATTON'S FORCES DESTROY AT LEAST 82 TANKS   British Second Army Positions In Holland Are Being Strengthened

U.S. and French Soldiers Attack Enemy Defenses   Columns Roll Througt Vosges Mountains; Opposition Bitter

ew"“MaGACK LINC Bcacnneaurn Buy Sviius:  GIANT DENISON DAM IS READY   Dedication Of Structure I Scheduled For July 1

35 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON YAP BASE   : Japanese Freighter Sent Down  And Three Merehantmen Sunk Of New Guineas

BOMBERS BLAS} -CAROLINES AREA   Nine Japanese Airplanes Destroyed; Freighters Sunk And Damaged

Entire Jap Families Turn to Hari Kari; Soldiers Deserting         -Despondency Over War Situation aking Toll in Nippon Home Ranks lhies Warned to Alter Propasanda

BOMBERS OVER GERMANY RAID DEFENSE HUBS   Planes Smash Key Reick Areas; 49 Lost In Raid Thursday

One Of Most Daring Escapades Of Pacific War Credited /To The U. S. Submarine Tang Which Rescued 22 Airmen

Sub Rescues Fliers Under Guns! of Truk  As Plane Runs an Overloaded Taxi Service

COUNTY. SCHOGL : PRINCIPALS ND  TEACHERS LIS'E)   Ail Principals Wil: ‘Eetu:n; Ciccro Township Teachers Are Listed .

COUNTY. SCHECL PRINCIPALS: ED TEACHERS. USE)   A‘l Principals Wil Retuin; C.ccro Township Teachers Are Listed

Cullman County Has — Bought $82,646.75 Of E. Bond Quota $586,00C   $265,000 Pledged But Only Third Of That Amount Purchased. F. F. A. Secures Pledges

250 Taken Prisoner—Will Be Accorded Same Treatment As Men-—Will Be Placed In Eng lich BPrelacnre:   MALE PRISONERS ARRIVED SUNDAY

Air Struggle Major Turning Point Now   Arnold Doesn’t Think Allies Will Fail; U. S. Has Largest Air Force in World; Can Bomb in Darkness

Air Power Is Seen Turning Point in War   Gen. Arnold Reviews Operations of United States Air Forces

Struggle For Air Supremacy Turning Point   Gen. Arnold Says U.S Now Has Largest Force In World ~

Declares Air Power Key To Victory ©   Struggle for Air Supremacy Turning Point Of War, Says Arnold; A. A. F. Now 2,385,000 —

Aerial Battle Turning Point,  Says Arnold   U.S. Air Chief Says That Allies Won't Be First. To Falter

FRANCE AND BELGIUM AIR RAID TARGETS   Aircraft Factories Are Objective of Allied Bombers

STEPPED UP BY YANKS   Attacks Follow Raid on Poland; 63 Planes Downed

U.S. Plane: Hit Nazi Air Bases  Fortress, Liberator Gunners Down 63   Fortress, Liberator Gunners Down 63 Nazi Planes; 29 Hit on Ground

Strong Forces Fan Out Over Western Europe To Pound Air Centers In Third Straight Day Of New Offensive   REPORT OPPOSITION AS BRIEF, FEEBLEI

NAZI PLANE PLANTS ARE BLASTED   700 U. S. Bombers Raid Factories In Belgium, France

German Air Bases Raided By Americans   Attack Switched After Sundav Assault Reaching As Far East As Poland

George E. Haney Named Principal  Butte Native Will Succeed Fries

CIANO IS SHOT BY RIFLE SQUAD   Duce’s Son-In-Law And 3 Others Executed For Treason

CIANO EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD   DNB REPORTS 3 OTHERS ALSO PUT TO DEATH FOR HELPING DEPOSE MUSSOLINI.

Count Ciano Put to, Death, DNB Report:   Firing Squad Deals With Three Others Accused of Treason

173 UNFILLED SPOTS   Registration of Bleod Donors Is Slew for Visit of Unit

REPUBLICAN PARTY PROMISES CURTAIL FENFRAT MEDDLING   FEWER GOVERNMENTAL CONTROLS OF FARM PROCRAM WILL BE URGED

Farmers Ask Less Control Over Affairs   GOP Committee Hears Expressions From Many Organizations

Farmers Propose GOP Plank For Less U. S. Control      Group Continues Parley In West

GOP FACES PROBLEM IN FARM PROGRAM   Greatest Pressure Now for Less Government Control

Blast Birthplace Of Robot Bombs   1,250-Plane American Fleet Smashes At Peenemunde And Baltic Experinrental Base In Double Blow

U.S, AIR FLEET HITS BIRTHPLACE OF ROBOT BOMBS   Twin Raids Made On Peenemunde, Baltic Experimental Station.

FLIERS HIT ROBOT BOMB BIRTHPLACE   Two Experimental Stations On Baltic Coast Bombed

"Strike Back ~at Soviets Near Riga    Nazi Counter-Blows Reckless in Use of Materiel; Gigantic Red Push Coming

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IS RIGA SECTOR WAS REPORTED ON MONDAI   MOSCOW REPORTS RED ARMIES PLANNING FOR AS. SAULTS ON FULL FRONT

Nazis Making Furious Stand At Riga Gates   Seviels Smother Counter-Attacks; Warsaw Gets Lull

Reds Advance Toward Riga  Russians But 14 Miles Away. Germans Report

Russians Drive Toward Riga in New Offensive   No Mention of Warsaw Made in Moscow Bulletin

German Drives Smothered By Red Army   Russians Preparing For All-Out Assault on Germany

Soviet Offensive Closing On Nazis   Attack Developing in North - Threatens 200, " Germans   GAINS IN THE SOUTH   Heavy Air Attacks Support Drive on Hungarian . Positions

Russians Beat Counter Blows In Riga Sector   German Admit Soviets Have Advanced Within 14 Miles of Riga in Three-Day Offensive

Red Drive On Riga Growing   Germans Throw in Reserves Recklessly to Stave off Dangerous Move

zARKR RAE AR EB   RUSSIANS ONLY 14 MILES FROM RIGA ON DRIVE   Violent German  Counterattacks Smashed Around Latvian Capital. Nazis are Reckless

RED OFFENSIVE CHILLS GERMAN COUNTER-STABS   Hitler's Forces Waste Large Numbers of Tanks in Riga Area

Russians Push Toward Capital Of Latvia   Reds Believed To Be Nearly Ready For Big Attack

Soviet Army Nearing Riga   Baltic Front Flames Anew; Balkan Drive Closing Trap on Nazis

Reds Smash Nazi Attacks Near Riga   Berfin Radio Says Soviets 14 Miles From Latvian Goa!

SOVIET ARMIES MAKE ADVANCE IN RIGA AREA   Germans Lose Tanks In Useless Counter-Attacks

RED OFFENSIVE MOUNTS IN THE JELGAVA REGION   ADVANCE WITHIN 14 MI. OF RIGA IN THREE DAYS

Russians Squelch German Counter Attacks In Push Toward Estonia, Latvia _

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. IS RIGA SECTOR WAS REPORTED ON MONDA)  MOSCOW REPORTS RED  ARMIES PLANNING FOR AS

SOVIET DRIVE TOWARD RIGA INTENSIFIED   Mounting Russian Offensive In Region of Jelgava Smothers Volent Ger man Counter-Attack  AIR RAIDS IN HUNGARY

Red Offensive Smothers Nazi Counterattack  PD. l... Mowe eee   Reckless Germans Throw Tanks Away In Futile Monerver

Reds Smother Violent Boche Counter Blows   Berlin Announces Russians Have Advanced Within 14. Miles of Riga In 3-Day Offensive

Russian Army Advances Within 14 Miles of Riga   Drive Aimed at -Curshing Nazis in Latvia and Estonia

RUSSIANS LAUNCH RIGA DRIVE 10 CRUSH NAZI ARMIES OF 200,000   COUNTERATTACKS BEATEN BACK; FREE GERMANY COMMITTEE ASKS ESTONIA TROOPS TO SURRENDER

Baltic Front Flames; Reds  Nearing Riga   Meanwhile, Balkan Drive In South Closes Trap On Germans

Reds Near Riga In New Advance On Baltic Front   Drive Aims At Crushing 2 Nazi Armies In Latvia And Fetania.

OFFENSIVE IN JELGAVA AREA IS—MOUNTING      Russians Beat Back Counteraltacks of Germans in  Reckless Battle   REDS ARE PLANNING  NEW ALL-OUT DRIVES

O DRIVING TOWARD AlGh   Offensive Smothers Violent German Counterattacks In Sector.   IN FINAL PREPARATIONS

CRUSH HEAVY) ATTACKS BY NAZI FORCES   Germans Are Using Armor Recklessly But Assaults Fail

Reds Smother Violent Blows Made By Huns Near Jeleava    “Mounting Russian’ Drive Revealed

CRUSH VIOLENT ATTACKS MADE BY NAZI FORCES   Russians Prepare for Assault on Germans All Along East Front

SOVIET TROOPS CLOSE ON RIGA   Red Army Scouts Out Nazi Positions for Final  All-Out Assault

RED FORCES DRAW NEAR CITY OF RIGA   Aim of Soviet Offensive Is to Crush Two German Armies in Latvia and Estonia, Estimated at 200,000 Men.

SOVIET OFFENSIVE SMOTHERS GERMAN ~ SGOUNTERATTACKS   Was Marked by Reckless Uss of Large Numbers of Naziz Tanks.    IT WAS NEAR JELGAVA   Ruésians Have Advanced to Within Fourteen Miles of Riga.

Reds Smother Nazi Blows in Latvia   Russians Within 14 Miles of Riga, Berlin Broadcasts Say

Red Army Nears Riga As The Baltic Front Flames: Counterattacks Smashed   Reds Preparing for Assault on All Nazi Positions on East Front

‘Reds Smother Violent Nazi Counter Attacks;   See Failure ForGermans

INVASION NEWS SETS OFF PARK   German Police Unable te Curb Demonstration; 1 padere Flee

INVASION NEWS CHEERS PARIS   Germans Burn Records As They Prepare To Flee City

Voila! Yank Paper Fixes French “Line”   ARMY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES PRACTICAL LESSONS FOR DOUGHBOYS

Berlin Lines Cut; Rumors Spread   Tight Ban Placed on  All Communications

Allies Advance On Italy Fronts   Nazis Forced From Positions on Amo

(10 Celebrates Election of FDR And Cheers PAC   Pians To Continue Political Activity

EXUBERANT CIO TO RETAIN PAG   Nov. 7 Election Success Celebrated; Hillman Gets Ovation

Allies Face 25 Nazi Divisions   Armed Divisions and Crack Guards Battle Allies in Normandy

Germans Triple Number of Divisions Facing Allies Since Invasion June 6

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN IN NORTHWEST INDIA   Japanese Forced to Give Up Number of Important Positions in Kohima Area.

VICTORY SCORED IN KOHIMA AREA   Invaders Knocked Out Of Hills By Indian And British Units

Allies Gain Ih Kohima Area   Allies Go All Out To Safeguard Area  Raftara hAnuncennKwe

Jap Invaders Ot India Are  Driven Back   Nipponese Suffering Heavy Casualties as Allies ‘Attack

Nazi Troops Pour  Tnto Finn Capital   Protest Brews Against Resort to Germany

NAZI TROOPS POUR INTO FINN CAPITAI   Reinforcements From Estonia Reach Helsinki

CANIIDATE GOVERNOR OF STATE OF TEXAS   HAS ONLY ON" PLANK AND THAT IS FOR BACKING OF WAR. SHE SAYS

Criticise Policy Toward Italians  Charge War Prisoner: Are Being Coddled

“North Main Street Soldie Was Returning To Dut: After Furlough   TWO TELEGRAMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM WAR DEPT.   Accident Occurred Only Five Miles Fron) Airman's Rase In South

Local Gunner Is Missing (ver France   Sergeant Alphonse Lagiownik Lost In Raid April 28 -——-On Flying Fortress

NEW YORK BUTCHERS THREATEN TO CLOSE   OPA Adjustments Necessary, Irate Dealers Say

FORD GRANDSON 15 GIVEN NEW OFFICE   will Be Second Only to His Grandfather; Preparing te Run Empire

Aerial Pincer Hits Europe   U.S. Fliers Knock Out 125 German Planes In Day Assault

GERMANS = TURN GUNS ON OWN FLEEING ARMY   Sevastopol Boiling With Russ Bombs Aimed At Balking Evacuation   REICH BLAST CONTINUES   Air Attack Roars Into Seventh Day—Burma Position Improved

NAZI DEFENSE _ _IS SHATTERED   ‘GERMAN AND ROMANIAN TROOPS IN CRIMEA FAIL TC HALT SWEEPING RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE AND ARE — ” IN FRANTIC RETREAT TO ONLY MAJOR PORT * REMAINING IN HANDS OF AKIS TROOPS

FINNISH TROOPS ASSAULT NAZIS   Enemy Digs In, Refuse: To Withdraw: Soviet Press Critical

Rev-. H:Seward Dies Saturday.  Was Former Pastor.  '. Methodist ‘Church:

Rev-<. H. Seward Dies Saturday.  Was Former Pastor  Methodist Church

GOP DRAFTSMEN STUDY PLANK ON FOREIGN POLICY   PROPOSES WORLD PEACE FORCES TO REPEL AGGRESSION

Inconclusive Test In Primaries Scheduled In State Tomorrow; Estimate 1000 Votes Total Here

PLAN MOVE TO BRING WAR END   Pope. American Archbishop. German Ambassador Confer

PEACE PROGRAM DISCUSSED BY POPE, SPELLMAN   Pontiff Has Program To End War In Europe Is Report

Reveals Pope Hopes Plan May End War in Europe in the Near Future

Pope Probes Possibility Of Peace   Pontiff and Spellman Hold  Long Conference

Spellman Visits With Pope Pius   Discuss Program For ~ Ending War In Europe

Berlin Admits Another Major Setback From RusSiang On Polish Front   ARMY REVOLT IN GERMANY MAY HAVE BEEN PUT DOWN   Yanks Have Lost - Their Bridgehead Across. Seves River In Normandy:

SPELLMAN, POPE DISCUSS PEACE   “WAY TO END WAR IS CONFERENCE SUBJECT

Pope Opens Peace Talks With Envoy   Nozi Ambassador, U.S, Archbishop tn Vatican Parleys

Pope Discusses Possibility Of Early Peace in Europe 'With Archbishop Spellman

POPE, SPELLWMAN  HINT PEACE MOVE   Vatican Is Reported to Be In Contact With Nazis to End the War.

BALL BEARING PLANTS BLASTED   Powerful American Bombe Hit  , German Aireraft Plants — Extensive Air Battles Kaging All Over Germany,

g ‘Heavy Rain. Mud On Anz , Beachhead Aid Allies In Brea  ing Up German Efforts ¢ ; Reform Third Major Assault  RENEW ATTACK oN         RENEW ATTACK ON DUTCH AIR FIRLI

BERLIN CLAIMS OTH BIG SCALE YANK ASSAULT   Violent Air Battles Re- ported; Rocket Coast Pounded

Wurst Comes to Worst For Hapless Germans  Samia nian ence ce ae er a ate

U. §. TROOPS GAIN HEADWAY      Meking Drive on Bolognadtinint Highway in Ttaly—Heaviest Ene. my Re fance Met in’ Southern Outskirts of Livergnano,

Yank Columns Drive Against Bologna Road   Troops Battle Fierce Opposition Through Rough Italian Terrain

YANKS BATTLING HARD ON ROUGH ITALIAN GROUND      Fighting Centered On Nine-Mile Front On Highways To Po Valley

Fierce Fighting ‘On Rough Italian  Terrain Reported   Three U. S. Columns In Converging Drive On Important Road

3 YANK COLUMNS CONVERGE ON BOLOGNA ROAD   Fifth Army Now Only Ten Miles Fro Italian City

Peon Y ghee 1 Cee Farm ‘Machinery... Free. From Rationing Except Corn Pickers

ALLIES AND ROMANIA ‘CONCLUDE ARMISTICE   Representatives of U. S., Great Britain and Russia Take Part in WNagotiations.

Acres Homes Annex Add., Dec 20, 1944, stp. 55c, $300.   DEEDS OF TRUST

A Gas Coupons May Be Sliced To Two Gallons   Midwest and Far Wes To Be Trimmed to Match Eastern Ration. Reported

Gas A Coupons Due For a Cut   OPA Official Sees Possibility of Trimming Value to Two Gallons.

NEW GAS SLASH SLATED IN OHIO   Midwest And West Face Cul From 3 To 2 Gallons

MIDWESTERNS PAGE GAS CUT   Official Admits Possibility 0! ‘A’ Coupon Reduction

‘*A”’ Gasoline May Be Cut   Basic Value in Midwest And West Likely to Be Cut to Two Gallons

“A” Gas Rations May Be Trimmed To Two Gallons   Decision on Cut For Middle West May Be Made by The OPA Tuesday

Slash In Gasoline  Is Hinted      Midwest “And West: Fac‘ing. Reduction To Two Gallons On ‘A’ -

Gasoline Rations For West May Be Reduced Soon  Two-Gallon Coupons Are Expected to  Be Ordered Tuesday

"A" Coupon Value Likely to Be Trimmed To Two Gallons, Official of OPA Concedes

MAY BE GOOD FOR ONLY TWO GALLONS EACH   ‘Reduction May Be Ordered ' Tomorrow to Equalise  West With East

Gas Cut to > 2 Gallons Expected   OPA Decision Regarding Midwest May Be Made _Known Tomorrow   "ICKES LONG HAS URGED UNIFORMITY      Greater Allotment for Sea, sonal Farm, Industrial : Increases Likely

West’s Gas Rations To Be Reduced   Will Be Cut From Three To Two Gallons To Match East

Vision New Cut in A Gas Ratior   West and Midwest May Be Reduced

Cut Planned in Western Gas Ration   OIL ADMINISTRATION FAVORS EQUAL SUPPLIES THROUGHOUT COUNTRY

aaa acre aa  Possibility Gas Rations Here Will  Be Cut to 2 Gallons.

OPA MAY REDUCE “N” CARD VALUE TO TWO GALLONS   PROPOSED AS PLAN TO EQUALIZE GAS SUPPLY OVER NATION

“A” Card “Gas” May Be Cut to 2 Gallons   JPA Considers Measure for Midwest and Far West to Put Nation on Uniform Weekly Basis—Decision Possible Tomorrow.

NEW MARKETS SEEN © IN SOUTH AMERICA   Timken Co. Planning for Post-war Expansion

‘Senate Sets Out to Finish Its Tax Bill   Senator Green of Rhode Island Thinks More aioe Can Be Found

SENATORS SET OUT T0 FINISH OWN TAX BILI      President's Request For Boost To 10 Billion Mostly Ignored

ee eT ae —- ee ee oe  Senate Working On Tax Bill Version   Will Go Ahead Despite Threat of FDR Veto

Senate Wants To Complete Tax Bill   Practical Course Is To Finish Measure

No Change In Tax: Bill Seen  : Peng ding Measure Far ~ Shast Of FDR Requesi

Senate Pushes  dts Tax Plans   Overlooks FDR's Appeal For $10,500,000.000 5 Veto Expected

MacArthur Still Choice of Group   Declare General Can Be Drafted

HIT ROCKET BOMB LAUNCHING AREA   U. §. HEAVY BOMBERS AID INVASION FORCES   Ry LYNN HEINZERLING

FRENCH HOLD GREATER PART OF ELBA ISLE   German Resistance Beaten Down As Push Continues

Assisi Falls To Allied Armies  Nazi Resistance Is Reported Stiffening

French Seize Porfoferraio   Clear Germans From Greater Part of Elba, Headquarters Says

Greater Part of Elba Is Captured   Resistance Stiffer In Northern Italy

Elba Drive  Successful   Portoferraio Taken; Italy Being Cleared

Reds Surge Ahead As Allied Forces Advance In Italy   Ry LYNN HEINZERLING

French Hold Large Part Of Elba .   , Seize More Than Two  Thirds of Island in ' Pace of Bitter Resist~ ance: Gain in Italy

French Hold Big Part of Elba   Allied Troops Gain On ltalian Mainland As Germans Resist

FRENCH TROOPS CONTROL MOST OF ELBA ISLAND   Allied Units Advance Against Heavier Nazi Resistance in Italy

FRENCH SCORE ELBA ADVANCES   Kighth Army In Italy Captures Perugia:

FRENCH CONTINUING BATTLE FOR ELBA AS ALLIES MOVE AHEAD   FIFTH.AND EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS MEETING INCREASING RESISTANCE

French Push Across Elba   Greater Part of Island Taken; Nazi  Resistance Increasing

Greater Part Of Elha Held By French   Allied Troops In Italy Gain On Both Flanks And in Center

French Troops Now Hold Nearly All Of Elba; Fifth Army Moves Forward

ITALY MAKE HEW GAINS   Germans Are Offering More Resistance To  © 5th, 8th Armies

IAPS ARE TAKING LICKING IN INDIA   Operations ns Are Going Well on All 3 Fronts

Allies Beat Down Nazi Resistance   French Battalion Hold “Greater Part of Island of Elba”   ASSIS] IS CAPTURED   Fifth and Eighth Army Troops Are Driving Germans Back

French Gain In Elba; Hold Most Of Isle   Allies in Italy Punch to Within 72 Miles of Florence

MOST OF ISLAND OF ELBA NOW IN GRIP OF FRENCH   Determined Resistance Of Germans Battered Down By Island Invaders; New Gains  Made In Italv.

French Hold Creater Part  Of Elba Isle   Fifth, Eighth Armies Meet Increasing Resistance In Viale   WEATHER STOPS RAIDS

HOLD MOST OF ~~ ELBA ISLAN   Peninsula Troops Make Gains on Both Flanks’and In Center of Line.   FRENCH TAKE PRISONERS

French Colonials Hold Most of Elba   (Eye-witness story- of — Elbs landing on. page 3a)

French Colonials Hold Greater Portion of Elba  Allied Troops Surge Ahead in Italy, Take Famed Assisi

Allied Advances Made in Italy And in Finland   French Colonial Battalions Also Capture Port of Erraio in Elba.   Germans Exert More Resistance in Italy

French Hold — _ Most of Elba; Gains in Italy   Sth and &th Armies Push On Despite Increasing Resistance

French Now Hold Most of Elba   Score Big Advances And Seize Many Prisoners on Island

FRENCH ARE IN CONTROL ELBA ISLAND   Allied Armies in Italy Hampered by Weather But Move On in Mud To ward Filaranrcea.

FRENCH EXTEND GAINS ON ELBA   Allies Seize Assisi In Push To Northern Italy

FRENCH TROOPS CAPTURE MOST OF ELBA ISLE   Allied Armies Score New Gains In Mighty Offensive In Italy

FRENCH CAPTURE 2-3RDS OF ELBA   Nazis Offermg More Resistance in [taly

French Hold Two-Thirds Elba Island   Fifth and Bighth Armies -Meet Stiff German “Registance-In Ttalv 

French Occupy Greater Part Of Elba; Allies Advance In Italy, Resistance Growing   Germans Fight Back More Fiercely Driven Cioser To Pisa-Rimini Line

—ITALY—  Greater Part Of Elba Island Held By French   \Mud-Spattered Allied Troops Make Gains On Both Flanks And In Center Of Line In Italy; Nazi  Attacks Are Beaten Back

Two-Thirds Elba In French Hands; Advances in Italy  Allies Capture Campaiguatico,  Assisi, Drive Enemy From Teenariant Defence Pacitione

French Rapidly Conquering Elbe  Allied Troops Press Forward in Italy

Death Penalty Sentence Given Negro Rapists  Evidence Is Heard By Guarded Court

HEARING AOKED IN GRAFT CASE   Finance Company Executive May Be Key Figure in Grand Jury Case.   1SET HEARING FOR FEB. 2

PREW ‘KEY’ IN GRAFT TRIALS   Spotlighted By Plea 0! Guilty; Others De mand Trials

17 OF 26 DEFENDANTS ARRAIGNED IN COURT      Three Charged: in Warrant Now Are Serving in Armed Forces

‘SUPPLY LINE ' FROM POLAND 1S OBJECTIVE   ELEVEN TOWNS OVER FRON. TIER SEIZED IN POWERFUL THRUST BY RED ARMY. SPEARBEAD

SOVIET FORCES SURGE ACROSS SLOVAK BORDER   11 Strategic Towns Are Seized In Thrust Toward North In Hungary

Himmler Talk Adds to Belief Hitler Is Dead   Gestapo Chieftain Reads Proclamation In Fuehrer'’s Name

Himmler, Reading Proclamation By Hitler, Exhorts Germans To Unity

Believe Hitler May Be Dead; Himmler Reads Proclamation of Nazi Leader

LOOTING, VIOLENCE STARTS — IN PHILADELPHIA STRIKE   Transportation Workers Ignore Army and Navy Pleas—Arrest Negroes   War Production Cut 50 Per Cent — Union Leaders Shouted Down

Some Refugees May Be Brought To United States   But Effurt Being Made To Find Havens Closer To Their Native Lands

REFUGEES TO COME TO UNITED STATES   Roosevelt Reveals One Plan Un der. Study Calls for Housing Them in an Army Camp.

CHURCHILL SEES NAZI FALL NEAR   ‘Grave Signs Of Weakness’ Reported In Germany

CHURCHILL REPORTS SIGNS OF WEAKNESS   British Prime Minister Talks 01 His Visit Ta Normandy Of Earlier End

Churchill Says Germans Weakening, War May End Earlier Than Expected   Makes First Allied Comment on Nazis Crisis During Visit to Battlefront in Normandy

Prime Minister Says Nazis Face Serious Crisis   Back in London From Normandy

CHURCHILL. TALKS OF GERMAN CRISIS   War May. End Earlier, Prime Minister Tells . Audience

CHURCHILL SAYS. REICH WEAKNESS IS NOT APPARENT   Declares That War May End ‘Earlier Than We Have Right to Say, Speaks to 500 R. A. F. Men.   ENEMY POWER SHOWS SIGNS OF CRUMBLING   Prime Minister Spends Three Days In France — Visits German Flying Bomb Base Taken By Allies.

CHURCHILL TALKS ~ OF GERMAN CRISIS   War - May.” End  Earlier,  Prime Minister Tells. .. Audience

JAPANESE DRIVE ON KEY CHINESE CITY   Attack Threatens to Split the Nation in ° Tween

JAP THRUSTS THREATEN 10 CUT UP CHINA   U. S. TRIES TO KEEP ASIA FLANK FROM FALLING APART

JAP FORCES ADVANCING UN KWEILIN   In CampaignThat Threatens to Split China and Wreck Entire American Military Setup.   Reoccupy Lungling

Japs Threaten To Wreck U.S. Setup in China   Advance on Kweilin In Drive Which May Split Entire Country

MIPS CLOSE TO SPLITTING CHINA IN TWO PARTS   Foe Forces U: §. To Abandon Air Fields; Kweilin Imperiled

Ban on Overseas Travel Imposed On British Isles   50 Million Persons Quarantined as Invasion Nears

IMPOSITION  PLACED ON AL TRAVEL FROM BRITISH ISLES   Germans Trying to Disrupt Huge Ship Concentrations

BRITAIN MOVES INTO QUARANTINE’ PERIOD LEADING T0 INVASION   Overseas Travel Ban Becomes Effective; Nazi Air Raids Continue On Shipping Massed : In English Ports

Britain Continues To Move Closer  To Invasion Day   Germans Claim Raids Made On Ships Massed In English Ports

Great Britain Now Isolated   Moves Nearer "D" Day; 50.000 000 Quarantined

@ BATAAN SPEAKS  This Is Story of Mariano Pobre, Who Was Buried Alive by Japs

DONNELL PICKS REPUBLICAN FOR PLACE ON BENCH   S. A. Dew Named to K. C. Appeals Court — Fifth of Same Political Faith to Get Judicial Post.   NO APPOINTMENTS HAVE GONE TO DEMOCRATS   ‘Choice Watched for Possible  ‘ Effects on Convention’s Attitude Toward N on Partisan Plan. ‘

Republican Gets Vacant Court Of Appeals Position   Samuel Dew Named To Kansas City Job By Gov. Donnell

YANK SUPERIORITY. IN AIR IS SHOWN   Dozen Knock Down 10 Nazis In 20-minute Fight

Three Fortresses in Ru 1g Guardi 1g City Are Captured   Third Army Plunges Ahead on 40-Mile Front; Main Prize Taken Is Fort L'Aisne, Others Are Smaller

30 CALLED TO TRIAL UNDER SEDITION ACT      Charged With Bid To Form Fascist-Type Regime

Sedition Trial of 30 Starting Today   One Defendant Shouts in Court

SEDITION TRIAL FOR 30 PERSONS GETS UNDERWAY   Subsidy Question Is Back For Congress - - Sen. Taft Predicts Tax Increase

Socialist Group Fac Trial On   Government Accuses 28 Men, 2 Women In Conspiracy Charges

SEDITION TRIAL GETS UNDER WAY   Twenty-Eight Men And Two Women Called To Trial On Charges of Conspiracy Against United States.

Try Thirty For Treason   Charged With Conspiracy to Set Up Nazi Government in U. S. A.

28 Men, 2 Women  Called to Trial on Conspiracy Charges Defense Seeks fo Force Biddle  Hoover Produce FEI Reports ae Baten tal Jorare 

(PENS (WN CAPITAL   30 Persons Are Charged with Conspiring with Nazis, Undermining Morale

ggest Sedition Case of far Called to Trial   30 Face Charges of Conspiring to Set Up National Socialistie Government

30 Sedition Defendants Stand Trial   Charged With Conspiracy to Aid in Setting Up Nazi Government

V:Iaoers Tell of 200 U. S. Paratroopers Slain After Heroic Stand

BRITAIN TO RENDER INVASION “LEAK PROOF” CANCELS CHANNEL SHIPPING

AWAIT REPLY OF SWEDEN ON BRITISH “GAG”   Note May Contain Hint of Attitude of Other Neutrals

Registration —_Books Open Two ‘More Saturdays.        ‘Registration Davs* Or   21 and Oct. Ne On   Those Registered Cat Wate 

Registration Books Open Two More Saturdays.   Registration Days Oct. 21 and Oct. 28.—Only Those Registered Car Vote. i

TANAY  a WEVA LT   Allies Hope to Learn From Aachen Battle Strength of Germany’s Ability for Finnished Fight.

AACHEN SEEN AS GREAT IMPORT MILITARILY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY BOTH TO ALLIES AND TO GERMANS

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Battle at Aachen of  Key Import   Outcome of Grim Fight Will Reveal Power of  Nazi Resistance

FDR’s ‘No News’ Reply To 4th Term Queries Lea ves Door Open For Draft To Blow Through

Roosevelt Leaves His Doo: Ajar For Fourth Termers To Apply Draft Pressure

Roosevelt Leaves Door Ajar For Fourth Term Race   Reply to Straight Question Doesn’t Rule Out Chance For Being ‘Drafted’

FDR LEAVES 4TH TERM DOOR OPEN   DECLINES TO SAY WHETHER HE WILL OR WILL NOT RUN

Political Door is Left Ajar to Admit Fourth Term Draft   Roosevelt Says He Has No News on Another Term as President

FDR Shies At 4th Tern Statement   Leaves Door Open To Draft in Talk With News Writers

FOURTH TERM DRAFT BLOWING   FDR Leaves Door Open with “No News on That at the Time”

 FDR Doesn't Say Yes But He Doesn‘t Say No   Possibility of a Fourth Term Not Ruled Out by  Deacielaruet we Deewce Me... ws

Door Left Open By FDR fo Aid Draft Movement   President Evades Direct Answer as To His Intentions

FDR SIDESTEPS ATH TERM QUIZ   President Tells Reporters He Has No News On Subject

Roosevelt Leaves. Fourth Term Issue Still Unanswered  President’s No-News Routine Does Not Rule Out Possibility

Fourth Term Door Left Ajar   President Makes Reply To Point-Blank Question On His Acceptance

PRESIDENT LEAVES DOOR AJAR FOR ANY FOURTH TERM PLANS  TELLS NEWSMEN NO   _ TELLS NEWSMEN NO — NEWS ON MATTER ACCEPTING FOURTH TERM

View of § Saipan Battle Awesome  Like ‘Seeing Giant Movie Screen

GERMAN FORCES RETAKE TOWN IN AACHEN SECTOR   Allies Advance In Holland

Gen. Hodges’ Doughboys Fan Out On Three-Mile Front Beyond Schmidt And Germeter Southeast Of Aachen   GERMANS PRESENT STRONG RESISTANCE

Germans Blunt Yank Threat to City of Coloone   British Clearing Up Ap proaches to City of  Ai. 4

First Army Deeper In Germany Despite Heavier Resistance; Canadians Seek To Clear Port

Some Strikes Are Settled  Over Nation   Showdown Looms  At Philadelphia

Showdown Between Army, Strikers in  . Philadelphia Neat   Transport Workers lg. nore Orders; News of Labor Elsewhere

Strike Situation Slightly Better  36,000 Still Idle In Many Disputes

SENATE MEETS FOR TAX VOTE   Saturday Session Is Called After Filibuster Delay

COUNTY PURCHASES TOTAL $206,460 25   Sixth War Loan Sales Are 40 Per Cent of $525,6000 Quota.

Includes $326,639 ‘E’ Sales, $492,689 by Corge norations. a   DRIVE $381.673 SHORT

DEWEY S GHARGED WITH DOUBLE TALK   Vice President Henry Wallace Criticizes Republican Candidate

Find Body O: Boy Missing From Home   Lost On Stroll Into N. H. Woods

MIGHTY BOMB ATTACK UPON FRENCH COASI   Other Planes Attack Austria, North Jugoslavia

Invasion Coast Of France Ils Bombed  ‘By U. S. Planes   U. S. Fifteenth Air Force In Italy Sets New Record By Downing 157 German Planes While British Bombers Raid Three Plants

Invasion Coast Suffers Heavy Attack   Nazis Report Raid on Yugoslavicr, Northern Auciria

Bombs. Hit On Secret Defenses   Eighth Air Force Pounds Invasion Coast With Tons Of  High Explosives.

ee ee ee eS ee  Lt. Michelman Is Leaving Naval Unit at University

Clare Boothe Luce  ‘Stumps’ For Dewey Will Make - nee Eight  nmnaaAatnac¢c

semen WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING 10 WIN THE WAR  e \aeee! Seow ea Wey Wee ee We Wie Sua Gees eee vb

Aurelia Girl’s Husband At Air Service Command Station Somewhere In England

Soviet Newspaper  Strikes At China   Says War Caused By Not Working With Reds

1  Finland Starts Filling Armistice Terms: Breaks Relations with German Satellites

ELLSWORTH COAL STRIKE GOES ON, OTHER PITS DOWN   Waves Of Strikes, Some For Un. determined Reasons Are Reported

5,750 Miners Still Idle In Penna. Pits   VESTA NO, 5 STRIKE SPREADS TO TWO OTHER MINES; WASHING: TON CO, STRIKE CONTINUES INTO SECOND WEER.   Nine Mines Down

NEW ASSAULT LAUNCHED BY THE STH ARMY      Americans and British Plunge Forward on 10Mile Front   TROOPS SMASH INTO GERMAN PILLBOXES   Nazis Fighting Bitterly for Every Inch of Ground

American and British TInfaniry Plunge = For ward Into Conercts De fenses In New Gls fensiy, On Ten Mile Trout. Germans Olier Fierce Resistanes

New Offensive Opened In Italy   Troops Smash Into Little “Siegfried”  By RICHARD G. MASSOCK Associated Press Staff Writer

RESISTANCE IS FIERCE ALONG RUGGED FRONT   Advance Spreads Over Area Of 10 Miles; Battle Rages In San Vittore

Smash Into Nazi Italian Sieatried Line   Yankee 5th Bears — Brunt of Assault North of Via Casilina

Fifth Launches New Attack on 10-Mile Front   Allies Gain Mile and Smash Into Concrete Pillboxes in Italy

FIFTH ARMY LAUNCHES ON 10-MILE FRONT   Against Tough Nazi Pillboxes Guarding New Italian “Siegfried Line’; Germans Resisting Fiercely.   Jervis and Janus

New Offensive. Opened In Italy   Troops Smash lite Little “Siegfried”.

ALLIES MAKE GAIN IN ITALY   Yanks and British Smash Ahead Mile in Resuming Drive for Rome

NEW ADVANCE TOWARD ROME ~— IS UNDER WAY   FIFTH ARMY GAINS GROUND IN PUSH ON CASSINO

Allies Advance in Renewed Push on Rome   Smash Into Concrete Pillboxes of Nazi Winter Line

Yanks, British Open New Drive Against Cassino   Advance Sharply On 10 Mile Front

FIFTH ARMY GAINS IN NEW OFFENSIVE ON 10-MILE FRONT    Americans Smash Into Pillboxes Before Cassino and Force Enemy to Fall  Back One Mile.   FLERCE BATTLE RAGES IN A DRIVING RAIN   Yanks Wrest Half of Village of Sdn Vittore From Germans in Hand-to-Hand Fighting,

tand-Based Superfortresses Slash At Islands As Part Of Two-Way Attack—Carrier Planes Reported By Tokyo To Be Bombing Area For Third Day— Japanese Admiral Warns People Of Possible Landing Operations—Enemy’s Losses Mount

SUPERFORTRESSES IN SLASHING RAID ON ISLAND OF FORMOSA  INCREASING AERIAL FUR) INDICATES PHILIPPINE INVASION NEAR

Land-Based Superforts Hit Formosa   Carrier Planes Also Take Part in Raid; Jap Aircraft Attack on US Task Force Off Formosa Repulsed

Large Force Of B-29s Hits Formosa   Jap Admiral Warns of Possible Invasion of Philippines

Tokyo Believes Land Operations To Follow Raid   675 Enemy: Seacraft Sunk, Damaged, 1497 Planes - Destroyed In Six Weeks.

B-29s Follow Navy Planes in Attacks   Jap Force in Philippines Be-'  lieved Cut Off from Main Reinforcement Supply Bases

Tokyo Also Reports New Carrier Plane Blow On Vital Base   Japanese Claim That 100 B-29s Take Part In Attack; Nipponese In Philippines Believed Bottled Up; Enemy Resistance Ends In South Palaus

FLAMING TWO WAY ATTACK ON FORMOSA WITH FORTS HITTING OKAYAMA’S GREAT REPAIR BASE

B-29's Slash at Formosa; Japs Admit Concern   Attacks Seen as Prelude to New Yank Landings

NIPS FEAR NEW YANK INVASIONS ON WIDE FRONT   Detroy 525 Jap Planes, Sink or Hit 143 Ships in Four Days

Formosa Slashed By Two-Way Super-Fort Raid  Prelude to Philippine ‘Attack

JAP CONNECTION TO PHILIPPINES NOW BEING CUT   Superforts Blast Formosa as Air Offense Stepped Up: Palaus Mopped Up

TOKYO AWAITS INVASION OF PHILIPPINES   Land-Based B-295 Join Agsault After Carriers Wreak Havoc

BIG AIR RAIDS PAVE WAY FOR NEW INVASIONS   [Assaults Are Prelude To Philippine Landings, ' Nip Admiral Warns

New Finn Setup Appears Ready For Peace Talk   Key Positions In Cabinet Said Taken Over By Authorities On Russia

No-Quarter Battle Rages In Vossenack   Furious Fight For Town Barring Americans From

Germans Rush Reserves from Arnheim Attempting to Ward Gif First Army

BATTLE FIERCE AT VOSSENACK   Yanks and Nazis Locked it Swaying, Bitter Struggle for Town

Strategic Town Blocks Path to Cologne Plain   Slight Gains Are Made in Fighting For Vosges Passes

Foes Locked In Savage Struggle   Nazis Pour in Troops To Bolster Roer River Defense Line Barring Path to Cologne Plain

U.S. and German Troops Are Locked in Battle  Nazis Seek to Bar the Road to Coloane, Vossenack

Vossenack Is Scene of Bitter Fighting With Doughbovs Holding Part of Village.   GERMAN FORCES HAVE BEEN STRENGTHENED

HAND-TO-HAND ENGAGEMENTS IN VOSSENACK   Evidences That Germans Trying To Form New Defense Line For Their Stand in Holland.

Fierce, Swaying Fight in Vossenack, Southeast ~ of Aachen   NAZIS IN STRENGTH   Allies Gain in Vosges and Push Germans Back in Holland 

Fierce Reich Fight Rages  Yanks Wane Bitter   Yanks Wage Bitter Hand-to-Hand War For Cologne Key

U.S. and German Troops Are Locked in Battle  Nazis Seek to Bar the Road to

Nazis Battle Fiercely in Hurtoen Ares   Determined Stand Made to Keep Allies From Cologne Plains

U. S. FORCES  ‘BATTLE NAZIS IN. VOSSENACK   Win Back Lz Last Half Of Key Town In Germany.

Swaying Battle Is Raging For Vossenack   Fighting as Savage as That for Aachen, Bui On Much Greater Scale, Reported Today; Americans Win Back About Half of Key Town

Fierce Battle Rages in Vossenack, Vital Town Barring Path to Cologne

AMERICAN AND GERMAN TROOPS ARE LOCKED IN SWAYING, BITTER FIGHT   Nazis Battle Fiercely To Bar Road To Cologne And Rhine Valley; Shock Troops From Both Sides Clash

Fight Hand. To Hand In Vossenack   Church in Heart of Key Town Is Center of the Savage Action   GERMANS BRING IN MORE TROOPS   Yanks in Drive to Take - Strategic Town Barring Wav to Cologne Plain

Yanks Win Back Half Of Town   American and French Forces Advance in  Bitter Fighting

American, Nazi Troops Locked In Fierce Battle   Powerful German Forces Seek to Bar Road to Cologne

TRY TO BREAK RIVER LINE ON COLOGNE ROUTE   Nazi Reinforcements Are Flung Into Heavy Counter-Attacks »

AMERICANS BATTLE NAZIS HAND-TO-HAND IN HURTGEN FOREST  YANK DOUGHBOYS «STRONGLY SUPPORTED

Yankees and Nazis Locked in Hand-ToHand Fight in City   Germans’. Defense of Strategic Place is Increased Todav

Yanks And Germans Are in Fierce Battle On Road To Cologne   Swarms of Allied Planes Help Doughboys in Slow Drive Beyond Aachen—Russians Continue Fight Against Reinforced Nazis in Budapest

Win Baek Focal German Village Of Vossenack   Also Edge Closer io Two Flanking Towns Of Schmidt and Hurtyen Below Aachen   Foreed to Fight Foe Hand-to-Hand   American and French Forees, Meanwhile, Ad-vance Up to Three Miles  Toward Vosges Passes

Yanks Battle For German Strong Point   Fierce Fighting Rages for Path Ta Coloane Plain

HURTEEN FOREST FIGHTING RACE’   Hand-To-Hand Battling Reported Mcreasing In Intensity

U.S. Troops Win Last Hall  Of Vossenack   Edge Closer To Two Flank ing «Villages In Bloody  Roer Battle.   BARRIER TO COLOGNE

Hand-to-hand battle rages with nazis in Vossenack  Doughboys hold lower end of strategic town barring Yanks

Yanks Recapture Vossenack Affer Bloody Fighting  Small Advances Registered  By Americans, French Aimed Ai Vosges Passes To Reich

Hand -To-Hand Battle Flames On Western Front   Kx *K -*F*K Evil Weather Interrupts Raids

FIGHT NAZIS” HAND-TO-HAND IN VOSSENACK   Doughboys Hold Lower End of Village South‘east of Aachen, Strategic Town Barring U. S. Path to Cologne.

Nazis Fight To Bar Road To Cologne   Yanks, Germans Locked In Bitter Vossenack Battle

Yankees Slam Back Nazi Units   Americans Reloke Vossenack in Flaming Forest Battle

YANKS STRUGGLE TO HOLD GAINS AS NAZIS LASH BACK   BATTLE TO FIGHT CLEAR OF FOREST TO COLOGNE PLAIN

Hand To Hand Skirmishes On Western Front   Allies Attempt To Break Hold Of Germans

Half Of Vossenack Won Back By Yankee Troops; Battle To Break Barrier

Lower End Is Held By  _ Americans   U. S. Forces Engaged In Fierce Battle In Effort To Wipe Ou Barrier To Cologne

Bitterness Of Fighting Kquals Struggle bor Aachen As Doughbos Battle Bloodily  beor Town Barring Way ‘bo Cologne Plain.

After Five Days of Fighting Gen. Hodges’ First Army Holds Half of Town With Nazis Firmly Entrenched in Other Half; Fight From  Church in Center.

YANKS, NAZIS ARE ENGAGED IN FIERCE DUEL   ‘Troops Clash In Hand- To Hand Combat In Vos senack Village

Americans, Germans Battle in Vossenack   Hand-to-Hand Fight Rages in Town Barring Way to Cologne Plain; Enemy Reinforced in Towns on Boer Line.

Bloody Battle Rages to Break River Barrier   Yankees Fight Hand-to-Hand Aaainst Germans

YANKS HOLOING EDGE OF TOWN      Battle Germans ‘Hand to Hand in Church in Heart . Of Villaae.   BITTER FIGHT IN SOUTH

FIERCE BATTLE AT VOSSENACK WITH BOMBERS AND ARTILLERY HAMMERING DESPERATE NAZIS

Allies And: Nazis: Battle. Furiously. For Control Of Key Town of Vossenack

Temperatures   Hitlerites Fighting Above Aachen to Isolate First. Army

Bitter Battle © Is Raging For  German Town   American and Nazi Troops Locked in Swaying Strug gle for Vossenack—Enemy Reported to ° be Solidly Entrenched

Hand-to-H and Battle Rages In Town On Cologne Road   RY WITTTIAM FRYE

TRY TO ERASE GERMAN GAINS MADE MONDAY   Nazis Reinforced for Battle, Frontline Reports Claim

LAST HALF OF FOCAL TOWN OF VOSSENACK TEMPORARILY LOST GAINED BY DOUGHBOYS   Heavy, See-Saw Tank and Infantry Fighting Swirls In Fiame-Charred Forestlands Southeast of City of Aachen   PUSHING CLOSER TO THE VILLAGE OF SCHMIDT

YANKS OUT T8 TAKE CITY ON COLOGNE ROAD   \Nazis Call Up Reserves; Push Forward Toward Vosges Gateway

Yanks Fight Grim Battle For Village   German Resistance Mounts as Americans Seek Break-Through To Coloane Plains

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT INTENSITY INCREASES IN HURTGEN FOREST   YANKS BATTLE HALF WAY BACK THROUGH VOSSENACK WHERE TANKS CLASH; ADVANCE WEST OF SCHMIDT

SURGE BACK   AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVE HALFWAY INTO VOSSENACK: HANDTOHAND £=FIGHTING

Americans Battle in Enemy Fores   Part of Town Recaptured in Fierce See-Saw Conflict

Savage Battle On Near Aachen   Yanks Use Bayonets And Hand Grenades

‘Even “Fragrant” Dead Cows Make Acceptable Cover in No-Man’s Land

Take 2 Americans from Refagee Ship   Portuguese . Passenger. Liner; Serpa Pinto, Was Stopped in Mid-Ocean.

Refugees Are Halted by U-Boal   Liner Is Stopped -in . Mid Ocean, All Forced Into Lifeboats.   TWO AMERICANS .TAKEN PRISONER   After Several Hours, Gerans. Decide Not. to Torpedo Ship, Passengers Reloaded

if Sub Stops Portuguese tn Mid-Ocean and Takes  Pair as Prisoners   THREATENED TO SINK “ECRAFT; THREE KILLED

Refugee Vessel Halted By Nazis  Take Prisoners, Giv e Up Torpedoing Plan

Liner Stopped By Nazi Sub   Two Americans Taken Priscners; Decide Not To Torpedo Vessel

Error Bombing Kills 50 Swiss   Neutral Town on Rhine Border Hit , By U.S. Bombers Raiding Southern Germany in Bad Weather; 17 Planes Los:

Liberators Hit Military Points In South Reich   Industrial. Communications Targets Deep In Germany  Struck By Raiders.   BOMBARD SWISS CITY

1000 BOMBERS HIT HEART OF GERMANY   Fighter’ Escort. Brings Down  45 Nazi Planes.

Over 1,000 U. S. Planes Bombard  German Centers   45 Nazi Interceptor Planes Shot Down In Widespread Raids

British Bombers Battle Through Enemy Aerial Forces to Raid Berlin   227 German Aircrafts Have Been Destroyed In 24 Hours

Mammoth Air Battles 1) ought for Second Day   Germans Hurl Fighters Against American and British Bamber Formations

1000 Bombers Strike Germany   Hit Oil Reserves in’ Nation's Center

PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   1,750 American Planes Blast At Nazi Oil Reserves

Check Japs At Loyang   Chinese Troops Launch Succesfsul Counter Drive Against Advancing Enemy

Chinese On Attack Now   Launch Counter-Offensive To Save Loyang, Win Early Success in Attack

Chinese Claim Counter-Drive Against Japs   Enemy Reported’ Driven Back Across Yi River Near Lovange

‘Chinese Launch Successtul Counterattack   Open Offensive South Of Threatened Loyang and Drive Enemy Back Across Yi River.

CHINESE OPEN COUNTER DRIVE   Claim Japs Pushed Back Over Yi River

NIPPONESE SEND REINFORCEMENTS ALONG RAILWAY   Counter-Offensive Drives Enemy Back Across Yi River

Chinese Troops ‘Launch Successful ‘Counter-Offensive  / : Drive Japs Back Across Yi  River, Near Loyang; Japs   BRapntead an Yellow River

Successful  Drive Begun By Chinese _ Near Loyang   Enemy Driven Back Along Yi Yi River

CHINESE LAUNCH COUNTER-ATTACK SOUTH OF LOVANG   Successful Countering . Blow Puts Japs Back Across ‘Yi River After Series of Swift Advances 

JAP FORCES HURLED BACK ATLOYANG ©   Drive Pointed At Heart Of China Handed Setback

Chinese Push Japs Back Across River   Counterattack Near Loyang Meets With Some Success

Chinese Check Japanese Drive Against Loyang   Counterattack South Of City Drives Enemy Back Across Yi River.

Taxes, Farm Issues Come To Forefront As Political Campaign Moves Into Last 10 Days

USS MISSOURI, QUEEN OF SEAS, IS LAUNCHEL   World’s Most Formidable Battleship to be Commissioned Nine Months Ahead of Schedule

THE MISSOURI IS LAUNCHED ‘FOR VICTORY      Mightiest Battleship of All Time Also Dedicated by Senator Truman to Enforcement of the Peace Throughout World.

Greatest Warship Of All Time Launched Today  U. S. S. Missouri Is Dedicated to Peace Enforcement

Greatest Warship Launched Today   Armament on 45,000-Ton Missouri Makes It Toughest Ship Afloat.

LAUNCH GIANT USS. MISSOURI   World’s Largest Battle ship Completed Far  Ahead of Program

U. S, S, MISSOURI. LAUNCHED TODAY IN NEW YORK CITY   Is the World’s Most Formidable Warship, Says Senator Harry Truman.   'GAVE A BRIEF ADDRESS   lt Ilustrates Decisive Answer to the Challenge of Aggressor Nations.

Physicians  May Advertise   Are Urged To Stress Need For Medieal Care

U.S. Drive on Biak Island Is Halted   Temporary Measure Taken to Wipe Out Jap Snipers, Spotters

Japs’ Flank Tactics Halt Biak Attack   Weather Grounds Allied Aerial Force; Foe Counter-Attacks

Yanks Repulse Counter Drives on Biak Island   Temporarily Halt Advance Toward Mokmer Airdrome

NIPS ON BIAK REPULSED BY AMERICANS   2 Counterattacks Turned Back Near Airdrome

Repulse Strong Counterdrives  On Biak Island   Drive ‘Towed Mokmer Halted To Clear . Enemy From Flanks

ENEMY ON BIAK ISLAND REPULSE BY U.S. TROOPS   Drive Toward Mok mer Airdrome Halts Till Japs Cleared  Away

ATTACKS HALT U. 5. DRIVE ON BIAK AIRFIELD   Yanks Pause To Clear Japs From Flank Positions

Helsinki Has Three Alarms  Casualties Reported In Sunday Air Raid

FINNS START ~ EVACUATION OF CAPITAL   Old Women, Children Flee Blazing Helsinki

Lost Plane Wreckage Is Located   Sighted on Icy Slope of Mt. McKinley in Alaska— 19 Aboard

OHIORNS WAIT I LINE TO BALLET   Records For Early Voting Are Broken In Teday’s Election   BOOTHS JAMMED   Early Reports Indicated Heavy Turnout In Rural Areas

JAPS TRY REORGANIZE INSIDE WEWAK TRAP   Bombers Blast Enemy With 54 Tons Of Explosives Near Aitape

ALLIES THROW AERIAL MIGHT AGAINST FOES   Germans Admit Americans in Velletri; 8th Pushes Up Liri Valley :

Russia Suggests Polish Boundary  Return Of Land By Germans Proposed

Curzon Line Seen as Basis  For Borders   Reds Hint Keeping Of Bulk of Territory  Obtained in ‘Partition’  FIRST PUBLIC STAND

Russia to Keep Bulk of Polish Partition Area   Offers. Poles German Territory, Invites Them to Join Pact

POLE BORDER LINE FIXED BY SOVIETS   Moscow Radio Issues a Statement on Border Question

Chinese Reported  In New Counter Drive Along Rail   Counterattack In Honan. Reports Say.

Chinese Swing To Offensive  Against Ja ps   Army Drives To Sweep Foe Back Along CantonHankow Railway

CHINESE START COUNTER-DRIVE   Reports Say Chiang's Troops Mounting Offensive in Hunon Province

POUND ACROSS COLOGNE PLAIN IN NEW THRUST   Threaten Main Anchor Of Germans’ Roer River Line

Duren Pivot Under Heavy U. S. Assault   Armored Legions Less. Than 2 Miles Feom Nazi Anchor

Tank Forces Battle Across Cologne Plain   Re-ume Oftensive in Determined Lffort to  Wine Out Last Nazis on West Bank of Roer

SEEK TO WIPE OUT NAZIS ON BANKS OF ROER   Battle Rages Eastward On Muddy Cologne Plain On 10-Mile Front

YANKS BATTLE EASTWARD OVE! GOLOGNE FLATS   First Army Captures Echtz, 17 Miles  Inside Germany

OFFENSIVE ON NAZIS ON ROER. IS RESUMED   Echtz Northwest of Duren and 17 Miles Inside Germany Is Captured as Yanks Press on

First Army Takes Eehtz In Offensive Above Duren   Americans Drive For Main Anchor Of German Lines On Roer River Front

TROOPS KNIFE THROUGH NAZI LINE IN ITALY   Japanese - American Regimental Team Dees Job; Right Wing Frenchmen Aid

YANKS KNIFE GERMAN LINES   Capture Pastina After Over coming Fieree Nazi Resistance.

Americans Capture Pastina, Threaten Flank of Livorno  French, Peles and Indians in Italy Also Advance, Jap Troop Bean Wambene! Whweckd

VILLAGE FALLS TO AMERICANS   Yanks Pierce Nazi Lines To Extend Gains in Italian Campaign

Score Gains In Italy   American Troops Take Pastina, and French Advance in Spite of Grim Nazi Resistance

ALLIED TROOPS NEAR LEGHORN; HEIGHTS TAKEN   Mediterranean Ai Force Flies 1800 Sorties Thursday

Fifth Threatens German's Flank  Americans Knife Through Nazi Lines

Fifth Army Takes Pastina   Knifes Through Fiercely Resisting German Lines

KNIFE THROUGH LINE IN ITALY   American Troops Capture Town As French Continue Assaults

ALLIES INCHING "ROUND LEGHORI ON GOTHIC LINE   Japanese-Americans Lead Attack To Shatter Nazi Defense System

ath Army Knifes Through Fiercely Defended Lines   Take Pastina Below Livorno and Advance Two Miles; Yanks Of Japanese Origin Lead As eault.

Yanks Register italian Gains   AMERICAN . DOUGHBOYS IN NEW ADVANCE - JN ITALY

YANKS KNIFE INTO DEFENSES   Take Village 13 Miles  Southeast of Livorno

Pastina Falls To Americans  U.S. Troops Of Jap Origin Pace Assault

FLANK DR MENACE HUN STRONGHOLDS   Americans Knife Through Fiercely Defended Lines

U. S. JAPANESE SLICE GERMAN LINES INITALY   Penetrate Fiercely Defended Nazis Zones, Seize Pastina in Leghorn Push

U. 5. Doughhoys Take Pastina   Also Seize San Luce In Drive to Capture Italian Port of Livorno

Nazi Lines . Are Knifed   Yanks Take ‘Village.  . Miles. From: “Livovits

AMERICANS GAIN IN NORTH ITALY   CAPTURE PASTINA AND PUSH 2 MILES BEYOND SAN LUCE

South Portland Yard Launches 3 Liberty Ships  One Named For  Maine Mariner

Pole Undergrounc Must Help Russ   Organization Told To Prove Soviet Good Will

Planes Blow Up Dam; Nazi Hub Flooded   Germans Bombard Aachen In Try To Halt Ailies’  Advance.

French Patriots Attack Germans   Savoy District of France Scene of Outbreak

FRENCH PATRIOT ARMY CAPTURES BORDER POSTS   Launches Big Savoy! ‘Drive

LOCAL AERIAL GUNNER AWARDED SILVER WINGS   Patrick J. Green, Bath St., Graduates from Gunnery School  a ee a oe ee oe oe ee eS aA Ye" '9"*?* A RA   MAY JOIN PLANE TEAM

EARLY END OF WAR PREDICTED   Dewey Hopes Conflict Will Be Over Before Jan. 20

Early End Of War Predicted By Gov. Dewey   Further Says Getting Men Into and Out of Army Is Administrative Matter

Dewey Sees Early  Peace in Europe   Candidate Makes Stop At Lansing, Mich.

Hull Agrees to Keep Dulles: Fully: Informed On Foreign ‘Policy Matters. Dewey : Declares

Dewey Predicts An Early End To German War   Says He’s informed Only Of Postwar Security. Discussions

Dewey Sees Early End Of German War   To Be Kept Informed On World Discussions

british Close fell on Coast   Non-Residents Are Banned From Area 10 Miles Deen

Allies Clear Deep Front On Channel   Strangers Barred From Beach Strip %00 Miles in Leneth

n Preparation For The Forthcoming Invasion  10-Mile Belt On British Coast To Be Restricted

British Clear  Invasion Coast   Non-Residents Banned From Ten-Mile Strip Aton £ South, East Coast.

DEWEY REVEALS ROOSEVELT NEU $1,000 CLUB.   Dewey Accuses F.D.R.. of Sponsoring Idea to Sell Epecial Privileses

Dewey Assails Democrats’ One Thousand Club  Avers Opponent Offers to ‘Sell’

DEWEY CHARGES PRIVILEGE SALE   Reads Democratic Campaign Fund Letter About Plan Attributed to FDR

New WLB Order Forbids Gas: as Fue! fo Factories  Business Firms Also Targets; Mo. Power Light Co. Affected

Labor Candidate Wins Primary   But Maine Republican's Own Party Rebults Him

U.S, 10 TAKE TRUK KNOX NOW REVEALS   Admiral Infers Action To Be This Year

SAYS U.S, BOINC TO TAKE TRUK   Admiral Reveals Move  Coming in Testimony

500 MILLION BILL IN HOUSI   Deficiency Appropriation Measure - Would Provide Funds for Several Government Units,

Navy Infends To Take Truk   Admiral Cochrane Makes Disclosure Asking for Funds .

U. §. Intends to Take Truk, Admiral Testifies Before House Committee

Red Armies _ 22 Miles ©   IF THEY BREACH BALTIC DEFENSE. LINE ONLY SMOOTH TERRAIN... ~ LIES AHEAD CLEAR TO PRUSSIA  _

Soviets Within Pskov - 22 Miles  From Latvia   1,000 Nazi Officers And Men Lost In  Narva Area

NAZIS BALTIC DEFENSE afb AROUND ESKO   Russians Advanee to Point Only 22 Miles From ¥ - Latvian Rorder.

German Defense Crumbles Before Driving Thrust ©   Soviets Near Latvia; Threaten fsolation of  Nazis In Breakthrough

DEFENSE OF NAZIS CRUMBLES   ——  Russians Storm Inner Fortifications At Vital Pskov

Soviets Advanee Within 22 Miles Of Latvia, Storm Inner Lines   Open Countr v Lies Ahead For Retls   Nazis Counter Attaek In Attempt To Save Doomed Narva Garrison

Nazis’ Baltic Line Cracks   Red Army Only 22 Miles From Latvia; Storms Pskey Forts

RED ARMY BREAKING NAZI DEFENSE CHAIN FOR BALTIC STATES   Narva And Pskov, Gateways To Estonia And Latvia, Proving Ineffective Barriers To Onslaught Of Soviet Forces   Ry. HARRISON SATLISRIIRY

Soviet Troops Storming Inner Fortifications of Pskov      GARRISON PERILED  Russian Advance Guards Only Few Miles From Werth V>eccrea sake

NAZI DEFENSE SYSTEM FOLDS BEFORE REDS   Russian Forces 22 Miles Out Of Latvia With Only Open Terrain Open Before Them

REDS ADVANCE NEARER LATVIA, STORM PSKOY   Gathering Momentum Of Drive Threatens To Isolate German Units

Red Armies Crumbling  Nazi Lines  Once Breached, Onky Eosily Traversed Terrain Ahead as

NAZI ELABORATE OFFENSE SYSTEM. crEM PRIMI INE   Line Guarding Approaches to Baltic States Is Giving Away as Reds Continue Toward Latvia.   U.S. TROOPS IN LOS   fWEGROS REINFORCED   Additional Forces Ma k.e Landing After Surprise For Japs, Momote Airfield Being Repaired.

MISSING HUSBAND OF SLAIN WOMAN IS PICKED UP AT FARM   Frozen Body Found by Son in Padlocked Parlor

FOREMEN END STRIKE AFTER “ARNOLD PLEA   Other Disputes Make ' 28,000 Workers in Nation Idle

Detroit Foremen Call Off Strike   250 P-51 Planes Lost fo Allies

ALLIES PRESS GERMANS BACK   Record Gains Along Trans Peninsula Battlefront

NAZIS FALLING ~ BACK IN ITALY   Lose Town Few Miles Krom Florence

Describes Escape From Jap Prison  Yanks Fought Way Through Jungle

Yanks Bomb Supply Lines To West Wall   Thousand or More Heavy - Bombers and Fighters ~ Are Emploved

Hail of Bombs © On German Targets   Nazis Are Supplying Siegfried Line Under Terrific Handicap

Railyards Supplying Siegfried Bombed  U. §. Planes Strike Oil Plant on Rhine

HEAVY BOMBERS *LASH AT REICH SUPPLY POINTS   qq Railyards at Mainz, Coblenz, Feeding Siegfried Line, Among Targets

HIT RAILROADS TO NAZI LINES   Ludwigshafen Oil Planc Also Hit by-Bombers:

Airmen Bomb Rail Yards   Hack at Supplies For Siegfried Line, Support Skytroopers in Holland

American Bombers Hit at Nazi Supply Centers  Mainz, Coblenz Take ee wars  mi... .- ee

AMERICAN PLANES BOMBED RAILYARDS SUPPLYING GERMANS   SUPPORT ALSO GIVEN TO ALLIED AIRBORNE DIVIS‘ ION IN HOLLAND

Hit Siegfried Supply Lines   More Than 1,000 Alliec Planes Take Part in Attack On Railyards

American Bombers Hit at Nazi Supply Centers  Mainz, Coblenz Take Pounding; 1,000 U. S. Planes Used

Artillery Shell  Damages Train   Two Women Wounded In West Coast Episode

Eisenhower Visits Normandy Beachheac For Talk With Commanders, Spends Much Time With Doughboys

Eisenhower Visits Front   Commander-in-Chief Talks With Gunners, Infantrymen, Tankmen

LEADER VISITS BATTLE FRONI   Gen. Eisenhower Smiles In Satisfaction At What He Saw

GEN. EISENHOWER TOURS BEACHHEAD   CONFERS WITH BRADLEY AND TALKS WITH MANY SOLDIERS IN FIELD.

MEN, EISENHOWER “TOURS BEACHHEAD   CONFERS WITH BRADLEY: AND TALKS WITH MANY SOL- . DIERS IN FIELD. ..

 Eisenhower makes second beachhead ‘tour. shoots queries at Yank troops

Final Battle For Guam Nears   American Troops Press Against Japs

Three Days of Assaults Staged Aaainst Jananesé   38 Ships Hit; Wipe Out Town; Retire in Guam

HITLER VICTIM OF FEAR, SAYS RADIO REPORTEF   Spends Time Running Around in _ Private Train, Hiding in Tunnels at Nicht.

BRICKER CALLS FOR ELIMINATION OF THE NEW DEAL   Ohio Governor Asks South to Join in Job of Cleaning. Up Administra.  tion

Bricker in a Bid To ‘Solid South’   Harry Woodring Says Democrats Must Take Party Out of Hopkins’ Hands.

Churchill pieads for  settlement of strife   Greek party leaders told Britam wii discharoe dutvin tense4 1-2 hour meet

3 Ready To Quit WLB: HaveEnough   DAVIS, SAYLUR AND GRAHAM HAVE RESIGNED, EFFECTIVE WHEN WAGE CONTROL JOR IS DONE,   Prospective Successors

WAR LABOR BOARD MEMBERS RESIGN   Three. Officials Have ’ . Handed in Their Resignations

WLB MEMBERS RESIGN POSTS   Three Members Want to Quit When They Have Wound Up Work on Current Wage Control Controversy

3 Resignations Pose WLB Problen  For Roosevelt All Working on  Current Demand for Wage Increases

SOVIETS SMASH FORWARD ON WIDE FRONT FROM CAPTURED GRODNO   FALL OF ANCIENT FORTRESS GIVES RUSSIANS CLEAR ROAD FOR DRIVE INTO NAZI HOMELAND

Red Army On Border In Force   Mighty Fortress Of Grodno Falls To Rolling Reds

Two Russian Forces Smashing Westward From Captured Grodno   Swiss Report Reds On German Soil   Berlin Says Russian Drive In Lower Poland Is Picking Up Momentum

Nazi Launching Sites Blasted   Stettin, Koenigsberg Also Hit By Bombers

cHEST FUNDS HELP PROVIDE RECREATION   Program Has Furnished Relaxation for Thousands

THE JAP PRESSURE CONTINUES IN THE _ KOHIMA AREA, INDIA      Farther South Allied Troops Have Clashed With Japs in the Foothills.   REPULSED AN ATTACK      On Arakan Front of Western Burma, Japanese Resistance Stiffened.

Allied Troops Repulse Jap Attacks Southeast Imphal; Retake Wakawng

Japs Now Near Imphal Plain   Clash In Foothills Reported From Burma

AGREEMENT CALLED WISE, NECESSARY   Big 3 Plan Is for Postwar Military Government of Germany.

Judge Says Attorney Is In Contempt   +Sedition. ‘Trial? Delayed ‘Keates © oe Turors Discharecd.

Strike Stops . St. Louis Buses And Streetcars   ‘Bakery Drivers Remain Idle in Two Ohio Cities

16 Billion Is Next Bond Drive Geal   Dates From June 12 to July 8 Set For Coming War Bond Drive.

U.S. to Seek Six Billion in Month   Goals for War Bond  Campaign Announced

FAVOR TO DRAFT BOARD   i Registrant Inquires About Status ‘and Finds Records Were Burned.

ENEMY TROOPS BOMBER TARGET   U. S. Fighters Bombard German Forces, Slowing Movement of Armies

U.S. Planes in lreetop Raid  Round-the-Clock Blast at German Transport Pushed

U. S., British Bombers Again Lash Out at ‘Germans Over Europe   Rail, Transport Systems Along Seine Are Hit In Round the Clock Campaign; Remnants Of Nazi Army, Fleeing on River, Are Raked

FIGHTER PILOTS STRAFING GERMAN ESCAPE AVENUES   Rear at Low Level Over France, Lowlands and Into Germany to Pound Roads, Airfields in Effort to Halt Nazi Movements

FIGHTER PLANES POUND NAZIS   Blast German Roads From West Front to Reich

Planes Blast Nazis Fleeing Allied Traps   Fighters Bomb and Strafe Enemy Trying to Move Out of France

Allied Airmen Hit Nazi Transport Ahead of Front  Sweep German Strongpoints in Advance of Troops, Blast Germans Crossing Seine

17 Jap ships sunk as Americans rain jexplosives on bases near Philippines

Dixon Denies Attack Warning   Australian Minister Says He Gave U. S. No Warning of Jap Intent.

AIR DELIBERATE SLOWDOWNS AT DEFENSE PLANT      Production Pur po sefully Kept Below Capacity, WLB Told

Price Control Amendment to Regulate Wage  New Plan Mapped * To End Fight

Hardwigs Settle Mistaken Baby Suit Out-Of-Court   Aunt Discovered Baby ‘Boy’ Is Reallv ‘She’ -

Parents Satisfied After Baby Fuss   Hospital Settles Suit, Enough to Assure Education of Girl

Germans Leaving Southern Greece   Troops Withdrawn to Protect Escape Route

200 COAL MINES CLOSE IN WALES UNREST GROWS   More Than 106,000 Out In Protest Over Wape Seales

‘Anzio Attack Flames All Ov 100-Square Mile Beachhea Comes After Ten Day Lul Germans Mass, Re-Group Fore   RUSSIANS HAMMERING TOWARD BALTIC SE

Draft Boards To Re-examme  All Athlete:   Those Inducted and Re leased May Be Recalled To Service; Manpower Regulations Tightened

» PRO ATHLETES FACE SERVICE   » War Mobilization Director Demands Check on Those Now in 4-F

FINAL BATTLE ~ FOR FLORENCE   So. African Troops  Cross Arno   — er esr ee ~—"e aes  ae in cop serene  Allies In Southern Part of City

Shells Hurled Into Florence By Nazi Guns   Allies Battle Germans Or North Side Of Arno In. side Florence

ALLIES, NAZIS CLASH ON ARNO   Germans Offer Stubborn Resistance In Florence

GOP AT CLEVELAND ~ ENDORSES HERBERT   State’s Attorney General : Called ‘Next Governor’

Five U. S. Airmen Who Parachute ‘Over Jap Fleet Live to Tell Stery

Five American Fliers Saved   Airmen Parachuted Down in Midst of Jap Fleet in Pacific

5 Yank Airmen Snatched From Death After Landing In Midst Ot Ravaged Japanese Warships

Hit Burme City in Monsoon   Marcus Island Strike by Task Force Hidden in Radio Silence

Yanks Encircle Remnants of Trapped Japs   1,072 More Dead Nips Counted in New Guinea

Snipers, Trigger-Happy Yanks and Jap Bomber Disturb G. . Sleepers:

Luftwaffe Fails To Offer Battle   Germans Seen Saving Waning Air Strength for Invasion of Europe

OT, JAMES M. LOGAN OF LULING GETS DSC AS SECOND AWARD  TEXAN SECOND MAN. GET CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL AND DW THIS WAR

MILLION RUSS TROOPS OPEN. BALTIC PUSH   Planes Bomb Harbor As Nazis Seek Evacuation

RUSSIANS 8 AML. “FROM BELERAUE   Slash Through Nazi Defenses for Gains of 55 Miles in Last 42 Hours.

RUSSIANS REACH DANUBE ACROSS SROM BELGRADE   Key Road and Rail Junction of Pancevo Captured @ in 55 Mile Drive

RWIFT ADVANCE BY RED ARMY ENGULFS RAIL CENTER EIGHT MILES FROM CAPSTAL

Yugoslavs Drive On Croat Capital   Puppet Chiet Decrees State of Emergency

YUGOSLAVS MARCHING ON CROATIAN CAPITAL   Strong Forces Said to Be 25 Miles From Zagreb—Nazis Hurled Back Near Fiume,

Missourians Thrifty .. . STATE OVERSUBSCRIBES FIFTH WAR LOAN QUOTA   All But Five Counties Go Over Top: “E” Bonds Popular Issue.

MISSOURI SURPASSES GOAL IN FIFTH WAR LOAN DRIVE   One-Hundred and Seven Out of 11 _ Outstate Counties Are Over ‘ The Ton. °

GERMANS RETREAT INTO BUDAPEST’S “INNER DEFENSES   Reds Fight Street by Street Through Western Half of Capital—Part of City  tm Ra mac   12 EASTERN SUBURBS. : FALL TO RUSSIANS   Nazis Suffer Enormous Losses—Vienna’s Population in Panic as Soviets Drive Closer to Austria.

Russians and Nazis F ight In Budapest   Other Red Army Units Racing Toward Austrian Capital

Large-Scale Invasion Into Prussia Seen   Red Army Closing In on Latvian Capital of Riga

Red Troops Closing in On Riga   Battle on Lithuanian Line Heralds Possible East Prussia Drive

Soviet Forees Closing In On Riga, Latvian   Battle Rages on Lithuanian Frontier of Prussia Heralding Possible Big - Seale Invasion

Russians Close Inon Latvian Capital: of Riga.   Possible Large Scale Invasion. Drive on. Junker: Province

Soviet Troops Closing In On Latvia Capital   New Large Scale Push Into East Prussia  Hitted; Mopup Nears Completion In Estonia

Reds Close In On Foe’s Riga Eseape Route   Baltics Collapsing; Drive Toward East Prussia Looms

It Was the’ Climax 10.200 cessful Baltic Offen: sive. woke   LARGE SCALE INVASION   Narrow Land Corridor Still Offered’ a Chance of, Be-; cape to Germany. °

REDS PENETRATE 15 MILES INSIDE CZECHOSLOVAKIA   Attack On E. Prussia Imminent; Troops Enter Hungary

Reds Close In On Riga; Mop Up In Estonia   ‘Meanwhile, Invasion Drive  On East Prussia Apparently Near

Large Scale Red Invasion Into Prussia .  Is Predicted   ‘Soviet. Naval Forces Take Baltic Seaport

New Drive On East Prussia Developing   Germans Have Narrow Corridor Of Escape From Estonian Capital Open

Russians Close in  On Riga   Germans Manage To Keep Control Of Facane Gan’

Reds Near Climax ‘Of Baltic Offensive   Troops Closing in on Latvian Capital of Riga as Signs Point to a Renewal of Drive Against East Prussia.

SOVIETS MENACE RIGA IN LATVIA   Reds Roll Toward Major City As Reports Indicate E. Prussian Drive

SOVIET TROOPS MOVE ON RIGA   Climax of Baltic Drive 1: Near; New Push On  Prussia Pends

Land Corridor Only German [scape Route   Soviet Navy Takes Baltic Seaport As Russians Drive  Into Czechoslovakia

hh Great Climax To Baltic Drive   Lithtianian Batile Heralds Big East Prussian Push; See Macyars Trapped

BATTLE HINTS INVASION OF EAST PRUSSIA      Fall Of Riga Will Climax Successful Baltic Offensive

Riga Reported Near Fall To Red Forces   Baltic Seaport Taken By Russian Navy; Hungary Target

RED ARMY CLOSING IN ON RIGA MONDAY AS CLIMAX TO DRIVE  RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE IN MANY PLACE!

RUSSIA READY TO MAKE LARGE SCALE INVASION OF PRUSSIA RUMANIA BEING RAPIDLY CUT OFF

Soviet Army Closing Gaps Around Riga   One Narrow Escape Corridor Left Nazis; E. Prussia Blow Near

Poised © For Push On Prussia   Junker Province ly As Reds Near End of Offensive in Baltic  Renewal of Drive Pr

EXPECT ALL-OUT RED ATTACK ON PRUSSIA SOON   Moscow Reports Soviel Troops Enter Into Czechoslovakia

Red Forces Are Closing In on Riga   Fall of Latvian Port to Climax Baltic Campaign; Into Prussia Soon

Russians Clearing Estonia, Prelude To Big Offensive  Cherniakhevaky's-Ferces Said to Be Ready to Move Inte East

Reds Close In On  Latvia’s Capital   Local Battles On Lithuanian Frontier Hint At Imminent Invasion Of East Prussia

Reds Closing In on Capital Of latvia   Frontier Bottle Heralds Drive On East Prussia

Soviet Army Closes In On Port Of Riga   Climax: Of. Baltic Offen ~-sive Comes With Indication’. Of New Large Scale Offensive on East Prussia.

Riga Threatened By Red Armies   Soviet Armies Gain In East And North

BATTLE LOOMS ON FRONTIER OF LITHUANIA   Red Army Closes in on Latvian Capital of Riga in Climax to Successful Baltic Offensive

Soviet Forces Press On Riga, Latvian Capital   Large-Scale Drive Into East Prussia Also Ap nears Likely.

SOVIET ARMY CLOSES IN ON LATVIA TODAY   Small Corridor Offers Nazis Escape Route

SOVIET ATTACK CLOSES ON RIGA   Large-Scale Red Push Into East Prussia Indicated

Red Columns Advance Upon Riga   Only Narrew Corrido Is Still Open To Retreating Nazis

RED ARMY CLOSING IN ON RIGA MONDAY AS CLIMAX TO DRIVE   RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE IN MANY PLACES ON LONG FRONT

Expect Large Scale Drive ‘On E. Prussia   Red Army Closing in on Latvian Capital of Riga as Other Russian Forces Advance in Balkans

Soviets Close in on Riga; Prussian  Drive Seen Ahead   Biz Pincers Movement Aimed at Knocking Hungary From War

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON LATVIAN CAPITAL OF RIGA   BATTLE RAGES ON LITHUNIAN LINE OF EAST PRUSSIA

12 AIRMEN DIE WHEN FORT FALLS   Bomber Crashes; Explodes, Burns ImNew Jersey

Germans Lese 14 Tanks in Loca Small Scale Ailtacks, Allies Give Up Esemay “

MUD. “BOUND ALLIES FAIL TO ADVANCE ON FRENCH LINES   Invasion Forces Bog ‘Down In Heavy Normandy Mud and Supreme Command - Says “There Is Nothing to Re wart”

All Quiet On Front In France   Rains, and Mud Continue to Restrict Allies’ Activity

ALLIES STILL MIRED BY MUD, RAIN, NORMANDY   Troop Movements at a Minimum While Air Activity From Britain Also at Standstill,

Continuing Rain Mires Allies in Mud of Normandy   Germans Lose 14 Tanks in Small Localized Attack

Mud Holds Up Allied Troops   No Advances Made in France; Re-check Shows Germans Hold Towns

MUD HOLDS ALLIES   No Action Js Reported in Normandy First Time Since D-Day

Mud, Heavy Rains Still Hold Allied  ForcesBack   Fourteen German Tanks Blasted In Skirmish

x KK * Mud Stalls =  Invasion Armies   ~ Ploesti_ Oil Area Hit For 11th Time

Allied Armies Mired In Mud  “Nothing To Report,’ Says Communique

CENERAL MUD HOLDING ALLIES IN NORMANDY   Vast Military Organization at Standstill and Germans Likewise Stymied

Trap Tightens: Yanks Reach  ‘Swiss Frontier   Algiers Reports Bordeaux and  Lyon Liberated

Pfe, Harold Nez Of Gallup Fighting With The “Kraut-Killers” In Italy

LIBRARY DEATH SUSPECT HELD   Janitor Faces Grand Jury Action In Cathedral Slaying

Yankees control — airports”   Capital city falls; foe disorvanized

U.S. General Says Foe  To Be Held Accountable For Bataan Brutalities:   Two Cities and Two Airfields Captured By Fast-Driving Americans Mopping Up Jap Resistance on Philippine Island 

Torturers of American Prisoners Offer Little Resistance to Troops; MacArthur Warns of Retribution

invaders Four Miles Inland In Philippines      Tacloban, Dulag And Two Airfields Seized By Yanks; MacArthur Warns Japanese Against Mistreating Prisoners

HIS TROOPS     MILES INLAND   Capture Tacloban, Which Gives Them Control of Strait Between Leyte and Samar.   GENERAL WARNS _ NIPPON LEADERS   Declares They and Their Government Will Be Held Accountable for Bataan Tortures,

TWO AIRFIELDS ALSO TAKEN BY M’ARTHUR UNITS   Gains in Philippines Extended As General Warns Japs Against Atrocities

Tacloban And Dulag Taken   MacArthur Says Japs Must Account For Bataan And Future Brutalities

Americans Win Control of Vital Strait in Islands   Navy Planes Continue Heavy Attacks in Sunonort af Invasion

2 Towns and Airfields in Hands of U.S.   MacArthur's Army in Control of Straits To Inland Waters

YANKS SWEEP INLAND FROM LEYTE COAST   BATAAN BRUTALITY TO BE AVENGED, JAPS WARNED

Japs Become Bewildered, Disorganized  MacArthur Warns Against Any More War Crimes

JAPS 10 PAY FOR TORTURES, ~MACARTHUR   Yanks Capture Island Capital in 4-Mile Drive Inland

Japs To Pay For Tortures, General Warns  Reveal 83 American Officers, Men Held B: Nips Rescued After

TWO AIRFIELDS ALSO CAPTURED   Yanks Penetrate 4 Miles Inland on 18-mile Front   DULAG TOWN FALLS   MacArthur Warns Jap Lead. ers They Will Be Held Ac. ° countable for Tortures

Temperatures   Airfields, Town Fall Into Invaders’ Hands.  MacArthur Tells Jap: We Will Avenge

/Yanks Capture Jap Airfields In Quick Drive   Commander Warns Japs To Refeain From “In. dignities” Against Ameriean Prisoners   U.S. Forces Take Capital of Island      imitz Reports 50 Nip   Warplanes Downed And Three Ships Sunk By   American Fliers

Important Airfield, Dulag Also Captured By Americans In Philippines   Japanese Warned Penalties On Way        Steady Advances Inland Made As Troops Secure Beachheads

Japs Appear Bewildered, Disorganized   Prisoners Liberated After Two And Half Years — Control Of Important Strait Wor

APO GIVE UP CAPITAL CITY AND AIRFIELD   “MacArthur Warns Japanese They Must Account for Cases of Brutality.

Lwo Key Airbases Seized _ As Invasion Forces. Push Through Jan Isle Defense

Warning Given To Japanese  By MacArthur   Important Strait Is Now Controlled by Forces of U. S.

Gen. MacArthur Warns Jap Commander He Will Hold Him Responsible for — _ -Mistreatment of U. S. Prisoners of War

Striking Bay City Mogul Machinists Defy President-Ordered Seizure, Only 20 Report

Pattern For Future Drives  By U.S. Set   Coming Hops Can Be Longer, Stimson Says Discussing Japan

Leap-Frog Hop Sets Pattern   Other and Longer Hops Expected, Says Secretary Stimson

Gil Scout, 12, Uses Artificial Respiration ito Save Tiny Brother

ClO Leader Urges Support Ward Strikers   WLB Summons Union,, Company Officials To Meet Thursday

WORKERS SEEK GOVT ACTION AGAINST WARDS   Michigan CIO Direc tor Summons Union Presidents for Sup port

Unions To Suppert Ward Strike In Campaign To Force U.S. Action In Case

Fears Of General Detroit Walkout ~ Over Ward Issue Unfounded, Claim

Ward Strike Is Confined  General Walkout   General Walkout Rumors Unfounded

War Workers Urged Not to Leave Jobs  In Support of Mont. Ward Workers Striking

WARD STRIKE MAY SPREAD IN DETROIT   Threatens To Involve Al War Plants

Americans and Aussies Close In On Enemy   Last Nipponese Resistance Smashed In Cape Gloucester

FEW DUCKS SEEN, AND FEWER PAUSE.   Hunters Wait for. Record Flight Promised by Washington   HOPE FOR LATE BREAK

-ANDFEWER PAUSE   Hunters. Wait for: Record “Flight Promised by _  Washington

Pact With Nazis Menaces Allies, Hull Points Out   Switzerland Asked To. Handle U.S.  Affairs in Finland

Secretary Hull — Hits Pact With  Nazi Government   Officials Convinced Only Shells Will Force Nation Out of War. -

Nazi Tieup F orcesU..S To Action   Hull Calls Attention To Announcement Of Solidarity

Warnings Ignored, Hull Says   Secretary Calls Attention to Finnish-German War Agreement

Diplomatic Relations Had Been Carried On For Quarter Of ‘Century; Finns Make Agree. ment With Nazi Germany   THESLEFF, FINNISH MINISTER GETS NOTE

Forced To End ‘fears’ Friendship   Diplomats Decide Bombs Necessary to Get Finns From Nazi Hold

Hull Points  To Agreement With Germans   Country Was Warned Of Danger Of Association With Nazis   EFFORTS IGNORED   Nation Fighting Allies In Alliance With Our Enemies

Hull Cites Nation’s Strong War Alliance ‘With Nazi Germany   Action Ends Quarter of Century Of Friendship With Baltic People; Swiss to Take Over U. S. Interests

RELATIONS WITH FINNS   Hull Sends Note To Finnish Charge D'Affairs

US. Cuts Relations  With Finns   Relations of Finland with Germany Basis For Separation

Finland  Relations Severed   Hull Cites Country's Pact With Germany in Announcing Move

25 Years of Friendly Dealings Ends Because of Finne’ Knuckling Down to Narvia.

Ai, FORCE MEDICAL SERVICE TRANSPORTED: 113,537 SICK, ~ _ WOUNDED AND INJURED: 

———————————— eee re LLL aero  Yugoslavs Pierce 6 Holes in Railway

Senate Hears Green Hit Labor Draft  Bill Would Ruin Worker Morale,

GREEN OPPOSES DRAFT OF LABOR   AFL President. Says Leg. islation Would Break  Up American Homes

Green Says Labor Draft Is Ruinous   ““RORE SENATE MiLITARY .COMMITTEE, A. F. L. PRESIDENT ASSAILS AUSTIN WADSWORTH AS Us cvik Siar PIONAL.   Would Break up Homes

Green Voces  Labor Draft  Opposition Would Ruin Morale  Of War Plant Worker. AFL President Says   EEE EE EE  APPEARS BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE Fears Breaking Up -Of Many Families  kz Aleacire Paeepe 7

Green Denounces Civilian Labor  Draft to Senators  A F of L Head Charge: Bill Is Conscription - of Labor

CIVILIAN LABOR DRAFT OPPOSED   Head Of AFL Thinks Law Would Ruin Morale Of War Workers

Green Decries, Senator Urges  Draft of Labor   AFL Chief Asserts Effects Might Break Up Many

VOTE BILL TO FACE JAM IN CONFERENCE   Proponents of Both Measures Issue Victory Claims

Germans Believed Opening Drive To Win Sympathy In Post-War World

Nazis May Offer Post-War Plan   17-Point Program Drawn Up at Meeting ln Silesia

NAZIS BELIEVED BE PLANNING PROCLAIM NEW “MAGNA CHARTA”  DOUBLE PURPOSE AIMED AT EUROPEANS AND

Nazis Prepare New ‘Deal’ for Europe   Would Convince Europeans They Needn’t Go Bolshevik

Nazis Laying Plans for New Magna Charta   Seen as Move to Hold Support of Other Countries

NAZIS PREPARE ‘MAGNA CHARTA’   17-Point Program Drawn Up At Quisling Pariey

AMZIS. MAY HAVE FUROPEAN PLAN   Will Persuade Neighbors That Germany ts Best Fitted to Lead Post War World 

GERMANS PREPARE A 'MACIA CHARTA   ‘Program for Europe Believ: ed te Provide Double Purpose.

NAZIS DRAFT EUROPE PACT   Formulating New ‘Magna Charta’ To Gain  Sympathy

‘MAGNA CHARTA’ > FOR EUROPE IS NAZI AMBITION   ¥ Conquered Peoples Told Post. Wear Chaos Can Be Averted Under German Guidance

‘SHAPING NEW SOCIAL PLAN   Economists’ ts’ 17-Point Program Looks Like Compromise Between Ideas  - of England, Russia and  - the TS 

NAZIS READY TO PROCLAIM NEW CHARTER   Claim Europeans Should Be Under  German Rule

NAZIS BELIEVED BE PLANNING PROCLAIM NEW “MAGNA CHARTA’   DOUBLE PURPOSE AIMED AT EUROPEANS AND GERMAN MASSES

PEOPLE'S FEARS PLAYED ON 10 GAIN SUPPORT   Hitler Glorified by Party Mouthpieces on Birthday While He Keeps Mum

Nazis Expected To Bring Forth New Program   Some Kind Of “Magna Charta” Likely To Be Proclaimed In Effort To Retain Support

European “Magna Charta” Being Offered By Nazis Is Latest Hitler Move __

Congress Passes Pension Bill for Vets’ Survivors  Families of Deceased World War 1 Men to

Vicinity Men Leave for Army   Group Was Inducted At Erie December 15

Germans Predict an Attack in Balkans  to Precede [Invasion   Nazis Set June 22 as Approximate Dat for Offensive From the West; Declare Preparations Are Complete

Dewey, Maine Leaders To Discuss Drive Boost GOP Representation In U. S. Senate

Dewey Studies Drive For More G. O. P. Senators   Presidential Candidate Meets With Maine  Congressmen

DEWEY WITH MAINE GROUF   Drive to Boost GOP Representation in Senate Will Be One Tonic.

‘Dewey Confers With Maine’s GOP Delegation In. Congress On Boosting Representation

Dewey, Maine Chiefs Confer   Drive to Boost G.O.P. Power in Senate to Be Leading Topic

GOP Senate Chief Topic with Dewey   Confers with Maine Congressmen; Seek to Tie Campaigns Together

Dewey Discusses Possible Chance To Boost His Party  Representation In Senate

BRITISH MAKE A HEAVY RAID ON STETTIN   Mosquitoes Also Attack Berlin in a DoubleEdged Blow Intended to Disrupt Supply System of the Capital.

STETTIN AND BERLIN  BLASTED LAST NIGHT  BY RAPS BOMBERS HEAVY PLANES RAID  STETTIN, WITH MOSQUITOES HITTING CAPITAL

—AIR WAR—  STETTIN TARGET IN BIG RAF RAI   Germany’s Biggest Port On -Baltic Blasted By Heavy Bombers   15 PLANES LOST   German Capital Is Again Raided By Speedy Brit. ish Mosquitos

Parliament Reconvenes In Britain   Starts Session That Will ProLubly Be. Final One And Storniest

COMMANDER OF WINTER OFFENSIVE IN UKRAINE 8UCCUMBED AFTER.AN :  OPERATION

Huge RAF Raid Fires Berlin   Record Force of Loncasters Hits Capital; Invasion Coast Is Bombed   War in Brief:

YANKS CLOSE IN ON JAPS AT LEYTE ISLAND   NIPS BATTLE HARD TO HOLD LIMON FORTRESS

WORKING ON RECONVERSION OF INDUSTRY   Senate Com. Urges Forming of Office * Of Demobilization

U.S. Heavies Hit  Brunswick Area   Escorting Fighters Shoot Down 39 Nazi Craft; Liberators Bomb Calais District: Attacks Are Made in Bad Flying Weather

Nazi Fighters Rise to Give Battle Over the Areas  39 ENEMY PLANES REPORTED DOWNED  American Liberators Also Attack Invasion Sector

Americans Bomb Brunswick Area   39 Nazi Fighters Downed by Yanks

Nazi Fighters Give Battle To U. $. Bomber:   39 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down In Brunswick Area

BRUNSWICK IS HAMMERED BY U. S. BOMBERS   39 German Fighters Are Shot Down In Bitter Aerial Duels   RAF IS BELIEVED TO BE OVER CONTINENT

BOMBERS LASH BRUNSWICK, BAG 39 NAZI PLANES   Nazi Fighters Come Up To Give Battle Over Vital Aircraft Factory Area

inswick rea Under ir Attack   ans Rise to Giv ‘tle and Lose 39 Planes to U.S. Fighters’

BRUNSWICK AREA BLASTED BY FORTS   Nazi Fighters Rise To Give Battle And 39 Are Shot Down; Liberators Bomb Pas-de-Calais Area.   Cloud Cover

Fortresses Hit Brunswick;  Down 39 Nazis   Nine Bombers and Nine Fighters Fail to Come Home

Nazi Fighters Routed by 8th Air Force Escor'   Invasion Coast Is Target of Bombers in New Assault

39 Nazi Planes Are Shot Down  Over Brunswick   All Bagged by Fighters, Bomber Toil Not Counted Allies Lose 18 Planes ~

GERMAN AIRMEN ROUTED BY YANKS ~ OVER BRUNSWICK      Nazis Rise to Challenge Raiders: in: ‘Aircraft. Factory: Area, and 39 Are Blast-—  \ ‘ed From Skies...”   BATTLE DESCRIBED  AS SHORT. AND ‘SHARP   Another Attack Made on Pas de-Calais—Americans Lose 9 Bombers and 9 Fighters During Day,

REJECTED-MENTO GET EXAMS   PLANS BEING MADE TO RE  EXAMINE MILLION MEN _  _ REJECTED FOR ARMED BERVICE

SOVIET ARMY 25 Mi. FROM WISTA RIVER   Konev's Army Is 70 Miles From Polish Capital

Rolling To Within 70 Miles Of Warsau   Driving Enemy Ukrainians Average 35 Miles in 24 Hours Across Polish Plains

Within 25 Miles Of — Wista River   OTHER TROOPS; FARTHER, NORT ROLL TO WITHIN 70 MILE WARSAW; GERMANS DEMORALIZED

Ukrainian Armies Split Front Wide Open With Gains Averaging 35 Miles In 24 Hours.

London Poles Plan Meeting With Stalin   Seek Compromise Between Factions

Polish Chief to See Stalin About Merger   British, London Poles Still Feel Compromise Between Powers Can Be Reached

Valuable Tinian Airfield Is Taken By U.S. Forces   Tokyo Reports Palau, Sumatra Attacks; Guam  Hit by Fire Bombs

JAPS REPORT AT 2 POINTS   Say Palau Islands, Sumatra Hit By : Allies

3 RAUL UNIONS CANCEL STRIKE   Action Removes Bar T« Restoration of Private Control

One Rail Pay Case Settled   Three Operating Brother. hoods Make Agreement With Class 1 Lines   NON-OPERATING PAY HEARING NEARS END   Three-Man Board Expected to Start Consideration of Recommendation Today

See End Of Rail Strike   Operating Brothethoods  Expected To Cancel

3 Rail Unions To Call Off Strike  Return To Control Of Operators Expected

Agree'to’ ‘Settlenvent® ‘Grant‘ed: Engineers, Trainmen; Restoration: ‘of ‘Carriers. to Owners Loornis:

3 RAIL UNIONS READY ON STRIKE CANCELLATION   First Step in Returning Roads to Private Control

3 Rail Unions Call off Strike Notice Today   Another Barrier to Return of Roads to Owners Is Thereby Removed

Three Unions To Drop Rail Strike Order   Action Would Remove Bar to Restoration To Private Control

Rail Peace Nearer   Early Return of Roads Probable After Cancellation of Strike Order By Three Unions

Operating Railroaders Expected to Give Notice of Strike Cancellation

Rail Brotherhoods Agree on Increase   Cancellation of Call for Strike Awaits Action by Short Lines

THREE OPERATING RAIL BROTHERHOODS REACH AGREEMENT  EXPECTED TO FORMALLY CANCEL STRIKE ORDER  AM CATTIDRAW

3 UNIONS TO CANCEL STRIKE   Rail Groups’ Expected To No: tify War -Department of Action Today.

Rail Fog Clears; Cancellation of Strike Expected   ‘Three Brotherhoods ‘Given 9-Cent Wage - Boost; Short Lines ' Not Yet Sianed Up

‘Three Rail “Unions Sign Wage Pact   Firemen, Swilchmen And -Conductors Get Nine-Cent Increase

Dispute On Pay Settled   _«« 3 Unions Expected to Cancel Strike Threat

Rail Unions to Cancel Strike   To Give Formal Notice of Complete Cancellation

RAIL UNIONS, ROADS AGREE ON WAGE HIKE   Firemen, Conductors, Switchmen Accept Raise Roosevelt Gave Engineers, Trainmen      ‘FREEZE’ DISPUTED   Three Believe Eliminated by Contract They Signed, Contained in Thai of Others

Expect Unions  To Cancel Strike   Brotherhoods Reach Agree ment With Operators For Wave Increase.

RAIL STRIKE THREAT FADES   Three Operating Unions Are Ready to Announce Cancellation

CHEST FIXES UNIT QUOTAS   Expect 500 Volunteers To Solicit Funds In October

Assign Quotas For War Ches!   Schedule .Prepared By Twin City Leaders

Record Bomb Load Dropped by Marauder Bombers  Serene ene See 2. ey ee eee   NINE PLANES LOST IN DAY'S ATTACKS

Record Bomb Load Dropped by Marauder Bombers  NINE PLANES LOST IN DAY'S ATTACKS  Railway Yards Southeast of Brussels Hard Hit

Suspect Admits Church Slaying   Woman's Body Found  In Cathedral Library

NEGRO CONFESSES TO KILLING LIBRARIAN   ;  ‘Beat Woman To Death Because She   Repotted Him For Failing To Clean Under Hor Desk

Handyman Admits Slaying In Library of Cathedral.   Janitor Confesses He Beat Woman Employe To Death Near Washington Edifice Because She Complained He Shirked Job

LIBRARIAN SLAIN IN WASHINGTON   Bludgeoned Body Founc In Cathedral, Wilson Resting Place

Negro Handyman Admits Beating Woman to Death   Body of Victim Discovered on Grounds of Famed Cathedral

Handyman Admits. Killing Of Librarian   Catherine Cooper Reardon, 37, Bludgeoned to Death in Capital Cathedral—Negro Makes Ad missions Following Questioning

Negro Confesses Brutal Slaying   Cathedral Murder Mystery Solved

FOOD RATIONING IS ONE OF BIG CAPITAL TOPICS   International Politics, Draft And Investigations Get In on Discussions

You May Not Know It But You Ate _ Most Meat Since 1908 Last Quarter

New Deal Administration Plans fo: Another Depression and to Keer Young Men in Army Declares Dewey

NEW DEALERS: FEAR PEACE, DEWEY CHARCES   Keeping Men “In poy Seen: Plan Of  'Naninnyatea   TALKS: “IN “PHILA.   G.0.P.:Nominee Goes To Louisville For Speech

Gov. Dewey May Give Peace Plan   GOP's Presidential Candidate to Give Second Talk Tonight

Dewey Offers World Peace Plan Tonight   Second Ma jor Campaign Talk

DEWEY ATTACKS ‘TIRED’ NEW DEAL   Charges Men To Be Kept In Army To Nip Depression

Expect Dewey to Deal with World Peace   Believed He Will Demand Place for the Small Nations

DEWEY OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN WITH SLAP AT ADMINISTRATION  _ WILL DISCUSS FOREIGN

Faith in U.S. Dewey Keynote   GOP Nominee Scores New: Deal Defeatism; Foreign Policy to Be Text -of Next Speech

DEWEY TO TELL PEACE PLAN IN TALK THIS EVE   Charges New Deal Plans Unneeded Delay In  Demobilization

Dewey Urges Faith   GOP Nominee Charges Demos “Getting Set’ For A New Depression

Dewey Claims New Deal Girds  For Depression   GOP Presidentizl Nominee  Declares “Tired, Exhaust.  ed, Quarreling” Administration Fears Perce

TIRED NEW DEAL HIT BY DEWEY   GOP Nominee Heads West After Philadelphia Speech

Dewey Charges Army To Be Usec For Employment  GOP Candidate At Philadeiphia Hits New Deal Quarreling

Dewey To Urge Smaller Nations ~ Have Their Say   Seen Asking World Peace Built On Framework Of Global Organization

Dewey to Reveal World Peace Plan in Talk Tonight; Will Brings Boys Home

New Deal Has _ Lost Faith, Is Dewey Charge   ‘Administration Is Afraid of America and Getting Set for New Depression’   GIVES OUTLINE OF G.0O.P; CAMPAIGN   Second Speech of Tour Will Be Given Tonight at Louisville at 9:30

Peace Is Dewey's Topie Tonight   Second Speech of Current Trip Will Be at Louisville

EXPECT DEWEY TO GIVE WORLD PEACE OUTLOOK   GOP Nominee Charges New Deal Is “Tired, .  Quarreling, Bickerine’”’

Roosevelt Will Keep Soldiers In Army, Charge   G. ©. P. Nomiriee Speaks To Crowd OF 15,000 In Phifadelphia

Army Is No Home For Unemployed, Gov. Dewey Avers   Keeping Men in Service Because It Is Cheap Way to Feed and Clothe Them, Scored As Example of New Deal Fear of Peace

ayS AUOSCVEIL. (AFrdald. aay  Dewey Will Reveal His Plans For Periniancat Peace Tonicht

Await Dewey Plans for World Peace   Candidate to Outline Views in Speech At Louisville

WORLD PERCE 15 DEWEY'S TOPE   Sneaks In Louisy lle, K  Tonight; Assails Nev  Teal ‘Defeatism’

Dewey Talks on Peace Tonight   Claims Delay in Discharges Planned

To disclose  peace ideas  Dewey to talk : to g. O. p- women   Text of Dewey’s Thursday speech on page 4.

Dewey's Address On Foreign Policy May Decide Willkie  COP Meminee Aneonerec Inlen   GOP Nemince Announces Inien! fo Discuss Issue at Lenisville - Gathering oe

DEWEY PEACE TALK AWAITED   Pregidential Candidate Ex. pected to Reveal Plan At Louisville, Ky.

Charges “New Deal” Is Afraid of Peace; Quotes Gen. Hershey’s Statement,

New Deal Is ‘Afraid’ - Dewey  GOP Candidate Hits ‘ Tired Defeatism’

Dewey To Give Plan For World Peace Tonight   New Deal Declared ‘Geting Ready For Another  py, ae i

Will Make Radio Broadcost At 9:30 P.M. (EWT) -Over N&C And CRS Chains

Administration Tired, Exhausted  Dewey Declares   Presidential Candidate Says Roosevelt Administration Getting Set for Another Depression

ATTACKS RESUMED BY ALLIED PLANES   Bad Weather Keeps Ma: jor Forces at Their Airfields

RAF Pounds Kiel, Berlin In Night Raids   100 Heavies Lash Big Naval Base; Blast Robot Arcas

Yank Flyers Hit Nazi Airdromes   Fighters Destroy 57 Enemy Cratt

Omar Bradley, Doughboys’ General, Commands Ground Forces in France

PRIEST IS ILL, DOCTOR STATES   Clergyman Who Visiter Stalin On Verge Of Menta Breakdown.

Chureh Penalty  Grieves Priest   Doctor Says Fr. Orlemansk: Vergine on Breakdown

imericans Take listoric Pisa, lazis Announce   British Locked In Tank Battle Near Florence

Ramirez Ousted As President — Of Argentina —   _Army Clique Opposed “To Break with Axis Harids Reins to Vice President Farre]l

DELEGATES POWERS TO SUCCESSOR   Move Reported Forced By Pro-Axis Army Clique

Farrell Assumes Presidency But News Is Scanty   Another Palace Coup Is Believed Cause of New Upheaval

Vice-President Takes Over Reins Of Argentina Regime FollowingSudden Upheaval

Palace Coup Results In NewShakeup   —~ wT weetcere tn: 5  President Delegates Power To Farrell In  Effort To Keep His Beaetena BRacnaniand!

Argentina Clique Ousts President   Washington Concerned at Move Which Forced Ramirez to Resign

—Argentin  Gen. Ramirez Leaves Helm   Vice President Farrell Takes Over Duties With The Aid Of Army Clique

Pro-Nazis Control Argentina   ARMY CLIQUE FORCES RAMIREZ TO DELEGATE POWER TO FARRELL

Yice President Gen. Far rell Takes Over Duties  of Ramirez  BACKED BY ARMY      “Delegation of Power” Seen Effort to Preserve. Allied Ties

Argentina's ProNazis Gain Power   Ramirez Forced to Delegate Authority

Pro-Axis Group In   Argentine President Forced By Army Clique To Delegate Powers

Reactionaries Take Over In Argentina   Army Clique Opposed To Break With Axis Is in Charge

Clique Forces Ramirez Out   Reactionary Army Group Wins Out In Palace Coup

Pro-Axis Army. Clique Forced — Argentine Coup   Ramirez Vacates Presidency, Says.” Reason Is III Health

Ramirez Quits As President Ot Argentina   Vice-President Enters Presidential Chair; Sudden Up hi as a at   ‘EFFECT TO BE . SEEN

OUST RAMIREZ IN ARGENTINA   Pro- Axis Army Clique Succeeds In Staging New Palace Coup

CHANGES 0 RAMIRET Ic 01   Vice President. Fa Takes Over in Coy Import of Which  Yet Clear

Army Clique In Argentina Opposing Break With Axis Ousts President In Coup   Force Ramirez To Delegate Power Of Office To Vice President Farrell

New Argentine Upheaval Ousts Pres. Ramirez   Second Coup By Pro. Axis Clique Puts Gen Farrell In The Saddle.

LATEST GERMAN ROBOT BOMB IS INOPERATION   Long-Range Rocket Propels Ton Of Explosives 78 Miles An Hour   LONDON AREA SAID TO BE BOMBARDED

Nazis Claim London Under Attack By V-2 Weapon, Long-Range Rocket

NEW YORK MAY BE BOMBARDED   Vengeance Weapon V-2 Used By Germans Against London

NAZIS USING-¥-2. VENGEANCE ROBO]   Radio Berlin Reports London Area Under Bom: bardment

Nazis Say London Is Under ~ Bombardment By New Boml   Vengeance Weapon V-2 Reported To Be Long; Range Rocket; Flying Bomb Travels At High Rate Of Speed

Hansell Reviews  Raids   Japanese Aircraft Plant Damaged  But Far From Being Completely Wrecked

END OF GOTHIC LINE SMASHED   Germans Can't Stop Allied Advance Into Po Valley

Negotiations to Unite China Fail   Chinese Reds Still at Odds With Chungking

German Bombs Turn U. &. Hospital Into Shambles   Two Men Are Instantly Killed, 56 Others Reported Badly Hurt

GERMAN BOMBS BLAST HOSPITAL ON BEACHHEAD   Eight Killed, 72 Wounded’

HOSPITAL AREA 1S IN SHAMBLES         “Nazi Boibers Attack Beachhead at Anzio ee REYXOLDS PACKARD

3 INCENDIARIES LAND ON TENTS OF WOUNDED MEN   Two Men Killed Instantly; 56 Others Badly Hurt Inclding a Number of Captured Cermans

HOSPITAL ZONE BOMBED AGAIN ON BEACHHEAD   Three Nazi Incendiaries Kill Two, Hurt 59 Men Seriously

Germans Drop Fire Bombs on U.S. Hospital  In Anzio Area   No Major Change in Battle Lines Made

German Bombs Land Among Hospital Tents   Two Wounded Men Killed. 56 Hur As Enemy Planes Strike at Anzio Regchhead jin Darkness 

PATROL FIGHTING ON THREE MAJOR ITALIAN FRONTS   Germans Bomb American Field Hospitals, 8 Men Killed and 72, Including Two Nurses, Wounded.    DESTRUCTION SPREAD © IN FRANCE, GERMANY   Railroad Centers, Aircraft Engine Works, Naval Base and Invasion Coast Are Places Blasted.

HOSPITAL ON ANZIO IS BOMBED   Some Yanks Killed Action May Not Have Been Deliberate

Nazis Drop Fire Bombs On Hospital   2 Americans Killed, 56 Badly Wounded in Anzio Beach Attack

NAZIS BOMB HOSPITAL ON ANZIO FRONT   Two Killed, 56 Hurt; Battle Lines Unchanged

FireBombsReduce Hospital Area to Shambles in Raid   Anzio Predicted as Site Chosen for Renewed Offensive

Eight Killed, 72 Hurt as Enemy Fire Bombs Wreck Hospital at Anzio Beachhead

German Fire Bombs Turn » American Hospital Area On Anzio Into Bloody Shambles

Nazi Bombs Hit American Hospital Area   Three Big Incendiaries Land on Cluster of Red Cross Tents

Wounded Soldiers in Tents Killed   No Major Change in Battle Lines on Beachhead Reported Today

Bombing Climaxes Night and Day’ of favage Patrol Vighting and Actillery Exchanges — Eight Men Killed, S\& of Them Wounded  ‘Soldiers < Seventy-two Wounded ‘Iheliding: Two Army : Nurses,

Could Save 65,805 Pounds of Paper by Conserving Single Sack Each Day   lowa Housewives Asked to Cooperate Ir  Making Grocers’ Sacks Go Farther.

Rain Hampers Yank Advance   Leyte Battle Enters Seventh Day; Nips Suffer Heavy Losses

YANKS BREAK 3-DAY LULL ON LEYTE ISLAND   Americans Abandon Early Victory Hopes on Isle in Philippines

Jap Fanatics Beaten Back By Americans i Suicidal Charges  Tried by Enemy 'G On Leyte Island

Yanks Gain in Leyte Battle   Inch Forward in Storm To Break Stalemate; Renulee Jan Attacks

leavy Losses * Suffered y Nipponese   Of Japanese Said  a Units To Have Landed

Japs Beaten Back By 7th Division   Suicide Charges Made by emy Troops South. of Ormoc_   SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   Battle for Island of Leyte . Enters Its Seventh  eek

JAPANESE MADE REPEATED SUICIDE STABS NEAR ORMOL   Was Against-the U.S. 7th Division, Closest American Unit.   WERE BEATEN BACK   Suffered Heavy Losses, : Headquarters Communique Reported Today.

Strong Japanese Suicide. Charges South of Ormoc © Beaten Back by Americans

OPERATIONS BY AIR DELAYED IN PHILIPPINE WAR   American Rain Soaked Troops Gain Slowly

Yanks Smash Jap Attacks   Heavy Rains and Jap Resistance End Hopes For Early Conquest

—PACIFIC—  BEATEN BECK BY. AMERICAN UNI   Torrential Rains End Hope For Early Vic tory On island ;   U. Ss. BOYS GAIN      -, Fighter Planes. Bomb Nipponese Supply Depot In Ormoe Area

Fanatical Jap Suicide Charges Stopped at Ormoc ‘Torrential Rains Boy Yank's  ; Efforts te Subdue Defense;

Struggle On Leyte May B: Be Long... .  Japs Renew Suicide Blows On Muddy Philippine Isle

F unatical Leyte Japs Make Suicide Attacks   Enemy Beaten Back After Suffering Lacees at Hands of American Units

Yankees’ Hope for Early Victory Over Japs on Leyte Ends   Torrential Rains Slow Invaders; Three - Day Stalemate Broken

Yanks Beat Back puicidal Attacks By Nips on Leyte   U.S. Seventh Division » Takes Heavy Toll of  Enemy; See No  Early End of Battle

Desperate Jap Attack at Ormoc   Suicide Charges Against U. &. 7th Division Beaten Off; Heavy Enemy Loses   YANKS INCH AHEAD IN HEAVY MUD

Repel Jap Suicide Charges   ; Seventh Arty Holds ‘Firm Below:.Ormoc; »Weather Ends Hope -Of Early Victory

JAP CHARGED ~ BEATEN BAGK   American Hopes of Early End of Leyte Struggle Ended.

Fanatical Jap Blows Beaten  Back On Leyte   Enemy Suffers Heavy  Losses; Americans Make  Slow Gains on Northern End Ormoc

Cains Seored in Storm by Yanks In North Ormoe   Jap Suicide Charges Suffer Heavy Losses As 7th Division Repulses Leyte Attack

iNip Losses In Campaign ‘Near 100,000   Weather Puts End To Yank Hopes For Early Victory.

JAPS’ SUICIDE BLOWS HALTED BY AMERICANS   Yanks Break Three - Day Stalemate On Leyte. Gain Despite Storm

Suicide Charges Made By Nippon Army On Leyte   Seventh Division Beats Off Attacks: Takes Heavy Toll

PLANES OVER PHILIPPINES?      Japs Report Three Small Bombs Fall Harmlessly Into Sea

AMERICAN PLANES RAID DAVAO, TASK FORGE HITS BONIN   Tokyo Belittles Attack and Claims Only Three Small Bombs Were Dropped Causing No Damage.   SIXTEEN PLANES LOST; NINETEEN AIRMEN DIE   Pacific Fleet Communique Says Task Force Virtually Wiped Out a Large Japanese Convoy.

Enemy Expects New Invasion Of Philippines  400 Carrier Planes Mit Liuwan Taraate

Giraud Dares Gen. DeGaulle  To Remove Him   Refuses At ‘Showdown  Parley’ To Retire As) French Armv Chief.

CONQUEST OF SAIPAN NEARS COMPLETION   Marines Have Taken Capital Of Island

Near Record Farm Crops Forecast   Agriculture Department Estimates Production

Red Forces Move Into Lithuania   Soviets Within Striking Distance of East  Prussian Frontier

Russians Forge Nearer East Prussian Border   Germans Report Massive New Soviet Offen sive In Romania, Threatening Galati Gap And Ploesti Oil Fields.

PINSK FALL IS CERTAIN; ARMY '9 MILES DISTANT   Soviets Are 120 Mile: From Riga; Nazis Said Evacuating East Prussia

Reds Continue Their Advance On Broad Fron!   Germans Suffer Huge Losses as Russians Drive On

Two Nazi Armies Face Entrapment by Russian Baltic Drive   Direct Menace tq Pinsk Is Posed by Another Soviet Advance; Germans Are Suffering Tremendous Losses All Along Eastern Front

REDS NEAR PRUSSIAN FRONTIER   Stream Deep Into Lithuania To Form Trap

Two German Armies Face Entrapment  In North   Massive New Soviet Offensive In South In Vicinity Of Iasi Reported By Berlin

Russian Troops Streaming Deep  Into Lithuania  Twe German Armies in Nort! Threatened With Entrapmen  Wew Offensive in Romania

East Prussia Threatened  By Advance Of Reds   Soviet Troops In Lithuania Seek To Trap Two German Armies Near Baltic Coast

Red Advance Threatening Entrapment. Of 2 Armies.   Prussian Frontier  Is Brought Closer.

SOVIETS STREAM INTO LITHUANIA IN WIDE GAINS   Threaten to Trap 2 Nazi Armies; Driye Reported in Romania

Russians Move Toward Baltic   Enveloping Advance Threatens to Trap Two German Armies

Red Surge May Trap 2 Armies   Deep, Wide Thrust Places Russians Within Striking Distance of Prussia   PLOESTI FIELDS ALSO THREATENEL   Germans Report Soviets Making New Offensive in Romania

SOVIET FORCES PRESS ADVANCE TOWARD BALTIC   Vlove Within Striking Distance of Prussian Frontier; Other Red Armies Menace Bialystok And Pinsk; Germans Report Of. fensive In Romania.

Reds Bite Deep Into Lithuania   Sweep Toward East Prussia and Baltic Coast, Imperiling Two Nazi Armies in North

Advances Made Toward Baltic Coast Area   New Soviet Drive In Romania Reported By Germans

Russian Forces Thrusting Deep Into Lithuania   Within Striking Range Of East Prussia; Speed Toward Baltic Coast.

Moscow Says Germans Have Suffered ‘Tremendous Losses” As Result Russian Advances. Pinsk for  All Practical Purposes in Soviet Hands. Reds Neaz  East Prussian Frontier

SOVIET TROOPS GAIN ALL ALONG BROAD FRONT   Reds Within Striking Distance of East Prussian Frontier

REDS DRIVE DEEP INTO LITHUANIA   Two Nazi. Armies F ace Trap; Offensive In Romania Claimed

Russian Troops Thrusting Deep Into Lithuania   Germans Suffer Tremendous Losses On 400-Mile Front

Reds May Cut Off Two Nazi Baltic Armies   Russian Forces Sweep Deep Into Lithuania and Southward Into Old Poland; New Romania Offensive

Soviets May Cut Off Two Nazi Armies   German Forces  In Baltic States Threatened by New Envelopine Mover

Russians Move Swiftly Toward Baltic Coast   Two Nazi Armies Are Threatened By Red Fighters

REPORT NAZIS’ LOSSES HEAVY IN NEW SURGE   Russians Beat Toward Bailystok, R. R. Center; Pinsk Directly Menaced

Reds Sweep Deep Into Lithuania   Threaten to Trap Two Nazi Armies in  The North

‘wo German rmies Face tussian Trap   azZis Report Massive Tew Red Army Olfen give Niaav Tact   YWEREFUL WEDGE   viet Troops Stream ep Into Lithuania During Swill Advance

Reds Advance On Baltic Coast In Swift Push   Troops In Lithuania Ready To Attack East Prussia; See Germans Trapped

REDS THREATEN 7 NAZ ARMIES   Troops Nearing E. Prussia May Trap Enemy ~ Fh Soldiers.   IPINSK ALSO MENACED

Red Armies Fast Nearing Baltic Coast   Fast Enveloping Movement May Trap Two German Armies

mn US A fe  Reds Now Deep Into _ Lithuania; Nazis ~ May Be Trapped   Wide Enveloping Advances Threaten To Pinch Off 2 German Armies; Massive New Offensive Launched In Romania

ArmyFlanking Wilno, Ploesti Fields Periled  Drive Developing Against Pinsk; Two Armies Face Trap in North

Striking Distance Of Prussian Front Gained By Soviets In Fierce Assault

RUSSIAN UNITS STREAMING FAR INTOLITHUANIA   Germans Report Great New Offensive in Romanian Area

GERMAN LOSSES HUGE—   ADVANCING STALIN FORCES WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF EAST PRUSSIA FRONTIER  SS

Reds Striking Distance From Kast Prussia   Soviets Threaten To Trap Two German Armies In North: Menace Pinsk.  (ema neeanmsncnsitenrente   WAdis LGSk MAN Y

Stream Towart Baltie Coast In Offensives   Russians Drive on Along 400-Mile Front As Germans  Pull Forces Back

SOVIETS MOVE NEARER BALTIC COAST TODAY   Germans Suffered Large Losses By Russizns

SWIFTLY MOVING RUSSIANS DRIVE TOWARD BALTIC   Stalin’s Armies Streaming Through Lithuania, Poland

Reds Moving Swiftly Toward Baltie Coast  a ee ce  Be wwre.v ?*  ,   Now Within Striking Distance Of East Prussia Front   Other Groups To South Nearing Bialystok And Pinsk

Germans Report Soviets Striking Also In Romania   Say Massive Offensive Launched In South; Russians Gaining Everywhere:

THREATEN TO TRAP TWO NAZI ARMIES   Russian Troops Are Within Striking Distance of East Prussia

NAZIS REPORT RED DRIVE IN “IAS SECTOR   Goal Would Be Galati Gap and the - Ploesti Oil Fields — Two German  _ Armies Face Possible Trap Along. Baltic.

ERed Advance Threatens 'To Trap 2 Nazi Armies   Russians Move Swiftly on East Prussian Border and Baltic Coast; New Drive Starts in Romania.

Entrapment Of Armies  Is Imminent   frontier of East Prussia Menaced By Powerhouse Drive of Soviets

Soviets Drive on East Prussia And Baltic Coast   Two German Armie: Imperiled By  Enveloping Moves

GATEWAY TO  BRITTANY — AS RELEASED   ‘Thousands of Germans Against Sea as By Passed Port of Granville Is Cut Off

Thousands of Germans Trapped In Lower Normandy As Americans Crack Western Half of  Line.

Yanks Blast Vaunted SS Tank Force   Germans Abandon Military Supplies Jn Hurried Retreat

OPEN GATEWAY TO BRITTANY, TRAP GERMANS   Nazis Reported In Headiong Flight In Western Part Of Normandy

Nazi Garrisons On Peninsula Are Trapped by U.S.   Germans Report Americans Have Taken Granville

BRITTANY GATE OPENED BY 12MILE ADVANCE   American Tank Column Cracks Front Wide Open In France

-WOEND! AND OW! TAKEN UNOPPOSED   Australian Forces @ Make Landing On Karkar Island

Yanks Take ) More Isles   Conquest of Schoutens Continues——-100 Japs Commit Suicide on Biak

Parley on World rity Organization  derway, FR Reveals               : for Peace Machinery ‘In First e;’ President Declares League ON ctions Fine Idea, Too Altruistic

Three Youthful Desperadoes Are Put in Solitary   Led Officers on a Wild Chase; Held Girl as Hostage

Desperate Young Trio in Solitary   Freedom After Jail  Break Is Briet

YOUTHS IN JAIL ESCAPE CAUGHT   Three Desperadoes Are Back Behind Bars In Mississipppi

To Davey Jones   Soviet Troops, Tanks Smash Within 7 Miles of Budapest

News of Event Received En ’thusiastically in Russian’. Capital.   WARM’WORDS OF PRAISE   Is-a Sign of Impending ‘Com: - Plete Occupation of 3 Italy.

Policy Toward Italy Awaited UL. S. Attitude Toward Rule To Be Told

U. 5. Planes Blast at Nip Shipping   Sink Two Ships, 12 Barges: Damage 8 Baraes, Caras Shir

Airmen Pick Off Jap Ships   M’Arthur’s Men Sink 14, Including Two Big Ones; Damage Eight Others.

Bulgaria Order. -Germans To Leave Under Threat Of Force; Retake Capital

BULGARIA ASKS U.S. FOR PEACE   HITLER IN. CONFERENCE AS BALKANS REVOLT

Bulgaria Orders Nazis To Leave; Bucharest Now Completely Free; Reds But 75 Miles From Ploesti

Hitler to Triumph, His Officers Say   Three Sub Officers, Prison ers, Say Will Be in 1945

BROUGHTON HITS REACTIONARIES, URGES PROGRESS   Says Retrench ment Must Be Made Where Necessary; But Pleads For Reason; Raps Labor Racketeers, Baiters.

‘Smash Into Avranches At  Base Of Normandy  : Peninsula a BERLIN ADMITS FALL OF PORT GRANVILLE  Substantial Pockets Of Resistance Still In (Lerman Iine

YANK AND BRITISH ARMORED FORGES ADVANCE 12 MILES   Drive Across See River Into Heart of Avranches Trapping Thousands of Nazi Troops.   BRITISH GAIN GROUND ‘IN CAUMONT SECTORS   To the East Other American Forces By-Pass TorignySur-Vire and Push Down Rail Line.

First Second Armies Pump Heavy _ Blows Into Western Half Of  Normardy Front, Break Ger man Grip On Strong Points   (BRITISH ADVANCE  IN CAUMONT AREA

YANKS STORM BIG NORMAN PORT HIT AVRANCHES   Trap Uncounted Thousands Is Belief; Half Of Front Broken

Berlin Says Granville  Has Fallen   U.S. Armored Units Cross See River Into Heart Of City.

SAYS STALIN FOR FREEDOM   Believes Cooperation With Pope Possible

Stalin Reveals Self Advocate Free Worship   Tells Priest Policy Of Per secution and Coercion With Regard Catholic Church Inadmissable

Declares. Stalin Friend of Churct  Returned Priest Tells of Interview

STALIN IN FAVOR OF FREE WORSHIP AND COOPERATION   Priest, Returned from Moscow, Issues. Statement Quoting Russian Leader

MARSHAL STALIN SAYS HE IS FOR CHURCH FREEDOM   “T Am Not A  Communist’’ He States

PRIEST TELLS OF MOSCOW MISSION   QUOTES. STALIN AS... SAYING HE FAVORS FREEDOM OF WORSHIP

Administration Forces Beat. Back Democratic Crities As Dewey Gets More Supporters

New Deal Wins in Florida, Alabama   Hill Is Nominated And Pepper Roils Up A Substantial Lead

Roosevelt-Slates- Win—— In Florida And Alabama ‘And Dewey Gets Support

Hill Wins In Alabama, Peppe Leads In Florida And Dewe:  Gathers Some More Delegate

Senator Pepper Likely To Get Nomination Without Run-Off; Senator Hill Victorious Over koe Of Roosevelt Policies

Pepper Victor As Dewey Gets More Suppor   Southern Democrats Wir Primary Tests, While "New York Governor Defeats Stassen

NEW DEALERS SCORE; HILL 1$ VICTOR   Dewey Gathers Additional GOP  Convention Votes

ALABAMA VOTE GOES TO HILL   Sen. Pepper, Seeking Renomination In Florida, Holds Lead

Florida, Alabama Go Administratior   Dewey Also Picks Up New Support

VOTES SUPPORT ~NEW DEALERS   Hill And Pepper Pass Tests In Alabama, Florida

Dewey Picks Up Additional Support For Nomination. ....  Administration Wins In  Florida, Alabama Voting

PEPPER, HILL, FDR MEN, WIN   Dewey Ahead of Stassen in S. Dakota Delegate Race

Hill, Pepper  Renominated; ‘Gurney Winne)   Administration Crities In Florida And Alabama Beaten In Primaries

FDR Backers Down Critics in 2 States   Hill in Alabama and Pepper in Florida Win Nominations

Byrd, FDR Split Florida Delegate:   Hill, Pepper Lead In Southern Primaries

New Deal Forces Defeat Opposition in Primarie:   Gov, Dewee i. Winner

FOUR RAIDS IN FOUR DAYS   Administration Victory In Florida And Alabama

Senators Hill, Pepper Win Ouf   Administration Scores Victories In Alabama, Florida

New Dealers Win  Southern Votes   Senator Hill Wins in \labama, With Pepper Leading in Florida

FDR Adherents Win in Primary Races in South   Dewey Gathers . More Support in South Dakota Vote

Pepper Leads; Hill Wins   Dewey Gathers More Convention Support In South Dakota

Hill Wins In Alabama As: Pepper Builds Growing Lead In Florida   Alabama Senator Says Victory Verdict Of People Sustaining And Upholding Policies Of Roosevelt; Dewey Picks Up More Delegates.   (By The Axssocinted Press)

VOTERS BACK ADMINISTRATION IN PRIMARIES   Hill Wins in Alabama, Pepper Leads in Florida; Dewey Gains Delegates

NEW DEAL IN PRIMARY VOTE   Supporters of Administration Win Over Critics in Alabama and Florida.

Pepper, Hill, New Dealers, Hold Leads   Florida, Alabama Senators Probable Winners of Renomination

DEMO GaITICS ARE DEFEATED   Administration Supporters Favored in Senatorial Primaries.

Hill and Pepper Win Over Foes in Alabama, Florida   Administration Forces Beat Back Critics in Primaries, Dewey Defeats Stassen in So. Dakota

Administration Forces Win Votes  ee eh ae ne oe   Dewey Gains South Dakota’s Delegates

PREDICTS EARLY DEATH OF HITLER   Ludwig Says Fuehrer Pro  nounced Own Doaanm

Sees Victory in Hitler Talk   Ludwig Says New Year's Proclamation Will Lead to Death

Patton's Army Captures Four Towns in Drive   Yanks Cross River Following Bombardment

PATTON BEGINS NEW DRIVE ON WESTERN FRONT   Soviets Ready For Power Blows; Japs Stagger Under Philippines’ Attacks

SHELLING SAARBRUCKEN   U. S. Troops Tackle Outer Defense of Siegfried Line

ARTILLERY SHELLING SAARBRUCKEN   U.S. Troops Tackle Outer Defense of Siegfried Line

UP-T0-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS (By International News Servi  ervic   VANKS SEIZE ALL OF CITY OF SAARLAUTERN

LONGEST BRIDGE IS OPEN FOR TRAFFIC   Described as Longest Ever Made by Army Engineers

Fly Resigns Post As FCC Chairman   Broadcasters’ Czar To Practice Law

FCC Chairman Gives Up Post   Fly Resigns To Return To Private Practice

DESTROYER “RIPPED APART. ~ BY EXPLOSION   WARSHIP SINKS IN NEW YORK BAY AFTER TERRIFIC BLASTS ~SCORES REPORTED RESCUED

Navy Announces Destroyer Sinks Near New York   Ship Explodes And Sinks Six Miles Off Sandy Hook Early Today   CAUSE OF BLAST NOT DETERMINED

2 AMERICAN ARMIES OPEN PINCERS DRIVE ON NAZI WEST WALL   Third Army And Germans Locked In Violent Battle But First Army Finds Going Easier In Meuse Area

Americans Charging Steel Fortifications   U. S. Troops to North Try To Flank West Wall—British Carture More Belgian Cities

American Eight-Inch Artillery Bombards Saarbrucken, Barely Six Miles Away —

Gains Made Under Heavy German Fire   Big Allied Guns Keep Pounding Saarbrucken; Forbachs’ Fall Reported   Wtih U. S. Third Army, Dec. 8—\—Fort Driant, near Metz, which successfully resisted attack several weeks ago, fell to the Americans today.

NOW WITHIN. FOUR MILES            Plunge, Made by Tanks; Takes Doughboys to ‘the Outskirts of Forbath, French Rail Town. and. Siaofried Ontnoaet = oo:

GERMANS WORK INTENSIVELY TC BOLSTER LINE   American Tanks Push Forward To Forbach

U.S.-TANKS 3% MILES FROM SMOLDERING SAARBRUCKEN  Third Army Artillery Hammers at ‘Little Pittsbu igh’ for r Eighth Day

Tanks at Outskirts Of Forbach   Extend Grip on West Bank of Saar River  To 22 Miles

Arc of Steel Presses On Saarbrucken   Patton's Troops Strike Deeper Into Nazi Line

U. S. Tanks Drive Deep Into  Seared Nazi Area  Infantry, Artillery  ee Lunge oe ee ie

U.S. THIRD ARMY TANKS PLUNGED TO EDGE SIEGFRIED LINE  ARTILLERY POUNDED CAP ITAL OF INDUSTRIAL SAAE EIGHTH STRAIGHT DAY.

Big Guns Hammer Capita!    Yanks Within 3'% Miles Of City; Reds Close In On Budapest, and Drive Nearer Austria

LESS THAN 4 MILES OUT OF KEY NAZI CITY   Action Flares Anew in Northern Sector of First Army Front

DESPITE BITTER RESISTANCE BY NAZIS AMERICANS GAIN GROUND ASCITY BEING RIPPED OPEN   HEAVY AMERICAN CASUALTIES ARF PEMINDERS THAT TOUGHEST PHASE. OF EUROPEAN WAR IS YET TO COME

U.S. Tanks Drive To Nazi Outpost Of Siesfried Line   Enemy Believed Preparing Defenses ‘Ou Erft River; ‘Clear Sarrezuemined

Ameriean Tank  {Pe Dp Creops Plunge  To Rail Town   3rd Army Bombards Coal and tron Region as Infantry Routs Fleeing Nazis

USTRIAL CAPITAL NAZI MANUFACTURING DISTRICT BOMBARDED  AMERICAN TANKS DRIVE _ TO WITHIN THREE MILES  OR COAT IRON CITY

SOVIETS CRACK NAZI DEFENSES NEAR BUDAPEST   Penetration Of Reich In Area Of Sarregnemines Appears Imminent

Outskirts Of Forbach Reached By U. S. Tanks   Last Bits Of Lorraine And Alsace Are Slowly Slipping Out Of German Hands

Heavy U.S. Fire Hits Saarbrucken   American Tanks _ Drive Closer to Scorched Saar - Capital   MOP UP ON LONG LINE   Yank Grip on West Bank of Saar River Extends i. . to 22 Miles

THIRD: ARMY'S TANKS PLUNGE INTO FORBACH  TY as a st clette re   Reach Outskirts Of French Rail Town y Todav   Russians Crack. German Line Northeast Of Budanest

Third Army Tanks Drive To Forbach   Outpost of Siegfried Line Is Reached by Americans as Artillery Pounds ‘Saarbrucken for Eighth Straight Day

INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL NAZI MANUFACTURING DISTRICT BOMBARDED  AMERICAN TANKS DRIVE TO WITHIN THREE MILES  ‘Aw OAAT IDAN fITY

AMERICANS GAIN IN DRIVE ON SAARBRUCKEN AND MAKE NEW DENTS IN SIEGFRIED LINE ==;

Allies Reach Outskirts Of Forbach   Enemy Preparing Tc Defend Positions On Erft River

Infantry Clears Nazi Troops From Sarrequemines   Americans Extend  Gains On Saar oe eee a ese AA it law

TANKS DRIVE INTO SEARED NAZI CITY   Nearly 700 Square Miles Of Germany Are Conauered

Patton’s Men Gain in Heavy Attack   Heavy German Fire Fails to Halt Doughboys’ Advance

Third Army Penetrates ‘De fenses; Firing on Steel  ’ Mills    FARTHER INTO SAAR   Enemy Believed Planning to all Back Nearer Cologne

Street Fighting Continues in Saarlautern, Second City of the Saar

THIRD ARMY IN MILE ADVANGE AGAINST NAZIS   Saarbrucixen Hard Hit By Artillery Of U. S. Forces

Americans Push Ahead Against Battling Nazis   Patton’s Armies In Outer Crust Of Sieafried Line

Yanks, From Point Eight Miles Insn’, Saarland, Push Into Sie,“ ‘vied Line

U.S. Armor Drives Almost to Edge Of Saarbrucken   Yanks Also Reach Forbach, Siegfried Line Outpost; Quiet On Roer River Fron?

Tanks Plunge To Outskirts Of Forbach   Doughboys Are Three And Half Miles From City

Storm Last Defenses Guarding Approaches To Saarbrucken  THREE AND A HALF MILES AT A PACE  Yanks Will Be Opposite Saarbrucken Within A Matter Of Hours

YANKS 3 MILES FROM BURNING SAAR CAPITAL   Germans Ready. Defenses For Withdrawal From  Roer River

Big Guns Fire On Burning  Saarbrucken   Enemy Strengthens Positions Before First Army

Fort Driant Near Metz, Falls fo. ta Americans Friday   Saarbrucken Is Being. Ripped.’to. Pieces by U. S.-Heavy Howitzers

Americanc Reach Outpost Town Of Siegfried Line; Hodges’ Troops Advance

U.S. Tank Forces In Drive On Saarbrucken Reach Forbach, 3.5 Miles Away

SAAR RIVER FAR BANK HELD OVER 22-MlLE FRONT   Hodges Troops Strike For Pier Near Roer River

—WESTERN FRONT—  B(6 GUNS POUND CAPITAL OF SAAR   Artillery Bombards Key City For Highth Straight Day   TANKS ADVANCING   Americans Extend Grip On West Bank Of Saar To 22 Miles

Siegfried Line Is Bored Into By Doughboys   Forbach Taken By Third Army, Paris Asserts

U.S. Third Army Capital of Saar   First Army Troops Strike Out From Inden; Yanks Cling To Saarlautern Despite German Claims

Yank Troops Push Within 4 Miles of Saarbrucken   Third Army Enters French Rail Town; Nozis Prepare for Stand Near Coleane

Third Army Forces Reach Outskirts of Forbach, French Rail Town Not  Far from Line.   SAAR RIVER CROSSED ~IN SEVERAL SECTIONS

YANKS EXTEND GAINS, SHELL SAARBRUCKEN   Patton Drives Assault Eight Miles Into Saar Valley

AMERCAN T CLOSE TO BURNING SAARBRUCKEN   Plunged to Outskirts of For bach, 3 1-2 Miles From the City.   FRENCH RAIL CENTER   Artillery Bombarded Saar. brucken for the Eighth Consecutive Day.

U.S. Tanks 3.9 Mis, From Saarbrucken,  [Now Aflame   Nazis Sirengthening In Front Of 9th Army; Action Flares Anew In Sector Of First

U. §. THIRD ARMY TANKS PLUNGED TO EDGE SIEGFRIED LINE  ARTILLERY POUNDED CAP

ive Forces Smash Line: Betore City   Smoldering Capita! Of Rich Saar Basin Doomed To Fall.

Third Army Tanks Drive Into Forback Across Saar Rive   Shell Little Pittsburgh of Reich for Eighth Straight Day; Huns Strengthen Defenses Along Roer

YANKS PUSH 10 EDGE OF VITAL FACTORY CITY   American Tanks Plunge to Forbach, Outpost of Siegfried Line

97,000 Eager Americans Of Third On Move   First And Ninth Meet With Stubborn Resistance At Julich

Many Guns Pound At Siegfried Line   Third Army Penetrates Defenses; Firing on Steel Mills   FARTHER INTO SAAR   Enemy Believed Planning to Fall Back Nearer Cologne

Yankee Tanks Within Three Miles Hun City   Plunge Carries Motovized Unit to Outskirts Of Ferbach, Siegfried Line Ontpost   Grip On West Bank Of Saar Extended      Street Fighting Continues In Saarlautern; German  Withdrawal In Cotogne Area Indleated

Artillery of Yank Third Army Pounds Saarbrucken Today   Tanks Drive to Within Three and Half Miles of Saar's Capital

Yank Troops Move Nearer Saar’s Iron,  Coal Region   ‘Germans. Planning ;r ‘orced AY ithdrawal

Reds Split  Nazi Line ‘at Budapest   Allies Strengthen Bridychead over’ Lamone; Take Mezzano :

PATTON'S MEN THREE MILES FROM CITY   Saar Bridgehead Extended To 22 Miles   NAZIS RUSH   To Prepare Defenses Along Erft River; Enemy Quits Alsace Area

U.S. Tanks Drive Deep Into  Seared Nazi Area  Infantry, Artillery Continue Lunge Toward Steel City

City Pounded © For Eighth Day   Germans Believed Preparing Defenses East of Roer River

American Tanks Drive To Within Three And Half Miles  Of City, Target For Third Army Artillery For Eighth Consecutive Day—Germans Being Cleared From Streets Of Sarreguemines—Grip On West Bank Of Saar River Extended

BATTER LAST DEFENSES OF SAARBRUCGKEN   Storm Approaches Te City At Points 5 Miles Away

DEFENSES ARE TOPPLED IN SWIFT ADVANCE   Mobile Forces Closing In on Germans From West and Southwest.

Plunge fo Outskirts Of Forbech  20'Mile Grip On West Bank of Saar

¢ Saarbrucken Is Bombarded by Big Guns  “y   American Tanks. Only 3 1-2. Miles From the. Seered-Saar Capital   SARREGUEMINES IS BRING CLEANED UP   Germans Busy Preparing New Defenses on River Beyond Swollen Roer

Troops Within 4 Miles, Of Reich Steel Capital ,  U. S. Artillery Continues to Rake  en teal. Ptttchurch’ Center of Reich 

Patton Wheels North Toward Saalautern   Kight-Inch Artillery Guns Aid in Drive Through Outer Crust Of Siegfried Line

Tanks: Plunge To Outskirts Of Forbach .   Threaten French Rail Town And Siegfried ‘ine Outpost

HEAVY BARRAGE SPREADING RUIN IN SAARBRUCKEN   ‘Action Flares in North and Reds Open New Threat In Balkan Fighting

3rd Army Continues Slow © Advance; 7th Gains Slightly   Commons Stands  By Charchill

GAIN 8 MILE IN KEY SAAR VALLEY   Bridgeheads Across Saa River Are Merged   THUR VALLEY   Almost Cleared By French; Germans Recapture Part Of Mertziller

Big Guns Blast At Saarbrucken   Rich Coal Region Supplying Germans Already Invalidated.

ARTILLERY OF THIRD ARMY BOMBARDS SAARBRUCKEN FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE DAY   gacias Working Intently to Prepare Defenses on Erft River in Anticipation of a Forced Withdrawal in That Sector   STREET FIGHTING CONTINUES IN SAARLAUTERN

TANKS BLAST PATH TOWARD SAARBRUCKEN   Yankees Stream Across Saar; Germans Evacuating Colmar

Patton's 3rd Extends Hold in Saar Basin   Tanks Drive Within Three and Half Miles ef Saarbrucken

PUSH TOWARD AVE, ot ARCO CAARBRUCKEN   Nazis Being Steadily Driven Back on Practically All Fronts.

Roer River Front Statio, ; * Germans Strengthen Positions.   NEW ACTION IN NORTH

Drive Carries American Tanks Within Three and One-Half Miles Saarbrucken, Pounded by Third Army Artillery

JEWS WARNED BY CHURCHILL   Actions Of Terrorist Gang Denounced By Premier

Winnie Calls Upon Palestine Jewish Groury   Minister Wants Its Aid To Cast Out, Crush Terrorist Sterm Gang.   SHAMES MOYNE CRIME

Appeal Made By Churchill.   Palestine Peace -Is  Urged By Britisher

Churchill Calls On Jews Crush Gang   Denounces Lord Moyne’s Murder As Shameful Crime.

Crush Terrorists, Churchill Demands Of Palestine Jews   Reminds Many Friends May Change Position if Gang Not Eradicated

AUTO INDUSTRY IS STUDYING POSTWAR PRODUCTION PLANS   VARIOUS PROPOSALS MADE TU ‘PERMIT QUICK SWITCH FROM WAR TO PEACE B-.SIS

1ST ARMY ONLY TEN MILES FROM CERMAN BORDER   Nazis Contest Every Yard

Giant Field Guns otrike Blows At Siegfried Line   Front Dispatches Tightly Censored Across Broad Front

Assault Under Way Along 200-Mile Front   Patton Throws Full Weight Intc Moselle. Battle

Yank Guns Hurl Shells Across Line   Artillery Blasts Siegfried Forts as German Re sistance Grows

HODGES WITHIN TEN MILES OF GERMAN SOIL   Capital Of Luxembourg Liberated By First Army

British Nearing Escape Corridor       Canadians Continue Drive To Free Antwerp Approaches; Berlin Bombet

FINNS CAPTURE NAZI GARRISON   Surprise Attack Cuts Off Relief Column For Border Town

SURPRISE BLOW CUT JAP ROAD   American And Chinese Troops Stage Coup In North Burma

JAP STRONGPOINT IN BURMA PERILEI      AS. THEY cur. ROAD -LINK- . ‘ING IT ‘WITH MOGAUNG. .

American ond. British ’ Troops Parry the: Attacks  BLOODY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY ENEMY  Allied Planes Reported Very Active Over Reachhend

Allies parry nazi blows  successtully   Nazi infiltration attempts blocked

GERMAN HITS BELOW ROME WEAKENING   Allies Regain Ground Below Carroceto And _ Cisterna With Heavy Losses To Enemy; Ports On Fire.   “No-or-Lie’’

Allies Gain Some  Ground at Anzio   Enemy Suffers Bloody Losses In Attempt T Infiltrate Into Allied Lines; Positions Are Now Stabilized

GERMAN ASSAULTS AT ANZIO WEAKEN, FOF TURNED BACK   Enemy’s Striking Power Diminishes After Furious Attempt to Deliver Knockout Blow Fails.   ALLIES REGAIN TWO MILES AT ONE POINT   Planes of Both Sides Active Over Beachhead—Nazi Reinforcements Continue to Arrive.

Germans Driven Back at Anzio   Weakened Nazis Fail in Attacks   Germans Forced Back

Allies Parry Weakened Naz Halian Drive   Attempted Knockout Punch of Enemy Reported Blocked :

Block Potential KO Punch by Massed Foe   Turn Back Attempts to Infiltrate Through Allied Lines

Allies Parry Weakened  Nazi Blows   Nazi Knockout Punch By Massed Divisions Successfully Blocked  FOE'S LOSSES HEAVY

GERMANS ARE WEAKENING IN ANZIO ATTACK   ENEMY’S KNOCKOUT PUNCH BLOCKED BY ALLIES

Rain Raises New Threat of Floods   Showers in Kaw Watershed Not Likely to Cause Overflow   SMOKY HILL FALLING   Rivers Still High in Southeast as Floods Roll Along

Widespread Rain Raises New Flood ‘Threats in Kansas   re: a SV See Se ae  Heavy Precipitation Would Aggravate  Situation; Majorit OF Serpanme DBD... I.

Postwar Super - Transport Built Along B-29 Pattern   Stratocruiser Of Boeing Has Passed First Test Flight

U.S, PLANES HIT MARIANA ISLES   Scipan and Tinian Given Heavy Pasting by Yank Carrier Bombers

‘Planes Make 2.200-Mile Water Jump To Bomb Marianas Islands   2 More Marshalls Occupied By Army   U. S. Carrier Force Operating With British In Indian Ocean

Cross Roads Target of  Land Planes   Four-Engined Army, Navy Bombers Trave 2,200 Miles Over Water to Batter Marianas on Route to Philippines, Japan

More Atolls “In Pacific «Are Occupied   Four-Engined Planes Moke 2,200-Mile Air fin To Hit Islands

On Over Wafer Round Trip of 2,200 Miles Bomb Naval Bases On Gross Roads to Philippines and Tokyu

Land-Based U. S. Planes Hit Japs  Marianas Islands Allied Attacks  Neutralize Wewak,  Says MacArthur

Marianas struck by land craft   Two more isles  under U. 8S. flas

Yank Airmen Fly Far To Hit Marianas   Bomb ‘Cross Roads’ to Philippines and Tokyo For First Time

Land- Based Planes Raid Marianas    2 More Marshall   2 More Marshall Atolls Captured: Truk Is Bombed

JAP RESISTANCE ON NAMUR ISLAND CAME TO END WEDNESDAY  ’ BATTLE-HARDENED MA-

Marines Mop Up Shock-Crazed Japs To End Resistance On Key Atoll   Light Mobile Artillery, Flame Throwers And Bazookas Thundered Against Crumbling * Concrete Pillboxes.

Organized Resistance  Has Ended   Japs On Verge Of Insanity From Fury Of Attacks

 Entire Isle Of Namur Transformed Into Inferno By Murderous Bombardment Of American Guns

Sustained Combat On ‘Stinking’ Namur Island Ended In Victory  One Of Most Popular Marine Officers Killed;   One Of Most Popular Marine Officers Killed; Japs Blown To Bits By Terrific Bombardment

EARLY CAPTURE OF KWAJALEIN SEEN IMMINENT   Namur And Four Other Coral Keys Are In Possession Of Yankees   Murderous Bombardment By Yanks Routs Japs On Namur

Allied Gunfire Wrecks Islands Of Roi, Namur   Japs Driven Nearly Crazy by Intense Bombardment

Nazi Prisoners Of War In Eighth Service Command Use Various Means In Trying To Get Away From Camps

Post-War Talk Infuriates Men On Battle Lines in Italy  (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S NOTE BOOK.)

Kilgore Offers Plan For Vets   Would Turn German Companies Over To Returning Soldiers and Workers.

Canadians And British Sweep Ahead   Vital Dutch Communications Hub Falls to Allied Troops

British - Canadian Drive is Sweeping Forward in West   Dispatch From Front Says Opposition in Vital Communications Hub of 'S Hertogenbosch Ends With Savage Street Fighting   EIGHT GERMAN DIVISIONS BELIEVED SEALED OFI

British Ram Into Key Nazi Transit City   - 9§ Hertogenbosch Reported Captured After Savage Fight

Resistance Ends -At Vital Communications Hub  CITY STORMED Endanger Nazi Forces In Western  FY uypey

Collapse Of Enemy Defense In ’S Hertogenbosch Reported As British And Canadians Sweep Forward In Mounting Threat To All German Positions South Of Maas River—Flamethrowers Used On German Bazooka Nests In Savage Street Fighting

Rift Develops... “Anion: Sujnéine  - Court Justices Blas ck cand, Mur phy Take  Ae   Black and Murphy Take ' Issue with Views Of Frankfurter

Rift Develops AmongMembers Of Highest Court   Tustices Black, Murphy Object to Doctrines Advanced by Frankfurter

SUPREME COURT JUSTIGES NEAR AN OPENBREAK   Murphy And Black Dissent To Frankfurter’s Re cent Rulings

Supreme Court Split Attracts Wide Attention   Black and Murphy Take Issue with Frankfurters Doctrines

RIFT DEVELOPS IN HIGH COURT RANKS   Split Grows Between Justices Frankfurter on the One Hand and Black and Murphy Over Law, Economics

MOTORIST IS HELD _ RESULT OF MISHAP   Trolley ‘Traffic Delayec Result of Car Overturning 

MOTORIST ISHELD _ RESULT OF MISHAP   Trolley  Traffic.’ Delayed Result of Car Over-.  $Grmning

Nazi Head’s Fate Veiled In Mystery   Folks Wonder What’s Up as Fuehrer Fails To Make Own Speech

Hitler’s Health Fine Berlin Says   Spokesmen Deny Anything Untoward Has Happened to German Fuehrer

Berlin Assures World Hitler — Alive and Well   Other Broadcast Hints Himmler Gang Now Running Nation

Seek To Counter Broad Rumors of  Adolf’s Demise   Himmler Reads Speech Attributed To Fuehrer In Berlin Sunday

SEEKING 10 HELP GERMANY   Berlin Spokesman Deelares Hitter in Excellent Health — Refrains However, from Disclosing — Hi: Whereabcuts. °

WHEREABOUTS OF HITLER A MYSTERY   Berlin Denies That He Is  Dead or Insane

HITLER SILENCE CAUSES FLOOD OF SPECULATION   Berlin Spokesmen Seek To Count. er World-Wide Rumors In Mystery

BERLIN DENIES UMORS HITLER S MAD OR DEAD   Himmler Reads Leader’s Speech

Germany Denie: Fuehrer Illness   “Compelled” to Pass on to Himmler, Other Leaders Task of Rallying Nation for Final Phase of War, Radio Spokesman Asserts

Crushing Defeat of Jap Naval Fleet May Change Whole Course of War

CRUSHING DEFEAT HANDED JAP NAVY MAY CHANGE WAR   NATION CHEERED WITH THOUGHT VICTORY MAY COME MONTHS SOONER

NIP NAVY LOSS MAY CHANGE COURSE OF WAR   Japs Through as Naval Power Brings U. S. Victory Months Nearer

Crushing Defeat Handed Jap Navy May Change War’s Course And Hurry Peace

ALL OF JAP FLEET INVOLVED  INBATTLE SAYS ADM. KING IN STATEMENT MADE TO FDR   MUD-CAKED YANKS MADE FURTHER ADVANCES IN THE LEYTE CAMPAIGN

Jap Defeat In Philippines Waters Viewed Changing Course Of War ~ To Bring Victory Months Nearer

FREEDOM OF NAVY ACTION COULD CUT TIME OF CONFLICT   Heavy Damage Inflicted Upor Nip Fleet is Held of Vast  Importance

SHORTER FIGHT MAY BE RESULT OF SEA VICTORY   Experts Feel Whole Course Of Pacific Battle Might Be Changed By Blow

Governor Green Of Illinois Is Renominated   Gen. MacArthur Polls Size able Vote in GOP Presidential Primary   50 Delegates (Chosen

JOINT FORGES: GAIN od MILES. AT ONE POINT   Nimitz Reports Satisfactory Progress in Drive to Isolate Orote.

U.S, May Impor! Argentina Corn  Agencies Exploring Such a Pocsibilitv

ALL FORTS SAFE IN INITIAL NIGH RAIDS ON TOKYC   Industrial Targets Blasted 8” in Third Attack Last Six Days

«WAR PLANTS IN ENEMY CAPITAL “BOMB TARGETS   Anti-Aircraft Fire Over ¥ City Inaccurate, Meagre, Yankees Report   FIRST NIGHT MISSION   Cloud Coverage Prevents Accurate Observation Of Blast Results

TOKYO ATTACK “DURING NIGHT “Ble SUCCESS   TILOTS REPORT SCATTEREH ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE In’ THIRD RAID IN SIX DAYS

SUPERFORTS BLAST TOKYO THIRD TIME   All Planes Return; Fighter Opposition Not Mentioned

U. S. Planes ' Blast Greek  Airdromes   Catch Fields Crowded  With Germany Transport Craft

Allied Bombers — BlastThree Airdromes in Ather   All Crowded With Nazi Transports for Military Evacuation

AMERICAN HEAVIES  FROM ITALY BLAST  GERMAN AIRDROMES THREE FIELDS IN ATHEN AREA CROWDED WITH  WATE DIANTC UIT

AIRFIELDS IN ATHENS AREA ARE BLASTED   Dromes Crowded With German Planes Rushed South for Evacuation of  Greece Are Raided  Ciippiv c#LIipn ic cCiliaAIv

German Planes Are Blasted By Allies   Three Airdromes And Transports Hit By Bombs

U. §. Bombers Hit Fields Near Athens   Crowded Nazi Planes Fleeing Greece Blasted by Yanks

ATHENS AIRPORTS     AMERICAN AIRMEN   German Transport Planes are Targets; Submarine Pens a ~~ Also Attacked

PRESIDENT TO SPEAK   Roosevelt Will Address Conference on Rural Fdueztian

Soviets Push Southward To Close Gate On Nazis Pocketed Above Odessa

Red Troops Push Toward Black Sea   They’re Trying To Trap Germans Still In The Ukraine

Thousands of German Troops in Big Bulge Above Odessa.  SOVIETS CAPTURE NIKOLAEV SEAPORT  Rumanian Troops Get Orders to Fight Advaneing Russians,

9 Missionaries Believed Dead  Last Seen Going Into Bolivian Jungle

NINE U.S. MISSIONARIES VANISH IN JUNGLE ALONG AMAZON: BELIEVED TRIBE VICTIMS

AMAZON JUNGLE WILDS SWALLOW 9 MISSIONARIES   Missicn Group Consisting Of Eight Men and One Woman Missing After Entering Bolivian Isnele in November

MISSIONARY PARTY (5 LOST IN JUNGLE   Mysterious Hinterland oo} Amazon Valley Claims Nine Lives.

‘Japs Thrown ‘Out of Assam   Allies Seek to Drive Foe From Kohima-!mpha Rood in Manipur

Assam Clear  Of Japanese   ‘Northeastern India Operations Success

Nip Blow: onSaipan  Smashed   Troops Battle to Magicienne Bay, Airfield Edge

Last J; aps Are Thrown Out Of Northern India   Assam Cleared Of Enemy; Operations In Manipur Go On .

Large-Scale Japanese Withdrawals Observed  Last Of J apanese Thrown Out Of Assam By Allies

Japs Pull Out Of Assam Area   Rest Being Driven From Road, Retreat Strafed; Myitkyina Hard Pressed

FLORENCE NEARED BY ALLIED FORCES      New Zealand Troops Are Within Eight Miles of Open City

BRITISH 8 MILES FROM FLORENCE   NAZIS EXPECTED TO GIVE UP CITY ONCE OUTER DEFENSES ARE BREACHED.

ALLIED TROOPS 8 MILES FROM HISTORIC CITY   Adolf Hitler Declare: Florence ‘Open City’ To Protect Cultural Val ues And Art  Treasures

Florence Fall  Expected Soon   3th Army Smashes Within Fight Miles af Che

Oratory Delays Senate Tax Action   Body Will Hold  Saturday Session

Oratory Flood Stops Tax Action   Finance Committee To Hold Special Session On Monday. :

Oratory Halt: Senate on ——  New Tax Bill  Delay Forces Group: To Schedule Saturday Session

NAZIS SPREAD NEW ALARMS ~— ON INVASION   Garrisons on Alert Over 2000-Mile . Coastline

German Alert js Sounded   Coast From Norway Tc Spain Expects Attack

Nazi Harbor Raked With ‘Fire Bombs   RAF Pilots Report Huge Blazes Started at Bremerhaven

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT NAVAL BASE AT BREMERHAVE!   Swarms Of Allied Planes Cross Coast To Again Ht Germany

Bremerhaven Hit  By Allied Planes   Fire Bombs Dropped On Nazi Naval Base

CIVILIAN WHEELS TO SPIN WITH AMAZING SPEED IMMEDIATELY AFTER FALL OF GERMANY: KRUG

U. 5 ECONOMY T0 RETURN 10 1935 LEVEL AFTER NAZI DEFEAT: KRUG   WPB CHIEF SAYS RECONVERSION PROGRAM WILL REMOVE PRODUCTION RESTRICTIONS AFTER X-DAY

Task Force's Attack on Mindanao Seen as Opening Gun in Allied Drive To China Coast Via the Philippines   Pacific War is Given Top Priority In Roosevelt-Churchill Parley

coccinea, ——_ iia ia aN  Crippled Bomber Sinks U-Boat In Atlantic

GREATEST FIGHTER  RECEPTION YET MET  OVER JAP ISLAND HOWEVER, NO B-29 WAS.  LOST ON FRIDAY’S RAID OVER NACOVA

Biggest Jap Fighter Reception Greet: B-29 Airmen on Honshu Island Raid -

Churchill Tell: Commons of Empire Unity  TDeeclaresc Imnerial   Declares Imperial Preference Plan Stays Unimpaired

‘SAYS. PREFERENCE  PLAN UNHAMPERED   Churchill Assures Commons Charter Will Not Interfere

GUNS STILLED ON MILE FRONT DURING EASTER SERVICE   Loud Speakers Carry Message to Nazis at Garicliano

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Flees Through Nazi-Held Lines   Glider Pilot Sets Down Ship, Makes Way to Beachhead

Gerald Smith Puts on Show For Committee   - Gives House Group His Comments on Dewey,  F.D:.R.. Willkie. New Deal

AMERICA-FIRST LEADER QUIZZED   Gerald L. K. Smith Gets Big Audience Before House Committee

‘Witness Holds ‘Discourse on ‘U.S. Politicians   House Group Hears Frank Answers By Gerald Smith

Red Army Also Makes New Sweep Toward Rumania  RAKITNO IS TAKEN BY SOVIET FORCES  Drive Being Made Toward Central Poland on a Wide Front

D.. . = Reds Continue Drive Southward ‘Despite Continued Resistance

GERMANS DECLARE FOES OFFENSIVE IS IN FULL SWING   Army of 750,000 Drives Nazis From 85 More Towns and Severs Their Supply Ronte<.   ADVANCE ON RUMANIA THREAT TO HITLERITES   Russians Approaching Warsaw-Odessa Railroad, Over’ Which Foes Moves Material to Dnieper Bend.

Nazi Units Battling Nesnerately   British Attack In Holland —New Drive on In Lithuania

GERMANS BATTLED DESPERATELY SAVE WESTERN DEFENSES  U. S. ARMOR, INFANTRY AND SUPPLIES POUR

3rd Army Battles in 3 Corners of Fort Briant   Russians Threaten to Take Belgrade, Launch Big Drive in North

GERMANS BATTLED DESPERATELY SAVE WESTERN DEFENSES  U. S. ARMOR, INFANTRY  ANIM CIIDDIIEC PDOTID

Moselle Valley, Dormant Area, Scene Activity   Pressure Mounts Along Entire 500-Mile Front, As Gen. Eisenhower Gains Footing For Winter Assault.

Yanks Rip Deep Hole in Nazi Salient, As Allies Increase Pressure Along  Entire Front, Gird for All-Out Drive

Ten-Point Reconversion Program Recommended  to Special House Group   Gradual Return to Peacetitne Economy and Cautious Elimination of Rationing, Other Controls Favored

Ten-Point Reconversion Program R ecommended to Special House Group”  Gradual Return to Peacetime Economy  and Cautious Elimination al Dabtiaataw ftiihaan fambnata Danese

REVOLUTION IN ARGENTINA IS ~ BELIEVED HALTED   Arrest. Lt. Col. Duco = Who Sought to Return Rami rez As Prasident.

Another Revolt In Argentina Said Thwarted   Arrest Leader of Group Seeking To Restore Ramirez

FARRELL STOPS MOVE 10 BRING RAMIREZ BACK   Army Leader Arrested For ‘Far-Fetched  Adventure’

REPORT LEADER OF ARGENTINA REVOLT SEIZED      Was Attempting Army, Navy Revolution To Return Pedro To Power

CLAIM EFFORT FOR RETURN OF RAMIREZ FAILS   Report Duco, Head of Forces Leading Attempt at Revolt, Is Jailed

BUENOS AIRES. sHYS COUP HAS AEN QUELLED   Other Sources Say Army and Navy Forces Joining Revolution.

LEADER OF NEW COUP IN ARGENTINA ARRESTED  Revolutionary Move Fails to Roti DD eas eae 

Canadians In New Assault Near Antwerp   Gains Made Against German Resistance; Other Units Advance

Canadians and French Gain on Wesfern Front   Canadians Seek to Bolster Salient in Holland Against Northern Nazi Line

Canadian Arms Hit Nazi Lines   NEW BLOW STRUCK AT GERMANS BY ALLIES

GEN, WAINWRIGHT TELLS CONDITIONS   Bataan Commander Is Prisoner of Japs in Camp . On Formosa.

Navy Discloses Three Jap Desiroyers Sunk By Gunfire From Helleats

Greager Again Republican Head Of Texas Party   Brownsville Trio To National Parley

INDICTMENTS: ARE COMING SOON IN BLAGK MARKETS   Conspiracy Charges Are Being Placed Against. Gfficers and Employees

NCIGTHENTS. ARE GOMING SOON I BLACK MARKETS   Conspiracy Charges Are Eeing Placed Against Cificers and Employees

Roosevelt Visits Base ‘In Aleutians, Says U. S. Well Prenared in North

President Visits Aleutians; Surprised And Thrilled At Defense Plan Proaress

President Thrilled By Construction of Military Bases On Barren Aleutian Is.

Roosevelt Pays Surprise Visit to Aleutian Isles  President Says He's Thrilled With Progress  Made in Arming Rarren Northern Area

FDR VISITS AN _ ALASKAN BASE   Mr. Roosevelt Claims Japs No longer Able To Invade North America  Through Alaska

RAIDERS HIT Big WARSHIP   BRITISH PLANES IN SURPRISE ATTACK SHOWER BOMBS .. ON HUGE GERMAN - BATTLESHIP.

OLD NEWFOUNDLAND TOWN HIT BY BLAZE   Harbor Grace Suffers Severe Damage

ONE OF CANADA'S OLDEST CITIES SWEPT BY BLAZE   $2,500,000 Fire Hits Harbor Grace. Famous Plane Takeoff Point

Yanks Raid Clark Field Near Manila   Raid Part of Offensive  To Knock Out Enemy _ Bases Located on - Fuv6n Island ~

BIG BOMBERS BLAST MANILA ON CHRISTMAS   BEATING ON LEYTE DISASTER FOR JAP ARMY

GAGE HOLDS LEAD IN KANSAS CITY   ADMINISTRATION TICKET LEADING OLD PENDERGAST ORGANIZATION 2 TO L

Third Army Troops Are In Bitter Fight For Fort Driant, Guarding Approaches To Metz

German Counter Blows at Aachen Stemmed by American Defenses As Nazis Reform Straggling Army

SIEGFRIED LINE IS BREACHED BY AMERICANS NEAR AACHEN, DRIVE ON TO COLOGNE DEFENSE

Broaden Westwall Breach   Tanks to Support  Of Infantry Drive Above Aachen; Fight Bitterly at Ft. Driant

Fan Out Behind Siegfried Line To Jom Attack On “Backstops’   21% Mile Breach Torn in Defenses North of Aachen

New Gains in Fierce Battles   Tanks Go Through Wedge in Siegiried Line at Aachen and Fan Out   DESPERATE BATTLE IN METZ SECTOR   Yanks, Use. Flaming Oil tc  Rout Germans From Tunnels Under Fort

American Tanks Push Into 2'4-Mile Breach in Sieg fried Line   "FIGHT TO WIDEN PATH   A Truce at Dunkerque to Allow Civilians to  Leave City

Gain in Aachen Sector Despite Counter-Attacks   Third Army Locked In Bitter Struggle For Fort Driant, “The Key to Metz

DOUGHBOYS GIVEN SUPPORT BY ARMORED UNITS IN DRIVE TO BATTER SECONDARY DEFENSES

American Tanks Rumble into Breach Torn in Siegfried Line, Then Fan Out

Third Army Captures Fort Driant   U. S. First Army Pushes Two Miles Into Reich With Support of Heavy Artillery, Tanks; Main Nazi Escape Road Near Aachen in Danger

Battle In Germany Rises In Violence   .. Bitter Struggle Under Way For Fert Driant

‘AMERICAN TANKS RUMBLED DEEP INTO BREACHED WESTWALL  THIRD ARMY MEN BATTLE FURIOUSLY FOR BASTION

TANKS ADDING THEIR SUPPOR   Rumble Into Breach Tora in  Siegfried Line Above . fanhan: @nraand fit   TWO MILES INSIDE REICH

Doughboys Smash Against Defenses Around Cologne; Are 3 Miles Beyond Ubach   Two And One-Half Mile Breach Torn In Siegfried Line; Three German Counter-Blows Repulsed

3rd Army Hits Strongest Fort Guarding Metz  Yan ks Spraying Crud   Yanks Spraying Crude Oil Into Tunnels Of Underground Spots, Startina Fires -

Add Power To Smash At Cologne   Armor Supports Doughboy Attack On Defenses Behind Siegfried Line.

AMERICAN TANKS "RUMBLE THROUGH  THE SIEGFRIED LINE   Fanned Out, Bringing Their Guns and Armor Into Support of Doughboys.   1ST ARMY IN GERMANY   Infantrymen Had Torn the Broadening Hole in the West Wall Defenses.

SUPPORT DRIVE ON DEFENSES NEAR COLOGNE   Bitter Battle Rages For Fort Driant, Strong Fortress At Metz

TANKS RUMBLE THROUGH HOLE IN WEST WALL   Third Army Breaks Into Ft. Driant, Key Fort Guarding Metz

Hole in Defenses Widened To 23 Miles by Fighting First Army Troops   Cutting Off Aachen   Air And Artillery Support Efforts to Widen Breach Against Stout Resistance

‘Yanks Beat Back Nazis’  Counterblows   First Army Smashes Three Miles Into Germany; Yank Troops in Fort Driant

After Breaking Through Above Aachen, Our Troops Prepare To Drive Against Cologne.   BITTER FIGHTING IS REPORTED NEAR METZ

Patton's Army Gets Grip On Fort Driant, Powerful Bastion Guardina Metz

BREAK INTO FORT DRIANT BEFORE METZ   Use Burning Oil in Driving Germans From Fortifications. Germans Fighting Bitterly

AID GROUND © TROOPS WITH  THEIR GUNS   Armor Pours Through a 2'14-Mile Breach, Help~ ing Doughboys Attack Backstop Defenses Guarding Cologne.

Tanks Thunder Into New Gap And Fan Out; Bring ‘Armor Support To Drive

TEMPERATURES:   YANKS SWARM THROUGH HOLE IN WEST WALL   Bound For Cologne; Third Army Fights In Metz Fort

Broadening Hole ls Torn in Nazis’ Sieafried Line   Fierce Battle Also Rages for Forts Surrounding Metz

YANKEES SPRAY OIL INTO DRIANT TO TAKE BASE   Americans Push Deeper in Defenses Protecting Rhine and Cologne

AACHEN DRIVE MOVES DEEPER INTO DEFENSES   Nazis Rush Armor to New Growing Threat Of Break-Through

Fifteen Thousand Workers At Wright Airplane Factor} Appear To Have Quit Strike

FUNDS SOUGHT FOR PENINSULA   Little Legislature To Act On $25,000 For Timber Research

Fliers Hammer Island Nippos   AUSSIES SHELL JAP BARGE POINT AT SIO AS HUB FALL LOOMS; FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES AT CAPE GLOUCESTER; BORNEO HIT

NAZI POCKETS TRAPPED AS U. 5. FORCES ERUPT   Many Prisoners Taken As Doughboys Race Southwestward

(Marching Men Fill Roads   Miles Long Columns Pour Along Nomandy Highways in Pursuit Of Fleeing Germans

Germans Fall Back at Coutances in Disorder   Tank Breakthrough Drives More Than 11 Miles Into Normandy Lines and Threatens to Trap Enemy West of St. Lo.

Six Divisions Give Prisoners   Every Road on 20-Mile Front Choked With Americans on March

ALLIES CHASE GERMANS ALONG FRENCH LINES   Every Road Choked With First Army Now On Move

Disorganized Germans Flee  U.S. Columns   French Highways Choked With First Army On The March

BOWLKE-LAUTARES. WEDDING JUNE 16   Young Couple To Make Home On Grasse Ile, Michigan

Yank Bombers Strike Again at Germany   Axis Radios Off Air as RAF Takes Up the Night Attacks

AMERICANS RIP NAZI TARGETS   Muenster, Germany, and the Pas-De-Calais Area of France Pounded

AF Bombers eeping Up ir Assaults   Seventh Daylight Pounding in Month Is Handed Germany

AMERICAN AIRMEN BOMB MUENSTER   NAZE FIGHTERS OFFER NO OPPOSITION—ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE HEAVY.

Week Of Continued Air Bombardment Ended With Allies Stepping Up Raids

Red Forces Drive Within 37 Miles Of Kherson and Battle for Third Dav in Streets of Tarnopol

RAF Out Again To Hit Germans  Silver Fortresses All  Return From Muenster Bee are Tiy BEAT wrap

U.S. Bombers Hit Muenster Through Fog   Heavyweights Also Blast Pas-de-Calais on Invasion Coast   NO OPPOSITION MET   Silvered Yank Ships All  Return: R.A.F. Bombs French Plants

American Bombers Hit From Two Directions;  Nazis Admit Red Gains   Soviets Engulf 280 More Villages in Push Across Western Ukraine; Big Bombers Complete Missions Over Europe Without Loss

R.A.F. TAKES UP AIR BATTLE THROUGH NIGHT   No Bombers Are Lost In Latest Action Against Reich

Temperatures   Muenster Targets Attacked; R. A. F. Active Axis Hints

Muenster Lashed By U.S. Heavies   Rocket-Gun Coast Ie Alen Rattarsn

SILENT RADIOS INDICATE NEW NIGHT AT TAKS   U. S. Planes Raid Germany and French Coast, Hit. Toulon Base.

French Coast, Muenster Hit by Bombs   Allied Planes Head Toward Reich Aaain on Saturday

Ist ‘All-Silver’ Raid Hits Reich   Pas-de-Calais Arca Raked  Nat One Raoniber Tnsct

PUSH AHEA 2 PALAU ISLES   Yank Warplanes Operate Against Philippines From Morotai

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Nazis Flee To Defenses  Inside Reich   Hitler’s Legions Disorganized; Fate Is In Hands of the Gods

Long Last Allies ve Their Hob-Nail ar Boot In the mb of the Fuch5 Front Door

Americans Have Foot In Germany's Front Door— ame Eey ae WRITE ALR  Yank Tanks Fight On Hitler's Sacred Soil

YANKEE TANKS ARF FIGHTING ON HITLER'S “SACRED SOIL” [AT STRASSBOURG ON THE RHINE

Super - Fortresses Carry Out Wars’ Longest. Air Mission   Three Planes Lost In First Fire-Bombing Of Japan and Raid on Sumatra Oil’ Depots

CLAIM RUSSIANS NOW FIGHTING GERMAN TROOPS ON POLISH SOIL   Soviets Pursuing Fast-Retreating Nazis. Wealthy People Leave Rumanian Capital.

Climax to Offensive Is Going Forward for Six Months.   GERMANS ARE IN FLEEING RETREAT   Rumanian Government Is Moving to Western Rumania.

Reds Said To Have Crossed  Polish Border   'They Are Now Within 250 Miles From Soil of Ger many

New Offensive Carries Soviets To Within 250 Miles Of German Soil

SAY NAZIS ARE FLEEING   Already Making Getaway on U. boats, Moscow Reports

RAIL UN  IONS.  HOPE TO-END:  ~ PAY ‘FREEZE’   LRADERS.. DECLARE GOVERN: “MENT HAS DEMONSTRATED IT CANNOT HOLD DOWN °. LIVING COSTS.

RAIL LABOR FLAYS WAGE “FREEZE”   Plan Blocks Settlement With Three . Operating Unions

PARKBUILDINGS AND ROSS HOME BURGLARIZED   Extensive Damage Done in Three Lytle Park Structures

PARIS AREA RAIDED FOR ELEVENTH DAY   Bridges And Fuel Depots Bombed With Good Results

BRITAIN OK’S PEACE TERMS GIVEN FINLAND   Internment of Nazi Troops and Ships in Finland, Restoration of 1940 Barder Demanded   HELSINKI SILENT   Official British Quarters Point Ou! No Separate Peace Possible Under Pact With Russia

British Get Behind Plan For Finland   Soviets Are Ready To Talk With  Paasikivi

Demands Finland Break With Reich, _End War Aetiviti   Russians Will Receive Paasikivi; Ridding Small Nation Of Enemy Seen Difficult By Soviet Union

Finns Are Told To Intern Nazi “Troops, Ships   “Extremely Harsh” Terms Will Be Imposed Unless Finns Accept Soviet © Original Offer   Secret Session Of Parliament Held   British Acceptance Came  After Consultation With.  Russia, ‘Under Terms: . Of Alliance

British Agree To Peace Terms Of Reds fo Finns   Russians Demand Finns Stop Military Operation, Interne Nazis in Country

_ —FINLAND  FINNS CONSIDER RUSSIA'S OFFEF   End Of Military Operation, Break With Ger: ‘many Is Demanded   ENVOY AWAITED   Allied. Diplomats. In Mos‘cow Declare Soviet Pronosal ‘Fair’ . .

Britain Agrees To Soviet Peace Terms to Finland   Demands Cessation of Fighting, a Break with Reich and Internment Of All Nazi Troanse

BRITISH AGREE ON RED PEACE TERMS TO FINNS   DEMAND INTERNMENT OF ALL NAZIS AND SHIPS IN FINLAND

Britain Approves Terms Offered by Russia To Get Country Out of Conflict—If Rejected, Those To Follow Will Be More Harsh, Reds Warn

FINN OFFICIALS WITHHOLD NEWS OF CONFERENCES   Demand Internment of Al! Nazi Troops, Ships in Country

rngland Agrees To Russo Peace Terms To Finns   Demand Finns Cease Military Operations, Break Off With Germany, Intern Nazi Troops-Ships and Set Up 1940 Borders.

Offers Truce Terms   Must Break With Germany, Intern Its Troops.

Britain In Agreement On Terms Of  Finn Peace   Consultations Were Held With Moscow, London Says; No Separate Pact

Moscow Ready To Receive Paasikivi  British Agree To Peace Terms Submitted To The Finns By Soviet Russia

Britain Agrees To Russo-Finn Terms Of Peace   Moscow Orders Finland Intern German Troops  - And All Ships

PAASIKIVI NAMED AS FINNISH NEGOTIATOR   If Terms Aren’t Accepted Subsequent Proposals Will Be “Harsher”

Ponder Peace Terms.   Finnish Parliament Has Soviet Proposal Under Advisement; Britain In Agreement

ENGLAND GIVES APPROVAL FOR FINNISH PEACE   Russian Proposal Studied; Exnect Finns To Act

BRITAIN O.K’S REDS’ FINNISH PEACE TERMS   Moscow Demands Finland Cease Miltary Operations With Germans

Britain Agrees To Russian Terms   Finnish Cabinet Meets to Decide on Possible Acceptance

Russian Plan Approved To End Fight   Finland Must Intern All Nazi Men, Ships Under Offer

-Red Terms ~ to Finland Endorsed   Great Britain Agrees to %. Moscow Proposal for Finns to Quit War   DEMANDS GERMAN TROOPS BE HELD   “Soviet Help Offered; Other Conditions Given; Reds Ready to Negotiate

English Approve Peace Terms That Reds Give Finns   Internment of German Troops in Finland Is  Asked by the Russians.   Is Asked to Break Relations With Nazis

Demand Break With Nazis;  Intern Troops   Finnish Government Has Given No Indication of Country's Attitude

English Back Soviet-Finn Peace Terms   Russians Ready to Receive Finnish Envoy; Expect Answer Shortly from Finland

REDS-FINN PACT “TO END FIGHTING PARTLY APPROVEL   British Approved Terms Submitted By Stalin, Finland Required to Seize Nazi Soldiers.   RUSSIANS OFFER TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE   Helsinki Has Not Yet Provided Slightest Indication on Attitude to Proposal From Moscow.

Britain OK’s Russian Peace  Plan To Finns   No Inkling Given Of Baltic Country’s Attitude

Great Britain Agrees To Plar Of Withdrawal   No Hint From Finns As To What Course Nation Will Take

SAYS RUSSIAN PEACE OFFER IS FAIR   Helsinki Fails To Comment After Secret Sessions   Include End Of Military Operations, Internment Of Nazi Men, Ships

SOVIET PEACE TERMS HANDED TO FINLAND    Great Britain Agrees to  Proposals Submitted for Getting Finns Out of  War 3

SOVIETS READY TO MEET FINN PEACE ENVOYS   Early Negotiations Are Predicted By Reds,  Great Britain

No Comment From Helsinki   Harsh Terms Due Unless Finland Accepts Proposal.

Brunswick Hit With 2,000 Long Tons of Bombs in 23 ‘Minutes; Berlin Attacked

Record Concentration Follows Up Great Yank Attack On Nazi Plane 2 Sees ee, eee iene hep

Wew, Heavy ~Alfack on ~ Air Center   RAF .Lugs .2,000 .Tons .ot Blockbusters. to Brunswick in Night Assault   ~ SAME CITY YANKS BLASTED TUESDAY   1,400 . Allied Planes . Also Hit French Coast; Soviet  ft Planes Attack Convoy

— Nazi War Supply Citvw Left Ablaze   ... Mesquite Bombers Strike Again At Berlin

City Making Planes Gets Heavy Load   Brunswick Is Left With Great Fires Still Raging

87 Tons Per  Minute Fall In Heavy Blow   2000 Long Tons Dumped On Manufacturing City In Central Germany

RAF THROWS FULL WEIGHT INTO FIGHT AGAINST GERMANY  CITY OF BRUNSWICK BURIED UNDER HEAVY

Speedy Foray Leaves Nazi City Burning   Twe Thousand Long Tons of Bombs Dreppec In 23 Minutes on Industrial City; Mosauitoes Raid Berlin in Steady Attack

HUGE AIRPLANE PLANT TARGET OF NIGHT RAID   Full Weight of British Air  Force Tear at Plant Already Gashed by American Airmen   FIRES LIGHT CITY © . UP LIKE DAYLIGHT   Flames So Bright Bomb’s Explosions Are Seen From ‘Skies; Mosquitos Hammer . Berlin at Same Time

CITY FIRED BY 2,000 TONS OF BOMBS   Yanks Raid French Coast In Daylight   38 AIRGRAFT   Lost In Night’s Attack; Rocket Gun Line Hit By 1,400 Planes

RAF HITS NEW HIGH IN BLAST AT BRUNSWICK   87 Tons of Bombs Per Minute Dropped on German City

BRUNSWICK HIT WITH 2000 TONS IN 23 MINUTES   RAF Seis New Record for Bomb Concentration on Targets Strafed by Americans Tuesday   GREAT FIRES RAGE   U. S. Planes Participate in Raids on France, Russians Hit Black Sea Convoy

BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS LAY 2,000 LONG TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON GERMAN AIRCRAFT BUILDING CENTER  IN 23 MINUTES—BERLIN AND MAGDEBURG AND TAR: GETS IN NORTH FRANCE ALSO HIT

Brunswick Hit in Day and Night Attacks   2,000 Tons Dropped in 23 Minutes; Berlin Again Bomber Target

17,000 IDLE, WORK HALTED “ON WARSHIPS   Union at Cramp Plant “On Strike Over Dispute Involving 42

SOUTH VOTING SEEN AS TEST. ~ OF ROOSEVELT   : POLITICIANS WATCHING RE‘SULTS IN FLORIDA AND ALABAMA PRIMARIES BE- © ING HELD TODAY

NEW OFFENSIVE INTO CENTRAL FRANCE OPENED   Canadians Break Inte Falaise, Sever Nazi Line

Explosive Drive On Big Front   Leave Canadians [To Mop Up At  Falaise; Win  Battle At Dreux.

Nazi High Command Says American Tanks Within 35 Miles of Capital, Other Forces Mop Up Trapped Army

CALL BIG FOUR TO WHITE HOUSE   I’. D. Again Demands lederal Vote

FDR AND BIG 4’ TALK VOTE BIL!   Believe President Reassert: Demands for ‘Federal’ Ballot

Amazed to Find Italian-Looking { Doctor Talking Like.Bobby Burns

Famous British Cruiser Is Sunk   Penelope Goes Down  After Many Battles

List Penelope Lost In Action   Famed British Cruiser Sunk In Establishing Bridgehead At Nettuno.

FAMED BRITISH CRUISER SUNK   Admiralty Announces Loss Of Penelope In Battle Of Nettuno Bridgehead,

*fAMED CRUISER LOST BY BRITISH   “Penelope, Two Destroyers, Another Cruiser Sunk Off Nettuno Bridgeheod

Famed British Cruiser Lost   Penelope Destroyed In Establishment of Bridaehead in Italy

Famed British Cruiser Is Lost   “HN: Pepperpot” Survive Days Attack, But Was Sunk At Nettuno.

British Report Loss Of Famed  Cruiser Penelope   “HMS Pepperpot” Scarred At Malta

Penelope’s s Loss Aired   . Famous Cruiser Hit “In Nettuno’s F ight:

British Cruiser Penelope, ‘HMS Pepperpot’, Lost   Battle Scarred Warship, Cruiser Spartan, Two  : Destroyers and Five Major Assault Vessels  Nettuno Bridgehead Casualties

British Reveal Famed Cruiser Penelope Lost   One of Four Ships Which Were Destroyed During Nettuno Landings

HMS Penelope Cruiser Lost      Famed Veteran. of Malta Bombings Lost At Nettuno Beachhead.

British Lose Famed Cruiser   Penelope and Two Destroyers Sunk Off Nettuno Bridgehead

Vichy Chiefs In Dilemma   Laval Likely to Flee, But Petain May Stay

SMITH-GONNALLY ACT HELD VALID   Decision Given in Federal Court; Provision of Law Called ‘Mild’

Air Force Helping Beachhead Forces   Nazis Launching Heavy Assaults In Attempt To Dislodae Allied Troops In Anzio Sector

“BEATEN BACK WITH AIR RAID   Germans’ Casualties In All-Out Push  Are Serious

LONDON POLES REPUDIATED BY RED PAPER      Pravda Declares Future Negotiations Are Impossible With Alleged Politically Hostile Government-in-E: vile.

Reds Refuse Talks With Exiled Poles   Pravda Claims Polish Reactionaries Trying  To Split Allies

Reds Declare Poles In Exile  Hostile Grour   Further Negotiations With Them Obviously Lnpossible, Government   Newspaper States

PRAVDA ACCUSES EXILED POLES OF HOSTILE SCHEMES   CHARGES THEIR AIM IS TO SOW SEEDS OF HATE FOR A NEW WAR

Russia Attacks Poles in Exile  Declares Group Is Fostering New War

Exiled Polish Rule Hostile   Russia Serves Notice Future Negotiations Obviously Impossible

Accuse Poles Of Scheme To Split Allie:   Russia Serves Notice It Is No Longer Possible To Negotiate With  Pe ee, ee ae

POLISH GOVERNMENT IS CALLED HOSTILE   Russia Accuses Group of Trying to Split Allies, Foster New War.

BREAK WITH POLES   Moscow Regards Government in Exile as a Hostile Force

Reds Charge Poles Plotting   Government in Exile Gets Caustic Rebuke

Reds Attack Pole. Exiles.   ‘Future’ ‘Negotiations. Believed Impossible

Russia States Pole Government Hostile Force  Exile Regime Accused of Plo!  fo Split Allies; Withdrawal of Mikeleiczyk Bars Alliance

Russ Break With Poles   Government in Exile Hostile Political Force, Says Pravda

Pravda Lashes Exiled Polish ‘Reactionaries’  Sees Scheme To Baabtan bine Vsaw

SAY POLES TRY TO SPLIT ALLIES   Reds Claim New Negotiations Impossible

Dealings With Poles In Exile Impossible   Hostile Political Force, Russia Says; Negotiations In Future Impossible

Reds Announce Firm Opposition To Exiled Poles   Say Future Negotiations With “Hostile Foree” Is Obvieusly Impossible

NEGOTIATIONS WiTH EXILES SAID IMPOSSIBLI   Regime In London Appears Having Difficulties Reorganizing

U.S. S. R. DENIES POLAND FURTHER PEACE DEALINGS   Says Pole Government In Exile Is Hostile Political Force, And Dealings Impossible.

BISMARCK SEA JAP POSITIONS NEAR COLLAPSE   Gliders Used in Dramatic Troop Action to Cut Jan Supply Lines in Central Burma

JAP BISMARCK LINES CRUMBLE   American Drive On Manus Overruns Lorengau Airdrome

Enemy's Defenses In South Pacific Are Crumbling   Main Airdrome Is Captured on Manus In Admiralty Group

Jap Position in’ Bismark Sea in Peril      Wewak Rocked in New Air Assaults;, Rabaul Is Visited by Unweicome Yanks i

Lorengau Airdrome In Admiralty Group Taken; Details Of Glider Landing In Burma Released

Japs’ Suicidal Attacks on Bougain ville Collapse as Allies Tighter Grip on Southwest   DESTROYERS AID   Wewak Heavily Bombed Again with Japs Unable to Get Inierceptors Off Ground

JAPANESE POSITIONS RIMMING BISMARCK SEA NEAR COLLAPSE  . LATEST ACTION OF ALLIES WAS CAPTURE OF AIR-

BELIEVE JAP HOLD IN BISMARCK AREA INEARING COLLAPSE   American Forces Capture Lorengau Airdrome On Manus Island—Wewak Is Again Pounded in 143- Ton Bop Ing Attack

Jap Bases Near Collapse In Bismarck Sea Sector; Americans Seize Airport

Yankees Capture Manus Airdrome In Admiralties   Jackie Coogan _ Pilots Glider In Burma Fight

Jap Defenses On Bismarck Rim Sagging   Americans Take Airdrome On Manus Island—Near -Lorgenau ‘Township

: —PACIFIC— Bismarck. . Positions Crumbling   Steady Trip-Hammer Al . lied Blows Wearin:  .Down Japs

WORK WEEK OF ARMY BOOSTED   Service Force Installations Go On 56-Hour Basis

ARMY DRIVES ON WESTWARD AS MOKMER FALLS   Overcome Final Jap nee on Biak Airdrome

Sixth Army Takes Mokmer Airfield and Drives On.   Final Japanese Resistance Is Overcome’

MOKMER IS CAPTURED BY US. TROOPS   Airfield On Biak Island Is Taken Aidter 11 Day Fight

CAPTURED BY U.S. TROOPS   Airfield On Biak island Is Taken After 11 Day Fight

MAIN AIRDROME ON BIAK ISLAND FALLS TO U. S   Surprise Attack From Rear Routs Japs At Mokmer

YANKS MOVE ON BOROKOE FIELD NEXT   Surprise Rear Attack on Japs on Biak Island Results in Capture of Mikmer Airdrome.

HILL RENEWS A LEASE   Publisher of Chester Times Takes”  A Five Year Extension

SHUTTLERS HIT POLAND, ROMANIA   Hungary and France Are Also Hit By Bombers

Allied Planes Smash Targets Across Europe   Enemy Bases In Poland. Romania Among Places  Hit By Raiders

Roosevelf To Act Soon On Vote Bill   Probably Will Decide Next Week On Soldier Vote

But Jap Boast Accom. panied By Sweeping New Raids By Americans   12.211 Japs Die  In Palau Islands   Enemy Fighting To Seal Off China Coast; New Landing At Foochow

TOKYO BOASTS OF AIR POWER SET FORU.S   LOSS OF AMERICAN BASES IN CHINA REVISES PLANS

American Planes Batter Japanese  Over Wide Area  12,211 Japs Killed In Palaus; Foe Still  Advances in China

12,211 Japs Killed In Palaus; Land Again at Foochow   AP Writer Says U.S. May Lose Last East China Base at Liuchow

Japs “Warn” That Air Power Ready   But Widespread Blows Continue To” Pound Nips All Over Flaming Front

WIDESPREAD AERIAL BLOWS HARASS JAPS   Yanks Hit From Kuriles To South Of  Equator

U.S. Aifmen Blast At Jap Island Bases   Tokyo Boasts Of Air Power To Beat U. S.

Widespread Air Attacks In Pacific  U. S. Airmen Hit * Nip Island Bases

BOMBERS MAUL PACIFIC TARGETS   Strike From Kuriles to Points Under Equator

American Bomber: Range at Will as Japs Boast Power  Pacific Commanders Send Warplanes Over Entire Front

FRENCH ADVANCE TOWARD FLORENCE   SEIZE TOWN 21 MILES AWAY— YANKS IN FLANKING MOVE ON LIVORNO.

True Story Of Pacifist J. A. Collett   ‘Peace Now’ Secretary Sincere Fanatic, That’s All

Allies Win Nettuno; Big Guns Bombard Famed Appian Way   Rome Within Range of Artillery; German Counter-Blows Hurl Yanks Back Aeross Rapido River Barrier

Surround Wilno In  Advance   Red Forces Storm 35 Miles Across Poland And Lithuania, New Drive In South.

NAZI LINES CRUMBLE ON EAST FRONT   Reds on Offensive Near Iasi in Romania

Soviet Troops Surround  City of Wilno   Red Army’s Forces Advance Across Lithuania, Poland

#4 Killed In Crash Of Navy Transport Plane Army Bomber; 2 Women And Infant Victim.

[7 BODIES TAKEN FROM WRECKAGE   Charleston, W. Va., Man Is Among Victims of Transport Crash; Four Men Survive Crackup in Arizona

Ten Killed in Sioux Falls Air Accident   Army “Flying Classroom” Plane and Another Collide in Mid Air

Russian Army Crosses Danube To Yugoslavia   May Join Partisans Of Marshal Tito For Moravia Valley Drive

RUSSIANS INTO YUGOSLAVIA   Start Outflanking Move to Free Country From Nazis.

NAZIS IN ITALY ATTACK BY AIR   German Aerial Foree Makes: Another Bid On Southern Front, Allies Announce.

GERMAN FLIERS RAID STH ARMY   Flooded Lamone River Slows Up British Troops

AIR BATTLE IS UNDERWAY IN NORTH ITALY   German Air Force Returns To Area; Strafe Troops

Luftwaffe Back in Italy  Planes Launch Attacks Against Fifth Army; Heavy Artillery Fire

GERMAN AIR FORGE RETURNS TO ITALY   Strafe and Bomb , Fifth Army Troops; Nazi Artillery Active.

Nijmegen Battle Held Comparable To Tarawa Attack   American Airbone Troops Take Bridge in Daylight under Heavy Fire

FBI Fingerprint Expert Testifies At Treason Trial   Government Nears Close of Case against JapAmerican Women

TREASON CASE NEARS FINISH   Government Accuses Two Jap-American Women Of Aiding Nazi  Prisoners

Service-Vote Bill   Satisfactory Compromise Is Sought For Soldiers

Soldier Ballot Conference-On:  May Use U. 5. Ballot Supervised By States

Bombers Blast Brest To Check  Nazi Evacuatior   Huge Tonnage Of Bombs Dropped On Port Of Brest By Allied Fliers   U-BOAT PENS ARE BIGGEST TARGET

Germans Offer No Organized Resistance In Normany—Eisenhower Pleased

BROWNELL MAY BE DEWEY'S MANAGER   Presidential Candidate Ends Conferences With GOP Party Leaders.

Spangler Believed Out As Committee Chief   Dewey Slated to Address Leaders; Many Delegations Proffer Advice

BROWNELL SEEMS LIKELY TO HEAD GOP COMMITTEE   Dewey Slated To Make Recommendation Today

Dewey Drive Aligned With  ~ War Course   Maps Political _ Strategy Today with Party Leaders

Dewey, Leaders Tailor Campaign To War Course   Believe Brownell Will Be Nat'l. Committee Head, Succeeding Spangler

RUMANIAN CRISIS IS OVER   . Peasant Party Has Adhered to. The New Government

THERMOMETER TO OPEN DRIVE   Nationa! War Fund, Com. munity Chest Drive to Be gin Saturday With Appropriate Ceremonies.

DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY   Saturday With Short Cer: emony On Main Street.

‘Dime Store Clerk, Mother of Twelve. ‘Named 1944’s Outstanding Mother

Allies’ Armor ls Holding Link With Chutists   ‘Red Devil’ Paratroopers Cling To Arnhem Positions; American First Army Masses Along 50-Mile Front Inside Germany

SITUATION IMPROVES . FOR AIRBORNE TROOPS: “HOLDING (ARNHEIM CATR   Powerful Relief Cotumns Building Up to Dash Across’ the Rh  Capture Town on End of Siewfried Line

Soften Rhineland For Ist Army Thrust; Link Made With Sky Troops   Bombardment, Continuing Without Pause, Sets Homeland Afire; British Holding At Arnhem

Supplies Reach Arnhem Garrison   Massed American Artillery Opens Mighty Barrage on German Towns

barrage Blasts Way For Assault On Germany   Fifty-Mile Arc East Of Aachen Literally Set Afire By Allied Cannons.

In Path Of American Ist Army As They Set Nazi Homeland Afire   AMERICAN GUNS ON 50-MILE FRONT   Other Allied Armies Fight Desperately To Link British Paratroopers

Mass Artillery Bombardment Lays German Soil In WasteAs Allies Prepare Advance _

Holland Robot‘ Launching Place   ee Large-Scale German ‘ Construction Revealed

Site for New Robot Built in Holland   LARGER FLYING BOMB MAY BE LAUNCHED ON ENGLAND’S MIDLANDS

Mrs. Dewey Says She's ‘Confident’  Will Help Keep   Will Help Keep Election Score Sheets Straicht

Navi Allemptto ‘Set Up Greenland ~~ Bases Thwarted   ‘Muncy Man Plays Large ‘Part ‘in Important™ Campaign =

voas: suare . 198 3 ~ azi “Neac ier x )ecions -0 _ or71 >reen anc

Top Powers Will Plan Peace Soon   Hull Will Ask Heads Of Allied Nations To Attend Gathering

PEACE COUNCIL PLAN IS SHAPED   Hull Slates Conference: With Ambassadors

Hull Starts Movement fo World Peace   4-Nation Conference to Be Called Soon by Secretary of State

New Position of Argentina Yet Unknown   May Depend Upon Ability to Clean Up Spy Nests

ARGENTINE POSITION WILL BE CLARIFIED THROUGH LEND-LEASE   REQUEST FOR SUCH AID EXPECTED WHEN FOR. EIGN POLICY GIVEN

ARGENTINA EXPECTED TO ASK LEND-LEASE AID  Tee. TFRETTRY BF UUITOUTSNNTISD

Argentine Status To Be Clarified If Help Is Asked   Lend-Lease Arms and Supplies. Due to Be - Sought Soon

Wait for Argentina to Clean Out Nest of Axis Espionage   Germany Tries to Act Nonchalant—Says England Will Suffer

Argentina Still on Probation In Spite of Break With Axis   MERCHANT FLEET FROZEN

ae The War Today —— War Lesson for Germany Necessary  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

REPORTS FROM WESTERN FRONT INDICATE THAT GERMANY MUST IBE WHIPPED IN EVERY TOWN

HOPE FOR LASTING PEACE DEPENDS ON. ‘CLEANING QUT NESTS OF NAZIS WITH

The War Today  Street-by-Street Battle for Reich Seen ‘by Leaders

THE  WAR TODAY   Hope of Last. Peace Demands That Ger “many Be Thoroughly Whipped Before Eyes Of Her People

The War Today   Allies Welcome Chance to Whip Germany on Her Own Soi]

Postwar Boom In Trade With Russia Seen   Johnston Starts Work On Proaqram

-POST- WAR OUTLOOK: — Visitor to Russia Foresees ‘Trade Boom With that Country

Tremendous Postwar Boom in Trade With Russia Seen by Eric Johnston

Trade Boom With Russia   Eric Johnston Says . Reds Look to U. S. for Huge Postwar Needs

STATE MOVES T0 TAKE OVER CRILE ESTATE   Owner Fails To “Accept Offer From Experiment Station

BUSINESS REVIEW FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OPTIMISTIC —   BUSINESS, AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY IN TEXAS

BUSINESS REVIEW FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OPTIMISTIC  BUSINESS, AGRICULTURE   BUSINESS, AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY IN TEXAS CONTINUE SOUND

Four Towns Fall to U. S. Forces   Gains From 60 to 80 Miles Are Registered As Yank Spearheads Near Versailles; German Army at Calais Faces Entrapment

Patton’s Motorized Forces Advance 13 Miles Over Aunay   Orleans, Chateaudun, Dreux and Falaise Fall to Allies

General Patton’s Army Also * Reported Today 27 Miles from Paris Suburb of Versailles.      SOUTHERN INVASION IS 30 MILES INLAND

en Orleans, Dreux And Chateaudun Captured By Americans In Rapid Advance — Patton’s Forces 27 Miles From Versailles — British Radio Says Yank Spearheads Have Reached Outskirts Of Capital — Falaise Falls To Canadians

Orleans, Dreux, Chateaudunand Chartres Fall ToPatton’sMen   Americans Drive to Trap Fleeing Foe Against Seine River

Patton’s Spearhead Abouw' 27 Miles Of Versailles;:  Announce Chartres Fall 

Paris Now a “Front Line City” and Thunder-of American Guns Can Be Heard Says Nazi Radio

SPEEDING AMERICAN TANKS AND MOTORIZED INFANTRY UNCHECKED   GEN. PATTON’S STEEL SPEARHEADS WITHIN FEW MILES OF PARIS

Tanks Smash Toward City   Officially Reported 35 Miles Away, With German Resistance Mild  MAY TRAP ENEMY  Allies Have Chance to Pin Germans Escaping Trap Against Seine River

U. S. Spearhead Within 23 Miles Of French City   General Patton’s ‘Armored Forces Drive Across Aunay River From Chartres, One Of hey Cities Captured ‘Along Sitl Orleans. Dreux And Chateaudun

PATTON'S MEN NEAR SUBURBS   American Steel Spearhead Only 27 Miles From Versailles.   GUNS HEARD IN CAPITAL

Key Cities Fall as Yanks Race to Within 23 Miles of Capital; Patton Threatens New Nazi Trap en Seine

Swift American Tanks Roll On Toward Goal   French Capital Frent Line WithOut Food

Third Army 27 Miles From City’s Suburbs; Orleans, Chartres Fall   Dreux Taken As Yank Units Swing North Toward Seine River, 20 Miles Distant, To Forge New Trap On Germans In Northwestern France

Patton’s Forees Within 35 Miles Of Capital of France   Yanks Capture Chartres, Orleans, Chateaudun, Dreux in Record Breaking Drive; Canadians Seize Falaise

Rapid Advance of Patton's Tanks To East Revealed   Another Giant Trap For Beaten Germans Appears to Be Ready

Cannon Fire Already Heard in Paris, Reported Front Line City by Germans with Food Situation Acute   Cannon Heard in Paris

PATTON'S GALLOPING STEEL * SPEARHEADS HAVE CAPTURED FOUR KEY CITIES ENROUTE   Cannons Can Be Heard in Paris Which Is Now Called “Front Line City Without Food, Police, Gas or Fuel: Allies Control Highways

German Resistance Weak: Allies Are Boxing in Nazis’ Trapped Army

Guns Of Patton ArmyAreHeard Within Capital      American Forces Topple Four Key Cities In Drive Toward Metropolis  Of France   Meeting Negligible Nazis Resistance   Paris In Chaos: Police Striking; Germans Appeal Por Calinness; Ca nadians Seize Falaise

PATTON'S 3RD ARMY 35 WALES FROM CAPITAL   Heavy Allied Cannon Fire  Echoes In Paris Street.

TEMPERATURE:   Third Army Advance Takes 3 Key Cities   Gen. Patton’s Armored Columns Pierce To Less Than 35 Miles Of French Capital, Nazi Resistance Becomes Weaker

Three Key Cities Taken In Sweep   Americans 20 Miles from Seine Against Which Remnants of Nazi Seventh Army May Be Penned — Canadians Take  Falaise and Slash Forward

TROOPS ARE 35 MILES OR LESS FROM CAPITAL   Tanks, Infantry Cross Aunay River After Capture of Three Key Cities

Patton's Forces 35 Miles: From Capital as Chartres And Three Other: Cities Fall   Germans Say Paris in Chaos as'Sound Of Battle Echoes From West of City; Alfies Moving Forward in South France

ENEMY IN DANGER OF ENTRAPMENT ALONG THE SEINE   NAZIS TELL OF FIERCE FIGHTING ON ROAD TO PARIS

Chartres, Other Cities Seized By U. 5. Armor   Capital Outflanked By Onrushing Yanks; Canadian Troops Take Ealaise. Smash Ahead

Fast American Tanks Stab Within 25 Miles of French Capital   CLOSER TO THE SEINE   New Pocket Forms for German Armor; Orleans  Falls to Allies

Patton's Men Bear Brunt Of Counterattack   Von Model Rushing Reinforcements To Siegfried Line In Desperate Effort

ENEMY STRIKES BACK HARD 10 SLOW ADVANCE   Germans Rush Reserves into Counter-Stabs Against Patton’s Third Army

Further details of New Guinea oprrations on Page 2-A.   Admiral Ramsey Wants Japs to Come Out.  U.S. Navy Itching for Fight

Navy Itching For “Knock Down Drag Out” Fight With The Japs, Rear Admiral Tells AP Meeting

Contends Navy Ts Itching For All-Out Fight   U. S. Fleet Can Afford To Play Game Of Ship For Ship, Rear Admiral Ramsey Asserts

N avy IS Rag er To Fight Ja ae ) “Admiral Save   "AP? ‘Luncheon ' Told” ‘the Yanks Want “Knock. Down, Drag Out” Battle:

FOR SHOWDOWN WITH JAP NAVY   Can Now Afford to Swap Ship for Ship.and Want Knock Down and Drag Out Fight

ENEMY CANNOT RISK HER SHIPS   Sooner Fight Comes the Better, Admiral Ramsey Tells Newspapermen.   NAVY AIR ARM VITAL

American Navy Itching For Decisive  Fight With Jap Fleet   Admiral Ramsey Says U. S. Can Afford to Play The Game of Ship for Ship But Nips Cannot: More, Heavier Carrier Use Sighted

Navy Itching For Clash With Japs   Ready for “Knock Down Drag Out” Fight

RED ARMIES BREAK INTO PSKOV SECTOR   Giving Promise Of Earl) Capture Of Railway Hub Liberate Over 210 Towns Villages.   Ukrainian Advance

Gains Scored Near. Pskov By Russians      Early Capture of Railway. Hub. is Expected—Mor  Then 60 Populated Places Taken in the . , ‘Advance of Red Armies - 

Nazis Trying To Hold Pskov  Overwhelmed   Capture of Junction by Red Army Appears Due to Occur Soon

110 Towns Freed In New Advance On Long Front   Fresh Nazi Troops Hurled into Action

Reds Bloodily Overrun Nazi Forces   Capture of Pskov, Vital Rail Hub, Is Expected Soon

Russians Smash Fresh German Reinforcements   Muscovites Give Promise Of Early Capture Of Great Northern Bastion; Hundreds Of Nazis Die In Bloody Battle

ALLIES GAINING IN PINCER DRIVE ON COAST GUNS   Thousands of Enemy Mines Must Be Cleared Before Channel Used

CHURCH SERVICE FLAG IRKS PASTOR   Eastern Ciergyman Resigns When Foroed to Dispilav it

Eastern Pastor Quits In Protest  Of Service Flag At Church Altar

Cold Shoulder from Tokyo: Japanese Government Ignores U. § Official Protests to Many Atrocities

JARS IGNORE US. PROTEST   Tokyo Adopts Altihide: of Cold Disregard.on ‘Treatment of Prisoners

Tokyo Ignores JS. Protests On Atrocities   Bataan Organizations Seek Aid for Men  From Senators

Japanese Ignore U.S. Protests On War Savagery  Relatives of Men  of Bataan in Plea } eae A; Ana ge

U. §. PROTESTS   Tokyo Adopts Attitude of Cold Disregard on Treat ment of Prisoners

AXIS EUROPE ROCKS UNDER AIR ATTACKS   Windows in Britain Rattle From Detonations Across Channel in  Nazi-Held France

FR. INVASION COAST AGAIN HEAVILY HIT   Allies Use Many Types of Aircraft In Daylight Raids

HUNDREDS OF PLANES HIT COAST   Another Avalanche Of Bombs Rained On Invasion Zone

SECOND DAY OF NEAR NON-STOP BOMBARDMENT   Assault Follows British Night Raids Without Loss on Axis Objectives.

Invasion Coast  Blasted Again   Night Raids Made  On France, Germany

ATTACKS EASE OFF AFTER BiG COASTAL RAIDS   Western Germany Hit Lightly By British Night Bombers

1944 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR MENARD   U. 8S. TO START MAKING V-1 TYPE ROBOT BOMB

GEN. ROOSEVELT IS LAID TO REST   BATTLES RAGE IN DISTANCE DURING FUNERAL SERVICES

Nazi Columns Fail To Break 2 Russ Traps   Steel Rings at Tarnopol, Skala Repulse Rescue  Effartc af Fneme

Reds Spring New  Trap Near Odessa Over 5,000 Slain   Between 25,000 and 50,000 Men Caught In Pocket As Last Major Route Of scape Is Slashed

Russians Spring ‘Another Trap On Nazi Forces   Large Force Believed Encircled as Reds Push Odessa Drive

SUBS CRIPPLE JAP SEA POWER   U.S. Fleet Prepared For Final Fight

JAPAN'S FLEET FORCED TO HIDE   Nimitz in Washington Says Future Faced in ‘Utmost Confidence’

‘World Air Conference Delegates To Approve 5 Documents Today; British Critisize U. S. Attitude

Air Conference Meets To Act  On Agreement  eee A +. be Y al ee Oe

World Air Plan  Approved   Delegates Meet Today to Endorse Work of Committees During Past 34 Day:

MEET TO ADOPT AIR FREEDOMS   Conferees Consider Final Plans At Chicago Today

AIR CONFERENCE GROUPS TO REPORT   Establishment of  International Air Organization One of Documents Produced

1,500 American Bombers Strike At Brunswick And Berlin   STIFF RESISTANCE IN BERLIN AREA  Two Bomber Fleets Converge On C apital ud rom  ERE

“Pre-Invasion Air Blows ~ Renewed as 1,500 U. S. Bombers Stab at Berlir

1500 U.S. PLANES RENEW BLOWS ON REICH TARGETS   Berlin and Brunswick Army Supply Depots Smashed In Raids

U. $. BOMBERS HIT BERLIN, BRUNSWICK   Shuttle Parade Across Channel Starts Again

 Bombing Force Hits Brunswick And Berlin Again   Armada of 1,500 Bombers and Fighters Renew the Attacks, After Short Luall

Five-Day Lull in Air War is Over   Allies Renew Pre-Invasion Bomb Assault on Western Europe Today

RAID BERLIN. BRUNSWICK   Clearing Weather Permits Resumption Of Bombing Attacks

1,500 Plane Fleet Raids Berlin Area   German StationsReport Raging Air Fight in Proeress 

Berlin Blasted, Brunswick Hit By Heavy U. S- Ships   Preinvasion Raids Are Started Once More After Five-Day Lull.

BERLIN RAIDED AGAIN, BOMBERS HIT BRUNSWICK      Btrong Formations Of Allied Aircraft Strike Acros; Dover Straits

U. §. BLASTS BERLIN AND BRUNSWICK   Force of 1,500 Bombers and Fighters Set Pace After Brief Lull.

GROUP MAY REVIEW DRAFT DEFERMENTS   New Committee May Eventually Take Over Entire Task

Yanks Put Up Stiff Battle Japanese Attack Near Aitape; Yanks Capture Sawar Airdrome

U.S. Armor — Fans Out Thru Brittany   Tekyo Reports Air Raid Alert   Bulletin

U.S. Forces Enter Port OF St. Malo And Battle Nazis   Other Yank Spearheads In Dash Toward Brest And St. Nazaire   PUSH TOWARD PARIS IS LIKELY  (BULLETIN })

Great Fleet  OfU.S. Spen Days In Area ‘Enemy-Held   Disappointment Shown By Admiral Spruance That Jap Units Were Not Caught At Palau

Red Cross Preparing For Its War Fund Campaign In Plymouth County   Henry Harms Is County Chairman Of Annual Drive

Heyy d I * ag hy i Gare k : G8 Bah ers a aad f  IDES FOR PROSPECTS      Boys Accepted For Army Air Crops Will Not Be  Transferred

PROSPECTS   Boys Accepted For Army Air Crops Will Not Be  Transferred

United Nations Parley Discusses Plans for 2 Worldwide Financial Units; Capitalization, 20 Billions

LEADERS SEEKING ‘NOW OR NEVER’ SHOWDOWN OVER POLISH QUESTION   Meeting Holds  Much Importance

United Poland Goal of Allies   Churchill, Stalin Seekine Showdown

Tito Says He  Holds Half of  Yugoslavia Enemy Gros  Weaker. Partisan Leader Declarce

Yugoslavia Promises Allied Support Until War Is Ended   First Written Dispatch To Allied Press From Yugoslavia

PRIMARY ELECTION HERE TOMORROW   Twelve Candidates Out For Ten Nominations; Five to  Be Elected April 4.

LARGE TURNOUT OF VOTERS HOPED FOR TOMORROW   Five Councilmen Only Elective Officers Being Balloted On Tomorrow.

JAPS POUNDED AT SEBANG IN ALLIED ATTACK   Enemy Air Force Pinned Down; Installations Are Destroyed Unmolested

American Planes Played Major  Roll in Allied Attack on Sabang   Newsman Tells of Daring Amphibious  Raid Which ‘Kicked the Jap From Behind’

‘Newsman Describes Fleet Aerial Attack on Sabang   Japs Were Caught So Flat-Footed That Only One Allied Plane Was Lost and the Pilot of That One Was Saved

AMERICAN BOMBS FALL ON GERMANY   Largest Aerial Attack In Several Days Hit German Targets

‘Eye-Witness To American Ra On Berlin Says “Too Terrik  To Talk About’; German Ca  ital Hit Fourth Straight Day   ‘ONLY 7 BOMBERS LOST BY AMERIC

Reds Lunge 36 Miles Beyond Iasi   New Offensive Within 67 Miles of Bucharest, Panic Hits City

‘SOVIET PAPERS PUBLISH NEW PEACE RUMORS      Russian Disseminated Rumor 1s Greatest Diplomatic Mystery

Allied Bombers Smash at 11 German Cities  Reich Industrial Areas Suffer Major Aerial Blitz

5,000 Aircraft ‘Slain at Reich   Hard -Hit : : Luftwaffe: -Fails

5,000 Planes Batter Reich  11 Industrial Cities Targets Of Allies

U. 5. Planes Blitz Nazi Oil Refineries   Intense Antiaircraft Fire Encountered Ove Two German Cities

LASTING PEACE UP 10 ALLIES   So Declares Church Magazine Editor At Ohio Methodist Rally

Mayor Asks Parisians To Help Reduce Annual Holiday Accident Toll

JAPS ARE“ON OFFENSIVE IN ONLY 1 FRONT   Enemy Able To Register Advances In China; Retreat Elsewhere

Japanese Aim Knockout Blow Against Chine   ‘Strategy Is Developing Two Years After Fall Of Corregidor

Japan Takes Defensive on Four Fronts  Allies Making Headway Against Foe in All Areas Except China

Japs Reduced. To But Single  Offensive Now   Two Years After Corregidor They Are Defensive On Four Fronts

Nips Peri Chinese Front   British Take Enemy Points at Kohima; Advance in Mogaung

JAP DRIVE IN CHINA IS GRAVE THREAT   Purpose of Nips Appears to Be to Knock Repub ' lic Out of War to Forestall Allied Bases for Attacke an Toakvo.

China Menaced As Japs Drive On Rail Center   Nippons Retreating Elsewhere on Pacific War Front

TWO YEARS AFTER CORREGIDOR JAPS ON DFENSIVE EXCEPT IN CHINA WHERE SITUATION GRAVE   Japanese Offensive in China Seen As Effort to Knockout That Country and Remove Possible Base for Allied Attacks on Japan’s Home Islands

JAP THREAT TO CHINA 1S GRAVE   Enemy Is Engaged in a Many-Pronged Operation In Rich Region.

GRAVE THREAT TO CHINA MADE BY JAPANESE   Japs To Attempt Forcing Enemy  Out Of War

China Gravely Menaced by Big Jap Offensive   Believe Operation Meant To Drive China From War—  Allies Make Gains

—PACIF ACIFIC—  ORE ERNIE THREAT TO HIN   Tokyo Striving To Knock Chinese Out Of War, if Drceethla   ENLARGE CONTROL   Nips Appear Ts Be Win: ning Fight To Control - Vital Railroad

Jap Offensives in China Poses Grave Threat to Nation   Apparently Designed to Drive Her Out of Pacific War

Foe’s Offensive Poses a Grave Threat to China   Elsewhere, Japs Are On the Defensive on Second Anniversary Of Philippines’ Fall

NIPS MAY TRY TO KNOCK CHINA OUT OF CONFLICT   Would Prevent Allies from Building Bases to Bomb Japan

China Facing Grave Threat From Nippons   On All Other Fronts Japanese Have Been Placed on Defensive

ALLIES LAUNCK NEW ATTACK ~— IN BURMA   Continue Raids From Kuriles To New Guinea   Anniversary Of Surrender On Corregidor; Outlook Much Brighter

Jap Threat To China Heightens   Offensive May Be Grand Effort to Knock China Out of War; On Defensive Elsewhere

Japs Attack in Only One Region   Allies on Offensive In Four Other War Theaters

PLANES RAID WAKDE AREA   American Warships Bombard New Guinea — Many Enemy Planes Destroyed in Air Raids.

Daily Temperatures   U. §. Planes Sweep Over 1,500 Miles Of Northern New Guinea Coast

Bombers Center Attack On Wakde  Area In Guinea   ‘U.S. Planes Sweep Over 1,500 Miles of Island Coast Bases

U. S. PLANES: SWEEP COAST OF NEW GUINEA   Wakde Area 110 Mile - West Of Hollandia  : Is Center Of   Attack

Planes Sweep 1500 Miles of N. Guinea Coast   Center Attack 110 Miles West of Hollandia

NEW GUINEA COAST JAP BASES SWEPT BY PLANES, SHIPS   At Least 18 Enemy Planes And 7 Troop Barges Are Destroyed

1000 Club Is Real, Admit New Dealers   EVEN DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN HANNEGAN CHANGES FROM DENIAL OF IT TO JUSTIFYING ITS CREATION,   So Dewey Was Right

DEWEY’S CHARGE STIRS CAPITAL   VERBAL PUNCHES ARE DEALT FOR AND AGAINST “ONE THOUSAND CLUB.”

REACTION ON (LUB OF DEMOS VARIES      Republicans Ask for the Names of the State Directors

Thousand Club {s:‘Defended By. Democrats.          “Deny Special Privileges; ~Naities Are Demanded -.”. By .G:0.P.. Chairman

BEACHHEADS SEIZED ON 10 NIP ISLETS   Marshalls Invasion Meets Slight Initial Opposition  Omeitrtiewvrreanagi

Allies Break Defense Line At Cherbourg   Fall of City Seems Near Despite Defense

Americans Crack Nazi. Ring Of Guns   Defenders Of Cherbourg Told To Die By Guns

Push Through German Line From South   Nazis Stiffen On Orders To Die By Guns Or ‘Be Shot For Cowardice

Port Expected To Be Taken In Short Time   Prolonged Siege Not Likely, Official Statement Declares

Port’s Fall Seems Imminent Despite Bitter Resistance By German Defenders   FIGHT OR BE SHOT, NAZIS ARE ORDERED

Headquarters Predicts Fall Of City Near .   break- Lhrough Occurs Between Octeville And Mont du Roc Fort  OTHER FORCES TAKE  FORTIFIED HILLTOP Only Local Fighting Occurs at Other End Of Normandy Front

YANKS BREAK LAST BARRIER AT CHERBOURG   FRENCH PATRIOTS AID LIBERATION OF PRIZE PORT

Cherbourg Tottering:     American Troops Crack German Line in South, Advance in East

Key Hill Position fs Captured by Allied Troops ;  YANK PATROLS IN. CITY‘'S OUTER RIM Prolonged Siege of Cher bourg Is Held Unlikely

Key Hill Position Is Captured by Allied Troops  YANK PATROLS IN   gpueuateizsion Sei ienmzemm i meri (4   Prolonged Siege of Cherbourg Is Held Unlikely

Early Fall of Big Port Is Predicted By Allied Officers   Patrols East of Cherbourg Find Little Opposition as Pressure Increased on Defenses; Fortified Hilltop Mile From City Overwhelmed; Local Fighting at Caen

SUNDAY SKIES CLEAR   Cooler, But No Fro Frost or Freeze “+ Indicated Over Week End

Japanese Invasion Troops In Eastern India Deal Allies New Sethack On Imphal Plain

Strict Policy In Governing Nazi Areas   Gen. Eisenhower Decrees Death for Aiding rhiad / man Armies

Decree’ Strict Penalties For Beaten Reich   Eisenhower And Command Lay Down Death Sentence; List Procedure Plan

Iron Rule for Germans, Says Eisenhower   Death Penalty for All Who Assist Nazis, Decreed

EISENHOWER ISSUES STIFF PLAN FOR NAZIS   Death Penalty for Hitlerites Aiding German Troops in Reich

Tron Hand In Reich   Allies in Occupied Land Decree Death For Aid to Nazis

Nazi Helpers To Get Death   Strict Penalty Set Re Gen. Eisenhower

Strict Policy Has Been Arranged For Ruling Reich   Germans Aiding Nazi   Germans Aiding Nazis Face Penalty of Death, Order States

‘lke’ Decrees Hard Policy Toward Reich   Orders Death Penalty For Aiding Nazis Or Misleading Troops Of Allies Deliberately

STRICT POLICY IN OCCUPIED GERMANY PLAN OF EISENHOWER  - DEATH PENALTY FOR GER MANS AIDING NAZIS OR -MISLEADING ALLIES

Eisenhower Proclaims Firm Policy  In Dealing With Occupied Germany

Hard, Firm Policy Formed for Ruling Occupied Germany   Death Penalty Decreed for All Who Give Aid to Nazi Officiais

Eisenhower Decrees Death for Germans Giving Aid to Nazis  Strict Policy of Dealing with People In Occupied Germayn Is Announced

‘Death Decreed For Those Who Give Nazis Aid   Edict by Gen. Eisenhower Bans Nazi Political and Military Groups and  Hither Laws x

Strict Policy Has Been Arranged For Ruling Reich  Germans Aiding Nazi: Face Penalty of Death, Order States

STRICT DEALING WITH REICH SET BY EISENHOWER   Death Penalty Decreed For Any German Aiding Nazis Or Misleading Allies

Churchill And De Gaulle Agree   Reach Perfect Accord On National Committee Cooperation Toward Victory.

CHURCHILL REACHES ACCORD WITH FRENCH   Has Harmonious Talks With De Gaulle In Morocco

G.O.P. Oratorical Guns To Resume   Presidential Cardidates To Give Radio Talks This Week

MAJOR CANDIDATES TO TAKE TO AIR IN TALKS THIS WEEK   FDR to Make Speech Thursday And Dewey. to Follow Up Saturday Night

BOTH PRESIDENT CANDIDATES ON AIR THIS WEEK  ROOSEVELT WILL   ROOSEVELT WILL SPEAK THURSDAY, DEWEY SATURDAY

Both Nominees Speak This Week   Roosevelt Speech Is Scheduled Thursday; Dewey on Saturday

CANDIDATES 10 RENEW ATTACK   Roosevelt and Dewey Plan Speeches This Week

Dewey, FDR to Give Talks During Week   May Determine Tactics to Be Employed During Rest of the Campaign

Bricker, Warren Speak foday In G.0.P. Campaign  Dewey Confers   Dewey Confers  With Bank Head

FDR, Dewey Take To. Air   _ Presidential Race ‘Is Gaining Speed.

Roosevelt And Dewey Go On Air This Week   Speeches May, Determine Tacties For Remaining ’ Time Before the . Election

ROOSEVELT AND DEWEY TO MAKE RADIO SPEECHES   Other Candidates Touring Nation  During Week

Dewey And FDR Plan Speeches   Both Candidates On The Air This Week

GOP CAMPAIGN BACK 10 ROAD   Bricker, Warren Speak Tonight As Dewey Readies Blast

FDR AND DEWEY TO GO ON RADIO   Bricker Says Truman Has Criticized Administration

FR, Dewey, Take to Air This Week With Major Speeches of Campaigr

FOR AND DEWEY TALK THIS WEEK   President Will Address Party Workers Thursday—Vote Rival Speaks Oct 7

KE TO AIR THIS WEEK  “ Republican Campaign Includes Talks  KE AND ROOSEVELT

Roosevelt. Dewey  lo Take to Air —   Major Campaign Talks May Determine Tacties For Remaining Period

PRESIDENT, DEWLY ON AIR THIS WEEK   Personalized Type of Cam. paign Pleases GOP Stand. ard Bearer

NOMINEES 10 GIVE SPEECHES   FDR’s Is Thursday; Dewey’s On Saturday instead Of Friday.

NAZIS ISSUE NEW THREATS OF REPRISALS   Directed to Families of Disaffected German Officers

New Nazi Threat   Against the Officers’ Families Revealed By Freedom Radio

DEATH FACES — _ FAMILIES OF. “NAZI REBELS   OFFICERS WARNED THAT FAMILIES OF PLOTTERS AGAINST “9 NTLER WILL BE LI  QUIDATED .

WARN FAMILIES OF NAZI REBELS   Labor Leader for Hitler Says Kin of Traitors to Be Executed

NAZIS THREATEN FAMILIES OF OFFICERS IN HITLER PLOT   Clandestine Radio Appeal Asks Women To Help Get Rid of Fuehrer   Army Commentator Admits Red Thrusts Constitute Menace to Germany

Bernard Boy Has Role in Raid on Foe   ntimate War Waged  In Snowy Alpines By Brave Yanks

June Will  Be Fateful — War Month   iTurkey Reported “Likely  To Join Allies Against i ARS

ARMY AND WARD CO, REACH STALEMATE AFTER U, S, SEIZURE   Firm Refuses To Hand Over Books Without Avery’s Consent

BOTH SIDES IN WARD GASE ARE MARKING TIME   Seizure Of Store Remains At Im passe — Plan Action On Tuesday

Sewell Avery Beats Army Men on Job   Officials Refuse To Work Under  Militarv Direction

Liberafors — Hit Formosa   Bomb Jap Aluminum Plant at Tokao And Railroad Yards

Jap Ammunition Dump Captured   British Chindits Break Into Mogaung

PEACE OUTLOOK DARK FOR FINNS   Helsinki Pessimistic Over Possibility Of Getting Out Of Russian War

‘Moscow Doubts if Von Mannstein  Can Rally. Troops on West  Bank of River

Reds Enter Hungarian Territory      Thousands of Nazis ‘Still Being Captured “In Push into Balkans  SEAPORT IS TAKEN -

Russians Cross Carpathians; Danube Delta Is Engulfed; Thousands of Prisoners Taken

Eisenhower Prepares For Greatest Gamble Of All On First Anniversary Of Allies’ African Victor

Pr eparations: Began Just Year Ago With’ Allied Victory of. ‘Tunis   Balfour of Britain: ‘Says Air Hammering Is Opening of Attack

FOR AND WILLKIE SOON TO CONFER   Foreign Relations, Postwar Security Organization to Be Topics

Hold Cotton Crop, Urges Bankhead  Seeks to Force Cotton Prices Up to Parity

Dewey Asks Transfer of Canal Docks   Would Turn Over5 Terminals to N. Y City. 6th {fo Port of N.Y.

Senator Battles Subsidies   BANKHEAD SAYS FUNDS TO REGULATE FOOD PRICE POINT TO INFLATION

DRAFT LOOKS TO SPEEDING UP. OF PHYSICAL!   See Reduction in Registrant Appeals Under New Rules

New Draft Plan To Cut Appeals  Pools To Be Set Up OF Physically Fit

Greatest Single War Day   Capture Six Major Enemy Bases And 1620 Towns On 1,000 Mile Front.

Lwow, Bialystok, Four Other Centers And 1,632 Towns and Settlements Fall ;Soviets 31 Miles From Warsaw

Won't You Please Eat Another Egg?   WFA Says If All Would Do It Would Help Situation

ALLIED ARMIES BATTERING AT “TOUGH. ENEMY RESISTANCE’ IN DRIVE NORTHWARD

Nazi Troops Driven From Frontier Town  Pn  rs   Majer Railroad. Junction on Line: P To Revall Topples

- oe ular  BATTLES AGRAGING FOR BORDER CITY  Russians Reported Only      Russians Reported Only Eight’ Miles From Bor- der Of Estonia   FIGHT IN STREETS   Nazis Being Driven From Houses In Kingisepp, Russians Report

Black Market Makes Worse Fag Shortage   Millions on Prowl for Smokes; Hoarders Blamed

Operators Capitalizing On Shortage  Cigaret Black Market Growing

Shorfage Of Butts Acute As Officials Swat Black Market   Home Folks Begin To Rol Their Own, And Girls Taking To Pipes

Survey Shows Scramble for Cigarettes Upsets Morale of Nation's War Plants

Have Solid Front of 20 Miles Width   Capture Fort Thionville and First of Metz Forts, ~  - Is Announced , Lb

THIONVILLE Is CAPTURED BY -OTARM UNITS   Patton’s Troops Make SixMile Advance -to-Cut New Bridgenead.

Storm Fort Thionville, Gain New Bridgehead, Push To Saarbrucken   Impressive Advances Along Saar Front Clamp Metz In Narrow Arc; Germans Withdrawing

87 In Poultry Business Face OPA Charges   Agency Says Many Participated In “Black Market”

Ways Opened For Willkie To Bolt   GOP Platform Disputes Stand Of 1940 Nominee.

GOP Planks Open Way to Willkie Bolt   Three Doors Are Labelled Foreign Policy, Tariff, States’ Richts

G.0.P. Platform Leaves Three Doors Open for Willkie to Bolt Party

Poles Meet To  Discuss Plans Open Negotiations For Combined Setup

Polish Factions Agree to New Peace Parleys   Announcement Made After Churchill And Stalin Delibefate

Yanks Take Montebourg, In Crash Through Outer Defenses of Stratesic City

Put Seal Of Doom On 30,000 Nazis Trapped In Allied Assault Are   Germans Carry Out Demolitions In Port Some Observers Say Will Fall In Next 2 Days

Large Port Of Cherbourg Expected To Fall To Allies In 48 Hrs.  TAKE MONTEBOURG, 14 MILES TO §. E.  Most Bitterly Defended Nazi Bastions Encountered In Invasion

U. 5. FORCES WITHIN SIX MILES OF PORT: DEFENSE WEAKENING   Besieged City Under Constant Shell Fire; Germans Already Blowing Up Harbor Works, Aten Mee

Montebourg Again Seized By Americans   Trapped Nazis Without Hope Of Evacuation

Clamp Assault Arc on Great French Port: Fall Predicted in Two Days

Montebourg Is Captured By U.S. Unit   Observers Predict Fall Of French Port Within Two Days.

Says Brown Uses State Funds For Useless Purpose   Taxpayers’ Head Says Thousands Spent For ‘Partisan’ Bulletin

Perry-Co. Aye Slayer Found Insane   Crooksville Man Likely to Remain At Lima Hospital

TENS EE EUIN BRIN  Nazis Battle Fiercely As Americans Widen  ~ Wedge Near Aachen   First Army Tanks Capture Beggendorf, 3 Miles Inside German Territory; Big U. 8. Guns Tear Germans From Defenses

Tanks and. - Guns Pour Thru Gap      But Piles of German Dead  Make It Difficult for In  fantry to Advance   ENTRENCHED ENEMY PIGHTS DESPERATELY   Every Effort Is Made to Hold West Wall Against the Americans

Doughboys Battle Forward in Spite  Of Stiff Resistance   United States Tanks and Infantry, Fighting at Edge of Cologne Plain, Widen Wedge In Sector North of Aachen   ENEMY HURLED BACK IN THRUST BY CANADIANS

Pleasure Driving Ban Likely To Be Renewed   Cut In Gasoline Rations Also Is Predicted By State OPA Spokesman

Red Conquest Of Crimea Near Finish   Sevastopol 3.5 Miles Away as Soviet Juggernaut Speeds

Nazis Lose Tarnopol After Lengthy Struggle; Bombs Hit Ploesti   U. S. Forces Lose 30 Bombers in Raids On German Air Bases During Day; Algiers Radio Says Allies Take Italian Town

TWO CITY HUNTERS ATTACKED FARMER   Des Moines Hunters Accused of Beating and Shooting Farmer Near Emmetsburg.

Des Moines Men In County Jail Ai  Emmetsburg  Pheasant Hunt Led To Tail Cell

Eoynt Takes Over Investigaliun of Slaying at Cairc   British Officials Cu Off News Until the Trial of Killers

WarPlanning Chiefs Say Germany to Quit by October 31  Partial Reconversion Of Output Due as Soon as Nazis Quit

Dent Admitted In Siegfried Line By Enemy Radio   Supreme Command Silent on Activity On Front Lines

War Heads Set (October 31 As Nazi Deadline   War Planning Chiefs Set Tentative Date For Nazi Collapse.

ROTGEN FALLS TO YANKS, DENT SIEGFRIED LINE   Allied Troops Penetrate ‘Primary Objectives’ Beyond City

TENTATIVE DATE FOR WAR'S END   Oct. 31 Set As ‘Outside’ Day For Germany to Quit Fight

Yank Armored Forces Reach Siegfried Line   Allied Warplanes Pound Nazi Defense Zone In Heaviest Aerial Attacks Of War; New U.S. Army Reported On French Front

OTHER FIRST ARMY FORCES 3 MILES FROM GERMANY   POSE THREAT OF STILL TWO MORE LINE CROSSINGS

‘Outside Date’ for Collapse of Germany Fixed by Leaders After Survey of Nazi. Strength

Doughboys Capture Rotgen: Nine Miles From Aachen;  Storm West Wall Defenses

ANTWERP AND WARSAW KEYS TO VICTORY   Success In Europe This Fall Depends Upor Speed With Which Allies Can Gain Vital Cities

Two Great Strategic Keys Needed By. Allies   Must Have Antwerp Port Facilities  And Warsaw For Big Drive On Germany

Two Great Cities Key to Victory   Antwerp and Warsaw Are Needed in Order to Start Grand Assault   “XUST BE CLEARED TO SUPPLY ARMIES   Possibility of Victory This Year May Hinge on These Centers

Antwerp And Warsaw Keys   Allies Must Have Them if They’re to Make Victory Assault This Year

Victory This Year May Hinge On Allied Seizure And Use Of Cities of Antwerp, Warsaw

POSSIBILITY OF VICTORY IN - . EUROPE BEFORE CHRISTMAS MAY [DEPEND ON STRATEGIC FACTORS

Cities Hold Victory Key      Victory This Year May Hinge On Ability of Allies to Make Use of Warsaw and Antwerp

Strategy Is Key To‘Wher Is Victory?’   The Two Essential Points Is Warsaw and Ant werp; Latter Is To Be Western Front Supply Rasa

Quick Victory Hangs on ‘If’s’   Capture of Warsaw, Antwerp Held Vital

Nagasaki,  Palembang Set Afire   Three Bombers Unaccounted For; Fourth Strafed After Landing

Three Big Forts Lost In Yesterday’s Raids   Good Results Obtained According To Report, One Plane Grounded In China

Reports German: Looting Florence  Littie Activity Other Than at Monte Grillo

MONTE GRILLO IS RECAPTURED   British And Indian Units Turn Back Five Counter-stabs in Italy

Allies Regain  Monte Grillo   Beat Off Five Enemy @ounterattacks On Slopes; Lull   Prevails.

British Forces Hurl HunsBack  In Arezzo Area   Reeapture- Monte Grillo.   Beat Off Five German   Counteraltacks; Lull in Flerence Zone

Allies Capture Vionte Grillo   Furious Fighting Precedes Lull in Italian Sector

Furious Fighting ~ Around Arezzo in Italy is Reported   British-Indian Forces Recapture Blood-Soaked Mount Grillo

MONTE GRILLO IS RECAPTURED   British And Indian Forces Beat Off Five Counterattacks

Allies Retake Blood - Soaked Monte Grillo   Lull Prevailing Ove Most Of War Theatr In North Italy.

Fighting Furious Around Arezzo   Situation in And Around Florence Little Changed

FIVE GERMAN BLOWSBEATEN OFF IN ITALY   British and Indian Forces Smash Drives in Arezzo Sector — Remainder of Italian Front Is Relatively Quiet.

Allies Seize Monte Grillo Near Arezzo In Italy While Lull Continues At Florence   Conflicting Reports On Conditions In Heart Of Besieged Art City

Nazi Attacks In Italy -Resistec   [British And Indians Take Monte Grillo

Fighting Furious Around Arezzo   Situation in And Around Florence Little Changed  _ narza_w Aare, ara Bea 2s slCUrelU ee

ALLIES RETAKE MONTE GRILLO   Nazi Counter-Attacks Near Arezzo Beaten Off

QUIET PREVAILING (ON MOST OF FRONT   British, Indian Forces Recapture Blood-Soaked Monte Grillo. ,

British Take Monte Grillo   Indian Forces Aid in Recapture of Bloody Hill in Arno Sector

British Forces’ Recapture Monte Grillo; Patrols Probe German Lines As Situation Is Unchanged

British Beat Off Florence Hill Attacks   Situation in City Static, Looting Reported; Yanks Duel Pisa Tanks

British, Indians Recapture Italian Citadel  Furious Fight Ends To Advantage Of Allied Forces

BRITISH AND INDIANS STOP ERMAN DRIVE   Situation At Florence Is Unchanged

Lull Prevailing On Italy Front: Monastery Falls  Water In Florence Dollar Per Bottle

Monte Grillo Recaptured    British ‘And Indian ‘Troops: Take Slopes

Eighth Army Retakes Grillo   Situation Around Florence Virtually Unchanged

British Beat Off “5 Counterattacks   Indian Forces Aid in Recapture of Blood-Soaked Monte Grillo—Florence Situation Unchanged.

German Invasion Guesses Varying April, May Are Believed In Likely Period

Nazi Guesses Are Upset by Red Advance   Some -Commentators Say Soviet. Success May Speed . Invasion Move   BUT ALLIES MAY NOT BE HURRIEI   Western Front Does Not Require Co-ordination to Active Red Drive.

GERMANS STILL GUESSING OVER ALLIED PLANS   Russian Offexsive Helping Keep Berlin Off-Balance as to When Invasion Will Begin

Invasion Fear  Harmnte Nagie PIGuiltS NAZIS: Red Drive Helps Allied "Nerve War"

GERMANS KEPT OFF-BALANCE BY RUSSIANS   Expect Invasion To Tie-In With  Soviet Drives

CABINET PLAN I$ TURNED DOWN   CONVENTION REJECTS PROPOSAL TO ELECT ONLY 3 STATE OFFICIALS.

Mobile Forces Turn South. ern German Flank Inte Virtual Riot   aati eens  cnemy le P ‘ulling  Back Near Duren   Patton's Troops Drive Inte Maginot Fort Line At Two Points

Armada of 2,350 Planes Hits Nazi Synthetic Plants   Heavy Air Battles With German Craft Fought Over Targets

BIG AIR ARMADA BLASTS GERMANY   Large Oil Plants Are Struck Today By Bombers

Smith Says Withdrawal Of Willkie Victory For America First Crusade

Surprise Letter In Lonergan Trial is Attacked by State   Selection of Jury in Sensational Murder  Case To Be Slow

FINLAND PLANS TO MARE STPER   ‘Comes After State Departmen: Denounces Finnish Government

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Decisive Sea Clash Likely  Jap ‘Death Blow’ ‘Tet. ... eh... ose]

11 American Battleships Sunk--Tokyo   Clash of Sea Giants May Speed War’s End

CTheDAILY utists. WASHINGTON MERRY - GOROUND (4  By DREW  he PEARSON a

Three Other Vessels Lost In Encounter   Enemy Lands Troops On Leyte In Spite Of Heavy Ship Loss

Japan’s Navy Suffers More Ship Losses   Enemy Successful, However, in Getting More Men on Leyte

U-BOATS GET SIX, PLANES, PTs REST      Chinese Deny Claims That Kweilin Liuchow Fall to Enemy; Foe Remforces

War in Europe  Is Moving  Toward Climax   Undersecretary of War Declares Last 2 Weeks Have Been Decisive

U. S. Flyers Dominate Southern Philippines;  New Big B-29 Assault   MacArthur Announces Aerial Control, Tells of New Attacks on Mindanao; Superfortresses Hit Plants in Manchuria

AMERICAN AIRMEN HOLD DOMINANCE   MacArthur Says Southern Philip Pines Under Control Of Yank Air Forces

US. Fliers Rule S.Philippines   *Drome, Seaplane Base Wrecked on Mindanaa

AIR FORCES DOMINATE PHILIPPINES   MacArthur Announces— Jap Sixth Air Division at New Guinea Virtually Annihilated.  No finnacitinn

SAY 1S RULED BY AMERICANS IN PHILIPPINES   TOKYO’S DEFENDING AIR FORCES ARE ANNIHILATED

AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY BOARD MEETS   Retailer Described as “Purchasing Agent for Community”

Phone Strike Spreading To Major Cities   WLB Warns Strikers Communications Can Not Be Interrupted

Ohio's Phone Strike Spreads  To Washington   WLB Prepares to Take Case to White House; Union Refuses to  Order Workers Back

‘Strike Has “Spread to Washington   Telephone Operators’ Walkout Threatens To Spread Over Nation; President May Issue Anpveal

Washington, Detroit Affected in Spread After Ohio Strikers Reject WLB Demand  WAR EFFORT IS HIT

Phone Strike Hits Capital And Detroit   2700 Long-Distance Operators in Washington to Quit

WORKERS QUIT IN WASHINGTON   White House Intervention Sought By War Labor Board In Ohio Trouble

National Phone Crisis Develops; Strike in Capital   Sympathy Walkouts Follow Ohio Dispute; Case to White House

Strike Spreads _ To Washingtor   ~ Ohio Phone Workers Reject WLB Back: To-Work Demand; Strike Threatens r To Become Nationwide

Nation Faces Phone Tie-Up   Crisis Develops As Capital Workers Quit, Others Threaten To Walk Out.

KANSAS SKIES CLEAR      Warm Weather to Dry Out Fields Is Forecast

TIRE, TUBE QUOTAS FOR MARCH HIGHEF   Allotment Will Be Distribut ed on New ‘Occupational Basis.’

Tire and Tube Quotas for March Up Slightly Over Totals for February

OPA Releases Marck Rafioning Quota On. Tires And Tubes   Show Decrease For Farm Tractor And Implement Cateaory

MONTH'S RAINFALL IS ABOVE AVERAGE      Precipitation for Month of September 3. 30 Inches .

MONTH'S RAINFALL IS ABOVE AVERAGE   Precipitation for Month ot * 'Séptember 3:30 - Inches "

MORGENTHAU'S PLANS THROWN QUT FOR REIC   He Was For Destruction of All German Industry as Well as For Purge of Nazis.

CATALINAS RAID CELEBES AREA   Jap Merchantman Sunk; New U.S. Airstrips Close To Targets

Southwest Pacific Air Blows Against Japs Continue  Foe Raids New U. S. Airfield Built on  Tin of New Guinea

LUTHERAN WORLD. ACTION OBSERVED   Huge Fund Raised For Re lief Work Because  of War

Lutheran Churches Raising Fund Of Million Dollars For War Emergencies   St. John’s American Lutheran Goal For Cause Is $500

STATE PRIMARY AFFORDS STUDY OF VOTE TREND   REPUBLICANS EXPECT TO DRAW 60 PERCENT OR MORE OF VOTERS

Primary Campaign Winds Up; Tuesday To Decide Tickets   Republican Vote Will Be Heaviest Because of Many Contests

INTEREST HIGh IN TUESDAY'S STATE VOTING   Presidential Delegates To Head List

11 STATES UNDER —DECENTRAL PLAN   Senate Unit. Hears. Demands On Reconversion Ban In Nietricts

TWO RUMANIAN UNITS SMASHED   Red Army Drives to Withir 50 Miles of Rumanian - Border.   CAPTURE LEADING ROAD

SOVIET FORCES EXTEND SWEEP   Reds Reported Within 50 Miles of the Rumanian Border Today

Red Army Only, 50 Miles From  Rumania Line   Capture Highway Leading Westward From Soroki  In Bessarabia; Smash   Rumanian Divisions

Russians Pour Across River   Smash Rumanian Divisions Sent Against Them, Capture Vital Highway

Rumanian Forces  Used By Hitler Smashed By Reds   Russian Forces Within 50 Miles of Old Border After Capturing Important Highway; Dniester Crossings Expanded

Soviet Troops Batter Way To Rumania   Route Two Divisions Of Defenders; Reds Enter Old Poland

REDS EXPAND RUMANIA, GAINS   Drive To Within 50 Miles Of Old Border; Smash   Two Divisions

Reds Within 50 Miles of Rumania Line   Smash 2 Rumanian Divisions Hurled Into Gap in  Nazi Defenses

Bring Tanks, Artillery Across: Dniester in Force, Expand River. Crossings   READY NEW DRIVE   Soviets Pressing On from Soroki, Bessarabia, Get Good Grip on Highway Leading Westward

Red Army Advances To Within 50 Miles  of Rumanian Border   Smash Two Rumanian Divisions Sent Defense Line Gaps

Russians Capture Highway Leading Into Bessarabia, Rout Two Divisions

Reds Advance With Capture Ot Vital Road   Soviet Forees Drive Within 50 Miles Of Present Rumanian Border,   E \ H A \ { 7 ) rae t  1) hi ss! ING! . ,

Russians Smash 2 Rumanian Divisions, Expand Dniester Crossings Into Bessarabia   Bring Tanks And Heavy Artillery Across River On German Captured Pontoons

SOVIETS ROUT TWO DIVISIONS OF RUMANIANS   Red Army Pounds To Within 50 Miles Of Frontier, Captures Highway

REDS ADVANCING IN BESSARABIA AND OLD POLAND   SMASH TO WITHIN 50 MILES OF THE RUMANIAN BORDER

Soviets Smash Two Divisions Of Rumanians   Russians Take Tanks And Heavy Artillery In Force Across Dniester River

(Reds Within Fifty Miles  Of Rumanian Border Line   Seize Main Highway, Smash Nazi Division

Russ 50 Miles  From Rumania   British Ban Non-Residents From Coast in Invasion Move

CASSINO BATTLE RAGES AS NAZIS ARE REINFORCED   Europe’s ‘Rocket Coast’ Hit By American Bombers As RAF Gets Factories

Reds Push Ahead  ~ Toward Rumania  Two Divisions Routed In Bessarabia Drive

Russians Rout Two Divisions In New Sweep   Amazing Advance Leaves Nazis Stunned, Disorganized; More Enemy Bases Capturec

Russians Seize Strategic Road In Bessarabia   Smash Two Rumanian Divisions.Hurled Into... Gap By Germans.

RUSSIANS TAKE KORSOV IN PUSI ON OLD POLAND   Two Rumanian Divisions Smashed In Bessaradia

SOVIET ARMY TAKES NAZI HELD HIGHWAY   German Planes Bomb Bridge  Crossings

Take Leading Hiway West From Soroki   Heavy Artillery, Tanks Taken Across Dniester On Captured Pontoons

Red Army 50 Miles From the Prut River   Stream Considered by Moscow to Be Current Rumanian Border—Soviets Smash Two — Rumanian Divisions in. Bessarabia.

Attack By Nazi Planes Ineffective  Against Reds   Rumanian Divisions Smashed As Soviet Forces Surge Through Gap In Enemy Line

‘Reds On Dneister ‘Report Widening Of: Bridgeheads        . Transport “Fanks: ‘€uns

Russ Forces Take Soroki Highway, Continue to Gain  2 Rumanian Divisions Are Smashed in Reacenrahian Advance

Soviet Crossings of Dnies‘ ter’ On 31 Mile Front Expanded, Take Tanks and Artillery: Across‘on Captured - Nazi © Pon: toons. — Poised : .For Great New -Thrust At : Upper End Of Front.

Reds Rolling Forward in Bessarabia   Two Rumanian Divisions Are Smashed 

Russ Forces Take Soroki Highway, Continue to Gain  2 Rumanian Division Reva Cmached in

Russians Launch Drive in Pre-War German Territory   Berlin Radio Tells Of Tank Attack on Memel, Baltic Port

Ex-Senator Holt Out for Governor   Seeks Nomination In West Virginia

U. 8. Doughboys Achieve Gains Beyond La Haye   Underground Activities In France Net Liberation --For -Four: Communities.

YANKS SEIZE THREE TOWNS ON PENINSUL/   Make Steady Progress In Drive Southward; Caen Tank Battle Rages

CANADIANS AND BRITISH BLUNT PANZER ASSAULT   ‘ierce Battle Raging Near Caen; Empire Troops Hold Firm Against Nazi Counter-Attack; Germans Concentrating Fore poe

Americans Making Steady Progress Down Peninsula; Take Three French Towns

Furious Tank And Infantry Battle Near  Caen Raging   Americans Advance Foot By Foot In Tough Fighting On  Fo) re a: . a oe

Break Between U. S., Finland Appears Inevitable: All Efforts To Get Helsinki Out Of War Futile

U. 5. and Finland Nearing Break   Relations Tense, Hull Declares

Break Between U.S. and Finland Seems Inevitable, But Hope Is Not Abandoned

U. S. Expected To Break With Finns   DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS ‘HINGE ON PEACE ACCEPTANCE

Finn-U:S. Break Near   Rupture Seems Certain If Russo-Finnish Peace Negotiations Collapse

Break Between U. S.. Ane Finland Seen Certain   - As Breach Widens ©   Only Thing That Would Avert. Rupture Would Be . Official’. Word: "That: Finns Have Regumed ‘Basco Noratiations With Russia

Relationship of US-Finland Hangs On Thin Thread   Hull Knows of No Peace Negotiations Of Russia, Finland

U. S.-Finnish Break Appears  Inevitable   Finland Notified That U. S&S. Was Reconsidering Its Relations.

Break With Finns Near, Is Belief In.  Washington   Only Continuance Of Peace Negotiations With Russia Can Now Prevent Action

FINNISH BREAK SEEN INEVITABLE   U. §. Is Reconsidering Relations With Country

Break With  Finns Being Considered   Charge D'Affaires Still At Helsinki but May Be Withdrawn to Stackholm

Only Slight Hope Is Held In U. S. For Continued Peace Talks Between Finland And Ruesiane

New Attempt for Peace ‘(Necessary   Nazis Install Pup Puppet Premier in Hungary in Diplomatic Moves in Balkans

U. S.- FINN RIFT SEEMS CERTAIN   Break Between United States And Finland Appears All But Inevitable.   RY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER-—

Break Between United States and Finland Seems All But Inevitable

RELATIONS WITH FINLAND SHAKY   Possibility Of Break Is Given Careful Thought By Secretary Hull

FINNS AND REDS STILL DISCUSS PEACE TERMS   Secretary Hull Indicates This in Statement Today  Regarding American Pasitinn :

U. S.-FINLAND BREAK SAD 10 BE INEVITABLE   Washington Reluctantly Gives Up Hopes for Peace

BRITISH-INDIAN TROOPS DRIVING IN LIR} VALLEY   U.S.-French Pincers Closing After Breaching Famed Gustav Line

FRENGH FORGES EXPLOIT CAPTURE OF MONTE MAID   Also Seize Important Town of Ausonia— Sever Connecting Highway   NAZIS DROP BACK TO HITLER LINE   British Smash Into Liri Valley 2,000 Germans Reported Captured

SPEARHEADS DRIVEN THROUGH DEFENSE LINE: AT _ SEVERAL POINTS'BY ALLIED ADVANCE IN ITALY -DESPITE FIERCE “GERMAN RESISTANCE ENEMY UNITS CAUGHT IN FRENCH PIN.’  - » CERS TRAP. IN AUSENTE VALLEY  y

U5. FORCES GAIN SLOWLY ON SAIPAN   es  Face Stiff Fight; Bonin, 600 Miles From Tokyo, Raided

TWO. JAP DIVISIONS MAKING STUBBORN RESISTANCE 90 AMERICAN. IN VASION FORCES

Great Drive For Germany Along 170-Mile Front   Battered Remnants Of Hun Armies In Headlon; Retreat To Siegfried Forts In LiegeSedan sector; Rhineland Is Threatened

Allied Juggernaut Closing on Liege Gateway to Rhine Valley; U.S. Tanks. Roll More Than 30 Miles, Seize Sedan:

GERMANS FLEE TO SAFETY OF WEST WALL   Rhine- Marne Canal Controlled by  Americans

ROROTS HIT ENGLAND   Dewey Calls New Deal Record Desperately Bad

Chemical Society Announces New Process for Making Gasoline, Coal From Farm, Forest, Sea Plants

 Chemists Disclose Process For Manufacture Of  Gasoline, Coal From Farm, Forest And SeaPlanis

GASOLINE AND COAL CAN BE MADE FROM FARM PRODUCTS   World’s Needs Can Be Supplied Simpler And Cheaper Than By Other Synthetic Methods, Scientist An nounces; Development Has Unlimited Possibilies

Jaluit Blows Suggest Mop Up Of Pacific Isles   By-Passed Islands In Spotlight; Schouten Islands and Wake Again Blasted.

New Marshalls Action In War Pattern  Heavy Blows At Jaluit _ May Signal Mopup Of Bypassed Enemy Units

STEP UP AERIAL WAR IN PACIFIC   U. S. Fliers Attack Enemy on 4,000 Mile Wide Arc

BOMBERS RAKE JAPS ON WIDE PACIFIC FRONT   Bypassed Japs May Be In For “Mopping-Up”

Navy, Marine Army Bombers Batter Jaluit   Planes Pound Japanese Bases On 4,000-Mile Front In Pacific,  Nimitz Reports   Award Navy Cross To Admiral Baker   Gen. MacArthur Reveals More Raids On Nips; Bag Five Planes Withont Loss

HEAVY ATTAUI IS REPORTED ON JALUIT   200 More Tons Of Explosives Fire New Guinea   NIP INVADERS   Run Into Trouble In Try To Take Loyang; Other Gains In Pacific

U.S. AIRMEN - STRIKE ANEW AT JAP BASES   Enemy Suffers Attacks Over 4,000 Mile Wide Arc, Reports Show

U. S. Airmen Pound Nips Along 4,000-Mile Are   Terrific Punch Unleashed On Jaluit; May Signal a Mop-up in the Marshalls

Terrific Bombing Of Jaluit Hints At Mop-Up Tactics   Army, Navy and Marine Planes Join in Delivering Heavy Bombing

—PACIFIC—  JALUIT BLASTED BY AIR RAIDER   Bypassed Nip Garrisons in Marshalls Facing  Mopup Action   CHINESE GAIN   \Breach In Japanese-Held Peiping-Hankow Railway Widened

Air Attacks: Confuse Foe _As to Goals   Campaign Against Jar Inner Island Posts Makes Enemy Guess  About Invasion

JAPANESE ARE CONFUSED ON NEXT ATTACK   Davao in Philippines 1s Bombed by Patrol Plane _-Damage is Not Disclosed.   Base On Saipan

BRITISH IMPOSE SHARP CURFEW UPON CIVILIANS   ELAS Forces Again Thrown ® Back After Attacks in Athens

BRITISH IMPOSE DRASTIC. CORFE IN GREEK CAPITAL   Law to Explain Stand ' in Washington; Commons Quest:ons Churchill

BRITISH IMPOSE CURFEW, IN . EFFORT TO LIMIT GPERATIONS OF LEFT-WING FORCES

Rebels Attack Twice in Athens; Curfew Imposed   British Course in Greece Causes New Explosion in Commons

Navy Accepts Eight Here   Men to Go to Oklahoma City on Way to Training Stations

GERMAN LINE SHATTERED BY U.S. ARMOR   Americans Capture Lessey and Periers Without a Fight After Sudden Break-Through.   GAINS UP TO SIX MILES ARE SCORED   Strategic Coutances Threatened by Drive— Fall Might Trap 7 Battered Divisions,

U. S. Tanks Pour Through Gap In German Lines  Around Canisy In Gain Up To Six Miles,  tsentieweenee Lin Bh sows iene

Allied armies. pose encirclement threat   Enémy plunged into chaotic retreat in France: Coutances in gun range

Sudden Break - Through of Tanks Plunges Enemy into Chaotic Retreat in Normandy.

Yankees Force kKnemvy Into  , : (‘haotic Retreat   Thundering Lines of Armor Smash All Organized Resistance; Threaten to Trap Seven Battered Nazi Divisions

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DRIVE WITHIN FIVE MILES COUTANGES   Quick Break-through Plunges _ WEnemy Into Retreat   ARMOR UNIDENTIFIED   Thundering Lines of Tanks And Half-tracks Strike Heavy Blows

Lessay, Canisy, Periers Taken In Twin Smash   Bradley Hurls Big Armor At Nazis, Foreing Chaetic Retreat

Advancing Yanks May Trap Seven Nazi Divisions   Battered Germans In Chaotic Flight

Enemy Gives Up Lessay And Periers   Yanks Get Five Miles From Coutances as Germans in Retreat; 84th Corps Faces Trap

Nazis Sent Reeling Outof Beachheads   Important Seaport Town Of Lessay Captured Without Being Fought For By The Germans

GERMANS’ WESTERN LINE IN  NORMANDY CRUMBLES UNDER —-WEICHT OF-TANK ASSAULTS

German Line Is Shattered — By U.S. Tank:   : Sudden Break-Through ‘Sends: American Forces Close to Coutances_

SIEGFRIED LINE SHATTERED IN AT LEAST THREE SECTORS BY BATTERING YANK ARMIES   German Resistance Stiffens Along Southern Cutepirts of Fortress City, Key to Approach . of industrial Rhineland   CANADIANS CLOSE IN ALONG LEOPOLD CANAI

)utch Town ){ Maastricht Iso Taken   New Wedges Driven Inte Siegfried Line

Patton’s Force DrivesGermans  Out Of Nancy   Maastricht, Netherlands City, Gnarding Meuse Canal, Taken In Fierce Battle   Siegfried Line Depths Pierced   American Armies Driving With Shattering Force Agninst Defenses Of Crumbling Evemy

cee et Ape er seit  NMASTRICHT ~-BELGIUM HLS  ‘Ya iiks Smash Into Ger  mans’ Siegfrie d Lin aH      NAZIS RETREATING’   Big Guns Of U. S. First Army Are Blasting Key -City Of Aachen”

U. S. Troops Slash Hitler's Defense:   Big German Communication Center Falls A Outer Siegfried Line Crumbles; Nancy Captured: Nazis To Abandon Brest

You Are Cordially Invited to Hea THE  THE LANCASTER SEMINARY CHOIR of the Reformed Church  Dr. Harry A. Sykes, Directing  TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH King and Hanover Sts.  THIS EVENING at 8 o’Clock   Sponsored by Five Reformed Churches

LEPKE AWAITS COURT RULING   Will Be Executed Tonight Unless Supreme Court Grants Petition

Polish-Bnitish Two-Way Attack Squeezes Escape Route To Narrow Two Miles; Conquest Of Gustav Line Required Six Days.

Russians Tighten Death Trap On Nazis After ~ Capture Of Korsun —      Teits : Of. “Thousands Of: ‘Weary, Hungry. Germans ° Fight Desperately To. Escape Annihilation As _ Soviet Forces Close In Relentlessly.

GERMAN LOSSES HIGH IN ATTEMPT TO BREAK LINES   Effort Costs Huns 2,000 Troops, 73 Tanks; Korsun Falls To Reds

Reds Capture Korsun; Foe  Trapped With Heavy Losses   Remnants Of Crack Divisions Seized

Reds Closing Relentlessly Qn Germans   Remnants of 10 Crack Divisions Fight Desperately To Escape

AFTER CAPTURING KORSUN, CENTER OF NAZI RESISTANCE, RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WEARY, HUNGRY GERMANS FIGHTING DESPERATELY TO ESCAPE ANNIHILATION .

TEN DIVISIONS IN DEATH RING AT CHERKASY   Tens of Thousands of Weary Nazis Fight Desperately To Escape Annihilation  in Russia   RELIEF FORCES HALTED

Russians Stop Wedge, Grind Nazi Pocket’   Pressure Increases on. Pskov, Essential To Latyian Invasion

Hungry, Trapped Germans Fight Desperately .  Russians Halt Big Nazi  Tank Attack Aimed At Opening Cherkasy ‘Trap

KILL AT LEAS} 2,000 NAZIS NEAR CITY   German Attempt To Get Aid To Troops Fails   “LEAP FROG”   Landing Made In Estonia By Small Soviet Force, Berlin Announces

Seek Desperately To Eseape Death As Reds Close In   Baltic Anny Within. 40 ~ Miles of Pskov, Key Baltic. Stronghold, As -Germans Rush Fortifi -eations to Hold Base at ‘AIL: Costs.

Russians Narrow me Around Trapped Enemy   Desperate Attempt To Relieve Trapped Divigions Fails.

NAZIS BATTLE DESPERATELY TO BREAK TRAP   2,000 Slain, 73 Tanks, 23 Guns Captured or Destroyed in Abortive Drive to Aid Comrades   KORSUN CAPTURED   ‘Red Armies Advance to Within 40 Miles of Pskov, Capture of Which Would Set New Trap

Weary Nazis Fight to Escape Trap   Russian Forces Close In Relentlessly On Enemy Troops

NOTICE OF ANNUAL ELECTIO]   Consolidated ‘indepenitent School District

4 ‘Human Torpedoes,’ Kesselring’s  New Secret Weapon, Arrive  dt Anzio

GERMANY’S ONE-MAN TORPEDO. 18 BEING TESTED AT ANZIO   FOUR OF NEW DEVICES ARRIVED YESTERDAY—OPERATOR OF ONE .CAPTURED NEAR SHGAE

BRITAIN’ POLICY HINGES ON TRADE   ee lead iri Appears Aimed at Consolidating Trade Position From Arctic to Africa, Develop¢ ing Mutual Aid

Britain Seeking Additional Trade   Soft Policy Toward Neutrals Aimed At Improving Position

STUDENTS CAN: HELP WIN WAR   Hope They Will Volunteer For Work in Essential .  Industries

AIDE TO HITLER IS DEAD AT 49   Germans Report Death oi Joseph Buerckel, ‘Gauleiter of Austria’

DEATH OF HICH AZ OFFICIAL REPORTEL      Joseph Buerckel One of Oldest and Most Loyal Hie ler Supporters.

YANKS REPULSE NAZIS IN ITALY   Patrols Increase Activity As Weather Improves

Rule on  Wards Monday   Company Attacks Plant Seizure at Court Hearing

ATTACKS SEIZURE   Judge Takes Case Under Advisement Until Next Monday

Prayer Book and One Telling of Herr Hitler's Generals Share ‘Ike's' Desk

‘Prayer, And Knowing Thy Enemy. Is Philosophy Ot ‘Gen. Dwight Eisenhower   Office Displays Pictures Of World Military Figures—Inecluding Rommel

DEWEY VIEWS ITALY AS FRIEND, NEEDING ACTIVE AID OF U.S   Forced Into War People Did Not Want, He Asserts

Nominees Agree on  U.S. Plan   Dewey, Roosevelt Praise Progress Made on League of Nations

YANKS MASTERS OF PACIFIC SKY   Invasion of Philippines Is Expected Soon

SUPERFORTRESSES GVERWHELMED JAP. MANCHURIA DEFENSE  WESTERN CHINA BASE   REPORT SAYS NONE OF  weir min mPres

Yanks Help With Fires .   Londoners Thankful Of Raid Assistance:

'Twas A Bit Of A Shock’ ‘Vanishing Yankees’ Aid Britons During Air Raids

Soviets Split Nazi Armies; Near Warsaw   Russians Advance 40 Miles in 24 Hours; Take Lublin, Lukow

Reds Split German Force in Heart of  “Poland: Near Reict   Russians Less Than 50 Miles From Warsaw; Nazis in Panic

TELL OF POLISH REVOLT   ‘Battles Reported Raging in Streets af Lwow

TELL OF POLISH REVOLT   Battles Reported Ragi Raging in Streets of Lwow

Russian Forces Steadily Closing  Around Odessa   Some200,000 German Troops In Area Have Only Perilous Escape Route   BOMBERS AND RED ARTILLERY TAKE TOLL

OtAL FATE UF 20000  SUPER-MER   Major New Russian Triumph Near  WATCH ube NKIRK’  Reds roae Tightening Skala Trap

CUT MAIN RAIL ESCAPE ROUTE FOR GERMANS   Trap 200,000 Nazis as New Major Triumph Appears in Making

Red Army  Nearer Odessa   Russian Troops Within Sight of Naval Base

ied of Athens eed by British   pci Supplies Issued Leftists Retreat

AERIAL BLITZ OVER GERMANY FOR 72 HOURS   By Britain-Based Planes, Ripping Transpor tation and Oil Targets With 15,000 Tons of Bombs.   Seventh Month

NAZI OIL, RAIL TARGETS HIT   Great 72-Hour Aerial Blitz Against Nazis Slowed By Weather

Huge Armade Of Mosquitos Bombs Reich   Nuernberg Singled Out As Main Target

Nuernberg Raided By Mosquito Force   Planes Dash Deep Into Reich to Pound Shrine of Nazi. dom—Long Aerial Blitz Slowed by Bad Weather

BRITISH EIGHTH NEARS JUNCTON WITH YANK FIFTH   Tommies Pushing Rapid Advance

Kighth Army Makes 5- Mile  Gain In Italy   Briti-h Drive Within 26 Miles Of Stalled American Fifth Army

British Advance On Italian Front   -Forli Highway Center Menaced By Assault

BTH ARMY CITES 5 MILE GAIN   Pushes Through Left Flank at Ralnensa  ona

OHIO MAY HAVE TWO MORE NAVY CENTERS   Material Redistribution Set for Steubenville

Springfield Housewife _ ‘Has Read 10,220 Books During Last Seven Years

Warship Shells Blaze Trail for Advancing Yank:  Bad Weather Hampers Work Of Supplying Men

Americans Gain Nearly 3 Miles  In New Advance   Port City Now Only 1 Miles From Alliec Forces in France

Yank Troops Push Nearer 'To Cherbourg   Nearing Road Junction Leading to Port; Heavy Fighting on All Fronts

Near Vital Junction, Battle in Montebourg   Tank Battles Rage on Right Flank and Around Caen and Tilly-sur-Seulles on Alhed Left Flank   Vanks Have 11 Miles to Go

Drive Near To Road. Junction; Battles Rage   Hammer Out Repeated Gains on 10-Mile Front Despite Fierce Resistance; Worse Weather Since D-Day:

TANK BATTLES STILL RAGING IN CAEN AREA   Air War Continues in High Gear as Invasion Forces Fight To Get Big Port

_ Germans Rushing More Reserves and, Equipmer " Into Battle Which Is Described As Fluid, with Vital Points Changing Hands Many Times Du tng the Piochting .

Yanks Cut Stronghold Out Frov’  Cherbo:  America:  Up Gai 2e Mr °

Bradley's Forces in New Gains   Now. Nearing’. Highway Junction: Controlling Two Roads:to: Cherbourg’   DING. DONG BATTLE. ‘IN. MONTEBOURG   Hard Fighting All Along Line and: Weather Is-the Worst: Since D-Day

Yanks Move ta Cut Off Nazis In Cherbourg   Americans Advance Nearly Three Miles Toward West Coast « Cherboura Peninsula

BRADLEY UNITS SCORE GAINS OF OVER 2 MILES   Troops Within 11 Miles of Pen. insula Beaches — British Push Inland

Yanks Thrust Two Miles Nearer Coast   Advance in Drive tc Cut Off Peninsula Below Cherbourg

YANK COLUMNS NEAR TO KEY PORT ROADS   BRITISH FORCES   Fighting Germans At Point Twenty Miles Inland, Deepest Penetration

Yanks Widen Wedges South Of Cherbourg   Furious Tank Battle Rages At Other End Of Line With British Holding Their Own

Troops Advance to Within 21-2 Miles of Vital Road Junction.   STIFF TANK FIGHT RAGES

U.S. Soldiers Gaining in French Fight   Bradley’s Men Score Repeated Gains In Cherbourg Drive

Fight for Valuable  Junction   Germans Rush Reserves Into Battle for New Counterattacks

»ALLIES SCORE ANOTHER GAIN ¢ IN NORMANDY   ard s Troops Advance ) > Miles to Cut Off a Re Junction.   Repeated Gains Are Made in Hard Fighting

ALLIES PUSHING ONINTHREAT 10 CUT PENINSULA   Furious Tank Battles Continue in Tilly Sur Seulles Sector

U. 5. Forces Push Toward West Coast   Two Separate Columns Make Gains Toward Sealing Peninsula

MAKE GAIN OF 3 MILES WEST. OF CARENTAN   Tank Battles Said Raging In Caen, Tilly: Sur-Seulles Areas  weer Germrct St ATT ALI IEITE wD

Yanks Ram Another Blow at Cherbourg   Three-Mile Gain Scored in Effort To Cut Off Port   U. S. Forces Punch Close to Junction Controlling Roads From Coast. City

Approach Roads To Cherbourg   Yanks Gain In Drive To Sever Key Peninsula.

Americans Advance — to Within 11 Miles. ‘of Cherbourg Coas   Worst Weather Since D.Day Hampers Opera~ tions in France

U, 8. UNITS ONLY 11 MILES FROM CHERBOURG AREA   British, Nazis Locked in Stiff Tank Battle Near Caumont

Within 11 Miles of West Coast   British in Stiff Battles  2 Miles South Of Caumont

ThreatTolsolate German Troops Grows Hourly   Tank Battles. Rage Near Caen; Casualties Light; Support By Battleships

Resistance  Of Germans Worn Down By Attacks    ‘Tanks Are Battling In Montebourg Area

Americans Gain Nearly 3 Miles  In New Advance  Port City Now Only 11 Miles From Alliec

Yankees Smash Out New Gains Against Nazis   Near Vital Junction Controlling 2 Roads Leading To Port Of  Cherhboura In Franc<

SCORE GAINS Tift FIGHTIN   Americans Within 11 Miles Of Peninsula’s West Coast Beaches   TANK CLASHES RAGE   British Engaged In Hard Battle With Nazis Near Caumont :

Americans Close On: Road Key   Within 2'4 Miles of St. Sauveur Against Grim Nazi Resistance Tank Battles Rage

Bradley s Yanks Draw Closer to Cherboura Artery   British Engaged In Bitter Tank Battle to East

_ Americans Drive Ten-Mile Wedge  Almost Across Normandy Peninsul

Death Toll ir Circus Fire  Reaches 151   Parafine Blamed For Holocaust;  14 Unidentified

Ringling Officials Are Held   Charge Five With Manslaughter; 18 O 146 Victims Remain Unidentified.

NAZIS SHORTEN LINES IN ITALY   Retreat Continues Along Adriatic Front; Allied Offensive Feared

OCCUPY THREE VILLAGES IN NEW ADVANCE   Behind German Withdrawal on 8th Army Front; Move toward  Qa:lmana.,   Score Hits

Allies Pressing Pursuit as Nazis Continue Retreat   Withdrawal of Germans Proceeds and Eighth Army Moves Up

Germans Retreat In Cassino Area   Allies Take Three Italian Villages

Allies Oceupy Three Towns on 8th Army Front   Nazi Retreat Ranges From 7 to 11% Miles From Former Line

Thrust Tightens Blockade \Around 50,000 Jap Troops  ‘In Bismarck Sea Region

VAUrh VW PAW MW, £460  Here Are Significant Gains From Allied Invasion

BOYS 18 NOW SENT 10 BATTLE FRONT!   War Dep't Official Says  Policy Changed Due to Urgency

MEN UNDER 13 GOING OVERSEAS   Urged Military Requirements Demand Such, Says Under-Secretary Of War Patterson.

U.S. Sending 18-Year-Olds To Europe   Replacements Needed. As Tempo hicreases, War Department Says  CASUALTIES 4.74,898-

18-Year-Olds Being Sent tc Fighting Fronts   Young Men Needed As Replacements

Youths Under 15 Going Overseas   Need For Replacement ’ Troops Is Growind

U.S, 18-YEAR-OLDS “GOING OVERSEAS   YOUNGSTERS MOVE TOWARD ‘FRONT. AS REPLACEMENT ' NEEDS MOUNT.

Men Under 19 Sent Overseas   Expanded Operations Call For More Replacements In Infantry, Armor

18-YEAR-OLDS GO T0 FRONTS   Army Departs From Policy Of Not Sending Men Under 19 Into Action

18-Year-Olds Sent to Baitle Fronts   Army Action Based On Urgent Military Necessity

mm YOUTHS vNDER. at) ‘ARE NOW ' "BEING SENT OVERSEAS AS REPLACEMENTS FOR . COMBAT

ARMY SENDING I&-YEAR-OLDS TO WAR FRONTS   Urgent War Requirements Cited by Patterson as Reason for New Policy

eEE]ESEI('U)(*CwOCO(CoOr eee =e eee  Soldiers Under 19 Now Used In Combat Service

Boys Under 19 Going Overseus   Need for Replacements Forces Change in Military Policy

U.S. Sends Young Troops to War as Casualties Mount  18-Year-Olds Now Going To Battlefronts to Meet Uraent Need.

MEN UNDER 12 CO OVERSEAS      Necessitated By Urgent Military Demands, Patterson Says

19 YEAR OLDS NOW IN ACTIVE COMBAT   Due To Exigencies Of The Military Situation, Patterson Said

Treops Under 19 Are Being  Sent Overseas   Policy Changes As U. S. Suffers  Severe Casualties

Paratroopers Landed.   Simplicity In Final Rites for Ex-Sen. Norris

SENATOR NORRIS IS BURIED TODAY   Nebraska Octonegarian Had Spent Forty Years In Congress

NORRIS RITES HELD AT McCOOK   VETERAN OF 40 YEARS IN CONGRESS SUCCUMBS

Poles in USSR Aim New Blast At Exile Group   Bor Appointment Called ‘Crazy’ by Liberation Committee

Pole Peace Hopes Fade   ‘Rift Between Rival Governments Widens In Wrangle Over “Bor”

SEE NO EARLY SETTLEMENT Ot POLISH DISPUTE   3itter New Attack By Exiled Group In London Causes Hopes Of Early Agreement To Fade

Exiled Poles Are Ripped by Bitter Soviet Committee   Group, Sponsored by Reds, Attacks Act of Warsaw Uprising

Moscow Poles Oppose Gen. Bor As Head of Army  Morawski Belivers Attack on Londen  Government in Exile and Heve of Unity Fadex

Poles Enfer New, Bitfer Faction Fight   Head of Moscow Polish Setup In Lashing Attack On Exile Group in London

FINNS URGED TO GET OUT OF WAR   Hull Cites Consequences 0! Continuing As Axis Ally

NATION TO BEAR CONSEQUENCES OF AIDING AXIS   Secretary Hull Announces Dispatch of Formal Notification

BERNANG ADMIT ALLIED BREAK INTG VELLETRI   U. S. Bombers Blast Ra _lroad Yards in Germany

Contest Beyond Aachen Nearing Climax,German Command Says   Patton’s Third Army Wins Crossing of Saar River   Riri rriw

Allied Fliers Get In Few Good Licks   «+. Trap Closing On Nazis In Vosges Mountains

U. 8. NINTH ARMY TROOPS IN SQUEEZE TIGHTER ON JULICH  REMAINING GERMANS IN _ STRASBOURG BACKED INTO DOCK AREA

TANKS TO 128   Battle East of Aachen Called Greatest of War By Germans. }   PROGRESS iS REPORTED

Japan Probably Visited by Quake      Not Fully Determined A: Yet If’ Tremor Struck : Nippon Mainland

BRITISH TROOPS TAKE RAIL SPAN “CLOSE TO ROME   Threaten to Cut Appian Way After Crushing Two 4 Counter Attacks

CAIRO SAYS THE = ~ALLIES HAVE CUT THE APPIAN WAY   Spearheads Shoot Off In All Directions—German Pressure on Sth Eases.

BRITISH TROOPS THREATEN APPIAN WAY   Yanks in Light Artillery Range of . Cisternia

BRITISH ARMY NOW WITHIN 18 MILES OF ROME   Capture Bridge Over Rome Railroad   ne  LANDING PUSHED  Nazi ee Force Takes Beating

TRANSPORTATION LINES OF GERMANS ARE BEING POUNDED; ENEMY COUNTERATTACKS ALONG SARIGLIANO RIVER TURNED

Patrols Are Near Highway   Yanks, British Fanning Out Over Wide Territory

British Treops Drive To Within 18 Miles Of Rome   , Push Ahead After Crushing Two Nazi Tank-Paced Counter Attacks   AMERICAN FORCES ALSO ADVANCING

ALLIES PUSH 12 MI. INTO NAZI FLANK   Threaten to Cut Appian Way 28 Miles Below Rome

OPTIMISM MARKS — INDO-BURMA DRIVE   Results of Allied Campaign Viewed With * Satisfaction

PROVE COSTLY TO JAPANESE   ‘uarded Optimism , Expressed in Report by Allies; .Monsoons Bring Little Slackening.   Capture Supplies

2-Hour Hop Becomes 60 Day March   13. American Nurses - Mak Long Trek Afoot After Transport Crashes   JOURNEY THROUGH NAZI TERRITORY   Adventure in Albania Takes Them Over High Mountain in Blizzard

Niles Soldier In Group Of Nurses, Soldiers Escaping Nazi Area After 60-Day Journey

AMERICAN NURSES:  BRITISH SOLDIERS  ESCAPE FROM NAZIS THEIR TRANSPORT CRASHED IN ALBANIA AN  RIFE Gren er Ofrimrr (7

Senate Race Of Interest   Thomas, Disney and Berry Seek Seat of Sooner Senator

SEVERAL STATES HOLD ELECTIONS   Chief Interest In Oklohoma Centers On Senate Race

ALLIED EXPERIENCE IN ITALY INDICATES ARMY NOT THROUGH WHEN NAZI GERMANY DEFEATED

America Takes Firm Stand in Argentina Case   Farrell Government Won't Be Recognized Until Changes Made

Argentine Calls Envoy Back Home   ATTITUDE).QOF... UNITED. STATES TOWARD FARRELL REGIME IS OCCASION FOR BREAK IN RELATIONS,   Will Explane Today

Argentina Plans  To ‘Explain’ Today   U.S. Asserts Farrell Won't Be Recognized

Spurred By Daredevil Irishman.  Trio of Troopers Get 3 Nazi Tanks

U.S. Fliers Hit Ploesti Again   750 Heavy Bombers Of 15th Air Force Smash At Romanian Oil Center

Getting To Bottom Of Tax Dispute   One Simple Issue In Jack And Heintz Squabble

Broad A, y ei             OVERRUN ROAD JUNCTION OF ° CANISY AND LE MESNIL HERMAN NINE MILES FROM COUTANCES

GAIN 7 MIS. IN NORMANDY   Canisy and Le Mesnei Herman Are Captured

Germans Report Montgomery Using 50 Divisions, 7,500 Allied Tanks

U. S. TROOPS GAIN 7 MIS. IN NORMANDY   Canisy and Le Mesnel Herman Are Captured

Americans Gain 7 Miles InNormandy   Make Speedy Advance Aft er Break-through— Yanks Take Canisy

RESISTANCE OF GERMANS WEAKENING   American Tanks and Infantry Extend Breach to Nearly Seven Miles.

CAPTURE CANISY, SET THEATRE FOR FLANKING PUSH   Main Spearheads of BreakThrough Were Swinging Southeast Below St. Lo Toward Coutances.   AMERICAN UNITS CUT LESSAY-PERIERS ROAD   D. N. B. News Agency Reports Gen. Montgomery Can Send 50 Divisions and 2,000 Tanks Into Battle.

BOMBERS ROCK GERMAN CITIES   Path Of Destruction Is Left By 4000 Allied Skv Raiders

COBLENZ OBJECT OF HEAVY RAID BY RAF BOMBERS   10-Minute Saturation Attack Launched Against Vital German City

GERMANY POUNDED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Four Thousand Planes Hit Four Large Reich Cities

Four Flights Of Big Planes Hit Naziland   france. Germany And Balkans Heavily Bombed During Daylight.

4000 PLANES HIT GERMANY ROCK CITIES   Seven Bombers and Ten Fighters Fail to Re. turn; Vienna Bombed From Italy.   Hit Yugoslavia

THREATEN 10 ENCIRCLE CITY TAKE 3 TOWNS   Advance to 2! Miles of St. Lo in Another Bie Push

Mop-Up Forces Killing Nazis Beyond Paris   Like Trapped Rats, Hitler's ‘Supermen’. Being Cleaned Out

Nazis Declare Rouen Now In Allied Hands   British Spearheads Head Toward Flying Bomb Bases

AMERICANS ARE NEAR BELGIAN BORDER TODAY   Rouen Evacuated By Germans; In  Allies’ Path

Nazis Vacate Rouen, Gate to Robot Coast  Americans Battle on Approaches   Americans Battle on Approaches To Laon After Breaching of River

R. A. F. Planes Blast Genoa    Large Fires Started at San Stefano, Livorno, in Offensive Against German Sea Lanes, Italy Ground Fighting Lags

JAPANESE NEAR CHANGSHA; TRY TO SPLIT CHINA   Only Front In Pacific Zone Unfavorable

Japs Close in. On Chanasha   Drive Within Seven And One-Half Miles  Of Key Chinese City

Japanese Advance  To Seven and Hall  Miles of Changsha ‘Chinese Defenders Ordered to Hold City to East—Meehrthar;  , a a es ae aes

OT nn = annem sere: eee  JAPS DRIVE TO WITHIN 8 MILES OF CHANGSHA   Estimate Over 70,000 Nip Troops Pushing Toward Capital

Jap Heavy Cruiser  Hit By Two Bombs   Drive To Cut China in Two Growing More Serious But Allies Have Enemy Under Pressure Everywhere Else in Far East

Japanese Press Near Changsha  Move to Cut China in Two Is Gainina

GERMANS SINK HOSPITAL SHIP   Bombers Attack Two More in Operations Off Nettuno

Dewey Attends Sunday Service In Native Towr   Republican Nominee Just "Hey, Tom" As He Rests At Home

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Governor Dewey Spends Week-End In Old Home. Town  Breaks Campaign Trip To Visit Tome ahd Old Friends

Deweys In Church Of His Boyhood   GOVERNC2 AND MRS. DEWEY ARE GUESTS AT HOME OF HIS MOTHER IN OWOSSO, MICHICLAN! ‘ .   Off For Des Moines

DEWEY GOES HOME TOWN   Visits Hospitalized Farmer He Once Worked For :

LEGIOLATION WOULD EXTENG TRIAL TIME   Congressman Will Submit New Plan for Pearl Harbor Trias

Russia Withdraws from Civil Aviation Conference Because Spain Included

Postwar Air Meet Hits Snac   Russia Refuses to Sit at Same Table With 3 Neutral Countries

Governors Open  G.O.P. Campaign   Series of Broadcasts Begins Tuesday Night

DRIVE BEGINS WITH PEP MEETING   More Than 200 Workers Attend Breakfast Rally

DRIVE BEG WITH PEP  MEFTING  INS   More Than 200 Workers Attend Breakfast Rally

British Gain In India  SOUTHEAST OF ASIA COATIWAANTD PTEANOUARTERS.

PPAR RAR AAAA Ada eee dann se Imperial Troops Gain 17 Miles  In India Sector

Public Told Base Cannot Be Defended   ‘Ghastly” Existence Of Japs Under Rain Of Bombs Described

NOT ENOUGH PLANES FOR RABAUL--JAPS   Life There ‘Ghastly,’ Jap Correspondent Writes

NEW POLICY SET FOR 18-25 YEAR OLD SELECTEES   Consider Farm Deferments  Next Thursday.

NEW RULING ON DEFERMENTS   N: Deferment For Men, 18 To 25, For Industrial Reasens.

Govt: Ready to Sell 6 Colorado War Plants Subject to New Contingencies

Yanks Make New Landing   Advance on Vogelkop Peninsula and Attack 45,000 Bypassed Japs

43 More Enemy Planes Destroyed In Latest Raids   - 000 Ton: Japanese. F; reighter Sunk; Destroyer Blasted

JAPS LOSE 43 AIRCRAFT, SHIP IN NEW RAIDS   Leyte Rages Into Fifth Day

Leyte Battle Rages Ahead In Fifth Day   Warplanes Destroy 43 More Aircraft And Jap Freighter.

JAPS. FEARFUL SUPPLY’ LINE WILL BE GUT   Fight Desperately for Ground Positions While Yanks Binct Air Power.

Leyte Ground Battle Rages Into 4th Day   American Airmen Destroy 43 More WNinnanese Planes

DESTROY MORE JAP AIRCRAFT IN PHILIPPINES   Climatic Battle On Leyte Rages Into Fifth Day Of Hurricane

ARGENTINA NO HAVEN FOR NAZI OFFICIALS   Embassy Representative Tells Newsmen Reports “Are Totally Unfounded”

MAN NABBED AS TRAIN WRECKER   FBI Says Attempt Was Part of Plot to Blast Boulder Dam

Vexatious Problems to Face Senate   Intricate Quastions o Post War Economics To Come firfors — Conaress

Senate Displays Warlike Mood On Eve of Debate   Southerns Side With G. 0. P. Plans for Post-War Adjustment

SENATE TO TACKLE PEACE PROBLEMS   State's Rights ights Will Play - Part in Reconversion »  Battle

‘Senate Assumes Increasingly Warlike Mood as Solons /Prepare fo Tackle Intricate Economic Problems

STIR DEBATE   Senate Lines Are Drawn For Controversy Over Adjustment Office

SENATE TO TACKLE ~ DEACE PROBLEMS   State’s Rights Will Play Part in Reconversion Battie

- Maj. Robert Morgan, OF Asheville, Gives Wife Details Of Raid Over Tokyo

A B-29 Pilot Writes Home To His Wife. .... Piloting A Bomb Run Over Tokyo ls Something To Write Home About

EO aol  MAJOR TELLS HOW IT FEELS TO BOMB TOKYO   LEADER OF B-29 RAID ON JAP CAPITAL SAYS TRIP NOT SO BAD AS OVER GERMANY

Pilot of “Dauntless Dotty” Cables Wife Description of Tokyo Raid

Tokyo Bomb Flight Leader Writes Wife En Route Home   Letter By Cable Delivered To Her In Asheville, N. C., By Associated Press

— PILOT WRITES HIS WIFE  Leader of First B-29 Raid - On Tokyo Tells How it Feels

It Was A Thrill For The Wife, Too  Pilot Of 1st B-29 To Bomb Tokyo Tells Wife How It Feels—‘Lifetime Thrill’

TOP-HAND IN RALD ON TOKYO TELLS WIFE THROUGH THE AP HOW IT FEELS 10 BLAST LAPS

Pilot of First B-29 to Bomb Tokyc Tells His Wife What It Was Like

This ls How It Feels to Bomb Tokio   Letter by Major to Wife Transmitted by Associated Press

ALLIES REFORTED GETTING SET FOR BALKAN INVASION   Negro, 113 Years Old, Marries Icey Ida

Remember Pearl Harbor: House Republicans Charge Roberts Commission Withheld Full Report   High Officers from Ro osevelt Down Denounced In Acrimonious Debate Over Delay in Trials

PEAR SECRET RAPPED   “Full Story” Demanded By Republicans; HigherUps Are Denounced

Republicans Ask Trial of Two Officers   DEMAND IN LOUD VOICES FULL STORY IF PEARL HARBOR BE TOLD; DENIED ACCESS TO RECORDS, SAYS MAAS,   Denied Rights

Pearl Harbor Report Draws GOP Attack   House Republicans Accuse President of Concealment

Two Soviet Armies Freed For Big Push   100,000 Axis ‘Troops Killed or Captured  In Crimean Campaign  FLEET GAINS. PORT

Soviet troops seize Sevastopol fortress to end 24-day siege   . Believe 100,000 axis troops killed  or cantured in Crimean offensive

CRIMEAN PORT CONQUERED IN 2A-DAY SIEGE   BIG SOVIET FORCES FREED FOR FIGHT ON MAINLAND

Sevastopol Falls To Reds: 100, 000 Germans Killed   Soviet Armies Now Free for Mainland Push Expected Soon

Nazi Stronghold ls Cracked in 14-Day Siege By Red Army   Victory Frees Two Russian Armies for Service on Other Fronts against Axis Troops

Premier Stalin Announces ‘Seizure of Important ) Port   COMMANDERS CITED BY SOVIET LEADER  Lightning Capt Capture Completes Liberation of Peninsula

SOVIETS WIN SEVASTOPOL, ~—_BIGSEABASE   Port Captured By Storm Tc Wind Up 24-Hour Siege; Stalin Praises Men

REDS CAPTURE PORT CITY IN 3 DAY ATTACK   More Foe Ships Blasted as Victory Ends Crimean Drive

Sevastopol Falls To Slashing Reds   Thousands Of Nazis Killed Or Captured; Two Armies :Ereed For-Drive Westward

PORT FALLS AFTER SIEGE OF 24 DAYS   Germans’ Last Toehold On Crimean Peninsula Broken as Reds Take Over Fortress City.   AIRMEN ACTIVE IN FINAL DRIVE   Seizure Frees 2 Soviet  , Armies for Offensive Expected When Allies Strike From West.

AXIS TROOPS NUMBERING ABOUT 100,000 PERISH OR ARE CAPTIVES AFTER 24.DAY SEIGE OF CRIMEAN CITY.

Victory Speeds Red Armies to Romania, Poland   Stalin Cites 56 Russ Commanders For Lightning Seizure of Port; Short Assault Ends 24-Day Siege

County Climbs Over Bond Quota   E Bond Sales Boosted Materially; Officials Pleased with Results

Carfer County Reaches Quota For War Bonds   E Bond Sales Fall  Far Short of Quota, Which Is Hoped to Be Reached in July

CAPTURE KERCH, PERIL 100,000 STRANDED NAZIS   ‘Dunkirk’ at Odessa Smashed

Thousands  of Enemy Slaughterec   Russians Open Offensive Against German Army in the Crimea

Long Flight for Lt. Mary Kerr   Will Accompany Army Nurse from Australia for Operation by Specialists in U, S.

WINGED BOMBS KILL ~ AMERICAN SOLDIERS   Undisclosed . Number of Troops Among Victims in England of German Spite Weapon:

ROCKET BOMBS SPREAD HAVOC   Hitler’s Spite Weapon Claims Americans As Victims

Flying Bombs Kall Number o! Yank Soldiers   Fighter Pilots Down “High Proportion” Of Robot Planes

Spite Robots Kill  American Soldiers   Glider Bomb Parade Over England Goes on

Crash Under GroundHurt 24 On Train   PENNSY COMMUTERS AMONG INJURED IN PHILADELPHIA SUBURBAN STATION WRECK— THREE TRAINMEN INJURED.   Slow With Breaks

TOKYO REPORTS 1,000-PLANE FORMOSA RAID   Island Is Jap ‘Pear] Harbor’

: « o ose Demos deride Maine election results; g.on. eites November victory trend

New Deal Wins In Texas Vote   FDR Gains Victory In Texas Free For All.

Goebbels Says Nazis To Fight On   Asserts Germans Will Only Seek A Just and  Guaranteed Peace. By PICHAPRP)D KASISCHKE

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaper   WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker

STIMSON THINKS LEGISLATION ON WORKERS NEEDED   Opposes Drafting 4-F's Into Army to Indirectly Accomplish Filling Places {n_Industries.   MAKES VIEWS CLEAR AT HIS NEWS CONFERENCE   Military Affairs Subcommittee Begins Consideration of Law to Affect at Least 1,000,000 Men.

Stimsen Favors 4.F Leoislation      Measure Prepared Wen-Combat Draft

HOUSE FRAMING LEGISLATION 10 DRAFT 4-F CLASS   Concede Voluntary Methods Have Failed to Solve Manoower: Needs.

House Military? Affairs Subecommit ‘ lee Moves to’ ‘Prepare Limited Na‘tional fervice” Kegislation — Designed ta Put, AF, Registrants into Noh-Combat Work” °

Stimson Urges Legislation For  Draft of 4-F’s   Comittee Continues Preparing Linnited Service Legislation

HOUSE GROUP MOVES AHEAD ON 4-F DRAFI   Alter Farm Deferment Plan; ‘Unit’ System Is Abolished

House Group Plans Bill for Drafting 4-Fs 18 to 37 for Work Battalions

Capper Deplores Wartime Strikes   Says They Peril Lives of Troops

‘To Win War ll Take All  ‘Am erica Has   WE CANT AFFORD STRIKES FOR HIGHER WAGES SENATOR CAPPER SAYS IN RADIO SPEECH.

Green Asks Legion Praise For Labor In War Effort, As _Hines Lists Vet Benefits

Asks Convention To Praise Labor   Green Seeks To Heal Breach Caused By Legion Criticism

AFL President Asks Legion to Praise Labor   Says Would Smooth  Relations Between : Veterans and Workers

LOWER HOG PRICES TO RELEASE CORN   Weights Over 240 Get 75 Cent . Reduction in Price on and After May 15th.

OPA Announces — ~ Reduced Price On Heavy Hogs   Hogs Weighing Over 240 Lbs. Will Be Reduced 75c Per Hundred Weight

Planners of New League of Nations Believe Its Life Will Depend Upon Continued Unity Among Big Four

GALE LASHES . WEST SHORE   Wide Area ef Nation Shivers As Mercury Takes Nose-Dive

WINDS BATTER WES) SIDE OF BIG LAKE   Michigan Side is Undamaged; Milwaukee Clipper Gangplank Throws Woman

American Drive Spears 10 Miles Into Germany   Cologne Plain, Valley Of Rhine Yanks’ Objectives

Seek To Break For Cologne, Rhine Valley   Patton Troops Inch Forward in Bloody Metz Fort Battle

Third Army Tightens Hold on Fort Driant   Russians Pour ‘Across Romanian Frontier on 75-Mile Front.  >

Enemy Lines Strained, ang Weakened   Failure at Any Point May Spell Disaster

GermansManage To Stem Speed Of Russian Drive   Reds Push on Toward Riga; Germans Call On Reserve Troops

Flowers and Wine Offered to Americans Upon Entering Abandoned City of Gaeta

Hard-Won Nazis Stalemate In Italy Smashed And Fresh Bitter Decision Forced On Adolf

Hitler Forced To Make New Vital Decision   Invasion Behind lines Necessitates Move In Strategy  LL. ee — ee a! ae es 2 re

SERIOUS SETBACK OF ALLIED ARMIES LAID T0 TOP MEN   Writer Discusses Major Factors Behind German BreakThrough in Belgium and Luxembourg.   NAZI STRIKING POWER WAS UNDERESTIMATE!   Foe’s Preparations to Strike Weak Spot in U. S. Line Apparently Unobserved or Unappreciated.

GERMAN POWER IS UNDERRATED   Responsibility for Enemy Breakthrough Is Placed Upon Allied Army Staff

Underestimating Striking Power of Germans Main Factor in Setback

ARMY INTELLIGENCE FAILED TO EVALUATE NAZI STRENGTH   Responsibility For German Breakthrough Apparently High Up In Allied Staff; Von Rundstedt’s Blow Admittedly Surprised Americans —

Underestination Of Ceriiant Power: Cause of Selliack Allied Commund Caugh'   Napping by Force of  : Nazi Offensive

Dewey To Run If GOP Would. Nominate Him   New York Governor, Willkie Tied.. In Cammitteemen Poll

FDR Colleagues Indulge In Calling Fach Other Names   Vice-Presidency, Boss Control Issues Fan Party Fires

FDR PLEDGED SUPPORT ON EVE OF TALK      Rail Groups, Garment Workers Promise  Aid to Chief

Union Officers Pledge Roosevelt Support at Polls  President’s Second  Speech Tonight; Dewe TH, Cubsondne

ssing of ‘illkie fo pur Effort   Parties Plan Tc nsify Drive To ittivate Vote Of independents

Attacks On Germany, North French Coast Continued By R.A.F.   Nazis Make Weak Retaliation Raid On London; 632 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed By Yanks In February

WESTERN REICH TORN BY MOSQUITO PLANES   Fliers Return Without Loss; London Has Weak Raid

RAF Again in Night Action   Strike in Western Germany After Heavy Yankee Day Assault

RAF HITS REICH WITHOUT LOSS   Fliers Blast Objectives in Western Germany

RAF Bombers Continue Drumtfire   Mosquitoes Strike At Western German Tarects

RAF Mosquitos Bomb Western Germany Anain   Assault Follows Heavy Daylight Attack By Forts

MOSQUITOS HIT OBJECTIVES IN WEST GERMANY   Night Assault Follows Heavy Daylight Raids By American Bombers On Brunswick, Germany And On France.

RAF LAST NIGHT HIT WESTERN. GERMAN TARGETS   Only Weak Resistance From Nazis Yesterday to U. S. Attacks At Bruns wicle

RAF FLIERS HIT GERMANY ACAIN   Night Raiders Suffer No Losses In New Attack

RAF Bombs ‘Germany; All  Planes Safe   Attack Follows Heavy U.S. Fortress Assault on Brunswick      WEAK OPPOSITION   Raid Rounds Out Month of Record Breaking Air Activity

Special Order By Eisenhower   This Week Can Be Made Momentous One Savs Allied Commander-InChief

GIRL STOWAWAY IS CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL U.S. ENTRY   Irish Lass : Hid ‘In Casket On Bomber, Later Boarded Ship

TO LIMIT DEFERMENT -TO SPECIFIC: CASES   Only in Critical Instances . Wil Technicians Under 26 Remain Free From Draft.

New Ambassado To Exiled Polish Regime Named   Action Reaffirms Recognition Of London Group

FDR. Ne ames Envoy to. _ Exiled Polish Government  : Reaffiems Sinaceg oe   Reaf firms ‘Support : For Regime. Which ’ Moscow. Ref uses:  TT. ) ee ne   MAY. MEAN RUSSIA, POLAND IN ACCORD   PULANDUN ACCORD:  Or That Washington Has Taken Stand Reoardless of wien 3

Name Envoy To Polish. Government  Move Reuffiims Suppor   Move Reaffirms Support “Uf Regime with Which  Russians Refuse To Deal

President Names Ambassador to Exiled Polish Government in Move Affecting U.S. Politics

Lane Is Named Envoy to Poles   Choice Brings Speculation On U. S..Rasc Areard

QHIOAN ONE ~ OF 8 NAMED DIPLOMATS   Polish- Problem—Up; Sawyer Receives Senate Okeh

ENVOY SENT T0 EXILED POLISH GOVERNMENT   U. S. May Recognize Rus. sian Sway Over Baltic States

, Catholics — Want League   International Peace Graun Advocated..

World Peace Snion Sought By Hierarchy   ” American Catholic Bishops Want Nations T. Outlaw Warfare

World Peace Group Of All Nations Urged By Catholic Bishops Of U.S

‘Mounithatien’s Jungle-Junping Commandes Expand Positions Behind Japanese Lines

ALLIES’ BURMA LINE EXTENDED   Japanese Driven From Strong Position By Leapfrog Tactics

JAPS DRIVEN BACKWARD IN BURMA   From Strongly Held Positions By Mountbatton’s Jungje Jumping Air Commandos.   Fly to China

DETASSEL CORN IN COLES CO.   Farm Adviser Praise: Patriotism of Boys and Girls

aS  130 SIGN UP T DETASSEL CORN IN COLES C0.   Farm Adviser Praises Patriotism of Boys and Girls

DARROW’ SPIRIT FOREGOES ‘DATE   Pre-Death Pact Fulfillment Lacking After 6-Year Try

Ball Refuses To Urge Dewey Vote   Will Make F oreign _ Pélicy- Issue of Talks™

WFA Turkey Set-Aside Order to be Partially Eased Sunday Midnight

Rookies Being Sold Furloughs   Greenhorns At Army Induction Centers Get Rude Awakening.

First President Of Iceland Will Visit Roosevelt   Sveinn Bjornsson Will Arrive Next Thursday For Official Call

ICELAND PREXY TO VISIT F. R.   FUTURE OF U. S. BASES SPECULATED AS SUBJECT

Fourth Term Not Mentioned ny  Democrats Send Uninstructed Delegation Of 24 To Chicago

DEMOCRATS PICK DELEGATE SLATE   Maryland Delegation To National Convention Is Uninstructed

State Democrats Silent on F.D.R.   Delegates Will Be Uninstructed

 Fourth Term Not Mentioned J A eevee rns erumiesrenee  Democrats Send Uninstructed  \Delegation Of 24 To Chicago

‘Soldiers Protest They Don't Want to Go Home Until Hitler Is Beaten

Murder, Rape Counts Face Negro Doomed to Electric Chan   Death Verdict Imposed by Alabama Jury; Rape Case Set Today

House Told of Battery Deal   Ogden Employe Buys 27,000 Overage Dry Cells for $15

27,000 Army Dry Cells Go at $15   Civilian Employe Makes Purchase From Salvage Officers, Cochran Says.

ARMY’S SALE OF BATTERIES INVESTIGATED      Cochran Reports Civilian Boughi 27,000 Overage Batteries for $15, Sold Some for $20,000

Decree Attenipts To Squeeze Out _Frtra Manpowel   60-Hour Week Orderec For Office Workers By Nazi Minister

Goebbels Orders 60-Hour Work Week For Germans, Closes All Theaters

RESTRICTIONS   Curtail Civilian Life Stil Further in Order to Get Men for War

Philly Water Works Guarded   Prisoners Used When Municipal Employes Refuse To Work.

Var, Peace ills Up  or Action   Congress Faces Compulsory Training Issue

Russ Launch New  Twin Offensive   Reds Say Nazi Losses Total 7,800,000 Men

Antisubsidy Measure, Facing Almost Certain Veto, Goes to President

ROOSEVELT 10 VETO MEASURE   Anti-Subsidy Bill Sent Ti White House; May Act Today 

Anti-Subsidy Bill Confronting Veto, Goes to President  Possibility Action May Be Overridden  Seen bv Vote

Veto of Subsidies Ban Seen Certain   House Sends Bill To President

Veto Of Measure  Believed Certain  By FRANCES M. LE MAY Reenrintan Deac«e Sin ff Uritar

Jap Sea Losses Mount  To 60 Warships Sunk or Damaged;:35,000Dead

Jap Sea Losses Now Estimated At 60 Warship   Report.- 35,000 ‘Nips Die .. During Engagements; . 24,000 Land Casualties

. 5. CARRIER PLANES BOMB MANILA AGAI   Jap Losses Mount on Land and Sea While.  Blows Continue

- JAP CASUALTIES NOW 24,000 “IN PHILIPPINE LAND BATTLE: TYPHOONS HAMPER AMERICANS

HEADING FOR MAJOR BATTLE IN PHILIPPINES   Estimated 35,000 Men Lost by Japs In Disastrous Sea Engagement. 60 Warship Casualties.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN  ,A@ @Gilnen BS Aiséawt

Naval Toll Reaches 60 Jap Warships   Yank Casualties on Leyte Are One for Every. 10 Enemy Soldiers Hit

Yanks Drive Forward To Major Battle   Meanwhile, Mikado’s Sea Losses Reach 60 Ships, 35,000 Sailors —

Japs Mass Forces On Leyte   Typhoon Hampers: Americans Heading For First Big Clash

1ST MAJOR LANL BATTLE NEARS IN PHILIPPINES   Estimate 35,000 Japanese Die in Record Naval Battle in Pacific

AMERICAN TROOPS — MOVE TOWARD FIRST BiG LEYTE BATTLE  JAPANESE CASUALTIES SINCE PHILIPPINES RE-

Jap Losses Increased To 60 Warships: Enemy Suffers 59.000 Casualties

YANKS MOVING TOWARD MAJOR LEYTE BATTLE   Jap’s Disastrous Sea Losses Mount To 60 Ships, 35,000 Men Killed

 Major Engagement Looms In Philippines as Yanks  ‘Press Forward in Typhoon

First Big Land Engagement of Philippines Ahead   Japanese Losses At Sea Mount to At Least 60 Ships

Allied Siege Of Myitkyina Ends: All Japs Killed   American And Chinese Forces Capture Major Japanese Base In Burma

NORTH BURMA... - BATTLE ENDS   EVERY JAPANESE IN. MYITKYINA GARRISON KILLED DURING SIEGE OF KEY BASE. .

6 NAZI PLANES   While Soviet Troops Killed Hundreds Of German Soldiers

Foe May Drop. Rules. of : War   Nazis. Angered: by ‘French : Renrisal Threats. -

Proclamation By Leclerc. Brings Blast  From Nazis   Threatened To Kill Five German Hostages For Each F ror Shot by Snipers  CISCENTHOWER ACTS

Nazis Make Threats of Reprisals   Say They Will Abanden Geneva Rules Because Of Alleged Allied Infringements

Crisis Dawns For Budapest   Germans Reportedly Planning to Vacate

Elephant That Carried Many Children Ts Found Guilty of Murdering Keeper

MEMBERS OF K-9 CORPS TO BE RELEASED SOON  Army Plans to Muster Out Dogs Not Needed: Some Will Be Sold

County Nearing ith Bond Quote   Total Stands At 79 Per ' Cent Today

210, 8. PLANES LAND IN SWEDEN   Bombers Had Been on  Raids in Germany

Swedes Reject U. 5. Request   Refuse to Stop Sending Ball Bearings to Germany, Announced

TRAFFIC REROUTED ~ RESULT OF WRECK      Ten Cars of B. and O. “Freight Derailed Near - "Mappers Ferry

TRAFFIC REROUTED RESULT OF WRECK   Ten Cars of B. and O. _ Freight Derailed Near ’  _ Harpers Ferry

Report 37,99! Jans Are Slain  In Marianas   Enemy Attempt To Defend Guam, Saipan And Trinian Proves Costly   SAIPAN WILL BE USED AS U.S. BASE

JAP MARIANAS LOSSES 37,551   5,171 Yanks Killed In Reconquering Three Islands

TOTAL 37.551   5,171 Americans Killed or Missing in Same Campaigns

YANKS KILL 37,591 JAPS   5,171 Americans Die In Marianas  Turner Moves Headquarters

37,001 JAPS DIE IN MARIANAS   Losses Of Enemy In Sharp Contrast To 5,171 U. S. Fighters Killed

IN MARIANAS TOTAL 37.551   5,171 Americans Killed or Missing in Same Campaigns

49,000 DEAD JAPANESE ON LEYTE ISLAND   Since Invasion as Against »,691 U. S. Casualties; Ground Forces Break Counter Attack.   Enemy Surprised

Benson Would Sell Auto License Plates Over Counter In All Counties

Many Now Serving With Army In Europe Will Be Home After Hitler Quits

Truk Ship Toll Revealed Large   Photographic Reconnais. sance Discloses Additional] Jap Ships Sunk   TOTAL OF SHIPS SUNK IS NOW 23

CIGARETTE SHORTAGE IS TO CONTINUE FOR THREE OR FOUR MONTHS. REPORT

Doughboys Make Slow Progress  All Along Front   Inch Ahead Over Soggy Fields With Little Aerial Support

INVASION COAST, COLOGNE GIVEN BOMB BEATINGS   Axis Spots in Balkans Also Hammered From Air as Well as Targets in Ruhr Valley.

U.S. Bombers Attack French Invasion Coast   Liberators Hit Military Objectives in Pas de Calais Area

U.S. 8th Air Force Resumes Offensive   Liberators Attack Pas De Calais Coastal Strip

YANK ATTACKS WIN SALIENT   Battle of Beachhead Now In Fourth Month

Four Fires Occur  Here Over Weekend   Small Damage Reported From Four Blazes Throughout City

News Behind The News  ge Copyright AicClura Newspaper   WASHINGTON Ry Rav Tucker

BELEAGUERED BASE BLASTED FROM THE AIR   Russian Stormovik Planes and Bombers Pound Defenses of Odessa and Escape Routes   TARNCPOL HOLDS OUT

AUSH HELP TO) GARRISON 1K BIR SEAPORT   Red Cordon About City Draws Tighter; Nazis Attack -in  City of Tarnopol.

Nazis Fight to Hold Odessa   {Allied Air Support Helps Russian Success. Details Page 5-A.)

Nazis Ordered » To Hold Odessa At “Any Cost   Armored Force Usec In Effort To Save Trapped Legions In Polan

Germans Rush Special Units Into Odessa   Orders Given to Hold Black Sea Port at Any Cost

RUSSIANS IN NEW DRIVE ON ADESSA   German Attempt To Lift Siege Is Repulsed

Fierce F ighting Rages On At Skals And Tarnopol   Germans. Counteraittack Strongly ‘at Odessa from Favorable Lagoon And. Lake. Positions—Hurl Formidable Forees At Red Cordons at Tarnopol and Skala.

Soviet ‘Bombers. Hammer: at Defenses! and Escape’ ‘Lines   TIGHTEN SKALA ARC}   Germans ‘Fight Fiercely to Rescue Tarnopol Garrison

Defend Odessa at “Any Cost,” Nazi Chieftains Order   Special Units Are Rushed. into Line As Battle for Big Base Grows in Fury

Nazis Fight Hard In Defending Odessa   Rush in Special Units As Russians Battle in Citys Approaches; Germans Seek to Rescue Entrapped Troops.

‘Nazis Battle For Odessa  At ‘Any Cost’   Noesian Planes Ieap Fire on Rneterled Forpes

SPECIAL UNITS ARE RUSHED TO FRONT   Soviet Planes Bomb City’s Defenses, Escape Lines   NAZI RESERVES   Battle To Save Tarnopol; Men Trapped At Skala; Much Booty Taken

Germans Rush Aid To Defend Odessa   Units Have Been Given Orders To Hold City at “Any Cost”   REDS POUND DEFENSES   Axis Forces Are Also Try: ing to Rescue Garrison of Tarnopol

SEND SPECIAL UNITS INTO. THEIR LINES   Reinforcements Have Orders to Defend Black Sea Base at “Any Cost” —Terrain Is Favorable to Germans. Pa

Favorable Positions  Defended By Forces   Russian Airplanes Attacking Germans

Enemy Makes Strong Bid From Good  ‘Positions   Another Fierce Battle Raging In Tarnopol Area Where Nazis Seek To Save Their Forces

Lagoons and Lakes Aid Germans in Resisting Attacks   Italian Front Is Still Stalemated; Bombers at Work

Soviet Planes Hit Hard At Defenses   Strong German Counterattacks Attempted To Save Almost-Encircled Port On Black Sea: Tarnopol Battle Rages

Red Airmen Pound Reenforced Nazis In Black Sea Port   Germans Hold Key Positions in Defense of Naval Base; Huns Battle To Break Tarnopol Trap

Rush Special Units ToStrong Positions “Protecting Séaport   Russian, Planes And Bombers Blast At Enemy’s Defenses In Face Of Heavy Counterattacks

Zero Hour For Odessa Seems Near   Nazis Fight: Desperately Reds Tighten Noose A  Tarnonol. Skala.

RECEIVE ORDERS TO DEFEND PORT AT “ANY COST”   RUSH SPECIAL UNITS INTO LINE; SOVIETS POND CITY DEFENSES

Germans Ordered to Defend City “at Any Cost” as Russian Forces Close In

Black Sea Stronghold ls Hammered   Nazis Trying To Save Skala, Tarnopol Armies

Counterattack In Attempt To Hold Sea Port   Enemy Sends Large Groups Of Tanks, Infantry To Try Tarnopol Rescue.   BOMB ESCAPE LINES

Nazi Troops Stiffen Defenses To Hold Odessa at Any Cost   : Special Units Rushed to Black Sea Port Take Up Strong Posi. H tions Among Lakes Around City.

Fresh Troops Hurled Against Red Advance   Waves of Bombers Attack Bastion; Violent Tarnopol Battle Raging

NAZIS HAVE RUSHED SPECIAL UNITS INTO DEFENSE OF SEAPORT _ FAR TO NORTHWEST RUS  ' SIANS BATTLE MACHINES AND MEN FOR TARNOPOL

Special German Units Arrive To Defend City At All Costs;  Russian Planes Pound Defenses

Nazis Rushing Special Force Into Odessa   Germans Told to Hold Vital Port; Russians Meet Heavy Opposition

NAZIS ORDERED TO DEFEND ClTY   Special Units Rushed to Defense of Odessa. Vital Sea Port.   RUSSIANS POUND CITY

MUST DEFEND SEA PORT CITY AT ‘ANY COST’   Germans Repulsed By Soviets In Raging Battle At Tarnopol

Order Troops To Hold City Qt Any Cost   Germans Send Strong Forces To Rescue Men At Tarnopol

GERMAN FORCES ORDERED TO HOLD BLACK SEA PORT   Many Lagoons, Lakes Pro‘vide Defenders With Favorable‘ Positions   RED FLIERS BUSY   Fresh ‘Tréops Also-Rushed. ‘Into. Battle ‘Raging At 'Tarnopol

Nazis Rush. to Defense of Odessa   Special Units Thrown’ Inte: Line With Orders to Hold at Anv Cost   FIERCE FIGHTING IS ‘CONTINUING   Russian Bombers. Pound Base as Troops Gather. for Big Push -

Germans Rush Special Units To Aid Odessa   Nazis Are Attempting to Defend Black Sea Port at All Costs.   Try to Rescue Troops Besieged at Tarnopol

Orders Given To Defend City At “Any Cost”   Nazis Slash Back At Russian Army In Tarnopol Area

Map a Skala Lash Out   Bitter Fight Rages As Germans Seek To Crack Red Cordons

Germans [0 Defend City “at Any Cost”   Rush Special Units Into Line at. Great Seaport

Special Units Rushed To i Black Sea Por   Germans Also Attempting to Rescue Tarnopol Garrison and Skala Forces

Nazis Ordered To Hold Odessa Base  Zero Hour Nears For Storming By Soviets

Special Nazi Units Rushed To Vital Port   Besieged Hitler Troops Lash Out in Fierce Counter Attacks as Reds Exert Pressure

LOOKOUT KEPT FO NEW NAZI BOAT   September Losses to German Shipping Ar Near Record Low

WARN OF NAZIS’ NEW TYPE SUB   FDR and Churchill Report September Shipping Losses Lowest

NO DETAILS’ ‘GIVEN OF TYPE OF * B-BOAT.  ‘GEBMANS HAVE ” DESIGNED FOR’ SEA. <. OFFENSIVE 

Japanese Bases Blasted Along — 4,000-Mile Front   - Kuriles, Carolines, * Marshalls Bombarded By Allied Planes

U. S. Batters Naval Bases Near Japan      Two-Day Offensive On 1.000-Mile Front Takes War Close To Tokvo

Fifty Thousand British Miners — Return To Pits   Less Than Half Of Strikers Still Out; Expected To Join Back-To-Work Movement As Mine Leaders Meet Today To Plan Action

UNITED STATES TO OPPOSE ANY POLITICAL PLAN   British-Russian Actions Will Be  Investigated

NEW STATE HIGHWAY PATROL HEAD NAMED   George Ningle Promoted from Posi of inspector.

MINGLE NAMED PATROL CHIEF   Black Successor Was Former Major Inspector

FARM GAS RECORDS BURNED BY REBELS   Destroyed In Darke Co., AAA Charges; FBI Is Notified

Farmers Fight Restrictions on Use of Gasoline   Revolt in Darke County Referred to Justice Department

_ City Ready To Join Panhandle Capital OnBasis Of Fair. Equitable: PrSsocel »

City Ready To Join Panhandle Capital On Basis Of Fair, Equitable Proposal

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Enemy. Column: Nearing Meuse  In New Thrust   Americans Hold Bastognes, Yon -Runstedt_ Reported  Bess tawteas? Benvinn

PIERLOT GETS NEW POWERS   Takes Strong Stand As Belgian Strikes Spread

FLECT FOUR DIRECTORS   Medina Hospital to Have Annual Meeting Nov. 13

MOVE OPENED TO OVERRIDE VETO OF BILL   Democratic Chairmen of Tax Measure Back Its _ Fnactmant   FIRST TEST’ WILL  ~ COME ON THURSDAY

Committee Heads Think Veto Can Be Overridden   Stinging Message Sent to Congress

FOR VETOES NEW REVENUE RAISER   Breach Between White House And Congress Widens; Believed Sufficient Strength To Override Veto

VETO. OF BILL   Democratic Cha Chairmen: of “Tax i Meshire Back: Its: .      Doughton and. George ©: Line Up in Favor of tue Ovarridina 

CONGRESS MAY BEAT TAX VETO   Capitol Hill Hot After Stinging Message By Roosevelt

Breach Between White House and Congress Widens as ' President Vetoes Revenue Bill in Stinging Message

Breach Widened © Between Congress  And W hite House   Irate Congressmen May Overridé Tax Bill Veto:

Chance Seen For Tax Bill, Despite Veto   ROOSEVELT SPARES NO WORDS. AND MESSAGE HAS THE EFFECT OF WIDENING WHITE HOUSE GAP.   Vote To Override Thursday

TAX BILL VETO TEST THURSDAY   Congressional Leaders See Good Chance For Overriding

Congress Surly After Veto of Tax Measure  GOP Lines up to DPiwareidea Deacidand’

Angry Congress May Override Tax Bill Veto   President Sharply Criticizes Measure ;  Widens Breach

Roosevelt’s Veto Of Tax Bill Roils Congress   Democratic Committee Chairmen Gird Forces for Showdown By Mustering Overrider Support -

F.D.R. Vetoes Tax Measure, Calls It Aid To ‘Greedy’   Congress Is Nettled By Stinging Message And Override Move Cains Farly Strenoth   FIRST TEST TO COME IN HOUSE THURSDAY  President Says Bill  Wianld DP tare a Ree

MOVE UNDER WAY TO OVERRIDE VETO OF REVENUE BILL   Roosevelt’ Stinging Message of Disapproval Causes Re. gentment Among Both ‘ Parties.   TWO THIRDS MAJORITY  APPEARS PROBABLE   President Calls Measure Relief Legislation, “Not for Needy, but for the Greedy.” .

TAX MEASURE VETOED WITH “SHARP WORDS   fiood Chance is Seen For Overriding of FDR Thursday

21 Jap Supply Ships, Other Craft Sunk By British Subs  Torpedoes And Gunfire Damage Other Enem;  Waccele Admiralty Ranoritc Fram Tandan

2 WAR PLANTS ARE SEIZED BY FEDERAL ORDEF   7,000 Men Have Been Idle Six Days Due To Firing Of One Worker   EMPLOYES AGREE TO RETURN UNDER ARMY

YORK SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 4   MANY IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE AND THE BUILDING REDECORATED

MANY IMPROVEMENTS MADE, YORK SCHOOLS READY TO BEGIN ON MONDAY   Full Corps Of Teachers Named, Classes To Start At 9 a.m. Daily; New Water System Is Installed

SOVIET FORCES ATTACK KERCH   Perlin Admits Red Breakthrough In Kirovoerad Area

Trap Entire Nazi Garrison by  Cutting Highway   British Units Land Near Antwerp At Rear of German Lines; Metz Forces Gain Another 4 Miles

Cut Last Escape Route With Wall Of Shells, Bombs   Anglo-Canadian Forces Qutflank Germans South Of Schelde In Amphibious Action; Yanks Fight Off Fierce Counter Attacks.

5 Enerny Counterattacks Smashed in Encirclement Drive; Berlin Claims Heavy Losses Inflicted Among Yanks

Tax Fordiveness Has Small Margin  51 of 100 Favor   anqiclative Action

Slight Margin For Tax Forgiveness   Poll of Legislature Taken Bs Daily Press

Predict 8,000 Douglas Workers to — Be Laid Off Will Be Absorbed Soon

Begin Talks On Monday For  Future Peace   Post-War Unity To Insure Full Security Aim

Final Preparations Are Made for Big Four Talks on Peace Organization Plans Which Open Monday

Big Four To Start Blueprinting Plan For World Peace   U.S., Russian and Britain Launch Talks Monday, With First Two and China to Hold Follow-Up Meeting Next Month; No Serious Obstacles to Agreement Now Seen

“Rig Four to Map Post-War World In Monday Talks  Obstacles Lacking - To Agreement  __ ry Te,

NG IMPORTANT DBSTAGLES AT PEACE PARLEY   Agreement on Organization Plans Paralleled by Political Unity.

Projected Hull-Dulles Meet Acclaimed As Step For Bi-Partisan Peace Planning

Clear Sailing for T hree-Power Peace Session This Week Indicated   No Major Obstacles to Agreement Noted Ac Il S. Russia, English Delegates Gather

World Security Talks ‘Due for Smooth Sailing   No Serious Obstacles to Agreement Seen as First of “Big Four” Get Together

No Obstacles To Big Four Agreement Seen   -Bipartisan Action On Deliberations Also Is Predicted

3 FOWERS BEGIN WORLD SECURITY PARLEY MONDA}   Hull to Open Talks With Britain and Russia — Agreement on Peace Organization Plans Expected.   SECRETARY TO SEE DULLES WEDNESDAY   “fArranging of Conference Be’ tween Two Acclaimed as Step Toward Establishing Bipartisan Support.

Stage Is Set For Discussion  Of Peace Plans   No Obstacle to Agree. ment Among the U, §. Russia and Britain. ull Lost

NO SERIOUS OBSTACLES 10 PEACE PLANS   MAJOR POWERS OF WORLD ARE IN AGREEMENT

FINLAND QUIT WAR  ONDAY AS “CEASE  FIRE” ORDER GIVEN GERMAN TROOPS TO BI  WITHDRAWN FROM FINTAND RV SEPT 15

MANNERHEIM GIVES CEASE FIRE ORDER      Nation Will Break Relations With Germany and Intern All Nazis Left in Country After Sentemher 15.

Germans Must Quit Country By Sept. 15th   Cease Firing Order Brings To Close Bloody Fight With  > Bueciane

Fighting On Finnish Front Now At An End   President Mannerheim Issues Order To Cease Fire.

FIRING CEASES, HELSINK IN TRUCE-WITH SOVIET   German Troops Reported on Way Out; To Be Disarmed, Interned if They Stay

"Nazis Must Quit Finland By Sept. 15   Hitler Believed Already Withdrawing Troops As Helsinki Cuts Ties.

Troops Ordered To End Battles With Russians   Diplomatic Break With Germany Said To Be Ahead

Three Years: Of War With The Russian:  Fo orces. Ends.   ‘ Mannerheim- Issues,  Cease Fire Order:

Finland Out: Severs Ties With Nazis   German Troops in Country Sept. 15 to Be Interned

Fighting Is Over  For Finns   Cease Fire Order Follows Severing of Ties. With Nazis; German  “Forces Out By Sept. 15

Cease Firing Orders Given in Finland   Seecond Outbreak Between Finland, Russia Ends

Finns End War Against Russ; Nazis Must Go   Germans Remaining After Sept. 15, _ Will Be Interned.

FIGHTING WITH RUSSIANS ENDS THIS MORNING   Nazis Troops Badly Needed Elsewhere

FINLAND QUITS WAR WITH REDS: ORDER NAZIS OUT   serman Troops There After Sept. 15 Will Be Disarmed Or Interned—Cease Fire  Order Issued Today.

Finns Quit   FAIL TO. LEAVE TO BE INTERNED   Cease Firing Order Is‘Issued by President Mannerheim, Army Chie;

Hitler's Troops Reported Pulling Out As Finland Makes Peace With  Ruesia.

Mannerheim Issues Cease Fire Order   Demands. Withdrawal Of Nazi Troops by Sept. 15 at Latest

Helsinki Break With Germany Said imminent   Nazis Reported Giving Up North Finland; Flee By Truck And Ships

Finn-Red War Ends As Mannerheim Orders Halt Firing   Fighting Concluded After More Than Three Years of Hostilities; People Sigh With Relief Over Armistice

—HOSTILITIES CEASE—  NAZI RADIO SAYS HELSINKI HAS SEVERED ALL RELATIONS

‘CEASE FIRE ORDER GIVEN BY BARON MANNERHEIM: GERMANS TO WITHDRAW OR BEINTERNED   Fighting Finnish Front Ceases After Three Years and Three Months and Another Axis Satellite Deserts The Sinking Ship of the German Warlords

Germans Told To Get Troops Out of Country   Commander-In-Chief Gives Cease Firing Order Effective Early Today

i Withdraw With Ultimatum To Nazi Forces   Germons Must Leave Or Face Disarmjna

Germans Leaving Country   ‘Cease Fire’ Order Comes With  Divlomatt- Bean

“Cease Fire” Order Is Issued By Commander as Finland ‘Withdraws From Russian Wa   Government Orders German Troops To Withdraw From Country; Will Break Off Diplomatic Relations With Former Ally

SOUTH PACIFIC TASK FORCE IS UNCHALLENGE   Daring Sweep Fails to Stir Up Single, Japanese Ship of Combatant Air  Force ©   THREE STRIKES COSTLY

NAVY'S DARING TRIP FRUITLESS   Sweep Of f South Pacific  Fails To Stir Up  Jap Ships

U. S. South Pacific Task Force Fails To Find Any Jap. Ships; Bases Bombed

Control South Pacific   Wide Sweep By U.S Naval Force Fails To Draw Attack By Jap Planes or Ships

Didn’t Find Single Jap Ship Or Plane; Japs May Have Abandoned Troops in Area

JAPS IN HIDING AS YANKS HUNT   Suicidal Attacks by Nips Continue on Bougainville

Task Force Unchallenged by Japanese   Daring Sweep Made. Into ‘Enemy. Waters Without: Being Engaged :   BUT U.S. AIRMEN, +. HAVE GOOD HUN!   65: Jap. Planes Are-* Shot Down. in. . Three-Day Smash at Wewak

AMERICAN NAVAL TASK FORCES NOW CONTROL PACIFIC   No Japs Ships or Planes Found During Daring Sweep of South Pacific Area by U. S. Vessels

Destroyers and Cruisers Go Far Into Enemy Waters   Bougainville Still Scene of Fruitless Nipponese Attacks

SOUTH PACIFIC SEAS APPARENTLY FREE 0) ENEMY OPPOSITION  ALLIED FLIERS, HOW. EVER, BAGGED ABOUT 65 PLANES AT WEWAK

ALLIES BAG 65 ENEMY PLANES   No Japanese Ships Found In Daring South Pacific © Sweep  3-DAY ASSAULT MADE

WN THREE DAYS   Daring Sweep of South Pacific Fails to Stir Up Ship Or Plane.   WEWAK HUNTING GOOD

Task Force Hunts For Jap Shipping   Fails to Stir Up Single Ship Or Plane in South  Pacific   FIGHTING, ON. WEWAK   Lines Are Still Held On Bougainville Against Weakening Enemy

JAPANESE SHIPS ARE HIDING OUT   Yanks Search ‘Pruitlessly for ‘Ducks on Pond,’ But Find None

Allies Bag 65 Jap Planes in 500-Ton New Guinea Raid   Attack in Roaugainville

Task Force Fails To Find Any Japs  No Enemy Ships, Planes Found In Sweep

Navy Search For Japs Fruitless   Allied Flyers Get 65 Planes In Assault

Wewak Raid Costs Enemy Many. Planes   500-Ton Allied Air Assault on New Guinea Base Carried Out in Three Days

9 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN WEWAK RAIDS   Three-Day Score Reported: U.S. Task Force Scours Pacific Unchallenged

—PACIFIC—  Nt ENEMY NY SHIPS. DR PLANES FOUNE      Criiiser- Destioyer. Outfit “Penetrates DeepiInto - Jap-Held: Islands    WEWAK SMASHED

U. S. Fliers Bag 65 Jap Planes   Find Good Hunting Over Wewak; Task Force Meets No Opposition 

Naval Force  Finds No Nips   Smash At Wewak Nets 65 Enemy Planes: Pound  Hainan Island Base.

By Task Foree  U nchallenged  Haring Sweep   Believe Japs Have Abandoned Pacific Forces—Allies Down 65 Planes

Allied Fliers Find Good Hunting Over Wewark, Jap Base   Bag 65 Planes; Daring Venture by U. S. Task Force is Revealed

DARING SWEEP FAILS 10 GIVE UP JAP SHIPS   Japzn Loses 65 Planes In Three Day Assault

U.S. Task Force Fans Over Pacific But Bold Foray Fails   But Bold Foray Fails To Stir Up Jap Ships, Big Bag at Wewak

Daring Foray By U.S. Fleet Unchallenged  Ff tae Dienne   &5 Jap Planes Brought Down In Wewak Raid

TAX! STRIKE ENDED IN OHIO'S CAPITAL   Cabs May Be Packed but Charges To Be Shared

King Seeks Reasonable Draft Bill   CANADIAN PREMIER TELLS HOUSE OF COMMONS ANARCHY IS ALTERNATIVE TO UNITY OF ACTION,

King Urges Canada to Be United   Country. Faces Anarchy If t Comot Agree On Conscrigtiza, Premier Says

Four Jap Ships Blasted By U. S.  Planes In Pacific   Two Destroyers, Two Cruisers Bombed In Kavieng Attack

Yanks Blast 4 Jap Ships At Kavieng   2 Cruisers Fired, 2 Destroyers Hit And Badly Damaved

Two Cruisers Set Afire By Planes Operating From Carrier — Saidog Beachhead Extended

4 Jap Ships Smashed By Yank Planes   Two Enemy Cruisers Are Hit Heavily North of Rabaul Base.

NEW BLOW TO STRENGTH OF JAP NAVY   Two Cruisers, Two Destroyers Hit _ At Kavieng

PLANES SMASH 2 JAP CRUISERS, 2 DESTROYERS   U.S. Thwarts Attempt to Reinforce Enemy Strength in S. W. Pacific

JAP VESSELS ARE SMASKED AT KAVIENG   Two Cruisers and Two Destroyers Hit By Yankee Bombs

Japs Suffer Additional Naval Losses   Planes from U.S. Camiers Blast Four Warships

ALLIED FLIERS DAMAGE. FOUR JAP WARSHIPS   Two Cruisers Set Afire And _ Destroyers Also Hit

U.S. Planes Badly Damage Two Jap Cruisers And Two Destroyers   ‘Yank Forces Hunting Japs On Laidor

DWINDLING JAP SEA POWER HIT   Warships Blasted At Kavieng. Marines Extend Beachheads

4 JAPANESE WARSHIPS BLASTED   American Troops Expand Beachheads In South Pacific

(1 Jap Planes Shot Down in Kavieng’ Raid  : Cruisers and 21 Destroy: ers Smashed as Yanks Biast New, Ireland SHIPS SET ABLAZE  Other U. S. Fliers Help. ing Extend Sixth Army's

BRICKER DRIVE IS GIVEN PUSK   Dewey Backers Swinging Over, Akron Solon Tells Newsman

BRICKER BEGINS HIS FINAL DRIVE   =  CAPITAL LUNCHEONS PLAN NED—F. D. R. CONTINUES SILENCE ON 4TH TERM.

Some Democrats Would Nominate Byrnes, Douglas   Wallace Opposition Mentions Two Likely Alternate Choices

CONGRESS QUITS ~ UNTIL AUGUST   Votes 67 Billions For War; Extends Price Control For One Year.

Congress Quits Aiter Voting Funds for War  OPA Funds Bill Also OK’d, Sent

German Retreat To Much Narrower Front: Von Kluge See Enmeshed In Badly Snarled Situation

Hull To Call Allied Meeting   LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO BE DISCUSSED SOON.

 i i i  Will Ask Britain, Russia, China To Join U.S. In Great Peace Planning

Hull Proposes Peace Talks By Allied Leaders   Cooperation Of Four Nations To Head Plan Suggested

Allies Joining To Formulate Peace Plan:   Great Britain, Russia, China Invited By U. S$. Consider Post-War Setup.   INFORMAL DISCUSSION

Peace Chats. Are Planned   Britain And China ‘To Join U. S., Reds

Allied forces repel 9 German divisions ‘at Anzio beachhead   Tide of battle reversed as  nazi avalanche thrown back

INITIATIVE IN ANZIO BATTLE   Yanks Smash Into Foe Flank After Nazi Assault Fails

Armored — Columns ~ OnMove   Decp Penetrations - Into  German Flank Scored. By Americans At .  Anzio Position

TIDE OF BATTLE NOWINFAVOR OF FIFTH ARMY   Mauled German Divisions Have Relaxed Initiative Ak Carroceta”   NAZI DEAD STREWN ACROSS BATTLEFIELD

Fierce Counter-attack by Nazi Divisions Repelled = ENEMY LINES HIT “BY ALLIED AIRMEN  Tide of Battle Has Turned, AP Correspondent Says

Americans Smash Through German Lines in Italy   Advance Two Miles In Counterattack

FIERCE YANK COUNTERATTACK SPRUNG AFTER ONSLAUGHT OF NINE INFANTRY DIVISIONS; GAIN TWO MILES.

ALLIES REGAIN INITIATIVE. 1N ANZNO BATTLE   Yanka Smsah Into For Flank: After Nazi ‘Assault Fails -

Tide Turns  Against Nazis At Beachhead  Allies Gain Two Miles In Counter-Attack After Foe Is Halted >.  CASSINO SITUATION  LESS FAVORABLE Allies Pushed Back From Railroad Station And Mountain Sector   Allies Gain Two Miles In Counter-Attack After Foe Is Halted’.

Yank Tanks Hammer Out Two-Mile Gain at Anzio   German Armored Forces Slammed Back By HardHitting Americans; Enemy Not Expected To Strike Again Soon

Defenses On French Coast Are Blasted   Over 6,000 Planes Sent Out By Allies In Greatest Armada

Greatest Aerial Assauit   Invasion Command Throws Full Fury At Nazi Defenses

Americans 70 Miles Out In Attack at Chateaudun   Reds Swarm Ove, ‘iver On Road to East Prussia

Decisive breakthru exploited   Paris threatened by flanking blow

Battle for French Capital Begins, Says Nazi Radio  Miles From Paris; Reds in Fierce Fights

IThrest to Flank French Capital Made by  Reads au   TROOPS DEEP INTO — CHARTRES DEFENSE   British and Canadian Armies Also Score Advances

German 50-Mile Defense Zone is under Fire   Little Resistance Met by Bradley

50-MILE PARIS DEFENSE ZONE - IMMEDIATE YANK OBJECTIVE   Gen. Bradley’s Columns Striking Toward Chartres; Offensive In Direction Of Orleans Threatens To Flank French Capital From The South; 70 Miles From City

One Force Veers Off in Direction of Orleans Threatening to Flank French Capital.

U.S. TROOPS THREATEN 10. FLANK CITY   German Broadcasts De« clare Battle for Capital Is On as Yanks Press on Relentlessly.   COLUMNS MOVE ON  ORLEANS AND TOURS.   Other Units Marching Eastward Are Deep in Zone Guarding Last 50 Miles to City.’

Germans Fleeing From South France   American Doughboys Are Betting They Will Be In Paris Not Later Than September 1

Yank Foree Also Heads  For Orleans   May Be F Janking Move, Third U. 82 Column’ Rolls Toward Tours».  RESISTANCE IS THIN:

ON ORLEANS IN FLANK DRIVE   Battle for Paris on as Outer Defense Arc Is Reached

Movie stars deny charge of ‘dogging’ hurled by army paver in New Delhi

's Face Fact  Teamwork Solving Farm Truck Problem, Toughest B otilenechk  amma LYONS

" 's Face Fi      Toughest Bottleneck  : ‘a on 2 Oe "as alae we tas ae

French Coast Bombed Again   RAF Mosquitoes Hit Unnamed Objectives In Western Germany

French Coast Bombed Again   Targets Hit Fourth Dey in Succession

France Raided On Fourth Day   Mosqititos Stab At Nazi Territory; American Pilots In Air ;

Allied Bombers Again Hammer Northern France      Thunderbolts Blast Fields In Holland; Experience Bad Weather Conditions

PLANES BATTER NORTH FRANCE   NEW RAID FOLLOWS STAB AT WEST REICH

ALLIES HIT COAST 4TH DAYINROW   Daylight Attacks Follow Raids On Western Germany

Allied Bombers Hammer France      R.A.F. Mosquitos Stab At Western Germany In Last Night’s Raid.

NEW AUTOS TO TAKE 8 MONTHS AFTER V-E   Industry Heads Stress Time Needed For Production

Cars Will Not Return With War’s Finish   Motor Executives Predict 6-8 Months Wait For New Models

WILL NEED 8 MONTHS   Motor Car Production to Follow Defeat of Germany

Will Take Six To Eight Months After V-E Day For First Car To Be Produced

AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE SWIFTLY [IP ITALIAN COAST   TERRACINA, AT SOUTHERN END OF HITLER SWITCH . LINE, THREATENED

Rapid Gain Puts Main Forces 24 Miles from Anzio   Enemy May Be Drawing Back for Battle for Rome

Southern End Of Hitler Line Is Turned By Yanks   Allies Monday Reach Terracina, Capture Pontecorvo; Air  Raids Pushed

GERMAN LINES GIVE WAY UNDER ALLIED ATTACKS   Aerial Assault on Europe Resumed - - Transportation Systems Blasted   Nazi Retreat Continues

SWIFT ADVANCE ALONG APPIANS TO TERRACINE   Second Adolf Hitler Line Crumbling Before Allied Advances; Supply Lines Cut.

AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE IN FRANCE   Reds Twice Fight Way Into cnn Germans A Acknowledge; Air  Crews Raid R

U.S. Forces Advance On Normandy Front; Nazis Hold British   Weather Hampers Aerial Support for Troops; Americans in Italy Driving  Germans Back to Gothic Line

Incendiarist Blamed As 22 Die In Flame:   More Deaths Expected: Fire-Bug Is Hunted After Starting Siy Blazes During Night

West Coast Fire Claims 22 Lives   Incendiarism Seen in San Francisco Hotel Fire; 21 Known Dead, Many Hurt

SAN FRANCISCO BLAZE BLAMED ON ARSONIST   Disaster Follows Series Of Small Blazes tn Industrial District

22 Perish in Fire Which Sweeps San Francisco Hotel ~   Others May Die from Burns and Injuries Received in Blaze Set by a Fire-Bua

Score Perish, Many Injured In Hotel Fire   Believe Frisco Blaze Incendiary

Incendiarism Suspected In ’Frisco Hotel Blaze In Which 22 People Died

REPORT ARSON RING OPERATING ON WEST COAST   Many Others Suffer Severe Burns; 6 Fires Reported Set in City Last Night

I? DIE. IN HOTEL FIRE ON WEST COAST   Thirty Others Injured In Incendiary Blaze

21 Killed In Frisco Hotel Fire   Arson Believed Cause Of Fire; Score Are Injured

FIRE SETTER BLAMED FOR CATASTROPHE   Flames Sweep Through New Amsterdam Hotel. Fear More May Perish From Their Injuries

Early-Hour Blaze Blamed on Arsonist   Scores of Sleeping Ship Workers Hurt as Panic Grips Occupants

FIREBUG HUNTED: BY ANTHORITIES   Fire Chief Declares Blaze “Was Of Incendiar) ( Ori “ange Gees   30 BADLY HURT.   Hotel Fire Last “Of Six Discovered In, City - During. Night... ‘

San Francisco Fire Is Fatal To 22 Persons   Blaze Believed to Have Been of ‘Incendiary Origin’

22 Die in Inferno Set by —_ Fire-Bug; Incendiarist Who Set Series of Fires Hunted

DDieln Fire In San. Francisco  _ Many More: Injured; ’ Firebug Is‘Sought -:

Three-Story Frame Structure In San Francisco Destroyed: Firebug Is Blamed

FRISCO HOTEL FIRE   Fire Must Have Been Set, Building ‘Enveloped with Flames too Quickly

Spectacular Blaze in San Francisco Undoubtedly of Incendiary) Origin, Fire Chief Says - - Fire Spreads Rapidly and Balks Rescue - - Many Jumped from Windows

22 KILLED IN HOTEL BLAZE BLAME ARSON   Five Other Fires Set In Area Last Night, Officials Say

22 LOSE LIVES IN HOTEL BLAZE SET BY FIRE BUE   Thirty Others Injured, Some Perhaps Fatally, in San Francisco’ Tragedy—Leapt From Windows;

Incendiary Fire Razes Structure   Many Other Victims May Not Survive; Six Other Fires In Area

22 Dead in Fire  In San Francisco   Flames in New Amsterdam Hotel Believed of Incendiary Oriqin

Incendiary * Fire Takes 22 Lives   More May Die From Tnju*ries Suffered in-Sau:Francisco ‘Hotel Blaze   SOME BADLY. HURT WHEN THEY JUME   Great ‘Inferno. Climaxes 4 Wave. of -Fires Touched <Off By a Fire-Bug

21 Dead In Suspicious Fire That Razes Hotel   Fire Chief Says Blaze Undoubtedly Of Incendiary Origin, Pointing To Other Blazes In Roominge Houses. ~~

22 Perish in Frisco Fire Early Today   Blaze Last of Six Attributed to Firebug hy Officers

OTHE REPORTED \ IN AREA   Place Occupied By Hundred War Industry Workers   MAN SEEN   Running Away From Scene Of Tragedy: Flames Spread Quickly

2? Are Killed In Frisco Hotel Blaze   Arsonist Starts Six Fires During Night in Bay Area

A Hotel Fire Kills — 22; Arsonist Slamed   Thirty Others Injured as Flames Sweep Through the New Amsterdam in San Francisco—Man Seen Running From Blaze.

Flames Believed of Incendiary Origin  Sweep Three-Story Frame Structure 

San Francisco Tragedy Spurs ‘Firebug’ Hunt   Many Guests Are Gravely Injured; Death Toll Mav Mount.

SCORE TRAPPED AS FIRE. ROARS THROUCHHOTEL   Latest In Series of 12 Blazes Attributed To Arsonists

MANY INJURED IN DISASTER AT SAN FRANCISCO   FIRE CHIEF SAYS BLAZE MUST HAVE BEEN INCENDIARY

22 Perish In Frisco Hotel Fire   Scroes of Others Injured in Blaze Which Police Say Wa: Started By Fire-Bug-

21 Knows Dead in San Francisco Fire   Fire Chief Claims Undoubtedly of — Incendiary Origin

TWENTY-ONE PERSON? ARE DEAD AND SCORE INJURED IN BLAZE  FIRE THAT SWEPT SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL BELIEVED INCENDIARY

22 DIE IN BAY CITY HOTEL HOLOCAUST   INFERNO LAST OF SIX SET LAST NIGHT, EARLY TODAY; POLICE SEEK INCENDIARIST

Hotel Flames Fatal to 22.   Another 30 Injured In Disastrous Fire Believed Incendiary

22 DEAD AFTER SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL BLAZE   Score Injured In Fire Believed To Have Been Deliberately Set

Many Perish In Flaming Frisco Hotel; Arsonist Blamed For Setting Fire

22 Are Dead In Frisco  Hotel Fire;  Arson Seen   Many Escape Rooms Only Lightly Clad *

Hotel Blaze Fatal To 22   Fire-Bug Blamed For San Francisco Fire; Others May Die From Burns, Injuries

22 Perish in Hotel Fire in San Francisco   Fire, Believed 3o Be of Incendiary Origin,  Breaks Early Tuesday

‘Many More Are Believed Near Death Of Burns   laze. Set By Fire-Bug. Turns New Amsterdam ; Hetel Into Inferno i Withm Minutes             All Bodies Charred Beyoud Identity   Trapped Lodgers Leap Into Lightwells to Burn: Others Pile Into Areawrvs to Snifocate

Navy Accepts MostOfLast — Group Of Men  Only Those Under Twenty Six Are ; tant Te Cal] 

Navy Accepts Most Of Last Group Of Men   Only Those Under Twenty Six Are te mat Ty Cal]

Italian City of Perugia Captured   Allied Armies Advance Along Entire Front

Iowa Dems. Cast Light Primary Vote   SENATORIAL CONTEST IS_ BETWEEN INCUMBENT GILLETTE AND ERNEST K. SEEMANN, WATERLOO FACTORY WORKER,   GOP Picks Hickenlooper

Alarm Spreads Thruout Balkans as Red Armies Press Toward Borders   Allied Bombers Hit Rail Junction in Bulgana, Kiel and Munster in Germany; French Coast Also Given Hard Pounding

Allies Chalk Up New Gains In Italy Despite Heavy Snow and Enemy Fire.

Air Attacks On German War Areas   Hundreds of Planes Over Coast of France and Berlin Bombed Again

Armor Curtain Now Guarding U.S. Airmen   Michigan Hermit, 44, Hadn't Heard of War or Roosevelt

44-Year-Old Hermit, Who Just Heard of War, Has First Automobile Ride

Union Jacks Up As Robot Bomb Hits Flag Store   German Planes Take Casualty Toll Again Through South Of Britain

Allies Push Out  From Forli Area   Advance Northwest of Newly Captured City

BRITISH FIGHT ON FROM FORLI:   Fighter Planes Give Support to Advance

Producer Plans Release of "Purple Heart’ to Increase Hatred for Japs

N NEW DRIVE ON MAIN ROAD TO PARIS   Unconfirmed Reports Put U.S. 40 to 87 Miles From Capital

BRITISH IN NEW DRIVE ON MAIN ROAD TO PARIS   Unconfirmed Reports Put U. S. 40 to 87 Miles From Capital

Much Business In Court Prior To Adjournment   Judgments and Numerous Other Actions Entered as Court Takes Recess Until October 2.

——RUSSIA—  NAZIS BATTERED ON WIDE FRONT   Fivexinemy Divisions Reported Encircled In eBridgehead ’   45,000 TRAPPED   Nazi ‘Fatherland Line’ In  White Russia Is Smashon

Nazi Bridégehead At Vitebsk: Said Cut Off By Red   Claim Ribbentrop Attempts To Force Finns Continue On Side Of Germany

Add Two Ships To Jap Losses   Japs Tightening Hold On Changsha In Vital Battle In Hunan Province.

5 DWINDLING   MacArthur Announces Sink. ing of Enemy Destroyer, Freighter.

Allied Bombs Destroy Two Jap Vessels         Destruction of Esemy’s Dwindling Seapower Mounts with Reported Sinking of Destroyer and Freighter

Jap Seapower Still Dwindles   Bombers Sink Destroyer, Freighter; Japs s Close In On Changsha In China

TO MEET ROOSEVELT   President of Iceland Coming te Washington August 24

Malnutrition Is Scourge Of Japanese Prison Camps, Congress Is Informed

SEVERAL THOUSAND AMERICANS HELD BY JAPS FACIFG QE ATH  MALNUTRITION TAKING HEAVY TOLL JAP-HELD U.S. CITIZENS

Say Americans Held By Japan Faced By Death   Asst. Secy. Long Reveals Malnutrition Menaces Lives Of Thousands

Many Americans Held By yvapanese Facing Death Because Of Malnutrition

U. §. in Orient Face Starvation   Congress Hears Report from State Secretary Assistant

Thousands of Americans Face Starvation in Jap Prison Camps, Solons Told   Tokyo Explains Balking At Relief Supplies

Several Thousand U. S. Citizens Are Still Facing Starvation By The Japs

DEMO PARTY IN DANGER--DEWEY   GOP Presidential Nominee Calls For End of ‘OneMan Government’

"FDR Can't ,Win Peace Is Charge   ‘On One Man’s Arbitrary Will’ ~ Rapped By Deway.

Danger to Peace Seen by Dewey   Cooperative Administration Declared Need by GOP Candidate

DEWEY SAYS PEACE PROGRAM CAN BE RUINED BY ONE MAN   Declares: There Is Danger. ‘the World Peace Plan Will Be  - “Wrecked Upon the Rocks  of One  Man’s... Arbitrary SES GEph a Oa &

Dewey Says World Peace Plans Are Endangered  New Administration Is Necessary for Securities, He Says

Dewey Says Demo. Party  Is for Sale   Hits at Browder And Hillman

Dewey Assails One Man’s Rule  In Government   Endangers Peace Program, He Says; Urges Democrats to Volé GOP to Save Party

Arbitrary Rule Of Congress May Wreck Peace Plan  Dewey Says Democratic Party Commanis! Intiltrated; Queries Inavccurahon Or Coronation

BID FOR VOTES IN MARYLAND   Sees Danger To Peace In Executive’s Breach With Congress

Dewey Sees Communist  Rule Ahead   GOP Candidate Charge: Democratic Party Has Saldout to Reds

DEWEY BRINGS CAMPAIGN 10 MARYLAND ©   Speaks In Baltimore And Leaves For Pennsylvania

Sees World  Peace Being Menaced By Will Of One   Dewey Appeals In Baltimore For Adminigtration To Work With Congress

Dewey Speaks In Baltimore   Denounces New Deal In Boston—400,000 Line Streets

DEWEY: DEMOS IN SUBVERSIVE FORCES’ HANDS   Sees Danger of World Peace Wrecked by One Man’s Arbitrary Will

Dewey Visions One Man’s Will Peace Menace   Repeats Charges Made In Hub That Subversive Ferces Hold Democrats

Braniff Obtains Mexican Permits  For New Airline   Matamoros Is North Terminal Now

HIRD ARMY ESTABLISHES TOEHOLD   Troops Crack Twelve Pillboxes to Enter Fortifications

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   THIRD ARMY BLASTS WAY FORWARD

Dunkerque Is Under Truce For 48 Hours   Civilians To Leave French Coast City

Refugees Stream From Dunkerque While Impatient Canadians Wait End of Truce

Refugees Stream From Dunkerque   Troops Await End 48 Hour Truce Before Renewing Assaults.

Palau Blasted As Battle Swings To East Philippines   Carrier Planes Attach After Jap Defenses On South Approaches ‘To Island Cave In.

PLANES BLAST WAR PLANTS IN MANCHURIA   Latest Action Swings Battle For Philippine Approaches  To East of Vital Islands   PROBING IS WIDENED

PLANES GANG UP TO GIVE PALAU TERRIFIC PASTING   Aircraft in Teamwork Attack Rains Destruction on “Japanese Singapore” ——- Battle of Philippine Approaches Swing to East

YANK AIRCRAFT ATTACK PALAU   Jap Fleet Anchoroge Takes Heavy Pounding from Carrier-Based Planes

Palau Blasted As,     East Philippines   Carrier Planes Attack After Jap Defenses On South Approaches To Island ‘Cave In.

Palau, Jap Singapore, 550 Miles From Philippines, Blasted By U.S. Bombers

U, $. TASK FORCE POUNDS PALAU   Raiders Blast Docks Without Enemy Opposition

BRIT: TROOPS 12 M1. FROM FLORENCE   ‘Americans Reach Arno River, East of Pisa

eran Reach South Bank of Arno River   Yankee Columns Occupy City of Pisa on Sunday

Yanks Gain South Bank of Arno   British Eighth Army  Continues Advance

Both Allied Armies In lialy Make New Gains; 12 Miles From F lorence   American -Lroops Reach South Bank Of Arno River  NAZIS BLOWING UP ALL BRIDGES  British Hammer Out Their Pincher Drive On Florence

AMERICANS TAKE THIRD OF PISA CITY   8th Army Within 12 Miles Of Florence

Reach Arno River Along 30-Mi. Front   British 8th Army Drives to Within 12 Miles Florence

Pisa Streets Turned Into Battlefield   Americans Grip Portion of City; Florence Periled

Yank Columns Drive Into Pisa   Eighth Army Pushes Closer to Florence

OTH SMASHES INTO PISA; 8TH NEAR FLORENCE   American Troops Reach Arno River On 30Mile Front

U.S. Troops Reach South Bank of Arno   British 8th Army Now Within 12 Miles of Florence

Mother of War Hero Has Sad Letter to Write -Tan Guns Shatter Sweetheart’s Dream

Mother Grieving At Loss Of Son At Tarawa Ponders How To Break Sad N ews To “Girl Who Praue’ In Now Zonland

Million and Hall Filipinos Already Freed by Yanks   Leyte and Samar Islands Almost In U. S. Control

YANKS FREE A MILLION FILIPINOS   ‘ Invasion Troops ‘Take Complete Control of Leyte, Samar Islands © -

, 00 FILIPINOS LIBERATED   Americans Assume Control of Leyte and Samar Islands

Congress Anxious To Finish Work By Christmas   Democratic Leaders And Pres. Roosevelt  Hava Paw Waw

HARMONY PROGRAM MAPPED; CONGRESS EYES BRIEF SESSION   Dem Leaders, F. D. Strive To Avoid Disputes In Legislation

Congress Prepares For: Action   Barkley Admits Efforts to Compromise on Secial Security

78TH CONGRESS SETTLES DOWN TO SOLID WORI   Dem. Leaders Canvass Situation With FDR at White. House   Vesterday

[8th Congress Aims to Avoid Controversies   Hopes to Wind Up Its Work Before Christmas

Chest Drive Is Nearing Goal   Total Of $80,460 Is Collected To Date, Workers Report.

$80,460.TOTAL OF ~ CHEST DRIVE HERE   $42,830. Needed With Two Days of Campaign  Remainina

Des Moines River Over  Banks Today   Tracy-Ottumwa Area Is . Under Water — Stage Still Rising

Americans And French Make Gains   Smash Through Gustav Line — Near Germans’  Only Escape Road

President’s Return to Washington Leads to Turnout of 250,000 Persons—Executive Waves Cheerily as He Rides Up Pennsylvania Avenue, Dripping Hat in Hand — Bands Play Throughout 20-Minute Drive to White House.

THRONGS BRAVE RAIN TO GREET FDR ON RETURN      250,000 Crowd Sidewalks —  To See President, Truman, Wallace in Capital Parade

Senale Refuses To Approve Waterway   Toms Down St. Lawrence Project Despite Mossege From. President

Seaway Plan  Is Rejected  Senate Refuses To Adc It To Harbors Bill

St. Lawrence Seaway Proect Must Wait  Senate Refuses To  Add Proposal To Rivers. Harhore Bi]!

SENATE, REFUSES TO ADD ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY PROJECT TO RIVER BILL

SEAWAY PROJECT OUT   Senate Refuses Inelusion in PostWar River. Harbors Bill

Street’ Fighting Still Continues In German Strong. hold Of Rennes   BUT. THE .ENTIRE ‘AREA IS OUTPLANKED BY OUR FORCES   Reports Indicate That Fall Of Florence, Italy, Is Imminept ~

Postal Receipts Increase Over Same Quarter 43   Three Quarters of 19448 Shows Gain of $2 204.78 Over ‘42.

Postal Receipts For 1943 Shows Increase Over ‘42   Receipts Total $20,948.40 For Year of 1943.

Last Man’s Club Holds Its Ninth  Annual Dinner  Sgt. Byer, Sioux City Air Base Makes

Last Man’s Club Holds Its Ninth Annual Dinner  QC ot Rear. [cee ges   Sgt. Byer, Sioux City Air Base Makes Interesting Talk

Congressmen Blame Increasing Gray Hairs on Home-Town Pressure Groups

BRITAIN CHARGES DISCRIMINATION   Says American Businessmer In France For Commerce

F.D.R. Orders Navy To Seize San Francisco Machine Shops In Dispute On Overtime Work

Meee db sss sd bs sss ddd d dad Ft. Payne Soldier Lays Down Life ‘To Save Buddies

Democrats Plan Peace Platform   Favor Use of Force Against Aggressions

Churchmen Ask Delay Of Conscription   FEDERAL COUNCIL ALSO WARNS OF THE DANGERS ATTENDING MILITARY VICTORY AND WORLD PEACE.   Petition To Congress

Truman for More iver Projects   New Federal ‘TVA’ Construction Urged

152 Nazi Planes Downed in Raid By U.S. Airmen   Pictures Reveal Heavy Damages

Navis  ose 152 Planes. in Sky Batlle Tuestay   German Losses Heavier = Than Csthiwted~ ut Time of Fiaht

YANKS SHOOT AT LEAST 152 PLANES DOWN   RAID INTO BERLID AREA ROLLS UP BIG SCORE

605 Airmen in Lost U.S. Planes Allies Hit Rome   Strike Outskirts of City; High Loss to Enemy in Raid

Yanks Down 151 German Planes   Lose 65 in Greatest Air Fight in History

GERMANS LOST 152 FIGHTERS LAST TUESDAY   More Enemy Aircraft Updoubtedly Shot Down By  Missing Crewmen   AMERICAN LOSSES IN BOMBERS PUT AT 60

AIRMEN SHOOT DOWN 152 NAZI PLANES   With Loss Of 60 Bombers And Five Fighters In History’s Greatest Air Battle; Bomb Outskirts Of Rome.   Other Targets

rs 1 + ere 7 i: a i rry a a. = ewer ab r Paya! a f ee wr al id eo my ~ jean me  _ Fine Li or “Syed 9 6.

Recapitulation Made; Rome’s Outskirts Bombed, Nazis Claim 90 Bageed

[a2 NAZI AND 65 U. 5, PLANES LOST IN BIG AIR FIGHT   Toli of Both Sides Raised With Receipt of Reports From Crews in Attack ing Force.   3 ENEMY AIRCRAFT CENTERS WRECKED   Pictures Indicate Paralyzing Blow Dealt at Foe’s AntiInvasion Efforts in Planta.

TOLL OF NAZI PLANES IN BIG RAID NOW 152   Axis Radio Reports Attack on Outskirts Of Rome

Tuesday Raid Cost Nazis 152 Fighters   U.S. Crews Await More Blows at Air Plant Centers

Nazi Losses In Air Battle At Least 152   Revised Official Count Shows 65 U. S. Planes Lost—Rome Outskirts Hit by Allied Force

NAZI AIR LOSS RAISED 10 152   Focke Wulf Plant Left On Fire; Airfields At Berlin Hit

DETAILS GIVEN ON GREAT AIR ATTACK      152 Nazi Planes Wrecked and Plants Damaged on Tuesday

Patterson Warns of Deficiencies.   Says War Production Must Increase Sharply

YANKS DELAYED BY SHORTAGE   Patterson Says Greater  War Output Is Needed

GREATEST LAND, AIR BATTLE RAGES ALONG FIRST ARMY’S FRONT   Nazis Attack Along 70-Mile Line, Push Expanding Offensive Deeper; Yanks Still Falling Back Slowly

Germans Flee North Toward Salontha  Pilots Report  Port Is Being Wrecked

BRICKER CONFIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA   Inspection of Baltimore Shipyards on Schedule

BRITISH SMASH NAZI ATTACK TANK BATTLE   General’ Montgomery’s Troops Fan Out across Caen Plain as Battle Mounts in Fury.   Strafe Yanks

Allies Drive Toward Falaise South of Caen   Gain on 20-Mile Front Against Opposition Of Many Nazi Divisions

Counterblow By Germans Is Smashed   Front Goes Into Action On 20-Mile Arc: Yanks Drive Two and a Half  Miles Down Vire River

Russians Smash Into Environs Of Great Grodno Base   Red Advance Less Than 20 Miles Of Nazi Designated East Prussia Border   ANOTHER FORCE DRIVES FROM WILNO

AUS ha SLUG WAY 10 Wal STBDAGEDLD   One Spearhead, Seizes Rail Town. of Crust eniki

AUoo FORGES LUG WAY 10 NAZL STROWEEGLL   One Spearhead Seizes Ra.l Town of Crusieniki

GARRISON AT CHANGSHA ENCIRCLED   Chinese Putting Up Desperate Fieht to Finish

Battle Raging for Changsha  ircled Chinese  ncirc   Encircled Chinese Fight for Lives

Chinese bieht Death Battle For Changsha   Retreat Impossible As Japs Strike At Beleaguered Citvy From 3 Sides

Jap Army Circles Chinese Garrison   Retreat Impossible, ‘Reinforcements Awaited

Americans Crush Enemy Opposition   Strong Japanese Counterattacks In New Britain Curbed by Allies

MacArthur’s Communique Optimistic,  Americans Crush Jap Units In New Guinea And Admiralty Isles

Americans Crush Nip Opposition In Bismarck Sea   Yankees Holding Strong Against Nips’ Counter.  attacks   Take Over Control of  Northeast New Guinea

JAPS REPULSED ON 3 INVASION FRONTS TODAY   Bismarck Sea Sector Scene of Bitter Fighting In Which Americans Hold Edge

Hold Firm Against Jap Attacks   Marines Face Stiff Enemy Fire on New Britain; Gain in New Guinea and Los Negros

Fighting Yanks Are Holding Owt In New Britain   U. S. Troops Pop Ashore At Yalau March 5, Strike Mindiri, Take Equipment.

Japs Beaten On 2 Fronts   Guinea, Admiralty ‘Sections ‘Captured ©

Japs Crushed On Two Fronts In. Pacific War,   Enemy Opposition In New -Guinea and Admiralties Ended: Yanks Holding New Britain

JAP COUNTERATTACKS NEAR MOMOTE AIRFIELD HALTED BY AMERICANS      Enemy Crushed on Two Fronts of Three Bismarck Sea Areas Invaded   RABAUL, KAVIENG BOMBED

Barge Fleet Attack Fails   Not One Reaches Los Negros Shore; Many More Jap Dead Found Inland

U. S. Troops Crush Weak Jap Attacks On Bismarck Sea Fronts   Americans Hold Coast 35 Miles West Of Saidor On New Guinea; Positions Secure On Los Negros

Ward Strike Is Referred To White Heuse   Picket Lines Maintained Outside Firm’s Chicago Plant and Retail Store

Russian Ultimatum Ts Given Bulgaria, Ankara ReportSays   Telegraphed Advices Report Demand Bulgaria Quit Nazis by Midnight Thursday

Moscow Threatens To Break Relations Russia Gives Bulgaria Until Midnight Of 25th To Change Her Policies

BULGARIA GETS SOVIET WARNING   Russsia Wili Sever Relations Unless Policy Is Changed By Thursday

SL TL LES ST LL  Russia To Break Relations With Bulgaria Unless Nazi Hold Broken

London Poised For Invasion Of Continent   ‘Russia Sends Ultimatum To Bulgaria In Stern Note; ‘German Issue May Result In Relationship Severance

Russ to Break With Bulgars   Country Given Until Midnight Tomorrow to Make Policy Change

/ Virtual Ultimatum Demands That Bulgarians “Change Their Policy” Immediately

Soviet Ultimatum To Bulgars Reported   Dispatch to Ankara Says Reds Have Given Nation Until Midnight Thursday to Change Policy — No Capitulation Expected.

Peace Guarantee Expected Result Of Moscow Talks  Stalin Gives a Toast To Collaboration of

STALIN STRESSES NEED FOR ALLIFD UNITY AFTER WAR    Declares at Banquet for _ Churchill Collaboration   Should Continue to   Preserve Peace.   LEADERS TO DISCUSS BALKAN SITUATION   Both Feel German and ProFascist Spirit Must Be Eliminated from Southeast Europe.

Plan Financial Campaign For Western Union  To Share In Fund To Be Raised By Evangelical ‘Churcl

Campaign For — Western Union   To Share In Fund - To Be Raised By’ ~ ' ‘Evangelical ‘Church

WESTERN UNION 10 RECEIVE $370.800   That Is, If $1,500,000 Educational Fund Is Olkktaina

High Waters Break Levee In Illinois   Heavy Livestock and Crop Loss Listed In Flood Area

GOP RACES ARE WON BY BLUE. EVANS IN IOWE   Akers and Grimes Are Also Victorious in Primaries of State

BLUE IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR   Wins GOP Nomination Over Burma; Talle Victor

BLUE WINNER OF GOP RAGE FOR EAVERNOK   Piles Up 38,500 Vote Lead Over Burma; Evans Named as Running Mate.

Blue Winner Over Burma for Governor   Kenneth Evans of Emerson Nominated Lieutenant Governor

SOVIETS SMASH AT VIIPURION DOUBLE FRONT   Reds Take 120 Communities; Are 25 Miles From Center

Finns Quitting Port of Viipuri   Russians Within 25 Miles Gomel DB, Forecast

FINNISH TOWNS FALL TO REDS   Drive Closes In On Port City Of Viipuri From Two Directions

RUSSIAN ADVANCE MENACES VIIPUR'   CIVILIANS REPORTED FLEE. ING FROM PORT AS RED ' ARMY APPROACHES.

OF FINNISH PORT RERUN   2 Railroad Towns Seized In Drive . By Russian Force

ARMY AND NAVY TO TRAIN BOYS   New College Classes for High School Graduates Under Draft Age

New Training _ Program for’ . -17-Year-Olds   Army-Navy Tests March 15  to Be for Youths: Not »  Vet- Registered.   MINIMUM.OF SIX . . > "MONTHS COLLEGE   Successful Contestants to Take Place of. Students ”_ Called to Duty

SPECIAL TRAINING FOR 17-YEAR-OLDS   College Program Expanded Along New Lines

Raise Program For Boys Under Military-Age   Short-Term Specialized Col. lege Training Planned By Army, Navy.   16518. THIS MONTH

New Arm) College Program   Pre-draft Age Youth to Have Special Course.

New School Training» Program   Boys Under Draft Age Eligible for College Training at Expense Of the Government

Youths Under Military Age To Be Trained   Short-Term College Course Planned for Boys by Army, Navy

Expanded College Training For Boys  Under Draft Age   Expaoded Specialized ‘Training Program Announced — Tests To: Be Held March-15.

Expand Short-Term Special Training   Army-Navy Program For 17-Year Old High Grads

College Training Program Planned  Will Be For Youths Now Under Draft Age

NO POLITICS IN BOND DRIVE   AN ALL AMERICAN PROJECT SOLICITORS TALKING POLITICS SHOULD BE REPORTED

NO POLITICS TO BE INVOLVED INNEW WAR BOND DRIVE BEGINNING ON JUNE 12

TRAIN WRECK IN MISSOURI FATAL TO NINE PEOPLE   Freight Ploughs Into Fast Pass enger Train In Towa

PASSENGER AND FREIGHT. COLLIDE, NINE ARE DEAD      Accident Occurs Near Miszouri Valley, Iowa, Last Night

Senate Committee Approves Macleish   Guffey’s Vote Breaks Deadiock

Senate Group OKs Aides For Stettinius   Foreign Relations Grou; Gives Approval to All Six Appointees

Vote Switch For MacLeish   Five Nominees  Already Approved By Conimittee, Guffey May Decide For MecLeish

Hold. Action On MacLeish       Relations . -. , Committee Confirms * Other State Appointces

5 Appointments Given Approval By Senate Group   Foreign Relations Committee Ties on MacLeish: Hold Decision Awaiting Absentees

STATE DEPARTMENT APPOINTEES ARE ALL FINALLY APPROVED  SENATOR GUFFEY SWITCHES VOTE TO GIVE

Nominations Approval Indicated By Guffey’s me  A aa en ve rua   “Connally, Anxious For Action; Reports: ’ Senator's: Vote Switch

Approve State Department Appointees   Fight Over MacLeish Is Ended as Guffey Changes Vote

NOMINEES GET COMMITTEE OK   All Six State Dep’t Appointments Will Probably Be Approved

SOME BARELY GET PAST COMMITTEE   Vote Closest on MacLiish, _ State Department Nominee   'GUFFEY CHANGES VOTE

APPROVAL FOR 6 NOMINEES. OF F. R. INDICATED   Guffey Switches Vote on MacLeish After Committee Hearing

Tie Vole on MacLeish Is Broken   Sen. Guffey Changes 9ver and Approval of Al! Appointees Is Rxpected   SHEN, CLARK TELLS  OF MANEUVERINGS   Move to Send All Names Back to President Voted Down in Comniittee

Senators Okeht Nominations — Of State Chiefs   MacLeish Tie Vote Ends as Guffey Switches His Ballo.

Senate Committee Will Approve State Nominees  Last-Minute Switch By Sen. Guffey late Macleaich Pace

Action On MeLeish Is Held Up   First Senate Vote Results in Tie: Results Held Open  For Those Absent

STATE DEPARTMENT APPOINTEES ARE ALL FINALLY APPROVED   SENATOR GUFFEY SWITCHES VOTE TO GIVE MACLEISH NOD

Nominations May Be Approved   Sen. Guffey, Democrat, Har Changed His Vote on Appointment Approval’ *

Liquor Ban Hearing Postponed By House   Probably Means No Hearing Until After Congressional Election

Anti-Liquor Bill Hearing Delayed   Opposition Develop: In Committee

DRAFT BOARDS ARE STUDYING VETERAN RE - EMPLOYMENT   Former Employers Obligated To Restore Jobs to Returning Service Men.

Red Army  Pushes Offensive   ANNIHILATION LOOMS AS RUSS WITHIN 45 MILES OF OFFENSIVE’S START

ALLIES HEART OF JAP MIGHT IN JAVA   Powerful Naval Base Of Surabaya Smashed In Aerial Assault   ‘TEN ENEMY SHIPS HIT   Yanks, British, Aussies And Dutch Join For Daring East Indies Blow

HITS ON TEN NIP SHIPS   U. S., British, Dutch, Australian, French Bombers Participate

POWERFUL JAP NAVAL BASE AT SURABAYA HIT   Allied Bombers Do Terrific Damage

M’ARTHUR TO LEAD PHILIPPINE ASSAULT      Admiral Nimity Reveals Navy’s  Part Will Be to Support and Protect Camnaton.

Cast Completed For Peace Talks   Soviet Ambassador To Represent Stalin

OBSERVERS SEE INITIAL THRUST AS GOING GOOD   Sound Appraisal Must Await Out come Of Counter Attacks

Public Warned Against Being Over Optimistic   ¥  > Observers Agree That Initial Invasion Thrusts Have Gone Exceedingly Well But Say Sound Appraisal Must Await Outcome Of Nazi Counter-Attacks

ARMY EXPERTS AGREE INVASION SOING WELL   But Warn Outcome Awaits CounterAttacks

Washington Is Pleased With Invasion News   Sound Appraisal Must Await Nazi Counterattacks

LAME DUCK” 78TH CONGRESS ‘MAY BE LIVELY AT CLOSE   Pending Battles on’ Crop Insurance, Road Building May : into Fina! ‘acklés" Was

SOLONS FACING BRISK SESSION   Crop Insurance and Road Building Battles To Top Schedule

Soviets at Edge of Third Largest Rumanian City;  U. S. Renews Air Blows   Nine German Airdromes in France And Tours Freight Yards Are Bombed ; Artillery Duels Feature Battle for Cassino

IN RUMANIA coal   Soviets But 4 Miles From Czernowits Third Largest City There; Bombers Active

MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND TONS OF BOMBS DUMPED ON { GERMAN AIRCRAFT IN _DUSTRY CENTER

POLITICAL PARTIES TO RADIO OVERSEAS   Democrats, ‘Socialists and Republicans Have Plans

BRITISH LAND ON ISLAND IN AEGEAN SEA      Port of Mudros Captured After Fierce Fighting

Britons Land On Lemnos In Aegean   Capture Port of Mudros In Drive. To Capture Strategic Greek Island

[IS IMMINENT   Port of Mudros Captured After Landing on Strategic Island

BRITISH MAKE GAINS ALONG AGEAN SEA   Sweeping Germans From Islands and Greek Coast Take 400 Prison ste Gene   600 Surrender

LATEST NEW) BULLETINS   Stress Importance of Teaching Democratic Principles

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.  (Bowe Tlatloatesne- \   Education Needed

NAZIS FEE   Launch Attacks All Across Peninsula; Port Under Fire -

SCORE RAPID ADVANCES AS NAZIS FLEE   Launch Attacks All Across Peninsula; Port Under Fire

America’s Mighty SuperForts-Smash Japanese Stee] Genter Of Yawata

Raids on Vanar   Four Superforts Last t Strong Fighter, Ack- _ Aal Pinon

Steel City of Japan Fired ‘By Twin Blow   Reveal Loss of Four Planes in Dayliaht Raid

JAPAN SHAKEN “AGAIN BY TWO B29 ATTACKS   Yawata Steel Center Hit; 4 Superforts Lost In Day Raid

B-29 Bomber Raids on Jap Yawata Industries Set Great Fires; Opposition Light

BUMG KYUont TWIGt; LEAVE HIRES BLAZING   Four B-29’s Lost, Official Report Says; Results Wera ‘Fajr

B-29's Hit Jap Mainland Double Blow Yesterday   Night Bomber Crews Say Fires Still Raging From Daylight Raid

Super Forts Smash Jap’s Steel Center   Yawata Hit Twice By B-29’s With Heaviest Bombioad Evér Gon. centrated On Pacific Target   JAPS CLAIM 25 FORTRESSES LOST

Soviets Crush Up to 15,000 Trapped Nazis   Other Russian Units Abandon Several Villages in Latvia

TRAPPED NAZIS ARE LIQUIDATED AT SANDOMIER?   Possibly 15,00 Troops Are Crushed In Salient Be low Warsaw   TANK BATTLES MARK EASTERN FRONTACTION

NAZIS WIPED OUT _AN-SOVIET ATTACK   Reds Hammer Up Bank-o! Vistula to Outflank Warsaw

SOVIETS NEAR WARSAW CRUSH 15,000 NAZIS   Russians Push Up West Bank Of Vistula River To Flank Polish Capital

Terrific Tank Battles Fought On East Front   Reds Meet Slight Reverse in Latvia

Parquay System Operator Charged With Stock Fraud   U. §. Grand Jury Also Indicts Mora Clerk On Marihuana Charge

American Public Doubles Total Savings In Past Two-And-A-Hoalf Years

Asuilar Pledges Road Completion   —eEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeee  Tamaulipas Clamps Down On Minors

First Army D Doughboys Seize 1,000 Yards Along. West. Bank   Americans Fight Way Out Of Hurtgen Forest And Are Now Less Than 2 Miles From Fortress City Of Duren;-Third Captures Sarrecueminec

‘First Army ‘Cavtures Six 'Villaces   Seventh Army Breaks Through Maginot Line; Other Gains Made

Six Villages Fall To 1st Army Drive   Assault Within Half Mile of Duren As Hodges Applies Pressure on Hitler’s Super Highway. Autobahn

First Army With Tanks and Infantry Move Through Six Fortified Towns in Roer Valley.   REPORT GERMANS AS RETREATING AT RIVER

Flooded Roer River Reached By Americans   U. S. Infantry And Tanks Within Half Mile Of Key Bastion 20 Miles Southwest Of  Cologne; Nazis Flee Across Stream  :

FIRST ARMY DRIVES TO ROER RIVER   Fighteen Miles Inside Germany, Deepest Drive

Bulk of Enemy Forces Withdrawn To East Side River, Some Forces Left

First Army Is In Half Mile Of Duren Now   Seyenth Army Breaks Through Maginot Line, Nears Bevorian Bowndery

Infantry Force Grabs 1,000 Yards On Bank of Roer; Other Units Fight -Cellar To Cellar Against Stiffened German Resistance

GERMANS HAUL SUPPLIES TC NEW POSITION   Germans Appear Quitting West Part Of Front

TANS WHT HALF MILE OF DUREN   Reach Roer River Opposite Hurtgen Forest   Finally Taken By Patton’s Forces; Haguenau Over-  run By Seventh Army

1,000-YARD FRONT HELD BY 1ST ARMY   Troops Push to Within a Half-Mile of Duren and Capture Six Fortified Villages on Approaches to the Citadel. i?

Germans’ Resistance Weakens   Merode Captured: arrguemines Falls: 7th Takes Hacenan.

Hodges’ Shock Troops Sweep Up 6 Fortified  German Towns   Bulk of Enemy Forces Believed Withdrawn Over Roer

HODGES’ FORCES BREAK OUT OF HURTGEN FOREST   First Army Troops Drive te West Bank of Roer River

‘Seize Another Thousand Yards Of River Front   Toke o Half Dozen More Villages in Drive Toward Duren Valley Defense Key

Doughboys Slice Deen Into Nazi Defense Towns   Merode Captured At  Night As_ Allies Continue Mop-Up Inside Reich

Believe Most Of German Force Withdrawn Across Roer: Defense Is Weaker

NOW HALF MILE DUR        Reached Flooded: Roer on- 1 5000 Yard'Froat

Emerges From. Hurtgen Forest 'To Roer River   Pressure Applied To Duren Along Hitler’s Superhighway

RACING TROOPS GAIN SIX MILES IN EIGHT HOURS   Yanks Half Mile From Duren, Defense Key In Roer Valley

Win Ground On West Bank Of Roer In Attack   Battle For Budapest Now Nearing Climax   Pressure Increased  On Duren; Believe Bulk Of Nazis Withdrawn Across River

YANKS CLOSING IN ON DUREN; DRIVE TO ROER   Six Villages Guarding Roer Defense Key Captured

Six Fortified Towns Fall ToDoughboys   First Army Reaches Roer River on 1,000-Yard Front

Yanks Waging Street Battles Outside Duren   Germans’ Defensive Fight Before Vital Arsenals Reported Weakening

Are Within Half Mile of Duren, Roer Valley Defense Key   SEVENTH ARMY THRUST   Breaks Thru Maginot Line 15 Miles Southwest of Karlruhe

BATTERING YANKS BATTLE THROUGH GERMAN VILLAGES   ENEMY TROOPS ARE RETREATING TO EAST BANK OF ROER RIVER

Moved to Within One Thowsand Yards of the Roer River’s West Bank.   OTHER UNITS ADVANCED   Moved to Within a Mile and ‘', a Half of Fortress City of Duren.

Six Fortified Villages Taker In Allied Drive   Infantry Of Ist Army Sets Up 1000-Yard Front

THRUST REACHE! WITHIN MILE, HALF OF DUREN   1,000 Yards Of River Bank Seized By Action

AMERICANS HAMMER TO WITHIN HALF MILE DUREN DEFENSE CITY  SIX FORTIFIED VILLAGES TAKEN BY FIRST ARMY ADVANCE TODAY

REACH ROER IN HURTGEN AREA   Bulk of Enemy Forces Withdrawn, Delaying Forces Left Behind. F   MANY TOWNS CAPTURED

Troops Reach Reer In Drive Toward Key City of Duren   Seventh Army Breaks Through Sieafried Lines

RJ.S.INFANTRY AND TANKS: CLOSING IN ON KEY DEFENSE CITY IN THE SAAR REGION

6 Cities Fall I Roer Push   Yank First Army Within Half Mile Of Duren Defenses

Yanks Push Within Half Mi. Of Duren   First Army Seizes Six Fortified Villages Near Key City.

Nazi Defense Weakens Under. Steady Blows   French Buffer Zones Are Being Cleared, Germans Are Unable to Man Line   FIRST ARMY POUNDS  ALONG AUTOBAHN   Heaviest Pressure Being Applied Near Duren, Ruined Highway Center

First Army Infantry Leaves Hurtgen Forest And Seizes 1,000 Yards Of West Bank While Other Units Push Within Mile And Half Of Fortress City—Merode Captured—German Army’s Defensive Fight Reported To Be Weakening Under Pressure .

Weakening In Nazi Defenses Is Reported   But Enemy Holding Out In Fortified Towns Of Reich

First Army In Mariaweiler, Northwest Of  Nazi Duren   Merede Also Falls To Yanks; Nazi Defensive Fight Keported To  Be Weakening

Patton’s Men Fight Slowly Deeper Into Siegfried Barrier   ... Nazis Report Allied Offensive On 410-Mile Front

Within Half Mile Of Key  Roer Defense   Capture 6 Fortified Vijlages On Approaches; 20 Miles From Cologne.   MERODE 18 SEIZED

First Array Forces Half Mile Fron:-uren, Roer Valley Defens<: Bastion

Are Within Half Mile of Duren, Roer Valley Defense Key   Breaks Thru Maginot Line 15 Miles Southwest of  Karlruhe

U. S. First Army Battles Through Fortified Merode   German's Defensive Fight Before Vital Arsenals of the Fatherland Reported to Be Weakening Inside Sieafried Line   ZWEIBRUCKEN BEING SHELLED BY THIRD ARTILLERY   RULLETIN

Nazi Defense West of Roer Fails to Hold   Repeated Batterings of Three Armies Force Withdrawals

Yanks Seize 1000 Yards On Roer Bank   Other Columns Reach Konzendorf in Thrust That Carries Within  — MAila and Malfé af Duren

Hard Fighting Infantry At  Flooded Roer   Nazis Yield in Yard By Yard Struggle as Kirst Army Advance: Toward Cologne

Churchill Says Europe War May Last Through Summer; King Promises Pacific Aid

Department Of Public Assistance Starts   Re-Examination Of All 239 Cases In County

Reds Fall Back In Ukraine Area   Heavy Losses Said  Inflicted On Nazis By JAMES M. LONG

RAILROAD HUB TOWN SEIZED BY RED ARMY   SOME GROUND LOST BY RUSSIANS IN SOUTH UKRAINE

Reds Give Ground In South Ukraine  Northern Armies Only  22 Miles From Estonia

Reds Fall Back: In Ukraine ‘Area   Heavy Losses Said.’ Inflicted On Nazis

BITTER GERMAN ATTACK GAINS   Reds Retreat in Ukraine;  Score Victory in North

REDS FALL BACK ON SOUTH FRONT      But Continue Gains in Northern Sector.

Soviet Withdrawal Termed Defensive Move; Moscow Rail Line Now Cleared

AED ARMY LOSES GROUND 10 NAZIS IN-SQUTH UKRAINE   Counter-blows Mark Heaviest Fighting on Long Russian Front Yesterday   SOVIET FORCES GAIN IN NORTH TERRITORY   Advance to Within 22 Miles Of Estonian Border, Clear Moscow - Leningrad Trunk Line and Capture Novosokolinki Junction

Reds Retreat Before Fierce  Nazi Attack   South Ukraine Scene of Heavy Fighting; Rail Line Freed

Reds Clear Big Railway   Moscow-Leningrad Line Free; Germans Attack In Ukraine

Russians Take Rail Center of Novosokolniki   Soviet Forces Lose Ground to German _Counter-Attacks On Southern Front

PHONE WORKERD  THE UP SERVIC]  PIL Ul ULGT   Strike of Operators Cripples Telephone Service in Three Large and Four Smaller Ohio Cities

Twenty Ohio Cities Now Affected By Phone Strike  Operators Walk Out In Support of  Geeibare tn Meavian

Toll Operators In Qhio Cities Out On Strike   Unign Long Distance Telephone Operators Protest Against Hiring Help From Other Cities.

PHONE STRIKE IN OHIO GROWS   Operators in Seven Cities Walk Out, Others to Leave Boards Today

oO pera tors Of Telephones In 3 Cities Strike   Dayton Company Em. ployes’ Walkout Joined By Workers In Toleda aud Columbus

Phone Strike hits 3 Cities bung Distance Pies   Long-Distance Force Quits in Columbus, Toledo, Dayten, Ohio

Ohio Phone Operators Out   Girls at Dayton, Toledo And Columbus Strike— Dial System Unaffected

COLUMBUS AND TOLEDO BACK DAYTON ACTION   Long Distance Service Affected In Protest On Out-OfTown Hirings

Dayton Telephone Operators Stage  Unexpected Strike ‘Dial Telephones, Emergency Calls Handled by Operators:  feeb. ma. OF on ae mn

PHONE STRIKE REACHES 20 OHIO CITIES   Operators in Other Exchanges Appear Ready to Walk Out in Sympathy for Workers in Bell Dayton Division,

Strike Ties Up Ohio LD Calls   Three Metropolitan Areas Hit by Walkout Over Use of Out-of-Town Personnel

Twenty Ohio Cities Now Affected By Phone Strike  Operators Walk Out In Support of Strikers in Dayton

'PHONE STRIKE SPREADS IN OHIO   EXTENDS TO TWENTY CITIES AND OTHERS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW

PHONE Tik-UP HITS 20 CITIES   Fear Operators In Other Communities May Join In Strike

Strike Cripples Telephone Communications  Operators Leave Their Jobs in Several Ohio Cities

OHIO TELEPHONE STRIKE SPREADS   SERVICE CRIPPLED IN SEVEN CITIES AS OPERATORS LEAVE BOARDS.

Phone Strike Hits Ohio Citie:   ‘Dayton, Columbus, Toledo Affected By Protest - Move

Ohio ‘Phone Operators Go Out on Strike   Dayton Operators  In. Protest to Paying Expenses of Out of Town Pereconnel

UNION PHONE OPERATORS IN 3 CITIES QUIT   ‘Dayton Strike Is Called;  Gitls In Columbus,  Toledo Follow

PHONE WORKERS QUIT JOBS, BUT CALLS HANDLED   Girl Operators at Dayton Protest Bell Policy—Other Cities Affected

STRIKE HITS TOLL SERVICE IN 3 CITIES   Union- Affiliated LongDistance Telephone Operators Walk Out in  ' Dayton, Columbus and Toledo, in Ohio.

Operators at Toledo and Columbus Go Out in Sympathy But Make-shift Crews Maintain Partial Switchboard Service: Labor Board Orders Workers Back to Work

PHONE SERVICE HIT BY STRIKES   Dayton Walkout Spreads To Columbus And Toledo

Ohio Telephone Strike Reaches Twenty Cities   Sympathy Walkonts Registered Outside Bayton; Columbus and Toledo Join Ban on Onisiders

Ohio Operators Cripple ‘Phone Communications   Strike Spreading Over Large Area

Long Distance Telephone Girls Out on Strike   Dayton Exchange Closed, Spreads To Other Areas

Phone Operators Out on Strike in Three Ohio Cities   Walkouts in Dayton, Columbus, Toledo Referred to WLB; Movement May Spread

E STRIKE HITS 3 CITIES; MAY SPREAD   Columbus, Dayton, Toledo Operators Quit In Employment Row

Phone Ops Idle in 20 Cities   Cleveland, Akron,  Youngstown Vote On Walkout Today.

Switchboard Group Quits.   2 ‘Army Air Field  Services: Involved

More Join : Phone Strike   Service Paralyzed in Twenty Ohio Cities: As Operators Walk Out

DAYTON PHONE WORKERS LEAD SURPRISE MOVE   Columbus, Toledo Employe: Jon Walkout As Sympathy Act

OPERATORS STRIKE, SERVICE DELAYED   Long Distance. Calls in Ohio Cities Given Hard Blow

Phone Strike Spreads Into 20 Ohio Cities   Labor Board Schedules Heoring Teday

JOIN THE WALKOUT   Telephone Operator Strike Spreads to 20 Cities  in Ohio

600 Workers In Walkout At Dayton   Columbus and Toledo Hit By Sympathy Strike

“—STRIKE—  20 ORUO CITIES AUEBY WALKOUT   Strike Of Ohio Bell Tele. phone Operators Spreads

Phone Operators Strike In Three Ohio Cities  Walk Out In Doyton,

TWO POWERFUL SOVIET ARMIES AIM AT WARSAW  j   Cavalry, Tanks and  Infantry Spearhead  Drive Against Hit ler Hordes.

Red Army Begins Fight For Poland   Decisive Battle Opens Along Bug River 84 Miles From Warsaw As Russians Push Nazis Back On All Fronts

FIGHT FOR POLAND IS LAUNCHED   Brest-Litovsk, Lwow Are Threatened By Red Army Drives

Soviet Forces  Breach German  East Wall Line   Wide Sweeps Made Around Key City of Btest Litovsk

BATTLE FOR POLAND GETS UNDER WAY   Two Red Armies Breach Nazi East Wall Defenses

BATTLE FOR POLAND BEGINS   Soviet Armies Strike Within 84 Miles of, Warsaw

Decisive Battle For Poland Is Under Way   Soviet Armies Breach German “East Wall” On 250 Mile Stretch

SOVIETS BREACH EAST WALL’ ON 250-MILE FRONT   Only 84 Miles From Warsaw

SOLDIER IS SOUGHT ~ IN DEATH OF GIRI   Officers Say Mi Miss Bauerdorf Raped and Slain

DR. CARREL, 71, SURGEON, DIES   Former Nobel Prize Winner Succumbs In Paris

Dr. Alexis Carrel, Noted French Surgeor And Biologist. Dies Affer Long {Ilness

U-Boats To Strike / Again Says Knox    Says Germany Building Subs To Exclusion of All Other Vessels.

U-BOAT ATTACKS ARE DUE TO BE RENEWED   Knox Says Germany Is Concenirating Upon The Censtruction Of Underseas Craft

Knox Predicts Large Scale U-Boat Attacks on U. S. Atlantic Shipping

RENEWAL OF U-BOAT ASSAULTS IS FEARED      Knox Envisions Mass At' tacks on Allied Ship2 Ding

Knox Warns of German U-Boat Altack Reviva   Large-Scale Raids on Allied Shipping in Future Expected

DEFENSE PLAYS TRUMP CARD IN GRAHAM TRIAL   Testimony Of Truck Driver Con flicts With That Of Morell

CAPITAL TALKS OF CABINET CHANGES   President Wants to Keep Secretary Hull as Long as'He Can

Hull Anxious To Retain Job   Secretary’s Future Renoried ‘Secure’

SAY HULL EAGER TO STAY ON JOB   Other Reports of Cabinet Changes Current

Washington Speculates On Changes In Cabinet Hull Likely To Stay Despite Winant Rumors

CABINET WHICH HAS AIDED FOR TO ACT AGAIN’   Hull Probably Will Stay If Health Permits — Some Changes May Occur

EAPECTS HULL TI BETAINHISERST   Secretary Of State Recovering In Hospital From Throat Ailment   WANTS 'TO REMAIN   Associates Declare Hull Wants To Remain As Long As Possible

No Information On Next Cabinet   Roosevelt Silent  On Appointments He Plans to Make

‘Hull To Remain, FDR Says   Has ‘No News’ On Any Rumored Changes in Cabinet

SEE FEW CHANGES IN FOR CABINET   Rumors Fly Following Election but Old Guard ~ to  Remain

Cordell Hull To Keep Job.   Secretary. Reported Getting Along: Well

HAMBURG AREA HIT BY HEAVY BOMBERS   1,300 American Planes Deal Punishing _ Blows .

OIL REFINERIES IN HAMBURG ARE HIT BY AIRMEN   Other Targets In North. west Germany And In Pas. de-Calais Sector Raided   FEW NAZI FIGHTERS OPPOSE U. S. BOMBERS

Yank Planes Hit Hamburg Heavy Blows   More Than 1300 Heavies Deal Punishment to Oil Refineries, Oil.sr Plats

ALL-AMERICAN ARMADA HITS FUEL PLANTS   In Hamburg Area of Germany While Planes Pound Pas de Calais Area of France.   37 Nazi Planes

1,300 Heavie: Bomb Nazi Oil Supplies   All-American Force Lashes At Hamburg, Pas-de-Calais Area

1,300 American Bombers Attack Oil Refineries   Targets in Germany Dealt Hard Blows

U.S. Heavies Rip Hamburg   Rocket: Coast Hammered: Battle Lines Strafed

U.S. bombers hit Hamburg oil refineries  Unchallenged by - enemy fighters

Senate Gives Approval to Tax Proposals   Most Important Features of New Bill Favored

Senate Ignores Tax Hike Appea   Most of Pending * Measure Approved

Senate Okehs Most of Tax Bill’s Features   Action Delayed on Only Few Questions  In Revenue Edict

Reds Poised on Border of Bulgaria   Spearhead Seeks Junction With Yugoslavs

Russians Near Junction With Tito’s Forces   Germans Report New Offensive Near Warsaw

Reds Nearing Tito’s Armies In Yugoslavia   Border of Bulgaria Seized From Danube To Black Sea Coast   Labor to Forego Work Holiday; War’s Demands Cut Recreation

Lull Occurs in Front in India   Japs Make No Fresh Gains; Allies Push Forward in Burma

Japs Make No New Progress In India As Lull Develops   Allies In Burma Advance Steadily ’ Inflicting Heavy Casualties On Nips

India Invaders Aim for Long Shot   Japs Attempting to Reach Strategic Life Line Serving Burma and China.

~ SOUTH OF IMPHAL   No Fresh Progress Has Been Made by the Japanese Columns.   lair FROM 3 DIRECTIONS   Allied Forces Are Advancing Southward in the Mogaung Valley.

Lull In War Upon India, Burma Front   Japanese Make No Fresh Gains

Mountbatten Says India Battle Takes Slow Pace  Allies Hold Position _ Against Japs,  Inflict Casualties

Lull Develops In Imphal Area   But in Central Burma, Chinese Leading Southward Advance in Heavy Fighting

Quads!   Three Girls And Boy Born To 23-Year-Old Wife Of A _ Soldier

QUADRUPLETS BORN TO ENGLISHWOMAN   RAF Officer’s Wife Already Mother of Five

Quads Born to R.A. F. Officer's Wife   THREE BOYS, GIRL INCUBATED, REPORTED PROGRESSING WELL

Quadruplets Born To ‘Wife Of Paratrooper At Decatur. Ala.. Today

‘Quads’ Born elo the Wife Of RAF Flier   Three Boys And Girl Doing All Right—Mother, 38, Has Five Other Children, 5 to 16 Years of Age.

‘DR Returns fevenue Bill re’ 1 lo Congress   resident Declares Tax Measure “Wholly Ineffeetive In Veto Message.   IPPOSTTION VIGOROLS   Juadruplets Born To Wife OF Paratrooper

Quadruplets— Born To English Couple      Wife of R.: Not D  _ Officer Is Well

New Telephone Directory Listing Are Published Here   Last F riday Was Observed As\Navy Day Over Nation

Congréss Will. Handle Future Of Lend-Lease   House Group Votes to Take Away Powers of President Roosevelt With ‘Amendment

(Away From .D.R.   President Gets Legislation Advocating U.N.R.R.A.

U.S. Pledged To Help Of War-Stricken   Congress Moves to Provide Funds For Aid Of Ravaged Populations

Solons To Hold Final Say On Alr Lend- Lease   House Comunittee Votes To Control Action ' On VU. S. Poliev

VOTE EXTENSION OF LEND LEASE   Committee Would Remove  Power From President

Congress Will Have Final Say-So On U.S. Lend-Lease   President Will Not Have Power To Settle Contracts

ASK LEASE. LEND CONTROL   COMMITTEE VOTES SAY-SO TO CONGRESS, NOT F. R.

F. R. Lend-Lease Power Curbed  House Committee Gives Congress Final Sav-So in Contracts

VOTES TOSTAIP “FAP OF POWER   Settlement of ‘Lend-Lease : Contracts By Congres: Is Favored . -

Bonuses Sought For New Veterans   Viaximum of $5000 Set in Measures

nvadina Doughbovs Shiver in First Chill From Hostile German Populace

U.S. Armor Crosses Onto Germany’s Soil   Doughboys Get First Sample Of Obill From German People

U. §. Tanks Cross Onto German Soil; Doughboys Get First Sample of Chilly Greeting from Hostile Civilians

YANKS GET  NO WELCOME IN GERMANY   Different Than When Entering France, Belgium

SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS RAIDED IN AIR ATTAGK   1,000 Heavy Bombers Continue All-Out Drive Over  ie sceanensnnncain:

Fleet of 2 500: Aircraft Gets Little Opposition   New Secret Weapon Being Used By Germans Against Air Forces

2,500 American Bombers Attack ‘Targets In Germany, Poland   Oil. War Plants Heavily Raided   Luftwaffe Fails To Fight; Nazis Bring Out New Secret Weapon

NEARLY $2 BILLION IN WAR TIME GAINS   Sum Is Amassed By 19 Ma jer Shipbuilding. Corporations.

Red Armies Near Latvian  Boundary   Trapped Germans In Ukraine Slain by Hundreds

RUSSIAN FORCES NEARING PSKGV, LATVIA GATEWA\   Trapped German Divisions Being Annihilated in  Cantral Libenina

RED ARMIES MOVE CLOSER TO ESTONIA   Take Luga, Slash To Within 40 Miles Of Gateway City

SOVIETS NEA GATEWAY INTO LATVIA, ESTONIA   Northeastern Corner of German Front in Russia Crumples Before Three-Way Drive

RED COLUMNS WITHIN 40 Mi OF PSKOV   Cossacks Aiding it Killing Nazis Below Cherkasi

Reds Drive Near  Latvia Gateway   Three - Way Offensive Collapses Corner Of Nazi Front

KELLY TO LEAD MC KAY OUSTER   Summerfield Of Flint Favored For Post Of Committeeman

Nurses In Long  Trek To Safety      Forced Down In Albanian Mountains, They Return In Sixty Days.

BERLE ANSWERS ~DEWEY'S CHARGE   Claims ‘Surprisingly Dis      munism peech

Charges Dewey Dishonest In Attempting To Label Dems. As Communists

ADMINISTRATION MAN DECLARES DEWEY IN DISHONEST EFFORT  ADOLF BERLE, ASSISTAN] - SECRETARY OF STATE, WRITES F. DR. LETTER

Charges Dewey Dishonest In Speech Excerpts   Berle Says G.O.P. Nominee Tries To Play Loose With Public.

Berle Strikes Back At Dewey  On Statement:   Assistant Seeretary ‘of  State Says Republican Trying to Tie Up “Administration and Communism

NEW INDUCTION RULE SENT OUT   No Man Over 26 Can Be Drafted Without State Headquarters’ Approval

Draft OfMen Past25Stopped Unless Ohio Board GivesO.K.   Local Units Can Induct Only Volunteers, Delinquents Without Authorization Of State Headquarters

ORDERS BOARDS NOT TO INDUCT MEN OVER 25   Need Written Permit to Send Older Group; Can Draft Delinquents

MEN OVER 29 GET REPRIEVE   Boards Can't Induct Older Draftées Without State Authority

TEXANS BATTLE OVER POLITICS   Pro- and Anti-Roosevelt Democrats Seek Control of 23 Electors

BREAKS TI TO BEAT CONCORD   Locals Pile Up Early Lead But Lose To  Rival

BREAKC BEAT CONCORD      Locals Pile Up Early Lea ‘But Lose To  Rival

Yanks Advance To 275 Miles From Manila   Great Segments   Great Segments Of Leyte Seized By U.S, Troops

JAP CASUALTIES IN PHILIPPINES © MORE THAN 14,000  MOST OF JAPANESE   MOST OF JAPANESE DEAD WERE GUILTY OF BATAAN CRIMES

SAMAR TAKEN, TORTURERS OF YANKS ROUTED   14,000 Jap Troops Of 16th Division Slain In Philippines

FILIPINOS AID YANK ARMIES IN MANILA DRIVE   Crushing American Power Takes Great Segments Of Leyte

Leyte, Samar Engulfed By MacArthur   Land-Based Fighter Planes Now Aid American Soldiers

Samar Is In Yank Hands   Swift Advance Engulfs Island North of Leyte Where Americans Now Hold 70-Mile Coastline

SPEEDY YANK ADVANCE WINS SAMAR ISLAND   MacArthur's Army Drives Closer To Luzon; Most Of 14,000 Jap Casualties Hit Bataan Torturers.

TROOPS ENGULE CAMIAR ISLAND   Land-Based Fighter Planes Begin Operating From Leyte Airfields.   JAP CASUALTIES CLIMB

AMERICAN PHILIPPINE INVASION ARMIES EXPANDING HOLD; NOW WITHIN 275 MILES OF MANILA

LARGE GAINS MADE BY U. S. LAND FORCES   Americans Only 275 Miles From Manila Today

New York, (4) — John B. for  from Gen. MacArthur's headquariers in the Philippines, that the island

Yanks’ Crushing Power, Released As Japan’s Shattered Fleet Flees Philippines, Engulf Island Within 275 Miles Of Manila—Clean-Up On Leyte Speeded As Enemy Casualties Mount Beyond 14,000—LandBased Fighters Use Captured Air Fields

U.S. Conquest of Philippines Is Gaining in Speed   Samar Island Is Completely Won and Yanks Carve Out Great Hunks on Levte

Filipinos Help Yanks In Samar Island Victory   MacArthur’s Men Rapidly Engulf Isle; After Nip Fleet Is ‘Shattered by U. S.. Warships   7 . . Japanese Losses  Now Exceed 14,000   Expanding Hold on Leyte as More Towns Fall to Seventh Corps; Nip  Barges Sunk

Big Areas of Leyte Isle Fall to Yanks   Land-Based Planes Begin Operating From _ Captured Airfields and Japs Are Falling Back—Most of Samar Island Taken.

‘Jap Losses Increased to  Over 14,000   Most of Casualties In Defeated 16th Army; U. S. Losses Light

MacArthur’s Swift-Moving Forces Engulf Samar; Now Use-Leyte’s Aerial Bases  ip

Americans Hunt Crippled Jap Ships as Land Troops Press Conquest of Leyte and Samar   Believed Now That Japs Mey Have Suffered Loss of 40 Warships; All Somar Now in Hands af Americans; Leyte Campaign Nearing End

Samar Island Falls To U. S. Fighting Men   Guerrillas Help In Defeating Japs; Planes Cheered

Samar Isle cngulted Ry Yanks   Great Segments Of Leyte Fall To Onrushin . Troops

Yanks Rip Forward, Crush Nip Defense of Key Samar Base   MacArthur's T Troops Record 14,000 Jap Casualties on Levte

Temperatures   Nip Dead and Wounded Total 14,000 On Leyte, Where Land-Based Planes Help Yankees Bottle Up Enemy Forces

HOUSE TO EXPAND STATE JOBLESS PLANS IN BILL   Committee Begins Revision Of Senate Post-War Meusure

EXPANSION OF. JOBLESS PAY. 8  SEEN IN HOUSE   * House Commit:ees Begis Rev'sion of the. State -Demobilization Bill

EXPANSION OF JOBLESS PAY 1) SEEN HN EQUSE   House Commit ees Begia Fev sion of the State Demobilization Bill

= EE Merce et ae eee ee POLIT. AL, BROADCASTS é (Central War Time)

Capture of Roi Airfield Provides New Base for Attacks upon Enemy

After Three Days of Heavy Losses at Formosa, Japs Still Are Hitting Back

First Sea-Borne Blow at Formosa Has Been Fierce Fight from Start

Correspondent Describes First Sea . Borne Assault on Formosa Island

New Mexican ‘Tells How Jap Planes ‘Rained Out of Sky? at Formosa

TRAIN WRECK KILLED FOUR   CRACK 'STREAMLINER LEFT TRACK ON CURVE WHILE " SPEEDING FROM OHI-  CAGO TO COAST

REPRIMAND. TO HUNGARY   Told by House Committee to Stop Mistreating Jews

Every Living Member Of Ill-Fate: Garrison Who Escaped Fron Corregidor Returning Wit! MacArthur To Philippines   MORE TROOPS WILL  LAND BY NIGHTPAL)

Positions On Leyte Island Are Captured   600-Ship Armada Takes Sixth Army Veterans Back To Isles; Survivors Of Bataan And Corregidor With Invasion Troops

Gen. MacArthur Believed Heading 950,000 Men   Resistance on Leyte Island Reported Liaht

Huge Armada Steams Into Leyte Gulf to Fulfill U. S. Pledge   Jap Defenses Are Smothered By Might of Biq Naval Guns   FEEBLE JAP RESISTANCE   VOYAGE INCIDENTLESS

Surprise Attack Meets Little  Opposition; Huge Force Now Headed for Capital

U. S. Veterans Cut Inland On Leyte And Near Big Airfield At Tacloban

600 Ship Armada Carries 200,000 Onto Philippine Isle Under Air Cover

290.000 Men Swam Ashore In Two Sectors   Great Naval Bombardment Hits Japs To Cover Landings On Levte Island.

nesistance Light as U.S. Troops Follow MacArthur Ashore in Twin Landings

Armada Of 600° Ships Pours Men And Supplies Into Islands   I'woLandingsMade In Record Time   General Goes Ashore And Reports Splendid Progress Being Made

‘DRIVE WITHIN GUNSHOT OF BIG JAP. AIRFIELD   MacArthur Leads Huge Forces

Troops, Tanks, Flame-Throwers, Guns Pour Ashore From 600-Ship Naval Armada; Americans Advancing Toward Airfield

Greatest Tnvasion Armada Ha: Hit Leyte Island; Capital Has Already Been Captured

American Army Estimated As High As 250,000 Strikes At Islands In 600-Ship Armada

Early Wave Drives Within Gunshot of Airfield After Great Bombardment

Leads Force Of 250,000 Invaders   STEAM IN WITH 600-SHIP ARMADA; DRIVE INLAND ON LEYTE ISLAND; NEAR AIRFIELD

Opposition Weak as MacArthur Hurls  Jungle Veterans at Leyte Airdrome

Survivors Of Corregidor, Bataan, Land On 75-Mile Philippine Island Beachhead

Army Bomber Hits House, Kills Crew   Three Homes Set Afire—Eight Fliers Die in Crash

ALLIES’ GAIN IN CASSINO AND ON BEAGHHEAD   Forced to Bomb Monastery Infested by. German Forces

DE GAULLE 10 ~ RULE FRENCH   U. S.- British Bestow Authority    Leader Prepares Entry Into Paris

VAOT EXPANSION ON FARMS SEEK   Increased Use Of Machinery Is Predicted By Kansas Legislator

Fears Farms Can Not Absorb Many [Returned Soldiers   Representative Hope Says Agriculture in Future Will Use  Less Manpower

Will Be Few  F arm Jobs   Hope Sees Little Opportunity On Land For Returning Vets

Troops Eject Head Of Ward's Chicago Plant   Avery Forcibly Ejected On Order Of Attorney General Of U S   GOVERNMENT HAS SEIZED PROPERTY

AVERY EJECTED FROM OFFICES IN WARD PLANT   Legal Battle Looms Over Army Seizure Of Chicago Property

LEGAL BATTLE ON WLB LOOMS IN U.S. ACTION   Biddle Gives Order After Fiying to Chicago With Roosevelt Edict

BIDDLE READY FOR BATHE IN COURT   Army Seizes Chicago Property of Big Mail Order Company

Round: The-Clock Air Smashes At Germans Enters 12th Day:   All American Bombers Return From Today’s Raid; Six Allied Fighters ‘Lost; 19th Mission Of Month For Yank Fliers

German Destroyer Is Sunk Off France by British Forces   Non-Stop Aerial Offen. sive Knocks New Holes in Axis Armor

High Officials Crificise Policies Affecting Corn   WPB Warned While House, Army and Navy of Crisis

SHARP CRITICISM OF WFA’S LIVESTOCK ANI FEED PROGRAM WPB SLOW MARKETING OF CORN BRINGS _THREAT  AE wreur fp

War Production Board Officials Find Fanlt With WEA Livestock, Feed System

Hitler Special Train: Blown Up in Raid Just After He Had Departed

Hitler Train Blown Up   Fuehrer Had-Left It... ‘Only a Short Time Before

Big Russian Drive Has Reds 30 Miles  To Rumania Borde   Twelve German Divisions Defeated In Westerr Ukraine; Hero Of Many Soviet Victories Replaces Alling Gen. Vatutin  ~

Fourth Term Not Klection Issue   First Lady Lists Three Others Ranking It

PARTY HEADS AGREE ON DUFF   Attorney General Said to Have Been Slated for  Senatorial Contest   Work on 4 Steel Plants is Halted

Official Reports Indicate American and British Forces Have Delivered Their Most Destructive One- Two

Record Attack Aimed At Points  In Southern Area   British, Americans Smash ‘Stuttgart, Brunswick Centers

U.S. ‘Heavies’ on Rampage Agair ‘After RAF Buffets Germany — In Biggest Air Assault of War

U. 5. BOMBERS FOLLOW WITH DAY ASSAULT   South Germany Target; Stuttgart May Be Knocked Out

American, British Air Forces Deal Double Blows To Stuttgart   Largest Number Of RAF Bombers Ever Sent Out Hurls Block Busters On Germany

BRITISH NIGHT ATTACK CALLED WAR'S HEAVIEST   Stuttgart May Be Knocked Out

BOMB ASSAULT WAS HEAVIEST OF ALL TIME:   U. S. Planes Smash S§. Germany Today After R.A.F. Last Night Had Hit Germany Hard.   “Not Yet Imagined” Rv ASSOCIATED PRESS

PLANES STREU 3060 TONS ON prICH TARGET   Stuttgart Heaviest Hit With 2,800 Tons; U. S. Fliers Follow Raiders.

3,300 TONS ARE DROPPED ON TARGETS   U. S. Big Bombers Follow Up With Daylight Attack

Poles Capture Frontone in Italy   Indian Troops Take Strategic Positions

Monte Vecchio Falls to British Forces   Arezzo Mountain Area Points Taken by Allies

Monte Vecchio In Allied Hands   Polish Troops Among Men Taking Vital Point

POLES CAPTURE MONTE VECCHIO   Allies Start Rehabilitation Of Florence Area

POLES CAPTURE MONTE FORTINO FROM GERMANS; BRITISH ACTIVE   Fierce Fighting Is Reported At Piano

House OK’s War Contracts Bill   Congress Strives to Clear Slate This Week

Montana May Send Uninstructed GOP Delegation   Party Leaders Prepare ; For State Meet  In Malann an AAnyv 1A

Montana May Senc Uninstructed GOP Delegation  Party Leaders Prepare . For State Meet In Helena on May 16

Soviets Scoff Idea Nation Will Return To Isolationism   Set-up Not Designed To Achieve Territorial Gains. Maqazine Save

Russians Say Nazis Inspire Speculation on 16 Republies   Von Seydlitz, Leader of Free Germany Committee In Moscow, Tells Former Comrades Hitler Faced with Certain Destruction

Dewey Asks Brownell To  Stay On Job   GOP National Chairman Will Make His Decision  Soon

BRITISH BLACKOUT BEING TERMINATED   Lights Will Come On Again Sep tember 17 After Being” Ont For Last Five Years

BRITAIN TO RELAX ~ YEAR BLACKOUT   COMPULSORY DRILLS FOR . 2,000,000 ANTI-INVASION HOME ‘ GUARDS TO END.

ENGLAND ENDS RIGID BLACKOUT   Lights Will Go On Again Sept. 17; Morale To Get Big Boost

LIBERATORS ATTACK BONIN; BOMB SHIPS   Apparently Operating From Land On Conquered Saipan For First Time

Both Parties See Victory In The State   Political Observers Expecting Large Vote

Japs Keeping Yank: From Airfield  Despite Pounding  Battle of Biak Has Become Worst of Dutch New Guinea

Grim Battle Rages As Biak Isle Japs ‘Resist Fanatically   Salvos Hold Yanks From Airfield; Tanks Duel as Schouten Invasion Becomes Biovest New Crninea Clack

JAPS FIGHT HARD TO HOLD AIRPORT   Lose Tank Battle In Fierce Clashes On Biak Island

Japs, Defeated  In Tank Battle, ‘Sull Hold Biak   Unyielding Foe Bars Yanks from Airfield—Warships, Plane: Bomb Enemy Pesitions

Japs Grimly Holding Lines [At Air Field   Hold Off Yanks on Schouten Islands; Japs Lose Tank Battle

Enemy Shelled By Naval Guns, Bombed By Yank  ! Planes, But Hold To   Biak Airfield   Tanks Used First Time In That Area   Sub Crews-Are Praised By Admiral Nimitz, With Medals Awarded For  Rescuing Pilots

—-PACIFIC—  NIPS DEFEATED IN TANK BATTLE   Fifth Day Of Schouten ~[slands Invasion Finds “Battle Raging   DESTROYERS HELP   Capture Of Airfield Would Put Philippines Within Bombing Range

Yank Conquest ‘Of Great Port Is Completed   Lieut. Gen. Von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Hen‘ necke Give Up Organized. Resistance   Remaining Nazi Forces Bottled Up   Gen. Montgomery Opens Heavy Drive Against Caen; Salvage Of Harbor Begins

Cherbourg at Last in Hands of Americans   Second Phase of invasion Ends With Capture of Port

Chuted Down Where Fires Were Thinnest   Oklahoman in Crew: Had To Jump Over Forest Blazes

Aerial Power Of Reich Gets Telling Blow   Allies Pay Heavily for Air Offensive but Get Results

Germans Lose $41 Planes In 6 Days   Axis Has No Hope Of Defending Centers

Bomber Raids Hand Germans  Heavy Losse:  641 Nazi Planes Sho   641 Nazi Planes Shot Down In Six Days, Faetories Knocked Out By Assaults

German Plane Production — Dealt Severe  Blow In Week   Sustained Raidings’ Cost Men And Craft

Augsburg As Allies Close Week Of Attacks   German Aircraft Plants Now Unable To Replace Losses

Are Unable to Replace Combat Losses   Great Air Assaults Cost Allies 450 Planes, 3,500 Men

Fm ATTACH ANY REICH TARGE      U. S. Spokesman Belie Enemy’s Hope of Succes: ful Air Defense Blast ed by Offensive.          LOSSES EXCEEDING FACTORY PRODUCTIQO!   Smashing Drive Costs: Engl and Yanks 3,500 Airme 400 Bombers and  50 Fighters.

Allied BomberCrews Take  Rest After Shattering German Plane Production

ALLIES DROP 17,500 TONS WITHIN WEEK   Air Spokesman Says Plants Can't Keep Up With Losses

Airmen Disable Production Of  Nazi Factories   9uesburg Has Great Fires: Greatest Sustained Aerial Onslaught.   3.500 AIRMEN LOST

Lull Follows Greatest Air Blows at Reich   U.S. Spokesman Says Nazi:Factories Can't Replace Plane Losses

Nazi Plants Can't Keep Up   Augsburg Added to 14 Other Aircraft Centers Heavily Bombed in Air Onslaught

NAZI FACTORIES BELIEVED LOSING   Unable To Keep Pace With Tremendous Losses Of Planpe   ALLIES STAGE GREATEST AIR ASSAULT IN HISTORY

TS CENTERS ARE RUINED DURING ALLIED SORTIES   Augsburg Is Latest Target; Output Cut 20 Per Cent

15 Aircr aft  bay ERED  Tn Onslaught   Fires Rage in Augsburg  and Other Cities After:  Week’s Bomb Raids   NAZI OUTPUT CUT   More Than 2,000 Yankee ‘Planes and Many R.ALF. Bombers in Attacks

PLEADS GUILTY T0 GOV'T CHARGE   ANTIQUE DEALER IN DOLLS VIOLATED CENSORSHIP LAWS

Writer of ‘Doll’ Code Pleads Guilty In N. Y. Contained Ship Data

Doll Dealer Faces Prison; Wrote Code Letter About Ships   Epistle Containing Information About U. S. Navy Miscarries

BULLETINS      Germans Have Lost Chance To Push Allies Into Sea, Writer Believes

Seeond Fights Nazis   Trigger Happy At First ‘2nd Pitches Into Germans

GIRL SCOUTS TO SALVAGE TIN CANS   Collection Campaigr to Be Conducted Next Week

Easter Seal Sale Is Vital He ome 2 Front Responsibility, Greater Effort U rged

Marines Kill 3,000 Japs In  Offensive In New Britain i Previous Reports Had Told Of 2,400 Enemy  Dead As Americans Attacked At Borgen Bay

U.S. Marines Kill 3000 Japanese or New Britain Tip  More Progress Along New Guinea’s Coast Alea Ie Reported

/HITLER IS GAMBLING THAT HIS PLANS [FOR WAR OF ATTRITION WILL GET HIM ‘GOOD PEACE TERMS FROM TIRED ALLIES

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF AssOviated Press War Analyst

THE WAR TODAY      By DE WITT FACKENZIE Aeanciaied Preas War Analyst

The War Today  Unconditional Surrender Demand More Than Hitler Can Take.

WARNING TO AXIS SATELLITES SEEN AS GIVING HITLER HOPE FOR PEACE WITH BETTER TERMS FOR GERMANY   Fuehrer’s Intuition That Allies May Grow Weary Or War and That “Unconditional Surrender” Terms Might Be Modified Held Out As Possi-—  R¢pe, = ogt§ WD. ae gt

WAR TODAY   Allied Assault on HitJer’s Eurepa Will Determine Strength - of His Defensive War  uiralery

BATTERIES ON BOAST PUT UF cTEEL SCREEN   Reports Say Flying Torpedoes Knocked Out “Like Clay Pigeons.”

Allied Guns Mobilized In Combat   South Coast Gunners Knock Down Robots Like Clay Pigeons.

Deadly wall of fire  is leveled at robots   Fall like ‘clay pigeons; Britain hit  anew as allies bombard coast, reich

Some Nazis Dash to Nearby Yank Lines   German Re-Inforcements Try To Widen The Mile-Wide Escane Corridor From The City

CITY IGNORES ULTIMATUM BY U.S. FORCES   All - out Artillery, Aerial, Infantry, Attack Rages

AMERICAN LEAGUE   Roads to Ship Explosion Disaster Scene Blocked

GIANT AIRCRAFT CARRIER LAUNCHED   Mrs. Doolittle Christens ll S&S €& ®Shanar la

Hourly Temperatures   Shangri-La, 27.000-Ton  Aireraft Carrier, Launched

Chiang Accepts Wedemeyer’s Plan For Disposing Chinese Forces To Meet Jap Threat   ‘New Commander-In-Chief Announces Program Already Going Into Effect

9, GENERAL'S PLAN ACCEPTED   Start Placing Chinese--Forces to Meet Japanese Threat.

CHIANG ACCEPTS U. §. WAR PLAN   AMERICANS MUST FIGHT IN ASIA, SAYS GENERAL

CONVICTED ON MURDER COUNT   Richard Coffey Is Found Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder

Jury Declares Coffey Guilty   Second Degree Murder Verdict Returned

‘Navigator Battles Pain Crazed Bombardier In Plane Five Miles High

Washington Column  By PETER EDSON © Capital News Washington Correspondent   There’s No Place Like It

@ IN WASHINGTON   THERE'S NO PLACKH LIKE IT By branklin PP. Adame CS whédises Seame WVE A Aiseore deme

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT.   Entire State is Sweltering, Under a Blistering Sun “

Survey of Delegates Shows Dewey Can Win Nomination on First Ballot

POLITICAL WRITER SAYS:POLL SHOWS FIRST BALLOT. VICTORY   INDEPENDENT COAST-TOCOAST DELEGATE SURVEY INDICATES DEWEY NDMINATION, NEWSSIAN  DECLARES —°   By WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON International News Service

DEWEY TO WIN ON IST BALLOT SURVEY SHOWS   Has Minimum of 700 Votes to Bricker’s Total of 190

DEWEY CHOICE WITH 700 VOTES, SEEN IN SURVEY   Held Safe On First Ballot; Minimum May Inernace

‘Rudolph Hess Sees  eo ot xk  Defeat  Ww Ww   Most Celebrated Nozi Prisoner Weeps Over Germany's Defeats

Nazis Holding  Pee eee  Believed Weak   Fewer Than Sixty Divi sions, Most Far Under Strength, Spread “Out Thin

Balkans Held By Few Nazis   Divisions. Weakened By: Hasty. Retreats

FEW GERMANS HOLD BALKANS   Less Than 70 Divisions Guard 600 Miles

No U.S. Vessels Hit Despite Early Detection; Guam Is Raided   ENEMY INSTALLATIONS BOMBED AND STRAFED

U. S. Assault on Marianas Succeeds in Spite of Fierce Jap Opposition, Nimitz Reveals   Guam Also Struck By American Carriers as Raid on Saipan, Tinian Are Blasted; 135 Jap Planes Downed in Air Battles; U.S. Loss Is 6

135 JAP PLANES ‘WERE DESTROYED IN MARIANAS RAI   Nimitz. Task Force Detected - as It Approached Islands and Was Under Attack for Hours.   ALL U. S. WARSHIPS ESCAPED DAMAGED   Runways, Fuel Dumps and  Buildings Strafed and Bomb ed—Lighter Assault — Made on Guam.

FLEET CRACKS JAPAN'S INNER DEFENSE RING   ISLANDS LESS THAN 1400 MILES FROM TOKYO ATTACKED

Nip defense most fierce of campaion   Island facilities heavily bombed

PUSH ATTACK ON MARIANAS: OPPOSITION   From Enemy Is Fierce By Plane And Antiaircraft Fire Reports Admiral Nimitz: Nearer Tokio.   Night Attacks

BRITISH ACT TO STOP SHIPPING INBAY OF BISCAY   Place Embargo on Sea Traftic, Move To Halt Supplies Sent to Nazis

BRITISH BLOCK BAY OF BISCAY   Knox Reveals Move To Check Flaw of Suppiies Into Germany.

NAL SHIPPNG “LINEBLOCKED   British Embargo Parallels Us S. Actions Against Japs

Britain Clamps Embargo On Shipping In Bay Of Biscay      Regarded As Major Step Toward Halting Flow GF Supplies To Reich

Bay Ot Biscay Blocked   By British To Cut Off Supplies To Germany

BECOMES BRIDE IN WASHINGTON CHURCH   Miss Mary Glynn Trone, This Place. Weds Captain Gunnar W. Carlsen, U. S. Army

LT. ROBERT UNGER WEDS EILEEN KLINE   Hanover War Pilet Takes Bride In Ceremony In St. Matthew's Lutheran Church

Probe of the PAC   Dies Committee Investigation to Get Under Way Very Soon

Fighting On Anzio Beachhead and Other Sectors Of Italian Front Remain Limited To Patrol Action.

Strongest Fighter Fleet Ever Sent Over Berlin.   HARD FIGHTING IN RUINED CASSINO   Deny That Allied Situation at Cassino Is Critical.

DAYLIGHT BLOW DELIVERED BY AMERICANS   London Raided Last Night; Medium Bombers Hit France Today.   ALLIES GET WORST OF BATTLE FOR ITALY   Allied Situation at Casino Critical as Commanders Probe for New Tactics.

Army Found Roosevelt's Bremerton Talk Was ‘‘Political’’—Later Did About Face — Roosevelt Blamed For Latter

NO BROADCASTS BY SOCIALISTS, ARMY DECIDES   War Dept. Reverses Itself, Rules FDR’S Speech to Troops Non-Political

Arny’s Ruling On Radio Speech  Causes Protests   Both Socialists And Republicans  Charge Interference

Work Slows In Detroit Area   Dispute of Maintenance Men and WLB Finds Workers Beginning to Leave Jobs

STRIKES SILENCE DETROIT PLANTS   WLB Refuses to Consider _ Case While Men Idle

Production Halted In Eleven Detroit War Plants Today   Over 50,000 Workers Made Idle By Strike Of Firms? Maintenance Employes

HALTS PRODUCTION   Strikes in Detroit Area  Threaten to Paralyze War Effort

War Production In Detroif Area Hit by Strikes  11 Plants Closed In Dispute with CIO Union and WLB

War Production At Detroit Hit by Strikes  Workers Leave Jobs, Sending 50,000 Others Back Home

PRODUCTION HELD DOWN BY STRIKES IN DETROIT AREA   Workers Made Idle by Dispute Of Maintenance Employes In War Plants

'Maintenance Workers Strike in Detroit Closes 1] Plants: Leaders Ask Men to Return   Airplane Plant Sends Workers Home   30 Transit Workers Indieted by U.S.

DETROIT WAR WORK SLOWED BY STRIKE   Maintenance Workers in Factories Leave Jobs, Throwing 50.000 Out of Work

STRIKES HURT WAR PROGRAM   Maintenance Workers in More Than Score of Fac- — tories tdlé;

Production In Score Of Detroit War Plants Halted By Strike   50,000 Workers Are Made Idle By Walkout Of Maintenance Employes

90,000 WAR WORKERS IDLE IN DETROIT   Production of Arms at 11 Plants Halted by Walkout of Maintenance Men as Result of a Wage Disnute.

I] Detroit — Factories  Are Closed   ‘Maintenance Workers Strike  May Affect a Million War Workers   PLANTS ENGAGED IN AIRCRAFT WORK   Dispute Over Handling of Wage Demands Brings On Work Stopnpaze

MANY. DETROIT PLANTS IDLE IN WAGE DISPUTE   50,000 Workers Sent Home as Maintenance  Men Go on Strike

Detroit Area  Strike Starts _ 50,000 Already Idle,  More To Be Out Soon

H0,000 (DLE IN DETROIT STRIKES   Score Of Factories Affected In Wage Dispute, Now Before WLB

BiG WAR PRODUCTION PROGRAM IN DETROIT AREA 1S IMPAIRED  STRIKE OF 3,000 MAINTENANCE MEN THROWS  50.000 OUT OF WORK

Strikes Called in Detroit War Plants   Maintenance — Workers Halt Huge War Production Plan

Yankee Pigeons Train For War  Duties In India   New England Man  Directs Program

[Says Homing Pigeon Unit of Signal Corps More Than a “Last Resort”

GRANGE FIGHTS SUBSIDY ISSUE   Asks Congress To Halt Expenditures That Take Place Of Wave Increases.

BONUS AMENDMENT MAY $F ATTACHED TO MEASURE THAT IN CLUDES UNEM‘PLOYMENT’ COMPENSATION

Amendments In Prospect To Restore Many Of Senate Provisions; Efforts To Get ‘Bonus’ Indicated

STURM AWAITS CFRVIGE BILL   Bonus Rider Expected to ‘‘G. I. Bill of Rights”

POPE MAKES ROME PLEA   IN CORONATION ANNIVERSARY  SPEECH ASKS THAT ROME. oO BE-SPARED FROM “WAK:-DAMAGE

TWO SPEECHES SET BY DEWEY   Will Talk at Philadelphiz September 7 and Louisville Following Day

DEWEY PLANS SPEECH TOUR   Will Open  Campaign At Philadelphia On September 7

Soil Program Offered For Post War Era   Conservationist Says It Will Employ 200,000 for Two Years

Solon Hits News Ban in Ward Cas2   Eenete Hears Demand For Sweeping Inquiry

Bridges Asks Senate Probe Ban on Press   He Charges 4th Term Aim Leads to News Barrier In Ward Seieure

Alexander Says Allies Winning   Scoffs At Reports  of Rome Complications

Beachhead Is Solid, Report Of Alexeinder   Second Round Of Battle Nearly Over, Asserts Commander Of Allied Forces In Italy

HITLER FACES HIS WORST DEFEAT   German Attempts at Evacuation Meet Severe Reverses

OLHMANT 5 Ot UATION DESPERATE   Moscow Victory Gung Ready   RETRE At C Uv T OFF  Knemy Officers Ilee Skala

ASK MEASURE TI REMOVE SCHOOL FROM POLITICS   School Code Report Made

Canadians In Holland Push Nazis Back   Berlin Now Expecting Landing at Rotterdam

CANADIANS SPEED ORIVE FOR ANTWERP   Germans in Pocket in Schelde Estuary of Holland Menaced by Forward Drive.   Fioht In Aachen

Yank-British Push Gaining In Holland  Bitter Fighting Marks Advance  Toward Venlo

Canadians increase Schelde river pace   Apprehensive Berlin speculates on snminence of all-out allied assault

GAIN IN FIGHT TO CLEAR WAY INTO ANTWERP   Canadians Accelerate Push in Schelde Es tuary Campaign

Nazis Retreat From Area Near Venray   British Plow Deep Into Nazi Maas River Bridgehead

Gains Made In Holland By Canadians   British Also Advance South from Venray, Converge on Amerika  ee eT ee ie oe me 

PATH BLASTED FOR BIG PUSH ON RHINELAND   NAZIS GET NO REST AFTER DEFEAT AT VENRAY

BRITISH TROOPS CAIN OVER THREE MILES IN HOLLANE   Push Deeper Into Germans’ Maas River Bridgehead and With Yanks Converge Upon Amerika.   NAZIS RETREAT BEFORE POWERFUL THRUSTS   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Rages in Aachen With Americans Winning Control of Half of City.

CANADIANS STEP UP OFFENSIVE IN NETHERLANDS   Dominion Troops Are Reported Fighting Inside Town Of Breskens.   EISENHOWER POISED FOR NEW ASSAULT

Berlin Radio Speculates on All-Out Allied Assault   FORCES FIGHTING ACROSS ESTUARY   Germans Given no Respite After Costly Venray Defeat

Aitack Is Fata! To Mrs. Hoover   Former First Lady Dies In New York; Of Heart Ailment

SIEGFRIED DEFENSES BLASTED BY AIRMEN   Hundreds of Planes Take Part in Attack—Enemy Highways and Railways Hit.

SIEGFRIED LINE BLASTED FROM SKIES   Air Armada Keeps Up Pounding for Fifth Day of Offensive; Frontier Towns Under Fire.   Weather Bad

1896 Ships Are  Built By U.S.  Yards In 19$5  Production Was  In Excess Of Goa] For Year

Pvt. EK. J. Sprester  Wounded in Action   Wounded in France On November 8

RA F. SULLIVAN INJURED IN FRANCE   Infantryman Wounded On August 11, States Telegram

New Nazi Secret Weapon Is Being Brought Into Use   Pilotless Aircraft Resembling Winged Bomb Being Sent Against Britain   FIRST REPORTS OF USE MADE PUBLIC

ROOSEVELT BACK.   Sununens Military High Com mand for Conferences,

FOUR U. S. ARMIES PAR. TICIPATE IN VAST PUSH ON WESTERN FRONT.   On 400-Mile Front   Action May Be Final Act In Military Drama—Hope For Knock-Out Blow.

Alex Harris Goes To Death In Gas Chambe: After Expressing Regret Over Triple Slaying

Alex Harris, Self-Confessed  Murderer Of ThreePersons, Goes Willingly To His Death

Killing Frost Visits Most of Texas   West Texas and Panhandle Cities Report 24 Dearees

1,000 Heavies  Support New British Drive   Bombers Fly at Low Levels; Plane Plant At Budapest Blasted

U. S. Is Expected to Join Britain In Mediating Russ-Pole Dispute

No Toleration Of Nazi Snipers By U.S. Forces   American Fire Promptly In Return For Any Sniping At Yanks In Germany  GERMANS NOW FEELING WAR

Virst Army Smashes Second Belt of The Much Vaunted Line ONE OF LAST DEFENSES  Other Allied Columns Surround City of Aachen ,

»MISERY CRADLE LEARNING ABOUT “TERROR OF WAR   Smoking Villages, Dead Stock, Occupation Now Lot Of Herrenvolk   ALLIES APPLY TORCH   Americans On Non-Stop Punching Spree, Moving in For Nazi Kill

Americans Applying Torch lt Nazis Show Resistance  Yanks Unmoved As Civilians Cry At Sight Gutted Homes; Take No ‘Monkeyw Business’

Germany Loses 100 Plans In Past 8 Weeks   Lieut. Gen. Doolittle Reports On Results Of Ceaseless  Bombing Of Reich OVER 37,000 TONS

Germans Lose 2,100 Planes   Toll of Last 8 Weeks, Reports General Doolittle .

GERMAN PLANE LOSSES CITED   Doolittle Reports Toll 0 2100 Craft In 8 Weeks

© cR LOSES iS af PLANES IN CICHT WEEKS -  Reich Stung by 37,000 Tons of Bombs During Same Period ©

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‘Manpower Need In War Plants Claimed Urgent   Byrnes Issues Warning 200,000 Men Necessary  _ To Assure Munitions

HOME FRONT DRIVE FOR WAR WORKERS   War Mobilization Director Issues A Blunt Warning For Workers

HomeFront In Need of  More Men    Byrnes Warns Civilian Production May Be Halted to Spur War Program

Byrnes Launches Drive to Secure 200,000 Men For War Plant Work; Says Shortages Can Prolong War

International Man of Mystery Dies In Miami   Death Ends Career Of Charles Bedeaux; Suspected By U. S.

Bedaux, French-born F inancier, Ends Life While Held as Suspected Traitor   Noted Efficiency Expert Admitted Close Fnendship Among Nazi, Vichy Officials

Juvenile Crime Survey Planned   To Provide Manual Of Prevention Methods

War On Delinquency ls Nationwide Plar  Creating New Crime Prevention Setup

NIMITZ SAYS £7 JAPANESE VES: _ SELS SUNK OR DAMAGED  IN RAIDS—NAVY LOST 22 PLANES 

Veterans Speak At Bond Rallies   Crowds Attend Banquet And Armory Show

BOND BANQUET HITS $400 008   Wounded Vets And Movie Stars Urge Loyalty On Home Front

MORE WAR PRISONER LABOR USE IS URGED   Manpower Shortage Areas Need Workers, Reason

NIP SHIPS IN CELEBES AREA HIT   Additional Troops O' Enemy Are Slain On Palau Islands

Large Group Of Men Report For Army Physical  Smaller Contingent To Be Examined In Next Few Days

Large Group Of Men Report For Army Physical   Smaller Contingen To Be Examined In

YANKS C1.0SE TRAP ON NIPS      Inflict Heavy Losses In North Burma

American Troops Crush Jap Attempt To Escape In Burma  Estimated 2,000 Japanese Troops Face Death  Cle Cantivo Ru Amavizran OChimnen Dimene

JURY AWAITS STORY REVEALING CHAPLINBARRY ADVENTURES   Prosecutor Promises . Tc Lay Client’s Case ‘Out In Open’

Reds Take Tallinn  Estonian Capital  And Naval Base Fleeing Nazis Say Its  No Longer Necessa "Te Guard Finn Flank

important Naval Base of —— Tallinn Taken in  Assault   MANY CAPTURED BY  LIGHTNING ADVANCE   Powerful Soviet Forces Massing in Western Romania

Soviets Drive 50 Miles to Take Estonian Capital   At Warsaw, Polish Contact With Reds Leader Reports

TALLINN 18 CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Important Naval Base is Taken After Advance of Nearly 50 Miles in 24  Houre.   Five Nazi Divisions

Reds Capture Tallinn; Nazis Flee Estonia   Soviet Army Advances 50 Miles in 24 Hours To Take Baltic Naval Base on Finland Gulf

Tallinn falls to soviets In Baltic smash  Germans leaving northern Estoniz

JAPANESE INVASION OF MANIPUR REGION OF INDIA COMPLICATED BY MILITARY AND POLITICAL ANGLES

The War Today  oe Mistake to Treat Japanese Invasion of India Lightly.

PUBLIC INTEREST GROWING IN JAPANESE INVASION OF INDIA; IWAR ANALYST REVIEWS ACTION

The War  Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Ausorlated Preece War Analyst

WAR TODAY   Japanese Drive Into India Presents Ne yw, Threat to Lifeline Of China From the  Santh

a RACK UP EW LOCAL GAINS   MASS FORCES FOR HUGE OFFENSIVE, BERLIN DECLARES

PEARL HARBOR ~ PROBE SOUGHT   . Demands Senatorial Investigation   remermawaersaatemaiat  Think Kimmel Would  / ms. _sAs2se..

MICHIGAN BENATOR WANTS \ IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION . “INTO PEARL HARBOR, ,  VRAGEDY

Nazis Pull Out Three Division: From Balkans   Taken From Slav * Front to Reinforce Forces in Italy

GRISWOLD PUT DEWEY’ NAME UP AS WINNER   Nebraska Governor Asserts Nominee Faced Way U. S. Wants to Go.

Dewey Nominated  By Gov. Griswold   42-Year-Old New Yorker Is Praised by Governor  of Nebraska.

‘Will Become Man Of Peace-Time  American Future’   Nebraskan Places New Yorker’s Name in Nomination

"GRISWOLD SAYS TOM WILL WIN   Nebraskan, Placing Dewey's Name Before Convention, Lauds ‘Rocket Buster’

Placed In Nomination, Gov. Dewey Hailed As  “Spokesman of Future”’

‘Will Become Man Of Peace-Ti American Future  os           Nebraskan Places Yorker’s Name  ination

Dewey Named By Griswold   New Yorker Placed In Nomination by Nebraska Governor

EXTOLLS DEWEY ASU.S. LEADER   Gov. Griswold, In Nomination Speech, Predicts November Victory

4 — ee e ‘Nebraska Governor Puts ~ New. Yorker’s Name Before Meeting

Griswold Puts Dewey's Name in Nomination   Governor's Speech Calls Him Man of America’s Peacetime Future.

Dewey Facing Way People Want to Go - Says Gov. Griswold   Nebraska Chief Executive Names New Yorker for President

Griswold Puts Dewey’s Name In Nomination   Calls Governor Man Of The Peacetime American Future; Extolis Youth

‘Softening Up’ Of Marshalls  ‘Nears Climax   Allied. Air Forces Deliver 103 Attacks On Neigh-  boring Gilbert Islands

103RD RAID ON THE MARSHALLS   Pattern Of Allied SofteningUp For Invasion Becomes More Apparent.

Stalin Friend Of Catholies, Priest Says   Fr. Orlemanski Talks With Russian  Premier Again

70 GIVE SUBSIDIES TO CITRUS PACKERS   Move Launches Administration on New Program; Waited More Than Month

New Subsidy Plan Coming   Administration Move Expected to Meet Protest

Destroyers Bombard Pitvilu Isle   Shelling Part of Plan To Reduce Jap Admiro'ties Defense

ISLAND SHELLED BY DESTROYERS   All Japanese Detenses Around Bismarck Sea Being Reduced

U. 5. WARSHIPS SHELL ISLAND IN ADMIRALTIES   Japs Slowly Being Knocked Out Of All Positions On Manus

CARRY ON FOR A SEABEE   Buddies of Slain Man Provide Fund for Daughter's Education.

German Front Is Pushed Back East Of Celles   Large Enemy Force ls Surrounded: Under Side Of Nazi Wedge Softens

AMERICANS CUT INTO NAZI FLANK   Rundstec’? Forces Pushed Back 3 Miles Near Meuse

Yankees Go Over To The Attack At Numerous Points, Close Ring Around Large Force Of Enemy Troops At Celles   PRISONERS TAKEN IN ONE SECTOR

PUSH ADVANCED NAZI SPEARHEAD BACK AND TRAP ENEMY FORCE   Surround Lar ge German Unit Near Celles; Nazis Driven Back Seven Miles From Meuse; Wedge Softening

Most Encouraging News Since Start Of The German Offensive  NO GERMAN GAINS AT ANY POINT STATED  Yanks Punching Out New Gains On Under Side Of German Wedge

Nazis Retreat Before Bitter Counter-Blow   East Luxembourg Section Cleared; South Flank Dented

SEES CHANGES IN TEACHING METHODS   Dr. Haas Says Motion Picture And Radio Will Take Their Place Beside Textbook’ After War

Mindoro Landing Hard Blows to Japs, Yanks Within Deadly Range. of Manik

Nips Left Gasping But Comeback May Be Terrific Blow      Range Of Manila

Roosevelt, Dewey  Both Speak Today   Bricker, Truman Hit At Opposing Leaders

TWO NOMINEES ON RADIO TODAY   President At Chicago; Dewey To Talk At Syracuse, N. Y¥..

British Chief Views Yank Glider Show   Troops Assured Invasion Battle To Come ‘Soon’

Winnie Visits Yank Troops in England   PREDICTS INVASION WILL SMASH NAZI POWER IN EUROPE

 CHURCHILL PREDICTS ACTION ‘SOON’ FOR YANKS IN BRITAIN   By William R. Higginbotham

CHURCHILL INSPECTS AMER. BASE:   Tells Troops Invasion Will End Germany

Invasion ‘Soon’---Churchill   YANK PARATROOPS INSPECTED BY BRITISH PRIME MINISTER   PEACE ‘NOT SO FAR OFF’ NOW, MONTY DECLARES

REVIEWS U.S. PARATROOPS IN BRITAIN   Says Allied Losses On Italy Fronts Have Been Heavy

Germans Drive  Into Russ Lines   Slight Gains Costly To Enemy, Russ Say

i . . : “We Remember Dionne”  Parents Hid Birth of Quints  Last June to Avoid Notoriety

Americans Make No Comment On Nazi Statement. Our Troops Open Full Scale Attack  Against Cassino.

Have Broken Our Lines in Several Places Nazis Claim.   AMERICANS GAINING ON CASSINO FRONT   AFA™M A/S BROIEANTS EF ENSAYO  Allied Bombers Hammet Nazi Troops and Points North of Rome.

NIPPONESE NAVY SUSTAINS MOST CRUSHING DEFEAT IN HISTORIC THREE-FOLD ROUT   ‘Imperial Armada is Stripped of Carrier, Battleship and Cruiser Power Necessary to Engage In Major Actions  meas a 8 —— se aA A GF m= rerare 2st Str AB 41 ' serene re   FINAL REPORTS MAY REVEAL HEAVIER LOSSES

Japs Fall Back on Saipan   Marines Drive Holf Way Thru Garapan, Capital Of the Marianas

Japs On Saipan Losing Ground   Falling Back Before Attacks of American Marines — Half Forces Knocked Out

GARAPAN AFIRE; MARINES HALF WAY THROUGH   Heavy Losses Telling On Japs In Battle On Saipan —

U.S. TROOPS ENTER CITY OF GARAPAN   Marines Drive Halfway Through Capital of Saipan

Hard-Hitting Marines Drive Half Way Thru Garapan, Capital of Marianas

Marines Strurzle ee Halfway Th. & , Blazing Ce is an  Half Jr Forces

JAPS FALL BACK STEADILY BEFORE US. SAIPAN DRIVE   Half Enemy Force Knocked Out in First Three Weeks af island Fiahi.

Dewey Charges Foreign Policy  Nears Disaster   Hits Bickering by Roosevelt, Aids; Renews Charge New Deal Plans _  To Keep Men in Army After Peace

Disunity Threatens Influence   Huge St. Louis Crowd Cheers G. 0. P  Candidate's Fighting Speech.

Allies Raid Jap Port Blair Base   Powerhouse, Workshops, Yards Hit In Attack

TASK FORCE RAIDS JAP CAPITAL OF ANDAMAN ISLANDS   Installations at Port Blair Capital of the Enemy Bas tion in the Bay of Bengal Severely Damaged by Allied Attack

Allied Task Force Raids Capital City of Andamans  Hits Start Oil Fires, Damage Base Without Opposition

TEMPERATURES:   Total Far Below That For Same Period Year Ago This Time

DEATH TOLL AT WEEK-END 176   Expected To Mount Rapidly During Fourth Of July Holiday

Proposes Italian Government Talk Be Postponed ’Til End of the War

DEEPEST ATTAGKS AN JAP DEFENSES   Simultaneous Raids Coordi_ nated With Air Blows   NEARER JAP HOMELAND   Attacks Show Navy's Capa. City to Hit Widely Separated Jap Positions

NAVY TASK FORCE POUNDS MARIANAS   Kuriles Also Raided in Co. ordination With Air Blows

MARIANAS AND KURILES STRUGK BY NAVY UNITS   Warship Bombardment Starts Large Fires In Tanapag Harbor   BLOWS COORDINATED WITH AERIAL ATTACKS

NAVAL TASK FORCES SHELL MARIANAS   In Deepest Penetration of Japanese Defenses ever Made by United States Warships.   2000 Mile Range

U.S. Navy Task Force Bombards Jap-Held Islands   Deepest Penetration of Nip Defenses in War Made by Ships

H. E. Exum Dies At Garden City   Amarilloan: Taken By Heart-Attack —

CLOSE ON JULY 21  City Clerk Gives Gives Details on Qualifications of  Voters fo  —_——  PRIMARY IS AUCUST 1

~ CLOSE ON JULY 21   City Clerk Gives Details on Qualifications of  Voters

Forts Blast Nazis Again in Day Raids   U. S, Planes Make Third Major Attack In Week On German Targets.

U.S. FLIERS AGAIN RAID NAZILAND   Giant Pianes In Attack On Southwest Germany

‘Third Daylight — ‘Assault Made On  German Targets   American Heavies Bomba::: Rhineland  Chemicai Center

Allied Planes Hit Japs’ Wewak Base   16'More Nipponese Aircraft Reported Destroyed

Allied Planes Hit Japs Wewak Base 16 More Nipponese Aircraft  Ranoarted Dectravac

Eighth Troops Gain Outskirts Of Umbertide   American Troops Meet Stiffened German Resistance On talian W est Coast.  ~? A PSP RP Ks , ane an oe She oe oe oe ee eo ae a a   NAZIS COUNTERATTACK

Allies Encounter Heavy Opposition (On Road Florence   Indian Troops Reach Umbertind; Americans 10 Miles South Leghorn.

eS  Fifth Army Is Stalled   Nazi Resistance In Italy Stiffens; Eighth Advancing

Indian Troops At Umbertide   Threaten Main Road To Florence, Allied Headauarters ‘Says

Nazi Resistance.       On Italian Front   Report. Indian Troops In Tiber. Valley _ Menace “Main Road To Florence

Heavy Fire Turned on Sth Army   Germans. Using Everything in Attempt to Halt. Yanks. noving-on~Livorno~

Indian’ Troops Now Threatening Main Road To Florence.   Suff Nazi Resistance Brings 5th Army Advance To Standstill. °

Enemy Slows Allied Push Through Italy   Eighth Reaches Umbertide But Fifth Slowed By Nazi Resistance

Fighting Bitter on Italian Front  German Resistance Becoming Stronger

INDIAN TROOPS CUT OFF NAZIS NEAR FLORENCE   Americazn Units Ten Miles From Leghorn

FIFTH ARMY AT STANDSTILL AS NAZIS STIFFEN   Indian Troops of Eighth, However, Soreading Out  In Upper Tiber Valley

THREATEN MAIN FLORENCE ROAD   8TH ARMY TROOPS REACH UMBERTIDE; 5TH ARMY STALLED

Indian Troops On Outskirts Of Umbertide   Threaten Main Road to Florence; Nazis Stiffen Resistance to Stop 5th Army Advance ,

OTH NEAR ROAD TO FLORENCE   Main Highway Threatened by  Indian Troops; Americans  Approach Leghorn.

Germans Launch4 Counterthrusts To South Of Florence   Yanks Are 10 Miles From Leghorn; Indian Troops Threaten Main Highway; Bitter Fight Rages Eight Miles South Of Port Of Ancona

Eighth Army Batters Road To Florence   Indian Troops at Gates of Umbertide; 5th Army  i Stalled by Nazis

Ry HWHnNHnY CAIMMORE   INDIAN TROOPS OF EIGHTH ARMY REACH MAIN FLORENCE ROAD  AMERICANS ADVANCING ON LIVORNO MEETING HEAVY RESISTANCE

Germans Check Advance Of 5th Army In Italy   Indian Troops Of 8th Army Reach Umbertide, On Florence Road.

EIGHTH THREATEN ROAD 70 FLORENCE   Reach Main ain Outskirts of Umbertide in Upper Tiber Valley.

ALLIED TROOPS AT OUTSKIRTS OF -UMBERTIDE   Stiffened Nazi Re_Sistance Halts Fifth -- Army ;

Fifth Army's Moves Slowed   Fierce Resistance Develops Near Livorno; Eighth Army Threatens Key Road

GERMANS STOP OTH'S ADVANGE   Allied Troops Threaten Road Leading to Florence

Umbertide’s Fall Closer   Indian: Force Gets: In. Town: Outskirts:

UNDERGROUND IN BELGIUM READY TO HIT.GERMANS   Army Nearly 1,000,000 Strong Js Ordered Into Actiox Today

Belgian Maquis Get Orders To Swing Into Act   Brussels May Fall During Week-end,  Say Nazi Announcers

Nazis Expect Early Fall Of Brussels Belgians Given Revolt Signal   ‘Russians Push On Swiftly - Toward Junction With litc   By. MENRYVY SHAPTRO

Belgian Underground Army Of Million Moves As Allies Approach, Nazis Admit Retreat

Belgian Underground Given Instructions By Supreme Headquarters   Yanks Within Range Of German Border As British Seize Lens 16 Mi. Below Lille

Underground Belgian Army Stands Ready   Germans, Preparing To Quit Brussels, Bid Goodbve by Radio

BELGIUM'S UNDERGROUND IN ACTION   Force Numbers Approximately A Million Men

Nazi Propaganda Experts Promise Early Return as Radio Station Closes

Nazis Admit Nation’s Loss Is Imminent   Underground Army Gets Orders For Atiacks on Germans

Underground Belgian Army Goesin Action   Nazis Acknowledge Allies May Capture Brussels During Week-end

Aerial Attack on Fleet Is Described  Adm. Halsey Grins as Nip Planes Splash Into Water

GRIM. HALSEY ELATED WHEN JAPS CRASI   Fierce Nip Attack Hurled Against Leyte Ships

While Americans Enter Brehal and Gavray; Greatest Single Day’s Gains Since D-Day.

crum :.e German _e-~ f.anx S$ 4ticisi C3en _ ew Crive; ‘~~ §. 2risoner tae “ver 2..°.

Tear western flank loose in seven-mile gain; British strike   Americans slam thru three towns; allied front stretches to 45 miles

Allies Make Best Gains — Since D-Day   ~ New American Drive: -Follows British Push  - Jn €aumont Sector:

Americans Rip Nazi Flank in West Normandy   British Attack Under Heavy Fire

U. S. Troops Beat Southward Along 20 Mile __ Front ee     AIDS THE BRITISH:  Fighter Pilots R Report the Wrecking of 55 Tanks

British Launch Smash in East  On Wide Front   American Armored Attack Aims at Break- “Through

U.S. Armored Forces Rip  Foe Defense   Smash Southward At Mile an Hour, Overrun 3 Towns

ISTATE TAX RATE  LOWEST IN PAST   Has Been Reduced to 9 Cents on the $100 Valuation for - the Year 1944.   NO BUILDING BOND LEVY   Total Assessed Valuation for Livingston County Is Fixed at $18,356,420.

Terracina’s Fall Is Near, Says War Cor respondent on Italian Front

NAZIS MAKE STAND BEFORE TERRACINA   FRESH TROOPS, FIGHTING FROM BEHIND TOMBSTONES, SLOW YANK ADVANCE,

Index   “Identify pilot who downed 6 nazi craft in 30 minutes:  ige in

Marshalls Veterans Believe Japs _ Feared Being Shot If They Quit

Council Assumes Charge of USO   PERMANENT COMMITTEES FORMED TO CARRY ON CLUB ACTIVITIES

MERCHANT VESSELS COLLIDE OFF COAST   One Of Ships Is Set Ablaze; No Report of Casualtics By Fourth F Naval District

Indian Division Fight Jap Troops   Fought 21 Days, Inflicting 1,800 Casualties

India Troops Cut Way Through Jans to Imphal: Kill 1800 ©   Allies Mow Down Japs In India Ambushes

Indian Division Escapes Japs Nipponese Keeping Up Pressure On Imphal

ALLIES DRIVE FOR BURMA ROAD   STILWELL’S MEN CLAMP TRAP ON MYITKYINA

More Than 20,00€ Idle in Strikes   New Labor Dispute Flares in Detroit

Strikes Keep ‘Thousands  From Labors Over Nation   Estimates of Idle ‘Range Up to 52,000 With Detroit Area  Reone nf New Troubk   WARNING IS ISSUED BY UAW PRESIDENT   Hundreds of Loggers Join Lumber Strikers In Pacifie Northwest

20,000 Idle In Detroit: New Trouble   CONTROVERSY AT CHRYSLER PLANT IS RENEWED; INVESTIGATORS WARNED OF EXPULSION FROM UNION.   Bus Drivers Return

20,000 (OLE AS DISPUTES HALT LABOR   ‘Detroit Still Hotbed For Unrest of Workers.

“Mussolini Is Gravely Ill   in Il Duce Reported ‘Waiting for Death’

3 FIRMS NAMED IN CARTEL SUIT   Du Pont, Remington Charged With Restraining Trade

ARMS FIRMS FACE CHARGE OF MONOPLY   Justice Department Accuses U. S. and British Industrial Giants of Violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Big Chemical Firms Sued   U. S. Charges duPont, Remington and ICI With Conspiracy in Restraint of Trade

DuPont and Remington Sued by U.S.   Anti-Trust Law Violation Charged By Government

WAR MATERIEL TRUST CHARGED   ‘DuPont and British Firm  Facing Civil Suit

Arms Firms Accused of Trade Curbs   U. S. Suit Cites du Pont, Remington Arms, -Imperial Chemical Industries

GIANT FIRMS NAMED IN SUIT   DuPont, Remington and Brit ish Concern Face U. S. Court Action.

Big Chemical Firms Sued. As Trusts   Government Charges Cartel Involving British Firm

REMINGTON AND DUPONT ACCUSED    British Firm Also Cited for Alleged Violation of Anti-Trust Act

CROSBY AND SINATRA IN MUSICAL BATTLE   se ere eee ee  But Only Boys Overseas To Get In On It

No Planes Lost In Shattering Blows At Sasebo, Yawata   Highly Industrialized Mainland Area Is Target of Superfortresses; Enemy Admits Damage

WARPLANES HIT 3 JAP CENTERS, RETURN INTACT   China Based Superfortresses Attack in Darkness Friday Night, Strike Kyushu

FINAL PASSAGE SOLDIER VOTE BILL IN SIGHT  DEMOCRATS VOTE IN  m/s, Rec miixi elm COC ee ee oe oe oe   DEMOCRATS VOTE IN CAUCUS TO SUPPORT GREEN LEGISLATION

Ilinois Assembly Apparently Ready to Pass Vote Bill   Law Will Not Apply to April Primary; End of  Session Nears

BREST IS HEAP OF RUINS TODAY   Practically Every House, Church And Building In Brest Must Be Rebuilt

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   TIclancte Rombed,

2,000-MiLE TRIP MADE BY BOMBERS   No Jap Fighters Are Seen on Sixth Successive Raid

Judge Morris Vigorously Protests Contempt Citation Resulting From Petition to Correct Minutes

: ‘ ; Justice Morris Enters Protest Against Citation for Contempt   Member of Supreme Court Declares Facts In Niewoehner Petition Are True, Says Nothing Before Court to Cite Anyone

Supreme Court Justice Raps Contempt Citation   Morris Claims Niewoehner’s Statements True and Therefore ‘a Complete Defense’

ESCAPE PATHS HAMMERD BY HEAVY BOMBERS   RAF Scourges Baltic As Yank Planes Hit Ploesti

Dewey Attacks “Power Politics”   Would Not Ignore Smaller Nations

False Invasion News Sent Through Error of London Girl Broadcast  Throughout Western Hemisphere

Girl Blamed For Invasion Error Flash   Practice Message Sent from London Through Mistake

False Report About Invasion  Slips Through   Erroneous Announcement Of Landings In France Sent By Operator.   KILL STORY PROMPTLY

Message That Allied Troops Had Landed in France Sent From London by Inexperienced Girl Telegraph Operator While Practicing on Teletype—Mistake Is Quickly Discovered and Order to “Kill” Goes Over Wires.

Invasion Flash From London Was in Error   “Woman Operator Was "Practising" on Direct News Teletype

‘Practicing Girl Teletype Operator Causes Erroneous Announcement of Invasion

‘Flash’ Allies In A Landing  Erroneous  wre =   Young Teletype Operator Cause  Of The Mistake

Erroneous Report Says Invasion On   Inexperienced Teletype Operator Blamed for Flash From London

AP Explains — False Flash   Operator Said ‘Practici sing’ Invasion Bulletin

AP “Flash” Erroneously Reports Allied Invasion   Mistake Made When English Girl Practicing On Tele. type Punches Out Message Which Slips Through Elaborate System of Safeguards And Censorship

Practice Line On Teletype Startles U. S.   Story killed Almost Immediately, But Had Been Released Before Discovery Of Error

False Flash Appeared on Associated Press's Direct London Printer in New York And Was Relayed in U. S., Latin America

RAN TELETYPE PRACTICE TAPE AS LIVE NEWS   Receipt in New York Starts Stories of Landings in France.

Real Scraping Now At Bottom Of Draft List Barrel   Arguments Center on Farn Deferments, Key Men In War Production

1,200,000 Men Asked by July 1   ‘That Is Goal Set by Armed Services for Draft Boards

Late Boston Lawyer's Cat May-Not Get $106,000 Left in Owner's Will

\TE LOSES IT FOR DRE ISLAND   upreme Court ‘pholds Decisions {] nwer Courts

FRENGH EDITOR SENTENCED T0 DIE   VETERAN PARIS JOURNALIST CONVICTED OF COLLABORATING WITH NAZIS.

DICK HADEN IS LOST IN EAST COAST STORM   Son of H. H. Haden And Brother of. Mrs. Thomas of Freeport

FUEL PIPELINE ABOUT FINISHEL   Veil Of Secrecy Lifted From Remarkable En gineering Feat

DRAFT FOLICY WORD SOUGHT   Senate Group Moves to Settle Questions in Major Problems

SENATE COMMITTEE TO CALI ARMY AND NAVY OFFICIALS =O TESTIFY REGARDING — . PROPOSAL‘. °

South Carolina Retires Smith. From Senate   Anti-New Dealer Beaten; Mrs. Caraway Also Defeated

Red Gains Brought Home   ‘Cotton Ed’ Defeated; Mrs. Caraway Loses

3-PRONGED DRIVE SENT BY REDS AGAINST FINNS   3rd Anniversary Russo-German War Finds Toil of 13,000,000 Killed

Three-Pronged Drive North of Leningrad Begun   Russo-German War Has Taken Toll ~ - of 13 Million Men ©

REDS START THREE-PRONG FINN DRIVE   Take Territory Near Lakes  North of Leningrad to Free Large Section of Country.

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST FINNS   Soviet Information Bureau Says Nazis Are Faced With Complete Rout.

REDS OPEN NEW DRIVE AGAINST FINNISH FRONT   Report Nazi Dead in 3 Years of War at Total of 7.800.000

REDS STRIKE DEEP INTO FINN LINES   Hit Around Lakes Nerth Of Leningrad

Reds List 13 Million Killed or Capturec In Three Years of War With Germany

Russians Open New Offensive  Reds Seek To Clear  Pe ae FN Oe ee fen eet,

REDS OPEN NEW DRIVE NORTH OF  LENINGRAD   Russo-German Wa Toll is 13.000.000

REDS OPEN NEW FINN OFFENSIVE   Three Pronged Drive Sent T Lakes North Of Leninprad

Reds Say 7,800,000 Nazis Killed or Captured Puring Three Years of War in East

RUSSO-GERMA WAR COSTS 13 MILLION MEN   Red Army Launches New Drive Against Finns In Lake Region

Russians Open New Drive Around Lakes North of Leningrad, Seek to Clear Leningrad:-Murmansk Railroad

Two Russian Armies Race Into Romania   Drive Forward at Better Than Mile-an-Hour Clip

RED FORCES RACE THROUGH ROMANIA   Galati Gap Defenses Ars Reached by Soviet  -° Troops

Reds Slash Beaten Foe On 3 Fronts   Fecuct, Tartu Captured 100,000 Nazis Slain In 6-Dav Advance

NAZIS FLEE THROUGH GAP REDS PURSUE   In Six-Day Whirlwind Offensive Which Moscow Says Costs Germans Heavy Losses.   Seize Tartu

RUSSIANS REACH GALATT GAP IN ROMANIAN DRIVE   Moscow Says 205,000 Ger. mans Have Been Killed and Captured in 6-Day Offensive.   12 NAZI DIVISIONS REPORTED ENCIRCLED   Thousands of Romanians Turn On Hitler’s Troops— « Lower Bessarabia in  Soviet Hands.

Fast-Moving Reds Reach Galati Gap, Say 100,000 Nazis Slain in Six Day:

GALATI GAP IS REACHED BY RED ARMY DIVISIONS   Upward Of 60,000 Ger. mans Trapped Southwest  Of Chisinau   ENEMY CASUALTIES NEARING A MILLION

urmies Drive To Galati Gap; Kill 10. Capture 105,000 In Six Days

RED FORCES RACE THROUGHROMANIA   Galati Gap Defenses Are  ‘Bedehed by Soviet * Troops’ -

GALATI GAP IN ROMANIA   Two Armies Race MileAn-Hour Clip, Kill 100,000, Capture 105,000

Soviets Reach Defenses Of Galati Gap   Further Gains Are Reported On Northern Front

Nazis Suffer Greatest Defeat Of War As Russian Armies Smash to Galati Gap Defenses

REA Chief Resigns; Blasts Wickard eS: Plasts Wickard  Harry Slattery Quits His Post; Takes Fight To Public

REA Chief Resigns; Blasts Wickard .  Harry Slattery Quits His _ Post; Takes Fight To Public

SLATTERY OUT OF REA POST   Resigned “to Carry This Fight to the Public,” He Asserts

ADMINISTRATOR OF REA RESEND   Harry Slattery, Who Has Resisted Efforts to Oust Him Quits: to Carry His Fight To Public

Fiercest Battle On Bridgehead   Yankee Heroes Blow Up Selves To Get Enemy Tanks And  Help Win Battle.

Fierce Battle Now Raging On Rome Beachhead Front  Heroic American Troops, Using Grenades, ~ Blawing Themcelves Un Alona With Nazi Tanks

Fight for Cassino Reaches  F Bloody Climax; Battle Said‘, Fiercer Than Salerno Fray

CONVICTS SEIZE FOUR OFFICIALS   Armed Troops Appear a Federal Penitentiary

Berlin Again Hit From Air.   Raids Occur After Speech of Propaganda Minister Goebbels.

TWO BOMBING SHIFTS HIT BERLIN FRIDAY   Attack Comes on Heels 0 Goebbels Battle Plea

2 AIR ATTACKS ON BERLIN LAST NIGHT      Hits Made Shortly After Geebbels Ends ‘Battle to Death’ Plea.

chicago.N eg "0. ‘Labor veader. ‘Shot. to. Death At Palitieal Rally

Hull Says Russia, China Know U.S. Postwar Desires  Soviet Also Submits Plan; Delegates Crkalils Canteranks

Allies Told Of Postwar Plans  Russia, China, Britain Know U. S. Program

ENGLAND, RUSSIA, CHINA ADVISED OF U. S, PLANS FOR POSTWAR SECURITY

Japs Try Smash Chinese Lines   Strong Force Tries Dislodge Chinese From Vital Sector.

Japs Again On Move In China   Aimed At Smashing Chinese Forces Holding Strio OF Railway.

Americans on Guam Gain  Three Miles   Minor Japanese Counterblow Easily Repulsed

Gains of Three Miles Reported In Guam Fightin   Most of Civilians Reach Safety Behind U. S. Lines

DAVIS CLEARS ARMY OF NEWS SUPPRESSION   Says All Incidents Of Shooting Own Men Are Revealed

ARMY CLEARED OF HOLDING — BACK NEWS   OWI Head Says. Army Not Covering Up Blundering

IND SICILIAN CASE BURIED WITHREPORTS   ut OWI Says News Not Intentionally Suppressed

Claims Army Did Not Intentionally Suppress News   Davis Says Catania Incident Buried In  _ Operational Reports

OWI Clears Army Of Belated News   Says All. ‘Blunder’ Incidents Revealed

Davis. Clears  Army of News Withholding    Loss: of More Planes ‘to Allied Guns Admitted

Clears War Dept. Of Suspicion In Report Of Men Shot Down By Own Guns

OWI Chief Clears Army of Intentional Suppression of News in 2nd Case of Planes Downed by Allied Ack-Ack

RED ARMY TROOPS HAVE ALSO STARTED CARPATHIAN CLIMB  - BERLIN COMMENTS THA} NEW DETPEATC MIICT

Russians Drive  On Odessa   Berlin Says Red Army Has Crossed Prut; U.S. Bombers Rap Germany And Invasion Coast

Allied Troops Driven from Hangman’s Hill Overlooking Cassinc But American and British Air Forces Taking Heavy Toll Of German Planes and Blasting Invasion Coast

SOVIETS ROLLING TOWARD ODESSA, VITAL SEA PORT   Other Red Forces Push Up Carpathian Slopes — U. S. Forts Bombard Germany

Russian Advance 11 Miles Toward Carpathian Pass   Allies Lose Hangman Hill Overlooking Besieged Cassino

Big Black Sea Port is Goal   Germans Warned To Prepare For New Retreats.   By RICHARD McMURRAY.  AD War RAstaw

Germans Reveal Soviets . Cross Prut into Rumania          Indian Troops Withdrawn from Hangman’s Hill in Italy; Artillery Mortar Duels Highten Battles in Cassino       Associated Press War Editor) (Ry RICHARN MoMITIPRAYV.

Seizes Nikolaev, Nears Gzech Line Further To North   eee eee eee rr  Ailies Withdraw Forces From Heichts Of Cassine

Blood Tests Again Enter Chaplin Trial  Joan Berry’s Lawyer Fails to Block ©

Blood Tes! Testimony Ruled Valid   Berry Lawyer Fails To Block Statement Of Chaplin Doctor

Allied Air Blows Rock Coast Areas   Berlin Sounds Alert As Attack Roars Dynes Harese In Enatand Badly Shaken

Wave After Wave Send: Pre-Invasion Aerial Offensive Into Ninth Consecutive Day

Bombers Roar Far  Into Night   Dozen German Rail Junctions Hit—Heavy Jolts

Hitler's Transport System Given Its Greatest Blows   Allied Air Forces Sweep Rail Centers, Bridges, Junctions, Airfields

Air Invasion Roars on Over Europe   English Shores Shake As More Planes Follow 6,000 Raid

Roaring Allied Air Offensive Goes On   Berlin Has Alert, French Coast Blasted After Day Of Aerial Activity In vame 6.000 Planes Lashed F urone

6,000 Planes Blast Europe In Huge Wave   Pound Hitler's Transport System; 24 Bombers, 7 ees TEs Bae   IDOWN 49 AIRCRAFT

NAZI AIRFIELDS, RAIL JUNCTIONS, BRIDGES BOMBEL   Six Thousand Aliied Planes Take Part in Widespread Assault —~ 42 Lost, 49 Germans Downed.   TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN RHINELAND HIt   Aircraft Factories in France Pounded—Budapest Radio Indictaes Night Blow in Balkans.

French coast shakes under  R.A.F. blows  Yanks down 49 planes, lose 42

THOUSANDS OF ALLIED PLANES POUND EUROPE   Air Armadas Batter German: With Over 6,000 Tons Of Exploding Steel

PRE-INVAS AIR OFFENSIVE ON NINTH DAY   FORTRESS EUROPE HIT BY NEARLY 6000 PLANES

Blow Struck From Bases In England And Italy   Important Railway. Junctions Blasted

FRENCH COASTAI ATTACK SHAKES AREA ATDOVER   Raids Last Night Believed Centered On Berlin, Budapest

6 Thousand Planes Raid Nazi Europe   French Invasion Coast Shaken by Allied Assault

English Shores Shake From Violent Explosions Along French Coast Last Night   Home Furniture Bounces Around   Doors Bang From Vibra. tions; 6,000 Planes Hit Enemy Supply Routes  in Daylight Attacks

LEFTIST GROUP. ISORDERED 70. LEAVE ATHENS   Ouster Move Follows Clashes In Which “91 Pied —   140 ARE INJURED   General - Strike Is Called By EAM Organization .

Armed Leftists Given 72 . Hours to Quit Athens After Riots Causing 21 Deaths

STRIKE TIES UP ATHENS IN WAKE OF ARMED CLASH   21 PERSONS KILLED IN RIOT; MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED

STRIKE GRIPS CAPITAL CITY AFTER CLASHES   21 Killed As British-Backed Premier Seeks To Maintain Order

Greek Revolt Flares    General Strike Called Following Killing of 21  In Sunday’s Riot

EAM Backers On Strike In City   Utilities, Communications Lacking In Capita Ry STEPHEN RARKER

Civil War Threatened In Greece   Martial Law In Effect; British Troops Active

AND POLICE IN CLASH   Strike Ordered By EAM; Martial Law Is Declared

LEFTISTS ARE BLAMED FOR ATHENS RIOTS   Survey of Hospitals In City Show 21 Dead and 140 Injured During Demonstrations   PREMIER FACES CRISIS

Royalist Bands Fight Leftists In Athens   Strikes And Other Disorders Follow Sunday's Violent Lloricina

Athens Tense After Violent Sunday Clash   Leftists Given 7Z Hours Notice to Quit Athens After 21 Killed im Sunday. Clashes: General Strike Folfawed

Athens Hit by General City Strike   21 Persons Killed in Demonstrations Between Rival Groups Sundav

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED 10 STOP LEFTISTS   Premier Is Defied as General Strike Is Ordered in City

BRITISH HAVE TO TAKE HAND IN OUTBREAKS   Leftist Group Given 72 Hours te Get Out of Athens Area in Which Disorders Occurred

Athens Smothers; 21 Killed in Violent Clash With Police   Leftist Party Foments Civil War; . British Troovs on Patrol

Greek Capital Tied In Tense Grip By Strike   Martial Law Declared With ‘British. Tanks und Armed Parachutists Patrolling Streets   21 Are Killed In Riot; 140 Injured   Violence Outgrowth of De. mand For Disarmament Of Leftist Faction ’ Of Nation

Leftists Given 24 Hours To Quit Athens Area; 2] Killed, 140 Iniured During Clashes

Greece Faces Civil Conflict   Armed Leftists Defy Order to Disband; Martial Law in Athens

THE LEFTISTS TIE ATHENS IN A STRIKE   Walkout Called as a Result of Violent Sunday Clash With Police, Bringing Death to 21  Parsons.

Efforts to Disarm Greek Partisans Result in Strike  Martial Law Rules Athens as British Treeps, Tanks Patrel City, Pelice Kitt 9)

Greek Governor Orders Leftists  To Leave Area   21 Killed And 140 Injured In Police Clashes

GREEK STRIKE TIES ATHENS IN TENSE GRIP   21 Persons Were Killed; Martial Law Ordered

STRIKE TIES UP CREEK CAPITAL; 21 DIE IN RIOTS   Charge Left Wing Factions Fomenting Civil War in Greece

British Aid Government Tn Quelling  Disturbance   21 Killed In -Clash Of Factions Sunday

Athens Held In Grip Of Str ike After 2 1 Are Slain   Premier, Backed By British, Accuses EAM Faction; No Ttikties Service

Greek Leftists (all Strike; Civil War Seen   Martial Law Placed In Effect After Bloody Sunday Riot

Martial Law Grips Greece   Leftist Group Ties Up Capital in General Walkout

ARMED oTRIKE GAOUPS FIGHT THRU STREETS   British Troops Disarm 2,000 After 21 Killed in Police Clash.

Military Head Orders EAMto Leave Athens   General Strike of Leftist Group Holds Greek Capital in Tense Grip, Reported

Athens. Greek Capital. Tense:  21 Are Killed   Armed Formations Of Leftist EAM Told to Leave Area

Armed Greeks Told to Quit Athens   Military Governor Orders Leftists To Lay Down Guns

. —GREECE—  ARMED LEFTIST EROUPS ORDERED —TOLEAVE CIT!   Government Police Barracks At Piraeus Seized By Eams   “TENSE SITUATION   i Acting Military Governor Acts Quickly To Quell . Disorders

STRIKE GRIPS CREEK CAPITAL   hive Rebellious Groups 72 Hours To Hand  Over Arms

21 Killed in Violent Clash With Police   Martial Law Declared In Darkened City as British Tanks and Parachutists Patrol

An Ultimatum to Revolting Greeks Issued at Athens   Governor Orders EAM To Quit Area  Within 72 Hours;  A Strike in Capital

Ultimatum Given Resistance Group   Greek Leftists Have 72 Hours to Quit Athens Area After Riots   CITY LACKS UTILITIES   Increasing Coolness Toward British Noticed in Left Wing

ARMED FORMATIONS OF LEFTISTS TOLD TO-LEAVE ATHENS  GENERAL STRIKE ORDEF ED BY EAM HAS CAPITAL IN TENSE CRIP .

Leftists Given 72 Hours to Quit Athens as Consequence of Strike Ordered and 21 Persons Killed

ARE TOLD TO DISARM   72-Hour Notice Given Revolters; Nation  Near Civil War

Athens Leftists Ordered To Quit Troubled Area   British-Supported Premier Charges Greek Faction Would Foment Civil War

Greek Leader Orders EAM To Disband   Leftist Group -Given 72 Hours To Quit Rioting

Strike Ties Athens After Score Killed   Papandreocu Sees Leftists Plot

Notice Given Greek Uprisers To Quit Area   Military Governor of Athens Serves 72-hour Notice for Violent Clashes To Be Terminated.

PATTON THRUST PERILS GERMAN SIEGFRIED LINE   Duplicates Advance of Ninth in Reaching Roer River West of Cologne

COLDEST OF SEASON   Forecaster Says Kansag Will Have First General Freeze

Allies Push  3 Miles West Of Caumint;  Take Berigny      Rapid. Smashes Made: wv, German Defenses

American Patrols Reach Periers, 15 Miles From St. Lo   American Armored Columns Drive More ’ Than Three Miles Southwest of Canisy And Other Yanke Cut Imnartant Raad

Homeless Flee  Athens; Fi ght Still Spread:   Sharp Gunfire Echoes   Through Capital Even   As Rebels Are Reported Seeking Peace

FALL OF BATAAN 1S REMEMBERED   Pacific Bastion Gave Up Two Years Ago Sunday

jon Second Anniversary Of Pacific Blow Prayers Rise From Nation Today -For Bataan’s Heroes

11 Spy Convictions, But No Enemy-Directed Sabotage Is Reported In FBI's Busiest. Year

U.S. Troops Push Closer to Bologna   Clearing Skies Aid  Bombers in Italy

Americans Drive Toward Bologna  Advance Is Slowed by Mud and Nazis

Bombers Paralize Hot Spot   Knock Down 37 Enemy Planes, Lose 15 In Heavy Raid  Upon Frankfurt.

Alled Troops Hurl Nazis Back More Than Mile   Tank-Led Allied Counter At tacks Drive Germans Back At Anzio Beach. head   WARSHIPS AND PLANES AID GROUND ATTACKS

ALLIES FORCE GERMANS BACK BELOW ROME   Fifth Army Suddenly Takes Offensive, Inflicts Heavy Losses

NAZIS HURLED BACK ONE MILE ON BEACHHEAD   Allies Inflict Severe Casualties   GERMANS GROGGY   Conquest of Cassino Near End

5 FORCE GERMANS BAC BELOW ROME   Fifth Army Suddenly Takes Offensive, In- . flicts Heavy Losses

Polio’ Takes 44th County; 364 Cases   ALLEGHENY COUNTY LEADS STATE WITH 94 CASES; 34 NEW CASES REPORTED O V E R NIGHT.

Terrific Wind Rips Shinnston And Wellsbure   Other Central, Northern Communities. Hard ‘Hits’ _ Seores Injured

Expect Pope to Speak on Rome  Holy Father's Addres: Scheduled for Sunday

POPE WILL SPEAK TO WORLD TODA’   PONTIFF TO GO ON AIR AT 9:30 A, M.—MAY DISCUSS FUTURE OF ROME,

WORLD 10 HEAR POPE’S ADDRESS   Apostolic Blessing Will Be Given By Radio At 9:30 Today

Yankee Tanks At Sarthe River, 100 Miles From Paris   Huge Bomber Barrage Helps Allies Crash Toware Open Country At Caen; Americans Lick More Counter Thrusts, Fight In Brest Streets,

Canadian Forces Smash Ahead Behind Barrage   Eight Fortress Villages Fail te Hard-Hitting Armies; Enemy Counterattack Is Broken With Heavy German Casualties

All Defenses Cracking Under Mighty Assaults; New Counterattack Fails, Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Nazis

ALLIES HIT ‘PARIS LINE   3erlin Reports U. S. Tanks Now Are 100 Mile: From French Capital: Canadians Drive

STORM ACROSS STREAM ALONG SOUTH FRONT.   Indicaitons That This New Drive May Be Coordinated With French, American Plans

Lower Section Of Garighano River Crossed   Veteran British Units in New Adwanea in Tial<

British, French, Yank Armies — Mass Offenses Against Cassin   Allied Planes Swarm Over Front Lines, Hit Enemy Ports On Jugoslav Coast

GERMANS ARE HURLED FROM DEFENSE LINE   Veteran Allied Units Lash Out at Enemy Under Cover of Darkness.

British Arm of Clark's Army Crosses River   Move Up Floor Of Valley Before Strong Resistance

FIFTH ARMY OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED   British Storm Across Garigliano River, Up Valley

PUSH UP VALLEY AFTER FORDING OF GARIGLIANG   Aerial And Naval Units Blast Enemy Bases Thruout Italy

Veteran British Units Lead Drive Against Germans   Savage Resistance Encountered During Desperate Struggle

Foremen Vote ToEnd Their 20-Day Strike   _ Take Action ' After Warning From Gen. Arnold

Heed Warning of Air Force Chiet That Motor Lack Might Affect 2: Invasion of Europe

ARNOLD SAYS. STRIKE COST 250 PLANES   HEAD OF ARMY AIR FORCE FLAYS_ DETROIT. STRIKERB—. WLB CHAIRMAN 18- BUES WARNING

FOREMEN VOTE TOEND STRIKE IN 14 PLANTS   Heed Warning Invasion Hindered     AIR CHIEF ANGRY  ny  Issues Blunt Statement at Hearing

10 GIVE LAST WARNING TO UNION   Will Resort to Drastic* Ways to Break Stiikes  in Detroit Plants

Foremen Vote To End Strike      General Arnold Warns of Effect On War

Chinese Still Hold Heng Yang   Japanese Artillery Pounding Chinese  ‘ Positions Inside Key Junction

Phone Strike Is Called Of   Operators Return Tc Their Switchboards

UNION OFFICERS CALL OFF WIDE PHONE WALKOUT   Up To WLB Now To Solve Differences; Operators Return To Jobs

END TELEPHONE STRIKE IN OHIO   WLB WINS OUT AS OPERATORS RETURN TO SWITCHBOARDS

Phone Strike Called Off   Union Leaders Finally Bow To WLB As Government Seizure Loomed.

NATION SPARED PHONE STRIKE   Operators Return to Jobs After Defying WLB  Orders

SWITCHBOARDS BUZZ AGAIN  Nation Spared Possibly Danaerous Phone Strike

PHONE STRIKE COMES TO END   —---- Operators — Agre> To Let WLB Iron Out Differences With Company

National Phone Strike Avertea   Operators In 29 Ohio Cities, Washington And Detroit End Seven-Day Walkout

Phone Strike Ends i in Face Of WLB Edict   Union's Decision Forestalls U. S. Gpienre of Wires

TELEPHONE STRIKE ENDS SUDDENLY   Michigan Operators Return to Work Today after OneDav. Sympathy Walkout

Phone Walkout Ends Abrupfly Late Thursday  fem ae fees ee  CASE” ae ne   War Labor Board Te Adjust Differences Causing Strike

PHONE STRIKE CALLED OFF: WAP INTEREST   Halts Nationwide Communications  Tie-Up Today

PHONE WORKERS BACK AT JOBS   Widening Strike Is Brought to Sudden End

Nation Spared Possible Huge  Phone Strike   Operators Quit Jobs In 29 Ohio Cities, Washington, Detroit.   SEE FAIR TREATMENT

“ay! a ee ee es  Phone Strike Ends Quickly   “Differences. Still Up To Labor Board

—PHONE STR IKE—  OPERATORS BACK AT SWITCHBOARD   Settlement Of Difference In Telephone Strike Up To WLB ’

PHONE WORKERS BACK ON JOB   THREATENED STRIKE CALLED OFF IN EAST

Phone Sirike ‘Terminated By Operator:   WLB To Adjust All Differences

Phone Strikers Go Back To Work   WLB Will Now Have To Adjust Differences Between Workers-Employers.

Arbitration Of Telephone  Row Promisec   Strikers Quickly Return to Boards Under WLE Order

TELEPHONE STRIKE — CALLED OFF TO GIVE WLB CHANGE OPERATE  MUSHROOMING LABOR _ TROUBLE ENDED AS SUDDENIYV AS IT CPREANR

Phone Strike In Thirty-One Cities Endec   Had Spread to 29 Ohi Areas and Washington and Detroit; WLB to Adjust Grievances

Phone Strike Called Off   Up to WLB to Adjust Differences—WLB Weapons Cited

‘Phone Strike Ends; Workers Resume Duties   Employes Announce: They Expect Peaceable Settlement of Dispute And Fair Treatment

Phone Operators’ Widespread Strike Averted Suddenly   WLB Action Gets Quick Results; See End of Rail Walkouts

Telephone Strike Has Been Ended   Threat of National Tie-Up Over; WLB To Adjust Differences

RAF Renews Blows On Robot Bomb Bases   Lancasters Sweep Over North France; Other Air Fleets Hit Communications

BIG BOMBERS IN SWEEP ON NORTH FRANCE   Attack German Robot Bomb Launching Installations Is Revort

COMMUNICATION LINES HIT IN NORMANDY AREA   Mosquitos Raid Synthetic Oil Plant in East Prussia

New Air Attacks Made On German Robomb Centers   Hundreds of British Lancaster Bombers Strike Installations

RAF ATTACKS ROBOT BASES   British Bombers Hit Nazi _ Defenses In France

BOMBERS SMASH ROBOT. OIL PLANT   COMMUNICATIONS BEHIND  . NORMANDY FRONT HIT

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Big Push In Drive Starts Here Tuesday  Three Groups Are Fully Oraanized

Allied Planes Twice Hit  Invasion Coas!  Other Craft Sweep France, Belgium in Great Nazi Hunt

Allied Planes Twice Hit Invasion Coast  Other Craft Sweep France. Relaium

‘4,000.Planes Deal Nazi Fortifications Worst Blow of War   Heavy Bombers Lash Calais Area Twice in Day; Explosive Barrage Catches Rails. Roads. Drames

BIG FORCES POUND AT WEST WALL   Pas-De-Calais And Boulogne Areas  Raided Twice

400 PLANES BOMB nOLE IN DEFENSE WAL   American Bombers Lead Raids on Rail and Military Road Transport.

Americans Pace Attack With Twin Assaults On Invasion Coast   Attacks Heaviest Yet Carried Ou   Berlin Radio Says Raider: Back Over Western  Germany Today

Allies Bomb French Coast   Supply Lines Smashed in Gient Assqults

Pre-Invasion Blitz Races To New Peak   American Heavies Hit Pas De Calais And Boulogne Areas

Bureau Pianning Annual Drive   Membership ‘Canvass Scheduled To Start On November 6th

COUNTY FARM BUREAU PLANS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE   LIMESTONE FOURTH IN STATE WITH 1,643 MEMBERS

Two Guilty Pleas Entered Before Judge Hubbard   Ludlow Youth Fined $200 On Charge Of Drunken Driving

Camacho Throws Unions Out Of Railroad Contro   Order Great Surprise * To Mexico

Planes and Big Guns Lead Smash   Allied Troops Hope to Crack Last Defenses Of Fortified City; German Garrison Reported Snhkt in Three Parts bv Great Attack

Nazis Reel Back Under Weight Of Blasting From Sky   Naves of British and American Planes Sweep Area In Unprecedented Assault Lasting Eighty Minutes   ,OUGHBOYS AWAITING ORDERS TO GO AHEAD

Yanks Launch Huge Assault   Combined Land, Air Blast Hits Normandy Port Greatest Since Invasion, Doughboys Pound Fort du Roule, St. Pierre Eglise Captured

LONDON, June 22.—(?)—The Algiers radio said tonight that Cherbourg was aflame.

Rock Cherbourg In Combined Raid   Allied Forces Attack City for 80 Minutes from d and Air   HOPE TO CRACK NAZIS   American Doughboys Move Forward Following  Giant Assault

Yanks Storm Cherbourg In Huge Attack   Waves Of Bombers Begin Drive: Land Forces Push  “In After Raids.

PLANES, ARTILLERY — CLEARED WAY GROUND ATTACK ON THURSDAY   GREATEST ASSAULT SINCE . JNVASION DESIGNED TO OUST GERMANS

All-Out Blows Are Opened At Cherbourg   General Eisenhower's Forces Unlimber Air, Land Assault of Invasion Power in Blows Intended to Crack Final Defenses

HOUSE-TO-HOUSE FIGHTING RAGES INSIDE THE CITY  CONCRETE FORTS Bonet py FRENCH   CONCRETE FORTS BUILT BY FRENCH PROVE OBSTACLES

GREATEST Hl] SINGE LANDING   American, British Planes in Terrific Aerial Barrage For 80 Minutes..   LAND FORCES WAITING   Events in Washington

Infantry Assault Follows Vicious Air Raid. And Bombardment; Enemy Force Split 3 Ways

YANKS BATTL IN STREETS OF CITY   German Defenses Are Under Tremendous Fire   ALL ACTIVITY   On Beachhead Centered On Port; Enemy Prepares People For Loss

FORCES LAUNCH ALL-OUT DRIVE   Yanks Smash Forward In Wake of Thunderous  Barrage

iixpect Attack To Crack Last City Defenses   British, American Planes Sweep Over Port. Followed by Artillery Blasts

Gen. Bradley’s Doughboys Smash At Last Nazi Forts   London (.1’)—The Algiers radio said tonight that Cherbourg was aflame.

rboure In Combined Rai   Allied Forces Attack City fe r 80 Minutes from _° Land and Air    HOPE TO CRACK NAZIS

Airplanes Open Offensive with Terrific Blast   German Garrison Reported Split By Advance of Troops

COMBINED LAND, AIR ASSAULT IS o CRUSHING NAZIS   Waves of Planes Give Troops Support — More Towns . Near Port Seized

Planes Drop To Cannonmouth Level To Blast German Guns   SS SB BSEGE AS J Se asu  Artillery I Fi ire Pulverizes Forts   Infantrymen Then Sweep Forward To Engage Foe In Battered Port

FOUR VESSELS SUNK, JQ OTHERS DAMAGED   American Fifth Fleet Ships Suffer Only Super ficial Damage i in Attack on Formidable oo Enemy Force

Last Defenses of Fortified City Are Under Attack   Infantry Waves Preceded With Big Explosive Barrage

Last Line Of Defense Stormed   Germans in Harbor Area Virtually Split Into: Three Segments; Rest of Front Quiet

Last Defenses Of French Port Being Smashed   Mightiest Bottle Since Normandy Beachhead Opens Today

Allies ‘Trap Three Nazi  Divisions   Assume Ultimatum To Surrender, if  Given, Was Rejected Order Final Attack   LONDON, June 22—P/)— The Algiers radio said tonight that Cherbourg was aflame.

Planes Lead Off in Attack   Terrific Bombing, Shelling Followed By Infantry Smash at Great Port

Seek to Crack Last Defenses Of Huge Port   German Garrison Virtually Split In Three Segments

Joint Land and Air Attack Is Intended To Crack Last Defenses of Great Fortified City.   NAZIS REPORTED SPLIT INTO THREE SEGMENTS

Greatest Assault Since D-Day Thrown At City Planes, Artillery, Infan try Unite In Blow.   OU LAE BBN.  LONDON, () - The Algiers  radio said tonight that Cherbourg was aflame.

o)-Minute Air Barrage Rips Strongpoints  Barring Allies   \zi Garrison Virtually Split Into Three Segments

ASSAULT MADE AT LOW LEVEL   Artillery Then Blasts Nazis; Doughboys Mak« Attack on Strongpoints

U. §. Troops Hit Cherbourc in Full Force   Launch Great Assault Following Pounding From Land and Air

A GREAT ASSAULT UNLIMBERED ON CHERBOURG TODA\   Was the Greatest Since the Storming of the Beaches of Normandy Base.   LAND AND AIR ATTACK   Waves of British and American Planes Hit With a Terrifie Aerial Barrage.

Germans, Beset by An Artillery Assault, Split in Three Segments   LONDON. (AP)— The Algiers radio said tonight that Cherbourg was aflame.

Make Attack On Cherbourg Last Defenses   Fortifications Of Nazis Strongest Yet Encountered

RISING INGEN Fe German Garrison Split Into Three Seaments By Bombing:

Planes Bomb French Port As Artillery  Fire Ceases —   Infantry Storming Germans Defenses

fleavy Battle For Seaport Under Way   U.S. infantry Smashing at Nazi-Held Forts

JAPS SQUEEZED INTO SIX-SQUARE-MILE AREA ~ ON NORTHERN EDGE OF SAIPAN ISLE BY YANKS

JAP ESCAPE EFFORT FOILED OFF SAIPAN   200 Try To Flee Island; Barges Blasted

General Speeds From U.S. to Aid Trapped Uni 10lst Airborne Division Was at Bastogne

General Speeds From U.S. to Aid Trapped Uni!  10lst Airborne Division

RUSSIANS FAIR WITH FINLAND, FEELS   Washington: Sees Offer as Finns’ Last Chance to Quit War

SAY RED TERMS TO FINNS GOOD   Official Washington Views Offer as Helsinki’s Last Chance

Understand Terms For Armistice By Soviet Reasonable   U. S. Government Said To Regard Terms To Finland As  Extremely Reasonable

LAWALL COUNSEL OPPOSES PETITION   Battles Move of WVU Board Cf Governors To Halt Further Action of Judge Bouchelle in Ouster Case

Admiral Urges  More Production   Fighting to Get Tougher, King Says

SUNDAY TO BE CHILLY   Cold Weather Is Headed This Way From Montana

RUSSIANS DRAW CLOSE TO ODESSA   Expected to Lay Siege to City _In Few. Hours

Soviet Advances Doom Garrison of German Fort:   Main Escape Routes’ To ‘Northwest Cut: 100 Localities Taken 

DRAW CLOSE TO ODESSA   Expected to Lay Siege to City In Few Hours

FALL OF CITY WILL END NAZIS IN UKRAINE   Germans in Pocket Appear Doomed by Flanking Drive Which Cut Escape Route to Northweet

NAZI ‘DUNKIRK’ POSSIBLE AS ROADS ARE CUT   Enemy Trapped On Black Sea

Red Guns  Hammer  Odessa   Russians Take Tanks Guns in Drive on 100 More Localities

Cut Highway And Railway Outside City      Single Track Rail Line Only Land Escape Route Left

AMERICAN GAN JOKE IN SPITE OF WOUND   Had Not Had Clothes Off Since D-Day, He Says

U. 5. Air Fleets Blaze Trail of  Ruin In Europe   Berlin, Paris Blasted From West; Vienna  Attacked From South

FLIERS HIT BERLIN, PARIS AND VIENNA   Warplanes Blaze Trail of Ruin Over Axis Europe

U.S. Hits Shake  Germany   Hitler’s West Wall, Paris Air Targets Blasted From Air

5,000 Planes Strike at Axis Nerve Centers   Berlin, Paris, Vienna Are Chief Targets

5000 Allied Warplanes Blaze Trail of Ruin On Axis Europe   Most Widespread U. 8. Daylight Attack of the War.

BLAOT BERLIN AGAIN IN DAY RAID OF RUN   Area from Channel Coast to Austrian Alps Attacked by 5,000 Planes.

Ailies Make Progress Despite Fierce Kesistance   MILE IN FOUR HOURS ALLIES ADVANCE  Te Soe See = SRE), Sg eEE «(Mi saiiale eee

ALLIED STH AND 8TH ARMIES BEGIN JOINT OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH   Gain Mile In Early Hours Of Renewed Drive On Rome; Main Effort Being Made Between Cassino And Sea

Allied Armies Begin New Offensive Along Battle Front on Road to Rome

1S BROKEN   ‘Three [housand Planes Spearhead New Assault   Yanks Smash Ahead On Garigliano Front; Sth Army Soldiers Cross Rapido River

HUGE POST-WAR ROADS, RIVERS BILLS WIN OUT   To Head For White House After House, Senate Adjustments

Postwar Road And River Projects Bills Head For — White House This Week

TWO BIG SPENDING  BILLS ARE HEADED  TOWARD WAITE HOUS POSTWAR HIGHWAY  BUILDING AND RIVER  DPpnIErcTe EnP OITTIONG

Will Rush Road, River Measures  To White House   Provide Expenditure O: Millions Of Dollars Ir Every State.

the BIG BILLS HOLD CONGRESS   Solons To Consider Flood Control, Highway Acts This Week

Two Big Bills Head For White House   Billion Asked for Flood Control, Other Bill Plans Better Radd«

Two Bills Call For Spending - Over 2 Billion   Postwar Road and River Measures Headed Toward White House This Week

Two Major Bills Slated For White House Approval   Bills Call For Spending Of A Million Dollars In Every State.

TWO BIG SPENDING  BILLS ARE HEADED  TOWARD WHITE HOUS! POSTWAR HIGHWAY  BUILDING AND RIVER PROTECTS FOR RITTLIONS

Japs Seeking to Escape Sio  Australians Are at Mission‘s Outskirts

Aussies Reach Outskirts of Sio Mission    Japs Are Evacuating Strong Point, It Is Believed to Make Stand at Madana

Aussies Take Big Jap Base   Beaten Enemy Flees; Yanks  Close In At'Noted Hill 660.

AUSGIES APPROACH QUTSKIRTS OF Slt   Japs Apparently Pulling Out Before Determined Blows; Nips Are Trapped Between ‘Aussies and Americans

LAST BASE IN HUON AREA 1S ABOUT TO FALL   Foe Seeks’ Escape By Barges As Aussie, Yank Pincers Close

Aussies Ram To EdgeofSio In Huon Drive   Mar ‘ines in } New Britain Storm Jap Pillboxes Guarding Hill 660

Aussies May Already Be In Control   Cape Gloucester Fight ‘Worst In World’ As Marines Struggle To Canture Hill 660

~ LEFT: FORTUNE   ESTATE OF HALF MILLION DOL~“ LARS IS INVOLVED IN. CHICAGO. MURDER MYSTERY

Murdered Woman Leaves Fortune   Mrs. Adele ~. Williams, Whose Murder In Chicago Is Still Unselved, Had Big Estate

More Top Grade Meats Available   ‘Ration Values Remain Virtually Unchanged 

PATTON PROMOTICN NOT RECOMMENDED   Officer’s Slapping of Soldier tn Sicilian Hospital May Be Reason.

PROMOTION OF PATTON DENIED   Favorable Action Asked for Other Officers

Group Fails To Promote Gen. Patton   Senate Committee Holds Up Action On Officer Who Slapped Soldier

Promotion For Patton Delayed By Congres:   Other Officers Given Approval Today

Patton Promotion Is Held Up by  senate Committee  Thirteen Others Are Recommended For Advances in Rank

PATTON NOT ADVANCED   Senate Withholds Approval of Promotion for General -

Man Freed From Custody fo Run   Billings to Make Reice for Senate on Socialist Ticket

MORE BRITISH REACH GREECE   Additional Supplies Also Landed As Nazis Withdraw From Thebes

AXIS FOE FALLS BACK IN GREECE   Liberation Troops Are Reinforced; City Of Thebes Taken

Nazis Admit Withdrawal From Thebes   Additional Troops and Supplies Landed in Greece to Supply  Allied Forces

Members of Greek Cabinet Resign   British Warn Guerrilla Forces To Demobilize

CREEK CABINET MEMBERS (UIT   POLITICAL SITUATION IN ATHENS EXPLOSIVE

POLES PRESS EASTWARD 10 GOTHIC LINE   Five Unsuccesful Counter attacks Cost Germans Heavy Casualties

Poles Near. Pesaro Port On Adriatic   (Roll Fo,ward to Cesano River Only 17 Miles From Eastem End Of Gothic Line

AMERICAN FORCES ASSAULT 2, TERRACINA BUT ARE HALTE EXPLOSIVES DROPPED FROM

 American Forces Halted in Attack ‘On Perracina; Germans Putting Up Fierce Resistance on Road to Rome

Ramirez Made Resignation  ‘Void By Plan   Argentine Head Gave Power To Court  Before Forced Out

Reorganization Move In House By Rowe Is Flop   Plan Made To Unseat Speaker Sam Rayburn and Other Chiefs.

KHERSON IS SCENE OF ANNIHILATION: NIKOLAEV NEXT   if Nikolaev Falls, Reds. Wil Aim Directly At Great Odessa Part.

NAZIS FACE DISASTER ON RED FRONT   14,000 Germans Killed, Captured In Escape Attempt

REDS TIGHTEN ENCIRCLEMENT OF NAZI ARMY   Set Loss Of German Troops A’ More Than 14,000 Killed And Captured

(ERMANS ARE TRAPP2D BY RED TROOPS   Several Divisions Confined to 300Sq. Mile Pocket

Soviet Ring Unbroken In Ukraine   German Losses Mount as Reds  Increase Pressure

POLITICAL ACTIGR COMMITEE TALKS STUN THE SENATE.   . Reveal Framers of _Murray-Kilgore Bill Communicate With CIO

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE HIT BY ARCHBISHOP   Curley Says It Is “As Fine A Piece Gf Totalitarianism’ As Is To Be Found In World

Sen. Truman Cheered by Big Crowds   Thousands Greet. Missouri Candidate for Vice President in. Pittsburgh   HE WILL RETURN HOME TOMGRROW   ‘Absolutely Confident of Victory for Roosevelt,’ He Tells Reporters

War Picture at High School Saturday   ‘They Live Forever’ Brought t¢ Washington by Calvary Baptist Church

Recommend Control Of Newsprint Until Supply [Returns To 194] Level

THOUSAND... _PERGONG. ° LAR. “FECTED BY POISON: GARIN’, “UNUBUAL. AccIDENT 92 .  ‘G0 TO HOSPITAL

SR gm  CHARGE NAZI PRISON GUARDS — ~- AMASSAGRED’ ALLIED FLIERS   WAR PRISONERS WHO E5SCAPED CAMP SAY GUARDS _ SHOT MEN HAPHAZARDLY  FOR SEVERAL DAYS

Minsk Next Objective Of Two-Pronged Pincers Now Developed By Soviet Army   Vaunted “Fatherland Line” Being Shattered At Enormous Cost To Germans Both In Casualties And Equipment; 20,000 Enemy Troops Killed; 10,000 Captured

Reds Thrust Pineers at  Minsk Base   Nazis Lose Five Divisions in Blazing Drive

Reds Thrust Toward Pinsk As Famous German Line Is Shattered: Orsha Captured

OWEEPING GAINS OF RED ARMIES THREATEN MINSH   Fall of Two Strongpoints Protecting Routes to Whits Russian Capital Appears Imminent.   20,000 NAZIS KILLED IN VITEBSK POCKET.   Ten Thousand Other Enemy  Troops Surrender to Sov - jets — Germans Driven From Orsha.

WARPLANES BLAST 3 CITIES BEHIND SIEGFRIED LINE   Two Thousand Aircraft Attack Coblenz, Schweinfurt and Mainz—Only Eight Fail to Return.   RAIDERS ENCOUNTER NO FIGHTER OPPOSITION   Assaults Follow Heavy Weekend Attacks by Huge Air Fleet on Both Germany and Holland.

Soldier Vote Hits New Snag   Division In Ranks Of Supporters Presents New Obstacle.

Long a Prisoner Training as WAC  Heard of Pearl Harbor Only Four Days Ago

= Se ca wr  RED =   Many Men to’ Be Examined for Military Service

Soviet Armies Threaten German Communications Serving Dnieper Areas

Nazi Rail Lines Are Threatened   Main Enemy Control Point Menaced By Plunging Reds

REDS CONTINUE DRIVE IN BUG RIVER SECTOR   Russians Now 35 Miles Inside Pole Border

RED ARMY CLOSES TRAP ON GERMANS IN SMELA SECTOR   Other Soviet Forces Now Within Five Miles of  Sarny. Poland

Jaws of Red Trap Narrow  To 75 Miles   German Retreat Regard. ed as Almost Chaotic— No Letup

Vatutin's Men Near Vinnitsa, Nazi Rail Point   Bug River Only 15 Miles Away After New Red Gains Are Made

Soviet Forces Near Big River   Drive on Vinnitsa, Main Control Paint of Nazi Communications

MAIN GERMANY CONTROL POINT NEAR SEIZURE   Other Red Units Send Deeper One Jaw of Posgible Trap for Enemy In Selma Gap   SOVIETS NOW AT : SARNY, NAZIS SAY   Would Place Reds 35 Miles  Inside Old Poland; Ger — many’s Retreat “Almost Chaotic”

HALF MILLION GERMANS FALL WTO RED TRAP   Soviet Forces Threaten Vinnitsa, Bug River Defense Line

Soviet Army Nearing Bug River Line   Nazis Report Russian Amphibious Forces Beaten Back Trying Ta Land At Ochakavw

IN 1d NILES BUG RIVER   Near. Town of Vinnitsa Rail City Serving As German CommunicaHone Canter

‘GERMAN LINES OF  COMMUNICATION ARE  DIRELY THREATENED VARIOUS UNITS OF GEN,   VATUTIN’S UKRAINIAN  ARMY MOVING FORWARD

Nazi Retreat is Almost Chaotie, Dispatches to Stockholm Say   Sudden Soviet Smashes Upset Strategy of Germans

VATUTIN’S ARMY NEAR VINNITSA AFTER ADVANCE   Thousands of Germans May Be Trapped as Soviets Roll Towerd River

Vatutin's Men Near Bug River And ‘Approach Vinnifsa   Seek Junction With Gonev’s Forces; Sarny, Important Junction, Threatened

FIRST UKRANIAN ARMY IS WITHIN 15 MILES OF BUG RIVE   Gen. Vatutin’s Troops Neare Vinnitsa, Rail City on the River.   MAIN CONTROL POINT   Other Units Slashing South ward, Sunk Deeper on Jaw of a Possible Trap.

RUSSIANS CLOSING TRAP ON GERMANS _ INDNIEPER BEND      Iwo Red Armies Pushing Toward Junction . Beyond Smela   OTHER UNITS ARE ,. NEARING SARNY

Farther North, Another Soviet Army Advances To Within Five Miles Of Sarny, Old Poland

BITTER FIGHTING FAILS TO HALT YANKS IN ITALY   Allies Applying Pressure To Hitler’s Forces on Two Sides of ‘Fortress’

Vinnitsa Serves As Center For Nazi Communications To Dnieper Bend,   GAINING IN SMELA GAP

Rail Center Put In Path  Of Russians   Vatutin Units Are Also Slashing Southward

One Red Column 30 Miles Inside Poland   Vinnitsa Threatened By Soviet Steamroller; Germans Report Sea-Borne Invasion Attempt By Reds

Troops Near Rail City On River  Other Units Slash South * Seeking ta

Other Thrusts Threaten Thousands Of Nazis In Smela Gap; Reds 5 Miles From Sarny. Old Poland.

PUSH ON RAI CENTER OF VINNITSA   Other Forces Near Sarny, 35 Miles In Poland   LANDING TRIED   West Of Ochakov On Black Sea Coast, Nazis Say; 2,300 Germans Slain

Other Units Shape Trap in Smela Gap  Southward Drive Pushes Toward Junction With  Gen. Koney  \RAIL LINES PERILED  Farther North Russians Are 35 Miles Inside Old Poland

Red Armies Closing Trap Around Nazis   Retreat of Germans Thrown Into Disorder by Swift Advances

Smela Gap In Grip of  Red Armies   Stockholm Dispatches Repor! German Refreal ‘Chaotic’ as Reds Drive Inio Old Poland   SARNY ENMESHED   Occupation Would Deprive Germans of Vital Rails —~ Nazi " Spokesmen Reported ApprehenSive

‘Main Railway Control City Of Nazi Army   Soviets 15 Miles From Bug River; Thousands Of Germans Face Trap

Reds Drive Germans Back in Old Poland, Forces Near Sarny   Nazis Claim Russian Landing on Black Sea Coast Was Repelled West of Ochakov

Airborne Unit (Opens Maneuvers   ‘High Ranking Officials On _ Hand To Review Sandhill  J  —s- Air Drills.

Army Maneuvers Start Today In Sandhills Area   Blackouts Will Not Affect Robeson County.

Dane Strike Spreads as Appeals Fail   Germans Face Civil Strife on Many Other Fronts

Dane Worker Strike Spreads to 20 Towns   NAZIS CUT UTILITIES AT HELSINGOR IN TRY TO FORCE MEN TO JOBS

NEXT TIN CAN DRIVE WILL BE STAGED JAN. 20   Thirty High School Students Are Assisting In Snow Removal on Streets.

Urges All-Out Support for Paper Salvage   Waste Paper Drive Will Be Conducted Monday and Tuesday

PLAN TIN CAN DRIVE IN CITY AND VICINITY   County Communities Will Join In OneDay Collection to Be Made Tomorrow.   DATA ON NEXT TIN CAN DRIVE

Yanks Advance Over Rough Saipan Terrain   Pockets of Japs Behind Lines Are Eliminated

U.S. Forces Consolidate Saipan Gains   Wipe Out Pockets of Enemy Resistance  Behind Lines

Yank Troops Consolidating Saipan Gains   Tinian Island Blasted By Air And Neve! Forces

Yanks Wipe Up Jap Caves on Saipan Island   Americans Make Small Gains, But Going Is. ~ Tough Yank Airmen Hammer Jap Bases

,POCKETS OF JAPANESE ‘WIPED OUT   Naval And Air Forces » Continue To Pound Tinian And Rota

JAPS WIPED OUT BEHIND AMERICAN LINES ON SAIPAN   Nipponese Found Hiding in Caves That Had Been ByPassed by Marines and Doughboys.   YANKS CONSOLIDATING GAINS IN STRUGGLE   As Battle Rages on, U. S. Pianes Bomb Docks. and © . Harbor Installations on Formosa’s Coast.

Yank Troops Tighten Grip On Saipan   Formosa and Kuriles Bombed as U.S. Steps Up Wor in Pacific

BLOODY FIGHT CONTINUES ON SAIPAN ISLAND   SMALL GAINS MADE; FORMOSA BOMBED BY U.S. PLANES

Small Gains Made On Saipan, Going Still Slow, Rough   Yanks Consolidating Gains; Navy, Airmen Hammer Jap Bases

U. Ss. Forces. Consolidate  Their Gains Upon. Saipan   By -Passed. Japanese “Quickly - Liquidated

Yanks Slowly Consolidate Saipan Gains   Japanese Shipping Center on Formosa Shattered

Americans Slowly Consolidate Gains On Bloody Saipan  Liquidate Pockets of Japanese Hiding in Caves Behind Lines

BLASTING ATTAGK UPON JAPAN BEING PREDICTED   Converging for a Crushing Drive to Philippines   FROM MANY _ ANGLES

Homes Razed, Trees Denuded By Tornado InN. West Virginia   New $250,000 Compressor Station At Clarksburg Levelled: Houses In Whole Area Are Flattened

Tons of Fish Spoiled by Pier Strike   Thirty Thousand Pounds Condemned  By Health Board

Full Scale Attack Hits Nazi Rear   Frontal Assault Opened Simultaneously As Yank Rangers, British Commandos Seize Stretch Of Shore.   Terrific Bombing Preceeds Move

Bold Stroke Designed To Break Winter Stand Of Germans Below Rome: Report “Situation Developing Satisfactorily”’

British and Americans Flank Nazi Line in Bid for Quick Victory im Italv

5TH ARMY LANDED ON THE WEST COAST: CENTRAL ITALY   In a Heavy Attack to Smash German Flank and Torn Winter Fortified Lines.   LANDINGS SUCCESSFUL .   The American and British Won a Beachhead Several Miles Lone.

Powerful American-British Forces Land on West Coast About 30 Miles From City; Situation Is “Favorable”

30 Miles From Rome, Nazis Say   First Landings Successful, Winning Beachheads Several Miles Long— General Frontal Assault Also Made on German Lines —Yanks Fight Way Across Rapido River

Allied Fifth Army Strikes by Sea, Behind Nazi Lines, in a Major Drive for Rome   Attack Supported by Blistering Air and Naval Bombardments; Beachheads Gained, and "Situation ts Developing Favorably"

Initial Operation n Carried Out Successfully,  ‘Situation Developing Satisfactorily,’ Allied Headquarters Reports  MOVTICPAC TIAIC ITTAIMCD ACCAITY T         GUSTAV LINE UNDER ASSAULT

Germans Say Attack Unit Lands 30 Miles Southeast of Rome   Americans, French Join New Offensive in Heavy Drive on Hitler’s Gustav Line

YANK - BRITISH FORCE ATTACKS ON WEST COAST   Germans Pocketed in Area Where New Defense Line Under Construction

OTH ARMY UNITS. OPEN BEACHHEAD IN HEAVY ATTACK   First Landings Just Before Daylight Are Successful, Line Is Reported Several Miles Long.   GERMANS SAY METTUNO HARBOR IS OCCUPIED   Move Threatens Closing of Escape Roads of German Tenth Army If Attempt Is Made.

Amphibious Operation Is Carried Out Deep Behind Nazt Lines In Bold Stroke

Allies Land Heavy Forces in Western Italy in Darkness   Win Beachhead Several Miles Long; Situation Developing

Germans Flanked In Attack From Sea _ By Powerful Force   Allies Establish Wide Beachhe ad In Leapfrog Action Toward Rome; Harbor OF Nettuno Is. Occupied

Move Aimed At Breaking Nazi  ‘Line Near Rome   Landings Made Between Nettuno, 30 Miles From Eternal. City, and Tiber River   F orm Bridgeheads; Harbor Occupied   Heavy Fighting Has Devel  oped in Sector; Degree   of German Resistance Not Learned

General Attack Launched As Fifth Army Men Land Within 30 Miles of Rome

Invade West Coast Behind German Lines   Bold Thrust By Clark Aimed At Nazi Flank: Frontal~Attack Also Is Bequn

Early Defense Slight Due to Big Surprise.   Naxis Must Decide Within 48 Hours On General. Flight

5th Army Storms Ashore in Rear of Main Nazi Lines   Capture of Nettuno Bay Puts Twin Spearheads in Position for Direct Thrust at Holy City

NAVAL, AIR FORCES AID GROUND TROOPS   British, American and French Troops Also Advance in Frontal Attack

GERMANS PLACE INVASION SCENE IN NETTUNO AREA   Italian Front Is Ablaze With Action;  Few Official Details Announced

BOLD THRUST IS COMMANDED BY GEN. MARK CLARK   OPENS NEW FRONT BEHIND GUSTAV AND HITLER LINES

Fifth Army Smashes Nazi Flank in Surprise Attack Near Nettuno; Air, Sea Bombardment Accompany Assault; German Resistance Weak

Landings Are Success ful- Grow Rapidly   New Punch to Take Rome Supported By Heavy Aerial Bombardment

NEW LANDINGS ON ITALY ARE SAFELY MADE   Report Allies Are Sixteen Miles From Rome

Landings'Near Rome Crack Nazi Defenses   Bridgeheads Are Being Expanded Successfully By Allies

States Protest Insurance Ruling   Urge Supreme Court To Grant Rehearing

Risk Ruling Is Protested  Thirty-Eight States Join In Complaint.

Police Believe Deaths Of 2 Men May Be Related   Braintree Shooting Victims Said Hub Taxi Driver And Unidentified Man

OPA Holds Down  Living Expense   Bowles Reports Congress Carries Out Stabilization

Would Continue Program of OPA   Bowles Says Control Of Prices Has Held Living Costs Down

Will Be Welcome .. .  LOWER INCOME TAX... . -. RATES ARE PREDICTED

Congressman J. J. Mansfield of 9th  District Announces For Re-election

J. J. MANSFIELD SEEKS RE-ELECTION TO CONGRESS   PRINCINPAL PLANK OF PLATFORM IS TO DO EVERYTHING TO WIN WAE

HUMAN TORPEDO THROWN AT AXIS   Crewmen Sit Astride Body, Guide It Toward Target

(“Human Torpedoes” Among New Weapons  Successfully Used Against Allies’ Foes

Humans Ride New Torpedo   Secret Allied Naval Weapon Disclosed; Already Tested in War

House Hearing Drys Demands   Senate Continues Probe Of Liquor Dearth: As Accompanying Act’

T NEW STEEL PLANTS HALTED   WPB Says Scheduled Production No Longer Needed

Allies Hit First Serious Bump on Invasion, Road.  ' t   100,000 NAZIS ARE TRAPPED NEAR ROME   Germans Shot 100 Italian Patriots for Alleged Sabotage.

American Troops Hammer Out New Gains On Old Southern Front  Line Near Cassino.

British Take Road Center   Pincer. Move Seyers Important Highways

FORLI IS CAPTURED   British Troops Take a Com munication Center Near Bologna

ALLIES CAPTURE TOWN OF FORL!   British Troops Widen Grasp On Edge Of Po River Plains

Forli ls  Captured  By Tommies City Is 38 Miles  S‘East of Boloana

FORL] TAKEN BY STH ARMY   Nazis Forced to Fall Back After Many Days of Stubborn Resistance

Forli, In Po ‘Valley, Taken ‘By 8th Army   Communications Center In Italy Captured By British Forces

BRITISH TAKE FORLI IN PO VALLEY DRIVE   - Pincer Movement Captures City, Airfield

FORL! CAPTURED BY BRITISH ARMY      Old Fortress City in Italy Is Taken By Pincer Movement.

BULGARIANS LAUNCH WAR ON GERMANY   Brupt About-face As Russ Swarm Over Borders

Gas Shortage in Southern Ohio  Many War Plants   Many War Plants Closed Due to Big Domestic Demand

GAS SHORTAGE MADE CRITICAL BY COLD WAVE   War Piants Forced To Close And Monday Wash Taboo In Most Cities of Ohio

GAS SHORTAGE CLOSES PLANTS   Fuel Supply Cut Off to 159 War Factories

Lack of Gas Halts Plants   150 War Plants in Ohio Idled by Present Cold Wave

Gas Shortage Hits Ohio; Bathing and Monday Wash Taboo: War Plants Closed

Monday Wash Goes Undone, Bathing Taboo in Ohio; Gas Shortage in State

GAS SHORTAGE STRIKES OHIO.   Mercury Dip Causes ~ War Plants to Close

WALKER SAID OUT QF PARTY BERTH   Hannegan to Reolace Him in . Democratic Plan; Dewev at Ton

Hannegan May Head Bourbons   Dewey and Willkie Tie in G. O. P. Vote

WALKER EXPECTED JO GIVE UP POS)   Pastmaster General Read} to Resign as Demoera: tic Chairman

Xeror. Wa.xer “0 Xesig3 as Sem. JJairmar, “aanegan <0. Succeec; "Ni die- Lewev “etG.. ” 20.

Walker to Quit As Democratic Party Chairman   Robert Hannegan Reported in Line For National Post

Walker Intends to Resign  Party Post, Say Reports   St. Louis Man Hinted as Successor; GOP Commitieemen Favor Dewey, Willkie in AP Chicago Poll

WILLKIE TIED WITH DEWEY IN GOP POLI   DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMAN READY TO RESIGN

WILL SELECT NEW CHAIRMAN   Democrats Are Expected to  Pick Hannegan to Succeed Walker

HOUSE STUDIES REQUIREMENTS OF DRAFT LAW   Expect Men To Be Needed Ever After Defeat Of Germany

HOUSE COMMITTEE STUDIES FUTURE OF SELECTIVE SERVICE   Report Hershey Favors Continued 18-26 Draft For Pacific War

Probers Focus On Draft Pool Of Non-Fathers   House Group Finds Over 900,000 of 18-25  NWanthe Thafarnend

900,000 Y vung Non-Fathers on  Deferred Lists   House Group Reveals Information Taken trom Draft Boards

Thousands Now Deferred May Soon Be Called by Selective Service   By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST

SAYS 900,000 NON-FATHERS ARE DEFERRED   House Group Reports; “Boards Ordered to Review Cases

900,000 Men Hold Draft Deferments   Fact Revealed From Investigation of Government Employees’ Deferments.

MANY YOUTHS 1810 25GIVEN DEFERMENTS   ‘House Committee, in Report, Backs FDR's Call for Speed   PLANS TO TIGHTEN DRAFTING BACKED

Nearly Mailhor Non-Fathers 18-25 Hold  Deferments  _ Committee Chairman Says That Many Men Needed by Services Eligible in This Group  URGES GOVERNMENT  TO SET EXAMPLE

Report 900,000 Non-Fathers, 18 to 25, Hold Industrial, Occupational Deferments

Following Philippines Battle Which Cost Japanese 60 Ships; Reveal Names of Ships.   Reduce Casualties

Navy Sums Up Furious Battle Which Cost Japs 60 Warships   Some American Craft Damaged In Battle Of The Philippines Back In Service; U. S. Ships Identified 

SIX U. 5. VESSELS LOST IN FIGHTING   Navy Reports on Philip. pine Battle Which Cost Japs 60 Ships. .

Ships Lost In Action Identified   Novy Disclosss Numss Of Warships Dameged In Philippines Buttes

MANILA BATTLE REPORT ISSUEL   Six U. S. Naval Vessels Lost; Damaged Craft Returned To Duty

SIX SHIPS LOST IN PHILIPPINES ARE IDENTIFIEL   Some Damaged American Warships Have Already Returned To Duty

Yanks Capture St. Jean In Center Normandy Front   British Attack Breaks Crust of Caen’s Major Outer Defenses—Americans  Reach Solid Fighting Ground

BRITISH CRASH FORWARD OVER 7-MILE FRONT IN NEW DRIVE ON GERMAN LINES AT CAEN   Tanks, Flarhe Throwers and Other Equipment Used to Follow Artillery Barrage. Eight Towns Captured. Americans Surge Forward On Thair Frante a

British Tanks Spearhead Big Drive on City   Americans Take St. Jean de Daye As Six Towns Fall To Caen Attackers

Eight Towns Seized As Outer Defenses Fall; Americans Surge Ahead.

BRITISH START MIGHTY ATTACK AGAINST CAEN   Six Key Points On East Wing Fall; Yanks Expand Their Assault

One of Biggest Battles of War May Develop Within Hours   Montgomery Power Drive Seeks to Crack DenselyPacked Defenses

Attack Heaviest Since Invasion:  Yanks Advancinc      British Crack Outer Crust Of Nazi Defenses; Doughboys Capture Town

Cut Through Caen Outer Defenses   Doughboys Take St. Jean de Day In Center of Norman Front

6 TOWNS FALL ON OUTSKIRTS IN NEW DRIVE   Americans Capture St. Jean de Daye, Gain In Du Puits Area

British and Canadians In Big Push   Dawn Offensive Rolls to Edge of German Bastion; Americans in Gain

SWEEP UP 6 EAST NORMANDY TOWNS IN NEW OFFENSE  AMERICANS CAPTURE ST. JEAN DE DAYE ON CENTRAL FRONT

Nazi Bastion Capture Near   Tanks Spearhead Great Push to Within Half-Mile of Center of City; Yank Forces Take St, Jean de Daye in Center of Line

Central Front Americans Also Advance   Tanks, Flame Throwers Used to Crack Caen’s First Defense

Allies Join in Twin Drive Against Nazis   Montgomery Opeas Crushing Attack on Defenses About Caen

Eight Towns Fall Before  Offensive   Crust of Major Defenses Broken; Artillery Barrage And Planes Head Attack

BRITISH PUSH ON CAEN WITH STRONG FORCE   Yanks Capture St. Jean de Daye; Advance At La Have

SMASH MAIOR OUTER DEFENSE OF NAZI ANCHOR   Canadians Take 6 Towns as American Troops  Take St. Jean de Daye

ALLIES STRIKE HEAVIEST BLOW OF THE INVASION   Eight Guardian Towns Fall to Attacking British; Americans Forge Ahead.

British Open Frontal Push  In Caen Aree   Break Through Crust of Anchor Point’s Outer Defenses Today

Bailie Rages For Stronghold Of Nazi Defense   Americans Surge Ahead and Widen Their Bridgehead

British Begin Offensive To Blast Road to Paris   Caen’s Outer Defenses Taken .In First Rush; Area Most Heavily Defended in Normandy

Allies Half Mile From Center Of Nazi Anchor   Americans Capture St. Jean De Daye In Center Of Front In Normandy

BRITISH DRIVE WITHIN HALF MILE OF CAEN   Second Army Crashes Ahead on a Seven-Mile Front in Heavy Invasion Blow. inte =   Crack Outer Crust of Formidable Defenses

6 Key Points Fall Swiftly ‘Under Attack  American n Troops Seize St Jean de Daye in Expanding Drive  TANKS SMASH PATH  British Only Half Mile From Heart of Nazi  Anchay         TANKS SMASH PATH

MAIN NAZI DEFENSES AREBROKEN   Monty’s Men Capture Six Towns; Yanks  Also Advance

Heaviest Blow of Invasion Launched On 7-Mile Front   Advances Scored 4 Against Germans’ Strongest Opposition

SIX VILLAGES ~ ARE TAKEN IN PUSH   Nazi Resistance Vigorous All Along Line   ST. JEAN DE DAYE   Captured By Yank Troops; Heavy Artillery Fire Precedes Advance

Smash Way Within Half Mile of Heart  of Germans’ Anchor   American Offensives Capture Position in Center of Front

Through Greater Defenses   Seize Six Towns in Smashing Drive to Break Nazi Hold; U. S, Forces Take St. Iean

BRITISH BREAK: QUTER DEFENSE   Troops Crash Forward on 7-Mile Front in Heav- , iest Blow Yet. ac      YANKS PUSHING AHEAD

British Go Forward On ]-Mile Front   Americans On Center Also Surge Ahead

Gas “Emergency’ Continues Today   Restrictions May Be Lifted Tomorrow

Only Minor Resistance Encountered   Third Army Threatens To Flank Rocket Coast ‘In Plunge Northward.  ENEMY IN FLIGHT

Americans Roll. North: - ward Along Invasion » : Route .  MINOR RESISTANCE MET. ALONG ROUTE  Germans Are.in Héadiong _ Flight, eaeetpond: ent Says 

FAST 20-MILE THRUST MADE BY AMERICANS   BELLEAU WOOD AND CHATEAU THIERRY CAPTURED

U.S. Tanks in 99  Miles of Belgium   Soiesons, Chatean-Thierry Bali tn Danchhawve

25-MILE PUSH TOWARD REICH   Germans in Flight for Belgium, Homeland; Reims Menaced

Capture Chatteau-Thierry, Soissons and Belleau Wood, Nearing Belgian Border; Path Their Fathers Trod.

Rocket Bomb Coast May Be Outflanked   Belgian Patriots Urged To Join Resistance Army To Harass Nazi Retreat To Homeland

Americans Roll. North: ward Along Invasion © Route .  MINOR OANCE MET ALONG ROUTE  Germans Are in Headlong Flight, Correspondent Says =.

AMERICAN THIRD ARMY 55 MILES FROM BELGIUM   First World War Battlefields Are Overrun By Patton’s Units   PATRIOTS SUMMONED TO ASSIST ALLIES

THREE CITIES FALL IN 25-MILE ADVANCE:      Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry and Soissons Fall In 25-Mile Sprint; Northeast Of Paris,  Tranne Naewr Paerene

Soldier Vote Bill Signed   Dates for Filings For State, County Offices Advanced

Speed Voting Plans For Service Men   State, County Candidates File April 24-28 So Ballots Can Be Sent Out

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BATTLE WAGONS SHAKE UP GUAM   Shells Poured Into Jap Defense Positions At Close Range

IOWA TORNADO HITS BUILDINGS   No One Injured; Many Structures Are Wrecked

JAPAN LOST — “2K PLANES, ~ FIVE. SHIPS   NAVY- REVEALS ANOTHER STUNNING BLOW DEALT ENEMY IN RAID ON MA.NILA AREA

FIVE MOPE JAP Sill? BLASTED   Navy Flyers Also Bag 249 Nip Planes in Newest Raid

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   JAPAN’S AIR STRENGTH, AND SHIPPING HEAVILY HIT IN MANILA AREA

Allies Score New Burma Victories: Jap Barges Sunk   Japs Stronghold In North Burma Falls To Chinese

ALLIED CAMPAIGN TO CONNECT CHINA WITI INDIA BY LAND RAPIDLY IS SUCCEEDING

ALLIES SMASH INTO CESENA   Fifth Army Moves Nearer Goal At Bologna

Hitler Bombing Details Revealed   Small Mine Hidden Under Map Table

Republican  in Jowa Net up te orocasts   But G.O.P. Makes Clear Sweep In Hawkeye State

Lt. Edwards of Surry Is Fast Man When It Comes to Thinking of Food

Fiscal Policy Is ‘Morally Unsound  Hanes Says Nation Wants the Whole Truth

FEDERAL FISCAL POLICY MORALLY UNSOUND. SAYS EX-TREASURY OFFICIAL

FEDERAL FISCAL POLICY UNSCUND, HANES DECLARES   Former Treasury Official Sees Politicians Using Labor As Pawn

FOCAL POLICY CALLED UNSCUNT   Former Undersecretary Of Treasury Depleres Lack Of Postwar Plans

FISCAL POLICS OF GOVERNMEN UNDER-ATTACK   Former ‘Undersecretary: of Treasury: Hanes Says’ -: Basis Not: Moral But  . Political.” :

Iwo New Rec Drives Flare Up In South  Troops In North   a sa  Bow Rw ys

Russ Smash Across Old  Estonian Line  Berlin Adinits Red Rrank.Theanely   Berlin Admits Red Break-Through In Dnieper Bend

Iwo New Ret Drives Flare Up In South  Troops In North BNwlccan Env ea

REDS CLOSE IN ON ESTONIAN BORDER TOWN   Capturing 40 Other Towns, While Berlin Acknowledges Breakthrough In Dnieper Bend And Rovno Drive.   Planning Retreat

Russians Cross Old Estonian Line near Narva   Free 40 Towns In Long Advance

RUSSIANS ENTER ESTONIA; MOVE ~ ON RAIL CENTER   Reds Smash. "Across Border ’ Near Mouth of Narva Riv'. er—Capture ‘More _ Than 40 Towns.   OTHER FORCES. SCORE GAINS IN DNIEPER BEND   Soviets Break Through German Lines Southwest. of Dnepropetrovsk After “Grim Fighting.

SOVIET FORCES CRASH ACROSS ESTONIAN LINE   Reds Point Dagger A Narva; Nazi Army Faces Trap

Soviets Smash Across Old Estonia Border   Take 40 Towns on Approaches to Narva Moscow Announces

Reds Smash Past Border Of Estonia   Berlin Reporis ‘Penetration In Dnieper Bend

SOVIETS SMASH ACROSS BORDER OF OLD ESTONIA   More Than 40 Towns Near Mouth Of Narva Reported Captured   GERMANS RETREATING TO AVOID PINCERS

Berlin Admits Breakthrough In The Dnieper Bend   Russians Make = Six Mile Advanee From Kingisepp Ca p t ured Yesterday. Pincers Tips frapping Nazis Less Than 60 Miles Apart

Russians Cross Border Of Estonia; Capture 40 Towns   (Berlin Reports Tell of New Soviet Break-through in  d the Dnieper Bend ond Red Army Drive ~  a Upon Rovno, in Old Poland

Forest City Editor ‘Heart Attack Victim   Funeral Services Today for W. R, Prewitt, Summit Publisher

PRESS FREEDOM VIAL 10 ALL STENIPEL SAYS   Free Frcss Is First Casua ty in Fascist Regimes, Kiwanians Hear

PRESS. FREEDOM WAL 10. ALL, STEMPEL SAYS.   Free Press Is' First Casua ty in Fascist Resimes, Kiwaniars Hear

Report War Bond Sales in County of $1,085,862; Still Short on E Bonds

$491,924 Purchased In County   Heaviest Purchases Yet t Come If Allotment of $1,080,000 Is Met

MONTGOMERY STILL COMMANDS INVASION   Eisenhower in France ‘To Be Nearer the Situation’

No Change in Role of ‘Monty’ and Eisenhower   Official Statement Differs From Reports Passed by Censors Yesterday

GEN, MONTGOMERY ~ INTHE SAME POST   BRITON REMAINS OVER-ALL COMMANDER OF GROUND FORCES IN FRANCE,

faces Supreme Test oe eh eR ESE  American Ace Back To Ohio,  Home Town Plans ‘Hot Time’

Don Gentile Is Welcomed   Ace Pilot ‘Thronged Ju His Native Ohio

Gentile Fights Way To Piqua, O. On Return Home   Hero Fighter Pilot Says Receptions Worse Than Combat

PRIEST, STALIN CONFER ON POLES   KREMLIN CONFAB CALLED HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT

Stalin Receives Priest From Massachusetts In an Unprecedented Conference in Moscow

CUT JAP LINES ON LEYTE WITH NEW INVASION   Fresh Landing Beats Nip Convoy, Which Loses All 18 Vessels

FRESH U.S. TROOPS CLOSE IN ON ORMOC  Seek Early End   Seek Early End Of Conquest Of Leyte

Yanks Close In ‘On Ormoc   Fresh American Amphibious Troops Landed; Jap Convey Sunk

German Retreat To Riga Turned Into Stampede   Nazis in Desperate Flight But Hold Open Narrow Escape Corridor to East Prussia

Reds Concentrate New Pressure on Hungary; May Have Crossed Borders

NO EFFORT IS MADE TO HOLD REDS   North Latvia Cleared Of Germans In Huge Three-Way Drive

‘Red Army Mauls Germans Retreating Into Riga; -Hungary Is Believed On Verge Of Peace Appeal

FALL OF RIGA NEAR; FOE IN WILD FLIGHI   Russian Sweep Through Baltic Toward East Prussia Unchecked

RETREAT TURNS INTO STAMPEDE   Red Army Pursues Enemy to Within 30 Miles of Riga, Baltic Seaport.   ‘NAZIS ARE DISORGANIZED

REDS MAULING NAZIS FLEEING TOWARD RIGA   Russian Northern Armies Turn Full Weight Upon German Garrisons in Latvia

~~ oe 2 SS SS eS  Nazis Stampede From Baltics   No Attempt to Hold Northeast of Riga

Reds Pursue Fleeing Nazi Into Latvia   Crux of Pacific Situation Seems to Lie in China

Russians Apply Squeeze To Hungary and Allied Airborne Forces Land in Albania To Cut Off Germans Trying To Get Home as New Pressure Put on Balkans

NAZI RETREAT T0 RIGA HAS TURNED INTO A STAMPEDE  GERMANS BATTLE AT ait FART AR FARA YEH   GERMANS BATTLE AT ALL COSTS TO KEEP ESCAPE ROUTE OPEN

Germans Fleeing Surging Soviets   In Desperate Stampede — Toward City of Riga

Retreat to Riga Becomes New Nazi Stampede  Enemy Makes No Attempt to Resist Russian Advance

Soviets Maul Reich Army Falling Back ‘nto Latvian Capita!   Germans Keeping Escape Corridor + Open Regardless of Casualties; Red Air Force Enjoys Field Day

Russians Force Nazi Stampede In Riga Sector   Northern Latvia Cleared Of Germans To Within ~~ $- Miles -OL-Baltic.Port.

Nazi Retreat To Riga Turns  Into Stampede   Enemy Making No Attempt to Organize Line

NAZI RETREAT TOWARD RIGA BECOMES ROU]   Russians Wreak Destruction On Fleeing Enemy

GERMAN FLIGHT TO RIGA TURNED INTO STAMPEDE   Enemy Keeps Open Escape Corridor Regardless Of Losses To Columns

Soviets Turn Nazi Flight To Stampede   Desperate German: Run in Panic For Stand at Riga

NAZI RETREAT FROM RIGA TURNS INTO STAMPEDE   Hundreds Of Nazi Trucks Wrecked By Russians

GermansStampede For Riga As Soviets Clear All Northern Latvia   Paris Radio Reports Hungarians, Weakening -Under Increasing Russian Pressure, Nearly Ready To Seek Armistice With  Allies Through Turkey

Pursuing Reds Chase Germans Back Into Riga   Nazi Retreat Almost A Rout; New Russian Preseure On Hungarv.

‘Retreat to ‘Riga Turns «Into Rout   Reds Are Closing In.on City from Three Sides; Claim Estonia Liberated -

Swiltly. -Advan<* ‘ng Soviet Forces Turn Naz’ Retreat To Riga Into Stanipede

Soviets Maul Nazis at Riga   Germans Retreating Before Three-Way Drive;  New Prescure on Hungary

NAZI RETREAT TO RIGA IS A STAMPEDE   Swiftly Pursuing Red Army Armor and Infan_. try Have Cleared Latvia  to Within 30 Miles From Part.

No Attempt Made To Hold Organized Line   Escape Route Kept Open Without Any Regard For Losses

DNB ADMITS ROMMEL WAS HURT IN FRANCE   Says He Suffered Brain Concus sion, but That “Life Is not Endangered.”

CampaignTalk Volume Rising   More Yet to Come as Speeches of Leading Candidates Are Announced

Secret Acts of President Are Hit by Dewey   Republican Nominee Declares Efforts for Lasting Peace Will Fail If Left in Hands  of Mr Roaneevalt

Address In Boston Planned By President; State Department Ready With Answer For Gov. Dewey’s Attack On “Secret Diplomacy”

Foreign Policy Blast fo Bring Early Rejoinder   State Department May Reply to Dewey Statement

STATE DEPT, IS STUDYING TALK BY MR. DEWE)   Reply May Be Expected To Foreign Policy Speech, FDR Aide Hints

Early Confirms Report That Roosevelt Will Deliver Speech At Boston

FDR’S CAMPAIGN PLANS SHAPE UP   SCHEDULES ADDRESS IN BOSTON; SPEAKS INN, Y, SATURDAY

ClO TO RESUME UNION EFFORTS AT WEIRTON   State Officers Arrive After Governor Intercedes

FULBRIGHT WINS SENATORIAL RAGE   ADKINS CONCEDES DEFEAT AS OPPONENT'S LEAD APPROACHES 18,000.

British Cling To Kohima Despite Docu: By Japs   Other Allied Units Batthe Three Invading Columns Closing In On Imphal: Mountbatten Reports No Maior Changes

British Hold Against Jap Indian Drive   Knox Says Situation Noi “Terribly Serious”

BRITISH HOLD INDIAN SUPPLY BASE AT KOHII   Japanese Attack Is Becomi creasingly Heavy At Imphal

Imperials Still Holding Kohima Despite Pressure   : Other Allied Units Battle. aps Closing on- imiphal Base

IMPERIALS CONTINUE TO HOLD KOHIMA   Japs Increasing Pressure There And At Imphal

OPTIMISM IN FOURTH TERM CAMP; FDR MAY SPEAK ONCE MORE   DEWEY HAS THREE FULLFLEDGED SPEAKING DATES FOR FINAL WEEK

FDR Confident, Plans Only One More Major Talk   Dewey ‘Schedules Three Speeches During Final Week

‘PRESIDENT MAY MAKE ONLY ONE MORE SPEECH IN CAMPAIGN AND DEWEY PLANS AT LEAST 3 MORE

Fourth Term Camp Shows Optimism  F. R. Plans to Make   F. R. Plans to Make Only One More Speech; 44 Millions to Vote

WORD BARRAGE BY POLITICIANS IN FINAL WEEK   Bricker Repeats Pledge of GOP To Cut Taxes While Campaign Heads East

Soviet Front On Verge Of  Explosion   ‘Rains Ilamper Reds At Budapest; Berlin Expects Big Drive Through Poland To  ward Silesia.

BERLIN SAYS REDS READY FOR NEW PUSH   Rains Hinder Russians In  Polish Area

s HamperAt Least 12 et Drive Are Killed it ‘udanestA Train Wreck

Rains Halt Red Drives   Eastern. Front: May See. Explosion. Soon

Drive Aimed At Liberating Belgrade And Splitting Nazis In Balkans   Ring Of Steel Drawn On Riga   Moscow Reports Capture Of Estonian Island Near Riga Guill

6OP GOVERNORS Rew Te MEETING   OFFICIALS ATTEND OURZOW EUNFR AT.

Liberators Pound Biak Or The Route To The Philippines   PROGRESS OF GROUND TROOPS UNREPORTED

Biak Island  ‘Again’ Under Air Attacks   Enemy Base on Road fe thilippines “ombed For 22nd Straight Time by U.S.

MAJOR JAP BASE BOMBED BY ALLIES   MARTHUR'S AIRMEN ATTACK BIAK ISLAND ON ROUTE TO PHILIPPINES,

LIBERATORS POUND BIAK; HEAVY LOADS   In 22nd Successive Raid Schouten Island Base; No Report of Progress of Ground Troops.   Edge Of Airstrip

CAPE GLOUCESTER  COUNTER-ATTACKS BY JAPS AGAINST AMERICANS GROWS   Marine Fighting Men Meeting Stiffer Resistance In Western New Rritain.

STIFF OPPOSITION UN NEW BRITAIN   American Marines Have Opened Up New Offensive.

AMERICAN ANB BRITISH FORCES ALSO ADVANCE   Sizeable Group of Nazis Trapped; Over 2,000 Captured

AL  AMERICAN BRITISH FORCES      Sizeable Group of. Nazis Trapped; Over 2,000 Captured

TWO YOUTHS ESCAPE WILMINGTON JAIL   Freedom Brief, However, as Patrolmen Nab Them

GI Bill Grants: Scholarships.   10,000 Ex-Soldiers Already Have Applied

2800 Ton Of Bombs Hit Berlin   15th Major Raid of War Leaves City In Flames

Heaviest Raid Of War Rocks Reich Capital   Smoke Rising 4 Miles Above Shattered City

OVER 2,500 TONS OF BOMBS STAGGER GERMAN CAPITAL   Columns Of Smoke Rise 20,000 Feet; Attack Costs R. A. F. 43 Planes

German Capital Aflame   Heaviest Air Attack of War Concentrated in 20-minute Period by Mighty Armada

RAF DROPS 14 TONS A MINUTE ON NAZI CENTER   More Than 1,000 Planes Take Part; 45 Lost; Nazi Fighters Weak

800 To 900 RAF Planes Concentrate Blasting In 20 Terrible Minutes.

?.800 Tons OF Bombs Blasted In 20 Minutes   45 Bombers Lost By RAF; Feint Attack Made On Frankfurt On Oder.   OPPOSITION IS SCARCE

Bombs Smash City at Rate of 120 Tons Per Minute, Raid Costs England 43 Aircraft

BURNING COLOGNE HIT BY RAF AGAIN   Tenth Big Bombing Raid On Industrial City Since Saturday

Germans Rushing Reinforcement Into France: Believe Invasion Day Imminent

ROMMEL RUSHES ANTI-TANK GUNS INTO FRANCE   Apparently Relieves Opening of Western Front Is Imminent

Army Plans For Jap Attack When Nazis Are Licked   Ss. Can Turn Full Foeree O' Armed Might On Japan When Germany Quits

Allied Aircraft Batter Sumatra For Fourth Time   Carrier-Borne Planes Hi Jap Installations near Padang

ALLIES SMASH NEAR PADANG ON SUMATRA   Fourth Blow Against Installations Since March 1942; Chief Target Is Cement Plant.   Long Conference

ALLIES BOMB SUMATRA NEAR PADANG AGAIN   Jap Industrial Installations In Dutch East Indies Struck Blow

Allied Aircraft Bomb Padang   Port of Emmhaven Also Bombed in New Raids  On Sumatra West Coast

JAP INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATIONS AT PADANG HIT   Great Cement Manufactur ing Plant At Indaroeng Main Target   MERCHANT SHIPS IN HARBOR ARE DAMAGED

Three Senate, Groups Start Probe of WPP’s Civilian Production “Freeze”

Three Inquiries Started By WPB Order Freezing Civilian Goods Output

Committees Work Together in Probe of WPB Rule  Solons Urge Release Of More Civilian Production in U. S.

Allied Armies In Italy Advance Toward Florence Behind Disorganized Nazis

Soviets Attack On North Front, Berlin Claims   Report May Mean That Battles Rage Along 1200-Mile Front

GERMANS REPORT RED ARMY OPENS NEW OFFENSIVE  FROM LENINGRAD   Russians Have Begun a Strong Attack near Oranienbaum, 19 Miles From Big City.

Two New Russian  Offensives Opened   One On Gulf of Finland; the Other North of Lake Ilmen; Nazis Pushed Back From Stahnerad.

German Anchor On North Front May Fall Soon   Reds Seek To Free Rail Line Between Leningrad, Moscow

ANNIHILATION © BATTLE RAGES NEAR CHUDOVO   Premier Stalin Says Railroad Has been Freed of Germans Except For 11-Mile Stretch.

JJDGE EUSSELL TO RAKE BID HOR OTATE PSI   Tipton Jurist Is Candidate for Appel ate Court

JUDGE PUSSELL 10 HAKE BI FOR STATE POST   Tipton Jurist. ; Is Candidate for Appel‘ate Court

Siegfried Line Guns Boon As Third Army Boys  Cross Cantured Snan

River bridge Inside City Taken Intaet   Siegfried Line Guns Roar as Last Spotty Nazi Defenses Fall  At Industrial Point

Guts ints Siegfried Defenses   First Army Advances in Fighting Alone Rees;  British Aliack   Wroctern Front

U.S. Third Army Crosses Saar On Captured Bridge   British Within 1000 Yards Of Maas River In  Northern Area; First, Ninth Armies Reach Roer At Linnich And Julich

British Advance To Maas River Bridge At Venlo   First and Ninth Armies Painfully Edge Near Cologne and Duren,

WIPE OUT LAST NAZI. DEFENSES INSIDE BASTION   British Close On Venlo, Four Towns Guarding  Cologne Fall      West Front Today

SAAR RIVER CROSSED BY AMERICANS   Germans Pushed Back Along New Fighting Lines

First, Ninth Army Troops Battle Inside Julich On Roer; Capture Four Towns

RIBBENTROP'S ANNIVERSARY SPEECH DOUR   Desperation of Axis Nations Evident in Broadcast

ROBOT BOMBINGS FORCE HELPLESS OUT OF LONDON   Cities In Southern England Also Being Evacuated; 50,000 Children Already Moved; Damage And Casualties In.  creasing.

NAZIS START 6TH DAY OF ROBOT BLOWS   British Continue Orderly Evacuation of Children From. Danger Zones 50,000 Already Having Been Removed.

Flying Bombs Keep Falling   Women and Children Being Evacuated From Lendon, Other Cities

Children and Women Moved   Taken From London On Account of Attacks By Nazi Flying Bombs

An Orderly Evacuation Continue:   Women and Children Still Leaving London as Robot. Attacks Roar On ~

MORE FLYING BOMBS FALL ON ENGLAND   Evacuation Of Women, Children is Continuing

Flee Robot Bomb Blitz   Women and Children Calm Over Evacuation; Deep Shelter Opened

ROBOT PLANES HIT LANDMARKS DURING ATTACKS   Move Children From Danger  Zone 1 oday

NAZIS CONTINUE ROBOT OFFENSIVE   WOMEN AND CHILDREN MOVED FROM LONDON, OTHER DANGER ZONES

Women, Children Leaving London  Germans Pour Robot Planes At City On Cloudy Day

50,000 Children Have Lett London Ahead of Continuing Blasts by Nazi Robot Bombs

Women, Children Leaving  30,000 Youngslers Moved From Area Hit by Robots

WON'T TRY TO RATION CIGARETS   Officials Term Plan ‘Completely Impractical’

Cigaret Rationing Plan Impractical,  Officials Declare   Harried. Smokers Urged To “Buy Sanely’’ In Appeal From OPA Chief

RETTE RATIONING IMPRACTICAL   Harried Smokers Are Urged to Buy Sanely

Browns Slug Out 6-2 Victory Over Cards in 3rd Game   American Leaguers Get Eight Hits; Take World Series Lead

Brownies Slug : to 2 Victory Over Cardinals   Rising in 3d Beats Birds; Kramer Strikes Out 10; BM’Oninn Core % in 2

BROWNS BEAT CARDS; 6 70 2; LEAD IN SERIES   American Leaguers Turn Sluggers for Two _ Innings

Browns Blast Cardinals for Six Runs   Win Third Game 6-2 to Take Lead in ‘Streetcar’ Series

OKs Peace By Force   Dewey Endorses Dumbarton Oaks Plan For Postwar Security

Dewey Supports Use of Force To Prevent Wars   Nominee Issues Blast at New Deal Spending

Organize Peace  Now---Dewey   G.0,.P. Nominee Lashes ‘Hush-Hush’ Peace Talk Procedure, Supports ‘Little Nations’; Plans 10-Days ‘Grass-Roots’ Campaigning

CONFERS WIT GOP CHIEFS AT STATE CAPITAL   Spends Tonight, Sunday With Mother In  Owosso

DEWEY GOES T0 MICHIGAN FOR MORE. PARLEYS   Outlines Views on World Organization to Maintain Peace

Peace Efforts Must Become Nonpartisan   ‘Declares Two or Three Men Can't Shape Form of World Peace Terms

DEWEY DECLARES FOR FORMATION OF FORCE FOR WORLD PEACE      REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE TRAVELED — TOWARD MICHIGAN TODAY

Dewey Wants Future W orld Peace Assured   Favors ForceWielding Security Organization in Louisville Speech

Home folks sreet Dewey  Nominee confers with strategists   Text of Dewey’s Friday night speech on page 3

Dewey Favors Formation Of World Plan Now   Candidate Supports Use To Force; Urges Place For All Nations

Dewey Urges Formation of Force-Wielding World . Security Organization

Dewey For Use of Force to Maintain Peace if Necessary   Nominee Gives Second Address of Tour at Louisville, Ky.

Hurry Security  Plans—Dewey Candidate For Early Organization Setup

DEWEY ADVISES SECURITY SPEED   G.0.P. Terms Peace Steps ‘Non-Partisan’ Matter

FASTER PACE IN PEACE PLANNING URGED BY DEWEY   GOP NOMINEE SAYS HE FAVORS FORCE TO PREVENT WARS

Dewey Asks Strong Security Agency   Ten Days of Conferences Next

DEWEY HEADS FOR MICHIGAN ON CAMPAIGN   Kentuckians Cheer Repub. lican Candidate’s World Peace Proposal

Gov. Dewey Approves Use Of Force In Postwar World Security Setup

Dewey Declares For Use of Force To Prevent Wars   Would Speed Organization of World Security Setup Without Waiting for War's End

Force-Wielding Organization  Dewey Demand   World Security Group Should Be ‘Work Of Manv Minds’   TRIP TO MICHIGAN   To Confer With Group Leaders; Will Speak In Seattle

THOMAS DEWEY CAMPAIGNING IN MIDWEST  Says He Does Not Know When War

Conferences In ’ Michigan Next On Dewey Tour   GOP Nominee Urges A Peace Organization Be fore War Ends.

Dewey Urges Use of Force To Insure Peace  CAD Candidatbs   GOP Candidate Turns North for Michigan Dates

WORLD PEACE ‘PLAN BACKED. BY GOV: DEWEY      Urges: -Formatit on of -POree wielding. -Gr6tin .   Calls For’ All Nations EO: Join: In: . Pracpaan:

USE OF FORCE TO KEEP P CE URGED BY DEWEY   People Owe Most Editors Debt of Gratitude, Bricker Declares

—POLITICS—  AICHIGAN NEXT ~STORFOR DEWEY   GOP Candidate Plans 10 Days Of Campaign In Native State

Dewey Expresses Neec For Action Now In Planning Peace   Republican Presidential Nominee Strike: At “Hush-Hush” Policy in Discussing War Problems, Favors Wide Participation

VISITS. MICHIGAN LEADERS OF G. 0. P.   Dewey Holds Conferences for Seven Hours With Party Chiefs

KANSAS SENATOR HITS CENSORSHIP   REED ASKS INQUIRY INTO COFFEE’S POSSESSION OF _ WOMAN'S LETTERS.

UNITED FRONT APPEALS MADE BY THE NAZIS   BERLIN RADIO. AND GOEBBELS 198UE STATEMENTS -ASK-  “ING GERMANS Td!  STAND FAST

GHEEK POLICY tAnNa 27d-l SUPPORT VOTE   Defiant Speech by British Prime Minister Flays Revolutionaries.

Wins Vote of Confidence In Commons   Challenges U. S. Position in Italy  On Count Sforza

OKAYS USE OF ARMED FORCE Ih FREED AREAS   Lopsided Vote For Approval

CHAPLIN FAILS TO GET CONTINUANCE FOR ‘VITAL WITNESS’ IN BABY CASE

UNRATIONED LIQUOR MAY BE AVAILABLE   EE  Liquor Director Says It’: Entirely Possible

MORE LIQUOR IN VIEW FOR OHIO   May Lift Rationing in State by Next September

ATTEMPT RAID INPHILIPPINES, TOKYO CLAIMS   Bombs Landed in Sez Off Davao, Says Jap Report

NIPS SAY DAVAO, PHILIPPINE CITY, SLANES’ TARGET   17 Jap Vessels Sunk, 30 «@ Hit in Convoy Battle off Bonins

Bricker Raps F.R. Order to Cut Workers   Only Campaign Gesture, GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Says in Talk

BRICKER CRITICIZES FEDERAL PAYROLL   ‘Get Rid of Job Holders,’ He Demands in Minnesota

D-Day Known By Men Weeks Ago   American Troops Kept In Strict Quarantine

Dying Capital Gets Thunderous Dirge; 47 Bombers Downed   Nearly 2,000 Tons of Explosives Rekindle Flames of Friday Raid; Government Centers Repor ted Hit

Kansas City Stores to Close Shop, Board up Their Windows on V-Day

F.R.ASKS SOLID PEACE FOOTING   COLUMBUS DAY ADDRESS GIVEN FOR DIPLOMATS

FDR Calls for  ‘Foundations  RESELLERS E SUES:  For Peace:Now   President Says Charter of United Nations Must Be Flexible

HEAVY FIGHTING FLARES IN \TALY   iMassive’ “Rit “Assaitt “Hits German- .Positions: .~ -

HEAVY FIGHTING FLARES IN ITALY   Massive Assault Made On German Positions And Installations  TAKE 300 PRISONERS

Heavy Fighting Breaks Out On Road To Bologna   Yanks Push Ahead In   Wake Of- Pulverizing   Air -Blow But Meet Srff Resistance.

Heavy Fighting In Po Valley   Fifth Army Takes 300 Prisoners In New Assault In Italian Hills.

Heavy Fighting — Flares In Italy   300 Germans Taken Prisoner As American Forces Move Forward Following Furious Allied Air Attacks

Heavy Fighting In Italian Hills  Yanks Take 300 Prisoners in Posh South of Boloana

BATTLES STAGED IN ITALY’S HILLS   Fighting Flares After Heavy Air Blow Near Bologna

Hard Fighting On in italy   Fifth Pushes Ahead Aided by Warmer Weather

Heavy Fighting Flares Up In Italy Following Massive Air Attack On German Positions   Americans Gain in Wake of Tremendous Raids Near Bologna; Resistance Stiff

Ground Attack Follows Heavy Air Assault   Fifth Army Troops Take Over 300 Prisoners In Renewal Of Attack On Florence-Bologna Road

Heavy Fighting Flares Anew ‘In Hills Along Bologna Road   Americans Follow Air Assault on German Pesitions With Fierce Attack

BATTLE FLARES NEAR BOLOGNA   Fifth Army Captures 300 Nazi e Prisoners In Central Italian Sector

OTH MOVES UP AFTER HEAVY AERIAL ATTACK   Yanks Partly Flank City 10 Miles South of Bologna; Seize 300 Nazis

It Was in the Hills Along the Fiorence-Bologna Road Today.   ON GERMAN POSITIONS   Installations South of Bologna Also Were Hit in the Assault.

ARD FIGHTING LARES UP IN ORTH ITALY   ided By Warm Weather mericans Push Ahead in Wake of Tremendous Aerial Attacks   VERGNANO FLANKED

Nazis Retain. Bologna Grip   Heavy Bombing Raid “nails ta Open Path

HEAVY FIGHTING FLARES IN ITALY   NEW ALLIED ASSAULT SOUTH OF BOLOGNA; TAKE 300 PRISONERS

Heavy Fighting Flares Along  Florence-Bologna  Fifth Army Capture: Over 300 Prisoners

HEAVY FIGHTING IN NORTHERN ITALY IN WARE AIR ASSAULT  NO MATERIAL ADVANCES REPORTED BY AMERICAN: DUE HEAVY RESISTANCE

HEAVY FIGHTING IN HILLS ALONG FLORENCE ROAD   300 Prisoners Are Captured By Fifth Army

‘Big Push’ On In North Italy For Po Valley   Heavy Fighting Flares After Yesterday’s Massive Air Assault

Heavy Fighting Flares In Hills On Italian Front  Warm Weather Aid: Americans’ Advance After Air Assault

ESCANABA YANK LIKES MRS, FDR   Visits Of First Lady Better Than Pin-Ups, Says Jimmy Boyle

Find Of Asia War Mapped; Huns Falling   Leaders of Allied Nations Still Confrouted with Problems No Less Grave Than Winuing of Con-

‘Interpreting The War News—” a“ a  History To Record This Weekend As One Of Greatest Importance .

15 Warships Said on Way To Blockade   Leader of Abortive Rebellion Remains Farreil Prisoner

EXPECTS TAX VETO TUESDAY   Rayburn Says President Is Prepared to Act

FR To Veto Tax  Bill Tomorrow   Rayburn Says House Will Not Override Action

PRESIDENT WILL VETO TAX BILL   Message Will Be Sent to . Corfgress Tomorrow.

Presi dent Will Veto Revenue Bill   Message To Be Sent to Congress Tomorrow

BULGARIATG AT TURNING POINT   Red Army Races Along Northern Border at High Rate of Speed.   BWAIT NEW GOVERNMENT

Bulgarians Demand Wai On Germany   ' Rioters in Street Call for Ac tion as Russian Armies  Reach Border Along 140 Mile Front

Rioters In Sofia Clamor For War; ~ Reds At Danube   Suspend: Armistice Talks - Until New Government Formed By Bulgarians

Sofia Rioters Call For War Against Nazis   Meanwhile, Reds Race Along North Bulgarian Border to Yugoslavia

Crowds Riot. for War on Germany   Bulgaria Reaches Turning Point; Russians on North: ern Border.   ON TO MEET PARTISANS   New Cabinet at Sofia Must Be eee tr to hen Russians —

Bulgaria Sees Russians Racing Alona Her Border   Rioters in Sofia Clamor for War Against Germany

Bulgars Call For War on Germany   Russians Cutting Along Border Toward Yugoslavia

Riots Reported in _ Streets of Sofa; Bulgars Uree War   Tensest Time of War Ar. rives for Little Balkan Nation

Rioting As Reds Near Bulgaria   Clamor for War Against Germany Rising in Sofia; Reds Drive On   SOVIETS TO REACH KEY CENTERS SOON   Keeping Watch on New Government; Armistice Terms Unchanged

Sofia Mobs Cry For War »On Germany   Riots In Bulgarian Capital Stress Crisis As Red  Armies Surge On.

Riots Sweep Sofia; Russ On Border   Reds Racing Toword Junction With Tito; Peace Talks Awaited

Reds Race Along Bulgar North Border   ‘Are Expected to Reach a Spot Where ~ Three _ Balkan States Join

Rioters in Sofia Clamor for War   Bulgaria Reaches Turning Point In Relations With Allied Powers

Bulgaria Appears To Have Reached Definite Turning Point As Populace Urges Break With Hitler And Red Army Pushes Along Northern Border—Formation Of New Government Awaited—Armistice  Talks Suspended, Cairo Says

Bulgaria At Turning Point —   Rioters Clamor for  War Against Germany As Red Army Patrols Border: Lull in Poland

Sofia Rioters Demand War On Germany   Country Awaits Formation of Government to Succeed Bagrianov   PLANES PACE RUSS   Soviet Army Is Fewer Than 150 Miles From Yuroslavia

Sofia Rioters Demanding War Against Nazis   Red Troops Across Border While Nation Dickers For Terms From Allies

Bulgarians. Demand War On Germany   Sofia Riots May Presage a Change In Balkan Lineup; Reds Race to Serbia

Bulgaria Near Turning Point Against Nazis   Rioters in Sofia Come Out Wildly for War Against Germans, as Reds Race Along Borderland.

WILL AGIAN:HEAD ~ WAREOAN-DRIVE   Edgerton Welch: Was Re-Ap . pointed by W.W. Alexan- ~~ der; Group Chairman.

“Arkansas Traveler” Makes Spectacular Rescue; Crew Tells Of Four Daylight Harbor Landings

NAVY CATALINA MADE SPECTACULAR RESCUE OF DOWNED AIRMEN  PLANE FLOWN BY LT. GORDON OF ARKANSAS

‘Daring Crew of Big Navy Flying Boat Lands Four Times Under Jap Gunfire To Rescue Downed Fliers at Kavieng

Navy Catalina Saves 15 Fliers   Lands Four Times Under Enemy Fire + To Effect Rescue

Navy Plane Lands In Rough Sea And Under Jap Fire To Rescue Airmen

\“ARKANSAS TRAVELER” TO THE RESCUE ——SS— OO  Plane Braves Gun Fire To Save 15 Flvers

MacArthur Heralds Courageous Feat of Navy Catalina’s Crew   Fifteen Fliers Saved From Drowning; Big Plane Under Fire   BY OLEN CLEMENTS Associated Press War Correspondent

Planes Rescue 15 Airmen From Sea Under Jap Guns   Navy Catalina Braved 75 mm. Shells, and 15-Foot Swells that Burst Some of Her Rivets To Make Four Daring Rescues

U.S. Fliers Brave Jap Fire and Ocean Swells  x * * * * x x x * (Rescue 15 Downed Americans in 4 Landings

Navy Catalina Crew Lands Four Times Under Jap Fire to Rescue Allied Fliers Downed At Kavieng

Daring Catalina Crew Tells of Saving 15 Fliers Under Nip Guns at Kavieng

Plane Saves 15 Men Under Japs’ Noses   Catalina Goes in Four Times Under Fire of Shore Guns in Gallant Feats

Daring Rescue Right Under Japanese Guns Carried Out At Kavieng, New Ireland

PLANES RAID PARIS AFTER LONG LULL   Hit Service Club Occupied by Wounded Soldiers

NAC BOMB HITS PARIS LAST NIGHT   Dropped On Service Men’s Club Killing And Woundinge Many

Nazis. Bomb Paris Servicemen’s Club   200 Wounded Americans in Building, Some Killed

STETTINUS ASKS APPROVAL OF AIDES   Senate Foreign Relations Group to Hear Appeals for Help of Six Men

SENATE GROUP IN STETTINUS QUIZ ON POLICY   Hull's Successor Backs All Appointed Aids To State Dent.

SAVE STETTINIUS FROM ARMS QUIZ   Senators Begin Questioning Secretary on FDR’s Appointments

QUESTION 2 JAPS EMPLOVED BY U.S   Foreign Broedoast Files Seized In Rooms By House Probers

Two Japanese Spies Caught   Foreign Broadcast Records Found In Rooms Of Government Employes.

Hint Nazi Withdraw From Eastern Tip Of French Peninsula   American Troops Capture One of Three Defense Peaks Dominating Normandy Port in All-Out Drive

Enemy Apparently Has Withdrawn From Eastern Tip to Make Final Stand in City

NAZIS CONTINUE FIERCE BATTLE FOR CHERBOURG   Eastern Tip Of Peninsula Appears . Abandoned By Enemy

Devastating Attacks From Land and Air Rocks E nemy Now Confined in City Area   French Patriots Striking

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To All In The Various  Communities  Ce ee ee  ve FT? 46 are on,  . a. oa

Woman Released From U.S, Prisoy   lonviried Of Trying Te Foist egitimate Child On St. Lewis Doctor

AGREEMENT IN ‘VOTE WRANGLE + NOW FORECAST   HOUSE AND SENATE © APPEAN  _ READY TO APPROVE TWO. ;  BALLOT SYSTEM FOR. VOTERS IN BERVICE

SHORT FEDERAL BALLOT BEATEN   Compromise on Soldier Vote Now Awaits Action in Senate

HOUSE CRUSHES FEDERAL VOTE FOR SERVICES   Bill Goes to Senate for Inevitable Compromise

Librarian Slain  In Cathedral   Washington Has Bizarre Murder Mystery; Rodv Ie Battered.

GERMANS CLAIM D-DAY STARTED   Hint Counterinvasion Of Britain ts Planned By Rommel

Nazis Hint Counter-Invasion Of Enigand May Be Rommel’s Defense When Allies Strike   ' Observers Minimize Idea; Enemy Radios Blare “D-Day” Is At Hand

Vetfend By Attacking  Nazis Say Defense May Be To Counter Invade Britain

Italian Move Causes Nazis  To See D-Day   Radios Say Allied Invasion Has Come; Counterattack Might Happen.   -PARATROOPERS READY

ITALIAN DRIVE RESPONSIBLE FOR BELIEF   Enemy Hints Of CounterInvasion Of Britain   in Full Charge Of Defense Of Continent; Other German Reports

Surprised Nazis Hint Counter Drive May Be Rommel Defense   Picked German Attack Force Will Strike At England Moment Invasion Across Started, Says Axis Press Reports.   Allied Air Armadas Moving To  Tsolate Enemy In Gustav Line   Slash Communications And Transport Facilities Behind German Positions; Mists Prevent Direct Assault On Defenses.

Surprised German: Say Allied Thrust On Italian Front Js Invasion Start

Nazis Hint af . Blow af England   German Propagandists Say Counter-Invasion Planned by Rommel

Italian Drive Surprises Enemy Chiefs   Nazis Say Allied D-Day Has Arrived; Rommel Declared Ready for Counterattack On England When Invasion of Europe Begins

Nazis Hint Af Own Invasion   Attribute Idea to Rommel Germans Still Worried About French People

Counter-Invasion of England Hinted  as German Defense   German Radio Says Allied Invasion is on Now in Italy

Declaration Made After Being Apparently Surprised By Allied Offensive In Italy

Invasion Seen By Nazi Radio   FRANCE AWAITING CALL TO THROW OUT’ GERMANS.

Nazis Hint Counter Blow At Britain   Nazi Radios Apparently  Surprised by Italian Drive

Nazis Say Push In Italy Begins Allied Invasion   Hint That Rommel’s Defense May Be Counterattack On England.

D-Day Is Here, Axis Reports  Move In Italy Opening Shot, Says Enemy

Counter-Invasion Hinted by German:   Nazi Radios Report That Rommel Will Defend Coast by Attacking

NAZIS, SURPRISED AT ITALIAN PUSH CLAIM D-DAY HERE   Paquis’ Broadcast Over Paris Radio Hints Rommel’s Defenses May Be a Counter-In wvasion of Britain .

Believe Italian Offense The Beginning; European Blows Felt In London.

Nazi Radios Say Rommel’s Defense Will be Attacks on England by Paratroop Forces

D-Day Here, Nazis Declare; Counter Invasion Is Hinted   Paratroop Blow at Britain May Be  Rommel’s Defense; Braced for Assoul+

ENGLAND MAY BE ATTAGKED, pe AMIANS Sh   But British Scoff; Rommel Asks Power Over France by Gauleiter,

COUNTER INVASION  OF ENGLAND HELD PLAN FOR DEFENSE   Geunans Claim Rommel Likels To Send Forces Against British Isles

Apparently ‘Surprised at Italian Drive, Parisian Says Gong Has Been Sounded for Curtain to Rise, if It Has Not Already Risen. —

Nazis Claim Allied D-Day Has Arrived   Hint Counter-Invasion Of England Rommel’s Plan of Defense

SURPRISED BY NEW OFFENSIVE   Nazi Controlied Radios Hint At Counter-Invasion of Britain.

NAZIS DECLARE ‘D-DAY’ AT HAND   Hint Counter-tnvasion Of Britain May Be Defense

NAZIS CLAIM   Say Italian Drive To Be Followed Soon By  Invasion

Nazis Hint Counter Invasion Of . Britain May Be Rommel’s Defense

Nazis Hint At Invasion  Of Britain   Counter-Attack Rommel Defense

GERMAN CONTROLLED RADIOS SAY INVASION STARTED AND WARN OF ATTACKS ON GREAT BRITAIN   Nazis Trying to Inspire Confidence at Home Say Rommel Is Planning Great Parachute Invasion of Britain—That He Will Defend Germany by Attacking Britain

Germans Hint at Counter - Invasion Of England as Rommel’s Defense

Hint Counter Invasion   Nazis Say German Paratroops Ready to Strike at England When Invasion Starts

D-DAY AT HANDGERMANS CLAIM   Hint of Counter-Invasion Of Britain As Rommel Defense Plan

Nazis, Surprised By Offensive In Italy, See D-Day’s Arrival; Hint Germans Plan  Counter-Invasion. As Rommel Defense ‘Act

Germans Say D-Day Has Arrived   Enemy Promises Counter Invasion Across Channel

Flood Threatens  Nebraska Towns   Woman Killed When House Is Carried Away

PUNCH IS GONE FOR LUFTWAFFE   Germans Lack Reserves, Allied Air Chief Declares

DECLINE IN NAZI AIR POWER SEEN   ALLIED CHIEF SAYS LUFT: WAFFE HAS DONE ITS BEST TO STEM ADVANCE.

2,500,000 TROOPS LANDED ON CONTINENT IN 109 DAYS   Gen. Somervell Tells Newspaper Forum That 500,00 Vehicles And 17-Million Ship Tons Of Munitions And Supplies Have Also Reached War Fronts   LUFTWAFFE’S RESERVE POWER DISSIPATED, BRITISHER SAYS

LUETWAFFE PUWER WAVES SAYS HERO   sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory New — Southeast Asia Air Chief Avers Nazis Have No Reserve.     - «© be Ff .

Talks May Result in U. S. Approval British-French Aareement on Civil Rule   Germans Use Belgium for Robot Bases   15,000 More School Children Scheduled To Evacuate London

Craig Farmer And Ashton Girl Take Marriage Vows  Arthur Winterfeld ‘Weds Miss Christine Molitor

MISS LOUISE ML. PATAROZZI WEDS J. KOPINA, JR   De Pue Couple Ex changes Vows At St. Mary’s Church

MASUEN-EVANS WEDING TUESDAY   Young Oyens Couple Ex. change Marriage Vows  At Ovens

GUESS: STAND OF WILLKIE   Democrats ats Want Sign From FDR Over No. 2 Spot.

RED SKELTON IN 1-A BUT NOT FOR WEDDIN’   Goes With Bride To Get License, Turned Down

NEW C.C.W. PLANT AT BRADFORD   Metallized Glass Products To Be Manufactured There,

Sixth War Bond Sale Hits $100,000 Mark   ¥ District Reaches $450,000 But Many Workers Still Not Reporting

AIRMEN PAVE WAY FOR BIG LAND ATTACK   ONLY ONE MAN LOST OUT OF 16,000 IN BOMB RAID

YANK ‘HEAVIES’ ESCAPE LOSSES IN BIG ATTACK   All Bombers Return Safely From Assault on Invasion Coast of France

‘One F ighter Lost In Double Attack   West Wall Struck Heavily eBy American Bambers

Heavy Attacks From Air On  Invasion Coast   U, S, Planes In Raids Without A Loss Of Bomber

Suff Air Blows Landed On Europe  Two Yank Raids Aimed At Invasion Coast

INVASION COAST IS MAIN TARGET OF LATEST RAID   4,500 Tons Of Bombs Hit Pas-De-Calais In Two Davs’ Action

AMERICAN PLANES: RAKE WEST WALL   ONLY ONE FIGHTER LOST OUT OF FORCE OF 1,000 SENT AGAINST FORTRESS.

JSE RUSSIAN BASES 10 HIT NAZIS TWICE   Roth Attacks Pointed At tnvasion Coast  Of North France

ONE MAN LOST AS 16,000 AIRMEN BLAST FORTRESS EUROPE WITH 4500 TONS

Europe Gets Twin Blows. From Allied Air Raiders      Invasion Section Of France Tarvet

16,000 Airmen Blast Europe With One Loss .  Flying Units Pave Wa For Coming Land

Vast Aerial Raids Kept Up   No Bombers Lost in TwiceA-Day Schedule Hammering at Coast of Europe   Shuttle Raids Begun   American Planes Using Russian Bases Now Increase Pressure

U. $. Bombers Blast Twice af Nazi Defenses   Both Assaults Made On Invasion Coast Of Northern France; Only One Fighter Los

16,000 Airmen Blast Europe With One Loss .  Flying Units Pave Wa: For Coming Land Biesasco Ameitned tdtelae

Invasion Coast Blasted Again  Only One of 16,000 Men Lost in Twe Days

Airraids on Invasion Area Are Continued   Allies Do Not Lose Single Bomber in Two Aerial Attacks

Allied Bombs Lip Channel  oastline   .osses Light   s Light nt Fierce Raids Hn Cal:     Area

ONLY 1 FIGHTER LOST IN FORCE OF 1,000 SHIPS   y Vast New Aerial Blows Blast European Ramparts

Pummel French Coast Twice: No Bomber Losses  Only One Fighter Plane Shoat Dawn

CHEMICAL TREATMENT MAKES WOOD NEARLY HARD AS STEEL   DuPont Scientists Expect To Produce Thousand Kinds Of Hardwood That Never Existed In Nature; cost Up To 434 Cents Per Board Foot

Hungarians Talk Armistice With U.S. and Britain   Cairo Parley Opens; Romanian Envoys Arrive in Moscow

ROMANIAN AREA BATTLE FLARES   Massed Red Artillery Routs Nazi Offensive

BIDDLE ASKS TIME LIMIT   Time Between Arrest and Arraignment Should Be Fixed, He Says

JAP GARRISONS UNDER HEAVIEST BOMBING RAID   Madang Likely to Be Assail ed In 2-prong Drive By Mac&rthur. .

Hint Two-Way Drive On Strong Jap Base Madang  Allied Planes Drop 74 Tons Of Bombs On Jap

ATTEMPTS T0 REINFORCE   24 Enemy Barges Sunk at Two Different Points

TWO-WAY DRIVE ON JAP CAOSTAL BASE OF MADANG HINTED   P-T Boats, Bombers Sink 24 Enemy Barges In Raids 

Jap Efforts To Reinforce New Guinea. Blasted   Air And Naval Attacks Upset Jap Plans To Strengthen Posts

FOUR NIPPON BARGES SUNK OFF MADANG   Allied Offensive Against Jap Base Is Indicated

‘Nippon Attempts 'To Aid Harassed  Garrisons Halted   Determined Two-Way Drive On Madang — Indicated By Action

Sea and Air Drive Hurled  At Madang   U.S. P-T Boats Sink Four Troop Barges; Bombs Blast Ramu Valley

JAPS TRYING TG REINFORCE NEW -GUINES   Two-Way: Driv e.on Mia d'an:g: Coastal  - :Base:Is Indicated:

EVERYBODY ‘READS THE CLASFIEns   Langlie Lags In Fight for Re-electior   Roosevelt Heads List of Democratic Nominees Apparently Victors in Tuesday's Balloting in Washingion 

Chinese Offensive Forces Crack Jap Army into Retreat  Lushin Recaptured, Loyang Bolds Out for Reinforcements

Furious Fighting For Myitkyina In Burma Continues; Holdings In Guinea Extended

Chinese Forces Push Japs Back  In All Sectors   Allies Push Further Into Myitkyina To Capture Vital Railroad Junction

—PACIFIC—  DRIVE AT WEART OF CHINA HALTEL   Counterattack Checks Nips In Battle For Honan Province   LUSHIB RETAKEN   U. S. Destroyers, Artil lery Batter Japs Along . New-Guinea-Goast: - --

CHINESE FORCE JAPS TO RETREAT  RECAPTURE LUSHIN AND EASE THREAT  ene gbdaemese_ese eee oe we me eaeseart mk oe

CHINESE DRIVE ROUTS JAPANESE   Invaders Checked In Assaull On Heart Of China

Chinese Drive Forces Japs Into Retreat   Long Fighting in Honan Province Reaches New Phase As Chinese Gain   Loyang. Is Goal.

Japs in Full Retreat Before Chinese Forces   New Counter Offensive In Honan Pravince Gathers Momentum

DRIVE JAPANESE UNITS BACK IN ALL CHINA AREAS   Retake Lushih From Japs; Allies Push Deeper Into Myitkyina

Chinese Counterattack Forces Japs To Retreat in Honan Province Sector

JAP ARMY HAS RETREATED AS POWER UPPED   Chinese Counter - Offensive i Gaining Momentum and Pushing Nios Back   WEEK-LONG FIGHTING REACHES ‘NEW PHASE

Force Japs Into Full Retreat   Chinese Drive Gathers Momentum Easing Nip Threat to Tungkwan, Gateway to Mid-China

Chinese Force Jans Into Retreat On Central Front   Chiang’s Troops Gain Momentum in Counter-Offensive

JAPANESE ARMY IS DRIVEN BACK BY THE CHINESE   Nips Forced to Retreat a: Counter-Stabs Grow In Fury

Chinese Counter-Blow ‘ orces Japanese Army into Complete Retreat

CHINESE FORCE JAP ARMY INTO FULL RETREAT   Fighting in Honan Pro vince Reaches A New Phase As Full Scale Counter-Offensives Drive Jans Back

CHINESE DRIVE GATHERS SPEED   Forces Japs to Retreat in Honan Province

CHINESE FORCE JAPS’ RETREAT   Counter-Offensive in China Battle Steadily Gathers Momentum.   REACHES A NEW PHASE

Chinese Force Jans fo Retreat   Counter-Offensive Drives Enemy Back In Honan Province

Chinese Force Jans to Retreat   Counter-Drive by Chinese Forces Back Japs in China

Crack Jap Army Aiming at Heart of China Ils Forced Into FullRetreat

JAPS FORCED INTO RETREAT   Shoved Back By Chinese In All Sectors of  Honan

Chinese Force Jap Retreat   Crack Enenty’ in Fligh Jn Vital Honan Province

CHINESE FORCE JAP ARMY FROM MOST SECTORS   Counter-Offensive Surprises Enemy In Honan Area

tENTRAL CHINA        sanzge Blows in Honan Prov ing? Tura Threatening Chemy Drive.

CHINESE ARE FORCING JAPS TO RETREAT   Counter-Offensive Steadily Gaining Momentum In Wheat-Rich Honan Province   THREATEN TUNGKWAN

Japanese Ar my Makes Retreat   Chinese Counter Offensive Steadily Getting Results

JAPS RETREAT BEFORE CRACK CHINESE ARMY   Counter Blows Send Rising Sun Troops Reeling Back in Battle On Honan Province Soil,

M'ARTHUR'S MEN ADVANCE ACROSS ISLE UNOPPOSED   Reinforcement By Enemy Is Possible, Thought Untikely

U. 5. Strengthen: Hold on Morotai, Eyes Halmahera   Americans in Full Control of Air, Sea In Pacific Landings

L3% % Mortgage Loghs 5% Monthly Balances MASS. SAVINGS & LOAN CO.  gy      OUITTING RUSINESS

That Report By BaruchBoiled Down   Highlights Of Proposed Blueprint For Reconversion

Chinese Swing To Offensive In Honan Province   First General Push in 7 Years Aimed at Opening Supply Line

DRIVE FIRST IN 7 YEARS   Thrust Surorises Nips Alone 130-Mile Frant

Gen. Chiang Tries To Snap Jap Blockade   Stilwell’s Steamroller In Burma Smashes Down Mogaung Valley  RAIDERS HIT WAKDE

LONDON MAY BE MEETING PLACE   Eden Hints Big Three Might Hold Pariey in British Capital

Jap Militarists Exploit Prestige Of Nippon Leader   Strengthen Hold Through Emperor

GUNFIRE CRACKS THROUGH ATHENS   No Official Basis Has Been Made for Rumors of Peace

FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ATHENS   Officials Disclaim Knowledge of Rumored Peace Move

FIGHTING CONTINUES AS BRI‘TISH AND GREEK. GOVERNMENT SPORESMEN ‘SEEK “PEACE”  FORMULA

10 Men From Sioux City Army Air Base Forced To Bail Out of Plane

MORE ROBOT! CRASH DOWN ON ENGLAND      Believed Launched From Air; Women, Children Killed

London, Southern England Target For Robot Bombs   Evacuees Flow  Back To Capital

ROBOMBS HIT AGAIN   . Believed Launched From Blanes Over North See

PAY TOP CHANGE BEFORE ELECTION SEEN AS UNLIKEL'   Labor Leaders Get Impression at White House Conference Roosevelt Opposes Immediate Revision. .   ALTERATION LATER DECLARED PROBABLE   President Said to Have Agreed Steel Formula Eventually Will Have to Be Mod ified or Scrapped.

NoWageLift Until After ElectionDay:   SOME OF ROOSEVELT’S LABOR ADVISORS COME FROM CONFERENCE WITH BELIEF CEILINGS WIL REMAIN   F.D.R. Speaks Oct. 5

Present Wages Seen in Force  "Til Cutbacks   President Leads Unionists To Expect No Increase Refare Flectiian

No Wage Break Yet   Indication Is That  Control Will Be Relaxed, But Not Till After Nov. Election

DUE TO REMAIN UNTIL ELECTION   Roosevelt Reported Agreed On Revision Eventually; Glass Backs Ceiling

Labor Pay Ceiling ~ Action Delay Seer   Conferees Believe President Will Avoid Move Before Election Day; ' Free Press Lauded .

Glass Industry Would Retain Wage Ceilings  Con n Is Co aw oe Will es = Until Election

Labor Advisory Committee Meets With President   AFL, ClO Leaders Fee Wage Ceilings Will Not Be Changed

GENERAL WAGE RAISE DELAYED   Touchy Question Will Be Held Up Until After Election Day

HOPE FADES FOR EASING OF WAGE CONTROLS SOON   LABOR COMMITTEE CONVINCED ORDER WILL BE DELAYED

Dr. F. M. Cooke To Speak At First Methodisi Church Sunday Morning

Accused In Fatal Stabbing   Burlington Bar Tender I: Fatally Hurt

BATTLE STILL RAGES WITHIN CAPITAL CITY   Paris Not Yet Freed As Nazis Repudiate Agreement

Americans and French Seek to Join Patriots in Capital  NAZIS. REPUDIATE~ _. - ARMISTICE TERMS  City Not Entirely Liberated, Dispatches  + Assert

COLUMNS RUN INTO HEAVY CANNON FIRE   Americans and French. Closing In on Capital to Join Patriots Waging Street Battle.   NAZIS REPORTED SHELLING CITY   Relief Units In and Near Suburbs — Field Guns Moved Up to Engage Enemy Batteries.

U.S. and French Troops Fight Way Into Paris   Claim of Capital's Libercition Proves To Be' Premature

Allies Continue Speedy Advance Along Lower Seine   Troops Sent to Take Paris Could Have Been Employed Elsewhere Better, Say Allied Chiefs Our Armies Reported at Swiss Border

City Is Not Yet Freed Of Enemy   Americans Meet Strang Resistanee [1 Drive to Join the Batting Patriots. Le Clere Still Nine Milles Away From Capital

Drive to Join Patriots in Struggle For Complete Liber ation of Capital. Still Under German Yoke

Americans and French Seek to Join Patriots in Capital  NAZIS REPUDIATE ~~ "ARMISTICE TERMS  City Not Entirely Liberat  City Not Entirely Liberated, Dispatches Assert

FLOODS RISING IN MISSISSIPPI   Crest Expected Sunday; Million Acres Are Covered

,000,000 Acres Flooded   Rivers in Mississippi Watershed Continue Rise

Bulgarian Cabinet Reported Resigned  Nazis Said Occupying Budapest

Reds Push Far Beyond Bucharest   Russian Armored Column Reaches Danube and  Bulgarian Border

Germans Occupy Budapest   Berlin Believed Taking Drastic Means to Stop Balkan Uprising

BUDAPEST IS OCCUPIED BY NAZI TROOPS      Bulgarian Cabinet Resigns I Midst Of Its Peace Negotiations

Nazi Troops Taking Over In Budapest   Germans Report Bulgarian Cabinet Resigns In Midst Of Peace Talks

BULGARIA'S CABINET FALLS   Collapse Reported As Germans Occupy Budapest

SOVIETS REACH BULGAR BORDER ~ ALONG DANUBE   Drive 35 Miles Beyond , Bucharest, Seek To Join Tito

re  Nazis Move in  To Stem Revolt Tide in Balkans   Soviet. Armies Push Beat: en Foe Back Against Bulvaria Front

German Troops Reported Occupying Budapest; Resignation of Bulgar Cabinet Reported By Nazis

Nazis Occupy Budapest; Seek to Regain Control Of Seething Balkan Area

Huge Nazi Force Pinned Against Channel Coast In Rear Of Allies; British Push Past Antwerp

Sweep 30 Miles Beyond Antwerp   Patton's Tanks Thot on or Near German Soil af Saarbrucken

RAF Follows In Powerful Smash  On Rail Centers   Americans Shoot Down 103 Enemy Planes; Munich, Karlsruhe, Bucharest, Ploesti, Belgrade And Friedrichshaven Are Heavily Blasted.

db BOMBERS, 12 FIGHTERS MISSING      Reported Missing From Raids in Silesia and % Vienna Area.

Resistance Of Germans Is Stiffened   Frequent Enemy Counter thrusts Reported—Nazis  Using Reserves

RED ARMY NOW ON ADVANGE INTO ROMANIA   Dogged Fighting ‘Through The Carpathian Foothills On Broad Front

Red Army Makes Steady Advance Through Foothills   ‘Germans Being Pushed Back Despite New Batches of Reserves

FIRST SOVIET — COMMUNIQUE ON LAND ACTION —   Air Raid Hints New Offensive

REDS RAID NAZI RAIL JUNCTION   Soviet Offensive Is Expected On Central Front

SOVIET ARMIES MOVE SLOWLY INTO ROMANIA   Fight Through Carpathian Hills; Brest Litoysk Rembed

REDS ADVANCE IN CARPATHIANS   Slow Gains in Foothills Reported by Soviet

AED ARMY ON “WARGH AGAIN WV FOOTHILL!   Making Steady Advances From Czechoslovak Border to Roxania.

MOSCOW REVEALS RED TROOPS ARE MOVING STEADILY   Frincipal Engagements Occur In Carpathians, Enemy Fails to Hold Line With Reserves.   12 MORE JAP SHIPS” SUNK BY SUBMARINES   British Sink Five Other Jap Vessels, Others Flee as Genera! Assaults Open Over Pacific.

Soviets Continue Own Aerial Drive   Bombers Blast Polish Rail Junction; Allied Airmer Active In Italy, Where Patrol Fighting Is Brisk

Dewey Returns to Role of Candidate and Swings Westward on Campaign Tour After Visiting Mother

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Warren Greets Dewey   Federal Housecleaning Pledged in Portland; S. F. Speech Is Tonight

GOV. DEWEY HOLDS CONFERENCES IN SAN FRANCISCO   Asks at News Conference for the Completion of Central Valley California Reclamation and Power Project by Government or State

Kenneth Schwarz Of Granville Weds Madeline Holton “Anniversary. Of  Whe wet We dite

Kenneth Schwarz  Of Granville Weds  Madeline Holton “Annivériary Of  Parents Wedding .

Vegetable Point Value Lowered   NEW CHART INCREASES RATION COST OF FRUITS AND OF TOMATO AND CITRUS JUICES; FROZEN FOODS UNCHANGED

Citrus Juice Put Back On Ration List   Vegetables Reduced, But Canned Juice Up

RATION PONT VALUE CUT ON VEGETABLES; HIGHER ON FRUITS   OPA Credits Victory Gardens For Point Reductions on Numerous Food {tems   POINT VALUES ARE LISTED

REDUCE POINTS ONVEGETABLES   Canned Tomatoes, Peas and Corn Down Considerable; Fruits Go Up

Slash Points For Vegetable:  Fruits Go Up   Grapefruit Juice  Back on Rationed List—Other Points Changed by OPA

LOWER POINT VALUES  FOR VEGETABLES BE  EFFECTIVE SUNDAY CANNED TOMATOES, PEAS  AND CORN INCLUDED IW PONICrioN

VEGETABLE POINT VALUES ARE LOWERED   Move Is Effective Sunday; Some Fruit Values Higher

Tomatoes, ‘Peas and: Corn Down;: Canned Fruit Up; Victory Gardens Cred ited. For Decrease

Point Value of Vegetables Cut   More Ration Points Will Have to Be Given for Fruits

Vegetable Points Down, Fruits Up   Home Gardeners Get ‘Full Credit’

CHANGES IN RATION LIST ANNOUNCED   Canned Vegetables to Have Lower Point Values

CUT VEGETABLE RATION VALUES   Credit Victory Gardens For Reduction

SIGH FONTS ON SOME VERETARLE:   Tomatoes Peas ‘And G orn - Drop; Sharp, Boost In Canned Fruits

POINT VALUES UP SUNDAY ON FRUIT UNDER OPA ORDER   Canned Vegetables, Includ ing Tomatoes, Corn, Pea to Have Lower Values lt New Schedule.   LARD REMOVED FROM LIST DURING MARCH  Peaches, Apples. and Pears tn Group Boosted, Canned Lima Beans and Catsup Are Higher.

VEGETABLE POINTS DOWN, FRUITS UE   Tomatoes, Peas And Corn Will Have Substantially Lower Ration Values Beginning Sunday, OPA Announces

SOME CANNED GOODS POINTS TOBE LOWER   Change, Effective Sunday, Applies to Certain Vegetables—OPA Will Boost Ration Value of Fruits. Juices.

Forecast Lowest ‘Point Values   °43 Gardens Result In Reduction On Vegetables

Canned Fruits to Cost More Points  But Some Vegetables Will Require Less

Ration Values On Vegetables In Cans Lower  :   But Points On Canned Fruits, Tomato And Citrus Juices Hiked.

Point Slash For Certain Canned Goods   Tomatoes, Peas and Corn Affected; Points Back on Fruit Juices

CUT VEGETABLE POINT COST IN NEW SCHEDULE   OPA Officials Credit Gardeners for Outlook ; Increase Fruit Points

A Point Increase On Canned Fruits   But Values on Some Vegetables Are Reduced By New Schedule

POINT CHANGES LISTED BY OPA   Canned Vegetables Will Be Reduced; Fruits Hiked

Point Values On Vegetables  Cut By OPA   Canned Fruits, Lima Beans, Catsup Are Increased Sharply. However

Slash Points On Vegetables   ‘Most Canned Fruits ‘However, Given Higher ‘Ration Point Value

Sirective sunday:  Canned Vegetable Points Cut, Fruit Values Jumped Sharply   Victory Gardeners And Home Canners Given Full Credit For Reduction; Many Items Remain Unchanged

OPA INCREASES POINT VALUx OF CANNED FRUITS   Lower Ration Stamp Costs of Packed Tomatoes, Peas, Corn

CUT CANNED VEGETABLES   Ration Point Values On Canned Fruits Are Increased

Point Values Of Vegetables In Cans Down, But Fruit Increased   Tomatces, Peas And Corn To Have Lower Value: Beginning Sunday, While Ration Cost Of Tomato And Citrus Juices Will Be Boosted.

Several Canned Vegetables To Have Lower Point Value But Canned Fruits Higher

OPA Lowers Point Values of Number Canned Vegetables   Cut Effective Sunday; Canned Fruits Point Worth Increased

Canned Ve getables Down But Fruits Up In n Ration C hang es   Peas Down To 3 Points’ Corn, Tomatoes And Asparagus Cut: Frozen Foods Stable

ALLIES IN SLOW ADVANGE THROUGH CASSINO RUBBLE   Shock Troops Dive-Bombed and Fired Upon by Cannon and Small Arms as They Inch Forward.   NAZI STRONGPOINTS BLASTED BY TANKS   As Grim Fight Continues, Enemy Positions Near Edge of Anzio Beachhead Are Hit by Airmen.

German Defenses Around Beachhead Blasted By Waves Of Heavy Bomber:

NAZIS YIELDING UNDER POUNDIN( __ BY THE ALLIES   Enemy Bombed Near Anzio; Five Airfields in North » ern Italy Hit

Army Shock Troops Move Into Cassino   Allied Bombers Attack German Positions Around Anzio Beachhead.   AIRFIELDS PLASTERED

Nazi Bomber Force Lashes  Cassino Area   Allies Gain Slowly In ‘Smashed City; Enemy In Anzio Beachhead Takes Pounding

Chock Troops Inch Nazis Prom Cassino   Air Power Hammers  German Posts On Anzio Beachheac

Shock Troops Of Yanks In Cassino   Nazi Dive - Bombers  Aid Defenses

Shock Troops Of Fifth Army  Inching Aheac   Battling House By House  To Dislodge Germans in Bomb-Devastated Cassino

Fifth Army’s Shock Force Is Clearing  Out Cassino   Enemy’s Positions  ‘Raided Near Anzio

oth army battles way thru  ruined houses of Cassino  Allied bombers plaster German. beachhead positions at Anzio

EET ARMY UNITS CREEP AHEAD Ih AUING OF GASOINO   Inch Forward Against DiveBombers, Cannon and Small Arms Fire   BATTLE OF ITALY IN THREE MAJOR SECTIONS   Allied Bombers Plaster German Positions Around Edge Of Anzio Beachhead. Heavy Bombers Blast Airfields in Northern Italy

FIVE AIRFIELDS IN NORTH ITALY HIT BY RAIDERS   Germans Still Clinging To Shattered Ruins Of Moanactarv

‘Fifth’ Tr oops Inch Ahead in ‘Cassino Ruins   Allied Bombers Plaste: Rim of Beachhead and Udine Airdromes

Fighting in Cassino  Still Bitter   Allies Inch Slowly Through the Battered Streets

Allies Make Slow Advance In Cassino   Bombers Strike at Nazi Positions Near and North of Anzio

Fifth Inches Forward Under Blastina Fire   Nazi Dive-Bombers, Heavy Artillery and  Small Arms Keep Up Fire on Allies

SHOCK TROOP MOVE SLOWLY INTO CASSINO   TANKS TAKE OVER IN RUINS OF KEY CITY

TRIED TO SNARE  HOLY SEE IN ESPIONAGE   Plot by Nazi Himmler Failed When Vatican Became Suspicious

LONDON POLES VISIT MOSCOW   Expect Concessions to Permit Forming of Coalition Government

American, Chinese Forces Join  In Burma Battle  Allied Fighters Close Jaws of Trap Around Jan Troons

JAPS ISOLATED BY AMERICANS AT WALAWBUM   Allied Casualties Said Light In  Newest Drive

Americans And Chinese Fighting Side By Side Against Japs In Burma

Trap Closing In Burma On Jap Forces.   American, Chinese Fighting Side By Side-In New Drive

JAP CASUALTIES IN BURMA BATTLE REPORTED HEAVY   American Trained Chinese and American Sol diers Fight Side by Side

Chaplin Case Goes To Jury   Judge’s Instructions  Take Hour To Read

Moscow Studies Are Successful   Era Of Increasing “Collaboration Expected

Two New Cases of Polio in County   Rixford and Port Allegany Boys in Hospital

CHICAGO TRAIN STRIKE BEGINS   600 Workers Quit Jobs r Wage Increase Demand

CHICAGO HAS RAIL STRIKE   WALKOUT BY TRAINMEN’ HAS  CRIPPLED TRANSPORT   _-.. FOR THOUSANDS_OF COMMUTERS

Strike Halts Rail Lines in Chicago   Many Commuters Face New Problem

AFL Asks O'Daniel Be Segregated   Resolution Asks His Removal From Senate Democrats’ Section

eye wear &vuay eee Four Nations Are Committed to Policy of Continuing Cooperation.

AGREEMENT BETWEEN “BIG FOUR” OF WORLD POWERS ONLY SAFEGUARD NOW AGAINST STARTING WORLD: WAR NO. Ill   _ Co-operative Efforts of Allied Powers to Win War - Must of Necessity ‘te Continued If Peace of Future Is to Be Assured and New War Averted

MOSCOW CONFERENCE CLAIMED TO HAVE AVERTED THIRD WORLD WAR BY AGREEMENTS REACHED

Yank Tank Unit Hits Burma Japs   Desperate  Enemy Massing For All-Out Assault On Imphal.

American Seventh pounds on doorway into Germany   Yanks push on against lessened enemy resistance to main highway

TARGET FOR 1,100 AMERICAN PLANES   Great Force of U. S. Fortresses and Fighters Blast Nazi Sub Center-——-French Areas Are Struck

Forts Strike Sub Center   Bombers Plough Through Heavy Overcast; Little Opposition Met,

American Bombers  North German U-ho Shipbuilding Cente Strack hy Davlinht:

Nazis Hit  by Heavy Bombers   MORE THAN 1100 PLANES STRIKE U-BOAT CENTER IN CONTINUED OFFENSIVE

U. §. Bombers Hit Nazi Sub Center   Wilhelmshaven Raided By 1,100 Forts; France Also Attacked

NAZI TARGETS HAMMERED BY U, 9. BOMBERS   Invasion Coast Is Hard Hit; 1,100 Planes In Raid

ELEVEN HUNDRED U. $. BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS IN RAID  U-BOAT CENTER OF WIL _ HELMSHAVEN OBJECT  OF BIC AIR ASSAULT

Wilhelmshaven Last Hit By Americans on Nov. 3 By 560 Bombers.   ENCOUNTER FEW PLANES

Operation One Of Biggest Undertaken By Americans; Greatest Sustained Aerial Offensive of War Continued On Round-Clock Schedule

a —AIR: WAR—- +  rnTS “BATTER ~ [-BOAT-CENTER   Wilhemshayen Is Attack‘6d By 1,100 U.S. Bomb‘ers:And Fighters   Despite Clouds, Airmen  “Believe Their Bombs  -Kound Target

Bombs Rain Down Thru Overcas!   ‘Right On the Target Area, and on Schedule,’ Report Returning Crewmen   FLAK, FIGHTERS “ONLY MODERATE   Great Waves of American Planes Also Attack French Invasion Coast Again

VER TARGETS  . S. FLIERS GERMANY   ore Than 1,100 American  ombers and Long-Range   Fighters In Attack on Wilheimshaven   ISTAINED OFFENSIVE

Nazi Targets Hit in Great Air Assault   More Than 1,100 U. S. Fort ressep and Fighters Strike Wilhelmshaven and Militar;  . Installations in France

1,100 U. S. Planes Raid Wilhelmshaven      Fortresses Accompanied by Fighters Deliver Blow at Big Nazi Port—American Bombers Also Attack in Northern France.

Great U. S. Air Assault Rips Reich   1,000-Plane Armada Hits U-Boat Center And Targets in Northern France

Yank Bombers AndLongRange Fighters Blast Wilhelmshaven   More Than 1100 Planes Take Part—British Raid Northern France

SMASHING U. S. ATTACK LEAVES CITY IN FLAMES  SIXTH OPERATION IN SEVEN DAYS BY

U-Boat Center Battered in Sky Assault  Drop Bombs Through Claude: Othar Planac   Drop Bombs Through Clouds; Other Planes Raid Northern France

‘Over 1,100 American Planes Attack — Targets in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Encounter Few Fighters, Little Flak   U-Boat Center  Of Wilhelmshaven Hit—Forts Plough Through Overcast

PLANES ATTACK GERMAN CITY   Wilhelmshaven One of Major German Ports  Given Devastating Blow Taday

Hides From Japanese For Three Years In Philippines   Lieutenant Emerges Today, Tells Harrowing Tale Of Adventure

Turk President Reveals Plot Against Nation   Pres. Inonu Voices Suspicion Foreigners Engineered Action

Inonu Declares _ Plot Uncovered Ayainst Turkey   ‘Foreignérs’ Suspachd of Conspiring To Be Court-Martialed

Some Stale Areas Got Weekend Rain  Ranges From Gage’ s 4. 5  i sai nam A °° gg

Dewey Speech Tonight To “il In FDR Gaps”   Senator Ball To Explain Support For FDR In Talk Thursday Night.

Dewey To Turn Guns On Roosevelt Record   Now That Foreign Policy Has Been Made An Issue, Will ‘Fill in Gaps’ on Pre-Pearl Harbor Diplomacy

Vows To Fill In Gaps Left By President During Speech Hitting ‘Isolationists’

Much Interest Hinges In Talk By Gov. Dewey   GOP Nominee Tonight Says  He Will “Fill in the Gaps” Left Out by FDR in His Message.

Presidential Race Verbal Battle Rages   Both Sides Defend Speeches of Their Candidates

Dewey Gets" Guns Ready   Will Answer F DR’s “ Policy. Statements

New Deal’s Foreign Policy, Pearl Harbor  Become Chief Issues   ‘Dewey, Speaking Tonight In Minneapolis, Wil ‘Fill In Gaps’ In Roosevelt’s N. Y. Speech; Pearl Harbor Theme Of Ferguson

Democrats Emphasize Foreign Policy as Ball Deserts GOP   Dewey To Invade Solon’s Home State To Expound Republican Views on Issue

Foreign Policy Plugged Hard By Roosevelt Men; Senator Ball Bolts GOP  Minnesota Republican Comes Out For FDR Over Gov Dewey; Senator Truman In Challenge

Roosevelt Supporters Plug Foreign Policy Platform As Ball Joins Ranks

BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES STRESS FOREIGN ISSUES   Dewey to Speak Tonight on Policies Abroad From Sen. Ball’s Home State

DEMOCRATS EXPAND FOREIGN POLICY   Rep. Engel Charges Administration Attempting to Cover Up Pearl Harbor Facts,

FDR-Dewey Verbal Bou  Surs Partisan Backers   GOP Nominee, Heading East, Tells Crowd At Tulsa He Will Strive for Unity if Elected to White House Office

Dewey Says President’s  Memory Fails   Plans’ To Jog It in Speech Tonight, He Savs

Dewey Heads Back to Albany,  Bricker Prepares for Long Tour   G. O. P. Makes Promise at Tulsa He Will Throw Out Pelitical ‘Loafers’ If Elected

Roosevelt Backers Plug Foreign Policy Hard; Dewey Speaks Tonight

DEWEY-SPEAKS — IN OKLAHOMA   Promizes to Seek Unity. and Throw Out Politica! Loafers If Elected

FOREIGN POLICY TAKES TOP SPOT IN CAMPAIGNING   Bricker Says White Collar Workers and Farmers Are Nation’s ‘Neglected Men’

Plug Hard At K oreien Policy Issue lu Campaign   Dewey To Answer Roosevelt Tonight: Ball, Assailed, To Make Reply

Dewey Makes Switch; Will Answer FDR   Abandons Plan to Discuss the Farm Problem in Minneapolis

Vichy Radio Reports Allied Landing Craft Cruising Tyrrhenian Sea

Vichy Foresces New Allied Invasions             says Large Fleet of Lanidl re.       TEvrrhenian Seo

Bombers Raid French Coast   (cermans Battered Fortifications Around Pas - deCalais Blasted.

Nazis Fail To Offer Defense To Coastlines   American Bombers Blast Enemy-Held Territory ‘Without Encountering  Single Hun Fighter

Make 40th Attack On “Atlantic Wall  Doolittle Changes   Doolittle Changes Tactics Of Daylight Raids

American Liberators Bomb Battered Coast Of Franee Without Meeting Fighters

Liberators Hit Calais Target   No Enemy Fighters Meet Sweep by Americans  Goecteg) Sami.

Make 40th Attack On “Atlantic Wall   Doolittle Changes Tactics Of Daylight” Raids

ALLIES SET AIR ‘PACE 10 EXHAUST GERMAN DEFENSES   Strategy Changed Since Major General Doolittle Began Directing Blows at ’ Hitler Fortress.   NEW ATTACKS MADE ON PAS-DE-CALAIS   Enemy Fails to Send Up Single Plane—Littie Opposition Met Over Northern . France.

Record Pace Kept Up by _U.S. Bomber:   Thumping Attack Agains'! French Coast Goes Unchallenged

Day Bombing Of Invasion  Coast Kept Up   Enemy Fighter Planes Missing From Sky, Allied Flyers Say

Liberators Hit French Coast  No Heavy Bombers Lost In Day’s Missions

Liberators Again Attack Pas-de-Calais   Bombers Accompanied By Fighter Umbrella  Return Without Loss; Air Blows Stepped Up

e —  a4 no Dts Mirra oer   (flepraductton in whole or In’ part strietly prohibited.)

Report Soviet Warships Appear Off Bulgarian Coast: Landing Predicted

PVT ROETKE IS FATALLY WOUNDED   Mattoon Soldier, 20, Dies of Injuries Received in France

SENATE EXPECTED 10. CONTINUE TAK BILL DEBATE   Advocates of Anti-Poll Tax Bill Threaten tv Co.tinue Fight

MAG. N FRANCTS ~— DIES, E. LANSING   Funeral of Kin of Ontonagon Residents to Be Held "Wednesday.

Wallace Seen Wrong By GOP   . Deny FDR. Defeat Will Hurt Victory

GOP Has Word For Wallace's War Statement   Republicans Say FDR Not Necessary To Bring Victory

V. P. WALLACE'S OPINION 1S “HOOEY”   Republicans Said When Confronted with His Statements

Republicans Say ‘Hooey’ To Wallace Claim FDR Defeat Will Retard War

Russ-Jap Pacts Taken To Indicate Neutrality After Defeat of Nazis

Fierce Attacks by Warships, Planes In Pacific Area   Hundreds of Enemy Die as 3 Corvettes, 2 Transports Sink

3300 Striking Foremen Defy WLB Order To Go Back To War Plant Jobs   Detroit Workers Demand Recognition Of Union

Foremen Stay Away From Job   Ignore Labor Board Order to Return to Work in Detroit

3300 Foremen In Detroit Area Defy WLB Order   Action On Directive Being Smdied At Parley Of FAA National Officers

FOREMEN FAIL TO END STRIKE   Ignore WLB Directive to Resume Work

3,000 Workers At Detroit Out   Union Refuses To Follow WLB Order

Soviet Forces In Drive To Outflank Polish Capital Of Warsaw From The North

Nazis Open ‘Escape Path Below Riga   6 Reich Divisions Hurled Into New Counter-Offensive

GERMANS ATTEMPI 70 WIDEN BALTIC ESCAPE CORRIDOR   Reinforcements Of Sir Additional Panzer Divisions   ESTABLISH CONTACT WITH TRAPPED NAZIS   Soviet High Commafid Admits Ring Of Encirclement Is Broken

SOVIETS OPEN 22- MILE GAP NEAR WARSAW   Ready To Smash Across Bug River; Baltic Ring Broken

Reds Over Frontier, They Claim   Russians Admit German: Make Gain Along Coast of Riga Gulf

Germans In All-Out Drive to Free Pocketed Baltic Armies   By HENRY SHAPIRO  PP a Rey yg BANS Se OD ae her RUN aN

Bitter Battle Being Fought  In Vossenack   ‘Nazis Using. Everything In Effort. To Halt Drive Toward Ruhr

Alles, Nazis Wage Desperate Fight  Inside Vossenack  Battle Along Maas Rives Virtually Ceases as British Sweep South Side

ARE REPULSED   Would Break Road Block Clamped on Main Supply Line in Burma,

Allies Choke Knemy Supply Line in Burma   Japs Resist With Violenee As Allies Block Railroad—Ni;  Casualties High

Yanks Tighten Supply Clamp   Siranglehold Is Beginning To Choke Foes In North ern Burma.

Japs Struoole To Lonca Altiag Strannlehold   Nips Burma Supply Line Begins To Choke Under Pressure

Allies Repulse Jap Attacks   Stranglehold on Jap Supply Lines Beginning to Choke

Stilwell Clamps Stranglehold on Japs’ Supply Line   Allies Repulse Violent Attacks and Capture Strong Point— Enemy Advances in China

Tighten Hold on Jap Supply Line  Stilwell Placing Foe in Serious Situation

YANKS HOLD ON JAP LINES IS TIGHTENING   Violent Attempts to Break Road Block 65 Miles South of Mogaung Repulsed By Defenders   OVER THOUSAND SLAIN

JAPS’ BURMA DRIVE HALTED   1,000 Enemy Troops Die In Attempts To Break Supply Road Block

Allies Choking Jap Supply Line In North Burma   Foil Enemy Attempts Ts Break Block Clamped O: Main Railway.

Allied Ring Tightens On Jap Troops   Nips Fail In Attempt: To Escape In Burma: 6th Army Mopping Up Hallandia Sectar

1,000 NIPS DIE IN ATTEMPT TO BREAK UP BLOCK  TOKYO RADIO SAYS U. S. TASK FORCE HAING TMi tet Aa

Japs Being Choked In Northern Burma; Supply Lines Cut   1,000 Japs Die in Four Attempts To Crash Barrier on Railroad Sending Materiel To Burma-india Front; Air-borne Troops Repulse Attacks

Jap Supply Line In North Burma _ Seen Strangled   Allied Air-Borne Troops Repulse Enemy Attempt To Break Road Block

Japs’ Efforts to End Stranglehold on Supplies Fail   Allies Block Railroad Leading to Enemy's North Burma Base

Japs In Burma Are Desperate   Allied Stranglehold : Drawn Tighter

JAPS ATTEMPT TO BREAK U.S STRANGLEHOLD   Enemy Cracking on Most Fronts; New Attacks Made

LOM) Japs Stain Attacking Rail Block in Burma  Allies Choke Off.   Allies Choke Off. Supplies of Nippons in India

Japs Feeling Allied Pinch, North Burma   Stilwell Jungle Troops Threaten J a p Railroad Supply Line

«Many Planes Raid Berlin  @ Other Nazi Targets Raombed During Dav.

Berlin Blasted Again By Yanks   2,200 Planes Make 1,400-Mile Round ‘Trip

GREEK VILLAGE IS SLAUGHTERED   All Males Over 12 Lined Up And Mowed Down With Machineguns

Germans Murder 1,000 in Greece   Mass Slaughter Brings Reprisals

Nazi Inhumanity Marks New Lidice   Exiled Greek . Government Charges Mass Slaughter of Town’s People.

Greeks Say Nazis Massacred 1,000  Males Over 12 Shot, Others Are Burned

sicxisereccieetiee in it '  10 Per Cent Pay Boost Is Voted State Employees

Fire Claims 100 Victims  In Cleveland   Fifty-Block Area Of City’s East Side Is Devastated.

Blast Toll 75 At Cleveland   Debris May Yield At Least 100 Bodies

Firemen Find 78 Bodies In Cleveland  Final Toll Expected To Top 100 as Search Continues

CLEVELAND BLAST TOLL REACHES 75   Firemen Probe Ruins Of 50-Block Area

Nofed Writer Hurt in Wreck   Ernest Hemingway Suffers Injuries In London Accident

Ernest Hemingwa' Injured In Aufo Crash In London   Famed Writer’s Condition Said Not To Be Serious

Reds Cut Off 15 Divisions   New Surge on Baltic Front Breaks Through and Is Now Nearing Port of Memel

02-MILE GASH IS CARVED IN BALTIC FRONI   Breakthrough Marks Offensive Aimed At East Prussia

Soviet Drive Qn Budapest Gains Power   German Military Comimentator Says Russians 56: Miles Away

Troop Laden Enemy Vessel Is Destroyed   American Ships Enter Kavieng’s Harbor, Bombard Docks Without Air Attack

UNION PICKETS ARE ACCUSED OF VIOLENCE   Governor Orders State Po lice To Maintain Or der At Ward’s   COMPANY IS GIVEN MONDAY DEADLINE

Another Aircraft Carrier Launched   Secretary of Navy Knox Sends Message to Affair

Twin Drives’ Are Launchec By English, U.S, Traqus:   Tanks, Infantrymen “Advance Near Caen

Tanks, Infantry Gain Mile TInDawn Push South of Caer   Montgomery Achieves Surprise by Shifting Weight of Offensive—Heavy Air Support Given Yanks

Tommies Move Ahead 1 Mile In Early Hours   Doughboys “Advancing Against Heavy Resist. ance”’; Berlin Says U. S. Wedge Senled Off   Battle Near Caen Still Indecisive   Heavy Air and Artillery Bombardment Supporting Drives From Both Sectors Western Front

Allies Burst Forth ~ Supported by Four Thousand Warolanes   Shove Nazis B Backwards in’ Greatest Ground Drive Since D.Das¢

Temperatures   Massive Armada of 4,000 Warplanes Leads Ground Drive

HEAVY AIR AID   Germans Shaved Backward In Probably Greatest Coordinated Attack.   14,000 PLANES IN RAID

GREAT DRIVE STARTED IN FRANCE TODAY   Largest Advance Since D-Day  Underwav

Shove Germans Back At Both Ends of Line   Use 4,000 Warplanes in Support, Run Into Savage Fighting After Initial Advances Toward Open Country

Americans; English Start  = Powerful Offensives With Air. Arti 1] ery Sa anand

Huge Armada (Of Planes Assists Men   Greatest Co-Ordinated Ground Assault Shoves Germans Back

Allied Troops Spring Ahead In Normandy   British and U.S. Ferees Deliver Twin Offensives

Air Armada Supporting Great Push Into France   Ground Attack Is Greatest Opened Over Normandy

Twin Blow Opened by U.S., British Troops on Both Ends. Of Norman Line; Skies Clear.

Twin Drives in Normandy Breaks Lull   British and Americans Push Forward, Backed by Heavy Air Force

Open New Drive In Normandy   Allies Near Florence, Italy   Pacific Invasions Progressing

4.000 Planes In Support Of Troops   British and Canadians Make Initial Gains  Of Mile

Massed Armada of 4,000 Warplanes Directs Blows at Both Ends of the Normandy Front.   GROUND FORCES THEN FOLLGW IN OPENINGS

Assaults for Paris Launched   Yanks, British Strike First Blows in Big Offensives in France

INITIAL GAIN OVER A MILE REPORTED   Berlin Says Yanks Attack 4 Northwest Of St. Lo   0 VILLAGES   Captured By British Despite Stiff Resistance; Artillery Heavy

ALLIED ARMIES JUMP OFF BIG PUSH ON PARIS   BOMBARDMENT OPENS MAJOR ASSAULTS ON FRONTS IN NORMANDY

1,500 U.S. Bombers Break Air Record ForSingle Mission   Fliers Strike Nazis in Normandy as Allied Armies Launch Large New Offensive in France

Supported by 4,000 Warplanes, Forces Shove Germans Back in What Is Probably Greatest Co-ordinated Ground Drive Since D- Day—British Strike Below Caen—Details on American Drive at West End of Front Remain a Secret.

Yanks, British Attacking on Both Ends of 100-Mile Line   Assault Likely Greatest Since Landings in Normandy

Germans Are Attacked at Both Ends of the 100-  Mile Front      Lf  EAVY AIR  SUPPORT   Germans Locate New Alliec Plunges Near Caen and St. Lo

‘Heavy Allied Air Support Paves Way For New Assault   New Offensive Greatest’ Coordinated Attack Since D-Day

— France —   4,000 Planes Hammer Nazis. In Great Coordinated Blow:

4,000 Planes Aid Strikes Af Nazi Defenses   Assaults Considered Greatest Since Start Of Campaign; Yankee Location Not Told

4,000 Planes Cover Troops  In New Push   Germans Driven Back; Greatest Coordinated Attack Since D-Day

Offensive Aided By 4000 Planes   . Lull On Western Battlefront Suddenly Ended

British Gain Mile At Start   Atterieans Over Top Under Clouds of Planes; Resistauce Strong

Germans Pushed Back In Greatest Coordinated Drive Since D-Day   1.000 Warplanes Spearhead Attach   Fighting Continues Strenuously On Both American And British Sectors

'Yanks, British Drive From Ends (Of 100-Mile Front   3,000 Planes In Support of Push Toward Paris

New Drive Is Heaviest Since D-Day   Troops Go Forward Under Canopy of 4,000 Planes; Meet  Beeneciuesxve: Phamwctstan

Big Offensive _ Is Supported By Vast Air Fleets   U.S. And British Burst Forth Under Umbrella Of Over 4,000 Warplanes.

Offensives Are Opened at Both Ends in Normandy   Armada of 4,000 Planes Support New Drive Against Nazis

4000 Warplanes Help Smash at German Armies   Fierce Resistance Reported; Derails Of Fight Withheld

SUDDEN ATTACK IS LAUNCHED IN AREA NEAR CAEN   Savage Fighting Marks Early Stages of Two-ply Assault By Yanks and British

TEMPERATURES:   Americans, British  Launch Twin Drives; _ Great Battle Rages

THOUSANDS OF PLANES AID SMASH   Yanks, British Begin Offensive At Both Ends Of Front

4,000 PLANES BACK BRITISH, YANK ATTACKS   Fierce Battles Raging At Both Ends of French Front

4000 Planes Support Drive In Normandy   Germans Thrown Back In Face Of Co-ordinated Attack

TWINATTACKS ‘POUND FOES IN NORMAN LINES   Double Drive Breaks Four-Day Stalemate On French Front

Germans Are Attacked at Both Ends of the 1004. Mile Front   “EAVY AIR SUPPORT   Germans Locate New Allied Enka Near Caen and St. Lo

4,000 PLANES SUPPORT LAND FORCE IN WES!   Serious Fighting All Along Nor man Front in Biggest Cam~ paign Since D-Day

SUPPORTED BY HEAVY AIR AND ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT TWO ARMIES ATTACK IN NORMANDY.   British Launch Attack in Vicinity of Caen While Americans in St. Lo and Lessay Sector Lunged Forward. Germans Admit Lines Penetrated

NAZIS SHOVED. BACKWARD IN JOINT ATTACK   American and British Drive Makes Gains Despite Nazi Resistance.

4,000 WARPLANES BLASTING PATH FOR DOUBLE ASSAULT   3,000 Planes Supporting American Forces: Details  of Drive Withheld: British-Canadian ' Push Under Way

Ground Drive Is Given Support by 4,000 Warplanes   Americans, British Break - Forth From Both Ends of 100-Mile Front.   Germans Shoved Back As Quick Gains Made

YANKS, BRITISH PUSH GERMANS BACK IN STAB   Mighty New Offensive Launched in Normandy As Bombers Blast Enemy

American, British » Armies Break Out  At Both Ends  Of French Front

Japanese Pay Heavily For Pacific Bases   smericans Building Up : Series of Wedges it Their Defenses

Japs. Paying Heavy Price In Pacific   Allied Planes Damage Four Warships, Destroy 33° Nip Planes; Seabees Rush Work On Cape Gloucester Field

Jap Detense Costs Heavy   Allied Air Forces Take Toll Of Nipponese Planes. Cruisers. Destroyers.

ow re eerie = aS woe  33 PLANES , IN DAY   Marines Widen Beachhead On Cape Gloucester   MARSHALLS   Again Hit By Americans: Nips Stab At Arawe, And New Guinea

JAPS PAYING ~ HEAVY PRICE   Four More Warships Dam aged: 33 Planes  Destroyed

ALLIES MAKING STRIDES FROM   Japs Pay Heavily in “Effort to Fight Off — ‘Thrusts at Bases

JAPAN PAYING BIG PRICE FOR HOLDING BASES   Our Troops Continuing to Force Wedges Into Defense System Of Enemy in S8.W. Pacific.

AMERICAN TROOPS BUILDING UP INVASION WON WEDGES IN JAP DEFENSE SYSTEM AMONG ISLANDS   Allied Planes Strike Key Enemy Joints in New Guinea and New Britain, Damaging Four War-  ships and Destroving At Least 33 Japanese Plane:   TURIN RAILWAY © YARDS BATTERED BY FORTRESSES   Italian War Center Blast ed As American Fifth Army Makes Slight  Advanraa

Three Nip Warships Set Afire by Navy  Planes in Kaviens   Allies Continue Their Progress in Pacific Islands Fighting

Japs Paying I Heavily For Attempts Tc Fioht Off Attacks On Pacific Bases

BOMB KEY BASES IN SO. PACIFIC   RAIDERS STRIKE AT TAROA IN ASSAULT ON MARSHALL ISLES

Allies Have Firm Grip At Saidor ©   Expand Beachheads At Gloucester and Arawe; Keep Up Aerial Pounding of Jap-Held Isles

Allied Planes Bomb Jap Bases  Foe Paying Heavy Price to Fight Off  Ate.» T4.....

JAPANESE PAYING INCREASINGLY HEAVY PRICE IN PACIFIC   ‘ALLIED FORCES CONTIN. UALLY WIDEN WEDGES IN ENEMY’S DEFENSES

WAP OUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   Pay Increasingly Heavy Price to Fight Off Thrusts At Bases.   33 PLANES DESTROYED

U. $. Air Force Cripples Four Jap Warships   Down 33 Enemy Planes; Michigan Troops Hold Firm On Saidor

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   Advance of U. S. Bases ir Pacific Takes Increasing Toll of Planes.

JAPS PAYING HEAVILY T0 HOLD THRUSTS   Guarding Hemmed-in Bases In Southwest Pacific is Costly Operation For Nipponese

FLIERS DAMAGE 4 NIP WARSHIPS, FELL 33 PLANES   Marines Gain on New Britain Japs Claim Marshalls Raided Again

Allies Gain Holds Within Japs’ island Defenses  Air Forces Smash Successfully At Vital Targets

Jap Casualties High in Pacific   Allied Bombers Destroy Warships. Nipponese Planes

Damage Four Jap Warships In Air Blows   Two Cruisers Set Afir In Attacks; Yanks A Saidor Established: Rahan!] Raided

Japs Paying Higher Price   Still Fail to Keep Allied Thrusts Out of Defenses

ALLIED AIRMEN DAMAGE FOUR JAP WARSHIPS   Two Cruisers, One Destroyer Sei Afire ai Rabaul, 13 Jap Planes Downed in Battle   RAID MARSHALLS   Lt. Gen. Sulian Appointed Deputy “Commander in Chief of U. S. Forces in China, India

Allies Strike Heavy Blows At Japanese   Damage4 Warships, Down 33 Planes; Yanks Build up Invasion Wedges

Allied Planes Hit Key Points   Damage Four Japanese Warships, Destroy 33 Enemy Planes

JAP CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS AFIRE AFTER ALLIED RAID   Nipponese Lose 33 Planes in Pacifie; Marines Advance Aaain

—PACIFIC OFFENSIVE  Nips Pay Bis Toll  In Lives   + + + Cost of Fighting Off Allied Thrusts Grows

South Pacific Battle Cost High to Nips Allied Planes Damage Jap Warships in New  pe Pe Se a

MARINES PREVENT LANDING BY JAPS   ENEMY TRIES IN VAIN TO PUT TROOPS ASHORE AT CAPE GLOUCESTER.

Marines] Repel ‘ Landing Force   Cape Gloucester Fighting Costs Janan Heavily

Solons Back Stettinius’  2nd Waming   Interference by  British in Freed  Areas Condemned

Bricker Assails Attitude Of New Beal On Labor   Suggests Substitute For FDR’s Costly Spending Spree

Bricker Hits New Deal’s Labor Policy   Absolute Prohibition o: War Time Strikes Is Proposed ~ ,

Bricker Against Wartime Strikes   Denounces F.D.R. Administration

BRICKER URGES END TO STRIKES   Denounces Roosevelt Admin. istration, Lauds Congress

WARTIME CURB ON STRIKES IS BRICKER’S PLE}   Proposal By Governor Highlights Visit To Capital

BRIGKER WANTS PROHIBITION OF WARTIME STRIKES   Ohio Governar Seeks Congressional Support in Washington Appearance.

Sales of Bonds Hits $231,492.50 in Local Area   31 Per Cent of Quota Reached on Thursday

LIFE SENTENCE 1S. GIVEN AIRMAN   ARMY LIEUTENANT CONVICTED. OF DECAPITATING ‘MOTORIST ON FLIGHT.

LOW-FLYING AIRMAN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER: SENTENCED TO LIFE TERM

TAF BABES 660 MILES FROM JAP  HOMELAND BEASTED=H4..” ' VO ‘RAIDS CONTINUE

BOMBS POUND CHICHI JIMA   Bonins, But 600 Miles Krom Tokio, Raided Jap-Held Davao Gulf Rlasted

Roosevelt Indispensable To - Political Job Holders And Enemies Of Civil Libertie:   Also Vital To Sidney Hillman And Earl Browder, The  Ex-Convict, Pardoned Communist

DEWEY FLAYS “BAD” RECORD QF ROOSEVELT   Backs Up Contention That New Deal is Afraid of Peace

DEWEY STRIKES BACK SHARPLY AT ROOSEVELT   Governor Says President Is “Indispensable” To Political Jobholders   EXECUTIVE CANNOT LAUGH OFF RECORD

Dewey Lashes F.R. s Recital Of War Success   Not One Constructive Suggestion Offered For Future Of U. S., Says GOP Candidate

Dewey Assails His Opponent's Record in Office   GOP Nominee Hits Back Sharply af Roosevelt's Campaign Speech

Dewey Says F. D. R’s Record in Office  “Is Desper ‘ately Bad’  mm wm D Mon   G, O. P, Presidential Nominee Quotes Senate Records to Show White House Was Responsible for Shocking Defenses

DEWEY nlT3 AT FDA'S RECITAL OF WAR WORK   Follows Syracuse Talk with Assurance of a Clean Administration.

Dewev Strikes At Roosevelt   Hits Recital Of Democratic Administrations War Aecomplishments.

GOVERNOR CITES OFFICIAL RECORDS   Declares Opponent Stooped > To Mud-slinging   QUOTES RECORD   To Show White House Responsible for Lax Defense Before Pearl Harbor

DEWEY ASSAILS F. DR. BEFORE CHEERING CROW   Ten Thousand in Oklahoma City Auditorium as G. O. P. Candidate Attacks Presi y dent’s Record.   “SEVEN JOBLESS YEARS” UNDER ADMINISTRATION   i Hits Lack of Preparations for War — Says Executive Is Indispensable to Hillman and Others.

DEWEY SAYS HELL NOT DO MUD SLINGING   ROOSEVELT’S JOKES ABOUT DEPRESSION DAYS ANSWERED

PERSONAL, SECRET _ ACTIONS SCORED   ‘ges American People Have N« Hint of What Foreign Affairs Commitments Made °

Bewey Attacks Speech of FDR   Denounces Roosevelt Record As That Of An Indispensable Man.

we z ce * 4 "Wy wa: s Be? 2 :  = ¢ .  bi ¢ bin  na Ps a r~ i, —_   “es —1wong %ooseve.~ ‘ecorc “cl esxerace.””” 4a

GOP Candidate Asserts Foes Fail to Reveal Postwar Plans for U. S.

Dewey Says F. D. R's Record in Office ‘Is Desperately Bad’  G. O. P, Presidential Nominee Quotes Senate Recoarde ta Shaw White Hance   G. O. P, Presidential Nominee Quotes Senate Records to Show White House Was Responsible for Shocking Defenses

PLEDGES GIVEN BY GOV, DEWEY   Nominee Says President Shouldn't Take Credit For War Sacrifices

Quotes Marshall, Arnold, Truman, Barkley And Roosevelt To Prove Lack Of War Preparedness

Dewey Makes Hot Reply to Roosevelt In Oklahoma Talk  10,000 Hear Candidate  Blame Roosevelt for   an . ranmnaraninace

Roosevelt Assailed  In Dewey Address      Slashing Attack Made on Administration in Oklaho. _ ' - ma City—Reply Made to Statements of  President on Saturday

Roosevelt’s PublicRecord Unvarnished   DEWEY DECLARES HIS OPPONENT’S OFFICIAL CAREER HAS BEEN DESPERATELY BAD; QUOTES SENATE RECORDS.   Dewey’sOklahomaCitySpeech

Dewey Hits Back Sternly At Charges  By Ransevelt   Assails President  For Hurling Reckless Charges of Falsehood In Campaign Speech   SAYS F.D.R.’°S RECORD ‘DESPERATELY BAD’   Says He Won't Join His Opponent In *Mud-Slinsins’

Dewey Blames" FDR for Weak U.S. Defenses   ‘Desperately Bad? Record arged in Listing Ponent’«c Peenes

Grand Jury Will Probe Walkout   Transportation in Philadelphia Oven

Today In Washington  ‘Hot’ Gas Coupons Br ng 50c   Senators Begin Novel Congressional Sift; Seek Overalls For Workmen

BLACK MARKET THREATENS U.S. GAS SUPPLY   OPA Officials Say Hiega! Traf, fic Consumes 2,500,000 Gallons. Daily:

‘BLACK MARKET’ GROWING THREAT TO WAR EFFORT   Capital Problems Cover Everything from Rationing To New War Bases

Today in  WV ashington      A Roundup of Developments From the Nation's Capital   €, AsSCUT TNE

‘Hot’ Coupons Threaten Gas Control in US   Two and a Half Million Gallons Are Drained Off Daily Through Black Market

Householders Who Lose Fuel Oil Ration Tickets May Get Substitutes

WING OF FIRST SMASHES AHEAD FOR UPPER ROEF   Sunny Weather Aids Attempt To Turn German Line’s Flank

YANKS ATTACK CN BOTH SIDES OF ROER RIVER   Third Army Widens SiegFried Line Wedge At Saarlautern

IST ARMY HAS SUNNY DAY To DISLODGE NAZIS   3rd-Army Batters Way Through 506 More Yard: of German Pillhoxes

Yanks Advanee Toward Goal- Cologne Plain   First Army Divisions Meet in Upper Roer Region, Cleartmy All Nazis From Villages

FIRST ARMY IN MILE ADVANCE ‘ON UPPER BOER   Sunny Weather Is Aiding Troops; More Air Action

First Army Wins Another Mile to Capture Hamlet; Reaches Suburb of Duren

Battle Being Fought Along Roer's Banks   Village Captured By U.S. Troops Hitting Entrenched Nazis

SOVIETS BLAST TEN-MILE GAP IN NAZI LINES   U. S. Bombers Raid Big Plane Parts Plant In Austria

Gen. Eisenhower  Goes to Britain   Plans Advance for Attack on Axis Europe; Allies Gain im Italy, Russia

Jackie Cooper Freed of Charge   Star of Morals Picture Acquitted Of De linquency Charges.

Young Actor Acquitted Of Charges   Jackie Cooper Founc Not Guilty In Hotel Room Case

NAZIS’ FLYING BOMBS CLAIM MORE BRITONS   Churchill Watches Fight To Check Deadly Weapons

MORE FLYING BOMBS FALL   Churchill Possibly Will Address Commons Next Week Relative to This Nazi “Nuisance”

GREATER NUMBERS ROBOT PLANES IN LANDING BRITAIN   More Casualties and Greater Damage Being Done by German Flying Bombs. Churchill Will Sneak .

‘Flying Bomb Toll ‘Rises In Britain   Churchill May Make Speech To Commons On New Form of German Terror Attacks

FLYING BOMBS PESTER ENGLISH   Churchill Tours Area; May Make Statement Soon

WHISKY MAKING RESUMED TODAY   August Output Designed To Replenish Nation’s Drinking Liquor

LIQUOR MAKING BEING RESUMED   40-Million Gallons Of Alcoholic Spirits To Be Made This Month

Scouting Sets Off Invasion   Surprise of Japs Leads to Decision To Hold Admiraltys

MORE TROOPS ARE SENT TO ISLANDS   MacArthur Reveals First _ Landing ‘Was Scouting L Expedition. ‘   “JAPS SURPRISED   Superior Enemy Force ‘Checked Until Reinforcements Arrive ¢

Americans Decide  To Stay   Landings on Admiralties at First Intended  Only As Scouting Trip To Probe Jap Strength

Japs Caught Off Guard On Admiralties   Scouting Expedition Turns Into Full-Fledged Invasion Now In Progress  UB ATE WMH DING OUT

Yanks Fan Out in Admiralties   Initial Landings Followed by FullFledaed Invasion

Full Invasion Of  Admiralty Isles  Is In Progress Allies Put Put Big  e Ba tn hae Ae ae

Admiralty Drive Turns Out fo Be Major Operation   First Landings Were Scheduled as. Scouting Expedition

ALLIES LAND BIG FORCE IN ADMIRALTIES   Scouting Expedition Turned Into Major Invasion As - Jans Are Surprised

Plans Were Changed As Evidence Showed Easy Capture Of Isles   Los Negros Beachhead Held By Thin Line Of Troops Until Reinforcements Arrived

YANKS’ LANDING IN ADMIRALTIES WAS ACCIDENT   MacArthur Turned Scouting Expedition Into Full-Scale Invasion

Full-Fledged Invasion Now   Admiralty Landing Started Out As Scouting Affair, Yanks Moving in Now

, JUST SCOUTING - ADMIRALTY'S   MacArthur Acknowledges; Was Testing Jap Strength—Operation Proved Easier Than Expected

YANK OFFENSIVE WIDENS AGAINST JAPS IN PACIFIC   MacArthur Tells Troops ‘Hold On to What You Take’; Rabaul Pasted Again

Admiralty Coup Develops Into Real Invasion  Offensi tye Shifted:  From Reconneissence Sy «, Py 5

Gen. MacArthur Quick To Act Or Jap Confusion   Strong Reinforcements Go Ashore To Exploit Initic] Advantane

SCOUTING EXPEDITION BECOMES AN INVASION IN ADMIRALTY ISLES   With Japs Caught Flat-Footed  MacArthur Orders Holdings Consolidated   REINFORCEMENTS LANDED

Eniwetok’s Capture And Paramushiro Raid Show Japan How Wind Blows

New Allied Successes Rock Japs   Eniwetok Captured, Extensive Raiding Hits Enemy Hard

Eniwetok Falls Despite Stubborn Resistance — Paramushiro and Shu< mushu Islands are Bombed Without Allied t oss.

Yanks Seize Eniwetok, Rol: On in Pacific   Fall of Parry Isle Near; Kuriles Again Under American Fire

ENIWETOK ATOLL NEARLY DIVESTED OF JAP TROOPS   Bombers Attack Northern Kurile Islands Again

POSTING DEADLINE ~ AGAIN IS EXTENDED   Materials Not, Yet Received by the pel OPA -

POSTING DEADLINE AGAIN IS EXTENDED   Materials Not. Yet Re ceived by the Local OPA

Treasury Praises l!. °. Newspapers For Support of War Loan Drives

Papers’ Help In War Bond Sales Praised   Treasury's Gratitude Expressed by National Head of War Finance; Contributions Listed

Greek Drive Of British. Progresses  Troops Now 30 Mila:   Troops Now 30 Milas Nortl, of Lamia as Nazis Evacuate Port of Volos

Heart Attack Fat: Fatal For Frank Bausch .  Cities Dawe Tarmat is

FRENCH LAND ON ISLAND OF ELBA   Isle Between Corsica and Italy; 5th and Sth Still Advancing

Alcalde Begs Bullock to Try To Save Life   Slayer Badly Shaken by  Warren Refusal to Give  Renrieve

All Attempts to Stop Russian Advance Are Failing, Says Red Star; Fall of Viipuri Expected Soon

FINNG SEEKING T0 HALT RED ADVANCE   Soviet Capture of Viipuri, Port City, Appears In pavitahia

Capture of Big Karelian Port City Held Certain as Red Offensive Rolls Onward

VIIPURI FALL TO REDS [S IMMINENT MOSCOW DECLARES   Finns Blowing Up All Bridges on Two Highways Leading to City, But Reds Press on

Finns Blow Up Bridges, Flee Viipuri   Rumble of Russian Guns Already Heard in City, Red Star Says Capture Inevitable

FINNS BLOW BRIDGES TO STEM RED TIDES   Soviet Capture of Viipuri Appears Inevitable

—RUSSIA—  FALL OF vPUR TO SOVIETS NEAR   Finns Blowing Up Bridges In Attempt To Delay Red Army

REDS CLOSING IN ON VIIPURI   FINNS STRIVE TO HALT ADVANCE BY BLASTING BRIDGES

Finns Destroy Viipuri Bridges --- Fe-Slow Reds   Fall Of City Is Inevitable: More Than 100 Towns Are Seized By Russians

AFL President ~ Hits Shirkers   American Lives Are At - Stake. He Warns

Head of AFL Raps Calling Of Strikes   Victory Hanging in Balance He Declares; Urges Full Support

“No Excuse” for Any Strike, Green Says   AFL President Calls Upon Union Members To Stay on the Job

AH. Head Declares There Can Be No Excuse For Strikes Nor Work Stoppages In Nation

No Excuse For Strikes   William Green Calls On Boilermakers to Heed No-Strike Pledge

Texas Delegation Reaches Chicago For All-Out Fight against Wallace

498 Men Perish When American Troopship Sinks   Believe Yank Vessel Victim of Submarine In Mediterranean

Winners Widen  House Margin   Democrat Majority Bigges There Since 19239 -

DEMO PLURALITY IN SENATE 13   PARTY TO HOLD 241 HOUSE SEATS WITH MARGIN OF AT LEAST 49.

Democrats Have Control of House, Senate   Congressional Role in Postwar Plans Causes Speculation

DEMOCRATS MAKE — BIG HOUSE GAINS   Membership, of 241 As. sured on Basis of Returns

Democrats Have Control of House, Senate  CW rermmcotmonesd? Dict   Congressional Role in Postwar Plans Causes Speculation

Demos Get Strong Working Majority ir House and Uninterrupted Senate Contro

SOVIETS PUSH WITHIN SIGHT OF OIL BASES   Fast-Driving Reds May Gc To Bucharest Soon As Enemy Collapses

SOVIET TROOPS NEAR PLOESTI OIL DERRICKS   Believe Russian Forces Wil Roll Into Bucharest Wednesday

Fast-Moving Soviets Head ForBucharest   May Arrive In Capital Tomorrow

—RUSSIA—  WITHIN SIGHT OF BIG OIL FIELDS   Liberate 150 Towns In Carpathians And Transylvania Alps   SEAPORT FALLS   Way To Romanian Capital Wide Open For Victorious Soviets -

Soviet Forces On Fringes of Ploesti Fields   Moscow Thinks Troops Will Reach Romanian Capital by Wednesday

NAZI FANATICS ARE ROOTED OUT BY DOQUGHBOYS   Americans Are Fighting House To House Through City Battered by Shells

TELLS HOW MEN ARE FIGHTING IN CHERBOURG   Reporter Accompanies Doughboys Into GCitv

Cherbourg Is Rubbie-Filled Battleground   Doughboys Move From House-to-House To Root Out Last Nazi Resistance

Cherbourg Is Gl Classic   Rubble-Filled, Smoking Battieground Proof of Doughboy Courage

French Dori City 1s Smoking Battleground As Americans Drive To tnd Final Resistance

Yanks Reach Cherbourg Docks, Hold Completely Third of City; Battleships Support Land Force:

SKILL AND GUTS MARKED ACTION OF AMERICANS   Battle for French City of Cherbourg Classic Example of Doughboy Courage

STUBBORN GROUPS OF GERMANS STILL HOLD PARTS OF CHERBOURG  DOUGHBOYS CLEANING UP LAST FANATICAL NAZI REGISTANCE IN CITY

Big Three Moves to Create Partnership of All Nations ToKeenFutureWorldPeace

Partnership Of All Nations Is Pledged   Large And Small Powers To Unite In Preservation Of Peace Of World

MOVED 10 JONESBORO   Militia Shifts Flood Fight to Rampaging Mississippi River:

Teachers’ Meeting Opens Today In Capital City  First General Sessior m= tf rf = . Ee   First General Session Scheduled Tonight After Annual Banquet

Teachers’ Meeting Opens Today In Capital City  First General Sessior Scheduled Tonight After Annual Banquet

ma HALTED © FOR ONE GLASS   OHIO. BOARDS TOLD TO STOP _ INDUCTION OF .MEN OVER 26 ENGAGED IN ESSEN TIAL WORK _

DRAFT BOARDS GET NEW ORDER   Won’t Induct Men Ov. er 26 on War Jobs

E. W. Jones, 67, Succumbs Today   Chevalier Freed Of Collaboration

Federal Employes Rebuked for Asking Increases  House Group Asserts Job Program Is Not Justified

Committee Cuts Budget Estimate  Stinging Rebuke to Propagandists

Government Workers Get A Rebuking   HOUSE COMMITTEE RESENTS HEAT APPLIED BY EMPLOYES FOR MORE APPROPRIATIONS

SOLONS RESENT HIGH PRESSURE FOR MORE CASH   House Group Cuts Funds Of ‘Propagandizinig’ Agencies

Billion Dollar Supply Bill Sent fo House   Rebuke Is Given Federal Employes For Propaganda

House Group Swings Axe on Appropriation:   Children’s Bureau and Office of Education Reprintunded

Furious Attacks Give Continent Little Respite   Allied Airmen Pound Western Germany And French Coast Today

Cross Flooded River Botloms   Forces Blasting Way Through Hurriedly Thrown Up Defenses at Beachhead

Lines Move As One Unit  In Advance   Nazis Admit Great Tank Forces Are On Offensive

AMERICANS IN SURPRISE MOVE ACROSS RAPIDO   Achieved Break Through German Defenses North of Cassino, Despite Flooding Of Supply Lines

New Surprise Attack Breaks ‘Cassino Line   Air Force Knocks Down 63 German Planes In Mighty Air Battle

RECORD BAG OF 63 NAZI PLANES SCORED IN ITALY   AMERICANS STORM ACROSS RAPIDO IN SURPRISE ATTACK

BREAK THRU GUSTAV LINE   Allies Enlarge Strategic Beachhead Below  Rome

Allies Gain On Two Italy Battle Lines   Yank Break-Through Near Cassino; Down 63 German Planes

Allies Launch Attacks on 2 ltalian Fronts   Germans Admit Fighting Grows More Fierce

FRESH GAINS. MADE IN THE TWO SECTORS   N azis Admit Offensive  From Beachhead Below . Rome, and Great Vio:. Jence in Fighting on the { Cagaing Front.

AMERICANS AND BRITISH GAIN IN CASSINO REGION   Enemy's Positions North of City and Below Rome Are Menaced Anew

U.S. Infantry Smashes Nazi Defense Line   Makes Surprise Move Across Bottomland: Flooded By Enemy: Bridgehead Bolstered

Yanks Thrust Through Nazi Cassino Lines   Attack Across Flooded Rapido River To  Surprise Enemy

Beachhead  Below Rome Enlarged By Clark's Men   British And Americans Plunge Forward Furiously

AMERICAN INFANTRY AND TANKS SMASHED GERMAN DEFENSES   AMERICAN FIGHTERS ANI BOMBERS SCORED .RECORD AIR BAG

FORCES AHEAD WITH ~~ BENOUBIED FURY   Worked From Both Beach  head Are Below Rome  and.at Cassino.   NEW GAINS ANNOUNCED.   Allies Are Attacking Main German Defenses in the Cassino Area.

YANKS STRIKE OUT AT NAZIS   Severe Fighting Reported Below Rome and In Cassino Sector

WEATHER   ALLIES GAIN ON ROME ARC, CASSINO LINE   British, Americans Throw Selves Forward With Redoubled Fury

Tanks and infantry Flank Cassino from _ South After Crossing  Fleoded Area _

U.S. KNOCKS OFF 63 NAZI PLANES IN A SINGLE DAY   Germans Surprised With Thrust Across Rapido River; Break Achieved ‘Through Enemy Defenses  North Of Cassino.

Allies Hurl Twin Smash in Italy   BRITISH, AMERICAN FORCES SLASH FORWARD FROM BEACHHEAD ARC, TRANS-ITALY LINE; ANNOUNCE NEW GAINS AS NAZIS ADMIT DRIVE

New American Break-Through  Above Cassino   Yanks Surprise Foe By Leaping Rapido Bottom, Flooded By Nazis.

Tanks and ~ Infantry Smash On   Americans Break Germaz Line North of. Cassino ‘on Main Battle Front   GAINS ALSO MADE IN ROME SECTOR   Nazis Surprised. Aground.as They Lose Badly in Series of Air Battles

American Infantry And  Tank Teams Break Through Nazi Line North Of Cassino

BRIDGEHEAD AT ANZIO WIDENED   Initial Advantage OF Surprise Landing Below Rome Lost

Fury of Drives on Nazis inltaly ts  Doubled by Allies   Americans Crack Nazi Defenses; Closing in on Cassino

Allies Surge _ Forward All Across Italy   Redoubled Fury as Armies Drive From Beachhead And at Cassino

German Communique Says Powerful Forces Launched Big Drive.   ATTACK MAIN DEFENSES

—ITALY—_.  INFANTRY, TANKS, ~ PHAPY PEAMIAAIC   Thrust Across ,Flooded Rapido River Is Surprise To Enemy   AIR LOSSES HIGH   Sixty-Three German Planes Are Knocked Down By U.S. Fliers --

GERMAN TRICK FAILS 10 STOP YANK ADVANCE   American Tanks Drive Through Enemy Lines North of Cassino

Yankees Cross Rapido; Flank Nazi Forces   Surprise Move Across Flooded Stream Puts Allies North of Cassino

ALLIES BREAK NAZI DEFENSE LINE IN ITALY   American Infantry and Tanks Team Up to Cross Flooded Rapido River.   Get a Record Bag of 63 German Warplanes

WATER BILLS I SPOTLIGHT AT   Leaders Plan Action Next Week In. Rath Hanes

INSURED CROP BILL REVIVED FOR CONGRESS   SENATE AND HOUSE GET TO WORK NEXT WEEK

Maid Disappears With Dayton Tot  Police Hunt 230-lb. ees , a oe. Fee

“Trade Ties Now”, ---Willkie Garner--Farley Confer  MacArthur---Cabinet Post

Reds F ighting In Outskirts Of Qumbinnen   Germans are Evacuating  All Civilians

Reds Close In ‘On Gumbinnen, In East Prussia   Capture Of Vital Communications Center Appears Imminent.

Reds Beat Back Counter-Attacks In East Prussia   Reinforced Germans Strike in Defense  Of Gumbinnen, Now Threatened by Soviet<

16,000 IDLE IN FOUR STRIKES   Chrysler Workers Defy UnionWLB Orders

French, Armored. Columns Move to Relieve Embattled Parisians; Final Liberation Believed Near   FRENCH CITIZENS ARED T0 TEETH, BATTLE GERMANS

HURJA FORECASTS DEWEY WILL WIR   Publisher Sets Governor's  Electoral Vote at  2 eA

REDS BLASTING SARNY: PUSH 62 MILES ON POLANI   Armies Encircle Royno Nazi Capital For The Ukraine

Red Army Surge: Ahead 62 Miles Into Old Poland   New Drive Menaces Nazi Administrative Center For Ukraine

Red Army Drives 62 Miles Deep Into Old Poland   Rovno, Nazi Capital’ For Ukraine, In Danger of Falling -

SOVIETS LANDING IN THE CRIMEA   Polish Government May Accept Russian Offer on Border Dispute.

Soviets Threatening To Encircle Rovno; Attack Sarny From Two Sides

Sarny, Rail Point, Attacked; Nazis in Soviet Virtually Split Rumania Is Periled by Reds

Russians Are Attacking Rail Junction While Other Units Drive Deeper Into Poland

Troops Move on Nazi Army Hubof Ukraine   Encirclement of Rovno Imminent; Samy Rail City Under 2-Way Drive

SOVIETS DRIVE 26 MILES INTC FORMER POLANL   Strong Indications That German Armies on Eastern Front Have Been Split.

, Vital Sarny Rail Junction Under Two-Way Attac! As German Armies Are Split; 5th Closes On Cassino   (BULLETIN)

LANDSLIDE OF SETBACKS FOR NAZI FORGES   Key Rail Junction of Sarny In Poland Attacked By Soviet Troops.

Threatening to kucircle Royno, Axis Capital      Soviet Spearheads Only 20 Miles From OdessaWarsaw Line *

NAZIS SAY FOE NOW 62 MILES IN OLD POLAND   Berlin Adntits Deep Gain:  and “Probable” Fall ot Sarny, Important Railroad Junction.

Russian Army Attacking Key Rail Junction Of Sarny From Two Sides. Fighting Rages Also In Dnieper Bend Area.

NAZIS ADMIT FRONT SPLIT IN POLAND   Landslide of Axis Setbacks Is Acknowledged

NAZI ADMITS REDS HAVE ENTERED 62 MILES IN POLAND   Stockholm Hears German Army Has Been Split, Sarny, Rail Junction, Has Probably Been Lost.   22 JAP BARGES WITH SUPPLIES DESTROYED   Medium Bombers Operating In Marshall Islands Sink Two Jap Vessels With Increase In Raids.

Labor ‘Draft Plan Viewed  Dead Issue   House Military Committee Pigeon-Holes Proposal Made hve. FDR

Shelve National Service Proposal   Believe F. D. R. Move Was Made Too Late

House Puts Draft Bill ‘On Sidetrack   WHILE. INFLUENTIAL POLITICIANS AVER THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IT COULD HAVE BEEN PASSED

Labor Draft Plan Accorded Upset By House Grour  Little Life Left In’ Presi os eee ee Se ee   Little Life Left In’ Presi dent's National Seryice Aim

Labor Draft Proposal Shelved   House Committee Pigeon-Holes Matter

Way Paved For Leap Towards Philippines   Secret Weapon Used On Tinian Against Japanese Troops

Making Plans For Leap to Philippines   Fighting Men Under Nimitz Use New Secret Weapon

American Warships Again Anchored in Apra Harbor, Guan   New “Fearful” Secret Weapon Aidsin Re capture of Island

Make Ready For Hop to Philippines.   U.S. Successes g, Pave Way for New Operations; Secret _ Weapon Effective

American Flag Flies Over Guam   Warships and Planes Ar Using Island Again; New Blows Near Philippines   SECRET WEAPON USED IN TINIAN   ‘One of Most Fearful Instruments of Death From America’s Arsenal’

. Varied Pacific Attacks Keep ” Japs Mystified  Nimitz, MacArthur > Blows Apparently. Aimed Ase rr.

READY ATTACK ON PHILIPPINES   Hit Isle Near Mindinao; Yank Secret Weapon Used On Tinian

Pacific Forces Lay Foundation For New, Powerful Blows At Philippines

Devastating Secret Weapon Wiping Oui  Japanese on Guam   U.S. Warships Anchor in Apra,  Planes Use Orote Airlield as Vanke feruny Inctallatiance

Jap Troops  In Hengyang  _ But Nips Are Handed  Poundinas By Allies

Blast Road Toward  Philippines   Allied Air and ‘Sea Forces Hammer Jap Island Bases; Guam And Tinian Fall Near

—PACIFIC—  JAPAN'S ISLANDS ARE UI. §, TARGET!   New Secret Weapon Lay ing Foundation For Philippine Leap

‘Truly Fearful’ New Secret Weapon in Use; Land, Air Progress Stepped Up

NEW LEAP IN PACIFIC IMMINENT   “Yanks Use Fearful New Secret Weapon, Widespread Attacks

Jap Bases Over Wide Area Are Hit   Nips Break into Hengyang; ‘New Secret Weapon Used to Bottle Up Japanese on Tinian

Pacific Commanders Lay Foundation For New Drives Toward Philippines

CONTINUE RAIDS FOR LIBERATION OF PHILIPPINES   Powerful New U. S. Secret Weapon Aids Yanks on Tinian

PREPARE FOR LEAP   Philippine Islands May Be the Next Target in the Pacific ;

U.S, WARSHIPS READY 10 HIT PHILIPPINES   Secret Weapon Is Successfully Used On Guam

New Pacific Leap ls Taking Shape   Nimitz, MacArthur Aim at Philippnes

Philippines Next, Warlords Hint As Bases Readiet  Japs Bottled Up On Tinian by ‘Secret Weapon’

NEW PUSHIN PACIFIC, SUCCESS WITH NEW SECRET WEAPON, OPEN VAY FOR LEAP AT PHILIPPINES

Attacks Made From Tinian-New Guinea 1,300 Miles South   ‘American Warships Lay at Anchor In Guarn’s Apra Harbor

MANY TARGETS IN PACIFIC WAR   Commanders. Lay Foundations for New Leap Toward Philippines.   NEW WEAPON IS ‘USED

YANKS CAPTURE MAIN TOWN ON TINIAN ISLAND   ‘Truly Fearful’ Secret Weapon Used Against Nips; Navy Anchors in Guam Harbor

Japs on Tinian First to Feel Sting of New Product of U. S. Arsenals; Main Town of Island Now in Yank Hands—But 5,000 Still to Be Exterminated; Warships at Anchor in Guam Harbor

FOUNDATIONS LAID FOR LEAP TO PHILLIPPINES   Fearful New Secret Weapon Used Against Japs; Nips Take Hengyang.

Yanks Push To Philippines   Blows by Army and Navy Pove Way for Conquest of Islands

Sixth War Loe Drive Is i in bal Swingin Douglas: : ‘County  ay rl   HOUSE TO HOUSE SALES:

CAMPAIGN TO SELL BONDS IS STARTED   Sixth War Loan Drive Is in Full Swing in Douglas yunty 7   HOUSE TO HOUSE SALES

BATTLE WAVES W ICY COLD ON FALSE CALL   Respond To Fake Report  Four Men Adriég  In Lake

150 Mobilized: Searchers Fight Storm And Ice   Reserves Are Alerted Here; Checkup Shows No Boat Missing

NAZI THRUSTS ARE BROKEN UP   Decisive Round Awaited In Beachhead Battle

Combatants Prepare for  Third Round   Germans’ Second Attempt to Clear Beachhead Fails

Fighting Is Confined to Air Sorties   Patrol Clashes Only Ground Activity Reported on Beachhead

FIGHTING SLACKENS IN ITALY   Expect Germans ta Make’ ‘3rd Attenipt To Regain Beachhead

LULL IN ANZIC BATTLE; TIRED ARMIES REST   Believe Troops Massing For Third Struggle On Beachhead

Italy Fight  Abates as Armies Tire   Allies And Nazis Mass  For Decisive Round of Battle

Ground Fighting Slackens All Along Italian Battlefront   Allied and German Troops Make Ready for Third ‘and Possibly Decisive Round for Anzio Reachhead

ARMIES TAKE BREATHER ON ITALY FRONT   Mass Troops For Third Round of Bloody Struggle

Fight Slackens Along Entire Italian Front   Weary Allied, Nazi Armies Mass Troops  For Decisive Clash

FIGHTING IN  ITALY SLOWED UP AS ARMIES MASS TROOPS   Three Sharp Local Actions Fought Around Aprilia

Foe Driven Into Corner Of Cassine   (Services Admit Tragic Error in Which  U.S. Gunners Blasted Own Troop Planes

A-A GUNNERS’ TRAGIC ERROR CONFIRMED BY ARMY AND. NAVY   NO ‘CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY PLANNED INTO ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING DOWN OF TROOP  TRANSFORTS

500,000 SPOILED FGGS ARE SEIZED   EMBARGO PUT ON SHIPMENTS RECEIVED BY U. S. AGENCY AT SPRINGFIELD.

GOVERNMENT OWNED EGGS ARE EMBARGOED   Half Million Are Considered Unfit For Human Consumption By Missouri Official

Election Officials and Reporters. Fail To Agree on F. D. R. Profanity

No Profanity By Roosevelt At the Polls   Election Officials Deny it was Used As Machine Jammed

DENY FR USED ANY PROFANIT)   Election Officials Say President Did Not Cuss While Voting.

DENY STORY FDR USED PROFANITY   Election Officials Did Not Hear Remark Laid To President —

DENIES FOR USED PROFANE WORDS   Polls Workers Heard No Profanity or Nothing at All, Declare; Reporters, Claim Remark Overheard

Nazis. Greatly Satisfied By Robot Bombs, Already Dying Out As Good Weapor

Hog Markets  Are Glutted By Big Run   Receipts at East St, Louis May Reach 40,000; Anotner Embargo Likely   SHORTAGE OF HELP RESTRAINS PACKERS   Today's Shipments Near 1915 High; Kansas City Has a Big Run

National Stockyards Glutted Today by Tremendous Run of 33,000 Hogs

FEARS HOLLAND WILL BE FLOODED   DUTOH PREMIER SAYS GERMANS ARE PREPARING TO DESTROY SEAWALLS,

ALLIES RUSHING ON IN ATTEMPT TO CATCH NAZIS   German Rout in Italy Now Described Officially as a ‘Catastrophe’

ALLIES 50 MILES ~ NORTH OF ROME   Enemy Forces Fleeing So Fast  They Can Not Be Cauaht   PLARK'S TROOPS CAPTURE AGED CITY OF TUSCANIA

Allies Overtake Fleeing Germans, Run Into Hastily Prepared Gun Nests

Clark’s Fifth  Army Moving  To The North   Pursue Fleeing Nazi Forces Fifty Miles Above Rome

Clark’s Men Race After Fleeing Nazis On 50 Mile Front: Catastroph:

GERMANS HALT ROME RETREAT 10 RESIST FOE   Give Battle to Albis After Race 40 Miles North of City

German 14th Fleeing North fo Mountains   Disorgenized Units Finally Make Stand Far North of Rome

Allies Finally Catch Retreating Foe   Sizable Action Opens Up Saturday Night

Fitth Army Catches Up With Nazis   Battle Joined In Italy, But Allies Say Rout Now A “Catastrophe”

German Force: In Italy Face "Catastrophe’   Fifth Army Speeds Unopposed on Front 50 Miles Wide, Fail To Catch Fleeing Foe

Rout Called Catastrophe   Averaging 15 Miles a Day, Allies Rush North In Italy, Cutting Up Nazi 14th Army

Nazi Rout in Italy Is ‘Catastrophe’  Clark Advancing at Average Speed of . “15 Miles Per Day®

Tuscania Captured; Battle Develops At Viterbo Above Rome   Nazi ldth Army Hesitates In Flight After Endangering Flank Of 20th Luftwaffe Field Division From Denmark  By Distant Retreat

Shaken Nazis Turn On Fast Yank Column  Other Towns Fall To Speeding Fifth

PURSUING STH CATCHES UP WITH FLEEING GERMAN ARMY   Desperate Rearguard Action Fought As Clark Brings Beaten Foe To Bay

Allies Run Into Maze Of German 88-Millimeter, Anti-Tank Guns; Rapid Advance North Slowed

YANKS oO MILES NORTH OF ROME: PUSH UNOPPOSEL   Rout of Germans Is Complete — Enemy Troops Fleeing So Fast They Cannot Be Caught.   TUSCANIA OCCUPIED BY CLARK’S FORCES   Bag of Prisoners Believed to Total More Than 22,000— Airmen Continue to Bomb Foe.

Nazis Make Stand 40 Miles From Rome as:Pursuers   Meet Hot Anti-Tank Fire

German Army Makes Stand In North Italy  ~— Turn From Catactranhic Raetra:   Nazis Turn From Catastrophic Retreat To Combat Allies

ADVANCE NOW IS 30 MILES BEYOND ROME   ALLIES AVERAGE 15 MILES A DAY IN BROAD FRONT

(Germans halt race for fight   Fifth army runs into maze of fire

eaten 14th rmy Makes antic Stand   rmans Throw Heavy Artillery into Effort to Stop Pursuing Allies

GERMANS IN BALTIC AREA FACING DEATH   oviet Forces Break Through Enemy Lines Below Lake Pskov.

All Organized Jap Resistance Comes to End   Enemy Fighting Hard on Peleliu

Marines Hold Half  of Peleliu   Yanks Hold Most of Angaur; Philippines Get Big U. S. Air Blow

ANGUAR ISLAND {5 - HELD BY INFANTRY   Conquest of Little Island ~ Completed Tuess dav

Japs About Finished on Two Isles   Most All of Peleliu and Anguar in Hands of Doughpoys and Marines   MEDIUM BOMBERS, RAID PHILIPPINES   Navy Announces Loss of Submarine and Two Other Ships

UNION HEADS AT CHRYSLER PLANT OUSTED   Removed by Exec Board; Violated No-Strike Pledge

GAINS OF TWO MILES MADE IN NEW ATTACKS   General Movement Toward * Reich Territory Made Along Entire Front

SECRETARY HULL PLEDGES REVENGE ON JAP CRIMINALS    Government Gathering All Data on Treatment of. U. § Pricanarce

Hull Says U. 5. Knowns Criminals   Gathering Facts To Be Used In Punishing Japs

U. S. Government Breaks Censorship Heretofore Maintained On Almost Unbelievable Reports Coming Out Of Pacific To Tell What Happened To Many Men Who Battled Enemy In Philippines—Secretary Hull Says Nipponese Criminals Will Be Punished

NIP TORTURERS WILL BE TRIED   [Hull Gathers Information On Atrocities to Bring Japs to Justice

U.S. Checking Up ‘On War Criminals   Information Being Gathered Looking Toward Punishment

Thousands of U. 3., Filipino Prisoners Die in Filthy Camps   SUY WAR BONDS

Army-Navy Report Tells What Happened To Heroe: Of Bataan, Corregidor

DOCUMENT TALE REVEALS INSTANCES OF AXIS BARBARITY AGAINST FILIPINOS, AMERICANS CAPTURED ON BATAAN, CORREGIDOR; BASED ON SWORN STATEMENTS BY THREE OFFICERS ESCAPED FROM DAVAO

Prisoners Not Getting Supplies   Reports Given Out With No Hope of Supplies Getting Through

Chaplains Killed, Too   Nineteen Killed in Battle, 19 Wounded, Many Decorations Awarded Them

HITLER FACES 3-WAY ATTACK   Smuts Sees Decision In Europe Soon   Says Jap Defeat Not Far Distant

CONG ANTAG ONE GF THREE   smuts Says Issue Will Be Decided by All Fronts

Late Bulletins    Japs Announce British Landina on Nicobar tclee

I  Assault Opened On Island 400 Miles From Philippines; Bombers Attack Truk For First Time

JAPANESE onIPD FLEE FROM ARES   Attack Puts Yanks Within 460 Mile of Philippines   FIGHT CONTINUES   Bombers Blast Truk, De. stroying 49 Planes, Woleai Island Raided

Mighty task force opens heavy attaek  Enemy warships flee from scene

Jap-Held Base Is 460 Miles From Philippines; Enemy Warships Flee   NEW CARRIERS ARE THOUGHT IN ACTION

STRONG NAVAL FORCES REACH JAP DOORSTEP   PHILIPPINES ONLY 460 MILES AWAY; ENEMY FLEES

Attacked By Fleet Force   Spot 1,050 Nautical Miles of Truk and 460 Miles East of Philippines Under Bombardment—Japa- nese Vessels Quickly Flee

Russian Forces Advance Rapidly Upon Sevastopol   Soviet Airmen Forestall Ger. man Attempts At Large Scale Evacuations   SEVASTOPOL CAPTURE BELIEVED NEARING

SCORE GAIN OF fb MILES AND PUSH AHEAD   Airmen Blast Nazi Plans for Crimean “Dunkerque”

46-MILE GAIN DEVELOPED BY SOVIET FORCES   Airmen Forestall German Plans For Large-Scate Crimea Evacuation.

Bataan Prisoners Tortured And Murdered By Japanese   Increase in Wills Attributed to War

Story of How Japs Starved, Tortured And Killed American Soldiers Released

BATAAN’S HEROES TORTURED, SLAIN, - STARVED BY JAPS   srutal Treatment of « American and Filipino Prisoners. of War Revealed by - Army and Navy.   THOUSANDS HAVE DIED IN NIPPONESE CAMPS   Story Comes From Three Officers Who Escaped From Philippines After Being  Held a Year.

Survivors Of Bataan Recount ‘March Of Death’, Jap Brutality And Starvatio

INFLATED RENTALS LED TO RENT CONTROL   Arrangements Bemg Compicied For Registration Of Landlords In Cite And Ceunty

PARIS [SIN Tht MIDST OF CHAOS   Invasion of South France Will Hasten Liberation of Paralyzed City

Aerial ‘Burma Road’ Hailed as Success; U.S. Triples China Transport Tonnage

Planes Carry War Supplies to Front in China   Heavier Tonnage Than Burma Road Reported Freighted

LONDON BACKS SOVIET PEACE REQUIREMENTS   Britain Hopes For Early Cessation Of Hos tilities

Finns A ppear Ready To Get Out of War   Britain Throws Weight Behind Moscow’ s Peace Terms to Finland and Looks for Early Acceptance; Others Might Follow

Finns Frown On Russian Terms   Britain Hopes For Farly Seattlament

RRITISH HOLD HOPES FINNS TO QUIT SOON   London Optimistic Despite Stockholm’s Gloomy Views

Nehraskan Sunil Backs MacArthur  (Tan Rraemnancihi seas   Takes Responsibility in Publishing Letter

Vandenberg Swing From MacArthur To Dewey Hinted   Miller ‘Takes Blame’ For Publishing  General's Letters

Miller Takes MacArthur Letter Blame  Renews Battle FBFoar Nominatnn

Nebraskan Still Backs MacArthur  Takes Responsibility in Publishing Letter

Night Attackers Hit Poison Gas Factory  American Daylight Bombers Are

20 Area Youths Enlist in Air Corps Reserve   Carl M. Axberg One of Group; Called When They Become 18

20 Area Youth: Enlisted in Air Corps Reserve   Five of Group From Bradford; Face Call When They Become 18

SPECIAL SESSION DEMAND REJECTEL   Goodland Against . Reopening Question on Veteran Leaislation.

LE a  Chairman McKellar Opens Broad  Attack On 1. V.A. Administration

BROAD ATTACK ON TVA MADE BY M’KELLAR   Tennessean Accuses Agency o! Rate Discrimination, Chairman of Political Activities

McKellar, Longtime TVA Foe, Lets Agency Have Both Barrels, Charges Discriminations

McKellar’s  Ire Flares   ‘Raps TVA Operation “And Prices Charged

REFINERY EXPLOSION CLAIMS 9 VICTIMS   Cause Of Kansas Blast Undetermined; Many Bodies Burned Bevond Recognition

Russian Army Contracts Dnieper  Pocket From 1,000 to 900 Square  Miles; Annihilate Thousands Of Travped Germans   GERMAN AIRFIELDS RAIDED BY BOMBERS

SLAVS REPULSE JAJCE ATTACK      Surge From Hills to Cut Off Enemy

‘Disengaging’ Say Germans Of Retreat      Withdrawal Acrass Seine is Declared ‘According to Plan’

One Killed In Bus Crash   16 Injured When Jefferson Bus Crashes Into Cement Bridge

SITUATION FOR GERMANS   Believe War Will Not End Until Nagon is Bled White and No Manpower Left to Fight.   Plenty Of Ammunition

War Is Stand, Die Matter for Germans   Nazi Collapse Will Be Quick When the Break Comes

Western Front War Becomes Strictly ‘Sand and Die’ Matter for Germans

Chinese Retake Part of Rail Line,  Falter at Loyang  Allies Report Japs Losing Heavily In Burma Fighting

Japs Pierce Defenses  Of Loyang At 3 Points   But Chinese Report Severing of Jap-Held Hankow-Peiping Road With Suiping’s Capture   ENEMY INVASION:  OF INDIA ‘FAILURE’ Fighting There Shifts As Stilwell Forces Pound Ahead in Burma

Chinese Sever Railway Held By Nipponesc   Enemy Pierces Loyang’s Defenses al Three Places; India Threat Said Abolished

4,316 JAP PLANES DESTROYED SINCE PEARL HARBOR   ‘Only 921 American Planes Lost in Same Time, Says Knox.

4,316 Japanese Planes Downed  By Navy Flyers   No Total Of Those Caught On Ground And On Enemy Carriers

4316 JAP PLANES DESTROVED IN Alf   Others Destroyed on Ground And on Carriers By American Planes.

 SINCE PEARL HARBOR Is Navy, Marine Aviators, Ack-Ack Crews Have Downed 4316 Jan Planes

Soviets Storm Riga Suburbs   Reds Invade Hungary, Axis Reports Say

ALLIES BATTER WY AHEAD IN HARD FICHTINE   Gliders, Surface Craft Land Thousands of Troops in Normandy.

83 Have Wont Medal Of Honor   Rear Admiral Kidd Wa: Awarded Medal Pos thumoaucty

GERMANS MURDERED A MILLION AND A HALF CITIZENS IN LUBLIN, POLAND   RUSSIANS START NEW DRIVE ON WARSAW WITH FOUR DIVISIONS; PARTISAN FORCES STILL HOLDING OUT WITHIN CITY.

Germans Report Fighting ‘Outside Polish Capital; ¢ More Atrocities Revealed

Noose Tightens — In Dnieper Bend   Position of Trapped Nazi Forces Grows More Desperate Every Hour

‘Kirovograd Taken, Red Legions Smash Nearer to Rumania   Troops Within 70 Miles of Line; 75,000 Nazis Racing Rearward As Soviets:Take Last Protective Hub

INVADERS STEM FIERCE COUNTER BLOWS BY NAZIS   Lines Inland From Beaches Still Fluid but Show Good Progress 

INVASION COAST GETS BOMB BLITZ   Big Waves Of Planes Continue Attack All Day

Allied Bombers Making Another Big-Scale Raid   Waves Of Planes Seen Crossing Toward . French Coast   HAD 1,400 TUESDAY   German Loss oss Said To Be Far Greater Than 159 Announced

PLANES RESUME COASTAL RAIDS   Bombers and Fighters Hit France in Big Attack

Yanks Bomb Four Airfields in Rome   Soviets Blast Line at Mozyr and Drive Nazis Into Pripet Marshes

ALLIES RENEW HEAVY BLOWS ON FRENCH TARGETS   Daylight Attack First Since Huge Rattha Tineday

JAP CONVOY Ri ATTACKED BY'N CATALINASE   East of Netherlands East Indies; Cargo Ship Damaged; Liberators Hit Schoutens.   Near Hollandia

Navy Bombers Hit Jap Convo Near Celebes   One of Eight Ships Damaged; Liberators Again Raid Schoutens Timor, Rabaul Blasted

8-SHIP CONVOY HIT BY ALLIES   Patrol Bombers Attack Jap Vessels East Of The Celebes

11 Generals Are Fired or Jailed; 9 Already Dead; Nazis Tighten Control

Court Of Honor Will Inquire Into Attitude Of Generals, Reports German Radio

ToClear Armed Forces Of Hostile Elements   11 Officers, Including Field Marshal, Are Fired or Jailed; Eight Involved In : Plot Against Hitler Already Dead,

Court Set up  To Purge  German Army Will Try Twenty  ‘Traitors’ Hostile

Purge of Nazi Officers Asked   Hitler Approves Demand to Cleanse Forces of Its  : sry" . s* Traitors

Honor Court Purges Army Of Germany   Nine Officers Accused In Hitler Plot Dead; Other Traitors Tried

Nazis Set Up Army Purge Court   Berlin Reports Eleven Officers Dead Or Imprisoned By Special Court of Inquiry

American Raid Expected To Make Japanese Police Tighten Torture Rule Over Islands

MarksEnd Of Black Chapter      Smashing Raid Gives Filipinos New Hope That America Has Will and Power’ to Return:

Yankees, French Pursue Germans North of Lyon   ‘Slight Contacts’ Are Reported With Fleeing Nazi Forces   Germans Resume Rocket Bombing After Lull Following Allied Coastal Drive

TWO NAZI THRUSTS AT ANZIO- COSTLY   HOURS REQUIRED TO RE. MOVE GERMAN DEAD AND ‘WOUNDED SHOT BY YANKS,

-Two Vicious Nazi Stabs At Anzio Beachhead Repulsed  q Nozi Casualties tn Italy Since January 22 tl Do Beate cand Ak hdnce Than 42N0MN

FOE REPELLED ON BEACHHEAD   Two Vicious Nazi Stabs in Carroceto Sector Are Turned Back

Two Small Bul  ‘Vicious German. ~ Slalis Repulse   Enemy. Suffers “Severe pevtoss~it-Puilisig Fe — - “Gain Ground -

Two German Thrusts Are Thrown Baek   German Details Need Two Hours to Clear  Scene of Their Dead

BIG DISPLAY “-{$ DROPPED   WASHINGTON PEOPLE ABOUT  ONLY ONES DISAPPOINTED BY’PLANS FOR SIMPLE  INAUGURATION - .

WLB ENTER OF LIBOR DISPUTE   6,000 Idle In Can Plants: ‘ Glass Workers Threat 1 en Strike

South Pacific Seas Closed To Them, Japs 5a)  Tokyo Acknowledges U.S. Task Forces Are  TT. Stewten!) OF Aras

BABSON DISCUSSES POSTWAR EMPLOYMENT   Thinks Roosevelt’s Plea That ’People Try To Forget New Deal Was Made at Request Of Winston Churchill.

Why Roosevelt Changed Names   ROGER BABSON TELLS OF POST-WAR PROGRAM. INT «

ABANDONMENT OF NEW DEAL IS DISCUSSED BY BABSON   Financial Writer Believes Roosevelt Has Dis. cussed Future of World And Been Influenc.d By Churchill.

GORDON CLARK SUED FOR TAX   $33,558 Claimed By U. S.; D-C Stock and Home Tied Up

Clark Is Sued By Government   Claims $33,558 Due Or 1941 Income Tax

Descriptive Record Kept as 66 Miners Entombed. by Fire in Powhatan Mine Fight for Life and Then frayed for Deliverance.

Letter Tells How 66 Miners Faced Slow ‘Death Bravely After Being Trapped By Fire

Tirpitz Hit By 24 Bombs From Planes   Force Which Knocked Out Ship Cheered On Return

'WILNO ENCIRCLED, ye GARRISON 10  BE ANNIHILATED   Germans Face Double Threat As Soviets Get Set to Attack Fast Prussia.

Reds Within 22 Miles Of ‘Kaunas, Important Base Defending East Prussia

Russian Drive Into Baltics Posed for Double-Barreled Threat Into East Prussia.

Race Is Made to Baitic   Berlin Worried Over Nazi Troops In Baltic States

Mobile Column Sent Toward Kaunas, Final Hedghog Base From Which Nazis Can Defend East Prussia Rorder   BALTIC DRIVE IS DOUBLE THREAT

RREPARING FOR OFFENSIVE BEFORE POLISH PLAINS   Meanwhile, Baltic Campaign Continues to Meet Success.

American First Army Strikes Out In New Drive Before St. Lo; Soviets Push Baltics Offensive

Reds Wage Battle Of Annihilation 0 Germans In Wilno   Moscow Claims Signs Of Nazi Retreat In Estonia, Latvia

Red Column Races Ahead  For Kaunas   Entire East Prussia Frontier Threatened By Soviet Advances

PLAN FRONTAL BLOW AND TRAP IFOR NAZI HORDES   Garrison At Wilno Circled; Annihilation Of Foe Proceeds

Russian Flying Columns Slash Across Lithuania, Race To Trap Germans

WILNO IS ENCIRCLED BY RUSSIANS   Armies Race On Toward Baltic and East Prussia Border

Great Nazi Armies Face Entrapment   Reds Poised for New Dash Across Polish Plains

Wilno Garrison  Encircled  Pose Double Threc Of Frontal Push   Pose Double Threat Of Frontol Push On East Prussia; Trap Many Nazis

Reds Annihilate Nazis Trapped In Wilno Circle   Steamroller Drive: Within 40 Miles Of East Prussia

Rail Center In ltaly Falls To French Troops   French Outflank German Positions In Advance

TRENCH MOUTH CURED   Use of Penicillin Reported Effective im 15 Cases f:

Super Forts Blast Tokyo And Bankok   Washington Says Indus trial And Strategic Targets Hits By Raiders

DOUBLE B-23 STRIKE FROM ) LAND BASES   In Other Aerial Action in Pacific, 30 Japanese Vessels Sunk, 18 Others Damaged.

Airplane Plant On City Suburbs Target of Blast   India-Based Bombers Deliver Attack On Asiatic Stronghold

Bangkok Also Is Raided   Tokyo Waterfront Is Target Today In Superfort Raid

England Halts Lisbon Shipping   Denmark Isolated as Allies, Germany Step Up Preparations for Invasion; King George, Churchill in Conference

Ireland Now Completely Isolated   Copenhagen Camp As Violence, Sshotace Mount

Report Eire Shipping to Lisbon Halted   Denmark Isolated as Both Sides Prepare For Battle

HALT EIRE’S SHIPPING TO LISBON   Move Made By Britain; Nazis Isolate Denmark

Nazis Say Reds Are On March   FIRE’S SHIPPING TO LISBON IS HALTED

Eire-Portugal Shipping Halted   Germany Finishes Isolating Denmark

Agency Defied in War Plant Strike   WLB Summons Agent To Explain Shutdown

Hitler Clamps tron Rule On Occupied Europe; Goering Named Sub-Dictator

Hitler Is Taking Stern Measures To Retain Reich   Oders Full Resources of Occupied hurope Harnessed to Supreme German War Effort  :

Goering ty... -d Sub-Dictator of ‘Occupied Europe   All Personal Rights of Citizens Placed Under Fuehrer’s Powe

GOERING NAMED LORD OF ALL OVERRUN EUROPE   Full Power to ‘Defend’ Reich

DEWEY SPEECH BLASTS SECRET F, D. DIPLOMACY   President Plans Vote Visits To New York, Pennsylvania

PRESSURE ON FINLAND FOR ARMISTICE   Which Would Make Another Ally To Desert Hitler; Disorders in Bulgaria Start, With More Troops Called.   Poles Divided

DROP IN MERCURY WELCOME RELIEF   Pleasant Week-end Forecast: by Weather  Man

DROP IN MERCURY WELCOME RELIEF   Pleasant Week- Week-end Foreeast. by Weather — - Men»

NAGOYA BOMBED BY B-29 FORCE   Planes Fly 1,400 Miles To Plaster Japanese Aircraft Center

Supers Plaster Nagoya 3d Time   U.S. Attackers Meet Heavy AckeAek at Jap Tarert

B:29s Again Hit Nagoya Industries   Romb Aircraft Center For Third Time in Ten Days, Meet  Opposition .

‘Superforts ‘Hit Japanese Plane Plant   Opposition Heaviest Encountered To Date

STRONG FIGHTER DEFENSE PUT UP   Marks Third Time in Ten Days That Superforts Have Flown From Siapan_ to Plaster Jap Aircraft Center

HONSHU ISCE SHAKES UNDER B29 POUNDING   Nagoya, Japan’s PlaneBuilding Center Is Revisited Friday  By Superforts

Russians Lunge Toward Finland   Noted Mannerheim  Line Is Breached  By RUSSELL LANDSTROM Aasociated Press Staff Writer

Soviets Reach Point 40 Miles  From Viipuri   Tanks, Troops Pour Through Breaches in Mannerheim Line

Russians Press For Finn Port   Tanks. Picked Troops Have Helsinki far Goal

Soviet Forces Take Raivola  In Finn Drive   Eight Mile Advance Carries Russians to 40 Miles From Key Port of Viipuri—28 Enemy Planec Are Dawned

Soviet Forces  Take Raivola   Eight Mile Advance Carries Russians to 40 Miles From Key Port of Viipuri—28 Enemy Planes Are Downed

Russian Troops Seize Raivola, 40 Miles From Viipuri, Finnish City   Fighting Through Woods Laced With Lakes, Ree Troops Overrun Kievenapa In Drive For Helsinki

Mannerheim Line Smashed by Reds In 8-Mile Drive   Russians Advance On Finnish Port

Soviets Advance Within 40 Miles Of Viipuri Harbor As  Mannerheim Line Crumbles   Finns’ Second Largest City Is Menaced As Russian Tanks And Picked Troops Overrun Raivola And Kivennapa; Helsinki Government May Resign

Reds Breach Finnish Lines  Eight Mile Advance Made by Soviet Army

SOVIETS HEAD FOR HELSINKI INNEW DRIVE   FINNS STUNNED BY CANNONADING ON KARELIA FRONT

Russians Drive Deeper in Finlang   Capital of Helsinki Is Goal of Soviets

Russians Lunge Toward Finland   Noted Mannerheim Line is Breached

Three Selling Days This Week   Lumberton [Leaf Market Will Close at Knd_ of Friday's Sales.   By Jasper C. Hutto Supervisor Lumberton Tobacc Wark at

Three Selling Days This Week           Lumberton Leaf M Will Close at End + Friday’s Sales.

For Income Tax Strike      War Plant Owner Says Levy Will Bankrupt Business

Urges Business To Save Now For Postwar Reserves  Waman Ratincac   Woman Refuse: To Pay Taxes

WOMAN DEFIES GOVERNMENT ON WAR TAXES   Vivien Kellems, ‘ Westport, Conn., Manufacturer, Calls on Others io Follow Her Example   Assails Pay-As-Go Pian, Charges Work in Prosess Taxed-on Anficipated Profits

DIES CHARGES PAC POLITICAL ABUSES   Urges Attorney General Act Immediately to Correct Situation

Dies Hits ClO Political Action  Federal Action Against CIO. — Committee Sought By Solon

Dies Asks Biddle To Stop Political Abuses by C10   Charges PAC Spending Big Money in Effort To Control Election

Dies Requests Prompt Action InP. A.C. Case   Immediate Steps Asked to ‘Correct’ Political Abuses

Dies Calls On Biddle to Stop P.A.C.   SAYS EVIL DEEDS OF SIDNEY HILLMAN’S GROUP ARE BEING CONTINUED NOW; WATCH ACT VIGLATED   Spending Too Much

PLANES BATTER JAP. CONVOY = HEADED: FOR NEW IRELAND   SIX ENEMY SHIFS SUNK OR DAMAGED AND AIRMEN CON YINVE THEIR ATTACKS 

ALLIES SMASH SIX SHIPS IN RAID ON JAPANESE CONVOY   ‘Enemy Attempt to Reinforce  For Pacific Garrisons Ends in Dicaocter

PLANES BLAST SIX VESSELS IN JAP CONVOY   Furious Air and Sea Battle Continuing, MacArthur Says

NO RAIN PROSPECTS’   Temperatures of 50 te 60 Degrees Expected Tonight

FITZGERALD I$ FOUND GUILTY   Former Clemency Investigator Given $500 Fine, But No Prison Jolt

Fitzgerald Convicted in Payoff Case   Jury Imposes Fine  Of $500; Scheduled To Go to Trial Here March 7 for Bribery

Fitzgerald s Found Guilty   Jury Sets Fine at $500; Ardmore Trial Set March 7

Naz! Stronghold of Kamenets Podulsk Taken by Russians   Most of Ukraine Recovered in Time For Spring Planting

DEWEY CLAIMS GOP WIN WILL HELP FARMERS   New Deal Exploits Its Farm Pro gram For Polucal Profit. Says

Dewey Outlines G.0.P. Program For Agriculture   Says Administration Has Played Politics With U. S. Farming

DEWEY OFFERS 10-POINT FARM PROGRAM OF COP   Says’ Republican Vic tory Will Safeguard From Price Fluc tuations

FDR, New Deal Exploit Farm Policy: Dewey   GOP Nominee Charges Politics Governing Avriculture Laws

Dewey Promises To Restore ‘Independence’ Of Farmers   Says F. D. Rule Exploited Farm Program For Political Gain

STABLE FARM PRICES, FREEDOM FROM CONTROL PLEDGED BY DEWEY   PROGRAMS EXPLOITED FOR POLITICAL PROFIT, CANDIDATE SAYS; REPEATS BICKERING CHARGE

ECONOMY OF NEW DEAL Is CHALLENGED   Governor Dewey Claims Administration Has Exploited Farm Programs.

Dewey Charges FR Exploitation of Farm Program      Says GOP Victory Would Guard Against  Price Fluctuations —

CROUALTIES Gf OVER 311 00   Cost in Men in This War Far Exceeds 278,828 Total Of World War 1.

CASUALTY FIGURES TOP WORLD WAR    Two Hemisphere Battle Costs Nation 63,000 in Dead, 250.000 Wounded

Casualties Of U. S. Forces Now 311,677   Hemispheric Wars Boost Total Far Above That  For Last War

BATTLE DEATHS REACH 63.000   Over 311,000 On List 0: U. S. Dead, Wounded, Missing

American Losses In War Now Exceed 311,000  New Total Includes 63,000 Killed  Qn Variaizce Erante

U.S. TOLL TOPS WAR  FIGURE   American Casualties Now Total 311,000, With 63,000 Killed

U.S. Casualties Up To 311.000   More Than 63.000 Dead. Cost In Men Exceeds World War  Total.

CLOSING TRAP ON NAZIS AT RIVER'S BEND   Germans Disorganized at Rear of Their Defense Lines.—Allies Taking Many Prisoners.   COST MOUNTS

Casualties of U. S. 311,000   Of This Number More Than 63,000 Are Dead, It Is Announced

Battle Casualties Over 311,000 Mark   Far Exceed Total For U. S. During Last War

[WO JIMA ISLE HARDEST HIT IN SINGLE ATTASK   Large Air Armada, Warships Bombard Bases in Bonin Group

BLAST JAPS AT [WO JIMA FROM SEA AND AIR   Coordinated Attack Dim. inishes Threat to U. S. B-29 Bases

SLOW UP IWO JIMA   Jap Threat to Saipan Given Jolt By Air and by Warships

Pour Destruction On Jap Bases   Vil sup OUSCS  Accurate Bombing  Removes Threat to Salman Airctrine

Iwo Jima Given Severe Pounding   Ships and Planes Batter Jap Base for Raids on Saipan

BOMBERS POUND JAP AIR STRIP   108 Liberators Smash Isle Eight Mile Square

Raid Lessens Isle’s Threat   Heavy ‘Pounding Handed Iwo Jima By U. S. Sea dnd Air Forces  Clears B-29 Route —

Iwo-Jima Crushed By Joint Sea and Air Fleet Assault   Liberators and Superforts Pour Fearsome Bomb Loads On Island; Admiral Smith’s Task Force Pound Targets From Offshore.

AMERICANS ADVANCE 40) MILES UP RHONE   Cut German Army To Pieces In Dash Up Valley; Fleeing Nazi Units Suffer 15,000  Caanaltiag

AMERICANS CLOSE IN’ ON LYON   15,000 German Troops Seized In Advance To Montelimar

10 Mile Drive Between Coast And Lyon To Montelimar   AIRMEN SLAUGHTER FLEEING GERMANS  Americans Closing In On Lyon Which Is Held By French Patriots

Allies Stop Two Attacks On Adriatic Battlefront   Bad Weather Cuts Bombing Activity

Allied Troops Repulse Nazis Along Adriatic   Bad Weather Wimits “Ais Operations, No Enemy Planes Seen;.Four Axis  Vessels Sunk

Allies Repulse German Attacks   Bad Weather Limits Air Operations In Adriatic Sector

ALLIED TROOPS REPULSED TWO GERMAN DRIVES   Most Sectors Are Quiet; Allies Sink Shins

‘New Life’ Urged For lowa Schools   Teachers Hear Code Revision Explained

Forces Within 170 Miles of Rabaul MacArthur Says   Americans Overpowe: Light Opposition on Landings

Marines Tighten Squeeze on Jap  Base of Rabaul  New Landing Puts Americans 10 Miles Closer to Key Point

Los-Negros. in Adimiralties ' Now Under U. 8.-Coiiréal; Airdrome Ready [or Use

Congress May Act For Pointless Pork   Midwest Group Demands Temporary Relief

Midwestern Congressmen Serve Notice Of Drive to Free Pork From Rationina

All of U.S. Wants FDR, Solon Says   “Average Man” Insists Or Draft For Fourth Term, Easterners Told

Beaten Enemy Remnants  Flee to Hills   MacArthur Reports Battle Rapidly Drawing to an End

‘Organized Jap Pas  Resistance On ‘Leyte Crushed  ATs... Dlw*°o.   Nips Fleeing Into Hilly Country

BLACK SEA PORT FALLS TO SOVIETS   Constanta Was Base Of Fleet; Russ Near Ploesti

CAVE-IX WERECKS ROILDING   Corn, Soy Beans, Garden Produce Hit by Drought in Mid-West

Spotty Rains Not Enough toSaveCrops   CORN BELT SUFFERS SEARINC TEMPERATURES AND VICTORY GARDENS ARE TOTAL LOSSES IN MANY STATES.   More Showers Predicted

Yank Flier Likes To Raid Nazis  Finding Observers To Ride With Him Problem—Allied Air Attack Right on Time

NEW CRISIS IN POLISH QUESTION   Premier Mikolajczyk Resigns and Blasts Hope of London-Lublin Ac cord.

MORE PILOTLESS PLANES DOWNED BY BRITISH GUN   ‘Many Wrecked Before They  Could Land—Launching He Runwavs are Hit.

ENGLISH GUNS ROAR DEFIANCE AT NEW NAZI ROCKET PLANE RAID   ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE HEAVIEST SINCE BRITAIN BATTLE, BELIEVE WEAPON POSES LITTLE THREAT

Many Nazi Robots Knocked Down By Fighters and Ack-Ack; Nazis Hint U.S. to be Next Super-Rocket Target

Himmler Orders Roundy Of Half Jews in Latest Search for Scapegoats

CANADIANS DRIVE TO ELIMINATE NAZI TROOPS BLOCKING PORT OF ANTWERP   British 2nd Army Pushes Offensive

IRON WORKS WILL LAUNCH ANOTHER DESTROYER MAY 25   U.S.S. Robert  H. Smith Named for Captain

Mrs. Smith Will Sponsor Destroyer  Warship Will Ba Named For Copt. Robert H.  . ith, USN ,

Krivoi Rog Fall To Soviet Forces Believed Near   Russian Troops Draw Steel Ring Virtually Around Great Iron Ore City   BATTLE FOR CITY RAGES UNABATED

KRIVOl ROG FALL LOOMS AS REDS FORGE IRON RING   Sanguine House to House ~ Fighting Marks Battle for Ore City

KRIVO! ROG'S CAPTURE NEAR   Russians Tighten Ring of Steel   Nazis Lose 97,200 In Northern Russia

BITTER BATTLE RAGES WITHIN IRON ORE CITY   100 Towns Fall As Two Armies Tighten Pincers On Pskov Junction

Nazis, Allies Visit French Inn for 'NightcapBeforeReturningtoFoxholes

SALOON IN NO-MAN’‘S LAND   Yanks Come Back in High Spirits From Night Patrols in Normandy

Formosa Hit Again, Jap Radio Says   Advance by Allied Forces in Burma  Also Reported

FORMOSA RAIDED BY ALLIES, JAPS CLAIM   Feint Toward Mainland Hinted In Tokyo Broadcast

JAPS SAY ALLLIES BOMB FORMOSA   Yanks Also Knock Out One of Rabaul’s Air Fields.

Allies Bomb 2 Jap Bases On Formosa, Feint af Japan   Second Raid Reported by Tokyo; Held To Be ‘Solely for Propaganda Purposes‘

China-Based Planes Bomb  Formosa   Allied Airmen Strike Close to Fnemy Homeland

Allies Make New Raid On Formosa: Batter Jap Held Airfield At Rabaul

NIPS REPORT AIR RAID ON FORMOSA   Admit Damage to installations At Two Bases

RIDGE GUARDING KOHIMA SEIZED “BY ALLIED UNIT   Greatest India-Burma Front ® Battle Ends; Junction Effected

JAPS LOSING ~~ INDIA HOLD   ENEMY DEFEATED IN’ BIGGEST BATILE OF INVASION AND FORCED FROM Ko.  M UMA: RIDGES

Dratt-Dewey Move Is Hinted   Door Is Edged Open At Chi. cago G. O .P. Committee Session Is Belief   REPORT WILLKIE TO THROW HIS HAT IN

‘DRAFT DEWEY" ~ MOVEMENT IS TAKING FORM   NO ORGANIZED EFFORT EX PECTED AT CHICAGO GOP MEETING, BUT STRENGTH  15 GROWING

DEWEY TO BE AVAILABLE FOR NOMINATION   Hints Dropped at Session of Republican National Committee

Door Edged Open at Chicago for Dewey Draft; Sentiment for New Yorker High

Nine Killed In Wreck In California   Locomotive And Ten Cars Leave the Rails

SPEEDING TRAIN WRECK KILLS 9   More Than 80 Injured On Challenger Bound For Frisco

Nine Killed In Wreck of Crack Train   ‘More Than 80 Injured   As S.P. “Challenger” Leaves Tracks in__  California

TRAIN WRECK KILLS NINE IN CALIFORNIA   More Than 80 Hurt Wher “Challenger” Crashes When Sneeding

CALIFORNIA TRAIN WRECK KILLS NINE   More Than 80 Others Injured as 10 Cars Leave Rails on Mountain Curve.

Wreck Kills Nine Near Colfax, Cal.   Southern Pacific  Train Is Derailed

Red Cross Drive Starts March 20 In This County      DICKINSON COUNTY ASKED TO RAISE QUOTA OF $8,600.00

PATROLS CROSS DANUBE RIVER AND CAPTURE CITY NINE MILES FROM YUGOSLAVIAN CAPITOL

BATTLE NAZIS IN OUTSKIRTS OF BELGRADI   /Tito’s Partisan Troops Possibly Will be First to Enter Liberated Yugoslav Capital.

SOVIET, SLAV TROOPS FIGHI IN OUTSKIRTS   Forces To South Send Patrols Across Danube River

BATTLE RAGES IN BELGRADE DIST.   RED TROOPS CROSS DANUBE RIVER FROM CAPTURED PANCEVO

Allies F ight in Belerade Suburbs 4   Soviets, Yugoslavs Cross To South Bank Of Danube

RUSSIAN-YUGOSLAY TROOPS FIGHT NAZIS BELGRADE OUTSHIRTS  MARSHAL TITO’S TROOPS EXPECTED BE FIRST EN-

PATROLS REACH DANUBE ACROSS FROM BELGRADE   Soviets Also Battling Near Szeged, Hungary's Second City

RUSSIANS NEAR BELGRADE: REDS OUTEIGHT NAZIS   Eastern Front Action Still Unreported

Baile in Belgrade Suburbs   Russians and Yugoslav Troops Gathering Strength For Final Assault   REDS ALSO PUSH TOWARD HUNGARY   Conquest of the Hitler Storehouse Ranks High In Soviet Stratecy

Reds, Partisans Carry Battle to City of Belgrade   Tito’s Forces May Be First to Enter Capital; Hungary !: Chief Soviet Goal

ALLIES FIGHT TO OUTSKIRTS OF BELGRADE   Soviets and Slavs Reported Crossing River; Partisans Expected to Be First in City. -

Red Troops ‘In Outskirts Of Belgrade   Yugoslav Patriots Due To Be First Formally To Enter Capital.

RED SOLDIERS DRAW CLOSER TO BELGRADE   Yugo-slav Partisans, Soviet Troops, Reach Outskirts of Capital

Tito’s Followers Inside City Claimed Ready To Strike At Nazi Enslavers

REDS FIGHT IN SUBURBS OF BELGRADE   Front Dispatches Indicate  Patrols Have Crossed  ' to the South Bank of the  Danube River From Cantured Pancevo.

—RUSSIA— YUGOSLAVS HELP RUSSIAN ATTAGK   Tito’s. Forces May Be _First To Enter Fortified. Old City .,   ‘FALL IS NEAR   Other’ Red Forces Less Than 30 Miles From Key Hungarian City

Belgrade Is Goal Of the Red Army   Allied Troops Are Fighting in Outskirts of Yugoslav Capital   IN VICINITY OF NIS

Yugoslays And Reds Slugging Against Nazis   indicated Russian Patrols Have Crossed the South Bank of Danube From Captured Pancevo   Soviets Nearing . Hinigary’s Szeged   Conquest: of Hungarian Nation First Prierity Ob-jective of Premier Stalin’s Armies

Tito’s Troops May Be First To Enter Liberated Capital   Civilians Ready To Turn On Foe   Reds Gain Control Over Central Ridge Of Carpatho-l kraine Sector

YUGOSLAVS ARE NEAR NIS, CLAIM   South Bank Of Danube Crossed By Patrols Of Soviet Forces

Russian, Yugoslav Troops Attacking Belgrade Borders  Marshal Tite's Army Expected To Lead Entry Into Capital

Allied Forces Battle Foe At Belerade   Russian and Yugoslav Patrols Cross South Bank of Danube

MARSHAL TITO'S TROOPS BE FIRST TO ENTER CITY   Patrols Have Crossed To South Bank Of Danube, Less Than Nine Miles From  Belgrade.

Reds and Tito At Oustirts  Of Belarade   Believed That Yugoslav Army of Liberation Will Be First  . to Enter City; Gain on Hungarian Capital

a MILES FRU BELGRADE NOV   Dispatches Indicate Patrols Have Crossed South Bank of Danube.

German Reign of Terror In Belgrade Nears An End   Soviet and Yugoslav Troops  Are in Outskirts of «the City

Patrols Cross To South Bank Of Danuhe   From Pancevo   Partisans: Fighting . With Russian Army.

Reds Reach Outskirts Of Belgrade   Tito's Forces Ready to Storm Into Capital

Partisans To Be First In Belgrade   Honor to Tito’s Forces When City Falls; Russo-Yugoslav Units Fight in Outskirts

Belgrade Fall Near; Szeged \s Imperilled   Russian and Yugoslav Troops Fighting in Outskirts of Capital

Russians And Yugoslavs Fight Nazis In Belgrade   Advancing Troops Now In Outskirts; Conquest Of Hungary Mav Also Be Near

RUSSIANS FIGHT NAZI FORCES AT BELGRADE FDCE   Believe Tito’s Army to Be 1st to Enter Capital Formally

Other Red ‘Troops Near Szedeg In Major Drive In Hungary Toward Germanv.

YUGOSLAVS AND * REDS IN DRIVE FOR BELGRADE   = Tito’s Forces May Be First to Enter City — Fighting In Outskirts

Reds, Yugoslavs Reach Suburbs Of Belgrade   But Conquest Of Hard"Pressed Hungary Given Priority.

Belgrade Fall  Believed Near   Russians, Yugoslavs Cross Damibe in Outskirts of Capitol

Climax Near In Red Drive _ For Belgrade   Russians, Yugoslavs Wight Germans in ‘Outskirts; Shell Suburbs   BY DANIEL DE LUCE

ALLIED SLAVS NOW 3 MILES FROM CAPITA   Tite Expected to Be Firs’ Formally to Enter Besieged City.

REDS BATTLE “IN. OUTSKIRTS OF BELGRADE   Heavy Artillery Shells : Nazis In Capital   Suburbs

Russian and Yugoslav Forces Are Closing in on Belgrad and Increase Pressure on Hungary While British Invasion of Greece Threatens To Cut off Escape of Germans

SCAPING GAG AFFECTS 1,000   About 150 Victims of Chlorine Gas Still Being Treated.

1,000 TOPPLE BY GAS IN EAST   People Dropped ‘Like Flies’ By Chlorine In Brooklyn

Total Of 1,000 Striken By Escaping Chlorine Gas   150 Still Under Treatment In Hospitals; No Deaths Reported

Fumes Fell Hundreds   Escaping Chlorine Gas ends New Yorkers to Hospitals; No Deaths

Begin Inquiry Into Brooklyn Mass Gassing   About 195 Victims Of Escaping Chlorine Are Still In Hospitals.

Nazis Jump On Hungary From South   Clashes of Armed Forces  Along Borders.

FRANCE TARGE] OF MULTIPLE  AIR RAIDS   Allied Day Bombers Follow 2-Way Blows Staged During Night

FAIR PLAIN 10 DEBATE STATUS   Ponders Incorporation As Village or Becoming  Part of B. H.

Call Fair Plain Mass Meeting Friday Night   Community Problems Will Be Up For  Niecuceian

G. O .P. WILL MEET   Columbiana County Executive Committee Plans Friday Been hace

G. O .P. WILL MEET   Cclumbiana County Executive Committee Plans Friday Session

ALLIES TO BE KNOWN AS LIBERATORS   Will Invade Germany; Liberate Other Countries

Blizzard Hits Plains Area   Forecast Sub-Zero Weather After Snow

Science Comes  to Aid of U. S. Soldier  Telephone Official Tells af Meny

Science Comes to Aid of U. S. Soldier  Telephone Official Tells of Many New Development:

Midwest Hazard To Fourth Term: Wallace Hopes Condition Willlmprove

WALLACE ADMITS MIDWEST HAZARD 10 FOURTH TERN   Believes Sentiment Will  Swing to Roosevelt,   fd msesmisee

¥. S. Officials in Fear of Split   BRITISH AND RUSSIAN ARGUMENT IS PROBLEM

ALLIED RIFT AFTER WAR A . S. FEAR   American Officials Mildly Apprehensive of Events After Reich Falls, Partitularly in BritishSoviet Relations.

Str ong o Postwar Rela ‘tionships Are Stressed   Americans Apprehensive Over Possible Weakening In Allied Cooperation

Weakening of Cooperation an Allied Problem   Relations Between Russia and Britain a Problem for U. S. Diplomacy

MANY GRAV DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS ‘CAUSE AMERICAN OFFICIALS NEW WORRIES AS TO POST WAR UNITY

GENERAL WEAKENING ALLIED RELATIONS GIVING SOME STUDY  POLISH SITUATION PUTS STRAIN ON BRITISH ANI  RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP

Rift Over Poland. A Worry to U.S.   A Worry 10 U.o. Fear Weakening of Allied Co-operation if  a  en” eee 

Polish Issue Fans Old Suspicions U. S. Fears Weakening Of Russo-British Ties

Apprehensive Lest Allied Cooperation Should Weaken   Highest American Diplomatic Aim Is To Preserve Unity In Coming Critical Period

American ‘Officials - See Some Discord Between Russia,  Britain, U. S.

American Officials Have Slight-Fear Cooperation — Among AlliesMay Weaken

U, S, OFFICIALS FEAR LET DOWN IN COOPERATION   As European Wa Nears End, Appre hension Grows A;  To British - Russiar  Relations.

LACK OF UNITY WORRIES ULS.   Diplomats Note General Weakening of Allied  Cooperation

U.S. Uneasy Over: Clash   Conflict Over. Poland Highlights Difficulties Besetting Allied Unity

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Germans Retreat From Krivoi Rog Toward Bug River   Russian Premier  Praises Red Army. On 26th Anniv cae

Filled With Thousands Of German Dead, Krivoi [Rog Falls to Russians

Nazis in Retreat From Krivoi Rog   Three Fourths of Red Territory Is Freed

NAZIS RETREAT WESTWARD OUT OF KRIVOI ROG   Russians - Report Foe Suffered Enormous Losses in Manpower and Equipment   REDS NEAR PSKOV   Berlin Reporis Iron City ‘Evacuated’ After Demolition Squads Left Nothing but Ruins

NAZIS FLEE TOWARD THE ~— BUG RIVER   Stalin, Announcing Recovery of 75 Per Cent of Territory, Says German War Machine on Verge of Defeat.

NAZI RETREAT TOWARD BUG RIVER STARTS   Bloody Ejection from Krivoi Rog Followed by German Move Back To ward Carpathians

Nazis Fall Back Along Bug River   Fall of Krivoi Rog One  Of Major Blows Struck  So Far in Conflict 

Pursue Fleeing Nazis After Capture Of Krivoi Rog   xk k wk Ok, Stalin’s Message

NAZIS LOSING   Stalin Says Foe Driven trom Three-Fourths of Occupied Soviet Territory.

Krivoi Rog Defenders Are Routed   Soviet Has Made Great Gains During Past Year of Warfare

Nazis Still Are Headed  For Escape   Stalin Points Out Great Record Of Reds In Year

Nazi Troops Routed From Big Iron Center Of Krivoi Rog Move Toward The Bug River

Enemy Suffers Great Losses, Stalin Claim   Germans Driven Out Of Major Territory Held Since Invasion Back In 1941   Mop Up Khalm Area

Withdrawal Follows Defeat At Krivoi Rog   Russians Recover Three-Fourths Of Invaded Soil

GERMAN TROOPS / ‘FROM KRIVO! ROG  > ARE RETREATING   Moving Westward Toward the Bug River, a Soviet Communique Said..   IS A MILITARY PRIZE   jEnemy Has Suffered - Heavy Losses in Manpower and Equipment, Report.

REDS FORCING GERMANS BACK T0 BUG RIVER   Nazis Are Losing Much Equipment And Supplies

Germans Flee As Krivoi Rog Falls to Reds   Great lron Center Captured by Soviets After Long Siege

NAZIS RETREAT TO BUC RIVER   Reds Retake Krivoi Rog; Mighty Force Closing In On Pskov

German Troops, Routed From Krivoi Rog, Head West Toward Bua River

Nazis Routed From Krivoi Rog Retreat Toward Bug River   Germans Driven Out of Three-Quarters — of  Land They Took

Three-Fourths of Soviet Territory Freed in One Year   A Westward Advance Of 1,000 Miles in Some Places, Premier Stalin Discloses

Soviet Triumphs Are Recounted In Special Broadcast   Remnants of Routed Enemy, Seeking Safety In Flight, Abandons Many Guns, Mortars, Machine Guns and Trucks   DUMPS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT ARE CAPTURED

Nazi Units Falling Back Toward Bug   Reds Have Won Back Three Fourths of Land Held

Germans Routed On Russian Front   Nazis Are Facing Catastrophe Declares Stalin in Review of War

Routed Nazis Still Retreat   Move Toward Bug River After Being Thrown Out Of Krivoi Rog

NAZIS ROUTED FROM KRIVO! ROG FALLING BACK NEW DEFENSES  MARSHALL STALIN RECOUNTS SOVIET TRIUMPHS IN ORDER OF DAY

Nazis Leaye Guns, Tanks As Iron City Is Captured   Stalin Recounts Red. Army Advance

Reds Have Gained 1,000 Miles in Areas In Last 12 Months   Soviets Have Recaptured Almost 7: Percent of Territory Occupied by German Forces in 1941

NAZIS FALL BACK FROM KRIVOI ROG   HEAD FOR THE BUG RIVER AFTER LOSS OF IRON ORE CITY

NAZI FORCES FLEETOWARE BUG RIVER      Retreat Westward After Being Routed From Krivoi Rog

Nazis Flee Toward Narrow  Escape Gap   Retreat Westward Toward Bug River From Fallen Krivoi Rog — Reds Aim. At Kherson And Nikolaev at Moutt “TF Ris 7

Russians Rout  German Troops   SOVIET ARMY TAKES KRIVOI ROG IN DRIVE

Germans Retreat To West   Turn: Toward Bug River After Krivoi Rog Center Taken.

<herson and Nikolaev, Dnieper Escape Routes For Nazis, Seen As Next Russian Objective; Reds Capture Bukino.

Nazis Retreat From tron City To Bug Rive   Premier Stalin Says Ger: many Hitting Towards Catastrophe.  piensa  SUFFER HUGE. LOSSES

Routed Nazis Flee Toward The Bua River   Russians Free Nearly Three-Fourths of Nazi-Seized Area In Only One Year

Russians Rout German Force,  Take. Tron City       Nazis Flee Westward After ‘Krivoi Rog Is Taken; Stalin Lauds Red Army Triumphs

New Passenger Tires Boosted  Increase of 12.5   Increase of 12.5 Per Cent to Go to Civilians in June

GREATER TIRE QUOTAS LISTED   Increase of 12 Per Cent for Civilians Announced -

WAR TODAY   Powerful Blow to Carry Allied “Forces Over Rhine Before Winter “Sets ‘in Suggested. by Prelimin ary Offensives. ...~

MACKENZIE SAYS—  New Drives Pending on  West Front   Fierce U. §. Bomb Raids Precede Intense Bid For Allied Victory

PRELIMINARIES TO BIG PUSH AGAINST GERMANY IN WEST ARE BEING RAPIDLY STEPPED UP

3 MORE CAMPS SET FOR NAZI PRISONERS   1,500 PW’s To Help Farm Labor Situation  «~

Reds Roll Again   Nazis Blunt Sth Advance   Battered Legions Counter-Attacking

Germans Stall Ttalian Advance   Savage Counterattacks  Met North of Perugia

Germans Brace And Stall 8th  Army Advance   Other Allied Troops Sweep Northward On Tyrrhenian And Adriatic Coasts

GERMAN SHOCK TROOPS STALL BRITISH EISHTE   Savage Counter - Attacks Made Near Perugia Other Allies Advance

British Advance In Central Italy Stalled   Other Allied Forces Sweeping Northward With Increasing Speed

SHOCK TROOPS STALL EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY   Other Allied Forces Are Sweeping Northward At Increased Speed

Nazis Stall British Italy Thrust, Coast Drive Speeded   FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES IN PERUGIA HILL COUNTRY; GERMANS MAKING FIRST STAND SINCE ROME FLIGHT

NAZIS MAKE STAND NEAR PERUGIA   Allies Continue Advancing On Sea Coasts In Italy

GERMANS TURN ON 8TH ARMY   Attempt Stand In Hills Of Central Italy

Nazi Counter-Biows Stall British Drive In Italy; ‘Allies Nearing Ancona

NAZIS TURN ON EIGHTH ARMY   Counter-Attack Savagely in Hills Northwest of Perugia

Nazis Stall Allied Push Above Rome   Other Allied Units Gain In Drive Up Both Coasts.

War Map Lies Says Boyle   Solid Fronts are Myths, Because Germans Fight in Style of “Cowboys and Indians.”

MAYER’S SALARY IS STILL TOPS   Movie Magnate Received $1,138,992, Treas- ury Reports

t Schouten  Island Invasion  Maffin Bay Airdrome Threatened By Allies

Capture of Air Base at Maffin Is Imminent   MacArthur Closer To Philippines— Japs Claim Seizure Of Loyang City

SEE NEW JUMP BY MACARTHUR   200-Mile Jump to Schouten  Islands Seems Imminent

M’Arthur About Ready For 200-Mile Leap Into Schouten Island Area

ALLIES AFTER MORE AIRBASE   MacArthur’s Men Ready for 200-Mile Invasion Leap into Schoutens.   SAPS NOW CLAIM LOYANG

NEW INVASION LEAP AT JAPS THOUGHT NEA   Schouten Islands Reported Likely Next Objective of Americans.

MACARTHUR'S TROOPS MOVE TO NEW POINT   Ready To Make 200 Mile Raid On Schoutens

Aerialiy-Strategic _ Schoutens Eyed by General MacArthur    Commander is Believed ‘Ready for Invasion  of New Islands

Me eARTHUR MOVES WESTWARD AS INDIC ATIONS SEEN OF IMPENDING INVASION OF SCHOUTEN ISLANDS

Signs Point To An Invasion Of Schouten Isles   MacArthur Troops Reach Edge Of Maffin Bay In New Guinea Push.

INVASION LEAP LOOMS AGAINST SCHOUTEN AREA   Maffin Bay Fall Near: Japs Claim Victory In North China

BELIEVE ALLIES READY TO INVADE SCHOUTEN ISLES   Would Give Gen. MacArthur Vital Air Base Nearer Philippine Islands

SCHOUTEN ISLE LEAP AWAITED   MacArthur Forces Move Ahead In Quest of Air Bases Near Philippines

New Push In Pacifie Seer   Allied Troops Reach Edge Of Maffin Bay; Japs Claim Loyang Fall.

Allied Troops Wrest Maffin Bay From Jap:   Eventual Recapture Of Philippine Isles Is U.S. Aim

SCHOUTEN ISLE GROUP IS GOAL OF AMERICANS   Maffin Bay Airdrome  Soon to Fall to MacArthur’s Men Who: Want To Move Up New Guinez  fOnnct

Yankees fo Go Info Schoufens   General MacArthur About Ready to Move Nearer Philippines

MacArthur Believed Ready For 200-Mile Invasion Leap To Schouten Islands

Schouten Isles ‘Invasion Mark — Of Pacific Yanks   Highlights MacArthur Posh In Quest Of Airbases Nearer To Philippines

>Arthur May Ready for New j-Mile Advance   ‘lied Troops Are “Edge of Maffin iy’s Airdrome

YANKS POISED FOR SCHOUTENS   Capture of Maffin Bay Airbase In Guinea Imminent

MacArthur Poised For a 200-Mileinvasion Jump?   Signs Multiply That Allies Are Preparing To Occupy Schoutens Loyang’s Fall Feared

Another Pacific Hop Indicated   Allied Troops Reach Edge of Maffin Bay Airdrome

Signs Point To Invasion —  Of Schoutens   ‘MacArthur Seeks Airbases Nearer: to Philip' nine Islands

Airdrome on Maffin Bay Is Allied Target   Quest by Gen, MacArthur for Bases Closer to Philippines Moves Westward on Cosas! of New Guinea

M’ARTHUR READY FOR NEW RAIDS   Schouten Islands Would Be of 8 Great Value in Philippines’ Drive

U.S. HUNTS. AIR BASES NEARER TO PHILIPPINES   MacArthur Believed About Ta Make Next Hop to Schouten Islands.

Schouten Islands Next?   ‘Signs Indicate Allies ‘Plan Invasion Leap Up New Guinea Coast; Battle on In Mvitkvina

{ACARTHURIS {0VING NEAR TH JAP BASE   ard-Fighting Yanks Reach ge of Incompleted Field At Maffin Bay, Dutch  4 New Guinea   XYANG BELIEVED LOST

Quest For Base: In Philippines Moves West   Troops Reach Edge O Maffin’s Bay After Overpowering Japs

JAP BARGES, TROOP LADEN ARE BLASTED   Attacks Made Over a Wide  Area.

Tth Ar my Fanning Out Bey ond! Dijon   Germans Attempting With. drawal Back Into Belfort Gap

Elas Forces . Are Growing   Artiving Outside Athons; Three Liberol Leaders Seek to End Civil’ War

More Elas Forces Outside of Athens   “Three High ‘Liberals “Try to End Civil - War Inside Greek City

FIGHTING STILL ON IN GREECE   More ELAS Units Reported in Athens Area — British Tanks Active

LIBERALS SEEK WAY TO END GREEK RIOTING   Rebel Forces Augmenting Regiments Outside Athens

NAME FORRESTAL TO NAVY POST   52- Year-Old ~ Democrat Differs from Knox, Both Have Same Job

J, V. FORRESTAL FOR CHOICE FOR NEW NAVY CHIEF   Postal Pay Increases and Federal Over-staffing Face Investigation

YANKEES MOVE WITHIN 25 MILES OF ANZIO BEACH   Polish Troops Fight Way Into Piedimont, Key To German Flank   FRENCH, BRITISH MOVE   » Allied Planes Continue Pre-Invasion Pounding Of Continental Europe

Lend-Lease fo Back Invasion   Supplies Move Out Rapidly for Britain, Russia and China

MIGHTY BLOWS COMING SOON, HE ADDS   Congress Receives Report On Lend-Lease   THREE-FOURTHS   Of All Aid Goes To Russia Britain: China Also Assisted

FDR Tells Congress U.S. Sends Lend Lease Goods Worth $24,225,000,000   Swift Flow Of Supplies  For European Invasion

ARMS SENT EUROPE AS PLANS 10 MAKE WAY INVASION   Roosevelt Informs Congress Allies About Ready to Strike Mightier Blows From Three Ways.   DVER 24 BILLION IN SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT   Report Shows British, Russia Are Provided With ThreeFourths of Articles Under Lend-Lease.

Lend-lease Aid Steadily Grows  Arms and Equipment to Aid in Invasion

Lease-Lend Arms, Equipment To Power 3-Way Invasion Being Speeded Across Ocean

SPEED UP WAR SHIPMENTS FOR 3-WAY INVASION   FDR Says Allies Near Time to Start New Offensives Against Nazis

Lend-Lease Goods Worth 24 Billions Sent to Allies. President Reveals

Allies To Hit Nazis From South, West And East   Roosevelt, Sending Congress Lend-Lease Report, Hints At  Big Impending Actions

Lend-Lease On Increase With  Invasion Near Equipment For A 3-Way ‘ Blow Pouring Across  Ocean: Best Supplies   

Lend-Lease Report Given   Supplies Moving Out at Steadily Growing Speed

Lend-Lease Arms To Power 3-Way Invasion Moving Out Of Country, FDR Declares   Blows To Come From West, South, East, President Says In Presenting Rewore

Spur Lend Aid  For Invasion   Japs List ‘Peace Terms’: We Have to Give Up Our Navy

U.S. Lend-Lease Flow Increases, FD. Tells Solon:   Weapons Pile Up For Combined Blow Against Nazis

U.S. Speeds Weapons To ~All Armies   More Than °25° Billions Worth of Equipment. Sent Out in Last Few Months   MAKING READY FOR 3:WAY SMASH   Three-Fourths of . Lease Lend Goods Go ‘to Russia. and ‘Britain

Lend Lease Aid Moves Steadily   Arms and Equipment to Power Three Way Invasion Smash at Europe, Pres. Roosevelt Informs Congress Today — United Nations Prepare For Mighty Blow.   15th REPORT OFFERED

Lend-Lease Shipments Leaving  U. S. At Steadily Growing Rate   President Tells Congress That Allies Now Armed With Powerful Weapons For Three-Way Invasion Smash.

Lend-Lease Arms, Equipment Moving Steadily From U.S.   President Roosevelt Says United Nations Forces Are Now About to Strike New, Mightier Blows

Three-Way Invasion Of Europe Planned President Reveals   Congress Given Hint of What Is Coming in War in Lend-Lease Report - - American-made Equipment To Play Important Part in Forthcorhing Assaults

REPORTSHOWS LEND-LEASE 1S SPEEDING UP   Report Made by President ' Reveals Total Has Now Reached Over 24 Billion Mark   CHINA IS BEING AIDED

Lend-Lease On  Growing Speed   President Says United Nations Getting Ready For Mighty Blows.

Much Help To Allies From U. §. Arsenal   Britain And Russia Get Most Of Goods Sent By America

Shipments Of War Materials Move To Allies   Pouring Out Of U. S. At Steadily Growing Speed For New Snashes At Enemy

Invasion Arms  Increased By. .  Lend- lease Axis To Be Hit:  By Full Power ° OL: Allied Pendiuctior

LEND-LEASE ARMS  AND EQUIPMENT ARE  MOVING OVER SEAS MATERIAL FOR THREE WAY INVASION SMASH Al EUROPE GO FORWARD

3-WAY SMASH SOON PLEDGED BY ROOSEVELT   President Says Lend-Lease : Supplies Allied Fighters  With Invasion Arms

American Arms Sent to Allies At Faster Pace   President Offers Fifteenth Report Qn Lend-Lease Act

Shipments reel Lease   FDR Tells Congress Arms And Supplies Movement Speeded

Lend-Lease Shipments lo rower Invasion Leaving U.S. At Steadily Growing Speed, President Declare:

Mighty Flow of Lend-Lease Arms Mounting Steadily   Poised for Gigantic Blows, Allied Forces Armed with Powerful Weapons. FDR Savs

U.S.Pours Arms, Equipment Into Invasion Bases   Speed Of Lend - Lease Flow Steadily Increasing, Savs President.

Lend-Lease To Power Invasion   FDR Report Shows Shipments of Arms And Equipment Move Swiftly to Allies 

Lend-Lease Goes At Faster Pace   Total Has Reached 24.2 Billion Now

LEND-LEASE ARMS BEING SHIPPED OVERSEAS RAPIDLY   FDR Tells Congress War Gear  and Supplies For Allies Are Moving Out at Steadily Increasing Speed

LEND-LEASE MOVING FAST FOR INVASION   Russia Gets Big Supply; China Given Help

Speed Shipments To Power Three-Way Invasion Blow  Vast Quantities Of Lend Lease Material On Move

PILOT GIVES LIFE TRYING SAVE CREM   Ranking Hero of 14th Air Force Killed in Crash . Of Plane.

JA HERO IS BORN IN THE SKIES:  HE DIDN'T SEND OTHERS ... HE WENT

Hero Pilots Go Down With Crewman Who Could Not Parachute From Plane

STEEL INDUSTRY OPENS ATTACK ON WAGE CAMPAIGN   Big Operators Say Public Would Have to ‘“Foct thea Pill t?

Attempt to Break Out Is Thwarted   Enemy Suffers Heavy Cas ualties—Bloody Fighting  Is reported

ALLIES LAY CHERBOURG'S SIEGE TODAY   Corridor Across Peninsula Cleared as Allies Build Up Strength for Their Next Step

Senator Barkley Backs Roosevelt For Fourth Term  Vigorous Tax Bill Protest Had Left

14,000 PLANES IN SIXTY HOURS SWEEP EUROPE   U.S. Day Assault Follows RAF Blow at Chemical and Rail Centers

Gen. Eisenhower Sees Nazi Doom   Most Momentous Week: Of War Predicted 

Doom Sounds for Seventh German Arm)  Major Victory in Northwest France Believed Near

Destruction Nazi      enhower Predicts        Tn History. of War

NAZI POLITICAL CRASH COULD BE PEACE FACTOR   Armistice Could Be Made This Week; Unlikely

GERMAN POLITICAL COLLAPSE NEEDED FOR QUICK VICTORY IN SPITE OF ALLIED SURGE

DESTRUCTION OF NAZI ARMY IN FRANCE NEAR   Eisenhower Says That Coming Week Will Have Place in History of War

Eisenhower Sees Destruction Of German Army  Major Victory New On Threshold For Allied Forces

MAJOR VICTORY AWAITS ALLIES   German Seventh Army Now Faced With Destruction

LITTLE CHANCE FOR ARMISTICE SEEN THIS WEI   Three Other German Armies in France Not Engaged in Battle

Allies Kill or Capture Equal of 6 Divisions in 24 Days in Normandy

DENS ‘DODGING  CHANCE TO RUN  FOR GOVERNOR   Day and Night of Conferences Fails to Produce Candidate

Hitler's Prized Panzer Division Is Taking Beating   Twelfth German Panzer Di. vision, Not More Than 45 Per Cent Effective Now   CAEN IS BADLY BATTERED CITY

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.  gr Talat vena \   Greet Deliverers   Expanding Beachead

Great Allied Air Offensive Is Resumed  Purpose Is To Flatten Every  Nagi Atrdrama

Center Air Blows On Flying Fields  Great Trinle Attack   Great Triple Attack Is Aimed at Nazis Dwindling Lufturn fle

STRICKEN N GAS STATION   A. Z. Winget, Vet Telephone Employe, Rushed To Hospital

Roosevelt Speech Read at Meeting   44 Nations Start Money Conference

Trade Walls Must Crash, NationsTold   Money Conference Hears FDR Propose Blisher Living Plane

Columns Of Smoke And Fire Left Over Other Industrial Targets By Superforts   LITTLE OPPOSITION IS PROVIDED BY JAPS

HUGE AIRCRAFT FACTORY CHIEF TARGET OF RAID   Two Superforts Lost In " Big Attack Launched From Saipan On  Thursday

TOKYO WAR INDUSTRIES ARE DAMAGED HEAVILY   Attacks By Superforts Smash Giant Musashine Aircraft Factory; Big Planes Blast Targets Two Hours

First Raid Over Japanese Capital Since Gen. Doolittle’s April 18, 1942 Battle. Stiff Wind But No Interception From Enemy with Either Ack Ack or Planes.

FIRES BURNING IN TOKYO; PLANT PLANT SMASHED   Superforts Meet Little Opposition in Attack On Mushashina Factorv

Huge Japanese Aircraft Plant Blasted  Only Two Superfo:  Beatl ta Bateewe   Only Two Superforts Fail to Return From Raid on Tokyo

Musashina Plane Plant, Other Selected Targets Pounded Hard in Raid

Photographs Show Damage Done Tokyo   All But Two B-29s in Raid Return Safely

‘Huge Musashina Aircraft  Factory Heavily Damaged  FIRES STILL RAGE IN CENTRAL TOKYO  All But Two of Participating Planes Return

RECONMALSSALICE upertort Crews  Watch Aircraft. Plants Explode —

TOKYO AIRCRAFT FACTORY SMASHED BY B-29 RAIDERS   Smoke Still Rising From Other Targets—Pounding of City Continued About Two Hours.   SCORES OF. BOMBERS IN ATTACK; 2 LOST   Americans Met Only Slight Fighter Opposition and Anti-Aircraft Fire Was Inaccurate.

 MacARTHUR DENIES  POLITICAL AMBITION   Says Sole Aim Is to Win the War Letter to Rep. Miller Was Not In: tended for Publication.

SIX WEEKS OF BATTLE ~ FRUITLESS   Nazis Still Groggy From Pounding Last Weelx

2 ESCAPE FROM PRISON CAMP   FBI Describes Nazis Who Made Get-Away

Report By Baruch Offers Blueprint For Reconversion   Roosevelt And Byrnes Ready To Act Promptly On Suggestions For Postwar Period;  Elaborate Plan Detailed

TAKE THE GOVT [OUT OF BUSINESS 1S: NEW -DEMANI   Roosevelt and’ Byrnes  Expected to Act on. Suggestions for © Reeonversion

PRESIDENT 10 ACT PROMPTLY ON BLUEPRINT   Baruch Report For Reconversiox From War To Peace Filed

Big Three Plans Political Cabinet   Europe’s Problems Will Be Studied

Big Three Maps Super Cabinet to Solve  Europe’s Wartime Political Problems

MORE SUGAR IN PROSPECT      WEA, BAYS DOMESTIC. , PRO“DUCTION TO BOLSTER SUP-..  PLY DESPYYE CUBAN  .". DRADLOOR:. ~*  ve

STATE HIGHWAYS VERY DANGEROUS   Seven Traffic Deaths Blamed On Slippery Highways

OPERATIONS OF AIRFORCE CONTINUE   Second Round Over Hol land, While Bomber: Going From England tc Russia Drop Supplies.  Heavier [innnsition

TARGETS HIT   Allied Planes Also Carry Supplies to Patriots Fighting in Warsaw

26 NAZI PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   CRAFT BAGGED IN HOLLAND —DAY’S RAIDS COST ALLIES 24 FIGHTERS.

Oil From Outside Needed for War And For Future, Declares Roosevelt

Yankees Drive Toward Jap Airdrome   Nipponese Coasta Positions Hit ’ by Planes, Ships

Yankees Drive Toward Jap Airdrome  Nipponese Coastal   Nipponese Coastal Positions Hit by Planes, Ships

‘in CHEST ANE GETS FINE START   Contributions Made During First Day Reach $3,500

Yanks in Fierce Attack on Capital   SEVERAL HUNDRED LIBERATORS, FORTRESSES, 1000 FIGHTERS STRIKE CITY WHILE R.A. F. BOMBS WESTERN GERMANY WITHOUT LOSS

BERLIN AREA HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS   Strong Forces Of Forts, Liberators Take Part In Raid

Center of City Hit By Bombs   American Airmen Meet No Fighter Planes Over City

1600 U.S. Planes Shower Bombs On Nazi Capital   Germans Fail to Challenge U. 8. Bombers in Raid

UNCHALLENGED BY LUFTWAFFE IN DAY ATTACK   Wrecked City Left in Flames

REPORT MORE THAN 600 BIG BOMBERS USED   ‘irst Daylight Attack On Devastated City Since March 9

Flying Fortresses and Liberators Resume Assault Against Metropolis.   BULLETIN

Daylight Attack On Nazi Capital Is Unchallenged   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Berlin Without Opposition

American Bombers Resume  Attack On Berlin Plants   First Fighter Pilots To Return Say No Battles Fought “Ovex Nazi Capital; 1,500 Planes Make Raid; Other Targets Also Hit

6.000-TON RAID BLASTS PATH FOR GAEN THRUST   Over 1,000 British Bombers Rip Nazi Lines Before British Advance

Nelson Says Manpower Situa: tion in Foundries Desperate; Yarnell Wants US Armed Forces Reorganized

‘Work Or Fight Is Demanded   FORRESTAL, PATTERSON AND NELSON’ ‘BOILING’ OVER DETROIT STRIKES

Phone Strikers Refuse Demand   WLB Says It Would Do Everything In Its Power To Termine Walkout.

Rules -Against Negotiation: In Telephone Strike Until Workers Return To Jobs

WLB ORDER IS TURNED DOWN BY OPERATORS   Phone Girls : Federation Ignores Edict To Return to Work

OHIO TELEPHONE STRIKE PASSES WLB’S DEADLINE   OPERATORS IGNORE WORK RETURN ORDER: FACE GOV'T SEIZURE

Strikers Resume  Picketing NWLB Rules No Company Union  Parley Until Walkout Ends

OHIO TELEPHONE  WORKERS CONTINUE  “STRIKE WEDNESDAY DEADLINE SET FOR  ‘RETURN TO WORK BY WEP REEN ICNORED

Telephone Strike Is Stili On  Union lannrec   Union Ignores Order of WLB

Phone Workers Tgnore WLB Strike Deadline   Face Seizure _Of Facilities By Government

Action In Strike Delayed Unless Workers Return   Negotiations Suspended Unless Telephone Firm Employes Go To Work

WLB Demand  Turned Down Ohio Telephone Strike Goes On Past Deadline

‘PHONE WORKERS STAY ON STRIKE   Ohio Operators Invite National Union's Aid

DEFY LABOR BOARD   Strikir ing. Telephone Work~ erg Reject Demand and. -'Tnvite Assistance ©.

PHONE PLANT SEIZURE SEEN   WLB Directs Striking Telephone Operators to Return To Work At Once; Deadline Is Set

Strikers Defy  Labor Board   Phone Workers Flatly Reject Demand That They Go Back ta Work

PHONE STRIKE BRINGS A SEIZURE THREAT!   Government to Take Over Facillties Unless Ohio Workers Return to Jobs.

Phone Strikers Defy WLB Order   Won’t Return Unless Further Word Or Government Takes Over.

Ohio ‘Phone Strikers Ignore Labor Board Order To Return; Still Out As Deadline Passes .   Walkout To Continue Pending Further Developments, Union Leader Reports

Strikers. Defy Labor Board   Tele phone : Workers Continae: Walkout

DEFY LABOR BOARD   Striking Telephone Work ~ ers Reject Demand and Tnvite Assistance

BAR DISCUSSIONS TO SETTLE CASE UNTIL OPERATORS GO BACK   Ruling Upholds Cleveland Board; Strikers Ignore Return-To-Work Order; U. S. Seizure Of Network Probable

PHONE STRIKE NEARS CRISIS; DEFY WLB BID   Operators Remain Out In Ohio; Michigan Walk out Considered

Refuse To Go Back To Their Jobs Today At 10 A. M. Deadline Set By Labor Board

WLB Order, To End Telephone Strike Ignored   “Te Is Stili On and Will Continue Pending Further Developments,” Unionists Declare

Phone Strike Grill On; WLB Order Ignorec   Plant Seizure Held Likely as Deadline Passes

VITAL LINKS IN PHONE NETWORK MAY BE SEIZED      NWLB Rules No Company-Unior Negotiations Until The Workers Return

WLB Is Defied By Phone Girl:   Ohio Operators Turt Down: Ultimatum

PHONE oT RIK WILL CONTINUE   Michigan Bell Employes Willing to Join in Ohio Walkout.

STRIKE PASSES. WLB DEADLINE      Union Leaders Declare Strike Is Still on; See Long Labor Fiqht

Miners Refusing To Work Sundays   Ignore Plea Of Ickes And Union Leaders To Help Ease Shortage.

Reds On Mareh Krom Estonia Into Ukraine   Warning Comes That Germans Intend To Defend Rome Step By Step.   MEET HEAVY LOSSES

Keep Firm Hold on Beachhead   Allies Hurl Back Repeated Counterattacks By Nazis Under Rommel in Rome Area ~—

NAZIS HAVE BUILT UP STRONG © DEFENSES AND SEEK TO WIPE OUT SHALLOW ALLIED FOOTHOLDS   Making Supreme But Futile Bid to Knock Out Allies Near Rome Bitter ,House-to-House Fight  On. Fateful Picture of Salerno May Be in Makin;   Ry DANTE. Nernop

NAZIS ARE MAKING SUPREME EFFORT T0 REDUCE BRIDGEHEAD  RUSSIANS ON MARCH  - FROM ESTONIA TO THE UKRAINE TODAY

JEWS SOLDIER IN WEHRMACHT   Captives From Normandy Request Prayerbooks At Fort Custer

Return of Warworkers to Homes Cause: Labor Shortages in West Coast Plants

35,000 Fans Watch Series Opener as McQuinn Homers to Send Americans Aheac  a mtx « =< Ff. - «z   Browns .. MO DADORMM Lit cardinals: -D ODODE HEB

DRAFT DELAY ~— TIME EXTENDED   MEN IN 26-38 AGE BRACKET WILL PROBABLY NOT BE CALLED THROUGH NEXT MONTH

ALLIED AIR, SEA UNITS BLAST JAPS IN RAMU VALLE   Two-pronged Drive Hints i Possible Smash at New   Guinea Bases

The War Today   Nazis’ Italy Blow a Diversion Beam Titre Straite in Russia

The War Todav   By DeWIT™T Mack ENZIE (Associated Presse War Analyst)

HITLER RISKING MUCH FOR BIG PSYCHOLOGICAL VICTORY BELOW ROME AGAINST ALLIED INVASION

DESPERATE GERMAN ATTACKS ALONG BEACHHEAD FRONT SEEN AS SCREEN FOR NAZI PREDICMENT INEAST =   Hitler Gambling Everything to Distract Attention of His People and Wavering Allies from Russian Front Disasters. German Withdrawal in Russia Forecast

WAR. TODAY   Hitler’s Desperate Fight in Italy Seen As Cover-up for His Debacle in Russia.

Today’s War Moves  Hitler Acts To Draw Nazis’ Attention from Soviet

R. 6. Lapel Button Civilian Service Medal      DRIVE TO REAISE DICKINSON COUNTY'S QUOTA OF $6,600 TO BE OPENEDON MARCH

\Battalion commanded by Col. Sterner ldestrovs many Japs in Levie fighting

BLOODY RIDGE ON LEYTE NAMED FOR SLAIN CRUCES COLONEL AS BATTALION BATTLES ON IN MUD

Soviets Capture Black Sea Port   Sevastopol Provides Red Fleet Base Near Coast of Romania

SOVIETS CAPTURE SEVASTOPOL IN GREAT DRIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Recapture of Crimeag Stronghold Gives Ruse sian Fleet Major Base To Attack Romania

CORRECT WEATHER FORECASTING HELD MOST VITAL NEED OF AMERICAN ARMY

FOUR RED ARMIES THROW GERMANS IN UKRAINE INTO PANIC-STRICKEN ROU   Knapsacks, Gas Equipment and Rifles, As Well As All Heavy  Equipment Being Abandoned by Fleeing Germans.  

Russians Advance To Within Fifty Miles Of Rumanian Border   Ingul River Forced

GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF TIRPITZ   Sinking of Battleship Frees Units for Far East or Norway Blow

298 WO Germans Lot   Chinese Hurled Against Enemy Hengyang Force

AMERICANS MOVE TO STRIKE JAPS ON PHILIPPINES   Major Aerial Battle Developing Over Isles

U. 0. dTAGE LANGE OUALE LANDING IN MARIANAS   Make Way From 20 Transports Aboard ‘J Landing Barges

U, §. STAGE LARGE SCALE LANDING. IN MARIANAS.   Make Way ‘From 20 Transports Aboard 7) Landine Barges.

Turn to Fingerprints to Identify Body of Lake Torture-Murder Victim

Dewey Predicts State Recovery   Believes Surrender Of Power near End   Ten Year Depression

POST-WAR UNITY VITAL PROBLEM, ‘DEWEY STATES   Gives Credit F or Success In War To Industry  And Farmers   DENOUNCES CRUSADES ABOUT UNESSENTIALS

DORSEY TRIAL BREAKS OPEN   Panamanian Sallor Says Musician Hit Hall

Panamanian Sailor Says a Bandleader Bashed It  Across Nose of Guest   During Fight

Sailor Throws  Light On Brawl   Says Most Of Those At Tommy Dorsey Party Were Intoxicated.

RELATES STORY OF HALL FIGHT   Witness Says Band Leader Slugged Actor With Bottle

FIRM ORDERED 10 CUT WAR PROFITS   War Department Instructs Jack and Heintz of Cleveland, to Reduce Cost Airplane Parts Sold U. S.

ALLIED TROOPS MOVE UP ALONG 20-MILE FRONT   Unopposed In Italian Advance

Allies Occupy Wide Italy Arec   Troops Advance to Palena, Gamberale, Fallascosa, With Little Opposition; Gunners Shell German Transport at Alfedena

ALLIES TAKE OVER AREA INITALY   Occupy 200 Sq. Miles Abandoned By Germans

OPPOSITION OF NAZIS “IS SLIGHT   Salient Of 200 Square 4 Miles Occupied By Allied Troops

UP, OCCUPY SALIENT   200 Square Mile Area Abandoned B) Nazis in ltaly

“Allies Gueapy’” 200 Square Mile Salient in Italy   United Nations Troops Fan Out Along Lower Rim of Maiella Plain

TAKING OVER SALIENT THAT GERMANS QUIT   Only Seattered Resistance From Retreating Germans. No Let-up in Attack by Warplanes

Allied Troops Move up in Ifaly   Occupy Area That Nazis Abandoned

Abandoned Nazi Salient Taken on Italian Front   Ailied Troops Move Rapidly to Effect Occupation

Allied Planes In Operation  For 14th Day   Yanks Batter German Airfields; RAF Strikes Friedrichshafen at Nicht

WIDE AREA OF BASES BOMBED   U.S, Bombers Blast Naz Targets; RAF Attacks Friedrichshafen.

Blows Carry Air Attack Into 14th Day   65,000 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped In Europe

Allied Planes Swarming Over German Bases   Restless Waves Blasting At Invasion Targets; RAF Explodes 3,500 Tons On Enemy

RAF, Yanks Hif Fredrickshafen, Nazi Airbases   Invasion Defense Railyards Also Attacked Last Night

AIR OFFENSIVE IS CENTERED OVER FRANCE   American Heavy, Medium Bombers Blast Bases Over Wide Area on Heels of R. A. F. Assault   IN 14TH STRAIGHT DAY

German Air Bases Over A Wide Area Of France Hit By Yankee Bombers Today

American Bombers Blast Nazi Aerial  Bases Over France  Raids Follow 3,500-Ton RAF Bomb Assault on Friedrich-. shafen And on Railyards

Yanks Blast “Airfields In Nazi France   Follow Up Heavy RAF Night Bomb Assault On Ermadrchchafan.

RAF Attacks Reich, Rail Yard Areas On 3 Fronts   Heavy Air Forces Set More Records

German Air Bases Over Wide Area Are Bombed   American Heavy Planes Follow RAF Attack Last Night On Strong Friedrichshafen Base

AMERICAN BOMBERS HEAVY AND MEDIUM KEEP UP DAY ATTACK   GRINDING PRE-INVASION AIR OFFENSIVE MVES RELENTLESSLY AHEAD

Nazi Air Bases In France Blasted   Pre-Invasion Plane Offensive Continues into Fourteenth Day

Three Airdromes Blasted By U.S. Strong Force   Raids Follow RAF Pounding Of Other German Targets ~

GERMANY FAST BECOMING BIG SCRAP GROUND  Allied Air Might sg a re haere m Dibarlicr Ra

Pre-Invasion Aerial Drive In 14th Day   Yanks Follow Up 3,500 Ton RAF Blow at Friedrichshafer

Great Allied Air Offensive Roars . Through 14th Day   U. S$. Bombers Smash At Air Bases After Huge RAF Assault On Friedrichshafen

Americans Hit Nazi Air Bases in France   Daylight Assault Follows a 3,500-Ton Raid  by R, A. F. on Friedrichshafen and France and Belgian Rail Yards.

Allies Hit Nazi Airfields in Wake Of Heavy RAF Raids Over Europe

U. S. Airmen Carry Pre-Invasion Drive Into 14th Straight Day: Hit Airdromes

Ailies Again Blast Nau Fortress ‘To Hit Vital Area  U. S. Planes Strike France; RAF Smashes Belgium

F rench Section Pounded By US Bomber Fleets   ‘British Blast Factories in  Germany, Rail Yards  in France, Belgiunr   During Night   5,000 Planes Take _ Part In Assaults   ‘Blows Carried Into 14th  Straight Day as Huge   Squadrons. Hammer Jnvasion Sector

6,000 Planes Attack Nazis a In 24 Hours      zrindingPre-Invasion. Air E Offensive Carried to f 44th Day

Dump 13,500 Tons Of Bombs in 24 Hours   Total to 65,000 Tons of Explosives in 14 Days; Freidrichshafen Undergoes Heavy Attack by R.A.F.

GERMAN AERIAL BASES POUNDED   American Heavy Planes Follow RAF Attack On Friedrichshafen .

—AIR WAR—  NAZI BASES IN ~ FRANCE LASHEL   American Bombers Range Qver Wide Area In Al lied Air Blitz

Fortresses Bomb Paris as Fighters Blast Northern Are   Follows 350-Ton RAF Bomb Night Assault On Friedrichshafen

6,000 PLANES HIT GERMANY IN LAST 24 HOURS   U. S. Raids French; British Hit Friedrichshafen, Rail Targets

ON AIRFIELD      -Ceaseless Offensive In 14th Day; Bomb Tonnage Tops 65,000   Bulletins

Air War Carried Into the 14th Day  Americans Blast Air Bases Over Wi

Drop Bomb Total Of 65,000 Tons In Last 2 Weeks   Yanks Hit French Targets In Wake Of RAF Raids On Friederichshafen

WALTERS GIVEN HIGH OPA POST   Replaces McKeough. a: Head of District Office

6 US. Naval Craft Lost   Two Minesweepers and Landing Boats Listed Sunk in Mediterranean

RED TROOPS NOW 20 MILES BEYOND MOZYR   Took White Russia City Yesterday

JOINING OF TWO WILL RESULT IN CAPTURE OF MANY   Great Many Slain By Caval~y, Ski Patrols Striking at German Rear to Capture Twin Cities.   HUON PENINSULA CONTROL NOW IN BALANCE   Showdown Battle Nearing as Australian Jungle Fighters Close In to Capture Jap Forces.

Reds Wipe Out Fleeing Remnant: of Nazi Garrison   Germans Say Russians Have Opened Drive On Leningrad Front

Reds Sweep IntoMarshes Past Mozyr   Remnants of Nasi Garrison Wiped Out In Lalest Battles

Hunt Arms Sent To Costa Rica   Boat Taking Guns To “Aid Political Race”

Goebbels says Germans prepared to wage guerrilla warfare to the death

All-Out Offensive Has Been Opened Against Germany, People Told By Propaganda Chief

Allies Open an " AI-Out Offensive   This “Was Report of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbles Today.

Drive Against : Nazi Defense Near Cologne   Great Battle Rages For Fort Driant in Metz ' Sector of France

FORT DRIANT IS CAPTURED TODA BY AMERICANS   48-Hour Truce At Dunkerque Made For Civilians

ALL-OUT REICH BATTLE IS ON. SAYS GOEBBELS :   Nazi Propaganda Chief Declares Guerrilla Fight to Death as He Admits Crisis Neor

All-Out Allied Assault Seen By Goebbels   Says Roosevelt Wants Victory to Assist In Campaign

NAZIS SET F DEATH BATTLE   Goebbels Declares Allies Have Launched All out Drive

Nazis Preparing  Guerrilla Fight  To Hamper Allies Roosevelt Expects Victory  Fer Political Exploitation Geebhel: Informs Carman:

Goebbels Warns Nazis of Allied All-Out Assaulf   Strong Fortress Near Metz Fatls To Third Army

Germans Plan Guerrilla War If Army Fails   Goebbels Says Allies Hope To End War On Europe Before Election

NAZIS PLEDGE A FIGHT TC THE DEATH   Saying the Allies Have Opened All-Out Blow, Goebbels Declares Germans Are Prepared for Guerrilla Warfare.

CITES ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE BY ALLIED POWERS   Reich Propaganda Boss Declares Allies Would es to End War Before U.S. Election.

Bring Guns To Back Up Doughboys   Third Army in Bitter Battle for Fortress Guarding Metz

Mustering Out Pay Blanks Are Available Here   American Legion to Assist Veterans in Obtaining Their Pay

Tax Bill Sets Exemption  At $500 Each   Schedules Flat Rate For Every Person;  Status Disregarded

Supreme Court Will Adjourn Next Week  Justices Uphold War   Justices Uphold War Powers but Disagree Among Themselves

SUPREME COURT T0 MEET AGAIN MONDAY TO COMPLETE WORK  DECIDED SEVEN OUT OF

Slashed Bodies of 2 Women Found in.Los Angeles Inns   31-Y car OSS Arrest as Slayer of Victims After Being Identified by Police  By Fingerprints: Both of Bodies Mutilated

TWO WOMEN FOUND SLAIN   Man Arrested After Bodies Are Left in Two Los Angeles Hotels

Los Angeles. Has “Fiend” Murder Case   Bodies of Two Women Badly Hacked Found In Two Separate Hotels

kind bodies Of 2 Women Los Angeles   OTTO STEVE WILSON ARRESTED AS RESULT OF FINGERPRINT TEST AND TESTIMONY OF BPELLHOP.    Victims Of Sadist

PROWLER USES ~~ GAS ON VICTIMS   Mysterious. Vapor Sprayed Through Windows; Nine Persone Suffer —

PROWLER USES MYSTERY FUMES   Nine Persons Overcome By Poison Sprayer In Mattoon, Ill.

Death Summons Mrs. Hodge, 91,  Carroll Pioneer Funeral Rites Set for 2:30   Funeral Rites Set for 2:30 P. M., Saturday at Huffman Funeral Home

Death Summons Mrs. Hodge, 91,  Carroll Pioneer Funeral Rites Set for 2: 30  Catiwydayv

LAUNCH MOVE 10 END SPAIN'S AID   Economic Relations Threat ened as Means to Prove Neutrality.

‘Crack Down On Franco   U.S. Suspends Shipments Of Oil To Spain; Cite Axis Aids

U.S, RELATIONS WITH SPAIN ARE BEING REVISED   Aid to Axis Must End Say Allies; Oil Shipments Halted] —

US. Aets to End Spain’  pains  Aid to Axis   State Department Halts Shipments ol Oil as First Step

Aircraft Rocket Gun Credited With Downing Three Zeros in One Shot

Capture Nazi War Prisoners After Second Escape   Trio Taken Near Hayes After Cutting Thru Barbed Wire

3 WAR-PRISONERS IN SECOND ESCAPE   GERMANS QUICKLY RECAPTURED AFTER DASH FROM CAMP IN KANSAS.

Boston (Market Gardeners, Farmers Enjoy Dinner; Andrew D’ Arrigo, Host

NEW PACKING PLANT OPENED WITH PROGRAM   Boston Market Gardeners Formers Enjoy Dinner;  Andrew D’ Arrigo, Host

NLRB Refuses: Election Delay:   Vote To Determine If Union Majority Exists

Won't Defer the Ward Plant Vote   hegional Director in Chicago Ne fuses Request of CIO for More Time to Prepare

UNION REFUSED IN WARD CASE TODAY   Delay Election Request By Store Employes Refused

WARD ELECTION DELAY BLOCKED   UNION PROTESTS NLRB ORDER FOR BALLOTING

Ast Army, In Aachen Outskirts  Germans CounterAttack Fiercely  To Prevent City’s  Lasmamb

LT. TOM HARMON 10 WED MOVIE ACTRESS   Ceremony Set for August 26 In Ann Arbor, Mich.

CONTROL OF TROOPS LOST, REDS CLAIM   Russian Armies Beat Down Fierce Enemy Resistance In Some Sectors.   BULLETIN

Reds Drive Lines Deep Into Poland   Germans Flee in. Disorder in Some Sectors as Soviets Sweep Forward:

Ask Removal of Warden Davis  Request to Governor From Anamosa Editor

100-Hour Assault Hits Nazis      Yanks, British Drop 11,200 Tons Bombs; Blast Key Points

ec OD,  *Chute Won't O} ven, But Officer Rides to Safety Atop Another

U.S. Army Strikes at Japs Far Up North New Guinea Coast, Captures Supply Base

Americans Make New Landing On New Guinea Coast   Seize Japanese Base At Port Of Saidor

Allied Drive In Southern  Area Checked   Whole Left Flank of Enemy on Cologne Plain Threatened

Three Villages Captured in Pre-Dawn At-  — tack  DRIVE OF SEVENTH —— _. ARMY IS CHECKED  Troops of Patton Measure Gains in Scores of: Yards

Yanks Surging Along Roer In Surprise Move   Hodges’ Doughboys Thrust TwoPronged Drive To Extend Front To 25-Miles

LONG-AWAITED ASSAULT MADE AGAINST NAZIS   First Army Drives Against Germans Deployed East OF Roer River   BLOWN BRIDGES HALT 7TH ARMY’S ADVANCE

Three Villages Captured in Pre-Dawn At- . ~ tack  DRIVE OF SEVENTH ARMY 15 CHECKED  Troops of Patton Measure Gains i in Scores of ° Yards

Furious Atfack Forces Germans To Give Ground   Patton's Troops Find Going Tough

Surprise Attack Expands Battle For Coloane Plain into Two-Way Drive

German Left Flank Now Being Turned   Surprise Attack Proves Another Threat To German Defenders Of Plains Before Coloqane

Twin-Pronged Assault Rams. ‘German Flank   Ist . Army. Drive . Carrie: Two Miles in Initial: Bhean nf Atenek: *:

Doughboys Are Moving Against Enemy on Both Sides of Roer River Capture Three Villages,      LIGHTNING THRUST: OF SEVENTH HALTE       Counter-Attacks, Blow Bridges Check Patch— Patton’s Forces. Make Slight Gains. E

YANKS EXTEND —ROER FOOTHOLD   First Army Launches Attack Against Left Flank   SEVENTH CHECKED   Blown Bridges Across Wide Seltzbach River Halt Patch’s Advance

HOPE TO KNOCK OUT ‘GERMANS BY JAN. 1   SO SAYS CHAIRMAN OF ARM) COMMITTEE IN PLEA FOR MORE FUNDS.

Military Leaders Hope Germany May Be Knocked Out of War by January 

May Beat Nazis By January 1   Solon Urges Passage of “Hitler Doom Bill”

Dan Reed, Carlson Call Coal Control Plan Bureaucratic  Measure Patierned Alter Forme Gulley Aci Referred te House

RED ARMIES STGRM INTO NIKGPOL TODAY   100,000 German Troops Left: Encir‘elet Below Cherkasi

Almost Split Tn Two Remnants of 100,000 German Troops Encircled Below Cherkasi.

Nazis Increase Severity Of Italy Reprisals   Order Found Shows Treatment of ‘Partisans’ Increasing In Savagery.

ROBOT BOMBS BLAST LONDON   FIRST ATTACK SINCE SEPT. 5 KILLS SEVERAL

Nazis Renew London Robot Bomb Terror   Death, Injury Spread ‘Through City In Renewal Of Attack

Italian Capital Is Just Visible From the Peaks of the Alban Hills, Captured in a Trust into Nazi Defenses,   DOUGHBOYS GET FIRST GLIMPSES OF THE CITY   Only «a Hazy Mass of Build. ings Among Which Rose the Dome of St, Peters,  Could Be Seen,

Fifth Army Drives Deeper Into Nazis’ Lines Before Rome   Doughboys Fighting in Sight of Eternal City; War News

Yanks Battle Through Alban Hills, With Rome Visible in the Distance; Velletri Believed to  _Have Fallen; 8th Army Continues Advance Up Via Casilina.

Alban Hills Taken To Give Doughboys A Glimpse Of City   Allies Report ‘Limited But Important’ Gains Below Eternal City—One Column Scores Advance of Almost Two Miles.

3000-Yard Drive Captures Heights   Eternal City’s Buildings Shake As Heavy Gunfire Draws Near— British Close In on Richt

Deep Wedge Driven Into ‘Valmontone  Line Of Nazis   One Salient Carries Doughboys 3,000 Yards Forward; Advance In Toughest Of Fichtine

1S. TROOPS DRIVE DEEP WEDGE IN NAZI LINES NEAR VELLETR   Doughboys Fighting in Sight of Rome; Strategic Points Won in Alban Hills   4 GERMANS FIGHT DOGGEDLY

ONE AMERICAN COLUMN MAKES GAIN OF 2 MILES   Rapidly Fired Cannons Cause Homes fo Shake Within Eternal City

Penetrating Fierce Nazi Resistance, Americans Within Sight Of Canital

British Flank Hill Behind Shelling of Mazi Defenses by U. S. Destreyers

Doughboys Push Ahead Two Miles At Velletri   Highest Feature Of Alban Hills Falls  To Americans

TEMPERATURES:   Doughboys Cut Deep Wedge In German Lines   Capture High Points In Alban Hills, 15 MilesBelow Capital City =

Limited Gains Reporfed on Front in Italy  Nazis Fall Back   Nazis Fall Back Beyond Frosinone Allies Announce

City Is Visible to Yanks from Newly Captured Heights   U. S. Troops Plunge Forward Nearly Two Miles to Seize High  Point in Alban Hille

High Points In Hills Occupied By Americans   Fosinone Captured By Eighth Army In Highway 6 Drive

PUSHED INTO GERMAN LINE   Hard Fighting Continues In Valmontone And Velletri Areas Below Rome

Take Highest Ridges ot Alban Hills   One Doughboy Column Plunges Forward East  Of Belletri

ALLIES WITHIN SIGHT OF ROME: TAKE FROSINONE   important Gaiiis Made By Fifth Army Troops

British Advance Behind Pummeling Of Nazi Defenses by U. S. Ships

PUT WEDGE IN VALMONTONE LINE IN ITALY   Advances Are Registered Against Strong German Resistance

WEDGE IS DRIVENINTO NAZI LINE   Strategic ‘High Points Captured; 8th Army  Takes Frosinone

Advance In Hard Fighting   Enemy Reports Velletri Abandoned;  Heavy Air Raiding

American Troops Advance Deep Into Valmontone Line   British Drive Beyond Captured Frosi none; U.S. Forces Occupy Key Positions in Alban Hills

Yankees Fight Germans Withir Sight of Rome   Dome of St. Peter's Visible __ From Newly - Won : Heights

COLUMN GAINS TWO MILES IN VELLETRI AREA   Allies Report ‘Limited’ But Important Gains’  On Vital Front

 ALLIES win ALBAN HEIGHTS   MR AM A A A AR a A  YANK TROOPS SMASH WITHIN SIGHT OF ROME   .. Vetletr? By-Passed: Frosinone Captured

Americans Get First Glimpses Of Eternal City From Alban Hills, Captured In Deep Thrust Into Enemy Defenses — Gain Of Neaily Two Miles Recorded East Of Velletri— British Advance Behind Hammering Of Nazi Lines By U. S. Destroyers

YANKS TAKE HILL ~AND GET FIRST GLIMPSE ROME   Capture Alban Hills In Deep Drive Into . German Lines

Capture Highest Ridges   English and French Troops Also Made Notable Advances

JAPS LOSE 28 PLANES IN RAID   Ground Fighting Grows Intense On Biak; Progress Slow

28 JAP- PLANES ARE BAGGED BY ALLIED FLIERS   Palau In The Carolines At tacked With 23 Tons Of Bombs   GROUND FIGHTING ON BIAK INTENSIFIED

Americans Shoot Down 28 Jap Planes; — Bitter Fight Rages on Biak Island

MAJOR DISASTER SUFFERED BY JAPS IN SEA ENGAGEMENTS; FULL RECOGNITION OF SITUATION AWAITS MORE. DETAILS

[LATEST NEWS INDICATES JAPAN. JUST ABOUT SUCCEEDED IN FULL HARA-KIRI IN BIC SEA BATTIE

rr RAIL KE} NLY TWO MILES EROM U, S. UNITS   Nazi Mine Fields and Road Delay Invaders in Some a Sectors

Nancy, Key Point, Freed   Polish Troops Make Gains  In One Sector

All Ship Sinkings Replaced   ..Emphasis To Be Put On Efficiency in °44--Land

NAVY REVEALS MAJOR NIPPON UNITS SIGHTEL   Enemy Vessels Concentrated 500 to 800 Miles West of Yank Landings

MIGHTY ALLIED AIR FLEETS BLAST EUROPE   3,500 Heavy Bombers And Fighters Pound Nazi-Held Europe In Great Assault

-—\o . ¢@  —- I S772 het 1338  >) ae Eee ee ne Nex qitwde ma ween ee NOs.  we dlurw  mim ki   Smash Rocket Installations— Rake Coast Southern France

NAZI TARGETS HIT IN PLANE ATTACKS   Five Greot Aerial Fleets Thunder Out Over  France

3,900 HEAYIES SMASH ROCKET INSTALLATIONS   American Liberators And Fortresses Pound Rail Yards And Bridges Southeast Of Paris

G()P’s May Win House Control   Ballot Affects 35 Senators and 432 House Members.

ENEMY ROLLED BACK IN ITALY   Last Resistance Mopped Up In Faenza; Fighting Eased At Bologna

REPUBLICANS GIRD FOR A KAY FIGHT   Situation May Not Be Set. tled Until National Conven: tion

PARTY LEADERSHIP CONVENTION ISSUE   Michigan GOP Committeeman May Be Decided at National Meet.

Allied Fifth Army Batters Into Gothic Line; Captures ‘Key Hill Of Monte Pratone

Monte Pratone In Italy Taken By Fifth Army   Ariivd Forces Capture Dominating Heights In Gothic Line Battle   VICTORIES WON IN HARD FIGHTING

RELIEF TASK HUGE   About 258,000 Frech ‘Are Reported te Have Lost Everything.

CARY GRANT REPORTEDLY ESTRANGED FROM HEIRESS WIFE, BARBARA HUTTON

President Calls For More Taxes To Finance War   10/2 Billion More In New Taxes Needed Congress Is Informed

You— Every Man, Wom an, and Child in Amer ica Will Owe Exactly $1,985.

President Says, Budget Takes {t For Granted That War Will Continue On All Fronts Through June 1945.

Red Troops Enter Pass on Polish, Czech Border   Invasion of Hungary Continues, as Budapest Acknowledges Setback

Fight Their Way Into Lupkow Pass; Hungarians  Admit Soviet Advances

22 DIE IN FIRE SET IN HOTEL   San Francisco Police Say Arsonist Caused Blaze; 30 Persons Hurt   Newlyweds Dress Up, Kill Selves in Suicide Pact

Woman Recluse Found Starved Amid Fortune   , Millionaire's Widow Discovered Crawling Helples: In Pittsburgh Mansion

Wealthy Widow, Clad In Rags, Weak Fyrom Hunger, Found In Her Maneian

GOP Scores Fourth Term   Says President Using Office to Gain Ends

President’s Use  Of Title Assailed   Claim He’s ‘Soldier’ Draws G.O.P. Blast

Hitler’s Failing Intuition Reacts on Morale of Nazis   Germans Lose Confidence After Futile Promise Anzio Beachhead Would be Eliminated In Three Days, Prisoners Say

Captives Say Nazi Morale Low at Anzio   Declare Hitler Had Promised Weapons for Victory in 3 Davs.

Nazis Jolted by Anzio Repulse   Morale Suffers os Hitler’s Promise Fails to Come True

Hitler Promise Broken By Allies’ Guns   Said Nazis Would Wipe Out Beachhead In Three Days

HITLER PROMISED VICTORY IN 3 DAYS AT BEACHHEAD   German Prisoners Say Nazis Were Confident  Allies Would Be Cast in Qa

INVASION COAST OF FRANCE COMES IN FOR NEW ATTACKS FROM ALL KINDS OF BOMBERS   Military Targets Under Attack from Air in the West As Russians Advance in East Toward. Pskov. 64.German Fighter Planes Lost Last  Sauer i ana

Hammer Invasion Coast      Allied Flyers Take Up Air War Again After Two-Day Lay-Off; Reds 15 Miles from Pskov

Pskov ‘Goal  of Soviet Baltic ‘Drive   British’ Win Two; Strotigpoints from Nazis at Anzio, BeachHead: 15.000 Prisoners

RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE WITHIN FEW MILES OF PSKOV   British Win Two Strong: points on Rome BeachHead.

TIDE OF BATTLE TURNS IN ITALY   Reds Drive for Baltic and Naziland Bombing Resumed

Reds Reported Within Fifteen Miles of Pskov   Say Nazis Told  To Hold Out “To The Last Man” As Sky Battle Renews

Bomb War On France ~ Resumed   Violent Assault Made on Invasion Coast After a Two-Day Layoff   REDS: PUSH CLOSE : TO BALTIC BASE   Action Increases in Italy, Allies Taking Two Strong Points From Germans

Resume Assaults On Invasion Coast Of F rance  Russians Within - Ar: tillery Range OF  PeLav

Today's Attack ts 18th February Operation for U.S.   15,000 Casualties Cost to Nazis Beachhead Assaults

Nikopol Captured By Reds   15,000 More Nazis Killed As Soviet Grinds Enemy In Dnieper Millstones.

15,000 Nazis Slain in Bitter Fight   Manganese Center Is Captured by Advancing Reds

Nazis Send Up Every Available Plane In Futile Effort To Blunt Attack By Fortreases

German Planes  In Futile Effort To Stop Forts   Luftwaffe Uses All Available Aircraft In Brunsiwick Raid

U.S. Bombers Blast Targets Today At Brunswick Despite Fanatical ‘Charges By Nazi Fighter Planes

Nazi Fliers Make Suicide Charge, Die   Planes Plunge Into Flying Fortress Formation 15 Abreast

GERMANS MAKE FANATICAL BUT FUTILE. EFFORT   Furious ‘Air Battles Reported as Flying Forts Raid Brunswick   By DOUGALD WERNER AND COLLIE SMALL

‘Like Movies, Yank Pilot Says of Raid   Air Battle Lasts Three Hours in 40 Below Weather

Fanatical Nazi Fliers F ail To Halt Yank Forts in ‘Satan’s Merry-Go-Round’

Another Terrific Air Battle  Was Fought Over Germany  Between Nazis, Americans   For Three Hours Luftwatie Threw Every Available Plane At Allies But Forts Got Through

Soviets Break Into Lublin, Take Pskov   San River Reached on  Front 150 Miles From German Silesia; Reds  75 Miles From Riga

Reds Threaten.To Trap Thousands in Baltics _And.in Bypassed Lwow:

Hitler Army Crumbles; Germans Abandon Rskov, As Russians Sweep Toward Silesia.   10 Villages

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German Troops in East Are Demoralized   Red Army Sweeps Through 1,450 Towns and Villages

Drive Through Poland Threatens To Cut Off 300,000 Nazis; 32-Mile Advance Frees 1450 Towns

MAKES STAND TO HALT BIG. WINTER DRIVE   ‘Yanks Locked in Fierce Battle With Enemy Col- umns Advancing in Bel - gium and Luxembourg in Counter-Offensive. —

Assault ‘Continuing, Says High Command, In Dropping  Claim Of Favorable Progress

First Army Strikes Back at Germans   New Nazi Drives Indicated All Along Western Front; Heaviest Activity Noted by Patton, British

First Army Hits Back At Advancing Enemy, Now In Belgium —   Field Marshall Von Rundstedt Attempting. Greatest Counteroffensive Against American Troops In Eurone: Details Withheld pie

First Army Strikes Back at dvancing Infantry < and Ac:aor   HEAVIEST NAZI BLOW   Situation Reported “Extremely Fluid”; Details Withheld

Nazis Shove Northern End Of Line Back   Germans Throw Everything Into Fierce Winter Of. tensive, Use New V-Weapon

Strikes Baek At Advancing Nazi Columns   In Fierce Batthe Which May Prove To Be One Of Most Decisive Of War.   NAZI AIR FORCE OUT

Fierce Battle Called ‘Fluid’   Gen. Hodges Throws Armor Against Germans in Mighty Offensive  LUFTWAFFE BATTERED  Comes Up in Numbers, ‘Loses Many Planes; Enemy Achieves  Several Penetrations   LUFTWAFFE BATTERED

HERCE BATTLE « S RAGING NOW   Germans Attempting Greatest Counteroffensive of  ‘  Entire War. '   MANY PLANES DOWNED

Foe Re-invades Belgium, Luxembout Allies Black Out News of Grea Operation Since D-day

[Fierce Battle May Be Most Decisive Of War   German Columns Advancing In Belgtum And Luxembourg

FIERCE BATTLE SEEN AS VITAL TURNING POINT   New Type ‘V-Weapon’ Used by Germans Day and Night

Ist Army Rips Into Advancing Enemy   K x«K«* OK OX Raiders Slash  At Germans

ALLIED COMMAND HAS ACCEPTED CHALLENGE OF GERMAN HORDES  LER BANS CTDIitry   GEN. HODGES STRUCK BACK MONDAY AT COUN. TERATTACKING ENEMY

Hodges Strikes Back At Germans In Fierce Battle   Present Struggle May Prove To Be Most Deci sive of European War.

NAZI CHALLENGE S ACCEPTED BY ——— ALTIED COMMAND   Germans Attempting Most Serious Counter Offensive Since Invasion.   BRITISH PLANES AID   German Air Force Continues to Support the Nazi Winter Strike.

Foe Re-Invades Two Countries   New ‘V’ Weapon Appears on Front as Gen. Von Rundstedt Launches Greatest German Assault Since Invasion Day

    } }  Foe Hurls Planes, Tanks Into Thrust; Reinvades Luxembourg and Belgium

Big Forces in Fierce Baitles   Yanks Accept Challenge In What May Prove Gne of Most Decisive Actions  j   GERMANS MAKING . ALL-OUT DRIVE   Situation Remains Fluid After Initial Enemy Assault” Gains Several Miles

TROOPS OF AMERICAN FIRST ARMY SLUGGED BACK AT FOE MONDAY  ADVANCING GERMAN ARMORED COLUMNS ENTER LUXEMBOURG-BELGIUM

Surprise Blow Carries Nazis  Into U.S. Lines   Doughboys Striking Back In Fierce Battle Against Advancing Enemy  ~ Infantry   Baitle May Prove  Decisive Of War   Situation In Belgium and Tuxembenrg Scetors So Fluid American Leaders Black Out News

U.S. 1ST ARMY STRIKES BACK AGAINST NAZIS   Von Rundstedt Throws Big Force Into Belgium, Luxembourg

Enemy Hurls ”        Foe Re-invades Belgium, Luxembourg} Allies Black Out News of Greatest Operation Since D-day =

ALLIED COMMAND HAS ACCEPTED CHALLENGE OF GERMAN HORDES  GEN. HODGES STRUCK BACK MONDAY AT COUN.

PUSH AMERICANS BACK IN ALL-OUT COUNTER-OFFENSE   REINVADE BELGIUM IN MONSCHAU AREA; ENTER LUXEMBOURG

Allied Command Accepts En emy Challenge as Nazis Attempt Greatest Kffort To Come Back.   HEAVIEST FIGHTING SINCE THE INVASION

Lowlands Scene of  NaziPush   Decisive Conflict of War Results as Nazi: Open Counteroffensive on Grand Scale; Tanks, Planes Hurled Into Fray

Enemy Tanks Lead Drive Into Belgium  Fury of Battle. Mounts Alona

ERMAN OFFENSIVE IN WHAT  §. FIRST ARMY REPULSES MAY PROVE DECISIVE BATTLE   Allied Comand Accepts Challenge of Field Marshal von Rundstedt in Belgium and Luxembourg Front   STRICT BLACKOUT ON DETAILED INFORMATION

Germans Pushing Advance On An Eighty Mile Front With New And Violent Attacks

TROOPS OF AMERICAN FIRST ARMY SLUGGED BACK AT FOE MONDAY  ADVANCING GERMAN ARN  ADVANCING GERMAN ARM. ORED COLUMNS ENTER LUXEMBOURG-BELGIUM

Full Scale Attack Launched By Nazis Met By First Army   'No Cause for Alarm’, Reassurance from Allied Headquarters As Warplanes Swarm in To Hit German Forces But Details of Fighting Not Disclosed—Reds Turn Big Guns on Budapest in Drive Through Balkans

Clash In Fierce Battle With Advancing Nazis  In Belgium, Luxembourg

ENEMY T RETURN 10 BELGIUM   Battle Looms As Most Decisive Of War   LUXEMBOURG   Also Re-Entered By Nazis: Strict Blackout Placed On Detailed News

Field Marshal Von Rundstedt Throws Hundreas of Planes, Tanks and Many Divisions Into Surprise Winter Blow; Americans Are Fighting Fiercely

Huns Spring New Counteroffensive   Seek to Throw Yanks Off Stride in West   Reinvade Luxembourg, Belgium; Ist Army Battles to Halt Germans

Bitter Battles in Progress As Gen. Hodges Hits Back   Detailed Information on Yanks’ Challenge to German Assault Withheld As Fighting Rages Over 80-Mile Section of Western  Front—Enemy Penetrations Admitted by Allied Haadauarteorc

Hodges’ First Army ~ Strikes Back Today At Advancing Nazis   Supreme Headquarters Of Allies Decides On Strict Blackout On Enemy Gains And U. S. Moves

Decisive Battle 's Raging Upon Western Front   Detailed Information  Of Fighting Withheld

Nazis Toss Bulk Of Reserves Into _Counter-attack Against Hodges’ First Army But Yanks Brace Anc Meet Situation’

First Army Strikes Back At Advancing Germans .   Battle Now on May Be One OF rs The Most Decisive of thé War

MOST DECISIVE BATTLE OF WAR NOW UNDER WAY   Both Sides Blackout News From Front; Huns Use New V Bomb

German Power Drives Penetrate U.S. Lines   Enemy Strikes Staggering Blow in AllOut Offensive Against Allies in Germany; Exact Situation at Front Uncertain.

Fierce Baltle Called ‘Fluid’   Gen, Hodges. Throws Armor Agains? Germans in Mighty Offensive   ee le ae  Mighty Offensive     LUETWAFFE BATTERED  Comes Up in Numbers, Loses Many .Planes; Enemy Achieves — Several Penetrations   LUETWAFFE BATTERED

Lines of First Army Dented ‘By Nazi Blows   Germans Flung Greatest Attack Against Yank Troops in Europe

Yanks Accept Challenge In igium, Luxembourg; May Be Decisive Battle of War

Fierce Struggle Now Under Way   Situation at Front Reported Extremely Fluid—-Hodges Throws Armor Into Big Battle Against Major German CounterAttack in Belgium and Luxembourg

Today In Washington  New Draft Stays For Most Men   Indefinite Deferments For 30-37 Age Croup Ordered In Re-Drawing of Draft Setup

AMERICANS ADVANCE ON LIVORNO   Aim at Flanking Nazi Defenses Near Key Port

FLANK ATTACK BY FIFTH MAY TURN BARRIER:   Squeeze Put On Nazis To Speed Drive On Livorno

Yanks Take Stronghold InIitaly   State Of Siege Reported Ordered In Livorno Area

Yanks Driving On Livorno, By-Pass Lajatice   Fortified Town of Casale Captured Ry Americans

U.S. TROOPS BYPASS LAJATICO: SIEGE STATE REPORTED IN LIVORNO   YANKS USE FLANKING PRESSURE TO SQUEEZE NAZI DEFENSES ON COAST; CASALE CAPTURED

YANKEE TROOPS TAKE FORTIFIED TOWN IN ITALY   By-pass Mountain Stronghold Of Lajatico But Capture Casale

Yanks Capture Casale in Italy   Swiss Say Livorno in State of Siege

Airfield on Eniwetok And Nearby Isle Captured; Jap Strategy Change Seen

JAPAN SHOWS WEAKNESS IN MOSCOW DEAL   Political Strength Is Waning  YIELDS OIL, COAL  Stalin Gives Direct Aid To U.S.

ALLIED PATROLS ENTER FLORENCE   HISTORIC ARNO BRIDGES DE' STROYED BY NAZIS AS THEY WITHDREW.

British Drive Into Florenee   Nazis Raze City Bridge To Imnede Rritish

Enemy Destroys Historic Bridges In Florence”   FORMER COACH (WAR VICTIVE

Allied Patrols Stab at Heart Of Florence   All But One Bridge syanning Acno River Destroyed by Nazis

ALLIES CRASH LAST DEFENSES OF FLORENCE   Eighth Army Finds Historic River Bridges Destroyed As Enemy Retreats

ALLIES BLAST WAY TO HEARI OF FLORENCE   Troops Hammer Through - Last Defenses Before  ‘Art Center

GERMANS FALL BACK TO ARNO   Allies Smash Last Defense of Nazis at Florence; Patrols Enter City

BRIDGES OF FLORENCE ARE DESTROYED   Despite Open City Declaration Made by Nazis; Retreat Beyond Arno As Army Approaches.   Defenses Collapse

Major Sea Fight May Already Be  In Progress   Whole Japanese Naval Strength Believed Concentrated West Of Marianas; Ground Forces Now Hold South Half Of Saipan Island.

ENEMY FLEET - 1S BELIEVED NEAR SAIPAN   ‘Nimitz Hopes Japs Will Accept  t Showdown

Will Eternal City Become Bloody .  Battlesround: Nazis Know Answer

Rome's Fate Up to Nazis   Whether Eternal City Becomes Battlefield Depends on Enemy

OOP GRIN A MILES AHEAD   German Broadcast Says Allied Advance Was Away From City.   NAZIS GAIN AT CASSING

Soviet Army Makes Ready  For Invasion   Fall Of Bastion Clears Obstacle To East Prussia.

NAZIS DISCLOSE LOSS OF NORTH POLISH BASTION   Lomza Capture Clears Way for Red Smash © Into East Prussia

Siegfried Line Dented At Rotgen; New U. S. Army In Field; 3rd Army In Neufchateau; Reds Near Hungary

Nazis Admit Loss — Of City Of Lomza   Heavy Soviet Raids Over East Prussia Are Reported; Reds On Hungarian Plains

GERMANS LOSE LOMZAIN NORTH POLAND   Important Nazi Defense Post Falls to Reds

Nazis Abandon East Prassian Guardian City   Loma Falls to Reds; Russians. Also Annroach Hunrary

REDS CAPTURE LOMZA, MAJOR DEFENSE POST   Southern Push Drives Over Last Barrier  Before Plains

Germans Admit Loss of Lomza  In North Poland   Big Scale Air Sweeps Launched By Soviets” Over East Prussia

Soviet Troops Seize Vital Polish Bastion   LONDON — “?) — Premier Josef Stalin announced today that the red army had captured Lomza.

Nazis Admit Loss Of Lomza, Anchor Of E. Prussia Line   Red Air Force Sweeps Over Border To Soften Enemy

HEAVY ARMOR IN VALLEY OF MURESEL RIVER   Russian And Romanian Armored Forces Crash Last Mountain Barrier Protecting Hungarian Plains, Head For Border   GERMAN, HUNGARY TROOPS BATTLING

Russian Forces Capture Lomza In North Poland  Push Into East Prussia Seen en

Vinson Approves Wage Hike for Steel Workers   OPA Says Boost Will Not Necessitate Increase in Prices

Vinson Orders Inereases Put  Into Effect   Estimated To Average 5 to 7 Centa Hour For Early and Late Night Shift Workers   Increases Not In Basic Wage   Approval Given lo WLB Directive After Aseertaining Steel Prices  Will Not Be Affected 

STEEL MILL WAGE BOOST APPROVED   VINSON Pps 0. °K, LON - EN' CREASES RECOMMENDED BY WAB. LABOR. BOARD.

Aporove Boost in Steel Wages  Increases Average 5 to 7 Cents an Hour

VINSON SAYS STEEL DUE 10 GO UP ANYWA)   He Disassociates Wage Raise and ‘Overdue’ Price Increase

40-F t. Square Target 10 Mis. Aw: ay Wr ecked  Bin AA   240-Mm. Howitzers Of U.S. Demonstrate Accuracy In Italy

BIGGEST AMERICAN FIELD GUN BEING USED ON GERMANS   240mm Howitzer Proving Self on Italian Front; Explo sive Shell Used

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY BLOW IN BOMBINE   AIRCRAFT WORKS MASS OF FLAMES AFTER MOST stUC‘ESSFUL RAID BY SUPERFORTS

Fourth Raid on Tokyo is Most Successful Yet   Mighty B-29’s Fight Their Way Thru Jap Planes

Tokyo Raid Result Best Up To Date   Pilots Fight Way Through Nip Defenders To Blast Vital Plane Plant

BSS SM se TOKY' : <f FOI" =, TIME   Hit Vital Masashima Plane Plant; Only One U. S. Fort Lost

BOS Hs TOKY' 2 FOV" =, TIME   Hit Vital Masashima Plane Plant; Only One U.S. Fort Lost

ELAS Resistance Continues Despite Cease Fire Order   Strong Attacks Against Center Of Athens Fail   Bulletin

ORDER DEFIANT ~ CHIEFS APPEAR   WLB Instructs Attorneys ‘Do Whatever Necessary’ for MESA Hearing

Judge Leif Erickson Files Petition For Governor Today  Member of Supreme   Member of Supreme Court Enters Democratic Race

French Push Up Saone Valley  SP cele: Pte Timescen   Yanks Take Town Near German Line

MUST CHANGE SOON   But Forecaster See No Positive Signs of Altered Weather

Philippine Raids Net 86 Ships   U. S. Plane Attacks Rout Nipponese Navy Break Air Force

Jap Navy Driven To New Bases By Yank Attacks   Enemy Plane and Shir Losses Mount as

Nip Fleet Driven Out Of Islands      Nimitz Reveals That Since Aug. 30 Yanks Bagged 978 Enemy  Planes and 183 Shing

 US. Planes Drive Jap Navy From ‘Philippines, Smash Island Airforce   Tokyo Reports Attack ' Continuing For 3rd _ Day After Destruction  of 906 Jap Aircraft And   449 Ships.

Nippon Naval Forces Driven to New Place   149 Ships and 906 Planes Destroyed in Philippine Conquest

Manila Bay Raids Show Big Results   Japanese Naval Forces Driven To New Bases by American Planes

U.S.-Raids: On Philippines Send Jap Ships To Cover, ‘Break’ Enemy’s Air Force

Enemy Island Airpower Broken Nimitz Reports   U. S$. Attacks Have Destroyed 906 Nip Planes; Sunk or  Damaaed 149 Ships

Break Back Of Jap Airforce In Philippines   Enemy Naval Forces Defending Islands Drive To New Bases.

Manila Area Hard Hit by U.S. Raids   Raking Raids on Philippines Drive the Japs to New Bases   AIR FORCE “BROKEN”   Planes From Attacking - Fleet Have Destroyed 906 Jap Aircraft

Jap Navy Driven From Philippines   Nimitz Says Enemy Goes to New Bases

Jap Fleet Driven From Philinpines   Island Airforce “Broken” by Yank Attacks, Nimitz  Declares

Jap Navy Driven To New Bases By Yank Attacks   Enemy Plane and Ship Losses Mount as Fliers Hit Philippines

SECOND LARGE TOLL TAKEN IN MANILA AREA   Adm. Nimitz Reports Sinking of 29 More Jap Ships and Damaging of at Least Twenty  AIipc cCeriy AIPA RPA CRE

Toll Increased To 906 Planes And 149 Ship:   Crushing Blows Dealt Nipponese By U. S. Carrier Raids

AIR AND NAVAL STRENGTH HAS BEEN WIPED OUT   J, ©. Carrier Based Plane Raids Drive Nip Naval Forces To New Bases; Break  Island's Air Power.

Yanks Smast Air Power In Islands   200 Planes Wrecked, 29 Ships Sunk in Most Recent Attack

Attacks Drive Jap Fleet To  Distant Bases      Philippine Air Defense Broken; 405 Planes Downed In 2 Davs

U.S. Carrier Plane RaidsHaveBroken Island Air Force      Latest Smash At Manila Sinks 29 More Ships, Destroys 200 Jap Planes

Jap Air Force In Manila Area  Broken By U.S.   Raking Raids From Air and Sea-Force Nip Naval Units to Seek New . Bases

ENEMY’S NAVAL FORCES DRIVEN 10 NEW BASES   U. S. Carrier Planes Raided Third Time, Tokyo Reports

Island Air Force Also Broken by Terrible Losses inflicted by Task Force

Japs Report More Attaeks Against Isles By Americans       inemy’ Air. Force. “Broken” By Raids

Berlin Radio Says FDR Is About To Visit Vatican  German Broadcast Says Plans Are Being Completed

FRED CLAESSEN, AKRON. SELECTED   Republicans Name Supervisor to Run on Ticket  This Fall

DRIVE HALF MILE OF CAEN AIRPORT   Nazis Claim New Landing Attempts Have Been Frustrated

Drive Within Half Mile Of One Of Caen’s Main Airfields  BEAT OFF FOUR NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS  Berlin Claims New Allied Landings Have Been Attempted

British Near One Of Main Caen Fields   German Attacks Are Beaten Off In Hard Fighting

BRITISH BROADEN BRIDGEHEAD «©. OVER ODON RIVER; ENEMY CLAIMS ALLIES MAKING NEW LANDINGS

H. L. TRUMPOWER WINS KIGH HONORS   Local Seaman Commend: ed for “Conspicuous ~ Bravery”

HL. TRUMPOWER WINS HIGH HONORS   Local Seaman Commended for "Conspicuous Bravery’

Army Clears WAC Of Rule  Infractions   Shares Food With Those In Ranks

TAFT SAYS HILLMAN TO DOMINATE LABOR   Says He'll Run. Economic Policy If FDR Wins

BLAST RIPS. BOMB TRAIN   Several Buildings in  Town Are Demolished

40 Tons of Bombs Explode at Tolar, Killing One Man  Blast Follows Rail Fire; 39 Cars of Freight Train Are Derailed

‘Major Setback Suffered in Burma Drive Is Off-Set in Other Sectors

ANNUAL MEETING FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST JUNE   Many Thousand Attended Meeting Held In  Boston

CHR. SCIENCE CHURCH IS IN SESSION   Paul S. Seeley Named President Of Mother Church

LEMAY TO HEAD 20TH AIR FORCE   Veteran Of European Raids Succeeds Gen. Wolfe

SUPERFORTRESS -GHIEF SELECTED   Ohioan Will Direct Raids on Jap Homeland’s War Industry

; Banks, Stores and:Ali Pablic Offices Will Be Close No Newspapers or Ma Will Be Delivered On "Monday, Sept. 4th.

BIG CELEBRATION PLANNED FOR CIO “PICNIC ON SUNDAY   Lindhorst The Famous Magician te  * Be Special Attraction at the  Blanchette Park Here.

YANKEE SHOCK UNITS CLOSING IN ON ST. LO   Bloody Battle Rages For Control Of Important Highway Junction

Early Progress Is Slow; Last Mile and Half Likely To Be Bloodiest Of Campaign.

YANKS FIGHT IN OUTSKIRTS OF ST. LO   Grinding Drive For Hilltop Citadel is Meeting Success; Gains on Other End of Normandy Line.

Yank Force t{fammering St. Lo Gates   Troops Advance Behind Murderous Artillery Berrace

Vanguards Reach Kidge Of Citadel   Final Assault May Be Bloodiest Of Yank Campaign.

U. 8. PATROLS ARE REPORTED IN OUTSKIRTS   Advances on Highway Junction Lying Athwart Normandy Invasion Route.

SHOCK TROOPS — CLOSING IN ON ST. LO AREA      Two Fierce Enemy Counter-Attacks Beaten Off Between Odon and Orne Rivers hy Rriticsh

LAST MILE AND HALF INTO ~ CITY EXPECTED TO PRODUCE BLOODIEST FIGHTING YET 

LAST MILE OF DRIVE MAY BE TOUGHEST YET   Thunderous Gun Barrage Covers Troops In New Assault

Subsidies Rapped By Rep. Kleberg   Texan Answers Byrnes s Arguments in Favor of Payments

MAJOR LEAGUE STARS WILL ENTERTAIN . SOLDIERS OVRSEAS   Don. Gutteridge, Luke Sewell and J. Roy Stockton Will Leave For  > Overseas After Series.

STATE OF TEXAS T0  ASK REHEARING FOR  NEGRO VOTE CASE STATE DEMOCRATIC  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO MEET FOR ACTION

STATE ASKS VOTE CASE RE-HEARING   Governor Rules Out Possibility Of Special Session

Southern States Planning Action To Offset Ruling   Arkansas, Alabamz Have Similar Law To Texas; Other: Up In Arms

State To Ask Rehearing In Demo Primary Case As Party Leadere Man Planes Ta Offeet Forced Nearo V ote Edict

RED TROOPS NOW WITHIN PITY LIMITS   Odessa Suburbs Reached; New Battle Begins

STORM TROOPS  NEAR ODESS!   Roar of Battle Echoes Throughout Vital Port Gn Black Sea.

Cavalry, Tanks Drive In From Three Sides   Last Escape Railroad ls Objective of Right Flank of Army

Russ Troops Reach Odessa   Germans Trapped as Main Escape Routé Into Rumania !s Cut Off; Reds Aim Three-Pronged Drive at Seaport

Nazi Efforts To Break Qut Fail: Escane Road Cut   Boom Of Heavy Guns Heard In Big Port City As Thousands Trapped

Malinovsky Forces’ Drive On Seaport ~ From 3 Direction:   Ukrainians Capture Razdelnaya To Cut Off Nazi Eseape Line; Red Tanks And Cavalry Active

DRIVE ON CITY FROM THREE POINTS   Nazi Commanders Expected To Flee City   GREAT BATTLE   For Tarnopol Still Rages; Germans Lose 1,000 In Try To Break Trap

On Black Sea Port From Three Points  a Forces Drive   ight Flank of Gen. Malinovsky's Cavalry and Light Tanks Push Through Quagmires West of City KHeadina for Vital Railroad   AST REMAINING ESCAPE ROUTE TO RUMANIA

ROAR OF BATTLE ECHOES ACROSS BLACK SEA PORT   Red Cavalry And Tanks Drive On Vital Port From Three _ Directions; Germans And Rumanians Are Trapped In City.

TANKS ATTACK VITAL SEAPORT FROM 3 SIDES   Trapped Axis Soldiers Can Escape Only Over Marshes

Kussians Push To Black Sea Port of Odessa   Gen. Malinovsky’s Troops Drive Upon Metropolis From Three Directions

AEDS GLOSt IN UN CITY FROM DIRECTION   Swift Drive of Storm Units Brings to Nazis Threat of Disaster.

Red Troops In Suburbs Of Odesss   Forces Within 9 Miles Of Heart Of Besieged Black Sea Port; Press In For Kill

Red Storm Troops Push Into Odessa   Baitle in Gutlying Sectiocs fer Black Sea Pert, Push Exbermination ef Nazis in Tarnesel

RIGHT FLANK MAY CUT RAILWAY   Cavalry And Light Tanks Driving On Eseape Port

Reds Storming Black Sea Port; Slash Through Tarnopol ‘Defense:   RAF Attacks Aircraft Plants

Cavalry And Light Tanks Hit At Great Black Sea Port From Three Sides ~

Escape Route Of Germans May Be Cut   Rains Complicate Ground Fighting Near Metropolis

Reds Less Than Nine Mi. From Heart of Great Black Sea Port   Germans Claim Break in Russ Encirclement  of Kovel

Malinovsky Is Leading Big Attack On Seaport   Gernians Are Faced With Defeat, Death

STRIKE MADE BY CAVALRY, LIGHT TANKS   Storm Troops Advance on Black Sea Base From 3 Directions — Main Forces 9 Miles From Heart of Metronolis. «.

GREAT BLACK SEA  PORT UNDER FIRE  THREE DIRECTIONS SOVIET STORM TROOPS  FIGHTING IN OUTLYING AREA OF ODESSA

Three Forces  Drive on South Port   Red Army Cavalry and Tanks Are Advancing Through Quagmires to Head Off Foe’s Escape Efforts; Many Nazis Trapped

Drive on City From Three Directions   Right Flank Seeks to Cut Last Remaining Escape Route

Russians Closing in  On Odessa   Four Red Army Pushes Are Aimed At Heart of City; Capture Kubanka

REDS STORMING BLACK SEA PORT FROME 3 SIDES   Roar Of Battle Heard Throughout The City   NAZI GENERALS BELIEVED GONE

Red Troops Push To Odessa Suburbs   Russian Forces Drive on Port From Three Directions Says Moscow

Reds Storm IntoSuburbs ‘Of Odessa   Battie Roar Echoes Throughout Great Sea Base; Drive From Three Direction:

Russ Troops In Odessa’s  Suburbs And Suree Ahead   Army Drives In From Three Directions; Battle Reaches New Fury At Tarnopol

Tank-Led Cavalry Forces Converging Into Heart of City   Pincer Arm Closing on Exit Path; Tarnopol ‘Death Battle’ Raging; Quacniire Fails to Stop Advance

Push In On Port From Three Sides   Soviet Cavalry, Tanks  Overcome Rain And BA: 0 ek abe iia

Attempt To Sever Last Rail Line    Russians Are Only Nine Miles From Heart Of Black Sea Port — Hope To Spring Trap

ROAR OF BATTLE ECHOES IN CITY   REDS MOVE ON THE BLACK SEA PORT FROM 3 DIRECTIONS

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON ODESSA   Army Troops Reach Out skirts of Big Port from Three Sides

jans Hurl $Pronged Drive At Huge Seaport   Sound Of —_ Rattles Black Sea Bane

‘Russians Move On Metropolis ‘From 3 Points   iRoar of Battle Echoes:  Throughout City: Ger ; mans Within Gates   Facing Trap   Main Escape Route Already Is Blocked   “Big Forces Axis Troops Reported By Moscow To Be Putting Up Desperate Struggle

Reds Encircle Vital Port On Black Sea   Communique Reveals Germans Trying  To Leave Odessa  By Tank and Plane

Battle Echoes Throughout Gity   German Commanders Reported Deserting Men and Equipment — Violent: Extermination of Enemy in Skala and  [Tern

REDS PUSH ON BLACK SEA PORT FROM 3 SIDES   Cut Nazis’ Main Escape Route To Rumania in Capture of Razdelnaya

Russians Reach  Edge Of Odessa   Storm Troops Battle Nazis ~ And Rumanians in  Suburbs   FOUR UNITS CONVERGE   Cavalry and Light Tanks Drive on Fort From Three Directions

Russian Cavalry And Tank Forces Drive On Great Black Seq Port Erom Three Sjdes

Drive on Odessa By Reds Is Made From Three Sides   Russian Storm Troops Push Into Outlying Suburbs of the City.   Only One Escape Line Is Left Open to Nazis

Stilwell Cuts Burma Japs Escape Route   Large Garrison, Other Enemy Forces Isolated

CUT RETREAT OF GARRISON AT KAMAING   Stilwell Army Holds Road Block on Main Line

PHILADELPHIA QUIET AFTER FDR’S ORDER   Supervision by Army Forces Strikers  Back to Job

Twin Drive on Madang Is Progressing   Jap Supply Base Threatened From Two Sides

Four Brifish Frigates Sent by U. 5. Lend-Lease ‘Sink Two German Subs

Yankee Patrols  Enter Strongly Defended St. Lo   British Set To Break Deadlock Around Caen

Yanks Enter Lessay; Reds Take Grodno   Allies Push Nazis Back in Italy; Air War Resumes over Continent

BRITISH SECOND ARMY TROOPS BATTER OUT HEAVY BATTLE GAINS   HUGE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ROLLS FORWARD AFTER CAPTURE GRODNO

PAY BOOST ASKED FOR COMBAT BOYS   Secretary Stimson Says New Proposal Is “Incentive” Measure

PAY BOOST: ASKED FOR COMBAT BOYS   Secretary Stimson ~ ly Says New mapowel Je -“*Incentive” Measure —

ALLIED FLIERS HAMMER FAR, WIDE AT JAP   Bases In Central and S.W. Pacific Come in for Further Poundings; Ant Island Raided

Blast J ap Bases On Guinea Coast   dberators Batter Wewak anc Sink Cargo Ship—Hit Jap Islands

War Bond Sales Make Progress   Jones County Is Buying Generously

NO CHEAP WAY TO FINANCE WAR   Drive Now On For Sale of 4th War Loan Bonds

SEE HATCH ACT VIOLATION IN NEW DEAL-C10 TIE-UF   Over 70 New Deal Officials Charged by Dies Committee With Complicity in CIO Affiliations.

LYONS EXPECTED 10 RESIGH AS POMMITTEEMAN   National Delegates to Meet Tomorrow in Indianapel's

LYONS EXPECTED TO RESIGH AS. GOMMATTEEMAN   National Delegates ‘to Meet Tomorrow -in Indiananal’s

JAPS CAPTURE RAILROAD LINE IN CHINA DRIVE   Foe Advances Swiftly In Wide Area, Trap Chinese Units

JAP INVADERS WIN CONTROL OF RAILWAY   Forces Join at Chumatien Just 21 Days after Big Offensive; Little Hope for Defenders.  Raaand fMranaingr Avortod   Second Crossing Averted

Strongly Menace Loyang, ‘Strategic Rail Center; Some Troops Surrounded

JAPANESE “CONTROL RAILWAY   Vital Peiping - Hankow Line in China in Hands of Big Jap Force

RAF BATTERS BERLIN ANEW   Fields of Flames In Nazi Capital Touched Off Again

RAF Attack Sets Berlin Afire Again   Night Bombing Seen As Beginning Of ‘MoppingIIn Oneration.’

New Pulverizing Blow At Berlin Struck By RAF   Obliteration Attack On Nazi Nerve Center  ‘Very Strong’ -

Twelfth Heavy RAF Raid  One of Finishing Blows Aimed at German Capital

Berlin Aflame Again As RAF Batters City   Nazi Nerve Center Smashed Anew in Heavy Bomb Attack

BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN BY THE RAF THURSDAY NIGH   Dropped 1500 ‘Long ‘Tons of Explosives in 20 Minutes, the Air Ministry Said.   U. S. BOMBERS BUSY   Took Over Assault on Hitler’s Europe Shortly After Daybreak.

Bomb Tonnage Rained -On City Near 1500 Tons   Twelfth Attack On Metrop‘olis Might Be Described  . As “Mopping Up  ; Operation’’   Industrial Areas _ Are Major Targets   RAF “Loses 35 Planes Tr All Night Raids; Heavy U.S. Bombers Over _Europe During Davy

RAF Lays It On; AAF In Big Day Smash ©      Allies Pound Jap-Held Islands

Americans in Follow-Up Assaults   Capital Hit Mighty Blow and Target in France Blasted

Berlin Again Sef Aflame   Heavy RAF Raid Hits Areas That Remained Unwrecked

HUNDREDS OF HEAVY RAF BOMBERS BLAST CAPITAL LAST NIGHT   OTHER BOMBERS HIT HELGOLAND, WESTERN GERMANY, NORTH FRANCE

Factory Area Pulver ized j in  ’ 4 rer eee,  Ar Atiacik Possible Coup de Grace Is Delivered to German Nerve Center  3£ AIRCRAFT LOST Other Targets in France  and Germany Pounded in Nicht Raids:

YANKS POUND NO. FRANCE TODAY   British Lose 34 Aircraft In Night’s Attacks   HELGOLAND   Also Blasted By British; Estimate 1,500 Tons Fall On Capital

RAF FIRE RAID LEAVES BERLIN AFLAME AGAR   ‘jfons of Incendiaries Used in Assault, Reports Say

R. A. F. Delivers 12th Heavy Assault On Nazi Nerve Center; U. S. Fortresses Over Europe

Flame Pillars Mark Berlin After Airraic   British Announce Raid as ‘Very Strong’; 34 Planes Lost

BOMBERS HIT BERLIN AGAIN   New Fires Rage After 12th Heavy Assault: Helgoland Also Raided

RAID DESCRIBED AS A POSSIBLE COUP DE GRACE   Jery Strong Attack Made On German Capital; Other Bombers Strike At Helgoland And Targets In Western Germany And France.

PAF’S HEAVY BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST BERLIN      Great Fires Sei in Quier Areas 0! Cily Where Heavy Industries Located, Swedish Reports Say   FORTS OUT TODAY   Unnaed Targei in Northern France Hit by Americans, RAF Bombers Raid Helgoland

Helgoland Base Also Blasted  U.S; Bomber :   U.S; Bombers. Back Over Europe Today

Berlin Afire Again After RAF Assault   Strong Force Of Planes Drops 1,500 Tons On Nazi Capital; List 34 Bombers Lost

Heavy Air Assault Is Made By RAI On Berlin   Huge Fires Again Left In German Capital; London Says Attack  Was ‘Very Strone’

RAT BOMBERS STAGE RAIDS (VER BERLIN   Nazi Nerve Center Left In Flames . After Assault

Industrial ‘Sections  Of City Bear Brunt Of Bomber Attack   Giant American Warplanes Take Up Assault by Daylight Against Highly Touted ‘Atlantic Wall’ Put Up by Nazis as Invasion Bulwark

U.S. BOMPERS FOLLOW UIP RAF RAID ON BERLIN   Americans Blast At Hitler’s “Fortress Europe” After 1,500-Ton Night Attack on German Capital.

American Bombers Take Over Assault Of Hitler’s Touted. "Atlantic Wall”

Berlin Burns Anew After RAF Blow   Raid a ’’Mopping Up’’ Operation; American Bombers Punch at France

Berlin Again Rises In Hames   RAF Bombers Also Hit Nazi Helgoland, Western Germany and Northern France.

BRITISH SHOWER BOMBS ON NAZI CAPITAL, AGAIN   Berlin Ablaze Once More After Heavy Attack — 34 RAF Bombers Lost

RAF DEALS OUT COUP DE GRACE RAID ON BERLIN   GREAT NEW FIELDS OF FLAMES TOUCHED OFF IN NAZIS CAPITAL

Berlin Again Burning After Raid   American Bombers Strike Another Blow at Europe

Berlin is Sea of Fire Again After RAF Bomber Visit   Yank Heavy Bombers Rain Destruction Over Western Europe

BERLIN LEFT IN FLAMES BY RAF BOMBERS   Raiders in Great Force Continue Operations to Knock Out Capital.   U.S. Planes Take Off For ‘Atlantic Wall’

') AIRWAR=  FAS AGING IN QUTER DISTRICTS   N azidom * N: e rve- -Center More Than ‘Three - Quarters’ Destroyed.   - U.S PLIERS BUSY:   Big American - Bdmbers . Blasting ‘Hitler’ s Touted: ‘Atlantic: Walt’ _

TWELFTH ATTACK CENTERS CITY IN "FIELD OF FLAME’   American Planes Continue Daylight Assaults On France

BERLIN BATTLES NEW FIRES AFTER BRITISH AIR RAIL   Helgoland, Nazi Fortress in North Sea, Also Heavily Bombed

BERLIN LEFT IN FLAMES BY RAF BOMBERS   Three Quarters Of City Wiped Out, Arnold Says

12th Major Raid OnReich Capital ~ Costs 34 Planes   mo: Pong ge 34,40" Great American Bombers 3 4 a 3 pe 7  ‘Hitler’s “Atlantic: Wall”

Aerial Attacks On Nazi Fields   BERLIN IS BLASTED BY TONS OF BOMBS

Great RAF Fleet Smashes Capital   ‘American Bombers Take Uj; Attack. by Daylight—18,000 Tons Have Fallen on City

Berlin Raid Called Mopping-Up' Project   Lat Night’s Blow, in Which 1,500 Tons of Bombs Fell, Considered in London as --One of Decisive Finishing Strokes.

Berlin Pounded By Hundreds of RAF Bombers In Mop-Up Raid   34 Planes Lost in Night’s Operations; Yankees Hit France

TORPEDO BOATS BAG 12 BARGES   Catalina Flying Boats Help Batter Japs Off Bougainville

OPEN HARBORS BILL HEARING   Measure Includes $75,000  For St. Joe Turning  Racin

Postwar Aviation To Be Discussed   American-Built Bases Involved

Postwar Air Pacts Up at Parley Soon   Control of Bases Built by U. S. to Be One of Problems Studied

American Food Is Moving Over Fast   Increasing Quantities Going To Fighting Allies

Vatican To Aid Populace Of Florence   Will Send Fleur, Other Necessities; New Drive Opened

Aid Sought For Populace In Florencé   Vatican Takes Steps to Help  Allies Relieve Desperate Plight of Population in Besieged City

POPULATION OF FLORENCE WILL BE GIVEN FOOD   Vatican To Aid Allies; Nazis Withdraw

Pope Would Aid Florence Folk   Residents Suffering From Shortages of Food and Water

Vatican Asks Permission to Aid Florence   Embattled City Suffers From Food and Water Shortages

Hope for Aid To Florence   Italian Citizens In Desperate Plight As City Suffers

VATICAN TO AID ALLIES IN CARE OF FLORENTINES   Archbishop To Distribute Food To Suffering Populace

VATICAN SENDS FLORENCE AID   ITALIANS, POLES LAUNCH NEW ADRIATIC DRIVE

Vatican Asks Heip to Send Florence Aid   Plans Food for Sufferers in Siege: Snipers and Fascists Mopped Up

Vatican Joins .Allies in Relievinc Food, Water Shortage in Florence

STEPS TAKEN FOR RELIEF POPULATION BESIEGED FLORENCE  ONLY MINOR OPERATION   ONLY MINOR OPERATIONS REPORTED ON ITALIAN FRONT THURSDAY

Aid Sought By Vatican   -Foodstutts. Appeal. Made ‘For. Italians

AID FOR FLORENCE   Vatican Asks Transportation for Food for Hungry Populace

Troops Launch Drive Across The Misa River   Vatican To Help In Relieving Plight Of Florence Populace

Hostile Units Being Mopped Up In Florence   Canadian Trvuops Being Aided By Ttalian Patriots In Disposing Of Fascist

Vatican Acts To Help Allies Get Food To Florence People   'talian Patriots Aid Canadians in  Mapping Up Hostile Fascist Forces

VATICAN PLANS — TOAD ALLE   Combined Efforts Will Re. lieve Plight of Florence Porulation.

FIRST LADY TO BE HEARD AGAIN   Mrs. Roosevelt Refuses To Make Any Predictions; She'll Talk in N. Y.

1072 Japs Slain In Aitape Area: Bomb Near Davao  Last of Foe on Guam in Small

Americans Take 7,812 More Prisoners in Swift Push —.Germa) Resistance Crumbling.             BRADLEY NOW UP. ~* WITH TIMETABLE   Advance Puts His Army in Open Country — Spearheads Pointed at Heart of Nation. -

Ca eae ee re  Total of 7,812 Prisoners Captured During Day NAZI RESISTANCE REPORTED WEAKER Lt. Gen. Bradley Catches Up With His Timetable

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Reds Trap All Nazis in North Baltic States   Two German Armies Cut Off From East Prussia By Russian Drive; Americans Capture 7812 Prisoners in Day on French Front: Stalemate in Ital

ENEMY RANKS BROKEN; 7,812 ARE CAPTURED   GERMAN RESISTANCE CRUMBLES ALONG FRENCH FRONT

American Troops Break Into ‘Brittany At Four Points As 7,812 Prisoners Are Taken   Seven Entire German Divisions Lacerated By Rolling Yank Offensive; 9,781 Nazis Buried Since D-Day; Bradley’s Drive On Schedule

Breach nazi defenses at: four points.  Americans pour into Britannvy .

Total of 7,812 Prisoners Captured During  _Day_  NAZI RESISTANCE REPORTED WEAKER  Lt. Gen. Bradley Catches Up With His Time table

Day Raiders Follow Up Night Blows   British Heavies Spread Destruction Along French Coast.

Big Russ Tank Forces Smash 7 Miles Closer to Budapest   Two Armies Tighten Siege Arc; Other Troops Push Along Roads to Vienna

REVEAL DUCE LOOTED: FUND   DOCUMENTS SHOW. MUSSOLINI '. STOLE FOUR AND HALF MIL. -LION DOLLARS BEFORE *~ OVERTHROW

FEEL HITLER WILL NEVER BE TRIED AS WAR CRIMINAL   Slav Foreign Minister Believes Fuehrer Will Be Taken Care of By the Military or Com-. mit Suicide 

Meee Says __ Hitler Will Die  Prior To Trials   Czech Foreign Minister Sees Fuehrer Suicide Or Killed By Military

Hitler To Die In ’44 Is Forecast   Czech Says He Won't Be Alive To Be Tried

Hitler Will Never Be Tried As War Criminal; Will Be Killed or Suicide, Says Jan Masaryk

Thinks Hitler Won't Live To  Face Accusers   ‘Will Be Shot By Germans Or Commit Suicide, Declares  Czech Foreign Minister

Masaryk Predicts Military To Take Care Of Nazi Chief Or He Will Commit Suicide

Czech Foreign Minister Says Hitler Won't Live Long Enough to be Tried

Hitler Will Not Live Long Enough to. Be Tried as War Criminal Says Czech

PREDICTS DEATH OF HITLER SOON   CZECH CHIEF SAYS NAZI LEADER IS ALREADY DOOMED

Predicts Hitler Won't Live Long Enough To Face Trial   Czech Foreign Minister Says Either Germans Will ‘Take Care’ Of Hitler Or He'll Be A Suicide

HITLER WON’T LIVE LONG ENOUGH FOR TRIAL AS WAR CRIMINAL, CZECH MINISTER BELIEVES

Bricker Condemns FDR: Governor Charges President Sells Out His Party to Hillman’s P.A.C.         Scores New Deal

ACCUSES F. D. R. OF “SELLING OUT PARTY’ T06.1.0   Bricker Condemns the Administration’s “Vicious Alliance with Sidney Hillman.”   DECLARES DEMOCRATS DESTROYED JOBS   Cutting Crop Production Threw Farm Workers and Others Out of Work,  He Says.

BRICKER HITS ~HILLMAN DEAL   ROOSEVELT ASSAILED BY GOVERNOR FOR “SELL-OUT” OF HIS, PARTY TO “GANG”

NEW SECRET WEAPON VARIANT OF THE V-2   Missile Nazis Are Using on Western Front Like Rocket Bomb Sent Arainst London.

Liberators Hit Jap Radio Station Off China Coast   Pratas Island Attacks Bring 14th Air Force Bombers Within 275 Miles of Luzon

PLANES SWEEP CLOSER 10 PHILIPPINES   Liberators off Southeast China Bomb Pratas Island within 275 Miles of Luzon; Hit Freighters.   Thwart Lo Crossing

14th Air Force I aunches Altack Off China Coast  Bombers From Chinese   Bombers From Chinese Bases Within 275 Miles of Luzon

Liberaiors Hit alIsland . Off Hona Kona   Three Vessels in Two Convoys Reported Damaced

Reds Roll On Towarc  Nazi Soil   Cut OdessaSchmerinka Railroac Only 27 Miles  From Bessarabia.

Nazi Troops In Retreat   One Rail Line Left To Nazis From Odessa

Russian Drive Splits NaziFrontin Ukraine   Severs Odessa-Zhmerinka Railroad, 2ZMiles.. From. Bessarabia; . Battles on Approaches to Vinnitsa

British Forces Race Northward In Attempt To Main tain Contact With Fleeing Germans And Occupy 12 Miles South Of

Cecina Falls, Allies Cross  Cineina River   Fifth Army Forces Now Only 20 Miles  Eroam Leghorn in Ital   CAPTURE OF SIENA SOON IS EXPECTED   Loreto Is Occupied By British Forces In Adriatie Sector

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oth Captures ‘Cecina,Opening ‘Wav to Livorno   House to House Fighting Waged To Win Town; Osh Adwaneose

Nazi Stronghold Of Cecina Is Captured   Stubborn Defenders Driven Out After Bitter House_ to- House Fighting—Three French Columns Converae on Siena

FARRELL EXPECTS ~ FRIENDLY LINKS   Argentina “Foreign Minister .Says Security Measures Will Be Adopted.

FREE PRESS THREAT CITED BY BRICKER   Governor Calls on Papers To Provide New Leadership.

FREEDOM OF PRESS IS THREATENED—BRICKER   U.S. Army Respects State Troops Civic Leaders Are Told At Banauet

HERS AND DIRECTORS MET   [Thursday And Friday For Seventy - Seventh Annual Convention.

BASIC. VIEWS. ON PACE DIFFER   Differences Rest ; Between Latin American and Soviet Governments

Musashimo Plant Target Of B-29 Superfort Raid On Japanese Capital

SHARP INGREASE POSTAL REGEIPTS   Gain During June Is  1844. 69 Over Last Vear

Textiles Put On A8-Hour Week   Production Decline Over Nation Cited

Marines Supported By Heavy Fire From American Warships And Planes, Close In On Principal! Airdrome   GOING IS FOUND TOUGH AT PELELIU

MARINES BATTLE STIFF FIRE TO CARVE TOEHOLD   Close In On Palau Airdrome

NAZIS PREPARE PUPPET RULE IN RUMANIA   Reported Already in Country; Seize Last Bulgarian Railways

REPORT NAZIS NOW STORMING INTO ROMANIA   Predict Government To Be Ousted   Russian Embassy Is Seized

‘Late’ News Bulletins   -- Nazi Reinforcements Arrive in Bulearia

Gain South Of Aachen After Losing Ground Near Ubach   K *—K KK Ww ~ Raiders Unload _.. Vast Bomb Tonnage.

Tanks in Ubach Breach Smash 3 Mi. to Edge of  Ceilenkirchen   Americans Retake Beggendorf After Being Driven Out

One Force Approaches Duren And Another ; Near Geilenkirchen, Beggendorf Retaken

TEMPERATURES:   Biggest Battle Since D-Day Rages Inside Siegfried Line Today

YANKS 6 MILES FROM DUREN IN NEW ASSANITS   Fierce Nazi Pressure Pushes U. S. Troops Back in 2 Places

U.S. Fliers Deliver Punishing Blows   » ++ Nazis Finally Admit Siegfried Line Breached

COUNTER-ATTACK DESPERATELY TO SEAL UBACH GAP   FLEETS OF ALLIED PLANES RUSH INTO WEST WALL BATTLE

Yanks Gain Nearly a Mile to Within Six Miles  of Duren  FALL BACK IN NORTH        Germans Regain Some Ground in Fierce Crmtarattarte

Nearly A Mile Gained In Atfack   Fierce Fighting In Ubach Breach

Fierce Battle Rages About Ubach Breacl   New Yank Blow Made Through Hurtgen Forest; U. S. Yields Two Points

Drive Carries Allies to Within Six Miles of Duren, 20  Miles from Cologne  on Rhine.   SEVERE FIGHTING IS REPORTED BY ALLIES

Attack Gains Nearly a Mile, Through Hurtgen Forest, in Co-ordination With Other Doughboy Units Lock in Some of Fiercest Fighting of Sie fried Line in Ubach Breach, Nor of Aachen—Americans Set Back Two Places,

Plunge Through Hurtgen Forest In Heavy Blows  Beggendorf Given Up Top Of Pillbox Ridge Back In Enemy Hand:

ADVANCE GAINS NEARLY A MILE   First Army Forces Supported By Hundreds of Guns, .  BDiexna   'FIERCE BATTLE ON LINE

FIRST ARMY OPENS ATTACK SOUTHEAST OF AACHEN FRIDAY  NEW DRIVE GAINS NEARL' MILE; ALLIES FORCED  Ti rw wire rrrarrc

Heavy Fighting To North      Units East of Ubach Lose Then Regain Two Positions Won Yesterday: hold at Ft. Driant

PLANES IN GREAT NUMBERS AID “AMERICANS IN MAKING FURTHER GAINS TODAY IN AACHEN SECTOR

Enemy Battles To Block Yanks’ Way To Rhine Defenses   “Battle of Barracks’ Concentrated Struggle; British, Canadians Advance

New Attack Through Forest Fiercest of War; Nazis Hurl Counter-attack.at Americans

Yanks Advance Mile in Attack South of Aachen   First Army Troops To North Forced ‘To Give Ground In Counter-Thrue<+

Yanks Forced Back at Two Places   American First Armor Advances on German City Behind Siegfried Line; Other Units Push to Within Six Miles of Duren

Infantry Waging Fiercest Fight of War In Hurtgen Forest; Tanks Fanning Out   Backed With Guns

Concentrated Yank Assault Nears Rhine   Carries Southeast of Aachen Through Forest To Town of Duren

DRIVES THRU FOREST ON WAY TOWARD DUREN   Fierce Battle Rages In Ubach Breach Of Siegfried  line

Forced Back From Two Positions by Nazi Counterattach   Launch New Assault on Siegfried Line in Hurtsen Forest

Concentratec  Nears Rhine       Carries Southeast of Aachen Through Forest. To Town of Duren .

NAZIS BATTLE FIERCELY TO STEM ADVANCE   Launch Great Counterat~tack In Effort To Seal Wedge

POUND BASES ON MINDANAO   Six Jap Vessels And Si: Planes Destroyed

Japanese Bases  On Mindanao Get Another Blasting   “Six Vessels, Six Planes Wrecked By Bombers, Fighters

FLIERS HIT NIP BASES ON MINDANAO   Four Vessels, Six Seaplanes Hit At Zamboanga

JAP BASES ARE BEING BOMBED   Batter Jap Holdings on Mindanao in Southern Philippines and Nearby Island Bastions — Henvy Attacks Slaged Saturday.

Bombers Batter Japs Mindanao Bases, Set Fires   Yanks Invade Ninth Enemy Stronghold In Palau Isles

Invasion Reported Making Splendid Progress in Face Of Light Enerny Opposition

Philippines Invasion Losses Are Light   MacArthur Reports Splendid Progress As Japs Caught Strategically Unaware.

Losses In Philippines Are Light   Splendid Progress Made By American Forces, MacArthur Reports To President Roosevelt

U. S. Losses Light; Enemy ‘Off Balance’   MacArthur Reports ‘Splendid’ Progress During Early Hours

General Reports Extremely Light Loss In Assault   - Forces In Mindanao Cut Off From Main: Jap Body By Move

G.O.P. GOVERNORS REPORTED TRYING 10 BLOCK DEWEY   New York Executive’s Forces, However, are Still Confident of Success.

Challenge Dratt Dewey Claims   Several Governors to Get Together

TRY TO BLOGK GOV. DEWEY ON FIRST BALLOT   Half Dozen Governors Behind Strategy At Convention

REDS SLASH TO ISOLATE BUDAPEST   From Austria; Break Through Vac north of Capital; Bold Maneuver, Savs Berlin.   Gain in Yugoslavia

Tax Bill Goes To President   Congress Turns to Trying To Simplify Present Income Tax Structure

CONGRESS GIVES FINAL APPROVAL TO NEW TAX BILL   Possibility of Veto Seen a: Result of President's Recent Criticicm

ROOSEVELT WILL PROBABLY SIGN TAX BILL   Millions in Revenue May Be Lost If He Doesn’t Act

UE BILL ABOUT READY TO BE SIGNED   President Must Approve Measure Unless He Is Willing To Lose Over $87,000,000   PASSED BY CONGRESS

FORGE FOR 10 SIGN TAX BILL TO SAVE FUNDS   Will Lose Millions If Measure Becomes Law Without President’s Signature

Millions May Be Lost in Revenue From New Tax Bill   Becoming Law- Minus FDR Signature, Bill Loses $87 000.000

Shows, Liquor And Postage Cost More In New Tax Bill Now Ready For White Hous

Tax Bill Signature a “Must’ Move by FOR   Otherwise, Measure Will Become a Law Minus 87 Million in Revenue

Time, Constitution, Clause in New Tax  Act Hamstring FDR   Must Sign Measures He Dislikes or Pass Up Over $87,000,000

FDR Faces Dilema On  Tax Measure   Failure to Sign Bill May Cause Loss of Month Excise Tax

ED.R. Receives ~ New Tax Bill   Approval; Law Forbids President’s Disregard of Signature.

Millions in Revenue May Be Lost If FDR Allows Tax Bill To Be Law Without Signing

New Tax Bill Now Is Up To  Pres. Roosevelt   Big Revenue Loss If He Lets It Become A Law Without Sioninc.

FDR Must Sign New Tax Bill To Obtain $87,000,000 More Revenue To Operate Country

BILL MAY BE LAW WITHOUT SIGNING   Lacking Signature to Result In Loss of 87 Million Dollars In Taxes.

President Faces  Tax Bill Dilemma   Faces Losses of 887.000.0000 in Potential Revenue

PRESIDENT MAY BE  FORCED SIGN TAX  BILL SAVE REVENUE TIME AND CLAUSE IN  MEASUKE MAY BRING™ OUICK ACTION

CONGRESS 0. K’S SECOND WARTIME TAXING MEASURE   BILL IS SLATED TO REACH WHITE HOUSE WEDNESDAY

'F.D:R. Must Lose Much Revenue If Tax Bill Becomes [aw Without his Signature

Tax Measure Poses Problem For President   Must Sign Bill Or Lose Many Million Dollars

Unsigned Tax Bill Costly   Millions in Revenue Will Be Lost If Not Signed

—TAX BILL— FOR MUST SIGN GRLOSE REVENUE   U. S. Stands To Lose $87, 000, 000 Unless Tax: Bil Is Signed :

F.D.R. Must sign New Tax Bill Or Lose Revenue  President Condemns  Measure as

New Tax Measure Up to President  Millions Lost Unless Roosevelt Signs It

F. D.R. Must Sign Tax Bill Or Lose 87 Million In Potential Revenue

PRESIDENT TC GET TAX BILL FOR SIGNATURE   Passed Congress Yesterday; Some Chances Made

Nazis Leaving  South France   Maquis Stage Daring Raid  lw. lawn Oheasalet nce

Nazis Leaving Southwestern Area of France   Full-Scale Evacuation: Of Troops from Area, Trun in Spain Learns

German Troops Pull Out of  South France   Handful of Gestapo Agents and Police Left to Cover French.  Spanish Frontier

TRAPPED JAP FACE DEATH IN NEW GUINEA   Surprised by Latest U.S. Landing Operation at Saidor

SAIDOR RUBBER TRACT IS FIRST U.S. RECAPTURES   No Less of Life In Surprise Operations  On Nerth New Guinea Coast.

AMERICAN TROOPS SEIZE NEW BEACHHEAD If LANDING EFFECTED WITHOUT LOSS OF A MAN

New U. §, Landing In New Guinea Traps Japanese   Surprise Landing Operation By U. 8S. Troops At Saidor, New Guinea   FORCE OF JAPS FACES ANNIHILATION

JAPS TRAPPED ON NEW GUINEA   Yanks In Surprise New Landing Coup Carried Out With No Losses

PACIFIC BASES WANTED BY U.S   British - American Talks To Cover Future Sea Security

BRITISH AND U.S.PARLEY ON PACIFIC BASES   Is Expected To Take Place Soon; Post-War Needs To Be Outlined By Former Ambassador Grew.   Unite Fractions

&J.S. Domination Of Pacific to Be “Topic at Parley   Guarantee for Futuse — Security of Nation Thru Island Bases

PACIFIC GUARANTEE ‘DISCUSSION TOPIC   U.S. Domination of Island Bases After War to be Considered

PACIFIC ISLAND BASES FOR U. 8 - TOBEDISCUSSED   Guarantee of American Domination of Ocean After Conflict. to Be Topic at London Parley.   EDWARD STETTINIUS ON WAY TO ENGLAND   Question of Post-War Bérders and Future Government of Italy Likely to Occupy Conferees.

J. 5. POST-WAR DOMINATION IN PACIFIC SEEN   Subject Likely to Be Discussed at London Conference

Consider Case For Review of  Argentine bid   Inter-American Parley Request Referred to American Republics By *‘Pan-Am’ Union

Mrs. Williams’ Slayer Though Hotel Guest   Kin of Mrs, Roos Dies in Chicago; Prober Blames Revenge

SEEK GUEST AS HOTEL-SLAYEE   Police Thumb Register in Search for Clue

DETECTIVES SEEK CHICAGO MURDERER   Wealthy Wife of - State Dept. Attache ‘Died of Wounds

Hotel Guest May Have Been Slayer   Detectives Search Registet of Drake for Murderer of  Mrs. Williams

Repair Depots On Formosa Are  Wiped Out  R 29's) Other  Planes Join In rT, 7 _ @

German Resistance at Budapest S$tiffens; Report Heavy Casualties

Germans F igh Desperately Fer Budapest   Russians Storming Into Suburbs  Of Burnine City

Nazi Resistance In Suburbs of Budapest Stiffens   Great Fires Reported Sweeping Through — Capital Uncontrolled

Reds Battle On Outskirts Of Budapest   Great Fires Are Sweeping Through Center of Capital

REDS BATTLING THROUGH INNER BUDAPEST LINE      Blocdy Hand-To-Hand, House-To House Fighting Is Reported

RESISTANCE STIFFENS IN BUDAPEST   Battle Mounting Jn Fury; Russians Gain In Suburbs

Inner Belt Of Defenses Is Breached   German Resistance Suddenly Stiffens As Battle Mounts.

Nazis Stiffen Resistance At Budapest   Reds Are Attacking Inner Belt of Nazi  se, Pe — paegen

Hand to Hand Fight Rages In Suburbs   Red Drive Slowed By Stiffening Enemy Resistance

BITTER BATTLERAGES AS GERMAN RESISTANCE AT BUDAPEST STIFFENS   HUGE FIRES BURN UNCONTROLLED THROUGH CITY; SOVIET ONSLAUGHT CARRIES TO CORE OF DEFENSES

Nazis Stiffen In Budapest   Hand-to-Hand Fights  Raving in Suburbs

NAZIS STILL RESISTING AT BUDAPEST  Peo ner ee   Fury of Battle Mounts in  ‘City’s Suburbs.

Budapest Fight Grows Fiercer   German Resistance Stiffens Suddenly

BATTLES NEAR BUDAPEST HIT FURIOUS PITCE   Losses Heavy As Reds Enter Pest Suburbs Along Danube

REDS BATTLE TO INNER BELT OF BUDAPEST   Unconfirmed Reports Say Hungarian City Js Blazine

YANKS i ORMOC VALLEY   New Drive Threatens Japs’ Main Leyte Island Defense Ring

ENEMY ANCHOR POINT SMASHED’ AND BRIDGEHEAD IS ESTABLISHED’ ACROSS RIVER BARRIER

YANKS SMASH THROUGH ORMOC VALLEY   New Drive Threatens Japs’ Main Leyte Island Defense Ring

YANKS ADVANCE AS LIMON FALLS   U. S. Forces May Roll Ur Entire Yamashita Line On Leyte

GI ACTIONS DISPLEASES   Woman Asks General Marshall to Halt Deor Shmming.

ORDERS SECRECY ON TRADE DEALS   Agriculture Department Em: ployes Get Ruling; Result of Argentine Affair.

Order Seals Lips of Ag. Employes   Banned for Giving Out Information

FEDERAL EMPLOYES TOLD TO CEASE TALK   ‘njudicious Comments’ Are Embarrassing, ’Tis Said

Pienickers Have Narrow Escape Using Beach Under Marine Machine Gun Fire

School Board Elects Present Corps Of Teachers With Three Exceptions   One Resigns And Two Will Enter Military Service

TEACHERS TEND. ERED CONTRACTS   Fi ew Changes In In LeMars Ex* cept Those Caused Bv the War ~-

RUSSIAN ARMY OPENS BATTLE FOR BALKANS   Red, Artillery Shells Rumanian Soil From  Banks of River

REDS REACH PRUT RIVER 4] FRONTIER   End 800 - Mile Epic —Wrarch From Stalingrad to Rumania   BATTLE FOR BALKANS BEGINS IN TRIUMPH

Soviets Surround Forces at Tarnopol      Nazis Face Loss of Main Pathways nf Feeane

Ukraine Army Smashes to Rumania Border   Reds Sweep Across Bessarabia From Dniester in One Week; Gain in North and Southeast

Moscow Observes First Conquest of Frontier   Konev's Troops Emerge Onto Bank A Week After They Had Forded Dniester

(Reds Reach Border River (OnWideFront   Rumanian Citizens Flee into Interior, © Germans Return Home  RED GAINS GENERAL

Russians Reach Prut River Frontier Of Rumania;  Nazis Are Trapped   MILITARY, DIPLOMATIC REPERCUSSIONS SEEN

Soviet Gain Opens Battle For Balkans   Rumanians Pour Into Interior of Country; Soviets 35 Miles From Bug River Line

Soviets Open Baitle for the Balkans   Report Rumanians Streaming Into Interior of Country

Soviets Reach Spot Where Hitler Launched Drive in 1947   RECORD SALUTE IS. FIRED IN MOSCOW   Great Military Come-back Announced by Stalin

End historic march from  Stalingrad  Battle for the Balkans becins

N 1941 WHEN HITLER CONFIDENTLY LAUNCHED HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE CONQUEST OF RUSSIA; REDS ALREADY SCHELLING RUMANIAN SOIL.

MAN DROWNED ON ROOF   Violent New York Downpower Causes Three Deaths

Foremen’s Strike Halts Second Detroit Plant   Dispute Brings to at Least 64,000 Number Of Workers Out or Forced From Jobs; Walkouts Called Worst Since War’s Start

Willkie Says More Taxes  Are Needed   GOP Candidate ‘Afraid We Shall Lose The Peace at Home

Bitter Fight Looming Over Labor Draft   Doubtful Whether Congress Will Enact Leaislation

NATIONAL SERVICE ACT EXPECTED MEET STRONG OPPOSITION  SENATOR AUSTIN SAYS ACT MUST BE MANDATE FROM PEOPLE

Called Fascist And Democratic By Mamhers   Evenly Divided House Leaves Subject Open For Much Speculcfion

LAOBR DRAFT SPLITS SOLONS WIDE APARI   Foreshadows One of Most Bitter Fights of Election Year

“Touch-And-Go” Whether Plea Will Be Granted   House Military Committee Asked To Meet Tuesday

BITTER FIGHT INCONGRESS SEEN AS RESULT FDR PROPOSAL TO DRAFT CIVILIAN LABOP OF ALL CLASSES   Opponents Believed to Hold Edge at Present, with Proposal Branded As Final Step on Part of Government Toward Fascism in America

Opponents Have Slight Edge In Bitter Battle   Storm Breaks Over White House Proposal; Seen As Fascism Threat

“‘Fascism’’ Cries Senator Wheeler  Congress Is Split Wide ~Open On Labor Draft As  Bitter Struggle Looms

BITTER BATTLES IN PROSPECT ON FDR'S PROGRAM   Tax Bill Criticism Creates Hardly Ripple; Door Opened For Subsidy Compromise

Congress Is Split on Universal Draft   Cross-Section of Sentiment Indicates a Tough Fight Will Occur.

‘Congress Splits Wide Apart ‘On Roosevelt's Program For ‘Drafting Of Nation’s Labor   Strong Opposition To Proposal; Bitter Election Year Fight Is In Prospect

SPLITS CONGRESS   Comment on Message Hints Bitter Election Year  Battle an lecua

Committee Starts Planning Draft Bill for Workers  - Leader Says Effor’ Will Be Made  To Learn Reaction

BITTER BATTLE SEEN OVER BID FOR JOB DRAFT   Opposition Appears Te Have Slight Edge At Present

CIO PRESIDENT CONDEMNS PLAN AS ‘QUACKERY’   Leaders of Opposition Appear ‘to Have Edge .In: Move _to..Combat. Roosevelt Program   WORKER DRA DRAFT ACT ' WOULD AFFECT ALL   Wadsworth Says Proposal; Same As His Original — ’ Bill, Revised and  ‘Again Presented - 

Labor Draff Faces Battle In Congress   Solons Work on Plan In Face of Attacks By Colleagues, Unions

CONGRESSIONAL FIGHT IS COMING THIS YEAR ON NATIONAL SERVICE   Labor Leaders Call President’s Labor Draft Plan “Quack Medicine’   CONGRESSMEN DIVIDED

To Await Demands > of Public   Sen, Austin ‘Not Pushing for Service Act. Until He Sees “Home Front Call   NO INTENTION OF ‘FORCING’ PLAN   * Congress Split, With Foes of Move Holding Edge; Tabor Opposes Idea

SOLONS WONDER IF PEOPLE FOR ‘LABOR DRAFT’   Austin Won’t Push His Measure Unless Public Indorses Legislation

Opposition Appears To Have Slight Edge At Presen _» As Most Bitter Fight Of Year Is Predicted;  Union Leaders Voice Disapproval

OPPOSITION HAS EDGE IN EARLY STAGE OF FIGHT   Murray Against Measure, American Legion Backs Bill

OPINIONS DIFFER ON LABOR DRAFT   SENATOR WHEELER CALLS IT A STEP TOWARD FASCISM

Hearings Start In Senate on Service Bill   Austin Insists People Must Voice Demand for Plan

Foes Term FDR’s Plan Fascist Step   Labor Drafi Bid Draws Union Fire; -Biuter Ficht Seen

BITTER FIGHT -FORESEEN ON LABOR DRAFI   Opposition Holds Edge As Sides Form for Heated Battle

Work Starts On Labor Draft Plan  People Must Agree To  It. Sav« Senator

Senate Committee Begins Work On Labor Draft Law   Willkie-Dewey Tied With 21 Votes In Committee Poll

Opposition In Lead Now   Labor Draft Bill Author Won’t Force It on People

IReauest For National Service Law Splits Congress: Bitter Election Year Fight Seen As Result

Plea for National Service Law Meets Aroused Opposition   Step Toward Fascism” Says Sen. Wheeler; Labor Opposed

Bitter Fight  Looms   Congress Split Wide ‘Oven Over National Service Legislation  Asked By President

FORCED LABOR FOES STRONG   Congressmen Opposed To Proposed Draft Appear To Have Edge  met ae 8 § oe pe 8 Sere 68 lO Oomm  leEllk k8k r

Weigh Labor Draft   Oppesition Forces Apparently Have Preliminary Edge

Biter Fight On National Service Act ls Brewing   Roosevelt’s Request for Legislation Split Congress Wide Apart and Foreshadows One Most Bitter Fights of Year.

Congress Split On Labor Draft Move   Congressional Passage Touch-And-Go With Opposition Having Slight Edge

AUSTIN WANTS PUBLIC DEMAND LABOR DRAFT   Republican Senator, Author o! Service Act, Says Support Hangs on Public Attitude

Senators Go Into Action  OnFDRPlea   Austin Decides Not To Push Labor Draft Bill

Congress Splits Wide. Open On FDR's Call For Labor Draft Law   Bitter Election Year Fight Seen; Opposition To Demand Seems To Have Early Edge

Congress Split On Request For Draft Of Labor   F. D. R. Proposal Pre sages Bitter Election Year Battle.

Committee Begins Work on Labor Draft Legislation   President’s Proposal Meets with Much  Opposition; ‘Should Be Pubiic Demand’”’

Congress Split On National Service Act  Labor Leaders Denounce Move Which Would Draft Workers

Bitter Fight Seen on F.R. Service Law  Congress Split Wide Open; Opposition at Present Holds Edge

Congress ‘Comments or Service Bill   Roosevelt's Message Also Gives Labor, Politicians, Economists - and - Women Food for Thought

Congress Split on F. Rs Bid for  National Service Labor Leaders Opposed to  TH... .* JF. st. BDI...

Senate Committee, Despite Much Opposition, Goes to Work on Labor Draft Bill

Also Gets To Village Of Julich      TWO TOWNS ARE IMPORTANT BASTIONS WHICH NAZIS TRIE] DESPERATELY TO HOLD

Civilians Flee Saar; Germans Yield  Shaky Bridgehead At Strasbourg

YANK ARMIES SMASH SIX MORE GERMAN. TOWNS   Germans Fearful of Allied ‘Wide Are Already Fleeing East: Reminiscent of France . nm 1440. Cc

} Far To South Nazis Give Up Per  lous Bridgehead In Strasbourg, Blow Up Three Bridges, Fall Back To River Khine _   ADD FIVE MILES TO RIVER SPRINGBOARD

THREE ARMIES ADVANCE ON 2 RIVER FRONTS   Civilians Fleeing Saar Basin; 9th Breaks Into Linnich

Americans Fight Way To Marshy  Shores of Roer   Bastions of Linnish, Julich Are Entered By Ninth Army Forces

Fortress of Linnich Penetrated by Yanks   Bloody Battles Approach Climax;  Cerman Civilians Flee Eastward

7 MILES FROM SAARBRUCKEN   Smash Thru Roer Barrier Inte West Bank Fortress. Of Linnich

Americans Reach West Bank poe River in Bloody Fight  German Civilians Clog Highways In Mad Rush Out of Saar Basin

Dewey hits labor policy  of new deal Lists four point republican plan

New Deal Labor Policy Is  Scored By Governor Dewey   Republican Presidential Nominee Holds Roosevelt Responsible for Wartime Strikes—Able Secretary of Labor Needed

NewDeal Labor Policy Assailed   Dewey Blames President For Wartime Strikes

Roosevelt ToBlameFor Labor Chaos   SMITH-CONNALLY ACT ALSO AT TACKED AS FRUITFUL OF LA BOR CONTROVERSIES; IN. CREASED THEIR NUMBER.   Dewey Tells In Seattle

‘Roosevelt Responsible For ‘Most Of Wartime Walkouts, Dewey Declares In Seattle   GOP Presidential Candidate Promises To Oust Miss. Perkins And To Appoint Man From Ranks Of Labor; Delay, Bungling, Incompetence Are Charged 

Dewey Says FDR Responsible for War Strikes; Anti-Strike Law ‘Denounced as New Deal Act

Dewey Hold: President: — Responsible. For Strikes ©   * First Act as‘President -- Would Be To Appoint "Active, Able Secretary Of Labor. He Asserts   ‘“LACKING.12Z VEARS,.. WE SAYS AT SEATTLE   ‘Assails Long Delays: “By War Labor Board, Rights for ‘Labor Asked

Dewey Blames Roosevelt for Labor Troubles   Scores President In Seattle Talk

Dewey Traces Labor Chest Directly To One-Man Rule - Dictated By White House   No Secretary Or Department Of Labor For 12 Straight Years Of New Deal Bungling

Dewey Assails New Deal's Chaos Of Labor Agencies   Candidate Promises To Name Able, Active  Secretary From Ranks

STRIKES BLAMED ON NEW DEAL BY COVERNOR DEWE}   Candidate Holds Chief Responsibility for Wartime Walkouts Rests on Roose velt and WLB.   CHARGES BUNGLING, OUTLINES HIS PROGRAM   y Tells Seattle Crowd Adminis tration Has Set Stage “for Big Favor to Labor Before Election Day.”

Blames FDR For Strikes During War   Dewey Assails New Deal  _ Labor Policy, Says He  Will, Appoint New  Labor Secretary.

U. 5. BOMBERS BLAST ‘SEVERAL NAZI TARGETS   Surprised Nazi Fighter and Ground Defenders Offer Little Resistance

Yank Bombers. With Escort of Fighters,Attack Reich Targets   Strike Into Northern and Western Germany  By Day

U.S. Bombers Pound Reich   Heavy Planes Under Escort Attack Northern And Western Germany

US. Heavy Bombers Smash German Military Objectives   Raiders, Blocked From Primary Target, Give Attention to Another Site

U. S. Bombers Rip Targets in Reich    Resume Air War With Heavy Blows At Northern and - Western Germany

YANK FLIERS RESUME AIR WAR ON REICH   Heavy Bombers Smash at a Number of Military Objectives in Northerr and Western Part ol tha Nation.

AMERICAN AIRMEN HAMMER TARGETS IN GERMANY TODAY   U. S. Heavy Bombers With  . Strong Fighter Escort Blast  Military Objectives in Western and Northern Germany

BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT - REICH TARGETS   One Group, Finding Target Too Well Protecied by Clouds, Surprises Nazis Elsewhere

Forfresses in. New Raids on ~- Nazi Centers   Important Objectives “Are Wrecked: in Northern and Western Germany:    ‘FEW FIGHTERS «00°! : OPPOSE “RAIDERS   And -Ground ‘Defenders: Are Surprised;.Going. Into’ » “Action “Too. Late

MILITARY TARGETS HIT INU. 5. RAIDS   Full Escort of Fighters Assist in Resuming of Wear on Reich.

Fortresses Strike Again At Reich   Formations Shift Goals, Germ:

Planes Resume  War On Reich   Smash At Number Of Military Objectives In Northern Germany.

HEAVY BOMBERS RESUME WAR ON REICH TODAY   Number of Undesignated Military Objectives Heavily Attacked by U.S.  Forces

U5. BOMBERS SCORE IN NEW GERMAN RAIDS   Blast Military Objectives In North and Western Sectors Today

U.S, BOMBERS ATTACK REICH   Follow Up British Assault o1 Nazi Military Targets

Sgt. Robert J. George, Of Hamilton, Reports All Bombs Land In Middle Of Place; Mosquitoes Make Night Stab At Reich

U.S. HEAVIES OVER GERMAN}   BIG BOMBERS FOLLOW R. A. F. MOSQUITOS

Yank Planes Hit Targets In Germany  Smash at Number Of Military Objectives in

U.S. Bombers Return to Blast Reich   Unannounced Target Hit When Clouds Cover Destination

PETITION SPECIAL SESSION   Ask Legislature Be Called To Pass Seldier Vote Bill

Texas Boys May Get Soldier Vote   Stevenson  Asked For  Special Session

ENEMY LOST 300 PLANES IN atTEMPT TO SHATTER. AMERY CAN: INVASION °T. BK: “ee FORCE ©

Chinese Grip On Railroad  Is Loosened   Japs Press On— Enemy Loses Heavily in India

China Asks Help As Japs Increase Threat 3 in Honan  6). ewe mie Win Paleemnse Maren   Advancing Nip Columns Narrow  Gap to Less Than 14 Miles— Ovening of Burma Road Urged

3,800 Car Owners Here Have Until Aug. 31 To Get Fall-Year Plates

Yanks Clean Up Jap Forces on Mania-Islands   Pegun, First of Group Invaded, Completely Occupied, General MacArthur Reports 

YANKS CAPTURE PEGUN ISLANL   Japs All But Cleaned Out Of Mapia Group by Gen. M’Arthur’s Troops

Engebi Base Quickly Won   Eye-Witness Gives Story Of Jap Desolation

Hail the U.S.S. New Mexico —She Has Fought the Japs From Kiska to the Gilberts

Veteran_Battléship-Has.-Pouied Shells at Japs From Kiska To Gilberts

U. $. BOMBERS BLASTING NAZI FRONT SECTORS   Better Weather Is Great Aid  To Americans

American Forts ‘Resunie Attacks  _-On West Reich   British Night Raids, Ainied .. At Railroad Yards Back Of German Snpearheads

Allies Again On Wing   But Weather Over Europe Not Yet Good Enough for Big Raids

\llied Air Might Smashes Strategic Troop Reserve  In Raid On Rail Center Of M ate

Gigantic Allied Forces Being Deployed and Vast Power Held in Leash for Word to Go. Germans In Italy Face Serious Situation and Possible  _L etastennka

EX .  Gigantic Allied F Are      Forces / Ready to Strike at Wil

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF Assoviated Prex« War Afttelyvst

War iloda Ry  Allies Line up Forces for  D-Day Smash  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

SAYS ALLIES CAN STRIKE AT WILL NOW   —BY DeWITT MACKENZIE— Associated Press War Analyst

Local Opinion Favors Closing Polls At8P. M   Legislature's Actior Expected To Result In Long Delays

 Near Rumanian Approache: Hed Troops Smash Ahes Italian Mcuntains, Take '  Strategic Heights Bast 01 Of Cassino   FOE MAY ABANDON : OVERRUN NAT

Reds Flying U. S. Planes To Siberia   Long Secret Operation Of Russ Staffed Bases In America Revealed

DEWEY HOLDS KEY 10 GOP'S FINAL PLANK   Expect Approval Of Platform In Talk Tonight

Plattorml! Dewey Expected to Amplify Foreign Policy Plank In Speech.

Expect Candidate Dewey To Give Wider Views On Foreign Policy Plank

Dewey Holds Key to Gain Willkie Aid   Former Candidate and Other Party Members Criticize GOP Platform

Republicans Dodge Convention Battle On Foreign Policy   Dewey, Approving Plank, Looked to to Heal Breach, Satisfy Criticising Willkie, Governors

Patriot Army Of Warsaw is Aided by Allies   Moscow Paper Says Red Army Opposes Such Insurrections

Merchant Ship Safe, Escapes Sub, Hurricane  None Of Crew Was Iniured

Merchant Vessel Survives Torpedoing  And Hurricane To Reach Port Safely

TORPEDOED OFF CAROLINA COAST   U.S. Ship Reaches Port. Escort Vessels Lost in Hurricane

Russ in Sight Of Nikolaev   Red Army Gains 37 Miles on Tarnopol; Rolls on in Rumania

Russians — Push Past Tarnopol   German Defense Center Probably -By-Passed: in Drive Toward Lwow .   IMPORTANT GAINS. NEAR TARNOPOL   On the: South; the Reds Continue Advance: Toward *. Prut River Border ~

SUSPECTED OF PEACE DICKER WITH SOVIETS   Slovakia, Too, May Have Been Occupied by Nazis as They Take Firm Hold in Balkans

‘ARE NEARER TARNOPOI      Russian Army Has Made Tmportant Adyance of 23 Miles

RUSSIANS FIGHTING WITHIN SIGHT OF BIG BASE OF NIKOLAEY  OTHER SOVIET FORCES ARE DRIVING INTO BESSARABIAN HILLS

CURB INDICATED ON PRICE RISES   Bowles May Bare Tightenec Controls This Afternoon

ACTION TO REVERSE RECENT PRICE RISES EXPECTED SHORTLY,  _ ADMINISTRATION MOVES INDICATE LITTLE STEEL FORMULA TO STICK

Action Likely Soon to Check Price Boosts   Designed As Assurance Living Costs Will Not Out. run Pay Seales; Steclers May Get Raise

Action in Sight To Control Prices  Curb on Increase-in Living Costs   Curb on Increase-in Living Costs Planned as Assurance to Workers

Cut in Price Index Likely   Government Moving To Hold Wage Scale

Action To Reverse Price Rises Is ‘Expected Shortly   Designed. To Assure Living Costs Not QOutrun Pay Scales

Seek to Reverse Current Upward ‘Trend of Prices   OPA Hopes to Hold Line Until Germany Folds up; Action a Gesture to Labor

Action To Nip Price Uptrend Expected Soon   Tighter Controls Loom To Keep Living Cost In Line With Waces.

ACTION TO CUT COST OF LIVING EXPECTED SOON   ciG May Get Answer To Wage Demands This Week

MOVE TO HALT PRICE UPSWINE      OPA Chief Bowles Expected To Take Action In  Near Future

Will Act To Halt Price Advances   - Bowles Calis Press Conference In Answer To Vinson’s Accusations.

HOLE IN GUSTAV LINE MAY SPEED CRUCIAL BATTLE   Allies Enlarge Beachhead South of Rome as Foe Stiffens

ALLIES WIDEN BEACHHEAD ON ROME SECTOR   Heavy Nazi Assaults Repulsed   Germans Rushing Up Reinforcements

RESISTANCE   Clark’s Fifth Army Units Repulse Nazi Counter-Thrusts

War Production Now Is Adequate  Nelson Declares  WPB Head Discloses Record Breaking Nav!

Production Said At Victory Level   Nelson Sees No Over-All Increase

War Production Report Is ‘Made by Nelson   December Output Is Equal to That of November

Americans Bomb Japs’ Front Door   Bonin Islands Attacked For First Time

SEES DISUNITY THREAT 10 U.S.   Byrnes Says if We Can’ Agree Among Selves We'll Lose Peace

The War Today      Start of Russ Summer Drive Sean Tied to Western Front .

CURTAIN MAY BE GOING UP FOR LAST ACT   —BY J. M. ROBERTS JR.— (Substituting for

HOPEFUL ABOUT RUSSIA    Stettinius Hopes for Participation in Security Talks

Reds Will Not Attend Air Talk   Russia Skips Conference Because Countries Like Spain Are Invited   GIVES TIP-OFF ON MOSCOW'S. STAND   Reds Apparently Opposed to Franco Having Any Say Regarding Enrope

ITALY SETUP REORGANIZED   U. S. Revises Diplomatic Assignments as Problems Are Increased   Murphy Leaves Council

Roosevelt Names New Envoy fo ltalian Council   No Suggestion of Greater Recognition to Italian Regime

[TALY SETUP REORGANIZED   J. §. Revises Diplomatic Assignments as ProbJems Are lacreased

Pilot Parachutes From Disabled Plane Safely; Would-Be Rescuer Dies

US. ARGENTIEE ELATIONS TENSE   “Minister. of War a Bravds Lasting. Peace . Plans’ ag Polly  ae

ARGENTINE WAR MINISTER ADOPTS AXIS WAR THEORY   PERON'S DECLARATION ASKS “BEST MINDS” TO STRIVE TO KNOW WAR AS ONLY  - SOLUTION i

Uo.- ARDENT AELATIONS TENSE   Minister of War Brands Lasting Peace Flans as Folly

GERMANY GETS HEAVY BOMBING   Great Formations Pound Targets In Reich, Invasion Coast

Sky Is Black With the Raiding Planes   New Night Attack on Continent  by R.A.F. Indicated

Kiel Reported  As Main Target In Dawn-to-Dusk Shuttle Bombings   Greatest Number of War Planes Ever in Action in One Day Drop 3,000 Tons of Bombs on Enemy

‘Kiel Is Main »Bomb Tarael   Invasion Coast Also Pounded During Day

FRENCH INVASION COAST ALSO BLASTED IN DAWN-TO DUSK OFFENSIVE BY 3,000 PLANES, DROPPING 3,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES.   (Rv ROBERT N. STIRDEVANT)

BIGGEST DAYTIME ANID ON RECORD   Total of 3,000 Planes in Action During Day   SKIES DARKENED   Big Naval Base of Kiel Re. ported Main Target; 25 Allied Airplanes Lost

3,000 Tons Of Explosive Smash Reich   Kiel Believed Target Of Great Yank Raid, Invasion Coast Hit  18 BOMBERS LOST

Bombs Rained By Airmen On  German Areas   Many Fighting Planes Take Part in Day Assaults on Northwest Germany and Invasion Coast— Twenty Planes Reported Lost —

Record Blows Rain On Nazis   Over 2,750 Planes Aid {nPasting Kiel, French Coast

20 Craft Missing in Daylight Attacks in Which 3.000 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped

GERMAN SKY BLACKENED BY BIG BOMBERS   KIEL MAIN TARGET IN DAWN-TO-DUSK OFFENSIVE

Kiel Reported to Have Been Target Of Heavy American Assault; 22 Bombers and 3 Fighters Lost

2,100 WARPLANES USED IN ATTACKS, 20 ARE SHOT DOWN   Great Air Fleet Blackeus Skies Over Enemy-Held Areas as It Deals Crush ing Blows,   KIEL REPORTED ONE OF MAIN TARGETS   More Than 3,000 Tons of Explosives Poured on Foe— Heavy Flak Encountered by Raiders.

Invasion Coast Target in Dawn To Dusk Drive   3000 Tons of Bombs Dropped; 1500 U.S. Aircraft in Attack

GOP Women Plan Survey   To Seek to Learn What Party Lost in  November Election

New Dealers Headed tor Philadelphia   MAY MAKE SLATE FOR STATE Ur FICES; DOF UNDECIDED ABOUT OPPOSING DAViS FoR SENATE.

10,000 Prisoners Taken In Swift Ad Mi. Advance   Hitler’s ‘‘Fair Haired’”’ Boys Surrender, Flee In Panic

ALL ARGENTINE SHIP SAILINGS ARE CANCELLED   Follows Severance of Axis Relations; Balks Possible Sinkings.

SHIP SAILINGS ARE CANCELLED BY ARGENTINA   Nation Moves Swiftly To End Axis Influence; May Seek Lend-Lease

Ship Departures From Argentina  Are Called Off   Suspension Designed -To Lessen Chances of U-Boat Retaliation

Argentina Halts Ship Sailings to Foil Axis U-Boats   Drastic Measures Loom to Smash Enemy Spy Rings

Stop All Ships Leaving Port Of Argentina   Hull Hails Axis-Break As Completion Of Solidarity

ARGENTINE CANCELS SHIP DEPARTURES  Cute Eollow-Up   Swift Follow-Up Of Severance  Wtih Axis Nations

ANTI - AXIS ACTIONS TAKEN BY ARGENTINA AFTER TIES SEVERED   Cancel Ship Sailings: Drastic Measures Expected

DEPARTURE OF SHIPS HALTED IN ARGENTINA   Argentine Ships Which are Abroad Ordered to “Hold Fast” Pending Instructions

Daily Temperatures   Argentina Cancels Ship Departures Following Break With Axis Nations

Collett Loses Appeal From Death Verdict  Aspellate Court   Appellate Court Upholds Murder Conviction, 2-1

Ford Sees Assurance In West’s Fight to Save Missouri W ater   Montana Irrigation Rights Will Be Respected In Division of River Water, Governor Reports on Return From Committee Hearings

PARTY LEADERS 10 MEET HERE TODAY   Republicans to ins to Map, Campaign at Gathering This Afternoon

PARTY LEADERS T0 MEET HERE TODAY   Republicans to Map Cam paign at Gathering This Afternoon

DEVASTATE GENIER Ut REG GHTY   2nd Successive Predawn Assault  28 BOM BE RS LOST  Capital Blazes From Kind To End

BERLIN RAIDED IN FORCE 20 DAY IN-ROW   Daylight Squadrons Follow Attack With Sweep Over France

Sub Zero Weather Hits Midwest: East Covered With Snow   Roads Icy; 3 Die in Illinois; Planes  Grounded in N. Y.

Much of Nation Swept by Storm   Deep Snow Covers Midwest and Eas!

Wide Area Hit By Cold, Snow   Ll-Inch Fall in Midwest; New York Lacks Coal

Members of Armed Forces Requesting Absentee Ballots   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Corresnondent

aan  rer Be Political   Indicator of Grass Root Party Sentiment.

80 SUPERFORTS BLAST ISLANDS IN GIANT RAID   Planes Also Hit JapHeld Nanking And Bomb 5,000 - Mile ~ Island Arc.

Kyushu, Saishu Under Attacks By Giant Fort:   Tokyo Reports Only “Slight” Damuge Done by Bombs Dropped From Above Clonds   Shanghai Is Also Target of Yankees   Bombs Fall on Edge of City; Japanese-Controiled Nanking Also Under’ Assaull

TANK UNITS  VICINITY ~ OF CAPITAL   REPORTS UNCONFIRMED THAT.’ PATROLS. HAVE ENTERED VERSAILLES.   ‘Noose Gets Tighter   Escape. Gap Near Falaise Nar_rewed To Three Miles— ‘ "“Bighting Is Hard.

Court Ok's Jap Exclusion  Eb TUL nd) Batinn   High Tribunal Ruling Delivered Day After Revocation Ordered

EVOKE ORDER BARRING JAPS   Most of Those Removed From West Coast to Return After Jan. 1.   EXPECT GRADUAL SHIFT

Ada Rodeo  Announced   Chamber of Commerce To Be Given Full Story Of Plans, Arrangements

Ada Rodeo  Announced Chamber of Commerce   Chamber of Commerce To Be Given Full Story Of Plans, Arrangements

We'll Give the Japs Our Navy, All Right But Not According to Their ‘Peace Terms’

Japanese Peace Terms: Transfer of Entire American Navy To Tokyo Proposed as a Condition

Japs Prescribe Quite A Mouthful Transter Of U.S. Navy One Ot Mawy Prices For Peace —

French Advance Up West Bank  of Saone River   Narrow. Last Escape Gap For Nazis Still  In Southern France

Rapid Allied Advance In Southern France 30 Miles A Day   BRU OORT AV ESR AW A  EASTERN PRUSSIA  1,600 Nazis Killed And Quantities Of War Material Taken Yesterday

FRENCH PACE RAPID 7TH ARMY DRIVE   Allied Forces In South France Reach Macon

Allies Advance lo Miles North Of City of Lyon   Reported Less Than 120 Miles From Northern Invaders

‘No Divorce For Him,’ Says Bride Of Quad’s Father   ‘American Sergeant Must ‘Sweat It Out’ Declares Wife s Pather

American Soldier Father Of Quadruplets Born to Unmarried British Girl

Election Bulletins   Happenings Here And There Across Country As Votes Are Counted

IURMUIL TK GCAMANT {f INDIGATED   Nazi Leader Sufferg Burns, Shock   JAPAN WORRIED  ¥ ‘   New Army and Navy, Heads Named

CHIEF OF STAFF, SEVEN OFFICERS SUFFER WOUNDS   Nazi Radio Says Explosives Used in Assassination Effort

SOVIETS DRIVE CLOSE 10 OLD PRUSSIA LINE   Russian Forces Drive Te Augustow, Eight Miles From Pre-War Border   BRITISH SCORE ADVANCE   Americans Meet Scattered Resistance South Of Arno In __ Italy

Hershey Orders Deferrec Men Under 26 To Take Pre-Induction Physical

Billion Dollar Hood Control Bill Is Signed   Measure Is Signed with Understanding MVA Won't Be Jeopardized

Nazis Refuse To Surrender   Russian Emissaries Carrying Truce Flags Slaughtered In Hun-Held Budapest

TakelImportant Plants In Buda; 3600HunsSlain   Hitlerites Reject Ultimatum By Shooting Emissaries Carrying Truce.

_ Troops Battle In " Industrial Sector   Nazis Reject Russian Ultimatum by Firing On Two Emissaries Carrying White Flags

Yank Airmen Destroy Jap Convoy, 3,500 Mex      Vi Surprise ie Vict to Enerny Capital Fi Results Good

U.S. Accepts Compromise Agreement   Axis Supply of Strategic Mineral Dried to Thin Trickle

000 NAZ TRAPPED BY DARING MOVE   *S Hertogenbosch and Tilburg Fall In Holland

Resistance Of Nazis Breaks Up   Six Mile Gains Scored In Campaign To Turn Right Flank Of West Wall.

Jittery Feeling  By Axis   Thousands Of Glider Planes Give A PreInvasion Review Of Events lo Come

Axis Speculates On Second Front   Landings on French South Coast Forecast

Jittery Axis Sees Invasion by April 301,   Admiral King Declarés Allied Forces Are Now ‘Fully Entered’ on Roads to Victory and Will Travel Fast

Jap-Held Americans Face Death Unless Fed More, Says Escapee   Comdr. M. H. McCoy Cites Dilterence Between Civilian and Military Camps

Odd Details Of Cutback Case Cited   Public Should Be Told Truth To Avoid Confusion

Army Air Force Captain Gets Mother's: Consent To Gef Marriage License

BUS OVERTURNS, 3) ARE INJUREL   GREYHOUND CARRIER LEAVES SLAB NEAR LEBANON TO AVOID COLLISION,

ACTION IN APKIL   Neutrality Treaty Renewal Decision Not Due Until Sarina

‘North Texas *Wet Victory sDecisive   Drys Lose By Almost Two To One In Dallas

LIQUOR BALLOT FAVORS ‘WETS   Effort To ‘Dry Up Dallas, Fort Worth Defeated

Pilot Defends Seif  In Decapitation   Admits Flying Low; Didn't See Auto

DIES PROMISING ~ -AlG DISCLOSURES   Says Documented Denunciation of New Deal Will Be Sensational.

SENATOR TRUMAN NOMINATED FOR VICE PRESIDENT ON 2ND BALLOT   Roosevelt Will Seek Fourth Term As President With RunningMaté No. 3.

SEN. TRUMAN CHOSEN FDR'S RUNNING MATE   Bruising Final Session of Democratic Convention Counts Wallace Out.

Truman Is FDR’s Choice   Rayburn Faces Toughest Fight For Senate Seat

Missourian Selected on 2nd Ballot   Wallace Leads on First Roll Call, Then His Forces Fall Apart

F.R. Troman Plan to Start Campaign Late Major Speeches Not Like  _dy to Begin Until October

Missouri Senator ‘Defeats Wallace On 2nd Ballot   Wallace Drive Collapses When Delaware Switches; Truman Vote 1074; Tennessee Stieks to Cooner

TRUMAN NAMED AS SECOND MAN BY CONVENTION   Missourian Will Run With Pres Roosevelt In Fall Flection

SEN, TRUMAN NAMED FDR’S RUNNING MATE   Democratic Convention Switches From Vice President Wallace on Second Ballot to Missourian.

Trouble Seen for New Deal-Democratic Coalition Due to Rejection of Wallace

Senator Gets Majority on Second Ballot to Become Third F. R. Running Mate

U.S.S. MISSOURI IS LAUNCHED AS GREATEST SHIP   - 16 Inch Guns, Other Armament Make Her Most Formidable Craft

HAUPT IS FOUND GUILTY BY JURY   Father Of Executed Nazi Saboteur Is Convicted Again Of Treason

HAUPT COWICTED OF TREASON AGAIN   Jury Recommends Merc} But It ts Not Binding On Judge.

PIES REPFOEE Cin coman   Newspapers Still Influential  In Politics, Magazine Contends

FiguresDon't BackupIckes’ Press Blast   PRESS DOES COMMAND CONFIDENCE OF ITS READERS, ELECTION RETURNS DEMONSTRATE, TRADE PAPER SHOWS.   Metropolitan Districts Rule

GREEK SITUATION IS PREVIEW OF WHOLE PICTURE EUROPEAN 'DOLITICAL. SOCIAL UPHEAVAL

Greek Fuss Of Concern Ta All OF U:   ly’ Miniature of Whole European Politicat-Sacial Upheaval, Reoliguments

WAR TODAY   British Actions In Greeve Seen As Move To Retain Power and  - Combat Spread Of  Soviet Influence

BRITISH INTERFERENCE IN ATHENS [POLITICAL UPHEAVAL SEEN AS MOVE TO PRESERVE MONARCHIAL SYSTEM

Asks Right to  Restore Rates   Authority Sought By Association of American Railroads

TOTAL STATE VOTE PUT AT 650,000   NATIONAL INTEREST CENTERS-IN SEN. CLARK’S BID ~~ FOR RENOMINATION..

JAPAN'S KAVY BACKS AWAY FROM YANKS   American Naval Air Arm Forces Enemy’s Warships From Philippines and Breaks Air Force.   Smash Convoy

8,288 JAPS KILLED IN  PACIFIC BATTLES   Marines, Failing To Crack Umurbrogol Hills Of Peleliu, ByPass Strongpoint

U. S. BY-PASSES STRONGPOINT ON PELELIU ISLE   Marines Now Within Mile Of North Tip Of Island

Labor draft not necessary=- Truman   ‘Sacrifice’ for ‘sacrifice’ Pay sake asked in measure’

Labor draft not necessary~ Truman   ‘Sacrifice for sacrifice sake asked in measure’

Truman Unit Opposes Labor Draft  Group Says Record’ po a   Group Says Record Of Home Front Answers Critics

Senate Committee Rejects Labor Draft and Declares Home Front Has Answered Its Critics

Siegfried Line Is Menaced On Flank   ..» Gains Scored All Along Front In West; More Prisoners Taken

Airborne Troops Are Threatening To Outflank Foe   Eindhoven, Tilburg And Nijmegen Seized In Gigantic Allied Air Operation, Nazis Claim; Yanks 20 Miles From Cologne

BRITISH ~=SMASH FORWARD OVER DUTCH BORDER   Germans Again Outwitted by Allied Air Force Sent Behind Lines

Continued. Flow Of Sky-Bortt Re-Enforcement Come ] In Daring Air Manay

Russians Drive Into  Rail Hubs   Enter Miskole, Strategic Strong Point Northeast of Budapest   DRIVE ALSO-MADE INTO HATVON   Other Soviet Forces Have Virtually Sealed Off Nazi Divisions Along Baltic

RUSSIANS ENTERED HATVAN BUT THROWN OUT BY DEFENSERS   " SOVIET AMPHIBIOUS FORCES BLOCK SEA ESCAPE GERMAN DIVISIONS

Russians Take, Then Lose Hatven ‘Germans Claim   Grim Struggle for Rail Center Rages; Report New Drive On Latvian Pocket

SOVIET TROOPS STORM HATVAN   RED PENETRATION OF COURLAND AREA IN LATVIA IS TOLD

Russ Capture Strong Point In Hungary   Rail Hub Stormed; 30 Nazi Divisions Trapped in Baltic

REDS REPORTED INSIDE MISKOLL   Germans Say Soviets Pust Into Hungarian Rail Hub

Russians Capture Hatvan   Berlin Reports Fall Of Transport Center In Northern Hungary Gain in Latvian Drive

AN IMPORTANT RAIL HUB IN SOVIET HANDS   Germans and Hungarians Reported to Have Fvartiatéd Miskole To Storming Russians.

REDS BREAK INTO HATVAN, THROWN BACK   Russians Begin Huge New Offensive In Latvia, Berlin Admits

SOVIET FORCES CAPTURE SAARE FROM GERMANS   Large Gains In ‘Latvia Sector Are Reported

BATTLES RAGE NEAR BUDEPEST   Berlin Tells of See-Saw Fight In Hungary

Soviets Enter Rail Hub Of Miskolc   Germans Also Admit Red Army Has Driven Into Hatvan

Nazis Say Red Drive Slowed   Claim Soviets Mass For Latvia Cleanup

Soviet Army Driven Back By Germans   Counterattack Forces Soviets From Hatvan, Vital Transport Center

Russian Troops Break into Hatvan, Repulsed by Nazi Counterattacks

Germans Claim Reds Ousted From Hatvan   Russian Penetrations In Latvia Admitted By Berlin

Germans Admit Russian Forces  Inside Miskolc   Reds Pierce Rail Hub In Hungary; Repulsed At Hatvan, Nazis Declare.

REALISTIC BATTLE ACTION STIMULATES SALE OF WAR BONDS  UNUSUAL ARMY SHOW, “HERE’S YOUR INFANTRY”. DREW BIG CROWD

REALISTIC BATTLE ACTION STIMULATES DALE OF WAR BONDS  UNUSUAL ARMY SHOW.   UNUSUAL ARMY SHOW, “HERE’S YOUR INFANTRY’. DREW BIG CROWD

Fighting In Croat Area Spreads   Germans Open New Drive Below Fiume To Save Base

WALKOUTS AT FIVE PLANTS IN NEW JERSEY HITS PRODUCTION OF SUPERFORTS

STRIKERS WAIT RULE BY ARMY   Wright Output of Superfort Motors Crippled by Action

County Sunday School Meeting Here Thursday —  Hear Addresses And Elect Officers For Ensuing Year

Dewey iarges New Deal Failed Abroad   Tnternal Bickering  Blamed for _ Demo ‘Incompetence’

DEWEY CHARGES AFFAIRS SUFFER FROM BICKERING      Quarreling, Back-Bitiug, Internal Dissersion Hit At St. Louis

DEWEY ADDS 10 ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT   Still Presents No Policies of His Own, However

FAILURES OF F.D.R. AT. HOME, ABROAD GIVEN SCORING BY DEWEY   CHARGES FLY IN STATE CAMPAIGN

Dewey Hits New Deal  Dissension   Assails Hopkins, Perkins, Ickes;  Says Administration Is Record of Failure

DEWEY OFFERS §-POINT PLEDGE IN ST. LOUIS   Attacks FDR’s Conduct of Foreign Affairs in Speech

Peleliu Invasion Toughest of Three Recent Yank Raids   Satisfactory Progress Re. ported; 1,400 Nip Casualties Revealed

REDS ASSIST INLIBERATION OF BELGRADE   HITLER APPARENTLY LOSING GRIP ON HUNGARY

Strong Blows ‘Delivered Against Axis   Germans Admit Russians Are in Belgrade

Russian lroops Smash Into Belarade Area   Also Capture Nis In Drive to Free Serbia Fram Nazis

Finns May Ask  Reds For Peace   Germans Say Parliament Will Meet Tonight

Business Women’ Meeting Stresses" Good Citizenship :  Large Group From  LeMars B.. & P. W. - Attend Session. —

Business Women’:  Meeting Stresses Good Citizenship Large Group From  LeMars B. & P. W. Attend Session

Author Of “Spoon River Anthology” Recovering In Convalescent Home

“CADGEND cl? SHEN NAA DRIVE   Air Support Command Uses Ingenious Weapons to Aid Air Force

NEW FRAGMENTATION BOMB IS USED AGAINST GERMANS   CASING SUATTERS INTO HUNDREDS GF PIECES WHEN DEOFPED BY AMERI CAN PLANES

TAKE ar POINTS, HEAD FOR JUNCTION   Sth Army Breaches Hitler Line Near Pontecorvo

Demos Whoop And Holler   Goodnatured Throng There When Official Opening Takes Place

Yells for FDR at Opening of Big Meeting   Packed Convention Cheers Every Mention of the President's Name   KEYNOTE ADDRESS i AT 8:30 TONIGHT   Sen, Lucas J Assails G.0.P. Hitting at Hoover, Landon and Luce

[Democrats Open Chicago Convention (With Loud Cheers for Roosevelt

“Suicide Troops” Continue Battle as Americans Wipe Up Shattered Nazi Pockets   Third Most Important Port on Coast of France Tottering, Opening the Way for Alled March Taward Paris and Berlla

Manila Again Attacked hy Bombers  Yanks Close In on Jap  Ctreanannain?

Transport Planes Drop Greetings C Christmas Cheer To Free Filipinos

Liberators Smash at Manila Airfield as Yanks Close in On Last Jap Base on Leyte

CLARK FIELD IN PARTIAL RUINS AFTER BOMBING   More Than 13,000 Nips Killed On Leyte In Last Eight Days Of Cleanup

Yanks Move In On Last Jap Position   Leyte Campaign Nears. End;, Manila Airfields Bomhed.

Yanks Moving In on Palompon On Leyte Island   13,000 Jap Dead In Eight Days

PLAN WELCOME FOR DE GAULLE   French Leader Expected to Arrive Thursday

GEN. DE GAULLE IS EXPECTED IN U.S. TOMORROW   ELABORATE WELCONE HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR FRENCH GENERAL

DEGAULLE A GUEST   French National Leader Is Coming to U.S. for — a Visit .

DEGAULLE DUE IN WASHINGTON ON THURSDA'   Hull Says Discussion ‘With Him Will Be of General Natute 

WAR CORRESPONDENT PARACHUTES ALONG WITH EARLY UNITS  TLANA DN RBANACLIV TlITic   LEONARD MOSELY TELLS OF RELIEF WHEN GLIDER‘ CAME POURING IN

 PUNCHING HITLER’S:NOSE Reporter Tells Great Story \Of Landing Behind the Wall

Nominations for 16th Annual Award For Film Achievement in 1915 Made

Nominations For Movie Awards   Stars And Plays Are Select ed For Year’s Balloting As Best Of 1943   COMPETITION IS KEEN THIS YEAR

TRANSPORTS CARRY FUEL TO GUNS, TANKS   Nazis Try Desperately to Save Mechanized Army Being Pushed Back Toward Rumania   REDS SLOG AHEAD   Zhukov's Troops Push Near to Vi fal Rail Junction of Proskurov to Close Escape Gap

Nazis Use Planes To Rescue Troops   Frantically Trying to Save Mud-Bound Men in Ukraine

PLANES TRY TO FLY AID TO RUSSIA   Desperate Effort To Save Ukraine . Armies Is Made

WAR FUND DONATIONS   ARGENTINE STOPS SOUTH AMERICAN AXIS PROPAGANDA

Allies Sweep Toward Rome, Nazis Retreat   German Defenses South Of City Crumbling Under Blows Of Fifth.   -RESISTANCE FIERCE

A merican Fifth Captures Albar Hills Stronghold Of Monte Castellaccio In Big Drive .

FBI CAPTURES G. , DILLINGER   ARMY PILOT IS TRAILED BY GIRL'sS RING

Girl Friend’s V Ring Betrays Army Plane Swiper  G-Men Put Finger On GI Dillinger

CONFERENCE SECRECY HIT   Bridges Denounces Parley Policy; Delegates Agree To Press Meeting

CONFEREES AGREE TO MEET PRESS TODAY   Delegates To World Security Conference Will Ez Questioned About Accomplishments

PARLEY DELEGATES WILL MEET PRESS   Action Taken After Pres sure for More Public _ Information

Big 4 Press Conference To Be Today   WORLD SECURITY DELEGATES UNDER PRESSURE APPOINT MEETING; SENATOR BRIDGES SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW.   George Also Speaks Out

PEACE LEADERS TO MEET PRESS   Secrecy In Conference On World Security Is Criticized

BRITISH WAR LOSSES ARE REVEALED   Third of Hontes In Britain Have  Been Bombed

25,000 TANKS PRODUCED IN FIVE YEARS   Over 750,000 Casualties Are Revealed Today

UNITED KINGDOM REPORTS FIGURES   One Third Of All Homes Wrecked, 750,000 Casualties

One-Third Of All Homes Are Wrecked   War Production Hits Record Total Despite Destruction

Girls Murder Solved: Killer  Ends His Lif   Former Soldier Coniuiit: Suicide After Brotherin-Law Reveale His Siusnicton

GOV. DEWEY STARTS VOTE CAMPAIGN IN THREE KEY STATES   No Speeches Scheduled Enroute To Parley Of 26 GOP Governors

Karly Start On Arabian Oil Project ‘To Be Urged   Miltary Advocates Fear U. S. Will Lose Complete Domination Of Oi Rights There SENATE COMMITTEE TO HEAR ARMY, NAVY  Ree gc YY Pee TT Pec

Lf. Gen. Millard F. Harmon Named To Command Air Force in Pacific

Aachen May Be Destroyed By Yanks   Bombs, Guns Ready; To Level City Under Allied Ultimatum

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GERMAN CITY IS ENCIRCLED BY U.S. GUNS   ULTIMATUM HANDED ENEMY TROOPS IN STRONGHOLD

Frontier City Surrounded, Guns, Planes  Ready To Act   First Test of Whether Germans Are Willing To Sacrifice Cities  To Delay Allied Push  RAINS BOG FRONT

Ultimatum Is Given Aachen   City Faces Ruthless Destruction If Nazi Garrison Refuses To Surrender

TodayMay Mark End Of Aachen   Utter Vestructior Alternative to Quick Surrender

Ultimatum Is      City Faces Ruthless Destruction If Nazi Garrison Refuses To Surrender

Surrender Only Way to Prevent  City's Destruction Third Army Makes   Third Army Makes Gains in Regions  Of Nancy and Metz

Ultimatum Given ‘Aachen Garrison  By U.S. Officers   Troops Have Until 10:50 A. M. Wednesday To Surrender Or Have Entice City Wined Out

ULTIMATUM IS GIVEN GERMANS TOSURRENDER   Nazis Have Until 5:50 This Morning To Quit Or Be Destroyed   FEW CIVILIANS ARE LEFT INSIDE AACHEN

bliteration Pr Ooms AL ccs Naz Town If It Fails To Meet Terms of Army

Threaten to Destroy Ams cient Frontier City Unt less It Is Handed Over by Garrison. ae   RING OF STEEL - = AROUND FORTRESS   Artillery and Planes’ ‘6 Open Attack at 4:30%A. M. Today if Nazis Res main Defiant. ga

U. 5. Ultimatum To Surrender Is Given Besieged German Garrison   American Artillery and Bombers Will Begin Firing on 1,500 Enemy Troops This Morning

German City To Surrender Or to Die.   Ultimatum Sent Nazi Commander; No Reply Received

Yanks ready to wipe out German city  Hourly warnings ave hroadcast

Yankees Deliver Ultimatum to  Besieged Nazis   Threaten Garrison With ‘Ruthless’ Destruction If Truce Is Spurned; Other Fronts Make Steady Advances

Ultimatum Delivered ta Enemy Commander . _in City FIGHTING SLOWED -*: BY OCTOBER RAINS  Threé Americans Take Surrender Demand Into City

Germans Get Ultimatum To Give Up City   Commander of Garrison Given Until This Morning to Yield; Rain Bogs Action All Along Front

German Airplane Ceitter Leases lo _ Exist After Raid   Population of Brunswick Flee From Burning City te Mountains

DAMAGE VAST AT BRUNSWICK   Plane Factory City Said to  Have “Ceased to Exist” After RAF Raid

Report 12,000 Killed in Brunswick   Industrial Cily Reportedly Ceases to Exist

BRUNSWICK WIPED OUT BY BOMBING   By RAF, With 30 Per Cent. Of Leipzig Also Destroyed; 12,000 Killed; 50,000 Home lacc.   Industrial City

Nazi Plane City ls Bombed Out   12,000 Are Killed In Brunswick Raid

RAF Destroys Nazi City; 12,000 Killed  Record Raid Levels Plane i Plants

Report 12,000 Killed  in Brunswick  Industrial City   Industrial City Reportedly Ceases to Exist

AIRPLANE CITY IS DEVASTATED   Brunswick Demolished By 2,000-Ton Raid Friday Night

Delay Granted Chaplin Reply to Mann Act Charge Postponed to Friday

$808 FA STADIUM   Exhibits Will Show Voca * tional: Agriculture .” ~ Projects”   TO HAVE HORSE SHOW,

4H CLUB FAIR IN HASKELL STADIUM   Exhibits Will Siw Vocational Agriculture _ Projects

Some Damage  To U.S. Units  But Offensive Plans Are Not Disrupted

Jap Air Attack Fails —   Forrestal Says Damage Done Not Enough To Disrupt Plans for Continued Offensive

Jap Attacks = Have Failed To Stop Navy   Some Damage Acknowledaed But Details Withheld for Security Reason

Nip Air Blows No - Deterrent to U. S.   Forrestal Says Attacks by Landbased Craft Have Done Damage, but Have Failed to Disrupt Plans for Continued Offensive.

Will Continue Heavy Offen. _Sive Navy Secretary Forrestal Said.   SUFFERED REVERSES   We Now Dominate the Islands Around the Philippines, the Secretary Said.

Jap Planes Fail to Stop Yank Drives   Naval Forces in Philippines Area Have Suffered Some  Damage, Forrestal

U.S. Maintains  Offensive Plan All Losses Announced In Pacific—Forrestal

Island Campaign Enas, Forrestal Says Fleet Keeping Up Offensive ' Jan Air Attacks Fail   Jap Air Attacks Fail To Disrupt Pacific Plans

Forrestal Admits Some U.S. Losse:  Novy Chief Counters   Novy Chief Counters Jap Fantastic Claims; ‘Silence Necessary’

JAP AIR RAIDS FAIL TO CHECK U.S. OFFENSIVI   Navy Secretary Admits Dam. age to Forces, But Cites Growing Drives

Enemy Air Attacks Have Failed to Disrupt U.S. Plans  Forrestal Says Japs Not Being Told Of Damaged Vessels

PHILIPPINES LOSSES FOR JAPS HAILEL   Destruction Among Greatest Ever Suffered by Japanese Military, MacArthur Reports.   INHINDERED

JAPS FAIL TO DISRUPT PLANS   Forrestal Admits Naval Forces Suffer Damage  Off Philippines

FORRESTAL SAYS JAP AIR ATTACKS FAIL STOP DRIVES  NAVAL SECRETARY, HOW _ EVER, ADMITS SOME DAM see in PHILIPPINES

Japanese Air Attacks Fail   Forrestal Save It's Necessary To Keep Silent On What Vessels Hit,

DAMAGE TQ U. S. SHIPS ADMITTED   JAP ATTACKS FAIL TO DISRUPT ATTACK PLANS

Canadians Clash on Conscription   Premier Accused of Being Insincere

STREET FIGHTS MARK CANADA'S DRAFT DISPUTE   Policy Change Threatens War Effort Unity In Dominion

DEFENSE MINISTER BEING QUESTIONED   Canada’s New Over-seas Military Conscription Is Subject

KING DEFENDS DRAFT POLIC)   Dissension in Parliament Threatens to Spread

Canadian Parliament Holds Closed Session   Deferse Minister To Answer Questions Regarding Conscription

Five True Bills Are Returned By Grand Jury   Two of Indictments Against Local Men; 2 No True Bills Found

Seven True Bills Are Returned By Grand Jury   February Term of Criminal Court Convened Monday

*NIPS UNABLE TO MAKE FULL USE OF LEYTE ARMY   @Yamashita Forced To Send Piecemeal Forces Into Scattered Fights   @DEFENSE IS DESPERATE   Bitter Struggle Forecast Before Island Is - Under U. S. Control

BANDITS USED JAIL FOR BASE   Stayed-in Cells Because of Room Shortage

> ie  Swarms Of Planes Invade Reich Without Challenge From Enemy   Nazis Report Raid In- South Kurope   RAF Raiders Bomb Targets In Franee During Night Channel Sweep

Germans Refuse To Fight   German Planes Are Destroyed on Ground By Yanks

Commerce Department Places 1943 National Income at 147 Billions.

Subs Account For 14 Ships   Sinkings Bring Total To Half OF Jan Shins

DONNELL OPENS (.0. P. CAMPAIGN IN KANSAS CIT)   Governor Predicts Republican Victory in Missouri for State and National Tickets,   BRADSHAW SPEAKS AT SAME MEETING   Declares State Is Ready to Undertake 4-Year Plan of Industrial and Agri cultural Expansion.

3000 PLANES HIT GERMANY AND ROMANIA   Aircraft Centers, Railway Hubs, Invasion Coast Battered

Yanks Overy Southwest Germany   Also Bomb France And Belgium; Italian Front Quiet; Nazis Die Slowly in Crimea

Air Offensive In Tenth Day Over Kurope   Red Army Masses For New Campaign As Destruction of Luftwaffe Forecast   Strike Near Vienna.

No Let-Ur In Aerial Pounding   Nazi Aircraft Centers In Germany and Rail Hubs in Romania Hit ‘By 3,000-Plane Armada

Hun Losses Are Greater. Than Output   Lull on Soviet Front Believed Prelude to New Red Army Campaign

3,000 AMERICAN PLANES ATTACK ENEMY TARGETS   Romania's Ploesti and Bucharest Also Hit by Vast Air Fleets   By RICHARD M’MURRAY An War Editor

FURIOUS AIR WAR KEPT UP ON GERMANY   Nearly 3,000 American Planes Attack Germany and Balkan Regions.   Russians Are Massing For a New Campaign

WAVES OF AMERICAN  HEAVY BOMBERS HIT  AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY TENTH CONSECUTIVE DAY   ‘OF PRE-INVASION AC TION BY HEAVIES

Assault on German Aircraft Industry Approaches Climax   3,000 American Planes Pound Nazi, Rumanian Centers Today

Allied Air Offensive In 10th Day   Russians Mass Troops for New Campaign In East

Yankee Warplanes Smash At Europe In Big Offensive   Russians Set For New Land Campaign In East

Friedrichshafen, — Munich, Bucharest Ploesti Targets   Russian Front Lull Generally Believed Quiet Before Storm

3, 000 Heavy American Bombers Attack _ Europe  REDS. MASSING  Russian Army Is Prenaring For New 

Heavy Air Raids On Axis Centers   Plane Works and Traffic Hubs Pounded by 3,000 U. S. Planes   TENTH DAY OF RAIDS   Russian Front Quiet as Soviet Armies Mass for' New Assault

AIR WAR TO ERASE NAZI PLANE: PRODUCTION SOURCES STEPPED UP BY RAF - AMERICAN FORCES   For Tenth Consecutive Day Aerial Bombardment Of German Aircraft Centers Goes on with Planes 4y+om Britain and Italy Co-ordinating Efforts   BERLIN DECLARES GERMANY IS CALM AND READY FOR ATTACK AS ALLIES PREDICT DESTRUCTION AIR FORCE   British Air Ministry Issues Statement Saying Campaign Is Success But “Not Yet A Complete One.” Fortress of Holland Ready Say Nazis 

U. S. and Australian Forees Join After Clearing Foe from Huon Area.

FIVEMONTHS CAMPAIGN — WAS COSTLY   Gen. Douglas MacArthur “Announces Complete Occupation of Huon Peninsula

Occupation Of Huon Position At Completion   Campaign Costs Japs 14.000 Men; Suffers Decisive Dea   WORST YET TO COME

HUON PENINSULA NOW CONTROLLE BY ALLIED FORCES   OCCUPATION IS COMPLETED BY ANZACS, YANKS

aps Handed ew Setback Pacific  ies Complete cupation of uon Peninaula

Japan's Southern Defenses Continue Slow Crumbting   Australian and American Forces Join in Jungles

Huon Peninsula of New Guinea Wholly Occupied by Allies   Gen. MacArthur  Announces Subjugation of Island Position

Entire Huon Peninsula In  Allied Hands   Aussies Join American Troops; Jap Losses Estimated At 14,000: Rabaul! Avain Rombed

NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN AT COST OF 14,000    Huon Peninsula In Hands Of Allies After Australian, WU. S. Troops Effect Junction

ALLIES OCCUPY HUON, WIPE OUT 14,000 OF FOE   Junction of Americans and Aus:  sies Gives New Bases for Blow: ai Madang Sector   PLANES RAID WAKE   Aerial Offensive on Rabaul Contin ues While Chinese Forces Ad vance in Burma

Allies Hold All Huon Peninsula In New Guinea   Americans And Aussies In Juncture Of Forces Relow Saidor.

Jap Central Pacific Bases Are Hit Anew   Five-Month Old Campaign for ‘Huon Peninsula fs Ended in Occunation

Allied T roops  Join at Saidor   Now Occupy Huon Peninsula. As Planes Hack at Island Bases

Japan's Southern Lines Crumbling  Hold on New Guinea Again Narrowed

NIPS FACE NEW PACIFIC LOSSES   Yank, Aussie Troops Meet Below Saidor; Threaten Madang

Huon Peninsula Japanese Forces Are Wiped Out   150 Miles of New Guinea Coast Brought Under Allied Control in Five Months’ Campaign; Bomb Wake Island .

ALLIED FORCES DRIVE NIPS FROM HUON PENINSULA   Australian, American Troops Join Near Saidor; Raid Rabaul Again

(APS DEFEATED ON PENINSULA   Australian and American Troops Complete Occupation: of Huon.   IWAS A VITAL DEFENSE

JAPANESE FACING FURTHER BREAKDOWN OF VITAL DEFENSES  AMERICAN NAVAL AND AIR UNITS AID GROUND FORCES IN PACIFIC

Allies End Huon Drive   Se eV wet verse 7°  Japs Suffer Decisive Defeat as Australian And Yank Troops Join

ALLIED DRIVE ON NEW GUINEA NEARING CLIMAX   Conquest of Marshalls Goes On and New Attacks Made On Japs on Wake Island

OCCUPATION OF HUON FINISHED   Japanese Face Further ‘Breakdown Of Vital Southern Detense

YANK, AUSSIE ARMIES MEET INNEW GUINEA   Complete Conquest Of Huon Peninsula After Campaign Costing Japs 14,000 Men: Rabaul Hit,

Anti-Dealers To Name Candidate   Nomination of FR Will Bring ‘Jefferson’ Man

CORBET COMMUNITY FIRST EXCEED QUOTA IN SIXTH WAR LOAN  COUNTY CAMPAIGN CHAIR. MEN GUESTS B. L. SAND. ERS WEDNESDAY NIGHT

CORBET COMMUNITY FIRST EXCEED QUOTA IN SIXTH WAR LOAN  COUNTY CAMPAIGN CHAIR. BETA! CTICCTC pm Ff esr   COUNTY CAMPAIGN CHAIR. MEN GUESTS B. L. SAND ERS WEDNESDAY NIGHT

PLAN TO MERGE ARMY AND NAVY GAINS FAVOR   Congressional Action May Be Forthcoming Before War’s  End.

FORCE JAPS 10 FIGHT OUR WAY   Disrupts Japanese Strategy for Long War

Japanese Desire To Delay War In Solomon Islands To Weary Point Is Dashed

DEWEY TAGS FDR SONATIONIST:.   Dewey’s Milwaukee Speech Returns to Domestic Affairs

Dewey Pins Tag Of Isolationism On Roosevelt   Charges President Helped Bring War From 1933 to 1939

DEWEY HURLS ISOLATIONIST CHARGE BACK   Roosevelt Scuttled League of Nations, Says G. O. P. Nominee

Dewey Flays London Parley Scuttling, Joins Move for Police Power

DEWEY SAYS F. D. RS POLICIES BROUGHT WA   Hotly Disputes President's Charge Republicans Are Goverened by Isolationists  JWT CNOrAW ‘THAIS LIT

ADMINISTRATION POLICIES BE: *. GARDING ECONOMIC PRO>: GRAM. AND. SUPPLIES FOR JAPAN. ARE. :. 2 LAVED

Badoglio Forming New Ifalian War Cabinet Today   Communists, Five Other Parties Will Be Included

Badoglio Reforms  Cabinet to Include  Italian Parties Repori Says One Member from  Each of Six Groups, Including Cemmunisis, ico be Named

Badoglio Forms a New War Cabinet.   Group Will Iriclude New Member from  Each Politica! Party .

LARGER ITALIAN CABINET SOUGHT   Badoglio to Include Sis Political Parties

BADOGLIO FORMING NEW WAR CABINE}   Completed Group Probably Will Be Announced Tomorrow.

Badoglio Forming ~ New War Cabinet  Members Of Anti-Fascist Parties Included

Badoglio Forming New Cabinet   Expected to Include Men From Six Parties

Badoglio Forms Bigger Cabinet   Old Cabinet Resigns As Political Parties Form New War Junta

New Cabinet In Italy   Noted Men in Group; Six Liberal Parties Will Be Represented 

No Further. "Delays On » Older Mer   " Ten-Day Postponement Can. celed,. But. Men’ Over: 26 7 Goto ‘End ‘of: List   VOLUNTEERS AND -. YOUNGER MEN FIRS1   Recommendations: Go Out to Local ‘Draft ‘Boards From “State Office

ORDER DELAYING DRAFT CANCELED   : = @ et INDUCTION OF ESSENTIAL  WORKERS,26 AND OVER TO   .. BEGIN AT ONCE.

Aerial Attacks Are Continued   Day And Night Bombing Raids On Germany Show No Letup   MOSQUITO BOMBERS MAKE BERLIN VISIT

Daylight Raid Strikes Into Central Reich   U.S. 4.Motered Planes Follow Up RAF Night Attack

Yanks Drive 18 Miles Inland  Upon Peninsula   Smash German Lines Defending Cherbourg

snedilteninneenententemmememtnemmate aaa  SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 12—(AP)—Field dispatches stated today that Carentan had been occupied by American troops.

Pledge Occunied Nations May Pick Own Government   Tentative Plan Reported Similar To League of Nations

PRIME MINISTERS URGE WORLD GROUP   British Chieftains Propose Organization Vested with Power

SUBS SINK 14 JAP VESSELS   3 Transports Among Ships Destroyed by Yank Underseas Boats

14 Jap Ships Sunk by U.S.  Submarines  Enemy Craft May H Been on Way to Aie

 Americans “and'G            Germans “Sic 1 Through ‘Slanting “Burro  , +) Tn Strange: War

Allied Sky Fleets Punish Wewak      unch US Ship Fascism’s Loudest Voic ery Iwo Hours Stilled by Allied Bomb

New Threat To Germans In Russia.   Red Offensive in Upper Dnieper Bend .May Force Nazi Retreat  To Bug River Line

GREAT NEW RED: ARMY OFFENSIVE CARRIES RED ARMIES INTO RAIL CENTER, PERILING MANY NAZIS      Marshal Stalin Announces Fall of Encircled City In Order of the Day. Great Gaps Torn in German Lines in Dnieper Bend by Strong Russian Armies

Soviet Forces Throw Nazis Back In Southern Area   Americans Strike Toward Cassino as San Vittore Falls

Soviets Gain 2? Miles in  Old Poland   Fifth Army Takes San Vittore and Strikes Toward Cassino in Italy

NAZI FORTRESS CITY  FALLS BEFORE GREAT  NEW RED ARMY DRIVE IN ITALY FIFTH ARMY TROOPS STRUCK TOWARD  PAGCCIRIN CATTIIDRAV

Reds Wedge Deeper Info Dnieper Bend   Russian Forces Knife 22 Miles into Old Poland; Fifth Army Advances To-. ward Cassino After Seizing San Vittore .

THOUSANDS OF NAZI TROOPS ARE IMPERILED   Fifth Army Seizes San Vittore, Pushes On Cassino

5 Key Cities Stand in Way of Red Armies   Germans Preparing to Defend Three of These Aaainst Soviets

Germans Claim Soviet Armies Have Opened New Drive In Southern Poland   LATE BULLETINS

 (CHURCHILL REVEALS INVASION PLANS RAir Attacks On Germany To Increase

BOMBERS HIT BALKAN RAIL LINES TODAY   Communications Damaged; Bomb Rome Bridges

SMASH ANEW AT BALKAN TARGETS   96 GERMAN PLANES DESTROYED; ALLIES LOSE 10 AIRCRAFT

Jap Resistance Reaches Low Ebt  Little Opposition Left of Los Negros

JAPS DRIVEN TO NORTH END OFLOSNEGROS   Resistance on Occupied Island in Bismarck Sea Reaches Extremely Low Ebb   ATTACK ON RABAUL

knemy Base At Talasea  Threatened   Americans Only Two Miles Away: Jap Resistance  At Los Negros Ebbs

Jap Defense Of Los Negros Rapidly Folds   U, S. Warships Sterns Unseathed Tuto ilarbor

RESISTANCE AT LOW EBB AND WARSHIPS AND SUPPLY SHIPS ENTER HARBORS UNOPPOSED   Japan’s First Rank Marines Driven Back ‘to Extreme North Portion of Islands. Fighting in Talasea Area in New Britain Favors Allies   JAPS ABANDON POSITIONS ‘ON SMALL MAGINE ISLAND

JAP RESISTANCE HITS LOW EBB   Yankee Ships Occupy Big Los Negros Anchorage

Nip Resistance At Low Point   American Supply Ships Reach Los Negros Anchorage Without Opposition,

AMERICAN WARSHIPS NROPPED ANCHOR IN LOS NEGROS PORT  U. S. DISMOUNTED CAVALRY DRIVE CRACK JAP MARINES OUT

Invasion Beachhead on New Britain Being Expanded.—Four More Air Attacks on Rabaul.

Jap Resistance Is Fading Fast   ai Able to Send Warships and Supply  Ships into Big Anchorage at Los Negros Without Opposition; Rabaul Raided  Four Times in One Day

U.S. Ships Anchor At Los Negros   Americans Advance Fast in Burma

JAP FORCES ARE PUSHED NORTHWARD   American Ships Steam ® Boldly Into Isle’s Big Anchorage

JAP RESISTANCE HITS NEW LOW ON LOS NEGROS   Marines Expand Beachhead on Willaumez Peninsula in New Britain   BY RICHARD C, BERGHOLZ ASSOCIATED PRESS EDITOR

Infantry Goes Over  In Force   Most Of Saarleutern Captured Without Sho Being Fired By  Surprised Defenders.

Patton Army Battles Through Center Of Siegfried Line After Seizing . Big Enemy Bridge in Surprise Attack

Black Markel Operators Reported to Be Dealing In Rail Reservations

 Sravelers Gouged  ODT Warns Public of Black (Market Rail Reservation Ring

RAIL RESERVATIONS ARE BEING RESOLD   Black Market Operators Are Now x Speculating With Ticke’s On Much Travelled Trains

Board of Education Fills Teaching Staff Vacancies In Public Schools   Complement Of Instructors Is Nearly Effected

Overhauled Tax Plan Will Make Jobs, Handle Big Debt, Beardsley Ruml Say:

Average Family's BHI Te Be $830 a Year  Big Postwar Tax Loaa Can Be Carried if  Industry Is Expanded

‘Two Letters To Nebraska Congressman Indicates — General MacArthur Receptive To GOP Nomination

MacArthur's Friends on Vote Hunt   BUT LETTERS TO CONGRESSMAN MILLER OF NEBRASKA DEMUR INTO PROPHECY OF HIS ELECTION.

M’Arthur Ready GG Nomination   I tes In Letters His Rec#ptiveness to the Post; Concerned Over Country.

Two Letters. to ‘Congressman Indicate General Will Accept , Nomination: if It Is “Tendered “by Party—Warrior.'Ex> iptesses’ Concern Lést Country “Slip: Into: Same Condition - Internally as the One. Which We Fight Externally.”

MW’ Arthur Receptive,  ‘Two Letters Indicate   General, in Correspondence With Congressman Warns Nation Must Not “Slip” Into Axis Way of Life—Urges People Get Facts

Says U. S. Must Not Slip Into Conditions Internally That We Fight Externally

MacArthur Seen As Receptive To Nomination  Letters to Nebraska Congressman Cited;  Draft Him, Says Chave:

MacArthur Seen As Receptive To G. 0. P. Bid   Letters From General To Salon Shed New Light on Position

VIEWS GIVEN BY M ARTHUR   Letters Sound Warning, Indicate Him Receptive To Nominations

Letters Indicate Gen. MacArthur Is Receptive to G. 0. P. Nomination

MacArthur Hints Receptiveness to  GOP Nomination   Letters to Congressman Reveal Concern Lest U. S. Slip Into Dangerous Internal Conditions

U.S. Launches Tough Plan To Speed War   Government Initiates Stringent Moves In Selective Service

Ediet On Manpowe r Is Drastie   Tighten Up On Policies To Speed The War Effort Up To Its Needs

TIFF MANPOWER ACTION 1S TAKEN   Government Bans Horse and Dog Racing; Will Deny Materials to Businesses Defying Regulations

Manpower Move Hits Racing; Tightens Control:   Government Acts To Increase War Production

Manpower Crackdown  Under W ay   Horse Racing and Other Sport Events Face Curtailment

CLAMP STRICT RULES ON USE CF MANPOWER   Priorities To Be Denied Firms Found Violators

Drastic Manpower Move Ordered by Government  to Speed Up War Effort

Crack Down On Firms Defying Manpower Rules  rr me mm wb $s   No Transportation, Materials, Fuel To Companies Not Living Up To Requlations

Racing Falls Under WMC Ban in Jan.   Manpower for War Is Given Rating Ahead of All Else

BYRNES HAL HORSE RAGING   Drastic Moves Planned to Meet Situation

NEED ROCKET POWDER   Sunflower Official Speaks Before Kansas City Realtors

Roosevelt Says Allies Forced To Bomb Monastery   Declares Germans Hac Converted It into Fortress To Shell Troops

NEEDED, FDR SAYS   Conversion Into Fort. Force: Allies to Turn Guns poe a eas

CURRENCY BEING PRINTED TO BE USED IN EUROPE   President Hints German Money Being Made For Troops’ Use   DEFENDS MILITARY RAID ON MONASTERY

ABBEY SHELLED TO SAVE YANKS   ROOSEVELT SAYS GERMANS HAD FIRED ON AMERICANS FROM MONASTERY.

FDR UPHOLDS ABBEY ATTACK   Military Necessity Because Nazis Made it Fortress. He Says

Elimination Of Tax Returns For Many Seen   Doughton Group. Works Ou Simplification Bill To Stress Withholding

Good News for Taxpayers: Doughton Plans To Make March 15  Return Last Millions Will File

CHIEF OF STAFF ET SUPPLY DATA   WPB Refers Suppressed Figures for Decision By Army Leaders

Suppressed WPB Figures to Light  Chiefs of Staff Will Study Output Report

Chiefs To Decide On War Produce   Suppressed Figures of WPB Go to Chiefs of Staff  In Canveraan Praoahe.

ARMY SUPPLY LIST STUDIED   Suppressed F igures of WPB Are Referred to Staff Chiefs for Review

TEMPORARY SILOS SAVE MUCH FEED   May Build of Slat Fencing, Heavy Building Paper, or as a Troangh

Pipeline Project Rejected By PAW   West Texas To California Line Ruled Unnecessary And Supply Insufficient

This Irishman Won't Give Up  Briton Joins Yanks To Keep Fighting

Luck of the IrishBum Tank Didn’t Stop Patty’s War   BY WALTER CRONKITE

CONGRESS STEPS UP EFFORTS 10 COMPLETE WORK            Mest” Ly     ion Is Reccivis Attention In Final, Days

STRIKERS FACE U). §. BLASTS   20,000 MECHANICS IDLE IN MICHIGAN AND OHIO

Strike Leader Defies Subpoena  Of Labor Board  Declares He Won't Attend Hearing;  or nnn a... 1).

Smith § Spurns WLB Hearing   Head: Of. Striking ‘Union Is. Defiant.

WLB Subpoena To Be. Ignored By Union Head   Not To Appear in: Connection With Strike in War Plants. Involving .25,CAH? Workers

Union Leader To Ignore Subpoena   Smith Asserts He Won't Ancwer WI R

West Bank of Roer Now Being Cleared of German Soldiers   Muddy Soldiers of Gen. Hodges’ Army Drive South of Duren   Western Front

Stimson Reports On Bomb Attacks   Invasion Thrusts Do Great Damage   Nazi Transport Crippled

GERMANS HARD HIT BY AERIAL ATTACKS   Stimson Says “Nazis Fall- ing Behind in Repair Program

NAZIS’ SUPPLY LINES RIPPED   Stimson Reports Damage is _ Beyond Foe’s Ability To Repair

PLANE PLANTS AT NAGOYA BATTERED   Soviet Troops In Suburbs  Of Budapest

AP AIRCRAFT ENTER TARGET F B-29 STRIKE   Enemy Convoy Sunk Oft Leyte

Chileans Feel Deceived Says  C Of C Leader   General Opinion Of Butler’s Trip Said To Be Political Asnect.   TELLS HOUSE GROUP

Testifies Butler Fooled Chileans  Says His Information Was Partial Truth

ee ek ee  Chileans ‘Deceived’ By Butler   t. 8S. Businessman In So. America Says

‘Excerpts from Editorial Comments ‘On Willkie’s Sudden Withdrawal

What Newspapers Say of Willkie’s ‘Withdrawal From Presidential Race

Press Weighs Willkie Step   See Withdrawal As Defeat of Liberal Element in Party

NEW OFFENSIVE BY SOVIETS ON NORTHERN LINE   German Garrison Trapped Inside Narva, Seeking to Open Gateway Into Lithuania

Russians-Blast 21-Mile Hole in Lines of Nazis   RAP AT THE GATES

Double Dealing Charges Made   Trics to Appeal to Both Friends and Enemies of Russia in America, Article Says

YANKS POUND THREE JAP BASES   47 ENEMY PLANES, 2 SHIPS DESTROYED

Nazis Flee Riga As Reds Close in   Soviets Control Alt Vital Routes Into City.

CLOSE IN ON THREE SIDES   New Drive Seen On East Prussia By Red Columns

Beaten Nazi Army Begins To Quit Riga   Reds Closing in From Three Sides, Soviet Reports Declare

RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON RIGA   Germans Begin Evacuation of Latvian Capital

RUSSIAN ARMIE! BREAK ENEMY LINE AT RICA   Prepare For Final Assault

BATTERED NAZ ARMY BEGINS TO QUIT RIGA   Big Air Battles Rage As Reds Control Rail Junctions  And Main Highways 

Reds Hold Main Roads Outside City   Soviets Close In From Three Sides On Latvian Capital.

Four Armies Of 1,000,000 Men Run Roughshod Over Nazis In Baltics   Enemy s Plight Is Now Desperate   Winter Line Cracked Open And Thousands Of Foe Herded Against Sea

Germans Start Evacuation of Riga   LONDON—U.P)—The Berlin radio reported today that the Red army had completed the occupation of Estonia.

Battered German Baltic Army Quits Capital Of Latvia   Russians Win Control Of All Rail Lines Out Of Riga

Nazis Flee Riga As Russian Forces Close in   Soviets Completely Occupy Estonia, — Berlin Radio Says

EVACUATION OF RIGA BEGUN BY BERMAN FORCE   Russians Closing In on Latvian Capital From 3 Directions

REDS DRIVE ON CAPITAL CITY      Battered German Army of Baltics Begin Evacuation of Riga, Principal City in Latvia — Battle of Estonia Virtually Ended.

GERMANS START EVACUATION OF LATVIA CAPITAL   Russian Troops Are Closing From Three Sides Against Rira

Germans Reported Evacuating Riga   GARRISON FLEEING CAPITAL OF LATVIA AS RUSSIANS CLOSE IN FROM THREE SIDES

NAZI BALTIC ARMY NOW EVACUATING CAPITAL OF LATVIA   Russian Troops Close In From Three Different Sides   RED ARMIES SEIZE ESCAPE PORT   Battle Of Estonia Ended Except For Mopping-up Operations

NAZIS BEGIN EVACUATION QF RIGA, CLAIN   ‘Latvia and Estonia Cleared of Soldiers and Direct Assault on East Prussia Is in Malina.

Riga Evacuation Reported Begun By German Army   Red Troops Reported --.Closing In On Latvia Capital On Three Sides

BATTERED NAZI BALTIC. FORCES BEGIN RETREAT FROM LATVIA   Soviets Rush To Complete Campaign

Postwar Program Assuming Shape  fowa Commission Making Good Progress

Dewey Will Win In Montana, Whetstone Says   State Passes From Doubtful Column in Last Twe Weeks; Montana’s Four Electoral Votes Could Swing National Election, He Declares

G. 0. P. Chief Urges Party fo Exert Peak Effort for Dewey in Days Ahead

SPRING WARMTH HERE   ‘Scattered Light Showers May Fali in Eastern Kansas

RED GROSS BIG WAR FUND. DRIVE: STARTS   Sioux County’s Quota For Fund Totals ~~ $14,769

Red Cross War Fund Campaign In March   Only Une Drive Will Be Made This Year And Plans Are Rapidly Reine Formulated

Roosevelt's Repl   Mountbatten Announces Sweeping Against Japanese on Imphal Plain

2 U. S. SUBMARINES WITH 110 MEN LOST   Long-Range Cisco and _ 18-YearOld Raider S-44 Probably Sunk in Pacific.

‘Hitler Orders Old Folk, Children To Defend Reich With Any Weapons ‘Available in Last Ditch Struggle

All Germans Ordered to ~ Defend Reich   Old Men, Boys and Women Made Part of Army by Hitler

NAZI HOME FRONT CORPS IS DECREED   Vast -Mobilization--Ordered: Organizes All Males Fram 1619 BO OC.

Hitler Drains Manpower Pool By Mobilizing g Aged I Men, Boys Declares Reich Siands Alone

German Women To Fight Allies  Old Men And Boys Are Ordered To Defend

HITLER CALLS ALL TO FIGHT   Establishes People’s Army For Last-Ditch Defense Of Germany

Hitler Decrees Vast Mobilization a  [Old Men And Boys Ordered  To The Defense Of Germany

BITTER DEFENSE OF GERMANY IS BEING ORDERED   Old Men And Boys Told Te Use Any Weapon Against Allied Troops

Even Women, Children of   a ee ee ee ee: a ne Hitler Announces Last-Ditch Defense Plans   IReich Must Now Fight Allies

Hitler Decrees Vast Mobilization aan cheatin tthe  Old Men And Boys Ordered To The Defense Of Germany

Women Form Nazi Defense For Homeland   Hitler Mobilizes The Aged For Desperate Last Defense of Homeland.

: ayes  BS SFI NEWS BUTI EIING   Beaten German General Ends Life

EAST INDIES ~ FACES THREAT   Mountbatten’s Naval Forces on Prowl

Race Viclence Marks Tieup In Philadelphia   Street Battles Flare Ag Thousands Of Workers In War Planis Lack Transportation

LONERGAN GUILTY IN SECOND DEGREE   Jury Convicts Former Flier ‘in Killing of His. Wite

o   Conviets orcan of Count   Out for Nine falf Hours: Judge il 17 for  of Slayer

LONERGAN CONVICTED  OF MURDERING WIFE   Second Degree Verdiei Carries Sentence Of From 26 Years To Life Imprisonment

Jury Conviets Lonergan of  Slaying Wife   Verdict Is Second Degree Murder; 20 Years to Life

2nd Degree Murder for  Lonergan   JURY WAS OUT TEN HOURS; VERDICT CARRIES IMPRISONMENT FROM 20 YEARS TO LIFE   Citic April 17

Allied Air War  Against Europe Shows No Letuy   Daylight Attacks Follow Up Night Raids On NaziHeld Europe   PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW HUGE DAMAGE DONE

AERIAL STABS JOLT GERMANY   Groggy Hamburg Is Again Bombed Frankfort Also Indi‘ates Attack

War Against Continental Europe Continues As Allied Planes Again Bomb berman

ALLIED RAIDS ON EUROPE EXTENDED   R. A, F. Bombs Hamburg After U.S. Hits North France

GENERAL'S EX-WIFE TOWED BAND LEADER   Former Mrs. MacArthur o Social Prominence

HITLER TO ADDRESS GERMANS AUGUST :   Dictator Expected to Justify Hi Measures for a Last-Ditch Military Stand.

Strong Force of ‘Heavies’ Carry Out Fifth Assault  In Six Days on Germany

lorces Make hitth Attack In Six Days   German Casualties High As Attempts To Destroy Allied Beachhead Fail

NAZI CAPITAL AREA OBJECTIVE OF HEAVY DAYLIGHT ASSAULT   RUSSIAN TROOPS IN _ UKRAINE CUTTING DOWN OPPOSITION RAPIDLY

Reds Report Dozen German Divisions” Retreat  . eT a ee ee ee a           Fighters Aid Aid In Hard Blow At. Berlin 

1 12-Mile Hole in Nazi Lines  Made by Reds   Weather Stalls Fighting in Italy; Mosquitos; Yanks Fly in Destruction

Trappéd Allied Paratrooperg At Arnhem Reported In Desperate Situation   GERMANS ARE SAID TO HAVE CUT THE MAIN ROAD AGAIN      American Fifth Army Is  Being Stalled In Its Offensive In Italy .

First Army Starts Attack For Rhine In Aachen Sector   Yanks Open Heaviest Land, Air Assault On German Troops in European Drive

aigantic Air and ‘and Battle Rages In Aachen Sector   Attacks Are Preceded By a Heavily Concentrated Artillery Barrage and Thunderous Drumbeat of Thudding Bombs   ACTION STARTS IN NEW AREA OF SIEGFRIED LINE

FIRST ARMY BIG PUSH NEAR AACHEN SECTOR   Greatest Combined Air-Ground Assault Now Underway

Great Offensive Launched Toward Rhine—Britjsh Widen Corridor in Holland

Mighty Air, Land Attacks Penetrate Nazi Siegfried Line   Yanks Close Oi, “*elfort Gap Entrance; British Widen Front In Holland; Preparing Austrians For Allied Arrival.

U.S. Assault Aimed At Rhine; Canadians Capture Vital Calais   New Offensive By Hodges’ Men Ends 2-Week Stalemate; Seventh Army Edges Into Belfort Gap West Gate; Strong Enemy Count er-Blows Beaten Off

Great Combined Air-Land Push On   Planes Drop Hundreds of Tons of Bombs on Pillboxes and Gunposts In Aachen Region — British Broaden Corridor in Holland

Land Forces Aided _ By 2700 Warplanes  In Historic Assault   Villagers In France, Netherlands And Belgium Watch Air Armada Drop Bombs On Reich West Wall

Tke’ Warns Austria To Be Invaded Soon   Hodge's First Army Offensive Strikes All-Out Against Siegfried Line In One Of War's Greatest Combined Land, Air Blitzes; New Assault Is Also Expected In Belfort Gap Area To South At Point Nearest Austria

Assault Is Launched at New Sector af Siegfried Line Where Yanks , Had Penetrated Nazi Defense Belt ~

Attack Launched In Aachen Sector: 7th Army Enters Belfort Gap; Eisenhower Warns Austria To ‘Prepare For Arrival Of Allies’

First Army Lunges Into Rhine Defense   ‘Troops Advance Toward River In Wake of Pulverizing Blows

Stalemate Broken as Great Air, Land Assault Starts in Aachen Area

Nazi Siegfried Line   Yanks Close On Belfort Gap Entrance; British Widen Front In Holland; Preparing Austrians For Allied Arrival.

Draft Ultimatum Accents Policy Power of Byrnes   ‘Produce or Fight’ Edict Signals Assumption of Over-All Command of Home Front Effort

Byrnes Takes Full Control Of Policy on  Home Front   ‘Produce or Fight’. Order Is. First Move Under New Setup

Byrnes’ Order Viewed as Club ‘Over Laggards   New Draft Edict Believed Intended To Speed Up.  War Pearls

BYRNES MOVE HINTS FULL “HOME RULE   Induction To Man War Plants Is First Act

BYRNES GIVEN BROAD CONTROL ON HOME FRONT   UWMR’sExpansionTakes Away Power Of Many Older Agencies

Byrnes Assumes: Policy Control ff Home Efforts   Draft Order.to Man War Plants Is-First-Of - Bia Moves ~

BYRNES TAKES FULL CONTROL   “Fight or Produce” Edic Signals Active Home Front Direction

Produce Or Fight, Edict Of Brynes   WAR MOBILIZATION DIRECTOR’ ORDER TO SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARDS DESIGNED TO HALT INDUSTRI49. SLACKING   Uses Club Un Workers

BYRNES WILL DIRECT HOME FRONT DRIVE   OWMR Chief to Handle Production and Manpower Phases

FRENCH WARSHIP ~ REPORTED ABLAZE   Dunkerque Bombed in Raid on Toulon Yesterday

Hanging Sentence Given Swancutt   Board Deliberates Case Less Than Hour

COURT MARTIAL ASKS HANGING   Finds Swancutt Guilty of Four Slayings

Allies Gird For Another Test in Italy   Both Sides Gear For Impending Major Offensive

28 DEATHO IN STATE HUNTING   16 Déad From Gunfire, 9 From Other Causes in Michigan.

4 NIMRODS DIE OVER WEEKEND   Toll Reaches 25; Cass Hunter Is Shot By Niles Man

Farrell Regime  Not Recognized U. S. Envoy Instructed To Have No Relations

U.S. Rebuffs Farrell Setup   Instruet Ambassador To Develop No Official Relations With Regime.

Cut Relations With Argentina   U. S. Ambassador Gets His Instructions

Envoy to Argentina Told to Refrain From Official Acts  Farrell Regime Policy Believed Contrary To War Aims of U. S.

U. $. TO HAVE NO RELATIONS WITH FARRELL REGIME   U. S. Believes Argentine Groups Hostile to Western Hemisphere Defense Plan Active in Ousting Ex-Presi . dent Ramirez

pbassador Norman Arm:  1 To Hold Self: Aloof  Pending Developments of Farrell Regime.

Envoy to Argentina Told to Refrain From Official Acts  Farrell Regime Policy Believed Contrary

Germans Suffer More Than 7,000 Casualties in Unsuccessful Efforts to Crush Anzio Beachhead  Nazis, Massing Under Cover of Violent Storm, Reportedly Are Preparing  Bi a a ee ee ee) 6B Bc es

Germans Suffer More Than 7,000 Casualties in Unsuccessful  Efforts to Crush Anzio Beachhead   Nazis, Massing Under Cover of Violent Storm, Reportedly Are Preparing for a Third All-Out Attack in Area

Marshall, A@pld Visit Italy Front   General Marshall Tours Cassino, Eternal City, Anzio for First Time.

MARSHALL VISITS LEADERS IN ITAL   Tours Area Where U. § Troops Chased Germans Miles Above Rome.

2 TOP AMERICAN ‘OFFICERS T0 ROME   MARSHALL AND ARNOLD VISIT ITALYAN FRONT AFTER NORMANDY INSPECTION.

Foe’s Downfal In Sight, Says Allied Chief   Can Mahe This Week Vateful for Nazis, He Asserts

“WE CAN MAKE THIS WEEK A MOMENTOUS ONE IN HISTORY”—GENERAL EISENHOWER   General Speaks To His Allied Forces In France

FRUITFUL WEEK FOR ALLIES PREDICTED   Eisenhower Sees big Chance At Hand

Kisenhower Anticipates Great Victory This Week   Troops Told In Order Of The Day “We Can Make This Week A Momentous One In The History Of This War— A Fruitful Week For Us And A Fateful One For Nazis”

GENERAL SEES GREAT CHANCE   Can Win Major Victory, Says Eisenhower

Fisenhower Sees Chance For Vietory   Commander Says ‘Momentous Week’ May Be Developed

 Sunday guests in the home of Dr. jand Mrs. H, §. Dougherty were Mr. ‘and Mrs. Lloyd Dietz of Davenport.   220-YARD DASH FROM SNAKE

NEWKIRK HEADS FARM BUREAU   ‘Succeeds Ralph Claytor Who Resigned

JOHN L CHRIST TO ADDRESS GOP COUNCIL   Council Tops Membership ‘Quota With 354; Commit.  tana Siwmmended.

BULGARIA ASKS RUSSIA FOR - PEACE TERMS      Bloodless -Triumph Comes to Allies at Midnicht

Bulgaria Asks Russians for An Armistice   Seven Hours After Moscow Declares War

Bulgars Ask Peace As Reds Cross Line   Armistice Plea Follows Shortly After Russian Declaration Of War.

BULGARIA ASKS SOVIET NATION FOR ARMISTICE   Request Comes Less Than Sever Hours After Moscow Declares War

BULGARIA ASKS FUR ARMISTICE   Less Than Seven Hours After Russia Had Declared War

ARMISTICE REQUESTED BY BULGARS   Less Than Seven Hours After Russia Declared War

Man Steals From Bank, Bets, Wins; Gets Two Months   Boston Teller Returns Funds

AIR ATTACKS ARE CONTINUED UPON GERMAN TARGETS   Americans Again Take Up Task Of Bombing Germans After RAF Night Raid

Strong Air Units Out Over Reich   Big Daylight Raids Follow Heavy Night Attack.on Bochum

SATURATION RAID WRECKS RUHR CITY   Daylight Raiders Out Following Night Assault

BOCHUM BLASTED BY RAF; RAIDS CONTINUE TODAY   Wilhelmshafen Hit As Nazi Industry Crumples

FLIERS HIT NAZIS HARD AT DAWN      British Rip Ruhr Steel Center in Night Assault

Germany Hit By Daylight    2 -Ruhr Steel Capital... -Of Bochum. Bombed.

DAYLIGHT AIR WAR CARRIED TO GERMANS AGAIN ON TUESDAY  BRITISH HEAVIES MADE DEVASTATING NIGHT ATTACK UPON ROCHIIM

RAF BOMBERS BLAST RUHR STEEL CENTER   Allied Fliers Strike At Reich Today After Night Blow

Early Blows Dealt Reich By Numerous  Allied Craft   Unequaled Daylight Assault Continued; Ruhr Steel City Of Bochum Sct Afire

Thunderbolts Raid German Air Base in Netherlands   German Attack on London is Weak

Jap-Held Supply Bases To Be Raided   All on China Mainland to Receive Heavy Bombings

FR to Make Another Political Speech   Dewey May Make Two Appearances in New York

First Appearance Planned by Dewe' In New York City  Gothamites To Be Allewed First View ot Governor As CAP Pracidestal fandidais

Martin Removes Hat From Ring   House Leader Wants “No Extra Headaches”

Devastating Drive On Japs Assured As FDR, Churchill End Quebec Victoru Parley

Massive Blow Slated for Japs at Quebec Meet   Entire Might of Allies Will Be Directed at Japan When Germany Surrenders, Say United Nations Chiefs at Close of Confab

QUEBEC TALKS ARE FINISHED APRESS MEET   Churchill to Return to England; Meeting With Stalin Is Anticipated   OFFICIAL PICTURES TAKEN ON LAST DAY

STRATEGY SET FOR CRUSHING OF NIPPONESE   QUEBEC DISCUSSION OF ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL ENDED

FDR, Churchill Promise Quick End for Japan   2 Nations’ Combined Might To Be Hurled at Nips When Hioler Falle

Roosevelt, Churchill End Confab With Pledge To Devastate Jan Empite 

JAPS STOPPED, CHINESE CLAIM   Push On Burma Road’s Capital Ends With Enemy In Retreat

Lightens Gloom of Past Days As Enemy Endeavored to Cut China in Half.   Many Refugees

—AIR WAR—  U.0, BOMBERS IN OMASH AT BERLIA   First American Attack -On: Nazi Capital Since “March 9    MOSQUITOS BUSY   LondonSubjected To Sharp Attack By 100 Nazi Planes

Berlin Again Is Bombing Targe   Yanks Attack For First Time Since March 9

Avery Retuses Acceptance of Order by FDR   Maj. Gen. Byron Awaits Action on Court Injunction

ARMY SEIZE WARD STORES IW 7 CITIES   Acts on Order of President Roosevelt for Failure to Obey War Labor Board Directives.

7. Ward Stores  Seized   Sewell Avery Refuses to Accent Executive Order  . For Second Time

MONTGOMERY WARD PLANTS AGAIN SEIZED   Government Takes Them Over In  Seven Cities

U.S. Seizes Ward Stores; Avery Is righting Action   FDR Charges Mail Order Chief Opposing War Labor Program

MONTGOMERY WARD PLANTS   Facilities In 7 Cities Are Taken Qver By Army _

U.S. Seizes Ward Properties; Avery Refuses Order   Takes Possession In “ Cities Where WLB Was Defied

President Orders Ward Plant Seizure   For Second Time, Sewell Avery Refuses To Accept Federal Executive Order

Board Chairman Again Refuses To Accept Order   St. Paul Plant Among Those Ordered Taken Over By President

Firm's Property in? Cities Taken on FDR's Order   Government Requests Injunction Restraining Company Officials

AVERY AGAIN REFUSES TO ACCEPT ORDER   War Periled, President Says

ORDER SEIZURE OF-WARD STORES IN SEVEN CITIES      Employes Of Chicago Store Are Reported. On Strike Today

Army Seizes Montgomery Ward Stores In Seven Cities While Avery Defies Roosevelt Order

WARD SEIZURE NEAR; WORKERS VOTE WALKOUT   U.S. Officials In Chicago To End Feud And Halt Strike

ORDER IS GIVEN BY ROOSEVELT   Showdown Results In Firm’s Refusal To Obey WLB Edicts

GEN. EISENHOWER IS APPOINTED 10 ADDITIQNAL P@ST   Named Commanding General Of European Theatre Of U. Ss. Army

Lisenhower Names 3 New ‘Invasion Aids   Makes Gen. Lee Deputy, Gen. Smith and Lord _ Supply Chiefs

STREAMLINE ALLIED FORCE FOR INVASION; SIMPLIFY U.S, SETUF   Eisenhower Commanding General Of U.S. Army In Europe

Berlin Hammered By Flying Forts   Rail Freight Yards In  Munster Receive Blasting

Pardon Board. Refuses Cox's Pleas   Bearded Slayer to Face Riflemen Monday Morning

FIVE PERISH IN CHICAGO BLAZE   Bodies Of Women Found. In Wash Room 

Yank Philippine Raids Continue; Also Report West Carolines Landing

Carrier - Based Planes Make New Attacks in  Phillaninoe   NEW LANDING MADE IN° THE CAROLINES   81st Division Troops Occupy Ulithi’ Atoll

YANKS LAND 0 CAROLINE ATOLI   Landings Made Last September but Kept Secret   CLARK FIELD HIT   Japs Continue Claim Great Sea Victory; New Blows Batter Formosa

Northern Philippines Still _ Being Pounded By U. S. Planes; Jap Fleet Retreats   Clark Field, Pre-War U. S. Air Base 40 Miles From Manila Main Target; New Landing In Western Carolines Announced By Admiral Nimitz

Super-Forts  Hit Formosa And Carriers  Pound Luzon   Adm. Nimitz Gives Lie  To Jap Propaganda, ~ _ Says 2 Medium-Sized  Ships Only Ones Hit  “ASUALTIES SMALL

LANDINGS ARE REPORTED BY ADM. NIMITZ   In Western © Carolines While Carrier - Based Planes Raid  Philip nine<.   Radio Silence

Planes Raid Philippine Isles Again   Bist Army Troops Occupy Ulithi Atoll Without Opposition

Philippines Hit In New American Raids, Japs Say   Adm. Nimitz Reports Nip Warships Fled after Sighting U .S. Fleet

Yanks Occupy Another Atoll  In Carolines   Americans Land on Ulithi, Between Palau and Guam; Superforts Make Another Big Raid on Formosa

SIX NAVY SHIPS ARE GROUNDED AS STORM VEERS   East Coast Under Warning; Property Damage Severe

FDR’s Lead in State 90,000   GI Vote Assures Victory of Entire Democratic State Ticke'

Nazis Virtually Halt U.S. Drive for Bologna   British Eighth Crosses Rubicon and Takes Towns

MARELUTR AREA  vapture Sev ral To   Capture Several Towns Near Adriatic Coast Today   CROSS HISTORIC RUBICON RIVEK   Nazis Throw Fresh Men Against American 5th Army

‘BRITISH TROOPS CROSS RUBICON, TAKE BORDONCHIC   Germans Add Reinforcements To Virtually Halt U. S. Drive

8TH ARMY CROSSES RUBICON   5th Army Drive Toward Bologna Slowed Down

ADRIATIC TOWNS FALL TO BRITISH   NAZI COUNTERATTACKS HALT BOLOGNA DRIVE

BRITISH EISHTH GROSS RUBIGON, TAKE BORDONCH   Germans Halt Ameri. can Drive on Bologna Near Adriatie

GERMANS SLOW BOLOGNA DRIVE   British Cross Rubicon In Push Toward Adriatic

BRITISH FORCES CROSS RUBICON   Nazi Remforcements  Halt Yankee Drive

Eighth Army Units Cross Rubicon   Germans Move Up Reinforcements Before Bologna.

FIFTH ARMY’S DRIVE ON BOLOGNA HALTED BY FIERCE ATTACKS   British Cross Rubicon Capture Towns In Adriatie Area

Byrnes Warns on Inflation Moves   Nation Urged to Hold Down Wages, Prices

Byrnes Pleads For Firm Hand On Pay. Prices   Official States Rationing Must Continue to End Of War With Axis

Democrats Deny Blame For Letter   Dewey Charges Special Privilege Offered for $1000

Thousand Cluh Not Authorized By Roosevelt   Organization Mentioned " By Dewey Is Entirely Apart From National Democratic Committee

MILLIONS 10 BE TRANSFERRED 10 PACIFIC ZONE   Fathers, Overseas Veterans First To Be Returned To Civilian Life   7,000,000 MEN AFFECTED   High Command Outlines Demobilization Plans After Nazi Defeat

FATHERS AND BATTLE VETER- ANS TO BE GIVEN PRIORITY STATUS IN DISCHARGES ~ AFTER, GERMANY COLLAPSES. —

OVERSEAS MEN, DADS GET FIRS] ARMY RELEASE   War Department Announces Demobilization Plans

High Command Report Presages Speedy European Victory  DI AWS CAR PDACILFIC   PLANS FOR PACIFIC   Millions of Men To Be Speedily Transferred To Smash “‘Japs”’

iE athers, Battle Veterans Given Priority Status In Army Demobilization Plan

NEW FINNISH CABINET REPORTED FORMED   Hantto Hackzell, Former Minister to Russia, Is New Premier, Berlin Says.

STRICKEN RANCHER ’ GETS AID BY PLANE   Amy Filers Drop Culfa Drug t Man Ill of Pneumonia and Isolated by Snowstorm.

Heavies: Batter: Invasion Coast   Four Teams Lash “Areg Unmolested

French Coast Area Raided   Enemy Installations Battered By Planes

FORTRESSES HIT NAZI GUN COAST   Kighth Airforce Makes 18 Assaults During Month Of February

INVASION COAST BOMBED MONDAY   German Radio Station: Leave Air Indicating  RAF Raid

AIR RAIDS MADE ON NORTH FRANC   SIX HEAVY BOMBERS LOST IN OPERATIONS AGAINST _ PAS-DE-CALAIS AREA,

U.S. Heavies  Pound French  Invasion Coast   Raiders Strike at Four Different Places; Six Bombers Lost

DEMOCRATS CAST FIVE. TIMES VOTE QF REPUBLICANS      ‘THOMAS AND DISNEY RACE STUDIED -FOR NEW DEAL ATTITUDE’

NAZI FIGHTERS FINALLY LURED UP FOR BATTLE   Day Assault Follows 1,000-Plane Blow At Frankfurt

BRUNSWICK AREA HIT BY AMERICANS   Follows Attack On Frankfurt By 1000 RAF Planes

Bl GUNS, TANKS, PLANES TAKE PART IN BUDAPEST SIEGE   Russians Pound Entrances to Shell-Torn but Stil) Bitterly Defended Hungarian Capital.   RED ARMY THREAT TO AUSTRIA GROWS   Soviet Troops on Big Bend of Danube in Position to Drive to Vienna Through Bratislava Gap.

Airman Praises New Jet Plane   Declares Craft Acts As Conventional Ship

Nazi Concern Over Their Own Internal Situation Increasingly Evident AMERICANS OPEN   DRIVE TO PARIS  Advance 35 Miles In Seven   Advance 35 Miles In Seven Days And Take 10,500 Nazi Prisoners

65 OTHERS HURT, MOSTLY SERVICE MEN   Trains Collide Head-on; Scene Called Horrible

Trains In Collision:  Many Killed   Dead and Injured Are Soldiers; Decorations Strewn  Along Tracks

Soldiers Die In Collision   Most of 26 Killed, 65 Injured Veterans of Overseas Air Service

Train Wreck Death Toll at Least 29   Report 65 Others Injured in Disaster Near Terre Haute

Dead Include 21 Soldiers Returning Home from Overseas Service With the Air Forces.   TRAINS COLLIDE IN EARLY MORNING FOC

Nearly All Of Victims Are Soldiers   65 Injured When Passengers Collide Near Terre Haute

29 KILLED, 65 "HURT AS TRAINS , COLLIDE HEADON   Mishap Near Terre Haute, Ind., Takes Lives of Purple Heart Vets

29 Killed In Wreck   65 Others Injured in Headon Collision of Trains: Many Soldiers

Most. Victims Are Soldiers.  With Wound: On Furloush   Military: Decorations Are Scattered About

ARE INIURED AS TRAINS CRASH   Most Victims Of Indiana Wreck Are Overseas Air Force Veterans

29 Killed in Train Wreck, Many Soldiers   Collision of Flyer: And Express in Fog Injures 65 Persons

29 Perish In Collision Of 7 Fast Trains   65 Others Injured; Many Were Veterans Of War Returning Tc Military Centers

DECLARE MANY OF VICTIMS ARE OVERSEAS VETS   Purple Hearts and Air Medals in Wreckage Strewn Along Tracks

2B KILLED IN # TRAIN WRECK   Approximately 65 Others In. jured in Headon Collision Early Today.   MOST VICTIMS SOLDIERS

A TRAIN WRECKED   Dixie Flyer Collides With Express in Indiana Causing Deaths

DIXIE FLYER ONE OF TRAINS IN WRECK IN WHICH MANY VETS WITH PURPLE HEART INVOLVED

NEARLY ALL OF DEAD, INJURED WAR VETERANS   Most of Soldiers on Flyer Wounded Airmen Back From Overseas

26Known Dead 65 Injured In  Train Collision   crack Dixie Flyer and Express Come Together Headon Near Terre Haute, Ind., In Fog   Troop-Oceupied Pullmans Crushec   Most Victims Are Oversea: Ait Vels Ou Furloughs, Many Bearing Purple Heart

Ul. S., BRITISH, CHINESE OPEN BURMA DRIVE   Planned Before Stil well Left, Campaign  Is Under Mount-. batten

‘Drive to Reoccupy All  Ot Burma Under Way   RY DARRELT RERRICAawy

British Probe Attempted Sabotage ot Fruit Ship Enroute From Spain to Great Britain

Britain Fully Supports U. S. Irish Attitude   Ireland Asked to Remove German and Japanese Diplomats and Consuls.   The American Request Rejected by De Valera

Ireland Won't Oust Nazi And Jan Diplomats   Allies Must Take Drastic Action To Nip Spying On Invasion Plans.

Beachhead Battle is Won, Gen. Alexander Asserts   Commander-in-Chief in Italy Says Allies Now _ Winning Second Round, Will Win Third And March On Rome

NEAR VICTORY IN 2ND ROUND AGAINST NAZIS   Shells Still Pouring Into Monastery Which Germans Had Turned Into Fortress

Well Win: Alexander   Ailied Commander In Italy Says Nazis Know They're Beaten

BEACHHEAD TOWN GAINED BY NAZIS IN ATTACK   One-Third Of Cassino Is Held By Yank Troops

Concentrated Bombardment Of Monastery Hill Pressed   Loss Of Carroceto Reported By Allies

War Leaders Of Japan Deposec   Stunning Defeats For Japanese Brings Shakeup In War Navy Heads   FACE SAVING’ MOVE FOR JAPANESE SEEN

Rep. F ulmer Dies Of Heart Attack   Synthetic Rubber Plant Pat Up for Post-War Sale

WHEELER PLANS TO PUSH >” BAN FOR OVER-30 DRAFT   MONTANA SENATOR SAYS NEW REGULATIONS WILL NOT STOP HIS LEGISLATIVE PLAN

TIOGA COUNTY POMONA GRANGE   Met In Wellsboro Pomona_ Hall Thursday And Friday.

Arkansas Truckers Filed Against   Failed to Pay Ad Valorem Taxes Assessed Them

U.S. Submarines Send 15 More Jap Ships to Bottom   Nipponese Suffer Setbacks in India And Burma Fighting

Enemy Setbacks Give Tokyo Day of Bad News   U.S, Subs Sink 15 More Jap Shipss. Knox Predicts Invasion of ~~ = Kurile Islands

TOKYO HEARS BAD TIDINGS - FROM PACIFIC   Sel Backs On Sea, In India And China Are Learned

ROOSEVELT DENIES KICK’ FOR NELSON         WPB Chairman Rushes - Plans to Leave for China

Roosevelt Denies  Nelson's China  Journey Is ‘Kick WPB Head Reported  ‘Satisfied’ With His Assignment

ROOSEVELT DENIES . “KICK” FOR NELSON      WPB Chairman Rushes Plans to Leave for . China

FOR Say Nelson Trip Not A Kick   Chairman Drops Plan To Resign; Mission Only Temporary.

CHINA MISSION MOST PRESSING   Roosevelt Denies That Nelson’s Trip Is “Kick In the Teeth”

Turkey to Seek Understanding   Military Mission To Go to London, It Is Stated

Turkey May Heal Breach With Britain and U. S.   Lend-Lease Shipments Halted; Pledge To Democracies Given

Turks Hint At New Pact With British      Papers Intimate Agreement Is Possible Despite Lend-Lease Stoppage

Turkey May Heal Breach With Britain and U. S.  Lend-Lease Shipment: Halted- Pledae

TURKISH STAND FAVORS ALLIES   Mission From Balkan Powe Reported on Way to British Capitol

Red Army Threatens Dno Center   Blixzords Impede Russsion Advance; Germans Leave Equipment in Haste

Report Million Persons Ordered To Leave Berlin   Another 1400 Tons of Bombs Dropped on City

Million Flee New Attack On Berlin   R.A.F. Pours 1000 Tons of Bombs on Reeling Reich Capital

YOUNG COUPLE UNITED NOV. 2d   MISS JEANNE WINTER BECOMES BRIDE OF S. !-C HARTLEY HARGER THURSDAY

Six ‘Orders ’ Are Wntered At Court Meet   Judge Henry J. Ingram of R acabiers Presides at Meet. ° . On Saturday.

Six Minor Orders Mai le - Court Session   Judge Joseph E. Daily: of. Peoria " Presides ‘at Brief Session. of Court Yesterday.

U.S. Financial Aid To Nations ‘After War Seen   Congress Interprets Roosevelt Lend-Lease Message as Foreshadowing  Such Step

Government Loans To Needy Nations Seen After War   Roosevelt's Call for Postwar Strengthening of Allied Ties Tipolf on U. S. Participation

F.D.R. Wants Partnership To Grow Stronger   Congress Regards This As Possible U. S. Aid In Post War Rehabilitation.

Think Plan Points Toward Help For War-Torn Nations   Congress Wonders How Much Aid U. S. To Give Countries

Concern Felt Over China's War Losses   Allied Planes Blast At Japan’s Defenses

Show Concern in China's War  President Sends Two Emissaries to Chiang

Donald Nelson And Patrick Hurley Going On Special Mission To China

WAS KILLED IN ACTION   Se eutyy aren  Pvt. Edward L. Thomas Entered Army with Company H 

WAS KILLED IN ACTION   Pyt. Edward L., Thomas. Entered Army with Company H

Edmundson fs Denied Seat In Miners’ Meet   Machinery to Expell) Hin and Keep Him Off Ballot Against Lewis Operating

UMW MAY EXPEL RAY EDMUNDSON   ILLINOISAN DENIED SEAT AS DELEGATE IN THE CONVENTION

GEN, MARK CLARK WATCHES BOMBS FAL! ON TROUBLE SPOT  ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT DESCRIBES BLASTING

Bomb City Into Rubble   Gen. Clark Pleased As He Watches Shattering Of Enemy Stronghold

Clark Witnesses Cassino Assault  Aerial Brass Hats With Him At Front

Yanks Celebrate in Ruined Town  Rifles Still Crack as Snipers Appear

MILLEN WINS NOMINATION, HOWEVER   Strong Support in Macon Co. Puts Decatur Man Over Top

Russians Completely Clear Out Nazisfrom Kerch Peninsula, are ‘Within 13 -Miles of Simferopol

Noxon Jury Told  *Premeditatien’  _ Will Be Proved   District Attorney Presents Opening Outline At Trial Of Pittsfield Lawyer

Lawyer Charged With "Deliberate, _ Cruel" Murder of Sub-Normal Babe

ye- Witness Narrates Mighty Air Attack; Fliers Hail Rainbow Over Invasion Area

AIRMEN ARE WARNED 10 BE CAREFUL   Precise Courses to and from Invasion Area Mapped out with No Deviation Permitted.   Rainbow In Sky

srtncaiaiimeaanintierianenaan iittala niaeaiiienal  MILLIONS “APPROPRIATED FOR SERVICEMEN’S WIVES

STATE OFFGLS SEE NEW NOE TO UWIFY CHAM!   Hope to. End hing 4 Between Chungking Communist Governme nb

NEW DEALERS BOLDLY BLAST ‘DIXIE’ REVOL}   Arkansas Keeps Unit Rule and Gives Its 20 Votes to Roosevelt

ITALY-BASED BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST SOFIA   Two Small Enemy Atlacks on An zio Beachhead Repelled, Com munique Makes No Mention o Cassino

Small Attacks Are Repulsed   Fifth Army. Drives Back Enemy; Airmen Blast Many Targets

Repel Nazis At Beachhead   Anzio Troops Check Two Small Attacks; Planes Bomb Italy

Allied Planes Again Raid Sofia   Allied Bombers Hit Vitterbo Airdrome; Shoot Down 22 Enemy Planes.

Lull In Anzio, Cassino Fight   Allied Bombers Carry Out Widespread Destructive Raids During Day

FIFTH ARMY REPELS TWO NAZI DRIVES   Allies Make Raid On Sofia; Rail Lines Bombed

Aerial Blows Chief Action Over Italy   No Mention Is Made of C assino in Today’s Communique oo

Sth Army Hurls Back Nazis On Anzio Beachhead  No Report From Caccingo Front

German Atfack On Anzio Spiked   5th Army Repels Enemy; Allied Planes Active

FIFTH REPELLS ATTACKS   No Reference Mad: To Cassino In Communiaue

ANZIO BEACHHEAD ATTACK BY NAZIS MEETS REPULSE   Allied Planes in Long Attacks on Strategic Points on Italy and Balkans

Allied Planes Hit Italian Targets In Wide Forays; Sofia Also Hit By Bombe

Allied Planes Range Through  Italian Areas   Some 1,800 Sorties Fly Over Rome, Turin,. Bolzano Area

FIFTH ARMY FORCES  REPULSED TWO SMALI  BEACHHEAD ATTACKS NO REFERRENCE MADE  TO THE CASSINO SECTOR IN THURSDAY’S REPORT

FIFTH ARMIY REPELS TWO ANZIO ATTACKS   Allied Planes Hit Targets in Rome, Turin and Bolzano Areas.

REPEL NAZIS ON BEACHHEAD   German Tanks Dispersec Along Cassino Front

BOND SALES PASS  HALF WAY POINT   Officials Say Individuals Lac in Purchase of “E”

Germans Resist Fiercely as Eighth And Fifth Armies Open Big Push Against Foe’s Gustav Line   German Armies To Be Destroyed, General Says

Ste. Mere Eglise On Road To Port Falls To Invaders   Berlin Says U. 8. Troops Within 12 Miles Of Goal; Need Stressed For Quickly Building Forces

vapture Ste. Mere Eglise To Get Within 18 Miles Of Strategic French Port -

Nazis Giving Russian Arm) Stiffer Fight   Eleven Soviet Groups Hammer At East Wall Based On Krakow.

Soviet Army Gains Polish Oil Center   Drohobycz Falls as Other Russian Forces Strike Toward Krakow

RESERVES ARE IN PLACE FOR NAZI STAND   Reds Meet Toughest Opposition of Summer Drive as 11 Soviet Army Groups Hammer at East Wall Strone Points.

ELEVEN RED ARMIES HAMMER AT GERMAN EAST WALL MONDAY   TOUGHEST OPPOSITION ENCOUNTERED DURING SUMMER OFFENSIVE

Reds Running Into Stiffest Fight Of Push   Drohobycz, Pre-War Polish Oil Center, Taken; Other Force: Strike For Krakow

Henry Ford Denies Pelley Statement   Financial Support Never Promised

DENIES HE OFFERED TO SUPPORT PLAR   Ford Says He Was Not Involved in Idea to Alter Course of History.

SEVASTOPOL IS NOW CITY OF MEMORIES   Smoldering Ruins  Tell Story Of War Disaster

News Man Sees Ruined Sevastopol   Scene of One of Germany’s Worst Defeats; City Pile of Ruins

Sevastopol Defeat Was One of  Worst Disasters  Nazis Suffered One Of Their Worst  Rafante in Criman

Worse Than Dunkerque  “Js How ‘Nazi: Colonel  ““Desétiled Final Hours of Batlle

Many Nazis Die On Chersonnes  Caught Between Red   Caught Between Red Army Forces and Black Sea

GRUESOME REMAINS OF NAZI CRIMEAN. ARMY EVIDENCE OF HITLER’S MISTAKE

In The Crimea  Sevastopol Is Another Nazi Error   Correspondent Describes One Of Hitler’s Major Reverses

‘Nazi War Dead, Hopeless Home-Made Rafts For : Attemnted Escape. Litter Sevastopol Coast

/  Defeat at Sevastopol ‘immeasurably Worse Than Dunkerque,’ Nazi Says

Horrors Suffered by Nazis, Trapped Near Savastopol in Hitler Blunder, Disclosed

Sevastopol Evacuation Horrors Told   “Immeasurably Worse Than Dunkirk” German Officer Says

Smoldering, Smelling Remains  Reveal Another Hitler Blunder   German Corpses Clog Area Around Sevastopol Where Russians Anuihilated Most Of 200,000

Foe’s Disaster At Sevastopol   German Colonel’ Deseribes Debacle As ‘lmmeasurably Worse Than Dunkerque.’

COUNTY-WIDE COMMITTEE MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT AT LEGION HOME; WAR VETERANS INSPIRE GATHERING   Thomas County Citizens Asked to Support War Effort by Oversubscribing Quota Quickly. Quotas Assigned the Various Parts of the County

COUNTY-WIDE COMMITTEE MEETING HELD FRIDAY NIGHT AT LEGION HOME: WAR VETERANS INSPIRE GATHERING

G.0.P. NATL COMMITTEE IN SESSION   Expected to Name Chicago as Convention Site

G.0.P. National Committee Meets   To Select Chicago  For Convention

Republicans Plan 1944 Convention   Meeting to be Held At Chicago in June

IS KILLING HELPLESS U. PRISONERS   Ruthless Tactics May Be German Method to Expedite Push

TRAPPED NAZI FORCE HERDED INTO DUNKIRK   Rotterdam Next Goal Of Eisenhower’s Invaders

Port of Antwery Captured i in Belgi: an Assault   Nearly 100,000 Germans Are Trapped in Swift 70-Mile Drive to North Sea: Yanks May Have Reached Bhing

Allies Roll Into Holland, Attack Siegfried Forts.      Belgian Port’s 28 Miles of Wharves: Seized to Speed Drive on Reich; Revenge at Dunkerque in Prospect:

YANKS NOW WITHIN RIFLE SHOT OF THE PORT DOCKS   GERMAN DEFENDERS IGNORE ULTIMATUM OF SURREN  DER AND ELECT TO MAKE LAST-DITCH STAND

Fight For Cherbourg Continues   Germans There Have Ignored Allied Ultimatum To Surrender

Yanks Within Rifle Shot Of City’s Principal Docks But Inner De fensee Remain.

CARRIER TASK FORCE PLANES BOMB ALL DAY   Jap ‘Pearl Harbor Secret Base Surprised

Japan Navy Dared To Fight In Pacific   Hundreds Of American Planes Join In Raid, On Many Enemy War Vessels Anchored At Boece

Nazis Lose 66 Aireraft   “U.S. 15th Airforce  Victor In’ Germany

NIPS REPORT 3 SHOT DOWN IN TWO-HOUR RAID   Foe Insists Damage ‘Slight’ Contends Fires Quelled By Civilian Defenses

Marianas-Based Raid Opens New Asia War Phase   Nipponese Claim Three Superforts Downed, Ne Damage To Installations Of Consequence, But Admit Two Hour Raid Beginning In Afternoon

Attack On Jap Homeland Is To Be Carried On Relentlessly;  New Marianas Bases Used   Industrial Targets Objective; Flyers Told To Skip Imperial Palace As Well As Shrines And Temples

WEATHER AIDS HODGES’ LUNGE INTO GERMANY   Allies Keep Up Pressure On Nazis All Along Western Front

Nazis Lay Down Heavy Barrage   Patton's Troops Battle for Fort: Belfort Gap Defenses Reinforced

Americans Fighting © 2-Mi. F YON: ,        MOVE IS HEADED TOWARD COLOGNE, ONLY 27 MILES AWAY, TO THE EAST

OFFENSIVES ARE AIMED AT COLOGNE   Strong Air Support Received as Drives Are Resumed

Nanks Charge Gun-Studded Cologne Plain   Hodges’ Legions » Advance in Face Ot Heavy Barrave:

Troops Fight To Widen Ubach Gap Th Siegtried Line      Yanks Within 100 Yds. Of Fort Driant’s Main Defenses

STASSEN LEADS IN NEBRASKA PRIMARY   Dewey, However, Polls an Amazing Write-In Vote

Illinois Favors Green   Republicans Nominate Lyons For Senate; MacArthur Showing Good In Iinois Primary

STASSEN LEADS NEBRASKA VOTE   MacArthur Runs Up Good Total In Illinois; Green Renamed

Stassen Leads Gov. Dewey in Nebraska Votine   » MacArthur Is Easy Winner in IIlinois; Gov. Green Victor

Stassen Takes Strong Early Lead In Nebraska Republican Primary   Gen. MacArthur Wins Preference Vote in Illinois ; Lyons Wins Republican Senatorial Nomination

Dewey Names Brownell  GOP National Chairman   is for Youth Carried Out With

Dewey, Brownell Open Campaign To Unseat FDR   Governor To Fight To Save Republic

New Yorker Named at No“tional Committee Meet- ing — Dewey Outlines ‘Diane ‘

Dewey Leader Heads Party   Herbert Brownell, Jr., Unanimously Elected

Dewey Selects Brownell, Heads  Back to Albany   Reception Planned At New York Capitol For Nominee Today

Dewey And Brownell Go into Action      ATTEMPT TO ENLARGE FEAT WINNING NEW YORK GOVERNOSHIP INLO PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY.   Harmony in Evidence

‘Dewey Appears Before Committee and Pledges “Gigantic Effort in This Campaign Toward the Saving of the Republic and the Winning of the War”’—Declares Harmony in Republican Party Is at New High.

G. QO. P. Keeps Emphasis  On Youth  Herbert. Brownell, Jr., Elected Chairman OE Natianal Cammittipo   Herbert. Brownell, Jr.,  Elected Chairman  Of National Committee SPANGLER IS NAMED ITS GENERAL COUNSEL  40-Year-Old Brownell Managed Campaign For Dewey in 1942

Dewey on Way Home After . Naming Brownell Campaign ‘Guide and National Chairman

DEWEY NAMES BROWNELL JR. AS CHAIRMAN   New York Governo Pledges Gigantic Effort In Campaign To Save Republic And Win War

Finn’s Peace Reply  Sets Reservations —   Reports Say Cautious Note Leaves Way Open For Necotiations On Soviet Terme

riNNISH REPLY SENT RUSSIANS   Internment Of German Troops Is Ticklish Peace Problem

Report Finland Has Replied fo Russian Terms: Nazi Internment !s Chief Snag

Finn’s Peace Reply Sets Reservations   Reports Say Cautious Note Leaves Way  Oren Enr Nanntintinne On Saviet Terme

Protest Cut In School Lunch and Farm Security Administration Funds

Protest House Money Measure   “Two Senators Say School Lunches - FSA Doomed ‘Under Bill.

U.S. Internees On Neutral Ground  Clarksville Flier With Those in Lisbon

Huge Drain On German Manpower   War Losses Estimated At Between Four and Five Million Men;  Youth Death Toll High

REVEAL HEAVY NAZI CASUALS   Repatriated Newsman Re ports Two Million Soldier Dead

Five Million Germans Put Out of Action Since War's Beginning   By Taylor Henry

Interned AP Chief Says Nazi Casualties 5 Million   Rye TAYLOR HENRY

Minimum Nazi Casualties  Are 5,000,000  Average Age Of Huns Killed Rises 214 Years  Te Tact GQie Manthcec

Hitler Relying More And More On Old Men.  Repatriated Newsman Estimates Dead Nazis Now Total 2 Millions

GERMAN CASUALTIES SINCE WAR BEGAN PLACED AT FIVE MILLIONS, WITH ABOUT TWO MILLION DEAD   Figures Based on Conservative Estimates of Germa: Military Strength and Losses Since Beginning of War May Now Have 400 Divisions in Service   Ry TAYPOR URNRY

GERMAN MANPOWER LOSSES HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY HEAVY   TAYLOR HENRY, INTERNED IN. GERMANY CIVES STARTLING FIGURES

2,000,000 Nazis Died in War So Far, Narrative Of Interned Writer Says

644 Repatriates on Free Ground After Year in Nazi Camps   Train Nears Lisbon and Exchange Ship Gripsholm This Morning

German Casualties Put At 4,500,000 by A. P.  Writer In Nazi Prison

Saipan Battle Wounded Return   First Large Group Reaches West Coast

Four Lose Lives. 30 Persons Hurt In Train Wreck   Santa Fe’s Speedy Chief Piles’ Up on Desert Near Flagstaff, Ariz.

santa Fe’s Chief Piles Up; 4 Killed   FAMED EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKS SPECTACULAKLY NEAR FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA; CAUSE UNDETERMINED; PEOPLE DAZED.   12 Cars Leave Track

Four Die, Many Hurt as Crack Chief Piles Up   Santa Fe Train Is Wrecked 20 Miles West of Flagstaff

Reds Slay 6000 Nazis in Fierce Battle of Poland   Russ Flank Deep German Defenses To Drive Farther Past Frontier On Irregular Front 85 Miles Wide

Defenses Flanked In New Red Drive   Penetration Into Pre-1939 Poland Is Now Deepened To 48 Miles By Ukrainian Armies

ENEMY OFFERS * NO OPPOSITION   Isle in Strait Between New } Guinea, New Britain   AMERICAN MARINES   @Push Along New Britain’s North Coast; Allied Fighters Attack Kavieng

YANKS TAKE ROOKE ISLAND; NOCPPOSITION   Same Day Marines Push Along New Britain’s Coast, Extending Territory; Rooke Valuable Position.   Minor Camage

Americans Take Rooke Island In Solomons   Marines Occupy Strategic Port

Yanks Occupy Rooke Island      Japs Offer No Opposition To Vitiaz Strait Landing

MaeArthur’s troops take vital island   Gain control 6f strategic straits

Gotissi. Village on New Britain 1s Also ’ Seized  AIRMEN CONTINUE RABAUL POUNDING  Admiralty. Islands, Northwest of New Britain, Hit ;

Stale Growing Cash Surplus   _ Up to Legislature Whether To Spend or Pay On Debts

Dewey Begins Mapping Oo Plans  For Campaign   Republican Nominee Solicits Advice OF Every Party Leader

Bricker Granted Partnership In Making Decision:   Acceptance Address’ Closes Convention At Chicago Stadium 

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Heavy Fighting Rages in Burma  Outcome of Battle Still Undecided

British Hold Against Japs On Burma Front   But Mountbatten Headquarters Says Outcome Js in Doubt

Reds Near "Prussia in Fast Push   .  Moving With Startling Speed a 70-Mile Gap Is Cut in Nazi Lines   REDS CLAMP DEATH HOLD ON WILNO   « Germans Said to Be Making Plan for Retreat. to Defend Prussia

Floods Spreading In Central lowa   Damage from Storms, Raging Rivers Soars

Floods Threaten Midwest States   Kansas City Has Five Inches Of Rain

Floods Threaten Kansas, Missouri  Torrential Rains Swell All Streams

Berlin is Blasted Again as Assault By Air Hits Reich   Doughboys of Patton’s Army Drive Through Important Saar Basin City While Battles Rage on Cologne Plain and on British Sector in Holland; Reds Drive Toward Austria

U. S. Forces Roll Past Saarlautern To Test Defenses   American Guns Now Shelling Saarbrucken, Industrial Capital of Saar — Artillery Only Six Miles From Targets—British Second Army Scores Gains.

ene PATTON'S NFANTRY HAMMERS AT SHEGFRIED LINE  NAZI STRONGHOLD OF RAVENNA IN ITALY CAPTURED: BERLIN BOMBED

6-Inch Guns Soften Up Saarbrucken   British Clear Nazis from Entire Area West of Maas River in Holland

New Styles Set By Congresswoman As  ‘Clare Skips Briefing for Hospital Visit

Luce Glamour To War Front   Outfit Wins Admiration ‘o Wounded ‘GI's, Envious Glances From Nurses

INVASION COAST AREA POUNDED   Mustang Force Brings Down 11 Planes In 450-Mile Sweep

MUSTANGS RAID NAZI AIRPORTS   Twenty Planes Bagyed In Long Sweep Over Occupied France

Liberators Rip  Invasion Coast   Mustangs - Sweep? France, Thavwn 370 Nagi Cratt

French Coast Battered by Warplanes  WS ie, PL Be   20 Enemy Craft Shot Down in Operctions

20 GERMAN PLANES — DOWNED IN FRANCE   Mustangs Strafe Enemy Airdrome in 450-Mile Sweep Over Country.

F. R. Honolulu Trip “Holiday” Dewey Says   THRILLED OVER FRENCH WAR. SAYS, “THAT'S ALL THE NEWS THERE IS”

Agriculture Fund  Measure Okayed By House Unit   Over 93 Million Cut  From Amount Sought By Budget Bureau

Funds for FSA Rejected by  Committee   567-Million  Agricultiifal Budget Is Approved

PARIS TARGETS REPORTED UNDER BOMBER ATTACK   Droves of American Heavy Bombers Fanning Out Over Central France and Alone Coast

Paris Hit In Big Raid On France   Droves- of Bombers - Soar _ Over German Defenses on Invasion Coast   AIR” OFFENSIVE INTO NINTH DAY   21 American Bombers ‘Lost Yesterday in Heavy Blow on Frankfurt

YANK BOMBERS BATTER FRANCE   Heavy Allied Raids Ravage Nazi-Held Europe

EIGHTH BLOW IN NINE DAYS   Great U. Ss. Armada in Smash on Nazi Nests in Central France

8TH MIGHTY BLOWIN  DAYS STRUCK   Southwest Paris Target, Says Vichy; Coast Also Raided

BOMB BLASTS HIT FRANCE   PARIS HIT IN RAID, INVASION COAST STRUCK

Fortresses Hit Nazi Targets In Central France   Great Armada Smashes At Unidentified Air Fields   NINTH DAY OF RAIDS   Yanks Pound Frankfurt Yesterday At Cost Of 21 Planes

Air Offensive: Undiminished On Ninth Day.   Americans. ‘Conduct Fourth Deylight Assault in-Row -

German Plane Nests Smashed   Big Armada Of American Heavy Bombers On Prowl Today.

American Bombers Include Paris On Today's List  Other Planes Attack German War Bases in France

Allied Aerial Assaults Kept Up On Germans   Americans Blast Nazi Plane Nests in France After Second Attack on Frank furt; RAF Over Reich

AMERICAN BOMBERS CONCENTRATE ON GERMAN AIRFIELDS   Great Force of Heavy Bombers and Fighter Craft Attack Nazi Plane Nests in Centra!  Bown

Heavy Yank Bombers Raid French Area   Central Section and Western District of Paris Among Objectives

6 AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE LASHED BY U.S. PLANES   Southwest District of Paris Reported Hit by American Bombers

U.S. Giant Bombers Hit France   Vichy Says Paris Target of Latest Raid in Longest Sustained Air Offansive af War

PLANE NESTS ARE TARGETS   Great Armada of American Heavy Bombers, Fighters Hit Central France.   OFFENSIVE IN 9TH DAY

US. Bomber Smash Paris   Central France, Coast Secret Defenses Hit By Daylight Fleets

U.S. BOMBERS RAID PARIS AREA TODAY   Droves of Big American Planes Hit Targets In Central France

VICHY REPORTS PARIS RAIDED BY FORTRESSES   Big American Bombers Attack Airfields in France on Ninth Day of Big Glensive   BLAST FRANKFURT   21 Bombers Lost in Attack by Forts, Liberators, 12 Nazi Fight. ers Shot Down

Big Armada Bombs Airfields in France   Six Bases Listed in Headquarters Announcement—Vichy Radio Reports the Southwestern District of Paris a Target.

U.S. AIR FORCE BLASTS FRANCE   8th Heavy Assault on French in 9 Days

GREAT ARMADA OF AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS IN RAIDS  GERMAN PLANE NESTS TAI OrawméagT emAaner AT   GERMAN PLANE NESTS IN CENTRAL FRANCE OB. JECTS LATEST ATTACKS

NAZI PLANE NESTS OBJECTIVES OF THE - AMERICAN BOMBERS   Was Their Eighth Shattering Blow Against German War Machine.   _INTO THE NINTH DAY   Fourth Straight Assault Made by Americans on Airfields Unspecified.

GERMAN PLANE NESTS TARGETS OF U, S, PILOTS   ‘Bighth Shattering Blow Against   Hitler War Machine in France  in Past Nine Days

Huge Force Of Bombers Smashes At Plane Nests   American Airmen Strike Strongly  At German Nests In Central France

Nazi Plane Nests in France Blasted  American Bombers Continue Assaults

No Letup in Great Allied Air Assault   Paris Is One of Targets As Droves of U. S. Bombers Continue Susteined Attack

GREAT ARMADA OF U, S. PLANES OVER CONTINENT   Greatest Sustained Allied Air Assault Of War Goes Into Its Ninth Day; Frankfurt Battered By Hundreds Of Fort resses.

American Bombers Hit Nazis Heavily Ath Successive Day   German Defenses Being Shattered in Sustained Offensive

Allies Send Air Armada  Over France   21 U. S. Bombers Lost In Friday’s Assault On Frankfurt; British Mosauitos In Action

Paris Area ; Target For —ULS. Fliers   Bighth Raid In Nine ~ Days Staged By Big » American Bombers -

Great Armadas of American Planes Saturday Follow Night  it’ Raids in  Western Europe, F riday low at F anit.  fae. ee

Report Czechs Answer Call   Million Men Asked To Resist Nazis In War

MEN OVER 30 VOLUNTEERING   Raises: Eixtrentely Difficult Question

Many Men Over 30 Asking to Be Sent Into Armed Services: Benefits Lure?

Many Over 30 Ask Induction   Some Boards Have Been Able To Fill Quotas From Volunteers.

Many Older Men Volunteer For Military Service   Veteran Benefits Big Inducement

Japs Tighten — Foochow Grip   Foe Moves Fast to Bar U. § Landing in China

Yanks Win First Tank Battle of  Southwest Pacific   Jap Armored Forces Defeated in Struggle For Biak Isle Airfield

Japs Lose Out in Great Tank Baitle   Decisive Beating Administered to Enemy Forces

Japs Lose Out in Great Tank Battle  Decisive Beating Administered   Decisive Beating Administered to Enemy Forces

Strike Curtails Phone Service In Much of Ohio   Union Leaders To Explain Why Order Iqnored

AMERICAN FORCES POISED FOR GREAT BLOW STEGFRIED LINE  GERMANS DESPERATELY RALLYING REINFORCEMENTS FOR BATTLE

GERMAN LINES STRENGTHENED   American Forces Poised for Killing Blow on Siegfried Line. .   FIGHTING IN COAST AREA

Foe Fights Desperately In Preliminaries To Bat:  tle Of Germany.

A Terrific Fire From Nazi Forts   One Third Army Force Sutfers Stiff Losses in Crossing Moselle   BUT THEY CLING TO SLIM FOOTHOLD   Even Generals Fire at Point Blank Range in Heavy,’ ~ Battle

Battle Intensified Near One of Third Army's Bridgeheads      Germans Apparently Stake All on Siegfried Line  Defense

Smash Heavy  German Blow 30-40 Nazi Tanks Are Destroyed In Battle

‘@ FIGHTING PREFERRED   American Flyers Disappointed When They Get Back Home

= Fe OT OT OO SOM OIE lt  Amarican Flyers Disappointed When They Get Back Home

OSU Acts To Accept Bow! Bid   Asks Big Ten To Lift Ban On Post-Season Tilte.

Breakthroughs By Soviet Troops Near Border Of Czechoslovakia And Near Riga Admitted

‘Reds Drive Giant Wedge Across Southern Poland   Assault Threatens To Outflank Warsaw; Kielce Endangered

Red Offensive Resumed: Brest, Lorient Besieged, Tanks Menace Orleans

Big Soviet Push Again Underway Germans Admit   Red Forces Less Than 17 Miles From Border Of Czechoslovakia

New Russian Drive Nearly  Ensulfs Riga   Reds Renew Offensive: in North, Seuth; Warsaw Push

RUCSO ARMIES APPLY PINCERS UPON PRUSSIA   Threaten Southern Boundary With Piunge Across Narew River; Shift More Reds to Area

FRENCH 16 MILES FROM BELFORT: DIJON ENTERED   Allies Press Forward On 100-Mile Front In South France

FRENCH MOVE CLOSER 10 BELFORT GAP   Also Hammer at Outskirts of Dijon in Central France

Within 16 Miles Of Nazi Escape Route Inte Germany  FRENCH TROOPS TAKE DIJON TODAY  20,000 Hungry, War- Weary German Soldiers In Southwest France

TROOPS BATTER NAZI DEFENSES IN SOUTH FRANCE   Suicides Reported Within Enemy Ranks

French Troops Hammering at Dijon Outskirts   Also Advance to Within 16 Miles of Belfort

FRENCH HAMMER DON, BELFORT   GERMANS OFFER. ONLY WEAK RESISTANCE

FRENCH ENTER OUTSKIRTS OF DIJON   Are Only 16 Miles From  Town of Belforte

REPORT FRENCH TROOPS ENTER CITY OF DION      Germans Offering Ouly Weak Resistance In Saone Valley Retreat

French Units Pound At Gates Of Dijon   Allies Advance On 100-Mile Front In Southern France To Near Belfort.

Two Senators Introduce Work Or Draft Bill   Would Put 4-Fs or Deferred Men Into Essential Industry

Work-or-Draft Bill Introduced For Senate Action  All 4-Fs and Draft Deferred Men Would  Come Under Law

New Bill Calls For 4-F's Draft   Many Would:Face Early Induction

WORK OF DRAFT. BILL 5 OFFERED   Would Order Induction of Any Registrant Who Refused Essential Job or Left One Without Permission

THE WAR TODAY - ----- - By Dewitt Mackenzie   FORMIDABLE DETLENSE

IFIERCENESS OF FIGHTING ON [NORTHERN END OF WEST FRONT TENDS POINT TO SHET]. APPEAT

WAR TODAY   Expenditure of Life: and Materiel In Bat ‘tle For Cologne Will _Be Great On Both > Sides

 The War Today— Big Guns Really Hold The Key To Victory On Western Front

The War Today   Developing Battie Of Cologne Plain Final Phase Of Armageddon.

Ne ae ee ee ee SS a  The War Today  Reveal Ammunition Shortage Heid Up Drive on Germany

Artillery Necessary to Blast Siegfried Line Defenses   By Dewitt MacKenzie AP War Analyst

MacKenzie Says—  Big Battles Pointing Up Shell Needs   Heavy Artillery Playing Vital Role In Smashing Nazi War Machine

ARTILLERY AMMUNITION A “MUST” IN SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN LIVES IN BATTLE OF COLOGNE PLAINS

‘Japan Women Not Cowards   Former Chicage University Student) Says American Women Cowards,

Vandenberg Asks Walker To Ban Domestic Politics From Foreign Policy Talk

Foreign Policy Plank Debated By Party Heads   Vandenberg Calls On Walker to Eliminate Issue

Military Training Act to Bring Heavy Arguments .  Battle in Congress Is Due After New Session Meets

CONGRESS SCRAP ON COMPULSOR) TRAINING OF YOUTH PREVIEWED   LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES TO TACKLE PROBLEM OF MILITARY SERVICE AFTER FIRST OF YEAR

Dispufe Looms On Universal Training Plan   Scrap Expected When New Congress Meets in January

BATTLE SEEN OVER TRAINING   Military Drill to Be:  ssue in New Conoyvec

Scrap Promised  Over Compulsor Training Bill   Suggestion From President Starts Advance Arguments.

Congress Provides Preview Of Big Fight Coming Over Service Measure

Fight Brews Over Military Service Plan   - Guerney and Johnson Back FDR Proposal Bae Farced Training

ROW LOOMS ON TRAINING BILI   FDR’s Suggestion Touches Off Hot Pro and Con Debate

Stage Is Set for Hot Battle Over Military Training  Next Congress Will   Next Congress Will Face Issue Affecting Future U.S. Policy  Reaardina Securitv

COMPULSORY TRAINING 1S NOW DEBATED   Real Scrap Will Be Made After  January Ist

Preview Of Military Bill  Controversy   Gurney Promises ‘Whale Of a Fight’ If Proposal ‘Diluted’

Invasion Coast _ Again Altacked ~~ By Allied Fon ce   Hundreds... U.p:o.n.. Hundreds of Planes Unleash Furious Assault

Day-Long Assault Given French Area   Axis Slations Quit Air, Tndieating Night Raid   Ugly Duckling Thunderbolt Wins Respect of Crittes

Nazi Objectives In France Bomber By Allied Airmen   Furious Assault Is Mad by Hundreds and Hundreds of Planes

HUNDREDS Ut PLANES BLAST NORTH FRANCE   With Few Losses By Allies; Military Objectives Subjected To Series Of Attacks Throughout Day.   Stations off Air

Reds Threaten Key Junction of Krasnogvardeisk   Major Withdrawal of Nazis Into. Baltic States Is Predicted

Reds Closing [rap In North   Tighten Noose Around Thousands Of Nazis Near Leningrad

REDS THREATEN KEY JUNCTION NEAR LENINGRAD   Sweep Through Suburbs Of Krasnogvardeisk. Big Rail Center

NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE NEAR  LENINGRAD IS THREATENED   Outer Defense of Krasnogvardeisk Pierced by Reds

TRAP BEING CLOSED NEAR LENINGRAD   Russian Troops Enter Suburbs of Key Rail Junction

Germans Lose Key Rail Base On Russ Front   Major Withdrawal in Bal tic Seen; Bulgars Near Mutiny

KEY JUNCTION, ESCAPE ROUTE FOR NAZIS ENCIRCLED   Krasnogvardeisk Near Capture-—Thousands of Gerimans Face Being Cut nee

Solon Challenged By Woman to Repeat Charges  She Urges, Over Nazi Spy Claims

Rep. Coffee Challenged By Kellems   War Contractor Blames New Deal For Allered Slandet

Street battles. rage in Belgrade as Russ, Slav armies strike   Bulgarians report liberation of Nis; reds move ahead in drive on Danzis

TITO REVEALS STREET FIGHT 1S UNDER WAY   Fall of Capital Is Expected at Any Time

HARD BATTLE IS RAGING IN STREETS   Rail Junction of Nis ts Captured By Allied Troops

Russians And Slavs Fight In Belarade   Street Battles Rage Inside Capital City

Reds, Slavs Battle Nazis  In Belgrade   Russians Shift Prussia Drive Toward Danzig; Polish Fight Rages

Fight Rages In Center  Of Capital   Soviet Army Takes Suburban Town Of Kumordraz.

ALL-OUT Ao PUSH OT ORM INTO BELGRADE   Greatest Tank Battle of the War Passes 100 Hour on Tisza Plain.

Great Battles Stull Must Be Fought   Cabinet Members Blast Hopes of an Early Peac With Warnings That Grave Trials Lie Ahead

Cabinet Members Blast Hopes of an Early Peaci With Warnings That Grave Trials Lie Ahead

War Pat ttarn  Undergoing  A Shaping   Beliwd~Process Are Cumulative Signs Nazi and Jap Confliets Might Fuse li to One Strugele

Soviet Threats Give Japs Dark Outlook   German Resistance Put To Ultimate Strain By Eisenhower Blow

SPAIN TO BREAK ‘WITH-AXIS, REPORT   SOUTH AMERICAN DIPLOMAT SAYS MADRID WILL YIELD TO ALLIED PRESSURE,

U.S. Troops fn Heavy Battle (n Beachhead   Tremendous Enemy Offensive On Italian Front Is Stopped By Americans   YANKS SMASHING AT NAZI FORCES

YANKS REGAIN AREA YIELDED ON BEACHHEAD   U. S. Big Guns Halt Fierce Agsault Aimed At Splitting Sth Army

Russians Hammer Nazis in Final Battle For Pskov; Fail Of Narva Believed Imminent

U.S, FIFTH ARMY IS NEARLY SPLIT BY ENEMY DRIVE   Berlin Radio Admits Allies Pierce German Line at Nettuno

FRY FUNERAL SUNDAY P. M.   Military Rites Held At Wessington Springs, South alkcota

Charles Majeres — Taken By Death —  - Well Known Farrner Of Oyens Vicinity

Charles Majeres Taken By Death  Well Known Farmer Of Oyens Vicinity

Japanese Headquarters On Leyte Island Taken: No Mindoro Oppositior

WIDEN HOLES IN NAZI LINE   Gains Made At Both Ends of Front in Hungary

Soviet Hold On Tarnow-Budapest Railway Tightens   Powerful Red Armies Push Through Breaks  In Nazi Defense Line

Twin Drives Roll Soviets Toward Austrian Border   Berlin Admits Germans Reel Back Under  Russian Blows

ADMITTED BY BERLIN   2 Red Armies Tighten Hold On Vital Rail Line In North

SOVIETS SLAS THROUGH GERMAN LINES 100 MILES FROM AUSTRIA   Ukrainian Army Nets 50 Towns, Villages

'Powerful Red Drive 'On Hungarian Front   Two Armies Battle Through Wid ening Breach At Roth Ends

Twin Russian Drives Open  German Lines   Red Armies 100 Miles Away on Roac to Austria

GERMANS REEL UNDER RUSSIAN TWIN ATTACKS   Nazi Defenses Breached At Both Ends Of Long Hungarian Front

RUSSIANS BREAK GERMAN DEFENSES   Twin Drives On 250 Mile Hungarian Front Nearing Austrian Soil

SOVIET FORCES DRIVING NEAR AUSTRIAN SOIL   Germans and Satellite Allies Reeling Back Under Pile-Drive Blows.

Reds Widen Breaches in Twin Drives   Both Ends of Hungarian Front Have Given Way

Reds Drive Toward Austria —   ‘Two Armies Battle Through Breaches ‘At Both Ends of  HMunaarian Front

REDS WITHIN 00 MILES OF RUSSIA   Germans Reel Back Before Twin Assaults

:  ‘War Production Board Gives Industry ‘Go-Ahead Signal to Build  Models for Postwar Manufacture

Industry Gets Go-Ahead Sign  On Conversion   New WPB Order Allows  Building of Models Of Post. Wax 1...

GOVERNOR IS IMPRESSED   Kansas Women Are Learning How to Operate Tractors

Vaunted Line Yields Before Yank Attack   Aachen Believed Broken Into By American Forces

Ten - Mile - Wide Breach Beyond Aachen One Of 4  Develoning Invasions.

Ist Army Reaches 80 MPH Highway at Ringed Aachen   Penetration of Line Not Yet Claimed  ‘Breakthrough’ Allowing Other Troops To Speed Into Germany, Hdars. Says

NAZI DIVISIONS BADLY MAULED BY BiG BLOWS   Americans : Are Advancing In All Sectors After Taking La Haye

34 MOTOR VEHICLES CARRIED 850 PUPA   Average Cost of Transporting Puplt in Fayette Connty Last Year & Was $33.31 per Student as

Fire Columns Testify to B-29 Success   Devastating Mission Over Formosa Is Said Only Beginning

Four Fail to Report From Formosa Raid   Some of Superforts  Expected to Turn Up Later From Friendly Bases, Airforce Says

HECORD FLIGHT OF A-200 AAD OKAYAMA BASE   Tokyo also Reports Further Attacks by Carrier Based Planes.

Okayama on Fire As Supertorts Swoop Over City   Tokyo Announces Carrier Planes Also Make Attack

Superf orts Blast Town On Formosa   Smoke Rises 22,000 Feet After ‘Most Successful’ Mission

RAIDERS START GREAT FIRES ON FORMOSA ISLAND   Flames Over Okayama Rise to 22,000 Feet—Arsenal and Other Installations Pounded.   RECORD BOMB LOAD DROPPED ON CITY   Returning Superfort Pilots Say Enemy Opposition Was Negligible and Anti-Aireraft Fire Light.

FORMOSA TOW STRUCK BY BiG BOMBING FORCE   Superforts Leave Wreckage a’ Okayama in B-29's Greatest Attack

4 BIG PLANES MISSING, SAYS NAVAL REPORT   Japs Fear Blows Are Prelude to Landing Near Homeland

Net Snares Thousands Of Foe In Romania Who Fail To Escape To Hungary

Russian Tide Sweeps Into the Heart of Ro-  mania  THOUSANDS OF MEN - LOST BY GERMANS  Ferocious Fighting Reported in Ploesti Oii : ‘Fields

Tanks Reach Rich Ploesti Oil Area In Romania   lofal of 18,000 Germans Seized by Two Soviet Armies; Two Romanian Divisions Surrender

Soviets Pour Into Ploesti Oil Region   Nazis Overwhelmed: Disaster May Reach  Proportions of Their Defeat at Stalingrad

Russians Pour Into Ploesti Oil Field Area   German Debacle Is Comparable To Stalingrad Defeat

Thousands © Are Trapped  In Romania   ‘Nazi-Escape Passes — In Carpathian Mts... “Blocked by Romanians

SOVIETS PUSH INTO PLOESTI OIL DISTRICI   Nazis Face Great Dis. aster As Galati Defenses Crumble

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS FACING GALATI DEBAGLE   Russian Tanks And Motorized Infantry Pour Inte  Rich Oil Region   ROMANIAN FORCES ARE AIDING REDS

Russians pour into oil region   Crack Galati gap  in Ploesti smash

Overland Escape Route For 70,000 German Troops Cut Off By LeClerc   THIRD ARMY DRIVES DEEPER INTO REICH

‘Srasbourd Entered by French Army   _ Six Allied Armies in ' Western Front Sector Force German Retreat

French Armored Units Battle Nazis in Strasbourg, Cut Escape Route for 70,000 Foe

French Troops Fight Way Into Strasbourg to Trap Large Force of German:

DASH TOR CUTS ENEMY’S LAND ESCAPE   Armored Forces Score Second Breakthrough

70,000 NAZIS ARE TRAPPED IN RHINE SECTOR   American Troops Charge Through Three Vosges Passes In Hard Fighting

French Tanks at Strasbourg Block Overland Escape Route For 70,000 German Fighters

Cut retreat for 70,000  nazi troops  Pin foe against hatdcaceloce piver

tees PINNED GAINST RHINE   @itterest Battle Since Invasion Goes Into 7th Day   TANK BATTLES RAGE   ww Nazis Mass Boats, Barges Along Rhine; Allies Pour Through Vosges

Troops Fight Their Way Toward Center’ of City  ESCAPE ROUTE OF ' ‘THE GERMANS CUT  French and Americans _ Charge Through Vosges Passes

10,000 NAZIS ALONG RHINE -TMPERILED   Spectacular 18-Mile Dash Places Allies on 3 Sides of Germans Pinned Against River.     PATTON MOVES MILE DEEPER INTO REICH   U.S. First and Ninth Ar mies in Furious Battles  —One Town. Changes Hands Five Times.

French Armored Forces Push Deer Into Strasbourg  Bitterest Battle Since D-Day Rages on Plain Approaching Cologne

FLEET ARRIVES “WW APRA HARBOR      Men of War Steam Triumphantly into Guam Base as Planes Land on Airfield.

ON OROTE FIELD   Guam Again Becomes Operating Base for Uncle Sam’s Forces

VICTORY FLAGS WAVE; PLANES ON OROTE FIELD   Guam Again Becomes Operating Base for Uncle Sam’s Forces

OCCUPATION OF CITY COMPLETED; 5TH IS ACROSS TIBER RIVER   Yanks Sweep Through Italian Capital Without Pause In Hot Pursuit Of Nazis; Battle ©: Annihilation Develops

NEM EXPECTED TOATTEMET NEW ~ STAND IN NORTH   German Troops In Great: Disorder, May Not Stop’ Before Reaching Po Valley. - 250° Miles Away.   LEADING ELEMENTS OF FIFTH IS OVER TIBER   Mussolini In Place of Safety Says Occupation, Is “‘Painful,’ Promises Restoration of City.

BY ROBERT V. VERMILLION  4 vc Stal] WDasncse Was QCawwncncwidawndy

Allied Army Takes Over Entire City   seek to Annihilate Retreat ing Enemy on Way to  New Defense Line

GermanTroops Flee To North In Disorder   Occupation Of Rome Is Completed: Allies Speed To Annihilate Nazis

Allied Planes Rain Bullets, Bombs On German Vehicles Clogging Roads 50 Mi. From Rome

Congress Set  To Close Shop   Washington “Hears: Call. Of. Campaign’.

TES TO RECESS   Congress Will Go Home Untila Week After the Na~ tional Election

Congress Sefs Recess Date   Many Members Hurrying Home Now to Make Final Drive For Votes

PAN TS. SHIPS               Maritime Commission Chief Proposes Drastic Re etrictions

Admiral's Plans for Japan: Land Would Deny Nipponese All Merchant Ships for Use at Sea

Yanks, Chinese tn Foeby 112-Mile Race   Fall of Myitkyina Threatens Entire Northern Position

NORTH BURMA ENEMY LINES MAY COLLAPS!   Biggest Base Above Mandalay Faces Capture

Sensational Advance Across Hump Paves Way For Reopening Burma Road.

SUPREME COURT IS FACED BY NUMBER COMPLICATED CASES   JUSTICE ROBERTS, ONLY MEMBER OF COURT NOT ROOSEVELT-NAMED. BE 7C

Supreme Court t¢ Open Tuesday; Faces 500 Cases  Stormy Session of Spring Recalled;

Supreme Court Opens Potentially Historic Session   Confronted by Array Of Complicated -Legal Controversies

SUPREME COURT IS FACED BY NUMBER COMPLICATED CASES  _ JUSTICE ROBERTS, ONLY   JUSTICE ROBERTS, ONLY MEMBER OF COURT NOT ROOSEVELT-NAMED. BE 7C

Historic ‘Session’. Like 2 WI Complicated Controversies  To Be Decided

US Supreme Court Begins  A New Term  - More Than 500 Cases Docketed

POLES HELPING TO OUST NAZIS   Assurance of Underground Aid to Reds Reaches Washington

Retugee Government Orders Underground To Aid Russ Armies   Fxclusive INS Dispatch Says Poland Has Ordered Guer ri-las, Underground to Aid Soviets in Crive Acainst German Forces.

REFUGEE GOVERNMENT SENDS “ORDERS FOR GUERRILLA ‘ORGANIZATION TO BACK  THE RED ARMY

Poland To Aid The Soviet Forces   Action Regarded of Utmos Importance

FINNS ON RUN FROM VIIPURI ARE PURSUED      Germans Report New “Terror Raid” on Berlin

Law Enforcement Officers To Meet In Fredericksburg Next Tuesday, April 18th

New U. 5. Marine Head Sworn in; Predecessor Becomes Full General

FIERCE BATTLE IS RAGING IN HOLLAND AREA   Nazis Are Offering Bitter Resistance All Along Western Front

Second Army Tries To Avenge Chutists   Full Seale Attack up Corridor Furiously Resisted; Violent Fichtine Flares Around Metz

Second Army Swings Back Into Corridor At Nijmegen   Nazi Elite Guard Moves In To Meet New British Thrust Into Holland Sector

3rd Army Strikes Anew Near Metz   Last of Surviving Paratroopers Withdrawn From Arnhem Area

Renew Bid To Open Route Into Northern Germany Attack Through 9-Mile Corridor; Fighting Furious

Full-Scale Fight Threatens German Control— aw —Dy HMOM GY. Fay  French Underground In Coordinated War

Rumor Ramirez Will Resion Over Army Difficulties   Gen. Farrell Reported to Have Resigned Post as Minister

Polish Exile Government Is Repudiated   New Council Forms in Areas Which Russia Has Freed

TRUCKING TIE-UP ENDS, MEN BACE   Break In Strike Comes After Orders From Government To Seize Lines.

Germans Threaten To kill Prisoners   Hitler Charges Captured Nazis Are “Murdered”

Submarine is, Lost At Sea   Had Been Active In Japan’s Home Water:

Tokyo Installs New Government  Koiso Takes Over As Prime Minister

Japan’s East Asian Poliey Is Unchanged   New Nippon Government Under Gen. Koiso Takes Over Empire’s Reins  oa eee

Jap Cabinet Takes Office   Japanese Foreign Policy Unchanged, Tokyo Announces

New Cabinet  Takes Office   Gen. Kuniaki Koiso Takes Tojo's Place; Put On Re: serve List.

NEW JAPANESE CABINET ON JOE   Tojo Placed On Reserve List In Army; Foreign Policy Unchanged

MacArthur Takes Vital Airdrome On Wakde Island  Chinese Advance   Chinese Advance In Surprise Thrust ; Myitkyina Menaced

Airdrome On Wakde Islanc Is Captured   General MacArthur's Forces Are Hitting At Three Main Points

Yanks Seize 'Wakde Base   Ninth Jap-Built AirdromeOn Guinea Coast Captured

OPEN SEDITION CASE TODAY IN FEDERAL COURT      Twenty-Bight Men And Women Accused Of Trying To Undermine Morale

ONE DEFENDANT NOT PRESENT IN SEDITION CASE      Whereabouts Of Defendant No, 30 Remains Mystery Of Trial

Begin Trial o1 War’s Biggest Sedition Case   One of 30 Defendants Fails to Appear as  Scheduled

3 ALLEGED AXIS AGENTS ON TRIAL   Hearing For 28 Men, 2 Women Linked With Hitler to Require Two Months.

Yank Rocket Guns Smash 40 Jap Boats at Rabaul   Explosions, Huge Fires Mark Initial Use of New Type Weapon in Pacific

U.T. REGENTS GIVE EXECUTIVE HELP IN CHECKING APPLICANTS   {See Page 3 for Austin development in the University of Texas controversy),

SCHULTE NAMED BOARD CHAIRMAN   Considers Resolution Tc Elect Supervisors ‘At Large

“THIRD CHAIRMAN   Considers Resolution Te _ Elect Supervisors —  At Large.

High Ranking Russian Official  Save Allied Tl nftyv Increreasine

Red Spokesman Sees New Unity   Foreign Diplomats Welcome Statement

RIFT IN ALLIED RANKS REFUTED   ee  Soviet Writer Declares Unity And Confidence Is Increasing

GIVEN THIRD PLACE   War News Ahead of Roosevelt An« nouncement in G. I. Paper

Father, Four Children Die A Home Burns   Baltimore Mother Not Expected To Survive Burns

Father And Four Children Perish   Lose Lives When Fire Sweeps Four-Room Home.

GREAT AIR FLEET OF 7,000 PLANES POUND GERMANS  HIT RAIL CENTERS IN FRANCE; BATTER

Over 7,000 Planes Pound Nazis. In Relentless Aerial Assaults   Steady Hail Of Bombs Pumped Into Enemy Defenses Behind Beachheads   Allies Sweep Up italy On Both Fronts As Nazis Abandon Stand   German 14th Dispersed After Brief Stand; Strategic Points Captured

Aerial Blast Of Invasion At New Peak   Yanks Rit Front, Rail Junctions While RAF in Night Raid Returns to Pomme! Berlin

Great. Aerial Blows Support Allied Invasion of France; Range Far Behind Lines to Disrupt Enemy Troop Moves

Air Resistance Strong SUPREME HEADQUARTERS  ATYarn ePyrnornirinwyinpyv

Allied Airforce Hits Nazi Lines  Deliver Greatest Blows of Campaign

GERMAN FORCES ARE BLASTED BY ALLIED PLANES   All Types of Aircraft Used In Coordinated Assaults To Support Ground Troops

AMERICAN BOMBERS  AND LIGHTER CRAFT  BATTERED GERMANS ALLIED INVASION FORCE GIVEN GREAT AID FROM  AID RORrRSE

ThousandsOf Planes Make Attacks On  Foe In France   Bridges, Roads, Rail Centers Main Targets; New Bases Seized In Invasion Being Used

YANK BOMBERS IN MIGHTY RAID ON ENEMY LINES   7,000 Allied Planes Suppor Invasion Forces by Smashing Nozi Reserves

INVASION AIR BLOWS REACH ANEW PITCH      Forée of 1,400 Heavy ‘ Bombers—Largest Ever Sent on Single Mission —Hit Airfields and Bridges ‘in France. —>

MIGHTY AIR BLOWS MADE ON GERMANS   Steady Hail of Bombs Supports Allied Invasion in Normandy.   Allied Airmen Report Increasing Opposition

American Airmen Pump Steady Hail of Bombs Into. German. Defenses

Thousands of Planes Hi Installations, Beside Definite Objectives

Planes Slash At German Defenses   Fighters in Close Touch With Ground  Forces

Allied Planes Smash Germans   Americans Turn on Power to Back Forces On Invasion Conct

Back Invasion With Greatest Bomber-Fighter Aerial Attack   Resistance by Germany’: Air Force Stiffening

Flying Weather Fine; New Bases On French Soil Are ‘Clicking’ As Sorties Mount

EOT AIR BLOW TO DATE   Bombers, Lighter Craft Pump Steady Hail of Bombs and Lead.   FINE FLYING: WEATHER

FLIERS SMASH NAZIS DEFENSES IN HUGE FORGE   U. S. Airmen Set New ‘After D-Day’ Records; RAF Hits France, Berlin

Nazis Stiffen Air Defenses   Luftwaffe Out In Force to Meet Great Allied Blow

GROUND TROOPS SUPPORTED BY ALLIED PLANES   7.000 Shins In Raid Avainst Nazis Sunday

HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS BACKUP LAND ATTACK   American Heavy Bombers and Streams of Fightets Make Thousands of  Cn Eo ew.

Air Warfare Tempo ls Speeding Up   New Bases on French Soil Used in Supporting Troops .

Record Aerial Blows  Support Allies In   French Invasion      Flying In Fine Weather Allied Air Forcés By Noon Run Up More Sorties Than Sunday ‘When 7,000 Planes Hit Nazis

HEAVY AIR SWEEP   Bombs and Bullets Pour Upon German Defenses  And Roads

RECORD NUMBER OF SORTIES IS RUN UP TODAY   Significant New Strategy In Air Support On Ground Troops Fighting In France Becomes Apparent.

HAVE A LANDING FIELD IN FRANCE   Planes Are Strafing Ahéad of Ground ' Forees   PUMPING LEAD INTO GERMANS

American Bombers Smash Germans in  Great Aeria! Blow   RAF Bombers Blast Berlin and Four Key Rail Centers

Pelt Nazis with Hail of Bombs   Greatest Air Blows To Date Support Invasion Forces

Nazi Defenses Dealt Heaviest Aerial Blow   Newly Established Air Bases On French Soil Are Clicking.

7,000 PLANES SLAM GERMANS. IN FRENCH INVASION CENTERS   Fine Weather Aids Allied Air Armada; New Air Strip in France-Used   SHUTTLE BOMBERS BUSY

Moscow Again Has Rail Link To Leningrad   Recapture Mga To Pave Way For Lend-Lease Line From Murmansk; Enemv Falling Back

Russ Forces Take Key Rail City of Miga   Leningrad Reunited With Moscow for First Time in Two Years

RAIL JUNGTIGN TAKEN BY REDS   Mga Unites Leningrad By Rail With Moscow First Time in 2 Years.   NAZIS ABANDON TOWNS

Russians Capture Mga, Important Rail Center In Enemy’s Hands2 Years

Reds Seize Mga, Vital Rail Town   Leningrad-Moscow Reunited Again After Two Years

REDS HOLD MA “KEY IL ARE?   Capture Of Important Junction Links Leningrad And Moscow

Forge Rail Link Between Moscow And Leningrad   Capture of Mga Reunites Cities; Reds Bite Deeper Into German Line<

SOVIET CAPTURE OF  MGA, RAIL JUNCTION,  IMPORTANT VICTORY REUNITES MOSCOW AND  LENINGRAD BY RAIL FIRST TIME TWO YEARS

Russia’s Second City Is Reunited With Moscow: After Two Years   SOVIETS TAKE MGA!   zy Permanent Line Gained for Lend-Lease Supplies From Murmansk

LENINGRAD AND MOSCOW RAILS ARE CONNECTED   Capture of Mga Hailed by Stalin as Important Victory by Russians

DRIVE CLEARS VITAL SOVIET RAILWAY ROUTE   Capture of Mga by Reds Opens Leningrad-Moscow Rail Link

MOSCOW RAIL LINE IS OPEN TO LENINGRAD   Capture of Mga Links Soviet’s Second City With Capital for First Time Since Siege Began Two  - Vears Ago.

ussia’s 2 Key Cities Are Linked   Leningrad Is Now Ended  eg Siege o

ANNOUNCE THE ~ CAPTURE OF MGA, “RAIL JUNCTION      Reunited. -Russia’s Second ’ City -by Rail With Moscow After Two Years.   WAS LAID UNDER SIEGE      Leningrad Gained a Permanent Rail Link to Tap Lend-Lease Supplies.

A Rail Center  Taken   ..- Capture of Mga Frees Leningrad-Moscow Road

Leningrad-Mocow Railroad Cleared:  Leads to Murmansk   Red Armies Continue Victorious Advance Against Germans

Russians Connect Rail Junction to Moscow For First Time in Two Years

Russians Wrest Important Rail Line From Nazis   Leningrad Now Linked With Moscow And Murmansk

MGA CAPTURED, LENINGRAD AND MOSCOW TIED   Seizure of Junciion Opens Rail Line to Lend-Lease Supplies from Murmansk   REDS IN BIG DRIVE.   Mge's Caplure Climaxes Breakthrough on 30 Mile Front— Thousands of Nazis Slain

Russian Capture Of Mga Frees Leningrad Line Soviet’s Second City  - Reunited With  : Maccaow hv Railraad

Red Armies Are Joined  InManeuver   Rail Junction Is Taken To Bring  Consolidation

Russian Capture Of Mga Frees Leningrad Line  Soviet’s Second City Reunited With Maccow bv Railroad

Move Unites Moscow And Leningrad For First Time Since City Was Laid Under Siege Two Years Ago

SOVIETS TAKE MGA, KEY RAIL CENTER, TODAY  s Railway   Frees Railway To Leningrad, Stalin Says

LENINGRAD, MOSCOW ARE UNITED BY RAIL WITH MGA CAPTURE   Another Main Rail Trunk Also Under Pressure as Reds Push Germans Back   MANY NAZIS LEFT DEAD

Reds Capture Key Railway J unction City   Two-Year Separatior Of Leningrad and Moscow Ends

ussia’s 2 Key Cities Are Linked   Two-Year Siege of Leningrad Is Now  Ended

New Supply Route Opened In Russia As Reds Surge On   Key Rail Junction South of Leningrad Captured from Nazis Gives Direct Rail Line To Lend-lease Port of Murmansk and Link With Moscow

Reds Open Lines for Supplies   Great Drive in North Links Leningrad and Moscow for First Time in Two Years   ALSO OPENS WAY —. TO AID FROM:U. §   Enemy Rolling Back as Twe ‘Red Armies Push On in. North -

Russian Offensive Clears Rail Route   Strategic Junction Captured By Reds as Salient Is Liquidated

SHORE OF LAKE SEIZED BY REDS   Third Ukranian Army Rips Through S.W. Hungary on 150-Mile Front

 At Cansbridee      Bay: Siate Smelting Plant “Wreeked :: In. ‘Flames, Other® Structures  -Hit

Renelled Once, Yanks Hammer Back in Cassino   Reinforced Germans Launch Long-Waited, Futile Counter-Drive

5th Army Beats Back 4. Attacks  ,. .. mend.   Infantry Battles For Cassino as  Germans Speed Reinforcements

SMASH FOUR NAZI ATTACKS BELOW ROME   Enemy Makes First Counter Blows But Is Repulsed

‘Germans Fail In ‘Assault Against Anzi, Nettuno   Infantry Fight Hand, To Hand Battle In   Streets of Cassino ”

Allied Army Smashes 4 Counter - Attacks Near Rome Beachhead   American Tanks And Infantrymen Fight Bloody House-To-House  Battle In Cassino Streets

FOUR NAZI COUNTERATTACKS SMASHED BACK BY FIFTH ARMY   House-to-House Fighting Reported In Cassino; Nazis Show New Power

Nazi Attacks Are Routed By Allies   American, Tanks And Infantrymen Fight Way hru_ Ruined Cassino; Warships  Bombard German I ines

ALLIED FORCES HOLD FIRM GRIP ON ANZIO LINES   Three German Divisions Are Routed With Heavy Losses

36 DRAFTEES LEAVE TODAY   Go To Fort Sheridan For Army Service; 30  Go To Navy

36 More Leave For Army Today   Men Entrain Here For Fort Sheridan, Ill.

JAPS WIPED UP IN BURMA AREA   Nusa ok Chinese Forces Recapture Pass Foe Held 6 Years

RIOTING FLARES   Canada’s War Effort Issue in Provincial Election; Scores Injured

Closing in Fast on Nazis On All Fronts; Yanks Push On Past Coutances   Mass to Attack Norma: City—Report Germans in  Disorderly Retreat

RABAUL RAIDERS SINK JAP SHIPS   Twelve Allied Planes Lost In Blow At Enemy Base

Ten Are Killed When Storage Tank Explodes   Gasoline Storage Tank Lets Go At Shawneetown, Il].— Five Instantly Killed

Demoralized Enemy Hordes Throw Away Guns in Flight: Suffer Huge Losses; 50 Divisions Facing Trap   British Based Allied Fighters-Bombers Strike at Invasion Coast; Invasion Staff Keeps on Job New Year's; Advances Reported in Italy

Are Within 27 Miles of the Old Border   Vatutin’s Ukrainian Army Inflicts Huge Losses on Nazis

Demoralized Nazis Throw Away Guns   Russian Cavalry, Tanks Drive Germans From 300 Towns

Soviefs Launch Drive To Clear Road To Border   Germans Facing Greatest Defeat Since Stalingrad

‘Rassians Shaping Trap For 750,000 German Soldiers   Hitlerites Throwing Away Guns To Hasten Retreat; Baltic Army Continues Advance

Threatening To Trap Many   Southern Ukraine Greatest Nazi Defeat Since Stalingrad

Many Nazis FaceTrap_ In Ukraine   ; Russiang: Also ° ; Sweeping ‘Ahead, On North Front

Nazis Leaving Guns Behind As They Flee   Germans Suffering Their Worst Disaster Since Stalingrad

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE TOWARD POLISH BORDER   Fleeing Germans Throw. “ing Away Guns, “Accord_ ing To Moscow. Reports, As Reds Piirsue.:   TERRIFIC LOSSES : ‘SUFFERED:BY HUNS   Vital. Rail-Junction i Taken-In Kiev Sector, ~ Scores Of Towns-In.-: <2 Ukraine Oceupied .-

Nazis Discard Their Guns and Run From Victorious Russians   Reds Within 27 Miles of Pre-War Polish Frontier—50 German Divisions Face Possible Entrapment in Southern Ukraine As Vatutin’s Army Marches on.

Fifth Seizes Heights Near  San Vittorio       Retreating Germans Thrown Out Of 300 Villages, Hamlets.   TAKE BELOKOROVICHI

Primary Elections Being Held In Six States Today; Gov Thye Leads In Minnesota for Re-nomination

MUSTER FORCES FOR WEST WALL   Stimson Thinks Nazis Shift Troops from Norway and Denmark

Oklahoma Goes $8,000,000 Over   State Tops $90,00,000 Goal in Hurricane Einich to Drive

War Shipping Administration Declares Blast Sank Liberty Ship John Straub

Croup Confers With Governor About Affair   Bullington Says He 3 and Two Other Board Members Plan to Quit

Students Protest Ouster of Rainey   Governor Stevenson Says Wisdom and Caution May Solve Situation Caused By His Discharae

16 JAP SHIPS — WERE SUNK LAST SUNDAY   Revised Toll Of Manila Bay Attack Released

16 Jap Ships Sunk in Sunday Manila Attack   Light Cruiser, 4 Destroyers Are Included

Jap Losses Rise Higher  In Recount   Four Destroyers And Light Cruiser Listed As Sunk.

ENEMY’S LOSSES IN MANILA BAY RAID MOUNT; 16 SHIPS ON BOTTOM   Toll Increased By New Figures

16 Jap Vessels Sunk By Yanks At Manila Bay   _ Carrier-Based Planes “Carry Out Attack On Enemy Shipping

SIXTEEN ENEMY SHIPS SUNK AT MANILA SUNDAY   Revised Report or U. 8. Pilots Shows Sizable Force Of Shipping Hit

Trio Seizes Control of (Guatemala   PONCE’S REGIME IS OVERTHROWN IN REVOLT OF OFFICERS, STUDENTS

Triumvirate Now Runs Guatamala   Two Army Officers, Civilian In Control

Guatemala Has A New Regime   Government Of President Ponce Overthrown In Sudden Uprising.

Rev. Foreid To Preach Farewell Sermon Sunday   Mission Church Pastor and Family Will Go to Chicago

Rev. Foreid To Preach Farewell Sermon Sunday   Mission Church  Pactae and Wamily Pastor and Family  Will Go to Chicago

More Witnesses To Be Called in Chaplin-Barry Case   By FREDERICK ©. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood  — - .

Idle Muskegon Employes Are Reclassified   Union Heads Challenge Selective Service Action Today

STRIKERS FIGHT DRAFT CHANGE   Reclassification To 1-A te  Be Appealed On  Union Order

Tokyo Sees Menace By U.S. Fleet   Fails to Report New Yank Advances in  Two Invasions

y ANKS FORGE AHEAD ON GUAM-TINIAN ISLANDS: ROTA NEUTRALIZED   Opposition Much Lighter Than Encountered In Saipan Invasion

lokyo Admits Can't Cope With U. S. Fleet  Locks Air Power Of   Locks Air Power Of Yankee Armada Off ‘Marianas; Gains On Iclands Satisfactory

Powertul U.S. Forees Prowl  Off Marianas   Tokvo Claims Time Is Not Yet Ripe For Fleet To At tack Enemy.   LACK Ain POWER

TOKYO EXPLAINS FAILURE OF JAP NAVY TO ATTACK   SITUATION WELL IN HAND ON GUAM AND TINIAN, SAYS NIMITZ

U, §, FLEET MANEUVERING OFF MARIANAS   Naval Forces Now Only 1500 Miles  From Japan

U.S. TASK FORCES ON PROWL; JAP RADIO YELLS ‘NOT READY    Time Not Yet Ripe for Fleet to Come Out, Nips Are Told; Yankees Continue i Closing in

Japs Repori Yank Ships Off Marianas   Time Not Ripe For Jap Attack On Fleet, Tokyo Radio Says

Tokyo Claims U. S. Ships On Prowl in Marianas  Ryw~y FT re KREINER

Yank Landings on Guam, Tinian Roll. Smoothly Forward   Casualties Light on Tin. ian, Fighting Raging on Guam

Japs Try To Tell Why Their Flee’ Stays At Home  Several U. S. Task Forces Out On Prowl Off Mariana Islands

Jap Fleet ‘Not Ready’ to Attack   Nipponese Told Of U.S. Task Force

TASK FORCES (FF MARIANAS?   Japs Report Maneuvers Near Islands; Explain Navy’s Absence,   TIME NOT-RIPE FOR HIT

Declare Nip Fleet Won't Give Battle   Americans Advance Rapidly on Tinian, Guam, Taking Third Of Tinian Airfield

Tokyo Reveals Task Forces In Vital Jap Water:   Explains “Time Not Ripe for Nippons To. Attack Enemy”

PRIEST GROUP AG DISBANDED   COUGHLIN.’ FILES NECESSARY PAPERS TO END EXISTENCE OF “SOCIAL JUSTICE’ OR-  GANIZATION. :

Two Defense Plans Aired.   World Patrol Seen Need After’ Peace .

USE OF FORCE PLANS LISTED   Russians Want International Air Force, U. $. Would Merge Armies

International Air Corps and U. S. Plan, Features of Security Meet

Baruch Asked To Head New Policy Group   Committee Set Up to Aid Country’s Return to Peacetime Basis

Will Ask Baruch to Head New Bod  Committee to Study Post-war Problems

Indirectly Endorses Statement Of His Top Economic Advisers In  Control Policies   Stettinius Reaches Britain For Talk:

STETTINIUS IN BRITISH CAPITAL   To Discuss Foreign Policy With English Officials

HULL'S AIDE IN ENGLAND      Stettinius, Staff To Confer With Eden

Stettinius in London for  Conferences   Official’s Mission Expected to Lead to Meet of ‘Big Three’

STETTINIUS IN LONDON.   Conferences May Prepare Way for Another Big Three Meeting

Stettinius and Staff Arrive to Confer With Eden on Invasion, Postwar Plan:

Stettinius Paves Way for Another Big Three Parley   v. oe Undersecretary O01 State Arrives For London Talks

dn London To Pave Way For Big 3 Parley   Stettinius Tells News: y men Axis Has Only One Desperate Hope

STETTINIUS IN LONDON   Arrives for Series of Important Conferences

CONFERENCES ON FOREIGN © POLICY LOOM   Visit May Pave Way For Another Big Three Meet

SOVIETS, POLES GAIN NORTH OF FALLEN PRAGA   Nazis Report Big Red Drive on LatviaEstonia Front

Soviets Fight for Bridges Over Vistula at Warsaw   Eleven Localities Along River’s Bank Are Captured: Berlin Reports New Latvia Drive

Kuss, Poles press drive  on Warsaw 1] localities fall on Vistula river

BATTLE RAGES OVER BRIDGES INTO WARSAY   RUSSIAN AND POLISH TROOPS CAPTURE 11 LOCALITIES

Vital News Declared Suppressed —  Bricker Wants Inquiry Into Pearl Harbor Raid

Clean Sweep of Regents And President May Be ‘Solution To U.T. Battle

FOR GAYS AID NEEDED UNTIL "WAR IS ENDED   Lend-Lease Should: Continue “After Germany Falls, Conaress Told.

Tells Congress Aid Should Not Stop When Reich Falls, but Should Continue Until Japan Is Defeated, Too. 

President Tells Congress Lend-Lease Must Continue ‘Until Nazis, Japs Beaten

Roosevelt Says Lend-Lease Should Continue Until Enemies Are Beaten

LEND-LEASE IS TO CONTINUE   F. D. R. Says Aid Necessary Until Surrender of GerMany, Japan

13 Killed as Tornado Strikes Into Dakotas   Four Distinct Earthquake Shocks Jolt Residents of Pacific Coast

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates! World News Today.   Cunpaien Opened,

Draft Deferments — Will Be Cut Down   ‘Urgent Need for Manpower in Armed Forces Leads to Increase in Induction Calls in Ohio — More Responsibility Put On Local Boards

To Draft Men From Important Civilian Work if Necessary   Local Boards to Use Own Judgment In Sunnlving Men Needed in Service

DRAFT BOARDS RECEIVE NEW INSTRUCTIONS   Told To Narrow Civilian Fields of Endeavor to Meet Quotas

Superforts Blast Nip Capital For Fifth Time   Goble Orders Ohio Draft Deferments Slashed

End of All Food Rationmg Urged   Congress Likely to Curb OPA Powers

Allied Planes Destroy 50 Jap Aircraft   Damaging Raid Is Made on Nip Base at Sorong

Damaging Blow Dealt Nips’ Last Major Airbase In New Guinea; Truk, Yap And Palau Also Raided

YANK DOUGHBOYS IN SUSTAINED DRIVE ON FRONT AROUND METZ  LAST USABLE RAILROAD FROM METZ TO SAAR IS NOW THREATENED?

U.S. Doughboys Fight in Snow   Yanks Narrow Retreat Corridor To 11 Miles; Russians Fight in Southern Suburbs of Budapest

MenAndEquipmentGuarding Fortress  Flee Toward Saar   Claim 4 Doctors Attend Fuehrer; __ Reds. Still. Battle For Budapest; ‘Tito’s Partisans Storm Skopje

Ship Transfer Renort Awaited   Russia Reportedly Given Milwaukee

Aerial Bombing Breaks Ice Jam At Miles City:   16 250-Pounders Are Dropped by Flying Fortress Bombardier

Japanese Drive 35 Miles South or Fallen Changsha   Hengyang Appears Next Majo:   Hengyang Appears Next Major Goal of Nips in Effort to Split China in Half

Frank J. Holly  Of Rixford Dees   Well Known Oil Worker Of That Community

Frank J. Holly Of Rixford Dies At Age of 68   Oil Worker for Many Years Ill Three Weeks; Funeral This Afternoon

LOOK INTO CENSORSHIP   Without Debate, Senate Authorizes Investigation of Leaks

PERSISTENT REPORTS HEARD MARSHAL ROMMEL IS DEAD   REPORTS FROM CAPTURED GERMANS INDICATES GER_ MAN GENERAL HAS LOST LAST BATTLE ¢

Solons To Study  Demobilization   Measures First When  Congress Reconvenes

LEADERS 10 STUDY GERMAN COLLAPSE   Demobilization: Recon, version To Top Legislative Calendar

DOVER AREA iS SHELLED   Nazis Appear to Be Expecting’ an Allied Assault

BiG BOMBERS BLAST OMURA PLANE PLANT   TARGETS ON KYUSHU ISLAND WRECKED BY B-29S

GI's In Bold  Infiltration   Slip Through Germans, Seize Razorback Ridge After 15-Mile Seramble

Stage Daring Coup _   Yanks Crawl Through German Lines Without Firing Shot to Ridge 3 Miles Behind Enemy

Crawling Quietly Under Under Fire  Yank Unit Slips Behind Nazi Lines

American Fighters ‘Stage Infantry Coup  -.. Trararrmer oe  ~aeuwrneg

Americans, By Bold Stroke, Get  Behind Nazi Lines Near Rome   Enemy Stunned By Infiltration; Caught In Slowly Closing Trap; Position Overlooks City

Yankees Slip Into Enemy's ‘Line in Dark   Hundreds ‘Take “Part in Quiet, But Spectacular, Move to. Trap Germans   SLIP PAST NAZI MACHINE GUNS   Americans Begin. Mopping Up After Acomplishing Bold Venture.

YANKS STAGE SPECTACULAR INFANTRY COUP   15-Mile Crawling, Scrambling, Hiding Hike Brings Yanks to Hill Over  Velwetri

Yanks. Stage Daring Infantry Coup Infiltrate ‘Without ‘Faring: a’ Shot

Yanks Stage Spectacular Infiltration ‘To Occupy Ridge, Catch Nazis in Trap

"Daring Yanks Slip Through  “Enemy Lines   One of War's Outstanding Infantry Coups Catches Nozis Napping Near Ridge Overlooking Velletri.

Dixon Writes From Behind  German Line   Writer Accompanies Troops On Daring Infantry Coup

Fifth Army Is Now 15 Airline Miles From Gate of Rome; Yanks Get Stiff Opposition In Crossing Pontine Marsh Plain.

AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN STAGE DANGEROUS COUP Troops Slip Through Nazi Lines  Tra Ee. ban kKke RL oQVUk ree ee meena » Reel ped

‘Yank Unit at Night Captured Ridge Held. by Germans Above Velletri -

Plane Plant Hit in New Tokyo Raid   Good Results From Latest B-29 Attack On Japan Reported

One B-29 Reported Lost During 90-Minute Raid That Starts Many Fires   Rains Limit Leyte Fighting, But U. S. Flyers Smash Supply Centers at Valencia, Palawan; Japs Push Ahead in Southeast China War Front

Counter Attack Repulsed With 2,000 Japs Elimated Reports Admira! Nimitz,   Smash 26 Planes

Pied Piper U.S. Yank Sergeant Captures Five Hundred Nazis Single Handed

Doughboy Becomes Hero By Mistake  Yank: Turns on Wrong Road at Front And Has 500 Prisoners When He Gets Back

Neglect Is Charged to Ship Skipper   COAST GUARD BOARD FILES CASE, HEARING SET FOR SATURDAY

Skipper Blamed in Ship Crackup   Transport Officer to Face Charaes

Fifth Army Lashes Back at Nazis From Imperiled Position   Fighting Surges Nearer Benedictine Abbey  on Mt. Cassino

Today in  Washington   A Roundup of Developments From. the Nation’s Capital

GOP May Rehearse Postwar Platform  Pre-convention a nT \ ci cers fee 

Republican Pre-Convention Postwar Council Expected To Rehearse 1944 Platform

Republicans May Preview Stand   Foreign Policy Looming as Intra-Party Issue

GOP TO REVIEW FOREIGN POLICY   Dispute Looms Over Authorization Of UNRRA Funds

GOP MAY PREVIEW ITS PRESIDENTIAL © PLATFORM AT MEET   Meeting of Post-War Advisory Council Slated -— Party Is Faced With Probable Convention Battle Over Foreign Policy

Preview Of  GOP Policy  Is Discussed   Postwar Advisory Group Is Considering Meet Before Convention

PREVIEW OF GOP PLATFORM LIKELY   PRE-CONVENTION COUNCIL MEETING BEING CONSIDERED

GOP Foreign Policy Plank Faces Battle   Postwar Advisory Council May Review Platform Before June Convention

Ruml Sets Us Straight On The “Fairy Tale” About Taxation   Written for Uniled Press RY REFARMCtILrw Dri

Mulhouse, Alsace Capital, Taken In Swift Drive ©      Allied Armies Approach Roer West of Cologne Following Tank Victory

Batter Holes In Nazi Lines West of City   Ist Army Destroys 67 of 100 German Tanks In 4-Day Battle. —

RESUME PROBE OF ~ ALCOHOL INDUSTRY   Group Said to Favor Plants’ Producing From Pet- ° roleum

Charges Petroleum Men Prepare to Discriminate  Against Grain Aleoho]

T4 NAZI PLANES ARE DESTROYED OVER GERMANY   Largest Aerial Escort In History Accompanies  Big Bombers

LARGEST ESCORT COVERS BOMBERS   Series of Savage Sky Battles Occur; 74 Nazi Pianes Shot Down; 40 U. S, Bombers, 17 Fighters Missing   mR. CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN

FIERCE AERIAL FIGHTS WAGED   80 Nazi Planes Destroyed; Greatest Fighter Escort In History Used

80 Nazi Planes Lost in Great Aerial Battle   40 U. S. Heavy Bombers And. 17 Fighters Missing As-Refineries Are Hit

German Oil Plants Hit Heavy Blow   Yanks Stage 4,000 Ton Attack on Industry, Take Heovy Toll Of Nazi Planes

YANKS DOWN 74° GERMAN PLANES   LOSE 57 IN SPECTACULAR AIR BATTLES DURING RAIDS ON OIL PLANTS,

J, FRANK DOBIE 15 HOME AFTER TEACHING IN ENGLISH COLLEGE  AUTHOR GETS INTO TEX. AS UNIVERSITY CONTROVERSY WITHOUT DELAY

Dobie Plunges in Fight for Rainey   Says Responsible Man Must Take Sides Even When He’s Hurt

CIO DELEGATES CHEER MURRAY   Will Keep No-Strike Pledge, _ Wants ‘Little Steel’ Formula Changed. ~

Three Nazi Railway Centers Bombed By U.S. Air Force  No Opposition Met By Liberators In Italian Raids

Drop 1000 Tons of Bombs in Single Day of Raiding   French Interior Hit With Invasion Coast; 2 Bombers Lost

Destruction Is Rained on  French Coast  Aerial Assaults on Invasion  Diezalase f° aendianse me

Big Formations Blast Invasion " Coast Targets   ®\inth Air Force Delivers Its Greatest Attack Of Single Day; Five Bombers. 4 Fighters Lost

German Coastal. Defense System Is Put Into Play   More Than 1,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Targets In France And Belgium; Nazis Forced To Throw In ‘Secret’ Weapons

Yankee Bombers Blast French, . Belaian Coasts   American Marauder Mediums Drop 1,000 Tons of Explosives

Allies Hammer French-Belgian  Coast Targets   New Phase of Aerial Battle of Europe Continues Into Night; Nazi Fighters Active

FRENCH-BELGIAN COAST BLASTED BY UL, 5, AIRMEN   Cars and Sheds at Namur Rail Yards Southeast of Brussels Set Afire by Explosives,   ATTACK IS MADE BY MEDIUM BOMBERS   Liberators and Fortresses Strike at Pas-de-Calais— Down 7 Planes, Destroy 40 on Ground.

Namur Railroad Yards Southeast of Brussels Day's Principal Target

Marauders Set New High Mark   Invasion Area Gets Record Bomb Load  By W. W. HERCHER

U.S. bombers hit Belgian French coast  Greatest blow hv Oth airforce

Marauders Set New High Mark   _Invasion Area Gets Record Bamb Linad

FRENCH COAST HAMMERED BY OTH AIR FORCE   RAILWAY YARDS Al NAMUR ARE MASS OF WRECKAGE

Destruction Is Rained on French Coast   Kerial Assaults on Invasion Regions Continue

ANK AERIAL FLEETS RAID COAST AREAS   Big Formations Blast Targets in France  And Belgium

U.S. Bombers Rip Namur, Invasion Coast Bastions   Air Fleets 1,500 Strong Strike French, pelgran Bothacee Plane Factories. Flying Fields

US. Airforce “Pounds trench, Belgian Targets   Bombers, Fighters Rain  Destruction on Plane And Rail Centers

AIRFORCE IS CONTINUING BIG ATTACK   Widespread Daily Raids Coordinated Closely With Similar Forays By British Rombers At Night.   43 Planes Gone

BUTHIBAUNG OCCUPIED BY BRITISH   Allies Making Good Progress In Burma Theater

ALLIES GAIN ON 2 FRONTS IN BURMA   British Capture Village North Of Akyab

British 12 Miles Inside Burma   Important Village Reported Occupied

British Capture Burma Villege   Chinese, Americans  Push On In Jungle Drive

NEW OFFENSIVE TEARS 90-MiLE GAP IN NAZILINE   Germans’ Entire Front in Baltic Now Broken or Menaced

Army Abandoning largest Military Training Area — Desert Training Center

Japs Bring Up Two New Divisions In Effort To Trap Chinese Forces

Japs Launch Herce Attack   Bitter Fight Raging In Hunan Province As Japs Reinforce.

ALSO BAG 23 MERCHANT VESSELS   Largest Single Victory for Yank Submarines in Pacific War

T JAP WARSHIPS IN 32-CRAFT BAG BY YANKEE SUBS   Ulithi Atoll, 83 Mif€s From Yap, Taken; Continue Raids on Philippines

FRENCH WAITING FOR DE GAULLE   Underground Springing Into Action; General Regarded As Hero

NAZIS RESTRICT AREA IN NORWAY   ENEMY BELIEVED TO BE BUILDING BASES FOR A NEW SECRET WEAPON.

LOCAL BOND DRIVE  PASSES'A MILLION   Sixth War: ‘Loan Sales “in Douglas County, Now at $1,066,00 :   [QUOTA ‘IS $1,750,000

LOCAL BOND DRIVE _ PASSES A MILLION   Sixth War Loan Sales in Douglas County Now at $1 066, 004   IQUOTA IS $1,750,000

National Bond Drive To Open In Texas Towr   Sec’y Morgenthau Wil Launch Campaign In Texarkana Tonight

Texarkana Has 20,000 Visitors   President Roosevelt To Talk on Broadcast On Four Networks

Launch War Bond Drive   Treasury. Secretary And Movie Stars Take Part in Radio Show Tonight at Texarkana

Yanks Seek to Blast Aerial Road to Japan   Heavy Plane Attacks Continue in Pacific Area

YANKS MAY TAKE OVER TRUK BASE   Heavy Pounding From Air Indicates Possible Occupation

pear li  rye ag si  eee  pak a4 ipa   Wharves and d Fuel: Dumps Bombed; ‘Japs’ Hollandia —_ Blasted Again

New Raids Made On Moen, Dublor Islands By Allies   Forces Attempting To Blast Aerial Path Through Carolines

Soviets Gain 28 Miles In Sweep Through Latvia: Capture Vital Rail Genter

THOUSANDS OF NAZIS TRAPPED IN THE BALTICS   Milhon Reds Stand Between Some 200,000 Germans in Latvia and Their Escape Route.

Farm Planning On Government  Basis Is Urged  Colleges Point ne se 6

Allies Maintain Force In Hfaly   Toll In Hospital Deatid Daaehac AR

Allies Maintain Force In Italy   Toll In Hospital Raid Renchec 85

Ground Fighting Ceases in lfaly   Germans Continue Slight Advances

Presidential Race Takes on More Feverish Aspect  Roosevelt Considers Talks in Key Cities, Dewey Schedules More

Was Retired Railroad Con. ductor, Widely Known; Funeral Held Sunday —

D. T. KINSLEY DIED AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS      Was Retired Railroad Con. ductor, Widely Known; Funeral Held Sunday

Nazi Propagandists Say That Invasion Will Come This Week. Little Fighting In Italy.

Nazis Prepare To Get Out ‘Of Vienna   Russians Roll Up Flanks Guarding Austrian Gateway

[RUSSIAN ADVANCES PROMPT NAZIS TO ORDER THEIR OFFICIALS TO GET QUT OF AUSTRIAN CAPITAL AT ONCE

Nazi Officials Flee Vienna As Red Columns Plunge Mile-An-Hour For Austrian Border

RED ARMY SMASHES NAZI LINES   Mile-An-Hour Russian Offensive Crumples Balaton Defenses

CHOKED WITH DEFIIGEES   Red Avalanche Sweeping Toward Austrion Border

REDS ADVANCE AT RATE OF © MILE AN HOUR   March Is _ Toward Border Of Austria

AXIS TROOPS IN FLIGHT BEFORE ADVANCING REDS   Abandon Guns, Equipment In Plight From Lake Balaton

RUSS DRIVE ON AUSTRIA SPEEDED UP   Nazi Officials Are Fleeing From Vienna

FLEEING VIENNA BEFORE ONRUSH OF SOVIET ARMS   Russians Crumble Enemy’s F lanks

Alarmed Nazi Offi¢ials Flee Vienna In Path Of Juggernaut  HIMMLER REPORTED IN FULL CONTROL,  Move All Wounded Soldiers From Austrian Hospitals

Alarmed German Officials Reported  Leaving Vienna   Russ Armored Columns Crack Defenses On Both Sides of Balaton -

FLANK GERMAN DEFENSE LINES AT VITAL LAKE   Nazi Officials Reported Fleeing Vienna As Reds Roll On

Berlin Says Nazi Chiefs  Flee Vienna   Soviet Armor Stages Mile-An-Hour Drive On Austrian Front

Formal Dinner-Dance Held in Style At Guadalcanal; Seabees Win Honors

Vv oe  WATER NOW RUNNING  THROUGH RACEWAY INTO ’ EAST OKOBOJI LAKE

Red Army Cuts Trunk Line; Wipes Out Three Tran2ed Nazi Divisions

ESCAPE ROUTE FROM UKRAINE CUT BY REDS   PORT OF NIKOLAEY SEALED OFF ON THREE SIDES

Soviets Seal Off Nikolaev, Fall Is Near   Highly Strategic Rail Line {> Cut

Fall of Nikolaev Seems Imminent   Russians Encircle Port of Bikolaey

TWO POCKETS ONLY REMAIN ON ANGAUR   After Invaders of Palau Kill 8537 Japanese: Yank Casualties 686 Making Score 12 to 1.   Lose 106 Men

Yarikees Mopping Up on Peleliu; 8537 Japs Fall   Americans Overwhelm A but Two Pockets of Resistance

Gad? JAPANESE TROOPS KILLED T0 DATE ON PELELIU   Twelve Nipponese Die for Every American Lost—Only. 2 Pockets of Resistance Remain.   HOLD-OUT FORCES NOW ARE ENCIRCLED   Enemy Effort to Infiltrate Conquered Angaur Island Smashed by U. S. Soldiers.

Doughboys Gain 18 Miles, Close New Trap On Foe   Threaten To Break Into Interior Of France: Destroy Six Nazi Divisions

New Trap Closing On Foe in France   Six Nazi Divisions Wiped Out As American Offensive Increases

U, $. DRIVES INTO AVRANCHES IN 18-MILE GAIN   Yanks Threaten to Penetrate French Interior in Fast Advance

Spectacular Drive Closes — Trap On Nazis  Near Granville      6, German’ Divisis Reported. Destroyed

Yanks Smash 18 Mi. Ahead   American Forces Thrust Into Avranches in Dash Threatening French Interior; Troops Now 60 Miles From D-Day Starting Point

New Trap Closed On Germans As Americans Gain Springboard, For 160-Mile (Drive For French Capital :

Armor Slips In Top Gear To Destroy 6 Divisions   Sixty-Mile Course Inland Is Set Up Since D-Day

TANKS THRUST TO AVRANCHES IN QUICK GAIN   Entire Enemy Defense In Western Area Is Threatened

Lovat Keeps Pledge to ‘Paratroops   Airmen Who Dropped Behind Nazi Lines On D-Day Owe Lives to Valiant Commandos

COUNTY IS NEARING -BOND DRIVE QUOTA   Maryland Stands First ir _ Amount of Over-. . Subecrintion  _

COUNTY IS NEARING BOND-DRIVE QUOTA   Maryland Stand Stands First in , Ambutit ; of Over-. - Subscription ©

F.D.R.HINTS HE'D ACCEPT ATH TERM   Says He Might Confer. With Churchill Next Year .

SALVAGE PAPER DRIVE T0 BE HELD IN HAVRE SAT. MORNING   "DR Hints Through Gov. Arnall That He Will Run Again

ROOSEVELT NOW PREPARING = FOR WHIRLWIND. cAMP Ai   SPEECH SATURDAY NIGHT TO BE, FIRST OF SERIES IN_ “ CLOSING DAYS OF BACE

—-FOURTH TERM HINT—  Roosevelt Hopes See Churchill   ... In Summer, Autumn Or The Late Spring

HE'D ACCEPT ITH TERM   Says He Might Confer With Churchill Next Year

STRONG HINT BY ROOSEVELT: HE WILL RUN      PRESLDENT INDICATES AT PRESS CONFERENCE. HE WILL BE CANDIDATE FOR A.  FOURTH TERM’. :

Roosevelt Hints He Will Seek New Term As President At News Parley

F. DR. HINTS AT INTENTION TO BE CANDIDATE   Roosevelt Declares He May Not Meet Churchill For Another Year   SPECULATION MOUNTING   Chief’s Indication Given At Jocular Exchange With News Writers

President Will Extend Efforts For Re-Election   To Begin Campaigning In Earnest In Closing Weeks Of Contest

TAX BILL ABOUT READY FOR FDR   Will Sign; Congress To Be Scolded

Conaress Expected to Complete Work On New Tax Bill for FDR’S Approval

GONGRESS COMPLETING ACTION ‘ON NEW FERERAL TAX MEASURE   SCORES OF EXCISE TAXES IN“GREASED UNDER BILL—VETO “4B NOT EXPECTED

TAX BILL NEAR FINAL VERSION   Study Compromise On War Contract Renegotiation

Charge Chiang Kai-Shek Revamped Government ‘Harbors Pro-Japanese

RUSSIAN OPINION Chiang Appoints Pro-Jap Men: AFL Chiefs Deep Reactionaries’

CAPTIVES MARCH THROUGH MOSCOM   MILLION RUSSIANS WATCH IN SILENCE TRAMP OF 57,000 BEATEN NAZIS.

Governorship Nominations Hold Interest   Polls Remain Open Until 7:30; Predictions Vary

seriia Reports Operation Nearer Mouth of Tiber   Reports Aiso Place  Allies 4 Miles from  Appian Way; Heavy Fighting in South

German 10th Army Goes Into Offensive   Appian Way Is Under Fire From Pontine Beachhead

Drive Four Miles Inland In A Move To Straddle Highways To Capital.

U.S, Troops Fighting’ Way Up Mt, Cassino; Nazi Railway Yards’ North of Rome Hit

‘Dewey Leaves eWorld Force Up to Congress   Charges Roosevelt Scuttled Economic Conference in ‘33

DEWEY STATES UNITY TO COME WITH ELECTION   Leaves Up To Congress Decisior Use Of Troops To Preserve Peace

(Only Congress Has Power To (¢ ‘ommit American Forces On ‘Peace Plans, Gov. Dewey Declares

12:000 HEAR DEWEY IN MINNEAPOLIS   Hits at F.D. R. Foreign Policy Before War

Damage Done By Robots Is “Shocking”   Famed Lawyer's Centre Destroyed

Robot Bombs Cause Heavy Casualties   English Property Severely Damaged

Health Official Begs Children  Leave London   Robots Continue Damaging, Killing In England; Lincoln's Inn Hit

ROBOMB RATE IS 100 EACH DAY   Londoners Again Urged to Keep Children Out

2 Million Men ‘May Be Engaged In Great Battle   U.S. Ist, 9th Armies Both Advance; British Flatten Nazi Bulae To West

PRO-ROOSEVELTITES PLAN COURT ACTION ON LATHAM RULING  SECRETARY STATE REFUSES CERTIFY SUBSTI TUTE ELECTORS’ NAMES

Ada Still Getting In On Showers   This Time It’s .30 of Inch, with Pleasant 64 Degree Night Minimum

UE erat: aac tactic a  Ada Still Getting In On Showers   This Time It's .30 of Inch, with Pleasant 64 Degree Night Minimum

Hurled Back After Bresking Into Transport Center, 28 Miles From Budapest, Sav

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS  Decisive Battle May Be Fought Near Budapest

REDS BATTLE IN OUTSKIRTS OF KRIVOI ROC   AXIS MAKES LAST STAND EAST OF BUG RIVER

Reds Fighting In Krivoi Rog   All German Positions In Ukraine East Of Bug River Threatened; 190,000 Nazis Killed In Month’s Fighting By Reds

SOVIET ARMY DRIVES CLOSE TO KRIVOL ROC   Reds in Natth Topple Big German Base ‘At Kholim

Soviets Within Four Miles Of Heart Of Great lron Ore City   GERMANS SUFFERING SEVERE CASUALTIES

2 OFFENSIVES IMPERIL NAZIS IN UKRAINE   Sending Them Reeling In Retreat Toward Latvia On Curving 150-Mile Northern Front.   Near Pskov

Reds Smash Way To Edge Of Key Base   Nazis Reel Under Crushina Attacks

Controversial MVA Issue Given to Senate  Move Jeopardizes Proposed Flood Control Measure

Nazis Beaten Off At Anzio   Blow Believed Intended As Start Of Another Offensive

NAZIS PREPARING . FOR THIRD ) MAJOR THRUST IN ARE!      Send Forward Tanks and Inz fantry Between Carroce and Cisterna After Bombardment.           ROME RADIO ASSERTS FIFTH HAS ATTACKED               Declares Kesselring’s Forces Have Been Subjected to Some of Heaviest Shelling Yet Seen.,.

ALLIES BLOCK NAZI LUNGE IN ANZIO SECTOR   Big Guns Roar Against Foe Preparing for Heavy Assault

THIRD MAJOR EFFORT TO DRIVE ALLIES INTO SEA IS STOPPED BY FIELD GUNS AND MORTARS.

Third Major Offensive —  By Nazis Seen   Pressure Is Applied Against Allied Lines At Several Points  AMmMrrirommtwyr ancwnrwnememe

ENEMY TRIES ALL-OUT PUSH IN ROME AREA   SECRET TANK BOMB WEAPON PROVES FAILURE

Allied Guns Blast  Gathering Forees   Robot Tanks Being Used By Kesselring’s Men

Yankees, British Brace for Third Big Enemy Blow   Rome Radio Says Allies Attacking On Bridgehead; New Radio-Controlled Tanks Fail To Gain Against Allies

Offensive Blunted German Beachhead Drive  Ends In Artillery Duel

Strong German Beachhead Stab Reported Haltec   Believe Third Major Nazi Offensive Getting Under Way

Allies Block Nazi ~ Lunge At Anzio   Enemy Attack Believed Intended as Start of New Of. fensive—Field Guns and Mortars Roar as Germans Launch Assault

NEW OFFENSIVE BELIEVED HALTED   Field Guns and Mortars Roar Against Germans   PILOTLESS TANKS:   Filled With High Explosives Steered Into Allied Positions by Germans

ORVIETO FALLS — BEFORE ALLIES   Key Communications Hub Lies 60 Miles Due North of Rome

HOT SPELL MAY BREAK    Mass of Cool Air Moving in From  Northwest

Gateway to Madang Falls   Australian Troops Take Bogadjim South Vital Japanese Defense Base

Aussies Occupy Stronghold On Road To Madang   American Flyers Deal Smashing New Aerial Blows In Pacific

ALLIES CONTINUE STEADY GAINS IN NEW GUINEA   Force Nips Out of Bogadjim, 18 Miles South of Madang

Enemy Gives Up Bogadjim 18 Miles From Madang, Without Opposition

BOGADJIM, GATEWAY TO MADANG, FALLS TO AUSSIE TROOPS   Australians ‘Extend North westward March Up the New Guinea Coast to Jap. Base 18 Miles From Madang ~

Allies Force Japanese Out Of Bogadjin   Seize Gateway to Madang; New Guinea Coast Laid Waste; Kurile Islands Bombed

Aussies Take Center Near Madang   Japanese Forced Out Of Bogadjim; Road Runs To Big Base

ALLIES {4 {TAL HIVE AGAINST GERMAN DWISICK   Advance Toward the Florence-Rimini Line After Tak.nz Perugia

ALLIES iq a MOVE AGAINST. GERMAN DWISICN!   Advance: Toward the’ : Florence-Rimini Line After Taking ferugia 

‘Odds and Ends From the Battlefront  GI Joe’s Life In Germany Hectic

Motion To  Delay Case Is Denied   Futile Attempt Made By Defense Counsel To Disqualify Judge In Murder Trial

LONERGAN FACES MURDER TRIAL IN NEW YORK COURT   Defense Loses in Attempt to Disqualify Judge and  Jury Panel

MAJOR JONSTON ~ TO ADDRESS C  Interested in Establishing eal Air-Patrol Unit”  Here

MAIOR JONSTON TO ADDRESS 0   Interested in Establishing Civil Air Patrol Unit" Here

DAUGHTERS ARE GUESTS OF CO. SEAT ROTARIANG   Turkey Dinner Is Served At The Christmas Party   FINE SHOW IS ENJOYED

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities ot ‘iipsent Te All In The Various  Communities  GLEANED BY SCRIBES

PINGERS CLOSING ON 100,000 GERMANS IN BIG NORMANDY DRIVE   One U. S. Tank Column Crosses Loire, Pushes Toward Bordeaux; Three Coastal Ports Still Hold Out

Mortain Retaken Fifth Time; Whereabouts Of Yank Armor Units Puzzle

GERMANS. REEL BACK TOWARD FRENCH CAPITAT      Another American Spearhead Drives Toward Big Port of Bordeaux

100,000 Germans Reel Back From Normandy Pocket As Allies Retake Mortain; Paris Mystery Continues

100,000 GERMANS NOW IN FULL FLIGHT AND BOXED IN ON 3 SIDES   CAUGHT IN NORMANDY POCKET BY FALL OF MOR. TAIN HUNS FRANTICALLY TRYING TO ESCAPE BEFORE TRAP CLOSES.

ALLIED ARMIES CLOSING IN ON THREE SIDES   Radio Reports Putting Yanks In Gutskirts Of Paris Doubted

ALLIES ARE CLOSING IN UPON ENEMY   Americans and British Strike Out In Vast Encirclement Drive.

Allies Threaten Encirclement of Foe’s 7th Army   Mortain Falls To Americans . After Hot Fight

Laval riees From Vichy to German Border   Nazis Threaten to Destroy Paris Because Of Patriot Rebellion

Japs Make Six Attacks on _, British Positions Near Buthidaung.  PLANES SINK THREE MORE JAP SHIPS hea   *  ol       Marines Bayonet ia ps.on Jn Forty ie a

British-Indian Forces Fighting To Halt Jap  Column Invading India

MIDWEST HIT BY COLD WAVE   Sub - Zero Temperatures, Snow Blankets Most Of Michican

NEW COLD WAVE HITS THE MIDWEST   Mercury Plunges Far Below Zero Reading in. Several States.

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Thermometer Nips Below Zero as New  Cold Wave Strikes   Entire’ Midwest Shivers; Rockford Reports -22, Lowest'in This Area

MERCURY UNDER 22 IN ILLINOIS   Cold Wave to Ease in Sweep Toward Eastern States

New Cold Wave Hits Midwest With Below-Zero Plunge  Chicago Territory Gets -22 for  Record of Season

A NEW COLD WAVE   Midwest Temperatures Fell Below Zero in Many States _

 Belgian Father, Saying Ciuldren Consider Yanks as Santa Claus, Asks GIs Not to Regard Them as Beggars

Father. Tells... _ WhyB elgian.. Tots ‘Begzged’   Promised Tidbits V-E Day, They Thought Yanks ' Eyided War. 

German Officer Asserts Conspiracy To Defeat  Hitler Is Continuing   One Hundred Nazi Generals Reporied Executed in Blood Purge Include Field Marshals von Brauchfisch, Karl Gerd von Rundsfedf, Siqmund Lis! and Fritz von Mannstein, Speaker Says

Reports Say Vengeful Gestapo Has Killed Many  FULL STORY STILL” REMAINS CLOUDED  Communication With Ger:  many he vean : Cut O

PRESS SURVEY TS ANNOUNCER   CHECK UP. ‘REVEALS “NEWS  PAPERS, WITH 62 PERCENT.  OF CIRCULATION SUP-.  “PORT DEWEY ’- :

[Governor Dewey Hos Editorial Support Of 617 Dailies: F. D. R. 220

FDR Agrees with Willkie: President Approves Rival's Plea For Greatly Increased War Taxes

FUTURE OUTLOOK “WILLKIE. FOR AIM   Roosevelt's First Reaction to Tax Pronosal About Aum

NAZIS TO USE FIRE TO IMPEDE INVASION UNITS   Tell Patriots to Prepare to Battle Germans’ Scorched Earth Policy

Nazis Prepare To Scorch Earth n West Europe   Eisenhower Asks Patriots Qn Continent To Keep Fire Control Units Ready

British Troops Advance to Point [4, Miles From Rome   Nazis fo "Scorch the Earth” As They Retreat in Europe

“CCORCHED EARTH” POLICY T9 BE USED BY GERMANS AS INVASION MOVES AHEAD

NAZIS TO LEAVE SCORCHED EARTH   Propaganda Announcement  Tells of Policy

Warn Patriots of Fire Danger  Eisenhower Beams Further Instructions

Germans Promise To Impede Allies By Torch Policy  Pronarandists Gta ay That   Propagandists Say That Scorched Earth Will Meet Invasion Armies

FIRE-FIGHTING TALK 15 GIVEN TO ALLIES      Eisenhower’s Talk Caincides With Propaganda Announcement.

Scorched Earth  Policy Promised  By Nazi Command To Impede Allied  Invasion Armies

Allies Expect Nazis to Scorch Earth   Invasion Leaders Warn Against Germans’ Tactics

Germans Promise To Impede Allies By Torch Policy   Propagandists Say That Scorched Earth Will Meet Invasion Armies

Meet Nazi Fire Threat   Allied Fire-Fighting  Advise to Underground Follows Enemy Talk of Scorched Earth Policy

Nazis Say To Scorch Earth   So Underground Patriots Told to Keep Fire Control Units Ready

Eisenhower Gives Hire Warning To Europe’s Patriots   Underground Also Warned To Brush Up On First Aid As D-Day Nears.

Two. Army Fliers Killed In Crash Of Plane In Loudoun County During Heavy Storm   Scores Of Residents In Brunswick Saw Flaming Craft: Plunge To Earth Mile Southwest Of Town Thursday Afternoon; Were En Route To Ohio

TWO FLIERS KILLED IN AIRPLANE (RASH   Trainer Crashes i in Flames Near Brunswick in: Storm

Jap Troops Stab Within 39 Miles Of Changsha   Heavy Fighting is Raging Along the Milo River, As Enemy Troops Continue Drive East Of Canton-Hankow Railway

Weather Over Dover Strait Greatly Improves Toward Wednesday Evening

Nazis Retake Base in Italy   Monte Fortine Won By Counter-Attack

NAZIS RETAKE MONTE FORTING   LAUNCH VICIOUS COUNTER-ATTACK IN ITALY

A SETBACK IN ITALY   ‘Germans Recapture Monte Fortine From the Poles

NAZIS RETAKE MONTE FORTINO   Bitter Fighting Marks Campaign in Italy

Nazis Take  ttahan Town   Monte Fortino Falls To Vicious Attack.

GERMANS RETAKE MONTE FORTINO FROM 8TH ARMY   Poles Finally Halt Counter-Blow

Germans Retake Mote Fortino   Vicious Attacks Are Launched By Nazis

Troop Landings on Saipan Islands and Air Field: In China Give Japs Cause for Further Uneasines: As Allied Avenging Forces Draw Nearer to Nip.  rrr T ana

AIR ENGINE PLANT   Mammoth Factory to Build Huge Motors for U.S. Navy

TYPEWRITERS MAY FURNISH CLUE ON HOPKINS LETTER   Federal Grand Jury Resumes Probe of Washing jan Ream

Ickes Denies Villain Role   Aide Charges Plot In ‘Hopkins Letter?

NEW ANGLES IN LETTER CASE   2 Typewriters Assume Mysferious Role in Hopkins Forgery Probe.

Jury Explores Tekes Angle In “Hopkins Case’   Letter-Probe Continued As Typewriters: Are Taken From Office Of His Aide

SIXTY-THREE FACING EXAMS   Draft Board No. 3 Will Send Selectees To Huntington

Sagging Hitler Line Sends Germans Reeling Back in Disorder; Poles Seize Piedimonte in Advance

U.S. French Troops Lead In Smashing  Of Defenses   Enemy: Loses Tanks, Men And Equipment

SAYS GOERING HAS BEEN STRIPPED OF: AIS AUTHORITY   Hitler Has Intrusted Air Defense Command to Nazi Party Chiefs: .   UNDER HOUSE ARREST   7  Goering Was Suspected of Participating in the Plot on Hitler’s Life.

GOERING ARRESTED; SWISS PAPERS SAY   Reichmarshal Suspected in Attempt To Kill Hitler

STATE GETS NEW COATING OF SNOV   Commission Warns Highways In Many Sections Treacherous; New Cold Wave Sweeps Eastward

Allies Drive on  In India, Burma   British, Yanks Gain, Jap Garrison Trapped

AMERICAN - LED CHINESE TRAP 1000 JAPANESE   Last Fair Weathe) Before Monsoon "Speeds Drives

British Launch Atiacks on Kohima Front   Chinese Capture Inkagahtawng, Trap 1,000 Tans

PARISIANS URGED TO REMAIN CALM CHURCHES FILLED   Transportation Compi etely Paralyzed and Capital Is Without Gas or Coal for Cooking.   GERMANS BELIEVED PREPARING TO DEPART   DNB Reports Allied Invasion . Army in South Has Established Itself in Cannes.

PARIS AWAITS DELIVERANCE   Thunder Of Guns Heard In Capital; People Prayerful

British Uncork Push On Reich Via Holland  wp ig gt. A Lie ee Rnhirn   Germans Retreating Along Entire Western Front for Rhine Defense

British Army In Holland Hurl Nazis Back To Last Defense Line  GERMANS EVACUATE PEOPLE FROM METZ  Four Allied Armies On March To The East On 275 Mile Front

Yanks Take 3 Forts as Nazis Stiffen   Metz Battle Nears ‘Finish’; British in Hataad Advance

FORTRESS CITY   Germans Are Hurled Back Qn Last Defense Line in Holland

DRIVE THROUGH SUBURBS, TAKE 3 MORE FORTS   4 Allied Armies Swing Into Winter Campaign Against Nazis

ee a  Mile From oF        Yanks Take Three More Forts: "Almost ‘Te te Write ‘Finis’ on Great Battle”

Third Army Within Mile Of Main City   Battle Of Metz Nears End; British Gain In Holland.

Yanks : 1 Mile  From Metz   Capture 3 More Forts in Battering Ram Advance  On Doomed City

800 Planes Take Part In Day Assault   RAF Returns To Berlin With Paralyzing Bombardment

RACIAL ISSUE PLAGUES DEMS   Platform ‘Drafters Hold Forum On Foreign  Policy Plank

Look Forward to Time When U. S. Will Have 400,000 Civilian Planes

FORMER MEMBER OF VICHY CABINET IS CONVICTED TREASON   PIERRE PUCHEU CON-  -DEMNED TO. DEATH BY. SPECIAL MILITARY COURT

CHARGE PUCHEU WITH TREASON   Former Vichy interior Minister Condemned to Death Ry Tribunal.

Ex-Vichy Minister _ Condemned to Death   Pierre Pucheu Found Guilty of Treason and Collaboration With Enemy by Special Military Tribunal at Algiers.   Ry JOSEPH TFT YDWNAN.

Orders Capital Evacuation To Start At Once   Terrible Devastation Of Daylight Raids Forces Der Fuehrer To Abandon City; Stuttgart And Auesberg Chief Targets For Light Day.

Hitler Orders Berlin Be Evacuated   Sweden Says Action Is Result of Bymerican Rambings

Berlin Exodus Ordered, Says Sweden  Total Evacuation Planned by Hitler Tf Raids Continue

Will End Local  Pastorate Sunday   Rev. John A. Taylor Accepts Erie Charge

Will End Local  Pastorate Sunday   Rev. Joliw A. Taylor Accepts Charec

SKIRMISH OVER PRICE CONTROL ACT   ‘Start Moves to Extend It; Present Deadline June 30

DEFEND PRICE CONTROL PLAN   Preliminary Skirmishing to Extend Act Begins

PRICE - CONTROL FIGHT DEVELOPS   Three Committees Planning Legislation On OPA

Price Control Fight Increases   Bowles Defends Program As Aid In War Saving

REDS SEIZE RIGA, ‘SMASHING STRONG (ERMAN DEFENSES   Latvian Capital and Big Naval Base Captured by Russians After 7 Mile Drive.   HITLER’S GARRISON AT MEMEL ATTACKED   Tito’s Headquarters Announces Allies Have Penetrated to the “Walls of — Belgrade.” ,

Riga In Reds’ Hands; Fall Of Hungary Seen  As Imminent In London

LATVIAN NAVAL BASE OF RIGA FALLS TO REDS   Tito’s Yugoslav Partisans Penetrate “To The Walls Of Belgrade”   BATTLE FOR PRE-WAR GERMANY UNDER WAY

Soviet Army Forces Take City Of Riga   Battle For Germany Started In The East

Riga fort falls; stab at Memel   Troops released for reich assault

Riga Falls To Russian Army Unils   Marshal Tito Says Forces Penetrate ce 9 Belgrade Wall  ea meee

Latvian Capital Falls to Reds In 7-Mile Drive   Battle for Prewar Germany under Way

Soviets Open Broad Attack On E. Prussia   Reds in Balkans Imperil Budapest While Tito  Rectievece Relerrdae

Riga, Latvian Capital, Taken by Reds   Partisans Penetrate Walls of Belgrade, Marshal Tita Saves

Army In Italy — Meets Stiffer  Nazi Resistance   Main Enemy Forces Still In Headlong Retreat Toward Pisa

GERMANS RUSH HELP FOR 14TH ARMY IN ITALY   Fleeing Nazis Turn On 5th, Attempt To Delay Drive

Battle  of Italy Stiffens   Allied Army Meets Reinforced Nazis at Four Key Points

Fresh Units Are Rushed From North   Advanced Allied Columns Encounter More Resistance

Allies Meet Stiffening Resistance All Along Battle Front 4   AMERICAN UNITS TAKE VALENTANG   Largest Oil Refinery le Hungary Touched Off By Allied Bombers

RESISTANCE STIFFENS IN ITALY   Fresh Nazi Troops Attempting to Halt 5th Army

NAZIS RACE 10 SAVE REMNANTS QF ITALIAN FORCE   Resistance Grows But Enemy Not Expected to Stand Very Lona.

Nazis Send Fresh Troops Into Italy, Turn On Allies   Main German Forces Still In Retreat Toward Pisa

NAZIS STOP IN HILLS FOR LAST STAND   Reinforcements Throwr Against Allied Fifth anc Eighth Armies in F'ligh: From Rome.

NAZIS RUSHING NEW TROOPS 10 ITALY DEFENSE   Allied Columns Meeting With Stiffer Resistance ¢ Above Rome

Germans Send Fresh Troops Into Italy   New Divisions From North , ' Slow Down but Fail To Stop Allied March Up Boot

Nazi Resistance Stiffens i in Hills North of Rome: Get Reinforcements

Retreating Nazis Offer Resistance   Fresh Troops and 14th A! my Remrants Turn on Pursuing Allies

NAZTO MAKING NEW STAN IN TALIAN HILL!   Reserves Rushed from North Join 14th Remnants to Turn on Yanks.

REDS DRIVE. HARD TOWARD RUMANIA   Germans Are Thrown Back To Vinnitsa

REDS MENACE NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE IN EAST   Frantic Efforts Being Made by Germans to Stall Soviet’s Biggest Drive.   BULLETIN

‘Southern Poland Has Been Declared Direct War Zone.  RED ARMY DRIVING  TOWARD Pi  One Million Germans Stil Are Trapped in Dnieper Bend.

AREA DECLARED 'WAR ZONE’ AS REDS DRIVE ON   Berlin Reports Peril To Axis Troops Inside Dnieper Bend

NAZIS ARE PUSHED. BACK TO VINNITSA   Report Civilians Ordered. Out Of Border Areas

Germany Calls up Men of 51 to 60 to Bolster Her Army; May Leave Norway

 Von Aulock Prefes's to Die in St. Malo!  Yank Guns Play Dirge: For Stubborn General 

GERMANS READY TO UNLEASH NEW SECRET WEAPON   Trapped Nazi Force is Planning Finish Fight

Michigan’s.41 ~ Votes Vir aly ~~ Given te Dewey   ‘State Convention Praises New York Govemor  ss Jn Resolutian

ihe War Loday-~ Jap Fleet Probably Has Run Out {On Showdown Engagement With U.S

Bolivia to Oust Elements Known To Be Pro-Axis   Revolutionary Regir.i= to Fire Anti-Allied Men  In Office

Danes And Nazis Battle in Streets   Germans Rushing Reinforcements to Cope With Armed Resistance in Danish Cities

PATRIOTSIN HARD FIGHT WITH NAZIS   Denmark on Verge Of Open Revolt Against Invaders

NAZI PLANES GUN STREETS OF CAPITAL   Artillery Opens Up On Rebels in Copenhagen

400,000 Workers Quit Gestapo Prowls City  Germans Rush Up Storm Troops, Move Up Guns to Ouell Uneicing

Copenhagen Riots Mount As Many Die   Germans Take Ruthless Measures To Quell Disorders

Messerschmitt Plane Factory Heavily Blaster   American Fortresses Make Heavy Attack On Aircraft Plant In Austria   MANY BUILDINGS OF FACTORY TARGETS

American Fortresses Deal Heavy Blow To Nazi Messerschmitt Factory At Klagenfort, Austria

Nazis Begin Killing Off Plot Chiefs   Col. Gen. Beck Executed As Ringleader of AnttiHitler Coun.

Hitler Begins Purge to Halt Army Mutiny   Berlin Announces Execution of Colonel, Group of Conspirators to Overthrow Fuehrer; Communications With Neutral Countries Cut

Hospitals At Anzio Bombed   Eight Killed, 72 _ Wounded in Nazi Attack; Reporter Describes Scene

Describes Scene of Hospital Bombing At Anzio Beachhead; Fronts.of . Two Ward Tents are:Blown Open: =   U.S: Bombers Continue Offensive Against Jans in the Bismarcks

DONNELL WINS OVER MKITTRICK   FINAL UNOFFICIAL PLURALITY OF AROUND 2,000 VOTES ASSURED GOVERNOR.

Reds Holding Lomza; Hammet Toward East Prussia; Forces Battering Warsaw Defenses

Strategic Town Of Lomza Taken By Soviet Forces   ‘Enormous Losses’’ Inflict~ ed On Germans Is Moscow Report Of Victory   RUSSIAN TROOPS DRIVING AHEAD

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Trapped 8 Days in Plane,  Ace Lives and Grins Courageous Allies See War at Its Worst and Carry On

Security Tax Freeze Signed By Roosevelt   Says Measure Defers Financing Of Insurance Plan

SECURITY LEVY FREEZE SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT   Raps Congress for Measure; Review of — Entire Program Asked

GRUDGINGLY SIGNS BILL      Says It Just Defers Financing of Insurance

Bill Signed Reluctantly By President   Soon Will Present Plar For Broadening Socia Security System.

—President Roosevelt Signs Reluctantly —  Social Security Taxes Are Frozen For Another Year   FDR Soon Will Recommend “Comprehensive Plan For Broadening, Improving System’’

Payroll Tax Bill Signed By President   Social Security Tax Rate To Be Frozen

President Signs Bill Freezing Security Taxes  Comprehensive Plan For Broadening Svustam Ie Comina

Social Security Tax To Be Same in 1945   President “Reluctantly” Signs Bill Holding Rate at 1.Per Cent Each for Employe and Employer, as at Present.

FOR ‘RELUCTANTLY SIGNS TAX FREEZE   Will Offer Wide Program for New Congress to Consider, President Adde

Security Tax Freeze’ Bill Signed by FDR   Congress, Expecting Veto, Surprised When He Stans Measure

President Signs Social Security Tax Freeze Bill  Gives Approval   Gives Approval To One Per Cent Rate Reluctantly

President ‘Reluctantly’ Approves Social Security Tax Freeze Bill

F, D.R. Freezes Securit ty Tax  Bil Reluctantly’ Signed; Revamping Of System Proposed

Congress Get: Mild Reproof For Measure   President t6 Submit Prdposals “for Broader System

Management's Disciplinary Rights Uphele   WLB Reverses Ruling Ot Detroit Office Of ‘ Reinstatement

American Pianes Strike Neutralizing Blows At ‘Dutch East Indies Bases

Both Sides Have Forces Inside City   Germans Occupy One-Half And Allies Other; Nazi Beachhead Attack Halted

Making Suicidal Defense Cassino   Effort Smash Allied Beachhead Fails; Desperate Fighting Rages Unabated In Streets Cassino.

BOARDS TO BOOST ~ CALLSIN JANUARY   More Men Will be Called for Pre-induction Phy‘sical Teste=---~ -

BOARDS 10 BOOST CALLS IN JANUARY   More Men Will be Called for Pre-induction Phy-sical- Tests a

Clare Luce Says Nominee Must Prove Soldier’s Death Is Not Useless.

Hope To Settle Power Plants  Strike Threat   Mleetric Service Shutdown Attempt failed—Strikers Expected Back Monday.   HOLD PARLEY TUESDAY

UNION LEADER * DEFYING WLE   FEDERAL COURT ORDER TO BRING STRIKE LEADER BE. -FORE WLBE IS EXPECTED

SURVEY IN CO, TO MOBILIZE PRICE CONTROL   Ration Boards To Aid Store Men And Consumers, Decided  At Meeting

County Store Survey Begins   Ration Chairman Thomas Says It’s Aimed At Better Compliance.

Drive To Mobolize Price Control Forces In State  Basic Purpose For Price Compliance

To Wage War On Black Market With Store Inspections And Prosecutions.

TO) LAUNCH DRIVE ON PRICE RAISE   Local Rationing Board to Start Survey in Every Food Stora

PLAN SURVEY OF EVERY FOOD STORE IN THE AREA   Drive to Mohiise Retallers and Consumers Against Hiack Market ie Now Under Way

OPA To Launch Drive To Mobilize Price Control Forces Among Refailers And Consumers In Lincoln Parish   Store Survey To Be Made By 24 Price Panel Representatives

Mobolized Retail Price Control ~~ s Launched   NEW PRICE PANEL BOARD TO MAKE SURVEY OF LOCAL AREA

County Rationing Board to Conduct Store Survey on Prices Next Week

Couple Honored —  On Anniversary  “Mr. & Mis. ‘Andresen Wed 25. Veere*

Couple Honored  On Anniversary Mr. & Mrs. Andresen - Wed 25 Years

Nazi Defenses Buckle as Crushing Blows Are Dealt By Americans; Ostend Falls to Canadians

25 Candidates Hie In County Democratic Race   Four Seek Nomination For Register Of Deeds Office.

25 Candidates File In County Democratic Race   F Seek Nomination Fen Viadieher Of Deeds Office.

5-Point Program  Revealed   G. O. P. Standardbearer Demands  Strengthening Of U. S. Social System

GEN, EISENHOWER MOVES TO FRANCE   SUPREME COMMANDER’S HEADQUARTERS SET UP IN CAMOUFLAGED AREA,

EISENHOWER MOVES POST 10 NORMANDY   Wants to Maintain Close Contact With Fast Moving Offensive.

EISENHOWER'S HEANSUARTERS NOW IN FRANCE   Will Give General Closer Contact  With Troops

Headquarters Of Eisenhower Moved to France   General to Maintain Closest Contact With Allied Forces

Gen.Kisenhower Moves Quarters  To. Normandy   “Makes Fast ‘Trips Daily For Personal. Meetings. With Ariv Commatders

High Commanc Established  On Continent   Generalissimo for All Allied Troops  Holds Conferences

EISENHOWER'S COMMAND POST NOW IN FRANCE   “Transfer Of General's Headquarters Effected In Last Few Days

Eisenhower Moves Up To French Front   Headquarters Follows Advancing Americans

[Banker Testifies That Small Loan Companies Built up $8,000 Lobby Fund

TELLS PLAN OF LOAN CONCERNS TO BUY VOTES   Testimony Implicates Ex:ecutives of State Loan Firms

Gt COAT COVERS STATE HIGHWAYS   Sub - freezing Temperature And Deep Snow Impair Travel; Little Immediate Relief in Sight

Oklahoma Rises To Haunt Japs   Pearl Harbor Victim Will Get Chance To Settle Old Score

Maritime Day Is Observed _   U. S. Claims Largest Merchant Marine Any Nation Ever Boasted

YANK BOMBERS POUND PLOEST!   1500 Planes Hit At Major Source Of German Oil

1500 American Planes Smash af Ploesti Oil Field      Italian-Based Sky Armada Strikes at Nazi Fuel Supply

Heavy Bombers ‘Pound Ploesti  Most British Based Planes Grounded

Airmen Blast Battleship In Toulon Harbor As Troops Close In On City

Depressions Can Be Eliminated, Income’  Raised Through Teamwork; Bowles Says

HEAVY ATTACKS ON PLOESTI OIL AREAREPORTED   Belgrade, Nis Railway Yards Lashed by Air Armada in Balkan Raids

PLOESTI IS HAMMERED iN ATTACK   Three-Way Blow From ® Italy Also Rocks Belgrade, Nis

Ploesti  Oil Work: Blasted   Belgrade, Nis Railway Yards Hit by Strong Yank Plane Forces

U.S. FLIERS SMASH AT PLOFSTI   1, 500 Planes: ‘Also. Hit: Railways In-Yugoslavia-

Over Thousand Allied Bombers Strike Ploesti   Raiding Fleet One Of Greatest Ever  Gant fram lialw

Bombard Ploesti Oil Fields Again   Other Blows Struck At Belgrade, Nis 

U. S. BOMBERS MAUL PLOESTI   Fleet of 1,500 Planes Hits Targets in Oil Area

YANKEES TODA\   Was One of Greatest Aerial Fleets Ever to Come Out of ltatian Bases.

SAAREGUEMINES AND HAGUENAU RID OF GERMANS   Indications Point to Enemy Withdrawal at Numerous — Sectors on Western Front

WITHDRAWALS NOTED ALONG ENTIREFRONT   First, Third And 7th Armies Indicate A German Retreat  On All Fronts

Nazis Drivenfrom French Buffer Cities as Last of Defenses West of Roer Cave in. Ftrst Army  Drive Adds Up to 3 Miles in Two Days.

Nazis hetreat At Some Spots Along Front   To South Haguenau, Sarreguemines Fall —ToU. °S, Seventh Army

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HODGES MEN SEIZE FOUR MORE TOWNS   Germans Falling Back in Numerous Sectors in West Under Blows of 3 American Armies.   2 BUFFER CITIES IN FRANCE FALL   Third Breaks Resistance in Sarreguemines—Seventh Occupies Enemy  ' Base of Haguenau.

Nazi Defenses In France All Crumble   Indications Mount That Enemy Planning to Retreat to Maainot end Seiafried Defenses

Cologne fort imperiled as lines cave in  Indications point to big withdrawal

oAME RICAN ARMIES REDOUBLE BLOWS   * Nazis’ Last Defenses Before Cologne Seem Breaking   DRIVEN FROM CITIES   Indications Mount That Enemy Is Withdrawing at Numerous Sectors

Forces of General Hodges Broaden Assault Lines   1600 BOMBERS HIT _ NAZI RAIL CENTERS   Buffer Cities of Haguenau and Sarreguemines Taken

Nazi Lines Cave In Along Roer   Enemy Believed Withdrawing Te Protect Cologne

Germans Retreat From Defenses on Roer’s West Bank   Haguenau and Sarreguemines Fall to Americans; First Army Only Mile And Half from City of Duren

Bricker Says Farm Belt In GOPColumn      “ENTHUSIASTIC” OVER OUTLOOK, QUOTED DEWEY, THAT NEW YORK STATE WILL GO REPUBLICAN   No Election Eve Speech

OUTLOOK GOOD. BRICKER SAYS   Nominee Enthusiastic Over Republican Chances in Farming States

BRIT. FORCES — STORM KEY DUTCH CENTER   Close in from . Three Sides On  Transport Town

British Storm Into Dutch Rail HubofHertogenbosch;  Control Nazi Escape Routes

BRITISH STORM KEY HOLLAND NAZI ANCHOR   Battle Is Pressed to Drive Germans From Greater Antwerp Area.

Berlin Reports Troops Moved Uy  For New Drive   Unbroken Arc Closes In On Hertogenbosch From Three Directions

OHIO LIQUOR STORES GET MORE BONUSES   ‘Domestic Grog Unchanged on Ration Schedule

Tourists Stranded in Florida; Unable to Get  Gas far Beaturn Fame

Motorists Stranded Tn Florida  Unable To Get  Gasoline For Return Home

Porters Lose Union Fight In High Court   Detective Testifies Suspect Admitted Firing at Celebrants

NEW TYPE OF ROCKET GUN USED BY U. $   Aids in Destroying 40 Jap Barges At Rabaul.—New Weapon For Fighters, Dive Bombers.

New Type Rocket Gun Is Used by Pacific Planes   40 Jap Barges Are Destroyed in Rabaul Attack

U.S. FLIERS, USING NEW TYPE OF ROCKET GUN, DESTROY 40 JAP BARGES AT RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN

AERIAL ROCKET GUN EFFECTIVE IN RABAUL RAID   New Type Weapon Used To Smash Forty Jap Barges

Helen Edmonds Wed In Detroit Last Saturday.  Husband Is. Radio Operator On: Bombs  — re en. Pico ~ rd

Helen Edmonds — Wed In Detroit  Last Saturday. Husband Is. Radio  : Operator. On: Bombe: Leaving For Front

‘Soviets Leave Budapest ln Flames; Head Toward ‘Vienna On 90-Mile Front

QUIRY INTO ~— MILLER CASE   SENATE COMMITTER TO CHECK ON FORMER HAJOR GENERAL “WHO WAS SENT HOME

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Nazi Attacks Are Repulsed  By Americans   Bitter Fighting Rages Inside Fort Driant Stormed by Patton’s Men; Fall of Dunkerque Imminent   Ry HOWARD COWAN

Third Army Fights At Close Quarters   First Army Smash Toward Dusseldorf And Cologne Considered Most Important Drive

Blast Secondary Defenses to Clear Pathway to Rhine; Yanks Stab More Than Two Miles Inside Germany; Third Wages Hand-to-Hand Battle in Fort Before Metz

Tanks Blast Nazi Secondary Lines North of Aachen  Third Army Fights Hand-to-Hand Inside Fort Guarding Metz

Dispatches State Germar Commanders Do No‘ Have Enough Firs Class Troops to Throw against Hodges’ Crack Infantry Divisions.

Forces of General Hodges Pour Into Wide  I Gap _  KEY FORT GUARDING   METZ IS CAPTURED  48-Hour Truce Stills Cannon Roar at Dunkerque

INFANTRY HACKS LARGE HOLE IN SIEGFRIED LINE   Bitter Fighting Taking Place For Possession Of Fort Driant At Metz   YANKS ARE ADVANCING THROUGH MINEFIELDS

Blast Secondary German Defense: North of Aachen   Battle Two Miles Inside the Reich

Armor Meets Hasty Germar Defenses in  Rhine Drive   Patton’s Men Fight In Dark Corridors Of Main Fort on Approaches to Metz  A WRtIwnrmeYe omN tet rm

Doughboys Hack Hole In Germany   Hodges’ ist Army Crashing Deeper Into Fatherland

Land Forces Under Cover  Of Artillery   Rail Hub Is First: Nazi City To Feel Impact Of Red Army

RUSS TROOPS OPEN BATTLE OF TILSIT      First German City to Feel Soviet Power

Reds Open Battle For Tilsit   Russian Assault Forces Reach East Prussian Frontier At Three Points

EAST PRUSSIAN RAIL HUB UNDER SOVIET ATTACK   Nazis Reported Offering Desperate Defense To Red Onslaught

RUSSIAN GUNS SHELL TILSIT, KEY RAIL HUB   Red Army Forces Deploy Along 200 Mile Front At East Prussia

House Rejects  Dingle Measure   Federal Standard For Benefits Proposed

SOVIET READY TO HELP FINNS DISARM NAZIS   Baltic Nation Moves Toward Full Break With Germans

SUPPLIES KEEP PACE WITH FRENCH BATTLE   More Shells, Artillery, Bombs Are Needed, However

NATIONS FEAR U.S. ATTITUDE   BUSINESS PARLEY HAS SUSPICIOUS  Are

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German Atlantic Wall Already Outflanked by Vast Underground Army of Frenchmen and Other Nationalities Who Await Zero Hour to D: Ther Work

T ODAY   Nagi Marshal ‘May Be Fooled In Belief Atlantic Wall Can’t Be Oytflanked 

 The War Today  Runstedt’s Claims of Strength In West May Not Be idle Boas:

The War Today  Commander Cc onveys Great Faith In Germanvy’'s Destiny.

APPROPRIATION BILL  FOR DEPARTENTS IS  SENT HANISE FLANR STATE, COMMERCE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS  TA Orr oof         GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL’S QUIET ANNOUNCEMENT THAT GERMANY READY FOR ALLIES MAY BE TRUF

Nazi Marshal Confident of  Defense Plan  : BY DEWITT ——  RR thease A wmatw

FULL FURY OF NAZI ATTACKS APE EYPECTEN   Stimson Says Invasion Forces Pouring Reinforcements Into France

Draft Warning  Giver Farmers Those Not Producing To  Lose Deferments

WORK OR FIGHT, FARMERS TOLD   Droft Official Avers Deferments May Be Cancelled lf Production Logs

FARM WORKERS MAY BE CALLED   individual Production Must Be Boosted To Hold Deferment

Challenge To Farm Workers    Selective Service Of- : ficial Says Deferment : Will Depend. on Caliber Of Food Production .

Farm Worker Draft Revised   ‘onsider Lifting Deferment On Registrants Failing To Increase Food Supply.

Farmers Told To..Produce Or Fight      Selective Service Threatens To Lift Deferments

Farm Workers May Be Callec To Arms Soon   Must Show They Are Actually Producing For Nation At Large

FARM WORKERS WARNED OF DRAFI   Told Individual Production  AAiict Incrence

Farmers Apt To Lose Deferments   Must Show Increase Of Individual Production Goals

Farm. Workers Must Produce To Be Deferred   Increased Food © Production Gools _ Expected Soon °:

Selective Service Will Cancel Deferments Of Those Who Do Not. Raise Production Goals

Farm Workers May Have To Prove Up Or Be Inducted   Speaker Says Can’t Afford To Keep Those Deferred Who Aren’t Producing

Farm Workers Told They’re To Maintain Full Production Or Lose Service Deferments.

ASK AIRPORT PAVING BIDS   Two Runways To Be Sur. faced Immediately, Perhaps More

25,000 German Troops, 3 Generals Taken in Mop-Up of Falaise Pocket; Liberation of Capital Left to Maquis

Seine Crossings Envelop Paris; Victory Is Near   Gen. Montgomery Declares “End Of War Js In Sight” As Americans Drive Toward Two Last Barriers In Way To Victory.

Capture Moker Airfield   Yanks Outflank Japs In Swift Maneuver On Biak; Within Bombing Range of Philippines

Yanks Capture Mokmer Field in Savage Fight   Philippines Now In Range Of American Bombers; China Reports Advances

PHILIPPINES WITHIN RANGE OF BOMBERS   Airbase Captured By Allies On Biak Island

Grab An Airport Off New Guinea   MacArthur Now Has Landing Strip Within Range of Philippines.

JAPS CLEARED FROM MOKMER   MacArthur Gets Bomber Base Within Range Of Philippines

Philippines In Bomber Range   Yanks Outsmart Japs, Grab Mokmer Airdrome; Changsha News Not Good

TAKE AIRDROME ON BIAK ISLAND   Mokmer Air Field Is Only 880 Miles Southeast of Philippines.

BIAK AIR BASE OFF NEW GUINEA TAKEN BY YANKS   Philippines Brought Within Closer Bomber Range of Allied Planes

MacArthur Secures Biak Base; Can Now " Attack Philippines   Japs Suffer fer Setback ir Every Theater of War Except One

MacArthur Now Has Airbase Within Bomber Range of Philippines: Changsha in Increasing Danger

Mokmer Airdrome Won by MacArthur   First Base Within Philippine Range

YANKS CAPTURE BIAK AIRDROME   Field Within 900 Miles of Philippines

MACARTHUR WINS  MOKMER AIRBASE  ON BIAK ISLAND OUTFLANK JAPS TO  GRAB BASE 880 Mi. FROM PHILIPPINES

American Bombers Can Now Hit Philippines   General MacArthu’ Today Owns Air Base 880 Es Miles From . Philippines ae Nank Inv aders Grab Biak Airdrome- .

ALLIES HAVE BOMBER BASE FOR ISLANDS   Outsmart Japs to Take Air Base In Schoutens, Now Within 880 Miles of the Phillipines.

Yanks Capture Mokmer Port On Biak Island   Philippines Within Bombing Range  Of American Planes

Yanks Capture Biak Airfield   Japanese Set Back in Every Pacific Theater Except Changsha; U. S. Troops Launch Drives on Borokoe, Orido Airdromes; Fliers Bomb Guan

Philippines In ‘Bomber Range   Yanks Capture Mokmer ‘Airdrome On Biak

U. 5. Troops Take Mokmer   Victory Gives Yankees Air Field Within Reach Of the Philippines

VITAL AIRFIELDS SEIZED BY YANKS   Japs Overcome Fierce Chinese Attacks At Changsha

JAP AIRDROME CAPTURED BY YANKEE TROOPS   MacArthur Can Hit _ Philippines From New Base   Mokmer Field Taken After 12 Days Of © - Fighting

anks Grab ir Base In acific   Mokmer Field 880 Miles from The Philippines

MacArthur 880 Miles From Philippines   American Invaders Outsmarted  Biak Defenders

Americans Take  Biak Airfield   MacArthur Opens New Assaults for Two Remaining Airstrips

FRENCH COAST BOMBED TODAY RY LIBERATORS   No Aircraft Are Reported Lost In Day Raid

Liberators Hit af France   American Fliers Blast Nazi Targets At Pas-de-Calais

Polesti Rail Yards, Jammed With Fuel, Hit   Rolling Stock, A djacent Buildings and Oi] Refin- ) eries Are Blown Up  By Bombs : !   10 Enemy Planes Bagged In Attack   Other Balkan Railroads Being Reduced to Wrecks : age: RAF Blasts German Repair Plants

Liberators Attack Coast Of France   RAF Bombers Blast Nazi Plants in South France

'Yank Bombers Ilit Again at  Tnivasion Coast   Raids Follow Smash at Ploesti Rail Varda

LIBERATORS HIT COAST OF FRANCE   Pas De Calais Area Assaulted For Second Day

Bombers Attack Invasion Coast, Aircraft Plants   40 Enemy Bombers Shot Down By Americans In Big Raid On Ploesti Oil Fields Yesterday.

Coastal Area Hit Again By Bombers   U. S. Attack Follows British Trip Deep Into France

No ‘Aerial Opposition’ ‘and Only Meager Flak Encounter ved RAF AGAIN ACTIVE British Bombers Attack Plane Repair Plants at Toulouse

French Invasion Coast Raked By Liberator Force   U. S. Planes Follow RAF Pounding Of Toulouse Plants

NAZI PLANT NEAR SPAIN ALSO RAIDED   “Invasion” Area Blasted 2nd Time _In As Many Days

U. §. Liberators Make Second Attack In Two Days — No Aircraft Lost In Operation

“INVASION COAST” IS BOMBED BY — LIBERATORS TODAY   Hit Pas-De-Calais Area For Second Straight Day—-RAF Pounds Naiz Plane Repair Plant at Toulouse

—AIR WAR—  ALLIED BOMBERS “STEP UP ATTACKS   RAF Blast Nazi Airplane Repair Plants At TouJouse .   ONE PLANE LOST   American Fliers In ‘ Attack On Ploesti Oil Fields In Rumania

Pas-De-Calais Area Pounded By Liberator:   RAF Air Fleet Blasts German Aireraft Repair Plants At Toulouse.   PLOESTI TOLL HEAVY

French Invasion Coast Is Bombed For Second Day   American Warplanes Make Another Big Raid on  Ploesti, Rumania.   Shoot Down 40 Enemy Craft Over Oil Field

HIT FRENCH COAST   Liberators Meet Little Opposition and All Return

France, . Rumania Hit Hard   Ploesti, German Oil Center, Given Heavy Blasting.

Jargels in FranceRipped   Yanks Hit Invasion Coast; R.A.F. Renews Attacks After Lull

U. S. Bombers Again. (Hit “Invasion Coast”   Attack Follows RAF — Strike at Plants Less — Than 50 Miles from Spain

INVASION COAST RAED AGAIN BY U.S. BOMBERS   RAF Hits Toulouse Plants; U. S. Fighters Strike Berlin, Munich Areas Wednesday

TOULOUSE IN FRANCE ALSO HIT BY R.A.F.   Ploesti Railyards Attacked By ItalianBased Planes

OIL SHIPMENT FOR SPAIN IS READY TO SAIL   Quarter Million Gallons of High Grade Penn., Lubricating Oil at East Coast Port

U.S. OIL CARGO READY FOR SHIPMENT TO SPAIN. SAYS PHILADELPHIA PAPER

BIG OIL SHIPMENT TQ GO 10 SPAIN   Quarter-million Gallons Now Loaded at East Coast Port; State Deparment Says Embargo Does Not Apply

SPAIN TO GET AMERICAN Cll   Philadelphia ‘Paper Says Shipment Is in Direct Contradiction of Ponular Policy

ASSERTS U. S. TO SHIP MUCH OIL TO SPAIN   Philadelphia Paper DeClares Quarter-Million Gallons of High-Grade Lubricant in Drums Hava Reen Toaded.

REPORTS OIL GOING 10 SPAIN   Philadelphia Paper Says Big Quantity of Lubricants Loaded on Ship

Oil for Spain Despite Embargo   Ban Doesn't Halt ‘Packaged’ Supplies

Report Spain To Get U. S. Oil Shipment   “WASHINGTON (INS) — The state department Saturday stopped exportation to Spain of packaged petroleum products including lubricants.

Report 250,000 Gallons Oil Going To Spain In Spite Of Recently Announced Embargo   Already Loaded At East Port; British Speculate It May Mean Agreement Near

QUESTIONS ARISE OVER SHIPMENT OF OIL FOR SPAIN   Philadelphia Report Says Quarter-Millicn Gatiions Slated to Sail -— “Packaged Gil” Said to Be Exempt From Newesi Ruling

Philadelphia Paper Says Oil ‘n Drums Will Be Shipped In Few Bays.

Penn Lube Oil Ready to Be Sent to Spain   Big Shipment Said In Contradiction to State Bureau's Policy

Lubricating Oil Goes To Spain  Phila. Record Finds Shio Carao Ready

CHARGED WITH ROBBERY   Four Alleged Desert Deserters Held at McAlester. Okla.

CHARGED WITH ROBBERY   Four Alleged Deserters. Held at MeAlester. Gkis. ..

Truman Has Insulted All But FDR   NEW DEAL CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT GIVES FOURTH TERM CANDIDATE ALL THE CREDIT.   Bricker At Longe Beach

TRUMAN REMARKS _ TERMED AN INSULI   Bricker Says the Armed Forces, Labor and Indus try Winning War

Declares Truman Ansults- Industry, ~ Labor, Services   Bricker Says These and Not Administration Winning War

acnAlc NEAAIAD ND Ur vind Ui NEW TAX FAUGRAI   Little Likelihood President’s Requests Will Be Approved

THREE PERSONS DIE IN FIRE AT BRADDOCK HOME   Parents, Son “Burned To Death, Five Others Escape Flames

Global Good Neighbor Policy, To-Face Rocky Road in Legislature -

Administration Is About to Face  New Controversy  Opposition Is Seen Ahead for FDR Good Neighbor Plan

Heavy Attacks AreBeing Made On Gothic Line   Canadian Troops In Assault On Nazi-Held Airfield Along Adriatic   HEAVY RESISTANCE BEING ENCOUNTERED

MARANO RIVER CROSSING MADE   Canadians Loose Assault On  Rimini Airfield

CROSS MARANO RIVER IN ITALY   Canadians Storm  Rimin Air Field on Coast of Adriatic

Deep Wedge In Nazi Area   Eight Army Troops Keep Up Pursuit Of Withdrawing Foe

EIGHTH ARMY DRIVES ON IN ITALY   Forces Wedge_ Into Enemy Territory In Mountainous Area

Germans Drop Back Farther   Allies Follow on Adriatie Front,‘ Drive Toward Base of Sulmona

Nazi Retreat Continues  On Eighth Army Froni   British Advance Nine Miles In Pursuit C Germans, Encountering Only Slight Opposition; High Ground Seized

Allies Drive ‘For Nazi Base   Pursue Withdrawing German Forces on Italian Front

EIGHTH DENTS GERMAN LINES TAKES GROUND   Little or No Opposition Met as Nazis Continue Withdrawing Movement   ENEMY APPARENTLY 1S STRAIGHTENING LINES

U. S. Troops. Push Wedge   Germany Are Giving Up Ground In Italy

Germans Continue Retreat in Italy: Allies Advancing   German Move Appears Strange — May be Shortening Lines

STH ARMY TROOPS PURSUE NAZIS IN ITALY RETREAT   Deep Wedge Driven into German Lines Along Italy’s Mouniainous  Ridce

Wedge Driver Into Hun Line  By Allied Army   Germans Retreating Along “ Mountainous Backbone Of Italy; Genoa Is Target of Bombs

ALLIES PURSUE ENEMY RETREAT   Eighth Army Drives Wedge  Into German Territory

Nazis Falling  Back In Italy  British Drive Toward Base At Sulmona

Strange Nazi Retreat In Italy Continues   Eighth Army Fashions Deep Wedge in Driving Toward German Base

NAZIS WITHDRAW   Eighth Army Troops Penetrate Enemy Territory In Italy

GERMANS FLEE BEFORE ALLIED TROOPS TODAY   Little Opposition By Enemy Shown In Retreat

8TH ARMY CONTINUES TO ADVANCE   Moves Ahead In Wake Of Withdrawal By Nazis In Italy

- Allies Still Pursuing Withdrawing German Forces. ....  ‘Thrust Wedge Deep Into German Lines In Italy

Allies Follow Up  Withdrawing Nazis  On Italian Front Little Opposition Indicated as Eighth Arty Mawes Forward th -  F.. we. Blea:

Germans Still Withdrawing On Adriatic Front   Allied 8th Army Drives Deep Wedge Toward Nazi Base Of Sulmona.

W. DENLINGER MISSING   Was Serving As Gunner on Bomber Over Hungary

INVALID GHILD AWAITING SANTA   City Emplove Delivers Christmas Tree A Little Early

Special Christmas For Boy   LAD HAVING LAST TREE SATURDAY; MAY NOT LIVE ‘TIL DEC, 25

FBI INVESTIGATING AAA RECORD THEFT   Federal Laws Violated in Darke County, Belief

Farm Picnic At Bedford August 29   Girls’ 4H Clubs : Achievement Day In Connection

Farmers Told To Hold Cotton   Can Place Staple In Loan Pool And Then Get Parity

Cotton Farmers Told Hold Cotton For Parity Price   PRICE FOR 15-16 TO BE 22.10 IN LIMESTONE COUNTY

BOARD PLACES 46 MENIN 1-4   10 Listed as War Workers; Seven as Necessary Civilians

CONTEMPT CASE MAY BE BROUGHT   Daniels Refused to Answer Questions

DANIELS CITED FOR CONTEMPT OF SENATE   Administrative Assistant To FDR Must Show Why He Should Not Be Held In Contempt

Believe Germans Trying Evacuate Cherbourg Point   Officer Says Nazis Must Be Well Equipped At Caen.

Americans Cut Last Peninsula Exit Gap   Troops Within 7 Miles of Coast; Vital Highway Junction Captured

Believes Nazis Attempting To Quit Cherbourg   Flier Reports Much Activity

REPORT NAZIS FLEEING FROM CHERBOURG NOW   Attemptine To Escape Trap Set By U. S.

Another Sevastopoi CGonironts Germans   Last Rail Link Severed By American Troops, While Closing In On Last Main Communication Junction; Under Artillery Fire.   IBad Weather Delays Unloading

MIGHTY SHIP I$ LAUNCHED   GIGANTIC HULL OF WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL -WARSHIP SLIDES. DOWN WAYS ~ TODAY

LONG IS WELL AHEAD IN RACE   Verret Likely To Be In Run-Off For Lieutenant Governor  a de at an . oe ee od eae ae ee   RETURNS INCOMPLETE

Davis Cutting Down Lead Of Morgan   Earl Long Takes Commanding Lead in Race for Lieutenant Governor; Morrison Third for Governor

Chinese Repulse Jap Forces Near Loyang 10 Miles   Enemy Drives Slowed On All Fronts After Chenghsien Fall

Jap Drive On Loyang Halted   Nips Thrown Back 10 Miles By Chinese

SITUATION IN CHINA, INDIA BOTH BETTER   Allied Successes Gained On Both Vital Sectors

French Assembly Meets On Home Soil Tomorrow  Ist Anniversary Session Planned

New Limitations On Lend-Lease _ Are Anticipated   Langer, Brewster Question Britain’s Ability To Lend 50 Million To Chinese

NEW CONTROLS ON LEND-LEASE ARE IN OFFING   Post-war Road Building and Lewis Jab at New Deal Claim Capital Interest

Senate Seeks New Cw Tbs Tn Lend:Lease   Votes “Extension But Wants Funds Used Quly for War

FOUR DEMOCRAT FACTIONS FIGHT eFOR PATRONAGE   Spectacular Battle Over Fourth Term Power Now Certain

Steel Spearhead Reaches Within 36 Mi. Of Cologne   German Lines Sag Under Impact Of Five Allied Armies Striking Across Five Countries, Eisenhower Warns Populace To Get Out.

New Gaps Ripped Into Moselle Line   German Lines Sag Under Impact Of Five Allied Armies Hitting At Nazi Borders

Yanks Capture Fort Eben-Emael as: Eisenhower Warns Civiliansto Flee Area; Le Havre Falls to British

NEW WEAPONS TEAR GAPS IN REICH DEFENSE   Le Havre Captured By British 2nd Army

Weather Ideal For Air Blows  1,400 Planes Blast Nazi Installations

Heavy Bombers Blast Nazi War Industry  Lancasters Blast   Lancasters Blast Submarine Pens at Brest

HEATY BOMBERS BATTER TARGETS   Launch Assaults on Nazis All The Way From Brest to Germany; Submarine Pens At Port of Brest Blasted

Allied Bombers Hit Wide Areas Over Continent  Ideal Wa aihds ales Large Air

BOMBERS HAVE IDEAL WEATHER   Huge Formations Cover Targets From Brest To Hannover

Heavy Bombers Blast Nazi War Industry  Lancasters Blast Submarine  aa a a

MOMOTE FIELD CAINS CONTINUE   Japs Unable To Halt Invasion Troops On Los Negros

AMERICAN WA IN AIR GAINS MOMENTUM   Capital Hails News of Fighter Planes’ Visit to Berlin

MOMENTUM   Capital Hails News of Fighter Planes’ Visit to Berlin

Dr. Henry Dwire Vice President Of Duke Dies   Former Editor and Publisher Dies At Duke Hospital.

‘War Plant Worker Wins Democratic Gubernatorial Nomination in Nebraska

Olsen Defeats Heaton By 374   Plattsmouth War Worker Is Nominee On Demo Gubernatorial Ticket.

WAR OFFICIALS. RAPPED BY AF   Labor Organization Assails  Statements Made on Manpower Situation in U. S.

Airport Will Bring Factories That Don’t Need Water   U.S. Supervisor of Airports Says C. A. A. Has Plans For Local Port, But County Must Act First

“LONG TOMS” JOIN OFFENSIVE IN(PHILIPPINES AS INFANTRY CLEARS EASTERN SIDE OF LEYTE ISLAND

YANKS CLEAR EAST SIDE OF LEYTE   Others Consolidate Beachhead On Island of Samar

RCE ta nee Ae enue  Yanks Win 10 Mi. Stretch On’ North Leyte Coast, Trap Japs

Remnants of Jap Troops On Leyte Island Trapped   - Pincers Operation Being Conducted By First Cavalry Unit

AMERICANS WIN i0-MILE STRIP ON NORTH COAST   Casualty Ratio 25 to One

Americans Wrest Control  Of North Leyte From Japs   Pincers Operation By Dismounted Ist U. 8. Cavalry And Units Of 24th Corps Traps Remnants Of Still Resisting Japanese In Corner Of Island

JAP CRUISER IS DESTROYED IN BORNEO HARBOI   Yanks Hack Away At Enemy Defenses In Limon Trap

37 PERSONS KNOWN DEAD IN HURRICANE   Toll Jumps When Army Announces 1] Tug Crewmen Apparently Drowned Yesterday Off the Florida Coast.

Carolinas Now In Storm's Lash   Hurricane Intensity Decreases Inland— Soldiers Drowned

Coast Storm Heads to Sea   327 Persons Killed And Heavy Property Damage Reported

CAROLINAS FRIDAY FELT LASH OF GULF HURRICANE WINDS  COASTAL AREAS SAFE BUT RAINS AND HIGH WINDS IN INTERIOR

Tropical Storm Hitting Interior Carolinas Today   High Winds, Heavy Rains Scheduled This Afternoon; Florida Citrus Crop Damaged.

Coastal Areas Out Of Danger As Tropical Blow Sweeps Inland  And Heads North

37 Lose Lives As Hurricane Sweeps Inland   11 Soldiers Drown Near Bradenton, Fla., At Height of Storm

DEATH TOLL HITS 37 IN HURRICANE   11 Soldiers Drown in Storm Near Bradenton

HURRICANE IS DECREASING IN COASTAL AREAS   $20,000,000 Loss Is Reported; 26 People Killed

Storm Wanes ‘in Carolinas; Toll Hits 37   Citris Crop Damage In Florida Placed At Twenty Millions

Tropical Storm Now Heads to Sea   Heavy Property Damage Caused By Hurricane in Southern States

37 Persons Killed, Much Property Damaged in Cuba   Carolinas Interior Feels Tropical Storm Lash Sweeping Inland

Hurricane On Way North, 26 Lives Toll   Property Damage Hich In South

Carolinas Hit By Hurricane   Intensity Decreasing After 37 Killed, Property Damage Heavy

HURRICANE ROARS THRU CAROLINAS; TOLL OF DEAD 37      Decreasing Intensity—Mos! Deaths. and Damage Occur im Cuba. Florida

Thirty-Seven Dead From Results of Fierce Hurricane’ ‘ Eleven Soldiers In Boat Drew: OH-Flerida Coast: Storm

Tropical  Storm . Hitting. Interior Carolinas Today      High Winds,Heavy: ‘Rains Scheduled: This: After: noon; - ‘Florida -Citeus

Interior Of Carolinas Feels Lash Of Storm Moving North Slowly With Decreasing Fury   High Winds And Drenching Rains Accompanies Fading Hurricane

GAROLINAS FEEL WRATH OF STORM   iHurricane Danger to Coast  Passes, However.

CAROLINAS FEEL HURRICANE LASH   MOVES NORTH AFTER CAUSING DAMAGE IN CUBA AND FLORIDA

JACKSON TAKES OATH AS NEW INDIANA SOLO}   Speeds to Washington to Help Pass Soldier Vote Bill

Allied Anti-Aircraft Fire Is Partly Responsible for Loss of 23 U.S. Transport Planes and 410 Persons, Army and Navy Statement Says

QUAKE JARS STATES ALONG EAST SEABOARD   Canada Also Hit; More Than $1,000,000 Dam age Done

Allies Tightening Stranglehold On Trapped Germans   Escape Gap Cut to 10 Miles, Road Under Heavy Bomb, Shelling Attack

TRAP GLOSED * ON NAZI ARMY   Yanks and British Advance In Tidal Wave Against a Enemy. ¥   NAZIS . TAKING BEATING

Four Allied Armies Spring on Remnants Of Gen. Von Kluge’s Wrecked Seventh Army

‘Nazis Renev Efforts to Break Out   Hundreds in Mad Flight Surrender; Moving Equipment Clogs French Roads

Desperate Attempts Are Made By Germans To Wriggle Out Of Trap Set By Allied Troops

Normandy Trap Is Closing In Upon Germans   Russians Score Fresh Successes

Escape Gap for Germans Is Cut To Ten Miles   Four Allied Armies Beat Forward to Strangle Enemy

Escape Hatch In North France Cut to 10 Miles   Von Kluge Using ‘Slave Troops as Suicide Rear Guards

GERMAN ESCAPE GAP NARROWED BY THE ALLIES   Four Armies Closing in On Nazis Trying To Flee Trap at Falaise

Speedy Yank, British Advances Trap Nazis   Lack of Nazi Resistance Indicates Early Crackup

British Hammer German Army's West Corridor   Both Sides Of FalaiseArgentan Gap Now Being Shut

Slave Troops Form Suicide Rearguard  _In German Retreat   Canadians 2 And 1-2 Miles From Falaise, Americans Eight Miles; Battle Seen Without Precedent

ALLIES TIGHTEN NAZI TRAP   Gap Narows As Four Armies Oppose Germans

Allies Clinch Control Of Nazi Escape Roads.   Yanks Advance in Tidal Wave, Seizing Hundreds Of Definitely Trapped Germans

German Toss Slave Troops Into Fighting   Curtain of Fire Closes Narrow Escape Corridor in France  J .

Seventh Army Faces Death In Normandy   Von Kluge Making Desperate Attempt to Save Part of Forces

GERMANS FACE ENCIRCLEMEN ON FRENCH SOIL   Four Serarate Armies Pinch Escape oute

Escape Reads Frem Normandy Trap Now in Hands of Yanks   Germans Clog the Roads Eastward; * Targets © for Air Attacks

Four Separate Armies Pound Von Kluge’s Forces   Germans Again Try Costly Daylight Rush to Escape with Falaise Route Narrowed to 10 Miles and Collapsing

Ringed By 4 Armies In North   Allied Nutcracker Steadily Closing In On Thousands of Trapned Germans ~   VON KLUGE HURLS IN SLAVE TROOPS   They Are Intended to Hold Off Allies While Main Force: Tries to Wriggle Out

Closing Escape Corridor   Only 10-Mile Gap  Now Through Which Nazis Can Escape’. From Normandy Coffin

Great Army Lands In Areas Around Toulon   Little Resistance; Huge Naval And Air-Borne Forces Pave Way; Stranglehold Tightens On Trapped Germans In North France.

Four Allied Armies Are Beating Against the Trapped German Forces   Escape Gap at Falaise Has Been Narrowed to 10 Miles

Yanks Control All Nazi Escape Roads   Battles of Annihilation Are Destroying Entire German Seventh Army; New Attempt to Break Out of Trap Fails

Yanks Close Trap Around German /th   Yon Kluge Making Another Attempt to Withdraw Troops

Trap Closing Or Dying German  ‘Seventh Army   American, British, Canadian Armies Close In Relentlessly For the Final “Kill”

Roof of German Escape Corridor Is Collapsing  ,   ‘our Allied Armies Beat Forward in France Against Trapped Nazis.   Clinch Road Control To Normandy Pocket

Control Of Escape Roads For Nazi Seventh Army Is Clinched By American Troop:   La Ferte Mace Taken By U. S.; British Capture St. Denis De Mere; Hundreds Of Germans Are Being Taken Prisoner

ESCAPE GAP OF ‘GERMANS’ NEW TO TEN MILES      ward Tightening Noose  Four Armies Move ForAround Pocket

NULIDAY MARKED AROUND WORE   Prayers Go up in All Allied Nations for Victory   ENDURING PEACE   Yanks Abroad Celebrate Day In as Nearly Traditional Way as Possible

CHRISTMAS IS CELEBRATED BY ALLIED NATIONS   Fighting Men Pray For Quick Victory And Enduring Peace   ATTENTION CENTERED ON WESTERN FRONT

Christmas Brings Renewed Prayers for Early Peace  From Allied Homes, War Fronts All Over World

People of Allied Lands Offer Yule Prayers For Victory, Enduring Peace

IN azi Destroyer Sunk, Another F orced To Beach   Nazi Mystery Weapon Accounts For Sinking of American Vessel

NARROW ESCAPE FOR HEMINGWAY   Writer, Cameraman Miss Mines, Shell

Sees a Last Ditch Fight - , German Air Defense Now Is Stronger Than Ever Arnold Says

Arnold Sees Nazi Fight to Finish   Says German Air Force Is af Top

Sees a Last Ditch Fight German Air Defense reais Is Stronger Than Ever Arnold Says

German Defensive  Stronger in Air, Says Gen. Arno!d  But Bombing Has Cut Volume and Quality  Of Nazis’ War Plants

(WEA ANNOUNCES MINIMUM LEVELS OF FARM PRICES   30 Farm Commodities Covered Under 1944 Pro duction Program Calling For Heavy Output

Floor Prices of 30 Farm Commodities Proposed by Jones   Support Program Would Cost 600 To 800 Million

Price Control for Farm Products for  1944 Are Announced   WFA Jones Tells Minimum Levels U. S. Will Support Next Year

PROPOSED FARM SUPPORT PRICES TOLD BY JONES   PROGRAM WOULD COST GOV’T 600 TO 800 MILLIONS

Price Support Plan Issued By  Administrator   Government’s Program To Maintain Prices Of Farm Products 1s Outlined By Jones

Support Price Plan Asked by WFA Chie   30 Farm Commodities Affected Costing Up 49 800 Million

The War Today French Coast Drenched With ‘Bombs to Cut Invasion Cost

The.War Today   Rockét-Gun Bases Principal Tarrets in Raids on France

‘CAMPAIGN AGAINST 'GERMANS ON CENTRAL [FRONT UNDER WAY   NAZI COUNTERATTACKS  FAIL TO HALT GENERAL   DAY AFTER DAY ALLIED AIRMEN ARE POUNDING INVASION TARGET ALONG CHANNEL COASTAT. AREA

The War Today—  French Coast st Bombings Show Allies Taking No Chances On Rocket Guns

~~ eae ee pve  Argentina To Set Camps For Axis Aliens   Assure Allies Break With Japan, Nazis Is Complete

ARGENTINE BREAK WITH AXIS CLEAN   Drastic Measures Agains Enemy Alianc lLaam

Weigh Argentine Axis Sentiment   Government Insists On German, Jap Break

PLANS MADE AT QUEBEC ARE T0 BE TOLD TODAY      Roosevelt, Churchill Expect To Make Knewn Some Of Decisions

QUEBEC MEET ISBROT 10" END TODAY   Discussions May Be Resumed Later Elsewhere

F, 0. AND CHURCHILL TO DISCLOSE SOME QUEBEC DECISIONS   New ‘Talks At Secret Meeting Place Are Hinted

FDR-CHURCHILL CONFERENCE TO AN END TODAY   Important Announcements Expected At This Afternoon’s Press Conference.

xs Storm Wanes d 39 Lives Los   Quebec Talks S Come to End 3   Conferees to Shed Licht on laitentions

FDR, CHURCHILL WILL DISCLOSE PLANS TODAY   Leaders To List Results of Parley

Romanian Oil Fields Battered   U. S. Planes Fram Italy——British Attack Near Paris

Bombers from ltaly Blast af Oil Refineries   British Lancasters Pound Rail Center 9 Miles from Paris

TWO ROMANIA RAIL CENTERS ALSO POUNDED   Flood Sweeps German Defenses in Adri atic Region

Breach Pescara Dam In Italy,  Bomb Romania   Strike Al Railroad Yards In Oi} Center of Ploesti tn 2ist Straight Day of Pre-Invasion Air Assault.

Americans And Britons Breach Peseara Walls To Flood Nazi Defense Belt; Ploesti Rail Yards Hit

Liberators and Other Planes Take Part in Attack  BIG PESCARA DAM BLASTED BY FLIERS  Great Wall of Water Re  leased by Aerial   Blows

WATER RELEASED . NEAR AREA HELD BY EIGHTH ARMY   Two Romanian Railway Cons  ters, Ploesti and Turnue  Severin, Blasted by © 7 Other Planes. .   FRENCH INVASION -.:  COAST IS POUNDED   Four Sharp Punches Deal . Calais by British Fores: Without: Loss. of au Single Plane. —

Romania Also Target for Aerial Blows   Radio Silence of Axis Stations Shows Night Assault

Sub Probably Sinks Big Jap  Plane Carrier   Blow Brings to Five Nip Flattops Blasted In June 18-19 Baitle;  Saipan Forces Gaining

Jap Carrier Hit By Sub, Believed Sunk   Force 58 Prowling Pacific In Search of Jap Fleet; 16 Sub Kilts Revealed

Gen. de Gaulle And Roosevelt Reach Accord   Workable Plan for Civil Rule Over Liberated  rl!”

Congress Vote To Be Close   Possibility of Either Party Gaining Control of House.

Voters To Choose Among Eight Shades Of Political Makeup In Tuesday Vote

BATTLE FOR HOUSE CONTROL IS LIVELY   Thirty Senators and 432 ——Representatives-to—— be Elected

TRAP BEING CLOSED ON BURMA JAPS   Stilwell Move Dooms Nips At Kamaing Base

Over 21,000 Jap Troops K Killed In  Burma Campaign   Thousands of Others © _ Face Death, Surrender In Mogaung Struggle

TRAP BEING CLOSED ON  BURMA JAPS   Stilwell Move Ssors Nips At Kumaiea Buse

INDO-BURMA DRIVE COSTS JAPS HEAVILY   Between 71,000 and 23,000 Have Been Killed With Thousands More Facing Allied Trap.

Gen. Joe Stilwell’s Tanks Are Punching Ahead At Mogaung   “Chinese Troops Make Up Other Prong Which [: i Throwing Japs Into A Certain Trap 

EXPLAIN PROCEDURE SELECTING MEN FOR U1. $. ARMED FORCES   A. B. DOUGLASS, JR., OUTLINES CHANGES CAUSING SOME CONFUSION

EXPLAIN PROCEDURE OELECTING MEN FOR U. 5, ARMED FORCES  A. B. DOUGLASS, JR., OUT   A. B. DOUGLASS, JR., OUT LINES CHANGES CAUSING SOME CONFUSION

Ground Forces Command Goes  Tol. Gen. Lear   Succeeds Gen. McNair, Who Is Going Overseas -On Lnportant Mission

Yanks, British, French Forces Spring Invasion South of City; Progress of Troops ‘Satisfactory’   Nettuno, 32 Miles From Capital Occupied—Nazi Defenses May Be Isolated, Cut Off Fadi From All Aid   Latest Bulletins

HULL CREATES ‘POLICY’ OFFICE   World Information Bureau Would Aid U. S. Prestige

TURKISH ENTRY IN WAR WOULD SHORTEN TIME   Three Important Results From Rumored Deal Which Ottomans Will Make With Allies

TURKEY'S ANTICIPATED BREAK WITH GERMANY WILL HELP OUR ATTTFS AND GREATLY SHORTEN THE WAR IN EUROPE   Would Deprive Hitler of Military Assistance He Has Been Getting. from Bulgaria and Rumania And Cut Him Off from Food and Military  Reaconurree

ACTION OF TURKEY MAY HAVE IMPORTANT BEARING ON JUST HOW LONG WAR IN EUROPE LAST

Active Resistance Might Help To Shorten War—  2..rHn Exnects Turkey To Join With Allies

$2,000 STOLEN AT TAVERN ON FRIDAY.   Charles M. Bair Makes Report of Theft to Police %

$7,000 STOLEN AT TAVERN ON FRIDAY.   Charles M. Bai Bair Makes Report of Theft to = Police

British, Yanks Advance in Italy   Eighth Army Pushing Nearer Rimini

8TH ARMY ADVANCING NEAR RIMINI   Americans Gain On Western End Of Gothic Line

British Troops Gain Headway Toward Rimini   Americans Push Ahead Four Miles In Drive On City of Pistoia

5TH ARMY REACHES SOME OUTPOSTS OF NAZIS’ GOTHIC LINE   Advances Made In Italy Despite Rain, Foe’s Hard Fighting

CHURCHILL BACKS RUSSIA IN POLISH BOUNDARY STRIFE   Prime Minister  Wants U. S. View

CHURCHILL ENDORSES RUSS CLAIMS   But Would Give Poland Most ‘of  East Prussia

U.S. ASKED BY CHURCHILL TO REVEAL VIEWS   Greater Part of East Prussia Would Be Awarded to Poland

Churchill Backs Red Demand For “Buffer State”   y “Invites U. S: To Make Public Stand On ‘Russo-Polish Dispute

Invites U.S. To Make a Statement   British Plan Includes Giv ing Poles Sections of  German Territory

BRITAIN AGREES WITH RUSSIA ON POLISH BORDER   To Support Moscow Claims For Part of Eastern Poland

Churchill Endorses Polish Buffer State   British Prime Minister Pronounces Far-Reaching Statement Of Policy.

BRITISH: BACK RUSSIA POLISH BUFFER CLAIM   Churchill Defines Policy On Postwar European Pacis

BUFFER oTATE BETO AN OK. BY GHURGHILL   ‘Suggests Poles Push West  Barders Inte Prussia  as Compensation.

Britain Endorses Red Claim to ‘Buffer State’   Land Concessions From Poland in the East to be Sought

Cathedral Of Chartres Is Intact   Survives Battle With Superficial Damage To Tower

100 ‘PATRIOTIC’ WINERS RETURN   Quit Work Because 6 Wouldn’t Give to War Fund

RULING MADE ON G, . TUITION   U.S. May Pay More Than Customary Fee

Berlin Raiders Got 176 Nazis   U. S. Blow at Reich Capita Called ‘Catastrophe:

Yankee Bombinc Of Berlin Area ls ‘Catastroohe’   Report 176 German Planes Downed; Nazis Finally Admit Raid

U.S. and Jap troops spar for positions  Battle static in  Oremoe corridor

AERIAL WAR RESOUNDS iN PHILIPPINES   While Rains Stall Ground Fighting; Supply Bases Attacked in Ormoc Cor. ridor.   Warships Strike

Yank, Jap Patrols Clash In Leyte Island Battle, Aerial Blows are Traded

GROUND FIGHTING STALLED ON LEYTE   Japanese and American . Patrols Spar for Positions

STALLED ON LEYTE   Japanese and American . Patrols Spar for Positions

Doughboys Fight Japanese Force In Bad Weather   Ormoc Corridor Scene of Action

Air Battles Main Fight In Islands   Persistent Rains Hold Ground Fighting on Leyte to Virtual Stalemate

Airfield in Burma Captured From Japs   Picture Still Grim for Chinese Defenders of Loyang But Yanks Spring Another Trap on Japs on New Guinea

AMERICAN, CHINESE  FORCES CAPTURED  JAPANESE AIRDROME GEN. STILWELL’S FORCES  NOW BESIEGING CITY OF MYITKYINA

AMERICANS, CHINESE IN QUICK MOVE   Bombardment of City is Started at Once and Largest Jap Held Point in Burma Expected to Fall.

Nip Airdrome At Myitkyina’ Is Captured”   Gap Is Being Closed Rapidly Between  Allien in Riuenia

Stilwell’s Army Captured Vital Burma Airdrome   By RICHARD C, BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Editor

Allies Besiege Myitkyina City   Capture Nearby Airfield in Surprise Move Against Important Jap Base in North ‘Burma — Gap Between Chinese on Salween River Narrowed to 80 Miles.   REINFORCEMENTS LAND

Vital Airfield at Myitkyina in Hands of Yankees, Chinese   Early Linking of Burma and New Ledo Roads May be Result

MYITKYINA AIR FIELD FALLS 10 STILWELL’S MEN   PLACE MAIN ENEMY BASE UNDER SIEGE IN SURPRISE MOVE

JUNGLE FIGHTERS OF GEN. STILWELL MEETING SUCCESS   IMPORTANT MYITKYINA AIRDROME TAKEN FROM JAPANESE CONTROL:

Allies, in Surprise Attack, Capture Important Japanese Airdrome in Northern Burme   Seizure of Base Puts Stilwell Nearer Goal of Linking Lede Highway With Old Burma Read

Jap Airdrome In Burma Captured In Epic Feat   Capture Eessential In Drive To Open Supply Route To China.

U.S. CHINESE TROOPS TAKE JAP AIRDROME   Field Captured After Surprise 20-Day Forced March Acfoss Mountains.

CAPTURE KE Y JAPANESE AIR BASE IN BURMA   American-Chinese Troops Lay Siege To Town Of Myitkyina

Maneuver Takes Japs By Surprise   City Proper, Main Jap Base, in North Burma, Under Siege; Yanks  Lash Out From Aitape

Allies Wrest Vital Base  From Japan   Narrow Gap In China, Burma

Stilwell’s Men Take Important Jap Airdrome   Spectacular Maneuver In Jungle Topples Field; Burma Base   GLIDERS LANDED   Chinese, American Armies Close Gap, To Merge And Cut Jap Lines

PACIFIC   Myitkyina Airdrome Is Captured In Surprise Attack In Jungle _   Brilliant Victory Is ry Is Achieved After Spectacular Forced. March Over Rugged Terrain; Merrill’s Matrauders In Leading. Role

2 Armies Only 80 Air Miles Apart   American and Chinese Soldiers Take Airdrome  from Japanese   ALLIED PLANES LAND   Enemy’ Taken by Surprise and Only Slight Resistance Offered

KEY AIRDROME _ TS TAKEN BY ALLIED TROOPS   Gen. Stilwell’s Men Make Important Gain

AMERICANS THREATEN TOWN ALSO   Key Enemy Strong hold In North Burma Is Near Capture

‘SURPRISE PUSH NETS STILWELL NIPPO AIRFIELD   Chinese Make New Gains Against Burma Japs

MAIN JAPANESE BASE IN NORTH BURMA UNDER SIEGE, CUT GAP IN CONVERGING ALLIED ARMIES

JAP AIRDROME TAKENINU, S, TINGLE MOVE   Japanese Position  On North Burma Threatened

City Itself Is Besieged  By American:  And Chinese   Major Jap Base Is Threatened; Airfield In Good Condition; Is Used Immediately

JAP BASE IN NORTH BURMA UNDER SIEGE   Gap Between Converging Allied Armies in Burma, China Has Been Narrowed   IMPORTANT AIRDROME CAPTURED FROM ENEM'

CAPTURE MAJOR JAP AIRDROME   Spectacular Maneuver By Stilwell Succeeds

Jap Airdrome Captured At Myitkyina   Allied Forces Now Are Besieging North Burma City

MAIN JAP BASE IN BURMA PUT UNDER SIEGE   Jungle Troops Take Myitkyina Airdrome: Merger Of Allied Forces Near

Jungle Troops TakeValuable Jap Airdrome   Gap Between Converging Allied Armies in Burma 80 Airline Miles

BASE IN NORTH BURMA UNDER SIEGE   Yanks, Chinese In Spectacular Advance   Held Epic Of Asiatic War: City In Enemy Hands For Two Years

Enemy's Main © -- Base Placed - Under Siege   _Merril’s- Marauders Make .- 20-Day Forced March "to Myitkyina Field   AIR CENTER TAKEN IN GOOD CONDITION   Only 80 Aiyline Miles From Juncture With -Chinese Forces on Salween ~

Allied Forces Now Besieging Nip-Held City   Capture of Myityina, Es. sential to Success of Stil. well Drive, Expected To Be Captured   Advance Catches Jap Flat-Footed   Little Resistance Offered: Airstrip In Good Condition; Mogaung Now  Menaced _

Allies Topple Key Jap Air  Base in Burma   Myitkina Airdrome Falls in Brilliant Maneuver—Allies Besiege City   Merauders Participate.

Allied Forces Take Airdrome At Myitkyina   They Are Besieging Major Jap Base in Northern Burma, Headquarters Says

Myitkyina’s Airport Taken by Stilwell’s Fichters   Enemy's Main Base In North Besieged; Troops in by Air

Surprise Move Nets Victory In North Burma   Merrill’s Raiders In Important Role As Airdrome Falls

YANKS, CHINESE TAKE AIRDROME   Spectacular “Jungle ManeuVer Is Made By Gen. Stilwell’s Troops.

Jap Bastion In Burma Is ‘Under Siege   Vital Myitkyina Airdrome Falls to Allied Force After Spectacular March

Allies Sieze Myitkyina Airdrome   Main Enemy Base Under Siege. After Surprise Attack, Gap fe Yunnan Army 8 Miles

Allies Take Japs’ -Myitkyina Air Base   Now Besieging City Itself, Narrowing Gap Between Forces in North Burma and Those in China to Less Than 80 Miles.

ENEMY BESIEGED BY STILWELL’S ARMY IN BURMA   Yank-Chinese Troops Sieze Vital Airdrome After 20Day Forced March

Airdrome At Myitkyina In Allied Hands   Yanks, Chinese Capture Vital Burma Point By Spectacular Thrust.

Vital Airdrome Seized By Allies In Jungle Drive   Fall Of Myitkyina Would Threaten To Collapse Entire Enemy Position

Allies Attack Major Jap Base   Chinese and American Forces Take Airdrome, Besiege Myitkyina

Allies Take Airfield in  Burma War   Important Jap Base Of Myitkyina ‘Placed Under Siege 

Besieging Major Jap Base in North Burma   Merrill’s American and Chinese Marauders Add Epic Chapter to Story of War in Asia By Their Feat; Stilwell May Capture Base Before Monsoon Rains

Yanks, Chinese Laying Siege To Myitkyine   Enemy’s Whole Positior In Northern Burma Put In Jeopardy

Major Jap Base In Burma Falls To Allied Force   Airdrome Captured In Good Condition; City Under Attack

Americans Hit Heavy Blows At Reich Defenses   Patch’s Forces May Soor Join Three Other Armies

Pound Defenses West of Roer   Seventh Army Soon To Reach Germany

Money Sent For Strikers Ires Unions   CREW OF U. 5S. 5. coos BAY  SENDS $412 TO ASSOCIATED PRESS FOR DISTRIBUTION TO STRIKERS.   Hatred-Intolerance

Fighting Sailors Send $412 To ‘Money-Hungry’ Plane Plant Strikers

Union Leaders Aroused by Ple: Against Strikes   Seamen of Coos Bay Send Money To Help Pav Wage Increases

Crew of USS Coos Bay Offers Pay Wage Increase Money-hungry Americans.

Labor Aroused By Offer To . Pay ‘Money Hungry Strikers   Crew of U. S. S. Coos Bay Sends $412 to “Buy Off Strikers’—Wage Demands Not Inyolyed, Labor Says

SENATE SPEEDS SERVICE BALLOT   Roll Call On Measure Seer Within Next Three Days

SOLDIER VOTING ISSUE IS NEAR SHOWDOWN NOW   Tax Bill Is Getting Some Consideration but Politics Hold Capital Spotlight

Sailor Who Advertised Becomes One of Dozen Sons, Daughters in Family

Governors In Rafe Demands   Want Freight Rate Equality With Industrial East

Canadians Take Point In Two Hrs   Establish Beachhead And On Way To Objective In Short Order.

Ritchie sees state for Roosevelt; has ambition of a Caesar-Landon

U.S. COURT RULES ON ‘BANKS’ CASE   Hotds Stockholders Liable to Double Assessments

GOP PLEDGES TO GUARD SURPLUS   2,000 Word Platform Adopted For Ohio Campaign

Ohio Republicans Stand On Record As Campaign Platform Is Adopted

PIRPPPEPPPOIPPIPPIAIPPI SS  Middle Names Needed On Mail for Sailors

16,000 Fighting Smiths:  They're in the Navy and 300 Of Them Have Same First Name

MACKENZIE SAYS—  East Front Wins speed Nazi's Fall   Loss of Balkans Removes Last Shield Protecting Reich; Two-Front Squeeze In Making

The War Today   Balkans Blow-Up Will Bring Quick Crushing of Germany

Russian And Western Allies Working Aogether— ———e  Balkan Debacle Draws Noose Tighter

- WAR TODAY   ‘Allied Operations in West and East Must -be Complementary ‘if Hitler Is To Be + Defeated This Year.

Eastern Front Is Important   —BY DeWITT MACKENZIE— Associated Press War Analyst

The War Today ——  Defeat of Hitler This  Year Looms  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

EASTERN FRONT IS VERGING — ON EXPLOSION IN BALKANS; TWO FRONTS MUST: COORDINATE

Check All Clues in Woman'sDeath  Three Youths Haven't een Located Yet’

Search for Slayer Is Continued   Examination Shows Woman Victim of Criminal Assault

Japanese Realize Current Battles In The Philippines Would “Decide Their Future”; Yanks Reach Culasian Point   JAPANESE REAR AT ORMOC THREATENED

See Write-Ins To Tom Dewey   State GOP Leaders See Swing To New Yorker  With Willkie Withdrawal.

It’ s Greatly Simplified, This Income Tax Business   BY JANES MARLOW AND  Peneay THT ie

Seize Anchor  Town in Push  Through Line   Yanks Pour Through ‘West Wall-in Face of Great Artillery Force.

MORE THAN THOUSAND AMERICAN HEAVIES HIT GERMAN TARGETS   COLOGNE, RHEINE, HANRARE tTirnewrwtannr ware

OIL PLANTS IN RUHR VISITED BY BOMBERS   2,000 American Planes Raid Vital Objectives In Central and Western Germany  R. A. F. OVER BERLIN

Japan Expects   British Heavy Bombers Strike At Advanced Base At Oberhausen

2,000 PLANES BLAST GERMANS   Hit Rail Yards, Oil Plants, Other Goals

POUND 4 AIRFIELDS   Upwards of 1,100 Bombers In Raid on Northwest Germany

German Air Force Makes Attack, Loses 38 Planes  American, RAF Fliers Blast at Reich,  Hitting Ria Oil Plant

2,000 Yank Planes Hit Nazi Targets   RAF Shifts From Battered Cologne To Oberhausen, Least Bombed

38 German Planes  Downed in Battle  Allies Bomb: Vast Leuna Synthetic Oil Plant at Marcahurn

Luftwaffe Up in Strength First Time in Month   At Least 38 German Air. craft Downed in Two Battles

Chinese Troops Capture Warong  Japanese Battalion Nearly Wiped Out

Chinese Seize Warong Base  ‘Taps  Still Hold Myitkyina : Pla.  acteves Cicswen lew

Allied Troops Wipe Out Japs In Imphal Area   Warong Captured As Nips Suffer Heavy Casualties

Chinese Capture Warong In North Burma Fighting   Crack Japanese Battalion Is Annihilated On Edge Of Imphal Plain; Enemy Flees In China Following Fall Of Tatangtzu Village

Chinese Take  Burmese Towr   Troops Capture Long-Circled Warong, 12 Miles From WKamaing.

Dewey Charges Plans ‘For Corporate State   GOP Candidate Says Administration Secks ‘Government-Owned America’.

Rival Says FDR Rule Breeds Dictatorship   _G.O. P. Nomince Greeted. by £5,900 go aks at Municipal Auditorium

‘Government-Owned America’ New Deal Aim, Says Candidate, In Talk Flaying Regimentation

Dewey Hints Of Roosevelt Communism   ‘New Deal Develops A Corporate State’

DEWEY SCORES FDR’S REGIME   New Deal Has Communistic Trend, GOP Charges

GOP NOMINEE IS BITTER IN ACCUSATIONS   Government-Owned America Planned by FDR, Dewey Charges

Allied Troops Capture Tiddim   Key Jap Base In Burma Falls In Tough Battle

Allied Troops Take Tiddim, Key Enemy Base in Burma, After Tough Battle

Big Show At Lamar   Sen. Truman’s Home Town Lays Plans for Notification Ceremony

NEW ANTI-INVASION COMMAND FOR NAZIS   IREPOSSEEE SE RAR ORE  Will Operate in Belgium = and  Northern France—Civilian Control Put Under Gestapo.

Men Held For  Thefts Returned _ To Other Counties  ; ‘Had Been Working  Q With Highway Crew ; On Primary 75 .

Men Held For Thefts Returned ‘o Other Counties  ‘Had Been Working With Highway Crew ‘On. Primary 75 

DOUGHBOYS ADVANCING SMOOTHLY   Military Police Keep Line Moving Without Hitches

Texas Solons In Arms Over Service Vote  Poll On Special Session Planned

Texas Solons In Arms Over Service Vote  Fol On Special  BUtcinn. Kfrnanrnn

Hitler Line Is Broken; Allies Holding Firm   American Tanks And French Infantry Smash Big Defenses

YANKSRESUME AIR ASSAULT GN GERMANY   Shooting dow 425 German Planes at Cost of 26 Bombers, 19 Fighiers; Sky Battle Raggs.   Provide Kick-Off

Bombers Hammer Berlin, Brunswick   ‘Americans Shoot Down 125 German Planes At Cost Of 26 Bombers And 19 Fighters; Air Offensive Gains Power

163 TAKEN OFF LS, DESTROYER SUNK BY BLAS]      Geath Toll Not Announces in Lower New York Bay Explosion

U.S. DESTROYER EXPLODES AND SINKS OFF N. Y.   At Least 163 Crew Members Saved   Windows In Queens Broken

German Ground Forces Surrender  To U. S. Air Force   Surrender Of 20,000 Germans In France Makes New Military History

NAZIS GIVE UP TO AIR FORCE   TWENTY THOUSAND MEN ‘IN - POCKET SURRENDER AFTER: BEING BOMBED. ° FOR WEEK

NEW DEALERS ISSUE THREAT OF FILIBUSTER   Fight on FDR’s State Department Men May Delay Adjournment

SENATOR CONNALLY TAKES UP FIGHT FOR SIX FDR NOMINEES  TEXAN, CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE, SAYS WILL FORCE VOTE THIS WEEK

Connally Fights For Senate Vote On Nominations   Foes Of State Dept. Appointees Threaten Fili A. Be

W ar Fuehier Made Speeds To A Climax   Nazi Homefront Cheer Leaders Preaching Strange Doctrine of Retreat to Victory to Bolster Morale

ineieemenemenetemnmeentl  BRICKER GAINS STRENGTH IN TOUR OF SOUTHWEST

Ideas For Reconversion Are Outlined By Coast Executive At Opening of Conference

Governor Bricker Urges States Meet Problems   Tells Governors Conterence They Should Not Seek Federal Governmeni Aid

Immediate Announcement By Federal Government Of Its Post-War Public Works Aid Program Demanded—Warren Says They Must Know Also To What Extent Government Proposes To Stay In Business—Welcomed By Governor Martin

Postwar Plans Are Demanded   GOV. GRISWOLD SAYS “WE SHOULD BE TOLD”; FDR’'S MESSAGE READ

PAC Strength Test Highspots Today’s Election In Maine   Initial State Election Holds National Interes'

MAINE VOTE TESTS PAC STRENGTH   Governorship, 3 Seats In Congress Are At Stake Today

Yank Task Force Blasts Japanese Caroline Bases   Every Ship Found at Palau, Woleai, Yap Is Sunk or Damaged

Jap Sea Power Swept From Pacific Region   American Forces Lose Only 27 Planes in Action

Every Enemy Ship Found In Palau  Raid Wiped Out   Sec. Knox Reports Loss Of Only 27 Planes Agaias Japs’ Claim Of 80 and Two Ships Sunk; Japs Sound Air Raid Alarm In Manila.

Stockholders Of Montgomery Ward Uphold Chairman   Avery Given Vote Of Confidence: Government To Establish  fo’ eian Relatiange

U.S. Moves To Restore » ClO at Wards   Investigator For Senate Studies Issue

U.S. MOVES T0 END C10 DISPUTE ATT WARD PLANT   Treasury Chief Takes Initiative; Directors Back Avery Move

RAIDS ON SHANGHAI REPORTED   Nome Isles Of Japan Also Attacked By Yanks, Nips Say

Japan Proper, Shanghai Hit By Tokyo Account   Washington Reports Bombing Of Vital Jan Docks And Warehouses

‘Fokyo Reports Shanghai Region Also Bombarded   Southwest Japan Proper Also Revealed Blasted In Widespread Raids

Japs Claim Damage Is Very Slight   Puppet Capital of China Raided for First Time— Other Raids  % 3

U.S. B-285 HIT JAPANESE HOME ISLAND   Tokyo Reports Raid On Kyushu And Scouting Over Honshu; Bombers Pound Nanking.

Weather   Attack Nip-Held Nanking   War Department Confirms Assault

SHANGHAI HIT, TOKYO SAYS IN RADIO REPORT   Nipponese In Customary Claim Of “Raid Repulsed, Slight Damage”

WASHINGTON AND LONDON q SATISFIED RUSSIAN ARMIES  WILL CONTINUE DRI¥VING ‘AHEAD.’

"YANKS SMASH AWEAD of MILES WN SOUTH FRANCE   @ Drive 60 Miles Inland From Coast—-Grenoble Taken En Route Thru Riviera   « FIGHTING STILL RAGES IN TOULON

Berlin Threatens That New York May Be Next Victim Of Nazis’ Pilotless Plane

British Enter Tilly   Nazis Continue Sending Robots Against British   British Shilt Anti-Aircratt to Meet Bomh Planes Near Coast—Planes Jet-Prepelled

British Defenses Against Pilotless Planes Take Shape   “Blind Bomb” Assaults on Southern England Continue Fifth Day

Blind Bomb Raids Go On   Britons Improve Defenses and Laugh at Wild Nazi Propaganda

Germany's Rocket Bombs Hit Englan Today For Fifth Successive Davy

MORE ROBOT PLANES ZOOM INTO BRITAIN   British Defenses Against Pilotless Craft Taking Shape

NAZI ROCKET BOMB ASSAULTS CONTINUED IN SOUTH ENGLAND  _ SOME CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE BUT ELEMENT 0]  NEWNESS WEARING OFF

More Rockets Launched By Germans   British Defenses Are Being Moved to Combat New Menace

OA ROBOT BOMBINE   British Defenses Against ‘Blind Bombs’ Are: Tak -. ina. Plana -

ROCKET BOMBS HIT ENGLISH: COAST TODAY   Newness Wearing Off As Flyers Spot Take-Off

Efforts Made By England To Combat Robots   Anti-Aireraft Moved To Special Spots Near Coast

ROCKET BOMBS BLAST-ENGLANC FOR FIFTH DAY   BRITISH DEFENSES AGAINST ROBOTS ARE TAKING SHAPE

Nazi Rocket Bomb Assaults Are Kept At High Speed As Fifth Day Gets Into Swing

ALLIES TAKE PORTION OF MYITKYINA   Lt. Gen. Stilwell Visits Captured Myitkyina Airfield

German Retreat Near Rout from Liri River to the Sea; Allies Entering Myitkyina

Yanks Take Part Of Myitkyona: Bomb Java Base   Aussie Planes Complete 2500 Mile Java Trip Without Loss of Plane

 Allied Forces _ ‘Capture Part of 'Myitkyina Base   Remnants of Enemy — Garrison Being Squeezed Out of Town

Town Is Under Attack From Three Sides; Escape Route Of Nip Garrison Cut Off

ALLIES TAKE PORTION OF MYITKYINA   Jap Garrrison At Base in Burma Appears Doomed

Yank Bombers Blast Ploesti Oil Refineries   uge Fires Seen For 100 Miles After Heavies Pound Plants: Rail Yards Also Hit

250 BOMBERS ATTACK SEVEN ROBOT TARGETS   Smash One Of Largest Bases Near Paris; Berlin Hit

+ :  Big Batfle Raging on Russ Front   Berlin Fears Reds Soon To Strike Poland, E. Prussia

Reds Mass For Drive  On Reich   Berlin Warns That Soviets Are About To Strike in Poland And East Prussia

Russia Set =For Prussia -Blow—Nazis   Berlin Reports Reds Ready For All-Out Winter Of fensive.

Soviets Batter Nazi Resistance At Both Ends of Eastern Front   Germans Believe Reds May Be Ready to Make Supreme Threat

Cold Weather Sets Stage for Offensive   Russ Beat Down German Resistance in Latvia, Hungary

Sub Zero Temperature Grips 500 Miles Of Baltic Coast  NAZIS WARN OF SOVIET ATTACK  Great Tank And Infantry Battles Have Raged Since Thursday

POLAND ARE NOW FROJEN   Russian Push in Baltics May Be Opening Phase

BERLIN FEARS REDS READY FOR BIG BID   Report They Are To Strike Thru Poland, E. Prussia

LOOK FOR BiG SOVIET WINTER DRIVE ANY DAY   Patrol Fighting Sharp On East Prussia And Polish Fronts

BIG RED DAIVE IN HORTH MAY BE UNDER WAY   Zero Weather Makes Winter Campaign Fossible

STRONG GERMAN RESISTANCE HIT BY RUSS TROOPS   Beat Down Resistance On Both Ends Of Long Front In East

Russians Gain in Latvia, Hungary And Get Ready to Launch Campaign To End War in Poland, East Prussia

Resistance Stiff At Both Ends  of Eastern Front   Berlin Warns Reds Set For Supreme Bid To Bring End To War

REDS GAIN AT BOTH ENDS OF EAST FRONT   Nazis Say Soviet Winter Campaign About to Begin

Butte Couple's Two Sons Die in Jap Prisons  Fourtner Brothers Taken at Fall of Corregidor

Butie’ Couple's Two Sons Die  in Jap Prisons Fourtner Brothers  Taken at Pell af Carpest el ae

Weber County Bond Buying Cains Womentam  More Firms Added Ee Houpr Roll

Marines Take Peleliu Ridges   “Wildcat” Division Overruns South Angaur Corner; Planes Operate From Morotai: Yanks Destroy China Base Threatened by Nips

Open Way For New SupplyRoute   Patrol Crosses Border To Contact Chinese

Chinese-American. Patrol From Burma Makes Contact With Forces in China; ‘Opens Way for New Supply Route

REDS REPORT HEAVY FIGHTING   Germans Drive “Insignificant Wedge" In Soviet Lines

REAVY FIGHTING ° REPORTED ON EASTERN FRONT SECTOR ‘NEAR THE ROMANIAN  5 BORDER .

Heavy Fighting Continues in Red Section North 0 jasi Railroad Junction

ord Army Driving Rapidly   Battle of France Fast Nearing End, Allies Announce

Alle Forces Capture City of Marseille   Minimum of Resistance by Enemy Reported

Tanks, Infantry Reported Only 5& Miles From Lyon   Marseille, Second Largest French City, Reported Captured

Coal Shortage Faces 2 Cities   Baltimore. Philadelphia Seek Extra) Supplies From Gevernment

U.S. To Press For “Open” Air Policy   International Civil Aviation

FOR AN “OPEN” POLICY   United States Delegates Out tc Avoid Press Criticismea

Tinian Island Conquered by US Forces   Enemy Resistance Disinte- *  grating Rapidly on Guam; American Troops Reported . Landing on Rota j

YANKS LAND ON ROTA— TOKYO   Tinian Island Conquered; Guan Tottering: Expand Guinea Hold

Tinian Conquered, Japanese Report Landings on Rota  Yaaks Use New Secret Woape Te Wipe Gut Japs, Aitack

TINIAN TAKEN; 10,000 JAPS PENNED ON GUAM   Tokyo Reports Yank Landing on Rota; 45,000 Nip Troops Trapped in New Guinea

And Guam IsNear Capture   Japs Say Americans Now Invading Rota In Marianas

Yanks Launch 4th Invasion In Marianas   Landings Are Made On Island Of Rota: Tinian Capture Complete

Yanks Invade Rota Tinian Conquered Says Tokyo Radio   U. S. Secret Weapon Speeds Capture of Harbor, 2 Airfields

Tokyo Reports Rota Invasion   Tinian Conquered After 9 Days of Land Fighting; 10,000 Nips Crammed in Guam Death Pocket; Harbor, Airfield in Use

Yanks Reported ‘On Rota Island;  Conquer Tinian   10,000 Japs Trapped On Northern End Of Guam; N. Guinea Allies Expand

Yanks Complete Tinian Conquest  Tokyo Reports Move Against Rota Island

Rota Invaded, Tokyo Claims   Tinian Conquered, Foe Resistance on Guam Breaking Down

Tinian Falls To Yanks; Guam Totters   Tokyo Reports New Landings On Rota

Tinian Isle _ Conquered; Allies Move —  Nearer Guam   Americans. Launch Fourth. Big (Drive

Yanks Crush Tinian Japs; Guam Falling   Lethal Secret Weapon I: Aid in Conquest: Allies Tighten Aitape Trap

TINIAN ISLAND CONQUERED BY ALLIED FORCES   American Troops’ Invasion On Rota Begins

Pacific Stage Set For Mighty Drives On Jap:   Tinian Island Is Ours; Enemy Resistance On Guam Dwindling

Americans Conquer Tinian: Japs Report Rota Landing   Marines Cram 10.000 Japanese Into Northern End Of Guam. Sealing Their Doom; Allies Expand Gains On New Guinea; Planes Hammer Foe

TOKY REPORTS ROTA LANDINGS   Tinian Conquered, Guam Resistance Disintegrates

Guam Battle Nears Finish in Marianas   Pacific Battle Turning into Campaign for Air Bases to Strike at Japan

TINIAN ISLAND * TS CONQUERED   Japs Report Americans Have Launched Invasion of Rota.

Conquest Of Tinian Island Is Completed   Resistance On Guam Fading; Japs Report Yank Landings On Rota.

Tinian Conquered In 9 Days; MacArthur Quickly Expands Beachhead On New Guinea Tip   Yanks Hold Over Half Of Guam; Japs Report U.S. Landings On Rota Island

REPORTS ROTA INVASION AGAIN   Tinian Island Conquered. Nimitz Announces

YANKS OCCUPY ALL OF TINIAN, GAIN ON GUAM   American Invasion Of Rota Again Reported By Japs; Enemy Shipping Hit

Yanks Launch Fourth Invasion Of Marianas      Land On Rota, Tokyo Reports

TINIAN TAKEN BY YANKS; FALL OF GUAM NEAR   \Airfields, Harbor Are Fruits of Savage Campaign; Nip Survivors Doomed

Japs Report U.S.  Landings on Rota   Move Unconfirmed by Allies—Tinian Falls,  Guam Japs Doomed

Surtax Plan Turned Down By Committee   Use Of General Fund Is Favored In Providing $7,692,000 For State Building Program

23 MORE MEN — ARE EX'‘AMINED   Left Today for Leavenworth For Physical Exam

14 MEN TO INDUCTION CENTER   Group Left Nov. 17 For Fort Leavenworth

LARGE GROUP OFF FOR CAMPS   Sailors Leave This Morning, Soldiers Tonigh

MORE PHYSICALS AND INDUCTIONS   Men Leave For Fort Leavenworth This A.M.

AQ MEN TAKE — PRE INDUCTION   Reported May 17th For Their Physical Exam

Compensation  Rates Talked   C ongress- . Aas. Tough Job: Figuring. Plan

CONSIDER PAY FOR EX-WAR WORKERS   Senate- Military Committee Will Tackle Problems of Reconversion.

UNEMPLOYMENT PAY PONDERED   Senate Committee Studies Discharged War Worker Problem

Congress Tackles Job Insurance For War Workers  Byrnes Appeals for Early Action as Finance Committee

UNEMPLOYMENT PAY CONFRONTS. SENATE   Byrnes Urges Congress to Hurry in Setting Up Transition Legislation

Hitler and Duce Hold  Conference   Axis Chief Gives Deposed Fascist Leader Low Down On Defense Plans.

Hitler, Mussolini Confer; Duce Promises To Boost Effort of Still-Fascist Arec

Rumania May Try For Break   But Effort Would Meet Difficulties in Face Of German Need For Area’

Moves to Relieve Market Hog Glut  Price Support Program Temporarily Extended

EXTEND HOG PRICE SUPPORT   WFA Moves to Help Relieve Glut in Trade

YOUTH ON THE LOOSE   Akron Firemen Stoned Wher They Put Out Bonfire

59 Ship Workers Charged With Defrauding U. S.   Total Amount Of Alleged Fraud Is More Than $500,000.

FRAUD CHARGED TO 55 MEN IN BOSTON SHIPYAR   Biddle Says Over $500,000 Involved In Over-Payment

Yankee Patrols Approach Paris  From Chartres   Chateaudun, Orleans, Dreux Occupied By ll. S. Troons

NAZIS FORCE TO WITHDRAW (N PENINGIILA   Counterattacks By Germans Are Fierce

ENEMY YIELDS MORELAND IN YANK ATTACKS   Hard Counter-Blows Aimed By Rommel; British Lose Some Ground At Caen

American Attacks Force Further Nazi. Withdrawals From Cherbourg Peninsula

YANKS FORCE WITHDRAWALS IN NORMANDY   Nazis Lose 124 Tanks In Cherbourg Peninsula Counter Attacks

Nazis Retreat Slowly Under Yank Assaul   British Drive Around Caen Halted By Counter-Attacks

Incendiaries Are Dropped In RAF Raid   U. S. Bombers Pound German Air Fields In Northern France

Deliver Another Shattering Blow In Invasion Plan   Follows RAF’s Greatest Fire Raid In History With 500,000 Incendiaries Scattered From End To End Of Axis Territory.

Allies Carry Greatest Assault Through 9th Day   Europe. Battered by 12,000 Planes In 72 Hours; New Blow Underway

Churchill Is Reassuring  About Italy   Pessimism Declared To Be Unjustified by Prime Minister

Churchill States Allied Commander In Italy Confident  No Cause for Worty,. Says Announcement, Considered Unusual:

Churchill Told Rome Will Be Won By Commanders  London Considers   London Considers Statement Unusual for Prime Minister

ARMY. MEN TELL CHURCHILL ROME WILL BE SEIZED   Statement Interpreted as Sign of Confidence of Commanders Beachhead Will Be Held.   DECLARE PESSIMISM IS NOT WARRANTED   Announcement Intended to Quiet Mounting Anxiety in Britain and United States.

Churchill Declares Optimism    Supplies Reaching Allies at Scene. Of Anzio Battle -

See No Reason For Pessimism  Says Churchill   Allied Beachhead In Italy Firmest In 72 Hours; Clark Assures Fifth.   RED ARMY ADVANCES

Field Generals. Flay Pessimism   Churchill Assured: . Rome Will Re VW/n.

Allied Leaders Say Battle ‘Will Be Won  Claim There's No   Claim There's Nc Justification for Pessimism

ALLIED LEADERS TELL CHURCHILL ROME 10 FALI   No Cause for Pessimism, Prime Minister Assures British, American People

Wilson. and Alexander Say They Are Confident of Victory   CLARK CHEERS MEN   Victorious March on Rome Sure to Come, He Tells the Fifth '

Nazis Held Back, New Troops And Supplies Landed   Churchill Is Told There Is No Reason For Pessimism; Gen. Clark Spurs Troops

Churchill Is Sure of Win at Anzio   Declares No Reason for Pessimism in Fight for Rome

FARM INCOME IS HIGH   An All-Time High Is Expected in State for This Year

U.S. British Split Partly Healed   Halifax-Stettinius Agree On Need of Closest Con sultation of Two Nations.

lJ.S. and Britain Reach Partial  Accord on Political Policies  on Future Course in Liberated  Agree to Consult ~ 2 * _ phe. Chuechill le Unheld by Commons

U.S., Britain Seek Aceord   Steltinius and Walifa: Canter an Pra

U.S., Britain Achieve Only Partial  Agreement on Policy  - Both Washington and London Stand on Basic Policies but Agree  a 2 SS 8, Pie 2k. sei oe

U. S. and Britain Arrive At Partial Agreement On Policy in Freed Nations

U. S. and Britain Draw Closer On Foreign Policy   Halifax Confers With Stettinius

Superforts Hit Capitol _ in Daylight   Begin “Relentless” Attack from Air on Nips’ Mainiand

Raid Opens ‘Relentless ,hir Assault   Hundreds Of Tons Of Bombs Fall In First LandBased Attack.

Largest Group Ot Supertorts Ever To Attack   JIpening Of ‘Blasting Which Will Be Carried On From Air Until Invasion.’   HOSPITAL IS DAMAGED

Bombing Marks Opening Of Big Air Offensive   Japanese Capital Blasted By U. S. Superforts Operating From Saipan

Little opposition met by Superfort armada blasting Japan capital

Meet Little Opposition In Thrust on Nippon Capital From New Bases on Saipan

No Jap Fighter Planes Are Met   Antiaircraft Fire Over Enemy’s Capital Is Described As Meager and Inaccurate By Gen.  O’Donnell, Attack Leader.

Yank Raid Took Japs By Surprise   Met No Fighter Resistance, Meager Anti-aircraft Fire

MIGHTY ARMADA OF SUPERFORTRESSES IN DAMAGING BOMBING  OPENING OF RELENTLESS ATTACK ON JAP HOME- LAND SAYS ARNOLD

RAID HEAVIEST MADE ON JAPAN   Arnold Hails Attack As Start Of Air Offensive On Nips’ Homeland

Flying From Saipan, Yank Airmen Hit at Industrial Plants in Enemy Cacital

Jundreds Of Tons Of Bombs Hit Japan Capital In Day Raid From Dawn Base

Superfort Armada Blasts Jap Capital   Impending Invasion Foretold by Gen. Hap Arnold in Predicting Relentless Softening Assaults

Giant Planes Make Strike  From Saipan   Thunderous Inaugural Knockout of Aerial Warfare: Damace Unknown

U. S. Aerial Task Force Operates From New Base Set Ub In The Marianas

Japs Capital Feels Effects Of Heavy Blow   Number Of Ships Not Disclosed; Said To Be 70

Opener of Air Battle  for Japan   Tokyo Radio Says Seventy Planes Made Raid, Claims Three Shot Down   FEW DETAILS FROM AMERICAN SOURCES   But Army Emphasizes That Big Raid Is Just A Starter

—JAPAN—  QPENING ATTACK ON JAP CAPITAL   Tons Of Bombs Dropped By Air Armada From Sainan   PALACE SPARED   Gen. Arnold Asserts At ‘tack Launched Drive On Islands

Mighty Armada Of B 29s Blast City With Tons Of Bombs   Attacks To Continue Until Land-Sea Invasion Begins

RAID SURPRISE TO JAPS, SAYS ATTACK CHIEF   Planes Operate From New Base Built in Marianas Islands

Inaugural Of K. 0. Air Warfare, Says Arnold   Aerial Task Force Came From Saipan;     Tokyo Reports 70 Superforts Raided Capital: Claim Three Shot Down.

SAIPAN USED AS BASE FOR RAIDING FORGE   Attack by B-29s Carried Out By New 21st Bomber Command

Gen. H. H. Arnold Declares Raid Opening Of Attack Which Will Be Carried . On Until Jap Homeland Is Invaded 

‘Superforts Open Series Attacks Or Jap Homeland   Planes Based On Saipan Complete Largest Raid Yet Made On Japan.

Japs Caught By Surprise   No Fighter Resistance; « Little-A-A-~ Fire, Reports General Who Led Raid

TOKYO RAID FIRST MOVE IN PROGRAM   General Arnold Declares Attack Will Continue Until The Day Of LondSea Invasion

Air Attack Will Now Be Carried On Reientless.ly Until Day of Invasion, Arnold Announces in Declaring the “Battle Kor Japan Fas Been Joined.”

SURPRISE JAPS ON TOKYO RAID   Enemy Offered No Fighter Opposition, Gener al O’Donnell Says

B SUPERFORTS BLASTS TOKYO   Say Attack Will Be Carried On Relentlessly From Air ‘ Until Land and Sea Inva sion.

Based on Saipan They Mark Initial Attack on Capital  By Land-based Planes

Mighty Armada OF Giant B-29s RaidJapCapital   Hundreds Of Tons Of Bombs Smash Against Vital Nipponese War Industries   Attack Lasts Two Hours, Japs Say   Tokyo Claims ‘Three ‘Forts’ Shot Down; Opens New Phase hi War Against Rising Sun Empire

Robot Lull Ends; Nazis Send Large Number Into  London. South England

BRITISH L 39 BOMBERS IN RAIDS   Smaller Fleet Of Airmer Jab At Berlin  LONDON   Handed Heaviest Bombing In Months: Coast Of France Again Hit

New Red Drive  Launched   Roaring Battle Rages for East Prussian Area, Says Berlin

The Day's  Almanac   cater   lodav’e Horald   To the People of thie Cammunitv

AMERICANS FIGHTING IN VILLAGE   Wewak, Rabaul Get Daily Air Attack; Kavieng Raided

Jap Defenses On Manus Island Hit   Strong Japanese Positions In Village OF Lorenaau Overcome In Advance By Americon:

Dewey Urges Independent Poland, Call For Data on Private, Secret Parleys

Dewey Calls for End of Secret   Re-establishment of Poland Urged

Japs Claim More American  Carriers Damaged Report 15 Allied Planes Downe: by Nip Airmen 0 Saipan in Attack Unconfirmed by Allies

JAPANESE REPORT NEW U.S. ATTACKS   AERIAL WARFARE IN MID-PACIFIC AREAS GROWS IN INTENSITY

Japs Report New Assaults Upon Islands   Iwo Jima, 800 Miles South of Tokyo Said to Be Latest Target

Japs Report Air Battles   Linked With Furious Fighting on Saipan; Yap and Palau Raided

JAPS REPORT AIR BATTLES GROWING IN INTENSITY   Tokyo Broadcasts Tell of Fichts Around Saipen Islands. Also Make Large Naval Claims

Some Phases Of International Problems Discussed; Questions And Answers Followed

Large Audience Heard Sumner  Welles Sat. Eve   Some Phases Of Internationa! Problems Discussed; Questions And Answers Followed

DOWNEY S LEAD IN RACE GROWS   PRESIDENT HAS 457,703 MAJORITY OVER DEWEY

SKILLED WORKMAN BN ALE “PLANTS MAY WALKOUT IF .NO ACTION ‘TAKEN ON.  WAGE DEMAND

GENERAL STRIKE THREAT VOICED   CIO Meet Monday To Deter. mine Detroit Action   Manufacturers Urge WLB To Stand By Wage Policy

Says Wazis Using Many Paratroopers   S$ters and Stripes Paper   Stars and Stripes Paper Asserts They Are Using American Uniforms

Nazis Threaten Allied Officers   Parachutists ‘Dropped Be hind Lines to Kill High Ranking Lenders

‘Germans in U. S. Uniforms Sent To  ‘Kill High Ranking Allied Officers

Report German Chutists Attempting To Kill ‘High Ranking Officers

Americans Lose 41 Bombers And 28 Fighting Planes      Estimate 2400 Warplanes Engaged In History’: Mightiest Battle As Huns Rise In Effort To Check Terrific Pounding Of Reich.

NAZIS LOSE 28 PLANES —“NONEDAY   E nemy Jet-Craft  Hurled Into  Action

2400 Planes Shoot It Out Over Reich As German Jet Fighters Attack; Nazi Synthetic Oil, Rail Targets Hit

South Gets Recognition   Convention Delegates Get in Without Fight

Inspectors At Local Plants Receive Award   Ten Dempster Inspectors. Qne From Kees Receive Service Ribbon.  Taran 62 TL TT; ee. Se * rs 4 Pere A Ore?   PRAISED BY CAPTAIN   Submit Wage Compact  Of Railroads. Unions

3800 Nazi Vehicles Blasted in Day       American General Becomes Mero to Allies  British Papers Dub Patton ‘Superman’

Britain Hails Patton As Hero Of The Hour   Attach Legendary Terms To Fighting U. S. Commander.

‘Son-of-a-Gun General’ George Patton Man of the Hour with British Papers

Patton Is Hailed Man of the Weel   Britons Apply Terms as ‘Legendary to Exploits  of His Army.

BATTLE LOSSES REACH 162,282   Army Casualties Total 121,458, Navy Has A0D,824

American Casualties At 162,282, Knox Reveals  Army Lists 121,458, With 20,592 Killed, Navy Loses 40,824, Including 17,261 Dead 35,565 AMERICANS LISTED AS MISSING  Chances of Wounded Much Better Now Than in Previous War

STREAMLINER WRECK TAKES FIVE DEATHS   Fast Passenger Train Jumps Tracks on  Downhill Turn

Train Wreck Survivors Describe Scene of Horror and Confusion as Streamliner Leaves Rails

'13 Bus Victims ‘Found in River   Bodies of 10 to 16 Others Still Hunted

13 Bodies Removed From Passaic River   Betweert 10 And 16 Are Missing From Bus Crash In River

WAGE FORMULA TO BE RETAINED   WLB Says Changes Will Be Responsibility Of Congress

Hold Firm On Wages   Any Break in “Little Steel” Formula Must Come from Congress, Says Gov’t Official

WAGE FORMULA ART WE   Report Administration Won’! Yield to Pressure From  ahor

WAR WAGE POLICY IS DECLARED FIRM   Administration Won’t Revise Little Steel Formula Unless Congress Acts.

Roosevelt Not ‘To Break Wage Formula, Claim   Congress Must Assume Responsibility of Lifting “Little Steel” Yardstick. Officials Say

Break in Pay Formula Up To Congress   ‘Government Official Says ‘Administration Will Not Lift Ceilings

MOVES 70 BREAK ~ WAGE CURB FAIL   ADMINISTRATION DECIDES TO MAINTAIN THE “LITTLE STEEL” FORMULA.

Administration Refuses To Droy Wage Formula.   Decides Responsibility For Any Such ‘Action ‘o Be -Uypi_ 10: Congress

“Little Steel” Formula To Stay   Labor's Pressure Brings No Results

Holding Tight To Wage Plan   Admunistration Will Retain System Until Congress Takes Blame

WILL STICK TO WAGE FORMULA   Administration Resists Pressure From Labor Organizations

PARLEY — Churchill In ‘Paris, Meets French Chiei   Important War Problems To Be Discussed By Leaders ©

Churchill. Pays Visit — To Pari:   Joins Gen. de Gaulle In Paying Traditional Tribute To War Dead At Arc De Triomphe

VISIT 10 PARIS   Joins General DeGaulle in Traditional Tribute to War Dead.

Churchill Joins de Gaulle in Tribute To War Dead in Paris Ceremony

CHURCHILL AND EDEN JOINED DEGAULLE IN TRIBUTE TO WAR DEAL  _ BRITISH LEADER ARRIVED IN PARIS SECRETLY ON FRIDAY

Churchill, Eden In France For  DeGaulle Parley   Join Paris Observance  Of 1918 Armistice An-

CHURCHILL IN PARIS, MEETS FRENCH CHIEF   Participates in First Armistice Da) Observance France Has Had in Five Years.

Churchill on Paris Visit   Premier Joins France In Armistice Rites; Hailed by Thousands

Churchill Wilt Meet With Gen. De Gaulle   Prime Minister Has Reached Paris; Conference Coming

BEGIN TALKS WITH FRENCH      Winston Churchill Joins General deGaulle in Tribute te War Dead

CHURCHILL. EDEN ARRIVE IN PARIS   JOIN IN ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE;, T0 TALK WITH FRENCH

Churchill in Paris for Talks With De  Gaulle Governmen!   Helps French Observe , First Armistice Day in Five Years

Churchill In Paris Tribute  Premier, de Gaulle At Arc de Triomphe

CHURCHILL AND EDEN IN STATE VISIT TO PARIS   lo Confer On French Cooperation In War And Writing Of Peace——Crowds Jam Streets.

REPORT IS CONFIRMED   Hitler Tells of Accidental Death of General Dietl

8,122 Japanese, 286 American Troops Slain In U.S. Attacks On Marshalls, Reports Nimitz

Marshalls Invasion Deaths: 8,122 Japs, Against 286 Yankees   Powerfully Executed Maneuvers Praised by  British Observer

Marshalls Losses: Are Reported Lov   20 Japs Killed for Each Yankee Latest Fiqures of Battle Show

206 INVADERS REPORTED DEAL   Shows Invasion Force of Marshalls Struck With ~ Coordinated Fury.

POWERFUL FLEET AND AIRFORCE POUNDED MARSHALL ISLANDS  COORDINATED FURY OF SEA AND AIR ATTACK BY INVADERS PERFECT

Little Left For Soldiers   Eyewitnesses Tell Of Terrible Destruction Of Marshalls Bombing, Shelling

Over 8,000 Japs Killed In Marshalls Invasion;  Only 286 Americans Diec

Marshalls Invasion Kills More Than 8,000 Japs U.S. Dead, Missing 368

Record U.S. Fleet Raid Kills 8,122  In Invasion   Americans Killed In Marshalls Total 286

Marshalls Toll High For Enemy   ONLY 286 } AMERICANS WERE KILLED IN > AT DACK

Marshall Coup Is Remarkable, Allied Chief Says  U. S. Casualties Are Exceedingly Low;  Japs Suffer Heavily

Central Pacific Fighting Fiery   Americans kill Japs at Two-to-One Ratio at Marshalls

8,122 JAPS SLAIN IN INVASION OF MARSHALL ISLETS   INVADERS LOSE ONLY 286, INCLUDING 82 AMERICANS MISSING

Japs Killed At Ratio Of 20 To One   Preparatory ‘ Attacks In Marshall Islands Were Unprecedented, Says Experienced Observer

+]  MARS: INVASION COST LIVES OF 286   82 Other Americans Missing, 1,148 Wounded, Admiral Nimitz Re noris   8,122 JAPS SLAIN   264 Nipponese Taken Prisoner— Pre-Invasion Blasting Credited With Saving U. S. Lives

8,000 Nippons Ave Wiped Out  On Marshalls   Only 286°: Aimeéficans “Are “Killed As Result of Preparatory Attacks Before Invasion

Enemy Dead 8122; American 286; Naval Bombardment Churned Island Into Rubble

UJ §. WOUNDED 1,148: 264 PRISONERS TAKEN   Kwajalein Operations Sever Jap Supply Arteries in Entire Island Group

$122 Japanese Slain, Against 236 Americans On Kwajalein   62 Yanks Missing and 1148 Wounded in Atoll Vietory

Only 286 Yanks Killed In Marshalls Invasion   At Least 8,122 Japs Slain; Power Of Fleet, Air Attack, Artillery Cuts Losses

Kill Over 8,000 Japs In Powerfully Executec Invasion of Marshalls

Enemy Caught Off Guard By Powerful Navy Attack; Hundreds of Japs Buried

Service Vote Bill ls Handed Up To Congress   Heavily Emphasizes Priority of States In Providing Full Voting Privileges; Committee Divided.

Conferees Offer Compromise Bill On Service Vote   Measure To Give States Priority

City of Frankfurt Target For Yank Bombing Planes   Mysterious ‘Military Objectives’”” On French Invasion Coast Hit

Prime Minister In Pessimistic ‘Mood to Commons   Germans in Fierce Battle on Russian Front in Prussia.

Rumanian Dictator and Four Henchmen Handed Over to Russian High Command

Moscow Discloses Antonescu Now in Hands of Soviets  Four Other Officials and Five Leading Nazis Alsa.Held

DICTATOR HANDED OVER TO RUSSIA   ION ANTONESCU AND 4 OTHER ROMANIAN OFFICIALS IN CUSTODY.

PATRIOTISM LACKING HERE, DECLARATION   Men Overseas Think Not Enough, Rickenbacker Says

More Pressure  Placed On 4-F’s   Draft Official Urges  Drastic Measures

Col. Keesling of Selective Service Urges Pressure on 4-F's to Force Them Into Essential War Jobs

WAC MAJOR’S DEATH IS PROBED BY ARMY   Commander's Body Found at Foot of Cliff

Chinese Rout 4,000 Nippon Troops To Eliminate Threat to Kweichow

2 Other U.S. Armies,:. British, Canadians: AssailEnemy Wedge   J. S.-British Planes. Roar: to- Attack: as: Break In ‘Weather Exposes Hun: ‘Armored. Columns  Breonhawar Evhncte Tenane boos

Nazi Onrush Halted on 60-Mi. Front, Latest Reports Indicate; U. S. Third, British and Canadians Enter Battle’

SAVAGE BATTLE IN PROGRESS FOR LIVORNO   Germans Attempt To Regain Initiative By infiltrating Into Yank Lines

BITTER BATTLE IN } ITALY 1S REPORTED   Germans Strike Back Furiously at American Forces

BITTER FIGHTING AAGES IN ITALY   Struggle Similar to Fight for Cassino Raging in Village Of Rosignano; Nazis Strike Furiously at Americans

YANK ADVANCE UPONITALIAN PORT STOPPED   GRIM YARD-BY- YARD GAINS MADE BY DOUGHBOYS

Nazis Stop Fifth.Army Coast Push   Kesselring Withdrawing Into Gothic Line: To Phitietees Defense — Brant

ROSIGNANO IS BATTLE SCENE FOR 3 DAYS   Comparable with Fight for Cassino; Germans Hit Back Savagely on 530-Mile Front.   2,000 Sorties

Yanks and Nazis In 3-Day Battle   Germans Hit Back On Italian Front

SAVAGE BATTLE RAGES IN ITALY   AMERICANS AND GERMANS FIGHT FOR RUINED VILLAGE OF ROSIGNANO,

SHOWDOWN FOR HUGH CONTROL   Australian Jungle Troops Closing in on Trapped Enemy Forces.

ALLIES NEARING SHOWDOWN FIGHT FOR HUON AREA   Aussies Capture Nambariwa On Nw Guinea—Are Now "Shelling Sio

Showdown Battle Seen For Huon Peninsula Control   Australian Jungle Troops Closing In On Trapped Enemy

Two-Mile Gain Is Scored By Jungle Troops   Showdown Battle For Centrol Of Peninsula Forecast In Dispatch From New Guinea

Trap Close: On Hapless Japs at Sio      . Enemy Force On Huon Peninsula nnthifation

JAPS TRAPPED BY AUSSIES IN HUON SECTOR   Climax 50-Mile Drive In Two Months Of  Hard Battles 

Australians Advance on New Guinea   Japs Held in Trap At Main Base on  Huon Peninsula

AUSTRALIANS SHELL S10, NEW GUINEA   Showdown Battle For Huon Peninsula Is Forecast

FALL OF RABAUL "EXPECTED SOON: - BOMBING GOFS ON   Great Jap Base Nearly Defenseless After Prolonged Aerial Assauit.

Daily Temperature:   By UNITED PRESS   U. §. Seizure of Rabaul Expected Soon: It's Practically Defenseless

U. S. Control of Rabaul Now Close   Stronghold Is Believed Defenseless, Navy Says

SEIZURE OF RABAULIS THOUGHT NEAR   Important Jap Base Virtually Defenseless

Trace Most Of Sabotage To Juveniles   Hoover Finds No ForeignDirected Sabotage Since War Began

Brewster County's Quota Is  the Campaign Beginning Monday Is $225,000

Germany's Air Losses Continue; Latest Bag Is 133 Nazi Planes; London Gets Another Bombing

teady Blows Wiaintained On Nazi Germany   Berliners Allowed No Time to Sleep As Mosquito Bombers Range Over City.   GERMANS LOST 100 PLANES YESTERDAY   Blasting of Factories Seriously Cripples German AntiInvasion Fighter Plane  Strength.

OAKS PACT WINS CHINA PRAISE   Dr. Koo Sees No Obstacle To Agreement On Security, Peace Organization

CHINA DELEGATE SAYS PEACE PLAN RESEMBLES GURS   Dr, Wellington Koo Sees No Obstacle 10 Quick Agreement

College Group Gives Reception  To LeMars Group  Students Entertain Large Number Of . Local People  

College Group Gives Reception  To LeMars Group  Skadenty: Entertain Large Number ‘OF.

Jap Bases Hit By U.S. Air Forces   Soldiers Mop Up On Saipan Island

Soviets Take Brest Litovsk; 30,000 Nazis Caught in Trap 300,000 Others Are in Peril

Brest Litovsk Taken and Nazi Divisions Encircled   KOBIEL CAPTURED; GERMANS RETREAT   Soviet Forces Within ¢ Few Miles of Czech Border

TAKE THREE MORE GERMAN STRONGHOLDS   Trap Three Divisions of. Perhaps 30,000 Men. Near Fallen City of Brest Litovsk.         SOVIET APPROACH THE CZECH BORDER   Three Hundred Thousand Nazis in Estonia’ and Latvia Imperiled by. Cutting of Railroad,

Battle For Vital City ds Exnected   Polish Underground ts Already Lending Aid @ To Russian Advance

Dispatches Claim Polish Underground Forces Al. ready Are Fighting Germans Inside Nation’s Capital

GREAT SOVIET DRIVE DRAWS NEAR WARSAW   GERMAN _ DIVISIONS ENCIRCLED; BREST LITOVSK FALLS

Nazis Stageer Back as Russ Doom Warsaw   Reds Trap 3 Divisions, Take Brest Litovsk, Hubs on Reich Route

Reds Entrap 30.000 Nazis   Brest Litovsk Is Captured; Warsaw Now 20 Miles Away

Bulgarian Peace Prospects Fade  "Tarritarial Claim      Territorial Claim Rejected by Allies

Armies Advance Mile an Hour; Take Soissons  Belleau Wood Also Is  Overrun; Americans

SCOUTS 10 HOLD COURT OF HONS   Parents of Scouts Receiving Awards Urged to Attend

Lane Re-Elected Conmnittesinan   Maryland Delegates Pledge Votes To O’Conor For Vice-President.

Predicts Record Vote in November   Ohio Official Foresees Big Turnout at Polls

TWO JAPANESE ADMIRALS ARE LOST AT SAIPAN   Marianas Base _ Believed Enemy’s Strongest Scuthern Bastion

Navy Hammers ‘Guam Into Shape For An Invasion   In Loss of Saipan Island , Two Japanese Admirals  Are Killed.   It» New Guinea Japs Are Being Encircled

Ship, Air Blows Hit Island   Two Nip Admirals Die; Enemy Forces Attempt to Break Guinea Trap

Aerial Blasts Also Directed At Island Taken From U.S. By Japs In 1941; Disclose Two Japanese Admirals Lose Lives At Saipan

JAP A DIED IN SAIPAN FIGHT, REPORI   Enemy Still Attempts To Break Through Aitape Circle

Two Jap Admirals Killed on Saipan   Encircled Nip Troops Fight Desperately in New Guinea Battle

Ships, Planes Pounding Guam   Navy Reveals Deaths Of Two Jap Admirals On Saipan

TOKYO REPORTS U, §, FLEET IN MARIANAS AREF   Nine Straight Days of Blasting, Four Days of Warship Shelling Make Guam Groggy.

NAGUMO, YANO  MET DEATH DAY  BEFORE ISLE FELL GAUM ROCKS UNDER  2 DAYS OF AERIAL AND NAVAL ATTACKS

U.S. Navy Hammers Guam Into Shape For Invasion;.  Two Jap Admirals Killed

Nimitz Reveals  (2 Jap Admirals Killed At t Saipan   Yanks Continue Softening Assaults In Preparation For Invasion Of Guam

Adm. Nagumo. Unidentified Officer Die Upon Island   -Enemy. “Troops ‘Stage Battle Near’ Aitape.

AMERICAN TASK UNIT CONTINUES GUAM ASSAULT   Reveal Japanese Commander of Central Pacific Slain on Saipan

U.S. Softens Guam For Invasion, Japs Lose Two Admirals   Enemy Tries To Escape From New Guinea Trap

Island Was Major Fort Before Japan   Guam Is Raided by Allies ‘Ninth Straight Day; 45,000 Encircled Near Aitape

GUAM HAMMERED FOR INVASION BY AMERICANS   Two Jap Admirals Killed In Naval  Encounter

Two Nip Admirals Killed in Fight For Saipan Island  Adm. Naonma Wha   Adm. Nagumo Who Led Attack on Pearl Harbor, Found Dead

‘Two Japanese Admirals Die ‘On Saipan   45,000 Trapped Nips Attack Allied Forces Near Aitape; Gaum Blasted by Aircraft and Warships

Warships, Planes Continue Blasting Guam for Invasion  : Jans Try-te Sering Aitape Tra

U. S. WARSHIPS HAMMER GUAM   45,000 Entrapped Japs Throw Selves At Allied Circle

JAPS LOSE TW ADMIRALS IN SAIPAN BATTLE   Navy Unceasingly Hammers Guam Into Shape For Invasion

2 Jap Admirals Among Dead On Saipan Island  One Led Pearl Harbo   One Led Pearl Harbor Attack; Foe Trying To Break Out Of Allied Trap On New Guinea

Jap Admirals  Die On Saipan   Two Officers Killed: 45.000 Japs Stull Trapped On New Guinea.

Trapped Japs Slain — In Suicidal Attacks   Doom Sealed for 45,000 Enemy On New Guinea While American Naval Forces Keep Battering Through Inner Defense Lines Around Japan; Guam Invasion Looms

ONE-THIRD OF BOND QUOTA IS REACHED HERE   Sales Yesterday Reported Good By Committee

CARBONDALE HAS $402,833 BOND SALES REPORTED   Went Over Top Saturday; More Sales Ahead

LOCAL SALES IN BOND DRIVE REACH $61.062   Cash Sales Not As Good As Expected

BOND BUYERS REACT BETTER PAST FEW DAYS   Carbondale Quota Near Half-Way Mark Today

VICTIM OF SWITCHING ACCIDENT   Same Train Hits and Kills Granite City Man Later in Day

CAN FORCES TIGHTEN GRIP ON SOUTHERN  TALY   Smash Counter Attacks On Pisa-Florence Highway   GERMANS SHELL FROM ARNO BANK   Retreating Nazis Forced From Positions Near _ Florence

Yanks Tighten Grip on Pisa   3 — nD  Smash German Counter-Attacks

Italy Yanks > TightenGrir Inside Pisa   Nazi Guns Pour Shells Into New American Points

Eden Cauti ons House Against Over-Optimism   Nazis Brace German People For Final Stand   a, on Pisa      Beat Off Two''l Two: Nazi Counter-Attacks —”

U.S. FORCES CLOSE GRIP ON PISA   2 Nazi CounterAttacks Are Repulsed

Yank Armored Forces Tighten Clamp On Pisa   Two Strong Enemy Counterattacks Are  Smashed By Allies

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON PISA; HOLD ARNO LINE   2 Strong German Counterblows Fail  to Dislodge Allies

American Force Tightens Grip on Southern Pisa   Improve Position Despite Heavy Nazi Shellftre

U.S, FORCES TICHTEN GRIP ON SOUTH PISE   Long - Range German Gung on Arno River Fire Heavily

Yanks Tighten Pisa Grip Today   ee  Firmly in Control of Modern Section of City, Despite Nazi Artillery Attacks

YANKS FIRMLY IN CONTROL OF SOUTHERN PISA   Tighter Hold Despite Shellfire; Smash Two Attacks

Feuhrer Believed Beginning to Draw on Reserves As Invasion Hour Nears. Full Intensity of Aerial Bombing of Germany Has Not Yet Been Reached

The War Today  German Fighters Reappear To Defend Berlin. In Weekend Attack.

The War Today   Ry Dewitt MacKENZIE (Associated Prese War Anaiyst)

[WEEKEND PROVES LUFTWAFFE STILL IS STRONG; IGREATEST AIR BATTLE DUE WHEN INVASION COMES

SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT OF PAST WEEKEND WAS BATTLE PUT LIP BY NAZI FIGHTERS AT BERLIN

THE  WAR TODAY   eappearance of German Fighter Planes In Force Significant Development Of Altied Bombings

9 Polio Dead  In Milwaukee City Has 52 Active Cases, Says Official

Germans Believed Defeated At Anzio: Hundreds Surrender   3-U-Boats Sunk

SECOND BATTLE FOR BEACHHEAD BELOW ROME ENDS IN GERMAN DEFEAI   Some Small Nazi CounterAttacks Still Going On Around Aprilia an d Cisterna.

—wTEIVY AOEUIN OF GAHECK—  ‘Allied Blow Is Aimec _ At Ending Nazi Rule In Balkan Nations   British Reported Battling Germans In Port Of Pa’ trai; RAF Spitfires Already Operating’ From Seized Airfields :

Westerir Coast of Greece Invaded by British Liberators   Occupy Port of Patria; Make Immediate Use . of Its Airfields

Invade Western Coast With Air And Sea Forces   Seize Port Of Patrai; Captured Airfield Al wanna In lle

Hearty Welcome Given By Greeks   .. Jaws of Great Trap Closing On Whole of Balkans

Land By Sea, Air In West Coast Sector   Enter Patras Port, Begin Using Airfields For Fighters To Hit Nazi Positions

TIME ARRIVES TO SEND XMAS GIFTS   Japs Have Not Issued Statement on Shipment Far Prisoners tn Orient.

Early Accord Seen in New World League   U.S., Britain, Russia To Launch Plans for Security Tomorrow

Invasion Blocks German Escape Route to Reich   Enemy Is Forced to Send Supplies to Garrisons By Sea

Roosevelt Appeals For Instant Action ‘on Seaway Projec   United States - Canadian Project Under Fire by Senate Committee

ACTION ON SEAWAY ~—-GURGED BY FOR   Appeal Gives Fresh Lift te Efforts to Obtain Leaisiation.

President Urges Congress To Act On Great Seaway   Asks Necessary Law To Start St. Lawrence Project

ASKS ACTION ON SEAWAY PROJECT   FDR .URGES.CONGRESS. TO RUSH PASSAGE OF ST, LAWRENCE BILL

TWO MORE RED DRIVES OPENED ON WIDE FRONT   Russians Streaming West Against Weak Finnish Resistance

Reserves Will Gel Commissions  ‘Ceremony Will Be Held On Dec. 20

GERMAN CIVILIANS HIDING IN MINES   AA TR  300 Feared Decapitation When Americans Came

Charles Evans Hughes, Retired Chief Justice Of U.S., ls 82 Today

Arnold Promises Shuttle Bombing of Germany From Both Russia and Italy

‘Many Ohioans Among Airborne Troops \Now Poised In England For Invasion

HIT AT AXIS IN BOLIVIA   Britain Joins U. §. in Re fusing Recognition To New La Paz Regime.

EDEN SAYS NAZI AGENTS HELPED BOLIVIAN COUP   Britain Joins With U. S. iv Refusing to Recognize New Regime

BRITAIN RAPS BOLIVIAN COUP   Backs U. S. Stand of Nonrecognition; Look To Argentina

POWERFUL AMERICAN ARMIES OF INVASION TAKE GERMAN TOWNS  " U. §. TANKS AND DOUGHBOYS STORMING WEST WALL ON LONG FRONT

VOTE PURCHASE OF PINECREST   Legislature Approves Ex penditure of $25,000  For. Institution

Pinecrest Deal Goes Througt   Purchase Voted After Fast Maneuvers

Roll Through French Towns Toward Pari:   Troops Advance Steadily ‘Along Highways Lined  + With Deliriously-Happy Men, Women, Kiddies

Victorious Amertcans Speed Down Road Toward Paris As French Cheer Liberators

Paris in Ten Days Is. Yank Hope         Gorell am United Press Staff ms

FLAGS, BANNERS, BURNING CITIES IN GRIM CONTRAST ON PARIS ROAD   WRITER DESCRIBES SCENES BEHIND BIG YANK BREAKTHROUGH AS TROOPS SPEED AHEAD

“WE'LL BE If PARIS IN NEXT 10 DAYS’   Amazing Allied March up Nationa Road Vividly Decerihed

Town After Town Flashes Under Sherman Tank Treads as Yanks Speed Toward Paris ©

All Signboards Point to Paris as Yanks Surge or   Victory Symbol.

Americans on Road to Paris are Greeted with Cheers and Kisses by  Grateful French, Mad With Joy

Postal Receipts For First Quarter Totals $5,960.79   Increase of $1,107.09 Over Same ees of Last Year.

Postal Receipts For 2nd Quarter Total $5,493.07   Receipts Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1944 Totals $22,691.92.

Point Values for Meat Expected to Remain At the Present Low Levels During January

Laurel and Laurel Rural District Exceed Quotas in War Loan Drive

Germans Knew When D-Day Was Coming   However, So Many False Alarms Had Made Them lI’ nwarv

Yankees Avenge Pearl Harbor On Tokyo Route   ‘Victory March’ Noted in All Pacifie Figehting

GHIY AWAITS BEGINNING OF ANNUAL CLEANUP   Officials Expect Trucks to Haul 175 Leads of Refuse

CITY: AWAITS. BEOINNING OF ANNUAL CLEANUP   Officials Expect - Trucks to Haul 175  Loads. of Refuse

Losses Low”  In Normandy   Casualties During First Three Weeks of Invasion About Half of Those Expected

Casualties Are Revealed   Losses in Normandy Invasion Less Than Expected: Stimson

Says Invasion Losses Under Estimates   ‘Slightly Less’ Than Expected in July And August

American Casualties In Invasion Of France Half The Number Expected

FEWER CASUALTIES   Army Figures in Normandy Invasion Only Half Expected Number

LOW INVASION CASUALS NOTED   German Army Disorganiz. ed and Bewildered,  Stimson Says

GASUALTIES NOT HIGH AS FEARED   Stimson Reports Army Losses During Invasion Less Than Expected Total

Total Casualties Reach 365,759   Invasion Losses Are Lighter Than First Expected—Stimson

Casualties In Normandy Less Than Expected   Army Casualties Since Start Of War Total 305,795, An Increase of 20,000 Over Week Ago.

Casualties in Army Are But Half Of Expected Total  Invasion Losses Are Comparatively Light, Stimson Says

Yank Losses In Normandy Under ‘Quota   ‘Half of Estimates for : First Weeks. Stimson Tells Newsmen

CASUALTY TOTAL  REACHES 365,749   American Army Casualties First Week of Invasion About 47.509.

Casualties:  Are Light .   “Half of Expected _  Figure: In ‘Normandy

—CASU ALTIES—  1.5, CASUALTIES BELOW ESTINAT   French Invasion Cost Lower Than Anticipated, Says Stimson

Casualties Of Invasion  About 42,000   Half of Expected Figure During First Three Weeks of Action

Invasion Casualty Total About Half of Expected Tol   Newest Combined ArmyNavy Casualty Total Stands at 365.759

U. S. Casualties Total 365,759 Since War Start   Normandy Losses Inder Estimate

‘Casualties  In Invasion ‘Half Of What ‘WasExpected   Stimson Says War Won't End Until Allied Forces Are In Berlin

U. S. Army Casualties In First Three Weeks Of Invasion Half Of Expected

WHEAT OUTLOOK I$ ENCOURAGING   Oklahomo’s Report Brightest Of Those Submitted by State Boards

State Leads — In Wheat Crop   60,000,000-Bushel Forecast Stirs — Much Interest

CLAIM PETAIN ARRESTED BY THE GERMANS   Vichy Government Head Taken  To Germany

NAZIS PLANNING TO LEAVE PARIS, ARREST PETAIN      Ex-Chief Of State Taken T Germany—Fighting Mounts

Petain Taken Under Arrest Into Germany   Vichy Chief Of State Had Resisted German Pressure To Leave Capital

A $100 BILLION BUDGET SENT TO CONGRESS TODAY   Is for Double Task of Moving Complete Victory and Return to Peace.   IS UNDER ESTIMATES   Spending Estimates Based on Assumption War Would Last Thru June 30, 1945.

Groundwork for Peace Included in Proposed Spending   President Demands ‘Truly Stiff’ Tax Hike of 101% Billion

VICTORY, PEACE GROUNDWORK OF BUDGET FIGURE   Askings for Farm Program Smallest Since 1934. Called “Stiff Fiscal Program”

Lamb, Beef Off Ration List   Pork Loins, Hams, Canned Fish Put Back On Ration List.

Utility Grade Lamb Ration Free Sunday   eefsteaks and Roasts of the Same Grade Will Also Be Point Free.

OPA Frees Some Utility Grade Meats From Rationing; Restores Foods To List Effective Sunday

aWiTGH MEATS ON RATICNING   Lamb, Beef Steaks and Roasts Point Free Sunday, Pork, Ham Back on List

AUGUST RATION TABLE CHANGED   Some Beef, Lamb On PointFree List; Ham, Pork ih

‘Point Values To Go Back On Pork Loins, Hams, Canned Fish   Sama Tamhe Steake Raaste Point.Free:   Some Lambs, Steaks, Roasts Point-Free; Cheeses. Butter Get Boosts In Value

Return Ration Points To Pork Loins And Hams   But Utility Grade Lamb, Beef Steaks And Roasts To Be Ration Free.

SOME LAMB IS OFF OPA LISI   Utility. Beef Grades Also To Be Ration Free

Meats Undergo Ration Values   Lamb Joins Beef Steaks, Canned Fish, Pork Rationed

Changes in Meat Points   ‘kiiy “ages Lom b, Steaks, Rats Plow Po'nt Fras, Ham Back sn List

LAMB, STEAKS AND ROASTS TO BECOME FREE OF RATIONING   While Pork Loins, Ham: And Canned Fish Go Back on Points Sunday

Utility Beef And Lamb to Be Point-Free   Pork Loins, Hams and Canned Fish Back On Ration List

LIFT POINTS ON UTILITY GRADE LAMB AND BEEF   Change In Rationing Becomes Effective On Sunday

Pork Loins, Ham, Canned Fish Replace Utility Grade Beef, Lamb On Rationing Tables

RATIONING CHANGE  ON MEATS TO START  SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 CERTAIN GRADES LAMB,  BEEF STEAKS AND ROAS' TO RE POINT.EREE

PINT VALUES tf CHEESE BOOSTEL   }. ‘Utility: Grade Lamb, Beef Steaks. And Roasts: ‘Ration Free.

Beef, Lamb  Point Free,  After Sunday   Pork Loins, Ham And Canned Fish Go Rack on Tast

New Values For Meat Are Set By OPA   Utility Grade Lamb And Beef Become Free Of Rationing Under New Program Of OPA

7  TO BECOME RATION-FREE      New OPA Regulations, Effective Sunday, Restore Pork Loins and Hams and Canned Fish to Point List, However.

Lamb To Be Point Free   But Points Will Go Back On Pork Loins and Hams

Many Changes Due Sunday On  Ration Points   Utility Grade Lamb and Beef To Be Ration-free, While Canned Fish, Butter and Cheese Are Raised.

Changes Made in Point Values   Utility Grade Lamb Ration Free—Points  Required for Other ltem:

UTILITY GRADE LAMB, BEEF T0 BE © RATION-FREE: OTHER ITEMS BACK ON

OPA REVISES RATION VALUE OF LAMB. PORK   Canned Fish, Cheeses Are Restored to List, Effective Sunday

Meat Points. Are Revised.   ‘Steaks,. Roasts: “And Utility Lamb ‘Freed

Point Values Back to Pork.  Canned Fish   Utility Beef and Lamb Removed from Rationing Sunday

Utility Grades Of Lamb Are To Be Ration Free   Also Same Class Beef Steaks And Roasts; Few Point Values Up.

Pork, Ham Again Rationed Cheese Points Increased  New Red Stamp to Be Released Sunday; Lower Grade Lamb Becomes Ration-Free  By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH

Utility Grade Meats To Be ‘Ration Free   Point Values To Be Renate to Pork Loins, Hams, Can ned Fish; Point Values ; Cheeses To Be Raised -_

Utility Lamb, Beef, To Be  Ration-Free   Points To Go on Pork Loins, Ham. Canned Fish. As Dairy Points Go Up

Utility Beef Will Become Ration-Free; Ham, Fish Restored   OPA Also Hikes Value of Creamery Butter, Cheese, Pork Loins

Food Rationing Changes ~ Are Effective on Sunday   By MARYIN L. ARROWSMITH.

UTILITY LAMB.  BEEF FREE OF  POINTS SUNDAY PORK LOINS, HAMS  AND CANNED FISH TO RE RESTORED

Effective Sunday  Some Lamb And Beef ‘F reed Pork, Ham, Fish Back On List

Ham, Tinned Fish Returned to Rationing, Utility Grade Beef Made Point-Free

AN EXTRA RED OTAMP CONES — ON PORK HIKI   OPA Helps Out -in Schedule of Ration Ghanges in Effect Sunday.

POINTS GO BACK ON PORK SUNDAY   Loins and Hams Come Off Unrationed Meat List

tility Grade Of Lamb, Beef Steaks, Roasts, Ration Free   ‘sint Value to Be Restored Nat Only 10 Pork Loins  and Hams But to Canned Fish

Announces Shift in Meat Points  Utility Grade Lamb, Beef Free Sunday

Utility Beef, Lamb Off Ration List   Points Restored on Pork Loins and Ham

China Situation Admitted Grave   Japs Continue To Threaten Capital At) Chungking.

CHINESE REPORT SITUATION GRAVE   Spokesman, However, Says Chungking Can Hold Out

Sand-HardenedZealanders ‘Crack Nazi Defenses South Of Florence During Battle

New Zealanders Crack Defenses South Florence   Troops Only Five Miles From City; Bitter Fighting Encountered.

Kighth Army Is Crossing Arno River   British Strike At Florence On Wide Front

BITTER BATTLE NEAR FLORENCE   NEW ZEALANDERS BREAK THROUGH SOUTH OF CITY

NAZI DEFENSES CRACKED TODAY NEAR FLORENCE   Only Five Miles From City; Pisa May Be Saved

New Zealanders  Crack Nazi Line  South of Florence  Bitter Fighting'Reporied in   Bitter Fighting’Reporied in Hills Overlooking City Alter Connier-Atiack Balied

Allies Crack Nazi Defense Near Florence   New Zealand Veterans Only Five Miles from City; South African Troops Cross Greve River

New Zealand Vets Crack Nazi Defenses   Knife Way Into Last Line Guarding Approaches To Florence

NEW ZEALANDERS “WEAR FLORENEY   Knife Way Into Last Nazi Mountain Line, 5  ‘Miles From City

CRACK NAZI LINES   New Zealanders Knife Their Way Within 5 Miles. of Florence

FLORENCE LINES OF NAZIS RIPPED   New Zealanders Drive Five Miles From Italian City

[FALL OF FLORENCE ‘NEAR AS OUTER  DEFENSES CRUMBLE   Tough New. Zealanders Push to Within Five Miles of City After Driving Into Last Mountain Line :

ALLIES FIVE MILES FROM FLORENCE   New Zealand Vets Crack Defenses South of City

Eighth Drives Near Florence   New Zealanders Crack Nazi Defenses South of Florence

NAZI FLORENCE - LINEGRUMBLES   New Zealanders Knife Way Through Enemy's Italian Defenses

Allied Army ‘Closes In On ‘Florence —   _ New Zealand Vets Five Miles From City

New Zealander Troops 5 Miles  From Florence   Smash Way Into Last Mountain Line From Historic City;:Germans Counter-Atiack

British Knife Way Inside Florence Line   Pierce Last Mountain Stronghold; Yank Drive fox Pisa Held Off

German Defenses Near Florence Fall As Tough New Zealanders Push Relentlessly On Despite Resistance

Vets Five Miles  From Florence   Allied Fighters Crack Nazi Defenses South Of Historie City

Crack Hill Defenses    New Zealanders Push To Within Five Miles Of Florence, in Italy

Nazi Defenses South Of Florence  Cracked By New Zealand Veterans

FIGHT RAGES NEAR FLORENCE   Foe Counterattacks After De. i fenses Are Cracked

OPEN NAZI LINE NEAR FLORENCE   ‘New Zealand Troops Knife Through. Defenses To Orive : 5 Miles from City.

RIP DEFENSES AT FLORENCE   New Zealand Troops Lead Attack; Artillery Duel At Pisa -

Hitler Holds Back Twilight of Gods   Tells Troops Rebellion Crushed: 100 Generals Purged: Navy Revolt Is Rumored   Badoglio Says Revolt Shouts Germany Has Lest the War

Marshal Badosglio Sees Nazi RegimeAs Near Collapsing; Looks Back At Italian Rule

Many Die, Hurt In Navy Blast   Ammunition Blows Up In Pearl Harbor, Sinks Severui Vessels

Probe Explosion  At Pearl Harbor  ‘Several Small Vessels’ Sunk: Some Casualties

PEARL HARBOR BLAST REPORTEE   Explosion Destroys Several Small Boats

American Warship: Destroyed in  Hawaii Explosion  Several Men Killed, Others Hurt At Danrl Harbor

Pearl Harbor  Has Explosior   Naval Court Investigates Blas That Sunk Ships and Caused Loss of Life

Blast Revealed At Pearl Harbor   Several Lives Lost  “When Ships Blow Up

Republican Wins Congressional Seat In Special Election in Traditional Democratic Stronghold in Colorado

GOP CANDIDATE SCORFS WIN IN COLORADO VOTE   Demos Lose for First Time Since 1930; Close Count

Republicans Win Denver Election   Democrats Beaten In Coneress Race

GOP Candidate Wins Election In Colorado   First Time District Has Deserted Democrats  Since 1930

GOP SCORES VICTORY IN COLORADO   Gillespie Elected To House of Renresentatives

CLIPPER CRASH © GOST. 17 LIVES   ‘ONLY: NINE. PASSENGERS  { ABOARD BIG, PLANE ES; ., CAPED DEATH IN TAKE: ;- , - ., OFF ACCIDENT.

l6th Japanese Division Given Knockout Blow   Enemy Casualties On Leyte 14,405

YANKS IN CONTROL _ OF SAMAR ISLAND      Half of Enemy Force on Leyte Reported Wiped Out

Americans Kill, Wound Half Of Japs on Leyte and Gain Control Over Samar Island

16th Enemy Divis ion Responsible For ‘‘Death March’ On Bataan Soundly Defeated

March Of Death Jap Division s Soundly Beater   MacArthur In Control O} Samar Island Near Leyte

Full Control Of Samar Isle Won by Yanks   Gen. MacArthur Says Half of Enemy Soldiers on Leyte Killed; New American Gains Announced

YANKS MGVING FORWARD ON SOUTH LEYTE   Half of Enemy Force 14,045 Japanese Soldiers Killed or Wounded in W eek.   Bomb Jolo

Thankful for Allied Victory After Four Years of Nazi Occupation —

SAILOR HELD IN WOMAN'S DEATH   PETTY OFFICER BOOKED ON SUSPICION OF MURDER

Duke- Cromwell Divorce Invalid  Master in Chancery Rules Heiress’ Nevada ice Rand Tiailntad

Doris Cromwell's Divorce Declared Null and Void   Court Finds Element of Fraud in Claim of Reno Residence— Cromwell to Ask Divarce

EXPECT HEAVY NAZI DRIVE ON NETTUNO LINE   Officials in Washington Believe Allies Can Repel Attack

Expect Severe Nettuno Attack   Will Probably Weather Storm, Belief-——London Disappointed

BeachheadMay Weather Storm   But Allies Are In ™ cht Snot At Nettuno

Expect Nazis fo Smash Hard in Rome Arc   Observers in Capital Viewing Situation With Uneasiness

Capitol Fears Heavy Blow at Anzio   Italy Beachhead Worries London

No Alarm Felf ‘In Washington   Allies Will Probably Stand Off. Germans, It Is Believed

SOME-UNEASINESS FELT ABOUT COMING — GERMAN ATTACK ON NETTUNO BEACHHEAD

 Strategy In Italy Represents Mighty Gamble  Difculty Of Supp'y Chief Reason For Slowing Up Of Alllied Thrust

Certain Amount of Uneasi. uess Exists In Washington; London Press Says It’s Disappointing

ALLIES DIG IN FOR EXPECTED COUNTERATTACK   SITUATION CAUSES SOME UNEASINESS IN U. S. CAPITAL

GERMANS HOLD ALLIED TROOPS TO BEACHHEAD   Some Uneasiness, Voiced in Wash ington, London; Many Expected Quick Thrusts Into Interior

Supply Chief  Problem for  Fifth Jas E Psp perts this «ca He  Wl nomthon Cae

Expect Nettuno Beachhead To Weather Storm Despite Savage, Relentless German Attacks

Plan Funeral Services For E. C. Bishop, Founder Of 4-H Club Movement

The War Today   Soviets May Enter Berlin Ahead of Yanks and Tommiecs

The War Today   “SS Many Wonder What Will Happen If Reds Get to Rerlin First.

Company of Japs ‘Mowed Down’ By Four U.S. Tanks in Saipan Fighting

RAIN IMPROVES CROP OUTLOOK   Great Plains and Central Prairie States’ Winter Drought Broken.

PREFERS JAIL - TO DOG DEATH   Refuses to Carry Out Court Order to Kill Pet

Wrestiex’s Wife Prefers Sentence  in Jail to Killing Children’s Pet

Main Japanese Base On Coast Of Island Of Leyte   Ormoc Capture Is First Big American Victory Since Gen. Douglas MacArthur Landed In The Philippine Islands.

MacArthur Troops Seize Main Enemy Base on Leyte; Two Divisions Push To Within Than Mile of Junction

Nips Give Up Following 4-Day Battle   Victory Drives Solid Wedge Behind Battered Jap Army

30 JAP SHIPS BLASTED BY U.S. FLIERS   440 Planes Also Hits In Raids On Manila Area

GARRIERS HIT AT MANILA AREA AGAIN TODAY   Toll Raiced to 30. Jap Ships and 440 Planes

Carrier Planes Strike Anew in Manila Area   Raise Toll to 30 Jap Ships Sunk, Damaadqed

American Carrier Planes Striking Anew At The Manila Area  AMERICAN AND JAPS FORCES IN BATTLE  MacArthur Reports Sharp Fighting In Progress On Leyte

Third Fleet Planes Raid  Manila Area   Philippines Battle Is Taking Shape As Most Decisive.

30 SHIPS ARE SUNK BY YANK NAVY PLANES   Americans Prepare For Next Step in Philippine Drive

NIP SHIPS. AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   Yank Invasion Forces _ Battle Elements Of : 4 Jap Divisions

U. $. Toll of Jap Ships is Raised fo 30   New Strike at the Manila Bay Area Destroys 440 Planes

J. S. Planes Raise Toll OF Jap Ships   Yanks Join Battle With Jap Troops On Leyte

Ruml Claims Business ~ Can't Be Rushed Into Period Of Transitior   Economist Says Mass Unemployment Greater: Problem

Convict Author Hopes For Life  In Small Town   “Heaven Isa Sunswept Hill,” a best seller, written in less than  ceeines «reece

AMERICAN BOMBERS EXTEND OPERATIONS NEARER TO JAPAN   Raid Volcanic Islands, Midway Between Marianas  and Tokyo.

Four Germans  Flee From Train   They Were Enroute To Prison Camp Near Alva When They Fled

4 GERMANS ARE SOUGHT BY FBI   Prisoners of War Escape From Train While Enroute To Alva Camp

Nations Keep Close Watch On Argentina   Situation In Upheaval State

HINTS BRAZIL, ARGENTINE MAY BE NEARING WAR   Unsettled Condition Of New Government Said Fluid

Developments In Argentina Scrutinized   Diplomats in South America Listening Post Keeping Close Watch   REPORTS EXCHANGED

Carrier Tash  Force Strikes  Philippines 89 Nip Ships, 68 Planes  A va  Ynetyartreracl

Allied Air Fleet Batters Luftwaffe   3,000 Planes Hammer Germany In Wide Sweeps

Fourth Termers Unable To Relax   Party Battles Still Raging; Norman Thomas Again Nominated.

Democrats Face Fresh Troubles  Bitter Fight Looms in Mississippi

Race issue Raised Again In Mississippi   Demc_.ats Fight At Convention on White Supremacy

PRIMARIES IN 5 MORE STATES   Ohio, West Va., Wyoming and Va- Decikie Tomorrow

DEMOCRATS ARE FACING BATTLE   Mississippi Session May Develop: Quite A Hot Argument ~

Demos Facing:   Fight in South   Crux of Interparty Battle Appears To Lie in Mississippi Convention Wednesday

RESUME AIR INVASION ON REICH TODAY   Strafing Attack Sunday Greatest of War and RAF Followed Up With Night Bombing That Hurt.

MISTAKE COST 20 TRANSPORTS      ALLIED PLANES IN WAKE OF   NAZIS SHOT DOWN BY OWN  ~ ANTE-AIRCRAFT BATZ TERIFG: © -

vwerman Army ADAaNadoNns Deep Salient In Central Italy  BLOW UP BRIDGES IN THEIR RETREAT  Heavy Artillery Fire On 5th Army Front In Cassino Area

GERMANS QUIT DEEP SALIENT ON ITALY FRONT   10-Mile Sector Abandoned Under Heavy Pressure By Allied Forces

Germans Fall’ Back Ten Miles   Abandon Deep Salient on Central Italian Front, as. Allies Push on

NAZIS ABANDON DEEP AREAS IN CENTRAL ITALY   Fall Back Ten Miles To New Line North Of Aventino River

Enemy Salient in Italy Abandoned   Germans Fall Back Ten Miles ou Central) Front, Without a Fight——Riow Up Bridges

GERMANS QUIT SALIENT ALONG ITALIAN FRONT   Fall Back 10 Miles In Center of Farflung Battle Line, Giving Up Pair of Villages.

Nazis Give U p Italian Front Territory   Germans Fall Back 10 Miles  Near Adristic

ALLIES SCORE 10-MILE GAIN AS NAZI GIFT   Sector of Retreat Is 30 Miles Inland From Adriatic

NAZIS ABANDON DEEP SALIENT      Fall Back Ten Miles Under Alliec Presstre In Italy

Nazis Fall Back 10 Miles in Italy   Allies Take Palena, Lettopalena Villages Without Struggle, Consolidate Gains on Forward Front; Patrol Clashes at Anzio

Germans Give Up Lengthy Salient   Fall Back 10 Miles ~~ Under Heavy Pressure

German Army Abandon Deep Salient on Central Italian Border — Wnemy Covering Retreat with Heavy Shell and Mortar Fire.

NAZIS LEAVE SALIENT ON ITALY FRONT   Fall Back 10 Miles Under Heavy Allied Pressure

WALLACE TALKS IN SIBERIA   Asks Collaboration For ‘Stable Peace”

Americans Capture Monghidoro agains Strong Resistance  British Attack Brought tc Standstil!, Yanks Advance Slowly Through Mud

YANKS MAKE GAIN IN ITALY   Take Monghidor, Road Junction 18 Miles South Of Bologna

YANKS. PLOWING AHEAD IN ITALY   Deep Mud Slows Fifth Army Advance, However.

YANKS TAKE ROAD JUNCTION; BRITISH FORCE IS CURBED   Enemy Resistance on Italian Front is Severe; Counter atiack Beaten Off

Mud Hampers The Allies in Italy   Fifth Army Ploughs Slowly North yam the Axis —  orces   MONGHIDOR IS TAKEN   Germans Are Strongly Entrenched Behind Fiumi cino River

Fifth Ar my In Italy Plows Through Mud   Infantry :Captures: Important Road Junction Eigh‘teen Miles South of Bologna

Vital Junction Taken In Italy   Fifth’ Wimy Plows ‘Slowly. Northward

Italy Advance Stalls in Mud   British Bog Down, Yanks Inch Forward

Yank Doughhoys Annex Junction  Nazi Communication Supply Center Falls

Monghid oro Is C aptu red By Amerieans   Yanks’ Drive In Apennine: Slowed By Mud: 8th Army At Standstill

FIFTH ARMY PLOWS AHEAL IN DEEP MUD   U.S. Infantry Seizes Monghidoro, Highway Junction

Yank Troops Seize Vital Road Junction   Monghidoro, Vital Point South of Bologna; Mud Slows Drive

YANKS ADVANCE IN ITALIAN MUD   Seize Road Junction 18 Miles South of Bologna

YANKS DRIVE NORTH IN THE APENNINES   American Infantry Captures Monghidoro, Important Road Junction South of Bologna

Fifth Army ’ Captures Key _ ltalian Town   Floodwaters Prove Barrier For British

Monghidoro Captured by Fifth Army   Flooded River Stops 8th Army Attack; New Zealand Antiaircraft Gunners Sink Light German Vessel

Flooded River And Deep Mud Slowing Allies In Italy   Fifth Army Plows Ahead Through Apennines, Fiood Stops British Advance

AMERICAN INFANTRY CAPTURE IMPORTANT ROAD POINT IN ITALY  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ATTACK BROUGHT TO STANDSTILL BY FLOODS

IMPORTANT ROAD JUNCTION 1S TAKEN   Fifth Army Slowly Plows Northward in Italy; Handicanned By Mud.

ROAD JUNCTION TAKEN IN ITALY   British Eighth Army Offensive Stalled By Flood Waters

Fifth Takes Monghidoro   Flooded Fiumicino River Halts Advance Of Eighth Army

ROAD JUNCTION TAKEN TODAY BY AMERICAN ARMY   Flooded Fiumicino Slows British Eighth Army

Fifth Army’s Drive Upon Bologna Is Slowed by Mud  Eighth Army Attack Brought to Halt By Flooded Stream

FTN ARMY LINE HOLDS FAST, FIRM   Germans Use Tanks, Artillery  hee nana  BIG AIR BATTLES  ange enc  New Offensive Follows Lull

ALLIES MEETING TANK WITH TANK IN FIERCE FIGHT   British Tommies Hold Firm in North Sector, Say Front Reports

Liberated Area Factories Wil Work For Allies   Plants in Netherlands, Belgium, France to Make Wear Goods

“Nelson Quits .. WPB to Take . Maior’ Post   Krug Appointed Immediately As Permanent Chief

Powerful Pacific Fleet Battle Strength Soon to Be Doubled   Admiral Murray Announces All Recent U. S. Naval Aircraft, Pilot Losses  Replaced: Task Forces Gain Strenath

PACIFIC CARRIER FORCE STRONGER   FLEET SOON WILL BE ABLE TO PUT AT LEAST 2,000  PLANES IN AIR.

Pacifie Task  F orce Grows   Strength To: Double: W ithin Few: Months

Reports Cartier Force Doubles Pacific Strenath   Losses of Planes And Pilots Are Said Replaced

Plane Carrier Force of U.S. Grows Rapidly   American Losses in Pacific War Are Rapidly Replaced

American Pacific Fleet Carrier Force Stronger   Number of Flattops to Be Doubled Soon, Savs Admiral

American Pacitic Fleet Carrier Force Stronger  WMasyeibuese ond Pl tic   Number of Flattops to Be Doubled Soon, Savs Admiral

Pacific Carrier Strength Doubling   To Have Twice As Many Flattons Soon

Nippons Renew Kohima Assault   Attempt To Retake _ Captured. Position

Rain Bombs on Berlin As Jittery Huns Await Invasion; Japs Counterattack in India

SLAIN IN ASSAULTS   Rabaul Area Smashed Four Times By U. S. Heavy Bombers

JAPS ATTACK ON KOHIMA FRONT   Seek to Retake Positions Lost Last Week to British

DISREGARD BIG LOSSES   Nip Artillery ls Entrenched In High Hills

SUFFER HEAVY CAOUALTIEO IN COUNTER BLOM   British Braced Against Drive Outgun Enemy; Japs Gain in China.

JAP GAS ATTACK IS CONFIRMED BY YANK   Mustard Gas Used Against Defenders of Hengyang

BOMBS LEVEL GERMAN CITY OF AUGSBURG   142 Nazi Planes Shot Out of Skies   U. S. LOSSES HIGH  Record Aerial Offensive Continues

Repeated Raids In Short Period On Same Place   Grant R. A. F. Armadas In Dual Night Attack Following U.S. Daylight Raid   GERMANS LOSE 142 PLANES ON FRIDAY

RAIDED TWICE FRIDAY NIGHT BY BRITISH   Nazis Lose 142 Planes in Four-Pronged U.S. Attack

2-WAY BLOWS ROCK GERMANY, LOW COUNTRIES   ‘Plane and U-Boat Engine Plants Are Hit by Assault

Say Missouri Valley Authority Is. First Step to Create “Many TVA’s”

Hitler Fears Nazi Breakup   Death Penalty Ordered To Prevent Revolt

Kirke L. Simpson Says: German Morale Tottering as Reds Continue To Strike Hard Blows

Reds Flan olalingrad Anniversary Party— ~—By Kirke L. Simpson (  Great Nazi Disaster Shaping Al Leningrad

SOVIETS SEVER MAIN GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE   Red Steamroller 37 Miles Away; Thousands Bottled in Shrinking Area

NOW 30 MILES FROM CITY   Five Separate Soviet Columns Closing in on Nazi Garrison

5 ARMIES PUSH ON BASE; MENACE ENEMY’S ESCAPE   Ochakov, Ancient Fort Captured; 10° Mites From Rumania

Battle Progressing Favorably, Report   Evacuation Hospitals All Set As Allied Offensive Is Opened   Nazi Blow At Soviet Bridgehead Repulsec

Troops Gross Rivers To Hit Line After Land-Shaking Barrage   Opens; Army Announces Complete Re-Grouping Of Forces In Italy Prior To New Offensive Germans Flood Rapido River As Assault  wWeyrrywyT Worn pey

Greatest Artillery Barrage of War Paces Troops—Fierce Fiehtine Reported Along Front

Drive Wedges Into Strong Gustav Line   Mighty Drive Launched at 11 P.M. Last Night After Earth-Shaking Artillery Barrage; Allied Forces Take Some Initial Objectives

Gustav Line Battle In Favorable Start   Tremendous Artillery Barrage Precedes Grouhd Attack Along 25-Mile Front Against Powerful Defense Lines

Smash Wedges Into Gustav Line   Gain More Than Mile at One Point— Attacking from Cassino to Tyrrhenian Sea — Eighth Army Transferred to Cassino Front with Fifth Moved to Coast

Temperatures   Cassino Attacked; Germans Loose  Reservoir Waters

Greatest Mediterranean Drive Smasnes Wedae Alona 25 Mile Front From Cassino

Allies Smash at Nazi Line — On 25-Mile. Front; British Launch Attack on Cassino

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES OPEN FIRST ATTACK OF SPRING   Mighty Drive Opened by Smashing Artillery Barrage Against Nazi Positions.

Greatest Smash In Mediterranean Warfare Pressed   Mighty Cassino-To-Sea Offensive Wins Initial Objectives; Planes And Navy Guns Support Assault; Germans Resist Fiercely   Cross Rapido River.

Score Advance of Over Mile at One — Point After Terrific Artillery Barrage Opened Way—French Get Jump

Sth And 8th Armies Attacked Last Night; Ear th-Shaking  ‘Artillery Barra oe Unloosed

Earth-Shaking Barrage Opens Giant Battle   Allied Troops Assaulting Gustav Line Along 25Mile Front From Cassino to Sea   Germans Driven From Positious   Secretly Grouped Allied Forces Being Supported In Colossal Struggle By British Navy

GREAT NEW BATTLE AT GUSTAV NE APPEARS GOING IN FAVOR ‘OF REGROUPED ALLIED FORCES

Bombers, Naval Guns  Support Offensive   Move On 25-Mile Front From Cassino To Sea; Clark Gives Order Of Day

Germans ThrownBack By Powerful Assault   Greatest Battle Of Mediterranean Warfare Rages  As United Nations Armies Hit Gustav Line; Ba Eee: Rew: Mika Sided dt “Bawacsal

Great New Battle Seems to be Going Favorably Today   All Allied Armies in Italy Join in Opening the Big Push

Allies Jump Off on Big Push After Shattering Artillery Attack; Rush of Doughboys Gains First Objectives

Nazis Break Dams, Flood Valleys; Allies Push On   Record-Shattering Artillery Barrage Opens Attack: Air Force, Navy Support Troops

Fifth and Eighth Armies Open Great Offensive on a 25-Mile Front from Cassino to Sea; Win First Objectives

Allied Troops Advance Over Mile in Sector of Front Extending From Cassino To Sea

5th And 8th Armies Lash Gustav Line   Planes And Warships Aiding As Full-Scale Push Gets Under Way On 25-Mile Front

Gustav Line Dented In Co-ordinated Attack   Navy and Air Support Backs Biggest Offensive in Mediterranean Warfare: Thunderous Barrage Precedes Push.

Early Gains  Recorded Along Line   Fifth and Eighth Armies Smash at German On 25-Mile Front in Determined Assault: Planes. Warship Support Troops

ost Powerful Assault Yet Made In the Mediterranean Theatre Directed Against Enemy From Cassino to Tyrrhenian Sea   ROOPS GO FORWARD AFTER ARTILLERY BARRAGE

5th And 8th Armies Make Mile Advance On Italian Front   Greatest Known Artillery Barrage In Mediterranean War Theater Starts Shortly Before Midnisht

Major Drive Is Launched Along Front At Cassino   Artillery Barrayes Followed In Force

U. S. Fifth And British Eighth Armies Crack  “Nazis Below Rome    Front Dispatches. Report Germans Driven From Some Frontline Positions In Fighting On 25Mile Front

MASH WEDGES IN GUSTAV LINE   Advance More Than Mile at One Point, Front DisPatches Report.   START DRIVE LAST NIGHT

STRIKE IN FULL FORCE IN DRIVE ON GUSTAV LINE   INITIAL OBJEC; ES TAKEN AFTER RECORD ARTILLERY BARRAGE

Drive Mounted Behind Awesome Barrage By Big Guns; Navy And Air Forces Strike

Fifth, Eighth Armies Smash Into Nazi Lines   Big Push Is Launched Along 25-Mile Front From Cassino To Sea; Fierce Artillery Barrage Precedes Drive

Fifth, Eighth Armies Push Wedges Into Gustav Line In Cassino-to-Sea Advance

Record Artillery Barrage Pounds Foe; Fifth, Eighth Armies Pierce Gustav Line

5th And 8th Armies Hit Gustav Line   Wedges Made In Advance of Mile On 25-Mile Front

Regrouped 5th And 8th Armies Drive Wedges Into Foe’s Gustav Line.

WEDGES DRIVEN IN GUSTAV LINE BY OUR FORCES   Fifth, Eighth Armies Score Advance of Mile—Germans Put Up Hard Fight

Wedges Thrust Into Nazi Line Across Peninsula   Gen. Clark Tells Of Confidence in

Attack Gustav Line on 25 Mile Front from Sea Up to Cassino   Offensive Termed Greatest in Mediterranean Warfare

RECORD ARTILLERY BARRAGE ROARS OVER 25-MILE FRONT AS SPRING OFFENSIVE OPENS   Fifth Army Strikes On Westward Flank As British Eighth Plunges Forward Around Cassino; Some Initial Objectives Aiready In Allied Hands

ASSAULT HITS ENEMY ALONG 25-MILE LINE   Germans Driven From Front Positions by Opening Smash

Advance More Than 1 Mile At One Point   Big Push Along 25-Mile Front From Cassino Started Last Nicht.   FRENCH INTO ACTION

Allies Start New Attack on Gustav Line   Ralian Front Again Flares as Sth and 8th Armies Move Forward

Greatest Offensive In Mediterranean Is  Launched By Alllies   Troops, Assaulting Gustav Line Along 25. Mile Front From Cassino To Sea, Capture Several Initial Objectives

FEA Predicts Victory Over Nazis in 1945   Enemy Will Be in Hopelees Position By End of Year, Savs Special Report

GERMAN WAR ECONOMY ALMOST HOPELESS  Report Thanks Reds for Using Up Nazi Supplies

WAR ECONOMY OF © GERMANS HARD HIT   Report Says Nation-Faces Certainty of Early ~ ; Defeat -—

‘Agency Says Germany’ War Economy Decline . Makes Defeat Certain

Stilwell — Announces Jap Losses   Gives Record of 14th Air Force During Bombings. In Seotember

NEW COATING OF ICE AND SNOW BRINGS INCREASED HAZARDS TO TRAVELERS: 63 ARE VICTIMS —

ICY HIGHWAYS PERIL TRAVEL   63 Deaths Attributed Tx Storm: Some Relief  In Sight

Snow Storms Abate, ~ General Relief is Forecast for Today   Temperatures Drop in the Midwest; Cold Wave "- Heads Eastward

63 PERSONS DIE IN SNOW STORMS   WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS RELIEF THROUGHOUT NATION

StalinvAsks. JointDrive ee N ai Beast     3: SATELLITES, Cc R A c K  Soviet ar “Fleets ‘Softer Front:for Red Army’s  WT nee Doane   Soviet Air Fleets Softer Front:for Red Army’s '. New Blows

BREAK IN STALEMATE IMMINENT   Red Airmen Smash At  German Base On @ Latvian Front

Stalin Calls for Joint Blows from East and West to Crush Germany

Stalin Gives Alhes Credit For War Aid   Calls for Death Blow Against Germans by Combined Forces

Reds Rip Latvian  Airfields   Stalin Asks United Blows to Crush Nazis From Russia, Allies

Stalin Calls for Concerted Drive   Peclares Combined Russian, British aml American Blows Will Finish German “Beast”

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   YANKS MAKE SMALL GAINS IN HURTGEN FOREST

YANKS RECORD SMALL GAINS IN FOREST SECTOR   Nazis Offer Heavy Opposition With Artillery, Tanks And Infantry

BATTLE RAGES IN HURTGEN FOREST AREA   Americans Fight to Retake Town of Schmidt From Nazis

Bloodiest Street Fighting Since Cassino Underway as Frencti Battle To Reclaim Great Port of Toulon

ROME, (UP),.—Allied troops tonight captured Marseille, France's second city and largest seaport,

Center, Guarding Rumania and Hungary Routes, Held  CAPTURE FOLLOWS  STREET FIGHTING. Victorious Forces Spread Out to Take Nearby © Villages

‘Capture Czernowitz by Storm and Sweep to Within 15 Miles of , Czechoslovakian. Border—Stronghold . Had Guarded "Route. to Bulgaria ‘and: Rumanis—Sstellites ‘Warned to  Fis “Turn-on Hitleror Face ‘Invasion, .

Soviets Report Gains on All Fighting Fronts   Captured Czernowitz Guards Route To Balkan Nations

Czernowitz Falls: Red Hordes Near Czech Border   New Warning to Satellites to Quit Nazis Or Be Invaded

Living Cost Stil Reported on Rise   Upped Four-Tenths of One Per Cent From May td June — 25.4 Per Cent Higher Than at Start of War

WEDGE IS DRIVEN . BY SOVIET TROOPS   Rail Is Cut 65 Miles Northeast of Hungarian Capital

Reds Drive Wedee Into Rail Lines   Shatter Nazi Defenses on West Bank of Upper Tisza

Reds Cut Budapest Rail Link   Sever Last Line Connécting Capital With North Hungary; Crack - Nazi Defenses on Tiza

Red Troops In Hungary Score Break - Through   Cut Main Railway Line Northeast Of Budapest  In New Drive.

Russians Push 20 Miles West Beyond Tisza   ‘Wedge Driven “Between Defenders of Budapest : And Eastern Slovakia

Soviets Drive Wedge Across Enemy's Line   Budapest Separated from Northwestern Portion of Hungary

Russian Troops Cut Railways To Isolate Germans   4,100 Hungarians Reported Captured

Budapest Rail Link Is Severed   One Red Salient 70 Miles Northeast

Budapest Rail  Line Severed   Second Ukrainian Army Reports Fifty Towns Are Taken

Reds Drive Wedge into Nazi Armies   Enemy Defenders Of Slovakia, Budapest Isolated

Russians Sever Vital Railroad Above Budapest   Reds Push 20 Miles Beyond Tisza, Expand Front to 42 Miles

CUT RAIL LINE TO BUDAPEST   Reds Drive Wedge Between Defenders of City and Eastern Slovakia

Russians Cut Last Railway Escape Route   Malinovsky Opens New Drive Northeast of Budapest in Hungary

RUSSIANS DRIVE WEDGE ACROSS LAST RAIL LINE   Threaten To Cut Road Between Budapest And Northeast Hunvary.

BUDAPEST RAIL LINE SEVERED   Nazi Defenses On West Bank of Tisza River Are Shattered

BUDAPEST RAIL LINES BLOCKED   REDS DRIVE WEDGE BETWEEN CITY AND NORTHEAST HUNGARY

RAILWAY IS CUT INTO BUDAPEST   Nazis Guarding Capital Of Hungary Menaced From The Rear

WEDGE DRNEN NEAR BUDAPEST   Russians Cut Enemy’s Last Direct Railway Connection to Capital.

Russians Cut Major Railway In Hungary   Eastern Slovakia and Budapest Are Severed by Red Army

DRIVE WEDGE BY CUTTING RAILWAY OFF   Sixty-Five Miles Northeast of Budapest, Moscow Reports; Axis Defenders Imperiled.   Near Sarajevo

Soviets Drive Wedge Across Last Railway   Northern Hungary Cut Off: Main Rail Line Has Been  oe RTE,   FACE DOUBLE DANGER

SOVIET TROOPS CHOP OFF RAIL COMMUNICATION  142,000 Naz gd eo 7 in

SOVIETS DRIVE ACROSS TISZA IN NEW ATTACK   Slice Vital German Railway Communications; Free 50 Towns

- -—RUSSIA—  AEDS GAINING IN AUDAPEST DRWE   Wedge Driven Across Nazis’ Last Direct Rail Link In Hungary ~

Reds Shatter Defense Along Tisza River   Budapest-Miskolez Rail Line has  Been Severed

Reds Drive Across Tisza in New Push Near Budapest  142,000 Defenders  Of Hungary Capital Killed ae Mowe cad

Russians Drive Wedge in Balkans   RED ARMIES HEM UP GERMANS IN HUNGARY

RUSSIANS DRIVE 20 MILES BEYOND TISZA IN HUNGAR}   Advance Imperils Rear of Budapest Defenders—Other Soviet Forces Cut Railway to Northeast.   OPERATIONS IMPEDED BY STEADY RAINS   German Commentator Says Red Troop Movements Indicate Winter Offensive Impends in North.

Russians Cut Railway From Budanpes!   Wedge Is Driven Between City, Eastern Slovakia

REDS ASTRIDE SUPPLY ROUTE IN HUNGARY   Troops Drive a Wedge Across Nazis’ Last Direct Rail Connection Between Budapest and Northeastern Hungary.

New Red Wedge Isolates Nazis At Budapest   Communications With Northeast Hungary Cut After Forcing Upper Tisza Line

RAILS NORTHEAST OF BUDAPEST CUT. BY SOVIETS TODAY   Severing of Foe’s Laat Direc! Rail Route Cuts Contact Be tween Capital ahd North: eastern Hungary —. Smash Tisza Defenses

RUSSIANS PUSH ACROSS TISZA   Wedge Driven Into Rail Line Above Budapest

Reds Drive Wedge Across  Nazi Lines   Cut Last Enemy Rail Communiteation Between Budapest And Northeast Efungary.

REDS PUGH WEDGE BETWEEN NAZIS   Cut Railway Linking Defenders of Budapest and Eastern Slovakia; Push Beyond Tisza ‘River

‘Reds Drive Wedge Into ‘Nazis’ Lines   Imperiled Army Trying To Defend Budapest

Soviets Drive Wedge Into German Lines   Rail Communications Into Northern , Hungary Are Broken

Trap Forming For Defenders Of Budapest   Safety of Germans in Hungary Now Menaced; Toll of Prisoners Grows

Drive Toward Budapest Is Continued   House To House Fighting Takes Place In Suburbs

he Making New Drive Northeast of Budapest   New Breakthrough Carries a  Double Danger for Germans

Russ Start Drive N.E. of  Budapest   Nazis Fear New Move May Mean Double  Danger to Them

SOVIET FORCE SLASHES MAJOR RAILWAY LINE   Wedge Drive Between Nazi Defenders Of Budapest And  Slovakia

RUSSIANS DRIVING WEDGE ACROSS LAST ENEMY RAIL LINE  GERMAN PANZER FORCES  IN BUDAPEST SECTOR

GERMANS FLEEING FROM KRIVO! ROG   Source of 60 Per Cent of  Russians Iron Ore at  Stake.

Another Great Soviet Victory Appears in Prospect.   GERMANY HIT FOR THIRD STRAIGHT DAY   Below Rome Each Side Is Massing for Another Blow.

Trio Of Swanson Slayers Are Granted New Tria By N. C. State Supreme Court In 4-3 Decision

BUDAPEST AREA ESCAPE ROUTES POUNDED BY Alf   Terrific Aerial Bombardment Opens as Capital City Appears Doomed

Red Planes Pound Budapest Quilets   Communication Lines  Hard Hit in Big Raid

GERMANS WERE PREPARED TO MEET ALLIED ATTASK IN ITALY ON THE 247TH

NAZIS START EVACUATION OF PRUSSIA   With Others From Baltic States, Prussians Being Sent Into Germany.

George Proposes Senate, House Work To Simplify Taxes  Robertson Says Government Could ..

Chairman Request: Action to Make Taxation Simpler  Senator George Says Millions Could Be Relieved of Task

Asks House and Senate Work Together in Formulating Simplified Tax Structure

SIMPLIFICATION PROGRAM URGED   Congress Hopes To End Confusion Over Tax Returns

CHAIRMAN GEORGE SUGGESTS EASIER INCOME TAX RETURNS  GEORGIAN WOULD HAVE COMMITTEES WORK TO.

Millions Could Be Spared Trouble  George Proposes Early  Simplification Of The Income Tax Structure

WASTE PAPER PICKUP  Sundas, Oct. 29 Adv. 10-16-12 Ir   Maka Re«.

Too Close For . Comfort Of Photog   But AP Man Gets Most Spectacular Shots of Robot Bomb Yet Taken

2? Men Called  For Induction   Will Leave Bradford On Aug. 22 for Erie

115 Loeal Men To Leave for Erie May 17   Group Includes 10 Transfers From Other Boards; Will Get Notices Today

26 Local Men To Be Inducted In Erie Monday   33 McKean County Residents to Take Tests Next Week

Delegates To Decide Whether To Renominate Wallace or Send Him Home to lowa

Democratic Conclave Gets Under Way  ‘Today in Chicago   President Roosevelt Is Assured of Fourth-Term Nomination but Ten Candiates Gun for Second Place

SUPPORTERS QF WALLACE CONFIDENT   Roosevelt Aide Says Truman Has Been Requested by the President.

Word At Pre-Convention Headquarters Indicates  Vice President Is Out

Bankhead {st Name Placed In Nomination   _ FDR Renominated ®With 1,086 Votes; Byrd Receives 89

President Reported Taking Long Chance to Secure Renomination Of Wallace at Demo Convention

FIRST DELEGATES AT CHICAGO FOR DEMOCRAT MEET   Selection Of Vice President Candidate Still Unsettled

PRES, MAY TAKE LONG CHANCE ON HENRY WALLACE   Vice. President Evidently Refuses to Withdraw Under Pressure

SPEAKS FROM WEST COAST ~ NAVAL STATION   Balloting for Viee President Expected to Begin Late This Afternoon; Wallace Is Hopeful

EF. Rs Insistense (n Wallace May Cost Demo Votes   Twenty Hopefuls To Seek Second  Place Nomination

FDR Has Big Risk In Wallace  Hopeful Statesmen   Hopeful Statesmen Maneuvering to Make Themselves Available

Wallace Fights On Against FR’s Wishes   Truman Has Received President’s Nod, And Rackers Sav He Wil! Win

‘WALLACE OUT,’ PRECONVENTION WORD, DESPITE F. D. STAND   President Balks Over Indicating Any Other Choice

FDR Balks at Substitute For Wallace   Unless President Indicates Choice Field is Wide Open

Brifain Orders New Draft To Give Nation 250,000 More Fighting Men

BRITAIN ORDERS NEW DRAFT CALL   Plans Transfers From RAF And Navy, Also Comb-out Of Desk Soldiers to Raise Quickly 250,000 Men

BRITAIN TO RAISE 250,000 FOR ARMIES   New Draft Order Issued—Some Men to Be Transferred From R. A. F. and Navy.

U.S. Planes ‘Bomb Toulon   French Naval Base Is (@Given Heavy Poundii +

Mediterranear Ports Are Hit Heavily   Germans Raid Anzio Beachhead; Bomb Own Lines

PANIC GROWING AMONG GERMANS IN SEVASTOPOL   War Flares Again in Italy While American Warplanes Roar Back Over Europe

Russian Sea leet Pounds Nazis at Doeks   Panic Mounts Among Germans Preparing To Attempt An Escape by Sea

SEVASTOPOL BEING  STORMED BY RUSSIAN ARMY SHOCK TROOPS _ BIG GUNS SOVIET BLACK  SEA FLEET POUND AXIS FORCES ON DOCKS

Nazi Chutists Win Back Cassino Hotel   New Zealand and Indian Troops Still Hold Rail Station and Castle Hill on Slope; Minefield Planted in Allies’ Path

‘Nazis Regain Cassino Hold   _ Fanatic Young Paratroopers - Fight Desperately To Death

Nazis Come Back Heavy at Cassino   Fight Their Way Back Into _ Wrecked Continental - "Hote   STIFFEN ON THE HILLS   Enemy ‘Paratroop Commander Boasts He'll Throw Allies Out:

Nazis Fight Way Back Te City’s Ruins   Tough Paratrooper: Retake Hotel On Edge Of Cassino

Allied Forces Are Driven From  Cassino Stronghold   Fanatic Young Parachute Troopers, Toughest in German Army, Battle Their Wav Back Into City

CONSIDERED TOUGHEST MEN IN GERMAN ARMY, THEY CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR VITAL. HEIGHTS BEHIND CASSINO.

Reinforeed Germans Continue Stern Battle For Heights Around Town

NAZI FORCES GAIN IN CASSINO FIGHT   Fanatic Parachutists Fight Way Into Ruins of Li asa

NAZIS RETAKE CASSINO HOTEL   Fanatic German Parachute Troops Wage Ferocious Battle Amid Ruins

Nazi Parachutists  Take Hotel Ruins   Fanatic Troops Recpature Continental To Continue Desperate Fight

Nazis Again Hold Hofel in Cassino   Parachute Troops Fight Way Back

HENRY FORD AND LINDBERGH __. MAY BE CALLED BY DEFENSE   ATTORNEY FOR ONE DEFENDANT IN SEDITION CONSPIRACY TRIAL SAYS THEIR APPEARANCE “ES ‘  SENTIAL”

Gen. Vandegrift Heads Marines  g.. .k mon’   Holcomb Retires As Full General

Gen. Vandegrift Gets Marine Post  Is 18th Commander  Q*f Li nwmnm

Miscellany Roundup In W ashington   OPA Wag Suggests A Change In Nazi Big Kar Legend

WALKER QUITS AS CHAIRMAN OF DEMOCRATS  MANY COMMITTEE MEMBERS SURE OF

Patton Acts Quickly When Handed Job of Halting Nazis   Writer Believes Decisive Battle of War May Be Under Way in Bulge Punched Out by Germans

GEN. PATTON GIVEN JOB OF STOPPING HUNS   ‘Pistol-Packing’ Tank Expert Rolling Up Nazis In What May End War

\Bond Sales Bring Total Up to $114,356   ‘Buyers Are Urged by Chair man:to-Ask For and Dis“ Slaw- Shields

Himmler Control   Military Experts Think He’s Gaining Power Over Nazi Armies

MISSING CHILD AND NURSE FOUND AFTER KIDNAP HUNT   BAYTON POLICE SILENT ON DETAILS GF DISAPPEARANCE THAT CAUSED ALL-NIGHT SEARCH

Ace Pilot in Italy.   ‘Neville Duke Credited With 26 Nazi Planes

Allies Repulse Tank  Units on Rome Front   Nazis Counterattack With Increasing Strength Against American Bridgehead; Heavy Traffic Between Cassino, Rome,

German Assaults South of Rome Increase in Furv   ‘ROAR OF ARTILLERY _ 1S HEARD IN ROME   Allied Warplanes Report ed Taking a Heavy Tall

ROAR OF BIG GUNS HEARD IN CAPITAI   Germans Renew Counter Attacks After Once Tank-Led Smash Is Re: pulsed by Allied Forces.   MOVE UP TO FRONT UNDER AIR BLOWS   Nazis Suffer Heavily on Way From. ‘Cassino— _ Battle Area May Engulf Pope’s Summer Home,.

Nazis Fail In Heavy Blows In Rome Aree  All Reserves Are Lito J lok Pe  yrs ow @

[Nazi Forees Attack South Of Littoria   German Radio Claims Borgopiave Retaken As Nazis Rush North  NEWS STILL SCARCE

All Nazi Strength In Sector Is Used   Outcome Of Impending Battle South Of Rome May Depend On Extent Of Allied Shippina

All reserves of Germans used in fray   Fury of enemy attacks increase

Yankees Pushing Drive on Cassino   Bitter Battle For Rome Near: Both Sides Rushing Reinforcements To New  Battle Area {

NAZIS FIGHT TO CHECK EXPANSION   Of Allied Bridgehead Below Rome After Tank - Led Smash Of Hermann Goering Division Is Repulsed.   Curtain of Fire

SAVAGE NAZI TANK THRUST IS REPULSED   ROAR OF ARTILLERY HEARD PLAINLY IN ITALIAN CAPITAL

Rome Hearing Steady Roar Of Artillery   Nazi Attacks in Area of Cassino Cease as Battle Shifts North

Germans Rush Reserves ‘In Hope To Break Allied Grip On Roads Near Rome

Allies Repulse Tank-Led Smash South of Rome   Kesselring Hurls Reserve Battle Strength Into Fight

Nazis Fail In Heavy Blows In Rome Aree  All Reserves Are Md arlad Imtn Eeayw

Crack Division Of Nazis Loses Counter-Atfack  Germans Try Te Take Allied Beachhead

POLIGE SEARCH FOR DEANGELO'S FRIENE   Officials Believe Vitale May Have Met Same Fate As DeAngelo.

Police Hunt Pal of Jim DeAngelo  Believe Vitale May Have Been Siain

‘Big Three’ May Form New Policies   Britain May Soon Seek Ways to Prevent Any Further Trouble in Liberated Countries

Big Three Policy  for Liberated  Areas Considered Britain Is Expected to Propose  oe ee 

Big Three Policy for Liberated — Areas Considered   Britain Is Expected to Propose Inter-Allied Control

BRITAIN MAY ‘SEEK PLAN OF ~ JOINT POLICY      United “Big Three” Pro_ gram Proposed to Pre- vent Violence

BIG-THREE POLICY TO AVERT ANARCHY IN EUROPE BACKED   Britain Reported Ready to Urge Joint Action in Liberated Lands to Prevent Violence.   CHURCHILL HINTED AT PLAN IN ATHENS   To Succeed, Advocates Contend, Participation of the United States Would Be Necessary,

FOR BIG THREE > JO KEEP PEACE   Winston Churchill Hints Move to Block the Rise of Anarchy.

 Britain May Attempt To Establish United "Big Three’  Policy For Prevention Of Violence After Liheration

London Wants. U.S., Red Help In Police Work   Prevention of Violenec In Liberated Lands Cotttind Peeshteat

See attempt to establish ‘big 3’ group  - To curb violence in fread natiange

Carrier Fleet Best In History   Kaiser Yards Put Out Five Each Month

MANY AIRGRAFT CARRIERS ARE BUILT IN YEAR      Fleet Now Numbers More Thar 50—More To Be Built This Year

One-Year Extension of Sweeping War Powers Act, With Court Review Provision, Wins Approval

GURB ON AGENCY RULES APPROVED   Committtee Votes Extension Of Sweeping War Powers Act but Provides for Court ‘Review of Decrees

CHERBOURG HARBORS TO BE USED BY ALLIES   German Demolition Will Be Cleared

on et oe TOP TO BOTTOM      The. People Are Uurged To ‘Elect the. Republican Candidates Tuesday; It Is Very Important At This Time to Have A  Change in Washington.

INDUSTRIAL CITY OF BRUNSWICK LEFT IN FLAMES: 38 PLANES LOST BY RAF INBIG RAIDS   Vitals of Nazi Aerial Defense Being Destroyed and Coastal Areas of France Being Pounded by Hundreds of Planes in Day and Night Bombings

COASTAL AREA HEAVILY fT DURING NIGHT   One Of Greatest Bombings Of War Staged

38 Bombers Are Lost In Massive Raid   Americans Use 1,400 Planes In Attack On “Rocket Coast”

Two Thousand Tons of Bombs Unloosed on Brunswick City   Allied Air Offensive Swings Into Round. the-Clock Attack

Dump 2,000 Lbs. Of Bombs on Nazi Airplane Plant   RAF Throws Its Full Weight Into Campaign to Wipe Out Air Force.   British Lose 38 Air Craft in Nicht Raids

Central German Manufacturing Center Buried Under Another Heavy Load Of Explosives As After-Stroke To American Attack Last Tuesday—38 RAF Planes Lost In Series Of Operations—Mosquito Bombers Raid Berlin—Invasion Coast Again Blasted

RAF Bombers Hit Brunswick Terrific Blow   Great Fires Left Burning in German Manufacturing Center

FIRES RAGING IN NAZI CITY AFTER GREAT RAF BLOW  2,000 BOMB TON ATTACK COSTS 38

2,240 TONS OF BOMBS ARE UNLOADED BY RAF QN NAZI PLANE ITY      Big Fires Reported Raging in Busy Manufacturing City of Brunswick   FRENCH COAST POUNDED

Plane Factory Center Blasted   2000 Tons of Bombs Loosed on Elbe River City; Mosquitos Raid Berlin; Mediums Rake France: 38 Planes Los

RAF P lasters Target Where Yanks Fought Big Air Battle   38 Planes Lost; ‘Rocket Coast’ Hit by 1400 Craft

BRUNSWICK IN GERMANY IS HIT BY RAF PLANES      Night Bombers Unload 2,000 Tons of Explosives On Big City

Brunswick Hit InHeavy Attack By. RAF Planes   Others Bomb Targets In _ Frances: Attack Follows American Daylight. Raid

RAF Dumps 2000  Tons on Brunswick   Continuous Attacks Aim To Put German Air Force Out Of Business Before Invasion

RAF Throws Full Weight Against City OfBrunswiek   German Airplane Production Center Hit By 2,000 Long Tons Of Bombs

HEAVY ATTACK BY RAF RAIDERS   British Threw Full Weight Into Pre-invasion Campaign Last Night.   BIG FIRES ARE BURNING

Brunswick In Germany Hit Grea! Blow   Attack Follows Raid By Americans On Plane Plant

British Blast  Bronswiek in  Big Night Raid Huge Fires Left Blazing in  Airplane Plants

Renew Campaign To Smash Nazi Air Arm Before Land Assault   Drop 2,000 Long Tons of Explosives on City, Lose 38 Aircraft in Raids Including Berlin

2,000 Tons Dumped on Plane Plants   38 Planes Lost In Raid and Other Missions *__Heavy Attack

British Airmen  Bury Hub   NEW STROKE FOLLOWS YANK DAY ATTACK ON MESSERSCHMITT PLANT

Huge Fires ‘Started By RAF Planes   Berlin, Magdeburg And Other German Cities Also Are Objectives Of Night Attack

2,000 TONS OF BLOCK BUSTERS HIT BRUNSWICK   Site Of German Messerschmitt Plant Is Smothered

RAF Bombs Smother Reich City   Massive Assault Leaves Great Fires In Plane Center Of Brunswick

RUSSIAN DRIVE SURGING ON AND TAKING BIG TOLL   French and Americans Take Two More Heights on Rome Road in Bitter Fight

ST. seed      Private Natale Arena, Jr., First Youth in Parish To Give Life

“Gestapo Squadrons -Press Blood Purge Of Reich Generals   Himmler’s Strong-Arm Agents Rounding Up Fuehrer’s Enemies; Nazi Army Morale Badly Shaken

HUGE PLANES OPERATE FROM SAIPAN   Nip War Industries Badly Hurt; Raids to Continue Relentlessly

State Raid is In No Sense A “Hit and Run” Attack  MORE RAIDS PLANNED Systematic Demolition ol  Japan’s War Production T>1... ‘i om 2 oH j

CAUSE OF STRIKE IS UP FOR ARMY   Cleveland Strikers Say Plant Engineered Draft Change

Sevastopol Fall To Russian Troops  Is Believed Near   Russian Siege Guns Heavily Batter Trapped Germans In Crimean Port   EVACUATION MOVE REACHES CLIMAX

Efforts Of Fruit Sponsors Lauded   Credited With Boosting Sale Of Peaches

BUSINESS OPPOSES PAY CONTROL CHANGE   Spokesmen Says Relaxation 0! Regulations Now Might Cause Post-War Unemployment.

‘Menace Seen ein Easing of Wage Contro   Industrial Heads Say Change Might Ignite Inflation Powder Keg

WITHIN HOURS, OBSERVERS SAY IN WASHINGTON   Little Republic Now Satellite of Hitler

UNDERGROUND IN FRANCE ACTIVE   Germans Are Forced To Battle Partisans Through. out Country

Germans Face Major Trouble With French   Big Nazi Forces Are Now Required to Combat Underground

MEAT DEALERS VOTE ‘HOLIDAY’   NEW YORKERS MAY GET LESS MEAT AFTER CHRISTMAS UNLESS DISPUTE SETTLED

HAVEN FOR LAVAL SOUGHT BY NAZIS   SWISS GOVERNMENT ASKED FOR ASYLUM FOR HEAD OF VICHY REGIME.

Nips Move North From Canton Japs Take Beating  e PT ee OWE ee ge

Warns Against Runaway Marke  Mortgage Lending on Homes Criticized

RUHR ISOLATED BY CANAL RAIDS   Bombers Keep Up Pressure On Nazi Transportation

Ruhr Valley Tsol ated By Allied Bombs   Industrial’ Area Paralyzed And Cut Off From Many Rail and Water  Conneclions _ .

Widespread Rain And Sleet Moves Eastward In Wake Of Severe Western Blizzard

Blizzard Sweeps Western States   Colder Weather In Store’ for “Fast

Rumanian Leaders  Going To Turkey Report Opposition To Balkan Occupation

RUMANIANS SEND DELEGATIONS 10. TALK TO TURKS   Mystery Mission Report_ed Today i in Istanbul Dispatch. Hitler Meeting Troubles in Balkans

Hitler Meets Growing Balkan Fury   Rumanian Delegation Is in Turkey On Mystery Mission

Hitler Meeting Opposition To Balkan Seizure   Rumanian Delegation Arrives In Turkey On Sacret Mission.

Delegation Is  Due In Turkey   Rumanians Sending Mystery Mission

Rumanian Delegation Goes On ‘Mystery Mission To Turkey; Balkan ‘Invasion’ Opposed   Unusual Importance Attached To Trip Of Top Officials To Ankara

Rumanian Delegation Soon Due To Arrive ln Turkish Capital, Ankara

Balkans Turning Against Hitler   Army Of Occupation: Is Meeting Resistance

BALKANS FIGHT NAZI INVADERS   Importance Attached Tc Rumanian Mission  To Turkey

Nazi Balkan ‘Grab Fought ~ On Aji Sides   t nT 4... ‘Rumanian‘Mystery’ Delei gates Go to Turkey;  Sabotage Increases

EXPECT RUMANIAN GROUP AN TURKE'   Mystery Mission Reported in Dispatch; Hitler Is Opposed.

RUMANIAN MYSTERY MISSION EXPECTED IN TURKEY TODAY   ADVICES INDICATE THAT HITLER MEETING OPPOSITION IN BALKANS

HIGH RUMANIAN DIPLOMATS ON MYSTERY TRIP   Visit to Ankara Announced a: Commercial, but Observers See More Important Balkan Moves   NAZIS IN CONTROL   No Satisfactory Reports Available on What Is Happening In Bulgaria—Army May Resist Nazis

Opposition in Balkans Likely  Report Rumanian Delegation On Way To Turkey

Task Force Blasts Japanse Bases  Of Marcus, Wake  15 More Enemy Vessels Are Sunk By U. S. Submarines

CARRIER FORCES = GIVEN NO BATTLE   8 ® Rai de rs Alm  tU 2 i  During Raids Upon Wake, Marcus Islands

CARRIER TASK FORCE POUNDS WAKE ISLAND   SIXTH ARMY UNITS REACH AIRDROME AT MAFFIN BAY

Planes Bomb Marcus and Wake Islands   Little Opposition Experienced on Raid

AmendOPA Bill, Send It to TheHouse   SENATORS APPROVE BANKHEAD AMENDMENT BY VOTE OF 39 TO. 35 LO LIFT COTTON  PRICES.   Help for Truck Farmers

IOWA'S QUOTA IN SIXTH WAR LOAN NAMEN   Total of 178 Million Dollars Asked of the State

78 Million Dollars Jslowa’s Quota In.   Sixth War Loan   Opening Date Will Be Nov. 20; Close Dec. 16th

ANOTHER BOND DRIVE COMING IN LATE NOVEMBER   Towa’s Goal in Sixth War Loan 178 Million

amt WAR LOAN IOWA QUOTA 178 MILLIOK   Next Bond Drive Will Start Nov. 20; Continues Until Dec. 16. Fifth Loan Quota Was 202 Million. )

Towa Quota Is Set For Sixth War Bond Drive  Drive Will Open November 20

Jowa's Quota ‘6th War Loan ~~ Js 178 Million         viduals Mast Must Buy 61 Million E Bends

TAKE HOME BACON IS NOW REQUESTED   Supply In Storage Piles Up as Hog Killing Increases, Supplies Ample.

GOP DELEGATES IN IOWA NAMED   ‘Majority Say No Special Candidate Favored

lowa Delegates to Be Unpledgec  Republi icans Hold State Convention

VACATION ENDS FOR PRESIDENT   Business Resumed After Three Weeks Visit At Warm Springs

Bomber Falls In Sweden   American Flier Killed; 14 Yanks Slip Across To Sweden from Denmark

LOW TEMPERATURES PREDICTED TONIGHT   ‘Near Freezing’ to ‘Hard Freeze’ Forecast for MidCentral States.

_~ WHAT OUR BOYS ES ARE DOING 10 = WIN THE WAR    &. &.&. &. 4, 4.6.0.0. 8. 4!

WLB Hits Ward Tie-up   Chairman Says Firm Not Excepted From Wor Act Jurisdiction

Davis Explains Ward's Seizure   Government Action Claimed: Juectitied”

Ward walkout has ‘epidemic   potentialities,’ Davis asserts  Claims WLB jurisdiction justified;  property seizure bill action deferred

YANKS: ADVANCE AFTER CAPTURE OF SAN VITTORE   Fifth Infantry in New @ Fierce Hand-to-Hand Combat

FIFTH CHASES NAZIS OUT OF SAN VITTORE   Continues Advance Northward to Village of Giusto

YANKS CLEAR SAN VITTORE OF GERMANS   Hand-to-Hand Fight North of Town   CAPTURE MOUNT

Fifth Army Is Pushing Ahead  From San Vittore   Fnemy Routed From San  Vittore In Bitter Street Fighting   U. S. TROOPS MOVE TOWARD CASSINO

GERMANS PUL! OUT OF FAENZA   Italian Highway Center Outflanked By Polish And British In Mud

WAR CHEST DRIVE NEARLY FINISHED   LeMars Still Short of Its Quota—$1500 Still To Be Collected

Liquor Truck Driver Waives  Ballue Held Under Bond to Grand Jury

Red Army Traps 150,000 Nazis Troops in Latvia   Steel Band Driven Across Lithuania To Baltic Sea Coast

Riga troops  are cut off  by Russians Trap threatens 150.000 nazis

Russian Smash To Sea Snares  ~ 150,000 Nazis   Memel Doomed by Troop:  Menacing East Pru RnR Mar Trokeac.

Red Army Drives Band of Steel Across Lith uania  GERMAN DEFENSES REPORTED RIPPED        Siege Ring Also Drawn Tighter Around Riga

150,000 Germans Trapped As Russians Push Across Lithuania to Baltic Sea

150,000 GERMAN TROOPS TRAPPED IN BALTIG STATES   Nazi Garrison at Riga Cut Off as Red Army Drives  Across Lithuania tn Saag   ADVANCE APPEARS TO SEAL MEMEL’S FATE   Russians Said to Be Using 1,000,000 Men and 1,000 Tanks in Great Offensive.

Russian Baltic Armies Scoring Maior Victory   Reds Rip Nazi Defenses Protecting East Prussia

BAND OF STEEL BEING FORGED BY RED TROOPS   Approximately 150,000 Nazis Face Entrapment In Baltic States   SIEGE RING BEING . DRAWN ABOUT RIGA

Reds Spring Baltic Trap On Germans   Drive to Baltic Sea 14 Miles Above. Memel Trapping 150,000  NEAR FAST PRUSSIA

Soviets Cut Nazi Retreat From Baltic   150,000 Nazis Are Trapped By Advance

Reds Trap 150,000 Huns In Balkans   Soviets Drive Band Ot Steel Across Lithuania To Sea

Lt. Livermore Decorated for  Fifth Time   Smethport Pilot Has Four Clusters to Air  Medal. 42 Missions

MacARTHUR ANNOUNCES DEFEAT OF JAPS IN NEW GUINEA AREA   Reports ‘Great Bulk’’ of 14,000 Nipponese Wiped Out as Aussies and Americans Meet!

No Bravado, No Noticeable Tension and No Visible Elation as Allied Troops Go Aboard Ships for Historic Drive Against Huns

TOLL OF BLAST-FIRE IN CLEVELAND IS 114   At Least 28 of 89 Missing Believed Dead

For Young People ‘Friday Evening  Special Message    Dr. Smith is Preaching Inspiring Sermons at Evening Services at Methodist Church.

Special Message For Young Peopl: Friday Evening   Dr. Smith is Preaching Inspiring Sermons at Evening Services at Methodist Church.

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Labor Critical Of Legislation Offer By FDR    Murray And Thomas Flay Measure; Lawmakers  Are Divided

MURRAY ATTACKS WORKERS RAFI   CIO Head Declares National Legislation Quack Medicine To Cover Administration Failures

NATIONAL SERVICE PLAN HIT BY MURRAY   Cc. LO. Head Terms Ti “Quack Medicine” for Failures of Legislative and Executive Agencies.

RUSSIANS NEAR POLISH BORDER IN FAST QRIVE   Poyaski Is Last Town In Path Of Invaders

Soviets Capture Germans Grey From Cold and Want; Nazi Leaders Hold Meet

Capture Of Poyaski, 10 Miles From Border, Gives Russians Last Nazi Fortification

German Defense Lines Crumbling Before Russians   Muscovites Plunge To Within 85 Miles Of Rumania ; 22 Nazi Divisions Being Cut To Pieces

Whole German Line Appears Crumbling Under Blows of First Ukrainian Army

BIG. STORES OF MATERIEL ARE LOST BY NAZIS   Prison Cages Filled With Long Lines of  German. Prisoners

SOVIET ARMY APPROACHING POLISH FRONT   Last Main Fortified Stronqpoint on the Kiev-Warsaw Railway is Occupied by Red Army   NAZI LINE CRUMBLING

4th Term Issue Crops Up Zs Senator Taft Declares Stimson, Knox Run Again

POLITICAL ROW IN THE SENATE   Fourth Term Issue Stirs Up . Democratic And Republican Senators

Fourth Term Issue Boils Over in Senate in Debate on Soldier Vote

Fourth Term Plot Charged Against Stimson, Knox   Taft Cites Army, Navy Refusal to Deliver Ballots for States

Vandenberg Urges Limit On Presidential Terms As Fourth Term Talk Spreads

Taft Attacks  Knox, Stimson   Senator Accuses War Chiefs OM Seeking “Ath Terni?

CURB DEMANDED ON PRESIDENTIAL TERMS   Vandenberg srg Calls for Ac tion as Soldier Vote Debate Rages

SOLDIERS’ VOTE ISSUE BOILS OVER   Senator Taft Declares Stimson and Knox, Supporting Federal Ballot, Are ‘Running for Another Term’

Taft's Charge That Stimson, Knox Also Seek Fourth Term Brings Senate Battle

4th Term Issue Crops Up . -#.s Senator Taft Declares Stimson, Knox Run Again   Conferees in Agreement on Mustering Out Figures Of $100 to $300

Senate in Furore Over FDR's Plans For Fourth Term   Knox, Stimson Held Running’ for Jobs

SENATORS CLASH OVER FOURTH TERM   TAFT CHARGES STIMSON AND KNOX SEEK TO PROLONG THEIR TENURE,

DESPITE FACT THAT HITLER HOLDS HOME FRONT STEADY, SITUATION GOOD FOR ALLIES

The War Today   Military Aspect Of Européan Situation Is Of Chief Interest To Allies; Changes Are Occurring Quickly

The War Today   Hitler Purge Removing Military . Experts From Path of Allies

Der Fuchrer Keeps Control Over Home Front— —By DeWitt Mackenzie  Hitler Saves Nazis For Complefe Surrender

GERMANY SHOWIN; GRAVE SIGNS OF WEAKNESS AND HITLER’S MEN MAY QUIT EARLIER THAN EXPECTED   Hitler’s Blood Purge Has Liquidated Many Great And Seasoned Officers Which Is in Favor of Our Allies: Central Powe Believed to Be Crumbling

U. §, Bomber Falls On School; 54 Die   Crash in England Worst of Its Kind

PLANE STRIKES SCHOOL, 75 DIE   Tragedy In Britain I Fatal To 35 Children All Under Five

MORALE SAGS FOR SOLDIERS OF THE REICH   HORROR WEAPONS LAST RESORT OF FUEHRER

ALLIES REPORTED NOW IN CORINTH   BRITISH, GREEK FORCES MOP UP PELOPONNESUS

Big Packard War Plant Shut Down   Closes in First Serious Consequences Of Foremen’s Strike

Foremen force Big War Plant To Shut Down  Packard Factory Idle as Result

i9@ War Plant le As Foremen rike Continues   Packard Company Closed last Night; W.L.B. Refuses Assurance.

Packard Motor Car Co. Is Closed   Management Declared Plant Closing Caused By Foremen Strikers

STRIKE CLOSES PACKARD PLANT   First Serious Shut Down. in Foremen’s Walkout

PACKARD PLANT REPORTED IDLE   Foreman’s Strike Has Serious Consequences

PACKARD PLANT MADE IDLE BY FOREMEN STRIKE   3,300: War Plant Foremen On Strike and 39,000 Workers Idle and War Production Ended

1ST PLANT 10 CLOSE DUE TO IDLE FOREMEN   39,000 War Workers Are  Idle; More Serious  Effects Seen

PACKARD UNION JOINS IN STRIKE   FOREMEN DEMAND WLB PROTECTION ASSURANCE

Big Packard Plant Closed by Strike   Foremen’s Walkout Blamed for Action

Warplane Engine Factory Shut by Foreman’s Strike   Packard Plant, Makers of Rolls-Royce Engine, Closed

BIG PACKARD WAR PLANT IS STRIKE-BOUND   Factory Which Makes Engines for Planes and PT Boats Forced to Close Because of a Walkout by 3.300 Foremen.

HEAVY CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON JAPS NORTH OF IMPHAL  BRITISH ALSO IMPROVE POSITIONS IN HILLS  TA NADTLICTACT

“Imphal Plain In Our Hands’  Counter Blow Causes  Heavy lan I occec

ALLIES DRIVE BACK JAPS IN IMPHAL AREA         Counter-Operations Inflie Heavy Casualties on En. emy — Air-Borne Chin dits Land in Northerr Burma.

U. 5. BOMBERS BLAST PLANTS AND SHIPPING   P-38 Lightnings Over Reich Capital Without Opposition

U.S. Fighters Over Capital  First Time .   Meet No Opposition; Heavies and Mediums Hit French Airfields  CAT ATS ARFA RATINEFN

Offensive Sweop Over the Capital Carried Out _ by Daylight ATTACKS IMPEDED © > BY HEAVY CLOUDS  Medium Bombers Smash Nazi Airfields in ~~ France

Lightnings Feint At Nazi Capital   ” P-38s Unopposed Over Berlin As Heavies Pound Germany. Marauders Lash France

BERLIN SWEPT BY P-38 GROUP   Fighters Race Back And Forth Across City; No Opposition

U.S. Aviators Make F light  Over Berlin   Northwest Part of Germany Target for Heavier Bombers

\MERICAN PLANES FLY OVER BERLIN FOR FIRST TIMI   Lightning Fighters Meet No Opposition as They Dash Over Capital at High Altitudes,   NORTHWEST GERMANY HIT BY FORTRESSES   Medium Marauders Smash Airfields in France—Sixteen  Ships Lost, Eight Nazis Shot Down.

U. S. Fighters Sweep Over Nazi Capital   Flyirig Fortresses, Liberators Hit Northwest Germany

FIGHTER Gt ON HUNT FOR NAZIS   Fail to Meet Opposition In Daring Maneuvers   BIG PLANES BOMB   Industrial and Shipping Tar. gets in Northwest Ger. many, French Airfields

Other Targets In Germany,  France Raided   Lightnings Race Over Reich Capital Without Opposition; British  Use New 6-Ton Bomb

FLY ROUND TRIP OF ATLEAST 1,150 MILES FROM BRITAIN TO CHALLENGE THE NAZT’AIR FORCE FOR SUPREMACY OVER ITS OWN CAPITAL.

British Troops Are Advancing On Athens   Albanian Seaport Of Sarande Now In Allied Hands

Albanian Port Taken By British   Remnants Of 5 Germar Divisions Believed Te Be Aitempting To Ge' Back To Homeland

Report Nazis Are Abandoning All of Greece   In 11th Hour Move to Escape Balkan Trap

REDS PUSH INTO MEWEL SUBURBS. TRAP 100,000   Tight Aerial Blockade Pins Nazis Against Seq

Nazis Fleeing Greek Trap, Berlin Says   British Take Albanian - Seaport of Sarande In Quick Thrust

RUSSIANS ROAR DOWN UPON NAZIS   Soviet Forces Stab Into Outskirts of Memel and Close Trap on Enemy.

CLAIM NAZIS ABANDONING ALL GREECE      Evacuate to Escape Closing Balkan Trap

ALBANIAN SEAPORT IS CAPTURED   Nazis Reported Abandoning All Of Greece

Germans Fleeing  AllGreece   Swedish Report Tells of Evacuation Attempt as Balkan Trap Closes

ARMIES SMASH LAST MILES TO REICH FRONTIER   100.000 Nazi Troops Trapped In Baltic Area By LandSea-Air Blockade

NAZIS ABANDONING ALL OF GREECE   To Escape Balkan Trap As British Stab Into Corinthian Isthmus

GERMAN TROOPS FLEEING GREECE FACE TRAP FROM REDS, BRITISH   Five Divisions Racing For Home

OFFENSIVE ROARING DOWN UPON GERMANS DEFENDING HOMELAND   REPORT GERMANS ARE FLEEING FROM GREECE

Blockade Is Clamped Upon Memel   Soviets Smash Across Few Miles To German Frontie:

Albanian Seaport Seized By British   Sarande Captured After Bitter Battle; German Troops Flee Greece; Allies Fan Out From Corinth

Reds Open Drive On East Prussia, Parry Nazi Blows   Russ Clamp Land, Air, Sea Blockade © on 100,000 Germans

RUSSIANS IN ATTACK ON EAST PRUSSIA   Red Army's LongAwaited Full-Scale Assault Is Launched

RUSSIANS OPEN SMASH DRIVE 01 EAST PRUSSIA   Clamp Jaws Of Memel Trap

LONG AWAITED RUSSIAN PUSH IS UNDER WAY      Red Army Is Smashing Across Short Distance To German Frontier

German Troops Said Abandoning All of Greece   Last-Moment Attempt To Escape Balkan Trap Being Made

REDS OPEN ATTACK ON FAST PRUSSIA   Long Awaited. Move Is Now Under Way

Berlin Says Greece Being  Abandoned   Late Hour Attempt Made To Evacuate Forces

Russians  Advance 15 Miles   Red Army Breaches Mannerheim Line, Capturing Fortress City Of Koivisto.

Breakthrough by Powerful Soviet Armies Sends Finns Reeling Back 15 Miles; Threat to Viipuri Grows

ALL ATTACKS BY GERMANS ARE REPULSED   No “Vital” Positions Lost—Gains Made Against Nazis In South.   BULLETIN

Germans In Action With Artillery   NAZIS TWICE BENT ALLIED LINES BUT EACH TIME LOST GROUND THEY GAINED; ALLIES GAIN  AT CASSINO

U. S. FORCES SMASH INTO CASSINO: ALLIES BATTLE TO HOLD ANZIO BEACHHEAD

GERMANS CLAIM DEFENSE LINE HAS BEEN PIERCED   Americans-British Cling te Holdings—Cassino Gattle Also Grim.

NAZI RADIO SAYS FIFTH ARMY LINE HAS BEEN BROKEN   Allied Communique Contains No Mention of Major Attack, Troops “Probe” Allied Positions.   WORK CARRIED ON IN DAMAGED HOSPITAL   Hundreds of Bombers Take Part In Almost Non-Stop Bombardment of Targets On Invasion Coast.

CLAIM ALLIED LINES BROKEN ON BEACHHEAD   Bitter Battle For Possession  Of Cassino Goes Into Its Ninth Day

Allies Battle to Hold Beachhead South of Rome   Yanks Smash Deep Into Cassino Stronghold

BATTLES GRIMLY INFACE OF NAZI . 3-PRONG DRIVE   Army Forces Smash Deep Into Cassino Qtreanehold

COAST TOWNS FEEL WEIGHT OF AXIS RAIDS   Three Hundred German Planes in Second Consecutive Night Attack  Over England   SIX ARE SHOT DOWN

12 Jap Vessels Probably Sunk by Task Force   Raids on Bonin and Volcano Islands Reported

U.S. FLIERS SINK 12 JAP VESSELS   113 Planes Bagged In Raids On Bonins And Volcanoes

U.S. AIRMEN BAG TWELVE NIP VESSELS   Raids on Bonin And Voleano Islands Successful

‘Bonin, Volcano Island Raids Net 12 Jap Vessels   113 Planes Destroyed Or Damaged During Attack, Says Nimitz--—

Public Meeting This Friday Night At High School To Study New Code   To Be Explained By Chairman: Of Code Commission

Vienna Area Also Hit By Yanks; British Hammer Stuttgart For Second Night

Yanks Hammer Reich Cities,  French Sector   Airmen Support Troops In Si. Lo" Area; British Bombers Hit Nazis In Night Raids

Hit 250 Miles From Philippines   Liberators Bomb Jap Airfields On Halmahera

LIBERATORS BOMB NIPS 0} HALMAHERA   2 Airdromes Only 250 Miles From Philippines Are Hit

Liberators Strike Halmahera, 250 Mi. From Philippines   Find No Opposition As They Lash Airdromes, Destroy 13 Planes

Liberators Strike Within 250 Miles Of Philippines, ‘Batter Two Jap Airdomes

BOMBERS HIT 2 JAP AIRFIELDS ON HALMAHERA   Fliers Unopposed, Bag 13 Enemy Planes On Ground

Halmahera, 250 Miles From Philippines Hit   GREAT AIR FLEET OVER ENEMY TARGETS TODAY   HEAVY GUNS ARE SHELLING FALAISE

Decision Of Latham To OK May 23 Slate Results In Speculation Over Bitter Legal Feuding

Fresno Inmate Interrogated or Frome Murders   Woman’s Statement Leads to Quiz of Man Held Far Assanlt

PRENGH WAKE PAOGRESS Oi LAND OF ELBA   An_lo-Americans Continue Sweep on Italian Mainland

FRENCH RULING MOST OF ELBA   Anglo-Americans Continue Sweep Northward in Italy

FRENGH MAKE PROGRESS ON ISLAND OF ELBA   Anzlo-Americans Vontinud § Sweep on Italian ‘Mainland

ITALY DRIVE GOES DEEPER   ANGLO-AMERICAN “FORCES CONTINUE ADVANCE WHILE" FRENCH ENGAGE NAZIS — ‘ . ON ELBA . f

ALLIED CHURCH LEAGUE FORMED IN THIS COUNTY   R. C. Bunch of Statesville, Nominated To Head  Organization.

ALLIED CHURCH LEAGUE FARMED   Organization I Dedicated To Restoring Prohibition in N.C.

WILOUN RESIGNS AS WPB OFFIGER   Lid Blows Off in Bitter Row In War Production Board; Charges Unfair Attacks, Criticism

Wilson Leaves WPB Because Of Dissension   Roosevelt Appoints’ Krag Acting Chief During  Welenntc Abcenmnc

Wilson Quits WPB Sore at ‘Attacks By Nelson Aides  Lid Blows Off Bitter   Lid Blows Off Bitter Row as Chief Prepares For Mission to China

Wilson of WPB Offers Resignation  Lg. taser tft ecdtem   Charges He Was Victim Of Unfair Criticism From Aides of WPb Chairman Nelson

Wilson Quits WPB, Denies He Opposes  Reconversion   Says He Is Victim Of Unfair Attacks, Unjust Criticisms Ry Aidee af Nelson   ASSERTS. DISSENTION HARMS WAR EFFORT.   Krug To. Run WPB . During Nelson Mission T. China for F.D.R:

LID BLOWS OFF IN WPB BATTLE   Executive Vice Chairman Quits, Claims Attacks By Donald Nelson

Wilson Resigns Ina Row with WPB Officials   Blames Nelson For Dissention

Wilson Quit: WPB in  Row Climax   ‘Charges ‘Unfair Attacks’ hy Nelson’s Aids

Fifth Army Drives Ten Miles North And 12 Miles West Of Rome  14,000 GERMANS CAPTURED IN AR@A  Front Dispatches Said Advance Continuing Steadily

ALLIES 10 MILES NORTH OF ROME   Japs Have Heavy Losses When Allied Troops Make Repeated Assaults.

Nazi Strength Brokeni in Italy, Says Alexander   Allied Forces North. of Rome Racing After  Boe in Retreat

Nazi Suicide ‘Squads Fail -To Stem 5th   Allied Columns " Advance 10 Miles  Se el ew

BEATING DOWN REAR GUARDS      Allicd Fifth Army Driving Disorganized Nazi Army North and West of Rome — Germans Battling to Stop Advance,

Yanks, British Press Fleeing Nazis in Italy   Alexander Says Enemy Strength Has Been Broken

FIFTH ARMY DRIVING ON FROM ROME   German Armies Broken In Central Italy, Alexander Says

(es, Alexander Says Backbone of fin Nazi Power in Italy Broken; Akes Now 12 Miles Above Rome   her Guard Actions By Enemy Fail To Stop On-rushiag Yanke—British 8th Meets Resistance  fe Blank.

5th Army Columns Drive 10 Miles North Of Rome   Beat Down Disorganized Nazi Rear Guard In Their Path

ALEXANDER HAS CENTRAL NAZI ARMIES BROKEN   Fifth Army Pushes 12 Miles West of Rome

POWER OF NAZI ARMY IN CENTRAL ITALY, BROKEN   Allies Beat Down Enemy In Drive 10 Miles North Of Rome

DRIVES 10 Mi. ABOVE ROME   Gen. Alexander Says Strength of Nazi Force Broken

Nazi Rear Guard Forces Beaten ©  Down By Allies   - Strength of Genriam _ Armies in Central Italy Asaarted.Broken.

IGEN. CLARK’ TELLS — IMEN THEY ARE BEST SOLDIERS IN WORLD   But He Tells Them They Have Rough Road to Travel to Get Victory and Peace

Big Flood Moving on St. Charles   Farmers and Troops © Art Waging’ Losing Fight on River Levees’   TROUBLE ALL ‘ALONG TERE MISSISSIPP.   Missouri Reaches. Crest. at Jefferson City; Big Plant Closed at Cave

FIGHTER ‘ATRORAFT FACTORIES OF ENEMY BLASTED “IN  ~ BIG-SCALE: ASSAULTS Poke A TODAY —

HIT FACTORIES IN GERMANY AND POLAND   Furious Air Battles Believed to Have Developed

EASTER COMES TO WAR FRONT   Chaplains Brave Shells To Hold Rites In Dugout Shelters

Four Armies on Western Front  Creation Of All-American Army Group Appears Likely

Yanks Place Fourth Army Along Front   Americans Now Have Two More Armies Than Were in Action at End Of World War 

Four Armies on Western Front Pee ete ee  Creation Of All-American  Army Group Appears Likeh  

FOUR AMERICAN ~ ARMIES ON LINE   U. S. Ninth Takes Place In France With First, Third And Seventh

Americans Now Have More Troops on French Soil Than They Ever Before Have Had on Any Foreign Continent; Pershing Had 2 Armies

Most Shattering Assaults Of War On Military Installations   ALONG INVASION COAST OF FRANCE  U. S. Airmen Credited With 1,268 German Planes In May

Allied June Air Campaign Opens Over Invasion Coast   Thousands of U. 8S. Bombers Strike at  Qarman Inetallatianc

Pre-Invasion Air Assault Is Renewed   Pas De Calais Area Is Main Bomb Target Of Eighth Air Force

— _TWOSTRIKES   Parke-Davis And Bakery Union Chiefs Face WLB Teday

PRES. DELAYS DECISION ON SOLDIER VOTE   Contacts Governors On Effectiveness Of Measures

DELAY SOLDIER VOTE ACTION      Pr -essident Roosevelt Awaiting ‘Word from Governors of Various States Bufore Signing Measure.

F DR. Delays ()n Soldier Ballot   Conducts Survey Amona Governors

FR. DELAYS VOTE DECISION   CANVASS OF STATES PRECEDES FINAL ACTION

FER BELAYS DECISION ON SOLDIER VOTE MEASURE   Chief Executive  Is Canvassing State Governors

FR Delays Vote To Canvass State Governors On Bil   GOP Chairman Says Action Unnecessary;  Solons Withhold: Views

F.D,R, SURVEYS GOVERNORS ON SOLDIERS’ VOT   Delays His Decision On Congress - Okayed Ballot Bill

Panicky Huns Hee Village   Do Not Even Stop To Bury Dead In Retreat From Baveux.

ROME CAN BE SPARED if ALLIES AND AXIS ADOPT POLICY AE GOOD WILL TOWARD ETERNAL CITY .. . VATICAN AADIO

Japanese Taking Beating On Five Fronts in Asia And in Pacific Islands

—PACIFIC~   INDIA INVASION ~ IS COLLAPSING   Enemy Strong Points Around Kohima ‘Being Liquidated, Report —   CHINESE HOLD   Gen. Stilwell’s Forces Ad" ‘vancing Steadily In Rurma

JAPANESE PICTURED AS TAKING BEATING ON VARIOUS FRONTS  ENEMY’S INVASION IN INDIA CHOPPED TO

JAPS TAKING - ABEATING ON FIVE FRONTS   Tnvasion of India Being  Chopped to Pieces and  Nip Offensive in North  China Reported. Losing - Tha Steam.

Japanese Beaten Back on 5 Fronts   Enemy's Invasion of India Is Being Chopped to  Pieces.

Nip Offensive In North China Also Losing Stean Guam Raided For First Time By Land-Based Bombers; Truk, Ponape Attacked

Japanese Losing On Five Fronts   Threat Of Invasion In India Reduced

ALLIES GIVING JAPS BEATING ON 5 FRONTS   Enemy’s Invasion of India Falters; Hollandia Campaign Finished

BRITISH, INDIAN FORCES GAIN ON KOHIMA FRONT   Chinese Hurl Japs Out o Hulao Pass in China, Enemy Losses High

Japanese Back on Defensive   Enemy Drives Halted In India and China; Allies Gain in Burma, Press Aerial Assault

Japanese Take Beating on All Five Fronts   Allies Stop Nip Invasion in India, Slow Of fensive in China, Advance in Burma

Nip War Machine Takes Beating On Five Fronts   Threat to India Eased; Japs Retreat in China

SHATTER JAPS ON 5 FRONTS   Allied Gains Reported In India, Burma and  China

JAPS APPARENTLY TAKING A BEATING ON 5 WAR FRONTS   INVASION OF INDIA PICTURED AS BEING CHOPPED TO PIECES

Japs Taking Beating On Five Fronts    Pacific - Picture Exudes - Optimism For Allied ~ Cause

JAPS REPULGED ON ALL FRONTS   Allied Reports From All Areas Picture Enemy As Taking a Beating.   INDIA INVASION CHECKED

Allied Forces Score Successes in Fighting in India, Barma, China—Island Bases Strated

Japanese Forces Taking a Beating On Ail Five Fronts   In india, North China, Burma and Pacific Enemy is Reeling Under Allied Blows

Jap Invasion Ot India Being Cut To Pieces   Enemy Handed Beatings On 5 Fronts; Reveal 32nd Division Among Hollandia Invaders

Japanese Forces Taking a Beatine  Suffer Reverses of Five Far-flung Fronts

NIPPON FORCES: BEING: BEATEN. ON-FIVE: FRONTS   Japs” Invading. India . Are Chopped. To > ve Pieces.   LOSING IN-BURMA:   Offensive - ‘In:. North China Has: Slowed Down . 

INDIA INVASION HALTED; ISLAND BASES COLLAPSE   Allied Aerial Offense Is Being Stepped Up from New Hollandia Fields

Japs Battered At Five Points   Invasion of India  Chopped Up—Stilwell  Maintains Advance

Japs Suffer Setbacks on ‘live Fronts   Allied Gains Steadily Wipe Dut Chances Of Kahimes Capture.

Japs Take Beating on Five Fronts in Battles of Pacific   Reports Show It's All Take and No Give  for Nipponese

ALLIES RIP JAPS ON FIVE FRONTS   Nipponese Invasion Of India Being Chopped To Pieces

JAPS LOSING FIGHT IN ALL BATTLE ZONES   Allied Schedule Not Delayed By, Indian War

Japs Taking Beating on Five Fronts   Invasion Troops in India Chopped to Pieces by Allies

ADOLF HITLER'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT IS BOMBS TODAY   American Medium Bombers Leave For Light Raid Over French  Coanet.

More Allied Air Attacks Made Today   Parts Of Hitler’s Europe Hit; Three Ports In Northern Italy Bombed .

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON NAZIS BY REDS   Central Offensive in Vitebsk Sector Buckles Under Russian Drive To ward Latvian Border

Long-Expected Russian Offensive Has Been Started   Westward Push Is Concentrated Around Vitebsk

Soviets Head for Lativan Border  Rolling Swiftly Over German Foes

German Losses High As New Central Front Offen sive Is Launched By Russians; Finns Unable To Stop Steady Push On Helsinki

Reds Cut Rail Line Cen-. ter, Head Towards Minsk—Move On To Wealeinki

Soviet Armies In Spectacular Westward Gain   New Offensive Carries Reds To Within 75 Mi. Of Latvian Border.

SOVIETS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE      Central Front Springs to Life: Advance Toward Latvian Border

TOMAR LATVIAN BORDER   New Central Front Offensive integral Part of Allied Strateay.   ADVANCES IN FINLAND

RED ARMY JOINS U. S., BRITISH IN SUMMER DRIVE   Report High Nazi Losses in Push 75 Miles From Latvian Border

RED ARMY IN SPECTACULAR GAIN IN EAST   Drive Forward to Within 75 Miles of Latvian  Border

BREAK THROUGH NAZI LINES ON *CENTRAL FRONT   RED ARMY APPEARS TO BE OUTFLANKING VITEBSK; CUT RAILS

Spectacular Drive Within 75 Miles Of Latvia Border   New Central Front Offensive Detracts Nothing from Push Toward Helsinki

Reds’ Drive Is Part Of  Strategy Of Allies   Russians Crash Forward On Central Front, Continue Gains In Finland

Central Front Drive Smashing Germans Back   Advance Described As Spectacular; Push Across Finland Is Unchecked

Reds Only 75 Miles From  Latvian Border   New Offensive Is Integral Part of Allied Strategy— Advance Spectacular

Reds Surge Forward in New Push   Reach Points 75 Miles From Border  Of Latvia

Soviet Army Rolls West With Added  Momentum   Points Bordering On Latvia Are Seized Today

Russ Now Are 15 Miles From Latvia   Swollen Streams, Mud Fail to Halt Spectacular Assault

Vitebsk Railway Severed In Red Flanking Movemen'   . Soviets Advance on Wide Fronts North and South of City—Drive Into Finland Unimpeded

Nazis Eastern Line Pierced By Soviet Advance   Drive 10 Miles Through German Positions In Centra! Sector

Threaten To Isolate Vitebsk   Cut All Railways to Big Nazi Base; Drive Against Finns Shows No Sign of Slowing

Britain Reasserts Right to Shape Governments in Lands Liberated From German Rule   Eden Splits With American "Hands-off" Policy as Machineguns Rattle in Streets of Athens in an Effort to Put Down Left Wing Uprising

British Seize KAM Offices-Fights Spread   ELAS Snipers Fire on British Troops, Killing One; Communists Arrested by Soldiers

eadquarters f Greeks Is aptured   Fighting Spreads Throughout Wide Area Of Athens

British Tanks, Soldiers Used   Seize Headquarters of EAM Party in Athens; Casualties Anger British

SPREADING IN CAPITAL   gieadquarters Of EAM Seized; 42 Persons  Taken Prisoner

CAPTURE EAM HEADQUARTERS IN-QUICK WIN   Greek Officials Expect Resistance to End  By Thursday

TROUBLES CULMINATE IN GENERAL FIGHTING  GREEK MOUNTAIN TREEOS AND BRITISH TEAM UP * TO BATTLE ELAS  mm GOVERNMENT

British Seize KAM Party  Headgq uarters   Support Greek Government Of Papandreou

BRITISH FIGHT © GREEK REDS   U. S. Considers Application Of Hands-Off Policy To Crisis.   STETTINIUS UNCERTAIN

BRITISH SEIZE MAIN OFFICES OF GREEK EAM   Many Killed as Tanks and Machine Guns Battle in Athens Streets: Communict Office Also Taken.

In Athens Spreads   BRITISH SOLDIERS CAPTURE COMMUNIST PARTY BUILDING INCESSANT FIRE BY SNIPERS

British Seize Eam Headquarters by. Storm Wednesday   Snipers Kill One. Briton, Hurt Another In: Pre-Dawn Attack

HEADQUARTERS OF EAM PARTY ARE CAPTUREL   Some Reports Indicate Fighting Beginning to Slacken Off in Grecian Capital.

British Soldiers In Athens Seize Eam Party Offices   Fighting Spreads Through Wide Area: In Greek Capital

British Seize Headquarters  Of Greek EAM   Tanks And Troops Slowly Overcoming Resistance In Athens.

FIGHTING SPREADS OUT IN ATHENS AS BRITISH TROOPS SEIZE LEFT — WING HEADQUARTERS INNEW MOVE

British Tank And Soldiers Seize Headquarters Of EAM; Fighting Spreads In Athens   Communist Party Building Taken By Parachute Troops

English Truck Is Attacked ~ Before Dawn;  Soldier Slain   ‘Tank: Batters. Door or Elas Building -

Tank-Led British Units Seize Greek Leftist Headquarters   Fighting Spreads In Capital;

HEADQUARTERS OF FAM PARTY HELD   Tank And Troops In Action After Snipers Fire : Gn British   CLASHES SUBSIDE   Greek Officials Believe - Resistance Will Be - Checked Soon

SEIZES THE FAM OFFICES   ‘Fighting With Tanks and Machine. Guns Starts After Leftist Snipers Attack Truckload  of .Tommies in Athens. .

Greeks Battle British Troops; Revolt Spreads   Government Forces Gradually Gain Control in Athens; Tanks Are Active

ENGLISH SEIZE BUILDINGS USED BY EAM REDS   British Tanks and Machine Guns Gaining Control of Citv’s Canter

British Seize Building Of Communists  Tanks And Macl   Tanks And Machine Guns Used Against EAM Militia

Greek Snipers Shoot British On Athens Roac   Disorders Increase, With   ELAS Units Reported   Massing For March On Capital City   Headquariers Of EAM Party Seizec   Sherman Tanks Used By British to Rout Left Wing Groups; One Officer Killed

Tank, Platoon Of Soldiers Take EAM Quarters   No U.S. Forces ‘Involved in Civil Strife at Athens

EAM Headquarters Are Taken By Storm   Tanks, Troops, Machine Guns Used: British Soldier Killed In Fighting

SEIZE ATHENS EAM OFFICES   British Arrest 42 After Rioting In Capital of Greece

FAM Headquarters Seized by British Soldiers  Troops and Tank Used In Cleaning Out ‘Athens Stronghold

BATTLES RA THROUGHOUT CAPITAL   > Greeks Fire On Truckload Of British Soldiers   NO AMERICANS   Are Involved In Fighting: E. L. A. S. Is Declared Guilty Of Mutiny

HEADQUARTERS OF LEFTISTS. IS SEIZED TODAY   Resistance Expected To Be Overcome By Tomorrow

BRITISH MOVE ON SREEK EAM   Tank And Platoon Of Soldiers Seize Headquarters

British Soldiers Take EAM Quarters   Parachute Troopers Use Grenades To Overcome Leftists; Disorders Growing Throughout Athens Area<

British Seize Headquarters Greek Patriots      Troops Takipg Control of Athens As Fighting Spreads.

Fight On In Athens   But Officials Believe Order Will Be-Restored By Tomorrow; No U.S. Troops’ Are Involved

Parachute Troops Force Main Entrance With Grenades as Fighting Spreads

RIOTS SPREAD THROUGH WIDE ATHENS AREAS   Fighting Breaks Out After Snipers Fire on English Troops

British Seize . EAM Quarters  : Righting Rages Street. OF Athenc

TALK OF VICTORY SWEEPS CAPITAL   Many See Early Collapse Of Nazis; Others Cautious

McCormack Moderates Talk in Congress Of An Early Victory Over the Germans -

Some Senators See Chance Of Early Victory  Other Ofticials Less Contident

SOLONS EXPECT GERMANS’ FALL TO COME SOON   Vandenberg Calls for Congressional Action on Reconversion Bills

WAR'S END TALK IS CONDEMNED   No Time To Build Up Hopes, Sen. McCormack Says

Congressmen See Early Win Over Germany  Complete Collapse OF Nazis Is Thought Imminent

farly Victory Over Germany Seen By Solons   Prediction By Vandenberg Stirs Ire Of Rep. MeCormick

Congress Sees Nazi Collapse Due This Fall   ‘But McCormack Warns Vandenberg; War-Navy Heads Deplore Talk

House Democratic Leader Hits Over-Optimism But Predictions Of Early German End Continues

Possible Early Allied Win Over Nazis Stirs Congress Into Planning For Postwar

Early German Collapse Seen   , Senators: Continue Optimistic’ Views:

Optimism Wave On War Is Hit By  House Leader   Rep. McCormack Cautious About Early Collapse of Enemies

CONGRESS SEES VICTORY SOON      Overoptimism Of Colleagues "Is Deplored By House Leader

FDR ADDS 114 DELEGATES TO DEMO CONCLAVE   Dewey Picks Up More Ballots in New Jersey Vote

Two More States Go For Dewey   Governor Now Has 479 Delegates  Pledged; Roosevelt Has 798 Sewed Up.

ey? Army Told 'To Keep Close 'Wateh on Foe   Next Broadcast to  Ocenpied Nations T.. Oo. a tL

Broadeast To Underground   Kisenhower’s Invasion Headquarters Send Direct Message To V Army.

First Invasion Orders Issued By Eisenhower   Underground In Europe Gets: Instructions On Giving Aid On D-Day To Allied Forces

Orders Go Out lo Underground   General Ike Makes First Biq Appeal

UNDERGROUND — GIVEN ORDERS BY INVASION HEADS   Regular Broadcasts To Be Resumed Monday: Eisenhower To Speak

Eisenhower Sends Orders To Kurope   Tells Underground to Keep Close Watch On Nazi Moves

Radio Alerts Secret Army’   First Message by Air Warns Friends Of Allies to Watch Every Move of Enemy's Men, Tanks and Equipment

‘‘Ike”’ Issues Orders To the Underground   Invasion Chief, Through Spokesman Using New U. S. Radio Station in Europe, Tells People to Watch Every Nazi Move.

Orders Go Qut—  UV  To Underground   General Ike Makes: First Biq Apneal -

BLAST 3 ENEMY AIRDROMES, RAIL YARDS IN FRANCE  125 GERMAN PLANES DOWNED YESTERDAY;

UNDERGROUND ARMY TOLD TO GET READY   Broadcast From Kisenhower's Headquarters Asks for Information Concerning Nazt Streneth.

i # me Se . Supreme Commander Broadcasts Message To the Underground

Next Message Scheduled for Monday   Patriots Urged to Take Note of Nazi Preparations

_Eisenhower’s HQ Indicates D-Day Nearing by Warning ‘To Underground in Europe

Patriots Advised to. Stand Ready   First of Series Broadcast From  British Siation

a “cH.0.P. “FS ATTACK gant   Kansas, Minnesota, Pennsylvania Gov. ernors Speak

= GOP. F = FS ATTACK KVOSEVELT   Kansas, Minnesota, Pennsylvania Gov. ernors Speak

NEW DEALERS ARE FLAYED   THREE. MORE GOVERNORE BROADCAST - IN SECOND. OF SERIES OF GOF. POLITICAL. PROGRAMS

Lewis Is Invited  To Support FDR   Truman Calls On Him To Reconsider Alignment

Famous Skipper Saves Trawler Shelled By Suh   Craft Riddled Like Sieve Lands At Boston With 105,400 Pounds Of Fish

U-BOAT INVADES FISH GROUNDS   Trawler Shelled, Crew Forced To Quit Ship

Sub Invades U. S. Hshing Grounds   Nazi U-Boat Forces Crew Of Boston Trawler To Abandon Ship.

German Submarine Strikes In N. Atlantic Fishing Grounds   Shells And Machine-Guns Trawler; . Crew Returns, Brings Boat To Port

UsBoat Invades  Fishing Grounds, ‘Riddles Vessel   German Sub Finally Leaves After Believing Vessel Would Sink.

German Sub Shells Trawler in North Atlantic Recent;   Attack is Revealed b: Captain of Boston _ Fishing Vessel!

NAZI SUB FIRES ONU.S. TRAWLER   Submarine Attacks Vessel In North Atlantic Fishing Grounds Off Boston; Ship Limps Into Port.

Sub Attacks Fisherman off  N. E. Coast   U-Boats Reappear After Two Years ‘Absence

U-BOAT SHELLS ~ BOSTON VESSEL   Attack Made When Ger. man Submarine Invades Fishing Grounds

TWO-PLY ATT TIGHTENS VISE ON NAZI FORCES   Clouds of Bombers Escorted By Fighters Blast Berlin And Invasion Area   Bv RICHARD McMURRAY

County Men Placed In 1-A      Nine Classified By Selective Service Board

Chaplin Cries On Witness Stand   Prosecuting Attorney Questions Comedian

REVOLT ENDED BY NO-STRIKE PLEDGE IN CIC   CHICAGO MEETING GIVES BIG HAND TO WALLACE

No-Strike Pledge ls Reaffirmed at ClO Convention   Delegates Unanimously Vote for Continuance For Duration

New Landing  Effected by Yankee Units   Action Is Within 600 Miles of the Philippines

NEW LANDING BY YANKS iN NEW GUINEA   15,000 Jap Troops By-passed East Of Sorong

Yanks Hop 200 Miles Up New  Guinea Coast  15,000 Japs Are Trapped 4d By  atest landing

British Eighth Presses North From Forli To Take San Tome After Struggle

WLB IGNORES SENATE REBUKE   Ward "Dispute Reopened With New Seizure Of Company Possible

WLB REOPENS DISPUTE IN WARD CASE   New Seizure by Government May Be Sought

BIDDLE - AND. FOUR. AGENCIES CRITICIZED BY TWO OF THREE MEMBERS OF SENATE ‘ ; Gropp oo oe

NEW oeIZURE UF WARD G0 MAY BE OUCH   WLB Reopens D'‘spute In Spite of SubCommittee’s Action

Americans Withdraw ‘After Bitter 10-dav Fight At Fort Driant, Fight Off Ferocious German Countersmashes In Aachen.

Allies Clamp Grip on Path Into Antwerp   Send Patrols Across Neder Rhine; Forced To Withdraw From Driant Fortress

Water Entrances To Antwerp Port In 2-Edged Grij   Push Back Aachen Nazis; Yanks Quit Fort Driant; Gains In Vosges Drive

Clamp Grips on Sea Entrances To Antwerp   Yanks Quit Fort Driant. But Gain In Advance Toward Rhine in Vosges

U, S. WITHDRAWS FROM INSIDE FORT DRIANT   Yanks Repel Nazi Attacks Inch Forward in Fight for Ruined Aachen

ON et nal  Americans Score Gain: In Gruelling Battle . For Ruined Aachen   - Sixth Army Group Reported’ Gain Gaining Momentum In Advance In Vosges Mountains North Of Belfort Gap

GRIP ON “ANTWERP _ TIGHTENED   Aachen Battle Still  In Progress; Yanks Lose Fort Driant

Allies Quit In Fight For Fort Driant   Battle To Within 32 Miles Of Rhine In Foothills

Cross Neder Rhine   BRITISH PATROLS ENTER AREA WHERE AIRBORNE UNIT FAILED THREE WEEKS AGO   Press Aachen Mop-Up

An Army Man Wins Barehanded Fight With a Crocodile   Is Dragged to. Bottom, but Breaks Loose and Reaches Hospital With Badly Torn Arms.

Wins Barehand Battle With  [Big Crocodile   Army Officer Lives To Tell Of Fight In New Britain Jungle Pool

Congress Afrai d To Call Recess   incompleted Work Worries Weary Legislators

Billy Meers Receives Life-Giving Blood Plasma From Soldiers, Civilians in All Parts of Nation

Plane Takes Blood to Billy Mee Meers  Plasma As Asura Child Ill i in Dallas

Guarantee Blood For Billy Meers  Hospital Agrees Child To Get Plasma

Turks Hint Willingness ‘To Join War   Combatant Role Gets ‘Price Tag’ of 300 Airnlanes. 400 Tanks

State AFL For 4th Term   Resolution Favoring No Endorsement On Senators Considered

DEATH TAKES GOP LEADER, SEN. MNARY   Popul ar Or egonan Would Have Been 70 June 12

Sen. McNary Dies Friday   G.0.P. Floor Leader Was 69 Years Of Ace

Liberators Hit Jap Oil Center With 74 Tons   First Raid in Force On Balikpapan Costs Us Three Big Bombers

DUTCH OIL POINTS HIT BYLIBERATORS   ‘Most Strategic Target in Pacific,” Says General MacArthur; Big Fires Started.   Long Flight

RUSSIANS ONLY 37 MILES FROM RIGA, LAST BIG PORT.   German Ships Sunk   Southern Forces Forge Ahead  Through Carpathians to Knock Out Hungary. 

Russian Armies Are Preparing To Drive Into Riga   Four Soviet Armies Are Converging On Latvian Capital Says Moscow  RPHRINA TAT DNT AXRTT

Soviet Armies Converging On Estonian Capital; Now Only 37 Miles From Port

REDS CONVERGE ON CITY OF RIGA   Leningrad Army Continues Clearing Enemy From Estonia

Dewey Acclaims Peace Planning”   Letters Released by State Department

Allies Trying ~ ToKeep Spain-—Truly Neutra   Roosavelt Says Spanish. Aid to Nazis Must Be Curiailed —

FRENCH T0 SEEK 2 BILLION FROM U5, IN EXPORTS   Goods, Some of Which May Be Shipped on Lend-Lease, Are Sought to Help Rebuild Country.   BULK WILL GO FOR CASH OR ON CREDII   Program Revised With Discovery Ravages of War Are Not as Great as  ‘Originally Believed.

French Seek Two Billion In Exports   Want to Buy That Much U.S. Goods in Next Year to Rebuild Country

France Is Seeking $2,000,000,000 in U. S. Goods During Next 12 Months

French Seek Big Export Sum From America   Want Two Billion for Use in Rebuilding Shattered Country

FRANCE WANTS — GOODS IN ULS.A   Exports W orth 2 Billion Needed In Rebuilding Liberated Nation

LEPKE TAKEN TO SING SING PRISON   Murderer Surrendered to Cant, Autharitiasc

FARM LABOR. “S LIMITEE   KANSAS CONGRESSMAN. SAYS FARMS WILL OFFER FEWER JOBS AFTER THE WAR

CAPACITY UTILIZATION TO GIVE VETERANS JOBS   Rep. Hope Outlines 9 Points He Believes Will Help   BUT WARNS OF DANGERS

SOVIETS SHELL EAST PRUSSIAN NAZI GUN SITES   Drive Against Budapest Continued, Main Rail Supply Line Cut

Americans Bomb Many Points In Jap-Held China  Ward Off Blow Upon Yank Base

Yank Bombers  Range Widely Over Jap-China   Attack Enemy Rail, River Communications; Japs  Lose Raidiig Force

Blackout in Hawaii, -” Rigidly Enforced Since Peart Harbor, Lifted:

LIGHTNING HITS TULSA AREA; 15 HORSES KILLED   Valuable Stable Is Destroyed Broken Arrow School Building Damaged

15 Show Horse Die af Tulsa as Stable Burns   Lightning Destroys Show Place in Tulsa And Damages School At Broken Bow

REDS FINISH LIBERATING ESTOV’;   Surge *¢vardin Hur © Reach New Bu & “¢ Approach

Liberation Of Estonia Completed; Soviet Troops Surge Into Czechoslovakia

REDS FINISH LIBERATING ESTOM..  Surges’  2 Sard i in Hur oe *e Reach Ne Wyk  tt ae, Ao

ESTONIA DRIVE I$ COMPLETED   RUSSIANS CLEAR BALTIC COUNTRY OF GERMANS TO PREPARE WAY FOR NEW OFFENSIVE

Tax Simplifier  Becomes Lav   Bill Affecting 50 Million  Taeynavers Ia Sioned

ROOSEVELT SIGNS TAX STREAMLINER      “PERSONS OF: ANY ‘FURTHER us COMPUTATION 8.

SIMPLIFIED TAX BILL 1S SIGNED   Victory Levy Repealed; 30 Million Need Not File Returns

‘Here’s How to Figure Income Taxes  ‘Under New Bill Signed Yesterday

AIRMEN STRAFE FRENCH COAST, WEST GERMANY   Mosquito Raids Bring Reports o! Alerts in Swiss Cities—Nazi De fenders Baffled

Yank Planes Hit Targets in France  DAK AA wo mececbme   RAF Mosquitos Raid Western Germany For  6th Straight Night

REICH HIT AGAIN -BY-US, BRITISH   Marauders’ Batter France Mosquitos Germany

OBJECTIVES IN NORTH FRANCE ARE SMASHED   American Maurauders Help Keep Round - the - Clock Raids Roiling Following RAF Activities   TARGETS UNIDENTIFIED

FRANCE RAIDED BY U.S, FLIERS   Follow Up RAF Night Attacks on Western Reich

U. S. Planes Return Without Single Loss; RAF Stages Sixth Night’s Successive Raid; Blast Western Germany.

Allied Round-The-Clock Air Offensive Kept Rolling With ‘Smashes At Northern France   U. S. Maratiders Return From Daylight Attacks Without Loss Of Single Plane

U.S. Marauders Hit Military Targets in France  RAF Over Germany Round-the-clock

U. S$. MARAUDERS HIT AT NORTHERN FRANCE AGAIN   Smashed at Military Objec-. tives After Mosquitos Raided Germany.   SIX SUCCESXSIVE TIMES   The Marauders Returned in Early Afternoon Without a Single Loss.

U.S. Planes Raid France Once More   Targets In North Keep Up Clock Air Assaults

RAF Attacks Germany In Night Raid   Day Shift Of Raiders Follow Up With Cross-Channel Blaws

U.S. Fliers Smnash, At Military’ Sites ‘Tn North Franc         = Ale Offensive Continues

Blames U.S. Career Diplomats For Argentine Mess; Goering’s  Wealth Mav Be InU.S. Banks

Pvt. Joe Beisch, Wounded in Italy, Making Recovery  LDlarenall Galdiay Raraivad   Carroll Soldier Received Bullet Wound in Right Chest Recently

Pvt. Joe Beisch,  Wounded in Italy, Making Recovery  Carroll Soldier Received  Bullet Wound in Right Chest Recently

Fight Is Shaping Up in Senate Over Six State Départmént Nominations

SEEKS VOTE ON APPOINTMENTS   Opposition Centers of Move To Send Nominations Back to FOR.

‘Vote On Appointees To State Department May Come Mid-Week   Maoy Go Hone

Connally Fights For Senate Vote On Appointments   Opposition Centered Around Quartet Which Would Send List Back for Reconsideration

Po Fight For Senate Ballet On Selections   senator Connally Says He Will Fight “If It Takes All Winter,”   -EEKS FILIBUSTER

Texan Bent on Getting Vote   Sengtor Comnalty Determined te Get Senate Vete on State Nominces

F ight. Planned  On Nominees   Vote ‘Is Demanded On, 6 State Heads

Connally to Fight For Approval  Of Six Nominees  Senator Guffey Wants To Talk Four Hours Against Grew

Connally ‘Going On—If It Takes All Winter’  Senate Will Be Held Fo: Vote On Six Appointees

TO FORCE VOTE CN G NOMINEES   Senator Connally Expects Senate to Vote on Appointees This Week

Solons to Be Denied Santa   Connally Threatens to Keep Them in Session Over Christnas

DELAYS ANGER SEN. CONNALLY   Selon to Fight For Vote Gn Nominees ‘If It Takes All Winter’

“CAPTURE U. S. OFFICERS”   Japanese Report Prisoners Taken at Hengyang :

Great Drive Is Reopened On Huneary   Germans Admit Twenty-Mile Push Into East Prussia.

Reds Drive Wedge Deep  tis Prussia   Other Columns Reach Danube 84 Miles South Of Budapest

Reds Uncork New Assault For. Budapest   100 Prussian Cities Captured in 20-Mile Plunge Over Border.

LABOR NEEDS AT NEW HIGHS      90,000 Workers Needed In Tri-State Area, WMC Reports

SHORTAGE IN LABOR TO GROW   Return of 40,000 Students te Schools To Complicate Problem

Russian Troops Reported Fighting Inside Budapest, Hungarian Capital

RUSSSIAN TANK COLUMNS DRIVE INTO BUDAPEST   Hungarian Troops Reported To Have Turned On Germans Inside City   ADVANCE CONTINUES IN EAST PRUSSIA

RUSS TROOPS REPORTED IN BUDAPEST   Soviet Tanks Said To Be Fighting In Hungarian Capital

RUSSIAN TANKS REPORTED INSIDE BUDAPEST TODAY   Drive To Encircle Hungarian Capital

Nazi, Hungarian Troops Said In  Desperate Plight   Soviet Communique Remains Silent On  Battle In Capital

Red Troops Reach Point Above City   Bucharest Reports Soviet Columns Within Capital

Red Tanks Rol Into Budapest, Cut Off Nazis   Hungarian Troops Turn on Germans  Inside Capital City

Red Tanks Are Reported in Budapest   Ground Troops Are At Point 24) Miles  Wrens f‘amital

Reds Smash Into Budapest, Also Cut Off Large Axis Forces East of Capital City

Soviet Tanks In Budapest, Reports Say   Russian Communique Fails to Support Radio Stories

Ground Army  Flanks City North, East   Bucharest Radio Says Ujpest Falls To Soviet Forces

Gallup Poll Finds Roosevelt Hoids Slim Advantage Today Seaboar a Siates T 0 Be M ain Battieground If Dewey Challenges FDR In Fall Voting

FDR Changes His Mind On Morgenthau Plan   President Says He Does Not Like Whole Plan of Secretary.

Scobie Declares Progress Made Throuch Athens   Insurgent Forces Being Forced Back From Piraeus Hold

British Open Tank Assault On Rebel Units   Attack ELAS Concentra: tions in Athens After: Ultimatum Expires *

‘War Will Be Over By °45’  ~Montgomery   British Second A rmy Throws  590-Mile Long Cut - Off    Wall In 48 Hours.   UPPER END OF WALL

Straddle Rhine '1 Holland As New Push Nears   Outflanking Of West Wall Under Way As Troops Advance

Athies-Establish0-Mile Cutoff In East Holland   Germans Offer Resistance From Nancy-Metz Lie To Belfort Gap In South

Allies Straddled Rhine Prepared to Push Into Germany   British Armor Merges Solidly With American Parachute-Glider Troops To Seal Off Eastern Holland

Open Path For Wheeling Offensive   Brest Falls — Canadians Battle Into Boulogne — Yanks Are Resisted

Supplies And Men Landed For 4th Consecutive Day; Great New Invasion Seen   Siegfried Line Being Outflanked As Way Is Opened For Wheeling Offensive Across N orthern Germany

More Soldiers and Supplies Are Flown in   \British Ground Forces Fast  Linking Lines With Sky Troops   SIEGFRIED LINE  IS OUTFLANKED   Whole Netherlands Front Fast Developing Inio Big Trap for Enemy

West Front Sees New Allied Drive   BRITISH SECOND ARMY CUTS OFF NAZI SECTIONS

‘UPPE SIECFRIED LINE I$ THREATENED   Brest Falls To American   Force, Boulogne   Totters

Armies Ready For New Drive Into Germany  Path Is Opened For Offensive tn blarth Dalek

Springboard for Great Invasion Of Reich Is Won   Fierce Resistance Is Building Up Inside Germany

British Army, Airborne Troops Five Miles From Germany May Strike Above Siegfried Line

British Straddling Rhine In Holland Close To Border   New Invasion. Of. Germany Beins Prepared By Allies

Poised for New Thrust Into Reich  Siegfried Line Is Being Outflanked

British, Air Troops Advance on Both Sides of Rhine River   American Troops Push 20 Miles Beyon Nancy Against Heavy Nazi Resistance   YANKS CONTROL MOST OF TWO PALAU ISLANDS   B-25’s Blast Philippines; U. S. Transport, Minesweeper, Sub Lost

Fifty-Mile Barrier Straddles the. Rhine   Nazis in South Holland In Trap--Americans Punch Out Gains in Hard: Fighting

NEW INVASION OF GERMANY IS EXPECTED SOON   Fifty Mile Cut In Holland Is Nazi Peril

PREPARE DRIVE AROUND END OF SIECFRIED LINE   British Tanks, Sky Troops Form Solid Wall -Across Lower Rhine

Astride Rhine 5 Miles from Nazi Border   Netherlands Front New Potential Trap For German Forces

Flank Siegfried Line And Straddle Rhine   Invasion Armies Gather In Force Only Five Miles From Dutch-German Border In Preparation For Decisive Campaign

TRAP CLOSING ON GERMANS IN HOLLAND   Sky Troops Are Five Miles From German Border   Under American Control: Canadians Are Fighting For Boulogne

60-Mile Long Cutoff Wall  Is Thrown Across Rhine   Path Open for Wheeling Offensive Across Flatlands North Germany— Montgomery Says War Over This Year

British Army And Aerial Troops Fashion Trap For Enemy In South Holland

Divisions Join tor Drive on Industrial Area   Supreme Command Claims Destruction of Equivalent of 17 German Divisions During First Three Weeks of Offensive   The Western Front

Giant German Arsenal Constructed In France Captured by Americans

SERS ERERRER UT RRRERERRRERESD  Look Out Below or Ode to “Sarge”

Lincoln Officer With Empty Gun Cantures German   Former Star Emplove.

DR. J. L. TAYLOR, HOUSTON SURGEON, VICTIM HEART ATTACH  HAD BEEN NAMED ON BOARD REGENTS TEXAS UNIVERSITY RECENTLY

Dr. Judson Taylor Dies of Heart ‘Atfack Tuesday   “Husband of Former Clarksville Girl, Was «Named Regent:

BOOST PARTIES   Mrs. Douglas, as, Bradford Give Politicat Views in Prepared Talks

Jans Must Flee Or Fall; American: Advance in Rain Ormoc Corridor Under   Ormoc Corridor Under Heavy Gunfire; U. S.  Seizes Mapia Islands

Battle for Leyte into last stage  Japs must flee or be liquidated

Yanks Tighten Grip on Japs  In Limon Area   Battle of Leyte Near Final Showdown: Por Of Ormoc Hit: Manila Ship Toll Revised

Drive Overrun: Vital Ploesti Oil Region   Report Savs Some Columns Have Struck Fifty Miles Into Transylvania   Bulletin

“Two Russian ‘Armies Near ‘Bucharest   Russian Columns Move Into _ Carpathians While Ro; manians Aid in Blocking ‘ Betreat of Nazi Forces

OTHER UNITS DRIVE AHEAD IN ROMANIA   Overrunning Ploesti Oi! Region; In Fifty Miles Of Bucharest

Reds Rushing Through Ploestt On To Bucharest   Nazi Resistance Between Bucharest Appears Broken

New Nazi Weapon Is Dangerous   First: Job ‘for: AL Allies : “Ts ‘to Find Out Where: Planes Started   90-MILE RANGE» “TS. INDICATED   ‘Why Did» Hitler’ Refrain From. Using. Them on the.’ - Invasion Force? ‘= ~~

CASSINO LINE PRIED LOOSE BY OTH ARMY   GATEWAY CITY ON ROAD TO ROME DOOMED

YANKS THROUGH HEAVY NAZI FIRE   WRITER AT THE SCENE DESCRIBES DOUGHBOYS’ PUSH TO CASSINO OUTSKIRTS, —

MOSCOW SPOKESMAN URGES OPENING OF WESTERN FRONT . “AND REVIEWS RED ARMY VICTORIES

Soviet Forces Kill And Capture 500,000 German Troops Last Six Weeks   RAF Presses Pre-Invasion Assaults Against Continent

Russia Reveals Heavy Recent Losses Of Nazi   Estimates German Casualties At Half Million In Past Six Weeks   WILL PURSUE NAZI FORCE IN GERMANY

PENICILLIN, RARE NEW DRUG, USED IN STAMFORD FOR FIRST TIME, WITH RULE GIRL PATIENT

MORGENTHAU PLAN IN-LOSING FIGHT   Gérman Peace Policy Unil Split Open By His  eo Deanneale

MORGENTHAU PLAN FOR DEALING WITH GERMANY VETOED   Roosevelt Disapproves Secretary’s Proposal to Reduce Reich to Agricultural Country.   ACTION A VICTORY FOR HULL, STIMSON   Washington Looks to Churchill’s Talk Today for Hint on Eventual Fate of Navis.

Reich Agrarian Plan Discarded   Morgenthau Loses Battle On Peace Bluenrint

GERMANS ATTEMPT TO SLIP THROUGH ANZIO DEFENSES   Nazis Employ Infiltration Tactics at Night in Effort to Strike Allies From Rear.   FIGHTING HAMPERED BY.HEAVY DOWNPOUR   Fifth Army Commander Reported Confident Beach_ head Can Survive Heaviest Possible Blow. *

Sneak Effort By Germans Flukes   Infiltration Into  Rear Beaten Back By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

NIGHT FORAYS BELOW ROME ARE REPULSED   ALLIED GUNS BREAK UP PREPARATIONS FOR ATTACK

NAZIS SEEKING TO. INFILTRATE LINES   Troops Sneak Through Al. lied Lines to Anzio Beachhead

Anzio Germans Try To. Sneak Through Lines   Weavy Allied Shelling Break Up Preparations For New Enemy Attack

Nazi Night Sneal Through Allied Lines Thwarted...   Enemy Sought to Strike From Rear of Beach Head ©

NAZI EFFORTS AT ANZIO FAIL   Enemy Endeavors to Sneak - Through Allied Lines To Attack in Rear

UNDER COVER OF NIGHT NAZI TROOPS TRY INFILTRATION TACTICS AND ARE DEALT SHARP BELOW BY ALLIES.

New Attacks by Enemy Repelled on Beachhead   Nazi Troop Concentrations Near Cisterna Broken Up By American Artillery; Allied Aviation Is Active

CAPITAL CITY - OF ESTONIANS  FALLS TO REDS   Other Russians Cross Vistula, Deep Into Warsaw

RED AnMY Al LATVIAN BORDER   Fight Street Battles With Germans in City of Wilno

EDITORS’ MEETING "TO BE OCTOBER 21   Kansas Newspaper Men Will Hold ey ,  at   TO ATTEND GRID GAME

TO BE OCTOBER 21   Kansas Newspaper Men Will Hold ‘Conference ,  at K: U,   TO ATTEND GRID GAME

Tobin Says He. Knows * Nothing About Scuffle Atter FD: R.'s Speech:

Wounded Navy Hero Beaten Up By Teamsters In Hotel Night Of FDR Talk, Report

Naval Officer Reporte Beaten Up By Members Of Teamster Unien ‘Over Voting Query

SCUFFLE IN HOTEL AFTER FDR’S TALK CONFUSED AFFAIR   Héad of Teamsters Union Does Not Know About Alleged Row in. Washington

Alleged Assault On Navy Officer Denied By Tobin   Union Leader Claims He Has No Knowledge Of Woks Hotel Fiet

Cannons Roar Along Fntire West Front   Germans Believe Eisenhower Ready for Gigantic Push

YANKS THRUST DEEPER INTO GERMANY   Meet Stiff Resistance Afteg Taking Schmidt   EASTERN HALF   Of Walcheren Island Still Held By Enemy, Leaving Antwerp Uncleared

Berlin Claims Yanks Ready To Launch All-Out Offensive   U.S. Troops Take Schmidt Near Roe River 15 Miles Southeast Of Aachen

Allied Jabs Gain Along West Front   Grand Offensive Toward Rhine Is In Preparation,  Germany Warns

HUGE ALLIED OFFENSIVE IS NAZI WARNING   Allies Jabbing Along 500. Mile Western Front; Near Roer River

Berlin Warns Eisenhower Forces Massed For Drive; Resistance Slows Yanks

Germans Warn Big Offensive In the Making  First Army Punches  Out Gains Toward Too IR Date

. 8  ‘Big Dis cea ihe mmeecinoererrernerei Allied Armies Roll Deeper In  Reich; Berlin Sounds Alarm

Allies Continue To Make Dents All Alone the 500mile Western Front, Alarming Berlin.   OPPOSITION STIFFENS SOUTHEAST OF AACHEN

Berlin Fears Allies Ready For Offensive   Local Gains Made Against Germans AD Along Front

Nazis Warn Huge Drive By Allies Is Impending   Hodges’ First Arnty Believed Preparing For Jump-Off Inio Cologne Plains

'GERMANORESISTANCE STIFFENS; GREECE NOW FREE OF NAZIS; RUSSIANS BESIEGE BUDAPEST

WEST FRONT —   Eisenhower Shapes New   Blow. Berlin Warns      Allied Armies Punch Out Local Gains Along Entire -500-Mile Front; Americans Crash Into-Stiffen. ine German Resistance

Ike Massing Armies For Big Offensive, . Nazi Airwaves Say   Allied Troops Chalk Up Steady Advance in West Front Drive

BLAST GE DEFENSES AL ALONG FRON   U. S. Meet Stiff Resistance Near Hurtgen, Ip East Holland

ALLIES MAKE LOCAL GAINS ALONG FRONT   American Thrust Into Germany Loses Speed

Forces Under Kisenhower On Move On Reich   Jabbing All Along 500. Mile Front, Racking Up Consistent Local Gains Aeainst Boche   Nazi Tanks Being Blusted From Path   Firet Army Yankees Shoy iag Down Last 1,000 Yards  Toward Roer River, Last Barrier Before Rhine

Allies Jab At German Defenses   Score Limited Gains  In Thrusts Along West Front Where Nazis Get Set for Big Offensive

Hodges’ Troops Edge On Toward  Cologne Plain Allies In West   Allics In West Holland Advance; Aachen Thrust Slow

Allied Armies Push Ahead In France   Germans Flee Into Hungarian Capital Before Russians

First Army Draws Near Roer River   Well Armed Germans Waiting for Yanks’ Advancing Lines

Berlin Radio Warns People Of New Thrusts   Yanks Encounter Stiff Resistance  After Capture of Town of Sehmidt

Nazis Warn Allies Mass For Drive   Believed Edging Way to Cologne Plane Beyond Forest

BOND DRIVES PASS QUOTAS   Leetonia Is 20 Per Cen! Over E Goal; Waterford Well Over Top

TROOPS POUR INTO SOUTHERN FRANCE   125-Mile Beachhead Firmly Established; All Initial Objectives Seized   HAIL INVASION AS ALMOST PERFECT.

6.0. P. 1 BE GIVEN EQUAL VOICI WITH DEMOGRATS   Concress Rushing to Clean Up Bills Beiore Recess

CONGRESS IN RECESS BY FRIDAY NIGHT   Leaders of Both Parties to Meet Any Emergencies

6.0.P. 10 bt  GWEN EQUAL VOC WITH DEMOCRATS   _ Congress Rushing to Clean Up Bills Before Recess

Marine Casualties on Saipan Far Ahead of Tarawa Losses, Official Announcement Says

Chinese Locked In Grim Battle With Japanese   Both Sides Suffer Heavy Casualties in Fight for Hengyang

Canton-Hankow Battle Continues   Chinese Defenders Hold Positions

Fighting sud Violent Along - Vital. Railway   Chinese and Japs Battle Grimly Without Much ~Chaunasa in-Front. _....

Six Gallant Fliers Adrift On A Rubber Raft   They Sianalled Away Their Rescuers to Perish in Aleutian Waters

Secretary To Detroit Pastor Is Murdered   Body Found In Church Today; Last Seen Leaving Pastor's Home.

Small Business in U. S. ‘Gone to Pot’ Sen. Wherry Charges   Tangle of Red Tape and Failure to Receive Proper Allocations of Materials, Causes Enterprises to Quit

TASK FORGE "WRECKED 65. JAP VESSELS   FLEET UNDER HALSEY STRIKES NEW BLOW AT ENEMY WITH ATTACK IN CENTER OF.” ISLANDS GROUP

Huge Japanese Ship And Plane  - Losses Reported   ‘Latest U. §. Attacks In Philippines Cost Japs 65 Ships And 36 Warplanes   AIRCRAFT CARRIER FLEET IN ACTION

JAP WRECKAGE LITTERS ROAD BACK T0 BATAAN   Third Fleet Warbirds Sink Or Damage 65 Nip Ships In Bisayas Group   WAR VESSELS DESTROYED   Yank Losses In Bruising Raid Set At 10 Planes And Eight Men

SINK OR DAMAGE 65 MORE SHIPS, 36 JAP PLANES   Road to Corregidor .and Bataan Strewn With New Wreckage

CARRIER FORCE BLASTS NIPPON SHIPS, PLANES   Road Back To Bataan : Strewn With Wrecked Enemy Equipment

AIRCRAFT OF NAVY HIT AREA   Halsey’s F leet Makes Third Assault On Nip Positions

BLASTS $5 JAP VESSELS AND 30 PLANES   Third Smashing As: sault on Central Philippines

GERMANS AND FINNISH INBATTLE  Breaks Out _ In Northern . Finland

NAZIS, FINNISH TROOPS TANGLE   FIGHTING BREAKS OUT IN NORTHERN AREA

Finns Said At War With Nazis   Actual Fighting With. Troops Breaks Out

Nazis Fighting.Finns In Undeclared War   Finnish Artillery On Suursaari Islands Reported To Have Sunk Nine Nazi Ships.

Enemy Wages Fanatic Fight  Nazis Fight Fiercely On Their Home Soil

Yank Doughboys omasn Ll: w@ Miles Deep On Four Milé Front: Nazis Fight Despera

Higher Postal Rates In Effect Next Sunday  3-Cent Rate on  T Pa: aoe reese ek, ho   3-Cent Rate on Letters Remains, Changes Are Told

LEFTISTS MASSING OUTSIDE ATHENS   BRITISH TROOPS CONTINUE TO CLEAR OUT SNIPERS po ae CR EEK CAPTFAT.

LARGE FIRM CHALLENGES EDR’S ORDER   Government Uses Army Troops In Seizing House

GEG: MANLOVE MES AT Hui   Long Time Resident Had Been in a Coma Since Monday

GEORGE MANLOVE OES AT HOME   Long Time Resident Had Been in a Coma ‘Since Monday

Blame Eleanor For Use of Gas_ Prejudice   Believe Mrs. James Roosevelt Should be Treated Like Others

Congressman Says Mrs. Roosevelt  Hurt Gas Program  Charges Are Made At Hearing On Black Markets

RATIONING TO END ON CANNED GOODS   Septemeber 17 Set by Director Byrncs as Virtual End

RATIONING OF CANNED FOODS WILL VIRTUALLY END SEPTEMBER 17TH, IT IS STATED BY DIRECTOR JAMES A. BYRNES

Rationing Of Canned Foods Expected To Come To End By Sept. 17 Says Byrnes

NEW DEALISTS LEAD ELECTIONS   Voters In Alabama And Florida Give Margin To Roosevelt Men

f . a) Sgr > OF St rr pe Petre or fps me a Ba ry a  ~_— tle aoe < §. * itt Soong 4 098     -

ee ee ee ee eB  JAPANESE INVASION COLUMNS ‘ NOW FACING CRITICAL TESTS   ALLIED TROOPS SLASHING AT BUPPLY LINES OF ENEMY FORCES THAT INVADED INDIA

British Lash Out At Enemy Before Imphal   Lord Mountbatten Says That India-Burma Situation Shows Improvement

ALLIES SMASH JAPS IN INDIA   Invading Columns Scattered  ee  Enemy Supply Lines In Danger

CONNORS TRIAL. NEARS CLOSE   Cincinnati Judge Overrules Motion for Mistrial

COUNCIL HEARS SOLDIER VOTE BILL OUTLINEL   State Measure Generally Favored By Legisla tive Group   WIDE LATITUDE IS GIVEN SERVICEMEN

ABSENTEE VOTING BILL IS OUTLINED   Attorney General Presents Proposed Measure to Leaislators

Ne eT NT cL TT  Aviation Industries Ask Continued Deferments: Investigate Farm Issue

Aviation Industries Ask Continued Deferments; Investigate Farm Issue

Aviation for Deferments   Wants to Retail Young Skilled Employes in War Work, Stated

AVIATION FIRMS ASK DEFERMENT OF YOUNG MEN   Transport, Engine Manufacture Divisions Say Many Essential Workers Under 27

Aviation Pleads Draft Deferment  Says Industry Would Suffer Otherwise

Winter Hangover  Felt Down South   Snow Flakes Fall In Arkan sas; Atlanta and Bir. mingham Shiver

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Chaplin Suit   FILM COMEDIAN FIRST WITNESS IN PATERNITY SUIT OF JOAN BARRY

Gowrie Man Is Held For - Farm Slaying   Charged With Attack Upon Everett Warden, 48, Tuesday Night

Beat Off All » Attempts To Aid Garrison   Methodical Destruction of Great Industrial City - Proceeds 

Infantry Mop-Up Starts   Armor Beats Back Enemy Counterblows North of City

TEMPERATURES:   BOMBS, SHELLS PAVE WAY FOR GROUND BLOW   'Doughboys Move In Fok Kill, Ancient City®  Reduced To Ruins

YANKS DEFEAT NAZI MOVE T0 HELP GARRISON   Fight in Factory Area On City Outskirts Late in Day

YANKS. FIGHT WAY INTO FACTORY AREA OF OLD GERMAN CITY   NAZIS THROW ONE OF FINEST DIVISIONS INTO FUTILE RELIEF EFFORT

Yank Attack on Aachen Gathers Fury ‘As Defenders Fail in Counter Thrust

US Infantry: 7 Troops Fight  Into Aachen. : Beat Off Nazi:  wevTT t barnttanel. oly

—WESTERN FRONT  Defenders Of Doomed City Are Blasted By _ Artillery, Planes   American Infantry Battles Way Into Factory District Of Key Siegfried Line Stronghold: _At tempt To Aid Defenders Checked

NAZIS THROW TOP FORCES INTO FIGHT   Called “Greatest Battle Of Western Front”   GREW OF 6,000   Blowing Up Quays, Docks In Holland; No Sign Of Evacuation

COUNTER BLOWS BY GERMANS IN NORTH DEFEATEI   Nazis Using Some of Elite Troops In Effort to Avert Threatened Fall of Aachen   Re DON WHITEHEAD

Temperatures   Germans Term Fight ‘Greatest Battle On Wectern Fron’

COUNTER-STABS OF ENEMY ARE CRUSHED AGAIN   Germans Using One of Best “visions in Futile Effort for Victory

AMERICAN INFANTRY NOW. IN FACTORY DISTRICT BUT MAIN PART STILL HELD BY NAZIS

Crack Nazi Reserves ~ Held Off   Daylong Counterattack to North of City, But- Enemy Fails to Get Through —   DESPERATE STAND INSIDE TORN CITY   Bombs and Shells Are Rained. In as Troops Battle Way in Slowly

Efforts to Relieve City   German Corridor to City Mile Wide, But Doubt Nazis Escaping

STEWART ADDS 606 VOTES TO PRIMARY LEAD OVER HERBER]   Margin Grows In Tally Of Mail Returns By Election Boards

WEBER WILL HEAD RED CROSS DRIVE   He Again Is Named To Direct Campaign For Raising Of Annual Quota— Sum Of $22,000 Will Be Sought

PLAN FOR SIXTH WAR LOAN DRIVE   Number Of Sub-Committees. Named At Meeting Of Gen-  eral Group Last Evening— Show Again Planned

U.S, ADVANCE IN MUD, SNOW PERILS BUREN   Nazis Continue Desperate Resistance Despite Heavy Losses

Rip 350-Mile Jap Defense  Line Segment   Southwest Pacific Smash Parallels Raid on New Target In Carolines   Bulletin

Army Fliers Blast, Fire 2 Truk Islands   New Assau!t Heads Series of Attacks in Mid-Pacifie Region

U.S. Bombs. Truk, Other Jap Bases   Seven Army Liberators Go Through Heavy Flak to : Hit Enemy Bastion   “ONE PLANE HIT, : BUT ALL’ RETURN   Other . Liberators' Make : Raid on Nipponese in Mid-Pacific

U. S. Army Bombers Raid Truk Islands   Hit Airdrome Installations and Ammunition Storage Areas on Two Parts of Big Jap Naval Base in Wednesday Pre-Dawn Blow.

JAPANESE BASE IS HIT BY U. S: BOMBS   Airdrome Installations and Amm Areas Raided at Truk

AIRMEN BATTER WEWAK, RABAUL   RIP AT 360-MILE SEGMENT OF JAP PACIFIC DEFENSES

Two Islands of Jap Fortress Are Targets for Bombs   Another Assault On Bougainville Beaten by Yanks

Will Increase Production of Ammunition   WPB Acts Following an Appeal by General Eisenhower

WPB Orders Doubied Arms Output   ‘Two Plants’ Near S. L. May Have To Be Reopened

[Propose to Double Ammunition Output   Plants Will Try to Meet New Assignment From General Eisenhower

General Eisenhower Appeals For Small Arms Ammunition   Says Forces Using About Four Times As Many Small Calibre Bullets As ‘Anyone Ever Imagined They Would’

More Bullets For Eisenhower  Industry Promises Production Step-up

DOUBLED ARMS OUTPUT PUSHED   Small Plants Buckle Dowr After Eisenhower Plea

Eisenhower Call Brings Action  Ammunition Plants to Increase Tempo

To Double Bullet Flow      Small Arms Plantsto Boost Output 100% te Meet Fast Battle Pace

TO DOUBLE SMALL ARMS PRODUCTION   U. 8. RECEIVES APPEAL FROM EISENHOWER FOR MORE AMMUNITION.

WPB Is Operating On Theory of Indefinite War  Trench Mortar Plants Being Built to Produce Next August

WPB Is Operating On Theory of Indefinite War  — Trench Mortar Plants Being Built to

NAVY PILOTS BLAST SIX JAP SHIPS   Over 200 Nip Planes Destroyed in Same Raid

Carrier Planes Hit Six Jap Ships   200 Enemy Planes Also Destroyed in Raid

SIX NIP VESSELS HIT, 200 PLANES TOLL AT MANILA   U.S. Carrier Attack Causes Heavy Damage to Harbor and Airfields

Grill Suspects In Bay State  Murder Case Hold Handyman  For Questionng

POST-WAR PLANS 70 BE SUBMITTED          Western: “Shore - Com i “sioners Wilke Meet! on: % August.2° °

POST -WAR PLANS TO BE SUBMITTED      Veto ‘Shore  Commis. - sioners Wall: Meet: on - Auqust 20°

NM JOB FOR HENRY. WALLA 1S SPEGULATED   Special Envoy for F.D.R. or Secretary of Commerce Likely Places

TOBIN MAY GET PERKINS’ POST      Wallace Seen in Commerce Post or as Roosevelt’s Special Envoy

U). §. PROPOSALS FOR GERMAN CONTRO! WOULD BE EFFECTIVE  CALL FOR COMPLETE _ ABOLITION GERMAN WAR INDUSTRIES, AVIATION

U. S. Proposals  Seek Reich War  Machine Control Rathless Abolition of Wars Industries Asked; Europe Feels Penalties too Light

U. S. Plan For Reich   Proposals for Control of Germany ‘Would Wipe Out All War Industry

U.S.Proposes Full Abolition Of All German  War Industries   Would Also Wipe Out Air Enterprises to Stop New Wars

Abolish Nazi  W ar Factories   LS, Proposals For Control (of Germany Calls For  This Measure.

U. S. Proposes Firm Control   Urges Abelition of German Wor Industries, Wiping Our of Air Enterprises

U. S. Proposes Restrictions on Nazi Industry   “Ruthless” Control Plan Submitted at Allied Conference

“Complete and Ruthless”’ Abolition of Aviation Enterprises Also Reported Called For

U.S. Program For Control Of Germany Giver   War Industries Of Nazis ‘Would Be Destroved

Lenjngrad-Odessa Railroad Is Red Objective-— —By Kirke L. Simpeon  Railroads Give Russians Great Advantage

War Material Running Short Savs Somervell   Shortages Threatening To Delay Victory And Inerease Toll Of Lives

NEW FLAME-THROWER CREATED BY BRITISH   Churchill “Crocodile” Capable Of Hurling Blaze 450 Feet Ahead And Around Corners

Rejects Move At Nomination   Declares He Would Refuse Nomination As Detrimental to U.S. War Effort

M’ARTHUR SAYS COP WILL HAVE 70 FORGET HIM   General Declares He Would Not Accept Nomination Even If Offered

MacArthur Rejects GOP Candidacy   Declares He Would Not Accept Presidential Nominalion, That Any Such Movement Is Also Detrimental To Allied War Effort

MacArthur Rejects GOP Candidacy   Declares He Would Not Accept Presidential Nomination, That Any Such Movement Is Also Detrimental To Allied War Effort  ar O62 eS7 a2eeneess Ue relUC !lUCUcrKlU TT OO!

Flatly Rejects All Suggestions For Presidency   Says He Would No: Accept Nominatior If It Is Offered Te Him

M’Arthur Puts End to Boom   Declares He Won't Accept If Nominated

Clear Statement Issued by General  In New Guinea   Decision Climaxes Public Discussion  Of His Place in War

General Savs   Requests. No Ac Action Be taken’ to Link His. Name With Presidential Race    I DO NOT.COVET IT   Statement Made ‘to Make My Position Entirely Uneauivocal’ -

MacArthur Not A Candidate   Flatly Rejects All Suggestions As To  Presidency

GENERAL SAYS DEFINITELY HE WON'T ACCEPT   Decision Based On Belief War Effort Would Be Hurt

Presidential Candidac» Is Rejected by General MacArthur   South Pacific Warrior Unequivocally Denies High Office Suggestions; Asserts Movement Detrimental to War Effort

EJECTS MOVES ° FOR CANDIDAL)   Does Not Covet GOP Presi@cdential Nomination, Says   POSITIVE REPLY   Wade Groups Who Urged Him Come Out in Open or Be Draftable Candidate

MacArthur Says He Does Not Covet GOP Nomination, Will Not Accept Any Such Honors

Gen. MacArthur Says Hels Not Candidate for President and Would Not Accent If Drafted   Issues Statement After His Return to Headquarters Following Hollandia Drive and Makes His Position Absolutely Clear

General Rejects Suggestions Of Candidacy   MacArthur Says He Would Refuse G. 0. P. Nomination

MacArthur Makes Firm Rejection To Nominafion   “T Do Not Covet it ° Nor Would 1] Accept lt’ States General

MacArthur Will Not Enter Race   ‘ Do Not Covet Nomination Nor Would j Accept It,’ General Says in New Guinea; Asserts Move Harmful to War Effort

GEN, M’ARTHUR REMOVES: HINSEL -FROW G. 0. P. RACE   Declares’ Flatly: He -Wilt Not ‘Accept Presidential Nomi- . nation If It.1s. eTear : dawn   CALLS ON BACKERS ‘TO DROP. THEIR: PLANS   Says Movement in His Behalf Is “Detrimental to War _ Effort’—Draft Scheme Abandoned. * m8

MacArthur Says No In Definite Words   Doesn’t Covet, Wouldn’t Accept GOP Nomination

General Out Of Presidential Race   Says He Will Not Accept Nomination

GENERAL SAYS HIS REFUSAL ‘UNEQUIVOCAL   Declares Movement Is ‘Detrimental to Our  War Effort’

General won't be candidate   MacArthur flatly  refuses to accept

Germans Claim Break-Throughs In Exposed Area   Pour Fresh Troops Into Attack Upon Beleaguere¢ Invaders; American Counter-Attacks Are Repelled: British Division Reinforces.

Rome Beachhead Showdown Is Near   Exposed Beachhead Forces Throw Back Nazi Attacks. But Enemy Is Concentrating Forces

San Martin Gains Cuba Presidency   Batista Wins Praise For Fairest Election As Slaie Goes Down

Tokyo Says Yank Convoy is Sighted   Japs Promise New Tortures for Yank Airmen Captured

DEWEY TO SPEAK AT RALLY TONIGHT   Will Address Gathering in Madison Square Garden; Final Radio Talk From Al-. bany Monday Night

DEWEY T0 MAKE 2 MORE SPEECHES   ADDRESSES IN NEW YORK CITY AND ALBANY WILL WIND UP HIS CAMPAIGN.

Presidential nominees lay  closing plans Dewey topic kept a suarded secret

UP DRIVE WITH TALK TONIGHT   Balance of Campaigning Limited to New York

DEWEY WILL MAKE SPEECH IN NEW YORK      Governor Works on Address for Big Rally Tonight

Dewey Prepares Talk for Tonight  Subject Is Closely Guarded Secret

Dewey To Make Speech Tonight In New York Cit   To Make Major Address In ‘Square Garden, Scheduled. for 10:30

Kiel And Bremen Raided; All Planes Come Back Safely  RY BRXEST AGCVYEWW

1,000 BOMBERS BLAST BREMEN, KIEL UNOPPOSED   No Enemy Planes Challenge U: S. Force; All Return Safely

Montana Democrats Draft Campaign Platform; Loble Is Named Chairman   Balances: Agriculture--Industry Plank Is Featured; Other Planks Patterned Aitter That Adopted ai National Conclave

Helena Womar Is Secretary (Of Democrats   Aid to Servicemen Is Pledged at Lewistown Parley

NAZI FIGHTERS TRY IN VAIN TO FEND OFF RAID   Scattered Targets Hit

Nazi Fighters Lured Into Furious Battle   Thousand British Bombers Blast Frankfurt Third Time

Record Weight Dropped   3,360 Tons Hit Frankfurt; Yanks Raid Again Today

Allies Overcome Fanatical Nazi Fighter Attacks   British Night Raiders Drop 3,360 Tons of Bombs On Frankfurt

When It’s Too Late To Be Sorry, U. S. Marine Style   Fayette City Corporal George Breckenridge Of * The Corps Ended Jap Capt. Apology

TEXAS PROFESSOR DECLARES REGENTS  ACT OUTRAGEOUSLY  UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS AIR THEIR “VIEWS SENATE HEARING

CONTRACT IS LET FOR TOWN WELL   Town Officials Complete Plans _ fee New 12-inch Drilled Well  Near Pump House.

Yanks Increase  Threat To Great Cherbourg Port   Infantry And Tank Units Drive Westward On Cher-  bourg Peninsula   GERMAN PANZERS ATTACK FURIOUSLY

YANKS STEP UF DRIVE AGAINST CHERBOURG   Units Now Within Three Miles of Center of Peninsula

British Prime Minister Is Accompanied By Military And Cabinet Officers   EUROPEAN PROBLEMS WILL BE DISCUSSED

War Conferences With President Will Start Soon   British Leaders Also Reach Canada

DEWEY CHARGES F.R.. SELLING DEMOCRATIC PARTY OUT TO REDS   President to Make Radio Speecl to Nation Tonight; Maps Closing Blast .

DEWEY SPEAKS AT BALTIMORE ENROUTE TO PA   300,000 Cheer GOP Candidate In Talk At Baltimore

SOUTH'S DEMAND IS TURNED DOWN   Demo Committee Rejects Restoration of Two-Thirds Nominating Rule

Two-Thirds Rule Battle Is Lost   Democrats To Consider Re. apportionment in South

DOWN 150 NAZI PLANES IN BLOW AT OIL CENTERS   New Allied Air Attacks Send Pre-Invasion Raids Into 29th Day

GREAT WAVES OF BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   Railway Centers Hit Last Night  Near Louvain

LOUVAIN AND HASSELT STRUCK DURING NIGHT   Huge American Fleet Battles  Way Through Nazi Swarms TT, List OF Bafinerioce

RAP Blasts Rail Center: In Belgium   Areas in France, Northwest Germany Are Also Ruided

ROOSEVELT SPOKE FROM WHITE HOUSE   Warns Against Last-Minute Accusations

PRESIDENT 0 HOME STRETCH OF CAMPAIGN      Accuses Opposition Of Wickes Charges, Whisperings, Rumorings

FDR WARNS OF ACCUSATIONS   Says Republicans May Try to “Panic” Voters

20 Per Cent Vote in State ls Expected   California Is Claimed by Both Parties

Record Vote Is Predicted   80 Per Cent of State’s 4,141,331 Electors Expected to Ballot

Chance Of Soviet Aid In Pacific      Stalin’s Reference to Japan as an Aggressor Renews Speculation      MAY ACT WHEN GERMANY FALLS   Russia Has Kept Large Forces in Siberia Al Through the War

POWERFUL NEW RED OFFENSIVE OPENED ON NORTHERN FRONT  RUSSIANS SURGE 62 MILE: FORWARD ON 175-MILE  TWEET ARITA FDMART

POWERFUL NEW RED. OFFENSIVE OPENED ON NORTHERN FRONT   RUSSIANS SURGE 62 MILES FORWARD ON 175-MILE LITHUANIA FRONT

Nazis Admit Soviet Forces Are Nearing Budapest  Last Natural Barrie: Before City Has Been Crossed by Reds

Marine Air Ace Missing in Pacific   Flyer Had Record  Of 25 Enemy Planes

‘Medina County Dairy Leaders Meet ‘To Plan Modern Four-Point Program

Map 4-Point  Dairy Program   Aim Is To _ Improve County’s Dairy Herds

Ban Oil Firm From Business  Sheldon Concern Has _ Beén Suspended

‘Ban Oil Firm in  From Business  Sheldon Concern Has Beén Suspended

OPA Puts Siux Oil Co., Sheldon, Out of Bus— ness: Short of Counons

‘PHANTOM’ YANK FLEET REALLY RULES PACIFIC   “From North Pole To As Far South As You Want To Go” Safe, Halsey Says   JAP SEA POWER CRUSHED   Nips Never Will Recover From Mighty Blows At Philippines

General Arnold Would Have Wasps  Take Over Domestic Air Transport

ABDUCTED CHILD IS RESTORED TO PARENTS   Negro Nursemaid Had Heavily Coated Detroit Baby's Skin With Sun-Tan Lotion

Abducted Baby Returned Unhurt   Negro Nurse Disguises Child With Stain and Birthmark.

Senate Votes Inquiry Into Ward Seizure   Management's Labor Policies Also to Be Probed by Committee

Senate Votes Probe of Ward Plant Seizure   Byrd Resolution Given Approval

Senate Widens Original Plans  In Ward Probe   Company’s Labor Policies Will Be Investigated Alone With Seinre

WARD CO. INQUIRY — VOTED-BY-SENATE   Committee to Probe Gov. ernment’s Seizure of Property

SENATE VOTES INVESTIGATION INTO SEIZURE   Unanimous Approval Is Given Byrd’s Resolu-  tion; House To Act >   WARD’S ELECTION TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY

Senate Approves Ward Inquiry   To Investigate Manazgement’s Labor Policies And Previous Events.

oth Captures Radicosa Pass  In Apennines   Nearing Escape Route To Bologna; Take Vital Peaks

Apennines Pass Taken By Yanks   Entire Gothic Line Penetrated Except For  Small Area; Fifth Army Nearing Imola

Escape Road On Adriatic Threatened  Radicosa Pass Falls With Yank Capture Of Twin Peaks.

FIFTH ARMY TAKES PASS IN APENNINES   Smashes to Within 11 Miles of Nazis‘ Escape Route

AMERICAN FORCES POSE 2 THREATS TO NAZI FORCES IN NORTH ITALY   Cop Adriatic Escape Route, Apennine Pass

Radicosa Pass Reported Taken By Fifth Army   Yanks Within 11 Miles of German Adriatic Escape Route In Italy

Gateway Through Apennines Taken   Americans Near Nazi Escape Route

YANKS GAIN ON MOROTAI AND PELELIU   Strengthen Both Ends of Arc Around The Philippines

Marines Expand Their Beachhead On Peleliu Islanc   American Forces Tighten Their Philippines Arc

Both Ends of Arc About Philippines Being Bolstered   Heavy Fire From U. S. Battleships Supports » Advancing Marines

JAPS RESIST NEW LANDING IN PACIFI(   Strong Enemy Opposition Encountered by U. S. at One of Two Points.

OPPOSITION ‘OF ENEMY IS STRONG   Gen. MacArthur’s Men Almost Unopposed On Morotai Isle

BEACHHEADS EXPANDED ON PELELIU IN.   Yanks Run Into Heavy Tank and Artillery Fire

Marines Battle for Peleliu   Nimitz Reports ‘Light’ Casualties Despite Heavy  Jap Counter-Attacks

300.000 JAPS BYPASSED BY TWIN LANDIN(   MacArthur Forces In Firm Control of Morotai

CHINDITS ARE CLOSING TRAP IN NO. BURMA   Against Crack Japanese 18th Division; Enemy Unit Which Captured Singapore, Breaking.   Two Planes Missing

JAPS IN NORTH BURMA IN TRAP   Stilwell’s Men, Chindits Threaten Crack Foe Army Unit

Trap Closing About Japs in North Burma   Crack Division of Nipponese Suffering in Chindits’ Grip

Allies Close Trap on Japs in Burma   Veteran Enemy Unit Already Appears to Be Disorgqanized

Stilwell Army Is Closing Big Trap on Japs   Land Forces and Air Commandos Catch Crack Enemy Divisior

TRAP 15 CLOSING ON JAP DIVISION IN NORTH BURM:   Crack Unit That Captured Singapore Becoming Disorganized as Allied Troops Tighten Noose,   NIPPONESE SUPPLY LINES ARE DISRUPTED   Mountbatten’s Forces in India Continue Offensive in'the Imphal and Kohima Areas.

Americans Close In on Enemy in Northern Burma   Stilwell'’s Forces Hold Large Section

New Robot Flights Rock London Area   Believed Fired From Near Bologne; Weary Rescue Crews Relieved

Finns Flee From  Helsinki. After Russian Bombins  Crisis for-Firland Seem:  Near as Red Raids Top Previous Hits

Finns Fleeing From Helsinki   Pianieh Regime Is Hopeful Por Peace Terms”

Finns Flee From Blasted Capital   Helsinki Battered  By Soviet Bombers By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

Finns Flee From Blasted Capital   ‘Helsinki Battered _ By Soviet a

THOUSANDS FLEE FINNISH CAPITAL   FIRES. STILL BURNING IN HEL‘SINKI FROM HEAVY RUS: . SIAN BOMBING.

FINNS FLEEING FROM HELSINKI   Crisis Nears Showdown as Russians Open Drive By Bombing City

Thousands of Finns Flee From Bombed Capital as War Policy Nears Showdown

FINNS WARNED TO QUIT AXIS PARTNER ROLE   Crisis Is Approaching Fo Nation Following  Helsinki Raid   GOVERNMENT SEEKING AN EASY WAY OUT

SAYS FOR AN EASY WINNER   Wallace Declares Victory Margin For Nation Will Be 3,000,000

ADMIRAL NIMITZ CHALLENGES JAP FLEET TO TRY T0 STOP U.S. NAVY   Commander-In-Chief In Pacific Says Nipponese Homeland Will Be Bombed Like Germany.

William Von Berg, 70, Buried at Emmetsburg   He Was Brother of Late Charles and Al Von Berg of  rs 2

TURK, GERMAN BREAK HINTED   Severance of Diplomatic, Economic Relations Expected Soon

CARCULATE RUMORS OF EXPECTED BREAK   Diplomatic, Economic Relations Between Turkey,  Germany Strained.

TURKS RINT NAZI BREAK 1S COMING   Reports, However, Are Nei ther Confirmed Nor D +, nied By Governments.

Hurricane Lashes N. Carolina Coast   Torrential Rain, Gale Cause Heavy Damage

N. Carolina Coast Hit by Hurricane   Storm Reported Moving Inland

Hurricane Lashes North Carolina Coast   No Deaths Or Serious Injuries Known As Residents Flee Devastated Area.

HURRICANE HITS EAST COASTLINE   80 MPH Wind Lashes North Carolina

"Susie", Kangaroo in Philadelphia's Zoo, Has Made a Liar Out of Science

A Kangaroo Can’t Have Twins? You Don’t: Know Susie   Yes, Sir, Susie Had. ’Em,...Ever Though Science Says Such a Thing Is an Impossibility.

»PEARL HARBOR REPORT READY   m Decision Expected Shortly As To What Steps Will Be Taken

Board Probe To Be Aired    ‘Pearl Harbor Attack Decision Is Expected

Decision Soon On P.H. Case   Whether It’s Court Martial Or Exoneration For Kimmel, Short:

Action Soon on Courts Martial or Exonerations in Pearl Harbor Cases

PEARL HARBOR ~ DECISION DU   Army-Navy Board Probe To Be Disclosed

EXPECT DECISION ON PEARL HARBOR TRIALS, DECEMBER   High Congressional Sources  - Feel A:my-Navy Pro b . Beard Will Decide Within: Three Weeks on Courts Martial or Exoneration

PEARL HARBOR TRIAL EXPECTED   Unless Congress Grants Third Extension By Dee. 7, Officers Will Be Prose.  entad   —BY WILLIAM F, ARBOGAST—

Bond Drive Starts With Bang Today   $250,000 In Allocations Already Boosting County To Gaal.

HALLECK 10 SPEAK AT LINCOLN DINNER   Republican Leader to Address Event Here Feb. 15   Fourth War Loan Drive Will - Be Launched Here Today

Dillinger Friend Given Long Term   Gannon Sarcastic To Judge and Jury

Tumnmiy Gannon ~ Given 15 10. rig Years Sentence   i ‘One-Time. Assgciante of - Dillinger Gangsters © Sent to Prison:

Pic. F. E. Shont: Dies of Wounds Suffered Oct. 6   Bingham Soldier Injured October 4 In Action in Reich

Pfc. F. E. Shonts Dies of Wounds Suffered Oct. 6   Cyclone Soldier Wounded October 4 In Action in Reich

State-Wide Committee On Fourth War Loan Has On It Brown of Clearfield

MANLOVE 10 LEAL DRIVE FOR obhAP PAPER oATURDAY   Boy Scouts to Canvass City by Noon for Salvage Materia's

MANLOVE TO LEAD DRWE FOR SGRAP PAPER SATURDAY   Boy Scouts to Canvass City by Noon for Saivace Materia‘s

German ‘Campaign for Pity” Brings Warning from Robert P. Patterson

VOTE FOR NATURAL GAS FOR BOONE, THURSDAY, MARCH 2.   SUBSCRIBERS TAKE NOTICE

Leaders Express Pleasure Over Progress of War   Chiefs Prepared To Draft New Plans For Final Defeat of Axis

OIX WIoGONGIN HUNTERS DEAL   Others Wounded, One Dead of Heart Attack as Deer Hunt Onens.

Report Supressed On Pearl Harbor   Navy Bars Disclosure Of Court’s Findings

UMW Convicis (Himnndson Of }  Dual Unionisim   Challenge to John L.: Lewis  Rule Brings Quick Crack down On -Autonomy Group Of Miners

Planes Strafe Troop Trains   American Fighters Roar Over Low Countries And Frankfurt Area

200 Engines Disabled, ll Trains Shot Up  Allied Fighter Planes Wreak Heavy

Air Fields, Rail Centers Hit from Air   11 Nazi Troop Trains Strafed, Locomotives and Cars Damaged

Soviet Guns Pound Nazis   100,000 Trapped In Korsun; Russians Drive Against Krivoi Rog

IRUSSIAN FORCE NEARS LUGA ON NORTH, SOUTH   1,300 Nazis Killed In Advancing Drive On Krivoi Rog

Russians Divide And Destroy Trapped Nazis   Red Columns Drive To Within Seven Miles Of Korsun, While Others Press Assault On Great Iron Ore Center.

ENEMY FORCES AT KORSUN DIVIDED   Press Drive On Iron Ore City Of Krivoi Rog  1,300 GERMANS   Killed By Ukrainian Army; Invaders Surrendering In Large Numbers

RUSSIAN GUNS SHELL TRAPPED NAZI TROOPS   Remnants of 100.000 German  Soldiers Hammered As   Trap Tightens.

RUSSIAN GUNS RAKE 100,000 NAZIS IN TRAP   Red Troops Divide, Destroy Germans Near Korsun; Push On Krivoi Rog

Nazi Remnant:  Pounded By  Russian Guns 100,000 Of Trapped   100,000 Of Trapped Enemy Being Cut Down In Dnieper Bend

Holds Religious Zealots May Not  Supreme Court in 5-4 Decision Make ‘Martyrs’ of Their Children

Guns Pound Cassino Foe   ’ Artillery Takes Over As Clashes Subside

Ailied Guns Blast Nazis At Cassino   Street Fighting in Towr Halted, as Artillery Bat tle Continues

OTH SUSPENDS CASSINO DRIVE AFTER FAILURE   Guns Keep Pounding Nazi Strong Points In Italian Town

GunsLast  Cassino Hotels   Nazi Attack Beaten Back; Enemy Pounds Ally Hill Positions

Ground Fighting All Along Italian Battlefront Subsides — Bad: Flying Weather Again Grounds U. S. rforece Heavy Bombers,

Allied Guns At Cassino Pound Nazis   Ground Fighting Subzides to  Daisal Aatian

Fighting Subsides On Italian Front   Artillery Takes  Over at Cassino

Cassino Front Thunders to Roar of Guns   Artillery Takes Over as Ground Fighting Subsides

ALLIES CONTINUE POUNDING ENEMY IN CASSING AREA   Two Hotels, . Main German Fortifications Are Targets, Weather Prevents Use of Big Bombers.   CHURCHILL REFUSES TO GIVE DEFINITE REPORT   New Fires Are Kindled Along Ruhr Industrial Valley, German Air Bases Bombed In France.

Allied Big Guns Continuing to Pound Cassino   Street Fighting In Town Halts Momentarily

Big Guns Pound ‘Nazi Strongpoint: Inside Cassino      Ground Fighting On Italy Front Subsides Into Patrol Actions

BiG GUNS BLAST AT CASSINO   Ground Fighting Subsides Along italian Front

Tobin-Hurley Contest Tops State Primary   Republican Contest for Lieut. Governor Also Holds Interest

DE MOBILIZATION STUDY SPEEDED   Committee Seeks To Complete Formula By Tuesday

A Free Press Is Essential Says Dewey   The Free Press of America Is the Bulwark of Democracy Battle For Peace; Newsboys Are Praised By Martin

FREE PRESS IS VITAL—DEWEY   GOP Nominee Will Spend Week-End At Albany With Family

Dewey will Rest In Albenty Over Week- thd   Issues Stotement On National Newspdpat Week

Flood Waters Info Town of Jenks   Residents Hurry To Get Out as ‘Whole Town Going Under’

MUNICH, FRENCH AIRFIELDS HIT BY AIR ARMADA      Heavy Bombers. Fighters In Raids Over German Tareets

Yank ‘Airmen Best Nazis In Sky Battle   Describe Encounter Over Reich As Greatest of War

INVASION COAST ALSO IS BOMBED   U. S. Pilots Back In Action Following Night Assault by RAF.

First Army Opens Wedge Two Miles Deep On 6-Mile Front North. of Aachen In Attack

First Army Launches Big Drive Toward Rhine; Ends Week of See-saw Fighting

DAE WEDBE 2 MILES DEEP NEAR AACHEN   Terrific Bombardment Opens  New Punch at West  Wall Defenses.

UNITED STATES FIRST ARMY FORCES STRIKE: HEAVY OPENING BLOW  STEEL WEDGE TWO MILES  DEEP ON SIX-MILE FRONT DRIVEN INTO LINE

AACHEN AREA IS SCENE OF NEW DRIVE   Artillery, Planes In Support Of Offensive   EISENHOWER   Tells Austrians To Be Set For Arrival Of Allies; Nazis Try For Bridge

Yanks Battle Toward Rhine   Thunderous Air and Land Bombardment Tears Up German Countryside; Stalemate Is Ended

AERIAL, LAND BOMBARDMENTS JOLT GERMAN}   Then First Army Veterans Strik From Positions in Seigfried Line Around Aachen

Great Air-And-Land Assault From Aachen   American First Army Launches One Of Most Pow erful Offensives Of The War; Initial Gain O Two Miles On Six-Mile Front.

MurderousGun And Air Attacks Launch Battle   Veteran Doughboys Under Gen. Hodges Crash Forward Through Smoke and Rubble   New Siegfried Line Area Goal of Blow   Offensive Ends Stalemate Of Two Weeks; Other American Armies Smash Counter-Blows

YANKS BI NAZI LINES OK EMILE FRONT   ‘Mighty Land-Air Barrage Opens Attack Aimed At Cologne —~

Our Troops Face Bitter Resistance in Securing New Foothold North of Aachen.   MAKES 4TH BREAK INTO FAMOUS LINE

Hodges Opens Big Offensive Against Nazis   Combined Air, Land Assault Under Way Ir Push Toward Rhine Ir Vicinity Of Aachen

PUSH 2 MILES INTO SIEGFRIED ON WIDE FRONT   One of War's Greatest Offensives Launched In Aachen Area

TEMPERATURES:   Bayonet- Wielding Yanks Charge Nazis After Record Barrage

'U.S. TROOPS STRIKE GREATEST ‘OFFENSIVE BLOW TO ADVANCE “TWO MILES ON SICMILE FRONT

NEW WEDGE 1a CUT INTO LINE   Troops Penetrate Two Miles On a Six Mile Front North Of Aachen.   HAVE HEAVY AIR SUPPORT

An Effort Is Being Made to Break a New Hole in the Siegfried Line, London  Announced Today.    DROVE WEDGE 2 MILES DEEP ON 6-MILE FRONT   Lieut. Gen. Hodges’ Infantry and Tanks Rushed Forward Toward Geilenkirchen, Near Aachen.

Stalemate Broken by 1st Army   Powerful Offensive  Is Aimed at Forcing  A Fourth Breakthrough In Hitler’s Westwall

First Army Moves Forward On Road to Rhine, Berlin; Enemy Opposition Is Heavy

Airmen Blast Lane of Ruin   Infantrymen Rush Ahead As Bombardment Ceases And Artillery Barrage Ends

Major Thrust at Point Be~ tween Cologne and Dusseldorf   Heavy Artillery and Air Preparation Precedes Offensive  i

Combined Land, Air — Assaulis   Great Push in New Sector Near Aachen Is Headed for the Rhine —   ENDS STALEMATE ON WESTERN FRONT   Veteran Warriors Making Attack Through Lane of Ruin‘Heavy Resistance

Yanks Cut 2 Miles Into Siegfried Line   New Hole Made in West Wall Near Aachen; Wurm River Crossed in Smashing Advance Which May Lead Directly Into Rhineland

ATTACK PRECEDED BY MIGHTY LAND AERIAL BARRAGE   NEW OFFENSIVE ENDS STALEMATE IN RHINE CAMPAIGN

First Army Is Breaking Through Toward Cologne   x Kx Kk -§ Raiders Mass" Over Germany

Two Weeks Stalemate Is Broken   First Army Hits One of Mightiest Blows of War on Nazis

First Army, in Effort Io Crack Siegfried Line, _ Strikes Hard Near Aachen

U.S. Attack Opened  At Aachen   Doughboys Advance Two Miles on Six-Mile Front Following Devastating Air, Artillery Barrages; Stiff Fight Rages

Hodges Men Start Powerft New Offensive Near Aachen Wedge Six Miles Long

T'wo-Mile Deep Steel Wedge Driven Inte Siegfried Line In First Hour   Terrific Bombing Precedes Attack   Observers Believe Hodges Men Will Reach Goal Without A Stop

nitial Push by First Army Troops, Following Gigantic Aerial and Artillery Barrage, Carries Forward Two Miles on a Six-Mile Front North of Aahen — Assault Aimed at Driving Path to Rhine Through North of Aachen—Assault Aimed

TTP De EV EELEALY § —  Artillery And Planes Pave Way For Big Drive At Aachen   Li. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ First U. S. Army Launches One Of The Greatest Combined Air And Land Assaults Of War

Americans Hand Nazis One of War's Hardest Blows in Aachen Secter;  Yanks Pour Through Gap Carved Ou By Artillery and Head Toward Rhine

U.S. First Army Drives Wedee in Front at Aachen   New Offensive Ends Week of See-Saw Fighting

Tottering Vichy  Cabinet Meets  Pitched Battles in France Reported

CHURCHILL WILL TALK THIS WEEK   Prime Minister Expected te Outline Post-War Plans Before Commons

BOMBERS SINK A DESTROYERS IN JAP FLEET   NIPPONESE FACING DEFEAT ON THREE WAR FRONTS

Yank Planes Sink Five in Nip Flotilla   Three American Planes Lost in Sea-Air Battle

BY HUSBAND DIES   MRS. E. L. RICHARDSON OF NEOSHO SECOND FATALITY IN MARITAL SHOOTING.

WAR TODAY   Beaten Hitler’s Great Retreat From Westcrn France to Own Ffronlier, Defenses Yor Stand Near

War Today  Hitler's Hopes To Hold Marne Vanish Ae Dattan Advancroac

Any Chance Germans Have Had of Holding Stragetic Line of Marne River Have Been Nullified by General Patton’s Drive to Battlefield of ChateauFThierryv

Hitler Must Pull Forces From France   ‘Stand On Somme, Aisne Rivers Imperilled By Rapid Allied Advance

The War Today   Hitler About to Begin Retreat Intn Defenses of Reich

MEMORIAL SERVICE PLANNED FOR HERO   Tributes Will Be Paid Pfc. Cletu: Henry Bortner Who Gave Life For Country

Budapest Steel Mills Bombed   Military Installations At Brussels Also Attacked

STEEL PLANT AT BUDAPEST   Other U. S. Planes Raid Brussels And Ghent

LEWIS RECALLS MINERS’ PLEA TO REJOIN AFL   Likely To Throw Union's Strength Apainst New Deal]

LEWIS, MINERS WILL PLAY LONE HAND THIS YEAR      Withdraws Application From AFL. Seen As Foe Of New Deol

BARKLEY SAYS F.D.R. NEEDED FOR 4TH TERM   Declares New Deal Has Done Joh Well In Charleston Address

PROFIT OF GREENE COUNTY FAIR MAY BE SECOND HIGHES!   Darke Tops With $10,000. Ohio Managers Plan Bigger Season

County Fars in Ohio Show Profit   Successful Season  Recorded in 1943

To the People of this Community  eareaRT 2%848%7T $A TRV TIY® FT

GET LITTLE MOISTURE   Temperatures of 30 to 32 Are Forecast for Tonight

Board Calls Rail Hearing on Monday   DOUBT UNION APPEARANCE IN ABSENCE OF CLEARCUT EXPLANATION OF DUTIES

OFFE HOLDOUT UNIONS   President Says All Should Get Same Wage Boost

‘CHURCHILL AND EISENHOWER VISIT  BRITISH AND FRENCH BEACHHEADS  TO SEE INVASION AT FIRST HAND    British Prime Minister Accompanied By Smuts And Brooke And Eisenhower By Generals Marshall i And Arnold And Admiral King

Capt. Bong Proclaimed  “Ace of Aces   Wisconsin Flier Shoots Down 26th And ®7th Jan Plane

New Ace Hailed   U. S. FLIER BAGS 27TH PLANE IN COMBAT   In South Pacific

BASE NEEDS WORKERS   New Ace of Aces Gets 26th, 27th Jap Plane   BREAKS RECORD

Advance Patrols Reach Points Five Miles From Sea And Nearly 12 Miles North Of Tiber River

SAVAGE FIGHTS IN NORMANDY RAGING   Allied Airborne Operation - Called Complete Success

ABOANE TROOPS PLAY MAJOR ROLE   Units Carry Out Every Assignment Given Them   IN THICK OF FRAY   Twelve C-47 Transports and 12 Gliders Missing in Reinforcing Operations

Air-Borne Divisions Constantly © Reinforeed   Struggle Savagely For Points in Normandy As Germans, Also, Move Troops by Air   PARACHUTISTS HAILED FOR EFFICIENT WORK.   Capture Some Bridges Command Expected Nazis Would Destroy

Helsinki Bombed By Soviet Planes   Nazis Hold Finnish Ships n German Ports; Both Sides Bring Pressure

Finland Caught Between German Russian Threats   Nazis Hold Finn Ships In Ports - Soviets Hit Helsinki

Finns Appear Heading for Showdown On Separate Peace; Report Finnish Ships Being Held in German Ports

HELSINKI LEFT IN FLAMES BY HEAVIEST RAID   Germans, Russians Bring Pressure, Leaving Finns.On Spot

FINNS MOVING NEAR SHOWDOWN   Report Nazis Ordered All Large Ships. Heid

HELSINKI IS NEARING SHOWDOWN   Capital City Subjected to Terrific Air Battering by Red Bombers.

FINNS FACE SHOWDOWN ON PEACE ISSUE  Russ lanes in   Heavy Raid   “ \ — Russ Planes in  Heavy Raid On Helsinki

Finnish Vessels To Be Held In  German Ports   Reds Raid Helsinki, Threaten Blitz If Action Is Prolonged

ALL SHIPS TOLD TO REMAIN IN GERMAN PORTS   Helsinki Capital Set Afire In Raid By  Riecian Rambere

FINS MOVING FOR SHOWDOWN   All Large Finnish Ships Ordered to Remain in German Ports — Russians Planning Heavy Air Attacks on Fintand.

FINNISH SHIPS HELD IN PORTS   Soviets Blast Helsinki, Hint Of Heavier Attacks

Sth Extends Hold Within Gothic Line   Calls on Navy for Aid In Blasting Germans Loose Along Adriatic

EIGHTH ARMY REPELS NAZIS   Allied Holdings on German Gothic Line Defenses Are Extended

EIGHTH ARMY CUTS HOLE IN GOTHIC LINE   NAVY HELPS BLAST AXIS LOOSE ON ADRIATIC

Canadians Stop Strong German Counterattack   Cnock Out Score of Enem\ Tanks near Rimini on Conca River

Eighth Army Troops Repel Nazi Attack   Field of Battle Littered With Enemy Dead—  Alline Adlweoumntnag

ALLIES BEAT OFF GERMANS IN ITAL}   BATTLEFIELD LITTERED WITH NAZI DEAD AFTER ENEMY ‘“COUNTER-ATTACKS.

Nazi Counterblows  Crushed in Italy   Eighth Army Extends Grip on Gothic Line

ALLIES RETAKE HALF GERMANS’ HARD-WON GAINS   Weary Nazis in Slow Retreat

Allies Regaining Ground Lost At Anzio Beachhead   Battle-Weary Germans Fall Back Slowly As Second Drive Collapses; Three-Day Nazi Offensive Proves Costly

Allies, Attacking at Anzio, Retake Half of Salient Won Earlier by Nazis

Tide Turns To Allies at Beachhead   Counter-Attacks Drive Nazis Back South of Apmilia

Germans Retreat oe Thousands  of Fallen Dead   Many Surrender After Futile Drive To Sea; Others Flee Areas

Watch For ‘New Peace’ F.D. Slogan   Would Be Successor Te His ‘Win-The-War’ Program

BURST THRU GERMAN LINES AT AVRANCHES   Berlin Reports Fall Of Granville To U. S.  Forces

Yanks Drive Deeply Into Avranches And Penetrate 60 Miles From Beachheads   New Trap Closed, Up on German: Fighting To North; Threaten To Add To 10,000 P risoners

Throw Are Across Base of Peninsula Ready for Break  Into Central France

Lightning Thrust Puts Fighting in Avranches Streets   Sensational Push Closes Vast Tra On Nazi Defenders

Yanks Seize Granville In Fast Advanee   Clinching Control Of Spring. hoard For Break Into Central France.  Po oe en ee. ee ae  .* =" e3Cer ~se ren A oe   CLOSES NEW TRAP

Americans Battle in Avranches to Break Out  - of Peninsula   TAKE-10,500 PRISONERS   New British Offensive Rolls Ahead Under Air- craft Cover

Still Going Strong in Normandy   Battle in Streets to Clear Avranches, Springboard for Drive Toward Paris _   BRITISH FORCES ALSO ATTACKING   Americans Making Sensational Plunge, Threatening. Thousands More Germans

QUICK ATTACKS SET NAZI TRAPS AT SAME TIME   Germans Face New Threat As British Forces Open Surprise Assault

Fighting in Avranches, Granville Captured   Seek to Clinch Former As Springboard For Break Into Central France; New Trap Closing in On German Forces 

Coutances Captured in Offensive   Tank Battles Rage On Wide Scale; Nazi Western Wing Withdrawn

Cul Off By 30-Mile Line of U. §. Armor   Enemy Under Merciless As sault From Air and ‘Various Ground Forces   AN UNKOWN NUMBER TRYING TO ESCAPE   Other Germans Attempting to Aid Are Pounded; Nazis Lie Dead in Heaps ©

Troops Fight In Streets of Avranches  Spring Another Trap Against Remnants of

STREET  HonT IN AVRANGHES   Americans Making Effort to Clinch Control of Important City.   SPRINGBOARD TO PARIS

Yank Dash Has Reached Avranches   Granville Falls, Preparing Way Fer Paris Drive; British in Goins

Americans Threaten To Burst Out Of Peninsula Into Central France.

GERMANS CUT OFF BY GREAT ARMOR LINE AND POUNDED IN MERCILESS MANNER FROM AIR   Dive Bombers Wreak Havoc on Nazis Who Make Futile Attempt to Break Out of Trap. Rommel Trying to Stem Offensive with Fresh Troops and

Remnants of  Seven Divis- ions With Tanks Battle . To Escape      CAUGHT BY. YANK RUSH   American Armored Forces Push To Coast South Of Coutances

Allied Air Forces Join Armored and Infantry At tack to Turn Fleeing Nazi Columns into Terror: Of Blood and Smashed Metal. 10,500 Prisoners Taken

score 18-Mile Advance   Swift Drive Down Cherbourg Peninsula A Virtual Breakthrough Into France

Sensational Burst’ Opens Springboard to Central France   18-Mile Lightning ‘Advance Closes Trap on More Germans

Latest Thrust Is Good for 18 Miles With American Armored Forces Reaching Avranches.      POSITION REPORTED WELL INSIDE TOWN

Americans Thrust Forward Fast In French Battle  Street Fights Rage In Avranches;  + ae Plane an EA

Sensational Advance Closes Trap On Germans Around Granville, May Open Way into Central France

Dash Of 18 Miles Made In One Day   Troops Establish Pivotal Line Threatening  Flank Of Entire German Defense In Western France

YANKS CAPTURE GRANVILLE, PUSH INTO AVRANCHES   Springboard Sought for Smash Toword Paris — Troops Roll 18 Miles

Nazis’ ‘Entire West Wing Withdrawn,’ Is  Berlin Radio Version   Americans Capture Comanees Without Fight and Race on to Cut Off Next Esvape Hale; Brehal Uniler U, 8, Fire

PAY TO NON-VACATIONERS   Ford. Will Give $3,882,722 te  Workers Who Stayed on Job

Moscow Reports Tens Of Thousands Of Lithuanian, Lettish And Estonian Volunteers Join Reds In Battle Against Nazis In Estonia  And Latvia

69,636 CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON GERMANS BY SOVIET ARMY   Hitler Has Lost 609,526 Men To Five Russian Armies Since Summer Offensive Began June 23; Fuehrer Buying Time With Lives On Eastern Front

oad and Rail Center Taken By Red Forces   Nimitz Looks Ahead: Sees Possibility Invasion Will Not Be Necessary To Defeat Japs   ?5 Nazi Divisions ‘rapped in North   Field Marshal von Paulus Blames ‘iller for Defeat of Nazi Armies

“REDS CAPTURE MOHACS   WOULD CUT FLYING TIME   VISTT StUJPPLYV DEPOT

Russians Praise American Airmen   Name U. S. Bomber The "Yanki Dudl’’

Art Treasure Liberated   DUTCH- WENT ‘UNDERGROUND’ WITH 800 PRICELESS PICTURES   20,000 GERMANS SURRENDER TO 24 AMERICANS

Prehistoric Reptile Found In County May Prove Of Value To Well Drillers

WEEDS LOOK BEAUTIFUL   Blind Most of Life, Man Gets Sight at Christmas

FINNS WAGE WAR AGAINS! FORMER ALLY   Russia Due to Get Use of Air Bases in Finland

Solons Inquire If Reconversion  Will Be WPB Job   Congressional Program Is Reported Facing Rough And Uncertain Future

‘Nips Think U,. S. Troops May Make Landing Soon On Island of Luzon

CLEAR. SKY SATURDAY   Low Temperatures of 55 to 6( Forecast for Tonight

British Raid German Ships In Western Mediterranean   Hit Two Vessels Off Spanish Coast, Sink Two Others In Adriatic Seq

Sink Two German Ships Off Spain Nazis Claim Violation Of  , nee <n Rw ey eal T Gar

Italy Fliers GetNaziBoats Close to Spain   Anzio Artillery Fire Grows More Intense: Patrols Duel With Foe

ENEMY SHIPS BLASTED OFF SPANISH COAS)   ‘Cne Left Staking, Other Driven t Beach by Allied Airmen—Tw Sunk in Adriatic   ARTILLERY ACTIVE      Patrol Clashes Reported but Weaiher Prevents Any Large-Scale Action

British Planes Hit Two Ships   Drive One on Beach And Leave One Sinking Off Spanish Coast

aufighters it German  upply Line   Artillery Duel Continues On Anzio Beachhead

2 Nazi Ships  Sunk By RAF In Spanish Coast Waters   ‘Artillery Is Louder On Anzio Beachhead

Report Sinking 4 Enemy Ships   One Sunk Off Spanish Coast, Another Beached:; Two Sunk In Adriatic.

ENEMY SHIPS SCATTERED BY BRITISH GUNS   Prisoners Taken When Kirissi  Goes Down

british Attack Nazi Ships OF  Spanish Coas!      Reanfichters Hit Enemy Supply Ships: Two Vessels Sunk In Adriatic.   RAIN SLOWS ACTION

Beaufighters Hit Two Enemy Supply Ships   Arillery Fire Increased On Anzio Beachhead

NAVAL ACTIVITY IN MEDITERRANEAN WAN AREA 1S REPORTED  BAD WEATHER PREVENTS MUCH ACTIVITY ON

ONE GERMAN SHIP SUNK-AND OTHER DRIVEN ON BEACK   Enemy Supply Ships Attacked Off Coast of Spain   BERLIN CHARGES VIOLATION OF LAW

FLIERS HIT TWO GERMAN SUPPLY SHIPS   Drive One to Beach and Leave Other Sinking Off  ’ Spanish Coast—Adriatic Naval Forces Sink Two Other Craft.

MAKES SWEEPS ON ~ GERMAN SHIPPING   British Attack, Hit Two Supply Ships in Western Mediterranean.

NAVAL ACTIVITY IN  MEDITERRANEAN WAR  AREA 15 REPORTED BAD WEATHER PREVENTS  MUCH ACTIVITY ON ITALIAN TAND RRONTC

ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS ARE SUNK   itish Beaufighters Make Sweeps Against German Shipping

2-GERMAN SHIPS HIT OFF SPAIN   Nazis: “International  Law fs Violated”

NAZI SHIPS BLASTED OFF COAST OF SPAIN   Berlin Radio Sees Violation Of International Law

British K. 0. 2 Nazi Ships Off Spanish Coast   Allied Naval Forces In Adriatic Sink 2 Other  Enemy Vessels.

Two German Supply Ships Attacked Off Spain Coast   One Left Sinking And Other Driven Ashore; Two Also Sunk In Adriatic

SUPPLY SHIPS ATTACKED OFF SPAIN’S COAST   Berlin Broadcast by Propaganda Agency Claims Violation of International Law

BRITISH HIT NAZI SHIP OFF SPANISH COAST   RAF Drives Another on Beach and Berlin Protests International Law Violated: Italy Front Quiet.

Student’s Quick Thinking Averts — Tragedy When B-17 Lands on Track

U.S. FLEETS ARE IDENTIFIED   At Least Two Cruise In Central Pacitfie

Hull Says Nazis May Seek Peace   Unconditional Surrender  Will Be Allies’ Terms.

Nazis Boast New Weapon Will Win War   London Paper Says Germans Plan to Use Poison Gas

THREE DIE IN MURDER-SUICIDE IN CENTRALIA   Ten-Year-Old Boy Tells Police, “Daddy Did It”

HUNT CHURCH MURDER KNIFE   Police Without Substan tial ‘Lead’ After 48 Hours

Germans Admit Reds Only 50 Miles From  Warsaw NAZIS RETREAT  Lwow And. Lublin Naw Rattleorounde.

Russians Plunge To 50 Miles of Polish Capital   Lwow and Lublin Now Battlegrounds; Reds 365 Airline Miles from Berlin

Siedlce, East Of Polish Capital, And Jaraslaw Are Abandoned By Germans   Red Armies In Lwew And Lublin; 20-Mile Advance Made Since Midnight; Retreat By Nazis On 150-Mile Front; 4 Generals Lost

NAZTO GIVING UP JARROLAW AND SIEDLE   Soviet Troops Now Battling in Streets of Lwow and Lublin.

Germans In Poland Flee In Disorder   Nazis Abandon Siedlce, Jaraslaw; Battles Rage Inside Lwow. Lublin.

Soviets Are Fighting Nazis In Lwow, Third Polish City, Lublin   Germans Announce Evacuation Of Siedlce, Jaroslaw; Pskov Captured In Rapid Advance

Nazis Abandon 2 Towns Before Reds Onslaught   Fighting Rages Inside Lwow And Lublin Russians Nearing Polish Capital

Nazis Fleeing In Disorder Thru Poland   50 of 250 German Divistons in East Knocked Out By Soviet Forces: Advance 320 Miles in 31 Days

SIEDLCE IS EVACUATED NAZIS SAY   Battles Are Raging In Lwow, Lublin, Berlin Claims

Nazis Appear Falling Back  Across Poland   Berlin Says Germans Evaeuating Siedlee, Jawaslaw; Fight In Lwow.   NO SIGN OF LETUe#

RED ARMIES FIFTY MILES FROM WARSAW ATER BIG ADVANCE   GERMANS ABANDON SIEDLCE, ONLY 365 AIRLINE MILES FROM BERLIN

Nazis Quit Siedice and Jaraslaw   Nazi Report Indicates 20 Mile Advance Since Midnight

Germans Quit Two Vital Cities Within Poland   Twenty - Mile Advance Made Since Midnight; 350 Miles From Berlin.   General Retreat Made Along 150-Mile Front

— Russia —  Reds Within 50 Miles Of Pole Capital   Nazi Troops Abandon 2 Towns On Approaches To Warsaw

Within 2 Hours Marching Time Of East Prussia   365. Airline Miles From Berlin; Fall Of Polish Capital Indicated Soon

GERMANS FLEE FROM SIEDLCE AND JARASLAW   REPORT FIGHTING INSIDE LUBLIN AND LWOW, RAIL CENTERS

Enemy Admits Evacuation Of 2 More Cities   Position May Force Germans To Abandor Capital Of Poland Without Major Fight

Nazi Troops ut Siedice ‘And Jaraslaw   German Communique Reports Fighting  In Rail Centers of Lwow and Lublin

Nazi Garrison Flees Siedlce Rail Center; Lublin Fort Totters   Soviets Advance 20 Miles Since  Midnight; Nazis Reported Racing For Seaports From Baltic States

Russians Plunge Closer to Warsaw   Great Rail Centers of Poland Reported Scene of Heavy Fighting

Russians Said To Be In Lwow And Lublin   General Retreat By Nazis Indicated On 150-Mile Front

GERMANS INDICATE RUSSIANS MAY HAVE ARRIVED AT WARSAW  GERMAN COMMUNIQUE ALSO REVEALED THAT

GERMANS ADMIT REDS 90 MILES FROM WARSAW   Battles Raging Now Inside Polish Rail Cities of Lwow and Lublin

New Advance Measures 20 Miles In Day   No Indication Of Letup On Part Of Reds Has Been Shown

Rail Centers of Lwow and Lublin Are Battlegrounds   Germans in Genera! Retreat Along 150 Miles in Poland

Reds Within 50 Miles Of Pole Capital   Nazi Troops Abandon 2 Towns On Approaches To Warsaw

NAZI LOSSES PUT AT 7 DIVISIONS   EXPERTS SAY ESTIMATE OF RUNDSTEDT'S CASUALTIES IS CONSERVATIVE.

Pre-Invasion  Radio Talks  Hs< po. J. Tyo. ek   U.S. Broadcasting Direct To Europe —

U. 5. Inaugurates Invasion Talks   Tells Continent D-Day Is Near

Allies To Have Invasion Radio   “Absie” To Be New Euro pean Radio; Broadcast Pre-Invasion Message.

United States Starts PreInvasion Broadcasts to Europe   WARNING IS GIVEN _ TO UNDERGROUND   Germans to Really Learn What “Overwhelming Force Can Be”

Pre-invasion message sent over channel  Liberation day fCnat far dictank

NIPPON “SUICIDE” PRAISE  AIRMEN   Enemy Chiet’s Slogan for drons

All Under 26 Face Draft   Hershey's Latest Ward on Draft Situation

Planes Pound Rocket Coast, Rails, Airfields   Bombers Also Strike From Mtaly'at Railway, OU Centers in Romania

7TH ARMY IS DRIVING ON BESANCON   French Units Race Toward Junction With 3rd Army

CHURCHILL CAN'T PREDICT WAR'S CLOSE      Unable to Foresee Defeat of Germany’ Before Spring; Wants Present Parliament Intact.   Man In Booth

SAYS GERMAN WAR MAY END iN SPRING      Churchill Discusses Outlook for Victory in House Address

Churchill Says European War May Last Until Summer, With Japan's Defeat to Require 18 Months More

Churchill Sees ‘VE-Day’ - Delayed Until Summer   Asks England To Defer Election. And Retain Present ** Government Until Germany Detoatad

Fears Nazis May Fight All Winter   Churchill Reports  Before Parliament

Churchill Asks Commons to— Delay Election   Fails to See War End in Europe Before Next Spring

Churchill Declares German Defeat May Not Come before Early Summer

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Unanimously Approves Lend-Lease Bill

More Than 1,000 American Bombers Drive Deep Into GermanyinMammoth Raid   Lend Lease Program Is  Extended Another Year

LEND- LEASE BILL IS GIVEN APPROVAL      Senate Committee Votes for Extension of Proqram

LOVAL REPUBLICAN CLUB STAGES A GRAND PARTY   Entertainment Features Best Ever Seen Around Here   GIFTS FOR CHILDREN

WANT MAIL DELIVERY _ FOR SOUTH LANGHORNE   Associated Business Men Will Circulate Petition For Such Service

NEW YORIEQUADS ~ GET FIRST FOOD   BABIES IN..GOOD CONDITION —8¢:YEAR-OLD FATHER, A VIOLINIST, IN 1-A.

Quad Daddv 1-A   Dazed Hos ospital Staff Housing Quads Now Announces Triplets

Civil War Still Rages In Athens  EAM Gives Terms On End Of Greek Strife

British, Greeks Still Fighting —  Leftist Head Gives Counterproposals

Elas Present Peace Plans   “Counterpr oposal Mi ay.  Eid Bloody Civil W: ar

Sharp Jump in  War Production  ” Be 29s Lead Way... In. Speed: Up. Program. More Tire Piont<

Allied, Russian Guns Ring Death Knell For Nazi Germany in Fashion That Predicts End of War in 1945

NaziBid To Delay Doom Past Crest   Allied Guns Roaring, Instead of Bells Tolling, Out Germany’s Defeat as New Year  centr

Butcher Fined for witerm BIS. AT  Cha HRC RELEAAL, GREED RSR LTE

POLOTSK FALL CLEARS ROAD TO LITHUANIA   Wilno Is Next Goal Of Bagramian’s First Army

‘Labor About To Take Management's  Place in Dog-House, Warns Johnson

Johnston Sees Labor Enfering The Dog-House’   Management on Way To Better Days

JOHNSON GIVES STERN WARNING T0 U.S, LABOE   Unions On Threshold Of Public “Dog-House” Head Of C. OF C. Says      ADVISED TO STUDY MANAGEMENT’S ERROR

Boyle Says Doughboys in France Believe War Will End This Year  (LEAVES FROW A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOK.)

Gage Officers  Hold Medals   Captains Francis Mason, Lorin MeCown. Lt. Col. A, T. Boatsman Honored.

CRUCIAL PERIOD (F WAR NEARS   Chief Of Staff Calls For Overwhelming Public Support

Rail Feeder Lines Are Heavily Hit   Heavy Bombers Drop Explosives on Romanian Targets

RECONVERSION ACTION PUSHED   Four Committees Work On Three-Point Program

Confront Solons  Lend-Lease, OPA And ar Contra tracts Are Bi ded pe tude

CONGRESS OPENS DRIVE TO CLEAN UP LEGISLATION   Gigantic Naval Bill Holds Right-Of-Way on the House Floor as Solons Prepare: for Other Measures :

GROUPS TACKLE RECONVERSION   Four Congress Committees Rush Action before Preelection Recess

SOLONS STUDY POST-WAR PLAN   Four Committees Press Reconversion Plans To  Meet Deadline

Record Navy Bill _ And Peace Program ~ Before Lawmakers   Ohio’s Sen. Taft Proposes Permanent Draft Program fc Consideration Along With Questions Concerning Extension of OPA and Lend-Lease and War Contract Termination

DRIVE OPENS TO DISPOSE OF MAJOR BILLS   Three Committees Press Closely Behind Record 32 Billion Doliar Navy Appropriation Bill   EXPECT EARLY PASSAGE

Congress Scans Navy, 0.P.A., ane Lend-Lease Bills   Predict Passage Of Huge Navy Appropriation Before Night.

HOUSE BEGINS ACTION ON HUGE NAVY MEASURE   Congress Starts Work on Bills Laid Aside During Recess

CONGRESS GETS DOWN TO WORK   Open Drive To Dispose Of Group Of Major Bills Laid Aside During Easter Re fess

NAVAL SUPPLY BILL 0.K: NEAR   Congress Is Expected To Approve Big Appropriation by Nightfall

APPROVAL NEARS FOR NAVAL FUND   Lease-Lend, Price Control Other Bills Face Action

CONSIDER NAW MEASURE FIRST   Congress Has  Four Major Bills to Dispose of in Session.

Congress Starts Work on Trio Of Big Measures  OPA, Lend-Lease Bills Yield To Navy Request

Second Vacation Hoped By House: Bills Speeded   Committees Meet Yo Push Action On Reconversion Plans

HOUSE SPEEDS NAVAL SUPPLY BILL PASSAGE   New Slants Given On Role Of Congress In Writing Of Peace

OPINIONS VARY TEXAN IS-SURE ROOSEVELT DONE   OKLAHOMAN. CONVIENCED ‘THE. PEOPLE ARE  LINING. wp BEHIND PRESIDENT.

RUMOR ROBOT BOMBINGS FOR U. §. BY NAZIS   Meanwhile Hitler Drops Buzz Bombs on Londen Area in Renewal of “Nerves Warfare”

Bombs Hit London After Six Nights   Nazis Say Bomb To Blast New York Being Readied

Ordnance Troops in Avas  NO   FDR Signs Bill for U.S. Particination in TINRRA

TEXAS UNIVERSITY HEAD DISCHARGED   Long Period of Friction Climaxed By Action of Regents.

U. of T. Relieves Dr. H. P. Rainey   Former President of Franklin Breaks with Board of Regents

ALLIED PEACE AIMS; SHOULD BE EXPLAINED:   President Is Asked To Explain What Americans Are Now Fighting For

a Skoog Vole © of Confidence ~~ in Churchill   Commons Plainly. Provoked, However, That Test Is; Made‘on Home ‘Issue:

i W HOUSE BY CHURCHILL   Commons: Backs Prime “Min: ister 425 to 23 in Test. : of Government:: na

Allied Bombers Hit Capital Of  Rumania Today   First Air Raid On Bucharest Is Made By Fliers From Italy   ATTACK TO AID RUSSIAN DRIVE

BOMBERS ROCK CAPITAL, HEART OF NAZI SUPPLY   Budapest Is Blasted Again; Russians Fight Way Into Jassy

Desperafe Japs Counterattack   1,500 of the Enemy Reported Killed

Saipan Japs Drive Yanks Back 1 Mile   Enemy Sacrifices 1,500 Warriors In Counter-Push

Desperate Jap Counterattack Gains Ground on Saipan; Yanks Rally After Setback

Casualty toll heavy: 1,500  Nippons die  Americans regain nart lost cround

ARE SLAIN IN ATTACK   2000-Yard Gain Made Before Assault Is Smashed Back

Desperate Jap Counter-Attack on Saipan Gains Nearly Mile: Americans Rall

Kesselring’s Push Breaks Hold of 5th   Enemy Yielding Slow?ty Elsewhere in Bitter Battle fer Lraly

Americans Suffer Setback in Italy   Heavy German Force Attacks in Mountains

NAZIS REGAIN ITALIAN HEIGHT   Yanks Fight to Win Back Ground Lost to Enemy  On Monte la Fine

YANKS FORCED BACK IN ITALY   Kesselring Uses Heavy Force To Dislodge Americans

YANKS BATTLE TO REGAIN POSITIONS   FIGHT FOR GROUND LOST NEAR BOLOGNA — OTHER ALLIED UNITS IN GAINS.

Rhineland Industrial And Chemical Centers Blasted By British Mosquito Bombers

LUDWIGSHAFEN BOMB TARGET   Extensive Operations Slowed Down By Weather

RHINELAND CITY BATTERED BY MOSQUITOS   Ludwigshafen Hit With Block-Busters; Four Planes Lost

Georgia Senator Says FEPC Activities Create Threat to National Unity. Declares Transit En  ployees Contract with Company Delibexately Rroken by FEPC

Nazi Purge Not Entire Success   Many Leaders of Conspirators At Large Still As Nazi Rule Grips Country.

Nazis Still Rule Germany, but Precariouslv   Only Few of Army Conspirators Who Tried to Liquidate Hitler Have Been Wiped Out in Blood Purge

FEW LEADERS ARE PURGE VIGTIMS   Reliable Account Says Col. Beck Only Opposition Member Caught   CALLS CONFERENCE   "Account Says Himmler Does Not Know Who Members Of Committee Are

GESTAPO IRON HAND 1S STILL RULING REICH   ANTI - HITLER GROUP NOT ALL WIPED OUT AS YET

NAZIS CONTINUE RULE BUT THREAT ‘REMAINS INSIDE   Few Of Leaders Of Revolt Believed Removed In Death Purge   ALL CONSPIRATORS NOT YET SUSPECTS

Hitler Seeks To Nazify All  Armed Forces   Real Revolt Leaders Escape Gestapo Guns, London Sources Hear  ATE tty TDHTIinDT crc clorcret

FEW CAUGHT SINCE PURGE WAS BEGUN   Reports Say Himmler Does Not Know Names of Members of “Com mittee of Opposition.       FUEHRER. EXPECTED TO NAZIFY ARMY   Conference Said to Have Been Called to Name. New Generals for Russian and Baltie Fronts:.

Hitler Tightens Hold on Army,  Ousts Prussians   Replaces Front Generals With Party Graduates Loyal to Nazi Regime; SS Chief Heads Normandy Battles

THREE PLAN AND 15 MEN ATION TAI   Nazis Tighten Hold As Leaders Elude Gestang

Anti-Hitler Group Plans New Attack   Nazis Temporarily Supreme in Reich

Many Real Leaders of Revolt Elude Gestapo, Report  HITLER DEMANDING LOYALTY OF ARMY  Fuchrer to Select New Generals Today at Conference

Dis:  2 AW!   ier Sas Conzerence “"o  Piex ew Las-ert. Zenera. Ss: “acm wa Ye vans Gane

While Seeking to Tighten Army Loyalty to Hitler; Real Leaders of Revolt Eluding Gestapo.   Hundreds Shot

Peace Parley Truce Broken  By Greek Elas   Came While Churchill Appealed- For End Of Greek Strife.

ELAS Artillery  Breaks Truce   British Savs Air . Action Will Begin As Warship Is Fired On

Truce Broken By Elas Guns   British-Greek Conference So Fense Alt Delegates Left. Side Arms at Door

REPORT ELAS BREAKS TRUCE   Shell British Warship While Delegates Go to Meet

TRUCE BROKEN IN GREEK ROW   ELAS Artillery Shells Fal : Near British Warship

Leftist Artillery Breaks Truce as Churchill, ELAS Leaders Hold Talks   British Tell Insurgents ‘Offensive Air Blows To Beain as Result of Action

“LAS Artillery ‘res Upon: British Ship   Truce ds Said Broken By Rebels as Conference Goes On.

FRENCH FRONT GAIN IS MADE BY 3RD ARMY   Advance Three Miles, Overrun Dozen Vilhages

Third Army — Gains Ground In New Attack  In France   But First Army Push In Hurtgen Forest. Halts After Meeting Fierce Resistance

23rd Day Of 24 Hou Bombirgs Soften Up Invasion  10 AMERICAN : PLANES LOS  Shatter Seven Air Drome In France And Railroads

AIRDROMES AND RAILWAY YARDS ARE SHATTERED   1,000 Planes Raid Military Targets In Nazi-Occupied Countries

COASTAL INVASION SECTOR HIT BY POWERFUL BOMBER FLEET   2,000 U. S. Planes Strike Ten Key Airfields And Railway Yards

GROUND FORCES ARM TAKES OVER   German Disorganization Is  Greater Than Realized -  Ne News From Caseme.

NAZIS IGNORE HEAVY LOSSES ON BEACHHEAD   Massing Troops For Third Attack   rae en no  LULL AT CASSINO  Allied Planes Fly 850 Sorties

PLANES BLAST NAZI FORCES BELOW ROME   Fighting Flares at Anzio; No Ground Changes Hands

PRESIDENT SEES ‘4 MORE YEARS   Hyde Park Neighbor: Put On Parade With Bugle Corps

Neighbors Hail Roosevelt Victory   He Plans to Remain Hyde Park Commuter

Two Leningrad Columns Jom Forces South of Krasnoye Selo, Trap Bnuemy Trocps; 1,500 Germans Killed In Ukraine Campaion.   'BRITISH ARMY DRIVES  NORTH ON APPIAN WAY

Hitcheock Killed in Mustang Crash  Veads Research in   Heads Research in Ninth Air Force

Vise Closes On Japs On Burma Front   Several Hundred Japs Are Caught Between Forces  of China and U. S.   CASUALTIES ARE HEAVY

MacArthur, McCormick Lead Illinois   Senate Poll Reveals Dewey 1st’ Choice, Bricker 2nd

Community Chest Still $4,100 Short of Goal   Special Follow-Up Calls Planned To Boost Totals

Community Chest Still $4,100 Short of Goal  Special Follow-Up Calls Planned

UP-T0-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)     ATTIED ARMIES WITHIN 71 MILES OF COLOGNE

Hodges’ Troops Drive Ahead Toward Cologne   Canadians and British Tighten Walcheren Grip

Jap Convoy Hit; Cargo Ships Sunk   Extensive Damage Done by Other Allied Air Power

U. S. Bombers Sink Portion  Of Jap Convoy   Tokyo Admits Losses Though Claiming To Have Bagged 117 Of 200 Planes -

Allied Blockade On Rabaul Base Being Tightened   Jap Warship Escorted Convoy Is Attacked

Air Operations Against Japs Continuec   Enemy Cargo Ship Destroyed, Two Are Damaged

SINK SHIP AT RABAUL   Two Other Cargo Vessels Listed As Probably Sunk

BLOCKADE OF RABAUL IS. TIGHTENED   Yank Bombers Destroy Cargo Ship; Hit Others

NAVY BOMBERS BLAST 3 SHIPS IN JAP CONVO)   Blockade Of Rabaul I: tall ge By Allies

Gilchrist, New President Of A. & M. Asserts School Will Meet Creat Challenae

AR FREEDOM SCARED POSTWAR PLAN   No Comm‘tments Made to Bind U.S. on  International Aviation

Chinese Capture Burma Bastion   .Major-Vietory Scored. . On Salween Front

Cullman Co. Schools Opening July. 17, Face Most Difficult Year   ‘Teacher Shortage Becomes Much More -Serious; ‘Faculties In Some Schools Short Fifty Percent

Japanese Bases From Wake to Truk Blasted  Series of Attacks Leaves Nip Frees in Flamec

STAR WITNESS REVEALS MORE GRAFT DETAILS   Tells Court No Immunity Premised for Taking Stand

FINANCIER DENIES IMMUNITY PROMISE: IN GRAFT HEARING   Ralph W. Smith, Niles, Says He Contributed to “Slush” Fund for Bribe Purposes   “ONLY THING TO DO”

300 Towns Captured By Soviets   Red Army Drives Within 92 Miles Of Budapest.

Russians Make 29-Mile Gain Inside Hungary   Other Red Army Units Resume Advance on Riga

Bulgaria Closes Border to Turkey   Action Taken While Envoys Talk Surrender

Bulgaria Closes Frontier With Turkey Today   Unrest Rages In Slovakia And Croatia

Peace Mission Already Waiting Te Receive Allied  Surrender Terms.

MARINES TAKE AIRFIELD, TOWN   Cut in Two Jap Forces on Williaumez; Yanks Gain On Los Negros

Marines ~ Who __Invaded Willaumaz Capture Airdrome  TOWN OF TALASEA -_ALSO_IS OCCUPIED  Cavalrymen Push Forward in the Admiral $rac

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TALASEA DROME TAKEN BY YANKS   Town Captured Following Seizure Of Airstrips On New Britain

U.S. Marines Cet Airport And Township   Willaumez Peninsula Cut in Two North of New Britain; Forces 170 Miles of Rabaul

MARINES CAPTURE TALASEA AIRSTRIP IN NEW. BRITAIN   Willaumez Peninsula in North_ern Part of Island Cut in Two—Many Japanese Trapped.   CAVALRYMEN SCORE _ GAINS IN ADMIRALTIES   Push More Than Three Miles From Momote Airdrome— Advance Also Made Toward Madang.

Talasea Falls To Marines   Peninsula Cut And Japs On North End Caught In Tran

S.S.oqgvccyS> °K.  SUCCESSES FIRMLY PLANT GENERAL MACARTHUR’S FORCES MORE THAN 100 MILES EAST OF CAPE GLOUCESTER - HOLDINGS; 170 MILES FROM RABAUL.

AIRDROME TAKEN BY DEVILDOGS   Occupation Of Telasea Cuts Willaumez Peninsula  In Two

Americans Get New Britain Airport, Town  Peninsula Cut in, Two by Success of U. S,  Ma wane Imeuaciawe

MARINES TAKE AIRFIELD, TOWN   Cul in Two Jap Forces on Wilhaumez; Yanka Gain Oa bax Nesrse

Japs Send Heavy Reinforcements To Leyte and Tokyo Tells Story of Major Successes of War in China

TOKYO CLAIMS  TWO STRATEGIC CHINESE CITIES FALL TO DRIVE   New Nip Troops Enter Leyte Fight -

“IKE” APPROACHES INVASION BEACHES   CRUISES FOR OVER 4 HOURS OFF FRANCE AND CONFERS “ wiTH COMMANDERS,

GEN. EISENHOWER GETS CLOSE VIEW   Cruises Off Invasion Beaches Of Northern France; Holds Conferences With Operational Commanders

PT Boats Battle  Enemy Destroyer   Lure German Crafts From Convoy Duties

SOVIETS CRACK NAZI FRONT IN WARSAW AREA   Other Red Armies Advance Across Yugoslavia in Danube Drive.

Russians Capture Fortress In Poland   Berlin Reports Red Offensive Started In Latvia To Clear Last Claimed Area.

BRITISH TRAINS CRASH; 8 DEAD   Three ‘U. S. Fliers Killed, Eight More Hurt

munition ‘Train plodes Enroute   ke Railroad Station Injures Number of ople In East Anglia

Giant Raid Hits Across Pacific   Japs Bombed From Kuriles To Carolines

American Air Raids On Japs  Are Sweeping   Cross 1,000 Miles of Carolines, North to Guam, — Then Beyond Japan ~  ’ In Kuriles

U.S, AIR BASE DESTROYED IN SOUTH CHINA   Seventh Base To Be Abandoned  By Americans

Yanks Abandon China Air Base   Destroy Fighter Field As Japs Advance

U.S. LEAVES 7TH CHINESE BASE   Last Forward Yank Field In South China

Last American Airbase In So. China Wrecked   Fighter Field At Nanning ‘Abaridoned In Face of Advancing Japan ‘ese Armies —

U. S. Loses  Final Base   South: China Split ‘Completed “By, Nips

U. 5. QUITS LAST FORWARD AIR BASE IN CHINA   Seventh Field At Nanning Abandoned, Destroved 

U.S. Base in China Abandoned   Last Forward Air Base In South China Destroyed

College Course Awaits Returned U. S. Serviceman   Questior's And Answers Concern. ing Educational Provisions Of New G. I. Bill Of Rights, Now A Public Law   VETERANS MAY CHOOSE OWN SCHOOLS: TAKE TEST

World War II Vets Eligible For Schooling   May Start Immediately To Plan For Education

Report B-29s Over Tokyo As  Jap Fears Rise   Foe Fear Mass Bombing Raid On Capital: Carrier Planes Raid Manila,   NO BOMBS DROPPED

Supertorts Again Over Jap Capital   Manila Raiders Score Hits on 6 Warships, Ruin 191 Planes

JAPANESE SAY B-29'S OVER NIP CAPITAL AGAIN   U. S. Fliers Hit or Damaged Six More Jap Warships Near Manila

SUPERFORTRESSES CLAIMED OVER TOKYO AGAIN ON TUESDAY  JAP FEARS MASS BOMBING OVERSHADCWS CARRIER PLANE RAID ON MANILA

6 JAP WARSHIPS HIT AT MANILA   Yanks Push Ahead on Leyte As B-29s Scodt Japan

AAPAN FEAR BOMBER RAID   Yanks Near Jap Strongpoint On Leyte; Some Units Caught in Trap. °*    SUEFER HEAVY LOSSES

Super Forts Over Tokvo. Says Ra dio   Japanese Fear Attacks Upon Homeland; Philippine War Progresses

Japs Report B-29s Over Tokyo Again   Nips Fear Mass Raid on Capital

SIX ENEMY SHIPS HIT AT MANILA   B-29’s Scouting Nips’ Home Islands; No Bombs Dropped

Japs Fear Capital is Next Objective of U. S. Superforts   Bonibers Continue Survey of Tokyo, Six Nip Ships Wiped Out at Manila

TOKYO BOMBED AGAIN TODAY BY SUPERFORTS   Japs Fear Mass Bomber Raids On Capital

B-29s Reported Over Tokyo Again   Six Ships, 191 Planes Score of Manila Raic

Report B-29s Again Flying Over Tokyo   Third Fleet Planes  Sink Or Damage Six Japanese Warships, Smash 191 Aircraft

U.S. Superforts Again Reported ~ Over Nip Capital   Japanese Fears Of Mass Bombing Raid On Tokyo Said Increased Today

Manila Raid Costs Japs 6 Warships   Heavy Fighting Continues on Leyte Island; Jap and U. S. Units Trapped.

6 JAP WARSHIPS HIT AT MANILA   ite eaaeanemnemnmmenntindl  Yanks Push Ahead on Leyte As B-29s Scout Japan

Toll High in Raid  on Manila   Superforts Bomb Nippon Approaches Enemy Radio Says

Superforts Over Tokyo Add To Jap Fears Of Big Raid      U.S. Carrier Planes Hit Planes, Ships At Manila

Japan Fears Mass Raids On Capital   Super-Forts Strike At Approaches— Trap Closes in Levte

Superforts Over Tokyo Again; Japs Fear Mass Bombing of Capital Soon

FLIGHTS SEEN PRELIMINARY TO MASS RAID   Carrier Plane Force Strikes Manila; Yanks Closing Trap On Leyte 

U.S. PLANES RAID MANILA; WIPE OUT 191 JAP AIRCRAFT   SINK OR DAMAGE SIX NIP WARSHIPS; CLOSE LEYTE TRAP

B-295 SCOUT TOKYO; U.S. HITS LUZON   Activity Over Japan Overshadows Raids On Outer Bases

SIX NIP SHIPS SUNK OR HIT OFF MANILA   “sap Bases On Luzon, Cebu, Negros Attacked  U, $. FORGES   Slowly Closing Great Trap On Leyte; Casualties High Near Ormoc

Nippons Jittery; B-29s Over Tokyc  Mas xs Bombing Fes red in Japan se Cavital

—PACIFIC—  BNIP WARSHIPS ,. SUNK, DAMAGE   U. S. Superforts Reported Bombing Southern Approaches To Japan   BLAST-AIR BASES:   American Fliers Smash Enemy Bases On Luzon, Cebu And Negros

Tokyo Reports B-29s Bomb Japan’s South Approaches   Third Reconnaissance Flight Reported Over Capital, East Honshu

Japanese Fear Mass Bombing Raid on Capital   Carried Plane Attack On Manila Costs Foe 6 Ships, 191 Planes

Japs Report Superforts Scout Tokio   Mass Bombings Feared By Nips; Carrier Planes  Blast Enemy Warships ry. asl. Dee

14,000 VETERAN GHUTISTS SEIZE 100. MILES OF BEACHHEAD: TROOPS POUR IN

5 TROOPS; REPORTS INDICATE SATISFACTORY PROGRESS   Fourth Front of 100 Miles Opened Between Marseilles and Nice; to Complement Other Armies in France

‘SUPPORTED BY 14000 AIR-BORNE TROOPS; REPORTS INDICATE SATISFACTORY PROGRESS =   Fourth Front of 100 Miles Opened Between Marseilles and Nice; to Complement Other Armies in France

¢ * AGS GRIEF TO GARDENERS   Frosts and Freeze Kill Plants: Farming Delaved

Reds 2/ Miles of Rumania   Vital Junction Captured, Stalin Announces Today

HUGE BOMBERS BLAST BANGKOK IN DUAL RAID   Superforts Based At Saipan, India Hit Strategic Targets

B29's Hit Tokyoand Targets In Thailand   Second Raid in Four Days Hammers Japanese Capital; Fly From Saipan to Tokyo, From India to Hit Bangkok

UNPRECEDENTED RAIDS MADE OVER WIDE AREA; NIPS HAVE LOST HEAVILY ABOUT LEYTE

Strike Enemy Capital from Saipan; From India Bases  To Hit Thailand

Showers Predicted For iMidwest Will Provide Only Temporary Relief

IN PO VALLEY   New Zealand Troops Gair North of Cesena; Push  Close to Cervia

Tanks Spear Seven Miles InPo Valley   New Zealanders Le ad Attack North. of Cesana in_ lanl

British Armor  Lances at Po   New Zealand Tanks Swing  Nazi Line North-South

Ground Forces Of Allies Gain In S.W. Pacific   New Guinea and Bougainville Advances Reported

AUSSIES, YANKS NEAR JUNCTION IN RAMU AREA   Tank-Led U.S. Troops On Bougainville Gain New Positions

TANK ARMY 1 OQUEEZING  WOW, JASSY   Soviets Push 15 Miles Into Romania  MAUL G E RM ANS  34 Bivieiens In Complete Rout

Hoo LEBIONG THA 220,000 NAZIS IN HILL   Another Army Mauls Enemy and Advances Toward Key Rail Points.

Bear Down On Rail Junction   Advancing Towards Two Important Centers

DRIVE ON TWO VITAL RAIL JUNCTIONS   Relentlessly Pursue Plan to Annihilate . 225,000 Nazis

New Russian Offensive Opens in Southeastern Poland;Guam Is Bombed   Heavy Fighting Reported in New Guinea, in Round up oi War News

High Waters Past Week Overflow, Low Lying Land  -F Frequent Rains

High Waters Past Week Overflow \ Low Lying Land 7 Praquent Rains  - Cause Rivers re. Py... FY.

Nazis Say Whole Northern Front In Russia Blazing — Tata Action’ Binne Routed

Finns and German Reports Say Beds Attacking Between Murmansk and Petsamo; Reds Announre Capture of Finnish Strongholds

SOVIETS SMASH SECOND LINE OF FINN DEFENSES   Russian Troops Reported 30 Miles From Port Of Viipuri   LITTLE HELP SEEN FROM GERMAN UNITS

FINLAND MAY HAVE 10 GIVE UP BY JULY 1   GREAT RED THRUST NEARING VIIPURI, VITAL SEAPORT

SOVIET ARMY SWEEPING ON INNEW DRIVE   Finland May be Knocked Out of War Soon, Report Says

Finns May Be Out Of War By July!   Russians Plunge To Within 30 Mile: Important Port

Reds Predict Finland’s Fall This Month   Advance to Within ‘30. Miles of Viipuri, Other Fronts Erupt

REDS 30 MILES FROM FINLAND'S PORT OF VIPURI   Five Strongpoints Fall to Rus' sians — Civilians Said to Have Been Warned to _ Leave Helsinki.   WHOLE NORTH FRONT REPORTED ABLAZE   Enemy Broadcasts Declare Soviets Have Sprung Into . _ Action From Arctic to ‘White Sea.

'REDS PUSHING FINNS BACK ‘JO VIIPURI   On-Rushing Russians Less Than 36 Miles From Finland’s Vital Port Moscow Reports.   Ready To Evacuate

Reds Plunge Forward in  Finland Drive   Northern Front of Russia Blazes Into Action

Nazis Say Whole Northern \Front In Russia Blazing Into Action: Finns Routed

Reds 30 Miles From Viipuri in Attack on Finns   Russia's Northern Front Expanding

COLLIDE ON BROAD FRONI   Allied Push Despite Great Weight of  Nazi Armor

Fight Off Packs Of Tanks To Take Hill Above St. Lo   Bitterest Fighting Since D-Day Sees Germans Making Reckless Expenditures Of Armor In Vain Attempt To Win Showdown Battle.

Work or Fight   Draft Boards Instructed To Induct Plants’ ‘Chronic Absentees’

Five Bears and Jittery Express Messenger Pose Problems for Railway Express Agency

Churchill Views War Continuing To Late Summer   King Tells Parliament Of Intention To Reinforce Troops Fighting Japan

Says War May Last Longer Than  He Believed   Churchill Thinks End May Come In Summer But Drops ‘Early’ Frem It

EUROPE’S WAR MAY LAST INTO 1945   Churchill Warns United Nations Also Predicts Additional American Troops Will Be Needed.   Highest Pinnacle

Churchill Revises His Belief on Defeat of Nazis  War to Last Longer, Britisn Chief  Vlarne Darlinmant

URGES STALIN TO MEET WITH WAR LEADERS   Reveals Allied Troops. Tota Over Two Million in Western Europe

Prime Minister Warns War Against Germany May Last Longer Than He Predicted

Churchill Implies  War May Not End  By Early Summer   Revises Early Prediction, Says German Fight Will Last Ionger Than He liad Thought.

SAYS GERMANS MAY DRAG WAR WELL INTO °45   Prime Minister Tells Commons of Allied And Nazi Losses

German Losses Hit High Mark Says Minister   Two-Day Debate Opens Today in London Parliament

Churchill Sees Delay in Victory Over Germany   leader Declares Nazis May Not Fall Until 1945

ANTWERP POR IS CLEARED FOR USE   _ Progress Of Allies Lauded By Prime Minister   BREAKTHROUGH   In Cologne Vicinity Would Have Great Consequence, He Reveals

Churchill Says Despite _ Heavy Losses By Nazis — War May Continue In ’45

British Prime Minister Refuses Guess On End: 2 Wiillion Men In Europe

Tells Commons Allied: Losses Have Been 235,OO, Germans Over 1,000,000;Says New Big. 3 Conference Neces 2°44 @42 a

Premier Refuses To Guess At Date In Commons Talk   Enemy Losses Since ‘D-Day’ Set At Million Men With 400,000 Killed; Premature Hopes For End Of Fighting Flayed

Nazi Losses Near Million, But War May Run Into 1945, Says Churchill

Tells Commons Allied Losses Have Been. 235,000,. Germans Over 1,000,000;Says New Big 3 Conference Neces corte

War May Continue Into 1945      Prime Minister Opens Two-Day Debate On War and Peace in House of Commons

Churchill Says Nazi War Will Continue Into 1945   FLEET POOLING PLAN REACHED   Eight Nations Will. Muster Might Against Japs

Churchill Tells:Gommons: WarIn Europe May ‘Run Into1945; Allied Forces Greatly. Increased.

Churchill Warns War With Nazis May Last Into 1945   Enormous Additional American Troops May be Used, Prime Minister Winston Churchill Says in Review of the War

Longer War Is Possible —   Nagi. Endurance. May - Exceed Estimates

Churchill Warns Of Victory Delay   Revises Estimate To Simply ‘Summer’

CHANGES VIEW ON WAR'S ENL   Churchill Now Says Victory May Not Come Before Summer.

Is Advanced By Churchill   Parliament ts Told Fanatical Defense by Nazis Delays Victory

VIGTORY DATE SHOVED BALK BY CHURCHIL   Tells Parliament Germany May Keep on Fighting inte Summer.

Lengthens Estimate On End Of European War Praises Army   King George Declares Britain Will Reinforce Troops Fighting Japan ‘As Rapidly As Possible

Believes War To End Later Than Hoped   Churchill Drops Word “Early” from Prediction War Would End by Early Summer; King Opens Parliament

New Three-Party Parley Declared Needed To Map Peace Plans      Nazi Casualties Set At Million   Use Of British Navy Aecepted By U. S. For War Against Japan

WAR EXTENDE IN CHURCHILL'S LATEST REPORT   Premier Cuts ‘Early’ From ‘Early Summer’ Ending; Antwerp Port Open

SAYS. RESISTANCE MAY GOON AFTER DECLARED END   Allied Invasion Said Costing Germany . 1,000,000 Men Already

Churchill Warns War  May Continue Through ‘44   May Bring ‘Enormous’ Additional U. S. Troops Into Battle in Europe, He Tells Commons

EARLY END OF FIGHTING NOT YET IN SIGH   Prime Minister Tells Commons War Against Japs Will Be Pushed Vigorously.

CHURCHILL SAYS WAR MAY LAST WELL INTO 1945   Tells Commons He Thinks Three-Way  Peace Essential

Enemy Losses In Europe Near Million   Churchill Sees Chance That Germany May Still Fight in 1945

Prediction On V-Day Revised By Churchill   War Might Last Longer Than He Had Thought, Says Prime Minister Before Parliament

WAR MAY RUN INTO °45, VIEW OF CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Goes Before Commons to Give Report

War May Last Longer, Says Mr. Churchill   Britain ‘Intends to. Reinforce Forces Fighting Japanese, Kina Georae Vi Savs

Power Gethering Against Japs;.Stalin Must Be in on Allied Peace Discussions

SAYS END MAY NOT COME BY FARLY SUMMER   Commons Warned Not To Underestimate. German Power

Britain Will Push Fight Against Japs   Victory Session Of Parliament Opened By King George

BRITISH LEADER TELLS COMMONS WAR MAY CONTINUE INTO 1945 MAKES COMPLETE WAR RESUME .

War May Extend Well Into 1945, Churchill Avers   Prime Minister Hits Undue Optimism In Commons Report

REVISES DATE OF WAR’S END   May Not Be Early Summer; King Discusses War in Pacific

Churchill Thinks Germans Will Stand Until Summer   Prime Minister Now Believes War Will Last Longer Than He Had Thought; Port Of Antwerp Finally Opened To Allied Convoys: War Pledged Against Japs

Revises — Guess On ~ War’s End   Churchill Warns Battle With Germany May Go Into Summer   PORT OF ANTWERP NOW BEING USED   Praise for Allied Progress, But Situation of Germany Is Recoonized

OPTIMISM 15 TEMPERED BY WARNING NOTE   Prime Minister Reports On Conflict, Quebec Conference

Churchill Warns Commons War Against Hitler May Well Continue inio 1945

CHURCHILL WARNS AGAINST OPTIMISM IN WAR ON GERMANY   KING GEORGE SAYS BRITAIN TO REINFORCE FORCES FIGHTING JAPAN

New Parley Is Indicated By. Minister In Address   Says Warfare Likely “After. Nazis Broken

Churchill  Sees Wai Delay   Tells Parliament Nazis May Hold Out Longer Than Expected

WAR MAY LAST "INTO '45 WITH - GERMAN UNITS   Churchill Warns End of Fight Against Nazis May Not Come Soon

U.S. to Hurl Huge Forces at Nazis,  Says Churchill   Report on War Tells Of Additional Men Poised for Attack

War May Last Much Longer Says Churchill   Parliament Opens For New Session In Great Britain

Won’t Hazard Guess on End. House Told   Must Aid Russia  In Obtaining Security — Wants Independent Poland

Churchill Says War Might Last Longe Than ‘Early’ Summer; Antwerp Open

War in Europe May Enter 1945, Says Churchill   Makes His First Report to Commons Since Auqust 2

Parliament. Opens 10th Session ©.   Churchill, and: King  George Praisé Allied Armies, Forsee™ Close Cooperation in Peace

NEW FIGURES ON LOSSES 10 DATE SHOWN   Indicates Stalin Will Be Asked To Sit In On Allied Parley

NEXT SUMMER HIS FORECAST AS OF TODA)   Warm in Praise of Allied Armies’ Achievements in France. More Aid in War on Japan

‘CHURCHILL WARNS OF LONGER WAR   Predicts Conflict Against Nazis May End Next Summer

German Losses Placed Near Million Mark   Premier Considers 3-Power Peace Meeting Essential

Churchill Warns European War May Go Into ‘45   Tells Commons U.S. to Provide Larger Forces

‘Holds Meeting with Stalin Essential to Peace Plans   Russia’s Demand for Territory to Assure Security Upheld Along With Poland’s Right to Independence

Big Three Meeting Necessary   Before Peace Plans Can be Revealed, Prime Minister States

German Defeat MayBe Delayed Until Early 45   Persons of High Teehnical Knowledge Hope For End In 1944, Prime Minister Says   Backing Russia’s Frontier Plans   Reveals British Casualties In France Are 90,000, and Those of United States 145,000

Conflict May — Be Prolonged   : + Churchill Declares Germany  Might Fight into 1945 De spite Its Heavy Losses

CHURCHILL. WARNED COMMONS WAR MIGHT CONTINUE INTO 1945   ALLIED FORCES, HOWEVER, HAVE SWELLED TO HUGE PROPORTIONS

Churchill In Address To Parliament   Summer Of 1945 Is His Opinion; King In Address

Churchill Gloomier In V-E Day Views   Says War With Reich May Be Even Longer Than He Thought—Drops “Early” From Previous “Early Summer” Victory Hopes. '

Churchill Warns German War May Last Till Summer   King George Assures British. Reinforcements To Men Fighting Japs

Churchill Again Revises Prophecy Reich War’s End   King George Opens Victory Session of Fourth Longest Parliament.

George VI Addresses Parliament   Churchill Follows, Warning the War Will Last Longer Than he had Though

War May Well Go Into 1945. Says Churchill   Prime Minister Deprecates OverOptimism, But Lists Huge German Losses

War May Las Longer Than We Thought   Prime Minister Issues Warning as King Opens Parliament

QUEBEC CONFERENCE MAD  FULL-DRESS REPORT ON t BY BRITISH PRIME MINISTER   Possibility of Organized Resistance After German State And Army are Completely Broken is Foreseen by Briton Leader   MILLION MEN LANDED IN FRANCE SINCE D-DAY

Commons s Advised On QuebecParley   New Conference to Include Stalin Held Essential to Progress

CHURCHILL AGAIN WARNS OF LONG WAR IN EUROPE   Prime Minister Reveals Use of Antwerp Port by Allied Ships

MORE AID IN PACIFIC PROMISED   Premier’s Predictior Revised; Monarch Pledges Help

PUTS NAZI LOSSES AT A MILLION   Indicates 3-Power Meeting Including Stalin Essential

lied Force creased ‘Europe   100,000 Enemy lroops Cut Off n Holland Alone

Churchill Warns Yanks May Use Enormous Force   Says War May Go on Into 1945; Reaffirms Plans to Crush Japs

Churchill Revises Forecast; ‘Sees Longer War in Europe  King George Says British to Send  Rdnma Teanme inden Ware Anminct Jame

AGAINST NAZL ENEMY SEEN   Churchill Reports Present Outlook  ~ to Commons

War May Run Into 1945 Commens Told by Prime Minister   Churchill Reports — on State of War; TwoDay Debate Opens

Churchill In New Warning   Wear Against Germany Might Last Longer Than He Had Thought

Nazis Have Lost About One Million   But Prime Minister Will - Not Hazard a Guess on When End Will Come.   ALLIES LOSSES OVER 200,000   Commons Told of Need for Meeting on Peace Terms By 3 Bie Chiets

HINTS ALLIED LEADERS WILL CONFER SOON   Reveals Yank Casualties In France Pass  145 000

Churchill Warns . Parliament War's End Is Delayed   Victory by Summer Is His Prediction; King Promises Vigor In Pacific Fighting

WARNS FIGHTING MAY ENTER ’45   Prime Minister Says Nazi Losses Near Million; Between Two And Three Million Allies In Europe

CHURCHILL SAYS WAR MAY END IN SUMMER MONTHS   Drops Word ‘Early’ From Previous Prediction of Conflict’s End

Britain’s Premier Deprecates Premature Expectations Of Early Cessation Of Fighting Despite Germany’s Loss Of Nearly 1,000,000 Men In Northwest Battles —U. S. Casualties In France Since D-Day Listed At 145,000, With British Total At 90,000

War May Continue Into 1945--Churchilf   Some Experts Expect Germany's Defeat This Year, Prime Minister Says:  Reports Agreement Reached at Quebec

QUICK VICTORY NOT FORESEEN BY CHURCHILL   WAR WITH GERMANY MAY RUN MONTHS INTO 1945

45 Fighting Held Possible By Churchill   Losses by Germans Set at Million Men In Northwest Europe

European War May Continue For Long Time   Churchill Tells Commons Today That War Against the Germans Might Continue Into Next Year.

TELLS HOUSE NAZI PLIGHT IN FIIDODE   Declares German Losses In Northwast Europe Approach 1,000,000  .?

CHURCHILL S OT SURE OF ICTORY DATE   Says Conflict May Last Through Summer ’45

Churchill Tells Commons War Might Continue Into 1945   Deprecates Optimism About Premature End Of War; Meeting With Stalin Is Essential Before Revelation of Allied Peace Plans

SAYS ENEMY THROWN BACK ALONG WHOLE FRONT; SAYS ANTWERP IS NOW OPEN FOR ALLIED VESSELS

INVASION ARMY NOW PLACED AT 2TO3MILLION   Premeier Reports American Casualties In Theater Mount To 145,000

Doubts War  Can Be Ended  During 1944 Churchill Warns  Commons Hitler May Last Until 1945

Churchill Warns War against Nazis May Continue Well into Next Year

JAPS REPULSED IN BARGE~BORNE RIVER ATTACK   Raid Reveals Extension 0: Allied Control In Dutch  New Guinea   RABAUL SUBJECTED TO HEAVY BOMBING

Allies Smash Barge Attack   New Guinea Control Zone Widens; 23 Planes Downed

JAPANESE ATTACKS _- ARE DRIVEN BACK   Barge-borne Ene m y ' Troops Defeated in New Guinea

ALLIES SMASH JAP ASSAULT IN NEW GUINEA   Aussies and Dutch Repel Barge-Borne Foe Troops

NEW JAPANESE THRUST NIPPED   Barge-Borne Attack On Dutch New Guinea Is Smashed

BIGGEST RAID OF WAR UPON BIG JAP BASE      Several Ships Sunk In Low-Level Attack

AMY 10 TKE. r MASON MEN   Five Ludington Men Included in List; to Leave Wednesday from VFW Hall

24 70 LEAVE HERE FOR NMLITARY QUTY   TO Report at Veterans’ Hall Wednesday. to Start for Detroit

q WILL LEAVE FOR INDUCTION   Three of Group from Ludington; Plan to Go Monday ai 10:30 A. M.

New Strikes Take 23,650 From Plants,  More Likely   AFL Teamster Council  Plans General Strike Of 45,000 Members In Detroit Locals  2.500 WORKERS IDLE IN MASSACHUSETTS  Steel Plate Production At Granite City, Il., ’ Halted by Machinists

Gen. McNair Killed by Allied Bombs   AMERICAN COMMANDER VICTIM OF EXPLOSIVES FALLING SHORT OF MARK

McNAIR KILLED BY ALLIED BOMB BLAST   General Was Among Number Of Casualties From Premature Dropping Of Explesives

Insanity Case For Swancutt Near Decisior   Army Medics Refuting Defense Claims: Tell His Mental Condition Before. After Crimes

RHODES STIRS. NO GOP FEARS   Republican Leaders Accept Challenge of Hie Entry  Inte PrimaryRace  - 

GOP Laughs At Rhodes’ Challenge   DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF  SUPERIOR COURT BENCH WILL ENTER REPUBLICAN PRIMARY AGAINST ARTHUR JAMES.   Will Toss Him Out

“NO GOP FEARS   Republican Leaders Accept Challenge of His Entry Into Primary Race

‘Tank Destroyer, Lima Product,  Credited With Dash Through France

AOLD ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE   Rev. R. H. Crowder Principal Speaker; 300 Attend

FRENCH MAQUIS PUSH SABOTAGE   Guerrilla Warfare Keeps Occupation Troops Out Of Action

ATES SET FOR HARVEY GREEN   Death of Pioneer Resident Fo lows Lergihy ness -

hiTES ctl Uh HARVEY GREEN   Death of Pioneer Resident Fo lows Lergihy Illness

RADIO COMMENTATOR IS FORCED FROM AIR   Upton Close Says NBC Has Suc. cumbed To Eressure Of Communistic And Radical Groups

Upton Close Hits At Radical Foes   Communist Pressure  Blamed for Radio Ban

2 Questioned  In Shooting Of Policeman   State Officer Is Shot By One of Two Youths Stonved in Speeding (Caz

Dies Committee After Winchel   Copies Of His Radio Talks Subpoenaed

DIES PROBE OF WINCHELL TALKS OPENS   Committee Subpoenas Blue ‘Network to Produce All of Commentator’s Script for the Last Two Years.

Dies Subpoenas Winchell Script   Objects to Commentator’: Criticism of Congress.

NEWS FREEDO PREVENTS WARS   Both Republicans Anc Democrats Back Move In Congress,

‘BP GAS HOLDERS GET PREFERENCE      Trucks, Buses First on Extrz Allocations, Civilians Informed

Labor Urges Price Control   Major Organizations Unite to Demand Continuance of Plan

PRICE CONTROL IS FAVORED BY UNION CHIEFS   Unusual Statement Read to Senate Banking Committee by Green,   Wants Control Act Continued Two Years

Federal Control  Of Prices Urged   CIO and AFL Ask Contin. uation of System Without Weakening Amendments

UNIONS FAVOR PRICE CONTROL   CIQ and AFL Ask Congress To Continue Program

CIO, AFL Favor  Price Controls   Want Extension of Federal System. They Tell Congress

Labor Unions Urge Tighter Price Controls   ClO and AFL Join Hands in Statement Today

x Price Controls ~ Continue           and: A:F.L, Join: Hands tequest; Against: Any . Weakening Amendments’   War’ FOOD-GHIEF = ALSO. APPROVES      And William’ Green “Asks ‘Continuance of Law --for: Two. Years After War

UNIONS DECLARE PRICE CONTROLS ARE ESSENTIAL   CIO and AFL, Forgetting Old Feud, Urge Solons to Retain OPA

AFL, ClO Join In Demanding Price Control:   Rival Unions Agree In Unique Petitior To Congress Asking Continuance

(10 and AFL In Joint Plea   Ask Price Control System Be Continued; Jones Says Control Successful

Break Gothic Line South of Rimim   Last Defenses Waver  Under Heavy Attack

BRITISH BREACH THE GOTHIC LINE   EIGHTH ARM¥ DRIVES TO WITHIN 4 MILES OF DUORWAY TO PO VALLEY, 

BRITISH SMASH NEARER RIMINI   Nazis Waver Under Terrific Onslaught of Eighth  Army Forces

County Soldiex Listed Killed In Action   Previously Reported Missing; Another Is Wounded In France

FRENCH FORCES CAPTURE DIJO}   Americans 75 Miles South Of Forces at Nancy

British Armor Enters Hol land North: of Albert  n   CAPTURE LUXEMBOURG   VJ. S. Third Army Runs Into _” Edge of the German West Wall

Allies Battle Way From Southern France to Join: Units of Patton’s Force

U. S. First Army Reaches Siegfried Mine Fields; Luxembourg Falls and Big Guns Shell. Aachen; British Break Into Holland at North End of Line

Luxembourg City Taken   First Army Gunners Shell German Soil First Time; British Invade Holland   British, Yanks Linked   Aachen, Center of West Wall, in Range of Fire From U.S. Heavy Guns

ROMMEL HURLS TANK RESERVES INTO ASSAULT   Yank Troops Smash Way To Within Two Miles Of St. Le

British Shells Check Armored Drive at Troops   Germans Rush Tank Forces into Battle Near Caen

Yanks Drive ‘Nearer St. Lo in Normandy   Allied Bombers Hammer  Nazi Rail Centers, Robot Launching Ramns

German Armor Attack  Smashed Back By Artillery Barrage   iRommel’s Attempt To Crash Into Odon River i Bridgehead Menacing Caen Is Frustrated; Nazis Use 7 Tank Divisions

Allies Take City Near Tip Of Normandy   Nazi Attacks In Caen Area Hurled Back

Every Nazi Attack Along Odon River Thrown Back   British Second Army Stands Firm In Seething Battle For Inland Port City

QUADRUPLETS  IN ENGLAND   Five Other Children i in .Moxham Family; . : Mother’s Ave 38

German Retreat Turns Into Rout   New Allied Landing Reported at Bor deaux; Yanks 160 Miles from German Border

Nazi Retreat In Western France To Seine Is Rout   Russians Spring New Trap In Baltic Region

WORKERS MUST TAKE WAR JOBS   WMC Orders Strict Regulations For Boston Area

FIGHTING MEN GET GREETING      New Stettinius Aides Sworn In Today After Confirmation.   CONGRESS GOING HOME

Senate Warns New Appointées to Hew ~ to Liberal Policy   Stake Department Told to ‘Keep. Skirts Clean of Power: Politics

EIGHT ENEMY SHIPS SUNK OFF GREECE   Allied Naval Task Forces Deliver Blow In Aeqean

WAR TO PEACE BILLS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT   Many More Things Needed For Men  Returning Home

TWO POSTWAR BILLS SIGNET   FDR Signs Legislation Providing Tools for Shift From War to Peace.

Retonversion Bills Signed By President   Asks Something More For Discharged War Workers

RECONVERSION BILLS SIGNED   Roosevelt Stil! Wants Benefits For War Workers

FDR to Press for Laid-Off War Workers Handling ‘No Less Fair’ Than That Given Vets, Farmers

President Signs Reconversion Legislation With Reluctance   Still Needed

FDR ASKS FOR AID TO LAID-OFF WAR PLANT EMPLOYEES   Two Bills Providing Tools for Shift Back to Normal are Signed

PRESIDENT ASKS FOR CHANGES In JOBS PROGRAW   Congress Urged To Revise Law Speeding Reconversion Plans in U. S.

RECONVERSION BILLS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT   New Law Provides for Shift Of Industry and Workers To Peacetime Program

In Signing Bills He States He Wants Treatment For Workers “No Less Fair”? Than That Given Vets and Farm-

Signs Reconversion Bills But Insists on ‘Fair Treatment’ for War Workers

This Year's Income Tax Headaches  May Be Last for 30,000,000 People

‘Tackle Tax Headache   Treasury and Congress Unite in Effort to Simplify Present Law

Propose No Tax Returns Under $5,000   Senator George Moves tc Simplify Procedure in Low Brackets

Simpler Tax Law Certain  Only Those With An   Only Those With An Income of $5,000 To Make Out Returns

Hope Arises That 39,000,000 Taxpayers. Will Be Free of Filing Income Returns

INCOME TAX PAYERS MAY GET BREAK   Citizens Earning Less Than $5000 May Not File

Hope to Relieve Tax Headaches   Returns For 30,000 Persons Would Be Eliminated by Proposal Considered by Treasury and Heads of Consressional Committees.   WAGE DEDUCTIONS

Congress Will Attack Income Tax Confusion   Both Branches Consider Means of Simplifying Returns

TAX CONFEREES OFFER HOPE OF SIMPLIFICATION   WOULD ELIMINATE RETURNS ON INCOMES LESS THAN $5,000

THE WELFARE REPORT   Total Disbursement: Fot Past Month Was $15,820/25

New Tires Coming Ration Chief Hints   However, He Adds There Won’t Be Enough for All—Gasoline Situation Doubtful—Probes and Murder Trial Add To Capital Interest

'A' Cards May Get New Tires   May Expect to Secure New Tires by Fall, It Is Announced

More Tires  Are Likely   A-Card Holders Will  . Have Consideration

'A' Card Holders Can Hope For New Tires In Autumn   Production May Reach 2,000,000 Mark By Last Of Year

CAT VUWVWerr wrrac   A-Card Drivers Offered  Fresh Hope for New Tires

New Tires Fo: “A” Holders This Fall   First Allotment Since Start of War — Tire Production 2-Million

Tires Due for Drivers Whose Hopes, Treads Have Grown Thin Together

A Card Drivers May Get Tires   2 Million Synthetics Due This Fall

“A” Card Drivers May Receive New Tires In Autumn   First Allocation Since War Start

A-Card Holders Seen Obtaining New Tires Soon   Passenger Type Production May Hit 2 Million Mark Sometime During Fall

HOPE OFFERED FOR NEW TIRES   REPLACEMENTS FOR "A" CARD DRIVERS EXPECTED THIS FALL

New Tires Soon For ‘A’ Drivers   Production Expected To Reach Goal Sometime DNuorine Fall.

Holders Of ‘A’ Rations May Get New Tires   But It May Be Winter Before They Are Ready No More Motor Fuel

New Tires Due  For ‘A’ Cards   Nothing To Indicate Increase In Gas m\lloc ations; Start In Fall.

'K’ Card Drivers May Get Tires   No Increase In Gas Seen This Quarter

VETO MESSAGE NOT WRITTEN BY JUDEE   Stephen Early Says Rosenman Had Nothing to Do With Writing It.

~ OF JAP SHIPS   Vessels Are Hit in Heavy Yank Air Assault on Halmahera Isle

JAP SHIPPING IN PHILIPPINE AREA I$ SUNK   DAVAO AIRDROME IS RAIDED FOR THREE NIGHTS IN ROW

YANKS HIT SIK JAP FREIGHTERS   Two Main Air Bases Alsc Damaged in Surprise Dutch Guinea Raid

AkronPolice HoldGlencoe Suspects      TWO CUMBERLAND, MD., ACCUSED OF HOLDUP OF NEWTON AND KIDNAPING OF NEWTON CLARK, SATURDAY.   Threw Clark Into Swamp

WAR BOND SELLERS. 10 VISIT SCHOOLS      Special Emphasis to be Made on Pearl Harbor ;  Anniversary

WAR BOND SELLERS. TO VISIT SCHOOLS   Special Emphasis to be Made on Peart Harbor  Anniversary .

Nazis Plan To Sink It, 385 Passengers, Crew Forced To Leave Ship, Allowed To Return  SUB LEADER ACTS  ON BERLIN’S ORDERS Three. Including Baby. Killed in Transfers, Erie Resident Aboard

2U. §. Citizens Seized By Nazi Submarine Crew   Shree Persons Die A Ship Is Halted In Mid-Ocean

REFUGEE SHIP STOPPED IN MID- OCEAN   Passengers and Crewmen Forced to Abandon Serpa Pinto by Threat to Torpedo Her.   By Nazi U-Boat

* Soviets Closing In On . Riga; Pound Nazi Force: Fleeing From Vita! Por

Soviet: Invasion Of Easf Prussia May Begin Soor   Germans Flee Riga And Big Red Army Will Be Available

BlG-FOUR TO AGT AS SUPER POLICE IN FUTURE WORLD   Agreement Will Be Submiited to United. -Nations Governmen:s

BIG-FOUR 10 ACT AS SUPER POLE NN FUTURE WORLE   Agreement Will Be Submi.ted to United Nations Governmen.:s

T hief Asked To Return Stolen Uniforms Which Reloanced To Dead Flier

BRITISH START NEW ADVANGE TO PO VALLEY   Break 10-Day Stalemate On Adriatic Flank, Gain 3 Miles

HEAVY FIGHTING FLARES IN ITAL)   Eighth Army Advances to End 10-Day Deadlock

Kighth Army Slashing at Nazi Flank   Enemy Stiffens Before American  Attacks

EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES IN ITALY   Fifth Army Fights To Break Nazi Hill Defenses

American Forces Fight To Crack Po Valley Lines   British Eighth Army Troops Roll Back Nazi Adriatic Flank

Sth And 8th Armies Drive  Ahead In Italy   British Roll Back Nazi Adriatic Flank Along Broad Front

ALLIES BREAK ITALY DEADLOCK   NEW BRITISH DRIVE LAUNCHED ON HIGHWAY

Germany's Oil, Centers, Robot . Sites ' Blasted   80 Enemy Planes Downer In Three-Pronged Raid Tinan. Temas Rateh °“

Shrinking Of Size Of War Savings Bonds Will Cut Production Costs

BELIEVE. HITLER AND GOERING BOTH MAD   Hitler No Doubt Kept Under Restraint; Goering Moody

FAMOUS PSYCHOLOGIST WHO HAS STUDIED FUEHRER FOR YEARS MAKES HIS OFFICIAL REPORT   By KINGSBURY. SMITH International News Service

Drive Up Saone Valley Now 68 Miles North Of Lyon; §5,000 Prisoners Have Been Taken, Is Report

Seventh Army Races. North In Pursuit Of Enemy Forces Fleeing From Captured Lyon

French Units Sweeping  Up Saone V alley   Reach Outskirts Of Macon 6% Miles North Of Cap utred Lyon

Allies Pursue  German Force  Race Along Saone In Southern France

PUSH TO MACON, NORTH OF LYON   FRENCH CAPTURE 2400 PRISONERS _ AT VILLEFRANCHE

ALLIES GAIN 18 MILES IN PUSH   Advance Up Saone Valley Scored by American And French Troops

French Troops Reach Macon   Advance 68 Miles North of Lyon; Little Opposition

French Drive Into Macon, Above Lyon   Take 2,400 More Nazis To Swell Total To 65.000

CRONE VALLEY   French and American Troops Pursue Withdrawing Enemy.   ‘SWEEP BEYOND MACON

French Sweep Up Saone 88 Miles North of Lyon   9 40) Mero Pricanore Takon   2,400 More Prisoners Taken in Southern France, Total Now Over 65,000

FRENCH TROOPS 68 MILES NORTH OF LYON SECTOR   Nazi Resistance Ineffective In Saone Valley

8-MILE GAIN ON SOUTHERN FRENCH LINE   “Americans and French on March Along Saone Valley on Trail of Retreating Germans

65,000 Nazi ‘Captives Now InS. France   French Sweep Up Saone Valley to Macon on Heels of Enemy

French, U. S. Units Gain In South France   2,400 More Prisoners Are Taken; Total Is 65,000 Since Invasion Started

FRENCH REACK MACON SUBURBS   Capture 65,000 Prisoners Since Southern Invasion

FRENCH PURSUE NAZIS IN SOUTH   Allies Roar Up Saone Valley, Well Past Captured Lyon

PURSUIT OF FLEEING GERMANS FROM LYON HAS REACHED MACON  NO SERIOUS OPPOSITION MET BY FRENCH OR AMER ICANS IN SOUTH FRANCE

NORTH OF LYON   Continue Pursuit of Nazis Fleeing Southern France

Drive North From Lyon Is Rapid   One Report Says Pontarlier Taken

Chaplin Suif Renews Tuesday   Comic’s Lawyer Will Reply to Slashing Broadsides Received

‘Gl, BILL’ FACES STORMY SESSION   Unemployment Benefits Cul By Committee In House

G.I: BILL FACES STORMY PATH   Amendments Seen to Sol. diers’ Benefit Bill, Rewritten Yesterday

Legion’s GI Bill of Rights  Faces Storm   Barrage of Amendments Expected When House Gets It

STORM ARISES OVER “6.1.” BILL   Barrage Of Amendments Forecast On House Floor

Gl Measure Faces Storm  F.xpect Barrage o   Expect Barrage of Amendments on House Floor

House Sends Rewritten Veterans Bill to Floor; Faces Many Amendments

G. I. Bill Up Soon   Forsee Battle Over Provisions in Vets’ “Bill of Rights”

Foresee Stormy Bout for “G.l. Bill of Rights” Rewritten By House Group

GIs Who Keep Trucks Rolling Are Unsung Heroes of Battle in France

Autumn Rain Beats Down on a French Tavern’s Window Doanes—in a Drama of War

MITSCHER THINKS JAP FLEET CAN BE LIQUIDATED IN ANOTHER YEAR IF . PRESENT PROGRESS IS MAINTAINED

Mitscher Back Un Pacific Area   ‘Says Jap Fleet Will 3e Liquidated In 1945

Mitscher, in Pacific, Says Jap End Near   ADMIRAL, WITH NEW JOB, SAYS NIP FLEET TO BE LIQUIDATED IN 1945

Gives Policy On Poland   Stettinivs Says U. S. ' Would Not Object to Changed Frontiers If Mutually Agreed Upon

Boundary Question to Poles   US. Not Opposed To New - Frontiers If Mutual Avreemen; Reached   STETTINIUS TELLS 3-POINT POLICY   American Policy Told Arter “Conference With British Officials

US. Agrees lo Carving Of Poland   Stettinius Says It's O.K. if the Nations Concerned Concur

Stettinius Bares U.S. Attitude on Polish Question   Nations Concerned Should Agree to Boundary Decisions Secretary Asserts

Report Russians May Have Closed In On Warsaw  German Troops Fight Bitterly To Hold Back Reds

Germans Appear Preparing For Early Fall of City as Troops Make Fresh Retreats; Catastrophe Looms Closer’ in Baltics And Advance Continues In Balkans.

Lithuanian Capital Is Safely Held  ByRussians   Soviet Army Storm _ Nets Seven Miles   Inside Triangle

New Nazi Retreats” Below Polish City _ Reported At Berlin   Moscow Declares Enemy Masses. _ Fresh Troops, Reserves To Halt Soviet Push Into East Prussia

Nazis Admit Setbacks In Red Fight   Enemy Claims to Hold Swift-Moving Soviets At Gate of Polish Capital But Admits Other Serious Losses; Lithuanian City Falls

ENEMY ADMITS KAUNAS FALLS TO RED ARM)   News Agency Avers Soviets Checked After Other Units Enter East Prussia

Other Red Army Troops Push Within Six Miles Of Warsaw and German: Expect City’s Fall

GERMANS HINT REDS HAVE HIT INTO WARSAW   Russians Push Seven Miles Into Suwalki Triangle As Great Drive Rolls On

REDS ALREADY WITHIN CITY   Lithuanian Capital F alls;  Russians Storm Into } .  East Prussia

Russians Strike Polish Capital As City’s Fall Seen   Nazis Struggle To Halt Red East Prussia Drive

Russ At Warsaw, Nazis Indicate   Fall Of Kaunas Acknowledged; Reds Inside Suwalki Triangle

Russians Capture Siedlce   Other Soviet Forces Seven Miles Inside Suwalki Triangle of East Prussia. to Giby

Russian Units Push 7 Miles Inside Of E. Prussia Border   Report Germans Throwing in Many Fresh Reserves To Stop Reds in German Province

Warsaw Fall Near; “Reds Race 11 Miles Inside East Prussia   Kaunas, Ex-Lithuanian Capital , Captured by Onrushing Legions; 300. Towns and Villages Entered

Germans State Soviets Reach Warsaw Propet   Former Lithuanian Capital  Of Kaunas Falls To Rus * *  sian Forces.   GO INSIDE SUWALKI

INSIDE TRINNGLE “AFEAST PRUSSI   Fall Of Kaunas In Lithuania To Soviets, Announced By Nazis   GERMANS RETREAT   Reds Only 21 Miles From Pre-War Boundary -Of  Hitler Province

AUOGIANS IN WARSAW NOW?   Germans Give indication in Communique; Say Kaunas Has Fallen.   PREPARE. HOME FRONT

NAZIS REPORT RUSSIANS INSIDE CITY OF WARSAW   Soviets Drive Into East Prussia; 335 Miles From Berlin

Kaunas Falls, Soviet Troops In East Prussi  Bade Enarm Are   Reds Form Are Six Miles From Polish Capital

OTHER FORCES PASS BORDER OF PRUSSIA   Nazis Acknowledge Fall 01 yr __ Lithuanian Capital   ENEMY POCKET   Of 15,000 Liquidated Near Brest Litovsk: Berlin 335 Miles Away

Kaunas Also Has Fallen, Berlin Says   Russians Keep Up Suwalki Triangle Offense

Russians Open Warsaw Siege   Red Vanguards in Pole Capital Suburb; Kaunas, Lithuanian Metropolis, Falls; Soviets Driving Into E. Prussia Area

Russian Forces at Warsaw, According to German Report:   Fall of Kaunas After Fateful Sunday Ad. mitted by Berlin

BELIEVE REDS HAVE REACHED WARSAW PROPER   Germans Also Acknow. ledge Fall of Kaunas in Lithuania.

Russians Batter Outskirts of Warsaw Tonight   Soviets Storm Seven Miles Into Suwalki Triangle

Enemy Sends: More Reserves To Halt Push ©  Into Suwalki   Warsaw’s Fall Near’. Moscow-Report. Says.

Nazi Spokesman Reports Leaders Preparing to Tell  Germans Bad News

Reds May Be At Warsaw, Berlin Hints   Acknowledge Fal Of Kaunas, Former Capital  Of Lithuania

ALREADY IN ‘SOVIET HANDS   Red Armies Break Into Suwalki Triangle and Drive Ahead Despite Increased Nazi Resistance.

Soviets Lunge Near Warsaw: Kaunas Taken   Berlin Says Enemy Is Drawn Up in an Arc Six Miles From City

THINK SOVIETS ARE ATWARSAW   Reds Seven Miles Inside Suwalki Triangle Of East Prussia   300 TOWNS CAPTURED

Kaunas Falls To Russians, Warsaw Next   Germans Say - Red Army Drawn Up in Are Six Miles from Polish Capital; Soviet Troops Near East Prussia  London, July 31 (4) Marshal Stalin announced tonight the  capture of Siedice, rail town 50@ miles east of Warsaw. .

EAST PRUSSIA TRIANGLE HIT BY RED ARMY   Soviet Army Smashes Into Suwalki Territory. Nears Warsaw

SAY REDS ONLY § MILES FROM FAST PRUSSIA   Nazis Admit Kaunas Fallen To Soviets: Riga Menaced

-_atest Moscow Report Places Russians 20 Miles From Polish Capital, but Berlin Teils of Fresh Retreats Below City — German High Command Admits Fall of Former Lithuanian Capital—Soviets Seven Miles Inside Suwalki Triangle.

Early Fall . Of Warsaw Also Hinted   Soviets 7 Miles Inside Suwalki Triangle of East Prussia   NEW NAZI RETREAT   Germans Again Report Russian ‘Crossing of Vistula River

Russians Pushing Into East Prussia   Kaunas, Lithuanian Capital, Falls; Nazis Trapped in Baltics   CLOSE IN ON WARSAW   Russian Report Gains Along Entire Length of 1,000Mile Front

__ Massed Russian forces, heavily supported by artillery and planes have smashed into East Prussia to a depth of 19 miles ona blazing 88-mile front after breaking through permanent  and deep enemy fortifications, Marshal Joseph Stalin stated

SOVIET FORCES ONLY SIX MILES FROM WARSAW   Fall of Lithuanian Capital Sunday ts Announced; Advances Continue

Russ Drawn Up Before Warsaw.  Germans Say   Other Red Units Storm Into Suwalki Triangle of East Prussia

SOVIET ADVANCE MENACES NAZIS ON MANY FRONTS   Former Lithuania Capital Also Falls to Surging Russian Forces

SOVIETS CAPTURE LITHUANIAN CAPITAL, ENTER EAST PRUSSIA AND MAKE OTHER NOTABLE GAIN   Moscow Silent on Battle for Polish Capital But German Reports Indicate Fall Is Near and German Public Being Prepared for New Reverses

Berlin Hints Warsaw Reachec By Red Armies   German Radio Intimates City Proper Has Been Reached Following Fateful Sunday Reverses.

U S. Sorties Make Effort To Stem Jap Tide In China   Planes Active F rom Only Major U. S. Base; Japs  Land Fukien Province.

Carry On  From One  Air Base   American Fliers Making Desperate Effort to Slow Jap Drive in China   REFUGEES JAMMED INTO FREIGHT CARS   Meanwhile, Japs Talk of Great. Battle Ahead for the: Philivpines

LOCAL CHAIRMEN STRESS COST OF WARTIME SERVICE   Quotas Set at $3,000 in Flossmoor, $4,200 in Homewood   At All Bases

Rankin Runs Fer Ahead In Renomination Race In Mississippi Primary

VAN LOON--DIES AT GREENWIGH   al  Noted Historian Claimed 1 y Death At The Age Of 62.

W. Hl. VAN LOON, HISTORIAN, DIES   Heart Attack Proves Fatal To Noted Writer

Death Ends Career of H.W. Van Loon, Dutch-Born Historian and Biographer   First Book in 1913.

‘Death Finishes Van Loon Book   Dutch- American Historian Dies of Heart Aitack

Van Loon, Noted Author, Dies   Won Fame As Writer Of Historical Works

Hendrik Van Loon, Famed Writer, Is Taken by Death   Third Noted American Writer to Succumb Within 24 Hour Period

LOON DIES IN CONNECTICUT   HISTORIAN SUCCUMBS IN OLD GREENWICH HOME

HENDRICK VAN LOON, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR,  DIED AT HOME TODAY  Native of Holland and Outstanding Writer, Passes at Greenwich,

H. W. Van Loon, Noted Writer, _-aken By-Death   Popular Historian, Native Of Holland, Dies At 62 In Greenwich Home.

Continues Cool  To Labor Draft   House Military Committee Adopts “Try-To-Get-It” Attitude on Request Submitted by Joint ArmyNavy Maritime Commission  at Washington.   SEES PLAN UNNECESSARY

Nothing New In Legislation -Contemplated   Position of Committee Is That Present Laws Are Adequate

MILITARY COMMITTEE  OF HOUSE OPPOSED Tt  LABOR DRAFT PLANS ARMY, NAVY AND MARI. TIME E COMMISSION R RE Wr PAUTAD

House Group Slaps Down Labor Draft   Army-Navy Proposal Promptly Rejected By Committee .

Cool Toward Labor Draft   ‘House Committee Firm In Opposition Despite  Plea By Armed Services

House Group Turns Deaf Ear to Labor Draft   Army-Navy Request Meets Opposition of Legislaters

\House Committee Assumes ‘Chilly Attitude Towards Military Labor-Draft Plea

COLD SHOULDER GIVEN REQUEST ON LABOR DRAFT   Committee Contends Laws Already Sufficient To Put 4-Fs in War Jobs

"No Labor Draft, House Group Tells War Chiels   Compulsion Held Unnecessary to Meet Labor Needs

House Group See No Necessity For Labor Draft.   Oppose Requests. Of Army, Navy, Maritime Heads — Say Existing Law Adequate If Uti ized.

USE TPPOSES TAMAAY BI   Existing Law Held Adequate To Cover Cases Of Men In 4-F    COMMITTEE ACTS   Probably Can Be Handled . Without New Measure, Members Claim

Cold Shoulder Given To Labor Draft Proposal .   “Try-And-Get-It” Is Reaction Of House Military Committee.

CONFLICT ON LIMITED WORK SERVICE PLAN   "Try-and-Get-It" Attitude Is Reaction of House Committee To Request For Legislation   MAY NOT REACH FLOOR

Army-Navy Appeal For Draft of Labor Met With Rebuffs   Congressmen Who Earlier Fonnd Legislation Net Needed Irked by New Plea af Services

Labor Draft Legislation Asked By Army-Navy; _ “Try-and-Get-It” Attitude

House Ignores Service Demand  For Labor Draft   Army, Navy, Maritime Cont. Recommendation Comes. After Report On 4-F’s

Labor Draft Snag Looms   "Try to Get It’ Attitude Adopted By House Group

Army-Navy Request Gets Cold Shoulder   Rep. May Says Committee Stands By Its Report

LABOR DRAFT IS NOT LIKELY NOW   House Military Committee Adopts “Try-And-Get It” Attitude Toward ArmyNavy Request.

Military Committee Cold Shoulders Labor Draft Bid   A ‘Try-to-Get-it’ Attitude Is Reaction To Suggested Plan

Labor Draft Plea Gets Cold Shoulde:   Joint Request of Army and Navy Rejected by House Committee

SOLONS COLD TO PLEA FOR ~—LAROR GRAFT   Military Committee Members Doubt New Legislation Is Needed.

Committee Defiant On Labor Draft   Services’ Request Will Be Ignored

House Group  Opposed to Labor Draft   Give Cold Shoulder To Request From Three War Leaders

Congressmen Are Cool te Plan For Service Act  Request of Services For Labor Draft  Maacture le Onnoced

House Military Committee Gives Cold Shoulder To Army-Navy-Maritime Request For Labor Draft

Services’ Draft Plea Rejected  House Group Won't Act On Labor Call

LABOR DRAFT LAW FROWNED UPON BY HOUSE COMMITTEE   Claim Made That 1,000,000 Fewer Men Employed In Industry Today and Draft Not Needed

CHINESE ARMY ON SALWEEN FRONT CAPTURE VILLAGE   Qecupy Mountain Tewn of Tatugtzu. After Annihilat-. ing Over 1,000 Encircled Japanese

Chinese Advance On Salween Front Stalled in Honan  Stilwell's Forces Continue to  Occupy Myitkyina in Slow Strnat-hv-Stree? Fighting

ANNIHILATE 1,000 JAPS, PUSH AHEAD   No Confirmation To Enemy Claim Loyang Captured

es  Chinese Occupy Salween Village  Kill 1,000 Trapped Jans In Rurma Driva

Fourth Of July sy. Celebration Planned For Cullman County   Plans For Fourth Of July Army Show Celebration Are Completed

County - Wide Picnic, Army Show, Band,. Auction Here July i   All Day Celebration At Cullman County High School Expected To Draw Thousands; Free Picture Shows

HALF-STARVED JAPS GIVE UP IN NEW SUINE!   Solomons- Base¢ Bombers Hit Rabaul Area of New  Britain

Nipponese Troops Laying Down Arms In Record Numbers   Allied Planes and P-T Boats Continue Attacks.on Enemy’s Escane Routes Alone Coast

Japs Surrendering in New Guinea in Numbers Never Before Equalled

Many Japs Starving, Surrender   Fighters And P-T Boat: Harass Remnants  At Hollandia  And Aftape.

JAP TROOPS SURRENDER IN NEW GUINEA   Yankees Report More Than Ever Of Nips Come Into Lines Half Starved As Supplies Cut.

DEJECTED JAPS SURRENDERING IN RECORD NUMBERS   Old-time Arrogance. of Foe Disappears When Supply Linas are Cut.

DEJECTED JAPS ARE GIVING UP IN NEW GUINEA   Planes and P-T Boats Continue Attacks on Enemy Escape Routes

TRAPPED JAPS IN NEW GUINEA ARE GIVING UP   Surrendering In Unusual Numbers To Avoid Starvation

More Japs Surrendering Than in Previous Drives   Allied Invaders of Holtandia Area Now Hold 155 Prisoners in Stockade—Once-Held Theory of Nipponese That It Was Better to Commit Suicide Than to Fall Into Enemy Hands Seems to Have Been Abandoned.

More Japs Quit New Guinea Fight   Enemy Surrendering In Record Numbers

Allies Sink or Damage 20 Japanese Barges  Dejected Nipponess in Hollandia :

More Japs Surrendering   Fewer Suicides Among Dejected Nips Defeated In Hollandia Area

Allies Sink or Damage 20 Japanese Barges  Daiactad Ninnanac  Dejected Nipponese in Hollandia Areas Surrender

NIPS STARVING IN NEW GUINEA   Soldiers In Hollandis Area Surrendering To Americans

Japanese Troops Surrendering In Record Numbers   P-T Boats, Allied Planes Continue To Blast Supply Routes

RECORD JAP SURRENDER IN NEW GUINEA   Giving Up, Half-Starved And Dejected

SAARBRUCKEN REDUCED WITH ARTILLERY FIRE   Ninth Consecutive Day for Shell Rain on That Provincial Capital of the Reich.

‘Stubborn Nazi Holdout Post of Fort Driant Is Taken by Doughboys

2,200 Germans Died on This Front Yesterday.  RUSSIANS 8 MILES OF KRIVOI ROG  Germany, Holland, and France Raided by American Bombers.

Battles at Highest Pitch in Ukraine Where Soviets - Believed to Have Krivoi  Rog Under Artillery Fire.

NAZIS FALLING BACK ON NORTH RUSSIAN FRONT   Soviet Troops Engaged In Furious Fight In Southern Ukraine Near Kri voi Rog.

Override Veto by 72 to 14 Vote   SENATE JOINS HOUSE IN REVOLT AS MORE THAN NECESSARY TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY OBTAINED; OUTCOME NEVER DOUBTED

Barkley Leads Fight On Veto   SENATORS OVERRIDE ROOSEVELT ON . TAX BILL

Barkley Protests Friendship For F.D.R. As Senate Aims Blow At Veto   In Letter To President, Senate Chief Says He Has Enduring Faith In Him, Whose Chief Desire Is To Advance People’s Welfare And Happiness.

PRESIDENT I GIVEN CRUSHING DEFEAT 72-14   First Effects Of New Measure Will Be Felt Within 30 Days

senate Joins House in Tax Bill Stand   Overrides FDR's Veto by a Vote of 72 to 14

Senate Backs House Stand On Tax Bill   Vote to Override F. R. Veto; Barkely Accepts Peace Offer

Action Climaxes Revolt, Enacts  Tax Measure ©   Harmony Seen Restored As Barkley Writes FDR Letter Of Friendship

Senate Vote 72-14 Against Roosevelt   $2,300,600,006 Added ts Revenue as Rejected Bill Is Reenacted   EXCISE TAXES JUMP.   Barkiey Calls oi W’resi‘dent for Greater Cooper- ation in Government

Teams With House By Voting 72 To 14  To Enact Measure   New Excise Rates Effective April 1; Barkley, Roosevelt Reconciled; Two-Way Cooperation Sought

72-14 Vote Far Beyond Maiority   Veto Message Sparked Revolt In Both  Houses

U.S. To Gain Two Billions In New Funds  F rom Measure   Higher Postal Rate Effective In’ Month

SENATE OVERRIDES, 72-14-—~   Barkley Moves To Restore Harmony By Letter To FDR

Senate Overrides Tax Bill Veto:  Measure Is Law   Congressional Revolt  Hits New Peak

Senate Quickly Overrides Tax Bill Veto   Members Join in Revolt With Vote Of 72 16 14

SENATE RACE ONLY CONTEST YET IN DOUBT   Party Sweeps All State Offices and Garners Electoral Votes for F. D. R.— Donnell Leads Qhohty.

Balance of Democrats Swept in   But It Will Take the Absentee Count to Decide Senate Race   DONNELL IN LEAD BY 7,725 VOTES   Democrats Gain One Seat 1n Congress; Other District Contests Close

DRIVERS TO CARRY  “FULL CAR CLUBS”   PLAN BECOMES EFFECTIVE AuGusT 1=FULL SUPPLEMENTAL GAS. SUPPLY TO BE REFUSED IF ORIVERS DO NOT COMPLY

CALLS FOR UNITY ONOILPROBLEM   PROPOSE GOVERNMENT SEEK COOPERATION OF OIL INTERESTS

FEDERAL BALLOT PLAN TACKED ON “CTATE’S” BILL   Attachment of Administration Plan to the “State’s Rights” Measure Called Major Victory fer Plan Desired by FDR

Administration Wins Victory On Vote Plan   By 46-44 Vote Puts Federal War Ballot Plan Onto House ‘States’ Right’ Measure

Administration Wins Major Victory For Its Federal War Ballot Bil

War Ballot ls Amended By Senators Early Today   Administration : Driving Measure  Harder Today

FEDERAL BALLOT PLAN TACKED ON STATE VOTE BILL   QUESTION BECOMES MORE CONFUSING; INQUIRY SUGGESTED

SOLDIER VOTE FIGHT TURNS ON AMENDMENTS   Administration Accepts Changes, One Giving Overseas Voter Choice Between Federal, State Ballot

‘SENATE FAVORS ‘FEDERAL BALLOT   Controversy Will Be Sent To ~ Conference Group

Administration Wins Victory On Soldier Vote         Senate Favors. Green-Lucas. Bill ©. With State Measure

Administration Yields on Servicemen's Vote Bill to Give Voters Their Choice

Senate Adds Federal War Ballot Plar To House-Passed ‘States Rights’ Bill

FEDERAL VOTING ACT SCORES HIT   Administration Wins Major Victory As Senate Tacks Proposal Onto House-Approved “State’s Rights’  ill.

A Major Victory For the Federal War Ballot Plan   Administration Scores When Senate Tacks Proposal to HousePocsed “States” Bill

Pass a New Vote Bill   Federal War Ballot Plan is Amended To Give a Choice

BRITISH SUBS SINK 32 SHIPS IN INDIAN OCEAN   Report Only Two Pockets of Nips Remain on Peleliu Island

32 Japanese Ships Sunk by British Subs   Batavia Strafed in Low-Level Attack; 8,537 Nips Killed in Palau Islands; Japs Attack B29 Base

British Subs Invade Port; Sink Ships   32 Enemy Vessels Desiroyed by Darine Foray

32 Jap Vessels Sunk By British Subs; Palau Campaign Costs Nips 8,537 Men

BRITISH SUBS ROAM PACIFIC   Account For Record Bag Of 32 Jap Vessels In Indian Ocean

British Subs Sink 32 More Jap Vessels   MacArthur's Bombers In Initial Attack On Batavia, Java; Nips’ Isle Bases Battered

BRITISH SUBS TAKE TOLL OF JAP SHIPPING   Blows Made In Java Area As Allied Striking Arms Are Merged

Mounfbatten’s Mer Meet Pacific Command at Java   Batavia Strafed For First Time in: ; 3,200-Mile. Flight

BRITISH SMASH 32 JAP VESSELS   Subs Make Daring Attacks: Peleliu Drive Speeded

BRITISH SUB FORAYS SINK ~ 32 JAP SHIPS   Heaviest Toll Taken Of Enemy Shipping In Indian Ocean

Heaviest Toll of Enemy Shipping in Indian Ocean Yet Reported.   JAVA IS HIT FIRST TIME

TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF NIP SHIPPING IN INDIAN OCEAN   NIMITZ REPORTS RAPID PROGRESS ON PELELIU ISLE

Thirty-Five Jap Vessels Sunk   Daring British Submarines Exact Toll In Indian Ocean

BRITISH SUBMARINES TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF JAPANESE SHIPPING  SERIES OF DARING FORAY IN INDIAN OCEAN COST “ENEMY 32 SHIPS

British Subs Sink 32 Japanese Ships in Daring Forays   Inflict Heavy Damage on Enemy in Port Owen, So. Burma '

CAPITAL OF JAVA fS HIT BY AIRMEN   8537 Japanese Killed By U. S. Forces In Palau Islands

British U-Boats :Sink 32 Ships  -In Daring Foray   Batavia, Capital of Java, Strafed For First Time; Subs Take Heavy Toll of Shipping in Indian Ocean

‘SLIP INTO JAP CONTROLLED PORT AND SINK TWO GUNBOATS ALONG WITH OTHER SHIPPING

32 Jap Ships Sent Down In Indian Ocean   Daring Forays By British Subs Exact Big Toll; Planes Add To Score

BRITISH SUBMARINES TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF JAPANESE SHIPPING  SERIES OF DARING FORAY: IN INDIAN OCEAN COST

32 Jap Vessels Sunk By British In Indian Ocean   Subs In Daring Entry To Enemy-Held Port Qwen De BR ink—E a Gunborts:

British Subs Destroy 32 Jap Vessels   Strike Hard Blows in Series of Raids in Indian Ocean

BRITISH SUBS HAVE SUNK 32 JAPANESE SHIPS   Slipped Into Port In South Burma To Make Raid

British Subs Destroy 32 Jap Vessels   Attack Enemy Shins ’n Port

Halt Strike, War Chiefs Demand   Forrestal Lashes at Foremen for Walkout

Big Bombers Raid Japs In Thailand   Aerial Pincers May Be Aided by Aleutian Attacks

JAPANESE MILITARY TARGETS IN THAILAN BLASTED BY B/29'S  SUBSTANTIAL FORCE ~ OF INDIA BASED SUPER-

Bombers Based In India Smack Military Targets   Tokyo Reports B-29 Raid On Port Of Ranaoon

JAPANESE ADMIT AMERICAN RAIDS ARE ‘SERIOUS’   Damage To Nagoya Described As Heavy By Returning Fliers

JAPANESE MILITARY  TARGETS IN THAILANI  BLASTED BY B-29°5 SUBSTANTIAL FORCE   OF INDIA BASED SUPEREORTC IN RAIN

‘' ib We ts a  ‘   Big Bombers Strike Thailand Last Time On Nov. 27, It Is  Annaunced by I] S$.

OHIO LIQUOR STORES LOSE INSURANCE   Policy Cancelled Following $54,000 Losses by Theft

Night Raiders Active Again   Luftwaffe Virtually Powerless To Oppose

Se vere Cold Hampers History- -Making Raid   New P-51 Mustangs Escort Raiders: Berlin Radio Claims Attack Failare

16 Fortresses, 26 Fighters Lost In Historic Daylight Attack; Luftwaffe Lacks Heart for Fight

scant Opposition Met In Daylight Sweep Over Nazidom   Raiders Battle — Snow To Targets   Forty Planes—14 Heavies, 26 Fighters—Fail To Return From Attack

40 U. S. Planes Lost in Daylight Raids on Berlin   By Wnited Press.  The Berlin radio went off the air suddenly early Sunday morning after flashing 2 Warning that “enemy planes” were approaching the capital.

Few Nazi Planes  Meet Challenge   Weather Biggest Hazard to Yanks In First Blow at German Capital

NAZIS NOW FACE CRUSH OF TWO GREAT PINCERS   New Russian Offensive Timed with Allied Invasion from West Gets Underwayv

(New Russian Attack Ends Hitler 'sHopes  ew AcwiTyT aA ACKEAN TIE

U. 8. TASK FORCE. DESTROYED 135 ENEMY PLANES AND ELEVEN SMALL SHIPS DURING, RAID

IN MARIANAS, NAVY FINDS   Yanks Down 135 Nip Planes, Sink or Damage Eleven Ships

AXIS TRANSPORT HUB UNDER FIRE   Marines Cut Way Over Narrow Neck of Witlaumez  Peninsula West of Rabaul.

GERMAN UKRAINE RAILWAY SYSTEM IS THREATENED   Russian Advance Brings Proskhrov Under Gun Fire

ENEMY WOULD BE FORCED BACK  AGROSS DNIESTER   Zhukov Now Opens Campaign to Disrupt Entire Communication System.

Red Army Pushes on  To Ukraine   Germans Are Thrown Back on Wide Are; Fighting Conditions Are ‘Incredible’ _

Proskurov Is Under Fire Of Russ Artillery   Soviet Army Threatens To Paralyze German Switchline Rail System Behind The Ukraine Front, Advance Continues   BATTLE FIELDS ARE WATERSOAKED

WORK STOPPAGE 1S SHORT-LIVED   Dispute Over Wages To Be Submitted To WLB

Rangoon Blasted By Superforts  Attack Comes as Leyte Campaign Nears End

Rangoon Is Bombed by  Superforts ‘MacArthur Barely  EBFecanac Doath

Nips Bring Out Their Best Pilots in Effort To Rescue Ground Forces Trapped On Leyte.   8-HOUR BATTLE IS DIRECTED ON CONVOY

Carried Greatest Explosive Loads In Aerial History   Conquest of Leyte And Samar Islands Is Now ‘In Sight’

NICARTHUR HG NARROW ESCAPE   Bullet From Strafing Jap Plane Just Missed General’s Head  ig:   ENEMY TRAPPED   Victorious Yank Campaign On Leyte And Samar Nearing End

U. 5. Superforts Bomb Rangoon, Japs Batile To Escape Leyte Trap   Enemy Bullet Narrowly Misses Gen. MacArthu

Superforts Bomb Rangoon As Campaign On Leyte Nears End; MacArthur Narrowly Escapes Death

Jap Pilots Seek to Aid Leyte Army   General MacArthur Misses} Death by Inches from Jap Bullet from Strafing Plane

Burma Raiders Bomb Rangoon   Japanese Try To Rescue Ground Forces From Trap On Levte Island.

Rail Yards At Rangoon Hit By Superforts   Gen. MacArthur Closing Death Trap Around Japs On Leyte Island.

Superforts Bomb Rangoon as Disaster Engulfs Surviving Ja ps on First Invasion Island ot Philippines Where Desperate Attempt To Rescue Them Under Cover of Finest Nip Fliers Smashed

Leyte-Samar Campaign is  Almost Ended   Japanese Troops Sealed Off in  Three Way Trap ~—Tokyo Fears Raids

RANGOON HIT TODAY: DEATH TRAP CLOSED   MacArthur Misses Being Hit By One Foot

GEN, M’ARTHUR MISSES DEATH BY SCANT FOOT   Japs Use Best Pilots to Aid Land Troops in Final Battles on Leyte

Gen. MacArthur Escapes Death In Air Attack   American Commande: Says End of Leyte Campaign in Sight

Superforts Carry Attack To Rangoon   Japan Uses Best Fliers In Effort to Save Philippine Units

BOMBERS FLY FROM INDIA TO HIT RAILROADS   Jap Fliers Make Desperate Effort To Rescue Troops Doomed By MacArthur

SUPERFORTS BOMBED RANGOON WHILE JAPS BATTLE FOR LEYTE  BEST JAP PILOTS MAKE DESPERATE EFFORTS TO  MPreriic CONVUNYV

JAPAN MAKES DESPERATE AIR ERFORT TO RESCUE GROUPS OF NIPS CORNERED ON LEYTE ISLE

Jap Bullet Misses Him By Inches   8-29's Drop Record Load of Bombs on Rangoon Rail Yards

LEYTE DEATH TRAP AROUND NIPPON ARMY   B-29's Carry Greatest Bomb Load Per Plant in History of Warfare in the Clouds.

“Substantial Force” ‘Stages Burma Raid _ From India Bases   End Of Leyte-Samar Campaign In Sight, Gen. MacArthur Reports; Dark Picture In China Brightens

SUPERFORTS IN “ANEAON-AAI   Gen. MacArthur Escaped Death By Inches; Trap Closing on Japs.

Yanks Pound Nips Fleeing Trap on Leyte   B-29s Smash Burma Railway Yards Without Losses; 27 Jap Planes Downed in Air Fight Off Ormoc; Chinese Troops Retake Lunglin

B-29’s Bomb Rangoon: Yanks Route Jap Airmen on Leyte; ‘Gen. MacArthur Misses Death

ROUSING WELCOME FOR HELL'S ANGELS’   Boys Who Kept Bomber Flying Get Recognition

Wait For Evacuation Ships That Never Arrive  17th German Army Blown To Bits

GERMAN 17" ARMY WIPED OUT BY REDS AT SEVASTOPOL ©   Nazis Died While Waiting For Ships Which Never Came To Take  Them From the Crimea.

DEATH OF A NAZI ARMY DESCRIBED   Germans Killed By Thousands Like Rats in Trap; Fate, Though W ell Deserved, Horrible Retribution.

Germans Vainly Awaited Rescue From Sevastopol   Huddled Along Coast They Died Miserably, Salisbury Discloses

How a Nazi  Army Died   Eyewitness Report by Correspondent at Sevastopo

Newsman Reveals Nazi 17th  Army Wiped Out In Last Battle For Sevastopol!

7th Nazi Army Annihilated by Soviets, \Waiting for Ships That Never Came

‘Stillwell Asks Supply Speedup   General Warns China Must Have More Aid.

Bigger China Drive Urged ' By Stilwell   General Pledges Aid to Nimitz’? Naval Thrust at _ Asiatic Mainland

202 JAP PLANES BAGGED IN WEEK   FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE TAKES HEAVY NIP TOLL

TWO U. S. ADMIRALS HAVE NARROW ESCAPE   Close Call Comes During Their Daring Entry Into Harbor at Cherbourr.

BRITISH POLICY WILL CONTINUE —CHURCHILL   Says F. D. R. Told of Grecian Situation at Quebec Conference

7,000 Allied Bombers Rock Hitler’s Fortress   5,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped by Allied Airmen. From Atlantic Wall to Paris, Berlin and Vienna

REDS SINK EIGHT MORE AXIS SHIPS   Repulse Local Attacks in Former Poland

Soviets Boost Tol Of Axis Ships Sunk at Sevastopol  Red Army Repulses German Attacks  In Former Poland

REDS SINK EIGHT MORE AXIS SHIPS NEAR SEVASTOPOI   Soviet Infantry and Tank Assaults On Besieged Port Reported Beaten Off By Germans.   LULL CONTINUES ON MOST OF FRONT   Two Hundred Nazis Killed Southeast of Stanislawow Between Upper Dnester and Carpathians.

Russians Sink Eight More Axis Vessels.   Germans Claim Big Soviet Attacks Have Bean Renuleed

Soviets Sink 19 Axis Vessels in Two Days   Counter Thrusts In Former Poland  Are Repelled

Reds Sink 5 More Nazi Escape Ships   Nazis Say Reds Massed ‘On Enormous  Scale’ For New Drive Toward Berlin By TOM YARBROUGH

Fight Axis Ships Sunk In Fleeing  Sevastopol   Red F orces: Repulse Old. Poland Attacks

EIGHT MORE AXIS SHIPS SUNK OFF CRIMEA BY REDS   , 100,000 Tons Of * Enemy Bottoms Sunk By Soviets In April

Soviets sink 2 nazi ships at Sevastopol  Say reds ready for Berlin drive

Russians Sink Eight Vessels   Keep Hammering Away at Germans In Sevastopol

Russians Sink More Foe Ships Off Sevastopol   Boosts to 19 Number Destroyed in Two Davs; Germans Say Lines Hold Within Citv

Sink 8 Ships In Black Sea   Soviet Command Announces Axis Vessels Destroyed Near Sevastopol.

REDS TAKE HIGH TOLL OF SHIPS   Eight More Transports Sunk Off Sevastopol In The Crimea

EIGHT MORE AXIS SHIPS SUNK OFF  i poe:   , 100,000 Tons Of * Enemy Bottoms Sunk By Soviets In April

GREAT RED ARMY REPORTED MASSED IN OLD POLAND   Germans Believe Muscovites Are Preparing to Strike On Invasion Path to Rerlin.   RUSSIANS SINK FIVE SHIPS OFF SEVASTOPOL   Writer Says Soviets Are Squeezing Nazi Infantrymen Out. of “Stone Nests” Around Port City.

Reds Sink 5 More Nazi Escape Ships   Nazis Say Reds Massed ‘’On Enormous. Scale” For New Drive Toward Berlin

Reds Sink Eight More Nazi Ships   Total Brought To 19 In Two Days  By TOM YARBROUGH

EIGHT MURE AXa RESCUE VEdoELa SUNK BY SOVIETS   Sea and Air Units Sink Total Of 19 in Two Days Off Sevastopol Seaport   REDS BEAT OFF NAZI ‘ BLOWS IN POLAND   Berlin Reports Collapse of Russian Assaults in Romania; Moscow Continues Silence on Operations on Land Fronts

AXIS SHIPS SUNK NEAR SEVASTOPOL   By Russian Naval and Air Units; Nazis Report Reds Massing at Kowel For Smash to Berlin.   Attack in Romania

Reds Sink 8 More Ships Of Fleeing Nazis   Total Reaches 19 For Two Days As Russians Hurl Naval Air Units Into Sevastopol Fight

Russia Claims Naval Victory On Black Sea   Soviet Collapse Near Siret River Reported By Nazis

Reds Sink Eight More -Nazi Ships   Total Brought. To ~19 In Two Davs

RUSSIANS SINK AXIS SHIPS AT CRIMEAN PORT   NEW DRIVE TOWARD BERLIN BREWING IN POLAND

SOVIETS POUND AXIS SHIPPING   Eight More Ships Sunk In Black Sea Off Sevastopol

Giraud Stands Firm On Move   De Gaulle Confronted With Direct Challenge To His Authority.

Next Move Now _  Up To De Gaulle   GEN. GIRAUD TO STAND FIRM AS FRENCH LEADER.

General Giraud Challenges Authority Of deGaulle To Oust Him As Commander

GIRAUD STICKS TO ARMY POST   General’s Firm Stand Con: fronts DeGaulle with Challenge to Authority.

GIRAUD IGNORES OUSTER DECREE   Followers Ready To Quit As French Muddle Grows

Giraud Firm In Refusal To Give Up Post   French General Makes Direct Challenge Of De Gaulle’s Authority As Committee Head

De Gaulle Orders Giraud From Post   Giraud Refuses To Resign as Head of French Armed Forces

NEXT MOVE UP TO DE GAULLE   His Authority !s Challenged When Giraud Refuses to Be Dismissed.

Giraud Refuses To Step Down   DeGaulle Confronted With Direct Challenge To Authority.

GIRAUD REFUSES TO RESIGN FOR GEN. DE GAULLE   Challenge Leader’s Authority, Declaring Action  Illegal

Giraud Supporters May Quit Top Military Positions  De Gaulle Is Facing Dilemma; Chief Ignores Dismissal

GIRAUD FIGHTS DE GAULLE RULE   Refuses To Accept Dismissal As Army Commander

GIRAUD REFUSES, TOE UP JOR   De Gaulle Faces Direct  Challenge In Latest French Controversy

Giraud Fired By De Gaulle   ean But Refuses To Accept the Dismissal, Says Committee Has No Authority

De Gaulle Ousts Henri H. Giraud   Abolishes His Post As” Commander; Giraud Bitterly Rejects New Post.

Smashing — : Out Gains ~ Over Japs   Allied:~ Forces“: Winning  Steadily, But Slowly, in ‘Battle. for “Myitkyina, ~   THIRD OF BASE’... “IN. ALLIED HANDS      Mud and’ Rain Hamper Fighters; Road:Junction Fimnly. Held

Bloodiest Battle of Burma Fighting On in Myitkyina   Elsewhere on Pacific Fronts Worry of Japs Is Seen

ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO WASHINGTON   Begins Conferences About Military Affairs

Roosevelt Returns To His Office   After Week’s Rest, Starts Military Conferences

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GERMANS TOLD GOING’S ROUGH   Reich's Goebbels Admits Territorial Losses Serious To Nation's Fight

Goebbels Warns Allies Germany Has Met Reverses But Is Not Defeated

2,000 U. S. PLANES RAID NAZI TARGETS   Fliers Meet No Opposition From German Air Force

2,000 American Warplanes Blast At Axis Targets   Vital Sites In France,  Germany Bombarded By Powerful Yank. Fleet

2.000 Bombers Pound Continent Almost at Will   Five-day Attack Depriving Luftwaffe of Bases From Which ta Onerate

Air Forces Attack Targets In Germany   War Factories In Central Germany Bombed With ‘Good To Excellent’ Result.

* Subsidy Survival. Now Depends on o Presidential Veto   Senate Vote to Cut Off Payment a Blow To Administration; ‘Bill Returns to House

Senate Votes Down Subsidy Plan, 43-28   Qnly Hope Is “ts That Roose velt’s ‘Expected Veto Will Be Sustained ©

Tojo Gives Japanese Diet a Pep Talk   Says “Golden Opportunity” Js at Hand to Strike Crushing Blow Against Ene

TOU0 TELLS DIET OF OPPORTUNITY   Premier Informs Japs Air Power Will Decide General Trend of War.

Tojo Declares Opportunity Now At Hand   Expansion Of National Service Called For By Jap

Tojo Claims Opportunity To Beat Allies   Jap Premier Visions Exhaustion in Great Britain and Unrest In United States

TOJO PROMISES CRUSHING BLOW AGAINST ALLIES   Says Now Is The “Golden Opportunity” and Calls For Expanded National Labor Service

Tojo Declares Chance fo Crush Allies at Hand   Unrest in America, Britain Give Japs ‘Golden Opportunity’

Tojo Tells Japs U.S. At Its Peak   Says Allied Impatience Gives Japs Golden Onvortunity

Tojo Sees Golden Hour Near For Japan To Strike Allied Blow; Views Unrest In U. S.

Time Ripe Now For Crushing Blow Says Toi   Claims Allies Getting Weaker; Seek Short War; ‘Air Power To Decide Win’

PREMIER TOJO TOLD DIET JAPAN NOW HAS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY   _ CALLS FOR EXPANSION OF LABOR SERVICE ‘TO BUILD AIRCRAFT

Tojo Demands More Airplanes  Premier Tells Jap Diet Victory Depends Upor

Tojo Stresses Need of Planes In Pacific War   Tells Diet “Golden Op portunity” At Hand tp Strike Crushing Blow Against Allies

Japan’s Big Chance Now  —SAYS TOIO   Calls on Nipponese To Deal Crushing Blow To “Exhausted” Allies

Khife Only 14 and Half Mile: From Meuse; Yank Lift Menace Ftom City Of Luxemboure

Germans Sending Powerful Tank and Infantry Patrols in Probing Jabs Westward Into Allied Lines, it ls Reported

But Allied “Headquarters Reports Ground. Situation Favorable    HOLD ON SOUTH FLANK   7,000 Allied Planes in Yesterday’s Attack on the Enemy

Japs Says ; Targets Were Cities Of Takao, Tainan  And Taichu   ENEMY CLAIMS 100 OF THE RAIDERS WERE SHOT DOWN   }  Formosa Is One Of The Most Vital Targets In The Pacific

PREPARE FOR "WINTER WAR   TONS OF BLANKETS AND. WINTRE CLOTHING BEING: DIBTRIBUTED AMONG AMERI- ‘ CAN TROOPS *: °

Winter Clothing Distributed Among American Troops of Western Front

Communists to Support FDR   Party Goes Into Election Without Own Candidate

BROWDER PLEADS FOR RE-ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT   Communist Party Keynoter Addresses Conven tion. Communists Vote Dissolution As Political Party

The War Today   ee ® Capture of Tarnopol Is  Another Great Victory Har Rede

F ALL OF SEVASTOPOL WILL GIVE STRATEGIC CRIMEAN PENINSULA BACK TO BRAVE RUSSIAN FORCES

WAR  TODAY   Climax to Brilliant Red Campaign In Southern Russia Slowly Closing In On, Hitter’s Hordes

Bloody Warfare Exhibition Claims World Atfention   Now Staged in Great Naval Sevastopol Base By Russian Armies

Black Sea Control Wil! Be Restored to Russia And Southern Gateway to Europc Opened. Lwow Will Be One of Next Major Center Under  gene. 5...

[Bomb aiid ‘Strafe’ Miles 01 -Nomuandy’ s Beaches and “Fly Toland ‘to Break  Caniaanivaions

Preceded bv Airborne Troops   German Air Resistance Absent as Landing Beaches Combed, Planes  Fly Inland to Bust Communications

11,000 ALLIED PLANES HURLED INTO ATTACK   Knock Out Guns At Beaches. No Aerial Resistance Encountered.

Amazing Mass of Warplanes Hurled Into Invasion Of Western Europe In Support Of Ground Forces; Stunning Bombard. ment.

11,000 PLANES . OF EVERY TYPE IN D-DAY RAIL   reat Air Armadas Smash at Foe Communications, Aid Allied Invaders

Nazi Opposition Was Not As Effective As Allies Expected;  Paratroops Land In Darkness   Allies, For — Invasion, Put 11,000 Planes In Air   Forces Of Liberation Go Ashore On 100-Mil Stretch Of Coast From Cherbourg To Le Havre? Reinforcements Steadily Sent In   Miles Of Normandy's Beaches Bombed And Strafed; Inland Communications Cut

11,000 Planes  Attack      Great Bombardment Falis On Normandy Landing Beaches

ALLIES SEND 11,000 PLANES INTO INVASION   They Bomb and Straf Miles of Normandy Beaches  and Fly Inland.   Absence of German Resistance Is Noted

11,000Planes Soften Coast For Invasion   Peak Raid Follows 1,300-Ship Attack During Nicht by RAF

11,000 Aircraft Form A Canopy Over Invaders   Greatest Aerial Armadz Meet With No German  Resistance.

INVASION AIR FORCE TOTALS 11,000 CRAFT   Almost. Every Type of   . Plane » ‘Participates. in - Grand Assault—Weather “Just ‘Pair Nazi. -Resistance-‘Absent:

“II Thousand Maplin in Attack   Big Guns Knocked Out: . by. . Special Waves.of Heavy Bomber Planes . —   > THROUGH ROLLING ’ -OCEAN-OF CLOUDS   Great Allied Power and Absence of Nazi Resistance the Big Air News

AIR UMBRELLA TOTALS 11,000 ALLIED PLANES   Weather ‘Just Fair’ for Attack; Nazi Sky Defense Light

NAZI BEACHES, COMMUNICATION ROCKED IN RAID   Invasion Forces Get Greatest Co-Operation Bram Air In Historv

11, 000 A.zxvaft in  In« asion Blow   German Version Of AlliedInvasion

Heaviest Air Blows Landed  Allies Throw 11,000 Planes Into Assault

We Defy You to Read This and Not Buy Bonds   Famous War Correspondent Writes of Belton’s Own Hero Who Was Beloved by All

WLB Prepares For Ward Seizure   Company Gives No Hint of Compliance

WARDS STORES MAY BE SEIZED   Firm Continues To Defy WLB Directives In Detroit Strike

WLB THREATENS  TO SEIZE WARDS   CHAIRMAN DAVIS SAYS BOARD WILL ACT TODAY IF FIRM DOES NOT COMPLY.

WLB Gets Ready For Ward Seizure   Mail Order House Gave No Indication of Meeting Demands By Deadline.

Mop up Japs in Mogaung Valley   Chinese Troops Drive at Kamaing.

CHARLES WILSON. CALLED BY DEATH   Husband of the Formed Mildred Phipps Dies In. .  Virginia

Forrestal Is  Likely Choice   Acting Secretary May Be Picked For Navy Cabine Post After Frank Knox Funeral On Monday

Forrestal May Be Appointed Navy Secretary   Under Secretary Likelv To Fill Vacancy Caused By Sec. Knox’s Death   TO BURY KNOX AT ARLINGTON

NO. 1 CHOICE OF  LEADERS IN CONGRESS   Knox’ Funeral to Be Held Monday; Burial in Arlington

Forrestal May Be Advanced ToNavy Post   Reosevelt, King Pay Tribute to Secretary Knox

UNDERSECRETARY . ‘OF NAVY BELIEVED’ SLATED TO TAKE OVER POST OF FRANK © ~ KNOX

 Party Workers Will Strive to Get 'Big Vote by Iowans in Armed Forces

Asks Germans To Resist Decrees   People Told -Allied Dee’ sions “Signs of Enslavement” °*

SHELL GERMAN DEFENSE LINE NEAR AACHEN   Four Allied Armies Mass At Reich Frontier; Mask Movements

Biggest U. S. Fighting Force Ever Massed on a Foreign  Soil Punched to Near the . Siegfried Line.   IN KEY SECTOR . AROUND AACHEN   Three Ameriean Armies and  One British Army Will Be Employed in the Gigantie Oneration.

Yanks Within Artillery Range of Defenses Near Aachen On Way to Ruhr

Counterattacking Enemy Is Repelled   Americans and British Edge Toward Siegfried Line in Bitter Fighting

Yanks Assemble. Greatest Force  For Reich Siege   4 Allied Armies Employed In Gigantic Operation; Wage Fight Near Aachen

BIG AMERICAN FORGE READY TQ HIT NAZIS   Largest Fighting Force Of All  Times Massed

Mammoth Fighting Force   More Than a Million — Allied Troops Now in France; in Artillery Range of West Wall

Liege Falls to British Army; Yanks Punch to Within Heavy Artillery Range Of Border City of Aachen; Heavy Fighting

U.S. First Army Within 18 Miles Of Reich Border   Four Armies Are Poised To Launch Opening Blows In Battle For Germany; Artillery In Range Of Key Nazi Defense Zone

PUNCH TO WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF SIEGFRIED LINE   FOUR ARMIES MASS AROUND AACHEN FOR PUSH INTO GERMANY

Americans Plunge To Within Artillery Range Of Defenses   Yanks Push Ahead In Key Sector Around German Border City Of Aachen; Three U.S..0ne British Army Set For Big Blow; Troops Roll Beyond Liege   See map on Page 6

Greatest U. §. Army Ever Assembled to Battle for Germany   Forces Within Heavy Artillery Range of Aachen, Key City

NAZIS GUESSING WHERE ASSAULT WILL BE MADE   Moselle River and = Albert Canal Crossed - - Force Moves Up from South

CDW. STETTINUS ACCEPTS POSITION   Succeeds Cordell Hull As Secretary Of State

Senate Leaders Enthusiastic On Stettinius Post   44 Year Old Diplomat A Former Republican And Businessman

Stettinius Assured Of State Secretary Job   Prompt Endorsement By Senate. Committee Expected; fucceeds Hull

ALLIED FRONT WIDENED TO AT LEAST 23 MILES   Tenth Army Corps Bloodily Repulses First Organized Jap Counter-Attack of Invasion:

‘Impetus Given  Hope For Pact   Russian Proposals Are Verv Brief

EARLY AGREEMENT ON SECURITY SEEN   U. S. Opposed to Creation of An International Air Farce.

Quick Security Approval Seen  Russian Commitments Skeletonized, Flexible

Settlement Seems Near in Meet On World Peace  Russian Delegation Presents Simple Pronosal of Terms

RED STAND MAY SPUR ACCORD ON SECURITY   Russians Come To Parleys With Flexible Program

Hopes High for Security Action   Russians Bring Only Skeleton Plan From Government

Agreement On. Security Likely  ~ General. Qutlines ER Naaad (Saree 3 Dla! 

Hope For Karly Agreement On Security Looms   Russia’s Skeletonized Program Gives New Impetus To Hopes For Quick Understanding

Baby Mixup Defense Given Doctor, In Hurry, Guessed ‘Wrong FromWrong Angle

Rescue of Hound Dog Is Pushed   1) Persons Dig 60 Tons Limestone to Free O

50 Men and Boys Drill for Tenth Day To Reach Old Hound Trapped in Cave

Today In Washington  May Ease Limits On More Food   G.I. Bill Facing Stormy Debate On House Floor; Call Nelson In Liquor Shortage Probe

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE ACROSS BESSARABIA   New Zealand Troops Making Slow Progress In Assauit On Cassino

Reds Within 20 Miles of Prat River   Other Russian Forces Advance Toward Lwow

WAY ACROSS BESSARABIA   Konev Army Splits Fleeing Nazi Force, Cuts Rail Line

Red Army Half Severs Bessarabia   German Attempts To Bolster Lines, Halt Soviets Fail

I$ CUT BY RUSSIANS   Soviets Expected Tc Reach Rumania In  Matter Of Days

fuss Within 20 Miles of Prut River   erman Hopes of Stand North of Rumanian Border Fade   ‘AILROAD SEVERED   soviet Army Breaks Into Lwow Province in Old Poland

SOVIETS ARE ONLY 20 MILES FROM THE PRUT RIVER   German Armies are Spit After Rail Line le Cut. Defences Fail_

Soviet Troops Only 20 Miles  From Border    Fleeing German Armies Split By Russians

SOVIET VANS ARE NEARLY HALE WAY OVER BESSARABIA   German Hopes For Stand Along Rumanian Border Fade as Reds Smash New Forces Enemy Units.   JAPS AT BISMARCK  ARE NOW ENCIRCLED   Japanese Forces Invade India at Several Points, Open Drive Against Brit: ish Supply Center.

Hoo oTEP UP ATTAGK AFTER SPLITTING FOE   Fast Rolling Red Armies Now Within 20 Miles of Prut River Boundary.

WRITER TRAVELS WITH AIRFORCE   Violent Air Battle Over France Witnessed by A. P, Correspondent

ALLIES ROUT GERMANS FROM ADRIATIC HILL   Canadians Within Range Of Pescara Port Garigliano Crossed

Canadians Move 'To Within  - Artiflery Range Of Pescara    Troops Strike Up Adriatic Coast After Seizing Long Hill in 24-Hour Battle Waged in Snow, Wind and Sleet —

TOWN IS TAKEN BY CANADIANS   Advance Made in Ortona Region; Pescara is Within Artillery Range

Canadians Push Toward Pescara   Are Within Artillery Range of Italian Port

CANADIANS GAIN GROUND DESPITE FOUL WEATHER   Dominion Troops Are Now Within Artillery Range Of Pescara   AERIAL ACTIVITIES SHARPLY CURTAILED

Canadians Drive To within Nine Miles of Pescara   Wage Hard Battle In Snow and Sleet

Canadians Are Nearing Pescara Port   Hill Is Seized in Battle Waged in Snow and Sleet

CANADIANS PUSH NEARER PESCARA PORT      After 24-Hour Battle In Snow, Wind And _ Sleet; Also Capture San Tommaccn.   War Of Attrition

Nazi - Transport Centers Bombed  Se ff Dp Let      Number of Robot Bases Destroved

HAMMER NAZI INSTALLATIONS   American Aerial Fleet “Hits ‘Paris Area — Many Robot ‘Bases , Located and Destroyed.’ :

Seek To Raise Wrecked Plane   Believe 24 Persons Still In side Plane Which Plunged Into Mississippi River

Seventeen-State Group to Appeal Airport Order:   ‘onference Called for Inquiry on Order by Army Halting Work

PLAN AIRPORT APPEAL TO FDF   Congressmen Organize to Reinstate Projects

Resuming Airport Work Is Advocated  Stevenson Is Appointed On Committee

ICKES CALLS DEWEY TROOP CHARGE FALSE   Interior Chief Says President Not Afraid To Release Soldiers

Ickes Assails Dewey Speech   Asserts Statements on Wat Demobilization False

Ickes Calls Dewey Public Trembler’  Denies Charge Men   Denies Charge Men To Be Held in Army

MATURE CHEERS UP LITTLE GIRL   Ex-Movie Star Calls On Crippled Child After Delicate Operation

PACKARD MOTOR (O. PLANTS SHUT DOWN   Foremen’s Strike Blamed for Action by Company Spokesman:

Packard Company Closes Factory, Blames Strikers   Production Cut In Other Plants

- DETROWT PLANTS   Widesoread Foreman’s Strike Blamed: Produces War Enainee

PACKARD MOTOR C0. PLANTS SHUT DOWN   Foremen’s Strike Blamed _ for Action by Company ' + Spokesman °

U.S. TROOPS OCCUPY BELVEDERE, SAN VICENZO IN LIVORNO DRIVE   ALLIES GAIN TO 6 MILES ON 100-MILE ITALY FRONT FROM PERUGIA TO TYRRHENIAN SEA COAST

ALLIES GAIN 6 MILES ON ITALY FRONT   Nazi Opposition Is Stiffening; Terrain Rugged

Terrain Aids Germans as They Fall Back to New Defense Line in Italy

N CENTRAL ITALY   Fifth And Eighth Armie: Battling Through Rugged Terrain   SIX-MILE GAIN ON 100-MILE FRONT   Enemy Resistance Said Particularly Heavy On American Sector

Allies Pound Away At Nazis: Gain 6  Miles      100-Mile Line Moves Up Gradually Over Rough Terrain   NAZIS DIGGING IN   Only 30 Airline . Miles From Leghorn Port On West Goast

Allied Armies Hammer Gains   Overcome Stiffening German Opposition and Desperate Rear Guard Action

Allies Gain Up to Six Miles on Italian Front   Germans Put Up Desperate Rear Guard Action

ALLIES HAMMER ‘OUT. NEW CAINS INATATLY   Gain Up to 6 Miles on 100-Milé. Central italy Front

ALLIES GAIN SIX MILES IN ITALY   Advance All Along 100Mile Front

Allies in Italy Gain 6 Miles On 100-Mile Front   Nazis Putting Up Resistance In Rear Guards

Good Gains  Th Italy Made By Allies   Germans Put Up Desperate Rear Guard Action

Advancing on Rugged Terrain and Stiffening German Opposition — Nazis Now Putting Up Desperate Rear Guard Action.

FDR Reviews —Tth Division   Velerans of Altu and Kwaja: lein March Before Roosevelt, MacArthur and: Nimitz

DEMOCRATS WIN TWO IN COUNTY   H. V. Clark, Charleston, Tops Ticket for Second Time

Soviets push deeper into East Prussia.  Drive within six  miles of road hub

SOVIET FORCES SLASH DEEPER INTO PRUSSIA   Russians Take Fourteen Strong Points, Press Within Six Miles Of Gumbinnen

Russians Expand East Prussian Battle Front   Reds within Six Miles of Gumbinnen; New Thrust Is Launched

DEEPER INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Expanding Front More Than 35 Miles Wide. Overcoming String of 14 Defended Points.   Nazis Counterattack

GAIN SCORED BY RED ARMY ON BIG FRONT   Soviets Battle Through Forests of East Prussia—

Nazis Send _ Fresh Tanks Info Prussia   Reds Send New Army From South As Threat To Enemy

Reds Batter Way Ahead I East Prussia   German Resistance Is Stiffening in Sector

Two Red Thrusts Push Deep Into East Prussia  Threaten Gumbinnen, po ee . el  ee   Threaten Gumbinnen Take Polish Border Bastion of Augustow

SOVIETS PUSH DEEPER INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Drive Within 6 Mile: Of Big Rail, Road Hub of Gumbinnen

“Ta Sir ongpoinis Taken, “New Drive Threatens East: Prussia from South

SOVIET DRIVE SLOWING DUWN   Russians Meeting Bitter Resistance Inside East  Prussia

RUSSIANS SMASH [4 STRONGPOINTS IN EAST PRUSSIA   Drive to Within 6 Miles of Big Communications Hub as Battle Rages With Utmost Violence.   GERMAN RESISTANCE IS SLOWING ADVANCE   New Thrust Threatening the Province Develops as Soviet Forces Capture Polish Border Bastion.

EIGHTH NAVAL AREA CONTRIBUTES MANY SHIPS TO SEA FORCE   OVER SEVENTEEN THOUS AND VESSELS BUILT ALONG GULF COAST

EIGHTH NAVAL AREA CONTRIBUTES MANY suis TO.SEA.FORCE.  _. OVER SEVENTEEN THOUS AND: VESSELS BUILT ALANS CII COAT

U.S. May Approve Labor Battalions   Russia’s Plans On Nazi Underlings Gain Favor

DRIVE ON REICH NCW 100 MILES EAST OF PARIS   Patton’s Forces Reported Only 65 Miles From Belgium

Reds Open Heavy Budapest Drive  Berlin Reports On   Berlin Reports On Strong Offensive

New Red Offensive ls Aimed Directly At Hungary Capital  Russ Units Only 50 Miles  way

SOVIETS OPEN NEW BIG DRIVE FOR BUDAPEST   Launch Attack Across Tisza River Along 50-Mile Front

Russians Aim New Offensive At Budapest   Germans Fighting Tenaciously to Hold Eastern Prussia

With Russians Attacking Across Tisga River on Wide Front; Another Offensive Reported.   Heavy Losses

RED ARMY HITS AT BUDAPEST IN NEW CAMPAIGN   Masses Of Tanks Used In Big Drive On Capital Of Imperilled Hungary

RED ARMY PUSHES TOWARD BUDAPEST IN BiG OFFENSIVE   Launches Attack 50 Miles From Capital With Artillery, Tank and Warplane Support.   NAZIS AND HUNGARIANS FUT UP SAVAGE FIGHT   Berlin Reports Masses of Soviet Troops Stormed Across Tirza River at Many  Points. .

Reds Open Up On Budapest   Moscow Silent, But Nazis Describe Move As Major Offensive On Capital

Russians Hur! Mass Attack At Budapest   Control Highways Leading Toward Hungarian Capital

FRESH SOVIET THRUST AIMED AT BUDAPEST   REDS JUMP BARRIER TO HUNGARIAN CAPITAL

Reds Attack InForee Across Tisza   Masses. of Planes, Tanks; Artillery -. Move on Wide Front.  ig ceee eee yee peice oe Sees Me cat Bsa ye

7 Army Opens Large-Scale Budapest Drive   Attacks Along Wide Front 50 Miles From Hungarian Capital

Soviets Move © For Budapest   Major Assault on Capital Qnengs an Wide Fennt

RED ARMY ATTACKS ON A WIDE FRONT   New Major Offensive Aim: ed at Budapest Is Launched

Reds Launch New Offense On Budapest   Hungarian Villages Throw Up Breastworks

Thousands Of Collaborationists, Nazi Troops Killed As Virtual Civil War Rages In France

‘Thousands Of Nazi Troops And Axis Friends Killed By French Patriot Army   RY TAVIOR HENRY

i" Nazis. Supporters of Vichy Killed as (Virtual Civil War Rages in France

INSIDE VIEW FRENCH RESISTANCE TO NAZIS TOLD BY AP WRITER  VIRTUAL CIVIL WAR BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS AND CERMAN PARTISANS

Organized French Groups Bring Virtual Civil War Against Germans, Vichy

Thousands Die In Virtual Civil War In France: Sabotage Is Rife   “Friends Of America” Take Heavy Toll Among German Occupation Treops And German Sup‘porters: Henry Reports Mass Executions.

GERMANS ADMIT SOVIET ADVANCE TO KEY RAIL LINE   Cossacks Pursue Beaten Forces Fleeing Into Pripet Marshes

Outflanked Nazi Defense Lines Under Siege Guns   Vatutin’s Army Comes Roaring Out Of Pripet Marshes; Drive On  Dingk Clare Ase nd...

RUSSIANS CUT ESCAPE ROUTE OF BEATEN FOE   Cavalry Slashes Across Snow As Allies Plug Ahead In ftaly

Two Red Armies Imperil Whole:  German Center   Vatutin’s Ukraine Army Sweeping Up: From Sarny In Southwest In Coordinated Drive With White Russian Arniy — Pressure Aimed at Kev City of Lwow.

Russians Press Advantage in Fierce Fighting   Drive at Pinsk Gains Momentum Moscow Reports

Raise to 152 Planes Down   French Troops of of Fifth Army Advance to Circle Cassino; Enemy Thrust Halted

Cossacks Drive Out Across White Russia Snows Toward Pinsk   Russian Forces Advance 11 Miles West of Sarny Along Kievy-Warsaw Railway in Old Poland

RUSSIAN CAVALRY REPORTED HAVE CUT NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE  HEAVY AIR OPERATIONS  RESUMED OVER HITLER'S ' TERRITORY

Two Red Drives Now Threaten To  Trap Nazi Forces   One Drive Deep In Poland; Other West Of Mozyr In White Russia   GERMANS BATTLE DESPERATELY IN AREA

P.E. Bonds Are Sold At 101.402 To N. Y. Firm   W.C. Langley And Co. Of New York, Is Successful; 3° Rate Or $16.981.000 Issue

BONDS OF P. E. C0. SOLD TO SYNDICATE   Bids Received on New Is sue at Meet of Directors

Naw. Dahind  i ae vY SS Pa eee  The News  Casvright Mctlure Newspaper

WINTER CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE IS SEEN   AP Correspondent Says Already Fall Rains Have Started; Nazis in Bitter Last Stand

Writer Sees Winter War Against Reich   Desperate German Resistance and Worsening Weather Which Has Turned Fields Into Quagmires Basis of the Belief.   Ry DON WHITEHEAD

Fiving Bombs Hit London Area   Allied Armies Face Prospect Of Fighting Winter Campaign

Benton County Sherif  Fatally Shot at Jail Prisoner Is Fugitive   Highway Patrol Scours Area , In Hunt for Suspect Missing After Quarrel in Quarters.

MISSOURT SHERIFF 15 SHOT TO DEATH   WARSAW OFFICER KILLED IN ROW WITH PRISONER WHO MAKES ESCAPE.

TEXAS NEGROES VOTED   No Unusual Incident . Attended Appearance at Primaries

=e &F vv rae fei raee Sever”  Isolation Of 200,000 Japs  Now Complete

AMERICAN SUBS GET JAP SHIPS AT RATE OF ONE A DAY   Twelve’ More Sunk Making Total of 584 Sent to Bottom By Yanks.

Court Engaged  Hearing Equity Cases This Week  UN te wr   Well Known Farmer Named Defendant In Divorce Action

Court Engaged Hearing Equity Cases This Week  Well Known Farme Named Defendant

Few Cigarets? Few Matches Too   WPB Says Civilians Must Not Waste Them

Skull And Crossbones Aces Bag 156 Japanese Planes And 21 Vessels

U.S. Has Built 65 Aircraft Carriers   Believe Japs Awaiting More Favorable Time To Risk Use Of Major Portion Of Their Fleet

Jap Fleet Awaits Opportine Time To Engage Yanks  Marines Push Forward on  Cane Cloncecter

Fighter Planes Stage Battle, Nazis Lose 94:         Brings to 235 Nazis" Downed in 24 Hours By Eighth Air Force

FIGHTS WAGED   eine ineetiemetneeeel  500 Mustangs Battle Force Of Nazi Fighters; Foe Loses 94 Planes

ATTACK ON BIAK IS FRUSTRATED   Japanese Fighters Are Beaten Off From American Base

Criss in China ‘Follows Recall ‘Of Gen. Stilwell   Possible Government Collapse Impending; Nation's Supplies Over Berma Road Inadequate

CHINESE WAR SITUATION 1S FACING CRISIS   Recall of Gen. Stillwell To Washington Complicates Problems of Generalissimo Kai-Shek   SHAKEUP IS FORESEEN

STILWELL SHIFT PLUNGES CHINA INTO NEW CRISIS   Chungking Decisions In Next Month May Decide Fate Of Chiang War Effort

RECALL OF STILWELL BRINGS — NEW CRISIS TO CHINA WHERE STATUS WAR EFFORT MUDDLED

-Crisis Is Developing in China With Recall of Gen. Stilwell   American General and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek at Odds Since Battle for Burma Lost in 1942—Strategy of War Against Jans Hangs on Outcome of Neqotiations

STILWELL’S RECALL PLUNGES CHINA INTO NEW GENERAL CRISIS   SOME HOPE THAT GENERALISSIMO CHIANG MAY BE ABLE TO WIN OUT

China Crisis Is Accented in U.S. Shift   Recall of Stilwell Precipitates Political, Military Upheaval _ in Chungking

Chinese Are Plunged Into New Crisis by Recall of Gen. Stilwell   Decisions on Military and Political Fronts Which Must Be Made at Chungking in Next Few Weeks May Change War Outlook

Stilwell’s Recall Stirs China Crisis   Chiang Must Act Swiftly If Breakdown Is To Be Averted. :

Stilwell Recall Stirs Up Crisis   CHINA FACING SERIOUS POLITICAL UNREST AT PRESENT

China Facing New Crisis As Stilwell Out   Americans Have Had To Plan Strategy to Provide Fo Collapse of China's Part

New Crisis in Chin ls Created by Recall Of General Stilwel  Strateoy af Pacific War Denend

Stilwell’s Recall Throws — China. Headlong. Into. New Military; Political Crisis”

Stilwell’s Recall Poses China Crisis   _ Fate of Chinese War Effort From Now on Hanas in Balance

New China Political Crisis Seen in Recall of Stilwell   Ry JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

OAIAWELE SD RECALL PLUNGES CHINA INTO NEW CRISIS  General Shakeup In Far East Seen

Recall of Stilwell to Washington Plunges China Into New Military-Political Crisis

China's Future Clouded Due To  Pending Crisis   Recall of General Joseph Stilwell to Washington Has Plunged China Into An i neertainty.

China Plunged Into New Crisis risis By y Recall of General Stilwell

TAKE REINFORCEMENT porwr   SINK JA! BARGE   China Crisis Follows Recall Of Stillwell

GHINA CRISES MAY MEAN NEW WAR STRATEGY   Stilwell’s Recall Announced From  White House

China’s Fate Ts At Stake    shakeup: Ia-Army’s Heads Was Planned

Crisis Near   Stilwell’s Recall ©  Linked With Failure To Effect Shake-Up In Chinese Command

China In Throes Of Great Crisis   Recall Of Stilwell Brings _-- Showdown». --

China's War Effort Said Facing Crisis From Stilwell Recal   Chungking Report Reveals Possible Shakeup Due In Chiang’s Command

Drive Takes Them Within 15 Miles Of The Prized Port Of Cherbourg

Improvement In Weather Is Reported   Drive Inland Begun Friday By Americans

Doughboys Cepture Trevieres and Close In From Two Sides on Carentan, Communications Center on Peninsula

NAZIS REPORT WAR 15 MILES SOUTH OF CITY   Yank Advance Inland Begins After Beach Bases Secured

PushTo 15 Miles From Cherbourg   Trevieres Taken As Forces Attack Over 50-Mile Frontline

Invasion Troops Broaden Front: Take Nazi Port   Advance to Point Only 35 Miles From French Stronghold

Anglo-Americans Attack Heavily on 50-Mile Consolidated Offensive

Yankees Third Of Way Across; Near Big Port   Heavy Attacks Raging Between Montebourg, Caen; Artillery Aids In Puch Inland

Progress Made in Move fa Seal Off Peninsula Below Prize Port of Cherbourg   Americans Plunge Third of Way Across Lower Neck, Capture Two Towns and a Handful of Villages; Nazis Withdraw te Shortened Lines

Bradley's Men Slash Railway, Capture lsigny   Allies Advancing Steadily in Effort To Cut Across Entire Peninsula

‘Foe Withdraws to ‘Shortened Defense Lines’s ; Enemy Floods Terrain in Carentan Area; Montgomery at Front in France

Allies Drive To Seal Off French Port   Allied Bulletin No. 10 Says Progress Continues Along Beach,   WEATHER IMPROVES

Seeking fo Cut Off Cherbourg   British Battle to Block Out German Reserves While Americans Cross Peninsula

Drive to Seal Off Port of Cherbourg; Capture Two  Towns. Several Villages

YANKEE RAIDERS HIT DAVAO, JAP MINDANOA BASE   A532 8 A021 RB See 4) A!  B-29S FIND TARGETS ON KYUSHU, SUMATRA IN DARING ATTACKS

JAPS EXECUTE 3 AMERICANS   Recaptured American Sailors Are Victims

LONDON POLISH ~ REGIME IGNORED   Soviet - Sponsored Group Claims Authority To Rebuild State

Pole Council Claims Powers   Polish Government In Lon don Ignored; Call Red Organization Usurpers.

The Japs Are Tough But Ape Germans-Are Smarter - War Correspondent Decides

THE COLD HOLDS OFF   Readings in the Sixties Are Forecast for Tomorrow

MRS, HELEN WHITNEY HED YESTERDAY   One of America’s Wealthies Women; Managed Green. tree Stables.

Warren Home; Lauds Ticket  Dewey, Bricker ‘Good Combination,’ Says

b. 0. P. CHANCES GOOD--WARREN   GOVERNOR PROMISES HELP IN CAMPAIGN

REDS SMASH FORWARD IN FINLAND   MAIN DRIVE DESIGNED TO SMASH REMAINDER OF MANNERHEIM LINE.

SUPERFORTS SMASH AGAIN AT JAPAN'S FACTORIES TO-HALT PLANE.FLOW. TO PHILIPPINES

B-29'S CONTINUE ATTACKS ON JAP AIR FACTORIES   Smash 742 Nip Planes ii Week; Yanks Still Unopposed on Mindoro,

Superforts Smash at Japanese War Factories on Kyushu Island   American Ground Forces Advancing Without Opposition on Mindoro

Tokyo Declares Big Omura Plant Wit For 34.Time   U. 8. Ground Forces Gain “On Island. Of Mindoros  . No ‘Enemy Opposition

B29s Keep Up: Hammering Of  Jan’s Industry   Plane Factories Dealt Another Hard Blow As Troops Push Up On Mindoro   By LEONARD MILLIM4AN Associated Press War Editor

SUPERFORTS IN NEW SMASH AT JAP FACTORIES   No Opposition as American Ground Forces Advance On Mindoro. Hard Fighting on Leyte   By LEONARD MILLIMAN, (Associated Press War Fditor)

B-29'S BATTER BIG JAPANESE PLANE PLANTS   Yanks Advance Unopposed On Mindoro; Fierce  Ficht On Levte

B-29'5 ATTACK JAP PLANE PLANTS   Nearly 200 Superforts In Monday Attacks  AIRPORT   In Center Of Bloody Ormoc Valley Taken; 742 Nip Planes Lost In Week

B-29s Smash Jap Factories  In Double Raid   742 Enemy. Planes Were Knocked Out Last Week  Near Philippine s.  ADVANCE ON MINDORO

SUPERFORTS SMASH AGAIN AT JAPANESE WAR INDUSTRY AREAS  AMERICAN GROUND  FORCES ON MINDORO AD.-

Yanks Build ‘ ew Fields  on Mindoro   Advance on Newly Invaded Island; Only Opposition Comes from Jap Planes

Japanese Lose 742 Planes In Week of Philippine War   MacArthur’s Men Advance Unopposed On Mindoro Island

PLANES SWEEP OUT OF CHINA ‘TO CARRY OUT DUAL ATTACKS ON SOURCE OF JAP AIR POWER

B-29'S STRIKE FROM CHINA IN NEW ASSAULT   ‘Yanks Continue Rapid Advance in Battle For Mindore

Kyushu Hit In China-Basec  B-29 Attack   Factories Targets  Of Raids as Infantry Advances on Mindoro. Hard Leyte Fighting

Forts Again Smash at Japanese Factories, Bombing Kvusu: Yanks on Mindoro Advance

GROUND FORCES EXTEND GAINS ON MINDORO   Super-Forts Hit Plane Plants, Other Industries In Southern Japan

B-20'3 AGAIN ATTACK JAPAN   Bombing Campaign Aimed At Eliminating Source Of Jap Planes.   TWO BLOWS YESTERDAY

MRS. DEWEY TO CHICAGO   Will Meet Her Son There When He  Arrives at Convention

Reconversion  Bills Tackled.   ‘House Is “Aiming = At Recess Friday...

House Tackles Disputed Bills   Likely to Reject Senate Proposals

SPAIN TO-CUT_ALLOY EXPORT          LEIED OF FICIALS- CONFIDENT --SPAIN.-WILL REDUCE—WOL-. FRAM SUPPLIES SENT:  GERMANY

FDR TO SEEK VOTES TODAY   To Make Political Sortie Into New York With Address at Night

Roosevelt To Campaign In TheOld Way   LEAVES CAPITAL WITH FULL CREW OF REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR NEW YORK CITY.    Heard Dewey Speech

F.D.R. 10 TOUR NEW YORK TODAY   PRESIDENT FACES HEAVY SCHEDULE—SPEAKS ON FOREIGN POLICY TONIGHT.

PRESIDENT 10 HIT CAMPAIGN TRAIL   Roosevelt to Make Major Political Sortie Today.

Soviet W arships Sink 3 ‘Transports   Russians Say There's No Changes At Fronts

Seviets Sink 3 More Nazi Transports      Blockade Around Sevastopol Tightens in Lull of Ground Fighting

REDS SINK NAZI SHIPS OFF CRIMEA   92 Escape Ships Have Been Sunk By Soviet Guns

Allies Admit Imphal Plain Under Siege   Japs Only 35 Miles From Vital Reute Atdine China, Burma

New Ihrust fo Direct Pincers Against Imphat  US. Planes Destrov   U.S. Planes Destroy 9 Jap Ships, 23 Barges at Wewak

JAPS NEAR ROAD. CENTER IN INDIA   IMPHAL THREATENED BY AD.          “NOW IN COUNTRY.

New Japanese Army Drives  Into India; Nearing Key City   Forces Appear Dramatically Out of Jungles in Second ineersian Within 48 matin raary, -Fiahtina in Proaresc

Attempt Effort © To Sever Main Route To Burma   Indian Troops Said Be Fighting With Japs Against ‘Allied Fore Nips Advance Within 4) Ailes of Tniphal

New Japanese Army Drives Into India; Nearing Key Cit;   Forces Appear Dramatically Qut of Jungles in Second Invasion Within 48 Hours—Heavy wet atin Bea btin a tn Denggrace

"NEW JAP FORCES _ APPEAR IN INDIA   Army Dramatically Appears  Out of the Jungles, Driving  9 60 Miles Into India In Second Invasion

Sixth Army Group Tightens Grip On 70,000 Nazi Troops   Yanks Battle Fierce Hun Opposition it Rain; British Advance in Holland

Yanks Advance Toward Cologne   Wet Weather Denies Invaders Full Support From Air Wing

BITTER FIGHTING RAGING ON ALL FRONTS IN WEST   Doughboys Toward Cologne And Strasbourg as British Slug Across Holland

Take Rail Bridge in New Drive   LESSENED INTENSITY MARKS FIGHTING AFTER WEEK-END CRISIS; U. S., BRITISH REGAIN INITIATIVE AS BAD WEATHER LIFTS

U.S. Guns Slay Half Million Japs, Since War's Start  Ratio of Casualties, In 27 Mozths, Favors  Americans, 10 to 1

Jap Chinese Offensive  Aimed at Chungking   Loyang Besieged and Enemy Cuts Railroad, Trapping Chiang Kai-shek’s Forces

Threat fo China's Resistance Dwarfs Other Pacific Event   Truk Gets Taste of Shuttle Bombing From Two Regions

Jap Invaders Besiege Loyang From 3 Sides   Turning Ominously In _ Chongking’s Direction

Action in China Dwarfs All Other Operations in Asiatic-Pacific Area.

Nippon Drive Upon Loyang in Spotlight   Main Retreat Route for Thousands of Chinese Is Cut Off

Nippon Offensive Points Toward Chinese Capital  Jap Thrust Aims At Knocking China Out of War

Jap Offensive In China Hikes Chungking Peril   Nipponese Invaders Now Pressing In On Loyang From Three Sides.

Jap Drive Now is Grave Threat at Chinese Capitol   Ominous Signs Point to Possible —Paralyzing Blow in Offing

Japs’ Drive IsTurning © Now Toward  Chungking   Enemy's Large-Scale Offensive, Menacing Chinese Capital, Dwarfs Other Action

Japanese Push Offensive In China  Drive Turning In Direction Of Chunoakina

Japs Besiege Loyang hrom  Three Sides   Nips Cut Railway. Blocking Escape Of Chinese—Fear Threat to Chungking

Jap Drive Turns Toward China’s Capital; Yank Attack From Aleutians Feared

JAPAN'S DRIVE ON CHINA NOW GREAT THREAT   Japs Worried Ove: Allied Offensive  In Aleutians

THREE NIP UNITS DRIVE NEARER LOYANG IN CHINA   German Radio Reports Japs Capture Lushan From Chinese Troops

Besiege Loyang On Three Sides   Japs Cut Rail Line Blocking Retreat of Thousands of Chinese

JAPS. BESIEGING LOVANG, CHA FROM 3 SIDES   Nippon Offensive Is Turning Ominously in Direction of Chungking

JAPS PERIL CHUNGKING   Besiege Loyang Frem Three Sides; Cut Lunghai Railway

LOYANG IS NOW BESIEGED FROM THREE SIDES AND BATTLE T0 CONTROL CHINA GROWS SERIOUS   All Other Operations in Asiatic-Pacific Theatre Dwarfed by Great Japanese Offensive Which  Aims at Crushing Chinese Resistance on wie Dennt :

ENEMY SLASHES ’LUNGHAI RAILS   BESIEGE LOYANG AS OFFENSIVE TURNS TOWARD CHUNGKING

Japs Seek To Knock Out China   Intensified Drive Serious Threat to  Hard-Pressed Nation

STRIKERS HALT BREAD DELIVERY   Regional WLB Acts Te End Two Walkouts In Detroit

DETROIT STRIKE AREA SEETHING   WLB ‘Authority By One Groun; Order Teametere Return

U. S. Planes Aid Allies In North France   Explode Ammunition Dump Southeast of Dieppe Today

Yanks Blast Foe In: Dieppe Area   Dive-Bombers Blow Up Ammunition. Dump

Nazi Munitions Dump Blasted  Bombers Strike Aheac Of Advancing Troops

Yankee Dive Bombers Explode Ammunition Site in Dieppe Region   Planes Move to Pave Way for Ground Units Of U. S., British Armies; Marauders Continue Assaults on German Objectives

DIEPPE AMMUNITION DUMP EXPLODED BY HAVOC DIVE-BOMBERS  BRITISH MOSQUITOES   BRITISH MOSQUITOES BLAST NAZI INDUSTRIAL AREAS AND TRANSPORT

GROUND FORCES IN FRANCE GREATLY ‘AIDED BY AIRMEN   U. §. Dive-Bombers Blow Up Ammunition Dump Near Dieppe — Nazi Fortified Island at St. Malo Given Twe Poundings

DIVE-BOMBERS HIT AMMUNITION DUMP   Attack Is Made in Operation Ahead of Fast Movina Armies.

Yankee Dive Bombers Explode Ammunition Site in Dieppe Region  Planes Move to Pave Way for Ground Units  Of U. S., Bifish Armies; Marauders a rr ee ee PML neiccoe

Ammunition Dump Hit by Yank Planes   Dump Near Dieppe Explodes to Aid Drive of British And Canadians

TARGET BLASTED IN DIEPPE AREA   Ammunition Dump Explodes As American Havocs Answer Montgomery's Call

BOTH PARTY HEADS MAKE CLAIMS FOR VICTORY . TUESDAY      Better Wait, However, Until Voters Have Their Say

Parties Optimistic  ou Election   Results May Not Be Known For Some Time

German Military Takes Command  3 Balkan States   Full Occupation — of Bul> I , garia, Rumania and Hungary Is Reported.   Only Minor Cases of  Resistance Reported

Nazis Taking Control Over Balkan Area:   Bulgaria And Rumania Occupied; Hitler May Put One Commander In Charge Of Territory

Germans Move to Put Iron Grip on  Bulgarig, Rumania  - Three Balkan Nations May Be Placed Under One Command to 

BRITISH SUBS SINK 19 SHIPS   Patrols Over Wide Area Are Revealed

British Subs Sink Seven Japs Ships, ‘Damage 3   Admiralty Makes Reports Of Successful Operations In Far Fastern Waters

British Submarines Sink Seven Jap Supply Ships In Far Eastern Waters

GUAM ATTACKS STIFLE JAPANESE OPTIMISM   Liberators Bomb Iwo Jima, Jap Island Only 750 Miles Eram Takyn

Guam Raided For 12th Day   Sea end Air Attacks Continue Heavily; Rota Also Is Bombed

Guam, Rota Isles A Are U.S. Targets   Twelfth Attack Made In as Many Days By Planes, Big Ships

Reich Under Attack   $$$  Allied Planes Pour Rockels, Bombs On Jap Possessions

U. S. Hammers Guam And Rota In New Attacks   Tokyo Warns Homeland War Situation In Pacific Far From Optimistic

Attack Guam For 12th Day   American Naval and Air Forces Keep Up Steady Assault

NEW PASTOR FOR ST. JOHNS CHURCH   Rev. Elmer Broetzmann‘ To Arrive in LeMars Later  This: Week

NEW PASTOR FOR ST. JOHN'S CHIIREE   Rev. Elmer Bro Broetzmann’ To Arrive in LeMars: ‘Later Thie. Week

Sth Army Units Trying To Trap Nazis To South   Germans Say Allied Paratroops In Action Along Appian Way

(Mr. Wickel’s Still in a Pickle But He’s Going to Get Other Half of $1,000 Bill When He Opens Right Book

Fifth, Eighth Armies Jamming Nazi Gothic Line   Advance Chiefly In Sector North of Florence.

Yanks Facing Gothic Line   Nazi Commander Fears Rimini Breakthrough; Bologna Menaced

ATTACK GOTHIC LINE IN ITALY   Allies Strike Nazi Defenses in Many Sectors

GOTHIC LINE IS ATTACKED ANEW   Two Armies Plunge into Germany’s Strongest Positions in Italy

YANKS, BRITISH HIT GOTHIC LINE   Advance Through Mountain Positions Near Florence

PRESS AGAINST GOTHIC DEFENSE   Heavy Fighting Along Adriatic Continues

ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY FACE NAZIS ALONG GOTHIC LINE   Fifth and Eighth Armies Pressing Up Against Foe at Main Defense Posts Across ttaly—Fighting F Fierce Near  Biawt s

Fifth. Kiehth Armies Smash At Gothic Line   Troops Make Three-Mile Advance Through Mountains

ALLIES JAM ON APPROACHES 10 ‘GOTHIC LINE’   Spearhead Is 35 Miles From Bologna; Breakthrough Sought ,

GOTHIC LINE ATTACKED IN MANY PLACES   Both American Fifth and British Eighth Armies Move Along Entire Front—Fight Heavy or Adriatic.

Allied Armies Press Against Main Hun Line   German Movements Indicate Decisive Battle For North Italy Is Near Ar Hand

ALLIES IN ITALY JAM GOTHIC LINE   Make Two And Three Mile Advances In Mountain Region Above Florence.

‘Allies Advance Above Florence To Gothic Line  on ee oe oe   Heavy Fighting Continues on Adviatic End, Offering Chance fe Reach Po Plains

No Substitute for Water, Executive Says  Missouri River Development Hearina Is Set

Ford, Wheeler Give Views (On River Plan   Senate Extends Time For Negotiating Yellowstone Pact

Writer Tells Of Landing Of Infantry   One Group Slips Ashore, Another Pinned Down by Nazis

Infantrymen Face Fire In Invasion   One Unit Meets Blaze From Enemy But Another Plunges On

More Paratroopers Head For France   Eve- Witness Story Of Invasion!

SIXTH WAR BOND SALES SLOW UP HERE YESTERBAY   Only Small Increase Noted Ir Charleroi, River District

Yesterday's Report Shows Tota! Of 1273 Bonds Sold For $267,717.75

Allies Hit Romania And Land in Russia   Nearly 3,000 Americans Take Part in History Making Development Forging Two Fronts— French Coast Raked by Yanks from Britain

3,000 Bombers Pound German’s Secret Defenses   Targets In Romania, Bucharest And Hun.garian Cities Of Miskolez, Sieged And New Allied Objectives

SOUTHERN ‘AND WESTERN SEN. ATORS SEEK TO SHIFT MORE INDUSTRY. INTO: THER. *  ov REGIONE.”

U.S., AUSSIES FORCES MEET NEAR SAIDOR   Way fs Opened For Drive Aguinst 3 Nip New Guinea Bases

Junction Of Australian And American Forces Clear Way For New Drive Against Japs

Aussies And Yank Forces  Control Huon   Bulk Of Japs’ 14,000 Men Destroyed In Campaign

Aussies Make Junction With Yanks On Huon   Opens Way For Attack On Remaining Jap Bases

AUSSIES JOIN YANKS IN NEW GUINEA   Meet on Huon Peninsula; Open Way for Ground Offensive

HUON CONTROL WON AS ALLIED FORCES MERGE   ‘Great Bulk’ Of 14,000 Japs Wiped Out In 18-Week Drive

Two Forces Jom Hands  In New Guines   Drive Against Remaining Jap Bases Looms

Aussies Join Yanks to Win AllHuonArea   Way Opened for Smash  ; at Bogadjim, Wewak  and Madang

Open Way for Drive on Japs In New Guinea   Aussie Junqle Forces Join U. S. Troops

Allied Forces Open Offensive ‘On Jap Bases   Australians Join U. S. ‘Men In Saidor Area To  Control: Huon Peninsula

Cancel 600 Replacing Schedules   PENNSYLVANIA SELECTIVE SERVICE DIRECTOR AIMS TO PROVIDE MORE MEN FOR THE ARMED SERVICES.   Hits Large and Small

REVEAL MANY REPLACEMENT PLANS ENDED   State Draft ‘Heads Is. sue Statement on New Policy

Selective Service Discloses Cancellation of Industrial Replacement Schedules in State

RUSSIAN TROOPS INVADE HUNGARY ON WIDE FRONT   Capture 100 Hungariar Towns; Belgrade Virtually Besieged

SOVIETS ROLL INTO HUNGARY ON LONG LINE   More Than 100 Communities in German Puppet Nation Swept Into Russian Troop Net

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO HUNGARY   Advance On 75-Mile Front From Romania; Belgrade Besieged

—HUNGARY INVADED—  Russ Roll   POWERFUL SOVIET ASSAULT LAUNCHED ACROSS ROMANIAN BORDER ON 75-MILE FRONT

RUSS SURGING INTO HUNGARY ON WIDE FRONT   Red Columns Less Than 100 Miles Southeast Of Budapest

Soviets Surge Into Hungary On Wide Front   100 Communities Already Captured By Advancing Reds

Belgrade Virtually Besieged In Yugoslavia Fighting; 100 Places Seized

REDS INVADE HUNGARY ON WIDE FRONT   Soviets Advance On 75. Mile Stretch, Seizing Principal Towns

Reds Surge Over Border Into Hungary   Powerful Attack Envelopes More Than 1,000  Communities

Russians Open New Offensive Into Hungary.   Budapest Railways Seized in™ Opening Drive

RUSSIANS SURGE INTO HUNGARY   100 Places Already Taken in Puppet Nation

Hungary’s Collapse Believed Near As Reds Cross Border   Germans Fleeing Greece After British Invasion Under Fire of Yank Fliers — Belgrade Is Under Virtual Siege By Russian and Yugoslav Forces

Soviets Break Into Hunaary on Wide Front   Launch Strong Move With Nation's Capital the Main Objective

Reds Push Ahead After  Smashing Into Hungary   Russians Surge Across Frontier From Romania On Za-Mile Front; More Than 100 Communities  Already Gaptured

KEY RAILWAYS -RIGHWAYS TAKEN   Over One Hundred Communities Fall In Advance   BELGRADE   Besieged By Reds, Tito’s Forces: Hungarians Told To Quit Axis

Im Progress   300 Japanese Aircraft Reported Destroyed by US Forces While Nipponese Claim Same American Losses

SAIPAN AERIAL BATTLE RAGING      Nip Headquarters Clains  Aerial Victory Over  U. S. Fleet

Called Biggest Since Midway   300 Japanese Aircraft Destroyed; Tokyo Says Our Losses Severe

300 Nipponese Aircraft Shot Down by Yanks   Biggest Attack Since Midway Made on American Ships

Saipan Struggle Has Already Cost Japs 300 Planes   Foe Says Large U. S. Fleet Is Assembled Off the Marianas; Make Wild Claims

Saipan Air Battle Continues; Japs Lose 300 Planes   Changsha Believed Lost in Nipponese Drive Through Chinc

Saipan Aerial Fight Goes On   Still Under Way After 300 Jap Planes Downed; Yanks Seize Aslito Airstrip

BIGGEST AIR BATTLE IN PACIFIC SINCE MIDWAY IS ON WITH JAPS PUTTING UP DETERMINED FIGHT   Over 300 Japanese Planes Already Destroyed, But Japs Claim Americans Have Lost Heavily in Planes, Battleships and Cruisers. U.S. Losses  Wlat Amnniunera

U.S. Losses Are Unknown; 300 Nip Aircraft Downed; Foe Claims Exaggerated

Japs Gain In65 Men Dead China, Yield As 24th U.S. Over Pacific Sub Is Lost

GERMANS ARE BLASTED FROM ANCIENT SITE   Flying Fortress and Mammoth Guns Open All-Out Drive Against Nazis.   BULLETIN

Allies Bombard Qld Monastery 0 Monte Cassino   Had Been Converted Into Fortress By Germans

Bombers Destroy Old Monastery  [Housing Nazis   Yank Forces Pound  Railway Yards In Rome To Cut Supplies

YANK BOMBERS POUND RAILWAY YARDS IN ROME   Nazi Offensive Called Failure

FALL OF CITY 1S EXPECTED WITHIN NEXT FEW HOUR   U.S. Tank Forces and Infantry Drive to Within Five Miles of Stronghold From Northeast.   STIFFER RESISTANCE AS NAZIS USE ARTILLERY   At Eastern End of Line Other Allied Forces Believed to Havo Reached the Cannes Airfield.

Fall of Huge Naval Base Hours Away   City Outflanked In Surprise Move By Allied Column

YANKS PLUNGE INTO SUBURBS OF NAVAL BASE   Toulon Threatened On Two Sides; Report Defenders Flee

ALLIES HOLDING 1,000 SO. ML I SOUTH FRANCE   Drive to Within 31 Miles of Marseille ; Aim at Rhone Valley

‘ANKS REACH OULON SUBURB, EAR MARSEILLE   1,000 Square Miles Freed

Fall of French Base Predicted Over Weekend   Germans Unleash Heavy Artillery In Final Stand

Another Column Threatens Te Encirele Toulon From North, Lunge Carries To Within 25 Miles Of Marseille.   GERMANS UNLEASH HEAVY ARTILLERY

U.S. Forces Battle German: ‘in Toulon Quter Suburbs in Lunae on Port of Marseille

SUBURBS UF     REACHED   Predict Fall Of Naval Base This Week-End

AMERICANS JN SUBURBS OF HARBOR   1000 Square Miles Of Southern France In  Hands Of Allies

GREAT FRENCH PORT LIKELY TO FALL WITHIN SHORT PERIOD   France’s Second Larges City of Marseille Is Be ing Encircled.

Predict Fall To U. 5. Forces This Week-End   Planes Fire Big Battleship Used As Fort by Germans

MISSING BABY FOUND IN EAST   Woman, Questioned By Police, Admits Taking It Erom Hospital

Kidnaped Baby Is Recovered, Unharmed, Well   Police Say Woman, Unable To Be Mother, Confessed She Took Barbara Anne Goggin

Not te Affect 1948 Beturn<   Two Girls and Boy Born to Mother of Two Sets of Twins

NOMINATE MITCHELL PRESIDENT OF TEXAS SOUIETY ENGINEERS  “WELL KNOWN LOCAL   BRAN IC COLIEHII EH aN   WELL KNOWN LOCAL MAN IS SCHEDULED; FOR HIGH HONOR ”

NOMINATE MITCHELL PRESIDENT OF TEXAS SOCIETY ENGINEERS  WELL KNOWN LOCAL MAN IS SCHEDULED POR WIC HONOK _ -

New Sky Units Land To Aid Trapped Men   Hitler Hurls 200 Tanks Against AHied Carridor Across Holland

Arnhem Battle Bitter   Sky Train Rushes Aid to Rehef of Trapped Troops

Paratroopers Reach British  Aeross Rhine   Furious Battles Rage In Holland As Allied Reinforcements Rush In.

ON RHINE REINFORCED   Berlin Calls Fighting Decisive Test Of War In West

200 GERMAN TANKS LUNGE  ATCORRIDOR   Isolated Air Army’s Patrols Contact Rescue Drive

NIPPONESE REEL BACK IN BURMA   Jungle Attack Smashed; Remnants Of 8,000 Japs In Flight

Complete Victory Scored in Burma By Allied Forces   ‘Straggling Japs Carrying  Wounded in Wide-. spread Retreat

Japanese Flee  To Akyab Line   Lord Mountbatten Says “Crack? Given Foe

Burglar Weds on Eve of Starting 25 Consecutive Life Sentences in Ohio

BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ 1S HIT   tritish Naval Planes Damage 16 Other Vessels

~-TEXAS CONVENTION  Pro- FDR Demos Are In Saddle   PRESS ADVANTAGE TO BIND 23 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

PRO-ROOSEVELT DEMOCRATS IN TEXAS WIN CLOSE VOTE TO GET CONTROL OF THE PARTY ELECTORS

Pro-Roosevelt Democrats Win In Texas Test   Nominee Dewey Declines to Join Debate with Ickes

NEW DEALERS WIN’ IN TEXAS.   DALLAS CONVENTION TOPS POLITICAL EXCITEMENT

Pro-Roosevelt Delegation Winsin Texas   Partisans Dispute Meaning of Republican Victory in Maine; Ickes Makes Sharp Attack on Dewey

PRO-ROOSEVELT  DEMOCRATS WIN  TEXAS CONTROL VOTE TO SEAT SET  OF ELECTORS WHO FAVOR 4TH TERM

PRO-ROOSEVELT FACTION WINS IN TEXAS SCRAP   Means 23 Democratic Elec. tors Will Vote for FDRTruman Ticket

Roosevelt Group Wins Out in Texas  Delegate Dispute Up in State Canvantian

Pro - Roosevelt  Democrats Win in  Texas Convention Fourth-Termer Named Keynote

FDR Faction Wins Edge in Texas Fight   Scrap Takes Top Spot In U. S. Political  Developments

Texas Pro-Roosevelt Faction Wins Battle for Vote Control  Clase Rallat Guaranteec Full Electoral   Close Ballot Guarantees Full Electoral Vote of State for F.D.- Truman Ticket

New Deal Demos Triumph in Texas Election   Dewey Swings West Toward Montana And Pacific Coast

FDR Gains Support of Lone Star State in Violent Dispute   ‘Sec. Ickes Attacks Gov. Dewey in Grand Rapids CIO Union Speech

Pro-FDR Texas Democrats Win   Vote Close—-Overton Wins in LouisianaIckes Attacks Dewey

NORWAY AND GREECE SOON MAY BE FREE   Prospect Hinges on Speed of Allied Offensives

Soviets Now Advancing In Ladoga Area   Prospects for Early And Complete Victory Over Finland Appear Rriaht

Russians Close In Speedily On Port Of Viipuri   Koivisto Fortress At Mouth Of Bay Falls To Red Forces.

Supreme Court Has Busy Day; Makes 7 Rulings   Draft, Price Control Are  Involved In Two

Ruling Puts Teeth Into OPA Order:   Supreme Court Decides On Vital War Issues

CANADIANS TK SWIFT ATTACK ON OUNKERQU   Calais Liberated, Troops Move on 15,000 Germans  -in Hietnric Tawn,

HIT LAST ENEMY STRONGHOLD ON CHANNEL COAST   Start New Drive Day After Liberating Port of Calais

Dunkerque Is Under Attack By Canadians   More Than 5,000 Germans Taken When Calais Falls

Canadians Storming Last Channel Port.   -- Dominion Troops, After Wiping Out Calais; Turn To Revenge. Defeat af 1940

Troops Push Past Calais To Last Port   German Garrison Of 15,000 Troops Trapped In City

“Canadians Free Calais; Storm Dunkerque   @ Attack Last German Stronghold On French Coast

DUNKERQUE IS STORMED TODAY BY GANABIANS   24 Hours After Liberating Calais Canadians Make Attack On Coast Stronchold

CANADIANS STORMING. DUNKERQUE   Last German Stronghold On Channel Coast

RABAUL BLASTED AGAIN AS JAPS LOSE 40 PLANES   Nipponese Have Lost 149 Aircraft In One Week; Total Now 546   AWAITING RESULTS OF MARSHALLS’ RAID

MARSHALLS HIT BY4 CARRIERS   World Awaits News of American Task Force

War's Top Air Support In Third Day   Air Fleets Hit Southern Germany And South France

AIR ATTACKS ON NAZIS ARE INTENSIFIED   Greatest Aerial Support Operation Now In 3rd Day

Heavy Bombers Continue to Pound Enemy s Territory   More Than 750 Attack Industrial Targets In Southern Germany

American Planes Continue Support of Ground Units   Installations In South - Germany, France Hit By Heavy Bombers

German. Officer Hopes Yanks Get To Bertin First   Rs JOHN ¥F. CHESTER.

Yankee Forces Drive Into Last Paris Defenses   Aircraft Gives Strong Support To Doughboys

ASKS FOR TAX HIKE   The Administration Wants Congress To Raise Security Rate

§.$. Tax ls Being Argued   Administration Opposed To New ‘Freeze’ of Social Security Tax Rate

RALEIGH BOND SALES 78 PER CENT OF QUOTA   Individual Purchases Reach 57 Per Cent Of Goal

Chiang’s Plea To Roosevelt Brings Recall   Famed ‘Vinegar Joe Unable to ‘Get. Along: With Other Leaders-

Stilwell is Relieved of Command   General In China and Indi: Is Recalled To Washington, D. C.

Gen. Stilwell Recalled fo Washington   Far Eastern Chief Removed From Post At Chiang’s Request

Gen. Stilwell Relieved At Reinaset Of Chiang   United Press Learns Action Taken Because American General Could Not Agree With Generalissimo And Chennault On Conduct Of War Against Japs

Relieve Stilwellof command in far east theater of war  Rumored Chiang asked recall of four-star American general

China-Burma-India War Theatre Divided Into Two Separate Areas Under New Set-Up

CHIANG SOUGHT HIS REMOVAL, REPORT SAYS   First Time 4-Star U. S&S. General Relieved Of Command

General Stilwell Ousted As U.S. Chief In Orient; Had Feuded With KaiShek

Chiang Request Ousts Vinegar Joe As Leader   Chinese Generalissimo Differed With 4-Star  General On Tactics   RETURNING TO U. S.   Maj. Gen. Wedemeyer Is New Commander In China Theatre

CLASH WITH CHIANG SAID TO BE CALLE   Four-Star General Called Home from China War Front

Shake-Up In Far Kast Is Ordered   War Department Says Stilwell Goes To New Assignment.

Gen. Stilwell Relieved of C. B. I. Post   DEMAND FROM CHIANG BLAMED AS LEADER IS CALLED TO WASHINGTON

STILWELL IS RELIEVED OF FEAST COMMAND   Action Linked To Demand Of Chiang-Kai-Shek Of China

Stilwell Relieved of Command, Ordered -Home on Demand of Chinne Kai-shek

(Stilwell Is Relieved Of Far Eastern Command On ‘Chiang Kai-Shek’sDemand

MOVE REVEALS U.S.-CHINESE STRATEGY SPLIT   Generalissimo Asked Removal

Gen. Stilwell Relieved of  His Command   Chiang Requested Recall Because Of Opposing Views

Report Nazis Convinced War Is Lost   French Underground Says Germans Planning Next War

Death of General Wingate Permits Disclosure of Part in Quebec Parley

‘Charles O. Wingate, Sword and Bible General From Burma, Revealed  As Quebec Conference Mystery Man

Rayburn Gives Main Address   Eight Other Speeches Made at Dedication Of Red River Dam

EDS LUNGE DIRECTION F NAZI BASE   emy Cleared From East hore of Lake Peipus in Five-Day Drive of Russians   0 VILLAGES ARE TAKEN

REDS GAIN 150 MILES SINCE BEGINNING OF LENINGRAD OFFENSIVE      Armies Rolling on Toward Big German Base of Pskov   NAZIS STILL ARE TRAPPED

Russians Roll On Toward Big Pskov HunBase   Advanced Armies Less Than 47 Miles From Gateway to Southern Estonia and Latvia

REDS ROLL NEARER LARGE BASE OF PSKOV   Win 12,000 Square Miles in Month Old Leningrad Offensive

Red Armies _ Rolling On Toward Pskov   All Germans Are Cleared From East Shores of Lake Peipus

Pskov, Nazi Base, New Objective: Gain In South   Ten Nazi Division: Being Wiped Out Estonia May Be Cut Off

Soviet Forces Push for Nazi Base of Pskov   Russians Clear Enemie: From All of Eastern Shore of Lake Piepus In Five-Day Drive

Russ Troops Drive South ToTakePskov   Capture Luka From Germans; 800 Towns Fall in 5-Day Smash

Nazis Driven From Peipus Lake Sector; Luga Retaken   Russians Continue Relentless Advance

Soviets Rolling on Toward Pskoi  Southern Gateway to Baltic States Sought

Soviet Avalanche Rolls on Toward Big German Base      Russians Less Than 47 Miles from Pskov; 12,000 Square Miles Regained in Month

Victorious Reds Advance Beyond Captured Luga : Rail* Hub‘ and Sever Remaining “Nazi ‘Troops in. Northwest— Germans: Fight Fiercedy in Ukraine ° Death Ring... eee &

Germans Pushed 150 Miles From Leningrad Area   Lake Peipus’ East Shore Is Cleared In Drive Engulfing Rail Center Of Luga; Trapped Units Being Destroyed

Russian Forces  Said Advancing On Pskov Base   ‘Rid Peipus Lake Of Nazis, Sweep Up 800 Localities Including Rail Town

LAKE PEIPUS EAST SHORE ss CLEARED   800 Localities Swept Up In Five-Day Offensive   Repeatedly Thrown Back; Destruction Of Nazis In Trap Continues

Russians Driving  On Pskov   Clear Germans From East Shore Of Lake Peipus

REDS WITHIN FOUR MILES — OF KORSUN   Nazis Fail in Repeated Mass Attacks to Hew Way Out of Trap—Other Soviet Units Move Toward Pskov.

Reds Roll On Toward Big Pckoy Base   Clear Germans From East Shore of  Lake Peipus

NO NAZIS LEFT ON THE SHORES OF LAKE PEIPUS   Latest Victories Bring To 12,000 Square Miles Territory Re taken By Russians  In One Month.

Reds Roll On Toward Pskov   Sweep in Luga, Start For Big German Base

RED ARMY CONTINUES TO ROLL FORWARD ON LENINGRAD FRONT   FAR TO SOUTH RUSSIANS WIPING OUT REMNANTS OF TEN NAZI DIVISIONS

Courity Service Vote Is Completed; All G.O.P. Candidates Retain Leads

‘ADVANCE BRINGS CITY Ol AACHEN, SIEFRIED LINE» © BASTION, UNDER ARTILLER’

Direct Threat Posed To Siegfrie Line Bastion In New Advance: Number Of Villages Capture In Germany   GERMAN TRAIN IN AACHEN DESTROYE:

Overrunning Outerworks Of Siegfried Line At Several Points   NUMBER OF GERMAN VILLAGES TAKEN  Advance Inte The Reich Has Now Become

Aachen Under Terrific Fire: Villages Taken   Fresh Offensive Threatens to Crack Siegfried

Power Drive Spearheads Broad Front   Siegfried Bastion Under New Threat By Allied Gains.

American Drive In Italy Halts   Nazis Counter-Attack Alorg 170-Mile Front

Step Loward Party Unity Is Seen   Most Powerful N. Y. Sapporter a Willkie Throws Help to Dewey

Republican Chiefs See Decision As Unification Step   Congressmen Praise Candidate’s Decision’  To Give Up Race

GERMAN BASTION IN UNRAINE FALLS TO RUSSIAN ARMY   Reds Capture Shepetovka, Rail Hub on Lines Leading Into Rumania, Hungary and Poland.   SLAUGHTER OF TRAPPED NAZI FORCE CONTINUES   Remnants of 10 Divisions Squeezed Into Smaller Corridor and Plight Is  ‘ Hopeless,

Reds Take Vital Railroad Junction in Rumanian Drive: Close in on Trapped Nazis

REDS CONTROL RAILWAY LINE INTO RUMANIA   KEY NAZI BASTION CAPTURED AFTER LONG STRUGGLE

Shepetovka Falls To Soviet Attack   Entrapped Nazi Divisions Ruthlessly Slashed

BILLS SPEEDED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY   Committees Approve Sol. dier Vote and Bonus Measures

RAF MOSQUITOES STRIKE WESTERN GERMANY, BERLIN   U. S. AIR FLEET BAGGED 144 NAZI PLANES YESTERDAY

Mosquitos Hit Berlin During Night   Climax to Double Header ' Hurled at Reich in Daylight Yesterday 

RAF Bombers Hit Berlin During Night   U. S. Attackers Down 138 Germans in Widespread Assaults

BERLIN, OTHER TARGETS RAIDED BY MOSQUITOS   3ritish Resume Assault On German Capital; 3,000 U. S. Bombers And Fighters Get 138 Nazi Planes In One Day.

BERLIN HIT AGAIN   R.A.F. Mosquitos in First Attack on Capital Since March 25

MOSQUITOS HIT BERLIN; ALLIES BAG 138 PLANES   Germans Say Rome Is Bombed; Record Fleet Blasts Reich

ATTACKS COST AMERICANS 63 OF OWN CRAFT   Berlin, Western Reich Torr By Mosquito Bombers; New Blow Indicated

RAF MOSQUITO BOMBERS ROCK CITY OF RUINS   Raid Follows Double Assault in Daylight Hours Thursday

MH AME AREA ATTACKED   Nearly 3,000 U. S. Planes Hit Axis Targets In Daylight Blow   63 SHIPS LOST   (mportant Factories In Germany And Balkans Lashed By Americans

NIGHT RAID   Climax Assaults By U.S. Bombers Which Bag 138 NaziPlanes

RAF BOMBERS POUND BERLIN IN NEW RAID   3,000 U. S. Bombers and Fighters Carry Out Yesterday's Attack

MOSQUITO BOMBERS  STRUCK AT BERLIN,  WESTERN GERMANY NINTH: AIR FORCE FIGHT  ER BOMBERS BLAST <CERMAN AIRFIELD

RAF Mosquitos Again Hit Berlin And West Reick   Follows Giant Assault By Nearly 3000 Planes; Nazis Say Rome Hit

RAF Mosquitos Strike Berlin Without Loss   Night Attacks Climax Dou: ble-Header Day Raids; 138 German Planes Bagred

LIGHT BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST NAZI CAPITAL   American Pilots Down 138 German Planes in Dual Attack Thursday

ce Maintains Air Offensive Against Europe  Berlin, Western      Berlin, Western Germany Plastered By British Airmen

Unprecedented Air Offensive Goes On  RAF Has No Losses In  Night Attacks

British Mosquito Bombers Strike Capital And Western Germany In Climax To Twin Assaults By Nearly 3,000 American Aircraft—138 Nazi Planes Bagged In Operations Which Cost Yanks 44 Machines From Britain And Nineteen From Mediterranean Forces

Mosquitos Make Raid On Berlin Last Night   Follaw-l ty, Attacks By Yankee Planes

Hit Berlin, Western Germany   RAF Raid Follows Heavy Attacks on Planes, Rail Lines.

Blow at Berlin Climaxes Double Header Assault   RAF Stab at Reich Capital First Since March 25; Yanks Bag 138 Nazi Planes

RAF Attacks Berlin And Western Reich   Follows .. Duoble-Header Blow By Over 3,000 U. S. Planes . Yesterday That Bagged.138 Planes In Assault on Aircraft and Rail Targets.

AIR OFFENSIVE ON CONTINENT IS CONTINUED   Gouged Capital Smashed As Climax to DoubleHeader Daylight AsBy Allied Airmen

Bombers Strike At Reich Capital   Plywood Planes Aaain Raid Berlin

U. S. Gunners Bag 138 Nazi  Planes   British Mosquitoes Struck Berlin Again Thursday Night

Mosquitos Hit Berlin, W. Germany   138 German Planes Down By Allies  On Thursday

BERLIN HIT AT NIGHT BY RAF FORCE      Air Raid Follows Great Day For Yankee Fliers With 3,000 Planes Engaged In All Theaters.

DUAL ATTACKS ON GERMANY FROM THE AIR   3,000 U. S. Bombers and Fighters Follow Up RAF Night Attacks on Berlin And Western Germany

U. §. Airmen Stage Bigges! Raid of War   More Than 3,000 Planes Swarm Over Germany Thursday

Americans Lese 203 Bombers iz Six Bay, Double Gifensive, Get Official 555 German Planes

RAF MOSQUITO BOMBERS VISIT REICH CAPITAI   Raid First on Berlin Since March 25 — German Losses Pile Up

Berlin Is Given New Going-Over By RAF Plane:   City Blasted For First Time Since Big Raid Of March 24

RAF Bombers Strike Berlin In Night Raid   Climaxes Double-header Daylight Assaults; 80 Yankees Planes Lost

RAF BOMBERS ~ IN NIGHT RAID   Strike Berlin, Western Germany in Climax to Doubleheader Attacks.   U. S. BAGS 144 PLANES

BERLIN HIT LAST NIGHT BY BRITISH   3,090 Bombers Strike German Targets

Allied Air Offensive  Continues   U. S: Bombers and Fighters Get 138 German Planes in Thursday’s Raids

R. A. F. Bomber: Blast at Berlin  British Raid Follows American Attack — . fin Carman Taraate

Mosauito Planes Strike at Berlin   RAF Follows up Double Header Daylight Assaults Upon Aircraft and Rail Centers by U.S. Bombers, With Blow at German Capital.   ROME AREA ATTACKED   Joint Military Regime For Defeated Germany

Berlin Gets Night Bombing   U. §. Fliers Extend Blitz Inte 7th Dey

Tells Demos to Pass Over Members for Committee Who Voted for Bill.

ClO RESENTMENT  AGAINST SENATORS  EMBARRASS LEADERS ANY VOTER FOR ANTI STRIKE BILL NOT WANTEI «AS CAMPAICN PRORER

CIC To Fi cht  Support ters Of Strike Ban Act   Group to Police Expense In Elections Facing BatUe From Union On Bill Issne

Yanks Pound Ponape Anew  Other Missions Hit 4 Jap Positions in Marshall Islands

Allies Hit  Burma Power   Nips Renew Threat to Imphal; Occupy Highway to North

YOUTH KILLS SISTER WITH POISON FOOD HE SET FOR FATHER   Wanted To Get ‘Him Because He Urged Him To Get Job

GIRL, 14, DIES BY POISON AS BROTHER CONFESSES PLOT AGAINST HIS FATHER

Youth, 19, Admits Poisoning Fo ood  tees Ps Fn ee Sma aap ta   Wanted To ’Get' Father: Kile Sictar Inctamd.

' Youth Poisons Sister by Mistake, Wanted to Kill Father--Husband  Shoots Wife Out with Another Man

Confesses He Poisoned Sister   But Poison He Placed In Foods, Liquids Intended For Father.

REDS HAVE BALTIC FIGHT ABOUT WON   Four Armies Advancing On A 200-Mile Front

RED ARMY DRIVE TO FREE BALTIC STATES NEARING SPEEDY CLIMAX   Four Russian Armies  Chase 200,000 Nazis

Soviet Drive Into Baltics Nearing End   War Of Liberation Almost Won, Says Press; Warsaw Battle Rages

Four Armies Ride Down  Rear Guard   German Garrisons Of 200,000 Men Face Annihilation.

Leningrad Army Joins Campaign   One Force Is at Suburbs of Riga—Smash German  Defenses

four hussian Armies Plunge Across Balties  200,000 Nazi Troops      200,000 Nazi Troops Caught; Entire  Area Swent

SOVIETS ARE (OVERWHELMING NAZI TROOPS   Berlin Reports That Red Forces Have Launched Big Assault on Warsaw.

Russians Claim Victory in Baltic States Imminent   Four Red Armies Close Trap on 200,000 Germans

LIBERATION OF ENTIRE AREA DUE   €00,000 Troops Face Death Or Capture By Russians

LIBERATION OF BALTIC STATES NEAR   4 Soviet Armies Chasing 200,000 Nazis From Area

Reds Say. Baltics Are Nearly Won   Govorov’s Veteran Leningrad Army Joins Campoign, Completing Arc

Red€ _ * ain To Liberate Baltics Said Almost Won   Four Russian Armies Wheel Through Region On 200-Mile Front

LONDON — (UP) — The German DNB News Agency reported today that Allied planes dropped Polish parachutists in Warsaw.

Four Red Armies Riding Down Rear Guard Of 200,000 Nazi Troops in Balkans

Court Paroles Check Forger . To The Sheriff Leniency Shown James Von Tersc

Court Paroles Check Forger . To The Sheriff  Leniency Shown. James Von Tersck On Guilty Plea

Governors Urge Public Works  Request Congress to Authorize Program

Allies Blast Danube, Alps Area, Germany   German -Néws Agenévy. DNB: Broadcasts Aerial Attacks  Being Carried Out  “Through Dav    Brunswick Again i Target of British   ‘Six Important Airfields Iu Reich Also Hammered  In Night Attacks With Lose of One Plane

Hodges’ Troops Plunge Three Miles As Patton Advances Only Few Hundred Yards From Saar Frontier

U.S. SOLDIERS ARE 26 MILES — FROM COLOGNE   Germen Tiger Tanks Hurled Back in Counter Blow

Big Surge Moves 3 Miles Deeper; Patton At Saar   First Army Captures Road Junction 26 Miles From Cologne: Ninth Hurls Back Tank Attack: French Maintain Pace On South Flank.

NO OBJECTIONS FROM U.S. 10 POLISH DIVISION   Montgomery Ward Troubles Back in Capital Spotlight As Holiday Nears

Natural Rubber Research Pushed   House Group Aims at Certain Future Supply

LEGION HEARS PROMISES OF VICTORIES   Nimitz, Arnold and Marshall Talk to World War I Vets °

BOYS ADMIT MURDER OF A U, S, MARINE   ‘Teen Agers in Boston Confess Crime. Battered Victim, Then Choked Him With Own Belt

Question Attacker  Of Avila Camacho   Mexico Sees Nazi Angle in the Outrage

ASSAILANT UNDER CARE OF DOCTORS   Mexican Authorities Hoping to Quiz Prisoner About — Attack

LARGE CONVOY 1S BROKEN UP  NEAR ISLAND      FIFTH AIR FORCE SINKS SEVEN’ DESTROYERS: AND FOUR TRANSPORTS DURING AN “ALL-OUT” ATTACK

Bombers Smash 19 Ships in Jap Convoy Off Ormoc   Four Transports And 15 Destroyers Attacked in Bay

NAZIS STAB AT LONDON DISTRICT   Heavy Clouds Limit Aerial Blows At Continent

DESPITE LABOR AND OTHER PROBLEMS Blt CROPS ARE HARVESTED  COTTON AND CORN FARED POORLY IN TEXAS; OTHER CROPS WERE GOOD

‘Kid’ and Writer Try to Describe Lonely Feeling When Death Is Near

Men Feel Loneliness, Not Fear, ‘In Face of Death, Soldier Reveals

‘Nothing You Can Write Can Make The Folks Back Home Understand What It’s Like’ In Front Lines

SCRAMBLE FOR COVER IN BLIND PANIC MAICM COVER SAID BUT WAR DUNS  Icy Loneliness of Death on an Italian Hillside Graphically Real

Reds 38 Miles from Austria   Berlin Admits Russ Race Around Balaton

Russians Roll Through German Defenses At Lake Balaton   00 MILES FROM AUSTRIAN BORDER   Thousands Of Nazi And Hungarians Reeling Back In Retreat

Russian Columns Move Unchecked  In Balaton Area   Nazi Reinforcements Streaming Up From Italy, Balkan Fronts

RUSSIAN ARMORED COLUMNS ROLL ON TOWARD AUSTRIA   GERMAN AND HUNGARIAN TROOPS IN PANICKY RETREAT BEFORE POWERFUL RED TANK ASSAULT

ARMORED UNITS ONLY 50 MILES FROM AUSTRIA   Germans And Hungarians Stage Panicky Retreat Along Lake Balaton

Red Troops Roll Toward Austrian Soil   Hordes of Soviet Armored, Units Drive Enemy Forces Back.

SOVIET FORCES APPROACHING AUSTRIAN SOIL   Great Surge of Power Throws the Enemy Reeling Back In Panicky Retreat.

RED COLUMNS RACING AROUND LAKE BALAION   Poweriui wrive Aimed At Austria Rolls On Unchecked

RED DRIVE ON AUSTRIA UNCHECKED   Swiss Reports Says Vanguards Reached Border

NAZIS REEL BACK BEFORE RUSS ATTACK   Defenses Crumbled On Shores Of Lake Balaton

RUSSIANS — 38 MILES FROM AUSTRIA   Have Raced Around Lake  Balaton

RUSSIANS ROLL UNCHECKED ON LAKE BALATON   Theysands Of Germans Sent Reel ing Backwards In Panic

‘Both Visit‘lowe” ‘In the Same. Week   Senator Gillette e Still ‘Them Guessing on:Canc Hs,

Willkie, McNutt Draw Politicians To Des Moines   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correanondent :

— Politicas Pay Visits To. Iowa   Willkie and McNutt Sound Out Sentiment

TOKYO JUGGLES WAR LORDS   ADMIRAL SHIMADA KICKED OUT APPARENTLY BECAUSE OF JAP NAVY’S DEFEAT IN THE PHILIPPINE   (By the Untted Press)

New Record Set; 4,000 Planes Used   29,600 Tons of Bombs Dropped During Week

Americans H Hamm: Britis Pound Franc   Nearly 3000 Bombe And Fighters Seek To Cut Out Path fo Invasion Forces

Yank Fliers Pierce Nazi Fighter Sereen, Blast Defense Wall Rail Center

Pre-Invasion Air Fleets Blast at Hamm Rail Center   Bombing Represents History's Greatest Aerial Offensive

28, 000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVE USED “IN LAST WEEK   Great Railyards at Hamm Blasted in Latest Pounding

RAID RESULTS SATISFACTORY,’ REPORT SAYS   History's Greatest Air Offensive Believed Still Under Way

Pre-Invasion Fleets Blast French Coast   Great Rail Center of Hamm and Balkans Also Smothered

4'000 Allied Planes Dump Big Bomb Loads on Europe's Invasion Coast Defense Area   2,000 American Crews Take Part in Raids; Russians Report All Quiet on All Fronts; Battle of Anzio Enters its Fourth Month

SAY INVASION SPREADS RUIN INBUSY WEEK   FRENCH GUN COAST PLASTERED WITH EXPLOSIVES

Yank Bombs Strike Hamm Just at Dusk   Vital Railroad Center in Ruhr Blasted in Surprise Assault   ‘NAZIS MAKE FIGHT   Climax Raid Brings Total of Allied Machines in Action to 17,000

German Rail Hub of  Hamm Struck   Axis Defenses on Atlantic Blasted Steadily

4000 PLANES. RANGE ACROSS INVASION AREA   Smash Rail Center of Ramm, Coast Forts, in France, Relaian Airfields.

4,000 Bombers Raid Saturday; Week Is Recore   Pre-Invasion Attacks Continued Sunday: Fronts In Russia, Italy Quiet

Hamm Rail Center And Enemy Defenses In France, Belgium’ Blasted In Record Air Assault.

Below-Zero Temperatures Grip North   WARMER WEATHER DUE FOR MIDWEST, COLD PREDICTED FOR SUNDAY

Cold Wave Grips North   Freezing Temperature ‘Extends Into South.

2-WAY SMASH OF BOMBERS  OVER FRANCE   Many Targets Feel Impact of Blows Designed to Thwart Bringing Up Reinforcements.   Genoa Hit

Heavies Smash At Germany's Oil Resources   Two-Way Attack Is Made; Robot Supply Depot Also Blasted

Yamashita Line On Leyte Island Is Outflanked   Yanks Infantryman Drive Six Miles Past Captured San Jose

Yanks clinch  Mindorogrip.  gain on Leyte Nip line flanked  in heavy fichting

Commanding Terrain Is Taken, General MacArthur ur Reports  ARMY, NAVY AVY FLIERS SWEEP THE’ SKIES  Heavy Casualties Dealt to the Japanese Forces

YANKS CLOSE IN ON HOLLANDIA MAIN AIRFIELD   Great Quantities of Supplies Taken as Objectives Seized

DUTCH NEW GUINEA.INVASION FORCES PENETRATE. SIX '. ". MILES INTO THE INTERIOR

Steady Progress In New Guinea Drive Reporte   American Troops Press To Within Five Miles Of Main Hollandia Airstriv   INDICATION JAPS PLAN RESISTANCE

PUSH SIX MILES FROM POINTS OF LANDINGS   Take Hollandia, Leimok Hill and Pim Village

PLAN ADDITIONAL JOINT MEETINGS   Men’s Bible Classes Of S. Statesville Plan Schedule

LONGER JUMPS IN PACIFIC WAR ARE PREDICTED   Stimson Suggests Defeat Of Germany May Not Be Far Off; War  Loss Revised

MAY EXPECT LONGER JUMPS TO JAPAN   Says Secretary Stimson as Result of 500-Mile Hop by Gen. MacArthur’s Men to Hollandia.   Set Pattern

Stimson Sees Jumps to Heart Of Jap Defense   Defeat for Germany May Not Be Far Off, Secretary Declares

SEES LONGER PACIFIC HOPS   Stimson Also Cites History To Suggest Nazi Defeat Is Not Far Off

OTIMGON GIVES REVIEW OF WAR   Secretary Says Longer Hops Toward Japan May Be Expeted; Suggests Defeat of Germany Not Far Off

SEEKS REVISION OF — PRESENT STATE LAW   Elgin Would Deprive Moterist 01 License From Time Of Convictien To Hearing Of Appeal

REVISION IN MOTOR - LEGISLATION URGED   Elgin Points to a Defect ' in the State Laws

Mrs. Dambrink Died Last Friday ~ Had Lived In‘ Le  Mars 61 Years. .

DANIBRINK RITES THIS AFTERNOOK   Pioneer LeMars Woman Passed Away At Home of Daughter

Congressman Tells Of Gay Capital Life   Says Taxpayers Must Foot Bill

CAPITAL PARTIES ARE BEING CRITICIZED   Rep. Buffet Says They Are Surpassing All Peacetime Records.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  Navy Accente Ravalutin nary Tyne Caron Plane

Opposition To Dewey Seeks Help   Hoover Disavows Any Part in Selection  Of Candidate

“Check Dewey’ Move Seen   Opposing Factions Seek Delegates  For Convention

Stop Dewey Move Fast Developing  Hoover Denies He Is Taking Any Part

OTHER GOPS MAY GO AFTER DEWEY   Hoover’s Disavowal Of Participation In Picking Nominee May Be Signal For “Check Dewey” Drive By Other Candidates; Roundun Of Political News.

GOP Politics Warming Up   Hoover Denies Participation In Current Politics.

‘CHECK DEWEY’ DRIVE STARTS   Hoover Announces He’ Taking No Part In  Nomination

Try To Offset Dewey's Votes   Public Disavowal by Hoover Indicates Warmth of PreConvention Campaign

FINNS BATTLE AGAINST NAZIS   War Declaration Imminent: Repel German Attack On Hogland

Halt Production of Bomb Turrets   2,000 Employes of Briggs Plant Strike

8,500 Texans In Honolulu To Turn Out For Lone Star State Roundup

FIGHT REOPENED IN SENATE OVER NEW TAX BILL   Poll Tax and Extension of Social Security Spice Affairs in Capital

feday In Washington  Senate In Saturday Session   Langer’s Claim He Can’t Understand ‘Simp lified Tax Bill’ Results  In Extra Session

SH WEATHERS sTORMAT POL   Overrides Opposition Of Dewey; Missouri's  Clark Is Unseated

Fish Winning, Clark Loses On Tuesday   Fish Weathers Dewey Opposition; McKittrick Unseats Missouri Veteran

Fish Is Victor; Clark Trails In Missouri   New Yorker Renominated by Republicans of 29th District

HAMILTON FISH VICTORIOUS IN PRIMARY FIGHT   WINS RENOMINATION; SEN. CLARK TRAILS M’KITTRICK IN MO.

Fish Is Victor In Battle For  Renominatior   New Yorker,’ Upposed By Dewey and Willkie, Has 3,000 Margin; Reed Wins In Kausas

Fish Is Winner Despite Dewey: Clark Trailing   New Yorker Returned To Congress: FDR Foe Apparent Loser In Missouri

Fish Winner, Clark Loser In Primaries   New Yorker Weathers Opposition From - Governor Dewey

FISH WINS IN PRIMARY FIGHT   Clark Trailing In Missouri Senatorship Balloting

HAMILTON FISH IS RENGMINATEL   Bennett Champ Clark Loses to McKittrick in Missouri Senate Race

HAMILTON FISH WINS DESPITE DEWEY WARNING   Bennett Clark Is Trailing; Reed  is Winner

HAM FISH WINS RENOMINATION   FDR Supporter Leads Clark in Missouri Race :

~-PRIMARY RESULTS—   SENATOR CLARK, MISSOURI, APPARENTLY IS DEFEATED

Fish Weathers INew York Storm   Wins Renomination Despite Opposition Of Dewey; Clark Of Missouri Loses

Hamilton Fish Is Renominated  In New York   Sen. Bennett Clark 0} Missouri Is Defeated By Roy McKittrick tr  Democratic Primary

Fish Wins: Clark Trails   Fish Has 3,000 Margin—-Clark Race Close

Tokyo Radio Seeks to Minimize Damage  Done by U. S. B-29s   Declares Hits on Big Iron Works Caused no Loss  of Production

Remove Plumbing Purchase Ban   Also on Heating, Cooking Equipment

WPB Lifts Rein On Many Items   Plumbing and Kitchen Equipment on List

PLUMBING FIXTURES ARE OFF RATION LIST   Heating And Cooking Equipment With Few Exceptions Removed By War Production Board

Ban on Purchase Of All Plumbing Equipment Lifted   Heating and Cooking Material. May -Also Be Bought

2 REPRESENTATIVES ARRWE IN LONDON   Work Way Across Atlantic On Tanker to Study Merchant Marine,

Germans Try To Disclaim Nazi Party   Fleischer Tells Of Reaction To Occupation.

Nazis Say Reds Crossed Tisza River, Last Big Barrier Before Budapest

LAST BARRIER BEFORE BUDAPEST TAKEN BY REDS   Throw Two Bridgeheads Over River 72 Miles From Hungarian Capital.

Operators Sue  To Stop Strike   Injunction Petition File ¢ In Washinetan Carre

OPERATORS ACT TOHALT STRIKES   Request Federal Court te Stop Dispute Hearings by WLB and Strike Votes by National Labor Board

Kirke L. Simpson Says: Stage Set for Churchill's Coming Review of the War to Parliament

Churchill Can Chuckle In Parliament Talk By Recent Allied Stroke:   Nazi-Jap Empire Appears To Be Tottering Atte Lightning Thrusts: Nips May Spring Fleet

Heroic Stand Turns Tide At Stavelo   8 Days of Desperate Fighting Is Described By U- S. Officers

After Heroic Fighting, Yanks Believe Tide Has Turned in Stavelot Sector

Yanks Feel Tide Has Turned Against Foe Ne After Eight Desperate Days at Srawaloen :

Doughboys' Heroic Courage 'Cold Wave Beats Crack German Troops at 22 Below

ALLIED FEELING IS. THAT TIDE OF BATTLE HAS FINALLY TURNED   ALLIED AIR FORCE AIDS GROUND TROOPS IN STAVELOT SECTOR

Battle Tide Turning?  Yanks Fighting With Determination In Stavelot Sector I Belgium.

Yank Heroism Turns Tide In Stavelot Ares   Americans Hold Grimly After Eight Days Of Terrific Fighting

.ogansport Youth Stops German Panzer Attack; Kempton Boy one of 130 Yank Prisoners Rescued

Soldiers Feel Feel Tide Turning   “Roads Are Littered ; With Nazi Wreckage

PRO-FDR DEMS WIN IN TEXAS   Control State Convention Seek to Purge AntiRoosevelt Group

Former Chicago Mayor Died A Rich Man   Examination of Thompson's Safety Deposit Boxes Reaveale $1.500.000

‘Fortune in Cash Found in 2 Safety Deposit Boxes of Wm. Hale Thompson, ‘Most of It in Gold Certificates

MAY CRIPPLE WAR WORK    Strike of Warplane Engine Work @re Sprea ‘in Five Plan

MAY CRIPPLE WAR WORK   Strike of Warplane Engine Workers Spreading in Five Plants

ROK SUMMARY OF WAR, PEAGE AIMS   House Members Question Hull About Future of Paland. Finland.

Sinking of Auxiliary Ships erie. Cripples Movements (Of Jap Carriers, Battleships

Not as Sensational as Carrier Sinkings, But  Loss of Oilers Hard on Jap Fleet

Jap Fleet Hard Hit   Though No Capital Ships at Truk, Loss of Oilers a Heavy Blow.

Jap Supply Bases Hit   Allied Aerial Attacks Fiange From Dutch East Indies to New Ireland

SURFACED SUB IS BOMBED BY ALLIED PLANES   129 Tons Of Bombs Ar Dropped On Rabaul  Airdromes   FIGHTING CONTINUES IN MARSHALL ISLANDS

own 12 Planes, last Airdromes 1 Rabaul Area   Australians Make Speedy Progress

S DEFENDANTS  HIRED HEMAN'   Lobbyist Says Group Hirec Him to Pay Legislators Bribes.

HEMANS LISTS HIS BATHROOM BRIBE CLIENTS   GRAFT TAKEN BY 20 LAWMAKERS, SAYS STAR WITNESS

Dewey and Vandenberg In Agreement On G.O.P. Foreign Policy Stand

Claim Chances Of Dewey Bright In Middle West   Vandenberg Confers With GOP Nominee Over Campaign

Vandenberg, Dewey Agree Upon Policy   GOP Leaders Map  Foreign Plans

Girl, Sailor Save Five Army Flyers   Drag Men From Flaming Bomber

Kimmel Talks On Hawaii Affair   Says Public Will Be Amazed At True Facts

EFFORT BEING MADE TOWARD UNIFORM POLICY IN ALL SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY

STUDY RECENT DIRECTIVES ON DRAFT   State Directors Confer With Hershey in Washington

Germans Robbed Italian Peasants   Liberated Folk Glad to See Americans, Say Everything Taken From Them

Britain Plans Influence  InEurope “   Eden. Declares Stand To Be Maintained Despite U. 5. Reaction  USES BLUNT TERMS   Justices Ask Many Questions, Take AP Case Under Advisement

GOVERNMENT’S SUIT. _IS BEFORE COURT   Supreme Court Is Expected To Give Decision In AP Case Early Next Year

U.S. Grand Jury Opens Probe Inte Transport Strike   Negroes Resume Training; Conspiracy To Sabotage War Hinted

War Powers Act May Be Invoked In Strike Case   Grand Jury Meeting

Grand Jury Opens  Phila. Strike Inquiry  To Delve Deep Into  "Possible Conspiracy  ae oe en 2 ee 2 2 ae

GRAND JURY IS PROBING STRIKE   Philadelphia Transit Line Resumes Negro Training

MRS. CHARLES BREN DIES   Was Sister of Mra. C. P. Radelitte and of H. B. Ober x

Forecasts New - Period on Taxes   ROGER BABSON’ TELLS ABOUT YEARS AFTER WAR

Rabaul Gets Another Plastering Making 500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Base in Past Five Days; Aussies Move up Guinea Coast

Japs Driven Back In India: Truk Blasted   Chinese, However Admit Setback Near Strategic Loyang, Ancient Capital

EVERYBODY MIXED UP IN CHAPLIN CASE TALKS BUT CHARLIE   By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN ’ United. Press Hollywood

PRESIDENT IS THANKFUL   Voluntary Censorship Kept His 35-day Trip a Secret

Japs Make No Effort to Fire At U.S. Foree   All American Planes Return From Attack: Ponape Is Blasted by Both Army, Navy Flier

JAP AIRFIELDS IN WIDE AREA “HIT BY YANKS   Seek to Forestall Foe Effort to Bolster  New Guinea Force

FAYETTE COUNTY OFFICIAL KILLED IN AITO CRASH   County Commissioner Frock I Victim When Car-Truck Crash

YANKS FREE 40 MILES OF LEYTE COAST   Jap Counter - Blows Halted; Planes Cover Army

Allies Continue To Score Gains On Italy Front   Polish Troops Push Northward In General Drive From Adriatic

ALLIES IN ITALY GAIN 7 MILES   TROOPS PRESS INLAND FROM ADRIATIC SECTOR

_ LONDON /-- The German DNB news agency said today that Russian cavalrymen have crossed the Carpathians into Hungary.

Japanese Fail to Land on Mindoro Island   Naval Attack Was Feared Screen for Movement of Troops

Japanese Fail to Land on Mindoro Island  Naval Attack Was   Naval Attack Was Feared Screen for Movement of Troops

‘ Japs Show Weakness: ‘ Naval Attack on Mindoro Island ' Nof Made To Screen Troops Moves

NO LANDING BY ~ ENEMY TROOPS   Reconnaissance Fails To Reveal Jap Beachhead On Mindoro

JAPO FAIL TRY © TOLAND TROOPS   First Believed Naval Attack  , screen for Landings   NO BEACHHEADS FOUND   Mopping up of Isolated Japanese Troops On Leyte Island Continues

TUESDAY NAVY RAID NOT RUSE YANKEES FIND   Suspected Screen For Landings Not Borne Out By Search Of  Coastal Area

Woman Killed in Capital Cathedral   Strange Marital Mixup Results from Mistake in Reports on Two Sergeants

What’s In A Name?— Maybe This Will Help You To Figure Out The Answer

Court Unsnarls Marital Tangle Of Men In Army   Report Mistake Causes Confusion

Great Sky Fleets Go Into Reich   Railways Battered Near Industrial Centers; Cologne Heavily Bombed   DUISBERG ALSO POUNDED HARD   Numerous Other Targets Hammered; Weather Is Best in Days

2,200 Planes Raid Reich   Duisberg Gets 4,500 Tons of Explosives.

GREAT FLEETS OF  OVER TWO THOUSAND  BOMBERS HIT NAZIS WITH FIGHTER ESCORT  APPROXIMATELY 3300 PLANES IN ACTION

Big Bomber Fleets Pound Cologne, Duisberg Targets  Over 1,100 Fighters Escort 2,200 Bombers on Attacks

Cologne, Duisberg Battered   Deliver Crushing Blow Nazi Targets Just Inside Border

2:200 BOMBERS HIT RAILROADS AND INDUSTRIES   Duisberg Drenched Wit! Great Concentration  in Daylight Assault

Great Heavy Bomber Fleets Blast Cologne, Duisberg, Other Targets

JAPS ADMIT DAMAGE BY EARTHQUAKE   Came on Third Anniversary of  Pearl Harbor

Tidal Waves, Landslides Hit Tokyo Area  Japs Admit Earthquake Damage

JAPS ADMIT NIPPON HIT BY QUAKE   Seismologists Say Tremor More Violent Than 1923 Disaster

Tokyo Area In Zone of Disturbance   Wall of Water.   British Recording.

lidal Wave Sweeps Central Japan; Damage May Be Huge   Temblor Much Heavier Than One Which Razed Yokohama, Tokyo in 1923

JAPS ADMIT EARTHQUAKE KILLED. THOUSANDS BUT MINIMIZE  DAMAGE TO. TOKYO’S WAR PLANTS

lidal Waves Sweep Over Wide Area  Tokyo Belittles   Tokyo Belittles Shake, Reports Slight Damage

Tokio Says Tidal Waves, Landslides Hit Islands In Wake Of Earthquake

Quake Caused Tidal Waves, Tokyo Admits   Central Japan Is Hit By Record Temblor, Radio Reports

JAPANESE ADMIT VIOLENT “QUAKE   Even More Severe Than The 1923 Yokohama Disaster

INSIST EXTENT OF DAMAGE 10 ISLAND SMALL   Report Tidal Waves, Landslides Occur in Sea of Enshu Area

JAPS REPORT QUAKE CAUSES SLIGHT DAMAGE   Temblors Felt Thruout World Loose Landslides, Roll Up Tidal Waves

LANDSLIDES ARE LOOSED BY TREMND'   150-Mile Belt of Central Japan Is Rocked By Quake

Admission of Earthquake Made by Japs   Despite Intensity Foe Says Damage in Most Areas “Slight”

Red Forces Take Vitebsk And Zhlobin   Three Other Bastions In Area Face Circling By Advancing Soviets; Equipment Taken

Reds Take Two Major “Nazi Bases   Vitebsk, Zhlobin Fall _ Before Soviets, Otter Bastions Under™ - Pressure

Soviets Capture Nazi Ukraine Stronghold; Reach Dniester River on Front 50 Miles Long

000,000 GERMANS ~ IN SWIFT RETREAT BEFORE RED ARMY   Thousands Threatened ve     Toward Dniester River .. and Black Sea.   DRIVE PUTS REDS 60 : MILES FROM HUNGARY         Vital Bucharest-CzernowitzLwow Railway Menaced by Advance—250 Villages Engulfed.

Red Forces Capture German Held Fortress Of Proskurov And Black Sea Port Kikolaev

Russians Reach Outskirts Of Nikolaev; Proskurov Captured   Red Tide Now Within 17 Miles Of Railroac Linking Lwow And Bucharest

Russians Try ‘To Split Nazi  . Front in East   500,000 Foes Beaten Back. On Dniester, Black Sea; .  AELalaae Tntthore 1

VITEBSK AND ZHLOBIN ARE INRED HANDS   ) GERMAN DIVISIONS ARE TRAPPED BY RUSSIANS

RUSSIANS SEIZE. VITEBSK; 45,000 NAZIS. TRAPPER   Capt ure Zhlobin, Southern Anchor of Nazi Line in White Russia, and Men - ace 3 Other Bastions.   ADVANCE MILE AN HOUR ON 250-MILE FRONT   More Than 1,700 Populated Places Are Liberated by Gigantic Offensive of Four Armies.

3 GOP State Chiefs Open  Dewey Drive   Republican Nominee Drawing Up Plans for Opening His Own Campaign Sent. 7 }

POLITICAL POT READY 10 BOtL   GOP Governors Open Campaign Tonight fer Dewey

HEATED ELECTION CAMPAIGNS OPEN   GOP CANDIDATES BEGIN FALL DRIVE AS THREE GOVERNORS BROADCAST

Partisan Political Heat Is Generated   Hillman to Give Report on Drive to Raise 5 Millions From CIO.

Formal Opening of Campaign. Is Near.   Political Heat Begins To Generate; Hillman Defends CIO Activity   All Emporians Are Invited to Attend Sessions of State Legion Convention

Polifical Heat Rises As Big Campaign On   Hillman Testimony on PAC. GOP Opener, ‘Slush Fund’ Quest Adding Fuel

Political Temperatures Up As Hour Nears For Formal Opening of Election Campaigns

“FDR May Not “Sion Tax Bill   $8,000,000,000 Less Than RevenueDemands

Roosevelt May Refuse To Sign New Tax Act   President Expected To Le Measure Become Law without His Signature

Roasevelt May — Refuse to Sign Pending Tax Bill   No” Veto:-Expected -but President May Not Attach Name

Chief Executive May Not Sign Tax Legislation   Outright Veto Unlikely, Act May Become Law Without F.D.R. Signature

SMALL INDUSTRIES WILL BENEFIT Ik REPUBLICANS WIN   Dewey. Claims Present Administration Gives Big Industries Emphasis

Tax Policy Is Scored By Dewey   Governor Charges Small Firms Hit - By Present Method

DEWEY VOICES TAX CHARGES   SAYS NEW DEAL FAVORED “LARGE” INDUSTRIES

NEW ATTACKS BY DEWEY, BRICKER ON THE NEW DEAL  O’MAHONEY ARGUES   O’MAHONEY ARGUES WITH HALLECK ON ELECTION TRENDS

New Zealanders Seize Heights  At Florence  Germans Cling Desperately To Defenses

Germans Counter  Drive in Italy   New Zealanders Gain In Heavy Fighting

German Attacks Slow Allies   Nazis Determined to Defend Florence

GIANT PINCERS CLOSING IN ON COLOGNE, RHINE   U. $. Seventh Fights Way Closer Toward Vital Belfort Gap   THIRD BATTERS ODRIANT   Presence Of Marshall In Paris May Be Signal For Great Drive

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   CIANT PINCERS MOVEMENT AGAINST COLOGNE

FIRST ARMY TWIN COLUNINS LEAD WAY :   ‘Allied Units Get Closer to Belfort Pass in South

Woodring Offers More Candidates   Suggests 0 Daniel To ‘True Democrats ’

Reds Cross Czechoslovak Frontier   Threaten Collapse Of German Salient

RUSSIANS SMASH INSIDE SLOVAKIA   RED OFFENSIVE DRIVES TO WITHIN TWO MILES OF STRONGHOLD OF KASSA.

Kassa Defense Is Threatened   Soviet. Troops Drive Within Three Miles Of East Slovak Stronghold,

Reds Stor ming Across Bor lex Czechoslovak   Threatening Collapse of Gernzan Salient In Eastern Slovak Between Poland, Hungary

REDS CLOSE IN ON KASSA, ITS ESCAPE HIGHWAY   Most Extensive New Crossing Of Border Made Near Moldava

Russ Alpine units swarm out of hills   Forge way into Czechoslovakia

Russians ¢ Cross. _ -Gzech Frontier. . From Hungary   Threateit Early Collapse’ of ‘Entire German Salient * Iw Eastern ‘Slovakia

RUSSIANS GAIN FAST IN DRIVE TOWARD KASSA   Reds Cross Czechoslovak Frontier in 12 Mile Advance

SOVIETS SWARMING ACROSS FRONTIERS   Enter Czechoslovakia From Northeast Hungary on Widening Front.

SOVIET TROOPS THREATEN NAZI SALIENT TODAY   Gain Up To 12 Miles In New Winter Drive

Reds Swarm Across the Czechoslovak Frontier   Early Collapse of Eutire Nazi Salient In Eastern Slovakia Is Threatened

SOVIETS CROSS SLOVAK BORDER   Threaten Entire German Salient Between Poland. Hungary

RED FORCES SWARM OVER CZECH BORDER   Early Collapse of Entire German Saiient Between Poland and Hungary Is Threatened

Soviets Cross  Slovak Border   Early Collapse of German Salient Near  As Red Front Widens

Russians Take Rail Station Of Kamenee   Closing in on Kassa From Three Directions

Reds Push Over Czech Frontier   Entire German Salient Placed in Danger

REDS SWARM ACROSS THE CZECH BORDER   Driving Out of Kecske Mountains, Soviets Gain Up to 12 Miles and Advance on Major Bastion of Kassa.

Full Collapse Qf German Line Sighted   Russians Are Pouring Into Slovakia on Ever-Widening Front

Nazi Salient Threatened As Russians Near Kassa_   Crecho-Slovak: Frorit Is Crossed: By “Reds

Reds Swarm Across Slovakian Frontier   Threaten German Troops in East

Russian Armies Swarm Across Slovak-Frontier   Threaten Early Fall Of Entire. Nazi Salient In Eastern:Slovakia

RUSSIAN TROOPS AT GERMAN ROAD   Soviet Army Streaming Across Czechoslovakian Border Imperil Nazi Escane Route.

U. S. Official Says California Faces  TIT. nm LoS puoi.  FOSLt- war Ci ‘tdtd

ONE DEAD AND THREE HURT IK COLOMA CRASH   Auto Traveling Without Lights Hit Head-On By Another

Covert Youth Is Fatally Injurec   John: Laushay, Jr., Dies, 2 Hurt In Car Crash

Nearing Jap Stronghold On Saipan   Lots of Action Reported it Southwest Pacific—Bomb New Guinea Coast

File Injunction Suit To Stop Collection Of Two Per Cent Sales Tax

B-29 Production. Hit By Walkouts   Superfort Program Suffers New Blow

Latest from Berlin: ‘Americans Repulsed in Italy, Nazi Radio Says in Propaganda Reports

CLAIMS ALLIES ARE REPULSED   Nazi Propaganda Mill Pui Out Talk of Counter Invasion of England

irst Allied Thrusts Fail,  Germans Say   Radio Says Offensive In Htaly Is ‘Expected? Taroe-Serale Attack

U. S. Officer Finds Japs Use Poison Gas Against Chinese; Sees Victims

Japs Using Gas Against Chinese at Hengyang, U. S. Army Chemical Expert Says

Japs Using Gas, U.S. Officer Says   Hengyang Defenders’ Charges Confirmed

RAPID ADVANCE ON STRATEGIC ANGAUR ISLAND   Swift Extension New Army Beachheads Paces American  Conquest Of South ern Palaus.

Pacific Gains Turn Tide Of Fierce Battle      Beachheads Joined On Angaur; Marines Push Forward   PELELIU TURNABOUT   Leathernecks Capture Highest Hill; Bomb Three Vessels

MARINES GAIN BEACHHEAD ON ANGAUR IS.   Wildcat Army Division Holds Northeast Third of Objective Few Hours After Going Ashore

U.S. Forces Progress Against Japs On Peleliu In Fiercest Fighting Of Palau Invasion   Angaur Beachheads Being Swiftly Extended: Advance From Airfield

Tide Of Palaus Battle Swings In Our Favor   Army Forces Extend Beachheads, Marines Take Hichest Hill.

‘Army Holds One-Third of  ‘Angaur; Marines on Peleliu iGain Against Stubborn Fee

Marines and Army Gain On Islands   Troops Making Landing On Anguar; Fierce Jap Resistance on Peleliu

Extended Angaut Beaches Paced By Palau Gains   Yanks Push Beyond Peleliu Airfield, Capture Highest Hill

U. 5. AIRPLANES OPERATING FROP MOROTAIISLE   Highest Point On Peleliu Is Captured In Bloody Fighting

Repert Fresh ate Gains Among  Invaded Isle:   Army and Marines Extend Beachheads On Angaur and Peleliu In the Pacifie

Yankees Tighten Grip on Islands   Heavy Japanese Opposition Fails to Halt Advances of U. S. on Palau Stronghold

Advance Swiftly — On Angaur   Marines Hold Roughly Half of Southernmost Palau Isle; Advance Steadily On Peleliu

» AMERICANS GAIN AGAINST HEAVY * NIP OPPOSITION   Marines, Army Units Score Advances in Conquest Of the Palaus

Army Expands New Beachheac On Palau Isle  Marines Keep On Besyi Hayy  Lem mrmem fam mew bin

Yanks Step Up Palau Advance   Pusk on Across Peliliu, Land on Angaur, Reach All Morotai Objectives

Yanks Gain Ground in  Island War   Army Take» Another ¥sland——Marines Mect Stubborn Japs

Army Beachhead On Angaur Island  Another of Palaus   Another of Palaus Is Invaded; Report Light Opposition

Army Extends Beachheads On Angaur   Marines Advance On Peleliu Against Heavy Jap Resistance

TROOPS LAND ON ANOTHER PALAU ISLAND      Army “Extends Beachheads on Angaur as Marines Gain on Adjacent Peleliu Against Heavy Jap Opposition.

B-29 Bomber Raids Upset Japanese \Plans for a “West Wall” Defense

German Counter-attack Still Strong \But Consolidation of Gains Remote

F ighting Leaders Win WLB Battle   Executive Board Acts Quickly After Arnold Says Whole War Put in Jeopardy

HEED PLEA Ut AR FORGE AND NAVY OFFIGERS   Stoppage of Plane and Motor Production Held Peril to invasion.

Strikers Urged Return to Jobs   Chief of Air Force Tells Men Strike Crippling Air Support

Says Walk-Out Severe Setback To Air Forces   3,500 Foremen Asked To Return To Vital War Factory Jobs

BOARD ASKS MEN TO RESUME WORK   Action Taken After Genera Arnold Describes Walk-out as Serious Setback.

UNION BOARD VOTES TO END DETROIT STRIKE   Recommends 3300 War Plant Foremen Return To Work

OVER 70,000 MEN “WULRETURN TD VITAL WAR 08S   Gen. Arnold Tells Chiefs Entire Invasion Plans Were Seriously Threatened.

Fall Of Lomza Clears Way For Soviet Attack On Kast Prussia   Army Set To Open Invasion Route   Violent Fighting Reported Flaring Up Below Warsaw

Russians in Meme Outskirts   Big Push Against Reichland Launched; Baltic Blockade Set

BULGARIAN TROOPS EVACUATE GREECE   Soldiers Withdraw in Compliance With Allled Demands Preliminary to Truce Parley.

Fall of Lomza To Red Forces Seems Imminent   Germans Declare Russian: Have Opened North Polish Drive

WITHDRAWAL OF BULGAR TROOPS IS ANNOUNCED   Have Evacuated Greek Territory In Compliance  With Allied Demands      RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON TILSIT RAIL CENTER

Naval Forces Attack  Marcus Island  Yanks Accomplish Strike With Surprisina Ease

Big Naval Forces Rip Marcus, Wake   Carrier Planes Drop 300 Tons of Bombs

Wake And Marcus I. Attacked   Mighty Naval Task Force Finds  Little Opposition ; Sinks 15 Vessels.

Acquiring a New Steps ping Stone to Tokyo. »  NINE MORE JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK  Secretary Knox Says Japs Lost 92 Boats in Three Weeks.

FDR Says GOP Puts Party First   In Navy Day Speech Hits At Republican Unpreparedness Charge.

‘Republican Politicians’  Are Assailed By Roosevelt   Says They Intimate * ‘Non-Co-operatiow’ In Winning of Peace If He Is Re-elected  SPEAKS IN PHILA.

FDR. DEFENDS © DEFENSE RECORD AND WAR POLICY   President Lashes G. O. P. in Speech Before Thousands at Philadelphia Baseball Park.   PROMISE OF QUICK DEMOBILIZATION GIVEN   Charges Republicans Are Attempting to Put Political Advantage Over Devotion to U. S.

Roosevelt Lashes GOP Threat To Wreck Peace   Declares Republicans Place Party Above Country’s Best Interest; Speaks to Nation From Shibe Park

PHILADELPHIA CROWD HEARS FDR ADDRESS   “Vote My Way or  Won't Play” Tactics Charged

‘Roosevelt o on Defensive In Philidelphia   COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF  DEOLARES HIS OWN IMPORTANCE IN THE VICTORIES OF U. 8. ARMED FORCES,   Avoids Denials

WRITER PREDICTS CRISIS BETWEEN U. S., BRITAIN OVER BUSINESS   Nations Seem To Be Jockeying For Trade

POLITICAL NEWS LAW LIBERALIZED   Propaganda Material Paid For With Public Funds Stil} Banned.

5,000 PLANES HIT TARGETS IN GERMANY   Nerve Centers Behind Siegfried Line and Industrial Plants Take Reatinge.   700 Enemy Planes

5,000 BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN WAR FACTORIES   Motor, Aircraft Plant Hit Le Havre Aslo A Target

ENEMY TARGETS ARE HAMMERED IN HEAVY RAIDS   Nearly 5,000 Bombers And Fighters Range From  = Channel To Austria _

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FLIERS BLAST NAZI TARGETS IN DAY RAIDS   Nearly 5,000 Bombers and Fighters Join in Assaults   London, Monday, Sept. 11 (P)—-RAF Mosquitos bombed Berlin fast night, the British announced officially today.

5,000 PLANES BATTER NAZIS   Foe Targets in Wide Area Hit in One of Biggest Attacks Since D-Day

SOLONS CLOSE SESSION TODAY   Kelly’s Program Is Nearly Fulfilled. Only Two Bills Stranded

FIVE KILLED, 33 HURT IN CRASH   Trolley Collides With Another In ®+tshurgh in Blind-) . ing Fog Today

Allies Make Long Gains Over Italy’s Battlefront   Resistance Of Foes Is Slowly Breaking

ALLIES ADVANCE ALL ALONG LINES IN ITALY TODAY   Fifth Army Forces Breaking Increased Nazi Resistance Of Past Few. Days-~—Three Important Towns Captured

CLARK'S TROOPS SCORE BIG GAINS IN ITALIAN AREA   Fifth Army Captures Four Towns, Vast German Food Stores

ritth Makes  Ceneral Gain   Yanks Take Orvieto. Aquila. Narni: Break German Resistance,

Allied Armies Breaking Nazi Resistance, Advancing Along Entire Front Across Italy   Capture Three Towns In Onward Drive; Fifth Sweeps Past Captured Orhetelln

Take Three Towns In Sector Halfway From Rome To Florence   Aquila, Orbetello Fall Before Advance Toward Northern Italian Centers

ALLIED TROOPS IN GENERAL ADVANCE ON ITALIAN FRONT   NUMEROUS TOWNS AND TRANSPORTATION POINTS HAVE BEEN CAPTURED

Allies Break  Nazi Defenses   eV tre ees CENT Seen UT  Italy Made; Orbetello Captured by Fifth

Nazi Resistance Broken in ltaly   Allies Make General Advanve All Along Line in Italy Battle

Take Orvieto, Aquila and’ Narn in General Ad. vanee in All Sectors.

ALLIED LINE IN ITALY IS PUSHED AHEAL   Troops Take Three Inland Towns and_ Forces Driving Up West Coast Reach Point 79 Miles Narth af Rama ‘

ALLIES PUSH ANEAD IN ITALY “DESPITE. NATIG   Break Stiffening Resistance Of: German . Troops

Allies Break  Nazi Defenses   General Advance in  Italy Made; Orbetello Captured by Fifth

Fifth Army Takes Three Nazi Base: In Steady March   Have Now Pushed On 79 Miles Beyond Rome; Make General Advance.

, ITALY LY—  NAZI RESISTANCE. IN ITALY BROKER   General Advance Along  Entire Line- Reported  By Allies   38 TOWNS CAPTURED   Germans Driven From Orvieto, Aquila And Narni In New Push

Sweeping Advance In Italy   Allies Overcome Stiff. German Resistance to Push Ahead on Entire Front: Orbetello Falls

NAZI RETREAT IN ITALY CONTINUES   Allies Drive Onward Afte Cracking Foe Lines; Three Cities Taken

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN STEADILY IN NORTH ITALY   More Nazi Troops Thrown Into Battle Area

‘Allies Take Three Cities   Smash Resistance Of Germans to Gain In Northern Italy

Allied Advance General Despite   Nazi Resistance   Important Road Junction Taken By Eighth Army; Enemy Uses Reserves

Allied Troops Advance on Italian Line   Breaking German Resistance of Last Three Days

Genera Move      Allies Break Stiffening German Defenses, Seize Important Towns

ALLIES MAKING ADVANCE ALONG ITALIAN LINES   Despite New German Reinforcements Only Remnants of Broken Forces Encountered

Three Town: Captured in Italy Drive   Allied Forces Score Advances All Along Front; Germans Increasing Resisiance

Nazis in Italy Stiffen Resistance   Important Road Junction in Hands of Allies

ALLIES ADVANCING ON ITALIAN FRONT      Take Three Towns While Breaking Stiff German  Bacietanna 

Allies Punching Ahead In Italy  Stiffened Resistance Shattered By Blows

Russians Plead For Second Front   Time Has Arrived, Writer Declares

ARMY OFFICER RUNS AMUCK; KILLS THREE   Five Persons Are Injured in Cal. Shooting

Anza Officer Kills Three and Wounds Five   2nd Lieutenant Runs Amuck Before Being Shot Down

OFFICER RUNS AMUCK, KILLS 3, WOUNDS 5   Slays 2 Women At Camp Anza Near Riverside

Three Killed by Army Lieutenant   FIVE OTHERS WOUNDED WHEN CAMP ANZA OFFICER GOES AMUCK

Burley Assigned To Post-Of. Electronics Engineer On . C..   Points Out That. New Work Will Be Logical ‘Continuation Of Old-

U.S. IST AND 3RD DRIVE DEEP INTO GERMAN SALIENT   In Fifteen Miles Two American Armies Will Join in Developing Counter-Offensive

‘Yankee Ist and 3rd Armies Are Within Less Than 15 Miles of Juncture in Great Counterattack   Ardennes May Be Turned Into a Gigantic Death Pocket for Thousands of Crack German Troops

‘Extended German Lines May Form Nazi Death Trap as Foe Suffers First Real Beating of Offensive

Enemy Gives Up Initiative All . Along Frontline   Over-Extended Nezi Lines Struggle To Retreat To Defense Positions

ate American First _ And Third Armies  DEATH POCKET FOR CRACK NAZI TROOPS  Americans Wipe Out Entire German Panzer Regiment Yesterday

Yanks Add 41 To Toll of Jap Ships   Japs Report New B-29 Attack On Homeland

FLIERS INCREASE PACIFIC BAG WITH 41 NIPPONESE SHIPS   15 War Vessels Sent To Bottom

Battleship And Cruiser Are Blasted   Big Ships Damaged bj Planes and Carrier Sunk  by Submarines

NEW B-29 RAID REPORTED; HIT A1 JAP SHIPS   15 Warships Included In Nip Vessels Sunk Or Damaged

BEATS OFF ATTACKER   Sellersville Girl Alleges U. S. Marine Attempted to Attack Her

Pilots Tell Of Aerial Attack On Jap. Convoy   Transport Blows Up In 30 Seconds; Bodies Litter Water

JAP BODIES LITTER WATERS OF BAY   AMERICAN PILOTS TELL OF DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY SHIPS OFF ORMOC.

Yankee Pilots Tell of Air, Naval Battle   Fight Ends When Battered Jap Surface Unit Flees

ROBOTS HAVE CAUSED NO BIG DAMAGE   Commons Told _ Public Utilities Have Been Affected Only Slightly, ‘Although Buitons Do Resnect Nazi Missiles.

Take Robots In Stride   Britons Not Terrorized By Flying Bombs, But Admit Damage Done

HOME SECRETARY REPORTS ON ROBOTS   Little Damage of National Importance; Utilities Affected Slightly,

11 More Men Report For Physicals   Pre-Induction Exams Were Given At Ft. Leavenworth, Kan,

Allied supplies given Tialian civilians will total 2.300.000 tons by end of °44

Many-die Patéled; Some Accepted. for Armed Services   hose With Good  Records Get Final Discharge After War™.

Prison Panrolees Now Sewe iw Army and Navy   Many Thus Regaining Their U. S. Citizenship

Louisiana Demos Name Full Slate In Ist Primary   Eight Candidates In  Governor Race

EISENHOWER BACK FROM INSPECTION   Nazi Garrisons on Mediterranean Fear Drive

Gen. Eisenhower Inspects Invasion Forces as German Tension (Over Impending Blows Increases

INDIA THREAT QUELLED; 3000 NIP CASUALTIE:   Supplied by Plane, Imperials Crack Enemy Trap

TWO BRITISH RAIDS AGAINST NAZI CAPITAL   Big Fieets of Allied Bombers Strike Out at France Today to Keep Ball A’rolling.

NAZI WAR MACHINE HIT HARD BY THE AMERICAN BOMBERS   ‘Have Dropped More Than * 3900 Tons of Bombs in 48 Hours,   255 ENEMY CRAFT LOST   Amreicans Lost 54 Bombers and 21 Fighters in the Battle.

U.S, AIR FORCES RAIN 3,900 TONS   Americans Bag 225 Enemy Aircraft In Two Days --

U.S. Bombers Smack Reich  InRecord Runs British Active   Germany Reeling Under Successive Air Blows

3,900 Tons Of Bombs Loosed In 48 Hours   255 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed In Two Days By American Flyers

Hitler's Strong Reserve Pool Apparently Gone   Bombs Blast Enemy Robot Installations

Allied Fronts Become One   United Action Forces Hitler to Shift Russia Troops to Normandy

Clark's Army Battering At Rome Defense   Americans And French Attack Along 30 Mile Front, Reach Rapido River

Yanks And French Driving Forward   NEW ASSAULTS STARTED BY GEN. CLARK’S » FORCES

AMERICAN, FRENCH  TROOPS BATTLING ON  THIRTY-MILE FRONT HAVE REACHED BANKS  OF RIVER RUNNING TURNTICUN CASSINQG 8 *

GET TO RAPIDO RIVER BANK IN HEAVY ATTACK   Flying Fortressés Hit Messerschmitt Factory at Klagenfurt, Austria

Reach River Near Cassino   Capture Mt. Trocchio, Last High Ground Before Town

STHARMY  VIS ON RIVER'S BANKS   Rapide Runs Through Cassino; Begin Assaults on Main Road to Rome.   MT. TROCCHIO IS TAKEN

oth Army Begins Siege Of Cassino  Reaches Rapido River, Batters Gustav Line

ALLIES BEGIN FINAL SMASH FOR CASSINO   Yanks, French Reach Nazis River Defenses, Launch Blow On Gustav Line

Allies Begin Hammering Gustav Line   5th Army Reaches Rapido River, Which Runs to Cassino

Gustav Defense Lines in Italy Face Assault   American Troops May Be at Gates Of Vitel Cassino

Fifth Army Set For Push On Cassino; Fortresses Raid Messerschmitt Plant

Rapido River Reached By Fifth Army   Battering Assault Begins On Main Defense Line Of Germans Guarding Route To Rome

Reach Steep Banks of Ranido River   Begin Hammering At Germans’ Gustav Defense Line

Drive on Rome Is Facing Final Barrier   Messerschmitt Factory In Austria Hit By Big U. S. Planes

Marines Triumph In New Britain Battle; Yanks And French On Italian Front Gain

Take Mount Trocchio  Attack Along A Thirty Mile Front; Juin’s Troops Capture Cardito; Rapido’s Banks, Main Feature of Nazi Defense Line.

U. S., FRENCH TROOPS REACH RAPIDO RIVER   Americans May. Have Descended Mt. Trocchio to Town Itself— Gustav Line Under Attack   RAID KLAGENFURT   Messerschmitt Plant in Austria Left Bomb-Scrambled Mess by Eaker’s Airmen

Fifth Army Lays Siege ‘To Cassino   Reaches Rapido River Guarding City and Starts Battering af Gustav Defense Line

ATTACKING MAIN BARRICADE TO ROME—U. S. TROOPS: CAPTURE MT. TROCCHIO—DEFENSE LINE IS STUDDED WiTH GUNS, WEAPON PITS, DUGOUTS AND TRAPS 

Yanks Reaeh. River Banks  Near Cassino   French Join in Drive or Gustav Line Bar to Rome Road

UNITS ATTACK ON A FRONT OF 30 MILES   Americans and French Reach Rapido. River, Which Runs Through City, and Are Battering Gustay Defense Line. —

Fifth Reaches Rapido River. Begins Hitting Gustave Line   Forts Bomb Nazi Plane Factory at Klagenfurt, Austria

U.S. Big Guns Pounding Nazi  “Custav Line”   American Infantry Push to Advantageous Point After Capturing Mt. Trocchio   Frenchmen Gain;  Air War Flaring   eae Messerschmitt Factory At Klagenfurt, Austria, Battered Into Scrambled Mass

CLARK'S FORCES ARE BATTERING AT GUSTAV LINE   Reach Banks Of Rapido River; Battling French Army Makes New Gains Against Germans.

Yanks Ready For Big Drive On Cassino   Germans Driven From Last Mountain Stronghold Before Road to Rome

River. Banks. Have Been Converted Into One of Main Features of Pow: erful Nazi Line Barticading ‘Route To Rome Forts. Hits Messer: schmitt Factorv.

U.S. AND FRENCH TROOPS REACH © BANKS OF RAPIDO   SEIZE LAST HIGH GROUND DEFENSE BEFORE CASSINO

titth Army Attacks On 30-Mile Front Near The Rapido   Yanks Open Battering Assaults On German’s Gustav Defense Line,  Main Barrier To City Of Rome

Clark's Army Smashing af Cassino Doors   American and French Troops Reach Steep Banks of Rapido River

Allies Capture Two Key Points   Improve Position In South Pacific,  It Is Reported -

Americans Attack on Wide Front   Fifth Army Comes Smack Up Against Main Nazi Defense

ALLIES BEGIN ASSAULTS ON GUSTAV LINE      Reach River Which Runs Through Nazi Bastion Before Rome

Russians Open New Drive 70 Miles From Latvian Boundary   Soviet Forces Advance Toward Key Rail, Road Junction of Rovno in Old Poland

Yankees Batter Main Barricade  On Road to Rome   Americans and French of Clark’s Army Reach the Banks of Rapido River.   The Last High Ground  Before Cassino Taken

Fifth Army Ready for Battering of Gustav Defenses   Americans Take Mount Trocchio for Final Push on Cassino

LINE AT GUSTAS IS BEING BATTEREL   American and French Troops Reached the Steep Banks of Rapido River.   IRUNS ‘THROUGH CASSINO.   The Exact Penetration Where Americans Troops Was Not Announced.

AMERICAN, FRENCH TROOPS BATTLING ON THIRTY-MILE FRONT  HAVE DREACuUCcH DANVS

Allies Batter  Rome Barricade   Yanks And French As: saulting Gustav Line Refore Cassino.

Americans and French at Rapido River Hit German Gustav Lines of Defense

ION EUROPEAN BATTLE FRONTS  Fifth Army Nearing Cassino As Reds March On Latvian Borde

Fifth Army At ‘River Defenses Before Cassino   Yanks And French Reach Banks Of Rapido; Poise For Final Assault.

FIFTH ARMY ASSAULTING BARRICADES   Banks Of Rapido River Proving  Difficult

Fifth Army Forces Begin Battering Assaults On German Defense Line, Main Barricade To Rome — U. S. Infantrymen Capture Mt. Trocchio, Last High   Ground Before Key City — Mediterranean Air   War Flares Anew With Raid On Klagenfurt

LAST DEFENSE LINE BROKEN BY AMERICANS   Cassino Hammered By Allies: Fall Expected Soon

ATTACKING ON 30-MILE FRONT   Began Battering Assaults On Gustav Defense Line, .  Mam Barricacge to Rome:

" (Sl gees us a ee Al      German Gustav Defense Line Now Under ... Assault   MAIN BARRICADE  TO ROME REACHED

Big Defense Line Feels  Hard Blows   American Troops Setting Pace ‘Over Italy

Ammunition  Is Exploded   Entire Santa Fe Train Demol_ ished in New Mexico and J Homes in Village Wrecked

EXPLOSION OF BOMBS WRECKS AT.&SF. TRAIN   Ammunition Train Wrecked at Tolar This Afternoon; Details Lacking   THIRTY-NINE CARS ARE DERAILED BY WRECKACE

OPA Price Control In Action   Very Few Violations Are Found In DuBois By First Visit Of Checkers.

Myers-Davis Race Hinges  On State GI Ballot Count   Congressional Delegation and General Soldier Vote Also to Decide Control of Assembly; FD Victory Worst GOP Setbac'

SENATE SEAT LOSS [5 FACED BY STATE GOP   Myers Has Edge Over Davis; FDR Leads By 67,790

Myers Keeps Slim Mar rein  Over Davis   Democrats Have Edge In Close Contests For State-Wide Jobs  JAMES DEFEATED

ONE NATION FAVORS LEAGUE OF NATIONS   Uruguayan Envoy Says His Country Would Revitalize Organization Along New Line

Sen. Downey Is Reelected in State Balloting   Decisive Lead for President Being Rolled Up

State Returns Downey to  U.S. Senate    Roosevelt Majority Qver  300,000; S. M. Strong  Ray Andarcan

TOP GENERAL IN CHARGE ON ISLAND   Bitter Battle Raging Slows Up American Advance

500,000 VOTES TUESDAY SEEN   Louisianians To Select Governor And 4 Other State Officials

Yanks Rewin fn Cisterna Area:  + Cassino Is Hof   Krivoi Rog Now Undes Red Cannon Sights} Hitler Successor Ta Be Himmler?

Battles Rage At Beachhead  And Carroceto   No Relief Sighted In Cassino Fight— Reds Eight Miles  From Krivoi Rog

Situation on Rome Beachhead is Held ‘Little Less Grim   Germans Have Attained Numerical Superiority at Carroceto

SIX THUNDERBOLT SMASHES HURLED AT ALLIES NEAR ANZIO   RUSSIANS WITHIN ARTIL LERY RANGE OF KRIVOI . ROG. IRON CENTER

HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES IN AREA BELOW CAPITAL   Six Attacks Launched by Enemy — Other Americans Move Into Cassino

Air Forces Hit Massed Nazi Armor Near Caen  Medium Bombers Lash Out at

Air Forces Hit Massed Nazi Armor Near Caen   Medium Bombers Lash Out at Bridges, Railways

Air Fleets Blast Nazi Tank Forces   Allies Strike at Big Nazi Reinforcements

Red Clay Road. Into Valmontone  Stained By Blood   Men of Both Sides: Fall Before Artillery, Machine Gun Fire

WAR-RUINED CITY DESCRIBED   Road Into Valmontone  Stained With Blood

Americans Press Attack In Pacific   U. S. Warships Bombard Two Atolls In Marshalls

U. S. Warships Shell Atolls In Marshalls   Army, Navy vy Planes Bomb Wake Island For Third Time

Warships Shell Marshall Atolls   Americans Ready For Complete Control Soon

SHELL TWO MORE MARSHALL ATOLLS   Warships Softening Up Other Islands   150-PLANE RAID ON KOTKA PUTS NEW SOVIET PRESSURE ON FINNS

JAPS LOSE 3 MORE SHIPS, 84 AIRPLANES   DESTRUCTIVE RAIDS PROTECT FORCE ON SAIPAN

Bold New Raids Bring Yanks 750 Miles From Tokyo   Week's Victories Now Boost Total To 44 Ships Sunk, 71]  Planes Downed

Yank Planes Add to Tolt Of Jap Craft   Five More Ships, 85 Airplanes Go Down Under Guns

Japs Lose i84 Planes, Five Ships   U. S. Carrier-Borne Planes Strike 800 Miles From Tokyo

Details of Epic Journey Unfolded   Wandering Band of U.S. Army Nurses And Soldiers Had  : oe

AGRICULTURAL AID IS BEING ADVANCED   Georgian Asks That Government Keep Farms From Being Dumping Place Of Unemployed

A “Life Saver”...  BIG INCH PIPELINE COMPLETES ITS FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION

To Demand Ban  On Immigration   Legion Convention To De mand Immigration Halt Until Returning Vets Have Jobs

Immigration Ban Until War Veterans Get Jobs May Be Legion Demand

WLB APPROVES HARD COAL PACT   Bituminous Travel Pay Controversy Still Unsettled

Local Lieutenant Downs Nazi Ship   Michigan Flyers Blast 11 German Aircraft 

British Miner Delegates Fail fo Take Action To End Coal Mine Strike

NINE WOMEN NAMED TO SERVE ON GRAND JURY AT CO. COURT   Criminal Court Session Will Convene on Septeniber Fighteenth   GIVE COMPLETE LIST   Grand Jury Will Hear Cases Beginning Monday, Sept. 11th

Roosevelt Favors Navy Command For Japanese War   Nimitz Or King, FDR Choice; British For Gen. MacArthur

LOSS OF VESSEL IS REPORTED BY NAVY   Submarine Pompano Goes Down With Skipper Missina 

U.S. Submarine Lost in Pacific   Pompano Believed Sunk by Japanese

nn so wm OS FALL (OF LOYANG APPEARS > CERTAIN AS ENEMY CLOSES ON OFTy FROM ” ¥OUR’ SIDES

OPEN HEARNGS FOR 72 RAPIDS MEAT DEALERS   Wholesale, Retail Marts Charged With Violating OPA Ceilings

72 Meat Dealers Called For Hearing   Cedar Rapids Firms Involved In OPA Charges

Nazi Arsenal Captured By U.S. Forces   Third Army Rips Through Old Maginot Line

10 Maginot Forts and Factory Town Seized in 8-Mile Sweep; 7th Army Drives Completely Through Vosges.

3rd Army Force Captures  \Vlunitions Plant   General Patton’s Third Army Takes 10 Maginot Line Forts in Gains Up to Eight Miles: Smash Heavy Resistance

One Of Germany’: Big Saar Valley Plants Captured   United States First Army Captured The Fortified Factory Town Of Weisweiler On Hitler Road.

First Seizes Cologne Road Bastion   Seventh Tightens Squeeze on Southern Flank

Soldier Crash Death Toll Climbs to 28   INVESTIGATORS UNABLE TO EXPLAIN WHY VEHICLE HALTED, ROLLED AHEAD

News Behind The News  Copyright Me     & Newspaper      WASHINGTON

RUSSIANS TAKE, LOSE HUNGARY CITIES, REPORT   “Indications That This Axis Satel lite in Balkans May be Prepar ing to Quit Mitler

U.S. Task Force Sinks 12 Ships  VA ane CV are FPruamy   Many Other Enemy Vessels Damaged

DOZEN ENEMY VESSELS SUNK   34 Planes Shot Down By U.S. Task Force

Bonin Area Raid Cost Japs 34: Planes, 12 Ships   Nimitz Reveals July 3 Fleet Blow Doubled Damage First Told; Yanks Seize Isle, Flank Airstrip

12 Japanese Ships Sunk In  Task Foree Raid U.S. Troops Land   U.S. Troops Land On Another Jap-Held Island

‘U. S. Troops Within 2,000 Yards Of Outskirts Of Road  Hub Amid Crashing Of Mammoth Artillery Duel—  Other Units Shorten Distances To Lessay And  Periers—Allied Air Forces Destroy 27 Nazi Planes  Against Loss Of Fourteen

U. S. Troops Are Little Mor Than Mile from Outskirts on Main Road Leading to St. Lo.   MAMMOTH ARTILLERY DUEL IS REPORTEL

Americans Push Forward Amid Heavy Artiller; Duel As Germans Fight Stubbornly; Yanks Also Advance To Mile Of Lessay

16 TOWNS SEIZED IN 24 HOURS   Lessay And Periers Also Threatened ® By Yank Push

Americans Edge Ahead Near St. Lo   Germans Pour in Heavy Fire in Effort To Stopv Yanks

Mammoth Duel Rages   Yanks Within 2, 000 Yards of City; Other : Forces Hammer. Closer: To Lessay and Periers

Battle for St. Lo Nearing Climax With Yanks Closing In on Road Hub

Miners Told To Choose Between Dawson,Meadows   Candidates : Endorsed By Titler At Welch; Holt Rapped

GUADALCANAL SOLDIERS IN ‘STRIKE’ IN PROTEST TO MINE STRIKE, CLAIM

BRITISH LOSE 96 BIG BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   RAF Reports Record Loss Of Planes For One Night To Nazi Fighters.

RAF. LOST 96 PLANES LAST NIGHT   See-saw Bloody Battle for Cassino in Italy.

Germans Prepare  U-Boat Offensive   Hint Nazis Will Try To Cut Atlantic Shipping

ARMY RETURNS 33 BILLIONS   Taxpayers Promised Some Relief In War Burden By Debt Brightener

WAR COSTS CUT BY 33 BILLIONS   Savings In Previous Appropriations Cited As Tax Relief

"Thirty-Three Billion Dollar Bonanza Turned Back “By War Department Will Relieve Taxpayers

(Thirty-Three Billion Dollar: Bonanza Turned Back  IBy War Department! Will Relieve Taxpc Ivers! 

ARMY SURPLUS - TURNED BACK   THIRTY-TNREE EMLLIONS ID UNEXPENDED FUNDS ARE CREDITED. BACK TO TREASURY,

Heavy Fighting Rages At Many Points Along Mountanious Front Line   American Bombers, Fighters Strike Strong Blows at Kiel, Pas de Calais; Eisenhower Sends More Word to Underground

Climax Due In Italy; Allies Lose Terracina   Germans Rush Reinforcements in se fort to Stem Offensive; Move Blow at Rome Defenses «si

one NEeEseaceceuumenaae®  Fire Dog Returns > as After 4-Day Spre<~

Aim for Industries And Airfields, Weather Cloudy, Us  Mechanical Eye

Breaching of Dike Around Dutch Island .of Walcheren Sends North. Sea Pouring Over Installations That Denied Allies Port af Antwearn

6-Tonners Rip Open Seawalls   RAF BLAST DIKES ON DUTCH ISLAND, FLOODING NAZ! GUNS

Yank Bombers Attack German War Industries   Bigger, Bloodier Air Battles Loom; All Corners of Reich Now itn Ranae

BLAST SEAWALL AT WALCHEREN   North Sea Pours Over German Installations

SEAWALL IS BLASTED IN GREAT AIR PUNCH   North Sea Pours in on German Guns Denying Allies 3 Use of Port of Antwerp; Bomb Assault Into Seventh Day

Bombers Flooc German Installations   Huge Missiles Break Dutch Sea Wall; Antwerp Port Lost

AMERICAN PLANES BLAST AIRFIELDS, NAZI INDUSTRIES   Southern-Gernran-Cities-Bomb ed by More Than Thousand — Yank Planes

North Sea Pours Over German Installations Which Prevented Use Of Port Of Antwerp

224 JAP PLANES WRECKED ON LUZON   Results of Series of Aerial - . Attacks Are Announced _

224 JAP PLANES WRECKED ON LUZON   Results of Series of Aerial +. ‘Attacks Are Ane. * nounced

11 DROWNED IN LAKE ACCIDENT   Robinson Soldiers Lose Lives Involving Asscult Boats In Maneuvers

11 SOLDIERS DROWN DURING MANEUVERS   ‘Accident in. Arkansas Now Being Investigated

Eleven Soldiers Drowned In Lake   Assault Boats Involved; Men Were Camp Robinson Trainees

NAAR eS TNE Mag Mie TE ng OEM VINOD ie emvee  ei DROWNED  AT CAMP ROBINSON ON MANEUVERS

Four Packing Firms Accused   OPA Charges Pork Cuts Contain Too Much Fat

U. §. Women Voters Outnumber Men for First Time in History   Almost 600,000 More, Census Bureau  Reports in Estimating Possible Vote in Election

WOMEN’S VOTES SURPASS MEN’S   Nearly 600,000 More Females Of Balloting Age for 1944 Election

JAWS OF TRAP SLAMMED SHUT BY YANK SURGE   Canadians Smash Through Defenses To Cut Off Escape On Other Sector

Major Allied Victory Sighted By Eisenhower As Pincers Close: Speedy Action Is Asked   Powerful American Forces Last Reported Within 18 Miles Of Canadian First Army After Five Days Of Secret Operations

250,000 Men Fighting Way Out of Trap      Russians Pour Through Hole Punched in Line

LENINGRAD, LAKE ILMEN GERMAN FRONT IS COLLAPSING   Govorov’s Troops Are Closing Trap On 250.000 Nazis

RED ARMIES SLASH INTO NAZI BULGE   Rapidly: Clesing Trap On 250,000 Near. Leningrad

100-MILE GERMAN LENINGRAD LINE IS REPORTED TO BE FALLING APART   Nazis Also Say That Russians Have Opened Another Offensive In the Dnieper Bend.

Battle-Groggy Nazis Fighting to Escape Closing Trap Jaws   250,000 Troops Race Rearward _ As 100-Mile Front Falls Apart; .  Tosan. Last Enemy Hub. Rineed

250,000 GROGGY “NAZI TROOPS ARE NOW FACING TRAP   Tosno, Last Enemy Stronghold Southeast of Leningrad Encircled, Retreat Line to West fs Out.   EFFORT CONTINUED TO HEAL POLISH DISPUTE   Germans Prepare Trials on War Guilt”? Charges Against American and British Prisoners.

FIRST NAZI BLOW     Shatter _ Bombers  100-Mile Smash at — — Jap Line    Bombers Smash at Jap Line   Shatter 100-Mile Nazi Line

Russians Race Toward Estonia,  Trap 259,000   Battle Arca Littered With Weapons Left By Fleeing Germans

Soviet ‘iroops PourThrough Massive Gap   Area South of Leningrad Sealed Off for 26 Miles   RETREAT LINES CUT   Red Army Well on Way to Reopening Main Rail Line to Moscow

Fifth Army Repulses Heavy German Counter-Attacks In Drive on Italy Capital

NEW ALLIED AIR ATTACK 1S MADE ON WAKE ISLAND   Several Large Bombers Raid Is Jand, Nearest Base To Pearl Harbor

VW: ike Island Is Bombed, Japs Report   Third Raid by U. S. Planes in Ten Nights by  Heavy Bombers

Heavy Fire ‘Met by Yanks OnWakeRaid   18 Big Bombers Lash at Jap-Held Isle for Third Time in 10 Nights

Japs Report U.S. Attack on Wake   No Damage Done, New Agency Says

TRAPPING SEASON OPENS ON NOY. 10   New Regulation on Putting Out Stakes Before Season Opens at Noon Friday.

213 Men Return  To Work   GI Hold Out; “Still On,’ Thams Declares

213 Strikers Back To Work In Distriets   >> Are Still Out; Six Have Been Discharged; Feel Strike Is Over,   UP TO EMPLOYERS

Braniff Carries ~ Mail Into Mexico   —_———— ="  To Divert Some From Brownsville Run

CONTINUED COLD IS PREDICTION   State’s Coldest Point Ys Atlantic With -&

CLIPPER CRASH IS FATAL TO 17   Six Bodies Recovered From Plane; 11 Are Missing

“Wrong Way Nazi Flier Has  Disappeared   He gave many American. pilots; a laughs Luftwaffe: also» léses: ace: ‘aldineuy ‘bows 

Bitterness Is Injected Into The Campaigr   Politicians Had Been Talking Of 600,000 Votes

Ferguson Asks “Mattingly's Scalp After Election  GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Confident g. of Victory Tuesday

BITTER PRIMARY CAMPAIGN WINDS UP IN MISSOUR!   Charles Ferguson, in Final Blast at Mattingly, Calls on Latter to Resign His Post.   CANDIDATES ISSUE VICTORY FORECASTS   Governorship and Senatorial Races Monopolize Limelight—Estimates of Total Vote Boosted.

Criminal Court  Term Next Week   ‘Hilbreth Britt Homicide  Case On Calendar for  Trial.

Strong Opposition In Congress To Any Action On Peacetime Training

Proposed Military Training in Time Of Peace Hits Flood of Opposition

Compulsory Act Balked   - Opposition, Mounts. To Peace. Training

Legislation On — Peacetime Draft May Be Delayed   Oppcsition Has Piled Up Against Early Action On Bill.

Plan for Compulsory Military Training in Peacetime Hits Snag   Consideration of Legislation May Be Postponed, Due to Opposition

Opposition to Training Grows   Solons Considering Delaying Action Until Early Next Year

ARMY TRAINING BILL ATTACKED BY EDUCATOR‘   Churchmen Also Protesting Against Compulsory Program Following War

‘eA 9 ry. ' Eye Witness Tells Story f) United States Atlack oa hyuk'

Daily Temperature:   By UNITED PR!      'Reveals Details of U. S. Naval ‘Victory af Trak, Triumphal Parade Around Nin Island Afterward

lillie irene lial liaienliindin ile ik i i, dh.  Son-of Ex-Ambassador Joseph Kennedv. Killed

TWO GIRLS AND MAN FOUND DEAD IN GAR   Indications Are They Were Asphyxiated

COORDINATE AIR ASSAULTS HURT GERMANS   Stabs from Britain and Italy Cripple Enemy Production Anew

133. NAZI FIGHTERS KNOCKED FROM SKIES   Messerschmitt Factories Are Blasted at Regensburg  Inve Blamnco Bram lealu

TWO WAY AIR RAID IS NEW WAR THREAT   Planes From Italy And England Hit Nazi Targets

Junkers Plant Is Blasted; Allies Lose 61 Bombers   Messerschmutt Factories, Other Plants and Tar. gets Also Hit In Power: ful Blow.

NAZIS LOSE 133 FIGHTER PLANES IN AIR BATTLES   Yank Bombers Blast Enemy Aircraft Production in Joint Assault

11 Bombers Lost By British; Yanks Lose 20; In Three Record Breaking Days of Assaults Allies Account For 310 Enemy Fighters.

Nazi Plane Losses High During Raid   Fifty-three Large Allied Bombers Lost In Raid

U.S. BOMBERS HIT NAZIS FROM ITALY, BRITAIN   Co-Ordinated Assaults Further Cripple German Aircraft Produc: hon   61 REPORTED LOST   (33 Nazi Fighter Planes Claimed Downed—Régensburg and Pe jershausen Strafed

Yanks Shoot Down 133 German Planes   Toll Taken in Tuesday’s Raid—Total of 301 Enemy Fighters Bagged in Three Days— Yesterday’s U. S. Loss, 53 Bombers.

Yanks Lose  66 Planes, Destroy 133   NAPLES (AP) — American heavy bombers Wednesday attacked German aircraft factories at Steyr, Austria.

Raiders Strike Double Blow   U. S. Airmen Press Attack From Britain, Italy In Coordinated Assault,

ALLIED RAIDS CRIPPLE NAZI PLANTS ANEW   Attacking Fliers Knock 133 German Fighter Planes From Sky

Enemy Aircraft Crippled Anew _ By Yank Plane:   133 German Fighter Ships Knocked From Skies In Ast Coordinated Attack

Attacks Mount   YANK PLANES FROM ITALY, BRITAIN BORE DEEP INTO REICH TO HIT FACTORIES

Massive Blows Wreck Plants  Deep In Reich   133 Nazi Fighters Shot Down By Americans In Two-way Assault On War Factorics   61 U. S. Bonibers Listed Missing   Savage Resistance Thrown Up By Nazis As Yanks - Pound Plane: Plants “In Three Areas

61 Planes Price Of Air Blow   133 Nazis Knocked Out of Air Over  Reich Tuesday   Downed 58 Nazis

133 Nazi Planes Shot From Sky   Our Bomber Losses Said To Total 53

Yankee Bomber: Hit Nazi Targets  Twin Attack Smashes Aircraft Production

DOWN 133 NAZI FIGHTER PLANES IN DUAL ATTACK   Joint Assault Costs U. S. 61 Bombers in Raids on Aircraft Plants

GERMANS LOSE 133 PLANES IN BiG U. $. RAID   Losses Heavy as Americans  Bomb Nazi Aircraft  Factories.

Nazi Aircraft Crippled Anew   ALLIED PLANES WAGE BITTER BATTLE IN SKIES

Junkers Plant Is Blasted; Allies Lose 6] Bombers   ,' Messerschmitt Factories, Other Plants and ‘Vars  eels Also Hit In Pewers ful’Blow.

61 Planes Price Of Air Blow   133 Nazis Knocked Out of Air Over  Reich Tuesday

OUR TARGETS EEP IN REICH RE POUNDED   avage Enemy Opposition Fails to Halt Earth-Shaking Air Offensive Over Continent   FAIL TO RETURN

KANSAN DROWNS IN RIVER AT NOEI   LOSES LIFE TRYING TO -RESCUE DAUGHTER, 3 — FISHERMAN SAVES CHILD.

@ TIME OUT FROM WAR  Tired American Soldiers Find Relaxation at Italian Hotel

Total Mobilization Ordered by Hitler   Latest Confession of “Mounting Dissatisfaction

Airmen Plaster Nip Installations In Ormoc Sector   Ground Forces Continue Gains On Leyte Island

Planes. Sink Jap. Convoy Upon Leyte East Coast   10 Ships Destroyed In Ormoc: Bay Area

Carrier Planes Wipe Out Entire Japanese Convov   Americans Slash Five Miles Into Metz Defenses

Ten Vessels Are Destroyed   Only Remnants Reach Leyte, Where Americans Pressing Enemy Back

Entire Convoy Is Wiped Out   8,000 Fresh Troops Enroute To Leyte  Lost As Third Fleet Carriers Strike:

Yanks Destroy 4 Transports, 6 Destroyers    Transports Carried -— Estimated 8000 Troop: Intended for Leyte. Reinforcements

Enemy Loses Four Transports, Half Dozen Destroyers   Remnants of 8,000 Nip Troops Land After U. S. Carrier Planes Blast Vessels in Great Battle in Ormoc Bay — Foe Caught Trying To Reach Shore Under Cover of Darkness.

Offer Farm Program      Farm Bureau Federation Plan May Be Plank In GOP 1944 Platform

Crop Adjustment System Is Advised   Farm Bureau Makes Recommendation to GOP as  a Post-War Plank.

Farm Bureau Federation Urges GOP Declare for Price Supports, Loans

FARM BUREAU GROUP FAVORS POSTWAR PLAN   Asks Bi-Partisan Board To Direct Crop Adcdiustment

Farmers’ Advice on Agricultural Plank Is Sought by GOP   Special Committee in Chicago To Hear All  Suggestions

GOP Starts Work on 744 Farm Plank   Farm Leaders Hold Special Meet to Avoid Dissent on Their Desires

BLOW FOLLOWS SUNDAY’S RAIDS BY 4500 PLANES   Great Pre-Invasion Assault Roars Into Its 24th Continuous Day

FRANKFURT IS RAIDED BY U.S. FLIERS   Bombers Hit Two French Airfields, Aise Schweinfurt

SCHOOL CHILDREN MUST BE EXAMINED UNDER NEW LAW   State Statute, Effective July 1, Requires That All Pupils Sub mit To Medical And Dental Exam Before Entering School.

ASK CHILDREN BE EXAMINED IN VACATION   Urge Parents Not Tx Wait Until The Last Minute

SOVIET TROOPS NEAR JUNCTION INSIDE HUNGARY   Malinovsky’s Army Clos. ing Steel Arc Tighter Around Budapest   RAIL ESCAPE ROUTE TAKEN BY PARTISANS

Maintenance of Membership In Union Root of Ward Fight   Company Refuses *“Advice’ of WLB

Union Membership Arguments Base of  Ward-WLB Discord   Trouble-Maker Also a Factor in Earlier Dispute This Year

Nor therattaly Communications > Given Pounding  Allied Ai..nren Trv ta   Allied Ainnen Try to Isolate Nazis From funnily Saurrest

Allied War Raiders Hit Northern {aly  Rail And Sea Routes Are  Plactorad

NORTH ITALY GETS ANOTHER HEAVY BLAST   By Allies Determined to Isolate Nazi Armies in South from Supplies. Fire Pacenza RR Yard.   Other Fronts Quiet

Supply Routes To  Troops Battered  By NOLAND NORGAARD Associated Presa Staff Writer

GERMAN SUPPLY LINES WRECKED   Airmen Try vy To Isolate Axis Armies On Italian Front

Japanese Admiral, Who Led Pearl Harbor Attack, Dead   Marines Capture Island Two Miles From Saipan; New Thrust Due

Jap Admiral Who Headed Pearl Harbor Attack  Dies in Saipan Campaign

Allies Mop Up -On Burma Front   Americans, Chinese Kill More Than 1300 Japs in Fighting

Yankees Mop Up 2,000 Japanese  In Burma Pocket   American-Chinese Continue Advance

Draft Explodes Popular Belief   Rejection Of Farm Boys Is 62 Per Cent Above Other Registrants

DEWEY AGAINST 4-POWER PLAN      All Nations Must Have Full Rights, He Declares

Gov. Dewey Sees Danger In Four-Power Alliance For Domination of World   “Will Have Lost War Before We Have Won It,’ if Security Parley Takes Such Action, Republican Nominee Declares

Dewey Attacks Four Power Rule Of Post War World   Says U. S., Britain, Russia And. China Can Not Have Permanent Control — Small Nations Must Have Voice

Dewey to Give Labor Views   Plans to Issue Provlamation on Labor Day

DEWEY OPPOSED TO ALLIANCE OF 4 GREAT POWERS   Governor Criticizes Proposals for Enduring Partnership of U. S., Britain, Russia and China.   GIVES VIEWS ON EVE OF SECURITY PARLEY   Declares U. S. Will Lose War Before It Is Won If Nation Descends to Pow-. er Politics.

FOUR POWER RULE -RAPPED BY-DEWE\   All Nations Must be -Assured of Rights, Goy~ernor Says _

Dewey Hits" Permanent Four- Power  Alliance Plan   Insists Small Nations  ~ Must Be Given Voice   In: Deciding Destinies After Alsace Win War

Dewey Opposes Power Politics Planned by FDR   Against 4-Power World Domination

FOUR-POWER PACT PLANS ALARM DEWEY   Republican Presidential Nominee is Disturbed By Reports About PostWar Conference.   Wants No Military Alliance

FOUR POWER RULE RAPPED BY DEWE!   All Nations Must be As sured of Rights, Gov--ernor Sevs

NEGRO LYNCHED BY TENNESSEE MOE   TRUSTY ACCUSED OF KILLING '-GIRL TAKEN FROM JAIL AND SHOT TO DEATH.

Find More Nazis On Greenland   ‘Last’ of Foe’s Weather Stations Is Captured

Bond Drive Open: Officially Today   Gala Ceremonies  To Launch Drive

Back the Attack: Buy More Bonds Than Ever Before, Government Urges as Drive Opens

aR BASE:   Germany’s Super-battleship Believed Out-of War for Months, Maybe For-

TIRPITZ OUT OF WAR FOR MONTHS   NAVAL FORCE HITTING SHIP BACK AT BASE

Hae Newspaper: Given Permission To Serve Troons   Overseas Editions May Be Distributed to Forces in Europe

Martin Cabinet Meets in Erie   Paramount Duty is to Win the War, Governor Declares

397 JAP PLANES  BAGGED BY U.S.  IN TWO-DAY RAID DEFENDING FLEET  ROUTED FROM ITS BASES BY AIRMEN

RAIDERS SMASH JAPS' AIR ARM, SCATTER FLEET   357 Planes, 103 Ships Ar Blasted During Fierce Blows At Manila

Air Attacks on Philippines Continued   357 Jap Planes, 40 Ships, Six Small Craft Destroyed; China Scores Unusual Number of Successes

IN MANILA BAIL   Nimitz Says Japan’s Philippine-Based Airforce Is Smashed.   ENEMY FLEET IS ROUTED

TWO-DAY YANK ATTACK ROUTS NIPPON FLEET   357 Planes, 40 Ships, Small Craft Destroyed By Manila Raiders

JAPAN'S LOSS AT MANILA IS REPORTED BIG   Philippine Based Airforce Hit By U. S. Ships

TWO-DAY RAID AROUND MANILA DESTROYED 357 JAP PLANES AND FORTY SHIPS WENT DOWN

Tokyo Reports Yankee Aerial Blows Continue  2 Strikes At Manila Area Destroy 357 Nip Planes, 40 Ships, Twe  Clantina Newdackle

Jap Fleet Routed In Philippines   L. S. Planes Pound Manila. Exacting Terrific Enemy Toll

Yanks Press Attack — On Japs in Manile   Mikado’s Defenses in Philippines Smashed by Sustained Air Assaults as 357 Planes Destroyed and 40 Ships Sunk

BASES IN BREA LOST   Enemy Must Hunt New Refuges, Nimitz’ @ Report States

Sea-Borne American ¥Janes Smashed Jap Airforce, Admiral Nimitz Reports.   VICIGUS TWO-DAY RAID   ‘Total of 357 Japac-se Planes, 40 Ships and 6 Small... Craft Destroyed.

978 NIP PLANES DESTROYED AS ASSAULT GOES ON   ® Tokyo Urges Super -Efforts To Repel U. S. . Seek Filipinos’ Aid

TOKYO REPORTS AIR RAIDS ON PHILIPPINE ISLANDS CONTINUING  JAPAN’S AIRFORCE THER! SMASHED AND FLEET DOTITEN RROM RACES

Japan’s PhilippineBased Airforce is Routed; Navy Flees   537 Planes, 40 Ships, 6 Smaller Craft Wiped Out in Attacks

TOKYO REPORTS AIR RAIDS ON PHILIPPINE ISLANDS CONTINUING  JAPAN’S AIRFORCE THERI SMASHED AND FLEET  TMT rr Pris

IS ROUTED BY YANK ATTACKS   Tokyo Sees Decisive Battle Near As Air Blows Are - ' Continued

TOKYO REPORTS MORE ATTACKS ON PHILIPPINES   Nimitz Lists Nip Losses at 357 Planes, 46 Sea Vessels in Manila Area

U.S. Routs Japs Fleet At Manila   357 Planes, Scores Of Ships Destroyed In TwoDay Philippines Raids

Former Japanese Commander Calls Upon Filipinos to Crush Aggressors

BRITISH START NEW ASSAULT IN NORMANDY   One Report Puts Tank Units 40 Miles From French Capital

nother U. S. Firs  WORLD'S FIRST AIR BORNE ARMY FORMED   Includes All Allied Air-Borne Units in European Theatre.

ARMOR OPENS 35-MILE GAP IN NAZI LINE   Canadians To East. Lash Out In New Drive As Nazis Fall Back

Wedge Driven Into Defenses In Brittany  Attack Opened By Canadians In “aan Avan

U, S. ARMORED TROOPS OPEN WIDER WEDGE   Allied Armies Continue Push Toward Paris

CANADIANS ARE PUSHING DRIVE IN CAEN AREA   Bradley’s Army Reaches Rennes In 45-Mile Thrust From Avranches

Yanks Rip Wide Wedge Into Brittany Lines   Have Reached Rennes, Only 80 Miles From “Strategic Port Of St. Nazaire, While Canadians Launch New Drive Near Caen.

Find No Ground: For Pearl Harbor Court-Martial   Stimson, Forrestal Plan to Continue Own Investiaations

Pearl Harbor Probe Clears Two Officers   Army, Navy Boards Find No Grounds For Court Martial of Any Person Involved

INQUIRIES DATA FAILS TO JUSTIFY ACTION. THEY SAY   Texts of Investigations Are Withheld on-Grounds” Of Military Security

Army, Navy Boards Find No Grounds For Action   Conclusions Indicate No Court Martial Likely as Consequence Of Pearl Harbor

BOARDS FIND NO GROUNDS FOR ACTION   Against Anyone Conneeted with Pearl Harbor Disaster, Stimson and Forrestal Disclose.   Praise Kimmel, Short

“We Face Grim Prospect of More to Come,’ Says Undersecretary of War Patterson

U.S. Suffering Severe Losses  On West Front   Americans Facing Grim Prospects of More to Come, Underseeretary  OC. War Says

CASUALTIES OF U. $. ON WEST FRONT SEVERE   Grim Prospect of More to Come Is Cited by Under Secretary of War

Battle Losses Heavy   AMERICA “FACING GRIM PROSPECT OF MORE TO COME.” PATTERSON SAYS

Casualties  Are Severe Tn Western Battle Area   Patterson Says More Are To Come; Total Increases 13,840 Since Last Week

Patterson Say: War Casualtie: Reach 552,018  US. Is Facing Grim Pr  fw River Benet

AVY UOsabo ARE SUFFEREL   U. S. Faces Grim Prospect Of More to Come, Says Patterson.

‘Very Severe Casualties — Western Front             U.S. Faces Grim Prospect: Of Even Greater Sacr fice, Official Declares

GRIM WAR OUTLOOK GIVEN TO AMERICA   Casualties Reach 552,018 With More Inevitable

‘Very Severe’ Casualties On  Western Front   U. S. Faces Grim Prospect Of Even Greater Sa fice, Official Declares

Western Front Is Costing Heavily In Casualties   American Forces Face Grim Prospect of More to Come, Says Patterson

Report Severe Losses in Pacific   CASUALTY LIST HITS 552,018 MARK

AMERICA FIRSTERS HEAR SMITH SPEAK   Fair Board at Greenville Fails To Stop Meeting

NAZIS THRUST AT BEACHHEAD   Suffer Heavy Losses at Anzio Artillery Duels Continue

Japs Claim Carrier Task Force Made Truk Attack   Damage To Ground Installations Admitted But Story Is Without Contirmation

TokyoReports Truk Attack   Ground Installations Damaged; Claim Aircraft Carrier Badly Damaged

LEGAL OBSTACLES FACE GRAND JURY   Attorney Asks Writs to Free Grand Rapids Banker From Jail.

Rabaul-Wewak Given Another Heavy Pounding   Big Jap Bases In Southwest Pacific Get 298 Tons Of Bombs In Raids   MANY JAP DEAD FOUND ON HUON

SMASH RABAUL, WEWA!. SASES   Ripped By New Bomb Attacks  erate tm mm  Japs Suffer Great Plane Losses

FOOD STAMP PLAN SUBS FOR SUBSIDY   Gives Congress 3-Way Choice in Anchoring Price of Nation’s Food in Wartime

JAP’S LAST NEW: GUINEA BASES ARE ENDANGERED   Aussies and Americans Join Forces After An 18-Week  Campaign.

AMERICANS JOIN AUSTRALIANS IN NEW GUINEA   In the Central Pacific Our Forces Are Continuing the Marshall Island Of ye eee

Rome Railway Yards Raided By U. S. Planes   Allies Winning, Says Alexander   May Damage Roads

Will Smash On to Rome,  ‘General Says   Statement Is Made Despite Capture Of Aprilia by Nazis  RGME BOMBED AGAIN

GEN, ALEXANDER: © REPORTS GERMANS LOSING 2ND ROUND      Commander Declares AngloAmericans Will March. Into Rome Without  Aid From Cassino.              ITALIAN PATRIOTS _ ARE URGED TO ASSIS%        Bari Radio Calls on Them t Sabotage Roads From 4 - Eternal City to Bat tle Fronts.

ALLIED CHIEF SAYS ANZIO IS NO DUNKERQUE   ITALIAN SABOTAGE URGED; CASSINO RUINS RIPPED

Raid Rips  Rome’s  Railyards Patriots Asked  To Sabotage Nazi Traffic

Rail Yards At Rome Blasted   Patriots Urged On; Allied Chief Raps Defeatist Talk

Urge Italian patriots to  sabotage foe   ‘Allies winning beachhead fight’

Allied Commander Reports American, British Troops Winning Second Round of Battle at Anzio

Italian Patriots Told to Sabotage All Nazi Traffic   Confidence Voiced By Gen. Harold Alexander; Doughboys “Agressively” Patrolling Area Around Mount Cassino

New Attacks Made On Rome Railways   Americans and British, Winning Second Round of Bat, tle, General Alexander Says—Monastery  ~ Ruins Again Blasted by Allies

Sabotage Is Urged To Italian People       astery Again Bombed s Infantry Closes

ALEXANDER SAYS ALLIES ARE WINNING   Second Round In Battle On Anzio Beachhead; Expect To Smash On To Rome Without Assistance.   Nine Enemy Planes

Allied Commander Says Beachhead Victory Assured  Berlin Badly Battered By RAF; Reds Take 40  Towns on Way to Pskov

Allies Winning Second Round o! Battle of Anzio   Warhawks Bomb Ruins of Monastery, Call for Sabotage

Finnish Envoys Ordered Deported. for: Activities Harmful to: United States

Finnish Envoy To Be Ejected By Washington   Minister and Four Other Diplomats Are Under Surveillance

Procope, Three ides, Asked To Leave in Hurry   Will Be Watched Pending Departure

U.S. Orders Removal of Finn Corps   Diplomats fo Leave Country Under Ouster

our Top Finn iplomats Told lo Leave U.S.   Not Rupture of Relations: Presence Called ‘Inimical’

FINN MINISTER IS SENT HOME   Action Is Not A Break In Relations, State Department Says

PASSPORTS HANDED FINNISH DIPLOMATS      Minister and Staff Directed to Leave as Soon ’ as Possible

Finnish Envoys  Asked to Leave   Four Top Diplomats Called  tTestertnat ¢n YI at

FINN MINISTER GIVEN PASSPORT   Procope And Three Counselors Ordered To Leave United States

UI.5. OUSTS FOUR FINNISH ENVOYS   DIPLOMATS HANDED PASS. PORTS AND ORDERED TO LEAVE COUNTRY QUICKLY.

Break With Axis Doubted By Spaniards   Germans in France Called More Serious Threat Than Albies

Break With Axis Seen as Doubtful  Believe Franco Will Not Ge That Fer

SPANISH-AXIS SPLIT DENIED   British Sec’y Eden Fails to Comment On Strained  Relations

SPAIN EXPECTED NOT TO BREAK WITH GERMANY   Franco Tries To Uphold Position Despite Squeeze

Franco Break With Axis Is Held Doubtful   Despite Increasing Allied Pressure, Rupture Not Exnected.

SPANISH CAPITAL REPORTED AGOG WITH DIPOMATIC FLURRY WHILE PREDICTIONS OF BREAK ARE MADE   South American Diplomat Predicts Severance of Relations. Oil Stoppage and Threat to Cut Off Supplies May Force Franco to Take Action

Doubt Spain Will Break with Axis  Prediction of Nave   Prediction of Move By Franco Greeted With Skepticism

Franco Split With Axis Is Doubtful   Hitler’s Pressure Is Still Greatest

PRESSURE IS PUT ON FRANCO   Doubt Spain to Sever Relations With Axis

Franeo-Axis Break Doubted   Both Pro-Franeco. Anti-Franco Elements Predicts No Spanish Change.

SPANISH-AXIS BREAK DOUBTED   FRANCO'S OPPONENTS SAYS HE HOPES FOR GERMAN VICTORY

Doubt Spain Will Break With Axis   United States and Britain  Adopting Sterner Line In Dealings © ro

Allies On Outskirts Of Campoleone, 16 Miles From Rome   Believe Franco Will Not Break With Axis

Spanish Break Held Unlikely   Spaniards Do Not Believe Franco Will Split With Axis

BELIEVE FRANCO NOT TO BREAK AXIS RELATIONS   Claim Nazis in France More Dangerous To Spain Than Far Away Allies

Franco Put An Spot by US., Britain   Rumored Break With Axis Held Unlikely, However

SPAIN PONDERS ITS NEXT MOVE   No Break With Axis I: Expected Immediately; Eden Still Silent

Doubt France Will Break With Axis   Argue Germans In France Greater Threat Than Britain

Doubt Spain Will Break ‘With Axis   Allies Apply Pressure Against Nation; Foreign Diplomat Hinted Split

Doubt Franco Will Break With Axis; Eden Expected To Speak About Spain

Doubt Spain Axis Break »   Nazi Troops in France Greater Menace Than Allies At Present Time

UNION OBJECTS TO EARLY WARD VOTE, ORDERED BY NLRB   ClO Leaders Will Seek 21-Day Extension; ‘Trick’ Charged

Union Protests Early Voting At Ward Plant   CIO to Request 21-Day Extension For Preparations

GIRLS HOAXED INTO MARRYING SOLDIERS   Four Nebraska “Brides” Find Out “Marriage” Was Performed By Borus Chaplain

Turkey for Boys onLeyte  1 Hy   Army Rushes Extra Eaod to Fighters

Turkey and Trinunin’s, Gift Packages Arrive for Yanks in the Philippines

CHRISTMAS JOY IN THE PACIFIC   A Flood Of Gift Packages And Turkev On The Menu, For MacArthur's Moen.

EXPLOSIVES RAINED ON CITY OF ANSHAN IN MUKDEN AREA BY FAR RANGING BOMBERS   “Arsenal of Greater Est and Asia” Sustains Heavy Damage. Is First American Air Attack on Man churia and First Daylight Assault from High Alg*s...]..

B-29's Strike At Industrial City of Anshan   Huge Columns Of Smoke Spring Up in Mukden Area

“Arsenal of Greater East Asia” in Mukden Area of Manchuria Hit by Supers

Superfortresses Strike at Japan's Arsenal   Giant Bombers Rain Explosives on Manchuria To Ruin Enemy Installations; Enemy Suffers Keen Loss of Supplies for Armies

B29s Strike Jap Industry and Rails in Manchuria and China In Their First Daylight Sweep

Yankees Hit East Asia Air  Arsenal   B-29s Strike Hard At Big Industry Through Anshan

ATTACK ROBOT BOMB SITE   ALAUA NUDUL BDUPIB SLI  Action by British Heavy Bombers Is Reported

ATTACK ROBOT BOMB SITE   Action by British Heavy, Boribers Ja Reported, =!

British Smash Robot Bomb Site   Heavy Bombers Hit Launching Base for » Long Distance Rockets

LONG DISTANCE BUZZ BOMB BASES BLASTED   Nazis Say Have Robot Which Can Span Atlantic

GERMANS FLEE BEFORE YANKS’ SEVENTH ARMY   Only One Bridgehead Held By Nazis Clinging To Strasbourg Positions

FIELD DISPATCH * DECLARES GERMANS IN WILD DISORDER  AMERICAN AND FRENCH RECONNAISSANCE UNITS REPORTED OVER RHINE

French Hit Rhineland Nazi Retreat   Germans Throw Heavy Counterassaults “against. Allies Along: Northern Sector

Yanks Fight in Mud On Cologne Plains; British Pushed Back   Jottest Corner of Western Front Right Now Is in Holland - Americans Drive Wedge into Germany Beyond Metz— Bad Weather Deprives Ground Forces of Air Support

Balkans Seething; Report Nazis Withdrawing From Romania, Bulgaria

Pro-Nazis Are Ousted Says Cairo   ‘German News Agency Is  Admitting Nazis Are  Being Withdrawn From  Romanian Area

War Declared, Asserts Rumor   Bucharest Said to Have Turned on Former Ally; Bulgaria Weakening,  May Ask Peace; Shakeup in Hungary

Berlin Admits ‘Some Romanians No Longer Helping Germany   Moscow Tells Romania Only Way She.Can Earn .. Armistice Is Ta Order Troops To Fight With ’ Déd Ayvmv- Russians Plunge Ahead

Romanians Are Told to Fight Nazis      Only Way to Earn an Arm istice, Russia Says, as  Balkans Boil Acain   ROMANIANS BATTLE NAZI REAR GUARDS   Germans May Scuttle Ships at Constanta; Some Signs of Balkan Withdrawal

Enemy Bombs Pummel . Bucharest   Nazis Report East Russian Victories Caused By Balkan Nation’s Capitulation; Reds Demand Full Co-Operation of Country

Report Romania Has Da clared War On Ger.  “many; King ‘Mihai’ Army. Fighting. Ger mans; Hungarian Gov ernment Reshuffled.’

Romanians Surrender To Soviets   Entire Balkan Area Report ed in Turmoil—Reds Drive Ahead

Report Romania Is Now at War With Germany   Cairo Hears Nazis Bomb Bucharest; Germans Complain Of War's New Turn

Romania Votes War on Nazis As City Bombed   Fangarian Army in Revolt When Cabinet Shaken Up

Slovakia, Hungary Reported Tiring Of German Yoke   Nazis Withdraw From Romania, Said To  eave Rulcaria

ROMANIA WARD GAINST NAZIS   Declaration Followed By Bombing of Bucharest, Cairo Reports.   NAZIS SHAKEUP HUNGARY

Germans Withdraw From Romania And Bulgaria Is Report Heard In London

Berlin Intimates Government In ‘Hungary Deposed   Nazi Warplanes Said To Have Bombarded Romanian Capital City

BERLIN ADMITS TROOPS LEAVE BALKAN NATION   Reds Press Forward: Say Romanians Must Earn Armistice

Romanians and HunRearguard Forees Clash   Meanwhile, Germany Announces ‘Some’ of King Mihai’s Troops Haye Stopped Fighting

Military Operations Will Continue Until German Force  Are Liquidated

Luttwatte Attacks Bucharest   Nazi Radio Admits Troops Are Being Withdrawn

45,000 NAZIS IN FIVE DAYS   Soviet Generals, Taking No Chances on Outcome Of Peace Bid Sweep Up Over 500 Cities  fIVILIAAIC ADE tMmvMiic

Russians Drive On Carpathians, Danube Delta   Romanian Army Ordered To Aid Allies; Balkan Breakup ls Neor .

Russians. Assert. Mihai's Troops Battle Germans   Soviet Informs Romania Only Cooperatio® Will Earn Her An Armistice

Germans Leaving Bulgaria   New Government, Strongly Pro-Ally, Formed in Hungary

ROMANIANS ARI FIGHTING NAZIS IN SOME AREAS   Russians 35 Miles From Galati Gap

RUSSIANS SAY MIAI’S MEN MUST FIGHT   “Search For Peace Intensified By Bulgaria   ROMANIA’S RIGHT   To Transylvania Approved By Soviets; Other Bal kan Nations Waiting   RULLETIN

Nazis Set All-Out   “Big Four” to Draft Labor From Germany, Occupied Countries

RADIO DECLARES BUCHAREST HIT; HUN INFURIATED   Reich Scores Former Satellite’s Attitude, Pointing to Easy Red Wins

Romania Said to Have Declared War on Reich   Antonescu Fate Vague.

ROMANIA ARMY FIGHTS NAZIS   Bulgars Seek Peace; Hungarian Borders Bared  To Advancing Reds

RUSSIANS DRIVE WITHIN 35 MILES OF GALATIA GAP   CALL ON ROMANIA TO EARN ARMISTICE BY FIGHTING GERMANS

GERMAN FORCES IN WITHDRAWAL FRAM-RAMANIA   Entire Balkans In Tormoil Ove Nazi- Setback In Romania

Nazis Bomb Bucharest In Heavy Blow   German Rear Guards and  King Mihai’s Troops  Clash Today

Bucharest Bombed By German Planes As War Declared  Mescow Reports Widespread  Engagements Between Romanias   ue Boemae Teaame

Report Bucharest, Rumanian Capital, Bombed by German:   Cairo Radio Tells of War Declaration by Rumania Today

Balkan Nation  ‘Turns on Ally, Joins Russia   ‘Men Surrender En Masse  on East Front; Bulgaria Weakens

Entire Balkans In Turmoil by Nazi Setbacks   Slovakia Declares Martial Law; Ask Hungarian Revolt

Romanians On Allied Side To Battle Germans  Reds Tell King Mihai Armistice Obtainabl. Only By Fighting To

Truck Drivers Plan To Strike   Those Serving War Indus. tries Due To Quit July 

ACCUSED IN DEATH OF BABY DAUGHTER   Young Housewife Pleads Innocent To Charge

KURILE ATTACK IS FORECAST BY SECRETARY KNOX   Obvious Purpose Of Bombing Tc Soften Isles For Seizure

Air Attacks in North Prelude  m Tt TO LDvVdaslom   Knox Reveals Secret U. 5. Weapons Prepared* For Attack

Knox Savs U.S. Air Attacks on Kuriles Are Preliminary to Ultimate landing Operations and Seizure

B-29’s Make Heavy Raid On Manchuria   -Superfortresses Blast Anshan, Key Industrial  City; Losses Said ‘Light’; Japanese  Report Darien Also Hit

east Key City Of Manchuria   Good Results Secured On Industrial Targets  And Losses Declared Eytramaly  iaqht

KEY INDUSTRIAL CITY OF ANSHAN ~LATEST:VICTIN   Defenders ‘Claim One of Superfortresses Shot Down

J aps Admit Superforts Raid Mukden   Tokyo Reports Dairen Near Port Arthur Also Blasted

B-29s Smash Jap Plants  In Manehuria   Excellent Results Obtained And Losses Extremety Light. Savs Army

New B-29 Raid Results Good,  Army Declares   Superforts Blast Key Manchuria Steel Center, Occupied Port In China With Slight Losses

B-29s Blast Anshan: Area  Of Manchuria   Also List Tangku, The Port of Tientsen In Occupied ONS eo   SAY LOSSES LIGaAtl

B-29’S ASSAULT INDUSTRIAL CITY   Anshan, Vital Japanese Building Center In East Manchuria, Hit

B-295 ATTACK STEEL WORKS IN MANCHUKUO   Damage to Take Year To Repair, Raid Estimate Says

Losses In Attack Said ‘Very Light’   Nipponese Complain Manchukuo Not At War

Anshan Hit By Large Superfortress Force   Heart of Japan’s Industrial Arsenal on Mainland Blasted By First Daylight Assault of Giant Planes

ANSHAN BLASTED BY B-2 PLANES      Huge Bombers Strike At Heart Of Jap ‘Arsenal For Greater Asia’

FEW PLANES LOST OVER MANGHURIA   RESULTS REPORTED GOOD IN SUPERFORTRESS ATTACK ON: STEEL CITY.

THIRD ARMY ANCES IN FRANCE   “Earth Trembles From Roar of Thousands of Guns, Tanks”

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   PATTON THROWS IN THREE MORE DIVISIONS

Allies Report Gains Against Enemy To North of Imphal  Sharp Fighting Breaks Out in Other Sections of Burma

‘Burma-India Battle Believed Due For  Monsoon Stalemate   Overall Picture Shows Allies Are Trying to Blast Short Cut to Open Ledo Road Link in the Direction of China   PRIMARY GOAL OF JAPANESE DRIVE IS IMPHAL

ALLIED FORCES =. SCORED ADVANCES ; IN IMPHAL AREA   Still Are Making Satsifactory “Progress, It Is An- : nounced.   JAPS ARE‘'PRIVEN OUT.   Routed Near the Track to Silchar; Enemy CounterAttacked.

Allied Forces Gain in India   British Repulse \ Counter-Attacks Of Japanese Invaders

Allies Score Leads In Imphal Fight   Communique Reports Forces Make Satisfactory Progress

Satisfactor y Progress Made By Allies   But Communique Docs Not Say Where Fight Js Taking Place

Allies Gain in Imphal Sector   (Further details and map of pure 2-A.

IMPHAL BATTLE IS RAGING ON   Allies Strike Counter-Blows at Enemy to Save BurmaChina Lifeline

Allies Report Gains In Burma   JAP ADVANCES HALTED IN BITTER CLASHES AT IMPHAL.

Allies Score New Gains in Imphal Area   Enemy Counter-Attack Disputes Advance in Southern Sector

NEW INDIA GAINS MADE BY ALLIES   Tokyo Also Claims Success In Smash For Railway

JAPS LAUNCH ASSAULT NEAR INDIAN BORDER   CHINESE CONTINUE TO POUR ACROSS SALWEEN RIVER

Across Burma to East Chinese Gain in Drive To Reopen Road to China

NEW DRIVE PUTS JAPANESE CLOSE TO INDIA BORDER   Allied’ Headquarters Disclose Enemy Is Advancing On Frontier 220 Miles South west of Imphal.   BLOODY BATTLE FOUGHT FOR KOHIMA RIDGE   Height in British Hands After 40-Day Battle That Cost Both Sides Number of Casualties.

Japs Near India In   New Thrust   Chinese Attempt Counter Drive To Thwart Move

NEW THRUST OF JAPANESE TOWARD INDIA   is Made While Chinese  Forces Continue’ to Pour across Salween River in Drive.   Ordered To Hold Line

 Enemy Forces Stab Close’  to the Borders of india   CHINESE CONTINUE  ACROSS SALWEEN   Coordinated Allied Drive Under Way to Reopen Ching Roed 

Jap Troops Stab Close ToBorders   New Offensive Tur to » > Fowth eR OF Riyphub' Opened Against  ! Allied Force

Japs Make Nev Stab Toward Indian Border   Forces in China Pour Across River in Drive

Japs Stab Close — ToIndia Border In New Attack   Chinese Forces Pour Across Salween River In Attempt To Crush Jap Plans To Take India

Underground Hindering Nazi Plans   Organized Frenchmen Lead in Making Trouble for Germans

UNDERGROUND FRANCE OPENLY OPPOSES NAZIS   Reports Indicate Axis Plans For Defense Are Shattered

Report French Guerillas Undermining German Plans To Meet Invasion Forces:

Strong Uprising In France Begins, 'Menaces Germans      Guerrillas and Organiztunity to Hear Dr. Redhead at Presbyteriar Church This Week.

BURMA BATTLE GROWS SEVERE   Gen Stilwell’s Troops Kill 2,500 Japs: Trap Other Enemy Troops

2500 JAPS DIE IN EFFORTS T0 HALT STILWELL   Allied Airmen Blast Second Nippon Threat to Base of Imphal

Hitler Places Tank ‘Expert’ On West Wall   Marshal Von Rundstedt Rated Nazis’ Best Artillery General: East Freni Veteran

Von Runstedt In Charge Of  Nazi Defense   Veteran To Face  Allied tnvaders

6,500 On Strike, Survey Reveals   Big Superfortress Plant Is Tied Up

LABOR DOPUTES HALT PRODUCTION   6,500 Workers Kept on Sidelines in Work Stoppages at Airplane Parts Production Plants in Ohio, Michigan

DORSEY BRAWL BAFFLES JUDGE   Court Refuses To Dismiss Sensational Case

ees A Hot Potato  Both Sides Seek Dismissal  Of Dorsey Assault Charges

Ballot Fight Renewal Seen   Compromise Bill Strongly Criticized '

Jap Isle In Hands Of Yanks   Marines Beating Tough Terrain; Kill 7,000 Nips

PELELIU FIGHT IS NEARING END   Marines Drive Ahead Over Tough Terrain Against 3,000 Japs Left on Isle

CANTEEN CORPS WILL MEET TUESDAY NIGH]   Quarterly Session For All Group: To Take Place — Program Being Arranged

Dewey Raps Preparation For Victory   Declares New Deal's Policies Incompetent

Dewey Attacks F. D.R. Policy As Incompetent   Accuses New Dealers Of Failing to Make Preparation for War

Competence Of New Deal Questioned  By Dewey    Says Administration Failed To Prepare Nation for Conflict Or for Comins Peace   DES MOINES SPEECH: OPENS WESTERN. TOUR

DEWEY LASHES OUT. AT THE NEW DEAL      “Incompetent” _ Preparations for War and Peace Attacked

Dewey Raps New Deal In Caustic Campaign Speech   Presidential Candidate Claims FDR’s Administration Was “Incompetent” In Preparation For War And Peace

Dewey Lashes At ‘Incompetence   Puts Unpreparedness For War On Administration In Bitter Attack.

Administration Incompetent,  Dewey Asserts  G. O. P. Candidate Lashes Out in Critical Attack

ncompetent Preparations For War and Peace Hit by Dewey in Speech in lowa

G. O. P. Candidate Also Assails Administration Preparations for Peace, Asserting Byrnes’ Reconversion Proposals Are Seven and a Half Months Late—Arrives in Des Moines for Conferencs With Farm and Political Leaders.

Dewey Calls Democrats Incompetent   Lashes At Roosevel Administration In Critical Attack At Des Moines

Administration Incompetent,  Dewey Asserts  G, ©. P. Candidat Lashes Out in

DEWEY ATTACKS ‘INCOMPETENCE’ OF NEW DEALERS   Administration Has Beer Unable To Cope With  Domestic Problems   BYRNES PROPOSAL IS SEVEN MONTHS LATE

Administration Incompetent In War Preparation   Dewey Terms War Conversion Plan ‘Seven And  A Half Months Late’

Dewey Criticizes New Deal Failure To Plan for War   G.0.P. (andidate Now in Des Moines

ARMED TROOPS PROTECT VICHY   City Under Virtual Siege by  Patriot Forces

Vichy Armed Camp As Paris Exodus Starts   Now Under Virtual Siege By Patriot Forces, May Fall Soon

iENCH, CZECH USES LOOM AS 'FEDOM NEARS   Vv ichy Under Pattiot Seige

STRIKES START AND. STOP ON LABOR FRONT   Eight-Day Stoppage at Hotel Statler in Detroit Over, — SAK Daturn 2 Warl

{9,000 WORKERS NOW ON STRIKE      7,000 Others End Walkout: and Return to Nation’: Work Benches

TRAP CLOSING UPON GERMAN UKRAINE ARMY   FRANTIC ATTEMPTS MADE TO RESCUE MEN BY PLANE

Americans With Solid Assault Lines on Reer and Saar, Hammer Out Hard-Won Gains on Western Front. Bioody Battle on Cologne Plain

Eisenhower's Men Steadily Increase — Pressure   Merzig Bridge Blasted As Tanks of Allies ‘Rumble into View,  Bloody Battle Rages BOMBERS HIT FORTS

Nazis Blow Up Merzig Bridge After Retreat   Ninth Army Broadens Hold on Bank Of Roer; First Smash Close to Linnich in Hard Fighting

Negro Sailor Is  Fatally Shot In Portland Center   Argument Over  Use Of Profanity

PRETTY WEDDING. HELD AT OVENS   Sylvester Pick and Helen Schnepf Wed At St.  Catherine’s

Pretty Wedding Held At Oyens   Sylvester Pick and : Helen Schnepf Wed

Pretty Wedding Held At Oyens  Qyleactar Pps.L-: nixed   Sylvester Pick and _ Helen Schnepf Wed

DEWEY HEADS TO MINNESOTA   Confronted. by Ball’s Deserting Party to Support FDR

DEWEY TO MAKE CAMPAIGN TALK IN MINNEAPOLIS   Will Discuss Foreign Affairs, Postpones Major Farm Speech

DEWEY'S TALK MAY ANSWER SENATOR BALL   Heads Into Minnesota For Foreign Affairs Speech Tuesday

Dewey Reply Ready   GOP Neminee Declines to Comment on Sen. Ball’s View

Pulverizec ed ‘      NAZI ROUT IS TERMED THEIR GREATEST DISASTER SINCE STALINGRAD; 24 MILES INTO .OLD POLAND

Korovograd Nazi Force. Surrounded   Russians, Sensing Victory Bileding: Battles Singing

PULVERIZE NAZI DEFENSES IN RUSH JO NEW GOALS   Advance Marks Greatest Ger man Disaster Since Sialinarad.

 Russians Plunging  Through Great Gap:   Huge Quantities of Equipment And Corpses Swept Up by  Triumphant Soviet Armies

Pressure On Japs Mounts   Annihilation Faces Divided Forces ‘On Leyte As Veteran Yanks Close In

Jap Forces on Leyte Face  Annihilation  Nips Compressed Into an Area of Five Sauicra Milac   The Pacific War

Enemy Compressed Into Small Area   One Enemy Transport, 13 Small Freighters Destroyed or Damaged in Attack by Planes

FOE ON LEYTE {SLAND FACING ANNIHILATION   Japs Squeezed Into 5Mile Square Area; Iwo Jima Raided

Nipponese Compressed _ Into Area By Yankees   American Aircraft, Naval Vessels At: tack Iwo Jima Base In Vol. Telande

Japs in Danger Of Annihilation In Ormoc Area  _ Air, Navy Attack Hit   Air, Navy Attack Hits Iwo Jima Hard Blows; More Shipping Sunk

SHOWDOWN-ON POLISH QUESTION IS SUGGESTED   Churchi!l and Stalin Said to Have Agreed on Conduct

12 Vessels Sunk By Soviet Planes In Crimean Port   Carpet of Bombs Laid To Shatter Axis  Evacuation Fleet

Blast Axis Forcesfrom Air and Sea   German Retreat Lines Pounded by Bombers and. Warships

Ground Fo : Reaches  City’s Edges         LAST REMAINING GERMANS IN CITY HAVE ONLY WATERS.  OF BLACK SEA AT. THEIR BAC

RUSSIAN ARMIES RIP SEVASTOPOL INNER DEFENSES   Harbor Turned Into Shambles

Massed Russian Assault Pi Reported Laying A “Carpe Bombs” On Sevastopol Black Sea Approaches      BLACK SEA FLEET HARRASSES GERM.

CHAGH INCA DEFENaLS UF TRAPPED FOE   Dispatches From Sevastopol Refer to “Final Hours’ of Nazi Stand.

Red Columns Lunge Into Center of City   Soviets Reach Siege Lines of 1941; Axis Garrison ‘Fiehtine to Beath’

Red Planes And Fleet Blockade Axis Evacuation   Russian Armies Drive Into Inner Defenses Of Sevastopol

REDS RIP INTO INNER DEFENSE OF SEVASTOPOL   Pianes Lay Carpet Of Bombs Over Territory To Blast Evacuation Fleet

Russians Smash Into Inner Defenses of Sevastopol   Battle is Taking Place on 1941-42 Long Siege Lines

RED ARMIES INSIDE CITY SEVASTOPOL   Battle Now Raging at Inner Defenses Where Soviets Fought in Siege in 1041.9.

Soviet Army Back in Old  Positions   “Sevastopol’s Fall Appears Matter Of Hours

Reds Rip Into Inner Defense: of Sevastopol   Battling on Same Line Where Soviet Made Lona Stand

Soviets Rip Sevastopol’s Inner Lines   Escape Routes Pounded 7 ~ hed  From Sea And Air By Reds In City’s “Final Hours”

Axis Evacuation  Fleet Shattered   12 Enemy Ships Sunk in Black Sea By Russian Planes in 24 Hours

NAZI GARRISON FIGHTIN. LASTDITCH BATTLE   Soviet Planes, Warships Rain Blows On Axis ‘Escape’ Fleet

12 Ships Are Sunk In Harbor   Dust-Caked Reds Fight Way into Lines of Germans

RED ARMIES CLOSE IN ON SEVASTOPOL   Push Into Suburbs On Three Sides Of Seaport

Massed Soviet’ ‘Airplanes Sink 12 Nazi Ships in 2 24 Hours   ‘CARPET OF BOMBS’   German Train Proves No Match for Red Army Artillery

Student-Soldier Program Curtailed   Enrollment Cut to 35,000 Planned

U.S. Bombers Keer Blasting French Invasion Coast  American Air Force Units Pound Coastal   American Air Force Units Pound Coastal Areas In Day Raids

INVASION COAST BLOWS CONTINUE   Americans Carry Allied Air Offensive Into Third Day

U. S. BOMBERS CONTINUE RAIDS   Hit in Daylight Assaults After RAF Night Attack

BRITAIN WILL NOT DROP OUT OF WAR   Reality of Defeat Must Be Brought Home to Japan, Says Woodhead

BRITAIN WILL NOT DROP OUT OF WAR   Reality of Defeat Must Be Brought Home to Japan, Says Woodhea   A PRISONER IN CHINA

Toulon Freed of  Germans   Marseille Demolitions Wreck Port Facilities; Allied Mopup Goes on

Two Governor Ticket Named By Delegates   Nomination Accepted After Quick Flight To Convention City

All-Governor Ticket Links East, West   New Yorker Flys To Convention To Accept Nomination

Two Governors. Are Acclaimed By Convention   New Yorker Is Termed As “Spokesman Of The Future”

DEWEY WINS NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT   Governor Bricker Of Ohio Receives Unanimous Nemination For Vice Presidency

REVOLT IN PRISON -BROKEN BY WRITER   Convicts Surrender Afte Story of Columnist Is Read

Mailing Instructions For Overseas Xmas Parceis Now Issued   Designated Period  “ForMailing ts From" Cnet F770 TF. Pint 150

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAILING CHRISTMAS PARCELS TO MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCE; OVERSEAS

Reds Drive to Clear Isle in Gulf of Riga   Moscow and Berlin Hints of Mighty Russian Offensive

Battle Will Re-open Gull Of Riva   Driving Rains Churn Battlefields Into a Quagmire

Soviets Fight To Reopen Riga Gulf   Red Fleet Guns Support Drive To Clear Germans From Island And Break Blockade Of Baltic Port

REDS SEEK TO REOPEN RIGA GULF   Slashing Last Pocket of  Nazi Resistance

SOVIETS DAIVE TO REOPEN RIGA GULF  Driving Rain Bogs Down Budapest Front

Red Fleet Backs Army  In Offensive   Soviet Drive Aims To Break Blockade Of Riga Harbor.

MUD STALLS SOVIET DRIVE ON BUDAPEST   Russians Gain In Battle On Saare . Island, Near Riqa

Reds Battle To Rip Open Gulf of Riga   Lull Along 80-Mile Front Hints of Impending Of. fensive,

Preparing Mighty Red Offensive   Eastern Front About to Ex. plode in Drive on Poland, East Prussia 

RUSSIANS SLASH DEEP AGAINST NAZIS ON SAARE   Bitterly Contested Drive To Re open Riga Gulf, Break Blockade

Reds Drive To Re-Open Riga Harbor   Slash Deep Into Last Nazi Vocket On Saare Isle; Budapest Drive Halts

Reds Try To Open Riga Guil   Russians Slash Deep in Pockct Of Trapped Huns

REDS SLASH INTO SAARE ISLAND IN DRIVE TO REOPEN RIGA GULF   DRIVING RAINS STALL RUSSIAN SWEEP ON BUDAPEST; END OF EASTERN LULL EXPECTED

Polish Officials Arrive In Moscow for Parleys With Leaders of Soviet

GOVERNOR DEWEY DECLARES NO MAN IS INDISPENSABLE   Tells Portland Crowd Peace Should Not Be Dependent on Friendship of 2 or 3 Individuals.   CANDIDATE RECEIVES THUNDEROUS OVATION   >~Kathusiastic Crowd of 7,000 Cheers, Whistles and Stamps Feet as Governor Appears. —

No Indispensable Men, Says Dewey In Portland Speech   Governor Declares Peace-Making Too Important te be Dependent Upon Life Span of Three Individ~  wuals—Nation-wide Broadcast Made

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Yanks Mow Nazis Down Like Ducks   Fanatical Germans Charge Blindly Into American Machine Gun Positions,

GREEN SLATED FOR REELECTION   All Other Officers O AFL Also Scheduled To Retain Posts

Resume Shelling Central Athens — After Brief Lull  Peace Report Prove To Be False

SETTLEMENT IS THOUGHT NEAR AS GREEKS HALT CIVIL CONFLICT   Sides Await Results Of Undeclared Truce

GUNFIRE GROWS MORE QUIET IN BALKAN CAPITAL   British Getting More Troops, Sup plies With Which to Battle Forces of ELAS

Bloody Greek Conflict Ebbs: Truce Sought   Armistice Terms May Be Concluded ! Within Few Hours

TRUCE ENDS FIGHTING: IN GREECE   Settlement of. Civil Strife Is ~ Expected Today

Total Surrender Sought of E.A.M.   Government Sources Demand Unconditional Victory, Refuse Political Terms Suggested by Rebels; “Island” of British Shelled

Musial’s Hom’.Run and 11 Other Hits Give Cardinals Game that Ties Up Series

Cards Come Back, Even Series —  With 5-1 Win   Musial’s Homer in First, With Hopp Aboard, Sends National Champs Off to Victory; Harry Brecheen Goes Route for Cardinals

Sees Irrigation As Future of Missouri Basin   Reclamation Chief Testifies Before Senate Group

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Foresees Japan’s Defeat Sooner Than Anticipated

Attempt A State Controlled Vote Bill In Stalemate   First Reactions Show Opposite Camps May Work Together In Ballot- Contro- versy. 

T rade Appears Likely On Soldier Vote Issue As New Proposal Drawn

Second Forts’ Attack Staged Against Tokyc   Other Air Giants Batter Bangkok In 2Sided Raid

U.S. Superforts Miake Another  Raid On Tokyo   Enemy Installations  In Siam Also Bombed

Superforts strike  Tokyo, Bangkok in thundering raids  Demonstrate reserves by  wsina new crews in blow

Saipan, India Bases Used; Other Planes Blast 48 Jap Ships   Foe Reports That B-29s Hammer Capital 90 Minutes In New Blow; Targets Battered At Bangkok; 2 More Nipponese Convoys Wiped Out From Air

Raiders Sink 30 Jap Ships   Nippon Capital’s War Industries Lashed Second Time In Four Days By Superforts

SUPERFORTS BOMBED TOKYO AGAIN; ALSO ATTACKED THAILAND   OTHER AMERICAN AIR MAING CMreoT TADS OoKn CLiine   OTHER AMERICAN AIR RAIDS COST JAPS 30 SHIPS SUNK. 18 DAMAGED

New Blows Hit Tokyo ‘And Thailand  18 More Enemy   18 More Enemy Vessels Sunk In Luzon Raid

TWO PLY ATTACK IS DELIVERED BY GIANT BOMBERS   More Jap Ships Sunk While Yanks on Leyte Batter Enemy Resistance

B-29 Double Strike ~ Staged In Daylight, Without Precedent   30 Jap Vessels Sunk, 18 Damaged In Other Scattered U. S. Raids; Yanks Push Forward On Leyte

Twin Strikes Rocks Enemy from 2 Sides   Last U. S. Air Base in South China, at Nanning, Abarr doned to Japs

Tokyo Gets It Again; Bangkok Is Also Bombed   More Devastating Blows Rained Upon Nippon’s Capital Today

TOKYO AGAIN B-29 TARGET: MUCH DAMAGE   Thailand Hit By Second Group From India

Saipan-based B-29s Strike at Jap Industries   30 Enemy Ships Sunk, 18 Others Damaged in American Air Raids; Two Nipponese Convoys Wiped Out

SUPERFORTS BOMBED TOKYO AGAIN; ALSO ATTACKED THAILAND  , OTHER AMERICAN AIR  ee

Fourth Term Principal Issue Among Dewey Voter. Ry Archibald M..Crossley — ,

May Tighten Occupattinal Deferements For Farmers, Draft Official Suggests

TEN PER GENT DROP IN OHIO VOTE IS SEEN   Registration In Cities In dicates Three Million Vote Nov. 7

Ohio Vote To Be 10. Per Cent Under 1940   Summit and Cuyahoga Counties Show Increases: Predict 3.000.000 Tain)

‘Decrease in Ohio Vote Is Expected: /Rural Areas Subject of Guessing

Fewer Motes. Seen in Ohio. On Basis of Registration   November Election Total May Be Of 10 Percent, Expert Predicts

STATE SENATE PREPARES BILL ON BALLOTING   Expects Passage Today; House To Act Mon.

Illinois Senate Prepares to Vote on  Bill to Give Soldiers Votes Monday:

Hill Introduces Bill Consolidate Armed Services   Would Be Under Single Department of, Armed Services After War.

War Bureau Bill Drafted   Army, Navy, Airmen May Get Single Chief

Bill To Merge U.S. Military Before Senate   Air Forces Would Have Same Footing As Other Branches

Air Forces Get Equality In New Bill   Sen. Hill Asks Consolidated Military Setup For Postwar Era

LEGISLATION READY FOR SENATE ACTION   Would Give Air Forces Equal Footing With Army And Navv.

Senafe May Gef Military Merger Measure Today   Bill Would Include Equality In Separate Air Forces Branch

HITLER’S GRIP ON FRANCE HAS SLIPPED RAPIDLY IN ALMOST EVERY DIRECTION   General Patch’s Army Has Reached Swiss Frontier After Drive of 200 Miles and Gen. Patton’s Third Army Is 62: Miles Southeast of Liberated Paris

American Troops Reach Frontier of Switzerland as Hitler Hold on France Slips Away; Drive Toward Junction

Allies Reach Swiss Border In Fast Push   Hitler Losing Grip On France Rapidly; Bordeaux Reported In Allied Hands

Nazis Fast Losing All of France   ‘Bordeaux Reported Taken  by Combined Force of  Yanks and French   WIDE ALLIED GAINS : IN NORTH SOUTH      Americans Have Reachect Swiss Border; Third Army Moves Closer te Germany

Hitler's Hold On France Is Slipping   Paris’ Fall Is Expected At Any Moment

Southern Forces Reach Border Of Switzerland.   Nazis Attempt Large. Scale “Dunkerque” From Le Havre

Patch’sTroops Reach Border Switzerland   Hitler's Hold on France Slips Rapidly Away, Germans Retreat All Alona Front

AMERICAN TROOPS SLASH TO BORDER OF SWITZERLAND   HITLER’S HOLD ON FRANCE DECLARED SLIPPING RAPIDLY AWAY

American Troops Reach Border of Switzerland   Germans Trying To Evacuate Port of LeHavre

HITLER 3 GRIP ON FRANCE Io FAST SLIPPINE   U.S. Troops Reach Border of Switzerland; Others Push Toward Germany.

REICH BORDER 190 MILES , TO EAST   Report Bordeaux Captured By Yanks, Maquis   “DUNKERQUE”   Attempted By Germans At Le Havre; Resistance Stiff At Lisieux

HITLER HOLD UPON FRANCE SLIPS RAPIDLY   Allied Aircraft Tears Into Retreat. ing German Troops in Effort to Repeat “Dunkerque”

Hitler Is Fast Losing His Grip On France   —PARIS—  SAYS PARIS NOT YET LIBERATEL   Allied Troops Reported Fighting Their Way * Into Capital

WIN BORDEAUX IN SOUTHWEST   Paris Liberation Report Premature, Expect Fall of City Soon.   150 MILES TO GERMANY

Reach Troyes, 130 Miles From German Border   Hitler's Grip On France Slipping; Nazis Attempt To Flee Le Havre

Wallace Says Free Enterprise System Has-New Chance to Prove Ii Can Work

Take Two Bases Near Philippines   American Landings Made on ee and Paulau é $   DOUBLE ATTACK MADE   MacArthur- Directs Morotai Landing, Nimitz Pau~ Jau Attack

‘Palau and ‘Morotai Invaded   MacArthur Troops Go Ashore Only 300 Miles From Philimnin ..   Japs Outgquescad   Only 10 Found at Morotai; Palau Opposition Stiffer.

Palau, Morotai Landings Follow Bombardment      501 Jap Planes, 173 Surface Craft Wiped Out by Terrific Air Blows; Stiff Opposition in Palau Group

Two of Enemy's Outposts Invaded By Pacific Forces   Landings at Palau And Morotai Follow Great Bombing Raic:

Attack Opens On Great Base   MacArthur's Men Make Unopposed Landing on Morotai Base   Outsmarted Japs   Japs Left With No Air Defense After Huge Losses of Planes, Ships

LANDINGS MADE IN MOROTAI AND PALAU ISLANDS   Forces Drive Ashore After Great Air Bombardment And Fleet Pounding

AMERICANS CLOSING IN ON PHILIPPINES WITH NEW LANDINGS  PALAU AND MOROTAI ISLANDS, 600 AND 300 MILES AWAY, INVADED

LANDING MADI ON MOROTAt BY ALLIES   Action Follows Tremendous Naval Bombardment   TOKYO CLAIMS   Many Casualties Inflicted; Nimitz Reports Ground Opposition Stiff

STORM ASHORE AT PALAU AND MOROTAI ISLES   Yank Battleships, Planes Rock Jap Bases On Road to Manila

PHILIPPINES CLOSING IN OPERATIONS   Marines, Soldiers Charge Ashore on Palau After Bombardment by U.S. Naval Guns

Chinese Pouring from Seized Tengchung Meet Stillwell On Trail from Myitkyin,

ASSAULT ON ISLANDS ABOUT. TO ENTER FINAL STAGE SAYS GEN. MACARTHUR WHO LEADS.

Yanks Swarm Ashore in the Palau Group   MacArthur Watches Operations from Deck of Cruiser

Marines, Soldiers Charge Ashore In Face Of Bitter  Resistance from Japanese

British and Reds In Agreement   Evidence Points To Firm Foundation For Post War Cooperation.

HOUSE CONTROL FIGHT OFFERS GOP'S CHANCE   Majority Usually in Line With the President

MOV ACROSS POLISH PLAIN   Dispatch Says Germans Will Make No Further Stand In Area.   BIG BATTLES TG CQME

GERMAN FORCES IN WARSAW ARE BEING SHELLED   Other Russian Advances Cut Into Baltic, States and Toward Prussia

Latvian Rail Hub Penetratec By Russians   Soviets Throw Nazis Out of Jelgava As Polish Plains Advance Continues

Within Sight of  Warsaw   Other Soviet Forces Smash Into Jelgava, Threatening to Split Baltic States in Two

OTHER FORCES  PENETRATE * JELGAVA   Drive Practically Bisects All Of Baltics   20,000 NAZIS   Trapped By New Offensive; 300,000 Imperiled In Estonia, Latvia

TEMPERATIIRES  Russ “Advance Continues On Entire Eastern Front   Soviet Troops Reported Attacking Outer Line Of Polish Capital’s Defenses; German Army In Baltic Area Split By Swift Drive

Red Army in Outskirts . [Of Warsaw   German Forces in Latvia and Estonia Nearly Cut Off by Russian Advance Toward Riga: Poles Aiding Drive

Red. Spearhead Within Sight Of Pole Capital   Warsaw Looming Up As War Machine Grinds  Into Jelgava

Reds Within Sight of Warsaw; German Plight is Serious   Nazi Baltic Divisions Face Entrapment as Russians Press On

Report Reds In Sight Of Warsaw   Other Units Penetrate Latvian Rail Hub Of Jelgava

REDS PUSH TO BALTIC RAIL HUB   British Report Says Soviets Can See  Polish Capital

Soviet Troops Sight Warsaw, Continue Push  rt Germans To Moke No Stand Eas   Report Germans To Make No Stand East Of City; New Gains in Baltics Told

Set Baltic Trap for Nazi Army   German Disaster Near as Russians Enter Jelgava; Warsaw Sighted By Advancing Reds

In North Reds Almost Cut Baltic States in Halfi— Nazi Retreat Undamned

SOVIET ARMIES WITHIN SIGHT OF WARSAW NOW   20,000 Germans Hemmed In; No Way To Flee

SOVIET FORCES »PUSH INTO RAIL HUB OF JELGAVA   » GERMANS CLAIM REDS THROWN OUT BY COUNTERATTACK

Advance Soviet Troops In Sight Of Warsaw City   Broadcast Says Russian Troops Have Reached the Outer’ Fortifications of Polish Capital.

Warsaw In Sight Of Russian Spearheads  Soviet Forces Also Penetrate Rail Center Of Latvia, Cutting Baltics

ATTACK UPON BOUGAINVILLE DRIVEN BACK   Japanese Reported To Be Regrouping for New As. sault on Empress Auqusta Bay   WEWAK IS POUNDED

Japs Regroup For NewBlow After Repulse   Yanks’ Barbed Wire Is Matted With Bodies Of  Nips After Suicide Accanlte Fail

Suicidal Attack by Bougainville Japs  Is Bloody Defeat   500 Nips Hurl Selves in Frenzied Death Plunge at Allies

TRAPPED JAPANESE ON BOUGAINVILLE IN SUICIDAL ATTACKS   BLOODILY REPULSED ENEMY REPORTED PLANNING NEW ATTACK

JAPS TRAPPED ON BOUGAINVILLE   1,000 NIPS KILLED IN SUICIDE ATTACKS, FEW U, S, CASUALTIES

Japs Repulsed in Four-Day Battle On Bougainville   Enemy Preparing To Resume Suicidal Attack on Yanks

JAPS FACING DEATH TRAPS ON ISLANDS   Americans Force Enemy To Come Out In Open

Japs Sutter Heavy Losses In Solomons   Suicide Attack Fails; Allies Also Advance in Burma

Believe Japs Regrouping For New “Suicide Attack’ On Bougainville Yankees

JAP THRUSTS ARE REPULSED   British Breach Enemy Defenses In North Burma

Japs Repulsed With Heavy Loss   Suicidal Assaults On American Troops Are Hurled Back

Thousand Slain In Four Days On Bougainville   Qur Losses Are Light; British Advance In Northern Burma

REPEL JAPANESE 4-DAY DRIVE ON BOUGAINVILLE   British Launch New Drive on Upper Chindivin River in Northern Burma

Japs Repulsed On Bougainville   Reforming After Four-Day Suicidal Attack

Repulse Nips’ Bloody Attack   Japanese Trapped On Bougainville Make  Suicide On Base, a

Repulse Jap Suicidal Drive On Solomons   Believe Trapped Japs Regrouping For Another Attack On Bougainville

FOUR-DAY JAP ATTACK SMASHED   1000 NIPPS KILLED IN BOUGAINVILLE BATTLE

YANKS REPULSE TRAPPED JAPS   1,000 Nips Slain In Des perate Suicidal  Attack

1,000 Die in Suicidal 4-Day Battle   British Add New Spearhead in Drive to Clear Northern Burma

Japs Preparing For New Assault On Bougainville   (By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ) (Associated Press War Editar)

Throw Back Jap Suicide Assaults _   More Than 1,000 Japs Killed in Fighting on ‘Bougainville; British Into Northern Burma

Trapped Nipponese Lose At Least 1,000 Men During Four-Day Fighting

“FOR NEWAAIVE   Enemy Repulsed Bloodily in Four-Day Attack on Boudainville.

Japs Making Suicide Drive Are Repulses   At Least 1,100 Killed by Yanks Holding Empress Ray Positions   NEW SUCCESSES ; IN NORTH BURMA   Wewak and Wake Island Are Bombed Again as Air Blows Continue

FRENZIED JAPS THROWN BACK, BOUGAINVILLE   Trapped, They Hurl Suicidal At. tack in Effort to Break Through, Will Try Again

Japs Repulsed On Bougainville In Suicide Fight   New Smash Against Japs * ? . in Northern Burma Is Announced by Alhes.   More Than 500 Hurl Themselves to Death

Attack of Trapped Japs On Bougainville Halted;  New Gains Made In Burma

STUDENTS OF TEXAS UNIVERSITY PARADED AGAIN ON FRIDAY   FORMER SERVICE MEN BROUGHT INTO CAMPUS DEMONSTRATION TODAY

TRUK BROUGHT UNDER 4-WAY AERIAL BLOWS   Combined Allied Flying Forces Smashing At Carolines

Mass Air Power Of 40. S. Forces Against Carolines   Liberators Carry Out 45th Raid On Vital Base At Truk

YANK PACIFIC BOMBERS MAKE 45TH ATTACK   Americans Concentrate To Neutralize Key Japanese Bastion

U. S. AIR POWER IN PACIFIC IN TRUK CAMPAICH   Long - Range Liberators Carry Out 45th Attack on Carolines

LIBERATORS HIT ISLE IN NEW BLAST   Widespread Raids Are > Made On Other Bases  In Carolines

Four Pacific Air Units Concentrate  On Truk Island   ‘45th Attack Against Strategic Jap Base Does Heavy Damage

Campaign to Neutralize Truk, Other Bases Seen   GERMANS, ROMANIANS LOSE 111.000 TROOPS

Stalin Sees Nazi Defeat   Thanks President Roosevelt for His Conaratulations

Stalin States Time Near For German Defeat   Marshall Underscores Moscow and Teherar Agreements, °

Stalin Thanks FDR For Message   Reiterates Stands At Moscow, Teheran

STALIN SAYS ~ VIGTORY NEAF   Expresses Optimism in Message to Roosevelt

“Strike” in Reverse:  8,000 Workers Will Remain on Job In Brewster Plants without Pay

Army Officer Kills 3 Persons And Wounds 5   Young Second Lieutenant Draws Gun, Starts Firing At Officers’ Club Party

Officer Runs Amuck, Kills 3, Wounds 5   Army Lieutenant Turns Party Into Massacre

SHOOTING ORGY IS FATAL 10 3   Young Lieutenant Kills Trio, Wounds Five At California Club

Young Lieutenant Kills 3, Wounds 5 At Officers’ Party   Police Chief Critically Wounds Soldiers After He Terrorizes Camp

Lieutenant Goes  Berserk, Shoots 8   Three Dead After  Officers’ Club Tragedy

FIRST BLA FURTHER AHEAD IN AACHEN AREA   Frost Hardened Ground Aids Patton’s Third In Scoring Gains   YANKS ENTER  LINDERN   MUS dalle VVC PCr New Push Against Huns In Southern Hungary

Deficit Financing Is Condemned  Bricker Assails New Deal Policies

EDEN MAY QUIT SECRETARY JOB   London Paper Regards Him As New Conservative Premier

HINT EDEN T0 STEP FROM PRESENT POST   Will Take Charge of Commons as Training for Prime Minister’s Snot

EDEN REPORTED READY TO RESIGN   LONDON PAPER SAYS HE WILL BE NEXT PRIME MINISTER

PERIL IS EASED UP FOR CHINESE   All Japanese Driven Out Of Kweichow, Chased 17 Miles Over Border

Chinese Drive Japanese Forces From Kweichov  Perilous Situation! Eased for China At Least for Time

AND NAZI TROOPS 1h EINE ESTUARY POCKET:   American and British Forces Join at Elbeuf To Seal-Off Retreat Roads   CANADIANS MOVING AT TOP SPEED    Can’t Confirm Americans Reach Reims—     Patton Patrols 130 Miles From Germany

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Allied Troons Move for Final Kill near Elbeuf

ALLIES MOVING INTO POSITION FOR FINAT KILL   40,000 Germans May Be Slain or Captured in Trap “4

TSOLATIONISM’ CHARGES FLY IN CAMPAIGN   Dewey Deferred Farm Speech To Accuse President of Scuttling Trade Plan

Presidential Campaign Tempo Stepped Up As Election Day Nears      President Roosevelt And Gov. Dewey Each 'To Make 2 More Speeches This Week; ‘Isolationist’ Topic Reromes Hat

ISOLATIONIST CRY  FLUNG BY BOTH SIDES  IN HOT CAMPAIGN TWO SPEECHES EACH BY  ‘DEWEY AND ROOSEVELT 4 NEYT FOUR DAYS

Rivals Plan Busy Stretch ‘Vote Efforts   FDR, Dewey Shout ‘Isolationist?’ as Speech-Making for Week-end Is Announced

RE-APPRAISAL OF LABOR POLICY SEEN   Next Major Test Will Be Brot by Steel Workers

War Labor Policy Unde Heavy Fire   Mine, Rail Issues Threat to Little  Steel Formula

Daily Temperatures   Reappraisal of Wartime Labor Policy May Be Forced by 2 Controversies

PAY DISPUTES MAY FORGE REVISION OF WAR LABOR POLIC)   Steel Case Next Major Test For ‘Little Steel’ Formula

United Steel Workers Next To Ask Raise   Major Test Anticipate When CIO Groups In vade Wasliington

REAPPRAISAL OF LABOR POLICY BY GOVERNMENT      Impact Of Mine, Railway Labor Disputes May Force Action

Allies Pour Bombs On Nazi Rail Centers   5,000 Tons Rained On German Transportation System Near French Coast

Big Bombardments Now Only Routine —  Attacks Reveal Air Superiority

Mexico President Dodges Assassin Who Is Wounded  Avila Camacho Helps Capture Army Officer Who Has Nazi Papers

Attack On Avila Camacho Foiled   Would-Be Assassin Llalds Nazi Paners:-

RUILLET MISSES AVILA CAMACHO   President Of Mexico Has Narrow Escape From Axis Assassin

Uniformed Palace Officer Carrying Nazi Papers Fires One Shot at Avila Camacho Which Goes Through His Coat; Assailant Questioned About Reasons for Attempt

Mexican President Escapes Unhurt When Assassin Fires   Uniformed Officer Seized by President Manuel Ca. ' macho—Several Documents From Nazi ~ Sources Found on Alleged Assassin

Bullet Pierces Clothing Of Manuel Avila Camachs  Who.Disarms Gunman

MEXICO’S LEADER TS FIRED UPON   ARMY OFFICER SEIZED AFTER ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF PRESIDEN CAMACHO,

Attack On Avila Camacho Foiled   Would-Be Assassin Holdce Nazi Paners

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest! World News Today.   Tlands Poambed,.

FOR THIS STATE 1S COMPLETED   Back Watkins As Auditor Gen., Baird For Treasurer

GREEKS PUT OUT PEACE FEELER AS FIGHT RAGES-ON   Leftists Told Settlement Cannot Be Reached Until They Cease Resistance and Lay Down Arms.   MORE BRITISH TROOPS - ARRIVE IN CAPITAL   Field Marshal Alexander and English Minister Are in City to Try to End Conflict.

Ela Throw Ot Feeler. “for Peace   EAM o 1d Hostilities  Mustlease and Arms ‘Giern Up Before’  Settlement ~- -~

Greek ELAS Peace Move ls Reported   General Situation in Athens Not Improved

British Ultimatum Given to Greeks   ELAS ‘Must Quit Arms, But Fight Continues

GREEKS THROW OUT FEELER rOR PEACE   While High Ranking British Are in Athens; Told Surrender of Arms and Halt. in Hostilities.   No Slackening

PEACE FEELERS QUT IN ATHENS   British Terms Demand Complete Surrender Of Rebel Forces

Yanks Swarm Past Marne And Belleau Wood   Falaise Trap Yields 92,000 Germans Taken Prisoner and 30,000 Killed; New Traps Yielding Many More

Soissons Also Occupied; Other Columns At Upper Marne in Area of Fismes

U. S. Troops Hit 100 Miles From German Border   American, British Bridgeheads At Mantes, Vernon Are Linked Into Solid Assault Front; Last Of Nazi Resistance Now Wiped Out In Paris Area

U.S. Units At Seene Of Weighty Battles In Ist World Wai   Yanks Cross Marne At Two Places; Envelop Robot Bomb Positions; Buffer Menaces Nazis In South

Liberators Hit Fortifications   Attack Targets in Northern France For Fourth Time

Mrs. Roosevelt Leaves On Tour   Leads Reporters Merry Chase In Camp Visiting

[Senator Gutfey Loses Committee Chai hip   Colleagues, Stung By His Rebukes Obtain Removal

Guffey Says Democrats Gave Him the Old  Heave-Ho   Penn. Senator Claims He Was “Removed” as Head of Béurbon Sen. Campaign Committee

Marines Capture Tinian Town  U.S. Planes Operate From Orote Field

Doris Wouldn't Pay 7 Million  Cromwell’s Demands   Cromwell’s Demands For Settlement Called Exorbitant by Heiress

Over 500 Bombers Blast Berlin, Drop 1,500 Tons of Bombs   Huge Fighter Force Escorts Fortresses. Liberators; British Mosquitos Rip Western Reich Last Night

FLYING FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS HIT CAPITAL IN STRENGTH  NEARLY TWO THOUSAND PLANES IN ARMADA THAT BLASTED BERLIN TODAY

Capital Rocked By ‘Very Heavy Raid This Morning   New Attack Falls As Reich's Troubles With Puppets Grow

Germans Move To Make Rome An Open City   Russians Plunge Twenty-Five Miles Into Bessarabia  As Nazis Withdraw

SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS SOLDIER VOTING LAW IS WORKING SUCCESSFULLY

REDS WILLING TO MAKE PEAGE WITH FINLAND   New President Is Assured Of Soviet  Cooperation

Russia May Grant Finns An Armistice   Mannerheim Believed te ‘Have Had Assurances : From Moscow

Russians To Consider New  Finnish Bid   Marshal Mannerheim I: Expected To Presen'! ‘Application As Head Of New Government

Mannerheim Heads Finnish Government   Report Russians Ready To Grant Finn’s Independence.

Reports Have Nazis Moving  From Finland   Russia Ts Declared Ready To Stage Peace Parley Wil Finn Regine

xweaeKeKkeKe KS  MOSCOW READY TO TALK PEACE WITH FINLAND   Assurance Reportedly Given Even Before Mannerheim Succeeded Ryti as Finn President

FINLAND'S NEW PRESIDENT MAY ASK ARMISTICE   MANNERHEIM TAKES OVER PRESIDENCY RESIGNED BY RYTI

Report Nazi Evacuation ~ Of tinland   Relieve Mave Is_ Mace  In Preparation For Separate Psace  By Finns

German Troops Leaving Finland   Report Berlin Agreed To Finn's Separate Peace With Russia.

Mannerheim Given Soviet Assurances   Ready To Consider New Application For Armistice

Russ to Offer  Finns Plans   Marshal Baron Mannerheim Becomes President; New Armistice Terms Hinted

Armistice Bid Likely   ~ Reds Believed Ready To Renew Finn Talks

Nazis Reported Leaving Finland   Separate Peace Likely Under Mannerheim

German Troops in Finland Are Evacuating   Reports Indicate an Armistice Will Be Sought

See Soviet Offer Of Independence  To Mannerhein   Finland’s New President Reported In Peace Talk With Moscow Leaders

BELIEVE NEW RUSS ARMISTICE TERMS OPEN TO FINLAND   Think Prseident Mannerheim Has Received Soviet Assurances They Will Consider -Finn Application. for Peace : Beauring Indenendence

FINLAND READY FOR ARMISTICE   Axis Troops Reported Getting Out; Russia Open To Offers

ORDER SEVEN IOWA HEMP PLANTS QUIT   Only Four are to Be Operated During Year 1944

7 HEMP PLANTS TOBE CLOSED IN IOWA IN-1945   : Plantings to Be Made in 1944 for Only. 4 Factories in State

PRISONERS HELPING IN RECONDITIONING   Italians, Nazis Work With U. S. Civilians

Eric Johnston Urges Stabilization Of Wages, Prices Be Retained During War

Labor Board Urged to Hole Ceiling on Wartime Wages   Eric Johnston Proposes System of Increases After Allies Defeat Axis

Hull Reveals Streamlining - Of His Office   Committees on Postwar Programs and Policy Formed by Secretary

Secretary Hull Reorganizes Department   War-Created Problems Met With New System

Hull Announces State Department Reorganization   Officials Prepare For ‘Responsibilities’  Of War and Peace

Sweeping Shifts Ordered By Hull   State Department _ To Be Rearaanizved

HULL PREPARES — FOR NEW ROLES   SWEEPING REORGANIZATION OF STATE DEPARTMENT ORDERED BY SECRETARY,

Hull Announces Big Department Revision   Streamlines State Department to Better Handle Routine Duties, Problems of Securing Peace

HULL PLANS FOR POSTWAR TASKS INDRPARTWENT        ? tion’ to: ‘Permit: sides a "Wty Onecialize -

Hull Changing Official Setup   Reorganizing Department Of State: To Prepare For War, Peace

HULL trrebTa MAJOR GHANGE AN DEPARTMENT   Secretary Reorganizes To Prepare For Responsibilities Of “Securing Peace”

Tojo Out 2 Warlords Take Over   Resigns Because He Can’t Win War; Successors Once Friendly To U. 5.

Entire Cabinet of Tojo Resigns Admitting Defeat   Pair Friendly to U. S. Asked to Form New One

Koiso. Yonali Piched After Tojo Resigns   Installation Of “Moderates’ Shows Military Clique Has Lost Control.

War Clique Replaced By ‘Friends’ of U.S.   Ex-Premier Yonai, Gen. Loiso Get Reins in Face of Mounting Crisis

Tojo Reported Definitely Out As High Army, Navy Heads Com. missioned By Hirohito To Form Wen Cabinet   MOVE SEEN AS PEACE MANEUVER

TDJO CABINET QUITS; GOULD NOT WIN WAE   Hirohito Calls General and Admiral; May Mean Peace Moves.

“Moderates” Appointed To Organize Jap Cabinet   Ministers Under Tojo Quit En Bloc After Confessing They Can’t Win War

HIROHITO NAMES “FRIENDLY” JAPS TO FORM CABINET   Announcement That Pollitical ‘‘Moderates” Have Been Appointed Sets Off Likely Peace Feel-

Two Moderates Named to Forn New Jap Govt.   Regard Move as First Step to Win Negotiated Peace

Regard Move As ist Enemy Peace Step   Political Moderates -To Take Over, As Army Loses Control.

TOJ0'S FALL MAY LEAD TO PEACE MOVES   New Tokyo Cabinet to Contain Leaders Once Friendly to United States.

EMPEROR PICKS 2 FOR CABINET AS TOJO QUITS   Peace Bid May Follow Resignation OW War ©.     nal

General Koiso And Admira Yonai Map Dual Regime Peace Try May Follow

2 POLITICAL MODERATES ARE INTRUSTEL   Kioso and Yonai Both Friendly to U.S. Before Pearl Harbor

Hirohito Forms New Cabinet Of Men Friendly Toward U.S   BY UNITED PRESS

Japs May Make Peace Bid Soon   Emperor Names Leaders Friendly to U.S. to Organize New Government

Preliminaries to Negotiation For Peace Seen in Move By Emperor Hirohito

Negotiated Peace Move Seen in Jap Shake-up ‘Giving Moderates Orders to Form Cabinet   By UNITED PRESS

Quit Jobs, ing They Know they Cannot Win War         HIROHITO NAMES KOISO AND YONAI, TO FORM NEW CABINET; BOTH PRE-WAR FRIENDS OF U. S.; MAY SEEK PEACE

Japs to. Form: N ew Cabinet _   ‘Political. ‘Moderates ‘Entrusted: With © Organization of a New Government

Ask “Moderates” to Form Japanese Cabinet, After Tojo’s Group Quits

Confessing They Could Not Win The War With United States  TWO “MODERATES” TO: NAME CABINET  Both Known To Be  Friendly With The U.S. Before Pearl Harbor

Germans Admit Loss Of Lomza; Romanians Now 100 Miles FromBudapest

LOMZA FALLS   Was Last Fortified City Barring Russians From East Prussia.

PLAN BOOST IN DAIRY FEED PAYMENTS BY FIFTY. PERCENT   INCREASE IN PAYMENTS TO DAIRY FARMERS PLANNED  . FOR NEXT TWO ‘ o MONTHS

Draft Board Quits Today In Protest   Board Angry at Paroles Issued to “Draft Dodgers in Penal Institutions’

T. T. H. S. SENIOR CLASS PRESENTS ANNUAL PLAY   ‘Don’t Take My Penny’ Will Be Given Dec. 12 At High School Gym.

JUNIOR CLASS PRESENTS PLAY ‘ALMOST SUMMER’   Give Matinee On Thursday For Grade Students; List Committees.

Supreme Allied Headquarters Reports Progress Along Entire Battle Front, Now Lenathened to 80 Miles

War Effort Hampered: Patterson and Forrestal Urge End of Strikes in 13 Plants

Cooperation Among Allies Amazes American Who Had Heard Only Goebbels Propaganda Since 39

PATTON FREE PRESS POLICY VINDIGATEL      Ordered Names of Units and Commanders Be Made Known Daily.

SLICE VALUES ON LAMB CUTS   OPA Announces New Order Effective April 30

Deweys Just Some More Churchgoers   WORSHIP AT LITTLE CHURCH AT PAWLIING N. Y¥., INCONSPICUOUSLY; RETURN TODAY TO ALBANY.   Pose For Cameramen

U. 5. “BRUISERS" BAG 300 PLANES AND 91 SHIPS   Knox Discloses 14 More Nip Vessels Sunk by Subs

BARE DETAILS OF ENORMOUS TOKYO LOSSES   Truk, Mariana Blows Spectacular  peree  JAPS BEFUDDLED  fa enema  U. S. Subs Sink 14 Nip Vessels

Kills Self As Prison Term Approached   Ex-Triumph Explosive: Executive Shot Self At Home In Elkton

Explosives Executive Under 3-Year Sentence,  Takes Life With a Gun

Corcoran Called   Ex-Fair-Haired Boy At White House To Be Interrogated Today

CORCORAN IS FACING QUIZ   CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTED  TO GIVE FORMER WHITE  - HOUSE “BRAIN TRUSTER” SEVERE GRILLING

RED SUBS IN BALTIC    Newspaper Report Two Vessels Off é Swedish East Coast.

Fletcher’s Fleet Makes War’s First Attack Upon Japanese Homeland; Broadcasters Rate Marshalls Action As Entering Tokyo’s Front Porch,

Say 100! ,000 American Troops Massed in the Aleutians For Major Operation

Vichy Radio Says Invasion. Started   All Attacking Naval Vessels Are Reported To Be Undamaged In Attacks On Islands

Lrnie Pyle’s Slant on the War:  History's Greatest Armada Landed on Normandy Coast  Nazi Pillboxes Wreck Tank  Dot foe UWrantnd ¢n Patiren   Nazi Pillboxes Wreck Tank But Crew Wanted to Return

Ernie Pyle’s Slant on the War:  History's Greatest Armada  Landed on Normandy Coast  Nazi Pillboxes Wreck Tank But Crew Wanted to Return

BULGARIANS TOO SLOW FOR HULL   Nation Prodded To Carry Out Her Terms Of Armistice

BULGARIA IS TOLD 10 GET TROOPS OUT   Nation Prodded to With: draw From Greece and Yugoslavia -

Hull Asks Bulgar: To Leave Greece   Wants All Bulgarian Troops Withdrawn From Greece and Yugoslavia.

Asks Speed_ In Troops Withdrawal   Hull Prods Bulgaria To Hasten Removal Of Occupation Forces

ROOSEVELT 10 AIORESS NATION TONIGHT    Will Tell of Decisive   Events in Future in  Quarter Hour Broadcas'

FDR WILL SPEAK AT 8:30 TONIGHT   ‘Fireside Chat’ Described as Most Momentous Address of Year

PRESIDENT 10 TALK TO NATION THIS EVENING   Address at 7:30 May Be Most Momentous of Year

D TALK TO NATION THIS EVENING   Address at 7:30 May Be Most Momentous of Year

PRESIDENT GOES ON AIR MONDAY EVENING AT 8:30   Fall Of Rome Springboard For Important “Chat” By Chief Executive   BREAKS LONG. SILENCE   Address Has _ Significance Due To Approaching Critical Events

Vote Bill Hangs On 742 Likeness   Senate Debates If More Men Will Get Benefit

SENATE DEBATES SOLDIER VOTE QUESTION TODAY   Parkley Appears to éliéve Number of Soldiers Would Be Reduced

Stimson Asserts Price Controls Are Necessary   Urges Congress To Con tinue Price Curbs info Postwar Period

Price Controls Necessary, Says _ War Secretary   Stimson Testified In Support of National  §$tabilization

Price Control  Savings Cited   jStimeon Urges Congress To Continne Proersam

AWAIT POLISH BORDER REPLY   Poland’s Cabinet In Lon don May Answer Moscow Today

Poles Draft Answer on  Border Plan        VT oe FP May stp  viet Proposal on Disputed Territory  Tadav tn Sa eocoy iD 38

Polish Reaction To Moscow Plan Expected Today   Call Cabinet In London To 3d Session In 24 Hours On Territorial Dispute

THIRTEEN AIRMEN — KILLED IN CRASH   Flying Fortress Explodes and Plunges 3,000 Feet

13 Army Fliers Killed-as Plane. Burns in Flight   Fortress Explodes and - Plunges to Ground In Flames

13 ARMY FLIERS KILLED IN GRAS   Flying Fortress Explodes... Flight Over :  Cield

Censorship Dropped And Amphibious Warfare Group’s Exploits Revealed

Declare Soviets Will Liberate  ‘Entire Country   Ignores Authority Claimed By Exiled  Government In London

Reds Define Bug River as Polish Frontier   Statement Iqnores Polish Exile Govt. Recognizes Council

Russia Turns Recaptured Polish Territory Over to New Committee, Ignores Government In Exile

Soviets To Free Friendly Poles’  Will Help Resurrect Independent Poland; Frontier Defined

Nazis Flee in Wild  Disorder   U. S. Troops Surge Five Miles to Itra, British Near Aquino

22 Japanese Barges Are Sunk By U.S   Marines Taking Toll of Seven to One in Jungles

Charge Bank On Exporting Count   Financed Shipment of Diamonds To Germany

COURTNEY RAPS PENSION POLICY   DECLARES MANY HAVE BEEN CUT OFF; GREEN TELLS OF INCREASES

ARGENTINA 10 BREAK AXIS RELATIONSHIP   Promise Said To Be Given Britain And America But President Ramirez Didn’t Sav So.   Exnected By Saturday

“OF ARGENTINA ~ AND AXIS SEE   Ramirez Address, However, Fails to Mention Subject

Axis Rupture Seems Near In Argentina  Government Ready To Take Final Sten, Minister Savs

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Argentina s On Verge Of Axis Rupture  Some Quarters See  te (Aw Ace, Adi nets dr

Report Argentine : May Break Off Axis Relations  Ramirez Dodges Issue on Radio  yo . rege es

EARLY BREAK OF ARGENTINA ~ AND AXIS SEEN   Ramirez Address, However, Fails to Mention Subject

Argentina May End Relations With Axis Soon   President Talks About Quake in Speech in  Which It Was Expected He Would Reveal Break

Argentina Is On Verge Of Axis Rupture   Some Quarters See 1t ‘At Any Minute’

Germans Using Jet and Rocket-Propelled Planes Against Night-Fighters

2 Killed, 20 Hurt In Railway Wreck   Two Cars Derailed on Northwestern Line

Last 2 Cars Roll Off Embankment  Two Known Dead, 20   Two Known Dead, 20 Injured As Red Cross Rushes Aid to Scene

Japanese Continue Fierce Attacks Near Ukhrul   British Troops Continue Efforts To Stop Inva- sion Columns

CONTINUE TO CLEAR JAPS FROM ROAD   South Of Imphal _ Says Mountbatten While Another Column Pushes Into India Through Somra Hills   Successful Attack

EPIDEMICS THREATEN EARTHQUAKE AREAS   Population of Stricken Ar gentine Cities Is Being  Evacuated.

Dewey Good Loser: Believes War Solely Responsible For Failure To Win the Presidency

DEWEY SAYS WAR CAUSED DEFEAT   Solely Responsible for Fail: ure to Win Presidency; Happy Over Confidence Ex: yressed by People

DEWEY ACCEPTS DEFEAT SMILING   Republican Party Kni More Closely Now, Says Governor

DEWEY BcLIEVES WAR CAUSED LOSS   Defeated Candidate Fails to Show Disappointment or Bitterness

G0. P. DEFEAT LAID TO WAR   Dewey Says Campaign United Party, Pleased by His Popular Vote

DEWEY BLAMES WAR FOR DEFEAI   DECLARES CAMPAIGN UNITED G. 0. P.—SHOWS NO DISAPPOINTMENT.

Charred Body Found After Fire, Murder   Aged Recluse Was Reputed to Carry Large Sums of Money on His Per i<—tebal

Erie Man Slain Police Say  Battered, Charred   Battered, Charred Body Found in Ruins Of Burned Barn

Erie Recluse Found In Fire Believed Slain   Charred Body of Man Said To Have Carried Large Sum Found in Ruins  IA WAL IPT AIF AR Bi 4A AIC

Cleveland Fire Death Toll Rises to 112  45 Others Listed As Missing In Burned Area

Another Death Trap Is Being Fashioned in Drive South Of City.   NEARING PRUSSIAN CITY

Russian Troons Surround Memel, Berlin Reveals  Stiff New Red Blows North Of Warsaw Are Told By Nazis, Saying Bia Pushes Are On

Port Of Memel Surrounded By Soviet Troops   Berlin Says Two Heavy Attacks Are Launched North Of Warsaw.

LONG-AWAITED ALL-OUT PUSH IS UNDER WAY   Say Nazi Commanders Appeal Frantically For New Troops

Russians Seize Two Key Balkan Cities; Encircle. Baltic Seaport Of Memel

Soviet Advances Threaten Second Tran for Nazis   May Cut Off Five Divisions in Area South of Memel; Riga Battle Rages

NIPS ON GUAM BATTLE WITH BACKS 10 SEA   Pecketed In Area 20 Miles Square   VERIO OS OUMAIL  eer  10,000 JAPS DEAD  Yankees Masters of Skies

Yank Assault Troops On Guam Pocket Jap Forces In Area 20 Miles Square

JAPS ON GUAM POCKETED ON CORNER OF ISLE   Enemy Dead Toll Is Boosted to Over Ten Thousand

174 CONVENTIONERS PLEDGED TO BRICKER   ‘Growing Stronger Each Day’ Is Claim of Committee

Bricker Forces Expecting Him To Get 250-300 Votes On First Ballot At Parley

Democrats Lose Majority In the House; Bricker Camp Analvses Ballots

CLAIM BRICKER STOCK GOING UP   BACKERS PREDICT 250 OR 300 VOTES ON FIRST BALLOT

BRICKER LISTS 750 DELEGATES   Claims Vote On First Bal lot May Go As High As 300

SODVOTES FOR ~BRICKER. CLAIM   First Ballot Prediction Made By Supporters Of Ohio Governor

BRICKER SUPPORT SAID T0 BE STRONG   Prediction Is He'll Receive 250 to 300 ‘First BalJot? Votes.

Bricker Has ~ Ballot Edge: Backers Say   iDiffer From Dewey Camp Claims in First Ballot Analysis

BRICKER GAINING STRENGTH IN RACE   Ohio Governor Is Pledged 174 Convention Votes, Supporters Claim

Claim 250 Votes For Bricker   Dewey Supporters Say He Has 391 Votes in Sight

Adm. Horthy Seized After Appeal To Allies For Armistice;; Budapest Coup Follows Action

CAPITAL COUP BLOCKS EFFORT AT ARMISTICE   \azis Seize Control of Budapest as Reds Approach

Government Seized Soon After Regent Opened Peace Discussions   Horthy Is Taken Prisoner By Nazis   Capital On Verge Of Imminent Attack By Red Army. Hungarian Forces

Hungary Requests Armistice   Red Army Maving tn for Attack on Nazi-Held City

Horthy Out, Is Reported Held Captive   Status Of Armistice Remains Uncertain After Nazi Coup

Nazis Control Budapest After Horthy’s Arrest   Admiral Had Announced Move for Peace

GERMANS IN CONTROL OF BUDAPEST   Only Temporary As Reds Prepare To Attack City

Admiral Horthy Seeks Armistice  With Allied Units   Hungarian Capital Believed On Verge  of Imminent Attack

Hungarian Nazis, Germans Seize City Of Budapest   Horthy’s Loyal Forces Surround Capital To Attack It

New Zealand Infantrymen Are Reported Slowly Beat. - ing Down Nazi Resistance

British Big Bombers Attacked Frankfurt Last Night With More Than 1.000 Planes.

HULL ASKS VETS UNITE FOR PEACE   Warns Legion Convention U.S. May Not Get Third Chance

16 Limestonians Killed By Cancer  That’s One Year Toll From Dread Disease,

16 Deaths In County From Cancer In 43   1,883 DEATHS IN STATE REPORTED LAST YEAR

Hoarders Are Left Holding Bags As OPA Says Rationing Unnecessary

No Resumption of Coffee Rationing; — Hoarders Are Left “Holding the Baa(s)’

INDIES POLICY 1S ANNOUNCED   NETHERLANDS SAYS OIL, AND RUBBER ISLANDS WILL BE . ‘OPEN TO ALL COMMERCIAL INTERESTS

Sooners Are Back In States   Getting New Assignments After Tarawa, Saipan And Tinian Fighting

Rev. Thompson  Resigns Pastorate  Hildreth Church Will Become Full.  Time Professor At Western Union 

~~ RESIGNS CHARGE   Will Be Dean of Men and  Head Department of Philosophy

Rev. Thompson Resigns Pastorate Hildreth Church  Will Become Full  Time Professor At

—AERIAL— —- >:  Allies Bi Blast — Germans As  _ Skies Clear   Hundreds Of Bombers Rain Death On Ad’ yancing Nazi Columns

Hurl Hundreds of Bombers At Nazis As Weather Improves Over Belgium

Heavy Bombers Aid Defense Of Pr essed Yanks   Hundreds of Britain-Based Fortresses and Fighters Hurled Against Enemy On Western Front   Boche in Bastogne And Control Wiltz   Nazis Still Reported Being -Contained in Stavelot Area in North Wedge of Breakthrough ~

DEWEY’S PICTURE IS TO BE STORED   Will Hang in Chicago Center If He Is Elected

Bricker Cautious On Future Plans   May Be Candidate For Governor in ‘46

BRICKER MAY BE PLANNING TO AGAIN ENTER OHIO RACE   GOVERNOR'S IMMEDIATE PLANS AFTER LEAVING OF_ FICE INCLUDE RESUMING HIS LAW PRACTICE

MAC ARTHUR IS SILENT ON TOKIO REPORT   Of Philippine Invasion; Describes Heavy Aerial Bombardment of Min danaan   Fire Barges

U.S. Planes Again Blast Mindanao   MacArthur Silent. on Japanese Report of — Invasion of the Philippines

US. OFFERS HEP-IN-~ ~ DISPUTE BUT RUSSIAN ~ . TTEM-CAUSSS UNRES!

Denial Issued By London Foreign Office   Metropolitan Paper Says Report ‘Insult to British People’

Bluntly term story ‘insult’ to English   Foreign office issues flatdenial

ge  out tees ee  _ ime a  chem lols “A _ “Soa wo  rec. Paver 3 Jarties Revor ©

Peace Parley  Rumor Brings  ~ Quick Denial   Rumor of British-German Negotiations Generally Believed False—Lord Halifax Emphatically Calle Stary False

Thousands of Planes Rain Death on Encircled Germans While Canadian Forces Smash Into Town of Falaise

Bombers Hit Genoa Fourth Night In Row   Other Formations Attack La Spezia

Nazis Make Gains In The Anzio Area Key Cities In Italy Are Bombed With Total Loss Of Only Two Warplanes

Berlin Says General Bor A Prisoner   Staff Held Taken With Commander Of Polish Forces

GERMANS CLAIM ‘BOR’ CAPTURED   New Head of Polish Army Reported Taken After Warsaw Battle

Germans Say  Bor Captured   . Entire : Staff Taken:  “Prisoner. In: Warsaw.

380 Lives Lost Over Holidays   Civilian Death Rate Greater Than Wartime

Yankees Turn ‘Tinian Battle Into Jap Rout   ‘One American Force Chas.  ing Fleeing Foes While  Another Is Tightening Trap On 2.000

Take Second Air Strip On Tinian      Japs Flee Toward Hill Country in the South; _ Yanks Tighten Noose On Enemy in Guam

U.S. Forces Take Airfield on  island of Tinian  U. §. Troopers Chase Japs Further

Japanese in Flight On Tinian   Marines Racing After Nips as Drive Becomes a Rout; Many Already Killed   NEW_GAINS MADE IN GUAM BATTLE   2,000 Nips in Trap and En emy’s Total Dead in the Marianas Reaches 27,000

Americans Turn Tinian Into Rout; Take Second Airfield: 12,000 Japs Killed On Guam   Impressive Ground Gains on Both Islands Reported by Nimitz

U.S, ROUTS NIPS ON TINIANISLE   Capture 2nd Airfield, Trap 2,000 Japs on Guam

Japs Squeezed In Death Traps  On Marianas   Enemy on Guam And Tinian Chased Initio Pockets

YANKS SEIZE TINIAN FIELD   Battle Becomes Rout For Japs; Trap On Guam Is Tightened

U.S, TINIAN PUSH ROUTS JAPANESE   Second Air Field Captured Gains Reported On Guam

Americans Tighten Traps on Japs on Ginian and Guam  Capture Second Airlield on Tinian, Make Impressive Gain: on Both Islands. Slav 27.700

U.S. Forces Take Airfield on  Island of Tinian  U. S. Troopers Chase Japs Further In Pacific Battle

Tinian Trap Tightened by U.S. Invaders   Other U. S. Forces Circle 2,000-of Foe Trying to Hold Guam

27,000 JAPS NOW KILLED IN MARIANAS      Drive on Tinian Turning Into a Rout and Yanks Tighten Trap on 2,000 of the Mikado’s Men on Guam.

Yank Forces Gain on Guam  And Tinian   Impressive Advances Made Says Nimitz; Capture Second Jap Airfield

Rout Japs On Tinian And Guam   Yanks Tighten  Traps as Enemy Casualties Mount  To More Than 6.700

ROUT JAPS ON TINIAN ISLAND   Yank Troops On Guam Kill 2,000 Nips, Gain Two Miles

Second Tinian Airfield Taken   On Guam Americans Tighter Grip on 2,000. Japs; Foe Loses 27,000 Men-

YANKS CHASE FLEEING JAPS: TAKE. AIRPORT   Advances Scored On Tinian; Trap Tightens On 2,000 Nips On Guam

AUSSIAN TANKS SMASHING INTO BUDAPEST, SAIL   Holland Area Cleared Except For Two Tiny Pockets

zeneral Arnold Says Unprecedented Aerial Attacks Are Ahout to Be Opened on Every Front in World

RIVER OVER HIGHWAY   Missouri River Is Falling Slowly Above Waverly, Mo.

London to Give Tip on Invasion  Reports From Axis Should Be Iqnored

WARNS AGAINST PHONEY REPORTS   Davis Says Allies to Reveal Real Invasion

ANNOUNCEMENT OF INVASION TO BE FROMLONDON   Elmer Davis Request: Axis - Inspired Reports Be Ignored

INVASION NEWS TO COME FROM LONDON OFFICE   American Public Is Asked T Ignore All Axis-Inspired Reports

DAVIS WARNS PHONY RUMORS OF INVASION   Announcement Will Come from Allied Command

Invasion Reports Will Come From  London Command   Davis Urges American Public To Ignore Axis-Inspired Stories

MAVIS WARNS OF PHONEY REPORTS OW BIG INVASION   owl Chie? Fears Goebbels, ‘wal Try to Garble Story af Dramatic Event.

Game Violation: Fines Total. $3, 500 In. First Week Of Pheasant Season

Roosevelt Hails Paris Liberation  As Dispelling “Patch of Gloom”

“Liberation” of  Paris Is Hailed   “Patch of Gloom” Dispelled, Says FR

STILL SEE PEACE HOPE IN FINLAND   U.S. Is Believed Making Diplomatic Progress Behind Scenes

Rep. Coffee Describes Vivien Kellems As Sweetheart of Nazi Agent In South

Vivien Kellens Called Friend Of Nazi Agent   Refused To Pay Her Income Tax

War Plant Head Called ‘Friend’ _ Of Nazi Agent   Woman Who Advised Non-Payment of ‘Taxes Assailed in Cones

Attacks Move fo Make Pork Ration Free   Ottumwa Packer Calls it Dangerous Meddling by Politicians

SUPPORTS. PORK RATION PLAN   Morrell Head Lambasts  _ Politicians’ Demands

Warns Against Meddling With Pork Rationing   Foster Says Politicians Making Capital Out Of Hog Market Glut.

Jap Casualties In India Totaled 38,000 In June; Yanks Gain In Burma

CONTEST NEARS END   Three Prizes Are Being Offered in _ Retail Bond Division ;

CONTEST NEARS END   Three Prizeg'Are ing Offered i inj '- ‘Retail Bond Division

RED AIRMEN STEPPING UP ~ BOMB RAIDS   GERMAN COMMUNICATION CENTERS BEING HAMMERED. NAZI CONVOY OFF NORWAY ROMBED 

RED BOMBERS LASH GERMANS   Rip Rail Centers In Poland, Latvia   Nazis Still Trying to Cross Dnestr

PRESIDENT MAKES PUBLIC HIS POSTWAR PEACE ORGANIZATION   PROVIDES FOR A COUNCIL REPRESENTING ALL NATIONS TO PREVENT WAR

Would Force — _ World Peace   Roosevelt Calls for Creation of International Organization To Maintain Secunty ©

FDR Urges Creation of World Organization of “Peace-Loving’ Nations

Tells Plan Of World Unior   President Roosevelt Calls For Organization Of *Peace-Loving’ Nations.

Roosevelt Proposes World ‘Council and Court of All ‘Peace-] oving Nations’      Not a Super-State, but Representative Body to Maintain Peace and Security—Backed hw Force If Necessary

FDR Propose: Post-War Peace Plan   Britain, Russia, China To Take Part in  Organization

FDR Tells of Postwar Plan To Keep Peace   Administration for  Organization ‘Backed By Force if Neressary’

FDR Tells Peace Plan   Sets Forth ThreePoint Proposal For Keeping Postwar Peace

‘Council Representing All Nations Proposed By Administration For Postwar Peace Organizatior

F R. Proposes World Peace Organization   Prevention of War By Force Is Basic Provision of Plan

‘To Create World  Organization   President Roosevelt Called for Creation of a World Organization,

ED CROSS MONTH 5 $ PROC! AIMED BY oF FOR CAMPAIGN   March Deaynated aa Month bos Giving Financint Assistance ts Worthy Group

Great Chance Open To Youths   Navy Offering Young Men Opportunity For Training In Radio

Warn Nation European Corn Borer Threat To Victory Gardens and Farm Production

COMMITTEE NAMED TO AID VETERANS IN REEMPLOYMENT   Sander, Dittert and Wiese Are Local Men To Give Assistance

Reds Push Back Nazis in Finland And Yugoslavia   Russian Forces Free Petsamo, Enter Belgrade

BATTLES FLARE ON 1,800-MiILE RUSSIAN FRONT   Drive Nazis Toward Norway: Fighting Raging in Belgrade

IANS ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT   Soviet Forces Close in on Petsamo; Red Navy Adds Support

THREE HUNGARIAN OBJECTIVES TAKEN   Germans Admit Loss Of Miskolc After Bitter Defense Of Sereral Weeks

Reds Say Three Great Hungariar Objectives Taken   Dunafoldvar, Miskole And Saturaljaujhely Important Junctions

TWO HUNGARY RAIL CENTERS WON BY REDS   Budapest Threatened From Rear by So viet Victories

3 Objectives In Hunga  Fall to Reds      Soviet Army Continues Sweep Toward -Austria; Moscow Celebrates

Russians Announce; Important Junctions and Other Populated Places Captured.   Ships Important °

Cox Demand May Stir Up Bitter Democratic Row   Wants Returns of Two-Thirds Rule In Convention

Demand Changes h Democratic \Convention Rules   Summor South To Force Two-Thirds Majority Fe? Part; Nominations

COX ADVOCATES DEM. RETURN TC TWO THIRDS RULE   Says -Abrogation Deprived Soth of Pow: er

CHANGES IX DEM. RAT. CONV. PROCEDURE ASKED BY COX   Two-Thirds Majority System of Nominatine Strongly Advised

Large Staffs Work in Neutral Countries to Put Them “ -Under Cover.

GERMAN EMBASSIES IN NEUTRAL NATIONS LOADED WITH LOOT   TRICKS BEING USED BY GERMAN LEADERS TO CONCEAL FINANCES

Dewey and Perry Hunting for Japs   Search Pacific In U. §. PT Boats

Seek Enlisted 17-Year-Olds      College Training Course  Would Precede Induction

New Twin Attack Methods Highly ful — Due to Become Iniy Popular is Belief.

Germans Threaten Allied Prisoners   Hint of Reprisals In Nazi Broadcast

Tropical Storm Moving Slowly   New York Weather Bur eau Warns All Persons  To Remain Away From Exposed Beaches

Tropical Storm Warning Issued   Covers Wide Area Of Atlantic Coast

16 High School Papers Given 1.L.P.C. Awards   Press Conference To Meet Here May 4,5

New Aerial Blows Fall.   “Nazis Claim. ‘Allied Raid: Near Budapest,

TWO-WAY AIR BLOWS PUSHED   Planes Hit France. Sweep Across Danube Basin

U.S. Airmen Hit Hungary   American Bombers From Britain Back Invasion Troops

FIND GOVERNM'T ‘COMPETING WITH PRIVATE BUSINESS   CONGRESS CONTROL RECOMMENDED BY BYRD COMMITTEE

U.S. COMPETITION HURTS INDUSTRIES   Byrd Economy Group Asserts 44 Agencies Should Be  Congress Controlled.

FOR REMINDS US. VICTORY: WILL BE COSTLY BUT SURE   Thanks Troops That Libérated Rome, First of Enemy Capitals.

Bradley in New Ultimatum  i —kt kn ho ho ol rene a oe an Se ee eo ee. ee ttt

 Baltimore Banker Seems Apparent Senatorial Victor  Over Robertson   WARD, ROE LOCKED IN NECK-AND-NECK FIGHT

ROME A ‘HELL ON EARTH’  ECCAPEN DA TDICVTC ‘Trit TAIrc® Ar *T’rennnnrnn   ESCAPED PATRIOTS TELL TALES OF TERRROR

MALES HUNTED FOR GONSGHIPT LABOR FORGE!   Vatican City Virtual Prison tor Pope, Cordoned By SS Guards.

Writs Drawn in Dorsey Battle  Principals Not Named But Hall Must Sian

Rain and Muc Slow Allies ln Normandy   fn Bloody Hand-to-Hand Struggle on New Guinea Beach  2S. A. Man Pins Jap With Own Bayonet

MEET EXPECTED T0 AID TREATY WITH RUSSIANS   Soviet Reported Offering Poles Boundary ’ Including Vilna, Lwow

Russo-Polish Issues Studied   Palish Premier in Washington for Talks With President

POLISH PREMIER ARRIVES IN U.S   Mikolajezyk to Confer With FDR on War Problems

PREMIER OF POLAND 10 VISIT FDR   Will Discuss With President Of Closing ~ Russ-Pelish Gap

PREMIER OF POLAND NOW IN WASHINGTON   Solution for Breach With Russia Is Sought

Polish Premier  Will See F.D.R.   Due Today To Seek Solution Of Tickling Russian Question.

STRATEGIC POSTS FALL TO ALLIES   Stilwell’s Troops Make New Gains In Burma Offensive

COOPER DECISION SET FOR TUESDAY   CONTRIBUTING TO GIRLS’ DELINQUENCY IS CHARGE

Soviets Capture Nikopol, Slaughter 15,000 Germans  Allies Hard-Pressed   Allies Hard-Pressed On Italy Beachhead; Frankfurt Hit Again

Nazis Suffer Huge Losses In Operation   Prisoners Describe As Scene of Horror Huge Cherkasy Trap  GOT FOOD VIA AIR

Plymouth County Farm Bureau Holds Annual Meeting and Elects Officers   Raymond Anderson Is New (President— Several New Directors

LOVERS’ LANE’ MURDER DENIED   Boy, 16, Ends Defense Testimony In Trial At Grand Rapids

DEWEY BLASTS SMITH ‘SMEAR   Compares Him to Hitler in  Springfield Speech

Dewey Calls Gerald Smith Rabble Rouser   Charges America First Leader Seeks To Smear Bricker

NAVY OFFICERS’ ACTION UPHELD   Two Held “Defending Them: geives” In Hotel Fight

Naval officers only defending selves in ‘Shatile of the Statler’? Maas thinks

Thousand of Japanese Crowded into Caves, Pill. Boxes, Blockhouses and Mountain Passes, Resigned to Fate, But Fighting Last Ditch Battle With Great Fury

YANKS CLEANING UP SAIPAN ISLE   Japs Fear New Landings In Bonin Islands

Yanks Start Wiping Out Japs Trapped on Noemfoor and Saipan   Nips Fear Landing of the United States “orce on Bonin !-'. nds

Saipan, Noemfoor Fights Near End   Japs Determined on Last-Ditch Fight Against Americans

U, S. FORGES CLEANING UP SAIPAN ISLE   Moving Westward In Pacific At Swift Pace

Strong Americar Forces Continue Drive On Sainan   Chinese In Hengyang Get Powerful Support From Allied Planes

Japs Bottled Up at End of Saipan Isle   Enemy Doomed; Americans Take Noemfoor Air Strip

YANKS PRESS T0 EXTERMINATE JAPS ON SAIPAN   Surviving Nips Trapped On Tip Of Island To Make Last ae __ Ditch Fight

Yanks Mop Up Saipan, Noemfoor   Warships, Planes Batter Marianas

Jap Slaughter Impending on Saipan Island   Overwhelming. US Force: Press Forward to Wipe Out Last Traces of Resistance

AMERICANS PRESSED FORWARD ON SAIPAN AND NOEMFOOR ISLES   SLAUGHTER IS REPORTED TO BE IMPENDING ON SAIPAN ISLAND

Americans Take Saipan And Slaughter Now Pends As Thousands Of Japs Await Doom Rather fhan Surrender: Noemfoors Fall

Doom Awaits On Noemfoor  And Saipan   Yanks Press Forward to Wipe Out Last Traces Of Resistance

Slaughter On Saipan Impending   Japs: Crowded In Tip o! Island Waiting Death. Fight

AMERICANS CAN NOT BE HALTEN   Forces Press Forward to Wine Out Last Traces of Resistance.   SLAUGHTER IMPENDING

Nipponese Forces Are Trapped On Two Islands  FACE SLAUGHTER  Fierce Fight Ahead, According To Adm. Nimitz

Mop Up Last Resistance On Saipan, Noemfoor; laps Fear Allied Landings On Bonin Islands

"On Saipan Isle   Yanks Also ‘Press ‘Ahead To ~-Cleax ‘Noemfoor Island ‘O£* Enemy ¢ Resistance.

Cornered Nips Wait Slaughter   Japs Fear Bonin Landing; Tinian, Guam Bombarded

Americans Press Forward To Smash Last Jap Resistance On Saipan And Noemfoor Islands   Tokyo Reports Guam Shelled By U. S.; Bombers Support Trapped Chinese

Saipan, Noemfoor Viclories Closer   Japanese Defenders Crowded in Corner

YANKS BATTLE LAST OF SAPS ON SAIPAN ISLE   Nipponese Crowd in Caves and Pillboxes on Tip of Island

Primary Voting In Two States Watched Today   MacArthur Faces Test In IJHinois, Stassen In Nebraska   Willkie’s Name Withdrawn From Oregon Primary

Books Reveal Jap Reservations to Kellogg Pact, Other State Secrets

Jananese henging On Kellogg Pact In 1929 Revealed   Secret Papers Disclose How Japs Sought Way Out of Treaty  ~

NEW TIRES FOR ALL CAR OWNERS SEENNEXT YEAR      ‘B” Gasoline Rations May Be Increased After July 1. Is Report

new Tires for Everyone a PosM ity Wext Year——" A” motorists to Benefit,

New Tires, More Gas Due in 1945   “BY” MOTOR FUEL RATION MAY BE UPPED AFTER JULY 1, 1944

Reds Make Wide Advances in New  Romanian Drive  wo hl, 96 OF   Moscow Reports 25,000 Nazis Slain, 12,000 Taken in Three Days

REDS KILL 25,090 NAZIS IN 38-MILE SURGE. IN ROMANIA   Twelve Thousand Prisoners Captured in Twin Offensives Aimed at Ploesti Oil Fields.   INDUSTRIAL CITY : OF IASI CAPTURED   Moscow Announces Progress in Campaign to Slice Warsaw and Northwest Poland From E, Prussia.

TWIN RUSSIAN PUSH TOPPLES IASI, ROMANIE   PLOESTI OILFIELDS. GOAL OF NEWEST RED THRUST

Russians drive for  oil fields   Pick up 40 miles  in new offensive

Soviets Smash Romania Front  For 156 Miles   Drive Toward Ploesti Field Captures Iasi, Butchers 25,000 Enemy Troons

Tasi Captured As Russians Score Gains In Twin Drives   Total of 25, 000. Germans Slain i in 1 Three Days—Red  Forces. Hurl Offensives: on the Ro-manian Front .

Romania Fron Flares Into New Activity   Twin Offensives Are Launched by Red Forces

Reds Take lasi in Dual Offensive in Rumania   Allies Encircle Toulon, Drive Within 3 Miles of Marseille

Red Troops Capture Iasi, Slay 25,000 Germans in ~ Two Big Romanian Drive:   pavage Twin Offensives Gain From 38 to 44 Miles on Front of 156 Miles; Steady Progress Made in Other Areas by Soviets

Artillery Barrage Precedes Assault On Nazi Defenses   New Drive Opens in Pouring Rain; Enemy Given Little Chance To Get Set for Offensive

Text Of Prayer Penned By FDR As Yanks Land   Calls Upon God To Protect Them

Prayer Written By Roosevelt This Morning   Composed to be Read To the Nation Over Radio Tonight

President To.Lead Nation in Prayer For Success of Our Arms Tonight at 8:00 MWT, Via Radio Hookup

IF. R. Asks Nation to Join Him in Prayer For Success of Our Invasion Armies

ATOLL IN MARSHALLS TAKEN WITH LITTLE OPPOSITION REPORTS ADMIRAL NIMITZ; ALMOST CIRCULAR ATOLL.

Bricker In Milwaukee To Confer With G.O.P. Leaders, Deliver Talk

Allies Land On  Channel Isles   German News Agency Says Guernsey And Jersey Occupied.

SAY ALLIES ON CHANNEL ISLES   Germans Report Landings On Guernsey And Jersey Islands In Channel.

Landings On. Two Channel isles Made .   Germans Report Biggest Landings In Cherbourg Area

Stranded Bastogne Force Is Relieved; Planes Batter Foe   Americans Gain Initiative as Nazis Admit Setbacks; Berlin Says British Troops Aid Our First Army As Clear Weather Assists Our Planes, Artillery

Gallant Beleaguered Bastogne Garrison Relieved As Infuriated American Troops Rob Germans Of Initiative, Make Gains Up to Five Miles

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Infuriated Yanks Narrow Base of Nazi Salient   American Garrison in Belgian Town of Bastogne, Under Siege Since Dec, 20, Is Relieved, Headauarters Savs

Situation Improves Along Entire Front   Field Marshal Vor: Run dstedt Suffers Worst Sethacl ac Americans Get Rolling Once More -

Furious Onslaught, First Since Von Rundstedt Struck, Robs Germiins  of Initiative.        RELIEVE BESIEGED BASTOGNE GARRISO      Base of Foe’s Corridé: Narrowed to 20 Mile Violent Blows Dealt Nazi Flanks, aan

RUSSO - POLISH DISPUTE NOT SETTLED   Says U. S., Britain, Russia in Full Agreement   HOPE EXPRESSED   For Three-Power Meeting This Year; Sees Hard Fighting Ahead

CHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS “WE ARE IN LAST. LAP” IN THE WAR WITH GERMANY AND VICTORY SURE

Reports on Conference ‘With Stalin   Tells Commons Red-Polish Dispute Not Yet Settled

War In Europe On Last Lap, Churchill Declares   Prime Minister Tells Commone Allied Powers Are Closing In And Will Crush. Life Out of German Resistance; Early Parley With Roosevelt, Stalin Urged

European War ‘On Last Lap’ Says Churchill  Difference Are Few With Russia; Greeks

CHURCHILL SAYS WAR IN EUROPE ON LAST LAP   Tells of ‘Good Agreement With Reds on Southeastern Europe

War In Last Lap, Churchill Say:   Predicts’ Much Hard Fighting Ahead   300 Attend Harvest Home Supper At Sonner Hall

Light-Weight Clothing !s Warmer Than Heavy, Magazine Writer Says

Feather weight clothing for winter to feature postwar era, expert says

SYNTHETIC CLOTHING TO SADDEN CLEANERS   Experts Say Post-War Fabric: Won't Soil, Wrinkle, Lose Presa or Rurn.

JUDGE CARR FILES ANGWER IN COUR]   Declares Full Confessions About Bribery Are Obtained.

BANKER LINKED BY GRAND JURY TO BRIBE TALKS   ‘Confession’ By Legislators Disclosed By Sigler

ENEMY GARRISON CUT OFF FROM HELP AND BEING. WIPED OUT BY ADVANC ING AMERICANS

Last Port Open To Japs on Leyte Shelled by Yanks   Ione Plane Over Tokyo

NIPS’ LASTLEYTE PORT IS SHELLED   Japs on Island Face Quick Annihilation by U.S. Forces

Germans Fight Against Heavy Odds At Aachen   Battle Nears Climax As Germans Abandon Relief Attempts

American Heavy Guns Biast Remaining Enemy Positions In Ruined City

Unly About 600 Germans Left in City As Many Surrender; German Counter-Attack From Without by Nazis Attempting to Free City Broken Up by Terrific Allied Artillery Fire.

Minister To New Lealand Dies  William (. Burdett   William C. Burdett Victim Of Death

PEACE POLICY: - TS DISCUSSED   DEWEY’S  REPRESENTATIVE . MEETING ‘WITH: HULL: THIS . : -APTEENDON FOR”  : CONFERENCE

SOVIETS DESTROY 80 NAZI PLANES   Only Minor Encounters Reported in Ground Fighting.

YANKS REACH LAST BARRIER - BEFORE LUZON   Now 250 Miles From Manila, General Announces

Capture Nice In Thrust ‘Toward Italy   Germans Break Out of American Trap to Run to Lyons

British Army Clears Third Of Athens   Food And Supplies Are Distributed; Mutiny Mentioned,

FOOD, RELIEF SUPPLIES SENT INTO ATHENS   British Forces Clear One-third of City as Left Wingers Are Routed.

Greek Capital Third Cleared   British Rout ELAS Left-Wing Legions

BRITISH GAIN IN ATHENS CONFLICT   Third of City Is Cleared; Food Distributed

Third of Athens  Receives Supplies   First Relief Brought In Since Start of Fight

Flames Sweep Tokyo   B-29’s Stage Most Suceessful Rajd; Find Their Target In Bright Sunlight

B-295 SMASH TOKYO PLANE ENGINE PLANT   Fourth Raid on-Jap Capital Called “Most Successful” Yet As Weather Outlines   Targqatc

American Superfortresses Based Gn Saipan Make Fourth Attack On Jap Mainland In 16 Days

INDUSTRIAL TOKYO TARGET OF 4TH RAID   ‘Fresh Ruins and Flame Foliow Thunderous Bombing of Nipponese Capital

Fresh Ruins Seen in Jap Capital   More Opposition Encountered By Superforts

Manufacturin ( Area of Tokyo   Americans Dump Bombs With Pinpoint Accuracy Despite Heavy Ack Ack  And Fighter Resistance

Tokyo Ruin: Blaze After Fouth Raid  By Yankees   Is Most. Successful Attack By Bombers

Fresh Ruins Seen in Jap Capital  Aas fo  ... . 48%   More Opposition Encountered By Superforts

UNLOAD BOMBS WITH GREAT ACCURACY   Raid Is Fourth On Capital In Last 10 Days   ONE B-29 LOST   Volcano Islands Smashed Fifth Time In 4 Days: 57 Tons Dropped

 Mikado’s ‘Capital In Flames   Big Enemy Aireratt. Plant Blasted: One’ Superfort Is Loat.

Tokyo Industries [Badly Wrecked by iLatest B-29 Raid   Find Targets Under Clear Sky; Engine Plant Principal Obective in Attack

HURL BOMBS AT ENGINE FACTORY OF PLANE PLANT   RETURNING PILOTS DESCRIBE RAID AS MOST SUCCESSFUL

Big Tokyo Air Engine Plant Hi      B.20’s Make Fourth and Most Successful Raid on Jan Canital   OPPOSITION ALSO . MUCH STRONGEI   One Superfort Lost, Several Enemy Fighters: Shot Down by Big Raiders

Flames And Ruins Leff By Planes   Area Bombed In Sunlight For An Hour And Half

HEAVY DAMAGE DEALT TOK¥O'S MAJOR PLANTS   * Most Successful B-29 Attack On City Leaves Targets In Ruins

STRONG WINDS WHIP HUGE FIRES RAGING IN TOKYC   Japan Claims Damage Light Again; One Superfort Lost

B-29's Wreck Tokyo Plant   - Fourth Super-fort Raid Leaves Big ' Plane Factory Ruined

INDUSTRIAL TOKYO LAY IN FRESH RUINS AND FLAMES TODAY   ‘In Wake of the Fourth Thun:  °  derous Bombing 8 Att aed.   WAS MOST SUCCESSFUL   Raid Was Made by Americar Superfortresses Based . on Sainan.

Musashima Engine Factory was Prime Objective; One Superfort Was Lost.

NEW ATTACK IS TERMED MOST SUCCESSFUL YET   Jap Capital Caught In Clear Sunlight On 4th Attack In 10 Days

Successful Raid Is Made on Tokyo   Industrial Portions of Japanese Capital Hit in  Air Attack   FROM BASES AT SAIPAN   One NE Reports 75 Per Cent of Bombs Fell in Target Area

Tokyo Gets Fourth And Worst Bombine   Sizable Force of Superfortresses Unloads Bombs With Pinpoint Accuracy Over Capital, Outlined in Bright Sunlight.

Industrial Tokyo In New Ruins i*tlowing Fourth  B-29 Attac.«.In Ten Days

Superforts Raid Tokyo 4th Time   Fresh Ruin and Fire On Japanese Capital in Successful Mission

Tokyo Again Battered by Superforts   Attack Made On Clear Day Called Most  Successful

Superforts Attack Tokyo Again; Fresh Ruins and Fire in Industrial Area

B29's Repeat Raid Gn Tekye   “Industriel Arca in Fresh Ruins After Bombers Have Clear View of Tergets .

Saipan-Based Superforts Make Fourth Attack    Sizable Force Unload With Pinpoint Accuracy

B-29s Based on Saipan Accurately Unloaded Bombs  For Hour and Half

Tokyo Burns After Fourth Plane Raid   Most Successful Bombing Achieved By Saipan-Based Superfortresses: ine Factory Princinal T......

B-29’s Dump More Bombs Onto Tokyo.   Industrial Sector Of Japs’ Capital Hit in 4th Attack.

TOKYO AFIRE AFTER RAIDS BY SUPEREORTS   Unload Bombs For Long Period In Raid Yesterday

First All-American Bombing Of Berlin Is Called Success   Ry RICHARD KASICHKE

Uo. AIR RAID ~ GRIPPLED NAZIS   Declared To Be Forerunner Of Struggle For Plane Supremacy   PLANE PLANTS HIT   Believe More Than 100 , German Craft Knocked From Packs

Raids Upon Plane Factories Interpreted As Forerunners  _ Of Fight For Air Supremacy

Results Described As ‘‘Excellent’”’... . Flaming Aerial Battle Seen As Forerunner Of The Struggle To Come   —BY RICHARD KASISCHKE-—

U.S. Raids Seen As Forerunner For the Invasior   Describe Three Hour Air Battle As Dress Rehearsal; U. S. Britain-Based Air Fores Almost Equals British. i

Nazi Air Arm Dealt Mighty Blow by U. 5.   64 Planes Lost in Assault Upon Nazi Aircraft Factories

Great U.S. Raid On Germany Success Despite Losses; Nazi Plane Production Curtailed   Flaming Battle Forerunner Of Struggle For Air Supremacy

Tuesday’s Giant Air Battle Described as Rehearsal For German Defense Force For Coming Showdown for Air Supremacy — — American Losses 5 Percent.

Great Daylight Raid On Reich  Held Success Despite Losses   ~ Three Hour Battle Seen By Berlin As Rehearsal For Invasion, Forerunner Of Mighty Struggle For Air Supremacy.

TERM HUGE U. S, DAY ASSAULT ON REICH SUCCESS   Lose 64 Planes Out of 1,200 Striking Force, Fight for Air Supremacy

“1,200 PLANES WENT—1,136 CAME BACK—  3-Hour Air Battle Is Fiercest Of War

Nazi Air Fight Is First Bid For  Air Supremacy:   3-Hour Battle Seen As ‘Rehearsal’

Air Battle Termed ‘Invasion Prelude’   Ferocity of Engagement Attributed To Desperate Defense of Factories

LINK BATTLE TO INVASION   Smashing U. S. Air Raid Seer as Forerunner to Channel Crossing.

WAR FOR RULE OF AIR STARTS   Tuesday’s Fight Believed Beginning of Struggle

NEW STRUGGLE REPORTED FOR BIR SUPREMACY   Believed Invasion Forerunner; 1200  Planes In Raid

Aerial Battle Oniv A Preview   BITTER STRUGGLE SEEN BEFORE GERMANS DEFEATED

Describe Three Hour Air Battle As Dress Rehearsal; U. S. Britain-Based Air Force Almost Equals British.

INDIVIDUAL BOND GOAL NOT REACHED   Oversubscription of that Goa  Urged in Talk By Stattinius

Everything Found Alive On Streets Of French Town Killed By Germans

NAZIS BURN FRENCH TOWN, KILL RESIDENTS   REPORTER DESCRIBES SCENE OF VILLAGE LEFT SMOKING SHELL, EVERY LIVING THING SHOT

AP NEWSMAN VIEWS WORK OF RETREATING GERMANS AT MARTINCOURT, FRANCE

ten “urdered? This One Was... by German Soldiors  Nazis Leave Town Smokine Shel]

People, Dogs, Cows, Pigs And Chickens Slaughtered By Nazis  Entire Town Wiped Out In Exhibition Of Rentabity Of ‘Mactor Raco’ In Pranra

RETREATING GERMANS MURDER TOWN; DESTROY ALL HOUSES BY FIRE: KILL MANY INHARITANTS

French Town Wiped Out By German Soldiers Who Shoot Everything In Sight

WAPULC BIG, Late  Writer Describes Villase Left In ‘Ks hes And Slauchtered Bodie:

 This Is How Hitler's “Supermen” Fight When Beaten  [Nazis Destroy Town, Murder Inhabitants

SMALL FRENCH TOWNS WIPED OUT BY RETREATING NAZIS   Woman’sPleasHaltsMachineoun Execution: Men AreBeaten 

Germans “Murdered” French Town; ‘Correspondent Describes Effective Job

Nazi Soldiers Ravage Little  French Town  Kill Everybody and Everything in Sight  act Reavanans Art

Germans “Murder” Town   Newsman Tells of Horrors, Found in Martincourt.  Ruined by Nazis

‘Jap Pockets Being Cleared on Leyte   Enemy Convoy Sunk As It Tries To Sneak Into Yonk-Held Ormoc Bay: Jaos 8omb Americans

Loss of Ormoc Dooms Enemy's Army on Island   Two U. S. Divisions Maintain Pressure

Gains Against Enemy Are Scored North of Ormoc  JAPANESE TRY TO LAND NEW SUPPLIES  Three Small Vessels Sunk by Yank GunFire

AMERICANS CLEA OUT JAP POGKETS   77th Division Keeps up Pressure North.on Leyte   JAP LOSSES HEAVY   Enemy Forces Said Disor. ganized and Scattering In All Directions

AMERICANS WIPE OUT JAP POCKETS   NIPPONESE FORCE TRAPPED  BELOW ORMOC IS SUFFERING HEAVY LOSSES.

Yanks Begin Mopping Up OrmocValley   Enemy Reported Fleeing Into Hills In Northern Sector

Exchange Shi p Sails For Lishon (With Internees   Will Be Exchanged For U. S. Envoys,   eae CHNYWARAYe

Bricker “Attacks: Farm Policies  Brands Scarcity      Brands Scarcity Philosophy Wrona

KEY POINT ON LEYTE IS TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Pinamopoan Falls To 24th Division; U. S. Force Pushes Northward  Toward Ormoc

KEY CENTER TAKEN - BY FORCES OF U.S.   Elements of 24th Division Advance on Leyte island

KEY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER IS CAPTURED   Elements Of 24th Division Take Pinamopoan On Leyte; Yanks Advance On Ormoc

U. S. had part in Romania truce  State department replies to Dewey's Forum addres:

U.S. Played Active Part In Armistice   WITH ROMANIA: DEWEY'S CHARGE BRINGS DENIAL

EPLY MADE TO DEWEY CHARGE   ‘U. S. Participated in Romanian Negotiations,’ State Dept. Says.   IS ‘MILITARY DOCUMENT’

Renlies to Dewey on Romania   State Department Points to Record in Comment on His Charees   AN ARMISTICE, NOT A PEACE PACT   Signed by Russian for Allies the Same as Fisenhower Signed In Italy

Dewey Speech Draws Reply of State Department   U.S Participated ‘At All Stages’ in Romanian Armistice

Hull’s Office Makes Reply  ' To Nominee   Answers Dewey Charge On Romanian Armistice Negotiations

Issue Reply To Dewey’ Statement   Republican Candidate In Error In Regard Ta Romania, According to State Department

NATION'S MEAI SUPPLY TO BE REDUCED   Higher Points for Choice Beef; Lamb Again Rationed

POINT VALUES FORJULY = ARE ANNOUNCED BY OP:   BEST CUTS OF LAMB RESTORED "TO RATIONING AND POINTS BOOSTED ON BEST BEEF .

FLAMING HAVOC POURED ON REICH   Savage Combats Touched Off By Worst Daytime Attack Ever Launched On Enemy Capital

HAS VISIONS HITLER DEAD?   ‘Queen’ Mary Says Fuehrer Appeared to Her From Grave

One-Time Aide To Al Capone Fatally Shot   a Mangano, Public Enemy And Mike Pontelli Hit By Hoodlum Bullets

Gambling Chief Is Fatally Shot   “Dago” Mangano Of Chicago Slain While He Sat In His Automobile.

Veteran Education Funds Questioned   Authorities Express Concern Lest Large Part of Cost Fall Squarely on State Governments.

Great German Drive May Mean Colossal Gamble   May. Try.to Disrupt Allied Offensive Plans, Achieve Delay

Germany lo Achieve Object of Upsetting Allied Plans and Drag War Out to Take Beating of Her Life.

Great Nazi Rhineland Drive Has Earmarks of Colossal Gamble   PLENTY OF PRECEDENT

Ihe War Today Nazi Lunge Colossal Effort To Delay Eventual Defeat

The War Today   Great German Drive Out Of Rhineland Is A Colossal Gamble.

GREAT GERMAN DRIVE APPEARS TO BE COLOSSAL GAMBLE IN AN EFFORT FOR COMPROMISE PEACE

GREAT GERMAN OFFENSIVE OUT OF RHINELAND BEARS EARMARKS OF GAMBLE TO DISRUPT ALLIED PLANS

May Take Over Wards In 7 Cities   Government Likely to Seize Stores, With Deadlock  Continuing

U. 5. Seizure of Ward's Near   Minimum Wage Scale Not Enough, WLB Says

Ward Seizure Is Next Step in Feud with WLB   Avery Announces Will Not Abide by Labor Board Order

The Weather   Ward & Company SeizureBy U.S. 1s Imminent   Firm Reiterates Determination  ‘To Disobey WLB

Ward Seizure By Government Seems Imminent   Minimum Wage Scale Met But Other Demands Are Refused

Ward Seizure Looms on Defi of Union Status   Granting Minimum Wage Demands Not Sufficient

BUT oTAND ON WLB DIRECTIVE 0 UNCHANGED   ‘New Basic Wage Scale of 46 Cents an Hour Put into Effect.

WARD SEIZURE BY U, S. PROBABLE AS WLB AGAIN DEFIED   Government Likely Will Take Over Stores In Seven Cities

Seizure of Wards  Imminent   Company Obeys One WLB Directive, Defiant on Others

BRUTISH CLEAR N AZIS PROV SAAS   Jap Regiment Being Cut To Pieces

Vanguard of Patton Army Enters Metz   First and Ninth Armiey Push Into Cologne Plain © Beyond Aachen

Giant Daylight Atfack On Reich Termed Success  1,220 American   1,220 American Planes Batter Plane Factories

Yanks Eager to Press Air War With Nazis as New Bombers Arrive   Both Allied Leaders and Germans Cal! Furious Sky Battle Forerunner of Invasion Struggle

French Forces Report Advanee Tn Italian Pust      » As Prekide To Serle Row. Supremacy-In Skies

Losses. Quickly Replaced   Fliers: Who Took Part In Tuesday’s Big Raid Eager to Get on With Battle Avainst Nazis

U. §. LOSSES IN TUESDAY RAID ARE REPLACED   Daylight Attack On Reich ‘Declared Great-Success; Yanks Anxious to Resume Bombings

FOR CAMPAIGN   Suin Up + Terrible Battle Against Nazi Fighters AS Allied Victory.   A MOST CRIPPLING BLOW

A Rehearsal Raid  For An Invasior   Yankees Strike Crippling Blow to Nazis Air Fac tories Tuesday

U.S. Bombers Set for Next Blow   Replacements Ready For Those Lost In Mammoth Raid

TUESDAY RAID LOSS ALREADY IS REPLACED   New U. S. Bombers Are on Runways and Yanks Who Returned From Biow in Reich Are Eager to Go Again.

American Airmen Ready for More Deadly Punches   Ample Replacements ‘For Planes Lost in Great Air Battle; Invasion Rehearenl?

THREE CENTERS OF NAZI PLANE PRODUCTION WRECKED AND OVER 100 GERMAN CRAFT SHOT DOWN   New American Bombers Quickly Replace the 59 Lost in Three-Hour Battle in Berlin Area. _At tacks Forerunners of Air Supremacy and Land

Losses In Big Air Assault . On Germany Are Replaced   New American Bombers Already On Runways; Planes Still Coming Home From Battle

NEW U.S, BOMBERS ON RUNWAYS REPLACE THOSE LOST TUESDAY  AIRMEN WHO FOUGHT THROUGH GREAT AIR _

Fliers Are Ready For New Raid   Eighth Air Force Has Replacements For 59 Bombers Lost During Tuesday's Battle

Bombers Lost In Tuesday's Raid Replaced   Allied Leaders, Germans Link Clash Between 1.200 American Fighters.   NO WORD FROM NAZIS

Eager to Get On With Big Air Assauli   “We Can Take a Lot More in Losses Than Suffered Tuesday, Says U-SSpokesman   REPLACEMENTS ARE ALREADY IN LINE   Both Berlin and London See Sky Battle as Forerumner; Nazis: Handed Great Blow

NEW U.S, BOMBERS ON RUNWAYS REPLACE THOSE LOST TUESDAY   AIRMEN WHO FOUGHT THROUGH GREAT AIR BATTLE FEEL THEY WON

U.S. Flyers Jubilant On Air Victory   We Won, Didn't We?’ Airmen Ask Alter Knocking Qui Great Ger. man Airplane Planis   59 BOMBERS LOST   Official Report!  More Than Halves Extravagana Nazi Claims, Says Over 100 Nazi Planes Downed

Reich Raid Military Succc~*  German Air Arm Crippled   3 Axis Plane Plants Smashed In Yankees’ Mighty Aerial Blows

LOST BOMBERS ARE REPLACED BY NEW SHIPS   American Airmen are Anxious to Get Back Into Battle Against Germany   AIR SUPREMACY IS AT STAKE IN BIG BATTLES

FliersEager To Hit Nazis Again   German Losses Placed At More Than Hundred   GREAT AMERICAN VICTORY IS SEEN

Yank Airmen Say, ““We Won, Didn't We?” And Arnold, Saying ‘“We Dare Not Let Up,” Assures Ample Replacements Are Available

New Bombers Replaced 59 Lost Tuesday  8th Air Force Loss Balanced By Succes   8th Air Force Loss Balanced By Success Of Plane Plant Blows

Plane Loss In Big Raid Is Replaced   American Reinforcements Streaming Into” Eng. land Every Day

New American Bombers Ready   Replacements for 59 Lost in Raid Are. on Runways

NEW AMERICAN BOMBERS REPLAGE FIFTY NINE LOS   Already Were on Runways ¢ Take the Place of Those Destroyed Tuesday.   FLYERS ANXIOUS TO GC   ‘We Have Plenty of Replac: ments,” an 8th Air Force Spokesman Said.

IOWAN MAKES "LONE WOLF" RAID, RABAUL   ‘Williamsburg Lieutenant, in Billy  Mitehe'l Bomber, Dares Japs to Come Up and Fight

RAIN GREAT HELP TO CROPS OF CORN   Crops in State of Midwest Area Were Menaced By a Drought.

Drought’s Menace tc Midwest’s Corn Crop Ended by Ratt   Thundershowers Las Night and Today Bring Relief

BOTH SIDES USE TANKS AS FIGHT GROWS INTENSE   Germans Are Reported Throwing Full Force Into All-Out Effort

Waves ol Germans Battered   Germans Attempt To Drive Allies Into Sea Again

Nazi Forces Are Outnumbered In  All-Out Drives   U. S. Invaders Pound Railway Yards In Rome: Halt Supplies To Enemy

ALLIED AERIAL POWER SWINGING INTO FULL ACTION   Heavy Artillery Barrage “Pre ceded Infantry, Tank Attacks.

ALLIED FORCES HALT =— 2ND NAZI OFFENSIVE ON. BEACHHEAD BELOW ROME

BIG BATTLE IS RAGING BELOW ROME   Official Reports Indicate Second Nazi Thrust at Beachhead Fails.   BULLETIN   British Lines Holding.

Nazi Troops Pound Futilely   In Anzio Arei   Americans And _ British Stand Firm Despite Furious Assaults By Armored Units

German Front In France Unhinged  By Allied Victory   River Port Only 120 Miles From Paris And Its Capture Means Trapping Of Large Force Of Garrison North Of City.

Entire Nazi Front Totters Under Big Drive Toward Paris; Monty's Men Cut Off Enemy North of River Port

SUCCESSFUL - CROP OF HEMP IN LADD AREA   6000 Tons Of Hemp Ready To Be Processed at Mill

HEMP CROP IS ‘SUCCESSFUL IN LADD VICINITY   Manager Reports 6,000 Tons Of Weed Ready To Be Processed At Mill—Farmers Make Good Return On Crop.

NAZI ATTA AT AGAIN FAIL   No Important Changes in Position Reported

Anzio Beachhead Attack Repulsed By Allied Troops   Germans Beaten Back With Heavy Losses, Report

NAZIS ARE REPULSED AT ANZIO   Thrown Back With Heavy Losses In Series of Attacks

Anzio Allies Repel New Nazi Attack   Sporadic Fighting Flares Al! Along Benuehhead Front

GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY ALONG ANZIO POSITION   Nazi Shock Troons Take Beating for Their Attacks in Narrow Part of Beachhead

ALLIES SMASH TWO ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAL   Strong Nazi Thrusts Are Beaten Back With Heavy Losses

Allies Beat Back German Attacks   ‘Nazi Shock Troops Repulsed On Anzio

Marines Kill 600 Japs  in New Drive   Progress Reported Slow in Push Toward Borgen Bay

GERMANS CUT OFF BY DRIVE   Patton’s Campaign  Fastest In Military History

GROUND FORCES NOW 8 MILES INSIDE REICH :   Reinforcements Cross Moselle

MORE VILLAGES IN GERMANY FALL 10 U.S   Are Aroung Aachen Main Sector in Which American Armies Concentrating Their Power

Towns Over Border Line Are Taken   Advance into Germany Re. ported General Along Wide Front

Yank Units Push Eight Miles Into  German Defenses   Siegfried Line Bastion Undergoes Shattering Artillery Bombardment

First Army Drives 8 Miles In Germany   Fail Of Aachen Is Expected Hard Fighting Continuing 

Fall of Aachen  Looms   Yanks Advance on 85-Mile Front; Push Described as General

Meat Shortages Will Contiane After The War   Hog supply to be far below last year’s -figure; number of cattle about the-same.

MOSQUITOES HIT COLOGNE IN NEW  NIGHT BOMBINGS   Fires Were Still Burning From Thursday Night’s Record Raid.

 Unusual Health Check Made  Cheek On Draftees Possible  - By Earlier School Surveys

Pesan Health Check Made $e  Check On Draf tees Possible  » By Earlier School Surveys

FINLAND 15 NAL! PUDDET   State Department Angry Over Finns Seeking Nazi Aid

Bricker And HillmanDuel 3000MiApar   HILLMAN DECLINES TO ANSWER CHAKGE LABUK IS) PRESSED  TO VOTE FOR FOUR LS TERM.   Speaks For Farmer

BRICKER CHARGES . THREATS BY PAC   Governor Says That Vote of Labor Is Being Intimidated

Bricker Speaks at Erie, Pa.   Compares G.O.P.,  New Deal Programs

Nazis Surrender Demand Is Fatal  Yank Ends No-man’s-land Conversation Permanently With Burst from Machine Gun      RBv HAL ROYLE

‘Curves’ Slow Soldiers in Danger Zones; Signpainter Wins Approval

Reds Offered Polish Plan  Coalition Cabinet Is Proposed By Premier

FOR EARLY MAILERS   Christmas Wrapping Station Will Open Next Tuesday ;

Saipan Japs Still Resist  ate US   Starving Civilians Are Surrendering

Jap Civilians Surrender in Saipan Tray   Follow, Refugee Road te     Noaititie Seized

CIVILIANS COME IN   Filter in to American’ Lines on Saipan; Finish Fight ‘oes On .

Saipan Battle Is Nearing Early Finish   Jap Civilians Give Up; Soldiers Fight Hopelessly

Jap Civilians Surrendering   Nip Troops, Tranped On Saipan, Resisting Strongly

JAP CIVILIANS ON SAIPAN QUIT   Residents of Island Pass 6ehind U. S. Lines as Prisoners.

Japs Trapped On Saipan   Yanks Hold All but Four Square Miles Of Marianas Isle

Sick And Hungry Jap Civilians On Saipan Surrenderin e Tos.   Enemy Soldiers, Trapped In Canefields, Flushed By Tanks, Shot By Sharpshooters

JAP CIVILIANS ON SAIPAN ARE SURRENDERING   Many of Them Taking _ Advantage of American : Offer to Live, As Jap  Teaone Die

YANKS TAKE IN MANY NIP CIVILIANS   People Stream Down Special Refugee Road to American Lines on Saipan in Response to Of: fer of Haven.

tap Civilians Fleeing Into U. S. Lines   Enemy Soldiers Being Steadily Wipec Out on Saipan

Civilians Give Up On Saipan Island   Japanese Stream Down Designated Refugee Road to U. S. Lines.

 ‘By: J. ©. OESTREICHER  ‘International News Service  Foreien Editor 7

Conquest of Biak Island Completed   Yanks Seize: Last * Remaining Airfields

Sixth Army ®roops Virtually Complete Drive on Island in Dutch New Guinea — Japanese Losses to Run High:

YANKS CAPTURE BIAK AIRFIELDS   Front Lines Now 900 Miles: From Philippines 

TAKE LAST 2 BIAK AIRFIELDS   Conquest of Island Virtually Completed

Remaining Biak  Airfields Taken   Borokoe, Sarido Fall  To American Troops.

Auto Production Plans Considered   Completely New Car Designs Also Hinted

DEGAULLE TELLS THE POPE... ~~” PAPAL NUNGIO NOT WANTED   FRENCH LEADER SAYS PAPAL REPRESENTATIVE WHO WAS AT VICHY NOT ACCEPTABLE

NAZI TROOPS RUN INTO MURDEROUS FIRE IN FRANCE   Germans Pay Terrible Price for Attempt to Recapture Key Height Southwest of Caen.   FALL IN HEAPS BEFORE MACHINE-GUNNERS   British Let Tanks Pass and Open Fire.When Infantrymen Come Up Behind Armor.

British Mow Germans Down  South Of Caen   Bitter Fighting Starts Late Friday; Continues For 10  Hours.   QUIET OTHER PLACES

British Gunners Mow Nazi Attackers Down  Bitter Fight Rages 10 Hours on Normandy Front

Nazi Attackers Southwest of Caen Mowed Down in Heaps by British Machine Gunners   British Gunners Lay Low ond Allow Tanks to Slip Through Lines and Then Turn on Infartry Units Following in Their Wake

«PROGRESS SLOW IN FRANCE WITH » RAINY WEATHER   Downpour Turns Normandy into Quagmire—British Rout Germans Near Caen

British Gunners Mow Nazi Attackers Down  Bitter Fight Rages 10 Hours on

NEW ADVANCE INTO HOLLAND IS REPORTED   Spearheads Approaching Bastion Protecting Escape Route for Germans in West   BATTALION WIPED OUT

Annual Meeting. . LeMars Chamber Of Commerce  Had Successful and  Prosperous Year Past Twelve Months

Annual Meeting . LeMars Chamber Of Commerce  Had Successful and  Prosperous Year Pas' Tesrnicyn NAanthe

NAZI RESISTANCE STIFFENS AS STH MAKES NEW GAINS   Cassino Freed, Indicating Foe Withdrawal From Gustav Line

‘Red Armies On North Buss ' Front Bursting Through Tott  ing German Defense Lines; C  : sino Reported Abandoned   BOMBERS IN RAID ON FRENCH COA

Co. War Bond Total $1,251,400: Million Short  ‘Summary Of Sales By Distributing Agents Reanarted Ta Date   Army-Navy Total

CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT MARK SE]   MUSTANG. PLANE FLIES FROM COAST TO COAST IN SIX: HOURS, $1 MINUTES.

Langerwehe Cleared Of Foe; Gen. Patton’s Men Spurt 10 Miles; Menace Six Villages

Tail Gunner Dies During Aerial Attack _ Raid on Italian Bases Described

Government Holds Shipyard Workers   One Hundred Charged In “Most Extensive” War Fraud Racket

Say Half Million Total Involved In Overpayment   Bethlehem-Hingham Firm’s Welding Jobs Figure In Biddle Complaints

Fraud Charged To 100 Welders In Shipyards   Country Bilked Out of Large Sum Officials Claim

FBI Arrests 100 Workers   Charged With Conspiring to Defraud Government

FEDERAL AGENTS UNCOVER FRAUD   FBI Arrests 100 Shipyard Workers Charged With Making False Claims

FBI UNCOVERS SHIPYARD FRAUD   100 WELDERS AND COUNTERS CHARGED WITH DISHONESTY

Shipyard Probe Brings Arrests   Squads of FBI Agents and Deputy U.S. Marshals Take 94 Piece Work Welders and Counters Into Custody at: Bethlehem-Hingham Plant, Boston;   ‘CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD’

Hundred Shipyard  Welders, Counters  Face Fraud Charge FBI Claims Bethlehem-Higham  Arrests Constitute Largest War Frauds Case to Date

FBI Uncovers Fraud Racket   100 Welders, Counters In Boston Shipyard Placed Under Arrest

Nab Welders. Counters In  Fraud Probe   Federal Officials In Roundup Of Workers For Faking Reports On Work Done

100 War Workers. Accused of Fraud   Couhters and Welders in a Shipyard, They Are Alleged to Have Recorded False Credits for Extra Production.

BI AGENTS ARREST WORKERS FOR WAR FRAUDS   100 Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Workers in Federal Custody for Conspiracy to Defraud

Reds to Get Part Of Italian Fleet   Roosevelt Planning To Run Everything That Floats For The Benefit Of The War; Russia May Take Other Materials

Discussions  Half Over, FDR Reports   U. S. And Britain Share In Surrendered Ships

ROOSEVELT CONFERENCE  Russ Will Get Part Of Italo Fleet   Stettinius Going To London Soon

FR. DISCLOSES DISCUSSION IN ALLIED CIRCLES   U. S. and British Are Already Using Some of Surrendered Tonnage

RUSSIANS TO GET ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF ITALIAN FLEET   President Roosevelt Reveals That Plans Are Now Underway To Aid Soviet Navy.

—RUSSIA—_.  SOVIETS GET PART OF ITALIAN FLEE)   One-Third- Of. Vessels ‘'To - Be -Turned-Over To ‘Reds; Says F.D.R. ,   DISCUSSES PLAN   President Says U: S. And Great Britain. Will Use Others - -

Italian Fleet Squadrons to Go to Russians   President Says Plans Ave Made to Give Shigs to Reds

RUSSIA WILL GET PORTION ITALIAN FLEET   President Roosevelt Announces Plans for Transfer of Ships Is About Complete

SHIP SHARING’ IDEA OUTLINED BYROOSEVELT   Stettinius Will Visit Londor To Confer With British On Other Questions

Italian Ships To Go Into Soviet Hands   FDR Says Stettinius Going to London To Discuss Problem

Russia May Be Given One-Third O Italian Navy   Roosevelt Tells  Of Plans Now Being Discussed; Stettinius Going Abroad

Italian Ships To Go Into Soviet Hands  FDR Says Stettin  et tc ee 0 ik   FDR Says Stettinius Going to London To Discuss Problem

Russia To Get Part Of Fleet   President Discloses Discussions Relative To Italian Fleet.

PART OF ITALIAN FLEET TO RUSSIA   DISCUSSIONS FOR TRANSFER ARE HALF COMPLETE, SAYS FDR

Italian Ships To Russia   FDR Says Plan Is to Divide Fleet on Basis Of One-Third Each to aU. S.. Britain. Russia

Reds To Share Italian Fleet   Negotiations on For Transfer Of Third of Fleet to Russians

REDS 10 GET PART OF ITALIAN NAVY   About One-third of Surrendered Ships or Equivalent  _ Will Be Turned Over to Russia, President Announces

ONE THIRD Ot ITALIAN NAVY   President Reveals It Will Be Turned Over To Them; Everything That Floats For War Effort.   In Baltic Sea

About 1-3d Will Go To Russia   U. S.-Britain Now Using Some Of Surrendered Warships

ROOSEVELT STATES  RUSSIA TO RECEIVE  ITALIAN FLEET UNITS ARMY AND NAVY AN.  NOUNCES BROAD EXPAN. SION COTLECE TRAINING

Third Of Italian Fleet Is Given  To Reds, Savs FD   Discussion Underway For Transfer Soon; Allies Already Use  Some Tonnage

RUSSIANS TO GET ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF ITALIAN FLEET   ‘DISCUSSIONS OF MATTER ABOUT HALF COMPLETED SAYS ROOSEVELT

Russia to Get Ships ~ From Ifaiy   To Transfer About a Third of Surrendered Fleet, Roosevelt Savs   STETTINIUS TO GO TO LONDON SOON   Other Questions to Be Discussed at Conference With. British

ALLIES TO GIVE SHIPS TO RUSSIA   Part Of Italian Fleet May Go To Aid Reds

One-Third of Surrendered Tonnage to Go to Red Navy; F. R. Discloses Discussions

ONE-THIRD OF ITALIAN NAVY   President Bares. Plar To Turn Warships - Over to Soviets

‘ussia Wi as a on  Surrence er, So "NT. Te! “Ur: o- -aian + ee -

Italian Warships Will Be Turned Over to Russia   Soviets to Get About One-Third of Fleet; Stettinius Trip to London Also Disclosed

Third of Italian Fleet _'To Be Given To Russia, Roosevelt Now Reveals

Stettinius Will Work Out Details   Several Questions Need Attention Immediately

Russia fo Gel Htalian Ships   Roughly One-Third Of Italian Navy Is Allotted to Soviets

Russians to Get Part of Italian Fleet   Discussions Under Way to Transfer Third of Surrendered Vessels; Stettinius To London to Confer on Problems.

REDS GET THIRD OF ITALIAN NAVY   U. S. and Britain to Divide Remainder, Roosevelt Reveals

ONE-THIRD OF FLEET MARKED FOR TRANSFER   Allies to Strike With Everything Afloat, Says President

About Third of Surrendered Fleet May be Turned Over  PLAN IS TOLD AT   PLAN IS TOLD AT PRESS CONFERENCE  Merchant Ships Also In volved, President ree

PLANNING FOR RUSSIA 10 GET THIRD OF NAVY   U.S., Britain Already Using Some Italian Vessels. “Spoils” Pian Revealed by F. R.

Third Of Italian Fleet Will Fight For Russians   ' Roosevelt Announces Plans For Turning It Over To  = The Soviets: Italians May Man Some  Of The Ships. He Says

Allies Plan ito Divide Ug Ttalian Fleet   President Roosevelt Says That Russia Will Receive Third of Unite

Stalin. Likely To Get Third Of Italy Fleet, Declares FDR   Use Of Surrendered Vessels Considered

About Third of Surrender. ed Fleet May be Turned Over   PLAN IS TOLD AT PRESS CONFERENCE   Merchant Ships Also Involved, President Indicates

RUSSIA WILL HAVE PART OF ITALIAN FLEET   President Discloses in Press Conference Discussions Under Way fo Transfer Warships   STETTINIUS TO LONDON

22 German DivisionsIn Italy Fight   Atterpt Breakthrouch   Russia To Get Third Of Surrendered Italian Fleet

Russia To Get Italian Fleet   One-Third of Ships Surrendered By Italy To Be Transferred

FLEET TO BE SPLIT UP FOR WAR BENEFIT   ROOSEVELT REVEALS 100 WARSHIPS AVAILABLE

TRANSFER PLAN IS DISCLOSED BY PRESIDENT   U. S. and Britain Already Using Part of Surrendered Italian Ships

Some Ships To Be Manned By Italians    ’ Reds To Get Vessels ‘Or Equivalent,’ President Asserts  MEANING NOT CLEAR

Russia to Get Part of Italian Fleet   Stettinius to Head Mission to  _ London; Stimson Says Abolishment Lend-Lease Would Prolong War

ARRANGEMENT, ABOUT HALF  COMPLETED   President Says Stettinius To Go To London  ALLIES TO USE   Everything Afloat Against Enemy; Other Problems Discussed By F.D.R.

Reds to Get Third Italy Ships   TRANSFER DISCUSSIONS UNDERWAY; STETTINIUS TO VISIT ENGLAND

Staius Of Cargo Ships Uncertain   “FDR Discloses Move As Answer To Soviet Query

Stettinius To Go To London  lor Discussion   Roosevelt Tells Plan In Press-Radio Conference;  Plans Half-Done.  b, ear a TIT: A TAT TARTS : 7 Set ele Ae «   NO HEADLINE MEET

Russia to Get Third of Fleet Italy Yielded To the Allies   Details of Transfer ‘Half Completed,’ Roosevelt Announces

THREE- WAY DIVISION IS PLANNED   U. S. And Britain Are Already Using Some Italian Vessels

Russians to  Get Warships   Third of Surrendered Italian Fleet for Soviets, Says F. R.

Ttalian Fleet Going: To Reds   Roosevelt: Reveals: “Discus sions. About Completed “For! Transfer oe

Russia Will Get Italian Warships   Distribution to Allies of Surrendered Ships on a One-Third Basis.

More French Forces And Some American Units Enfer Paris: Had Been Armistice

German Commander Denied Armistice At Paris; Tanks Poured Fire Into Civilians   First Details Of Fight Within City To Break Nazi Stranglehold

Must Be No ‘Paper Peace, iDewey Warns   All Human Relationships Should Be Like Red Cross, Says Governor

FDR HAS FOURTH TERM IN MIND ‘SAY REPUBS   - Played Important Part in His Decision to Draft New Legislative Program They Claim.

2 STATES VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT   California and New Jersey Democrats Back Fourth Term for President.

California, N. J. Pledge Yotes For Fourth Term  G. O. P.’s Divided Between Dewey  And Gov. Warren

New Jersey, California —  NameDelegates; President Has Votes To Nominate

DEWEY ASSURED OF 35 DELEGATES IN NEW JERSEY   CALIFORNIA GOP PLEDGES SUPPORT TO GOV. WARREN

California, Jersey Favor Fourth Term   Republicans of Two States — Divide Votes on Dewey And Warren

NEW JERSEY TO SUPPORT F.R., DEWE)   California Delegates to Plug for Their Gov. Warren on G.O.P. Side: F.R. on Demo,

California, N. J. Votes Back FD; Split On Dewey    Action In West Coast State Indicates The Necessity For Political Trading

FDR Has Votes For Nomination   California Delegates Pledged to Warren— N. J. to Push for Dewey

POLITICAL POT BREWING TODAY IN TWO STATES   Roosevelt Gains Support; Dewey Wins Backing

APPROVAL OF STATE   Democrats In New Jersey. California For Roosevelt

Roosevelt Has Nomination in His Pocket   Tuesday's Primaries to Dispel Whatever Doub? Remained

First Ballot Nomination OfFDR Sure   New Jersey Pledges 33 Votes To Dewey Who Tops GOP Field

DEWEY PICKS UP 85 VOTES TODAY   Seems Unlikely To Have Enough Pledged Votes For First-Ballot Nomination; Roosevelt Has More Than Enough

\California, New Jersey Democrats (Vote For F.D.R. Delegates; G.O.P. Divides With Gov. Dewey, Warren

NOUGH FOURTH ERM VOTES NOW \ HAND FOR FDR   California and New Jer.  sey Bring Up Needed remay Totals. Calif. GOP Vote ita... oo Bar WD awsnx

FDR Is Assured Nomination 4th Term Ist Ballot   California-New Jersey Produce 4th Term Ballot Clinchers.

THINK DEWEY WILL WIN IN ~ NEW JERSEY   N ew. York Governor . Ex: ~ pected: ‘to Get All 35 - Convention ‘Votes—Hot Senatorial Race Under *- Way in California.

Two States Cast Ballots In Primaries   California and Jersey Democrats to Back Fourth Term

New Jersey, California Vote Today   Renomination Of  FDR Is Certain

er ecnteenrneeneer pita iiteeee melt  C10, OTHER LABOR GROUPS FACE PROBE

C10 Political Inquiry Pressed   House and Senate Ready for Probes

—APPROPRIATIONS—  OWI 15 PRAISED BY HOUSE GROUP   Lauded For Valuable Contribution To War Effort, Military Program   FUNDS ALLOTED   Fighteen Home-Front War Agencies Given Money For Next Year

C. 1. O. Pledges its Full Support to Roosevelt For a Fourth Term Race

Lewis Seeking Another Union   Wants Chemical Group If He Returns To AFL In Addition To UMW

Today's Fifth War Loan Scoreboard  in Marion County Goal, ——«83, 965,000.00

ACTION DELAYED  ON WORLD BANK   Congress May Not-Con. sider Monetary: Plan Until January

BUTTER RATION GOST JUMPS TO 16 POINTS   Wartime-Produced Gin Will Retail For Less Soon

Butter Up Four Points   Reflects Increased Demand; Car-Pooling Ruling Effective Aug. 1

RATION VALUE OF BUTTER INCREASED   16 Points Per Pound Will Be Required for Dairy Product.

POINT. VALUE OF BUTTER HAS BEEN BOOSTED   16 Points Per Pound Now For Creamery Prodiuct .   CHANGES MADE   OPA Also Takes Action On Drive-ToWork Gas

POINT. VALUE . OF BUTTER HAS -BEEN BOOSTED   16 ‘Points. Pe ‘Per. Pouné  Now For Cr eameryProduct:   OPA. Also.Takes Ac+ tion: On. Drive-To-.

BUTTER NOW TAKES FOUR MORE POINTS   Creamery Butter Now Takes 16 Points

STORM ‘SANK THREE.      DESTROYER AND. TWO COAST “GUARD PATROL VESSELS WENT DOWN DURING _ HURRICANE

U.S. DESTROYER LOST IN STORN   Two Coast Guard Patrols Also Go Down; Loss of Life Heavy

CANADIANS PUSH ON AFTER TAKING BEACHHEAD   Texans Score On Another Front As Invasion Begins On Northern French Coast

TWOU. 5. SUBS SINK 13 SHIPS   [Operate Deep In Jap  Home Waters    emer  Crippling Blow’ To  Alin Gaa Dawar

Thirteen Jap Ships Are Sunk By 2 U.S. Subs   Home Waters Of Japan In. vaded—Ships Sunk Total 68,000 Tons

PROMENADE T0 BE HELD BY 40 AND   Grand Chef de Chemin de ‘ Fer to Attend Local’ Ceremonies

PROMENADE 10 BE . HELD BY 40 AND g   Grand Chef de Chemin de :? Fer to Atténd Local: Ceremoniec

Soviets Pursue NazisInEstonia   Tallinn Seized In Swift 48-Mile Advance B:  Reds; Germans Evacuating Latvia

Soviets Capture Tallinn   Estcnian Battle Degenerates Into Full-Scale Nozi Rout After Capture

NAZIS FLEE SOVIET ARMY IN ESTONIA   German Defenses Falling Apart in Baltic States

Russians Shatter Estonian Defenses In Pursuit of Routed German Army

RUSSIANS RACE TO ANNIHILATE NAZIS IN BALTICS   Germans Suffering ‘Enormous’ Losses

RED ARMIES Cf i URE. TALLINN:   Liberation of All Baltic  States Imminent

Soviet Troops Sweep Toward Baltic Coast   Tallinn Capture Opens Estonian Defenses; Baltics Falling   Frightened Satellite Makes Overtures As Reds Near Border

Nazi Defenses In Baltic States Falling Apart   Virtually All of Estonia Now in Russian Hands

HOUGE PASSES BILL TO PURCHASE LAND   Rejects Effort to Convert It Inte Start of Soldier's Bonus.

Communist Newspaper Pravda Says Nazis Ask for Peace.   NAZI RIBBENTROP, TWO BRITISH MEET   It Is Believed the Meeting Was Not Without Results.

Communist Newspaper Tells Of Meeting. Russian Diplomats Reject Offer Of Polish Government In Exile To  Negotiate Border Dispute.

§ CLAIM ~ GERMANS, BRITISH DISCUSSING PEACE   Pravda Reports Meetings Held at One of Coastal Ci ties in Pyrenees.

Russians Report Nazi-'" British Officials Confer: Discuss Separate Peace

NEW FRONT IN BURMA BLOWS UP ON ENEMY   British Cross Chindwin River, About 40 Miles East Of Assam Border; “Well Advanced” Eastward.   Continue Active

Driving Soviets Take 120 Towns; Razis Admit Attacks Near Krivoi Rog

Gen. Pershing Seriously {I   ‘No Immediate Danger, Hospital Reports

Leyte Island Coast Seized   MacArthur Makes Good 1942 Promise Of “I Shall Return’: Yanks Set For Showdown

Unexpected Landings  Split Japanese Forces   Yanks Strike North of Mindanao As  General Begins Proving Pledge to Return

1 WYOMING LED ALL STATES 7IN PERCENTAGE OF E BOND QUOTA ACHIEVED IN STKE IWAR LOAN, WITH SCORE 1589

Definite Gains Made in France   Although Campaign Moves Slow, Operations Base I:  Built Up.

Allied Gains In Normandy Are Definite And Concrete   Every Action To Date Has Been Of Local Nature Can Make Break-Through When Ready

Normandy Results Are ' Evaluated   Enormous Casualties Art Inflicted On Enemy

Build Up For Big Push   Fighting in Normandy Local in Character As Allies Mass Supplies,  Men. For Breakthrough

ALLIED GAINS ON ALL FRONTS HAVE BEEN CONCRETE   Campaign in Normandy Is Progressing Far Better Than Anticipated

EISENHOWER NOT READY YET FOR MAJOR ATTACK      Slow Progress of Campaign in Normandy Explained

Military Experts Of Washington Pleased With Progress Of Normandy Drive   for future operations. ENEMY SUFFERS

 BEACHHEAD SITUATION:  Normandy Progress Moderate,  But the Gains are ‘Concrete’

Definite Gains Made by Allies On French Front   Beachhead Being Enlarged Each Day by Troops

South Fr France In Range Of Air Fighters   Spitfires Using Newly Built Field On Anzio Beachhead

Americans Drive 7 Miles in Italy   Road City Captured, Livorno Neutralized

Liverno Is Neutralized By Advances   Ancona Falls To Advancing Polish Troops

Americans In Invasion Force  Are Prepared   Thoroughly Trained And Completely Eguipped Correspondent Reports

Wallace takes  note to China  ‘Nothing to stop _ prompt U.S. aid’

MISSION TO CHINA   Wallace to Gather Information for First Hand Report

Four More Polio Cases In County  Twelve Cases Reported Since July 18

Merchants, Clerks Open Fifth War Loan This. Morning  Patriotic Rally Scheduled at Montana Theater at 9 oO Clock: ‘Stores to  kD. .F rT , te er

Merchants, Clerks Open Fifth War Loan This. Morning   Patriotic Rally Scheduled at Montana Theater at 9 o’Clock: Stores to Begin Third Army Campaign at 10:30

Hitler Is Reported Inspecting Coast   Rumored Withdrawa In Italy Disbelieved

Germans Making Final Preparations To Meet Coming Allied Invasion

Fuehrer and High Command Party Said To Be Touring Defenses on Atlantic

HITLER VISITS INVASION AREA   Makes Secret Inspection Of His West Wall  Defenses

Hitler Sees West Defenses   High Chiefs Reported On luspection Tour

FUEHRER MAKES SECRET TOUR OF * HIS WEST WALL   Defenses Scanned Closely, Is Report As Nazis Fear Start of Invasion

Child Victim Of Lukemia Disease   Staff Sgt. . Elmer Truay Flies Fram South Pacific To Daurhter’s Bedside

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Germans Assert Furious Fighting Rages  Claim Montgomery Has 12 Full Divisions in Battle

Germany Reports Furious Battle In Bayeux Area   Nazis Advancing, Berlin Asserts

NAZIS REPORT FIERCE FIGHT NEAR BAYEUX   Contend Their Reinforcements Bitinginto Western End Allied Bridgehead; Claims Ignored.   Name Prisoners

Allies Using 12 Divisions, Germans Say   Report Two More Air-Borne Divisions . Land North of Baveux   20 DIVISIONS. OVER, ‘PARIS RADIO ASSERTS   Reinforcements Biting Into Bridgehead; Enemy Sources Sav

Nazis Claim Gains In Counter-Blows   Reports Cite Vast Allied Power Held In Reserve; Allies Ignore “Fishings”’

G. O. P. Platform Is Dedicated to State Development   Stress Is Laid on Agricultural Needs of Montana; New Deal Flayed; Ashton Tones Succeeds Dan Maddox

WHEAT IMPORTS MAY CONTINUE   Prospects of Record Harvest ... Eases Shortage, However

Record Wheat Cro) Is Sighted for  Harvest This Year  U. S$. Will Continue To Import Some Grain From Canada

DEWEY OPPOSED To POLL TAXES, OTHER DEPRIVING DEVICES   Potential Republican Candidate Answers Negro on Critieal Issne

‘Dewey Declares Opposition to Poll Tax As Issue Comes Up Before U. S. Senate   Governor Makes Clear Position on This ‘And Every Other Device to Deprive Free People of Their Votes’ on Plea of Neero

Poll Tax — Opposed hy Dewey   Prospective G.O.P: Nominee States Position-at.Requestof Colored: People   SHOWDOWN SOON IN U.S. SENATE   National. Association Had _Asked New Yorker's Views ‘to Influence G.O.P.Senators

Poll Taxes ‘Assailed By Tom Dewey   'N. Y. Governor Also Voices Opposition to ‘Every Other Device to Deprive Free People of Their Votes.’

WEY ASSERTS RIS OPPOSITION 10 TAX   Against Any Devite to Deprive Free People of . * Their Votes. :

Prisoners in Revolt State Grievance   Promise Columnist Rebellion Will End If He Prints Story

REPORTER TALKS TO CONVICTSIN PRISON MUTINY:   HEARS GRIEVANCES OF BARRICADED MEN THRU BARRED WINDOW

Hannegan to Try to Bring Farley Back   New Democratic Chairman Seeks Support; Byrnes Vice President Choice

Farley Stand Top Question For Demos.   New Chairman Has This To Solve With Other Party Riddles

POLITICAL STATUS OF JAMES A. FARLEY PRESSING QUESTION  NEW CHAIRMAN HAD IN. STRUCTIONS TO LAY FOURTH TERM PLANS

DEMOCRATS FEAR FARLEY'S STAND ON FOURTH TERM   HANNEGAN HOPES TO BRING NEW YORKER BACK INTO THE FOLD

Hannegan Hope: To Bring Farley Back Into Fold   Democrats Pian Overtures to New York Leader

FARLEY'S STAND WORRIES DEMOS   Political Whereabouts Of Former National Chairman Pressing Party Question; Hannegan Seeks Harmony.

Farley Sought By Dem Chiefs   United Demécrat_ Front To Back Fourth Term Is Party Goal

Group Opens Drive For Renomination Of FDR; Farley’s Stand In Doubt

Prodigal-Son Farley Sought By Faithful   Hannegan Would Bring Him Back To Roosevelt Fold

Hannegan, Demc Chief, Tackles Farley Problem   Strives To Bring NoFourth-Termers Back Into F. D. R. Fold.

Hannegan Tries To Bring Farley, Other No-4th- Termers Into Fold   New Democratic Chairman Has What Amounts To Party Instructions To Lay Groundwork For President’s Renomination.

James Farley Question Mark to Democrats   Political Whereabouts in Coming Campaign Causing Much Worry

WANT FARLEY  BACK IN FOLD OF DEMOCRATS   New National Chaurman Hopes For His Return

Hannegan to Try Luring Jim Farley, Back to Democrats > New Chairman Told To Lay Fourth Term Foundation for FDR

Foreign Policy Of FDR Called ‘Legend, Myth’   Clare Booth Luce Flays Appeasement Of Reds In Talk At Worcester

AIRBORNE OPERATIONS BY ALLIES MAKE SIEGFRIED DEFENSES LESS FORMIDABLE THAN PREVIOUSLY

STIMSON CITES WAR PROGRESS   ‘He Avers Allies May Now Find Siegfried Line ‘Less Formidable’

Aachen Now -at Mercy of Strong * Yonk Forces~. .   Siegfried Line Now Dented at Three Points; Nancy and Maastricht Fall

Nancy and Maastricht, at Opposite Ends of Front, Are Taken   PATTON MEN IN NANCY   Yanks Thru Outlying Sieg fried Defenses Without  Trouble

SOVIETS ONLY 11 MILES FROM ~ WARSAW GOAL   Advance Swiftly on Battle Front   NEAR E. PRUSSIA   Nazi Counter Blows Repelled

NAZIS ABANDON POLISH RAIL KEY AS SOVIETS GAIN   Reds Now Within 11 Miles of Warsaw, Push Deep Into Estonia

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U.S. Airmen Raid Nazi Oil Dumps   86 German Planes Are Destroyed

QUARTER OF MILLION FIRST ‘DAY PURCHASES   Fourth War Loan Campaign Gets Under Way With Spontaneous Support.

Planes Continue Raiding  Rota, Guam Isles; Heavy Casualties Suffered by Yanks on Saipan

70 Million Dollar Pipeline May Tap Hugoton Field   Kansas Gas Would Supply Cities in Michigan, Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin

Over Inch of Snowfall in North lowa   Temperatures from 20 te  28 Degrees Predicted in  State Tonight

Counter-Attack Of Nazis Causes Critical Condition Of British-Polish Forces   General Dempsey’s Second Army Tanks At Standstill In Effort To Relieve Delicate Situation

Says Yan‘ees Hold Stolberg  City Of 22,000 In Hands Of Americans

Nazis Counter-Attack From All Directions to Keep Allies » From Crossing Rhine River

Experience s Stressed By Truman   Rhode Island Voters Asked For Support

BEEF OTEAK, AOASTS OTL ON POINT LIST   Order Effective at Midnight May Last Five Months or Maybe Longer,

Only Beef Left On List   75% Of Meat Consumed Becomes Point Free

Effective Midnight Tonight; Includes Canned Meats and Fish; Red Point Allowance Cut

Points Taken Off of Most Meats Tonight   Beef Steaks. And Roasts Still Rationed

TB Society Reelects; Hear:  Work Reports   Mayor Hugh J. Ryan Renamed President; Joseph Fazio Added  To Board of Director:

T B Society Held Annual Meeting in  Bradford Tuesday   C. W. Lillibridge Named 2nd Vice President; Other Directors Named

TALK BOOKED IN SHIBE PARK BY ROOSEVELT   DEWEY TO DELIVER ADDRESS TONIGHT AT 8:30

Dumbarton Oaks To Get F.D.R. Help      FOURTH TERM CANDIDATE TC STRIKE OUT AT CRITICS O1 SUGGESTED SUPER-SATE ID SATURDAY SPEECH.   Thomas Attacks Luce

Roosevelt Plans Major Talk Oct. 2 In Philadelphia Dewey Speaks Tonight Truman and Bricker  22a eae@ear are AIiahe

Gov. Dewey Will Broadcast Talk At 9:30 Tonight   Will Feature The Herald Tribune Forum In New York

Tourist Found Beater to Death   Man He Had Picked Up Is Arrested

Service Vote Bill Polished   Both Sides Agree Compromise Only One That Will Pass.

‘Denounces ‘America First  Party's Endorsement of  Governor Bricker

Dewey Arrives in Illinois   Pays Tribute to the First Republican

Strength Depends on the People, Not on One Man, Dewey Asserts   Candidate Assails ‘Roosevelt Depression, In Springfield on Way to Conference

Dewey Invades Cornbelf; Meets Governors Today   Nominee Pays Homage tc Lincoln, Takes Swipes at Roosevelt

Gerald Smith Is Denounced By Nominees   . Dewey, Bricker Assail ‘America First Party  Naming of Ohioan e-D.R. UNDER FIRE

Via Casilina Now Held By Allies As Battle —  Rages Near Rome   American Spearhead, 2 Miles Beyond Velletri, Fighting Germans In Sight Of Eternal City; Fighth Army Advances

GERMAN FORCES FLEEING BEFORE AMERICAN UNITS   U. S. Infantry, Tanks Now on Via Casilina, 20 Miles From Rome

Germans Face Disaster as Valmontone, Ferentino, Veroli Fall Into Allied Hands

‘German Southern Front Sealed Off By U.S. Forces      Americans Broke Into Velletri As Other Units Spread In Alban Hills

Heavily Punished Hermann Geering Division Fighting Besperaie Rear Guard Action

NATION URGED TO HASTEN VICTORY BY BUYING BONDS   FDR CONFIDENT JAPS WILL QUIT SOONER THAN WAS EXPECTED

War Loan Drive In High Gear   Victory Over Japs May Come Sooner Than Expected, FDR

Pecsidauk Sees Speeding Up Of Defeat Of Japanese  Fifth War Loan Campaign Starts Off In High Gear

resident Opens Jar Loan Drive: ictory Nearer   Japan’s Surrender To Be Hastened by Nazi Defeat, He Avers

Opens Fifth War Loan, Saying Nazis First on List, Berlin Road‘ Long and Costly

F. D. R. Spurs War Loan Drive   His Confidence of ' Victory Over Japs Arouses Enthusiasm

Nazi Back To Wall President Says In Opening Bond Drive    Unconditional Surrender or National Suicide ‘More Rapidly Than Thought Possible,’ Foreseen

F.D. Launches Big Fifth War  Loan Campaign   Defeat of Germans, Then Japs Can Hasten Victory on All Fronts,  Chief Tells Nation

President Opens War Loan Drive LS NS nsenaneseemnennenresiegaaray  Germany Has Back Against The Wall, Roosevelt Asserts

President Says Drive Spur to Faster Victory   Chief Executive Opens Bond Campaign With Confidence of Defeat of Japan

NATION'S 5TH WAR LOAN DRIVE GOES INTO HIGH GEAR   Campaign Spurred by FDR's Asserion That Japan Can Be Subdued Much More Rapidly, Than Has Been Thought. Possible 4

Nazis Backed Against Thre: Walls, President Declares   F.R. Opens Bond Drive, Says Hitler Defeat Will Speed Jap’s Downfall

OPENING FIFTH WAR BOND DRIVE PRESIDENT PLEADS WITH PEOPLE TO KEEP FAITH WITH ARMED FORCES   Declares Japan Can Be Forced “To Unconditional Surrender or National Suicide Quicker Than We Think.” War's Cost by End of Year Will Be $295.000.000.000, Says Morgenthau

Fifth Loan Drive Hitting High Gear   Japs Can Be Forced to Give Up Sooner Than Expected Says FDR

Germany s Back to Three Walls  Hitler Defeat Will Bring Jap Surrender

‘Keep Faith’ Plea Of FDR In Bond Drive   Japs May Be Crushed Earlier Than We Thought But Hard Days Ahead

FDR Optimistic On War Outlook   Nazis First, Then Japanese, He Says

FDR Praises Allied Strategy   Sees Quick Jap Defeat  After Nazis Reaten

DEFEAT OF JAPS. MAY BE SPEEDY   Roosevelt Says Conquest Of Nazis Can Hasten End _  O&f Nipponese

President Opens War Loan Drive  President Opens War Loan Drive.  Germany Has Back Against The Wall, Roosevelt Assert:

Fifth War Loan Drive Jumps Into High Gear   Spurred by Confident Words of FDR; Morgenthau Says Cost of War at Year's End Will Be $295 Billion

“YEAR'S END PUT AT 295 BILLION   Speeches by FDR., Mor genthau Spur 5th War Loan Into High Gear

F.D.R., Morgenthau Stress Costs O War In Opening War Loan Drive   President Confident Japan Can Be Forced To Surrender Or National Suicide More Rapidly Than Had Been Thought Possible.

Pacific War Nearer End Ha Believes   ’ President Makes Talk As Bond Drive Starts

Canadians Move Against  Dunkerque   Great Bombing Attack Ends Truce; Battle Resumes

Allies Batter At Dunkerque   Planes Blast City As Civilians Leave, 24-Hour Truce Ends

Mercy Truce of Dunkerque Ended This Morning and Allies Move on Germans Trapped in Tiny Channel   Allied Bombers Thunder Across Channel Before Advancing Army

Battle Resumed For Dunkerque   19.000 Civilians Flee Por' Under Terms Of Truce

Induction Call Will Be Large   State Draft Boards. To Create Backlog

Nazi Satellite States Nearly  Completely Taken Over   Privcipal Troubles For Germans Lie In Teumania

Germany Near Occupation Of Its Nazi Satellite States   Push 50,000 Tropps Across Border Of Rumania To Seize All Communications

Comedian Faces Federal Charge   “Seven Indicted In lnan Perens Owe

Comedian Faces Federal Charge   - Seven Indicted In Joan Berrv Case

CHARLIE CHAPLIN ACCUSED OF MANN ACT VIOLATION   Indictment Alleges Film Comedian Transported Joan — Berry to New York for — Immoral Purposes.   6 OTHERS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY   Judge, 3 Police Officers and  Two Others Accused of Depriving Girl of Consti-—  ' tutional Rights. . 

Charles Chaplin Faces Federal Mann Act Charge   Is Also Accused Of Conspiracy

CHAPLIN. INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY   Screen Star Accused of Conspiracy to DeFroud Girl

CHAPLIN, MOVIE COMEDIAN, HELD UNDER MANN ACT   Six Others Are Implicated in Alleged Relationships He Had With Joan Berry, Former Protege.   ASSOCIATE HELD ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE   Chaplin In Seclusion, Lawyer Says Defendant Will Surrender, Asks Public Delay Opinion.

“ILM COMEDIAN IS INDICTED BY FEDERAL JUR'   Tharlie Chaplin Accused 0} Violating Mann Act With Protege   *OLICE OFFICIALS ALSO IMPLICATED

JURY INDICTS ‘CHAPLIN, ALSO SIX OTHERS   Comedian Onlv One Facing the Mann Act Charge

TROOPSSMASH INTO RIGA   While Other Groups Pre pare or Plunge Into East Prussia: Penetratine Belerade.   Fall Of Rozam

‘Main Nazi Baltic Navat Base in Hands of © Soviets  FORCES POISED FOR ~ PRUSSIAN ASSAULT  ‘Fall of Rozan in Northern Poland Also Ree — ported   t

Russians Capture Riga F ollowing Heavy Battle   Reports Say Other Soviet Forces Batter Way Across Border Into East Prussia

RIGA, MENACE EAST PRUSSI   Batter Across Plains Of Hungary Toward Budapest

Russian Forces Take Riga, Big Nazi Naval Base   Other Troops Pound Enemy Defenses In East Prussia

SNOWFALL IN NORTH DAKOTA AND WYOMING   While in lowa It's Cold, Driazzly, May Clear Up But Will Remain Cold Thursday

Say Nazi Firms Set For Change   Claim Activity To Be  Resumed In Argentina

Mosquitoes Again Bother Reich Capital   Assault Made on Invasion Coast by Davlight Raiders

RAF BOMBERS RESUME RAIDS OVER EUROPE      ‘Nuisance Attack On Berlin As : Assault Is Made On Invasion Coast

F. D. R. Accuses His Opponents of Building Spite Fence   President Reviews the War Situation in Political Address From White House; Says Pacific War Is Ahead of Schedule

Roosevelt  Hits ‘Wicked Whisperings’ In Campaign   G.O.P. Threat To Build ‘Party Spite Fence’ Also. Is Condemned  In Radio Address  SAYS PEOPLE CAIM-.

CONGRESS BACKS FOREIGN POLICY, ~ ROOSEVELT SAYS   President Accuses G. O. P. of Trying to “Build Spite Fence Between Us  and Peace.”’   HITS WHISPERINGS - IN RADIO SPEECH   Declares Last-Minute Accusations in Campaign Will Not Cause Panic Among People, —

ROOSEVELT HITS AT WHISPERINGS   Speech Sums Up Military Successes And Home Front Progress

President Ciles ‘Wicked Charges’ in Attempt to Gain Political Advantage

FDR Is Relying “On: the: Record’ For Reelection   Avers GOP Spite Threats -, }Of-Non-Cooperation   Imoueri!] Peace

F.R. Charges His Foes’ Stand Endangers Peace   No Lall Fer Europe.

President Accuses Republicans of Staging Whispering Campaign with Wicked Charges

FDR ASSERTS REPUBLICANS MAKE THREAT   President Also Hits At What He Calls “Whisperings”’

President Classifies Charges As “Wicked Rumors And Whisperings.”

Nazi Reserves Fail To Check Allied Advance   U. S. Patrols Withdraw From Terracina But Seize Mountains   Gen. Clark Narrowly Escapes Bomb Death

HAS BRUSH WITH DEATH   Heavy Explosive Charge in Abandoned Nazi Gun  - Explodes 25 Feet From Commander’s Jeep on Tour of Front.

Clark Narrowly Escapes Death  German Booby-Trary Ceemilianac Naawrku

Clark Barely Misses Death   General Touring Italian Front Watches Booby Trap Blow Up Near Him

Booby Trap Nearly Kills Gen. Clark   Charge in German Gun Explodes, Wounding Soldiers

 Sunday Surprise Booby Trap Just Misses Killing Gen. Mark W. Clark

General Clark and Writer Dixon Narrowly Miss Booby Trap Death   German Anti-Tank Gun Blows Up Only 25 Feet From Their Moving Jeep

General Has Narrow Escape eee ess Cape  Lt. Gen. Clark Unhurt As Nazi Booby Trap Explode:

Clark Narrowly Escapes Death   German Booby-Trap Explodes Nearby

CLARK MISSES DEATH BY BOOBY TRAP BLAST   Intrepid General Continues Inspection of Front

Stilwell Closing On Vital Burma Base   All-Out Drive Perils Japs From Two Sides

FOLLOWS PACE SET BY YANKS   Half of Huge Valley Conquered in Race With Rains

ALLIES OCCUPY ISLES 120 MILES ~ EAST OF RABAUL   New Zealand and American Troops Move Closer to Jap Base by Taking Green Islands.   '‘VSEIZURE ISOLATES, 99.000 NIPPONESE   Mikado’s Soldiers Remaining in Solomons Now Face . Starvation or Surrender.

Allies Seize  Green Islands   Geu. MacArthur Declares Solomons Drive Ended

Green Islands Are Taken Over By Allied Forces   Invaders Meet Light Resistance in Drive To Isolate Rabaul

Disputes Snag Plar To Stage Big War Criminal Trials   British Official’s Stand Delays Proceedings Of Crimes Commission

Used Bayonets On Wounded   Brutal Treatment of Yank Wounded Told By Witness

Laughing Japs Kill Wounded   Reporter Sees Helpless Americans Bayoneted

Japs Bayoneted Wounded U.S. Soldiers Lying On Litters   Laughed Deliriously While Acting Like Savages Propped Wounded Against Tree, Stabbed Them

SURVIVOR TELLS GRISLY STORY OF JUNGLE FIGHT  ‘Japs Laugh As They Bayonet Wounded

S61. EGGLETON WEST CONCORD YS CASUALTY      War Department Tells Parents Believe Son Is lend:

Election Goes To Fulbright   MRS. JACK CARNES WINS “BY BIG MAJORITY ALSO

TOU RIDING COSSACKS DISLODGE ENEMY ARMIES   Russians Are First to Drive Hitlerites From Invaded, Ravished Territory   ‘CAPTURE LAST FRONTIER BASTIONS   Entire German Infantry Outfits Surrender;  Soviets Now Plan Westward Drive

SOVIETS DRIVE FOR RAIL LINE FROM ODESSA   Reds’ Baltic Army Continues Advance in Vitebsk Sector

Cossacks Drive Germans Across  (ld Polish Border   Russian Advance Continues As Border Of Poland Is Reached   SOME NAZIS DRIVEN OFF RUSSIAN SOIL

LUTHERANS TO CELEBRATE   Reformation-Mission Festival Sunday — New York City Pastor To Praach_

Perfect Second New Airplane   Latest Model More Startling Than Jet Type

LAVAL’S REGIME GETS READY FOR INVASION BLOW   Vichy Telling Frenchmen They Are Bound By Armistice With Germany To Treat The Coming Allied Armies As  Invaders.

Vichy Plans Resistance To Invaders   Five-Point Program Of Regulations Is Given Out

UNITED STATES NAVY RISKED SHIPS AND PLANES IN MAKING TURITT INC RESCUE OF PILOT

U. S. Navy Risks Airplanes, Patrol Boats toSave Pilot  Thousands of Bombs and Ammunition   Thousands of Bombs and Ammunition Rounds Expended In Nine-Hour Battle At Japs’ Front Yard at Halmahera

INavy Risks Men, Planes and Ships To Save Pilot from Capture by Jans

3 More Major Fortresses Fall   British Hurl Germans Back on Last Defense Line West of Border in New Holland Attack; Four Allied Armies on March on Wide Front

THREE MORE FORTS TAKEN BY YANKEES   While Two Others Are Bypassed British Plowing Ahead With Offensive in Holland

LAST NATURAL DEFENSE LINE BEFORE BIG FORTRESS STORMED   Americans Are So Close They Can Hear Five e’Clack Factary Whictlee: Nazis Fight Hard

Invasion Coast Is Hit Again Friday   Dawn-To-Dusk Flights By American Planes Fallow Closely On Heels ‘Of RAF Bombinas

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GEN. STILWELL iS RECALLED rROM OC. B. I.   Another Rough Spot in Hard Road in China; May Lead Invasion on China Coast.   America Needs China

General Stilwell’s Recall Probably ‘Due To Clash With General Chiang   To Disarm All French Notin Army-Police

Speculation On Stilwell Continues   General’s Fate Will Not Affect Process Of China War.

American Thrust Into Gains Headway With Allied Planes Continue   Air Arm Drops" Supplies To Force Holding Out At Bastogne; Foe Still Probes For Soft Spot

Situation Still Regarded As Grave But Two Spearheads Closest To Mense Definitely Halted Is Report From Headquarters   GERMAN SUPPLIES MAY BE IMPERILED

Town Of Celles is Recaptured Kast OF Meuse   American Drive Into Southern Flank Reported Making Excellent Headway

Situation on West Front Is Improved   Clear Weather Enables Air Force to Blast Nazi Supply Lines :

SITUATION BRIGHTER; U.S. COUNTER-BLOWS GOING WELL, REPORT   Nazis Stopped Again Short Of Meuse And Celles ‘Retaken; Clear Weather Gives Allied Fliers Another Field Day

American Push On South Flank Making Headway   Germans Stopped By Doughboys Four Miles South of Meuse River

BOMBERS HIT TARGETS AT GERMAN REAR   Soviets Battle Into Heart Of Budapest

Chinese Key Menaced By Japanese Drive   Fall of Siangyin Would Protect Flank of Forces Pushing Yoword Chanaxha

NEW DRIVE 1S THREATENING TO SIANGYIN   Fall Would Protect Right Flank of Main Japanese body advancing toward Changsa.   Sudden Move

Churchill Talk Disappointing   London Press Voices Half-Hearted Praise

Churchill May Shift Cabinet   Eden Rumored Ready to Quit as Unrest Multipties

CHURCHILL MAY RESHUFFLE HIS CABINET POSTS   Rising Criticism Said Cause; Eden May Be First To Go

London Reports Cabinet Shuffle Churchill's Aim   Retirement Of Eden From  Foreign Office Among  "Tales Heard In Capital

Churchill to * Revamp Cabinet   Rising .. Criticism, Coupled With Reports, Says Eden Will-Leave Foreign Office.

HEAR CHURCHILL MAY RESHUFFLE BRITISH CABINE]   British Press Disappoint. ed With His World- Wide Broadcast.

YANKS, JAPS MAY FIGHT FOR BONIN ISLANDS   Isles on Direct Route From Saipan to Tokyo; Now Held by Nips

Gov. Dewey’s State Margin Is 24.119   Latest Figures Obtained From Reports Sent To Madison By County Canvassing Boards

5,473 Additional Nazi Prisoners Reported Seized   100,000 Nazi Troops Sent Reeling Back On Paris, the Seine

Yanks Seize Nantes, Angers In Occupation Of Breton Peninsula   Yank Spearheads Tum Northward Threatening To Trap Huge German Forees South of Seine

AmericansCapture 1.322 More Nazis   Most Of Them Taken On & Breton Peninsula

Yankee Troops Raid Japanese Arawe Positions   Allied Bombers Also Continue Pounding Of Enemy Bases

Blackburn’s Irregulars Establish Record  ‘Bearded Pirates’ Get 154 Planes

TOUGH BATTLE IMMINENT ON ITALIAN FRONT   ENEMY DETERMINED TO HALT DRIVE ON LEGHORN

American Troops Fight Doggedly Towards Livorno   Hardest Battle since Anzic Beachhead Forecast by Allied Leaders

YANKS WITHIN 13 MILES OF LIVORNO POR]   French Infantry Mov More Than Three Mile: North Of Siena Des pite Nazi Resistance

Hard Battle In Prospect For Livorne   Yank Troops Only 13 Air Miles Hom wig Port, —WNuzts Eehenched  In Heights

EXPECT HEAVY BATTLE AT LIVORNO   Yanks Moving Forward Anticipate Hardest Engagement since Anzio; Nazis on High Ground.   Five Planes Lost

Russian Armies Massed for New Attack on Nazis   Decisive Blows Reported Planned

ais Say Reds Finding Up tor big Offensives   Russians Report No Changes at Front for Third Straight Day

_soviets Mass Forces for Decisive Blow   Berlin Describes Lull as Calm Before the Storm

SOVIETS MASS FOR BiG BLOWS   Concentrating of Men and Materials Brings Lull On Battle Fronts

Red Troops Get Set for —BigDrives   ‘Mass Men and Material  Alomy Eastern Front Which Now Has Lull :. jn. Fighting ss

SOVIETS MASS ON EASTERN FRONT   Reds Get Set for Decisive Offensive Against Vital Centers of Germany; Termed ‘Calm Before Storm’

Reds Prepare For Big Attack Against Reich   Front Is Quiet as Russians Massing Men and Material

RED ARMIES MASS ~ FOR BIG ASSAULTS   Forces Moving into Positions for Decisive Blows

REDS LINING UP FOR BLOW VS. GERMANY   Massing of Men and Materials Along Eastern Front Brings Lull in Kiohtine   700,000 Men

Soviets Poise. For Final Blow   Men, Material Massed  On Fectern Brant

RUSSIAN TROOPS MASSING IN EASI   STALIN’S ARMIES MOVING INTO POSITION TO DELIVER NEW BLOWS.

WOMEN HAVE STEPPED OUT OF THE KITCHEN   When Johnny Comes Home He Will Find Wifey A Changed Woman  IS NOW IN INDUSTRY

WOMEN DOING WORK [N THE SHIPYARDS   Little More Than 10°% of Workers in Steel Yards Are Women   ARE FLAME CUTTERS

Freed‘on Bond In Murder Case   Attorney Awaits Grand Jury Action

Biggest U.S. A U.S. Air Force Hits Nazis   1,900 Heavy Bombers Hammer Oil Plants

Purge May Spur Early Victory, Churchill Says  Cites Grave Signs of Weakness In Foe as Blood Bath Spreads   Cites Grave Signs of Weakness In Foe as Blood Bath Spreads Hysterically to All German Fronts

Churchill Sees ‘Grave Signs lof Weakness’ in Germany  Which May End War Earlier

“SWEDES TO-PAREBEARING EXPORTS   Agree to Substantial Cut in Shipments to Germany

SWEDEN AGREES TO REDUCE SHIPMENTS   Compromise Is Worked Ont Whereby Germany Will Receive Fewer SBE Ball-Bearings

USE ‘RLOCKBURNER BOMBS’   29 AMERICANS KILLED BY BLAST IN ENGLAND

B-29 Bombers Spot Their Targets For Expected Aerial Attacks Against Japanese Industries

NEW ACTIVITY BY B-29S OVER JAPAN CLAIMEL   Spot Targets Of Future; Report Warships Shell Jap Isle

Japs Claim B-29 Reconnaissance Ir ‘Nagoya Sector    Report U. S. Warships Have Bombarded Iwo  island In Volcanoes

BIG U. S. FORTS SPOT TARGETS IN NAGOYA AREA   Japs Also Claim Warships In Bombardment Of Iwo Island

B-29 PLANES SPOT TARGETS   Superfortresses Preparing for Great Aerial Offensive Agafnst Japan —Great Panes Fly Over Biggest Japanese ‘Aircraft Center.

NAVAL RAID ON IWO IS REPORTED   No Bombs  Dropped On Aircraft Center, % Tokyo Claims

Big Bomber Over Japan, Is Reported   Nips See a B29 and Expect Major Assault by Air-Battling on Leyte

Tokyo Waits For Massive Air Attacks   B-29 Reconnaissance Plane Reported Over Japan's Biggest Air Center

rOKYO FEARS KARLY ATTACK ON HOMELAND   Super-Fortresses Are Spotting Targets for Air Assault, Japs Report.

crane rem amr OB i mr en er  STRIKE OF LONG DISTANCE ‘OPERATORS THREATENS

Troops To Withdraw   Telephone Workers Vote To Strike Unless Raise Granied

TELEPHONE WORKERS IN STRIKE THREAT   New York Long Distance Operators Demand Wage Increase of a Weel.

Arizona Air Ace, Lance Wade, Is Killed As Plane Crashes in Italy

Italy Asks Allies To End Control   Abrogation of Terms Demanded by Premier

INEW OFFENSIVE BY PATTON SEEN AS ‘POSSIBLE FORERUNNER OF DRIVE AT ‘ANTWERP IN NORTH INTO GERMANY

The War Today   By Dewitt MacKenzic Associated Press War Analyst

TODAY   Patton's Drive For Metz May. Be Curtain. Raiser For All-Out Allied Offensive Against Rhine

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIP Aecccmduntet Pree War Analwat

Patton Either Sp ear-Heading or Running Interference   By DeWitt MacKenzie Associated Press War Analvct

PRESENT WESTERN FRONT WAR INDICATES PATTON ASSIGNED IPIONEERING IOB IN CAMPAIGN

The War Today  Give Gen. Patton ve ugh diclnsanane Drive an Reich

Machenzie Says—  Patton Will Lead Great Alllied Push      Spearheads Attack To Smash Into Reich Industrial Regions For Showdown Ficht

Patton’s Offensive May Be Curtain Raiser for All-Out Allied Offensive

Gov. Dewey Endorses  Dumbarton Oaks Plar  Candidate 'Very Happy Over Result

OKEH SO FAR, DEWEY THINKS OF PEACE AIM   “We Plan” Further Program, Governor Says In Statement

DEWEY APPROVES ~ SECURITY PLAN    ; 4 8 DECLARES HE I “HAPPY OVER RESULT” OF TALKS TO PRESERVE PEACE;

Fine Beginning, Gov. Dewey Says Of Peace Talks   Still Much To Be Done To Complete Structure ‘We Plan,’ Nominee Say:

DEWEY IS SATISFIED WITH SECURITY PLAN   Say Dumbarton Oaks Recommendations Are A “Fine Beginning” For Structure “We Plan“

DEWEY ENDORSES POST-WAR PLANS   Governor Says Dumbarton Oaks Program “Fine Beginning”

PUCHEU GIVES COMMAND FOR HIS EXECUTION   Former Vichy Minister Dies as Traitor to France.—Executed With “Great Dignity”.

Pucheu Dies Before Frenck Firing Squad   Former Vichy Minister Gives Word To Fire

Report 1,000 Dead After Stettin Raid   60,000 Homeless In German Baltic Port; Air Offense Continues

BERLIN NOW ADMITS — COUNTER-OFFENSIVE HAS BEEN STALLEI   OBSERVERS SAY ALL INDICATIONS POINT TO ANOTHER DRIVE NORTH OF PRESENT SALIENT; DISASTROUS DEFEAT IN ARDENNES POCKET, HOWEVER, WILL BE HARD TO RECOVER FROM.

Yanks Gain In Drive To Split German Salient; Patton Retaking Ground

Gocd News Is Received From The Western Battle. front Today   i ceeiaimmensiinim  AMERICANS ARE REPORTED MAKING HEADWAY IN DRIVE   in One Sector Yanks Wiped Out An Entire. Panzer Regiment

Guam Raided For Twelfth Straight Day By U.S. Force   Iwo Jima Attacked By Liberators Without Loss

Guam Blasted 12th Consecutive Day   Isle 700 Miles From Tokyo Also Attacked

RED INFANTRY AT BORDER OF EAST PRUSSIA   FRONTIER VILLAGES IN FLAMES; CZECH ROAD OPENED

Russ Take Key Point in Czech Drive   AO Towns Seized in Bottle Near East Prussia Border

Germany Hurls In Reserves To  Hold Off Foes   \Meanwhile, Soviets Capture Key Road Junction of Stryj on Road to Czechoslovakia   Fires Rage Along Prussia Frontier   Russians. On Polish Front, Push Within 30 Miles of Krakow and 75 Miles From Silesia

Fires Rage in East Prussian Frontier Towns   Stryj, 38 Miles South of Lwow, Commands Road: Through Carpathians Into Czechoslovakia

Russians Capture Stryj on Route fo Czechoslovakia  lauada Caw Devcan Mo   Invade East Prussia, Strike Hard Within . 30 Miles of Kraksaw

NAZIS SLOW RED DRIVE ON E. PRUSSIA   Germans Stiffen Resistance by Throwing Thousands of Reserves Into Key Sectors.   ‘ POLES LOSE GAINS INSIDE WARSAW   Soviets Seize Key Road  6Junction in Carpathians ‘on Invasion Routes Into Czechoslovakia.

Stryj Taken: By Russians  Important Junction : Of Roads Captured

Key Center In Carpathian Sector Taken   Forty Villages Overrun In Swift Advance To East Prussian Border

Heavy Fighting Rages Near  The German Border   RUSSIANS CAPTURE   Key Point in Carpathians, on Invasion Route to Czechoslavakia

Reds Push on as Fires Rage in East Prussia   Nazi Reinforcements Move in to Slow the Key Sector Advance

Stryj, Road Point, Falls   Russians Press On Toward Krakow; Furious Battle Along East Prussian Borde:   Nazis Rush in Reserves

East Prussian Cities Rage With Flames   Warsaw Poles Suffer From Lack of Ammunition, Arms

4) Towns Fall To Reds in Drive To Prussian Border   German Broadcasts Admit Russians 3 Miles From Reich

OFFENSIVE IN NORTH IS SLOWED   Nazis Retract Report Soviets Fight In East Prussia

Carpathian Road Center Is. Stormed For Victory   ‘Frontiet’s. Villages -Ravaged By Fires:

Argentina Suspends All Communication: With Axis; Cancels Ship Departures

JAPS IN BURMA DROPPING BACK   Japanese Appear To Be Leaving Northwest Burma, Put Out Defensive Are At Mandalay.

Japs Giving Up Northwest Burma   Fulting Back On Befense: Avound Mandalay Now

SE SUL) in a, ee Te eae ee  Majority Report For Higher Cotton Textile Ceilings

Local Farmers Lo Observe National Safety Week  Accident Rate Is Too High On Farms

Amphibious Headquarter: At Saipan  Move 3,000 Miles - Nearer Japan

Headquarters For American Amphibious Fleet Set UpIn  Saipan — 3 000-Mile Advance   Tactical Direction Of Offensive Brought Within 1,500 Miles Of Janan

Turner Reveals  Unit Established   Amphibious Headquarter Group Now On Saipan

Establishes Base on Saipan Island  Vice Admiral Turner Moves Nearer Japan

Amphibious Pacific Fleet af Saipan   Turner Reports Advance Over 3,000 Miles of Pearl Harbor

Dewey May Get Votes in N.Hampshire   FOUR OF THE UNPLEDGED ARE FAVORABLE TO WILLKIE; EARLY RETURNS SHOW MacARTHUR LAST.   a aes Unpledged

New Hampshire Leans to Dewey   Makes Good Showing In G.0.P. Primary

Local War Board  Will Issue New  A Ration Books Application Blanks  Are Now Available To All Annliicrante

Yanks Hurled Back Anew; Nazis Claim   Battle for Belgium Reaches New Pitch; U.S. Attacks Continue

Fear Telephone Strike Spread Info Michigar   State’s Operators May Walk Out In Sympathy With Ohio Workers

PHONE STRIKE MAY HIT STATE   Detroit Operators Vote Tonight On Move to Join Ohio Group

SMASH AHEAD METHODICALLY IN ALL SECTORS   German Resistance Crumbling   Supplies Pouring Into Southern France

British Heavyweights Lost  ene ratte  RECORD ASSAULT  sees on  Yank Planes Resume Pounding Today

FORGESOFLS. SEVENTH UNTER   American Elements. Con solidated Into Mighty: Striking Force   LIGHT CASUALTIES   Patch’s Troops Striking Inland. Through’ Valleys Of Maritime Alns

INVADERS SIGHT CANNES ACROSS BAY ONRIVIERA   7,000 Nazis Taken Prisoner Including General; Allies Lose 3M

Allies lose On Toulon, Cannes; Beachheads In South France United

SWEDEN SIGHTS ROCKET PLANES   Small Town In England Has One Of Its Worst Blows Of War

Kennedy says Kent espionage forced diplomatic communications ‘blackout’

SPY'S ARREST BLACKED OUT FOREIGN NOTES   Week Before France’s Fall, 1940, Diplomatic Acts Curtailed

Dies Challenged by CIO Political Action Committee   Hillman, Refusing Records, Charges Congressional Prober Attempts to Thwart Civil, Political Rights

U. 5. NAVAL SHIPS GIVEN TO RUSSIA   Vessels Are of Minor Character, Report States

Limited. Number Of Small Craft Are Sent Under Lend - Lease; Russians Will Get Many More

NAZI DEFENSES STIFFENED IN NORTHERN AREA   Tanks Push Toward Saarbruecken; Enemy Losses Of Men, Materie! Mount

Many Alsatian Towns Freed ir Swift Advance   Nazi Defenses Are Stronger Farther North,

EAST COAST STORM VEERS OFF TO SEA   Worst Hurricane in Six Years; Damage in Millions

MILLIONS LOST IN HURRICANE   Trail Of Destruction Left From Cape Hatteras To Portland, Me.

Worst Hurricane In Six Years Leaves Destruction In Path On Atlantic Coast

Great Loss Left In Path Of Hurricane   Trail Of Destruction On East Coast

Maj. Gen. Doolittle in Initial Air Raid on Rome Officer Discloses

Offensive Nets 331 Fighters In Three Days   Yanks Smash Factories; Germans Attack London With Limited Damage

VITAL AIRCRAFT PLANTS RUINED IN FOUR CITIES   Air Blows From Britain, Italy Foretaste Of Coming Events

Two American Armadas Down 133 Nazi Planes   Retaliation Raid on London Made by Germans

COORDINATED ATTACKS FROM BRITAIN, ITALY SUCCESSFUL; BAG 133 NAZI FIGHTER PLANES

Americans Down Over 100 German Planes; Ruin Nazi Aircraft Plants

Three-Day Toll Set At 310 Planes   Key Aircraft Plants In Four German Cities Severely Battered By American Bombers

U.S. Airmen Down 133  Nazi Planes in Record Raid on 4 War Plants

Yanks Blast 133 Aircraft Over Reich   Dual Smash Fires Fighter Factories; Mosquitoes Active

Nazis Retaliate With 4th Major Raid In 5 Nights On London; Most Damage In Suburbs

YANK BOMBERS SMASH GERMAN PLANE PLANTS   133 Nazi Fighters Downed In Attacks From British, Italian Bases

KEY GERMAN AIRCRAFT FACTORIES ARE RIINEN   London Undergoes Its 713th Air Alert af War

5th Army Scores  New Advances   Big Guns Blaze Away 9 Miles From Bologna

U. S. TO KEEP HANDS OFF IN GREEK STRIFE   British Commander Says Progress Is Being Made In Clearing Athens-Piraeus Area   FIGHTING IN THRACE

British Attack Upon Greeks  Makes Progress   RAAB Planes Nnd  \Vertallery Continue Attach And Patriots Continuc To Stand Ground: Fighting Spreads ‘To Thrace.

PLANES, GUNS USED AGAINST GREEK ELAS   Progress Made in Clearing Athens-Piraeus Area of Left-Wing Forces, Briten Says—Fighting Flares in Thrace.

Central American Gov'ts Join Sides With U.S. In Dispute With Argentina

British Take Port of Rion   Fortified Position Guarded Entrance Into Gulf of Corinth

BRITISH INVASION TROOPS IN GREECE TAKE ANOTHER PORT  GREEK SECURITY BATTALIONS SURRENDER AT NIIMRER OTHER POINTS

Corinth Gulf Entrance Cut Off By Allies   Fortified Rion Port Captured; Large Arec Of Greece; Germans Put To Flight

BRITISH CAPTURE PORTS IN GREECE   1500 PRISONERS °° TAKEN. AT PATRAI: ‘OVERWHELMED

Allied Invaders Capture Strong Port in Greece   Half of Peninsula Now in Hands of British and Greeks

A FORTIFIED GREEK PORT IS CAPTURED   British Success Seals Off Entrance to the Guif of Corinth—Half of Peloponnesus Is Believed Tjiherated.

Allies Capture Rion, Seal Off Gulf of Corinth   Greek ‘Security Battalions Give Up to British at Tripolis

British Win Port  In Greece   Invaders Overwhelus Fortified Point on Gulf of Corinth

Allies Seal Entry To Gulf of Corinth   Fortified Port of Rion Captured, Half of Peloponnesus in Hands Of British Troops. Greek Patriots

Port of Rion Is Taken by the  Allies in Their Invasion of Greece

Allies Capture — Rion, to Seal Off Gulf of Corinth   More Than Half of Peloponnesus Now Secure; Prisoner Toll Grows with Advance

Seize Rion In Advance  On Athens   Over Half Of Peninsula Is Believed Safety In Hands Of Troops Which Landed In Greece

British Blitz Rolls On in Greek Area   Capture of Rion Has Scaled Corinth Gulf; Mony Nazis Tropped

BRITISH OCCUPY FORTIFIED PORT   Rion Seized by Landing Forces In Greece — Prisoners Are Taken

Greek Port Of Rion Taken By British Troops   City’s Fall To Invaders Seals Off Entrance To Gulf Of Corinth.

FORTIFIED PORT (F RION TAKEN   Allied Land Forces Seal Off  Entrance to Guif of forinth. .   ‘MANY HAVE GIVEN UF

Allied Forces Capture Rion From Germans   Greek Campaign Finds Germans Falling Back

Entrance to Gulf Of Corinth Is Sealed by Allies  Half of Peloponnesu   Half of Peloponnesus Now in Hands of British, Greek Units

Entrance to Gulf Of Corinth Is Sealed by Allies  Half of Peloponnesus Now in Hands of Detiieh Mweanale Ileite

Allied Land Forces Take Port of Rion   Entrance to Gulf of Corinth Sealed Off; More Than Half of Peloponesus in British and Greek Hands

More Than Half Of-Peloponnesias “Now - In ands..Of: British And aoreekes ‘Patrai Capturar

Peloponnesus Half Conquered, Reports Greek Communique   Allied Treops Seize Rion, Sealing Off Gulf of Corinth

Seal Off Entrance Tc Gulf Of Corinth Ir Greek Invasion — Half Of Section Ir Allied Hands.

Score Gains In Greece      More Than Half of Peloponnesus _ Reported in British Hands

British Take Greek Port   Capture Patrai, Then Rion, Turn Captured Guns on Enemy Fleeing in Boats

CANADIAN PREMIER'S POLICY — S UPHELD BY PARLIAMENT   PLAN OF SENDING LIMITED NUMBER OF DRAFTED MEN OVERSEAS GIVEN SUPPORT

CONFIDENCE 1S VOTED FOR KING   Canadian Premier Triumphs; On Conscription Issue

Japanese Reinforcements Landed On Coast And Bitter Fighting Continues; 70-Mile-AnHour Typhoon Winds Lash Yanks.

U, S. DOUGHBOYS DRIVING AHEAD ON LEYTE ISLAND   n Spite Of Typhoon And Fierce Jap Resistance —- Jap Casualties Now Amount  To 24.000.

Yanks On Leyte Push Toward A Showdown Fight   Sizable Jap Force Being Cornered On Northwest Onset

Yanks Nearing Showdown On Leyte Island   American Infantrymen Pressing Toward Northwest Coast Where Japs Cornered

Yanks Drive To Trap Japs In N. Le vte   ['vphoon And Bitterly Resisting Enemy Fail To Halt Americans

Batfle Looms For Control of Strategic Area   35,000 of Enemy Navy Forces Dead Says Latest Report

SHOWDOWN DUE AS YANKS DRIVE AHEAD IN LEYTE   Jap Casualties Hit 24,000 In Battle For Island And Nearby Samar Base

Showdown Is Near On Leyte   Japs Expected to Make Final Stand On Coast; Typhoon and Jap Reinforcements Slow ‘Drive

Japs on Leyte  Showdown With is About Due   Remnants of Enemy Force Are Cornered On Northwest Coast Their Losses 24,000

Yanks, Beset By Typhoon And Enemy, Near Coast   Showdown. Expected With. Leyte Forces

Yanks Battle On In Typhoon Wind   Resisting Japanese Are Forced Toward West Coast of Leyte   SLOWED BY WEATHER   Rear Guards, Mines and Traps Cover Enemy Retirement

Yanks on Leyte Advancing Despite Foul Weather; . Showdown’ Battle Forming

NIPS FACING SHOWDOWN IN LEYTE VALLEY   American Infantrymen Are Battling Typhoon and Delaying Tactics; Continue to Drive Ahead  2A NNhH ABE CAPTURED

Yankees Battling Typhoon, Japs On Leyte Island   Showdown Is Sighted Soon With Jap Philippine Forces

*Showdown Nears sWith Trapped Japs On Western Leyte   Yanks Baitle Through Typhoon To Advance Against Pocketed Foe Teakwo Armv Gets Reinforcements

Leyte Isle Japs Face Showdown   Sizabie Forces Cornered and being Driven Toward Northwest Coast   TYPHOON SLOWS YANK PROGRESS   Jap Casualties Now Total 24, 000 Against 3,221 for American Forces

SHOWDOWN AT LEYTE NEARING   Typhoon, Jap Delaying Tactics Slow Yank  Advances

24,000 Japs Die On Leyte Against 3,221 Americans   Japs Now Fighting Delay. ed Warfare As Yanks Take Last Big Junction.

Showdown Is Believed Near With Sizable Jap Force Retiring Toward Carigara Bay

Yanks Fighting Trapped Japs, Leyte Typhoon   Enemy Casualties Taken At Toll Of Nearly Eight To One; Nipponese lose 24,000 On Two Philippine Isles, Americans 3,221—Total Of Dead 706

Showdown Fight Is Imminent   Enemy Prepares For Last Ditch Stand At Carigera Bov.

Yanks Battle Japs, Elements to Chalk ' Up Leyte Advance:   Surge Toward Showdown With Cornered Nips in Northwest Coastal Area

Land Forces Gain Despite Heavy Storm   Drive On Against Desperate Enemy Delaying Tactics

TYPHOON IS SLOWING U, S. LEYTE DRIVE   Americans Hold Tight Grip On Captured Soil

MARTHUR'S MEN PUSH AHEAD FOR LEYTE SHOWDOWN  BATTLE TYPHOON,   BATTLE TYPHOON, DESPERATE ENEMY DELAYING TACTICS

A SHOWDOWN ON LEYTE IS ANTICIPATED   Battling a Typhoon and Jap Delaying Tactics, Yanks Drive Ahead Toward Cornered Forces on Northwest Coast.

Battle Japs And Typhoon   Americans Drive Toward Showdown With Cornered, But Strong Japs on Leyte

Showdown On Leyte Island Appears Near   Americans Advance Against Stiffening Japanese Resistance

Lawyers Busy Checking Law   Sedition Trials More Or Less Marking

Slayer of Five, His Tongue Sticking Out at Executioners, Is Put to Death

Slayer Of Five Executed Today   Faces Firing Squad Without Last Word; Left Bible In Cell.

FIRING SQUAD KILLS SLAYER OF FIVE   Blackbearded Killer Sticks Out Tongue at Warrant

PISA CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Highth Army Drives Into Gothic Line

Fifth Reaches Serchio; Eighth Knocks 20-Mile Wedge Into Gothic Line

U. 5. FIFTH ARMY CAPTURED HISTORIC PISA ON SATURDAY   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY   ALSO BROKE THROUGH  WATeTER CATHIC TINE

Pisa Captured By U.S. Troops   8th Army Cuts Into Gothic Line In Pesaro Area

NAZIS’ GOTHIC LINEIS BROKEN   Matter of Time Before Destruction of Enemy Forces In Italy.   OPEN PO VALLEY GATES

Yanks Capture Pisa And Pi-ess To Serchio      Americans Find Pisa Evacuated By Nazis; British Push Inside Vaunted Gothic Line.

Gothic Line  Broken jin Ital   British Eighth A: rmy Tr Open Gates to ioe Po ley   Heavy Reem: Rages  as _ the Nazis Throw in  Frinforcements

Nazis Forced To Flee Pisa   "British Push 5 Miles Through Coéthiec. Line

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Professor Gone . 14 Years F ound Driving a Truck   Disclose U. S. Minesweeper Fired on Gen: Clark in Error

Americans Use Flame Throwers To Push Inland   Japs Putting Up Fight Despite Bombardment And Tank Assaults

GUAM INVASION  IS GOING WELL   Aided by Continuous Naval Barrage, Yanks Rapidly Push Inland.

Mosquitos Hit Targets In Germany   Light Planes Make Seventh Consecutive Night Attack

Western Germany Is Hammered   No Losses Suffered By RAF In Raid Which Followed Attack On Ludwigshafen

CHEMICAL CITY OF REICH DEALT “DEATH BLOW”   American Airforce Badly Smashes Ludwigshafen in Daylight Attack; Mosquitos Rap Berlin 

Big German Poison Gas Works Target of Yankee Airmen   Twin City of Mannheim Also Hit; Berlin Ad mits Heavy Damage

Ludwigshafen “Flattened Out”   Reports Say Chemical City Dealt Death Blow By Heavy U.S. Attack

Yank Bombing Armada Flattens Ludwigshafen   ‘Death Blow’ Reported Dealt Nazi Poison Gas Center

Great Fleet Of U. S. Planes Get Poison Gas Plant: Mosquitoes Pound Western Germany For Seventh Straight Night To Continue Offensive

LUDWIGSHAFEN FLATTENED BY U. §. BOMBERS   Flying Forts, Liberators Blast 1 G Farben Poison Gas Works, Swedish Reporis Say   MANNHEIM HIT   RAF Blasts Targets in Western Germany, Vichy Reports Raids in France Today

Latest U.S. Raid On Reich © Said To Have Been A Death Blow Against Ludwigshaven   Strong Attack Followed By Mosquito Assault For 7th Consecutive Night

British Hit Targets in Western Reich; Americans Hit Ludwigshafen.   ‘DEATH BLOW’ TO CITY

Ludwigshafen Flattened Out’ By Yank Raid, Swedes Report   2 American Bombers and 7 Fighters Lost

R.A.F. Strikes Par Nazis Seventh. Los Straight Night Of 5   Party Leaders Lose All Hope Of Short Race

WESTERN REICH POUNDED ANEW FOR 7THNIGHT   Britain’s. Wooden Mosquito Bombers, Without Loss of Plane, Hit Ludwigshafen and Others ©

BOMBERS RAKE WESTERN REICH   Ludwigshafen Dealt ‘Death Blow’; Mannheim Also Blasted

RAF RAIDS REICH WITHOUT LOSS   Swiss $ ay Ludwigshafer Dealt ‘Death Blow’

RAF Follow: In Wake of U. S. Fliers   American Bombers Wipe Out Gas Makine City

Ludwigshafen Is  “Handed Knockout  ‘Death Blow’ Dealt By U. S. Heavy Bombers

A “Death Blow” Given Nazi City By U.S. Bombers   Swedish Reports Say Ludwigshafen Is Now Flattened Out; RAF Hits Western Reich

Americans In Strong Daylight Raid  Mosquitos Attack Nazis Seventh Straight Night Without A Single Loss

Ludwigshafen Suffers Death Blow   Mosquito Bombers Keep Up Steady Attacks on Reich

Chemical City Reported to Have Suffered “Death Blow”   12 NAZIS” DOWNED  Other Allied Planes Str ike Heavy Blows at Invasion Coast

Yankees Give Ludwigshafen Death Blow   U. S. Bombers Plaster. Twin Cities In New Record-Size Raid   BRITISH FOLLOW UP   Invasion Coast Given  oath Raid In 19  TDhave

HIT TARGETS IN WESTERN REICH   SWEDISH REPORTS TELL DEATH BLOW TO LUDWIGSHAFEN

RAF MOSQUITOS RAIDED GERMANY FOR SEVENTH TIME   Hit Targets in the Western Reich Last Night Without a Loss.   IN THE WAKE OF ATTACK   Hundreds of U. S. Planes Drove Deep Into Germany Yesterday.

U.S. BOMBER RAD FLATTENS LUOWGSHAFEN   Jealt “Death Blow; rar oQver Germany eventh Night.

CHEMICAL GENTE A SEROTFIRE   Devastating Daylight Attack Staged On Nazi -Cities By U. S. Fliers   ‘19 PLANES LOST’   Britain’s Mosquito Bombers In Seventh Straight Raid On Germany

LUDWIGSHAFEN BOMBED AGAIN   “Death Blow” Delivered, Swedish Sources Report

‘Death Blow’ IsDealtTo 4 German City By Bombers   Poison Gas Works In Ludwigshafen Is Pulverized In  Meamanrlance Simach

Poison Gas Area “Flattened Out” _By Allied Planes   British Wooden Mosquitos   —~Attack West Reich For, %th Consecutive Night

MOSQUITO BOMBERS  BLAST AT GERMANY  AGAIN LAST NIGHT U. S. HEAVY BOMBERS  DEALT LUDWIGSHAFEN Neary prAaw In nAViicy’

I. G. Faben Poison Gas Works and Other Plants at Ludwigshafen Are Flattened bv Fortresses.

British Bombers Raid Germany   HIT TARGETS IN WESTERN REICH WITHOUT LOSS

~—AERIAL ATTACA—  Poun Reich Again   Swedes Declare Death Blow to Ludwigshafen

BLOCKADES MAKE - AXIS FOES: WINCE      Knox Says British Seal Of Bay of Bieaay Japs ‘er

SUPPLY ROUTE.T0 ~ GERMANY PLUGGED      New Blockades Forged by  ‘British i in Bay of — ‘Biscay.

AXIS IS HURT BY BLOCKADES   Knox Reports Allied Power At Sea Makes Foe Wince In Europe, Pacific

SUPPLY ROUTE 10 GERMANY PLUGGED   New Blockades Forged by - > British in Bay of a Biscay i

TIGHTEN BLOCKADE AGAINST GERMANY   ALLIES SEAL OFF EUROPE’S WEST COAST TO KEEP SUPPLIES FROM FOE.

Sea-Wise Allies Forge Blockades In Europe, Asia Against Germany   British Navy Ropes Of Bay of Biscay as Forbidden to Axis Shipping, Knox Discloses

BRITISH BLOCKADE BAY OF BISCAY   Coast of France Sealed Off In New Order to Increase Pinch On Axis.

British Navy Forges New Blockades Around Axis   ¢,000 Square Miles Off France and Spain Dangerous to Shipping. Admiralty Announces  SIGNS HINT AXIS AITREADY AFRECTER

NEW BLOCKADES ARE EMPLOYED  AGAINST AXIS   Both French And Spanish Coasts Are Affected By Latest Action

Allies Forge Blockade of  Europe Coast  7,000-Square-Mile Area Blocked Off to Axis Shins

Axis Powers Begin To Wince As Sea-Wise Allies Forge New Blockades In Europe, Asia-Krnex

WALLACE RAPS DEWEY SPEECH   Vice-President Accuses GOP Candidate of ‘Double Talk’ On FEPC Issue

Plans Revival  Of Dies. Body      - Approval of New. Congress: Sought

MAY'S TRAINING BILL APPROVED BY ARMY, NAV)   Postwar Plan Envisions Youth Reserve Army Of 5 Million 

Fresh Clouds Of Smoke And Ashes Spout From Vesuvius; Fall In Sea

Wages ‘Bible’ As Portrayed By WLB Chie!   Common ‘Misconceptions’ On U.S. Labor Policy  Bowe: a a ) oe

Draffees To Get 45-Day Furloughs   New Medical Examination System To Start February 1

MAD COMMANDER OF ST. MALO FIGHTS ON   German Losses Inside Fortress Are Frightful, Released Yank Prisoners Dectare

Artillery Duel, Rages on Coast  British Big Guns  Ralieved Aimina

7,000 ENEMY TROOPS DIE IN PELELW FIGHT   Carrier-Based Planes Hit Yap; Barge Fleet Destroyed

Marines Read V To Close Out  Peleliu Drive   7.020) Japs Killed And lL. S. Controls Three Fourths Of Island

Marines on Peleliu Squeeze Japs Into  Fourth of Island  , MacArthur’s Planes Hit 13 Enemy Areas In Southwest Pacific

Russia Has All the Necessities for Achieving Victory.   RUSSIAN ADVANCE CAN’T BE STOPPED  Nazis Counter Attacking Strongly in the Sarny

SOVIET ARMY SAYS DECISIVE BLOWS AGAINST ENEMY LAUNCHED   Russian Offensive Ir Ukraine Developing Or Growing Scale.

REDS BENT ON KILLING GERMANS RATHER THAN CAPTURING TERRITOR}   Russian Paper Says Offensives Successful and Daily Gaining Momentum; German Resistance Stiffening On Some Fronts. However.

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Meetings Of Big Four To Chart Axis Downfall Made Largest Headlines

Meetings of Big Four to Chart Axis Downfall Declared No. 1 News Story of Last Year

bt COST PLACED © AT TRILLION DOLLARS   Outlay of All Governments to Date More Than Twice That Spent in Bast Conflict.

Urges U. 5. Use of Pacitic Isles   Postwar Control Vital, Says May

FIVE FROM AREA SEE MUCH ACTION ABROAL   4 Bristolians in Unit Driving Germans From Garigliano   FIGHT FOR 5 MONTHS

Sgt. Williams Gets In Visit In Ada   After 14 Months Overseas To Be Reassigned

NAR LABOR BOARD  RISKS PRESTIGE  IN WARD SEIZURE SURVIVAL MAY HINGE  ON PRESENT ATTEMPT TO MAKE ORDER STICK

War Labor Board’s Prestige at Stake in Ward's Seizure   Its Survival May Depend on Efforts to Make Order Stick

W.LB. STAKES PRESTIGE IN WARD SEIZURI   Finds Sewell Avery ~ Opponent To Be Reckoned With

Defeat Means Dissolution Of Federal Agency   FDR Encounters Tough Adversary In Avery, Mail Order Chief

SURVIVAL OF WAR LABOR BOARD MAY HINGE ON THE MONTGOMERY WARD CASE

Montgomery Ward  Defiance of WLB  Board's Big Test Avery's Refusal of Voluntary  Compliance Key Log in Jam Threatening Sinke Subchinte

WLEB Survival May Hinge On Present Fight   Government Feels Powers Would Be Nullified Under Lengthy Court Tests

Ward Case May Affect WLB   Labor Board Risks Prestige in Taking Over of Firm   By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Associated Press Laber Affairs Fo axpert

The’ Very Rev. . Elwood Lindsay Haines To Visit  ' Three "Parishes At. Estherville, Algona, B’burg .

ISOLAT IRELAND GOAL   Churchill Declares Travel Restrictions First Step in Move Against Eire.

tire Restriction Hirst Step To Isolate Ireland   Churchill Says Britain To Account For Safety Of U. S. Troops.

Eire Isolated For Safety, Says Churchill   Britain Consulted Throughout By Unitec States in Matter

—IRELAND—  EIRE (9 FACING — NEW ALLIED STEF   Churchill Sees. Southern  Treland Iselated From  Outer World:   REVEALS POLICY   Dublin Authority Predicts Closing Of Irish Border. Soon

Britain to Isolate South [Ireland Pending Invasion, Says Churchill

CHURCHILL SAYS SOUTH IRELAND WILL BE CUT OFF   ureat Britain To Be Isolated From Eire, And Eire From Outer World During “The Critical Period Now Approaching,’ Prime Minister Reveals.

BRITISH PLA ISOLATION OF SOUTH IRELAND   Churchill Says Action Necessary “During Critical Period Now Approaching”

STEP DEEMED PRE-INVASION NECESSITY   Churchill Says Catastrophe Traceable to Axis in Dublin Would Estrange Britain and Ireland for  Liannvuatin Aawnna

Soviets Enter Bulgaria As Sofia Broadcast  Proclaims War on Nazis

STAY AT POST   FDR Persuades Him to Retain War Mobilization,  Reconversion Job

Brynes Will Continue In Present Job      FOR DURATION, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCES; HAD PLANNED TO RETURN TO PRIVATE LIFE   Attractive Offers

3yrnes to Keep On as Head of OWMR to V-E Day   President Persuades Former Justice to Continue in Job

Byrnes fo Serve as War Mobilization Director Until Germany Capitulates.

Navy: Tug To’ Be Launched Today   Ceremonies Will Take Place At 3 O'Clock

Waves of Bombers Said to Have Been Over Eternal City   Follows Great Attack on Berlin by Fleet of U. S. Bombers

Bombers Hit Efernal City, Radio Asserts   Casualties Appear To Be High, It Is Said by German Radio in Rome

RESIDENCE AREAS ATTACKED, CLAIN   Four-Engined B 0 mbers Reported Blasting Ital* dan Capital   BERLIN SMASHED   U: S. Loses 68 Bombers But: Downs 167. German Planes In’ Battle -

Patrols Clash On Beachhead And In Cassino   Two Small German Attacks Hurled Back — Artillery Stalls Nazis

FIGHTING FLARES IN CASSINO AREA   Two More German Assaults Smashed On Beach-Head

Loads Dropped Upon Inhabited Areas, Italian Wireless Sa ys   ‘Casualties Not Known, But Apparently Very High

SHARP CLASHES ARE  REPORTED BETWEEN  ALLIES AND GERMANS TWO SMALL NAZI BEACH  HEAD ATTACKS REPORTED THROWN BACK

Heavy Raid Made On Rome, Axis. Says; Two More Attacks Repulsed At Anzio

Mud, Rain Bog Two New South  Italian CampaignPacific Offensives.

Much Bombing In Rome Aven,  Radio Says   Wave After Wave Of Planes Came Over, Report

Populated Sections      ie {And Germans - mans Engage Ih iarp Clashes, Inside’ Cassino; Yaak “Advance. Near Cisterna

Report Patrol Clashes Cassino   Americans Throw Back Two Small Nazi Attacks

Patrols in Sharp Frays In Cassino   Yanks Throw Back 2 Small Nazi Attacks Near Cisterna

BOMBERS BLAST AT ROME AGAIN   Cwihan Casualties  “Very High: Rome

Germans Report Rome Hit   Say Waves of Planes Strike,  Casualties Heavy

ROME REPORTED ATTACKED BY PLANES IN WAVES   Radio Declares Two Districts Hit By ‘Loads Of Explosive’

Report on Great Air Battle Over Reich Capital Shows 68 Bombers and 700 Trained Men Lost  SECOND HIGH RECORD   SECOND HIGH RECORD

Two Attacks At Cisterna Are Halted By U.S. Unit   Artillery Effective In Beachhead Fight

ROME HEAVILY BOMBED, NAZI RADIO CLAIMS   Casualties High as Residential Section of City Hit, Enemy Says; Cassino Fighting Resumes.

Bomber Waves Hit Rome After Berlin ‘Inferno   176 Enemy Planes Shot Down Over Germany; We Lose 68

TROOPS CLASH IN BATTLE ON CASSINO FRONT   Yanks Throw Back Small scale Attacks On Bridgehead

SHARP CLASHES ON CASSINO FRON]   _ GERMANS INCREASE SNIPING AS ARMIES BOG DOWN IN MUD

RADIO BROADCAST SAYS CITY HIT BY ALLIED BOMBERS   INDICATES HIGH CASUALTIES IN LOW-LEVEL ATTACK

FIGHTING BREAKS OUT AGAININ CITY OF CASSINO   American Forces Hurl Back Two Nazi Attacks Below Rome

RAIN AND MUD SLOW YANKS IN CASSINO FIGHI   Two Nazi Assaults Are Hurled Back on the Rome Beachhead

Report Heavy Raid On Rome; Sharp Clashes In Cassino; Attacks On Anzio Repulsed   Waves Of Heavy Bombers Said To Have Hit ftalian Capital: Nazi Tol! Heavy

TWO NAZI THRUSTS REPULSED   Rome Radio Reports Allied Air Attack On Capital City

Cassino Front Clashes Flare; Nazis Stoppec   ‘Huns Open Up With Heavy  Mortar and Machinegun  Fire: Mud Stalls   Armies At Anzio

Four-Motored Planes Bomb Eternal City   RAF Smashes Railroad Yards In Paris District

Guns of 5th Blast Back Nazi Thrusts   Cisterna Attacks Re pulsed; Fierce Action Flares in

PATROLS HAVE SHARP FIGHTS AT CASSINO      American Troops Alsc Throw Back Two Smal German Attacks Nea Cisterna, on Beachhead Below Rome.

US. Bombers Blast Rome, Axis Claims   Casualties Believed Heavy, Says Radio; Low-Level Attack

NAZI ATTACKS AT CISTERNA THROWN BACK   Sharp Clashes Flare Between Allied Patrols and Germans Inside Italian City   SLOWED DOWN BY MUD

Rain, Mud Bog ltalian Armies   Fear Early Russian Thaws May Slow Red Drives, Let Nazis Shift Power to Italy

YANKS REPULSE NAZI THRUSTS AT CISTERNA AND CARROCETO   ALLIED ARTILLERY TAKES HEAVY TOLL IN BEACHHEAD BATTLE; TROOPS JAB CASSINO

ROME BOMBED TODAY; MANY PERSONS DIF   Four-Engine Planes Drop Bombs Over Inhabited Area

Fear Of Stalemate Is Upperm  Rain And Mud Slowing Up Fighting In Italy As Allies Hold Ground

Bombers Stab Again at Rome largets   Sharp Clashes Are Reported in Cassino Fighting

PATROLS CLASH WITH GERMANS WITHIN CASSINO   Artillery Takes Heavy Toll of Nazis Attacking Beachhead Troops. Thrusis Rerulsed   RAPIDO FLOODED   Rain Deepens Mud on Beachhead, Curtails Aerial Operations — Raid on Rome Reported

Le Havre Sealed Off: Lens Captured: Yanks Near Metz; New Drive On Gothic Line

Move On Front Of More Than 10 Miles; British, Canadian Troop Cut Wide Swath Across Robo Bomb Coast To North   YANKEES MAY NOW BE IN BELGIUN

5 COLUMNS OF YANKEE TANKS ARE AT BORDER   “Clandestine Radio Station Says Allies: at Namur in Belgium

Cotton Program Price Support Said Mill Need   New Nylon Competition Basis For Plea To Keep Textile Industry Alive

Says Government May Have Cotton Price Program   Industry Concerned Over Future of Cotton Textile Industry.

ocaediaeeeenetinenesenattieentinimintnmmenanemsintibemenatiiaeneetel  FORMER SAFETY DIRECTOR HIT BY CAR AND KILLED

“Neglected Man” Goal Of Bricker   Republican Makes Appeal For White Collar Vote

Bricker Champions “Neglected Man” -  The Little Worker Roosevelt Forgot

British And American Patrols Clash With Nazis On Italian Front, Inflicting Casualties

Used to Asnist Carrier Bas Planes and Flying Boats to Ol With Heavier Loads—Able: Cut Takes Run in Half,

Jet Propulsion to Speed Planes   Navy Uses New Plan in Take-Offs

USS DRIVING FURTHER INTE EAST PRUSSI   Baltic Army Clears Way for Another Red Thrust from North.

Soviets Push Forward From City of Goldap   Russians Finally Announce Invasion Of East Prussia

HITLER SAYS HE WILL NEVER QUIT   REMARKS SEEN AS APPEAL FOR HOME FRONT CONFIDENCE

Hitler Bidding For Support  ‘Blind Confidence’ Of Home Front Askec

HITLER BIDDING FOR CONFIDENCE ON HOME FRONT   Afraid Of Those Behind Lines, He Admits

Hitler Bids For ‘Blind Obedience’; Belief Grows He’ll Fight to End

"Finns May Be eAsking Peace   Officials Will Meet In Stockho!m Soon

Midwest States Suffer in Flood   “Million Acres of Farm Land Covered

MILLION ACRES OF LAND ARE FLOODED   Red Cross Disaster Crews Are Caring For Families Driven From Homes.

FLOODS COVER MILLION ACRES   Light Rains Again Fall Over 6-State Area

DEWEY RESUMES GOVERNOR WORK   SPENDS DAY CATCHING UP WITH STATE WORK

(i. 0. P. LEADERS READY 10 START PLATFORM WORK   Sentiment Sounded on Proposed Planks—Taft Expected to Head Resolutions Committee.   MANAGERS OF THREE CANDIDATES . ACTIVE   Chairman Spangler Predicts Presidential Nominee Will Be Chosen on Third Day of Convention.

G.0.P. Considers Platform Planks   Leaders Oppose Business Curbs

WORK STARTS ON DRAFTING OF PLATFORM   Republican Cc Committeemen Move on Pre-Con-. vention Scene

PLATFORM TASK BEGINS FOR GOP   No Deadlock — Expected On Presidential Balloting

Republicans Move To Pre-Convention Scene, Start Sealing Views Gn Postwar International Peace Plan

GOP PREPARES TE FIT PLANKS INTO BARTY PLATFORM   Sentiment on Phases Dealing ' With Post-war Peace @ Set-ups Sounded   WOULD ELIMINATE ALL UNNEEDED REGULATIONS   Plank Calling for End of Gov. ernment by ‘Bureaucratic Decree’ Discussed; Chair. @nan Spangler Predicts Nc Balloting Deadlock

Cards Triumph, 3 to 1   3-Run Burst Takes Championship for Southworth’s Charges

NEW LEADS ADD TO DEATH PROBE   Victim’s Daughter May Undergo Lie Detector Test

GERMAN RAID 0 BARI ‘ANOTHER PEARL HARBOR’   Ammunition Ship Blown Up

\mmmunition Ship Struck In German Attack   Allied Losses Heavy in Bari Raid

Manokwari, Biak Jap Bases Hit   American Infantrymen  Fighting For Maffin

STHAIR FORCE BOMBERS HIT SAPS IN RAIL   Installations at Manokwari, Mokmer Air-: dromes Struck

Father Trims Tree for His Son’s ‘Dream Christmas’ While Ill, Three- Year-Old Boy Sleeps

GRATEFUL FATHER DECORATES TREE FOR TOT’S EARLY CHRISTMAS AS NATION SHOWERS GIFTS

Santa Visits 3-Year-Old Nubbins Early Sunday  To Have Christmas Little Boys Dream Of Having Says Dad

Reds Tie Up With White House Party      RKOOSEVEL? AND NEW DEAv. IN HANDS OFF “fOKEIGN  INFLUENCE;” SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT LISTED   Bricker Lists Them

RADICALS FOUND IN WHITE HOUSE   Cheering Detroit Crowd Hears Bricker Blast Foreign Influence

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OPA Cracks Down On Weed Black Market   First Step In Effort To Solve Cigarette Shortage.

M’ARTHUR’S MEN TAKE AIRFIELDS   Allied Conquest of New Guinea Widened As Three Airdromes Fall

Fhree Airdromes On Hollandia Are iaken by Yankees   MacArthur's Forces Getting Ready to Spring An Aerial Campaign.   Xo Ground Opposition Is Given by Nippons

Airfields Fall to MacArthur Forces   Three Bases in New Guinea Are Taken; Near Hollandia Drive

Gain Three New Guinea Airfields   MacArthur’s Troops Are Closing In On Fourth Field At  Hollandia With Air Support

MacArthur Forces Capture Four New  - , Guinea Air Fields   Fall of Fifth, Hollandia Airdrome, Reported Imminent

ALLIES CONTROL THREE AIRBASES ON NEW GUINEA   Japs Resistance Broken Near Burma Area

MacArthur's Forces Have Three New Airfields From Which To Blast Japs Out Of ‘Pacific

MacArthur > ‘Reports Progress In: South : Pacific _  NEAR HOLLANDIA  Stilwell’s. 2, Troops In Burma Check

Allies Seize New Air Fields   Capture Three in Dutch New Guinea, MacArthur Says

THREE NEW AIRFIELDS AND TOWN OF MADANG HAVE BEEN CAPTURED   AMERICAN TROOPS CONVERGING ON HOLLANDIA AIRDROME THURSDAY

CONVERGE ON BIG HOLLANDIA BASE; FALL IS IMMINENT - CONQUEST EXPECTED  TO COMPLETE ASSAULT  BUACE ac INVASION

TRIO OF AIR FIELDS TAKEN FROM THE JAF   ‘Hollandia <Airdrome in New Guinea, Biggest of Them All,  Almost in U.S. Hands

MacArthur Has 3 New Airfields   Capture of Fourth Believed Imminent

TAKE 3 MORE IAP AIRFIELDS   Converge On Hollandia. Largest Airdrome In New Guinea

{  INEW AIRFIELDS IN NEW GUINEA ARE NOW HELD   Gen. MacArthur Now  Better Prepared to Finish Campaign to Clean Japs Out of Southwest Pacific

Yanks Take New Guinea Airfields   Converging on Biggest— Madang Falls to Australians

MacArthur — Reports Progress In South Pacific  NEAR HOLLANDIA  Stilwell’s 's Troops In Burma Check  Japanese

Seize Three New Guinea Air Fields   Still No Major Jap Opposition at Hollandia; Major Battle Shaping Up at Kohima

Americans Win More Airfields  In New Guinea   MacArthur Says Capture Of Hollandia Imminent

MacArthur Take Three Airtields Near Hollandia  British Massing  To Drive  ‘laps From India

Three New lananese Airfields Fall To Yanks; Hollandia Airdrome Capture Reported Near.

THREE NEW AIRFIELDS AND TOWN OF MADANG HAVE BEEN CAPTURED  AMERICAN TROOPS CON. _ VERGING ON HOLLANDIA

BNow Has Three New Airfields in New Guinea Area   Used to Spring Aerial Might to Clean Japs Out of South Pacific

Three Airfields — Taken by Allies   General MacArthur’s Forces in New Guinea Capture One With Fall of Madang and Three Others Located Near Hollandia.   CLOSE IN ON FOURTH

Three Air Fields Taken In Pacific   Still No Japanese Resistance

Madang Falls To Aussies   Americans Drive to Edges of Biggest Airdrome of Area, at Hollandia

Three Airfields, 4 Coastal Bases Won In Pacifi   Allies Reveal Japanese Defense Collapses On Front 340 Miles Long

Four New Guinea Airfields Now In Hands of Allies   Fall of Main Hollandia Airdrome Immineni—Progress Reported in Burma, India Fighting

Allies Capture Airfields In New Guinea   Three Landing Points Taken In Offensive; Mandang Seized

Defenses Collapsing Over 430 Miles; Gen. Stilwell’s Men Break  FKnemvy Recictance

Fourth and Biggest of All at Hollandia, Expected to Fall Soon.   TOWN OF MADANG TAKEN

Take New Guinea Air Fields   MacArthur Takes Madang, Captures More Airdromes

Allies Control New Airfields In New Guinea   MacArthur Announces Capture of Three— Troops Converge on  Huge Hollandia Base

3 New Guinea Airfields Seized; Major Jap Defeat Foreseen in Indic

Tribune Sees Support in Willkie Defeat--to ‘Return Favor with New Newspaper for State

Press Battle Seen McCormick Plans Milwaukee Paper After Willkie’s Defeat

Milwaukee Field Goal Of Tribune Publishers.   Claim Repudiation Of Willkie Groups

Faith Aided Social Acts.   Bricker “Is: Speaker Before: Utah Group

Says Republicans Aided Security  Bricker Says Demos Didn't Do {¢ All

Another Jap Convoy Wiped Out      [Nearly Two: Million Jews Slain In Nazi Slaughter-House

War Trade on Coast to Grow   Will Supply Great Pacific Offensive

Sen. Phil Donnelly Into Race as Sec. Brown Withdraws  Ill Health Forces State Official to Quit  ee te Me a ee

PHIL M. DONNELLY OUT FOR GOVERNOR   STATE SENATOR FILES AFTER DWIGHT H. BROWN WITH- ‘DRAWS FROM RACE.

ADMIT TROOPS 18 MILES OUT OF PORT CITY   Formigny Taken in Drive Toward Caen, Germans Say

Allies Take Key Rail Cities’   Capture Ste. Mere Kylise and Formigny, 13 Miles from Cherbeurg; Channel Weather™ Bad

Our "roops Capture One Objective and Are Now Heading To Seize Prize Port of Cherbourg.   GREAT TANK BATTLE RAGING IN FRANCE

Forces Join Before Caen: Tanks Clash   Germans Admit That Allies Have Ste. Mere Eglise; Central Spearheads Formed

BATTLE RISES IN INTENSITY   Americans Have Thrust Within-18 Miles of Prize Cherbourg Port.    HEAVY FIGHTING AT CAEN

Armored Combat Rising In Intensity on Plains of France, Say Allies   Canadians and British Join Forces For Coordinated Assault on Caen; Hand to Hand Fighting Reported; Germans Concede Loss of Ste. Mere Eglise.

Tank Battles Rage In Normandy Area   Allied Headquarters Report Invasion Forces Holding = Advancing

Progress Satisfactory on Beachhead Front; Capture 1,600 War Prisoners: Weather Turns Against Allies: Report Heavy Tank Battles

More Tanks Are Put Into Fight   Headquarters Announces Satisfactory Progres: Is Being Made All Along 60-Mile Beachhead Front; Assault on Caen Is Gaining

Canadians Fire Point Blank into Massed Nazi Formations, Hand-to-hand Fighting Reported by Germans in Caen

Canadians, British Join For Assault On Pivotal Caen   Operations Going Well For Allies But German Resistance’Stiffening

Americans Take Ste. Mere Eglise; Tank Battle Grows   Canadians and British Join in Assault on Caen

More Armored Combat Rises In Intensity   Allied Headquarters Say ‘Satisfactory Progress’ Is age ae   WEATHER IS BETTER

FIGHTING GROWS IN INTENSITY   Ste. Mere Eglise Taken By Americans;  More Armor Thrown Into Battle;  Progress Called Satisfactory

Hammer ‘Toward Cherbourg   Allied Forces are Making Progress Despite Fierce  Counter Attacks

Fierce Tank Battles Raging Over Green Wheatfields and Orchards in North Normandy   Allies Continue to Extend Beachheads Despite Vigorous Opposition as Germans Rush Fresh Troops Into the Battle Zones; Weather Bad

New Concerted Drive Launched Against Caen   Battle Increases In Fury As Both Sides Rush More And More Armor Into Fighting

Tank Battles Rage In Normandy Are   ome aE i  Allied Headquarters Report Ig vasion Forces Holding Firng Advancing. - oe

GUT ARTERIES TO CHERBOURG BY NEW GAIN   Ste. Mere Eglise Falls as Berlin Reports StreetBattle in Caen.

Americans Within 18 Miles of Port      OTHER ALLIED FORCES JOIN ~ FOR BIG ASSAULT.ON CAEN   Canadians and British in Greal Tank a : Baitle; Allies Appear to Be Winning : Baitle of Supplies Despile Weather

Powerful American  Force Pushes Ahead   Both Sides Throwing More and More Armor Into Fight On 60-mile Front; Bad Weathers Hampers Allied Movements

Move Toward Town Dozen Miles From Cherbourg Harbor   Fierce Tank Battle is Being Waged for Possession of Caen

AMERICANS ONLY 18 MILES FROM PORT OBJECTIVE   Capture of Ste. Mere Eglise Admitted by Foes—Nazis Take Beating

Powerful Yank Thrust Presses Nearer Prize Channel Port After Capture Of Ste. Mere Eglise— “Satisfactory Progress” Reported All Along Sixty-Mile Beachhead Front—Canadians And British Join Forces For Assault On Gaen

Nazis Concede Loss As Foes Step Up Fight   Allied Headquarters Reports Progress Along Entire Front

INVASION FORCES MAKE PROGRESS IN ALL SECTORS   BEAT OFF FIERCE GERMAN ARMORED COUNTERATTACKS

“SATISFACTORY PROGRESS” BEING MADE ALL ALONG FRONT, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS DECLARE TODAY   Both Sides Throwing in More and More Armor And Hand-to-Hand Fighting in Streets of Caen 1 Bitter. Canadians Tanks Fire Point Blank at  Caveman EFarmatnne

American Troops Within 18 Miles of Cherbourg After Capturing Ste. Mere Eglise; Armored Battle Rising in Fury

Growing Tank Battle Raaes   Germans Admit Loss Of Ste. Mere Egqlise As Their Counter Attacks Mount In Furyt Allies Take Formigqny; Channel Weather Bad

Six More Mines Face Strike In  Pennsylvania   Supervisory Werkers Vole for Walkout as Leaders Order: Men Back 10  U. §.-Seized Piis

COAL STRIKES SPREAD DESPITE GOVERNMENT   Six’ Other Mines Idle and More Are Pending

Coa! Strikes May Spread   10 Mines to Resume Preduction of Coal Next Week

NEW STRIKE THREATS FIRED IN COAL FIELDS   Vote Favors Walkout At Six Additional Workings

Strike Threat Is Spreading   Coal Mining Area Uneasy As ‘Strike Votes Are Called

Jap Counterattacks Repulsed; Many Key Positions Captured   Jfighway, Peninsula Around Harbor, Main Goal On Island, Held By Marines, Infantry

Yanks Attemp’ to Cut Off  Port on Guam   Island Invasion Is Declared Ahead of Schedule

Yanks Force New Gains in Guam Battle   Repulse Two Assaults By Enemy, Secure Key Positions

Port Apra’: s Fall Nears; Mt. Alifan. Is Captured   ‘J ap Counter-Blows : “Are. Quickly Ended

Americans Capture 875-Foot Mt. Alifan On Southern Front of Island, Nimitz Says

Yanks Occupy Key Positions \After Foe Flees Leaving 270 Dead, 5 Tanks on Field

AMERICANS GAIN IN GUAM FIGHT   Nimitz Reports Capture of Key Positions Around Main Island Objective

Key Positions Around Guam Port Seized   Progress On Island Satisfactory; 3rd Marines, 77th Army Division In Fiaht

Yanks Making Satisfactory Progress on Guam—Nimitz   Two Jap Counter Attacks Repulsed; Americans Secure Key Positions Around. Main Objective of Island

Invaders Dash For Guam Port   Yank Advance Reported Ahead of Schedule

2 JAP ATTACKS ‘ON GUAM SMASHED BY U.S. TROOPS   Americans Seize Key Positions Around Port Apra and Capture Mt. Alifan Overlooking Agat.   WARSHIPS AND PLANES SUPPORTING YANKS   Five Enemy Tanks Knocked Out and 270 Nips Killed as They Are Beaten Back From Beachhead.

Guam Attack Going Well   Yanks Repulse Jap Attacks, Win Key Positions Around Main Objective

U.S. Troops On (Guam Making (,ood Progress   Two Counter Thrusts From The Japs Repulsed

Hitler Orders All-Out Purge Of Nazi Army   Action Taken To “Cleanse lt Of The July 20 Traitors”

NAZI ARMY PURGE   Clearing Out of “July” 20 Traitors” Started by Special Court

‘Court of Honor’ Purging Nazi Army   One General Has ‘Deserted to Russia’

German Army ‘Asks’ Hitler For A Purge   Wants It Cleansed of the July 20 Traitors, Fuehrer Approves

Claim Hitler Asked to Purge Army   ames Inquiry Group To Study Cases of Accused Men

NAZI CHIEFTAIN OKEYS PLAN: FOR COURT OF HONOR WHICH. WILE PROBE RECORDS   Function of Newly Organized Court Will Be to Find Out Who Plotted Against Nazi Regime anc Who Was Kesponsible for Bomb Blast

NEWSMAN REPORTS SAN VITTORE BATTLE IS HAND TO HAND, HOUSE TO HOUSE, STREET CORNER BRAWL

Fight for San Vittore Concentrated Warfare   Americans and Germans In Bitter Fight—-Tanks Blast Buildines One by Qne

Hollandia Airdromes  Captured   Airfields Give Allies New Bases 800 Miles Below Strategic Palau Is.

New Air Bases Gained Within ‘Range of Palau   Capture of Madang By Australian Forces ‘Reported Completed

PUTS YANKS IN STRIKING RANGE OF PHILIPPINES   Madang Base In Southern N. Guinea Captured By Aussies

3 AIRFIELDS -IN HOLLANDIA ARE NOW CAPTURED   Allies Thereby Gain 3 Aerial Bases Near Paulu

YANKS CAPTURE THREE AIRFIELDS   Gives Allies Bases Within Reach of Philippines

NEW BASES ARE HELD BY ALLIES   Japanese Supply Lines To Imphal, Kohima Hi

Yank Fliers in Striking Distance of Palau and Possibly Philippines

End Conquest of Hollandia’s Main Airfields   New Aerial Bases Available for Allied Attacks

Madang Seizure Seals Southern N. Guinea Front   Advances Afford Bases for Aerial War on Philippines

HOLLANDIA AIR FIELDS CAPTURED   Gives Allies New Air Bases Near Pdlau Islands

YANKS SEEK TO CUT OFF THE BRITTANY PENINSULA   WHILE TROOPS COMPLETE THIS STRATEGY, OTHER FORCES SWEEP ONWARD TOWARD PLAINS OF FRANCE AND PARIS.

Slashing At Nazt Army’s South Flank      CITY OF LUXEMBOURG THOT TO BE IN GERMAN HANDS AS  THIRD ARMY STRIKES NEAR. THERE. .

SMASH LINKED WITH COLOGNE FRONT ACTION   Central Part Of First Army Sector Had Long Been Quiet

Central Front South Cologne Gees in Action   New Offensive is Opened Under Cover Artillery Barrage

4umericans Sweep Across East Tip Of France 43 Miles Of Mannheim  DRIVE LINKED WITH THE COLOGNE FRONT  German Resistance Is Strong All Along The Kirst Army Front

EXTEND BATTLE ZONE SOUTH FROM COLOGNE PLAIN   Capture Rollesbroich, 14 Miles From Roer Bastion of Duren

Central Sector of Ist Army Front Is Suddenly Ablaze In New U. S. Offensive

Central Sector Of U. 8. First Army: Front Blazes Into Action When Doughboys Go Over The Top   DRIVE LINKED WITH FRONT AT COLOGNE

Action Is Started In  New Section   OFFENSIVE MEETS EARLY SUCCESSES IN REGION aor SOUTH OF THE HURTGEN FORE!

FIRST ARMY STARTS NEW OFFENSIVE   Drive '> Launched Sout!: of the  Hurtgen Forest

Early Success Scored In Push Toward Rhine   Hodges’ Troops Take Rollesbroich In Drive South Of Hurtgen Forest

To Accept Kges  At Chicago Now   Move Expected te Strengthen Market Through This Area

AIR ASSAULT HTS REFINERY   Explosions and Fires on Big Pardubice Oi! Plant Near Prana

RAF BOMBERS POUND BERLIN   Fliers From Italy Raid Oj Fields in Czechoslovakia

FLIERS ATTACK NAZI REFINERY   Italy-Based Bombers Raic Plant Near Prague

MOSQUITOS ATTACK by Tk   Bombers" From” Italy” Strike Oil: Refinery: Deep in Do ee Smee, ee pee

SENATE ACTION ON NOMINEES BALKED   Strategy Welcomed by Grour Antagonistic Toward Department of State Nominees; Session Seen Today

SENATE ACTION ON NOMINEES DELAYED   Vote on State Dep't ApPointees Not Likely Before Next Week

Appointees May Fail To Be Confirmed   Kentucky Senator Delays Action on Stettinius’ Aides

NOMINATIONS ARE HELD UP   Action on Six Disputed Appointments Delayed by Legislative Jam

CONFIRMATION ‘OF NOMINEES IS VERY UNCERTAIN   Bitter Opposition To State Department Appointees  Is Brewing   KENTUCKY SENATOR BLOCKS EARLY ACTION

6 Nominations  - Hang in Doubt   Jam ‘Holds Senate’ Action On FDR Anpnointments

CAPITAL HIT BY 2,800-TON BOMB LOAL   Final Drive to Obliterate City Costs the R. A. F. Heavily, Loss Being 73 Craft There and Over Other Taryoatc. a

Yank Raid Nets 125 Nazi Planes   R. A. F. FOLLOWS WITH STROKES AT AMIENS RAIL YARDS, GERMAN TRANSPORT AND TIRE FACTORY IN FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN PUNCH

J. §. BOMBERS ACCOUNT FOR 125 PLANES   \merican Aviators Chop Big Segment Out of Enemy Defensive Air Force  2 FAIL TO GET BACK

A.F.L. Reaffirms No Strike Pledge   Green Cautions Union Workers

RENEW PLEDGE OF NO STRIKE   Leaders of AFL Caution Against Any Letdown  During Invasion

FIFTH BLASTS PATH TO KEY VILLAGE   American “Peak Bust ers” Either in or ‘at Edge of Cervaro —

Yanks Strashing Into Cervare On ltalian Warfront   Key Village Taken By U.S. ’ Forces After Hard Struggle Says Report   WEATHER AGAIN HAMPERS OFFENSE

ALL DEFERMENTS OF OLDER GROUP TO BE REVIEWED   Legislation Being Prepared To Force 4-Fs Into War Jobs

Plan Review of  Men Over 26   Probe of All Job  Deferments Announced

REVIEW ALL OCCUPATION: DEFERMENTS   Will Scan Those of Men Over 26 After Younger Men

Will Review Deferments of Older Men   DRAFT INDUCEMENT FOR WAR JOBS; 4-F LABOR SEEN

Dewey Leads in Wisconsin Primary Race      Wendell Willkie Trails in Last Place, Stassen Second, MacArthur Third

U.S. Jungle Troops Mop Up Stragglers   All Organized Jap Resistance Broken East Of Aitape On British New Guinea

Trapped Japs In ‘Germans Shift New Guinea Are 16 Divisions Being Wipned Out.To East Front

Kelly Gets Ovation In Congres Today; Other Hero Is Similarly Honored

East Coast of Britain Shakes With Blasts as Robot Bombs Hit Again

Flying Bombs Renew Damage   Many Persons Trapped When Robot Hits At Lunchtime Wrecking Store

Rohot Hits Store; Many Are Trappec   Fire Breaks Out and London Firemen Dig for Shopgirls and Customers Buried in Wreckage Caused by Nazi Weapon.

RESCUERS DIG IN LONDON STORE RUINS FOR VICTIMS OF ROBOTS   ENTIRE VILLAGE HAS NARROW ESCAPE AS FLYING BOMB PANCAKES NEAR; PILOTS FIGHT WEAPON

Flying Bombs Agait Do More Damage To South England  Top Is Blown Off Bus, Store Is Wrecked By Today’s Barrage

Robot Buries Shopairls   Rescuers Battle to Save Clerks, Patrons In Bomb- Wrecked Store

Robot Bombs Bring New  Destruction  People Trapped, Apartments Struck, Bus Hit

Robot Wrecks London Store: Many Trapped   Blows -Top Off Bus and Hurls Automobile From  Sizveei Luie Shop; New ,  Desiruction Mounts

ROBOT BOMBS SPREAD NEW DESTRUCTION   Buzz Bomb Starts Fire in London Store, Trapping Many When They Failed to Take Shelter

New Destruction  By Robot Bombs   Many Britishers Trapped When Robot Hits Store  at Lunchtime.

LONDONERS TRAPPED AT LUNCH BY ROBOT   cea  One Entire Village Has Narrow Escape from Buzzer

ROBOTS AGAIN STRIKE LONDON   Bring New Destruction To Southern England; Many Trapped

MANY MORE TRAPPED BY GERMAN ‘ROBOTS’   Flying Bomb Buries Clerks, Customers In London

Writer Says Forcible Partition Of Germany Is Not Believed Likely

Germans Must Approve Reich  Partitioning   Any Unpopular Plans Foi Dividing ‘Nation Doomed To Fail, U. S. Officials Believe

Red Armor Pierces  Nazi Flank   Russians Pour In Units in Breach OF Budapest Lino

Russians Move To Point: 12. Miles From: Budapest After.Cracking East Line

Battle For Invasion ‘Routes To Austria Near   Russians Break Through Enemy Line Only 12 Miles From Hungarian Capital

NAZIS FORCED TO ABANDON RAIL JUNCTION   Armored Might Hurled Against Budapest, Invasion Routes To Austria

Germans’ East Flank Cracked By Red Troop:   Decisive Battle For Invasion Roads To Austria Shaping Be   LEAVE FIFTY TOWNS

Soviet Army Hurls Through Breach in Nazi Budapest Line   Sustained Attack Forces German Withdrawal in Over 50 Towns

Reds Crack Nazi Flank In Hungary   « Hammer: Blows: Force “Enemy Back Along ~100-Mile ‘Front in ‘Battle fer Budapest

Russians Crack Nazi Flank East Of Budapest   Decisive Battle for Austria Invasion Routes Imminent

Nazi Flank Is Cracked By Russians  Red Armor Pours Through Breach

Russians Crack: German's Flank  Decisive Battle Nears in Hungary 

Nazi Budapest, Flank Breached   Red Armor Pours Through Gap Only 12 Miles from City

Crack Nazi Flank at Budapest   Reds Hurl Armor Through Break in Battle ter Porites to Austria   NAZIS WITHDRAW ON 100-MILE FRONT   Siege Lines Tightened on Doomed Budanest: Rail Tunetion Falls

RUSSIANS CRACK NAZI LINE EAST OF BUDAPEST   Major Battle For Invasion Routes To Austria Appears Imminent

Russian Armored Might Pounds Forward And: Decisive Battle For, Route To Austria \pnears Lmininent.

REDS CRACK ‘GERMAN FLANK NEAR BUDAPEST   Hurl Armored Might Through ' New Rraagrnh   Battle For Control of Invasion Rontec

Fight for Roads to Austria!   Reds Crack Nazi Flank East of Budapest

Germans Fall Back Before Red Troops   Decisive Fight For Invasion Routes To Austria Near

GERMAN FLANK CRACKED EAST OF BUDAPEST   Decisive Battles For Roads To Austria Shaping Up

Smash Nazi Lines East Of Budapest   Soviets Hurl Armorec Might Through Gap  In Defenses

Soviets Surge For Austrian Invasion Route  Crack Nazi Flank In Hungary; withir 12 Miles of Capital

THROW TANKS INTO HOLE IN LINE   Enemy Loses 50 Villages. Including Jaszbereny   For Control Of Invasion Routes To Austria Appears Imminent

Soviets Crack Hun Flank East From Budapest   Decisive Battlhe For Inva vasion Roads to Austria Shaping Up, Moscow Reports

REDS CRACK NAZI FLANK AT BUDAPEST]   Troops Pouring Through Breach 12 Miles From Capital—Fight for Invasion Route to Austria Is Imminent.

Nazis Crack as ~ Red Army Gains   RUSSIANS SMASH BIG GERMAN DEFENSES IN HUNGARY

Russians Crack German Flank.  Hurl Armor Through Breach 12 Miles East of Budapest

QOVIETS CRACK GERMAN FLANK   Reds Hurl Armored Might Through Breach 12 Miles From Budapest.

REDS CRACK FLANK EAST OF BUDAPEST   Armored Might Is Hurled Through Breach Within 12 Miles of Hugarian Capital  DECISIVE FIGHT NEAR

SOVIETS CRACK SERMAN FLANKS YN NEW DRIVE   Budapest Now Doomed; City Is Circled

Russians Crack German Flank in Budapest Area   Battle for Route To Hungary May Be Next Red Move

Red Army Is Hurling Armor Through Break in Defenses  Soviet Troops Force  Nazis to Retreat  Along Lengthy Front

RUSSIANS CRACK GERMAN’S EAST BUDAPEST FLANK   POUR THRU BREACH IN LINE WITHIN 12 MILES OF CAPITAL

SOVIETS INCH EVER CLOSER TO BUDAPES]   Battle for Control of Routes to Austria Imminent Around Besieged Capital City.

Withdrawal Of Nazis Covers 100-Mile Front   Armored Might Hurled Through Breach In Lines

‘Reds Shatter Nazis’ Flank At Budapest   Armor Pouring Throngh Breach Before Fortress

Reds Break Through Line   Only 12 Miles From Budapest in Smashing Drive On Key City

Armor. Being Hurled Through Breach Within 12-Miles Of Capital   Nazis Are Making  Damaging Retreat   Third And Mauled Hitlerites Falling Back Toward Matra Mountains

Reds Crack rlank East Nf Budapest   Hurling Armor Through Breach 12 Miles from Capital

—RUSSIA— German Flank East Of Budapest Is Cracked      Red Army Hurling Armored-Might-Through Breal : Within 12-Miles Of - “Hungarian Capital; De cisive Battle Believed Near

TROOPS POUR THRU BREACH AT BUDAPEST   Decisive Battle For Invasion Road To Austria Shaping

RED ARMY CRACKS GERMAN FLANK EAST HUNGARIAN CAPITAL  NHECICIVUR RPATTIC BOR   DECISIVE BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF INVASION ROUTES AUSTRIA NEARS

Germans’ Flank East Of Budapest Cracked By Reds   Armored Rusgjan.;-Might —- Hurled-Through-Breach. 12 Miles From Capital

Russians Push Armor Through Breach In Line   Break German Flank East Of Budapest; Decision Nears On Routes To Austria

HGH NAVAL OFFICER REPORTS — SUBS CONQUERED IN ATLANTIC   ADMIRAL EQUNE ALSO DECLARES ALLIES HAVE AIR AND SEA SUPREMACY IN PACIFIC

ALLIES PREDICT ‘GREAT EVENTS’ WITHIN 12 HOURS   Three Divisions Land by Air as British Penetrate Nijmegen

Drop Back From Hollands South Border   Early Decision on Siegfried Line Battle Likely

Price Ceilings Effect Used Furniture   OPA Advises Buyers anc Sellers to Secure Needec Information

Report Shows People Unaware Price Ceilings   On Used Furniture, Household Appliances

CONCORDIA FELT BLAST   Explosion at Hastings, Neb., Shook Windows 125 Miles Away

Red Advances Threater Entrapment of 50 Nazi Divisions in Ukraine   Allied Flyers Continue Pounding ‘Invasion Coast;’ Americans and Canadians Gain In Italy Fighting ; Partisans Claim Victories

ALLIES GAIN ON ALL FRONTS TO MARK NEW YEAR   Bombers Blast “Invasion” Coast; Yank Forces Advance

W.EA, LISTS NEW AAA PLAN   Will, Stress  Particulary Conservation Project.

Sailor, Blonde Sought To Solve Murder Of Woman   Strangler Eludes N. Y. Police Net

Pretty Blonde, Sailor Sought   Police Hope They May Be Able To Furnish Clues Toe Gotham Murder.

Advance A Threat To Brest   Capture of Brittany Would Give Allies 200Mile Operating Base For Drive On France

Haight Front Commanders  Under Arrest   New Reports Indicate Scope and Planning Of Ahortive Revolt  GESTAPO IN CONTROL

Staff Chief Begs Troops’ Loyalty   Gestapo, SS Forces Are Believed in Contr As Fuehrer Weathers First Crisis Phase

Rebellious Officers Arrested or Ousted, Some Reported Killed   New Nazi Chief of Staff in Broadcast Appeals for Loyalty; Indicated Crisis Weathered for Present But Situation Remains Beclouded

Nazis Appeal To Soldiers For Loyalty   Eight Commanders in Russia Arrested or Ousted; Street Battles In Cities Reported

Many Generals Now in Service . Reported Ousted   Kesselring Held, Reports Declare

Purge of Rebellious Officers Reaches to Battle Zones   NAZIS MAKE PLEA. — FOR FIRM LOYALTY.   Border Reports Say Field ‘Marshal Kesselring © Setzed

Information Comes = on Heels of New Appeal From Nazi Command for Lovalty.

Berlin Reports Allies Ready For New Drive   Steel Rina Now Encircles Aachen

Beat Off Third Powerfy Counter Attack; Ge: mans Trying to Kee General Hodges Fro: Entering City; Cans dians Make Progress.

i  GOUNTER‘ATTAGKS ARE BEATEN OFF   Nazis Make Frantic Efforts Reinforce Garrison   BRITISH ADVANCE   Canadians Continue to Clean Out Foe From Schelde River Estuary

Germans Lose Last Roadway Into Aachen  Berlin Senses Allied Push Is Building Up

Taut Battleline Bends Toward Reich in Two Places  GERMANS PREDICT GREAT OFFENSIVE     Canadian First Army Continues Determined Fight

Steel Ring Is Forged Around City   Berlin Radio Predicts New Allied Offensive Between Aachen, Maas

Savage Fighting Takes: Place Inside Town. “&: Planes Drop Supplies to Trapped Garrison. <   BRITISH SECOND “** ARMY ADVANCES   Berlin Predicts a New Drive Between Aachesi and Meuse in Holland== Canadians Go Forward.

Nazis Hurled Back To Close Corridor    Sixty German Tanks Destroyed in Attempts To Get Reinforcements to Beleaaured City’

Nazis claim allied drive  is in making   Foe defense line bends in 2 place:

BERLIN EXPECTS NEW OFFENSIVE AROUND AACHEN   German Reports Say Strong Troop Movements Have  Been Observed   CANADIANS MAKING  STEADY PROGRESS

Ring of Steel Closed Around City by Yanks   Another Fierce Nazi Counterattack Hurled Back; Canadians Progress In Their Fight for Antwerp

CLIMAX OF A SWIFT 14-DAY MARCH THROUGH 60 MILES OF NAZI DEFENSES BY MAIN ARMY TROOPS COMES  WHEN PATROLS MAKE CONTACT WITH BEACHHEAD BFINITTC . ECNERMNMY INI DAGTY BETREAT

‘Main, Anzio Beach Forces <. Burst 60-Mile German Line   Nazi Soldiers Flee Northward to Escape. Encirclement as Allied Noose Tightens ges

60Miles...14Days   Allies Set For Advance On Rome As Peril To Germans Increases   Beachhead Widens.

Fronts Merge For Unitied Push On Rome   Reaching Beachhead Attained After 2 Weeks Of Hard  Fighting.  em renranereransmt    ‘BEAT HASTY RETREAT

Germans Fleeing Coastal Area To Avoid Vast Trap   Fight For Rome Looms As Nazi Reserves Are Spotted Pouring From North Italy

Fifth Army Troops Make Contact With U.S. Troops On Anzio Beachhead

Foe Retreats From All  Coastal Line   Americans From Main Fifth Army Front Jotn With Anzio Beachhead Troops After Liahtning March Through German Defenses

Se ig ne iGermans’ Plight In Italy Becomes Desperate As Al died Fronts Are Joined; Now Only 20 Miles i From Capital City

Patrols From Main Fifth Army Units, Beachhead Unite   Allied Soldiers Flank Cisterna, 20 Miles Below Rome; Germans Hint New Landings Behind Anzio Lines

FORCES, ANZIO'S TROOPS MERGED   60 Miles of Nazi Defenses Smashed os Americans Near Eternal City

Contacts Made by Patrols Few Miles Southeast of Anzio — Germans Say Allied Troops Landing Behind Nazi Lines Above Bridgehead Annihilated

Fifth Army Enjoys Momentous Day as German Forces Continue To Fall Back.   AIR FORCES KEEP UP THEIR HEAVY BLOWS

United For March On Rome; Foe Trapped   Allies Drive 60 Miles In 14 Days; Beachhead Troops Break Through German Ring; Nazis  Cie Marte} Ceeten Dark Cwre Annihilabian

Nazis Beating Retreat From Coastal Area   Spectacular 60-Mile Push Putting Enemy To Flight; Germans Move Reinforcements

Two American Armies In Italy Bridge Gap In Italy, Jom Hands For March On Rome

Germans Beat Hasty Retreat. . From Coast Area Below Anzio   Appian Way Mystery   Nazis Move In Men   Canadians Mop Up

FIFTH TROOPS UNITE With ANZIO FORGES   Advance On Ronnie Bolstered; New Threat Made

VITAL GOAL OF OFFENSIVE WON BY FIFTH ARMY   Increased Threat to Rome Forces Nazis To Mass Troops

j60-Mile Gap Made During '14-Day Smash   Germans in Hasty Retreat From Entire Coast Below Anzio

FIFTH ARMY JOINED FOR PUSH ON ROME AS ENEMY BE  RETREAT WHEN DEFENSE PARTS

Unified Force Set for Drive on Rome; Enemy in Retreat   Germans Mass Reserves to Prevent Fall of Italian Capital

Germans Flee From Beach Positions as Allied Drive Rolls On Across Broad Front

ARMIES JOINED FOR NEW DRIVE   ‘Unite Between Anzio And Terracina;  Gain 60 Miles In 14 Days

Allied Forces Make Contact; Harass Retreating Convoys     HAUS ON THE ROADS   HAVOC ON THE ROADS   More Than 6,000 Enemy Vehicles Destroyed or Damaged:

NAZIS RETREAT, TRY TO AVOID BEING TRAPPED   March of 60 Miles in 14 Day Offensive Is Marked Up for Allies

GERMANS ARE MASSING FOR COUNTER ATTACKS   Headquarters Says Front Will Soon Be Firmly Established, Power Added  fn, D-... PP...

Sixty Mile March Ends; Rome Drive Is Looming   Nazis Flee Region  After Hard Battle

Forces United For Giant Push Against Rome   Juncture Climaxes Smashing 60-Mile Drive In 14 Days; Streams Of Nazi Troops Are Being Rushed South, Airmen Report

Anzio Beachhead and Main Force Above Terracina Are Joined for a Unified Push on Rome; Climaxes 60-Mile Drive

Gap Between Anzio Sector And Main Front s Closed As Nazis Flee Coast Area   Powerful Enemy Defenses Smeshed In Sweeping Advance Which Faces Rome With Strona Allied Threat

AMERICAN HTH      Yanks Gain 60 Miles In Fourteen-Day Offensive   NAZI HINT ALLIED LAND NEAR ROME

5TH ARMY TROOPS FROM SO. ITALY AT BEACHHEAD  ESTABLISH CONTACT,   ESTABLISH CONTACT AFTER DRIVE OF 60 MILES IN 14 DAYS

Beachhead Forces Push Out to Within 20 Miles of Rome While Nazis Flee Coastal Area to South   Nazis Pour In Reinforcements

Troops United For New Drive Against Rome  First Objective Of Offensive in  faeeke: Bogle Seed

Lightning March Through 60 Miles Of Foe Defenses Unites Anzio, Main Fronts

Union Climaxes Advance Of Sixty Miles in Italy In 14 Days by Americans

ContactEstablished In14-DayOffensive Covering 60 Miles   Main Force And Anzio Beachhead Troops Meet Above Terracina For Joint Push On Eternal City

Nazis Beat Hurried Retreat From Whole Front Below Anzio   Stream of Enemy Reinforcements Pouring South to Assault Lines; 10,000 Prisoners Taken in Lf Days

PATROLS MAKE FIRST GONTAGT   Objective to Engage As Many German Troops As Possible.   ‘TAKE 10,000 PRISONERS

Eight More Towns Are Captured   Three-mile Gap Into Famed Line Made By Allies

Resistance Of Germa Is Bitter   FRENCH TROOPS SMASH THREE: MILE BREACH IN GUSTAV LINE.» ATHWART THE ROAD TO ROME:

GUSTAV LINE IS BREACHED BY FRENCH   Allied Troops Take 8 Towns From Germans

GUSTAV LINE HAS BEEN BREACHED 8 ALLIES’ STH ARMY   Enemy Area of 30 Square Miles Cleared—French Make Prooress.

Germans, Reported Considering Evacuation of Capital, Clamp Censorship on Damage   MANY FLEE CITY   Camaign of Eradication Apparenily Near End With Berlin Devastated

800 Big Ships Hit Frankfurt Mighty Blast   RAF In Heavy Raid On Berlin Second Night In Row

Eighth Puts 800 Planes, Frankfurt   Berlin ‘Practically Knocked Out By RAF At Night

BERLIN HARD WIT IN. A NIGHT RAIDS   Entire City To Be Evacuated; City Almost Gone

BERLIN IN FLAMES FROM ANOTHER ATTACK BY RAF  47 BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN FROM  ,.  +e eo to. 2 eo lk oe oT

Desert Doomed Capital   Complete Evacuation Of Berlin Is Foreseen

BERLIN ALSO. GETS ANOTHER HEAVY BLOW      Raid by Eighth Air Force Is Largest in Its History — Nazis Contemplate Complete Evacuation of Capital.

U. S. and British Bombers Plaster Frankfurt, Berlin      American Force Is Greatest in History; Complete Evacuation Of Capital Planned

FOLLOWS WIGHT BERLIN ATTAGK   Daylight Assault By Over 800 Bombers Greatest of War. ~   NO DETAILS FROM BERLIN

Frankfurt Raided By Yankees After Berlin Blasted   Americans Make Thunder ous Assault Against Great Industrial City.   British Lose 47 Ships In Attack on Capital

Big Attack F ollows Second Berlin Raid By RAF In 2 Night:          [Attack On : Industrial Center , Seen     ae Capital: Satfers Terrible Deicge

Huge Force of Over 800 American Bombers Blast Frankfurt, Germany, Today   By CLADWIN HILL

8000. S. PLANES RIP FRANKFURT IN RECORD RAID   RAF Loses 47 Bombers in Night Attack on Capital, Other Cities

Frankfurt Dealt Shattering Blow By Yank Planes   More Than 800 Bombers Scatter Destruction On Nazi Center

omplete Evacuation Of Nazi Capital Under Way, Reports  From Swedish Sources Sav   17 Bombers Lost By British; Damage Terrific, Germans Admit; American Assault Today May Be Heaviest Of Aerial Warfare In Davtima

800 Yank Bombers in Record Blitz   Big Smosh Follows R.A.F. Night Attack On Stricken Berlin

R.A.F. Mops up Rubble Strewn German Capital   Americans Send Greatest Bomber Fleet In History To Hurl Destruction On Industrial Frankfurt

Huge Air Force Batters Frankfurt   American Bombers Follow Raid Staqed by RAF Against Berlin

Germans Ready to Leave Berlin; Yanks Hit Nazi Shops in Heaviest Raid

AMERICAN BOMBERS INA THUNDEROUS RAID ON FRANKFURT   Assault Was Made on the Industrial City by More Than 800 Planes,   BERLIN IS HIT AGAIN   Nazis Clamped a Tight Censorship on the Terrible Damage Done.

Berlin Hit Hard For 2nd Straight Night By British Airmen   RAF Loses 47 Planes, American Assault May Break Record for Daylight Raids on Reich

BERLIN BURNS AGAIN AFTER R. A. F. RAID   Over 800 American Planes Join In Assault   FULL EVACUATION   Of Capital Contemplated; British Lose 47 Aircraft In Night

Well Over 800 Bombers In Attack   RAF Loses 47 Planes in Another Big Blow at Berlin

GO0U.S. BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CITY   ‘Women and Children Flee Nazi Capital After Night  } at Harrar

GREATEST NUMBER HEAVY BOMBERS HIT BIG INDUSTRIAL CITY  FRANKFURT WRECKED  FOLLOWING NEW BLASTINC OF RERIIN RV RAF

City Blasted By 800 Big U.S. Bombers   Berlin Suffers Second RAF Raid in Two. Nights

BERLIN SMASHED AGAIN BY RAE   ‘More Than 800 Liberators And Fortresses Hit Industrial City   FIGHTERS HELP   Reports Say Nazis May Order Evacuation Of Burning Capital

Berlin Left In Flames by RAF Assault   Details of Heaviest Daylight Blow in Aerial Warfare Lacking

ELAS REPULSED IN FIERCE ASSAULTS   Greek Resistance Forces Suffer Heavily in Fighting

Correspondents Encounter Hardships ronan snore eg ee BS  Ernie Pyle Relates Story Of Early Days Of Invasion

Tells Hardships Of War Writers   Correspondents Went Two Days Without Sleep and Drop Exhausted.

Correspondents Encounter Hardships BESTS  Ernie Pyle Relates Story Of Early Days Of Invasion

STEP UP ATTACKS ON TRUK OUTPOSTS   Allies Pound Ponape and’ Kusale From Air—Four Ships Added to Toll at Bie Base.

20 Bases, Trapped Nazis Blasted by 12,000 Warplanes   New Record Bombings Wreck Vital Bridges, Other Enemy Targets

Pvt. Feazelle Killed In Italy   Telegram Says Maynor Boy, 19, Killed June 5

TEMPERATURES:   LONG-TERMERS MAKE GETAWAY FRIDAY NIGHT   Manhunt Spreads Across Southern Michigan This Forenoon

CENTER SEARCH FOR FUGITIVES AT GRASS LAKE   Stolen Car Used By Convicts Abandoned Ig Ditch There

Gov. Bricker Urges World Court In Asking U.S. Lead Peace Move; 96,000 Hear Dewey At Los Angeles

Gov. John ‘Ww. Bricker Wants U. 5S. to Lead in Planning for Peace

WORLD COURT PLAN URGED BY BRICKER   U. S. Should Assume Leader. ship In Organizing To Pre. serve Peace, Vice Presiden: tial Nominee Says

Bricker Asserts U. S. Should Be Leader in Peace  Says Details of Plan of Les Importance than Parpose az

U. S. SHOULD LEAD IN PEACE MOVE, BRICKER BELIEVES   GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Also Recommends Establishment of a World Court—Say, Incipient Wars Should Be Nipped Quickly

BRICKER BOOMS WORLD COURT   Vice Presidential Candidate . Talks In Boston

Bricker Favors World Court To  Preserve Peace      Says U. S. Must  Lead Movement

German Lines In Normandy Area Blasted; Enemy Oil Refineries, Airfields Near Vienna Hammered

Strike Ranks. Thinned Over  Past Weekend   Number of Idle Workers In United States and Canada Drop From 6l,000 to About 18,000

Machine Shops ln S. F. Seized   Machinist Union Defies WLB Order

GRANDSON AKRON WOMAN MARRIED   Roger C. Clementson and Marion E. Roberts Take  Marriage Vows

SH GERMAN SUPPLY LINES   Bombers and F ighters Blast Foe Troops, Vehicles For Third Day

German Forces Reel Under Aerial Blows  Vital Supply and Communication Lines Battered

Allied Planes Hitting Hard  AtGermans.   Hundreds More Craft _ Follow Up: 7,000-Plane “Christmas Eve Assault WroATUOLCR Tc rnnn

Lightning Punches Made by British-Based Planes:   ROAD AND RAILWAY JUNCTIONS BOMBED   Many Enemy Vessels Destrayed by Bombers

Allied fliers rap foe with  one-two blow Vital supply line: take new lashing

ALLIED FLIERS ROCK GERMANS FROM SKIES   Lash Out At Vital Enemy Supplies In France Belgium And Holland; Marks Third Day Of Attacks

Green Stamps K,L and M Are Valid Feb. 1   Will Be Used For  Processed Foods

Yank Airmen Rush To Aid Of Ground Forces As Skies Clear   Follow Up Terrific Triple Blow Struck Last Night By RAF; Break In Weather Exposes Long Lines Of Enemy Equipment Moving Into Battle.

Big Formations Of Flying Forts Hit Reich Today   New Attacks By Americans Follow Night Raids By 1300 British Bombers

CHURCHILL WINS ‘CONFIDENCE VOT!   COMMONS BACKS: GOVERN: ‘MENT, 425 TO 28,,.0N A MINOR’ DOMESTIC ISSUE.

Churchill ls Given Vote Of Confidence   Scrappy Prime Minister Pulls Rebellious House Inte Line by 425-to-23 Vote—Strongest _ Showina in Two Years

Churchill Given Rousing Support   Plans to Promote Airport Bond Election Progressing

CHURCHILL 1 SUPPORTED BY 423-23 VOIE   Rebellious Commons Suppresses Feelings To Back Premier As Dictator While Runs The War.   Equal Teachers’ Pay Issue

Confidence Vote Won By Churchill   Prime Minister Pulls Commons Together On Wa:

CHURCHILL NIPS HIS OPPOSITION   Prime Minister Receives 125 To 23 Vote Of Confidence

Roosevelt Yields Rail Wage Issue   BACKS DOWN FROM HIS CLAIM THAT NON-OPERATING UNIONS SUBMIT ALL TO MEDIATION,   Overtime Only Remnant

RAIL EMPLOYES WIN NEW POINT   Roosevelt Resubmits Bid For More Pay: Overtime Main Issue

Non-Operating Rail Workers Score Victory   FDR Resubmits Claims to Board

Wage Issue Resubmitted To Board   Non-Operating Workers On Railroads Appear To Win New Point

Rail Wage Request  To Mediation Boar  President Resubmits Par  Boost Issue

Rail Unions Win New Action on Overtime Claims   President Orders Emergency Board To Consider Nonoperator’s Issue; Decision Expected Within 30 Days

Operating Rail Employes Win A New Point   Roosevelt Resubmits Claims to Limit Issue to Overtime

RAIL DISPUTE SENT BACK T0 -BOARD BY FDR   Non-Operating Unions Appear to Have Won Point in Fight

FDR Sends Rail Dispute To Board   Non-Operating Mer Get Consideration For Overtime Pay

Will consider non-op r. r. scale changes   Decision ordered in 30 day period

FORturns Wage Aemands Over to ~ Mediation Board   More Than Million Rail Workers Await Ruling Of Emergency Group

POINT APPARENTLY WONBY RAILWAY MEN IN PAY ROW   Roosevelt’s Language in Sending Case Back to Board Seems to Limit Issue to Overtime.   ACTION IS IN LINE WITH UNION DEMANDS   President's Order Calls for Recommendations as Soon as Possible and Not to Exceed 30 Days.

WAGE ISSUE IS SENT BACK TO BOARD BY FDR      Non-Operating Employes Apparently Win New Pcint   DECISION LIMITED TO OVERTIME PAY   1CC Member . Protests Draft of Railway Workers

WOUNDED IN BURMA   Pfc. Victor Coppola Reported to Be On Road To Recovery

PVT. BERNARD AMADIO SLIGHTLY WOUNDED   Soldier Hurt in France On - July 9th, Father Is Informed   OVERSEAS 3 MONTHS

SOLDIER FROM BRISTOL CLASSED AS CASUALTY   Pfc. Chester J. DeMarchis Served With Infantry   PVT. RYAN WOUNDED

PFC. VICTOR COPPOLA TS SLIGHTLY WOUNDED   His Sisters, Mrs. Mary Mar. tint and Miss Adele Coppola, Informed   AN INJURY TO THE EYE

YANKEES TAKE JAP AIRDROME ON MANUS ISLE   Closing In on Stronghold of Lorengau  do eam   ADMIRALTY BASE   Jap Losses Heavy on Bougainville

VITAL AIRDROME ON MANUS TAKEN   Bougainville Counter-Blow by Japs Completely Smashed

JAP. AIRFIELD .:. 218- CAPTURED   ATTACK UNDERWAY ON MAIN ENEMY STRONGHOLD IN GILBERTS—VICTORY AT BOUGAINVILLE

INDIA BASED SUPER FORTS HIT RANGOON   Carry Largest Individual Bomb Loads Ever Lifted In Aterial Warfare

IN BURMA BATTERED   Gen. MacArthur Says End Of Campaign On ® Leyte-Samar Near

Rail Yards Blasted By Superforts   Individual Bombloads Of American Aircraft Are Greatest Ever Lifted In Aerial Warfare

End of Leyte Campaign  Draws ‘Near   Japs Trapped On West‘ Coast— ~ ATs “Rattle Fonoht

MacArthur Prepares Death Trap For Japs   Nip Hurls Finest Fliers Into Battle: B-29s Smash at Rananan

Jap Rail Yards At Rangoon flit  Powerful Blows   Large Force of B-29s8 Carry Record Bombloads Ta Targets From Base In India   T. Ode. a. Tw. No Planes Lost  To Enemy Action   Meanwhile, Nervous Tokyo Warns Appearance Of Forts Wednesday Will lnevitably Bring Raids

LAST PORT OF FLIGHT — ‘SURROUNDED   Enemy Casualties Put At 30,000 By MacArthur

TRAP CLOSING ON JAPANESE FLIGHT PORT   Land, Sea and Air Forces Are Clamping Vice On Ormoc Harbor and Fieeing Enemy

;  Leyte Campaign Nears End As Carigara Falls   Japs Are Being Cornered on Island’s West Coast; Bullet Misses MacArthur

RANGOON IS RAIDED BY SUPERFORTS   India-Based B-29s Carry Record Bombs Loads

B-29 Forts Drop Great load on Burma   Rangoon R.R, Yards Biasted in Biggest Raid by Superforts

LAST JAPANESE PORT ON LEYTE BECOMES TRAF   MacArthur Misses Death In Strafing Attack On Headquarters

B-29s Raid Jap Dominated  Burma Targets   Planes Carry Record Bombloads; No Losses

B-29s Bomb Rangoon Area   Take Record Bomb Loads From Indian Bases, Return With No Losses

Raid Burma Railyards: °   “Substantial” Force ‘Of B-29’s Drops Bombs On Jap-Held Rangoon

B-29 Raid on Rangoon; - No Losses   Superforts Carry Record Load of Bombs Against Jan Base in Burma   OTHER PLANES GO ALONG ON RAID   Preliminary Reports Show Good Results;Planes Took Off From India

B-29s Blast Rangoon In Burma Drive   Rail Yards Raided; Chinese Recapture Luneling Stronghold

END OF LEYTE ISLAND DRIVE IS IN SIGHT   American Land, Sea and Air Forces Set Death Trap for Ormoc, Last Port of Flight for the Jan Usurvers.

Bombers Hit. Burma Yards   Superforts: Blast “Rail: Installations

RANGOON, KEY BURMA CITY, HIT BY B-298   India - Based American Craft Make Daylight Assault on Enemy Target.

M’ Arthur Says End Of Leyte Fight Ai Hand   Land, Sea‘and’ Air Forces Set Death Trap For Japs’? Last Port Of Flight

Yanks Press For Kill _ On Leyte.   MacArthur Says Campaign for Island Near End As Japs Fall Back Against West Coast

RANGOON STRUCK BY: BIG FORCE OF B-298   Record Weight Of Bombs Hits Rail Yards Of Burma Capital

End of Le vite Campaign Approaches   Enemy Flier’s Bullet Just Missed MacArthur’s Head

Japs Having Own Little Dunkerque   Moving Troops Off of Leyte Under American Plane - Attack    ISLE NEARLY CLEARED   Enemy Convoys Are Covered by the Best Jap anese Fliers

Superfortresses Carry Record Bombloads, Take No Losses In ‘Damaging’ Raid On Enemy Base

Nips Cornered By Americans On Leyte Coast   Philippines Drive Near End As Ormoc Neared

CAMPAIGN FOR 1ST PHILIPPINE ISLE NEARS END   Four Divisions Closing Trap; M’Arthur Has Narrow Escape

Undaunted MacArthur Announces Near End Of Leyte Campaign And Sets Death Trap

No Planes Lost As Result of Enemy Action   B-29's Taking Off From Bases in India Make Daylight Attack In Substantial Force

Superforts Raid Rangoon Targets   Blast Railroad Yards Without  Loceeac te Rannrt

Death Trap Set For Japs on Leyte   End of Philippines Island Drive In Sight Reports Gen. MacArthur

Yanks Set Death Trap for Japs   MacArthur’s Four Divisions Are Pressing In for Kil on. Leyte's West Coast   CAMPAIGN THERE NEARING THE END   Attention Is Turned to Other Islands; Bitter Air Rattle at Ormoc

(M’Arthur Escapes Death (By 12 Inches; Says Leyte ‘Battle Won As Japs Flee

Superforts Hit Rangoon in Record Attack   No Planes Are Lost; Heaviest Load Of Bombs Dropped

Chinese in Interior Capture Lungling, City on Vital Hishway to Chungking

MacArthur Declares Leyte Campai,”: Nearing A Close; Trap Set avort of Ormoc

‘SUPERFORTS’ STAGE A RAID ON RANGOON   Carrying Record BombJoads, the B-29’s Attack  _ Railroad Marshaling Yards in Bastion of Jap‘Dominated Burma.

END OF LEYTE ~ FIGHTING NEAR   Ormoc, Last Port of Escape For Nips, Surrounded By Yank Units

Leyte Drive: Nears End; . Death Traps Are Closed:   Ma Arthur Reports ress ‘On: Coast 

Leyte Campaign Nears Close   Attention Swinging To Other Islands, Communic . Suggests

M'ARTHUR HAS ‘NARROW ESCAP! FROM DEATH   Flier’s Bullet Misses General’s Head By 12 inches

MacArthur Announces Campaign on  Leyte Nears End; Death Trap Set

B-29’s Carry Most Bombs Ever Lifted   Attack Coordinated With Elements Of Eastern Air Force.

Superforts  Drop Record Bomb Loads On Rangoon   India-Based American Planes Strike Railroad Marshaling Yards In  Jap-Dominated Burma

RANGOON RAIL YARDS HIT BY § UPERFORTS   B-29 Raid Made in Co-ordination With Elements of Eastern Air Command, Communique Says   ALL RETURN SAFELY

JAP CASUALTIES HEAVY IN BURMA   General Stilwell’'s Troops Have Killed More Than 17,700 Of Enemy Forces.

wrewes 68 EES OU SS ee eee eee Oe eee ond  17, 700 JAPS KILLED RY STILWELL’S MEN

BIG ORDNANCE WORKS CLOSED   Army Halting Operations at White Deer Valley and Weldon Springs

HULL WILL KEEP CONGRESS POSTED ON PEACE TALKS   Explained to Members That U.S.-British-Rus sian Meeting is ‘“Technical’

CONGRESS WILL BE GIVEN DATA   Hull Gives Assurance Regarding World Security Meeting.

Congress To Be Informed Of Peace Talks   Diplomatic Problems Ruled Out Of Security Discussions At Meet

Japs Encircle: Key Hengyang   Chinese Resist Bitterl Desnite Poison Gas

U. S. TASK FLEET SHELLS MARSKALLS   Three Atolls Are Heavily Pounded;  Varrea le T arawa

seting or ig Three,. Possib   May Confer Will wrehill, Stalin: Before End of  This Year

Triumvirs Meet Within TwoMonths:   PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LEAVES SUBJECT WIDE OPEN AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE; DE GAULLE’S GOVERNMENT.   FDR Says He Doesn’t Know

Stalin-Churchill-FDR Conference Fossible  In Next Two Months   Status Of De Gaulle Government Up; President In Touch With Moscow Conferences

STALIN-ROOSEVELT MAY SOON CONFER   President ~~ qnd Marshal May Meet Before End of Year

FDR May Meet Churchill, Stalin Within 2 Months   Possibility Is Left Wide Open

Roosevelt Silent  On Big 3 Parley   Leaves Question of  Meeting Wide Open

STALIN-ROOSEVELT MAY SOON CONFER   President and ‘and’ Marshal May Meet Before End : of:Year: -.

FDR Leaves Big 3 Meet Query Open   Uses ‘De Facto’ Term for  De Gaulle Set-Up

‘Starry-Eyed Crystal Gazers’ Title Given  Te Pianners For Farm Equipment Abroad

REP, BROWN NAMED BRICKER DELEGATE CONTACT MANAGER   Has GOP Convention Job Of Rallying Votes For Governor

POLICY UNITY   Walker Calls for Congress Pledged to Avoid Versailles Mistakes

SAME FOREIGN POLICY URGED   Walker Calls Upon GOP To Adopt Common Plank; - Still For New Deal

DISCUSSION OF BILL STARTED BY LEGISLATORS   Study Of State Police Activities Asked

Touhy Gang Fails  In Prison Break   quae Killed, Four onvicts Wounded

Gains set Records In Drive   Nazis Say Massolini Goes To Old Haunts

Dewey Pledges Non-Parfisan Peace Effort   18,000 Attend : Second Talk At Louisville

Dewey Pledges GOP to Shape, Maintain World Peace. Assures ‘Non-Partisan’ Foreign Policy

DEWEY PLEDGES HELP TO SHAPE, MAINTAIN PEACE   Heads For Conference In Michi. gan After Talk In Louisville

Pledges GOP To Non-Partisan Efforts In Sniteoe = : Peace, Preventing Third War;  Visit Next On Pak Casas

DEWEY REVEALS FOREIGN POLICY AT LOUISVILLE   Pledges Party To Help Keep Peace

-op. Dewey Fires Opening Guns      Non-Partisan Peace Effort Pledsed in Dewey Address

Dewey Pledges Party To NonPartisan Efforts To Shape And Maintain World Peace

CHANGE FOR SENIORS      ‘Only: Those Eligible for Diploma  May Be in Commencement: -

Manila Attack Has Dividends   Cruiser, Destrover. 72 Planes Bagged: Jap Resistance Decreases

LOCAL RED CROSS __WORKERS ASSISTED © CIVIL AIR PATROI   Canteen Women: Helped to Serv - Meals Baring Maneuvers in Mexico, Mo. .

Port Chicago Explosion Toll At Least 319 Men;  Losses Run In Millions   ESCANARA BOY THERE

Berlin Damage Said Enormous   Official Quarters Almost Wiped Out

BERLIN GOVERNMENT OFFICES DESTROYED BY RAF BOMBINGS   Fuehrer’s Offices, Goebbels’ Residence And Many Ministeries Wiped Out In 628 Acres Of Damaged Areas; War Administration Transferred Elsewhere

Raids Destroy Nazi Offices   German Government Buildings Take Severe Battering In Battle of Berlin.

New Pictures of Berlin:  neat mente mie net  Great Public Buildings Wrecked, Latest Phofographs of City Show      Officers Destroved

Many Berlin Buildings Have Been Destroyed by Allied Air Attacks Recent Photos Disclose

. CHRISTMAS BY-PASSES BLEEDING EUROPE LOCKED NOW IN THE LAST DESPERATE SIKUGULE

GRIT MAS SPIRIT TO BYPASS EUROPE   Most of Hearts of its Belli .gerents Desolate; Yanks And Britons in London Exchange Courtesies

Wills $600,000 Estate to Educate the Irish in ‘Self Control’, Poise

Shaw Will Irks Irish   Fund to Teach People “Good Manners” Stirs Much Biting Comment

Play May Have inspired. Woman   Mrs. Shaw Bequeaths Sum to Teach Irish Speech and Manners

Florida Suffers Heavy Losses In Hurricane  Fruit Badly Damagec   Fruit Badly Damaged Two Persons Killed; South Carolina Hit

Florida’s Citrus Crop Hard Hit By Tropical Hurricane   Severe Storm Sweeps Northward After Killing Two in __.... Miami—Communications_in_ Western Cuba Remain Disrupted

Agencies Split On Food Outlook a seein selena adalah tethias  Jones Fears Picture Given  To The Public Is Too Res)

Agencies Split Qn Food Outlook ia aaa alanine date atinieticteis  Jones Fears Picture Given  To The Public Is Too Rosy

Allies Follow Nazi Retreat   German Forces Fall Back in Central Area in Italy

Nazis Retreat Nine Miles on  8th Army Front   Enemy Pemolishes Bridges, Houses And Tunnel on Exit

Nazt Troops Withdraw In Central Italy   Russians Are Within Ful! View Of Flaming, Smoking Sevastopol.   RETREAT AT PALENA

WITHDRAWAL IN CENTRAL ITALY MADE BY NAZIS   Allied Forces Follow Up Surprise Move in Sector Near Palena

Nazis Retreat Nine Miles on __Attiatic Front   Genwans, Straightening Lines, Withdruw in ". Mountain Area

Germans Pull Back Forces On Eighth Army Front; Patrol Activity Hiked In Area Near Cassino

CERMANS FALL BACK INITALY   Adriatic Front Lines Straightened; Anzio Beachhead Shelled

Nazis Retreat From Mountair  Area In Italy   Allied: Troops Follow To Positious Approximately Nine Miles Beyord Announced Front Line   Withdrawal Near Palena Surprise   Believed Allied Troop: Have Been Operating Far Beyond Announced Battle Line Recently

Allies Follow German Retreat Into Central Itah   Nazi ‘Withdrawal, A Surprise; Germans Increase Shelling Near Cassino.

GERMANS RETREAT. ON ITALIAN FRONT   Lines Moved B. Back Nine Miles in Rugged Mountain Area

Germans Drop Back in Italy   Allied Troops Follow To New Positions Miles Past Former Lines on Adriatic

Evacuation By Germans  Near Paleno Is Reported   Yanks Take Region; Houses Demolished

Nazis Foreed To Retreat In Central Italy   Allies 9 Miles Beyond Last Reported Spot: Foe Wrecks Bridges, Homes And Tunnels

NAZISRETREAT NINE MILES ON {TALIAN FRONT   South of Monte Maiella in Vicinity of Palena Inland from Adriatic; Demolish Bridges, Houses.   Fvacuate Civilians

Germans Retreat Nine Miles on Adriatic Front   Withdraw in Rugged Mountain Area; Followed up by the Allies

NAZIS WITHDRAW IN PALENA AREA   ALLIED FORCES FOLLOW UP IN CENTRAL ITALY

Nazi Troops In Withdrawal   Allies Follow Up Move In Mountain Area  On Eighth Army's Flank

Allies Follow Up Nazi Withdrawal   In Surprise Movement Enemy Demolishes Bridges. and a Tunnel

GERMANS MAKE WITHDRAWAL IN CENTRAL ITALY   Allied Forces Quickly Follow Up: Surprise Withdrawal in Moun tainous Area

Nazis Withdraw From Eight Army's Left Flank, Allies Follow Up Surprise Move   Enemy Pulls Back In Central Italy Wreck Bridges, Tunnels As They Go

GERMANS RETREAT ON ITALIAN FRONT   Lines « Moved B ‘Back “Nine Mites in Rugged Moun-_ tain Area

Nazis Fall Back In Abrupt Move * Onitalian Front   Withdrawal Reported On Left Flank Of 8th Army 25 Miles From Adriatic

Allies Advance Lines Nine Miles in Italy   Move Follows German Troop Withdrawal In Central Sector

Yank Fliers Blast Ponape In Carolines   Eight Tons Rip Jap Base —Shipping and Docks on Kusaie Pounded

VANKS CONTINUE POUNDING OF PONAPE BY AIR   Eastern Marshalls Also Attacked

Finns’ Effort To Get Out OF  War Increases   Negotiator Of “40 Red-Finnish Peace Arrives In Stock.   eg pee   CITIZENS WARNED

SAYS JOURNEY NOT CONNECTED WITH POLITICS   High Official Declares \ation Seeks Every Road to Peace

Finnish Statesman Arrives In Sweden As Talk Increases That Peace Is Near

FINNISH: PEACE MOVE EXPECTED   TALK IN HELSINKI IS THAT GOVERNMENT SOON WILL CONTACT MOSCOW.

Finland Said To... Be Seeking Peace   Helsinki Buzzing With Talk Of Peace .

Finnish Leader Hinted Seeking  Peace In Sweden   Finns Increase Move  To Quit War

igh Official ys Finland king Peace   Paasikivi, Who Negotiated Finnish Russian Peace  In Stockholm

FINLAND READY TO SEEK PEACE   Helsinki Buzzing With Rumors: Contact With Moscow Expected

Finn capital buzzing with meeting talk   ‘Settlement hour rapidly nearing’

See Shakeup  High Command   London Press Declares Change In Allied Leadecship Appears Near.

Regrouping Of High Commands, Armies Hinted  No Confirmation In Washington; Supreme Headauarters Makes

BAIT on PHtas HINTS oHAKEUP ON WAR FRONT   Na Washington Confirmation of Report Changes in Command Due.

SEE CHANGE IN HIGH COMMAND   London Press Gives Stories Prominent Play

Report Shake-up in Allied Leaders   Claim Load Too Heavy for Sinele Commander

Rumors of Shake-up of Allied ‘Command on Western Front ‘Soon, Displaved by London Press

ALLIED SHAKEUP MAY COME SOON   London Papers Claim That Changes in High Command Are ‘Imminent’

One Commentator Says Regrouping of Armies and Leaders Can Be Expected Shortly—None Questions Eisenhower's Ability to Control Situation, but One Correspondent Asserts His Responsibilities Are Too Widespread.

Airplane Builders Promised Jobs   Reassurance Follows Government Cutback

Murray Urges _ Tax Bill Vete   CIO Chief Calls Measure ‘Betrayal of Principle’

Labor Chieftain Urges President _ JoVeto Tax Bill   Murray Denounces-New Revenue Measure in Roosevelt's Hands

MURRAY URGES VETO OF TAX LEGISLATION   President Of CIO Calls Measure “Travesty:” Roosevelt Plans To Study Bill

MURRAY ASKS FOR TO VETO TAX BILL   Terms New Draft Betraya of Sound Wartime Levy Principles

Canned Fruits, Vegetables, Cut   Civilian Supply Sharply Reduced

Foresee Cut In @ Canned Goods   W.F.A. Official Tells Processors’ Convention Civilians Heading For 19 and 43 Per Cent Cuts.

CANNED VEGET ABLES AND FRUITS REDUCED   Civilians Are In For 43 Percent Cut This Year. Government  Official Announces

BERRIEN FRUIT CROPS MAY BE MOVED BY AIR   ‘Very Real Prospect,’ De —elares Wickard le Address

Mystery Shell Explodes Close to Speeding Train; Two Women Injured

SOVIET TROOPS AT GZERNOWITZ LIMITS TODAY   Nazi Formations Beaten Back By Red Forces

Soviet Troops Short Distance Ol Czernowitz   Drive Within Two And One Half Miles Of Capital Of  Bocos ina Prov nee.   SADAGURA CAPTURED

Red Forces Drive Near Czernowitz   Take Prut River Town Of Skulyany To the South

Drive Across Rivers Roars  On Steadily   Czernowilz, Rumanian Province Capital Near Capture

Nazi Defense Lines Crumble Before Reds   Series of Victories Strengthen Chance to Entrap Lerae Forces

LARGE FORCE HUNGARIANS ANNIHILATED   Russian Troops Are But Two Miles of Czernowitz Capital of Pre-War Rumanion Province   SKULYANY IS STORMED

VICIOUS. AERIAL BATTLE FOUGHT “IVER GERMANY   Raiders Smash Still Blazing Berlin and Plants in Brunswick,

STATE AIRPORT PLANS STYMIED   17 CITIES PLAN TO ASK SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW DECISION

Spectacular Five-Alarm Fire Breaks Out In Coney Island—One Injured

CIVILIANS ARE MURDERED      Report of German - Activities in ( Overrun Belgian Villages

NAL! ADIL DHUADLAS S QUOTED   Russians 12 Miles Within Poland  PINCERS CLOSES  Mannstein Retreat Disorderly

Maine Leans Toward Dewey For Nomination   Nebraska Republican Delegation Pledged to Stassen, Griswold

Slant Toward Dewey Appears In Maine Ranks   Nebraska Delegation To Support Stassen And Goy. Griswold

Two Governors Get Support  MacArthur Urged tc State Availability

Maine's 13-Man G. 0. P. Delegation  Leans to Dewey   Connecticut, Nebraska Governors Win Mention For National Ticket

More Goods Urged for Civilians   Senate Committee Finds Major Production Battles Won

Senate Group Sees No Need For Work Draft   Truman Committee Says Production Battles Are Won

Major Production Battles Are Won   a Committ  hou net Mon Dr aft

Committee Reports Need for More Civilian Material  Investigators Urge Increased Work, Oppose Labor Draft

REPORT CALLS FOR BOOST IN CIVILIAN 6000   Truman Committee Asserts Major War Production Battles Are Won.

HAS A 950 VOTE LEAD   Nye Probably Will Be Republican Senator From North Dakota

B-29'S COMPLETE WEEK OF ATTACKS ON JAPS’ EMPIRE   Okayama Is Main Targel In Largest Strike By Superfortresses

Japanese Fear Invasion of Philippines   Four Superforts Are Unreported From Attack on Formosa

RUSSIAN ARMY 80 MILES DEEP IN OLD POLAND   Fall of Rovno, Lutsk New Peril to Germans

Reds. Crash Into Poland   Russians Advance 46 Miles to Take Lutsk

AFL Boycott. Of Two States Is Intimated   Union’s General Counsel Assails Adoption of Anti-Closed Shop Laws

Boycott Threatens Open Shop States   AFL Acts to Nullify Newly-Passed Statutes

Nazis Haul Up Big Guns Along Canal   Seek To Destroy Crossing Vital To Allied Forces

Steaks, Roasts te Be Ration Free  Hams, Pork Loins to Be Returned

Steak and Roast To Be Removed From Ration List   Point-Free Utility and Commercial Grades  Of Beef Slated Soon

SERVICE VOTE DEADLINE NEAR   Believe President to Lei Measure Become Law

RUMORS INDIGATE ROOSEVELT WILL NOT VETO BALLOT. BILL   PRESIDENT NOW EXPECTED TO ALLOW BILL TO BECOME — LAW WITHOUT HIS BIGNATURE

COLD HEADS OUR WAY   Showers May Accompany Cool Air From Northwest

Home Front Must Again Tighten Belt ls Grim Warning   High Casualties Seen In 1945: War Needs Expected to Increase

WAR OUTPUT APPEAL MADE   CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE PRODUCTION INTENSIFIED AS RESULT OF GERMAN BREAKTHROUGH

Capt. Don Gentile Hopes To Return To Fight In Europe After Furlouch

German Armor Attacks   Flaming Guns of 5th Army Throws Nazi Push Back

Drive To Clean Out Beachhead Reported Halted   Accurate Shellfire’ Stops Threatened Major Push At Anzio

Allies Stop Nazi Drive On Anzio   German Armor Columns Thrown Back After A Fierce Assault.

Germans Strike Again at Anzio Beachhead Area   Launch Third Major Attack Against 5th Army

GERMAN TANKS GIVE UP EFFORT TO BREAK LINES   Infantrymen, Flaming Guns Shatter Armored Attack Below Rome

Decisive Test Lies Ahead As Full Weight Of Nazi Offensive Begins Entering Battle

ALLIES BREAK ANOTHER NAZI TANK ASSAULT   Mud and Bullets Prove Too Much for German Attack Units

HALT BIG PUSH AFTER DAY OF HEAVY FIRING   Robot Tank New Enemy Weapon

ROBOT TANKS ARE USED IN NAZI ATTACKS   Grimly-fighting Allies Reported Holding Firm Under Every Onslaught.   BULLETIN

Allies Crush Nazi Drive On Anzio; Robot Tanks Are ‘Smasked, Army Holds Firm

Eighth Troops Enter Cesena   Progress Made in Bitter Fighting In Mountains

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN IN ITALY   British, Indian Forces Push Into Cesena

ALLIED FORGES NOW IN GESENS   British And Indian Troops Fight Way Into Highway Genter :

ALLIES IN CESENA   British and Indian Troops Make Gains in Adriatic  Sector

Allied Troops Enfer Cesena   Administration Center Of Nazis on Main Rimini-Bologna Road

Supertorts to Pulverize Jap War Industry   Tough Task Started by New Command From Marianas Base

DETROIT'S WAR PLANT. STRIKES ARE SPREADING   Foremen’s Walkout Takes Production Toll At Eleven Plants

Foreman Strike Spreads to II Detroit Plants   2750 Members of Independent Union Are Idle

FOREMEN STRIKE HITS {1 PLANTS IN DETROIT   Ford Windsor Factory Alse Remains Shut Down

ELEVEN PLANTS IN DEI. <T HIT BY LABOR TROUBLE TODAY AS BG FORD PL. ~° AT WINDSOR, CANADA, ACROSS THE RIVER, REMAINED CLOSED FOR TWELFTH DAY—PACKARD SHOPS LATEST VICTIM

Foremen Walk Off War Jobs   Eleven Plants in Detroit Affected; Windsor Plant Closed

11 PLANTS ARE HIT BY STRIKE   Foremen Seek Recognition Of Independent Union

Bearing Brunt Of Ford Strike   Other Strikes Persist In Area Despite Lack Of Official Union Support

Germans Have Seen Nothing Compared With  Blow That Will Strike Them Like Lightning

Correspondent, In New York, Just 48 Hours After Seeing Action On Battlefront In France, Believes Early End Of European War Near

Nazis in Normandy Now See Nothing Compared to Lightning Bolt Ahead

TROOPS FIGHTING IN FRANCE SEE GERMAN COLLAPSE S00   PREDICTIONS RANGE FROM FEW WEEKS UNTIL CHRISTMAS~PARIS EVACUA - TION NOW PROBABLE

Los Angeles Police Judge ‘Freed’ In Joan Berry Case by ‘Immunity’

Report British Secret Agents Are Dropped By Parachute in Germany

VENIREMEN FOR COURT TERM IN APRIL SELECTED   ' No Date Set For Either Pet. it or Grand Jury to Convene

VENIREMEN F 0 R COURT SELECTED   No Date Set for Either Grand or Petit Jurors to Meet; Three Cases

SELECT J FOR SEPTEMBER TERM OF COURT   Grand Jury to Convene On Sept. 25; Nine Cases Are Docketed For Action

Willkie Dies On Sunday   One-Time Republican Presidential Candidate Dies Suddenly  Early Sunday A. M.

Final Tribute Arranged for. Wendell Willkie   Sudden Passing of Revered Leader Shock to Nation

Agree On Plans For Vote Session  Martin Says Harmony On Proposal Prevails 

American Troops Want For  Nothing, Committee Reports Morale lich But Boys Want Toe Get War Over  ew Bes ge ee ce Be whiiceeteccedeccs DPRiesc heed

SOLONS RETURN IN HIGH SPIRITS   Troops At Front Want Fo Nothing, Is Report

House Members Report On Tour To War Fronts   Hoarse and Travel Weary Solons Arrange To Meet With High Officials.

House Group Reports On War Front   ‘Soy Doughboys’ ughpoys’ poy ix Ys High

All Going Well at Battlefronts But More Ammunition Could Be Used, Say Congressmen

EVERYTHING AT FRONT 15 FINE   Congressman, Home From: Junket, Say Army Does- — n’t Need a Thing.

MEMBERS OF HOUSE MILITARY COMMITTEE BACK FROM FRONT   ‘LEAVE IMPRESSION THEY FOUND EVERYTHING GOING WELL THERE

Ammunition Needed In Europe, But House Military Group Commends Army Supply  & © @ S:@

All Goes Well At The Fronts   House Group) Back From Europe Says Little More Ammunition Needed.

Solons Back Fr rom BF ront.   Conditions Aré Good, More Shells Needed.

House Members Return from Kuropear Inspection Tour, Approve Conditions

Congressmen . Impressed B y Europe Trip   Leave Definite Impression They Found Everything Going Well At the Fronts

GRADUATION AT GILMAN HIGH SCHOOL TONIGH)   Graduation Ball At The Kimball House Will Follow

Invasion Job Well Along, Eisenhower Announces   Bradley Senior Head ~ Of American Ground Forces; Wilson Says Rome Objective In Italy

PREINVASION TASK IN GREAT BRITAIN FAR ADVANCED SAYS GEN. EISENHOWER IN LONDON   Command-in-Chief of All Allied Forces in West Praises All Branches of Service for Progress Made In. Preparation for Forth coming Event

Pre-Invasion Task Far Advanced   Allied Chief: Has High Praise for Job Already Done in Britain; Has Been in Washington

ARRIVES IN BRITAIN, PRAISES ALL FORCES   Anxious To Win War So We “Can All Go Fishing’

Commander m Uniel Takes Over After Seeing Roosevelt and Churchill  BRADLEY IN BIG JOB      Infantry Expert Named Senior U. S. Commander Under. Eisenhower

Preparations For Invasion _ Far Advanced   Eisenhower Discloses Much Of Way Paved by Air,   + Naval and Sup-ply Forces.   Mediterranean _ Blows Are Hinted   Allies, With Luck, Can Win European Victory In 1944, Lt. General’ Bradley Declares.

PRE-INVASION JOB ADVANCED KE’ REPORTS   Lieut. Gen. Bradley Is Appointed to Senior  U.S. Generalship

Invasion Plans Are Far Advanced, Says Eisenhower, Now In England

Pre-Invasion Task Is Far Advanced,  Fisenhower Says   An English Officer Hints at New Blows in Mediterranean, France.   Will Win in Europe in Year, Wilson Believes

'Pre-Invasion Task Already 'Advanced, Gen. Eisenhower ‘Says Upon Reaching London   Bradley To Head U. S. Ground Forces; Wilson Hints New Mediterranean Ricws

'Pre-Invasion Work  Far Advanced - ‘Ike’   Bradley Named Senior U. S. General Fo Assault; Wilson Suggests New Blows Comino In Mediterranean  heater

Invasion Task Far Advanced Says “Ike; Mediterranean Blows Hinted

Eisenhower Says Invasion Task Is Far Advanced   Lieut. Gen. Bradley Made Senior American General Under Eisenhower; General Praises Forces.

Eisenhower in London; Plans  Go Forward   Lauds Preliminary Work; Lt. Gen. Bradley May Command Ground Forces

Invasion Task Well Advanced Says General   Eisenhower Now In Britain for Great Undertaking

Allied Pre-Invasion Work Well Advanced   Disclosure Made by Gen. Eisenhower, Now at His Post in England—Wilson Hints at New Mediterranean Blows.

Invasion Task ls Far Auvanced   Eisennower in London After U. S.

Invasion Nears As Eisenhower Reaches Brifain   FDR, Churchill Talks Completed By Allied Chief

Invasion Work      In Great Britain Far Advanced   Eisenhower Gives Report; Bradley Senior General; Wilson Hints New Blows

BRADLEY NAMED AS TOP AIDE TO IKE EISENHOWER   Hero of Tunisian Campaign Will Assist General in Yank Invasion

Wilson Hints ° At New Blows   Into Europe   Southern France Suggested as Possible Target From Mediterranean

GEN, EISENHOWER SAYS ALLIED PLANS ARE WELL ADVANCED   SUPREME COMMANDER Of ALLIED INVASION FORCES PLEASED WITH AIDES

Plans Well Under Way for Blow at Germany, Leader (Reveals on London Arrival

Sir Henry Maitland Hints at New Blows Possibly Invasion  OF Southern France

EISENHOWER IS PLEASED WITH PREPARATIONS   ‘aking Over Allied Reins In London With “Job Already Well Advanced;” Bradley Becomes Chief Of U  Ground Forces In  United Kingdom.

Allied Chief Lauds Aids; Wilson Hints New Blows In Mediterranean.

Invasion From  South Is Hinted   Allies Possibly May Invade Southern . France   BRADLEY IS SECOND UNDER GEN. IKE

THE PRE-INVASION TEST IN BRITAIN IS ALREADY ADVANCEL   This Was Disclosed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the New Commander.      A HINT .   Gen. Sir Henry Maitland-Wilson Said Possibly Into Southern France.

Kisenhower Selects Key Army Chiefs   Fronts Broadened On His Arrival In London

South France Might Be  Battle Scene   General Bradley Named Senior American Officer Under Chief; Wilson Savs War in Europe May End This Year

GENERAL BRADLEY LOOMS LEADER OF AMERICAN FORCES   Gen. Sir Maitland Wilson Hints Allies May Strike  th Sautharn Eranea

Gen. Eisenhower in London; to Become Invasion Director   Finds Pre-Invasion Job Far Advanced; Speaks Well of His Aides

‘Ike, Wilson See Big Blows   LT.-GEN. OMAR BRADLEY SENIOR AMERICAN COMMANDER IN EUROPEAN THEATER; EISENHOWER PRAISES FORCES FOR WORK DONE IN ADVANCE

DEWEY OPPOSED TO POLL TAXES   Senate’s Floor Leader Comes Out Openly For Roosevelt

Mass Promotions Made of Nazi Faithful to Higher Military Ranks—Eleven Officers Made Full Generals—Gestapo Chief in Paris One of Those Advanced—Normal Promotion Date Ignored in Elevating SS Men.

NAZIS TIGHTENING — GRIP ON THE ARMY   SS Leaders Promoted to  High Military Ranks .

MOVETOCLEAR CRIMEA AREA   Hope to Drive Last of Nazis From Russian Soil As They Smash Into Romania Four Wavs.

[Russians Open Two Pronged Offensive To Destroy Over 100,000 Troops In The Crimea

Soviets Cut Off Axis’  Evacuation   Reds Tighten Circle Around 150,000 in Crimea

DRIVE INTO THE CRIMEA   German Odessa Garrison Wiped Out Trying a Dunkirk

Russians Shatter Odessa Dunkirk   Kill Thousands of German, Romanian Troops Scrambling in Disorder to Escape

ENEMY oLAlN AY THOUSANDS IN DEATH TRAP   Tanks Crush Hundreds, Many Sabered at Odessa. by Rad Cavalry.

Russians Commence Crimean Campaign   Germans and Romanians Fleeing: . Odessa Cut Down-—Soviets . Tandon Peninsula Beachheads

SOVIETS PUSH AGAINST NAZIS IN CRIMEA TRAP   Mobile Forces Swarm 62 Miles Into Romania, Forcing Two Rivers

THOUSANDS OF FOE CORNERED ON PENINSULE   Russians Drive Beyond Odessa And Deeper Into Romania

Fear-Crazed Nazis Abandon Romanians In Mad Evacuation   Thousands Slain by Guns. Bombers Tanks Crush Men Flecing hy Read; Only Handful Escape Black Sea Port

Nazi Munitions Depots and Airports Hit   Weather Restricts Day Operations to Coasta] Areas

Nazi Munitions Depots and Airports Hit  Weather Restricts   Weather Restricts Day Operations to Coastal Areas

Bomber Armadas Stream Toward Continent After New Smashes;  Yanks Blast Netherlands Airfield

JAP AIR BASES HIT BY ALLIES   Raids From New Guinea Directed Against Hollandia Area

Allies Strike at Japs  On Schouten Islands   Bombers Direct Attacks Against Air Bases West of Conquered Hollandia; Wakde Isle Pounded; Six Barges Sunk

YANKS BLAST AT FOE WEST OF HOLLANDIA      Schouten Islands Are Attacked; Warships Shell Wakde

Allied Sea and Airforces Attack Japanese Bases West of Hollandia

Allies Carry Attacks West Of Hollandia   Naval Vessels and Aircraft Strike at Bases of Nipponese

Allied foree directs blows at new bases  Troops press on from Hollandia

JAP BASES IN PACIFIC ARE UNDER ATTACK   Emphasis on Schoutin islands North of Geelvink Bay,West of Hollandia:; Blast Fuel Dumps.   Nearer Philippines

Russ Shiit Advance in Kassa Drive   Three-Prong Drive Bags Vilany, Near Major Rail Center

Rail Center Is Objective Of New Push   Soviets Converge On Hub Of Kassa From Three Sides.

Red Atfack . Carries To Kassa Area   Lull in Fighting at Budapest is Reported

GERMANS ORDERED T0 QUIT BULGARIA   Berlin Directs Civilians to Go te HMunoory

Removal of Japanese-American Names From Legion Post Honor Roll Protested

Legion's Action Stirs Protests  Hood River Post Has ‘No Comment’

Stimson, American Legionnaires Reproach Oregon Post For Removing Jap-American GI Names From Honor Ro

Cincinnati Trouble May be Ended Late Today — Little Hepe of Setticment of Tuledo Strike Befere Monday.

Cincinnati Bread Strike Near End   Bakery Tie-up: in Toledo’ Continues

BERLIN RADIO AY WAR GAL BATTLE BEGUN   Russian Troops Improve Line "Near Praga, Suburb of Polish Capital.

“Reds Draw Noose Tigh At Warsaw   All Counter-Attacks By Desperate Nazis Fail at Heavy Cost

mans Lynch anks Reported  Five American Fliers Killed by German  ,, a oa 

Nazi People ~ Lyneh Airmen   German Paper Claims Americans Who Parachuted  Were Killed By Public.

‘Nazi Mobs Killing U.S. ‘Airmen  Men Attacked Afte They Parachute  rh. ct fet

SWEDES REPORT YANK AIRMEN IN REICH LYNCHED   Five Americans Said Hung By Populace In ‘Three German Towns

Report U.S. Fliers Lynched By lrate Mobs In Germany   Stockholm Paper Tells Of Five Being Killed After Bailing From Planes

Yank Airmen Lynched, Claim  Five Fliers Victims Of Mob in Germany,  Newspaper Asserts

American Airmen Lynched By German Mobs. Stockholm Newspaper Reports

Five U.S. Flyers Reported Slain   Civilians Responsible, Nazi Report Says

INDIANA G.0.P. OPPOSES DEWEY   STATE CONVENTION REJECTS PROPOSAL TO INSTRUCT 29 FOR, GOVERNOR,

INDIANA BUILDS UP DEWEY VOTE   Nevada Only State Left Will Pick Delegates For GOP Saturday

Dewey Fails To Win Support Of  Indiana Group  GHRSEUEE: Rise A pea

Indiana Rejects Dewey Pledge   Maryland Leaves Delegates Uninstructed

Heosier Vote Vetoes Dewey Pledge Move   Republicans Shout Against Plan to Ynstruct Delegates

Kansas fo Select Demo Delegates   GOP. Studies. Indiana Meet: Where Dewey Gained? Deleqates

Death Penalty Demanded For Collett; Defense Says ‘Simple Farmer’ Tortured

Death Penalty Demanded by Prosecution   Accused Killer Of Three May Learn Fate Today

CLOSE 10 WAR PLANTS   Strike of Key Men Halts Work At Detroit Factories

Walkout Closes 10° War Plants   Detroit Maintenance Workers Strike at End of 24-Hour Ultimatum to NWLB

Key Workers Leave Jobs At Detroit   General Strike Of Maintenance Crews {s Feared.

10 DETROIT PLANTS CLOSED BY STRIKE   fTeneral] Walkout By Maintenance Crews In War Plants

Russians Near Twin Slovak Strongholds   Fierce Nazi Resistance On 60-Mile Front Reine Rolled Back

RUSSIANS DRIVE TOWARD SLOVAK STRONGHOLDS OF PRESOV AND KASS:   Fighting Heavy Near Budapest

Reds Approach Slovak Points  nll pmpolk rr’...   Roll Back Fierce Nazi Resistance

RED MOUNTAIN TROOPS NEAR PRESOV, KASSA   Roll Back Fierce Resistance Of Germans On 60-Mile Front

Soviets Near Twin Slovak Strongholds   Threaten to Cut Main Railway from Hungary to Poland

Expect Jap Guerrillas May Prolong Pacific War Long After Victory

May Face Long Task In Pacific   Bypassed Jap: Forces May Carry On As Guerillas Long After Nip Government Gives Up

Spain Counters Espionage Charge   Nation States Readiness  To Defend Neutrality

Nazis Declare Rome ‘Open City   Enemy Says They Will Completely Demilitarize The City.

Germany's Rome Offer Suspected   Seems Like Ruse To Prevent Raids

FBI Black Market Probe In Florida  Hoover Leads Inquiry Ir Tourist Trade

CHECKUP IN ‘SOME HAMILTON ANv ‘SCIOTO PRECINCTS ALSO. CONSIDERED—-8TEW ART MARGIN 2,005 

2,005 LEAD OF STEWART WILL BE CHALLENGED   Margin Of GOP Victory Smallest In Recent History Of State   CLEVELAND SKEPTICAL   cincinnati Mayor Gets 162,976 While Total For Lausche Hits 180,611

Roar Their Greelings to Roosevelt   Philadelphia Crowd Is Nois. er, aud Bigger in Some Places, Than in N. ¥.   CONFETTI MIXED WITH COLD RAIN   Shri eking,  Applauding Throngs Cheer President 1n Downtown Areas of City

iWLB Orders ‘immediate lend To Detroit Strike   Labor Disputes In War Factories In The Detroit Area Continue To Spread Monday

BRITISH BATTLE NAZIS. IN GESENA   SMALI. GAINS MADE BY AILIES ALL ALONG NORTH ITALIAN FRONT.

BRITISH GAIN NEAR CESENA   Allies Make Small Advanc es in Italy in Continued Heavy Fighting

NAZI SUPPLY HARBOR LEFT FIERY MASS   Forts Based In Italy Hit Pola In Heavy Attack

YANK BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN SUPPLY HARBOR   Fortresses Range From . Italian Bases te Set Pola Afire In Support of Turoslays

Big Bombers Blast Pola, Supply Port  For Germans   Heavy Blow Will Be Aid To Partisans; Harbor Is Covered With Fires. Explosions

FLYING FORTRESSES BLASTED HARBOR OF POLA IN BIG ATTACK   HEAVY BOMBERS STRIKE BLOW IN SUPPORT YUGOSLAV PATRIOTS

Cornered Nazis Open Final Fight to Escape Trap: Armored Division Sweeps on Paris

Nazi /th Army in Losing Fight in Normandy   New American Armored Columns Sweens on Paris

All Objectives Taken In South: 8 Miles Inland:  Normandy Pocket Caving

Cornered German Remnant Lash Out in Wild Attempt  To Break Out of Pockel

Cornered Germar Troops Lash Out Against Allies   Great Outer, Trap Being Forged Around Normandy . Pocket

MARINES TAKE MAIN PELELIU ISLAND TOWN   NEW LANDINGS ARE TRIPLE THREAT TO PHILIPPINES ‘*

Marines Occupy Principal Town on Peleliu _ Island  8ST ARMY HOLDS ANGUAR POSITIONS  Enemy Counter - attacks on Peleliu Are Repelied

Americans Take Principal Town on Peleliu After Hard Fight: 5,495 Japs Are Slain

PRINCIPAL TOWN ON PELELIU TAKEN   American Marines Capture Isle Off Tip of Peleliu   ‘HEAVY FIGHTING   ‘Half of Defending Force Said  _ Killed; Japs Raid Newly  Occupied Morotai

Marines Occupy Principal Town on Peleliu _Island     OtePr szaMmbid®e?’ LIAL Re   81ST ARMY HOLDS ANGUAR POSITIONS   Enemy Counter - attacks on Peleliu Are Repelled

Asias taken by Yanks on Peleliu island  Control northerr half of Angaur

1,000 Forts, Liberators Strike in Area of Kassel   Raid Follows Night Assaults by RAF on Railway Targets in France and Belgium

Central Germany Attacked by 2000 American Planes   Bombs Dropped Upon Airplane Concentrations

PRE- INVASION AIR OFFENSIVE [S STEPPED UP   RAF Night Attack Covers Eue rope From French Coast To Burning Berlin

American M itary Govern ment Tightens Control Over Aachen   sermans Slip Back To Ghost City In Straggling Groups; Decrees Bar Nazi Music And Nazi Salute

Aachen Citizens Returning Under Strict AMG Rule   Officers Seeking Burgomaster For City Who Is Anti-Nazi.

PEOPLE START RETURNING 10 AACHEN RUINS   AMERICANS SEEKING BURGOMASTER WHO IS ANTI-HITLER

NIKOLAYEV BASE SCENE OF BITTER STREET FIGHTING   Reds’ Drive into Bucovina Now Only Three Miles from Cernauti

BALKAN DRIVE   Enter Bucovina and Fight on Approaches to Cernauti

GLAM WTh bCAMAND Ih NIKOLAYEY    Fierce Street Fights  In Naval Base   CRACK BUCOVINA

AUSS TANKS — MAY LAUNCH HUGE DRIVE   SOVIET ARMADAS PREPARE TO START INVASION AT ANY MOMENT.   Nazis Resist   Red Army Battles Hand-to-Hand with Germans in Streets of Nikolayev.

Red Drive Through Hungary Could Alter War’s Complexion    SOMETHING TO CONJURE

WAR TODAY   Red Drive Through : Hungary May Develop Into One Of Decisive Engagements of War.

WAR ANALYST GROWS WARM AS RESULT OF RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN TO TAKE OVER BALKANS AREA

RUSSIAN DRIVE THROUGH HEART OF HUNGARY MAY DEVELOP INTO NE OF DECISIVE ENGAGEMENTS

MacKenzie Says—  New Soviet Drive May  Be Decisive   Fall of Budapest Will Pave Way for Push Into Austria, All Of South Europe

Dreams Used For Picking Day-Hour   Bethany Man, Winner in Contest, Explains Why He Chose 5th and 11:45 p. m.

HOUSE DEFENDS DELAY OF GIBILL   Group Desires Measure That Will be Workable

Legion Supports Gl Rights Bill Neuse Ganmmvlites  mkaswrla Lae Prods:

DEFEND DELAY ON G.L BILL   ILeadisr Say'They Are.Attempt: ing To Oraft a Mesure That ‘ls Workable.

Defend Delay On GI Measure   Legion Members in Washington for Spring Meetings

Legion Urging House To Pass Veterans’ Bill   Committee Defends Delay in Action, Cites Need of Careful Study on “eT.” Measure

HOUSE STUDIES “G. 1” MEASURE   Leaders Refuse To Be Stampeded Into Action

House Defends Delay in Action On Veterans Bill   Legion Members Gathering Today In Washinaton ~

2,752 Britons Killed, 8,000 Wounded By Robot Bombers, Churchill Reveals

London Again Unhappy City   AP Newsman’s Account Much-Censored, Indicates Damage Serious, Wide

Robot Bombs Wreck Homes   Heavily Censored Dispateh Cites Losses

UNDER DIRECT FIRE   London Schools, Churches and Hospitals Have Been  lasted

Congress   House Overrides Veto Of Tax Bill, Retains Barkley   President Has “Blackest Day’’ When Rebelliou: Party Rejects White House Influence; Tax Measure Is Passed In House By Vote of 299-95.

Barkley Is — Re-elected Demo Leade   House Overrides President’s Veto On Tox Bill: Senate Expected To Follow Suit With Vote Friday: FD Leses Much Of Influence

apres IN RAIL   NEW BLOW DEALT ENEMY OIL BASE IN BORNEO— GREAT FIRES STARTED.

Lawyer Electrifies Court With Hope To Prove Lonergan’s Purported Confession Was ‘Fake’

Confession Fake Says Lonergan   Counsel’s Statement Electrifies Session of Cafe Society Murder Trial.

STAND OF FOR UNCHANGED ON “TINE HOLDING”   oe  Fresh Declaration On Stabilization Expected From White House  SENATE APPROVES BAN  Barkley Expresses Belief Both Houses Will Uphold Veto

ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL CERTAIN TO BE VETOED   F, D. Determined To “Hold Line”  ee nn one  ee  Subsidy Foes Stress Food For Army

Beattie, War Writer, Now Nazi Prisoner   CORRESPONDENT TAKEN PRISONER AT CHAUMONT BELIEVED IN REICH

B eattie, UP War Reporter, N azi Prisoner   Correspondent Captured In France With Others, Is Believed In Germany

Flyers Raid Many Islands Of Japanese   Homeland Isles of Nippon Among Those Struck by Bombs

Japs’ Island Bases  Hit b y Americans   Paramushiro and Shumushu Hit Without Meeting Major Opposition; Ponape and Eastern Marshalls Islands Also Blasted

Kurile Islands Hit — By Allied Airmen   For Northern Homeland Areas of Japanese Attacked —-Three Enemy Bases in Eastern Marshalls Also Bombed

Australian War Brides Arrive   Look With Mingled Curiosity, Trust Upon New Homeland

Japs Make Usual Claims Of Heavy Damage To American Fleet; Forrestal Sees Some Indication Of Naval Battle   NAVY IS LOOKING FORWARD TO FIGRT

Joan Says Marriage Rejected   Testifies On Witness Stand Chaplin Father Of Carol Ann

JOAN REVEALS FULL DETAILS OF LOVE LIFE   Names Chaplin Father Of  Child In Pungent   Court Session

GUSTAV LINE IS THREATENED   Yanks Have Battled Tx Within 500 Yards of City of Cassino

NAZI GUSTAV LINE IS NEAR COLLAPSE      In North, Anzio Bridgehead Is Enlarged Despite Ger man Caunterattacke

Nazi Suicide Squads in The Outskirts of Cassino Being Mowed Down By Allied Forces

Fifth Army Blasts Forward In Bitter Cassino Battle; ‘Also Advances Near Rome  !     J tC i

Allies Tearing Un Gustav Line   Widen Breach; Enlarge Beachhead Despite Attacks Of Desperate Germans

Wide Gaps Torn In Gustav Line By Allied Force   Americans Battle To Cassino’s Edge From North Today

YANK CAPTURE OF CASSINO IS BELIEVED NEAR   Troops Battle Within 500 Yards of Key To Nazi Line

Core of Gusiav Line Seriously Threatened by Altacks from Front and Rear   WIDEN BEACHHEAD   Strong German Counter-Allacks Thrown Back South of Rome— New Drive Near Adrialic Seen

Americans Matter Of Yards From Cassino...  Core Of Gustav Line Is Threatened; Bridgehead North Of Rome Enlarged

Cassino Hit  From 2 Sides ‘By Americans   Germans Along Adriatic Are Nervous—May Indicate Impending Action

YANKS FIGHT 500 YARDS FROM CITY   Hint Signs Of New Offensive By Eighth Army

Threaten Co Core  Of Gustav Line      Yanks And French Tear Wide Gap In German Defenses —   FIGHTING IN REAR OF STRONGHOLD

Yankees Push Near Cassino   Threaten Center Of Gustav Line Of German Defense

Yanks Battle Suicide  Squads Around Cassine   Advance To Within 500 Yards Of Core Of  Germans Battle Desperately.

Americans And F rench Within 900 Yards Goal   Wide Gaps Torn In Gustav  Kine In Bloody Fighting In Mountains to Rear Ancient City   Anzio Bridgehead To North Widened   German Counter-Attacks  Being Thrown Back By Allied Forces Headed For Rome

Americans Battling on Town Border:   Gustav Line Shattered, but Fichting Is Fierce

AMERICAN TROOPS ARE REPORTED 10 BE NEARING CASSINC   Center of Gustav Line Seri ously Threatened, Allied Headquarters Said,   GAPS IN GUSTAV LINE

Yanks Battled — _ Nearer Cassino   AMERICANS TURN .BACK ALL GERMAN. ATTACKS

Yanks Assault Cassino From Front And Réar   Fight Way From North To Within 500 Yards Of Nazi Stronghold.

Cassino Near As Amerieans Threaten Core  (Of Nazi Line —   French Assisting In Gustav Attack

American Troops Battle To Within 500 Yards Of City From North—Allied Headquarters Says Germans’ Gustav Line Is “Seriously Threatened”—U. S. And French Forces Tear Wide Gaps In Enemy Defenses-Anzio Beachhead South Of Rome Being Enlarged

U.S. Bombers Hit Ships Bound For Leyte Isle  Nip Submarine  At mm .,...¥      Nip Submarine Also Destroyed At Ormoc Harbo:

MEN IN WATER HAD GUNS AND SUPPLY OF BOMBS   So Americans Made No Effort To Rescue Them   SIX SHIPS WERE SUNK

Seger SMASH TH JAP CONVOY WITH 5,000 TOLL   U.S. Forces Thwart Foe’s Efforts to Reinforce » Leyte

AIRMEN SINK CONOVY WITH ~~ 000 TROOPS   SEVENTH JAPANESE CONVOY BLASTED IN PHILIPPINES— DESTROYERS SINK EN. . EMY SUBMARINE

00 MORE NIP TROOPS DROWNED   Alert Yank Air Forces Sink Six Ships Headed for Leyte Island

SAY 1ST ARMY IS REINFORCED   Nazis Claim Divisions From  Third, Seventh and Ninth Rushed Into Battle

Sam Rayburn Lags in Early Texas Returns   Four Other Incumbent Congressmen Also Are Trailing Opponents In Primary Voting

Incumbents In Texas Trailing Rayburn Behind In Early Tabulations

Republicans Hail Bricker As Nation’s Greatest Sportsman   Young Tom Dewey Will Pick Cabinet Of Capable “Youth”’

WARM RECEPTION FOR BRICKER JS BEING. ARRANGED   BY CHARLES P. McMAHON U.P. Staf Correspondent

Pinchot Will Support F.D.R.   Former G.O.P. Governor Can’t Back Raw Recruit Tike Newev.

Big Guns Quit: Dover:Dances   "Hellfire Corner’ of England Given Respite From Coast Shelling

United States Now Holds 183,618 War  Prisoners   133,135 Are Germans; 50.136 Italians And 347 Japanese,  Army Announces   THEIR RE-EDUCATION IS MAJOR PROBLEM   BO AAU PUL  Statement Emphasizes Value of Their Help  In Dahor Shoartave

183,018 Prisoners Of War In U.S.   Germans, Italians and Japs Now Housed In All But Seven States.

183,618 Prisoner: Of War Now Held In United States  Work Performed by Men in 203 Camps  ‘Vital to Agvriculture’

Commerce Among 310 Southwest Towns To Be Served By Postwar Air Transport

NEW UNIFORMS FOR CONCORD STATE CUARI   Officers Anxious to Recruit To Full Strength; Inspection Oct. 30th

FOR CONCORD STATE GUARI   Officers Anxious to ‘Recruit ‘To F ull Strength; Inspection Oct. 30th

Second Exchange Of German And Allied Prisoners Made   Wounded American And British Men In Good Spirits; Germans Silent

CABINET CHANGE MARKS BULGARIA PEACE EFFORTS   “ree-Month Old Bagrianov Regime Steps Out; Finns Seek Way Out

Air Forces Will Close 69 Fields  Unit Peak Strength   Unit Peak Strength Reached

Day for invasion Hinges on Weather  Records for Many Years Studied   Records for Many Years Studied . Before Time for Assault Was Fixed

Channel Ideal For Invasion  Through May   Records Covering Yeurs Reveal Less Fog and Gales At Both Ends Of Waterway   Approximate Date For D-Day Is Set   Decided Leng Ago and: Timetable Worked -Out In Minnies, Even See-   onds, It Is Diselosed 

Invasion Timetable Worked Out To the Second From Mountains Of Weather Statistics

‘Allied Invasion Is — Planned In Seconds   May-Time On English Channel Said To Be Best Period Of Invasion-Weather

May Is Most Favorable Month  For Invasion Across Channel   Records Of Years Show Fewer Gales To Impede Crossing For Great Venture, Hour For Which Believed Drawing Near.

Weather Governs Invasion Plans   Schedule Worked Out From Mountains of  Data on Hand

INVASION TIME TABLE WORKED OUT IN SECONDS   CHANNEL WEATHER MOST FAVORABLE IN MONTH OF MAY

Best Weather For Invasion  Comes In May   Timetable Worked Out For Assault; Blows Coming From West. Sonth. Savs Report

ALLIED ARMIES FOLLOW WITH PUSH TOWARD ROME   Coordinated Air Assault Unprecedented In History of World Warfare  ae a   REMOVE BARRIER TO VATICAN CITY,   1, 400 Tons of Bombs Dropped In 3!% Hours;  Tiny City In Shambles

GERMAN STRONGHOLD BLOCKING PATH .TOWARD  ROME VIRTUALLY BLOWN OFF MAP. BY BOMBERS  ‘ AS OFFENSIVE GETS: UNDERWAY—GERMAN FIGHTERS ATTACK ‘DAYLIGHT BOMBING SQUADRONS DURING RAIDS ON GERMANY

BATTLE RAGES ON ROME ROAD IN LIRI VALLEY   Nazi Bulwark in Shambles After Anglo-American 1400-Ton Raid

Allies Move In After Record Bombing Attack Levels Nazi Stronghold on Italian Front   Smashing Raid Clears Way for Drive On Rome From South; Ancient City "Reduced to Rubble by Allied Bombs

Allied Armies Onen Big Push   Coordinated Assault Greatest In History

Jobless Pay Compromise Talks Start   House, Senate Members Try to Compose Sharp Differences

Congress Seeks Compromise on Post-War Policy   Reconversion and Demobilization Will Be Urged

Early Snows Cut Allied Time On West Front  Eisenhower Has Not Revealed Full Hand in Fighting

Time Factor Closes In On War Fronts      First Snows Hint Ominously at Early Winter Which Meant Dim Allied Hones of   1944 Victory

The Weather   Move Is Seen As Weakness   Ouster Follows Close on Heels Of Saipan Defeat

Gen.Umezu To Replace NipPremier   Report on Japanese Radio Indicates War Lords Have Become Dissatisfied With Conduct of War.

Tojo Ousted as Jap Staff Chief   General Toshijiro Umezu Succeeds Nip Premier in Army Post; Shakeup Follows Resignation of Admiral Shigetaro Shimada as Navy Minister

Nips Greatest Crisis Seen In Siafif Shakeup   Gen. Umezu Head Of Kwantung Army Is Appointed As Successor

JAPANESE WAR LORD IS OUSTED   Action Indicates Major Crisis In Nippon Empire

1030 REMOVED 'S CHIEF OF ENERAL STAFF   Saipan Fall Called Crisis

INEW CHIEF OF loTAEE IS NAMED   ““Fojo; However, Keéps Many Other Posts  no WNITEN PEEGG

REMOVE TOJ0 AS JAPANESE CHIEF   Believed Kept as Premier; Gen. Umezu Appointed as His Successor. —

Saipan Defeat Brings Removal Of Army Leader   May Continue as Premier; Tokyo Radio Gives News

Pacific Isle Empire Tol Crisis Near   Hirohito Worried; People Get News Of Sainan Capture

JAP PREMIER SAYS MAJOR CRISIS FACED   Tokyo Radio Reports Dictator Yields To Army General Umezu; May Keep Other Titles ‘

Navy Minister Shimada Resigns; Japanese Admit “National Crisis”   General Umezu Named General Staff Chief; Loss of Saipan Fills Nips with Trepidation  **e.’* oes. se.. Bets Toto;

TOJ0 OUSTED   HAD BEEN JAP CHIEF OF STAFF   Will Be Succeeded by Gen. Umezu, Former Kwang tung Army Commander.

Man Who Planned War Jettisoned   Move Follows Closely on His Warning That Americans Are at Nippon’s Gates

TOJO OUSTED AS NIP ARMY STAFF CHIEF   Indicates Major Crisis In Jap Empire

Indicates Grave Crisis In Japarlese Government; Conquest Of Saipan Admitted By Japan; Tojo Succeeded By Gen. Umezu   ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY TOKYO RROADCAST

GEN. HIDEK! 100 REMOVED AS CHIEF   Little Jip Who Led Japan To War Against U. S. Removed From Staff

Mikado Removes Tojo ‘The Razor   Nippon Ship of State Breaking Up Under Pressure of U. S. Offensive

But He Apparently Retains Posts Of Premier And War Minister   , Action Indicates Major Jap Crisis   Gen. Umezu Takes Over Shake-Up Comes After Saipan Loss Admitted

T0J0-REMOVED ‘AS JAP CHIEF (OF STAFF   Premier Had. Headed Armed  Forces Since Feb.

James A. Reed of Missouri !s Dead   Man Famed for Fighting Spirit, Vitriolic Tongue Never Compromised

FORMER SENATOR JAMES A. REED DIED AT FAIRVIEW, MICH,   His Death Occurred at 12:30 p- m. at His Ranch Home.   STRICKEN WITH COLD   The Body Will Be Returned to Kansas City for Internment.

JAMES A, REED, 82 DIES AT HIS HOME      Former U. S. Senator and _ Courageous Fighter Expires

DEATH CLAIMS JAMES A, REED   Bronchitis Fotal to Former Missouri Senator at Age of 82

Ex-Senator James Reed of Missouri,  Democrat, is Dead   Bronchitis is Fatal to Outstanding Opponent of Versailles Pact

James A. Reed Dies i in Michigan   Former Senator from Missouri Had Long And Colorful Career

AT SUMMER HOME   82-Year Old Former Missour! Senator Was Ill Two Weeks    A VIGOROUS FIGHTER

REED, FORMER ~ SENATOR, DIES   Led F ight Against League During Wilson Regime

EX-SENATOR JAMES REED DIES FRIDAY   Had Reputation of Being One of Men Who Talked the League of Nations to Its Death

Former Sen. Reed Is Dead   MISSOURIAN WAGED FIGHT AGAINST U. S. JOINING THE LEAGUE

Senator James A.  Reed Dies   Former Missouri Senator Was IIl  At His Ranch  Near Alpena, Mich.

American Sub Reported Sighted Off Manchuria   Japs Reinforcing Air Strength in Pacific: Yank Airmen Hit Wewak

Large Jap Cruiser Sunk Near ; Singapore by British Submarine   Japs Are Reinforcing in the Southwest Pacific.

SUPPLIES REACH POLISH PATRIOTS   U. 5. Forts Drop Food, Arms And Ammunition to Mea Fighting in Warsow

DROP FOOD 10 TRAPPED POLES   American Flying Fortresses Parachute Tons Of Food, Arms, Medicine To Patriots In Warsaw.

Arms Dropped Inside Warsaw   Soldiers Evade Competition With Sharpshooting Skunks

SOVIET WAR MAP ~ SHOWS ADVANCE      Red Positions Around Kowel Astride Railway; Berlin 460 Miles Away

Russ Squeeze Hits Sweden  Reds Join Britain, Us a to Halt Sale  Pe ee a Say ren. oe

Reds Back Anti-Nazi Trade War   ‘Cooperate With U. S. _And British Efforts To - Get Sweden to Halt  ’ Ballbearing Shipments

Signs Extension  To REA Measure   FR Calls Attention: To Wider Rural Power

 ooentatemenesnneeliiianetnaatainiemennieemmettiimmmenemnaemmmmmmnet  FR Signs Bill Extending Rural Electrification

Hillman Puts PAC In World Affairs   Tells London It May  Pattern Peace Guard

Death and Military Inductions Have Reduced Voting Strength in Assembly

The War Today  Hitler’s Speech Is Cry of Beaten Man For Aid From Allies.

‘SPEECH OF HITLER SUNDAY WAS DESPERATE CRY FOR AID FROM ANCLO-AMERICANS TO SAVE HIM

The War Today  Hitler’s Speech Was Desperate Cry Of   Beaten, Terrified Man   {By DEWITT MACKENZIE

The War Today   Hitler Appeais for-Aid ~ From Red Armies’ Vengeance

SOLON TIGHTEN PROBE AUTHORITY   Plan Movement to Cite for Contempt Reluctant Fed: eral Emnloves

Congress Takes Tighter Grip on Its Own Authority to Secure Information

French Occupy Marseille As Yanks Push Inland 140 Miles to Seize Grenoble

Stimson Sees V-E Hastened By Nazi Sure   ‘War Secretary. Sure Foe  Will Fail Then Seck 1.2

Reds Accuse Finns Of Aid  To Nazi Army   Soviet Press Claims Finns Not Keeping Peace Terms, Helping Germans Escape

Soviet Press Sa ys Finns Violated Armistice Terms   Naval Organ Demands “Strict Unconditional Fulfillment Of All Armistice Terms” and Declares Finland Helped German Soldiers Flee Country

Germany Plans New World War   Hitler Training Youth To Attempt Conquest

HITLER PLANS RULE IN EXILE   Train Youths To Lead Underground Forces Aiter Defeat

Smethport Man Dies in Action In New Guinea   Staff Sgt. McKendrick Was Aerial Gunner on Flying Fortress in Area

Soldier Vote Debate Drags   Democrats and Republicans Argue Over elt

Vote Bill Drags, GOP Assailed   Democrats Demand That Republicans Stop Offering Ham-Stringing Changes   MANY AMENDMENTS BEING PROPOSED   But Few Are . Accepted; Wright of Chariton County Scores G.O.P, Tactics

Many Amendments to the Soldier’ Bill   Democrat Demanded Republi- eans “Quit Putting on Hamstring Amendments.”

Showdown In Philippines   But Japs Say Nothing Of Their Losses There

See Decisive Battles In Philippines   Jap Diet Told U.S. Casualties 503.000

TITO REPORTS VICTORIES   SOLDIER HURT IN CAR CRASH   Bridgman Youth Hits Cul. vert, Hurled Through Windshield

PANICKY NAZI RADIO REPORTS   British-Based American Warplanes Hit Bertin--Pre-Invasion Assault on Axis Europe Now In Sixtit Straight Day.

2,000: PLANES SPREAD RUIN THROUGH BERLIA   Italy-Based Fleet: May Have Also Hit Cite

Good Rains Soak Northeast Kansas      The rainfall here last night was 49 of an inch.

RAINS OVER KANSAS   Last Night’s Temperatures Forecast Again for Tonight

THREE AIR RAIDS MADE ON BERLIN; OTHER TOWNS HIT   Ten Thousand Tons of ExploSives Poured On German War Plants in Devastating Assault.   PORT CITY OF BREMEN APPEARS TO BE ABLAZE   Daylight Onslaught Followed by Night Attack—Yanks Knock Down 20 Planes, Lose 29.

1.800 Heavy Bombers Among 3,000 Planes Aloft In Mass Raids Friday

GERMANY BLASTED BY HEAVY BOMBERS   More than 10,000 Tons Poured on War Plants in the Reich

7,000 TONS LANDED ON NAZI TARGETS   Oil Refineries, Tank Factories, Aircraft Engine Plants and Ordnance Dumps Blasted.   Tank Columns

Reich is rocked by  air might   Berlin handed a devastating blow

Heavy Bombers Smash Nazi War Factories  Refineries, Tank and Engine Plants Shattered

Mass Raid:   cerlin and Many Other Targets Blastsd by More Than. 10,000 Tons of Bombs

Have Redeemed, Pledge To Return to. Philippines: To Teach Japan Lesson

INVASION MESSAGE SENT TO M’ARTHUR   President Tells General That America Nation Exults At News Of Philippine Landings

AIR AND GROUND WAR CONTINUES UNABATED IN PACIFIC SECTOR  SUPERFORTS HIT NA CAVA TADAWN ARIF LAR   SUPERFORTS HIT NAGOYA, JAPAN, AND HAN. KOW, CHINA, MONDAY

BLAST JAPAN'S WAR MACHINE IN 2-PLY BLOW   Huge B-29 Armada Rehits Nagoya, Raid Hankow for First Time

SUPERFORTS IN RAID ON JAPAN   Large Fleet Again Attacks Nagoya; Yanks Gain on Mindoro. .   LEYTE FIGHTING BLOODY

AA 0 MINDORO ISLE   Kill 2,012 Japs In Bloodiest Fighting On Leyte

Yanks Gaining On Mindoro; Long War Seer   Gen. Harmon Believes Japs Will Be Fighting Two Years from Now

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON LEYTE AND MINDORO   Air Force Commander Says ‘We Can Expect Japan To Be Fighting in 1946’

B-29s Attack Jap Industrial City, Nageve   American Doughboys On Mindore In Philippines Make Sharp Gains.   NEW INVASION SEEN

oPerhaps 200 B-29s Strike eDouble Blow   Doughboys On Mindoro Smash Farther Inland; Bloody Levte Fight.

SOUTHERN TIP OF ISLAND CLEARED   Bloody Fighting Continues Near Ormoc On Leyte   OW, CHINA   Hit First Time By Superfortresses: Build Air Field Near Manila

Mindoro Yanks Drive 11 Miles From Beachheat   Harmon Views Japanese Still Fighting In 1946; Fear Shown In Tokyo

B-29 Armada Bombs Nagoya,  Hankow Goals   Sharp Gains Made on Mindoro While Bloods Fighting Continues On Leyte Island

SHARP GAINS IN MINDORO MADE BY YANK FORCE   Japs Sight American Fleet in Sulu Sea; New Invasion Hinted

200 B-29'S HIT AT NAGOYA AND HANKOW AREAS   Doughboys Make Sharp Gains On Newly-Invaded Island Of Mindoro

B-298 Hit JAPAN INVADERS MOVER   Vulnerable Nageya Bomb ing Target; Bloody Fighting on Leyte; M’Arther Presses Toward Mande.

Nagoya, Hankow Bombed   Yanks Make Sharp Advances On Newly Invaded Mindoro

, Nagoya. Given ‘Main Weight Of. Explosives   None of Big Planes Lost, According to Reports By Japanese Radio

MINDORO PUSH CONTINUES 10 MOVE RAPIDLY   Bloody Leyte Fighting Rages; Tokyo Press Shows Alarm

Superforts Hit Nagoya, Hankow   Yanks Tighten Hold  on Mindoro Island   Bloody Fighting Continues on Leyte; Japs Report U.S. Fleet in Sula Sea

a Sl allel  YANKS: AIVANCNG AN MINDORO ISLE   ghboys More ‘Than 11 Peugt From. Beachhead tablished Friday .      ‘HOLD. IS SECURE   Airfields, 150 Miles From _ Manila, “Whipped Into Shape .

AIR AND GROUND WAR CONTINUES UNABATED IN PACIFIC SECTOR  SUPERFORTS HIT NAGOYA, JAPAN, AND HAN=> KOW. CHINA. MONDAY

NEW FOOTHOLDS SECURE SAYS MACARTHUR; BLOODY BATTLE ON LEYTE ISLAND GOES ON

Germany Offers to Free Leopold in Exchange  For Hess, Says Rumor

SENATORS END CG HEARINGS      Only Way to End Shortage Is to End War, Solons Decide

War Biamed For Dearth Of Cigarets   Senate Sees No Civilian Relief

End Of War  Is Solution   Senators Convinced: Of Cigaret- Shortage

Free Mailing Probe Opened   Violations “Found. oe Among Congressmen:

Smith Before House Group   ‘America First? Chief Faces Political Quiz

Invasion Time Still A Secret Secretary — Knox Says   20TH ASSAULT ON TRUK IN A MONTH   British Are Now On The Initiative In India

U. S. BOMBING KURILE ISLANDS PRELIMINARY TO AN INVASION    Secretary Knox Says That   Northern Approaches To Jap Homeland On List To Be Invaded.

Dewey Heads East With Guns Loaded For Oct..5 Counterattack:By F.D R.

PRESIDENT DROFS WA RTr ME SAFETY PRECAUTION IN INTEREST OF HIS CAN DIDACY = -—

U5. TROOPS GAIN ON SHPAN, NOE TOWARD GARKPAN   Nimitz Announces Air ‘and Surface Units Hit - Kurabu -

U9. TROOPS GAIN ON OAIPAK; MOVE TOWARD GARAPAN   Nimitz Announces Air and Surface Units Hit Kurabu

CAPITAL BOOS SHIPMENTS CUT   Quantity: of Lend-Lease Machinery Sent. To Britain Drops

ELIMINATION OF  SHIPMENTS CAPITAL  GOODS TO BRITAIN BRITISH AND AMERICAN   SUPPLY OFFICIALS  - pracu ACRERMENT

LEND-LEASE TO BRITAIN DROPS   BRITISH: PLANTS NOW HAVE ABOUT ALL THEY NEED

Capital Goods. Shipments lo. England Ended  Lease- Lend. Policies: ‘Shifted: ‘As Climax’. ‘oF ‘War: -Approaches

Capital Goods  Shipments To. ‘Britain Eased   Virtual Elimination Under Lend-Lease Understood To Have Been Agreed Upon.

CHANGE AGREED ON LEND-LEASE   End of Capital Goods Shipments to Great Britain Is Reported

ELIMINATION OF SHIPMENTS CAPITAL GOODS TO BRITAIN  BRITISH AND AMERICAN SUPPLY OFFICIALS REACH AGREEMENT

British, U. S. Supply Officials Reportedly Agreed On End Of Capital Goods Shinments

BRITAIN 10 GtT FEWER SUPPLIES   Virtual Elimination of Capttal Goods Under LendLease Is Planned.

U. 8. Will Limit Lend-Lease to Great Britain   Exports Will Be Closely Geared. To Military Needs

REPORT LET-UP INLEND-LEASE   Virtual End of Capital Goods Shipments to Britain Agreed Upon.

Air Assaults on Key Base in East * Indies Reported   ‘Tokyo Announces Twe Blows at Soerabaja; -Bold Sweeps from India Indicated

US. RAIDS BASE IN EAST INDIES   Tokyo Reports Two Attacks on Soerabaja

Soerabaja Bombed, Tokyo Says   Suggest Allied Naval-Air Task Force in Sweep From India

YANK BOMBERS HIT SOERABAJA   Bold Sweep On Dutch East Indies Hinted by  Tokvo

Two Raids — ‘on Big Jap Java Base   Tokyo Tells: of. Bomber As . saults-on Soerabaja in East Indies   MAY BE BOLD NEW NEW NAVAL ASSAULT   Powerful Allied Assatlts-ix Burma and: Southwest Pacitic Kept Going

NAVY BLOW S$ HINTED WN REPORT   Yanks ‘Leapfrog’ Up ew Guinea Coast  To Seize Wakde

Tokyo Suggests Raiders Were From Task Forces From India and the Pacifie

Allied Bombers And Naval Tas! Forces Hit Jap Soerabaja Base   Tokyo Tells Of Attack, Saying Forces Came From India And Also From U. 8S. Pacific Flect

Jap Broadcast Say: Allied Fliers Strike From India  Bombers Hit Bases In Indies; Java Spot Is Goal

BOLD TASK FORCE SWEEP IS SUGGESTED   Tokyo Radio Reports 50 Bombers From “Direction of Indian Ocean” Strike Twice at Soerabaia, on Java.

Broadcast Hints Blows from Indian  Ocean and Pacific  Indicates Naval Task Force  ar ny ay) ac er ca ee   Great Naval Port

SOERABAJA RAIDED BY ALLIES   Key Jap Base In Fast Indies Hit In Joint Sweep

Allied Planes In Attack On Soerabaja   One of Japan's Key Bases in Dutch East Indies

Wakde Island Captured By Allied Force:   Jump 110 Miles Beyond Hollandia to Make Seizure; Fall of All New Guinea Imminent

Soerabaja Is. Reported Hit By Air Raic   Japanese Account Hints Allied Air and Naval Sweep

LLL LLL LEE ALLELE NALD ALLL  Germain One Up On Phyllis Otto At Halfwau Point

Death Reveals Pious Side of The Fiery Lupe   Preferred Death to Loss of Baby; Say Fiancee Proposed

Where to Find It   “PREFERS DEATH TO CHILD'S SHAME  Lune Velez’ Notes Explain Suicide

‘Col. Roosevelt, Faye Emerson Fl)  To Grand Canyon Wedding Said Slated

ELLIOTT PLANS HOTEL WEDDING   Son of President to Wed Actress Sunday P. M.

Col. Roosevelt, Faye Emerson Fly To Grand Canyon   Wedding Said Slated For 2 P. M. Today

Chinese Push Into Jap Burma Base   Portion of Lungling Is Captured as Enemy Loses Heavily

AMERICANS CAPTURE MOKMER AIRDROME 0} ISLAND OF BIAK  NEW ISLAND BASE IS  ONLY 880 MILES FROM ‘PHILIPPINES

Chinese in Lungling   Occupy Part of Important Japanese Rurma Road PRase

Philippines — Now - Within Bomb Range   Americans Capture Vital Biak Airfield

\CHINESE OCCUPY PART OF VITAL BURMA ROAD CITY   Drive Into Lungling, Second Most Impertant Jap Base ia Yunnan State West of the Salweon

CHINESE TAME BURMA ROAD STRONGHOLD   Of Lungling ,important Japanese Base in Yunnan Province, also Advance on Tengchung.   Throw Back Enemy

Chinese Take Important Town On Buriia Roz   On Huan Front, Lips —Leunch_ Rig. Assault _ Against Cha: sho

PHOTOGRAPHS — SHOW TROOPS PLANES. SHIPS   Germans Send More Than 100 Bombers Against Concentration of Allies‘ in / South Enzland

Allies Mass Huge Invasion Armada Off British Coast; Censor-Approved Photos Published in London Papers

Allied Ships Prepare For Invasion   Movement of Shipping In Channel Spurs German Worries

Pictures Reveal Invasion Armada  Off British Coast   Intensified Shipping Movements Reported In Nazi Broadcasts

Censor-Approved Photos Snow Huge Invasion Armada Off British Coast

Germans Report Invasion Barges Set For Action      British Print Pictures Of Huge Armada To  Verify Rumors

Photos Show Allies Have Massed Armada   Germans Send Planes Over England Looking For Invasion Clues

INVASION FLEET IS MASSED OFF BRITISH COAST   Germans Sent More Than 100 Bombers Against South Coast Ports

IVASION FLEET UGE, BRITISH HOTOS REVEAL   IN azis Say It’s iReady to Sail

BIG INVASION ARMADA OFF BRIT. COAST   Censor-Approved Photos Show Many Landing Craft ..

Invasion Ships Off British Coast   Huge Armada Is Reported Massed

Intensified Shipping Movements In Ports Of England  GERMAN BOMBERS RAID SOUTH COAS'  Russians Prepare Fo Summer Offensive On Central Front

Giant Allied Eteet Forms Off Ensland   Photographs Show Armada Lined Up dn fudless Strinw

Invasion Fleet Off  Britain   Germans Send Reconnaissance Planes Over Portsmouth Harbors

DRIVE LAUNCHED PON POLYGAMY   Over 50 Under Arrest In Raids In Utah, Idaho And Arizona

50 Arrested on Polygamy Charges   Suspects Nabbed In Three States

TEMPERATURES:   Germany's Capital And Bucharest In Flames; Invasion Closer

NON-LEATHER SHOES TO BE RATION-PREE STARTING MONDAY SERTEMBER 25TH

Tokyo Raided By lone Superforts   Yanks Gain On Leyte Island In Philippines  eee

Two Superforts Bomb Tokyo; Manchuria Hit   Jap Factories Target in Latter Country, Break Through Enemy Lines Southeas Of Ormoc in Battle for Leyte

STALIN LAI U.§. WAR AID      Help Of America Turned Tid2, Premier Tells  Dignitaries

STALIN PRAISES AMERICAN HELP IN WAR EFFORT   Conflict Course Changed Due To U. S. Progress

DECLARES AID OF AMERICA TURNED TIDE OF BATTLE   Soviet Premier Breaks Precedence In Attending British Embassy Dinner

Stalin Credits U. S. Help For  Red Successes   But For Our Aid Course Of War Might Have Been Different.

Stalin Gives U. S. Credit For Victory   Breaks Precedent By Attending British Dinner

STALIN SAYS U.S. TURNED TIDE OF WAR   Premier, Breaking Precedent by Attending Dinner at British, Embassy in .Moscow, Lauds American Industry.

High Praise From Stalin   Says Course of War in Europe Might Have  Been Different WithOut American War Aid

Stalin Lauds . S. for Great Aid   Production and Organizing Ability Helped Turn Tide, He Says

Stalin Lauds American War Aid To Russi   Praises Industrial Might Of United States; Pays “Great Tribute”   GIVEN AT EMBASSY

U.S. Aid Turns Germany Baffle   Says Premier Stalin Paying Tribute to U.S. Industria] Miaht

Stalin Lauds _  American Aid   Soviet Premier Declares Stupendous U, S, Production Turned Tide in Europe

American People Turned Tide For Victory In Grave Hour Says Stalin   Pays High Tribute - At Banquet With. Churchill.

Stalin Pays Great Tribute . to America   Without U.S. Aid Course ot War Might Be Different, He Says

Stalin Credits U. S. Help In Turning Tide   Praises Industrial Might Of Nation at Gathering In British Embassy

OTALIN LAUDS Uo. M5 VICTORY MARGIN   Premier’s Statement at Informal Dinner Is Greatest of Any Russian of War

Stalin Lauds U. S. Aid In War Effort   Premier Of Russia Pays ‘Great Tribute’ To  America And Toasts President Roosevelt

Stalin Commends ee Industry   Says Course of War Might Have Varied Without American Aid

War Industry ‘Of U.S. Given  Stalin Praise   Without It Conflict In Europe Might Have Been Different.

Red Chief Praises Alles for Mighty _ Aid Given Soviets   Generous Speech Helps Strerigthen Friendly Russian Relations

STALIN SAYS U. S. AID HELPED TURN TIDE OF THE WAR   PUBLIC UTTERANCE OF PREMIER CALLED A “GREAT TRIBUTE”

Nazis Admit Allies Push Armies To Saat Along Rhine River   Germans Announce Wholesale Retreats Around Strasbourg

AMERICANS REACHED ROER RIVER TODAY ON DRENCHED PLAIN  THIRD ARMY FORCES AD: VANCE TO WITHIN TEN MILES OF SAARBRUCKEN

Temperatures   Reported Crossing of Rhine By French Is Unconfirmed; Clearing Skies Allow Allied Bombers to Work on Nazis

French Forces Reportedly Have Crossed the Rhine North of Strasbourg

Yanks Crash Way Through Mile of German Defenses   Third Army Smash  Takes Patton’s Men To Within 10 Miles Of Saarbrucken

Advance A Mile Into German Defenses Along —  te Flooded Stream   NEAR CAPITAL OF SAAR   U. §. Ninth Army Reache: Point Only 23 Miles — 7 from Cologne

TROOPS PUSH INTO SYSTEM UP TO MILE   Third Army 10 Miles From Saarbrucken and German Radio Admits Retreats Above and Below Strasbourg. .

Germans Announce Retreat   Pull Back Into Saar Before Driving 3rd And 7th Armies; Planes Attack As Skies Clear

Nazis Call Still More  Reserves   Allies Seek To Destroy Ene. my, Forces Battling To Hold Colopne.   AMERICANS MAKE SLOW, HARD GAIN   Third Army Moves Forward: In Saar to Within 10 Miles Of Saarbrucken

Ninth Army Drives Mile Into Defense on Flooded Stream   Eisenhower's Battle Aim is Destruction of the German Army

Nazi Arsenal Is 10 Miles From Yanks   French Cross Rhine North Of Strasbourg

WV EOE EEN FRONT  ALLIES ROVANGE UN GARR CAPITAL  Hodges’ Army Fights In ater ais OF Thdet And      DEFENSES CRACK   Planes Attack Enemy Tanks, Artillery Positions Along Front

Berlin Radio, However, Announces Pressure South of Rhine-Rhone Canal Forces Retreat.   FLOODED ROGER HAS PROVEN A HANDICAP

Drive up to Mile Into Intricate Defenses Before Roer River While Other American Armies Batier  At Saar Gateway

ANOTHER U.S. PUSH MENACES SAARBRUCKEN   German Radio Reports Wholesale Retreats Near Strasbourg

FORGED BACK BY PREGOURE, BERLIN SAYS   ‘Ninth Army Pushes to Roer  River; First Fighting in   Two Towns.

In Drive On Saarbrucken   «K x«* KK OY Raiders Pound Supply Centers

Patton's Force Wins Town Only 10 Miles Away  Report French Have Crossed Rhine River;

GERMANS ADMIT RETREATS WITH AMERICAN GAIN   Forces Within 10 Miles of Border City — Third, Seventh Armies Roll

Ninth Army Reaches Bank Of Roer River   French Reported Crossing Rhine Near Strasbourg

Third Army 10 Miles From Saarbrucken   .. U.S. First Cleaning Up Langerwehe and Hurtgen

First Army Surges Into German Cities   Third Army Advances Within Ten Miles of Saarbrucken, Arsenal Capital: French Across Rhine

Saarbrucken  ls Goal of Third Army   General Hodges’ First Army Opens Predawr Attack, Smashing Into Inden and Jugersdorf; Nazi Duren Stand Is Crumbling

CLAIM FRENC UNITS CROSS RHINE   Other Forces Are 10 Miles From Saarbrucken   FIRST ARMY   Fights In Streets Of Inden And Jungersdorf: Seingbousse Taken

Germans Announce Gens eral Retreat, Say Is Plan- — ned Withdrawal   First Army Units Reach Roer River   Forces Drive Up To Mile Into Intricate German — Defenses

DVANGE INTO NAZIS DEFENSE   Infantry of 3rd Army Advances to Within 10 Miles — Of Saarbrucken. — - {   REPORT RHINE CROSSED!

Patton’s Men 82 Miles From Saar Arsenal   French Broadcast Reports Rhine Crossing; Americans Gain in Hurtgen Village, Duren; Germans South of Rhone Canal Wiped Out

Yank Threat To Siegfried Pivot Grows   Allies Reach Flooded Roer River, Pierce Cologne Defenses

Third Army Draws Near Saarbrucken   Gen. Eisenhower’s Battle  Aim Is Destruction of _ German Army  , akg. Meats ot on  3  sme

American Troops Reach Roer River      Third Army Infantry Advances Three To Four Miles In Center Of Western Front, Capturing Village

Drive Mile Into Defenses  Of Germans   Third Army’s Infantry 10 Miles From Arsenal Capital of Saarbrucken

Third Army Infantrymen: Have Advanced to Within 10 Miles of Saarbrucken:   The Roer Was Reached by Troope Of the Ninth Army at Kirchherge -

Drives To Within 10 Miles Of City In New Advance   Report Crossing Of Rhine By French; . Ninth Reaches Last Barrier To Cologne

Germans Admit Retreats North and South of Strasbourg Battle Area  ALLIES KEEP UP ATTACKS  Third Army 10 Miles From Searbrucken; Planes Strike Along Cologne Front

Intricate Defenses Of Roer River Reached By Troops Of First And Ninth Armies

DOUGHBOY DRIVE ALSO REACHES FLOODED ROER   Allied Forces Across Rhine At Strasbourg - - Defenses Before Cologne Battered

DESPITE DRENCHING RAINS AND STUBBORN NAZI RESISTANCE ON COLOGNE PLAINS GAINS MADE

PUSH THROUGH NAZI DEFENSES NEAR COLOGNE   Wholesale German Retreats North, South of Strasbourg Reported

Patton Takes City Near Saarbrucken In New 3-Mile Drive   French Report Troops Across Rhine Again; Ninth Army Reaches Last Barrier Before Cologne

RED ARMIES CHASE NAZIS NEAR MINSK   Germans Flee In Panic, Blasted: By Stormoviks

Soviet Armies Advance Rapidh Toward Minsk   Red Air Force Helps; Nazis Flee in Panic

RUSSIANS WITHIN 35 MILES MINSK, FALL IS INEVITABLE   Germans Retreating In Panic Southeast of City, Other Red Troops Capture Stari Dorogi 36 Miles Away.   AMERICAN FORCES DRIVE AHEAD ON ITALY COAST   U.S. Marines and Army Troops on . Saipan Close Trap on Jap Garrison Near Garapan; Marianas.

SOVIETS WITHIN 35 MILES OF MINSK FORTRESS   Other Russian ‘Troops Pound Enemy Divisions Wést of Mo Pe, alee

e Minsk Doomed, Is Moscow's Belief   Red Armies, Only 35 Miles Away From Great Base Send Nazis Into Panicky Retreat; Air Blows Play Havoc

Soviets 35 Miles Of Minsk   Red Air Force Supports Land Drive on White Russian Fortress

RUSSIANS PUSH TOWARD MINSK AT FAST PACE   Worst Military Defeat In History, Says Red General

Red Armies, Aidec By Terrific Air  Power, Near Minsk   Nazi Collapse In White Russia Indicates  City Will Fall

Supported By Greatest Aerial Onslaught Of War In East  RUSSIANS WITHIN 38 MILES OF MINSK  Reds Send New Columns Toward The Gateway To Warsaw

TWO RUSS ARMIES DRAW NEAR MINSK   One Is Within 35 Miles of Prized City

MINSK 35 MILES — “AWAY: WARSAW IS NEXT ON LIS   Complete Dislocation of Ene my Forces ls Near—Fieeing Germans Massacred.

Ao NAZTO RUN AED HAE I CEZE WINS   Resistance Crumbles Before “Slaughter”; Litter Strews Roads.

New Column Aims Spear At Warsaw   Germans Reported Fleeing In Panic Before Red Armies.

AIR ONSLAUGHT GREATEST OF WAR IN EAST   Germans Are Reported Retreating In Panic Before Red Forces.

RUSSIANS 35 MILES FROM CITY   @Germans ‘Reported In Panicky Retreat; Airmen Active

SOVIET ARMIES RACING TOWARD MINSK FORTRESS   New Column Is Spearing Toward Baranowicze Gap, Warsaw Gateway

Believe Russian Forces Have Set  Up Fall of Minsk   Germans Flee In Panic As Reds Drive Within 35 Miles of Fortress .

Red Armies Race Ahead For Minsk   Germans Retreat in Panic From Onrushing Soviets.

REDS SPEAR TO WARSAW GATE; RACE FOR MINSK   Armies Aided By Greatest Air Onslaughi

French Broadcasts Tell of Liberation of Paris From Nazis   Germans Declare Fighting Continues; Capitulation is Denied

Bridgeheads Over Seine ‘Widened By ‘U.S. Forces   Melun Captured;  Allies Pass Honfleur; Canadian Troops Make Whirlwind Advance

SPECIAL TAX “NOT POPULAR   MEMBERS -OF HOUSE COMMIT. TEE COOL TOWARD "EXCESS PROFITS” TAX ON  LAND SALES ~~

Reds Sweep Toward Gily Of Belgrade   Partisiacns Join In Drive To Clear Yugoslavia Of Nazis

RED ARMIES ‘PUT PINCERS JON BELGRADE   Join With Tito’s Partisans in Campaign to Drive Germans From Yugoclavia.   Drive Into Hungary

Reds 15 Miles From Capital Of Yugoslavia   German Resistance Less Formidable   Only Light Resistance

FALL OF CITY OF BELGRADE IS HELD NEAR   Russian Forces Only 15 Miles From Yugoslavian Capital

Red Army Drives ‘Nearer Belgrade   ‘ Troops Knife Overland So Swiftly Nazis Have Little Time To Prepare Their Defense

Soviets, Joined With Tito Forces, Near Capital City   FALL IS [MMINENT, REPORTS INDICATE   important Railway Towns Taken by Advancing Troops

Soviets Within 15 Miles Of Belgrade in Fast Push   Yugoslav Capital Appears Ready to Fall To Advancing Joint Forces of Reds and Tito

Russians Near Capital of Yugoslavia  Cacwiate fwie Dated   Soviets Gain Point Only 15 Miles Away From Belgrade

Soviets 15 Mi. From Capital Of Yugoslavia   Partisans Join Soviets In ‘Spectacular’ Drive; Opposition Is Slight  CATLED ‘LANDSLIDE?

OHIOANS FEEL SLIGHT QUAKE   a TREMOR EARLY TitlS MORNING “IN THE “EARTHQUAKE BELT” OF WESTERN OHIO

Earthquake in ° Ohio is Recorded   Slight Tremor in West Era Noted

DODGE FACTORY WALKOUT ENDS   Strikes At Two Other Detroit Plants Make 9,600 Idle

$800,000 Quota Set For Drive   Leaders To Outline Plans For Campaign In 6th War Loan

N. Y. Stocks      N. O. Cotton   Sixth War Loan Campaign Gets Underway Here

Believe Emporia Will Be Given Convention   No Other Cities Competing For Deme Meeting to Choose Delegotes at lorca

Democrats To Topeka   Big Crowd Expected At Washington. Day Celebration Tomorrow

TAFT BALLOT PLAN REVIVED   May Become Basis for Com. promise in Soldier Vote Wrangle

Compromise Vote  Bill Reported  Gaining Support Green Says Conferees  May Use It as Basis To Avoid a Deadlock

tRejected_.  jer Ballot asure Revised ' os Compromise  to End Debate ‘On Sublact

COMPROMISE S ~ BEING SOUGHT   ‘Conferees Will Try To Iron    Out Servicemens’.  :   Vote Issue

Orson io Promote Next Bond Drive   Hollywood Genius Hired By Treasury On S1-a Year Basis

bie! MOVE ~ FACES DEFEAT   LITTLE CHANCE OF CONGRESS BANNING INTOXICATING LIQUOR FOR. THE DURATION °

Opposition to Any Form of Prohibition Is  Believed Too Strong, Especially in House

English Giri Notifies, Americar Soidier-Father of Death of Childs

One of Quads Dies, But Norah Thinks First of Their Soldier - Father

DEATH CLAIMS ONE OF QUADS BORN TO YANK   Mother Is Distressed At Thought of Notifying ~  -Soldier-Dad

Mother of Quads Distressed Over Death of One; First Thoughts of Soldier-Father

Unmarried Mother of Quadruplets In Mourning; One Dies   Her First Thought Is of Their American Soldier k athe ot @

Youngest of British-Born Quads  Dies; American Soldier Is Father

ALLIED STOCKPILE FOR INVASION   (Cold: Proves Fatal To Youngest Quadruplet

Avows Her Love For “Red”  Fears Death Of One Of Quads Will Be Blow To Yank Fathe

BASIS OF TERMS TO FINNS   MOTHER OF QUADRUPLETS MOURNS DEATH OF ONE  British Girl Worries Over Father Of Children Who Has Wife in U. S.

Soldier With Wife In U. S.., Reported Father of Quads, Says Everything Is Ali Right

ONE QUAD DIES; MOTHER FRETS ABOUT FATHER   British Gir Girl; Gives Ba To. ‘Four. ‘Children ~   American’. in Sergeant Has .Wife In... ° Pittsbureh >

MACDONALD, ONE OF BABIES, DIED LAST NIGHT   Parents Hope To Be Married After He Obtains Divorce

Youngest Of Quads  Succumbs   YANK SGT. THOMPSON URGES YOUNG MOTHER: “DON'T WORRY”

ONE OF QUADRUPLETS BORN TO AN ENGLISH GIRL DIED LAST NIGHT  UNWED MOTHER’S FIRST  THOUGHT IS FOR AMER. ICAN SOLDIER FATHER

One Of Quadruplets Born To Sergeant And British Girl Dies On Second Day

BATTLE MAY SEAL FATE QF AUSTRIA   Alarmed Nazi Spokesmen Warn of Imminent Breath-taking Military Events.

Battle to Seal Austria’s Fate Has Begun   Lake Balaton’s Eastern Shore is Scene of Much Heavy Fighting

OPEN BATTLE FOR AUSTRIA   Cossack Columns Reach Shores of Lake Balaton

Soviets Near Austria Line   Flying Cossacks Now 50 Miles From Borden

SOVIETS REACH LAKE BALATON, NAZIS ADMIT   Russian Tanks Break Lines Guarding Gateway to Austria and Vital Battle Joined.

RED COSSACK! REACH LAKE BALATON   Fate of Austria To Be Decided By Hungarian Battle

REDS UNITE 2 ARMIES TO SEAL FATE OF AUSTRIA   Nazis Alert as Cossacks Smash Defense of Lake Ralaton

 * ry Germans Disclose Soviets Pierce Lake Balaton Rim In Sweeping Offensive

Cossack Columns Smash Forward   Say Soviet Tank Forces Nearing Lake Balaton

BATTLE FOR AUSTRIA OPENS AS REDS SWEEP ON BALATON   COSSACKS THUNDER DOWN TO SHORES OF STRATEGIC LAKE FOR IMPORTANT FRACAS

Hurl Troops Into Nazi  Escape Gap   Endless Columns of Soviet Tanks, Men Crowding Plains

SOVIETS, GERMANS LOCK IN THUNDER OF BATTLE FOR INVASION GATE   Nazis Warn People Of Dire Happenings

Russ, Nazis Clash on Lake Balaton Shore   Alarmed Nazis Say Fate of Nation Hangs in Balance

Red Battle For Austria  Thunders On   Cossack Columns Smash Head-On Into Nazi Defenses

Cossacks Drive On  Austria  Soviets Make Mighty Bid to Open Gateway

BATTLE JOINED ON SHORES OF LAKE BALATO}   Red Tank Forces Break Through To Austria ‘Invasion’ Gate

HOLDS CONGRESS SHOULD FIX PEACE ~ ENVOY’S POWERS   Connally Declares ' Defining . Authority Should Wait Senate Approval of Security Agency.   PROPOSAL SUPPORTED BY TWO REPUBLICANS   Austin Would Make Delegate - Responsible to Government and Give Him © . Cabinet Rank.

Connally Urges Security Plan   Asks Congress to Write Own Ticket on Security Agency Delegate’s Power

Kor Congress To Fix Power   Connally Urges It For De ‘legate ‘To Security Meet

Western Front Is Quiet Now Where Big Battle Raged  At Christmastime

Battle of Ce of Celles  U.S. Tank Force Sped 100 Miles Overnight to Halt Nazi Push

Silence, Death and Desolation Mark Area Where Nazi Drive Was Stopped

Grim Saga Of Yank  Prowess   Savage Doughboy At ‘tack. On Germans After 100-Mile Trek Stops ‘Enemy Cold at. Celles

TEMPERATURES:   Only Chirp Of Birds And Crunch Of Boots In Snow Is Heard

Cold, Fog and Silence Now Envelop the Celles. Front But Before, ‘Tt Was a Gory, Very Vital Field of Battle

Coordination OfU. 5. Blows Smacks Nazis   Evidence Of Battle . Plainly Visible In Celles Area; Hundred: Of Enemy Dead

YANKS KILL 7,040 JAPS ON PELELIL   ENEMY RESISTANCE CONTINUES BITTER—AMERICAN Ss MOP UP ON ANGAUR.

Tommies Drive Near Florence   Allies Cut Way Northward Avuinst Stunbhorn Fae

BRITISH 10 MILES FROM FLORENCE   On South While Americans Are 18 Miles Away On West As Armies Converge for Assault.  Smash Out of Normandy   Leave Monastery

DOUGHBOYS NEAR CITY OF FLORENCI   American Forces Hold Districts Of Pisa Against Heavy Enemy Fire From Mt. Pisano

ARMIES CLOSE IN FOR BLOW AT FLORENCE   BITTER RESISTANCE ENCOUNTERED ON ITALIAN FRONT

ALLIES CLOSING IN ON FLORENCE   ENEMY RESISTANCE BITTERKESSELRING -EXPECTED . TO DEFER_ND CITY.

British Gain in Bloody Battles on Italian Front   American Forces Subjected to Heavy Fire

Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance On Historic City of Florence, Italy

British Less Than 10 Miles  From Florence   American Soldiers 18 Miles Away From Italian City on West

Carriers Continue Search for Nip Shattered Sea Force; Four Vessels : Sent to Bottom, 10 Others Damaged:

Japan Defense Wall Cracking   Three Vital Bastions Will Fall Suddenly

Japan’s Pacific Defense Wall Is Nearer Collapse As Allies Extend Attack:

Three Vital Blocks In Japanese Defense Wall Going To Crumble Soon

Roosevelt Asks Tighter Check On Lend-Lease  Senate Consider: Plan’s Fxtension

Central Agency For Lend-Lease Reports Orderec  annta kwnarta   Senate Expected To Renew Policy Passed By Houce

TIGHTER CHECK ON AID PLEDGED   Lend-Lease Clearing House Orc.’ ‘By FDR

President Sets Up  Clearing House  On Foreign Outlays Senators Taking Up Lend-Leas:  Exiension Applaud Move te T ahtan Wn Rastkeoning

SENATE TAKES UP LEND-LEASE PROBLEM AGAIN   Assures Roosevelt Bookkeeping Will Be Tightened

FDR Directs Tightening Of Controls   Better Bookkeeping In Lend-Lease Program Expected

Tighter Cheek Qn Lend-Lease Will Be Kept      Clearing House To Be Established For  Shinments

Close Lend-Lease Checkup Forecast  Bookkeeping Will Be Tightened °

SENATE ASSURED OF CLOSE CHECK ON LEND-LEASE   PRESIDENT ORDERS ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNTING AGENCY

Bookkeeping Is To Be Tightened   President Roosevelt Orders Lend-Lease Accounting Agency

Proposal For Central Lend-Lease Accounting Applauded By Senators

LINCOLN BANQUET PLANS COMPLETED   Capacity: - Audience. Ex pected to Hear Representative Halleck

STAGE IS SET FOR LINCOLN BANQUEI   Capacity: Audience Ex pected to Hear Coneressman Halleck

WAR> TODAY   Distribution of Mili lary Load Among the United Nations™ May Be Unequal But It Is, Not Unie.

'WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES BIG WAR LOAD BEING CARRIED BY U.S. WEST FRONT AND ORIENT

\QUESTION OF WHETHER AMERICA IS CARRYING MAJOR SHARE OF BATTLE BURDEN IN EUROPE-ORIENT STUDIED

MacKenzie Says—  Each Nation Sharing In W ar Effort   No Basis From Military Standpoint for Any Of Big Three Feeling Load Is Unjust

Vinegar Joe’ Issues Chennault Farewell Note   Mountbatten Praise  Work Of Stilwell In  Helping Beat Jans

CHARGE COLLETT FOR TRIAL COSTS   State Bills Siayer of Three for $853.30

Would Fool Us Again   Briton Warns That Japan Is ‘Scheming For Compromise Peace

Appeasers Of Japs in Britain Hit   Editorial Appears Scoring Men Seeking ‘ Compromise Peace

FEW FATHERS OVER 26 YEARS BAY BE TAKEN DURING 1944   DRAFT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN SAYS ‘TEEN-AGE AND OTHER “¥OUNGER MEN TO MEET NEED

NO OVER 26 DADS SEEN IN’44 CALL   Costello Bases Prediction on Absence of Combat Strength Drains

NORMANDY WAR HALTED BY MUD   ‘Nothing To Report’, Alliec Communique Declares

ALLIES BOGGED IN NORMANDY   No Advance Reported in Last 24 Hours; Only Patrols See Action.

Allied Troops Fail To Gain In French Mud   “Nothing To Report” Says Communique By Supreme Command

French Mud Bogs Down Battle In Normandy   ‘There Is Nothing To Report’ Is Word From Supreme Headquarters Patrols Are Active

ALLIED ADVANGE SLOWED DOWN 6} MUD IN FRANCE   Germans Unable To Move; Some Towns Taken

‘Hun Military  Power Still  Halts Allies   Russians Roll Forward, Cross Bug River; Florence 14 Miles from .Gl’s

FRENCH FRONT BOGGED DOWN   Only Local Actions Reported During Last 24 Hours

Allied Armies In Normandy Bogged Down By Mud With Na ‘Advances Made In 24 Hours      Shortest Communique Of Campaign Simply Announces “Nothing To Report”

Alfies Inactive For Entire Day In Normandy   Vast Military Organization Reported Bogged Down In Mud Of Peninsula

Allies Bog Down  In Normandy Vlud   Not a Single Advance Reported As Weather Grounds Air Forces

Secure Beachheads Established ; Casualties Moderate   Normandy Drive Boosin Mud

YANKS GAIN TERRITORY  IN GASSIND   Allied Air Forces In 1500 Sorties   > nieanes-temietnon  BEACHHEAD 0. K,  Germans Massing For New Attack

MONASTERY HIT BY FORTRESSES AND BIG GUNS   Direct Hits Scored on Enemy Defenses; Fifth Army Gains on Beach

President Kime Will Present — Class Diplomas  Western Union College Closing Eventful Year

GENERAL DEDICATES NEW CRILE HOSPITAL      Chief of Army Services of Supply at Ceremony

LAUDS WORK OF MEDICAL CORPS   Somerwell Praises Medics at Crile Dedication

NELSON URGES “DRAFT CHANGE   WrB CHAIRMAN. BACKS. ‘pra. POSAL TO TAKE ¢¥ AND ' NON-FATHERS UP TO’ _ AGE OF 45

Lisenhower s Pleased With Allied Gains   Has High Words of Praise for Masterly Work of Two Navies

Dewey Discusses Labor Probems On Radio Tonight   Roosevelt Will Speak Saturday

DEWEY’S TALK WILL DISCUSS LABOR ISSUES   [Outlines Restoration 0: Collective Bargaining At Seattle

Tragedy Twice Hits At Fayette Family  Two Sons Die Within Few  Hours

TO ENTER ARMY AT 12   Boys and Girls of Argentina Will Be Trained for Defense

600 Wright Workers Out  Supervisory Employes Strike In New Jersey

VICTORY LOOMS ON NAMUR AND KWAJALEIN   Mystery of Japanese Navy’s Absence Deepens Hourly

VIRGINIA DEMOS INSTRUCTED TO — OPPOSE WALLACE   Delegation Of 24 Votes Remains Unpledged On Presidency

(Opposition To Renomination Of Vice President Wallace  [Instructed At Party: Gathering

French Invade Islands of Elba, Pianosa   Allies Advance Mile an Hour on Italian Meainlandg

French Troops Seize Islands, Aid Allies in Italy   5th and 8th Armies Advance 100 Miles Northwest of Rome

Strong Nazi Resistance Encountered  Another French Unit   Another French Uni: Seizes Pianosa, Off Tip Of Elba.

Island of Elba Invaded By French   _ Algiers Reports State French Have Made Good Their Landina and Have Taken Villa

French Land Large Force  On Elba Isle   Napoleon’s Exile Island In. vaded With Support Of Allied Fleet

NAZI TROOPS IN FIERCE RESISTANCE   Commandos Backed By Warship Guns

BANKHEAD ASKS SLOW DEATH FOR FOOD SUBSIDIES   Says Ceiling Prices Should Replace F.D.R.’s Aid To Farmers

Anti-Subsidy Battle Is Led By Bankhead   Alabama Senator Claims Subsidies Encourage In. flation Danger

aUBSIDY DEBATE OPENS   Senator Says It Tends to Swell Debt, Increases {nflation Danaer.

Senate Opens Food Subsidy Bill Debate   Senator Bankhead Says Government Payments Swell National Debt

BANKHEAD OPENS SUBSIDY DEBATE   TELLS SENATE THAT PAYMENTS WIDEN INFLATIONARY GAP

Solon Brands Subsidies as. Inflationary   Bankhead Attacks U.S. Payments to Hold Down Food Costs

Service Vote Bills Sent to Conferees by Action of House   Vote Taken as Battle on Subsidies Opens in Upper House

Bankhead Flays Subsidy Program  Raises Debt. Causes Inflation, Charge

Leta Prices Increase Debt   Holding Down Prices Of Food Articles Boosts Pur chasing Power.

Senate Renews Fight on Subsidy   Regulation of Consumer Prices Increasing inflation Is Charge

SOVIET DIPLOMATS REPORTED COOL TO FIRST MOVES. RE-. . CAUSE OF PAST RECORD

BRITISH REQUEST PHILLIPS. RECALL   : Amtassador’s Criticism of British Poticy in India Is Blamed

Soviets Stirred By: Sevastopol   Heroic Fight For City Is Recalled

mldwWeslern corn belt to obtain “at least $5,000,000 bushels for war processers until the new crop becomes availeble.   Becomes U. S. Citizen Aftar 20 Vaara in Arm<

? U. S. Bombers Strike Into Bulgaria; Germans Fear Break fram Avic

Nazis Are Rapidly Extending Their Control Of Bulgaria To Virtual Military Occupation   Rumors Fly As Sofia’s Political Situation Remains Jn Doubt

Raiders Scare Sofia, Drop Bombs Nearby  Nazis. Fearine Bulearjan Proak   Nazis, Feari ing Bulgarian Break, Extealing Conwel, Over Nation

NAZIS EXTEND ‘CONTROL IN BULGARIA   U. S. Flying Fortresses Hammer at Railway Yards and Other Targets In Bulgaria

Hear Bulgaria Being Taken Over By Nazis   Move To Prevent Break After New American Bombing Raid.

New American Bombing Raid On Bulgaria   Reich Fears Bulgars Might Try To Break Away

Unrest Sweeps Bulgaria; New  Bombing Raid      Railway Yards Near Sofia Hammered; Nazis Are Extending Control

YANK BOMBERS RAID BULGARIA SOUTH OF SOFT   Flying Fortresses Blast Railway Yards; Situation Inside Country Said to Be Clouded

Yank Bombers Raid Bulgaric   Nazis Tighten Control Over Balkan Ally

Nazis Expand Bulgarian Grip   Rumors Continue Premier Overthrown

American Air Raid On Bulgaria Revealed .. .. Germans Extend Their Control In Bulgaria To Military Occupation

U. ‘Ss. Fliers Make. Ney: Air: Foray“Into. Bulearia       Report Nazis ‘Attempt: To . Extend: Present: Control: To Military. Occupation

1,000 Gather At Belle Mina Dairy Meeting   Interested Citizens View Demonstration Of Farm-size Herd

BRITISH OPEN KOHIMA ATTACKS   Effort Made to Clear Out Japs Before Monsoons .

SAYS LUFTWAFFE WILL BE SMASHED   Spaatz Says Knockout May  Come This Summer

Nazis Report Soviets Reach Turk Border  Mov pao “y = i) ie ; Noni Ese cl

‘Russians Drive: Into Greece   ‘Soviets Cross Bulgaria In Rapid Drive South

BULGARS BREAK RELATIONS WITH AXIS NATIONS   Soviet Still Silent On Appeal For Armistice Made Two Days Ago

Red Army Drives Into Greece From  Bulgaria   Germans Say Russians Made Sensational Advance Of 160 Miles In Two Davs

 Russian troops have driven across Bulgaria into Greece, reaching the Turkish frontier in the Demotica area after a sensational 160-mile advance in two days, the German radio said today in an official DNB broadcast.

CROSS BORDER NEAR TURKISH FRONTIER LINE   Soviets Overrun Bulgaria  In Two-Day Advance  Of 160 Miles

REDS’ ADVANCE IS TIMED WITH ALLIED THRUST   Tito Also Aids in Drive To Trap Germans Left In Balkans

Soviet ‘Chutists, Tito’s Partisans Near Junctior   Rissians Fighting Within 90 Miles Of Belgrade; Big Battle For Warsaw

Red Troops, in 165-Mile Advance To South, Stand at Turk’s Border—Balkans Collapse

The Iron Gate ls Breached by Soviet Troops   Move Swiftly on YVugoslay Capital: Near East Prussia

BULGARS BREAK WITH GERMANY, REPORT CLAIMS   Thus Leaving Hitler's Stack of Cards in Balkans Fallen Except for One—Hungary

Sensational Attack Spans All Bulgaria; Greek Soil Invaded   Germans Say 160 Miles Gained In Two Days; Second Assault BRarce Crosses Slav Fronticr

Reach Border Of Turkey In 160-Mile Push   Germans Say Bulgaria Invaded At 3 Points With One Column Now Headed For Sofia

Official DNB Broadcast Declares Red Army Forces Reach Turkish Frontier in Sensational 160-Mile Advance

Bulgars break Off Relations  With Germany   Balkan Satellites Of Hither Tumble. With Only Hungary Still Aiding Reich

ATTACK BEGUN TO TRAP NAZIS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Allied Forces Join Up With Tito’s Partisans To Cut Off German Troops

scrman Radio Says Tank Columns Invaded Bulgaria At 3 Points With Virtually No Resist. ances One Column  Headed For Sofia.

REDS HAVE DRIVEN ACROSS BULGARIA TO GREECE, CLAIM   German Broadcast Declares Soviets Have Come Up te Turkish Border Througi: Greece After Swift Advance

Drive Across Bulgaria And Into Greece   Land, Sea And Air Forces In All-Out Attack

Drive Menaces German Escape From Balkan:   In The North, Soviet Army, Nazis Battle Fiercely For Warsaw

Balkan German Force Cut Off   Russians Advance 160 Miles Through Bulgaria in Two Days, Reach Turk Border; Meeting With Tito Is Near

Temperatures   Russ Cross Danube, Invade Yugoslavia, Other Reports Say

Also Advance On Bulgaria’s Capital, Sofia   Sensational 160 Mile Push Reported. By German News Agency

Advance Without Opposition   Spectacular 160-\hile March Carries Russians Into Greece;  Knife Toward Sofia

Reach Turkish Frontier in Bemetica Area, Tank Column Advances on Selia

IN LAST MINUTE EFFORT 10 AVOID RED INVASION   Ankara Says Bulgaria Has Also Declared War Against Reich ~-Would Make Bulgars At War With Both.

Sofia’s Action Follows Soviet  Decree Of War   Roundabout Repert From Turkey Says Bulgaria Also Declared War Against Germany   Ties With Italy Puppets Br ‘oken   Germany Says Reds Have Driven Across Bulgaria Into Greece, Reaching  Turk Border.

Red Armies Drive Across Greece To Turk Frontier   Russians Advance 160 Miles in Two-Day Push With Tank Column Moving Toward Bulgarian Capital

OPEN ALL-OUT ATTACK FOR YUGOSLAVIA   Great Battle Is Reported In Progress At Warsaw   Of Summer Campaign Total 791,000; Turnu-Severin Taken By Russians

German Radio Claims Soviets Have Driven Through Bulgaria in.2-Day Advance of 160 Miles; Bulgars Have Broken with Nazis; May Mean War

Nazis Say Reds Cross Bulgaria, Enter Greece   Russians Are Declared At Turk Border After

Reds Smash Into Greece ‘Via Bulgaria   Another Column Drives On Sofia: Bulgars War On Germans

Reds Thru Bulgaria to Greece   German Radio Tells of Sen. tional Push; Soviets on Turkish Frontier   BULGARIA BREAKS TIES WITH GERMANY   Also Reported to Have Declared War; Axis Balkan Collapse Almost Complete.

Russian Troops  Cross Bulgaria Red Army at Turkish Frontier  Fe, ee be Erme (ere Eee sere era 9 pee meet er

BERLIN REPORTS REDS IN GREECE   Bulgaria Severs Relations  With Reich, Nazis Say

Reds Reported Also Smashing Toward Sofia   Said By Nazis To Be At Turk Border; Bulgaria Severs Relations With Garman’

Nazis Report Russ Invasion Of Bulgaria   Troops “Have D riven Across Country Into Greece, Savs DNB   LITTLE RESISTANCE:   Sensational Advance of 169 Miles in Two Days Reported

Reds Reach Turk Frontier After Sensational Dash   Berlin Reports Little Resistance Put Up By Bulgars to Swift Advance

BONIN RAID BY B-29S REPORTEL   ‘Nazis: Declare Latest Attack by Superforts

Full Surrender Only Terms Open to Nazis   Secretary of State Says United States Won't ‘Negotiate’

Must Drive Nazis From Coast to Halt Robot Bomb   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst

Be ieee eacrcvet eta ae eae ee  German Retreat Will Bring End of Terrovism—  ‘wo, kn? Bambs Force Speed In France Drive

CHURCHILL SAYS NO CHANCE Ih ITALIAN FLEET   Transfer of Warships to Russia Has Been Shelved Tempo rarily .

Churchill Says No Change Planned in Matter of Italian Fleet at Present

Maintain Work of Italian Ships   Churchill Says Vessels Will Stay In Battle

NO CHANGE IN ITALIAN FLEET GOMMEONS TOLD      Churchill Says Transfer Of Ships To Russia Has Been Shelved

American Attitude Stiffens Toward Reported Russiany De; mands; Moscow Seeks Bigger Share Of Stabilization Fund.

RUSSIA ASKS MORE   Flurry at Monetary Confer‘ence Quieted by a  Compromise:

NEW DEAL SCORED ~ BY 3 GOVERNORS   Edge Says Truman Speech  Was Bid for Dictatorship

Democrats’ Appeal Assailed as ‘Dictatorship Bid’   Three Republican Governors Declare Election of Thomas E. Dewey Will Unite Nation in Post-War Period

Election Of Dewey Would Unite Nation Following Wai   Three Governors In Radio Speeches Tell Why Republican Nominee Should Be Elected President

Carter To Head Farmers Mutual   Successful Year Reported At Mecting Of Insurance Association

MOST OF CREW SAVED FROM DOOMED TANKER   Navy Announces Loss Of Mississinewa By Enemy Action In Central Pacific

T AIR STRIKES Y COORDINATEL N WITH LANDING   Gen. MacArthur’s Forces Heavily Damage Jap Ground Defenses on Levte.   Costs 6 Planes

Knemy Route Of Retreat ! Natrowed To 13 Miles By Attacks Of 3rd Army ~

wen. Pation Pounds To Reich Border   Two American Armies Overrun 15 Enemy Towns

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Nazis’ Corridor From Reich Compressed To 13 Miles By Patton’s Troops   ENEMY REPORTED IN ~ ROUT IN SOME AREAS

Enemy Route Of Retreat Nar: rowed To 13 Miles By Attacks Of 3rd Army: -

Germans Believec Preparing for Defensive Stand   Patton Reaches German Border

NAZI PREPARE DEFENSE STAND   Gains Pinch Corridor From Reich to 13 Miles   PATTON’S ARMY   Pounds to Border at Three Points; Cements Positions North of Bastogne

Close Foe’s Escape Route to 13 Miles   First Army Reaches Rochefort As Third Pushes Into Reich; Mass Air Blows Cover Fighting

Nazi Corridor To Reich Is  Compressed   Enemy Indicates Intention of Taking Defensive Attitude

Aldermen Place Tentative Order Fo or Fire Truck  Time of Delivery  ‘Uncertain Owing

Aldermen Place Tentative Order  Fo or Fire Truck  Time of Delivery ‘Uncertdin Owing To Priagite Risloo’

Pope Desires Paace Plans   Pontiff Awaiis Proposals to. Bring Wear to an End

Way Cleared for Wage Ceiling Hike   Two WLB Panels Cite  Increased Living Cost

Yugoslay Forces Ca plure Brae.  Two Rail Towns   Threaten Nazi Garrisons On  Adriatic Coast      Hearings Slated On Plea To Break Little Steel Plan

Russian Army Gains 300 Miles In Single Month   Soviets Closing In on- Lublin, Big Nazi Fortress

PEACE CONFABS START AUG. 1   Deleaation Makeun Indicates Emohasis on Military Considerations 

Three-Power World Peace Meeting Set   United Nations To Chart Means of Suppressing  ewan Aosta

Use of Military To Keep Peace To Be Discussed   World Security Meet “Opens August 14 In National Capital

‘Nazis Nazis Dumbfounded: German Radio Reports Artillery Attacks Too Powerful To Combat

Allied Artillery And Air Forces. .. “? Giving Germans Terrible Tir ,

ALLIED. BARRAGE " STUNS GERMANS   REPORT EMPLOYMENT OF “STRATEGY IS NEW IN HISTORY OF WARFARE.”

‘Utterly New Strategy’ Rewrites Military Rules Of German Command

Mississippi Floods Near   White, Wabash Rivers Force-Mundreds to Flee

Nazi Defenses Give Way Under Mighty Blows   Americans Are: Driving Deeper Into Germany; Overwhelm Forts.

U. §. {st Army Drives Against Siegfried Line   Security Silence Blacks Out News From Most Fronts

~ Americans Break Into Brest; Hit At  > Submarine Pens In Besieged Port

Congress Actiog Of Huge Naval Bill Expected '  30 Billion- Proposed i  For Navy Operation; i . Predict June Recess:

Congress Agenda Calls First For Record Navy Bill   Solons Reconvene, Greeted By Thirty Billion Dollar Bill

Big Naval Bill Reopens Congress   30 Billions Is Asked For War Now

Survey Of Business Before Solons  30 Billion Dollar Navy Bill First Item Facing Reconvening Congress

Congress Gets  Record Navy Bill   Navy Asks For Over S30.000 000.000 As Congress Reconvenes

Ladgest Navy Bill In History Before the House   Measure Calls For $30,000,000,000; Passage Likely To Be Unanimous.

BIGGEST NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL IN CONGRESS   Predict $32,647,134,336 Measure, Will Meet No Opposition IfPost-Pear] Harbor Prece Gent Holds Un

Largest Navy Bill Faces Congress As First Business  Return From Easter Vacation Finds Calandar Crawdad

Largest Navy Bill Faces Congress As First Business  Return From Easter  Vacation Finds mit... em. .}...,. DL.

GANNETT EXPLAINS COMMITTEE FORMED FIGHT COURT PACKING   NEW YORK STATE PUB._ LISHER SAYS ORGANIZATIAN NOT IN POLITICS

Gannett Defends  Constitutional  Government Grour Denies Committee In Politics’   Denies Committee In Politics’ or Advocaling Candidate or Party bat Fought ‘Third Term

Croat Quisling In Tito’s Hands   Blamed With Slaying  Jews, Serbs, Partisans

Slav Patriots Arrest Quisling   Croatian Dictator Is Turned Over To Tito’s Men.

CROATIA QUISLING SEIZED, IS REPORT      Partisans cf Marshal Tito - Capture Town of Zaiecar

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rWO WOMEN HURT IN CRASH OF AUTOS   Accident Occurs at Intersection of Route 13 and Maple Beach Road  INJURIES NOT SERIOUS

Hitler Shifts  Forces West   Military Strength Being Massed To Meet Allied Invasion

SEEKS TO MAN DEFENSES FOR INVASION   Russian Victories Mount in Rumania and Poland

———————————— CC  Observation of Boy, 4/2, May Lead to Robot Bomb Defense

Allies Smash Into Hitler Line For Gain Of 17 Miles   Yankee Heavy Bombers Attack Reich Objectives

WARREN: REVISED SPEECH RAPPING SIDNEY HILLMAN  REFUSED TO DELIVER ADDRESS SUGGESTED  Aw RAR AMEAABI

Bricker,Byrd Proposed As Coalition   aaa  REPUBLICANS MAKE NO REPLY; EXPECT TO CHOOSE BOTH CANDIDATES BY FOURTH  DAY.   Anti-Roosevelt Caucus

COMBAT NEW JAP THREAT IN JUNGLES   Enemy Seeks to Cut Last Supply Road to Imphal Base

British Combat New Jap Threat To Cut Supplies   Japs Maneuver In Attempt To Cut Last Supply Road To Imphal Base

ATH WAR LOAN CAMPAICN OPENS   Starts Tuesday of Next Week; January 18th

FOURTH WAR LOAN DRIVE SOON OPENS   Minute Men And Women Of County To Take Field January 18

Will Launch Fourth War Loan Campaign On Tuesday, January 18   Five Hundred Workers To ‘Help Sell County’s Million Dollar Ouota

NAZIS PUSHED INTO POCKETS AT 4 PLACES   Some of Most Difficult Fighting of War Has Been Experienced in Southwest Holland.

0,000 Germans in  ao Push Back  etwork of Canals   ritish, Canadian, American and Polish Ground Forces Engaged In Drive to Clear Enemy From Corner of The Netherlands    AINS MADE IN FIGHTING ON SCHELDE ESTUARY

10 Jap Cargo Vessels Sunk  Or Damaged   Allied Planes Blast Nip Ports,  Airdromes

Bouse Turns Over To Conferees Difficuli Task Gf Polishing Up Legislation To Ban Subsidies

Expect Veto For Subsidy D eath Bill   HOUSE TURNS OVER TO CONFEREES POLISHING UP OF LEGISLATION OUTLAWING PAYING OF SUBSIDIES.   CCC’s Life at Stake

. »—-PACIFIC—  JOLAND'S MAIN HARBOR 1: 6041   Yanks More. Than Half Way Across Important Pacific Island   GUAM IS SHELLED   Four Islands In Kurile Chain Bombed By Unit ed States Fliers

NAZIS FACE DISASTER AS RED ARMIES DRIVE ON RAILWAY CENTERS   Ukrainian Offensives Near Sarny; Odessa-Warsaw Railway Threatened   RETREAT PLANS SMASHED

No Chance to Live:  Yet Siamese Twins Born  To Widow Are Still Alive

DEATH INEVITABLE FOR SIAMESE TWINS   Mother Sees Them for First Time, But Only Their Heads

Pa. Siamese _ Twins Alive   But -Their Condition Tg Gradually. Becoming Worse: No Hope

Interpreting The War News—  Artillery. Weight Gives Allies Advantage In Casualty Ratio

Yank Drive Brings New Hun Setback   Americans Driving Into Germany’s Noe, 2 Area Of Heavy Industry Present Threat to Nazi Hepes

Bidding Under Federal Rule:   District Official Here To Make Plans Clear

OF $5.20 UPON STRAWBERRIES   To ‘Peg’ Other Fruits As They Come On, OPA  Indicates

Real Confidence And Cooperation  a cena  Night Fighter Team Members Develop Damon and Pythias Friendship Facing Death

Leona Frerichs © Becomes Bride _ Of Reinholdt Wit  Pretty Wedding  Takes Place At St. John’s Church

Will Rademacher And Evelyn Koch Of Akron Wedded  Popular Young :  ‘Couple Assume Marital Ties

LANDLORD'S EVICTION PLEA DENIED BY JUDGE   Court Refuses to Permit Ejection of Expectant Mother and Wife of Soldier

Congressman Gives His Impressions After Three Weeks Tour Of England

Eunice Peterson President County Girls 4-H Club   Helen Beneke of Swar Lake Club Installed a: Vice President

Ja ps Attempt To Establish  New Cabinet   Some Progress Reported But No Definite De cisions Announced

JAPAN AWAITS NEW CABINET   Military Leaders Report Progress After Conference

Japs Admit  Damage Done  Steel Works   More Than Seventy Super-Fortresses Engaged  In Attack.

B-29's Raid Cities In Manchuria And Enemy-Held China   Anshan, Major Steel Producing Center Hit 2nd Time

70 PLANES HIT ANSHAN, TOKYO RADIO REPORTS   Hour - Long Attack On Important Steel Center Bared

Roeigen First German Town To Fall To Allied Armies In Invasion of Nazi Soil

ALLIES PROBE FOR POINTS 10 BREAK THROUGE   Berlin Acknowledges Dent Made In Siegfried Line.—Allies Keeping Operations Secret.

Reports Reveal Initial Dent In Siegfried Line   Patton's Third Army Lashes. Out In New Moselle Valley Drive

MORE CROSSINGS HINTED; NEWS ‘BLACKED OUT   Bombers Pound Siegfried Line

Japan Faces New Thrusts   Guam And Marianas Is lands May Be Next

Jap Home Situation Grave As Allies Threaten Land With New Invasion Thrusts

Coffee May Be Rationed Again   Stocks On Hand May Last Only Six Months

COFFEE SUPPLY SHORTAGE SEEN   Ceiling Revision Or Return 0: Rationing Loom

Nation's Coffee Supply Dwindles   Return of Rationing Possible. OPA Says

Seek Compromise on Mustering-Out Pay   House Slashes Senate Allowances by Voting  $300 Discharge Povmant

House Passes . Muster-Out Bill   7. Senate Legislation Providing $300. For Disbey Members of the  med Forces.

House Passes Muster-Out Bill   Sends To Senate Legislation Providing $300. For Dis. charged Members of the Armed Forces.

HOUSE REDUCES DISCHARGE PAY SENATE VOTED   Approves S100 for Sezvice Men and Women in 60 Days, 3300 for Those In Longer

DISCHARGE PAY “TRUCE” MOVES ARE UNDERWAY   Two Billions Separate Two Factions

$2 BILLION GAP “IN “MUSTER-OUT’   House Bill Is Called “Niggardly,” As Two Groups Wrangle

HOUSE SLASHES “DISCHARGE PAY   $300 Top Cuts Senate Plan By Nearly Two Billions

COMPROMISE ON VET PAY SOUGHT   Senate And House Committees Try To Settle Two Billion Dollar Difference a Mustering - Out - Pay  ills.

House Muster Pay Vote Over   Vote Unanimous; Compromise With Senate Sought

Muster Out Pay Voted By House   Bill In Conference For Compromise

Navy Medicos Treat Wounded At British Base   Quick treatment» by skilled  hands ‘saves many lives; fifty doetors on staff. 

NAVY MEDICOS TEND WOUNDED IN BRITAIN   Patients . Are Receiving Skilled Swift Treatment

FEDERAL TRIAL TO BEGIN TOMORROW   Charge Bohn Corporation, With Defrauding Government.

ALLIES STEP UP ATTACKS IN DACIFIC   Japs Are Beaten From Admiralties To Asia Continent

U. S. Infantrymen Trap 2,000 Japs in Burma   Allied Troops Score Further Gains In Islands of Southwest Pacific

Attacking — On Land and Also in Air~      GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS, -. RUSHED INTO NORMANDY, ~<* MEET MURDEROUS ALLIED FIRE

‘Bringing Men From Easts ern France And Reich For Final Effort   FIERCE TANK BATTLE RAGES AROUND CAEN   Most Furious Armored Battles Of The Invasion’ Being Fought 

British Guns Fire 10,000 Shells Into  Enemy Below Caen   Nazis Shifting Troops From East Trying To Smash Allies

Germans Race To Block Push On Orne River   British Cannon, Swarms Of Planes Open Murderous Attack On Columns

THREAT BEING COUNTERED BY PLANES, GUNS   German Relief Units Take Beating From 10,000 British Shells

RELIEF UNITS GUT DOWN bY LANG AND AIR     Cannon and Planes Aitempt  to Break Up Counter as -Tanks Battle.

British Hammer Enemy Columns   Big Tank Battle Rages as Nazis Move Armies to Coast From Eastern Front:

Enemy Tries’ To Dam Flood Of Britishers   See-Saw Battle Swings Back and Forth Around Caen

Durham Leaf Workers Vote To Walk Out   ‘Failure To Win Union Contract Causes Action

DEMOS RETAIN CONTROL IN HOUSE, SENATE   Roosevelt Sweep Buries G. O. P. Hopes of Dominating

Air Smash at Ponape and Palau   28 Enemy Ships Sunk and 18 Damaged Near Big “- Jananese Base   AMERICAN FLEET ‘NOT CHALLENGED   Our Ships Rule Waters Near Philippines As Air Arm Delivers Blows

98 WARSHIPS. ARE SUNK OR DAMAGED   Japanese Navy Reduced to Third-Rate Power According to Triumphant Nimitz  munique

2 Battleships, 4 Carriers and 18 Cruisers, Destroyers Known ‘Sunk: 58 Ships Suffer In All

Subs, Bombers Prowl Enemy Waters For Fleet Remnants   Total Of 58 Warships. In Big Japanese Fleet Sunk Or Damaged

U.9.-dap Score Is Now 58-6   Nip Losses May Go Up as Reninants of Fleet Are Pursued

Decisive U.S. Victory In Philippines Seen As ‘Hastening Manila Push   Tokyo Reports Yank Bombers Over Capital; Jap Losses Reach 58 With 24 Warships Sunk a

Enemy Loss In Air-Sea Ficht is 60   Japan Reduced to Third Rate Naval Power, Adm. Nimitz Says,

Worst Defeat In Modern Naval History Reduces Japan As World Power

REMNANTS OF ENEMY FLEET HUNTED DOW!   Nimitz Discloses Enemy Losses of at Least 58 Warships In Philippines.

JAP LOSSES BOOSTED 10 58 WARSHIPS   Admiral Nimitz Says 24 Nip Ships Sunk, 34 Damaged

Nipponese Loss In Battle At  Least 58 Ships   Only One Or Two Destroyers Came Out of Clash Unscathed

Virtually Complete The Liberation Of Leyte And Samar Islands  JAP FLEET SUFFERS LOSS OF 60 WARSHIPS  American Carrier Planes Resume Attacks On Manila Area

HUNT CRIPPLED SURVIVORS; HIT 58 WARSHIPS   All But Two Enemy Vessels Sunk Or Damaged

Battle Losses  Climb to 64 Warships Hit   Navy Reduced To Third-Rate Sea Power, Nimitz Says

All Houses Have: Sale Every Day   Experienced Buyers Here to.Clean Out Balance . of Crop.

All Houses Have Sale Every Day   Experienced Buyers Here to Clean Out Balance of Crop.   By Jasper Cc. Hutto  Superviser Lumberton Tobacco RA a whe od

NAZIS RESIST BITTERLY IN NORTH ITALY   But Allies Push Their Advance Along Highways Leading to Important Italo Centers

Another Column Closes In on Follonica; Situation in Italy Is Little Changed

OTH CAPTURES ROGCASTRADA   Nazis Unable to Check Alliec Advance in-ltaly

NAZIS FAIL TO HALT THE FIFTH ARMY   Despite Strong Resistance, Troops Reach Roccas‘trada and Near Follonica, on the Coastal Road to Pisa. .

Nazis Halt Flight; Fight ‘Back in Italy   Make Strong Stand Against Eighth Army; Recapture One Town

ADVANCE AGAINST HEAVY RESISTANCE   Fifth Army Tanks, Infantry Occupy Town on Highwavy 73.

ALLIES GAIN ON FRONT IN ITALY   5th Army. Meets Stronger German Resistance

RESISTANCE IN ITALY GROWING   Fifth Army Advances Against Increasing Enemy Opposition.

Allies Edge Forward — In Italy   Situation Is Little Changed As German Resistance Stiffens Along Central Front

FIFTH ARMY FORCES ADVANCE AGAINST GERMAN RESISTANCE   Highways and Highway Towns Are Objectives ef Allied! Troops Battling Against  Ctrang Naz: Defenses

Fifth Army Cuts Main Roads in North Italy  Germans Are Making Strong Fight ect CHL Army  Anne

Fifth Army Gains In Western  Italy But Nazis Make Strong Stand Against British Eighth   Roccastrada Occupied, Cutting Lateral Road To North: Allies Near Follonica

GERMANS HALT ITALY RETREAT   Make Firm Stand Against Allies Advancing On   Pisa Line 

LATERAL ROAD T0 NORTH ITALY CUT   5TH ARMY PUSHES AHEAD IN FACE OF STRONG RESISTANCE

[Allies Meet Strong jResistance in Italy   But Fifth Army's Tanks and Infantry Continue Advance

Fifth Army Cuts Main Roads In North Italy  Germans Are Making  Strong Fight  Against 8th Army

Tanks, Infantry Upset Germans _On Tialian Front   Nazi Resistance Overcome By 5th Army Forces In Capturing Reccastrada

Fifth Army  Takes Ci ity, Cuts Route   Nazis Halt Flight 85 Miles North of Rome, Resist Eighth Army —

‘U.S. Tanks Thrust ‘Near French Capital As New ‘Trap Forms —   Allied Planes Hammer All Nazi Escape Routes; Yanks In Sight of Famed Eiffel Tower

Berlin Places U. S. Force Near Capital’s Edge   Sherman ‘Tanks Reported By Germans to Be Waghig “War of Movement  Adjacent to City”?   New Trap Closing On Normandy Foe   Germans South of Seine In Full Retreat In General Direction of Rouen

Eiffel Tower Is In View   Three Spearheads May Engulf City, Close Trap On Nazis West Of Seine River

German-Controlled Radio Reports American Tank Columns Only 12 Miles West of Paris; Yanks Make More Gains

G. E. Engineer To Speak Monday   A.S.M.E., A.1.E.E. Will Hear Allen

Russians: Ride Jeeps On Last Lap To Capital   Marshal Tito’s Scouts Ferry Across Danube to Act As Guides Eor Soviet Troops   Within 20 Miles OF Yugoslav City   Reds Advancing Like Flood  From the Foothills Of   Transylvania Alps   Resvion

Russian] Forces = Only. 20-Miles From Belerade   Vital. Comniunications In + Yugoslavia’. Captured; Partisans “Leading “Way

Russians Sweep Forward In Yugoslavia To Point Less Than 20 Miles From Belgrade

Hungary Fast Being Pushed Out of War   Russians Forces Push to Within 20 Miles of City of Belgrade

Soviets 20 Miles From ‘Belerade   Yugoslav Partisans Serve as Guides Russians Advance  Like a Flood

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH WITHIN TWENTY MILES OF BELGRADE CUIDED BY TITO PARTISANS

Reds Spear Along Danube Less Than 20 Miles of Belgrade   Germans Said Fleeing After Counterattacks Split Near Petrovarad

Russians Less Than 20 Miles From Belgrade   Onrushing Red Forces Are Guided By Tito’s  Yugoslav Partisans.

YUGOSLAVS JOIN REDS IN DRIVE   Little Resistance Is 9 Offered Onrushing  Soviet Troops

Slav Partisans Guide Red Gunners Toward Capital  Russians Shiit Armored Force From Hungary To Focus Attack

Soviet Troops Only 20 Miles From Belgrade  Tito Supplies Scouts   Tito Supplies Scouts As Reds Sweep Ahead In Yugoslavia; Plight Of Hungary Worse

Russians USE US Jeeps in ‘Spearhead    With Partisans as Guides  They Drive Within 20 _ Miles of Belgrade; Hungary's Situation Worse

Russians Overrun — Yugoslavia, Near City of Belgrade   Yugoslav Capital is Only.20 Miles Away; Partisans Join Reds

‘  Sbviel Forces Clear Big Aree Of Yuaoslavia   Guided by Yugoslav Partisans Red Machine Gunners in American Jeeps Push Forward

RED ARMY LESS THAN 20 MILES FROM BELGRADE   Russians Use U. S. Jeeps ir Push Westward Along Danube River

Russ Sweeping On To Belgrade   Now Within 20 Miles Of Yugoslay Capital

BED VANGUARDS. NEAR BEL CRA   Russians, In U. 8. Jeeps, Less Than 20 Miles From City   AIDED RY TITO   Yugoslav Partisans Act As Scouts For Soviet Forces

Pincers Closing On Belgrade As;  Soviets Advance   Red Spearhead May . Cut Off 50,000 Nazis; Enemy Plight Worsens In Hunaary. Baltics

Russians in Jeeps Spear Within 20 Miles of Belgrade   Tito’s Scouts Cross Danube to Help Lead Red Army Forward

Russians Use Yankee Jeeps In Advance   Estonian Island Taken In Another Drive By Soviet

Russ Forces  Draw Nearer  To Belgrade   Spear Along Danube Less Than 20 Miles From Yugoslav Capital

AEDS DAWNING TO BELGRADE   Machinegunners in Amerisan _deeps Spear West-

REDS DRIVE TO FREE BELCRADE   Soviets Cross River Line In Transval; Hungary Grows Desperate

RUSSIANS: MOVE WESTWARD ALONG THE DANUBE RIVER   Were Less ‘Than 20. ‘Milka From. Belgrad Today, Moscow ‘Reports.   RED ARMY ADVANCES   Considerable Yugoalav’ Texritory Has Been Swept. Clean of Germans. -

Marshal Tito’: ‘S. Scouts Leading Soviet Advance  Toward Capital   ‘Pacharid Pour Out Of. Transylvania: Alps —°

EDS ADVANCE BELGRADE; 71S FLEEING   fyposlay Partisans Acting Guides for New Russian  War Offensive      BEARHEADS SPEEDING + ~~ TO NEW OBJECTIVES

Much Yugoslav Territory Now Clear Of Nazis   Partisan Scouts In Contact With Soviet Armies At Danube

RED UNITS ARE NEAR BELGRADE   Russians Score New Gains In Drive to Wipe Out Nazi Forces

Soviet Forces Advancing On Belgrade   American Jeeps Used By Red Army Men With Yugoslav Help

SOVIET TROOPS NEAR BELGRADE JN DANUBE PUSH   Yugoslav Partisans Used As Guides; Assault Against Hungary Continues

Russians Nearing Belgrade   Rich Farming Country Of Yugoslavia Taken.

BELGRADE LOOMS BEFORE RUSSIANS   Soviets, Aided by Yugo: slav Partisans, Only 40 Miles Away

RUSSIANS DRIVE WEST TODAY NEAR BELGRADE   Hungary’s Plight Growing Worse   By The Hour

SOVIETS ARE NEAR CAPITAL OF BELGRADE   Red Machine Gunners Riding in Jeeps, With Slavs as Guides, Are Less Than 20 Miles Away.

Reds Roll Toward Belgrade   Yugoslav Partisans  Act As Guides for . Forces Now Less Than 20 Miles From Capital

RED COLUMNS DASH ONWARD TO BELGRADE   Spearheads Only 20 Miles From Capital; Clear . Elbow of Germans.

REDS 20 MILES FROM BELGRADE   Vital Communications Ir Yugoslavia Seized

RUSSIANS LESS THAN TWENTY MILES FROM BELGRADE WEDNESDAY  LARGE PART OF YUGOSLAVIA SWEPT CLEAR OF CROMAN RESISTANCE

SLAVS GIVING AID IN DRIVE ON BELGRADE   Red Army Forces Advanc ing Like Flood From Foot hills of Transylvania Alps to Danube

Attacks Intensified In Balkans By Reds   Russians Sweep Toward Capit al of Yugoslavia While Making More Important Drive To Knockout Hungary And Open Gate to Germany

Reds Driving For Belgrade   Machinegunners in Yank Jeeps Push Ahead With Help of Yugoslav Guides

FAST ADVANC IN BALKANS CONTINUES   New Thrust Would Isolate 50.000 Germans   ALL TERRITORY   East Of Danube-Tisza Elbow Liberated: Island Oh Hiiu Captured

REDS 20 MILES FROM BELGRADE   Tito’s Scouts Lead Russian Troops Ahead

Ultimatum To Germans  Predicted   Front-line Stories Of “No Resistance” Hint at Parleys

HENRY Hl. EILERS. ~DIESIN SIOUX GIT      Father of Mrs. Charlotte Dreckman Suffered Heart Attack :

Hull Is Victor In Plans for Post-War Germany   President Calls On Crowley to lron Out Dispute

FDR Backs Hull Plan For Germany   FEA Chief Told To.Map Postwar Control of Reich

Germans Use New Weapon   Pilotless Air Craft Used In Assaults On England

SUPERFORTRESSES IN RAD ON JAPS      Americans Complete Circle of De¢ gtruction on Islands

JAPS DECLARE 100 BIG PLANES MADE ASSAULT   Axis Radios Predict Invasion of Halmahera and Philippine Islands

SUPERFORTS BLAST JAP MILLS IN MANCHURIA WHILE OTHER BOMBERS HIT DEFENSE ISLANDS   Indications, from Composite Reports, Are That Allies Are in Final Stages of Preparations for Inevitable Invasion Of Nip Homeland

TOKYO ADMITS ANSHAN BLOW BY 100 CRAFT   New Raids On Outposts Hint Invasion Of Philippines May Come Shortly

SUPERFORTRESSES LASH IMPORTANT NIP WAR CENTERS   BERLIN REPORTS YAP AND PAULA HEAVILY BOMBED FOR 3 DAYS

FORGE CIRCLE OF BOMBS ON ORIENTAL FOt   Tokyo Claims More Than 100 Big Bembers Hit at Anshan, Site of Jap Stee! Mill

B79 Formations Hit Stee! Plants      Raid Comes on Heels Of New. Air Threat To Philippines

Heavy New ‘Bombing Of »vap Arsenal   Axis Reports Big Car. rier Plane Attack On Palau And Yap.

Superforts blast Manchurian Steel Foundries  500 U. S. Carrier Planes Smash at...   500 U. S, Carrier Planes Smash at. Palau, Yap Islands

B-29s Strike  Anshan   More Than 100 Superforts Take Part in Raid On Jap Steel  . Center in. Manchuria

JAPANESE ARSENAL IN MANCHURIA HIT BY SUPERFORTRESSES   PALU AND YAP, EASTERN GUARDIANS OF PHILIPPINES. ALSO BLASTED

Superforts Strike . Showa’ Steel’ Works’  in Manchuria Today   Important Industrial Targets in Anshan Also Blasted

Manchuria Again B-29 Target; Japs Win U. S. Air Base   Axis Reports 500Plane Carrier Raid On Palau and Yap

MANCHURIA IS TARGET TODAY OF B-29 SHIPS   Complete Circle Of Destruction On Nipronese

Jap Arsenal In Manchuria Hit By B-29s   Tokyo Says More Than 100 Superfortresses Attacked Anshan, Site Dé Ria Stee! Mill

Complete Circle of Destruction Blazed Around ~ Home Islands.   /PAL'AU AND YAP BOMBED?

Manchuria, Palau, Yap Hit, Indicating Possible Invasion   American Air Base At Lingling Lost-to Five Jap Divisions

-B29s Bomb Jap Arsenal In Manchuria   Palau and Yap_ Reported Heavily Bombed for Three Successive Days; Invasion of Halmahera Predicted

ANSHAN SCENE OF NEW ATTACK   Carrier-Based Planes Hit Palau and Yap In Pacific Activity

B-29’s Blast Steel Mills  In Manchuria   Carrier Planes Hammer Palau, Yap; Axis Predict Invasion

Powerful Flight Of Superfortresses Blast Jap Arsenal In Manchuria

Nazi Resistance Stiffens in Italy   Yanks Gain Along Bologna Highway

Fiffh Army Advances In Bologna Area   Monte Battaglia Still Held With Stiff Fiaht

Yanks Virtually Control Saipan  Strategic Height Held by Marines

Yanks In Capital Of Saipan   Garapan Stormed By Assault Forces; Task Force Attacks  Guam And Rota.

YANKS ENTER CAPITAL CITY UPON SAIPAN   Smash Into Outskirts Of Garapan, Reach Mountain Top

Easter Services  ra In the Chuvches wt   ALL SAINTS' CHAPEL  Fact Omethnnst

BARD PROBABLE CHOICE FOR NO. 2 NAVY OFFICE   Forrestal Favors Aide For Nomination As Undersecretary

Men In Service Demand Vote   Poll Is Conducted By Stars And Stripes

‘Soldier Wants Vote with No SNAFU About It Either’, Stars and Stripes Declares

Soldiers Want To Vete, Says  Service Paper   Stars and Stripes Cites Men  Not Concerned By   What Method Votes  to Be Handled

2) MILLION FLOOD LOSS TO FARMERS   Flood Attention Focus in lowa Shifts to Ottumwa, Eddyville With D. M. Still Rising

Flood Costs lowa Farmers  — $25,612,500   20 to 30 Per Cent Crop Land in 25 Counties Is Said Washed Out

FLOOD THREAT GROWING WITh ALGING WATER   Ottumwa Center of Danger; Army Engineers Sent to Fight -River.

Loveland Estimates Week of \Heavy Rains and Floods Cost llowa Farmers $25.612.500

25 Million Is  Flood Damage   Thousands Of Acres Of Rich Farm Land Is Lost By lowa Rains.

SPECIAL BOARD WILL GOVERN JOINT AIRPORT   Two Cities To Have Equal Representation; Study her Details

B. H.-St. Joseph Leaders Confer Today On Terms   Joint Ownership And Operation; State To Aid Financially

Mighty Air Fleets From Britain and Italy Drop 8,000 Tons of Bombs on German Troop and Supply Routes

Air Armadas Batter Reich   Airdromes and Rail Facilities Blasted

8,000 ‘Ton Assault Or Life Line   Forty-Seven Planes, 21 American, Lost In Record Assault On Naziland.

Czech Cabinet Planning Avoid Internal Strife   Hope Avoid Dualisms and Conflicts Besetting Other Countries.

Benes Prepares For Liberation   Has Machine Which He Hopes Will Avoid Dual isms. Conflicts.

SOVIET FORCES RACE TOWARD RUMANIA   Spearheads Expected to Reach Frontier Before Nightfall

LEND-LEASE PRIME - INVASION FACTOR   Britain’s Production Chie Cites Contributions As Return For U.S. Aid.

 Reds ‘Insist Nazis Get U.S. Goeds   Izvestia Charges Vatican Supports Fascism in Italy, Spain, France ~

Russ Accuse  U. §., Vatican   Charge Our Supplies Are Reaching Germany

REICH GETTING U, 8. PRODUCTS, RED PAPER SAYS   Slaps Spain And Vatican

Charge Germany Gets U § Supplies   Reds Say Vatican Supports Fascism

Soviet Papers Assail Franco  And Vatican   Claim Catholic Church Aids Faseiom. Spain Helos N

Red Star Charges U. S., So. America Helping Axis Thru Spanish Importers

SOVIET PAPER IN BLAST AT HOLY FATHEF   Vatican Accused of Being Accom. plice of Fascism. Doubt Spain to Break With Axis

Argentine Supplies Also Moving in Via Spain, Savs Red Star   Vatican Draws Sharp Rebuke From Officials as‘ Supporter of- Fascism; Prolonsed War: Laid to Franco

Vatican Aids Fascists, Says Russian Paper    Germany Ie Obtainin War Material Throu  Spain, Is Charge OF  Newspaner Red Star

Reds Say Nazis Getting Supplies T sh Spain   Goods Coming From U. S., Latin-America, Charges Army Paper

NAZI E-BOATS AVOID- YANKS   American PT Craft Roam Channel Without Fear Of Hun Speeders

GERMAN E-BOATS AVOIDING ~~ FIGHTS WITH SPEEDY P- rs   HERO OF P-T BQUADRON OF BATAAN COMMANDS POWERFUL SMALL: BOATS:  IN INVASION ZONE

Top Nazi Generals  At Invasion Front   Rommel, Rundstedt On Scene, Says London

TURN BACK ONE  JAP COLUMN IN INDIA   Allies Land Heavy Blow on 3-Pronged Nip Offensive

JAP INVASION “COLUMN GIVEN INDIA DEFEAN   ALLIED JUNGLE FIGHTERS BLASH AT ENEMY TROOPS DRIVING ON IMPORTANT SUPPLY BASE

JAP INVAS OF INDIA GOES INTO REVERSE   Allies Deliver Counter Blow   +,/!_* BAF RF ee Basa. “a  Enemy Wants Captltal of Manipur

LOCAL PHONE WORKERS JOIN OHIO WALKOUT   Long Distance Service Impaired As Strike Affects 14 Cities; Emergency Calls Being Handled. 

Schools Get Windfall But Question of Using ‘For Teacher Salaries

ALREADY ACHIEVED   Allies Unhook Aerial Punches At Japanese Over 3,500 Mile Warfront Throughout Pacific Area

ALLIED AIRMEN CONTINUE BLOWS AGAINST ENEMY   Aerial Blows Struck All Way From Central Pacific Marshalls To Dutch East Indies In New As saults.

Japs Bombed On 3,500 Mile Front'Allies Gain Against Japs On Burma Fronts

Americans Locked with Nazi in Bitter See-Saw Battle; Rail Station in Nazi Hands

SHARP INCOME TAX - CUT 1S PROPOSED   Postwar. Tax Plan Proposed by Economic De-: velopment Group

CED Asks Cut In Corporation, Personal Taxes   Economic Program Unit Sees Plan Stimulating  Beentn. Fs

TEXAS DEMOCRAT PARTY SPLIT   PRESIDENT SUPPORTER DEFEATED IN FLORIDA

Roosevelt Has Slight Advantage in Final Gallup Poll  Smal] Shits Could Give F.D.R. Landslide: Dewey's Chance of Upset Lies in 20 Pivotal States

Small Shift Could Give FDR Landslide; Dewey’ s Chance Of Upset Lies in 20 States   Republican Victory Would Shorten War Claims Gov. Dewey

F.R. Has Slight Advantage Over Dewey In Poll   Small Shift Could Give Roosevelt Landslide; Chance Of Upset Lies In 20 Pivotal States

Poll Shows Roosevelt Has Slicht Advantage   Dewey’s Chance of Upset Lies In Twenty Pivotal States

Dewey’s Chance Of Upset Lies In Twenty Pivotal States, Says Latest Of Gallup Polls Today

NATIONAL ELECTION CLOSE, SAYS GALLUP RESULT HINGES ON 12 PIVOTAL STATES

hoosevelt has slight  advantage   Dewey’s chance in pivotal states

FDR Leadinc With 51.5% In Final Poll   Result May Hinge On 12 Pivotal States, 180 Electoral Votes

CRAIG'S BLOOD TONIC  06 OOS AA wet kel   KTAaNnrre ATONNAW NICHT

 Aussies Threater To Trap Large Number of Japs   Foothold Gained On Kankiryo Saddle, Nippon Defense Point

AUSTRALIANS CLOSING TRAP ON JAPANESE   Three Pronged Drive Launched in New Guinea

AUSTRALIANS CUT GEF JAPS IN NEW GUINEF   ‘Large Pocket Isolated by Flanking Drive in Finisterre Ranves

AUSSIES H/.VE FOOTHOLD IN all GUINEA    Threaten to Cut . Off Large Pocket Of Japanese

JAPS FACING ENTRAPMENT BY AUSSIES   Jap Airfields, Shipping Hit By Planes, Warships

May Cut Off  arge Pocket Of Jap Troops   Aussies Stage Flanking Drive On New Guinea

Outer Fortress System of Nazi Bastion Pierced   British Advance Over Two Miles Through Cold, Sleet in Holland; Nazis Shift Metz Fort Artillery

Deaths Slash Democrat Hold In Congress   Republicans See Majority Soon By Special Votes

Deaths, Elections, May Stop Demos From. Regainine.Control.Of House ~

DEATHS, ELECTIONS IMAY BLOCK DEMO CONTROL IN HOUSE   Prevalence of Member Deaths And Coming Special Elec tions May Also Cut Demo Bell to Lowest in 10 Years  cee am beuwnemnend oe

DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE DECLINE   Special Elections May Prevent Them From Retaining Majority

Beachheads Established Along 100 Miles of Coast   Yanks, Canadians, British Race Inland, Dig In, Air-Borne Troops Already Landed Behind German Lines

American, British, Canadian Forces Have Landed in France in Great Strength

Attackers Push Ahead into Nazi Held Territory   German Opposition Proves Less Effective Than Was Anticipated; Beachheads Seized

Shore Batteries Largely Quelled; Penetrate Several Miles Inland; Report Invasion Off Schedule for 24 Hours.

Tightening Noose Re Around Japs In } New Guinea Now   ose Reports 54,00) In Nazis Taken In low Drive In Frane

Kenney'’s Eastern Airmen Give Pocketed Japanese Increasing Dose Of Bombs

TIGHTEN NOOSE ON NIPS CAUGHT IN NEW GUINEA   Trapped Force May Stage Suicide Drive Near Aitape Field

Showdown Fight Seen In Jungles   Allied Forces Hammer at Japanese and Their Weakened Supply Lines in Northern New Guinea

AIR ARM MOVES NEARER TO JAPS   Forward Bases Put In Use: — Enemy Landing Smashed

ALLIED PLANES BLAST AT NIPS   MacArthur Moves Airforce Into New Bases on New Guinea

Gen. MacArthur Prepares For New Conquests   Allied Air Bases Are Moved Northward As Enemy Withdraws

Blows Foreshadow Showdown Fight For New Guinea   U.S. and Australian Forces Hammer Foe’s Supply Line; Shift To New Air Bases

U S. AND AUSSIE FORCES POUND JAPS AND THEIR WEAKENED SUPPLY LINES

Hammer Jap Madang Base   Showdown Looms For New Guinea As Allies Pound Nipponese Supply Lines,

Show-Down Fight In Jungles of New Guinea Near   MacArthur Has Shifted Air Arm To Forward Bases

AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN FORCES HAMMER AT JAPS   WEAKENED ENEMY SUPPLY LINE MAY BRING SHOWDOWN NEW GUINEA

New Guinea War Steps Ur   Intensified Allied Attacks Presage Showdown Battle -

Allies Hit Jap Forward Bases.   Continued Assaults Indicate Showdown Fight in New Guinea

U- S. Air Force Moves Closer to Japanese   Steady Pounding of Jap Supply Line Foreshadows Showdown in New Guinea   ‘SOFTENING UP’ AIR RAIDS INTENSIFIED   Marine Guns Sink Two Troop-Filled Barges; ‘Still on Job at Arawe’

GIRL DESCRIBES CIRCUS BLAZE   Ballet Dancer Haunted By Memories Of Hysteria

Germany Predicts Second Invasion   At Different Spot, Vichy Radio Says

ONLY KEY MEN IN ESSENTIAL “WAR PLANT OCCUPATIONS . 10 GET DEFERMENTS "  ‘. IN. FUTURE... :

"; "MENT OF A UNDER qh "AGHTENED    Only Exceptions to Be Irreplaceable Personnel

DEFERMENT OF 26- YEAR - OLDS IS TIGHTENED   Essential Workers Protected; Other Restrictions May Be Removed

TIGHTEN DRAFT DEFERMENT Ot MEN 18-26   O: ly Key Young Men in War-Essential Industry’ to Get Induction Stay.

SEEKING TIGHTER JOB DEFERMENT   Selective Service Strives Also to Safeguard War Work

67 PERISH IN CRASH AT SEA   Recover 37 Additional Bodies  eee  Many Victims Sacrifice Lives

PATROL VESSEL TOLL IS NOW 67   St. Augustine Gives Up 37 More Bodies; Kin Being Notified

PEACE WON'T END RATIONING   Autos And Other Durable Goods to Remain  Controlled

May Have To Ration Autos  ‘Long After Wau   Would Include Radios And Washing Machines To Avoid Inflation

Rationing May Be Necessary After the War   Experts Foresee Need of ' Controls Until Supply Equals Demand.

Rationing and Price Control Methods May Be Extended To Post War World

Celebrated for  Mrs. Mar garet (Morgan) McCor mack, Former Resident

German Defenses in Ttaly Stiffen  Yankees Drive Into Rosiqnano Outskirts

Rejection Reports Erased ‘At Wright’s, Woman Says   Appears At Intervals

OFFICIAL ACCUSED AT WRIGHT PLANT      Technician Says He Passed Faulty Metal Bars

Budapest Fate Is In Balance   RUSS LUNGE FORWARD AND BERLIN ADMITS SITUATION CRITICAL

RUSSIAN DRIVE NEARS BUDAPEST   Fall of City Would Open New Gate to Germany

—W Sof A  REDD HME AT BUDAPEST GATES   Russians 7 Miles From City; Fate Of Capital Hangs In Balance

GERMANS RUSH MORE TROOPS INTO AREA   PHungarian Capital Being Bombed Incessantly   SOVIET UNITS   Are Barely 90 Miles From Reich; Berlin Admits Situation Critical

RUSSIAN UNITS SMASH T0 EDGE OF BUDAPEST   Fall of Hungarian Capita Will Threaten Another Reich Invasion

Germans Force British to Fall -- Back Near Faenze   Nazis Attempt to Hold Positions on West Bank of Lamone

NAZIS LASH OUT AT EIGHTH ARMY   SAVAGE THRUST DRIVES BRIT: ISH BACK TO NORTHERN EDGE OF FAENZA.

MAJOR PUSH PUTS ALLIED TROOPS 16 MILES FROM ROME   Advance in First Big Drive Below Capital Threatens to Cut German Supply Arteries.   NAZI REINFORCEMENTS RUSHED FROM NORTH   General Clark’s Men Lunge to Within Half-Mile of Rail and Road Junction of Cisterna.

Allies Move Ahead  In Drive on Rome   American, British Forces Reported Fighting 16 Miles From Italian Capital; Cassino Battle Raves

Yanks Strike In Major Offensive   Reinforced Nazis Are Driven Back

BRIDGEHEAD iS 16 MILES NEARER ROME   Allies Fight Into Outskirts Of Campoleone On Main Coastal Rail Line Supplying German Forces,   Blast Undine Field

Nazis Rush More Troops South to Oppose “Allies ~   Offer Fierce Resistance at Cisterna to Block Severing of Road

BATTLE FRONT IS MOVING IN TOWARD ROME   GERMAN DEFENSES NEAR CASSINO TOTTERING

Allies Advance To Within 16 Miles of Rome   Reinforced Yankees, British Strike Out In Major Offensive

Allied Bridgehead Carried - To Within 16 Miles of Rome    Reinforced British and American Troops Reach Out skirts of Campoleone—More Nazis Are Rushed in to Check Drive

Yankees Drive Within 16 Miles Of Eternal City   Threaten Campoleoue, To Southeast of Rome, Cystepng an Anon Wee

Major Offensive Launched; Troops      Of Campoleone   Germans Rush More ‘Troops from Northern 4 Italy To Oppose Amer~ ican and British Troops

Russians Open Attacks On Entire Polish Front   Reports Place Red Army Forces 31 Miles West o: Vistula River In New Coordinated Offense

Russia Awaits Fall Of First German Town   Nazis Report Soviets In New Offensive On Front Northeast Of  Warsow; Losses High

SOVIETS ATTACK ALONG 100-MILE FRONT IN POLAND   LASH AT SECTOR FROM WARSAW TO LYSO MOUNTAINS

Reds Trap "Nazi Force -Of 30,000   Germans Run into ‘Disaster on West Bank of Vistula; Victory Increases: Threat to Silecia

REDS ATTACK ON FRONT OF 100 MILES   Two Armies Surge Forward From = Eastern Suburbs of Warsaw to Lyso Mountains Guarding German Silesia.

Russians Open Twin Drive Upon Poland   New Attack Is Timed To Complement East Prussian Push

Reds Aifack On 100-Mile Front In West Polanc   Russians Await Salute Announcing Fall Of First Nazi City

DRIVE OPENED ON WIDE FRONT NEAR WARSAW   Soviets Await Announcement Of First German Town's Capture

RUSSIANS PUSH TWO ATTACKS   Drive Co-ordinated on 100 Mile Sector; 750 Nazi Tanks Destroved.

2 Russian : “Armies i in  . Big Attack   Co-ordinated Blows Launched Along 100-Mile Sector From Warsaw to Lyso Mts.   "MAY ENTER GERMAN AREA ANY TIME   Nazis Faced With Smashing ® Red Challenge for Decisive Victory in Poland

2 Soviet Armies Surging. Forward   Attacks Are Coordinated   NORTHEAST OF WARSAW   Germans Squander Nearly 750 Tanks in Counter Attacks

Russ Driving On Reich in 2 Directions   Advance on Silesia Coincides With Move Toward East Prussia

100-Mile Sector Main Objective Of Joint Action   Nazis Admit Soviets Launch Attacks On Wide Front Northeast Of Warsaw

Two Red Armies In Twin Attack   Polish Drive Is Coordinated With That on East Prussia

Red Troops Launch Two Offensives  Decisive Victory   Decisive Victory Believed Near On Eastern Front

Russians Hurl Big 2-Pronged Attack At Nazis   New Drive In Poland I: Timed With Smash Ai  Beet Prisceia.

Reds Advance On 100 Mile Polish Front   Attack In Sector Extending ‘from East ef Warsaw to Lyso Mountains Guarding German Silesia

RUSSIANS IN. PRUSSIA AND POLAND GAIN   » Reds Take First ~ Town On German  ‘Soil Today

Soviets Surge Forward   Great Offensive Along Whole Eastern Front . In Making As Reds Move Toward Silesia

SOVIETS OPEN NEW ASSAULTS   Rip Nazis From Warsaw To Silesia In Sav age Thrusts

Soviets Wait Fall of First Place in — Germany; It’s Near   Two Red Armies. Surge Forward Along Long Canrdinated bine

3 Nazi Divisions Trapped By New ‘Russian Thrust   Heavy Fighting Continues To Rage On East Prussia Border.

Reds Launch Coordinated Blow In East   Surge Forward Against 100-Mile Sector From Warsaw to Nazi Land

BATTLE RAGES ON ~{NO-MILE FRONT   Moscow Ready To Fire Salute When First Ger- man Town-Falls   WARSAW ATTACKED   Nazis Face Smashing: Red Challenge For Decisive Victory In Poland

SOVIET ARMIES SURGED IN COORDINATED ATTACKS TODAY ON 100-MILE FRONT ASSAULT   Russian Home Front Tensely Awaited Salute From Moscow’s Guns Announcing That Red Army Had Won First Town Inside Germany

Reds Mount Large Seale Offensive, (Nazis Say   Two Soviet Armies In Coordinated Push Over 100-Mile Front; Decisive Victory Scen

2 RED ARMIES BATTER HARD AT POLE LINE   Sew Drive Timed To Strike With Russian Offensive For East Prussia

Reds on Way to German Silesia  Two Soviet Armies Plunging Forward

Russians Advance  ‘On 100-Mile Fron!   Soviet Home Front Awaits Word Of Capture of First German City

REDS FORGING AHEAD ON 190 MILE SECTOR   Home Front Awaiting Artillery Salute Denoting Capture of First Town Inside Germany  By EDDY GILMORE

Two RedArmies Surging Along 100-Mile Front   Coordinated Atiacks Sireteh From Warsaw’s East Suburbs to Lyso Guarding Silesia

Two Soviet Armies Surge Forward on 100-Mile Front   Moscow Celebrates Taking First Town In East Prussia

TWO SOVIET ARMIES ATTACK AGAINST A ~ 100-MILE SECTOR   It Stretches From, Warsaw’s  Eastern Suburbs to the Lyso Mountains.   A GUARD FOR SILESIA   Marshal Stalin’s Commant Timed Drive With the 3rd White Russian Army.

GARDENS NOT HURT BY FROST, IS BELIEF   Northern Part of State Is Chief Danger Spot

Halsey Promises Big Celebration  Where Tokyo Was   In United States lor First Time In 16 Months

Administration Accused of  Promoting Disunity  for “Political Purposes’   Governor Dewey Renews Attacks on President Roosevelt as He Is Greeted by Record Crowd in Tulea

Order Nazis to Shoot Comrades  New Steps Taken tg Maintain Morale

NAZI SOLDIERS TOLD TO SHOOT OFFICERS OR ANYONE INDICATING SLIGHT DECLINE IN BATTLE MORALE

Himmler Orders All German Troops To Kill Comrades Or Officers Who Would Retreat   Captured Document Discloses Command To Shoot Any Who Speaks Of Defeat

German Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Comrades Showing Faltering Morale

Nazts Order Soldiers To Shoot Comrades  Or Officers Who Show Low Battle Morale

Monschau, Reich Town, Is Retaken   Other American Forces  Mass To Halt Nazis In  Dt TF akeosmeniemsowes

RECAPTURE MONSCHAU IN GERMAN)      Front Still Unstablized: Nazis 20 Miles Into Bel.   HEAVY BATTLES RAGE

‘Yanks Cling To St. Vith, Key Belgian Road Hub; Other Units Set To Halt Luxembourg Push

Retake Focal Point But Front Still Unstabilized ‘As Heavy Battles Raging

THINK FRONT © IS NOT YET STABILIZED      Ramming Columns. of Germans Are Seeking a Major Opening— Hodges Meets Challenge With Tanks and  Teanna

Temperatures   Heavy Battles Raging But Tide Turning, Says Front Dispatch

TEMPERATURES:   Great Battle Nears Crisis; First Army's Position Is ‘Better   German Infantry Followed Breakthrough By Armored Forces But Fails To Achieve Major Gains: British Front Active

Berlin Claims 200 American Tanks Destroyed; [mprovement For U.S. Noticed Yesterday   Supreme Headquarters Announces Enemy Is Five To 20 Miles Inside Luxembourg And  Belgium: Nazis Take 10.000 Prisoners

ENEMY THRUST INTO BELGIUM LOSING SPEED   Push Toward Liege Is Still Grave Menace To U. S. Position

‘Doughboys Retake City of Monschau, Focal Point Of . 4Pronged Nazi Counter-Offensive; Southem. Sectors Of Western Front Remain Quiet

‘Nazis Thrust Over 20 Miles ‘Into Belgium   Yanks Recapture Monschaw In Germany; Front Still Unstabilized Tonight

HEAVY BATTLES ARE RAGING, FRONT NOT YET STABILIZED   Tide Beginning To: Change At Some Points,’ Ger. mans Are Trying To Reach” ~ ~ American Supplies

Monchau Back In Hands Of Americans   Heavy Battles Rage Around Stavelot-St. Vith

{ ANKS RETAKE MONSCHAU, GERMANY   Deepest Penetration Said To Be 20 Miles   DOUGHBOYS   Hold Firm In Some Areas; Dispatch Says Situation Is Better

Monschau. Town in’ Germany, Is Recaptured by Troops of American First Army.  BATTLE FRONT, HOW F\4trTryry yrwrct ret & FPEY sre

But Heavy Battles Still Rage on Unstabilized  Front  pal   Groups of Yanks and Nazis - Surrounded at Various  Points

AMERICAN [ST ARMY  HAS DULLED NAZI  COUNTEROFFENSIVE TOWN IN GERMANY RECAPTURED BUT GERMAN  ADMAD CARITIAIIICG NDIE

Yanks Retake  Monschau From Enemy   German Smash in Vicinity of Stavelot Drives To Within 22 Miles of Liege, Belgium; More Troops Being Mustered to Halt Attacks

CRUCIAL BATTLE BEING FOUGHT NOW, S BELIEF   Americans Dull Momentum Of German Attack But Front Not Yet Stabilized

Wildcat German Armored Columns Being Backed up by Infantry; Enemy Drains Reserves. End Seen

Germans Say 10,000 Americans Captured; Yanks Holding Firm InSome Sectors And Condition Officially Termed “Better”

Yanks Blunt One Strong Enemy Spearhead Today; Monschau 1s Recaptured

Front Still Unstabilized; Fierce Battles Rage In Stavelot Sector

Enemy Tanks Lead Advance In Big Battle   U.S. First Army's Position Impreves; Bloody Fight Rages

First Army’s Situation ‘Definitely Better’ Says U. S. Report   American Flanks Above And Below 4-Pronged German Counteroffensive Begin To Hammer At Still Advaneins Mwaawsic

YANKS RETAKE MONSCHAU IN AACHEN SECTOR   Initial Impetus Of Powerful German Offensive Has Been Checked

ENEMY ARMORED COLUMNS PRESS ON IN BELGIUM   AMERICAN TANKS, TANK DESTROYERS HIT FROM SIDES

GERMAN FORCE NOW WITHIN 29 MILES OF LIFEE   Americans Recapture Monschau Bat Front Is Still Not Stabilized.

U. 8. TROOPS HAVE.  RETAKEN MONSCHAU;  ONE DRIVE CHECKED HEAVY BATTLES STILL  _ RAGING AT STEVELOT, eT VITO ANT MAIMENY

Front Still ‘Unstabilize            Germans. Pour ‘Infant é At 1st Army Be ig: Swift Armored Coluniits

U. §. RECAPTURES MONSCHAU "BUT GERMAN COLUMNS STRIKE “STILL DEEPER INTO BELGIUM:

Gen. Hodges Slams In Armor And Infantry In Effert To Stem Onslaught— . 8. Headquarters Discloses German Thrusts Of Five Te 20 Miles

German Forces 4-Prong Push --Vlakes Gains   First Army Situation Termed “Better” with Tanks Hitting Above, Below Enemy Lines

Americans Recapture Monschau in Germany; Dangerous Smash to 22 Miles From Liege Being Slowed; Fighting Fierce

German Units Strike Deeper Into Belgium   ist Army Situation Described as ‘Better™ But Secrecy Continues

Heavy Battles Still Rage Around Stavelot, 20 Miles Inside Belgium

Three Heavy Battles Rage   Center Avound Read Hubs; First Army Situation "Definitely Better’

Yanks Holding In Some Areas   Broke Through First Army Lines in Four Places, Statement on Situation Up to Monday Noon Reveals — Nazi Infantry Rammed in Behind Tanks

Other Yank Units Cling To Points Three Miles From Key Hub of St. Vith

But Western — Front Still Is ‘Unstabilized’   Germans Pour Infa At Ist Army ‘ot Swift Armored Columns

Yanks Retake City In Aachen Sector, Battle Continues   First Army Hurls Infantry And More Armor Into Fray

Fierce Batfles Rage As Nazis Mark Up Gains   Enemy Infantry Now Moving In Behind Armor; Allies Down 200 German Planes

U.S. Troops Check Initial Onslaught Of Nazi Drive and Retake Monschau Report Situation “Definitely Better” ‘As Hodges’ Men Hold Firm on Flank:

U. S. First Army Troops Have Blunted One Powerful Nazi Drive That Launched 20 ’ Miles Into Belgium to Stavelot Recaptured Monschau.   BELIEVED TIDE OF BATTLE HAS BEEN TURNED   Other American Units Clung to Forts Three Miles From St. Vith, Another Belgium  Key Road Center Eleven Miles North of Stavelot.

Grand Jury Investigation Starts Today   Former Secretary Of Senator Miller Among Witnesses

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U.S, TOLD NOT 10 TRUST NEW DEAL   Bricker Cites Promises Made By FDR And Then Points To Record

BRIGKER: CHARGES NEW DEAL ~- HAS BROKEN PLEDGES RECORD   OHIO GOVERNOR IN. CAMPAIGN _ SPBECH IN  BAST SAY PROMISES ‘WERE NOT LS FULFILLED

Belgians Rebel Allies State In  Commu nique   French Patriots Said To Have Destroyed 26 Bridges In 10 Davs

ALLIES REPORT BELGIAN REVOLT   Patriots Join French in Harrassing Nazis

BRITISH GAIN EIGHT MILES EAST OF CAEN   Vimont Menaced; Caen Dock Area Secure From Enemy Fire

Belgians Join French Revolt  Underground Raising Havoc With Germans

Nurses Are Queens Of Army Hospitals in Italy, War Correspondent Finds

Wreckage of Bomber Burns   10 Men Believed Dead in Crash Near Chicopee, Mass.

“Nazi Justice” Grips Reich as Heinrich Himmler Given  Command of All Armed Force.

Hitler Purges . Generals to. Mp Rebelion  ® Pacow   Revolt of German Armies Reported  In East Prussia

BLOOD BATH DECLARED BY HITLER   Result of . Abortive Revolt. In Germany

NAZI CHIEF APPEARS T0 HAVE CRUSHED REVOLT BY KILLING ITS LEADERS

BECK EXECUTE AS RINGLEADER OF CONSPIRACY   Gestapo Chief Himmler Put In Command Of All Nazi Armed Forces  )

Ringleaders In AntiHitler Conspiracy Executed  REVOLT HAS BEEN ENTIRELY CRUSHED All Communications Out  Of Germany At Hitler’s Command

Claim Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck, Ringleader Of Anti-Hitler Conspiracy, Has Been Executed— Himmler Heads Reign Of Terror   HITLER AIDE IS KILLED BY BOMB

Hitler  Apparently  In Control Gestapo Embarks _  On a Reign of Terror orto Wipe 

‘Hitler Blood Bath Follows Revolt Attempt; Himmler Given Command

Two Nazi Army Chiefs Executed   Assassination Attempt Leads to Threatened Civil War in Germany

Nazis Claim Control of Abortive Revolt: Beck Executed as Rinoleader

HITLER OPENS BLOOD BATH IN REPRISAL FOR ABORTIVE REVOLT   Gestapo Chief Himmler Vested With Commanc Of Armed Forces Ix Germany; Nazis Say Revolt Completels Crushed.

BLOOD BATH FOR ENEMIES OF DICTATOR   Beck, Former Chief of General Staff, Put to Death. Troops Revolt in East Prussia

Berlin Announces Beck, Once Staff Chief, Executed   Chief of Gestapo Sends Out Legions In Search of Conspirators

Hitler Begins Blood Purge Of  Revolt Leaders   Gen. Beck. Former Chief Of Staff, Slain; Bomb Planter Put To Death

HITLER OPEN BLOODY PUNGE AFTER REVOLT   Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck Named as Ringleader; Executed on Himmler Order.

Hitler Appears in Firm Control After Revolt   High Ranking Army Officers Are Implicated

YUGOSLAV FORCES GETTING TOGETHER   Followers of Tito and King Settling Problems, Tip

Americans Race Toward Rhone Above Marseille   Take 10,000 Nazis; Germans Prepare to Flee Toulon

TD,000 NAZIS CAPTURED IN B-DAY DRE   Outflanked Garrisons Prepare to Abandon Toulon and Cannes.

EVACUATION OF TOULON ‘INDICATED   Navy Base Is Cut > ~=ShsOff:s~In Three  Directions

ALLIES PUSH INVASION 50 MILES INLAND   Invasion Army in South France Has Germons on Run

ENEMY READY TO ABANDON TOULON BASE   10,000 Prisoners in Five Days Taken By Allies

French Tanks Lead Drives Near Toulon   Germans Abandoning Big French Novy Base

Toulon Base And Cannes Threatened   German Garrisons Reported Ready To Flee Cities

GERMANS PLA NEW SUB DRIVE   Allies Warned of Improved U-Boats   Few Shipping Losses In Atlantic

U-Boats Get 1 Out Of 1,000   Alexander Warns Greatly Improved Nazi Subs Ready

ACCIDENT PREVENTED BY QUICK THINKING   Flaming Broom Keeps Train From Pleughing Inte Fortress Berece Tracke

WARNS AGAINS) INVESTMENTS IN ARGENTINA   U. S. State Department Applying New Type of Sanctions

ARGENTINA TC LOSE U. S. CASH   American Business Ge Federal Warnings On Investments

BUSINESS MEN ARE ADIVSED — AGAINST ARGENTINE PLANS   INFORMAL SANCTIONS” ARE BEING CARRIED OUT AB RESULT OF BTRAINED RELATIONS

BUSINESS. MEN ARE CAUTIONED   ‘State Department Gives Warning About Making Argentine Investments

But Even Tokyo Admits Invasion of Eastern India Now Is ‘Slowing: Down’

Threaten New Push in China: Slows in India   U. S. Sea-Aircraft Participated in Strike at Sabang

Tokyo Admits Invasion: _ Of India Slowing Down   Scribe Reports American Craft Assist _ in Carrier Strike at Sabang; - -. Bombers Hit Bases

Japs Menace Big  Chinese Rail City  In Pincer Drive Tokyo Admits Push  Into India Strikes Much Trouble

Battlefields of 1918 Fall to Troops Racing for Belgium,  Germany at Mile-Hour Speed   Planes Scourge German Supply Lines and Communications Across France, Low Countries and Reichland; Patton’s Armored Forces Rip Almost Unopposed Across Historic Battleground

YANKS RACE ACROSS FIELDS OF FIRST WAR   Troops Plunge Across Aisne

MEN WilQ ARE REFUSING TO WORK TO HAVE BREAD AND WATER DURING: HOLIDAYS

Willkie Enters  State Primary   Organizer Says No Slate Of Convention Delegates Planned.

Wiltikie’s Entrance *“Prohbabhlo   in Nebraska Primary, Organizer Discloses

ACT QUICKLY TO CAPITALIZE ON NEW VICTORIES   Converge on Anchor of Last Nazi Line 18 Miles From Rome

RAIN IS FORECAST IN SECTION TODAY   Pleasantly Cool ; Cool Week- end Enjoyed by: Coun trans 

RAIN IS FORECAST. IN SECTION TODAY   Pleasantly Cool. , Cool Week-end Enjoyed by Coun-   trance 

Heavy Attack Is Opened On Fort Driant   American Troops Dril Into Tunnel  Systen And Also Push Aheac Atop Fortifications

{Yanks Inch Into Driant In Bitter Pocket Battle   Doughboys Fighting Hand-to-Hand _ Atop Fortifications and in’ atennela Far Indersground

644 Americans. Held By Navis Fr Route Hon   Group Crosses _ Frontier -Of Occupied Land.on_. Way fo Lisbon:

WAR INTERNEES ARE EXCHANGED   Gripsholm To Bring Back 610 From Germany Via Lisbon

Romance Blooming For Aerial Nurses   Two of Them in England Engaged to Fliers

NaziForces Inside City Are Doomed   Red Artillery Hammers at Suburbs of Port on — the Black Sea

THREAT OF CORN GRAB LIFTED   Excellent Farmer Response To Freeze Results In Eased Situation

bOAN FREEZE HAY BE LIFTED WITHIN TEH DAYS   Confiscation Threat Is Removed by Farmers’ Response.

GOAN FREEZE 10 BE LIFTED SON   Chief of WFA Predicts Re moving Order Within Two Weeks if Supply Continues

RESPONSE 10 CORN FREEZE EXCELLENT   Threat of Federal Confiscation Over, Says WFA Official

LIFTING OF CORN “FREEZE”; ~ EXPECTED IN: NEAR. Uru      rWO-THIRDS. OF SUPPLY BY ARMY FOR INDUSTRY AL. READY PURCHASED, WFA . HEAD SAYS

THREAT OF CORN SEIZURE LIFTED   Freeze On Sales May Be End. ed Soon, WFA Says

GOP Nominee Dewey Shows Newsmer Country Residence, Answers City-Bred Reporter Farm Queries

MISSOURIANS TALK TRUMAN ON 3D BALLOT   But Henry Wallace of lowa Picks Up Strength For Second Place.   Deadlock Predicted By Senator Barkley

« Briefs   Claim Japs Land On Moratai Island   Domei Dispatch Says Bitter. Fighting Results

LAVA STONES RAIN. ‘DOWN ON ITALIANS   VILLAGERS: FLEE STRICKEN AREA WITH CHILDREN WRAPPED IN BLANKETS.

Flee Two Towns At Vesuvius Base   New Eruption  Blankets Big Area

Willkie Clears Way For Chicago As Convention City  Party Members Are Warming Up On  Platform Diecruecsinne

WAY CLEARED FOR CHICAGO GOP MEETING   REPUBLICANS WARM UP ON PLATFORM DISCUSSIONS

CHIGAGD SEEN AS CONVENTION GITY   Willkie’s Willingness Seems To Clear Way for Selection: Party Members Warm Up on Platform Discussions

WILLKIE’S 0. K. PUT ON CHICAGO   SELECTION OF CITY FOR G. 0. P. CONVENTION NOW RE. GARDED AS CERTAIN,

WillkieOkehs Chicago ForGOP Convention   Approval Paves Way for Party Selection ” Of City for 1944 Nominating Meet; Platform Talk Accents Foreign Policy

Willkie’s Consent Has Cleared Way For Chicago to Obtain G. 0. P. Session

ALLIES STORM NORTH FRANCE BY AIR AND SEA 10 OPEN BATTLE OF LIBERATION   Success at Least in Initial Stages Indicated; Fate of Generations to Come in Balance; Leaders Are Confident

Success at Least in Initial Stages Inulicasedss Fate of Generations to Come in Balance; Leaders Are Confident

U.S. Soldiers  Join Rescuers   Aid In Digging Out Trappec Londoners After Nazi Bombing Attack

LONDON HAS — NICHT RAID   GERMAN PLANES ATTACK BRI TISH CAPITAL FOR FOURTH NIGHT IN SUCCESSION .

Men Overseas May’ Buy Gifts   Army Catalogs Now Ready for Service Shopping.

Bombers Hammer Ploesti Refinery   Raiders Also Attack Airdrome In Yugoslavia

PLOESTI HIT BY HEAVY BOMBERS BASED IN ITALY      Ten Vital Bridges Used By Ger. man Seventh Army Bombed

BOMBERS HIT PLOESTI OIL REFINERIES   Also Blast Nis Airdrome In Yugoslavia

Bombers Hit Nis, Ploesti   Eighth Air Force Active After Two Years of Blasting Enemy Targets

Ploesti is Again Target for Bombs Of Yankee Planes   Kighth Air Force Gives Attention to Support Of Normandy Forces

Brother, Sister Die Hour Apar   Both In Same Hospital, Unaware Of Each Other

Three Children Are Killed By Train When Caught in Middle Of Trestle

U. S. Flier Wins DFC for Daring . Photo Reconnaissance Over Japan

UNARMED FLIER PHOTOS JAPAN   First American Reconnaissance Made Last October

Virginian, Flying Unarmed P-38, Photographed Areas Of Japan In 1943: Met No Fighters Or Flak

Army Flyer Who Photographed Sasebo, Jap Naval Base, Nagasaki, Gets DSC  Capt. Sordelett, Former Postoffice Clerk, Made First Photo Reconnaissance from China. Perhaps First Ever Made Over Japan

60 U. S. DIVISIONS ON FIGHTING FRONTS   Eight More to Sail This Month, General Marshall Tells Legion Convention.

Over 4,000,000 American Soldiers Serve Overseas, Legion Told by Marshall

60 DIVISIONS OF AMERICANS ARE OVERSEAS   Gen. Marshall Tells Legion naires Eight More Divisions Go This Month   ADM. NIMITZ SPEAKS ON PACIFIC STRATEGY

60 DIVISIONS ON FIGHTING FRONTS      General Marshall Tells Legion of the War Situation

Tells Size — Of American Combat Unit   Marshall. Discloses 60 Divisions Are Now on Fighting Fronts ~and   Mere To Be Sent.

Two Enemy Forces Now Are Irying To Escape Traps  Fierce Resistance By Americans Halts Outbreak

Yankees Beat Off Jap Thrust  In New Guinea   Enemy Foreed to With draw After Crossing River  Near Aitape to Attempt Reorganization

Two Forces Of Japs Try To Break Out   One Attacks Allied Lines in New Guinea; Second Tries Escaping

Fire Traps 18 Men in Harlan, Kentucky Mine   Fire Between Pit Entrance and Men, Prevents Contact

JET PLANES DESTROYED ON GROUND   AmericanBombers Followed Up By RAF

British King’s Nephew Captured   Viscount Lascelles, 21 Taken By Germans On the Italian Front

ISLANDS NEAR JAPAN ARE HIT   First Strike from Marianas Bases Hit Strategic installations

Liberators Hit Volcano Island   Strike Is the First by Land-Based Planes

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TAMMER AT.GATES OF YU GOSLAVIA AFTER BULGARIAN DRIVE.   Hungary Is Next   Important Rail Junctions Cap tured—Major Escape Routes  {  for Germans Cut Off.

JAPANESE CONVOY SMASHED BY AIRMEN   "Four Ships Set Afire or, Probably Sunk in Dutch New Guinea Area —One Vessel Fscanes.

Nazi Flying Bomb Barrage Increases In Its Ferocity    Three Big Airdromes Blasted  Allied Bombers Smash 5-Ship Japanese Convoy South of Trak

Five-Ship Jap onvoy Smashed ByU. §. Planes   Three Important Enemy Airdromes Are Also Blasted

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WARDS ORDER NEW WARE SCHE PLAN    Employes in Detroit Stores  to Get 46 Cents an Hour Basic Pay

WARD COMPANY FACES ANOTHER GOVT SEIZURE   SEWELL AVERY AGAIN DEFIES DIRECTIVES OF WAR LABOR BOARD

FINAL VICTORY SURE ONLY BY HARD FIGHTING   Eisenhower Confident, Says Nazis Will Battle Like Fanatics to End.

Hard ‘Job Ahead But Victor: Is Certain Eisenhower Tells War Correspondents

Eisenhower Is Confident Of Victory   Hard Job Ahead, Commander Says In News Session.

‘IKE DECLARES VICTORY CERTAIN   General Sees Hard Road Ahead of Allies

General Dwight Eisenhower Says “We Have a Hard Job Ahead”   Confident Of A Complete Victory. Speaks To 100 War Correspondents

SHAEF LEADER CONFIDENT OF FINAL VICTORY   Bisenhower Discusses Entire  * With Press — Praises Home Front

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General Decries Wishful Thinking   Says Tough War Ahead With Germans Planning To Fight for Every Town and Every Hill

Nazis Expected ~To Make Stand” On Italian Front   American Forces Driving Along Rome-Pisa Road Meet Stiff Resistance

AIR FAILURE AT CASSINO UPSETS PLAN   Heavy- Bomber Use Against Coast Doubted

Recognize Cassino Failure   Strategists Revise Invasion Plans Afte: Enemy Survives Terrific Assault.

FINDINGS SECRET ON HARBOR QUIZ   Maas Vows To Force Airing Of Naval Court Report

Navy Completes Investigation   Pearl Harbor Repor   Pearl Harbor Report Given Forrestal

PROBERS REPORT ON PEARL HARBOR   FINDINGS SUBMITTED TO NAVY SECRETARY FORRESTAL MARKED SECRET.

Baptist Meet Set For Next Week   MISSIONARY IMPRISONED BY JAPANESE WILL BE A PRINCIPAL SPEAKER

F. D, ‘SCUTTLED’ 33 CONFERENCE DEWEY CLAIMS   Ignores Sen. Ball’s Bolt; Talks At Chicago Wednesday

Dewey Removes Politics From Foreign Policy   Nominee Declares Roosevelt Was Jsolationist in °33

GOP Candidate Speaks In Minneapolis Foreign Policy No Issue: Dewey

MINER CLUBS MAN, BURIES HIM ALIVE      Only Explanation Given te Sheriff Is That ‘He Had To Do It.

U.S, Armed  Power Grows   Armed Services Total Nearly 12,000,000 Men, Hershey Reports

‘Only the Beginning,’ Air Force Officers Assert After Raid :   BY LEONARD MILILIMAN   12,000,000 Men in Armed Services, Hershey Reports

Planes Do Big Job   Success of Allied Bombings Exceeds Highest Expectations

Air Power Of Allies Is Surprise   Exceeds Expectations Of Most Optimistic

Allied Aerial Successes In 3 Weeks Of Invasion Exceed All Expectations

AIR POWER SCORES DURING INVASION BUT HURDLES YET TO OVERCOME IN DRIVE ON EUROPE

San Antonian Tells of Bitter Fighting In 3-Day Stand Before Metz in Downpour

Doughboys Fight 3 Days And Nights in Rain at Metz   Column Dog-Tired and Caked With Mud as It Leaves Front  Line for Rest—Germans Making Another Brest of City and Are Expected to Continue Fight After They Are Surrounded—Answer American Fire Shot for Shot.

i OUTLOOK UNCHANGED   End of War in Europe Will Not Affect Civilian Supplies

FOOD OUTLOOK FOR 1845 UNCHANGED   End of War in Europe Will Not Affect: Civilian Supplies

SUPPLY CUT IN FEW FOODS SEEN   DECLINE PREDICTED IN CANNED GOODS, MILK

IS 16 BILLION JUNE 12TH   Drive Will Open June 12-State And Counts Quota. Not Announe’c

Senate Group Approves — G. I Bill  Of Rights’   Finance Committee Gives Unanimous’ Vote To Omnibus Measure  ™. Coct Three Bilkian   INCLUDES ALL VET BENEFITS BUT BONUS  Wie Dannie Mogenrn

“Bill Of Rights” Near Passage   Contains Every Suggested Benefit For The World War II Veterans.

GROUP VOTES “G.1: MEASURE   Senate Committee “Approvet Benefits for Veterans  Of Present War

Senate Group Okehs Legion’s ‘G.I’ Measure   ‘Bill-of-Rights” Sets Aside $3,500,000,.000  To Aid Service Men

Veterans Benefif Bill Is Anproved   Everything Except Bonue Is facliided

BENEFIT BILL FOR SERVICE MEN 0. K.'D   Legion’s “G. 1. Bill of Rights” Assured of Senate Passaae   COMMITTEE GIVES APPROVAL QUICKLY   Benefits Totalling Three ond.a Half Biifions Provided

Veterans Benefif Bill Is Approved   Everything Except Ronus Ie Included

“GL MEASURE   Senate Committee Approv.es Benefits for Veterans Of Present War

SENATE PUTS APPROVAL ON LEGION’S BIL   VETERANS BENEFITS FOR PRESENT WAR ARE 3 BILLION

Clear Way For dlew G.I. Bill Of Rights in Senate  ® 46 Page Measure Includes All Desirec  eo Oe a

Senate To Get Veterans Bill   Committee Okays Measure Be. TT  ay a eee: Eee:

VETERANS BILL IS APPROVED   Senate Committee Backs Measure Providing Many Benefits

Greek Iroops Lay Down Arnis After Mutinous Action   Political  troubles Lewd To Revolf of Brigade Against Command

NAVY PLANNING BIG. SCALE RAIDS IN FUTURE—NO 8UPERFORTS LOST IN  LAST RAID

PLAN” WAN   ‘4° ¢-Based Craft * Operate With Anrerican Superforts

Feats of Iowa Chaplain Who Lost ' Leg in Italy Told by Men of 34th

Men Reveal Heroism of Fr. Hoffman   War Department Tells Of Priest's Daring Hail of Bullets —

Neighbors Honor — Le Mars Couple.  n Anr iversary i  Mr. ‘aad Mrs. ‘Sheltor Wed. At Chariton Fifty Years Ago

Neighbors Honor — Le Mars Couple OnA ee  u versary  Mi. arid Mrs. ‘Shelton Wed At Chariton Fifty Years Ago

Vanks Continue Blasting Marshalls   Wake Island Gets Fifth Raid Of War

Pressure Kept On Jap Bases In Marshall:   Heavy Loads of Explosives Being Dumped On En“ emy-Held Area In  ' Pacific Group

Start Conquest Rest of Marshalls In Force Team Up   Bombers, Fighters and Warships Combining To Blast Jap Held Islands In the Marshalls Group.

Hammer Marshall Atolls   American Warships and Planes Blast Many Unidentified Jap Bases; Wake a Target °

Bombers, Warships Hammer At Japs On Other Marshalls   Extend Operations To Wake; Eniwetok Has To Be Kept Neutralized

Planes Of All Descriptions Teamed With Big Warships To Blast Japs In Marshalls

ALL CLASSES PLANES TEAM UP WITH NAVY TO BLAST MARSHALS  ‘TO KEEP ENEMY GUESSING ‘NAVY FAILS GIVE   Ye. < Po Tt. -.m "4 ikt Tt

Planes, Ships: Join For Attack‘In The Pacific   Nimitz Declares: ‘119 Tons Of Explosives: Damped ~ On Marshall Isle Bases

Atoll Attack  Is Continued   Marshall Isle Area Is Being Softened-

ALLIES AGREE ON CIVIL AIRFIELDS   Competition Should Not Be Used to “Bedevil” Another Nation.

PEAGETIME AIR CODE ADVANCED      U.S., Britain Outline Plans For Use Of World Fields

U.S. and Britain Agree on Postwar Use of Airfields   Principle Laid Down All Nations}  Should Have Access to Enough fo Maintain Communications

OPA to Price  Civilian Goods   Manufacturers to be Given  Individual Ceilings

ORDER AWAITE   Limited Production Permit tc Be Followed By Ruling on Prices

Turkey Dinners Go fo American Troops On Front Lines of Europe and Asia

British Join. mericans In Celebrations   Soldiers on Fronts Given Turkey Dinner

Soldiers Observe Thanksgiving Day In Foxholes, and at Posts Behind Lines   British Join in Observance to Greater Extent Than Before: Turkey Dinners Served Everywhere

Insecurity Of War Fails To Keep GI's From Churches, Religious Services Thanksgiving

TURKEY SERVED ON — THE WAR FRONTS      Men: and Women in Ser. vice Get Special Thanks’ ' givine Dinners

Turkey Dinners Go to Men in Front Lines  4,000 Troop Into Westminster Abbey for Prayers

YANKS OVERSEA CELEBRATE DAY   Men at the Front Crouch in Foxholes, Bombed Buildings, to Snatch Moment of Link With Home

Doughboys Take Obach  Near Border   Hodges’ Troops Now Astride Main Highway

Make2nd Breach Into Germany  North of Aachen   First Army Advances Four Miles As Nazi Resistance Stiffens; Capture Ubach Near Cologne Road

Drives Wedge Number Two: Into Defenses   Troops Pour ‘Through in Effort to Outflank Aachen, Doughboys Caplure Ubach. Enemy Is Placed On Defen-

Men, Armor Driving in  To Outflank Ruined Aachen   In 36-Hour Drive, Doughboys, Without Air Support, Take  Towns, Prisoners

Yanks Breach Siegfried Line In Second Spot  Newest Break Almost Rings City of Aachen

FOUR-MILE GAP IS BLASTED IN SIEGFRIED LINE   Men And Armor Driving To Outflank Ruined Stronghold Of Aachen   ALLIED AIR SUPPORT BALKED BY WEATHER

Gain Four Miles North of Aachen In Twin Atfacks   Germans Fiahting In Desperation

YANK DOUGHBOYS CAPTURE UBACH   Men and Armor Drive to Outflank Aachen Stronghold   BITTER BATTLE   ‘Earthquake’ Bombs Break Island Seawall; 3rd Army Gains in the South

First army forces crash thru new four mile gap in nazi wall   Advance against varying resistance; ‘Sieofried line definitely cracked’

RESISTANCE VARIES, HEADQUARTERS SAYS’   Twin Offensives, One 30 Miles From Cologne  And Another 32 Miles From Dusseldorf; To South. Fort Driant Is Assaulted

Is Second Break In Fortifications   New Offensive Threatens Encirclement Of Key German Defense Positions Near Aachen

C0 THROUGH A-MILE GAP   Penetration Made North of Aachen—Drive Is On to Outflank That German Stronghold. —   2ND MAJOR BREACH: UBACH CAPTURED   Thirty-Five Pillboxes Are Knocked Out and 400 to 500 Nazis Are Taken in Furious Fightine.

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Hodges’ Army Makes Breach Above Aachen   Americans Continue to Advance in Effort to Outflank Stronghold; Germans Battle Desperately

Troops “Definitely Through” Old Line In Powerful Drive To Outflank Auchen

TroopsPouring Into Germany   ist Army to Sucround Ruined Aachen, Drive for Coloaqne and Duesseldorf

Yanks Gain Four Miles In Second Drive Into Siegfried Line Defense   Americans Score Breakthrough 12 Miles North of First Gap; Drive to Outflank Aachen

New Gap in Siegfried Line Widened as Heavy U. S. Smash Continues   Spectacular Drive, 12 Miles North of First Break in Nazi Line, Is Made Virtually Withont Ate Sunnart> Mare Teanne Pane la

“Definitely Through Old Line, Says U.S. Officer   More Men and Armor Pour Through Agains! Varying Resistance; New Ramparts Ahead

Yanks Outflank City Of Aacher   Four-Mile Gap Is Smashed Through Hitler’s Defense Wall; Cologne Only 30 Miles Away

German Armies Are Falling Back Before Allied Forces ‘On 25 Mile Dutch Front

YANKS CLOSING IN ON 25-MILE HOLLAND FRONT   Last - Ditch Defenders Of Aachen Hemmed Into One Corner Of City

YANKS IN MUD FOLLOW NAZTS FALLING BAGK   Allied Armor Rolls Hub-Deep on Dutch Front; Third Army Near Metz.

Nazis Yield Ground Steadily Behind Stiff Rear Guard Action;  Americans Closing In On Strong Paint    ASSAULT FORCES STORM BRUYERES

Nazis Fall Back ‘Toward Mass On Dutch Front   Activity Indicates Preparations for Allied Offensive

American And British Armor Work Through Hub-Deep Mud  YANKS CLOSING IN ON AMERIKA TODAY  American Third Army Reaching The Fortifications Of Metz

Batlle Hub-Deep Mud in Push Toward Maas and Ruhr Valley  ist Army Mopping Up Aachen

CIVILIANS IN METZ THROW UP BARRIGADES   American and British Armor Pushing Eastward as Germans Fall Back.

ALLIED ARMOR PUSHES AHEAD THROUGH MUL   Nazi Sources Note Signs For ‘Tremendous’ Allied Drive

ALLIES PUSH EASTWARD ON DUTCH FRONT   Drive Two Miles “Béyond  VéetiiayDuerne Road

Doughboys Drive Through Mud In  Wake of Germans   “Nazi Forces Continue To Fall Back Toward Maas On 25-Mile Front

Yanks Close On Amerika In Holland   Nazis Yield Ground Behind Rear Guard Along Long Front.

YANKS, TOMMIES WALLOW THROUGH MUD AS GERMANS RETREAT SLOWLY   Preparation for Big Offensive Is Seen

CONTINUE AIR BLOWS ON JAP SHIPS, PLANES   Superfortresses Pound Formosa, Add to Big Carrier Toll: Tokyo Awaits Invasion of Philippines.

Climax Carrier Attack To Isolate Japs For Invasion Of Philippines   Gen. Arnold Announces Raid That Carries Smashing Camnaign On Jap Defenses Into 5th Day

SOFTENING-UP AERIAL BLOWS IN FIFTH DAY   Carrier Planes Have Hit 227 Ships, Blasted 530 Planes

Administration Studies Program To Carry Out World League Plan As Outlined in F.D.R.’s Address

F.R. Prepares Program to Assure Peace  Four - Point Plan Likel To Go Soon Before

Churchill Gives Defe at of Japs Prior Right to Materials Over Civilian Need

Churchill Says England Must Get Back Trade  Defeat Of Germany To Br seid Changes In Brita

British Planning Expanded Trade  Churchill Sees Need For Heavier Exports

oBRITAIN PLANS TO HOLD TRADE   Owear First on Calendar, But Churchill Cites PostWar Plans

EIGHTEEN CAR LOADSOF HEMP PROCESSED   Fourteen Cars of Bailed Hemp Fibre Shipiped to Mills.

STEWART WILL NOMINATE   Mayor of Cincinnati will Name Bricker for President

QO SO OOo te a eo  ‘FDR SIGNS TAX BILL   ANNUAL CHORE FOR MILLIONS SIMPLIFIED

Ohio Democrats Pick Horstman As Chairman   Republicans Elect Schorr Eighth Time

TRUK AIR STRIPS ‘HEAVILY BOMBED   LAND-BASED LIBERATORS DEAL ONCE-FEARED BASE SMASHING BLOW.

Tropical Storm Sweeping Florida   Hurricane Heads Towards Atlantic Coast Line: Tampa Reports Damage

HURRICANE RIPS FLORIDA, ROARS ON EAST COAST   Warnings Are Hoisted From Daytona Beach Region To Cape Hatteras

Storm Moving Across Florida At Fast Pace   Atlantic Coastline Threatened By Hurricane

Storm Strikes Eastern Coast   No Casualties Reported i in ‘Hur. ricane That  Previously Caused Deaths in Havana

HURRICANE IS LASHING EAST COAST LINES   Seven Killed In Western Cuba; Homes Damaged

Hurricane Skips Past Key Wes!   No Great Damage Reported But Storm Warnings Are Widely Posted   THREAT EXTENDS TO CAPE HATTERAS   Full Toll in Cuba Not Yet Known; Seven Known Dead, 300 Hurt

Hurricane Is Heading Up Coast   ‘Storm Warnings Hoisted  From Daytona To Cape Hatteras

Hurricane Heads Across Peninsula For Jacksonville   ‘Warnings Are Hoisted From Daytona Beach, Fla., to Cape Hatteras, N. C.; Florida Cities Escape Severe Damage

Florida Alert, Hurricane Moving North   Residents Living On Beaches, Move Inland for Safety

VIOLENT GALES BLAST FLORIDA COASTAL CITIES      Hurricane Causes No Casuals Thus Far; Tampa Is Hard Hit

Florida Is Lashed : By ‘Tropical Storm   Hurricane Passing Over Tampa and Moving North; — Cities Boarded Up and Warnings Sent Out To Evacuate Low Coastal Areas Where High Tides Expected

HURRICANE ON WAY UP COAST   Alert Posted Far North As Cape Hatteras

Hurricane Hits Florida Coast  Begins Moving Across State For Jacksonviile

ATLANTIC COASTLINE THREATENED TODAY BY GULF HURRICANE  TROPICAL STORM HEADED ACT OSS STATE OF FLORIDA THURSDAY

Florida, Atlantic States Thu eatened by Hurricane Blow   Tampa Area Slightly Damaged; Seven Dead Amid Havana Debris

Storm Moves  Up Florida   Expected to Reach Jacksonville Today; Seven Known Dead

STORM MOVES NORTH FROM FLORIDA KEYS   Issue Hurricane Warnings From Daytona Beach to North Carolina

HURRICANE HEADS ACROSS FLORIDA   Storm Turns Inland East o! Tampa; Wind Up to 100 Miles Per Hour.

Atlantic Coast Threatened By Tropical Storm   Warnings Sounded At Hurricane Heads Acros: Flerida Today.

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SERGEANT HERMAN PAYNE KILLED IN ACTION IN ETALY   SON GF WELL: KNOW LENNA, . PARENTS. IN SERVICE FIVE . YEARS, TWO: YEARS OVERSEAS.

U. 5, CASUALTIES IN PALAUS, 7,417   JAPS HAVE HAD 11,043 KILLED AND 187 TAKEN PRISONER SINCE INVASION.

Demobilization Delay Is Denied   American Palaus Casualties Set 336 Killed. 1.107 Wounded and 8 Missing

336 AMERICAN TROOPS KILLED IN LAST WEEK   Eight Are Missing And I 107 Wounded In South  BALIKPAPAN AGAIN ATTACKED BY YANKS

Senate Votes Tax Measure   Entire Income Tax Structure Is Revised

SIMPLIFIED TAX MEASURE WINS SENATE FAVOR   Voice Vote Sends Bil Back to House for Concurrence

Senate Passes Tax Measure   eT a a ee re Si   Reshuffling of Entire Income Tax Structure

Senate Passes ‘Painless Extraction’ Tax Bill To Excuse Most Of Nation’s Taxpayers From Return

Simplified Tax Passes Senate, Goes to House   Minor Technical Changes Must Be Adjusted  Tee: Vissi f Tansee bese:

SENATE PASSES NEW TAX MEASURE   BILL GOES BACK TO HOUSE FOR CONCURRENCE IN TECHNICAL CHANGES.

Associated Press Sends  Radio Flash   News Service Blames London Girl For Announcement

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TASK FORGE DESTRUCTIVE TO JAPANESE   Ninety Ships of Various Kinds Sunk or Damaged; 36 Planes Wiped Out  ‘in Central Philippines.   Tip Of Luzon

Carrier Craft Also Smash 36 Planes off Philippines   Six Warships Among Jap Vessels Pounded In Saturday Attacks, Include Destrover

0 JAP VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN PHILIPPINES   Six Warships Included in Bag of Halsey’s Airmen — 36 Enemy Planes Knocked Out.   TEN RAIDERS LOST ALONG WITH 8 MEN   Task Force Unchallenged by Nippon’s Navy—Airfields in Half a Dozen Towns Pounded.

Italy Rails * Hit as Tanks — Rip Cassino   Florence, Padua Blasted: Nazis Cling Fiercely in Hotel Ruins

Bombers Hit Supply Lines In Haly   Fierce Fighting Rages at Cassino With Little Material Change

NEW BOMBER BLOWS: AT GERMAN SUPPLY LINES NORTH ITALY   HEAVY FIGHTING CONTIN. UED IN CASSINO WITHOUT MATERIAL CHANGE

Bombers Raid Pair of Italian Cities  No Change Recorded  At Cassino as pe. gf gs?

Yanks Blast Rail Targets   Bomb Florence and Padua Areas in ttaly, It Is Announced

Little Change In Cassino Fighting   Bombers Keep Hitting Supply Lines

Florence, Padua  Bombed By Allies   Situation In Cassino Remains Unchanged Despite Heavy Fighting Against Nazis

German Supply Lines In North Italy Battered   Battle At Cassino _ Unchanged As Nazi  Chess May

NAZI SUPPLY LINES HIT IN NORTH ITALY   Bombers Strike In Force; Situation In Cassino Unchanged

LITTLE CHANGE IN CASING SITUATION   Heavy Fighting Continues; 2 Bomber Blows in Northern Italy. -

GERMAN GASSING FEED LINES HIT   Florence, Padua Bombed as Fierce Battle. Continues. 

Bombers Raid Pair of Italian Cities  No Change Recorded At Cassino as   No Change Recorded At Cassino as Battling Continues

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST PADUA AND FLORENCE   Reavy Fighting Continues in Cassine wilh No Materia! Change in Situation   NAZIS HOLD HOTEL   Germans Increase Shelling of Allied Rear Areas Along Anzio Beachhead

New Bomber Blows Dealt Supply Lines   Freight Yard In Florence Area Is Hit By Marauders

German Supply Lines North Of Rome Blasted   Raids Carried Out As Heavy Fighting Continues In Cassino With No Material Change

Strike German Supply Lines  In North Italy   Allied Bombers Blast Railroad Installations At Florence. Padua.   BEAT CASSINO. POINTS

Enemy Supply Lines In North Italy Battered   Bombers Rip Florence And Padua; Cassino Situation Unchanged.

No Changes In Cassino   Heavy Fighting Amid Ruins Continues; Shelling At Anzio Increases

ALLIES HAMMER AT SUPPLY LINES   Florence And Padua Areas Pounded In Italian Raids

Bombers Hit Supply Lines   No Change At Cassino; Northern Italy Feels Weight Of Heavy Bombings

Repeating 1917 Stalemate In Italy  Bitter Cassino Fighting Continues; Nazi Supply Lines Bombed In North

HARD FIGHTING STILL RAGING FOR CASSINO   Two Smashing New Bomber Blows Against Enemy Supply Lines In North Announced   FLORENCE AREA VISITED

Ci ity Ownership Ends  Frisco’s 5-Cent Fare;   Boosted To 7 Cents 

Jap Losses Heavy in India Assault   Nips in Desperate Stand to Regain Positions; Claim 70,000 Chinese Trapped; Allies Bomb Rabaul Four Times

FDR Moves to Enforce. His Order   . ‘fells War Secretary .to Take @ Any Action Necessary in Montgomery. Ward Case .   ORDERED TO BACK SECRETARY JONES   Directive .Follows — Company’s Refusal: to. Recognize Legality of Authority

Sewell Avery, President Of Wards, Questions Legality Of Orden Issued By Roosevelt

COMPANY AWANTS ROOSEVELT MOVE   Government Seizure Of Chicago Mail Order Firm Hinted

Directs Stimson to Take Any Action Necessary; M-W Head Refused Earlier Order

AVERY DEFIES F.D:R. ORDER   Montgomery Ward Execu tive Refuses Government Seizure Papers

U.S. Troops May Occupy Ward Plant   President of Concern Refuses F. R. Order To Take Control

SECY OF WAR TOLD TOTKE NEEDED STEPS   Gov’t Moves When Company’s Head Refuses to Accept . Copy of Order,

Wards Decline Federal Control   Chicago Store Manager Refuses to Turn Over Business to Government.

Refuse to Accep Order of Seizure  Ward Declines to Turn Over Business

REFUSEB'T0 ACCEPT ROOSEVELT ORDER       ewell very, Head of Mail “one ‘Plant, Montgomersl  Ward at Chicago, Says’ No.

_ seizure Of Ward's By » Force Likely   Company Head Refuses To Accept President’s *‘Take-Over’ Order.

Undersecretary of Commerce Arrives at Chicago Office   Firm Head Refuses to Recognize Legality of His Authority

ARMY 10 ACT IN WARD CASE   President. Orders: Stimson T: - Back Government Seizure of Company.

‘Montgomery Ward Defies Roosevelt ‘Order Mail Order Plant Be Seized   Wayne Taylor, Undersecretary of Commerce Says Order Served—Concern Refused to Extend Contract with Striking Union

Commerce Undersecretary Was to Take Over Control of Ward Plant,   HEAD OF FIRM DECLINES

Head of Firm Refuses to Accept Presidential Order For Taking Plant

Stimson Ordered te Seize Ward Plant   F.D.R. Directs War Secretary to Take “Necessary Actian™

U.S. Orders Ward's Seized   Head of Firm Refuses to Accede to Demands; F. R. Authorizes Stimson to Use Army to Back Sec'y of Commerce

FDR DIRECTIVE IS REFUSED BY HEAD OF FIRM   DOES NOT RECOGNIZE LEGALITY OF ORDER FOR GOV'T SEIZURE

Eighth Army Breaks Through To Coast Town   New Zealand and Canadians Push Toward Cesena.

SCORE NEW KEY GAINS IN ITALY   British Seize Cesenatico on Adriatic Front

COASTAL TOW OF CESENATICO CAPTURED TODAY   Much Progress Along Po Is Reported

ALLIES TAKE COASTAL TOWN   Eighth Army Bursts Thru Nazi Rear Guard Units

Allied Troops Seize Town In Adriatic Area   Eighth Army Units Pnsl.  Ahead Toward Ravenna After Capture Of ‘Coastal City —~

Eighth Army  Cracks Lines Drive Back Rear Guards Of German Parachute  wen fn BA Datla

However, Vichy Says Germans Escaping   Claim Only Rear-Guard Troops Left, As Reds Get Set for Siege.

Vichy Reports Say That Germans Are Already Withdrawing From City. .

FOODAGENCY ~ REPORT MADI   WPA DENIES EXCESSIVE SPOILAGE OF FOODS. AND DECLARES IT 15 NOT “HOARDING” SUPPLIES

WEA Sehica GOVT. FOOD HOARLIG, SUPPLY SFOILAGE   Says Spo lage Loss Extremely Small in Answer to Charges

DEWEY ANSWERS ROOSEVELT ON FOREIGN POLICY   GOP Candidate Also Brielly Outlines His Farm Program   PERMITTED OIL TO BE SENT TO JAPAN

Dewey Outlines Stand On World Peace Organization   Governor Says U. S. Representative Must Not be Re. quired to Return to Congress for Decisions— Charges FDR Scuttled London Conference

DEWEY ADDRESSES CROWD OF 12,000 AT MINNEAPOLIS   Criticizes Conduct of Foreign Affairs and Says F. D. R. Cannot Work With Congress.   FAVORS PEACE AGENCY WITH POWER TO ACT   . Says U. S. Representative Should Be Cloaked With Authority to Make Swift Decisions.

Dewey Hits F.D.R. Failure To Work With  Congr ess   Wants Representative In Peace Organization To Have Free Hand In Making Decisions  RECALLS ‘HISTORY?

Dewey Demands U.S. Harmony To Insure Peace   Accuses President of Inability To Work With Congress to Solve World Security Problem

Dewey Asserts It is Time For Chief Executive Who Will Work With Congres:   Harmony Needed for Problems Ahead, Says Nominee; Favors Full Power for U. S. Delegate to World Peace Agency

Peace Plan Outlined In Dewey Talk   CANDIDATE RULES OUT RESERVATION THAT WOULD LEAVE U. S. ENVOY WITHOUT AUTHORITY TO MAKE DECISION.   Hits Shipment To Japan

ENTIRE ORMOC _ JAP GARRISON IS WIPED OU]   77th, 7th Divisions Jom, Trap More Nip Troops

Wipe Out Garrison  At Ormoc   Thousands Of Yellow Men Destroyed In Fanatic Resistance Against Yanks.

GREEK REBELS CONTINUE FIGH   British Coniamibidiin Sees No Slackening in Effort

THIRD ARMY WEDGES MILE AND HALF INTO SIEGFRIED DEFENSES   Soviets Report Routing 40,000 Nazi Reserves Imported To Hungarian Front; Athens Battle Rages Into 6th Day

GREEK ATTACKS ON INCREASE, BRITISH SAY   Strike-Spreads To Salonika

Truce Reports Still Mystery   _ Fierce but Sporadic Fighting Continues in Greek Capital; 900 Rebels Captured by British and Turned Over to Government Officials

FIGHTING IN GREECE IS NOT SUBSIDING   Churchill Asks for Vote of Confidence on Continental Poliev

Capone's Youngest Brother Hunted In Slaying of a Chicago Gangster

GAMBLER SLAIN IN CICERO, ILL   Matt Capone’s Tavern Believed Scene Of Gang Killing

TRUCKING FIRMS CONSOLIDATED   Maryland Transportation Co. And Hagerstown Lines Are Merged

Trucking Firms Consolidated   Local Company Merged With One At Frederick; Urner Is President.

Liberation of Tiny Duchy’s Capital Reported; Yanks Capture Border Town, Smash on Toward Cologne

American Forces Lob Shells Into Holy Nazi Soil   Americans 45 Miles From Cologne, Great Industrial City Of Germany, And Probably Will Be At Border Within A Few Hours.

Emirau isle is taken by  U.S. troops   Japanese base at Kaviens pounded

MARINES SEIZE FMIRAU ISLAND   ACTION PUTS “YANKS CLOSER TO TRUK—WAERSHIPS BOM-_ me BARD » ‘KAVIENG.  :

ISLAND TAKEN WHILE SHIPS ATTACK BASE   Emirau Seized by Forces of American Marines   STEEL RAINED ON BASE AT KAVIENG   Jap Position Bambed for Three and a Half Hours

JAP DEFENSES: GROWING WEAK KNOX REVEALS   ‘Yankees Suffer No Losses ; In Aerial Attacks On > Wotje. Kwajalein, — Mille. Jaluit   -RETALIATORY RAIDS © ' PROVE INEFFECTIVE   ‘Nippons Drop Bombs Ir   Sea In Stabs At Makin  - and Tarawa; Three Enemy Ships Set Ablaze

Japan Is Facing Fatal Hour—Tojo   Premier Warns Nippon » Of Impending Doom

SOLON ADMITS TAKING BRIBES   Callaghan Will Be Another Important Witness in Grand Jury Probe.

FIGHT TO CONTROL H.C. , DISCLOSED IN PLEA FOR QUE   Clark and Reed Ask Senate to Ascertain Alleged Part Played by Jesse Jones  and RFC. —   TWO ARE REPORTED SUPPORTING CROUCH   Kansas City Business Men Trying to Gain Authority to Direct Road Through Shares in. Capital,

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   Germans Trv to Stem Tide of American 7th Army

YANKS MAKING STEADY GAINS IN OFFENSIVE   GERMANS ARE MAKING DESFERATE EFFORTS FO WALT ADVANCE OF AMERICAN SEVENTIE ARMY

NAZI TANKS TRY TO STEM ONSLAUGHT   Germans Rush Heavy Reinforcements to Dented West Wall

DUTCH EAST INDIES BLASTED BY LONG. RANGE U, S. PLANES   GASOLINE’ AND Of SUPPLIES BOMBED NURING FLIGHT OF 2500 MILES FROM AUSTRALIA

AUSSIES SHELL JAP KEY POINY   U. S. Bombers Hit Borneo Celebes and Airdromes Near Rabaul

9,000 TONS OF BOMBS LOOSED IN WIDE SWEEP   Enemy Air Force Driven To Earth; Heavier Blows Foreseen In Future

Americans Take Major Part in Aerial Assaults   Germans Offering Slight Resistance

Round out 30  hour offense 6,000 planes in  be 1 itenieMeter:  cwxecseuwe Likos

Nazi Air Force Is Driven To Earth   American And British Planes Out Over Nazi Held Territory Wednesday Number Over 3.000

ALLIES STEP UP VIOLENCE OF AIR STABS AT NAZIS   Nine Thousand Tons of Bombs Poured on Picked / Enemy Targets. in 30 Hours.   FEW GERMANS RISE TO CHALLENGE RAIDERS   Eight Planes Lost, 21 Shot Down — Two Ships Set Afire Off Coast of  "holland.

9,000 Tons Bombs Dropped ‘On German Targets During 30-Hour Sustained Assault

Thirty - Hour Offensive Against Hitler Europe Rounded Out  ROP 9.000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES  Present Pace of Attack Is Expected to be Maintained

Fall of Jap Burma Base  Appears Near   MerrilP’s Marauders Make Secret March Throuch Junscle

FALL OF CITY MIGHT FORGE JAP COLLAPSE   American and Chinese Troops Strike Surprise Blow on Burma Front.

Yank, Chinese Forces Storm City’s Defenses    no oa tt v2 me ac Capture Would Deum Nip Forces in Northern / Darina

Take Jap Airfield  in Burma   Japs Divide Forces to Meet Three Thrusts From Allies

FALL OF CITY OF MYITKYINA IS IMMINEN   Merrill’s Veteran Jungle Troops Launch Coordinated Drive on Knemy.

Take South Airdrome At _ Myitkyina In North ern Burma  SURPRISED JAPS IN RAID YESTERDAY  Position Has Been Held By Japs For Past Two Years

Yanks, Chinese Storm: Jap Base At Myitkyina   Seek to Unhinge Foe‘s Position in. Northeast Burma   News in Brief From Warfronts

Veteran Jungle Troops Launch Concerted Drive   Garrison’s Airdrome © Taken, Reinforcements Flown Into Sector

Allies Capture Cassino and Pierce Adolph Hitler Line; Storm Jap Held Burma City

U. S., CHINESE TROOPS STORM JAP BURMA CITY   Marauders in Surprise Move

Fall of  Myitkyina  Imminent Three Columns of  American-Chinese Troops Catch Jap:  [ ee

Einstein, Mathematics Wizard, Forced to Call On Income Tax Expert

Einstein, World Famed Mathematician, Calls For Helo on Tax Return

Mattoon's Prowler Adds Two More to His List of "Gas" Victims Saturday

State Police Sent to Mattoon  State Comes to Aid of Hvysteria-Struck City.

Yankees Lash at Rail Yards in Italy  Forts Are Believed to Have Closed Brenner Pass Line

Direct Hits Made on Vital Rail Viaduet  Railway Yards Also ' Spe 5 Se , eee ge Late   Railway Yards Also Suffer From Bombs of Allied Planes

German Supplies For Men in Italy May Be Cut Off   Six Rail Yards Smashed by Bombs

U. S. Bombers Blow Up  Brenner Pass   Score Direct Hits On Vital Viaduct; Lash Six. Rail Yards

Yankees Lash al Rail : Yards in Italy  Forts Are Believed   Foris Are Believed to Have Closed Brenner Pass Line

GUAM ROCKS UNDER AMERICA BOMBARDMENT   No Damage Done To Any Ships Of Attacking Fleet

GUAM BLASTED BY BATTLESHIPS   Invasion-Jittery Island  Rocked by Punishing Bombardment

GUAM ROCKS, INDER AMERICA BMBARTMENT   “No Damage os et     To Any Ships Of -Attacking. Fl

Hour Changed for Dinner Honoring Warren Atherton   Public.Invited -to Movie, Address at PJC Tonight at 8:30

Dinner fo Honor Legion Commander   Reservations Must Be Sent O. W. Boswell By Wednecday 5PM

Bishop Haines To Visit Local Church   Will Come Here For First Visitation Monday

Bishop Haines Coming Sunday      Group Will Be Presented For Confirmation

Naval Planes Launch Bombs Upon Tirpitz   Last Big Unit of Nazi Navy Attacked in Norway Fiord

BRITISH PLANES BOMB TIRPITZ IN ALTEN FJORD   MULTIPLE HITS INDICATE HEAVY ATTACK ON SHIP

Tirpitz Hit By Heavy Bombs   Last Capital Ship Remaining in Germany Navy Pummeled by British Planes

Tir pitz Again  Suffers Bomb Hits At Norway.   British Naval Planes Score Several Blows On Germans’ Mo-' Power ful Battleship

Naval Planes Score Hits on German Tirpitz   Powerful Unit In Nazi Fleet Again Damaged

Score Bomb Hits On Nazi Warship   Tirpitz Powerful Battleship Suffers Multiple Hits From Planes.

BRITISH PLANES ATTACK TIRPITZ   Score Several Bomb Hits on German Warship

German Battleship Tirpitz Hit by British Bombs —   Naval Planes Catch Sea Giant Skulking In Norwegian Waters Several Fits Scored

British Navy Bombers Score Direct Hits On Battleship Tirpitz   New Aerial Assault Aimed at Damaging Great Nazi Ship Enough to Keep it Out of Wear: Attack Carried Out in Alten Fjord

IS ATTACKE BY BRITISH NAVAL PLANES   Biggest Survivor of Hitler’s Almost Vanquished Fleet Struck in Norway, Where Subs Previously Hlad Hit Tit.

Successful Aliack on Previously Damaged Warship, Found Skulking in Norse Fjord   NO DETAILS GIVEN   Nazis Reported Unable io Repair Damage of Earlier Attack by Midget Submarines

Navy Planes Score Hits On German Battleship   Tirpitz Is, Damaged. In Fjord Anchorage

Nazi Warship Attacked In. Norway Fjord   Big Battleship Had Been Crippled By Subs Last Fall

Nazis’ Big Battleship Tirpitz Is  Hit By Bomb:   Several Hits Scored On Secluded Giant, Admiralty Announces; Found In Norse Fjord

British Bombers Hit Tirpitz, Big Nazi Battleship   Attack Last Of Hitler Fleet In Norway Fjord

Nazi Battleship Found Lurking In Alten Fjord   Hit Off Norwegian Coast Where Midget Subs Made Earlier Attack

BRITISH PLANES SCORE BOMB HITS ON NAZIS’ TIRPITZ   Naval Aircraft Loose’ Bomb: On 35,000-Ton German Battleship At It Lay In Norway's Alten Fjord

BRITISH PLANES BATTER TIRPITZ   Score Bomb Hits On Last Of Hitler’s Great Warships

Nazi Warship Hit By British Aerial - Attack   Tirpitz Was Last O1 Germany's Big Warships

VON TIRPITZ. IS REPORTED HIT BY BOMBS   Big German Battleship Said to Have Been Dam aged by Allied Fleet .

BRITISH: PLANES SCORE NEW HITS ON THE -TIRPITZ   Germany's Most Powerful Battleship Is Again Damaged Off Norway; Heavy Attack Indicated by Admiralty Announcement,

Naval Planes Catch Last Remaining Nazi Capital Ship Skulking; In Norwegian Fjord

BRIISn PLANES SCORE BOMB HITS ON THE TIRPITZ  Big German Battle.

TIRPITZ HIT BY SEVERAL BOMBS IN NORWAY   Carrier-Based Naval Planes Thought To Have Made Strike

‘irpitz Hit 'y Bombs n Fjord   Heavy Attack indicated On Biggest Unit of Nazi Navy

BIE NAZI SHIP   Admiralty Announces Tirpitz, a Powerful Vessel, Is Skulking.

British Bomb Tirpitz   Hitler’s Last Big Ship Is Caught In Fjord

British Planes ‘Attack Tirpitz, Scoring Hits   German Battleship Caught In Norwegian Fjord By Carrier Craft

THE 35,000-TON GERMAN TIRPITZ RECEIVES DAMAGE   British. Naval Planes Scored  Several Bomb Hits on the Ship.   A HEAVY ATTACK MADE   The Tirpitz Is Biggest Surviving Unit of Hitler’s Battlefleet.

Bomb Hits Scored on - the Tirpitz   British “Report Successful Attack on Germany’s One } ~ Great Battleship    ‘NO DETAILS GIVEN BY ADMIRALTY   ® But All-Indications Point to a: Heavy Attack Having” i > "Been Made

British Planes Land Bombs On The Tirpitz   Battleship Damaged By Naval Aircraft In Norwegian Fjord

RAF Batters Big German Battleship   Tirpitz, Previously Torpedoed, Hit By Explosives

or is is  Br itishBom ns Blast Tirpitz  a A ww el!  tn Anen 7OF (os   Admiralty  :Reports Sue: cessful Altack on. Batileship in Norse Hideout

ENGLISH FLIERS SCORE HITS ON NAZIS’ TIRPITZ   Believe British Airmen Use U. S. Built Planes in Raid on Battleship

lew Tokens For Rationed Foods In Use Feb. 27   d and Blue ye “Chips” Will Be  Used for Change

USE TOKENS FOR RATION POINTS   NEW POINT SYSTEM IN EFFECT “ON RATIONING OF FOOD. -* PRODUCTS

Explain Simplified Shopping Plan With Tokens. Starting on Feb. 27

Ration “Tokens In Use > Monday   Cuts Shopping ‘Time In Half Ye Claim

Labor Will Press for Settlement   Asks Establishment of Representative Rule ‘For Liberated Greece

U.S. Planes Are Wrecked in Russia   Destroyed in in German’ Air Raid ‘on Field Used For Shuttle Attacks

U.S, AIRCRAFT SMASHED IN RAID   GERMANS DESTROY NUMBER ' OF PLANES . IN ‘ATTACK ON 2 RUSSIAN FIELDS.

NAZIS DESTROY U.S, PLANES ON SOVIET FIELDS   Wear Dept. Reveals Losses At Airdromes Used in Shuttle Bombing

Blast U. S. Planes At Soviet Fields   Three Crewmen Killed In German Attack

Nazi Raiders Destroy Some  U. S. Planes  Attack On Field Use By Bombers In Shuttle Flichte

U. S. PLANES DEST ROYED sali. ie>-<<sdlgs ims -itemasantcaad isis aaa: alias’ jalan Nis. ca

DENY U, S. WILL ABANDON CHINA   Next 60 Days Critical, Army Chief Says

Denies Rumors of U.S. Abandoning Chinese Campaign   Pledges Full Support Of Americans To Crush Enemy

JAPS NOW 45 MILES FROM KWEIYANG      Draw Closer to American Air Base in China

Expect Most Draftees to  Be Under 26   Unified Command Gets New Backing, Sec’y Knox to Present Navy Views

Today In Washington  Most of 44 Draftees to Be Under 26   Army-Navy Consolidation Sweeps Through House Committee; G.  I. Bill Delay Assailed

CON CON OFFERED AD CAMPAIGN   Delegates Study Proposal for Ads in Every ‘Legal’ Paper in State

 A Capitol Notebook 'M. P. A. Has Plan to Sell New Cc onstitution to State Voters

EISENHOWER’S VICTORY CALL SPURS TROOPS   Armored Spearheads Circle Foe, as Guns and Planes Pound Retreat

YANKS, BRITISH ANSWER EISENHOWER GHALLENGE   100,000 Germans Being Penned Up Between Falaise and Argentan   1000 BOMBERS BLAST CANADIAN PATH   Allied Commander Tells Troops They Can Make History This Week

Gen. Eisenhower Says Time Nears For Major Victory   Calls On Forces To Make Sure No Part Of Trapped German Forces Escapes   MOMENTOUS WEEK SEEN BY GENERAL

SALES TAX SUIT IS DISMISSED AGAIN   ‘Supreme Court Won't Hear  1935 Charges

ench Change ward Franco   aper Defends Regime  ‘ditorial In Paris f Falangists.

POSTAL RECEIPTS REACH NEW IGh FLAS T HALE 14a   Liberty Office Sets New Quarterly and Semi-Annual Record

2 Nazi Agencies, Told to Return From Turkey to Berlin, Join British

Yanks Relinquish Aachen Area Gains   Latest Reverse Is Loss of Village of Kommer-: _scheidt, Taken by Doughboys in Opening Phases of Thursday Offensive.

AMERICANS LOSE MOST OF GAINS   Yank Attack Launched Southeast of Aachen Turned Back by Germans

Yankees Lose  Ground After Strong Attack   Reverses Push Americans Back Around Aachen

Attack in Forest Has ~ Run Down   Most of Early Gains Lost in Battle as. Savage as That at Aachen   3KD ARMY LINES ARE IMPROVED   Germans Wrecking Bridges ju Retreat From Holland; “T ocsec Are Heavy

US Third Army Substantially lm proves Line   Germans Retreat In Holland to North Bank Maas

Germans Stall American Drive   Ground Gained During Early Push Lost

U.8. Drive Fails Near Aachen; Village Is Lost —  Tanks, Men for Drive Into Poland

Most American Gains Southeast Of Aachen Lost   Yanks Gain Mile Between Metz and Nancy, However

POSITIONS OF YANKS BETTERED   ermans Wrecking ™ Bridges In Retreat Through Holland

Third Army Gains Mile in Attack   Blow Is Struck  In Metz-Nancy Sector; Nazis Hold Yanks at Vossenack

STRONG AMERIGAN OFFENSIVE FAILED AS GROUND IS LOST  ON SOUTHERN END OF LINE THIRD ARMY LAUNCHED DAWN ATTACI

VIOLENT GERMAN COUNTER DRIVES DEPRIVE AMERICANS OF MOST OF CAINS MADE DURING PAST WEEK —

Farm Youth Dies In Fire As Tractor Tins   Franco Congratulates F. R. On Re-Election

Eden Pleads For Unity Of 4: Powers   Bases Postwar Peace Mainly on Big Nations’ Collaboration

FDR, Hull Give Peace Outline   Give Idea of Post War Machinery For Peace of World.

MACH MAINTAIN PEACE WILL BE SETUP   toosevelt Says United States Will Not Forfeit Integrity   DISCUSSIONS PUT ON NON-PARTISAN BASIS

HULL INVITES 3 POWERS TO PEACE PARLEY   Reds. British, Chinese Bid With FDR.  ._ Approval:

Hull Invites Russia, China And Britain. To Meetings  F.D.R. Says U. 8S: Aim Is Peace Machinery That Will Maintain   NON-PARTISAN APPROACH LAUDED

Hull Invites 3 Powers To Peace Parley   Connally Calls For New League Backed By Force

U.S. POST-WAR AIMS OUTLINED   Independence Of Nation To Be Preserved In Peace Machinery

U-S. Left Free Tn Peace Plan, FDR Declares   Sovereignty Not Involved. He Says, as Hull Asks

FOR Dlaboata POST-WAR PEACE AIM OF NATION   Would Not Take Away In: dependence of U.S. in Any Shape, Manner or Form   PRAISES NON-PARTISAN _ APPROACH TO QUESTION   Hull Invites Russia, Britain And China to Send Representatives Here to Discuss International Agency to Maitain Peace

U.S. Invites Powers to. Conference   Plans to Maintain Peace in Post-War tra Will _   es Considered At  i Allied Parley

Conference Called  On Peace Program   Secretary Hull Invites Russia, Britain and Chine t Gathering to Discuss Agency for   Maintainina Pance

HULL INVITES THREE POWERS TO PEACE PLAN   An International Organ: ization For Keeping Post-War Peace To  Be Discussed

FDR. FAVORS POST: WAR LEAGUE TO KEEP PEACE   President Says.U. S, Should Co-Dperate. With Re st of . World Without Surren- 4 dering: Independence.   HULL TAKES STEPS. TQ OPEN DISCUSSIONS   + ‘Secretary Invites Russia, ‘England and China to Send

Roosevelt Vows U.S. Freedom In Peace Setup   Asserts Aim Is Toward Machinery Guaranteeing Independence as Hull Invites Three Powers to Parley

F.D.R. gives aim of peace organization ’ Will not affect U.S. intesritw’

Russia, Britain And China Invited  To Conference  International Agency Planned to Preserve  Peace of World

BELGIAN UNDERGROUND AWAITS REVOLT ORDERS  Country Prepares for Ordeal OF Becomina Battlefield Aaain

‘Belgium Braced for Allied Invasion, ‘Underground Waits Orders for Attack

‘Belgium Ready When Call To Arms ls Sounded By Approaching Allies

With Country Again to Become Battlefield  Belgian Patriots Await Ike's Orde:

Belgians Brace For Ordeal Of Becoming A Battlefield, Awaiting Call For Uprising   Closely-knit Underground Ready to Strike When Eisenhower Says Word

Jap Defenses In New Guinea Crumbling   Offensive in China Growing; Bombing Of Kuriles and Truk Is Resumed   Leap-Frog Advance Up New Guinea Paves Way For Future Advances

LOSS OF JAP SHIPS NOW. TOTALS 42   Reports of Additional —  Losses Received

Total Enemy Ship Losses Rise To: 42; Full Details of Victory Yet to Come

JAP LOSSES ESTIMATED AT 42 SHIPS   Philippines Battle Toll Grows, Includes Five Battleships

‘oll of Enemy ‘Ships Sunk In  ‘Battle Increases   Details Awaited On One of Greatest Sea Victories In History

TOTAL OF JAP WARSHIPS HIT MAY REACH 45   China-Based Bombers Sink Three More Boats As Navy Adds Up Figures On Philippines Victory.

Total Climbs To 42 Craft Sunk or Hit   Nimitz Proclaims Greatest Sea-Air Victory of Pacific

Nip Ship Losses Total 40   Five Battleships Wrecked; Reports Say 45 Vessels Hit

15 JAP SHIPS STRUCK IN 4DAY BATTLES   China - Based Bombers Sink Destroyer, Hit 3 More Ships

) Battleships In Estimated 40 To 4? Enemy Losses   Adm. King Announces Jap Navy Reduced To Half Strength

REFUGEE GRAFT IN PHILADELPHIA   Portuguese Ship Brings 385 Who Flee Nazis With Underground Aid

MacARTHUR GETS IMPRESSIVE VOTI IN ILLINOIS   Dewey Write-In At Nebraska Large; Stassen Is Winner

ILLINOIS 6.0,P, FOR M'ARTHUR   General Polls Over 70 Pet of Republican Votes in Primary

Gen. MacArthur Given Support   Illinois Primary Results Show Unusual Endorsement Is Given War Leader

Sales in: Wyoming Reach Reach $44,500; Leas Than: . $2.000 Needed in County, '.      SALES OVER $300,000.’

Sales ” ‘in “Wyoming: Beal _  $89,000; County. Goal. “Almost Reached. _.  Quarter Million Sold.

Farrell Tries For Stability In Argentina  Duco Revolt Quelled. He Turns to Internal Problems ALLIES STAY ALOOE  Faces Pra-Nazi Pressure: Navy Seen Aid to   Faces Pra-Nazi Pressure: Navy Seen Aid to Liberalism

SITUATION IN BUENOS AIRES IS EASING UP   Acting President Farrell Turns Attention to Host Of International and Domestic Problems

ARGENTINE CHIEF BETWEEN 2 FIRES   FACES DISPLEASURE OF ALLIES AND OF RABID NATIONALISTS

Farrell Turns To Issues Of New Argentine Policy  Fate Of Rebel  Leader Ie Suhiect

DOMESTIC PROBLEMS CONFRONT ARGENTINA   Press Censorship Is Clamped on Nation

ARGENTINE PROBLEMS DISCUSSED   Farrell Easily ‘Meets Threat Of Attempted Coup

12-MILE PUSH MADE BY REDS   Jaszapati, Rail Stronghold Overrun in Advance Toward Budapest

War Dept. Issues ‘One Hr. Increase  Tn Working Day   Industries Operated: By Service Forces Get Orders

Army Service Plants Must Work Longer   Hour Added to Day To Catch Iin on Orders

cian imcme mire mt a  Working Hours of Service Operated ‘War Work Increased

Increase Hours  In War Plants   Industries Operated By Army Affected

Service Plants Get Longer Day   Ruling Affects Places With Order Backlogs

—INTERNATIONAL STABILIZATION  World Fund Is Favored   MONETARY CONTROL PLAN APPROVED BY 34 NATIONS  BASED ON GOLD

World Wide Stabilizing Plan Listed   Program Conceived by Money Experts df 34 Countries: Called Economic Keystone

‘Details °Of Plan Given   Opening Of Second ‘ost-War Economic System

MONEY EXPERTS OF MANY NATIONS HAVE FINANCE PROGRAM  CALLS FOR HUGE FUND Tt  _ BUY AND SELL GOLD ANN CLIDRENSCIFG

34 OF ALLIED NATIONS PLAN GOLDPROGRAM   Congress Reacts  Favorably To Financial Stabilization Set-Up

34 Nations Money Grour Finish Work   Program to Stabilize World Currency Result of a Year's Work

World Monetary Program Outlined   Money Experts of 34 Nations Hope to Stabilize Currencies

New, Simplified Income Tax Bill Put Into Shape   Would Free’ 30 Million - From Computing Annual Returns

Morgenthau Hails World Funds Pool      Plan for American Financial Venture Given to Conger

Money Experts Unveil World Currency Plan  . 34. Nations Agree On Principles

Today In Washington  Solons Scan Outline For World! Bank   Congress Reacts Favorably to Proposal to Stabilize International Finance Relationships

WORLD MONEY PLAN SET UP FOR POST-WAR   Eight Billions Would Be Used to Stabilize _ Currency

GOLD POLICY UNDER STUDY BY TREASURY   Plan Would Keep Money Stabilized In All Nations

Congress Reacts Favorably To Monetary Plan   Some Legislators  Ask More Study

WORLD FINANCE PLAN DRAFTED BY 34 NATIONS   Gold Standard  Is Retained As Keystone for Post-war Economic Program

Allies Agree On Financial Program   Experts Outline Plan For $8,000,000,000 Fund To Maintain World’s Money on Even Keel

DE PUE MAN, BOMBER PILOT DIES IN ACTION   Lt. Carl Reistad Was Killed Over France On August 27

DEPUE PILOT OF BOMBING PLANE KILLED IN ACTION   Parents And Wife Learn That Lt. Carl Reistad Died In Battle During Fight Over West. ern Front.

ENEMY  CONVOY OF FOUR SHIPS IS DESTROYEI   Big Transport And Three Small Freighters Sunk Off Leyte   1,400 MEN RESCUED OFF U. S. CARRIERS

CRMOC BOUND CONVOY IS DESTROYED   Second in Week Inectudes 9,000-Ton Transport 3 Freighters sunk; Destroyer, Freighter Fired.   21,000 Casualties

Yanks Smash New Convoy  Off Ormoe   Japanese Squander5,000 More Troops -Trying To Hold Leyte  Eyvitinp a ee ne A REF

5,000 Fewer Japs: Four Enemy Ships with Supplies And Men for Leyte Are Destroyed

YANKS SMASH JAP CONVOY ON WAY TO LEYTE   Four Ships Believed Loaded With Men Are Destroyed

SMALL NATIONS MN EQUALITY IN AIR FIGHT   United States Withdrawy Temporary Council Plan’. on Internationa! Avia:ion

LABOR PRESSURE -FOR HIGHER PAY   Tax. Cuts to Foliow End of Overtime. Unions Caution

Unions to Demand Higher Pay Rate   Want Same ‘Take’ When Hours Cut to Forty

GI's Buying Uy French Scents_  For Yule Gifts   They prove. to be much better customers than the Germans  ‘ayer

Dewey's Speech To Be Repeated On Air Tonight   Flood of Requests Asking That His Monday Night Address Be Repeated, srings Announcement.

GOP Plugs Speech Gap With Re-Airing of Dewey's Speech   Oklahoma City Speech Set for Re-Broadcast Tonight at 9 O'clock

G.0.P. and Demo Politics to Fill Air Tonight: a Dewey Rebroadcast

ROOSEVEL ANSWER DEWEY JN BROADCAST   Democrats Will Make Talks To U. S. Tonight

DEWEY HAILED AS VICTOR IN FIRST ROUND WITH FDR  FIGHTING SPEECH AT  OKLAHOMA CITY ON AIR AGAIN TONIGHT

Eden Proclaims  Ties With France   Churchill Returns  From Visit to Paris

Eden Indicates Building Up Of France to Match Red Alliance in East

TAX FORMS UP FOR OVERHAUL   House Committee Begins Action to Simplify Return Blanks

House At Work On Simplified Forms For Taxes   Streamlined Plan Being Worked Out By Conaressmen

Committee Starts Job of Making  Tax Return Easy  House Group Hopes To Have Plan tC. =  as ee

Committee Starts Job of Making Tax Return Easy  House Group Hopes To Have Plan

Tax Streamlining Started In House  To Integrate Levies For Simplification

House Group Seeking New  Tax Return   Simplified Plan May Free 30,000,000 of Making Out Forms

SIMPLIFICATION (F TAXES STARTS   COMMITTEE BEGINS STREAMLINING JOB

PLAN TO SIMPLIFY INCOME TAX RETURK   Group Prepares Streamliner For Pesentation to House.

House Taxers ‘Seek Simpler Return Form   Hope to Have Stream: lined Sysiem Worked Out in 2 Weeks

Pah. By ae  Market Day Sale Saturday. March 18   Shot Gun And hails

State Prepares  For July Fourth   Celebration To Lack Fire. works And Gayety Of Former Years

Ready for the 4th   But There Will Be Watchful Cops, Few Fireworks

VON PAPEN WARNS TURKS ~~ OF BREAKUP   Ankara Expects Split With Germans in Few Hours

FOREIGN SERVICE SHIFTS UNDERWAY   Moves Point to Revision ot Pattern of Diplomacy ir Balkans; Armour Named tc Madrid Post

Major Shifts in U. S. Diplomatic Positions Made  New Ambassador to Spain Is Named; Steinhardt Moved

ANNOUNCES RADIO RECEPTION PARTY ©  For. President of Iowa  ee el

Dewey Cites Case Of R.R. Union In Blasting New Deal   Declares Social Gains Are Property Of All Americans

Dewey Rips 1-Man Rule Over Labor   Cites Railroad Union's Pay Case Involving “Boss” E J. Flynn.

Dewey Promises To End One-Man Rule Over Labor   Claims F. R. Regime Uses Labor for Political Gain, Cash

Labor Rights Played With, Dewey Says   GOP Candidate Cites Railroad — Brotherhood Case -

DEWEY TO GIVE TALK TONIGHT  IN PITTSBURGH      Will Discuss Labor Problem “Speech Goes On Air I At 3 O'clock

Jap Leyte Losses Now Over 45,000   American Casualties Reach 5,691; Elements Of Two U. S. Divisions Battling Strong Enemy Forces Around Limon Sector

Japs’ Leyte island losses  total 45,000 Limon fighting continues heavy

Sharp Fighting Continues at End of Ormoc Corridor  CASUALTIES OF U. S. ~ ARE PUT AT 5,691  American Road Block South of Limon Still ~ Intact

JAP CASUALTIES ON LEYTE HAVE PASSED 45,000   5,691 Americans Have Been Killed, Missing Or Wounded On Island   LIMON ROAD BLOCK BEING STRENGTHEN,D

POLL-TAX BILL DENOUNCED BY SEN. CONNALLY   Leads Off Opposition To Measure to Ban Payments

Corporals Don’t Get Any KP Here  Bitsy Grant, With AAF In New Guinea, Has His Heart Set On 2 Stripes

GERMANS UN. NEW DEFENSE LINE TQ EAST   Yanks Follow Up Retreat as Last of Garrison at Aachen Gives Up.

Airstrip Aiso is Captured   Germans Retreat To New Defense Line Near Aachen

Yanks Follow Up Retreat With Advance   British Form Noose Around 20.000 Nazis

Germans Fall Back to Line East of Aachen; Clearing Of Antwerp Approaches Seen

ANTWERP USE MAY FOLLOW SCHELDE PUSH   Foe Retreats Toward New Defense Line Behind Aachen

Allies Move To Assault Of Antwerp   New Defense Line Is Fifteen Miles East Of Aachen.

Germans Retreat Toward Roer River After Aachen Falls   British Clearing Schelde Pockets   Successes In Antwerp Area Might Mean Final Victory In Few Weeks

ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE   Canadians at Antwerp Gain   Americans Drive Ahead as German: Leave Aachen Region

Hollandia: Invaders Sight Main Drome   Yanks Covered, _ by Warplanes Using: - Seized Ajrfield - :

Main Field Is Sighted By Invader Spearhead   HoHandia Invaders Press Nearer Goals

Opposition Is Termed Negligible  Yanks And Dutch Within Sight Of Main Airdrome At Hollandia, Reported

Allies Drive Within Sight Of Hollandi¢   Planes Spread Death Among 60,000 Japs ~ Isolated on Guinea

Allies In Sight Of Hollandia’s Main Airdrome   Routed Nipponese Flee To Hills And Jungle Of New Guinea

NEAR HOLLANDIA’S MAIN: AIRDROME IN NEW GUINEA   One Spearhead of American and Datch Invaders Are Making Headway.   LITTLE OPPOSITION   Only Aerial Molestation Was From a Lone Japanese  Plane.

Truth, Plea Of Bricker Over Radio   OHIO GOVERNOR WOULD CUT OUT CYNICISM, INNUENDO AND FLIPPANT REMARKS; EVASION, SYNTHETIC HUMOR.

American Military Group Arrives al Headquarters Of Yugoslavian Commande

13,000 Allied  Planes Blast  German Targets Oil, and Rail  Centers Are Pime Tarcete

Russians Drive Deeper in Norway Beyond Kirkenes   Czechoslovakia Communications Center Captured

DRIVE DEEPER INTO NORWAY AFTER ENEMN   Battling Through Arctic Storms in Effort to Wipe Out Fleeing Foes.

REDS PURSUING NAZIS THROUGH NORWAY SNOWS   Temperature Tumbles Several Degrees Belaw Zero in Battle Area 

Russians Advance Tn Norway With Mercury Below Zerc   Gains Made North Of Warsaw; Much of Transylvania Cleared

NEW INVASION MOVE   Russian Army Deep in Norway  Advance Made ' Pe © ees eee

SOVIETS DRIVE NEW GAINS IN NORWAY BATTLE   Push Out From Kirkenes te Trap 130,000 Nazis in Below Zero Weather

Reds Seek fo Spring Trap on 130,000 Nazis   Russians Push Deeper Into Norway in Effort To Wipe Out Germans Fleeing From Finland °

SOVIETS WIDEN NORWAY GAIN IN ARCTIC STORMS   Occupy Dozen Towns Along Vistula Near Warsaw; Prussia Push Slows

Reds Drive Deeper Into Norway   Fierce Arctic Siorms; Germans Dattle Fierceiy For East Prussia

Red Forces Drive Deeper Into Norway   Prepare to Annihilate 130,000 Germans Held in Trap

RUSSIANS DRIVING. DEEPER INTO NORWAY IN ARCTIC STORMS  ' TRANSYLVANIA AND ROMANIA HAVE BEEN CLEARED OF GERMANS

Russ drive deep in Norway to wipe out 130,000 nazis   Soviets capture dozen satellite villaves just north of Warsaw

Nazis Slow Red Drives in Prussic   But Russians Push On in Norway and Make New Threat Near Warsaw   CZECH ROAD HUB ALSO CAPTURED   wlomentous. Operations May Be Developing in Central Poland

Reds Driving Into Norway   Red, Finn Forces Seek to Annihilate 130,000 Germans; New Warsaw Threat

Reds Drive on in Norway Through Arctic Storms   Pressure on Warsaw is Increased;  Offensive Slackens in East Prussia

Soviet Army Forces Deep Into Norway   Battle Nazis in SubZero Weather; Fighting Flares Up Again  To North of Warsaw

SOVIETS DRIVE DEEPER INTO NORTHNORWAY   Rush Ahead in Attempts to Annihilate Large Force of Fleeme Germans   OFFENSIVE IN EAST  PRUSSIA IS SLACKENED

130,000 Nazis Threatened By Penetration   Germans Put Forth Counter Blows In Other Sectors

DRIVE RENEWED NEAR WARSAW   Russian, Polish Troops Have Bridgehead Across Vistula Near Capital.

RUSSIANS CAPTURE KIRKENES   Soviets Seize Dozen Towns In Fighting On Warsaw Front

Momentous Operations Believed Developing; Ferocious German Resistance Slows Reds In East Prussia.

Reds Continue To MovelntoNorway   Russians Making An Effort _ to Annihilate 130,000  Germans —   TAKE A DOZEN TOWNS   Stiff Nazi Resistance Slackens Soviet Drive in East Prussia

GLOSING TRAP ON 190, 000.GERMANS   Reds Drive Deeper Into ‘Norway Beyond Captured Kirkenes   NEARER WARSAW   Fanatical Nazi Counter. attacks Are Beater . Back By Soviets

French Complain Lack Of Arms   De Gaulle Says French Eager To Take Large Part In War.

U.S. ATTACKED VIOLENTLY BY ARGENTINAN   Makes Unofficial Invitation For American Envoy To Leave

ENVOY VIRTUALLY ASKED TO DEPART BY ARCENTINEAN   U.S. Ambassador Armour Bitterly Attacked By Gen. Luis Perlinger,” Minister of Interior.   UNITED STATES WAR AIMS ARE ASSAILED   Perlinger Makes Prediction That This Country and Britain Will Soon Unite Aqgainet Russiq.

Armies Moving Over Territory  Ot Former War   Gen. Bradley’s Treops Roll Forward Through Beautiful Fields Restored from 25 Years Ago.

MPNUTTS AGENCY AOW BEING TESTED   May Have to Ask for National Service Act If Program Fails.

WMC UNDERGOES SUPREME TEST   M'NUTT MAY ASK FOR LABOR DRAFT IF JOB PLACING PLAN FAILS

Mass Murder at Lublin Charged   Reporter Describes Majdanek Camp Where War Prisohers Were Killed in Gas Chambers aod Cremated, Red-Polish Committee Charges

Party Who Discovered Bodies !s Identified   Guard laspection Here on Thursday   Committee Probing German Murde: Plant Says 1,500,000 Are Killed   Germans Burn Woman Alive

Party Councils Held at Topeka Start Fireworks   Orators of Both Political Groups Fire Barrages in Opening of Campaian

PARTY COUNCILS OPEN CAMPAIGN   Republicans Reelect Crane, Democrats Elect Castor, Chairmen   NAME OTHER OFFICERS

Nazis Thrown Out Of Famed Monastery   lifth and Eighth Armies Now Lunging Against Heavily Defended “Witler Line

Gustav Line Fades As Yanks Wrest  Formia From Axis   Double Defeat in Italy Leaves Germans Fighting Desperately at Adolf Hitler Defenses; Capture of Formia Devastating Blow to Nazis on the South.

Postwar Strike Seen By Lewis ~ As Safety Move   Blames Governnient For Not Taking Precautions While Operating Mines

LEWIS BRANDS MINE CONDITIONS CRYING SHAME   Hints Postwar Strike to Gain Improvements in Safety

LEWIS STRONGLY INTIMATES STRIKE OF MINORS COMING  POSTWAR ACTION MAY BE TAKEN TO GAIN SAFETY  HE DECLARED

Postwar Coal Strike Hinted   Lewis Calls Mine Casualties “National Shame; Would Force Safety Measures

* e Chunghing Bungling and Jap Advance Cause U.S. Airforce To Destroy Vital China Base

Dark Spot in the War: American Military Effort in China Threatened by Latest Jap Advances

Japanese Drive Forces 14th Air. Force To Virtually Destroy Base At Kweilin

Yank Chinese Air Field Is Abandoned   As Result of the Japanese Drive In! SomeTn China

AMERICANS DESTROY BASE AT KWEILIN   In Face of Japanese Invasion Threat to Whole Structure of Military Effort in China.   Plain Clothesmen

American Military Effort In China Facing Collapse As Japs Move On Kweilin   ‘Reverses Are Attributed To Ineptness And Confusion Of Command; Yanks Destroy Air Bases In Invaded Kwangei Province; Chinese Troops Sacrificed

JAPANESE THREAT FORCES AIRMEN T0 WRECK OWN BASES:   U. S, 14th Air Force. Abandons Airports at Kweilin as Jap Hordes Advance—U. S. Miiitary Effort in. China 1s Threatened ;

Russ Attack Is Reported   Germans, Finns Say Offensive Launched On Isthmus May Be Big One

Nazis, Finns Assert Reds In New Drive   Near Karelian Isthmus Of Finnish Front Above Leningrad,   BEEAK UP ATTACKE

Reds Launch New Attacks   Finns, Nazis Claim Activity On Isthmus

RED OFFENSIVE REPORTED OPENED   FINNS AND GERMANS SAY RUSSIANS HAVE. ATTACKED ABOVE LENINGRAD.

Germans, Finns Report Russian Major Offensive  Cau Deriva Onaned   Say Drive Opened on Isthmus Above Leninarad Sector

GREAT RUSSIAN DRIVE STARTED   Germons, Finns Report Soviets Open ‘General Offensive’ On Finnish Front  

Reds Attack, Finns Report   General Offensive On Karelian Isthmus Reported by Enemy

Two Sources Agree Russiar Offensive On   Contend It Might Be Open _ing Blow of Soviet. On-slaught. Across Entire  >” Bastern Front

Opening Blows Of Vast Soviet -Push Reported   ‘Tension Heightened on Eve Of Third Anniversary Ot BHinler Attack

FINNS REPORT START OF BIG RUSSIAN PUSH   KARELIAN ISTHMUS CLAIMED SCENE OF NEW BLOW

Allied Airmen Blast at Japs   New Ireland Bases Are Again Targets

HARD: BEATEN   Nazi Captive Clubbed Unconscious By Fellow Prisoners

PITTSFIELD MAN FACES TRIAL ON MURDER CHARGE   John F. Noxon, jr., Promi nent Lawyer, Accused of Killina Baby

MINERS RECESS TO GO FISHING   Total Of 20,000 Idle In Strikes Throughout United States

Maquis Free 70 Villages Near Paris   Whole Departments of France Taken Over by Once-Hunted Men

FRENCH PATRIOTS SEIZE 70 TOWNS; POLICE JOIN- MAQUIS: RADIO SILENT

French, Once Hunted, Now Turn Hunters   Underground Takes Over Departments  In France and Free Villages Near Paris

Maquis Becoming Hunters Of Nazis   Whole French Departments Said Being Taken

French Forces Rising Behind German Lines  Take Villages   Germans’ Seeking To Fseape ‘Are Trapped

FRENCH CORRALLING NAZIS BEHIND LINES   Patriots Taking Over Whole Departments—i Enemy Garvisons Necotiatine to Surrender,

70 Villages Liberated By The Maquis Once-Hunted Men Are Now Hunters

Once Hunted Maguis Now Taking Over Whole Sections of France   Have Liberated 70 Villages Near Paris; Nazi Sentries on Bridge Will Yield to First Comers

MEN OF MAQUIS LIBERATE TOWNS   FFI Rises Behind German L’nes to Take Over Whole Departments of France; Hunt Nazis on Big Scale

Truman Wins Second Spot Over Wallace   Break Comes on Second Ballot in Hectic Session

Dems Name Truman VP Candidate   Democrats Close Up Shop by Nominating Missouri Senator in Place of Wallace   THE CONVENTION

Convention At-A-Glance   By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CONVENTION ADTIOURNS   ADOPT PLATFORM

Christmas Packages Going Overseas Must Be ‘Mailed Sept. 15-Oct. 15   How to Wrap and Address barcels and Dates For Mailing Over-seas

P.O. DEPARTMENT [SSUES RULES FOR SOLDIER XMAS MAI   Manner of Wrapping and Addressing Parcels and Dates For Mailing Overseas Set Out; None After Oct. 15.

CHRISTMAS PACKAGES GOING OVERSEAS MUST BE MAILED SEPTEMBER 15 TO OCTOBER 15

PROPOSES TAX NAZIS BEATEN   Flat 10% Slash for Individuals and Business Suggested

Proposes Tax Cut   Sen. George Thinks It Will Be Possible When Germans Are Beaten

Dt VALERD HET UMES I HUST AXIS   Action Arouses ProAllied Populace  U.S. SPURNS EIRE  Refuses Request To Buy Ships

DeVatera Faces Election on Oust Axis Issue; Cargo Vessel Request Rejected

Teamster Union Chieftain Denies Part in Political Scuffle at Hotel

River Project Differences To Be Examined   Hearings Will Be Held in Hiouse Committee This Week

Flood Control Program May Bring Fight   Irrigation Advocates May Resist Adoption of Engineer's Report

Are Only  35 Miles From Rhine      FIRST ARMY BROADENS ITS _ “BREAK-THRU AND ADVANCES: ‘TWO MILES BEYOND UBACH °

Germans Battling Desperately To Stem American Advance; TwoWay Bombardment Mounting In Temno   BRITISH PRESSING IN ARNEEM SECTOR

Courtney's {st Army Extends Break-Through N. of Aachen, Closing in on Geilenkirchen

Battle Spills Onto Plain. Before River   Patton’s Forces Rout Nazis from Underground Fort Cells. :

General Hodges’ Men Reach Edge Of Cologne Plain Behind Siegfried Line As They Broaden Their Break-through North Of Aachen—Threaten Nazi Transport Center

BRITISH MAKE NEW ADVANGE BELOW ARNHEM   Second Army Batters  Within Two Miles of Rhine Bridge on — Dutch Front.  ]

U.S. Forces Break Out Onto Cologne Plain   Stage Two Mile Advance Beyond City of Ubach

British Drive Toward Arnhem Bridge As Ist Army Prepares Attack   Patton Troops Burrow Down Into Tunnels Of Metz Bastion As Entire Front Flares Up

Break Into Rhine Plain Area Today   Make Start on Drive Toward Cologne—British Also Make Gains

Two-Mile Gain Beyond Ubach Made By Yanks   Nazis Said Battling ‘Desperately To Stem Advance of Allies

U.S. TROOPS STORM © HIDDEN CHAMBERS OF FORT DRIANT   J. S. First Army Slugs Through Mud, Ram Beyond Main Nazi Siegfried Battle Line Above Aachen

Temperatures   Patton Army Routs Germans Hiding In Underground Fort

Germans Are Putting Up Hard Battle   British Start New Drive Near Arnhem; Dunkerque Truce  OE ne

First Army Is In Open   Yanks Spread Out On Cologne Plain Behind Nazi Line

NOYES SPEAKER AT ANPA MEET   Says Censorship Must Be For No Reason But Military Security.

Canadian Objectors Strip in Public In Protest Against Selective Service

May Break Wage Formula Before V-E  CIO Lawyer Presents Steelworkers’ Case

CIO Predicts Wage Raises   _Increases Expected “Before War's Close

Charge Murder In Auto Death  Tavernkeeper Enter: Plea Of Innocent

File Murder Charge Agains! Car Driver   Janesville Man Enters Plea Of Innocent In Connection With Death Of Ice Man

AAF OFFICER MAY TAKE STAND; ARMY TRIAL NEARING END   One Of Three Defendants Expected To Testify In Own Defense

rrr aS reer Fry F =e  Senior College Class to Get Degrees; Scholarship Awards to Be Made

Senior College Class to Ge! Degrees; Scholarship Awards to Be Made

Submarines Bag 16 More Jap Vessels   Navy Announces Action In Enemy Waters; Big Loaded Tanker Included

Large Tanker Is Included in American Bag   Five Transports: And 10 Cargo Ships Bring to 627 Ships  Sunk ar Damaned

Bag Includes Huge Tanker, 5 Transports   Toll Brings Total To 627 By Undersea Craft

KNOXREPORTS VICTORIES FOR U. S. U-BOATS   Bag Announced by Secretary of Navy Includes One Large Tanker Loaded With Badly Needed Fuel   [AREAS NOT REVEALED

American Subs Sink 16 More Jap Ships   Bag Includes One Large Tanker, Five Transports And 10 Cargo Vessels

Supplies. For ‘Foe Bases Are Sent To Bottom   List Includes Tanker Loaded With Badly Needed Fuel For Stranded Jap Forces   U-Boat Toll Of Vessels Now 627   Latest Attacks Occur In Jap-Controlled Waters; Mav Prove War's Turning Point

Sink 16_ Jap Ships   American Sulis Take Big Toll in Enemy Controlled Waters

1989 Nip Vessels Downed   NEW JAP LOS NEGROS ATTACK IS SMASHED; BATTLE AT WILLAUMEZ

U.S. Subs Sink 16 More Jap Vessels In Enemy Water:   One Large Tanker And Five Transports Are Included In Yanks’ Newest Pacific Bag; Nips’ Sea Losses Total 1989 Ships

KNOX DECLARES LEND-LEASE ACT ALL-IMPORTANT   Navy Secretary Tells Solons Great Offensives Against Axis Are Near

Subs Sink 16 More Jap Ships   Blows On Fuel Supply Ships May Have Forced Big Warships to Leave Trul

AMERICAN U-BOATS ACTIVE IN ENEMY CONTROLLED WATERS   BIG BAG ANNOUNCED BY NAVY THURSDAY INCLUD. ED ONE BIG TANKER

U. S. Subs Sink 16 More Jap Vessels  Big Tanker Included In  Recent Successes

Sixteen More Jap Ships Sunk by Subs   Five Transports, One Large Tanker Included on List

NAVY ANNOUNCES BIG BAG FOR U. S. UNDERSEA BOATS   INCLUDES TANKER, FIVE TRANSPORTS, TEN CARGO SHIPS

16 More Nippon Ships Are Sunk   Navy Announces Further Toll Taken by American  Submarines.

LARGE TANKER IS INCLUDED IN LIST OF SHIPS   Submersibles Score Victories in Enemy Controlled Waters

16 Jap Ships Sunk In Enemy Controlled Waters By United States Submarines; _ Toll Boosted To 627 Since War's Start

1.8. Subs Blast Sixteen Jap Ships to Bottom   Sinkings Increase Enemy Losses: To 1,989 Vessels

AMERICAN SUBS BRING TOTAL BAGTO 627 WHILE TOTAL FOR ALL CAUSES IS 1.989 SHIPS   One Large Tanker, Five ‘Transports and 10 Cargc Ships Among Latest Victims of Far-Ranging Sub marines. Jap Naval Losses Since War Started Are Heavy

TPRPLABEDATIIBEC.:   Ten Cargo Ships, Five Transports, Tanker Blasted   MacArthur's Men Beat Off Counter-Attacks, ‘Tightening Hold

SUBMARINES SINK TG MORE JAP SHIPS   Big Bag “Includes Large Tanker Which Could Have Carried Fuel.

627 Is Toll of Enemy  Ships Lost   1,989 of Nippon’s Ships Have Been Destroyed in Other Action Since War Began

Underseas Raiders Send 5 Transports To Bottom of Ocean   Tea Cargo Véssels.a nd Tanker Included in Latest Navy. List; Action Isolating Fremy Bases

U.S. Subs — Destroy 16 Jap Ships   Big Tanker and Five Traus‘ports Included Amoug New Sinking   INVASION FORCES ALSO MAKE GAINS   Barge Fleet. Smashed in Jap Attempt.to Re-Take . “Aur Field

1,989 Nip Ships Sunk During War   New Sinkings Inclu Large Tanker —

[Large Tanker, Five Transports And 10 Cargo Vessels Sent Down By F ar-Rang ving UnderseaCraft

—t, §. Subs Strike Again In Pacifie—  16 MoreJap Ships Sunk   Total Nipponese Vessels Destroyed Or Damaged In All Attacks Raised To 1,989

Our U-Boats Bag 16 More Jap Vessels   Submarine Total So Far in War Is 627—Grand Total Is 1989 Ships

Airdromes In Pacific ~ Under Fire   Japanese Positions on  ~Nothwast Cuust > of  New Guinea Aguit Hit by Allies :

TWO OTATES WOLD ELECTIONS TOUAY   South Carolina, Arkansas. to Go to Polls: Two Véteran Members of Senate Face Multiple Opposition

VETERAN SENATORS FACING OPPOSITION   “Cotton Ed” Smith and Mrs, Caraway in Contests Today

“Cotton Ed” Battles ta Keep Seat   SOUTH CAROLINA FIREBRAND IN FIVE-CORNERED RACE; MRS. CARAWAY CONFIDENT OF SENATE OUTCOME IN ARKANSAS.   Dewey - Bricker Confab

1 Senators Face Primary Fights   Smith, Mrs. Caroway, Meet Opposition

2 Senators Face Primary Battles   Smith. Carawav Have Multiple Opposition

Two Senators Face Battles In Primaries   Dean of Solons and Mrs. Caraway Up  For Renemination

SENATORS FACE PRIMARY TESTS   Cotton Ed Smith And Mrs. Hattie Caraway May Be Unseated

Red Bombers Hit Estonian Cities   Attack Seven Cities Occupied By German Forces

3-Year-Old Invalid Reassured By Air Cadet Brother But Doctors Dispair Of Her Life

H.M, HYRE DIES OF AHEART ATTACK   Stricken Sunday Afternoon at 5:45 o’Clock While Walking on Bryan Street.

Russians Take Nazi Fortress Near Warsaw   New Gains Reported In Red Army's Yugoslav Offensive

CIVILIAN GOODS OUTPUT ESTIMATED   Nelson Says Defeat of Nazis Wil Bring Output Equal to 1939 Record

bare CHANGE. ~ S PREDICTEL   NELSON OPTIMISTIC OVER . OUTLOOK FOR CHANGE-— OVER IN. INDUSTRY . . AFTER GERMAN . DEFFAT

PRODUCTION AT 9 RATE AFTER REICH FALLS   All Controls Off When Japs Bow, Nelson Pledges

Es rrr—‘“CP;™;~=‘S™;CCO~™  Cat Refuses To Leave Pit Where 66 Coal Miners Died

Pet Cat Keeps Lonely Vigil at Ohio Mine Entrance Where Owner-Went To Death

Noxon Trial is Resumed  After Delay   Juror Returns After Recovery

SOVIETS FORCE GERMANS BACK TOWARD PSKOY   Reds Gain Despite Hitler’: Order to Hold Positions at Any Cost

NAZIS TOLD TO DEFEND PSKOV “TO LAST MAN”   Russians Within 13 Miles of City  KUMENKA TAKEN  German Resistance Stiffens

Fall Of Pskov To Red Forces Appears Neai   Gateway City To Latvia Within Range Of Russian Artillery Fire   PINCERS MOVEMENT NOW IN PROGRESS

HITLER ORDERS PSKOV HELD TO “LAST MAN’   Russians Force Germans Back Yard by Yard, However. _

BOMBS RAINED ON STUTTGART   Nazi Industrial Center Battered; Flak Light, Luftwaffe Missing

Warplanes Hit Stuttgart in Heavy Raid  Fortresses Travel Through Cold Blinding Storms

700 Bombers Rip German Defenses   Brave Snowstorm and Sub-zero Weather to Reach Targets

AMERICAN PLANES: BOMB STUTTGART   EXPLOSIVES DROPPED ON AIRDROME AND CONGESTED FREIGHT YARDS.

1 Dead, Another Missing As Navy Blimp Crashes  Sea Accident Off Cape Cod

 With 50 Others “Well On Their Way”... 20 Nazt Industrial Centers Crinuled “For Lona Period’:

Divergent Answers On Soldier Vote Bill Are Received By President

STATES REPLYING TO VOTE INQUIR'   Four Governors Accept Plan. Fifth Rejects, Answers Widely Different.

GOVS. ANSWER PRESIDENT ON “ABSENTEE VOTi   24 Answers Pile Up in White House; Willis will AB.  2 oe ggg

Invasion Units Try To Squeeze German Force:   Sea And Airborne Troops Including Yankees,  Hit Hard

Allies Seek. To Squeeze Nazi Forces  In Balkans   ‘Also Land on Islands Off Yugoslav Coast, Planes and Warships  Hit Enemy Transports  200,000 MENACED-

Allies Thrust. Into Balkans To Trap Germans   Landings in Albania And Yugoslavia Islands Are Reported

ALLIES INVADE BALKAN AREAS   Land in Albania, on Islands Off Yugoslavia to Hit At German Flank

Allied Sea and Air Invasion of Albania Puts Squeeze on 200.000 Balkan Nazis

ALLIES LAND IN ALBANIA; SLAV ISLANDS   In Move to Cut Off Germans in Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean: Squeeze Nazis.   Blast Depots

BALKANS TRAP LAID FOR AXIS   Allied Airborne Troops Land In Albania, Put Squeeze On Nazis

ALLIED TROOPS LAND IN ALBANIA   ISLANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA AISO INVADED IN EFFORT TO TRAP GERMANS.

Allies Land In Albania And © Yugoslavia To Trap Germans   Landings ‘Squeeze Some 200,000 Nazis in Hitler's _ Crumbling Balkan Flank——Blows Are  Struck in the Aegean

WOMAN KILLED IN BUS CRASH NEAR HURADN   15 Others Injured as Vehicle Hits Bridge,  Careens Into Tree

Cotton Ed Comes To Political End   Long Term in Senate Is Over as Smith Loses te Gov. Johnston.

DEMOS REIECT TWO SENATORS   Cotton Ed’ Smith, Mrs. Caraway Lose Renomination Bid

South Carolina Drops Ed Smith As U.S. Senator   Hattie Caraway Trails in Primary Race in Arkansas

CAROLINA ENDS SENATE CAREER OF ‘COTTON ED’   Johnston Beats Smith; Sen. Hattie Caraway Also Defeated .

SMITH AND GARAWAY RUN POOR ‘SECONDS’   Trail Johnston, Fulbright In Carolina, Arkansas Vote

Smith, Caraway Lose Primaries   So. Caroling, Arkanse: Senators Beaten

Trail’s End for“Cotton Ed” Smith   Senator Bows to New Deal Victor; Mrs. Caraway Also A Primary Loser

TWO SENATORS ARE TRAILING   “Cotton Ed” Smith And Mrs. Caraway Lag At Polls

‘Cotton Ed’ Defeated  - in Primary   New Deal-Hating Senator Loses to Roosevelt Backer  in South Carolina   HATTIE CARAWAY ALSO DEFEATEL   Young Rep. Fulbright and Gov. Adkins to Fight It Out in Runoff

‘Cotton Ed’ Smith Defeated   REP. FULLBRIGHT TRIUMPHS OVER SEN. HATTIE CARAWAY IN ARKANSAS DEMO CONTEST

‘Cotton Ed’ Has Faint RunOff Chance, Mrs. Caraway In Fourth Place

Cotfon Ed Smith Is Defeated .  Rep. Fulbright Leads Over Hattie Caraway

“COTTON ED” SMITH APPEARS TO BE DEFEATED   Colorful S.C. Senator — Trails Gov. Johnston in Senate Race. Mrs. Care way of Arkansas Also Trails

VETERAN SENATORS BEATEN AT POLLS   ‘Cotton Ed’ Smith and Mrs. Hattie Caraway Fail

“Cotton Ed” Smith Trails Opponent  New Deal Candidate Wins on Second Try

Senator Smith Far Behind In Caroline Vote       Hattie. Caraway Trailing Pulbright In Arkansas Primary Returns; No.  Issues Stressed

Colorful ‘Cotton Ed’ Smith Appears To Have Lost Race To Governor Olin Johnston

Smith Trailing Olin D. Johnson For Senate Seat  Hattie Caraway Appeare Ac Lancer

Hattie Caraway, ‘Cotton Et Trail in Voting    Johnston, Fulbright . Lead in South Carolina, Arkansas

Think You Are Having A Hard Time % * * x x On The Home Front? Read This Then

Only 15 Men of Company Return   Attack Vesly, Just A Wide Place in The Road

‘(PUSH TOWARD DANUBE      Russian Armor Lashes Out North } of Budapest.

Offense Rolls Near Budapest In Big Drive   Hatvan Finally Falls Following 10-Day Struggle

SOVIETS DRIVE TOWARD DANUBE FROM HATVAN   Report Reds Gain Foothold On Isle South Of Budapest

Soviets Lash Out Toward  Danube River   Drive From Fallen Hat van; Launch Double At tacks on Budapest

RUSSIAN ARMORED  UNITS LASHED OUT  NORTH OF BUDAPEST RED ARMY ACTIVITY APPARENTLY CONFINED  Tr DpDAITWAN ClorTnpd

RUSSIANS PUSH BEYOND HATVAN TOWARD DANUBE   BERLIN SAYS REDS GAIN FOOTHOLD ON ISLAND OF CSEPEL

SOVIET FORCES FIGHT WAY T0 GSEPEL ISLAND   60-Mile Defense Line Shattered Near Ungvar

Russ Smash From Hatvan   Red Army Seizes Foothold on Danube istand Near Budapest

Reds Strike From Hatvan Upen Danube River Forts.”   Foothold Reported Upon. Csepel Island

Soviets Drive For Danube From Hatvan   * Reds Get Foothold On Csepel Island South of Rudanpest

Soviet Armies Outflank Balkan City   Fall of Hatvan Gives Malinovsky Chance To Capture Budapest

SOVIETS LASH OUT TOWARD THE DANUBE   Russian Formation Is Also Said to Fiave Seized a Foothold on Narrow Csepel Island

Soviets Drive  On To Danube   Advance From Captured Hatvan In Moves To Outflank Hungarian Capital.

SOVIETS REACK DANUBE ISLAND   Red Army Troops Gain Foot hold On Narrow Isle Of - Csepel Below Budapest As - Hatvan Falls.

Russians Smash Toward Danube   Seize Foothoid On Narrow Csepel Islanc

Russians Drive Toward Danube From Seized Hatvan   Another Formation Gains Foothold on Narrow Csepel Isfe

REDS PUSH FOR DANUBE RIVER   Hit Island In Move Tc Outflank Hungarian Capital City

Soviet Tanks Storm From Captured City   New Push in Slovakia Breaks 60-Mile  Defense Line

[win Attacks Loom As Red Army Captures Hatvan; 2 Cities In Slovakia Menaced

Reds Land on Danube Island   Russian Forces Are Converging on Hungarian Capital

Hatvan Falls to Red Shock Troops   Foothold Gained on Csepel Island in Push South to Budapest

RUSSIAN ARMORED  UNITS LASHED.OUT  NORTH OF BUDAPEST RED ARMY. ACTIVITY   APPARENTLY CONFINED Tr DAIWAN SECTOR

Twin Red Drive Moving Forward  Key City of Hatvan Falls to Invaders

Soviets Push From Hatvan  Drive Toward Danube   Drive Toward Danube From Captured City; Gain Csepe! Island

Reds Lash Out From Hatvan   Soviets Seize Foothold on Narrow Csepel Island

Soviets Drive To Outflank  Nazi Garrison   Russians Strike Out From Captured Hatvan, Seize Foothold On Csepel

RUSSIANS DRIVE TOWARD DANUBE   Big German Force in Baltic Region Cut Off

Reds Launch Attack North Of Budapest   Soviets Seize Feothold on Csepel Isiand

RUSSIANS DRIVE BEYOND HATVAN   Other Columns Reported To Have Hold On Csepel Isle

Quads’ Mother Hopes to Wed Yank Lover Wife in States Prostrated by News

Solons Hit OPA Powers, Urge Drastic Changes      Direct Subsidies to Needy Asked; House Group Rewrites Act

Red Landing At Ochavok Beaten Off, Nazis Say  May Have Been Flanking Move;   May Have Been Flanking Move; Soviet Advance Nears Bug River

Border City Hit, With 150 Casualties; Protest Due: German Taraets Blasted

HOUSE OPPOSES SENATE ACTION   Servicemen’s Vote Bill Sent Into Conference For Adjustments

JAPS REPORT LANDING   Tokyo: Says Enemy Has Been Stopped by Valiant Fighting '

Words Can Kill, Says Doctor, Who™ 2 “ Sees Aged Sufferino From Worries

FDR Qualifies Talk Of Meeting   Makes Clear Plans Not Beyond His Present Term

B-29s from Saipan Raid Tokyo Again      Fifth Air Attack on Jar Capital—Air Assaults in  Pacific Increased

50 10 70 BIG BOMBERS RAID PLANE WORKS   Japs Expect “Decisive Battle” Of War To Be Fought In Philippines

Vandenberg Sees Russ-Finn Peace   Senator Believes Way Can Be Found

Predict New Se Blows At Japan   Nip Radio Tells Of New Allied Landing On Pacific Island

Complete  Russian  alliance De Gaulle signs   DeGaulle signs pact with soviet

RUSSIA, FRANCE SIGN ALLIANCE OF MUTUAL AID   De Gaulle Leaves Moscow With Pact Pledging Joint Action Against Anqaression

SOVIET AND FRENCH ‘TREATY ANNOUNCED   General De* Gaulle Suc. cessful During Visit ' . 9: Russia

Russia, France Sign Treaty of Assistance  De Gaulle Leaves fo: Home After Reaching Accord

DeGaulle Signs Russian Mutual Assistance Pact   France Once Again In Front Rank Of European Powers

French - Soviet.  Treaty: Signed   De Gaulle Returning ‘Home With Hone Rezlized

PACT MAKES FRANCE ALLY QF RUSSIANS   DeGaulle Crowns Mis sion With Mutual Aid Pact

Russia, France Sign an Alliance Pact in Moscow  U. S., Britain Said To Fully Approve De Gaulle Action

D’GAULLE AND STALIN REACH AGREEMENT   Pact Between Two Nations Sign ed In Moscow; French Leader En Route Home

Franee Signs Alliance  With Russia   De Gaulle Wins Pact On Mutnal Aid; , Leaves for France

American Tanks Rumbling Along Road Of Caesars   Conquering Yanks Tell Of Advances {n  ltaly

AMERICANS IN CHARIOTS OF STEEL ON APPIAN WAY. HIGHWAY OF CAESARS

YANKS IN STEEL CHARIOTS COVER CAESARS’ ROADS   Beachhead Forces Overrun Appian Way, Take Many Nazi Prisoners

Dusty Yanks in Chariots of Steel Roar Along Highway of the Caesars

YANKS IN CHARIOTS OF STEEL FOLLOW HIGHWAY OF CAESARS  --AS-THEY ROLL-ON-APPIAN WAY

; After Smashing Nazis, Yanks in  ‘Steel Chariots Roll on Rome Road

Allied Victory In Italy Seems ‘Like Tunisia AllOver Again’   Under-Sized, "Teen-Age Nazis Taken Prisoner: 1!.S. Tanks Roll On Main Road Of The Caesars

Smashing Air Blows Delivered   .. ON 2,000-MILE FRONT FROM NORWAY TO ITALY

JAPS TAKE ME OFF NEW GUINEA   Stimson Warns Foe’s Ai Strength Reinforced in Pacific

JOB COMES FIRST TO WOMAN WELDER   Tries To Carry On After Her Husband Killed in Action

Receives Warm Welcome From Liberated People Of Normandy On First Visit To France In Four Years; Relations With Allies Still  OClaudoad

Relations Between Allies, DeGaulle Cloudy Despite Visit to Normandy

DeGaulle Cheered By French-. Still Seems Non-Cooperative   Reported to Have Withdrawn French Officers Allies Had Expected to Serve for Liaison Contacts for Invasion

Party Chiefs Seek Peace Poli¢y Accord   Unprecedented Joint Declaration May Come From Hull-Dulleg Conferences

Political Leaders Seek Bi-Partisan League Support   American Plan Would Maintain Peace By Force, If Needed

Parties Near Pact on New League Setup   Hull, Dulles Likely To Reach Basis for Bipartisan Support

Bipartisan Support for American World Peace Plan Regarded Probable

PARTIES SEEK AGREEMENT ON PEACE PLAN   Purpose of , : Hull- Dulles  ‘Conferences

Planes Collide At Sioux Falls, Ten Lose Lives   One Machine Plunges Into Barrack at Field. Men in Other Wee *Chutes

PLANES COLLIDE, 10 SOLDIERS DIE   Falling Ship Hits Barracks Which Then Blazes at Sioux Falle Field

10 SOLDIERS KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES   Ship Hits Barracks After Mid-Alir Collision—Seven in Second Craft Leap to Safety.

Prison Inmates Caught Digging Escape Tunnel    Four, Including. Tyo: Murderers, Nabbed; Others Suspected.

ENEMY LANDING — FEARED BY JAPAN   EMPEROR HIROHITO CoM: MANDS NATION TO MARSHAL ALL HER STRENGTH.

TOKYO ADMITS INVASION FEAF   Hirohito Tells Nation To Get Set To Fight On Home Soil

REICH AIRFORCE TAKES MAULING   Allied Armada Destroys 105 Planes, Blasts Oil Refineries

BOMBERS HIT NAZI PLANTS   Luftwaffe Battle Fiercely To Defend Oil, Industrial Targets

Another Fierce Engagement Set Off Above Reich as Nazis Rise to Challenge Raiders—Thirty Enemy Craft Blasted From Skies in One Engagement That Starts at Altitude of 12,000 Feet and Ends Near Ground.

Yanks Destroy 105 Warplanes   Two-Day Luftwaffe Loss Reaches 280 Total

105 NAZI PLANES WRECKED IN DAY      Embattled Luftwaffe Again Suffers Severe Reverses

FOE LOSES 105 MORE PLANES   Fierce Air Battles Rage Over Reich; 60 Craft Lost by Yanks

280 GRAFT LOST BY LUFTWAFFE INLAST2 DAYS   American Losses 91 Heavy Bombers And 46 Fighter Planes   OIL REFINERIES HIT WITH GOOD RESULTS

Luftwaffe Again Dealt Hard Blow By Yank Fliers      Americans Destroy 10. Planes but Lose 43 Bombers, 17 Fighters

Budapest Bombed B; Allied Air Forces   Other Hungarian Towns Under Attack—Mine Danger In Danube

American Planes Smash Capital © City of Rumania   Allied Night Bombers Follow Through With Assault On Budapest

Encircled Nazis Face Annihilation   Disorganized Enemy Re. sistance Reported — 15 Divisions Trapped

U.S. Planes Rain Bomb:  On Bucharest   Attack Carried Qut While Reds Sweep Into Rumania Only 200 Miles Away

Planes Smash at Bucharest   U. S. Heavy Bombers Reported in Raid

Bucharest Is Pounded By 'U. S. Bombers  i   “irst Yank Air Attack On Capital City of  Rumania

Capital of Rumania Rocks Under First Blow by Americans   RAF Night Bombers Hit Hungarian Citadel in Wake of Yank Attacks Raids Coupled With Red Advance

Rumaniar Capital Blasted   Balkan Transport Center Hit First Time By Americans

BUCHAREST IS BOMBED TODAY BY AMERICANS   Rumanian ‘Capital Blasted Russians Only 200 Miles  Away Now. -

Temperatures   Rumanian City Blow Aimed to Assist © Advancing Russians

Budapest Bombed Again And Mines Sowed In Danube   Night Attack Follows First Day Blow At Hungarian Capital As Fliers Hammer Vital Nazi Supplv Line   (BULLETIN)

REVURD OUND AMERICANS DOWN 116 HUN AIRCRAFT ON PALM SUN.   Flying Fortresses And Liberators on The Job Today

YANKS GIVE MORE AD TO RUSSIANS, BOMB BUCHARES'   Rumanian Capital Is Blastea After Destructive Visit to Budapest, Is Bombed on Second Raid.   REMOVAL OF OIL, FOOD ACCOUNTS FOR ACTION   Fighting Subsides on Italian Battlefronts But Violent Artillery Exchanges Are Reported.

Gov. Martin Says Ballots Are Valid   State Military Ballots Marked by Soldiers Who Die Before Nov. 22 Legal

Huge Naval Armada Planes Cover Attack   Only Slight Resistance Is Met As Marines and Soldiers Land   NO Resistance to Roi Island Landings,  Eyewitness Correspondent Declaroe

GREAT BOMBARDMENT PRECEDED LANDINGS MARSHALL ISLANDS  MOST CONCENTRATED   POUNDING IN HISTORY

BOMBS BLAST PACIFIC ISLES   Writer Describes First Operations Against  Marshalls

INITIAL LANDING OF U.S. FORCES IN THE MARSHALLS DESCRIBED BY WRITER

Heavy Bombardment Precedes Landings —  Occupation of Atolls Describec

U. S. Marines And Soldiers Consolidate Beachheads   Invasion Follows Heavy Bombardment From Air and Sea

‘Rumble Of Bombs And Shells Continues Off Marshalls   Greatest Fleet In All History, Aided By Air Force, Pounded Japs Before Men Made Landing

Swift justice is pledged to war criminals  Death for these who support foe

QUICK JUSTICE PROMISED FOR HITLER'S GANG   TWO - FISTED POLICY RULES OCCUPIED GERMANY

arte Gives nicy For Reich   Outlines Blue Print of Two-Fisted Plan For Stamping Out Nazis.

Eisenhower's Policy: General Orders Death for German Civilians Who Assist the Nazis

Gen. Eisenhower Bares Two-Fisted Policy for Stamping Out Reign of Nazis in Germany

“AS wi a wed nee ™ oh ae, oe po Vearcewar Lre2s 5 eo Dare -y tee Tae e-g Wo Pane Y oe JU HC--8 are  Als a-aNen'g’- fy Ver

Death Decreed  By Eisenhower For Guerrillas   Fwo-Fisted Policy Fixed  For Allied Control VE Qarnniad Ratah

CALLS FOR END OF HITLER REIGN   EISENHOWER ANNOUNCES POLICY FOR DEALING WITH OCCUPIED GERMANY.

AMG POLICY IN REICH IS FIRM   Laws Governing Occupied Areas Enunciated By Eisenhower

Quit Because Noose Around Japan’s Neck      Real Import of Jap Plight at Last Sinks Into Peoples’ Minds

WAR MAY LAST INTO NEXT YEAR SAYS CHURCHILL      Prime Minister Reviews War Situation — Cites Losses In France

War May Not End ’Til ’45 —Churchill   Between 2 and 3 Million Allied Troops Now In  France.

“Churchill Sees «No Early End European War   Says U.S. Will Send Additional Forces Until Nazi Collapse

SAYS HUGE NEW YANK ARMY MAY BE THROWN IN   Hints at More 3-Power Talks

Prime Minister Hopes Staliz Will Be Able To Join Next Allied Conference

VICTORY MAY BE LATE: CHURCHILL   SAYS MORE YANKS MAY BE THROWN INTO BATTLE

SCORES HOPES OF END SOON IN EUROPEAN WAR   Cites Possibility of Conflict After German Army Has Been Smashed

EARLY END OF EUROPE PHASE HELD REMOTE   Reports 200,000 Nazis Cut Off In West Coast Areas

‘Responsibility Placed On U. S.  Invading Troops   Prime Minister Cites Essentiality of Reds Joining Conference

Karly Meet With Stalin Held Vital   Prime Minister Reviews Global War In Commons Address.

Churchill Warns War May Dragon   Reviews Global Situation in  Speech to House Of Commons Today

Aachen Just An Example   Stimson Says Flatly Same Fate Awaits Other German Cities if Stubborn

OTHER GERMAN CITIES WARNED   More of Same Dealt Out To Aachen Coming, Stimson Says

BOY DROWNS IN LAKE HERE   Pals Ignorant of Tragedy Until Body Carried Ashore

JOHN RUDE BEES IN TERRE ATE HOSPITAL   First Seen Prostrate on Tank Car by Operator at Vermilion

LUMBER INDUSTRY STRIKE SPREADING   Several Thousand More Workers Scheduled to Join Walkout.

More Lumber Workers Out   Strike in Mills and Logging Camps of Northwest Spreads

FREEZING RAINS ARE SPREADING ; HIGHWAYS SLICK   State Patrol Is Urging The Motorists To Stay Off Roads Today

Yank troops  capture Jap  barge base ‘No resistance by Nip forces

DROP IN WEDDINGS “DURING PAST YEAR   Divorce Suits, on the Other ~-Hand, Filed at Lively Poce

DROP IN WEDDINGS “DURING PAST YEAR   Divorce Suits, on the Other "Hand, Filed at Lively — -". Dece

British Forces Press Campaign To Free Antwerp   Canadians Seize Breskens; Other Key Points Taken

WATER ROUTE THRU SCHELDT GOAL OF DRIVE   Third And Seventh Armies Hammer New Spearheads Toward Rhine

ALLIES STRIKE HARD IN NEW AREA   Drives for Important Cities of Antwerp and Strasbourg Continue

SENATE TO KILL SUBSIDIES PLAN   Favors Bill Increasing Prices Gf. Some Foods

Senate Passes Bill Increasing Prices On Food   Retail Prices On Milk Bread, Meat Would Be Raised

MISS HILAH JO BLANKENSHIP BECOMES BRIDE OF LIEUTENANT D. W. GIBBS

Roosevelt Kills Jackson Hole Bil By Pocket Veto   Gives ‘Memorandum Of Disapproval’ on Monument Ban

FDR Pockef Vetoes Jackson Hole Bill   Stilt Insists is Aree of Wetionet Siqnificance

FDR Saves’ Jackson Hole By His Veto   President Disapproves Of Congressional Measure Banning Monument

Winter Rush Of Germans Continues   Second Deep Wedge Is Well Into Luxembourg

TRAPPED IN SEVERED TAIL FLYING. FORTRESS SERGEANT FALLS FOUR MILES INTO TREE TOP IN REICH

Public Needs to Know Bad Chinese Situation, Delicate Russian Relations  _ ~ wr nua = wert weerermaenmrmre yT _

The War loday a= Much Remains To Be Done For  Cooperation  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

Low-Down On Chinese, Russian Relations Crop Out   By J. M. ROBERTS JR. (Substituting for DeWitt MacKenzie.)

The War Today Two Problems Are  Enlightened by Official Frankness

Public Needs to Know Bad Chinese Situation, Delicate Russian Relation:  By J. M. ROBERTS, Jr. (Substituting for

The War Today   Airing of Chinese and Russian SStunatinne Considered Good Omen

SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS INOFFICIAL FRANKNESS CLEARING TO UNITED NATIONS ATMOSPHERE

TODAY   Curtain, ‘Being ‘Liftea On ‘Chitia; Govern mental Practices -Embody ‘Many Things Allies: Fight Against’

Palestine. Jews ‘Accused  Of Terrorism  British Officials Charge. War Effort Damaged

U.S. Plans. For Another Conference   Hopes for Meeting ©}  United Nations In * Janvary to Draft ~~ Oraanization

United Nations Parley in U.S.  Being Planned   Government Hopes To Play Host to Full Dress Conference on Security in January

OLD-AGE TAX REVISION SOUGHT   Social Secur:ty Board Gives Promise in View of Schedu ed Increase

PEVSIN SHH   Social Eecurity Board Gives Promise in View of Schedu ed Increase

PAY ROLL TAX FREEZE OPPOSED   Senate Board, However, Agrees On Necessity For Law Changes

Recall Argentine U.S. Ambassador   Armour’ To Return As A Rebuke To Militarist Government.

U.S. Ambassador To Argentina Ordered Home  Slap at Militaristic Government Seen Te Dinlamatic Achan

Ambassador To Argentina  Is Recalled   Stiffening of U. S. Attitude Toward New Government Indicated

U.S. Envoy Is Recalled From  Buenos Aires   Move Regarded as Aimed at Argentine Pro-Axis Regime

RECALL ARMOUR FROM ARGENTINE   American Move Hits Sharply _at Present Militarist Government

COUNTER BLOWS BY JAPS IN NEW ‘GUINEA EXPECTED   Nips Send Best Naval Fliers to Northern Sector To Try and Stop Allied  Advance

Japs Planning Counter-Blow:   Allies Expect Attacks In  Dutch New Guinea

ounter Blows On utch New Guinea  Fa on Alert For   recautionary Note Is Sounded as Headquarters Announces Amphibious Landings Forty Miles West of Hollandia   DNLY SPORADIC ENEMY AIR ACTIVITY IS SEEN

Yanks Expect Jap Attacks   Forces in Dutch New Guinea Alert for Enemy Counter Blows

Japs Prepare To Strike Air  Counter Blow   American Invaders of Dutch New Guinea Await Enemy’s Action

YANKS EFFECT MORE LANDINGS ON NEW GUINEA   Allied Invaders Expecting Counter Blows By Jap Navy Planes

Pacific Forces Expect Jap Blow      ENEMY COUNTER ATTACK EXPECTED IN NEW GUINEA.

Two New Landings In Dutch ‘New Guinea; Yanks Warned Of Impending Jap Air Blows   Report Indications Enemy Throwing Navy Air Strength In Northwest Area

Jap Fliers May  Hit New Guinea   Americans Beyond Hollandia Expect Strong Counterattacks

Two Amphibious Ensalieai Are Asttsinaniil  Expect Counter Bi By Japanese In New Gitiinea

On Alert Against Jap Counter Blows In New Guinea   Precautionary Note Is Sounded As U. S. Forces Make 2 More Amphibious Landina:

Yanks Advance Up New Guinea in Two New Landings   Jans Reported Throwing Nava   Japs Beporied Throwing Naval Aviation Strength Into Battle 49 Guard Philiopines

guter-Blows Mew Guinea   mericans On Alert is Nipa Reported wearing Attack

U. S. Invaders Of Dutch New     Guinea Alert   iGird For Counter-Blows B:  Japan’s Well-Trained  Navy Fliers After Two  Amphibious Landings

Expect Jap Flier Atfacks   Meanwhile, Amphibious Landings Take Allies Farther Up New Guinea

Impending Jap Air Blows Seen Yanks On Alert After Making New Landing:

Yanks Watch For Attacks — By Guinea’s  Enemy Force   Navy Fliers Being Imported By Japan

Allied Spokesman Sounds Precautionary Note in Announcement.   'NEW LANDINGS MADE

America:: Invaders of New Guinea Are Warned of Danger:   Make 2 New Landings; Attacks by Japanese Navy Planes Seen

Stay On Alert At New Guinea For Surprise   Enemy Expected To Throw Best Fliers Into Fight

Landings Cut Jap Retreat Routes    Amphibious Operations Put Americans 40 Miles West of Hollandia; On Alert for Counterblow

Editor's Note: This is the 36th of the Ernie Pyle war dispatches we are reprinting while Ernie takes a rest.

Jap Bases Hit Without Loss By Roving U.S. Naval Force   793 Jap Planes Smashed At Rabaul By Allies

Jap Plane Loss At Rabaul 793   Believed Greatest Air Victory Anywhere At Any Time

793 JAP AIRCRAFT BAGGED BY ALLIED ‘AIRMEN AT RABAUL   Nearly 800 Planes Destroyed At Nip’s Once-Strong Base in Pacific Since Start of Campaign Last December

Allies Destroy 793 Jap Planes In Rabaul Ares   Task Force Inflicts Heavy Damage Marianas; No U, S. Warships Lost

193 Rabaul Planes Lost   End in Sight for Jap Base; No More Aerial Resistance

793 Jap Plane: Destroyed In Two Months  Oiepatact Atr Vintaru   Greatest Air Victory Of ‘All Time In South Pacific Area

Biggest Pacific Air Triumph In Making At Rabaul   Allies Down 793  Planes In Drive

Allies Score Greatest Air Victory   Jap Rabaul Losses Have Been 793 Since December 17

2000 JAPANESE LIQUIDATED IN BURMA VALLEY   Yanks, Chinese Use Tanks Through Jungles

2,000 Japs Die In Burma’   Hukawng Valley Soon To Be Allied Bases

2000 Jap Troops Killed m Burma.   U. S., Chinése Break  Enemy Resistance

Two Soldiers Die  In Barracks Fire   Three Sufter Burns At Fort Sheridan

KEYNOTER FOR GOP UNDECIDED   LUCE, GRISWOLD, VANDENBERG AND HALLECK IN MIND

GOP KEYNOTER CHOICE STILL IN THE DARK   Delegates Meeting In Chicago For Test Naming

GOP Leaders Are ‘Meeting:   ‘Keynoter ‘Sélection. 1st. “Major « Business

GOP KEYNOTER TO BE NAMED   Choice Remains in Hands of 24-Member Arrange~ ments Committee.   2-DAY MEET IN CHICAGO

CHOICE OF GOP KEYNOTER WIDE OPEN AFFAIR   Presidential Supporters Withholding Their  Selections

Study Republican ‘Keynoter Position  Selection Wide Open As Leaders Confer

GOP Committee To Select Keynoter   Vandenberg, Griswold, Luce Are Strong Contenders

24 G. O. P. Members Of Arrangements Committee Arrive For First Parley

Highway Transpor! of ODT To Reorganize And Reduce Scope   Shreveport District To Contain Only

POLAND HIT IN SHUTTLE RAID   U. S. Heavy Bombers Land In Russia After Attack

U.S, HEAVY BOMBERS ‘USE RED BASES AGAIN   Fly On To Russia After Raid On Nazi Aircraft Plant

CHINESE GENERAL TS PUT T0 DEATH   COMMANDER OF 93RD ARMY EXECUTED FOR FLEEING AT APPROACH OF JAPS.

China Causing Grave Concern  In Washington   Chinese General Put To Death tar Fleeine

British Complete  Without Loss   Assault-On Reich Capital Staged By Mosquitos Despite Bad Weather

Berlin Gets New Pounding   Mosquito Planes of RAF in Night Smash Ai Heavies Take Rest

Stormy Weather Gives Britain Night Free Of Raids: Aircraft From Mediterranean Support Offensive, Batter Central Italy

MOSQUITOS HIT BERLIN AGAIN; HEAVIER QUIET   Luftwaffe Planes Fail _TeStrike England

RAF BOMBERS HIT BERLIN LAST NIGHT   Attack Carried Out In Spite Of Storms

Reich Capital Hammered B y Speedy Planes   Heavy Bombers “Rest Up” For. Renewal of Great Offensive Against Fortress Europe   Canadian Pilots  Bag Seven Planes   Red Air Force Batters Naziheld Polotsk On Riga Rail Line; New Of fensive Seen

Mosquitoes Bomb Berlin As Heavy Bombers Remain Home   Raid Effected Without Loss; Britain Raid-Free; No Air Activity Today

MOSQUITO CRAFI ATTACK BERLIN   Poor Weather Reduces Air Raids Against Nazis

BAD WEATHER GROUNDS U.S, HEAVY BOMBERS   Mediterranean Air Force Con: tinues Light Raids on Italian Targets

BOMBER FLEETS IN ENGLAND REST FOR RENEWAL OF RAIDS   Mosquita Bombers Blast a Berlin in Night Attack to Keep Up Raids

Political Aids UrgeSoldier Vote Bill Veto  President to Decide   President to Decide After Final Draft of Measure

GOP MAY FAVOR VOTE BILL VETO   Present Measure Scanned Warily by Both Parties in House, Senate

Many Republican: Hope For Veto Of Service-Vote Bill   President Indicates Largest Potential Vote To Decide Issue

ADVISE TO URGE WOTE BILL VET   Senate-house Committee to Give Patciwork Measure Final Review Monday; Then Goes to Senate

‘Veto Of Service Vote Bill Is Seen  GOP May Be Satisfied  HEF. R. Does It

rig fo Urge Veto on Vote Bill   Senate Groups Are Divided on Effect 1+ Will Have at End

Service Vote  Veto Is Seen.   FDR's ‘Advisers May Influence. His Move

Surplus Property Facing Country   OWI Says Nation’s Economy May Not Be Disrupted By Avalanche of Property.

Nation Rated Able to Absorb War Property   *Quick, Painless’ Disposal Of $15 Billion Surplus

ENTIRE CRIMEA IS NOW SECURELY IN HANDS OF REDS   111,000 "Nazis, Romanians Either Dead or Captured in the Campainn.

NAZIS END RESISTANCE IN CRIMEA   Reds Also Beat Off Attacks On Soviet Bridgehead

SOVIETS BEAT OFF ATTACKS BY GERMANS   Last Enemy Resistance In Crimea Is Liquidated by Russians.

Germans, Romanians Lose 111,000 Troops In Crimea; Russians  Down 23 Aircraft

Nazis, Romanians Lose 110,000 Men In Dinester Push   4th Ukrainian Army Destroys Last Of Crimean Troops

REDS BEAT OFF NAZI ATTACKS IN BESSARABIA   Last Enemy Resistance In Crimea Liquidated By Russians

111,000 Casualty Toll In Crimea —   Heavy German Losses Suffered In Campaign

Nazis Quoted As Saying Rommel Died   Field marshal an important cog in Nazi maehine; Allied plane fires on his ear.

Rommel Believed Seriously Hurt   Unofficial Reports  Say Desert Fox Dead

New Evidence Points to RommelDeath   STOCKHOLM DISPATCHES SAY BERLIN SPOKESMEN REFUSE TO DENY STORY

FDR'S STATEMENT ABOUT OCCUPYING JAPAN WILL HURT   When Jznan’s Vain Overlords Hear This They Will Be Fit to Tie

When U.S. Announced Occupation Intent  "Invincible" Sons of Heaven Stunned

FDR Statement That Nippon Will Be Occupied Jars Japs   Pronouncement GI Joes Will Walk Over Tokyo Will Cause Greater Upheaval Than ’23 Earthquake

Surrencer ~emancec as “anxs roe Soumtern “ringes Ay Yoin-s “Le -rom ““acer-ron-

Patrols ot Americans Get  Within City   Allied Advance Rapid. According to Latest Communique

SAYS DORSEY'S WIFE USED KNIFE   Icaza Testifies in  Jon Hall Nose Slashing

Reds Close in on Hungarian Towns   16 Villages, 1000 Prisoners Seized

Bombers Again Pound Germany   German Radio Reports Fleet of Heavy Craft Over Ruhr and Another Heading  For Southwestern Germany

AERIAL ATTACK ON GERMANY I$ GREAT SUCCESS   Allies Drop Ten Thousand Tons Of Bombs Today

PARDON GIVEN ARMY GENERAL   Roosevelt Steps Into   Wrangle Between Civil And Military Officials

Commitee OK’s Food Subsidies   Price Control. Act. ‘Extension Favored

AERONAUTICS BOARD OKEYS AREA AIRLINES   Passenger, Mail And Express Seryice Reeommended

Study Need Air “Feeder"” To This City   GATHERING OF DATA ‘T0 PROVE EXISTENCE OF NEED HERE IS TO PROCEED.

RECOMMEND ARCADIA Fn AR SERVICE   Expansion of Airways To Smaller Cities Is Suggested By Aeronautics Board

Aeronautics Board Recommends Area Airline For Ruston   Next Step Will Be Actual Hearings On Applications

American Fortresses Strike Germany Again In Secona Straight Blow At Industries

U.S. Fortresses Blast Frankfurt In Another Raid   No Reports Yet On Damage To Nazi City; French Coast Bombed

YANK RAIDERS DOWN 84 GERMAN PLANES   Yesterday’s Raid On Brunswick Followed by Frankfurt Raid Today.

pa ne gee aaa WESTERN CATHOLIC    UNION ANNUAL  PICNIC SUNDAY   At Kuhimann’s Grove—All Meinbers and Their Families Expected to:>Attend.

WESTERN CATHOLIC UNION ANNUAL PICNIC SUNDAY   At ‘Kuhlmann’s’ Grove—AQ Mem. '. bers and Their Families Exnected to Attend.

Enemy Warships Flee as Task Force Appears   Yanks 460 Miles From Philippines

Two-Way Assault Opened by Americans on Powerful Jap Base  At Truk; Heavy Blows Struck

Enemy Warships Flee American Task Foree   Daring Thrust Takes U. S. Batilecraft _ 1,050 Nautical Miles West of Truk

Jap Navy Flees As Battleships Appear   Daring Noval Thrust Carries Task Force To Point 1,050 Miles West Of Jap Truk Base

400 ARE REPORTED KILLED IN ROME   SHELTERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN HIT IN ALLIED RAID ON CAPITAL,

Poles May Yield Point   Cabinet in London May Resign, Bowing To Russian Demands

Exiled Polish Heads To Bow   Reports Say Polish Cabinet May Resign; Enable New Government.

Poles May Yielc to Russ Demands   Exiled Cabinet Said Ready to Quit

London Poles Yugoslavian Seen Bowing Troops Stab  To Russians Across Italy

REPORTS POLES WILL BOW 10 SOVIETS   New Cabinet t Will Be Formed to Deal with Russia but Rumor {s Denied

Poles In England May Soon Resign   Indicate Will Give In To Wishes of Moscow

Exiled Polish Government May Resign   Would Open the Way To Understanding With Russia

113 ENEMY TANKS BLASTED IN TWO DAYS AND EIGHT SIECFRIED FORTIFICATIONS AT PRUM TAKEN

AMERICAN, FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCE IN VOSGES MOUNTAINS  GERMANS LOST 113 TANKS IN FIGHTING ON SOUTHERN BATTLE FRONT :

, Desperate Battle All , Along Front   Patton Knocks Out 113 Nazi Tanks; First Army Dents West Wall Anew.

Patton's Force Kayos 113 Tanks In 2-Day Battle  American ict Rreake   American Ist Breaks 8 Siegfried Forts; British Fighting For Arnhem Crossing

‘Germans Lose 113 Tanks  To Americans   General Patch’s Forces Fight Way Up Slope: Of Two Vosges Mountain Passes; Battie Of Holland Turns Into Positional Warfare

Ching Rains Curtail Gains On Front Today   Germans Lose 113 Tanks During Two Days of Battle

Seventh Army In Passes of Vosges   West Front Campaign Has Resemblance to Positional Warfare   NAZI TANKS SMASHED      Yanks Reach Mountain Passes East of Epinal and Lure

INTO PASSES BARRING WAY 0 THE RHINE   All Along Front, However, Allies Face Nazi Resistance and Rain in Near - Positional _Warfaya

ENEMY LOSES 28. WARPLANES OVER        rates  First Big Attempt Made ..by Germans to Halt Flow of Reinforcements and Su  plies From Sea.                BRIDGEHEAD POUNDED BY HEAVY WEAPON   Paris Radio Reports Hitler's Commanders Expect A  to Send Another Army  to Italv.

STAND OR DIE ORDERS GIVEN CASSING ARM   ALLIED BRIDGEHEAD EXPANDS; GERMANS WHIPPED IN AIR

Germans Suffer Twin Defeat in Battle for Rome   Lose Sky Fights And Land Attack

Germans Dealt Twin Defeat in  Fight for Rome   Allies Smash Assault 21 Miles from City, Bag 28 Nazi Planes In Big Air Battle

Nazi Assault Below Rome Is Thwarted   28 Planes Shot Down In Furious Sky Fights Over Landing Beaches  ALLIES FXPAND HOLD

Nazis Suffer Crushing Twin Defeat   Enemy Assault on Beachhead Is Reported Smashed

Enemy Assault on Allied Bridgehead Is Smashed  28. GERMAN PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE  Furious Sky Fights Rage Over the Landing Beaches

Berlin Sources Fear  New Allied Landings   Heavy Counterattacks by Nazis Are Thrown Back by Americans; Invasion Expansion  Slowed

British Repulse Nazi Armored Unit Near Carroceto; 28 Enemy Planes Downed in Fights Over Beaches

Allies Smash Heavy Enemy Attack On Bridgehead 21 Miles Away; Knock Out 28 Planes in Sky Fights

Nazis handed twin defeats on Italy line   28 foe planes are destroved

Enemy Assault On Bridgehead Broken   28 German Planes Destroyed in Furious Sky Fiahts Over Landing Beaches. Allies Renort

Whip German Airmen in Scrap Over Beaches   Report Germans Expect New Allied Landing Soon

Germans Lose Battles of Land and Air  New Allied Landing Predicted by Radio Under Axis Control

DEBACLE ON LAND AND IN AIR CAME AS GERMAN PRISONERS DECLARE HITLER HIMSELF ORDERED “STAND OR DIE”.

Ground Forces Fight Olf Counterattacks, Airmen — Smash Assault Near Rome

U.S. Forces Batter Powerfully Toward Port of Cherbourg   Invasion Forces Fan Out From Fallen Ste. Mere Eglise Today

GENERAL SOMERVELL TELLS OF INVASION PLANS OF ALLIES   GREATEST AMOUNT OF MEN, MUNITIONS, EQUIP. MENT EVER KNOWN

General Somervell Says Invasion Is Sure to Come  Best Concentration Of Equipment In History Growing

Somervell Reviews  Invasion Power Head of ASF Sneaks   Head of ASF Speaks At Dallas Conference Of Command Officers

Strength Said Reduced 30 Per Cent  Power of Luftwaffe Diminished

Finns Disavow No-Sur rrender ‘Statement    Finnish Government Holds Secret Session To Discuss Hull Warnine

Leapfrog 120 miles past Hollandia base to catch foe asleep   Losses light; MacArthur forecasts fal] of all Dutch New Guinea land

Yank Forces Occupy Bulk of Wakde Isles   Invaders Surprise Japs and Suffer Only Light Casualties; Warships and Planes Cover Operation; Only 30 Nips Killed

Solicitation Of Marriages Ban Upheld   Judge Sloan Calls Signs A ‘Fraud On The Public’

Japs Abandon New Guinea Strongholds   MacArthur Expects Full Retreat of Nips Along Coast

JAPS RETREAT ON NEW GUINEA   MacArthur ir Expects 700 More Miles Of -Coast

Japs in Full Retreat on New Guinea   Make for West Coast And Evacuation; Nips Still Resist On Guam; Push Past Myitkyina

Second Jap Army Abandons Bases To Retreat In Ful   Allies See 700 Mile Sweep Of New Guinea Coast In Jap Action,

Retreat of Jap Army May Give American Forces Long Coastline Without Battle

Japs Giving Up New Guinea Coas!   Second Army Hopes To Evacuate Island From Western End

J aps Fleeing Coast Drive InNewGuines   Outflanked Foe Losing Strong Points in Area of Geelvink Bay   YAP HIT BY BOMBS,   Rockets From Carriers Added to Bomb Rain on Guam Garrison

REDS CAPTURE RAIL, HIGHWAY GATE TO RIGA   Announced Big Gains In Latvia   PRUSSIA YIELDS   Soviets Crack Border Defenses

REDS NEAR RIG FICHT FURIGUSLY   “Troops N ear ‘East ‘Prussia Frontier Meet ‘Str ong : ‘Resistance

OO TE TT IT ET Se  REDS MAKE GAIN IN DRIVE ON RIGA   Nazi Resistance Increases Near East Prussian Frontier

REDS NEAR Rich Hat! FURIDUSLY   Troops Near East Prussia Frontier Meet Strong Resistance

Russian Forces In Latvia Drive  On Toward Riga   Soviet Troops Meet Increas. ing Resistance Near East Prussian Frontier   GREATEST GAINS MADE IN LATVIA

EDES Forces Make Urgent Help Appeal   Scobie Studies Reply To EAM; Quick Truce

Rightists Ask For British Aid Against Leftists   Commander of Troops In Greece Studies Reply To Peace Terms

FS FORCES AS BRETISH P MORE AID   ‘LAS Captures wo lowns rom Faction

ONE TRAFFIC DEATH HERE LAST MONTH   Total of 31 Killed = ir Highway Accidents in the State

De Gaulle Gives Orders fo French   Tells Civilians How To Carry On

Panay, Cebu, Negros Attacked by Carrier Based Planes; 200 Jap Planes Are Destroyed

Carrier-Based Craft Make Sween Of Three Islands   Airfield 210 Miles From Manila Believed One of Aerial Targets

Fighters on Record Raid Over Europe   American Forces Shoat pe Mere, Thee Barges in Biggest  Sween af War

730 FIGHTERS SLASH GERMAN DEFENSE LINES   Scores of Airfields And Railyards Blasted In New Air Offen sive

Reconversion Order Halted   War Production Board Plans Speeding Up Of Munition Plants

Reconversion Plans Are Shelved Because Of Lag In Arms Production

Shelve Plans For Reconversion   Production Changes Must Await End of Munitions Shortace

Reconversion Plans Back on Shelf. Until War Production Increases

RECONVERSION PLAN SHELVED   Cutback Civilian Output Until Enough Shells Are Produced

Reconversion Put on Shelf  For Munitions   Lagging Programs Must Reach Schedule Before Civilian Goods Made

Reconversion s Placed on Shelf  Lagging Munitions Program Responsible

Reconversion  Side-Tracked   Action Taken to Sneed Lagging Ahinitinns Pendoctian

DELAY FACTORY RECONVERSION   Must Bring Munition Output Up To Schedule First

Keconversion Plans Shelved In Many Areas   Civilian Output Waits Until Lagging Arms Program Catches Up.

Reconversion To Civilian Goods . Held Up By WPB   78th Congress Recess May Be Delayed Until Just Before Christmas

War Production Status Remains   Reconversion for Civilian Production Must Wait, Government Rules.

Reconversion Plans Shelved In Many Areas   Civilian Production Program to Wait Until Lagging Munitions Out put Is Inereased

British Hit  Nazi Convoys   Off Norway: Sink One. Possibly Two Supply Ships. Damage Three.

Nazi Convoys Hit, Ships Are Sunk   Navy Planes, French Ships Smash German Shipping

Allies Sink Nazi Ships   British Fleet Air Arm Strikes Convoys Off Norway; French Battlé Germans in Channel _

HUNTING SEASON WILL OPEN TODAY   Mere Than 1900 Licenses Sold by Clerk’s Office  Marea

HUNTING SEASON  WILL OPEN TODA\      More Than 1900 Licenses Sold by Clerk’s Office  Hore

SOFTBALL LEAGUE  TOOREN EN PLAY.. THESD           At Blanchette Park When ‘The Flee Team Meets the Iniaspeniayt ; -Hoeam . -

SOFTBALL LEAGUE “TO OPEN PLAY “ UESDAY NIGHT   At Blanchette Park When The Fleet Team Meets the Independent een Team

 Eye-Witness Story  Of Jap Atrocities Told By AP Newsman      Estimates 4,000 Soldiers Died As Result of Brutalities Following Bataan Surrender

Observor Expresses Doubt That Full Story Of Death March Can Be Assembled; Relates Experience of Many Survivors

APF Neports:  Japs Made Slaves Of U. S. Captives Seized on Bataan

LONDON AGAIN HIT ~ BY NAZT ROBOT      CASUALTIES CAUSED AS RES. -CUERS- DIG FOR. VICTIMS  OF PREVIOUS BARRAGE.

House Committee etree ~ Of WMCA’s Sale   Republicans Claim Move ~ Fo-Cover Up UiisavoryFacts of Transfer

Probe of Radio Deal Squelched   "Unsavory Facts” Held from Public

Appraisal of Tax Bill Unfavorable   Treasury Counsel and Chairman George Are Not Complimentary.

Differ Strongly On Tax Bill  Treasury, Congress asc... VASO. OAC ee eh

Views On ‘Nev Tax Measure  Differ Widely   From ‘Tragic Failure’On One Hand, It Is Called ‘Most Passable’ On Other —  urewsw wy

New Tax Bill Tragic Failure Says Treasury   But Senator Says It’s All People Can Stand

Treasury Official, Senator Disagreed Over Tax Proposal   Bill Provides . About All People Can Stand Says Senator George

Far Apart on New Federal ‘Tax Program   New Bill Declared. Tragic Failure by Treasury’s General Counsel   ALL THE PEOPLE CAN: STAND, GEORGE SAYS   Big Revenue Measue Due to Be Called Up'in Senate ¢ Next Week

NEW TAX BILL IS DESCRIBED AS A TRAGIC FAILURE  TREASURY AID AND  CHAIRMAN GEORGE DIFFER OPINIONS

SPOTLIGHT ON NEW TAX BILL   Paul Calls It “Tragic Faile ure’; George Says “About All The People Can Stand’; Take Your. Pick. 2

TREASURY OFFICIAL AND SENATOR GEORGE DISAGREE ON TAXES   Government Official Says Revenue Bill Inadequate. George Says It’s All People Can Stand

CHARGE MANY WITH MURDERING WOMAN   Widowed Mother of Three Children Victim of Shooting.

Living Cost Still Rising In  Great Britain   Chancellor Of Exchequer Expresses Concern Over Trend In Budget Message To Commons

Great Britain at Taxable Capacity, Chancellor States   Tells Commons He Is Distressed Over Cost of Living Rise

Fleet Arm. Devastates Guam, Rota   Naval Guns, Planes Pour Deadly Haii On Jap Positions

Continue Guam. RotaRaids   J. S. Task Force Puts Air-Sea Blows On Daily Basis

SHOCK TAOOFS OPEN BATTLE. FO PITY OF MINSK   Germans Fiercely Resisting Soviet Lrive From Southeast

REPORT NAZI _ DEFENSE HAS 300,000 MEN   GERMANS HURL GREAT . SFRENGTH INTO BATTLE ’ AT “GATEWAY” CITY TO HALT RUSSIAN DRIVE,

WAR CORRESPONDENT REPORTED CAPTURED   Gault MacGowan of New York Said to Have Been Taken by Germans on Road to Paris,

Robot Bombing Enters Fifth Week   Allied Defense Measures  ‘Having Some Success —

Defense for Robot Raids Gets Results   ASSAULTS ON LONDON CONTINUE IN FIFTH WEEK AT LOWER PACE

Robot Attacks on London Decline   SE VECWwEs WUE  7,841 Persons Hit During Six Week«

ROBOT ATTACKS SEEM DECLINING IN LONDON AREA   Allied Defensive Measures Are Showing Increased Success Against Attacks.

* High School: Off To Flying Start   ~ Quota Quickly Met ~ And Sharnty: Wilead

* ich School Off To Flying Start   Quota Quickly Met And Sharoly Hiked

© YANKS STORM INTO HARBOR OF CARIGARA   Leyte-Samar Drive Said Nearly Complete

- Original old At Auction   Dealer Buys Much Rescued “The Murder In the Rue Morgue”.

FIVE FLIERS AT WRIGHT KILLED   Bomber Falls, Burns In Greene County

Southeast Farmland Threatened   SCORES OF HOMES FLOODED AS WATERS HIT HAMBURG, IA.

Missouri Flood Breaks Levees to Go Into Hamburg   Burlington Railway Loses Tracks; Routes Trains  Th rough } le ré.   One of Worst Floods In Years Predicted

AMERICAN BOMBERS AGAIN SMASH NAZI TARGETS IN FRANCE   More Than 1,000 Heavy Bombers and About As Many Fighting Planes Used :

U.S. Bombers Hit Airfields Near Paris  Alsace-Lorraine   Alsace-Lorraine Rail Yards Pounded; Others Over Reich

Airfields Near Pari: Smashed by Heavy U. S. Bombing Forces   Allied Planes Take Large Toll of Damage In Oil Dumps and Railroad Yards in Saarbrucken and Alsace-Lorraine Areas

Germans Feel Stunning Air Power Again   U. S. Heavies Smash Oil Dumps, Air Fields, Rail Bottlenecks

U.S. FLIERS HIT FRENCH OIL; AIR TARGETS AGAIN   British Blast Nazi U-Boat Docks, Drop Blockbusters on Berlin

‘Heavy Bombers  Smash Airfields,  Dumps Near Paris Bail Yards on Lines Feeding  Reinforcements te French PB Bet. Bhd

'.S. Bombers Hit Targets Near Paris   Oil Dumps.  Rail Yards and Airfields Plasiered in Raids

BERLIN POUNDED BY U. S. HEAVIES   1,000 Yank Bombers Make Sweeping Raid On Vital Enemy Centers

BOMBERS AID YANK TROOPS   Blast Fuel Dumps, Airfields and Railroads in France Today

STRIKE OIL DEPOTS      Heavy Bombers Dump Loads on Installations  Near Paris 

—AERIAL—  AIR FORCES AID INVASION ARIE   U.S. Heavy Bombers Joir Tactical Unitslh French Raids   TARGETS BLASTED   Fuel Dumps And Airfields Near Paris Are Heavily Attacked

Airfields And Fuel Dumps In Paris Area Hit   Railyards hr Alsace Lor raine Also Attacked By American Heavy Bombers Today

RAIL, AIR BASES, FUEL DUMPS HIT   Alsace-Lorraine And Paris Area Lashed By Raiders

Rail Bottlenecks Bombed by Yanks   ' Air Power Seeks To Isolate Paris; Report Good Result«

Isolation of Paris Begun   U.S. Heavies Smash Capital Facilities, Bottle Border Troops

Rail Yards, Oil Dumps Are Bombec   Ali Bottlenecks for Nazi Troop Moves. to France Under Attack   PART OF PATTERN TO ISOLATE PARIS   Weather Is Good and Big Forces cf Planes Hammer Vital Centers

ALLIES FORGE AHEAD IN ITALY   American Troops Score Gains; Front Widened By Canadians

Canadians Spread Along Senio River   U. S. Troops Make Local Gains Near Monte Belmonte Area

Echt Downed   Canadians Hold — Five-Mile Front. Along Senio River

Honor Memory ¢ of Pfc Wil am Gray, Jr.; S. Set. T Rében ‘Egeleton

Honor Memory of Pfc William Gray, Jr.; 8. Sgt. ', Robert Eggleton

Irish-Ulster Frontier May Be Closed Next   Eire Says Price Of Neutrality Realized; Supports De Valera.

Border Closing Believed Near In Eire Dispute   Travel to Britain Already Stopped at Eisenhower Reanest

6 ‘NP PD FY De. le Closing Of Border Between Treland And Ineland Nears   Stronger Measures Hinted As Result Of Kire’s Refusal To Oust-Axis Diploniuts; Stany Oppose De Valera

Further Steps Contemplated By U. S., Britain   Border Between Eire, Northern Ireland May : Be Closed

OUTRIGHT CLOSING  NORTHERN IRELAND  BORDER MAY BE NEAR ALLIES MOVE TO STOP —  USE OF EIRE AS NAZI SPY RASE

BRITISH MAY CLOSE BORDER   Would Give e Full Effect to Suspension of Travel Between Islands.   STEP JS INEVITABLE NOW

OUTRIGHT CLOSING NORTHERN IRELAND BORDER MAY BE NEAR   ALLIES MOVE TO STOP USE OF EIRE AS NAZI SPY BASE   LONDON’S IMPOSITION SEVERE TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS PLACES IRELAND IN ECONOMIC TROURI FE

British Stop  Travel Across  Irish Sea   Border With North Ireland Expected To Be Closed

Move Expected to Be Followed by Closing of North Ireland-Eire Border to Keep Invasion Secrets From the Axis.

Border Closing in Ireland to Follow Travel Suspension  Allies Move with  Hard Realism te End

British Edict On Frontier Closing Near   Order by London Likely After Suspension of Travel to Ireland   SPY LEAKS FEARED   Drastic Allied Action Is Result of Axis Agents at Ejre Capital

ALLIES ACTING TO END AXIS . ESPIONAGE   No. Ireland’s Border With Eire May Be Closed   Of Wheat, Gasoline, Coal Likely To Be Stopped: Oppose De Valera

Suspension of Travel Between Britain and Ireland Believed Likely Next

—IRELAND—  OTHER DRASTIC STEPS EXPEGTEL   Closing Of Northern IreJand’s Border With Eire ts Seen   SECURITY STEP   Curtailment Of Wheat, Gasoline And Coal - Shipments Likely

MAY CLOSE EIRE BORDER TO TRAVEL   Reports From Northern Ireland Say the Step Regarded as Inevitable.   Try to End Use of Eire as a Spy Base

Travel Betweer Britain and  Ireland Halted   Allied Leaders Consider Cutting Supplies to Eire and Closine Border With Ulster

Britain Bans Travel Betweer England and Eire Following Protest by United States   No More Permits to Be Issued Except In Case of ‘National Importance’; Government Expects People to ‘Understand’

Travel Between         : : xis Agent In Eire Reported Sen  ous Menace. -

This Action Expected To Follow Suspension Of Travel Between  Enaland and lreland

Neutral Eire May Shortly Be Isolated   ‘Action Comes After De Valera Refusal to Oust Axis Envoys

Travel Between Britain, lreland Is Suspended   Restriction Is First Step in Move to Isolate Neutral Eire

Ban Travel To Balk Espionage By Axis In Eire   Follows Irish Refusal To Drive Out Diplomats

Prospects Of Closing Eire Border Loon   Predict Action Strengthening Travel Suspension Between Islands.   U.S. HOLDS INITIATIVE

PLAN TO CLOSE IRISH BORDER   Expect To Give Eire Full Effect Of Suspension Of Travel

TIGHTENING UP AGAINST IRISH SEEMS ASSURED   Outright Closing of Northern Ireland’s Border With Eire To Enforce  Travel Restrictions

Travel Between Great Britain,  Ireland Banned To Balk Spying   Action Follows Eire Refusal To Oust Axis Diplomats.

Isolation For ‘Eire Forecast   IRISH: BORDERS BEING CLOSED ‘BY GREAT ‘BRITAIN.

Close Eire Border?   Believe Step Will Follow Closely Travel Ban Ordered Between Ireland and England

BRITISH MOVE 10 END USE OF EIRE AS AXIS SPY BASE   ODRER REQUESTED BY EISENHOWER AS WAR MEASURE

OTHER CURBS MAY FOLLOW LONDON STEP   Outright Closing Of Border Believed Near In Order To Guard War Moves

Closing Of Border tin North. Ireland      Official” Belfast ‘Sources. Regard Drastic. Action. As. Inevitable; * May: Take: Other: Strong Steps

lrish Government  Still Obdurate   Refuses Request - That Germans Be Sent — Home   PRESSURE ON EIRE SEEMS PROBABLE

Take Action in Move to Balk  Espionage   Follows Refusal of lrish Government to  Oust Axis Diplomats

NORTHERN BORDER MAY BE CLOSED   British Back up U. S. Demand to Oust Jap and German Diplomate

A Tighter Clamp on ~“Bire Soon   Suspension of . Travel Between Britain-and: ‘Ireland: ‘Only a Starter *   OTHER MEASURES 2 “HELD INEVITABLE:   Public Comment. Temperate On: Both ‘Sides.as. People Ask: ‘What Next? >=.

Frontier With North Ireland May Be Closed   Isfand Isolated As Travel to Britain Banned

OTHER MOVES TO HALT NAZI SPIES MAPPED   fo Give Full Effect To Britain and Eire Travel Ban

British Likely To Shut Border Between Eire,  North Ireland   Ban All But Emergency Travel Between Two Countries

ACTION TAKEN TO BALK AXIS IN IRELAND   Order Barring Travel Follows Refusal of Belfast to Oust Axis Diplomats From Country   COMMENT IS TEMPERATE

BRITISH INVOKE BAN ON TRAVEL AGAINST EIRE   Action Taken on Eisenhower's Request fo Keep Allied War Se. crets from Axis Agents   BRITISH GO SLOW   Outright Closing of Border Be lieved Likely bui London Leaves Initiative ic U.S.

SUGGEST ALLIES TO MAKE OTHER MOVES ON EIRE   English Ban Travel Except Emergency Trips Sunday Night

May ‘Close” Eire Border on the North   Wil Add Weight to Suspension of Travel Between the  Two islands

All Travel To Eire Cut Off By British Order   Travel Ban Believed Only Beginning of Allied ‘ Measures Against Ireland.

Sanctions Are Held Unlikely For 3 Reasons   Large Numbers of. South: ern Irish in British Army and Industry “":

Allies Move With Stern Realism to Prevent Espionage   Action Follows Irish Re.fusal to Expel Axis Diplomats

IRISH BORDER MAY BE CLOSED TO ALL TRAVEL   Would Keep Nazi Spy Ring From War Plants

Travel Halted In New Move te Curtail Spies   Other Drastic Steps Planned By Allied Nations

North Ireland Border May Be Closed Soon  Travel Already Is   Travel Already Is Suspended On Urgent Request Of Eisenhower

Britain Acts to Balk Work of Nazi Spy Ring   Ban Placed on Travel ‘From Ireland at Eisenhower's Request

Jap Drive Gains In India Theater   Invaders Force British To Retreat South Of Imphal -

BRITON TROOPS SOUTH OF IMPHAL ARE PETPEATING   However, Two Nip Columns Stopped Says Mountbatten

‘BRITISH FALLING  BACK BEFORE JAPS   Nips Reported Astride Roads Leading Out of Imphal.

Japs Astride of Manipur Highway   British Frontier Troops Fall Back

IN DRIVE ON IMPHAL   Two Columns Haltec But Others Are Advancing

Vire, ‘Germans: Last Real. Normiandy Atichor, Falls To: Open Up Allied Drive Eastward; -Evrient Troops -Ask To: Surrender Arms ~~

SEEK TO SPLIT MAIN FORCES IN FRANCE   Allies Advancing On Paris, 135 Miles Distant   Of Brest And St. Nazaire Beached By Americans; Vire Is Captured

German Drive ls Aimed At Avranches   Largest Counterattack Since Invasion Started Is Being Met Head On

U.S. Troops Capture 13,300 Prisoners In Brittany; Brest About To Fall To Americans   Lorient Nazi Garrison Wants To Surrender; St. Nazaire, Nantes Both Within Grasp; British Pose Threat

Germans Launch Largest Counter Thrust fo Date  llew ee ots “A ee a al   Use Four-Armored Divisions Trying To Split Allies

AMERICANS 135 MILES FROM PARIS   Germans Seeking To Split U. S. Front At Avranches

MANY TOWNS TAKEN   Allies Launch Aerial Blows On All Parts of Continent

Americans Are 135 Miles From Capital   Three German Convoys Attempting ‘Little Dunkerque’ Are Destroyed Or Chased Back To French Bases

IN ON MINOR VOTE   CLO. and A.L.P. Roll Up Roosevelt Plurality in New York

Ist Increases Pressure On Duren, Super Highway   Allies Cripple Nazi Transport, Trams Haul Berlin Freiaht

Charges [hat Army Is Dumping And Burning Low-T est Gasoline Probed

Scout Says Germans Hung Paratrooper: In Trees, Feet Up, and Cut Off Heads

PARATROOPERS BEHEADED BY NAZIS DURING INVASION WOUNDED VETERAN SAY$

NazisBeheaded U. S. Soldiers  Then Hung Them By HWeet In The Trees

Allied Paratroopers "Hung in: Trees With Heads Cut Off", Scout Declares

US Paratrooper Relates Horrors  Of Nazi Hatred      Decapitated Men Hung From Trees

Allies Are Advancing Below Rome   Reperted To Have Captured Velletri, 19 Miles From the Eternal City

ALLIES REPORTED TO HAVE CAPTURED VELLETRI, 19 MILES BELOW ROME   Town Of Cassino Appears To Have Been De. serted By Enemy. Al. lied Troops Continue Ta, Advance.

American and British Are Continuing Their Advance, a   CAPTURE VELLETRI 19 MILES FROM ROME   Cassino Has Been Deserted by the German Forces.

Yanks Advance Through  Barricade Near Aachen   American Troops Reported Fighting Inside Fort Driant, Metz Outpost

FIRST ARMY 4 MILES FORWARD FROM JUMPOF   Second Major Break Carved Into Heavy Outer Crust of German West Wall Defenses.

ADMIRAL LOWE 10 SPEAK AT HANCOCK   Memorial Foundation fo Meet Tonight at : 8 O'Clack

ADMIRAL LOWETO ~ SPEAK AT HANCOCK   Memorial Foundation te Meet Tonight at 8 O'Clock

Allies Capture Navplion Near City of Corinth   Capture of Corinth Will Seal All Nazis In Southern Greece

BRITISH ARMY NEAR CORINTH IN FAST PUSH   Navplion Captured 40 Miles South; May  Trap Germans

BRITISH DRIVE 10 PORT OF NAVPLION      Invaders Near Outskirts of Corinth; Navy  - Strikes

PRE - INVASION AIR WAR GOES INTO 17TH DAY   Heavy Daylight Raid Follows Blistering Night — Attack

AMERICANS SPEARHEAD ASSAULTS   Secret Enemy Targets In France, Belgium  Are Blasted Anew

RAF Blasts German Arms Dump   Big Aeria Offensive Goes Into 17th Day

Allied Air. Offensive Roars On   1,500 Planes Lash at ‘France and Belgium  After Bomber Assaul: On Secret Taraets —

French, Belgian Bases, Railways Targets Of Raids   500 Heavy Bombers Aided By As Many Fighters Deliver Major Assault

DEAL CRUSHING BLOWS AT NAZI BASES IN FRANCE   AMERICAN AIRMEN STRIKE IN FORCE AFTER RAF ATTACK

Up to 500 Bombers in Main Blow Without Lesing Plane, Followed by Marauder Attacks

R OFFENSIVE N CONTINENT  17TH DAY   ericans Sustain Cease s Bombing of Europe By  Blasting Vital Axis. , Installations   ‘ATHER UNFAVORABLE

RAIL TARGETS IN BELGIUM, FRANCE HIT   Over 1,500 Planes Participate In Day Attack   3,000 AIRCRAFT   Smash At French Installations Sunday; Germans Lose 1,300 In Month

No Losses. in Raid ¢ on ~ Rail Lines   1500. American . Planes - In Smash at. Communications’ In France. Belgium    T/TH DAY:OF BIG. PRE-INVASION. DBIVE   Ammunition Dump "Near Paris Exploded By: RAF Night Raiders

Hammer Foe In Belgium And France   Yanks Spearhead 1,500Plane Assault On Nazi Rail Centers.

1,500 Bombers In 17th Day’s Attack  Prior To Invasion   Genoa Blasted For Third Straight Night By Italian Based Planes; Milan, Leghorn Also Raided By Fleet Of 500 Heavy Bombers

1500 U. S. Planes Hit Rail Lines   German Installations in France And Belgium Heavily Bombed  In Continuous Offensive

GERMAN INSTALLATIONS IN N. FRANCE BEING DESTROYED, 3000 PLANES IN ATTACK SUNDAY   Despite Bad Weather American Pilots Do Much  Damage, and Meet No Resistance from Fighter  elance and Flak Was Weak, Say Airmen. Rail wemete ENaewrnt Lie

Air Offensive  Goes Into  Its 17th Day   Rail Lines in France and Belgium Attacked Without Loss of Single Plane; RAF Force Hammers at Paris, Acheres, Somain

1,500 Allied Planes Smash Nazi Targets In France, Belgium   All Airplanes Return From Raid On Main Objective; RAF Blasts Ammunition Dump at Maintenon

American And British Airmen In 17th Day Of Terrific Drive      Nazi Installations And Rail. Lines In France And Belgium Hit In Pre-Invasion Air Offensive;  * Genoa Also Attacked

NAZI TARGETS AT IN RANGE AND BEL EIU   Bomber Assaults Spearhead 1,500-Plane Attacks on Enemy Installations.

Belgian And UF rench Rail.  ' Lines Struck            Not a Single. Plane From. Formations js -1000 Aircraft .

Belgian And French Rail Lines Struck   Not a Single Plane Lost From Formations of 1000 Aircraft

HIT RAIL LINES, OTHER GOALS IN HEAVY ASSAULT   500 Heavy Bombers Hit Main Blow Without Loss of Single Plane

Installations In Northern France Hit: Germans Offer Little Aerial Opposition

1.500 Planes Bomb France, Belgium Lines   900 Heavy Bombers Deliver Main Blow Without Losing Aircraft.   LITTLE OPPOSITION

‘1TTH DAY FINDS AIR OFFENSIVE GOING STRONG   German Installations In Northern France Blasted By Yanks Following Another Heavy Night Raid By RAF.

Opposition of Enemy Light   Rail Targets Main Goal of Assault; April Losses 503

Allied Bombing of Reich Mounts; PreInvasion Warning   New U. S. Radio Station Sends Message to Undergrounds

1000 Craft Hit Secret Targets In North Franee  Without a Loss   100,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Europe In April

Allies Seek To Halt Flow Of Supplies   Secret Points Hit In France in 17th Day of Air Assault

FIFTEEN HUNDRED U.S. BOMBERS, FIGHTERS TIT FRANCE MONDAY SEVENTEENTH STRAIGHT,  DAY OF PRE-INVASION ROMRING OPENS

Yankees Press Home Blows In  Dirty Weather      Some Formations Return   With Bombs Rather Than Drop Them Un  certainly On French   Not Single Enenry Fighter Is Found   All Planes Return: RAF Bombs Railway Yards In Both France and Beleituun

NAZI TARGETS IN FRANCE HT BY AMERICANS   RAF Heavy Bombers Hit Supply Dump During Night Raid

North France Hammered by Allied Airmen   RAF Explodes Nazi Ammunition Dump South of Paris  “s wt *

Pre-Invasion Blows Strike Railway Yards   U. S. And British Planes Meeting Little Opposition As Bombing Continues

1,500 or More Allied Planes Strike at Targets in France. Beloium.   HEAVY RAF: NIGHT RAID!

Allied Raiders Hit Europe In Air Offensive   17th Day’s Attack On  German Installations

‘a OD nN Ca by od. 1,506 £ Planes   Deliver Blow Without Loss  Nazi Installations and Rail Lines in Belgium Also Attacked TH DAY OF RAIDS RAF. Night Bombers Blast Ammunition Dump Near Paris

Pound Rail  Lines»   Air Offensive Centers on Transportation Lines Feeding Hitler’: Anti-Invasion Wall

Aerial Defense Of Germans Feeble   . Night Bombers Tangle Railroad Facilities

Supply Lines To Nazi Defenses Target of Bombs   Allied Airmen From South Hit Italian Centers

YANK FLIERS FOLLOW RAF PLASTERING   ‘Four Heavy Blows At French Coast In 24 Hours In Anticipation of Ground Forces Striking

U.S. Bombers Raid Invasion Coasts Again   Eighth Air Force Steps Up Attacks, Lash French Points

U, Sv AIR FORGE: STEPS UP TEMPO OF COAST RAIDS      Smash Twice Within Few Hours On De Calais. Boulogne Areas

SMASH AT CALAIS AREA   Four Heavy Blows Struck At French Coast In 24 Hrs.

Invasion Coast Pounded Hard   Four. Heavy Raids Made in 24 Hours

Sth Air Force Hits Calais Strip   RAF Drops  3000 Tens on Trappes Junction, Franch Coast

AMERICANS AGAIN FOLLOW UP. RAF NICHT ASSAULTS   3,000-tons of Explosives Hil Invasion Coast—Yanks Continua Attacks. -

Boulogne Ripped in New Raid   Forts, Liberators Smash at Germans With 3000 Tons Bomb:

Eighth Air Force Steps Up Tempo In Coastal Raids   Bombers Smash Twice Within Several Hours: At Invasion Areas ~

MICHIGAN PUT IN ROOSEVELT VOTE COLUMN   ERRORS IN WAYNE COUNTY DELAY CHECKUP

MICHIGAN IN FDR COLUMN   President Takes ‘Precarious Lead There to Get 19 Electoral Votes

Detroit:Votes .. Put ‘Michigan. “Tn FDR’s Bao   Victor Leads  hy. 2,989,009 In Nation As . Capital ‘Plans Big Welcome _

VOTE IN MICHIGAN SWINGS TO DEMOS   Roosevelt. Leads in State -by Margin of 17.000 ..

Crack Final Nazi Line  At 2 Points   BLAST WAY INTO VELLETRI AND ACROSS VIA CASILINA ~~ ESCAPE ROAD IN FAST ACTION

TWO ANCHORS GUARDING ROME KNOGKED OUT   Twin Penetrations by, Americans Are Announced In Special Jommunique.   BULLETIN

2 PENETRATIONS. ARE SLASHED IN AN ALL-OUT BLOW   Fifth Army Attacking: Along Entire 26: Mile ’ ‘Front, Valmontone, Resistance Is Crumpled.   ALLIES-OPEN JUNE-AIR -_ CAMPAIGN ON: GERMANS   Mysterious: Installations on “Invasion Coast ~ Bombed, 63,000 Tons of Bembs UnJoaded In May.

TWO SUPPORTING ANCHOR LINES - BROKEN BY ALLIES   Velletri’ Taken, Valmontone Quaking As Yanks, British. etc. Plunge on.

Diasting their Way into Valletri And Mt, — Della Faeta  LAST HEIGHT BEFORE ROME  Fifth Army Attacking All Along 26 Mile Front Line  ee a

FINAL HEIGHT BEFORE ROME BEING STORMED   All-Out Drive Biasts German Defenses Before Eternal City

Troops Slash Into Velletri. Cross Highway   All-Out Drive For Capital City Marked By Attack On 26-Mile Front

Allied Fifth Army Hacks Into Nazi Fortifications All Along 26-Mile Front

25-Mile Gain Is Made hy Russian Troops   Vital Railway Bastion Is Threatened

Hitler Pictured Decreeing ‘Last Stand’ in Baltic      Sleighs With Propellers Aid Hardy Slavs Advancing _ On Kev Ractian

Synthetic Rubber Production Hit By Lack of Men  Director Asks to Kee] _ Young Technicians, Caace lack af Tiree

LACK OF MEN CUTS RUBBER PRODUCTION   Bradley Dewey Makes Report in Plea for Draft Exemption for Young Key Technicians in the Synthetic Industry.

BAN ON DRAFT DELAYS 10 CUT TIRES-DEWEY   Rubber Director Estimates Production Will be Reduced Third

Asks Retention Key Technicians   Rubber Director Pleads For The Deferment of Young Key Workers.

Production Of Synthetic Rubber Being ‘Held Up By Shortage Of Workers, Claim

Synthetic Rubber Production Feels Worker Shortages   Rubber Director Dewey Protests Against Induction of Key Men

Rubber Chief Protests New Draft Plan   Says Men Under 26 Essential to Synthetic Program

FURTHER CUTS IN CIVILIAN TIRES IS NOW FORECAST   Production of Syntheti Rubber Held Up by Shortage of Workers

Shortage of Men Holding Back Rubber   Director Dewey Urges Retention of Technicians In Synthetic Industry

LABOR SHORTAGE IS BLAMED FOR TIRE SHORTAGE   Production Authorities Cite Handicaps Faced If Draft Stepped Up

Qubber Workers Deferment Asked   Industry Would Keep 26-Year-Olds

Flays New Draft Policy   Says Synthetic Rubber Output Threatened By Drain of Key Workers

DRAFT BRANDED ~ RUBBER THREAT   Director Declares Lack 01 Workers Delays Output

Youth Drait to Cut Civilian Tires One-Third  First Complaint _ b Voiced By Rubber Director

RUBBER DIRECTORS  DECLARES SHORTAGE  OF WORKERS ACUTE DEWEY WOULD ROB  ARMED FORCES TO MAKE CIVILIAN TIRES

DRAFT 10 AFFECT RUBBER INDUSTRI   Director Dewey Pleads for Retention of Young Key Technicians

Rubber Chief Opposes Draft Ot Young Men   Director Bradley Dewey Says Synthetic Rubber Production Delayed by Shortage of Workers.

NAZIS ROUTED IN WALLAGHIAN PLAINS SECTOR   Second Ukrainian Army Is Now Within 48 Miles Of Yuso Border

Nazis Routed From Plains  Of Romania   New Offensive Keyed With Thrust North Of Warsaw.

Junction With Tito Imminent   Russians Score Major Victory in East Prussia Area

ROUT NAZIS IN ROMANIA   Advance to . Within 48 Miles Of Yugoslavia

NAZIS ROUTED FROM PLAINS OF ROMANIA   Bulgaria Seeks Armistice After Reds Declare War On Nation

Junction With Tito's Forces Thot Imminent   Armored Columns Race 76 Miles In Single Day

Russians Advance Within 48 Miles Of Yugoslav Border   Red Army Junction With Tito’s Partisan Forces to Cut Off Nazis in Bulgaria and Greece Anneare

Break Nazi Lines Near Warsaw   Advance With Little Resist. ance Across Plains To ard Sofia

FARM QUOTAS ~ REMAIN HIGH   Jones Calls For Another All-Out Year In Food  Production

Farmers Get  Crop Call   Another All-Out Production Year for 1945 Asked by WFA

An All-Out Goal Again On Farms   Must Make Certain There Is Enough Food, Says WA (hier      CAN’T TAKE RISK OF A SHORTAGE   Assumes War Will Last Well Into 1945; Export Subsidies Announced

Crop Acreage About Same As Year Agc   Slight Increase ‘in Pigs, Milk Production, Beef Slaughtered

Jones Asks  For All-Out Production By Farmers   Goal For Next Year Set At About same As That For 1944 By WEA

American Farmers Called on For Another All-Out Production Year in 1945; Some Crop Changes

TAY COLLET FOR MURDER OF THREE   Sixty-Year-Old Accused i Handeuffed As He Is Taken Into Court ‘

Germans Fighting Hard To Halt Gen. Patton's Drive. On French Capital   BUT ‘AMERICANS ARE FAST MOWING ‘THE NAZIS DOWN   Yanks . Are Reported Mov. ing Through The Suburbs Of Paris

ENTIRE GERMAN FRONT FROM PARIS TO THE CHANNEL COAST REPORTED TO BE COLLAPSING   THREE AMERICAN COLUMNS MOVING THRU OUTER SUBURBS OF PARIS.   NAZI PROPAGANDA IN GERMAN PAPERS TRYING TO  CONVINCE PEOPLE ALLIED VICTORIES ALL A PLAN  TO BOLSTER DEFENSE OF HOMELAND; HINTS PARIS  MAY BE GIVEN UP WITHOUT A FIGHT.

Nomoi, Woleai Blasted by U. S. Bombers   Liberators Strike From Their Solomons Bases

Draft Threatens Workers Quitting   Selective Service Cooperates With WMC To Maintain Output.

Washington, Des, 11—-( AP) —Selective service today netifled state draft directors that it will take “immediate actien te put inte effect the Byreee manpower’ directive.

DRAFT RULES ‘ARE TIGHTENED   Seek to Reduce Huge  Turnover in Lahor

TIGHTER DRAFT RULES HAILED   Expect Increase in Draft of Men 26-37 to Curb La- . bor Turnover. ,. ¢   BOLSTER LABOR FORCE

Draft aft Rules: Seen ‘As Aid   Expeets Appreciable ‘Labor Turn-Over Cut

TIGHTER DRAFT REGULATIONS TC BE IN EFFECT   Men 26 To 37 To Be Drafted If Not In War Work

Poage Tells of Guayule Possibilities   SHRUB COULD PROVIDE ALL RUBBER NEEDED IN U. S., CHAIRMAN SAYS

2 Reactions to Atrocity Story   Hope It Will End Terture—Others Feel May Have Other Effect

TREATMENT OF U.S. SOLDIERS STUNS AMERICA   Await Re-Action Of Tokyo Over  News Pelease

ANNOUNCEMENT INFURIATES , ALUS.   Full Report For Public Favored By 0. W. .   Fear Added Publicity May Lead To More Crimes By Enemy Powers

Brutalities MayNotEnd With Report   Washington Hopes Publicity Will Have Effect   Startling Story Bared— Revolting Tortures For Men ‘WhoRaided TokyoRevealed

OFFICIALS DISAGREE ON EFFECTS OF JAP ATROCITY REPORT Some Fear Instead Of Halting Torture OF Prisoners lt May Increase Barbarit

Nation Concerned Over Jap Prisoners   Hope Held Out That Americans Held by Foe May Be Treated Better

Feel Concern For Captives  Of Japanese  Dispute Effect Atrocitv Tale

Fear Japanese May Increase Atrocities   Some Think Enemy Will Ease Treatment As  Result Of Stories, But Others Believe Opposite Reaction Mav Result

CITIZENS OF U. S. INFURIATED BY ATROCITY STORY  CONCERN EXPRESSED Ac TO CEEELT ON   CONCERN EXPRESSED AS TO EFFECT ON + JAPAN’S WARLORDS

Reaction to Publishing Atrocities   Some Hope It May Ease Prisoners Burden While Others Fear It Will Have Opposite Effect: 50,000 US Held-

REPORT ON ATROCITIES DEBATED   OWI Questions Wisdom Of Release On War Prisoners

AMERICANS WILL AVENGE TORTURES GIVEN PRISONERS   High Government Quarters Express Fears That Publicity May Cause Warlords Not to Cease.   MOST OF NATION IS GREATLY INFURIATED   Press Conference Reveals Varied Opinions on Reaction Ini Tokyo, Have Hopes For Improvements.

JAPANESE REACTION  TO DISCLOSURES OF  ATROCITIES WATCHED DIFFERENT VIEWS OF  EFFECTS STORY WILL HAVE ARE HEIN

PUBLICATION OF JAP ATROCITIES CAUSE OF CONCERN   Whether It Will Help or Hurt in Their. Dealings  With Other Prisoners Is  Uncerteats

ATROGITY ACCOUNTS INFURIATE NATION   Reaction of Japs Awaited After Disclosures Made Bw Aveews wad Aftawe

CONCERN FOR OTHERS HELD   fitfect of Atrocity Report  on Enemy Is Disputed

AMERICAN TROOPS IN SMASHING FOUR MILE DRIVE INTO GERMANY  AACHEN ESCAPE HIGH  AACHEN ESCAPE HIGHWAY BEYOND FAMED LINE THREATENED

JST ARMY DRIVES WEDGE, 11 MILES WIDE, 9 MI. DEEP  3RD ARMY ATTACKS KEY FORTRESS IN

CAPTURE TWO TOWNS INSIDE RIECH BORDER   Nazis Admit Yanks ~ Have Driven 9 Miles  Into Defenses

— an American reatens to adie City      FIRST GAINS WIDENED   Strong Allied Pressure Ex erted Along Entire West Front

Second Major Wedge Cut in   Nazi Defenses   Town of Ubach Captured, Doughboys Overcoming Desperate Defenders   GAIN IS 11 MILES WIDE AND 9 DEEP.   Heavy Fighting at Close Range All Along Line; Airy Aid Limited

Siegfried Line Broken Open At New Point   Yanks Threaten Encirclement Of Aachen As Mighty U. S. Offensive Moves Forward; Main Escape Road Of Nazis Is Cut

Berlin Says Siegfried Wedge 11 Miles Wide, 9 Deep; House To House Fightine Reported

Stabs Four Miles Into New Break   Aachen Is Threatened With Complete Encirclement Today

he, iat  11-Mile Front And Is Second Hole     Aachen Facing Encirclement   Third Army Assaults Key Fortress In Metz Defense Chain

U. S. Drives 9 Mis. Into Siegfried Line   Troops Fight At Close Quarters For German Towns; Cross Wurm River

House-to-House Battle Develops for Town of Ubach; Berlin Admits Yonks Cut Wedge Into Their Defenses

‘Seize Ubach; ‘Threaten to Circle Aachen   Breakthrough North of Key Bastion; Another Breach Made in South

U. §. Ist Army Moves Deeper Into Germany   Fighting at Close Quarters Within Twe German Towns

First Army Troops Crash Beyond Siegfried Defenses Taking Ubach \And Threatening to Encircle Aachen (Germans Admit Wedge 9 Miles Deep

First U. S. Army Captures Ubach   _.. Second Major Break Torn In Hitler's West Wall

Yanks Drive Ahead Near Aachen, Blast Main Port At Metz   First Army Encounters Strong Resistance From Enemy Artillery And Mortar Fire; Hard, Bloody Battle Expected In Attempt To Reach Vital Rhine

U.S. First Army Gains Four Miles In Second  Major Penetration   Main Highway Leading North Of Siegfried Bastion City Of Aachen Cut By Americans; Ubach Fails After House-To-House Battle

TEMPERATURES:   Americans Sever Main Highway To Rich Ruhr Valley

39 Pillboxes Knocked Out; Hundreds of Prisoners Taken; R.A.F. Blasts Holland Sea Wall

BASTION CITY   Aachen New Is Threatened With Complete Encirclement.

Aachen Being Threatened By Encirclement  Ubach Is Captured Bitter Fight Rages SD ee

First Army Cutting Through Siegfried Defense in Germany   Cut Main Highway From Aachen; Artillery, Tanks Blasting at Opposition

SECOND MAJOR BREACH. MADE, :      NO EARLY MAJOR BREAK- THROUGH     HITLER FACES ALL-OUEDRIVE

Troops Battle For Two Towns in Germany  Fighting At Close Quarters Rages Ae Alliance Attack

First Army Gains Steadily In Drive North Of Aachen   KCK K K KK Bomb Dutch Dike, Sea Routs Huns

First Crust Of Defenses Pierced By U. S. Troops   Encirclement Of Aachen Is Threatened ‘As First Army Gains Total Of Four Miles From Jumpoff Point In Its New Offensive Against Defenses Of Rhineland

First Army Is Threatening To Encircle Aachen After Making New Major Break in Line.   UBACH IS TWO MILES INSIDE OF GERMANY

Cut: Main Highway ‘To Aachen   Big Nazi Industrial  - City. Threatened With Complete Encirclement By Ist Army’s Advance

First Army Troops Push Forward Four Miles, Cut Highway, Take Ubach to Threaten to Encircle Aachen

NEW ATTACK ON METZ AREA 10 SOUTH BEGINS   Patton’s Troops Blast At Fort Driant After All-Night Barrage

ALLIES STRIKE DEEP IN GREAT SIEGFRIED LINE   Street Fighting Reported Today Against Nazis

German Towns Are Captured After Break Through and Aachei Is Threatened. With Complete Encirclement; Most of ~~ Long War Front is in Action

FIRST ARMY TROOPS CAPTURE UBACH AND THREATEN AACHEN  AMERICAN DOUGHBOYS FIGHT 4 MILES THROUGH FAMED WESTWALL

Fight at Close Quarters North Of Aachen for Two  Towns Inside Reich

Capture German Town Of Ubach In Stiff Fight      First Army Cuts Main Highway North Of Aachen; City Faces Encirclement

Ubach Falls;. Americans. Gain 4 Miles  ut Up Stiff   Nazis Put Up Seite Resistance to Mew U.S. Offensive

Yanks Smash Through North Of Aachen. Take City of Ubach   Wedge 11 Miles Wide and Nine Deep, Berlin Admits

Second Break Made in West Wall   Aachen Faces Encirclement as Main Highway Leading North Is Captured by Yanks; Three Nazi Counterattacks Beaten Back

Yanks Seize Uback, Threaten Aachen With Encirclement   First Army Drives Forward Four Miles From Starting Point Monday; Doughboys Cut Key Highway

Encirclement Of Vital Town Follows Attack   Ist Army Breaks Through Defenses And Takes Ubach

BREAK-THROUGH MENACES NAZIS INSIDE AACHEN   Four-mile Push Enables U. S. Forces to Pierce Main Foe Defenses

Major Break In Hun Wall Made By First Army   Doughboys Capture Ubach Within Reich and Threaten Aachen With Complete Encirclement   Main Highway Out Of Aachen Is Cut   Breakthrough Opene Second Breach In Westwall, Other Being Made South of Aachen

AMERICANS FIGHT AT CLOSE QUARTERS IN HEAVY BATTLE FOR TOWNS INSIDE GERMANY   Supreme Headquarters Give No Details of Second-Day  Gains in Assault Which Carries Across the Wurm River   STRONG RESISTANCE FROM ENEMY ARTILLERY

Aachen Is Menaced By Advance   First Army Four Miles From Jump-Off Point

SECOND MAJOR BREAK MADE IN WALL   Ubach Captured In Advance Of Four Miles   GERMAN UNITS   Quitting Salient North Of Antwerp: Hodges’ Men Push Forward

Sieufried Line Is Penefrated North of Aachen   Counteractacks Are Beaten Back By Americans

Diversionary Counterattacks by Germans Stopped—British Surge Toward Bridge Over Meuse in Holland and on Southern Sector Near Belfort, Americans Approach Wide Gap into Germany

MARKS SECOND MAJOR BREACH IN WEST WALL   Capture German Towns ot-Ubach, Palenburg . and Rimberg Castle

YANKEE FORCES SEEK TO BREAK SIEGFRIED LINE   Nazis Report Orive Eight Miles Deep On 10-Mile Front

Third Begins Assault On Key Metz Fortress  Yanks Meeting Heavy Resistance  North Of Aachen

8 PERSONS DIE IN BOMBER CRASH IN MEMPHIS   3 Civilians and Possibly As Many As 6 of 8 Crew Members Died When  Plane Crashed into

SENATOR WOULD FORCE FOR OUT   GOP Solon Asks President to Remove Himself As a Candidate

Senate Hopes To Rush Action On Soldier Vote   President's Appeal May Aid Passage Of Balloting Bill

4th Term — the Issue,  GOP Says   Differences “Over Soldier Vote Hinges on That Ques* ton, It Is. Contended   ROOSEVELT ASKED TO STEP ASIDE   But Sen. Burdock Declares “People Want. Him -to Carry On Until Axis Surrenders

State Penal Director Sued for $248,371      McKittrick Seeks. Recovery Of Amount Alleged: Lost-in Weal Practices.”

Jesse Jones Protests Move Of. Texas Demo Convention “Binding” Electors

Jones Asserts Texans Will Vote As Please   Denies Convention Has Right To Deny Electors Ballot

—DEMOCRATS—~_  SPLIT IN TEAS FLAVED BY JONES   Declares Many Democratic Delegates. May Lose Votes

‘Can't Deny the Voter His Choice   Jesse Jones Urges All Texa: Democrats’ to . Consider.. State Convention Action   ‘CHANGES RULES OF GAME,’ HE SAYS   Democrats Prepare for Big National Meet; Georgia Holds a Quiet Pyiniare

Jesse Jones Hits Texas Convention   Says No Authority Given To Prevent Man From Voting

Jones Flays Texas Action   secretary Of Commerce Protests Binding Of Electors By State Convention.

DECLARES PARTY CANNOT RULE OUT QUALIFIED VOTER   Secretary Jesse Jones So Declares on Editorial in  Houston Chronicle

Jesse Jones : Urges Rights   Declares Texas Democrats Should Not Be Denied Choice

JESSE mOTESTS TEMS CONVENTION ACT      Says Democrats May Be - Prevented rom Voting For Nominee

Jones Upholds Voter’s Rights   Cabinet Member Says Texas Democrats May Be Denied Choice.

TEXAS DEMOCRAT SPLIT RAPPED   JONES PROTESTS STATE'S BINDING OF ELECTORS   Savs Proceedings Regular

Jones Upholds Electors Pledge  Hits Texas Democrat * Threat Of Free Vote

All Not Harmony With Democrats   Wagner Declines Resolutions Post

Democrats of Texas Want Their Rights   Jesse Jones has Comments on Split in Party

UNION THE FIRST HURDLE FOR 4-F.   Probably Will Have Tc Join Union If Closed Shop .

CASUALTY TOTAL NOW AT 225322   Includes Increase Suffered On First Day Europe Was Invaded

WAR CASUALTY TOTAL 225,382   Army Reports 31,289 Dead; Navy Lists 20,044 Killed

Three More Generals Die   Killed in White Russia, Nazi Total to 19 Lately

Three More  Nazi Generals Killed in Russia German Casualties Highlight  Hopeless Manpower Situation Of Merc Since luveces

Three More Germai Generals Killed On Russian Front  Nazis Have Lost 19 Ranking Officers Within Last Month

19 Nazi Generals Killed, Captured In Past 30 Days  Latest Meet Sudden Death In White Russian Figcht-

19 Nazi Generals * Killed, Captured’ In Past 30 Days  Latest Meet Sudden Deatt In White Russian Fight.  Ing

9 Generals Lost by Nazis  11 Slain, 8 Captured During June; Enemy Casualties 394,000

THREE MORE: NAZI - “GENERALS. WHLED   Met Sudden Deaths. in. the

American Subs Sink 11 More Japanese Ships   New Bag Brings to 26 Number Sunk This Week: Bombers Active

U. S. Sub Fleet Sinks 11 More Jap Vessels   At Least 2,062 Enemy Ships Of All Types Have Been Sunk Or Damaged By Planes, Submersibles Or Surface Craft

SUBS SEND DOWN 11 ENEMY VESSELS      Growing Power of Undersea Craft in Pacific Revealed by Knox

U.S. Subs Bag 11 Maine Democrats More Jap Ships Back Fourth Term

,_Britigs.to at Least 2,062  Enemy Ships Sent Down, Probably Sunk... Damaged.

American Subs Sink 1f More Jap Ships In Drive Against Enemy Supply Lines

US Subs Score 11 Jap Ship Victory   Newest Toll Includes 2 Tankers, 5 Freighters, 3 Transports, 1 Minelayer.

Belgrade Circled, Unconfirmed Tito Report Declares   Port of Memel Now Isolated

PORT OF MEMEL IS ISOLATED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Szeged, Second Largest City In Hungary, And Cluj Are Taken   BELGRADE ENCIRCLED BY PARTISAN FORCES

RED BALTIC ARMY DRIVES 10 EAST PRUSSIAN BORDER   Port of Memel Isolated—More " Than 100,000 Germans in Northwest Lithuania Cut Off.   HUNGARY’S SECOND LARGEST CITY-FALLS   Soviets Take Szeged and Transylvania Capital—Tito Reports Belgrade Is Surrounded.

Soviet Army Drives East Alona Baltic   Germans Admit Meme Hes Been Surrounded

Reds Roar To East Prussian Border; Szeged Is Captured   Day of Glittering Successes for Soviet Arms Reported —Yugoslavia’s Capital of Belgrade Re - ported to be Surrounded

REDS ISOLATE MEMEL, DRIVE CLOSE TO CITY   Also Capture Cluj and Szeged, Belgrade Reported Ringed

RED - ROMANIAN ARMIES SCORE TWIN VICTORY   Soviet Arms Shatter Enemy In Balkans, Baltic Battles

Russians Take Hungary s Second City   Combined Soviet, Romanian Force Scores Twin Victory

GERMANS CLAIM (0,000 CAPTIVES   DECLARE THREE TO FOUR ¥ _ S, DIVISIONS DESTROYED © : OR BADLY MAULED. °°

Germany Reports Defeat of Three Yank Divisions   Destroyed or Badly Mauled, Nazis Say

BRIG. GEN. ROOSEVELT BURIED IN FRANCE   Body Placed in Cemetery Among 2, 900 Doughboys—Stirring Military Ceremony Conducted,

Gen. Roosevelt Buried in France   High and Low of Army Stand Beside Grave   Distant Guns Roar

Gen. Roosevelt Buried in France   Officers, Doughboys Attend Final Rites

Crash Forward on 7-Mile “ Front With Artillery 4) and Air Support    -BRADLEYMEN IN: GAINS   Great Tank Battle Shaping Up Near Caen on Road  ‘to Paris

Crash Forward on 7-Mile Front With Artillery and Air Support   Great Tank Battle Shaping Up Near Caen on Road  to Paris

Republicans in congress ‘g0 own way  Governor Dewey tie-up reiected

COP-Leaders. Rebuff-Dewey   Rejert’ Proposal ta Dealt Porte Statement

Main Force of Enemy Drive Slows Down But New Battle Flares South of Luxembourg   More Men Poured Into Conflict By Both Sides; Foe Penetrates Yank Lines to Depth of 40 Miles

Hitler Hordes Cross Ourthe River Is Clain   Attacks In Central Luxembourg Alsa Continuing Suc feebar tt iy, High  Conmand Declares   25,000 Americans Taken Prisoners   German Broadcast Admits Fighting West of Stave. lot Growing Increas ing “Hard, Bloody”

New Enemy Counterattack Has Broken Out In Sector 20 Miles South Of City Of Luxemburg

Murky Weather Keeps Allied Air Might Idle   Russians Gain in Drive on Budapest; Canadians Capture Road Town

Yanks Are Already in Possession of one of the Lesser Fields.   NEAR IMPORTANT TOWN

SAIPAN ISLAND BATTLE RAGES   Yanks Capture Coastal City, Air Strip In Bitter Fight

Yank Invaders Capture Coastal City On Saipan Push Close to Airdrome

American Invaders of Saipan Establish  Two-Mile Perimeter   News of Warin Pacific Theaters Summarized . for Busy Readers

ALLIES FIGHT INLAND TODAY ON SAIPAN ISLE   Americans Widen Beachheaa Near  Airdrome

Hold Two-Mile Perimeter on Japanese Island, Move Inland Toward Principal Town

Sea, Air Arms Unite In Attack On Bonins; 600 Miles To Tokyo   Yanks Drive Saipan Foe Inland, Two Nip Ships Sunk, 10 Damaged And Chinese Advance In Burma

Strike 3,000-Mile Coordinated Blow At Jap Defenses   Yankees Carve Out = 2Mile Perimeter Near Big Air Field

AMERICANS PUSH INLAND ON SAIPAN   Five Miles From Principal Town Of Garapan

Yanks Have First Saipan Airfield   Pacific Beachhead Took Hard Battle

American Force Moving Inland On Saipan Isle   One Airdrome Taken; Task Force Assault On Bonins Told; Foe Denies Steel Mill Hit

U.S. Troops Fight Inland On Saipan Isle   Drive Close to Aslito Airdrome After Carving Out Two-Mile Perimeter

SEIZE AIRSTRIP AND COAST TOWN OF CHARAN-KONA BAG TWO JAP SHIPS AND 47 PLANES IN   s BAMIN_VANZANW DAING

To Use 1 Point Green Stamps  Will Be Given as   Will Be Given as Change in Processed  Food Sales

Green Stamps Will Be Used for Change in Rations  — Details Are Announced  : Of Token Program,  Dates of New Stamps

Token Plan In Feb. 27   During Change-Over 1-Point Stamps Will Be Given As Change

TO USE STAMPS PLUS TOKENS   In Order to Assure Fair Distribution, Green Stamps Will Help Transition

RATION TOKENS WILL GO INTO USE FEB. 27   One-Point Green Stamps And Blue Tokens Will Be Given As Change In Food Sales

FnAMERS GO “ALL-OUT 10 MAKE UP TIME   99 Tractors in Field Sunday Between Mattoon and Champaign

STRIKE SPREADS ON BUS LINES   East-West Greyhound Service Still “Grounded” Here

County Court News Of Sioux County   Commission On Land Sale Is Demand. ed By Ferguson Realty Co. From .o& Walker

F.D.R’'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS HANDLING SECRET, PERSONAL, DEWEY CHARGES   REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE PROMISES TO SUBMIT POLICY TO POPULAR SUPPORT IN BROADCAST

DEWEY HITS AT SECRET DIPLOMACY   Foreign Policy Talk Largely Denounces F. D. R.

Dewey Assails FDR for Secret Foreign Policy   Cites Poland, Italy As Examples of Personal Negotiations

Dewey Says FR. Uses Secrecy In Foreign Policy   Nominee Lauds Hull Says Dumbarton  Oaks ‘Great Start’

Dewey Raps Fik’s Secret Foreign Deals: Roosevelt Pizns On More Sreecies

Dewey Hits ‘Secret’ Diplomacy   Propose U. S. Participation in World Peace Leaque Immediately

FOREIGN AFFAIRS RUN SECRETLY, DEWEY ACCUSES   Candidate Makes Blistering ’ Attack on FDR's. Negotia tinnge

German Revolt Is Temporarily Crushed by  Himmler's Men   Reports State Purge Is Taking Many Lives in Reich

Blood Purge Is Pressed Over Reich   Hitler Reported To Have Fled To Rhineland

Berlin Claims Complete Control Of The Mad Situation  BERLIN UNDER RIGID CURFEW  Civalians As Well As , Army Officials Are Being Arrested

Gestapo Carries  On Blood Purge   Himmler’s Merciless Campaign Said To Have Driven Rebels to Cover

BLOOD PURGE CRUSHES REVOLT   Heinrich Himmler Has Gained Uneasy Control af Reich

REVOLT IS CRUSHED   Nazis Believed To Have Regained Uneasy Control

Hitler Seen In Control of Army Revolt   Blood Purge Gains at Least Temporary Upper Hand ?  for Nazis

CLAIM REVOLT IN REICH HAS BEEN CRUSHED   Gestapo Regains Uneasy Control Search Cities For Plot Leaders

Von Runstedt Upsets Allied Time Table   May Take First Army ‘Weeks’ to Regain Positions

Nazi Ottensive  Slackens Only Slightly, Report   Von Rundstedt Believed Consolidating For New Push; Weeks May Be Required To Regain First Army’s Positions

Draft Boards Would Induct Men On Strike   St. Louis Walkout Of Bus, Street Car Workers Continues

wethodists Open fase’ e é Monday   Rev. H. OQ. Ward Calls For Aid in Baeking All Out Financial Drive

Nazis Outrunning Advancing Yanks   St. Nazaire And Brest Are Expected To Falf Soon To Onrushing American Infantrymen

Infantry Takes Trucks To Keep Pace in Drive  On Brest. Parts. Nantes

lank Spearheads Thunder Through Defenses of Brittany So Fast They Are 24 Hours Ahead.

Americans Race For Great Base As Nazis Flee   Germans Admil Grave Setbacks

Great Retreat Is Continued By Germans   "Last Retreat Highway © From Breton Peninsula May Have Been Severed

CLOSEIN ON NT. NAZAIRE U-BOAT BAS   Other Columns 75 Miles From Big Port of Brest. —Peninsula Cut Off by Swift Advance.   INFANTRY SPEEDS  FORWARD IN TRUCKS   U. S. Tank Spearheads Rip Open Nazi Defenses in Biggest Vics tory on Western Front,

FLANK ATTACK TOWARD PARIS ISUNOPPOSED   YANK BLITZ THRUST ONLY 7 MILES , FROM BREST

Nazis Admit Wholesale Setbacks And Claim Yanks Reach Point Sixty Miles West Of Rennes

U.S. ARMORED UNITS DRIVING ON ST. NAZAIRE   Entire Brittany Peninsula ‘Believed Sealed Off By Bradley’s Men   STAGGERING DEFEATS ADMITTED BY NAZIS

Another American Force Opens New Drive on Paris; Nazi Defenses Fold Up Along Entire Line

New Drive Is Started For Paris   Yanks Reach Point 60 Miles West of Rennes: Spearheads Way Ahead Of Official Reports

Tanks Within 75 Miles of Great Port of - Brest      ace  SERIOUS SETBACKS  Forces of Lieut. Gen. Bradley Traveling With Speed

Lone Survivor of Japanese Occupation of Guam Tells Gripping Story of Hardship

Yank Who Eluded Japs on Guam 31 Months Tells of Heroic Defense  Chief Radioman, Hunted Like Animal, Lived in Caves While Hair Turned Silver

Navy Man Survives 31 Month Jap Hunt on Conquered Guam   Is Finally Rescued by Combatant Ship 10 Days Before Landings

Has “Glorious Reunion” With Wife And Children In San Diega, Calif.

Rescued After 31 Months Dodging Japs on Guam   Wife Never Lost Hepe.

Oregon Man, 42, Outlasted Nipponese Who Hunted Him Like An Animal

Yank Evaded Japs on Guam   Slept in Caves 50 Man Patrol Detailed To Capture Him

During His Ordeal on G The Portland, Ore. Radic And He Lost 30 Pounds!  Davs Before American T?

U. S. Sailor Survives 31 Hard Months Of Jap Occupation On Now-Free Guam

NAVY MAN WINNER OF 31-MONTH GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK   Oregon Radioman Hid in Island Caves of Guam as Japs Sought Unsuccessfully to Find Him—Companions Dantuecad and Killed

Sailor Lives on Cuan for 31 Months; unted in Vain by Japs; Rescued by Navy

Chief Radioman Outlasted Japanese Squads Hunting Him for 31 Month:

 folas Out On Guam  Navy Radio Man Hid From Japs . ‘For 31 Months:lA Island Hills:

Yank Sailor Rescued And Given Promotion After Dodging Japanese On Guam Island 31 Months

LONE SURVIVOR OF JAP CAPTURE OF GUAM, IN BUSH SINCE DEC. 10, 1941, IS RESTORED TO HIS FAMILY

American Who Hid From Japs for 31 Months On Guam Tells Gripping Story of Hardships

NAVY MAN LONE GUAM SURVIVER   42 - Year - Old ‘Oregonian Eluded Japs 31 Months; Hair Turned Grey

Widow of Ciano In Switzerland   She, Ex-Fascist -Drplomat lnterned

3 Attacks Rip 12 Oil Plants, ~ Rocket Ramps   History’s Greatest Fleet  Of Heavies Hurled Aha Wtslente..

2,000 American Bombers Attack Hitler's Europe   Blast Oil Plants And Rocket Areas

oes Vag ma yy ae J. va vd.  L $862.7 27 2.287738 57 (J. S. Planes to 6 8 of Foe As   57 U. S. Planes to 68 of Foe As Rocket Nests and Oil Plants Are Hit

2,000 Heavies Hit Continent, 33 Nazis Bagged   AZ Bombers, 7 Fighters Missing After Assaults; Roeket Coast Suffers

RECORD BOMBER ATTACK STAGED BY AMERICANS   12 German Oil Plants And Rocket Coast Of France Assaulted   NUMEROUS DOG FIGHTS REPORTED BY PILOTS

LARGE FLEET OF BOMBERS OVER EUROPE   Greatest Assault by U. S. Air Forces Smash 12 German Oil Plants; Rocket Plane Bases.   Defeat Of Enemy

Record Assault Hits Naziland   Over 2,000 U: S. Heavies In Action  ae eReIeeROEE! succor:

More Than 2,000 Fortresses And Liberators’ Smash GermGén Oil Plants And Rocketo Bomber Coast Of France

12GERMAN OIL "PLANTS BOMBED   CALAIS AREA OF FRANCE HIT —57 PLANES LOST, 68 NAZIS DOWNED.

Naziland Targets Hit ~ By 2,000 U.S. Bombers;  Rocket Ramps Jolted

FOUR MILLION FIRE LOSS IN IOWA IN 194;   Average Daily Loss Ran $13,048,  Announce in Urging Observance of Fire Prevention.

CARRIER PLANES SINK OR DAMAGE 14 JAP VESSELS   Floating Dock Also Struck: 28-Planes Shot Bea 130 Straffed In Renewed ; Raids On Manila Area

CARRIER CREW ACCOUNTS FOR 28 NIP PLANES   Renewed Raid Made Sunday On Manila; Two Enemy Destroyers Among Ships Sunk

FLOATING DOCK ALSO DAMAGED IN MANILA AREA   28 Enemy Aircraft Alse Downed; One American Ship Struck   TWO AIRFIELDS ON LUZON ARE RAIDED

U. S. Planes Sink or Damag 14 jap Vessels   Manila Bay Raid Also Costs Nips 20 Aircrafts Downed

U.S. Planes Blast Ships In Manila Bay   Include Light Cruiser, Two Destroyers, 11 Oilers, Cargo Ships  TY QATIATC TAOCwW WIEN

Twenty-Eight Planes Shot Down During the Raids   MANILA BAY AREA BOMBED BY FLIERS   One American Ship Dam_ aged, Admiral An nounces

U.S. Destroys 28 Planes, 14. Jap Ships   Carrier Unit Renews Attrition Action Over Manila Section

14 JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK NEAR MANILA   Enemy Counter Attacks Results in One American Ship Being Damag=   Bomb Islands

3 Warships Are Included   Floating Dock Also Hit; 28 Planes Downed And 130 Strafed On Ground

CARRIER TASK GROUP ERASES 14 JAP SHIPS   BLOODY ORMOC LINE BROKEN UP BY AMERICANS

14 Japanese Ships Are Sunk Or Damaged in Philippines   Rv CHARLES H. McMURTRY

AIR FLEET ADDS. NEW TYPE PLANE   Aircraft Plants Will Turn Out 110,000 Planes ~ This Year.

Allies Using Squeeze Play   : Remain Silent: On. Invasion “Of Albania

ALLIES KEEP SILENT ON ALBANIA INVASION     German Radio Says Troops Meet Fierce Resistance

Germans Stage New Offensive Against “Tito’   Break Through to Vlasen jez, 35 Miles Northeast of Sarajevo, in Eastern  Bosnia, Yugoslavia

Finland Is Reported Attempting to Arrange Separate Peace With Russia

EX-PREMIER TO SEE RUSSIANS IN STOCKHOLM   U. S. Informed Officially of Envoy’s Status Before Leaving Helsinki.

Finn Official On Way To Talk Peace With Russ   Government Taking U. S. Advice In Getting Out of War

Finns Renew Talk About  Peace Terms   Helsinki Being Evacuated Following Bombings

REPORT FINLAND T0 SEEK RUSSIAN TERMS FOR PEACE   Former Premier In Stockholm To Contact Soviet Offi eiale’ RBumar

Direct Finn Peace Move ~ Ts Reported   Paasikivi in Stockholm to Negotiate Terms ’ “With Russia

PASSIKIVI IN PEACE ENVOY ROLE, CLAIM   Hitler Reporte. to Have Ordered Little Finland Not to Attempt Sep rate Peace.

FINNISH PEACE OVERTURES 10 SOVIET WAITEL   Ex - Premier Believed In Stockholm To Make Red Contact

PAASIKIV! NOW IN STOCKHOLM ON PEACE VISIT   Reported Trying to Negotiate With Reds ‘for Finn End in War

FINLAND ADVISES US OF PARLEY   Status of Peace Envoy Given to United States

Finland Starts  Move for Peace   Interior Minister  Now in Stockholm

Finn Leaders Reported In Sweden For Peace Talks   King Peter Trying To End Yugoslavia Civil War, London Hears

Swedish Capital Expects Leaders To Arrive Today   Finland's Parliament Has Secret Meeting, Stockholm Reports

RUMORS OF FINN MOVE FOR PEACE HEARD IN SWEDEN   Helsinki Cabinet Official Ex pected to Arrive in Stockholm

Claim Finn Sent to Ask Peace Terms   Official Notification of Status Sent to U.S., Reports Claim

Ex. Premier of Finland in Sweden Reported Sent as Peace Envoy To Contact Soviet Officers   REPORT MEN 51 TO 60 CALLED UP IN GERMANY

FINLAND TO NEGOTIATE FOR PEACE   Former Premier in Stockholm; Thot To Be Peace Envoy

FINN PUBLIC PUSHING FOR SOVIET PEACE   Rumor in Sweden That Finland Evacuating Naval Base at Entrance to Gulf of Finland.

Argentine Revolt is Quelled   Col. Duco Massed His Infantry But Failed To Move On Capital

New Revolt In Argentina Nipped in Buc   Army Officer Fails To Wrest Government Control From Farrell

Revolt Flops In Argentina   Leader Goes Into Capital For Conference, Is Arrested; Navy May Move

Colonel Seeks To Oust Farrell As President   Man Who Staged Coup Last Week Meets First Test

Argentine Government  Quells Revolt   Colonel Who Lead Regiment on Capital Arresied

Revolt Of Army Unit Quelled In Argentine Today   Effort To Oust Presiden Farrell Frustrated B; Army Colonel’s Arrest. Navy Wants Ramirez Re turned Power.

Argentina Quells New Army Revolt   Colonel and Regiment Foiled in Move to Oust Farrel)

Move To Reinstate Anti- Nazi Ramirez By Army Unit Fails   Present Leader Calls Infantry Officer To Capital, Settles Dispute Without Bloodshed

GEN. FARRELL HOLDS LEADER OF NEW REVOLT   Col. Duco Reported Arrested on Go ing Info City for Conference o! Promise of Safety   LED REGIMENT   No Other Army Units Believed Involved bu! Argentine Navy Reported Threaiening Farrell

ARGENTINA ARMY COLONEL IS HELD IN NEAR REVOLI   Close Friend of Ramirez, Deposed President, Moves His Regiment to Border of Buenos Aires.   NAVY ALSO DESIRESRETURN OF RAMIREZ   Lt. Col. Duco Turned Over te Another Regimental Commander, Friend of Farrell Placed In Charge.

Revolt To Oust Farrell  Put Down In Argentina   Lieut. Col. Thomas Duco Who Led The Army Regiment In Rebellion Reported Under Arrest At Buenos Aires

SMASH REVOLT IN ARGENTINA   “Colonel Duco Leads Move To Oust Farrell

Revolt Quelled. Araentina Says   Lieut. Col. Duco, Friend of Ramirez, Leader, Arrested

ERN  SAYS REVOLT ATTEMPT BY COLONEL QUELLED   Lt.-Col. Duco, Close Friend of Gen. Ramirez, Arrested; Regiment Has New Officers   ARGENTINA IS “QUIET™

Regimental Commander Put Under Arrest... .  Argentine Government Quells Revolt Planned By Colonel Of The Army

Argentine Government Says It Quélls Revolt Of Anti-Farrell Group

QUELL REVOLT IN ARGENTINE   Army Colonel and Regiment Sought to Oust Farre! From Presidency.   DIDN’T MOVE ON CAPITAL

Infantry Group Led By Duco Is Smashed Today   Friend Of Ramirez In Attempt To Return Him To Office As President

NEW REGIME ~ MPSREVOLT ~ INARGENTINA   Army Colonel’s Bid To Ous Farrell Fails; Demands By Navy Reported

FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO OUST FARRELL FROM PRESIDENCY   UPRISING WAS LED BY COL. DUCO, CLOSE FRIEND OF RAMIREZ

Revolt Quelled ~By-GevernmentIn Argentine   Army Colonel Attempts To Gust General Farrell From Presidential Post

REGIMENT HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP T0 STRIKE   Government Says _ the Leader, a Colonel, Fails to Move on Capital, but Enters City Alone for  Qhanfaranra

Army Colonel Fails To Oust Argentine Head  Lt. Col. Duco, Friend Of Ramirez, Leads Infantry  CHAOS CONTINUES Navy Takes Stand To  Bring Order Into Government   Lt. Col. Duco, Friend Of Ramirez, Leads Infantry

Revolt Flares in Argentina but Is Quickly Squelched   ‘Friend of Ramirez Seeks to Oust _ President Farrell; Troops‘on the Move

‘REVOLT CRUSHED IN ARGENTINA   Army Colonel Arrested After Leading Troops Against President

CHECK REVOLT IN ARGENTINA   Army Colonel's Plans To Reinstate Ramirez Foiled by Government

RAMIREZ’ FRIENE ARRESTED AFTER TRUCE MEETING   Government Announcement Follows Night Of Strict Censorship

Overthrow Effort Ends  In Failure      Colonel With Army Fails To Move On Capital

BEING HELD AS TROUBLEMAKER   Soldiers Sought To Oust President Seated By Palace Coup

ARGENTINE REVOLT DECLARED FAILURE; SAY QUIET PREVAILS  ~ UPRISING LED BY LIEUT. ' COL, DUCO OF THIRD

Duco Revolt Held Failure   Argentina Is Again Scene Of Rebellion:

Offensive Given Heavy Air Support   Ha rbors, Plants, Railroads, Bridges Given Pounding

Battle For Peleliu’ Believed Near End   Americans Wipe Out Half Of Jap Force; MacArthur To Lead Philippines Invasion

WHAT ABOUT DEMAKD FOR REAL ESTATE   Babson Says Now Is the Time To Sell Old Houses. Prices Are Good Now When Building Material Is Scarce.

What About U. S. Real Estate?   BABSON SAYS. NOW GOOD -TIME TO SELL OLD HOUSES

MORE VOTING TIME ASKED FOR ELECTION   Extra Day for : Registration Also Recommended

18.000 Workers Are Killed in On- : The-Job Accidents Throughout 1943

18,000 WORKERS KILLED ON JOBS DURING LAST YEAR      Almost As Many Accidental Deaths As Lives Lost in War Since Pearl Harbor

EINENSHO AIR BASE HIT BY SUPER FORTS   Base On Tinian Knocked Out As Repair, Staging Geuter

Super-forts In Knockout Of Formosa   Japanese Island No Longer Target, Says Air Chief

OFFICIAL SAYS FORMOSA IS OUT AS AIR BASE   Three Raids in 72 Hours by B-29’s Completes Destruction.

Knockout of Formosa as Maior Base   Sallies Out. But Retires WithoutShot   191 Planes Attack.

Jap Island Knocked-Out As Air Base   Great Einansho Base Is Primary Target For Third Assault

PRESIDENT IN HOME STRETCH OF THIRD TERM   Entertains Cabinet Friday Night, Back to Work Today

FDR STARTING — ~ ANOTHER YEAR   PRESIDENT ON HOME STRETCH GF: HIS. /THIRD~ TERM: AS :CHIEF EXECUTIVE   “ OF NATION

Reds Mass For Plunge ‘Into Prussia   Tanks, Infantrymen Gain Mile-an-Hour; In Move on Warsaw

eds Sweeping n To Warsaw  ile An Hour   ithin 116 Miles From ole City; In Range  Of Bgest Litovsk   VILL DRIVE ON’   eman Bridgehead Is Counterattacked By Germans Often

Soviet Tanks Plunge’ to Point Within 116 Miles of Warsaw; Brest-Litovsk in Gun Range

MOVE NEARER » TOWARSAW AND BREST LITOVSK   ” Drive Threatens To Outflank Key Fortress To Polish Plains

SOVIET FORCES ADVANCING TOWARD WARSAW, POLAND AT MILE AN HOUR PACE

Artillery Range Of Brest Litovsk, Gateway To Polish Plains  NOW ONLY 440 MILES OF BERLIN  Two Regiments Of German Infantry, 6,000 Men Were Killed

Soviet Forces Plunge To Within 116 Miles Of Warsaw   Yanks Outflank Livorno, Find Bridges Blown Up

Nazis Fight to Escape Allies in South France  Enemy Pockets Are Trapped and Destroyed

Nazis Fleeing  South France   Allied Legions Unopposed, Seek to Bar Escape

Allied Troops Control All of  South France   Toulon Falls; Germans Seek Escape as Allies Push Forward Under Cloak of Strict Secrecy

Arnold Tips the Nips: "We're Going To Bomb Japanese  Into State of Paralysis’, He Says

Amold Says Jap Industry To Be Bombed Into State Of Paralysis. Like Germany .  Mitscher Says Jap Naval Aviation Now Is Virtually Eliminated.’ Production Low

BIG FORCES OF BOMBERS BLAST GERMANY AGAIN      Fortresses, Liberators Follow Aitacks On Crippled Railroads

BIG FORCES — OF BOMBERS — OVER EUROPE   Relentless Air’ Attack in 27th Straight Day

TONS OF BOMBS BEING DROPPED      Synthetic Fuel Vlonts Wrecked Friday — Night Raiders Smash Rail Network Behind Nazi Anti Invasion Wall Friday Night. Lo tithe

, RA PLANES IN ACTION IVER COAST AREAS   Oropped 2,000 Tons  ysl Anti-Invasion Wall  —Yanka Fellow.

ALLIES POUND SNARLED FRENCE COAST RAILS   Reich Targets Jabbed Rombers Over Sohlacwioe-Hnaleian

BRITISH NIGHT RAIDERS BOMB RAIL NETWORK   Nazis Claim Heavy Aerial Battles Raging Against American Bombers.

Synthetic Oil Plants Hit in Czechoslovakia   Allied Bombers Carry Offensive Into 27th Day

Hit Germany Anew In Big Air Blows   Allies Drop 2,000 Tons of Bombs on Nazi Rail Lines.

<n Ne  MONTGOMERY WAR CHAIRMAN SAYS COURT ORDER I5 NECESSARY TO REMOVE HIM

Board Chairman Insists He's Still Boss Despite Army's Intervention

AVERY SAYS HE IS STILL BOSS OF WARD'S   Declares He Will Stay on Job Unless Ejected or “Fenced Out”

Find Body Tied Down in Water   Long: Search for -Missing Boonville Woman Believed at an End   GRANDSON HELD ON MURDER CHARGE   Coroner’ Is» Called Wher Diver Locates: Body in Lake in North Carolina:

Ward Official Freed of Charge  Involving Poster      ion Awaiting Reply From Avery on Request For Contract Diseussiens

WARD EXECUTIVE FREED OF CHARGE   U. 8: DROPS PROSECUTION OF MAN WHO. TOOK FOSTER _ FROM BULLETIN BOARD.

Free Sowell Of Charges ‘Made By FBI      MONTGOMERY WARD EXECU. TIVE’S CASE DISMISSED CHARGED WITH REMOVINC POSTER. phe   Wanted To Read It

Four. dvenger lorpedo Planes Dove Into Middle of Jap Task Force to Blast Carrier

YANKS — REPORT GAINS IN ITALY   Advances.-Made With Support Of Air Forces

‘American Troops Of Allied Fifth in Italy Smashes To Within 8 Miles Of Bologna

UEAGUGRATS IN TEMAS PREPARE FOR GORVENTIOND   Committee Tak's Stand by Adopting Rules barring Negrces

ALLIES SMASH AHEAD IN ITALY   Effort Believed Being Made To Outflank La Spezia

taly Increases   Brazilian Troops caring West Coast Italian Naval Base.

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN IN ITALY   Brazilian Forces ‘Advance In Gallicano Assault

Brazilians _ Gain In Italy   Effort. Is Maile To Outflank La Spezia

Urges Parents Not To Give Children Odd Names or Initial Combinations

Army Veteran, 21, Punches John Lewis — To Carry Out Pledge to Pals Oversea:

SAYS HE SOCKED JOHN LEWIS IN EVE   Soldier Says He Promised Buddies To Do This For Them

Sorry, Please, But Season Opens Dee.   Yanks in Paris Plastered With Lipstick

MORE PLANTS FACE STRIKES   SYMPATHY STRIKES MAY BE CALLED IN FACTORIES IN DE-. TROIT AND CLEVELAND

U.S. Planes Attack Jap Transports   Convoy Discovered  In Bonin Islands

U.S. Bombers Raid Jan Shipping in Two Bonin Isles   Presence of So Many Vessels Indicates isles Reinforced

Liberators Hit 12 Jap Ships in Bonin Isles   Nimitz Says Results of the Raid Were Not Observed

Committee . Criticizes  Fund Seekers   Thinks Federal Workers Could Be Better Employed

Education Office Allowance Cut  Committee Flays BRAw 2... OPP LLL EY

Business To Have Place For Soldiers   American Legion Should Be Given Major Say On Military Training

INDUSTRY MUST  PROVIDE JOBS,  VETERANS TOLD NAM HEAD TELLS  LEGION OF PLANS TO HELP SOLDIERS

American Legion Hears Pleas For Men In Service   Consideration In  Poct-War Plans

CONSIDERATION FOR VETS URGED   Post-War ‘Needs Stressed Be fore Legion Meet

LEENA ON FASO YL) —Save Your Tin Cans—  Denies Politics Will Attach Dabianina

Vast Majority . Men 18-25 Are (On Way To Army   Only Comparatively Few Men Under 26 Likely Be Deferred.

Only Farm Work, Physical Detects To Keep 18-25 Youths Out of Army

CIVILIAN MEN, 18 THROUGH 25, ‘TO SEE SERVICE   Formula Expected To Be Announced On Deferments

SERVICES WANT MEN UNDER 26   Army, Navy Want Men Despite Fuss Over Drafting  Tanhniniang.

Men Under 26 Are Heading for  Armed Forces   Deferrments Make No Difference In New Order by Board

MOST MEN UNDER 26 AS GOOD AS IN   Vast Majority Of Men 18 To 26 On Way To A Fighting War Unless They Are 4-F Or Work On Farms.

Only Handful Scheduled For Deferment As President, Agencies Fix Policy

Few Younger Men: Likely to Escape Draft   Only These in ‘Most Essential Positions Exempt

U.S. Adopts ‘Fough Draft   Men Under 26 Due + Fer Quick Induction

Majority Of Physically Fit Men 18 To 2¢ Headed For Draft: Deferments To Be Scare

Majority Of Civilians Between 18-25 Will See Army Service tf Fit Under New Draft Rules

Men Under 26 To Be Called   Draft Regulations To Be Tightened by Agreement Reached

Two Ways For Staying Out   Men 18-25 Headed For Fighting Front Unless Farming Or Can’t Pass Physical

Most Men 18-25 Will Be Drafted  Farm Work, Physical  Exams Stand In way

Most Males in 1825-Year Group Are Virtually in Army   Only Farmwork, Physical Failings Divide Civil ian. Soldier

Available Young Men For Service Dwindling Fast   Majority Of 18 To 25 Year-Olds On Way To War Service

Autopsy Set in Indian Girl’s Death   BODY OF MISSING HEIRESS RECOVERED FROM HUDSON RIVER

MAJOR DRIVE TO PROTECT BERLIN ROAD   Germans Blowing Up Installations at Sevastopol

Russ Seize More Nazi Key Points   Drive on Sevastopol Continues; Army Resistance Stiffens

Reds Meet Stronger Defenses   Capture Vital Points Guarding Sevastopol In Face Of Strong  Resistance.

DEWEY DENOUNCES INDUSTRIAL PLAN OF THE NEW DEAL   Charges Program Is Forerunner of “Corporate State” Foreign to American System.   ASSERTS COMMUNISTS ARE BACKING SCHEME   Says It Will Mean Government Will Tell People Where They Can Work  and at What Wages.

Dewey Says FDR Record Answer fo ‘Red’ Charge   Administration Works Both Sides of Street, Nominee Charges

Dewey. Assails “Double Talk” By Roosevelt   Cites President’s Governmient Ownership of Factories Aims and Disavowal Communists   Holds Regiine Too  Tired For Future   Declares Soft Declaimer of Communist Support Trifle Late; For Stabilizing Mine Industry

NOMINEE’ SPEAKS IN CHARLESTON   Says Administration Works Both Side of Street   GOVERNOR DEWEY   Declares Himself for Legislation to Stabilize the Coal Industry

Bulgaria Is Frantic Over War Outlook   Appeal For Armistice Forwarded To Moscow

BULGARIA 18 SAUL TO HAVE DECLAREI WAR ON GERMANY   Action Reported Taken After Attempt to Disarm Her  Troops Withdrawing From Yugoslavia.      ‘NAZIS IN COUNTRY  INTERNED; SOFIA SAYS   What Action Moscow Plans in Connection ‘With Nation’s Armistice Appeal- Remains in Doubt.

BULGARIA FACING — NATIONALCRISIS   Internal Upheaval Likely as the. Russians - Speed On

MOVE AHEAD ON 90 MILE FRONT   Heavy Tanks, Artillery Spearhead Attack, Germans Say

Germans Say Reds Launch ~ All-Out Push   Strike on 3rd Anniversary} Of Nazi Attack, Repor Declares

Germans Report Large-Scale Red Push Under Way   Soviets Center Efforts On Most Direct Road To Berlin

AUSSI PEN cuMMER DAE   Germans Report Reds Are Active On ‘White ‘Russian Front 

Willkie Urges Creater Effort   Declares Administration Not Requiring Sacrifice Of Civilian Population.

CIVILIAN SACRIFICE URGED BY WILLKIE   Home Front Efforts To Save Fighting Men Demanded

Kills Mother By Blows With Ax   Mill City Woman Found With Head Battered

Nazis Launch Slav Attacks   Motorized Units Used In Dalmatian Sector

U.S. INFANTRY, TANKS PUSHON 71013 MILES   Canadians Also Lunge Ahead in Advance  Near Falaise

Closing Trap on Much of Hitler’ s Seventh Army  in Normandy   YANKS UP FROM SOUTH   Canadian Drive From the North; Escape Gap Narrowed to 15 Miles

Find Small Powers Big Problem   BiG THREE PUZZLED HOW TC GET STKENG?HA WIPnNOU ' WEAKNESS IN COUNCs. Ji NEW LEAGUE   Where Shall France Be

Issue public appeal for witness who may have key to Hartford circus fire

Evidence Indicates  Cigaret Started Big  Fire in Circus Tent Detective Heard Man  Accusing Another of Igniting Tragic Blaze

FAST PRUSSIA RIVE STALLS + ALONG BORDE!            THRER” ‘HOvIET, cond 5 AR  PROSE LATVIA. CAPITAL—~  Hf NAZL DEFENSES. BTOP “PRUSSIA ADVANCE .

REDS BATTLE TO CAPITALIZE ON NEW GAINS   Russians Seize Many Communities in the Berzhai Area

GI Artist Can‘t Understand General's Total Lack Of Artistic Appreciation

Fifth Army Salvage Depot in ltaly Is A Verv Busy P a ‘e For G. L's

SENCENBAUGH IS FREED BY JURY   Suspended Policeman Is Found Not Guilty

STATE 10 DRAFT MEN OVER 26   YOUNGER REGISTRANTS ALREADY IW SERVICE

Mass Sedition Trial Ends Today  . 22 Defendants Refus To Continue Case

SEDITION TRIAL COMES T0 END IN WASHINGTON   Judge Calls Mistrial After Defendants Wish To Drop Case

Eight-Month-Old Sedition Trial Ends   Declares Mistrial After Poll of 22 Defendants

Mass Sedition Trial Is Off   Court Declares Mistrial After Defendants Refuse New Judge.

Sedition Case Comes to End   Mistrial Declared After 22 af Defendants Oppose Continuine Under New Jodoe

Mass Sedition Case Ends When Mistrial Called   Accused Opposed To New Judge

Sedition Case Ends, Justice Rules Mistrial   One Defendant Willing To Proceed Under New Judge

MISTRIAL CALLED IN SEDITION CASE   Mass Trial of 30 Defendants Halted Following Judge's Death

Case Involving. Sedition Charges Ends In Mistrial   22. Defendants ‘Opposed To Having New Judge Continue. With Hearings

Mass Sedition Trial Ends In Mistrial   Defendants of Seven Months Refuse To Continue

ATTACK ON BOUGAINVILLE TURNED BACK   All Japs Who Succeeded In Getting Through Allied Barbed Wire Wiped Out; Planes Support Troops.   Occupy Islets

Japs Repulsed In Hard Thrust At Augusta Bay   One Third of Attack Force of 4,000 Killed, Allies Report

Jap Attack on  Bougainville  Turned Back   Enemy Loses Third of Men Sent to Assault Americans

Thousand Japs Killed In Desperate Attack On Bougainville Beachhead

JAP ASSAULT REPULSED AT AUGUSTA BAY   Yanks Kill 1,000, or More Nipponese on Bougainville

Well-Organized. ‘Assault Made On a American Positions in eye Augusta Empress ‘Bay Area,’   THIRD OF ATTACKING  . FORCE. ANNIHILATED   U..8. Navy‘ Bombers Numbering: ‘Nearly 150 Support. - Ground Troops in Smashine Onslaught, -

JAP ATTACK ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND POSITIONS IS REPULSED   ‘One-Third Of Enemy Force Killed In Raid At Empres: Augusta Bay; Much-Bombed Rabaul Is Hit Again With 117 Tons Of Bombs

Desperate Attack By Jap Forces On Island Repelled   Third of Attacking Force at Empress Augusta Bay at Bougainville Killed—-Navy Bombers Support Ground Troops

JAP ATTACK ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND BROKEN   About Third Of Enemy Force Killed When Desperate Stab Is  Attempted

Allies Turn Back Heavy Jap Attack.   Third Of Enemy Force Killed At Empress Augusta

Caen Civilians Welcome Brifish   Stase Demonstration In Ruins of Seaport

ermany—  But Secret  Radio Declares a Imperial Government Formed

REPORT PURG HAS CRUSHED REBELLION   Swedish Travelers Claim 1,000 Persons Arrested   In Army Slain by Gestapo Switzerland Hears; Hitler Warned

Big VU. S. Planes Hit Reich Again   Gigantic Pre-Invasion Assault on Naz Gccupied Europe Enters 28th Con secutive Day, Following-up Heavy   Attacks on French Coast.   AERIAL BATTLES RAGE

MERICAN BOMBERS ATTACKED NTHETIC OIL PLANTS WITH  HEAVY RAIDS OVER GERMANY:

Allies Keep Up Earth - Shaking Air Offensive   Heaviest Explosions 0} War Rock Hitler's Channel Forts

COAST AREA STILL UNDER HARD ASSAULT   ‘American Heavy Bombers  Thunder Back Into Heart of Reich as Follow Up To R.A.F. Attack   TARGETS NOT NAMED

Non-Stop Pre-Invasion  Blitz In Its 28th Day   American Heavy Bombers Roar Over Reicl In Follow Up Of Heavy Hammering Of French Invasion Coast.

European Raids Continue Toda}   Weart Of Reich Bombed For 28th Straight Day; Jap Invaders Winning In China

OiL PLANTS GET STUNNING BLOW   Five Major Sites Attacked By Heavy American Bomber Force  AiLDFTiet mC BAIL RrER

Air Armadas Continue to Blast Europe   Campaign Grows To Paralyze War Machine of Nazis

The Weather   Coast Areas Are Pounded Last Night By RAF Unit   London Feels Jar From Explosions

U §. Bombers Over Reich; RAF Pounds Invasion Coast   Allied Air Fleets Carry Offensive Against Enemy Into 28th Straight Day

Yanks Bomb 4 Synthetic ‘Oil Plants   Factories in Germany And Czechosolvakia Hit In Pre-Invasion Smash

rifth. Highth Armies Cross Rapido River   German Radios Term Terrific Assault Prelude To Further Invasion of Europe   Bulletin

‘Heaviest Rain Of Air Might Yet Cavalcades Down On West Coast And On Heart Of Reich -

Ait Battles Again Raging Over Europe   Nazis Rise to Fight as Americans Start 28th Straight Day

Oil Plants Around Leipzig Pounded By Americans; Air Offensive In 28th Day

OVER EUROPE   American Heavy Bombers Thunder Back Into Heart Of Reich Today.   IRAF IN NIGHT ATTACK

Americans Blast Four Major Synthetic Petroleum Fac‘tories In Leipzig Area And One At Brux As Campaign To Paralyze Nazi War Machine Ahead Of Western Invasion Progresses — Key Rail Centers  In France And Belgium Hammered During Night

4 PLANTS IN LEIPZIG AREA IS HIT   €zechoslovakian Town And French Railways  Also Hammered

RAF BOMBERS BLAST NALIHELD EUROPE   French Coast Hit By Americans In  Great Air Raid

Four German Oil Plants Are Bomber Targets  Heavy Fleet’ Makes  Deep Stab to Blact Alas, Citiac

AMERICAN HEAVY  BOMBERS CARRY  ON AIR INVASION FOLLOW UP GREAT  RAF BLOWS ALONG THE FRENCH COAST

FIVE GERMAN “OIL PLANTS ARE BOMBED   Armada of Almost 2,000 American Planes on Mission Against Syn _ thetic Works in Reich and Czechoslovakia. .—

Four. Nazi Oil Plants Battered ©   U.S. Bombers Over Reich After RAF Blasts Channel Coast

Yanks Blast. Oil Plants Near Leipzig   Fight Way Clear Across Germany To Deal Stunnine New Blow.

Allied Air Force Really Hitting Mark  In France.   Many Huge Blasts Set Off; Dishes In England Rattled By Terrific  Bxyplosions

FIVE HUGE NAZI SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS BOMBED   Some 2,000 Fortresses Blast At German War Machine In Germany And Czechoslovakia; Air Invasion Fierce In  28th Day.

Americans Hit Heart of Reich   U. S. Heavy Bombers Take Pre-Invasion Attack into 28th Day

Ber lin Claims Gigantic Air Battles Raging   American Heavy Bombers Strike At Heart of Ger-  many to Follow Up  Hammering Coast {   RAF Night Raids Heard In London   Dishes In Homes Rattle From Exploding Bombs; Cherbourg and Bouloene Targeis

Big Synthetic Fuel Centers  Are Bombed   Leipzig Area Attacked By Heavies, RAF Hits Railroad Centers In France Belgium

‘Strike Blow °At Reich’s Oil Supply   "U.S. Bombers Pound Synthetic Plants Deep in Germany And Czechoslovakia

U.S. Heavies Raid German Oil Factories   2000 Plane Armada Carries Out Blow Far Inside Germany

GERMANS SAY EARLY GAINS WIPED OUT   Berlin Radio Telling of Battle of Italy Says Earls Gains Quickly 4 Lost by .. Allies. .   LEIPZIG AREA OF GERMANY AND OTHER PARTS OF REICH UNDER INCESSANT AERIAL BOMBINGS   Synethetic Oil Plants Blasted As Part of Campaign to Paralyze German War Machine Ahead of Westert ‘Invasion. Great Armada of Fortresses Criss-Cross Continent

Airmen Attack  4 Oil Plants   Raid In Leipzig Area Of Germany, Bruk Inside Czechoslovakia.

ALMOST 2,000 PLANES BATTER LEIPZIG PLANTS   Three Units in Reich, One in Czechoslovakia Are Bombarded

Big 5. Bombers Thundering Back To Reich's Heart   Report Widespread Raids On Germany Follow RAF Invasion Coast Attacks

SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS HIT BY LS. BOMBERS   Allies Continue Effort to Paralyze Nazi War Machine Before Invasior

Synthetic a! Oil Planis: - Attacked        MAJOR. PRODUCTION... =" UNITS ARE BOMBED   ssault: Not - “Diminishing ‘3 in Size Se pe Regularity :

Yugoslav Guerrilla Tells How Tito, Leaving Wounded, \Led His Forces Gut of Tran

Strong Tank Units Of U. S. Play Big Role   Fifth Army Gets Within 18 Miles Of Eternal City

ALLIES CRACK ANCHORS ON HITLER LINE   Velletri, One-Time Strong Point for Axis, Taken in All-Out Drive for Italian Capital   RY ASSOCTATED Preece

Wall Before Rome Starts Crumbling   Fifth Army Firmly Astride Via  Casilina, Threatening to Seal Off German Troops BattlIng On Lower Front.

City Ferentino Also Captured By Our Forces   Armies Had_ Previously Cut Highway 6, Main Route to Rome

Two Key Cities Taken   Velletri and Valmontone Captured By 5th Army; Allies Firmly  Astride Via Casilina

Fifth Army Has Seized Valmontone  And Velletri   Beginning Of End Of Hard Battle - Foreshadowed

Valmontone And Velletri Captured   ... German Escape Route Sealed Off By Allies

British Take Ferentino; Beginning Of End Foreshadowed For Nazis.

Key Defenses ‘Taken as Nazi  Wall Cracks   Allied Troops Astride Via Casilina Cutting Gernan FEscane Line

Allied Force: Cut Off  Retreat Line   Two Main Fortresses Guarding Eternal City Are Captured; Nine German Divisions Battling South of Rome Believed Trapped

Seal Main Route Of Escape For Germans On Crumbling Front >   Fifth Army Troops Have Taken Velletri, Battle With Retreating Eenemy; Eighth Army Battering Its Way Up Famed Via Casilina; Capture Ferentino

TWO FORTRESS CITIES SUBMIT TO FIFTH ARMY   Velletri, Valmontone Captured as Troops Press Offensive

Temperatures   Via Casilina Cut, Sealing Off Main Rome Eseape Route

Nazi Line Below Rome Begins fo Crumble as Americans Take Two Bigaest Fortress Cities   Fifth Army Victories Threaten to Cut Off All Troops Germans Have Been Unable to Withdraw From Battles on Lower Front

STH ARMY SEALS OFF VIA CASILINA; ENTERS VELLETRI   BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS CONTINUE TO PUSH STEADILY AHEAD

Pierce Center Of Nazi's Line South of Rome   Fighting Fiercely the Fifth Army Breaks Into Velletrion Appian Way   Eighth Army Pounding Up An Escape Hatch

Americans Capture Two Cities   Hard Fighting As They Pdunge Forward Within Sight of Rome

OTH ARMY CUTS GERMANS’ MAIN ESCAPE ROUTE   Yanks Fan Out From Velletri Into Alban Hills Near Eternal City

Famed Highway Severed by U. §. Troopers, Tanks   Southern Front In Italy Crumbles Under Heavy Blows

BIGGEST CITIES GUARDING ROME   Fifth Army Firmly Astride Via Casilina 20 Miles Below City. .   ‘MAY SEAL OFF NAZIS

Reds, Germans Fight for Hill   Both Sides Claim Success In Ramanian Rattle

Yule Walk-out Threatened In Ward Stores   WLB Gives Firm Until Monday to Meet Terms Of Latest Order

NATIONAL WARD STRIKE PENDS   May Close All Stores In Nation; Must Meet Terms by Monday

Walkout Seen In Ward Firm   WLB Gives Firm Until Monday Night To Meet Terms,  Conditions.

WARD COMPANY FACES WALKOUT IN ALL STORES   UNION HEAD SAYS GROUP IS READY FOR A SHOWDOWN

Ward Retail Union Threatens Walkout I ANU. S. Stores   WLB: Orders Firm to ‘Meet Terms of Labor ‘Abreenient

Reduction in Pork Prices Effective   OPA Announces Average Ten Per Cent Cut In Dried Specialties

SOUTHERN WOMEN ARE IN REVOLT OVER PLATFORM   They'll Vote, They Say, For “A Good Democrat’’   PREDICT IT’LL SPREAD

Five Illinois Civilians on Federal Roll to Each One Employed by State

SUNDAY PUNCH FOR RABAUL IN MAKING   Americans Bomb That Base and Kavieng; Take Rooke Island

200 BOMBERS POUND RABAUL   Bastion Soon to Feel Sunday Punch  Attack By Sea Force Imminent

New Gains Scored By Allies in Italy   British Open Attack Yanks Drive 6 Miles

All-Out Attack in Italy Opens  Americans, Frenck AA wele Tle ff“! wlase

NOUN DEKOmeAINANIEITIEUIRiae . siis.city,. -nganeibananensemigmpuasaasial RUSSIAN STATEMENT APPROVED BY BRITISH

MARTHUR UNITS NEAR HAIN GRot IN ALMIRALIES   New Invasion Goes on Schedule; Truk Heavily Bombed.

JAP AIRFIELD — ‘OBJECTIVE IN. ~NEW LANDING   TRQOPS ASHORE IN NEW ABs: SAULT IN ADMIRALTIES— LAND-BASED PLANER , BLAST TRUK

Many Jap. Planes Shot Down  In Wewak And Rabaul Raids   At Least 51 and Probably 65 Nipponese Aircraft Destroyed—Bases Heavily Bombed, Accord‘na tq Communique _

01 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN OVER WEEK-END   Air Strongholds Of Wewak And Rabaul Pounded; 300 Bagged This Month   INSTALLATIONS HIT ON MARSHALL ISLANDS

Allies Down ol Jap Planes In ‘Two Raids   15 Others Probables In Week-End Attacks On Wewak and Rabaul

AlliesDown51 Jap Planes in 2 Raids   Five Allied Bombers Lost At Wewak, Eight Downed At Rabaul; Aussies Gain In Ramu Vallev

ALLIED AIRMEN BAG AT LEAST G1 JAP PLANES   Big Attacks Made on Enemy’s Key Bases At Wewak; Rabaul

Planes Blast Strongholds of Wewak, Rabaul   Hundreds of Allied Aircraft Joins in Attacks: Australians Drive Toward Madang

Japs Suffer Bad Setback In-Air-Duel   Alfies = Shoot Down -~-at Least 51 Planes: in Attacks on Wiewak  And Rabau!

Japanese Lose 51 Airplane:   Probably 65 Shot Down Saturday and Sunday in Battles Over Wewak and Rabaul Strongholds

BAG AT LEAST 51 JAP PLANES   Big Attacks Made on Enemy’s Key Bases At Wewak, Rabaul

51 JAPANESE PLANES SHOT FROM SKIES   Allies Score Biggest 1944 Victory in Attacks on Strongholds of Rabaul and Wewak.   THIRTEEN AMERICAN RAIDERS ARE LOST   Nipponese Hard Pressed  y by Australian Troops! Moving Up New Guin-! ea’s Ramu Valley. i

FLIERS SWARM OVER WEWAK AND RABAUL   Sky Triumph Marked By Destruction Of From 51 To 65 Nipponese Planes; Both Bases Bombed Hard.   Move against Madang

SECRETARY STIMSON ARRIVES IN ITALY      Head of War Office to “Inspect Troops, Hospitals and Front —  Tina TInatallatiang ”

Japs Penetrate U. 5. Lines on Bougainville   Desperate Attack Due fo Starvation

British Take  Over Salonika   Occupation Troops Given Great Welcome By Greek Populace.

BELGIANS TOLD HOUR AT HAND   Gen. Eisenhower Als Warns Dutch to Attempt No Uprising Yet

U. S. Carrier Blow at Isles 200 Miles From Japan Blasts 58 Vessels, Downs 89 Planes

U. S. Carrier Planes Range Within 200 Miles of Japan in Biq Raid

Japan Repor ts -400 U.S. Planes. ‘Tn Ryukyu Raid   Yanks Sink Or. Damage 58 Enemy ‘Surface: Craft “And_ Destroy: 89 Planes

89 Planes, 58 Ships Wiped Out by Yanks in Bold Air Strike   Island. Chain Between Japan and Formiosa  Under Attack

CARRIER PLANES FLY ON BOLDEST PACIFIC ATTACK   ‘Hitting Ryukyu Islands, They De. stroy 98 Planes, Sink or Damage 58 Jap Surface Craft.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN {JAD Wae FAitar)

Great Naval Force Strikes Ryukyu Island   Attack at Gates of East China Sea Fails To Rouse Jap Fleet, Air Armada

UJ. 8, CARRIER-BORNE PLANES IN BOLDEST PACIFIC WAR ATTACK  ISLAND WITHIN 200 MILES

Carrier Planes Hit Near Japan; Wreck Jan Craft   By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor

38 JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED   89 Planes- Destroyed Within 200 Miles Of Mainland

BLAST 58 JAP SHIPS, DESTROY 89 AIRPLANES   Attack Ryukyu Island; No American Warships Hit in Bold Navy Attack

Fleet Invades Home Water: Of Japanese   89 Planes, 58 Ships Blasted in Ryukyu Isles Carrier Blow

CARRIER-BORNE AMERICAN PLANES STRIKE WITHIN 200 MILES OF JAPAN; DESTROY 58 SHIPS AND 89 PLANES

DARING ATTA NEAR JAPAN MADE BY NAVY   Task Force Destroys 89 Planes, Smashes 58 Ships in Ryukyu Isles

U.S. Planes Range Within 200 Miles Of Japan; Get 89 Planes, 58 Surface Craft

undreds of Carrier-borne U. S. Planes Blasted Jap Isles, Shins and Planes         AP FLEET OR AIRCRAFT FAIL TO CHALLENGE RAID

BOMBERS MOVE IN ON JAPAN      Down 89 Planes, Hit 58 Vessels In Boldest Attack of War

Japan Sutters Heavy Loss in a Daring Raid   89 Planes Destroyed, 58 Surface Craft Hit in Boldest Attack

American Carrier Force Strikes  islands 200 Miles South Of Japan

Surprise Raid Costs Foe 147 Planes, Ships   Yanks Complete Conquest of Garakayo ‘Islet in Palau Group

Ryukyu islands hit crushing blows in lightning attack  Wreck 89 planes, sink or damage 58 surface craft

Sink or Damage 58 Ships in Strike 200 Miles of !apan   Fails to Stir Out Hoine Fleet or Air Armadas Nearby

Carrier Planes in Daring Raid 200 Miles From Japan   Illustrates.Power Of Fleet to Move Anywhere in Pacific

BOLOEST ORWE IN PACIFIC WAR   Hundreds of Carrier-Borne U. S. Planes Hit at Ryukyu Islands.   89 PLANES DESTROYED

JAPS LOSE 58 SURFACE CRAFT AND 89 PI ANES   Boldest Attack Of Pacific War Made By U. S. Forces

AMERICANS HIT BUT 200 MILES OFF HOMELAND   Naval Force Makes Boldest Assault Of Pacific War; Ships Undamaged

U. 5. NAVY PLANES TAKE HUGE TOL! IN FORAY NEAR NIP HOMELAND   ARMY COMPLETES CONQUEST OF GARAKAYO, TENTH PALAU ISLAND INVADED; 18 TROOP BARGES SUNK

Yankees Strike Close To Japan   58 Nip Surface Ships Sunk Or Damaged And 89 Planes Destroyed In Audacious American Blow At Ryukyu Islands

ATTACK RYUKYU  ISLANDS WITHIN  200 MI. OF JAPAN TOKYO SAYS 400  AMERICAN PLANES IN CIIRPRICE RAIN

STRIKE. WITHIN 200 MILES OF - JAP HOMELAND   Bold Assault Fails to Bring Retaliation by Enemy Navy

ro  Koga S Death  ay,’ in arplai ne,  Tokyo Says Fate of Jap Navy Chief Called Similar ta That of Yamamoto 2 GENERALS DEAD Adm, Tovoda Named to Succeed Koga; Latter Honored bv Hirohito

Admiral Koga, Commander of Japanese Fleet, Killedin Action   Tokyo Broadcast Says He ‘Died at His Post’  in March

JAP NAVY CHIEF DIES IN ACTION   Tokyo Reports Death 0: Koga While Directing _ Fight From Plane

Japanese Lose Fleet Commander  Tokyo Reports Koga Killed in Action

Admiral Koga, Jap Navy Head, Killed In Action   Dies Less Than Year After His Predecessor Meets End In Similar Manner

TOKYO SAYS “JAP FLEET CHIEF DEAD   Radio Declares Admiral] Koga, Commander of All Naval Forces, Killed While “at the Front” in March.

Tokyo Radio Says Koga, Commander Of Fleet, Killed   Admiral's Death While Directing Operations from Plane, Less Than Year After Yamameie's

Tokyo Reports Koga’s Death On Active Duty  Combined Fleet Head Lasts Less Than One Year

ADMIRAL KOGA TOP OFFICER FOR YEAR   Death Is Reported Same As Admiral Yamamoto’s   Also Die On Active Duty, Tokyo Says; Toyoda Is New Chief

Mineichi Koga Meets Same End As Predecessor   Death In ‘Airplane Reported By Tokyo; Another Suicide?

Nips Disclose The Death of Admiral Koga   ‘Successor to Yamamoto Killed ‘At His Post,’ Tokyo Broadcost Reports — Two Other High Officers Lose Lives.

JAP COMMANDER KILLED WHILE ON PLANE TRIP   Directing Raids Against Allies On War Front

JAPS SAY CHIEF DF FLEET KILLED BY ACTION IN AIR   Tokyo Claims Admiral Dles in Same Manner as , Predecessor

Commander Of Combined Jap Fleet Killed On Active Duty; Two Other High Officers Dead   Tokyo Announcement On Koga’s Death Similar To That On His Predecessor

Dies Less Than Year After Predecessor Yamamoto, Who Met Similar Fate

TOKYOREPORTS NAVAL LEADER DEAD IN ACTION   Adm. Koga Said To Have Bee: Killed in Plane Direct.   ing Battle.

Koga Dies at Post, Like Yamamoto   Admiral Known For Tenacity But Not for Brilliance

Koga Dies In Airplane At Front As Yamamoto Did, Is Radio Report From Tokyo

JAPAN ATMIRAL REPORTED QEAD   Tokyo Radio Says Naval Commander Was Killed On Active Duty.

TOKYO CLAIMS ADMIRAL KOGA NED ON DUTY   Communique Is Similar to One on Yamamoto’s Death in 1943.

Japs Mourn Koga, Slain Nava! Chief   Adiiral Meets End In Airplane During Pacifie Engavement

JAP NAVY CHIEF DIES IN ACTION   Tokyo Reveals Death Of Koga. Yamamoto's Successor

Nippon Naval Director Died During March   Words Used by Tokyo to Announce Death Same As Employed to Reveal  Predecesser’s Demise   Admiral Toyoda Sueceeded Him   Suggested Perhaps Koga Committed HaraKari Because Jap Navy Has  Failed Against A

Yamamoto ‘Air Death’ Is Recalled   Striking Similarity In Communiques   Not Brilliant Officer.

Admiral Koga Is Reported Dead   Lost His Life in March While Directing General. QOperations.

jans Report Loss Of Second Nava! Commander   Circumstances Strangely Similar to Yamamoto’s Death

' Chief of Japanese Combined Fleet s *‘Killed in Action”   Report of Admiral Koga’s Death Bears Close Similarity to That of Predecessor

Tokio Reports Admiral Koga’s Death In Action   Head Of Jap~Combined Fleet Follows Predeces sor Within Year.

Yammamoto’s Successor Has Short Career   Tokyo Also Reveals Loss Of Other High Ranking Officers

ADMIRAL KOGA, TOP JAP NAVY CHIEF, 1S. DEAD   2 High-Ranking Army Leaders Also Dead, Tokyo Reports

—PACIFIC— .  LOST LIFE WHILE “ON ACTIVE DUT}   Met Death While Directing Operations From ~ Airplane At Front   SUCCESSOR NAMED.   Announcement. Si mila To That Which Revealed Yamamoto’s Death’:

JAPS ANNOUNCE HEAD OF FLEET KILLED ON DUTY   . TOKYO RADIO SAYS ADMIRAL KOGA DIED AT POST IN MARCH

Jap Admiral Koga Killed   Tokyo Reports Loss In Plane Accident; Two Generals Also Killed

HEAD: DIES ON PLANE FLIGHT   Death Occurs Less Than Year After Predecessor Was Killed

KOGA OPERATING FROM PLANE AT TIME OF DEATH   Nips Report 2 Army Officers Die of Illness on on China Front

Medical ‘Bank’ of Spare Human Parts Forecast by Commerce Department

Writer Sees Postwar Medical Banks Stocked With Spare Parts for Humans

GIRAUD IS OUSTED BY FRENCH LEADER   Post of Commander-inChief Abolished by Gen. De Gaulle

GRADE REECTSDEMOTION POST   Controversy With de Gaulle Garners French Spotlinht

GIRAUD DECLINES TO EDICT BY D’GAULLE   General BitterIy Rejects Appointment As Inspector-General Of French Armed Forces

Interest in GOP. Session ‘Rapidly Growing   Selection of Keynoters Is First Move

Vandenberg, Luce Lead Race for G. 0. P. Keynoter   Field Wide Open For Position,  Avers Spangler

800 BODIES FOUND IN SAN JUAN RUINS   QUAKE TOLL ESTIMATES RANGE AS HIGH AS 1,600-THOUSANDS INJURED.

{Bodies of 900 Quake Victims Are Recovered and Search for Others Is Continued; List of Injured Is Estimated at More Than 13.000

loll of Injured Over 13,000  800 Bodies Dug From Ruins Of Quake-Stricken San Juan

Bodies of 800 Dug from Ruin: Of San Juan   Death Estimates Range To 1,600 in Earthquake; Injured Total 13,000

Earthquake Toll Reported 800   Injured Total Said More Than 13,000

MASS CREMATION IS FOLLOWING QUAKE   Number Of Injured At San Juan May Keach 13,000; Property Damage Put At 75 Millions

CUSTODY FIGHT BABY SMOTHER   5. Months-Otd- Nd Bey Expires in Carriage at Home of Enetar Darante

Solons End Long Session   _Unprecedented Spending And Stormy White House Battles Are Hiahliahts

SESSION IS ENDED BY 78TH CONGRESS   President Twice Overrid. dén on Vetoes of Major Legislation

/OTH CONGRESS SEoSION ENDS   Record High-lighted by Unprecedented Spending   WHITE HOUSE BATTLES   Boosts National Debt Limit To $260,000,000,000 During Session

DE GAULLE PLANS FRENCH AFFAIRS   ALLIED RELATIONS CLOUDED BY DISPUTE

DEGAULLE VISITS ALLIED FRONT   Leaves Plans Regarding Civil Administration

DE GAULLE LEAVES INSTRUCTIONS IN “FREED” NORMANDY   French General In Visit To Beachhead Advises. Natives On Civil Administration, Relief and Supply Organiza ae

DE GAULLE PAYS VISIT TO FREED NORMANDY AREAS  WELCOMED BY FRENCH BUT RELATIONS WITH ALiifnre® ti8srArnm AL ATK

recs Greet n. De Gaulle   Give Demonstration Of Courage, Devotion To Free France

French Chief Gives People Instructions   General De Gaulle Returns To England After Trip To  Normandy,   LONDON PRAISES TRIP

FRENCH WELCOME GEN. OE GAULLE   Leaves Instructions For Resumption Of Civil Administration

Report De Gaulle On Civil Control!   Back In London He Lays - Claim To Enthusiastic Support Of Liberated

FRENCH PEOPLE LAUD DEGAULLE   Leader Finds Homeland i: Sorry Plight After Four Years of War

French Committee of National Liberation Reports That He Gives Orders’ “Everywhere” Regarding Resumption of Civil Administration in Normandy.    FIRST VISIT IN 4 YEARS

General De Gaulle Returns To France After Four Years To Receive Warm Welcome

Gen. De Gaulle Gives Orders  To Frenchmen   Instructions as to Civil Government Left Behind

Rule Seized By De Gaulle   Relations Between Allies and French Nearing Showdown

GEN. DEGAULLE LEFT INSTRUCTIONS FOR CIVIL LIFE PROGRAM   FRENCH COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL LIBERATION - SAYS LEADER WELCOMED

Strikes Now Being Felt... Eastern Coal Users Will Get Only 10 Per Cent of Normal Needs

Chandler, Publisher of Times, Dies   PROMINENT NEWSMAN DIES IN LOS ANGELES AFTER HEART ATTACK

Harry Chandler, Publisher, Dies   Heart Attack Fatal To Noted Executive Of Los Angeles Times

CRASH KILLED’ _ FOUR PERSONS   ALLEN COUNTY PEOPLE LOST VES WHEN EXPRESS TRAIN’ HIT AUTO NEAR ADA

AUTO HITS TRAIN AT ALGER; 4 DIE   Locomotive and 12 Cars N.Y.-Chicago Express Derailed

RED ARMY WITHIN 24 MILES OF ‘YHPURI AND STOCRROLM.. BELIEVES. PEACE MOVES  : COMING SOON 20:

ROOSEVELT TO JAKE IT EASY   PRESIDENT GOING ON. “PART WORK, PART REST’ SCHEDULE FOR NEXT FEW _. WEEKS -

PRESIDENT T0 “TAKE IT EASY”   Official Duties Curtailed To Follow Pattern Of Part Work-Part Rest

Labor Minister Discloses ‘Big 3 Have Set Date to Invade Bure Cire

Asserts hour slass running out fast now  Rumors hit new peak of imtensity

British Cabinet Member Says Date Has Been Set For Invasion of Europe

Bevin Declares Hour Glass “Running Out Minute By Minute”   Germans Expect Channel Thrust   Broadeast Says Allies De. liberately Sparing French Ports

Solons Request Furlough Bill   Would Permit Overseas Servicemen Return Home

HEAVY VOTE IN t ENNSYLVANIA IS PREDICTED   Soldier Vote Possibly May Determine Contest in State

Heavy Balloting Expected Today In This State   May Be Large Factor In Naming of Président, Soldier Vote Watched

PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO AID NEEDY CHILDREN   Students to Collect Clothing For Those Who Are In Need  AT HOME AND ABROAD

PLAN A CLOTHING — COLLECTION HERE   Will Be Made in the Chillicothe Schools From Octtober 23 to 26.

More Than Million Allied Troops Are In Action On 400-Mile Front   OUR AIR FORCES BLAST HOLES AHEAD OF THE INVADERS   Americans Are. Reported About Four Miles From The Rubr

Rush Holt Trails in West Virginia Primary; Ohio Mayors Lead Tickets For Nomination for Governor

Holt Loses in Comeback Effort   Two Ohio Mayors Win.for Governor

Rush Holt Trails. In West Virginia ‘Primary Balloting   Former Senator Seeks Governor Nomination  But Lags Far Behind

SCIENTIST 10 STOP WAR AT MIDNIGHT   Italian Scientist To Play Hallowe’en Prank On The World

Italian Scientist Says His Cosmic Ray Will Stop War Today at 4 p.m.

 Ships, Planes to Disintegrate at Equator  Scientist Plans to Turn Powerful  ‘Ray’ on World Tonight, Stop War

Soviet Troops Storm 12 Miles Into Rast Prussia To Reach Niemen River

Soviets. Advance In East Prussia   Gains by Russians Admitted by Nazis

‘RED’ FORCES ~ a ADVANCE ~ INTO NORWAY   TWO ‘RUSSIAN COLUMNS PUSH.  ING FORWARD TOWARD  IMPORTANT PRUSSIAN PAM: CENTER -

Mass Voting Drive Called Victory Key   “Democrats Wind Up Parley With Plans For Door-Knocking

GET OUT VOTE Fol ORDERS TO DEMOCRAT   Hannegan, Kept as Chairman, Predicts Victory, Says lt Won’t Be Easy.

Democrats See Mass Voting as Key fo Victory   Hannegan Says Many People Are Not Registered

DEWEY IN N. Y. FOR POLICY TALK   EXPECTED TO OUTLINE PEACE PARTICIPATION

Campaign Is Vital, Dewey Tells Women   Governor to Speak Tonight in New York Will Be Broadcast

TUG-OF-WAR OVER GRAFT OEFEFMENI NEARING CLIMAX   T uh Pclicy £een on iniic..oa St y; for Ycuiwer Men.

BITTER DISPUTES OVER DRAFT EXPECTED BETWEEN AGENCIES   MILITARY MEN AND SPOKES. MEN FOR PRODUCTION PRE ’ PARE FOR. CLASHES  ‘ OVER POLICY «-

LORAIN MAN BEATEN BY CIVILIAN ‘POSSE   Claims ‘Mistaken Identity Of Molester of Women

POST-WAR HARBOR PROGRAM REVEALED   Five Projects for Michigar Including One for Manistee Are Ineluded

P.-T. A. Hears  Nurse’s Report   Health Lamp Given For School Use

Four Armored Units Opposing Push By Allies   Germans Battle To Save Caen As Frontline Is Extended To 100 Miles; Montebourg,  Troarn Change Hands Several Times

Attention on Fiery Action in Marianas   Attempted Allied Landings Reported By Japanese Radio   Foe Tells of Fierce Fighting in Island Group Only 1,500 Miles from Tokvo

Landing Try On Saipan Reported   Task Force Shells Kuriles, Airmen Spread Flaming Action Far South to Palau

Sustained Assault Centers On Saipan  Near Philippine Is.   Group Of Islands On Direct Line, To. Japan’s Home Area; Burma Town Scene Of Fierce Battles

SUSTAINED ATTACK  BY NAVAL AND AIR  FORGES: QN:MARIANAS ASSAULT HAS EXTEND- — ED THROUGH FOURTH STRAIGHT DAY IS REPOR’

US. Task Force Wreaks Havoc In Foe’s Islands  i Widespread Attacks   Widespread Attacks From Kuriles Down To The Marianas

MARIANAS INVADED   y Task Foree With Carrier Planes Still Attacking Jap Strongpoints

Task Force Operations Continuing   Marianas Shelled, Bombed; Kuriles Also Attacked

ATTACKS MADE 500 MILES FROM JAPAN PROPER   Guam, Saipan Bombardments Continued

GOP Confident In Nation’s First Meet   New Mexico’s Republicans Will Include Two Wanen to Nominating Convention at Chieagoy Willkie-Dewey Controversy Wanee

AMERICAN GOODS WANTED IN RUSSIA   Big Customer , After War Says Head of C. of C.

Forecasts Nazi Defeat By Oct.   Lt. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Hopes Next Assignment Will Be In Pacific; Wears Purple Heart and Silver Star.

Lt. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Hopes Next Assignment Will Be In Pacific; Wears Purple Heart and Silwer Star.

PRESS TOWARD  RIVER ROROER   Russlan Flying Columns Smashing Through Disorgunized R fance —Driver Nearly  Three-Quarters af Way Across Bessarabia,

Reds Within Gan. Range of Rumania   1,000 Nazi Troops  Taken Prisoners

RED COLUMNS NEARLY REACH RUMANIA BORDER   Russians in Artillery Range of Pru River, Dooming German Chanres

Russians Within 15 Miles of Prut River Boundary   Any Chance of German Stand On East Bank Apparently Doomed

APPROACH PRUT RIVER   Zhukov's Forces Cut Through Nazi Lines In Poland

Red Flying Columns Within 15 Miles  Of Prut River Border of Rumania   Doomed Germans Are Thoroughly  Disoroanized

PLAN “F” BOND SALE   Will Help Pay Off Indebtedness On Memorial Stadium

ALLIES ON WEST FRONT PUSH FOR MAAS RIVER   London Says Decisive Ba tile W ats Only on W eather

Other Penetrations of Reich Loom Third Army Wins New Bridgehead; Le Havre Taken by Allies

Relatively Minor Resistance Encountered By First Army East Of Eupen   ‘NEW BRIDGEHEADS BY THIRD ALONG MOSELLE

Second Force Enters Reich   5th Army-Opposition Ebbing; Germans May Quit Gothic Line

Drive 6 Miles Against Light Resistance—Thiry Force on Enemy: Fro: tier at Luxembourg.   EISENHOWER WARNS      Advises Inhabitants of .2 Areas to Evacuate, Saying “Battle for Ger: many” Is Near.

Third Yank Force Massed To Strike  From Luxembourg   Le Havre Falls to British With Canadian ‘Army; 3d Jams New Bridgeheads Across Moselle,  Farecec Carman Retreat at Painte

Second Column Lashes Six Miles Into Naziland; Eisenhower Warns Civilians

Forces Sweep Beyond Belgian Border City  of Eupen  MINOR RESISTANCE ' 1S MET IN- DRIVE  New Bridgeheads Hammered Out by Third Army

Yanks Drive  6 Miles East  Of. Eupen City  InBelsium —   - Other U. S. Forces: Mass in Luxembourg “Less: Than Mile  Baga Steefeted Line   PUT OVER MOSELLE  © Bisenhowet. ‘Advised Nazis To: Quit Ruhr, Rhine Bordep ‘Areas:

DRIVE INTO REICH 65 MILES NORTH OF FIRST ENTRY AND PUSH SIX MILES EASTWARD

OTHER UNITS MASS __ AT ANOTHER POINT.   Eisenhower Advises Ruhr, Rhineland Inhabitants To Evacuate Immediately; Southward, Third Army Snans Moselle Again

Another Force Stands Ready  to Cross Lines   Ruhr Inhabitants Advised to Evacuate Immediately; Eisenhower Says ‘Battle for Germany Is About to Begin

Yanks Enter Germany Near. Aachen, Threaten at Third Point; British, Canadians Capture Havre

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New Drive Carries Six Miles Inside Reich; Other U. S. Forces af Border   First Army Plunges into Nazi Homeland East of Eupen against Minor Resistance

AP PHOTOGRAPHER HOME FROM PACIFIC   Putitzer Prize Winner, Frank Filan, Says Jaunt Was No Cook’s Tour.

WAR TODAY   Russian Blows Against Nazis In Ukraine Are Bringing End of War Nearer This Spring

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Liemeriated Presse War Analyst

HITLER’S GREAT UKRAINE ARMY IS REPORTED IN CLUTCHES OF FULL. FAR-REACHING DISASTER

ifihe War £ oday— Fierce Stand At Tarnopol Indicates Next German Defense On Bug River

JAPS PLAY MARKET ON USA RADIO TIPS   War News from Here Relied On, Says Elmer Davis

URGES CHECK ON GOP ACTIVITY   Ciaims Republicans Working Among Service Members

Danube Crossed Again   Rampaging Reds In Breakthrough In West Hungary

Soviets Near Budapest And Austria   New Crossing Made Over Danube River In Western Hungary

RED ARMY RIPS INTO NAZIS LINES   New Danube Crossing @ Reported; Soviets Take 300 Towns

Senate Approves States’ Rights . Service Vote Bill   Measure Permits Federal Ballot Only With States’ Okay

SENATE APPROVES STATES’ RIGHTS VOTING MEASURE   Final Version of Soldier Vote Bill Passed 47 to 31 Today —Measure Goes to House Where Passage Is Predicted

Senate Passes Service Vole   Compromise Measure To House After Bitter Debate; Gives States First Say

Vote Bill Is Passed hy Senate   47-31 Vote. Follows Mauch Bitter Debate;. Barkley’s Speech Indicates Veto   HOUSE EXPECTED TO APPROVE PLAN   Provides Curtailed Federal Ballot Only. With the State’s Permission

BITTER DEGATE OVER MEASURE   Permits Use of Curtailed Federal Ballot Only With States’ Permission.   HOUSE TO ACCEPT, T00?

FINAL VERSION PASSES, 47-31; GOES TO HOUSE   Sen. Barkley Hints at Veto in Attack on Compromise

U. S. Senate Approve States’ Rights — Service Vote Bill   Immediate Acceptance Expected in House but Presidential Veto Is Hinted in Opposition to Measure by Senator Barkley

Senate Passes Vote Measure   States Rights Service Bill Wins Approval of Solons After Embittered Debate — -

States’ Rights — Service Vote Bill Wins Senate 0. K.   Measure Permits Use Of Curtailed Federal Ballot Only with States’ Permission

2 AUTHORS OF ORIGINAL BILL LASH MEASURE   Barkley Attack Regarded by Some as Presaging Veto by President

Compromise Service Vote Measure Wins Final Senate Approval. 47-3]

States Rights Service Vote Bill Gains Final Approval in the Senate

State’s Right Vote Bill Wins  Senate Approva   Debate Is Bitter Before Final Passage of Measure  by 47 to 31.   Passage in House Is Forecast by Worley

Senate Approves Service Vote   kederal Ballot Can Be Used Only With  State’s Permission

SERVICE VOTE COMPROMISE —-[$ ACCEPTED   Senate Passes Measure Providing Federal Ballot for Those in Armed Forces Only With a State’s Permission.

SENATE FINALLY  PASSED SOLDIER  VOTE BILL TODAY VOTE WAS 47 TO 31 ANI  HOUSE EXPECTED GIVE QUICK APPROVAL

14th Air Force Sinks 5 Ships   Jap Convoy Caught Off East China Coast

Two Allied ‘Armies. Push ‘Nazis Back   Germans on -Cortu Surrender; ~ Reds Free to Turn on Germany from Baltic

Nazi Attacks Thrown Back   German Garrison on Corfu Surrenders; Reds Push Forward

How Do Italian Fronts Stack Up, After 7 Months? ‘Correspondents Give Picture

Too Few Men Caused Stalemate in Italy   Correspondents at Scene Tell Why Cassino Was Not Captured and Anzio Invasion Not a Success

ALLIED FORCES SMASHING AHEAD ON TWO SECTOR: _IN DRIVE TO SMASH GERMAN ARMY. ATTEMPT: ING WITHDRAWAL FROM WESTERN HOLLAND—CHURCHILL ‘WARNS. WARE COL.” a7 LAPSE. MAY NOT COME UNTIL “s ” NEXT SPRING.

HURL GERMANS FROM KEY GITY BLOCKING LINE   British Report Americans Crack Main Defense at New Point

Neutralize Main Jap Airfields On Halmahera Island   Eight More Vessels Stnk Or Damaged By Allied Air Attacks

FLIERS HIT 8 NIP SHIPS IN EAST INDIES   Jap Airfields On Halmahera Are Neutralized

2 HALMAHERA AIRFIELDS ARE KNOCKED OUT   Made Useless By Raiders. Kight More Jap Ships Hit

Horida Statute Of Fraud Invalid   Supreme Court Declares Law Violates The 13th Amendment.

ELAS Drive: Moves Ahead In Mountains   British Delay Reply To Armistice Terms

'20, 20,000 Greek ELAS Troops Drive Government Soldiers Into Northwest Mountains

Airmen Attack Nippon Convoy      idespread Destruction On Jupanese B:

Flying Boats Attack  Enemy Convoy   Allied Bombers Hit Jap Targets Deep Within East Indies

Americans Bomb Japanese Convoy   Heavy Freighter Reported Damaged

Three Groups Are Virtually Freed From Threat Of Draft Board Calls

Three U. S. Ships  ‘Gang Submarine   Nazi U-Boat Is Sunk Off Atlantic Coast

ALLIES BLAST JAPS TRYING T0 AID MYITKYINA   Surrounded Garrison  Being Cut Down  _By Advance On North. South

Crash Defense  Of Myitkvina   Reveal Presence Of  Airborne Bazookas In Action Against Japs.

The Weather   Myitkyina’s Outer Line Of Defenses Is Battered   U.S. Uses Fiving Rocket Batteries

ALLIES TAKE ALBANIAN PORT; CERMANS EVACUATING ATHENS   BASE FOR INCREASED OPERATIONS IN ALBANIA SEIZED ~-PATROL§ NEAS ATHENS _

ALLIES OCCUPY ALBANIAN PORT   Planes Concentrate Attack During Night on Italian City of Verona

Port Of Sarande On Coast Of Albania Falls To Allies Following Fierce Singiest

HEAVIEST BLOW ROCKS KURILES   More Softening Raids Seer for Japs’ Inner Defense Perimeter

SIEGE GUNS NOW SHELLING   Most of Saarlautern Already Won by Patton’s Men

Flyers Batter Railway Supply Lines to Nazis On Western War Front   Russians Drive 100 Miles in 24 Hours in Hungary Campaign; Americans Throw Back Counterattacks South of Bologna in Italy

Alert Bus Driver Saves Youth Lying On Highway by Straddling Over Boy

Service Men’s   Bills Pressed   2 House Committees. Try To Get Benefits Plan ; To Final Vote

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HIT THROUGH WIDE VALLEY OF DNIESTER   Russian Drive To Knock Out Finland Hinted As Nazis Report Troop Moves

Surge on Toward Bessarabia   Nazis Unable to Halt Powerful Red Army  Drive; Allied Airmen Lash Out Over Reich

Troops Near Dniester River   Fighting Flares ain On North Russian Front.

NEW RED DRIVE LOOMS AS NAZIS KEPT ON THE RUN   Allied Bombers Return To Europe for Day Attack as Night Raiders Return

New Drive May Force Finland  Out of War   Soviets Seize  Towns in Double Offensive—Battle In Cassino Rages

U.S. Bomhers Hit Base at Hollandia   Crippled Jap Air Force Sends Up No Interception

Hollandia Is Given Another  . bh Big I ounding  Fuel Dumps Are   Fuel Dumps Are Left In Flames After Attack

HOLLANDIA HIT ~ BYU. S. BOMBS   Important Guinea Nip Base Jolted

SENATE TO ACT ON NOMINATIONS   Names of Six Aides to Stettinius Sent to Floor by Committee

Cabinet Upset Halts Talk With Bulaaria   Widespread Rumors Say Hungarians Are Seeking Terms

PRO-AXIS BULGAR CABINET RESIGNS   FALL ANNOUNCED AMID RUMORS THAT HUNGARY IS ASKING ARMISTICE,

BULGARIA PREMIER ~ QUT: TALKS CEASE   Another Axis: Government in. the. Batkans Falls

Bulgaria ls _ Toppled Out Of The Axis   Armistice Talks With Russians Suspended

GOVERNMENT OF BULGARIA HAS FALLEN   Another Hitler Satelite Goes Down; “Rats Leaving Sinking Ship” Fast; Suspend Armistice.   No Turkish News

BULGARIAN TRUCE TALKS SUSPENDED   Government of Premier Bagrianov Totters and Falls   PUPPET CROTIA’S   New Government Tries To Bolster Nazi Hold; Slovakia Revolt Flares Up

BULGARIA PREMIER . ~ OUT: TALKS CEASE   Another Axis Government in the Balkans Eallte

Spain May Desert Axis Under Allied Pressure  Diplomats Confer; Action Is

Spanish Break With Germany Reported Neal   Franco's ‘Neutrality’ Expected Soon To Be Thing Of Past

Spain May Desert Axis Under Allied Pressure  Diplomats Confer; Action Is Anticipated Soon

Spain to Break With Axis Says Latin-American   Franco Faced With Problem Says Diplomat

U. S. Bombers Hit Jap  Bases Heavily   Seek to Minimize Nip’s Flank Threat to Leyte

Philippines Are Pounded To Minimize  Levte Raids   Ships And Runways ‘Feel Fury Of Planes

Jap Airbases in Philippines Bomb-Pounded      New Assaults. Staged to Minimize Nip Aerial Flank Threat To Leyte Isiand

AMERICANS BLAGT ENEMY AIR Bhat MENACING LEYTE   New Assaults Aimed at Minimizing Nipponese Aerial 3 Flank Threat to Isle   TORRENTIAL RAINS STALL GROUND UNITS   Foul Weather, Desperation Of Enemy Defense Squelch American Hopes of Early End to Leyte Campaign; Shipping Is Hit

Expect New Draft Order Next Week   May Permit Drafting of All Deferred Men Under 26

RUSSIANS REPORTED ESTABLISHING BRIDGEHEAD: “ON TERRITORY OF OLD ROMANIA.IN PREPARATION . FOR PUSH INTO BALKANS—-GERMANS HOLDING FIRM AT CASSINO DESPITE HEAVY CONCEN. . ~ TRATION OF ALLIED ARTILLERY FIRE

RED SPEARREADS FORCE GROSSING AT SOME POINTS   Plight of Nazi Garrisons in Poland and Ukraine Now Desperate

TO TELL NATION  OF HIS TRIP TONIGHT   Pays Surprise Visit to Fighting Men in Aleutians

PRESIDENT TO) MAKE RADIO         _ SITUATION IN THE 7) BACKFIO™ 4

ROOSEVELT WILL REPORT TO THE  NATION TONIGHT   FDR Visits an Aleutian base on 10,400-Mile auspection Trip

Roosevelt Will Report On Pacific War Theatre Trip   Will Go On Air At 8 O'Clock Eastern War Time Tonight To Tell Of Conditions

E. PRUSSIA, WARSAW MA' BE TRAPPED   Germany Reports: Grave New Threats To Both Sections

Germans Claim Narew Attacks Are Checked   Soviets Threaten Entrapment of German Armies In East Prussia

Bombers Support Russian Advance   Additional Chunks Carved Out of the Nazis’ Baltic  “Flank   DRIVE TOWARD A PORT   Germans Counter Attack to Check Invasion of East  Prussia

SOVIETS PUSH NEW DRIVE ON LATVIAN PORT   Reds Carve Out Big Chunks Of Baltic Sector   RIVER IS CROSSED   Flanking Threat Tc East Prussia And Warsaw

Russ Drive For Liepaja   Carve Additional Chunks Out of Germans Flank on Baltic

ee  NAZI DEFENSES   Germans Report Flanking Move Against Warsaw, East Prussia

Reds Pose Grave New Threat To  Nazi Armies   Advance West Of Narew River Would Flank Both Warsaw And East Prussia

Reds Threaten Warsaw, East Prussia Hank   Famous Battleground Of Last War Is Scene of Movement

REDS THREATEN TO TRAP REICH UNITS IN EAS]   By Flanking Move, East Prussia and Warsaw Would Be Knocked Out

OAY REDS An INNEW THREAT   Attacks in E. Prussia, Warsaw Area Beaten Off, Germans Say.   NOT CONFIRMED BY REDS

WARSAW ALSO WOULD BE CUT OFF BY MOVE   Soviets Present Grave New Threat to Nazis West of Upper Narew River, According to the German Communique.

Soviets Poise New Threats  Te Hun Lines   Muscovites Believed Attempting to By-Pass Warsaw and Strike Direct Into Prussia   Vistula Crossed Nearer Warsaw   Berlin Says Soviets Only 25 Miles Below Polish Capital; Bigger Pilica  Brdigcheads

Flanking Threat From Russians  Faced By Nazis   Soviet Tanks Advancing On Latvian Port Of Liepaja; Rede Halt Counter Push

Russian Thrust Threatens Nazis In East Prussia   Warsaw Also Periled By Flanking Movement Of Red Forces

RUSSIAN TANKS AND AIRFORCE BLASTING FORWARD IN LATVIA  VISTULA RIVER BRIDGEHEAD ALSO WIDENED

Nazi Units in Fast Prussia Facing Trap   Berlin Reports Grave Flanking Movement Is Mow in Progress

GERMANS ADMIT SITUATION BAD IN WARSAW AREA   East Prussia Is Open To Reds Outerflank

Russians Flank — Warsaw Defense   GERMANS THREATENED IN TWO AREAS BY REDS

Red Army — Is Imposing New Threats   Germans Admit Flanking Moves Endanger Warsaw And East Prussia

huss Carve New Gains in - Baltic Drive Soviet Tanks Press Ahead — Toward Latvian Port   of Liepaja  NAZI LINES STIEFEN Bitterest. ~ Resistance of ' Summer Slows War     NAZI LINES STIFFEN

Reds Pose New Threat   Gains Near ‘Narew River May Flank All East Prussia

Nazis Alarmed At Red Advance   Warsaw Flanked, Berlin Reports; Left Nazi Flank  Broken by Russians.

SOVIET TANKS DRIVE TOWARD LATVIAN PORT   New Russian Offensive Carves More Chunks Out of the Nazi's Baltic Flank

Soviet Flanking Drive Threatens Warsaw, Prussia   Narew River Is Scene of New Russian Offensive

Red Tanks ir New Push in Baltic Area   Flanking Threat To Both East Prussia and Warsaw Regions

NOTED BATTLEGROUND   Russians Are Making a Flank Attack “West of Upper Narew”

New Threat for Warsaw By Russians   ' Germans Disclose Red Army Nearest Yet To Polish Capital.

Red Threat To Outflank  East Prussia   Baiiling in Narew River Socte Alse Threaiens Warsaw—Sevi sis Meve te Mes Us: in Baltic

0 OUTFLANK AST PRUSSIA    ‘t THREATEN   Berlin Admits New Attacks in Strategic Upper Narew Valley

NAZIS TELL OF FLANK THREAT TO F. PRUSSIA   Repeated Red Attacks West of Upper Narew River Are Reported

Grave Threat Seen in Red Flank Drive   Good Gain Would Trar German Forces in  East Prussia

ADVANCES IN BALTIC TRAP AREA CONTINUE   Riga, Liepaja Threatened As Soviets Widen Corridor To Sea

RED ADVANCE GAINS SPEED ON BALTIC FRONT   Soviets Kill 3,800 Germans; Smash 120 Tanks in Battle Wednesday

RUSSIANS GAIN INNEW SMASH ALONG BALTIC   Other Red Columns Expanc Vistula Sector Despite Stiff Nazi Defenses

Reds Threaten To Flank East Prussia, Warsaw   Nazis Reveal Soviet Landing Across River 25 Miles Southeast Of Pole Capital

Berlin Admits Reds Hurl Grave New Threat At Prussia, Warsaw   Flanking Move Would Expose German Armies To Entrapment; Another Russian Drive Rolls Toward Latvian Port Of Liepaja.

BERLIN REPORTS NEW RED THREAT TO EAST PRUSSIA   DISCLOSE FLANKING MOVEMENT WEST OF UPPER NAREW RIVER

RUSS AIM NEW THREAT AT WARSAW. E. PRUSSIA   Germans Report Attacks West of Narew River, Hinting Dual Flanking Move

NEW SOVIET PUSH THREATENS NAZIS IN EAST PRUSSIA   Attack Is Launched Near the Narew River, Famous Battle Ground During World War .   FLORENCE POPULATION NEEDS FOOD QUICKLY   Yank Gun Crews In Yunnan; First U: S. Ground Action In China. Reconquest of Guam Completed.

REDS CUT NEW GAINS ON NAZI BALTIC FLANK      Germans Counterattack Fiercely in Defense of East Prussia Border

RED FLANKING MOVEMENT MAY CAIN DECISION   Seviets in Area West of Upper Narew River: Repeated Attacks Beaten Off by Nazis

Red Artillery Shelling Towns  Over German East Border   \Germans Counter-Attack Savagely to  Defend ‘Holy’ Soil From Invasion by  Soviet Avalanche. :

/ RUSSIA—  SOVIETS PLAN TO. BYPASS WARSAW    Russian Tanks Rumble * Toward Liepaja, Key Latvian Port .   RIGA IS MENACED   Stubborn Nazi Resistance Checks Reds Before Polish Capital

New Flanking Threat By Reds Near Narew   German Armies May Face Being Placed in Great Trap

NEW. FLANKING THREAT MADE BY RED ARMY   Fast Prussia and Warsaw Menaced By Operations, ’ Berlin Radio Reports .   IMOSCOW SILENT ON MOVE

Grave New Red Threat to Prussia   Warsaw Also Is Further Menaced by Russian Drive Near Narew River   MORE GERMANS MAY BE TRAPPED   ’ Russians Continue to Hold Back on Details, But Hint of Renewal of Drive

NEW THREAT MADE BY RUSSIANS   May Flank Both East Prussia And City Of Warsaw

Reds Flanking East Prussia  And Warsaw   New Threat to German Line Revealed by Nazi Communique; New Drive Also Reported in Baltic Section

Russians Rumble Toward Latvia Port of Liepaja   Vistula River Bridgehead Below Warsaw Extended

GRAVE NEW RUSSIAN FLANKING THREAT DISCLOSED TODAY   Affected Both East Prussia and Warsa win Area West of Upper Narew River.   WERE BEATEN OFF?   German Radio Reported Soviet Troops Were Across the Vistula River.

Russians Reported In Flanking Drive On East Prussia   New Vistula River Crossing Reported Nearer to Warsaw

Reds’ Tanks Move Near « Latvia Port Of f Liepaja   Vistula Bridgehead’ Is: Extended: Slowly.

ROTA IN SOUTH MARIANAS HIT BY BIG PLANES      J. §. Naval Forces Continue Softening Up Of Rota, Guam

Germans Expected to Hold Kings  May Be Pawns When  Nevis Baracin

German Ar my Defeated. Montgomery Declares   It Is Only Question Of How Long It Will Take Enemy To Admit Defeat He Says; Commanders Refuse To Guess When End Will Be Accomplished

British General — Says War Only  ‘Question of Time   American Commanders Also Confident But No Definite Dates Set

CONVENTION OF IOWA GOP T0 BE HELD ON FRIDAY   Delegates Arriving; Most Maneuvering Is Expected at Caucuses

IOWA GOP MEET TO OPEN FRIDAY   Delegates Begin to Arrive For Convention

UMWA Hits FDR; Lauds Tom Dewey   RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE REPORT FINDS HOUSECLEANING “BADLY NEEDED IN WASHINGTON”,   Question Debated

New Broom Needed: United Mine Workers Ask Cleanup In Washington; Praise Gov. Dewey

Dewey Gets Praise at   FDR Condemned, GOI Cundishite Approved  But Endorsement Withheld

Dewey Is Given Pat On Back By United Miners   But No Out-And-Out Endorsement Made At Meeting

ASKS FOR. AID OF TROOPS   Storm, Strike Shut Off City  Power Service

Curran is GOP Choice for Senate; ‘Opposes Wagner   Dewey Gives Nod io Secretary of State While Democrats Again Pick Labor Leqislafor

Additional German Atrocities Revealed.  Films Verify Massacre of Yanks

Leone M. Brauch Becomes Bride  Of Remsen Man  ‘Wedding Held _At St. Joseph’s - Tuesday, June 13

Lorraine Hoss Weds Raphael . Ruden of Oyens  Wedding Held At St. Joseph’s  Tuesdav. June &

BOY CONFESSES TO SLAYING FIVE YEAR OLD GIRL   Declared Insane At Hearing Given In Chicago

PRINCETON YOUTH CONFESSES CRIME TO OFFICERS HERE   Norman Burton, 15, Kills Niece In Sister's Home Where He Had Been Befriended For More Than A Year.

JAP SHIPPING GETS WORST BLOW OF WAR   Submarines, Airplanes Operating Fifth of Way Around World; Marshall Islands to Indian Ocean Take Toll.   Prefers Long War

38 Jap Warships, Cargo Vessels  Blasted in Week  MacArthur Forces  Cc...) DA knamvu

WAR TODAY   Hitler’s Armies Sea Badly Battered They Cannot Maintain. Prolonged Defense of Hic Deteriorating Raich

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Allied Push Example of  Team Work      Fierce Fighting Ahead Unless Nazi Homefront Morale Collapses

ALLIED HIGH COMMAND GIVING PERFECT EXAMPLE COORDINATION IN FINAL BATTLE FOR GERMANY

War Won't Be Won Until Troops Reach Berlin—  ‘Germans Hope For Delay Until Bad Weather

Allies Show Coordinated Fighting  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE (B War Analveat

The War Today .  Coordination of Allied Attacks  Priawianw the bh awt Jain

ALLIED ARMIES COORDINATING ‘ON ALL THEATRES IN EUROPE AGAINST STAGGERING GERMANS

2.100 Planes Drop Bombs On Colonge   Bombers Swept Over In Three Waves in Less Than an Hour:  16 U. S. Planes Lost

1,300 U.S, BOMBERS AGAIN LASH COLOGNE   Industrial Center Smashed Six Times In Six Days

2,100 PLANES GIVE NAZI CITY GREATEST RAIL   Bombed City Supply Funnel for Germans Around Aachen. 13 American Bombers Lost

OVER 2,000 U. 5. PLANES BATTER COLOGNE 6TH DA\   Kiel Canal Said Blocked Since Oct. 15 Useless For 3 Months

Cologne Shudders Under 4,000 Tons of Bombs  Vienna Area Become: Target Again For Italy Bombers

Cologne Smashec for Sixth Time  U. S. Bombers Hit Industrial Center

Cologne Blasted By 4,000 Tons Of Yankee Bombs  Over 2,000 Planes Hit Rhineland

Cologne Receives Six-Days Bombing   Critically Needed Kiel Canal Reported Blocked Since Oct. 15

Vast U.S. Air Armada Hits Nazi Front Communications, Cologne 6th Time In 6 Days.   Over 1,300 Heavy Bombers, Accompanied By 800 Fighters Carries Offensive On

1,300 Yank Bombers Hit Reich Again   Cologne Hammered by Fortresses and  Liberators

2,100 Planes Hit Cologne Heavy Blow   German City Bombed For Sixth Time In As Many Davs

1,00 PLANES AAD COLOGNE FOR SIKTH OR   ‘Mosquitos Bomb Nazi Center Before Dawn, Ahead of U. S. Attack.

1,300 Plane: Hit Western Front Lines   RAF Mosquitos Bomb Cologne— 800 Fighters  Escort Bombers

U.S. Planes. Hit Cologne After British’ Hammer City   “German: Supply : - Base Is Pounded.

COLOGNE SHUDDERS UNDER 4,000 TONS OF  AMERICAN BOMBS   OTHER U. S. AIRCRAFT FROM ITALY BOMBED  VIENNA INDUSTRIAL ARE!

COLOGNE BOMBED  ESUCCESSIVE DAYS   Great Part of Great Prussian City Now Lies In Ruins.

T,d00 BOI BLAST COLOGNE   Fortresses And Liberators Are Escorted By 800 Fighters

Cologne Hit By 4,000 Tons   Worst Single Bombing of War Delivered By 1,300 Fortresses

BLAST WESTERN FRONT TARGETS   HUGE ARMADA HITS COLOGNE FOR 6TH TIME IN SIX DAYS

Cologne Again Pounded; Huge Fires Burning   American Air Fleet Hits Front Again; Kiel Canal Blocked.

COLOGNE SHUDDERS AS 4000 TONS OF ALLIED BOMBS FALL   Great Air Fleet of 2,100 Amer_ ican Aircraft Lash Out in Assault on Vital Siegfried Line City—Italy-Base Craft Bit Vienna Area

COLOGNE HAR HIT TODAY BY U.S, BOMBERS   1300 Fortresses Strike Great Ruhr Center

Cologne Gets Worst Raid  4A Onn rr... Ld   4,000 Tons Hnined On Rail Center in binge ea Bia

Green Islands Captured 120 Miles From Rabaul.   WE’VE ENDED THE SOLOMONS CAMPAIGN   22,000 Japs Are Left on the Islands for Starvation.

ALLIES ISOLATE 22,000 JAPS IN SOLOMONS CAPTURING GREEN IS.--RABAUL BROUGHT NEARER

Vatutin Forces Drive on Heels Of Fleeing Nazis   German General Unable to Rally Retreating Army

Allied Troops Seize Points  In Hitler Line   Driving Nazie Back On   Lower Half of Front,  Toward Third Wall  : of Hun Defense   Yanks Take Towns In South Section   ; Allied Werships Hanmer  Roadways and Towne on  Route Germans Must  fise in Retreat

DEPUE PILOT BRINGS HOME DAMAGED PLANE   Lt. Emil Laszewski Of Bureau County Takes Bomber Back From Budapest Raid After Being Hit By Shell.

DE PUE MAN BRINGS BACK HIT PLANE   Lt. Emil Laszewski Pilot On Bomber In Budapest Raid

PERU TO DEPORT PRO-NAZI GROUPS   Conspirators “Charged With Anti-Jew Activities

TOLEDO S DELUGED WITH 3-INCH RAIN   a  Basements Flooded, Cars Are Stalled in City

Yanks Smash Ahead In New Heavy Attack   Cross Vire River, Capture Airel; La Haye Almost Encircled By Offensive

Under © Heavy Barrage   Smash Across Vire River, Seizing Town Of Airel; La Haye Is Reported Taken

YANKS SMASH AHEAD IN NEW FRENCH DRIVE   Foot Patrols Cross Marshes Into Besieged La Haye du Puits.   Heavy Nazi Counter Drives Are Repulsed

Wade Across Stream At Dawn, Establish Bridgehead, Then Hit  Enemy on Flank

Not Fit For A Dog   Read This About Butch, Born During One Of Italy's Bloodiest Battles: Has Special Diet

BOMBERS CLOSE TQ PHILIPPINES   U. S. Fliers Destroy 45 Jap Planes In Raid

Bombers Strike Near Philippine Islands      45 Japanese Planes Destroyed In American Raid

Big Bomb Raid On Halmahera Island   Jap Planes Destroyed, Airfields Smashed 300 Miles From Mindanao

Russians Beat Back Nazi Counter-Thrusts  ee ee ee Oa er reer roe

Wickard Reports On Food Outlook   Compares Prospects Of All Belligerents

United Nations Better Off In Spite Of Food Problems   All Warring Nations Face Difficulties; Situation  Better In Germany Than All Of Russia

All Nations Facing Food Difficulties, — Wickard Says   But United Nations Better Off Than Axis, Particularly Germany, Secretary Declares  TIGHTER SUPPLIES IN U. S. LIKELY  Production at Top But Overseas Demand: Cail] Imereactnge

FOOD DIFFICULTIES SEEN DURING YEAR   Annual Report eport Sumbittec by Secretary of Aariculture

Wickard Sees Food Woes Ahead   1944 to Offer Both Sides More Dilfnc ulties

Six Jap Planes Bageed at Truk   96 Tons Douse Key Isle: Wadke Also RBombed

TRUK RAID) DOWNS SIX JAP PLANES    All Bagged in Haif Hour; Liberators Douse Truk with 96 Tons of Bombs; Other Targets Hit.   Cover Wewak

6 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN RAID ON TRUK   Warehouses, Hangar: Blasted by Yank  Airmen

Chaplin On Stand Beats His Chair With Fists In Denying \He Has ‘Committed A Crime’

American Gains Up fo Three Miles Reported   Bombers Help Yanks in Thrust Toward Saar

Meeting For Represntatives Of The Poultry Industry Is Scheduled July. 19   Producers In Iowa Area To Outline Plans

Serious Tire Shortage  Forces Revision Of Ali  Rationing Regulations

Dana D. Otto Dies In Coryville   Resident of this Area For Half Century

Leftist Units Move Toward Greek Capital   Considerable Force From Provinces on Way Toward Athens

MORE TROUBLE IS BREWING IN BLOODY GREECE   British Military Forces ji Bitter Conflict With Leftist Groups

BRITISH TROOPS ROUTING GREEKS   Athens Being Cleared Of Communist Forces

Mass North Of Athens   Leftist March in _ From Provinces As Ministers Seek Way To End Civil Strife

NEW GROUPS OF THE GREER ELAS FORMING   Heavy Concentrations Reported North of Athens —-British, Meanwhile, Clear Fifth of Capital at Toeftists.

National League   American Leaque   Uncle Sam Issues Call For Muscle Women In Foundries

36 Wounded Servicemen Among Former Prisoners - Returning on Gripsholin

REPATRIATES BACK: GRIPSHOLM DOCKS   622 Americans Thankful to Reach American Soif

POLES TIGHTEN SOVIET ACCORD   Reds May Even Demand Ouster Of President

“Presénting “Lily “Mars’’’’ —_— ‘Musical, Stars) Judy —Garla   Saturday and Sunday Electric Theatre

Predicts Surplus OE $16,900,000 In State Treasury   Staples Warns Against Spending; Suggests Two Uses

State Surplus In Treasury  Need for Strict Economies is Still Stressed

Warplanes Sink or ‘Damage 18 Jap Barges in Attack   Enemy Attempt to Reinforce Garrison on Moretai Island Is Largely Broken Uv, Gen. MacArthur Reports

BRITISH GAIN 6 MILES IN NEW DRIVE ON CAEN   Harbor Of Great Port May Be Usable In 48 Hours

Smash Last Enemy Re-« sistance In The Key © Port Of Cherbourg    LIBERATION OF FRANCE NEXT PHASE   New British Offensive Sweeps Forward More Than Six Miles

CHERBOURG FALLS, TOMMIES PUSH TOWARD THE EAST   Great Barrage Precedes Gen eral Advance of Six .Bailae

Infantry Tide Cuts Vital Railway Link; Cape Nazis in Trap   Engineers, Salvage Crews Begin Task of Restoring Wrecked Docks; Germans Lose Bulk of 4 Divisions

New British Offensive Sweeping Forward At Caen Over-Runs Towns   Occupation Of Port Official 20 Days After Invasion; Engineers Begin Restoring Harbor

New Drive Cuts Rails Below Caen   British Push Gains More Than Six Miles In Widespread Arc

PORT RESISTANCE ENDS, THOUSANDS TAKEN PRISONER   Coincident With Announcement of Capture of Cherbourg, Dispatches Reveal “Push” Against Caen.   SEVERAL VILLAGES TAKEN IN NEW ZONE   Front Below Caen Now -Extends Several Miles and Will Be Enlarged Slowly as Drive Progresses,

British Advance Over Six Miles In French Drive   Cherbourg Now Entirely in Hand: Of Americans

COAST OF FRANCE IS BOMBED   Many Bombers Take Part In Daylight Attack

INVASION’ COAST HIT ATH TIME   Non-Stop Attacks Are Meeting Little Opposition

Alles Resume French Blasting   Heap Tons of Bombs  On German Defense Lin

French Skies Black With Allied Planes   Pre-Invasion Camqaign Keeps Nazi Detensive On Alert Along Coast

Dining Car Racket On Union Pacific  Smashed By FBI   Stewards, Waiters Held On Charzes of Withholding Feseipts

100 Arrested in Railroad Dining Car Meal Racket   Cost Line $200,000 Yearly; Customers Not Victimized ©

SWINDLE NIPPED ON DINING CARS   Officers Of FBI Arrest 132. Employes Of Union Pacific

Hold Over 100 U. P. Waiters And Stewards For Thefts In Dining Cars

Dining Car Fraud Jails 100 Waiters   Union Pacific Men Arrested In Las Veqas, Los Angeles, Omaha

ARREST DINING CAR WORKERS   Waiters and Stewards Held On Federal Charges

Union Pacific Waiters Nabbed  Charged With Thefts of Meal Receipts

Arresting Union Pacific Dining Car Waiters In Alleged Swindling Racket

Waiters Seized In FBI Roundup   Charged With Withhold. ing Receipts For Meals On Dining Cars.

100 Union Pacific Waiters, Stewards Arrested In Withholding Meat Receipts

PUUL ATTENDANG EXCEEDS 11 O00   Subsidization of Pool Estimated at $54 Despite Higher Operating Costs

POOL ATTENDANCE FXCEEDS 11.000   iSubsidization of Pool Estimated at $54 Despite  'Wipher Operating ;Costs

Escape Gap For Enemy Eliminated   Aachen Isolated by Amer. ican Forces—Beat Off  Counter-attackg

Allies Start Bid To Flank Belfort Gap   First Nazi Attack On Aachen Front Is Beaten Off

DRIVE OPENED TO OUTFLANK BELFORT GAP   New Offensive Begun As 6th Army Pushes To Within Two Miles Of Pass Leading To German Rhineland

CANDIDATES FOR OHIO GOVERNOR STEP UP TEMPO   Bricker Administration Caught in Crossfire of Politicians

Richard Bennett, Actor, 1s Dead  Survived by Three  Actreee Danahterc

URGES 4-F LABOR CORPS  Clare Luce’s ‘Bill Would Also Put 38.45 Group In niform For Emergency Wor

RED ARMY IS TOLD IT SOON WILL STRIKE   Moscow Radio Says Troops Will Be Called On ta Free Soviet Soil and Other Nations.

NAZIS FIGHT DESPERATELY FOR BUDAPEST   Russian Columns Within Two Miles of Big Airdrome In Outskirts of Capital   HUNGARY ABOUT DONE

REDS BATTLE IN OUTSKIRTS OF BUDAPEST   Spurred By Stalin Prediction Hungary Faces Quick Kayo

Reinforced Nazis Defend Budapest  Russians Fight Two Miles of Nazi-Run

Nazis Make Death Stand At Budapest   Russians Fight Savagely: Stalin Says Hungary Near Collapse

Reds Battle In:Budapest   : Outskirts Are Scerie - OF Decisive. Contest

STALIN SPURS SOVIET TROOPS   Premier Says Decisive Offensive At Hand

BUDAPEST FIGHT GROWING IN FURY   GERMAN TROOPS REINFORCED FOR ALL-OUT BATTLE

Russians Press Budapest Battle  Red Troops Fighting in Capital's Outskirts

Nazis Waging Stiff Battle  Hungary Nearly Out  OF Wear. Says Stalin

Battle Rages Near Budapest  ee a    Hungary Soon to Be Out of War, Stalin Declares

NAZIS BUILD UP BUDAPEST FORCE   Reds Battle Reinforced  Troons of Germans

Reds At Grips With Nazis On  ‘Edge Budapest   Russians Spurred by Stalin Pronouncement That Hungary Would Soou Canpitulate

Soviet Troops Hit Defenses Of Budapest   Furious Fighting Rages at Gates Of Maevar City

NAZI STAND IS STRONGER AT BUDAPES   Soviets Battle Enemy Two Miles From Big Airdrome in Capital’s Outskirts, but No Advance Is Reported.

BATTLING IN OUTSKIRTS OF BALKAN CITY   Nazis Strongly Reinforced Against Russians. Hungary Soon Out of War—Stalin

Stalin Asserts Hungary Will Fall Shortly   Russian Forces Drive for Airfield Outside Budancst

Reds, Nazis Battling For Budapest   Hungarian Capital Not Declared To Be An Open City

Stalin Speech Spurs Russians  Marshal Says Allies On Eve of Victory Over Germany

RUSSIAN TROOPS INTO OUTSKIRTS OF MAJOR CITY   Reds Now Battling Germans For Budapest — Stalin Envisions Triumph

Reinforced Nazis Baitle F or Budapest   Red Troops Attack After Stalin Declares Hungary’s Defeat Near

RUSSIANG BATTLE REINFORCED NAZIS   Fight Two Miles South of Big Airport on Budanest Outskirts.

SOVIETS STRIKE NAZI DEFENSES NEAR BUDAPEST  Bitter Rattle   Bitter Battle Underway For Airdrome

Doughton Says Tax Structure  Will Be Revised   Aids To Free Enterprise Predicted, But Corporate Levy Stays

TAX REVISION UP FOR STUDY   Demo Committee Leader  Says Corporate Cut   Impractical

Secret Probe Of Lake Disasters Ordered By U.S. Coast Guard Chief

2  astern Heat Wave Toe End  IVE £68 ENG  By Tomorrow With Showers   Drought-Breaking Rain Moving Leisurely to Rescue of Sweltering At lantic Seaboard

RELIEF FROM HEAT AND DROUTH ON WAY   Cooler Weather And Rain Within Eight To 36 Hours Being Predicted

Nippon Troops Starve In Islands As Yanks Cut Off Supply Lines   DESTROVERER SINK

General's Words Prove Prophetic   Statement Of Four Years Ago Recalled  Ry RAY CRONIN

Hurricane Hits Florida, 7 Known Dead   Center of Storm Has Passed Over St. Petersburg Aréa and. Will Pass Into Atlantic At Jacksonville

Caribbean Hurricane Roars Across Central Area of Florida   Center of Tropical Disturbance Passes over Tampa, St. Petersburg

Jacksonville in Path of Storm   Center of Hurricane Passes Over Tampa And St. Petersburg

STRIKES IN U. § - AND CANADA TIE ~ UP WAR WORKERS   Philadelphia Transportation Strike Enters Its Third Day   MONTREAL TRANSIT STRIKE BEGINS  16,000 CIO Workers At

Rival Unions Th Muncie, Ind. Dispute   Transportation in Philadelphia and Montreal Tied Up

CIO-AFL Dispute Idles Factories At Muncie, Ind.  Philadelphia and Montreal Transport Workers Strike

STRIKE VOTE OF 16,000 MUNCIE (1.0. MEMBERS PERILS ALL WORK   LAYOFFS TIE UP PHILADELPHIA, MONTREAL TRANSPORTATION, HAMPER WAR PRODUCTION

Unions’ War At Muncie Is Output Blow         Strikes Affect War Produc tion in Philadelphia Montreal.

Wallace Predicts Japan’s Defeat   Believes The War Will End With Nips In Next Twelve Months.

100 Carriers Bolster U.S Fieot   Wallace Voices Hope to Free China Within Next 12 Months

2 Convicts Reeaptured    “Men: Surrender And’ Free Girl Hostage .

RUSSIANS SCORE DIPLOMATIC WIN   More Bargaining Power For Red Unions Expected

RED DIPLOMACY GAINS RESPECT   Decree Gives Bargaining Powers To 16 Small Soviet Republics

Diplomats Say Soviet Scores Brilliant Coup   Broad and Elastic Foreign Policies Seen Under Setup

Believes Reds Plan Broad, Elastic Foreign Policy   Foreign Diplomats Interpret Strategic Move by Union

RED DIPLOMATIC ACT LIFTS BROWS   Great Strategic Success Due If. Autonomy Plan Accented

Scene Set For Voting Battles   State’s Rights Or Federal Ballot Question

Hurl 10-12 Divisions Into Fray  Slash Back At Seventh  AD cence of

BRICKER CITES LAW CONFUSION   Courts Must Be Freed Of Political Bias, Says GOP Candidate

BRICKER CHARGES NEW DEAL ~ HAS BROKEN ALL TRADITIONS   GOVERNOR DECLARES AT BALTIMORE “VIRTUAL DICTATORSHIP" HAS BEEN  ad BET UP a

TANKS MAKE NEW LANDING. ON BIAK   Cuts Off Escape of Jap Remnants on Stategic Isle   PUSH IN AITAPE AREA   Trapped Japanese Have Lost 4,000 Men in Effort Push Through Yank Lines

ALLIES ALL SET TORULE GERMANY AFTER INVASION   Eisenhower Reveals Plans to Take Charge of Civil Affairs as Troops Enter Cities : _and. Villages. —   GROUP IS CREATED. TO HANDLE PROBLEM   Will ‘Operate Temporarily in  France and Other Occupied ‘. Countries, But Not as. Military Regime. .. -

Military Rulers Set to Take Over in Europe  » Allies Reveal New Civil Affairs  Garthan Ovrerermiscad

Organization  For Ruling Reich Ready  Eisenhower. Unveils Group for Control Of InvadedfAreas

Military Rulers Set to Take Over in Europe   ¥ Allies Réveal New Civil Affairs Section Organized

Ruling Group Set to Enter Reich With Invading Troop:   Organization Described as Civil Affairs Section Unveiled by Gen. Eisenhower; Teams to Operate in Occupied Nations

G-5 To Rule Allied Europe   Eisenhower Unveils Organization To Rule Germany.

EISENHOWER TELLS ABOUT RULE SET-UP   Organization will accompany Troops into GerMany to Rule Country with Military Band.   Feed Hungry

Eisenhower Give: Writers Glimpse Of Allied Might   General Unveils Training Centers

ALLIED SETUP IS READY FOR RULING REICH   GERMANY WILL BE GOVERNED WITH IRON HAND

Nazis Shitl Forces; Gues: D-Day Date   Allied Civil Powers Section Car Operate Countries

PLAN TO RULE REICH AREAS IS-UNVEILED   Eisenhower Forms Organi'xation for Military Rule   GENERAL GRASSETT ' - RANKING OFFICER   Civil Affairs Section to March Beside Invading Troops.

SUPERVISION OF CONQUERED LANDS SET BY EISENHOWER   Organization Will Move Into France And Other NaHons, Including Germany, And Rule Until Popular Governments Are Established; Headed By Canadian

Superforts Hit Nagoya And Hankow   Airfields Being Put in Shape  On Mindoro, Now In Yank Hands

200 Superbombers Over Jap Targets   Nagoya Is Struck Again in Stepped Up U.3. Schedule

INDUSTRIES BLASTED BY B-29 ARMADA   Japanese War Machines Feel Sledgehammer Blows of Up to 200 Bombers From Separate Bases   NG CLAIMS OF LOSSES

Giant Planes Raid Nagoya   200 Superforts Strike Second Time; Damage To Plane Plants Heavy

Reconnaissance Flights Show Great Damage To Hatsudoki Aircraft Plant.

200 B-29S USED BY U. § IN ATTACKS   War Machine In Both Areas Hit Heavy Blows

Superforts Hit Jap © Targets   Force of. 200 B-29’s From 20th and 21st Groups Raid Hankow, In China, and Nagoya

200 B-29’s Attack Jap War Industries   Blows From Separate Bases Staged Against Already Damaged Nagoya in Homeland, and Against Hankow in Nip-Occupied China.

200 Superforts Batter Hankow. Nagoya Again   Photos Reveal Big Jap Aircraft Plant Badly Damaged In First Raid.

HEAVY DAMAGE T0 NIP AIRPLANE PLANT REVEALED   Twin Blow Is Second Attack On Nagoya In 5 Days, First  On Hankow

200 SUPERFORTS BOMB JAPS AGAIN   Air Giants Blast Nagoya Plant Again. Bomb Enemy In Hankow

Japanese War Production In Ruins... ... SUPERFORTS BLAST JAP ISLES AGAIN

JAPANESE FELT. THE SLEDGEHAMMER BLOWS FROM U, S.      Up to 200 B-29 Superfor. tresses Attack From Separate Bases.   STRUCK AT NAGOYA   It Is on the Nipponese Mainland, Also at Hankow, China,

200 Superforts Hit Japs in Twin Assault   Nagoya and Hankow Are Targets For Big Bombers

BIG U. S. BOMBERS HIT NAGOYA AGAIN   Washington Reports Up to 200 B 29s in Attac

B-29°S ASSAULT JAPANESE AREA   In Twin Attacks, Nearly 200 Superforts Hammer At Nip Targets

Hit Jep. Mainland, Hankew in Chine; Aircraft Foctory Badly Damoged

Allied Entry Into Florence Is Imminent   Germans Fall Back As New Zealanders,  Africans Push   RIG  DOMES  VISIBLE   Nazis Depart From Hill South Of City In Night

Germans Fall Back Before Pressure   New Zealand And South African Troops Factors

FLORENCE NEAR , COLLAPSE: NAZI UNITS RETREAT   ies Within 3 Miles of City; Fall of Art Center Comina Soon

Germans Retreat From Florence   Allied Occupation of Italian City Is Expected Some Time Today.

Allied Entry Into Florence   Appears Neat   Germans Fatling Back Before Uurelenting Pressure of New Zealand, So. American Troops

AMERICANS NOW IN OUTSKIRTS OF FLORENCE   Nazis Slowly Being Forced Back from Beau tiful Tuscan City As Allies Move

Fall of Florence Near as Germans Plan Withdrawal  New Zealanders Prepare to Enter City with Some Troops Oaly 2 Miler Away

Eighth ' Army In Outskirts Of Florence   Find Five of Six Bridges Across Arno River Destroyed; No Major Actions on Fifth Army Fgont

a,  Florence Defense Crumbling; Nazis Said Withdrawing   Enemy Appears To Be Covering Retreat With Attack Series

ALLIED ENTR INTO CITY IMMINENT   New Zealand, South African Troops Are Leading Way   5,000 CAPTIVES   Taken By British In Last 24 Days: Other Casualties Also High   BULLETIN Rome, Aug. 4. (4?) — The Eighth army reached Florence today.

Capture Of Florence By Allied Army  Imminent   Germans Retreating From Italian City; New Zealanders Read) To Make Entry

ALLIES ENTE THE SUBURBS OF FLORENCE   Troops Find Five of Six Bridges Crossing Arno Into Strong Outpost of Nazi Gothic Line Have Been Razed.

Florence Near Capture Today   New: Zealand and South African Troops About To Enter Historic :City.

EXPECT ALLIED UNITS TO ENTER FLORENCE SOON   New Zealand, South African Troops Reel Nazis Back Toward Bastion

South Africans, New Zealanders Enter Florence   Troops From Down Under  Nazis Qn Italian Front

FIND BRIDGES ARE DESTROYED   Germans Leave Most Noted One Crossing Arno Riv-° er Standing.   CITY STOUTLY DEFENDED

Eighth Army Reaches Florence   Germans Falling Back Before Unrelenting New Zealanders Push

ALLIED ENTRY INTO FLORENCE APPEARS NEAR   Germans On Run From Historic City Under Relentless Attack

Germans Retreat Through Florence  Sth Army May Enter City Before Nightfall

ALLIED ENTRY INTO FLORENCE 1S IMMINENT   Nazis Falling Back Before Big Forces

NAZIS IN RETREAT AROUND FLORENCE FALL IS IMMINENT   British. Forces Occupy Ridge Three Miles South of City  -” U.S Troops at Laromola Villane.   RUSSIANS PUSH AHEAD, 91 MILES FROM SILESIA   Jap Suicide Drive Crushed al  ~ Aitape; Aniericans Gain on Guam; Manchuria ts Raided Again.

Kighth Army Battles Way  To Florence   South Africans Reach Outskirts Of City, Find Bridges Gone

FOE FALLING BACK FROM ART CENTER   Allied Entry Into City is Declared _ To Be Imminent

dein FALL   Nazis Said Fleeing trom Ancient Art Center; Anzacs j.ead Push

To Outskirts Of Florence   Fall Believed Imminent As Enemy Lines Crack Under Pressure

ALLIES ADVANCE INTO OUTSKIRTS OF TUSCAN CITY ENEMY WITHDREW  eeAaii“eiPatiainr BevAsn

Eighth Army Reaches City Of Florence   Troops Discover Germans Destroyed Five Of Six Bridges Crossing Arno River In Famed City

Eighth Army to Edge of Florence   Retreating Nazis Destroy Bridges Leading to City

South African Troops Enter Outskirts of City   Find 5 of the 6 Bridges Crossing Arno Destroyed

Eighth Army Africans Enter Outskirts Of Florence; All But One Bridge Knocked Out

War Compels Drug Addicts To Take Cure   Smuggling of opium into U. S.. practically stopped when war with Japan started:

FAIL HOLDUP, TWO ARRESTED   Running Gunfight Suc. cess—$50,000 Payroll Safe

Soviet Forces Plunge Toward  Brest-Litovsk In Overcoming  Heavy Nazi Counter-Attacks   Smash Westward Beyond Sarny, Beat Off Stiffening Attacks In Other Areas

Nazis Battle Desperately To Escape Trap   But Moscow Reports Heavy Counter-Attacks Are Smashed.

Students Protest Measures Against Australian Pres   Crowd Demonstrates and Newspapers Obtuin Restraining Oreler

Street Crowds Cry. ‘Gestapo’ As Censorship Row Over Australian News Stories Goes To Court

Australian Students Demonstrate In Protest against Curb of Press

BLOOM HAS INVITED REPUBLICANS TO HELP AMEND CONSTITUTION   CHAIRMAN HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE WANTS CHANGE TREATIES

BLOOM URGES AMENDMENT   Favors Treaty Approval by Conoress Majority

Bloom Advocates Amending Of Treaty Bill   Majority Vote of Both Houses Would Be Needed To Ratify Treaties.

Bloom Invites Republicans To Aid In Amendment To The Constitution

loom Seeks Amendment To  Treaty Rule   hairman Replies To Republican Pledge Of Unity Toward Peace,   ND TWO-THIRDS VOTE

SEEK MAJORITY TREATY BALLOT   Bloom Offers GOP Solons Part In Constitutional Change

SENATE POWER OVER TREATIES UNDER ATTACK   Bloom ChallengesGOF To Help Transfer Authority

Bloom Favors Scrapping Of 2-Third Rule   Calis Ou Republicans To Support Change For Ratification Of  Treaties

Majority Vote On Treaties by Congress Is Goal   Republican Aid Is Sought to Change U.S. Constitution in interest of Peace

Bloom Proposes Change In Rule On Treaty Vote  Invites GOP To  Join Movement

BLOOM ASKS REPUBLICANS 10 HELP CHANGE TREATY ADOPTION METHOD   RATIFICATION BY SIMPLE MAJORITY IN BOTH HOUSES SUGGESTED FOR “ENDURING PEACE”

Bloom Urges Revised U. S. Constitution   Treaty Ratification By Majority Advised To Pave Peace Path

INVITES GOPS TO HELP AMEND CONSTITUTION   Rep. Sol Bloom Asks Republicans To CoOperate In Legislation To Simplify Treaty Making.

Says PAC Threat To Labor Unions   Jeffers Denounces CIO  Committee Policies

RAILROAD MAN UPBRAIDS P. A.C   COMMITTEE ENDANGERS UNIONS, SAYS JEFFERS

German, Rumanian Troops Flee From  Odessa, Reds Say   News From Battle Lines In Europe Summariz ed for Readers

Germans Fleeing Odessa   Red Armies Hammer Closer to City; U. S. Forces Take Strong Point on Beachhead

RING AROUND ODESSA PORT IS TIGHTENED   Nazis Fleeing As Russians Press Drive

Axis Troops Flee Besieged Odessa   Yanks Establish New Strongpoint at Anzio

Nazis, Rumanians Reported Fleeing Tottering Odessa   Red Troops Less Than 10 Miles From Black Sea Port; 5,000 Germans Already Killed In Another Trap; Soviets Pour Through Enemy Defenses

Besieging Russian Armies Drawing Closer fo City   Some Action Is Reported From Anzic Beachhead Today

Soviet Wing Not Ten Miles  Nrom Sea Port   Besieged City  Doomed—Troops to North Slaughtered By Russian Viectors

Yanks at La Gleize Fight to Last Bullet: Join U.S. Heroes in Death

Sa aaaegeE °°  .@.}}}}}  This Story a Tribute to All Yank Fighting Men

Expendables Of La Gleize Who Fought To Last Bullet, Match Courage Of Alamo

The American Tradition Writes European History, Too   Death S tand of Yanks Recalls Men of Alamo

NEAR LE MANS, ONLY 105 MILES FROM PARIS   Yanks Drive on, Undeterred by Strong Nazi Counter-Attack

Allied Troops Launch Strong Offensive   Germans Offer Resistance  At St. Malo And Brest

‘Report Yanks Are Now Within 100 Miles QF Paris   Allied Offensive Rolls On Despite Heavy Nazi Counter Attacks   FALL OF LE MANS BELIEVED NEAR

F.D.R. APPOINTEES FACE. OPPOSITION ON SENATE FLOOR   CHIEF CRITICISM IS LIKELY TO BE AIMED AT ARCHIE MACLEISH

HIGHT FDR's 6 NOMINEES   Chief Opposition Surrounds Archibald MacLeish; May Send Appointments Back

NAZI DEFENSES COLLAPSE UNDER ATTACK BY REDS   Russian Drive Rolling or Toward Border as Germans Surrender in Droves

REDS WITHIN 10 MILES OF MINSK   Soviet Tanks And Cavalry Driving Hard Toward Vital City   ALREADY BY-PASSING

Soviets 100 Miles From East Prussia  yy... i mWraTrwr ita ig et ay i ee

Retreat Of Germans In White Russia Described As Rout   Report Other Soviet Forces Only 160 Miles From East Prussia; Nazi Escape Railways Slashed

REDS RAP AT MINSK GATES   Cut Germans Escape As New Column Drives  Toward Wilne

RED ONSLAUGHT IS 165 MILES FROM GERMANY   Wilno Now Menaced After White Russian Capital Is By-Passed

Germans Fleeing  As Reds Advance   Flight of Enemy Troops Called Wholesale Rout on Eastern Front

Russians Are Moving Closer To Minsk Today   Tanks and Cavalry Units Have Driven to Within Ten Miles of Capital of White Russia.

Russians Cutting  Off Retreat Roads   Main Push 10 Miles From White Russian Capital, While Other Units Slash Far Behind Front

NAZIS’ ESCAPI RAIL LINES ARE CUT   Sloboda Falls As Threat y Is Posed To Wilno   SAVAGE BATTLE   Waged On Moscow-Warsaw Highway; Germans Dying By Thousands

pwoplccoge ‘DISASTROUS TRAP FOR GERMAN ARMY   Some 200,000 Nazis Cut Off From Eseane   HUNS SHOWING ~ SIGNS COLLAPSE

Reds Snap Minsk Rail Escape Way (Of Germans   Wilno Threatened By Another Soviet  Column

RUSS EA—  Retreat Of Germans In White Russia Called Rout By Moscow   Soviet Forees Within 10 Miles Of Front Gates Of Minsk While Other Columns Threaten Nazi Redrant Ranta

Soviet Tanks. Cavalry Now Only 10 Miles From Minsk   Russian Dispatches Report Retreat Of Enemy A Wholesale BRant

Reds Capture Sloboda, Push For Prize City   Russian Sweep Cuts Nazi Escape Railways Toward Wilno and Brest-Lotivsk

‘Vast Nazi Force Trapped; Soviets Ten Miles Away   Other Columns By-Pass City, Drive Within 65 Miles Of Wilno To The North

Red Tanks and Cavalry -Ten Miles from Minsk   Advance Columns Sweeping Around City To Cut Escape Railways to Wilno and Brest-Litovsk.

‘Another Célumn Carved Deep :- Beyond : City to Within 65. Miles of: Wilno.   -SLOBODA IS: CAPTURED      Red Army Pushed to Within 10° Miles of White Russian Capital.

Russians Only 100 Miles From East Prussia   German Retreat Described As “Wholesale Rout’

SlobodaFalls, Trap Tighter On 200,000.   Seviet Armies Cat Wazis’ Escape Reuies From Minsk je Wilne

Russians Press Close to Minsk   Tanks and Cavalry Within 10 Miles of City’s Front Gates as Another Column Sweeps Around to Cut Escape Railways to Wilno.   WILEJKA CAPTURED

Nazis. Reel Under Fire Of Russian  Assaulters .   Walls In Poland, * Baltics: Crumbling

SLOBODA TAKEN AS REDS PUSH TOWARD POLAND   Other Columns Cut Off Last Nazi Escape Routes

Reds Speed On Toward Prussia   ‘As Tank and Cavalry Units Press Closer to Minsk Other Columns Plunge to Northwest

Reds Within 10 Miles Of Minsk   Another Column Hammers Within 65 Miles  Of Wilno

‘Minsk Cut ‘Off; Soviets ‘Move Ahead   Only One Road Open For Nazis to Retreat From Important City

RUSSIAN TANKS ONLY 10 MILES OUTSIDE MINSK   New Objectives Seized As Red Forces Close in On Major City

SLOBODA FALLS TO SOVIETS IN WHITE RUSSIA   Say Nazis Execute Thousands of Civilians, Including 92,000 Jews

NIPS IN PANIC AS GIANT     AMERICAN SKY FLEETS BT AST SHIPS. PLANES -

Martial Law Declared By Philippine Quisling:   Uprising Hinted As Carrier Planes Bombard Harbor And Airfields

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED BY JITTERY JAPS   37 Ships Hit, 205 Planes Lost Sap Nip Power In Philippines

205 Planes Destroyed, 37 Ships Sunk In Twin Attacks   Ja panese Fear Invasion Near   Great Offensive Signals M’Arthur’s Return To Philippines

Martial Law Is Declared By Japanese   New Raid Follows Attack Claiming 205 Planes, 37 Ship:

Carrier Planes* Strike Hard At Ships, Airfields   Martial Law Declared In Philippines By Jap Puppet Government

Martial Law Is Declared   37 Jap Ships Sunk, Hit, 205 Planes Wrecked By Fleet

Smashing Attack On Shipping And Airfields Successful   MARTIAL LAW I8 DECLARED BY JAPS   DECLARED BY JAPS  37 Enemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged and 205 Air nlanac Dactravan

CARRIER-BASED PLANES IN 2ND MANILA ATTACK   Heavy Damage In Early Raid

New Attacks On Islands By Yank AirmenClaimed   Manila Bay, Cavite Naval Base, Clark And Nichols Fields Hit; 37 Jap Ships And 205 Nip Planes Blasted In Assault

U. S. Planes In Damaging Air Attacks   Japs Fear Invasion Immin ent—Their Navy Still in Hiding

‘Martial Law Declared by Puppet Govt.   y Cavite Naval Base, Clark and Nichols Fields are Blasted

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED AS YANKS STRIKE   Destroy 205 Planes 37 Ships in Raid On Philippines

Fearing Revolt Japs Declare Martial Law   Yanks Sink or Wreck 37 Enemy Ships, Destroy 205 Planes

Task Force Destroys 205 Planes, 37 Ships; Japanese Order Martial Law In City

Dewey Offers Program for Postwar Jobs   GOP Candidate To Outline Plan In Speech Tonight

Broken Promises  For Employment  Dewey's Subject GOP Candidate Te Emphasize  Plans For Smal] Business, Take Tan Ronte Te FRE TIL

Corner Large Nip Force On Leyte Coast   RA) Ait 15301 JAP   a To Emphasize usiness And Jobs

Dewey to Outline Post-War Jobs Program Tonight    F. D. R. Will Speak Thursday Night From White House

DEWEY TO PRESENT HIS POSTWAR JOBS PROGRAM TONIGHT   G.O.P. Candidate Will Give His “Specific, Constructive Program For America's Future With Emphasis on Jobs and Small Business”

Dewey to Give Jobs Program   Will Outline Post-War Plan at Buffalo Tonight At 9 O'Clock

DEWEY 10 GWE MAJOR ADDRESS   GOP Candidate Speaks in Buffalo on Postwar Employment Tonight.

DEWEY TO SPEAK ON JOBS TONIGHT   May List Specific Proposals For Post-War Program

Postwar Jobs: Program to Be —Dewey’s Topic   Will Be Outlined By GOP Nominee Tonight; ‘Hopes It Will Be More Inviting — Than Roosevelt’s

Dewey to Air Job Program   Nominee Will Speak In Buffalo Tonight

DEWEY TO MAP 10B PROGRAM   GOP Nominee To Counter FDR’s Proposals In Buffalo Tonight

Dewey fo Talk On Post-War Jobs Program   Plans Specific Program In Contrast to ‘Unfulfilled Promises’ of Opponent

Dewey to Disclose Postwar Job Plan   Republican Nominee Will Make Major Address Tonight  In Buffala NY.

B-29s Blow Uy Bangkok, Tokyo Docks   Col. Sweeney Jr. Commands Raid On Jap Homeland

LIBERATORS CONTINUE TRUK RAIDS   Four Protective Bases Also Hit During Weekend

Triple Attack  Made On Truk   Central, South Pacific Units Join In Raids

Americans Capture Village 30 Mi From Belgian Border; ratton 80 Mi From Germany

Capita Of Champagne Has  Been OQutflanked From West And South .   BITTER BATTLE HAS DEVELOPED IN SOUTHERN FRANCE      Confluence Of Rhone And Drove Rivers Is Scene Of Heavy. Fighting

Eisenhower Says “God Help Nazis”   Talks To Group of Enlistees On Whirlwind Tour of Field Units In Britain.

ALLIES EXTEND HOLDS SOUTH OF ITALIAN CAPITAL   Thunderbolts Down 36 Enemy Ships With Loss of One Plane

Yanks Break Through German Lines In Surprisé Move; 63 Enemy Planes Down In Area

Defenses North Of Cassine Broken By American Attack ‘Despite Flooding By Nazis

Yanks Smash Nazis With Tank Assault   Flooded River Bottom In Italy Crossed By Allied Infantrymen

GERMANS LOS! 63 PLANES IN DAY   New Heights Beyond Rapido River Are Captured   EVACUATION   Jf Rome Already Started, Italians Report: More Prisoners Taken

Yankees Crack Nazi Defense Line   River Bottoms Flooded By Foe But Fail to Stop American Advance

YANKS SMASH NAZI DEFENSE NEAR CASSING   63 German Planes Downed Sunday During Aerial Battles Over Italy

DEFENSE NORTH OF CASSINO IS PIERCEDBY U.S.   Break Through Achieved Through Area‘ Flooded by German Forces

Americans Break Nazi Line North Of Cassino   Grip Of Bridgehead Also Enlarged; 63 German Planes Shot Down On Sunday

Americans and British Blasting Germans From Defensive Positions in Alban Hills Along Railroad from Rome to Gesterna 

Americans Cut Enemy Defenses North Of Cassine   “Thrust Across Flooded Rapido River Bottom Is Surprise To Germans.

U. §. TROOPS BREAK THROUGH AT CASINO; BRIDGEHEAD ENLARGED   American Fighters, Bombers Knock Down 63 German Planes in Italy   NAZI BOMBER BASES HIT

Y anks Achieve ‘Break Through  Hun Defenses   ‘Two Key Hills Captured By U. 5. byfantrymen and  ‘Tank Teams, Catching   Enemy Napping   Allies Slash Foe In  Area Near Rome   Berlin Acknowledges   Steong American-Brit  ish Offensive Underway from Anzio

Nazi Defenses Broken North Of Cassino   Flooding of River Bottom Fails to Halt Americans

 Yanks Cross Dani dairy Cweonle  pawet 7 thts We etek  ‘Gustav Line  Surprise Nazis 3 Nazis North of  Cassino and Extend  Anzio Bridgehead  RAID AIR FIELDS  63 Nazi Planes Shot Down in Air, Many More Destroyed on Ground

Yanks Break Through Nazi Defenses North Of Cassino; ‘63 Enemy Planes Shot Down   Flattening Air Raids Made In italy; Anzio Beachhead: Further Strenathened

HEAVY LOSSES. NEAR BOLOGNA      ERIES OF COUNTER-BLOWS BY  GERMANS BEATEN OFF WITH  SEVERE LOSSES TO ENEMY

NAZIS SUFFE STAGGERING NEW LOSSES IN ITALY   Fifth Army Repels Succession Of Fierce Counter-Attacks

American Bombers Strike at Main Jap Borneo Oil Port, Start Great Fires

Russians Moving  _In Around Pskoy  ‘Mow Down Remnants Of  Germans In Trap

Resistance ‘ Around Pskov Is Stiffened     Capture of Samolva Poses New Threat to PskovRiga Railway

RUSS {2 Mi. From Pskov   Nazis Resist Fiercely As Red Army Closes In on Vital Center

Soviets Mow Down German Remnants in Cherkasy Trap   Bad Roads Hamper Extermination of  Encircled Nazis

Allied Lines Hold Firm in  Tank Battle   Americans Fight On in Cassino— Reds Within Thirty Miles of Pskov   Bulletin

Wards Enjoined From Interfering With Govt   Sewell Avery Says Government at Last Recognizes Constitution and Lawmaking ~aauthority of Congress; Attorney General  Flies. io Chicago

Nazi Prisoners Disgusted Witl Hitler Regime   ‘Some talk freely, but others still fear German leaders; a relief to talk freely. 

Bombs Fall Short; Many Casualties   Canadian General  . Among Wounded A:  i BQwenlacinne Qeener

‘Allies Close Border Of Spanish Morocco   American, British, Soviet, French Diplomats Only Permitted Passage.

Spanish Morocco Border Is Closed   Passes Barred To All Ex: cept Allied Diplomats

Cut Main Lateral  Highway Between Cassino And Sea   Extended Gains Since The Opening Of New Offensive To Six Miles At One Point, Capturing Several Towns.

Life at Anzio Beachhead Is Weird Mixture of Fun, Danger and Snakes

BATTLE PETERS QUT IN ROMANIA   Russians Now Ready To Launch Full-Scale Thrust In East

Red Star Says Soviets Ready  On East Front   Germans Defeated at Iasi; New Attack Mounted Against Hitlerites

Civilians Are Ordered Out of Marseille   Twin Landings in France, Italy Expected by Nazis

Jobs for Vets And Post-War Prosperity _ Major Goals   House Committee  To Frame Legislation To Get Peace Economy Off to Favorable Start  JOB-FINDING IDEAS  my, Nr OYWWoen Toeemre

POST - WAR JOB PLAN OFFERED   Speaker Rayburn And Mc Nutt Outline Program  For Veterans

POST-WAR ERA   Rayburn to Name Group to Draft Legislation; MecNutt Acts on Jobs

Rayburn, McNutt Announce Plans For Prosperity   Peacelime Economy Under Consideration

Outline New Plan To Aid Veterans Of War to Work   Seven ‘Test’ Cities Designated; National Program to Follow

INDUCTEES T0 ASSEMBLE AT CENTRAL POINT!   Hardin County Men May Be Sent to Fort Snelling, Minn.

latest Secret Weapon Against Britain Fails   ‘Composite Aircraft’ Causes No Damage O: Casualties; ME Hook: ‘Up With Junkers

Germans Launch 2 Pick-A-Back Planes On England; No Casualties or Damage  Composite Aircraft Regarded as ‘Freak,’ Not Even in Same League with Fl vine Ramh

Another Secret Weapon Of Nazis Proves To Be Dud   Hurl Two “Composite Aircraft” At England Without Damage.

NEW TRICK PLANE SENT OUT BY NAZIS   ‘Secret Weapon’ Does Ne Damage, However

Piek- a-Back Plane as German Secret Weapon Used Futilely Against England

NEW NAZI SECRET WEAPON IN ATTAGK AGAINST ENGLAND  LABELED “COMPOSITE WEAPON”, IT IS NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE

Nazis Unleash Another of Their Secret Weapons   Air Ministry Labels Thing A “Composite Aircraft’.

New Nazi Weapon   Adaptation of : ‘Pick-as back Plane Idea Sent Against England; No Damage or Casualties

AS ALLIS LNAZIS Vries eee +e e+  “Composite Aircraft” Launched Against Britain; Freak Not Regarded Seriously

Nazis’ New “Secret Weapon”  Pick-A-Back Air plane Idea   Causes Neither Casuaitie: Nor Damage by What - London Labels “'Composite Aircraft”?

Russians Within 26 Miles Of East Prussia, Sweep Up 650 Towns In Big Pust

Mighty Drive In Progress   Lwow Pocketed, Fall Of Brest-Litovsk, Bialystok,  Stanislawow Near.

Lwew Encircled By Advancing  Russian Armies  Warsaw May Re Outflanked  e Tr On asiath

Hasten Victory With Old Paper   Workers Will Collect Scrap Paper For Use On Fighting Fronts

PROGRESSIVES, DEMOS TO MEET    Badger Political Parties Are  Holding State Meetings This Weekend.

Weather Brings Air Sorties To Half   Bad Weather Ends Heavy Raiding During Sunday

WEATHER STOPS AERIAL ASSAULT   Allies Flew 5,000 Sorties Over Europe Sunday

Weather Hinders Air Operations   Allied Planes Flew 5,000 Sorties Over Week End.

Brest Receives 1,700-Ton Blasting  Bad Weather Brings Air War Almost to Stop Over Week-End

MISERABLE FLYING WEATHER CLOSED IN OVER EUROPE TODAY  _ AMERICAN AND BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS ACTIVE - GUNDAV HOWEVER

Bricker Blames Roosevelt For  Getting in War   New Deal Foreign Policy Attacked in  Speech on Coast

Assault to Crack Last Defense on   Thunderous Artillery Pounding Follows Aerial Attacks

Nazis Reel Under Pounding From Land and Sea; Final Road Junction to City Falls

Big Port Is Under All‘Out Assault   Eisenhower Hurls Combined Air and Land Attack at Tottering City

Fighting in Cherbourg Suburbs; Yanks Within Mile of Port’s Docks

Final Assault on Port Begins   Germans Begin Fleeing to Cape de la Hauge, Defense in Final Hours, Speeding Demolitions as Allied Guns Storm City’s Inner Defenses

INFANTRY ATTACKS AFTER TERRIFIC AERIAL ASSAULT AND ARTILLERY POUNDING

Gen. Bradley’s Doughboys Smash At Last Nazi Forts   London (/P)—The Algiers radio said tonight that Cherbourg was aflame.

GETS LIFE SENTENCE FOR STRANGULATION   Man Murders. Woman as Two : Children Are Sleeping

President and Gen. De Gaulle Start Talks   Frenchman Predicts That 1944. Will See  Nazis Out of France

De Gaulle Opens Talks With F.R.  Will Deal Chiefly With Underground

DeGaulle Sees France Freed  By Year’s Enc   President Says Talks Will Concern French

World Charter’  For Labor Seen   40 Nations Attend U. S. Meeting

FIRST STEPS TOWARD “WORLD CHARTER R LABOR’- APPEARS IN THE MAKING

International Labor Organization Conference: May Lay Basis for Peace  International Credits, Postwar Rationing, World Acricultural Prices on Agenda

Allies Grind Yard-by-Yard _ Into Final Enemy Fortress Before Rome

Allies Slash Nearer Rome   Scores Of Flaming German. -Counter-Attacks Repulsed.

General Clark Announces “We Now Stand on the Threshold of Rome,” in Address on Anzio.

SCORES OF ENEMY ATTACKS BLOCKED   Clark Sees Fall of Rome’ Objective Before Many Days   GERMANS BATTLE   To Stem Allied Threat Until Forces Can Be Withdrawn From Southern Area

Nazis Fight Savagely to Cover Retreat   Struggle of Attrition, Says AP Writer of Great Battle

General Clark Says Fall of Rome Near   Nazis Continue to Stove Off American Drive Fram Stronahold Fortrece of Valmontone

Enemy Reports Battle Sounds Becoming Hourly Clearer as Allied Drive Crawls Relentlessly Upon Enternal Citv

STEADY GAINS ARE MADE ON ITALIAN FRONT   YANKS AND BRITISH GRINDING AHEAD YARD BY YARD

Farmers Face Bigger Job This Year For War Under Greater Handicap

Erickson Is Dared To Tell of His $50 Per Day  Democratic Candidate Said Ashamed

Clements Charges Erickson Dares Not Tell of His $50-a-Day Job Outside State

Erickson Is Dared To Tell of His $50 Per Day  Democratic Candidate anid Ashamed  Pm... st i... hh...

National 4-H Contest Underway; Prizes Offered To Winners   Contest Deals With Soil Conservation Neede OF Taday

POPE GALLS ON BELLIGERENTS T0 SPARE ROME   Speech ‘Is Broadeast by. Vatican Radio as Battle Nears

POPE MAKES PLEA FOR ROME   Says Clty is Facing “One of Gravest Moments in Its Histery" — Calla on BKelligercuts to Spare it from Ratile.

Seek Increase in Capitalization of 7  _ Locker Plants at Meeting Thursday

PLAN INCREASE CAPITAL STOCK LOCKER PLANTS   Special Meet Is March 23 Wyoming High School; Amend By-Laws.

WITHHOLDING LEVY MAY BE INCREASED    House Commitice Expected To   Make ft Simpler For .Tax: pavers To File Returns

Some Details Of Simplified  Taxes Revealed   Government Will Seek To Collect Exact Tax; Same Figures Given

DETAILS GIVEN OF WITHHOLDING TAX   Measure, If If Approved, Would Go Into Effect Jan. 1

¥ WAR BUADS A  RUSSIANS BLAME NAZIS FOR THE KATYN FOREST MASSACRE

Soviet Investigation Blames Germans   ‘For Massacre of 11,000 Polish Prisoners

Commission Says Germans  Killed Poles   Soviet Investigators Declare There Is No Doubt 11,000 War Prisoners Were Massacred by Nazi Soldiers :

Russians Put Blame Upon Germany For Pole Massacre   Report Expected to Have Important Bearing On Settlement of Border Dispute; Eden Gidectens Showdown in Commons

Soviet Commission Places Fall Blame For Massacre Of 11,000 Poles On Nazis

SOVIETS SAY NAZIS SLEW 11.000 POLES   Commission's Report May Have Bearing On Border Dispute

NAZIS BLAMED FOR MASSACRE   Soviet Report Says Germans Killed 11,000 Polish War Prisoners.

BLAME IS PLACED ON GERMANY FOR POLISH MASSACRE   A Special Soviet Investigating Commission Reports Hs Findings.   11,000 POLES KILLED   Report May Have an Inportant Bearing on RussianPolish Border Dispute.

Russians Blame Massacre Of 11,000  Polish War Prisoners On German:

his May Settle Disput  2 nals “Blames Germans For Death Of 11,000 Poles

Russ Investigators Prove Germans Shot Pole War Prisoners   Uniforms .aand Documents on 11,000 Executed Soldiers

Commission’s Findings May Have Bearing On Future Relations Of Two Countries«

Blame For Massacre Of Poles Placed On Nazis; Britain Repeats Stand On Ignoring Map Changes

Massacre Blame Placed on Nazis  Russians Report on Katyn Incident

RUSSIANS FOUND BODIES OF 11,000 POLES IN UNIFORM   SOVIET COMMISSION SAYS THEY WERE WAR PRISONERS SLAIN BY NAZIS

POLISH DEATHS LAID TO NAZIS   } . an * Russians Say Gerinans Killed  14,000 Thai Caused Dipfomatic Sofit.

HULL REVEALS REDS REJECTED U. S. PROPOSAL   Russians Believe Time Not Ripe to Use Our Offer in Polish Dispute   IN ATASON CUIey   [Reds Charge Nazis Killed 11.000 Poles in Katyn Forest:

Place Blame For Massacre On Germans   Slaying Of 11,000 Polish War Prisoners Carried Qut By Nazis, Report Soviet Investigators

59th A. F. of L. Convention Opens   U. S. Representative to International Labor Office Criticizes Army and Navy Interference.

EUROPE WILL BE INVADED FROM WEST WHEN BOMBING SOFTENS NAZIS FOR THE KILL

Ten New Headaches for Hitler, in Machine Gun Form, Added to Plane

New Headaches For Der Fuehrer   Mitchell Bombers Get Heavier Guns

1,000 Club’s Identification Plate Is All “The Pass Needed Here in Washington”

STRIKE IS OVER -INPHILADELPHIA   Transit Employes Return Under Draft Threat; Army on Guard

PHILADELPHIA TRAFFIC OKAY   Troops Boss Busses, Trolleys  eee eee  Four Strike Leaders Arrested

Philadelphia Cars-Busses Start Regular Schedules   Army Guarding Lines Following Shut Down

British Enter Hertogenbosch, Key Nazi Base   Enemy Defenses Crumbling in All Western Holland

* NAZI DEFENSES . TOPPLING FAST   Gen. Eisenhower Writes Off Hertogenbosch as Base Valuable to Foe

iit NGER OF 0 AIS   New Eritish Assault Aims to.Form Beacihead at Mouth of Rhine ..

HERTOGENBOSCH NO LONGER OF USE TO NAZIS   New Eritish Assault Aims to Form Beachhead at Mouth of Rhine

Hollandia Leff A Burning Ruin By U.S. Bombers   Major Bong, Top Yank Ace, Shoots Down His 27th Foe   Three Reasons Why Maj. Bong Is Most Envied U. S. Flyer

BONG BREAKS RECORD AND BECOMES MAJOF   Bags 27th, Plane To. Take Ricken: packer ‘Laurels,

BIG DAY FOR BONG   No. 1 Ace Gets 27th Plane, Promotion To Major and Case of Whiskey

Major Bong Rang the Gong   He’s the One Rickenbacker Recognizes As Ace Breaking Eddie’s Mark

50,000 Nazis Face Trap on  Holland Coast   Germans on Run Before British Along 100 Mile Front

GERMANS IN RETREAT IN HOLLAND   Allied Forces Are Reported Landing On Walcheren

Canadians Drive To Liberate  Areas Blocking Off Antwerp   Berlin) Announces Allied Landings On Waleheren Island; Forces Battle Through Fog In Attempt To Trap Nazis; Remainder Of Western Front Quiet

Allied Landings . Seek to Open Way to Antwerp   Amphibious Troops Land at Two Points

Gillette Charges Packers Favored   Says Hog Prices At Unjust Levels

GREEK LEADER I$ RESIGNING   PREMIER NOTIFIES KING OF GREECE THAT HE IS READY TO STEP ASIDE

SMITHSBURG MAN HURT IN ACCIDENT   J. J. Brown, 67, Struck by Aufo on Cavetown-~ " . Diba! s

SMITHSBURG MAN ~ HURT IN ACCIDENT   J. J. Brown, 67,.Struck by _ Auto on Cavetown—’  oo bee _

PHILIPPINE LEADER HAS GROUP RESPECT   Will Cooperate With U. S. Military for Early Freeing of Homeland.

Funeral Services For Widely Known Oil Dealer to Be Held Tomorrow.

Democrats Plan Defeat of F.D.R.  New Committee   New Committee Maps Program

St. Bernard Squad Preps Far Mortimer Jordan: Opener On October 6

German Horrors Brought to Light   Dutch Murdered, Says Repatriate

Name Chairman — Salvage Program  C.B. Plummer Is New Co. Chairman

NEW SALVAGE CHAIRMAN NAMED FOR THIS COUNTY   C. B. Plummer, LeMars, Succeeds Mr, Wassman, Paper Drive Is Planned

County T.B. Association Organized   1. F. KISSINGER OF SUPERIOR CHAIRMAN— DIRECTORS ARE NAMED

U.S. PLANES HIT SECRET WEAPON LAUNCHING SITE   2000 Craft in Record Flight Also Rip Vital Targets in Germany

GOP PLANS 125 STATE MEETINGS   GOVERNOR GREEN TO SPEAK AT DU QUOIN FAIR ON SEPT. 8TH

COMMITTEES OF SUPERVISORS TO SERVE THIS YEAR   Chairman Jackson Announces List Of Those Who Will Han dle Business Of County Board During The Year.

SUPERVISORS COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED   List Made Known By; The New Chairman,  Henry Jackson

RED ARMY GAINS IN SLOVAKIA   New Soviet Offensive Threatens Flank Of Foe At Budapest

CLIMAX NEAR INBATTLE OF BUDAPEST   Russians Reported On Danube Island At Capital's Edge

(Reds Storm Island Gate To Budapest   Resume Offensive ir Slovakia to End Long Lull

Red Troops Storm Island In Danube   Furious Fighting Rages On Approaches To Hungarian Capital And In Slovakia

Reds Storm Csepel Island In Danube   fast-breaking Soviet Offensive Threatens  To Roll Up Shaken Nazi Flank in Hungary

REDS PUSH CLOSER TO BUDAPEST; BAD WEATHER FAILS T0 SLOW FIERCE FIGHT   Enemy In Slaughter OFf Soviet Prisoners

Soviet Army Captures Saare Island   Complete Liberation of Soviet Estonia, Free Gulf of Riga

REDS FIGHT FOR DANUBIAN ISLE   BUDAPEST DRIVE IS LAUNCHED BY SOVIETS

Furious Fighting Raging on Approaches to Budapest and Along 170-Mile Battle Front   German Reinforcements Streaming Steadily Into Front Lines

Russians Storming  Ceenel [s.   Nazis Say Reds Have Siege Arc Around Capita! Of Hungary

Soviets Reported ‘Storming Island ‘In Danube River   Russ Forces Drive Across Southeastern Corner of Slovakia

CSEPEL ISLAND IS STORMED BY PHISSIAN ARMY      Fast Breaking Offensive Now I Threatening German Flank In Hungary

REDS LAND ON KEY ISLAND IN DANUBE, CLAIM   Berlin Report Indicates Budapest Battle In Last Stages

Air Offensive Rockets to Record Pitch   No Planes Are Lost in Mighty Assault on France

Allied Air Forays Blast Europe From French Coast To Hungary and Romania

U. S. Bombers Hammer at  Nazi Sea Wall   4500 Sorties Pound Coast Defenses, Shuttle Into Russia

tHE FIRST WAVE OF ASSAULT “'PROOPS ON’ ONE. BEACH  “RID-NOT-SEE “ENEMY ~~ -FOR'. HOUR:

NAZIS SCATTER BEFORE ATTACK   Yank Sappers Work Unhampered, Blasting Barricades On Cherbourg Beach

Donnelly and Douglas Boomed For Governor   Democrats Fear Brown May Quit Because of Health

April Broke All Records For Bombing   8,800 Tons Bombs Dropped Jn Month By 9th Air Force

Japs Fight For Lives in Ormoc Trap   Advance in China Stalls; Superforts Raid Tokyo; 13 Admirals Dead

TRAPPED JAPS ON LEYTE IN BATTLE FOR THEIR LIVES   _ CHINESE HALT AND PUSH BACK INVADERS OF KWEICHOW PROVINCE

Japs Admit War Plants Shaken Up     Americans Apply Pressure on Forces Caught in Leyte Trap

YANKS CLOSING IN ON ORMOC N PHILIPPINES   Superforts Blast Tokyo; Chinese Drive Japs Out of Kweichow

Yanks Raid Inland Sea Area for Hour; Japs in Death Trap   MacArthur’s Fores on Move All Over Leyte; Advance on Ormoc

Chinese Push’ Enemy Forces From Kweichow   Superforts Raid Tokyo Again; Rains Bog Leyte Fighting

Chinese Driving Other Nipponese From Kewichoy   Yanks Advance On Ormoc . From-Three Directions; ' B.29’s: Again Hit Tokyo

FIGHTING HARD 10 AVOID TRAP   Superforts Make Raid On Tokyo Again Today

JAPS CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP ON LEYTE ISLAND FIGHTING TO ESCAPE UTTER DESTRUCTION

Yanks Close  Death Trap Upon Leyte   Japs Fight Hard, Ormoc Stormed On Three Sides

Japs Flight To Evade Death  7 rap on Leyte   Yanks Converging in Three Directions on Ormoc to Pound Tire Japs in Pouring Rain

Yanks But 20 Miles From Livorno After Swift Pursuit Of Germans; — Other U.S. Troops Nearing Siena

Nazis Routed Along Coast As Ameriteans Near Ceeina   Armored Units Are Pressing Upon Siena

GERMANS STILL ON RUN IN ITALY   Fifth Army Gains Five Miles in Drive Toward Leghorn

Nazis Quit, Flee North In Italy   Americans Pursuing Near Livorno

Germans Break Off Contact With Yanks On Itelian West Coast, Retreat Northward   Ailies Advance Within 20 Miles Of Liborno And Seven Miles Of Siena

German Italian Armies Cracking  Flee Northward Froin Sth and 8th

Germans in Italy Flee From Yanks   Break Off Contact on West Coast and Hurry ' Northward, With Americans in Close Pursuit, Nearing Leghorn.

Allies Racing North In Italy   Germans on Coast Break Contact, Flee; Breakthrough Means Faster Allied Advance

Nazis Fleeing From Sth Army  Yanks But 20 Miles From Livorno Port

ursue’ ux ‘To Ceeina         German Troops of Italy's West Coast Flee Northward; 8th Army Take Nazi Seaplane Base

Yanks in Swift Pursuit of Nazis   Americans Again Lose Contact in‘tha Italian Fighting

Allies Continue Stabbing Ahead On Italy Front   Yanks Pursue Germans Close To Port Of  Livorno

NAZI RESISTANCE IN ITALY CRACK   Americans Only 20 Miles South Of. Port Of  a a   ADVANCE. ON. SIENA   New Breakthrough .Forees Germans Into Speedy Retreat

Nazis Flee Yanks In Italy; British iMake New Break   3th Army Chasing Enemy 20 Miles Of Livorno, Nazis Also Cracking Under British Drive.

NAZI TROOPS RETREATING FROM ITALY   Americans Only; Seven Miles From Siena

New American Break- Through  Below Livorno   Germans Flee Up Coast Of Italy; Yanks Inland  Nearing Florence.

Allied Scored Gains In Italy   HISTORIC CITY NEARED AS YANKS RUSH FORWARD

Germans Flee Allied Armor In North Italy   Americans, In Swift Ad vanee, Only 20 Miles From Leghorn

BREAKTHROUGH IN ITALY OPENS WAY FOR BIG ADVANCE   German Troops on West Coast Break Off Contact And Flee As Americans Crawd in

Nazis’ Retreat In Italy Is Resumed   Germans Break Off Contact With American Troops; Yanks 20 Miles From Leghorn

Nazi Troops Flee Before American Advance in Italy   British and French Also Sweep Forward While German Losses in Men and Materiel Mount

Yanks Pursue Fleeing Nazis   Americans Reach Area Of Cecina on West Coast of Italy

Nazis In Flight On Italy Coast With Americans  InFast Pursuit   Contact Is Broker Off By Germans In Disorder

Nazis Flee Again In Italy; Leghorn 20 Miles Distant   American Armored Forces Smash To Point Within 38 Miles Of Florence; Siena Menaced

REICH’S FORCES CONTINUE FLIGHT   Americans on Heels of Nazis As Rout in Italy Extends Northward

GERMAN TROOPS ON WEST COAST OF ITALY RETREATING   U. S. Forces In Hot Pursuit Of Nazi Units And Reach Cecina Twenty Miles South of Livorno

GERMAN RETREAT IS SPEEDING UP   Americans Only 20 M 20 Miles South of . Port of Livorno 

On Run Again — In Italy   German Resistance Along Whole Front. Cracks Paving Way for Swift Allied Advance

NAZIS’ ITALIAN LINE CRACKING   Strong Resistance Breaking And Troops Fleeing Before Allied Forces; Nazi Losses Heavy.

Sth Army Advances   Nazis Reveal Three More Generals Dead On Eastern Front

MacArthur Interested in Only One “Thing—His Return to Philippines —

GENERAL MACARTHUL HAS ONE OBJECTIVE, PHILIPPINE RETIN    - DECORATED WITH ORDER -OF BATH; REACHED AUSTRALIA TWO YEARS AGO

MacArthur Stops Candidacy Move:   General Says Flatly He’: Interested Only In Returning to Philippines

Resistance Of Germans Crumbling   SEVEN.OUTPOST TOWNS FALI TO GEN. HODGES’ MEN 7 IN ROER RIVER AREA

First Army Captures 7 Nazi Towns   Drive Within Half Mile of Duren, Stronghold on Way to Cologne

FIRST ARMY TAKES SEVEN NAZI TOWNS   Yanks “rive to With Half Mile of Duren, Key Fort

GERMAN DEFENSES FALLING APART   Excellent Progress Reported By CologneBound Troops

Nazi Defenses West of Roer Falling Apart   Topple 7 Outpost Towns of Citadel Guarding Cologne

WOUNDED SOLDIER WRITES PARENTS   Pvt. Glenn P, Horton. Also Meets Akron Army Nurse Tn Pranpea

Has Completed His Basic Training   Robert H. Stone, of Ludlow. Graduated at Great Lakes, Hlinois.

Ralph Mongan Graduates From Navy Basic Engineering Course At Great Lakes

ALLIES CRACK GOTHIC LINE   Now Within Eighty Mile: of Po Valley.

FBIS INDUCTION CASE LOAD HEAVY   417,677 Cases Closed By Oct. 1; Methods Are Varied

Fight to Last Man Revealed at Dunkerque   NO WHITE FLAG FOR BRITISH DEFENDERS WHO MISSED ESCAPE

Autopsy Fails to Reveal Homicide   FIGHTERS RETURN TO SERVE AS FERRY PILOTS

TOKYO REPORTS PLANE ATTACKS AGAINST PALAU   Americans on Guam Moving Closer to Island Capital. Ohinese Still Holding Hengyang   By VERN HAUGLAND A PDP Ware FdAlitae

TOKYO REPORTS NEW PALAU RAID   MARINES ON TINIAN TAKE ALL OF NORTH HALF OF THE ISLAND

ANTICIPATE MORE PARALYSIS CASES FOR THIS MONTH   Report Rise in July But Say There is No Cause For Undue Worry

Anticipate Paralysis ~ Cases For The Month      Report :Rises “jn July: But There Is No Cause For. Undue Worry Says “Health. Dept,

Red Armies Cut Through German Lines   Defense Protecting East Prussia and Warsaw Penetrated

aUVIETS PUoh D MMLES THR GERMAN LINE   Smash to Last Big Obstacle Before Invasion of East Prussia.

Russians Smash Northeast Nazi Warsaw Defense:   Soviet Troops Reach Biebrza River Marshes In Drive to Prussia

RUSSIANS DRIVE TOWARD MASURIAN LAKES IN PRUSSIA   Plunge Seven Miles Through Enemy Defenses Northeast of Warsaw, Reaching Biebrza River.   TRAP IS TIGHTENED ON NAZIS IN BALTIC   One Soviet Army Fighting in North Plunges Toward the German Seaport of Memel.

Soviets Reach Last Bar to East Prussia   Russians Threaten Division of Polish Battlelines

GAINS MADE ON EAST PRUSSIAN LAKE REGIONS   610 Communities Taken In Advances

Russians Reach Final Barrier Before Prussia   Soviets Drive Six Miles Through Heavy Fortification:

REDS NEAR OLD BATTLE GROUND INSIDE. PRUSSIA   Smash Six Miles Into Defenses Northeast Of Warsaw

Strong Nazi Fortifications Are Punctured   First White Troops Four Miles From Vital Rail Center

Russians Roll Nazis Toward Baltic Coast   Drive in Estonia, Latvia  Closes Trap on Foes Rishrean Reached

Marsh Areas Separating —  Soviet Army And Enemy   ‘Trap: Is. Tightened ‘On 300,000 Troops

NORTH POLAND FRONT ACTIVE   Reds Create New Threat For Prussia; Axis Line Rolled Back

Reds Crash Thr ‘ough Nazi  For tif saiiiaies   Reach Biebrza River Marshes In Added Gains

SOVIET SQUEEZE ON EAST PRUSSIA CROWS NEAREF   Wheeling Acti in of Great Armies Smashes Forward

RUSSIANS DRIVE > THROUGH NAZIS’ FORTIFICATIONS   . New Gains Scored Northeast Of Warsaw—300,000 Germans in Baltic Trap

Soviets Gain Six Miles  Near Warsaw   Trap Is Tightened Around 300,000 German Soldiers

Red Columns Push Ahead fc Edge of Marsh   Three Russian Armies In North Tighten Trap On 300,000 Germans  Pushed Aaainst Baltic

COLOMBIAN REBELS KIDNAP PRESIDENT; ARMIES MAY CLASH   Government Is ‘Restoring Order’ After Clique Pasto Revolt

REBELS SEIZE PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA   Army Officer Proclaims Self Head of Republic

Rebels Hold Colombian  President   Acting Chief Moves To Put Down Revolt

Rebellion Breaks Out  In Colombia   President Lopez Seized by Rebel Officers at Pasto

REBELS SEIZE PRES. LOPEZ OF COLOMBIA   Loyal Troops Enter City Of Cal To March Against Rebels

Republicans Claim Soldiers Support   Chairman Reveals Army Men Polled Overseas

U.S. Soldiers In England Favor GOP   ‘HAIRMAN SPANGLER SAYS AFTER SURVEY BY FOUR RESERVE OFFICERS FAVORABLE TO REPUBLICAN PARTY.   Not for New Deal

SOLDIERS FRIENDLY TO GOP, HE SAYS   Republican Chairman Tells of Survey Made —_ in Enaland

SAYS. TROOPS. FAVOR G. 0. P   Spangler Reports on Poll Taken Among Army Units in England

Yanks Destroy 141 Jap Planes 13 Ships in Raic   Navy Task Force Blasts Enemy’s Marianas Bases

29 JAP SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN MARIANAS   Task.Force Destroys 141 Enemy Planes In Three-Day _ Assault, Losing Only 15 Planes And 15 Men

29 JAP SHIPS SUNK, DAMAGED AN: MARIANAS   Climaxes Three - Day Assault by Powerful U. S. Task Force

36 JAP SHIPS SUNK AND DAMAGED   141 Enemy Planes Are Wrecked In Aerial Fights

Jap Power Weakened By Blows   SMASHING THREE DAY ASSAULT TAKES BIG TOLL OF NIPS.

Marianas Again  Blasted By Yanks   29 Enemy Ships Reports Sunk By Task Force

RAIN AND MUD SLOW LEYTE OPERATIONS   Ground Warfare Nearly Stopped; Air Battles Continue

POLICY IS UPHELD   King Government in Canada Given Vote of Confi ' dence on Draft

Premier Wins Canada Test  Mackenzie King Gains Confidence. 143-70

CANADANS BACK M’KENZIE KING   Prime Minister Given Vote of Confidence, 143-70, As Debate Ends

CANADIANS BACK PRIME MINISTER   Vote of Confidence Extended in Face of Conscription Question

CONFIDENCE VOTED IN CANADIAN CHIEF   Mackenzie King’s Decision On Conscription Is Endorsed.

Vote of Confidence Is Accorded Canadian Leader  Parliament Approves Conscription Plan By Vote of 143-70

NAZI ARMIES ARE FORCED BACK ON ENTIRE PO FRONT   Clear Weather Sets Battle Off 10 Miles Below Bologna

Slow Allied Gains  Continue in Italy   More Brazilian Troops  Reach Battle Zone

HAVE YOU YOTED?  ™ Polls Close ct 8 P.M.   British Bomb  France, Reich

Strong Action Is Urged By Legion   Return Of War Prisoners, Refugees And Labor Battalions To Home Coun. tries Demanded   RESOLUTION WARNS AGAINST ‘SOFT PEACE’

LEGION SEEKS FIRM CONTROL 70 STOP WARS   WORLD BECURITY BACKED BY " FORCE Is SOUGHT-OTHER ‘POLICIES ARE  ~ ADOPTED

LEGION NEARS CONCLUSION OF CONVENTION   Calls for Iron-Hand Rule of JapaneseAmerican Elements

Mrs, Andrews Smiles at Hint Of Execution   Three Jurors Challenged, Court. Orders Extra  Venire

Gas” Explosion In Blazing Mine Takes 16 Lives   Shinnston Mine _ Sealing  Ordered To Extingnish asl Racin Winans

Sixteen Killed In Shinston Mine Explosion   Underground Fire Causes Blast Which Creates Havoc Through Mine; Entries Being Sealed In Effort To Halt Flames

Fire, Fumes Delay Entry Into Tunnel  After Bodies   Dead At Shinnston 16 West Virginians

MINE BLAST CLAIMS LIVES OF 16 MINERS   Crews Begin Sealing Up Mine At Shinnston Ir Effort To Extinguish Violent Underground Blaze; Bodies Not Found

U.S. Seamen Flay Strikers; Accuse Them of Feeling Pay Hike More Vital Than Lives

SEE MEXICAN TOKEN FORCE FIGHTING AXIS   Southern Neighbor Country's President Declares Mexicans Ready When They're Wanted.

RACE TOWARD RIVER SEINE FOR THE KILL   Highways Filled With Tanks and Trucks Pouring Through Gaps in Enemy’s Touques Line.   ADVANCE OF 25 MILES SCORED   One Report Says Germans Are Prepering to Make Stand, Another That They Are in Flight.

SEINE RIVER TRAP CLOSED BY AMERICANS   BIG PORT OF ROUEN UNDER SIGHTS OF U. S. ARTILLERY

ALLIES DRIVING 10. ENCIRCLE GERMANS   Forces Move Southeast of Paris Toward Germony

Allied Advance Dooms Germans In Seine Area   Americans Racing To Surround Nazis

AMERICANS AACE > TO ENCIRGLE FOE   Report Says British, Ameri@ cans Joined West of Seine   HIGHWAYS CLOGGED   @ ores From South Said to Have Reached Swiss Border; Fast Advance

Yank Armor Races Toward Seine Mouth —   Drives To Encircle ‘Remainder of Nazi 7th. Elbeuf Is Captured  CANATITANS. ADVANCE

TO BOX ENEMY EAST OF SEINE   Foe Attempt to Stand Along Stream Appears Doubtful

PARTS OF 10 NAZI DIVISIONS REPORTED TRAPPED AT SEINE   Correspondent Says British And American Forces Have Joined Hands West Of River; Reports Conflict As To Intention Of Retreating Enemy Troops

BIG-SGALE ISLAND LANDINGS — PLANNED ON PACIFIC FRONT   THRUSTS OF NEAE FUTURE MAY BRING OUT JAPANESE FLEET FOR DECISIVE  BATTLE;

Japs Rip Through  Kweilin Defenses   Three Columns Drive  Within 6 Miles of City

King Peter May Reorganize His Government To Heal Breach Between Rival Factions In His Country

Britons Greet Yugoslav King, Envoy of Tito   Peter Flies to England,  _ Partisan Is Reported Ab Rarwt Prnranie

RUSSIAN ARMY PREPARING FOR BIG OFFENSIVE ~ SEVERAL SECTORS   Seige Of Sevastopol Enters Seventh Day With No New Report Of Ground Action.

WARNING: ORDER: AND NOTICE Le EYEING OF PETITION . To OUIET TITLE

539,480 Enemy Troops Liquidated in Month, Soviets Reveal; Berlin Admit Russians Within 50 Miles of Warsav

Cassino Battle Has Developed Into Ancther Grim Stalemate   Germans Improve Their Situation in Ruined City.

GERMANS HOLD OFF ALL ALLIED ATTACKS. ON ITALIAN FRONT   Enemy Strongpoints At Cassino Will Have To Be Reduced One By One In Bloody Fight-

HEAVY LOCAL RAINS   Moisture Brings Relief to Parts of Dry Northeastern Kansas

cee easemen_ityui_nstigmmnagunnpianatgsnal OHIO MAN SENTENCED TO DIE IN CHAIR

Charleroi Employment Office Calls For Merchant. Mariners   Requests Made For Release Of Men Capable Of Going Into Sea Service

Local Liquor Licenses Come Under Scrutiny   Renewals After April 1 Will Depend On Applicants

TO SCRUTINIZE BEER PERMITS   Renewals After April 1s! Will Depend Upon Applicants

ALLIED DRIVES TOWARD PARIS ARE UNCHECKED   British Crash Five Miles Through Nazi Lines Below Caen

RAF AND AMERICAN  BOMBERS CONTINUE  BLASTING HITLERDOM AMERICAN PLANES MOVE  OUT EARLY TODAY FOLLOWING NICHT RAF RAID

ALLIED RAIDERS CONTINUE HITS AT CONTINENT,   Daylight Stabs Follow Sunday Attacks On Western Reich, Coastal Area

BAD WEATHER FAILS TO STOP AERIAL RAIDS   Both British and American Planes Last Night And Today Are Active

U. §. Fliers Again Smash North France   Menday Daylight Raid Follows Pounding by British Mosauites

RAF AND AMERICAN BOMBERS CONTINUE BLASTING HITLERDOM  AMERICAN PLANES MOVE   AMERICAN PLANES MOVE OUT EARLY TODAY FOL. LOWING NIGHT RAF RAID

NIPPON TROOPS LAND ON LEYTE  Foe Has E Brought In Tleavy Reinforce.   RUN GAUNTLET   Gains On: Wide Front .. Reported’ In'Drive On Ormoc. :

JAPS MUSTER NEW TROOPS T0 FIGHT YANKS   Enemy Manages to Land  35,000 Soldiers In Defense of Leyte

Ni ps Successfully Run Gauntlet Of U. §. Planes, PT Boats   LONG FIGHT SEEN   West ,Coast Stronghold ‘Of Ormoe Is Still In Enemy Hands

35,000 Ashore   MacArthur Reveals Philippines Fight May Be Long, Hard

, TRAVELS 700 MILES PER HOUR   NAZI ROCKET WEIGHS 15 TONS.   Battle For Philippines Grows Bitter As Japs Land 35,000 Troops On Leyte

39,000 More Jap Troops Reach Leyte   Long, Hard Battle For Philippines Seen by Observers

Japan Lands 35,000 Veterans Troops in Battle for Leyte, Indicates Long, Hard Battle

35,000 JAPS JOIN BATTLE ON LEYTE ISLE   Enemy Replaces Heavy Losses Suffered In Yank Invasion

“VETERANS IN LEYTE FIGHT      Disclosure the Nips Have _ Succeeded in Replacing f Losses Suffered in 22 Days Has Sobering Effect on Optimism.  

Japs Send New Force To Leyte   Veteran Troops Estimated At 35,000 Succeed In Landing On Island Despite U. S. Attacks

35.000 NIPS ARE LANDED IN PHILIPPINES   MacArthur Announcement Has Sobering Effect On Optimism Following Initial Landing   STALEMATE IS BROKEN

35,000 Jap Troops Join Leyte Battle   American Guns Fire Ormoc in Struggle With Fresh Forces

35,000 Japs Battle Yanks On Leyte Isle   Americans Pushing Through Defenses Fo; Substantial Advance In Flame-Swept Area

JAPS REPLACE LEYTE CASUALS   35,000 Nip Reinforcements Join Fierce Battle Near Ormoc

LEYTE ISLAND BATTLE DRAWS MORE JAPANESE   Philippines May Be Long Drawn Battlefield

Japs Land 39,000 Men on Leyte; Hard Fight Seen   Yankees Advance Toward Ormoc,  Nip Supply Base

Philippine Battle To Be Long, Hard As Nips Recover   35,000 Troops Join Enemy For Fight; Still Outnumbered

DESPITE AMERICAN PLANES AND PT BOATS JAPS SNEAK IN AND” HARD BATTLE IS UNDER WAY

Japs Reinforced By 35,000 Troops   Veterans Run Gauntlet of American Planes, PT Boats; Take Advantage Of Great Naval Battle Tyunhaan

JAP FORGES ON LEYTE LARGER   Battle for Philippines May Be Long and Hard, Says MacArthur.   STALEMATE 1S BROKEN

Japs Prepare For Hard Battle On Philippines   Ormoc Is Rendered Useless to Enemy  As Supply Base By Heavy Bombarding

Veteran Jap Troops Battle To Hold Leyte   Have Succeeded In Replacing  Very Heavy Losses

WHERE AMERICANS ATTACK   Japs Reinforced For Leyte Battle   Enemy Replaces Its Heavy Losses Despite U.S. Warplanes, PT Boats

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35,000 JAP RESERVES © REACH ISLE   Gen. MacArthur Indicates Battle To Be Hard, Long

Japs on Leyte Reinforced by [35,000 Troops   MacArthur Reports Battle far Island Will Be Prolonged; Costlier Than Hoped

Japs Send 35,000 Vets Into Leyte   Long and Hard Battle tor “Philippines Indicated ‘as Losses Are Replaced   ORMOC IN FLAMES; YANKS MAKE GAIN   But. Big US. Advantage Gained in Surprise Attack Has Run Its. Course

Japs Put More Mer On Leyte   Tokyo Claims Last U. S, Air Base In China Has Fallen.

Nips Get Breaks to Land Veteran Troop Support on Istane   Battle for Philippines May Be Hard and Long As a Result

Japs Land 35,000 Troops on Leyte   Landings on East Coast Replace Losses Suffered in Past 22 Days   YANKS LACK AIRFIELDS   Nips Slipped in During Big Naval Battle at Beginning of Campaign

Japs Pour Troops  Into Leyte   “Breaks” Give Enemy Chance to Land Over  35,000 Men at Ormoc; See Long, Hard Battle

JAPS REINFORCE ARMY ON LEYTE   Enemy Lands 35,000 Troops In Determined Effort To Stall Yanks

Yanks Aim Drive at Marseille   Patch’s Invaders Plunge 32 Miles Inland From Carne

Marseille Only 31 Miles Westward of Seventh Army Corps   Patch Extends Beachhead to 1,000 Square Miles in France

Toulon Under Siege; Allies Press Inland   Front 20 Miles Broad Driven to North Behind French Naval Base

SEVENTH ARMY TAKES FIVE ROAD CENTERS   Strikes Into Maritime Alps and Along Routes to Rhone Valley After Broadening Beachhead.   No Troop Massing

FRENCH TROOPS HAVE CRACKED INTO TWO SECTIONS OF TOULON   INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE CONTINUED TO PROGRESS AMAZINGLY

Seventh Army Surges Forward on 30-Mile  Are   SEIZURE OF CANNES  EXPECTED SHORTLY   Part of Forces Plunge Into the Maritime Alps —

Invasion Forces Inland   Beachhead Now Covers 1,000 Square: Miles;  Spearheads Westward And Up Rhone Valley

SEVENTH ARMY FLANKS TOULON IN DRIVE WEST   Gen. Patch’s Forces within 31 Miles of Strategic - Marseille

Yank Seventh Army Nears  Marseille   Plunge 32 Miles Inland in Extension of South France Beachhead

Yank, French Forces Are Near Toulon   General Patch’s Army Now Controls 1,00 Square Miles of Southern France; Front Is Being Extended to Marseille

ALLIES OCCUPY GREAT SECTOR IN TOULON AREA   Some Resistance Near Bormes Is Reported

Seventh Army Increases South France Beachhead To 1,000 Square Miles

YANKS BESIEGE NAVAL BASE OF TOULON   Beachhead Is Extended Tc { Thousand Square Miles   FIVE TOWNS   Captured By Seventh Army; Nazis Abandon Cannes; Battleship Bombed

‘At Seized Valensole Doughboys Third Of Way fo Lyon   Yanks. Join, French Maquis Overwhelming Garrison. at Pertius

French Plunge Ahead Of U. S. Forces: To Points  Near Toulon, Marseilles

BEACHHEAD OF 7TH “ARMY EXTENDED TO ~ 1000 SQUARE MILES   Major General Patch’s Troop: Within 81 Miles of Marseille.   TOULON IS FLANKED   Plunged 32 Miles Inland, Allied Headquarters Announced Today.

 FRENCH TROOPS IN TOULON, SEVENTH ARMY NINE MILES OF — MARSEILLE AS INVASION SPREADS

Patch’s /th Army Drives (Qn Marseille   Invaders Push 32 Miles Inland, Flanking Toulon Naval Base.

Seventh Army In Toulon, Nearing City of Marseille   Other Forces Take Town 50 Miles North of Toulon as Allies Push Forward

ith Army Still Advancing In South France   Spears Westward to With. in 31 Miles of Marseille; Toulon Being Besieged

Allies Drawing Noose Around Cannes, Toulon   5 Key Highway Centers Captured as Attack  Btnens NMarthward

Toulon Is Entered by The French   American Infantry Stabs Fifty Miles Inland; Troops Nine Miles fram Meareaille

FIGHT WAY INTO NAVAL BASE ON MEDITERRANEAN   OTHER TROOPS OF 7TH ARMY 9 MILES FROM MARSEILLE

Within 31 Miles of Marseille   Drive Flanking Toulon Base Others Point to Rhone Valley

French Fight Way  Into Toulon Base   Forward Elements of Invasion Nine Miles From Marseille   STAB TOWARD LYONS   Invasion of Southern France Progresses at Amazing Faate

YANKS BYPASS TOULON; SWEEP TOWARD RHONE   Southern Army Plunges Inland For Juncture With Patton

Seventh Aims Northward _ For Junction   Spearheads Plunge . More Than 30 Miles: Into Maritime Alps

FRENCH UNITS REACH TOULON, CITY SHELLED   Advance in Southern France Continues  At Fast Pace

Allies in South France Aiming  AtRhoneValley   Hold 1000 Sq. Mi.; Toulon and Marseilles ByPassed

NVASION ARMIES ADVANCE INLAND   Surge Forward on 30-mile Arc Deep in South France   ROAD CENTERS TAKEN   Plunge in Maritime Alps in Drive to Join Forces in Northern France

Americans Drive  32 Miles Inland   Patch’s 7th Army Continues Its Advance in Southern France

Beachhead In South France  Is Extended   General Patch’s Army Now Occupies 1,000 Square Miles and Is 32 Miles Inland.

Patch's Army Expands Area 1000 Sa. Miles   Some Yank Units Reported Driving Towards Broad, Rhone Valley; Another Aims For Marseille

FRENCH ARMOR IN A SWIFT THRUST   Point 28 Miles Noreast of Marseille Reached

1,000 Square Miles Of Southern France Won In Swift Allied Push   By EDWARD KENNEDY

AMERICAN TANKS HAVE FIRM BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS SEINE RIVER AT MANTES   Germans Trying Hard to Break Out of Traps Of Allied Armies at Tremendous Loss of Men And Material. Dispatches Renorted Todav

U.S. 7TH ARMY TIGHTENS GRIP ABOUT TOULON   Americans In Southern France Now Within 3] Miles of Marseille

Yanks 13 Miles From Marseille   Fall of Toulon Expected in Hours

Americans Spear Westward te Within 31 Miles of Marseille in Drive Flanking Toulea

Armies Within 31 Miles Of Marseille   Front Driven Behind French Naval Base Of Toulon

ALLIED FORCES GAIN IN DRIVE ON MARSEILLE   Spearheads Flank Toulon; Fight Way Inland 32 Miles

Southern France Beachhead Now 1,000 Miles; Toulon Is Flanked In Drive To Rhone   Seventh Army 31 Miles From Marseille But May By-Pass Big Port; Juncture With North France Armies Is Aim

Toulon Is Besieged By Yanks   Junction With Eisenhower Seen As  Goal Of 7th.

Yanks Head For Valley Of Rhone   Forces New Inland 32 Miles Have Flanked Toulon; Canture Salernes«

U. S. 7th FLANKS TOULON   BEACHHEAD OF GENERAL PATCH HAS EXPANDED TO 1000 SQUARE MILES

Beachhead In South France Extended   Toulon Flanked As Allies Grab 1,000 Square Miles

U. 5. SEVENTH SWEEPS WIDE 30-MILE ‘ARC   Seize Many Towns on Road to Cannes,  Tauloen

Moves ahead 30 miles inte French Alps  ‘Toulon attack is possibly started’

—SOUTH NCE—  PATON FORCES NEAR MARSEILLE   More Than 1,000 Square - Miles Now Held In Southern France   OUTFLANK TOULON   American And French Drive Inland Depth Of 32 Miles

ROAD CENTERS INSIDE FRANCE ARE GAPTUREL   Germans Predict Fall Of Cannes Soon; Toulon  May Be Under Attack   FORWARD ELEMENTS APPLYING PINCERS

Southern Invasion Progress Is Rapid   Five Important Rail Centers Are Captured By Advancing Americans: Pincers Develops

Drive Flanks Toulon, Makes  Plunge Inland   Southern France Beachhead Extendec To 1.000 Square Miles by Allies

YANKS FLANK TOULON ON SOUTH FRONT   Forces Now Only Six Miles Northeast of Naval Base, and Are Within 31 Miles of Port of Marsellle.

Road Centers In Interior  Are Seized   Forward Elements of Allied Force Go Into Maritime Alps

French Fight ‘Way Into Big ,loulon Base   Yanks Nine Miles From Marseille; Stab A Third Of Wav To Lvon.

Allies Attempt Flank Move In South France   Seventh Army Spears Inland 32 Miles From Coast

FIVE KEY ROAD CENTERS WON BY 7TH ARMY   Americans Plunge 30 Miles Into Maritime Alps

Americans Drive Toward Marseille, Flank Naval Base   Liberate 1,000 Square Miles; Allies Push 32 Miles Inland in Latest Invasion

0 ROAD CENTERS SEIZED BY YANKS   AMERICANS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE MOVING FORWARD ON GREAT 30-MILE ARC.

Seventh Army Plunges Inland at Least 32 Miles In Invasion.   MARSEILLE: 31 MILES

Allied Troops Are As Far As 32 Miles Inland From Landing Place— Threaten Marseille   London. —(P—A_ pooled broadeast by a CBS correspondent in southern Franco todsy said the toll of Toulen “mey new be a matter of hours.”

French of 7th Army in Toulon   American Forward Elements Nine Miles From Marseilles   VALENSOLE, FIFTY MILES NORTH, TAKEN   Nazi General Known for Extreme Cruelty Is Among Captives

SOUTH FRONT, FLANK TOULON   Spear To Within 31 Miles 01 Marseille; Drive Pointed Toward Rhone Valley

YANKS OUTFLANK TOULON; 31 MILES FROM MARSEILLE   FORWARD ELEMENTS ADVANCE WEST OF LA ROQUERBRUSSANE

HULD ON LEYTE ID ENLARGED   Yank Forces Expand Bridgehead to 40 Miles   CORPS FORM JUNCTION   Thirteen Additional Communities Freed From Enemy; 76 Planes Downed

YANKS ENLARGE HOLD ON EASTERN COAST OF LEYTE   Junction of 10th and 24th Army Corps Expands Beachhead to Length of 40 Miles.   JAPANESE INCREASE RESISTANCE IN CENTER   Seventh Division Captures Buri in Sharp Fighting— 46 Enemy Planes Shot Down.

2 Army Corps Join on Leyte, Japs Stiffen   15 Communities Liberated, 76 Nip Planes Downed, MacArthur Renorts

Yanks on Leyte Control 40-Mile Coastal Area   Junction Established By Two Units; Samar Japs Are Repulsed

10 ARMY CORPS JOIN AND NOW CONTROL 40 MILES OF FASTERN COAST OF ISLANE

OPA Tells U.S To Watch Food Supplies   Lays Down Drastic Rationing Rules, Effective Today

Canned Gooc Are Again On Ration Lists   Cancel Sugar Stamps Excepting Number 34

Streamlined Income Tax Bill Planned   New Draft Policy Criticized By Rubber Director; Dies Accepts Winchell’s Challenge

‘Streamlined Tax Bill Is Proposed   ) Will Fliminate Necessity for About 30 Million Persons to File Income Tax; Solon  Says Won’t Hurt or Help Taxpayer

SIMPLIFIED TAX BILL ADVANCED   Plan Would Free 30 Million From Filing Of Returns

NO ACTION ON ASSESSMENTS   Commissioners Are Seeking Reaction In Other  Counties

No Possibility Of Increasing Gasoline Rations  Stocks for Civilian Use ‘Tight’ All Ove: Nation Ickes Savs

Gas Rations To Remain Same   Ickes Says There Is No Possibility Of Raising Civilian Gas Quota.

ICKES SAYS: DRIVERS TO GET NO MORE GAS   Declares Stocks of Petroleum i U. S. Are at Lowest Level” in 90 Wears.

Out of the Question  Ickes Sees No Increase In Civilian Gas Allotment

No Extra Gas For Civilians   Stocks at Low Ebb, Ickes Declares   Stocks at Low Level

es Sees No bility of Gas Now   of Fuel for Use Tight All Country, Oil  or Says

Tax Returns Are Required   Rayroll Deductions No Excuse for Not Filing Statement 

LeMars High School Debaters Gaining Ground  - Discuss Revival Of _ League Of Nations During Season

THREE INJURED AS CARS CRASH ON HIGH STREE]   Collision at Intersection Sends Trio to Hospital Here for Treatment

AUTO STRIKES SAFETY ISLAND, INJURING TWO   Three Women Hurt When Drivers Collide  July 22

Three Injured Over Week-End   Two Require ‘Hospital Treatment Here

SAILOR HURT AS AUTO RUNS OVER CURB INTO POST   Collision of Two Cars Causes Injuries To Drivers

Three Are Injured  In Motor Accident Route 5I Is Scene Of  C mm aehiir

2 ARE INJURE WHEN 2 AUTOS, TROLLEY CRASH   Car Strikes Mail Box Which Falls, Hits  Pedestrian

2 PERSONS ARE HURT AS TRUCK CRASHES POLE   Pedestrian Injured; Driver Is Not  Identified

POLICE OFFICER HURT IN CRASH   Small Girl Is Injured ir Another Accident

Three Injured in Two Accidents   Cambridge Man Hurt As Car Leaves Road

THREE PERSONS HURT IN CROSS KEYS CRASH   Three Automobiles Are Damaged In Collision At Intersection Of Highways This Morning

TWO INJURED IN (RASH OF AUTOS   Cars Badly Damaged in Collision at Howard and Chestnut Sts.

TWO ARE INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT      Automobiles Collide on Virginia Ave. Saturday Niahet

M-4 PRIME MOVER 1S 1B TON TRACTOR   Equipment for March on Berlin Has Seen Frontline Action.

HIGH SPEED TRACTOR. WILL MOVE BIG GUNS   M-4 Prime Mover, an 18-Ton TankType Vehicle, to Pull Artillery on Road to Berlin.

Dewey Anticipates Heavy Soldier Vote in November  Candidate Declares States Should Direct Ballot Care

Soldier Vote To Be Great Says Dewey   Percentage Higher Then Civilian Total,’ Avers G.O.P. Leader

Dewey Carries Campaign Into West Virginia   Will Discuss F. R. Dis: avowal Of Communists In Speech Tonight.

DEWEY FEELS VOTE CAST BY SOLDIERS TO EXCEED CIVILIANS   Statement Made On Estimated Percentage Basis—Greeted By Huge Throng at Charleston Where He wir Speak Tanioht

SUBMITS PLA FOR DRAFTING YOUNGER MEN   Local Boards To Be Instructed On Policies

Age Group Plan to Be New Rule  Director Hershey Outlines Formula

MEN UNDER 26 FIRST IN DRAFT   HERSHEY SAYS 26-29 AGE GROUP IS NEXT AND THEN OVER 30

26 To 29 Will Go  Second   18.26 WILL BE CALLED FOR INDUCTION FIRST; 4F’S MAY BE FORCED TO DO WAR WORK

Age-Group Draft System Planned   Men Under 26 to Be Taken First, Hershey Declares

New Formula For Draft   Age-Group System Adopted, Started With Men Under 26, Then 26-29 and On Up

Age System For Draft   Men 26 Will Be Taken First, Gen. Hershey Reveals

AGE-GROUP PLAN FIXED FOR DRAFT      Men Under 26 To Go First, Director Hershey Says

Draft System By Age Group Now Planned   Younger Men to Be Inducted First Under New Program Of Selective Service

Nazi Colonel Praises Patton   Impressed By Excellent Organization of Troops

Valley Woman Is Decapitated By Train Today   Mother Of 10 Killed  Near Weslaco

Two Destroyers Of U.S. Navy Are Lost   One Reported Torpedoed and Sunk i in the Atlantic While Another Blows Apart Near the Entrance of Lower New York Bay

Destroyer Sunk By Torpedo, Navy Report Asserts   Details of Loss Not Made Public

DESTROYER Is REPORTED SUNK IN ATLANTIC   Navy Says Torpedo Seni  Unidentified U. 8. Warship To Bottom ,   ANOTHER IS BLOWN UP IN NEW YORK BAY

U. §. DESTROYER IS SENT DOWN   Vessel Is Torpedoed In Atlantic; Jap Base Bombed

Torpedo Sinks U.S. Destroyer In N. Atlantic   Navy Bares Loss of Ship on Des. 24: Another Destroyer Blows Up.and Sinks Off New York Harbor —

KIYANG FALLS, TO JAP DRIVE TO HALF CHINA   Converted Airbase At Lingling Imperiled By Enemy Advance

Roosevelt Says. War ‘Well in Hand: in Pacific   But Production: Must Not Lag, He Tells People

President Declares War Is “Well in  Hand’ in Pacific   F. D. R., Home Again Affer Touring Bases in Hawaii and Aleutians, Says Japs Must ‘Prove’ Themselves After War

DOES NOT KNOW WHEN WAR TO END   President Says More Than Million Troops in Pacitic

SALES TAX HELPS LOWER CITY LEVY   1945 Budget for Lawrence for a Levy of — 30 ce   CUT IN BOND INTEREST

Further Sweeping Nazi Retreats Are Expected in France, Poland   Fall of Warsaw Will Make Eastern Front as Unstable as Western

VOTERS DECIDE VITAL MATTERS   Nomination of Brown Shows Kelly Is Strong Man of GOP.

Lines Formed For November Ballot Battle   Brown Has His Eyes On Governorship Two Years Henée

FLYING FORT ‘HELD TOGETHER BY HOLES” SANTA ROSAN IN GREAT RAID ON REICH

INDUSTRIES IN RUHR VALLEY RAID TARGETS   Bombers Keep Up Pressure On Hitler's Transportation System Cufting Off Many Rail Lines  rLOOD DUTCH ISLANDS

Pender Takes Year’s Leave From Tech; To Be Succeeded By Dr. J. William Davis

“Night Focus Cats" Put Army's Photo Reconnaisance on Round-Clock Basis

Rumely Indicted By Federal Jury   Official Of Constitutional Committee Is Awewead.

Rumely Named  In Indictment   Secretary Refuses To List  fiannenititee Pascenanwnal

DOTY   Claims Anderson .Using Power To Abolish Rights of Citi zens’ Freedom

Indictment Returnedin Rumely Ease   Refusal to Give Lisi Of Contributors to Gannett Committee  Brings Action

Rumely Indicted For Failure To List Receipts   Educational, Not Political. Claim

Change Ration Point Setup   Choice Lamb Cuts, Soft Cheeses Back On List; More Points On Beef Steaks, Roasts

Lamb Back on Ration List   Beef Points Boosted; Order Effective Sunday; Cheese Also Affected

PUT POINTS BACK ON LAMB, CHEESE   PORK AND CHEAPER CUTS OF BEEF ARE STILL RATION-FREE

Lamb, Cheese To Be Under Ration Again   Point Value Of Beef Is Boosted

To Boost Points Oa Steak, Lamb   OPA Increases Values From 3 to 10 Points, Beginning Sunday.

Choice Cuts Will Be on List; Beef Steak, Roast ~ Points to Go Up.

Choice Lamb Cut Again Rationed  Change Effective Sunday Through July

Lamb, Cheeses Go Back On Ration Lists  Higher Point Values For Choice Beef Cuts  ye _

Choice Lamb, Soft Cheeses Rationed  Beef Steaks, Roasts Hiked In Value

CHOICE LAMB CUTS AGAIN RATIONED   Soft Cheeses Also Back On List: Beef Steaks and Roasts Up Slightly

LAMB, CHEESES RATIONED AGAIN   Increase Point Values on Beef Steaks, Roasts

Lamb Goes Back On Rationing  Soft Cheeses Also Require Points; Steake Hiked

Lamb Cuts and Cheeses Back On Ration List   Beef Steaks and Roasts Will Cost More Ration Points Per Pound Sunday

Slates V-3 For New York   Giant Rocket of . 50 to 70 Tons Due Last of Month

U.S. May Have Standing ‘Police’ Army To Be Used in Security Emergencies

Ask U. S. Agree To Use Force  Peace Preservation Proposal Expected

Powers Propose Automatic Force   World Organization Would Direct Its Use to Insure Peace

Peace Plans Developing   World Organization Taking Shape, With Use of Force To Enforce Peace

Proposes U.S. Fight To Keep World Peace   Follow Orders Of Organization

_§. Destroyer Squadron inks Jap Destroyer, Nine Zarges And Two Freighters

U.S. Destroyer Squadron Sinks 12 Jap Vessels   Destroyer And Troop-Laden Transport Are Included In Attack Victims   IMPORTANT BASES SHELLED BY YANKS

ALLEGED MARRIAGE SWINDLE UNCOVERED   Woman Got Money From Number of Prospective Husbands.

Larry Allen Recounts German Prison Life Atter i hree Qinkinae. Fine Tornedainas: Rammell Interview Fails

Larry Allen Recounts German Prison Life After Three Sinkings, Five Torpedoings: Rommel Interview Fails   By LARRY ALLEN Associated Press Staff Writer

ee Former Mt. Savage Writer Describes Capture by the Italians at Tobruk

Church Members Asked To Furnish Clothing For War Stricken People

HILUMAN SEES PAC ASA WORLD FORCE   Says Labor Politically Potent Under Two Party System.

Molten LavaEngulfs Towns As Mexico’s New Volcano Goes Into AnotherEruption

Lava-Engulfs— Mexican Towns   Volcano Threatens To Wipe Out Three Other Towns»

Lava Buries Two Towns   Three Others Threatened By Eruption of New Mexican Volcano

Mexico Volcano Becomes Violent   Lava Engulfs 3 Towns, 3 Others Periled

LAVA WIPES QUT TOWNS IN MEXICO   Earthshaking Explosions Are Heard at Intervals From Elevated Centers.

Two Towns Engulfed By Mexico’s New-Born Volcano; Three Menaced   Lava Moving 200 Yards A Day, With Towns In Path Being Evacuated; Gruesome Picture Ie Painted By Dwellers.

Lava From Mexican Volcano Engulfs Two Towns; Indian Populace Flees From Homes

FRENCH CLAIM FALL OF PARIS   More Allied Armor, Infantry Reaches Capital

More Troops Enter Paris   Liberation of City Not Confirmed by Allied Headquarters

MORE TROOPS TANKS ENTER CAPITAL   Allies Headquarters Does Not Mention Capture   RESISTANCE   Continues, Berlin States: Leader Of Free French Back In City

ALLIED LEADERS DO NOT CONFIRM PARIS VICTORY   French Broadcast Capture of Capital; De Gaulle Speaks to Parisians

CIO Board Votes To Continue PAC   Hillman’s Political Group Given Approval

FINNS DRIVEN BACK AS RUSS NEAR VIIPURI   Red Forces Are Reported Within Ten Miles of [mportant City

SOVIET ARMY RACES TOWARD CITY OF VIIPURI   Stockholm Report Claims New Finnish Government Headed By Baron Mannerheim Was “Imminent”

WIDE RANGE STABS   American Airmen Raid Japanese Shipping and Supply Bases

Continue Attacks On Jap Shipping   U.S. Air Force Sinks More Ships Bound For Leyte; Ground Forces Are Boaced

Airmen Pound Jap Shipping   Also Hammer at Jap Air Bases While Storms Holt Leyte Ground Fighting

Planes Pound Jap Shinping   Incessant Storms Limit Ground Action On Leyte

Yankee Airmen Raid Japanese  Bases On Leyte   Island Incessant Storms Limit Ground-Activity To Minor Patrol Clashes

Airmen Pounc Jap Shipping   Alse Etammier ot Joep: Air Bases While Storms Helt Layte Ground Fighting . —

Palau’s Conquest Bolsters U.S. Drive in Pacific  Woes Ream (China   News From China Continues Bad; Japs Take Tanchuk

‘Americans Extend “ee on Palaus, Keep Up Air Blow:   Japanese Continue Extensive Advance Against Chinese

YANKEE FORCES GAIN BASES FOR PACIFIC DRIVE   Fliers Add To Total Of Destroyed Jap Shipping

Three More Isle: in Palaus Taken   U.S. Forces Have  Mere Bases Now

PALAU VICTORY BALANCES BAD CHINESE NEWS   Seize Three Islets, but Japs Continue Threatening Drive in China.

U.S. STRIAING POWER BUILT IN PHILIPPINES   PACIFIC SUCCESSES OFFSET BAD NEWS FROM CHINA

Yanks Seize More Isles in Palau Group   Continuing Bad News Comes From China Battlefront

Yanks Bolster Positions In Pacific Fight  But Bad News Still Comes Out Of China As Japs Move Towarc   SER, Ss. gee Sane

U.S. Extends Control Over Palau Isles   (rains There Serve To Offset Allied Losses On Chinese Mainland

Nine Nazi Airfields Blown Un   en Task Forces of U.S F lying Fortresses + ARE ber utoreeen  Cover France

NINE AIRDROMES IN FRANCE HIT BY BIG BOMBERS   Freight Yards At Tours Also Attacked; 38 Nazi Planes Destroyed   RUHR VALLEY PLANTS ARE HAMMERED HARD

NINE GERMAN AERIAL BASES ARE WRECKEL   ESCORTS DESTRO} 38 PLANES IN DAY ATTACK

BIG YANK AIR FLEET RAIDS 9 AIRDROMES   Americans Also Pound Railway Yards at Tours in France

Fighter Pilots Alone Bag 38 German Craft   Tours Freight Yards Also Hit; Assault Follows Great RAF Night Raid on Essen

German Targets In France Are Bombed   Bombers, Escorted by Fighters, Blast Positions While Essen Burns After Night Attack by #hae PAE

Heavy American Bombers Aftack Nazi Airdromes   23 German Planes Downed in Battles

Heavies Batter Nazis, Down 38   Daylight Foray Is Almost Unopposed  By W. W. HERCHER

Destroy 38 Nazi Planes in Sweep Through France   6 U.S. Bombers, 15 Fighters Lost From Mission

AMERICAN AIRMEN. BLAST NAZI AIR BASES IN FRANCE   Nine Fields, as Well as Freight Yards at Tours, Pounded by 750 to 1,000 Rombers.   RAIDERS DESTROY 38 PLANES AND LOSE 21   Paris Radio Reports 14 Were Killed in Bordeaux Area __ and %6 in Town in: “PpPvrenees,

NINE GERMAN AIRDROMES ARE BLASTED   aeaaeSSe_"  Along With Freight Yards At Tours, While 38 Nazi Planes Are Destroyed; RAF Attacks Essen.   E-Boat Nest

Snow, Cold Sweeps Most Of Country   Freezing Weather Extends South To Mississippi

NATION SWEPT   Snow, Low Temperatures Hit Northern States; South Shivers

COLD OVER NATION   Winter Temperatures in Upper Half of Nation and Deep South

Most Of Nation Is, Gripped By Cold  Me Wc: Recamadhadurd: ‘mmasce

See Danger      Polish Government Says Red Advance Into Poland “Moral Crisis”

POLES VIEW RED ENTRY SERIOUSLY   Thrust Called Grave Political  And Moral Crisis

British Advance Toward Forli in Powerful Attack   Stalled for Days The Tommies Move Towurd Vital Town

Gestapo. Planning. Massacre of  1500 ‘Political Prisoners, Charge

Rodzinski And Sinatra In Hot Controversy...  Orchestra Leader Says ‘‘Boogie-Woogie” One Of Great Delinquency Causes

Gen. “Ike” Taker New Command  Arrives in London to Prepare for Invasion

‘lke’ Takes Over Allied Commanc   General In London Fo: Great Offensive

8, LEADER TAKES AIDE TD FNELAN   Bradley Will Head ' Ground Forces;  ’ Wilson Acts

“IKE” ARRIVES TO PLAN FOR   Completing Program of Most Decisive Allied Venture of War

—INV ASION—  BRADLEY NAMED. ~ SENIOR OFFICES   Will Have Command Of ‘American Ground Forees In United Kingdom   PRAISES RESULTS   U.S. General Pays High . Tribute To Work Of Navies And Air Forces

SAYS ALLIED ‘TROOPS READ      Lt. Gen. ‘Bradley Named Chief of Ground Forces In United Kingdom

ASSUMEDBY 1S, LEADER   Lauds Great Work Already Done By Air, Naval And=  * ee:  Supply Departments —

EISENHOWER IN ENGLAND; PLANS FOR INVASION   Visited President And Gen. Marshall In Washineton

General Bradley To Direct Yank  Invasion Forces   General Wilson Says Drive On Rome Is Next As He Takes Over In Italy

EISENHOWER IN BRITAIN, WAS IN WASHINGTON   Announcement Reveals He Con ferred with Roosevelt and Chur chill Enroute from Italy   WILSON IN ALGIERS   New Commander in Mediterranean Says Rome Not Only Objective, France May Be One

ALLIED PLANS FOR INVASION WELL ADVANCED   Eisenhower. Reaching Eng. land, Praises Work Of Air, Naval, Supply Forces

Invasion Plans Well Advanced, Says Eisenhower   Chief Of Allied Armies To Invade Europe Arrives In Tondon.

NAME BRADLEY U. §. GROUND COMMANDER   Mediterranean Chief Adds Rome Is Objective   SUPREME LEADER   Confers With Roosevelt, Churchill En Route To New Headquarters

Cisennower Takes Up London Post; Invasion Groundwork Already Laid

Tmemployment Provisions of G. IL Bill of Rights in Effect September 4 — Unemployed Veterans Can Apply for Allowances.

GI BILL OF RIGHTS FOR JOBLESS PAY EFFESTIVE SEPT, 4   Vets May Apply For Benefits For Week, Sept. 10-16

President's Ruling Will Serve to Keep Party Lines Intact   Keeps Two Democratic Congressmen From Army Enlistment

TALK GROWS OF DEWEY - WARREN TICKET BY GOP   Caucuses Of Big Delegations May Decide  ace

Legions of GOP ‘Storm Chicago         Tt reasing’ Talk of ‘Dewey. + Warren Nominatian«

Caucuses of 3 Big States May Setile Slate Betore Nominations Open   ILLINGIS 318 FIRST      Marlin Says Warren ol Calilornia Will Run for Vice President

Talk Warren as Dewey's Running Mate   GOP Legions Storm Chicago to Tax All of City’s Facilities

Dewey and Warren Gain 6.0.P: Favor   "Hands-Across-Nation’ Ticket Talk Grows; ‘Surprise’ Is Hinted

REPUBLICANS GET SET IN CHIGAGL FOR CONVENTION   Legions Storm Windy City For First War-time Convention Since 1864   BIG DELEGATIONS TO HOLD CAUCUSES   Climactic Developments Are Expected Even Before Convention Starts; Bricker and Dewey Headquarters Wage All-out Battle for Delegates

‘Dewey-Warren Ticket Talked   Delegates Pour Into ‘Chicago to Tax Hotels, Swamp Restaurants

DEWEY, WARREN BOOMED TO LEAL PARTY IN RACE   Chicago Greatly Taxed By First War-Time Convention Since 1864

DEWEY DRIVE BINS AS GOP CLANS RATHER   Delegates Storm Chicago and Swamp Hotels on Eve of Convention.

“Hands Across Nation’ Ticket Talk Stirs Among Republicans   Governors Thomas E. Dewey, Earl Warren Lead Field for Nomingtions in Preconvention Speculation in Chicago

Hands Across Nation Ticket Talk Mounts With Dewey and Warren Running Mates; Conclave May Reach Climax Before Start

GOP DELEGATES ARE GATHERING IN WINDY CIT}   . Dewey Still Odds-on Choice to Win Nomination—Bricker Stays in

‘Hands Across The Nation’ Ticket Headed By Dewey And Warren Seen For GOP   Republicans Storm Into Chicago To Open Convention; Willkie Is Absent

Limelight on Chicago For GOP Convention   State Caucuses Will Ring Up Curtain On Big Show

GOP Vanguard Storms Chicago For Convention  Increasing Talk of   Increasing Talk of Dewey, Warren for Republican Ticket

Swarm Chicago For Convention  Dewey And Bricker Appear Confident

Republican Delegates Pour Into Chicago for Convention   Talk Increases of Ticket Headed’ by Dewey With Warren a: "Running Mate—With Plans Laid for. Early Caucuses bj California, Pennsylvania and Illinois Groups, Climactic Developments May Come. Before Meeting Opens.

Nagoya Given Another Taste Of Bombing   Upwards of 100 B-29 Superfortresses Raid Manufacturine City

AIRCRAFT CENTER IS PUMMELED   100 Super-Forts From Saipan Take Part In Latest Blow

BiG FLEET: OF   Step Up Offensive To Smash Enemy Air Power; 100 B-29s In Fleet Hitting Japan’s Third ’ Largest City   BIG PLANES TAKE . OFF FROM SAIPAN

About 100 B-29’s Deliver Blow At Honshu Targets   Raid Third In 10 Days -On Large Mitsubishi _ Aircraft Factory ~~

Big Fleet Of Super-Forts Again Bombs City Of Nagoya, Offensive Being Stepped Up

SUPERFORTS AGAIN SMASF AT NAGOYA   Offensive Aimed At Crushing Jap Air Power

Nagoya Gets New Blasting From B-29’s   Hundred American Superforts Batter Tap Aircraft Center

HUNDRED B-298 POUND NAGOYA, PLANE CENTET   Attack Third In 10 Days On Japan’s Third Biggest City

PRICE CONTROL pill SIPNEN   ..President Fails” to Heed Labor’s _ Plea-for. Veto

PRIGE SONTASL BILL S!GNED   President Fails to Heed Labor’s Plea-for Veto

Revealed by Churehill, Disclosure Gives Jitters  To U. S. Security Officers

U. S. Security Officers Squirm When Churchill Tells of Radar’s Role

Churchill Reveals That Radar Plays Vital Part in United Nations Offensive

Radar Is Giving Allied Airforces Triumph After Triumph Over Nazis

Churchill Bares Secret of Radar   Sheds First Light On Secret Weapon

RADAR SECRETS ARE REVEALED   Churchill Breaks Cloak Of Silence Shielding Miracle-Weapon

Brifain Imposes Strike Penalties   New Regulation Slaps Heavy Sentence, Fine On Strike Instigators

Bricker Flays FDR's Federal Court ‘Packing   Charges Rulings Reflect New Deal Ideologies

Liberators Again Blast Halmahera   Softening Up Blows ‘On Base Intensified ©

Patton Opens Sudden Drive   New Third Army Thrust Aimed Toward Northern Saar — Patrols Go Into Reich — Troops Go Into Fortress City from North And South—lInfantry Crosses Moselle

Patton’s Men Enter Fortress City from Two Directions; Patrols Cross the sorder.   ALLIES PUSH AHEAD . ON LENGHTHY FRONT

Smash Into Reich, Enter Metz; Allies  GainOnAllFronts   Germans Say Great Battle Rages On 50-Mile Line East Of Aachen; Nazi Fortress City Penetrated From North And South; Southern Sectors Active

Sudden Thrust Made At Saar; Metz Invaded   Big Allied Offensive Rolls Forward On All.  Fronts Today

Patton’s Army Moves Along 15-Mile Front   U. S. Patrols Cross German Border Fram Defense Lines in Luxembour;

PATROLS FORCE INTO CITY FROM NORTH, SOUTH   Mechanized Cavalry Punch Into Reich Near Luxembourg Border

JYther lhird Army Troops Roll Forward Four Miles Toward Rich Saar Valley

Patton Hurls Armor at Saar   Two and a Half Million Men Face 500,000 Germans on West Front

SUBDEN DRIVE SENDS PATROLS INSIDE REICH   Moselle Bridge Crossed; Metz Is Entered

Yank Patrols Enter Metz From 2 Sides As ‘Patton Unleashes Sudden Drive On 15- ile Front Te ward Northern Saar

All 6 Allied Armies Achieve ‘Advances. “Th Rhine Offensive   French Smash Into Belfort Gap; Reds Menace Magyar Town; . Heavy Battle Raging In Albania

Patton’s Infantry And Armor Send Patrols Into Reich While Troops Storm Fortress Metz From Both North and South ©.

YANKS IN DRIVE TOWARD SAAR   Sensational Advances Scored Along Entire 400-Mile Front

Patton’s Forces Drive Into Metz From North, South   American Troops Launch Surprise Push on 15-Mile Front Toward Northern Saar

Pation Forces Strike On 15 Mile Front   Germans Pushed Back By Russians On Slovak Border

JAP FORCES ARE ROUTED IN CHINA   Had Driven to Within 65 Miles  Of. Kweiyang

Japs Routed in Crisis Battle  Invaders Reel Back in Strong Smash Aimed AtllsS China Race

CHINESE CLAIM JAPS ROUTED   Assert Grave Crisis  for Army Weathered

Japs Routed 65  Miles From Base   Said One of Gravest Military Crises In War

SENATE OK'S SIMPLER INCOME FORM   Will Make Tax Pay ing Easier   BACKS UP HOUSE   Bill Scraps Present Victory Tax

FRENCH FUNDS 10 BE UNFROZEN SOON   Steps Are Taken for Release Following DeGatl'e Recognition

Soviets Near 1939 Boundary, Sweep Ahead At Dnieper   Former Nazi General Calls Upon Germans To Surrender

SOVIET FORCES PLUNGE DEEP IN OLD POLAND   Advance Within 50 Miles Of Border Set In 1939°

RED ARMY PUSHES DEEP INTO POLAND, — SEIZES 200 TOWNS   Lutsk and Rovno on Main Railroad to Warsaw Among Places Captured in ' Swift Drive.   2 HUNGARIAN DIVISIONS - ARE PUT TO FLIGHT   Surge Puts Stalin’s Troops 50 Miles From Russian-German Border Established in 1939.

RED ADVANCE GOES DEEPER INTO POLAND   ROUT HUNGARIANS; 2,000 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN

OVER MILLION JAP. ~ BEETLES TRAPPED   Officials Worried. About __-Live: Beétles_in n Stolen Fa rrevs .:

OVER MILLION JAP. BEETLES TRAPPED   Officials Worried About __Live Beetles in Stolen Drum

Ujelang Gives N ew Air Base Nearer Truk   ane RATT  Island Zot Me Lei Ponape Taken On Saturday

UJELANG ATOLL I OCCUPIED BY AMERICANS   Establish Base 236 Miles From Japs On Ponape

Japs Flee Aitape Village   Planes Join Jungle Fighters in Drive on Three Airfields

Professor Wins Cuban Election   Ramon Gran San Martin Beats Batista Group

Aerial Blows Ruin 43 More Jap Aircraft   Starvation and Disease Take Toll of Japs In New Britain ——

BATTLE TIDE GOING WRONG FOR JAPANESE   LOSSES CONTINUE HEAVY AT SOUTH PACIFIC BASES

43 More Japs Are Downed   Kabaul Pounded Again And Kavieng Also Is Lashed

Destroy 43 Jap Planes In Air Blows   32 Shot Down In Sky Clashes At Rabaul; Kavieng Also Rocked By Allied Raiders

43 Jap Planes Down In Raids   New Aerial Sweeps Against Rabaul. Wavieng: Meet New Enemies.

Wipe Out Jap Planes in Pacific   Yank Aviators Get 43 in Sweep Over Rabaul and Kavieng

Yanks Down 43 Planes In Solomons   By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editar

Pacific Aerial Sweeps Knock Ou 43 Jap Planes   Hunger, Disease Hit Enemy Forces On New Britain

43 Jap Planes Downed In.Rabaul, Kavieng Raid   Starvation and Disease Stalking Japs C New Britain; 3 Jap Freighters Sunk

Jap Bases in South Pacific Bombed Again   At Least 43 Enemy Planes Destroyed by  Allied Attackers

Flying Bombs Blast London Again But Fewer Casualties Are Reported

WORLD PEACE PLAN DESIGNED BY 4 NATIONS   General Assembly and Security Council Are Features

Outgrowtih Of Recent Conference   Dumbarton Oaks Report  sre eet Sk  Outlines Assembly

Dumbarton Oaks Peace Conferees Unveil Plans Of World Organization   “The United Nations” Would Have Military Backing And Special Air Force Units On Call

TE FOUR POWER PROPOSALS FOR A WORLD SECURITY   Determined Sacrifices Of This War Shall Not Be In Vain   KNOWN AS “THE UNITED NATIONS’   Policy Making General Assembly Of All Peace Loving Nations

World Security Charter Given   Proposals Resulting From Dumbarton Oaks Conference Include Policy-Making Assembly Economic, Social Council of 18 Nations

‘-POWER PLAN FOR SECURITY AGREED UPON   Procedure For Use Of Force Left To ‘Higher-U ps’

INTERNATIONAL “AIR POLICE PART OF PLAN   Wide Scope for New League

PEACE-LOVING NATIONS WILL JOIN ASSEMBLY   Maintenance of Order Is to Be Primary Responsibility of World Setup.

Might of ilies to Be Used   Details of ‘Big Four’ Meeting Is Released Today

WORLD PEACE LEAGUE IS PLANNED   Big Four Nations Unveil Ourline Of New League

World Peace  Setup Unveiled   Urganization Will See That War Shall Not  Flame Anew

Armed Might Would Back  Peace Moves   Big Four Nations Disclose Program Of ‘United Nations’

Charter for New World Council Plan is Revealed   “United Nations” Is Name Given to Setup for Peace

Plan, Still Incomplete, Provides Armed Might to Back Peace Organization   Big Four Nations Project Would be Made Up Of Four Councils; France to Come in Later

United Nations Adopt World Peace Charter   Organization, Still To Be Completed, Calls For Lasting Peace. Backed By Armed Might Of Member Nations; U. S.. Britain, Russia And China Parties To Pact

Dumbarton Oaks Peace Discussion Results Unveiled   Incomplete Charter Calls For Organization To Preserve Order.

BIG FOUR HAVE UNVEILED WORL PEACE CHARTER   Proposed Organization Would Be Called “The United Nations”

Troops drive inland on line 80 miles wide   Widen beaches in new landings

Allied Forces Expand Bridgeheads   Axis Broadcasts Report New Landings Are Made

Invasion Units Widen Foothold While Germans Open Furious Counteraltacks 60 Miles South

Down 33 Japanese Planes In Raid Jn Air Base At Wewak, N. Guineo   ATT -ATARSHALLS

 You Can't Teach An Old Dog... HITLER STILL TRAIN  ING TEN-YEAR-OLDS   FOR FUTURE WARFARE

50,000 Japanese Kelieved Trapped In Two Shrinking Pockets  GATEWAY CAPTURED MAIN JAP SUPPLY  Front Reports Say Jap Opposition In Ormoc Area Stiffening

Ormoc  Falls To  Americans   Capture of Port Splits South End  Of Enemy’s Line; 50,000 Are Trapped

TRAP TIGHTENED ON 90,000 JAPS AFTER CAPTURE OF ORMOC   77th Fans Out On West Coast Of Leyte In Two Columns; Foe Compressed In Two Shrinking Pockets

Noose Tightens on 40,000 Japs Caught in Trap   Fall of Chief Port on Leyte Splits End of Yamashita Line

Ormoc Port Captured Americans Push On   ‘Gateway On Leyte Falls To Veterans Of 77th Tivision

YANKS 0 NORTH AND SOUTH FROM FALLEN ORMOG   Forty to Fifty Thousand Japs in Shrinking Pockets

Americans Fan Out From Ormoc Stranglehold On Thousands (f Japanese Is Tightened

50,000 Nips Penned In by Fall of City   ‘Knockout Blow Seen Soon to Seal U.S. Victory ' On Levte

Ith Division Fans Qut From Captured Ormoc   Tightening Stranglehold on Japanese

Jap Troops Compressed In Pockets   Amphibious Landing Below Jap Position Seals Ormoc’s Fate

TTHh Division Fans Qui From Fallen Ormoc Port   American Troops Tighten Grip on Enemy Force Sewed Up in Two Pockets

STRANGLEHOLD IS TIGHTENED ON LEYTE JAPS   Americans Fanning Out from Captured Port of Ormoc for Knockout Blow.

NIPS TRAPPEL IN 2 POCKETS ON LEYTE   Ormoc, Main Jap Port, Captured By 77th Division

Trap on  50.000 Nips Set   U. S. Doughboys Fan Out Beyond Captured Ormoc to Close Noose

(ORMOC TAKEN, YANKS TIGHTEN NOOSE ON JAPS      77th Division Opens Two ' Way Attack on Trapped 50,000 Nips From Capturad Tevte Port.

BATAAN IN REVERSE   YANKS TAKE ORMOC, SQUEEZE REMAINING JAPS ON LEYTE BETWEEN TWO FORCES AND SEA; SUPERFORTS BOMB TOKYO THIS MORNING FOR FIFTH STRAIGHT DAY.

AMERICAN FLIERS PLASTER ENEMY   Bombers Hit Nazi Troops And Strong Points; Support Yank Break-through: Italy Based Planes Hit Budapest

PLANES GVER NORMANDY   During Heavy  BreakThrough of Americans, RAF Also _ Protects British and Canadians.   Attack Robot Ramps

The The Wa r T. od ay By DeWitt itt MacKenzie  War Analyst   BY J. M. ROBERTS, JR.  (Substituting For DeWitt Bank antin)

Next Few Days May Give Pretty 'Good Idea of When V-Day Will Come

JUST WHEN V-DAY WILL COME. IN EUROPE MAY BE REVEALED BY DEVELOPMENTS OF FEW DAYS

WAR TODAY   : Developments’ of-Next ‘ Few Days May Give  Pretty Good Idea Of  When V-Day Will  Come In Eurone

EAST COAST RAIL! LINE IS SEVERED, HIGHWAY 1S:CUT   Nazi Reports, Say Armored Unit’ Is Approaching “St, Lo as Invaders . Continie to Advance.   CANADIANS CAPTURE .. DOZEN FRENCH TOWNS   Vichy Radio Reports “New Massive Landings” of Allies of. Paratroops and Gliderplane Troops.

Yanks Drive On for Carentan   Armies Drive Deeper Into Normandy; Eisenhower Reports Success in All Sectors, Canadians Take Towns on Bayeux-Caen Line

AMERICAN TANKS CUT EAST COAST RAILROAD, HIGHWAY LEADING TO CHERBOURG

ENEMY MAY BE FORCED TO QUIT VITAL SEAPORT   Nazis Stiffen Resistance

Face Hard Fighting; Operatioz Continue Generally Satisfactor Eisenhower Headquarters Ry veals: Beachheads Enlarging   GREAT NAVAL ARMADA HEADS FOR CHERBOUR

Invasion Making Progsress   General Bradley Visits France to Inspect Troops

Allies Advancing in All French Sectors Despite Fierce Counter-Attacks

Against Mounting Nazi Resistance Of Infantry And Artillery Fire   OPERATIONS ARE SATISFACTORY   (reat U.S. Naval Armada Bringing Reinforcements To Beachheads

All Allied’  beachheads En larging   CUT MAIN NAZI LIFELINES TO:: 2. BIG PORT; GERMAN RESIST AR IS REPORTED STIFFENING

Main Lifelines fo Great Nazi Port Severed   Beachheads Are Enlarged Fourth Day of Invasion

Magnificent Channel Harbor Would Afford Invaders Real  Base; Reinforcements Continue   Yanks, British Approach St. Le, Southwest of Captured Bayeux And Halfway Across Peninsula’s WNerk—-Tank Rattle Rages

U.S. Armored Forces Drive Hard Against German Resistance at Base of Peninsula

Air Offensive Kept Going In Italy; Three Planes Lost In 1250 Sorties; Ground Patrols Active

Bucharest Railway Yards Torn Apart   R.A.F._in Heavy_Attack On_Vital_Freight_Center

Seventh Army Scores Swift New Advance      Nazis Fight Back Hard to Cover Their Retreat

U.S. Troops ~ Draw Near  Belfort Gap   Heavy Fighting With the Nazis Rages in Arbois Area of South France

ALLIES BATTLE NAZI RETREAT   Drive Into Besancon It Push Toward Belfort Gap

PUSH NAZIS BACK TOWARD BELFORT GAP   Yankees, French Threaten to Trap Some of Retreating Foe Near Swiss Border Line,

YANKS CHASE ENEMY INTO BELFORT GAP   Seventh Army Pushes Into Besancon in South France After Swift Advance From Arbois  AIF ARPIAIC. CLIAIICOC BADAELD

HARD BATTLE BEING FOUGHT - BY 7TH ARMY   Troops Engage Germans Covering Retreat of the Nazi 19th Army Fleeing  Toward the Belfort Escape Gap. .

AMERICAN TROOPS OF THE 7TH ARMY.  INTO BESANCOA   i Engaged in Heavy Fighting Today With Nazi Forces Fleeing Toward Belfort. '   ENTER CITY ON 3 SIDES   American Penetrated Into th Western, Southern and Eastern Sections.

Engages in Sharp Fighting With Nazis Attempting To Cover Fleeing Troops

7TH ARMY CHASING NAZIS TOWARD BELFORT GAP AREA   Yanks Engage in Fierce Fighting With Enemy Forces Attempting to Cover Flight of Battered 19th Army Retreatine Toward Belfort

Allied Troops Storm Forward at Three Points Within 25 Miles of the German Border   Fierce Fighting Raging Along 200 Mile. Assault Front with Germans Kept Guessing as to Where the Next Blow Will Fall

Seventh Army Pushes on Into Besancon   Engage in Heavy Fighting, Germans Retreating Towards Belfort Gap

7th Runs Into Stiff Fight on WaytoBelfort   Rearguard Action First Resistance in South in Several Davs

Nazis Fleeing Toward Gap  Fierce Battles Fought By Rear Guard Fofces

Yanks, Nazis in Heavy Fighting   Americans Pushing Into Besancon in Southern France

NAZIS FIGHT TO COVER RETREAT   AMERICANS ADVANCE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE; PUSH INTO BESANCON

Paich’s Forces Enter Besancon In Stiff Fighting  to Beliert 50 Miles Away

Seventh Pushing Into Besancon   Nazi Kesistance Increases To Cover Retreat At Belfort Gap.

YANKS BATTLE INTO BESANCON   Encounter Heavy Fighting as Nazis Guard Retreat

SEVENTH ARMY AT BESANCON; IN BIG BATTLE   Germans; Attempt To Cover 19th Army Escape

Americans Of  7th Army Push Into Besancon   Drive Within 50 Miles  Of Belfort Gap Pathway Se, ee ea

U. 5. SEVENTH ARMY TROOPS ENGAGED IN FURIOUS FIGHTING  AMERICANS PUSHING NORTHWARD ENCOUNTE!

Overrunning Mark in Combat  Jap Flier Hits Own Bomb   (Further details of Pacific fight ing on Pare 2-A.}

GERMANS RUSH NEW DIVISIONS TO LITHUANIA   Berlin Says New Russian Offensive Hits Polish Plains

RED OFFENSIVE  IN LOWER POLAND AIMED TO CROSS PLAIN T0 GERMANY   Russian Troops Encounter Re-Inforced German Forces Near Baranowilcze.

LowerWing Opens on Red Offensive   Moscow Fails to Confirm Report

MARINES HIT TINIAN HARD IN LANDING   Opposition Not Bad As That Met On Guam

nto  Den Battle  Tinian  sle Airstrip   Firm Beachhead Secured; Guam  Peninsula Cut Of

Americans Cu Off Vital Guam Airfield   Yanks Drive Inland Toward Field on Tinian Island

Report of Admiral Nimitz Gives the Lie to Reports Circulated by ‘‘Japs”’   REPORTS INCOMPLETE   Nearly 1400 Men Are Saved From Carrier Princeton  Which Was Sunk

T-WAY ATTAGK AIMED 10 GUT OFF JAP BASE   Newly-Landed Japs Suffering Heavy Losses By Bombs anc Strafina.

AMERICANS START DRIVE ON KEY TOWN ON LEYTE   Enemy Prepares Hasty Defense Of Pinamopoan; Planes Continue Strafing Attacks On Japs Convoys

M’ARTHUR’S MEN OPEN ATTACK ON A KEY BAY TOWN   Assault Be gun as Japanese Throw Up Defensive Positions in Hills North of Ormoc.   ENEMY’S MOTORIZED CONVOYS ARE BOMBED   Nips Continue to Land Reinforcements on Leyte Island —Airmen Strike at U. S. Shipping.

ALY CARIGARA BAY ATTACKED BY AMERICANS   J. S. AIRMEN WIPE OUT OVER 67 JAP PLANES

Yank Veterans Begin Assault OnPinamopoan   Japanese Continue Desperate Effort To Break Encirelement About Ormoe

Fresh Troops Land In Ormoc Bay Area   Americon Fighter Planes Blast Motorized Calumne Advancina Toward Fiahting Front

LAND, SEA DRIVE IS ON ‘FOR ORMOC   Japs Make Desperate » Effort To Shatter  Encirclement

Japs Attempt Defense Of Last Escape Port   MacArthur’s Planes Move On To Blast Negroes Cedu Islands West Of Near-Capture Leyte

Land, Plane Attack Hits Pinamopoan   Assault North Coast Terminal of Highway To Base at Ormoe

Japs Undertake To Save Leyte As Yanks Gain   Foe’s Losses In War Material Reported Heavy

EXTENGION OF  AID FAVORED   House Committee Also Votes Amendment to LendLease Legislation.

ast ertianetmeceneetenniestinnennetarinnmnanmeeneatminaententinmaetiend  CONGRESS MAY TAKE LEND-LEASE CONTROL   President’ S Say-s -so Would Be  Cut Under Extension

Hill fo Continue President of State War Chest Group  Five Local Men

Hill to Continue President of State War Chest Group  Five Local Men To Be On Board Of Directors.

SENTIMENT NOI PAVOAAB.E FOR FOR FAQPOSAL!   Congress Expected to Table Pres-dent’s Service Legislation

PRESIDENTS PROPOSAL EXPECTED TO HE SIDETRACKED BY CONGRESS—TWO BILLS ARE NOW  PENDING

SOVIET TROOPS EXTEND FRONT NEAR BUDAPES}   Russians Battle Germans ‘In Street Of Junction City Of Kecskemst   4,000 CAPTIVES ARE TAKEN, MOSCOW SAYS

Russians Move  Ahead Rapidly in  Drive on Budapest Armies Push Within  43 Miles of Hungary's Canitel: Canture Many

RUSSIANS REACH POINT 43 MILES FROM BUDAPES   Take 200 Towns and 4,000 Prisoners in Sweep—Battle Germans in Streets of Kecskemet.   ADVANCE IS ALONG 60-MILE-WIDE FRONT   Berlin Announces Soviet Pressure Continues in Poland — Fighting in East Prussia Bitter.

SOVIETS REACH POINT 43 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   Red Army Force Advances Into Kecskemet, Third Largest City In Hungary

Soviets Pushi Toward City OnWideFront   ‘Fight Nazis in Streets OF Kecskmei, Large  ‘Railway Junction City GAIN ELSEWHERE -

Reds Fight In City of ag ane ameal   Push Nedrar Rudapes On a 60-Mile Front Between the Visza  And Danuk:

Offensive of Soviets Rolls’ Into Kecskemet Streets   IZSAK 1S CAPTURED, -COMMUNIQUE SAYS   Another Drive in Northeast Hungary Is Under Way

Budapest 43 Miles From Soviet Army   Russians Battle Into Streets Of Junction Town

NET TIGHTENED UPON BUDAPEST   Reds Close In On Doomed Hungarian Capital From Southeast

SOVIETS PUSH ON BUDAPEST   Reds Advance to Within 43 Miles of Hungarian Capital on Wide Front

Russians Reach Point 43 Miles From Budapest   Reds Fight Foe in Large Railway Junction City of Kecskemet

Islands in Truk Atoll Bombed  Offensive Goes Inio   Offensive Goes Into lis Seventh Day

Islands in Truk Atoll Bombed  Offensive Goes Into Its Seventh Day

Russo-Polish Dispute Finds U.S. Neutral   Government Foresees Amicable Agreement

Ankara Radio Reveals New Bulgarian Action; Allied Powers Notified

Bulgaria May Fight Against Germany Soon   She Has Handed Declara. tion Of War To Nazi Min. ister In Sofia

MAY SEND GIFT PACKAGES   Ease Up on Parcel Post Service tc Rome, Naples and Palermo

NEW ‘HOLIDAY’ ON LIQUOR SET   Use Of January Alcohol In Beverages Okayed

New Dealers’ N. Y. Plurality Surpasses ’40   Unruly Texas Ballots 3 to 1; All South Solid

Corp. B. Baker Killed in Action  In Freneh Area   Rixford Man, Member Of Coast Artillery, Took Part in Invasion

GERMANS BUILDING FORTIFICATIONS   Germany Desperate In Building Full Scale Defense Of Rhine

British Reach Maas River in Pursuit of Nazis   German Retreat ls Massive but Orderly Under Fog

BRITISH CHASE ENEMY TROOPS ACROSS. RIVER   Reach Maas in Pursuit Of Germans Running From Southwest

Clearing Passags To Antwerp Port   German Retreat in Southwest Holland Protected by Fog   LONG MOTOR COLUMNS   Heavy Seesaw Fighting Rages on East Flank ~ in Holland

Heavy Fog Interrupts Attacks By Planes On Troops Attempting Tc Cross River

Fog Prevents Air Attack on Enemy Column   Roads Are Black With Withdrawing Forces, Mgst of Whom May Eseaps*    CONTINUE FIGHT { TO SHOW ALLIES   But Main Forces Are Pulling Out Over Bridges: and Ferry Crossings

Fleeing Nazis Glut Holland Exit Roads   British Near Key River Bridge; Schelde Estuary Fight Near End

Fog Blanket Helps Enemy In Withdrawal   German Retreat Columns From 6 to 12 Miles In Leneth In Holland

HEAVY FOG SAVES RETREATING NAZIS FROM AIR ATTACKS  BRITISH REACHED MAAS RIVER IN ATTEMPT TO CUT ENEMY OFF

Hitler Columns Roll Eastward   ..-Roesendaal Abandoned By German Forces

Troops Within Half Mile Of Main German Escape — Bridge Over River   Highways Black With Fleeing Foe   Fog Saves Enemy From Terrific Lashing By Allied Planes

FNEMY FLEES:      Nazis Withdraw Under. Cover of Fog Wh Grounds Allied Planes, as Canadians Near Bige vest Feeane Bridcve

British Reach Maas River And Block One Big Bridge; Battle For Antwerp Over

Nazi Escape  Aided by Heavy Fog   British Forces Surge Ahead to Banks of Maas River; Canadians Lose Contact With Fleeing Foe in Bad Weather; Roads Blocked

Heavy Fog Aids © German Removal Across Meuse  . Victorious Alties Harrass Enemy On Dutch Coast

Nazis Yield; Beat Retreat Across Maas   Battle for Southwes? Holland Drawing to a Final Showdown

“Antwerp Battle Over”   British Officer Says  Only Question Now Is How Fast and How Far Fleeing Nazis Will Go

‘Canadians Lose Contaci With Enemy  . ‘Mopup i in Dutch ao ‘Coastal Corner

BRITISH TROOPS NOW CHASING GERMANS OUT OF HOLLAND AND FEW NAZIS WILL MAKE ESCAPE —

Halt German © Assaults On.  East Flank   Allied Troops Regain Part ~ Of Lieseel, One of 16  Towns Lost

BATTLE OF DUTCH COASTAL CORNER IN MOP-UP STAGE   TWO ALLIED ARMIES HARRY RETREAT OF GERMAN 15TH ARMY

Victorious Allied Armies Harry Retreat; Fighting Continues Heavy. {

Yanks Take Stronghold Above Metz   Vast Soviet Drive Flames  On Broad Front In Budapest Area

Germans Are Fleeing From Coastal Area   Fierce Seesaw Fighting Rages On Eastern Flank In Holland; Highways Black With Nazis Retreating From Dutch Corner

Pursuing British Soldiers Arrive At Maas River   Bulk Of Nazis Escaping In Fog; Battle Of Southwest Holland Virtually Ended

Germans Fleeing in Netherlands; ‘Allies Closing In on Escape Route

Fog Helping Enemy Flight Across River   British A Half Mile From Geertruidenberg Bridge; Roads Jammed With Nazi Transport

ANTWERP PORT IS SECURED BY BRITISH DRIVE   Allied Armies Reach Maas River; Battle Rages  On East Flank

RITISH BUT MILE FROM SCAPE RIVER   dighways Below Stream  Black With Transports, Motor Columns Formed at Vital Crossings   kOG GROUNDS PLANES

Planes Can't Strafe Therm   Germans Left in Southwest Holland Being Crushed As Allies Exploit Victory

Orderly Retreat Proceeds Under Blanket of Fog   Weather Prevents Allied Air Power From Disrupting German Withdrawal

Allied Units Within Half-Mile of Main Holland Escape Span   English Reach Stream North of Tilburg Yanks Take German Bastion Above Metz

Canadian Forces Westward Nearer  Coast Lose Contact With Nazis Fleeing for River and Hollandsch Diep

Germans Fleeing  Out of Holland   Highways Black with Nazi Trucks As Enemy Seeks to Reach Homelanc

Fog Assists Nazi Escape Across River   Roads Below Barrier Black With Columns Of  Fleeing Germans.

German 15th Army Flees Across Maas Under Cover of Fog      Allied Troops  Harass Nazi Moter Column 6 to 12 Miles Lone -

GERMAN UNITS ARE IN FULL RETREAT   Maas Reached By Allies Ir Fog-Covered Advance   HEAVY FIGHTING   Flares On Eastern Flank: Allies Soon To Have Use Of Antwerp

Are Saved From Planes By Heavy Fog   Allies Soon Will Get Use Of Great Port Of Antwerp

Tommies Close In On Escape Bridge Of Foes   Reach Maas River aud Speur Within Half Mile Of Geertruidenberg Span In Holland   Fog Aiding Flight Beaien Germaiis   Heavy, Seesaw Fighting Raging On the Eastern Flank In Holland; Boche Halted

~WEST FRONT   Allies Soon To Securé Use Of Antwerp Port ©   Highways Below Maas River Reported Black With German Transports In Retreat; Saved From Planes By For

NAZIS FLEE SOUTHWEST HOLLAND   Battles Of Holland And Schelde In Mon-Up Stare

German Army Retreating  From Holland   Allies Will Soon Have the Use of Port of Antwerp

TODAY’S WAR ANALYSIS—  Many French Ports Remain In Hands Of Enemy

 an aoe Dewey In Give  And Take Tilt Over War Plans   Insists Remarks Regarding Supplies to Pacifie and MacArthnr’s Role Speak for Themselves

Reporters Quiz — Governor Dewey  Keeping War Out. OF Politics Subiar?

DEWEY DELETES WAR QUESTIONS      Will Keep Battles Out Of Politics; To Confer With Idaho Chief

Pepper Warns Against Split. Of Democrats   Sinister Forces Make Football Of Dixie, Solon Says

RATION TOKENS TO BE DISTRIBUTED FEB. 27TH   Bristol Banks Have Received Supply To Be Given To Retailers  zsur ’wreee yy ~~. nia « dee ae

TWO U-BOATS SUNK BY ESCORT CARRIER   British Craft, in Convoy Duty Eight Months, Has Never Lost: .-@Ghin Under Her Protection.

ESCORT GARRER SINKS 2 U-BOATS   ‘American-Built Britisher At tacks Five Others,  ‘Renort .

JAPS IN CHINA SEIZE TUSHAN   Enemy Troops Near Another Point Of Burma Road In Central China Section.

Chinese Admit Loss Of Tushan   Jap Offensive In Full Swing Toward Kunming; Burma Road Menaced.

 Chinese Admit Loss Of Tushan   Japanese Drive Toward Kunming Is Gaining Momentum.

‘Yanks Halt Furious Enemy Bid to Sever Ring Around Aachen   Third Army Units Withdraw After Blowing Up Military Installations; British Patrols Ford Neder Rhine

Hostile Congress Rebuffs  FDR’s Home Front Plans   His Legislative Program All But Battered Out of Life; Two Bright Rave Seen. Althaneh One le Clandea

Series of Reverses Dealt Administration by a - Hostile Congress in Last Month—These Include Denial. of Tax Requests, Shelving. of. Legislation to Conscript Labor, and Rejection of Food Subsidies. .

Congress Hit: Roosevelt Home Plans  Nation’s Chicf Gets Rebuffs ‘on

Reverses Pile Up In Congress  For Roosev elt   President’s: Requests For Home Front Legislation  ‘Either Rejected or Watered-Down

HUSTILECONGRESS BATTERS LIFE DUT OF FDA'S PROGRAM   Series of Rebuffs and Snubs Leaves Administration On the Bopes   LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM GIVEN SOLONS JAN. 1   Fourth-term Enthusiasts Will Have to Talk About What Roosevelt Asked for, Not What He Got. Few Bright Days at White House

Hostile Longress Wrecks F. R's Home Front Plan   Chief’s Requests Rejected, © Or Watered-Down

Re-Election Prebable   Overemployment, Waste of Great Sums, Charged by CongressmanRees

Crimea Fighting Has Cost Hitler 60.000 Soldiers   Red Warships Patrol Coast To Bar Escape Of Trapped Forces

Siege of City Which Now Holds All Germans Remaining in Peninsula, Now in Progress With Two Red Armies Only Ten Miles Away and Red Warships Patrolling Sea to Prevent Overwater Escape.   (By the United Preses

Crimean Battle All But Over With 60,000 Axis _ Troops Killed Or Cap tira

Army Prepares Contracts for Flood Control   States of West To Benefit from Construction Plan

PROCESSED FOODS POINT VALUES UF   Values Are Skyrocketed for Tomatoes and Most -Canned Fruits.

VALUE OF BLUE POINTS DOUBLED   OFFSET LIST OF FOODS DROPPED FROM RATIONING

Point Values On Canned Goods Raised   Housewives Find Big Change Over WeekEnd On Many Items

POINT VALUES OF CANNED GOODS 0 TO NEW HIGH MARK   Skyrocketing of Values Held . Necessary to Offset Free Point Articles

Counterblow Strike Nazis  Near Celles, Halts Thrust   “Planes Drop Supplies ‘To, Cuf-Off, Americans

German Armor Stopped 4 Miles From Meuse River: Second Spearhead Turned

Americans Strongly Hold Town of Celles, Only Eight Miles From Northern Bulge of France, Stop Another Column 

Enemy Bid For Meuse Stronghold Frustrated   11-Miie Plunge That Began Sunday Halted; Bastogne Garrison Still Holding Out

EXPECTED SOON IN MEUSE AREA   Germans Throwing In Everything For Last Stand

Move From War  Plants to Farms To Escape Draft   More Than 300,000 Change Occupations in  Six Months.   Orders Out to Speed Draft of Young Men

300;000 in Six Months Quit bed Industry for Farms of Greatest Blanket Deferment

300,000 BACK TO THE FARM ING MONTHS   Abandonment of Work in War Industries Apparently Has Been to Take Advantage of Agricultural Doferments.

Thousands Swarming From War Plants Back To Deferable Farming Positions   By JAMES MARLOW AND GEORGE ZIELKE

THIRD ONE WIPED = OUT IN FORTNIGHT   Second Try in Week-—to—Reinforce _ Nipponese Troops Blasted by Alert Y

SPANISH UNION MOVES CLOAKED   News Blackout Covers Deliberations Held In France

Mov: 7 Mi. Nearer To Paris   Fine Progress Recorde: In Caen Sector Is “More Than  Satisfactory.

ight Villages Fall, Breach Widened Canadians Jon Knockout Drive; ig Nazi Counterattack Hurled Back

SPEEDY DESTROYER COLLETT WILL BE LAUNCHED SUNDAY   Named in Honor of Hero Who Lost Life  in Service

Fourth War Drive County Total Passes $411,000  Lewis and Clark Ha Subscribed About t 40 Per Cent of Quota  4

Fourth War Drive County Total Passes $411,000   Lewis and Clark Has  ' Swhscribed About  40 Per Cent of Quota

CHARGES HURLED AT ARGENTINA   Pro-Axis Propaganda And Support Of Enemies Listed In Bill

Argentina’ s Pro-Axis Support Is Revealed   Dissatisfaction Seen With  Monetary Conference. Plans

OFFICIAL RECALLED AS RESULT OF HULL'S CHARGE i OF AIDING THE AXIS “

ENVOY TOU, S. ~ CALLED HOME BY ARGENTINA   Action Is Immediate Result of Hull’s Accusation —   of Axis Support 

Reds Haze Nazis Into Baltic Sack   British Driving for Showdown in Holland

REINFORCEMENTS BY  AIR STRENGTHENED  NEW ALLIED INVASION MORE MEN AND SUPPLIE!  POURED INTO NEWEST ARMV RRINCEHUEANS

REINFORCEMENTS BY AIR STRENGTHENED NEW ALLIED INVASION   MORE MEN AND SUPPLIES POURED INTO NEWEST ARMY BRIDGEHEADS

‘Operations Going Well,’ Is Official Report Of Surprise Allied Move

Finns Seek Guarantees   Want Acerruile From ‘uss a of Safety and Freedom of People

SOVIET FLIERS GIVE HELSINK ~ HARDEST RAID   600 Bombers Tear Capital; Occupation By Red Army Seen As Peace Snag

Finns Await News Of Government's Peace Decision   May Quit War This Week; Meanwhile, Helsinki Undergoes Terrific Bombing —

Helsinki Digging Out Today With Hopes Peace To Come Before End Of This Week

GOV'T PREPARES FINNS FOR PEACE   Finnish Press Hints of .Great ‘Developments; Red Occupation Blocks Plans

FINNS PREPARED FOR MOMENTOUS DEVELOPMENTS   Government May Decide This Week on Peace With Russia.

HELSINKI DIGS OUT OF DEBRIS AFTER BOMBING   Safety of Finnish People Now Believed Main Factor in Negotiations With Soviet

FINNISH PEACE DECISION MAY COME SHORTLY   Finnish Press Continues: To Prepare People for” -Momentous Develop... mente

Occupation Big — Stumbling Block   Want Guarantees Of Safety From Nazis And Freedom   FINNISH PRESS IS PREPARING PEOPLE

Finns Told to Get Set This Week For Developments   Helsinki Is Digging Out After Worst   Soviet Raid of War

Finland May Know This Week lf She Gets Out Of War; Reds Make Heavy Raid On Helsinki   Press Preparing People Of Finland For Momentous Early Developments

Helsinki Digs Out From Bomb Debris-As Press  Hints New Developments

Stull Expect Finland To Get Out Of War   Large Part Of Helsinki Destroyed By Russ Air Attack

Finns Near ‘Decision On . Red Terms   Government: Prepares People for. Big Developments * - as Helsinki Digs Out   CAPITAL BOMBED BY 600 PLANES   6 Soviet Guarantee of . Safety ~ Biggest Issue in the Move for Armistice

FINNS MAY SEE END THIS WEEK   Russian Raid on Helsinki Weakens Hitler's Little Partner

FINNS EXPECT ANNOUNCEMENT ON WAR AIMS   Russian Troops Moving Into Finland

Momentous Decision By Finland Seems Likely; Helsinki Badly Bombed

FINNS PREPARING FOR DECISION ON RED PEACE TERMS   HELSINKI DIGS OUT OF RUINS LEFT BY 600 SOVIET BOMBERS

PREPARE FINNS FOR BIG NEWS   Attack Is Made On Hel. sinki By 600 Russian Bombers

Helsinki Digs Out After Worst Attack   600 Russian Bombers Smash At Capital A: Finnish Press Prepares People For Majo ~ Decisions Which May Come Soon

RUSSIANS BOMG HELSINKI! AGAIN   600 Soviet Aircraft Hit Capital in Worst Bombing Of War.   ‘CAUSE DAMAGE AND FIRE

70 Percent Of Capital City ‘Held In Ruin:   iRefu gees From Finland  Bring Out Grim Picture  Of Life In Wartorn  i Meiropolis   Press Girds Finns  For Developments   Government Decision On Whether to Get Out of War With Russia BeVieved Near

Predict Finns Petition Peace   Press Readies Public For linportant Developments: Terrifie Raid On Helsinki.

AFL WILL NOT SHARE ILO REPRESENT ATION   Green Tells President That Hi Orzanization Will Not Eecognize C1O Group

Fine Harbor On Kwajalei May Fall Soor      Its Capture Would Give Americans Promise of 30 Islets

FOUR-RUNWAY ROI AIRFIELD IS CAPTURED   Airfield and Anchorage, Keys to Kwojalein Are Invested by Yank Invaders   MARINES MOPPING UP

Americans Menace Key Harbor   U. S. Troops Storm Across Major Islet  In Atoll After Seizing Airfield At Roi

One-Third of Island Taken   12 Island Beachheads Are Already Securely In American Hands; Large Atoll Periled; Vitol Air Base Captured in Few Hours

Japs Taken by Surprise In New Thrust; Marines Mopping Up Defenders

-KWAJALEIN’S AIR BASE TAKEN   Rol, On Northern End O01 Island Is Overrun   JAPS FOOLED   By Attack, Nimitz States; Casualties Moderate; No Ships Sunk

Third Of Islet Is In American Hands On Fourth Day Of Battle of Marshalls

TEMPERATURES   ENEMY TAKEN BY SURPRISE, SAYS NIMITZ   MORE THAN 14,000 TONS EXPLOSIVES POURED ON ATOLLS

YANK ATTACK OLED JAPS, SAYS NIMITZ   Surprised Japs Failed To Prevent Capture  Of Vital Air Base

U.S. Takes Airport On Roi, Approaches South Tip Of Atoll   Admiral Nimitz Says Choice of Scene for Invasion Fools Japs; Other Islets Under Heavy Attack

Take Airport On Kwajalein, Advance On Big Harbor   World’s Largest Atoll _ Dominates Vast Area

AMERICANS HOLD UPPER HAND IN ISLAND BATTLE   Roi Airfield Captured; Kwajalein Being Overrun; U. S. Sees Promise Of Taking All 30 Islets In Vital] Group.

Enemy Faces Loss OfStrategicHarbor —~Fo-Yank—Invaders   Tactical Surprise Is So Complete Field Taken In Less Than Day; Third Of Islet Is In U. S. Hands

BOMB-RAVAGED ISLAND'S FALL 1$ IMMINENT      One-Third of Atoll Already, . Jn The Hands Of  Americans

Jap Harbor In Marshalls Is Menaced   Yanks Strive for Key Anchorage; Vital Air Base is Overrun

*NIPS FACE LOSS - OF BIG HARBOR IN MARSHALL   Yanks Follow Up Early Con) quests With New Gains 'n Pacitic Action

Bid For Fine Enemy Harbor In Marshalls  Dozen Beachheads Now Established: Nips Are   Dozen Beachheads Now Established; Nips Are Caught Completely By  Creenricee Nimmits

VITAL IMPORT   Four-Runway Air Base at Roi Captured in Less Than a Day.   ATTACK IS BIG SURPRISE

Americans Win Vital Air Base   Japs Caught Flat-Footed By American Invasion Of Marshall Islands

FINE HARBOR ABOUT.T0 FALL TOU, S. FORCES   Vital Air Base, Anchor: age Promise Investment  up. Of-Thirty Islets

PART OF SOUTH ISLET NOW IN HANDS OF U.S   Airfield and  - Anchorage Are Keys to Kwajalein, Largest Atoll

Deep Anchorage. Airfield Keys to 30 Islets Surrounding 655-Square Mile Lagoon   NO VESSELS LOST   Jap Navy, Planes Apparently Re: fuse to Contest American Command of Air and Sea

U.S.Wins Vital Roi Airfield   Japs Completely Fooled By Bold Yankee Attack

ROI AIR BASE CAPTURED BY i § FARRES   Japanese Taken By Surprise On Invasion

TROOPS THREATENING. KWAIALEIN HARBOR   Japs Completely Surprised at U. S. Strategy, Nimitz Saye jn Report

[Capture of Fine Harbor  Appears Imminent; Air field In U. 8S. Hands; i Roi Sered

Yanks Seize Roi Air Base   Hold Third of Kwajalein, Threaten Fine Anchorage At End of Island

FOUR-RUNWAY AIRFIELD ON RO! CAPTURED   ~ Namur Islet Captured, Main Harbor Is Badly Threatened

Four-Day-Old Assault Threatens Enemy With Imminent Loss Of Deep Anchorage Of Kwajalein Islet, At Southern End Of Huge Atoll—Four-Runway Aviation Base Of Roi At Northern Tip Of Island Group Occupied—Nipponese Fooled By U. S. Tactics

New Weapon Won’t Have Much Effect On War—   Nazi Flying Bombs Are Hit-Or-Miss Affair .

Use Of Robot Bombers _  Js Diversionary Move   German Secret Weapon 1s Apt To Run Weak  Course

Kirke L. Simpson Says:     aes Sr nr yok ma ntonsnanesite nee  British Regard Robot Planes Like They Did Super-Gun in First War

ASINCH RAIN FOR MATTOON AND VICINITY   Revives Farm, Garden Crops and Lawns and Pastures

Down-the-Stretch Drive te Parallel That of ‘40; In Fighting Mood

Dewey Sees FDR Change in Plans As Encouraging   Says President Hones To ‘Reverse Trend”

President Follows Course Parallel to His Campaian Schedule in 1940 Figh

FDR Puts On ~ Battle Armor   Democrat Chiefs Rejoice Over ‘Fichtine Mond’

FDR Adopts "40 Tacties In Campaign  Alternates Roles  Of Candidate,  OL? .f BE... naw? . _

Enemy Bases In  Kuriles Bombed   ‘U.S. Planes Blast Marshall Positions

A. F. of L. Sets Monday to Take Up Lewis Issue   Secret Meeting of Green, Mine Chief Revealed at Parley

LEWIS, GREEN HOLD CONFAB   Federation Will Conside: Miners’ Reinstatement  Next Monday

A.F. L. to Consider UM. W. Case  Green and Lewis Hold Secret Meet

WARRING UNION CHIEFS CONFER   Secret Meeting Reported Between Green And John L. Lewis

FRENCH TAKE BACK CAPITAL FROM ENEMY   TERRIFIED GERMANS BEATEN DOWN BY CITIZENS

PRO-AXIS RULERS IN ARGENTINA CALL FOR COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING   All Males Between 12 and 50 Affected

Induction Call Issued For 48 More Alton Men   Previously Accepted, 17 Will Go to Army, 31 to the Navy

RAF Joins Yanks In Heavy Aerial ~ Allack on Sofic   Seek to Knock Bulgaria Out of War; Fifth Army Advances

Sofia Is Given Continuots Blast of Bombs   Ground Forces Continue Drive on Rome

Sofia ‘struck by full allied  aerial power   Day and night  assault opens

British Join Americans In  Pounding Bulgarian Capital   i “ Day and Night Onslaught on Sofia Opened—Fifth _ ae Goins i in Fighting in the Region  le: ” nk Maceina

SOFIA BOMBED HEAVILY FROM ITALIAN BASES   YANK TROOPS GAIN IN THEIR MARCH TOWARD ROME

Allied Bombers Open’ Air Drive Acainst Sofia   Hope Concentrated Attack Will Knock Bulgaria Out of War

BRITISH AND AMERICAN ‘AIRMEN CONTINUE DAY, NIGHT RAIDS ON SOFIA   May Be Calculated Knock Bulgaria Out O: War; Allied Ground Forées Drive To Within Three Miles Of Cassino

Allied Bombers Press Knockout  Raids on Sofia   Bulgaria’s Capital Left Mass of Blazing  Wreckage: Sth Army Moves Near Cassino

Heavy Bombers Blast Capital Of Bulgaria   American and British Planes Operate from Airdromes in Southern Italy

Allied Bombers Blasting Sofia by Day and Night: Fifth Army Makes Gains

A -S ur htvaccon Sofi ia vacer vav ‘.s Srounc “orces 32in in -a‘/

BRITISH JOIN AMERICANS In SOFIA ATTACK   Round-Clock 1 Blasting Of Capital In Effort To Knock Bulgaria Out Of War: Fifth Army Gains.   8th Army Patrol

Filth Army Now3 Miles  From Cassinc   Yank Infaniry Pushes Way Into Cervaro Defenses

SOFIA IN FLAMES ON HEELS OF AIR ATTACK BY ALLIES   Day and Night Onslaught May Be Beginning of Campaign to Knock Bulgaria Out of War.   CASSINO MENACED BY STEADY ADVANCE   Yanks and British Only 3 Miles From City—-Nazis Report Major Drive for  Rome Under Way.

British Jom Americans In  Pounding Bulgarian Capital   : ‘ Day and Night Onslaught on Sofia Opened—Fifth Army Sains 1 in Fighting in the Region  toot .. ak Cnacetnan— ——-—

Heavies Batter. Bulgaria Again   ‘ Ground Forces Are: Closing On Cassino

Sotia Bombed By Both U.S. And British   Day and Night Blows May Force Bulgaria to Get Out of War

800 Fortresses Pound City In  Vicious Assault   RAF Reduced Berlin To Flames, Rubble In Most Successful Run

ITALY QUESTION CAUSING CRISIS IN U, S. TALKS WITH ENGLAND   British Want To Keep Nation Weak

Italian Poliey Causes Breach   U. S. And Britain Do Not See Eve To Eve

Democr rats Set Up! New Party  Org ganization   Followers Of Jefferson To Hold Convention In Early April Or May

Woodring OutToAvert FourthTerm   y or WAR PPOSITION NEW  FORMER SECRETAR URGES UNITY IN 0 TO CONTINUATION OF DEAL IN WASHINGTON.   Suevests Hull :cr Byrd

Democratic Rebels Plan Own Ticket       ‘Jeffersonian Group Deties New Dealers, Arranges Convention

DEMOCRATIC INSURGENTS PLAN SLATE   ‘American Democratic Party’ Will Adopt Platiorm, Leaders Say— Woodring Chairman

REVOLT LOOMS IN DEM. RANKS   Anti-New Dealers to Nam Own Candidate For President

Regular Party Of Democrats Is Challenged   Anti-Administration Group Formulated: and Plans:  * Being Laid for Own  National Convention: .

A Challenge To Demos   Anti-Administration Group Makes Plans For Own Convention

GHALLENGE: TU REGULAR PARTY   New Democratic Group Is Formed By Anti-Administration Members.

Demo Schism Plans Own Convention   ANTI-ADMINISTRATION DEMOCRATS FLING CHALLENGE AT NEW DEAL

Foes of New Deal Plan Convention: To Have Platforn   BR re ae oa  Committee Calls Upon Followers of Jefferson to Join Them

DEMOS WILL CHOOSE SLATE   New Party Organization Will Hold National Convention and Nominate Own President and Vice President.

Anti-F. R. Demos  Issue Challenge  Plan For Nomination Of Own Candidates

New Dem Party Plans Meeting  Movement Challenge To Regular Party, Spokesman Says

Rump Party Forming In  Demo Ranks   Challenge Administration To Demonstrate It Is True Demo Agency

sates octets een een me eat  FDR'S SON'S EX-WIFE MARRIES IN GEORGIA   ve  Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt. Weds Air Force Colonel

BATTLE STILL GOING ON AT CHERBOURG   Nazis Surrender By Hundreds,  However

MAIN GERMAN LINE SMASHED BY AMERICANS   Nazi Troops Reported to Be Surrendering to U.S. by the Hundreds.

Kall of City Considered Imminent— Nazi Broadcasts Acknowledge Invaders Have Breached German Line in Three Places.

GERMAN RATE OF SURRENDER IS INCREASING   Doubt Defenders Of Port Able To Hold Out Much Longer

Germans Surrendering By Hundreds As City’s Fall Appears Imminent   U. S. Bombers Rain Saturation Blows On Port While Alliied Warships Open Shelling

GERMANS ARE SURRENDERING 'BY HUNDREDS   Morale Weakening As Yanks Drive Within Mile Of City Limits

GERMAN CONVOY WRECKED TRYING TO ESCAPE PORT   Allied Headquarters Reports Today That Yank Troops Making Slow But Steady Progress tn Drive.   GERMAN TROOPS ARE READY TO SURRENDER   Great Fleets of Allied Bombers Raid France—Railway Centers, Airfields, Bridges Hit Hard.

Yanks Smash Main Defenses Outside Port .   German Troops Surrendering ‘By Hundreds _

Many Nazis Give Up at Cherbourg   Surrender to Yanks as They Advance Still Closer to Harbor

Army Takes Over ] Textile Mills   Acts To Prevent Labor Troubles

 ARMY TAKES CONTROL :OF TEXTILE PLANTS:   Vital War Materiai Has Been Held Up By Striking Fall River, Mass, Emploves

NAZIS’ VAUNTED WALL CRUMBLINE UNDER ATTACK   ,Patton’s Men Capture Nancy

Siegfried Line ‘Obsolete, Say Yank Leaders   Blazing Artillery Battle Warms Up Heart of Nazi West Wall as Allies Shatter Outer Bastions of Fort Line

Ist Army Drives Ten Miles Into Siegfried Line   Vaunted West Wall Reported to Be Crumblina

Maastricht, * Naney Taken; Wall Crumbles   Siegfried Line Obsolete Say Generals, as Troops Prish Through

Final Session  Of Public Forum   Speaker To Discuss  Situation In Orient

WARNINGS AGAINST OPTIMISM TEMPER ELATION OVER DEFEAT OF JAP FLEET

“War’s End Not Near”   Celebration of Navy  Victory Tempered By Warning That Conflict Is Far From -Finished

U.S. Leaders Caution Against Belief War with Japan Is Nearing Its End

Military Leaders Expect Hard Fight, Despite Naval Win   Officials Agree Jap Navy Still Remains Powerful Factor

War Not Over U.S. Warned   Japan Still Strong Despite Sea Defeat; Peace Offer Likely

EXPECT FOR 10 OUTLINE PLANS   Plans Report Soon, Says Story of Meeting

MORE: EMPHASIS ON JAP FRONT   F. R. May Reveal Broad Outlines of Strategy

PRESIDENT MAY REVEAL NEW STRATEGY   May Touch Upon Broad Outline of Beat-Jap Plans —

ROOSEVELT MAY REVEAL BEAT-.JAPS STRATEGY IN HAWAIl TRIP REPORT   CONGRESS DIVIDES ON PARTY LINES IN COMMENT; PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PACIFIC SUCCESS

President in Report to People Maj Reveal Outlines of the Beat-Japan Strateay Drafted at Conference

GERMANS STEP UP ATTACKS IN LWOW VICINITY   Force Hungarian Troops Into Action At Point Of Machine Guns

Hungarians Are Forced Into Battle   Prisoners Say Bayonet Used to Make Them Fight Against Reds

South of Lwow Unsuccessful   Hungarians Forced to Fight, They Tell Reds

Reds Block  Nazi. Drive   Counter-Attack in Lwow Sector Is Beaten OF

Germans Step Up Push Near Lwow   Hungarian Troops. Forced Into Action

Nazis Step Up _ Counterattacks Below Lw OW   Hungarians Forcet I n to Action At Machine Gun Point-—Russian Planes Continue To Raid Sevastopol: Shins Sunk

Strong Formations Allied Heavy Bombers Carry Out Big Aerial Invasion of Europe 

HOOVER FEARS WAVE OF CRINIE   SAYS KIDNAPINGS ANG ROBBERIES ARE STARTING

Jap Shipping Toll Mounts   Good Work of 'U. S. Subs May Determine Results of War in  Pacific, Says Nimitz

U.S. SUBS DIG GREAT HOLEIN JAPS’ SHIPPING   Nimitz Declares Underseas Craft May Determine Outcome In Pacific

REAS JAP SHIP DESTRUCTION   Nimitz Holds Such Sinkings. May Determine War

SUBS HELPING 1.5. TOWN IN PAPIFIC FIEHT   Destruction of Jap Shipping May Be Decisive Factor Nimitz Believes.

U.S, SUBS PLAYING BIG PART IN WAR   Japanese Shipping Suffers Losses  On Big Scale

Nazi Fuel Depots Bomhed in France   Bridges and Rail Junctions Also Hit By Allied Planes

Aircraft: Plant Hit Tn Shuttle Bomb Raid   American Planes Land In Russia; Many Craft Over Nazi Targets Today

BOMBERS ROCK NAZI TARGETS   U. S. Force of 500 to 750 Heavies Strikes at Wide Area in France

Churchill Urges France fo Build Up Army   Says Germany May Be Beaten in Next Six Months

Churehill Tell:  French to  Arm Quickly Urges People Unify  To Extend  A* Ds. Tr. MM...

FINISH OF WAR IN SIX MONTHS   Churchill Tells French That Germans Are Losing Heart

Churchill Urges France to Build Up Army  Says Germany May   Says Germany May Be Beaten in Next Six Months

CHURCHILL TALKS TO PARIS AUDIENCE   Prime Minister Says Brit. ish Want Big French Army

Officer Had Colorful Record   Court Records 15 Charges On Murderer

REDS CLOSE IN ON EAST PRUSSIA CITY   Germans Battling Fiercely to Halt Russian Campaign

REDS MAKING PROGRESS IN EAST PRUSSIA:   Make Flanking Drive Around Gumbinnen

RUSSIAN SRD ARMY SWINGS 10 SOUTH IN FLANKING DRIVE   Column Strikes Within Five Miles Southeast Of Gumbinnen   SOVIETS ENCOUNTER HEAVY RESISTANCE   German Shipping Off Northern Norway Also Hit

RUSS DRIVE PROGRESSING IN E. PRUSSIA   Seek to Flank Nazi Town of Gumbinnen

Soviets Flank Rail Center in Fast Prussia   Ukrainian Army Into Czechoslovakia Continues Drive

Strong Forces Meeting Growing Resistance — Plunge Deeper into German Province — Capture Road Junction of Grunwaitschen,

MILES IN NEW DRIVE ON ROME   Forced to Retreat on Garigliano River Front, However

Fifth Army Is Pushing Inland South Of Rome   Uninterrupted Progress Of Surprise Landing Forces In Italy Reported   GERMANS ATTACK ALONG GARIGLIANO

GAINS TOG MILES IN NEW DRIVE ON ROME   Forced to Retreat _ on Garigliano River Front, However

NEW AERIAL ATTACKS ON RABAUL MADE  _ Japan Has Lost 110 Planes So - Far In Feb.

Rabaul Battered In New Air Drive   Heaviest Assault of Offensive Staged Aqainst Enemy Stronghold

Jap Airdromes On Rabaul Hit AgainbyYanks   Record Solomons Raiding Force of More Than 250. Planes Bat ye on . Bones 7

Twenty, Enemy ‘Aireraft Reported Shot: ‘Down - In: Day-Long Battle   “ATREIELDS. HIT   Tyelve More Nipponese “Ships: Are Sunk By U S: Submarines

RABAUL’S AIRDROMES  HEAVILY BATTERED  IN-WEDNESDAY RAB  _ ALL TYPES ALLIED PLANE: TAKE PART IN HEAVIES]  mart wea AWE

Rabaul Scorched by Great U. S. Air Fleet   Three Airdromes Slasted In Heaviest Raid on Jap Base Since Decembker 17

U.§. ARMEN ADD POWER TO ATTACKS ON BASE AT RABAU   250 Planes Loose Heaviest Bombardment of War on Three Airfields   PACIFIC ATOLLS ISOLATED

Allied Airmen.        “Amiericans - Report Japs, ~ Offer. No ‘Opposition To _: Marshall Isle © Attacks

Smash Rabaul Airfields   Two U.S. Fighters Lost in Heaviest . Assault of SolomonsBased Air Offensive   FOURTH WAR LOAN SALES At Close of Business ‘February II, 1944.

3 AIRDROMES BATTERED ON NEW BRITAIN   250 Planes Stage Assault; Wewak, Madang Among Other Positions Torn

TWO DNIEPER POCKETS TRAP 175,000 NAZIS   GERMANS ORDERED TO HOLD MINES AT ALL COSTS

Russians Close In on Nazi-Held Manganese Area   Continue Slaughter Of 75,000 Germans Trapped on Dnieper

Martin Seeks U.S. Aid in Soldier Vote   Simplified Tax Laws Asked By GOP Leader

GOP Leader Urges U.S. Law to Aid Service Voting  Martin Demands Cut in Expenses, ‘Muster-Out’ Pay

Battle For Manipur Turning In Favor Of Allied Troops   New Successes Reported Near Imphal Where  Japanese Attempted Encircling Offensive

Tax Proposal Strikes Snag  Rep. Knutson Charges Childless Married Man Faces Too High Tax

Committee Balks  at Tax Increase  Will Try to Make Some Adjustments

Committee Balks at Tax Increase   ON SOME CLASSES OF TAXPAYERS UNDER TENTATIVELY APPROVED TAX SIMPLIFICATION PROGRAM.   Streamliner Bill

House Committee Balks  At New Tax Burdens   Finds Inequities in Simplification Program, Seeks Adjustments Before Bringing Measure to Floor

Mileage on B Cards May Be Increased  PAAs mt Ake tas eat ry fr)   NEW PLAN WOULD CUT LESS ESSENTIAL Cs; A RATIONS UNCHANGED

Nazis Stop ‘Refugee Ship   U-Boat Remaves  2 Americans From Neutral Portuguese Ship in Mid-Ocean

NEUTRAL SHIP REACHES PORT        Portugese Netug Boat! ‘Stdpped, by German Submarine. 600: Miles" On Coast of Bermuda: Last Friday.

Serpa Pinto Passengers  Are Paneled   Vessel Was Stopped And Two Americans Removed by Nazi Sub

Victims of Sub Scare Arrive  Safely in U.S.   Three Refugees Die When Vessel Halted by U-Boat

HEFUGEES ON LINEA HALTED BY NAZIS LANL   Some Go to Canada in Sealed Train After Harrowing Exnerience at Sea.

Huge Pipe Line Ready To Operate   Canadian-American Project Completed

‘CANCL' (6 OPENED OFFICIALLY SUNDA}   Project Ready to Deliver Fuel for Allied War Machine in North,

Churchill Pays Tribute.-To Knox   Canadian Oil Project Starts Deliveries To War Machine

texas W eather Continues Crazy-Quilt Pattern As H eavy iSnows Blanket Areas Deen In Central And Mact Pavitnne

Texas Weather Continues Crazy-Quilt Pattern As Heavy Snows Blanket Areas Deep In Central And East Portions

Allies Smash Invasion Coast With 1,750 Plane Assault; Japs Start Drive in China   Halt Advance

Jap Troops Stage Powerful Drive   Enemy Spearheads Push Forward In Anhwei Area

Billion Dollar Airport Plan Drafted By CAA; Survey Has Been Opened Of Small Fields.

3,000 PLANES LAST MUNICH   Flying Bomb Installations In Northern France Receive Heavy Daylight Attack By RAF  Lancasters

3.000 Planes Hit Reich Fron Britain, Italy   Attack Is Greatest 36-Hour Assault Ever Made Against Germany

Reich Is Hit By Greatest Raid Series   19,000 Tons of Bombs Smash Nazi Fortress: , In 36-Hour Period  MUNICH TS BLASTED

Drop 5,000 Tons Of Explosives On Nazi Targets   Force Luftwaffe To Give Battle

HUGE AIR ARMADAS HIT NAZI TARGETS   Greatest: 36-Hour Assault Ever Made Against Reich Reported

3; 000 Planes  Punish Enemy   Main American Air Sinasl: Directed at Manich

MUNICH HEAVILY” BOMBED BY ALLIES   OTHER PARTS OF HITLER'S FORTRESS ARE BLASTED—25 BRITISH PLANES LOST.

36-Hour Aerial Attack Plasters Bombs on Reich   Munich Plane, Chemical Works Hit; 3000 Allied Craft Join in Raids

From Bases in Italy and England to Bring Attack to Crushing Crescendo at Munich.

TERRIBLE AIR ATTACK JOLTS NAZI TARGETS   MUNICH FACTORIES WRECKED; 3,000 U. S. PLANES UP

POPE DENIES VILLA MILITARY TARGET   Zone Not Occupied by Nazis  Wattenan Cantencte

‘No Germans Admitted At Papal Villa   Apostolic Delegate To United States Says Not Considered Target,   ‘ON BEHALF OF POPE

VATICAN DENIES PAPAL VILLA IS NAZLOCCUPIED   Cannot Be Considered Military Target, Apostolic Delegate Says— Made Haven for Refugees

No Nazis in Summer Palace Says Vatican Envoy to U. S   Cannot Be Considered Military Target For Onl; Homeless Refugees Are There, ; He Asserts

PAPAL VILLA IS 'IN THE CLEAR’   Vatican Representative Says Castelgandolfo Is Not a Military Target

DENY NAZIS IN PAPAL PALACE   Can't Be Considered Military Target, Vatican Declares

Papal Envoy Denies Nazis Using Villa   Bombing of Summer Palace Seored

Pope Declares Held No Nazis   Apostolic Delegate States ~ Pius Does Not Consider Villa A Military Target

Berlin Says Guns Firing on Liege   Airmen Report Roads Behind First Army Black With Enemy Troops—Some Attacks Repelled

NORTH ITALY PORTS ARE BOMBED   Lull Continues On Cassino and Anzio Ground Fronts

Genoals Target of Alliec Planes   San Stefano and Leghorn Also Hit; Quiet on Ground

RAF Bombs Set Fires in 2 Italy Ports   Nazi Big Guns Pound Posts on Beachhead as Patrols Raid

Genoa Attacked By RAF Planes’   Attempt To Disrupt Sea Supply Lanes

GENOA, BIGGEST PORT IN NORTH ITALY, BOMBEL   Allies Press Air Drive To Disrupt German Sea Supply Lanes

RAF Hits Genoa in  Dawn Raid   Attack Parts of San Stefano and Leghorn; Starting Large Fires

JAPANESE AGAIN LASH HENGYANG   Planes, Artillery Back Uy General Onslaught

Yanks Rip  Nip Isle Targets   Children Evacuated From Tokyo; Guam Gets U. S. Shelling

Jap Forces Again Launch Onslaught   Chinese Brave Gas Attacks In Hengyang

DEFENDS 1 IN A LETTER T0 PRESIDEN          Voices Hope Break Ww          Executive Branchés “Closer Tocethar ” —              RE-ELECTED ‘LEADER BY HIS COLLEAG!      House Passes Tax Bill _ Over Vpto, 299 to 95 Senate Kxpected toF low Suit Foday. —

GERMANS SAY NEW WEAPON: WILL BE WORSE THAN ROBOT   $5,000 School Children Evaevated—More Will Go to Safety ef Provinces.

British Remove Mothers from London After Evacuation of School Children

WOMEN, CHILDREN FLEE ROBOT-BOMBED LONDON   GERMANS CLAIM NEW "REVENGE WEAPON” TO WRECK HAVOC IN ENGLAND; FAMOUS CHAPEL DESTROYED

Evacuation of Mothers From London Begins as Robots Return to Capita

CHINESE CIRCLE JAPS POCKETED IN NORTH BURMA   Cut Main Road, Forcing Foe to Leave Many Dead, Much Equipment

TRAR. ZIGHTENES ‘ABOUT, ENE_MY.TROOPS IN THE BURMA - POCRET—SECOND ARMY - ADVANCES:

Allied Forces May Meet Enemy Soon At Hitler Line    UHINCot by] MAIN TOAD 10 KAMAING   Japanese Leave Dead and Much Equipment Behind

Cabinet Splits In Canada Over Use of Conscripts  Defense ‘Minister Col. Ralston ‘Resi Minister of at Expected To Fellow

Defense Minister Resigns in Crisis ‘Over Conscription   Additional Defections From Canadian Cabinet May Result from  Service Policy Dispute

Canada Faces New Crisis On Conscription   Defense Minister Resigns Because Government Refuses Overseas Service Conscription

CANADIAN QUITS HIGH POST OVER MILITARY ISSUE   Defense Minister Resigns Be. cause Overseas Duty Not Required of Men

Canada Reports  Split In Cabinet  — On War Service   Premier’s Concession To Quehee On Overseas Duty Causes Dispute

Canada’s Minister Of Defense Quits  Over Draft Issue   Col. J. L. Ralston Resigns in Protest Over Government Refusal to Draft Men for Overseas Duty.

U. S. Incomes  Hit New Peak      National Production Rise: Te. Record Daring "Ad

‘SOAR TO KEW HIGHS IN-ULS   National Production,  Income Gains ~ ~~~ Recorded

Income Of U. S. Climbs New Peak   Predict End of War Will Lead To Downturn of Economic Activity.

112 Ald UN PLANED HOT DOWN   Americans Near Mae Arthur Goal   Arthur Goal NIPS SURPRISED  72-Hour Attack Continues

France Also Blasted in New Offense   Europe Quakes Under Week’s Steady Pounding

Germany Bombed For Third Day   Forts Blast Targets In Daylight Raids

YANKS AGAIN RAIN REICH WITH BOMBS   Hammer Industrial Centers After RAF Pays Respects to Coast and Industrial Center of Ruhr.

PEAK REACHED IN DAY BLOWS ON CONTINENT   New U.S. Raids Rounding Out Week Of Unbroken Air Attacks

U.S. Caps Biggest Air Offensive Of World War Il   Today’s Attack Sets A Record For Axis Raids

Landings Widened,  Resistance Erased   German General Leading Defense Captured With Men; Opposition Fanatical Acainst Advances

Allies Push Germans Out of Vlissingen Except One Pocket   Canadians Capture 2,500 More Nazis in Schelde Estuary Trap; Yanks Make Small Gains

TROOPS LUNGE AHEAD IN NEW FOREST ACTION   Gain of One To Two Miles Reported — Two Villages Gobbled Up

Allies Gain On Strategic Dutch Island   Clearing Nazis From Approaches To Big Seaport

German Guns On Walcheren Are Silenced   But Germans Put Up Stiff’ Resistance Every Foot _ of the Way   ANTWERF SOON: TO-BE:-CLEARED   Russians . Only 28." Miles From Budapest; Much of* Yugoslav Coast Cleared :

ALLIES ADVANCING ON WALCHEREN ISLE (Mecerintive Starw an Page 9?)

Allies Rapidly Clearing Approaches to Antwerp   Nazis Driven Out of Most of Vlissinoen on Walcheren Island

West Front Sees Allied Advance   CANADIANS GAIN AS BRITISH NEAR ANTWERP

Approaches To Antwerp Soon To Be Free Of Foe   British And Canadian Forces Clearing Way; Nazi General In  Rebaldan Aeraa Cantuead

“ALLIES SEIZE WALCHEREN ISLE TO CLEAR PORT   Antwerp Outlet Secured As British, Canadians Gain Bluching

‘Allied Drive To Open Aniwerp Nears Goal   German General And 2,500 Of Men Are Captured, While Flame Throwing Tanks Dealing With Few Remaining Pockets.

GERMANS RETAIN ONLY SLIGHT HOLD ON ISLAND CITY  RED ARMY REPORTED ONLY 28 MILES FROM BUDAPEST ON THURSDAY

NAZIS THROWN BACK FROM FLUSHING   Beachhead On Walcheren Island Is Expanded   Captured In Pocket Below Schelde Estuary: Local Gains Made By Yanks

German Guns Are Silenced   Yanks Gain Mile As Aachen Front Flares Afresh

Germans Put Up Stubborn Resistance   Thousands Captured As Canadians And British Move Up

Throw Germans Out of Flushing, A Walcheren City   British and Canadians in Drive to Clear Antwerp’ Facilities.   Fast Drive Through Hungary by Russians

—WEST FRON T—  NAZI DEFENDERS: ARE WEAKENING   Germans Are Being Driven Out Of Fortress City Of Vlissinzen  GENERAL CAPTURED   German. Conimander And 2,500 Of His Men Are Taken Prisoners

Foe Pressed Into Small Corner of Vlissingen By Canadian, British Troops

GERMANS RETAIN ONLY SLIGHT HOLD ON ISLAND CITY  RED ARMY REPORTED ONLY 28 MILES FROM  DIMADECCT AA TUIDCNHAS

Say Ships Already Use Port   Reds Push Rapidly Toward Belgrade On Eastern Front.

British Gain in Antwerp Area Fight   Hurl Germans Out of All But Outskirts of Flushing

Battle to Clear Port of Antwerp   ‘Germans Are Driven Out With Exception of North ern Outskirts   EXPAND A BEACHHEAD   British Commandos By-Pass Domburg and Seize Coastal Battery

Nazis Making Final Stand in Flushing   Battle for Walcheren Island Rapid Drawing to Allied Victory

Single German Unit Fights in Delaying Act   Allied Forces Inside Viissingen Clear Out Snipers Cut Off  From Hope of Escape

Walcheren City Nearly Cleared Of Nazi Forces   Red Arniy Nears Budapest; British Enter Salonika; Join Italian -Bridgehead

NAZIS HURLE FROM AREA ON ANTWERP FRONT   Allies Expand Beachhead On  Walcheren

TEMPERATURES:   NAZIS ADMIT FALL OF PORT : NOW CERTAIN   British And Canadian  Forces Advance fn   Schelde Estuary

Ask Sedition Inquiry Into “Peace Now’   Dies to Hand Findings To FBI in Effort To Stir Probe

ASKS PROBE ‘PEACE NOW’ ACTIVITIES   Dies Com. Charges Organization Is Seditious

Resume Heavy Air Blows at France —   American and British Planes Swarm Across Channel! in ‘Relays —

STILL COMPILING SCORE OF BATTLE WITH NAZI AIRMEN   STRUGGLE NOW KNOWN TO HAVE COST THE ~ ENEMY 152 FIGHTERS

Relays of Bombers, Fighters Cross Strait, Return In Short Time,   TARGETS ARE MYSTERY

GERMANS LOST 192 PLANES IN RAID TUESDAY   American Loss Is Reported Great; Factories Hit

German Losses ‘In Air Battle Boosted To 152   Fresh Details Of Epi American Tuesday On  slaught Revealed.

Nazi Plane Losses in Epic Air Battle Boosted in Account   Aerial Activities of Allies Continue Day  and Night

Daylighi Assaults Also Resumed On Mystery Targets Aleng French Coasi   NAZI LOSS GROWS   Americans Count 152 German Planes Downed Tuesday, Record to U. S. Bombers Losi

‘Allies Smash At Northern French Coast   Battering Away at German Mystery Targets; Air Battle Losses Gain

Allies Resume Air Offensive — On French Coast   Bombers, Fighters Streak Across Channeé in Relays Friday

U.S. Bombers On New Raids   Allies Resume Blows On Nazi Mystery Targets

Air Aifack On Germany Is Resumed   Allied Planes Also Strike Again at Mystery Targets on French Coast   PLANES SHUTTLE BACK AND FORTH   First Action by* Bombers Since Mammoth Battle Over Germany Tuesday

GermanLosses in Sky Battle Are Revealed   Three Plane Factories Badly Damaged; 152 Planes Destroyed

Bombers Hit Nazi Bases Again Today   Mystery Targets Also Are Attacked By Allied Warplanes

STILL COMPILING BATTLE FIGURE:   Clash With Yank Airmen Cost Germans At Least 152 Planes   U. &. LOSES 60   Additional Details On ‘Tuesday’s Epic Battle Still Coming In

Big Air Offensive Resumed by Allies   German Losses in Epic Battle Tuesday Now Reported as 152

AMERICAN BOMBERS  IN CONTINUED DAY  RAIDS FRENCH COAST RAF MASQUITO BOMBER:  WERE OUT IN FORCE DIRING LAST NICHT

41), $. PLANES FOLLOW UP RAF ATTACKS LAST NIGHT: GERMANS LOST 152 FIGHTERS TUESDAY   Epic Battle Earlier This Week Was Disastrous One for Nazis, and Allied Aerial Attacks Last Night and Today Bring More Havoc

Allies Resume Bomb Assault Against French Mystery Points   New American Raid on Hitler's Europe Indicated

U.S. Planes  Raid France In Daytime   Big Air Offensive Against Mystery Targets Restart

Heavy Aerial Operations On French Coast   Germans Assert At Least 200 Planes Lost In Tuesday's Rattle   FLY ACROSS CHANNEL

U.S: BOMBERS ACTIVE AGAIN   Swarm Across Channel for First Time Since Big Battle Over Germany

Ail-Day Relays Blast Mystery Area In France   Data Still Coming In  w Recoeee Lok On Desperate Clash  Over Germany

HEAVY FORCE STABS ANEW AT FRANCE   Foray Follows Mosquito Raids Over Germany

YANKS TAKETO AIR AGAIN FOR RAIDS ON HUNS   At Same Time, Allies Resume Offensive Against Germans’ Mystery Tar gets On French Coast

AMERICANS RAIN NEW BLOWS ON GUAM AND ROTO   Japanese Report Powerfu Fleet Spotted Off Tinian in the Marianas

STRIKE NEW BL   American Ships and Planes in Fresh Attack on Guam and Rota

Strike New Blows at Nippon Target  Guam and Rota Blasted  During the Week-end

Guan, Rota Under Attack   Complete Neutralization Of Marianas or New Invasion Steps Likely

Yanks Strike Guam And Rota In New Blows   Invasion Operations Believed Step Nearer With Combined Air And Sea Thrusts

Shell Guam And Rota   Planes and Ships Unite in Striking Blow at Marianas

Liberators From Cen tral And Southwest Pacific Join In At tack On Jap Caro  line Bases.

Yank Blows At Guam, Rota Hint Fresh Invasions   Complete Neutralization Of Marianas Probable In  Near Future.

U.S, TASK FORCE SHELLS GUAM FOR 2ND TIME   Rota Also Hit Over Week End; Hint Invasion of Islands

Americans Hif Guam and Rota   U. S. Warships and Planes Strike Blow at Jap-Held Islands

Jap-Held U.S. Base Ripped From Sea and Air; Waleai, Truk, Palau, Yap Also Hit

Guam And Rota Struck Fresh. Blows Over Weekend; Defense Positions Reported Damased

AMERICAN SHIPS STRUCK BLOWS AT GUAM AND ROTA   Light Cruisers and Destroyers Shelled Guam Saturday for the Second  Time

Late Battles Hint AtNew Moves  To Invade Islands  Ships, Planes Hit Guam, Rota in Weekend Activity

U.S. Air, Naval Forces Attack ‘Guam, Rota   New Action May. Be Preliminary to Invasion Operations, Mop Up Saipan

Shell Guam, Bomb Rota in Fresh Strikes   Blows Neutralize Mari anas. May Mean New Landings

Germans Admit Tremendous Gain By Allied Forces   Nazi Salient Is Cut to 20 Miles

AMERICANS LIFT BASTOGNE SIEGE   Breakthrough Relieves Gal: lant Beleaguered Garrison   ADVANCE NARROWS   ‘Neck of Enemy Position to Less Than 20 Miles; Nazis Lose Initiative

German Salient In Belgium  Narrowed; Beleaguered U. S. Garrison Relieved   INITIATIVE IS LOST TO AMERICAN TROOPS

Great German  Lunge Pinched   Gallant Garrison at Bastogne Relieved; Americans ‘Take Initiative, Make Gains of Five Miles a Day

Neck Of Enemy Positions Narrowed ‘lo Less Than 20-— Miles By U.S. Forces

Trapped Yank Troons Freed   Mighty Blows Narrow Base Of Smash Inty Relaium. To-Less-Than 20 Miles

CORREGIDOR WAS TWO YEARS ACO   Today Marks Second Anniversary Of Fall Of Phillipines Bastion; Were Corregidor And Bataan Necessary ?

Were Bataan and ‘The Rock’ Necessary? _  Correaidor Collapsed Two Years Aqo

Corregidor Fell to Japs 2 Years Ago Today Helped Save ‘Australia’ in Early Days of War

German Armored Forces Set Back American Drive   Siegfried Line Is Cut Through Nozis Admit

German Tanks Hit Savagely To Save Rhineland Position   Hitler’s Forces Drive Yanks Out of Beg: gendorf East of Uback About 3 Miles Inside Reich

NaziArmored Units Thrown At Wedge In Siegfried Line   Heaviest Enem y. _ Counterattack. ~~ Hits Brea cacy At Ubach-As “Nazis ~ Admit Breakthrough By Yanks

Lose Beggendorf As Nazis Strike Back Vigorously   Americans Run Into Storm Of Heavy Armor, Forced To Yield Under Pressure

Doughboys Are Forced To Give Ground To Foes   Germany Stages Heaviest Counter - Attack In At. tempt to Seal Off Hole ln Sjecfried   Beggendorf Given Up to Hun Force   Meanwhile, Patton Soldiers  Batde For Fort Driani; More Troops Dropned Onto Hojland

Yanks Retreat. Under Pressure Of Panzer Blows  British Extend Held On Peloponnesus; Rucciane In Pancava

German Armor Is Rushed In To Halt Push   Allied Airpower Pounds Nazis As Skies Become Clear

GERMANS FORCE WITHDRAWAL IN COUNTER-STABS   Loss of Beggendorf, Town Grabbed Thursday, Follows Nozi Assault

‘Terrific Obstacles Slow  Yanks But Germans Admit Breach Of Siesfried; Air Force Aiding Allied Ground Troops Again.

Big Armored Thrusts Made By Germans   Withdraw From Beggendorf Forced Off Ridge in  Ubach Area

NAZIS AD MI] WEST WALL BREACHED   Enemy Uses Tank Force To Block Road To Rhine   MORE PARATROOPS   Dropped In Holland To Reinforce Western Loop; Weather Clearing

Corregidor Kin Meet to Plan Aid   Red Cross Efforts Reviewed Tonight

Sixth Army Renews Drive for Mokmer'   MacArthur Reports Progress—Air Force Gives Big Help

Jungle Vets Smash On Toward Mokmer Air field; Bombers  Support Troops

Local Physical Examinations For  Draft Dropped   Will Be Given At Induction Center 21 Days Before Call

Local Physical Examinations For  Draft Dropped  Will Be Given At Induction Center  of7.lcarrT,

Americans Advance 3 Miles in Italy Against Crack German Reinforcements

Doughboys Seize ev Italian ‘Town   Troops Advance Through Rain. Snow And Mud

NAZIS UNABLE TO HALT PUSH ON PO VALLEY   FIFTH ARMY TAKES POSITIONS BELOW KEY BOLOGNA

Yanks Battle Through Mud Near Bologna   Move Up Three Miles Despite Nazi Attack

Fifth Army Gains Near Bologna   Germans Throw in Crack Alpine Troops

Snow Covers Fifth Army’s Battlefields   Allies Edge Ahead Over Mountains Toward Po Valley

REVENUE MEASURE APPROVED BY 299 TO 95 VOTE DESPITE OBJECTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT   Senate Expected To Duplicate Action Friday To Put . Bill On Statute Books; Treasury PolicyMaking Personnel Attacked

Democrats Evenly  Divided On Veto; COP Almost Solid   99 Democrats Vote To - Override. 89 to Sustain; 199 Republicans For Overriding. Senate Expected To Duplicate Vote.

HOUSE VOTES 3-1 MAJORITY FOR TAX BILL   Senate Expected to Reject FDR's Veto At Next Session

VOTES 299-95 TO OVERRIDE THEPRESIDENT   Packed Gallery Witnesses Action; Senate Duplication Seen Tomorrow

Two Billions . Revenue Bill Passed 299.95   Rebellion In Democratic  Ranks That Put Political  Washington Back On  Heels Precedes Vote   Setback Worst OfIl Years’ Regime   Democratic Leader In Hou se, “Parting Company” With Reoosevelt, Leads Fight

99 Democrats Join 199 Republicans To Defy EDR’s Stand On Tax Bil! -

TAXBILL PASSED OVER ONES ~— VETO299 10 94   Congressman Doughton Leads Rebellion Against Chief   SENATE EXPECTS TO OVERRIDE FRIDAY

House Votes to Override Tax Bill Veto   Presidential Action Defeated by Vote of 299 to 95

Senate Will Act Friday   FDR’s Objections Are Tossed Aside   Galleries Filled Early.

Senate Is Expected To Place Tax Bill On Statutes Friday   Indications Are $2,300,000,000 Revenue Act Will Receive Overwhelming Support Despite the President’s Objections—Serious Reversal for Chief Executive.

TAX VETO OVERRIDDEN ~ BY HOUSE   House Votes 299 to 95 to  Pass Revenue Bill Over President's Objection   SENATE TO VOTE FRIDAY

Rebellion in Democratic Action Led By Sen. Barkley and Cong. Doughton One Of Worst Legislative Setback For President Since He Took Office 11 Years Aao

Aroused Lower Chamber Votes 299 to 95 Against President on Revenue Law

SENATE EXPECTED TO DUPLICATE ACTION AT TOMORROW'S SESSION   Unanimous Democratic Vote Returns Senator Barkley To Leadership After Rebuff

House Votes To Override Veto of F.R.   Tax Measures Given Approval by Overwhelming Vote of 299 to 95

SOLONS VOTE 299 10 95 ON THE PROPOSAL   Senate Expected to Duplicate Action Tomorrow —Crowds Fill Galleries and Gather in Halls for Session.

Smashing 299 to 95 Vote Serious Rebuff to FDR   Declares ‘Deepest Personal Affection’ for Roosevelt, Who Stands ‘With Wilson’ as Ideal President   FDR NOT DISCUSSED IN CAUCUS   Barkley Refuses to Discuss Fourth Tern Issue, Says He Will Make Public Reply tc Roosevelt’ 5s Telegram

WORST DEFEAT FOR FOR SINCE TAKING OFFICE   Revolt of Solons Against President Sweeps  Thru Congress =>

Setback Given Roosevelt By 199-f0-9 Vote   Senate Will Act Tomorrow; ‘Rebel’ Movement Grows

Senate Is Expected Ti Duplicate Action O House During Sessior On Friday

Votes 299 To 95 to Pass Measure   Expect Senate To Duplicate Action in Vote Tomorrow

Overrides Roosevelt 299 to 95   Senate Is Expected fo _ Follow Same Course in Vote Friday 

Kill Veto By Large Majority   Vote in House Is  299 to 95, to Pass Revenue Measure . Over President’s Veto

HOUSE VOTES TO OVERRIDE FDR’S TAX BILL VETO   Expect Senate to Follow Friday Action of Representatives

Senate Will  Vote on  Bill Friday   Political Washington Reeled by Rebellion In Democratic Ranks as Chiefs Break With FDR: Overridina Vote Is 299 to 95

REBELLIOUS HOUSE  PASSES NEW REVENUE  MEASURE OVER VETO REGISTER DISAPPROVAL  ROOSEVELT’S VIEWS WITH TOP HEAVY VOTE

House Passes Tax Bill Over Veto Of F. D..R.  VOTE IS 299 - 95  Senate Expected To Concur In Action’ Fridav

GOP IN VOTING   Senate Is Expected to Duplicate House Action on Measure,   ‘WILL PUT ACT ON BOOKS

senate Due Ra Ran ass R;  LU ALU Pays Rill: Tomorrow’  — Congressional Revolt. Brines Avalanche of —   Votes on Roosevelt  BI-PARTISAN ACTION’.  t te [Danuwhlinna Ufawmahknaue. "2.1%      BI-PARTISAN ACTION’.

HOUSE PASSES TAX MEASURE OVER VETO.   Set President's Wishes Aside By 299 To 95 Vote

House Votes To Override Tax Bill Veto   Rebuffs FDR By Vote Of 299.95

Unanimous Vote Returns Leader To His Old Post   Senate Action Is Approval Of Rebuff Of FDR; Tax Vote Is 299 To 95 In House

99 Democrats Join 199 GOP ,Members i ‘in Revolt Against ‘President's Tax Views   ; SENATE. WILL VOTE TOMORROW; - PASSAGE OF BILL PREDICTED

F. D. R. SUFFERS OVERWHELMING DEFEAT ON VETO   Senate Expected. To Duplicate House Action Tomorrow; Overriding Of Veto Followed On Democratic Rebellion That Rocked Washington On Its Heels.

House Members in Rebellious Mood; Vote Is 299 to 95   99 Democrats Jain GOP in Voting for Tax Bill; Similar  Senate Action Seen

House Votes 299 To 95 to Override Roosevelt Tax Veto   Senate Expected To Pass Bill, Too, Despite President

Rebels Against President By 299-To-95 Vote   Congress Puts Action Into Revolt Against - Chief Executive

Count Shows 299 to 95 Vote   Senate Expected To Follow Suit In  Action Tomorrow.

Senate Apt — To Dust eate  Their Stand   Upper House to Vote on Move to Override Veto Tomorrow  a

VOTE IS 299 1095 AGAINST PRESIDENT   Senate Expected Tc Duplicate House Action

House Soon Overrides Veto Of Its ‘Tax Bill   Passes Bill, 299 To 95, Over Objections Of President Soon After Convening

REVENUE BILL IS PASSED ON ROLL CALL, 299 T0 95  SENATE EXPECTED  TA TAY

HOUSE OVERRIDES THE PRESIDENT’S TAX MEASURE VETO   Ninety-Nine Democrats and One Minor Party Member Joined 199 Republicans,   ‘THE VOTE WAS 299 TO 95   Senate Is Expected to Dapliacte the House Action Tomorrow.

Enact Measure By 299-95 Vote: Senate Likely To Follow Suit   Knutson Calls for Shakeup of Treasury Department

EXPECT SENATE TO TAKE SAME ACTION FRIDAY   Rebellionin Democrat Ranks Reels Political Capital Back on Heels

House Passes Tax Bill Over Vote of F.D.R   House Members Reject President Roosevelt's Veto by Vote of 299 To 95. Count Reveals

British Establish Bridge = Hea As Yanks Drive To With in 322 Milee OF Realoiie

CHINESE NEAR LAST NIP STRONGHOLD ON OLD BURMA ROAD   THREE CHINESE COLUMNS MENACE TENGCHUNG FROM AS MANY DIRECTIONS.

Two Finnish Officials Visit Swedish Capital   Seen in London Prelude To Contact with Soviets To Learn Terius of Peace

“Pin Worms Can't Harm MY Child!"   Retter learn the Truth. Mother!

—GREECE—  ATHENS IGSTILL. ‘VRITTLEGROUNE   Rebel Leaders Reportec Drawing Up Peace Pro posals

Peace Efforts By Rebels In Greece Seen   Leftists Said To Be Certain They Can't Win Against British

Bloody Athens: Battle Rages. At Full Fury   Gsreck Patriots Continue Kfforts To Retake City Krom British ‘Troops; Homeless Flee Battle Area.

HOMELESS FLEE GREEK CAPITAL      Report Rebels Drawing Up Peace Proposals

EW. OBLFANS- COTTON   Bombardment Of Athens Started By Greek Leftists

Peace Prospects Bright in Greece  Leftist Leaders Chanae Attitude

ATHENS IS. STILL BATTLEGROUND FOR GREEK AND BRITISH   INDICATIONS STRONG THAT NAZI LEADERS HOPE T0 STAND ALLIED WHOLESALE INVASION OFF LONG

GREEK REBELS STILL FIGHTING   Impartial Sources Say ELAM Realizes The Eventual Failure Of Its Movement.   BY THE ASSOCIATED PRES®&

Greek Rebels Shel Athens Again; . Fires Are Started  Left-Wing Chieftains Talk Peace But Fighting Continues

Greek Rebels Said Drawing Peace Proposals  Gunfire Continues In Athens’ Streets

Fights Continue In Athens Area   Gunfire Makes Seared Populace Seek Refuge As Rebels Plan Peace   Ruolletin

PEACE IN SIGHT IN GREEK cRIsis   Rumor That New Efforts to Bring End to Fighting Bearing Fruit

Greek Rebels Reported Busy On Peace Plax   Sharp Gunfire Still Echoes Today Through Sireets Of Battleground Capital

Revolt in Greece  Believed Near End      Fighting Continues in Streets of Athens While Rebel Leaders Reported Drawing Up Peace Plans ‘Realizing Now They Will Eventually Lose’

FLAS FORGES SHELL ATHEN   Continue Fight in Greece As Reports Indicate They ‘Seek Peace.

Greek Peace. Plans Drawn   -Elas: See Defeat. As” 4 Certain By Opponents

REBEL LEADERS ASK FOR PEACE IN GREEK FIGHT   Gunfire Is Still Heard In Athens;  Civilians Flee

EAM Seeks Treaty As Casualty Lists Continue to Moun!   Churchill Envoy Sent to Athens; Ordered to End ELAS Fight

GREEKS STILL HEAVE SHELLS INTO CAPITAL   Trying to Drive Into Center of Athens Before British Bring in More of Their Troops.

Report Greeks Making Peace   Some Fighting Still Going On <As_ Rebel Leaders Draw Up Peace Proposals.

Greek Rebels Pour Shells Into Athens   Battle Rages Despite Talk of Imniinent Peace Terms

Greek Leftists May Seek Truce  See Certainty of  Eventual Defeat

ADDITIONS AT K. U   Remodeling and One New Building Included in 1946-1947 Budget

Approve $100,000 More for Teachers College Library .   Bourd ef Regents Also Recommends New HLS. Building And Hicher Salaries

Staraya Russa Is Captured By Russ   40 Other Settlements Along 20-Mile Front Captured In Russion Offensive Durine Day

SOME REPORTS SAY LANDINGS ALREADY MADE ON SULUAN,:: 425 MILES FROM MANILA _ :

Tokyo Radio Says Troops  At Tiny Isle   Landing Hinted In Levte’ Gulf, 425 Miles From Prized Manila   No Confirmation From U.S. Source   Japs Say Two Great Invasion Armadas Bear Down Under Air Cover

SAYS YANKS ON ISLE 425 MILES FROM MANILA   Powerful Air, Sea Support

Powertul U. $. Forces Attacking, Nips Claim   Unconfirmed Enemy Reports Locate Invasion In Leyte Gulf And Indicate Landings On Suluan Island

Yanks Remain Silent   Japanese Radio Claims Invasion Started Tuesday

Japanese Claim Yank Movement Into Leyte Gulf.   Confirmation of Nip Reports Lacking From U. S. Headquarters

No Confirmation Of Japan's Claim From Either MacArthur Or Pacific Fleet Headquarters At Pearl Harbor   CHINA-BASED PLANES AIDING ATTACK, SAID

Tokyo Claims Armada Led By M’ Arthur   Warships, Planes Leading Assault; WManil: Bombarded

Claim U.S. Landing on Tiny Suluan 'sland Supported by Powertul Fleet. Air Attack

Naval Forces Strike Central Part of Isles   Enemy Report Says Group Approaches From New Guinea

Yanks believed to have landed on Suluan island  Nip report unconfirmed ferom American sources

Strong Forces May BeEngaged In Operations   Tokvo Admits Break Into Levie Gulf And Possible Landing On Suluan Isle.

Say Fleet Breaks Into Leyte Gulf, May Have Landed Invasion Units   Storming Of Tiny Island, if True, Would Split Luzon, Mindanao; Manila Reported Bombed

Big Armadas Pound Coast Of Tiny Isle   No Repzrt of Attack Is Made by MacAsthur’s Headquarters.

Japs Claim Powerful American Fleet and Task Forces Strike Center of Islands

91 Planes Destroyed In Raids   U.S. Losses In 55 Day Campaign Are 2,176 Dead, 7,967 Hurt, 257 Missing.

Jap Casualties On Leyte Set At 82,554  U.S. Losses  Are Put At tf) ANN

REPUBLICANS PAY HIGH HONOR TO CITY NATIVE   Appointment Announced a Press Conference in New York Today

8th Army Beats Counfer Blows   Nazis Fight Fiercely To Hold Historic City of Florence

FLORENCE BATTLE FLARES TO NEW. INTENSITY TODAY   Capture of. the Only. Remain. ‘ing -Big- ‘Italian’ City-in Nazi Hands Below: Gothic Line Sought by Advancing Allied Forces

Battle Flames Of Horence Running High   Report Germans Will Make Bitter Stand At City Of Pisa.

Allies Smash Fierce Nazi Counterattacks as Fighting for Florence. Pisa Continues

FIERCE BATTLE RAGING AROUND CITY FLORENCE   Indications Point to Historie City of Pisa Becoming Major Ita'ian Rattle Ground

Allies Close In On Florence As Germans Battle To Hold Grip On City Of Pisa

GERMANS FIGHT BITTERLY FOR FLORENCE TODAY   Allies Nearing Last Nazi-Held Italian City

British Forces Make Good Gains ‘Against Florence   American Artillery Flares as Nazis Prepare io Baitle Within Pisa. Use Leanine Tower

E BATTLE FOR FLORENCE FLARED TO NEW FURY TODAY   Eighth Army Smashed Fierce German Counterattacks Near Town.   SOUTH OF GOTHIC LINE   At the Same Time Indications Grew That Pisa Would Become a Battleground.

FOR FLORENCE   Nazi Counterattacks Are Repulsed; Pisa Is Battle Scene

GERMANS MAKE FIERCE DEFENSE OF FLORENCE   Signs Indicate Nazis To Make Pisa A Major Battle Ground

FIGHTING RAGES NEAR FLORENCE   Eighth Army Crushes German Counter-Thrusts 8 Miles From City

Allied Battle For Florence Gets Underway   Eighth Army Smashes Nazi Counter Attacks Eight Miles From Fortress

Battle For Pisa Is Shaping Up As Major Fight   Americans Smash Hun Counterattacks

Battle for Florence Flares to New Fury; German Drive Fails   Pisa May Also Become Major Battle Ground; Much Aerial‘Action

Big Battle For Florence Flares To New Fury   Enemy Using Famed Leaning Tower For Observation Post

REPEL NAZIS IN ~ FLORENCE PUSH   Germans Battle Furiously To Check Advance

Germans Using Famous Leaning Tower For Spotting; British Near Florence

FD. R."S TELEGRAM SENT DESPITE BAN   Western Union Falls to Explatt Why It Apparently Disregarded Wartime Rerulations.

Two-Day Bridge Closing Now Is Hinted In Mexicc   Local Manager Says Order Unreceived

Next 48 Hours May See End Of Doomed German 7th Army   General Patton’s Armor Thunders Into - Environs of Paris in What Seems To Be a New Round-up of Nazis

Battle of Annihilation On Russian Scale Is Blazing in France   German Forces Are Being Knocked to Bits As They Attempt to Escape; From 490.000 to 100.000 Sealed in New Trap

Germans Say American Troops Waging War Of Movement 12 Miles Fr rom French Capital   Nazis Reported Jn Full Retreat Toward Rouen; Eiffel Tower In Sight; British And Canadians Trapping Remnants Of Seventh Army

Von Kluge’s Seventh Army Faces Death or Surrender   Massed Guns of Yanks, British, Cana-  dians Rain Death into Ranks of Enemy Trapped.in Triangle of Death

Fleeing Germans Swing Toward Rouen To Escape New Trap’s Closing.

GERMAN SEVENTH DOOMED   FINAL DESTRUCTION OR SURRENDER DRAWS NEAR

FINAL BLOW TO GERMANS IN 48 HOURS IS SEEN   Germans Are Being Knocked to Bits As They Try to Escape

SEN. MONTGOMERY'S FORCES SEALING TRAP ON REMNANTS OF BROKEN GERMAN ARMIES   Eisenhower's Headquarters Maintain Almost Complete Silence on Dazzling Thrust of Patton Toward French Capital   BRITISH-CANADIANS MAKE SWEEPING ADVANCE

Seventh Army Collanse Near   Patton Tanks Drive Within Sight of Eiffel Tower; Capital’s Radio Silent, Hinting New Disorders Among Defenders

FLEE TOWARD ROUEN BEFORE ALLIED DRIVE   Patton’s Armored Columns Reported 12 Miles From Besieged Capital

HUNS NOW FACE COMPLETE ROUT   Von Kluge’s Trapped Units Being ‘Knocked to Bits’ Briton Claims

A Great Battle Of Annihilation In North France   Correspondent Says German Legions May Surrender Within 48 Hours

British Beat vtl Japs" Attacks As ‘lempo of Asiatic War Quickens

OPA FIGHTS FOR FOOD SUBSIDIES   Seek To Build Up Overwhelm: ing Case For Program

Yanks  Speed for Rennes   Troops Surge Through Broken Nazi Lines on Road to Paris

Yank Columns Near Important City of Rennes   Located Nearly Halfway Across Breton Peninsula

oo a een IL ne RON cee ETE ASNT AEE SAT M ES OD ee Ea eG A RE MERLE ee aR EE NT AN ee TART SME a eT RN  BRITISH PUNCH HOLE IN NAZI LINE IN FRANCE   Amertcans Advance fLowara - Paris. Threaten Rennes Also

Almost Half-Way Across Breton Peninsula On 70 Mile Front  RENNES IS WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE  Exact Whereabouts Of Advanced Americans  Are Iinknown

Allied Armies On Move Along 70 Blazing Miles Of Front As Nazis Sag   Americans In Dramatic Dash To Cash In On Avranches Breakthrough;  British Lunge From Center

U. S. Troops Race Ahead In Brittany   Entire 70 Mile Front Of Allies Shattering Resistance.

'Pontorson Falls As Yanks Sweey, ‘Across Peninsula   Advance Progresses With Great Rapidity In Normandy Area

Americans Sweey Near Rennes From Pontorson   Nazis Demoralized By Whirlwind . Tactics of Yankees

MAY ALREADY BE AT RENNES IN 43-MiLE GAIN   Shatter Nazis On Broad Front

U. §. Forces Nearing Rennes h Dramatic Race to Exploit Gains Over Shattered Nazis

ENEMY LINES DISINTEGRATE BEFORE ARMORED ONSLAUGHT   Battlefront so Fluid That Whereabouts Of Inited States Spearheads Unknown

ALLIES MOVE RAPIDLY IN BRITTANY   Americans Near Rennes, 43 Miles From Avranches

Soviets Sweep Past City To Within Twenty  Miles \Of East Prussian Border

Reds Aim  NewDrive at Reich   Ukrainian Army Gains 31 Miles in Advances on Route to Berlin

Red Forces Surge Ahead (On All Fronts   Powerful Offensive May Reach Germany By End of This Week  MOSCOW CELEBRATES

More Than 8,000 Ger_ mans Killed and 5,000  ‘Captured —   REDS NEAR EAST _ PRUSSIAN BORDER   Several Hundred Towns and Villages Are Captured _

SOVIET ARMY CLOSES IN ON EAST PRUSSIA   BATTLE MAY BE ON GERMAN SOIL BY END OF WEEK

tronghold Won After 5 Days Stiff Street Fighting, Southern Forces Race Closer to Prussia

Reds Within 30 Miles of  East Prussia   General Advances Made On Central, Baltic and Finnish Fronts; 8,000 Killed in Wilno’s Fall

8000 NAZIS ‘LOSELIVES IN STRUGCLE   AMoscow Announces Cap ture of 5,000 Others—  City Described as Scene of Horror. °   RUSSIANS ADVANCE ALL ALONG FRONT   Plunge to Within 30 Miles of East Prussia—Engulf Several Hundred More Towns,

Nazis Continue  Buzz Bomb Blows,  Casualties High   Heavy Attack Upon Britain

Toll Heavy Small Southern England  Town Suffers One of UW nest Rilnawwe nf Waew

Arrival Time of President Not Disclosed          Expected To Plan Final ‘Nazi Defeat... : Speed Pacific. Drive a3  CMT TA:. pi — pa a

Churchill Reaches Canada for Talks   British Premier Going to Quebec to “Meet Roosevelt

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Churchill in Canada for Conferenc:   War Problem to Be Discussed With Roosevelt

Churchill Arrives In Canada   British Prime Minister To Consult Roosevelt On ‘Victory’ Plans

Churchill “In Canada ~ ForParley   Arrives With Officia' Party for Victory Conference With  Raonsevels

Churchill Arrives For Conference With Roosevelt  Japanese War One Topic to Be Discussed

CHURCHILL HAS ARRIVED IN CANADA   With Large Entourage for Conference With President Roosevelt at Quebec.   No Word From Stalin

CHURCHILL LANDS FOR WAR PARIEYS      Prime Minister in Canada for Conferences With Roosevelt

(Churchill Is Now In Canada For Victory Conference With _ FDR; Voyage Is Made By Boat

Churchill. Staff In Canada to Meet Roosevelt   Conferences Scheduled At Quebec, Expected To Touch on Germany And War in Pacific

Tacoma Gunman Uses Five-Year-Old Boy as Shield in $5,000 Bank Robbery

ARMED FORCES REFUNDS FIRST   Income Tax Pot Cash To Be Ladeled Out Next Month

SPECIAL STATE LEGISLATURE ON SOLDIERS’ VOTE      Plans To Make It Basier For Men  nd Women To Vote Will : Be Studied

MARTIN TO CALL EXTRA ASSEMBL' ON TROOP VOTE   Governor Decides To issue Proclamation Within Days

Writer Predicts War With Germany ‘To End Suddenly’   Warns War Will End Long Be. fore Germany Is Prostrate

Session “Most Disgraceful Episode Of Last 60 Years In Houston” Fights Feature Constant O’Daniel Boo:

HITLER'S NEPHEW JOINS U. 5. NAVY   Passes Examination at New York Center

Rainstorm Blots Out Saipan Fields For 25 Minutes as B-29s Returning From Nagoya Raid Circle: Overhead

B29) RETURN SAFE 10 SAIPAN   Thousand Men Aboard Circle Helplessly Overhead

Britain's Defenses Are Prepared - for Heavier Raids Before Invasion

Britain Prepared for Heavy German Air Raids, Minister Tells Commons

Thousands of British  Escape Camp in France in Confusion of Raid

TIT0 WANTS RECOGNITION FROM ALLIES    Thousands of British Escape French Prison Camp Durina Air Raid

Enemy Defenses Sag And  Break Near Lithuanian Coast   SOVIETS TRYING TO END POLISH DEADLOCK

Red Army Drives Toward Silesia As Nazis Flee   Russians Report Double Victory

REDS TO KEEP 1939 BORDER   Moscow Says Poland May Expand West and: Take East Prussia

RUSSIA AGAIN MAKES CLEAR POLISH BOUNDARY DEMANDS   LINE ESTABLISHED IN 1916 “WANTED BY SOVIETS. AS   . BORDER AFTER PRES . ENT WAR

HAIR CUTTING FESTVITIES  AT CHERBOURG: CELEBRATION   FRENCH GIRLS WHO ASSOCIATED WITH GERMANS WERE ” PUBLICLY PUNISHED BASTILE DAY

OPA May Require Endorsement of  Gas Ration Stamps  Dallas Federal Judge Holds Regulation To Be Reasonable

Yank Air Bag Is 378 Planes, Stimson Says   Reports 137 Planes Lost iin Five Days; 26,000  Jap Dead Counted

Yule Message by President Contains Prayer  ‘A New Day of Peace’ Is President's Hope

SPECTACULAR -EVANGELISTIC. SERVICES SE]   Rites for McPherson Monday Stir Followers

Patriarch Of Russia Challenges Position Of Pope As Vicar Of Christ

Pope As Vicar Challenged By Metropolitan Patriarch Of All   Patriarch Of All Russia Cites Texts From Bible

Russian Church Head Challenges  Pope’s Position   Denies Christ Vicar Claim

Allies Puncture Center Of Nazi Defenses, Capture Two Villages; Enemy Counter-Attacks Being Held Or Smashed

News Day And Night   American Lose Ground North Of Montebough; Score Gains To South   First Major Battle Is Believed Joined   Both Sides Throw In Everything: Germans Bring Up “Suicide Divisions”

Invaders Break Center Of Line In Normandy   Tide Of Battle Sways Back And Forth; Monteboure Changes Hands Often.

Throw Crack “Suicide Divisic Against Allies; Montebe Changes Hands Several Ti In Hotly Coniested Ficht   ARMORED BATTLES MOUNT IN INTENS

Counterattacks Staged To Stop Allied Advance   Allies Lose Ground North of Montebour: But Gain In South

[PATROLS 30 MILES INLAND NOW AND (PERMANS. RETREAT   Reports of Generai Counterattack Starting Not Ver- ified As Yet.

Patrols JU Miles Injang   Germans Send in ‘Suicide Divisions’ To Halt Allies

VIOLENT BATTLE SEE-SAWS ON INVASION FRONT   Allies Gain in Some Sectors

U. §., BRITISH DRIVE THIRTY MILES INLAND   Germans Sent Reeling Backwards Under Sledgehammer Assaults.

Ie Hees atti        Mi. Inland"   HARD FIGHTING NEARER ; CHERBOURG, WITH GERMAN : “SUICIDE SQUADRONS” STAGIR ( MAJOR COUNTER-ATTACKS (=

Allies 30 Miles Inland   Showdown Fight Rages as Germans Launch Major Counterattacks

F.D.R.’s Action  Prevents Strike   David J. Lewis Named Member Of Mediation Board By President.

QUELLS REVOLT OF ARMY HEADS   Reports Of Anny, Navy Uprisings Confuse  Picture

ONFIDENT Ot ARNY LOYALTY   Press and Eyewitness Accounts Indicate His Enemies Failed.   STAMPED OUT BY PURGE

Hitler Says Attempted Coup Crushed   Bloody, Ruthless ,Purge Apparently has Stamped Out Rebellion; Fuehrer Has Confidence in Arnty’s Loyalty

‘Many Leading Officers Die In Blood Bath   Fuehrer Calls for Obedience and Loyalty In Order of the Day

Bloody Purge Wipes Out Top German Generals   Foes of Hitler Fail to Seize Key Positions

Hitler Asserts Revolt Attempt Entire Failure   Effort To Seize Power Crushed, Fuehrer Says

Eyewitness Accounts Indicate That Nowhere Have Fuehrer’s Enemies Succeeded in Seizing Power or Taking Over Key Positions—Stockholm Hears Perhaps 100 High Officers Executed as Result of Attempt on Reich Leader’s Life.

_ Asserts “Small Circle” Of ‘Rebellious Officers Is  Crushed     mpwer or prmmineree   PURGE IS RUTHLESS   Stockholm Hears 100 General or High Officers Were Executed

UNREST HEARD TOBEGROWING INNAVY RANKS   Travelers Claim More Than 1,000 Were Arrested By Fuehrer’s Men

HITLER WREAKS VENGEANCE ON MANY ILLUSTRIOUS MILITARY MEN IN GREAT BLOOD PURGE   _ German Reports Conflicting But Indications Are f That Many Alleged Revolt Leaders Slain. _ Hitler * Demands Loyalty and Obedience from Troops

REPORTS REACH STOCKHOLM OF ‘OODY PURGE   TRAVELERS SAY 100 GENERALS OR HIGH OFFICERS EXECUTED

Appeals to Army For Obedience And Loyalty   Order of Day Is Obvious Attempt to Assure Followers

Fuehrer Tells Of Confidence In Nazi Arm   Adolph Seeks To Quell Seething Unrest In Reich

HITLER SAYS REVOLT OVER IN GERMANY   Mass Arrests In Berlin Reported Via Sweden

Hundred Slain And Thousand Under Arrest, Sweden Hears   ‘Victory Will Be Ours in Spite of All’ Fuehrer Asserts

New Imperial Government, Says Moscow   Perpetrators of Revolt Reported To Be Wiped Out

SWEDEN HEARS 100 HIGH NAZIS ARE EXECUTED   Fuehrer’s Order Seen as Effort to Reassure Army Ranks of Powers

Fuehrer, In An Order Of The Day, Declares Nazi Party Is Still In Power 

Day's Order Admits Act ls Started  To Boot Him   Fuehrer Declares  Traitor Clique Wiped Out

Asserts “Small Circle” Of Rebellious Officers Is —  Crushed     mpDrcr rfc PITTUIESS   PURGE IS RUTHLESS   Stockholm Hears 100 General or High Officers Were Executed

Admits That There Was At tempt Made On His Life by Officers Who Were To Seize His Powers.   APPEALS FOR LOYALTY AMONG HIS LEGIONS

CRUSH REVOLT, HITLER CLAIMS   Rapid, Bloody Purge Stamps Out Rebellion, According to Press and Eyewitness Accounts That Say Enemies   Fail in Plot.      Perhaps Hundred Generals, High Officers Executed in the Purge

Fuehrer Tries To Reassure His Followers   Chief of Nazis Declares Army Will Continue Fight Until Victory Is Won; Purge Stamps Out Rebellion; 100 Officers Killed

100 High Officers Killed; ‘Tried To Murder Me,’ Shouts Fuehrer In Order Of The Day   Gestapo Slaughters Some Of Most Illustrious Figures In German Army; Unrest Indicated In Navy: Rumors Of Trouble Persist

B-258 BOMB TOKYO AND BANGKOK   Planes Come From Saipan  And India

Second Raid Jn Four Days On Jap Capital   » Bombers Hit Puppet State of Thailand From Base in India

Temperatures   Sky Giants Roar From Bases in China And on Saipan; Crash Hundreds of Tons of Bombs on Two Prime Targets

Over 100 B-24s Take Part in Latest Raids   “Strategic Targets” Blasted by Aircraft  Oneratine fram Sainar

TWIN HITS FROM. EAST AND WEST MADE IN ORIENT   Superforts Thunder From Saipan and India Simultaneously -

Planes Fl , From India  And Saipan   Twentieth Air Force Strikes Twin Blows At Jap Industries

Bangkok Also Blasted In Heavy Atfack   Superforts Make Ist Simultaneous East-West Run

Tokyo and Bangkok Suffer Severe Damage as Yankee. Superforts Deluge Bombs

SIMULTANEOUS STROKES ROCK JAP EMPIRE   Hundreds of Tons of Destruction Are  ' Rained on Big Enemy Cities.

Jap Capital Is Hit 2nd Time In 72 Hours; 1st Bombing For Thailand

Jap Resistance Weakens In Ormoc Corridor On Leyte Island  INDUSTRIAL POINTS RAIDED AT TOKYO  Six Huge Fires Started In Largest Aircraft Plant In Japan

Substantial Forces Of B-29's Take Of From Saipan To Blast Tokyo, And From 20th Bomber Command In India To Hit Ab Bangkok; Industrial Targets Were Hit In Raid On Japanese Capital

Huge B-29 Force Blasts Tokyo Into Flames Again; Other Forts Rain Bangkok

Avery Defiant As Properties Seized By Army   Montgomery Ward Head Challenges Authority Of President.

Montgomery Ward L Bs Army Rule   Legality of Seizure Questioned As Board Chairman Remains

Seven of Ward Properties in Army Control  Avery Refuses To Credit Legality of  Gavernment Seivgure

Wards Disputes Gov't Seizure  Courts May Decide In WLB Controversy

Avery Defies FDR’s Order   Challenges Legality ‘Of. Plants: Seizare

WARD STORES UNDER CONTROL JF U.S, ARMY   Government Seized Properties In Seven Cities

Avery Assails Ward Seizure   Presidential -Action Declared Illeqal

WARD'S AVERY SAYS SEIZURE IS UNLAWFUL   Properties Under Army Control; Issue To Go To Courts

Montgomery Ward Chairman Again Defies Control Of Firm By Army As Ordered By President

STATE SALVAGE CHIEF RESIGNS   Patterson Was Center 01 BUC Fight in 1942

British Officer Says Nazis Done in West   Days of Great Battle in France Are Ended With Hitler Fighting for Time; Maadinot Guns Turned to Meet Onrush

DAYS OF GREAT BATTLES OVER, OFFICER SAYS   Fight For Time, Time For Hitler,  In France

ONE MORE BIG RUSSIAN BLOW WHIPS HITLER   Rest of War for Germany Is Fight for TimeTime for Hitler

PATROLS ACTIVE   One Good Blow Will Finish Germans  Says British Officer

Near End Of Trail      British Officer Says Rest of War Only Fight For Time, for ‘Hitler

‘Sees Good Biow— By Red Forces Finishing War   British Officer Declares Days Of Great Battle In France Are Ended

NAZIS MERELY “EIGHT FOR TIME’   German Use of Dummy Tanks Is Revealed

Cold Ushers In Winter   Much: of Nation Shivers in Sub- ° Zero Temperatures

Temperature Hits 22 Below At Bemidii   New Frigid Wave in Northwest; “Not Quite ce. Cald’’ Forecact

Season’s Coldest Weather .. Plunges U.S. Into Winter   Cold- Wave Extends From Northern: Hlinois to North Plains Area

It Isn’t Winter Until 6 P. M:  And About Then It’s Really Going to Get Cold.

NATION HIT BY COLO WEATHER   Winter Starts Officially at 6:15 p. m., Today Short: est Dav.

Sen. Styles Bridges Is tinder Treatment For ‘Overwerk,. Exhaustion’

Report Germans Bomb Two Army Hospitals  Both Plainly NA vr» viral Lie,   Both Plainly Marked by Red Crosses

PLANES FROM SOLOMONS Hil AIRDROME   Recently Repaired On New Britain Starting Large Fires; Jap Air Complement Unusually Low.   Push Northward

RABAUL BASE AGAIN RAIDED   No Jap Flyers Offer Opposition; Eniwetok Conquest Nearly Completed

U. S. Planes Smash Again at Rabaul; Five Large iFres Started by Bombs

EARLY VOTES 7 RULED VOID   FEDERAL BALLOTS” RECEIVED AHEAD OF UME ARE TOSSED , ° OUT IN CALIFORNIA *

ARMY AND. HAVY srEK TO CURB VTE HEADACHE   Premature Use of Ballots Reported From California

@PLAN TO CURB VOTE HEADACHE   Army. Navy Moves To Facilitate Service Balloting

SERVICES GET FIRST VOTING HEADACHE   Scores of Premature: ly Cast Ballots Received From Navy

YANK BOMBERS ROAM PACIFIC   laps Report. Heavy Raids On Celebes and Hal mahera Islands

STATE DEMOCRATS URGE FOURTH TERW FOR ROOSEVELT   Thomas Courtney, Candidate For Governor, Brands The Present State Administration As ‘‘Do Nothing’’.

General Killed In Burma Crash   Announce Death of Famous, Spectacular Allied Leader, Chas. Wingate.

Famed British General Dies In Crash In  Burma Jungle   By CHARLES A. GRUMICH

Wingate Dies  In Plane Crash   A Renowned Warrior Whose Exploits in Bur ma Brought Him Wayld Wama

FAMED WINGATE DIES IN BURMA   Plane Crash Is Fatal To Leader Of Allied Jungle Fighters

Famous Leader of Soldiers in Burma  Meets Death There   Details of Accident Not Known; His Exploits Fabulous

Wingate Die: In Air Crash   Famous British Officer Specialized in Jungle War; Plane Not Found

WINGATE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   BRITISH LEADER WAS FAMOUS FOR JUNGLE WARFARE ON JAPS

BRITISH JUNGLE FIGHTER MEETS DEATH IN CRASH  General Wingate, Daring Leader Of Raiders, Killed in Accident

JUNGLE LEADER DIES IN CRASH   Fabulous Gen. Wingate, Lead er of Forces in Burma, Killed in Plane.

Wingate, Hero of Jungle War, Killed   FAMED BRITISH WARRIOR DIES IN PLANE CRASH ON INDIA-BURMA FRONT

Burma Chief Is Reported Crash Victim   Maj. Gen. Orde. Charles Win:gate, Fabulous Leader of Raiders, ‘Dies on Trip

Yankees At Gates Of Toulon   Cannes Also Under Guns of Yankee, French Forces

Toulon Under Yank Attack  From Rear    American Invasion Forces in South Reported 30 Miles Inland

Belief Grows Agreement Near  On Polish Issue   Head of London Polish Regime Confers With Leaders of Lublin Unit Un Vexing Problem

Premier Must Consult London Governmaut Before Final  Decisions- -—-

PGLICY—EDEN   Stettinius’ Criticism Will Not Affect British Views

ITALY CAUSES ALLIED SPLIT   EDEN SAYS POLICY TOWARD BFORZA HAS NOT CHANGED DESPITE STETTINIVS STAND

Stettinius Raps Britain for Meddling in Italy; Eden Replies   Argentine Proposal for Airing Charges Headed for Sidetrack

Cards Even Up Series   Redbirds Beat Browns, 5 to I, to Match Brownies

Musial Hits Circuit Blow First Inning   Cooper And Gatehouse To Pitch Sunday Game

SOVIETS OPE NEW ASSAULTS ON BUDAPEST   Drive Paves Way For Push Into Reich Homeland

Its No Picnic To Be Shot Down By One Of Our Own Planes Says Yank Aviator

But in German Hands... AMERICAN BOMBER SHOT DOWN BY AMERICAN P-.38

War Will Be Over in Two Months, Says Ford; Sees End of Railroads

“TEXAS REGULARS”  NAME SELECTED BY  ANTI-ROOSEVELTITES FACTION OPPOSING 4TH  TERM FILE LIST OF ELEC TAPE ENP RATIOT

Texans Will Have Their Choice of Six Elector Slates Come November

Backers of McCormick, MacArthur Prepare to” Enter Both in Primaty

Industrial’ Section. Of City Lays. In Fresh Ruins  RAIDED St SUNDAY Most “Sa ecessful  At tack Is. ‘Made’ By Many B-29s -*

PLANTS HIT, SUPERFORTS   Most Suceersful Blow Yet Struck By Saipem-Based Planes, Sino Situaticn Poor.

Fourth Term Oath At White House   President Plans  Simple Ceremony

INAUGURATION TO BE SIMPLE   President Eliminates Trappings at Ceremony to Be At White House

INAUGURAL WILL BE SIMPLE AFFAIR   PRESIDENT TO FOREGO ELABORATE TRAPPINGS WHEN HE TAKES OATH.

FD to Take 4th Term Oath In White House Ceremony      Congressional Committee Applauds Chief Executive for Decision to Hold Inaugural There Instead of Capital to Save Money

RAILWAY IS KNOCKED OUT BY ADVANCE   RED ARMIES DEALING CRUSI ING BLOWS TO NAZI AND   HUNGARIAN . TROOPS  - + DEFENDING CAPITAL

REDS SEIZE 3 MORE TOWNS IN HUNGARY   Crack Nazi Defenses of Vital BudapestMiskole Railway

‘Russians Cross Tisza River In Force, Crack Main Nazi Deienses Northeast Budapest

BEGIN GERMAN AIR ATTACKS   10,000 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped After Eisenhower Warning

GERMANY HIT BY 3000 BIC U.S, BOMBERS   Berlin Hard Hit During Raids On Wide Front

Tons of Bombs  From the Air  Warn Nazis  Hit Today While Cities Still Burn

3,000 YANK PLANES START “DEVASTATING BOMBING” TO EMPHASIZE THREAT TO AXIS   Three Thousand American Bombers Hurl 5,000 Tons of Explosives on Germany as Follow-up to Warning issued by Gen. Eisenhower   FOLLOWS NIGHT FORAYS BY BRITISH ARMADAS

Allied Air Armada — Blasting Germany   ' Berlin Smashed and Concentration of Reinforcements for West Wall Devastated as Assaults Started on Day and Night Schedule

Bombs of 6,000 Planes Sear Reich   Intensified Air Attack Opens on the Western } Front   Swarms of Planes Shower Bombs From Berlin to . Siegfried Line

Germany Seared By Tremendous ‘Air Armadas ©   Thousands of Bombers Rock Nation, Carry Ruin to Cities in  Rear of West Wall

3,000 Allied Planes Cross Channel for Raids on Germany   Frankfurt, Berlin, Stuttgart Still Flaming From Tuesday's Bombs

Clouds of Warplanes in Altack   Massive Fleets Blasting Germany in Most All Areas, Night and Day   SOME ATTACKING SIEGFRIED LINE   Factory Centers Seered and Blackened; Oi] Plants Are Singoled Out

Bombs Rained On Germany   10000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES CRASH DOWN ON SEERED REICH

SEARING BOMBING RAIDS BLAST GERMAN BULWARKS   Reich Warned to Be Prepared. For Attacks During Day and Night

Vast Air Armadas Rake Reich      More Than 10,000 Tons Of Bombs Dumped On Nation Give Point to  Ejisenhower’s Warning

ASSIVE FLEETS  OF AIR STRIKE   rankfurt And Stuttgart  Saturated, Berlin Heav. ily Hit   PLANES SHOT DOWN

Air Assaults Stepped Up as Yanks Advance   3000 American Planes Pour 5000 Tons of Explosives on Vital German Industrial Area

3,000 U. S. Planes Hit Rhineland   Three Armadas Converge Upon Doomed Germany.

0,000 Tons f Explosives  ar Germany   Frankfurt Hard Hit By Allies; Weather Clear

Allied Bombers Saturate Frankfurt  Mosquitos Plunge 2-Ton Bombs Into  Ceipees cree Pe 

Bombers Hit After Threat By Eisenhowe   Frankfort Blows Aimed to Smash Nazi Reinforcements Flow to Front

Tremendous - Aerial Blows - Stun Nazi Foe   Thousands of Bombers Range Reich Skies, Loose 10,000 ‘Tons

3. ,000. Allied Planes Blast. Vital Targets Within Reich   F rankfurt, “Stuttgart “And ‘Berlin Bombed

10,000 TONS FIRE, EXPLOSIVES CRASHED ON NAZI HOMELAND  HIGH AND LOW LEVEL AIR ATTACK ANY HOUR DAY AND NIGHT

10,000 TONS OF BOMBS HIT NAZI DEFENSE SOURCE   Industries Raided On Heels Of RAF Night ~Attack On Berlin

3000-Plane Raid — Follows Warning  By Eisenhower   Open Attack As Frankfort, Berlin; ~ Stuttgart Burn After Great RAF Blows

FRANKFURT HIT AS NAZI TROOPS MARCH THROUGH   For Sixth Successive Day Germany Is Hit By RAF And Eighth Air Force Heavy Bombers.

--Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfort Burning, New Air Armadas Over Germany Today

AIR FLEETS HIT TARGETS AFTER » IKE'S WARNING   Heart of Germany Hammered By U. S., British—50 Nazi Fighters Bagged

THOUSANDS OF BOMBERS OVER REICH REGIONS   Based in England, Ita'ty, France, They Carry Out Warning Sounded by Gen. Eisenhower   Re HOWARD COWAN

VER RERMIAN   3,000 Planes Converge on Reich From West and South Tedav.

10,060 TONS OF BOMBS HIT GERMAN CITIES   \Eisenhower Tells People To Prepare For High, Low Level Attacks

Terrifie Air Assault Today  Against Reich   Over 3000 -G-S-P-lawet Over Germany After  RAF Ahnost Wipes Out Frankfurt

10,000 TONS OF MISSILES RAIN DOWN   Massive Armadas Strike Reich From Three Directions

6,000 PLANES IN ATTACK ON REICH   BERLIN, FRANKFORTy: STUTTGART BURNING FROM HITS BY RAF

Tremendous Aerial Blows Stun Nazi Foe   Thousands of Bombers Range Reich Skies, Loose 10,000 Tons  vee,’ 8788?’ 2 Oe wau FF tee, A eT

10 Tons of Bombs Drop Every Minute   ‘Ike's’ Warning to Nazis Followed by Record Smash ot Installations

Allied Fliers Drop 10,000 Tons of  Bombs on Reich   Eisenhower Warns Reich of Mounting Attacks Designed to Crack Enemy Morale; Fifty Fighters Destroyed in Day’s Battles

6,000 Planes  Join in Raids   Attack on Germany Reaches Rate of 10 Tons a Minute

3,000 Planes durl Bombs On Germany   Yanks Strike While Reich Cities Still Burn From Night Blows

REICH AGAIN POUNDED BY RIG PLANES   Good Weather Makes Targets Perfect and Munitions Trains Are Ruined: Berlin Hit Again.

3.000 Planes Hit Targets In Germany   Pound Cities After Heavy Blows by RAF At Night

10,000 TONS OF BOMBS SLASH REICH AREAS   Germans Told To Prepare For Aerial Blows By Day And Night

Great Loads Of Bombs Hurled Down On Reich  Roar Out After U. S. V/s anene Daanl  f~ am mment   Roar Out After U. S. General Warns People To Prepare For Giant Aerial Operations

Allied Fliers Drop 10,000 Tons of Bombs On Germany   Thousands of Planes Follow Up Eisenhower's Warnina to Nazis

At Least 50 German. Planes hot Down by Fighters as. Air  itack Rears Into Another Dav

ALLIES ADVANG: IN 3 SECTORS ON {TALY FRONT   ROME, July 18.— -P'—Anserican troeps have captured Pontedera on the Arno Biver 12 miles east and slightly south of Pisa, it was arncunced tadty.

PONTEDERA IS TAKEN BY U. S.   Represents Advance O Three Miles Across Arno Valley

Out-Flank  Livorno —   Americans Take Pontedera, Northeast of Port, in 3-Mile Gain

rALLIES GAIN IN 3 ITALIAN AREAS   Allied Troops Within 20 Miles of Florence

LIVORNO BYPASSED   City Is Being Hemmed in by Advance to the Northeast

Allied Gains” In 3 Sectors  Are Menacing  German Ports   Florence Is Also Beins. Threatened

AMERICANS ARE NEAR MAIN PORT   Florence And Ancona Menaced; Polish Troops Gain

UNITED NATIONS SLOWLY HEM IN NAZIS IN ITALY   Allied Threat for Florence and Two Front Points Increased in Fierce North Italo Battles   RILTELPTIN

BRITISH CAPTURE WIRED BRIDGE; NAZIS SURPRISED   Germans Awaiting Word To Demolish Spar Bewildered By Seizure

Capture Pontedera on Arne River, 12 Miles East and South of Pisa.

Nazis Continue ltalian Retreat  Allied Troops Near Three Major Points

NAZIS MENACED NEAR FLORENCE BY AMERIGANS   Three Way Push Driving Enemy Into Trap

Three-Mile Gain In Northern Italy   Port of Livorno Being Outflanked

Pontederals Captured by 'US Troops   Allies in Italy Advance in Three Sectors; Bridge Captured Intact from German Engineers .

YANKS IN ITALY SLUGGING AHEAD   American Drive’ Threatens Germans in Florence

Pontedera  Captured by Yank Troops   Marks Advance of Three Miles Down Arno Valley by Gen. Clark

ALLIES GAIN IN ITALY ON 3 SECTORS   Americans Beat Back Stubborn Nazi Attacks

Allies Gain in 3 Italian Areas   Increase Menace to Germans in Port  Of Florence

PONTEDARA, SHORT DISTANCE FROM PISA, IS OCCUPIED   City Only. 12 Miles From Pisa “Qn Arno River Taken By ‘Yanks After *.Three - Mile Gain In Arno Valley :

ALLIES GAIN ON 3 FRONTS IN ITALY   ADVANCE STEADILY ON FLORENCE, PORTS OF ANCONA AND LIVORNO

ALLIED ADVANCES MENACE TO GERMAN RESISTANCE TODAY   Bridge Captured Intact From Bewildered Ger mane Near Florence

Yankee Troops. Win.Ponfedera   Vinh FP UIVUGEG  Americans Advance Three Miles to Take  f™*732., 19 hdAitlae al Diom

Allies Advance In Italy Drive   Ancona, Livorno Due To Fall in Yank Advance

Pontedera on  Arno Taken   Troops of General Clark in Advance Of Three Miles

Pontedera Falls as 5th Drives Aheac   Gen. Clark’s Doughboys Smash Three, Miles in Arno. ¥alley

FIFTH ARMY MAKES GAIN OF 3 MILES   Troops Take Pontedera, on Arno River 12 Miles East and Slightly South of Pisa—British Also  Advance.

Doughboys Take  Pontedera, British  Cross Arno River Allied Advances in Italy  increas Mawaca  fo a Liverss; Plareance and An

Dogged Advances AreMade In Three Sectors On Front Of Trans-Peninsular Italy

INDUSTRIAL CENTERS ARE U.S. TARGETS   Tokyo Reports “Fierce Air Duels” Above Clouds In Opposing Raiders.

80 Planes Are Reported Involved In Raids Today   YANKS PUSH AHEAD IN LEYTE BATTLES

Large Superfort Task Force Pounds Jap Home Islands, Hits Industrial Centers; Leyte Yanks Inch Forward

Tokyo Reports Nagasaki and Omura Targets   Southwest Pacific Command Fliers Hit At Many Nip Areas

Superfortresses Bomb Japanese Home Island   Task Force of Perhaps 80 in Action

Second Raid This Month Hits Island   Tokyo Reports Nagasaki And Omura Superfort Targets.

Nippon Home Isles Blasted By Superforts   Tokyo Reports 80 Giant Planes Strike Industry

Raid On Industrial Centers Second In Month; Tokyo Makes Usual Fantastic Claims Of Many Shot Down

\Fate of American Rangers Told Now After. 2 Cisterna ‘Lost Battalions’ Avenaec

@ THEY PUT UP A FIGHT  Fate of Two “Lost Battalions”’ of U.S. Rangers Revealed

Probe Starts in Crash Fatal to 24   Big Plane Exploded in Mid-Air, Witnesses Say

Crash Of Airplane Kills 24   Debris Of Wrecked Transport Plane Scattered Over Area Of One Mule.

Roosevelt Sets Policy of Giving Ex-Servicemen First Call on Jobs

PREFERENCE   Roosevelt Sets Policy  Giving Ex-Serviremen First Call en Jobs

SEARCH FOR FLIER   Lt. Edward Krafft Apparently Fell Thru Bomb Doors

Bomber Production Hit: Tool Grinders in Superfortress Plant in Chicago Quit Their Jobs

TOOL GRINDERS AT PLANT QUIT WORK   Men, Engaged in Work on B-29s, Walkout in Protest

CHRYSLER TOOL GRINDERS QUIT   Important Work Halted At) Super-Fortress Plant In Chicago

WMC Plans New Setup   Present Laws Adequate Directed at Labor Lack

Labor Ceilings Fixed by WMC In 180 Areas   Referral System Tightened To Boost Employment, Chank Tasnndse

McNutt Prepares To Extend Federal Control of Jobs   Manpower Office Plans Broader Use Of Existing Authority

Relatives, Friends of Executed Nazi Officers Also Slain, Is Report

NAZI CIVILIANS PUT TO DEATI   Relatives of. Plotting Officers Are Exceuted

Foe’ s Last Link Below Maas River Ts Naw Severed   LONDON, Oct. 30—-(/P}—Allied troops enterctt Resemtaal, last link in the German defense linc kelow the Maas, tenight,

Hitler Forces. Withdrawing fo Maas Crossings   Enemy Stand along Dutch Coast Has Disintegrated

Nazi Troops Are Rolled Back tothe Maas River   Russians Cut Last Rail Escape For Nazis Out of NEast Hunearv

Allied Forces Push Retreating Enemy To Blocked Reads   British, Canadian Units Only Mile From Last Barrier To Antwerp; Single Bastion Aids Withdrawal

GERMANS ROLLED BACK FROM COAST COUNTRY POSITIONS  STAND OF HITLER FORCE IN HOLLAND CLAIMED NICINTECD ATING

Huns Spring Counterdrive  on East End   Soviets Capture Csap: Nazis Report . New Red. Drive Along: Baltic .Sea’:

Americans, British Join Forces In Belgium Near Luxembourg Border; Patton Battles Foe in Moselle Area —   French Nearing Belfort Gap In Bitter Fight With Nazis

155-mm.R ifles Are Used to Shoot Shells Into Reich   Barrage Is Opener for General Asscult Against Hitler’s Homeland: Twin Columns Advancing Alona 100-Mile Frant

LONDON {U.R}—The German DNB news agency reports that Nazi positions have been withdrawn to the fringe of the city of Mogilev in White Russia.

Nazis Face New Losses To Reds  Last Big Strongholds   Last Big Strongholds On ‘Fatherland Line’ Attacked By Soviets

Says Loss Of Honan Province, China, Due To Lack Of Heavy Artillery’

Three Enemy Destroyers  Sunk by Yanks   Remaining Vessels Flee After Being Damaged

Jap Warships _ Shell Mindoro; Tokyo Raidec   Americans Repulse Naval Attack Or Island Sinking 3 Jap Destroyers; Superforts Hit Tokyo

Japanese Attack On Mindoro  Repelled; Three Ships Sunk   Planes and PT Boats Rout Nipponese Warships — Clark Field, Near Manila, Bombed for Fifth Consecutive Day

Jap Warships Shell Yanks  On Mindoro  3 Destroyers Sunk, © Battleship, Cruiser TN ? a a Te a.

Mindoro Raid Costs Nippon 3 Destroyers   MacArthur Planes, PT"s, Score Hits on Japanese Rattla! i, nee on

hree Japanese Destroyers Sunk fn Naval Action   Mindoro Island Shelled by Enemy

3 JAP WARSHIPS REPORTED SUNK OFF OF MINDORO   Battleship And Cruiser Flee After Suffer i aia cae   ENEMY NAVAL FORCE BOMBARDED ISLAND

SINK 3 ENEMY * DESTROERS   Battleship, Cruiser and ' 3 Other Nipponese Warships Flee

MONTGOMERY WARD OFFICIALS CALLEI   War Labor Board Secks To Determine Why Directives Have Been Ignored By Firm

ion- Wide e Threat  Empolyes Head   Empolyes Head wile, Enforcement LB Directives

HINTS AT MORE WARD WALKOUTS   UNION HEAD RAISES THREAT AS WLB CALLS HEARING ON DETROIT STRIKES.

NEW DEAL REVOL TTIREATENS STATE APPOINTMENTS   Senate May Be Ferced to Eeject Some Top Ranking Appointees

NEW DEAL REVOLT STUNS SENATE   Trouble Stems From State Department Appointments

SENATE VOTES. 37° T6217 TO SEND STATE DEPARTMENT NAMES BACK To COM. MITTEE

New Deal Revolt in Senate Perils * FDR Choices for State Departmen!

Dewey Slates Talk In Pitt  GOP Candidate To B« In St. Louis Monday

Dewey Arranges Address for Pittsburgh  G. O. P. Candidate  Speaks in St. Louis Monday

DEWEY GOING ON ROAD AGAI   Speaks At St. Louis On Monday, Pittsburgh Night Of Oct. 20

Dewey Talks In Pittsburgh October 20   Carries Campaign To Doubtful States; In St. Louis Monday

Yanks Repulse Counter attack AgainstAachen   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses in Third Attempt To Regain City Within 48 Hours

Nazis Show Convulsive Feérocity   Yanks Repel Third Major Counter-Blow Within 24 Hours

Presidential  Nominations  Are Discussed GOP Convention In Chicago In June  Taw Pelvuce Vt women nn ccd ned

SHORT CAMPAIGN EFFORTS HAVE BEEN ABANDONEL   SIGNS NOW POINT TO JUNE AND JULY PARTY CONVENTIONS

Plan For Late Conventions Is  Now Dropped      GOP Session In June Will Be - Followed In July With Democratic Meet ©

Party Chieftains Abandon Plans to ‘ave Brief Presidential Campaigns

Soldier Vote Alters Plans   Political Parties Give Up Short Campaign Idea to Allow Time For Absentee Balloting

Short Campaign Pian Abandoned By Party Heads   Early Selection Of Candidates {s Now Agreed Upon

Plans for Shorter Political Campaign Dropped by Chiefs   GOP Convention in June With Democrats Meeting in July Likely

Action Points To June Nominations   Abandon Attempts To Reach Agreement On Shortening The Political Campaign. —

‘Democrats. and Republi.  cans Believed to Have: -_ Abandoned Plans: for Brief ‘Electionecring .   CHICAGO PROBABLY CONVENTION: SITE   Willkie - ‘Agreement to Windy. City. Surprise; Democrats to. Name—  Candidate in July .

MAXEY-WILKINS WED SATURDAY   Well Known Struble Couple Take Marriage  Vawse

Poles Still Divided Over General “Bor’   Called a Traitor by Moscow's Committee  Of Liberation

Withdraw Troops at Ward Plant   No Longer Needed Be cause of Injunction, Says  Operator Taylor

ORDERS TROOPS TO WITHDRAW FROM WARD'S   Atmosphere at Plant Calm

WARD CASE HEARING BEFORE NLRB TODAY   Congressmen Clamoring For Investigation of Case.

SENATE PASSES VOTE MEASURE   Michigan Soldier Batlot Bil Hailed As Unequaled in Any State.

Senate Passes 2-Way Soldier War Vote Bill      Hailed as Unequaled in Any State; Can Be Used’ with or without Federal Law

World Peace Stand Asked Of Democrats   Legion Calls For Plank Assuring U.S. Participation In Plan

Joseph The Provider, First Book of the Month Story To Run In Laredo Times

Reds and Finns Again At Peace Sion Armistice   Conferences Held During Past 5 Days; Terms Not Revealed

ALLIES REGAIN ANZIO GROUND   Hand-to-Hand Fight North of Cassino

DISORGANIZED FINNS RETREAT TO HELSINK   1-Day Campaign Through: Karelian Isthmus Breaks  Bottleneck 

REDS PURSUE RETREATING FINLANDERS   Virtual Rout Follows Fall Of Viipuri

Soviets Hotly Pursue Wildly  Fleeing Finns   Red Columns Are Pushing Forward Revond Viinuri

ON TO CAPITAL OF FINLAND 1S RUSSIAN PLAN   Capture of Viipuri Opens Way to Clearing of Whole of Karelian Peninsula of Fighting Finns. —

Soviet Army Strikes Past Fallen Viipuri   Disorganized Finnish Columns Retreat Toward Helsinki Under Hail Of Fire.

FINNS FLEE WEST FROM VIIPURI   Routed Troops Pursued Toward Capital, Helsinki

Viipuri Falls, Finns Retreating  ‘Toward Helsinki   Triumphant Russian Troops Strike Out From Captured City

Soviet Forces Push Beyond Fallen Viipuri   Marshal Mannerheim Reported Moving For Peace

Every Play Criticized In Hull’s Game   You Can’t Make An Open Book Of Foreign Policy During Wartime

246 AXIS OFFICERS CAPTURED BY REDS IN CRIMEA DRIVE   Captured Officers Say litler Had Ordered Peninsula Held at All Costs

Reveal Hitler Ordered Crimea Held For Fear Turkey Might Go Into War

One Of 246 Nazi Officers Seized Says Hitler Ordered Crimea Held For Fear Turkey Would Join Allies

Hitler Ordered Crimea Held   Feared Fall Might Help Plunge Turkey Into War

Hitler Feared Crimean Fall Might Bring Turkey Into War  Ordervad Commanders To Hald On (i AT   Ordered Commanders ‘To Hold On At All Costs And Promised Big Reinforcements

Attcngt Being. \Made To Split  iEnemy Garrison   Germans Said Blasting Ammunition Dumps, Firing Railway Yards

Aim to Split Nazi Garrison in Besieged City   Clean-up Process on West Bank May Be Lengthy

Soviet Tanks, ‘Infantry Attempting to’ Split Budapest. Gar rison. .

All Of Pest Now Is Held By Russians   Germans Fight For Every House In Flaming Capital.

Red Tanks, Infantry Reach Flaming Buda   All Of Pest In Russian Hands° Nazis Fight For Burda

WEST HALF OF BUDAPEST IN FLAMES   Russ Tanks and Infantry Seek to Split Nazi Garrison

RUSSIANS SLASH INTO CENTER OF BUDA, ON WESTER} BANK OF DANUBE   Hungarian Capital Reported In Flames

———oeEeEeEeEeEOEOEOEOEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eee SE  Russian Tanks, Infantry Stab Into Heart of Western Budapest

REDS IN BUDA DRIVE 10 CUT NAZI FORGES   Germans Blowing Up Munitions Dumps,  Railway Yards

RUSS TANKS STAB INTO BUDAPEST   Seek to Split Encircled Axis Garrison

Russians Smash — At Buda   Attempt Being Made to Split German Forces   Battle to Take Hungarian Capital Te Tika Gtalinorad

[REDS STAB INTO BUDAPEST TO SPLIT NAZI LINES   Germans Blow Up Buildings In Capital As They Give Ground

GREAT AIR FLEET BLASTS GERMANS   ENEMY’S HOME AND FIGHT. ING FRONTS POUNDED RELENTLESSLY BY ALLIES.

INDUSTRIES AND DEFENSES ARE BLASTED   Air Fleets of 3,500 Planes Hammer ‘Targets in Southern France and Brest As Well As in Germany.

BOMBERS BLAST INVASION PATH   Yanks and British Smash Nazi Home, Fighting Front   PRIME TARGETS HIT   Bombers Punch Holes in Ger. man Ranks in Direct Support of Allied Drives

3,900 PLANES SHATTER NAZI WAR PLANTS   U.S. And British Bombers Lash Industrial Targets In Brest And South ern France

3,000 PLANES HIT AT NAZIS   Pound Industrial Targets Blast Foe Troops in Battle in France

Farmers’ Night  Classes Planned Again This Year   Program Outlined, Committees Selected For Sessions

Farmers’ Night Classes Planned Again This Year  Program Outlined,  Canerwetibnnn C..Y. 1.

DARING PILOTS SAVE BOMBERS   Crystal ‘Falls Aviator Cited For Gallant Action In Combat

BATTLE FRONT SOON TO BE ON GERMAN SOIL   Berlin Preparing Public for Bad News as _ Soviet Drive Pushes West.   Near Nazi Border.

REDS ON MARCH IN COORDINATED TREK TO GERMANY   Soviet Column South of Latvian Front Reach 1939 Border of East Prussia

Shot Fired from Crewd as De Gaulle Enters Paris Cathedral; Misses Him

No End In Sight To Red Offensives   Open Still Another One in the Dnieper River Bend.

Soviets Attacking Near Belaya Tserkov; Nazis Retreat Below Leninarell

New Soviet Push In Dnieper Bend   Berlin Breaks News Of Fierce Fighting Near Belaya Tserkov

Enemy Losses Believed About 15,000 Men   Allied Spokesman Says Garrisons in Europe Weakened

Italian Fighting  In New Lull While Germans Prepare For Third Assault

NAZI CASUALTIES IN ANZIO BATTLE PLACED AT 15.000   Enemy Garrisons in France and Yugoslavia Reported ' Weakened to Meet Threat to Rome.   NO FIGURES ISSUED *. ON LOSSES OF ALLIES   Spokesman Says Germans, Having Been Beaten Back, Are Massing Troops for New Offensive.

Regrouping For New Iry   Firm Stand of Allies Throws Kesselring’s Fians Awry, Costs 15,000 Men

NAZI LOSSES BELOW ROME NEAR 15,000   PLANS UPSET, AXIS ARMIES FORCED TO REGROUP

Nazis Suffer Casualties Af Anzio Reaion   Ten German Divisions Are Thrown On Defense In The Battle Area

‘Nazi Toll At ‘Anzio Heavy   AS, 000 Casualties Suffered Sirice Landing January 22 -

15,000 Enemy Casualties in Anzio Battle   Nazi Program to Relieve Troops for ‘Invasion Coast’ Disrupted   SAVAGE AIR FIGHTS   Kesselring’s. Forces Fail to Dent Anzio Defenses South of Carroceto

Anzio Assaults Cost Germans 15,000 Soldiers   Regrouping Nazis On Defensive Along Beachhead

To Plan Meetings on Rail Wages  3-Man Board Expected te Start Nevt Week

Railway Board To Meet Today  Serene   Will Investigate Union Claims

OUTPUT REVEALEI   Superfortress Pr Production 1s Still Lagging, Krug Nierlocac

NOW LESS THAN 3 MILES FROM NAZI BASE CITY   British Advance With New Attacks in S. E. Corner of Holland

IRVIN COBB DIES IN NEW YOR}   Asks That -Tree Be Planted in His Memory

Bomber Gunners Fire Fewer Shots   Fighter Escorts See Most Action

DAY ASSAULTS FOLLOW NIGHT R.A.F. RAIDS   German Radio Tells of Big Air Attacks in South and West and Border City of Muhlhausen   BASES AND RAIL YARDS

12,000 British Miners Strike  Coal Production Is Seriously Affected

ENGLISH COAL MINERS STRIKE   British Ministry Takes Drastic Steps To  End Walkout

12,000 Coal Miners of Britain Strike   Thousands of Other Pitmen Slow.Down Work

Drastic Action To End British  Mine Slowdown   Miners Shifted To Other Jobs, Places Filled By Others.

NAZIS. HIT BACK NORTH OF METZ   6th Armored Division Pushes Beyond Buchy   FORTRESS THREATEN=D   Patton's Fifth Infantry Seis. es Louvigny, Nine Miles South of Metz

Scores Gains Toward Saar Basin Sector   Headquarters Reveais Major Offensive !s Underway in the Area

Sixth Armored Division Pushes Forward Five _ Miles   COUNTER-THRUSTS OF NAZIS SMASHED   Saarbrucken’s Rail Yards Under Aerial At-.  tack ,

Yank Forces Push To Within 20 Miles Of Saar Basin For Gain Of Eight Miles

75-Mile Front Is Active in Latest Drive   Two Counterattacks by Germans Are Stopped by Americans

Yanks [Lhreaten to Encircle Metz Fortress   Major Attacks Are Spearheaded by Veterans Who Lead the Big Breakthrough at St. Lo in France

Paiton 21 Miles From Saar Basin   Germans Hit Back In First Attacks Since Push Began

Metz Battle Blazes Over 75-Mile Front   ‘U.S. Spearheads Curve Around * Fortress City   ‘Nazi Counter-Attacks Broken and Yanks Roll On Toward Germany's Saar‘ Rac’,

AMERICANS 21 MILES FROM SAAR BASIN   Encirclement of Great Fortress of Metz Threatened—All Parts of 75Mile Front Ablaze.   2 COUNTER-ATTACKS: ARE BEATEN BACK   T hrust Spearheaded by, the Veterans of French - Break- Through — Air. men Bomb Saarbrucken.

Tanks, Infantry In Tough Action In Metz Sector   Nazis Hit Back in Two Places

Workers Idle Over Britain   Strikers Total 100,000 As Miners. War Plant Em-. ployes Stay Off Jobs. 

100,000 Out In Strikes Over Britain   Labor Minister Bevins Trying to Hal: Wildcat Walkouts

British Are Plagued By 100,000 Strikers In Mines, Shipyards   War Effort Towards Approaching Date Of Invasion Said To Be Greatly Hindered

CRASH INJURY KILLS SOLDIER   Willard Eblin of Melrose Victim; Car Hits Span Near Oakwood

FINNS SLOWLY DRIVING NAZIS OUT OF NORTE   Soviet Armistice Commissioners in Helsinki, Finns Fearful of Terms In Practice,

Finns Gain In  Drive to Oust. Nazi Troops   Battle to Fulfill Armistice Terms Greeted With Mingled Hope, Fear .

U. S. to Stand  Pat on Views   Favor Full Freedom Of Political Action For People of Greece

STETTINIUS PUTS U. 8. ON RECORD FOR COMPLETE FREEDOM   REFRAINS, HOWEVER, FROM ENDORSING USE OF BRITISH TROOPS GREECE

Policy Stated By Stettinius   Secretary of State Silent on Use of Troops in Athens

Fighting in Greece Spreads to Thrace; ~ Civil War Possible   British Plas; Artillery Used to Clear ELAS - Strongholds

VIEW 1S VOICED IN STATEMENT IBY STETTINIUS   Refrains From Indorsing Churchill Use of Army Against Communists

Says U.S. Wants Greece To Form Own Government   Secretary Avoids Mention Of Churchill Talk On ‘Use Of British Troops

Criticism Ovei British Foreign Policy Swell:   Threatens to Farce Open Challenge of Churchill's Stand On Lialy-Greece Intervention

U. S. Supports Greek Right To Pick Own Govt.   " Full Freedom Of Political Action For People Of Europe Indorsed.

Anglo-American Rift Over Greek Crisis Widens   Stettinius Hits English Policy As Voiced By Anthony Eden

Stettinius Mum On British Use Of Army Troops   Refrains From Endorsing Churchill’s Stand on Force

Steltinius for _ Leiting Greek People Decide   Tells’. Stand. as ° “British: Charge Into Elas Forces: in’ Athens   FIGHTING ALSO SPREADS TO. THRACE   Greek Premier Declares the Opposition Is’. Plunging .~ Nation: Inte Civil War. =

U. 5. DESIRES FREE GREECE   Freedom of Political Ac tion Is Urged By Stettinius

Sfettinius Speaks Again   Puts U. S. On Record Favoring Complete Freedom of Political Action For Greece

U. S. Demands Free Action in  Greek Politics   Meanwhile, British Battle EAM Units fri House - To House in Athens

STETTINUS WANTS GREECE 10 ORGANIZE OWN GOVERNMENT   Secretary of State Affirms Previous U. S. Policy Toward Liberated Nations

STETTINIUS PUTS U. 8. ON RECORD FOR COMPLETE FREEDOM  ‘REFRAINS, HOWEVER, . - FROM ENDORSING USE 0! PRITICN TRANDPS CeEECE

State Department Stands for Greek Freedom of Action   Stettinius’ Statement Makes U.S. Policy Clear; Agrees.in  Part with Churchill

STETTINIUS PUTS U. S. ON RECORD FOR FREE PEOPLE   FAVORS DECLARATION THAT GREEKS SHOULD DECIDE ON OWN GOV'T

FREE ACTION IN GREECE FAVORED   Stettinius’ ‘Statement Puts United States On Record

U. §. Supports Full Freedom In Greek Politics  Re ee k,n   RAF Planes, Artiller Attacking Leftists; Athens Area Being Cleared Bv Force

Tulsa Demos Vote (ity Salaries   And Do It When Repubilicans Coming Into Office

House Group Rejects Federal “War Ballot   Approves, 7 to 5, Bill Leaving to States Job Of Arranging Voting

War Ballot Beaten. in Committee   HOUSE GROUP AGREES WITH S*#NATE STATE LAWS SHOULD GOVERN VOTING IN NOVEMBER’S ELECTION.   lack for Floor Fight

Soldier Voting Bill Defeated   Sent to States For Second Time   Floor Fight Looms

COMPROMISE ISSOUGHT ON SOLDIER VOTE   House Committee Votes to Put Problem Up to States   CHANCE OF FEDERAL BALLOT IS SLIGHT   Fight Will be Carried to Floor, Backers Declara

Committee Approves, 7 to 5, Measure to Leave Voting Plan to States—Floor Fight Promised in Effort to Overturn Decision When Bill Comes Up Next Week—Move Under Way for Compromise Acceptable to Both Sides.

Federal Ballot lan Rejected By House Group   ‘Committee Favors State. Plan? New. © Move: Is Launcked -

House Elections Committee Votes to Leave Soldier Voting to States

Soldier: Ballot Plan Rejected   House Group Votes It Is State Affair

LEGION NAMES SCHEIBERLING TO TOP POST   Favors U. S. Part in Worldwide Force  For Peace

Legion Backs Plan For World Peace   Closing Session Names New National Leader

ELECTIONS IN 3 STATES TODAY   Predictions Are That Lewis Will Oppose FDR’s Candidacy,

Reds Strike At East Prussia   Meet Heavy Opposition; Russians Make Sweeping Advances in Balkans

Russ Take Ostroleka   Strongpoint on Narew River Northeast of Warsaw Falls in Drive

Bulgars Plead for Terms Soon After Reds Declare War   Nazi Radio Says Soviets Have Entered Balkan Land

REDS SLASH ON IN HEAVY FIGHT NE. OF WARSAW   Narew River Base of Ostroleka Captured, Marshal Stalin Says

Reds Near Yugoslav Frontier   Also Striking Toward East Prussia on Broad Front Against Heavy Opposition   FAST CLOSING ON BALKAN HUBS   Red Drive Is Gathering Momentum in Push Toward Hungary

Nazis Make Death Stand At Warsaw      Russians Meet Bitter Op. position In East Prussia Drive

Reds Open Up  On E. Prussia   xK * «* ¥ Balgaria Will Be Out Soon

Reds Renew Drive - -On East Prussie   Troops Cross Narew River North of Warsaw And ‘Strike Toward Junker-Land on Broad  Front Against Heavy Nazi Opposition:

Red Troops Push  Across the Narew   Russians Move Toward East Prussia Against Strong — ition    PLANES PACE ATTACK   Report Nazis Offering Resistance in the Mountain Passes

RUSSIANS CROSSED NAREW RIVER TOWARD EAST PRUSSIA LINE   . IN SOUTH RED ARMIES DRIVE TOWARD JUNCTION WITH TITO’S PARTISANS

Heavy German Opposition Encountered   Strike Toward East Prussia On Broad Front

NAZI-HELD CITY FALLS 10 REDS   Fortress Town of Ostroleka Taken After Soviets Cross Narew River

Reds Aiming For Junction  With Tito   Russian Columns Less Than 50 Miles from Yugoslavia; Soviets Strike Toward East  Prussia on Broad Front j

Soviets Cross Narew River Above Warsaw   Strike Toward East Prussia Against Heavy Opposition

Russ Capture City Guarding East Prussia   Reds Cross Narew In Big Offensive; Tito Junction Neor

REDS CAPTURE PRAGA IN STIFF BATTLE FOR CAPITAL OF POLAND   STEADY ADVANCES MARK PROGRESS OF REDS IN CONDUCT OF THREE BATTLEFRONTS

Reds Gain In Polish Offensive   Smash Toward East Prussia on Wide Front; Early Junction with Tite Now a Certainty

THE  WAR TODAY   German Evacuation Of Odessa Represents Far-Reaching Moseovite Victory;Huas In Crimea Doomed

Biggest Day Raid Blasts  Continent  1500 Fortresses Blast Nazi Targets From  cet: ae: ene ees:

Over 1,500 American Bombers Raid Targets Behind Invasion Territory   Hit Oi Refineries

HUGE AIR ARMADA HITS FRENCH AREA   1500 Fortresses, Marauders Cross  Channel Today

1,000 BOMBERS LAUNCH GREAT AIR OPERATIONS   Allies Attempt To Curb Flow Of Nazi Reserves To Normandy

1 SOOU.S. aeers fin Raid   Surply Lines of Exemy Is Smashed Py Huge Airmada

HUGE AERIAL FLEET BACKS UP INVADERS   Enemy Installations In France, Belgium and Germany Blasted, Burned.   BULLETIN

Air Assault Is Greatest Ot Invasion   Targets Hammered From Paris Suburbs To Western Germany

Enemy Targets Blasted From © Paris To Germany   Greatest Daylight Bombing Assault Hurled At Continent

842 JAP-PLANES LOST «-SINCE RABAUL BATTLE? ' REGAN TAST NEC 17 tb

NORWAY CITIZENS SENT T0 GERMANY   NAZIS ROUND UP THOUSANDS TO BE HELD AS HOSTAGES

NORWEGIANS BEING TAKEN AS HOSTAGES   Country’s Ambassador Tells Of Action at Relief Conference.

Report Thousands of Norway's Most Prominent Citizens Held as Hostage:

Japs Admit U.S. Landings OnLeyte   Emperor Warns People of Pressing Situation

Leaders in 22 States Join  “Draft Dewey” Movement   Prediction Is Made Other State Party Chiefs Will “Join Up” When They Get To Chicago; Bricker Won't Withdraw

GOP LEADERS ARE READY 10 DRAFT DEWEY      Gov. Bricker Says He Is in Presidential Race to the Finish

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Says More To Be For Dew ey   Sprague Claims Draft Move Gets Added Support

DEWEY BACKED IN 22 STATES   Bricker Of Ohio Says He Is In The Race To Stay

‘SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS   Events In Society’s Realm— Visitors In and Out of Town.

60,000 Jap Troops Were Trapped In Isolated —  Area  JAPS GIVING UP TO OUR PATROLS  Commander Of Jay Fleet Killed In Action

Humboldt Area Control Extended By U.S. Troops   60,000 Japs Trapped In Isolated Sector, Say Front Dispatches

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE ON NEW GUINEA   Make Two New Landings, Meet Slight Opposition

AMERICANS SEIZE NEW TERRITORY   60,000 Enemy Troops Believed Caught In U.S. Trap

ENDANGER AP ESCAPE ROUTES   Enemy Opposition ts Light; 60,000 Nips Are Believed Trapped

New Landings Trap Foe In  New Guinea   60,000 Japs Isolated As Allies Close In From Two Sides

U.S. Control in Humboldt Area Is Extended   New Landings on New Guinea Coast Are Reported

U, $. CUTS JAP ESCAPE ROUTES IN COAST AREF   Two New Landings Made In Dutch N. Guinea Tighten Trap

American Soldiers Take Over Two New Landings on Dutch New Guinca Coast — Mopping Un Operations Being Continued.

F.D.R. FACES A VARIETY OF PROBLEMS      Speculation As to Changes. In Cabinet

President to Return to White House Tomorrow   Many Problems Face Him in Fourth Term

ROOSEVELT TURNS ATTENTION AGAIN TO WAR PROBLEMS   Chief Is Slated  For Conferences

Dewey Pins Faith  On Governors   Nominee Sights End Of Unsolved Problems

FDR Will Ignore 4th Term Dratt   He May Not Even Send a Greeting to Democratic National Committee.

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates' World News Today.   Resolution Approved.

FDR Likely . Will Ignore Draft Move   He May Not. Even. Send. Of. ficial Message to: Party: Committee: Mcet   4TH TERM CALL © ...» GROWS LOUDER   More Joining Chorus as Del_ egates 4 Arrive for Big ‘Ses: sion: Tomorrow:

British Counter-Attack In Hills Overlooking The Imphal Plain In India   Russians Close In On 50,000 Nazis Trapped On Black Sea

Jap Pressure Heavy In India   British Imperial Forces Improve Positions In One Sector Of Front  TARO INMYDFNTT.

Methods ‘Are Not Disclosed By Churchill   Prime Minister Says That British Are Accountable To United States

YEAR'S LIQUOR IS EXPECTED IN MONTH   a  Distiller’s Holiday Starts on August 1

WILL SHORTEN WAR, IS CLAIM      Party Leaders at Chicago Hear Address By Halleck

Halleck Sees Shorter War I GOP Elected   Time Here to Change Horses, Indianan Says: Committee to Meet

Republican President ll Shorten War   REPRESENTATIVE HALLECK SAYS MEN AT FRONT WILL HAVE HOME FRONT SUPPORT THEY LACK.   Anent Swapping Horses

Shortened War Pledge Offered By Republicans   GUP National Committee Meets, °44. Keynoter  kT wre. cia)

Election Of Republican Will Shorten War, Halleck States   Congressman ‘Declares GOP Victory Will Guarantee Home Front Support for Military Leaders— National Committee Meets {cday

GOP favors changing to  ‘new horse’   ‘Leaders deciding convention city

Shorter War If GOP Wins  Election, Leader Declares   Would Guarantee America’s Military Leaders HomeFront Support They Have  Never Had Before, Halleck Says

Sees Short War If G. 0. P. Wins   Indiana Republican Talks at Party Meet

On Changing of Horses: Swap This Year and Help Shorten  War, Suggests Rep. C. A. Halleck

REPUBLICANS TOLD NEW BEAL DEFEAT WILL SHORTEN WAR   Representative Halleck Sees Home Front Support for Military Leaders if Republicans Win.   3PEAKS TO CHIEFTAINS GATHERED IN CHICAGO   Committee to Meet Today to Select Time and Place for Party’s National Convention.

Halleck Urges End of New Deal To Shorten War   Republicans Warm Up For Big Chicago Meeting To Select Convention Site

REPUBLICANS T0 DESIGNATE CITY FOR CONVENTION   Futility Of Roosevelt Administration Stressed At Chicago Meeting   KEEN RIVALRY FOR DUTY AS KEYNOTER

GOP, at National: Conference, Asks ~-NewDeal Ouster   Congressman Promises - Shorter Waar If. Party Wins ~

GOP Victory Will Speec End of War, Party Told   Conference Speaker Says Shift of Power Will Guarantee Military Leaders Vast Increase of Support on Home Front

Sight New  Invasion in  Philippines U. S. Plans Powerful  Moves Against Japs; Sea Losses Reported

EXPECTING NEW INVASION SOON ON PHILIPPINES  Ton ra TA LHe ae   Japanese Naval  Men Amazed At Great Loss

New Invasions of ~ Philippines Soon  Seem Probability   Navy Summary of ‘‘Decisive” Battle Lead to Expectations

New Invasion of Philippines Likely Soon   Navy's Summary of the Recent Great’ Sea Victory Suggests Further Actions

New Invasion Moves Are Anticipated In Philippine Area  Recent Triumph Said To Be One of Greatest in History

NEW INVASIONS IN PHILIPPINES ‘SEEN PROBABLE      Latest: Reports On Naval Triumph Ava-Given   SCORE ‘MOUNTS   Sea Victory May Be Gr eatest of Modern  Times

New Invasions Of Philippines A Probability   Ultimate Conquesi Made Easier by Great Naval Victory; Lan‘t Stop Yanks

Says New Landings Probable   Victory i in Big Naval Battle: of Philippines Paves ‘Way for Invasion of Jap-Held Isles

NEW INVASION OF PHILIPPINES SEEN PROBABLE   New Seaborne Landings  Would Cut Jap Em pire In Half

Great Victory Over Jap Naval Force Revealed   Recapture Of Bases On Luzon Said To Be Next In Line

New Landings In Philippine Loom As Navy Cites Value Of ‘Decisive’ Sea Victory

NEW INVASIONS CEM PROBABLE   Navy Summary Indicates Possible Landings North Of Philippines.   'LUZON ISLAND IS KEY

NAZIS STIFFEN STAND IN ITALY   Counterattack at Every Op portunity in Desperate Detense of Florence.

ALLIES CHECKED NEAR FLORENCE   Eighth Army-Held at Bay in Hills.

GERMAN LOSSES IN ITALY MOUNT IN FINAL STAND   Nazis Say Leaning Tower Of Pisa Being Shelled By Allied Guns

8TH ARMY HELD NEAR FLORENCE   Americans Not Beyond Southern Limits of Pisa

ALLIES SOUTH OF FLORENCE SLOWED BY NAZI ATTACKS   At a Ccst Not Worthwhile German Tanks, Troops Hold Eighth Army at Bay in Hills South of Florence

CHECK BRITISH NEAR FLORENCE   Americans, Nazis Exchange Fire Across Arno

GERMAN FORCES IN ITALY HOLD   Counterattack At Every Opportunity But Pay Heavy Price   FIRE ACROSS RIVER

Counier-Attacks At Florence Cost  Germans Heavily  British Eighth Held at Bay in Hills Southwest of City, Yanks Suil Skell Pisa

COUNTERATTACKING GERMANS HELD EIGHTH ARMY NEAR FLORENCE  COST TO ENEMY NOT LIKELY TO PROVE WORTH.

Kighth Army At Standstill   Nazis Counterattack At Every Opportunity; Hold British At Bay.

Nazis Hold Off 8th Army  Near Florence   Enemy Losses Heavy; Big Guns Continue to Duel Across Arno River; Poles Fichtine in Senigallia

NAZIS DEFEND FLORENCE BUT COST IS GREAT   Germans Report Leaning Tower  Under Fire

BITTER FIGHTING NEAR FLORENCE iN COUNTERATTACKS   America’s Fifth and Germans Trade Fire Across  Arno Rier

Paying Dearly  For Florence   Germans Taking Heavy Losses in Italy

NAZIS HIT BACK NEAR FLORENCE   Enemy Pays Heavy Cost In Men For Stiffer Defense

'Counter-Attacking Germans Hold 8th Army At Bay; Yanks, Nazis Trade Artillery Blows   Enemy Paying High Cost In Seeking To Push Allies Back From Florence

MAKE A STAND AT FLORENCE   Move to Appease Hitle1 Seen — Enemy, Mean: while, Holds British a Bay .Five to Seven Miles From City.

Nazi Forces Open Counterattack At Extreme Cost  Allies Lash Germans Heavily as Fight For Florence Rages

Fight Fiercely fo Hold Florence  Germans Suffering Appaling Losses

Heavy Cruisers,  Carrier Launched   50,000 Attend Triple Christening Ceremony

INCREASE IS ENCOURACING   Thirty Percent Increase For November in Num ber of B-29 Superforts.

Rumors Circalat King Emanuele Will Abdicate   Reported to Leave Throne Of Italy In Fayor Of Crown Prince Umberto.

Say Italy’s King May Abdicate    Rumor Widespread in  Southern Italy; Would  Do Much to Unify Sup_port Behind Badoglio

ING VICTOR 10 ABDICATE, ALIANS SAY   Allied-Held Territors fs That Emmanuel Will ‘umn Throne Over ta *rince Umberto.  ¥ Widely Circulatec

King to Quit, Say Rumors   Southern Italy Hears That Emanuele About to Abdicate

Abdication Would Remove Obstacle t Democratizing Badoglio Regime

REPORT ITALIAN ~ RULER TO QUI   Unconfirmed Rumors Say Vittorio-Emanuele Will Abdicate

REPORT ITALIAN KING TO QUIT   Vittorio Emanuele Said To Be  Stepping Out in Favor { of Crown Prince.

Italian King May Abdicate For His Son   Rumor in Southern Italy Is Not Confirmed

Stettinius Meets British Leaders   Discuss Diplomacy Of Coming Invasion

STETTINIUS ARRIVES INLONDON 7   Says Efforts to Cause Distrust Among Allies Failed

Says Axis Effort Signal Failure —   U.S. Undersecretary  Arrives In London.

Franco s Troops Cut Off Rebels   Capture of Village Closes Escape Route Of Maquisard Faction

Jap Airmen Fail  To Oppose Raid  On Luzon Island Nimitz Raises Total

NIMITZ EXPANDS NAVAL SUCCESSES   140 Jap Ships Sunk, More Than 50 Planes Are Destroyed By American Raiders

LONERGAN REJECTS PROSECUTION OFFEE   Former Canadian Air Foree Cadct Declines To Plead Guilty To Second Deetee Murder

MORE U. S. SHIPS FREED FOR WAR IN THE FAR PACIFIC   Relieved of Submarine Patrol in South Atlantic by Brazil.

NEW RUN OF HOGS TO BEAT PRICE GUT JAMS STOCKYARDS   Columbus Packers Declare 24-hour Moratorium

Montana Threatened With Collapse  ‘of Trucking System   OPA Examiner From Denver Points Out Danger io Transportation Unless Owners Stov Abuses in Use of Rubber

Montana l‘hreatened With Collapse of Trucking System  PU SOL ll See, ii ie Me i ee aie   OPA Examiner From Denver Points Out Danger to Transportation Unless Owners Stop Abuses in Use of Rubber

Allied Bombing Has Cost Nazis 3,000 Aircraft   Damage To Plants Reflect: ed By Fact German Fighter Oppositiow Halved

INVISIBLE: DAMAGE CAUSES SLACKENED NAZI RESISTANCE   London Believes Allied Bombing of Plane Production Plants Is Yielding Tangible Dividends

Think Nazi Air Strength Cut   Believe Bombing in 5 Months Cost Germans 5,000 Planes

Nazi Plane Production Weakened By Bombings   Increase In Front Line Strength Is Called ‘Window  Wrocsconc

GERMANS STRIP AIR RESERVES   Nazis’ Believed: Hard Put Yo Keep Up Appearance of Good Defense.

Allied Aerial Might Strikes   Robot Bomb Expérimental Stations Hit, Battlefront Scourged.

PLANES AT TAGK BOMB STATIONS   1,000 Warplanes Deep in Eastern Germany; Hit Erom Italy Too.

1,000 AMERICAN PLANES IN RAID   Eastern Germany Targets, In. cluding Rocket Bomb Stotions, Are Attacked

1,000 Planes From Britain Bomb Europe   Allies Strike Targets From Italy As Well

GREAT FLEETS OF WAR PLANES SENT BREAK DEADLOCK   More Than 1,000 U. S.  Heavy Bombers aie Fighters Blast G-rmany

Flying Bomb Plants Blasted   American Heavy Bombers and Fighters ' attack German Tarcets

THOUSAND YANKEE WARPLANES BLAST GERMAN TARGETS.   Britain Based Craft Attack Rocket Bomb Stations In Germany and Battlefield Ohbiectives in: Normandy —

Rocket Bomb Developing Stations Hit   Huge U.S. Air Force Strikes East Germany ; Berlin Also Bombed

ROCKET BOMB SITES HIT BY ALLIED BOMBS   1,000 Heavy Bombers and Fighters Over Eastern Germany and Other Parts of Raich Riactad

Bombers Blast Eastern Germany  Other Targets Hit on French Battlefront

U, 5, PLANES RIP ROCKET RAMPS   ‘Bombers From Italy Blast Southern Germany

Robot Bomb Plants Hit   Over 1,000 Heavy U. S. Bombers Attack Stations in Germany

Robot Plants Blasted by Allied Planes   Great Fleet Also Hammers Ahead of Normandy Forces

Americans Blast Nazi Experimental Rocket Bomb Plants  1,000 British-Based Planes Hit Stations, Fliers from Italy. Blast Friedrichshafen

1,000 PLANES BLAST REICH      Rocket Bomb Stations Are Hit; Italy-Based Ships Rip Airdromes

‘Normandy Battlefront Blasted By Greatest Display Of Air Might Since Invasion Began   Other Vast American Armadas Roar Into East Germany On Heavy Raids

‘Buzz Bomb’ Labs Raided   Western Germany's, Plants: Are’ Foiled

Japs Chained to Positions, Stand And Die on Pelelius Island Hills

HARD-DRIVING: SOVIETS PUSH INTO SARNY ©   Nazi Propagandists Claim Allies Ready. for Invasion .

Nazis Hint Wide-Scale Withdrawals   Falling Back . Rapidly Before . Soviet Onslauaht

Slattery Quits REA   ADMINISTRATOR ASSERTS HE RESIGNED POST “TO CARRY THIS FIGHT TO THE PUBLIC”

SLATTERY RESIGNS AN REA SQUABBLE      Administrator Quits to ‘Car. ry This Fight to the Public.”

RECONVERSION HIT BY SOLON   D-Day Losses Heavier Than Anticipated, Is Claim

SLOT MACHINE BOOM INDICATED   Deputy Attorney General Check Up On Gambling Revival Rumors

SURVEY SniUWS CITY'S TAX RATE AMON’ LOWEST   Tipton’s 60-Cent Levy Eettered by Only 19 Cities

OmN’S TAX RATE AMONS LOWEST   Tipton’s 60-Cent -. “Levy Eettered by Oniv 19 Cities ..

Illness Rate In Aleutians Cited ‘Lowest   _ Soldiers curse the’ fog, rain and howling wind but stay healthy; some Wave calda.

Gurkhas Speed  Push in Burma   Jap Thrusts Into. India - Bitterly Resisted

BLOODY FIGHT RAGING IN INDIA JUNGLE   Northeast Of Imphal, About 32 Miles; Commandos Make 20 Mile Advance On Mvitkyina.   Elephant Transport

FIERCE BURMA BATTLES RAGE   Commandos Strike Near Jap Base; British Trying To Check Invasion

BLOODY FIGHT RAGES INSIDE INDIA JUNGLE   Battle for Nort! Northern Burma Expanding Into Mator Camocian   BRITISH COMMANDO FORCE MAKES GAIN   Troops Slash Within 32 Miles of Main Jap Base

Commandos Drive  20 Miles in Burma   British Force Gets 32 Miles From Big Jap Base of Myitkyina; Bloody Fighting Rages in India Jungles Near Imphal

Bloody Fighting Rages in Jungle ~ Sector of Burne  Allies Struggling te pl. Thee lem

BURMA FIGHT IS EXPANDED   British Commando Force Nears Main Jap Base Above Burma  Road

Battle in Burma Assumes Aspects  Of Major Fight   Jungle Fighting Rages As Commando Foree Menaces Japanese Base

Warns of Faked  Invasion News   : Stimson Says Rumors Being Spread By Nazis

Nazi Invasion Propaganda Warning Told   STIMSON PROMISES FULL COVERAGE OF MAJOR OPERATIONS

Stimson Warns Against Nazi Invasion Talk   German Generals Hurriedly Called To Meeting

SICK PERSONS ARE CAUGHT IN FLAMING RUINS   New Larger Missiles Reach Targets In Silence

New Type Robots Take Heavy Toll   Blasts Bury Hospital Patients in Wreckage

Silent, Deadly Robot Bombs Hit Londor As Nazis Intensify Fanatical Attack

ATTACKERS FLY FROM EAST, WEST   Nip Capital Is Blasted For Second Time  In 72 Hours

‘Most powerful U.S. task force laid waste to Japanese Palau island base

Jap Plants at Nagoya, Hankow Bombed Again   Superforts Hit Plane Factories In “Tinder City’

TINDER CITY’ BATTERED BY ~—HUBE PLANES   AIRCRAFT CENTER OF NAGOYA AND HANKOW WERE TARGETS SUNDAY—NEW RAIDS REPORTED}

78th Congress ls Disbanded   Mosy Wilk Not Return; Members Worn By TFwe Years Wartime Lowmokitig

78th Congress Ends Work On Harmony Note   Grew and Other Aides To Stettinius Confirmed; Gas Shortage Crinyps  Holiday Plans

18th Congress Ends Session   Senate Finally Confirms Six State Department Nominee

78th Congress s Brought to Close  Members Start Home With Racked Nerves

Congress Ends ‘On Harmony Notey Solons Head Home        ou WORK   Postwar Rivers And Harbors Bill To Await New Conaress

ULD CONGRESS bUES HOME IK HOLIDAY MOO   Ends Turbulent Session with Nominations Gift to   Roosevelt. .

EMBERS CONGRESS HEADED HOMEWARD wi NERVES RAW  TWO YEARS OF WARTIME  LAWMAKING AND BITTER  CAMPAICN TRYING

LONG SESSION OF CONGRESS IS ADJOURNED   With Nerves Ground Thin By Demands of Wartime Lawmaking Members Head Home Today

STATE APPOINTEES CONFIRMED: CONGRESS ENDS FINAL SESSION   MEMBERS -HEAD HOMEWARD AFTER COMPLETING WORK; GAS SHORTAGE MAY CRIMP HOLIDAY PLANS

CONGRESS ENDS TOUGH SESSION   Senate Confirms Six State Department Appointees

78th Session Of Congress Comes to End   Note of Harmony With White House; Service Legislation Tops List

Congressmen  On Way Home   Lawmakers Wind Up Session with Confirmation of State Department Apnomtees

Old Congress Ends Session’   Nerves Ground Thin By. Wartime Demands

Congressmen Heading Home   Wind Up Session On Harmony Note With White House

Note of Harmony Sees:78th Conaress off for Holiday   WHAT COURSE? WHAT IS TO BE FDR'S POLICY IN THE FUTURE?

The 78th Congress Comes to a Close   Harmony Prevails ‘As Session’ Ends; Senators Approve Stettinius’ Aidee

MUD IS ENEMY OF ALLIES ON ROAD TO PARIS   British Army Is Bogged Down Near Caen With 12 Miles To Go

OFFENSIVE W NORMANDY BOGS DOWN IN MUD      Heavy Rains Cause Supreme Headquarters To Say “No Report”

INVASION FORCE BOSGED IN MUD   Communique Sim ply Says ‘There Is Nothing to Report’

DRIVE BOGS DOWN IN MUD   Heavy Rains Halt Offensive From Caen Toward Paris

Cassino Battle Rising In Fury; Germans Hole   Allies Launch Surprise Offensive Against Enemy In Burma

Allied Planes Support Anzic   Wave After Wave Hits German Defenses Ringing Beachhead Below Rome

‘Assault Waves Hit German Defenses Ringing Beachhead   In Cassino, Allied Troops Are Driving Foe from One Strong Point After Another

AIR SMSH LIFTS TROOPS’ MORALE   Wave After Wave Of Bombers Batter Nazis Around Beachhead   GAINS IN CASSINO   Enemy Being Driven --From-Smashed- Town And Surrounding. Hills

Nazis Being Driven From Fastnesses Tn Cassino   Enemy Continues To Hold Out In One Cornet Of Town; Allies Open Air Offensive

CASSINO FIGHT CONTINUES AS NAZIS HOLD ON      U.S. British Troops Drive Foe From Many Strong Positions Inside City

Fifth Army Troops Steadily Rooting Germans Out of Ruins of Cassino

Bombers Lash At Germans In Anzio Struggle  Nazis Still Hold Out In Small Section Of

Nazis Still Hold Corner of Town   Allied Troops Slowly Driving Fo From Cassino, However, Seizins One Strong Point After Another Also Advancing in Nearby Hills.   NEW ZEALANDERS ACTIVE

Morale of Our Troops Rises  As Planes Come   Caves In Hillside Around Cassino Are Cleared One By One

[Allies Pushing ‘Nazis Back On  Cassino Front   Foes Being Driven From  One Strong Point After Another in Southwest Corner of Town   Hitler's Hordes Fight Desperately    Allies Lose One Height te German Counter-Attack During Fluid Battling

FLIERS HIT IN WAVES AT NAZI LINES   Bombardment Lifts Morale, Since Germans for Third Night in Row ‘Had Stepped Up Own Aerial Activities.

Allied Planes Pound Enemy Defense Ring   Nazis Clinging To Toe-Hold in Corner of Cassino

Strike at Nazi Defenses Ringing Anzio Beachhead   Waves of Allied Bombers ~~ Roar Over Lines Counter  Nazi Attacks.   Allies Drive Germans From Cassino Points

GERMANS ALS BOOST AIR . ACTIVITY   Fifth Army Inches Ahead In Cassino Ruins   CORNER OF CITY   Still Defended By Nazis; Enemy Casualties Reported Severe

“Waves Of - Planes Hit Beachheaa   ~ Betwm of Allied Bombers to Anzio Lifts. Moraie of Troops in Foxkoles   SENEMY PLANES -. HAVE BEEN ACTIVE   Allies Continue. Progress in Cassino .Area Against » Fierce Resistance

Clearing of Cassino Continues as Allies  ~ Bomb Anzio Ring   Morale of Our Troops Rises , As Planes Come  Caves In Hillside Around Cassino. Are Cleared

a PEG TRGHLIGHTS. EW OF WYASIGH   Roosevelt Hears Word at W hite House After Addressing the Nation

GEN EASING HEALS. RE OF Wwyasigth   Roosévelt Hears Word . at White House: After  Addressine™ ‘the- ‘Nation

DRAFT MAY TAKE MORE MANPOWER   Selective Service Chief Does Not See Man - Shortage Equal To Arms Lack,  However.

U.S, FRENCH REACH RHONE VALLEY   Capture of Nice Reported to Be “Matter of Hours”

SOUTH FRANCE IS LIBERATED   Allies Near Italian Border     Raliawna (l('antura vat

U.S. Is Going “Uphill” In War   King Warns Against  Slacking In Bond Sales

Congress Gets New FDR Bid For 400 Million   « Added Appropriatior Would Be _  Usec Mainly By Navy Department

FDR ASKS 400 MILLION MORE FOR AGENCIES   Congress Resumes Session With Request for Appropriation Boosts, Chiefly for Navv Department.

LT  FA ASKS CONGRESS FOR S400 MILLION   Requests Increase in Ap propriations for Federal Agencies.

SOLDIER VOTE ‘COMPROMISE "UP IN SENATE   Green, Co-Author of Original Fed eral Ballot Plan, Refuses te Sign Hybrid Measpre   OTHERS OPPOSED   ‘Conally Becomes Floor Manager for Compromise in Senate, Ex. pects Its Passage ‘

Service Vote Compromise Probably Will Pass Is Opinion Of Connally

SERVICE VOTE COMPROMISE TO COME UP TODAY   ‘Expects Passage By Senate In Final Vote

CE VOTE BEFORE SENATE   Compramise Measure Apparently Assured of Eventual Passage.

Speedy Okay Predicted On  Service Vote   Compromise, Disowned By Some Authors And Opposed By Others, Called Up In Senate

Compromise Vote Neared.   New Soldier. Ballot Plan Is‘ Only Means

Service Vote Compromise Before Senate   Two Days of Debate On Controversial Issue Before Its Passage.

PREDICT SOLDIER VOTE COMPROMISE SURE OF PASSAGE   MEASURE IS CALLED UP IN U. S SENATE FOR FINAL DEBATE

Compromise Servicemen’s Ballot Bill Reaches Senate Floor With Eventual Passage Assured

Service Vote Compromise Before Senate   Two Days of Debate On Controversial Issue Before Its Passage.   COOLEY INTRODUCES BILL IN HOUSE ABOLISHING THE F.S.A.

BALLOT MEASURE BEFORE SENATE   Passage Of Compromise Bi! Is Believed Certain

MAN WHO SPENT 14 YEARS IN REICH ADVOCATES SKEPTICISM IN AMERICAN SPECULATION ON HITLER WHEREABOUTS

Hitler DeadSpeculation,  Says Lochner   Declares Nothing Authentic About Numerous Reports

Fate Of Hitler Still: Ponderec   Many Rumors Coming From Germany

HITLER'S STORY NOT AVAILABLE, SAYS LOCHNER   Writer Warns Against Fiction Concerning  Adolf's Health

Writer Doubts  Hitler Stories  Urges Skepticism Of Reports On Fuehrer

See Functioning of World Security Unit as Slow Job   ay TOHN MO OIIGHTOWER

Slow, Uphill Fight - Faced in Completing ~ World Peace Setup   First Stages of Job Being Completed at Dumbarton Oaks:

Formation Of Peace Groups  Uphill Task   Optimism Still Tone; Blacklisting Axis Firms Decreed

World Security Functioning Seen As Slow, Uphill Jot   Due to Time Needed At Dumbarton To Decide on Blueprint

SECURITY TALKS MOVING SLOWLY   AMERICAN OFFICIALS REVISE ESTIMATES ON TIME TO COMPLETE JOB

Progress Slow In Building Up Peace Group   World Security Organization to be Long Time in Making

UPHILL JOB SEEN IN WORLD SECURITY SETUF   Slow and Tedius Proces: of Consultation and Agreement Necessary.

Delegation to Attend ETCC  One-Day Meet  Kaufman Chambe! Officers to Head

Henry Ayres on Fex Committee   19th Annual Session Of Etex C. of C. Held In Lonaview April 17

PAC in Spotlight In Maine Voting   Governor, Congressmen  Are at Stake Today

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Governorship, Three Conaressional Seats, al Stake in Maine Election

Banker Arrests Stir Reich Financial Panic  Financiers Turn Down New Notes;   Financiers Turn Down New Notes; Hitler Disappearance Has Effect

Seventeen Die in Plane Crash  Carried Personnel for Tinker Field

Omaha Plane Crash Takes Lives Of 17   14 Men, 3 Women Die as Plane Takes Off From City Airport

17 Killed In  Bomber Crash   Transport Plane Crashes. Burns At Omaha Municipal Airport.

—Transport Crashes At Omaha Airport—  17 Persons Die In Air Tragedy   3 Women Believed Among Victims: Plane Enroute To Oklahoma Field

REUTERS PLEDGES HONESTY IN NEWS   Head of British News Agency Supports World News Freedom Move.

STATISCIAN BABSON WN OPTIMISTIC MOOD   Gives Reasons Why He Thinks : American Loss Of Lives  Will Not Be So Heavy In  The Invasion Of Germany.

Few War Dead - Yet Reported      BABSON TELLS ABOUT CASUALTIES TO COME

PANZER DIVISION MAULED IN ITALY               " FOR ASSAULT ON STRATE. GIC VALLEY TOWN.

CRACK PANZER OUTFIT BEATEN   British Continue Their Advance Up To Plains In Italy

1,000 PLANE ALLIED RAID HITS FORMOSA   Jap Broadcast Tells of 8Hour Battle Over China Coast Bastion

Heavy Raid on Formosa Reported   ‘Air Battle Continuing,’ Tokyo Says, Claiming 100 Planes Shot Down   MOST IMPORTANT _ TOWNS ARE HIT   Attack ‘In Strength’ May Be Another Blow by Halsey’s Forces

A ATTACKS IN PROGRES FOR 8 HOUR   Bomb Rail Targets on Island Believed Hiding Place for Jap Fleet,

FORMOSA RAIDED TODAY BY 1,000 YANK AIRCRAFT   Tokyo Claims Air Battle Rage: Eight Hours After Planes Arrive

Assault Lasted From 7 A. M. Until Middle Of Afternoon; Entire Area Under Attack   Big Island's Most Important Towns Along Railway Hit By America Puree, According  To Broadeast Put Out By Tokyo

Jap Bastion In China Sea Raid Target   Tokyo Claims 100 Enemy Aircraft Downed in 6 Hours

Tokyo Reports Huge Air Raids Over Formosa   A Thousand Planes Are Said to Have Struck “Entire Area;” Claim Heavy U.S. Loss

Powerful Attack On Jap Island Fortress By American Planes Is  Told By Tokyo Radio

NIP BROADCAST DECLA. - _ ALLIED RAID ON FORTRESS_ LIKE ISLAND OFF THE u? , ESE COAST LASTED FROM EARLY MORNING . UN. ‘ it MID-AFTERNOON—SAY RAID DIRECTED AGAINST THREE LEADING TOWNS

1,000 American Planes Attack Formosa, Tokyo Radio States; Neutralizing Island Objective

ALLIED PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Tokyo Broadcast Reports Attacks Aimed At 3 Vital Towns

ATTACK UNCONFIRMED BY U. 8. OVER 12,000 JAPS SLAIN IN CAPTURE OF 11 PALAU ISLANDS

JAPS REPORT 1,000 PLANES  HIT FORMOSA   Tokyo Says Takao, Tainan and Taichu Covered by Attacks and Declares 100 U. S. Craft Are Shot Down.

1000 American Planes Loosed OnJap Island   Nipponese Report Says Attacks Directed Against Entive Areas of Takao, Tainan and Taichi   Eight-Hour Air ' Battle Is Waged   Tokyo Says, Without Cou firmation, 100 U. 8, Planes Bagged in First Six Hours

1000 American FPianes Raid Japanese Foriress Of Formosa  BELIEVED TO BE REFUGE FOR FLEET  Also Site Of Largest Jap Camp For American Prisoners

N avy Silent — On Reported  Formosa-Raid   Three Towns Targets, ‘Tokyo Hints: Planes From China Help  PATALCH DOYUVUINTTCLY

Japs Report Heavy Raid  On Formosa By Bombers   1,000 Planes Said To Be Ti ‘Attack...

No Confirmation Made From Any Allied Sources   Japs Say 1,000 Planes Strike Large Base “of Nippon Operations

Japanese Radio Report: 1,000-Plane U.S. Assault on Formosa   Tokyo Says American Fliers Attacked Thre Important Rail Towns, Ports in Eight-Hour Raid on Big Island Fortress

Island Hit By 1,000 U.S. Planes   Tokyo Radio Says Air Battle Rages for Eight Hours; Believe Planes From Fleet Task Force

Eight-Hour Attack Hits Main Cities   Claims 100 Planes Shot Down; Says Air Battle Continuing

TO ASK GHANGE _ [N-PALESTINE   HOUSE ‘TO PASS RESOLUTION ’ CRITICIZING BRITISH POLICY OF RESTRICTED IM_ MIGRATION

BWP *R SR 1 FP SREY FRA VERS  Time Is Ripe For Japanese To Risk Fleet

SHIFT AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION 10 DEAL WITH JAPS   TO PLACE EMPHASIS ON HEAVY BOMBERS; CUTBACKS PLANNED

Guam Fight Now Like Rabbit Hunt      Major Shift to Big Planes Set; / po Aircraft Output Focused on Jans

U. 5. Turns to Heavier Bomber:  Japan Rather Than Germany Censidered

New Emphasis Is Placed On B-29 Bombers   Production Of Aireraf Focused On Japan A: Result Of Success O:  Invasion Of Eurove

U.S. Focussing Air WarOn Jap Instead Of Hun   Giant Long Range Bomber  Stressed In Production  Program; Shift to Cut   = Off Many Workers

NEW SCHEDULE IN AIRCRAFT PLANTS MADE   Will Put 120,000 People Out Of Jobs By 1945

Aireraft Production F ocused_ On Japan With German Defeat Hour ‘ly Approaching Actuality.

Major Shift in Air Production Aimed at Japan   Manufacturers to Stress Superbomber Types in Future; Luftwaffe Whipped

U.S. Curtails  Plane Plans   120,000 Workers Will Be Released by End Of Year by Shifts

FOCUS AIRPLANE PRODUCTION ON JAPANESE WAE   Mor Super-forts, Fewet Libetatots, C-46’s and Thunderbolts

Production Of Aircraft Swings Toward Japan   Successes of European Invasion Cause Shift Now for Building Types Needed To Whip Japs.

Air Power Program Revised   KK K* = KK KK - Higgins Plant Will Stand By.

WAR PRODUCTION FOCUSED ON JAPS   Government Announces Cutbacks in Liberators, Thunderbolts—More B-29s.

AIRCRAFT SHIFT SET IN MOTION   Downward Trends for Same Planes, Emphasis on B-29. New B-3?.

U.S. Cuts Down  Plane Production   Many Workers to Be Released; Emphasis Now on B-29's and C-32’s.

Major Shift Is Ordered in Plane Program   Aircraft Output Now Focused on Eyes in Pacific

Aircraft Output To Be Aimed At Subduing Japar   Reduced Need Of Other Plane Types To Hit Many Workers

ORDER PLANE OUTPUT CUT   Superfortresses and the New B-32 to Remain in Production; Liberators, Thunderholts Hit

MAJOR SHIFT IN AIRCRAFT. OCR ant   Will Release 120 000 : Workeus: ‘By End . oor Year 2 :

To Shift  Aircraft Production   Cut Production of Some Types in: Order To Increase B-29s — And the New B-32s

Aircraft Production Emphasis Shifted To B-29’s, Secret B-32’s   Aviation Industry Is Aimed Toward Japan; Twenty Thousand Workers To Be Released In Next Month; 34,000 Jobs Await Them

Cuthacks Ordered  In Aircraft Output  Due to Victories Army, Navy Focus Atténtion  on Japan in Shift that Will Free 120,000 Workers

Ohio's Thanksgiving Day Observance to Be Nov. 2   Struck By Car. Dies

(oth Congress IsReconvened  ForFinal Meet   ‘Lame Duck’ Session Faced With Controversial

Congress Weighs Pay Roll Tax Hike   Doubling of Social Security Levy Looms

FIRST ARMY ADVANCES NINE MILES   American Forces Half-Way Through Nazi Defenses

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   CERMANS ADMIT 9-MILE ADVANCE BY AMERICANS

Cards Take 3-1 Lead in Sixth Game of Series   Redbirds Score Three in Fourth, Threatening to Win The 1944 Title

Browns Score In Second   CHILLY WEATHER KEEPS FANS AWAY FOR THE SIXTH GAME

CARDS LEADING BY A SCORE OF 3 T0 1   If National League Club Wins Today the Series Is Over   Score at end of sixth inning: Cardinals 3; Browns 1.

Cards Leading Browns. 3 To   In Sth Inning   Redbirds Pull Rousing Rally In Fourth To Overcome One-Run Lead   erconnb INNING

VOTERS READY TO TALK; WILL HAVE SAY TUES.   Politicians From Both Parties Confident

STIMSON RALLIES NATION FOR GREATER WAR EFFORT   Reveals U.S. Casualties Total 261,589 Since Start of Global War  “ — - were - —_ +   Says Germany Collapsing Fast—Now Carry War To Jap Homeland

STIMSON SEES ~ NAZI COLLAPSE   261,589 Army “Casualties Include 48,880 Killed Since War Start

Finish Admiralty Conquest 21 Days After It Starts   Gen. MacArthur Says Japs Driven From Lorengau,  Main Nip Base.   Vanquished Enemy in Isle Faces Starvation

Allies Hold All: Vital Areas In : Admiralty Isles   Remnants of Enemy Garrison Scattered —  By Cavalry Assault

Record Battle Is Developing Inside Burma   Japs, Stung by Loss of Hukawneg. Try For Stilwell’s Supply Lines   Bulletin

U.S, SHIPS, PLANES SHELL, BOMB MILI ATOLL AND PONAPE ISLAND   ADMIRALTY CONQUEST COMPLETED THREE WEEKS AFTER BEGUN, TWO AIRFIELDS IN USE

Shell Pacific Islands Held  By Japanese   Battleships Bombard Milt Island In Marshalls: Para mushire Hit   CLEAN UP LORENGAU

U.S. Warships Shell Mili Isle   Sea Bombardment Tied With Carrier Planes :

Battleships Bombard Jap Marshalls Base; Heavy iBlows Hint at New Landing

INDIAN HEIRESS BYDY FOUND   Veil of Mystery Shrouds Death of Cc umbia €tudent

Lack Of Ammunition Delays Aachen Fall   European Nations  Face Black Winter

Eisenhower Appeals for Increased Production of Ammunition for War

Eisenhower Appeals for Ammunition   Says Taking of Aachen Delayed by Shortage, - Asks for Greater = — Production

Germany May Be Garrisoned   Report Matter Was Discussed At Recent Conference In Teheran

Assault Forces Drive Ahead In Moselle Valley   American, British Armies Said Nearing Junction In Belgium

PUSH NAZIS 3 MILES NEARER SIEGFRIED LINE   Meet Growing Opposition

Siegfried Line to Be Under Fire Shortly   American Forces . Advance as Much as 30'Miles

AMERICAN 3RD, IST ARMIES ON NAZI DOORMA)   Nancy Reached, Wedge Driven Into Metz While Germans Offer Much More Fierce Resistance

Troops Nearing St. Lo In Twin Drives On City  Artillery Barrage A recedes Attack

BRA mT ON CITY FROM 2 SIDES   Nazis Faced With General Withdrawal From Cherbourg Peninsula

[wo Pronged Advance By Gen  Bradley’s Forces Over Radiac CF TDead Noavic

Yanks Storming St. Lo. In Great Normandy Drive   32 Divisions Reported In Mighty Battle To Clear Peninsula

SIG ARTILLERY BARRAGE AIDS TROOPS PUSH   Paris Radio Claims That 32 Divisions Are Massed In 14-Mile Battle Area

ALLIES NEARING ST. LO, ANCIENT FORTRESS TOWN   Dominates Main Roads Leading  From Normandy

Bradley’s Forses Ovrrun Four Towns, Make Biggest Cherbourg Gains In Days

HUNGARIAN ARMY FIGHTS GERMANS   Himmler’s Gestapo Sent Into Budapest to Hold Capital,

BELT OF CONCRETE   “Fighting Father” Back To Pacific   Major Fred D. Conderman Goes Back to Pacific After One Tour of Duty Over there.

3,800 GERMAN VEHICLES HIT FROM PLANES   Best Hunting Since D-Day for Al lied Attackers in France.— Another Blow at Ploesti.

County Moves Toward Final Plans For Launching Bond Drive: Area Goals Listed   SPAAF Boosts Quota

\County Moves Toward Final Plans For Launching Bond Drive: Aréa Goals. Licted

Defendants’ Lawyer Says His Telephone Is Being Tapped. _   CLIENTS PERSECUTED

Attorney For  Defense Claims Wire Tapping  saat Bie Office Phone

PHONE WAS TAPPED   Attorney Also Says His Clients Have Been Shadowed

FILE SEDITION CASE PROTESTS   ‘Star Chamber Sessions® ‘Are Assailed by  Defense

Nazis Flooding Lowlands To  ‘Slow Invasion   South Holland Islands Are _ Evacuated, Say  Dutch Sources

Threats Mark Darke County Fight Against AAA  Young Farmer Warns He Will Lead Farmer March on Office Saturday   Girl Marries Confessed Burglar As He Starts 25 Life Sentences

Nazi Lines From Swiss Frontier lo Luxembourg  Cracking; Belfort Falls   Spectacular Gains Made In Many Sectors; Resistance Ends In Metz, Broadcasts Says

German Lines Bend Inside Reich:  Shattered in Trance   Artillery Fire Is Violent and Swiss Report Long Lines of Civilians Are Fleeing Toward the Rhine River

Nazis Stream Eastward In Retreat   Reds Gain in Poland, New Break-Through In Dnieper Bend Seen  MUCH BOOTY TAKEN

SWIFT SOVIET THRUST TAKES IN 40 TOWNS   ESTONIAN FRONTIER CROSSED; NARVA NEXT GOAL

SOVIETS MAKE NEW GAINS IN DNIEPER BEND   Berlin Says Russians Have Begun Drive On Rovno

Soviet troops advance along broad front   More than forty towns are taken

OPENS WAY FO ACTION AGAINST CITY OF ATHENS   Southern Albania Port City Also Under Attack by Allied Forces In the Balkans.

Come, Gel If Is Invitation Of Meat Firms   Packers Have Heavy Meat Supplies, Want Public Demand to Expand

MEAT A-PLENTY AVAILABLE NOW   “Come And Get It” Is Cry Of Meat Packers To Public As Most Meats Become Unrationed.

Eat More Pork, Packers Urge   Hope for Expanded Demand to Wipe Out Surplus Supply

Bond Drive Million Short  Only $67,732 Worth Of Bonds Sold in County Yesterday

County Bone Sales at $3,101,523   Figure is $1,627,827 Under Quota  For Venango

County Bond Sales Total $5.279.688   Is $550,288 Over Quota —Under Goa On E Bonds

BYRD INDORSED BY SOUTHERNERS   SEVERAL SCORE DELEGATES BACK VIRGINIAN FOR STANDARD BEARER.

Jap Plans To Stage Attack Broken Up   Enemy Has Five Divisions In Leyte Action

YANK DRIVE DISRUPTS JAP ATTACK PLANS   Nipponese Now Have Five Divisions in Pivotal Struggle in Philippine Campaign

YANKS SMASH INTO NIPPON: AREAS TODAY   Believe © “Attack Will  Thwart. Counterdrive Ry mae Nanoaan   U.S. TROOPS GAIN   60,000. Enemy. Soldiers Now Fighting On Levte° ~

Steady Gains Made on Leyte   Jap Plans for Counter Attack Believed Disrupted

Ration Board Asks Aid Of Pablic In Applying  For Gasoline and Suga

Production of Planes Drops   + Gutpat Lowest Sinre September. WPE Sava

AIRCRAFT OUTPUT FOR WAR DROPS   8049 PLANES PRODUCED IN JUNE, DOWN 853

AIRPLANE OUTPUT DECLINES IN APRIL   Part of Decrease Was Planned, WPB Says

Plane Production Drops Last Month   WPB Officials Say Output Is Lowest Since Last September

14 “Named To County Home Jobs   Commissioners Select Kleven Clearfielders fo Help Operate  Institution,

Enemy Reinforces Cassino Positions, Recapture Hill Feature Near Town; Strong Bomber Formations Take-Off for Sixth  Consecutive Day of Attacks on Furove

Panic Prevails In Rumania As Russ Advance   Soviet Troops Storm Across Dniester On 31-Mile Front

Russians Plunging Through 31-Mile Gap Info Rumania   Nazis Retreating So Fast Bridges on Dniester Left Intact

INTERNAL TROUBLES FLARE IN BELGIUM   Armed Resistance Groups in Center of Turmoil

Downtown Area Has Spectacular Blaze Saturday   Large Structure On Territorial Road Gutted By Flames

FLAMES GUT ~DWAN BLDG   Raging Fire Threatens Adjacent Hotel for  Time

RAF Also Strikes At Germany’s _ Industrial Targets... Only Slight   Skirmishes In Italy.

U. S. Planes Blast NaziHeld Europe   Carry Their ir Non. Stop Offensive Into Its 16th Straight Day

U _ fmt ofp  Suppl y Lines ver eh oa Coast   Japs Start New Spring Drive In China; Capture Strategic Hulao Pass

THE  rODAY   to Give. Rassia ird of  alian Fleet Greatly  tirs International  meerrrir. \

DISTRIBUTION OF ITALIAN NAVY ON SHARE BASIS TO BIG THREE OF ALLIED CAMP IS GOOD SIGN   Not Only Does It Leave Italy Without A Navy But It Shows Allies Are Playing Give and Take Game of Mutually Advantageous Basis

The War Today   Sener Tei Siemens ee eos es ere Transaction Giving Russia Some of Fleet Creates Sneculation.

UNEXPLAINED ANNOUNCEMENT OI PLAN TO GIVE RUSSIA THIRD OF ITALIAN FLEET ROUSES TAT K

The War Today   Splitting Up of Italian Fleet Part Of Price Italv Must Pay

‘Simple’ Tax Not So Easy   Sen. Langer Adinits  Its Greek to Him

Willkie's Funeral Is Set for Tuesday   Floral Tributes Flood His Indiana Home Town

RED FLIERS SINK 5 AXIS VESSELS   HAMMER AT LWOW, BIG RAIL HEAD IN OLD POLAND

Soviet Air Force Busy Over Crimea   No Announcements About Activities of Ground Forces

RUSSIAN PLANES SINK 5 MORE AXIS VESSELS   Rail Junction Of Lwow Gets Pounding From Reds

RUSSIAN FLIERS SINK FIVE SHIPS   Blast Vessels Fleeing Crimea; Others Raid Lwow

Russ Sink 5 Axis Vessels   Fleeing From Crimea; Planes Bomb Rail Junction at Lwow

[Reds Sink Five More Nazi Ships Fleeing From Crimea, Raid Lwow Heavily Aqain   Air Force Continues To Bear Brunt Of Activity On The Eastern Front

Red Air Force ‘Sinks Fleeing German Ships   Five-Vessels-Atiempting to Escape From Crimea Seni to Bottom By Soviet Bombers

RUSSIAN PLANES SINK FIVE SHIP!   Vessels, Carrying Nazis From Crimea, Battered By Bombers

Boom Niles Man For McKay Post   ‘Antis’ Meet Tomorrow To Plan Campaign

BERRIEN EYES MCKAY FIGH]   Jerry Tyler Of Niles Is Boomed for G.0.P. Post

ADDITIONAL FUND DONORS LISTED   seventeen Donating $5 or More to War Fund Campaign List<d

ADDITIONAL FUND DONORS. LISTED:   “Seventeen Donating: “ ‘$5 or More to War. -. Fund Campaign Listcd

SHOWDOWN CH WORK 08 FISHT DILL PROMISED   Hope for Hearings to End Thirsday; Committee to Decide

KEY NIP BASE ON ENIWETOK IS IN RUINS   Northwest Corner of Marshalls Is Assailed

Union And Management Contentions At Variance  Textile Wage Case To Go To National Board Soon

AIRMEN THREATEN JAP DEFENSE LINE   Sustained. Attacks ‘Made on Bases i in Dutch. sae - East Indies

Japan's Defense Line Threatened, Says MacArthur   Americans Drawing Nearer Philippines

JAPAN'S MAIN DEFENSE LINE IS THREATENEL   MacArthur Says Aerial At tacks Have Weakened  Halmahera Bastion   BATTLES IMPENDING ON CHINESE FRONT

AIRMEN THREATEN JAD’ DEFENSE LINE   Sustained _ Attacks Made on Bases in Dutch - East Indies

Japs Outer Defense Line Threatened   Halmahera Air Field Reported Neutralized

AIR ASSAULTS WEAKEN JAPS   Bombers Strike Nippon Bases On Widespread Front

HIT MAIN JAP DEFENSE LINE   Allied Air Assaults Peril Bastion Stronghold Centered at Halmahera

M’ARTHUR AND STASSEN LEAD IN 2 PRIMARIES   Dewey Rans Ahead a Willkie in’ Hlinoi:. ‘and Nebras ki  ’ Vatec

U.S. Destroyers Bomb Jap Bases On New Guinee   Make Trip Deep Into What Were Once Enemy Controlled Waters   FIGHTER PLANES PROTECT SHIPS

DESTROYERS BOMBARD 3 JAP BASES   Shell Hansa Bay, Alexishafen and Madang

U. S. Naval Task Force Bombards Three Key Jap Bases On New Guinea

TELLS - FRENCH, PEOPLE: Biss  BROADCAST MASSED FORCES  be oF ‘PARACHUTISTS  COMING:

Laval Warns Frenchmen On Aiding Allied Army  When Invasion Begins

County Girls _ 4-H Rally Day  Comes June 18   To Launch a War Bond and Stamp Contest

4-H Girls to Hold Rally Day Tues.   Election of New Officers, Reports of Activities Are Scheduled

U.P. Writer Describes  U.S. Landing   Dickinson Says MacArthur Pleased With Onerations

Eyewitnessing the War—   How Our Troops Landed on Los Negros Under Fire   Re WOLIAM BE. DICKINSON

With U. 5. Invaders of Admiralty Islands; _ MacArthur Inspects Troops at Los Negro:

Nips Win Key Rail Point   New Enemy Gains Threaten China Split, Isolation From Allies

PLANE IS INSPECTED BY OFFICIALS TODAY   Official Washington to Have Closeup Look at Constellation.

NEW RECORD IS SET BY GIANT TRANSPORT   Capital Bigwigs Join Crowd Giving it Once Over

3 SUPERFORTS LOST IN 2 RAIDS ON JAP PLANTS   4th-Makes Emergency Landing at Forward China Base: Is Strafed

Superfort Bombs Ignite Nagasaki; Shipyards Hit; ‘Ruin Sumatra Fuel Denots

B20 a aT ART BIG Flito ON HAIN TARGETS   Bombers Smash Nagasaki or Mainland and Oil Bases on Sumatra.

Nagasaki, Japan and Sumatra Are Bombed   B-29's Attack Points 3000 Miles Apart

SUPERFORTS BLAST TWO JAP CITIES   Nagasaki And Oil Refinery At Palembang Bombed

Big Plane Blast Hits Philippines   Three-Way Blows Rain on Japan; Nagasaki Aircraft, Sumatra Oil Installations Hit; Nipponese Pian to Strengthen Home Defense

Oil Refinery In Sumatra ' Also Blasted   Port on Japs’ Mainland Targei for Fire Bombs of Superfortresses      OPPOSITION IS LIGHT   Raid From Secret Bases  Destroys Plane Fuel:  Base in Dutch Indies

»B-29s Hit Jap Homeland, Sumatra; Philippines Raided -Bombers Sound Japan’s Doom

Oil Refineries On Sumatra Set Afire by Bombs   Nagasaki Also Burns; Three Bombers Lost

America’s Mighty B-20 Planes Hit Enemy Source of Aviation Fuel Supplies -——- Huge Bombers Take Of from Secret Bs: in China,

Japan, Sumatra Bases Hit With “Good Results”   Large Fires Launched By Heavy Attacks On Industrial Targets

Jap Industrial Center, East Indies Oil Supply Fired In 3600 Mi. Raid   Gen. MacArthur Launches Philippine Campaign With Bombardment Of Airdromes On Davao

Jap Industrial Targets Are Left Blazing   Three Big American  Planes Fail to Datuen Kram Raide

Palembang, Source of 78 Per Cent of Japs’ Fuel Laid Waste; Great Nioponese Industrial City Set Afire

Start Big Fires At Negasaki and At Sumatra City   Super Fortresse; Start Long Raids from Secret Bases in China and in Pacific

Solons Map Bill To Curb FDR’sPower   Senator’s Action Prompted By Federal Seizure Of Mail Order House

PLAN CURB ON POWERS OF PRESIDENT   Senate G. O. P.’s Deny, However, Party Issue to Be Raised __

TOKYO CLA SUPER FORTS OVER HONSHU   Three Attacks Made By BSingt B-29 In Same Area, Report

Lone B-29s Bomb Island Three Times   No Confirmation Of New Attacks Given By Army

Mikoljczyk’s Party Led From Coalition  Peasant Party Brushes OFE Plana ta Iain in

Peasant Party Brings Worst Polish Crisis   Refuses fo Take Par? in Forming Coalition Cabinet

Outlook For Peace Inside Poland Dim  Jy ur aves ar eswars’? ££ esa at

De Gaulle Claims Status Provisional Government France  Change in Name of Comittee Brings No Quick Response

FRENCH GROUP HAS CHANGED 175 TITLE   Committee Calls Itself Provisional Government of French Republic.

Surprise from DeGaulle: France Not Bound by Agreement With Clark, He Says in Debate

FRENCH LEADERS CHANGE UNIT NAME   Provisional Government of Republic Replaces Liberation Committee

“RIPS” EXCUSES FOR FAILURE 10 BUY WAR BONDS   Rotarians Given Start:  ling Figures to Disprove “Talk”

AERIAL PAVING OF WAY ENTERS ITS FIFTH WEEK   Germans Finally Admit That P&inding by Bombs Comes in Preparation for Invasion.

YANK BOMBERS BATTLE WAY TO BALTIC CITY   2,000 Raiders Over Germany

Osnabruck Rail Hub In Western Gérmany Blasted   Non-Stop Attack On  ¢ Nazi Transport Centers  Moves Into 27th Day

Germany  Hard Hit by Raids   British Drop 2000 Tons Explosives on Anti-Invasion Wall

Battling Under the Worst Fighting Conditions of the War.   NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS REPULSED   Cost the Germans Heavily in Men and Tanks.

VARDS BETROT HAL IS ~ ANNOUNCED   Concord Girl, First. of Year’s Debutantes, To Wed John Winsor °

ANNE EDWARDS BETROTHAL 1S ~ ANNOUNCE!      Concord Girl, First of  Year’s Debutantes, To  Wed John Winsor 

Frey Ousted As Director Of Divisior   More’ Efficient W or k Can Be Done, State’: Chief Executive Tell: Him In Letter

August Frey Is Removed By Gov. Goodland   Research Bureau Has Cost Taxpayers $156,000 In Five Years, Is Report Of Chief Executive

Action Voluntary On Workers’ Part   , Prior to Decision Numerous Sympathy Strike Votes Had Been Taken in Most Maior Cities

JOHN STOKES SPEAKS BEFORE WOMAN'S CLUE   Tells West Concord. Group _ Restaurants and Homes   Have Probletns —

Politicians Stirred Up Nation Wide   SOME DEMOCRATS CERTAIN THAT SENATOR’  BARKLEY’S BREAK WITH THE PRESIDENT IS QUITE SERIOUS.   4th Term In Jeopardy

U.S. STIRRED BY TAX FIGHT   Reaction to Seamewicnel * Revolt Is Varied —

SOME EXPECT PARTY SPLIT   Reaction to Barkley Revolt Against Roosevelt  ' Differs

SHOCK TROOPS STOP RUSSIANS   Besiegers Of Budapest Held At Gates; Chaos Rules Capital

Germans Check Reds at Gates Of Budapest   Moscow Bulletin Admits No Change  in Situation

NAZIS HOLDING AT BUDAPEST   Moscow Reports No Essen: tial Change on Various War Fronts

RUSSIANS CHECKED AT BUDAPEST GATES   Seviets Are Regrouping For Another Thrust; Conditions Inside City Are Chaotic

REDS’ BUDAPEST DRIVE STOPPED   ADVANCE HALTED AT CITY'S GATES—RUSSIANS REGROUP FOR NEW ATTACK, —

Germans Hold Russians at Budapest Gates  Moscow Reports N   Moscow Reports No Essential Changes on Fronts

ARMY CHECK NAZIS   A Total of More Than $4,000, 000,000 Have Been Poured into Soviet.   GOODS WERE DELIVERED   Ninety-Nine Out of Every 100 Ships Got Through Last Year.

Four Billion. In U.S. Goods Sent Russia   99 Out Of Every 100 Ships Got To Ports Safely

4 BILLION AID SENT TO REDS   99 Out of Every 100 Supply Ships Got Thru Last Year

Children’s Week Radio Program Over K.P.A.B.   Four Billion In Lend-Lease To Russia

AMERICAN GOODS POUR INTO RUSSIA   $4,000,000,000 Worth Help Reds Turn Back Nazis

B-24’s Bomb Tokyo for Sth Straight Day   Flyer Says Fourth Largest City in World Blacked Out

BOMBING OF NIP CAPITAL CONTINUES   Japs Report Raids Fifth Straight Day On Tokyo

B-29 Superfortresses Make Fifth Consecutive Raids on Jap Capital

New Fires Set In B-29 Raid  Against Tokyo   Japan Is Raided Fifth Straight Dav: Other Superforts Hit Tokvo, Korea

Superforts Start Fires in-Tokyo   Huge Bombers Strike Fifth Straight Day

B-29s Attack Tokyo for bth Straiaht Day   _ Fires Again Are Kindled in Japanese City

START FIRED IN HEART OF JAP CAPITAL   Attack Follows Five Other Attacks By Huge Bombers On Central Japan And Korea; Japs Relittio Raid   B-29s PENETRATE WESTERN KYUSHU

JAPS. REPORT. TOKYO BOMBED   ‘New Assaults by B-29"s Disclosed by Nipponese

Tokyo Bombed for Fifth Straight Day by American Superfortresses   Kindling Fires In The Heart Of Japanese Capital

EARLY MORNINS RAID FOLLOWS 5 DURING. WEEKEND   Jap Radio. Says Air Raid Defenses Quelled Attack  Qhartiyv

BRUNSWICK HIT BY U. 5, BOMBERS   NINE PLANES LOST—LIGHT AT. TACK MADE ON LONDON BY NAZI RAIDERS.  «

Allied Airmen Blast Nazi War Industries   Little Opposition Confronts Aerial Raiders

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT BRUNSWICK   Raid On Reich Industrial Areas Made Without Much Opposition

RAF heavies renew raids on Europe   Follow American davlight assaults

German City, Rocket Coast Hit By Airmen   Heavy Bombers Blast Brunswick in Reich and Install. ations in France—Little Opposition “ __ [s Offered by Enemy

FORTRESSES SMASH Al BRUNSWICK   Are Practically Unopposed In Blast At German And French Military Installa tian   Ample Escort

ATTACK MADE ON BRUNSWICK   Yank Heavy Bombers Also Blast at Nazi Defenses About Pas-de-Calais

Big U.S. Bombers Blast Brunswick: Losses Are Light   Planes, Climaxing Destruc tive Month, Are Virtually Unopposed

nk Planes +: Brunswick. alais Area         ition So Light Only One Bomber, 8 Fighters Lost: Three Nori Planes Destroyec

SCOUTS TO AID IN WAR BOND DRIVE   Door-To-Door Canvass Will Be Conducted During Boy Scout Week — District Meeting Largely Attended   Nearing First Million

Speedy Senate Confirmation Of Stettinius Held Certain  Selection of New Secretary of State Proves Popular in Capital Circles

General Acclaim Given Stettinius For Cabinet Post   Quick Senate Confirmation Viewed On Appointment As Secretary Of State

Quick Senate Confirmation Of Stettinius as Successor To Sec. Hull Is Anticipated

Snead Seen In Approval Of Stettinius   Urgency of Pending Problems Expected To Spur Senate

Confirmation  Is Predicted    ‘Stettinius: May Get: “Unanimous: ‘Approval

Confirmation Of Steftinius Is Predicted   Quick Senate Action Likely Because of Urgency of Pending Problems

PREDICT SPEEDY SENATE OKAY OF EDW. STETTINIUS  APPOINTMENT OF NEW   APPOINTMENT OF NEW SECRETARY OF STATE MEETS WITH ACCLAIM

Congressmen Pleased With Stettinius   Confirmation is Expected By Committee

STETTNUSTO “SUECEED HULL  Seni mate Coutteriation Of Appointm me tex ier      Confronted With Problem * Of Completing World Security Plan

Stettinius Chosen for Cabinet Posi   Quick Confirmation For New Secretary Of State Predicted.

Appointment of Stettinius Pleasing One   Quick Confirmation Seen in Senate With No Dissenters

Quick Action on Stettinius Seen   Generally Acclaimed— Pressing Problems Call for Action

STETTINIUS HAS BIG JOB AHEAD   Quick Approval of FDR's Choice Expected — Many Voice Confidence

Conscription Causes Seeret Commons Meet   Prime Minister King Says Lack Of Unity Might Lead To Anarchy,   THREATENS TO QUIT

APPOINTMENT WINS WIDE APPROVAL   . Senate Expected To Confirm Selection   BASIC POLICIES

Expect Quick _Approbation Of Stettinius   His Nomination to Succeed  Cordell Hull Greeted  With Acclaim In   Washington

FDR Names Stettinius To Succeed Hull   Speedy Senate Approval Seen

Nomination Of Stetfiniu lo Get Quick 0. K.   President's Choice Wins Acclaim; Majo Tasks Are Ahead On International Scene

Senate Acclaims Stettinius; To Be Hull's Successor   Leaders In Upper House Predict Quick  ft . «ees Ze

PLANG oPLEDY CONFIRMATION OF STETTINIU   Dumbarton Oaks Program of World Security New Secretary’s Job.

Speed Up Approval of  Stettinius   General Regret  At Hull’s Leaving; Japanese Blame ‘Trouble in Cabinet’

Quick Senate Acceptance Ot Stettinius Is Expected   Re JOHN M. HIGHTOWER.

, Foresee Speedy Senatorial 0. K. eFor Stettinius   Nominee Popular; Pressing Problems Demand Oninick Action.

SPEEDY OKAY OF STETTINIUS DUE   URGENT INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS ARE PENDING

Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Handed Reins lof American State Dept. by President

QUICK CONFIRMATION FOR STETTINIUS IS BEING PREDICTED   PRESSING MATTERS OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORT. MAKE ACTION DESIRABLE

Stettinius To Succeed Secy. Hull   Senate Confirmation of FOR Appointment Expected

STETTINIUS IS SUCCESSOR T0 CORDELL HULL   Acting Secretary Since Hull Went To Hospital

Stettinius Is Made Secretary  Hull's Aide Succeeds To State Department

Stettinius Is Assured  Karly Okeh   FDR Appointee Acclaimed; Urgency Of Problems ~ Also To Rush Vote

Senate Expected To Quickly Confirm President’s Nomination as Successor to  Mer. Tull.

Stettinius Nomination Acclaimed   Predict Prompt Action By Senate To Confirm Appointment Of New Gerretary Of Stata

FOR'S CHOICE OF STETTINUS IS ACCLAIMED   Congress To Speed Confirmation of New Sec’y  Of State

PREDICT SPEEDY STETTINIUS 0.-K   General Acclaim Greets President's Successor To Cordell Hull

Quick Confirmation of Appointment Of Stettinius Expected in Senate

SPEEDY SENATE APPROVAL SEEN FOR STETTINIUS   Acclaim Greets Roosevelt's Naming Undersecretary To Take Hull’s Post

NEW STATE SECRETARY TO BE CONFIRMED SOON  Snupedy Action Is Anticipated   Speedy Action Is Anticipated By Senate on Stettinius Selection

Committee Meets Wednesday To Act On Appointment; Continuation Of Huii’s Policies Indicated —

Quick Senate ApprovalOf Stettinius For Post Of State Secretary Seen

Claims GOP Party On Top   Spangler Asserts Mackinae Declaration Sole Statement Of Foreign Poliey.

Spangler Holds. Aloft G. 0. P.’s Mackinac Stand   Only Definite Statement On Foreign Policy By Any Party, He Says.

SPANGLER SAYS 40P ALONE HAS FOREIGN PLANS   Points:to Macinac Declara tion Only Concrete State-mént Oni, Policy; Roose ’ yelt Challenged

SPANG LAUDS ~ DECLARATION AT MACKINAG   G.O.P. Lealer Calls It Only and - Comprehensive Statement of -U, 8. Foreign Policy

GOP MEETING OPENS TODAY   Chairman Says Party (s Only One With Statement On Foreign Policy.

G.0.P. FOREIGN POLICY CITED   Spangler Says Mackinac Statement Only Official Party Stand.

GOP-IS ONLY PART) WITH -FOREIGN STAND SPANGLER DECL ARE!   Republican Leaders in Chicago Form Plans For Coming Convention   “NEW DEAL” IS BLASTED

Mackinac Plan Foreign - Policy   -GOP Committeemsn’s Talk - Regarded Answer To  Democratic Chairman

Spangler Says the New Dea Will Not Die   Declares Label "Win the War" Belengs to All Americans

Declaration Made at Mackinac Held Forth by Spangler   GOP Chairman Stresses Statement Made at Summer Meeting

GOP CHAIRMEN CHALLENGES FOR   Soldier Trend \s Republican, Spangler Declares

Republicans ClaimForeign Policy Model   Mackinac Declaration J: Only Concrete Plan, Says Spangler

Mackinac Declaration  “Only Clear Statement’ On U.S.” Farainn Polite

Spangler Says GOP Alone Declares Foreign Policy   Asserts Mackinac Declaration ‘Only Concrete And Comprehensive’ Statement, Sees Influence in Moscow Parley

/MACKINAC FOREIGN POLICY 1S TERMED BEST BY SPANGLER   3. O. P. National Committee Chairman Calls Party’s Declaration Only “Concrete and Comprehensive” Statement

GOP CLAIMS WORLD POLICY   It’s One Drafted At Mack. inac, Republican Par ley Is Told

GOP Officials in Session   Mackinac Declaration Only Concrete Foreign Policy Stand, Spangler

CATCH PHRASES CAN'T WIN WAR, SAYS SPANGLER  ASSERTS GOP HAS ONIY Ci FEAR.CUT   ASSERTS GOP HAS ONLY CLEAR-CUT FOREIGN POLICY

Sees Influence of 6.0. P. Declaration   Spangler Credits Policy Statement

Little Dispute Ends In 25,000 Going OnStrike   44 War Plants Affected By Labor Dispute As Boys Fight Everywhere

STRIKE LEADERS IGNORE THE WLB   MESA Calls Strategy Meeting As Work Stoppage Affecting 25,000 Enters Its Fourth Dav.

UNION LEADER STILL DEFIANT   Refuses To Discuss Strike With Labor Board

Union Heads to Ignore Order   Won't Appear in Washington for WLB Hearing, They Say

ORDER IGNORED. BY MES HEADY   Strategy Meeting Set Fer Cleveland; Walkout In *Fourth Day .

Pvt. Wayne Albert Reported Killed — While In Action   Mother Receives ‘Sad Tidings From. ‘War ‘Department

Pvt. Wayne Albert Reported Killed — While In Action © - Mother Receives ae  “Sad Tidings From. Waw Whavwiewbidecc’

GERMANS BOMB CAPITAL; AIM AT THE PALACE   Bulgaria Split With Nazis, According To Report

QUADS REPORTED “DOING. NICELY”   Boy, One Girl Get Special Attention in Hospital at  Philadelphia

SOVIETS PRESS NAZI TRANSPORT   Strategic Towns Seized tr Squeeze On Budapest

TIRE SHORTAGE NOT EASED YET   Low Point Of Rationing Expected To Continue kor Six Months

Low Point  Of Rationing Is Reached  In Car Tires   Civilians To Receive Oniy 18 to 24 Million This Year Instead  OF 20 Miilkan Predicted   MILITARY DEMANDS CUT INTO SUPPLY   ARR RENN SRE EB os E  Government Holding Fourth of New Tires To Meet Emergencies

AIRMEN POUND NAZI OIL TANKS   Weather Grounds Fliers Based in England

Night Bombers Continue To _ Pound Rumanian-Oit Cities   ; American Bombers From Meditertanean Area Pound ; Capital of Yugoslavia for First Time—Other ‘. European Cities Are Attacked

Vital Balkan rail center is  aerial target  Patrols active on heachhead

Allies Continue Bombing Atfacks   Brifish and U. S. Blast Wide Area

RAIL HUB LASHED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Explosives Rained Down On Turnu-Severin Following Raid On Bucharest

NIKOLAEY CUT OFF BY RAPID RED ADVANCE   DEFENDERS PINNED BACK AGAINST BUG ESTUARY

Fortified Junction Of Pervomaisk Taken By Russians; German Anchor Bastion On East Line Threatened

Advances ‘Scored Along Shores of Lake ~ Himens 40 VILLAGES TAKEN, COMMUNIQUE SAYS  Rail Station of on of Shimsk Is Also Captured: -During Day

Sfaraya Russa Falls to Reds   German Collapse In East Looms   1,606 Germans Killed

Nazi Bastion Captured By Soviet Army   Fall Of Staraya Russa Presages Collapse Of Fron:

Russians Seize Staraya Russa   Reds Also Capture Shimsk  As FBnemy Withdraws

’Staraya Russa Falls To Soviet   General Retreat  By Germans Seen By TOM YARBROUGH

German Salient In North Russia Near Collapse  OS nn eemare Ee eee   Staraya Russa and Shimsk Both Held by Troops of Red Army

Advances . ‘Scored: Afong Shores of Lake Pot! 5 Hlmen.  40. VILLAGES TAKEN, "COMMUNIQUE SAYS  Raif Station of Shimsk Is   Rail Station -of Shimsk Is “Also Captured. Durine Doy

PERVOMAISK IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Who Drive On To Within Eight Miles Of Nikolaev Anchoring German Eastern Front Line.   Concentrated Blow

Staraya Rinse Is Captured By Russians.   With Taking of Shimsk Collapse of Nazi Frout In North Russia Looms

Collanse of Nazi East Salient ls Imminent   Heavily Fortified Junction Taken at Heavy Enemy Cost

Russians Take Staraya Russa Rail Junction   Heavily Fortified Area Protects Heart Of Northern Front

Russians Take Staraya Russa, Drive To West   Shimsk, 30 Miles Farther West, Falls To Red Steamroller; Germans Hint Losses In Korsun Trap Below Russ Estimates

KEY RAILROA CENTER FALLS TO RED ARMY   HEART OF GERMAN NORTHERN FRONT TOTTERS

Rail Junction: of Pervomaisk, Protecting. German. re  . From Southern  ‘Ukraine, Falls...          NIKOLAEV MENACED  . BY: SWIFT ADVANCE.   i nem y Defenders Pinned - Against River'as Russians — Close on City From Three Directions.

" Staraya Russa Falls-To Soviet   General Retreat ‘By Germans Seen

VIET ARMY WINS STRONG NAZI BASTION   German Losses Heavy As Staraya Russa Falls to Reds

Daily Temperatures   U. 5. Planes Are Expected to Begin New Offensive in Few Days From ‘Bases in the Marshall Islands

BGI AIRFIELD TO BE BASE OF BOMBARDMENT   Kwajalein Campaign Seems Over Except Mopping Up Islets .

U.S. Forces Prepare To Extend Pacific Gains   Newly-Won Bases Made Ready for Attacks on Other Jap Islands

Seabees Rush ‘Springboard’ In Marshalls   Army Engineers Speed Kwajalein Airsirip for Yank Bombers, Too   TRUK TARGET SOON:   Only 286 Yanks Killed in Slaying §,122 Japs on Atoll Stronghold

U.S. Plans Offensive From Newly Won Bases Against Tokyo Lifeline   American Casualties Number 1,516 Against 8,386 Dead Japs In Marshalls   ALLIES STRIKE WEWAK, SINK 74 FAP RAPCLE&

_ MAY GRANT ~ DEFERMENTS In Carrying Out  _ Speed Up Draft Policy  YOUNG WORKERS  In War .Plants. May Not Be Inducted      In War .Plants May Not Be Inducted Immediately

Odds and Ends LoomingLarge in Congress   Major Projects to Be Left Over for the New Congress

Senate and House Get Away to Slow Start in Final Session of Congress

18th Congress Launches Final Session Tuesday   Legislatators Get Away To Slow Start on Few ‘Odds and Ends’

FEW MEASURES FACE CONGRESS IN FINAL DAYS   Farm Insurance Bill And Price Support Gain Friends

18TH CONGRESS OPENS SESSION   Solons To Start Work i Earnest Next Monday

Congress Gets Awa' To Poor Start For Final Session  Little Business Will Be Transacted This Week by Body

Congress Asked For 400 Million Additional Funds   78th Twiddles Its Thumbs as Final Session Is Called

ODDS AND ENDS OF LEGISLATION FACE CONGRESS   Lawmakers Get Off To Slow Start To Bring End to : Present Session

Thanksgiving in Front Lines—Here’s How the Men in Combat Look at Things

~ AT CASSINO           UGE FLEETS OF DAYLIGHT BOMBERS, BLAST GER MAN AIRCRAFT CENTERS FOLLOWING DEVASTAT-ING t ,000-PLANE ATTACK ON FRANKFORT BY RAF ‘+ "DURING NIGHT—NAZI ATTACKS AT ; - CASSINO BEATEN OFF -

MULTI-PRONGED DAYLIGHT BLOW ROCKS SERMANY   Bombers from Britain, Ital) Hit Many Vital Plane Plants

MAT BLAM rHANKE RT  LAST MIGHT   Yankee Planes Fill Skies Today  GERMANS RESIST  furious Air Fights Reported

U. 5, FIRST ARMY INFANTRYMEN BATTLE ATTACKING GERMANS  QUICK CLEARING OF LAST ENEMY BRIDGEHEAD BELOW MAAS EXPECTED

Blasting of Jap Islands Is Continued   Hammering of Enemy Bases in Southwest Pacific Still Goes On

QUIZ THREE ON HOTEL SLAYING      Withhold Identity of Trio; To Continue Investigation

2 WOMEN AND MAN GRILLED ON KILLING   Suspects in 1 Hotel Murder Not Identified

RAWSON CLAIMED UNDER ARREST   Argentine Reported Held Although Official Word Lacking

Russian Forces Win Bridgehead  Across Biebrza   Report Reds Within Dozen Miles Of East Prussian Border Qn Southeast

Russians Win. New Bridgehead   GERMAN SECTOR LAID TO WASTE BY REDS

Reds Spear To Within Dozen Miles Of Fast Prussia; Make River Cross

RUSSIANS MOVE FORWARD OVER RIVER BARRIER   Big Soviet Fighter Squadrons Paving Way for Red Army Hosts

Russians Force Crossing Of Biebrza River  DS on whim fia, OVE   Fortress City Of Osowiec Captured By Red Troops

BRITISH WEEKLY RAPS U. S. FREE PRESS CAMPAIGN  an nt an. oo meee 6 ao   FEARS DOMINATION OF WORLD NEWS BY AMERICAN AGENCIES

PRESS FREEDOM BAN ATTACKED   British Paper Takes Exception to ‘Crusade’ By AP Executive.   KENT COOPER REPLIES

CONTROL OF OIL MAY BALK WAR   Britain And U. S. Sign Pact To Withhold Fuel From Aggressor Nations

AGREEMENT ON OIL CONTROL SEEN AS FUTURE PEACE STEP   FOUNDATION LAID FOR INTER' NATIONAL COMMISSION TO ' KZEP AGORESSOR NA“TIONS FROM STOR _-- ING OIL

OIL RESOURCES TO BE CONTROLLE   Anglo-American Pact Signed to Keep Oil From Ag;ressors

OTHERS DAMAGED IN. RAID BATTLE   THREE JAP DESTROYERS SUNK AND BATTLESHIP AND .. CRUISER DAMAGED IN BEA-AIR FIGHT

SINK THREE JAP AESTROYERS AND WIT TWO OTHERS   Battleship and Heavy Cruise! Damaged in Battle Off Mindoro

Main Test Is Still ‘To Come   Nation Warned Against Over-Confidence Due _To Success of First Phase of Invasion

SUPREME TEST STILL TO COME   Must Beat Mobile Units. President Explains

First Crisis Ends In Allied Victory But Nazi Strategy Calls For Counterattack When Main Allied Threat Becomes Annurent.

Second Invasion Crisis Yet To Come, Warning   Major General Demoted For Talking Too Much

First Crisis Is Ended With One Yet To Develop   Optimism Tempered With Cautious Word About The Future

ALLIES WILL FACE A NEW CRISIS SOON   Having Succeeded in Landing, They Must Now Meet Nazi CounterBlows Before Exploiting Their Position.

Second Invasion Crisis Approaching  Washington Officiais   TFemnering Ontimiem

First:.Grisis Ends li Allied Victory But Nazi Strategy. Calls For ‘CGounterattack.“ When  “Main Allied Threat Be: ‘ gomes Apparent...

Final Crisis Will Develop In France Soon   First. Phase Ends In Major Victory For Allied Forces

Major Crisis Of Invasion Is  Still To Come   Counterattack Imminent; Washington Optimistic Rut Cautious.

Another Large Airborne Force Dropped Today   Washington Officials Optimistic, But With Caution  First Crisis Of Invasion  Ends In An Allied Victory

Next Crisis Of Invasion  Still Ahead   Tempers Optimism of Washington Officials  From President Down

Wounded Veterans Pray for Invaders   Officials Temper Invasion Optimism With Caution

First Crisis Of D-Day In Allied Favor   Second. Final Crisis Has Yet To Develop; See Lots Of  Tiohting.   LOSE TWO DESTROYERS

First Phase of Invasion Won by Allies   Washington Officials See Second Crisis As Yet to Come

Second Crisis In Allied Invasion Yet To Develop; First Is Victory  Getitian System Of Defense Depends On Stopping  at tim. Mh... .k .. sa. we... ....¢.. .. Ct... .... hh... J

TWO DAUGHTERS QF FORMER LOCAL RESIDENTS DROWN   Anna Jane Lehigh, Aged 8, And Sister Bertha, 10, Meet Death When Boat Sinks In Florida Lake   PARENTS LEFT HANOVER LAST FALL FOR SOUTH   Ten Persons In Vessel When It Fills With Water—Two Other Children Perish—Bodies Of Girls Sent North For Rurial

OPA Prices Threatening Oil Famine   NOT ENOUGH TO ENCOURAGI DEVELOPMENT OF MARGIINAI PROPERTIES SAYS J. P. JONES OF BRADFORD.   Production Less Than ’43

Production Running 70,863 Barrels Daily Average Behind 1943 Yield, J. P. Jones Declares at Annual Meeting of Oil Men; Three New Directors Named, 32 Reelected

Canada Spends Half Its Annual Income For War  Five Times More Than Firct Yaar

Allied Casualties Lighter Than Expected; French Pursue Disorganized Enemy North In One Area, Americans Overrun Spigno

Breach in Gustav Wall Endangers German Flank   Disorganized Nazis Are Falling Back To Hitler Line; Big Battle Shaping Up

Allied Advances Range Up To 8 Miles; German Prisoners Reach 3,000.

‘French Troops Are Pouring Through Break, Chasing   Out What Is Left of   Nazi 71st Division.   NAZI PLANES STRIKE AT ENGLISH CITIES

German Resistance South of Liri River Wiped Out With Allied Forces Moving Forward   Americans Overrun German Forces Defending the Lower Garigliano Valley While 8th Army Beats Back Counter Attacks Near Cassino

American and French Troops Overrun Garigliano Valley; ‘British Repel Enemy Thrust   Nazis Break Into Disorganized Retreat-at Vital Point in Line, With French Forces in Hot Pursuit

NAZIS REPORT HEAVY FIGHTING   Remnants of German Division Are Pursued Through Gustov Line Breach.   BRITISH MASS FOR FIGHT.

Americans _ And French . Push Ahead   Bag of Prisoners. Captured Since Last Thurs day Has Risen to 3000:

FRENCH POUR THROUGH GAP IN NAZI LINE   Allies Say Casualties Less Than Expected In Campaign

Advance Made By Allies In Italian Drive   Troops Smash Through for 3 to 8-Mile Gains

ALL DEFENSES BELOW LR SMASHED   Series Of Counter-Attacks Turned Back   3,000 CAPTIVES   Taken Since Drive Opened; U. S. Cruiser Pounds Battle Area

ENEMY DEFENSES SOUTH OF LIRI RIVER SMASHED  AMERICAN TROOPS OVERRUN SPIGNO IN

TEMPERATURES   Allies Overrunning German Positions   ‘Last Organized Resistance South Of Liri River Smashed; Americans Rout Enemy From Lower Garialiano Valley

Break Endangers German Flank at End Liri Valley   Germans Admit Retreats, Allies Report Advances of Three to Eight Miles —Push May Open Way for British   Armar Macsesn for Bie Battle

Last Organized Resistance At  Liri Smashed   German Radio Says Violent Vighting Rages All Along  Defense Line.   3.000 PRISONERS

Break- Through In Italy Widens   French Pour Through Breach, Periling Nazi Flank; Yanks Capture Spigno; Gains Up to Eight Miles; 3000 Prisoners

More Gains Made On Italian Front   Allies Smash Enemy Resistance South of the Liri River      Swift Thrust Puts Allies in Position to Flank Cassino’

GERMAN FLANK THREATENED BY NEWEST WEDGE   Remnants of German Tist Division Chased; Allied Armor Massing

Flank of Nazi Defense Line Threatened   Germans Report Forces Retire; Eight to Three Mile Gains Recorded

Pour Through Breached Line South Of Lint   Enemy Admits Heights Near Cassino Given Up; Casualties Less eThan Expected

Nazi Army Is Reported to Be in Disorder   Allied Position Is Reported As Highly Strategic in Italy

Americans and  F orward. rea         British Beat’ éat Off: Counte: ». Blows Néar: Cassino And: " Tncrease: “Pressure”      ALEXANDER SEEKS. “ "TO DESTROY ENEMY.      Germans. Fighting. ‘Back Stubbornly. and: Skillfully;* More. Prisoners. Taken:

Mrs. Nancy Ani Perkins Dies in Dallas Sunday  Rites Conducted Here For Mother Of Mrs. McKee

Mrs. Graves Is Buried Saturday At Local Rites  Widow of James  W. Graves Dies OF Llaart Attack

GERMANS. SLOW ALLIES IN ITALY   NAZIS FIGHT FIERCELY TO PREVENT BREAK-THROUGH ‘INTO PO VALLEY.

ALLIED ATTACK IN. ATALY 1S SLOWED      Germans Defend Gothic Line With Fan aticicm

NAZIS BATTLE 10 HOLD GOTHIC LINE   Fanatical Resistance Slows Allied Assault; Gives Forces Some of Worst Fighting of Italian Campaign

Fanatical Nazi Resistance Slows Allied Assault on the Gothic Line

GAINS SLIGHT ON GOTHIC LINE   Fanatical Nazis Fighting Desperately At Rimini

Fanatical Nazis Slow Allies in Italy   Last Ditch Defense Of Gothic Line Seen

40 Per Cent of Labor in Germany Is Done by Virtual Slave Workers   Returned Associated Press Man Tells of Many Deaths Occurring Among the Russian Captives

Terrorists Deal Death To Nazis   French Partisans Also Add to German Woes By Countless Acts of Sabotage

Germans Fight ‘Rising French Terrorist Wave   Alliéd Partisans Slay Collaborationists And Nazis By Thousands.

Kuow. They Are Beaten, But Few Really Feel Is In Hearts, Newsman Says

INSIDE VIEW FRENCH  RESISTANCE TO NAZIS  TOLD BY AP WRITER VIRTUAL CIVIL WAR BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS  AND CEDMAN DADTICANG

~-THOUSANDS MEET DEATH—   Freneh Terror Mounts   “Friends Of America” Wage Virtual Civil War

Virtual Civil War in France Between Partisans, Germans   Taylor Henry, Former AP Chief at Vichy Tells of Terror

VIRTUAL CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE, SAYS AP WRITEE   Partisans of Allies Bring Death to Hundreds of Nazi Collaborationists.

Gov. Dewey Concedes   Congratulates President, Urges. Americans to Accept Will of People...

Dewey Flier Gets 2'”2 Japs   ‘Whistling Devils’ in New Corsair Squadron Get Eight Planes in 8 Minutes

Allies in 32 Miles of Ancone   Troops Gain Toward Prize Italy Port, Move Past Grosseto

Allied Paratroops May Descend on Reich Soi   WEST WALL DEFENSES. OF NAZIS AGAIN HIT

1,500,000 Troops, 9,300 Planes Reported Poised In Britain For Invasion Of Europe

Allied Forces Ready for )-Way Drive   100 Divisions Set In Britain, 100 in South, Swedes Say

‘Over Million Allied Troops Poised Say Swedish Sources   Germans Show Fear By Sending Over Big  Reconnaissance Force

YANKS ITCH TO ‘GET GOING’  Well Trained Troops Have Plenty Of Everything To Crash Atlantic Wall   (1,500,000 Allied Troops Ready For D-Day

NAZIS BETRAY ANXIETY OVER COMING FIGHT   Swedes Claim Allies Have Poised  1,500,000 Troops For Invasion

Nazis Have Invasion Jitters, Say  Allies May Try to Land Paratroops :/In Germany; Tension Increases

GERMANS BETRAY ANXIETY OVER TIME AND PLAGE   Reich Issues New Warnings— Rumors Are Still Rife on Continent.

Germans Warned 0 Possible Allied Airborne Invasion   Swedish Experts Say 1,500,000 Men Are Ready For Smash

Nazis Fear Direct Stab At Germany   Sweden Estimates 1,500,000 Invasion Army in England

Allied Troops Poised For The  Big Invasion   Reports coming from Sweden say 1,500,000 Allied troops are.ready in Britain. : :

1,500,000 Soldiers, 9300 Planes Poised For  Invasion; Nazis Fear Paratroops in Germany

NEW TENSION GRIPS ENEMY; TRY SPYING   Paratroop Landings Expected by Germany

Debate Rages On ‘Treat "Em Rough’ Policy   Cabinet Group Hard Pressed For Agreement; Showdown Likely This Week

German Peace Schism Widens   Morgenthau Attacks “Soft” Peace Plan— May Force Showdown

Debate Rages As Morgenthau Asks Harsher Peace   Treasury Asks Basic Changes In Administra tion Plans For Nazis.

FR’s Cabinet Argues Over Nazi Peace   Morgenthau Wants to De stroy German Industry. Hull Is Opposed

PEACE PLAN DEBATE NEARING SHOWDOWN   Argument Centers on What To Do With Germany

Hard Peace  Issue Debated   Roosevelt Cubinet Reported Split on Plans for Germany

Capitol Debates Hard Peace Terms   Morgenthau, Hull, Stimson Differ

Showdown This Week. ‘on Peace   U. S. Officials Split On Issue of Harsh  Trantmant af Navzi<«

PRESIDENTS CABINET SPLIT OVER GERMANY  Furious Dispute Rages at Capital   Furious Dispute Rages at Capital Over Peace Terms for Defeated Foe

German Status Following War Is Considered   State. War and = Treasury Departments Present Different Trends as to Poliejec.

SHOWDOWN IN PEACE TERMS EXPECTED SOON   Fate Of Germany Is Problem For Allied Nations

Powerful Drive Of First Army Makina History   Hodges’ Yankee Forces Unlimber A Great Assault

Four Leaders Of Walkout Out Of Jobs   Philly Strikers Back After Told Would Be Out For Duration if Didn't Report

4 STRIKE HEADS FIRED BY ARMY   Philadelphia Sees Return 0 Normal Transportation

{ LEADERS FIRED   Army - Restores * Normal Transportation: Service  ‘in Philadelphia

RINGLEADERS OF WALKOUT DISCHARGED   Army Spokesman Reports That Service in Philadel phia is 100 Per Cent Normal   NEGRO IS SENT HOME

INVOKING FULL WAR TIME POWER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BRINGS TO END PHILADELPHIA CAR STRIKE   Workers Reported Returning to Jobs After Week Of “Nightmare” in City of Brotherly Love, Where Violence and Race Riots Have Held Sway

Transport Workers Return, Leaders Of Strike Arrested  Draft Deferments Cancelled,   Draft Deferments Cancelled, Feed, Gas Rations Revoked te Break Philly's Tieus

PHILADELPHIA STRIKE ENDED   ‘Nightmare’ Week In Which Production Slumped Is Closed

Army Crushes Transit Strike   Philadelphia Is Peaceful and War Production Soars

ARMY RESTORES CAR AND BUS ‘SERVICE ' TODAY   Four Heads Of Unauthorized Walkout Ousted °

TRANSPORTATION IS RESTORED BY ARMY IN PHILADELPHIA   Four Leaders of the Unauthorized Walkout Fired. After Normal Service Is Restored By Action of Troons

U.S. Action Ends Strike in Philadelphia   Troops in Battle Dress Ride Restored  Transportation System

Strike Broken, Rail Employes Refurn To Work  14 Hospitalized In Race Riotina

A LEADERS FIRED   Army Restores Normal Transportation Service  im Philadelphia

Philadelphia Strike Crushed  By Government   Union Loses Fight; Four Lenders of Unauthorized Work Stoppage Discharged by Army

GOVERNMENT MIGHT  CRUSHES STRIKERS  IN PHILADELPHIA FEPC ORDER TO TRANSIT  COMPANY WINS AT CONCINERARIE CNcT

Government Ends Strike ir Philadelphia   Transit Workers Return to Jobs After Nightmare Week of Production Slump and Race Battles

PHILADELPHIA CARS OPERATE   Four Strike Leaders Arrested as Army Returns , Normal Operations

Allied Taking of Caen Reported   Normandy Battle Spreads Inland, Troops Beat Off German Armor as Rommel Pours More Tanks, Elite Troops Into French Fight

) World's Biggest Hotel, ) GOP Headquarters, Has  Nea Tarrele. @.000 Guectsc.

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   BRITISH SECOND ARMY PENETRATES INTO HER TAC ENROSCH

British Smash Forward Along Holland Front   Enter Outskirts Of Hertogenbosct Key Road Hub

ANOTHER WARD STRIKE HINTED   ClO CONTINUES TO DEMAND EXTENSION OF UNION CONTRACT

Another Ward Strike Possible;. 1,000. War Refugees To Be Brought into United States

POSSIBILITY OF A NEW WARD STRIKE   Workers May Find They Are Not Obliged ta Stay On Job.

JURY CONVICTS 9 AS CONSPIRATORS   Acquits..5. Other--Defendants. _ Disagrees on 3 Oth- arc Held sit;

JAPS DRIVING UP MANIPUR RIVER VALLEY   Nipponese Columns Invading India Threaten Imphal From South and East  ADVANCE OVER 80 MILES

Jap Columns Are Deeper in India   Early Counter Stroke By Allies Hinted; To Use Air Power

JAPS STEP UP INDIA INVASION   ALLIES CONVERGE ON ENEMY FORCES IN IMPHAL SECTOR

Jap Columns Are Threat To Road Center   Enemy Force Drives Over 80 Miles Up Manipur Valley

Jap Columns Driving Into India   Eighty-Mile Advance Up River Valley Threatens Imphal

Allies Converge On Japs in Burma   Attempts to Check Border Crossing Are Growing in Ferocity.

JAPS THREATEN AN BURMA AREA   Columns Invading = India Threaten Imphal From ” South and East.   2ND INVASION IN DAY

Jap Drive Threatens: ~ Key Center   Second: Invasion. ..of. India Revealed; Enemy Seeking to Smash Imphal      TTIS TERMINUS .. os” “OF SUPPLY ROAD   Pressure Increasing, But. Allied “Air: Superiority “Is ‘Expected to Check Foe

JAPANESE COLUMNS  INVADING INDIA NOW  THREATEN KEY BASE SECOND INVASION OF IN.  DIA WITHIN PAST 24 HOTIRG ANMITTEN

Invasion Of Burmese Foes. _ Two-Pronged   Early Allied Reports Had ‘Reported Japs Were Confined Within Burma Borders   Enemy Advances  Up Manipur River   Allied Air Superiority Ex pected to Play Heavy’ Role When Foes Break Into Imphal Plains

Japs Threaten Imphal Now   Enemies Invading India Drive Near Key Road Cente! From Two Directions   By CHARLES A. GRUMICH

Japs 80 Miles Inside India  Drive Up Lower Manipur Valley From Tiddim

Dual Pincer Moves On Imphal Highway Junction in Manipur   Army. From South Drives 80 Miles To Close Lines Around Key City; Allies Relving on Aerial Contr rol

JAPANESE COLUMNS INVADING INDIA NOW THREATEN KEY BASE  SECOND INVASION OF IN. DIA WITHIN PAST 24  i a ew ek wk ee

Jap Offensive On Burma Fron Grows Fierce   Threat To India Seen In New Thrust Near Imphal

Imphal, Junction City In Manipur Province, Lies Before Enemy Driving Up Lower Manipur River Valley—Onls 30 Miles Away

Penetration Of 80 Miles Is Revealed   Second Invasion From Burma Told; Imphal Threatened From Two Directions By Nips  ~_  Pease sae 22 oe » g*@ne@e-aseaes+:ee

Threaten Road Key In India ©   Japs Move on Imphal From South As Well As East; Allies Sink Three More Nip Shins

JAP INVASION” NOW THREATENS -[MPHAL, INDIA   Enemy. Force: Jrives Up Manipur: River  ‘Valley .

Enemy Columns Invading India Threaten Key Road Center in Manipur From South and East—Second Force Reported Across the Border Within 24 Hours.   MORE PRESSURE IN BURMA

Japs Advance In India From 2 Directions   Threaten Key Road Center in Manipur; Make 80 Mile Thrust

Nips Threaten Manipur City   Japanese Columns Invading India Advanee On Imphal. Key Road Center,

New Offensives Are Reported in Burma Campaiar   Allied Troops Are Converging On Invasion Army

Jap Resistance In Burma I[s Stiffening   But Allied Planes Keep Up Ceaseless Offensive

Japanese Columns In India Threaten Key Road Center   Second Invasion in 24 Hours Reported” By Allied Command

Mussolini Is Still of Use to Nazis  oS Pisce am tH aia   Il Duce Is Trying To Improve Red, German Situation

Mussolini Is Still of Use to Nazis  Il Duce Js Trying   Il Duce Is Trying Tc Improve Red, German Situation

Germans Lose Half of Crude Oil Reserves   Soviet Column Nears Bulgaria As Nazis Collapse

Conquest Of Ploesti Easily Won   Romanian Capital Expected To Fall At Any Moment.

£ussians Drive {nto Suburbs of Bucharest   Ploesti Taken By Red Troops In Push  Across Romania

Fall of Romania’s Capital Expected Momen* tarily; Oil Field Victory One of Cheapest in War

Russians Speed South From Newly-Captured Ploesti ‘To The Suburbs Of Bucharest

Surrender of Capi tal Expected AnyMoment   Vital Ploesti Oil Fields Wrested From Hands of Decimated Germans

COLUMNS MAY PURSUE NAZIS INTO BULGARIA   Romanian Capital Reportedly In Hands Of King Michael's Troops

Ploesti Swept. Up Quickly and Capital’s Fall is Now Imminent; 16,000 Nazis Taken in 12 Days

Reach PreWar Border Of Bulgaria   Russians Win Most Important, Cheapest Victory Near Ploesti Center

‘OILFIELDS OF PLOEST! ‘ARE TAKEN   €Romanian Capital Is Expected To Fall  In Few Hours

Troops Also Are Sweening On Buloaria   international News Service LOb  NDON, Aug. 31.-—The Red Army has entered Bucharest, Marshall Stalin an-nounced tonight.

Capture Ploesti Which Had Been Supplying Germany With Much Of Its Oil ;Other Trocps Now In  Nehrnia   ‘THREATEN TO CROSS PRE-WAR FRONTIER

RUSSIANS IN SUBURBS OF BUCHAREST   Other Columns Reach Border Of Bulgaria

Capture Of Romania’s apital Matter Of Days; Ploesti Oil Fields Taken

RUSSIANS NOW IN ROMANIAN CAPITAL   Speeding South From Newly Captured Ploesti

/PICTURES SHOW READINESS   British Papers Publish Photos Of Invasion Equipment

London Papers Pablish Photographs of Large Allied Invasion Fleet

Mlegal Gas Sale Racket Smashed   Patriotic Station Operator Helps OPA Capture Three.

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JAP BASE OF KAMAING 1S CAPTURED   Chinese Troops Approaching Mogaung, Burma

Chinese Troops CaptureKamainc   Stilwell’s Men Break Stronghold’s Defenses

AMERICANS BOMB HONG KONG, CHINA   Japs Admit Attack On Vast Enemy-Held Port.

Hong Kong Hit By Big Bombers Based In China   Liberators In Raid On Kowloon Dock Area Stilwell Announces

Red Mobile Columns  Lunge Into Rumania   Trap Tightens on Odessa Bastion; Advance Guards Sight Port City

RUSSIANS DRIVE 5 MILES INTO RUMANIA TODAY   Troops and Tanks Surge Across [order atSame Time in  Many Points

Push Nazis Over Soviet Boundaries   Disclaim Any Designs o Territory as Troops Pur sue Germans

Pursue Enemy. Until Final Rout, Soviets Ordered   Russia Assures World She Has No Designs On  Rumanian Territory

Russian Armies Surge Into ~ Rumania At Several Points   NO PERMANENT DESIGNS ON TERRITORY, SAY REDS   Other Red Forces Now in Sight of Odessa; Drives May Break Back of Hitler’s Balkan Front

SOVIETS' PURSUE FLEEING NAZIS INTO RUMANIA   Pledge No Territory Aims

‘Sth Air Force Ousts Reporters   Stimson Asks Full Report On Matter Concerning Correspondents.

NAZI DRIVE ON BEACH HALTED   Yanks Holding Firm at Anzio  Rail Yards at Rome Blasted

\mericans Hurl Back German ttackers Against Beachead Positions Below Rome

Allies Bomb Nazi Europe   U.S, Fliers In Most Diversified Attocks

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oAYS AVERY “PETTY TYRANT   Officer of CIO Testifies in’ Ward Company Seizure Case.

oeYseCUC( i LL OT CU OO OO  WARD EXECU TIVE CALLED A ‘PETTY TYRANT’ BY CIO

STIMSON WARNS OF NAZI ATTACKS   secretary Terms Situation in Italy as ‘Highly Satisfactory’

Stimson Says Fierce Battle For Rome Expectet   Allied Situation In Italy At Present Is ‘‘Highly Satisfactory,’’ Says War Secretary   INDICATIONS POINT TO BIG ENGAGEMENT

ALLIES MOVE STEADILY INLAND:   Chase Hermann Goer ing Troops South of Littoria

Swedes Balk At Trade Cut   Stockholm May Reject Allied Note On Ending Nazi Aid

5 NAZIS ARE GETTING SET FOR MAJOR  BATTLE NEAR RON   Stimson Says Beachhead Pragress Is Satisfactory Thus Far tn Haly.

FIRST COUNTER BLOW AGAINST ALLIES BROKEN   Invaders Rout Crack Panzer Force Drive Ahead

Goering Armored Division Beaten Off; 120 Germans Slain; Yanks Near Cassino

MORE ATTACKS EXPECTED SOON FROM GERMANS   Goering Division Is Beaten Back as Allies Pile Up Men, Supplies

Allies Break Ist German CounterAttack Near Rome   French Of 5th Army Seize Strong Site Above Cassino

Work Records Are Falsified, FBI Charges   33° Shipyard Employes Held in Case Involving  Over S}.000.000 Annuallh

WELDING FRA IS DISCOVERED IN BALTIMORE   33 Shipyard Counters Are Arrested By FBI Fol lowing Probe   U. $. IS DEFRAUDED OF OVER $1,600,608

WORKERS ACCUSED ~ OF FALSE RECORDS      Thirty-three Seized by the FB! at Bethlehem Stee! Plant

id G-Men Arrest s; 17 Persons in  *d Shipyard Frauc   Local War Fund GCampaign Lags; 1’  349.801 Raised SI   Claim Work Records Falsified for Over $1,000,000 Annually

FBI Arrests — Workmen Or Fraud Count  33 Charged With €1 000 000 Steq!

FBI Arrests 17 Bethlehem Workers On Work Record Falsifying Charge

falsified Time Reports, F.B.1. Charges Assert   700 Men Declared Involved in Fraud   Ywo Groups Arrested

FBI Arrests Workmen Ot Fraud Count  33 Charged - With “$7 MOD O00 kan!

VIRTUALLY ALL TRAFFIC STOPS IN PHILADELPHIA   Strike Even More Critical, Troops Brought To City

Strikers Defy Army   State Guard And State Police Units Mobilized, Ready For Any Call

Strikers Defy Army in Philadelphia  More Workers Stay   More Workers Stay Out Despite Tl. &. Seizure

Train Service In Philly Worse As Army Takes Over   Maj. Gen. Hayes Says Strike Already Has  Delaved Peace

Troops Enroute To Compel Resumption Of Philadelphia Transit Service

NEW ASSAULTS SAP JAP POWER   Enemy Bases in Marshalls and Caroline Under Air Attacks

SAP STRENGT OF JAPANESE   U. S. Continues Its Offensive Almost at Non-Stop Pace

AIR ASSAULTS SAP STRENGTE OF JAPANESE   U.S. Continues Its Offensive Almost at Non-Stop Pace

FR. AND CONGRESS IN BITTER FIGHT ON TAX POLICIES   Dispute Ranges Over All Five Points of President’s Message on Jan. 11.

Roosevelt, Congress Slug It Out   Clash of Economic Views Provides Spectacular Bout

CONGRESS AND F. D. TRADING BLOWS IN BITTER POLICY ROW   Dispute Covers 5 Points With Stakes High In Vote Year

FDR and Congress In Policy Contest   Dispute Arises Over Nation’s Present and Post-War Feonomy

PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS ARE IN POLICY CONTEST   Bitterness Cownaerable to That Over Supreme Cour  Reorganization

GOP STUNNED BY M’NARY’S DEATH   Study Successor as Senate Leader

REPUBLICANS MAY DELAY CHOOSING PERMANENT  SENATE. LEADER UNTIL AFTER NEXT NO. VEMBER a

Senate Leader Must Be Named By G.0.P. Members   Vandenberg, White And Taft Considered As Successor To Late Senator McNary

SENATE GOP IS PICKING CHIEF FOR WNARY PQS)   Minority Leader Dies In Florida After Rrain Ovperiulion

BOMBS, BUMBS FALL ON REICH   Two Pronged Assault Hits Western Germany, Northern France

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS      American Bombers At tack Key Installations

SOVIET DRIVE  PUSHES AHEAD   AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS HITS OBJECTIVES IN: GERMAN AND: OCCUPIED FRANCE AFTER ‘ RAF NIGHT ATTACKS—RED ARMY TROOPS ONLY 15: MILES, FROM PRUTH RIVER

MONTH BRINGS NEW RECORD   Yanks Bomb Targets in West Germany and Northeast France

65 Mile Push Passes Sens: Yanks On Seine Strike For  Sea: Deauville Is Reached

NAZI EXPERTS CHANGE MINDS   ‘Invasion Is Nowhere’ Near,’ They Say

ROOSEVELT INVITES REPRE/ SENTATIVES OF 42 UNITED ‘ NATIONS TO IMPORTANT ' CONFERENCE. IN WASHINGTON —

FDR Calls World Money Conference   invites 42 Nations to Meeting for Stabilizing Currency

F.D.R.INVITES # NATIONS T0 SESSIONS   Meeting, Regarded as Highly Important, to Open July 1

WORLD MONEY PARLEY CALLED BY ROOSEVELT   42 Nations Invited to Conference   OPENS JULY 1ST   Would Stabilize Post War Currency

STRONG POINT IN NAZI LINE TAKEN BY U, §   Carentan Falis as Weather Permits Heavy Air Cover for Allied Troops Now in France

WOULD ‘DRAFT EVERYONE INTO U.S. SERVICE   Calls on Congressmen For Better Tax and Food Laws

Continuation of Price, Wage Control Also Urged In Message to Congress   Law Governing Food Costs, Tax to Absorb All Unreasonable Profits Among Other Recommendations of President

Drafting of Every Able-Bodied Person For Industry Asked   President Says Plan Will Prevent Strikes; Realistic Tax, Contract, Food, Stabilization Laws Ureed

FIVE-POINT  PROGRAM IS SUBMITTED   Wants All Five Suggestions Ff nacted

Asks Again For Subsidy Enactment   President Urges Nationa Service Law in Message  to Congress Today

President Places 5-Point Program Before Congres:   Urges ‘Realistic Tax Law, Continued Renegotiation of Contracts, ‘Cost of Food Law’ and Reenactment of Stabilization Law

Subsidy On Food Items Also Sought   President Proposes 5-Point Progrem In Annual Talk  To Congress.

WILL PREVENT “U.S. STRIKES, HE DECLARES   Five - Point Legislature Program Offered To Congress

Federal Service Law Proposed By President   Five Point Program Is Given Conaress

Says Plan ~ Would Aver Striking          PROPOSES LABOR DRAFT BUT ONLY IF FOUR PROPOSALS TO. KEEP LIVING COST DOWN ARE. ALSO ADOPTED

Tells Congress National Service  Plan Would Prevent Strikes—   Is One Of Five Point Program Submitted Today   ASKS CONTINUATION OF CONTRACTS LAW

Asserts That Measure “Will Prevent Strikes”   Lists Five-Point Legislative Plan To Second Session of 78th Congress

PLAN WOULD  PREVENT STRIKES     Dependent, However, Upon Passage of Companion Legislation.

Draft of Men Not in War Jobs Ordered   Selective Service to Replace Soldiers Released to Industry

To Draft Men 26 To 37 For Replacements  Applies To Ones Not Doing Part

RESUME DRATT OF 26-37 CLASS   Replacements Needed For Men Released To War Plants

New Draft Calls Are Now Ordered   Affects Men 26 to 37 to Replace Those Released To War Plants

More Older Men Schedulec For Drafting   Step Taken to Get More Workers for Essential War Jobs

Must Replace Army ‘And Navy Men To Be Sent  Back To War’ Plants   Due TFo-Shortage

Boost Dratt of Men in Older Bracke   Must Replace Service Men Released for Use in Essential Plants

FIGHT OR WORK ORDER ISSUED MEN OF 26-37   Local Draft Board Get Instructions To Review Deferments

MORE MEN CALLED FOR ARMY SERVICE   Range From 26 to 37 Years-‘ ‘To Replace Meri Released to War Plants,

Drafting Of Men Not Aiding War Effort To Be Increased   Men Between 26 And 37 To Replace Soldiers And Sailors Released For Work In Manpower-Short War Plants  a

Boards Ordered To Increase Draft   Men 26 To 37 Will Be Called To Duty

Drafting Men 26 to 37 fo Be Increased   Will Be Used-to Replace Those Released to Plants

BOARDS 70 DRAFT MORE MEN FROM 96-37 AGE GROUP   Step Ordered to Provide Replacements for Soldiers and Sailors Released to War Plants.   TO RECLASSIFY SOME GIVEN DEFERMENT   Officials Hope to Stem Movement From War Jobs to Those That Will Continue After Peace.

NON-ESSENTIAL WORKERS FACE IMMINENT CALL   Would Replace Service Men Released for War Plant Jobs

Additional men in 26-37 age group will be drafted  Mobilize manpower for war output; truck tire plants go on 7-day week

Raise in Draft Age Ordered to Fill War Plant Needs   Men 26 to 37 in Nonessential Work Called To Replace Soldiers, Sailors Releaced ta Mannower-Short Industries

Those Not Doing Their Part To Contribute To War Effort Face Draft To Replace Men Released

Mew Draft Calls. ‘Are Now Ordered   - Affects Men 26: ta 37 te Reploce Fhose Released To War Plants

BULGARIA IS > HIT BYPRAID   FORTRESSES. Go WITHIN 5 MILES GF SOFIA—RAIDERS. - ALSO BLAST YUGO- — \- BLAYIA TARGETS

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Fortresses Bomb Enemy-Held Kev Railroad Bridge

Grim Mystery Is Unfolded When Colin Rae Goes North To Expose A Sinister Plot

Stories From WACs Buzzed b Bombs  Ceiling, Floor, Panes Mashed, ‘But Nothing Happened to Me’

Robots Killing U. S. Soldiers  Wacs Have Narrow Escape In Britain

Robot Kills Number Of Americans   Soldiers Perish, Group Of WACs Has Close Call

U.S. Asks Eire lo Close Axis Consulates   Allied Diplomats Would Have to Go, Too, Says De Valera

rie Rejects Plea To Bar Axis Envoys   lreland Would Have To In* clude Allies, ‘Too

REPORT EIRE REJECTED U.S. REQUEST   Allies Asked Ireland Oust Axis Diplomats

WIFE 1S INFORMED HUSBAND MISSINC   Fred Turner Had Part [n In: vasion of France Shortly After D-Day.

‘Oaks’ Meet Frames: Plan For Security   All-Nations Assembly, With ‘Big 4' Council Plus Court Proposed

Conferees Agree On Form of Worle Security Plan   Reach Agreement On Ox ganization Including Council of Nations.

nach Accord on Form of a Security Pact   Conferees in Joint Statement Announce Studies to Continue

Plans for Security Group Made   Conferees Reveal ‘General Agreement On Three Points; Talks Continued

Conferees At Dumbarton Oaks Announce ‘General Agreement’ On Organization For Security

ENDORSEMENT 01 AMERICAN PLAN SEEMS PRESENT   Delegates Decline To Amplify Outline  Of Organization Provisions °

TO BE SET UP FOR SECURITY   Conferees Decline to State What Authority Is Given Small Nations

AGREEMENT ON SECURITY PLAN IS ANNOUNCED   Proposed Council To Include Big Powers, Plus Smaller Nations

—PEACE PLAN—  NEW SECURITY GROUP ORAFTEL   Dumbarton Oaks Conferees Reach Agreement On Council

General Agreement On Security Plan   Details Withheld By Conferees

Conterees Agree On Security Plan   Council of Big. Small Nations To Be Nucleus Of Dumbarton Plan

Three Basic Principles For “An International Security Organization” Outlined At Conference

AGREE ON WORLD SECURITY AGENCY   PROPOSE COUNCIL OF THE BIG POWERS AND MANY SMALL NATIONS

Conferees In Agreement Over Security Plans   Complete Details Reached by Heads of Three Delegations Not Ready for Full Announcement.

PEACE CONFEREES FORM GENERAL OUTLINE OF SECURITY STRUCTURE   ASSEMBLY OF NATIONS, COUNCIL, INTERNATIONAL COURT RECOMMENDED TO AID IN SOLVING DISPUTES

General Accord As To A World Security Setup   Conferees Project Coun cil Composed Of Big And Little Nations.

SECURITY MEET IN AGREEMENT ON PEACE PLAN   ‘Big Four’ To Hold Balance Of Power On  World Council

GENERAL PLAN OF ACTION SET BY CONFEREES   ‘Little Fellows’’ Actual Par‘ In Post-War Council Not Yet Fully Explained

Big Three Agree Qn Peace and — Security Policy   Sovereign Equality, Settlements of Disputes Arranged

American Plan Endorsement Seen At Dumbarton Oak:  Joint Statement on Progress Made flacaly Parallele Bimc

General Agreement At Dumbarton Oaks   International Security Organization To Include Council Of Big Powers

Need for Universal Peace Organization - Gains Full App-oval   Dumbarton Oaks Conferees Outline Plans for Assembly

REVEAL FIRST AIMS OF MEET   Joint Statement Announces Three Points in General Agreement of Big Powers

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY BASE MADE AT OAKS   General Agreement On Proposed Set-Up For Peace And Security In World After War

—Dumbarton Oaks Conference—  General Agreement Is Reached On A World Security Body   loint Statement.

See 3 Part Organization Of Assembly, Council, And Arbitration Court

CONFERENCE ADOPTS PLAN FOR SECURITY   -orm of International Peace Organization Will Include Council of Large and Small Nations   STATEMENT IS ISSUED

Security Group Wallinclude  Small Nations   Dumbarton Oaks Conferees Announce “General Agreement’”’ Reached

BIG, LITTLE POWERS WILL FORM COUNCIL   “General Agreement” Or World Security Organization Proclaimed

Assembly of Nations Plan Agreed Upon   Dumbarton Oaks Conferees Would Include All Peace-Loving Groups—Favor Council of Big Powers, Plus Some Lesser Ones.

Agreement On Security Plan Reached, Claim   Big Powers, Number Of Smaller Nations To Be Included In  International Setup

Security Meet In Agreement   Form of International Organization to Include Assembly, Council

Powers Agree on Form of Structure For World Peace   Authority Giver to Small Nations Still Under Discussion,  Statement Declares

Agree Upon  Peace Agency   Dumbarton Oaks Conferees Withhold Details

Agreement On Security Form Being Reached   General Understanding Ineludes Council Composed of Big Powers and Smaller Nations

AGREEMENT AT MEET REACHED   Conferees At Dumbarton Oaks Decline To Amplify Statement

Big Powers Plus Some Smaller To Form Council  General Aq réement   General Agreement Reached by Conferees At Dumbarton OQake

Security Plan Accord Mappec By Conference   General Agreement Provides for Council Composed of Big Power And Smaller Nations

Security Conferees Agree On A General Peace Organization   2Y FJORIN NM. HYIGHTOWERR

AGREEMENT I$ ANNOUNCED IN SECURITY MEET   Three Issues Are Presented For  World Peace

Oaks Parley In Accord on  Council Plar   Conferees Announce ‘General Agreement;’ Indorsts American Aims

Enemy Cruiser Is Sub’s Victim   Japanese Supply Vessels Also Raided With Trio Being Sent Dewn

Jap Cruiser  Sunk By Sub   British Craft Also Gets 3 Supply Ships

3 Killed, 2 Missing In Battles   Lt. Ronald McKay, 34, Lt. George Frank, 27, and Pvt. Bernhart Williams Die in War.

List 4 Men As Killed in War Areas   Infantryman, Three Airmen Dead; Two Others Missing in Italy; Two Have Been Wounded.

GERMAN ARMY IS MASSACRED IN ALLIED TRAP   Slaughter Along Orne seen As ‘Greatest Infantry Victory’

German Army Slaughterec In Greatest Victory Ever    Foot Soldiers Close Trap On Nazis

GERMAN ARMY IS SLAUGHTERED RELENTLESSLY   ‘Greatest Infantr) Victory in Centuries’ in Normany Cam naion

Slaughter German 7th Army Relentlessly; Described as Greatest Infantry Victory

House Votes 49 Billions for Army To Doom Hitier’’, Speed End of War

‘Hitler’s Doom’ Fund Granted   Raises Obligation Estimate Teh 200 Rilliamc

HITLER DOOM BILL QUICKLY APPROVED   Appropriation Measure Is Sent to Senate by House

House Votes $49 Billion for the Army   AT SAME TIME SENATE COM PLETES LARGEST NAVY APPROPRIATION BILL IN HIsTORY, $27,569,000,000.   Japan News Spurs Action

ig Hitler Doom’ unds Approved r Army, Navy   Military Leaders Hope to Beat Nazis, Soften Japan This Year

NAZIS EXEGUTE POLE SOLDIERS   Thousands Forced inte Death Chambers in Con-. - gentration Camp.

mk GRISHAW DIES FOLLOWING a LINES.   Pioneer ‘Physician ° Had Fracticed Here Nearly. Half Century

DR. GRISHAW DES FOLLOWIN3 LONG LLNESS   Pioneer Physician Had Fracticed Here Nearly Haif Century

Pay Final Tribute To Wendell Willkie  6.000 An Hour Enter New York Church

Thousands Pay Wendell Willkie Final Tribute   Funsral Services Will - Re Held Today In New York City

6,006 An Hour Pay Resvects To Wendell Willkie   Political Leaders Ponder Where Willkie Followers Will Go In November Election

THOUSANDS VIEW ~ WILLKIE’S BOD)   MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY POUR IN—BURIAL TO BE IN RUSHVILLE, IND.

THOUSANDS PAY ~WAEEKIETRIBUTE   Services Today in New York With Burial Later in Family Plot

President May Velo Soldier-Vote   Voting By States Not Satisfactory

STATES RIGHTS ~ HAVE WHIPHANE   But Federal Ballot Endorsers Will Seek Test Vote

Showdown in  Service Vote Issue Nears   Advocates of State Ballot Lead and Are Expected to Secure Passage of Bill

RUUSEVELT WANTS MORE JOBLESS PAY   President Prepares Demand for More Liberal Benefits After the War

ROOSEVELT TO ~ JOIN DISPUTE ~_IN:GONGRESS   PRESIDENT TO TAKE STAND _ FOR EQUAL AND MORE LIBERAL UNEMPLOY.” MENT BENEFITS.

Crack German ~ Armored Units Are Repulsed   Allied Invasion Forces South Of Rome Advance Steadily Inland   NAZIS RUSHED TO NORTH ARE DEFEATED

Huge Sky Battle Is Fought Over German Reich   Heavy Losses Claimed But Official Reports Are Not Yet Given   PROBABLY BIGGEST AIR BATTLE OF WAR

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   German Defense Air Force Dealt Heavy Blow

Expected To Offcet Claims By The Nazis   American Losses Extremely Heavy, Say Germans

PILOTS SAY NAZI AIR FORCE GIVEN HEAVIEST BLOW   136 Bomber Toll Claimed by Berlin Called Highly Exaggerated

‘Stassen Gains Two-To-One Leac Against Dewey   Former Minnesota  _Governor Holds Edge In Nebraska Ballot

France Sweep INets Allies 65 Hun Airfields   More Than 25 Fields in  Southern France Cap tured or Mude Untenable by Bombings

POSTWAR BOARD SEEKS PROGRAM OF 486 MILLION   Unified Conservation § First of Herbert Commission Recommendations

OHIO POST-WAR PLANS - MAPPED   $486.000.000 Program &mbraces Seven Major Items

TO MAKE FARM LABOR APPEAL   Berrien’s Need to be Told Monday In Chicago Broadcasts

HEAVY SNOWS PERIL TRAFFIC   Cold Weather, Snows Are Forecast For  Fridav

Artificial Insemination Recommended   Favored by Scientists As Way To Repopulate Male-Depleted Nations

Security Pact Seen as Only a Beginning   World Co-speration Expected to Spread into Many Fields

(Clearing Ukraine Is Reds’ Objective   Other Soviet Forces Battle Into Streets Of Key Rail Junction Of Tarnopol. Stalin Says

Close In On Black Sea Port   Starokonstantinov Captured, Armies Only 42 Miles  From Nikolayev.

Bombers Hammer Nazi Naval Base   Near-record Force Drops 1,500 Tons Bombs On Wilhelmshaven; French Invasion Coast Pummeled

Wilhelmshaven Heavily Raided By Fortresses   Americans Attack German Naval Base

Bombers Flail Nazi Sea Base   Wilhelmshaven Attacked By Hnee 1] & Flach

FORTRESSES GO 700 MILES O'ER GERMANY   On Round Trip To Blast Wilhelmshaven Naval Base And Ship-Building Plants.   Bomb London

Giant Armada Of Escorted Forts Hit Wilhelmshaven; Fighter Onnosition Minor

1,100 PLANES HIT NAZI BASE   Yanks Blast Wilhelmshaven In Great Raid; Invasion Coast Again Attacked

U-BOAT CENTER HIT BY ALLIES   1100 Aircraft Hammer Wilhelmshaven Yards

Largest Force Of Bombers Is Over Europe Thursday  Small Plane Losses Indicate Weak Attempt Germans Made To Stop Flying Formation

Follow Assault With New Strike At Mystery Coast   Four U.S. Bombers Lost; Raids Are Continuing

JUDGE MARBURY WILL HEAD REVISED COURT   Laurel Jurist Will Assumes Chief Judgeship Of Appelate Court On January 10

Willkie for Dewey,  Newsweek Reports   Yuotes Statement After GOP Convention

Bombers Again Blast Paris Area   Enemy Airfields Hit By American Heavies

AR PROGRESSES SLOWLY   Saar Valley Rocks With Gunfire; Neithet Side Pulls Punches

tle For ise River Opened   rman Forces ive To Four les of Stream

Enemy Advance Forces Already at Vital River Barrier, Report Hints; Enemy Flanks Under Heavy Pressure

Maximum Penetration of Belgium Approaches 60 Miles as Yanks Battle With Backs to Wall

Yankee Backs At River As Nazis Find New Power   Two Main Spearheads Joined Into 35-Mile Fron Across Belgium; Maximum Penetration Now  60 Miles; Allies Try New Defense Plan.

U.S, ELECTING 36 SENATORS   Entire House Being Chosen at Polls, Along With 31 Governors

G.0,P, EXPECTS ~ HOUSE GAINS   REPUBLICANS CONFIDENT 'EHEY WILL CONTROL HOUGE . J. NOTH NEXT. OONGNERS.-.

PATRIOTS AID INVASION SUPREME HEADQUAR ae ie oe an Peewee, ne ee cee ee Oe Oe

French Go Into Elba ~ and Pinosa   Strong: Resistance. Is Met on ‘sland  ‘Next to. Corsica, ‘Where-Napoleon was Exiled   NAZIS. NOT’EXPECTED. “MO HOLD OUT LONG        French Landings Made: as Allies Continue to Push: ‘Onin Jtaly

Patriots Strike In Force; Allies  ‘Score New Gains   Report Signs Of German Flight From Cherboura: Last Escape Road Blasted

Second Sevastopol Seen For Enemy;  Escape Route Cut   ‘May Try Sea, Gen. Bradley Says; Yanks Drive To Pinch Off Top Of Cape; Last Road Under Fire

Patton Launches New Offensive In Metz Sector.   Powerful Air Forces Support Yank Assaults on Nazi Defenses; Silence Veils Progress of Invasion

Patton’s Forces Start New Drive Upon Westwall   Advance Eight Miles In Two Hours Around Metz

CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR MEET   All Aspirants to Attend Club Luncheon in Cleveland

FORMER GOV. WHITE TO SUPPORT HUFFMAN   Ten Gubernatorial Candidates To Speak From Same Rostrum

COUPLE ASKS BIG DAMAGES FOR ACCIDENT      Tipton Township Man Defendant in Auto Accident Case

Gain Six Miles As Nazis Flee Toward Rome   Americans Occupy Enemy Stronghold

German Radio Reports Flash Of Heavy Guns Can Be Seen From Housetops Of Eternal City

Allied Forces Sweep Ahead On All Fronts   Cisterna, Cori Fall And Nazi Escape Road Via Casilina, Menaced  VELLETRI SHELLED

U. 5, MECHANIZED CAVALRYMEN WIPED OUT GERMAN COLUMN  INDIAN-STYLE TACTICS  TICLCH DY DDANVIVN ANN   INDIAN-STYLE TACTICS USED BY BROOKLYN AND BRONX FIGHTERS

Enemy Retreats From Last Hold On Trunkline   Reds Drive to Cut German Escape Routes

Important Rail Junction Is  Taken by Reds   One of Two Escape Routes Open to Nazis Threatened

RAILWAY JUNCTION ENTERED BY REDS   More Than 180 Localities Swept. Up by the : Rusecianc

Soviets Fight Their Way to Important Rail Junction  MANY NAZIS SLAIN AS REDS ADVANCE  Enemy Forces Reported         Enemy Forces Reported Counter-attacking in the Ukraine

Soviets Break Into the  Streets of Dno  Count 6,000 Nazis Killed in  Wuilcont Daw Reac

NAZIS RUSH FRESH TROOPS TO RUSSIA   As Reds Fight Into Important Rail Junction South Of Leningrad; Advance Nearer To Escape Routes.   Collapsing Front

Russian Armored Trains Rip Enemy   Stormovik’s Bombs Rip Llecine Hitlerites

mctionls tached By Red Army   sions Battle Nazi:  ‘Within Walls of Vital Railway Stronghold

Nazis Lose 50-Mile Hold On Railroad   Fall of Railway City 80 Miles Southwest Of Leningrad Impends  OSTROV CAPTURED

Russians Gain   Toward Pskov   Rail City 44 Miles Nerth to Red Drive

SOVIETS WORK ON RAILROADS TO LENINGRAD   GERMANS RUSH AID FROM ESTONIA AND LATVIA

Soviets Break Into the Streets of Dno   Count 6,000 Nazis Killed in Krivoi Rog Area

Russian Troops Reach Important Rail Junction   deds Fight Way into Kras: nogvardeisk, South of Leningrad

Reds Battle Into Streets  Of Rail Hub   Leningrad Armies Continue to Advance: Others Within Range Of Escape Routes

SOVIETS FIGHT WAY INTO KEY RAIL JUNCTION   Reds Alse Within Gun Range of Foe Escape  Route ‘in North

Red Drive On Pskov  Reaches Dua        Ukraine Army Kills 6,000 Nazis In Krivoi Rog

SOVIETS KILL O000 IN PUSH ON KRIVOI ROG   FURTHER GAINS ARE MADE IN ADVANCE ON PSKOY

REDS ENTER DNO, RAILWAY CENTER, IN PUSH ON PSKO\   Swift Moving Russian Troops Capture 180 Villages in North and Kill 2,500  fiarmans.   COUNT 6,000 ENEMY DEAD AT KRIVOI ROG   Great Quantity of Material Captured — Nazis Hotly . Pursued as They Flee From. City.

NazisReeling Back In Leningrad Area   German Gri p On Vital Trunk Railway Lost: Hitler Counterattacking On Southern Front

RUSSIANS PURSUE FOE INTO STREETS OF RAILWAY HUE   Stalin’s Troops Enter Krasnogvardeisk, Where Lines From Estonia ard Lat » via Meet.   BREAK GERMAN HOLD ON LINK WITH MOSCOW   Soviet Artillery Within Range of Enemy Escape Route From Leningrad Area ton Sonth.

IMPORTANT RAIL POINT OCCUPIED BY RED TROOPS   Krasnogvardeisk, 30 Miles Southwest Of Leningrad, Entered By Soviets   GERMANS USING MINES IN WAKE OF RETREAT

SOVIETS MAKE GAINS IN DRIVE TOWARD PSKOV   Report 6,000 Nazis Killed in Krivoi Rog District

Soviets Fight Their Way to Important Rail Junction   MANY NAZIS SLAIN AS REDS ADVANCE   Enemy Forces Reported Counter-attacking in the Ukraine

SOVIET TROOPS STRUGGLE INTO DNO OUTSKIRTS   Reds Announce Killing Of 6,000 Nazis At Krivoi Rog

Reds Lunge Aheac In 3-Prong Drive   Rail Junction Reached And Last German Hald On Moscow Trunk Ils Blasted Loose

Triple Drives Foree Germans To Retreat   Soviets in Artillery Range of Last Nazi Escape Route to South

Reds Plunge On Toward Nazi Center 180 Localities - Kre Said Freed

Martin Asks Closer Cooperation Between State Officials, Citizens

Mar tin Urges  Co- -operation  At Erie Confab   Says Victory Paramount; Governor and Cabinet Set Preeedent at Erie

OFTENING i REICH GOES INTO 20TH DAY,      Bucharest Rail Yards Hit Staggering Blow In Night Attack

Allies Smother Foe Areas With Big Bomb Loads   Bucharest Is Hit; Nazi Military Supplies Destroyed

Native of — Concord Was Master of House of Correction, E. Cambridge

OF REQUIEN ~ FOR EL. CRAIG   ‘Native of « Con Concord Was Master of House of Correction, E. Cambridce __

WHISKEY PRODUCTION WILL BE RESUMED   Distillers Are Authorized To Manufacture On Temporary Basis In ‘August

800 BOMBERS HIT SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS TODAY   Accompanied By 800 Mustangs and Thunderbolt Fighters; Bad Weather On Raid.

Nazi Oil Plant Is Target Today   800 U. S. Bombers And 800 Fighters Take Part In Raid.

Nazis’ No. 1 ‘Synthetic Oil Plant Raided   5,000 Planes   it. GCarmany

RAID GERMANS’ ~KEY OIL PLANT   Blast Mersebury Refinery. Beilefeld Rails

vy Prepares to pbe Explosion   a lemorial Rites Set or Victims of Blast

NAZIS BLOCKED NEAR BOLOGNA   Fierce Counter Attack Proves Costly For Both Sides

STH ARMY HALTS GERMAN ATTACKS   A SAVAGE FIGHTING SOUTH QF BOLOGNA PROVES COSTLY  pay TO BOTH SIDES.

Allies Balk Nazis South of Bologna   Vicious Counterattacks Cause Many Casualties

Hlth Army Hurls Back Nazi Allack “South of Bologna   Enemy Attempted Four Ti.as to Shatter Yank Lines

REPEL NAZIS NEAR BOLOGNA   Americans Hurl Back Sev. eral Vicious Counterattacks by Germans

Reds 33 Miles from Budapest In Drive to Capture Hungary   Nazi Resistance cig ‘On Front South of Eslogna

OpPoses Roosevelt fOr  Pourth Term ,But Doesn't Think He'tl Be Candidate

ASKS END OF PORK RATIONS   At Least Two-Week Sus: pension Congress Demands

PORK RATIONING “HOLIDAY SEEN AS MARKET NEED   Senators Would Ease “Glut” by Two-week Suspension; Threatern Legislation to Help.

Senators Would Force Pork Recess   WEA Says Butter Already Affected

Senators Line Up to Force é Pork Holiday   To Seek Legislation lf WEA Officials Do Not Take Action

Congressional. Groups Call - For. Two:Week Suspension to Relieve HogGlutted Markets   MIDWEST SENATORS © HINT OF SHOWDOWN   WFA Officials. Say Redue. tion of Pork Ration Point. Values. Aggravating ~ Butter: Shortave’

Legislation To Force Pork ‘Ration Holiday’  Threatened In Senate

Demand Reliel Of Pork Ration   Midwestern Senators Threaten To Force Step By Legislation.

Voice Threats To Force Pork Off Ration List   Senate Group May Seek Legislation To Attain Objective

PORK “HOLIDAY” DEMANDS GROW   Midwest Senators Threaten Legislation To Force Step

Wide Encircling Movement Against East Prussia Looms As Reds Launch New Attack

BROWNS PRIMED FOR CARDINALS IN GAME TONAY   “Hitless Wonders”’ Come Through In  Grand Manner

Others Push Along Coast to Port of Brest   Germans Admit Americans 18 Miles From Nantes; Only Isolated Resistance

Brittany Nearly Cut Off In Push   British af Other End of Line Force Germans Back East of Orae—Bembers Hii Brest

Infantry And Armor Units Pursue Nazis   Allies Eyeing Ports of Nantes And St. Nazaire

Great Ports Nearec   ALLIES BATTERING STEADILY TOWARD ST. NAZAIRE, BREST AND NANTES: NAZIS CONFUSED

Americans Sweep Unchecked; Nazis Retreat In North   SHAEF Withholding Details to Keep News of Moves From Disoraanized Foe

Yanks Pursue Broken Nazis   Allies Within Few Miles of St. Norxaire, Nantes; Other Units Race Toward Brest; British in New Thrust on Way to Paris

‘Americans Approach Port of Nantes; Drive Toward Brest   British Troops Advance On Hight Mile Front South of Villers-Bocage

Enemy Forced To Fall Back On Wide Front   Army Officials Withhold Details Of Day’s Activity

Americans Are Only Few Miles From South Coas'   British Cracking Loose Nazi Hold On Front at Caen

Wreckage Found Over Large Area   Believe Ship Was Fow Engined Bomber — At Least Six Dead

PATRIOTS GIVE UP EFFORT 10 OUST GERMANS   Red Troops Reported Landed On Island Off Coast Of Estonia

UNDERGROUND FIGHTERS SURRENDER   Defeat Comes After Food and Ammunition Are Exhausted

POLES BATTLING INSIDE WARSAW LAY DOWN ARMS   Give Up to Germans After Exhausting Their Food and Munitions

SURRENDER OF WARSAW. POLES [AS ANNOUNCED      UNDERGROUND ‘TROOPS OVER WHELMED BY NAZIS AFTER “4 aperiea PiCHnING wrreain  a _ POLISH CAPITAL

Mystery Shrouds The _ Disappearance OF Valsa Matthai, Indian Student

TO REQUISITION CORN IF G1-DAY FREEZE FAILS   Price Ceiling Cut 75 Cents on Hogs Over 240 Pounds

Athens Chief Rumored Out Riot Toll 27   Partisans Seize Capital Section; Rioting Continues

GREEK LEFTISTS. SAY STRIKES TO BE CONTINUED   Object of Demonstra: tions Is to Secure New Gov't

ATHENS CRISIS MOUNTS; HEAR PREMIER QUITS   Government Near Fall As Disorders Spread; 27 Riot Deaths

Death Toll In Riot Torn Athens Rises To 27 Persons   LIBERAL PARTY LEADER INSTALLED   Only Five Police Stations In Government  Hands

Atlantic City s teel Pier Split In Two   MOUNTAINOUS WAVES WASH AWAY MOST OF HEINZ PIER; MILLION DOLLAR PIER BADLY WRECKED.   Boardwalk Pushed Back

Entire Atlantic Coastal Region Reports Damage From Wind. VF ater

U6. BORBERS ARE GRANTED BUSSIAA. BASES   Larse Forces Hit Military Objective in Romania

ARE GRANTED RUSSIAN BASES   Large. Fore S Hit. " Military 0 jeotve in Roniania-.. ‘f

KANSAS CITY MAN KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT ON 36   George Woolridge Thrown to the Pavement When His Car Hit a Truck.   HIS WIFE WAS INJURED   Accident Oceurred Saturday Afternoon One Mile West of Meadville.

Offensive of Russians on Wide Front   Spreading “Like Spring Flood,” As Reds Pour  into Bessarabia

GERMANS FLEE INTO RUMANIA IN NEAR ROUT   Soviet Planes Destroy 11 Nazi Ships Of Black Sea Convov

\Germany’s S Flimsy Network Of Escape Railways Threatened ‘By. Fast Moving Russians

GERMANY HAS LOST BATTLE, REDS REPOR}   Beaten Enemy Fleeing Across Rumania, Soviet Says

GERMAN REGIMENTS RETREATING THRU BALKAN COUNTRY   Russian Spearheads, Driving Thru Bessarabia, Within 35 Miles of Prut River.

RED TROOPS ONLY 35 MI. FROM PRESENT FRONTIER   First Ukrainian Army Pushes Toward Carpathians

Russians Drive Or to Prut   RUSSIANS SAY BATTLE OF SOUTH WON AS REICH FOOTHOLD WEAKENS

SOVIET GAINS ENGULF WHOLE SOUTH FRONT   Push Germans Across Prut

REPORT NAZIS PULLING BACK BEYOND PRUT   German Forces Hold Hills About Cassino To Check Allied Push

Soviets Drive Enemy Into Rumania   Red Army Nearing ‘Old Border on 50-Mile Front

REDS BREAK INTO RAIL CENTER OF PRE-WAR POLAND   Nazis Flee Across Rumania As Soviets Pour  Enta taeenrahin

NEAR BORDER OF RUMANIA   Also Drive Toward Carpathians Where Nazis Are Expected to Make Determined Stand.

Red [ide Rips Up Germans   Russians Also Step Up Pressure On Polish Front

RUSSIANS NEAR RUMANIA, NAZIS ARE RETREATING   Soviet Army Spearheads Througt Bessarabia. Dniester Raeahind Reds

BELIEVED HEAR PRUT   115 Localities Seized From Foe; Korsov,  @ 49 Towns Taken

STRONG SOVIET UNITS PUSH ON IN BESSARABIA   Reds Claim Smashed German Forces Retreat © Aeross Rumania’

Red Army Is Approaching  Old Polish Border Line of 1939.   RUSSIAN AIRMEN SINK 11 NAZI SHIPS   Finland Rejects the Russian Armistice Terms.

Russians Within  35 Miles of  Rumanian Border   Red Organ Asserts Smashed Nazi Units Retreating Rapidly

RED SPEARHEADS ‘ WITHIN 35 MILES * OF RUMANIA FRONT   Red Star Quotes Germany Has Lost Battle In South. Pressure Also Stepped Up On Polish Front.

Bill Proposes Check to Prevent U. S. From Being Caught Unprepared in Future Wars: Has Strong Support

MEDICAL GARE FOR INDIGENTS   Governor Will Make Re commendation To Gen eral Assembly

Average Cut In Old Age’  Assistance Aid to Dependent _   Aid to Dependent Children and Needy Blind Also Show Drar

PLANES BLAST EVERY PIECE OF TRANSPORT   Sighted in Wide Range Over Low Countries and France to Prevent Escape of Nazis.   24 Locomotives   Destroy Equipment

Nazi Attacks at Anzio; New Allied Forces Reported   Slight Advance Made By Germans Driving On British Left Flank

HEAVY AERIAL RAIDS HURLED AT AXIS PORTS   Reinforcements Land  At Beachheéad ; Below Rome

POLES HOPE FOR EARLY FREEDOM   Underground Ready to Aid, Premier Declares

Pole Undergroun¢ Declared Ready’   Premier Says Day Near For Reckoning

Ration Tokens  Effective Today   Will Be Used To Supplement Stamps

USE OF RATION TOKENS STARTS   OPA Urges Old Stamps Be Used Up First

OELWEIN YOUTH FOUND DEAD IN CAB OF TRUCK   Fayette Man Also Victim

intl in titi  A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA      Find Two Men Dead In Cab of Truck

OTH AIR FORCE IS SPEARHEAD   Greatly Strengthened To Lead In Knocking Hun From Sky

New American Air Force Established in Great Britain   Expanded Ninth Will be Spearhead for Invasion of Europe

Orh Air Force Is Transterred   Establish Headquarters In England To Prepare For Invasion,

U. S. Ninth Air Force On Duty With R. A. F.   Unit Which Wrote Victori ous History in Middle ls Reorganized   WILL AID IN INVASION

Air Force Is Organized For Invasion Job   U. S. Ninth Air Force Is Joined With RAF Ground Units To Form Aerial Spearhead

8. 5. Ninth Air Force In Britain Gets Job  Of Knocking Nazi Planes Out Before Invasion

NINTH AIR FORCE BASED IN BRITAIN   REORGANIZED T0 SPEARHEAD AERIAL INVASION OF EUROPE

NINTH AIR FORCE HAS BEEN SENT T0 BASE IN BRITAIN   ORIGINAL ELEMENTS OF NINTH WROTE HISTORY IN MIDDLE EAST

U.S. Bombers Hit Hungary Targets      Three Oil Refineries In Budapest Blasted

500 PLANES HIT GERMAN OIL CENTER   Refineries in Budapest Raided By U. S. Bombers

OIL REFINERIES HIT IN HUNGARY, BUDAPEST AREA   Big Bombers Also Cross From England—Hit Unnamed Objectives

Bombers From Italy Hit Oil Refineries   Five Hundred Planes Strike Blows Against Hungary And Budapest Plants

Emergency Units Poised for D-Day  Will Evacuate All Non-Combaircnis

Emergency Units Plan for D-Day   Will Protect All Coast Civilians

UNITS SET TO EVACUATE NON-COMBATANTS ON D-DAY   TWO NAZI TRANSPORTS SUNK IN EVACUATING SEVASTOPOL -

Messerschmitt Factories at Regensburg Prime Target    1FS-REPORTED-ON-— PLANES OF ENEMY   Formations From Italy Come in Record — Strenath —

Messerschmitt Factories Hil By U. 5. Bombers   Four Cities Deep In Germany Raided

Nazi Aircraft Factories in Four Cities ~ Blasted; Marks First Coordinated Raid From Britain and Italy

Heavy Aerial: Attacks Seen   Coordinated Assault Launched By Yankees

REICH PLANE PLANTS PROVE GOOD TARGETS   HITLER’S FIGHTERS PUT UP FIERCE DEFENSE

Four cities blasted by double raids   German aircraft factories boinbed

Americans’ First Demonstration of Double - Barreled Assault on Germany is Very Effective

ROME POLICE CHIEF, CARUSO, DIES BY RING SQUAD, CRYING ‘VIVA L'TALIAY

EXECUTE ROME'S  EX-POLICE CHIEF   High Tribunal Claims Life for Turing Hostages to Nazi Death

POLICE CHIEF” ahY EXECUTED   FASCIST OFFICIAL IN ROME 18 QHOT FOR TURNING OVER. HOSTAGES TO NAZIG: ”

Caruso, Rome Police Chief. Is Executed   Shouts ‘Viva L’Italia’ As He Is Shot By Firing Squad

FIRING SQUAD KILLS CARUSO   Rome Police Chief Dies for Turning Hostages Over “To Nazis

Fascist Pays Last Penalty   Roman Chief 1 Chief of Police Shot to Death in Back By Italian Firing Squad

Rome’s Last Fascist Police Chief, Pietro Caruso, Met The Firing Squad Today

Last Fascist Police Chief for Rome Is Shot to Death  Caruso Is Executed By Firing Squad  For Heinina Nazis

WAR CRIMINAL OF ~ ITALY 1S EXECUTED   Pietro Caruso, Last Fascist Police Chief of Rome, Pays With Life.

FIRING SQUA ~ KILLS CARUSO   Former Rome Chief Dies in  Dramatic Manner

LIST 4 NAMES FOR BISHOP .   Iowa Episcopal Diocese Convention Starts

Other U. $. Units Seal Off Escape of Foe on Guam   Third Marianas Blow Hits Light Opposition After Bombardment

Units Push Ashore Under Cover Of Terrific Bombing   Follows Guam Invasion By 2 Days; Japs Trapped There

U. S. TROOPS GAINING ON TINIAN ISLE   Others Advance Or Guam, Trap Nips On Peninsula

ON THIRD JAP MARIANAS ISLE   y Win Beaches on: Tinian. Near Saipan; Yanks Seal ' Trap on Foe in Guam.

Yanks Land On South Mariana  Isle Of Tinian   New Name On War Maps As Strangle Hold Is Tightened   HOLD BEACHHEAD   Second, Fourth Marine Outfits Covered By Land. Sea. Air

Tinian invaded Today   Americans Swarm Ashore on Island Adjacent to Guam

MORE TROOPS GO AOnORE ON TINIAN (SLANL   Invading Marines Meet Light Opposition Along Beachheads,

U.S. Marine Assault Forces Push Ashore On Tinian Island, Tighten Hold On The Marianas

Landing Made by Marines on Tinian Island   Light Opposition Reported From Jananese

Marines Land On Tinian Isle Drive Inland   Americans on Guam Near Junction; Reveal 1,958 U. S. Casualties

MARINES READY FOR THRUST AT JAPAN ITSELF   Tighten Stranglehold on Southern Marianas; Land on  Tinian Isto

ON GUAM IS «TIGHTENED   Little Opposition I: Met As Americans Move Forward

PREPARE FOR DRIVE TOWARD PHILIPPINES   Jap Force on Guam Trapped

Bid For Quick Conquest Of Island As Other U. S. Forces On Guam Cut Peninsula; Landing Second In 8 Days

Guam Town Seized, Air Base Cut Off   U.S. Pincers Closes On Peninsula; Yanks Captured Cabras Isle

Marines Tighten Stranglehold On  Marianas Islands   Landings Made On Tinian Against Light Enemy Opposition

Marines Storm Inland From Newly Won Beachheads On Tinian   GUAM AND TINIAN ISLANDS INVADED   American Casualties In Three Days Total 1,958 —348 Killed

Chinese Smash Ring Around Vital Hengyang   Initiative Seized In All Sectors of Hunan Province

Chinese Troops Seize Initiative  , .  ry   Smash Through Jap Ring at Hengyang

Chinese Make  Comeback in  Fight for City   WJapanese Siege Ring Broken by Forces Defending Hengyang

GHINCGE BREAK HENGYANG RING   Smash Through Encirclement Around Vital City; Seize Initiative in Human Fighting; Stage Comeback

Chinese Break Japanese Grip On Hengyang   U. S. Airmen Help Snatch Victory From Enemy Tne Hawien Dicitncn

Chinese Troops Seize Initiative  Smash Through Jap Ring at Hengyang

Chinese Troops Stage Dramatic Comeback Drive   Smash Japanese Ring at Hengyang

CHINESE BREAK HENGYANG SIEGE   CRACK RING AROUND: VITAL CITY AND SURROUND JAPANESE FORCES. ;

CLASS OF clGaT TO RECEIVE GAPS   Nurse’s Aides Will Be Capped Tuesday ._ Evening

EXPAND REPORT      Proposal Would Add Large Sum Yearly to Local Governments.

ROBOT ATTACKS ARE LESSENED      Churchill May Hint At Reason In Statement Tamorrow

Flying Bomb Attacks Drop   Churchili to Make Address to Commons On Bomb Situation

Robot Bomb Attacks Lessen  Churchill Statement Awaited; Eden Denies Spain Aids Nazis

Robot Bomb Is Curtailed .   ‘Churchill. Will Make  :  “His Report Tomorrow:

Meningitis Rate Continues Climb Upward   1944 Case Total Exceeds By Nearly Four Times The 1943 Fig. ures In The State

TROARN NEXT OBJECTIVE IN PARIS DRIVE      Nazis Offer Heavier Resist. ance as British and Cana. dians Move Into Plains.

U, S. DESTROYER SUNK BY BLAST OFF NEW YORK   Cause of Explosion Is Not Known - - 163 of Crew Accounted for

Mystery Explosion Sinks U. S. Warship Off Jersey Coastline   163 of 200 Destroyer Crewmen Safe as Flames Sweep Over Ship; Nave Gave Bhact Canse Unknown

EXPLOSION OFF N. YORK COAST SINKS VESSEL   163 Survivors Include 108 Injured, According To First-Hand Reports

108 Injured in Crew; Number Blown Off Ship By Explosion   No Announcement Made Regarding Death Toll

More Than 10 Crewmen Hurt, Navy Report:   Survivors Rushed To Hospitals; Cause Of Blast Unknown

American Destroyer Blew Up and sank Outside New York Bay Today   163 Survivors Known to Have Been Rescued Out of 200 Men.

Ship Off N.Y. Bay Destroved >v Explosion   163) Known Survivors, Including 108 Injured; Shakes Many Sections.   MEN BLOWN OVERSIDES

U. S. Destroyer Explodes, Sinks  At Least 163 Men Survive Blast in New York Bay

Blast Is Fatal ©  For Destroyer   U.S. Vessel Sinks After _ Explosion Off Jersey; Number Are Hurt

113 Reported Injured In Explosion; Cause Is _ Still Undetermined; 100 Survivors Already Rescued.

Destroyer Sinks InN. Y. Harbor  163 Survive Blast As Ship Starts Ahead ALE Caccd Uenl

U.S. DESTROYER SINKS IN LOWER NEW YORK BAY   At Least 163 Survive Explosion on Ship of Undetermined Origin

Vessel Sunk After Terrific Morning Blast   No Announcement Of Number Dead; 163 Are Rescued

AT LEAST 163 SURVIVORS LANDED  y   Navy Says Cause Qf Blast Still Undetermined   Blown Oversides Into Water: List Of Injured Estimated At 108

Goes Down In Lower New York Bay   163 Survivors108 Injured—  Cause of Blast Undetermined

4 Least 163 Rescued / After Explosion Of Unknown Origin Rips Destroyer In Two

VESSEL GOES DOWN INN, Y, BAY WATERS   Thousands Awakened Before Dawn by Explosion Aboard Destroyer Near Sandy Hook.

DESTROYER SUNK BY EXPLOSION IN LOWER N, Y, BAY  AT LEAST 163 KNOWN   AT LEAST 163 KNOWN SURVIVORS BUT CASUAL TIES NOT LISTED

U.S. Destroyer Sinks in New York Harbor After  Early Morning Explosion

Scene Is Off New Jersey   More Than 100 — Survivors Already Are Landed.

U. S. Destroyer Explodes in New York Bay  Metropolitan Area Is Shaken by  BRieeces Leewelesr Taclocw

[AT LEAST 163 KNOWN T0 HAVE ‘ESCAPED DEATH   Of This Number 108 Injured. Blast Shook Many Sections of Metropolitan Area

1 63 Known Survivors Include 108 Wounded; Loss Of Life Is  ‘Not Known: Wide Area Shaken

BLAST ORIGIN INDETERMINED   So Terrific Men Are Blown Overside; Communications Out.   LOSS OF LIFE NOT TOLO

Destroyer Sinks After Explosion  Coast Guard Rescues Portion of Crew

U. S. DESTROYER SINKS OFF NEW JERSEY COAST   108 of 163 Known Survivors Injured in Explosion of Undetermined Origin

DESTROYER SUNK BY EXPLOSION IN LOWER N.Y. BAY  AT LEAST 163 KNOWN _ SURVIVORS BUT CASUAL TIES NOT LISTED

Vestroyer Explodes in Lower N. Y. Bay  108 Hurt as aU. S.       Blast, of Undetermined Origin, Sends Craft to Bottom—163 Survivors, Including Injured, Picked Up—54 Are Burned.

163 Survivors Including 108 Injured Saved   Destroyer Goes Down Following Explosion Which Rocks Coast

Blast Sinks Destroyer   163 Known Survivors Of Ship Shattered By Explosion Off N. Y.

Cause of Disaster Off Sandy Hook is Undetermined Today   a a a katt  163 Known Survivors; No Announcement of  Any Loss of Life

163 Known Survivors Announced   Many Seriously Burned; Cause of Terrfic Blast Not Determined

SHIP GOES 10 BOTTOM AFTER BIG. EXPLOSION   Only 165 Survivors Count. ed Shortly After Ship Sinks

163 Are Saved Jn Mysterious ‘Navy Tragedy   : Flaming, ‘Sinking - Craft Resembles Wasp, Sailor Says

U.S: Destroyer Explodes, Sinks, Off New Jersey  163 Known Survivors Describe Terrific Blact Monday Morning

EXPLOSION AND SINKING OCCURS OFF SANDY HOOK   NAVY REPORTS AT LEAST 113 MEN ON SHIP WERE INJURED

U5. DESTROYER BLOWS UP OFF h Y HARBOR   sass Affer Blast: A ot 108 of Grew Rec'ced Injured.

U.S. Warship Sinks In Blast In New Y ork’s Bay; 108 Hurt   Cause Of Explosion Undetermined, Navy Report Says; Some Persons Flee When Homes Are Rocked

U, S. DESTROVE EXPLODES AND SINKS OFF N. J,   Cause Of Explosion Undetermined; At Least 108 Men Injured; Survivors  Landed So Far Total 163.

Explosion ~ Sinks U.S.  Destroye1   Blast Occurs Early In Morning; Survivors Total At Least 163: Renre«c Ininred

Destroyer Explodes And Sinks Off New Jersey Coasi   Many Hear Blast, Run From Homes; Cause  Is Unknown; At Least 113 Injured

U. S. Destroyer Blows Up And Sinks In Atlantic East Of Sandy Hook

More Than 100 Men  Of Crew Have Been  Landed at Sandy Hook, Navy Announces

U.S. DESTROYER EXPLODES, GOES DOWN OFF N, J,   Cause of Blast Undetermined; At Least 163 Survivors, Navy Reports

Destroyer Blast Heard In Wide  Area; Ship Sinks   163 Known Survivors Picked Up By Coast Guard—Cause of Blast Unknown

U. S. Destroyer Explodes in New York Bay  Metropolitan Area Is Shaken by Blast Early Today

AU. S. DESTROYER EXPLODED AND SANK NEAR SANDY HOOK   Cause of Accident, Which Oc. curred About 6 a. m., Was Undetermined.   113 MEN WERE INJURED   In Excess of 100 Survivors Have Been Landed, It Was Announced.

WARSHIP SINKS OFF SANDY HOOK, 163 SURVIVORS   ‘Blast of Undetermined  Origin Shakes Metropolitan Area :

Some Blown Oversides by  t Great Blast   At Least 163 Are Known to Have Survived; Many tou Hospitals      VESSEL IS SWEPT BY GREAT FLAMES   #lup Abandoned After Men Fight Flames Almost an Hour: Cities Feel Blast

US Destroyer Sinks After  Explosion    Terrific Blast Blows Men Overboard; 108 Injured; No Announcement Made of -VTaee nf Tifa

Navy Reports 108 of Survivors Injured; Cause of Disaster Unknown

Mew York Bay   163 Survivors108 Injured— Cause of Blast Lledatermuned

U.S. Destroyer Explodes, Sinks (ff Sandy Hook   Approximately 163 Members of ('rew Survive

‘an ROCKAWAY   Navy Reports 163 Knewn Survivors; Many Are Senoucly Rurned

Destroyer Blows — Jp, Sinks Off N. J. Coast, 100 Injured   Land Survivors In N. Y. Which Hears Explosion

‘Six Miles North Of Sandy Hook   At Least 113 Men Injured; 100 Survivers Landed; Report Cause Unknown

Destroyer Sinks In New York Bay After Explosion   Blast of Undetermined Ori gin Shakes Parts of Met  ropolitan Area.   108 Are Injured and  163 Known Survivors   Men Blown Overboard

Destroyer Blows Up: 103 Saved   Mystery Explosion Sinks U.S. Warship In Lower N.Y, Bay

RT'U.S. DESTROYEE  IN EXPLODES NEA CR IERSEY COAS'   13 Men Injured,- Officer Reports, When Warship Sinks Six Miles Off Sandy Hook, N. J.

NEW GAINS SCORED ON SAIPAN ISLANE   Marines and Infantrymen Press Forward, Navy Announces

RETREAT ROAD OF NAZI ARMY IS IN DANGER   FORCE FROM SOUTH BREAKS OUT INTO RHONE VALLEY

VICTORY Is WON 279-30 IN COMMONS   Prime Minister Stands by Guns Over Position Taken In Liberated Areas.

British Policy Approved   Commons Gives Churchill Vote Of Approval

Churchill Stands Pat On Policy   Challenges U. S. Position on Count Sforza; Flays Leftists

Churchill Hits U.S. “Hands Off’ Foreign Policy   Prime Minister Stands By His Guns On Action In Greece And Elsewhere.

NAVY AIDS LAND UNITS ON WAXDE   Combined Forces Blast Nips in Maffin Bay

Yanks Close In On Japs Holding Vital Airfields   Destroyers Blast Path for Jungle Fighters on Dutch New Guinea - - Chinese Counter-offensive Gathers Momentum With Enemy in Retreat—Allies in Bitter Battle in Burma

List Massachusetts AndCalifornia As Doubtful  As Governors Separate

Dewey Tour Skyrockets G.O.P.Hope   Bill of Indictment Against New Deal Rests in Pocket

GOP VICTORY HOPES SOAR AS GOVERNUR CONFERENCE ENDS   Dewey, Enroute Home, Satisfied With Results

DEWEY ELECTION CHANCES BETTER THAN 3 OTHER F. R. CHALLENGERS   REPUBLICAN HOPES FOR VICTORY SOAR AFTER CONFERENCE PUTS SOLIDITY UNDER CAMPAIGN

SAYS RETURN 10 PRODUCTION 10 BE NATION'S GAII   Petrillo, AFM Head, Not Available For Comment

FDR As Asks Li Lift On Music Ban   Request Is Made_ Of James Petrillo.

F.D.R. Wants Bar On Recording Of Music Lifted   President Wires Petroillo That It Would Be Country’s Gain.

Asks Petrillo To Raise Ban  Roosevelt Appeals To Man’s Patriotism

British Second Army in Southeast Holland Hurls Germans Back Across Maas River; . Take Buggenum and Wessen: °°

Two Armies Spearhead Great Drive   Seven-Mile Gains Within Germany Are Reported.

 Californian Given Credit  Rommel]! Death      Gun Films Show Staff Car Is Wrecked

SEEK PROBE OF QUSTING AFFAIR      : OS EO  ‘Congress Takes Steps: to Avert  : ‘Pocket Veto of Payroll Tax Freeze.

LITTELL OUSTER INQUIRY SOUGHT   ‘Observers Believe — Biddle May Be Forced to Quit Cabinet

BIDDLE-LITTELL FIGHT UNDER SCRUTINY   Political Observers Believe Biddle May Lose Cabinet Post

PRESSES HOUSE PROBE IN BIDDLE LITTELL ROW   Rep. Voorhis Says Canvass Shows Sentiment For Full Inquiry

INVESTIGATION OF BIDDLE-LITTELL ROW IS PRESSED   Rep. Jer:y Voorhis  Finds Prospects for Proposed Query Good

3200 Warplanes Attack Europe  Rails Conti inue Pa aa  avzvi € antaerc

2,200 AIRCRAFT IN DEVASTATING ASSAULT TODAY   Germany, France and the Low Countries Rocked by Great Sky Armada

Hannover’s Big Plants Are Targets  In Germany   Fruersbrunn Is Dealt Blow By MAAF Unit

Twin Attacks Hit Germany Again Tuesday   Great Armada Sweeps Wide Over Targets in Hitler's Domain

ANOTHER FORCE FROM ITALY IN ACTION   Aircraft Shops In France, Germany Are Targets   MOSQUITOES   Raid Hannover And Nantes; South England Struck By Nazi Bombers

2200 HEAVY BOMBERS HIT REICH   Force Of 1000 From Italy Blasts Targets In Austria

3200 Planes Rake Europe  titnea Nank Avmw wel   Huge Yank Armoda Strikes at Aircraft Factories, Rail Centers

U.S. Airmen Deliver 2-Way Blow at Nazis   2200 Planes Based.  In England Blast at Germany; Planes From Italy Renew Blows

Nazi Targets Hit Again By Great Armada   Aircraft Factories, Rail Centers And Plane Bases Bombed

Heavy Air Sweeps Made Again By U.S. Planes   Wiener Neustadt Is Once More Target; 2,200 Planes Strike  Carmanyv Franpa

Nazi Aireraft Plants Hit In 2-Wav Raid:   Armadas Based In England. Italy Sweep Over Enemy Fortresses.   ‘AIR BATTLES RAGING

HIT AIRCRAFT PLANTS AND RAIL CENTERS   , Blow’ From West Also Aimed at Air. Bases in Reich, France and Low Countries—Other Craft Ctaikan Beam Traly.

2,200-Plane U.S. Armada Flays Europe   Third Devastating Blow In 3 Days; Italy-Based Bombers Strike Again.   — SS oo ae eS ae  NAPLES. ( /P)-Americ an bombers attacked the Wiener Neustadt area again today,

HAIDENG KELP NAZI BUoY IN GERMAN Sk}   Two Armadas Blast Aircraft Factories, Rail Centers and Air Bases.

Luftwaffe’s Main Bases Feel Blows   2,200 Plane Fleet Sweeps Over Axis Dominated Nations

YANK ARMADA ATTACKS EUROPE FOR THIRD DAY   Austrian Factories, Yugoslavia, Transpor. tation Are Targets

MYITKYINA, KEY CITY SEEMS LOST TO JAPS IN NEW AND SWIFT ATTACKS BY ALLIES   Planes Aid Allies in Mounting North Burma Bat tle Which Seeks to Open Roads into China for Supplies to Hard Pressed Chinese Armies

Giant U.S. Armada Lashes Nazi Objectives Again   Fleet of 3,200 Hits Plane Factories, Rail Centers, Air Bases for Third Successive Day; Auxiliary Group From Italy Deals Heavy Blow

Warplanes In Heavy Attacks   Massed Airpower Strikes From Britain, Italy In Coordinated Assaults

3,200 Yankee Planes Bomb Vital Centers   Aircraft Factories, Air Bases and Rail Centers Are Hit

RAMIREZ F AILS TO SEVER TIES WITH THE AXIS   Argentine President Does Not Mention Nazis In Address

Axis Break By Argentina Viewed Nean   Severance of Relations With Enemy Expected At Ane WW

ARGENTINA SEEN READY TO BREAK AXIS ALLIANGE   Diplomatic Seurces Declare Discovery Of Spy Ring Responsible   PRESIDENT DODGES ISSUE IN ADDRESS

Argentine Break With Axis Expected at Any Minute   Discovery of Axis Spy Ring Will Cause Rupture, High Diplomatic Sources Savy

FRENGH FORCES REGISTERED A TWO MILE ADVANCE   Pushed Through Mountainous Terrain in an Assault on Cassino.   AMERICANS ADVANCE   Three German Airfields Near Rome Turned Into Flaming Ruin Yesterday.

Close Ballots Are Forecast In Vital East   New York Toss-Up, Pennsylvania Also, Ohaorvers Believe

3 Soldiers Drown In Maneuvers on dake at Little Rock  Manv Swim Ashore   Many Swim Ashore After Second Tragedy , at Camp Robinson

German Air Force Makes Its First Defense Effort Since Raid On Berlin Week Ago; More Fighters Than Bombers ~   RAIN IS HANDICAP TO SOME RAIDERS

RESUME RAIDS   Heavy Bombers Make ‘Daylight Drive Against Germany — ‘Action Resumed After Three-Day: Lull’:

ALLIES SEIZE NEW HEIGHTS OVER CASSINO   Fifth Army Surges Ahead 2 Miles   AIDED BY PLANES

FIFTH MOVES UP-2 MILES IN ITALY   Takes 2 More Heights to Batter Defenses: Before Cassino

PROBLEM OF POLAND NEAR CONCLUSION   Conference At Moscow Determined To Settle Question

Expect End Near On Polish Talks   British Favor Forming Provisional Government

WE WERE SUCKERS BUT GERMANS PAID   Thorny Polish Problem Near Conclusive Stage

NOW HOLD SAAR RIVER LINE ALONG 22 MILES   GERMANS FLEE ACROSS RHINE AS THEY APPARENTLY WRITE-OFF ALSACE; 1700 GERMAN CIVILIANS CAPTURED HIDING IN CAVE TO ESCAPE OWN TROOPS.

Allies Expected to Reach Capital City Soon; Yanks Advance on All Sectors

Fourth Armored Division Defeats German Panzers In: Fierce Battle   NAZIS, APPARENTLY HAVE DEPARTED FROM ALSACE IN HURRY   Germans Are Building Defenses Along East Bank Of: Roer River

Ohio. Mine Entrance. Sealed” As Flames Prevent Rescue.  Of 64 Workers Underer ‘ound

No Chance For 64 Trapped In Mine   Entrances Ordered Sealed As Fire Flares Up Anew

ABANDON HOPE FOR 64 MEN   Coal Mine Sealed Off to Put Out Flames

ABANDON HOPE TO RESCUE ANY OF 64 MINERS   Blaze Started as Rock Slide Snaps High-Voltage Trolley

Abandon Hope of Rescuing Miners  &4 Men Trapped in Ohie Though? Last

Abandon Hopes For of Miners in Ohio Coal Mine   Entrances Sealed As Rescue Crews Fail In Efforts

64 Will Be Sealed — Up in Burning Mine   ‘Fresh Flames Force Rescue Crews to Aban don Struggle to Save Comrades Trapped  by Fire in Ohio Coal Region.

ABANDON HOPE OF RESCUING 64 TRAPPED MINERS   Fresh Flames Drove Back the Rescue Crews This Morning.

Fire Drives Back Rescue Crews In Powhatan — Tunnel   Scores of Relatives Wait Hopefully at Entrance of State’s Largest Soft Coal Mine

—MINE FIRE—  HOPE ABANDONED FOR G4 MINERS   End Desperate Struggle To Save Men Trapped Rv Fire

FIRE TRAPS b4 MEN IN MINE   Rescue Efforts Abandoned When Fresh Flames \ Break Out.

64 Miners Are Sealed in Pit as Fire Rages   State Mine Inspector Orders Oxygen Shut Off So Fire Will Be Smothered

Hope Given Up For 64 Miners   Flames Drive Back Rescuers and Mine Is Ordered Sealed

Coal Miners Are Doomed   ‘Rescuers Forced ‘to Abandon Efforts to Rescue Trapped’ Men

FIGHT TO SAVE 64 MEN IN MINE ENDED BY. FIRE   Forced To Abandon Efforts To Rescue Miners   Bellaire,’ Ohio, Is Scene Of Tragic Happening

Flames Balk Rescue ‘Of 64 Trapped Miners   Little Hope Held Out for Men in Ohio Pits; All Entrances Sealed

Abandon Effort To Rescue 64 Men Trapped In Burning Mine   Fresh Flames Drive Back Rescuers; No Chance Of Victims Escaping Alive

SEAL  ENTRIES IN EFFORT 10 HALT FLAMES   Fire Balks Rescue Efforts At Powhatan Pit At Bellaire

PAPER COLLECTION TO BE MADE TODAY   Scouts Hope to Set Record in Today's Collec- — Tian

PAPER COLLECTION TO BE MADE TODAY   Seba Hope to Set Record vin Today's Collecx! . Tian 

JAPANESE CUT OFF CHANGSHA   Fight Shifts To South In Attempt To Seize Railway Junction

Vilja S. Helenius, 26, Student At Michigan College Was Popular Here. ‘Funeral Here Saturday = -

Vilja S. Helenius, 26, Student At M ~~ Funeral Here Saturday              “INGO. ACTOR   Hugh F. oO’ Rourke Was Re. tired Drawbridge Tender in Cambridge   e

FDR Asks Aid For Europe Refugees   Asks Balkan Nations To _ Hide Jews; Summarizes iat Pee]

HELP 10 HIDE JEWS SOUGHT BY ROOSEVELT   OPPOSE NAZI WHIP. IS ADVICE SENT TO HUNGARY

ROOSEVELT ASKS AID FOR HITLER VICTIMS   Discusses Foreign Policy; Renews Pledge to Free Philippines, Punish War Guilty

Roosevelt Calls On Balkans To Hide Persecuted  Asks That Evidence

Asylum for Refugees: Haven for Hundreds of Thousands Of Jews Strongly Urged by F.D.R.

Friendly Guns Dowr 10 Planes   44 American Crewmen Lost In Ten Transports Downed Over  Sicily Last July.

515 Jap Planes Knocked Qut, 121 Ships Sunk   Other Military Targets on Island Blasted

9,000-TON LOAD OF BOMBS HITS REICH TARGETS   RAF Deals Triple Blow At Rail Centers, Qil Plants

BRITISH BOMBS CRASH ON RUHR   Enemy’s Oil Supply Feels Heavy Assault

Huge Load Of Bombs Blasts Nazi Targets   Smashing Triple Blow Is Struck At Wehrmacht’s Forward Supply Bases.

Broken Enemy. Gathers Boats - To Cross Seine   Nazis Report U. S. Forces Only 23 Miles Outside  Beoansh Camial

Within 35 Miles of Paris and 20 Miles From Seine Where Nazis Mass Barges for Escape.

ALLIES WITHIN dd MILES OF GAPITAL   Yank Tank Forces Only 20 Miles From Seine River   NAZIS FLEE TERROR   Fortress Citiés of Chartres, Orleans, Others Fall to Triumphant Columns

FLEEING GERMAN 7TH ARMY TRYING TO GROSS SEINE   Americans, 20 Miles From River, Are Closing in. . Fast in Effort to Block Escape,   ORLEANS AMONG NAZI — STRONGHOLDS SEIZED   Canadians, in Surprise Offensive, Shatter Foe’s Defenses South of Caen and Surge Forward.

Fortress Cities Of Chartres, Orleans, Dreux And Chateaudun Fall To Triumphant Allied

4 FORTRESSES CAPTUREDIN QUICK THRUST   ANNIHILATION FACES NAZIS WHEN THEY REACH SEINE

Tank Offensive Sweeps Within Sight of Paris   German News Agency Says Normandy Fight Given Up; Americans  23 Miles From Capital

Guns Audible  In France’s  Capital City   Four Fortress Towns Are Captured by Gen. Patton’s Force

Yankees Topple Four Main Bastion Cities Before French Capital; Threaten to Annihilate the Broken German Forces

LIONS HOLD FAMILY NIGHT   interesting Talk On Ree: reation Center For Young People.

LIONS STAGE FIRST ANNUAL FAMILY NIGHT   Williamsport Boys’ Work Di rectors Speakers: Rotary RPWC Members Attend.

GIs Overrun Nip Airports on Both Isles   Japs Eat Lead in New At tempts to Break MacArthur’s Hold.

Double Drive Into Marianas  Gains Steadily   New Guinea Japs Slaughtered— Chinese Hold

Twin Invasions  — %  vioving Smoothly  In The Pacific   Tokyo Appears To Re Worried

Invasions of  Tinian, Guam  [Go. Smoothly    Hundreds - of Japs Killed on  New. Guinea; Defenders of Hengyang Maintain Positions ; 5]

Tokyo Worried . By U.S. Progress In The Mariana:   Drives On Guam, Tinian Move Smoothly; Japs Go Berserk In New Guinea

Enemy Suffers. Heavy Losses  In Ormoe Box   cath, tth Divisi On Japanese € In Lev  ns Clos raered "Nesney

MARSEILLE TAKEN IN FIERCE FIGHT   STREET -BY-STREET BATTLE RAGED BEFORE GERMANS WERE CONQUERED.

House-By-House Battle Goes on After French Report Fall of Marseille

Huey’s Brother Running Ahead   Comeback Of Long Faction In Louisiana Feature Of Primary.

Frost. Due In State Tonight   Northern Part Expected to Get Killing Frost, Light to Heavy in South

LONDON AGAINHIT. ~~ BY NAZI RAIDERS   Reports Piling in in of Dam-age Caused.in Brit. ‘teh Capital

LONDON AGAIN HIT  BY NAZI RAIDERS   Reports Piling in of Damage Caused in British Capital

GERMAN RAIDERS AGAIN HIT LONDON   BIG FIRES STARTED BY EXPLOSIVES—-CHURCH PROPERTIES DAMAGED.

LONDON MARKED BY HEAVY RAID   High Explosives Blast Sections Of Capital 11 Times In Month

FEPC saved  by four votes  Amendment lose: by 123-119 count   Nebraska's four representa. tives voted for the war agencies appropriation bill.

FEPC Saved by  Close Margin In House Vote   Congressmen Reverse Selves of Agency to Stop Discrimination

HEPU Saved From Destruction By Slender. Margit   Appropriation for Job Equolity Ayency Not Originally Granted

FEPC Voted Out,  Action Reversed  By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST Associated Press Staff Writer

FDR. AGENCY “SAVED BY 4-VOTE MARGIN IN HOUSI   Half Million Dollar - Fund Voted for Fair Employment Practices Group After First Being Denied.   SOUTHERNERS FIGHT PROPOSAL TO LAST   “Committee Set Up by Execntive to Help End Job Discrimination Because of — Race or Creed.

FEPC IS SAVED BY FOUR VOTE MARGIN   House Passed War Agen: cies Bill After Bitter Ficht

Man Takes Live: Of 3 Children, Kills Himself.   Shootings Follow Mishap .That Is Fatal To His Housekeeper

Mishap Led to Deaths of 5 at Reading   PORTNER’S GUN EXPLODED, KILLING HOUSEKEEPER; THEN HE KILLED 3 CHILDREN AND HIMSELF IN TERROR. 44   Had Hunted Rabbits

PEOPLE ARE BEING MOVED FROM VIPURI      ‘Compulsory Evacuation Under Way, Helsinki Reports — Soviet Cap:  ture of City Is Believed Inevitable.

Full-Scale Evacuation Of Viipuri Is Ordered   Finnish Inhabitants Fleeing As Roar Of Heavy Russian Guns Ts Heard In Streets

Finns Flock Out of Viipuri   Blow Up Bridges to Slow Russian Juggerunn

Finns Evacuate Cities In Wake Of Reds Advance   Russians Employing Rocket Cannon In Drive Throuch Finland.

EVACUATION OF VIPER 1S ORDERED   Finns Blowing Up Bridges In Effort To Stop Russians

Jalanese Gain On All Fronts " InChinese Area  Virtually Encircle City o!  Changsha, Advance In Honan

MAY LIFT A BOOK BAN   Senate Will Consider Bill on Political Propaganda

WANTED MALE OR FEMALE CLERK For Grocery Department  Apply PEOPLES MARKET 267 High Street

6 Die in Storms, Floods in West   Scattered Tornadoes Hit Kansas, Oklahoma And Arkansas

6 Die, § 90 0 Hurt In Tor rnadoes In Southwest   Rains Force. Hundreds to ‘lee -Homes  Floods andi Heav: “Rail

Tornadoes, Floods Sweep Southwest; 6 Killed, 90 Hurt   Four And One-Half Inch Rainfall Inundates Scattered Areas In Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas; Rising Waters Warn of Worse Overflows to Come

Tornadoes, Floods Sweep Southwest; Six Dead, 90 Hurt   Twisters Cause Damage in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas—Camp of Conscientious Objectors Hit

Eloods, Twisters Lash Southwestern States  6 Dead, 90 Hurtin Violent Sturm: Conscientious Objector Camp Lit

Tornadoes And Floods Cause Damage In Southwest Areas; New Mexico Has Heavy Snows

Winds, Floods. Hit Southwest  2 Die, Many, Injured’ “Horiolecs After Storms

WIND, FLOODS HIT SOUTHWEST   Two Killed, 65 Injured i Tornado, Rain Storms

Road To Berlin   Eisenhower [s Injured When Plane Crashes  Knee Wrenched lc Fit Aoain

EISENHOWER INJURES KNEE IN AIR CRASH   Supreme Commander Is Al Right Now, However

Parisian Patriots ‘by Thousands Assist Americans and British  In Overhelming German Forces

House- I o-House Fighting Rages In City’s Streets   French Regulars Led By General LeClerc Aiding Patriot Army

RECORD FLEET TURNS BIG REFINERY CITIES INTO GIANT PILLARS OF FIRE

HEAVY BOMBERS HURLED AGAINST ROBOT GENTERS   German Pilotless Planes Are Battled By Allied Fighters

Huge Air Fp  eA TO  Is Over German   More Than 1000 Bombers in Action

4 BIG NAZI OIL CENTERS STRUCK BY U.S. BOMBS   2250 American Heavies Swarm Over West German Arenas

Four German Oil Centers  Left In Flames By Allies   Mighty Blow By 2, 250 Heavy Bombers Into Heart 0! Nazi War Machine Evokes Only Meager Opposttion From Battered Luftwaffe

HeaviesHit Oil Centers   Four Big Nazi Oil Refining Citie: Blasted Into Pillars Of Fire.

Reeord Air Fleet Hits Nazi Fields  4 Big Oil Centers Blasted Into Flames by

BLAST FOUR BIG. NAZI OIL CENTERS   A Record Fleet Of 2,500 American Heavy Bombers And Fighters

AID LAND TROOPS   Armadas of Allied Planes Blast Many Enemy Targets in West

BOMBERS HAMMER 3 GERMAN CITIES IN SUPPORT RAID.   Fleet of 1,700. American and RAF Planes, In. Support of Ground Forces, Hit Bremen, Hamm: and Osnabruck Today—(Calai,s Pounded

Troops Given. Aerial Support   E indhoven-Nijmegen Corridor ‘Is Bombed

Allied Planes Lend Support To" Red Devils   200 German Craft Kept From Strafing Encircled Tommies

1,700 BOMBERS MAKE ASSAULTS   Hit Osnabruck, Hamm,  Bremen and Calais

Allied Airmen Smash Germany in Support Of Ground Forces; Besieged Calais Raked

ARMADAS AMERICAN AND BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS IN ACTION  _ OPERATE IN SUPPORT OF LAND TROOPS IN GER MANY AND FRANCE

Great Aerial ‘leet M4 a k es Nazi Targets   Osnabruck, Hamm. Bre: men Heavily Attacked By Bombers

Air Support Given Force  Batter Nazi Position: In Arnhem Struagle

Planes Aid Hard Pressed Air Troops   Allied Planes Active in Greece, Italy and Balkans

Planes Support Air Troops In  Arnhem Area   Attack Nazi Concentrations and Gun Emplacements With Rockets and Machineguns

LAND FORCES SUPPORTED BY AIR ARMADAS   American and British Heavy Bombers Attack Osnabruck, Hamm and Bremen   VISIT BESIEGED CALAIS

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND REICH IN MIGHTY ATTACK   Air Armada Blasts German Cities — Airborne Troops Near Arnhem Aided

1,700 BOMBERS SMASH NAZIS   Blast Three German Towns, . Port of Calais

ALLIED PLANES AID AIRBORNE TROOPS TODAY   Hitler’s Berlin Headquarters  Are Bombed

Davis Warns Against End Of Subsidies   Says Program Vital if Little Steel F ormula Is Maintained

Soviet Forces In Jaszbereny   Bottle Germans Hand to Hand in Hungary Rail Center

NAZIS HURL IN NUMEROUS NEW TANKS   Germans Resisting Offensive Toward Budapest Fiercely

Soviets Capture Hungarian Towns  Continue Advance  on Maygar Capital

SOVIETS FORGE CIRCLE AROUND HUNGARIAN CIT)   Germans Putting Up Fierce Resistance to Flanking Movements by Russian Troops

REDS MEETING HEAVY COUNTER BLOWS BY NAZIS   Russians Drive Into Important Rail City Of Jaszbereny In Desperate Hand- IoHand Struggle.

SOVIETS ENTER KEY HUNGARIAN RAILROAD HUB   Russian Troops Battle Huns Hand-to-Hand In Jaszbereny

RUSGIANG IN AAIL GENTER   Germans Hurling Many New Tanks Into Effort to Ston Advance.

Nazis Fi ig ht Desper ately kor Budapest   Troops Battling In Jaszbereny; Germans Bring Up Reinforcements

Soviet Forces Drive Into Key Rail City   Hand-to-Hand Fight Is Raging for Town of Jaszbereny

Jaszbereny. Rail Point, Is Entered By Soviets   “Close Fighting te Reported Foy City

RUSSIANS PUSH INTO RAIL HUB   Hand-To-Hand Fight Is Raging At Jaszbereny

BeOS IDOE LE  BUOAPEST CONLIN FIERCE FIGHTING   Russians Drive Into Important Rail City Of Jaszbereny   TANKS. ARE USED   Germans Battling To Pre-' vent Outflanking . Of Hungarian Capital

Russ Forces  Advance To  Jaszbereny   Hand-To-Hand Fighting Taking Place; Nazi: Offering Determinec Resistance

Soviets Fight Hand-T'o-Hand  In Jaszbereny   Vital Railroad City Only 37 Miles From Budapest: Tank Battles.   TAKE LOp8 NAZIS

REDS REACH RAIL CITY OF ~ JASZBERENY   Trocps Are Reported Fighting Hand-to-Hand With Nazis in the Important Center, 37 Miles East of Budapest.

Red Forces Drive Into Rail City   In Jaszbereny 37 Miles East Of Budapest— Bitter Fighting

SOVIET TROOPS IN JASZBERENY AN RAPID PUSH  mance +   Germans Hurling New Tanks But To No Avail

Russians Drive Into Key Rail City Near Budapest; Battle Foe Hand-to-Hand

Soviets Gain in Flanking Drive On Budapest   German Resistance Strong at Jaszbereny Where Hand-to-Hand Fighting Is Reported

Red Army Lays Siege To Jaszbereny In New Flanking Threat To Budapest

Russians Smash Into Rail City Near Budapest   Germans Fighting Desper ately To Prevent Flanking Move.

RUSSIANS CONTINUE OUTFLANKING DRIVE AGAINST BUDAPEST  DESPITE FIERCE OPPOS!TION RED FORCES CAPTIRED TEN TOWNS

Bitter Battle Rages Around Budanest Area   Soviets Engage Enemy in Close Formation Fight

New Budapest Suburb Captured By Soviet Troops   Jaszbereny Entered as German: Threw in New Tanks te Check Guiflankine of Hungarian City

Russians Enter Jaszbereny In Budapest Push   Germans Putting Up Desperate Defense; New Weapons Used

RESERVES ARE USED BY NAZIS TO HALT REDS   Germans Reported to Be Hurling Tanks and AntiTank Weapons in Effort to Check Drive

Rail Center Falls To Reds; Battle Tanks   Germans Send Up Armored Forces To Check Drive

Russ Enter  Rail City   Force Drive Into Jaszbereny East of Budapest: Fierce Battles

Russians Drive Into Rail Town   GERMANS HURLING NEW TANKS IN BITTER FIGHT

Rice Bowl Fight Kills 100,000 Men      Chinese Suffer Heavier Losses Than Japs In Long and Bloody Battle.

“Officer Convicted Of Murder Charge   Unanimous Court. Recommends Swancutt Be Hanged

SWANCUTT GETS DEATH PENALTY   MILITARY COURT RECOMMENDS THAT SLAYER BE HANGED

Death Penalty Recommended  For Officer   Lieutenant Found Guilty of Killing Four Persona

SWANCUTT RULED GUILTY BY COURT   LIEUTENANT CONVICTED ON CHARGE OF MURDER

CuTT CONVICTED FOR SLAYING OF 4   Death by Hanging Is Recommended at Court Martial in Camp Anza

DEATH BY HANGING FOR ARMY OFFICER   Convicted of Four Killings by Court Martial

‘CONVICTED OF MURDER   Army Court Martial Recommends Lt. Swancutt Be Hanged

Officer Killer Of Four to Die  Army Court-Martial Convicts Swancutt, Binns: de Manainn

Local Officer Found Guilty Of 4 Murders   Appears Unaffected By Verdict; Time, Place Of Execution To Be Fixed By F. R.

Lieutenant Found Guilty of Murder of Four in March   Court Martial Recom. mends Hanging for Beaufort Swancutt

Final Rites Today For Frank Knox   Highest Honors Set For Late Secretary

U. 5. BREAKS WITH GOV'T OF FINLAND   Patient Persuasion a Failure, Drastic Step is Teken

U.S. Relation With Finns End   Hull Calls Nation  Puppet of Nazis

‘Declaration of War Not Expected, However, By American Officials

AMERICAN-FINNISH RELATIONS BROKEN   U. 8. BRANDS SMALL REPUB"LIC A GERMAN PUPPET IN

U.S. CUTS OFF FRAYED BOND WITH FINLANT   NATION REGARDED AS MERE PUPPET OF GERMANY

U. S. Breaks With Finland As Coup Fails   Finn Government Pictured  As Puppet of Germans Fen Hall's T atten

U.S. Breaks Relations With Finns  Brands Helsink:   Brands Helsinki Government  Puppet of Nazis

a ————E————  WILLKIE MAN SAYS HE WON'T STAND BY COP IF DEWEY RUNS

4 Forts Lost In Big Raid on Jap Mainland   One ‘Missing, One Hit by  Flak, 2 Lost in  Arridontc

Four Fortresses Lost, Two Through Accidents   War Department Says Raiders In Sizeable Force; Planes Attack From Base In China And Experience Heavy Anti-Aireraft Fire

Big Steel Works Are Blasted   Longest Raid In History Is Made By Plane:

Super Forts Attack From. China Bases   Longest Air Raid In His-tory Begins Destruction of Nip Industry.

Start Fires In Japanese War Plants   Seen as ‘‘Good Start’’ on L-struction of Japan’s Industrial Empire

Nip. Nip Industriat Cities. Revealed A: Goal Of Raid On Enemy Homeland   Saipan Invaders Gain Despite Fierce Resistance

Telephone Lines In Mexico Under Government Rule   Will Handle Service Until Strike Ends

Lose About 60 Ships In “Biggest” Air Battle — Ever Fought Over Reich

YANKS LOSS 60 OVER REICH IN BIGGEST FIGHT   Germans Surprised Into Revealing New Tacties And Weapons

Huge Fleets Battle Five Miles Up   Germans Say 136 American Planes Downed in Europe

Gigantic Air Battle. Over Reich Costs Americans More — . Than 60 Bombers, Fighters   Greatest Aerial Battle Ever Fought Over Germany— Enemy Tricked Into Revealing Newest Type = Dien ne-Smoke Screens Used

GREAT BATTLE FOUGHT MILES ABOVE REICH   Massive U. S. Raiding Fleets Encounter Heavy Resistance From Germans.

TABULATION OF LOSS TO U. $. FLEET HELD UP   London Estimates 60 Downed In Air Battles Germany Claims 136

Yanks, Nazis Suffer Paralyzing Losses; Foe Claims 136 Bag   Reich Lays Success to Hand-to-Hand Fighting Tactics: Every Available Airer aft’ Thrown Into Great Dooficht

Attack Made By First Army Near Aachen   Great Aerial Strike Coincides With Start of New Drive

Six Full Forces Firing On Reich With Ninth In Place North Of Aachen   Over 2,700 Warplanes Of RAF And U.S. Eighth Airforce Join Onslaught

Join Four Other Army Attacks Along 300-Mile Front Against Germany and Its Approaches From Holland Southward to the Alps; Take Scores of Prisoners,

FOUR AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRAY   American Air Force Paves Way for Assaults   GERMAN TOWNS FALL   U. 8. Ninth Pounds Into Reich After Puzzling Leapfroging March

§. FIRST, NINTH ARMIES LEAP INTO BATTLE TO SET WHOLE WEST FRONT ABLAZE

House Prolongs War Powers Act.   Basis for Rationing, Priorities and War Measures Is Pending Extension.

BOLIVIA SENDING ANOTHER ENVOY   HULL INDICATES CHANCES SLIM FOR U, S, RECOGNITION

RECOGNITION OF BOLIVIA REMAINS VERY UNCERTAN   Minister of Information Chinel Is New Representative Sent to Washington to Express Views.   HULL HAS INFORMATION ON RECENT UPRISINGS   President Penaranda Believed to Have Been Ousted It December Through Anti Allied Means.

Polivia Is Sending Representative To Washington Seeking Recognition

NEW RIFT DEVELOPS IN WAR LABOR BOARD   A. F. of L. Members Threaten to Withdraw From Cases Until Pay Formula Ruling Is Made.

JAPS TRY NEW AIR  WEAPON ON YANKS   Shells Shooting Wire-Danglng Parachutes Fail to Trap Wary Attackers.

FIENDS TO HANG   Five Nazi Troopers Sentenced In Atrocity Triat.

5. ENVOY TO CHINA WILL QUIT   ‘No Connection with tilwell Case,’ Says FDR

Stilwell Dispute Termed Personal   War Strategy Not Involved, FDR Claims

A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA   Oil Truck Driver Killed  Ry Train at Grinnell

British Aircraft Bomb Greek ELAS Who Fire Back   Talk of Compromise, With Coalition Regime Installed, Is Growing

Warplanes Hit Greek Elas  Concentrations  Earlier Attack on Athens Repelled by British Troops

BRITISH BLAST ELAS CENTERS   Repulse Attack Made With Artillery as Athens Battle Continues

Fighting Continues To Rage In Streets Of Greek Capita!   British Hammer ELAS Concentrations After’ Attack ' Repetled—Danger of Epidemics Causing Great Concern

Danger of Epidemics Causes Growing Concern  After Week of. Strife

British Planes Batter Forces  Of Greek Left   Hope For Settlement Seen Ap» Threat of Epidemic, Pood Crisis Grows

RAF Planes” ‘Attack Elas Moar Athens   iWeek-Long Fight Keep: Up; Epidemic Danger Threatens Greek . pee; “Labial tiny 7

RAF Attacks ELAS Lines Near Athens   British Deny Peace Proposals Made As Battles Continue

Grecian civil war continues  British airplanes   British airplanes pound rebel lines

R.A. F. PLANES ATTACK ELAS ABOUT ATHENS   Seven-Day Battle Continues With Danger of Epidemics From Unburied Bodies,   New Government

NAZI RAIL TRAFFIC IN BRENNER PASS JAMMED BY BOMBS   Allied Planes, Naval Guns and Land Forces Combine to Provide Allied Gains

Nazis Evacuate * Debrecen; Berlin Says Climax Near   LONDON, Oct. 20 (P)-— Belgrade, capital. of Yugoslavia, has been- liberated. Marshal Stalin announced  ee ee

RUSSIANS ROLL BACK HUNS WITH HEAVY ATTACKS   Berlin Claims Reds Reach Prussian Border on New Front

THIRD LARGEST HUNGARIAN CITY FALLS TO RUSSIANS AND REDS — MAKE GAINS IN EAST PRUSSIA

Crucial Battle Shapes Up In  East Prussia   Reds Mass in Late Kaiser’s Deer Forest; Capture Hungary’s 3rd City

BELGRADE 3 CAPTURED bY CLAY ARMIES   Reds, Partisans End Heavy  Street Battle for Capital City.

Belgrade leer 2 iS By Russ Tre’ ~~ a Debrecer is   Twin Losses Regarded As Terrific Blow  To German Chances

Hungary's Third Largest City Is Taken by Russians   Great Tank Fight Raged at Debrecen Past Two Weeks

BELGRADE HAS FALLEN, SAYS SOVIET LEADER   Stalin Announces Two Victories in Special  Orders of the Day

Nazis Evacuate Debrecen, Hungary’s Third City; Red Army. Gains In East Prussia

BATTLE FOR EAST PRUSSIF SHAPES UP   Berlin Reports Reds Massing Vast Tank Forces

Reds Capture Third Largest Hungary City      Debrecen Falls After TwoWeek Battle: Russians Massing At Prussia

SOVIETS MASS TANK FORGES NEAR EYDIKAU   Move Twenty Miles To New Prussian Front Lines

Russians Move To Another Area   EAST PRUSSIAN DRIVE CONTINUES FOR REDS. _

Struggle for East Prussia Drawing Neat   Russian Forces Move Up at Many Points on a Wide Front

Second Russian Drive Reported In East Prussia   Berlin Annsunces New Fron In Late Kaiser's Deer Forest; Balkan Conditions Chaetic

Reds Tighten Their Squeeze on ‘East Prussia   Decisive Battle Is Believed Shaping Up on Frontiers; Balkan Chaos Grow

Soviets Mass Tanks in Nazi Forest   Debrecen, Third City Of Hungary, Is Given Up by Nazis

ENEMY TELLS RUSSIAN GAINS   Move to Another Section of E. Prussian Frontier fs Reported.

—RUSSIA— :  GERMANS PUSHED BACK BY SOVIETS   Berlin Reports New Russian Gains In East ~ Prussia. Campaign   BIG BATTLE NEARS   Evacuation Of Debrechen, Large Hungarian City, Also Announced

Belgrade Freed ~ of Nazi Control   Marshal Stalin Announces Liberation of Yugoslavia Capital   DEBRECEN IS CAPTURED   Russians Report the Capture of 11,000 German  Prisoners

Nazis Give Up Third City Of Hunaary   Russians Capture 11,000 Prisoners Near Walled Town

GREAT RUSSIAN ASSAULTS RIP NAZI DEFENSES   Decisive Battle Shapes Up On Three Sides Of  Fact Priccia

Russ Ready To Strike At New Section  Of Frontier   Vast Tank Forces Being Massed In Former Kaiser's Deer Forest

“Battle Nears Climax”   * Berlin: Says Russians ‘Mass Enormous Forces For Knockout Smash Across East Prussia

East Prussian  Campaign Near Climax—Berlin   Massed Tank Battles Claimed; Moscow Say Only That Reds Have Entered Reich Lands

Belgrade Falls To Russ Army   Yugosloy Capital Freed of Nazis, Says Stalin Announcement

Russian Tank Forces Massed Nazis Assert   Germans Acknowledge Evacuation of Third City of Tottering Hungafty, Debrecen

REDS CAPTURE VITAL TOWN INSIDE REICH   Russian Offensive Reported Smashing Enemy Resistance on Battle Line Forged Across Europe  MOVE PAST BELGRADE

Capture Eydtjau Inside Reich and Score Other  -*Earge Successes From  ~ Yugoslavia To Baltic; Decisive Battles Shaping.

Twin Baffle for East Prussia Nears Climax Says Berlin   Debrecen Falls to Russians; Belgrade Reported Liberated

GERMANS Quit DEBRECEN AFTER PITCHED BATTLE   Chaotic Conditions Said Existing In Belgrade, Budapest

MOVE UP TO PRUSSIA ON NEW FRONT   Germans Evacuate Hungary's Third Largest City

Gather Vast Tank Forces On East Prussian Frontier South of Fallen Edytkau

REDS, PARTISANS TAKE BELGRADE   DEBRECEN, HUNGARY'S THIRD CITY, FALLS

Reds Rolling Forward Along  Entire Front   East ° Prussian Capital Menaced After Fall Of FEvdtkuhnen —   IBELGRADE TAKEN   Balkan Armies Sweep Ahead As Partisans Fioht In Budapest

BERLIN ADMITS RUSSIAN GAINS   Germons Report Advances by Reds, Loss of Hungary's Third City, Debrecen

Soviets Smash Foe Defense:   Russians On March From Baltic To Far South

HALF OF LAST JAP AIR FIELD IS CAPTURED   American Forces Begin Extermination of Enemy Remnants on Islands.   BULLETIN

Senate Isolation Unit May Wreck Post-War Plans   President To Return To Washington Friday From New York Home

Congress Will Be Big Problen For Roosevelt   Senate Isolationists May Wreck Post-War Foreign Affairs Plans

Red Diplomats Plan Re-Birth Of Old Poland   Re-Eastablishmentof Nation At Expense of Germany Is Moscow Pronasal

Reds Recognize New Polish Group   Announce Prewar Security Program   London Greup

REDS RECOGNIZE ~ NEW POLE GROUP   Russia Concretely Advances ~ Program By Speedy Act; Hits Allies: ©. @

Reds State... Plans for New Poland   Recognizes _ Liberatio: Committee as Sole “Authority of Territory

British-U. S. Efforts Rejected Soviet Union Recognizes New Polish Liberation Committee

Russia To Incorporate — Eastern Poland; Won’t — Alter Polish Social System

RUSSIA WANTS CUT IN POLAND   Moscow Will Not Deal With Exiled Regime In London

Russia Advances Claims in Poland   Recognizes Liberation  Group as Authority

“Recognizes Newly Created. Committee of Liberation; Disclaims: Political -Ainis

Pincers Closing OnJap Defender: ‘Of Myitkyina   Monsoon Rains Slow Drive Of Chinese Forces

Allies Progressing In Burma   nvasionOf Philippines Soon--Hinter

PINCERS CLOSES ON JAPANESE IN — MYITKYINA AREA   New Gains Also Reported In the Mogaung Valley.

Reds Capture Powerful   Polish Citadel   Hammer Back German Counterblows on East Prussian Front

Roy Patterson and Son, Sam, Appar-'  ent Victims of Burst of Gunfire From Three Youthful Highwaymen as They Investigate Holdup Two Hours Before at Jasper—Roads in Mount Vernon Area Blocked Upon  Report Bandits Are Seen.

Sheriff and Son Shot to Death   Fear Is Held Barton Officer and Son Slain by Holdup Men.

Lamar Sheriff And Son Slain By Holdup Men   Bodies Found In Car on Highway By Farmer

Sheriff and Son, Lamar.  Are Killed   Believed Slain By Holdup Men. Had Been Called  To Robbery Scene

RED PINCERS CLOSING ON BUDAPEST   Russians Occupy 100 More Towns; Take Over 1,600 Prisoners

HED WiPt UP TOWNS ON WAY INTO BUDAPES    Sweep Across Hungary on : 30-Mile Front, Take Rail Arteries.

SOVIETS SWEEP ACROSS PLAINS NEAR BUDAPEST   Push Beyond Fallen Kecske met To Take Rail Town Of Lajosmisze

U.S. Heavies Batter Guam  Many Jap Planes Seen On   Many Jap Planes Seen On Ground, None Offer Battle

U.S. Heavies Batter Guam   Many Jap Planes Seen On Ground. None Offer Battle

LIMITED NATIONAL  DRAFT ACT URGED   Army, Navy and Maritime Commission Ask :Act- ° ion in Statement

» Call for Draft Of Workers For Essential Jobs   Army, Navy and Maritime Comm. Point to Need

LIMITED Sc RVIGE AGT 15 SUGGESTED   Army, Navy and Maritime Commission Calls for Legislation to Provide Essential Workers

(pposes Evils \{ Sees if FDR Gets Fourth Term   Says Governor Is Most Capable Man   Three Terms Too Many

BALTIMORE SUN TO BACK DEWEY   Paper H as Supported GOP Only 3 Times In 107 Years

BALTIMORE SUN TO BACK GOV. DEWEY   Paper to Support Republi' can for Third Time. in History

BALTIMORE SUN ~ SUPPORTS DEWE    Third Time in 107-Year His tory It Has Backed GOP

Baltimore Sun Backs Dewey   ‘ Independant-Democratic Newspoper OQnnoces Fourth Term

South France Beachheads  Now Secure   Landings Covered 120 Mile Stretch; Several Towns Taken

Shins Pour More Men [nto France   British Radio Says Troops Have Taken  Five Towns

Alhes Set Up 3 Beachheads  To Push Inland   German Opposition I: Negligible, Bu t Some _ Shelling Is Reported

New Landings Reported By Nazi Sources   Harbor Installations Blown Up At Likely Spots For Attack

ALLIES GAIN FOOTHOLD IN SOUTH FRANCE   Little Resistance By Germans Seen From Planes

Funeral Services To Be Held Friday Morning For Late Sen. Van Nuys

INTRODUCTION OF LABOR BILL BEING PLANNED   Measure Would Provide Equality Between Employer And Employe   CIO OPPOSITION IS ALREADY ANNOUNCED

STATE LABOR LAW  DRAWS OPPOSITION   ClO Calls Proposed Bill “Vicious and Unprincipled”

CHARGES GERMANS KILLED CAPTIVES   RUSSIAN BOARD ‘SAYS 11,000 POLES WERE FUT TO DEATH ONE BY ONE.

REDS CITE PROOF OF NAZI MURDERS   Declare 11,000 Polish War Prisoners Slain by Germans And Not by Russians as Charged by Berlin

Katyn Forest Pole Massacre ‘Laid to Nazis   Russian Commission Produces ‘Proof’? 11,000 Were Slain by Germans

11,000 Polish Prisoners Held Slain by Nazis   Russia Reports On War Mystery

GERMAN MASS KILLING BARFD   Soviet Commission Finds 11,000 Polish Prisoners Slain As Provocation

Soviets Blame Nazis For Katyn Massacre   Commission Says It Has Proof 11,000 Polish War Prisoners Slain by Germans Near Smolensk and Not by Russians

Only Escape Left For Five Or Six Divisions Is Hazardous  Sea Flight.

Plan Task Force Of 126,000.Men To Aid Farmer:   Govt. Warns Of Radical Cuts In Canned Frait And Vegetable Supply

DRAFT BOARDS TO REAPPRAISE LABOR ON FARM   Must Cancel Deferments Unless Regis- trant Irreplacable

DEFERMENTS OF FARMERS AIRED   Group Told Boards Must Give No 2-C’s Unless Worker ‘Irreplaceable’

Deferments For Farm  Hands Cut   Mobile Force Of Workers Being Built Un

FOOD CONFERENCE ADVISED OF NEW GOVERNMENT PLANS      Draft Boards Must Cancel Farm Deferments For Men Not “Irreplaceable”—New Cut in Canned Vegetables, Frot

To Cance! Farm Deferments   Registrants Necessary To Farm and Irreplacable To Be Deferred; Plan Emergency Labor Force.

Registrants Must Be ‘in Fact lrreplacable’   WEA Is Planning Emergency Mobile Farm Labor Force

Food Shortage May Halt Many Farm Deferment:   Group Told Drastic Cut Expected In Canned Supplies

Will Tighten Farm Deferments   To Cancel Deferments Unless Registrant Is Irreplaceable

GIVE FAGTSAT FOOD MEETING   Processors Told Civilians Are in for Drastic Cut in Canned Goods.

Big Cut Due in Canned Foods  Draft Boards Are Reappraising ie meee Phe hin me eck

‘Dratt boards to Reappraise Farm Deferments  Tien ctie fut Tanna   Drastic Cut Looms On Canned Fruits, Vegetables

Farm Labor > Deferments Scrutinizec   Many May Be Cancelled If hey Are Not Proven To Be Irreplacable

FOOD SITUATION 15  NOT OVERLY BRIGHT  GOVERNMENT REPORI FARM DEFERMENTS  MUST BE IRREPLACEABLE NRAET RONARNS TOLD

Drastic Cut in CannedF ruits And Vegetables Seen for 1944   40 Pct. Slash in Former. 19 Pet. in Latter, WEA Predicts

Officials See Many Changes During 1944   Farm Deferments ia Many Instances May Be Cancelled

DRAFT BOARDS TO REAPPRAISE LABOR ON FARN   Must Cancel -  Defernen Unless Regis-. -tpant Trreplacabl

TOUGHER FARM DRAFT SEEN   ~ PLAN EMERGENCY CROP FORCE, CANNING CUT

Draft Boards To Slash Farm  Deferments   Only Irreplaceable to Escape Army; Civilians Face Canned Goods Cut

Further Cuts in Processed Foods Certain   Draft Boards Must Cancel Farm Deferments War  Officials Warn   MOBILE FORCE PLANNED

CANNED ARTICLES WILL BE REDUCED IN NEAR FUTURE   WFA Order Cuts Fruit Allotment Cut 43 Pct While Vegetable Allowance Is Reduced 17 Pet.   FRM DEFERMENTS ONLY TO IRREPLACEABLES   Draft Boards Will Get Orders to Comb Over Occupational Deferments to Meet Situations.

WEA Plans Labor Army   126,000-Man Emergency Force to Aid in Food Production; Sees Cut In Food for Civilians

FOOD SITUATION IS NOT OVERLY BRIGHT GOVERNMENT REPORI   FARM DEFERMENTS MUST BE IRREPLACEABLE DRAFT BOARDS TOLD

DRASTIC CUT FOR — CANNED GOODS   Fruits and Vegetables to Be Cut 48 Per Cent For Coming Year

Put New Rules On Determent:  For Farm Helr   Civilians Are In For Drastic Cut In Canned Fruits, Vevetables.   SHIFT FARM WORKERS

TO BE VOIDED UNLESS HOLDER IRREPLACEABLE   Local Draft Boards Must Reappraise Cases,  Parley Told

Draft Boards Must Cancel Farm Deferments For Many; Civilians Face Cut In Food

Strider Farm Draft Ruling   Registrant Must Be ‘Irreplaceable’; Less Canned Food for Civilians

 Raid Follows Big Daylight Assault By American Planes That Cut Nazi Fighter Plane Output By Twenty-Five Percent   BIGGEST PIRE RAID ON LONDON SINCE BLITZ

STUTTGART AND LEIPZIG FEEL AERIAL BLOWS   British, Americans Team {n Widespread Attacks On Nazi Objectives

DEWEY GIVEN TUMULTUOUS CHEERS IN ST. LOUIS, TO. SPEAK JONIGHT   G. O. P. CANDIDATE WILL OPEN BID FOR FARM SUPPORT IN TALK: REPEATS PROMISE OF JOBS

Dewey Satisfied With Vote Poll   “Quite Happy"’ About Registration In N. Y.

HIT 3 MILLION IN BOND SALES   ‘E’ Series Total ‘Triples County Quota

Greene Nears ‘E’ Bond Sale Quota   Individual Sales Hit 97 Pet. Of Goal; County Sixth In Area In All Bond Types; Total Now $2.223.185

Where to Find ({t   Dionnes. Past 10. Still Believe in Santa Claus

No Complaints About  Weather From Tick   With A Warm Spell Now, Aiter The Daspuess, He WIL Bring His Whole Fumily Out.

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CHURCHILL AND STALIN END 10 DAYS OF TALKS   Leaders Say Progress Made On Variety Od Problems

CHURCHILL CONCLUDES CONFERENCES   Progress Made In Efforts to Solve Polish Problem

PLANS T0 BEAT GERMANY MADE IN CONFERENCE   “Important Progress” Toward Solving Polish Problem Made '

Church’* "ads Back ’£? ondon  Afr F ference   Agree-On Intensive Blows To Decisively. Defeat Hitler Regime

MOGAUNG IS CAPTURED BY CHINDITS   With Large Force of Japanese Trapped between There and Kamaing; Yanks Advance.   Leiyane Otjective

Survivors Tell How Concussion of Blast Spread Appalling Disaster

Allies’ Guns Jar Cassino For 6 Hours   Air Forces Shatter New German Lunge At Anzio Bridgehead

ALLIED GUNS BATTER CASINO: BEACHHEAD ATTACK 1S REPULSEL   Liberators and fortresses Spread Great Umbrella’ Over Anzio   BITTER FIGHT CONTINUES

One-Time World Conquering Nazis Fleeing In Panic For Nearest  Reich Border.

EX-PRISONERS. SAY GERMANS ADMIT DEFEA   REPATRIATES  DECLARE ; GER. MANY REALIZES WAR IS “LOST AND IS LOOKING’.  FOR PEACE OPENING 

Yank Troops Enter Marseille And Grenoble In Southern France Thrusts   ROME. (/)-Allied troops entered Marseille today.

Marseille Falls, Other Troops From South Sween 140 Miles Inland Toward Junction

GRENOBLE IS CAPTURED BY DATCH'S MEN   German Defenses Melt Everywhere-

AMERICANS PUSH INTO GRENOBLE, IN SOUTH FRANCE   BIG RAIL CITY IS LOCATED 58 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LYON

Port Captured As Americans Sweep Inland   Grenoble Also Taken As Allies Dash to Join Eisenhower's Legions  Nazis Hold in Toulon

Grenoble’ s  Fall Aired   Large. Industrial - Center. Is- Seized.

MARSEILLE FALLS TO ALLIES; NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE CUT   Americans Seize Grenoble in Deep Penetration That Threatens to Bisect  , ‘BRrance.   TAKE SCORES OF TOWNS IN DRAMATIC DRIVE   Encircled German Garrison at Toulon Continues to Hold Out—Warships Bombard City.

SPRING A SURPRISE   Americans Drive Deep Into Southern France Thru  Nazi Lines

HRENGH BATTER WAY INTO PORT   Clean Out Pockets of LastDitch Nazi Defenders   AMERICAN FORCES   Sweep Inland 140 Miles From Mediterranean to , ‘Capture Grenoble

French Forces of Interior Aid U. S. Army in Conquest   Quick Thrust of Yanks Place Them Less Then 240 Miles From Southerly Points Reached by American Troops Below Pari

Surprise Move Puts Grenoble InU.S. Hand:   Seventh Army Plunges Deep hito Soiitth France ,and May Soon Join Patton Forces   Americans Only 11 Miles From Italy   Capture of Grenoble Rail Center Gives U. 8. Army Access to Mt. Passes in Large Area

Second City Of France Is Quickly Taken   Americans Meanwhile Speed Inland to Capture Grenoble

SOME GROUPS OF GERMANS IN THE CITY   Nazis Continue to Hold Out at Toulon—Ametican Forces, in. a ‘Surprise Drive, Reach the City of Grenoble.

Yanks Strike Deep in South of France to Enter Grenoble   Less Than 240 . Mile: From American Posts Below Paris Today

Allies Drive Into Grenoble 140 Mile Of Mediferranean   Bitter Battle Said Still Raging in ‘Encircled Toulon

PATCH'S ARMY ENTERS CITY OF GRENOBLE   Surprise Thrust Deep Into Southern France Carries  Americans Into Large.  industrial Center   TOULON BATTLE BITTER

Grenoble Seized — In Surprise Push  .   French Troops Aid Amazing Advance Of U.S  Forces; Nazis Hold Toulon, Marseille

Yanks Enter Grenoble, Big Industrial City   Situated On River _Leading Directly To Strategic Rhone Valley.

Yanks Enter Grenoble inv Swift Plunge   Early Junction of Two Allied French Fronts Seen Likely   VITAL RAIL CENTER   American Forces Sea Off Nazis in Southern France

‘GREAT SEAPORT 1S OVERPOWERED RATHER EASILY   Capture Of Toulon Expect ed Hourly Despite Nazi  Resistance   GRENOBLE OVERRUN BY ALLIED TROOPS

Yanks Reach Grenoble, 14¢ Miles Inland   Algiers Radio Says Troops  11 Miles From Italian Border

U. S. Troops Make Deep New Thrust   North, South Armies In France May Have Early Junction

YANKS TAKE GRENOBLE IN DEEP STAB   To Bisect France; Now Only 240 Miles From AIlied Armies in North; Batter Into Marseille.   Smoke Over Port

French Forces Of Inferior Help In Battle   Americans But 70 Miles From Swiss Frontier

SECOND CITY TAKEN; YANKS AT GRENOBLE      Column Less Than 70 Miles from Swiss Border

Paich’s Drive  Divides Nazis  In Italy, France Ouly 240 Airline Miles Sep arate Invasion Forces ef North and South France

Swift Advance Aids Meet of Allied Fronts   Patch Spearhead 240 Miles From Yanks Below Paris— Grenoble Important

Seventh Army Plunges Deep Info France   City of Grenoble, 170 Miles Inland, Reached by Yanks

Allied Troops In Marseille, No Resistance   Report Enemy Resistance Was Spotty During The Advance

Yanks Enter Grenoble With Spectacular Deep Advance   BULLETIN   Rome, (AP) — Allied troops entered Marseille Wednesday.

SURGE NORTR FROM RIVIERA   Yanks Take Grenoble, 140 Miles Inland; Close In On Marseille

U.S. 7th Army Enters Grenoble   Swift Advance Carries Doughboys Close To Italian-Swiss Borders .

Marseille in Allied Hands   Seventh Army Drives 80 Miles to Capture Grenoble; Near Lyon

Yanks Deep Into South Of France   Surprise Thrust . Carries Invaders 140 Miles in from Coast to Grenoble

MARSEILLE SEIZED. BY FRENCH FORCES      Seaport Taken as Americans Capture Grenoble

Nee Two Fronts Joined Sooner Than Expectes   Allied Units Are Reported As Being Only 11 Miles From Italian Frontier

SEVENTH ARMY INTO GRENOBLE   Surprise American Thrus Puts Troops 140 Miles From Coast.   HARD FIGHT IN TOULON

AMERIGAN TROOPS — THRUST DEEP INTO SOUTHERN FRANCE   Have Entered the’ Latge Ia dustrial City of Grenoble, Near Mediterranean...   BITTER BATTLE RAGED   French Armored Infantry Had Pulled into Outskisis iirts of Marseille.

YANKS PUSH 140 MILES INLAND IN LOWER FRANCE   Americans Enter Grenoble; Allied Forces Close in on Marseille

Yank Troops Advance Into  Grenoble   Surprise Thrust Moves Seventh Army Deep Into Southern France

Seventh Army Troops Enter — Grenoble .   Nazi Troops In Southern France Cut Off From Forces In Northern Italy By New Thrust

Marseille Captured By French Army   Yanks Threaten Trap Around German Army

Grenoble Taken In New Thrust   Forces Are 240 Miles Apart In France; City’s Fall Is ‘Threat To Lyon

U.S. Capture Of Grenoble  Is Announced   7th Army in Southern France Pushes Through  Nazi Defenses

GRENOBLE IN ALLIED HANDS IN S, FRANCE   Surprise Thrust 140 Miles From Mediterranean Coast as Industrial City Taken

Marseille Is Taken By French Force   Americans Seize Grenoble In Swern ta rth

Doughbovs Enter Industrial City Of Grenoble   Americans Roughly 70 Airline Miles From Swiss Frontier

DRAFT BOARDS CHANGE PLANS   Medina Board Receives No Call For February

N azis To Evacuate Bulgarian Town   Report Follows Appeal To Overthrow Power

SOVIETS WILL CONSIDER FINN ARMISTICE BID   Germans Consider Break  With Turkey As Pre lude to War

PETITION FOR, REHEARING ON AIRPORT RULING  STATE SUPREME COURT   STATE SUPREME COURT ASKED TO RECONSIDER ADVERSE DECISION

BIG JUMP IN SALES    Sixth War Loan Total Reached $417,838, Yesterday

VANDENBERG CALLS FOR PLAIN SPEAKING WITH RUSSIA, BRITAIN  MICHIGAN SENATOR WANTS UNITED STATES TC  SPEAK UP ABOUT POLANT

Big 3 To Meet Early In 1945   Vandenberg Urges U_S. Position Be Plair

Plain Speaking On War Issue: Is Called For   Vandenberg Makes Demand as Washington Watches With Obvious Concern Diplomatic Events

Plain Speaking By U.S. Urged   Abandon Silence on Poland, Vandenberg Demands of F_D.R.

  Early Parley Of Big Three Now Certain   Vandenberg Calls For Plain Speaking On Part of America

Plain Speaking  With Partners Urged For U.S.   Vandenburg Says America Should Not Be Silent Partner On Poland

Senator Vandenberg Calls for ‘Plain — Speakin®’ in U. S.-Foreign Relations

FOREIGN POLICY STORM CENTER   Irritation Is Created by British-Russian Deals

Lake Singletary Scout Camp Opens   Cape Fear Area Camp Starts July  For Six Weeks.

Scoat Camp ( Opens   Cape Fear Area Camp Starts July 1 For Six Weeks.

California Pilot  Killed Rommel   Film Shows Firing By Lt Harold Miller Did Job

Superforts Hit Manehuria In Latest Raids   Blast At Mudken Where Japs Have Arsenal For East Asia

B-29s in Anshan Day Raid   Planes Strike Palau; Marine Invaders of Guam, Tinian Advance

RITES TODAY FOR “MARS. P. GENGLER   Well Known Resident Died Saturday At Age of 69 Years

Mrs. P. J. Gengler  Taken By Death Had Many Friends During Long Life _ -

Government Curbs Liquor Imports   Drastic Reduction In Cane Products

IMPORTS SLICED ON CANE LIQUOR   Sources Of Gin, Rum And Cordials Diverted To War Needs

New Curb on Liquor:  Rum, Gin, Cordials and Whiskies From South To Be Less Plentiful

LIQUOR IMPORTS * GURBED BY U. §   SUPPLIES FLOWING IN FROM LATIN-AMERICA CUT—NO FIGURES GIVEN.

Cane-Liquor To. Be Restricted   Government Curbs Importation Rum, Gin, Whiskies From Southern Source.

; Government Puts Kink In Last Unhampered  Source Of Liquor With Rum Import Limi 

New Blow For Drinkers  Impor ts Of Liquor Cut Down  From The Cane Countries

Awards at 4-H Achievement Day For Canning and Club Record Books   Almost 700 Cans Of Fruit, Vegetables And Meat Entered

ASK JOAN BERRY RETURN 10 STAND   GEISLER TO INTRODUCE “CHARACTER” TESTIMONY

(Contmued on Page iwe}  ‘We Are Geing To Carry On, and How!’ Lewis Declares

Rail Center In Bulgaria  RAF Tar vel   Plovdiv Attacked; Rouen, France, Is Reported In Ashes

ALLIED BOMBERS IN ITALY BLAST ON AT PLOVDIV   Fires Observed By Returning Planes After Raid

RAF Planes From Italy Hit Bulgaria   Record Allied Assault On Reich Ends After New Marks Set

Italy-Based Planes Raid Rail Target   Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bears Brunt of Blows; Nazi Planes Attack England

Bombers Blast Plovdiv In Continuation Of Powerful Allied Assault In Which 6,000 Aircraft Loosed 9,000 Tons Of Explosives On European Targets In 36 Hours—Flying Activity From Britain Diminishes —Germans Strike Again At England

R. A. F. PLANES FROM ITALY IN ACTION   Britain-Based Bombers Inactive During Night   NAZI AIRCRAFT   Again Strike At England; Vichy Reports Rouen Is In Ashes

RAF Bombers Blast Plovdiv; Rouen In Ashes   Vichy Reports 750 Persons Now Killed In Paris Area.

BALKAN RAIL CENTER HIT; © RAF INACTIVE   Nazis Strike Back At London Again As British Stay Idle

Bulgarian R.R. Center Blasted      R.A.-F. Italy-Based Bombers Hit Plovdiv; Yesterday Toll Heavy.

Marauders Hitting French Targets Over 2,000 Dead Left at Rouzen in Yesterday’s Raid.

taly-Based Planes Keep Up Raids On Nazi Targets  Bulgarian Rail Center Pounded Today

British Bombers Based in Italy Blast at Plovdiv   British Based Bombers Active Over Northern France, Germans Strike ai England .

Allied Planes Push Raids On [taly Target:   RAF Italy-Based Bomber: Continue Offensive With Attacks On Rail Positions

9 ,000-Ton  Air Raid  ~ Continues   Italy-Based Craft Strike Railway i in Bulgaria

ltaly-Based Bombers Hit Bulgaria   Fortified Coastline And Northern France Hit by Bombers Again Today

Allied Fliers Raid Plovdiv   Hammer Bulgarian Railway Center From Italian Bases

Plovdiv Attacked By R Planes Based In Italy; Reveal 64 Nazi Planes Destroyed In Zagreb Raid; Rome Blasted; Fighting Flares  t Cassino.

RAF ITALY-BASED BOMBERS BLASTED RAILWAY CENTER   PLOVDIV, BULGARIA, RAIDED IN CONTINUATION AIR OFFENSIVE

RAF From Italy Hits Bulgaria Rail Center   Plovdiv Blasted 80 Miles From Sofia; Many Reported Killed or Injured in Sustained Aerial] Attacks on France

[TALIAN-BASE RAF BOMBERS RAID BULGARIA      mered as Follow. Up to Siows from England.

HIT BULGARIAN RAILWAY BASE   Plovdiv Raided As Powerful Air Offensive Goes On; Nazis Blast Britain

RAIL CENTER IS BOMBED TODAY   RAF Italy-Based Bombers in Attack on Plovdiv, Rulnaria.

Airmen Continue Huge Au Assaults; Nazis Raid England   Allied Forces Drop 9,000 Tons of Bombs on Hitler’s Europe in 36 Hours, Use 6,000 Planes

RAF BOMBERS CONTINUE TO SMASH NAZIS   Plovdiv Bombed; French Coast Attacked

—AIR WAR—  ALL CENTER IN PLOVOW RAIDED   Italy-Based Planes Continue Powerful Attacks On Nazis   FRENCH TOLL HIGH      Vichy Says Death Toll In Paris 750 And In Rouen 1,200

RAF Continues Attacks Against German Targets  Total Of 6,000 Planes Sweep On Nazi Obiectives

Davis Gears OWI For Coming Role In Invasion: Shifts Offitte Personnel

Fighting Flares on Anzio Front   Allied Field Guns, Tank Destroyers Joir Bombardment of Nazis on Perimeter

Preparing Another Major Test   Artillery Duel Kecps Up As Tempo of Warfare  Is Increased

FIGHTING HEAVY ON ANZIO FRONT   Both Armies Prepare For Major Test; Both Sides Using More Artillery.

ANOTHER MAJOR TEST SHAPING UP IN ITALY AROUND ANZIO   Reports Say Increasing Fierce Patrol and Artillery Duels Are Being Waced.

Action In Italy Is Increased   Allies Believed Getting Ready For New Assault

Patrols, Guns Battle Along lialian - Front   Both Sides Look For Resuption of Violent Fighting

Both Allied and Nazi Armies Bracing for Showdown,    GERMANS SHELLING ALLIED BEACHHEAD   No Reports on Allied Casualties or Dam- yj ages.

JAPS CLOSING IN ON BRITISH AT IMPITAL   Rumanians Claim Soviets Are  Thrown Back

FIERCE PATROL BATTLE FLARES ON ANZIO FRONT      Allied Field Guns, Armored Tank Destroyers Join In Bombardment

Fight. Flares At Anzio as BigGunsDue      lialian Battle Tempo Rises as Both Sides Throw in More Weight

[ALLIES AND NAZIS BRACING FOR IANOTHER SHOWDOWN BATTLE IN ANZIO BEACHHEAD AREA

Allied Artillery Blasts Nazi Guns Along Beachhead   Fierce Patrol Fights Flare; Battle Tempo ‘Reported. On Increase

ACTION ON ANZIO FRONT INCREASES   Allies and Nazis Apparently Bracing For Major Test

Fierce Patrol Fighting Flares Along Anzio   Nazi Artillery and Mortar Nests Are Bombarded

New Action  Flares up At Anzio   Allied Big Guns, Armored Forces Batter Germans

Expect Pope to Make Sunday Statement   Both Allies and Axis Said to Have Wowed Not to Fight in Sacred City

Details of Year-Old  ‘Sinking of President  in \Cocliagce Wiscioted

Coolidge Hit Allied Mine   Sinking of Transport A Year Ago Took Place In New Hebrides Isles

U. S. Heavies Batter Reich   Dual Aerial Fleets Hammer German Industries

Heavies hurl mighty blows at Germany  26 Yank planes said destroyed

Red Cross fo Gef Requests   It Will Have Charge Of Requests for Emergency Leave

RED GROSS WILL HANDLE REQUESTS   War Department Has Had Charge of Requests for Soldiers’ Returns.

Nazi Rail Centers Hit Day and Night By Aerial Bombs  Germans Fear Reds  Will Synchronize New mm * Were ©... *...   Britain’s Crack Glider Troops Poised for Invasion After Gala Rehearsal

British Airborne Troops All Set   Well Trained Men Ready for Invasion

HOUSE ADOPTS SOLDIER VOTE UNANIMOUSLY   Bi-partisan Measure Approved for Service Men; Clears 201-0.

German Border City Occupied By U.S, Nazis   sushvae Soldier Mentioned Associated Press Story —— from Stolberg,  Germa TUN.

2 ALLIED BASES SEIZED BY JAPS INCHINA SMASH   Chungking Discloses Fall Of Hochich, 14th U.S. Fliers Lose Nanning Field

AmericansAbandor Seventh Southern China Air Base   Nanning Field Lost’ as Jap Thrusts Succeed In Splitting China

U. S. Loses Last _ §. China Air Base      Fliers Abandon and Destroy Field at Nanning — Japs, Meanwhile, Capture Hochih, 95 Miles From Liuchow in Kwangsi Province.

Chinese Re port Loss Of Hochih   Japs Also Claim Capture Of Former U.S. Air Base

CHINESE REVEAL FALL OF HOCHIH TO NIP TROOPS   Last Forward: U. S. Airbase In South China, at Nanning, Also Lost

1,5. AIRFORCE ~"TRINDUNG BISE   Americans Destroy Fighter Field At Nanning Before Leaving   UNEASINESS GROWS   Enemy Narrows Gap Between Manchuria And French Indo China

Hochih Falls To Japanese  Yanks Lose Another Air Base At Nanning

Hoehih Falls In Jap Sweer   20 Miles From Kweichow Border: Yanks Abandon Last Air Base.

U.S. QUITS LAST SO. CHINA BASE   DESTROY NANNING AIRSTRIP AS JAP ARMIES CLOSE IN

LEAD IN GOP PRIMARY RACE   Rhodes Ahead in Democrat Superior Court Contest

Nazis Flood Supply Highway To Halt Advance Of Allies   Engineers Act to Defend Gustav Line in Southern \taly—Bridgehead Reported Expanded. by American Forees .

Germans Stall Allies Short: Distance From   Cassino    FRENCH TROOPS ARE STILL ADVANCING

NAZIS FLOOD SUPPLY LINE OF AMERICAS   In Rapido Sector, While Allies Make Some _ Gains Throwing Back German Counterattack.   Sink Ships

U.S. Forces However, Make Some Gains   Throw Back Another Nazi Counter-Attack; 90,000 Men Already Being Reinforced

Manchuria  Is Bombed.   - Japanese. Production Hit By. Superforts

MANCHURIA HIT BY B-29’S OF 20TH AIR FORGE   Forts on Reconnaissance Drop Bombs on Tokyo; U. S. Gains on Leyte

MUKDEN, DAIREN TARGETS NAMED BY TOKYO RADIO   Nips Claim 15 B-29’s Of 20th Command Downed By ‘BodyCrashes’

Superforts Hit Targefs In Manchuria   Gen. Arnold Reports Continued Attacks on Industry; Japs Claim 15 B-29s Shot Down

Superfort Task Force Attacks In Manchuria   Continues Campaign  Against_Jap In Davlicht Attack.

Jans Suffer Major Defeat   Suicidal Attempts To Break U. S. Line Fails

Suicidal Effort Made To Crash Perimeter   lsolated Enemy Forces Hurled Back ’ Following Day-Long Battle; Wake Island Raided

KNIGHTS PLAN INSTALLATION ON SEPT. 18¢   Concord Council, Host Te Servicemen ‘in Boston August 22nd

Blizzard Hits Eastern Coast  Halting Traffic   Severe Cold Wave Claims Three Victims In Midwest

Coldest Weather Of Year Moves Across Country   Snow Covers Midwest; Up to 10 Inches Predicted for East; Traffic Interrupted: Schools Closed; 12 Below in ND

Big Blizzard Roaring Into  Eastern U. S.   Tying Up Traffic; Severe Midwest Cold Wave Fatal to Three

RUSSIAN ARMY SMASHES AHEAD ON FINN FRONT      Breach Mannerheim Line On 25 Mile Wide Front In New Offensive

Reds Rip Finnish Front   Soviets Drive to _ Blast Nazi Satellite Country From War

Mannerheim Line of Finns Broken by Reds   Huge Russian Columns Pursue Fleeing Enemy

Soviets Advance on  95 Mi. Front   Reports Indicate Finns Fleeing  As Gen. Govorov Advances to Viipuri

FINNS LOSE BATTLE, FLEE IN DISORDER   Russians Aim to Quickly Eliminate Finland From War

Finnish Troops Sent Into Wild Retreat   Russians Advance Within 48 Miles Of Viinuri Ohiective

FINNS FLEE BEFORE RED ONSLAUGHT   Russ Troops Break Thru  Mannerheim Line

Troops Drive On Viipuri After Breaking 31-Month Finnish Front Lull      Finns Retreating On 25-Mile Front   Forces Fall Back So Fast They're Unable To Blow Up Roads, Bridges

Mannerheim Line Broken On Isthmus   Retreating Finns Unable To Destroy Bridges And Roads

Framed Finn Line Is Broken   Russians Seeking To Knock Finland Out of the War

INTO MAIN DEFENSES   Aim Of Offensive Is - To Oust Satellite Of Axis From War

FINN FORCES FLEE AS REDS CRUSH DEFENSE   Mannerheim Line Broken In Offensive Above Leningrad

MANNER HEIM LINE BROKEN BY RUSSIANS   Finnish Forces In Headlong Retreat Under Devastating Blow from Soviets.

Mannerheim line above Leningrad broken thru  Turn of Finnish satellites here; came fate awaitine nazis-Pravda

FINNISH LINE IS “BROKEN BY REDS, IN BIG ADVANCE   Great Columns of Russians  . Unable to Overtake Enemy  ; When Mannerheim Line Collanses.   FINNS UNABLE TO DESTROY ROADS, BRIDGES   1,000. American Planes Based In Italy and Russia In Coordinated Force to Bomb Balkans. =

Finish Retreat Speedily From Advancing Reds   Govorov Opens Attack” With Bombardment That  Leaves Finns Stunned 

DAWSON PLEDGES TO AND VETERANS   GOP Gubernatoria! Candidate Offers Own War Experiences as Personal Qualification to Handle Affairs

POLL TAX BILL HOLDS INTEREST OF LAWMAKERS   Cushion for Idleness Being Built Up With War Bonds; Forrestal Approved

CLOTURE MOVE DEFEAT LOOMS   Poll Tax Foes Hold Littl Hope For Petition

JORNSTON URGES RUSSIA TRADE   ECONOMIC AGREEMENT SOUGHT FOR COUNTRIES

U. S. Chamber Head Tells Russians There's No Reason Why U. S. And ‘Soviet Cannot Cooperate in Trade

ARREST HIGH OFFICIALS   Bulgarians Were Taken in Custody By Red Army

RUSSIANS ABOUT TO CUT LAST NAZI ESCAPE RAILROAD FROM ODESSA   Tens Of Thousands Of Germans Likely To Be Trapped In Southern Tip Of Ukraine.

Two More Great Victories In Sight For Soviet Forces; Germans Face Annihilation

Seek to Isolate British in India   Japs Within 10 Miles of Imphal

British Striving to  Hold Base   Imperials Making Desperate Effort To Stop Japs, Now 10 Miles From Base

JAP LOSSES HEAVY IN IMPHAL FIGHTING   Enemy Drive Has Carried To Within 10 Miles _ Of Indian Town 

IMPERIALS ATTACK JAPS NEAR KOHIMA   Nips Suffering Heavy Losses In Battle of Imphal

Attempt To Halt Drive On Imphal   Jap Forces Within Ten Miles of Capital

Messages To Next Of Kin Are Being Carefully Checked Before Being Sent From Washington

Pathetic Letters Are Sent To Casualty Branch Office Following Army Telegrams

Army Follows Painstaking Process Checking Casualties   Reports Made To Sergeants, Then Company Clerks. Headguariers. Finally To Washington

German, Russian Forces Fighting On Finnish Soil  Hitler Declares Nazi Troops Could Not Get Out by Sept. 15

Finn Troops Turr on Former Allies  Join Soviets in War on Nazis S#ill There

FINLAND SWEPT BY NEW BATTLE   Berlin Indicates That Nazi Soviet Troops Clash

Hitler Says — Finn Deadline Impossible   Fighting Has Started With Reds, Berlin Radio Indicates

Battle BreaksOut Between RussiansAnd Germans Left  On Finn Soil At Deadline

Report Reds ‘Fight Nazis In Finland   Finns Near War With  Hitler As He Ignores Wishdeeawel Deadiine

Finn-Nazi War Near?      Hitler Says “Nazis Unable to Get Out By Sept. 15 Deadline

Germans, Reds Fighting on. . Finnish “Soil   Germans Unable To. Clear. Country By. Deadline

FINLAND APPEARS ON VERGE OF WAR WITH HITLERITES   i 2. ee 7 2 Oe  BERLIN INDICATES THAT FIGHTING HAS ALREADY BROKEN OUT

Report-Fintend— To Declare War Against Reich   Nazi Invasion Of Hoglund Island Said Regarded As Direct Act Of War

Helsinki May Soon Be At War With Germany; Sept. 15 Deadline Is Past

Finland Expected To Declare War Against Germany  Bittles Gawe Inenthiziant Time   Hitler Says Insufficient Time Given lo Remove Troops— Wazi Aliack Angers Finns

Hitler Says German Troops Were Unable to Clear Out cf Finland By Sept. 15 Deadlixe—War Declaration Imminent

Finland, Herself, Appar: ently on Verge of Beginning New Conflict With Erstwhile Co-Belligerent

Finns on Verge Of War Against Her Former Ally   Hitler Reports He Can't Meet Troop Deadline

New Finn, Nazi  War Threatens Fighting Is Reported Again After Peace

Germans Still in - Finland Reported Fighting Russians   Time for Evacuation of Finland Expired Last Midnicht

DECISION BY HITLER TO FIGHT TO THE LAST DITCH MEANS GERMANY WILL GET FULL TASTE OF WAR

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Nazi Stand To Ruleout Future War   Allied Armies Stamp Out Last Seeds Of  German Militarism

sig Battle Inevitable As Invasion Begins— —By De witt Wack  Nazis Make Last Stand At Siegfried Line

BATILE FOR APPROACHES TO SIEGFRIED LINE PRODUCING ~ COME VERV EIFRCE FICHTING

WAR  TODAY   Hitler’s Mulith Refusal to Heit the Bloodshed Aids Alles to Achieve Great Objective, Gutlawing War

The War Today   Nazi Resistance Means Victory Wi Yep Piactad Ont in Reich Tt<elf

Long and Dull Campaign s Nearing End   lowans to Select Tickets at Primary Election Monday

DULL CAMPAIG ENDING MONDAY IN THIS STATE   Drive for Votes Has Extended Over Long Period, Failed to Develop Any Real “Heat”.

PRIMARY VOTE TO BE MONDAY AT IOWA POLLS   _ Longest Campaign Is Near End; Governor Race Is in Spotlight °

lowa’s Dullest Political Drive Draws To Close   GOP, Demo Nominees To Be Chosen At Primary Polls Monday.

AMERICANS ARE BATTERING NAZI DEFENSES ON ROAD TO ROME   Swedish Dispatch Relays Report Of Allied Landings In Jugoslavia. Air War In Europe Con Siessrsme BPaewe

City of Vittore Is Key of Inland Road to Rome.  NAZI COLLAPSE NOW IMMINENT  More Allied Landings on the Coast of Jugoslavia.

San Vittore May Soon Fall  To Americans      German Defenders of Itaijan City Are Crowded Into Three Pockets

SAN VITTORE NEAR CAPTURE   Apparently Giving Up Hope: of Holding City, Nazi Artillery Blasts Town While Own Troops Still There

AMERICAN UNITS ROLL TO SEINE; GAIN IN SOUTH   Seventh Army Outflanks Big Toulon Noval Base, Allies Announce

2 New Blasts _ Heard at Mine   Shinnston Explosions Rip Newly-Placed Seale

Fires Started, Enemy Vessel Hit  BOMBERS ASSIST  ee aon  American Challenge Unanswered

AMERICAN WARSHIPS BOMBARD JAPANESE NAVAL ’ BASE 1200 MILES FROM TOK YQ IN SURPRISE RAID BY TASK FORCE IN FAR NORTHERN WATERS— ’ FIFTH ARMY. BEATING OFF SERIES OF ; FIERCE ONSLAUGHTS NEAR ROME “yt

Bold Blow By U.S. Warships Aainst Japan   South And East Coasts Of Paramushbiru Island Heavily Shelled By Surface Vessels   JAPANESE ARE TAKEN BY SURPRISE AGAIN

1 200 MILES FROM TOKIO   First Offensive by Warships Against Jap Homeland

Start Fires On Paramushiru      Shelling Coordinated With Bombing Attack

U.S, BOMBS ALSO HIT VITAL ISLAND ON TOKYO ROUTE   Daring Raid on Homeland Significant Move in Pian to Crush Japan

_ BABY BUSINESS THOUGHT BARED   Find 6 Infants’ Bodies In Idle Garage, Hunt More Victims

Deadlock Broken On Price Contro!   FDR Relents And:  Cmvterane.Anred

Compromise  Ends Price Control Row   Senate, House  Act Upon Bill

Conferees Agree on Compromise Raising Of Textile Ceilings Expected To Be The Resuli

Conferees Agree on Compromise Tt EE CS Sse ETE ease Ser  Raising Of Textile Ceilings © Expected To Be The Resul:

Conferees Reach Compromise on Price Control   Administration Intervenes to Block Stalemate Over Bill

BRITISH SUPPORT PLEDGED REDS IN POLISH DISPUTE   Churchill Recom. mends Boundary Compromise;  Warns of Ficht

ACCEPT SOVIET TERMS, BRITAIN URGES POLANI   Churchill Backs Russian Stand On Revision Of Frontiers

Point Cost of Sausage Is Cut   Dry and Semi-Dry Sausage Reduced Two Points Per Pound

Sausage Point  Values Reduced   Unusually Large  Supply, OPA Says

RESURFAC OF WESTERN  ING  AVE. PLANNED   Thoroughfare to Be Improved From 21st to 33d Street

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.   Eisenhower Messaqde   Red Army Attack

UP-T0-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   NAZIS ANNOUNCE RED ARMY LAUNCHES ATTACK

Allies Pushing Isolation Drive In Jap Campaigr  “Cut Em Off. Let   “Cut ‘Em Off, Let *Em Starve” Plan Showing Results

Leapfrogging Paying Off In South Pacific   MacArthur’s ‘Cut Them Off And Let Them Starve’ Policy Working Well

Hundreds Of Jap Ships Sunk This Year  New Strokes Emphasize MacArthur’s Strategy Of Starving The Japs

LEAP-FROG PLAN BYPASS, STARVE JAPS IN PACIFIC   Enemy Troops Left to Die o1 Surrender as Supplies Are Cut Off With Seizing o' Islands.   8°7 JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK IN THREE MONTHS   Latest Landings on Bismarck Archipelago Securely In Hands of Marines With Army Encircled.

Since First of Year “Allies  Have Sunk 227 Jap/  anese Cargo Ships

MacArthur Pushes Starvation Drive Against Japanese   Leapfrog Landings. and Ship Sinkings Under score Campaign

ALLIED STRATEGY AGAINST JAPS IN PACIFIC SUCCESS   Leap Frog Landings and Destruction of Supply Boats Emphasizes MacArthur's Plan of Letting Japs “Starve Out”

227 JAP CARGO VESSELS SUNK SINCE JAN. 1   Nearly 600 Jap Barges, Many Loaded with Troops and Supplies Also Sent to Bottom a

Allies Press Attrition War Against Japar   Leap - Frog Landings aud ‘Ship Sinkings Under- . score “Isolate-andStarve” Campaign ~

Jap threats Growing) After Invasion of India      Cut ‘em Off, Let Starve Is MacArthur's Policy

U.S. Winning War of Attrition Against Japs —   Derent Victories .   Recent Victories Disclose Strategy Now Pursued by General MacArthur

227 Jap Ships Sunk in 1944  Allies Steadily   Allies Steadily Whittling Down Nip Cargo Ships

Japs Starving  As Yanks Cut Vital Sea Lanes   Strongholds Isolated By MacArthur ‘Under  ~ New Tactics

MacArthur's Cut-Off And Let Starve Policy Crippling Japs   JAP SEALANES HIT

Air and Naval Attack on Japs   MANY ENEMY PLANES AND SHIPS ARE DESTROYED

Air, Sea Blows Prelude to New Pacific Smash   Thirty Jap Ships, And 107 Planes Are Destroyed in 5-Day Period by Yanks

30 Jap Ships And 107 Planes Knocked Out By Nip-Hunting U.S. Units

Pacific Fleet Knocks Out 30 Ships, 107 Planes   Bonin And Volcano Islands Shelled By U.S. Warships

JO JAP SHIPS, 107 AIRCRAFT KNOCKED OUT   Warships And Planes Hand Enemy Heavy Beating In Wide Five-Day Raids

Nippon's Inner Defenses Raked By Americans   Attacks Are Prelude To Mighty Pacific Offensive

Bombers, Ships Take Battle Nearer Japan   Mighty Blows Dispose of Many Planes and Vessels, - Hammer Positions Along 4,000 Miles of Inner Defense Ring

30 JAP SHIPS WIPED OUT IN PACIFIC AREA   American Warships Shell  Within 675 Miles of Tokyo  While Bombers Hit the Philippines  NO CHALLENGE OFFERED

30 Jap Ships 107 Planes 5-Day Toll   U.S. Warships Hurl Shells at Coast Only 615 Miles Fram Tokyo

107 Japanese Planes And 30 Ships Blasted In 4,000-Mile Sweep   Only Seven Allied Planes Lost as Warships and Aircraft Batter Philippines: Kuriles Outposts Attacked

Big Pacific Fleet  Batters Japanese  30 Nip Ships and 107 Airplanes Knacked Out of War in Five Days

Japanese Lose Thirty Ships, 107 Planes Over Five-Day Period   American Warships Push Within 615 Miles Of Tokyo to Shell Enemy Installations; Wake, Bonins, Philippines, Volcanoes Hit

ISLAND RAIDS CARRIED OUT   Japs Lose 30 Ships, 107 Planes In Series of Sea, Air Blows

Curtain Rises On Next Big Pacific Push   30 Jap Ships and 107 Planes Knocked Out By Allies in Five Days of Heavy Shellin:

Get Ships, Planes At Jap Doorstep   American Warships Shell Within 615 Miles of Tokyo   MINDANAO, HIT AGAIN

U. S. Sea, Air Fleet: Lash Nips In 9. Days Of Heavy Assaults   Anierican Warships Shell Within 615 Miles Of Tokyo   And Bombers Batter invasion- Menaced Philippines In Devastatine Attacks

30 JAPANESE VESSELS HIT IN FIVE DAYS   Allied Airmen Knock Out 107 Planes in Same Period as Thundering Prelude to Next Big Push in Pacific.

PRICE CONTROL VETO. FORESEEN   Controversial Cotton Amendment Under Attack

REDS “SET TO G0”   WILL SOON MARCH OVER GERMAN LAND, SAYS SOVIET NEWSPAPER.

Nazis Continue Assaults  In Romania; Russians Ready For Major Drive

American Bombers Wreck Four Major Airfields Near Rome.   DEFEAT NAZIS IN WHITE RUSSIA   German Defense Lines Have Been Torn to Pieces by Reds.

Day-Long Assaults On French Coast   Ruhr and Rhineland Hit by Mosquitoes Last Night.

Reds Seal Off North Estonia, - Capture Parnu   Moscow Reports Russian Entry Into Hungary Te “TImaminerl?

Soviet Troops Trap Nazis In Advance Across Estonia   Capture Parnu, Nation's Second Port; Major Attack Reported Hurled At Cluj

Eastern Front Traps Set By Red Army   Soviets Capture Parnu On Riga Gulf; Attack Transylvania

Parnu Captured By Reds Racing Across Estonia  Fall of Seaport Seals Germans From Escape Route

PORT OF PARN CAPTURED BY REDS IN ESTONIA SWEEP   Thousands of Germans Face Danger of Entrapment as They Flee Toward Riga Corridor.   11 NAZI TRANSPORTS SUNK NEAR TALLINN   Destruction of Evacuation Vessels Believed to Have Taken Heavy Toll of Lives.

Soviets Seal Off German:  In Estonisg   Port Of Parnu Captured And Riga Is Also Threatened

Germans Caught In Soviet Trap West Of Tallinn   Entry Into Pre-War Hungary Imminent, Moscow Declares

Fall Of Parnu Cuts Off Nazi Escape Route   Thousands of Fee Pinched Off By Russians In .Swift Drive Across  : Country   NAVAL PLANES BLAST VESSELS IN GULF   Liberation of Estonia Now Appears To Be Only Quick Mop-Up  2 Toh

Reds Drive To Coast To Trap Baltic Nazis   New, Powerful Blow Struck At Hungary And Slovakia

Russians Get To West Coast Of Estonia   Fall of Riga Seems To Be Imminent as  Red Army Advances

Russians Reach  Hungary Frontier  Entry Into Pre-War Hungary Appears Imminent by Rede

FIGHTING REDS SPLIT ESTONIA, TAKE SEAPORT   THOUSANDS OF NAZI TROOPS SEALED OFF IN NORTH

Soviets Cross Estonia, Trap Nazi Hordes   Offensive Believed To Be Prelude To Attacks On East Pruccia and Slovaki

Russ Cut Off Estonia Nazis  Thousands Tropped Or Drown Escaping; 80,000 Lost in Battle

Reds Capture Estonia's Second Port   Reach West Coast to Seal Off Thousands of Navies

Russians Trap Many Germans   Capture of Parnau Leaves Thousands Caught Between There and Tallinn

PARNU SEAPORT ON RIGA GULF IS TAKEN IN DRIVE   ‘Russian Forces Leap Ahead 50 Miles In 24 Hours, Closing Trap

Reds Reach West  Coast of Estonia   Port of Parnu on Gulf of Riga Captured, Sealing Off Thousands of Nazi Soldiers

Soviets Smash to Baltic Coast  Capture Parnu and Trap 80,000 Men

Russians To  The West Coast   Port Of Parnau Captured On The Gulf Of Riga

Soviets Reach Gulf of Riga, Foe Cut Off   Thousands of Germans Caught’m Trap by ~~. ‘Push in Estonia

~ HORDES OF NAZI   @Russians Capture Port of Parnu on Gulf of Riga   SWIFT ADVANCE   Berlin Reports Drive Aimed At Trapping Troops in Hungary, Slovakia

Soviets Reach Baltic Coast In Smashing 50-Mile Drive To Seal Off Germans

BAPTIST. MINISTER (9 FLYING BOMBER   _ Eugene Si. Peter-Is° ‘His ‘‘Shipmate” ‘and Both Doing Good Work

HAP oT Miiilol Eh 0 FLING BOMBER   Eugene St. Peter Is His ‘‘Shipmate” and Be.h Doing Good Work

Advocates Program to Strip Japan of * War-Making Power   Ruthless Treatment of Prisoners Arouses  High Officials

JOE CASASSA ENDORSED FOR POSTMASTER   Precinct Committeemen Recommend Him To Sen. Scott Lucas

Relations Going Rapidly Downhill  By JOHN M. HiIGHTOWER Recnciated Prat«e Stati Writer

FOUR-STATE POWER FIRMS ARE MERGED   “Empire District and 3 _ Other Utilities, With  Combined Value of $25, 000,000, Consolidate —  Headquarters Here.

German Airfields Near Marseilles Heavily Poundec   Allied Bombers And Fighters Make New Attacks; Shoot  Down Eleven Nazis

Roosevelt To Address Dinnet  To Give It In New York On October 21

Roosevelt to Speak. In New York Oct. 24   Dewey Also Invited to Speak to Foreign Policy Association, Not Announced If Speech to Be Political in Nature

FDR SCHEDULES NEW YORK TALK   First Fourth Term Speech Outside Washington

FDR To Speak In N. Y. Oct. 21   Foreign Policy Group’s lavitatian Acronta]

 In New York October 2st   President Addresses Foreign Policy Body 17 Days  Before Election

FDR TO ADDRESS GOTHAM GROUP ON OCTOBER 21   Foreign Policy Association To Hear First Speech Outside Capital

FDR fo Address Foreign Policy Mer   Accepts Invitation To Speak at Dinner In New York Oct. 21

FD, R. TO SPEAK IN NEW YORK CITY   ACCEPTS INVITATION TO ADDEES FOREIGN POLICY ¢“MSSOCIATION OCT. 21,

FDR SCHEDULES SPEECH IN NEW YORK OCT, 2/   Question As to Nature of Address Goes Unanswered For Time Being

2,000 PLANES HAMMER REICH      Nazi Gunners Offer Only Moderate Resistance

7,000 AMERICAN PLANES BATTER REICH, AUSTRIA   Czech Oil Plants, North Italian Bridges Also Hit

Ominous Lull On Russian Front   Repeated German Counter. Attacks Repulsed, In Old Poland Areas

Invasion Troops Ready- Churchill   PRIME MINISTER ASKS COOL STRENGTH FOR COMING ACTION, PRAISES AMERICAN AIR FORCES, SUMMARIZES BATTLE FRONTS

Biggest Allied Effort Near, Says Churchill   Many False Alarms To Precede All) Out Attack

‘Churchill Declares Hour <Of Allies “Greatest Effort Is Approaching”

Churchill Says Great Actions Await Armies   Urges Allies To Face Critical Period . With Courage

FALSE ALARMS WILL PRECEDE  BIG INVASION   Hour For Allies’ Greatest Effort Approaching, Churchill Reports World Address.

Hour of Greatest Effort Near, Says Churchill in Rallying Cry To Allies

CHURCHILL IS CONFIDENT OF FINAL VICTORS   Sees: Defeat of Japan Soon er Than Expected; any False Starts Before Invasion of Europe.

CHURCHILL SAYS HOUR OF ALLIES GREATEST EFFORT IS APPROACHING   LASTS 45 MINUTES

Churchill Tells Allies to Get  Ready for “Greatest Effort and Action”

‘MANY FALSE ALARMS’ TO PRECEDE INVASION, IS CHURCHILL WARNING   Reveals RAF Strength Now Topped By U. S. Air Force In Britain; Detects Growing Jap Weakness, Sees Early Pacific Victory

CHURCHILL TELLS OF ALLIED WAR RADIO TALK   Laborite Daily Herald Expresses Dissatisfuction With  Speceh

CHURCHILL SAYS CRUCIAL HOUR NEAR   Says British, Yanks In Equal Numbers, Ready to Invade

“Many False Alarms, f Precede Great Action,’   Feints, Te - Churchill

FATEFUL HOUR FOR INVASION NEAR AT HAN   Churchill Reviews Progress of War, Sees Quickened Blow at Japan.

“Hour Nears  For Invasion’ —Churchill  ‘False Alarms, Feints and   Dress Rehearsals’ to  Deceive Enemy   PRAISE FOR RUSSIA   Britain Warned of ‘New Forms of Attack’ Foe Mav Attempt

CHURCHILL SAYS INVASION HOUR 1S APPROACHING      Warns It May Be Preceded By  Many False Alarms, Many Feints

Churchill Hints Invasion of Europe Is Near   Many Feints Will Precede Real Thine, He Declares

Gilmore, AP Writer, Stages One-Man Mey Day Parade--Only One in Moscow

One-Man Parade Staged In Moscow By A.P. Correspondent Hunting One

GAETA FALLS -UNDER YANK, ~ FRENCH BLOWS   Nazis Concentrating Great Forces in  Po Valley

Defense Crumbles on Two-Thirds Of Hitler Line Battleground; Evacuate Gaeta, Abandon Material

Yankee Hammer Blows Put Nazis To Rout In Places   Germans Believed Te Be Pulling Out Of Southern Italy Under Heavy Pressure : Concentrate In Po Valley For Another Stand.

American Breakthrough Sends Nazis Fleeing in Confusion; Disorganized Foe Abandons Masses of Equipment

NEW AMERICAN AIR ACE CROWNED   Has Shot Down 27 Jap Planes in Combat; Awarded 20 Medals.

Bizarre Killing of Girl Confessed   By Brother in Complicated Story

Ohioan Held for Sister's Murder   Bullet-Riddled Body Found in Ohio River

SCHOOL REPORTS : FOR SEPTEMBER   MANY PUPILS HAD A PERFEC? ATTENDANCE RECORD FOR THE MONTH   Maple Hill   Deer Grove

War-Time Dry Law Headed for Dust  Indications on Bill Prohibiting lL tauear

‘Wartime Prohibition Advocates Clamor For Action While Congressional .Committee Merely Pigeonholes Bill

Prohibition Bill. Destined To Die With House Group   Temperance Groups Clamor For Action Despite Election

US. Will Take Over At 10 A.M.   Order To Resume By That Hour Follows Union Rejection  Of Earlier Order.

CLAIM HENGYANG TAKEN IS FALSE   Chinese Making Suicide Stand Behind Personal Leadership of General.

ON THREE FRONTS   Russian. Troops Scoring New Advances Against Finnish’ =

Reds Pound Finns Hard On 3 Fronts      Score New Gains, inflicting Heavy Toll On Finns

Fifth Army's Lines Get Reinforcements; Reds  Make New Wide Gains   Nazis Raid London for Third Straight Night; Americans Advance Slightly at Cassino; More Heavy Air Blows Hit French Coast

T0J0, ENTIRE JAP CABINET RESIGN POSTS   Government Upheaval Follows Long Series of American Victories

PREMIER T0JO, ENTIRE CABINET RESIGN IN JAPAN   Expect Japs to List New Government Body Soon

Japs Shaken “By Stunning New Upheaval   Emper or Orders Formation of a New War time Government

Tokyo Cabinet Resigns as War Losses Increase   Militerist Group Selected to Form New Government

Fall of Goveznment and Boastful Little Militarist Was Disclosed in Official Announcement; Hirohito Called in Elder Statesman Marquis: Koichi Kido for  Consultation

PAGIFIG DEFEATS BRING NEW GRIGI   ‘More Powerful Cabinet’ Sought To Cope With War Situation   Koise And Yonai Ordered By Hirohito.To° Form New Government

New War Crisis Upsets Ministry. Broadcasts Reveal   Emperor Hirohito- Calls in Marquis Kido To Form ‘More Powerful Cabinet’; Competent Leader Sought

Army and Navy Leaders to Form New Jap Cabinet   Resignation of Tojo Cabinet Anaopnced as Prelude to "More Powerful’ Government

EMPEROR CALLS FOR FORMATION OF NEW GROUP   Names Statesman Kido To Pick Leader to Cope With War Threat

Army And Navy Leaders Called To Form Gov’ t  Critical Situation Of Japan Described As  Dancnn Cae {   ee 

Tojo, Jap Cabinet Quit! As War Reverses Mount   Stunning Government Upheaval I Announced by Tokyo To Pave Way for More Powerful Regime.

Tojo Cabinet Resigns; New One Forming   Lt. Gen. Koiso and Adm. Yonai Ordered to Form New Cabinet

COUNTRY TOLD CRITICAL DAYS HAVE ARRIVED   New Body Being Formed To Cope With War Demands, Nipponese Informed

Police Seeing — Woman Kidraper Of Lithe Gir   Young Blonde Charged With Abdution of Sailor's Daghter

10J0'S HOME IS SCENE OF NEW COUNCIL OF WAR   Enemies Discuss, Disdain Possibility Of Allied Invasion

iOXYO PLEDGES BATTLE 10 END   European Satellites Not Wavering, Is Claim Of Axis Nations

Japs. Germans Not Scared of the Allies  Bolster Courage crt Clanferance   Bolster Courage at Conference in Tojo‘s Home

Axis Partners Pledge Battle To Bitter End   Tokyo Meeting Announcer With Emphasis on Firm Stand af Satellites

Axis Leaders Hold Big War Council, Proclaims Unity   Premier Tojo’s Home In Tokyo Locality Of Conference

Axis Heads Determined To Battle  Until Finish   Conference Is Held At Tokyo Saturday

Nazis, Japs Confer on War Plans   Berlin Says They Agree to Fight to the Biter End

AXIS WAR COUNCIL HELD IN TOKYO   CONFEREES OF THREE NATIONS SAY THEY WILL FIGHT TOGETHER TO END.

Axis Council Of War Held   Meeting at Tojo’s Home Ends With Resolve To Fight Together to End

Japs: Germans Not Scared of the Allies   Bolster Courage at Conference in Tojo’s Home

Axis Council Meets At - Tojo’s Home, Sees Unity   Italy, Germany And Japan Hold ‘Important Meet: Pledge Fight To Bitter End

Campaign Starts In County Today   -.Many Workers To  Make GaAlicjtatinn

Big Force of Armor Escanes   Thousands of Germans Killed, But 7th Army Not Destroyed   PARIS WILL NOT BE WEEK-END JOB   But Germans Are Reported Blasting All Installations; Patton Swinging North

NAZIS LOSE POLOTSK IN BITTER FIGHI   "City Falls to Soviet Army - After Battle With Bay-onets and. Small Arms ‘ Lasting for Honrs.   ‘ALONG WHOLE FRON 1   Present Rate of Advance Should Put Reds Within Gun Range of East ' Prussia in Week.

Nazi Defense Crumbles on  North Front   Germans Fight Hard for Last Bastion on Soviet Soil

Spearhead Now Pointed At Wilno   Polotsk, Konstantinov And 300 Other Places Fall in Offensive  rrtilncr maT aAmrtrra

German Defenses Crumble Along 300 Mile Front As Soviet Forces Race Past Minsk Toward Wilna

Russians Complete Polotsk Capture as Nazi Defenses Crumble on 300-Mile Front

MIDWEST CORN IS GOING EAST   Cut in Livestock Feeding Profit Seen as Reason

U.S. Jungle Veterans Now Fighting Japanese in Burma  First American Ground Forces in Asia Are Battling Enemy

American Troops Fight in Burma   Veterans of Pacific Jungles Are First To Fight in Asia

YANK VETERANS NOW IN BURMA   Men Who Seow Action on Guad. aicanal Aid in Drive Against Nipponese

GROUND TROOPS IN BURMA NOW   Jungle-Hardened Americans In Action; Some Vets of Guadateanal.

US. Jungle Veterans Now Fighting Japanese in Burma   First American Ground  Forces in Asia

Americans in Burma; First  Ground Unit   Battle Hardened Veterans Of Guadalcanal and S. W. Pacific Used

Yanks Now In Burma Drive.   Slip Far Back, Hit Japs Be. hind Front Lines, Help Encircle 2,000 Japs

Guadalcanal ‘Veterans Strike Behind. Japanese: Lines in Burma Campaign

Men Trained in India Move ~ fo-Aid Chinese   Veteran Fighters: Drawn: From Guadaleanal,. Puerto Bico: and . Panam:   SEEK TO. ESTABLISH. ANEW-BURMA ROAD   Capture of Walawbum and ~ Maingkwan Creates Pin. cers Move

Yanks Are in Action Against Burma Japs   Veterans of Guadalcanal and S. W. Pacifie Are First U. 8S. Ground Forces Fighting as Unit on Asiatic Continent.

First American Troops Go into Action in Burme   » Southwest Pacific Veterans Hit Foe Hard and Inflict Heavy Casualties

Yank Jungle Army Traps 2,000 Jans   Only American Infantry Outfit Fighting in Asia

Pacific Veterans Trap Japanese in Pinchers Movemen   American Ground Forces Cooperating With Chinese Troops

DOUGHBOYS IN ACTION ON THE BURMA FRONT   Great Looping Atack Far To Left of Chinese Forces Operating in Hukawng Valley is Reported  CTDIiIVE BELIIAIMN FEIAIEC

Guadalcanal Veterans - Battle on Burma Front   First American Ground Troops to See Action in Asia Join With Chinese to Clamp Pincers on 2,900 Japs

Jungle - Trained Veterans Enter Asiatic Campaign   Americen Force Hits at Enemy Far Behind Lines

Nelson To GetNew U.S. Post   FDR Accepis Resignation. Names Krue WPR Head

NELS WPB; TO STAY IN GOVERNMENT   Krug, New Chief, Re veals Plan To Revoke Orders

Heavy Bombers Team Up To Aid  Invasion Drive   Over 2,300 Planes Partake In Shattering Zero Hour Bombardmen

All Thru Night Bombers Lash  Invasion Area   Luftwaffe Sends No Fighters To Halt Mighty Attack

4.000 Troop-Loaded Ships; 11,000 Planes Smash Atlantic Wall         Berlin Admits Two Beach-heads Secured—Allies Take Complete Mastery of Air Over Area.

Senate May Probe Mail *“‘Leak’”’ Case  Kellems Letters Not Seditious

May Call Price In Leak’ Angle Of Kellems Case   Reed Believes Violation Of Censorship Rulings Gave Coffee Information

Price Likely To Be Called On Censorship   Reed Scores Keyhole Peeping Into ‘Private Affairs

Drive te. Within Short Distance of Maffin Airdrome, Southwest of Sarmi — New. Bridgehead Being Steadily Enlarged.

YANKS NEAR NEW AIRDROME IN N. GUINEA   Establish a Bridgehead Across  Tor River

AMERICANS NOW IN 3 MILES OF MOFFIN FIELD   New Bridgehead Established on West Side of Tor River

Soviets Enter Town on the Main Route to Warsaw  'BREAK-THROUGH AT .._ TARNOPOL REPORTED  Powerful Flanking Maneuver Marks the Day's Fighting

SOVIETS CUT GERMAN LINE AT TARNOPOI   3 - MILE ADVANCE INTO POLAND REPORTED

Reds Break Through German  Tarnopo! Hinge Area Lines  Other Russ Forces To Northwest Break Into - Tawn OF Kavel In Advance Deen Incide Poland

Soviets Break Through Tarnopol Area   Advance Into Kovel on Main Road to Warsaw, Poland

Berlin Reports Soviet Advance Deep in Poland   37-Mile Thrust on Eastern Front Likely To Trap Many Nazis; Town of Kovel Taken

REDS ADVANCE 43 MILES IN POLAND, SMASH INTO KOVE!   Announce Big Break-Through in Stubbornly Defended Tarnopol Area on East‘ern Front.   PORT OF NIKOLAEV NOW UNDER SIEGE   Threat to City Increased. by Soviet Advance to Vozne- — sensk on Bug 50 Miles ‘ Awav.

Soviet Troops Also Reach Kovel on Main Road to Warsaw and Town on Bug 50 Miles Above Nikolaev

REDS MAKE GAING IN OLD POLAND   Break Into Town of Kovelon On Main Road to Warsaw   NAZIS ADMIT LOSSES   Breakthrough in Tarnapol Sector Threatens To Pocket Germans

Soviets Enter Kovel, on Warsaw Rail; ! 37-Mile Smash Pointed for Bucovina

Soviets Advance 43 Miles Deep Into Old Poland   Break Into Kovel on Road to Warsaw; Tarnopol Cut Off

SOVIETS SMASH 37 MILE GAP IN TARNOPOL LINE   Breakthrough Threatens Large Enemy Force; Advances Made On  Warsaw Road

Reds Break Enemy Line At Tarnopol   -Now Only 33 Miles From Partition Line Established in 1939  ADVANCE IN SOUTH

Reds Smash Nazis’ Lines At Tarnopol  ‘Drive In Poland :  ko enian: De... dL...

Air Offensive Continues  RAF Attacks Nev: Boat Pens at  RARER, EES eES

British Bombers  Blast Nazi Boat  Pens at Boulogne RAF Heavies Make Second Big  High Altitude Precision Alfack on E-Boats. R-Boat<

Allied Planes Blast Boulogne   Drop 12,000-Pound Bombs on E-Boat and Minesweeper Pens

BRITISH AIR FORCE HITS PORT — OF BOULOGNE, RAILS, FUEL BASE   14 Bombers Missing From Aerial Operations: Blows Follow 1,500 Plane Attack By U. S. Bombers and Fichter<.

ALLIED AIRMEN POUND HARD AT NAZI BOAT BASES IN FRANCE, AS GERMANY BLASTED, BRITAIN HIT

E-Boat Pens Bomb Targets  R.A.F. Big Bombers Make Second Pre-Dus

RAF SMASHES AT BOULOGNE   PLASTER BOAT PENS WITH BLOCKBUSTERS RAIL CENTERS HIT

Block Busters Pound Upon  Boulogne Pens   E-Roat Nesis Battered—lInvasion Forces Supported

Planes Blast K-Boat Pens At Boulogne   Germans Report Aircraft Approaching Provinces In Austria

Nazis Hurl Pilotless Planes At England; Ports Of Bordeaux, Boulogne Battered

AERIAL RAIDS ARE EFFEGTIVE   Offensive Against European Targets Follow RAF Bomber Attacks.   AUSTRIAN PROVINCES HIT

BOULOGNE GIVEN HEAVY POUNDING   Allied Planes Pound Nazi EBoot Pens on Coast Of France

Massive Blows Dealt Boulogne,  Invasion Front   RAF Drops 12,000 Bombs Hunt Biggest Enemy Ammunition Dump.

-TON BOMBS HIT GERMAN E-BOAT PENS   Blow Dealt by R. A. F. “Heavies” in Pre-Dusk Assault at Boulogne— Railway Centers Alsc Are British Targets.

Bombs Smack German Bases  6-Ton Explosives Are Dropped By British

Germans Drive Toward Sedan, Greatest Gain   Armies Fight On In Mud, Snow On Western Front

Armies Fight In Mud, Snow   Nazis within 29 Miles of Sedan, Taken by Yanks Last September

MUD AND SNOW ON BATTLEFIELD AS FIGHT RAGES   Reports from East Side of Germany Indicate Reds Starting Offensive

British Move To End Two Strikes   "Big Stick” Is Being Fashioned to Halt Work Stoppages

Brifain May Ad On Strikes   No Justification, Says Lloyd George, As Government Plans Direct Action

Brifain Plans Stern Measures To Halt Strikes   Amercian Army Aid in Speeding Output of Coal

COAL CRISIS WORST SINCE 1926 SAYS BRITISH MINISTER   Lloyd George Tells House’ of Commons “Strike Action Cannot Be Justified In Time of War.”   U.S. ARMY LENDS HAND TO SPEED UP MINING   Continued Strikes Could Cause~ National Disaster and Imperil Victory of Allied Cause.

BRITAIN WILL ACT 10 STOP COAL STRIKES   Government Fashioning “Big Stick” to Send 90,000 Idle Back to Work —War Effort Has Suffered Greatly.

Britain Fashioning ‘Big Stick’ Policy Against Widespread Walkouts In Mining, Shipbuilding

Britain Prepares To Stop Coal, Shipyard Strikes Under Powers Of Wartime

indicated Government Fashioning “Big Stick” To End Widespread. Stoppages

“Strike Action Not Justified,”’ Says Lloyd George..... Britain May Wield “Big Stick’? Against Strikes

Lloyd George Hits At British Coal Strikers   Says Government Welding Big Stick To End Mining and Shipping Strikes.

Britain Acts To End Strikes  Americans Help In Strip-Mining Areas

PLANE HITS HOUSE WHILE FLYING LOW; ‘SKILLED, 3 HURT   Bomber Burns After Crash at Merriam, Kan. — Five Homes Are Consumed by Flames.   DEAD AND INJURED MEMBERS OF CREW   Pilot Apparently Lost Control of Liberator After Its Wing Ripped Off Roof of Residence.

Solon Challenges Willkie to Devise Tax Plan  Finance Chairman Ask Program to Make Levy Simpler, Better

‘Asks Wilkie for Specific Progran  Replies to Demand  for Higher Taxes

Solon Challenges Willkie to Devise Tax Plan  Finance Chairman Ask Program to Make

“Tax Proposal More Unsound  Than FDR's   Willkie’s Call For Additional Multi-Billion Plan Meets  Opposition,

JAPANESE AIRMEN: RAID ENIWETOK   BLOW IS FIRST DEALT BY ENEMY SINCE YANKS SEIZED MARSHALL ATOLL,

Japanese Hit Eniwetok Atol In Marshalls   Only ‘Small Damage’ Caused: Navy Plane Bags Jap Bomber

JAPS IN RAID ON ENIWETOK   Only Small Damage Done By Foe in Aerial Attack On Marshalls Atoll

Bricker Accuses New Deal Naziistt   Nominee Says New Deal Would Control Lives Of All.

‘New Deal Doctrines: Support Both Naziism and Fascism Gov. Bricker Asserts in Address

STILL TREED BUT SITTING PRETTY   Ex-Soldier Likes His Leafy Home After Ten Weeks

American Forces Skirmish With Remnants Of Enemy's Aitape Garrison In Jungles

SOVIET PLANES BLAST FLEEING NAZI FORCES   Reds, in Hot Pursuit Close in on Gateway to Latvia

RUSSO PLANES RIP HOLES IN GERMAN RANKS   , Fly Low To Cut Down Enemy  NAZIS CONFUSED  : Reds Also Capture Luga

REDS PURSUE FOE AS DRIVE NEARS LATVIF   Soviet Forces Within 30 Miles of Pskoy, Gateway City

Italian Group Calls Off Strike   MP's Patrol Factory Districts After Threat

Bomb Flashes Are Visible  in Dover Area  7,500 Planes Hit European Foartrece Saorturdayv

Night Raiders Heavily Attack Invasion Area   Four-Ton Blockbusters Smash Coast From Cape Gris Nez To Boulogne.

roop Mutiny eatens, ritons Told   aders Assailed ew for Fight gainst Greeks

Belgium Calls For Disbanding Of Irregulars   Decree Exhorts Partisans To Quit White Army;  > @ AGintarnera! Reaton

YANKS, BRITISH BEYOND TIBERIN RAPID GAINS   Triumphant Fifth Army Scarcely Pauses in Eternal City

Enemy Resistance Within Eternal City Ends; Forts Pound German-Held Europe

MECHANIZED COLUMNS STREAN THROUGH LIBERATED ETERNAL CITY AND CROSS TIBER RIVER .   Fifth Army Keeps Up Relentless Pursuit of Germans, Leaving Only Necessary __ Troops in Redeemed Capital

YANKS SNATCH GUNS FROM NAZIS   OTHERS LEAP UPON ENEMY TANKS AND BLOW SELVES UP WITH VEHICLES.

Soviet Spearheads Bite Deeply Into Fluid Lines In North And Genter—Allied Bombers Attack   Clerman Obiectives   CASSINO DEADLOCE IS STILL UNBROKEN

EASE TRUCK TIRE ~ RATION SLIGHTLY   But No Increase In Sugar To Bake Food For  Christmas

DATE SET FOR CHAPLIN TRIAL   Judge Ignores Plea by Defense Attorney

Special ' Train Strikes Rear. Of Passenger   7 Six’ Go to Hospitals, na 50. Slightly Injured. Near Castle Rock. Wash   GOVERNOR. AND: WIFE “ONLY SHAKEN UP.        - Dewey: Party] Proceeds. Three. Hours Later For Portland: Ore:

Dewey Shaken In Rail Wreck   Half-Dozen Hospitalized As Snecial Piles In

Candidate, Wife Severely Shaken Up; 50 Are Hurt   Dewey Special Rams Into Stalled Passenger Train

DEWEY TRAIN IN WRECK; 50 PEOPLE HURT   Candidate and Wife Escape in Crash in Washinaton State

Gov. Dewey's Special Crashes Into Halted Train: Candidate Unhurt

WRECK HALTS DEWEY TRAIN TO PORTLAND   ABOUT 50 INJURED. GOP NOMINEE UNHURT

Driver Throws On Brakes to Avoid Collision With Vehicle That Turns Off Highway Without Giving Signal—Near Accident Occurs Few Hours After Train Wreck in Which Governor and Wife Are Shaken Up.

bewey Uninjured In Train Crash   Special Train Crashes Into Stopped Freighter; 50 Slightly Hurt.

cate  Dewey Unhurt in Train Collision; 50 Others Injured, 12 Hospitalized   Candidate and Wife Have Another Escape  From Hurts, in Near Traffic Crash in Portland

PROPOSE FEB. 21 FILING DEADLINE   STATE SENATE BILL SETS UP NOMINATING PETITION DEADLINE

Athenian’s Fortress Unit Is Cited  For Performances   GEORGE J. ADAMS IS MEMBER OF GROUP COMMENDED

WAGE SHOWDOWN CONFRONTS WLB   AFL, ClO INTENSIFY CAMPAIGN TO SMASH LITTLE STEEL POLICY

Little Steel Formula  Is Facing Crucial Test   AFL-CIO Rivalry. Boil: To Surface As Wage ’ Issue Heats Up .

Showdown on Wages . Issue Near   War. Labor Board May. Appeal'To White House : For Guidance   COMPLICATED: BY” AFL - CIO RIVALRY   Both Want 15 ‘Per Cert Ceil. ing Set. Aside But. Fear - Other. Will Get Credit :

WLB to Seek White House Guidance in Union Fight to Smash Little Steel Formula

SHOW DOWN SOON TO BE HAD ON WAGE CEILINGS   - Labor’s Efforts to Break Little Steel Formula Causes WLB to Ask White House Guidance

Nazis, Threatened With Disaster, ° Try Counter-Attacks   Enemy ts Beaten Back With Heavy Losses as Unchecked Red Army Plunges Ahead in Several Vital Baitle Sectors

COUNTER-BLOWS © BY GERMANS FAIL TO STEM ADVANCE   Hitlerites Suffer Heavy, Losses as They Lash Back _ With Infantrymen and_  ank Units. .   RUSSIANS OVERRUN MORE THAN 200 TOWNS   Drive Forward 15 to 30 Miles a Day in Some Areas— Attempt to Annihilate  Invaders Is On.

Raton Banker Named President Of State Group   U. §. Co-Operation Urged in Some Form  Of World League

Rift Develops Within Ranks Of Greek Elas   British Declare. Fifth of Athens Cleared of Bands

Rift Develops In EAM Ranks  Fifth Of Athens Area Cleared Of Armed Met

RIFT APPEARS IN SEVEN-PARTY EAM COALITION TODAY   ‘Clearing of One-Fifth of ‘Athens of Armed Bands Announced by  British— ELAS Chief With Allies

Leftists Resist As EAM Develops Coalition Rift   British Clear Fifth of City Of ELAS Troops

RIFT DEVELOPS AMONG CHIEFS IN EAM GROUP   British Claim They Have Cleared 5th of Athens of Armed Bands

Fighting in Greece Subsides   Rift Develops Among Re: volt Leaders; Three Seek a, Settlement   SNIPERS KEEPING THE GUNS GOIN   But One-Fifth of City of Athens Is Cleared; . Great Food Shortage

RIFT BETWEEN EAM LEADERS IN COALITION   Fifth of Athens Has Been Cleared Of Those Guilty of Violence, British Claim.   Ry STEPHEN BARBER

RIFT DEVELOPS IN GREEK LEADERSHIP OF EAM COALITION   BRITISH ANNOUNCE THAT ONE-FIFTH OF ATHENS CLEARED ARMED BANDS

Fifth of Athens Is Freed of Armed Bands   Rift Is Developing Among Leaders Of Greek Revolt

Rift Develops Among Greek ELAS Chiefs   British Report One-Fifth f Athens Is Cleared; Units Marching on City

Split Appears Among Leaders  Of Greek EAM   Leftist General, Other: Pledge Support To Brit ish In Dispute.

ELAS Commander Adheres to British; Other Chiefs Waver in Nation’s Crisis

(ELAS Troons Open Fire On British Tanks   Leftist Forces Reported Massing North of Athens  ~~ As Peace Moves ‘Are  ! Made by Greeks

RIFT DEVELOPS AMONG GREEKS   British Announce One Fifth Of Athens Cleared of Armed Bands.

B-29’s Smack Arsenal City Tn Manchuria   Hundreds of Tons Of Explosives Fall ° On Mukden Factories

Manchurian City lof Mukden Hit By B-29 Attack   Arsenal City Blasted For Third Time In _ Past Three Weeks

Mot}er Faces Mi ler €har "ge h California   Mrg/Louis,, Flack, 28, Ac cged inaStarvation eath of Her Crip- _  £ pled Danghier

assisted tenet teenteneeneeetennnnmmmnaaneniinniameanedind  MOTHER UNDER ARREST FOR STARVING DAUGHTER

MOTHER 10 FACE CHARGE OF MURDEF   Child’s Body Is Found in Crib in Locked Basement Apartment.

ERNIE PYLE GETS PULITZER PRIZE   JOURNALISM, LETTERS, MUSIC AWARDS MADE

Daniel DeLuce, Native Yuman, Wins Pulitzer Prize for News Reporting

INTERESTING FACTS IN STATE MANUAL   Tnelude a Vast Amount of “Miscellaneous Information.

Bulgars Break Off Relations ‘With Germany   Russia Silent On Bulgar Appeal For An  Armistice.

VALENCE, NICE FALL 10 YANKS   FRENCH IN SPECTACULAR DRIVE ON LYONS GULF

Advance Made By Americans On Peninsuls   Alr-Borne. Troops and Infantry Progress Toward Cherhourg in Face of Rugged Opposition by Germans

Are Within 15 Miles of Cherbourg   Pour Reinforcements. Onto. Beaches, Speeding Drive to Cut Off Cherbourg Peninsula

Yankee Army Presses Drive  On Cherbourg  Captures Isigny, Fights Germans At Montebours

OUSTING GERMANS FROM HOLLAND PRECEDES NEXT BIG TASK WITH RHINE AWAITING ALLIED HURDLE

WAR TODAY      Seizure of Antwerp, ‘Port to Give Allies Supplies With Which  to Baiter Down Ger-: man aig iomed De  fances -

 WEEK-END ALLIED ACTIVITY IN HOLLAND INDICATES PORT 'OF ANTWERP BE OPENED SOON

The War Today:  Operations To Free Antwerp Approaches Showing Proaress

Jamestown Captain Leads  Doughboys Into Cassino   Frazier's Men Battle Nazi Tank with Small Gun, Wipe Out Fortified Barracks With Aid of American Tanks

BLOODY BATTLE BEING FOUGHT FOR HENGY ANG   Chinese Admit That Japanese Have Smashed  Into City Proper   INNER-RING POSITION IS STILL UNSHAKEN

Japs Smash Into Hengyang City   Battle In Streets After Bloody Siege; Becoming Epic Death Struggle.

JAPS GAINING AT HENGY ANG   Troops Battle in Streets Of Important Chinese Rail Junction

LITTLE CHANCE OFINDUCTING MEN BEYOND 26   Pool OF Draft Eligibles Under That Age Will \ Last Until Fall 3 7   RECENT CALLS NOT HEAVY AS EXPECTED

Pool of Young Draftees Expected To Last Until Fall  Older Men in Essential   Older Men in Essential War Work to Get New Deiay, Hershey Says

FEW IN WAR JOBS OVER 26 EXPECTED TO BE DRAFTED   Hershey Predicts Pool of Eligibles Under That Age Will Last “Until Early Fall.”   FEWER REJECTIONS THAN ANTICIPATED   Selective Service Chief Says Recent Calls Have Not © Been as High as Expected.

Draft Won't Call Men Over 26 Until Early Fall   Pool of Eligibles Still Large Enough, Gen. Hershey Says

Over-26 Draft Fades Further   Quotas Indicated IR Hond ‘Til Fal!

More Delay in Older Men’s Draft Seen   Armed Services Call for Fewer Men Than Plans Foresaw

RICKENBACKER’S COMBAT RECORD (BROKEN TODAY   Capt. Robert S. Johnson Of Lawton, Okla., Gets 27th Enemy Plane Over Reich

JAPS SAY YANKS RAID PHILIPPINE ISLE OF MINDANAO   Bases Now Only 600 Miles From Southern Tip of First Big Objective.

Regency for Greece Now Possibility   King George II Reported Studying Taking This Step

* NEARLY CLEARED   WLB Says Invasion Puts _ Curb on U. S. Work si “aw: «SQ topnanes

TATE MELTING UF GIO CLOSES   Two Union Leaders Argu For Removal of A. C. Her old as Member of Regions WLB Board

Japs  Pacific Defenses iU. S. Bomber Targets   Kuriles Islands In North, Imo Jima, 700 Miles From Tokyo And Spice Islands On Equator Lashed By American Fliers

Rain of Bombs On Jap Islands   Protecting Screen North and South Severely Pummeled

JAP ISLANDS GIVEN PASTING   Protecting Screen Blasted ~ At Both Ends by American Bombers

JAP BASES ARE BOMBED AGAIN BY AMERICANS   Extreme’ Ends  Of Is: Jand Chains Hit © “ Brom: Air   Halmahera, .Ternate Objects Of: Re-- . ' 'waateacd Raids:

Jap Islands Bombed at Both Ends   Kuriles Smashed, 3 Freighters Sunk Near Formosa

HIT ISLAND SCREEN   Jap Installations in Pacific Feel Weight of Heavy  Bombers

JAPANESE ISLAND  SCREEN BATTERED FROM BOTH FLANKS   In Addition to Kuriles on the North, Spice Islands on the South, Iwo Jima Near Middle of “Screen” also Blasted

Japan’s Island Empire Bombed   PACIFIC BASES GIVEN AERIAL POUNDING e BY U.S,

STATE POLITICS » AT FEVER HEAT   Oklahoma's 10 Electoral Votes Wiil Be Prize in General Election

Jans’ India Drive Fails, Losses Soar   New Offensive Hurled Back; British Gaining

Missouri Synod Lutheran Church Is Deadlocked Over Issue of New Name

Fighters Down 13 Japs In Ponape Raid   First Time Bombers Escorted Over Jap Base in Carolines

Bolivia. Is In Throes. Of Unrest   Revolt Denied But Cabinet Changes Imminent :

INDICT TWO IN BLACK MARKET PROBE   Charged With Selling 134,200  Gasoline Coupons

American Accused Of Aiding Nazis   Congressman Says Firm  Helped Them Re-Arm

Optical Firm Charged With German Aid   Government, Says Bausch & Lomb BHelned Nazis Arm

Politicos Kye Timber For °48 Race   Several Republicans Take Spotlight; Dewey High on List

Hunt For 1948 Presidential Timber Begin:   Thomas E. Dewey Is High On List Of Republican Possibilities.   HAS NO I1LLUSIONs

Nation Begins Guessing Who  Runs In 1948   Dewey. Bricker, Truman. Wallace Seen As Possible Candidates

POLITICOS SIZE UP TIMBER FOR 1948   Dewey High on List for GOP Nomination; Fourth Term Naturally Causes Speculation About Fifth

1948 Timber  Considered by”  Politicians Now   Dewey Tops List Of Republicans; Fifth Term Talked

'Professional politicians already sizing lup potential presidential timber for7A8

;Professional Politicians Size Up Potential Timber For 1948  ‘!As Some Boards Are Still Tabulating Week’s Election Ballots:

Four German P.W.'s Escape   Jumped From Train, Fled In Car in South Kansas

SYSTEM OF FARMER LOANS > INCLUDED IN HOUSE BILL   MEASURE WOULD. ABOLISIE FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION AND TRANS FER ITS DUTIES !

Ciano Is Given Death Sentence   Others Also Found Guilty Of Treason

Ciano Is Shot By Firing Squad   Germans Announce  His Death Tuesday

TREASON DEATH AWAITING CIANA   Mussolini's Son-In-Law Condemned By Fascist Regime, Says Berlin

Ciano and. 17 Others of Grand Fascist Council Sentenced to Death for Treason

Mussolini's Son fn Law Reported Shot Trving to Flee After Death Sentence

Death Sentence for Ciano, Nazis Report   Mussolini’s Son-in-law Is Found Guilty At "Treason Trial”

Report Convicted Ciano Dies   DUCE’S SON-IN-LAW EXECUTED ON CHARGE OF VOTING FOR OUSTER

DEATH SENTENCE. GIVEN CANO FOR TREASON, REPOR}   Berlin Radio Says Extreme . Penalty Was Imposed on ° Mussolini’s Son-in-Law and 17 Others.   TWO-DAY TRIAL HELD AT VERONA, ITALY   Charges Grew out of Overthrow of Il Duce—Only Five of Those Con demned in Custody.

Count Ciano  Given Death   Foreign Minister Under Mussolini Convicted at Nazi-Sponsored Trial

aRDESD TRIAL      'Son-In-Law of Former Premier Mussolini and 18 - Others Will Be Executed

Duce's Son-in-Lav Sentenced To Die   Guilty of Treason, Berlin Announces

COUNT CIANO, THREE OTHER FASCISTS DIE BEFORE MUSSOLINI FIRING SQUAD

‘SON-IN-LAW OF MUSSOLINI SHOT TO DEATH BY GERMANS AFTER TRIAL . AND CONVICTION ON TREASON CHARGES   Former Officials High in Authority of Fascist . Councils Pay with Lives, While Fate of 14 Others Remains to Be Decided hy Navi ] eaderc

Execution of Count Ciano Announced   Son-in-Law of Mussolini Dies Before Firing Squad

sCount Ciano Executed ‘by Fascist Firing Squad   Four Others Convicted With Mussolini's Son-in-Law Also Reported Shot.

Ciano Is Given Death Sentence   Others Also Found " Gui lbp OF rence

Nazis Sentence Ciano To Death   All 19 Members Of Fascist Grand Council Have Been Sentenced,

COUNT CIANO, FOUR OTHERS EXECUTED   Ex-Members Of Fascist Grand Council Are Shot

Death Penalty  Given Ciano, Nazis Repor!   Others Condemned to Die at Conclusion of Treason Trial, DNB Says

COUNT ClANO FOUND GUILTY   Duce’s Son-in-Law Convicted Of Treason;  : Faces Execution

Ciano Executed, Berlin Declares  Four Other Former Italian Officials Also Slain. DNB Says

Nazis Shoot Count Ciano   DNB News Agency Says Germans Execute Il Duce’s Son-ln-Law.

DNB Says Ciano Sentenced to Die At Nazi Trial 7   Once Reported Shot Son-in-law Said Tried for Treason

Order Death To Ciano   Mussolini’s Son-inLaw Condemned At Nazi-Sponsored Trial

Ciano Sentenced To Die With 17 - Others, DNB Says   Mussolini's Son-in-Law Faces Death Penalty For ‘Treason’

Ciano. Is Given Death Penalty By Nazi Court   Son-In-Law Of Mussolini Is Convicted After Treason Trial. -

Fascists Exectite Ciano for Treason   Son-In-Law of Mussolini and Former Italian Foreign  Minister Shot Today.

 rs Tite Sead, Nazis Annotnrice      Four.” ‘-Others, °: ‘Convicted With, “Him Yesterday, ‘Also Die: For :'Treason’

Count Ciano “Shot By Firing Squad”   German Agency DNB Reports Execution of Hl Duce’s Son-in-iaw

Ciano Is Given Death Sentence   Nazi-Sponsored Trial Charges Treason

DEATH DECREE REPORTED FOR COUNT CIANO   Mussolini's Son-In-Law Convicted Of Treason To Italian Premier

FREAGON TRIAL OF CIAND ENDS   Count Sentenced to Die Along With 18 Members Of Fascist Council.

Count Ciano Shot to Death   Benito Mussolini’s Son-in-Law Dies By Firing Squad

Count Ciano Is Sentenced to Death hy Nazis   Seventeen Other Fascists Meet Same Fate

INVASION BEGAN FROM ENGLISH PORT   Civilian Populace Unaware of Momentous Occurrence.

Says Poland Russia Can Agree Later   Congressman Sees Boundary Dispute As Post-War Issue

Destroy 300 Nip Planes   Biggest Pacific Air “Victory Since Midway, Land Invaders Gain

To Speak ‘Powerfully for Democracy’; Starts TwoDay Speaking Trip Into Five States

PRESIDENT HITS DEWEY TACTICS   Roosevelt’s Speech Waited At Philadelphia Tonight

FDR LAUNCHES TOUR, PRAISING WAR WORKERS   President and Party Head for Chicago And Philadelphia

FDR OPENS TOUR OF FIVE STATES   President To Be Heard Or Air Tonight At 8

President Opens Two-Day Journey For Heavy Ballot  Philadelphia Talk First Stop Fer Appearances in Delaware, Rew Jersey. Indiana Dlinsic

FDR Start: 2 Day Drive Talk Tonite   President Roosevelt speech from Philadelphia will be broad. cast at 9*o'clock tonight.

PRESIDENT ASKS FOR 4TH TERM VOTES IN EAST   Roosevelt Has Kind Word For Labor in Wilmington, Del., Speech

Roosevelt Takes Quote From Lincoln   President Travels To Philadelphia

PRESIDENT OFF FOR TWO DAYS OF CAMPAIGNING   FDR Recalls Words of Lincoln in Train Appearance at Wilmington

QUOTES LINCOLN IN JIBE AT GOP ‘AIR AGITATION’   President Speaks In Wilmington En Route To Philadelphia

President Tells Delaware People of« Lincoln Poking Fun At His Opposition

The Political Front   Roosevelt. Travels Toward Philadelphia On 2-Day Vote-Getting Jaunt; Dewey Schedules More : Speeches

Planes Lash Oil Centers   Paris Area and Great Ploesti Field Bear Brunt of Aassaults

F uel, Transport E Facilities Are Heavily Hit  Fleets Of Bombers  44a f£ go opp wt   Fleets Of Bombers Strike At Paris, Ploesti Oil Fields

HIT AROUND PARIS   Fuel and Transport Facilities. Targets of American Bombers

U.S. BOMBERS LASH PARIS, PLOESTI AREA   Vital Refineries, Transport Facilities Raided Again

U. S. Heavies Hit Nazis Near Paris; Fuel, Transportation Suffer   Rumanian Ploesti Oil Center Is Also Struck As Big Fleets of Fortresses Rampage; Smoke Screens Fail to Check Bombing

YANKS’ HEAVIES HIT PARIS AREA   Enemy Fuel and Transport Centers Are Given Daylight Pounding

FLEETS OF AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS HIT AT NAZI OBJECTIVES  ENGLAND-ITALY BASED PLANES STRIKE NEAR PARIS AND IN ROMANIA

Germany’s Oil ‘Supplies Aré ' Again Blasted   Storage Depots and Production Centers Targets; Allies Over Reich Avain Today

RUSSO-POLAND BOUNDARY ROW AT NEW PITCH   Exile Government's Plea Heightens Tension With Soviet

DEMOCKATS—  Wallace. And Truman in Redhot Battle For— Viee Presidency

PIQUA PREPARES BIG WELCOME FOR ‘KID’ ON ARRIVAL HOME   ‘Drinks On House’ At Tavern Of Gentile’s Father

1,792 JAPANESE DIE ON PELELIL   3,000 Entrenched Japs Bring Marines to Virtual Standstill on West Coast of Isle; Make Minor Gains

MARINES HALTED IN PELELIU FIGHT   STRONGLY  ENTRENCHED JAPS BRING DRIVE TO A STOP ON WEST COAST.

Japs Slow Americans  At Peleliu   (See Editorial Page Cartoon) By CHARLES H. MeMURTRY

Point Values To Remain Unaltered   Say Stamps To Be Same Despite Supply Increase

Food Point Values Same for December   NO CHANGES LISTED BY OPA DESPITE SUPPLY INCREASES

U. §. Destroyers Raid Ormoc Bay, Sink Jap Warship  Another Vessel

U.S. Destroyers ‘Attack Ormoc Bay   American Submarines Account for 20 More b Jap Vessels: Rains in Leyte Slow Advance

_.S. Warship ou nk By Ji aps      ‘One Nip Destroyer Sunk, Another Is ‘Daihaged In Surface Fight Off Leyte.

Aerial Attacks Again Centered On Big Island:   Yankees Make Sever Raids On Marshall . Strongpoints

YANK AIR FIGHTS. ARE ONESIDED   Americans Running Up Heavy Score Against The Japs

B.S. PLANES ‘WIDE SECTION   ‘oe Japs ~ Shot ‘Down  Defending. New

U.S. BOMBERS DOMINATING IN PACIFIC   At Rabaul And Marshall Islands, Bringing Total Of Jap Planes Destroyed To Over 500 In Month.   Losses Light

President Sees Intensive Training for. Coming  Operations      Shooting of Officers by German Troops Reported

Doughboys * Keep Hold. On Bridges   Wage All-Night Battle To Retain Vital Points Along Mussolini Canal   Associated Press Correspondent Representing the Combined Armprican Press

ALL NOT EASY ON ITALIAN — WESTCOAST   One Yank Unit Fights Al Night to Hold 2 Vital Bridges — Elsewhere 3 Bridges Change Hands Four Times.

Whitehead Reports From The New Front  Doughboys Battled All Night For Key Bridges On The Mussolini Canal

Guns, Troops Pouring Ashore To _ Increase Force, Threaten Nazi Hold On Rome

U. 5. DOUGHBOYS IN ALL NIGHT BATTLE HOLD VITAL BRIDGES  HEAVY GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS FAILED TO REACH OBJECTIVES

Yanks Hurl Nazis Back in Battle to Hold Key Bridges   Fifth Army Troops Tighten Grasp on Beachhead; Supplies Pour Across Beache:s

Nazis Battled To Standstill By Doughboys   Yanks Hurl Enemy Back After All-Night Fight to _Hold Mussolini Canal  Bridges

Mrs. Chiang Is Still In China   Not in Moscow, As German Radio Reports

WILL BROADCAST TO EU. S.   Madame Chiang Kai-shek Is i Chungking With Sun Fo

South France Vise Tightens   Nazis Say Own Officers Abandoned Them

Americans Drive Beyond Grenoble   General Patch’s Army Forces Reported Near Swiss Border After Being Long Unreported

RHONE VALLEY PROVES TRAP FOR GERMANS   AMERICANS DRIVE TOWARD SWISS BORDER

Troops Drive North of Captured City of _ Grenoble  COLUMN OPERATES  “NORTH OF VOIRON  Vanguards Reported to Have Reached Swiss Border

AMERICANS PUSH PAST GRENOBLE   Spear on More Than 15 Miles Above Captured City   NEARER SWISS BORDER   Fleeing Germans, On Their Own, Told To Reach Germany By Own Means

Americans Open Drive To Make Junction with Bradley's Forces   Troops Are Advancing within Less than Fifteen Miles of the Swiss Border, Reports Reveal

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Yank Column Is 15 Miles Past Grenoble   Germans in South France Attempt To Extricate Selves

YANKS WITHIN 55 MILES OF SWISS BORDER   Drive North of Grenoble Aiming at Junction With Bradley’s Forces; Threat to Nazis.   Smash Rail Lines

SMASH NORTH OF GRENOBLE   Americans, 15 Miles Beyond City, Operate Close To Swiss Border

YANK FORCES 30 MILES FROM SWISS BORDERS   Secrecy Shrouding South France Army Partly Lifted

Allied Units In South Near  Switzerland   Germans Threatened With Being Trapped In Southern France

YANKS THREATEN “TO FLANK NAZIS SOUTH OF LYON   Americans Gain 15 Miles in Area Where Germans Are Fighting Fierce Rearguard Actions.   FLEEING COLUMNS PLACED ON THEIR OWN   Race to Reach Reich Before They Can Be Cut Off by U. . S. Troops Moving From  Paric_

WE'LL SUPPLY BRITAIN FOR DEFENSE ONLY   To Reduce Lend-Lease By Half at End of European War

BRITAIN FACES LEND LEASE CUT WHEN HUNS QUIT   Door Closed On Right To Reexport Commercially American Goods   AID FOR VICTORY ONLY   Some Shipments, Such As Steel, To End After First Of Year

BAR RE-EXPORT IN LEND-LEASE   U.S. to Cut British Shipment: in Half. as European War Ends

SHIPMENTS TO ERITAIN TO BE CUT IN HALF AFTER V-E DAY —RE-EXPORT REQUEST REJECTED

MORE BODIES IN TRAIN DEBRIS   AT LEAST 19 DEAD IN TENNESSEE WRECK

Facts About Jellico Troop Train Wreck Are Still Confused   19 Still Official Death Toll; 1000 Soldiers Aboard: Buck Private Is Hero

Death Toll In  Crash Set At 19   Derailment Facts  Remain Mystery :

REMOVE BODIES FROM TRAIN   Reports Indicate Toll in Gorge May Be 28

30 INJURED IN BUS COLLISION   Only Four Remain In Hos. pital After Accident Near E. Liverpool

BRITISH TAKE OVER ATHENS PATROL WOR!   Break Up Clashes Between Rival Greek Factions

British Patrol Athens’ Streets   Fleet Makes Bloodless Landing; Street Clashes Occur.

British Patrol Athens Today   Break Up Clashes Between Rival Greek recteey 4 in Civil Square  yee

British Take Over Athens   Troops Patrol Streets After Break Up Clashes Of Rival Greek Factions

BRITISH TROOPS LAND IN GREECE   150 Warships Bring Force; Factional Clashes Halted

Threaten To Cut Enemy Rail Line Below Leningrac   Swede Report Says Soviets  Launch Surprise Drive On North Finnish Front

RUSSIAN FORCES NEARING CHUDOVO, KEY RAIL CENTER   Swedish Reports Tell of Red Offensive on Finnich Erant

Russian Army Forces Push fo Near (hudovo   Drive ‘Threatens to Cut Another Vital German Railway Line Below Leningrad

te Age th 2  Russians Menace German Flanks   ‘SOVIET “FORCES ENTRAP LARGE NUMBER OF NAZIS.

Another Nazi Rail Line Threatened By Red Drive   Hun Communications Systematically Ruined: Berlin Reports Heavy Fighting Near Kerch’

Soviet Army Slashing at: Rail Lines   ‘Another. German ‘Supply Route Threatened

Russians, Moving Along Both Banks Of Volkhov River After Erasing German Bridgehead On East Side, Advance Within Ten Miles Of Chudovo, Southeast Of Leningrad—Other Soviet Troops Menace Tosno _.Successes Continue In White Russia

Reds Wipe Qut Bridgehead on Volkhov River   . Another Vital Railroad Line Cut By Russians

REDS MENACING SECOND ENEMY RAILROAD LINE   Russians Within 10 Miles o: Chudovo in Drive Along Volkhov River

Another Vital Enemy Line ls Threatened   Two Other Drives Reported From Foreign Sources

REDS DRIVI ON VITAL NAZ RAIL CENTERS   Russians Sweep Along Both Banks of Volkhov River To Cut Communications.

Reds Threaten Another Key Railroad Line   Wipe Out Nazi Bridgehead On East Bank Of Volkhov River.

RUSSIAN DRIVE MENACES NEW NAZI RAIL LINE   German Bridgehead Erased As Reds Near Chudovo; Finn Blow Reported

Soviets Sweep: Closer Toward  Chudovo Rail.   Drive Within 10 Miles Of City in Threat to Another Vital’ German Rail Line Below Lenin: grad.

Russian Army Now Within 10 Miles Chudove   ‘Drive Along Banks of Vol:  khov Threatens to Cut Still Another Raii Line Below Leningrad

Russians Drive Within 10 Miles of Base   . Soviet Forces Push Efforts to Cut Enemy’s Rail Line

Reds Threaten Nazi Rail Lines  Germans Reported Fleeing in Disorder

Russians Wipe Out Nazi Bridgehead Kast Of Volkhov   Red Army Is Within 10 Miles Of Chudovo

RUSSIAN UNITS DRIVE NEAR TWO KEY RAIL CITIES   Reds Score New Gains in Marshes in Lower White Russia

RUSSIANS IN SECOND RAIL LINE DRIVE   Heavy Fighting Reported By Nazi Army

Reds Menace Another Mair Nazi Railway   LONDON, Jan. 24 (4>—Moscow annoineced tonight the Red Army hes captured Pushkin in the Leningrad acctor.

Advance Threatens To Sever Another German Rail Line Below Leninerad

MOVE WITHI 10 MILES OF — -CHUDOVO   Another Vital Rail Line Threatened By Reds   FIERCE ACTION   In Crimea And On Finnish Front Claimed By Unofficial Sources

REDS SWEEPING =— ALONG BOTH BANKS OF VOLKHOV RIVER   Another Vital Rail Line About to Be Cut bv Soviets   HEAVY FIGHTING ON OTHER FRONTS

Reds Drive To Cut Rail Line Serving Nazis   Communications Being Cut To Pieces By Gaining Russians

Bricker Seeks GOP Majority Despite Odds   Feeling Runs High As Committeemen Divided In Texas

osevell Group ithdraws When afen in Tests   Regulars Refuse Jo Endorse F.D.R.

Democrats Split In Texas Over 4th Term Issue   Roosevelt Forces Lose Two Tests, Bolt State Convention; Two Delegations Going to P arley

Texas Splits On 4th Term   Democrats Name Two Slates of Delegates 

Texas Democrats Split Wide Open  National Convention to Pass Judgment

Democrats in Texas Split   One Group of Delegates To Convention Uninstructed; Other Favors Roosevelt

Texas Democrats Split On 4th Term   Two Conventions Name Delegate Slate:

TEXAS SPLITS ON 4TH TERN   Roosevelt Backers Walk Ou’ of Convention After Losing on Two Votes. ©

Fourth term issue severs democratic party in Texas  Two factions will send delegates;  ye we

Texas Democrats Split Over Fourth  Term Question  ~ Pro-Roosevelt Bloc Walks Out In Angry Protest

ANTI - NEW DEAL DEMOCRATS GET TEXAS VICTORY   Four. Termers Leave Convention After Two  Defeats   SECOND SETBACK IN SOUTH FOR ROOSEVELT

Texas Democrats Split Intc Two Fighting Factions, Pose National Convention Problem

Texas Votes Are Split Up   Some Delegates Uninstructed; Others To Back Fourth Term.

FACTIONS SPLIT OVER 4TH TERM   Anti - Roosevelt Group Slows Up Bandwagon In Texas

Roundup Of Day’s Political News Split Of Democrats In  Texas Poses A Problem ~ For Coming Convention

JAPS LEAVING. ~JSLAND BASES   SUCCESS OF CARRIER TASK FORCES INDICATES ENEMY WITHDRAWING PLANES  . FROM MARSHALLS

New Work Or Fight  Ultimatum   Men 26 Through 37 Must Get Into War Production or They Wil Face Induction.

Von-Fssential Workers Will  Face Induction  , ny ae re (Le)   Move Ordered To Boost Production  Of Munitions

Snow Falls Over State      All Roads Are Clear And Fair Weather Is Expected Tomorrow

Reds Blast Oper Two Slovakian Invasion Roads   Also Cross. Danube River on 93-Mile Front in Hungary

TWO HUNGARIAN STRONGHOLDS FALL   REDS CAPTURE EGER AND AZIKSZO—OTHER UNITS , PUSH DRIVE BELOW CITY.

RUSSIANS BLAST INVASION ROADS   Attack in Mountains Northeast of Budapest Opens Routes Leading Into Southern Slovakia

New Program Planned   ‘sian Troops Open Two Invasion ads Leading into South Slovakia

Advance: in’ Hungary, Capture Two Strongholds “Tr Santhern. Slocakia.

ROADS BLASTED INTO SLOVAKIA      Ukraine Army Forges On Toward Frontier Of Austria

RN REDS WIN TWO NA STRONGHOLD:   Smash Open More Invasion Routes Into Slovakia, Advance 26 Miles

Soviets Take Pair Of Nazi Strongpoints   Reds Rip Open New Invasion Paths To Southern Slovakia

Three German Spies Executed   Soldiers Had Dressed  In American Uniforms

STATE SHAKEN BY FLASH STORIS   Lightning Knocks Bight Persons. ai ‘Unconscious .

STATE SHAKEN BY FLASH STORMS   Lightning Knocks Eight Persons Unconscious

ON POLAND ANNOUNCED   No Qbjection If Mutual Agreement of 2 Nations is Reached

U.S. Stand On Russ-Pole Tiff Is Reiterated   Stettinius Declares Settlement Okay If Mutual Pact Reached

U.S. Favors Polish Border Settlement   Nations Concerned Must Reach Agree - ment: Stettinius

U.S. Demands Aviation Ban Against Axis   Military Aireraft In Germany, Japan Will Be Outlawed

"NO PREJUDICE” IN GOVT, CASE AGAINST WARD'S   Formal Dismissal by U. 8S. Judge in Chicago. Gov't Could Re-  Open Case Later On

GOVERNMENT'S CASE DISMISSED BY COURT   Return of Ward Plant To Company Is Reason

Navy Gunner Plays ‘Possum and «  y Lures Jananese Soldier to Disaster

Economic Sanctions On Blacklisted  Firms To Continue In Postwar Period   Hundreds Of Firms

GERMAN UNITY IS APPEAL OF NAZI LEADERS   Goebbels, Goering Renew Pledge To Hitler In Hour of Danger

Paean of Praise on ‘Hitler Anniversary   Nazt Leaders Plead for Loyalty to Fuehrer cn His 55th Birthday

Nazi Leaders Praise Hitler   Urge Germans to Be Loyal in Difficult, Tense War Situation

Berlin Gloomy On Birthday of Fuehrer Hitler   Greatest Leaders Face Defeat Says Minister Goebbels

NAZILEADERS SEEK UNITY OF GERMAN PEOPLE   Hitler Remains Silent on 55th Birthday as War Situation Grows Worse

HITLER PRAISED ON ANNIVERSARY:   Top-Ranking Nazi Leaders, On Hitler’s 55th Birthday, Urge German People To Follow The Leader.

Goebbels, Goering, Dietrich Make Appeals For Unity In Lauding Fuehrer

Hitler Begins 56th Year Gosh, How He Dreads It   Der Fuehrer, Described As A ‘Misunderstood’ Man, Worries About His Reputation; Nazis Draw Up ’Maana Charta’

Nazi Leaders Urge Loyalty To Fuehre   Hitler Remains Silent On His Birthday While Goebbels And Goering Beat Their Drums

TOP RANKING NAZI LEADERS PRAISE HITLER   55th Birthday of Feuhrer Featured by Speeches by Goebbels, Goering and Others, But Hitler Is Silent

cured ak 4fs  HITLER LAUDED BY HIS LEADERS  German Fuehrer, Howavar Te Strangely Si  German Fuehrer, However, Is Strangely Silent On 55th Birthday   LOYALTY URGED   Henchmen Of Nazi Chief Admit Germans Face Impending Trial

Hitler, 55, Has Nothing : To Say, Aides Praise Him   Goebbels, Goering and Dietrich in Fulsome Praise, Urge Loyalty and Admit Terrible Trials Are Ahead

Loyalty To Hitler Is Plea —      Nazi Leaders Urge Unity Among Germans As Gift to Fuehrer  On 55th Birthday

Hitlerites Urge Unity Of People On Anniversary   Nazi Stooges Carry Messages To Reich Horde

Hitler Is Given Lots of Praise   German Leaders Vie in Their Speeches Congratulating Him on Birthday.

Today His 55th Birthday, _ Hitler Spokesmen Urge _ People Be Loyal To Hin

NAZI CHIEFTAINS  CALL FOR UNITY  BEHIND HITLER STRESS DANGERS  AHEAD AS ADOLF MARKS BIRTHDAY

Nazis Plead Unity As Hitler Marks. His 55th Birthday   Urge Loyalty in Time When War Situation Difficult and Tense

Nazi Leaders Appeal For Unity Of All Germans In Hour Of Danger As Hitler Marks Birthday

Slap-Happy Birthday, Herr Hitler!   Unity Urged As Hitler Turns 55 Today

Nazi Leaders Ask Loyalty To Hitler   Goebbels, Goering and Dietrich Dwell on Reich Dangers in Birthday Talks

Aides Honor Adolf at 55   Goehbels Says Defeat Can Befal! Greatest

WARDS CLAIMS ACT VIOLATES CONSTITUTION   Mail Order Company Contends Non-War Production

Germans Report Herriot Is Deac   One Report Heard From France Indicates Nazi Propaganda Effort

HERRIOT DIES — AS PRISONER   FORMER FRENCH. PREMIER'S DEATH EXPECTED TO BRING * . VENGEANCE OF ‘ ” WICHYTTES

Germans Announce  Death Of Herriot   Former French Premier Held Prisoner; Herriot Held Out For Debt Payment.

Wallace and Anti-Wallace  Divisions      ‘by EARLY ARRIVALS FOR DEMO. CRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ARE FOR OR AGAINST THE VICE PRESIDENT.   South Anti-Wallace

Convention Arrivals Divide  On Running Mate Choice   Selection of Vice-Presidential Candidate Topmost Issue at Chicago—Short Platform _ Is Agreed Upon.

Democratic Party Split on Wallace   But He Still Has Strong Support

WALLACE BACKERS ARE. IN ONE. CAMP. EOES IN ANOTHER   Delegates Reaching Chicago for Convention Divided on a Vice Presidential Candidate.   ALL SEEM TO FAVOR A SHORT PLATFORM   Hannegan to Reach Scene Today, Possibly With Message on EF. D. R.’s Wishes for @ Running Mate.

PLANKS FRAMED BY DEMOCRATS   Early Chicago Arrivals Divided On Choice Of Wallace

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Democratic Split ‘Over Wallace  Becomes Wider   President’s Reported Preference Letter  Doesn't Show Up

Delegates. Are Divided On Wallace   Democrats Arriving At Chicago Agree ‘On Brief Platform   VICE PRESIDENT: TO BE BIG ISSUE .  ‘It Won't Be Wallace,’ Maryland ‘Lawmaker  Says { in Interview

Short Platform Proposal Suits All Democrats   Delegates, However, Break Into Pro and Anti Wallace famne

Demo Delegates Divided on Wallace Bid   Early Arrivals Agreed Only That Platform Will Be Short, Strong

STATE DEMOCRAT! SHAPE CAMPAIGN   Delegates to State Meet Hear Meadows, Broughton, and Johnston; Leaders Warn Against Overconfidence

Yanks Resume Advance on  Biak Airfields   30 Jap Planes Bagged In Widespread Battles In Schouten Group Area

YANKS START NEW DRIVE ON AIRDROMES   On Biak Island; Advancing Slowly on Mokmer, Main Objective; 30 Japanese Planes Destroyed   Intercepting Patrols

AMERICAN FORCES LAUNCH NEW PUSH   Three Airdromes on Biak - Island-Main Ob-   rectives:

YANKS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE ON AIRDROME:   Japanese Claim To Have Wiped Out Majority Of U. S. Invaders

Congress Completes Action On Simplified Income Tax   If Approved by President, Will Free Some 30,000,000  Americans From Mathematical Headaches.

Action on Tax Bill Completed   Simplification Plan ‘Effective Jan. 1 «

House Completes Income Tax Bill   Simplification Plan. Expected To Pass —

ACTION COMPLETED ON SIMPLIFIED TAX PLAN   Measure Expected To Be Signed By President Roosevelt

GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION “ SREN- IN STRIKE AND OUY~ BREAK ‘OF VIOLENCE

VIOLENCE INCREASES IN PHILA. STRIKE   At Least 167 Arrests Are Reported by Police Early Today  WINDQWc 3 CMASHED

Race Riots Threatened In Philadelphia Strike   Many Arrested As Stores Are Looted; Transportation Halted

AMERICANS ADVANCING ON LIVORNO   Gain 4 Miles After Capture Of Volterra

CLARK'S ARMY DRIVES NEARER PRIZE SEAPORT   Forces Germans Out Of Mountain Road Hub, Last Obstacle

Yanks Flank Key Outpost Near Livorno   Smash Four Miles Beyond Volterra; Franch Alen Gain

fanks Push Past /olterra in Italy   Leghorn Next Goal Of Clark’s Forces

YANKS CLOSING IN ON LEGHORN   Push Beyond Volterra Against Coastal Defenses

Volterra, Key Outpost Before Livorno, Falls   Threaten To Turn Coast Defenses Below - Tyrrhenian Port

Americans Push 4 Miles Beyond City of Volterra   Coastal Defenses of Germans in Italy Threatencd

Livorno's Key, Volterra, Falls   Yanks Threatening to Turn City Defense

Yanks Take Outpost of Vital Port   U. S. Troops Threaten To Turn Leghorn Flank

Americans 4 Mi. Beyond  Volterra   Italian Patriots Are Fighting Nazis In Leghorn Streets

CLARK'S TROOPS PROGRESSING IN VOLTERBA AREA    American Smash Four Miles After Capturing Key Outpost

YANKS DRIVE ON AFTER CAPTURING -LIVORNO OUTPOS]   May Turn Flank , of Great Port After Frontal . As: sault Ig Checked. ©

U.S. TROOPS SMASH 4 MILES PAST VOLTERRA      Italian. Patriots Rattle Germans in-Streets ‘of Lechorn

Clark’s Forces Go Four Miles Past Volterra   Advance Threatens To Turn Line Below Livorno. Where Push Stalls

Yanks Smash Four Miles Past Volterra; Threaten To Turn Livorno Defenses

Japs Fighting Hard To Hold Marshalls; Casualties Light   BATTLE FOR ROME DRAWING NEARER

WIFE STEALS SHOW, DEWEY BEAMS PRAISE   DEMOCRATS JOIN IN GREAT PARTY AT SAPULPA, OKLA.

SPOTLIGHT BEAMS ON MRS. DEWEY   GOVERNOR’S WIFE STEALS SHOW IN HER HOME TOWN OF SAPULPA, OKLA,

Dewey Takes Back Seat as Sapulpa Gives His Wife Tremendous Welcome

Home Town Welcomes Mrs. Dewey _  Wife Of GOP Nominee Steals  .Show At Sapulpa, Oklahoma

Cole Grand Jury Called To Probe PayKick-Back Reports in Legislature   Eversole Summons Special Body to Meet Oct. 6 on Request of Quimby; Action Started by Typist’s Complaint

PAY KICK-BACK INQUIRY ORDERED   GRAND JURY CALLED TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED PRACTICE IN LEGISLATURE.

WARD’S EMPLOYES IN BALTIMORE TO STRIKE   Picket Line Will Be Thrown About Store And Mail Order House This Morning

Baltimore Ward Employes Vote To Call Strike   Protest Working For Sewell Avery

Britain's Air Marshal Lost   SIR LEIGH - MALLORY REPORTED MISSING ON FLIGHT TO INDIA

IOWA FARMER SHOT TO DEATH   Sheriff Says Wife to Be Placed Under Arrest

Plane Strategy Is To Eliminate Nazis’ Defense   YU. >. Summarizes Results Of European Bomber Offensives

‘FDR for Labor Draft As McNutt Asks Delay      ; :. ae ° e 4. Nazis Face Decision on Next Step in Aerial Strategy;

Germans Now Face Option * Of Defending Factories Or Hoardiug Air Power

Tokyo Report Says American Aircraft Struck Guam And Rota Tuesday.   FIGHT HARD ON SAIPAN

Americans Blast Guam and Rota  Tokyo Looking for Further Expansion

Tokyo Says Yankee Airmen Raid Isles North From Saipar   Would Indicate Navy Preparation for Expansion of Front

GUAM, ROTAHIT BY U.S. PLANES   60 to 100 American. Aircraft Raid Islands South of Saipan.

Yankees Raid Guam and Rofa   Up to 100 American Planes Participate In Attack, Reported

U, 5. PLANES. HIT ROTA ISLANDS, GUAM IN PACIFIC   Jap Resistance Stiffens or Saipan; Hint New Landings in Marianas

Guam And Rota Raided By Yanks   Navy Clearing Way For New Invasion?

JAP-HELD ISLES BOMBED ANEW   Guom, Yop and Rota Tak« Hard Pounding From U. S. Planes

Yank Planes Raid Guam, Rota   Americans Meeting Stiffer Opposition On Saipan

U.S. PLANES HIT GUAM AND ROTA   Tokyo Reports New Raids Against Marianas Isles

YANKEE AIRMEN POUNDING JAPS   Rain Blows On Enemy Islands In Pacific; Marines Meet Stiffer Opposition On Saipan.

Jap Isles Bombed   Air Attacks on Guam And Rota May Pave ‘Way for More Landings

TOKYO TELLS OF  NEW U. S. RAIDS  ON GUAM, ROTA YAP BOMBED AS  JAPS STIFFEN An CAIDAN ICI E

AIRPLANE INVENTOR PILOTS TRANSPORT   Orville Wright Proud After Flight Over Dayton

Adviser for Dewey Gives  Peace Views   Permanent Security and Postwar Policing Said Separate Issues

Dulles Favors Separation Of Peace Issue:   Believes It Error To Join Policing Axis and Peace Muaintenanee: Plans

LAWYER DRAFTS FOREIGN POLICY   John Dulles, Dewey's Friend, Outlines Plan of Policing Axis Nations

Dewey’s Aide Would Separate Problems of Policing Defeated Axis Countries And of Maintaining Peace

FOR SEPARATE " POLICE-PEACE   Dewey's Deputy, Dulles, Reveals Post War Plan

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Yamamoto Was Once Prisoner of Philippine Patriots

CASUALTIES. OF ARMY REVEALED   Troops Pay Bigger Price in Dead and Wounded Than Toll Exacted Throughout First World War

U. S. Casualties Exceed Total Toll In Ist World War   Loss Now Stands 313,087, With 63,000 Americans Listed ne Killed

Throw Back Five of 13 Divisions with Tanks; Capture More Villages on Caen Front.    Withdraw Gradually

British Tanks Open Three  Drives on Front Near Caen   Five of 13 Nazi Divisions Guarding Rome To Paris Badly Mauled; Rommel! Unable to Stem Advance; 10 Villages Are Captured

T-SGT. EUGENE * ‘ : L. VOGLER AWARDED  . AIR MEDAL   Flew on Thirty-Five Missions as & B-24 Engineer Gunner in Kuronean Theater.

With Our Fighting Men       SY   RETURNS FROM EUROPEAN THEATER AFTER 30 MISSIONS

With The Men---In Service   S/SGT. ALBAN K. BELL AT MIAMI BEACH, FLA.

Lt. Robert W. Collett, Veteran Bomber Pilot, Returns Fiom Europe

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Lt. Hollingshead © Reports for Duty   At Florida. Base  For Reassignment.

NAZI DEFENSES ON ROME ROAD BEING BATTERED   Russians Lash Out Against German Forces Encircling War-ravaged Leningrad

Lower River Being Used In Crossing   Enemy Is Engaging In Violent War Near Highway

Allies Open New Italian Offensive   British Drive Across Garigliano River; American Patrols Dent Nazi Gustav Line

British Cross River At Three Points. Win Bridgeheads In Smash For Rome   HARD U.S, DRIVE HITS ARAWEJAPS,   ‘Bushmaster’ Troops Seize 1,000 Yards In Assault

Allies Make Way Over Italy River   British Face Gunfire Of Stubborn Nazis For Three New Gains

British Make 3 Crossings Of Garigliano   Sth Army Comrades In Central Italy Now Are Deployed Just Outside Cassino

BRITISH MAKE OBRIDGEHEADS   Cross River Converging on Ancient Coastal Highway to Rome.   LAUNCH ATTACK MONDAY

British Cross River Betore Road to Rome   Fifth Army Gains Bridgeheads in Violent Fighting

British Push Sparks New _ Italy Drive   Crosg-Garigliano Agains' ~ Stiff Nazi Fire; Yank Patrols Active

FIFTH OVER GARIGLIANO RIVER   Bridgeheads Are Secured In Face Of Enemy Resistance

British Troops of Fifth Army Cross Garigliano Thrice   Establish Bridgeheads Under Intense Fire; Fight Progresses

British Cross River fo Reach Appian Way   Units of Gen. Clark’s Fifth Army Secure Three Bridgeheads On Garigliano River

Cross River To Threaten Appian Way   Three Bridgeheads Secured, Con: verging on Main Coastal High: wav io Rome   FIGHT CONTINUES   Sirmen Blast Key Rail Points in Tuscany, Destroyers Shell Adriatic Poris

British Units Span Lower Garigliano   Tommnties Advance Despite Intense Mortar and Machine Cun Fire

Appian Way Threatened. By Big Push   Heavy German Resistance Is Overcome

REPORT THREE BRIDGEHEADS ARE SECURE   Heavy Fighting Rages In Vicinity Of Suio   15 BOMB HITS   Scored On Nazi Merchant Vessel Off Leghorn; Other Attacks

oth Army Units Said Converging On Appian Way   Hold Bridgeheads Despite  Rain Of Fire On River S0-“Miles tener teane

CLARK TROOPS CROSS RIVER   BRITISH OF FIFTH ARMY CONVERGE ON ROME ROAD

BRITISH TROOPS Ot FIFTH ARMY GROSS GARIGLIANO RIVER   Establish Three Bridgeheads Despite Fierce Nazi Resistance

GARIGLIANO CROSSED BY U.S, TROOPS   Germans Attempt To Stop Gen. Clark’s Men

CLARK'S FORCES TIGHTEN GRIP ON 3 BRIDGEHEADS   Gains Scored by Fifth Army Despite Fierce Resistance by Germans

Hold Beachheads Across Stream In Face of Heavy Fire   American Pilots Damage Nazi Vessel Off Leghorn; French Bag 600 More Prisoners

Fifth Army Hits Main Rome Road   Cross Garigliano in 3 Places Joining Appian Way

Allies Advance In Italy Under An Intense Fire   British Cross Garigliano River to Converge on Ancient Appian Way.  3 Bridgeheads Taken  Despite Resistance

British With Fifth Army Cross River at 3 Points, Converging on Appian Way, Route to Rome

Attacked Launched Monday In Drive On Rome Highway   Three Bridgeheads, 89 Miles From Rome, Secured Despite Violent Resistance —- Preparations Continue For Big Battle On Cassino Front.

STRIKE FOR OLD APPIAN WAY TO ROME   British Units of Fifth Army Cross Garigliano River, on Southern Front, Establishing Throaa Rridcveheads. «”

BRITISH TROOPS OF FIFTH ARMY CROSS GARIGLIANO RIVER  ALLIED FRCES CONVERG ING UPON FAMED AP DIAN WAVY Th ROME

Forces Cross Garigliano River, Hold  'To Positions   British Units Under Clark Converge On Ancient Appian Way; Attack Opened Monday

British Repel Tank Assaults   By Nazi Force   Clark’s Men Gaiu Ground and Cross River Under Terrific Fire Near Appian Way   French Units Take  Prisoners In Push   Rain Drenches Tommies In Adriatic Section; Canadians Forced to Give Up Areas

British Hold Firn Against German \Counter-Atfacks   New Offensive Near Coast Comes As Allies Prepare For Cassino Assault

RIVER CROSSED BY FIFTH ARMY   Allies Ford Lower Garigliano at Three Points, Reach Coastal Road

BRITISH UNITS CROSS GARIGLIANG RIVER IN 3 SEPARATE ATTACKS      Bridgeheads Held in Lowe Coastal Area Despite Nazi Counterattacks   GUSTAV LINE IS PROBED

BRITISH TROOPS CROSSED THE LOWER — GARIGLIANO RIVER   Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s 5th Army Advanced Under Intense Fire.   CROSSED AT 3 POINTS   The Attack Was Launched at 9 o’Clock on Monday Night.

DRIVE IN ITALY CARRIES ACROSS THE GARIGLIANO   THREE BRIDGEHEADS SECURED DESPITE ENEMY RESISTANCE

ALLIES CROSS RIVER BARRIER   Three Bridgeheads Over Garigliano Secured

‘Fifth Army Launches New Drive   British Cross River At Three Points Despite Vioient German Racictance

—ITALY—  BRITISH ADVANGE “TON APPIAN   Three Bridgeheads Are Established Across Garigliamo River

BRITISH MAKE 3 CROSSINGS   Span Garigliano River At Points Converging On Appian Way  FIGHTING IS HEAVY

British Launch New Attacks in Italy; Reds Move to Ease the Pressure on Leningrad   Soviet Announcement Taken te Mean Thot Offensive Is Proceeding Successfully; Fifth Army Has Eyes on Main Road to Rome

Ancient Road To Rome Target Of Allied Drive   Attack Launched Monday Succeeds Despite Resistance

ALLIES CROSS GARIGLIANO AT THREE POINTS   Converging On Main Coast. al Road Leading To Rome

Cross Lower Garigliano At Three Points   Bridgeheads Secured Ox Ancient Appian Way. Main Coastal Highway Leading To Rome

Chaplin Freed Of Charges By Federal Jury   Film Comedian Acquitted Of Mann Act Charges Based On Statements By Joan Berry

Chaplin Freed Of Charges   Jury Acquits Film Comedian in  Mann Act Case

Chaplin Set Free by Jury   Acquitted of Mann Act Violation Charge; Faces Other Indictments

Chaplin Elated at Acquittal: Joan Shruas Off Verdict   Film Comedian Faces Two More Trials, One Federal Charge, Other Civil Suit

Chaplin Is Found Innocent By Jury   Other Legal Suits Face Actor

Film Comedian  Freed by Jury   Cherlic Chaplin Is Found Not Guilty on Two Charges of Violating Mann Act

Chaplin Fre eed Of White Slave Charge by Jury   Joan Berry Says “I Hope He’s Happy” After Film Star Is Acquitted In U. 8. Court

JURY ACQUITS MOVIE ACTOR   Chaplin, Freed On Mann Act Charges, Still Faces Civil Suit

FREED BY JURY, GHAPLIN- HAPPY   Acquitted On Charges Of “Mann Act Violation With Joan Berry ~

Chaplin Is Not Guilty ‘Jury Votes   Joan Shrugges Off Verdict: Jury Out Seven Hours; Actor Tense

JURY ACQUITS ACTOR ON MANN ACT CHARGES   Wave of Applause Sweeps Courtroom as Not Guilty Verdict is Read

CHARLEY CHAPLIN WINS ACUITTAL   FACES ANOTHER FEDERAL CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY

CHAPLIN FREED IN BERRY TRIAL   Comedian Acquitted On Both - Counts In Mann Act Case

Civil Rights Case Confronts Actor Charlie Chaplin After Acquittal

Charlie Chaplin Cleared Of Mann Act Violation; But Troubles Not Over   Former Comedian Says He Believes in American Justice and That He Had Fair Trial When Acquitted

Chaplin Happy Over Acquiftal   U. S. Attorney Carr, Who Prosecuted Case, Rushes to Sick Mother

Chaplin Relaxes After Acquittal In Mann Act Case   Faces Two Other Legal Matters Concerning His Former Pupil.

Chaplin Freed Of Guilt In Mann Act Tra  _Through Courtroom ha bln tl Woops  Becca Fe

Chaplin Acquitted on Mann Act Charges   Veteran Actor Near Breaking Point at Conclusion of Trial

Chaplin Acquitted; “Hope He’s Happy’, Says His Accuser   Actor Still Faces Indictment Alleging Conspiracy

CHAPLIN ADJUDGED INNOCENT BY JURY   Comedian Relaxes From Ordeal Which Brings His Acauittal.

‘THARLIE CHAPLIN FREED OF CHARGE UNDER MANN ACT   oan Berry, Witness Against Comedian, Makes Brief on Verdict, Hopes Defendant is Happy.   GRAPLIN NEAR BREAK WHEN JURY REPORTS   Virtually All Principals Are Satisfied With ‘Results, Gne Woman Juror on Verge of Kissing Chaplin.

LOCAL DEMGCRAT: ATTEND GONGLAVE   Detegation Leaves for Regular) Session at fncianapolis

LOCAL DEN GCRAT! ATTEND GHCLANL   De‘egation Leaves for Regular f£essicn at Incisnapolis

a5 FLYING BOMB DEPOTS BLASTEL   Intermittent Explosions of Robots Pierce Calm of London's Sunday

ARMY MOVES INTO PHILADELPHIA   Transit Strike In City of Brotherly Love Into Fifth Day; Causes Serious War Production Loss.

PAOOENGERS SAVED AS SHIPS GROUNDS   Vessel Was Bringing Sailors Home From Service in South Pacific.

GROUNDED SHIP 5 BREAKING Wk   More Than 1,000 Navy Passengers Are Report. ed Safe

Liberty Ship Goes Aground, All Saved   Sea Pounding Vessel To Pieces Near Golden Gate

SEA SMASHING LIBERTY SHIP   No Casualties as U. S. Vessel! Grounds Off West Coast

Thousand Rescued From Liberty Ship    Vessel Bringing Sailors Home from War Service in South Pacific Runs on Rocks 30 Miles Outside of San Francisco’s Golden Gate, No Casualties Aboard

1,000 Veterans, Returning from War, Escape Death When Ship Hits Rocks

TROOPS TO FEAST ON THANKSGIVING   Real Menu, Including Turkey, to Be Substituted for K-Bationg in European Theater.

Stockholders, For First Time In Firm's Long History, Must Decide Labor Union Isaue.

Phone Union: Seeks Place Ow the’ Board   Representation Wanted. for Those Who Own Stock

A.T.T. Employees Seek Voice In lts Management   Stockholders To Decide If 60,000 Shall Have Representation.

Woods Lore He Learned Back Home Enables Yank to Take 64 Nazi Paratroops Prisoner

Bold Bluffing and Woods Lore Enable Yank Private, Some Squad Men to Take 64 Nazis

Germans Seize Initiative ~ From First And Ninth Armies; Gain 4 Miles   TANKS AND INFANTRY SPEARHEAD ADVANCE:

Seventh Army Sweeps Up Five German Villages In Palatinate; Third Gains   143 German Planes Bagged By American Fighter Planes In  Air Battles Overhead

Nazi Troops Take Initiative First  Time Since Yanks Landed in France   Blue Network Broadcast from Front Says One Atlack Is Checked Short of Belgian Border

PROTESTS BALLOT SEIZURE   Brooks Says Committee Acted Without Regard to State Law

‘Stark County Judge Richards Will Assist  Herry County Until Special Election Is Held

Reds Push Closer to E. Prussia   Within 8 Miles Of 1939 Border Near Suwalki

NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN POLAND BEGUN   GRODNO FORTRESS OUTFLANKED BY RED ARMY

Nazi Fortress Outflanked By Red Army:   Onrushing Soviets Hurl Across Historic -Niemen River Line

New Soviet. Offensive + Begun South Of Poland®   Reds Take Railway Station. Of Gpochka

Soviets Sweep New Gains On Niemen Front   Outflank Enemy Fortress Of Grodno; Only 8 Miles From Suwalki.   24 MILES FROM LATVIA

Russians Drive On Prussia In Swift Advance   Huge New Offensive Opens In Sonth Of Old Poland” As Huns Fall Back On  Vast Front   Ouiflank Grodno In North Sector   Many Towns Taken, With  Shift Of Strength By  : Soviet Forces To Southern Areas

REVEAL SOWET ATTACK BEGUN NOLO POLAND   Russia Anriounces Sweeping Gains Beginning with ~ Capture of Opochka: - <.

NEW SUCCESSES ARE SCORED BY SOVIET ARMIES   Reds, Now Within 8 Miles o East Russia, Outflank Nazis’ Grodno

Russ Army 8 Miles From East Prussia   Heavy Offensive On South Poland Opens; Many Towns Captured

Nazi Fortress of Grodne Is Outflanked   Germans Announce New Soviet Drive in South

Soviets Announce Sweeping Gains  Outflank Grodno; Close to Prussia -

SOVIET ATTACK 8 MILES FROM FAS PRUSSIA   Russian Successes All Along North Front Are Reported

Grodno Outflanked As Soviets Approach Nazi-Made: Borders   Tremendous New Attack On Southern Area Of Old Poland Told By Berlin Radio

NAZIS REPORT NEW DRIVE. I SOUTH POLAND   Grodno Fortress Outflanked As Soviets  Near Kaunas

Reds Open Otfensive To South   Sweeping Gains Made; Reaching Close To East  Prussia Border

Reds Pound Out Sweeping Gains On Nieman River   Within Eight Miles of Suwalki Border of East Prussia

Successes Are Reported All Alona Front   Grondo Fortress Outflanked As Soviet: Drive Within 8 Miles of Border

Grodno, Nazi Fortress City, ls Outflanked   Russians Advancing On Long Front; Forcs Only 8 Miles From Fast Prussia Border

NAZIS BRACE FOR BATTLE ON OWN SOI   Russians Menace Cradle of “Junkerism” by Plunging to’ Niemen River on 75-Mile Front.   OUTFLANK GRODN 0, A NAZI FORTRESS   Hitler’s Command Announces Opening of. Great Soviet. Offensive in Southern Poland.

Reds Claim Outflanking Of Grodno   Within Eight Miles of East Prussia, Start South Poland Drive

German Command Says Russians Have Launchec _ Tremendous Offensive In South of Poland

INaZIS sEpore : Major New’ Soviet Drive  Tremendous Offensive Is Begun in South of Old Poland AIMED FOR LOW  Red Army Troops Move +o Within 19 Miles

Polish Priest ls Suspended   He Says He Is Being Crucified and Will Appeal His Case

PRIEST DEFIES BIOHOP, PLANS TO HOLD MAS   Orlemanski, Suspended, Says He’s Being Crucified for His Church,

Priest Says He Is Being “Crucified”   Suspension Appeal to Apostolic Delegate Has Stalin Document

Bishop Strips Priest: Of All His Privileges   Canonical Penalties Impos ed on Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski Following Moscow Mission

Priest Says He’s Being “Crueified”   Fr. Orlemanski Appeals Bishop's Suspension Order

ORLEMANSKI IS SUSPENDED FOR MOSCOW VISIT   ‘Crucified for Church, Says Pastor on Return Home

CAROLINES AGAIN HIT. BY RAIDERS   New Air Attacks Indicate Value Of Marshalls To. U.S.

Capture Youths In Holdup Probe   Two Transients Admi Thefts, Says Officer

POINT VALUE OF BEEF, LAMB CUTS HIGHER   Changes in Meat: Values Effective February 1

Points on Meat Boosted   BEEF, LAMB, VEAL INCREASED ONE-TWO UNITS FOR FEBRUARY

Point Incyases ‘For Beer; Veal,  Lamb Announced   Housewife Will Get Half-Pound Less Meat Weekly Per Person

Frankie--eeece Sells Million in War Bonds   Public Lecture Heard By Many   Beef Lamb, Veal Points Will Be Increased

RATION POINTS UP ON MEATS; BEGINS SUNDAY   OPA Sets Increases For February Due tc Sonpnly Reduction

OPA Ups February Ration Point Cost Of Most Meat; Butter Value Unchanged

BOOST MEAT RATION POINTS IN FEBRUARY   Reduced Supplies Bring Increases Of One To Twos Points; Butter Left Unchanged  At 16 Points    Chart on Page 7

Pope, Gen. Clark Have Short Talk  Correspondents Also Received, Urged to Campaign for Peace

Pope Visits With Clark, U. S. Staff   Urges Writers Work For Peace

East Prussia Border Only 3 Miles Away   Bitter Slugging Rages On 20-Mile Front Near Warsaw   UNDERGROUND AIDS   20 To 30 Nazi Division: Trapped In Estonia, Latvia

Warsaw In Flames As Seige Continues; Soviet Columns Batter At Gsates OF East Prussia & Other Forces \bove Carparthians Drive Toward Krakow.

REDS SOW MINES TO BOTTLE NAZIS   Materials Being Rushed to Carry Out Plan in Baltic Sea

Plunge Onto German Soil Is Imminent   Other Russians Press  Slow, Churning Battle . Wee...

Hogwash Of Politicians Is Abundant   Election Year Brings Usual Hokum From Candidates

Lt. Gen. Patton Is in Britain; Blast More German Factories   Allied Raids Have Destroyed 100 War Plants in Frankfurt British Declare; Germans and Romanians Making Last Desperate Stand

Invasion Fever Mounts; Patton  Shifted to Britain   Sevastopol Battle In Final Stages, Russians Report

Allies Massing Forces: Germans Renew Warning   Invasion Fever Mounts As Gen. Patton Arrives In Britain To Lead An Army; Nazi Factories Leveled By Raids

Nazis Report Great Fleet Concentrations   Declare British, U. S. Troops Ready for Thrust

British Planes Plaster Europe With Record Bomb Tonnage; Ships Concentrate in Home Ports

Allied Planes Hit Jap Bases Heavily   Biak Island and Manokwari. on New Guinea, Blasted

Allied Planes Hit Jap Bases Heavily  Biak Island and - Manokwari, on

Air-Borne Ar "my Is New Allied ©  ‘Secret Weapon’   “May. Strike Great: Blows Deep Behind Nazi Lines

Allies Uncover New Secret W eapon to Blast Ger manv   Revolutionary American -British Airborne Force With Size, Power of an Army Created Under Gen. Brereton’s Command

Pressure on New Britain Japs Heavier   Marine General Declares Rabaul Campaign Just Beginning

Allies Poised For Drive Toward Ruhr Valley, Rhineland   British Také Venray, Reds In East Prussia

Yank Mop Up of Aachen —  Continues      New Soviet: Offensfs e Suraes  from Baltics on Wideviing Front

Russians Sweep Into East Prussia   Allies Mass Tanks in Holland; Amercians Mop up at Aachen

COAST GUARD'S ALERTNESS NIPS NAZIS’ SCHEME   Enemy Plan To Set Up Bases On Greenland Fails; Ship Sunk

Nazi Effort to Fortify Greenland Smashed By U. S. Coast Guard   Enemy Armed Trawler Captured, Second Sunk And 60 Germans Taken Prisoner; Damaged Cutter Towed 3,000 Miles to Port

Nazi Attempt Upon Greenland Revealed Today   Kevy Reports Coasteuard Cutters Prevented  Germans frem Establishine ilases in Greenland.

Coast Guard Foiled Nazi Attempt In Greenland  Bremv Doectroved   Enemy Destroyed In Effort To Set Up Fortified Buses AMA nen

German Expedition To Set Up Bases On Greenland Smashed    Successful and Dramatic Oper ation of Four United States Coast Guard Cutters in Ic e-packed Arctic Waters Last October Now Disclosed

Coast Guard Blocks Nazis  In Greenlanc   Four Cutters in Torrid Battle Smashed Determined German Effort To Establish Fortified Bases

Nazis In Greenland Are Smashed By Coastguard   Attempt To Establish Fortified Bases Blasted By 4 '. Cutters After Spirited Battle In Ice-Packed ” - Arctic Waters °°

Effort to Sef Up Base in Fat North Beaten   Four Coast Guard Cutters Sink Armed Trawler, Capture One Another Ahandaned

Coast Guard Ships Take 60 Prisoners   Armed Trawler Sunk During Battle Among Arctic lea Flaac

—GREENLAND ‘INVASION’ SMASHED—  Yanks And Nazis Play Hide-and-Seek In Arctic Ice Packs   t. S. Cutters Foil Nazi Effert Te Set Ip Bases: Seize Radic Station

Nazis Fail to Win Greenland Bases   Four U. S. Coast Guard “Cutters Operating in Arctic Smash Efforts

STOP GERMANS IN ARCTIC MOVE   Sink Trawler, Seize Naz Radio in Greenland

Germans Sought Greenland Bases   Attempt to Fortify Island off Coast of North America Smashed By Four Coast Guard Cutter<«

Smash Efforts To Establish Greenland Base   Nazi Trawler Sunk, Another Captured, 60 Prisoners Taken and Radio Station Destroyed by Coast Guard 

U.S. Cutters Foi Nazis  in Arct i  " Dh Aeantc Ba   Bay Arca’s Favorite, Northland, Prominent In Greenland Action

Four Coastguard Cutters Smash “Determined Nazi Effort”? to Establish Bases In Greenland   Armed Trawler And Crew Seized   Another Hun Craft Sauk; 60 Prisoners Taken and Radio Station Captured

ENEMY BID FOR BASES SMASHED BY COAST GUARD   FOUR CUTTERS SINK NAZI TRAWLER AND CAPTURE ANOTHER

Coastguard Cutters Smashed Three Efforts ‘Of Germans To Set Up Bases In Greenland

Stop Invasion Ot Greenland   Cutters Smash Determined Nazi Effort To Establish  Forts.

Cutters Foil Nazi Plan   Coast Guard Vessels Smash German Efforts To Land On Greenland

Break Up Nazi Try For Base In Greenland   Coast Guard Cutters Sink Armed Trawler, Capture Another, Find Third Abandoned

Thwart Germans in Greenland  Coastguard Cutters Battle Near North Pole

German Landing On Greenland’s Shores Foiled   Coast Guard Seizes Steamer Sent to Establish Weather Station for Nazis

GERMAN EFFORT TO ESTABLISH BASES ON GREENLAND BLOCKED   ENEMY ARMED TRAWLERS SUNK, CAPTURED, ABANDONED AFTER FIGH’

‘Nazis Balked On Greenland   Navy Reveals How Four Coast Guard Cutter Spiked Move To Set Up Bases; German Trawle Sunk. One Captured, One Abandoned.

KEPT GERMAN NAZIS OFF OF GREENLAND   Four Coast Guard Cutters Operating in Arctic Waters, Smashed Efforts.

AIMEE MCPHERSON DIES SUDDENLY   Famed Los Angeles Evangelist Died Of Heart Disease

“SISTER AIMEE DIES IN OAKLAND   HEART DISEASE FATAL TO FAMOUS EVANGELIST

Woman Evangelist  Dies In Oakland 7   Aimee Semple McPherson, 53, Is Victim of Heart Attack Today

Aimee Dies in Oakland After Collapse in Bec   Two Physicians Fail te Revive Stricken  Bwangcalict

YANKS OCCUPY WJELANG ATOLL. BASE FOR MORE TRUK BOMBING   CAPTURE OF HOLLANDIA AIRDROME NEARS AS JUNGLE TROOPS DELIVER NEW BLOWS

TRACE NEW CLUE IN BABY THEFT   Dayton Police Uncover Fresh Angle In Abduction

Remnants Of Japanese Garrise   On Leyte Disorganized, Fallin,  Back On Ormoc In Attempt T Flee Over Sea     “Sag i tk a a   AMERICANS CONTROL, TV’0-THIRDS ‘tr ISLI

No Change Reported In Kohima Sector  Japanese Holding Fast In Imphal: Area Despite Increasing Casualties

Deny-Early War Factory Closing   Say Rumors Have Occasioned Unrest

WARSHIPS THROW SHELLS INTO TWO: SUPPORTING BASES   Shore Installations at Ponspe.  and Satiwan Damaged.  by Protracted Bom-: bardment.             AMERICAN AIRCRAFT . LOSSES ARE LIGHT          Crushing Blows Dealt.in'S  port of Landings by Mac ‘Arthur’s Forces at. Hollangia. -

Ships Pound Base With Heavy Guns.   Fleet Task Force Drops 800 Tons Bombs On Islands

Shore Installations Heavily _ Damaged On Truk, Ponape And Satiwan   NO DAMAGE REPORTED TO AMERICAN SHIPS

Supporting Bases at Ponape and Satawan 1s]  MANY BOMBS FALL ON TRUK ISLANDS  American Aircre Aircraft Losses Are Reported as Light

Powerful Navy Forces Attack Truk Defenses   Carrier Bombers Do Much Damage

TOTAL OF 126 ENEMY PLANES BAGGED AT TRUK   Powerful Carrier Force Drops 800 Tons Of Explosives On Islands

Supporting Bases at Pon ape and Satawan a i? oe oo care   MANY BOMBS FALL ON TRUK ISLANDS   American Aircraft Losses Are Reported as Liaht

HUNGARY MAY QUIT SOON AS HITLER’S ALLY   Speed Of Red Invasior Puts Puppet On Brink Of Collapse

RUNNING FIGHT FOR BUDAPEST NEARS CAPITAL   Hungary on Verge of Capitulatign, Says UP Correspondent

Soviet Guns Bom barding I. “ees   Assault On Reich Looms; Memel Occupied; Hungary Ready To Quit

Russians Shell Nazi Homeland  On Wide Front   Soviet Troops Smash Westward In Frontal Assault On East Prussia.

HUNGARY IS READY T0 CAPITULATE   Would Leave Germany Without Ally in Europe

SHELL EAST PRUSSIA SOIL   Red Army Troops Believed to Have Crossed Border

RED ARTILLERY BEGINS BOMBING GERMANY PROPER      Soviet Troops Smash Westward In Frontal Assault On Reich

RUSSIANS SHELL EAST. PRUSSIA SOIL   Red Army Troops Believed to Have Crossed. Border

RED ARTILLERY OPENS UP ON EAST PRUSSIA   Russians Smash Westward In Frontal Assault Against Reich Province.

=QNIETS START NEW TWIN OFFENSIVE   Triphibious Operations Under Way West of Leningrad

Giant Russian Guns Are Aiding Latest Offensive   Kronstadt Island Big Guns Join In New Soviet TwinOffensive Move   EIGHTH SOVIET DRIVE IS GAINING

NAZI PATROLS STRIKE ALLIES   Strong Forces Hit Line ir Upper Garigliano Valley

SAYS FDR SELLS. OUT TO ClO-PAC   Bricker Makes Charge in West Virginia Speech

Holds Democrats Sold ToC lO  Bricker Speaks At Rally In West Vircinia

Three Promising Engineers Killed   Plane Crash Victims Include Sperry Specialists

Five Die as Plane Crashes in Ohio   Flying Fortress Crew Are Killed

Yanks Capture Third Enemy Airfield    Push Through Mud. Up to Necks To Drive Japs Into Hills

Yanks Free 14 Towns On Leyte   Advance to Outskirts of Tabontabon Take Airdrome

MacArthur's Men Make New Gains In Philippines  Guerrillas Aiding In Island Battles

Jap Resistance on Leyte Lessens  MacArthur's Forces Continue Gains

LIGHT COUNTER DRIES BROKEN   American Forces Liberate 14 More Towns on Jnvaded Island.   ADVANCES ARE GENERAL

M’Arthur Army Captures Third Airfield In Biggest Gains Yet On Leyte Island

MACARTHUR’S MEN LIBERATE -14MORETOWNS      Advance To Outskirts Of Tabontabon On   Yanks Push Through Dense Under growth And Deep Mud

U. S. Forces Push Aside Feeble Jap Resistance  MacArthur’s Men Take 14 More Towns In Philippines

AMERICANS IN STEADY DRIVE IN PHILIPPINES   Fourteen Towns Liberated On Leyte Isle

MacArthur Continues to Advance   14 More Towns Liberated and a Third Airfield Is Taken by Yanks   LONG FIGHT BY PATRIOTS REVEALED   Guerrilas Supplied by U. 5 Subs Kept Resistance Goime Two Years

Americans Pushing Aside Opposition In Leyfe Advance   San Pablo Airdrome, 14 More Communities Taken By Invaders

Yanks Crush Jap Counter-Attacks; Move Forward   Liberate 14 More Towns on Leyte; Third Airfield Has  Fallen to Invaders

Feeble Resistance Upon Leyte Is Being Pushed Aside  Fourteen More Towns Are Liberated By MacArthur’s Men

Yanks Gain In Every Sector On Leyte Isle   Push All Opposition Aside; Crush Feeble Enemy: Counter-attacks

IU. S. Invasion  Of Philippines  Goes Forward   MacArthur Announces Lib eralion Fourteen More Towns; Three Airports Heid

Yanks Repulse Counter Blows Of Jap Forces   Gen. MacArthur Hurls Aside All Qpppsition  To Liberate 14 Towns And Danch Tahantnhkan

YANK GAINS EXTENDED IN LEYTE VALLEY   Doughboys Liberate Fourteen More Towns ard Advance to Outskirts  Of Tabontabon

Americans Liberate 14 More ‘Towns On Leyte And Capture ‘Airport: Resistance Feeble   MacArthur's Forces Pushing All Opposition Aside In Long Advances

U, S. LIBERATES 14 MORE TOWNS ON LEYTE ISLE   American Troops Advance on Entire Front in Philippines

14 More Towns ‘Freed by Yanks   MAC ARTHUR'S FORCES MAKE NEW GAINS ON ISLAND

San Pablo Airfield Is Captured   Tabon Tabon Outskirts Are Reached After U. S. Troops Repulse Jap Counterattacks

US. Troops Take San Pablo Drome In Philippines  14 More Towns Liberated; Jap —

Yanks Smash  Ahead   Advance Eight Miles Against Feeble Jap  Resistance On Leyte; Seize Third Airfield

M’ARTHUR UNITS SLASH THROUGH NIPS’ DEFENSES   Longest Advance To Date in Philippines Scored in Tabontabon Push

LONG ADVANCE BY MACARTHUR MEN IN ISLANE   14 More Towns Liberated in Philippines Capture of San Pablo Airdrome Announced.

YANKS GAINING IN PHILIPPINES   MacArthur’s Men Drive  Through Mud, Liberate 14 More Villages

GAINING ON LEYTE   MacArthur's Forces Take 14 More Places as Japs Are Pushed Back

Americans Crush Feeble Japanese. Counterattacks   Leagesi Advance Registered As Yanks Take Third Airfield In Brive Over Tough Terrain

Steady  Yankee Gains   14 MORE TOWNS FREED; JAP COUNTER ATTACKS FEEBLE: NEW AIRDROME CAPTURED

U.S. Troops Take San Pablo Drome In Philippines  14 More Towns Liberated; Jap Attacks Crushed

14 More Towns Liberated on Isle   — Feeble Japanese Counter-Attacks Brushed Aside in Leyte Invasion

Yanks Press Steadily On Against Japs   U.S. Invaders Advance Inland Through Mud On Leyte; Liberate 14 More Towns

U.S. Troops Push Deeper Into Leyte   Capture San Pablo Airdrome; Advance to  Tabontabon Outskirts

YANKS PUSH AHEAD ALONG LEYTE FRONT   Crushing Feeble Japanese - Counter - Attacks,  Doughboys Have Ad vanced to the Outskirts of Tabontabon: ~~

THIRD AIRDROME TAKEN ON LEYTE   14 More Towns Liberated, Jap Attacks Smashed

M’Arthur In Best Gain Yet   14 More ‘Towns Freed as Leyte Advance Continues

BLIZZARD HALTS ALL MOUNTAIN STATE SERVICES   Welch Virtually Isolated From Communications For 24 Hours

West Virginia  Is Blanketed  20 Inches Of Snow At Beckley Reported

NELSON TO GO BACK TO CHINA   Production Experts to Make Trip; Hope to Better War Effort

NELSON GOING” BACK TO CHINA   STAFF OF PRODUCTION EXPERTS TO ATTEMPT FO AID IN UNTANGLING PROBLEMS

Urges Action On Manpower   Top-Ranking Official Says Solution Cannot Await Prolonged Debate.

ROOSEVELT GIVES RADIO TALK TONIGHT      Will Explain Why He Can’t Visit Midwest 

Russia Reports Bad Conditions Inside Japan   Raids on Tokyo Weaken Morale

STATEMENT SPAIN FLAYED   Defense Of Franco Regime By Churchill Rapped

CHURCHILL'S DEFENSE OF FRANCO PUZZLES   Believed by Some Ef. fort to Protect Allies in Franee

PROPOSED SOLDIER VOTE BILL OF OHIO NEARLY COMPLETE   Special Assembly Session Of Several Days Seen By Bricker

GROUPS PROTEST RETURN OF JAPS   STATE GUARD MAY AID IF DISTURBANCES ARISE

ARMY AND NAVY FLIERS AGAIN ATTACK JAP-HELD CAROLINES, AND MARSHALL ISLANDS

Piqua Gets Ready For Celebration As Capt. ‘Ace’ Gentile Starts Home

"Details of Fuehrer’s Life Revealed —  Report Poison Plot Against Hitler

HITLER POISON PLOT CLAIMED   Traveler Says Fuehrer  ‘Now Drinks, Smokes

OND TRY  AT HITLER'S LIFE FAILED   Poison Had Been Placed in Cup of Coffee

NEW ATTEMPT MADE ON ADOLE HITLER’S LIFE      Traveler Reports Effort Made To Poison Fuehrer In Bavaria

HIS ASTROLOGER CREDITED WITH AVERTING DEATH   Information, Relayed by German Citizen at Madrid, Reportedly Came from the Gestapo

Next Move in Sharp Anglo-American Duel Over Liberated Nation: Is Up to British

Service Men Win  Public Offices   Two Go to Gongress; Others Lesser Offices

Former Akron  Grain Operator  O. E. Streator Dies At Hudson. S. D.

FORMER RESIDENT OF AKRON ANSWERS FINAL SUMMONS   O. A. Streator, Hudson Grain Man, Was. Married Here Half Century Ago

Yanks Smash Jap Suicide Attacks   Enemy Collapse Sighted In North New Guinea

MRS. SHEFFER SEEK VANDALS TAKES OATH AS FOR DAMAGE ON COURT GKERK BATTLEFIELD

Nazi Troops Move. To Aid  Finns’ Army   Stony-Faced Silence .Greets -Germans Marching In Helsinki

Finns Appeal To Berlin For Aid   Nazi Troops Reported Streaming Into Helsink:

Finland Appeals To Germany for More Aid Despite I'SSP LT ltimatum

Germans Rush To Bolster Finnish Line   Plea for Aid Heard——Break With U. S. Near

BOMBS DROPPED ON STOCKHOLM   BELIEVE EXPLOSIVES WERE JETTISONED BY CRIPPLED AIRCRAFT

Report Russian Lettering Coca a — Pieces of Bombs Dropped on Sweden

‘STOCKHOLM BOMBING’  te hl mk oe ek mh Oe fk et es et ee ee we 8

Staff Sgt. ¢ Set. G I. J. Peters Killed: One aD 3 Brothers in Ser vice

POLITICIANS SCRUTINIZE EFFECT OF BARKLEY ACT  Bitter Denunciation of Tax Bill

Political Weather Vanes Spin. In Wake Of FDR-Barkley Split   Leaders Assay Effects Of Break; May Have Bearing On Fourth Term

POLITICAL WEATHER VANES SPINNING AS RESULT OF BREAK.   SOME ANTI-FOURTH TERMERS BELIEVE NEW TURN ANTI-ROOSEVELT

Germans May Be Forced To Quit . Cherbourg Peninsula, Save Armie:

sc eaeneneeneeatenieeaameeetemiameenmeennineennetnen ae ne eeeaemanmaeee a  Allies in One Week of Invasior Are Within Sight of Cherbourg

Capture Of Cherbourg By Invaders Is In ogni  Allies Outficht Nazis On Their Own ‘Ground

U. S. Takes Lead On Peace Agency   Britain, Russia, China Invited To Begin Conferences

FD. R. SEEKS UNITY IN PEACE PLANS   Asks G. O. P. to Help Keep Them Out of Politics

Adm’n Hopes GOP Will Accept Bid To Keep Politics Out of Negotiations

TANKS HELP BLAST JAPS FROM HILLS   Too Steep for Mules to Climb, Enabling Infantry to Seize Summit ;Bitter Fighting Rages.   Allies Superior

Patrol Contacts Surrounded Allied Troons in India   British Prepare For Final Assault To Relieve Base

Chaplin Maps New Defense In Slave Case   Giesler to Revise Strategy After Setback in Court

EXCHANGE SHIP ~ HALTED BY NAZIS   TWO CREWMEN, ONE AN AMERICAN, TAKEN OFF GRIPSHOLM,

Reveal Nazis Halted Liner  2 Gripsholm Crewmen Removed By Germans

Nazis Remove Mission Man From Vessel   Robert Raymond Kelly Taken From Griosholm

House Nullifies ‘Anti-Trust Law  For Insurance   Overrides Supreme Court, 283 to 54, in Hasty Effact Tia. Rancee

House Votes to MendHigh Court Evil   BY 283 TO 54, EXEMPTS INSURANCE FROM OPERATIONS OF THE SHERMAN ACT, SPECIFICALLY.   Senate Will Delay

Richard Shelley Carles Last Heard from by Family While In England.

: A v CHETBRG   Some Small Knots Of , aeaiecettos Te Remain   THE PRISONERS “  BXCEED 20.000

Prison Aide Asks Probe of Alco   HENRY CRAMER DEMANDS SOLON INVESTIGATION OF BOARD MEMBER

ENEMY LOSES ) 19 SHIPS ANL (0 201 WARPLANEX   Shore Installations Also Are Wrecked During Big U. S. Sea-Air Attack.

US. Troops Now Occupy All ‘But One Island of Atoll; Key Base Nearly Cleared

JAP COMMUNIQUE ADMITS LOSS OF 18 SHIPS AT TRUK   Also States Americans Destroyed 120 Planes But Claims Sinking Two American Cruisers and Dumaving Aireraft. Carrier

201 Jap Planes, 19 Ships — Blasted at Truk; Marines Drive Ahead on Eniwetok

YANKS TOOK ‘ HUGE TOLL IN" TRUK ASSAULT   19 Ships and 201 Jap Planes Were Destroyed.

Temperatures   U. S. Warships Aid Bombers in Huge Victory Over Nips

INVASION OF ENIWETOK IN FINAL : PHASE   Marine, Army Troops Capture Western Half Of Island

19-26 SHIPS AND 201 PLANES SMASHED IN TRUK BOMBARDMENT   Pearl Harbor ‘Partly Avenged,’ Nimitz Says; Western Half Of Eniwetok Island Now In Yank Hands

Nimitz Reports Dual Attacks  Most Successful   Battle Greatest Since Bismarck Air Assault; U. S. Losses Minor

Japs Admit ‘Great Loss  on Truk   Nimitz Reports Marine And Army Capture Of Eniwetok

JAP DEFENSES GIVE UNDER NEW ENIWETOK POW   U.S. Gains More OF Atoll; Enemy Lost 19 Ships At Truk

Yankees Enter Outskirts of  Town of Lessay   Fall of Nazi Coastal Anchor on Cherbourg Peninsula Expected; Berlin Seece New Drive

German-Held Town Totters: Fall Is Expected Shortly   Enemy Hints at Mighty Attack Around Caen, On Eastern End of Normandy Front; Nazis’ Demolition Crews Reported at Work, Indicating New Withdrawal Near.

Lessay’s Fall Is !mminent As Yanks Advanee   Smash_ Into Outskirts Of Coastal Anchor Town; Big Drive Near.   REACH SEVES RIVER

Fall of German Coastal Anchor Expected Soon   New Offensive May Be Launched Near Cuen, Nazis Report

Doughboys Hit Anchor Towntn Ger man Barriet   i & \Huns’ Western Flank Is  Rolled Back in Steady i Advance By American   Ground Forces —   “Dirty Weather” Hampers Airmen   Germans Report Artillery Barrage By Allies Is Prelude To Attack In Cacn Sector

NAZIS SAY NEW ATTACK ON CAEN SECTOR BREWING   British Retake Maltot,  Crucifix Hill In Jockey: ing For Position

Fall Of Axis. Coastal Town ls Imminent   German Demolition Crew Blowing Up Smokestacks In Lieu Of Withdrawing

Fall of Lessay Imminent; Other Yankees Push Nearer St. Lo; British Again Holding Maltot, Hill 112, Germans Awaiting Blow

IS INDICATED IN CAEN AREA   AMERICANS FORCING GERMANS BACK ON WIDE FRONT

Yanks Now In Outskirts Of Coast Anchor   Lessay’s Fall Imminent—Delay In Allied Offensive In Aiding Rommel

Americans Smast Into Suburbs Of Norman City  Fall of Lessay Held  Imminent As Drive  Looms in Caen Sector

Fall Of German Coastal Anchor Town Is Expected Soon   Nazis Anticipate Drive From Caen   Factories Blown Up But No Indications Given Of Axis Withdrawal

Nazi Withdrawal At Caen Expected   Several Villages Taken as Yanks Advance To Gates of Road Junction Town of Lessay

3 VILLAGES ARE SEIZED ~ IN ADVANC   Other American Troops Within Two Miles of Vital Road Junction of Periers.   {UNITS MENACING / ST. LO IN GAIN   German Broadcasts Say Montgomery Is Prepar ‘ing to Launch New Drive in Caen Area.

Pierce Hard Resistance in Air By Foe   ANIS RADIO STATIONS FALL  SILENT FROM vie TO BALTIC,

IOWA GOAL IS SET FOR 6TH WAR LOAN   .$178,000,000 FOR HAWKEYES      Next Wartime Bond Cantpaign Scheduled to Open November 20; Ends December 16

Iowa’s War Loan Quota 178 Million   Series E Quota Set At 61 Million

State Digs Out From Heaviest Snow of Year   Altoona Buried Under 11 Inches of Snow: Traffic Is Hampered

THIRD DRIVE PERILS PORTS ON BLACK SEA   Violent Battle In Ukraine

Rip Open German Defenses   Stalin Announces Break-Through on Southern Anchor

ROBOT BOMBERS HIT SOUTH OF “ENGLAND TODAY   Nursery With 26 Children Hit by Blind Bomb With Bad Results

New Type Robot Bombs England   Second Model. Gives. No Warning Sounds

VETERAN STATE SOLON RETIRES   McCallum Says He Won't Be Candidate For Any Office In July

me  Second Front Given Full Credit For Red Military Successes   ‘Big Three Ties Will Grow Stronger   Sees Early Victory.

STATES “BIG 3” HAVE PLANNED SECURE PEACE   Invasion of France Enabled Reds to Drive  Germans From Russia

Speaks on 27th Anniversary of Sovi Revolution; Sees Peace-time Coo : eration of United Nations

Germany On Verge Of Collapse .   ' Declares United Na- : tions Must Work To- gether to Make Faturt Wars Ani Impoasibilits

Stalin Says Nazis Face Catastrophe  Premier Makes Speech in Moscow

Firm Peace Called For By Stalin   United Efforts By Russia, United States, Britain Favored By Stalin Te Make War Impossible

Germany Is on Verge of Catastrophe Says Stalin; Allies Plan Secure Peace

Winning War Ts Not Enough,  He Declares   Big Three Have Made Plans For Secure Peace, He Says;  Very Little Discord   HIGH PRAISE FOR INVASION OF FRANCE   Must Continue To Hold Germany Between Two Fronts; He Says

Stalin Proposes World Force Organization To Insure Lasting Peace

Invasion of France Given Full Credit For Reds Victory   Marshal Declares Great Allied Assault Paved Way for Russians’ Drive To Force Germans Off Russian Soil — 120 Enemy Divisions Destroved bv Soviet«< in Year

STALIN STATES GERMANY ABOUT READY 10 FALL   Says Allies Have Made Plans For Secure Peace

Stalin Says Alliance Of Big 3..And Effective Peace - Organization Vitally Important, To World; Pays ° Tribute ba mh Lives.

Hails Aid of West Invasion   Germany On Verge of Catastrophe, Premier Tells Moscow Crowd

Stalin Says Nazis Near Catastrophe   Russian Premier Hails the Invasion of France as Move Enabling Reds to Drive Nazis from Soviet Soil

HAILS INVASION OF FRANCE AS VITAL 10 REDS   Germany on ‘Verge of Catastrophe, Says Soviet Leader

SAYS 120 GERMAN DIVISIONS DESTROYED DURING YEAR; SAYS PLANS MADE TO SECURE PEACE

Secure Peace Plans Made, He Tells Russians  120 Enemy Divisions Destroyed This Year   120 Enemy Divisions Destroyed This Year By Reds, 30 More Now Cut Off In Baltic

Germany Nea: Catastrovhe, Says Stalin  Invasion of France  Bs... ss M....* ra? _.

SECURE PEACE NAMED GOAL OF ALLIES   Premier Adds Future Wars Must Be Impossible   FRENCH INVASION   Hailed As Move That En. abled Reds To Oust Nazis From Russia

Stalin Says Nazis Face Catastrophe   Cites Necessity To Pian for Secure Peace

“BIG 3” PLANS FOR ENDURING PEACE, CLAIMS   Must Make Wars of Future Impossible, Marshal Declares tn Address Today in Moscow.

Red Leader Hails Allies 2nd Front   Speaks on 27th Anniversary of Soviet Revolution; Sees Peace-time Coop; eration of United Nations

RUSSIAN LEADER SAYS GERMANY ON VERGE CATASTROPHE   SOVIET PREMIER ALSO SAYS “PLANS FOR SECURE PEACE” BEEN MADE

Nazis Near Catastrophe Says Stalin   Hails Invasion of France as Operation Insuring Victory; “Deace Plans Made’

HAILS NEW FRONT   Stalin Reports Germany Is “on Verge of Catastrophe”’

Allied Chiefs  Plan Invasion   Fail To Stop Work Upon Holiday; Channel Air Program Pushed

Allied Chiefs Work on  Invasion Plans   Planes Again Swee; Over Channel to Hit North France

No Time Out For Fetes On Holiday   High Ranking Officers Conduct Series of Air, Sea, Land Meets

American Airmen Ignore Holiday, Continue Blasts At Channel Areas

ALLIED AIRMEN KEEP HAMMERING - INVASION COAST   Combats Over Paris and Cognac Cost Germans 28 Planes and Anglo-American Forces 32.   EISENHOWER’S STAFF TOILS ON HOLIDAY   Arrangements Discussed for Assault on Hitier’s West Wall—General Spaatz Reaches London.

Invasion Command Gather: As Bombers Rake Coast   Steady Procession of Planes ‘Crosses Channel in Tactical Follow-Up; Belgian Promises Early Liberation

Allied Invasion  Command Busy Over Holiday                 Squadrons OF Again Swee nel To Ger  SLACKEN /  Allied Planes » Over Channany,  Sikh PAC ®&

Work on Plans   ‘Allied Planes Swarm Over Channel to Drop Tons of Bombs on ' Hitler’s Defenses:

Invasion Command Drafts Plans As Air Forces Again Hit France   New Year's Day Is Brightest in Four Years In London; Nazis Prepare to Meet Attacks

Belgium Promised Freedom In Few Months; Invasion Prepared   Commanders Arrive In London; Nazis Bluntly Ask Petain For Help

Pre-Invasion  a by Deanne a eet AaL. APLU, MY: S. BRAS  Faster’ Tempa   Allied High Command in London Busy.as Fliers . Lash France Again

CHINESE HALT COUNTER BLOW   Nips Fought Savagely Behind Barricades

Chinese Push to  Burma Junction   Counter-Attacks by Jap Troops Smashed

Enemy Hurls Large Forces Against British  Group   SUPPLIES STEADILY _. ARE COMING THRU ‘Arms Being Sent to Foreign Workers in the Reich 

Nazis Fight Desperately To Prevent Men’s Rescue   Supreme Headquarters Calls on 12,000,000  Foreign Worker-Slaves In Reich To Fight Foe   INSTRUCTED TO QUIT GERMAN FACTORIES

Working in Germany With Instructions te Take Up Arms; Rein. forcements and Sup plies Reach British at Arnhem.

Dribble of Men and Supplies Given To Force in Pocket; Call Made to Workers in Germany to Rise

5TH ARMY MEN POUR THROUGH GUSTAV LINE   Allies Storming Ahead Toward Adolf Hitler De fenses.   BULLETIN

§S La Crosse Launched At Factern Yard   Victory Ship Named For City Now Rides Waters Of Patapsco River At Baltimore

Furious Nazi Push Beaten Off; Losses Heavy; Fifth Army Front Active Again

SHOCK TROOPS SMASHED WITH HEAVY LOSSES   Bitter Fight Is Raging For Control Of Cas sino Area

British Stop Beachhead Counterattacl  By Hitlerites   Losses Are Severe; Expect New Attack

British Beat Back Furious Nazi Drive On Allied Beachhead   German Prisoners Say Hitler Ordered Troops To Eliminate Allies Below Rome In Special Communique

Germans Seek Weak Spot in Allied Lines   Counter Attacks South of Rome Driven Back With Heavy Losses

German Drive At Beachhead Halted Cold:  Cassino Holds   All-Out Nazi Attack Expected By Strengthened Allies

GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN BEACHHEAD CLASH   Enemy’s Offensive in Early Stages and Allies Mass. Troops to Meet All Out Attack. pee   FOE’S BEST ARMORED  GROUPS IN STRUGGLE   Fight for Nazi Bastion - to South Is House-to-House®Struggle With Snipers °— and Tanks Engaged. —__

BRITISH FORCES SOUNDLY BEAT FURIOUS DRIVE BY:NAZI SHOCK TROOPS AGAINST BRIDGEHEAD.

Orrin M. Kelly is is. . “Training to ‘Man — Beach-Hifling Carriers

Tanks Enter Rail Hub; Other Units  Race For Brest   British Capitalize On Caumont Breakthru, Start Paris Drive

‘(Growing Dissatisfaction’   LEAPS FROM LOCOMOTIVE, SAVES BABY FROM SPEEDING TRAIN

BRAKEMAN OUTRUNS TRAIN TO SAVE BABE   Leaps From Locomotive and Races Ahead to Scoop 18-Month-Old Child From Tracka.

German Disaster Looms All Abou  Even Blows Against Anzia Are Failing

.eaves From War Correspondent’s Notebook  Bradley Is Soldier's Soldier

Bradley Not a “Show Ort” General Will Spare All Yank Lives He Can

NAZI HOSPITAL SHIP IS BOMBED IN DARK   No Wounded Aboard at Time British Apologize

GERMAN HOSPITAL SHIP SENT DOWN   UNLIGHTED VESSEL BOMBED BY PLANES—ALLIES EXPRESS REGRET.

LOST IN PHILIPPINES   Sea Battle Termed One of Most Decisive in Modern Times

Navy Divulges Score of Battle In Philippines   Japs Lose 48 Warships; U.S. Victims Named

NAME U.S. SHIPS LOST IN’ PHILIPPINES   Sea Battle Termed One of Most Decisive in Modern Times

NAVY DETAILS GREAT VICTORY OF PHILIPPINES   First Official Blow By Blow Account Given Of Epic Battle   LOSSES STAND AT SIX   Total Of 48 Jap Warships Sunk, Probably Sunk Or Damaged

NAMES OF AMERICAN SHIPS LOST OFF PHILIPPINES TOLD IN OF FICIAL REPORT MADE PUBLIC

ACCOUNT OF PHILIPPE SEA. BATTLE IS GIVEN   _U. S. Victory Insures Continued Supply Lines, Success of Invasion

Novgorod In Russia Falls  In Red Hands   Minturno In Italy Complete. ly Destroyed Before It Was Lost.   SMASH SEVEN DIVISIONS

Novgorod And Minturno Fall  To Allies   Long Siege of Leningrad Is Lifted As Red  Troops Press on

Whole Nazi North Front Breaking Up   Loss Of Minturno In Italy Admitted By Berlin

Novgorod Lost, Berlin Reports   Long Seige Of Leningrad Virtually Lifted; Two Powerful Red Forces Join Hands

CHARGING RUSSIAN ARMIES LIBERATING CITY OF LENINGRAD   BRITONS OF FIFTH ARMY ADVANCE NORTH OF GARIGLIANO RIVER

ALLIES GRIVING GERMANS BACK ON ROME ROAD   Yanks Are Reported Landing Behind Enemy Lines To Apply Squeeze

Red Troops Seize Novgorod, Smash Leningrad’s Siege   250,000 Germans Face Trap As Two Powerful Russian. Forces Join Hands; Great Artillery Pieces Taken From Nazis; Baltic Fleet Aids Soviet Drive

Leningrad Siege Virtually Lifted By Soviet Drive   Italian City Was Destroyed as British Crossed Garigliano

Less Speculative Chatter About W ar Heare in London Than in the United States

British People Give Less Appearance Of Strain Than Those In Bomb-Free U. S.. Writer Asserts

British Announce  ~ of Imphal   Mountbatten Pays Visit fo Troops

Imphal’s Last Land Link Cut By Jap Troops   Allied Indian Base Isolated Except by Air Communication

Japs at last land link to Imphal base  Withdraw from Kohima region

BATTLES RACE AROUND IMPHAL   Last Land Link With Main Allied Forces Is Menaced

Japs Advance Near Imphal   Supply Trail To The Allied Lines Takeo

Warsaw Capture Nearing   Russians Crumble Strong Defenses Withi Eleven Miles Of Warsaw Capital.

Russians Smash Nazis in New Warsaw Drive   Great Flanking Move Is Within 11 Miles -Of Poland’s Capital

Army admits supplies left  on Aleanroad ‘Not worth cost of shipping back’

Bond Total ls Estimated at $300,000   Two Large Firms Allocate Funds to Pottawattamie Co.

County Opens Bond Drive on Monday   More Than $100,000 Worth Sold First Day of Campaign

County Sale of Bonds s $250,000   First Two Days Is Good Juel Feels, Oakland Over Top

WHISKY-MAKING HOPES BLASTED   Brief ‘Holiday’ Unlikely For Distillers Held To War Production

No Early Resumiption Of Whisky Makinc  Nelson Spikes Hopes-O Some Distillers

Nelson Blasts Whiskey Hope   Says Resumption of Manufacturing Might Endanger War Effort.

Claim Damages Allowe: by Jury for Pig Exceed Ceiling Pies oFORA,

Priest, Home From Russia, Quotes Premier Stalin as Advocating Freedom of Worship -

STALIN FAVORS FREE WORSHIP   American Priest Gives Report On Talk With Russian Leader

Bastogne Is a Shambles, but Still ls Firmly Held by American Force

VON RUNDSTEDT'S PLANS UPSET AT BLOODY BASTOGNE   Encircled Americans, Not Knowing What It Was to Surrender, Fought on Rationed Shells.   TOWN NOW IN RUINS, LITTERED WITH DEAD   German Commander Threw In Everything He Had in Effort to Take Desperately Needed Road Hub.

Soviet Arc Of Steel Is Clo Against Historic City; C Reds Now Only Ten Miles F Black Sea Naval Base   EVACUATION CRAFT ) HIT BY AIR FO:

AMERA- : MAN LOSES LIFE   Killed in Action July 5 in England After Being Cited for Work

AKRON CAMERA. MAN LOSES LIFE   Killed in Action July 5 in England After Being Cited for Work

U.S. Flyer Outwits Japs Three Years On Leyte; Rescued By American Patrol

Quadruplets Borr To Unwed Friend OfU. 5. Soldier   British Woman Hopes Yank Will Marry Her

Quads’ Father Is Identified As U.S. Soldier   Has Problem on Hanids As Sergeant Named Wife in Pittsburgh

(Quads Born to Unwed English Girl Married U. s. Soldier Named Father,

SOLDIER NAMED AS FATHER OF QUADS   Frail English Mother, Sin gle, Hopes She and Ametican Can Wed

Take Town Astride Main Road as 450,000 Men Battle for Peninsula; ‘Poles, Russians in Prisoner Toll

STREET FIGHTS RAGING IN GAEN; BAYEUX I$ HELD   Allied Planes Blast German Concentrations—Supplies Pour In Across Channel

Invasion Battle Develops Into A Race For Supplies; “<The Allies Are Winning”

ALLIES MAKE PROGRESS IN ALL SECTORS   Ste. Mere Eglise, 18 Miles From Cherbourg, Taken

AMERICANS TAKE IMPORTANT CITY FROM CEPMANS   Bitter Fighting Reported Today; Allies Advance

Pontine Marsh Area Captured As Nazis Flee   Fighter-Bombers Attack Germans Falling Back Along Appian Way

NAZI STRONGHOLD IN ANZIO SECTOR TAKEN AFTER BITTER FIGHT   5th Air Force Takes Heavy Toll Of Enemy Vehicles, Strafing Retreat Roads Used By German Columns   Rv REYNOLDS PACKARD

Piedimonte and —  Aquino Also Fall   Yanks Drive Nearer Rome as Planes Pound Foe: 12.000-Nazis Captured

Pontine Marsh Area Taken By Allied Forces   BEEING EXPRESSED UU. & TASK FORCK MAY HIT JAPAN ITSELF,

Allied Bombers Attack Nazis In Retreat, Bag 610 Vehicles, 20 Planes   Swift Advance Along Appian Way Makes Occupation Of Pontine Marshes Almost Complete

City Taken After Four Hour Battle   LAST 100GERMANS IN GARRISON SURRENDERS AFTE REMAINDER WERE KILLED .

SeCCUPY EUAHLITe Om Marshes And Pushis Into The   DRIVE FOR ROME NOW IN THIRD WEEK     Mere Than 900 German Vehicles Destroyed In Two Days

ADVANCE BEYOND BROKEN FOE LINE IN LIRI VALLEY   Stronghold Seized After 4-Hour Bottle;  Contral Pontine March

YANKS PUSH GERMANS FROM COASTAL AREA  mm ADIVE CAD UICUWAV  HN VRIGQL F VE GrMnnars

PONTINE MARSHES OCCUPIED AFTER FOURHOUR FIGHT   Greatest Fighter-Bomber At: tack Is Carried Qut on Germans Retreating Along Appian Way.   NAZIS MOVE 75,000 ~ MEN INTO BULGARIA   Air Forces Dropped 200,000 Tons of Bombs Last Year With 700,000 Tons Sel For This Year.

Sergeant Lubben And Ruth Cooper Wed In Louisiana  Ceremony Held ~ At Baca Chanal

Sergeant Lubben And Ruth Cooper Wed In Louisiana  Ceremony Held   Ceremony Held At Base Chapel Sunday, May 29

Patriots Using Light Artillery Against Germans in Paris Streets as 13 Cities And 14 Denartments Are Liberated

French Invasion Coast Is Also Target Of Air Raids   More Than 2,000 American Planes Take Part In One Of Largest Sweeps Over The Continent

2000 PLANES SWARM OVER ~~ NAZI FRANCE   Occupied Land Is Hit In Widespread U. S. Raids

Pope Says Vatican Will Exert All Its Efforts ‘On Behalf Of Poland

Death of Three, --IlIness of Two Blamed on Gas   Mystcry.-Eumes. Pervade . Adjoining Houses.in__ Coatesville.

Ball Bearing Plant Blasted By  U.S. Planes   Fortresses: Level. Turin Installations In North: Italy   WEATHER BETTER.   Eighth Army. Continues Slow Advance Up - Adriatic Coast -

FORTRESSES LAY ‘E668 ON TURIN BALL-BEARING FACTORY   BRITISH 8TH ARMY CONTINUES TO ADVANCE UP ADRIATIC COAST

U.S. FLIERS RAID TURIN RAIL YARDS   8th Army Troops Move Up the Adriatic Coast 

Turin Area s Given Bombing By U.S. Planes   British Eighth Army Continues Its Advance

24,000 Wiped Out On Leyte Island At Ratio Of 8-to-1l   Drive To Within Ten Miles Of: West Coast Of Island In Face Of Wild Tropical Storm; Clean Out Jaro And Turn Back Counter Attacks.

Nips May Attempt Evacuation to Cebu - Where Reinforcements Have Landed

Navy V-12 Quota to Change Nov. 1  President Thomson Fxyylicine Static

Navy V-12 Quota to Change Nov.   President Thomson Explains Status

Mrs: Willkie ‘Relieved’ Wants Only ‘Peace And Quiet’ Friends Say

Japs Believe” Invasion Due In Philippines   Regard Forniosa Assault as Prelude T. Creator Advances

MORE ATTACKS UPON FORMOSA ARE REPORTED   100 B-29’s Strike;  Carrier Planes Return

Japs Say Attacks Invasion Prelude   Largest Force of B-29’s Ever Flown Strikes At Important Taraets on Jananese Iceland

Supertorts  «From China Follow Raid "From Ships   Attack On Bastion Marks Seventh Da; Of Devastation For Jap Base.

Okayama Hit By B-29s: Jap Navy Official Warns Philippine Invasion Near

iT hin é TIL ty ~erey N WEEE LL 44,  pao tare Ry Dain Marron 2:       BEST BRAINS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE VICTORY

THACE FISHERMEN RESCUED YESTEROA   Fourth Member of Party Dead From the Harrowing Experience.

RESCUE THREE FROM ICE FLOE   Fourth Fisherman Dies From Harrowing Experience

TODAY’S AIR BLOWS STRIKE TWO AXIS CAPITAL CITIES   Widespread Raids Also Made On Strategic Points in  France. . >>,

American Fliers Plaster Berlin and Vienna; Nazis Report Big Air Battles

CAPTURED BY EIGHTH ARMY   Americans Take Important Road Junction Town

Y, S. 5TH POURS THRU LINE, TAKE FIRENZYLOA   Canadian, Greek and Indian Armies Participate in Cam paien

Rimini Captured: British Advance Into Po Valley   Firenzuola, Important Road Junction, Taken By Fifth Army Troops

RIMINI CAPTURED BY 6TH ARMY, TURNING END OF GOTHIC LINE   British Enter Southern Kdge Of Po Valley In Flank Drive

BRITISH ENTER SOUTH PO VALLE}   AMERICANS POUR THROUGH CENTRAL GOTHIC LINE

Gothie Line Outflanked By 8th Army   Troops Capture Rimini And Enter Southern  Edge Of Po Vallev

STREET FIGHTS FLARE AS NAZIS RUSH RESERVES   German Resistance Light As First Yanks Enter City, Burning From Blows

Fresh German Armored: Division. ‘Is, Brought Isto Action As Americans: Fight. Way Through Aachen Streets Against Surpeil ingly Light Opposition

Yankee Troops Battling Into Aachen Meet Surprisingly Light Oppositio:

\Yanks Are Winning Ruins of Aachen ‘By Slow Advance from House to House

Reds Push On Latvia, Win Contro!   Important Four-Way Railway Junction Falls tc Russians

Chudovo Also Seized After Being Eneircled   Russians Control Moscow-Leningrad Railroad: Retreat in Ukraine Ordered

bis aia  FUNDS OKEHED   Conaress Approves Legislation' Other Hannenings in Canitat

Sleet and Snow Slow Up Travel  Condition Widespreac With Little Relief

AMERICA COUTANCES  NS IN PUSH BEYOND   Soviet Forces Launch Opening Battles for Warcaw

AMERICANS IN PUSH BEYOND COUTANCES   Soviet Forces Launch Opening Battles for Warsaw

Truman’ Grour Split Sharply Over Politics   GOP Members Assail Chair. man For “Turning Work and Findings: to . Partisan Advantage” :

Charge New Deal Attempted To Stop Truman Inquiries   Two Republican Members of Committee Say Administration Tried to Call Off Investigations When It Appeared Politically-Damaging Evidence Would Be Uncovered—Hatch Denies Knowledge of Effort to Influence Probers,

D MINISTRATION ATTEMPT 10 GAC PROBERS CHARGED   Sought to Balk Publication Of Politically Damaging @ Findings by Committee   ANSWER T0 TRUMAN’S CONNECTICUT SPEECH   Chairman Declared Republicans Were Making Politica!  _ Use of Administration Mis ‘® takes Uncovered by Demo. crats Through Committee

Germans Attempt To Pry Dutch. Trap   Landings From Sea Aid British Forcing Enemy From Amnrnachesc tan Part at Antwern

Allies Close on Isles Guarding Port of Antwerp   Germans Attempt to Withdraw Troops Across Maas River

OPEN CAMPAIGN STH WAR LOAN   Starts Next Monday June 12th In State

HARDIN COUNTY'S QUOTA $1,256,000   SELLING CAMPAIGN TO BE LAUNCHED NEXT MONDAY

Fo or  Fith War Loan   Solicitors To Have Cards Showing Estimated Pur. _ chasing Ability for Each individual

lowa to Sell 202 Millions  In War Bonds   Quota Less Than Amount Sold In Fourth War Loan

NAZIS TRY TO BLOCK FINNS PEACE EFFORT   Evacuation of Helsinki Started; Reds Drive Toward Canital City

Soviets Rol On Toward Helsinki —   Offensive Scoops Up  Viipuriin Lunge  Toward Capital; on “Brink of Defeat”

Soviets Drive  On To Helsinki   Victorious Reds Occupied Fortress Seaport Ot Viipuri Yesterday.

RUSSIANS PUSH ON BEYOND KEY CITY   Finns May Sue for Peace After the Loss of Viipuri » : toReds .   GERMANS WANT PORTS

TEMPERATURES:   Finns Begin Evacuation Of City; Moscow Fetes Fall Of Viipuri

‘Viipuri Fall ‘Turns Reds On Helsinki   Nazis Put Pressure On Ally to Thwart Binnish Pearse Plea

 Russians Head  Viipuri Falls   Germany Strives To Prevent Small Ally Suing For Peace.

RUSSIANS OCCUPY VIIPURI, PUSH ON TOWARD HELSINKI  CAPITAL CITY NEXT GOAL; REPORT NAZIS

Reds Drive For Helsinki   Russian Forces Occupy Viipuri Seaport; Germans Trying to Block Peace

Viipuri I: alls. Soviets Drive  For Helsinki   Germans Exert Pressure To Prevent Finns From Suing For Peace

~ BEYOND KEY CITY   Finns May Sue for Peace _ After'the Lois of age  5 : . toR . +   GERMANS WANT PORTS

Reds Occupy Viipuri in Drive Into Finland; Helsinki Next Objective

Russian Forees Drive Toward Finnish Capital   Bay Nazis Use Pressure To Keep Helsinki Finns From Suing For Peace

HELSINKI NEXT RED OBJECTIVE   Mighty Soviet Army Pushes on From Viipuri to Take Finns’ Capital

Russian Forces Pushing Toward Helsinki ‘Today After Occupying Viipuri

Reds Driving Beyond Viipuri To Helsinki   Formation Of Peace Cabinet Mav Result From Fall Of Seaport For tress.

a i I re  Viipuri Taker      Finnish Radio Urges All Persons Whose Presence Not Essential to Evacuate Capital: Moscow Celebrates

NEXT OBJECT RED DRIVE   Victorious Russians Have Captured Viipuri and Now Move on Toward Capital

FINN CAPITAL IS RUSS GOA   Nazis Move To Keep Tottering Ally From Seeking Peace

CIVILIANS TO GET OUT   Moscow Reports Finland Now On Brink Of Defeat

Russians Push For Helsinki   Occupy Finland’s Fortress Seaport Of Viipuri

Finnish Radio Urges Resident: fo Evacuate Capital, Germans Seek to Prevent Peace Move

START ATTACK FOR HELSINK'!      Soviet Troops Drive on From Captured Viipuri

Russ Drive On Helsinki   Red Army Pushes On From Viipuri; Finns May Sue for Peace

Evacuation Of Helsinki Under Way   Germans Try to Keep Ally From Tottering Under Russian Blows

Reds Speed On Past Viipuri   Moscow: Says Finland On. Brink of Defeat;  Report Nazis Seeking To Block Peace Move

Russians Drive on Toward Helsinki   Nazis Fear Finns Will Seek Peace

Red Advance Is Pressed Three Miles Beyond Port   Nazis Reported To Fear Finn’s Moves

ATHERTON AT LEGION MEET   Tells Eau Claire Group ‘To Win War We Must Take Less, Put More.’

Government Acts Against Falangists   Biddle Says France Dictates to Party Outside Spain

@ NO “MAMMA” DOLL  Greatest Yuletide Casualty for 1944 Is Children’s Toys

CHINESE COMPLETE TST PHASE OF DRIVE   High Command Claims Success in Operations in Yunnan Province

Form er German Embassy Employe -Is_ -Arrested On Charge OF Espionage

Chile Arrests Nazi Woman as Spy   Two Other Germans Seized On Espionage Charges

Eighty Men Leave For Military Service From County During The Past Week   Large Group Goes For Pre-Induction Medical This Week

American-British Armies Ready To Ge   Every Detail OF Ail-Out Blow Against Hitle Completed By Allied Staffs; Date Secret But Fvery Fichtinag Man Knows His Job

EVERY DETAIL  S WORKED OUT   Only Few Officers Know Ex« act Date; Commanders Frank in Talks.    AMERICAN TROOPS TENSE

Timetable for Invasion Fixed   Only Few High-Ranking Officers Know Date And They Won’t Tell

Date Is Set For Invasion Of Continent   Only Few Know Strict Secret

‘D’ Day Has Been Set   Western Invasion Timetable Has Beer  Worked Out But Few Know Date

'D’ Date Has Been Set   Few Officers Know Date, Growing Tenseness Noted Among Initial Assault Force

SIXTH BOND DRIVE  BEGINS ON NOV. 20   Palo Alto County People Asked  te Buy $783,000 Worth of  War Bonds New.

SIXTH BOND DRIVE BEGAN ON MONDAY   Palo Alte County People Asked to Buy $783,000 Worth of War Bonds Now.

SENATE WONT SHARE POWERS   Will Retain Responsibility : Of Approving ! Treaties

SENATE T0 KEEP TREATY POWERS   Higher Wages May Bring Increcse—Decision Expected Within Month

SENATE 10 FIGHT TREATY BILLS   HOUSE BACKS MEASURE TO SHARE RATIFICATION

Senate Won't Share Power   Unlikely to Let House Have-Part in TreatyMaking Responsibilities

1,350 Yankee Planes Strike  Nazi Bases, Transport Facilities Targets

Fleet of Heavies Lashes Out at Nazi Road Areas  Americans Renew Attacks on Enemy Stronghold

Nazi Clan Remains at the Helm      So Long as They Hold On War Is Expected to Be Kept Going

See-saw Battle Rages Near the Town of Carroceto  SUCCESS FORECAST BY ALLIED LEADERS New and Heavy Blows  Struck by Allied Planes

American.and British Forces Regain Initiative -in. Some Sectors; Foe -Counterattack is Hurled Back

See-saw Battle Rages Near the Town of Car- = roceto  SUCCESS FORECAST BY ALLIED LEADERS  New and Hea Heavy Blows Struck by: Allied  j  Ens

Fifth Army Hammers Germans As Reinforcements Arrive  And Air Support Is Restored

Allies begin new assault against foe   Repulse Germans near Carroceto

ALLIES REGAIN INITIATIVE TO CERTAIN EXTENT AND STRIKE OFFENSIVE BLOWS; CHANCE TO DEFEAT NAZIS, SAYS CLARK.

Planes Batter Nazis in Italy   Americans Inching Ahead En nm Rattle

Allies Get Fresh Troops  For Attack   Germans to South Are Using Famed Abbey as Fortification

Planes Blast At Germans  Behind Line:   Allics Able To Strike New Offensive Blows Tn See-Saw Struggle  ABBEY IS VIEENACED

Command Thinks Rome Situation Is Satisfactory   Reinforced American And British Throwing New Attacks At Rome Defenders; Air Activity Stepped Up

New Troops Are Landed on  Anzio Front   Headquarters Declares Situation Is ‘Generally Satisfactory’ as Weather Permits Planes to Enter Battle

Air Detenses Of Rabaul Appear To Be Missing   Latest Attacks On Once Great Enemy Base Meet No Plane Defense   MANY AIR RAIDS MADE BY YANKS

RABAUL LOSES AIR DEFENSES   Stripped of Power By  , Bombers  Hit Every Day Since l‘irst of Year

Heights Dominating Besieged Fortress Taken  by Reds   FALL IS IMMINENT,  REPORTS INDICATE   Final Storming. of Positions Held by Axis Underway

Moscow Reports Nazi Defenses are Broken; Berlin Blasted Again   U. S. Loses 36 Bombers, 13 Fighters, Downing 119 Germans in Return Attack on Capital; Romania Attacks Pinch Hitler’s Oil Supply

Moscow Reports Capture of Big Port Imminent   4000 Nazis Killed in All-Out Drive

DEFENSE LINE SHATTERED AT CRIMEAN PORT   AXIS GARRISON OI ABOUT 25,000 TRAPPED

Doctor Verifies Argentine Quints   Investigation Proves Dionnes Have Real Rivals In Quintuplets.

Dionnes Have Authentic Rivals in The Ciligenti Quins of Argentine

ARGENTINE QUINTS APPEAR AUTHENTIC   University of Buenos Aires Specialist ReJ7-". That Skepticism fs Unfounded

Argentina Quint Birth Is Confirmed   BUENOS AIRES DOCTOR REPORTS OWN CASE, TELLS BABIES’ GROWTH

Story Of Quints At Buenos Aires Given Credence   Medical Authority Reports Many ‘Multiple Births In Family Of Mother

ary Gives — Aid To Chinese   U.S. OFFICERS DRILLING CHINA SOLDIERS IN EAST

SOLDIERS LEND HAND IN STOCKYARDS JAM      Farmers Unload Record Rur Of Hogs at Chicago  j

Formia Seized By Americans; Gustav Line ‘No Longer Exists’   Famed Monastery Falls to Poles: Yanks Drive  on [tri

Both Cassino and Formia Scooped Up In Advance by British ‘and American Troops; Gustav Line ‘Ceases to Exist’

Allies Storming. Steadily Forward in Drive On Rome   Gustav Line Now Ceases To Exist; french Capture Hitler Line Outpost

City Of Formia On Coast Falls To U.S. Forces   Monastery Ruins Seized By Polish Troops As Action Rages On 25-Mile Front; ‘Gustav Line Has Ceased To Exist,’ Is Report

COMMAND SAYS GUSTAV LINE IS WIPED OUT   ; Strongholds Toppled At Both Ends Of Fiercely-Defended Nazi Positions

Gustav Line Now Broken; Hitler Next   Cassino Encircled So That Casualties Could Be Held Down

Nazi Gustav Line No Longer Exists Communique Says   All Elements of Allied Armies in Italy Had Part in Capture of Important German Positions

IMPORTANT GERMAN ‘STRONGHOLDS ITALY NOW IN ALLIED HANDS   LATEST ALLIED REPORT SAYS GUSTAV LINE HAS CEASED TO EXIST

Other Important Objectives Taken   Eighth Army Takes Cassino and Yanks Coastal Hinge City of Formia — Monastery Hill Seized by Polish  Units — Cassino Encircled

GUSTAV LINE IS ERASED, ALLIED REPORT CLAIMS   Monastery Hill Taken By Polish Troops; Nazis Captured

Cassino Was Strong Point at East Eng of Gustav Fortifications—Formia Was the Coastal Anchor and Also Is Considered Part of the Hitler Syss tem, the Southern Hinge of Which  Yanks and French Troops Already, Have Pierced Deenly. jo. #

Gustav Line Baffered Down By U.S. And British Armies   Monastery Blasted   Attack Hitler Lire

FORMIA ALSO IS CAPTURED WITH NEWEST GAINS   Nazis Admit Loss of Stronghold as Means “to Save Manpower”

ALLIES CAPTURE MONASTERY HILL ABOVE THE TOWN   CONTINUE TO PUSH FORWARD ON MOST FRONTS IN ITALY

8th Occupies Cassino; 5th Takes Formia, Smacks Hitler Line   x -*-* * YY ~ Yank Guns — Shell Gaeta

Double Victory Is Recorded on Front in Italy  Old Monastery Also Captured By British Army

Americans Reach Coastal Stronghold  _ From 2 Directions   ‘Monastery, Nearby Town Taken As Allies Destroy Major Part Of German Paratroop Division

Gustav Line Ceases To Exist; Troops Slug Way To Second Defense Line

iAMERICANS SEIZE ‘FORMIA   Double Victory Said To Wipe Out Gustav Line

Entire Gustav Line Has Been Broken   Crack German Parachute Division Wiped Out; More Than 1,500 Nazis Captured as U. S., French Drive on Next Enemy Defense

Gustav Line of German Defense in Italy Now  Wiped Out DRIVE TOWARD ANZIO  ‘Contact With Main Hitler ~ Line Made in Several Places

GERMAN “G” LINE ‘CEASES TO EXIST   British Win City As Poles Occupy  Monastery; En emy Outmaneuvered

Nazis ‘Outmaneuvered On ~  Italian Front, Say Allies      British Take. Cassino, Americans Capture Formia; Casualties Not High

Crack German First Parachute Division Largely Destroyed; Foe’s Escape Route Slashed By Swift Advances

Victories Bring Allies Against Strong Hitler Line  British Take Cassino After Cutting Off Nazi Escape, Americans Take Formia, Poles Seize Monastery   Poles Capture Monastery

Twi in Victory Cr umbles Nazi  Gustav Barrier   Monastery Hill Falls To Poles As British Troops Siam Way Into Fortress Ruins   1500 Germans In Cassino Seized   Substantial Portion of Germanv's “Green Devils” Cliute Division Wiped Our

Surging Allied Assault Forees Nazi Retreat; Hitler Line Next      Cassino And Monastery Hill, Long German Stronghold, Falls To British Eighth Army While U. S. Fifth Army Gains Important Formia

Formia Captured By Yank Forces; Monastery Falls   German Gustav Line Has Ceased To Exist, High Command Says; Enemy Completely Outmaneuvered

Entire Gustav Line Crumbles In Front Of Charging Armies   British Unit Captures Benedictine Monastery; American Troops Take Several Unidentified Targets

‘Big Part of Crack Nazi Air  Division Dead   British in Final Drive, Poles Take Monastery; Germans Admit Evacuation

Gustav Line Ceases to Exist ‘As Allies Blast Both Ends Of Nazi Positions in Italy   British Move Into Cassino, Poles Take Monastery Hill and American Forces Rout Enemy Frem Fermia

U.S. oth Army Seizes Formia   ‘Gustav Line Has Ceased to Exist,’ , Nazis Completely OQutmaneuvered, Says Communique From Gen. Alexander

to the southwest have seized the coastal hinge city of Formia, the Allied command announced todav.

Germans Forced From Cassino and Monastery Hill; Yankees Plunge on to Capture Formia   Americans Smash Into Lofty Mountain Pass to Capture Monte Ruazzo, Forming Southern End of Hitler Line; French Continue Advance

Gustav Lines Effectiveness Now Nutllified   Berlin Admits Withdrawal From Cassino To Save ‘Manpower, Shorten Lines

U. S. Fifth Army Forces Canverged From Two Directions on Formia, Stronghold Of Whole Southern German Line

Fortress Falls Before British In Italian Drive   Americans Seize City of Formia; Gustav Line Extinct

GREEN DEVIL CHUTE TROD? UNIT BLASTED   Gustave Line Wiped Out with Fall of Main Nazi Strongpoints,

OVER SEAS MEN T0 GET 3 WEEKS LEAVE   Personnel In Combat Zones Will Be Able To Return Home

Key Men in Army Get Furloughs   Will Return Overseas After Completing Their Jobs at Home

New Furlough Plan Announced   Men Overseas Will  Be Able To Come Home

Key Army Men To Come Home      Rotation Plan For Those Overseas Provided For Return After Furlough.

Furlough Plan  Is Announced  Pr? ro   ‘Indispensable’ Men Affected By Raling

600 WARPLANES SHOWER BOMBS ON CAPITAL GITY   Troop Withdrawal Proposal Denied Despite Finns Persistence

. CALDWELL'S  SENNA LAXATIVE : SYRUP PE   Mother, Daughter: Killed by Train: .

“LINK WITH AIR UNIT HELD BY "BRITISH FORCE   Last German Resistance Wiped Out At  ‘ Niimegen

Armor Links Air Forces  At Arnhem   Allied Flood Pours Through Corridor Above Nijmegen.

Pour Flood Of Men And Tanks Thru Narrow Corridor   BERLIN BOASTS OF ARNHEM LOSSES   Allies Widen Salient Across Belgian-Dutch Border

Fluid Armor Battle Rages N ear Moselle   British Pour Huge Force Into Breach For Push in Reich

SLIGHT REDUCTION IN WELFARE BUDGET   Department Requests $3,689,790 For 1946; Amount $160.874 Under Present Figure .

Bombers Pound Nazi Defenses On French Soil  RAF Tere Active In Roonaan Deiy,

RAF MOSQUITOS POUND GERMANS   Enemy Troops South of Caen Attacked Again — Other Targets Undisclosed

R. A. F. Atfacks German Troops   Allied Bombers From Italy Hit Italian Base of Trieste

Lausche Sees End of Ohio Phone Strike by Nightfall  Priorities Put on Long-Distance Calls As A.T.&T. Workers Respect Picket Lines

Democrats Fight Over Hillman On House Floor   Republicans Join Row   Over Communist,  Fascist Allegation

Romanians Free Under Russians   Invaders Let Local  Officials Run Affairs

MORE COLD WEATHER IN STORE FOR OHIO      Brisk Wind Sweeps State as Mercury Drops

SEIZURE BY U. 8. OF THED-UP TRUCK LINES 15 HINTED   Decision May Come Within 48 Hours — Controversy Has Cleared All Federal Agencies.   25,000 DRIVERS NOW IDLE IN EIGHT STATES   Ail Military Movements Are Reported Proceeding on Schedule Except in Omaha, Neb.

Hint seizure of midwest truck, lines  Expect decision from Washinstor

CALL MEET ON LABOR CRISIS   Program to Ease Job Situation Here to Be Formulated

Meeting Called To Solve Local Labor Crisis   Ways Sought To Avoid No. 1. Classification For Twin Cities

MKUTT RAPS 108 DRAFT LAW   Would Be ‘Little Less Than Tragic,’ He Asserts

CLAIMS PLAN LITTLE LESS THAN TRAGIC   Forced Labor Program Still Unnecessary,  Chief Declares

National Service Legislation Is  Nof Needed Now, McNulf Asserts   Against Displacing Volun‘ary Co-operation with Military or Bureaucratic Processes’

MeNutt Calls Labor Draft Now ‘Tragic’   \ Manpower Chief  Opposes FDR Plan be 'R,,

No Labor Draft Needed: McNutt   Manpower Director In Conflict With F, R.; Hershey for 4-F Draft

MeNutt Fights  Service Law      War Manpower Chief Declares Laber Draft ‘Little Less Than Tragic.’

Yank Troops Advance in Driving Rain   Germans Apparently Fall Back to Inner Core of Mctz Defenses

Assault Forces Deepen Wedge In Metz Defenses —   Doughboys Advance » In Driving Rain Over Soggy Battlefields

Air Support Halts Due To Driving Rain   Entire 3rd Army Reported Swinging Northeast Toward Saar.

THIRD ARMY FOUR MILES FROM CITY   Yanks Advancing Through Rain and Mud Toward Saar

GEN. PATTON'S MEN STOR MING NAZI CITADEL   Other U. S. Elements to North Deepen Bridgehead Across Moselle.   BULLETIN

All Roads Under Third Army Fire In Moselle: Area   Patton’s Troops Nearing German Border In Mighty Offensive; U. S. Extends Arc Around Key Fortress City

Second Of Metz Forts’ To Give Up      TROOPS FROM SOUTH ARE 34 MILES FROM METZ AFTER LATEST GAINS

RUSSIANS DRIVE CLOSE TO PSKOV   210 Villages Fall As Troops ~ Continue Wide Advances

RUSSIANS REPORTED  WITHIN ARTILLERY  DISTANCE OF PSKOV RED TROOPS UN MOVE  AGAIN SOUTHWEST OF NIKOPOL IN UKRAINE

Within Artillery Range Of Pskov: ltaly Brighter   2 Nazi Strongpoints Near Rome Taken Badoglio Pleads For Guns

British Troops Take Two Strongpoints On Anzio Beachhead   English Destroyers Shell Yugoslav Port on Dalmatian Coast; Rome Battle Costs Nazis 15,000 Casualties

LIVERGNANO IS TAKEN BY YANKS   Seizure Cuts Nazi Defenses Before Po Valley

PO VALLEY ‘KEY TAKEN BY YANKS   Nazi Hold on Strategic Gap Before Bologna Broken in 4-Day Fight

Livergnano Falls To Yanks, Openine Gate fo Po Valley   Capture of Town Clears Way For Drive at Bologna

Night Assualts Reported Around Frankfurt Area   Fortresses Fail To Find A Single Enemy Plane To To Check Softening Up; Spaatz May Issue Direct Challence To Luftwaffe To Great Aerial Duel.

MAP CHALLENGE TO LUFTWAFFE!   Enemy Fighters Fail To Tackle Forts

Surprise Allied Landing On Sansapor Puts Forces '600 Miles Off Philippines

Iwo Islands Also Seized by U.S. Forces.   Secure Beachhead #Only 600 Miles From Philippines

Brilliant Leap-Frog ,Jump Puts MacArthur Men Only  600 Mi. From Philippines

ALLIES IN NEW LANDING ON NEW GUINEA   Bypass Japs, Take Point 600 Miles From Philippines

Yanks Secure Landing Area On Sansapor   Allied Land. Sea And Air Forces Hit Island Off Dutch New Guinea.

ALLIED FORCES CAPTURE DUTCH N. GUINEA BASE   By-Pass 15,000 Japs In New Seaborne Operation

MACARTHUR’ TROOPS MAKE CORONG JUNE   Bypass 15,000 Japs for New Landing on Northern New Guinea Tin.

Allies Make Landing on Sansapor {sland   MacArthur Is Now Only 600 Miles From Philinnines

ALLIED FORCES HIT SANSAPOR, GET BEACHHEAD   Round Northernmost Tip 0 Dutch New Guinea In New Blow

Allied Forces Take Sansapor, In New Guinea   New Field Is Only 660 Miles From Philippine Islands

MACARTHUR LEAPS FROG COVER TADS   Troops Landed on Northern Tip of Dutch New Guinea

Yanks 600: Miles From Philippines’   Sansapor Successfully Invaded Thru Sunday

Gigantic Power Of Americals  Visible In France   Magnitude Of U.S. War Op. eration In France Awe Inspiring Says Correspondent

Soldier Vote Still Deadlocked  Propose Court Test Wiall Raflaen Elactian

Allies Closing In On Rome On 2 Sides Now Within Sight of City   German Forces In South Face Encirclement By British   SUPPORTED BY AERIAL UMBRELLA   Surprise Attack Against Light Enemy Resistance Yesterday

‘Junction      TAKE CITY OF FROSINONE, .        POINT 13 MILES FROM CAPITA

ROAR OF GUNS. GAN BE HEARD NOW IN ROME   ‘ne Armored Forces Are Within 13 Miles of Capital City.

YANKEES ADVANGE ? MILES BRITSH WITHIN 13 MILES   Spanish Agency Says Army Has Reached “Roman Castes” With Germans Facina Encirclement.   AMERICANS MAKE THEIR GAINS AT ALBAN HILLS   RAF Blasts Three French Rail Centers, Invasion Coast Blasted, Weather Stons Day Raids.

Advance Units Only 13 Miles Outside Rome   Besieged Velletri And Lanuvio Are Outflanked In Allied Drive

Germans Driven Back Two Miles In Alban Hills   British Seize Frosinone on Via Casilina

VELLETRI AND LANUVIO BASES ARE BY.PASSED   Battle Reaches “Roman Cag tles” Area; Gunfire Aud. ible In Capital

Foes Battle Across Plains Before City   Vital Bridge Seized Amid Fighting From Behit nd Haystacks and Vieuane

BRITISH SEIZE VITAL BRIDGE IN ROME AREA   Yanks, French Flank Cassino, May Turn Line

British Hold Vital Bridge Near Rome   Wide Open Battle Raging Across The Latium Plain On Flat Approaches To Italy Capital

Yanks Nearing Cassino   French Flanking Drive Threatens To Turn Line

Battle Waged On Italian Plam.   Allied Troops 20 Miles From Rome

Ry HENRY C. CASSIDY   WAR LABOR BOARD ORDERS WORKERS T0 BE UNION MEMBERS

RUSSIAN ARMIES ENVELOP MINSK FROM TWO SIDES   Leading Rail and Road Routes Leading to Warsaw In Soviet Hands.

London Radio Says Russians Encircle Minsk   Nazi Reserves Fail to Stem  Reds’ Advance

Nazi Command “ Uses Reserves , 10 Check Trap   Report Reds Have Taken Rail and Road Routes to Warsaw

sondon Hears White Russian Capital Surrounded; Battle Near Climax With Reds 25 Miles Away

Center of Enemy Line Shattered   Germans Expected To Make Desperate Stand To Block Road to Warsaw

REDS CUT HIGHWAYS, RAIL LINES   German Reserves Are Thrown Into Fight  Against Russians

RUSSIAN ARMIES ENCIRCLE MINSK, ~ ANLROAD TAKEN   Front Dispatches Report To: day That’ Rerinants.” “of “Badly Beaten’. German : Army Are Entering City.        U.S. MARINES DRIVE AHEAD ON SAIPAN   Allied ‘Troops Have Overrult All Delaying Positions 0 Routed German Forces l Italian Sector. ,

Eighteen Harlan   Nazi. Leaders Use Local Reserves To Stem Russian Tide

Communist CIO Victor Says Clark   REVERSE TEMPORARY SAYS OLD DEMOCRATIC WARHORSE = IN ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HE IS BEATEN

CLARK CALLS HIS. DEFEAT ‘NOTABLE C10. TRIUMPH   Declares Fight By Union to “Gain Control of Democratic Party” is Only Beginning.   M’KITTRICK GIVEN 18,000 MAJORITY   Ferguson Concedes Defeat by Bradshaw in Gubernatorial Race—Latter to Face Donnelly.

HHIDELECTION “PROBE I SE   Close Senatorial Batti May Bring Federal. In vestization .

OHIO BALLOTS ORDERED HELD FOR CHECKING   Federal Investigation Into Cigaret Shortage Another Topic in Capital

ORDERS OHIO TO HOLD BALLOTS   May Investigate Close Race for U. S$. Senator

Opening Guns To Be Fired by Republicans Early Next Mont Not Only To Get Border States But Aso To Bid for Labor Support

GOP OUTLINES POLITICAL AIMS   Plans Large Drive in Border States, Middle West

GOP's. Draw Up Strategy.   Dewey and. Bricker Plan: Speech: Tours

North Burma Jap ‘Resistance Low   Chinese, American Forces Push Forward

Donnell Still Ahead in Race For Senator   Mchittrick Gains But May not Overcome Opponent

Donnell's Lead Again Over 4,000   And It Appears Very Difftcult for McKittrick to Overcome   ABOUT 21,000 MAIL VOTES UNCOUNTED   McKittrick Gains, But Ayparently Not at Sutficient Rate

TEXAS DELEGATES STAGE WALKOUT   To Remain in Chicago to Con . fer With Other South Lead ers; Get Repeated Rebuffs From Convention

GROTTO AT HOSPITAL IS COMPLETED   Built On Order of Famous Grotto at Lourdes, France

Chinese Base Taken by Japs  ' Entire Garrison Renorted Wined Ou!

jaPo CAPTURE CHINESE TOWN   Kweiping Falls After All Defenders Are Killed

MacArthur establishes temporary Philippine sovernment on Leyte isle

MACARTHUR ANNOUNCES LOVERNMENT   Will Be Established Temporarily at Tacolban on Leyte; President Osmena Stands By Side.   Respect And Obey

Announced by MacArthur And President Osmena in Dramatic Ceremony

GRAB RIVIERA BEACHES AND FIGHT INLAND   LITTLE OPPOSITION MET IN SWEEP NORTHWARD

Seize Beachheads On Broad Front On Riviera Coast: Resistance Slight   Invaders Reported Well info Country and Going Forward Fast: Airborne Troops Used

Nazi Resistance Reported as Light   By Mid-Afternoon Invaders Are Reported To Be Well Within Southern Part Of France

Inconsequential German Opposition Is Reported  PROGRESS IS MADE, “SAYS No Enemy Air Attacks  Have Been Reported

Inconsequential German Opposition Is Re ported  PROGRESS IS MADE, — COMMUNIQUE SAYS: No Enemy Air Attacks  Have Been Reported -

Occupy Coast On Wide Front, Smash Inland   Invaders Meet Slight Resistance by Foe; Thousands of Airborne Forces Landed; Warships Back Troops   Ry NOLAND NORGAARD

Specific Locations of the Forces Not Given but Front Extends 125 Miles

Fight Inland Against Light Opposition; Front Extends Between Marseille and Nice.

Encounter Only Slight Opposition on Ground  And None in Air as Allies Strike North

Thousands Of Allied Troops Seize Riviera Points And  Move Inland   LITTLE OPPOSITION BEING ENCOUNTERED

Opposition © To Landings Negligible   Allies Push Northward With Aim of Joining Forces West of Paris  14.000 AIRMEN USED

BEACHHEADS ARE FIRMLY SET UP   Allies Land on Broad Front Between Marseille, Nice   CASUALTIES LIGHT   Greatest Naval Force Ever Assembled in Mediterranean Backs Allies

Extend Beachhead Thru. SporacicNazi Opposition   Invasion Force Lands on Broad Front From Marseille to Nice; 800 Ships _ in Operation; Islands Seized

Nazi resistance against invaders inconsequential   Two islands and one mainland city captured: units advance northward

Thousand Italian War Refugees Are Coming To U.S.A.   To Be Housed In Army Barracks In New York

1.000 Refugees To Enter U. S.   European War Refugees To   ye  Be Housed In Military Establishment.

THOUSAND REFUGEES TO BE SENT 10 U.S,   War Victims To Be Housed at Ft. Ontario, N. Y.

U.S. to Care for (000 Refugees  Bunxthiuar im lanl.   Fugitives in Italy To Find War Haven In N.Y., F. R. Reveals

1000 REFUGEE: COMING TO ¥. §.   To Be Housed Near Oswego, Roosevelt Says.

HOUSE REJECTS SOLDIER BONUS   State Senate Also BackTracks On Veterans Care Bill

Japan Threatens Flier Executions   Formal Notice of Aim Given U. S. and Britain

Verdict In Spy Case Set Aside   Court Also Revokes Can cellation Of Citizenship

COURT ALTERS  ESPIONAGE VIEW   Rules Pamphlet Libel— But Not Disloyal.

SH US. AIRMEN BA MIN IN ONE WEEK   Collapse Seen as Result of Stand on Territorial Problem

BATTLE OF FRANCE IS NEAR ITS END SAYS U.P. MEMBER   Eisenhower’s Offensive Minded Generals Getting Set For Clean-up.

BATTLE OF FRANGE NEARING CLIMAX   Speedy Liberation Of All France Foreseen By Capture Of Paris

Willkie Ur ges GOP Support Security Unit   Dulles to Place Dewey’s Views Before Secretary Of State Hull In Wash- *  ington Tomorrow

Willkie Supports  Security Meeting Tells Dulles G.O,P. Should Not Interfere  eaarenal tc. &™.

Willkie Has Session With Dewey Agent   Post-War Conference For Security Reported To Be Topic Discussed In Talk With Dulles

Willkie Asks Support For Peace Parley   Wants GOP to Rally to Support of Post-war Security Meeting

Say Willkie for Parley Support   Report to Oppose Any Move Likely to Hurt Washington Meeting

WILLKIE BACKS SECURITY MEET   Urges Dewey’s Agent Tx Rally GOP Behind  Conference

WILLKIE URGES SUPPORT OF SECURITY CONFERENCE  Representative of Governor Dewey ’ Hears Views of Former Candidate

GOP. Backs.  Conference   “Post-War ‘Security ‘Sought By. Willkie.

Willkie Asks GOP Support  Peace Move   Suggests Dewey Back Hull Plan

Dewey's Adviser Meets Willkie  On Foreion Policy   1910 Nominee Objects To New York Governor's Pacent Statement

DEWEY WRITES DOWN ON FARW   Republican Candidate To Prepare His Speeches Over Week Ends

Texas Democrats To Send Two Delegations To: National. Meet Split On Roosevelt Issue

U. S. Bombs Dropped On Canadians   Little Damage Done B Pilots’ Mistake In Caen Sector

U.S. ARTILLERY POURS SHELLS INTO DEFENSES   Japanese Attempt To Infiltrate Our Lines

Yanks Maintait Pressure on Jap Forces   Tropical Typhoon Slows Work in Philippines

Nip Resistance In Pocket Near Breaking Point 500 Japs Killed  Trying To Open Yank Teo. .

WAR PRODUCTION CUTS PREDICTED   OW! BELIEVES SLASHES IN SMALL ARMS AND NON-COMBAT PLANES LIKELY.

BOMBS KILLED 8,098 BRITISH   21,137 Other Civilians Injured This Year

Swimming Nazis Slair   GREEK PATRIOTS KILL 250 iN A SUDDEN. SURPRISE ATTACK

Synthetic Qil Piant Blasted  Ulalle Ratieavink ~   Wells, Refineries at Ploesti Bombed

Synthetic Oil Plant Blasted   Wells, Refineries at Ploesti Bombed

Suggest Wallace For World Food Leadership Task   Would Promote Production of Supplies, Stabil‘ize Markets, Prices

Texas Police, FBI Seek Three Young Bandits   Youths Credited With Robberies In Southern Cities

MIGHTY ARMADA AWAITS SIGNAL FOR BIG FIGHT   Greatest Sea Battle In History Expected By Confident Leaders   PLAN OF ACTION MAPPED   (> Size Of American Fleet In European Waters Said To Be Breathtaking

PHONE GROUPS OPEN HEARING   WLB to Rule on ‘Bonus’ for Out of Town Operators

PHONE STRIKE HEARING OPENS   Union Officials Laugh Of Walkout Rumors

Three German Fighters Are Downed in Single Flashing Swoop by Thunderbolts in Thrilling Action

B-29s Hit Five Jap Targets   Americans Hold All but Four Miles of Saipan; Guam Raided

elhrust Costs Foe 1500 Men   Advance Stopped After 2000 Yards Near Outskirts of Tanapag; Shore Batteries Silenced After Shelling U.S. Airfield

Japs On Saipan Strike Out In Fierce “Last -Chance” Attack on Yanks

SAIPAN JAPANESE IN SUICIDE ATTACK   Fierce Thrust Is Thrown sane 1,500 Japanese Killed

MORE WARM WEATHER   Scattered Thundershowers Are Forecast for Today

Evacuation ‘Narva Begun By Germans   Russians Continue Advance Along Gulf of Finland; American and French Troops Break Gustav Line;  . Mosquitos Raid Berlin

INVASION FORCES SEEKING CONTROL OF KWAJALEIN   Is Located in the Heavily Fortified Marshall Islands.   COORDINATED ASSAULT   Troops Quickly Threw Up Beachlieads on at Least 10 of the 30 Islets.

NAZIS QUITTING NARVA, 9 MILES * INSIDE ESTONIA   Main Force of Leningrad @ Army Expected to Cross Border Soon

AMPAIGN TO  it GAIN IN REE ESTONIA   wift Progress Made By Russians Down Highway Between Kingisepp And Narva  ERMANS ARE FLEEING

American, French Troops Cut Gustav Line Near Cassino   Nazi __— Resistance Has Been Stiffened; War  News Summarized

REPORT REDS CROSS BORDER INTO ESTONIA   Believed Entering Narva Gap  NAZIS FACE TRAP Russians Advance on All Fronts

Jap Opposition Is Lacking in Operations   Dampier Strait Is Dominated by Allied Fighters

Yanks Occupy Rooke Island   Strategically Located Betweer New Britain, New Guinea

SPITFIRE SUCCESS CREDITED MOTOR   “Griffon” Engine Said Factor Accounting for Plane’s . Ries

LAUGHLIN IS FREED. ‘IN FEDERAL COURT   Capital Lawyer Found Not Guilty of Obstructing Justice

Hand-to-Hand Battle Before Florence »   British Close Steadily on North Italian City

Nazis. British Lock In Bitter Hand Fighting   Germans Say Florence Shelled And Pisa Damaged By Artillery Fire

FLORENCE LINE FIGHT HARDEST SINCE CASSINC   British Gains Small Or 21-Mile Front In Hill Battles

Nazis Fight At Florence  - Allied Gains Made  _In Bitter Struggle.

British Hammer Out Small Gains on Italian Front   Bitterest Fight Since Cassino Is Reported

BRITISH EIGHTH KAKES SMALL GAINS IN ITAL!   New Zealander: Spearhead Attack on Florence; Meet  Opposition

NAZIS REDUCE TROOPS   Best Units Reported Taken Out of Yugoslavia to Use Elsewhere

Force Narova River on  22-Mile Front   Soviets Closing In on Pskov Take 70 More Localities

REDS 15 MILES: INSIDE ESTONIA ~ ONBROAD-FRONI   Sweeping Advance Cuts Last Railway Escape Route of Germans From Fortress" City of Narva.   SOVIETS CONTINUE PUSH TOWARD PSKOV   Nazis Driven From %0 More Villages—Russians Storm Closer to Lithuanian — Frontier.

LAST GERMAN ESCAPE FROM NARVA IS CUI   SOVIETS PENETRATE 15 MILES INTO ESTONIA

Soviets Encircle Strong Nazi Garrison at Narva   Execute Generals

2 Vital Railways  Cut in New Gains   Narova River Is Crosseds Pskov Attack Pressed

MINERS EXTEND STRIKE BALLOTS   Government’s Seizure Of Ten Pits Fails To Halt Walkout Plans

STRIKE VOTE oa hy CONTINUED   SEIZURE OF MINES BY GOVERN. MENT FAILS TO HALT BAL“LOTING ON WALKOUT:

TROOPS HIT 2 MILES INTO SIEGFRIED LINE   Germans Fight From Pillboxes Barring Way To Rhineland: New Offensive Breaks Out North Of Aachen

First Opens. New Assault   Earth-Shaking Barrage Precedes Push On Steafried Alona Six-Mile Front —

Aachen Front Hammered by Shells, Bombs  Americane Taka   Americans lake 2-mile Bite in Siegfried Line 

In Aachen Area Before Rhine; Supported by Nearly 3,000 Planes: Fortification is Turned Into Rubble by Heavy Rarrage.

First Army Forces Smash Two ‘Miles on New  Front.  RIVER IS~HURDLED ~~  IN AACHEN SECTOR  Another Drive Drive Gathering  30 miles to the .  north

AMERICAN FIRST ARMY ADVANCES TWO MORE MILES   Penetration Of Siegfried Line On New Front Fol lows Heavy Rarraca   GERMAN VILLAGES ARE ENTIRELY DESTROYED

Nazi troops resist bitterly as American forces throw  full power at Siegfried line   Hodges’ First army surges ahead two miles. on front six miles wide

First Army Advances in  Furious Fight  Heavy Air Attacks  Precede Start of

Yanks Strike Into Germany  Near Aachen   Two German. Villages Are Wiped from Map By Bomber Attacks

Battle Fierce As First Army Opens Assault   Terrific Artillery Barrage Hurled At Start of Drive; Another Big Offensive Looms in Holland

First Army Forces Smash: Two Miles on New Front:  RIVER -IS HURDLED IN AACHEN SECTOR  Another Drive Drive Gothering 30 miles to the  north

Nazis Fight To Bar Road Into Reich   Infantry, Tanks Hurdle Wurm River  To Enter Germany

PUNISHMENT OF [WAR CRIMINALS BEFORE SENATE   Pepper Introduces Resolution Committing U.S. Cooperation But Matter Will Rest for Present

Senators Shy From War Trials   Pepper Resolution Calls for Immediate U. S. Machinery For Punishing Enemy Leaders.

Magerstonian In Italy  Chamber Booklet Made Local  Soldier Homesick But Happy

rmagerstonian in Italy —_——_$__________..___-”,  Chamber Booklet Made Local Soldier Homesick But Happy

TRIBUTE 1S DUE SOLDIERS TODA   Armistice Day Celebrations Scheduled Despite Present War

Nation Marks Armistice Day   President Will Visit Arlington Cemetery; Paris to Observe Day

U. S. and Allies Will Not Forget Armistice Day   Will Pay Tribute To Dead of Both World Wars.

Drive Proceeding Satisfactorily But Will Take Several Days To   Complete Mopup Of Ancient City   GERMANS SHIFTING TROOPS TO AACHEN

Now Occup) Large Part Of The Cit         MOVE THRU STREETS WITH GRENADES, MACHINE GUNS; N: PREPARE NEW COUNTER MOVE

Nazis Shift — Troops South To Try Relief   Massing Armor” Hammered by Allied. Warnlanes

Eastern Part Of City Ils Occupied   Cut Enemy Garrison’s Escape Corridor To Half-Mile In Race To Beat Panzer Units Driving From Holland

GERMAN ARMOR COMING SOUTH FOR SHOWDOWN   “Tremendous Destruction” Is Wrought In Eastern Part of City:

Doughboys Slug Slowly Ahead — In Doomed City   Complete Mopup Will Take Several Days, Says Allied Commander

Piss Bem RSENS ASO nin eee  Yanks Occupy Part Of Aachen, Try To Crack , Mile Nazi Corridor   German Armored Forces Reported Shifting South From Holland  For Counter-Offensive

Associated Press Reporters See History In Making  Eyewitness Stories Of Invasion Are Gripping

U.S. Navy Strikes Beaches With Torrents Of Shells In Shepherding Invasion Force   Joins British And Other Warships In Tremendous Barrage Onto Shore

Hostile Coast Hit by Torrent Of Navy Shells   Warships Fire Ear-Trying Prelude Before Swarms  of Landing Craft Beach.   Beached Sailors Sent On Demolition Tasks

NAVY SALVOS ARE MIGHTY      U. S. Warships Fire EarSplitting Prelude To Actual Invasion

Yank Ships Pour Shells Into Coast   Hundreds of Landing Craft Put Men and Supplies Ashore

Woman Voices Protest Over Letter Leaks   Miss Vivien Kellems. Say: Correspondence to German Agent In Buenos Airés Purely Personal

Critic Of Pledges  Rapped By Willkie  Senator’s Charges Were False, He Savs

Miles-Long Relief Column Lands By Night At Ormoc   U. S. Planes Strafe Foe Marching Toward Yank Forces

‘Relief Column  ‘Landed   American Fighters Disperse Japs by Bembing and Strafing Attack

Strong Relief Column Lands On West Coast   Two Transports Sunk But Only After Landing Troops, Trucks

Enemy Make: Ready for Final Battle   Troops Go Ashore Despite U. 5. Air. Attacks

SHOWDOWN BATTLE IS SHAPING UP   U. S. Warships Suffer Damage In Attack By Nip Airmen

Full Armor Division Landed in Darkness   Yanks Sink Two Transports But Kailta Rant Reinforcements

any Do_isions wii ~e-encers 1.8 4,5. . 2 anes Av-ac< 2er-in, 4runswict anc nvyasion oas-

4,500 PLANES LASH BERLIN, OTHER CENTERS   Attack Costs Americans 36 Bombers, 13 Other Craft; 119 Enemy Planes Bagged

Berlin Again One of Targets For Raiders   Indications of Night Attacks Given by Silence of Radio

Big Sky Fights Rage as Berlin, Brunswick Hit   Coastal Emplacements And Rail Yards Raided As Offensive Rolls  Into 25th Straight Day

DOWN 119 NAZI PLANES IN DAY   Pound Berlin, Brunswick and Key Rail road Centers

YANKS BATTER GERMANY, USE 4500 PLANES   SKY BATTLES COST 39 BOMBERS; NAZI LOSS 119

Germans Lose 119 Planes  in Air Battles   4,500 Raiders Lash Out at Enemy Positions

119 Nazi Planes Destroyed, Yank: Lose Total of 49   Berlin, Brunswick And Coast Bombed

AMERICANS FIGHT OFF SWARMS OF GER. MANS IN MAMMOTH SKY BATTLES; ATTACK RAIL YARDS, FORTIFICATIONS ALONG COAST.

4,500 Planes Hit Nazi-Held Europe   119 Nazi Fighters Downed Aa Cost of AD CO

'2,000 Planes ‘Hit Brunswick  ‘And Berlin.   Desperate Opposition Put Up by Germans Who Are Ont in Force  CHANNEL POINTS HIT

Nazi Planes Put Up Stiff Resistance   Fighters Dive Into Bombers in Effort To Prévent Planes From Reaching Taracts

DRIVE INTO PLAIN LANDS BELOW CAEN   Seize 12 Towns, Approach Vimont: U.S. Front Quiet   Yanks Fan Out From Leghorn Against Decreasing German Resistance, Advance 7 Miles   Capture Town 10 Miles From Pisa; Allies On East Coast Score Gains

Remnants Of Nazis Along Orne River Outflanked   British Tanks Enter  ' Bourquebus; German Shell Factory Was Onerated At Frant

UNREST ‘AMONG’ FINNISH PEOPLE STIRSED BY HULL'S > NOTE AND THREAT OF RED OFFENSIVE

FINNS’ DECISICN 0 FEMAIRING IN WAR 15. CUE SOON   Report Decision Already Reached At Policy Meeting

TRANSPORT SUNK “NORM ARE   ‘Japanese Attempts To Bolster Garrisons At Leyte Blasted    FREIGHTERS LOST   ‘Four American Escort _ Vessels Damaged In Oct. 24 Battle

4 Escort Carriers Were Damaged In Battle Oct. 24   Destroyer Group Fought Japanese Battle Force

Seventh Japan. Convoy Sunk On Way Leyte   Five Thousand Nips Believed Drowned When Transport and Three Fighters Destroyed

U.S. Fliers Range Far West Of Leyte To Destroy Convoy ‘Bringing Nip Reinforcements   Loss Of 5,000 Men Increases To 26,000 Japs Have Lost At Sea

Seventh Convoy Bound for Leyte Sunk by Yenks   Enemy Loses Four More Ships, ‘Possibly 5,000 Men in Effort  Te Atinamant? Garricean

JAP CONVOYS STOPPED WITH HEAVY LOSSES   ‘Nipponese Attempts to Replenish Leyte Garrisons Cost 26,000 Troops Lost aft Sea   29 ARE LISTED AS SUNK

JAP’S EXERTION TO HOLD LEYTE GIVES DISASTER   Americans Sink Seven Convoys To Date, While Japs Claim  Magnificent Success

29 TRANSPORTS, 18 ESCORTS ARE SUNK BY YANKS   5,000 Enemy Troops Estimated Lost In Latest Nip Disaster

Another Jap Convoy Sunk   Five Ships Sent Down—5,000 Jap Troops Drown

Japs Lose 26,000 Troops in Effort  Ai Reinforcement  Sinking of Three Freighters, Transports Raises Total to

FOUR VESSEL WITH 9,000 MEN LOST   h Destroyer, Freighter Left ~ Ablaze By Airmen   4 ESCORT CARRIERS   Of U.S. Navy Are Reported Damaged In Philippines  Battle In October 

Futile Jap* \ttempts To Reinforce Leyte End In  Ruin For Seven Convoys

Seventh Jap Convoy Sunk Off Leyte Isle   Transport, Three Freighters Blasted ty American Pilots

26,000 NIPS GONE IN LOSS OF 7 CONVOYS   Latest Attempt to Reinforce Leyte Garrison Amphibiously Costs the Enemy 5,000 Men, MacArthur Says.

5,000 Nip Soldiers On Board   Brings Total of Losses in Effort to Rein-  force Leyete to 26,000 Troops and 47 Ships

Nips Pay For Attempts At Reinforcing   29 Transports And 18 Escort Ships Destroyed

A Seventh Jap Convoy Destroyed   5,000 More Enemy Troops Bound for Leyte Go Down With Their Ships   TOTAL JAP TROOP LOSS TO 26,000   Second Convoy Destroyed in Two Days; Enemy Sub Also Is Sunk

Japs’ Troop Toll Soaring   Letest Convay Loss’ Brings To 23,000 Mer Lost Trying To Reinforce Leyte

26,000 Japanese Are Lost at Sea   Second Convoy in Two Days Destroyed Off Island of Leyte   IS THE SEVENTH HIT   Four U. S. Escort Carriers Dam in October 4 Battle

26,000 Japanese Are Lost at Sea   Second Convoy in Two Days Destroyed Off Is dof Leyte _   Four U.-‘S. Escort Carriers Damaged in October ; 4 Battle

 Indications Are Americans  May. Capture Marseille Before Toulon Falis   GENERAL PATCH URGES INVADERS TO KEEP UP THEIR SPEED   British Eighth Army Clears Florence, Italy, Of Ali Germans

ALLIED ARMIES NOW CAN ADVANCE AT WILL AS GERMANS REPORTED TO BE COMPLETELY DEMORALIZED

Antonescu Ready to Deal With Allies ©   Broadcast From . ° London Quotes News Dispatches From Turkey

Rumania Reported On the Verge of Seeking Armistice   Turks Say Premier. Antonescu Will Make Bid to Washington, London and Moscow

Stockholm Says Bucharest Has Second Bombins   New Wave Of Near-Panic Is Under Way In Jittery Balkans   BUDAPEST AREA TO BE EVACUATED

Antonescu’s Envoy Talks With ‘Big 3’   Complete Collapse Won't Be Surprise, Correspondent Says

Armistice May Be Asked By German Ally   Collapse Of Balkan Nation Reported Not Far Off

TURK REPORT SAYS RUMANIA SEEKING ARMISTICE TERMS   Dispatches Claim Antonescz Will Dicker For Armistice From Washington, London And Moscow—No Confirmation of Renorts

Dispatches From Turkey Assert Premier to Ask   Armistice In Wake   Of Aerial Attack      Nation Invaded   Berlin Contends Bombing  Of Bucharest By U. 8. ) _ Force Deplored By   ] Rumanian Leader {

Turks Report  Rumanian Hopes  For Armistice   Washington Warns Of Difficulties Facing Such Step

BUCHAREST IS ENVELOPED BY SMOKE CLOUD   First Attack on Rumanian Capital By Fortresses and Liberators Causes Considerable Damage   RAIL YARDS CRIPPLED

RUMANIA MAY SEEK ALLIED PEACE TERMS   Report Heard Ove: Short-wave By U. S. Network

‘Rumania Is Reported Seeking Armistice From Allies; Time ‘Said Near For Full Collapse   Action Is Urged On Antonescu By Emissary He Sent To Cairo Confabs

Claim Antonescu “Ready To Contact 3 Allied Capitals   American Says Time Near When Nazis Will Lose Hold In Balkans; Anticipates Collapse Of Rumans

TURKS HEAR ARMISTICE TO BE ASKED   Action Said to Be Urgea Upon Antonescu by Emissary He Sent te Cairo to Negotiate With Unitand Natiang

Rumania Seeks Armistice From  Allied Powers   London Broadcast Says Premier Antonescu Sends Emissary to Cairo.   American Bombers Hit  Bucharest Rail Yards

‘Hear Armistice Being Sought  By Rumania   Antonescu Likely To Contact Three Allied Capitals

Berlin Reports U.S. Craft Over  Rumania Again   49 Axis Planes Shot Down in Tuesday's Raid  on Bucharest   Antonescu Reported

REDS’ FORCES OCCUPY MOST OF TARNAPOL   Tighten Trap on Remnants of 15 Nazi Divisions in Skala Area

Turkish Report Says Rumania to Ask Peace With Allies  Complete Collapse Is Sighted for Nazis in Balkans

Bucharest May  Soon Try for an Armistice   Such a Course Is-Being Urged by an Emissary to United Nations :   BUT PEACE HOPES —.. APPEAR SLIM   Rumania, Which Jumped to Axis Side, Has. No. Choice Between Peace-and War-

Rumanian Armistice Plan Reported   Turkey Report Of Antonescu Move Not Confirmed

DRAW NOOSE TIGHTER ON NAZI FORCES   Soviet Air Power Attacking Shipping Concentrations for Withdrawal of German Army

REPORT AUNIANIA SEEKS ARMISTICE   Se Se eee oe  Antonescu Urged to Seek Peace with United Nations Broadcaster Savs

Turks Claim Rumania To  Seek Truce   Commentator Asserts That Complete Collapse May Come Any Minute

Antonescu Plans Appeal To London And United States   Nazis Can Not Hold Balkans; Collapse Is Expected, Envoys To Turkey Say

Emissary Is Said ‘Negotiating With ‘Allies At Cairo   Diplomatic: Quarters At  ~ Cairo: Hold Hopes For Break in’ Near kuture —German: Loss of Balkans Seen Near.

Correspondent Said Move* Urged By Emissary Sent To Cairo for Negotiations.

Romanians May Appeal For Allied  Armistice   Turkey Dispatches See Action Coming

ANTONESCU MAY SEEK ARMISTICE OF ‘BIG THREE’   Course Urged By Emissary At Cairo For Negotiations

ANTUNCSUL UONOIDERS ARMISTICE   Leaflets Dropped on Nazi Satellites  BOMB BUCHAREST  Kvacuation of Budapest Begins

Complete Collapse Forecast   Reported Premier Will Make Bid To “Big Three.”

Smethport Man Held in Death At Limestone, N. Y.   Harry M. McCormick In Jail at Little Valley On Serious Charge

Smethport Man Held in Death  At Limestone   Harry M. McCormick, Former Resident, in Jail at Little Valley

PHONE WIRES 10 IRELAND ARE GUT   British Take No Chan ces On Invasion. News Leak

Offensive Mounts in Fury With 14 to 15 German Divisions Attacking Hodges’ Forces in Belgium and Luxembourg—Low Clouds and Thick Fog Deprive Yanks of Air Support as Battle Roars Toward Climax.

Partial Lifting Of News Blackout Shows Nazi Gains   Situation Called Confused, Serious

Fourteen To Fifteen German Divisions Swarm Into Break . Of First Army Lines

Offensive Gaining Steadily In Fury   Fresh Infantry Waves Fighting Behind Nast Armored Units Contin ues To Push Yanks Rack

Furious Battle Raging to Check Foe On Western Front Breakthrough

Lifted News Blackout Reveals German Gains Expected To Continue   Fresh Waves Of Enemy Infantry Is Pouring Through Tank-Made Holes  In First Army’s Defenses

Headquarters Admits More Gains Expected to Be Made as Foe Adds Fresh Troops to Pound U. S. First

200,000 Enemy Troops Swarming Into Breach;  Weather Balks Air Support   MONSCHAU RETAKEN; 10,C00 YANKSCAPTURED

Fresh Troops Swarm Area   Allies Call Drive “The Big Thing;” Weather Robs Men Of Air Support

‘Nazi Drive ‘Is Big Thing, Says Allied Headquarters   Bad Weather Shackle: Allied Air Forces  As Germans Advance In Savage Fighting  ISING 200.000 WEN

NAZI PUSH GROWS STEADILY IN FURY   Counter-offensive Is Brandec ‘The Big Thing’   BLACKOUT LIFTED   Nazis Throw 14 to 15 Divi. sions at First Army; Air Support Lacking

Fierce Battle Waged to Halt  Enemy Advance   Germans Attack with About 200,000 Troops; Both Sides Lose Heavily In Savage Fight for Stavelot

Japs Tighten ~ Changsha Net   Chinese Face 200,000 Nipnonese Troons

DEVASTATING RAID MADE ON FORMOSA BY 1.000 BOMBERS   Japanese High Command Says Island Stronghold Is Attacked   TO SOFTEN DEFENSES   Point of Assault is 550 Miles South of Main Japanese Islands

SOFTENS APPROACH T0 CHINA COAST   Aerial Armada Makes Direct Attacks on Key Rail Points

POUND ENEMY’S BASES ON ROUTE TO CHINA COAS]   Tokyo Broadcasts Claim 100 Planes Downed in 8-Hour Battle

Rommel’s Defenses Crumble   Yanks Surge Into Outskirts Of Rubbled St. Lo.

FR Proclaims Thanksgiving Day   Urges Americans To  Offer Up Prayers

Terrific Strain of Waiting for Invasion of Europe Gives London Bad Case of the Jitters

LONDON BEGINS TO FEEL STRAIN AS DRIVE NEARS   Invasion Jitters Can Be Sensed On Every Side; People On Edge   NAZIS’ NERVES ARE ALSO BADLY FRAYED

London Jitlery Over Invasion   Terrific Strain Nofed in City   Under Heavy Pressure

Invasion Jitters In London Terrific Strain Of Waiting Tells On People Of Britain

‘Invasion Jitters In London . et  Terrific Strain Of W ating Tells On People Of Britair

‘Invasion Jitters’ Racks London Too; But People Glad Showdown Nearing   ‘It's Like Waiting for the First Baby,” Cabman Tells AP Man; Nothing to Do But Wait for It

"Well Done!”  Nation’s Gratitude Expressed By Nimitz’ Message To Fleet

omen WL,  Lattei meeting of the “ety <p held Friday Jresbyteriag  ce ing busine  E PRUSSI.” GATEWAYS

MOTHER OFFERS CASH FOR PROOE   Charwoman Will Pay $5,000 for Murder information Clearing Son

CHARWOMAN OFFERS $5,000 FOR KILLERS   Begins Attempt to Free Son Fron Prison With Money Saved in 11 Years.

BRIT IoH LABOR PARTY OWIDED   Showdown in Party Brews After Vote of Confidence For Churchill.   ASKING GREEK INQUIRY

BRITISH LABOR PARTY DISSENTS   MAY DEMAND VOTE OF CONFIDENCE ON GOV'T WITHIN-RANKS

Labor Party Showdown In Britain Due   Intervention Becomes Issue

Labor Party Split On Policy Toward Greece   Laborites In Gov't  Demand Backing Of

British Labor Part Faces Showdown On Churchill Vote  Only One Laborite Gave Prime Minister Approval

British Reaction To Foreign Policy May Rise Quickly   Rank and File of Laborite Party Oppose Prime Minister’s Policy.

MINORITY PARTY SHOWDOWN NEAR   ONE LABOR BLOC DRAFTS “ENVOY TO GREECE” PLAN

Showdown Due After Ballot For Churchill   Laborites May Have Oven Confidence Vote; Prime’ Minister’s Policy Given Support.

English Laborite Party Showdown Brews After Churchill Obtains Commons Vote of Confidence

Circuit Court Term Is Openec   Eight Plead Guilty, Six Innocent, Monday

COURT SLATE LENGTHENED   Several Arraigned Before  Judge Evans Demand Trials

Fly From  anding                   Verifies Bc ald Details Awaited

BETWEEN. 1, 000. ‘TO 2, 000. YAN  PLANES SWE. P OVER. FRANCE - TODAY.      LATE NEWS DEVELOPMENTS

Darirtg Operation, Which If Successful, Would Give U. S. Ocean Base Within 1,500 Miles Of Japenese Canital

NO FURTHER INFORMATION IS DIVULGED   New B-29 Super Fortresses Used  In Attack

FEW DETAILS REVEALED BY ARMY OFFICIALS   Tokyo Reports Yankee Forces Being Landed In Marianas

Super-Forts Are Used In Assault   General Marshall Says Big Planes Introduce New Type Of Offensive Against Enemy; Asserts Power Tremendous

New Planes In Combat First Time   Location of Attack Not Given in Communique

rly From Secret Landing Fields   American Communique  Verifies Bold. Foray; Details Awaited

Super-Fortresses Used, But No Details Given What Part Of Island Attacked

Jap Target of Raid, Place of U.S. Base Withheld by Army   (;eneral Marshall Says Super Fortresses Can Strike From Many Fields at Single Objective

rortresse: Strike Blow   a, WASHINGTON (AP). The Army anneunced today that B-29 Super-Fortresses of the Army Air Eproee bombed Japan toidav.

Army Brief In Statement   » Mighty Task Force Assault By Ships, Planes,  Batters Marianas Islands  JAP SAY LANDING TRIED  Another Task Force - Hammrs Bases on Kuriles North of Tokyo for 2 Days

Giant New Planes Used For First Time   Details of B-29 Attack Not Made Known by Army

IRONWOOD WOMAN ACCIDENT VICTIN   Mrs. Doris Bradley, 20, Killed in Auto Wreck , Near Racine.

Birthday Ball Program Is Se’   Annual Event Plans Completed; Square Dance, Regular Dance, Bingo, Fortune Teller, Casino and Mary Other Events On Program.

Early Blows Rout Jap Troops From Saipan Invasion Beaches   Writer Watches Heavy bighting in Early Stages of Assault; Bitter Struggle Ahead

"Vicious" Trafficking in Labor Is Blasted by Military Committeemen

RETREAT NEAR EAST PRUSSIA   Committee Fires Another Blast At Rented Labor

NAZIS LOSE 4 MORE GENERALS   Russians Capture One, Two Others Killed

Four German  Officers Die.   “Command Casualties Increasing ‘Rapidly

BILL FOR SOLDIER BONUS INTRODUCED   House Members Offer c Measure to Pay $3,500 ta $4 500

Five Veterans Group Back Bonus Bill   LEGISLATION PROPOSED TO PAY SERVICEMEN, WOMEN UP TO $4500

New Soldier Bonus  Proposal Receiver  Would Pay Vets Up 7: $4,500

Five Veterans’ ~ Groups Propose \ Bontis Payments   Sevek Membars of House Intryduce—Bill to " Mt ave Plan

5 VET GROUPS ACT TO KITE BONUS RATES   $3500 Each for Home Duty $4500 for Overseas, Posed in Program

$3,500 to $4,500 Bonus Asked for World War Vets   Nine Congressmen Back New Measure

BRITISH FORCES IN VIRTUAL WAR WITH LEFT WING   General Strike Declared in Great Seaport of — Salonika

BRITISH AND GREEKS PRESS ATHENS FIEHT   TAKE UP BATTLE AT DAYLIGHT AFTER RAIN BROUGHT LULL.   Capture 1,000   Early Solution Appears Unlikely to London Paper in Cable from Capital.

GREEK REVOLT STILL RAGING      FIGHTING CONTINUES, 1 ATHENS DISTRICT AS STRIKE AT SALONTKA TIES + UP PORT

Congress Acts fo Freeze’’ Social Security: Roosevelt Veto Likely

Tirpitz Attack ‘Launched From  Base In Russia   Loss of Battleships. : Releases British Craft For Other Tasks

Sinking Of Tirpitz Will Shift British Ships To Pacific   Expensive Battleship Was Serious Threat To Allied Convoys

‘TIRPITZ SUNK IBY FLIERS FROM RUSSIAN BASE   Fliers Say Nazi Battleship Fired Salvos Before Sinking

IRPITZ SUN ROM RAF BASt T ARCHANGEL   British Navy Freed for Asia

Tirpitz bombers Fly From Secret Archangel Base  One Plane. Missing  But $50,000,000

Hollandia, One RemainingJapBase Blown From Pacific   Fifth Army Bombers On Second Trip Find Japs Helpless

Jap Base Blasted From War Picture   New Air Blow Leaves Hollandia in Ruins; Holding in India

JAP INVASION OF INDIA IS MEETING WITH DIFFICULT’   Hollandia, Only Remaininy — Base of Consequence, Is Silent and Smoking.   ATTACKS ARE REPULSE)   Fourteenth Army Troops in Northern Burma, Have Strengthened Hold,

Japs Meeting Difficulties In Indian Thrust   Hollandia Destruction 1s Completed With Second Massive Air Raid

Japs In ‘Difficulty In India Invasion —  And Holding Islands   Threat from Burma Remains But Several Attacks Have Been Repulsed by Allies - - Blasted Hollandia Base Ready For the Kill, Is Indication

YANK BOMBERS BLAST JAP BASE AT HOLLANDIA   Isolated Enemy Attacks Re pulsed In Imperial Area Of Northern india

Japanese Offensive Is Slowed   Allies Strengthen Hold On Roads in Northern  India; Hollandia Flattened By Bomb Raid

JAPS HIT A SNAG   Enemy Base at Hollandria Was Target of 720 Tons of Bombs

JAPANESE RUNNING INTO SOME TROUBLE IN INDIA INVASION  _ LAST REMAINING BASE ff  BISMARCK SEA AREA  RLACTEN (HIT RY WAR

HHS PRESSING “TWEAD WING   Allied Resistance Grows But Enemy fs Still Adyancine

Jap Atiacks in India Stopped   Hollandia, Jap Base In Bismarck Sea Area, Knocked Out

YANK BOMBERS EFFECT THE KILL   ENEMY INVASION OF INDIA RUNS INTO DIFFICULTY

HOLLANDIA, JAP SEA BASE BOMBARDED   1,800 Japanese Killed In Drive Into Imphal

Jap Hollandia Base Blasted   Left, Silent, Smoking, Wiped Out As Effective Staging Base

Nippon Threat tc Imphal Lessens  Several Isolated Attacks Repulsed

AIRMEN LEVEL JAPANESE BASE AT HOLLANDIA   Repel Nipponese Attacks in Imphal Sector of India

JAP INVASION OF /—_ANDIATS MEETING WITH DIFFICULTY   Hollandia, Only Remaining Base of Consequence, ‘Is - ’ Silent and Smoking.    ATTACKS ARE REPULSED

Allies Repulse Jap Attacks In Imphal Sector   Hollandia, Nip Bismarck Sea Stronghold. Wiped Out As Effective Base.   BOMB BURMA RAILWAY

Hollandia Blasted  To Impotence, Japs  Set Back in India Mew Guinea Staging Base Blasted in Second Big Raid of Week—Mies Cress Imphal Boad

VITAL BASE IN BISMARCK SEA SMOKING RUIN   Several Isolated Nipponese Attacks in Imphal Sector Repulsed By Mountbatten's Troops   SUPPLY LINES HOLDING

Dewey Pays Tribute ‘To Polish Here   VIEWS PARADE FROM FRFTH AVENUE GRANDSTAND IN NEW YORK; CALLS FOR END OF SECRECY.   Speaks On Pulaski Day

PLAN SECRECY HIT BY DEWEY   Sees Polish Parade Again Scores Red Support of FDR

" Requests d of Secrecy Aut Polane  for More New:   for More News About Plans for Post-War Era

Montgomery Voices Confidence Germany Seen ‘Ripe’ ror Kill-Earlv in 745

“Roosevelt is continuing sly demo taetics’  Dewey replies to Sanalvsis’ of talks

DEWEY REPLIES 10  SPEECH ANALYSIS’   Governor Says Oklahoma   Cit y Contentions   Borne Out

Dewey Gives Answer to "Analysis"   Says F.D.R. Continues Slippery tactics New Deal Always Emplovs

Dewey Says FDR Still Clinging To New Deal Shield   Claims President Admits Oklahoma Talk Is  Correct

Dewey Savs He Didn't Misquote New Dealers   Charges President Hides Behind Evasions Of His Associates

DEWEY FLAYS ‘ANALYSIS’ OF HIS SPEECHES   Says White House Release Shows ‘‘Slippery Tactics”

DEWEY REPLIES ~ TO FDR ANALYSIS   Accuses-White-House-Publicity Action Tardy, identi-  cal to Earlier Release

Germans Report Fresh American Troop: Threaten After New Beach Landings -

13 JAP TROOP BARGES SUNK IN FUTILE SAIPAN ATTACK   American Landing Craft Smash Enemy Attempt To Land Reinforcements South Of Garapan In Move To Cut Off Yanks Now On Island

Counteratfack ls Repulsed by American Force   Jap Casualties Believed Heavy

JAPANESE ATTACK IN SAIPAN FOILED   Amphibious Force Repuls. ed and [3 Ships Sunk

CHAPLIN'S "“SCRUPLES” BLASTED IN SUPERIOR COURT ARGUMENT   SCOTT AND MILLIKEN APPEAR TO DISCUSS DROPPING OF MISS BARRY’S PATERNITY SUIT

OVER HALF OF COUNTY’S RED CROSS FUNDS RAISED FIRST DAY OF COUNTY: WIDE DRIVE

Allied: Planes Hit Nazi War Plants   U. S. Fleet Follows In Wake of RAF

U. §. Bombers Hit Targets in South Germany   Hammer Assaults In 250-Mile Swathe Of German Reich

STATE RIGHTS MOVE LOSES IN SENATE   Administration Wins Soldier Vote Test in Senate

Administration Forces Triumph  On Soldier Vote   Advocates Of State Ballot Lag Behind  In Senate Vote

HEINKEL PLANT IS BOMBED BY ONE U.S. FORCE   Fortresses Make Up One Of War’s Largest Armadas; 25 Are Missing

ONE OF WAR'S MOST POWERFUL ARMADAS IN VIOLENT BATTLE OVER GERMANY; AXIS RADIO REPORTS MANY U.S. FLIERS PARACHUTE INTO BERLIN.

CHURCHILL MA BEATEN AT POLLS   Yebbler’s Son Wins British By-Election for Parliament

MINSK REPORTED AS SURROUNDED   Enveloped From Both North and South Says London Radio,

Russian Army Drawing Near Nazi Stronghold   White Russian Base May Be Enveloped By Red Offensive

Red Army Storms Vitebsk, Nazi-Held City Isolated As Russians Launch Drive

CLAMP SIEGE ON VITEBSK: FATE SEALED   Red Army, Joining Big Squeeze Against Germany, Cracks Through Defenses Of Great Base. First Goal Of Drive

White Russian Fortress First Big Objective      Nazis’ Escape Railways Cut First 24 Hours

Soviets Storming  Vitebsk   Quick Blows  Cut Rail Facilities And Doom Strongly Fortified City

REDS DRAW SIEGE ARC AT VITEBSK AS DRIVE OPEN’   To Follow Same Route Another Russian Army Took 184 Years Ago.

Great Fortress In White Russia May Be Doomec   First Big Objective Of Summer Offensive May Be Cut Off Soon

SEES NO EARLY NAZI COLLAPSE   Envoy Messersmith Thinks Germans Can Take Much Punishment

: Surprised Congress Expected , To Support Stettinius Plan for , Reshaping State Department

Congress May Ratily Changes By Steftinius   Reorganization of State Department Meade by New Head

Grew To Be State Undersecretary   Congress Pledges Support To Stettinius and His Four New Appointments.

Grew Is Named To Aid Stettinius   Former Ambassador to Japan Geis High Post in State Denariman:

Reshaping of State Dept. On   Congress Expected To Give Stettinius Strong Support

Stettinius Makes Move To Reshape State Departmen’  Congress Startled, But Agreeable To

 Congress Startled, But Agreeable To Stettinius’ Department Shuffling   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

EXPECT SOLONS TO BAGK NEW STATE OFFICIALS   Stettinius Ready To Act Te Defend Appointments By FDR

‘Congress Expected To Give 'Stettinius Support In Move To Reshape State Department   Grew Named Undersecretary, Clayton, Rockefeller Assistants

Grew Nominatec Undersecretary In State Dep't  3 New Assistants Named I[n Sweeping  Se ey Seay aE a lo

CHANGES MEET NO OPPOSITION   Congress Approval Expected By State Department

Junction Completed by American. Forces in France  DIJON 1S CAPTURED BY FRENCH TROOPS  Vital Belfort Gap, Gate. way to Reich, Neared

THIRD, SEVENTH ARMIES LINKED   Germans in Central Region Of France Sealed Off  By Juncture

ABOUT 20,000 GERMANS ARE HELD IN TRAP   THIRD AND SEVENTH ARMIES JOINED IN EASTERN FRANCE

First and Third Armies Complete Junction in East   Seal Off 20,000 In Dijon Section

HITLER'S MEN » SEALED OFF AS 2 ARMIES JOIN   Junction Made By Thirc And Seventh Outfits In Eastern France

  20.8, ARMIES MEET IN FRANGE      JUNCTION OF THIRD AND SEV: ENTH SEALS OFF GERMANS IN CENTRAL AREA, ;

U.S. Destroyers In Great Sweep Through Pacific   Bombard Japs From Solomons To New Guinea

NAVAL BLOWS ~ PUT DENTS IN JAP SHIPPING   U. S. Destroyers Sink 7 Vessels, Damage Seven More

U. S. Fleet Bags Seven Vessels — Ih Vast Sweep   Shell Nip Holdings On New Britain, Solomons, Kavieng

Jap Ships Sunk In Solomons And New Guinea  “Truk Photos Show Japs Lose 14 Additional Boats

PHOTOS OF AREA TELL THE STORY   Japanese Holdings are Bombed in the Pacific

U.S. Warships Sink 7 Craft Near Rabaul   Kavieng Harbor Blasted Also in Wide Attacks by Destrorers

U.S. WARSHPS SINK 7 JAP VESSELS   Kavieng, Rabual Are Bombarded By Destroyers

Destroyers Sink Seven Jap Ships   ~ Nip Base Pounded In South Pacific

Destroyers Sink Seven Jap Vessels   Kavieng and Rabaul Undergo Naval Rombardment

SEVEN MORE DAMAGED B) AMERICANS   Japs Are Hit From Solomons to Now Guinea Area

MARCUS-WAKE BLASTED FOR FOUR DAYS   With Only, Four U. ». Planes Lost; Resistance Weak at Marcus, No Interception at Wake.   Probably Surprised @

Carrier Force Badly Batters Mareus, Wake   Only Two Japanese Plane: Seen us Americans Hit Enemy ‘Airc Outpa

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   BRITISH CLOSE IN ON FAENZA

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By Internationa  News Service)   PATTON FORCES SMASH AT WEHRMACHT

Third Army Forces Launch Solid Blows At Wehrmacht To Capture Grevenmacher

HALTS NAZI FREIGHT   Traffic on Swedish Railways Ordered Stopped

Field Marshal Hata Removed   GEN. OKAMURA COMMANDS LAPANESE ARMY (IN CHINA

NIPS RESHUFFLE CHINA OFFICERS   Replace Leader of All Jap Forces in Chinese Sector

NEW JAP LEADER CHOSEN IN CHINA   Okamura Replaces Hata As Supreme Commander

Gen. Shunroku Hata Replaced By Gen. Yasuji Okamura of North China Operations

Japs Oust China Commander: Put In Gen. Okamura   Sudden Move Follows Elevation Of Former Army Head To Emperor’s Advisory Body; No Reason Given For Field Marshal’s Demotion

ENEMY LOSSES INCREASED ON PACIFIC FRONT   3 More Vessels Sunk By Allied Attacks, Reports Claim

“an F Forces in China Replaced   FCC Records Broadcast Citing Shakeup in - Military Personnel

Nazis See 3,500,000 Attackers   Claim Huge Army Poised In England; Expect Earlier  Blows Elsewhere.

British Admiralty Has De tlared the Bay of Biscay Dangerous.   MOSTLY ON AIR WAR ON ITALIAN FRONT   Costly Failure for Nazis in Effort to Push Us Back Below Rome.

Blockade Of Germany Is Tightened   Britain: Calls Part of Bay of Biscay Outlawed Territory; Italy Bombed

Ultimatum to Chiang From F.R.,, Charsed   Demand That He Bow te Stilwell Said to Have Caused Rift

Invasion Troops Occupy Many Small  Places; More Massive Landings Made Despite Rough Channel Waters

Liberate 10 Big Towns And Many “Small Villages   Ste. Mere Eslise Junction And Valognes Taken As Invasion Forces Slash Deeper Into France And Consolidate Beachhead On 100 Mile Front.

British Planes Attack Greek Leftist Forces   Use Rockets, Cannon When E. L. A. S, Opens wit ih Artillery

British Fliers ° ~Strafe Greeks   Spitfires, Benufighters Rig ELAS in ‘Athens: Sterets

RAF Planes Fire On ELAS; Peace Offer Rejected   Left-Wing Troops Oper Up with Artillery, Morfars in Athens

R. A. F. Planes Attack Elas Forces in Athens  Armed Bulgarians  Ty... £21 oo anal _~,   Armed Bulgarians Infiltrate Into North Greece

FLAS FORCES HIT BY BRITISH FLIERS   EAM Peace Offer Rejected by British Com moander

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THREE NAVY SHIPS LOST IN STORM   Destroyer and Two Coast Guard Craft Went Down With Heavy Loss of Life.

Destroyer, Two Smaller Vessels Lost In Storm With Heavy Loss Of Life

AUGUSTA RADLOFF SUCCUMBED TODAY   Funeral For Johnson Township Woman Wednesday Afternoon -

Augusta Radloff  Taken By Death Old Resident Of  Washington Township

AN EXTENSION ~ MADE ON FILING   Declaration on Estimated Incomes and Victory  Tax Advanced.

B- 29s, Carrier Fleet Join Up in Giant Raid   Nimitz Silent on Claim by Japs That Fleet Porsuey Carrier Group

NIPPON FLEET JOINS BATTLE, TOKYOREPORTS   Superforts Pound Island  Second Time, Carrier  Planes Rip Luzon

No U. S. Report On Engagement; B29s Strike Anew      Tokyo Claims 40 To 52 U. S. Warships Sunk Or Damaged In Routing Task Force

Americans Pressing Far-Pacific Attack   Super-Forts Smash at Bases, While Fleets Tangle to the Eastward In Air and Sea Battle

Tokyo Declares Nipponese Sink 16US. Warships   Report By Nimitz Reveals, However, Carrier Craft Returns To New Attacks

SUPERFORTS HIT FORMOSA AGAIN TODAY   Tokyo Radio Says Plane Carriers Being Pursued

Japs Say Fleet Hits, Pursues  Yankee Raiders   Sea, Air Battle Rages, Formosa Bombed Again

TOKYO CLAIMS YANK FLEET IN RETREAT   Major Naval, Air Battle At Formosa Reported   NIMITZ SILENT   On Japanese Boasts U. S. Carrier Force Routed: B-29’s In Action

PR. R, FREIGHT TRAFFIC HEAVY THROUGH CITY   Total of 437,041 Cars Handled In AItoona Yard During June.

REACH LAHAYE IN ADVANCE OF SOME 2 MILES   Fight Germans In Streets Of Town; Hard Battles Rage Alona Caen Sector

Roberts Hearing To Be Resumed  Set For 10 O’Clock  - Tomorrow At DN Ascuet : Banca

1750 Warplanes Start Big Fires, 13 Bombers Lost   RAF Makes Raid In Great Strength Over Germany After Yankee Airmen Deliver Another Stagvering Blow To Nazi Industrial Suburbs.

U.S. Bombers Blast at Nazi Capital  22 Planes Are Lost   22 Planes Are Lost to Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire

U.S. Bombers Blast at Nazi Capital   22 Planes Are Lost to Heavy Anti-Aircratt Fire

Berlin Left Sea Of Fire   1600 Planes Drop 1500°-Tons Of Bombs on Nazi City

FRENCH T0 JOIN ALLIES IN WAR AGAINST JAPAN   Fitth Says New, Heavier Sea Blows to Strike : Japanese

Worst Yet to Come For Japs, Yank Tip   - Hundred Aircraft Carriers Now Revealed in Action in the  Pacific—France To Join Allies in Drive Against Nips When Nazis Crushed

Free. French To Join i in Beating Japs   i100 U. S. Carriers Ready To Strike At Nippon

French Will Join in the  Pacific War  Japan Theatened With Harder Blows

Allies Are Exuding Confidence as Japs Take Knockout Blows   Free French to Join the Pacific War After Hitler's Defeat

Allies Threaten  New Jap Blows   Free French To Aid In Pacifie War After Hitler's Defeat

Daily Air Blows Rain on Inner Defenses, Japs Lose In China, Burma

Nippon lo Feel Heavier Blows   Admiral Montgomery Confident of Early Victory in Pacific

FREE FRENCH TO AID YANKS   Naval Forces Will Join Pacific War After Hitler Is Defeated.

Free French Join U.S. Navy In Threatening Japan With ‘Powerful New Blows Shortly   Great Array Of Ships And Planes Ready To Strike Powerfully At Nips

Free French To Fight Japs   Promise to Join Pacific War  After Nazi Defeat

French fo Fight For Japs’ Defeat   Daily Air Blows Of Cyclonic Force

FRENCH FORCES TO FIGHT JAPS   Ally Will Join Pacific War; U. S. Has 100 Flattops In Action

Pledge Navy Will Battle Japs to End   Japan Hasn’t Seen Anything Yet; 'U. S. Has Nearly 100 Carriers

Free French To Join Pacific War When Hitler's Beat   “Admiral Montgomery Predicts..Early Jap Extermination

Predictions Of Heavy Blows On Japanese Made   Free French Will Join Fight Against Nips; Targets Hit

Allies Assured Of French Help In Battling Japs   Will Join In Pacific War Afier Defeat Of Hitler; any Enemy bases Hit

EXTERMINATION OF JAPS SOON. IS ALLIED AIM   } Daily Air Raids Are Grest Blow To Nipponese

Power Blows Against Japan  . Are iominen   Free FrenchiPledge Aid Az Navy Reveals 100 Airerait Carriers Are ‘Ready -For Action

France to Join War on Japan   Gathering Strength In Pacific Promises Heavy Future Blows

Free French to Join Allies in Japanese War   Will Enter Conflict After Nazi Legions Have Been Whipped

“HEMT JAP BL   Free French And U. S. Navy Join In Power Attacks On Nips

France to Battle Japanese Until Victory is Won   Fitch Says Japs Haven't Seen Anything Yel—U. S. Has Near 100 Carriers in Action

FRENCH AID IN WAR ON JAPS   Join With U. S. Navy In Threatening New Power Blows

French Promise They Will Help To Defeat Jans   Harbor Of Ambon Is Reduced To Mass Of Flames By Attack

French To Aid War In Pacific   Warships Will Join  American Forces

Japs Facing © Raids hy Big Flattop Fleet   U. §. Has Nearly 100 Carriers in Action With New-Type Planes

Davao Hit by Yank  Planes   Blows From 100 U. S$ Carriers to Strike Japs, Says Fitch

GERMAN SUPPLY SOURCES CRIPPLED   BLOCKADE-RUNNING FEEDLINE TO NAZI WAR PLANTS ‘BLASTED FROM AIR.

Supply Lines Of Nazis Crippled   Coastal Command Works Effectively

Danube River Is Blockaded   Coastal Command Planes Stop Enemy Blockade-Running

NAZIS EXPECTED TO FIGHT UNTIL LAND °S TAKEN   Defeat OF: Battlefields, Not Suriender, Will End Hostilities   OLD GUARD WOULD QUIT   § Washington, However, Sees Nazis Fighting Even After Hop: Is Gone

COLLAPSE OF GERMANY IN 0 DAYS SEEN   This Is View of Conservative Officials. in Washington

HIGH MILITARY ‘OFFICIALS SAY GUERRILLA. WARFARE MAY "FOLLOW SURRENDER 2",  OF GERMANY. .:"

NAZI COLLAPSE. SEEN IN 90 DAYS   Offic dials Base Belief on Military Moves and. ” (Génditions in Germany”

NAZI COLLGPSE SFEN IN $0 DAYS   Officials Base Belief on Military Moves and Conditions in Germany

Americans Are Only Eight Miles  From Livorno   Armored Forces Smashing Ahead Steadily On Front In Italy  NAZIS BEING  DA YDATIrY me mre

NAZIS BATTLE FOR LEGHORN   Try Desperately To Save Port  nee eat   ee enn  Yanks Within Eight Miles of City

ne GAINS. ~ ABOVE ROME   TWO-MILE ‘GAIN PLACES AMERICAN TROOPS WITHIN EIGHT .MILES' OF.) ”  _BIG PORT 

ARMORED FORGES HEAR LIVERND   Clark’s Fifth Takes Coastal Town, Force Nazis Back Near Sea

Battle Until Spring Seer In Ammunition Order   Supreme Commander Seeks Mor Rifle, Machine Gun Bullets

HUNGARIANS ARE ASKED 10 QUIT   Chief Of Staff Urges His Forces To Desert Nazis, Join Soviets

Eisenhower Visits Norman Battlefront  General Goes Behind German Lines, Proud of Yank Victories

Eisenhower Proud of  U.S. Troops   Made Trip to Visit Battlefields in Normandy, Confers  With Allied Leaders

Eisenhower Visits Front in Normandy; Meets Commanders   Observation Tour of Normandy Battle Sector Pleases Him

lig NG ESS  EISENHOWER ~ VISITS TROOPS   Two Trips Made Behind Enemy Lines '

“‘Tke’’ Spends Five Days in France Often He Was in Zone of Nazi Fire

EISENHOWER AT FRONT GENERAL EISENHOWER’  anvnt* 2th orm 06 6 ee eee 2S ek  (ek oe

FRONTS TOURED BY EISENHOWER   Inspects Peninsula By Land And Air On Five-Day Trip

EISENHOWER ON TRIP TO FRONT   ‘General Ike’ Peers Behind Nazi Lines During Inspection Tour

ARMY INSISTS ON YOUNG MEN   Youngsters’ Called More Vita) In Uniform Than Plant Overalls

ARMY INSISTS ON YOUNG MEN   Shifting of Men From Factories to Fighting Fronts Is Asked.

Production Delay Seen   ‘Army Insisting Upon Its- Manpower Need:

Sacrifice Production For Fighting Youth   Government, Congress, Labor and the Public « All Mixed Up in It

Military Needs Given Priority   Industry Must Make Sacrifice of Men To Draft. Order

ARMY DEMANDS YOUNGER MEN   Youths Will Be Taken From War Factories

ARMY INSISTS INDUSTRY GIVE UP YOUNG MEN   Fighting Forces More Imporian Now Than Production, Steel Mer Toid, Able-Bodied Men Needed   250,000 DEFERRED   Of Total, 40,000 Believed ‘SuperEssential’ — Youthful Experts Many in Radar, Rubber

“SERIOUS LOSS" IN PRODUCTION NOW PREDICTED   Resumption Of Producing Some Items Unlikely

Men Under 26 Certain to Be Called to Arms   Manpower to Be Placed Superior to Production

Army Insists Industry Give Up Younger Men   Hope For Resuming Pro duction Of Some Civil  ian Articles Fades.

ARMY NEEDS GET EMPHASIS   Many Must Be Switched  From Plants to Service

Army First, Steel Company Leaders Told   War, Civilian Production May Have to Suffer, But Young Men to Go to War

Youngsters Called More Vital In Uniforms Than Overalls: Military Needs Come First

Amy Manpowel Needs Prevail Over Civilian  Youngsters More Vital In Uniform

DRAFT NEEDS ARE PLACED AHEAD OF WAR PRODUCTION   Call For 250,000 Deferred Men Under 26 Years Reveals That Steel industry Will Lose Number.   MAKING OF CIVILIAN ITEMS TO BE DELAYED   Hershey Informs Steel Executive That Sympathy s Only Thing He Can Provide For Them.

Armed Services Will Take More From Factories   Manpower Needs Dim Hopes Of Increased Civilian Products

Civilian Goods _To Be Delayed   MILITARY NEEDS MUST CAUSE MANPOWER LOSSES

250,000 PhysicallyFit Youths to be Taken  Into Services Soon   Decision Deals Blow to Hope of Production of Goods for Civilians

War Plants FaceCrisisin Draft Policy   Army Insists on Shifting  More Young Men to  Fighting Fronts

INDUSTRY FACES NEW SHORTAGES OF MANPOWER   MUST HAVE FIGHTING MEN REGARDLESS OF COST, SAYS NELSON

ARMED SERVICE TO HAVE PRIOR CLAIM ON MEN   Steel Producers Told To Struggle Along Best They Can

ARMY TO COME FIRST ON MEN   Military And Naval Needs Must Be Met Even If Production Has To Suffer.

BLOCK BUSTER BOMBS RAINED ON BRUNSWICK   REICH INDUSTRIAL CITY SMASHED BY RAF FLEETS

RAF Shatters Nazi City In Air Raid   Fliers Lash Center With 2,000 Tons of Explosive

Battle Through Flaming Skies To Hammer City   City Left Ablaze; Nazi Defenders Use New Plane

Big Nazi War City Battered   RAF Sets New Saturation Mark:In Brunswick Raid

LIGHT TURNOUT OF VOTERS IS INDICATED   Heavy Rain in Most Sections; Demos Have No Contests

RAMPAGING REDS SMASH ACROSS DANUBE IN-AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE   FAST-BREAKING DRIVE FANS OUT THROUGH SOUTHERN HUNGARY NEAR LAKE BALATON

2 Cities, 330 Villages Fall In Sweeping Westward Drive  Marshal Tolbukhin Hurls His Armor Through Two Danube Bridgeheads

Cost of Living Declared Frozen   No Increase in Level Reported In Last 11 Months Cleims Bowles

OKLAHOMA FLIER BECCL. AES TOP ACE IN ELIROPE   FOREIGN EXCHANGE AGREEMENT BELIEVED NEAI   LIVING COST KEPT AT SAME LEVEL—BOWLE:

Ward Company Case Is Turned Over To White House; Seizure Possible

WARD CASE IS GIVEN VINSON   Early Seizure Of Mail Or. der Firm Is Pre dicted

PAY AT WARDS STORES RAISED   Offer Short Of WLB Order; White House Makes Decision

Ward Case Goes To White House   Avery's Gypsum Firm Also Faces Charges

CHICAGO TRIBUNE TO APPEAL ORDER RESTRAINING AP   weeORMICK ASSERTS

HEAVY TANK THRUST ATTEMPTS 10 STOP ALLIED FLANK DRIVE   Assault Comes In Vire Sector As U. S. Armored Units Push Twin Columns Deeper Into Brittanv

30 MILE SPURT TAKES ALLIES TO CAPITAL CITY   ‘Crisis For Germans lias Arrived’ War  Corresnandent Save

Another Yank Column Drives Toward Brest   Capture of Nazi U-Boat Lairs Expected Soon

NO-MILEPUSH SPEEDS FIGHT FOR BRITTANY   Another U. S, Column Races Through Peninsula West Toward Brest...

30-Mile Push Puts — Yanks in Breton City   Second U. 8S. Mobile Columz Races Toward Brest— “Crisis” for Nazis Seen

Early Conquest Of All Brittany Now Promised   Another U.S. Mobile Column Races Through Brittany Toward Brest.

Crisis for Germans Seems To Have Arrived As Americans Push Toward Brest. ;

HEARING CLEARS STEEL COMPANY   Carnegie - Illinois Did Not Falsify Records, Jurors Decide

Big Steel Firm Is Acquitted Of Truman Charae   Carnegie-tllindis. Clearec Of’ Counts In U. S. Indictments

TRUMAN URGES MORE PROBING BY THE CONGRESS   Vice Presidential Nomtnee Resigning from  Committee Makes Recammendahons

‘Truman Reports, Resigns   Recommends That Congress Expand Its Investigations, Raise its Prestige

Inquiries On Broader Seale Are Suggested   Truman Says Congress Should Expand Investigations To Raise Power

25 Federal Groups Try To Handle Labor, Strikes  Result. Says Labor Leader

AFL Calls For Greater Unity Federal Ranks          cect (Government’s “Multiplicity:of Labor . ‘Relation Agencies ..

Labor Aims To Unite Agencies  It Deals With           Lake ‘6 gles AU All Washington’ ‘Agenciés On Labor Makes .Confusion’ +:

Labor To Seek Federal Unity   Unions Want Government Agencies To Agree On General] Proacram ©

Aerial Pasting On Nazis Again   OVER 700 BOMBERS . ‘TAKE PART IN RAIDS

Probably Surpassed 2,300-Ton Blast In Nov. ..  700 R. A. F. Bombers Give Berlin One Of Heaviest Blows Yet

700 Bombers Give Berlin Terrific Battering   British Lose 35 Big Planes In All Of Last Night's Operations; Heavy Damave Caused

BERLIN AGAIN BOMBED DURING NIGHT RAIDS   Other Torcets Hit By Buitish; Some Bombers Lost

Thr ee-Fourths Of German Capital's Facilities Wrecked   British Lose 35 Bombers On 600-Mile Attac] Nazis Destroyer Set Afire By Canadian Pl:

Berlin Gets Heavy Blov From RAF   700 Bombers Heap ‘Fresh Ruin on: City; 35 Planes Missing

11TH GREAT AIR ATTACK ON BERLIN   Center of Nazidom Is Drubbed by Bomb Load Equalling 2,300 Tons.   Lose 35 Bombers in 2  Operations on Reich

CONTESTING GROUPS FROM EL PASO, BELL COUNTIES BE HEARD  PRE-CONVENTION CONTESTS HEARD BY CRE-

CONTESTING GROUPS FROM EL PASO, BELL COUNTIES BE HEARD  PRE-CONVENTION CONTESTS HEARD BY CREDENTIATS SUR.COMMITTET

OHIO DROUTH STILL HOLDING   Local Rains Yesterday Fail Te Break Statewide Dry Weather.

HEAT RELIEF NOT IN SIGHT IS FORECAST      Showers Relieve Parched Ohio Temporarily, But Crops Suffer

DROUTH SCALES DOWN OUTLOOK FOR OHIO CROPS   Scattered Showers Bring Re lief In Some Sections; ~ Most Of State Parched

OHIO'S DROUGHT EASED BY RAINS   Water Supplies Still Short in Many Areas, However

WAR FUND DRIVE HELD HERE FRIDAY   Palo Alto County People Asked To Contribute $15,000 toa United War Fund.

WAR FUND DRIVE BEGINS ON OCT. 2   Palo Alto County People Asked  To Contribute $15,000 toa   United War Fund.

Three B-29s Set Big New Tokio Fires   Nagoya Bombed By Two Others; Yanks On Leyte Take Jap Headquarters.

THREE SUPERFORTS START BIG FIRES IN TOKYO WEDNESDAY  AMERICAN GROUND FORCES MAKING HEAVY CAINS IN PHILIPPINES

Trap Nips On Leyte   Thousands Caught In Pincers; Advance Continues on Mindoro

Superfortresses Strike New Blows At Nagoya, Tokyo   Yanks Advance On Mindoro, Chinese Also Make Gains

3 U.S. Units Fashion Trap Around Japs   Yamashita’ Line Crumbling: Many Foe Planes Shot Down; B-29s over Tokyo

B-29'S FROM SAIPAN HIT TOKYO AGAIN   Meanwhile American Ground Forces Continue to Push Japanese Back in Philippines.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN  ,A® @Qilae Bf Aitae

Tokyo Hit Again, Japs Trapped In Leyte Battle   Two Towns Overrun By Americans In Philippines War

Fires Rage As Superforts Bomb Tokyo   U.S. Troops Score Gains In Philippines

YANKS TIGHTEN NOOSE ON JAP LEYTE FORCES   Continue Unopposed Advances Deep Into  Mindoro

Jap Capital Again Hit by Superfort:   Flames Cover Wide Area of City After Latest Bombing—Ground Forces Score Gair:: in Philippines

Tokyo Bombed AgainbyB-29s, As Deadly Pincers Clamp on Japanese Trapped on Leyte —

ARAGUAY FOILS EVOLT EFFORT   Attempted Revolution at Dawn Frustrated -

Argentina : Cuts Ties. With Axis   Relations: . Broken Off. Last Because of Axis pionage-Activities        ROUNDUP: OF SPIES      Some.in High Society of Ne. tion Said: to:'Be: Among. Those Involved -::

Argentina Cuts Off Diplomatic Relations With Nazis and Japs   Police Launch Roundup to Smash Axis Spy Ring   Paraguay Suppresses Attempted Revolution

NINE DISTRICT MINES ARE T0 REOPEN MONDAY   Ten Mirles Have Been Seized By United States Due T) Strikes

Superfortresses Hii Japan and Sumatra  Details of Twin Attack Are Still Unavailable

Soviet Army Spreads Out Into Poland   Tanks and Infantry Fight Way West Of Marshes

REDS THREATEN SSTRONGHOLDS   Vatutin’s First Army Moves Toward Rovno, Pinsk And Kovel.   FRONT 50 MILES WIDE

SOVIET DRIVE ROLLS WITHIN 4 MILES MOZYR   Pressure Also Being Exerted On Such Cities As  Rovno and Kovel  La Ry Russians   WORST OF PRIPET  MARSHES COVERED   Beals Taking Heavy Toll of German Lives and War Material In Continued Offensives

Vatutins Ukranian Army Threatens German Points   Fifth Army Moves

RUSSIANS IN NEW MOVE ON POLISH TOWNS   Expand Front 50 Miles; Threaten German Bases

Vatutin’s Right Wing Fights Way Through Marshes To Within 5( Miles Of Pinsk

Russ Spread Out Troops or Sarny Front   New Sweeping Movements Threaten Strongholds of  Rovno, Pinsk and Kovel

VATUTIN’S ARMY IS ROLLING ON   Russians Driving Toward Three German Strongholds In Poland

Reds Menace Rerman-Held Stronsholds  Vatutin’s Mobile _ Army Strikes Out In Several Sweening Moves

THREATEN THREE NAZI BASTIONS IN OLD POLAND   SOVIET TROOPS ADVANCE ON ROVNO, PINSK AND KOVEL

RED ADVANCE MENAGES NAZE STRONGHOLDS   Forward Units Reach Edge of Marshes in Drive in Poland

Soviets Pose Threat to Three Bases   Vatutin’s Forces Near Nazi Strongholds Inside Pole Borders

Three Nazi Points Face Soviet Army   Width Is Extended Fifty Or More Miles Today

3 Nazi-Held Strongholds Threatened By Russians:   Rovno, Pinsk, Kovel In Peril As Vatutin’s Army Expands Gains; Passes Pripet Marshes

Soviets Widen Sarny Front.  Make Advance:   Nazi Counterattacks Repulsed—Cervaro Falls To Allies  As Raid Reported

PASS WORST OF PRIPET MARSHES   Strike Out In Sweep Toward Kivel Pinsk, And Rovno

STRIKE OUT AFTER TAKING SARNY BASE   Sweeping Movements Menace Rovno, Kovel and   Pinsk, Forming Vital  ~ Center on Gomel-BrestLitovsk Railway.

SOVIET ARMY DRIVES NAZIS BACK ON PINSK   Vatutin Sweeps Out From Captured Sarny, Threat: ens Three More Cities Other Gains.

GERMAN HELD STRONGHOLDS OF ROVNO, PINSK AND KOVELNOW THREATENED BY NEW OFFENSIVE.   Strong Armored and: Infantry Decisions Spreading Out Over Fifty-Mile Front to Harrass Retreat ing Germans in Marshy Sector of Battle Front

RUSSIAN: ARMIES PASS PRET. MARSHES AND REACH BETTER GROUND      Vatutin’s Ukrainian Force Expands Offensive From Captured Sarny   PINSK NEXT OBJECTIVE

Reds Threaten Three Cities Held by Nazis   Gen. Vatutin Expands Front in Sarny Area  ‘In Old Poland for  50 Miles or More ~-

UKRANIAN ARMY FRONT IS EXTENDED IN SARNY SECTOR   Gen. Vatutin’s Force Struck Out in Several Sweeping Movements Today.   TO A WIDTH OF 50 MILES   Threatened the German Held Strongholds of Rovno, Pinsk and Kovel.

Vatutin’s Forces Strike Out io North, South West, Threaten Rovnoe. Pinsk, Kovel   Increased German Resistance Fails jo Halt Reds Driving Toward Rumanian Border

ROVNO, KOVEL, PINSK, MOZYR FACE ASSAULI   Vatutin Uses Sarny As Pivot To Expand His Front To Width Of 50 Miles

Branch Out To Threaten 3 Strongholds   Advance To Within 5¢ Miles of Strategic Pinsk on Gomel - Brest - Lito: vsk Railway.

Reds Expand Sarny Area Battle Front   Sweeping New Move ments Threaten Rovno.  Pinsk And Kovel.

Soviet Front In Old Poland Being Widened   Red Victors Fan Out In Sweeping Moves Within 50 Miles Of Pinsk As Sarny Falls

Strongholds ‘Menaced by "Red Sweep   Russian Avalanche Strikes Out Toward German Bastions of Rovno, Pinsk, Kovel

SOVIET TROOPS OVER WORST OF PRIPET MARSH   Threaten. Strongholds of Nazis at Rovno, Pinsk and Kove]

Drive Toward Three Nazi Defense Bases In Poland   F ifth. Widens Offensive

Reds Expand Their Front in Sarny Sector   German-Held Strongholds Are Aqain Threatened

idvance Units Fight Way Through Frozen Pripet Marshes  YEW DRIVE .OPENS Vhite Russian Army Ts      Vhite Russian Army Is Advancing on 20-Mile Front

RUSSIAN ARMY “EROS FON ~ONSARNY SECTOR   Reds Through Worst of The Frozen Marsh ‘Land Country —   PUSHING DEEPER INTO OLD POLAND

STRONGHOLDS OF FERMANS DEBI) ET   Soviets Fight Through Marshiand To Threat- en Railroad City   ARMY NEARS ROVNO   Vatutin’s Forces Smash Through Hitler De - fense In Ukraine

Vatutin  Expands Wedges   Strikes in Several Sweeping Moves;  New Threats

Russian Armies Expanding Front  Germans Pressed Back on Number of Fronts

Soviets Expand Front In Sarny Area Of Poland   Nazis Fail To Halt Growing Offensive By Counterattacke

Vatutin’s Men Strike Ahead   Threaten Rovno, Pinsk And Kovel, All Strongholds

Reds Pass * Swamps in « Fast Push   Advance Units Nearing High Rolling Ground in = Twin .Offensive   YHREE MORE NAZI . CENTERS MENACED   German Counter Attacks Blented'as Two Red - Fortes Seek Junction

Wedge in Naz Line Widened Yo D0) Miles   Rovno, Pinsk And Kovel Threatened

New Fighting Area Takes. In 50 Miles   Vatutin’s Mobile Unit In Sarny Sector

Russians Fan Out From Sarny   First Ukrainian Army Fighting on 50-Mile Front Threatens Pinsk., Rovno. and Kovel 

Russian Fore’. Lash Out After Expanding Front In Sarnv Sector To 50 Miles

New Offensive Is Underway Near Gomel   Vatutin Widens Front On Sarny Sector To 50 Miles

EXPAND FRON TO 30-MILE WIDTH   Soviets Threaten Rovno, Pinsk And Kovel   VATUTIN’S MEN   Throw Back Counterdrives In Southern Ukraine; 80 Villages Fall

Reds Menace ferman-Held Stroncholds  Vatutin’s Mobile Army Strikes Out

RUSSIANS EXPANDING BATTLE FRONT IN OLD POLAND; MANY NAZI POSTS ARE THREATENED

Germany’s Famous 14th Army Wiped Out As Allies Advance On Italian Front

9th Army Breaks Nazis’ Powerful  Defense On Roer   First Army Deevens Wedee To 15 Miles Toward Cologne; Patton Gains Six Miles; French About To Attack Across Rhine.

Air Troops Land East of Rhine, Swiss Announce   Patton Advances Six Miles in Saar, Takes Maginot Fort, 16 Towns; Resistance Stiffens on Entire Front

YOUNG WOMAN FATALLY SHOT   Ex-Soldier Wounds Woman’s Parents; Then Shoots Himself.

STRONG FORCE HITS GERMANY ANOTHER BLOV   100 German Planes Set Fires In Raid On London

ANOTHER ATTACK MADE ON BERLIK   Nazi “Green Devils” and New Zealanders Fighting In Cassino Streets.

YANKS RENEW ‘DAYLIGHT RAID ON VITAL AREAS   Foris Escorted By Thunderbolts tn Verv Greet Streneth

Nazi Capital Raided Again By Daylight   Attack Is First Carried on by Day Since March 9

1500 U. S. Planes in Raids Today   Blast War Industries After Fighting Through Air  Defenses

1500 Planes Assail  Germany's Capital \ p   Bombers Protected by Greatest Force of Fighters Ever Sent TDieep Into Reich

1500 Planes Take Part In Daylight Smash At Capital   1500 Tons Of Bombs Fall On City In First Attack Since March 9; RAF Night Bombers Hit Western Germany Without Loss

Congress Plans Two-Week Spurt   Hopes to Clear Decks Before Conventions

Bricker Is Making ~ Extensive Tour Of  Big Eastern Areas  Will Also Broadcast From Detroit

—PACIFIC—  FINE JAPANESE. ~- WARSHIPS SUNK   Attempt To Reinforce Biak F orces Results - Disastrously~ 5

JAPAN LOSES Wanontt 9 IN On DANIEIN   Island Of Biak Important To Japan Forces

YANKS SINK 9 JAP WARSHIPS   Heavy Bombers Stop Nip Attempt To Aid Be leagured Isles ©

Jap Task Force Destroyed in Try To Relieve Biak   New Gains Scored In Ground Fighting For Burma Road

5 Jap Warships Sunk By Allies   Heavy Cruiser Crippled In Attempt To Bolster Position   Finns Report Start Of Russian Push In Karelian Isthmus Area

Jap Aid for Biak Fails   Four Destroyers Sunk, Another Damaged by Planes

Five Jap Ships Sunk In Pacifie; Others Are Hit   Vain Attempt To Bolster Biak Island Positions; Chinese Take Lungling

Japs Make Vain Attempts To Bolster Their Weakening Position.   IN BIAK ISLAND AREA

Five Japanese Warships Sunk By Bombers   Nips Altempt To Bolster New Guinea Fails

A Jap Destroyers Sunk in Effort to Bolster Biak Isle   One Destroyer Hurt; Twe Other Vessels Streak  for Home

4 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK IN PACIFIC      U. S. Bombers Attack Ves. sels Attempting to Reinforce Biak

JAPS LOSE 5 WARSHIPS IN PAST WEEK   Three Others Including Heavy Cruisers Damaged In Attempts to Bolster Forces in South Pacific

Japs Have Lost Five Warships Since June 3   Three Others, Including a Heavy Cruiser, Damaged; Nips Battling in Outer De fancac af Chanocha

New Auto Use Tax Stamps Must Be On Cars Before July 1   Saturday, June 10, Marks First Day Of Sales In Post Oiffce

New Auto Use Stamps On Sale at Postoffices ‘Saturday June 10   Failure to Comply Will Subject Severe Penalties Carter H. Harrison States

Auto Use Tax Stamps On Sale Saturday   $5.00 Stamp to Be Sold at Post Offices

American Submarine  Ts Sunk   Grayback Makes 24th Submersible Lost by U. S.

Submarine Grayback  Is Overdue   Presumed Lost, Had Estimated Personnel of 65 Officers, Men

Navy Announces Submarine Lost In Pacific Area   Says Submersible Carried Estimated Personnel Of 65 Officers And Men

American Sub Grayback Lost With 65Aboard   Presumably Sunk In Operations Against Japs; Commander John Anderson Moore, Missing

Yank Sub Sunk in Pacific War   U.S. Grayback Believed Lost in Jap Raiding Mission

U. $. Submarine Grayback Lost   Commissioned in 194}, Vessel Carried Crew Of 65

Sub Grayback Lost To Japs, Navy Reports   65 Officers, Men Ahoard

Fear Vessel Japs Victim In Pacific   Personne! of 65 Officers And Men Aboard

U. S. SUBMARINE GRAYBACK LOST   UNDERWATER CRAFT FAILS TO RETURN FROM FAR PACIFIC

ti. &. Reports Loss Of Sub Grayback   Submarine Carried Crew Of 65 Officers and Men

U.S, SUBLOST IN PACIFIC WAR   Skipper and Crew of 65 Reported Missing

U.S. Sub Lost  In Far Pacific   1,475-Ton Grayback Long Overdue, Navy  Department Announces

1, SUBNARINE “TOSTINPACIF   Brings To 24 Number Of American Subs Missing Since Dec. 7,.1941

U.S. SUB SCORPION REPORTED LOST IN PACIFIC AREA   Navy Today Announced Loss 1500 Ton Sub marine. So Far 23 Subs LY. fp... Ff .ig

U. 5: Submarine Reported Lost   Grayback Goes Down In Operations Against Jans. It ls Presumed

U.S, SUB IS LOST WITH 65 ABOARD   Grayback Presumed Sunk in War With Japs

U, §. SUBMARINE GRAYBACK LOST   Navy Does Not Disclose Where Submersible Was Believed Sunk

U. S. Submarine  ‘Scorpion Lost   15th Underseas Ship  Goes Down In Pacific

U. S. SUBMARINE REPORTED LOST   Loss Brings Total To 24 Since War Began

American Sub Listed as Lost   Grayback Apparently Sunk in Operations Against Japanese in Far Pacihe

178 NAZI PLANES DOWNED BY YANKS ON WEST FRONT   Fleet Sent Out to Check Von Rundstedt’s Drive Fights Some of Fiercest Battles of War.   ENEMY SUPPLY LINES, GROUND COLUMNS HIT   German Fighters Rise by Hundreds to Challenge Raiders — Americans Lose 30 Craft.

Gen. Eisenhower And Chiefs Confer Off French Coast   Interrupt Check-Up Cruise to Send Aid io Drifting Soldiers— Eisenhower Shows Satistaction

Churchill Wanted To Be In On Show   Fisenhower and Ramsay Rescue A Drifting Invasion Landing Barge

Chiefs Direct Aid to Men   Sight Handful of Drifting Soldiers In Channel

Eisenhower and Admiral! Sir Ramsay Direct Help to Drifting Soldiers

Eisenhower Holds Conference With  Invasion Leaders   Allied Warships Off French Coast Is Scene Of High Officers’ Conciave; Cruise Interrupted To Rescue Soldiers

‘Ike’ Directs Aid To Troops Adrift On Way to Parley  General Eisenhower and High _Officers Confer

Commanders Pause In Conference To Help Soldiers  Chieftains Assist Drifting Group In Midst of Fight

‘Ike’ Directs Aid To Troops Adrift On Way to Parley   General Eisenhower and High Officers Confer Near French Beaches

Yanks Invade Last Island Barrier to Luzon and Manila   MacArthur's Troops Land on Samar, Seize Road Junction

Last Barrier Against Drive Upon Manila; Leyte Key Road Junction Falls; Japs Split

STATE SOLONS SPEED ACTION   Sixteen Bills Are Shoved Through In Assembly  line Fashion

House Speeds Final Action on 16 Bills   State to Condemn Property Near Capitol; to Build New State Office Building

Carrier Pilots Destroy 200  ‘Japanese Plane:   Numerous Cargo Ships Are Sunk in Day-Long Assault Against Cebu, Panay and Negros Islands

Jap Losses In New Air Battle Heavy   Fleet Destroys 200 Planes, Many Vessels

‘Senator Says: “Fittle Steel”  Yardstick Outmoded: Insists Inereases Needed

UNITED PRESS ISSUES DENIAL   APOLOGIZES FOR TALE OF STALIN STRIKING MARSHAL TIMOSHENKO

Apology By  United Press   Correspondent’s Story Ys Termed ‘Fiction’

GERMAN LEADERS FLEEING, REPORT   NAZIS REPORTED HEADED ON U-BOATS FOR SPAIN AND SOUTH AMERICA,

‘Moscow Broadcast Declares Many Nazi Leaders Flee to Spain and Argentina

100 Millions Asked From Morgan Firm   34 Charge Funds Wasted in Inter-Company Deal

MILLIONS ASKED IN FUND ‘WASTE!   $100,000,000 Action Name: Morgan Firm, 33 Others

HOSPITAL NOTES   News of the Sick at Sacred Heart Hospital, LeMars

Nazis Prepare Home Front for Disaster   Soviets Capture Bereslav, 37 Miles From Kherson

CONGRESS FACES MANY BIG ISSUES   Prepares to Reconvene After 8-Week Election Recess

Individual Bond Sales In IMlinois Still Lag Behind U. §. Average

Senate To Consider Appointments, Including Cox of Crawford County

LEGISLATURE BEGINS ACTION ON VOTE BILLS   . Hears Governor, Mov. es Swiftly to Provide Soldier Ballots

VESHIVIUS ASHES CRUMPLE ROOFS   Eruption Kills 26 And Causes Damage Up In Millions

B DEAD AG RESULT OF GREAT ERUPTION   Vesuvius Continues to Spit Dust Into Sky; Flows Virtually Stopped.

Court Fight On Electors Likely   Texas Democrats Kick Out Old Slate Anc Name New Ticket Pledged To 4th Term

MANY MEN CALLED FOR PREINDUGTION   Sent to Ft. Des Moines Sunday for Physical Exams

CHILDREN’S DAY AT THE FAIR IS TUESDAY   Admitted Free at Outside Gate ah at the Grandstand tn the Afternoon

Baruch: Report Offers Plan For Demobilization And ‘Reconversion After The War

New Gasoline Ration Coupor Plan Decided   Differential In Validity Dates To Be Removed

DIFFERENTIAL FOR COUPONS WILL END   Validity Dates For “A” Gasoline Ration Coupons Will Be Identical

The Weather   Speedy Trial  Faced By 30  Indicted By U.S. They Conspired. With Nazis,  Jury Declares

Eruption of Vesuvius Continues With Heavy Spread of Volcanic Ash

WASHINGTON —(UP)—The Ohio Federation of Telephone workers today rejected a War Labor Board demand that strikers return to work unconditionally.

U.S. MAY SEIZE COMPANIES IN PHONE STRIKE   Seizure Would Include Michigan Telephone System

Deferment Ordered For All Over 26 In Essential Work   New York Director Says Hershey’s Order Made Nation-Wide

Induction Of All Over 26 In Essential Work Is Now Halted  Affects Men In Agricultural, War Production

TIGHTEN UP ON AGE GROUPS OF 18:25 AND 26:29   NO JOB DEFERM'NTS UNLESS NECESSARY FOR WAR PRODUCTION

FATHERS OVER 30 ARE GIVEN CONSIDERATION   New Draft Dictum Makes Deferments Tough’ for Those Younger

Army And Nav: Stress Need For Young Met   Deferment Will Remain in Effect Until All Men Under 26 Are Taken

HALT INDUCTION OF OLDER MEN IN ESSENTIAL JOBS   General Hershey Sends Out Orders To Local Draft Boards To Stop Calling Men Over 26 Years Of Age Engaged In War Or Supporting Activities.

Government — Gets Tough .  On Deferment:   Few Men Under 26 Will Escape Fichtine Services:

DAT OF OER NEW IS HBLTE   Those Contributing To War Effort. To Be Deferred .  

New Induction Orders Issued By Draft Head   Halts Induction of All Men Over 26 “Making Contribution 10 Essential War Activities’?

Induction of Men Over 25 To Be Halted   Hershey's Orders End Draft Call of Those Aiding in War Effort

NEW DRAFT ORDER BY GEN, HERSHEY   Men Over 26 in Essential Ag. Fieulture or War Production Not to Be Taken.

Carrier Planes Strike Again At Marianas   War’s Total of Enemy Ships Hit by Subs Now 607: Size of Force Attacking Guam Secre'

War’s Total Of Enemy Ves sels Sunk By U-Boat Action Is Now 607 —   CARRIER FORCE HITS ~ GUAM SECOND TIME

CONDITIONAL RELEASE OF BUCHALTER GIVEN   Biddle Will Release Convicted Leader Of Murder, Inc., To New Yerk For Clemency Hearings

Lepke May Be Returned ToN.Y. State   U. S. to Release Leader of Murder, Inc. on Certain Conditions

Hoyt Article  Questioned by Chief of OWI   Army Accepts 5200 Figure on Americans Dead in Philippines

Germans Fail To Close U.S. Corridor   Life Line to Trapped Garrison Held Firmly by Doughboys

One Half Zero Is No Longer Boon To Embarrassed Marine Fighter Pilot

THUNDERING SALUTE   NEAR KEY TOWN   WIPES OUT FLEET SMMALI. GERMAN BOATS   U. S. Troops Surprised Sleeping Nazi Soldiers

PRESSURE BEING PUT ON ENEMY DEFENDING BIAK   American Jungle Troops Take Ridge Overlooking Bosnek-Mokmer Road   APPROACHES TO TRUK UNDER HEAVY ATTACK

Jungle Troops Closing in on Biak Airdromes   Jap Resistance Nearly Overcome   Japs Well Entrenched   Liberators Bomb Ridge

U.S. Increases Pressure on Japs  Defending Biak   Enemy Suffers Setbacks In India, Burma But Advances in China

Reinforced Americans drive to top of Mokmer ridge, shatter defenses

YANK FORCES GAIN GROUND IN BIAK FIGHT   Jungle Troops Battle tc Top of Weeded Ridae

Infantry Is. High On Navy   Naval Shelling Helps Anzio Beachhead Defenders

AUGUST €   U. 5. TOUGH IN WORK SITUATION   Employers In Labor-Tight Areas Must Fire Some Emoloves

New Government Rules Place Strict Controls Over Workers, Employers

GOV. OSBORN SIGS RIVER” COMPACT BILI   Three Measures “Signed: New Session Planned

250 Rotary Executives Convene For Group's 35th Annual. Conventio

Radio Program From Ashburn General Hospital Will Be Heard At 8:30 P.M. Tuesday

ROLL UP LAST JAP DEFENSES OF LEYTE LINE   Toll Of Knemy Shipping On Luzon Reaches 102; Raids Continue

RESISTANCE OF JAPS ON LEYTE ABOUT AT END      Americans Rolling Up Last Defenses Of Shattered Vamashita Tine

Japaneése Resistaiice’ on Leyte Disintegrating;  102 Ships Blasted

KEY BASE ON LEYTE CAPTURED   102 Japanese Vessels Blasted By Naval  Airmen In Area

JAP RESISTANCE DISINTEGRATES ON LEYTEISLE   Three American Divisions Roll Up Last Yamashita Defenses

Planes of 7" Fleet Bor — fy of Enemy hips   Japanese . Resistance. On Leyte'In Stage of Full Disintegration

Jap Resistance On Leyte Is Disintegrating   Fleet Planes Boost Toll of Shins to 102

YANKS TAKE VALENCIA ON LEYTE   Navy Fliers Boost Toll to 102 Ships Sunk or Damaged

Third Fleet Hammers Luzon Again  Mm@eorttt ag tc WwW eM... ......   Still No Ground Opposition on Mindoro Island

Jap Defense  Falling Apart On Leyte Isle   14 Enemy Vessels _ Added to Sea Toll; Mindoro Drive Gains

Jap Resistance On Leyte Begin: To Disintegrate   3rd Fleet Planes Boost Total of Ships Sunk, Damaged to 102

U S. Suspends Oil Shipments Going To Spain   State Department To Examine Relations With Germany

U. S. Stops Oil Supply To Spain.   Suspension Ties In With Argentine Question

LONG ISLAND ~ NOW IN PATH OF HURRICANE   Southern New England Also to Feel Blast Unless Storm Veers

ELAS  Fire on Piraeus   Conference Resumed Again After New Semi-Truce Arranged

Trivoli Captured By French   Americans Reported Fighting Nine  Miles Beyond  Tiber River.

Allies in Italy Roll Nazis Back Along 70-Mile Front      2,000 More Captured; Yanks Meeting Only Weak Resistance Beyond Tiber

14 TRAPPED IN BLAZING MINE   Explosion Entombs Men Believed Dead

MINE EXPLOSION TRAPS 14 MEN   Have No Hope for Crew in West Virginia Pit

Explosion Traps 15 Men Fighting Flames In Mine   Coal Company Official Believes All Are Dead

Charles Garlock Killed In Action _  ‘Wife Notifies 'F Friend In LeMars Of Loss ©

RAF BOMBERS BLAST REICH, FAR IN FRANCE   Goering Reported Superseded by Younger Men as Result of Telling Allied Aerial Blows   NAZIS BEWILDERED   Amazed by Pinpoint Accuracy of American Bombing of Erkener Ballbearing Plant

Berlin Defense Crows Feebler   .. U. S. Loses Only Eight Planes Thursday   Foe Gets No Rest.

RAF BOMBERS MAUL REICH IN ENDLESS RAIDS   ContinueBombingPace  Set by Americans During Week

R.A.F. BOMBS MARIGNANE FACTORY, CONTINUING ROUND-CLOCK BLOWS   UNITED STATES AIRMEN CONTINUE TO HAMMER BERLIN AND CENTRAL GERMANY TARGETS

RAF Hits Air Plant In France   Mosquitos Blast Objectives in West Germany.

RAF Hits At Nazi Aireraft  Production    Shake-up of Top German   Air Chiefs as Result of Continuous Thundering Allied Bombings Reported.

Shakeup In,  4 Nazi Aerial : Commane           Sweden Says Berlin: cE Longer Even a Town Much Less Capital: -"

RAF Planes Hit Targets in France   Shake-Up of Top Men in Luftwaffe Reported

British Bombers Reach Far into Southern France   _ Blast Factory Near Marseille; Offensive Precipitates Shakeur in Nazi Air Force

Marignane’s Plane Plant Is Pounded Last Night —   Lancasters Deliver  Hard Blow In Raid

Germany's Aircraft Factories Pounded  by RAF Lancaster:   Reich Given No Rest; Nazis Amazed by U. S. Precision Hits

RAF Hammers Factory in South France   Raids on Berlin Bring Shake-Up In Nazi Air Force

HINT SHAKEUF TN GERMANS’ AIR FORCE   Mosquitoes Pound Targets In Western Germany   BERLIN RAIDS   Cost Americans 193 Planes Compared To 324 Known Lost By Nazis

Nazi Plane Plants Hit In RAF Raid   Production In South France Crippled By Assault; Air Defense Of Berlin Weakens

Raids Bring a Shakeup of German Air   Goering, Bewildered, Is Shoved Aside for Younaer Official

ANUND CLOCK AERIAL BLOWS UNOIMINISHED   Shakeup of Nazi. Air Force Reported Following Berlin Smashes.

RAF STRIKES PLANE PLANTS IN SO. FRANCE   Round the Clock Bombing Follows Up Heavy American Raids Over Rerlin

BRITISH STRIKE FRENCH TARGET   Bomb Large Factory Near Marseille; Air Ministry Announced.   ROUND THE CLOCK RAIDS

GERMAN WAR PLANTS HIT BY BRITISH   Rovnd The Clock Bombinzs In  Full Swine

British Bomb Large Plant At Marignane   Lancasters Strike Deep into Southern France to Attack Nazi War Factories

AIR. WAR—  cAIG CACC. “Pee HE PAINE   Younger Men To Be Giv. én Top. Berths By HitJer, Says Repor t   “RAF IN ACTION.   Large ‘Factory At Marignane In Southern France Is Battered

RAF Assaults Plane Factory At Marignane, In South France   Luftwaffe Chief ‘Utterly Bewildered’ by Allied Raids

FACTORY MARSEILLE IS R.A.F. TARGET   Swedish Press Reports a Shakeup of Top Men In German Air Force As Result of Raids   ALL PLANES BACK SAFE

Goering To Be Removed As Nazi Air Force Head   Reported Bewildered By Crushing Allied Attacks; RAF Bombs French Plane Plant

British Night Bombers Take Up Assault by Air   Lancasters Strike Deep Into France To Blast Factory—Yesterday’s TiS. Plane Losses Licht

Success Of U, S. Attacks On Berlin Poses New Problem For Nazi Defenses

Shakeup In, ° Nazi Aerial  Command   Sweden Says Berlin No Longer Even a Town Much Less Capital

BERLIN RAIDS OUST GOERING  AS AIR CHIEF   Swedes Report Younger Specialists Take Command as Nazi Fighter Plane- Defense Weakens.

BRITISH RAID LOWER FRANCE WITHOUT LOSS   J. S$. Only Loses 7 Bombers in Thursday’s Attack on Berlin

RAF Bombs Rip ’ Aircraft Plant In South France   Night Precision Attack Keeps Allied Air Blows Going Around Clock.

GOERING SAID TO HAVE LOST HIS COMMAND   Air Chief Reportedly Replaced by Younger Man as Result of Berlin Raids—R. A. F. Strikes in Southern France.

FAILS 10 HALT STEADY BLOWS   Shakeup of Top Men in German Air Command Reported by Sweden 

RAF BOMBS HIT FRENCH PLANTS   Nazi Air Command Shaken Up In Wake of Yank  Raids On Berlin

BIG RAF BOMBERS BLAST OBJECTIVES IN SOUTHERN FRANCE   THURSDAY’S DAY RAID ON BERLIN COST 7 BOMBERS AND ONE FIGHTER

Allies Deploy For Final Fight   Allies Confident German Border Cannot Stop Army’s Advance,

War in Europe about to enter final phase   Allies move with confidence toward German border, weak defense wall

GI Sees Berlin As Wav Home   Fighting Fettle Is Sharg As Betoh Reundene

ARMIES OE T FOF GREATEST BATTLE   Allies Confident That Germany’s Vaunted Border Defenses Or Troops Cannot Stop Next Great Blow

VAUNTED BORDER DEFENSES WILL GET ACID TEST   Allied Commanders Do Not Consider Maginot Line Difticult Problem

ARMIES DEPLOY FOR BATTLE OF REICH ITSELF   Allied Advance of 40 Miles From Brest Quickens Final  Decision

Selectees to Get 21 Days   Gen. Hershey Clarifies Order Regarding New Pre-Induction Physicals

REPORT NAVAL RAID ON GUAN   Tokyo Radio Claims Yank Fleet Units Attack ing Island

Navy Attacking Guam, Japs Say  British Radio Quotes Broadcast From Tokyo

Allies Report Aerial Blows Against. Guam   Meanwhile,-U. 5. Task Force Wipes Out 135 Jap Planes in Attack on Marianas   Enemy Shipping Also Heavily Hit   American Fleet Carries Out Task Without Damage; Only Six of Hundreds of Planes Lost

Russ Baltic Army . Opens New Drive   Soviets Steadily Advance Taward Faat Penacia

Massive New Russ Offensive Sweeps Ahead 22 Miles, Engulfs 1,000 Towns; May Reach German Soil by Weekend

‘ONE-MAN ARMY’ IS COURT MARTIALED   Commando Kelly Can Still Go To Movies

COMMANDOKELLY — ~— GOURT-MARTIALED   6 Days Late Returning: From ’ His Furlough From Ft. Benning.

*3 Burn To Death ~— In Dwelling Fire  Invalid, 80, Two Roomer: Victims

Fourth Stage Of Offensive Approaching   American Objective Now To Be Rome Line

Occupy Cori 6 Mi. Beyond Cristerna, Blast Rome Line   Germans In Full Flight Along Liri Valley To Avoid New Trap Devised By Rapid American Advance: Mt. Cairo Occupied By 8th Army.

PIEDIMONTE, AQUINO FALL TO ONSLAUGHT   Roar of Artillery Is Plainly Heard ~  In Rome

Parades Missing from Army Day’. Observance This Year: Nearly Half Of 7,500.000-Men Now Overseas” -

CONSCRIPTION OF YOUTHS EXPECTED AFTER WAR ENDED   Compulsory Military “Training Program Likely But Details are Lacking -

Youth Military Tr aining After War Probable   Divergence of Ideas Ahout  Form it Should Take In    _ dicates Long Debate Over Legislation

Three Senators Se Necessity for U. S. Conscription  Methods of Training Peacetime Army Gets Varying Views

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/Unlimited Credit  Blood Bank Cancels Loan to Child As Deposits Pour In

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1,000-PLANE RAID ON CENTRAL REICH   Follows Mosquito Raids On Berlin Last Night.

RURAL GROUPS HELD MEETINGS   SEVERAL GROUPS HEIL.D REGU.LAR MEETINGS DUR!NG THE PAST WEEK

‘HINT PLOT ON FRANCO   DNB Reporis Perpetrators of Coup Arrested in Morocco.

New Bill Prevents Double Payments To Dependents of Missing Servicemen

FRENCH JOIN DRIVE IN ITALY   Capture Peaks Seven Miles From Cassino as Fifth  Army Advances   Cassino'« Fall Held Near

Cervano Falls: Yanks Drive Near Stronghold   Entire 5th Army on Move; Heavy Fighting Flares

FRENCH TROOPS JOIN FLANKING MOVE ON NAZIS   Gen. Juin Seizes Peaks At Acquafondala; Fall Of Enemy Bastion Expected Soon

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PEAKS ARE SEIZED BY FRENCH TROOPS   Forces of Gen. Juin Move While Americans Near Cassino

French Troops Launch ~ Flanking Drive   Americans Advance to Within Three Miles of Cassino

French Seize Peaks in Move Toward Cassine   Entire Fifth Advances But Eighth Still Has Not Started Offensive

U.S. and French Gain in Italy   Yank Troops Press On Toward Cassino

AMERICANS PUSH TO WITHIN THREE MILES OF CASSIN(   French Open Flanking Drive Against City and Seize Peaks Overlocking Acquafondala.   ALL OF FIFTH ARMY NOW IS ON MOVE   Airmen Blast Enemy Positions and Communications Behind Line—2 Planes Downed. 3 Lost.

French Open Italy Drive   Flanking Offensive Is Aimed At Cassino

French open flank attack in Apennines   Yanks 3 miles from Cassino

French Forces Helping Drive  Against Cassino   Advance on Nazi Flank As Fifth Army Continues Frontal Attack on City

Campaign for Solomon Islands Is Completed   Jap Forces Estimated At 22,000 Face Starvation; Allied Planes Strike New Blows At Tokyo’s Rabaul Base

ALLIES SEIZE MORE ISLANDS IN SOLOMONS   FLANKED JAPANESE FACE STARVATION OR SURRENDER

American and New Zealand Troops Complete Campaign for Solomons   22,000 Japanese Isolated from Sources of Supply Face Starvation

Allies Finish Campaign In Solomons   Occupy Green Islands ~~To Seal Fate of 22,000 Japs

Jungle-Covered Green Islands Occupied By Forces Of Allies      Japanese Forces estimated at 22,000 “Isolated From Sources of Supply at Rabaul and Face Starvation and: Disease

‘Solomon Islands Campaign ‘Completed With Occupation Of Green Island By Allies   22,000 Japanese Forces Dispersed Through Area Face Starvation And Disease From Military Blockade; Weak Opposition Encountered By Landing Craft.

OWAN CRACKS THROUGH CIT ~ AUSSES' BLOC   Picks Up 20 New York Votes With Truman Getting Remaining 76.

Wallace Gets Big-City Vote From New York   Action Boosts Vice-Presi dent’s Pledged, Claimed Votes To 369 yy,   BANKHEAD IS THREAT

FDR WAITING T0 » WELCOME NO, 2 MAN ON TICKET   4 President, Renominated on First Ballot, Has Made No New Comment

No Early Decision in Sighi   Anything May Happen, Barkley Says; Deadlock Wouldn’t Be Surprising   WALLACE CUTS INTO “" BIG-CITY VOTES   .Truman Sees Chances as Better If Wallace First  Ballot Vete Ts Big 

/ Main Bout Among 15 Candidates Is Between Wal lace and Truman © DEADLOCK IS HINTED Clamor of Galleries Looks  Like C.I.0. Domination to Bankhead         DEADLOCK IS HINTED

Wallace, Truman Pre-Ballot Leaders   Democrats May , Run into Snag On Second Place   Vice President Has Lead with 389 Votes Pledged, with 209 fer Truman

Truman-Wallace Decision Seen   Convention Starts Bitter Fight Over Vice-Presidential Choice; 15 Candidates Assured of First-Ballot Support at Conclave

Democrats at Chicago Convention See Nip and Tuck Campaign by Pai

IOWAN PICKS UP STRENGTH INN. Y., OHIC   Convention Delegates Hear Nominating Speeches

Wallace Into Big City Vote   Truman Forces Confident He Will be Choice  Of Convention

Convention May Face A Deadlock   Wallace Picks Up Unexpected Strength During Day; Many Favorite Sons Named

AMERICAN FAITH SHAKEN IN CONFIDENCE TO WIN PEACE   Third Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor Finds Principles Of Atlantic Charter Virtually Ignored! Political Disputes With Britian; Russia An Enigma

Americans face big postwar unily snags   Nation confident of military victory, shoken on faith at winnine the pence

Three Years of Costly Warfare U.S. Faces Big Problem Of   Postwar Unity Among Allies

J. S. ENDS THREE COSTLY YEARS OF WAR WITH CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY   Faith In Winning The Peace Is Shaken, How. ever: Disputes With Britain Mark Pearl Harbor Anniversary

Anniversary Is Marked By Dispute with: Britain, Uncertainty’ Over Russia

American Faith in Winning Peace Shaken  Third Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Marked by Dispute:

Le. se Years of War: Military Victory Is Now Assured;  Winning the Peace Is in Doubt

U.S. Ends 3 Years of War Confident of Victory, but Less Hopeful of Peace

RS ee  Three Years of Costly Warfare U.S. Faces Big Problem Of Postwar Unity Among Allies

Military Victory in Sight ‘On Third War Anniversary, _ Winning of Peace in Doubt

War In Final Phase, Says  Moscow Declaration ©   Yanks At Work On West Front

Russian Troops Within Sight Of Budapest   Nazis Say Situation fs Critical; Revolt Reported in Capital

Budapest InGrip  Of Panic   Reported in Turmoil As Red Army Forces Of City’s Outskirts

EVACUATION OF BUDAPESI HAS BEGUR   As Russians Threaten to Envelop City from Rear After Crossing Danube: Gain in Czechoslovahia.   Beautiful City

Nazis Leaving ‘Eastern Half Of Budapest...   Russian Army Threatens To Envelop Capital. ~ Of Hungary from Rear

BUDAPEST HEARS BATTLE THUNDER AS REDS ADVANCE   SMASH INTO OUTER DEFENSES ONLY 23 MILES FROM CITY

ALLIED CAMPAIGN IS SHAPING INTO 3 GREAT WEDGES  GERMANS THROW IN   GERMANS THROW IN THINNING RESERVES TO BAR BERLIN WAY

SOVIET ARMY WITHIN SIGHT OF BUDAPEST   REVOLUTION INSIDE CITY REPORTED; PUPPETS FLEE

Merchants And Wealthy Industrialists Attempt To Escape Before Fall Of Hungarian Capital

OUT OF PART OF BUDAPES!   Evacuate Eastern Section of City as Red Threat Mounts

NAZIS LEAVING PEST AS REDS [MPERIL REAR   Evacuation Of Eastern Bank Of Danube Part Of Capital Told By  Berlin

TWO RED. ARMIES BATTER NAZIS ON 250-MiLE HUNGARIAN FRONT   RUSSIANS NOW WITHIN 100 MILES OF AUSTRIAN SOIL IN DETERMINED DRIVE ON EASTERN LINES

Reds in Sight Of Budapest, City Reports Revolt   Berlin Radio Admits Critical Situation i TI. ee aaa es Danitel

Budapest Is Cleared for Batile      Eastern Section Is Being Evacuated in Face of Red Assault   GERMANS FEAR DBIVE FROM REAR   Russians Continue Advance, Taking 50 More Towns West of Danube

Nazis Repor! Evacuation  Of Budapest   Rear Guards Will Be Left To Slow Reds During Escape

TO OUTSKIRTS OF BUDAPEST   Panic Said to Prevail in  Hungarian Capital as - Soviets Smash Into Germans’ Outer ‘Defenses ‘92 Miles Away.

Revolution Reported In F ull Swing In Budapest As Soviets Near Suburbs

Soviet Forces Near Hungarian Capital   Russians Within Sight of Budapest’s Spires, Capturing Sari and 100 Other Localities—Berlin Admits “Situation Is Critical”

Germans Flee Big Part of Budapest   Russians Outflank Besieged Hungarian Capital

AXIS ARMIES ABANDON PART OF BUDAPES!   RUSSIANS ENVELOP CAPITAL CITY FROM REAR

Russians Rolling Toward Budapest   Dispatches Report Panic in the Capital City of Hungary   REDS 23 MILES AWAY   Main Drive Is Along the Concrete Highway From -  Kecskemet

GREATER PART OF BUDAPEST IS EVACUATED   Danube Bridges Are Clog: ged With Military And Civilian Vehicles   RUSSIANS ONLY 90 MILES FROM AUSTRIA

REDS SEIZE 50 PLACES IN NEW PUSI   Drive West of the Danube Carries Soviets Closer to Outflanked Budapest and Puts Troops 100 Miles From Austria.

NAZI TROOPS EVACUATING EASTERN SECTION OF BELEAGURED BUDAPEST   50 More Hungarian Communities Taken

New Red Push  Wins 50 Towns   Soviet Troops Seize Aixs Strongholds in Northern Hungary

LINNICH UNDER SIEGE; ATTACK WWLICH, UREN   Russians Gain In Drive For Austrian Border, Budapest

NAZIS EVACUATE BUDAPEST AREAS; CITY OUTFLANKEL   Germans Withdraw From Greater Part of Hungarian Capital on East Bank of Danube.   SPANS ACROSS RIVER CLOGGED WITH TRAFFIC   Enemy Troops Expected to Go Into Prepared Fortifications on High Buda Bluffs.

Panic Prevails In Hungary s Capital   ... Soviets Only 100 Miles From Austrian Border

PATROL UNITS PRESS WITHIN SIGHT OF CITY   Russian Tanks Moving Toward Capital at Rapid Pace

BUDAPEST ARE BEING EVAGUATED   Russians Threaten to Envelop Capital From Rear After Crossing River South of Capital City

Section of Besieged Budapest Is Being Evacuated   REDS THREATEN TO ENVELOP CAPITAL   Number of Localities Are Taken by the Russians

SARI CAPTURED IN HARD DRIVE   Bucharest Radio Reports Revolution In Full Swing Inside Of  oe Capital

Reds Near City; Panic ‘Prevails   ‘Moscow Radio Tells Troopa  Time Has Come to Strike  the Death Blow      ‘WE HAVE ENTERED ENEMY’S LAIR’   ‘Final Phase of War Has Been Reached, But It Will Mean Fichtine’

Russians Drive Toward Austria   Red Army Advances Threaten an Early  Decision in Growing Battle for Budanest

Nazis Evacuate Much of Budapest   Red Troops Threaten To Outflank City

Bomb Which Missec Hitler Got Double   Himmler Extends Blood Purge, But Reports Indicate Revolt Movement Still Rampant

GERMAN FRONT LINES SHOW NO DISAFFECTION   Hitler Believed Still In Firm Control Of Armies And Reich Itself

TWO GENERALS DIE OF BOMB INJURIES   Churchill Calls Upheaval Full Revolution   WAR MAY END   Earlier Than We Have Right To Say, Prime Minister Says In Britain

RUSSIANS HAMMER OUT DEEP GAINS ON NAZIS’ EAST FRONT   HITLER PURGE OF GERMAN OFFICERS SPREADS TO THREE FRONTS

Berlin Radio Reports Death Of 2 Generals   Hitler Seeks to Spur Nazis to Greater Efforts; Churchill Predicts An Early Collapse

Gens. Korten And Brandt Victims Of Bomb Intended For Fuehrer   Blood Bath Barely  Touches Surface   Leaders Behind Revolt Reported Unknown To Himmler

1wWo Generals Hurt by Bomb Intended for Hitier Die   German Frontier Reports Say Real Leaders ef Revolt Not Caught Nor Known to Himmler Reich Superficially Ouijet

Hitler's. Ei es   A’ VAST BLOOD“ PURGE.         Is _ Carried "Forward

Two Generals Of Nazi Bomb Blast Victims   Korten and Brandt Deaths Bring the Toll to Three —

Injuries Fatal To 2 Generals  In Bomb-Blast   Berlin Radio Announces Death Of Col. Gen. Korten. Brandt.   HAVE HITLER SALUTE

High Civilians Arrested In Purge; Report Hitler Hiding; Revolt Spreads

War Will Be Shortened as Germans Kill Germans, Churchill Believes

Gestapo Moving Swiltly To Put Down Rebellion   Revolt Now Spreadin To Battlefronts O France And Italy; Many Ousted

Vast Blood. Purge Is On In Ge many   ie Win Foe ‘of i Suppression    BOMB BLAST KILLS TWO   Chief of Nazi Air Force Staff Victim of Attack’  ‘on Fuehrer 

GESTAPO RULE IS EXTENDED BY RUTHLESS PURGE   Curfew Clamped On Berlin! Rebellion Js Seen Broken

Col. Gen. Korten Third To Die Of Hitler Bombing; Purge Has Barely Touched Rebel Chiefs

HIMMLER’S GESTAPO REPORTED ENGAGED IN BIGGEST PURGE  NAZIS APPARENTLY STILI IN FIRM CONTROL OF ADMY ANN CLOMANY

TWO MORE GERMAN GENERALS KILLED   Army Revolt Within Reich Apparently Crushed, At Least Temporarily; Hitler   Lost Pants in Bomb Blast.

GENERALS DIE FROM BLAST   Gestapo Squads Reported In Vast Blood Purge

Revolt's Leadership Ils Reported Intact   Gestapo Busy With Purge; Himmler Reported to Have Barely Touched Real Leaders of Anti-Hitler Move

2 More Nazi Generals Hitler Bombing Victims   Toll Grows As Gestapo Presses Bloodiest Purge of Fuehrer's Foes; SS and Himmler Forces in Control.

Nazis Seize Control of Wehrmacht  DNB Reports 7 Death of Gen.   DNB Reports  Death of Gen. Karten, Gen Brandt; Blood Purge Fressed

MOST LEADERS HAVE ESCAPED, RUMORS CLAIM   Gen. Beck Was Single High Official Taken,  Secret Sources Say

Bomb Blast Claims Two More Lives   Hitler Air Chief One of Victims; Rumor Says Purge Only Touched Surface of Rebellion .

NAZIS CONTINUE BLOOD PURGE INSIDE REICH   Chief of German Air Force, Army Officer Die . of Wounds

GERMAN ARMY MORALE SEEMS BADLY SHAKEN   Churchill Calis Upheaval in Naziland ‘A Revolution’

TWO MORE GENERALS DIE: HITLER SALUTE’ INTO ARMY   Hitler‘ Apparently Has Won. First Battle On Home Front, But Secret Advices Say Nazis. Don’t Even Know Revolt. Leaders

Gestapo Moves To Wipe Out Revolt Leaders   It’s Revolution Says Churchill; Victory Nearer

Junkers Generals Apparently Lose Control Of Army   Traditional Salute To Be Replaced By That Of Nazi Party.

Russian Armies 50 Miles From Warsaw   _.. Kiel Naval Base Battered By RAF Bombers

Hitler Purging All His Enemies   HUNDREDS EXECUTED BY GESTAPO IN GERMANY

Nazi Generals Killed by Bomb Blast   Gestapo Is Continuing Blood Purge as Two Army Chiefs Die

Gestapo Pushes Purge Of Opposition As Two More Nazi Generals Succumb From Injuries Due To Bomb Explosion.

German Chiefs East and West Fronts Seized   Churchill Sees Grave Signs of Weakness in Hitler Dominated Germany

Two German Generals Die of Injuries From Blast; “Hitler Salute” Introduced in Army   Report Opposition Committee Members Unknown to Himmler; Admit Supply and Recruiting for Fronts Has Bogged Down

Nazi Purge Reaches All Three Fronts   Allies Concentrate Forces for Major Assaults; Allied Bombers Hit 5 Hun Targets

2 Generals, Injured by Bomb. Die   Gestapo Carrying On Blood Purge— Real Leaders Not Touched

Purge Kxpands To Fronts   Arrests of More Officers on  Nazi Rebellion

IGESTAPO SQUADS BUSY WITH BLOOD PURGE TO QUELL REVOLT: REAL LEADERS SAID UNKNOWN   ‘Two German Generals, One Chief of Air Force General Staff Have Died Since Bomb Blast Last Week, Making Total of Three. Himmler Squads Seeking Out Revolt Leaders

CHURCHILL SAYS REVOLUTION HAS ENGULFED NAZIS   Two Men Struck With Hitler Lose Lives — New Salute Ordered

BOMB INJURIES TAKE LIVES OF TWO GENERALS   ‘Clean-Up’ Reported Barely To Have Touched Real Leaders Of Revolt

niitler Keeps Revolt News Well Hidden   Purge Biggest in History of Blood Stained Germany

2 More German Generals Die i Bomb-Blast   Vast Blood Purge Being Carried on by Gestapho; Toll of Blast, Three

Churchill Sees Weakness In Enemy Morale   Savs Internal Trouble May Bring Quicker End To War

2 GENERALS SUCCUMB TO BOMB HURTS   Churchill Says Revolution To Shorten War.

NAZI PURGE PART OF TERROR RULI   Quelling of Revolt Will Give Hitler and Himmler LastDitch Power.

Many Army Leaders Safe, Say Reports   Two German General Died During Attempt ed Assassination  Of Hitler

Germans Flee  In Poland As Reds Advance   Polish Battle Shaping As Struggle For Prussia

Iwo Nazi Generals Die In Bomb Blast Of Revolution   U. 5. And British Fall Back Before Counter Attacks   Nazis Far From Convinced ... Kimmins

——“nurcniti terms Reich Upheaval Revolution—  Air Force Gen. Korten Dies Of Blast Injuries   Hitler Presses Ruthless Purge: British Premier Foresees Earlier Finish of War

Himmler Exults As He Carries Out Blood Purge   Hun Hangman Hot On Junkers’ Trail; German Army Morale Reported Shaken

HITLER PRESSES RUTHLESS PURGE INSIDE GERMANY   Civilians Suffer As Well; Report Some Murdered

Blast Fatal To 2 Hitler Generals; Record Purge Of Enemies Is Pressed

TWO MEMBER OF NAZI oT APE BOMB VICTIMS   Hitler’s Collaborator and  Sometimes ‘Double Also Killed,

Hitler Salute Replaces Army Salute to Assure Troop Loyalty.   2 MORE GENERALS DIE

HitlerKeeps PurgeGoing InHighGear As More Die   Chief Of Air Force Latest Victim Of Bombing

Blood Purge Goes On os Churchill Calls Uprising in Germany ‘Revolution’

HITLER PUTS ARMY UNDER DAQTY DIE   Nazis Tighten Reins As Revolt is Continued

Eastern Front Generals Fail To Give Pledée   Goebbels Strangely Silent; ’ Murder. Squads Prow];, Army Morale Is Shaken

Vast Blood Purge Is On In Germany   Hitler Forces Win First Round in Suppression of Revolt   BOMB BLAST KILLS TWO   Chief of Next. Ab Force Staff Victim of Attack  on Fuehrer

ONE THE HIGH COMMAND AIR ARM LEADER   Other Victim of. Assassi« nation Attempt Also on General Staff —- Blood  Purge Continues—Hit  ler Salute in Army.

TABLETS FATAL TO EVANGELIST   Sleeping Pills Blamed For Death Of Aimee Semple McPherson

McPHERSON DEATH IS TERMED ACCIDENTAL   Overdose Of Sleeping Drugs And Kidney Ailment Fatal To Evangelist. Report Shows

Aimee Died From Medicine   Overdose of Sleeping Tablets Caused Death of Famous Evangelist.

White. Xmas In Prospects For Most of Nation   Sania Claus “Will Be Abl “To Use Sleigh and Rein. ‘deer” Weathefman * Forecasts

Election Held  In State Today   NEGROES VOTED IN MANY COUNTIES DURING PRIMARY

J. Clark Dolliver, Michigan Native, New Publisher   , Personnel, General Policy To Continue On Present Basis

MacArthur Forces Now Move Toward The Philippine Islands   Admiral Nimitz Continues His Part Of Aerial War, Again Raiding Truk: Battle In Chine

AIR WAR CLEARING: PHILIPPINES PATH   MacArthur Reports Heavy Strikes Northwest of Captured Hollan-. dia: Jap Planes Destroyed —

Pacific Aerial Warfare Shifts  To New Areas  Islands Off Coast  Of New Guinea Among Allied Taree

GRAVEN TO BE RECOMMENDED   Senate to Act Next Week on Nomination

ALLIES DEVELOPING INLAND FLANK MOVE AGAINST LIVORNO   Now Within Six Miles of City After 10 Days of Bitter Fighting.

Superforts From Saipan Rock Capital   3 Planes Bagged, Tokyo Says: Yank Troops Take Limon

Attack Marks Start Of Great Air Smash; Sirixe From Saipan   ‘irst Washington Announcement Fails To Fix Damage; But Says Only That ‘Industrial Targets’ Were Pounded; U. S. Warships Hammer Kuriles

Attack Called Opening Blow In Japan Battle   B-29s Strike At Noon From Bases On Saipan; Gen. Arnold Says Jap War Industries Badly Hurt

U, 5. ROUTS NIPS FROM LIMON ON LEYTE ISLAND   Japs Claim 3 of 70 Raiding Superforts Shot Down; Raid Lasts 2 Hours

Hit Islands 600 Miles from Nippon   Americans Capture Limon Bastion, Drive Southward on Leyte Island

Strike From Saipan Base; Hit Industrie:   ‘Only the Beginning,’ Air Force Officers Assert After Raid

Jap Radio Says 70 of the Giant Planes. Flying at High Altitudes, Attacked in Waves.   WAR INDUSTRIES WERE OBJECTS FOR ATTACK

Huge Damage To War Plants Arnold Says   Yankees Capture Limon, Navy Bombards Kuriles

THREE IMPORTANT  FEATURES IN PACIFIC  WAR ARE REPORTED TOKYO BOMBING, CAP TURE JAP PHILIPPINES BASE SHELLING KURILES

TOKYO BOMBED TODAY BY BIG FORCE OF B~29S   Superforts Over Capital More Than 2 Hours

Saipan-Based Raid— Said Opening Blow: Of Relentless Fight   Attack. On Keystone Of Ni ip Empire  Oy ershadows - ‘Limon’s Capture And U. S. Kuriles Bombar dment.

JAPAN'S HEART HIT BY BOMBERS FROM MARIANAS   Tokyo Attack Overshadows Successes of Doughboys In Bloody Leyte Battle

GUNNER TELLG DF TRANSPORT LOSS AT GEL   Declared Mates Can Not Be Blamed for Firing On — Own Planes.

CONQUEST OF GUAM IS COMPLETED   Gives Allies Firm Foothold Inside Jap Defense Line

Yanks Mop Up Japs In First Reconquest Of American Territory Since War Began

CONQUEST OF GUAN COMPLETED TODAY   Less Than Three Weeks Of Fighting Clears Island Of Japs

END CONQUEST OF GUAM; FEW JAPANESE LEFI   Remnants Of Garrison Pocketed In Small ’ Corner Of Island

Yanks Complete Guam Conquest In Three Weeks   Conquerors Mop Enemy Remnants In Whirlwind Drive

ALLIES’ HOLD ON JAP. INNER “ DEFENSE FIRM   Americans Kill Large Proportion of Enemy - on Guam

Marines, Army Troops Complete Guam Conquest   All Important Jap Resistance Reported  Concluded On Island

WAR TODAY   Montgomery’s Skill Is  Shown In Extension Of Allied Front On Coast of Normandy

MONTGOMERY EXHIBITING USUAL SKILL   —BY DeWITT MACKENZIFE— Associated Press War Analyst

Air Pa Parley  Bogs Down   ‘Break. Is Expected: As. Optimism Rules

Main Link Of Two Big Jap Bases Is Cut   Americans: And Chinese Surprise Enemy In By-Passine Kamaing

Chinese and U. Troops Cut Main Japanese Road   By-Pass Kamiang In Surprise Move; Destroy Jap Ammunition Supplies.

‘Main Road:-Between 2 Strong Jap Bases In Burma Is Cut; Chinese Advance In Yunnan   American And Chinese Forces Stage Surprise Operation; Bypass Kamaing

Truckers Return  To Their Jobs   Strike Outlook Improves Considerably Over the Week-End.

STRIKE OUTLOOK GETTING BETTER   Number of Jobless Drops from 61,000 to 18,500

Strike Outlook Much Improved  Majority of 61,000 Return to Their Jobs

Strikes Cut On Sunday   Thousands Are’ Back. On Their Job Today~

Sensifiveness’ of Russians Lengthens Talks  Moves Are Charted With an Eye to Soviet Reaction

APPEASEMENT OF RUSSIA BIG PROBLEM   At Quebec and Dumbarton Oaks; Reactions of Moscow Taken Into Consideration.   Political Aspects

U.S. And Britain Using Kid-Glove Tactics In Handling Decisions Involvina Russia: Co-Operation Said Urgent

Dewey Raps Administration For Suppression Of News   He Charges Washington With Initiating ‘‘Deliberate And Dangerous Policy”

DEWEY CRITICAL OF U.S, POLICIES   People Kept In Dark Too Much Qn Diplomacy, Governor Thinks

GOVERNOR DEWEY CHARGES NEW DEAL SUPPRESSES NEWS   Declares “Dangerous Policy” Is,Fostered by Washington in Address Broadcast —  to Nation.   CITES RECENT “LEAK”  - ¢ ON LOSS OF PLANES   Says People Know Nothing About Our Diplomatic Com_.mitments and Little About  Foreign Policy. .

Dewey Charges News Suppression   Government Policy Dangerous, He Says

Dewey Critical: Of Censorship.  Says Administration’ ‘Sonoteeses- Bad: News

Dewey Assails New Deal’s Supressing Vital Information   Blasts Gag on Press of Nation in Speech in  New York Last Eve

Dewey Flays Handling Of World News   Accuses National Administration 0 - ‘Deliberately’ Withholding News; Tits Roosevelt Poliey

101 Planes and Ships Destroyed, Admiral Ni ° mitz Announces   LAND FORCES MOVE ON BIG AIRDROMES   Enemy Bases on the Caroline Islands Are ‘ Bombed -

‘BLACK PENCIL'S’ JEATH ADVANCED   House Group Votes To Kil Voting Law Provision

May Validate Any Marking of Soldier Votes   Bricker Appeals For Law Change, More School Funds-¢

Japs Repulsed At Bougainville   Hundred Die in Attack On Allied Beachhead

Smash Jap Assault  In Solomons Aree  Yanks Win Bloody Day  Land Rattle

GERMAN ESCAPE GAP NARROWED TO TEN MILES   PERILED 7TH ARMY STRUGGLES VAINLY TO ESCAPE PINCER

A Armies Surround Germans   Berlin Reports Great est Battle Being Fought.

FAMED LEADE ~ IS HEADING RD ARMY   Escape Path In Normandy Cut To 10 Miles  AFELIE RRA RIL Fis   Named Overall Commander Of U. S. Ground Forces; Eisenhower Speaks

NAZI - HELD TERRITORY IS CUT 10 HALF - SIZE   Berlin Radio Says Greatest Battle in Living Memory le Raingo Fnonueht

Four Allied Armies Pinch  Escape Gap   Violent Battle Rages in Ten-MileWide Flight Avenue Below Falaise

Amendment to Articles of Iucorporation of West Bend —  Miawatan Clamnanw Wast

Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of West Bend Elevator Company, West

Willkie Flavs Statement He’s Roosevelt Pal   ‘Asserts He Is Opposed To ' President’s Policy And Never Had Political Talks With Him —

WILLKIE THINKS HE'S ONLY ONE   Says Republicans Will Be Defeated If His ‘Hand Not Upheld’

Willkie Denies Agreement With F. R.’s Foreign Policy   Ry HERBERT D. WILHOIT

Willkie Denies That He Is Only “Stooging”’ For F. D. Roosevelt   Evaides Reference Te Deal Made With Demo Leaders During 1940 Campaign

STRONG RED WARNING BELIEVED SENT FINNS   ‘Quit Or Face Attack’ Stanc Indicated By Russians

Finns-Russ  Reach Crisis   Moscow Demands That Original Armistice Terms Be Accented

Russo-Finnish Peace Move In Critical Stage   Moscow Warns Finns That No More Delays Will Be Tolerated: Rumania Makes Bid

Job Change Difficulties Are Outlined   Doubt National Service Act Would Make Shift Easier

Volunteer Nurses . Sought For Navy  Emergency Call For 1800 Is Issued

RECOGNITION GIVEN ADMINISTRATION OF GENERAL DEGAULLE   UNITED STATES ACTS TO GIVE FRANCE PROVISION AL GOVERNMENT

U. §. Recognize: DeGaulle Regime  Only Combat Areas of France Excluded

De Gaulle’s Government ls Recognized   U. S., Britain, Russia Designate General As Chief of New Government

RECOGNIZE DEGAULLE   U. S. and Great Britain Approve Provisional Government

U.S. RECOGNIZES DE GAULLE GOV'T   GIVEN PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY IN THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

UNITED STATES RECOGNIZES NEW FRENCH LEADER   Most Of France Is Now Classed As  Interior Zone

DEGAULLE RULE 5 RECOGNIZED   U. S. Accepts It As “Provi~ gional Government of Republic.”   OTHERS FOLLOW, TOO

U.S., Britain and Russia Recognize De Gaulle Rule as Provisional Government

DeGaulles Government Is Recognized By Alhies   London. Moscow and Ottawa Follow Washington In Announcing Recognition Of French Leader As Head Of Liberated Areas

Political Group Led By DeGauile Is Recognized   United States, Britain And Russia Acknowledge Provisional Government

U. §. Approves Government Of Gen. de Gaulle  Recognition Granted Provisional Setup As Ports Is Designated  si i ee

REGIME GIVEN PROVISIONAL RULE STATUS   Most Of France, “Including Paris, Designated As ‘Interior Zone’

Government Of De Gaulle  Is Recognized   Allied Nations Agree Today on ‘Provisional’ Rule in French Republic

U. S. Recognizes DeGaulle Regime "Until Victory”  Assurance Given

DeGaulle Wins  eer ee Uh Ce  Recagnition   U. S. Okays His Administration As Provisional Government.

De Gaulle Recognized By Allies   U.S., Britain and Russia Accord France New Status

RECOGNITION GIVEN ADMINISTRATION OF GENERAL DEGAULLE  UNITED STATES ACTS TO GIVE FRANCE PROVISION

U. 5. RECOGNIZES DE GAULLE RULE   PROVISIONAL FRENCH GOVERNMENT SET

U, §. Recognizes deGaulle Gov f  Other Allies Join In Recoanition

U.S, RECOGNIZES DE GAULLE RULE   Basis Of Relations Changed Between France, Allies

Recognize De Gaulle  Government   Important Step Taken At Same Time By U. S. Great Britain, Russia, Canada and Australia

Allies Grant Recognition To De Gaulle   Most of France Fixed As ‘Interior Zone’ Of Responsibility

DeGaulle Regime Given Recognition By Allied Powers   United States, Great Britain, Russian Lend Official Approva To Provisional Government

Powers To Back DeGaulle Rule   U. S., Britain, Russia Tc Grant Recognition

U.S. AND BRITAIN TODAY RECOGNIZE DE GAULLE’S GOVT.   Administration’ of Former Free-French Leader, Charles DeGaulle, Recognized . as “Provisional Government of the French -Renuhlje””

DE GAULLE RECOGNIZED —  French Regime Okayed   STETTINIUS ANNOUNCES APPROVAL BY ALLIES

De Gaulle Win: Recognition of Allied Powers   United States, Great Britain, Russia, Canada And Australia Take Identical Action

U.S., England And Russia Recognize De Gaulle Regime As Provisional Government   Canada And Australia Take Similar Action; Early Elections Are Planned

DEGAULLE GOVT. 1S RECOGNIZED   Most Of France Under TIts Administration

D'GAULLE WINS VOTE OF ALLIES   French Government Giver Recognition by U. S. And Great Britain

U.S., England, Russia, Other  Nations Ree ognize DeGaulle   Now Established As Provisional Government Of The French Repnhblie, Washingtun Savs

U. S. Recognizes DeGaulle Regime   Closes Controversy. On French Government

United States Recognizes  De Gaulle   French Leader on Plane With United Nations Heads

Allies Give Recognition  To DeGaulle   Full Authority To Rule France

Ailies Recognize Rule by DeGaulle   Responsible for Most of France

De Gaulle’s Regime Is Recognized By United States  Canada and Australia Give Approval To Setup in France

U. §. Recognizes Government Of Gen. De Gaulle   Long Controversy Brought To An End With Announcement

ALLIED POWERS RECOGNIZE NEW FRENCH REGIME   deGaulle Regime Ts Accepted As French Pravisional Gov't

Recognition ‘To DeGaulle Government   Allies Including U.S.’ Anneunce New Policy Toward French Republic

GreekGuerrilla  Truce Declared   Civil War Retween Chiefs Reported Ended

Greek Guerrilla Bands at Peace   End of Fighting Is Blow fo Nazis

Roundup Of Today’s Political News  Dewey Backers Girded For Heated Battle In West Virginia Primary

Holt Seeks fo Make Comeback   Former Senator in Race for Governor In West Virginia

Republican Battle In West Virginia Sparks Primaries   Orio Delegates Supporting Fourth Term and Bricker

Torrid Battle Among GOP for W. Virginia   Political Interest in Pre-convention Battles Turns to That State

Control Of GOP Features West Virginia Primary   Missouri, Wyoming Democrats For FD

HOT GOP BATTLE IN WEST VIRGIN   Control Of Party Organ ization Is Goal In Pri mary. Scrap

West Virigina GOP Control Is At Stake   Dewey Favoring _Delegates Indirectly Involved in Ficht

Control of §.0.P. Is Vote Issue In West Virginia   Denio Delegates Favor Fourth Term for F. D. R.

SOVIET FORCES CAPTURE RAIL LINE OF LIDA   Red Army In Swift Driv ing Attacks Sweep To Within 92 Miles Of  Eest Prussia  Border

Wilno fall imminent: Russian forces dash toward Kaunas fort   _ 1,200 populated places captured as Germans withdraw in confusion

Reds Race for Lithuanian Capital 50 Miles Beyond Wilno, Which Reports Indicate May Have Fallen

Russian Forces Capture Lida, South of Wilno   Disordered Germans Fall Back Across Lithuania and Poland in Military Collapse Hourly More Disastrous °

Wilno’s Fall Is Expected Within Hours   ~. Germans Fall Back In Disorder Across Poland, Lithuania  RUSSIANS 80 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA  Soviet Army Dashes  ‘West Toward Kaunas EO Milos Dact Wilna

Germans Fall Back in Disorder in Military -—. Collapse  FIGHT CONTINUES IN WILNO STREETS  Toll of Nazi Casualties - Mounts-as Russians Drive On

130 Million Jobs Needed After Wai   Labor Conference is Scheduled To Consider Problem Next Month

Seek Jobs at War's-End fot 130 Million   ILO Starts Study of Gigantic Task When Poace is Restored

See Postwar Need For 130 Million Jobs   International Action To Be Proposed To World Labor Conference.

Post-War Jobs Will Have to Be Found For 130 Million Persons, I. L. 0. Says

130 MILLION JOBS WILL BE NEEDED AFTER THE WAR   That Many Persons Throughout World Will -Be Idle, It Is Estimated

130,000,000 Jobs Will Be Post-War Neéec   International Labor Par_ ley Will Be Held in Philadelphia April 20

JORG FOR 1a8 MILLION NetD AS WAR END!   International Action Proposed to Force Germany to Care for Dupes.

Industrial Unrest Threatens ‘To Undermine Morale of Men On Battle Fronts-Stimson

National Service ‘Legislation Gets Stimson Approval   Says Industrial Unrest Threatens Morale of U. S. Fighting Forces .

Stimson Testifies  Soldiers Demand Equalization Of War Obligations

Secretary Declares Soldiers Resenttul   Forecasting Long War, Cabinet Member Ur ges Obligations OY All Re Boanalized

WAR SECRETARY BACKS NATIONAL DRAFT OF LABOF   Says Soldiers Demand All Americans Accept Same Liability

LABOR DRAFT BILL URGED BY STIMSON   Says Strikes May Undermine Morale Of Service Men

Stimson Calls For National Labor Drafting  Says Home Front Unrest Threatens Morale  Of Fighters  EQUAL OBLIGATION Armed ‘Forces Demand  . Civilians Accept      EOUAL OBLIGATION      Armed Forces Demand . Civilians Acce pt t - Same Liability .

INDUSTRY UNREST ON HOME FRONT THREAT TO MORAL SAYS SEC. STIMSON   Senator Johnson Accuses Navy Secretary Knox and War Secretary Of Trying To Prussianize  A ms awe eee

 Germans Apparently Are Waging Losing struggle In France  Mary: { “Simoson

Bus Drivers’ Strike Enables Two. British Soldiers to Collect $48

U.S. Officials Hail Fall of Paris As Presaging Final Nazi Defeat

LIST 2,359 ‘AMERICAN DEAD IN DESPERATE: FIGHTING: COM. .  - PARED Wir: 19,000 DEAD ..., JAPANESE:

U. S. Supplies Pour Into Saipan   Island Is “Prize of The First Order”

Claim 12 More Jap Ships Sunk   Allied Planes Continue Attacks On Halmahera

U. §. Bombers Gel More Jap Vessels   Cruiser Included in List Hit Thursday

 Allied Chiefs Taken to Task for Not Exploiting  Early Success of Landings at Anzio Beachhead

Two Ways to Rome! Did Allied Chieftains Pick Wrong Alternative on Anzio Beach?

RAP STRATEGY USED AT ANZIO   Planned Offensive Coup Threatens to Become  Another Tobruk

Allies Lose Advantage of Surprise Move   Cautious Role Places Forces on Defense for First Time in Months

Sidney Hillman Is Heavy Liability To New Dealers, Brownell Declares

Red Armies Keep Up Slashing Drive For Austria and Hungary; Russians Open Two-sided Attack on Budapest

Soviet Units Batter Gates Of Budapest   Entire Battlefront Bursts Into Action As Climax Nears.

REDS BATTER OUTER LINES OF BUDAPEST   Hit From Two Sides — Armed Spearhead Drives Deep At Balaton Gap

Drive Into  Balaton Gap   Reds Batter Outer Defenses of Budapest

PINCERS IS CLOSING ON BUDAPEST   200 Mile Front in Hungary Explode: Into Furious Action

Soviets Drive Deeper Into Balaton Gap   Other Russian Troops Are Storming Outer Defenses of Budapest

PINCERS IS. CLOSING ON BUDAPEST ©   200 Mile Front: ~ In‘Hungary Explodes _ Into: Furious Action  -

BIG BATTLE IS RAGING IN EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Throwing Fresh Divisions into Conflict

NAZIS SEND MORE TROOPS TOE. PRUSSIA   New Divisions Slow Up Reds; Fail to Halt Them

Nazis Mass Crack Troops On East Front   East Prussian Battle Fierce; Reds Hammer Out Steady Gains

TROOPS SEEK TO HALT SOVIETS BY COUNTER-BLOWS   East Prussian Fight Roars To New Pitch

BATTLE IN EAST PRUSSIA ROARS MORE FIERCELY   Nazis Counter-Attack 20 Times'a Day; Lose Much of Best Troops

Germans Throw Crack Units Into Russian Battle   Panzer, Grenadier Divisions Attacking In Konigsberg Clash

Allied Planes Strafe Canada Troops, Error   UNDISCLOSED NUMBER KILLED AS THEY PURSUE RETREATING GERMANS

U.S. Bombers Blast German Headquarters In A Forest   HEAVY DESTRUCTION

Hidden Nazi  Post Smashed  Pighter-Bombers Hit  Forest Headquarters

BECK’S ARRAIGNMENT WILL BE NEXT WEEK   Former Washington C. H. Man Faces Murder Charge

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   GERMAN SALIENT WHITTLED DOWN CONSIDERABLY

Russians Clamp Stranglehold On Baltic Front   With Fate Of Lwow Is Sealed, Reds Drive Toward Warsaw.

Russian: Avalanche Driving’ ° Toward Warsawand Rigaas Armies Doom:Nazis at Lwow

Russians Move Toward Warsaw   Close in on German Stronghold of Lwow, Moscow Announces

German Forces In Stranglehold On Baltic Front   Rains Bog Down Normandy Offensive; Tanks Beaten Back

Soviet Army Seizes Deadly Strangle-Hold On Germans’ Baltic Front In Lithuania

SOVIET ARMY SEALS NAZIS’ FATE AT LWOW   Marching Toward Warsaw; Capture  Skonishki

Russ Strangle Hold On Lithuania Growing Tighter  Lwow Fate Is Sealed; Massive Blow Aimed at Warsaw

Soviets Clamp Tight Grip on Baltic Front   Massive Blow Hurled Toward Polish Capital

Reds On Toward Warsaw   London (}—Russian troops have caplured Ostrov near Lalvia, Premier-Marshal Statin an mnsmnns tanteht

REDS CONTROL — BALTIC FRONT   Nazi Garrison At Lwow Doomed: Drive Toward Warsaw Under Way

Red Army Smashes Ahead °   Captures Rail Center In Lithuania, Pushes. To Within Five Miles Of Nazi Base at Lwow

RUSSIANS HAVE FIRM GRIP ON BALTIC FRONT   Fate of Nazis at Lwow Sealed While Mighty Blow Hurled Against Polish Capital

SOVIETS HURL MASSIVE BLOW AGAINST ENEMY   Nazi Garrison At Lwow Doom ed; Brest Litovsk, Lublin Menaced

Fute of Nazi Garrison at Lwow Is Sealed   RED ARMY HAS STRANGLE-HOLD ON BALTIC FRONT

Explesions Meard in Lwew Sag: gest Nazis Carrying Oui Demelitieas In Preparation fer Withdrawal

Soviet Troops Move Forward   Hurl Massive Blow Toward Warsaw—Seal Fate of Lwow

SOVIETS CLAMP DEATH VICE ON BALTIC FRONT   Reds Gain Over 30 Miles i Warsaw Drive; Seal Nazis’ Fate at Lwow

Russians Seize Strangle-Hold On Baltic Line   Troops Inside Lithuania Seal Fate Of Positions Held By Nazis At Lwow

RUSSIANS HURL MASSIVE BLOW TOWARD WARSAW   SMASH DEEP INSIDE LITHUANIA AND SEAL FATE LWOW BASTION

STRONG HOLD IN LATVIA AREA   Reds Capture Rail Junction On Trans-Lithuanian Link   PUSH AHEAD IN SOUTH

Lwow Garrison Doomed As Red Army Advances   Warsaw Now Only 100 Miles From Russian Vanguard.

REDS CLAMP STRONG HOLD ON BALTICS   Hurling Massive Blow Toward Warsaw; Lwow’s Fate Sealed

Russians Hurl New Offensive Toward Warsaw   Grip Tighitened By Reds on Nazi Front in Baltic

Ernie Pyle Tells Of Briefing Given Bomber Crews Stationed In Italy

Piqua To Honor Capt. Gentile Thursday; Looks Up Pals After Hectic Homecoming

Piqua to Honor: Capt. Don Gentile   Air Ace Renews Old Friendships:

PIQUA HONORS CAPT. GENTILE   Ace Pilot Back Home for Rest—lf He Can Get It — Public Celebration to be Held Thursday.

Yanks Encounter No Resistance In Freneh Push   Report British Operating In Caen Sector Enter Enemy- Orne Stronghold

Forces Are 75 Miles From Caen   Americans May Split To Encircle Paris Via Orleans Also

No Fierce Opposition Met As Rampaging Yanks Continue Their Sweeping Advance to Point About 90 Miles From Objective—Germans South of Seine Menaced by Spectacular Push.

EEP NOR LIKE GIANT SCYTHE   Loire River Cities Of Angers, Nantes Captured   300,000 NAZIS   Threatened By New Action} Allies At Least Ten Miles Past Le Mans

Sweep Threatens - Enemy Troops In South Seine Area   sritish Forces Hammer Into Thury-Harcourt, Germans’ Stronghold On Orne; Nantes And Angers Seized; Americans Meet Only Light Resistance

Americans Turn Northward, 90 Miles From Paris; British Storm Into Thury-Harcourt   Nantes, Angers Are Captured, Brest Unde Heavy Attack; Lorient Nazi Garrison Apparently To Ficht To Last Man

Encircling Move To North Shows Little Opposition   Russians Threaten tc Cross Southern Prussian Boundary

‘REPORTED 37 MILES FROM PARIS SUBURB   Combat Teams Make, Rapid Progress in Securing Brittany Penineiia

‘Americans But 31 Miles Of Paris, Report   Thrust Turns North From Le Mans, With Fighting Heavy

AMERICANS ARE 37 MILES FROM PARIS SUBURBS   Germans Seeking To Rush Needed Supplies To Men

American Troops MoveToEncircle Nazis in Normandy   French Radio Report of Yank Position in France Unconfirmed by Allied Headquarters

Threaten All Nazis South Of Seine   British Seems Shaping Huge Pocket in Line With Yank Drive

THREATEN ALL GERMAN TROOPS SOUTH OF SEINE   British at Caen Believed to Be Shaping Huge Pocket

Americans Are Knifing Ahead From Le Mans   German Report Placea U.S. Forees 30 Miles North Of City Captured Wednesday   Doughboys Scize Nantes and Angers   Yankees Making SeytheLike Sweep Threatening Both Capital and Rone mel Ei North

Great Pocket Being Formed In Normandy   British Troops Support Thrust In Caen Region

BIG NAZI FORCE BEING CUT OFF BY NEW DRIVE   British-Canadian Assault i Caen Sector Slowed; Planes Support Troops

REPORTS PLACE ADVANCE UNITS 37 MILES AWAY   New Moves Threaten All Gem man Forces South Of The Seine

ENTRAPMENT OF 360,000 NAZIS IN FRANCE MAY BE EFFECTED BY SCYTHE-LIKE U. S. SWEEP   American Drive Northward from Le Mans Being Supported by British and Canadians in Caen Sector. Battle for Brest and“Other Cities Goes on

Allies Inching Slowly Towards Paris Defenses   Americans Reported To Have Seized Chartres, Near The French Capital

AMERICAN FORCES THREATEN. NAZIS ~ SOUTH OF SEINE   Knifed- Eastward of Le Mans ‘to Within. Little More Than * 90 Miles of Versailles.   “TURNING NORTHWARD   British: Troops Supported the _Canadian-Polish Thrust Below Caen. s

Change of Direction Is Threat fo AllGermans South of Seine River  British Troops Storm into German Stronghold on Orne 

Huge Yankee Scythe  Swings Toward Paris   Allies in Position To Squeeze 20 Nazi Divisions—Three Brittany Cities Captured

Yankees 90 Miles From Versailles   Reported Threatening _All German Troops South of Seine

REPORT ORNE TURNED NORTH   Soythe-Like Sweep Threat« ens All Germans South OF Seine.   [FORMING HUGE POCKET

This 37 Miles From Versailles Paris Suburb But Denied ~ By German Radio ...

Allies Occupy Nantes, Angers   Armor-Infantry Spearheads Drive Ta ward Chartres; Rommel’s Whole _ Army in Danger :

Paris Radio Reports. Americans Hove Driven Past Alencon, 30 Miles North of Le Mans; Also Move on Orleans

Nazis Offer Weak Resistance   British Units Aid Canadians in Heavy New Push

Russians Are Only Niné Miles From Nazi-held © Yassy. é   FIGHTING IN THE ©  BUKOVINA CAPITAL   German Reinforcements Arrive at Two Finnish  Seaports.

Russians Consolidate Lines For Drive Into Nazi Rumanian Plains   ‘Deliberately Pause to Extend Front Farther Along Prut River; Ability to Solve Problems of Supply Amazes Observers.

Marshal Zhukov’s First Army Has Advanced Along River From North Directly Oppo site Cernauti, Capital Of Bukovina.

Hoffman - Foley Debate Awaited   Interest In Sunday's Affair Is Keen. -

Fight Grows In- Ferocity   Battle as Savage as Any Fought In the Last World War

Huge Tank, Infantry Battles Mount In Fury as Enemy Wages Savage Defense Against Allied Offensive

U. S. First Advances Almost Mile In New Flanking Drive South Of Duren, Rhineland Stronghold

First Gains Mile In Flank Drive South Of Duren   Great Drive Roars Ahead On All Fronts; Germans Evacuate Industrial Basin As Patto Menaces Saarbrucken and Saarlautern.

F.D.R. And Eisenhower Urge Nation To Back Men On Fighting Fronts With Bonds

14 Billion Needed By U.S To Keep Attacks Rollins   Goal Of Sixth Bond Drive Merely Enough To Pay Cost Of Global War For Two-Month Period, President Tells Radio Audience

6TH WAR LOAN IS UNDER WAY   $14 Billion Is Goal In Nationwide Campaign

Auseale Feast :D.R. and Eleukewer Launch Nation's 6th War Loan Drive

14 Billion Sought in Sixth War Loan Driv Opening Monday to Keep Allies Rolling

6,000,000 OPEN WAR BUND DRIVE   Goal Call For Sales 0 Five Billion Dollars To Individuals

FR. Opens Sixth Loan Drive; Goal $14 Billion    Eisenhower Asks ;  More Support  From Home Front

Nation Urged To Buy Bonds   FDR Formally Opens Sixth Loan Campaign

Seek 14 Billions In 6th War Loan   President Informs People War Costs 250 Millions Daiiv

Nation Opens 6th War Loan Drive Today   President Says War Not Over

FR, Eisenhower Urge Nation To Back Servicemen   Sixth War Loan Drive Gets Under Way With’ Goal of. 14 Billion

[Americans To Dig Deep For  New Loan Drive   President Roosevelt Re minds Nation Many A Costly Battle Must  Be Fought Yet ‘

Carroll County Quotas   Nation’s Quota 14 Billions in 6th War Loan

Gen. Eisenhower President Open 6th Bond Drive   5,000 Pounds Of Shells Per Minute Takes : Lots Of Money

PRESIDENT ASKS BOND SUPPORT   Chief Executive Says Cost of Wor About 250 Millions Each Day

6th War Loan Drive Begins   Roosevelt Savs War Is Not Over—-Costly Battles Sull Ahead. s

WPB O.K.’s’ Coal Buying   Would Store Supply This ‘Summer For Winter Use

OPOSED TO KEEP NE OUTPUT HIGH        ( vernment May Purchase Coal For Resale Later; Plan Depends on GPA

Effect Of V-2 - Is Less Than Predecessot   Rockets Come Too Fast To Be Seen But Deep PenetrationReduces Amount Of Damage

Tells of Life in Britain Under Bombardment of Nazis’ V-2 Robots   Ry ROBERT MUSEL

 Message To President Says Japs ‘Defeated, ! Put To Flight’ In Decisive Naval.Battle

Enemy is defeated, heavily  damaged, Halsey announces   May he war’s decisive engagement; only fragmentary reports available

Americans Sink Several Enemy Cruisers and Destroyers and Down 150 Planes — Lose Carrier and PT Boats — Fight Continues With MacArthur Saying Defeat Is Worst Suffered by Foe’s Navy in War.

Carrier Sunk, 5 Enemy Battleships Damaged In Decisive U.S. Victory

DEWEY-BRICKER SEEM FAVORITE elICKET FOR GOP   California Chief Appointed @ Keynoter but East Now Main Battleground

OBSERVERS. NOW PREOIGTING BEWCt AND GOV. RICKER   To Head Republican National Ticket in. the 1944 Election 

DEWEY-BRICKER SEEN AS THE GOP TICKET CHOICE   Observers Predict Scleetion, Barring Convention Upset

Ubechiveha NOW PREDICTING DEWe! AND GOV. BRIGKER   To Head Republican National Ticket in the 1944 Election

BRICKER MAY PLACE SECOND        /ORLO. GOVERNOR AND WARREN E. REGARDED AS LEAD “ING. VICE “PRESIDEN: TIAL ‘CANDIDATES

JAP AIR POWER HAS DISAPPEARED  FROM NEW GUINEA   Twenty-Third Raid in Month Made on Once Powerful Truk Base.

YUGOSLAV ARMY WRECKS TRAINS   German “Supply Lines Broken As Patriots Take Initiative

BOY WOUNDED ~ BY SHOT GUN   Coloma Youth Is Seriously Injured In Accidental Shooting

Ball Helps FDR.  Truman Declares   Democratic Chances Reported Better In Minnesota

Fourth Term Is Favored 2to 1   Survey of Massachusetts Delegates Shows Lean ing to FDR.

Russians Sink Five Axis Troop Ships   Germans Report Offensive on Romanian Front   Germans Throw Reinforcemenis Into Denmark on Huge Scale as Sabotage Intensifies

Germans Massing  Denmark Forces   Troops Pour In for Large Scale Fighting

Germans Throw Reinforcements Into Denmark on Huge Scale as Sabotage Intensifies

SUDDEN MOVE STIRS FEARS ~ AMONG SWEDES   Danish Border Now Fully Sealed by Hitlerites

NAZI RESISTANCE 'CRUMBLING ON ‘SOUTHERN FRON   Allies Strike At Toulon, Chief Naval Base: Seore Gains

Naval Base is Shelled   Allied Casualties Less than 300 in South France Arca

U.S. Armor Pushes Nea: Naval Base   Other Strong Units Close On Cannes   «, Meee SS i SS ere

Berlin Admits Normandy Defeat® As Tanks Stab Into Outskirts of Paris; Yanks Launch Toulon Drive

France's Main Naval Base Expected to Fall Within Few Days — Many German Prisoners Being Taken in Drive from Southern Coast,

South Army Near Toulor And Cannes   Troops Ramming At Ports’ Gates; Resistance Folds

RESISTANCE ON RIVIERA FRONT IS COLLAPSING   Allied Forces Closing in On Toulon, Extend Drives into Interior

J, S. ARTILLERY  :  SHELLS TOULON  WUTER DEFENSES   Invasion Cost  Less Than 300

Cannes Also Under Fire. Of Invaders   Less Than 300 Casualties on Southern Front

Toulon, French Main Naval Base, ‘Attacked by U.S.   Infantry Smashes to Within Seven Miles of City

YANK FIELD GUNS ATTACK DEFENSES ‘COVERING TOULON   Tank and Mobile Infantry Smash Through Germar Resistance to Within 7 Miles of City.   PUSH INTO CANNES DUE MOMENTARILY   United Nations Broadcast From Algiers Told Germans They Were Outfought, Should Surrender.

Yanks Are Advancing On Cannes   Last Enemy Units Furthe North Being Cut to Shreds by Allies

Colunin Reported Within Seven Miles Of Great Naval Base   Cannes Outskirts Reported Reached   Casualties To Date Total 300 Killed, Wounded Or Missing

And Bombard Toulon France’s Main Naval Base   ADVANCE INLAND OVER 30 MILES   Thousands Of German Prisoners Taken With Little Resistance

Toulon Menaced By Yankee Guns   Tanks And Infantry Pierce Crumbling German Defenses Around Naval Base; Columns In North Penetrate Thirty Miles

Big Guns Hammer At Toulon Defenses   Flying Columns Push More Than 30 Miles Inland Cutting  Foe’s Communications

CASUALTIES ‘OF ALLIES eARE LIGHT   Yank Troops Expected To Enter Cannes Before Long

YANK FIELD GUNS BLAST AT TOULON   Bombarding Famed Port’s Outer Defenses

American Field Guns Bombard  Toulon Defenses   Other Yank Units Expected To Break  Into Riviera Resort

EDEN DENIES . U.S, DICTATING * TO ENGLANE   Churchill Bluntly  Demands Vote of Confidence

20,00 NAZIS ARE KILLED IN LATEST  SOVIET OFFENSIVE    Surprise Smash in Central Sector Catches German:  Napping,

Sea Cavalry’ Tricks Nips   Turn Amphibious Tankmen, Land Behind Jap Lines On West Leyte

Local Red Cross Holdinc series Of Lectures; Mrs. nartung Attends Schoc.

U.S. General Had Washington Talk  ‘2nd Fron’ Chief Visited ’ DNR Marschall

SENATOR: E. D. SMITH  OF SOUTH CAROLINA  DIED ON FRIDAY IRRECONCILABLE FOE NEV  DEAL PROGRAM PRESEN’ ADMINICTR ATION

“Cotton Ed” Smith Dies   Colorful Senator From South Carolina, 80, Succumbs at Home

DEATH CLAIMS SEN. ED SMITH   Veteran of 35 Years In Senate Passes At Carolina Home

SENATOR SMITH DIES OF ILLNESS   Held Record for Longest  Service in Senate

Sen. E. D. Smith OFS. C. Is Dead   Uncompromising Anti-New Dealer was 80 Years Old

“Cotton Ed” Smith, South Carolina — Senator, Passes On  Colorful Democrat Die: Suddenly At Lynchburg Home

ED SMITH DIES AT S. 6. HOME   Death Came Today At L.ynchburg; Was Stormy Petrel Of South Carolina Polli tics.

Senator Smith  Dies At Home   ‘Cotton Ed’ Of South Carolina Was Senator From 1909 Until His Death.

Heart Ailment Ends Colorful Senate Career   ‘Cotton Ed’ Smith Dies At Plantation Home This Morning

‘COTTON ED” DIES   Senator Ellison Smith Had Served South Carolina Since 1909

U.S. Senator Cotton Ed Smith Dead   80-Year-Old Solon Bucked New Deal; Opposed 4th Term

OEN. “COTTON ED OMITH SUCCUMBS   Death of Dean of the Senate And Bitter Critic of New Deal Occurs at Home in Tiny South Carolina Town

\CottonEd Smith, Renowned Anti-New Deal Senator, Is Stricken At His S. C. Home

SENATOR SMITH (F S.C. DIES   VETERAN OF 6 TERMS FOUGHT NEW DEAL POLICY)

Death to Senator “Cotton Ed’ Smith   ‘South Carolinian Had Been in U.5, Senate 35 Years

Cotton Ed Smith Dies At Home   Famed Southern Solon Dies of Heart Ailment

‘Cotton Ed Is Taken By Death   South Carolina Senator, New Deal Foe, Dies In Lynchburg

Willkie Tour Is Continued   GOP Aspirant. Will . Invade Idaho Next —

$200,000 DENIED ~~ SECURITY BOARD   MISSOURL HOUSE REFUSES FUNDS TO ENLARGE STAFF AND BOOST SALARIES.

House Refuses Salary Increase For Social Work   Test Vote Indicates Committee Will Be Upheld

ULTIMATUM 10 ‘SURRENDER OR DIE’ UNHEEDED   ‘Complete Destruction’ Of Large German City Begun

Evelyn N. einen Becomes Bride  Of Ted Rodesch   "Wedding. Held At St. “Mary’s $..

Evelyn N. Meinen Becomes Bride   Of Ted Rodesch  “Wedding, Held At St.Mary’s * Church. Remsen. _

SWEDEN T0 BAR ~ WAR CRIMINALS   ANY WHO SLIP ACROSS FRON. TIERS WILL BE SENT BACK TO OWN COUNTRIES.

Sweden fo Refuse War Criminals Haven And Return Them fo Their Own Countries

NAVAL BASE ALSO TAKEN   Russians Drive To Within 60 Miles Of Bulgar Border

RESISTANCE TO RUSSIANS WEAK, DISORGANIZED   Cossacks And Tanks Race Toward Bucharest And Bulgarian Border

Soviet Forces Race On TowardBucharest   Series Of Sensational Advances Topples Constanta, Black Sea Naval Base.

RUSSIANS NEARING BULGARIAN BORDER   Four Soviet Armies Have Launched New Major Offensives

Reds Race Thru Romania, Close In on Bulgaria   Constanta, Main Nazi Black Sea Naval Base Falls

Sensational Red Assault Topples Black Sea Base   Soviets Race Halfway Across Romania-60 Mi. From Bulgaria

Reds Continue Dash on Capital Of Romania   German Black Sea Base of Constanta Now in Soviet Hands

‘Sensational Advances Up to 70 Miles in 24 Hours Topple Constanta and Near Ploesti Oi) Fields

Reds Forging On Bucharest At Fast Clip   Germans Struggling + Desperately to Save Ploesti Oil Region

Russians Capture Constanta   Black Sea Naval Base Topples As Cossacks, Infantry Race to Bucharest

Reds Launch Big Drive to Free Czechs   Troops Sweeping Across Border To Join Partisans

WN EXPLOSION   10 Victims Are Members of The Same Family; Six Are Children.

Hemp Situation Inquiry Launched  Congress Seeking Basis for Rumors

GERMAN FUGITIVES CAUGHT NEAR CAMP   Nazis Recognized by Women When They Ask for Food

Blast Kills 27,  100 Missing,  380 Injured Several Small Craft  At Pearl Harbor  Destroyed May 21 HAD BEEN REPORTED BY ADMIRAL NIMITZ  Three Men Lose Lives “And Seven Missing In Oahu Blast Sunday   Several Small Craft At Pearl Harbor Destroyed May 21

BLAST KILLS 27 AT PEARL HARBOR   ONE HUNDRED MISSING, ‘380 WOUNDED BY EXPLOSION AMONG LANDING CRAFT. 

SMALL CRAFT DESTROYED IN BIG EXPLOSION   DISASTER OCCURS DURING LOADING OF AMMUNITION

MANY LOSE LIVES : IN HAWAII BLAST   Explosion Destroys Lend Craft in Pearf Harbor May 21

1] Men Killed At Pearl Harbor   100 Others Missing In an Explosion

25 Overcome By Monoxide   Brooklyn Has Second Gas ‘Accident in 2 Days

25 OVERCOME BY GAS IN HOLD OF VESSEL   Carbon Monoxide Accident Follows Chlorine Gas

Another Gas Aceident  In New York   Men Overcome at Brooklyn Pier; 1,000 Affected Thursday

ver Gas trikes 400   Gas Leal& From Tank Being T. To Brooklyn Pier

Gas Fumes Overcome Hundreds in Brooklyn Score in Hold of Ship at Pier Affected

Having Trouble Buying Beer? Well, The Feeling Is Mutual  Thirsty New Orleans Runs Out Regularly, Soldiers Form ‘Beer Scouts, Incorporated’

WEEKEND SHORTAGE OF BEER IN OLD NEW ORLEANS PUTS BARKEEP ‘JON REAT. SPOT WITH EXPLAINING

vw) ate’ . gir  _a Pe ia a wee Sie 20 PES LVI  a el al  1 ~ ron any ee Lown ger Ba a i wi le) wed,

Athens Harbor Area In British Hands  rey CTE DI «A,T 6 U4 CUED EP EO ee

British Grasp ~ Half of Athens   Piraens Port Also Cleared  Or FEACE

ELAS FORCES PUSHED BACK   British Now Hold Over Half Of Athens and Have Occupied Piraeus

Troops Push On In France   Reinforcement Pours Over Channel To Embattled Area

Nazis Report Counter-Blow   Heaviest Fighting Centers Around Cherbourg Peninsula, Streets of Caen Reported Reached

_azis "‘e _Cz fierce 4a77es, ig ring in Caen Ae D0r-eCc; ‘_osses 32@.0W 2X eC7a7I0Ns

Page Says Texas’ 26-Year-Olds R unning Short  Men 26-30 May Be Called In  lane IL. at <x

Texans Over 26 Due To Be Drafted Soon   Supply of Men Under 26 in This State Almost Exhausted

TYPHOONS HIT GERMANTANKS AT NWMEGEN   While American and RAF  Bombers Are Grounde?  on Account of Bad Weather.   Hit Calais

Heavy Bombers Are Grounded By Weather   But. Mustangs Surprise Nazi’Sub: faid: Destroyer SO Cea, f-Deiijark”

AMERICAN LED FORCES SIEGE JAP RAIL CITY   Reach Myitkyina After 600-mile Drive   2,000 NIPS KILLED

Mate Urges Wife To Have Affair   Hopes It Will Bring Her Back To Him

Hubby Admits Spirit World Letters Bogus   “Occult Messages” Sent. to: Wife, Urging Her-to™ ‘ “Have. Affair Witha  ‘Younger: Man _

Bill Would Curb Marriage As Hobby   Says He Wrote ‘Spirit’ Notes To Get Wife To Have Love Affair

Decoration Dav Rites For Marysville Are Sat By Committees.   Programs Set At Cemetery And School, With Parade To Be Held Between These   MAYOR PROCLAIMS POPPY DAY HERE

GILES PROCLAIM POPPY DAY SAT.   Mayor Hopes All. Citizens Will Wear Memorial Flowers °

Saturday, May 27,  Proclaimed Poppy Day By Ruston Mayor   Richardson Asks Al! Citizens To Observe Day By Wearins Poppy

SATURDAY, MAY 2/ WILL BE POPPY DAY   Proclamation Issued By Mayor Wm. B. Carlton Today.

ALLIES TAKE JAP BASTION   British Capture Town Of Buthedaung After 2 Years’ Fighting

ALLIES IN BURMA TAKE BUTHEDAUNG   SEIZE AREA NECESSARY TO ADVANCE ON PORT OF AKYAB TO THE SOUTR.

Buthedaung taken by Asiatic force after two_years bifter jungle fighting

British and Indians Take Vital Road for Drive Against Burmese Port

Reich’s Air Resistance Crumbles Under Heavy Blows by Allied Planes   Nazis Launch Large Scale Attacks at Stanislawow But Are Repulsed; Russians Take Several Strong Defenses Around Sevastopol, Gain in Bessarabia

2,000 American Planes Blast Smoking Reich   Powerful Attack Costs Only 10 U. S. Aircraft

FLOOD CONTROL PLANS APPROVED   Billion Dollar Project Get: FDR's Signature

CONGRESS FACES SOCIAL TAX FIGHT   LEGISLATORS SWING BACK INTO ACTION AT NOON TOMORROW

SECURITY TAX FIGHT SHAPING   Payroll. Levy Goes Up January 1 Unless Congress Intervenes.

Solons Face  Sharp Fight   ‘Controversial [ssues "Face Dying Conzress

SHARP STRUGGLE LOOMING OVER SECURITY TAX   Will Double january  Unless New Legislation Is Enacted; Not  Likely Against FDR's Opposition.

Solons Expect Battle on Security Tax   Rate Freeze Jan. 1 To Be Opposed By Administration

SECURITY TAX BATTLE LOOMS   Congress Heads Back For Last Session, Faces  Tough Schedule

Security Tax Fight in Sight  Congress May Act n Jan. 1] Increase

FINAL SESSION OF THIS CNGRESS HAS NCW TAX PROBLEM   MATTER OF FREEZING OF SOCIAL SECURITY RATES TO BRING FIGHT

Sharp Battle Over Pavroll  Taxes Shape:   Fight Shapes Up On Eve Of Convening Of Final Sesean Of Congress.   PENDS BEFORE GROUP

Social Security Is Issue Again   Payroll Tax Due For Doubling Unless Congress Intervenes

Battle Looms on Social Security  Move to "Freeze" Taxes to Be Opposed

Social Security ts Pressing Problem   Extension of Tax Freeze Debatable

SOCIAL SECURITY TAX FIGHT LOOMS   LEVY ON PAYROLL WILL INCREASE JANUARY 1

Fight Shapes In Congress   Over Freezing Social Security Tax Rate; Other Major Problems at Hand

CONGRESS SET FOR SESSION   Fight Shapes over ‘Freezing’ Social Security Taxes; Leg. islation Pending

FIGHT SHAPES UP IN CONGRESS ON. S$. TAX FREEZING   Other Matters Also Await Congressional Action — Included on Calendar Is Postwar Highway Construction Program a

SOGIAL SECURITY BATTLE NEARING   Bitter Fight Foreseen Over ‘Freezing’ of Taxes at One Percent

Struggle Seen Over ‘Freezing’ Security Tax   Automatically Increases To Two Fer Cent January: 1 Dnless Congress Tntervenes

BRIGGS INDICTED FOR FORGERY OF HOPKINS LETTER   Grand Jury Also Cites Ickes’ Assistant for Mail Erauel

JURY INDICTS CEORGE BRIGGS   Faces Forgery Charge In Famed Hopkins Letter Case

Briggs Indicted After “Hopkins Letter” Inquiry   Aide to Secretary Ickes Charged with Forging Celebrated Note

Ickes Aide Is Indicted   Briggs Accused of Forgery ond Using Mails to Defraud

U.S. Jury Indicts Briggs, Links Him With Letter   Defendant Is Facing Accusations of Pavsums wma Revel

JURORS INDICT AIDE OF ICKES   Charged With Forging Celebrated “Hopkins Letter” Published in Book

FORMER SECRETARY ‘TO ICKES  CHARGED WITH FORGING — NAME ON' LETTER GIVEN SPARKS _

BRIGGS INDICTED BY GRAND JURY   Suspended Aide to Ickes Accused in Connection With Hopkins Letter

riggs Indicted — ‘For Forgery in ‘Lelter Mystery   False Pretense und Use Of Mails to Defraud Also Charged

Briggs Indicted for Part in Letter Snar!   Is Charged with Forgery, False Pretense and Use Of Mails to Sefroud

BRIGGS CALLED LETTER FORGER   Aide To Ickes Indicted In Hopkins-W illkie Political Trick

U. S. Jury Indicts Briggs, Links Him With Letter  - Defendant Is Facing Accusations of Foraery and Fraud

Hopkins Letter Probe Nears End   Next Move Is Up to Members of Federal! Grand Jury

Charged With Forging Celebrated “Hopkins Letter” Published in Book

Indict Briggs In Letter Row   Former  Newspaperman Charged With Forgery, False Pretense.

Briggs Indicted By Federal Jury   Forgery And Fraud By Mail Choraed

Hopkins Lettex Thriller Goes To Grand Jury   Curtain Raises Today On Last Act?

Briggs Is Indicted By Jury   Charged With Forgery, Fraud, False Pretense

BRIGGS INDICTED ONLETTER-CHARGE      Forging of “Hopkins” DocuGtahgsaned in Three     awry

Briggs Indicted In" Letter’ Case   eh 2 wus  Ickes’ Assistant Charged for Forgery,  Pratonen Mani! Fraud

Briggs Indicted On Charge Of Forging Name Of Hopkin:   Confidential Aide to Ickes Named as Writer of “Mystery Letter”—Accused Is Expected to Post Rand of $2.000 Today —

Briggs Indicted In Letter Case Charged With Forgery,  False Pretense

Briggs Indicted For Forging  Hopkins Letter   Ickes’ Aid Accused Of False Pretense, Use Of Mails to Defraud

INDICTED FOR HOPKINS LETTER   George N. Briggs, Aide To Secretary Ickes, Accused Of Forgery

INDICT BRIGGS IN “HOPKINS LETTER” CASE   Grand Jury Charges Suspended Ickes Aide With Forgery, False Pretense and Use of the Mails to Defraud.

CONDITIONS GN a1 ON WHICH JAPS TO ALL:FOR-SUPRLIES      Hull Says Note Under Censideration But Does Not Enumerate Details

RECEIVES JAP RELIEF OFFER   Outlines Conditions for Aid ing Prisoners

HULL RECEIVES NOTE FROM FOE   Japan Outlines Position ii Distributing Relief Supplies to Prisoners

Japs Ready to Aid Prisoners?   Hull Uncertain as to Meaning of Tokxo Nate

Substantial Portion G1 First German Parachute Division Destroyed; Gustav Line South Of Appennines No Longer Exists   LARGE NUMBERS OF NAZIS KILLED

DEWEY DELAYS STRETCH DRIVE   Withholds Final Attacks Until He Feels Time Is Ripe

DEWEY AT FORUM   Will Deliver Second Foreign Affairs Speech of paign

Hot Stretch  Drive Planned  By Deweyites   Last Ten Days of Campaign: Will Bring Great est Efforts to Reach  * _-_Independents

REPLY PLANNED. "TO GOP: CHARGE      OUsE COMMITEE CHAIRMAN "PROMISES STATEMENT. ON: «ALLEGED WITHHOLDING .. "OF ARMY REPORT  _

5 War Reporters Slightly Injured In Beachhead Bombing   Ernie Pyle Has Narrow Escape as Press Hdq’s. Is Ripped Apart   By EDWARD KENNEDY

Seventh Scores Newest Advances  On 150-Mile Fron   Russians Invade Western Slovakia Close to Budapest

Seventh Army Reaches Soil Of Germany  ‘Joins Three Others Increasing Pressure  On Reich Defenders ~

KALISPELL FLIER ONE OF THREE MEN BEING RESCUED   Second Rescue Party Descending Into Grand Canyon’ in . Effort to Remove Three ‘Stranded Army Fliers

Press Rescue Of Stranded Army Fliers   Three Soldiers In Grand Canyon

H. S. STURGIS DIES   Widely Kown Publisher of Neosho Times Succumbs  After Long Illness.

Many Japanese Dying in Jungles Of New Guinea   Learned by Yank Fliers Who ‘Chute from Plane, Return to Headquarters

ISOLATED JAPS ARE. STARVING TO DEATH   American Fliers Give Picture of Japs in New Guinea

TiyersReport Jans Dying in  Jungle Area  “New Gui nea Wildernes: Aiding  Alltes in)

Yankees, Lost In Jungle,Find _ Japs Starving   Mullens Man One of Crew Discovering Enemy Dying in N. Guinea

Jungle Mopping Up Jap Soldiers   Many Found Dead From Starvation

ISOLATED JAPS ARE DYING - OF DISEASE AND STARVATION   Bomber Crew Which Parachuted In New Guinea Mountains Find Skeletons Of Nipponese Soldiers; Native Villages Wiped Out By Grenades

DEA! BEATS YANKS TO NEW GUINEA FOES  Jungle Choking Life From Japs

Isolated Japanese dying of starvatior land disease in New Guimea mountains

BLAIR GROUP PASSES TO G0 INTO SERVICE   Altoona and Hollidaysburg Registrants Are Found Available for Calls.

COUNTY GROUP PASSES TO 60 INTO SERVICE   Altoona and Hollidaysburg Boards Have Registrants Pre-Inducted.

FR Faced With Problems In ’44   President Opens Twelfth Year With Prayer, Hope

ROOSEVELT. STARTS 2TH YEAR TODAY      Year Opens With Him Facing Big Decisions

FD. R. BEGINS TWELFTH YEAR AS PRESIDENT WITH PEACE PRAYER   ELEVEN YEARS OF DEPRESSION, UPHEAVAL, WAR, COMPLETED BY FIRST EXECUTIVE

6.0:P. SCORES CIO GROUP IN VOTE EFFORTS   Political Action Unit Charged Violating Practices Act

CIO Political Group Said Violating Law   Republican Chairman Asks Attorney General to Rule

TACTICS OF C10 RAPPED BY GOP   Political Poteney Of Union Watched In Alabama Voting

Neither Pro or Anti-New Deal Candidates Run Strong, Sentiment Not Shown

GREAT BOMB LOAD DROPPED BY FLIERS   Halmahera. Island” baci Attacked by Heavy Bombers .

Drop 315 tons of bombs on Japs in broad raids  Record lead falls on Halmahera; slay 1.647 troops im nine sectors

HALMAHERA IS BOMBED AGAIN   Record Load Of Explosives Dropped On Jap PaciLp Races

GREAT BOMB LOAD - DROPPED BY FLIERS   Halmahera Island Again “Attacked by Heavy — - Bombers 

Parish Dodges Chair, Dies In Hospital   Death Sertence Stayed Two Weeks Ago By Governor

"Odd Jobs" Auction in Fashionable Village Nets Million in War Bonds

OFFER TAK PAYERS LOCAL ASSISTANCE   Immediate Filing May Save Long Wait in Line Later.

Farmers Must File Returns   Those Who Sent in Estimated Figures Must File by Mar. 15

DRAFT OFFICIALS CANCEL SCHEDULES   Viore Than 600 Replacement Plans For Industrial Establishments In This State Are Voided

JAPS ABANDON TRUK GARRISON   Enemy Shipping Blasted tr Attack Off Manado

JAPS EVACUATE MANADO BASE   Fliers Sink Five Nip Ships. Damage Three Others

JAPS ADMIT TRUK AS OOD AS LOST   Central Carolines Garrison Left Completely to its Own Resources }

JAPS CONCEDE TRUK ISOLATED   Smashing Air Attack Made By, U. S. Planes on Celehes Bass.

Truk Abandoned By Jap Ships As Yankees Bomb   Americans Raid Two Jima in  Voleano Islands

—PACIFIC—  CELEBES LISHED BY ALLIED BOMBS   ‘Japs Admit Truk: Almost Completely On Its Own Resources

Jap Base At Truk ‘ Left To Its Fate   Jsle Must ‘Establish Self-Sufficiency Of Food, Tokyo Says; Nip Ships Blasted

JAPS FORCED TO LEAVE TRUK IN THE CAROLINES   Gen. MacArthur Announces Japanese Have Suffered Tremendous Losses

Japs Abandon Garrison At Isolated Truk   Americans Make  More Air Raids

Bombers Sink 5 Jap Ships   Truk Garrison Cut Off, Tokyo Radio Admits

Japs’ Truk Base To Own Defense   Gen. MacArthur Reports On Sinking Of Enemy Transports Off Celebes

Japs on Truk Left to Own Resources   Smashingly-Effective Attack Made on Jap Shipping Off Celebes; Chinese Take Larger Part of Fengchung

TOKYO ADMITS TRUK DOOMED   MacArthur’s Bombers Rp Key Jap Isles In South Pacific

Bombers Lash lwo Jima Again   Tokyo Admits Loss of Pilots and Aircraft “Inescapable” in Admitting Abandonment of Carolines Fortress; Chinese Smash Attack

DEWEY WOULD EXTEND SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN   Urges Broader Program In Last Talk On West Coast......

Dewey Proposes Expanding Social Security to Cover 20 Million More Persons

Dewey End: West Coast Campaign  Proposes 5-Point   Proposes 5-Point Program to Strengthen Social Security for All

DEWEY IS PLEDGED TO ENLARGED SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM  GOP CANDIDATE CHEEREI BY THRONG OF 90,000 AT ING ANCEILCS

Dewey Outlines Five-Point Social Security Program Before Crowd of 90,000

FDR’s Address To Answer GOP ““Misrepresentations’”   Dewey Pledges Wide Social Security Plan Ac Current Campaign Nears Wind-Up

DEWEY ATTACKS ADMINISTRATION AS LAGGARD IN PLAN FOR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC SECURITY; OFFERS PROGRAM

DEWEY TELLS 5 POINT PLAN FOR SECURITY   Outlines Expanded Program for 90,000 Cheer ing Spectators

Social Security. For All—Dewey   90,000 Cheer Nominee In Los Anageles

Dewey Lists Five-Point Security Plar   Protection For Twenty Million

Dewey Maps Security — Program —      GOP Nofainee Pledges Extension of Protection to 20,000,000 Per-. sons Not Now Covered

DEWEY PLEDGES BROADER SOCIAL SECURITY DESIGN   SAYS 20,000,000 PERSONS IN U. S. ARE UNPROTECTED

Dewey Would Cover Millions in His Security Plan  GOP Candidate Will Make Oklahoma  Sneech on Manday

Dewey Offers Security Plan  Ot Wide Scope   GOP Candidate Addresses 90,000 People in Largest Meeting of Campaign at  Los Angeles.

Dewey Plan For Security Given Nation   Tells 5-Point Program to Cheering Crowd of 90,000 at Los Angeles 

Dewey Outlines 5-Point — Security Program To A Cheering Crowd Of 90,000

Throng of 90,000  Hears Gov. Dewey   Republican Nominee Pledges Full Social Security Program

90,000 Hear G.0.P. Choice End Far Western Tour In Los Anaeles Talk

Dewey Sets Forth. His  Social Plans   President Will Make First Speech of Campaien Tenicht

DEWEY WINDS UF WESTERN COAST PHASE OF BRIVE      Makes Address te . 90,000 in Los Angeles Coliseum

Dewey Unveils His Plans For Social Security To 90,000   Says Social Progress In U. S. Did Not Begin In ’33

Dew ey P ledges Social See ‘urity   90.000 People Hear Presidential Nominee Discuss Program

Gov. Dewey Attacks Administration For Not Going Far Enough in Providing Social, Economic Security

Dewey Outlines His Views On Social Security   Addresses 90,000 In Lo: Angeles Stadium

DEWEY WANTS BROADENING OF SECURITY PLAN   90,000 Cheer GOP Speaker; Next Talk to Be in Oklahoma City

SECURITY ISMAIN ISSUE IN DEWEY SPEECH   Will Make Final Major Talk In Oklahoma City

Dewey Urges An Expanded Social Security Setup   Would Cover Millions Not Now Protected By National  aw.

90,000 Hear Dewey Promise Expansion  of Social Security   Pledges Program Which Would Take in Many Now Unprotected

DEWEY HEARD BY 90,000 IN LOS ANGELES   Ends West Coast Phase Of Campaign

Dewey Pledges Security   Candidate Would Extend Program To 20,000,000 More

GOP Presidential Nominee Outlines Program Before 90,000 At Los Angeles —Cites American Desire For Unity

Dewey Favors Broadening of Security Act   Pledged to Program to Include All Not Now Protected

Dewey for More: Social Security   Proposes 20 Million More Persons Share Benefits Under Law

Dewey Hits FR’s Social Legislation   Stops Too Soon, He Tells 90,000

Dewey Winds Up Campaign Drive On Pacific Coast   90,000 Persons Hear Republican Candidate In Los Angeles Speech

Dewey Pledges Extension of Social Security   Would Cover Farmers, Domestics Wader Od Age Benefits. Extend Beamalewmen! lacerasre

Dewey Ends West Coast Campaign Tour; Proposes Broader Social Security Plan

Broadened Social Plan, Urges Dewey   Spoke Before 90,000 En thusiastic Persons Ir Los Angeles Stadiww: Oklahoma Next

Heads For Speech At Oklahoma City; Heard By 90,000 Persons In Los Angeles Stadium

Dewey Backs Wider Social Security Plan   Talks on Californians’ Favorite Subject to StarStudded Audience in Les Anveles

MORE TESTIMONY IS GIVEN COMMITTEE   Probers Into Cigarette Shortage Still In Dark As To Causes For Scarcity

STRIKE DOWN FRA VALLEY   Beyond German Strongpoint of Jajatico in Bold Threat to Livorno and Pisa; Opposition.   Fifth Army Busy

FLANKING MOVE WORRIES NAZIS   Americans Strike Down Era Valley In Italy To Spring Trap

YANKS DRIVE TOWARD ARNO RIVER VALLEY   British Forces Still Probe At Elaborate Defenses Arezzo 36 Miles From  Florence

5th Threatens. Flank in Italy   Northward Thrust Perils  Raa Flarenee Aren

STH ARMY DRIVES ‘DOWN ERA VALLE}   MOVE CONSTITUTES FLANKING THREAT TO PISA AND PORT OF LIVORNO.

Germans Facing Defeat in Italy   Americans Attempt Flanking Movement

Leyte Forces Make Progress In First Hout   Two -Pronged Landings Bierce As Revenge’ — . For 742 Sought’ 

Bombers Smash German Vessels In Doomed Port   Unofficial Reports Say Bordeaux, Troyes Captured By Allies

Port of Le Havre Doomed and Nazis Try Evacuations   "Americans Rampage Through Eastern, Southern France

SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS OF ALLIED E XPEDI  ‘wrryem”, A TYRYT V*srxTve°"% . See aya

Escape Vessels Bombe   Allies in France Advance at Will Against Germans

Notice Is Called To Important Dates In Connection With Withholding Tax

Withholding Tax   January Ist Is Date When New Individual Tax Law Is Effective

WAR'S END SHOULD TERMINATE’ LEASE, LEND PROGRAM. FR   Partnership of Allied Nations Should Continue, However, President States

No Lease Lend Aid After War   Roosevelt Statement Places Program On Duration Basis   POINTED REPLY TO THE BRITISH   Figures On Aid Both From U. §. and England Are Announced

FOR URGES END OF LEND-LEASE WITH THE WAR   Gives Pointed Reply to Suggested Extension Into Peacetime

LEND--LEASE TO END WITH PEACE SAYS ROOSEVELT   But Partnership Of Nations Must Continue And Grow Stronger

End Lend-Lease With the War, F.D.R. Advises   But the President Says United Nations’ Partnership Must Become Stronaer

Lend-Lease Figures Given  Should Sten When   Should Stop When War Ends, FDR Tells  Congress

EF. D Says Victory. Should: See End Of Lend-Lease   Totals: Rev. ealed At Capitol Shows Contributions Of ' Britain. Over. 3: Billion

‘Lend-lease should end  with war’ President tells congress views

FOR To Congress: Stop Lend-Lease With End Of War   Calls For Continuance Of United Nations ‘‘Partnership’”’

FDR Reports On Lend-Lease; To ‘End With War’   Reverse Program From United Kingdom Gives U.S. $3,348,127,000 While America Has Sent British $9,321,549,000 Worth of Materials

F D.R. Would Enc Lend - Lease ‘When War Ends   But United Nations Partnership Must Go On _And Grow Stronger.

Roosevelt For Limiting Time  Of Lend-Lease   President Saya It Should End With War; Previously Called For Continuation Until Japs Surrendered

Roosevelt For Lend-Lease End After Victory   President Says That Allied Partnership Should Continue

Lease Aid Stops at War’s End   Roosevelt Makes Policy Declaration in Letter to Congress

F.D.R. Declares Lend-Lease Should. End With The War But “Partnershin’Must Continue

PARTNERSHIPS MUST 60: AHEAD   Says Present Program Combined 6 a = a

LEND-LEASE MAY END WITH THE WAR   President Roosevelt Makes Report To Congress On Lend Lease

Lend Lease Will End With Peace, President Says   No Repayment for Difference In Values; Can be Computed Only by Total Aid Comparison

War Should ‘}erminate Lend-Lease   Roosevelt) Adds That United  Nations Partnership Must Grow Stronger

LEND-LEASE SHOULD END  Says It Should   Says It Should Cease With End of War

F.D.R. SAYS LEND-LEASE FOR WAR ONL’   President Tells Congress Reciprocal Aid Should Cease When Conflict Ends—U. S. Help Totals 28 Billion Dollars.

” END WITH WAR, _ FDR PROPOSES   President Makes Statement on Cost of Program — Cites Reverse Lend-Lease

F. D. R. SUGGESTS LEND LEASE END. WHEN WAR ENDS   Suggestion Also Applies (to  Reverse.Lend Lease—Is Reply to Proposal That System Be Continued .Afler Conflict Cléroe

FDR Reports on Lend-lease Polic  Tells Congress It Should End with Wa

Stop Assisting Nations When War Is Ended   Pointed Reply To Ideas For Assistance After Wars Have Stopped.   K EE P PARTNERSHIP

FDA Aako ENG OF LEND-LeAat WITH THE WAR   Praises Reverse Lend-Lease Goods Received by U. S. from Britain.

Germans Are Slowly Giving Up Ground   Six Towns and Villages Captured by Yankees

Yanks Approach Big Transport Hub of St. Lo   Americans Hit Center ot Normandy Line

German Lines Yield as Yanks Lunge for St. Lo In New French Attacks

NEW AMERICAN DRIVE OPENS IN ST, LO SECTOR   Germans Give’ Grourid Slowly

German Front Bends All Along Normandy Line   Canadians Drive Armored Spearhead to Orne River

APPROACH TRANSPORT HUB AT” BASE OF CHERBOURG PENINS IN LATEST OFFENSIVE

Americans Near St. Lo in New Drive   3ritish, Canadians and Americans All Make Gains Today

BRITISH, CANADIANS NEAR ORNE  INTANK BATTLE SOUTH OF CAEN; U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE IN TWO AREAS   Remmel Throws In Reserves At Rate That May Cause Hi Concern Later—Resistance To Americans Light

U. S. TROOPS CRACK LINE NEAR ST. LO   Plunge to Within 2 Miles of Big Transport Hub

YANKS, IN NEW TRVE MILES FROM STLO HUB   Nazi Norman Line Slowly Bends At Kael End: Middle Caves

U.S. Battleships Shell Jap Isles   Bombardment of Approaches Hints at  Philippines Invasion

Battleship Riiles Soften Palau for Possible Invasion   Widespread Air Blows Neutralize Islands In Philippines Area

Warships Shell Approaches To Jap-Held Isle   Reconquest Predicted Before Thanksgiving By High Officials

BIG GUNS AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS JOIN IN PHILIPPINES DRVE.  ISLAND STEPPING STONE: BEING SOFTENED FOR

16 INCH GUNS BLAST JAPS ON PALAU ISLANDS   Attacks of Pre-Invasion Intensity Rip Bases Guarding Philippines

a's  Bastions   Japs Kept Guessing As to Where New Blow Will Come

Isles Guarding Philippines Get ‘Pre - Invasion  Naval Shelling   Palau Group Under Fire From American Battleships

Yankee Warships Join In Assault On Jap Detenses   Guard Approaches To Philippines

LE ET AL LET OL IED LO ALE LEI LL LILI LLL DEEL A NL CETTE  Battleships Shell Invasion  Route To The Philippines   Half Dozen Islands Within 600 Miles Of Former U. §. Base Attacked By Coordinated Forces Of Admiral Nimitz And General MacArthur

16-Inch Guns Roaring Near  Philippines _   Invasion of islands Looms as Assault Continues

WARSHIPS TEAR JAPANESE KEYS TO PHILIPPINES   Big Guns Hammer At Palau; Fleet And Land-Based Planes Widen Blows

Jap Islands Shelled by US Battleships   Nips Kept Guessing as to Where Assault Troops Will Strike; 1,000,000 Tokyo Residents Evacuated

Tokyo Radio Warns of Allied Landing Soon in Philippines      ee EE aT Rr NS te eet mee  New Naval: and ‘Air Blows  Keep. Nips Guessing on Exact Location

BLAST ISLANDS GUARDING WAY TO PHILIPPINES   Battleships Join in Attack on Palau; Japs Warn of Invasion

U. 5. Continues Bombardment ( Japanese Isles  Yank Battleships Join In Attacks

Warships Hit. Philippines’ Jap Outposts   ‘Palau Group Shelled as ; Wide Air Strikes Keep i Foe Guessing

U.S. Battleships Helping Assault Jap-Held Isles   Half Dozen Spots Within 600 Mis. Of Philippines Targets Of New Blows

ATTAGKS KEEP JAPS. GUESSING   Converging Forces of Nimitz And MacArthur Hit Island Defenses.   'NAVAL GUNS HIT PALAU

WIDE BOMBING ATTACKS KEEP JAPS GUESSING   But Tokyo Warns ol Impending Invasion  Of Philippines

U. S. BATTLESHIPS JOIN IN ATTACKS ON PALAU ISLANDS   HINT NEW BLOWS PAVING WAY FOR ASSAULT TROOPS

South Philippine Shields Dealt New Heavy Blows   U. S. Battleships Fire on. Halmahera, Palau, Celebes

EXPECT EARLY INVASION OF PHILIPPINES   Battleships Open Fire On Palau  As Forerunner

NEW INVASIONS OF JAP DEFENSE BELIEVED NEAR   American Battleships Joining Warplanes in Bombardments On Far-flung Front

Fleet Guns Pour Fire On Palau   Navy Force Joins Ailack on Telands Below Philippines

Battleships’ 16 Inch Guns Pound Enemy's Islands   Great Sea and Air Bombardment Has Reached New High

Conferees Plot Doom of Food Control   Quick Defeat of - Subsidies Seen In House, Senate

320 Italian Hostages Shot by Nazis in Rome; Thousands Are Under Arrest

Nazi Retreat Toward Bug ‘Near Panic’   Shattered Army Flees Rearward On Broad Frant

Germans Fleeing On Foot   Huge Quantities Of Equipment Are Left By Germans

Army and Navy Strong for Rockets As Weapon Develops in Efficiency

U. S. Navy Plans to Spend $100,000,000 Monthly on Rocket Ammunition; New Developments May Surprise Foe

More Stress On Rockets   Navy to Spend Million Dollars Monthly On That Ammunition

Equal Expenditure For Old And New Shell Types U. S. Navy Will Spend $100,000,000 Monthly For Rocket Projectiles  ee ie

NAVY STEPS UP ROCKETS’ USE   Weapon Found Useful In Covering Landing Operations

Navy Booms Its Use Of Rockets   Soon To Spend Huge Sum On Rocket Ammunition Alone.

Navy Booms Use of Rockets: Plans to Spend 100 Millions Monthly in Production

Hundred Million Monthly for Rocket Ammunition Alone Goal of U.S. Navy

Rocket Surprises In Store for Axis   Navy To Spend $100,000,000 Monthly On Rocket Ammunition Alone.

ROCKETS SCORE AGAINST ENEMY   Navy to Spend Millions on Ammunition for DeathDealing Projectiles

Rocket ‘Surprises In Store For Axis   Production Program Stepped Up for Both Army and Navy, OWI Says in Revealing Improvements Already Attained

Navy Discloses Big Increase In  Use Of Rockets   Soon To Spend 100 Millions Monthly On Rock at  Aememecmtitiawn Alana

Rocket Use Is Growing   ‘Navy: To Sperid. Huge Sum For Ammunition

U.S. Navy Boom: Use of Rockets   To Spend 100 Millions Monthly on Weapon

NAVY SOON WILL SPEND BIG SUMS. ON ROCKET FUEL   Rocket Ammunition Alone Will be Purchased at the Rate of $100,000,000 a Month — Projectiles Found Increasingly Useful

Navy Booms Its Use of Rockets   Plans Soon to Spend $100,000,060' Monthly On Rocket Supplies

YANKS ADVANCE IN ITALY WITH FIERCE FIGHTING   Berlin and Sofia Blasted During Night, U. S. Bombers Follow Up in Day Raid

Plunge Nearer Rumania   - Red Drive Threatens To Cut Last Major Nazi Escape Route From Ukraine Area

5th Army Enters Cervaro; Reds Nearing Bug River   Jap Supply Lines Blasted In Pacific As Land Forces Get Aid From Navy

BOMBS CRASH DOWN  ON BERLIN AND SOFIA  IN WIDE AIR ATTACKS RUSSIAN ARMIES DRIVE  FORWARD OVER BODIES AL 19 700 CERMAN NRADN

Russians Push Closer to Nazi Escape Railway   Reds Advance to 21 Miles of Warsaw Road and Re new Assaults in Crimea.   Allied Bombs Crash On Berlin and Sofia

Soviets Reach Bug While Allies Bomb  Berlin and Sofia   Fifth Army Captures Hill in Italy; Russia Offers Poland Curzon Line os Boundary, Keepng Area Occupied by Reds in 1939

TEMPERATURES:   Plans To Retain Area Occupied Under 1939 Pac   Post-War Intentions Are Made Known; Armies Near Bug River

Russian Soldiers Drive Over Bodies  of 12,000 Germans   Strike Swiftly; Bombs Crash on Berlin and  Sofia Last Night

Soviet Forces Are Only Seven Miles rrom Bug River   New Showers of Allied Bombs Pour Down on Germany

Reds Within Seven Miles Of Bug River   12,000 Germans Killed in -Advance; Bombs Crash on Berlin and Sofia; Fifth Army Fights to Outskirts of  ‘Cervara

ROUND THE CLOCK BOMBING OF — [AXIS CAPITALS GOES ON WITH GREAT FURY AND DESTRUCTION   RAF Blasts Away at Night While American Heavy Bombers Continue Daylight Precision Raids. Many Cities in Western Germany  hen. 2...)

Fifth Army In eltaly Continues Siow Progress   Unconfirmed Reports Tell of Ciano’s Death

RAIL TERMINUS TAKEN BY JAPS   Nips’ Advance Increases Threat To Burma‘Road And Kweiyang

Flagstaft’s Fall Term Opens Nov. 1   Increased Civilian Registration Looked For By T. Bellwood

A. S. T. C. Fall Semester Wil] Open Nov. Ist.   Increased Civilian Enrollment Expected

PARIS UNDER MARTIAL LAW   eo © eS 8 ¢ Germans Threaten To Destroy City Uuless Pa, triots End Revolt

Street Fights Rage As Patriots Revolt   Americans Bridge Seine River; Cermans Periled Anew by Yanks

THOUSANDS IN REBELLION IN FRENCH AREAS   Paris Threatened With Destruction Un'ess Resisiance by Aroused French Given Up

NAZIS THREATEN FRENCH CITY   Germans Clamp  Virtual Martial  "Law, on Paris — French Patriota Must Stop Fighting Nazis in a a

Draft Office Tries To Get 4-F’s into War Effort  Service Will Defer Men Who Hold Productive Jobs

PRESSURE IS ON MEN NOW IN 4-F   Legionnaires in Capital in Interest of ‘G. 1.’ Bill

A “Contribution” To War Effort Is Asked of the 4-F’s   Inducement Is Occupational Deferment and Also Applies to Men Over 37 and 1-A-L’s.

DRAFT POLICIES ARE REVAMPEL   Occupational Deferment  ffered Men Over 37 And Those Unfit

Unfit urged contribute to  the war effor! WMC essential  activities copied

TE AIM AT SHIFT 100 TO WAR JOB   Draft Heads Revise Rules To Get Military Unfit In Essential Work

Ask Men Over 37 To Engage In War Work   Give Deferment As Inducement

Deferred Men Must Make  ‘Contribution’   4-Fs, Limited Service And Men Over 38 To Be Reclassified lO BE 2-A, 2-B, 2-C ACCORDING TO JOBS Campaign Is Started To Steer ‘Unfit? Men Into Essential Work

START ESSENTIAL WORK CAMPAIGN   URGE CONTRIBUTION TO WAR EFFORT BY ALL MEN OVER 37

Selective Service  Lists New Rules   Seeks to Force War Contribution

STANLEY STEEN FOUND GUILTY   Delaware County Indian Given Death Penalty for Slaying Prison Guard

German Military Chiefs Worried Over, New Driv e,  QStenakclatoey. e.* wnmac LJ aan

WEALTHY ARGENTINA FAMILY: . GAY: THEY: HAVE: QUINTUPLETS   MEDICAL EVIDENCE: NOT OF FERED IN REPORTED BIRTH:  " OF THREE GIRLS AND  TWO BOYS

Ford Promises Veterans A Job   Says He Will Give Them Preference In Ford Motor Plants.

WEDGES DRIVEN N TWO OF FOUR VOSGES GATES’   Seventh Army Fights Within Mile Of Key Road Center; Nazis Lose 24 Tanks

W. K. Vanderbilt, Rail Magnate, Stricken Today  Foremost Yachtsman Was One of Wealthiest Men

VANDERBILT ~~ NOTABLE DIES   Former President of 7% Y. C., Nation’s Foremost Yachtsman

HEART ATTACK FATAL TO WM, VANDERBILT   Cne of Wealthiest Men in Country Ill Month

Vanderbilt, RR Magnate,  Passes At 65  Former Head Of NY Central Lines

W. K. VANDERBILT DIED EARLY TODAY OF HEART AILMENT   FORMER RAIL PRESIDENT AND NATION’S FORE. MOST YACHTSMAN

Very Rich W. K. Vanderbilt Dies   Grandson Of Founder Of Family Fortune Dies, Aced 65.

WM. K. VANDERBILT, ONE OF RICHEST iMEN IN U.S., DIES OF HEART ATTACK

AILMENT FATAL TO VANDERBILT   Former President of N. Y Central Railroad Dies Early Today.

FORMER RAIL PRESIDENT DIES   Heart Ailment Fatal To William Vanderbilt, 65

‘Wm. K. Vanderbilt, 65 $1,320 Is Found ‘Dies In New York Today'In Old Mattress

WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT DEAD AT 65   - + + One of America’s Wealthiest Men

WM. K. VANDERBILT, YACHTSMAN, DEAD   Member Of Noted Family Stricken At 65

W. K. Vanderbilt Taken By Death   Multi-Millionaire Dies Early Today At New York From Heart Ailment

W. K. Vanderbilt, Rail Magnate, Stricken Today  ee ee ee   Foremost Yachtsman Was One of Wealthiest Men

Heart Ailment Causes Death Of Vanderbilt   Foremost Yachtsman, Once President Of New York : Central Expires

Allies Drive Eastward   Head Towards St. Lo; Stop  Nazi Reinforcements

ACROSS CHANN  tL   One Of Largest Operations Against Continent Since D-Day   2000 WARPLANES IN TWO-WAY RAID  Defied Bad Weather And

Stuttgart Hit By Bombs From U.S. Warplanes   Bombers Based in Italy Attack Refinery Near Budapest

Stuttgart Rail Center Pounded   500 Bombers From Italy Blast Oil Refinery And Aircraft Factory In Budapest Area

Nazi Plants. Oil. Railway  Lines Raided   Allies Defy Bad Weather To Smash = Stuttgart And Refineries

Stuttgart Blasted By U.S. Bombers      Nazi Railway Hub, Other Taraets Hit

Stuttgart Again Blasted By Big American Force   1,500 Warplanes Defy Bad Weather, Strong Opposition In Attack

TWO ROADS LAID OPEN TO CAPITAL, AMERICANS RACE IN FROM WEST   1500 AMERICAN PLANES BLAST STUTTGART HUB

U.S. FLIERS IN RAID ON STUTTGART   Encounter First Serious Opposition By Luftwaffe In Day:

Nazi Attacks Are Blocked  Slay Partisans Halt Heavy Enemy Drives

American Front Lines Bogged Down by Rain * And Typhoon, But 24th Continues Advance

Yank Troops Gain on Wide Front in Battle gigbeyte...   —_lU  Deadlock Imposed by Bad , With Advance South of Carigara Bay; Japs Throw 35,000 New Troops Into Big Fight

Doughboys Make Substantial Gains Says MacArthur  Fighter Planes Hit More Enemy Shipping In Philinnine Area

Walton Calls. On College Board to Quit   Former A&M Head Offers to Drop  Legal Action

Walton Asks That Board — At A&M Quit   Challenge Issued By Ousted Pravy

War Prisoners. To Go To Work   Plans Formulated “At Service. Parley

Roosevelt Leads Massachusetts Primary Voting   Dewey Runs Away With Pennsylvania Write-in Balloting

7 STATES SELECT PARTY DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS   Roosevelt Fourth-term Delegates Hold 3 to 1 Lead In Massachusetts   FIRST CHALLENGE TO ISSUE AT BALLOT BOX   Dewey Takes Long Lead Over Other Write-in Choices in Pennsylvania; Kentucky's Delegation Is Instructed for Governor Willis

REGENCY FOR GREECE BEEN AGREED T0 BY KING GEORGE Il  ARCHBISHOP DOMASKINOS EXPECTED TO TAKE OATH AS REGENT SUNDAY

KING GEORGE OF GREECE ASSENTS TO REGENCY RULE  DAMASKINOS, GREEK  ~~ oe awee em em ne i me oe -~ a - Fr rs.   DAMASKINOS, GREEK ARCHBISHOP, SLATED TO HEAD GOVERNMEN’

Damaskinos o Take Oath omorrow   Will Form New Government, And Seek Cessation Of Civil War

,Damaskinos “Due To Take «Oath Sunday   Archbishop Prepares Tc Attempt Restoration Of! Order And Peace.

PROBABLY 10 BE SWORN IN VERY SHORTLY   U.S. Already Considering Possibilitv of Being Called on to Assist With Election

REECE— .  KN APPROVES GREEK REGENG   Archbishop Damaskinos Expected To Take Oath As Regent Sunday —

Archbishop To Be Installed As Greek Regent  King Gives Approval Damaskinos To Seek New Government, T

PARAMUSHIRO BOMBED THIRD STRAIGHT DAY      Jap Moves Indicate New Offensive in Rurma

Tokyo Launches Major Offensive On Burma Front  ~ American Bombers Hit Paramushiro Island

Jap Isles Get New Pounding   Carrier-Based Planes Continue Assaults on Philippine Perimeter

LOSE 200 PLANES MONDAY   Manila Reports Attempted Hit on Negros, Leyte and Luzon Istands.   TENGCHUNG CAPTURED

U.S. CARRIER PLANES HAMMER NIPS WITHOUT LET-UP WHILE NEW BLOWS STRUCK ELSEWHERE.

—PACIFIC— ;  BOLD SWEEP Ik CENTRAL PAGIELE   Manila Radio Reports Attacks Continue Fer 3 Consecutive Days   ISLANDS ARE HIT   Nips Lose 200 Aircraft ‘Monday, First Day Of Assault

SMASHING AMERICAN CARRIER PLANE RAIDS COSTLY TO JAPANESE   TWO HUNDRED ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED IN CENTRAL PHILIPPINES

Philippines Pounded Again By Halsey's Pacific Fleet  Attacks Continue inte Third Day; Jap Air Force Suffers Heavy Loccec

JAP STRONGHOLD IN CHINA FALLS   American Carrier Force Hits Enemy on Philippines

Heavy Air Raids Against Philippines Continuing; 200 Jap Planes Smashed

U. S. Pounds Philippines,  Sean 200 Jap Planes   Smashing Attacks Now In Third Day Says Tokyo Broad‘ast: Tengehung, Last Enemy Fortress Blocking Allied Union In Burma, China, Falls To Chinese

Japs Lose 200 Planes Monda \ To Americans   Last Jap Fortress Blocking Union of Allies in Burma.  China Is Captured

Tengchung, Burma Road Block, Falls  to Chinese Forces   200 Nip Planes Blotted Out in Daring Raid Over Philippines

NEW SEA, AIR BLOWS REPORTED   Half Dozen Japanese Targets Hit; Nips Lose 200 Planes

Land, Sea And Air Forces Coordinated—— ~-By Elton C. Fay  Organization For Invasion Now Complete

All- Out Battle Soon:  A LARC REL RE ee rs Ee NA Ne steer  United States Naval and Aerial Forces Ready for Great Invasion

PHILIPPINES OPERATIONS PROGRESSING   Thousands of Tons of New Supplies Are Landed for MacArthur’s Men.

Ameriean Troops Push Through Yeyte Valley to Within 10 Miles of West Coast — Tons of Ammanition, Rations and Clothing Pouring Ashore.

YANK DRIVE PROGRESSES ON LEYTE   Jap Casualties Are Estimated At 24,000

[TALIAN PATRIOTS NEAR ROME AIDING ALLIED INVADERS   Guerrillas Blow Up Bridges  Signal German Troop Mavamante

Invaders Smash Nazi Resistance   YANK, BRITISH PATROLS MOP UP AS CLEAR HIGHWAY TO ROME IS SEEN; SPEARHEADS MEET “HASTILY ORGANIZED” GERMAN GROUPS   Rome Italians Signaling Allies on Nazi Movements

REP. COFFEE IS CHALLENGED BY MISS KELLEMS   Woman War Contractor Dares Him Make Charges of Nazi Sweetheart Guiside of Congress

AIR OFFENSIVE DIMINISHED BY BAD WEATHER   Heavy Bombers Grounded As 100 Nazi Raiders Hit British Ports

WEATHER GROUNDS BOMBERS   RAF Mosquitoes Strike lnto Germany, France

Weather Grounds  Heavy Bombers   Light Planes Strike  Into Germany, France

Air Power Turns Tide of Battle   Remforcements Landed; German Attack Absorbed, Turned Back

REPORT PATTON AT SAAR RIVER ON WIDE FRONT   Yankee Ninth Army Crushes German Defenses at. Roer

Allies Ready To Move Food Into Balkans   RELIEF OF BAL KANS AS  ZEKO HOUR STRIKES ANNOUNCED.

Allies Ready To Move Food Into Balkans   When »invasion. starts: in that-seotiow of Navi‘Europe; men will bat tle famine, too 

GUNFIRE ECHOES THROUGH ATHENS   REBEL LEADERS ARE REPORTED DRAWING UP PEACE PROPOSAL

Fam Given Terms To End Greek Strike   Alexander Arrives Athens as Flames Sweep Buildinas

Consider Peace  Left-Wing Leaders Now Reported To  Re Mare Canrilintars

Elas Battling To Break Into Athens’ Heart   Reinforcements Shot Up By RAF; Greeks Doing More Damage Than Cautious British

Shelling . of Athens  Ticreased   ELAS Making an. All-Out _Attempt-to Break Into Center of City   BUT PEACE MOVES ARE. UNDER WAY   Both Sides Propose Terms as Fires Rage in City; Water Cut Off

Shells Fall In Athens   ELAS ATTEMPT TO BREAK INTO HEART OF CITY: PEACE RUMORS HEARD

Leftists Step Up Shelling Of: Greek Capital  ELAS Forces In All-Out Attempt To Break Intc   ELAS Forces In All-Out Attempt To Break Intc Center Of Athens.

ELAS FORCES HURL SHELLS INTO ATHENS   Left-Wing Militiamen Are Making an All-Out Attempt to Crash Into the Center of City, Where Fires Are Now Raging.

Elizabeth Eyres And Dr. Mcintosh Wed Sunday  First Presbyterian Church Scene Of  Pretty Ceremony

Elizabeth Eyres And Dr. Mcintosh Wed Sunday  First Feesbyterian  Church Scene Of   Deoatt<; Caw Aer

Government To Sell Land. In Small Plots   Hopes Buyers Will Farm Acreage To Be Sold After Hostilities Cease _

To Fill Vacancies  In Post Ottices   Applicants for Postmaster In Belleville and Cuba Will Take Examination.

SNYDER APPOINTED SING SING WARDEN   Clinton Prison Keeper Named Provisionally

FLYING BOMB BASES RAIDED   Nazi Airfields In France Also Pounded

U. S. Heavy Bombers Smash Nazi Fields  Air Aewemadac © samnnet Tenesncsae A eke tii   Air Armadas Support Invasion Armies With Attacks On Nazi Installations.

Front Dispatch Says Position of U.S. _ First Army Is Definitely Better; American Flanks Horden Against Nazis

Feeder Roads Black With Enemy Troops   Germans Bid for Supreme Victory; C... Bieenhower Eases Ban on News

German Infantry Backing Up Enemy Armored Columns   Front Dispatch Says First Army's Situation is Officially ermed "Definitely Better" With Hardening of American Flanks   SILENCE SUGGESTS DEFENSES NOT STABILIZED

Germans Break Across Border In Four Places   News Blackout Lifted By Altied Headquarters, Reveals Hun Gains On Wide Front   Armored Columns  Drive Yanks Back   Doughboys Hold Firm In Some Sectors As Nazi . Tanks Push Into Belgian Areas

Huns Penetrate Belgium, Luxembourg at 4 Points   Clears Mostof Dillingen in Saar Region; Nazis Claim 10,000 Prisoners Captured

CHAPLIN MAY GO ON STAND TODAY   ‘Expect Rapid Process in Completion of Jury

ATTORNEY WILL GRILL CHAPLIN      Fireworks Are Expected In Paternity Suit Today

Claim ‘Job Statement Use Abused   ‘Availability’ Grants Hit As Causing High Labor Shift

Major Blow On Jap Held Base Of Singapore By 8-29 Superfortresses   BOMB VITAL POINTS AND HIT JAP SHIP

SUPER FORTS MAKE ATTACK ON SINGAPORE   Believed To Have ‘Struck Blow In Preparation For Landing

Raid Nippon Naval Base Of Singapore   Yanks Shell Last Nip Stronghold On Leyte Island

Jap Navy Base At Singapore Is Assaulted   Longest Daylight Strike May Be Preliminary To Burma-Malay Landings; Super-Forts Also Hit Sumatra; Manila Attacked

Bombers Blast Bis Jap Base At Singapore   Longest Davlight Mission Caps Series Of Raids On Jap Positions

Invasion of Southeast Asia Likely   Widespread Air Attack Made on Jap Bases in  bd  Pacific Areag

Bombing Of Singapore Hinted As Preparation For S. E. Asia Landing   B-29.Raid Only One Of Mounting Attac'x; On Jap-Held Sumatra, Burma, French Indo-China

Singapore Hit Hard By B-29’s   Superforts Make 3,500-Mile Round Trip in Big Raid

SUPERFORTS’ SMASH AT SINGAPORE HINTS NEW INVASION NEAR   Allies May Plan Landing In Rangoon Area; B-29’s Hit Big Jap Naval Base; Results ‘Good’

MOVE BELIEVED PRELUDE TO: ALLIED AMPHIBIOUS LANDING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA  EE

Prepare for Allied Landing In South Asia   Mountbatten May Send Troops Ashore In Burma or Malaya

FLIERS BLAST JAP NAVAL, AIR BASES   Attacks Made On Singapore, Rangoon. And East Indies

Superfortresses Strike  At Singapore; Other Jap Centers Attacked

INVASION TO START AT END OF MONSOO!   American Super-Fortresses Make Successful Attack Upon Singapore.

Singapore Raid Forerunner of  East India Blow   Forts Strike Again at City; More B-29s Over Tokyo

Pat Got Shamrock Despite Red Tape   Took Him Three Weeks But He Had Every Answer

Germans. Advance:  3.Miles in Italy.   Surprise Attack Cuts Through U. S. Lines

Erie War Plant Ordered Seized  Accused Of Failure To Abide By Prices Set By Army, Navy

U. S. SEIZES MINES   Government Takes Action to End Unauthorized Strike

FOUR RALEIGH MINES SEIZED BY GOVERNMEN   Stotesbury Operating Under Bosses Imported By Company

BITTER FIGHT BEING WAGED AT WILLAUMEZ   Leathernecks Driving For Unused Talasea Emergency Landing Strip Near Beachhead   FRUSTRATE LANDINGS

REPORT RAISES GRAND TOTAL 10 1,989   Jap Attack On Los Negros Is Thrown Back  ee  PrIAIITIAIN   Grows Hot On N. Britain; Base On Paramushiro Raided By Yanks

U-Boats’ Total For War 627; All Units’ Score 1,989   Counter-Attacks on Two Bismarck Fronts Are Reported Today

YANKS BATTLE TO HOLD BEACHHEAD ON NEW BRITAIN   ENEMY ASSAULT ON LOS NEGROS ISLAND SMASHED

U. S. War In Pacific  Going Well   Submarine Bag Added to Blunting of Two Jap Thrusts Reported

Allies Resist Jap Attacks  Tn Sea Drive   Smash Los Negros Counter-Attack, Fighting Bitterly On Peninsula

JAPS COUNTER YANK LANDINGS   Attack At Los Negros Is Smashed; Battle At  New Britain

JAP LANDING ON LOS NEGROS FRUSTRATED   -eathernecks Battle Fanatical Jap. anese Assaulis After New Britain Leap-Frog Landing   BARGES STRAFED   Merrill's Forces Have Slain 650 Japs Since Enfering Fighting in Burma

Jap Attack on Los Negros Smashed; Another On New Britain Being Resisted

Nips Hit Back  In Bismareks   Allied Troops Smash Attack On Los Negros; Resist Willaumez Raid,

R epulse Two Jap Attacks In Bismarek Area   Marines Battle To Keep Their New Beachhead On New Britain; Foe’s Onppvsition Stiff

J jap Attacks »  Gains / Are Mia   Fanatical Enemy Opposition Resisted on New Britain; Los Neqros Thrust Smashed

ALLIED TROOPS FIGHTING HARD   Smash Jap Counter-Attack On Los Negros Island in Bismarck Area.   RESIST ANOTHER DRIVE

Yanks In Fierce Fight Te Hold Island Bases - Last Taken From Japs   Bitterest Opposition of Any Pacific Invasion Met When Americans Mop Up Fanatical Japs on New Britain

JAPS SMASHE ON LOS NEGROS ISLAND ATTACK  Counter-Attacks ee OE Se   Counter-Attacks Are Resited By Allied Forces

JAPANESE STAGED 2 COUNTER-ATTACKS IN BISMARCK SECTOR  LANDING ON LOS NEGRO: SMASHED AND OTHER BE ING BITTERLY RESISTED

Jr. Commandos  To Disband   Group of Youngsters Formed in January

TOURIST ‘AD PLAN OFFERED   Sen. Milliken Proposes A Streamlined Publicity Campaign

SINGLE TOURIST FUND OUTLINEL   Money Would All Go Te State Conservation Department

NAZI GESTAPO.CLAMPS DOWN ~ ‘TO KEEP ITS IRON CONTROL   GEEMAN PUBLICATIONS - REVEAL RESTRICTIONS ARE GROWING MORE DRAS TIC AG D-DAY AP- FROACHES.-

Nave Of Executions, Arrests Mark Tightening Of Gestapo Grip On Civilian Germany

Japs Declare        Strong American Forcés Only 155 Miles From  Manilla

FILIPINO GUERRILLA SUPPORT AIDED BIG ADVANCE TO MINDORG   THREE BEACHHEADS ESTABLISHED ON ISLAND WITH LITTLE OPPOSITION

Jap Air Attacks Fail to Halt Yank Forces   Americans Now Control Sea and ‘Air Routes to China Coast; Tokyo Reports Violent Sea Battle

MacArthur Holds 3 Beachheads 155 Miles From Manila   20-Mile-Long Convoy Jumps 600 Miles With Little Opposition in Almost . Bloodless Invasion :

Yank Landing On Mindoro Splits Japs  © uerri illas He! ie ed vasion of

YANKS LAND ON MINDORA IN NEW PUSH   Latest Pacific Invasion Puts Americans 155 Miles from Manila

Filipinos Make © Mindoro Island Landing Possible   600-mile Overwoter Advance Cuts Philippine Archipelago in Two; To Effect China Sea Domination

Commander of Allied Forces Replies to Pope   Americans Push Steadily Toward Italian Capital

By-Pass Lanuvio Fortress   ‘Battle On for . Genzano; 15 Miles. © From Eternal City:  Se

AMERICANS MAKE. MOVE TOATTACK CITY NEAR ROME   Artillery Pounds Genzatio, 18 “Miles From Capital Ir Plans For ° imminent AS. _-sault on City:   BIAK RIDGE SEIZED IN ALLIES ADVANCE   ‘Allies Slowly Closing Ring on - Isolated - Jap Garrison at  . Myitkyina, Forces Are Near City.

Allies Will Spare Rome Unless Nazis Defend; ‘Drive Up Appian Way   oth Army By-Passes Lanuvio As Yanks Pound Genzano With Preparatory Shelling

FIFTH ARMY IN FIGHTING SWEEP UP APPIAN WAY   Trouble Ahead, General Warns

PLEDGE SEEN AS REPLY TO PAPAL APPEAL   Eternal City Will Be Safe Unless Gers mans Elect to Des fend it.

ALLIES PLEDGE TO SPARE CITY IF NAZIS LEAVE   Lanuvio, Still Holding Out, By-Passed By Americans

MAKE PLEDGE TO SPARE CITY      Firth Army Advanees to Ontsakirta of Genzano — Allies Preparing for Imminent Assault on Itallan Capital City.

OHIO +CAMPAIGN GROWING HEATED   Bricker Steps Into Battle To Support Stewart

NEW WAVE OF FEAR IN MINE TOWN AS EARTH OPENS AGAIN   Little Girl Caught in Cave-in Only Week Ago

ALLIES IN SOUTH HOLD UNBROKEN 50-MILE FRONT   Penetrate 20 “Miles Inland and Prepare to Open Major Assault

FORCES SPREAD OVER AREA OF FAN MILES   Consolidate Positions on 50-Mile Unbroken Front

Southern France Invasion Forces  20 Miles Inland   Invasion Beachhead Is Be- ing Steadily Expanded As More Forces Land   NUMEROUS TOWNS ALREADY LIBERATED

BRIDGEHEAD IS EXPANDED ACROSS VIRE   Allied Armored Forces Cut Like Scythe Into German Flank Below Caen.   BULLETIN

The War Today with Japan   By DeWITT MacKENZIE. A. P. War Analyst

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associates Prees War Annals ot

HEAVY ATTACKS ON ISLANDS OF GUAM AND ROTA BY AMERICAN WARSHIPS AND BOMBERS TODAY   The War Is Moving Very Fast in the Pacific. Allied Forces Expect to Destroy Other Major Japanese Bases Now in Reach of Our Bic Bomber:

POPPPPPAPPPPPOEPDPPP AHS Officials See No Need. For Gas Rations Cut

No Gasoline Cut Is Seen By OPA   Coupon Values to Hold During the Present Quarter.

11 NIP TANKS KNOCKED OUT ON BIAK ISLE   Battle Developing Into One of Hardest Struaagles

Yanks Knock Out 11 Jap Tanks In. Armored Battle   Invasion Forces Push. Toward Main Airstrip On Biak Island —

TANK BATTLE ON BIAK WON BY U. S. UNITS   Japs Lose 11, Yanks 0;  Armored Clash First  Of Pacific War

JAPS MAKING TANK STAND AT AIRDROME   Hardest ‘Fighting in Many Months Met By Yankees in Assault on Mokmer Defenses on Biak Island.

REDS BACK ON THE OFFENSIVE IN HUNGARY   Breach German Lines With 100,000 - Man Army.

AUSTRALIAN DENIES ADVANC E KNOWLEDGE OF JAP SNEAK ATTACK   INFORMATION SHOULD BE TURNED OVER TO INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE, F, R. TELLS NEWSMEN

Pearl Harbor Case Being Probed By Service Boards, Says F. D. R.   Chinese Military Situation Termed Unsatisfactory by President

Inform Investigators If You ‘Know’ U.S.  Was Warned of Jap Attack. FDR Urges

Denies Charge Of Information On Jap Attack   Rep. Church Says Australia Knew Japs Planned Sneak Blow

Roosevelt Demands Facts  On Pearl Harbor ‘Warning’   Anyone Who Has Information Government Was Tip. ped Off Should Give lt To Probers, He Says In Hinting Rumors Being Spread By GOP

Greatest Naval Armada Closes In on Marshalls   Tremendous Force of a Least 2,000,000 Tons Rides Jap Waters

PACIFIC IS AT STAKE IN HUGE NEW OPERATION   Attack Can Mean Horrible Defeat Or Resounding Victory

“Whole Damn Pacific Filled Up With Warships’ Pilot Says; The Pacific Is at Stake

Record Fleet Is. Closing On Jans   ‘Pacific At-Stake In Coming Battle

P:\: sti Produce Cut Toless Than 25 Per Cent   Tota! of 4,500 Tons Hit Fields In Five Allied Raids.

Ploesti Oil Output Cut 75 Per Cent   Allied Bombings Have Almost Finished Big Refineries There

Brewster Calls For World-Wide U.S. Participation   Foreign Policy Of Republicans

GOP KEYNOTER CHOICE STUDIED   Martin Is Favored For Job As Permanent Chairman

Selection of. GOP Keynote Wide Open   Sentiment Growing for Naming Man in Business World

EN EE ee seen es aeeas ee eee Oe!  Choice of GOP Keynoter. to Be Wide Open

MARTIN SLATED TO HEAD GOP CONVENTION   Revercomb Mentioned As Possible Keynoter Choice

Martin In Line For Chairman of GOP Convention   Important Post Of Keynoter Is Yet Undetermined

U.S. Envoy Plans Trip To Sweden “To Have Talks”   No American-Finn Break Seen In Proposed Visit Th. Ginekhalm WMandav

JOE E. BUTLER OF  CORSICANA ELECTED  PRESIDENT OF ETCC FULL SLATE OFFICERS,  DIRECTORS NAMED AT ONE.DAY CONVENTION

Joe E. Butler Elected New Head Of Efex C of C   Delegates: Convene In Longview for 19th Yearly Meeting

BAN LIFTED ON 26-37 AGE GROUP   Men Over 25 Years Of Age Again Subject To Draft

Russians Push Steadily Onward Toward Prussia   Grodno, Described as Approach to East Prussia,’  Falls to Reds.   Removes Last Natural Barrier to Germany

GRODNO OPENS REDS’ GATE 10 EAST PRUSSIA   Russian Offensive stretches From Baltics To Pripat Marshes

Red Armies Thrust Toward East Prussia After Grodno Falls   Nazi Commentators Say Soviets May Be Entering Trap In Great Offensive On East

MOSCOW SAYS 100,000 NAZIS TAKEN PRISONER AND 500,000 ANNIHILATED ON EAST FRONT   Special Broadcast Tells Germans “The Game Is Up” and That Russia Will Make Good Her Boast That She Is Making Straight for Germany. Cendnn Kalle tn Rade

Reds Push On From  Grodno   Gate Opened  In the Advance To East Prussia As Nazis Fall Back

Reds Push Forward on Broad Front   No Natural Barrier Remains Between Soviets And East Prussia

Fall Of Grodno Opens Gates To Advancing Reds  Push On East Prussia As Russians Gain On Broad Front; Enemy

Soviets Push Forward Along a Broad Front   Flaming Battles Rage From the Baltics to the Pripyat Marshes

_Grodnols Captured By . Red Troops   Soviets Push Forward Along Broad Front; Moscow Radio Telis Germans “The Game Is Un”

REDS TAKE KEY POINT ON ROAD TO GERMAN SOIL   Nazis Evacuate Grodno; Fal Of Lithuania Capital Appears Imminent

SOVIETS SEIZE LAST BARRIER BEFORE PRUSSIA   Grodno Falls to Russians; Nazis Claim Enemy Entering Trap

RUSSIANS NOW PUSHING NEAR GERMAN SOIL   Determined To Drive Nazis From Giodno

Russians Advance On Broad Front / As Grodno Falls   No Natural Barrier Between Front and German Homeland

REDS. APPROACH. EAST PRUSSIA. AFTER TAKING FORTRESS. OF GRODNO   Advancing Russian Front Stretches From Baltic to Pripyat Marshes’   PRUSSIAN. CITY: STRAFED

NOW OCCUPY NAZI BASTION OF GRODNO   Fall of Fortress City, 45 ‘Miles From East Prus. Sia, Leaves Nazis No - Defense Barrier Short of Homeland.

Army Gains From Baltic: To Pripyat  Marsh Land   “Russians Take: More - Than 40 Positions

Grodno Described by Stalin as Covering Approaches of East Prussia, 45 Miles Away

~ OF GRODNO CAPTURED   Last Natural Barrier To ~« East Prussia Falls   Consolidated On West Bank Of Niemen River By Soviet Forces

PUSH ANEAD IN MANY SECTIONS   Capture of Grodno Described As Covering Eas Prussia Approach.   45 MILES TO BORDER

Establish Bridgehead Across Nieman River, Take More Tewns in Advance Teward

Ahead . On Wide  Front   Red Army Captures Grodno, in Steady: March Westward :To. ward East Prussia

Russians Drive To German Border   NEW GAINS MADE AND REDS THREATEN VATERLAND

Headed Straight For Berlin Says Moscow Radio   Moscow Radio Tells Germans “The Game Is Up”

Soviets Cross Niemen River.  Beyond Grodno   Speed Through BarrierFree Terrain Toward German Soil

City Is Last big Barrier to Nazi Homeland   Soviets Intensify Fighting on Front From Balties to Pripyat Marshes

Nazis Without Natural Barrier For Homeland   Reds Press On After Capture Of Grodno

Russians Surge Ahead Along Broad Front from Baltic to Pripyat After Fortress City of Grodno ‘Covering Approach To Russia’ Falls Before Onslaught of Tanks, Infantry And Cossacks - - - Heavy Toll Exacted of Germans in Dead and Captured

REDS PRESS TOWARD REICH   Overrun Grodno, 45 Miles From Prussian Border: Near Kaunas <e

Reds Push On After Taking Grodno;Nazis Predict Trap   Russians Ten Milés From Kaunas; Niemen River Bridgehead Is Consolidated

Russ Advance All Along Broad Front ”   Fighting Soon Will Take Place in German Homeland

Moscow Has First Mass View Of Nazi Prisoners Of War   57,600 Captured Germans Trudge Through Capital City; Cossacks, Tanks Charge Beyond Grodno

Grodno’s Fall OpensWay to East Prussia   No Natural Barriers Now To Hinder Fast Pace Of Russian Forces

Russians Advance Along Broad Front   Fortress City of Grodno Captured By Reds in Their Triumphant Drive

RUSSIANS MAKE WIDE ADVANCES   Special Broadcast By Moscow Tells Germans ‘Game Is Up’  AAAtI*£&Q°&*° °&= i #* ~~. ~~ _ ahem ae

—~RUSSTA—   Last Barrier To Germar Homeland Is Wiped ' Qut By Russians   Soviet Troops Advancing On Broad Front From Baltics To Pripyat Marshes; New Crossing Of Niemen River Is Renorted

Russ Open Road To East Prussia   ‘Seize Grodno, Germans’  Last Defense Bastion

Reds Surge Ever Nearer German Soil   Drive Past Fallen Grodno, Last Natural Barrier To East Prussia.

RUSSIANS SMASH THROUGH BREACH IN NIEMEN LINE   Capture of Grodno and Break Through at Niemen River Leaves Germany With No Natural Defenses.   FIERCE BATTLES RAGE NEAR LIVORNO, ITAL   U. S. Forces Bomb and Blas! Guam For 12th Straight Day~Rota Also Is Hit By Liberators.

Capture Grodno Defense Key. to East Prussia   Russian Forces on Move from Baltic To Pripyat Marshes. ~ Cross Niemen River

Fall of Grodno Opens Gate to East Prussia   Reds Surge Forward on Broad Front

Push Nazis Back  Nearer Homeland   Red Army Gains on Front From Baltic To Pripyat Marshes   CROSS NIEMEN RIVER   Soviets Take More Than 40 Positions in Alytus  ‘ Sector

RED ARMY TROOPS CONTINUE UNCHECKED EAST PRUSSIA DRIVE  GRODNO FORTRESS, LAS} BARRIER BEFORE GERMAD

REDS CAPTURE GRODNO—   Russ Lunge  Ahead   SOVIETS AT GATEWAY TO EAST PRUSSIA; GERMANS ARE TOLD: “GAME IS UP

Reds Take ~ Grondo and ~ Keep Going   Fighting On German Soil Expected Soon, Red Planes -Attackine Prussia    SOVIETS ARE HEADED ‘STRAIGHT FOR BERLIN’   German Broadcasts Talk of Surprises, Suggest Reds  May Be Trapped

Russians Press on from All Fronts in Drive “Into Berlin’   Fal! of Grodno Opens Gate for Reds Moving  on East Prussia

Reds Drive On Beyond Grodno Fort For Prussia   Approach Covered Through Seizure Of Fortress

Russians Within 10 Miles of Kaunas, Advance in All Sectors; Germans Withdraw To Niemen River Geyond Grodno: 100,000 Germans Captured In Offensive. , .

Russians Cross Niemen River In Offensive   German Commentator Say Soviets May Fall Into Trap

George Raft Wins $18,500 Dice Were Honest, Says Bodyguard, Complaint

New York Governor Maintains Silence, Willkie’s Future Course Provides Element of Mystery

ARMY GENERAL RELIEVED DURING SAIPAN BATTLE  Marine Head Declines Details Of Officer’s Removal During Fight

Marine General Silent on Cause  Refuses Details on Saipan Incident

General Admits Removing ‘Aide  Marine Chief Silent On Reason for Ouster

LIMIT WORKER DEFERMENT T0 VITAL PLANTS   WPB, Armed Forces Expect to Restrict Draft Appeals

May Limit Draft of Men Under 26   List Eight Most Vital War Material Industries

HOUSE DEFEAT OF TVA RESTRICTION BY SEN, 1S ‘SEEN   Cannon, Dem., Mo. Says Opposition to McKellar Measure  Unanimous 

‘House Defeat of ‘TVA Changes Appears Certain   Measure Approved By Senate During Stormy Session

Soviets Renort Gains On West Bank Of Dnesty   Bridgehead Expanded n Bessarabia Front, Moscow Sources Say

Nazis Lose 400 Men In Latest Assault; Soviets Capture Enemy Trenches

HOYT ATTACKS ARMY CENSORS   FORMER, OWI OFFICIAL FLAYS MILITARY AND NAVAL POLICIES REGARDING WAR NEWS

Tells Story of Jap Atrocities   “Death Merch on Bataan”’ Is Reloted

Nazi Transport Lines Suffer Hardest Blow  4,000 Planes Hit Railways With 7,000 Tons of Bombs

4,000 Allied Planes Deal Nazi Military Transportation System Most Devastating Blow. 27th Day of Air Push 19 VITAL POINTS HIT IN HEAVY BLASTING. RAF Bombers Roar From Italian Airfields To Drop Destruction On Bucharest. Hungary

4,000 Planes Smash 19 Key Nazi Rail Hubs   Invasion Coast Also Hit in Great Raids: Radio Warns Assaults Are Being Continued

4,000 Allied Planes Hit Vital Rail Centers, Airfields and Defenses With 7,000 Tons of Bombs

Only Weak Enemy Opposition Is Met By American-British Forces; 11 Railway Yards Blasted

DROP 7,000 TONS OF BOMBS BEHIND ATLANTIC WALL ON POINTS UPON WHICH NAZIS MUST DEPEND TO SUPPLY FORCES IN FRANCE, BELGIUM.

MIAMI TRAINING SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED BY JULY 1   139 Hotéls in That City Will Be Turned Back to  Civilian Operation -

139 MIAMI HOTELS ARE TO BE VACATED   Army Air Forces Schools To Be Transferred

Sylvester Davis [s Sill At Large   Negro Soldier Under Death Sentence Flees Prison Sunday Nicht

Quakertown Draft   18 Registrants To Leave That Area For Induction

18 Registrants   Will Leave Upper Bucks Co. July 11 For Training

British Sink 2 Nazi Subs   Escorting Ships Save Arctic Convoy Carrying Supplies to Russia

TWO NAZI SUBS SUNK BY BRITISH CONVOY   One Destroyer Torpedoed in Voyage To Russia, However

2 Subs Sunk, Others Hit By  Naval Force   British Destroyer Torpedoed, Sunk In Convoy Action

British Sink Iwo Nazi Subs  Other U-Boats Are Damaged by Navy Escort of Convoy

FIRE FATAL TO 100 IN BOMBAY, INDIA   Rageg 36 Hours Before Being Brought Under Control.

1944 SPENDING TO SET RECORD   COMMERCE DEPARTMENT PUTS CONSUMERS’ OUTLAY THIS YEAR AT 97 BILLION.

New Spending Record Being Set SEW “pending Kecord Being Set Commerce Dep’t Estimates  1944 Outlay Of 97 Billions

New Cars (When You Can Get Them)  May Cost as Much as 25 Percent More

Now About Those New Cars— Nobody Knows Much, Except  They'll Resemble ‘42 Model

NEW CARS LIKELY TO BE RATIONED WHEN THEY APPEAR   Expect Little Change In : Appearance; Production  Date Uncertain

Your new car will look like prewar model but availability is uncertain

Fleet Blasts Jap Bases 600 Miles South of Tokyo   Task Force Wrecks Installations on Bonin, Volcano Isles

Bold Strike Aids Other Forces Invading Saipan   Veteran American Troops Sweep Toward Garapan, Administrative Center of the Japanese-Held Mariana Islands

Explanation Of Veto Given By Governor   Bill On Consolidation Of Veterans’ Agencies I: Premature, Is View Of Gov Goodland

Poles Battle Germans   Tattered German Units Fleeing to Hide in Forests

Germans Reel at Red Hits   Polish Riflemen in Burning Warsaw Aid Soviet Armies

McNary Rifes Set Friday   Funeral to Be Heid In Oregon Home Town With Solons Present

MCNARY RITES NEXT FRIDAY IN SALEM ORE.   State Funeral In Washington Ruled Out At Wish Of Widow

RITE ~ TORE FRIDAY   Oregon GOP nator Was Recuperating in Florida After Operation.   CLOSE FRIEND OF FDR

Funeral Rites at Salem for Sen. McNary   SERVICES FRIDAY FOR SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER

McNary, Wilikie's Running Mate, Dies   Funeral Will Be at Salem, Ore., Friday

WOULD RESTORE CAPITOL UNITY   FR’s Trusted Men Seek to Mend Breach Over Tax Battle.

Demos Make Peace Move   Seek to Heal Breach With White House As Battle Looms Over OPA

GO TO CONGRESS IN PEACE MOVE   Seek To Mend Breach Caused By Tax. , ; oe ‘Rill Rattle ,

» White House Takes Steps “To Mend Breact ‘Democrats Line Up © Support To Continue

ROOSEVELT AIDES SEEK TO RESTORE DEMOCRAT UNITY   STRIVE TO PATCH CONGRESS BREACH WITH WHITE HOUSE

leufenants vain To Heal Democratic Riff  — Aida Saal Tinittyu   . Aides Seek Unity As Battle Shapes Over OPA Bill

FDR’s Lieutenants Would Mend Break With Congress  Move Toward Unity   Move Toward Unity Develops in Ranks o Warring Democrats

Roosevelt Lieutenants Seeking to Mend Break With Congress   Move to Restore Unity in Democratic Ranks Develops as Prelude to Struggle Over Continuation of Wartime Price Rules

FD, R. TRYING TO MEND BREAK   President's Lieutenants Seek To Patch Up White House - Congress Differs ences.

CAPITOL HILL IS. TRYING TO WARM UP TO CONGRESS   FDR’s Trusted Lieutenants Now Trying to Heal The Gaps Made Recently

Navy Ships join Battle For Leyte   Japs Report They Havc Landed Strong Forces on  Moratai Island

CTHINENT FORUM   Will Discuss ss World Wor ries and Personal "Hes PyrnahbLleme

Student Forum Of LeMars High February 23-24  Ten Local Leaders And Two Out-Of Town Speakers

BLOCK BY BLOCK FIGHT POSSIBLE   Germans May Make Deter. mined Stand Inside His toric Florence

Germans Battle To Hold Florence   Historic City May Be Shelled   Ry FDWARD KENNEDY

Nazis Toss Five Divisions Into Florence F ight   Allies Face Possible Necessity of Firing On Famed Art Center

$th Narrows - Florence Ring   Germans Install Batte rr In Art Treasure City

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Nazis Massing For ~ Florence Defense   Allies May be Forced to Fire on Storehouse of Art and Culture—Five Battered Divisions Thrown Into Battle by Germans

FLORENCE’S FATE HANGS IN BALANCE   Germans May Defend City; Allies Faced With Necessity of Hitting Art Treasures.  Artillery Runels

River Continues Rise; See 15.5 Stage Here Thursday   Levee Officials Watching Stream

FINAL PHASE OF FIGHT FOR FLORENCE BEGINS   New Zealanders Drive To Point Five Miles Below Historic City; Nazis Counter Every Allied Thrust With Tanks

Zealanders. Open. F inal  Battle Phase  Fe or Florence   Nazis Answer: With . Tiger Tank Forces,

New Zealanders be 5 Miles From Florence   Battle for Historic Italian City Enters ‘Its Concluding Phase

FLORENCE FALL BELIEVED NEAR   German Army South Of Arno Appears Near Break At West End

In Final Phase For Florence   Veteran New Zealanders Drive To Joint Just Five Miles From City.

ALLIES 0 MILES FROM FLORENCE   NAZIS COUNTER EVERY MOVE IN AREA WITH STRONG TANK FORCES.

NAZIS REPULSE VIOLENT DRIVES   Final Phase -Of Battle For Florerice Opens Sharply

New Zealand Troops Drive  For Florence   Despite Nazi Tiger Tank Defense Allies Only Five Miles Fiom City

Final. Battle Is Opened  for Florence   Nazis Counter All Allied Thrusts With Tiger Tanks

Paving The Way For Fall Of Florence   Enemy Is Forced To Flee Before  New Zealanders

TANKS BATTLE AT FLORENCE   Pisa Situation Unchanged As Big Guns Duel

Imphal’s Roads Cut by Japs but Officials Are Calm   Allies Gain Two Hills On Bougainville In Solomon Islands

JAPANESE PATROLS  HAVE CUT ROADS AROUND IMPHAI   British Officials at New Delhi Do Not Fear for Safety of Imphal Garrison.   AN IMPORTANT CENTER   Other Japs Trying to. Reach Highway Leading to Tiddam, Cut Off. .

Imphal Suppl y Lines Are Cut By Jap Patrols   Other Enemy Forces ‘Trying To Reach 'Tiddam Highway Driven Off

ROADS AROUND IMPHAL CUT BY JAP PATROLS   British Hold No Fear For Safety Of Garrison At Indian Base

ROADS AROUND IMPHAL, INDIA, CUT BY JAPS   Do Not Fear For Safety Of Garrison There   ROAD UNDER FIRE   Situation On Arakan Front Reported ~ . Quiet

Imphal Is Cut Off from Allies   Jap Patrols Isolate Base But Crisis Not Critical   Enemy Loses Two Strategic Hills Outside Empress Augusta Bay Beachhead; Two Ships Sunk in 200-Ton Bomb Assault  : on Rahal

ROAD AROUND MANIPUR CUT BY JAPANESE   Nipponese Offensive Believed Aimed at AssamBurma Railway Lifeline  To Stillwell Forces   GARRISON HOLDS OUT

Imphal Road Cut by Japs   British Officials at New Dehli Have No Fear For Garrison

MOUNTBATTEN SAYS ENEMY WILL BE HELD   Allied Commanders No! Alarmed at Newest Infiltrations by the Jap anese

Cut Roads To Imphal   But British Confident Crisis There Will Be Averted Shortly

Roads Around Imphal Are Cut By Jap Patrols   British Minimize Danger To Garrison; Other Enemy Thrusts Balked.

BRITISH CLAIM UNITS CAN HOLD BASE IN INDIA   Will Drop Supplies To Troops in Manipur Capital by Air If Necessary

ENEMY CUTS ROADS  AROUND IMPHAL BUT  ALLIES NOT WORRIED THINGS GENERALLY UN HEALTHY FOR JAPS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

Japanese Cut Roads In the imphal Area   British Officials in New Delhi Say They Do Not Fear for Garrison in Allies’ Important Communications Center.

Japs Cut Roads Around Imphal   British Officials Do Not Fear for Safety Of ImphaJ Garrison

NETTLER IS : WAR VICTIM   Lost Life Fighting On Italian “Soil On May 29, Says "  War Department   Plan Requiem Mass For Sgt.  Ina Ravia

ETTLER IS WAR VICTIM       t Life Fighting On Italian oil On May 29, Says . War Department       Plan Requiem Mass For Sqft. Joe Bovile

JURY INDICTS 30 IN PHILLY TRANSPORTROW   Step Away From ‘Company’ Unionism Is  Pointed Up

Grand Jury Raises CIO IssueIn Phila.   QUESTIONS WISDOM OF DEVELOPING A GREAT FAR-REACHING ORGANIZATION WITH PRINCIBLES OF SUBVERSIVE.   30 Indicted For Strike

ATTITUDE OF UNIONS HIT BY GRAND JURY   3@ Men Are Indicted For Causing Six-Day Transportation Tieup In Philadelphia

U.S. Barrage Is Described As Terrific   Earth-Shaking Artillery Stirs Unearthly Din

Eyewitness Account Terrific Blasting  Of Guns Is Beyona Belief Of Humans

TEMPERATURES:   Terrific Barrage Laid Down By Artillery Before Dawn

Senate Dean  Far Behind In Vote Test  ‘Cotton Ed’ Smith. Mrs. Caraway —  Appear Defeated

VETERAN SENATORS LOSE IN PRIMARIES   Senators Smith  (SC) and Caraway (Ark) Trail - in Votina

MEET PLANNED BY BIG THREE’   Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin to Hold Conference Soon

HDR SLATED ''0 MEET ~CITURCIULL, S)'ATIN IN PARLEY ON WAR, PEACH

FDR 10 MEET BRITISH AND RUSS HEADS   Post-war Parley on War and Peace Expected Shortly

FDR. Lays Down Foreign Policy   Final Plans of Meeting With Churchill, Stalin Awaited Election Results

3 ALLIED CHIEFS: SOON T0 CONFER   ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL AND STALIN TO DISCUSS WAR AND PEACE PLANS,

Probe Demanded In C.1.0. Politics   Collusion Charged in Dies’ Letter to Biddle

B-29s Strike From Saipan In Marianas   One Hundred Or More Planes Bomb Tokvo In First Land-Based Raid

Jap Capital Hit by 100 Super Forts   Enemy Admits Damage Done by Daylight Raid, — but “Slight” :

Open Two-Pronged Air Offensive To Soften Mainland For Invasion   Japanese Capital Gets Ist Taste Of American Bombs Since Historic Doolittle Raid

Saipan-Based B-29s Bomb Industrial Targets In Jap Capital By Daylight; Damage Admitted By Enemy   Former Coach Led Raid   Bombing Of Tokyo Marks Opening Of Aerial Offensive

B-29’s Roar Out From Base on Saipan 1550 Miles to Southeast; Nips Admit Raid ~ und Damage to Factories

OPEN 2-PRONGED DRIVE TO SOFTEN JAPAN FOR INVASION; FACTORIES HIT

Tokyo Given Daylight Bombing By Over 100 B-29 Sunerforts   Giant U.S. Aireraft Operate from New  TR iis ee Ore Iman

Hundreds Of Superfortresses Officially Opening Two Prong Attack  FIRST TOKYO RAID SINCE APRIL 1942  While Invasion Forces On Leyte Capture Stronghold Of Limon

AIR BLOWS TO SOFTEN JAPAN FOR INVASION   Tokyo Bombed In Daylight, Opening TwoPronged Offensive Against Islands.

100 B-29’S ESTIMATED IN ATTACK   First Blow Struck ‘Ir Battle For Japan, Arnold Reports

Giant Four-Engined Bombers In Sweep Over Japanese Capital After 1550 Mile Flight From New Bases On Saipan   OVER 100 SUPER FORTS TAKE PART

100B-29’s Range Over Capitalfor Two Hours   ‘Arnold Vows Foe’s War Machine To Be Pounded ‘Out of Existence’

-YANK RAIDERS OVER BALKANS; 24TH DAY OF AERIAL INVASION   RAF Smash At French Invasion Area Shakes Sector Like ‘Quake; Berlin Reports Great Air Battles Raging

Warplanes Striking  From Two Directions   Germans Report Violent Battles Over Balkans—French Rail  Junetions Rattered

COASTAL AREA SHAKES LIKE KARTHOUAKE   Allied Bombers Smash at Seven German Bases In 24th Day, of Raids.

Heaviest Raid Of The War By The R.A.F. Nightly Raid  ATTACK CALLED AN EARTHQUAKE BLITZ  Other Bombers Ranged Inland To Attack Paris Suburbs

'7 NAZI BASES INFRANCE AND ‘BELGIUM STRUCK   Heaviest RAF Raid Smash Rocket Gun Sector In Enrope

Tattoo of Explosives Mauls Coastal Points  Yank, British Bonubers Join   Yank, British Bombers Join In Day Assault Acainst Nazis

7 BASES IN FRANCE, BELGIUM TARGETS OF ALLIES TODAY   Berlin Reports Waging Violent Battles With American Raiders Over Balkans Area—Fury Of _ - Air War Mounts .

FRENCH INVASION COAST 1S ROCKED BY Bla BOMBING   RAF Makes Heaviest Attack on Seven German Bases In France, Belgium; Violent Air Battles,   ALLIES OCCUPY AREA ABANDONED BY NAZIS   English Ports to Be Evacuiated By Noncombatants Under Plans to Launch Invasion of Europe.

RAF Hammers French Coast In Record Raid   U.S. Planes Hit Enemy Bases in France, Belaqium

Three Countries Hammered By    LAST NIGHT'S ASSAULTS ARE FOLLOWED BY Te * DAYTIME. 6]

Allied Planes Hit  Nazi Bases   RAF Makes Heaviest Attack Of War on French Invasion Coast

Invasion Area Is Battered   RAF Remembers 4th Anniversary Of Nazi Invasion

BOMBERS MAKE OTIFF DAYTIME AAO ON GUAM   Daylight Strike Brings up Jap Interceptors, Half of Which Shot Down   OTHER PLANES ATTACK BASE ON PARAMUSHIRO   Truk, in Carolines, Bombed At Night; Ponape Also Gets Night and Day Blasting; Other Jap Positions in Pacific Targets

GUAM IS ATTACKED . BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Number of Enemy Interceptors Downed During Battle

U.S. BOMBERS ATTACK GUAM SECOND TIME   Half of Enemy Interceptors Brought Down, All American Planes Return to Base:  Shoot Patrol Plane

Yank Aireraft Assault Guam   7 Interceptors Shot Down Ry Army. Navy Planes

Germans Fleeing foward Estonia, Latvia in Frantic Fffort to Escape Russians

GREAT MANY NAZIS FLEE FOR LIVES. AS REDS CONVERGE   Enemy Retreats In Great Disorder, Big, Quantities of Arms and Ammunition  - Are Abandoned.   MARINES CAPTURE AN OLD JAP BARGE BASE    Communique Reveals Allied Airmen Have Loosened Heaviest . Assault Upon Admiralty Islands.

Nazi Hordes F lee Closing Russ Pincer   Race Toward Esthonia and Latvia to Escape Converging Red Armies.

NAZIS IN BALTIC AREA FLEE BEFORE RUSSIANS   2 BRITISH AIR ARMADAS DROP DEATH OW BERLIN

Fear-Ridder Nazis Race For Estonia   German Railway Lifeline Periled © By Red Advance

Germans Flee Toward Estoniz  And Latvia   Leningrad-Talinn Escape Railroad Severed by Reds

Coargressmen in Kage   Nazis Fleeing By Thousands  From Soviets   Red Vanguards Seize Rail Junction, Cut Off Foe’s Escape

GERMANS IN RUSSIA FLEE FOR LIVES —   Stream Towards Borders of Estonia,, Latvia

NAZIS ARANDA ARMS TO FLEE RUSSIAN TRAP   Retreat Toward Baltic As Soviet Armies Cut Railroads, Only Escape Route Through Swamps.

ENEMY FLEES AS MOST RAIL LIFE LINES ARE CUT   Threatened By Converging Soviet Armies Tn Leningrad Aras

France  MONTY'S ARMY RENEWS DRIVE IN NORMANDY   Americans Wedge Deeper Into Rommel's Left Flank After Significant Gains

War Bord Total Takes Big Jump   Purchases Now Exceed Half Million; Inferest in Exhibit

Allied Positions ‘Hit By Germans   NAZI ARTILLERY. PUTS MAN y SHELLS + ON: ae ANZIO. a

GERMAN BIG GUNS SEND SHELLS INTO FIFTH’S POSITIONS   Artillery Barrage On Beachhead-Reached New Peak — On Tuesday Night

Nazi Artillery ~Pastes Anzio  _ And Cassino   Allied Command Is Quiet Regarding Situatior Near Adriatic

ITALIAN FRONT BATTLE FLARES   Heavy Artillery Attack Made By Germans At Cassino

Nazis Launch Heavy Attack Near Cassino  Action Stepped Up Alona Whole Fran?

Italian Front Is Displaying More Activity   Both Beachhead and Cassino Area Have Artillery Firing

NAZI ARTILLERY BATTERS ANZIO   15 German Planes Also Hit Beach-Head Port Area

GERMANS BLAST BEACHHEAD HARD   Hit Fifth Army With 4,000 Shells in Half Hour :

GERMANS SHELL ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Throw 4,000 Shells On Fifth Army Area Within Half Hour

ACTION STEPPER UP NEAR ANZIO   Enemy Artillery Pounds Beachhead;: Americans Take Prisoners

Beach Lashed . By Artillery   Aflied Raids Harass Foe, Infliet Casualties

Anzio Plastered With Nazi Shells   German Guns Send Over 4.000 In Half Hour

NAZIS SHELL FIFTH ARMY ; SMALL LOSS   Germans Withdraw From Beachhead; 25 Miles Inland

NAZI ARTILLERY HITS BEACHHEAD   4,000 Shells Dumped o1 Allies in Half Hour

Wank Dechare Hammer Three German Railroad Yards And Airfields In Raids On Paris   Nazi Ariillery (Barrage Opens lIn Malian Area

Christianity, Peace Basis  Urges Pope   Says Use of Force May Be Needed to Prevent Future Wars

Living Cost Declines During February In 51 Of 63 industriel Cities

THREE MILLION OHIO VOTERS 10 MARK BALLOTS   Servicemen’s Vote Of 150,000 May Prove Vital Factor

U.S. NAVY TASK FORCE SINKS > 1] JAP SHIPS   30 Others Damaged In Two-Day Battle TOWN WIPED OUT 5 —Yanks Operate Close To Tokyo

Seventeen More Jap Ships Sunk: Thirty Damaged   American Naval Task Force Inflicts Another Big Defeat On Japs

American Naval Task Force Tears Chunk Out Of Jap's Shipping, Sinking 17 Ships

NAVAL FORCE UNSCATHED IN SURPRISE RAID   Only 700 Miles From Singapore

Mighty Fleet Strikes   Twin Jap Bases 700 Miles From Singapore Hit

JAP BASE IN EAST INDIES IS ATTACKED   Allied Fleet Hits At Sabang, Off Sumatra Island

Fleet Crosses Indian’ Ocean To Deliver Strong Blow Only 700 Miles From Singapore 

DeGaulle, Stalin Sign New Treaty   Details of Alliance-Mutual Assistance Pact Not Yet Revealed

France Signs Russian Pact   Treaty Within United  Nation Framework

French-Russian Treaty Is DeGaulle’s Crowning Result Before Return Home

FRENCH, REDS SIGN NEW PACT   Gen. De Gaulle En Route Back to Paris

France, Russia Sign Mutual Assistance Treaty   De. Gaulle Homeward Bound Following His 16-Dayv Moaccraw Vicit

TARGETS POUNDED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Industrial Areas Are 8attered During the Day

SEA WALL IS BLASTED BY 2,000 PLANES   Dutch Island Target, Along With German Industrial Points and Ground Forces Support.   No Rhine Traffic

Bombers Hit Seawall To Flood Nazis   ‘Earthquake Bombs Break Island Dykes

lied Watplanes Blast Impot lant Uropean Targets  ttack Industries In ‘eich, West Wall And Dutch feland

We're Hearing From Tax Folk   Blanks for Estimates Reaching Mail Boxes

ALLIED PLANES HIT JAPANESE BASE AT KAVIENG HEAVILY  HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE KNOCKED DOWN  went ALLIED CRAFT

i Ure y sCcures  CLASS A. Omaha South 13, Columbus 1 CLASS B. York 25, Wayne 18. CLASS C. Wakefield 23, Culbertson 22. CLASS D. Hildreth 36, Trumbull 34.   Lorengau airdrome bombers’ target

Nip Airbase in  Admiralties Hit   Rabaul Also Suffers Heavy Pounding

Allies Pound  Kavieng, New Ireland Island      Jap-Held Town Set Ablaze; Cargo Vessels Smashed; Ackack Downs Eight Assailing Planes

ALLIED PLANES HIT JAPANESE BASE AT KAVIENG HEAVILY  HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE KNOCKED DOWN Tremere 2rrimenm fmisrrr

Pierce. Ack-Ack to Smash Japs’ ~~ Kaviend Base   Americans Fly Low:to. Fire  and Blast: Town and . Harbor    CARGO VESSELS’... = ARE ASSAULTED   Hight Planes Lost But 15: Airmen Are Rescued in Daring Missions.

ALLIED ARMIES TAKE 563,928 PRISONERS   Total Only Accounts for Those Captured Since D-Day

Way Cleared  For Big Push Into Germany   Second Major Breach in West Wall Threatens To Circle Aachen

TOKIO IS NOT TINDER BOX 0.W.1. REPORTS   8-29s Have Job in Capital of Japan Which Is One of Most Bomb-Resistant Cities.   Remain Operative

Tokyo Prepared For Bomb Raids   Universal Military Training Held Necessary by U. $8. War Department

Inhabitants May Fight .All Harder After Raids, City Is Well Laid Out

Bricker Names 4 Terms In White House A “Reign”   Questions Honesty Of FDR And Assails CIO Spending

BOY IS SHOT BY BROTHER   New Buffalo Youngster Seriously Wounded In Accident

Gun Explodes In Youth’s Hane   New Buffalo Boy Ir Grave Condition

YANKS EXTE BEACHHEAD ON LEYTE ISLAND   INVADING ARMIES JOIN FORCES TO TRAP ENEMY

Yank Forces On Leyte In New Advance   Light Jap Cruiser ts Damaged By Bombers

40-MILE FRONT IN PHILIPPINES IS HELD SECURI   Fighter-Covered Liberators Damage Light Cruiser Of Mindanao   15 MORE VILLAGES OVERRUN BY YANKS

TOWNS ARE TAKEN IN LEYTE DRIVE   Fifteen More Towns Overrun in the Philip nines

Jap Cruiser Damaged by U.S. Bomber:   Leyte Invasion Forces Forge Solid 40-Mile East Coast Front by Overrunning 15 Towns

Gen. MacArthur States Yanks Now Control Eastern Coastal Sector From Northern End of San Juanico Strait to Dulag, 40 Miles.

Trapped Japs Break U.S. Lines   Fierce Fighting at Aitape; Guam Bombed

Japs Breach * Allied Lines   American Resistance ' Eorces Re-Grouping

Date of Russian Revolution. Heavy Fighting Rages on Eastern Front Sectors Today   NEFADLINE

Reds Drive For Full Liberation   Hope to Have Last German Off’ Soviet Soil By Nov. 7, Anniversary of Revolution

Reds Are Preparing For Winter of War   Seek Memel as Base of Operations—There I: Now Trench Warfare in Poland and East Prussian Drive Is Stalemated.

New Drastic  Draft Rule Advocated  House Military Head Would Ban All But Deferments Under 26

Seek Checkrein On Deferments Of Younger Men   New Regulations Sent Out; Draft Of Prewar Dads Is Alternative.

Draft Official  Issues Warning   Savs Pre-War Fathers Must Go If Younger Men Are Deferred

Probe Shift In Draft Policies  War Industry List Expected To Follow

CHIEFS EXPECT VOTE BILL TO PASS IN HOUSE   Congress Ready With New Defy to President in the Form of Compromise Measure   "STATES RIGHTS" ISSUE

FicHT ON DRAFT DEFERMENTS NOW SEEMS IMMINENT   House Military Committee At Odds with President and. Advisors on Father Deferments

JOB DEFERMENTS FOR MEN UNDER 6 ARE BANNED   ONLY TECHNICIANS, FARMERS UNTOUCHED BY NEW DRAFT RULE

House Group Opens Study in Draft War   Deferments of Men Between 18 and 26. Mav Be Eliminated

iiey Threatens £8 To Tighten Vesthful Draft   hea On Defermenis fer Men Under 26 tacent 4-F Hinted

Younger Men Will Be Taken   NEW ORDER PUTS BAN ON 18-26 DEFERMENTS; HOUSE REOPENS PROBE

Pre-War Dads to Fill Quotas Unless Deferments Are Tightened.   HOUSE STUDIES PROBLEM

Job Deferments For Younger Men Ordered lightened   Those Under 26 Need State Approval for Delay of Induction

May Is Concerned Over Deferment of Young Non-Fathers   Threaten Ban on All but 4-F Deferments of Men Under 26

TOKYO REPORTS ALLIED LANDING   Yanks Repulsed At Maipia, Near Schoutens, Claim

French Isolate Paris; Snar] German Traffic   Underground Fight Spreads Behind the Battle Lines

Hitler's Sub Campaign Fails in June   Many U-Boats Sunk for Every Merchant Ship Lost

ROOSEVELT. AND MIRGHL wn                   Two Leaders Repor oitly That Allied Losses In June at Almost’ Lowest ‘Record of War: :   ONE MERCHANT SHIP ~ LOST SINCE INVASION   “For Evéry United. Nations’ Merchant Vessel. Victim of ‘German U-Boats,: Many - Enemy Ships Stink” :

NAZI SUBS POST POOR JUNE MARK   FDR. Churchill Report Losses Are Among Lowest of War

Nazi Subs Have Worst Month During June   Many Subs Sunk For Every Allied Ship Attacked

Yank Infantrymen On New Guinea Smash New Japanese Thrusts On Driniumor River

Gas Trucks Run Ganilet of Flames To Refuel Tanks Leading Yank Drive

Chaotic Retreat Related As U.S. Tanks Widen Gan   [fo Hefuel Tanks in Battle \  Yank Trucks Defy Flames

SUPPLY TRUCKS DRIVEN THROUGH FLAMING GANISY   Drivers Report Hair Singed In 50 MPH Drive

Lawmakers Start Home, for Long  Congress Recess Many Face Hard Fight   Many Face Hard Fights To Retain Their Seats In November Election

Congress Quits Until Nov. 14   Solons Adjourn for Election Holiday

RECESS BEGUN BY CONGRESS   Vacation for Electioneering Starts After Action on Postwar Program

Congressmen Recess to Harvest Votes   Second Long Vacation Of Year Slated To End on Nov. 14

Congress fo Take Recess Until Fal   Adjourns Eight Weeks Session in Which - Importent Lows  * Were Passed

Congress Winds Up Work Until After Electior   Economy Measures A‘ End Of War Mark  Past Session

JOB WINDED UP; CONGRESS -ONVACATION   Adjournment Taken tc —* Permit Solons to Electioneer _

Congress Quits To Hustle Votes   Recess for Electioneering Decreed Until Nov. 14

CONGRESS BEGINS VACATION PERICD      Lawmakers Will Return to Capitol November 14 Unless Recalled Sooner; Various Post-war Bills Passed

Congress Quits Until After Nov. 7 Election   Will ‘Return: Nov. 143) * Compulsory Training:.° “May Be. on Docket Then

FOO SPF FOR ITALIANS   SE ee F HUNDHED ‘THOUSAND TONS or WHEAT AND FLOUR SENT  . MONTHLY, TO. SICILY  ANDITALY' ©

FDR Seen As Lifetime President   Landon Says Government Faced By Real Threat In Roosevelt

Hull Now Ready For International  Security Talks  Will Invite Britain, Russia, China to Help

German Try For Relief Is Defeated   City Is Battered And Beaten; Destruction May Take Weeks.

Beat Off All Attempts To Aid Garrison   Methodical Destruction of Great Industrial City Proceeds

Japs in Myitkyina Resist to Death; Rains Slow Allies  Tokyo Reporis Task Force   Attack on Marcns Island—Pear

BOMG HOSPITAL ON BEACHHEAD   German Planes Drop Bombs Killing 27 Persons, Injuring 65 Others.   ATTACK WAS DELIBERATE

22 PERSONS KILLED, 63 INJURED INCLUDING NURSES ON ITALIAN COAST IN ATTACK BY PLANES   Evacuation Hospital At Anzio Beachhead Scene of _.Wanton Attack, Notwithstanding Plain Mirae By Red Cross. Bomb Hit Right i in Middle of ©  LI .....*a..}

27 KILLED AND Bo INJURED IN MARKED ARE   Two Nurses Dead, Three Wounded; 59 Casualties Among American Staff.

More Than Score Killed, Including U. S. Nurses  Plainly Marked American Hospital Bombed In Italy

Nazis Deliberately Bomb Beachhead Hospital; Two Nurses, 20 Others Killed

Deliberate Daylight Atrocity   Twenty-seven Killed As Nazi Planes Drop Bombs on Beachhead Hospital Near Rome

German Attack on U.S. Hospital in Italy Deliberate   22 Persons Killed, 63 Injured by GermanDropped Bombs

22 Killed, 63 Wounded In Attack   Two Fighter Bombers Hit —QOne Aims Straight For 15-Foot Red Cross

‘AN EVACUATION - HOSPITAL BOMBED BY THE GERMANS   Twenty-Seven Persons Were ’ Killed and 65 Wounded, It Is Reported.   TWO NURSES KILLED   Three Others Were Seriously Wounded as Was a Red Cross Girl

Bombs Kill U.S. Nurses   Field Hospital in Italy Bombed; 27 Slain, 65 Wounded

Act Deliberate,  Witnesses Claim No Military Objective Within A Mile

27 Die as Nazis Bomb Hospital   65 WOUNDED, INCLUDING NURSES, AS TWO GERMAN FIGHTER-BOMBERS RAID CROWDED BEACHHEAD EVACUATION CENTER IN ITALY

Sixteen Victims Are American; Enemy Ignored Red Cross Sign   63 Wounded: Dead Include Two Girl Nurses

Red Cross Girl Among 63 Wounded; Death List Totals 16; Americans Charge Attack on Evacuation Hospital Deliberate

State Files — Answer To  Tax Claim   Says Carroll Method of Taking Exemptions Not Legal

SLASH WHOLE NAZI DEFENSE IN BRITTANY   Drive Gains Speed by Hour

Mechanized Drive Said Approaching Top Speed   - U.S. Troops Push Into Chateaubriant: Nantes, St. Nazaire Appear Doomed

Nazi Defenses Cut to Shreds by U. S. Tanks; Bradley Nearing Brest

FALL OF NANTES AND ST. NAZAIRE EXPECTED SOON   Mobile Forces Speed Over Brittany For Final Mopup

Americans Cut Nazi Defenses To Ribbons in Headlong Push Two Thirds Across Peninsula

U.S. Armor Penetrates Chateaubriant   Enemy Submarine Base At St. Nazaire Is Ewnactad ta Fall

Yankee Drive Across Brittany Gaining Speed   German Defenses Apparently Are Cut to Ribbons

News Day And Night   Capture Of Ports Will Block Off Entire Breton Peninsula   Armored Columns Advance 20 Miles   Only Formidable German Resistance Reported In Rennes Area

EXPECT 0 TAKE AAZARE, NANTES WITHIN 24 HOURS   Responsible Sources Hint That Bradley’s Forces May Have Already Reached German Positions.   COASTAL UNITS OPEN: PUSH AGAINST: ST“ MALO   Only Formidable Resistance By German Troops Re ported In Rennes Where Fight Was Bitter.

Americans 20 Miles Past Rennes  In Move To Slice Off Peninsula; Germans Losing Footholds Fast

7,=se—UC<C RT I  Soldier Vote Bill Faces House And Undecided FDR

COMPROMISE SOLDIER VOTE UPTO PRES.   Question Is:  Will It Enable More to Vote?

IHOUSE TO PASS SOLDIER IVOTE BILL TODAY; VETO POSSIBILITY CONSIDERED

Allies Destroy 300 Enemy Craft   Fighting Occurs Nightly In English Channel

NEW INVASION MAY NOT COST ALLIES HEAVILY   Hitler Unlikely To Have Lef Strong Forces in South France   PARTISANS TO GIVE AID   Rhone River Valley Offers Highway North to Berlin

REASONS TO HOPE SOUTHERN FFRANCE MAY BE TAKEN WITH NOT TOO MUCH DIFFICULTY

INVASION ROUTE COULD BE HARD   Allies Would Face Troubles If Foe Decided To Fight

All-Selective Service Units In Front Lines   Two Divisions Get Baptism of Fire

All-draft. divisions enter line   Get first taste of actual battle

OPENS DRIVE ON GERMAN BASE MOZYR   Vatutin Force Now 95 Mi. West of Old Polish Border

PINCERS ARE BEING USED   Germans Facing Encirclement By Two Red Armies

FRONTAL PUSH LINKED WITH FLANK ATTACK   French Join Americans Before Cassino; Reds Oriving Foe Into Trap

RED ARMY FORCES CRACK AXIS LINE AN WHITE RUSSIA   Soviet Army Near Mazyr Driving Enemy Troops Into Pripet Marshes- Trap According to Moscow.   MARINES BEAT JAPS ON CAPE GLOUCESTER   2400 Japanese Bodies Are Counted In That Area Since Arrival of Marines During December.

GERMANS ARE DRIVEN INTO PRIPET TRAP   Outer Defenses Of Mozyr Cracked Ry Russians

NEW OFFENSIVE OPENED BY REDS IN WHITERUSSIA   Jaws of Pincers Slowly Push Nazis Inte Pripet Marshes.

Riga Falls Capital of Latvia in  Soviet Hands   Two USSR Armies  Join in Final Starminag af (il<

Russians Nab Riga  in Latvia   Tilsit, Key Prussian .Highway Hub, Shelled; Hungary Bid Reported

1,474 Yanks Are Killed in Saipan Battle   7,400 Wounded, 878 Missing; Marines Have Biggest Loss

14740. 8. Dead on  Saipan  Bloody Battle For Island Three   Bloody Battle For Island Three Times Costlier Than Toraewa

LOSSES HIGH AS SAIPAN BATTLE MOVES NORTH   One Thousand Yanks And 5,000 Japs Dead In 2-Week Fight

1474 YANKS ARE SLAIN ON SAIPAN   U. S. Casualties Three Times As Heavy As Toll On Tarawa

HARD FIGHTING ON SAIPAN, U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE      Bloody Battle Costs Lives or 1,474 Americans, 4.951 dapanese

Fighting on Saipan Has Al ready Cost 1,474 Amerjean Lives; 4,951

Marines, Army Units Push Aheac Qn Saipan Isle   Bloodiest Battle of Pacific Takes Lives of 1,474 Americans

1474 Americans, 4951 Japs Killed In Saipan Battle   U. S. Losses Half As High as Those In French Invasion

World Security By Force Planned   Government Seeks to Prevent Disagreement Injuring Enterprise

n Dumbarton  ecurity Plan  Ds Looms   Roosevelt, Hull Seek To Keep Essentials From Destruction   PARTS INCOMPLETE   undry International Political Questions Snll At Issue

Security Plan. Given Approval   U. S. TO INSIST ON WORLD PEACE . PACT

Security Plan Will Provoke Tide Of Debate   FDR And Hull Seek Te Prevent Disagreement On Any Single Issue

Security “Plan Facing Storm  O£.U. S. Debate   Adminisiration Seeks to - Prevent: Possible Dis‘Tngreement on. Any Single -Issue

SECURITY PLAN IS HEADED FOR STORM IN U.S,   Churchill and Stalin Are Believed To Be Going Over It in Moscow Now

Connally, Head Of Senate Foreign Relations Group, Gives ‘Full Approval’

Nation’s Part In Peace Plan Faces Debate   FR, Hull Try to Prevent Disagreement From Wrecking Enterprise

OEGURITY DEBATE BEING BY-PASSED   Question of Congressional Approval of U. S. Participation Determined Later

GOVERNMENT PLANS FOR AMERICAN PARTICIPATION IN WORLD POLICE PROGRAM HEADED FOR HOT DEBATE

Debate Looms On Dumbarton (aks Decision   F.R., Hull Aiming To Check Disagreement On Any Issue Which Miaht Wreck Program

Roosevelt, Hull Attempt  To Stall Disagreements On World Security Plan

Security Plan May Be Headed For Stormy Debate   Roosevelt Hope is Disagreements Will Not Wreck Set-up Of United Nations

Plan fo Put U.S. In World Group Heads For Debate   Government Plans To Put U.S. In World Group Under Study

FDR Fears — League Row an Congress   Soft Pedal Applied _ To Ratification Issue Raised by Enterprise

Debate Await Plans For World Group   Roosevelt, Hull Seeking to Avoid Storm of Argument Over Organization

WORLD SECURITY PROGRAM WILL BE OPEN FOR DEBATE   Attempt Made to Prevent Dis_ agreement But Many Issues Are Controversial

Nations Head For Debate on Peace Prosran   President and Hull Try To Calm  Congressional Fears

DEBATE BREWS ON PEACE PLAN   Armed - Peace Council Faces Stormy Future In  U. S. Political Circle

Peace Plan Heading for Stormy Time   Several Points Due for Debate Before Approval

See Storm Over Pact   Participation o of U.S. it World Peace Plan. ‘Expected to. Evoke Hurricane of Dehate

World Peace Plans. Head Fe or Stormy: U.S, Debate.   F DR, ‘Hull Seck: To. _ Avoid Disagreement

Storm of Debate Looms Over Peace Gathering  Part of Congress In Future Acts Is Volatile Topic

Security Plan Issues Face Debate Storm   Congress O.K, of Force Use, Russ Demands, Obstacles in Accord

Hinton Quintette Make Whirlwind Finish To Conquer   Will Play Hull At District Meet Thursday Evening

Hinton Quintette Make Whirlwind Finish To Conquer  Will Play Hull At District Meet Thuredav Pwawswcn

Army 24 Miles of Big Base   Reds Also Near Mountain Pass Into Hungary

SMASH ALONG MARSHY COAST OF BLACK SEA      Report Nazis Reach Czechoslovakia Gateway

U. §. Doughboys Stand Firm on Anzio Beachhead; Fight Tanks With Machine Guns; Heroism Revealed

2 @DKS PIfMt Lanss With iviacnineguns  Tough Doughboys Stopping Nazis

U. 5. Ready to List Aims for Future World Flying   Aviation Conference Held to Decide Use Of Skies After War

116 Nazi Planes Down in Battle Over Germany   Americans Lose 68 Fortresses In Reich Raid

Berlin Attack Cost U. S. 68 Big Bombers   British’ Return To Ai With Raids Over Northern France

R. A. F. POUNDS RAIL YARDS IN FRANCE   Americans Knock Down 176 German Planes   DEVASTATION   Left Among High Priority War Plants; About 700 Airmen Missing

U. S. Lost 68 Bombers  Over Berlin   Blasted 176 Nazis Out of Sky in Record Battle

Yanks Down 176 Germans In Berlin Raid   Loss of U. S. Bombers In Daylight Attack  Fixed at 68

Blast 176 Hun Planes   About 700 Highly Trained Men Lost; More Than 800 Beubers Engaged.

Berlin Raid Toll Now 1/6 Nazi Planes   America Lost 68 Bombers, 11 Fighters and 700 Highly-Trained Airmen in Dropping 2,000 Tons of Bombs on Capital.

Germans: Lost 176 Air Planes   U. S. BOMBER LOSSES LARGE IN BIG RAID

259 Aurcraft Fall in Raid   “Yanks Shoot Down L76 Nazis. Lose 68

NAZIS ENTER FRAY WITH LUFTWAFFE, ANTI-AIR ROCKETS   U. S$. KNOCKS OUT 176 GERMAN PLANES IN DAY ATTACK

Americans Downed 176 Nazis in Attack on Berlin  U. S. Bomber Losses Put at 68; RAF Hits France Again

U.S. Airmen Destroy 176 Nazi Planes   Score One of Great Victories of War in Monday Raid on Berlin

BERLIN RAID COSTLYTO. BOTH SIDES   68 Heavy American Bombers Are Lost In Raid On Berlin

ERMAN LOSE 170 AIRPLANES   Americans Lose 68 Bombers In One of Greatest Plane Battles Monday.   KEEP ATTACK ROLLING

2,000 TONS DUMPED QN BURNING CAPITAL   Fierce Aerial Battle Rages From Dutch Coast East;  Lianuiack® ET & I ace

176 German Planes Shot DownInU.S, Berlin Raid   We Lost 68 Bombers, 11 Fighters And About  700 Men; Nazi Capital  Dealt Hard Blow

LATEST RETURNS FROM MONDAY BOMBING OF BERLIN AND LAS} NIGHT’S R. A. F. NIGHT ATTACKS

U.S, LOSES MANY PLANES IN CERMANY   2,000 Tons Of Boise Dropped On Berlin

176 Nazi Planes Downed In Great Air Battle Over Reich;  American Loss Is 68 Bombers

176 Nazi  Planes Downed   MARAUDERS RAID FRENCH MILITARY OBJECTIVES AFTER R. A. F. BLOW

U. S. Lost 68 Bombers  Over Berlin  Blasted 176 Nazis Out of Sky in Rec:

Yankee Loss Heavy In Big Aerial Battle   British Night Bombers Bom. hard Railway Targets At Trappes, France.   NAZI CAPITAL AFIRE

Americans Bag 116 Nazi Planes In Sky Battle  RAF Keeps Night Attack On Reich

Germans Snag 68 U.S. Planes: 176 Huns Fall   ‘Raid Over Nazi Capital De! velops Into One of the Greatest Air Battles Of War   2,000 Tons Bombs Fall On Metropolis   ‘RAF Keeps Attack Rolling  With Heavy Blows On   Railway Targets At  Trappes, France

68 American Bombers Lost In Big Fray   Germans Admit Several Hundred Bombers Reached The Capital

Plane Losses On Both Sides   Yanks Down 176 Nazi Planes, Lose 68 Big Bombers in Aerial Battles

68 Bombers, 11 Fighters Yanks’ Cost   More Than 850 U.S. Berbers Parficipale in Smash Attack on Plants, Airtields of Berlin   GREAT AIR BATTLE   Planes Battle In to Target Througk {Inferno of Shells, Flak and New ‘Geyser’ Rocket

YANKS LOSE 68 BOMBERS, 700 AIRMEN IN RAID   Berlin Blasted By 2,000 Tons Of Explosive From U.S. Planes 

68 Bombers Is Cost of Berlin Raid   But U.S. Airmen Knocked 176 Planes From Sky in Great: Air Battle Monday

NAZIS LOSE 176 PLANES TO 79 FOR AMERICANS   Yank Flier 1 Describes Battle Over Berlin As  “Dante’s Inferno’

8 ARE KILLED IN GOLLISION   Ten Others Injured When Train Smashes Into Bus At St. Louis

15 Killed; 9 Injured; Bus Hit By Train      WABASH TRAIN NEARING ST. LOUIS CUTS BUS IN HALF; MOST OF VICTIMS ARE BURNED  Rescues Brother

15 Lose Lives As Bus Is Hit By Fast Train AtSt. Louis   Bus Catches Fire And Is Dragged Block Before Wabash Train Ts Ahle Toa Ston   NINE QTHERS INJUREL IN SUBURBAN CRASH   Bus Is Cut in Two, Bodies of 3 Victims Found Along Tracks

15 Persons Killed In Bus-Train Crash   Accident Occurs Near St. Louis

TRAN-BUS CRASH KILLS 15, HURTS $   Five Vict'ms Die in Blazing Bus in St. Louis Mishan

19 DIE.9 HURT AS TRAIN HITS ST. LOUIS BUS   l lost of Crossing Collision Victims Succumb to Burns

Light Persons Die As Train Hits Bus   Five Burn to Death After St. Louis Crash

EIGHT KILLED IN BUS-TRAIN CRASH   Wabesh Passenger Train and St. Louis Bus Collide

Nearly 3,000 Fly Against Nazi Targets      Forces from Britain And Italy Destroy 134 German Aircraft  1.000 HEAVIES ALOFT

U. S. Bombers Hit Five Enemy Cities   At Least 134 Nazi Planes Blasted: 42 Aircraft Lost

Fighters Battle Through Swarms Of Nazi Airmen   Strike From Britain and Italy for 6th Straight Day

More Than 1,000 Heavy Bombers‘ Take Part in Assault   44 AIRPLANES LOST —TNAERIAL ATTACKS   Grand Total of 134 Nazi Planes Reported De- — stroyed 

NAZI FACTORY TOWNS HiT BY 1250 BOMBERS   TWIN U. S. ARMADAS CRIMP AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION

Great American Air Armada  Hits German Plane Plants  RAF Follows Up Daylight Raid In Continued Attack On Continent: 134 Nazi Planes Downed

British Follow Yanks in Great Smash at Nazis   44 U. §. Planes Fail To Refurn

Fish Gets Early Lead In Primary   Senator Clark Trails in Missouri in First Returns; Reed Kan- —

Fish Wins, Clark Runs Behind  In Primary   Senator Reed, Kansas, Takes Long Lead Over Two Opponents

Nine Persons Die, 100 Hurt In Train Wreck   Bodies of Three Service Men Recovered; Other Dead Were Civilians; Soldiers Aid Rescue

Soldiers Die In Train Wreck   Three Soldiers Among Nine Dead After Passenger, Freight Trains Collide

F inns Ready To Talk “Realistic”  Peace Decisions   Authorities Claim No Word From Russians; Flatten Comments

AMERICANS IN ITALY PUSH ON   Fifth Army Hammers Way Toward West Coast Port

Filth Army Is Only Six Miles  From Livorno   New Gains Are Scored By American Troops On Italian Front   a  SEVERAL MORE TOWNS ARE TAKEN

July 12 Set for Session   No Other Legislation Contemplated, Says Governor

Massive Allied Air Offensive  Again Resumed   Stuttgart Is Heavily Blasted In Air Attack Made During Night   DAYLIGHT ATTACKS HAMMER AT ENEMY

STUTTGART IN FLAMES AFTER RAF ASSAULT   U. S. Bombers Carry on Today  oy  MYSTERY a ARGET  British peas Loses Only 4 Planes

AIR FLEETS « ARE OPENING ~NEW ASSAULT   HYGE NUMBERS OF PLANES OVER EUROPE TODAY FOLLOWING BLASTING —  OF BTUTTGART

YANK BOMBERS AGAIN HIT REICk   RAF Sends €20 Against Stuttgart, With Only Four Lost

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  4-Motored Fortresses and Liheratars Ramh Germany

AiR ATTACKS ON CERMANY   Follows. Up 600-Plane Raid by R. A. F. on Stutteart

Production of All Civilian Goods is  ~ Frozen in WPB Edict   Drastic Action: Taken: to Meet Vital “Needs of Armed Fortes.   Replacement of Infantrymen Worry of U. S. Commanders on Western Front

Infantry Replacements Beginning To Be Among Shortage Problems In Europe

CUT JAPANESE-RANKS   Enemy Troops in South of Ukhrut Are Starving to Death

New Landings by Allies Threaten German Forces   Islands of Walcheren And Beveland Are Invaded in Battle  For Schelde Estuary

AMPHIBIOUS FORCES SAID TO HAVE LANDED ON THE SOUTH SHORE OF BEVELAND ISLAND   Invasion Reported In German Communique As Montgomery's Pincers Tighten on Nazis Clinging To Deltas of Southwest Holland   ENEMY BEING CLEARED FROM 'S HERTOGENBOSCH

BERLIN CLAIMS ALLIED LANDING NEAR ANTWERP   German ‘Counter-Assaults’ Indicate Bridgehead Has Been Won On Island

Allies Arrive At  Beveland Island   Forces Are Striking to Clear Route for Convoys to Antwerp   SET . UP BRIDGEHEAD   Montgomery Tightens Pincers on Islands Southwest of Holland

GERMANS SAY TROOPS LAND ON BEVELAND ISLE   British Tighten Pincers 01 Retreating Huns in Holland

SEEK T0 CLEAR UP NAZI GUNS   British Forces Land On Beveland Isiand

BERLIN REPORTS LANDING ON SO. BEVELAND COAST   Canadians, British ‘ling Weight Into Clearing Antwerp Waterway

Begin Landing Operations on Beveland Isle   Drive To Clean Nazis Out of South Holland Gains New Momentum

Allies Land On South Shore Of Beveland Island  Canadians, British Drive Forward To Clear Port Of Antwerp.

British Land On Dutch isle, Report   Go Ashore on Beveland Island, Nazis Say Tommie: Gain Elsewhere

Allies Land On Shore Of Dutch Island   Land On South Shore »  Beveland And Establist Bridgehead On Schelé: Estuary In Drive Fe Antwerp Sea Lanes. 2

Report Landing On Isle Guarding Port Of Antwerp   Canadians Closing On Last Of Large German Guns Forbidding Use Of Port

azis Being eared From ntwerp Area   Jerlin Reports \llied Landing on strategic Island

Fighting For Holland, Port  Near Climax   Germans , Report Allied Forces Land Near Antwerp to Clear City

Allies Land On Dutch Island    Move in Under Cover Of Fog in Maneuver ‘To Knock Out German Guns Blocking Antwerp

Bridgehead on Beveland Island Has Been Gained   Little Activity on Western Front Except In Holland Sector

ALLIES LAND ON ISLE GUARDING ANTWERP PORT   Canadians Close In On Last Big Guns Near City

30,000 NAZIS IN RETREAT 0} DUTCH FRONT   Seek Safety as British and  Canadians Drive Ahead; _ New Amphibious Land =ings Made.

CANADIANS ADVANCING 4N HOLLAND   Montgomery Tightens e Pincers On Nazis In Delta Area

Allies Land on Beveland Isle, Nazis Assert   Allies Move to Clear Away Last German Gun Blocking Allied Use Of Port of Antwerp

Allies Land On Dutch Island   Strike to Clear Nazi Guns From Antwerp Routes; Close in on South Holland

NAZI “REPORTS NOT CONFIRMED   Say Allies Have Landed or Two Islands in Schelde Estuary Area.   QUIET ON REST OF LINE

Allies Land On Shore of Beveland   Protected by Fog Men Fought Through Knee- Deep Water to Approach Antwerp

Attempt To Drive Nazis From Schelde Estuary And Gain Access To Port In Belgium

Allies Land On Beveland Island Shore   Striking to Clear Last German Guns Blocking Antwerp

NAZI HIGH COMMAND ANNOUNCES LANDING BY ALLIES ON ISLAND  CLEARING OF ANTWERP FOR USE OF INVASION FORCES SOUGHT —

Allied Forces Act to Seize Dutch Island   Nazi Guns Guarding Gateway to Antwerp Obiect of Invasion

Allies Launch Another Drive Near Antwerp  Landina Forces   Landing Forces Take Bridgehead On Schelde Area

ALLIES LANDED NEAR ANTWERP, NAZIS REPORT   enemy Line in Holland Begins to Fall Back On Wide Front

‘Yank Losses in Marshalls Invasion Are Light   FLUSTERED JAP FIRES AT SHADOWS  U.S.Navy Steams Home After Raiding Paramushiro H arbor i

Shells Pound Paramushiro  ‘In Kuriles   AP Correspondent Aboard U. S. Warship Describes Assault  ENEMY BEFUDDLED

American Fleet Unscratched: In Invading Japan   Nips Are Flustered As  U.S. Navy Pays Sur prise "'Vigit''

U. S. Fleet Steams Safely Homeward After First American. Ship Shelling of Enemy at Paramushiro

‘SOVIETS ROLLING ON FRONT SOUTH “OF EAST PRUSSIA   pussians Also Slash Through Transylvania and Near Hungarian Border

US. NINTH ARMY NOW OPERATING AGAINST NAZIS   Presence Of Powerful New American Force In War Made Public   SECRECY FOGS ACTIVITY   Russ Forces Drive Across Transylvania—Japanese Feel U. S. Air Might

FINNS FIGHTING FORMER PARTNERS ON HOGLAND ISLE   Claim Nazis Attacked Isfanc But Assaults Repelled; Shins are Sunk

Germans Attack Finnish Isle But Now Are Being Mopped Up   Weak Bridgehead Being Cleaned Up; Nine Nazi Ships Sunk Or Set Afire

Germans Attack Finns’ Hogland   Turn On Former Partner: But Their Assault Renelled.

Natives Repulse German Assault _ On Finnish Ish   Nine Nazi Ships Reported  Sunk Or Set On Fire; - “Bromier  Hackzell” Ill

Himes Attanl, Fin T..1 22.1]  AUaCIt vist ASLOILG  Of Hogland; Assault F oited

FINNS, GERMANS. BATUE RENT   Former Partners In Arms Clash As Nazis Seek To Seize Island   ATTACK REPELLED   Communique: Claims 9 German Ships Either “Sunk Or Damaged”

Nazi-Finn Arms Clash   After Rejecting Surrender Ultimatum Germans Attack Hogland

German Army Turns on Finns   Attack Island of Hogland in First Outbreak; Establish Weak Bridgehead

SOVIETS MASS ALONG BORDER OF RUMANIA   Way Being Paved for Red Army Thrust Into Heart of Nazi Satellite Camp.   BULLETIN

RED ARTILLERY POURS SHELLS INTO RUMANIA   Soviets Massing Along Prut River For Drive Beyond Russia

Germans Won't Get Breathing  Spell. Says Communist Organ;  Konet’s Army Break Through  To Prut River On Wide Front   HURL GERMANS BACK FROM SOVIET BORDER

Hull Says U. S. Protests to Japan Have Proved to Be of Little Avail

LAST-DITCH BATTLE ’ WAGED FOR BRICKER BY OHIO DELEGATES   Cause Seems Hopeless; May Be Receptive To No, 2 Spot

Bricker Refuses To Withdraw in Favor of Dewey   Manager Says Nomination to Be Presented ©

DEMOCRAT PARTY MEMBERS DEFEND “THOUSAND CLUB”   Say Gov. Dewey Misrepresented Facts in Speech Last Night.

Soviet army forces cross Sluch river   15,000 Germans killed in week

Russian Armies Continue Advance In Old Poland   Moscow Announces 15, 000 Germans Killed in Victory at Kirovograd

POLISH FRONTIER, PUTTING RED ARTILLERY WITHIN RANGE OF IMPORTANT RAILROAD.

Advance 3) Miles Inside Of Old Poland   Force Sluch River, Take Stryelsk and Nenovichi

Guerrillas Help Reds Smash Nazi Defenses And Town in Poland Expected To Fall Soon   REDS KILL 15,000 WINNING KIROVOGRAD

Nazi Losses 15,000 At  Kiroveorad   Russian Troops Swarm 35-Miles Into Old Poland

RESISTANCE OF NAZIS BROKEN BEFORE SARNY   Eight Loaded. Germat Troop Trains Destroyed By Soviet Mobile Forces   BODIES OF ENEMY RITTER RAIL TRACKS

Soviets Smash Nazi Defenses _ In Sarny Area   Reds Rip Through Bewildered Enemy © To Cross Sluch River in Poland; Fall of Town Expected Soon

Reds Tighten Net On Sarny   Fall Of Strategic Railway Town Is Expected Shortly; Reds And Guerrillas Tear _ Through Bewildered Germans

Red Army Forces Sluch River on Town's Outskirts   15,000 NAZIS DEAD IN RECENT ATTACK   Details Given of Great German Debacle at Kiravoarad

Reds Force Sluch  River Near Sarny   Russians Break Resistance of Germans In Area; 15,000 Nazis Killed in Victory At Kirovograd; 8 Troop Trains Smashed

GERMANS LOSE 15,000 TROOPS AT KIROVOGRAD   Red Army Forces Smash Through Bewildered Enemy 35 Miles Inside Poland

GOP-Democrat Coalition Seen   Byrd May Be Nominee For Second Place

FOREIGN POLICY PLANK BEFORE GOP COMMITTEE   Propose International ‘Peace , Forces’ to Check Any Military Aggression

GOP Foreign Policy Plank In Making    9 Proposes International “Peace Forces” to Repel Aggression

C.0.P. Studies  I oreign Policy   Debate Centers on Declaration Proposing International Forces

Republicans Debate World Peace Plank   Climax Nears For Candidates

GOP Committee ~Censiders-Plank  On Peace Forces   Dewey-Bricker Contest Seen Heading Toward Pre-Convention Climax

GUF Flatiorm Group Mulls _World. Policy  “Debate Blossoms: “aS, ‘Doane. Raves! Prdnnent   Debate Blossoms -as ‘Peace Forces’ Proposal Is Termed Ambicuous   DELEGATES CAUCUS   UninstructedScan DeweyBricker Fight Before ! Making Choices

GOP PLATFORM OUTLINED FOR 1944 ELECTION   Battle Between Dewey-Bricker May Be Brief

Foreign Policy Plank Is Before GOP Committee   International “Peace Forces” To Prevent Military Aggression Called for in Preliminary Draft.

RAF ASSAULT ~ FOLLOWED UF   3000 American'Planes Roar Over France

 Shock Troops Advance Averas Of Mile Through Four Outly ing Villages, Report Two Tow? Cavtured   GERMANS MOVE GUNS, ARMOR TOWARD SOUT:

‘Seven Outlying. Villages Seized Ih New Assault      Impressive Gains Are Registered In. Drive To Open Paris Road 

Yanks Capture St. Jean-de Daye and Goucherie   English Infantry Enters Suburbs of German Anchor

American Forces Drive Forward to Capture St. Jean De Daye; Nazis Believed Quitting Area

GAIN IN NEW DRIVE TO OPEN ROAD TO PARIS   Heavy Shelling Softens Nazis

BRITISH 2ND ARMY OPENS OFFENSIVE   Launches All-Out Drive to Take Caen, Normandy

Aim Offensive At Opening Road to Paris   Montgomery Begins Assault with Heavy Artillery Barrage

Billings Man Gets Purple Heart Aware  Nimitz Decorates Ruane Maataan

AR BLOWS SAP FOE’S POWER   Stimson. Says Nazi Strength To: Resist. Declines. as Attacks: Increase. ’.

Air Invasion ‘Is Continuing   Pressure on Enemy Increasing, Says Secretary Stimson

Stimson Says Air Raids Effective   Germany's Production of Planes Falls Off 20 Per Cent, He Says.

STIMSON SAYS AERIAL INVASION OF GERMANY CONTINUES TO INCREASE AS RESISTANCE BEGINS TO WANE

RESISTANCE IS LESS   Stimson Reports Progres of ‘Air In. yasion of Germany

Air Invasion And Pressure Increasing. Stimson Says   Enemy Plane Output Down 20 Per Cent; Practically No Resistance In Pacific

Nazis Weaken In  Air Resistance  German Plane Output Down 20 Per Cent

Cites Increasing Allied Pressure   Stimson Savs Enemy Resistance Is Weakening on Whole

STIMSON SAYS RAIDS SUCCEED   Enemy Resistance Lower, Secretary Declares

Air Invasion Continuing, Stimson Says   Says Enemy Resistance On the Whole  Is Decreasing

Aerial Invasion Producing Results, Stimson Declares.   Pressure Increasing As Resistance Decreases; Stresses Blows On Japs

AERIAL INVASION OF GERMANY WILL BE CONTINUED   The Pressure Is Increasing and Enemy Resistance Is Decreasing.   STATEMENT BY STIMSON   He Also Stressed the Heavy Blows by Allied Aviation Against Japan.

AIR INVASION OF GERMANY 1S INCREASED   Enemy Resistance Decreasing, Says War Secretary

Invasion of Rota Hinted By Japanese   Would Complete Fight For Southern Isles in Marianas Group

Japanese Claim Yankee Landing On Rota Island   Base Only 1,500 Miles From Japan; No Confirmation

Japs Report New Landings On Rota Isle In Marianas   Last Enemy - Occupied Point In Southern Island Group

Last Jap-Held Island in Southern Marianas Hit by Amphibious Force   ADVANCE ON TINIAN   MacArthur Troops LeapFrog to Only 600 Miles From Philippines

RIP NAZI ROBOTS LAUNCHING AREA   RAF Also Blasts German Oil] Center; Paris Outskirts Hit

‘Army to Need 500 Millions for Liberated      Expects to. Spend: That Amount; Mainly for. Food, in Next Six Months.

Reds Smash Nazi Line on Niemen River   Close Within 7 Miles Of Doomed Grodno, Capture Pinsk Bastion

BiG BATTLE ON NAZI SOIL SEEMS NEAR   ‘Gains Made by Soviet Forces All Along Front Against Stiffening German Resistance.   315 TOWNS TAKEN; GRODNO MENACED   Russians Push Closer to Bug River Line on Which Stalin and Hitler Partitioned Poland.

German Xesis-ance S-'-“ens AS ec. “10098 Jose non Ve Srone %in: o- Grocno

Many Other Towns and Cities along Line from Latvian Border to Centter of Old Poland.   Perfect. Weather

PINSK FALLS TO ADVANCING SOVIET ARMY   REDS DRAWING NEAR BUG RIVER LINE IN POLAND

Soviet Forces Push Closer. To Bug River   Opposition Stiffens As Russians Advance Toward East Prussia

Soviet Threat Growing for East Prussia  Fall of Grodno Due Soon; Russians Get Nearer to Kaunas

At Present Rate Of Progress Observers Predict Red Troops May Enter Brest Litovsk In Four Or Five Days

Wolkowysk and Skidol Also Fall to the Russians   RAPID PROGRESS IS MADE IN ASSAULTS   Forces Only 17 Miles From Nazi Strongpoint of Grodno

Break Nazi Line On Niemen River, Takes 315 Towns   Fall of Grodno Expected Soon

To Investigate Soldier’s Death At Scott Field   Man Fatally Shot Former Resident of East Alton

Chief Justice Is: Honored Today  John §. Dawson Is  Feted at] His Final rt  Oe a. eS a

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER SEES GERMAN DEFEAT   Expecting War To Come To End In Year Of 1945

OffersHope Enemy Will Fail In 1945      Churchill Cautious Ahout Bate Germany Will Be Defeated

HOPES FOR 1945 VICTORY   ‘Churchill Is Cautious in Expressing View of War 

Churchill Hopes For 1945 Victory  Prima Minictar Mastin:   Prime Minister Cautious In New Year's Messane

System Upheld On Electors   Texas Supreme Court Denies A Mandamus

F.D.R. BACKERS LOSE IN TEXAS   COURT HOLDS ELECTORS ARE NOT BOUND TO SUPPORT DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

Final Cherbourg Blow Near Clima         State Supreme Court Rules for Regular Demo Elector.

Texas Pros Denied Demo: Ballot Place   Gallup Poll Shows Bricker Gaining, But:  Midwest GOPs Continue To Give Preference To Dewey

83,000 NAZI TROOPS PUT OUT OF WAY   Russian Armies Shifting Drive To Bessarabia

RITES TUESDAY HINTON FARMER   Victor QO. Harrison Died Saturday At Rochester,  Minnesota

Victor Harrison  Taken By Death  Life Long Resident of -Lincoln Townchin

Pin Japanese Airforee on Luzon Island   Other Hellcats go After Other Targets, Destroy 85 Planes

PIN ENEMY PLANES   New Carrier Plane Tactics  Employed in Raids ° on Luzon

US. Uses New Air Tactics   300 Jap Planes On 100 Philippine Fields Pinned Down

Cover i100 Airfields On Luzon   U. S. Carrier-Plane Umbrella Renders Nip Helpless While Other -Units Strike Taryveis

“ —PAGIFI T FI CO  BG NIP PLANES: —AREDESTROVED   Enemy’s Air Force On Luzon Pinned Down By Surprise.Move--   TARGETS BLASTED   Admiral Niinitz To Move Headquarters From  . Pearl ‘Harbor

QTARTLING Alf TACTICS USED   U. S. Carrier Planes Pin Dowi Jap Air Forces 24 Hours a Day.   STRIKE BASES ON LUZON

85 Planes Are Destroyed By Yank Bombers   Incendiary Bombs Are Dropped Upon Targets In Tokyo

Pin Down Jap Planes on Luzon   New Seaborne Plane Tactics Employed by McCain's Armada

Carrier Planes Knock Out 91 Nip Aircraft   Enemy Is Caught Napping and Island Targets Are Given Terrific Bombina

Recommends Big 45 Food Program   Suggests Goals Equal Record Output For °44

Selection of Jury Starts Chaplin Trial   Man, Woman Excused For Prejudice; Few Spectators Get In

NORTH PACIFIC BASE OF JAPS BOMBED AGAIN   SOUTH APPROACH TO PHILIPPINES ALSO POUNDED

NAZIS DELIBERATELY BROKE UP FAMILIES   Passenger on Exchange Ship Gripsholm Makes Statement.

Repatriate States Nazis Split American Families  Germans Are Chargec _ With Deliberately - Causing Separations

OPA Announces Pickled, Spiced, Brandied. Fruits fo Go Back Under Rationing

GREAT AERIAL BATTLE ROARS OVER GERMANY   U.S. Bombers Attack Berlin DAYLIGHT SMASH  RAF Reports Good Night Results

roars SSS Oe eS Sr eee eS LLG SS FOO Vea  FDR WILL VISIT BRITAIN. CLAIM

TROOPS SEIZE STRATEGIC HILL   Russians in Second Day of Limited Attacks Southeast of Stanislawow in Old Poland.

Soviets Take Vital Hill in Old Poland   Pressure Lessened On Reds’ Flank

SEEK T0 TRAP ENEMY FORCES ACROSS VALLE   Tanks, Infantry Leading American Troops in Wide Leyte Area. Highway Focal Point

PRESIDENT REQUESTS INFOR MATION REGARDING PRO “POSED LIMITED USE OF «EDERAL BALLOT’ 

President Awaits Governors Word   Iowa Has Amply Provided For Soldiers’ Ballots

Saidor Harbor and Airfields. Taken by Allies   Japanese Security Along Sealanes Is Further Menaced

U. 8 LANDINGS ON SAIDOR THREATEN JAP SEA LANES   Infantry Bivision Quickly Overcomes Enemy Re cetera

Yanks Nab Key Guinea Airfield   COMMUNIQUE REVEALS “HARBOR, AIR BASE IN OUR FIRM GRASP”; FIGHT WITH NIPS LOOMS AS U. S. SIXTH ARMY 55 MILES FROM MADANG

U.S. Soldiers — Land at Saidor   Move Threatens Jap Sea Lanes Leading To Philippines

Landings on ‘New Guinea Menace Foe   American Invasion Troops at Saidor Open Sea Lanes to Island Fortresses

SAIDOR SEIZED IN NEW GUINEA BY AMERICANS   Yanks:Land on Beaches and Quickly Overcome Slight Jap Resistance

IAPS FACING ~NEW THREAT   Landings At Saider Peril Enemy Sea Lanes To Philippines

BEACHES: Wi IAP AIR BASES   Light Resistance Overcome Quickly; Troops Get Aid From Ships. Planes

YANKS LAND AT SAIDOR ON NEW GUINEA   Serious Threat at Japanese Security Along Sea Lanes To Enemy Island Fortresses is Made   RESISTANCE IS SLIGHT

AMERICAN LANDINGS ON NORTH COAST OF NEW GUINEA SUNDAY  NEW THREAT TO JAPANESE SEA LANES IN

Landings at Saidor Pose New Threats   japanese String of Isles Endangered All the Way to Philippines

New Threat To Japanese Supply Line   dings on North Coast of New ‘Guinea Give Americans. Control of. Vitiaz Straits

Yank Troops Invade North  New Guinea   Land At Saidor in MacArthur’s Third Move in 18 Days

Yanks Seize Airfields in Landing . On Northern Coast of New Guinea

Jap Harbor  Is Captured — By Americans   Three Landings Made at Saidon Beach in New Guinea; Marines Enlarge Beachhead on Cape Gloucester

Yank Landings At Saidor New Threat To Japs   Midwest Troops Gain A Hold On Northern Coast Of New Guinea.

Yanks Make New Landing   Saidor Seizure Threatens Many Retreating Japs

AMERICANS IN’ NEW LANDINGS ON NEW GUINEA   Saidor on Jungle-Lined North Coast of Island Presents New Threat to Jane

MacArthur's Men Make Third Landine in Eighteen Days   32nd Infantry Units Met No Opposition Until on Shore

—PACIFIC—  NEW THREAT T JAP SEALANE:   Gen. MacArthur’s Third Major Blow At Enemy In 18 Days   NO OPPOSITION   American Troops Now Only 55 Miles Southeast Of Madang

AMERICAN LANDINGS  ON NORTH COAST OF  NEW GUINEA SUNDAY NEW THREAT TO JAP ANESE SEA LANES IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA

Jap Sea Lanes Threatened By Saidor Landing   Yanks In New Guinea Without Opposition

Infantry Units Land at Sait and Meet Light Opposition From lapanese      ENGAGEMENT LIKELY TO: COME AT ANY MOMENT

Yanks Land Near Big Jap Supply Base   Third Thrust at New Guinea Places American Troops Near Madang   ANOTHER HARBOR, AIRFIELD TAKEN   Allies New Have Footholds . On Both Sides of Straits That Lead to Truk

NEW INVASION MENACES JAPS   Yanks Land on North Coast Of New Guinea

Water Problem a Major Issue for Montanans, Is Final Word of Gov. Sam Ford  eww: The mck las Wiest Abie Oc TN... kk...   Says People Must Not Stand Idly by as Another Bureaucratic Scheme Is Shoved Down Their Throcits

Waiter Problem a Major Issue for Montanans, Is Final Word of Gov. Sam Ford   Says People Must Not Stand Idly by as Another Bureaucratic Scheme Is Shoved Down Their Throats

Governor Declares Administration Efforts to Forcibly Control Montana’s Watersheds Threatens State’s Very Lifeblood : ’

WANDS READY 10) NEGOTIATE   Union Is Asked to Set Date for Barevainin, Mecting

Elas Forward Peace Proposal  Atmosphere Remain:  Tanmca im Athanc

LEFTIOTS OFFER PEACE PROPOSA   Would Disarm to AngloGreek Commission Report; British, Continue to Attack Wih Planes and Tanks

Greek Leftists: Said Offering British Truee   _ Proposal Reported Hinging On New Government; Binhitivcnc: Qaithinws

ELAS Makes New  Peace Proposal   Archbishop Tentatively Accepts Regency

Germans Begin Withdrawal  From Bulgaria   Armistice Terms Are Believed on Way to Sofia

Bulgaria Gets Peace Terms, Nazis Depart   Troops Withdraw As Allies Send Armistice Offer

Enemy Already 12 Miles Across the Burmese Border.   P4RR HF FE RR RRRAYN EV  MILES OF CAPITAL  13. Enemy Planes Are Downed and 2 Jap Ships Sunk.

Broughton Predicts $75,000,000 Surplus   General Fund At End Of Fiscal Year Stands At $57,648,870; Other Funds Up.

RUSSIA TO HELP POLISH CITIZENS   steps Taken To Restore Rights; Churches May Be Revived

Hold Janice Graham for 2 Murders   as  STATE POLICEMAN TELLS OF CONVERSATION BETWEEN GIRL AND MORELL AFTER THEIR RETURN HOME. :   Grand Jury Meets Monday

Janice Graham Ordered Held   Morell Refuses to Reply to Questions At, Hearing

BLAST RUHR RHINELAND   More Than 2,000. Warplanes Rail Oil And Rail Targets ©

REVOLUTION BREAKS: OUT: IN ECUADOR; 40° KILLED IN FIGHTING IN GUAYAQUIL

Civilian-Military Revolt In Ecuador  Outbreak In Midst Of Presidential Race

Bricker Vie Only Challenger To Goy. Dewey   Practical Politicians Think Stassen Hopes Dimmed By South Dakota Loss

Gov. Bricker The Only Challenger To Dewey Nomination On 1st Ballot

Bricker Seen As Only Hurdle Left For Dewey  New Yor er St ven Bia Edae

BRICKER POSES ONLY THREAT 10 DEWEY PARADE   BACKER PREDICTS NEW YORKER ON THE FIRST BALLOT.

VICTORY CN ONFIRST BALLOT IS LIKEL!   Stassen’s Chances Fade After Outcome Of South Dakota Fight   ‘BYRD IN RACE   ‘Florida Voters. Put Vir- : ginia Senator In Fight - Against His Will

Mediterranean Forces Reported Within Seven Miles of Great Toulon Naval Base: Russians Into East Prussia

Krom Uity     British Sealing Trap On 7th Arm   Whole Allied Frout Swin, Eastward Against Groegy Enemy

Allies Advance Toward Vital Base in Burma   Near Myitkyina  In Numerous GainsBombers Continue Raids on Outposts

CLOSING IN STEADILY ON BASE OF JAP   Mile and Half Advance by Allies In North Burma Campaign.— More Victories for Chinese.

Japanese Face Serious Reverse In North Burma   Ailied Troops Continue Steady Advance On Myitkyina

EARLY FALL OF MYITKYINA NOW APPEARS LIKELY   Allied Troops Advance Mile and Half Toward - Burma Base. Chinese Report New Victories

all Of Japanese Sastion In Burma Appears Imminent   Chinese Score Fresh Successes Over Enemy

—PACIFIC—  JAP DEFEAT AT MAVITKYINA NEAR   Allies Advance Mile And A Half Toward North - Burma Base.   NIPS OUTNUMBERED   Enemy Battalion Reported Annihilated South‘west Of Imphal

Allies Gaining In Burma Fight Chinese Pursue Japs  ~ Who Fled Trap

Advancing. Allied Troops Bring Fall of Myitkyina Near   Chinese Score New Victories in North Burma, Jap Battalion in India Wiped Out

Allies Advance Mile and a Half Toward Jap Held Myitkynia.   ENEMY’S DEFEAT NEARER

ALLIED TROOPS PUSH TOWARD NIPPON BASE   Bring Defeat Nearer To Japs At. Myitkyina   Capture North Burma TT own of ~ Warone

Jap Doom Nearer In Burma   Enemy Faces Inevitable Defeat, in Northern Sector As Allies Press In from India. China

Inevitable Defeat of Enemy Force at — Myitkyina is Neat   Allies Advance Mile and Half Toward Burma Base; War News

ALLIED FORCES GAIN IN DRIVE FOR MYITKYINA   Chinese Continue Advance in Northern Burma, Capture Warong

STILWELL’S MEN CLOSE IN ON JAP BASE IN N. BURMA   CHINESE RECAPTURE WARONG AND INFLICT HEAVY CASUALTIES

Allies Make Gains in Burma   Advance Mile and Halt Toward Base At Myitkyina

JAP DEFEAT IN NORTH BURKS NOW INEVITABLE   Chinese Score Additional Victory By Capturing Warong

ALLIES GAIN ~— AT MYITKYINA   Chinese Capture Warong And Wipe Out Jap Battalion

Allies Closing in On Japs in Burma   Enemy Force Annihilated in India and Similar Fate Faces Nips Caught at Myitkyna—lIsland Bases Are Bombed Again—Chinese Still in Desperate Predicament

ALLIED TROOPS ADVANGE TODAY AGAINST JAPS   Chinese Pursiic Japanese On Salween Line

ALLIES RECORD NEW GAINS ON LINE IN BURMA   Chinese Forces Take Warong; Japs Escape Trap at Tatangtzu

Allies Close Grip on Japs Ever Tighter   Steady Advances Made in Burma  ‘And China

CONVICT SEIZED IN SLAYING OF SHERIFF AND SON   Fugitive From McAleste Prison Farm Arrested at Skiatook, Okla.—Two Companions, Escape.   3 ANSWER DESCRIPTION OF BANDITS SOUGHT   Two Theories Advanced in Shooting of Lamar Officer and Boy as They Sought Holdup Men.

Fight to End Nazis Ordered   Fate of Third Reich Being Settled on Banks of Vistula

U. S. Troops Push Toward Seine Valle   Mechanized Yanks Continue Drive from Captured Stronghold of Le Mans, with French Capital as Their Goal

REACH SENIC RIVER   Canadian Troops Smash Forward Despite Strong Resistance —°

Canadians Smash Forward In Ifaly  Capture Town of Bag.   Capture Town of Bag. nacavallo, Road Hub

Canadian Troops Capture Village   Coordinated Air and Ground Work Widens Bridgehead  Over Canale Naviglio.

Canadians Smash Forward In Italy   ‘Capture Town of BagnecaveHo, Raad Hub

Canadian Troops Seize Bagnacavallo   Located Near Faenza; Eighth Expands Canal Nazialio Bridqehead

“INTENSE SECRECY” IS DISTURBING BUSINESS   National Association Of Manufacturers Critical Of Government's Altitude

Appian Way Junction  Is Sought By Yankees   French Carve Deep In Mountain Areas

‘Hi gh Command Of} Huns Admit Dents In Line   Contend Break In Defense   At Sant? Oliva “Sealed.   Off: Report Heavy Fighting In Center   Poles Within Half Mile Of Piedmonte   Fifth Forces Take Monte Faggeto Overlooking Enemy’s Only Link Be. tween Hitler Line Ends

Germans Suffer Heavy Losses in Men, Equipment  Withdrawal Turns Into Disorderly

3ermans Suffering eavy Losses In isorderly Retreat      les of Eighth ork  Push Beyond Fallen Cassino On _ Northern Flank, Fighting Within Mile and Half  of Important Town of Piedimonte  SS Sa    ARK'S ARMY MOPS UP SNIPERS IN FORMIA

Yankees and French Make. ~~. Heavy Smash   Break Into: Mountain: Wall "+ Defenses. ai: Very Center; ” Supply. Road Attacked   MAY CUT OFF: ALL” NAZI COMMUNICATION:   German, Losses. Are. Heavy; British:and Poles Still Mopping Up

Allied Forces Register Gains In Fighting  On 25-Mile Front         Yankees Striking Toward Key Appian Way Junction Of Itri As French Sarve Deeper Into German Mfonntain Defenses

American Forces Strike Toward Key Appian Way Junction Of Itri, Reported

lazi Retreat escribed as Disorderly”  17-Mile Advance Made in Center

OFFICER SEES A DISORDERLY NAZI RETREAT   Loss of Equipment in ‘Flight’ Was Heavy, Reports Claim

Retreat Of Germans Is  ‘Disorderly   Loss Of Equipment By Foe Heavy; Allies In Steady Progress On Italian Front

German Rout* Described As ‘Disorderly’   Heavy Losses in Equip ment Suffered as Enemy Falls Back

Allies Rip Hole in Core of Hitler Line   French Infantry And U. S. Tanks Plow Through Gap   Allies Hammer Along Entire Wall After ‘Disorderly Retreat’ By German Forcaec

MOVE TOWARD SANT’ OLIVA   Poles Advance Beyond Cassino Near Rome Road   WILD RETREAT   Made By Germans From Liri Valley; Great Losses Inflicted On Nazis

Allies Hammer New Wall On 25-Mi. Italian Front After ‘Disorderly Ger man Retreat.’

Yank Tanks And French Units Attack   Report Germans In Disorderly Retreat to Present Lines

U.S. Tanks Break Into Hitler Line   Second Defense Front Hit at Center by French Attack   POUND MOUNTAIN WALL   Americans in Close Contact With Enemy in South ern Mountains

Germans Make Disorderly Retreat   French Troops And American Tanks In Italian Drive

French Troops, U.S. Tanks Crack German Defense Wall in Drive on Sant’ Oliva; Enemy Suffers Huge Losses of Materiel

rrench Llroops Carve Deep Into Hitler Line; British Ct ohth Prichec Reyand Caccing

French Troops And U. 8. Tanks Dent Defenses   Report American Forces Push Forward Toward Vital Appian Junction

U.S. TANKS AND FRENCH FORCES SLASH AT NAZIS   Germans in ‘Disorderly Retreat’ as Our Units Widen Sweeping Gains

FRENCH UNITS DRIVE TOWARD SANT’ OLIVA   Allies Hammer All Along Front Manned by Germans Following a “Dis« orderly Retreat” From Gustav Fortifications, ©

French, Yanks Hammer at  Italian Wall   German Defeat Being Turned Into Disorderly Retreat; Enemy Artillery Strength Cut Severely by Heavy Equipment Losses

U.S., French Smashing at Sant’ Oliva   Allies Hammering All Along German “Mountain Wall”

NAZIS’ RETREAT IS‘DISORDERLY ALLIES REPORT   U. S. Troops Strike Close to Itri, Key Appian Way Junction

REPORT NAZIS FALLING BACK “IN OISORDER   French Troops Carve Wedge Into Nazi Mountain  Defenses.

YANKS AIM AT ITRI JUNCTION OF APPIAN WAY   WEDGE DRIVEN IN GERMAN DEFENSES BY FRENCH TROOPS

Troops and Tanks Strike Very Center   Germans Retired From Broken Gustav Line In Disorderly Retreat

NEW GUINEA ADVANCE BY SIXTH ARMY   S.W. Pacific, Burma Offensive Net Important Gains Against Japanese Forces There.

German Retreat to New Defense Lines  Called Disorderly   Allies Attack Along 25Mile Front; French Dent Line’s Center

Americans Threaten Nazis’ Supply Road   Allied Forces Pound Hitler Line After Germans’ ‘Disorderly Retreat’ that Cost Heavily in Equipment

French And Poles Slugging Forward   . Germans Suffer Heavy Losses In Equipment

French T roops and U. S$. Tanks Spearhead Wedge, ‘Nazi Flight Disordered

French, U.S. Units Force Nazis Into Disorderly Retreat   Enemy Materiel Losses High; Allies Advance Along 20-Mile Front on Way To Rome

Enemy Pressed Against Adolf Hitler Line   American Bombers Strike at Berlin. Brunswick As Gains In «Italy Mount   RULLETING

French Troops, American Tanks Smashing At Sant’ Oliva; Nazi Retreat Disorderly From Broken Gustav:Line to Hitler Line; German Line Vulnerable to Itri Break

Breach Hitler Line ©   German Retreat “Disorderly” Before Smashing Allied Advance;  Berlin, Brunswiek Hit

SHAPE UP PLAN OF SCHOOL EXPANSION   Levying of Fund to Build New Junior ;  Considered      INEED A HALF MILLION

SHAPE UP PLAN OF SCHOOL EXPANSION   Levying of Fund to Build New Junior High  idered

WILL ROGERS’ BODY BACK IN CLAREMORE   Stone Crypt Beside His Memorial Museum Holds It

Will Rogers Back Home   Body. Rests in Crypt Beside Memorial Museum in Claremore

Will Rogers Rests in Stafe   Body of Humorist Buried at Claremore, Town He Made Famous

Turks Crack Down On Nozi Paper For Cartoon Of Great Britain‘’s King

EMANUELE QUITS IN FAVOR OF HIS SON      Ruler Carries Out Plan te Abdicate When Rome Taken

Italian Monarch Keeps His Pledge To Resign Throne   Still Savoy Head

‘PRINCE UMBERTO 1S PROCLAIMED TALIAN RULEF   King Vittorio Emanuele Steps Aside In Favor  Of Crown Prince

EMANUELE STEPS FROMHIS THRONE   Prince Umberto Becomes Regent of Italy, King Keeps His Promise.

Emanuele Quits Italian Throne   Gives Royal Powers To Prince Umberto, Fascist Opponent

Emanuele Keeps His Promise To Give Up Throne   Prince Umberto Is Made Regent

RULER OF ITALY KEEPS PROMISE   Vittorio Emanuele II Steps Aside, Gives Job To Son

Italian King Steps Down From Throne   Prince Umberto Takes Over Rule of Nation

2 More Aides Asked for Hull   ‘Roosevelt Also Proposes ' Clobal Neighbor Policy

Neighbor Policy For Whole World   President Asks for  Conoress. Approval

Via Casilina Blanketed By Big Guns   Forces From Beachhead Smash Toward Rome In New Offensive  VIORE TOWNS TAKEN

Two Main Armies Capture Three Cities, Blast Escape Road For Eight Trapped Nazi Divisions

U. S. Tanks, Troops Take Three Towns   Germans Fling New Division Into Via Casclina Fight

Heavy Artillery Fire  Precedes Bitter Drive   Severe F ighting Now Rages In The Outskirts  Of Velletri, Only 18 Miles From The Eternal City

Along Coastal Routes from Anzio Beachhead; Push along via Casilini Only Nazi Escape Plan,

Allies Capture Artena, 2 Other  Italian Towns   Eight Nazi Divisions Facing Threat of Early Entrapment by Advaning Yankees

CAMPAIGN WADE TO NEUTRALIZE CAROLINE ISLES   Yap: Island Hit With 30° Tone: of ‘Bombs ~ » Sunday

Liberators Blast Carolines Again   ‘Yap Island Hit With 30 Tons of Explosives

French 19 Miles From Strasbourd   British Strike  Toward Ruhr; ‘Yanks Also Gain

ROBOT HITS PARIS   Four Persons Killed and 12 Injured Early This Merning

LULL CONTINUES FOR RED ARM)   Widespread Air Attacks Made In Old Poland And Romania

SOVIETS POUND AXIS RAILWAYS   Long-Range Planes Hit Junctions At Lwow  In Poland

Russians — Continue: Bombings   Raids. on Rail Junctions Aud Air Fields Mark i Departure Fram . Land Aetién

Red Bombers Batter Nazi Supply Lines  » Ground Fighting      Nazis “So Sorry” Peace Not Negotiated. Plan For Worst

RED AIRMEN RAID ~ POLAND, ROMANIA   AXIS AIRFIELDS AND RAIL JUNCTIONS BOMBED — 90. PLANES ON GROUND HIT,

Russia Reports Sweeping Raids   Axis Rail Centers And 'Dromes Bombed

Russians Hii Romanian, . Polish Targets   Still Report No Essential] Changes on Land

Red Bombers Batter Nazi Supply Lines  » Ground Fighting Is Still In Lull

MURDER TRIAL NEAR WIND UP      Coshocton Child Slaying Case About Ready for Jury

SOVIETS DRIVE UP DANUBE ON VIENNA ROAD   Are Far Past Budapest Where Terrific Battle Rages: Nazis Wreck All of City’s Bridges.

RETREATING NAZIS RAZE BUDAPEST   Russians Pursue Axis Forces Fleeing Toward Austria

Soviets Drive Toward Austria on 90-Mile Line   Germans Blow Up Danube Bridges, Fire Buildings in Retreat

[Budapest Burns In War’s' [Most Violent Holocaust; (Reds Plunge For Vienna’

BEAUTIFUL CITY BEING DESTROYED   Reds Advancing On Both Sides Of Danube River

NEW VIOLENCE MARKS BATTLE INSIDE CAPITAL   Red Armies Strike Up Danube Valley on 90-Mile Front

Germans Put The Toreh To Budapest   Trapped Garrison Blows Up All Danube Bridges

2 RED ARMIES AUSTRIA-BOUND ON WIDE FRONT   Soviet Planes, Artillery Blast Foe Trapped In Budapest

Nazis Raze Whole Areas Of Budapest   Soviets Advance Toward Austria On 90-Mile Front

NAZIS BLOW UP DANUBE BRIDGES   VIOLENT HOLOCAUST ENGULFS BUDAPEST

Russians. Strike Up Danube Valle Toward Austria  4   Whole Sections of Budapest Reported Fired By Germans

While Soviet Guns And Planes Open Bombardment On Budapest   NAZI SS REGIMENTS TRAPPED IN CAPITAL

QUVET DRIVE NOW 30 MILES FROM VIENNA   Two Armies Approach Border as Massive Bombardment of Budapest Opens.

RED TROOPS STRIKE UP THE DANUBE   Far Beyond Burning City Of Budapest

‘Nazis Razing ‘Large Areas Of Budapest   Great Fires Rage As Russians Punch Near Citv’s Center

Reds Drive Toward ‘ Austria  Strike Up the  -Danube on 90 Mile Front Beyond

SOVIET ARMIES ADVANCING UP DANUBE VALLEY      German Garrison Blowing Uj River Bridges, Burn Budapest

Postwar Program Goes To oak vell   Congressional Action Com. pleted On Measures

‘Congress Has Reconversion ‘Laws Passed   Fourth Measure Provides For Overall Reconversion Office to Handle Big Job

FOR CONGRESS   Lawmakers Complete Work On Major Reconversion,  Demobilization Bills

Has Postwar Bills Ready   Congress Has Now Completed Work On Reconversion Measures

RECONVERSION BILLS PASSED IN LAST RUSH   House Vote Completes  Work on Important ‘Peace’ Bills

Congress Acts. On Four Basie  Post-War Bills   Legislation on Conversion And Demobilization Rent ta ENE

BILLS TO EASE RECONVERSION SENT TO FDR   Lawmakers Hope For Early Recess; Four  Main Acts Taken

MAJOR BILLS SENT TO FOR BY CONGRES:   Program Embraces 4 Points; Hope. For Recess

Congress Polishes Off Last of Four Point Program  Designed to Gear The Country to End

Congress Finishes Victory Program   Action Completed On 4th Phase

nletes. ion on tal Bills   Sends Meagures bilizutign And version To  ite House

Solons Hope To Recess  This Wesk:  _Demobilization  Mandate Given :

ACTION ON FOUR-WAY CONGRESS PROGRAM COMPLETED TODAY  HOUSE SENT “STATES RIGHTS” DEMORILIZATION

Solons Complete End-of-War Program for U. S.   “States Rights’ Demobilization, Reconversion Measure Sent to President; Congress Mav Recess Soon Until After Autumn Election

Congress Clears Calendar, Plans Early Recess   ‘States Rights’ Bill For Demobilization, Reconversion Passed

CONGRESS’ 4-WAY POSTWAR PLAN IS COMPLETED TODAY   Overwhelming Vote in House Sends a “State’s Rights” Demobilization and Reconversion Bill to President's Desk

BILL FOR PEACE CHANGES PASSES   CONGRESS COMPLETES DEMOBILIZATION ACTION

Jap Aviation And Shipping Bomb Targets   249 Enemy Planes and Six Vessels Are Destroved

249 JAP PLANES  BAGGED IN RAIDS   Enemy Shipping Also Suffers As U. S. Airmen Blast Heart .  of the Philippines

Navy Pilots Smash  440 Jap Aircratt In Two-Day Sweep   Assaults on Central Philippines Also Sink Six Ships, Damage 24 Others; MacArthur's Men Fight Tough Battle Before Ormoc Trap on Leyte

Two-Day Total 440.  In Philippines Raids;  Also Sink Destroyer, Damage Four Warship:  LEYTE BATTLE RAGES

Tulsan Accused of Higdon’s Death   Truck Driver, Ex-Pugilist In Plea of Innocent

First News in Britain.   Nazis intensify Lwow  Attacks, but Reds Hold

Germans Step Up Counterattacks — In Lwow Sector   Seek To Smash Red Preparations For Push Into Central Poland

NAZIS STEP UP THRUSTS NEAR LWOW      Strong Move to Divert Red  Armies Result in Heavy Losses To the Attacking Reserves.

Germans Throwing More and More Armored and Infantry Reinforeements Irfe Attempt to Smash Russians,

GERMANS STEP UP THRUST SE. OF WOW   Are Also Still Holding Out at  Sevastopol

Nazis Step Up Counter Thrusts   Russians Continue To Absorb Full Force of Attacks; Do Not Yield

NAZI COUNTER-DRIVE STEPPED UP; SOVIET LINES HOLDING FIRM   Germans Trying To Stave Off Invasion From East By Attacks Near Lwow; Moscow Silent On Crimea

NAZI ATTACK NEAR LWOW IS REPULSED   Russians Hold Firm On 5th Day Of German Drive

Truk Target For Two-Way Air Attack   Once-Powerful Jap Island Struck by MacArthur, Nimitz

Two U.S. Airforces Blast Jap Naval Base Simultaneously; AQ Enemy. Planes Destroved

MURDER IN CHURG AT DETROIT TODAY   Ministerial Secretary Body Discovered In Church.

Mild Weather Is Staying In State   Some Areas Behind in Farm Land Preparation

‘Governor Dewey Expresses His Gratification on ‘Result of Peace Talks Between Dulles and Hull

DEWEY GRATIFIED WITH PEACE TALKS   Secretary Hull Says GOP Presidential Nominee Believes Progress Is Being Made

JAMES FLY RESIGNS AS FCC CHAIRMAN   Chairman of Commission to Enter Private Law . Practice.

Gov. Bricker Gives In to Vote Critics   Says He'll Ask Amendment On Black Peneil Ruling

GOVERNOR TC ASK CHANGE Ih PENCIL RULE   Bricker Will Request Legislature To Amend Ohio Election Law

—SOLDIER VOTING— 3 Demand For Change In Soldier Voting Grows   Democratic State Headquarters Urges Clarification Of Black Lead Pencil Issue; Mandamus Suit Filed In Franklin County

Defense Attempting To Save His Life Through Insanity Case; Suicide Attempts Told

Long And Bloody Struggle Ahead In Mid-Pacific   Public Warned Not To Expect Miracle In ° Marshall Attack

Tough Fight Likely Before Marshalls Cleaned Up Of Japs   Most Powerful Naval Force Ever Assembled Backs Men Put Ashore With Guns and Bayonets - - - Many Tiny Bases In Pacific Island Group

Yanks F acing  Tough Battle   Marshall Conquest To Require Weeks

Long Struggle Is Expected In  Island Attack   'No 76-Hour Miracle Is Auticipated by U. 8. Leaders In Assault Qn‘ Jap Bastion

Marshalls Capture May TakeTime ,  Weeks Of Fierce Fight-  ing Cen Be Expected

Don’t Expect 76-Hour Miracle  World’s Greatest Naval Force Has A Tough Job

o 76-Hour Miracle In This Operatio  a Of Fierce Battle Ahead In The Marshalls

EXPECT LONG, HARD BATTLE ON MARSHALL ISLES   Americans Use New Types 0! Landing Boats, Weapons in Invasion

Lengthy Batfle To Be Expected In Marshalls  Quick Victory Not Anticipated

Marshalls Campaign Likely To Take Weeks of Fighting   No 76-Hour-Miracle Likely Despite Use of Greatest Naval Force and Thousands of Troops .

Chinese Capture Warong, Jap Base in Burma. ; Stilwell Advances  “Mile and a Half Toward Myitkyina

Chinese Forces — Capture Warong   Jap Strongholds In Northern Burma Taker

ALLIES GAIN ON FRONTS IN BURMA, CHIN   Chinese Capture Warong, Near Jap Base of Kamaing

WARONG BASE OF HPS WN BURKE TAKEN BY ALLIES   Americans and Chinese Drive Closer to Myitkyina {In Fight With Trapped Jap _ Nefanders.   NEW GUINEA AIRDROME S BOMBED SOME MORE   American P-T Boats Sank Five Jap Barges, Airfields In Marshalls Are Alsc Bombed.

Storm As, re On Saipan Island, Jap Air, Naval Base In Western Pacific

Details Withheld by War Department on Raid That Marks First Assignment of New B-29 Sky Mammoths Based in India-China-Burma Theater

Troops Land on Saipan   U.S, Forces Continue Invasion Assaults With Air, Navy Aid

Await White House Action on Bill Freezing Security Taxes   Fingers Crossed, Congress Looks Hopefull For Speedy Presidential Decision

Social Security Tax Freeze Goes to FDR; Veto Expected  : Congress Hopes President Will Act Cnn bh. Banmats Baole Adan ma

Hope For Quick Action On Pay Roll Tax Freeze   Congressmen Girding For  Effort To Override Ex nactand Vata

Social Security Freeze to F.D.R.   President May Veto Bill Which Again Blocks Tax Hike

Social Security Tax Up to FDR  Both Houses Vote to Freeze Tax at  Pct.

Congress Awaits F.R. Action on Security Freeze  If Measure Vetoed Solons Plan Quick Vote to Override

MEN OF COMBAT CALIBRE ONLY TO BE DRAFTED   Single Remaining Manpower Poal Consists of Young, Single, Deferred Group.

FR Gives One Alternative To Taking Fathers   Replacement of Single Men In Occupational Group Major Problem

2,000,000 Single Men Deferred By Jobs; Sen. May Suggests Drafting Illiterates

MIDWEST BURIED I HEAVY SNOW STORN   Cold Wave in Wake Devel. ops Most Severe Weather of Winter.

Predict Cold Wave In Wake  Of Snowstorm   Most Severe Weather Of Winter Extends Over Large Part Of _Middle West. Today

Heavy Snow, Cold Wave In Midwest   Area Under 2 to 11 Inch Blanket of Snow; Below Zero Weather

Heavy Snow Storm,Cold Wave Strikes Midwestern States   Most Severe Weather of Winter Developing in Sector

NAZIS DESTROYING CAPITAL OF POLAND   Lay Waste Large Sections Of Warsaw With Artillery. Planes.

CATHEDRAL IS GUARDED   FBI Agent Received Tip It Was to Be Bombed

FEAR EUROPEAN POLITICAL RIOTS   Eisenhower Ready to Take Necessary Measures

Expect Kisenhower To Maintain Order   Arms Surrender Question To Be First Test

FDR Willing To Go Before  Senate Grouy   President Is Said ‘Happy’ To Testify in Person Before Commitice

ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE — - BATTERING ENEMY TARGETS   STUTTGART ARMS CENTER MAIN OBJECTIVE OF BIGBCALE ATTACK DUR ING NIGHT

sal hel ec ee ad  New: -Army. Spray: Method: ‘Smothers :  @ Blanc sn’ Dlanne

American Towns. Cities Plan Now  For Memorials To World War II Vets

‘WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION REACH POLISH PATRIOTS FIGHTING INSIDE WARSAW

Polish Patriots In Warsaw Get Battle Supplies   General Bor Orders Forces Outside City To March On Capital

Reds Tighten Grip On Warsaw   New Sovict Drive Threatens Ploesti Oil Fields

Judge’s Death Ends Mass Trial   Justice Edward C. Eicher Dies Wednesday At His Home In Alexandria, Va.

Death Of Judge  Inds Seditien Trial Washington   Indictment Will Still Re Good

Sedition Trial Justice Dies During Night   Richer, Former lowa Congressman

SEDITION TRIAL JUDGE IS DEAD   Death of Justice Edward C Eicher, 65, Will Bring New Hearing

Trial Ended by Death of Judge   Seven-Month Hearing of 27 Charged with Sedition To Slart All Gver Again -

Sedition Trial Terminated By Judge’s Death   New Hearing Expected To Be Required As Result Of Sudden Death Of Justice Edward Eicher

Sedition Trial Comes To End  As Judge Dies   Long Drawn Out Case Must Be Started All Over Again By L. 8,

Sedition Trial Jurist Dies In Alexandria,Va.   Justice: Edward C. Ficher Had Been Presiding At Seven-Month-Old  Cace

EICHER’S DEATH ENDS SPY CASE   Trial Must Start Over With New Judge on Bench

JUDGE DIES; SEDITION TRIAL ENDS   Judge Eicher Suffered Heart Attack

Sedition Trial Judge Succumbs   Death During Night Of Justice Eicher May Cad Teal.

Eicher’s Death Ends Current Mass  Sedition Trial 65-Year-Old Former   65-Year-Old Former lowa Congressman Succumbs in Virginia

—~ WASHING TON-—  JUSTICE EICHER IS DEAD   SOVEN-MONTH-OLD MASS SEDITION TRIAL BROUGHT TO ABRUPT TERMINATION

HEARING IS SET IN WARD CASE   Federal Court to Consider U. S. Petition on Jan. 8; Army Operates Firm Plants

GENERAL RUNS WARD'S STORE   Case_ Is Expected To Reach U. S. Supreme Court Eventually

Wards Now. Operated by ie US.Army   Judge Sets Jan.8 As Date for Hearing On Legality Of som Saleupe

Army Officers Taking Over  Ward Business   Hearing Set for U. § Petition to Settle Legality of Seizure

ARMY OPERATES WARD STORES IN SEVEN CITIES   Company Will Decide On Tuesday Whether To Surrerder Records   COURT TEST WILL BE MADE JANUARY 8

GEN. BYRON TAKES ~ OVER AS MANAGER   Officer Goes Briskly About Operation of Properties

Whirlwind Drive That, Has All But Encircled French Capital. .-_,   GREAT PORT OF ‘ LE HAVRE MENACED   Military Spokesmen Said “There Is Nothing That Can Stop Us”

Battle for Northwestern France Seems To Be Entering Final Stages.

HITNORTHWAR FOR CHANNEL IN SPEEDY THRUST   Another Spearhead Is Reported to Have Smashed to Marne River

GAINS MADE IN NORTHERN BURMA AREA   Chinese Capture Town; Burmese Near Jap Base

CHINESE TAKE TARONGY ANG IN NORTH BURMA   Allied Units Join Forces ai Manpin; Airmen Support New Offensive

TARONGYANGIN CHINESE HANDS; TANGPU RAIDED   British Gain Against Imphal-Bound Japs

Stilwell’s Troops Join At Manpin   Take Tarongyaung One of Chief Objectives In Current Drive

Stilwell's Troops Take. Tarongyang In Burma Fighting  Town 1 Gly  ll Miles: zane Kam eee oe ml   Town Only II Miles from Kamaing, Pre-Monsoon Objective of Chinese—Gains Made in India

Stilwell Forces Capture Village On Burma Front   Mopping Up Operations Said Proceeding To Southwest Of Kohima

Allied Burma Drive Nears Japanese Base   Kamaing Is Immediate Objective General Stilwell’s Pre-Monsoon  Offensive

BURMA FIGHTING IS REPORTED BE GOING WELL FOR ALLIES   CHINESE TROOPS CAPTURE TARONGYANG AND BURMESE RAID TANGPU

Allies Push Japs Back in Fight Near Burma Base  Chinese Army Gains In Thrust to Main Enemy Position

Jap Hold On Peiping-Hankow Rail System Cracked 334 Tons Of Bombs Poured On Enemy Installations In New Guinea Area

PUT CEILINGS ON MEALS IN IOWA   Program to’Be Placed  in Effect March 6

Allies Punish — Jap Attackers   Nippon Planes Destroyed Over Alaenta:

Japanese Planes Raid Newly Seized Morotai Island, but Are Unsuccessful

Federal Officials Will Be Quizzed In Station Sale   Former Owner Said Forced Sale “Greased From White Heuse Down”

Gains Made By Chinese In Opening  New Routes   American Aviators Assisting In Drive

Chinese Take Several New Points   Oriental Force Pushes Forward in Plan  To Join U. S. Troops

Chinese Drive Moving Ahead   Seek Junction With Stilwell, Win Jap Bases, Encircle Force of Enemy

Chinese Gain Ground In Drive Toward India   China's First Big Offensive in Seven ' Years of War With Japan Planned to Open Path to India for War Equipment

Chinese Take Points West of Salween River   Sweep Through Important Namien Pass to Reach Banks Of Shwele River

CHINESE TAKE KEY AREAS IN GREAT SMASH   Gain West Of Salween River In Offensive Designed To Open Path To India

Chinese Capture Several: New Key Points In Drive To Re-onen Burma Road.   CHINA’S EXPED}.’ 2, NARY FORCE WITH ITS U. S. ADVISERS, THE Y- Be ¢, % ARE GIVEN CONTINUOUS SUPPORT BY CHENNA % 2,8 FLIERS AS THEY ADVANCE ON WEST OF SALWE £VKVER

New Gains  Are Scored by Chinese   Five Day Old Offensive To Open Burma Road Going “_. Extremely Well   CHINESE HOLDING “IN-HONAN BATTLE   , Drive Along Salween a Part Of Allied Strategy Planned RE Long Ago

CHINESE OPEN BIG OFFENSIVE   Take Points In Drive To Open Path To India

Chinese Move Ahead In Push Toward India   American Air Force Supporting Drive, Which Goes Well

AMERICAN AIR SUPPORT BACKS CHINESE DRIVE   Fresh Gains Made In Offensive To Open Path To India; Strategy Of Big Push Is Outlined.

Chinese Capture Strategic Points West of Salween   Otfensive Aimed a! Opening Read to India, Securing Equipmenl fer Showdown With Jap:

Chinese Attack Gains Headway   Several Strategic Points Captured in Offensive Launched to Join Forces With Stilwell’s Troops in Northern Burma.   JAPS BEATEN AT KOHIMA

Sweeping Chinese Drive Swallows Enemy Defenses   Big Push Is Aimed At Opening a Path To India; Americans Giving Air Support

Advance Of China’s Army In Burma Is Continuing   May Be Developing Pincers Movement Against Jap-Held Part Of Burma Road

Gains Made By Chinese  In New Drive   Capture Several Vital Points in Move to  Open Path Into India

Chinese Take Strong Points In Salween Push   Troops Advance Through Strategic Mamien Pass; Occupy Hongmoshu.

New York Times 30,000 Return Monthly, To Support FDR All Possible At Present

Patriots “Trap” Nazi Division  In Bosnia Area      Capture 400 Vehicles In Wild Fighting, Marshal Tito-Announces; Hun ~ Drive Is: Flop

Tito Men Trap Nazi Division   Wild Fighting in Progress in Hill Country of Bosnia

YUGOSLAVS ENCIRCLE. NAZI MOTOR DIVISION   Bitter Fighting Under Way  Noar Ff inavac

Nazis Trapped By Yugoslavs   Bitter Fighting Rages Alsc With Rescue Division

JUGOSLAVS TRAF GERMAN FORCE.   Wild Fighting. Reported in Rugged Hill Country

Severe Hurricane Headed For Florida \Wind Velocity Reaches 160 Miles Per Hour

Moving Northward 10 Miles Per Hour   Strews Wreckage As It Passes Over Cuba.

British Battle for Possession of Herfogenbosch   Areas Farther South Scene of Minor Activity

Fight For Possession Of Rail City Between Arnhem - -Zuyder Zee   Allied Bombers Sever All Railway Lines Through Escape Gap; Yanks Bag 106 Panzers

ALLIED WEDGE DRIVEN INTO GERMAN LINES   American Ground Troops and Warplanes Wipe Out 106 Enemy Tanks.

Tommies Drive Toward Coast Of North Holland, Thus — Shutting Off Escape Route

BRITISH 2ND ARMY IS NOW  WITHIN FOUR MILES OF RAIL  CENTER OF HERIOGENBOSCH.

WEWAK BOMBED. ATH STRAIGHT DAY   ALLIES DROP 174.TONS ON BIG AIR BASE—SHOOT DOWN © 8 JAP PLANES.

Yankee Flyers Blast ai Wewak Again   Eight Planes Are Downed in Heavy Bombing

Fleets of Allied War Planes Blast  German Oil Center   Between 500 and 750 U.S. Heavy Bombers Rake Ploesti Fields

~—ALLIED AIR WAR—  Ploesti Hit Anew   ITALY-BASED BOMBERS PLASTER OIL WORKS; MOSQUITOS HIT BERLIN

War Planes. Blast German Oil Center  Between 500 and 750 U.S. Heavy Bombers Rake  ee § ) pen > Ao

‘OIL FIELDS IN ROMANIA UNDER BOMBER ATTACK   RAF Made Attack Last Night on Oil Refineries In Other Regions

BOMBERS STRIKE RUMANIAN OIL   PLOESTI AREA HIT FOLLOWS GERMANY RAID

Heavies Blast  Ploesti Area Weather Grounds Big Planes In Britain

ROMANIAN {  AREA BOMBED   Italian Based Planes Roar Out and Attack Ploesti Sector.

American Heavy Bombers Attack Ploesti Oil Area   Mosquitos Raid Berlin, RAF Hits Inio. Ceechoslovakia— Weather Curtails Flights

U.S. Bombers Again Hit Rumanian Oil Plant Targets  American Losses Are “226 Planes in One Week’s Attacks

MORE U-BOATS SUNK THAN SHIPS IN JUNE   Subs Cause No Trouble ir Allied Invasion

FLOOD WATERS NOW TESTING LEVEE SYSTEM   More Rains For River Areas  Predicted

EAGLES PLAN GALA MEETING HERE SHORTLY   John W Young, National Leader ‘Will Appear As, Guest Speaker

LAND ASSAULT ON REICH DUE BY MID-MAY   TOKYO LOSES RACE WITH WEATHER ON BURMA FRONT

War Jitters. Fill Germany With Fears   Meanwhile Japanese Troops Have Lost Fiaht in Burma

Tide, Weather Held Keys To Landings   Big Japanese Force May Be Caught In Trap by Rain

THE KEY: WEATHER Weather Is a Great Factor in Battle Round the World

Berlin Looks For Invasion in 2 Weeks   Jiters Running Rampant Through Hitlerized Western Enrope; Monscon to Aid Allies Against  Tans

U.S. Opposes Outside Influence In Italy's Selection Of Government   Nation Co-Belligerent

Gove: a ent of Italy’ s Choice   Informs Britain and Italy It Desires Rule Without Influence fron Outside of Italy

US Keeps Hands Off Italian  Internal Aftairs   Will Not Meddle, Rritain Told

No Outside Influence In Ttaly Wanted. U.S. Declares   State Department Gives Sharp Notice To Both British And Rome Governments

US., Britain At Odds on Italy Policy   State Dept. Note Decries Interference In Forming Government

America Agains! British Policies In Italy Affairs   State Department Says People Free To Run Own Government

No Meddling In Italy, U.S. Says   Expects Italian People To Develop Government Themselves.

U. S. POLICY IN OPPOSITION 16 BRITISH STAND   Expect Italian People To Form New Gov’t With  out Interference

* —SFORZA—  U. 5, STAND ON ATALY REVEALEI   Expects Italians To Form Government Without Outside Influence

TTALIANS GIVEN oFREE HAND FOR OWN DECISIONS   @: S. Declares Hands Off Pol. icy in Opposition to Britain's Meddling

U.S. Expecting Italy to Form Government   State Department Says ‘Without Outside Influence

REVEAL POLICE FOR YTALIANS   U. S. Not to Interfere in In' ternal Affairs of Italy.   DISCLOSURE IS UNUSUAL

U.S. Keeps Hands Off In Italy   Will Not Attempt to Influence Formation Of Government; Britain Takes Other View

U.S. Keepin Hands Off, Italy Told   Britain Also Informed Washington Will Not Enter Italian Politics   JUST THE OPPOSITE OF BRITISH STAND   London . Opposes Count Sforza, Who Is Against Ttalian Monarchy

FIFTH PUSHES 10 MILES NORTE OF ROME   Patrols West of City Only Four Miles From Tyrrhenian Coast

FIFTH GANS 16 Wiles: 1BOVE ROME TODAY   "Eighth ‘Army. Takes Balsorano in the  Liri River Valley -

FIFTH GES ULES ABOVE ROME TODAY   Eighth Army Takes Balsorano in the Liri River Valley

TEXAS UNIVERSITY'S. FUTURE [5 DUMPED INTO LAP GOVERNOR   FIRING OF PRESIDENT AND RESIGNATION BOARD MEMBERS CLIMAX ROW.

‘Dr. Homer P. Rainey  ‘Discharged. as Regents Submit Resianations

Governor To Confer On Rainey   Faculty; Pres nt Ousted by Board,

Faculty, Alumni To Give Views In Ouster Of Rainey      Students March On Stevenson’s Office With Demand That He Promptly Convene Board Of Regents To Meet With Them

NAZI ARMORED FORCES MASS AT BEACHHEAT   Probe Allied Lines Under Cover Of Barrage; _ 8rd Drive Seen 

AMERICANS, BRITISH ARE HOLDING FIRM   German Armored Forces Preparing for Another Beachhead Thrust.

NAZIS MASSING MEN FOR THIRD MAJOR ATTEMP]   Full Extent of Casualties ‘in Other, Attempts Revealed. Lull Con-  tinues at Cassino

Allied Troops Throw Off Nazi Anzio Attacks   Germans Decimated In Push Involving  Third Major Thrust

Nazi Tanks, Troops Set For New Try   Enemy Casualties In Four Days of  Attacks Heavy

VAZIS MASS FOR 3RD TRY \T BEACHHEAD   Counter-Attacks Yesterday Were Halted by Allies

Nazis Preparing New Italy Drive   Germans Regroup For Third Maior Beachhead Offensive

NAZIS MASS FOR NEW TRY AT BEACHHEAT   Heavy Losses in Two Previous Attempts Revealed: - Allied Attack Across Ra. Bide River Fails.

Germans Assemble ‘Troops and Tanks   Ditlerites Suffer Heay y Toll: Enemy Rifle Division Decimated

Allied Troops In Italy Firm Under Counter - Attacks   Withstand Strong’ Formation of Tanks and Shock Troops and Artillery Barrage in Bad Weather

ALLIES HOLD FIRM UNDER NAZI ATTACKS   Germans Thrust Repeatedly At Anzic Beachhead Troops

Enemy Plans New All-out Offensive   Feverishly Assemble Tanks and Troops for Another  Try at Anzio

Enemy To Try Third Assault On Beachhead   Back Shielding Americans Throw Countecrattacks

WEATHER FACTOR AS ENEMY FIRES . UISES ARTILLERY   Headquarters Says Nine Nazi Divisions Suffered Considerable Loss, . Regroup For New Attack.   FOUR GERMAN CITIES ARE- HEAVILY BLASTED   London Suburbs Are Bombed By Nazis Planes, Stockholm and Finland Damaged by Russian Bombs.

Allies Repulse Counterattacks Qn Anzio Front   Germai Atiiored Forces Massing In Great Strenath

ALLIED TROOPS STILL HOLDING NAZI THRUSTS   Two Attacks Against Lines at Cisterna  Beaten Back

Liquidate Regiment Pocketed Betweer Rochefort and Celles   FLANKS HAMMERED   Nazis Make Disorganized Withdrawal in Face of 3rd Army Drive

BR. HPEAN SCHPDELPER   Asseciated) = Press  Corresponden Representing the Combined American Prees

DEVASTATING GUNFIRE COVERS LANDING FORCES  Reporter With MacArthur's Army Gives Evewitness Storv of Attack   PHILIPPINES OPERATIONS ‘PROCEEDING ON SCHEDULE

Gave Widow $2,352   Fighting Men Show Their Sympathy In Very Practical Way

Congressional Members In A Quandry, Where To Eat There Meal Tonight

CONFLICT IN DATES. WORRIES CONGRESSMEN  Lawmakers Have Two Opportunities To Spend a Pleasant Evening

Withdrawal From War By Finland Looms   Congressmen Put on Spot By Ohio War Contractors

‘Jack & Heintz Give Dinner For All Members of Congress   Cleveland War- Contractors See Nothing Wrong In Giving Party Seeking to Defeat - Renegotiation of Contracts

Solons. Should Be Tw Twins Tonight Tonight Invited to ‘Party and WPB Exhibit

Reds Less Than 50 Miles From Yugoslavia, Also ° Take Transylvanian Town

Soviets Drive On Iron Gate   Romanians Help Capture Transylvania Kevpoint

SOVIET FORCES WIN BRASOV IN TRANSYLVANIA   Reds Only 50 Miles From Border of  Yugoslavia

Russian Armies Hammer at Yugoslav Gates   Reds Within 50 Miles of Border In Race Across Danube Valley; Capture Vital Stronghold of Brasov

Russians 50 miles from  Slav border  Brasov falls to onrushing reds

RUSSIAN TROOPS ONLY 50 MILES ~ FROM YUGOSLAV   Second Force Cuts Through Transylvanian Alps and Captures Stronghold of Brasov.   NEW DRIVE STARTED NORTHEAST OF WARSAW   Berlin Admits Breaches in German Line—Underground in Polish Capital Gives Un Fight.

Red Forces Near Border Of Bulgaria   Army Near Juncture With Tite’s Forces

YUGOSLAVIA IS ONLY 50 MILES BEYOND REDS   Russians Cut Through Transylvanian Alps To Take Brasov Stronghold   GERMAN CASUALTIES EXTREMELY HEAVY

Russians Near Yugoslav Frontier   Writer Sees Advancing Red Troops From Air

RED FORCES SPEED IN DANUBE VALLEY   Junction With Forces of Marshal Tito Soon ” - Expected

First Returns Show Results Proportionally Same as ‘40 In Two New England Towns

Early Vote Turnout Indicates Possible 30,000,000 Record   Voters. Begin Lining Up at Polling Places Before Opening Time

ou & ELE SMS  Polling Places Throughout U. S. Are Swamped By Heavy Turnout   Unprecedented Rush To Vote In Early Hours Indicates A Possible Record Of 50,000,000: As Americans Select Chief Executive

20 Millions Are Expected ‘To Visit Polls   Roosevelt And Dewey Out Karly; Voting Heavy Among Workers

'SERVICEMEN VOTES SHOW EARLY TREND TOWARD ROOSEVELT  _ FRAGMENTARY RETURN FROM OVER NATION FAL  T 6A COCT rr AT

Roosevelt Seeks Fourth Term As American Chief  Dewey Is Optimistic

Every Sign Of Biggest Total Ever      [First Fragmentary Returns:  Much Like Those in 1940  When F.B.R. Beat Wilkie   POWDER-PUFF VOTE IN THE MAJORITY      Weather Not Stopping the Rush—City. and. Country Both Going. Strong

Heavy Vote Cast Throughout Nation  All-Time Record of 50 Million Rallate Evnected to Be Set Today

Balloting Fast, Furious; Record Total Indicated   Stampede Js General, Eyen In Deep South Where Vote Usually Is Light

FIRST RETURNS IN PATTERN OF LAST ELECTION   Candidates Cast Own Ballots Early in Vital Race

50 MILLION BALLOTS ARE - POSSIBILITY   Bronx and Manhattan Districts Poll Almost Half Their Potential Before Noon, a Trend That Is General. .

Count of 50 Million in Nation Indicated; Dewey Ahead in Early Returns

All Time Record Total Indicated   Record Voting Early in the Day Reported In Many Large Cities and Rural Areas — Many Women Among Voters—State Vote May Equal or Surpass 1940 Total

FARLY VOTING   Both Candidates End Campaign With Appeals for Large Total:   50 MILLION TOTAL SEEN

Returns Fall In Pattern Of "40 Election   Voters Flock To Polls Early Over Most Of Nation In Great Strength.

EARLY VOTING IS REPORTED OVER U. S.   Roosevelt Casts Ballot At Hyde Park Town Hall   BOTH PARTIES   Predict Victory As Hectic Campaign Ends; Other Offices Up For Vote

Women Balloters Jam PollingPlaces   .-.Bulk Of A New Congress Is Being Chosen

Balloting Points To Fifty Million Total for Nation   Big Cities Report Early Vote; Womer Appear at Polls  In Great Numbare

Citizens flock to booths to record  choice of leaders  Almost 50 percent at polls in New York City at noon

Nation's Voters an Turning Out “ In Record Numbers   Unprecedented 50 Million Vote Is Ciall Daccihbility

Large Vote In All Part: Of Country   Men and Women Hurry to Polls to Register Decision As Never Before

Early Scattered Returns From What May Be Record Vote Follows ’40 Pattern

Nation May Cast New Record Vote   Huge Early Voting Points to a Possible Total of 50 Million   WOMEN OUT IN FORCE   Indication Is That the Powder Puff Vote to Play Big Part

Record Vote May Reach 50,000,000   First Wartime Election Since 1864; People To Decide Leader

50 Million Voting Mark [May Be Set   President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Governor and Mrs. Dewey Cast Ballot Early

America Decides Leadership Today For Next 4 Years   Both Nominees Say . Vital in Wartime To Pile Up Huge Vote

BALLOTING ALSO HEAVY IN MANY “RURAL SECTIONS   Weather Generally Favorable; FDR and Dewey Await People’s Decision

\RECORD VOTE BEING CAST OVER NATION AND EARLY RETURNS ARE MUCH ALONG PATTERN OF 1940

Big Cities Ballot Heavily   50 Million Total Believed Tu Prospect

Voting Returns — Follow Same Trend as in 1940  ‘Early, Heavy Turnou ‘Indicates Record —_, 7a. nf 2 OOO ANN

First Returns Fall Into  1940 Pattern   Possibility of 50,000,000 Ballots Being Cast Sighted; New York Reports 45 Per Cent Vote Shortly Before Noon

Crowds Gather To Ballot Early   Totals Pile Up in Spite of Millions In Armed Forces.

FIFTY MILLION VOTES HINTED BY EARLY RIISH   Fast and Furious Balloting Recorded Throughout  Nation

Nation’s Voters Turn Out Today  In Large Numbers   Balloting Is Orderly In Most Communities Despite Emotions Stirred By First Wartime Election Since 1864 — Women Outnumber Men Voters At Many Polls

DeGAULLE DEFIES ALLIED LEADERSHIE   ORDERS REPRESENTATIVES ID LIBERATED FRANCE TO SET UP OWN RULE.

De Gaulle Seeks To: Gon Cote      -Ordets. Liberated Areas to Set up Own Governments

Chennault Says Air Force Lays Plans To Coordinate With Nimitz’ Strategy

Chungking Happy Over Truk Blow   Chennault Says Fourteenth Army Air Force Laying Ground Work for China Drive.

Reds Tighten Death Trap On 175,000 Nazi Troops   Yanks, Bntish Fall Back at Some Points in Fierce Battle for Rome

REDS HAMMER 2 NAZI ARMIES NOW CIRCLEI   ,» Americans Clamp Arc Of Steel Around Cassino

Farmers Sponsor Promotion Ad   Early Completion of County Guota Expected

Jennifer Jones Wins Academy Award As Best Movie Actress of 1943   By FREDERICK ©, OTHMAN United Press Hollwooitl  Py Se ve ee oe PMG

Jennifer Jones, Paul Lukas Win Oscars for Best Acting   “CASABLANCA” NAMED BEST PICTURE OF YEAR; CHARLES COBURN, KATINA PAXINOU RECOGNIZED

SENATE DEBATES ON BRITISH ISSUE   Investigation Sought in House of Commons Dispute Over U.S. Aid

WHEELER SEEKS - DEBATE PROBE   MONTANA SENATOR AND SHIP. STEAD WANT INQUIRY INTO  _ BRITISH. LABORITE’S RE " MARKS IN COMMONS —

SEVENTH ARMY CONTINUES ON RAPID ADVANCE   Joins With Third Group For Assault On Siegfried Line

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Wreck Kills 4   Passenger Train Hits Freight On Siding At Stockton, Ga.

47 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK   Dead Mostly Railway Laborers In Georgia Crash

47 Killed In Georgia Rail Crash   Train Carrying Workers Plunges Into Freight On Sidinc   ONE PASSENGER CAR SPLIT LENGTHWISE   Most of Dead Were Negro Members of Work Gang; Some Soldiers Hurt

Many Negro Laborers On A. C. L. Die In Wreck   Nearly 50 Killed When Passenger Train Crashes Into Engine Of By-Passed Freight

Train Wreck in Georgia Kills 47   Most Were Negro Section Laborers

46 Killed When Train Crashes Into Freight   Most Of Victims Laborer: Going Home To Alabama For Weekend.

All Victims Were Negroes, Members of Railway Work Crews Going Home for Week-end to Alabama. Hospital Car Bound for Thomasville With War Casuals Derailed, But No One Killec

47 Negroes Die In Train _ Wreck Today   “Passenger Hits Locomotive of Freight Near Stockton, Ga.

47 Workers Die In Train Crash   Atlantic Coast Line Passen» ger Crashes Into a Freight Locomotive.

15 Negroes Killed In Georgia Wreck      A. C. L. Passenger Train Collides With Freight

Train Wreck Kills 45 Negro Laborers   Coaches Leave Track, Hit Sidetracked Freigh!

WRECK IS FATAL T0 47 NEGROES   Atlantic Coast Train Hits Broken Rail, Strikes Freight

TRAIN WRECK IN ‘GEORGIA FATAL T0 '47 RAIL WORKERS   West - bound Passenger Train Plows Into By - passed Freight Locomotive Near Stockton, Georgia, Early ry !

Railway Laborers Killed As Coast Line Passenger Train Hits Freight.

47 Negro Railroad Workers Killed In Georgia Wreck When Two Trains Collide

Toll of Dead 47, Mostly Negroes, In Rail Crash   Convalescent Marauders Sent to Battle Area at Myitkyina  -Misinterpreted Orders Bring Morale Breakdown

47 Perish As  Passenger Hits Freight Train   Most Of Victims Are Negro Rail Laborers Homeward Bound For Weekend In Alabama

47 LOSE LIVES AMID WRECKED RAILWAY CARS   32 Others Hurt When Dixie Passenger Train Rams Freight On Siding

MORE BODIES IN WRECKAGE   Victims Most Mostly Negro Laborers In Ga: Disaster

47 Persons ‘Die in Rail Crash Today   Negro Rail Workmen Killed When Train Leaves Rails; 32 Are Injured

A7 Negro Railroad Workers Killed in Wreck Early Today   Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Crashes Into Freight

Passenger Crashes Into Locomotive   Dead All Negro Workers En Route To Their Homes In Alabama

47 ARE KILLE IN TRAIN WRECK ; TOLL MAY GROW   Most of Victims of Georgia Tragedy Negro Workers Going to Homes

‘COAST TRAIN CRASHED   Dead, Numbering 47, Were Mostly Members of Work Gang

Coach Is Smashed In Accident   [Negro Laborers Kiiled When Six Cars Of  Passenger Train Hit  Freight On Siding

4] Killed in Train Wreck   _ Rail Workers Die As Passenger Cars Hit Freight Engine

47 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK   Negro Laborers Victims Of Rail Accident

Railway Workers Were Go. ing Home to Alabama For Week-End.   BROKEN RAIL IS CAUSE

4] KiLLED iN TRAIN WRECK IN GEORGIA   Colored Laborers Die In Crash

Rail Failure Costs Negroes Their Lives   Car Carrying Wounded Soldiers Leaves Tracks

4) LABORERS DIE IN TRAIN CRASH   32 Others Hurt When Broken Rail Derails ACL Train; Four Wounded Servicemen Are Injured

Passenger Hits Freight Locomotive  Members of Neqro   Members of Negre Work Gang Lose Lives in Wreck

47 Negroes Killed When Passenger Train Hits Freight  32 Others Reported Injured  in Accident on Atlantic Coast Line Near Stockton Ca.

TLANTIC COAST \NE PASSENGER, REIGHT COLLIDE  @A\L FAILURE AT “ining RELIEVED

All-Out Naval Drive In : Central Pacific Certain; Halsey Is Likely Leader   Truk A Navy Job

All-Out Naval Push In Pacific Seen For (9   MacArthor Plans Tie In With Big Sea Offensive

All-Out Naval Drive In Central Pacific Certain This Year: Halse y May Command

JAPS FACED. WHITH NAVAL OFFENSIVES      High ,U. S. Chiefs . Predict Action _ In Pacific

Vienna Attacked After Sofia Plastered With Heavy Load Of Incendiaries, Explosives   Allied Troops Landed Behind Japanese Lines

ts —ITALY— i a  aE GUNS IN RUINS OF ABREY — SLOW UP ALLIES   New Zealand Troops » Méet Strong Resistance ~ In Bombed Town. .   GAINS ARE MADE    Fifth Army Forces Nearing Strategic Route Te -Ttalian Capital .-

Allies Strike From 2 Points Berlin Reports   Germany Radios U.S. Bombers Approaching From Alps: Others From Britain .   125 Hun Fighters Bagged Yesterday   Uim and Friedrickshaven  . Targets of Thursday At  tacks; Anti-Invasion Machinery Targets

Death Struggle Marks Cassino   NEW ZEALANDERS BATTER DEFENDERS BACK, CLOSE ESCAPE ROUTE; ALLIED ARTILLERY SMOKE SCREENS MOUNT CASSINO MONASTERY

LOCAL AIRMEN ARE IN SAME PRISONER CAM   Lt. Conroy and Lt. Peters Have Played Ball Together   HOLD KRIEG CARNIVAL

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To All In The Various  Communities  CIEANEN RY CCRIRES

GREEK CAPITAL  STILL TORN BY STRIFE   Situation Growing Worse; More Guerrilla Forces on March

Internal Strife Growing More Bloody in Greece   British Break Into Communist Nest in Athens

Doughboys Believed On Verge Of Smashing Into Aachen In Bitter Fighting; Patton's Army Making Slow Progress at Fort Driant But Advances On New Front.

Yanks Advance, Stem 3 Desperate Attacks  Tr roops in, City Defending Hitler’s s

Artillery Shelling Big Port   Cutting of Last Escape Routes Believed Near

Drive Four Miles From Last Nazi Transport Line Partially Isolates Port   giroops Fan Out  , In 3 Directions   German Resistance’ Becomes More Intense; Reserves Pour In

Yank Airborne Troops Race Beyond Carentar Closing On Cherbourg   Germans Hurl 600 Tanks Against Allied Lines; Retake Villers Bocage. Montebours. Traarn

DRIVE TO WITHIN 5 MILES OF MAIN RAILS FROM PORT   Battle Nears Climax; Airborne Troops Sweep Six Miles

CHERBOURG IS PARTLY CUT OF BY U, S, DRIVE   Germans Step Up Resistance

MODEST GAINS FOR ALLIES IN FRENCH AREAS   Allies Standing Firm on Their Beachhead Despite Terrific Force of Germans

NaziTransport Lines Brought Under Gunfire   AEF Drives Within 44 Miles  Of Lines Leading From French Port.

Allies Advance Across Waist  Of Peninsula   Cherbourg Escape Alley Now Under Fire of Americans”

Rolling Up Steady Gains Above Montebourg And Across Peninsula   NAZI RESISTANCE MORE INTENSE   ath ‘7 AD 44 BR zAY BB BAAN DS BA  As Allied Invasion Forces Approach Transportation Lines

Yanks Now Within 444 Miles Of Last German Trawsport Lines Out Of Great French Port At Tin Of Peninsula   ARTILLERY POUNDS VITAL NAZI POINTS

[Mounting Nazi 'Resistance Met: By Americans   Germans Struggle To Protect Escape Alley Out of Peninsula Port

CHERBOURG ISOLATED BY US. TROOPS   Americans Within -5 Miles of Last Es¢ape Route.

Last Major Red City “° In Foes’ Hands Falls   Stalin Sees Clearer Path Now Open Into Central Rumania; .. Raiders Ruscy

Germans Quit Last Big Russian City With Little Fight   U. S. Planes Hit Invasion Coast Record Blows;  Lull Holds in Italy

Black Sea Port “Is Abandoned; Open New Drive   Russians Recapture City Destroyed By Retreating Nazis

Ward's Seizure To Test Powers  Of President   Avery Says Action Hlegal; Government Wants Court Decision

F. D. R. DEFENDS WARD SEIZURES, AVERY RAPS MOV   President Accuses Head of Big Mail Order House of “Wilful Defiance” of WLB Decisions.   LATTER CHARGES ACTION IS ILLEGAL   ‘Says Executive’s Order Vio- lates Constitution as Army Takes Over Property in Seven Cities.

Army Takes Over Monigomery Ward Facilities  Avery Says Firm  Will Not Accept ee Ther She Oedece

AVERY ASSAILS ROOSEVELT ON WARD SEIZURES   President’s Right to Take Action Is Challenged as Army Moves Into Plants

STORES SEIZED BY GOVERNMENT   Montgomery Ward Properties In Seven Cities  Taken By Army

ARMY SEIZES MONTGOMERY “WARD STORES   General Jos. Jos... W. Byron Takes Over Seven Properties

Ward's Stores Are Seized by Order of F.D.R.   Company's Facilities In Seven Cities Taken Over by Army

Ward's Seizure IHlegal, Avery Answers FDR   Army Qeccupies 7 Stores As President Terms

‘Seizure Of ‘Ward Store Brings Clash   Roosevelt And Avery Disogree on Issues As Army Takes Over

Montgnnery Ward Head, LR Cole Heaton on Poly  Avery.. Says Presidast Has No Authority to

‘Avery Charges FDR's Order Is Illegal   Courts To Decide Ward Company Case

BRINGS CLASH OF FDR, AVERY   Company’s Facilities in Seven Cities Are  Taken Over

ARMY TAKES OVER WARD PROPERTIES   Roosevelt and Sewell Avery Clash on Issues; Montgomery Ward Files Suit Against CIO Union

Government Seizes Ward Properties In 7 Cities   President Hits Avery For Defiance of WLB Chairman Maintains Action Is Not Legal ARMY TAKES OVER

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR Tr’ eect wraféae«*es @Fr Tata oe ae. sw? War

Ten Men Spend Night At Sea On Three: Rubbe ‘Rafts Battling Sharks Until. Their Rescue   U. S. Bonibers Knocks \Deown.Rive Zoroc

NEW RULES FOR OPA HERE.   Local Office To Be Closed. Until 10:30 ‘A? Mz.

HEAT WAVE IS BROKEN   Cool Wave Moves in Accompaniet by Thunder and. Lightning

“COTTON ED” SMITH TRAILS IN CAROLINA   Dean of Senate 20,000 Votes Behind Gov. Johnston in Reports From 989 Preeincis.

Aussies May Root Out Japs   250,000 of Enemy Have Been By-passed

AUSTRALIAN ARMY TO CLEAN OUT BY-PASSED JAPS ON SOUTH PACIFIC BLANDS. FROM SOLOMONS TO LEYTE

Superforts Blast Japan Mainland With Heavy Load   Daylight Attack First Since Doolittle Raid Made Against Tokyo

Jap Steel Works Are Struck Twice By Super Planes   Tons of Explosives Rain On Nipponese Homeland;  Vawata “Mace af Klama’’

B-29'S MAKE TWO RAIDS ON YAWATA   Jap Steel Center Smashed in Day And Night Attacks

‘Smash At Yawata in  Two Raids   Raid Leaves Huge Fires Burning in Big Steel City.

US Superfortresses Smash Steel Center Of Yawata Twice   From China Came Heaviest Bombload Yet Concentrated on Single Target in Asiatic Warfare

Double Raid By B29’s Hits Jap Targets   War Department Reports Four Super-Forts Are Lost.

Super Forts Hit Japan Twin Blow   Big Bombers Hit At Jap Mainland Twice in One Day

Superforts Blast Japan In Dual Raid   Fires Set By Day Still Are Burning As Second Blow Hit:

“We Are Only 1,200 Miles From Tokyc ‘But Victory Still Is A Long Wav Off’

REPORT ALLIES NEAR GREATEST BURMA VICTORY   Thousands Of Jap Troops Face Death Trap In Mogaung Valley

FORCE JAPS INTO CORNER OF MYITKYINA   Garrison Is Cut Off from All Escapes

Allies Verge On Greatest Victory In Asia Campaign   Chinese - _ Yank Troops Corner Japs In Myitkyina

RAY CLAPPER KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   In Marshall Islands Battle; Famous Washington Columnist Was “Covering” Pacific Hospitals.   Strong Convictions

Clapper Killed In Crash In Marshalls   ‘Widely Known Writer And Commentator Dies In Collision Near Invacion Seana

Raymond Clapper Is Killed In Crash In The Marshalls   Noted Columnist Loses Life In Collision Of  Two Planes

Broad Plan For Post-War  Prosperity Is Outlined —   ‘Blueprint by Baruch Designed To Afford Speedy ‘Adjustment —  wr ot!   CALLED ‘ADVENTURE IN PROSPERITY?   _ Urges Enactment Now ~ Of Post-War Tax Plan To Help Business Man

Broad Industrial Demobilization  Plan Revealed   Baruch Proposes Speedy Action to Assur ‘Prosperity Adventure’

“Adjustment   } House Makes: Public Broae asWar Industial Program _  ” Ctrocsina Quick Chanac

Sweeping Post-War Industrial Program Outlined By Baruch   Adjustment From War To Peace Economy . Provides For “Adventure !n Prosperity’:

POST-WAR INDUSTRIAL DEMOBILIZATION PLAN SUBMITTED BY BARUCH      “Adventure in Prosperity” Passible, Report Says, If Change is Speedy   FREE CAPITAL 2ND GOAL

Introduce big postwar plan ofadjustment   Demobilization of industry stressed

BARUCH DRAWS UP PLANS FOR POST-WAR ERA   White House Puts Out * “Adventure in Prosperity” Program

Lend-Lease Act Extended a Year   Assures Victory, Says Roosevelt

PRAISE IS GIVEN TO LEND-LEASE   Third Extension Of Act Receives Signature Of President

PRESIDENT oIGN LENO -LEASE BILL   Extends Life of Vast Pro: gram Until June 30, 1945; Operations to Jan. 31 Tota $21,000,000,000

Americans Capture Vital Positions In North lialy   Doughboys Take Mount Battaglia, LL Miles From Imola, Important Po Valley City, And Also Seize Three Key Heights Commanding Route North Of Bologna

3 KEY HEIGHTS IN ITALY TAKEN   American Troops Of Fifth Army Capture Mount Battaglia  GAIN] INI DH Valley

Yank Troops In New Gains   Capture Mount Battaglia In Po Valley Advance; Fnemv Fichts Savagely

FIFTH ARMY GETS MOUN' BATTAGLIA   Seize Three Key Heights On Route To Bolorna

U.S. Troops Battle Ahead in Italy Despite Mud, Rain  Doughboys Take Three Heights Overlooking Key Road to Bologna

U.S. Troops Battle Ahead in Italy Despite Mud, Rain  Doughboys Take Three Heights Overlooking  wu... Oenxel ee Belaann

Mount Batfaglia,  Near Imola, Taken Yanks Also Seize   Yanks Also Seize Three Key Heights Above Boloqna Route

Yanks Seize : Town In Italy   Three: Key: Heights Also’ Captured

Fifth Captures Mount Battaglia   Doughboys Seize Three Key Heights Command. ing Route to Bologna

Allies Battling into Po Valley  5th ond Sth Armies Both Sco"e G~ins

AMERICANS BATTLE FORWARD IN ITALY TO CAPTURE POINTS  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY FORCES ALSO MAKE GAINS IN ADRIATIC SECTOR

KEY HILLS HELD INITALIAN PUSH   Fifth Army Drives Forwarc Through Mud And Rain

Americans Capture Mount Battaglia on Bologna Highway  Adverse Weather Slows Drive and German Connier-Attacks Mark Eichth Army Front

YANKS TAKE PO VALLEY KEY      Capture Mt, Battaglia and Heights Commanding : Road to Bologna

Yanks Drive On In Italy   Take More Peaks, British Battle Enemy Entrenched Along River

FIFTH ADVANCES THRU MUD, RAIN   Seize Mount Battaglia Near Key Po Valley Town

MT. BATTAGLIA IS CAPTURED BY FIFTH ARMY   Important Po Valley City On Belegna-Rimini Highway In Italy Falls To Americans   KEY HEIGHTS ARE SEIZED

YANKS TAKE TOWN NEAR VITAL ROAD      Drive Closer To Po Valley; 8th Army Also Advances

JAP-CRUISER SET - AFIRE BY BOMBS   SHIP BELIEVED SUNK IN CELEBES—5 FREIGHTER-TRANSPORTS DESTROYED.

TOKYO SHIPPING LANES RIDDLED   Japanese Cruiser Left Ablaze; Five Cargo Vessels Sunk

Credit Railway With $10,000 of War Bonds   Agent Haight Announces That Amount Alloited by the Burlington to Washington County

New Type Robots Attacking England   Nazis Launch Quieter, Faster Flying Bombs

More Trouble... NEW UNIONS BEING FORMED FOR WHITE COLLAR WORKERS

German ‘Radio Tanks’ Blastec   Nazis Try New Weapor On Anzio Beachhead

GERMANS USE TANKS LOADED DOWN WITH HIGH EXPLOSIVES   THIRD GREAT OFFENSIVE ON BEACHHEAD BELIEVED UNDER WAY

CANADIANS HAVE ALMOST TAKEN RIMINI   After Slashing Attack Carries Them Across Conca River, Giving Them Bridvehead.   No Nazi Fighters

Allies in Italy  Continue Gains   Canadians Within Cannon Ranve of Rintini

ALLIES CROWD GERMANS BACK TOWARD ALPS   Conca River Crossed; Adriatic Bastion Within Grasp

EIGHTH ARMY PERILS RIMINI   Slashing Attack Puts Canadians Across Conca River in Italy

Allies Nearing Rimini in Italy   Drive Through Gothic  Line Continues

CANADIAN TROOPS THREATEN GOTHIC LINE STRONGHOLD   Strong Forces Move On Adriatic City of Rimini — Big Guns Placed to Bombard Town’s Defenses.   YANKS GAIN GROUND WEST OF FLORENCE   British Emerge on Plains Ideal for Tank Warfare Af-. ter Ripping Gap in Enemy’s Fortifications.

Lieut. Richard Dennler Married To Denver Girl Wednesday, May 17   Will Live For Present In New England

 939 Records Are  Given for Soldiers   Virginia Maxine Reenblosson Takes First Place in Contest for the Most Old Records

‘High School Girl Gives Most Records   Virginia Beenblossom Donates B81 to Legion Collection-—Asking for More

Three Dead and Five Injured as Result of Young Army Officer Running Amuck

Five Others Wounded In Wild Affair   La Crosse Man Himself Shot Three Times In Escape Attempt; Faces Murder Charge

TO TRY OFFICER FOR 3 MURDERS   Lieutenant B. G. Swancutt Faces Charges Following. Rampage In Which He! Killed Three Persons Ang Wounded Five.

Military Court to Try Army Officer for Triple Murder   Board Seeks Motive for Three’ Killings at Camp Anza, Cal.

Officer Kills 3,  Wounds 5 Persons   Riverside Army Camp Scene Of Wild Shooting Affair Sunday

Three Dead. In Sheoting   Five Others Wounded By Lieutenant in Wild ‘Affray at Camp Anza

Lieutenant Kills Three And Wounds Five At Camp   Army Officer Shot Three Times by Officer When He Tried to Commandeer Auto Outside  Military Reservation

THREE KILLED, FIVE WOUNDED BY ARMY OFFICER   No Reasons For His Ac tions Are Given—Will   Be Tried for Murder By Military Court

3 KilledBy Army Officer An Wild Affray   @ 5 Others Wounded ras As. Lieut. ‘Shoots. .,

Officer Kills Three Persons   Army Lieutenant Fires Without Warning on Friends

To Try Officer  On Murder Charge   Commander Says Second Lieutenant Killed Three on Post

ARMY OFFICER KILLS 3 PERSONS, WOUNDS FIVE   Lt. Beaufort G. Swancutt, Of La Crosse, Wis.  ls Wounded By West Coast Police;  Two Slain Are Women

THREE SLAIN WHEN GRAZED SOLDIER ACTS   Two Girls And One Man Are Victims; Others Wounded

Soldier Accused Of Triple Killing   Also Wounded Five, -P6lice Chief Says

Three Murdered By Army Officer   Lieutenant Runs Amok At Riverside, Calif.

Military Court To Try Lieut. Swancutt For Murder; Three Persons Dead, Five Wounded

Three Killed By Crazed Officer   Two Women Slain, One Policeman Shot Down

JAPANESE BASE OF TRUK BLASTED BY GREAT TASK FORCE _AP,-WAR. CORRESPON...  DENT GIVES EYEWITNESS REPORT OF ATTACK ©

Regerte Fr om Scene Of Actio  First Detailed Story Of Smash At Truk Is Written By Erickson

Greatest Sea Force in: History Struck Crippling Blow at Truk   American Planes. and. Ships Explode Myth of Impregnabilt of Big- Japanese Island Base: .

Se eee eee es  EYE-WITNESS OF TRUK BLASTING TELLS STORY   Surprise Attack on Japanese Bastion Left Ruin  And Rubble in Its Wake

Myth Of Truk Is Exploded   Task Force Went In Not Knowing Enemy’s Strength

Eye-Witness Tells Story Of Truk Attack   Surprisingly Little Op position To Massive Assault On Bastion

came JatKson As Chairman At Convention   adigna Senator Appointed For Democratic Conclave At Chicago.   MOSEVELT NOMINEE

8. D. Jackson Democratic Gavel Holde   Indiana Senator Chosen as Permanent Chairman of Convention

Jackson democrat chairman  Vv... .32......- pb nonne   Indianan chosen eonvention chief

Indiana Man for Chairman of Democrats  Sen. Jackson Picked as Presiding Officer of National Convention

SEN. JACKSON CHAIRMAN OF CONVENTION   Thinks Roosevelt Should Be Allowed To Name Running Mate

Indiana Man 1s Chairman   -Demoer ats Announce: “Senator S. dD: Jackson:

Jackson Chosen As Chairman of Democratic Meet   Indiana Senator ‘Presumes’ Roosevelt  Will Be the Nominee

Jackson Slated By Democrats To Wield Gavel   Hannegan Reveals Choice; Indianian ‘Presumes’ FDR Will Run

JACKSON NAMED TO DIRECT MEET   Indiana Senator To Serve As Democratic Chairman

Democrats Pick Indianan to Head Conventior   Senator Jackson Dodges FourthTerm Issue, Also His Party’s  Preference for Vice President

U. S. Request To Oust Axis Refused By Eire   Drastic Measures ‘To Safeguard. Allied Invasion Preparations Expected ‘Following Prime. Minister De Valera’s Action

INVASION PLANS COMPLICATED BY IRELAND SPIES   American Request To Clamp Down on Axis Denied and Allies Are Disturbed

PRIME MINISTER OF EIRE REJECTS REQUEST OF U.S   Drastic Action Now Possible For Protecting Invasion Plans From werman and  Japanese Agents.   HULL MADE REQUEST TO OUST DIPLOMATS   Minister Makes Promises to Help Save Lives, Will Do Nothing Toward Break of Relations.

Must Insure Invasion Secrecy   Britain and-U. S. Will Take Whatever Action Needed to Prevent Axis From Learning Plans

Will Guard Invasion Plan  — At All Costs   Economie Crack-Down Is One of Three Lively Possibilities

Drastic Measures May Be Taken to Keep  Invasion Plan Secret   Prime Minister DeValera Refuses to Grant American Request That Ireland Oust Nazi, Jap Diplomats Accused of Spying

reland May Face Drastic Allied Action   Axis Espionage There Endangers Invasion Plans.

Fire Refuses U. S. Request to Close Enemy Consulates   Drastic Action is Expected to Keep Invasion Secrets

Measures May Be Taken to Safeguard Invasion Preparations.   /BRITAIN SUPPORTS U. §.

ALLIES PLAN “CRACKDOWN” ON IRELAND   Drastic Measures Expected As DeValera Refuses American Appeal to Oust Axis Diplomats.

Eire Won't Oust Axis   Drastic Measures Expected to Guard Allied ‘Invasion Forces

Expect Measures For Safeguarding ——Invasion—Secrets   De Valera. Rejects U. S. Demands To Oust Axis Diplomats; Says Counter-Espionage Is Effective

Drastic Steps Against Eire Seen Probable   Ireland's Rejection of U. S. Request Brinas Repercussions

Washington Will Act To Set Up Safeguards  Irish Reject Request By U.S.: Drastic Move Seen

AlliesMay Take  Drastic Action Against Ireland   Eire Rejects US Request To Oust Axis Diplomats

DRASTIC STEPS AGAINST IRISH MAY BE TAKEN   U.S. and Britain Determined to Stop Spy Rings Before Invasion Begins

Drastic U. S. Action to Hide Invasion Steps From Axis Spies in Eire Expected   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWERR.

U.S. Request for Ouster of Axis Envoys in Eire Spurned by de Valera MAY CLOSE BORDER Trish President Calls Counter - Espionage Steps Effective

Will Guard  Invasion Plan  At All Costs   Economié Cr ¢k-Down : Is One of  ‘hre Possibilities -

Action Against Ireland Looms   vasion Plans Be Ousted Is Rejected

dreland May Force Hand Of Allies   Essential Enemy ©   Agents Be Ousted: Economic Pressure May Be Brought _

ixpeect Drastic Moves in Eire   Believe lreland Will Protect Allied  Invasion Movements

DRASTIC U. S. ACTION LIKELY WIRISH CASE   i ~  DeValera Refuses To Oust   Japs and Germans at Request of Hull.

Ireland’s Refusal To Oust Axi: Diplomats Is Expected To Brins Moves To Protect Invasion Plan:

Eire Refuses To Oust Axis Envoy Staffs   Decisive, Quick Move Believed Necessary To Halt Espionage; Lives At Stake

DRASTIC STEPS TAKEN 70 KEEP PLANS SECRET   Enemy Must Not Know Invasion  Date Or Place

PLANS FOR INVASION ENDANGERED BY SPIES   DeValera Says His Country Has German and Jap Spy Rie Neda Cxnernl

‘Eire’s Refusal To Oust Axis Agents ‘Expected To Bring Drastic Measures

EIRE REFUSES EXPULSION OF AXIS ENVOYS   Le Valera Asserts Counter-Spy Methods Effeclive, No Lives Will Be Lost Throvgh Neglect   NEW MOVE SEEN   Eire Has Seizéd Radio Transmit ters but U. S., Britain Expecte: to Take New Measures

Washington Expected te Take Steps to Safeguard Allied Invasion Pre parations in Britain   Axis Diplomats Head Spies, Claim   DeValera Rejects Request.  by Hull to Oust Ger-   man and Japanese , .  Envovs

INVASION DAY PLANS TO BE SAFECUARDED   Eire Rejects Allied De. . mands to Oust Axis Diplomats

Allies May Take Strong Action To Protect Men   Drastic Steps Are Possible In Lieu Of Eire’s Refusal To Oust Japs. Germans

TRELAND’S REFUSAL OUST AXIS MAY BRING DRASTIC MEASURES  NEED FOR QUICK ACTION TO PROTECT ALLIES FROM

IRELAND SPURNS U.S. REQUEST T0 OUST AXIS SPIES   DECISIVE MOVES TO GUARD INVASION SECRETS EXPECTED

Mustang Spans U.S. In 6:31:30   Fully Equipped Warplanes Flash From Coast To Coast In Record Time.

CROSS COUNTRY RECORD BROKEN   Average Speed Of 378.54 Miles An Hour ts Set

Aussies Defend  Army Reduction  Offer Figures To Show War Effort

Atlantic Charter?   No Such Document, Just Some Ideas With Many Nations’ 0. K.

ATLANTIC CHARTER NOT LOST; NEVER EXISTED AS DOCUMENT   ROOSEVELT SAYS “ATLANTIC ‘(CHANTER” WAS NAME GIV! TO MEMO AGREEMENTS

abr, BAY 6. KATKE 1 BE TRANSFERRED   In Charge of Wakefied Post Five Years: Goes to Reed City.

ARMY VEHICLES IN EUROPE HAVE REACHED HUGE TOTAL   §EX TIMES AS MANY ON WESTERN FRONT AS AVAILABLE ON 118 ARMISTICE DAY

Set. Bernard inkler. Kurtz. Helps Army Cooks Put “Glamour” in Meals

! Jap Drive Attempts To Eliminate Threat—  Tokyo Fears Allied Air Attack From China  SE RPMS Mgt Re ears eee ree

U. S. Airmen Hit Truk Atoll Base; Rabaul Is Bombed   Fourth Strike Against Jap Stronghold In Four Nights

Liberators Hit Dublon, in Truk Atoll   Large Fires Are Started; None of Planes Damaged

Planes Pound Truk For 4th Day in Row   Seventh Air Force Fliers Claim Bomb Hits Started Large Fires in Dublon’s Installations: Ponape, Marshalls Hit

Liberators Hit Central Island Of Truk Atoll   Fourth Consecutive Night Attack Upon Enemy’s Great Base

YANKS STRIKE AGAIN AT JAP BASE AT TRUK   Large Fires Are 5et In Dublon Island Installations

Jones Launches Plan To Remove  Low Egg Prices .. . 26.€C ent Floor

Italian Fascist Paper * Says Mihailovic Has Been Slain- By Partisans

MIHAILOVIC KILLED?   Belgrade Dispatch Reports Murder by Ete Partisans

FDR Confers With Leaders   President Has Busy Day Of Discussion Catching Up On Events.

PRESIDENT BACK FEELING BETTER   White House Routine Resumed After 4 Weeks In South

Leaders Talk To Roosevelt   Rested President Stages “Catch Up’ Conference

Roosevelt Meets Party Leaders  arte a ne ee   His Health Seems Greatly Improved

LEADERS CALL ON ROOSEVELT   }Congress Chiefs Tell Him Legislation “Getting Along Very Well”

President Plans To Give Congress Legislative Rest  Leaders Told Nothing New Is in Sight; Canfer- With Hull

U.5.5. MISSOURI READY TO FLOAT   New 45,000-Ton Battlewagon,   Months Ahead of Schedule, Launches Jan. 29.

MIGHTIEST OF BATTLESHIPS ~ TO BE LAUNCHED THIS WEEK   uss MISSOURI WILL DISPLACE ENOUGH WATER TO FLOOD 46 ACRES OF LAND

155,775 Tons. Set Mark for Allied Bombs   Record Is Made in Augus' by British-Based Heavies

British- Based. Allied Bombers Break All Records In August; 65. German Airfields Are Held

August Was  Top Month  For Bombers 155,775 Tons Of Bombs Dropped

1,000 Bombers Rui German Industry Belt   American Planes Attack Without Loss, Report Announces

1,100 Heavy Bombers Hit  Reich Factories   2 of Accompanying Fighters Missing But All Bombers Return; No Opposition on Trip

NORTHGERMAN INDUSTRIES ARE BOMBED   Rich Belt From Hamm, Munster East to Hannover and Brunswick; Skies Overcast.   Attacks Delayed

SHOOTINGS REPORTED IN EAST PRUSSIA   Moscow Says Many SS Men Were ‘Killed During Attempt to Arrest German Officers.

US War Leaders Present Reviews, Forecast For °45   Big Task Faces  American People

NEW NAVAL BASE ESTABLISHED IN MARSHALL ISLES      Majuro Atoll Occupied Without Opposition — Secrecy Not Necessary

TEN DIE IN BOMBER CRASH   Training Accident Near Hays, Kan.; Tee Oe Out by Parachute

Battleships Texas, Arkansas And Nevada First Invaders   New Yorker Was Selected Lead-Off Man For Invasion

Calls for Higher Farmer Income Bowles Outlines Plan  a . Et. ._ &

CURTAILMENT (OF SUPPLIES IS EXPECTED   Retaliatory Steps May Come From South Ireland’s Refusal to Oust Axis.

RUSSIA'S. FUTURE ROLE IN CONFLIC 18 QUESTIONED   Soviet’s Part in the Pertnership After Nazis Quit Is Conjec.ure

Conjecture On F uture Role Of  Russia In Wat      No Indication Of Policy Of Soviet When Germany Has Been Defeated   RUSSIA HAS BEEN NEUTRAL ON JAPAN

New Fighter Plane Is Without Peer   ‘Black Widow’ P-6} Night Fighter Pursuit Plane Cannot Ke Matched By Enemy

ANOTHER PROMOTION FOR JIMMY STEWART   ) Flying Former Movie Star Now  Lieutenant Colonel

Nazis Lose Last Hold on Estonia   Reds Take Island to Complete Liberation

New Nimitz Blow Dealt.   MacArthur's Men Land On Morotai; Nip Losses From Air Assaults Stupendous

MacArthur's Men Land On Morotai; Ni Losses From Air Assaults Stupendous”

Capture Island In Daring Move By MacArthur   Enemy Loses 173 Ships, 501 Planes

Lands on Halmaheras; 84 More Ships Sunk, 233 Airplanes Destroyed

FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING   Clear Skies Prevail in Most of State

ATH CHINA BASE LOST BY YANKS   U.S. Airmen Quit Tanchuk; Kweilin Fighting Hard

New Body to Back Youth Program Defines Objects, Elects Directors

‘TEEN CANTEEN’ SPONSORS MEET   Community Service Council to Organize Friday at 4:30 P. M.

Synthetic Rubber. Patents Will Be ~~ Kept in County   _Government Will No! Permit Export fe Araentina  ‘

BOMBERS AID OFFENSIVE IN CAEN SECTOE   U. S. Heavies Blast at Enemy Troops; Other Fleets Hit Rail Lines.

BiG BOMBERS BLAST NAZIS IN FRANCE   Support Allied Ground Forces in Caen Sector

BOMBERS HIT  NAZIS ATGAEN   Help Canadian Thrust Into German Defense Lines —

Big Bombers Back Advancing Allies   German Troop Concentrations Pounded; Airdromes And Robot Bases Attacked

SNIDER IS RETAINED   Local Man Reappointed for New Term on State  Highway Body

NAZIS CLAIM REDS ATTACK LWOW LINE   New Offensive Opened on Direct Road to Berlin While Gains Are Made in Other Sectors.

GERMANS ADMIT PERIOO OF GREAT DANGER ARRIVES   Red Armies on North-Centra Berlin tnvasion Route Are Storming Ancient City of Grodno.   GAINS IN ITALY BRING  YANKS NEARER LIVORNC   Carrier _ Planes ..‘Softening: Up Guam arid Rota—Japs Attack Hengyang In-a Re: newed Drive: .

Soviet Armies In the North Storm Grodno   Report Russians Begin Drive Between Tarnopol and Luck

Reds’ South Army Joins Berlin Push   Nazi-Held Lwow immediate Target; Vazi Radio Wails

ENLARGES REDS FRONT FOR HUGE BLOW AT BERLIN   Main Assault Starts At Tarnopol, 5-Way Rail Jnnedian

NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE REPORTED   Nazis Indicate Russians Attacking On 900 Mile Front

eds’ Big Drive » Berlin Starts, ermans Claim   soviet Armies loin for Smash Jn Lwow Fort

POWERFUL RED ARMY JOINS IN BERLIN MARCH   Smashing New Offensive On The Approachees To Lwow Fortress

Nazi Commentator Warns His Countrymen That the “Days of the Great Storm Have Arrived.”

Reds Smash Into Poland On New Front   Mammoth Attack Hurled Toward Lwow in South

AUSS MARCH ON ‘ERLIN STARTED SAYS NAZI RADIO   Represents 900  Mile Front

Germany Reports New Red Offensive Hurled Against Poland’s Lwow   In North, Russians Storm Grodno From 3 Sides; Prussia Line  In Artillery Range

Powerful Army Opens Push On Southern Front   German Commentator Warns “Days of Great Storm Have Arrived”

REDS STRIKE ON SOUTHERN NAZI FRONT   German High Command Says “Days of Great Storm Have Arrived.”

ANOTHER ARMY JOINS RUSSIAN BERLIN MARCH   Long-Expected Attack On Key Stronghold — Launched

Nazi Broadcast Has Reds Hittine 900-Mile Front   Soviets Storming Polish Grodno Fort from Three Sides

F.R. Urges Study of Plan For U.S. Training of Million Boys 17-23 Each Year in the Postwar Period

U.S. Training For One Year Is Suggested   President Urges Public To Study Plan Whereby Youths Would Serve Government For Year

FDR ADVOCATES YOUTH TRAINING   Some Plan to Utilize Huge Present Facilities Is Urged by President.

Senate Heads Into Another Quarrel Over Foreign Policy; ‘Connally Wants Night Session   Acting Majority Leader Hil! Seeks Vote On Six Nominees

Torrent of Discussion over ‘International Situation Looms  Overshadows Controversy Stirred Up   Overshadows Controversy Stirred Up By Non-confirmation of Undersecretaries

COMPARATIVELY FEW OF. 18-2 GROUP OF INDUSTRIAL EM- PLOYES TO KEEP.DE. FERMENTS

HERSHEY NAMES SUPER-CRITIGAL DEFERMENT LIST   WMC to Determine Plants ‘ and Quotas for Men ; Under 26

HERSHEY LISTS OCCUPATIONAL DEFERMENTS   Action Protects Young Workers In Key War Activities

Hershey Releases “Super Critical” Job List as Guide to Draft Boards

DRAFT BOARDS GET LIST OF CRITICAL JOBS   Some Students and Miners Included; Others Must Go

Allies Behind Jap Tiddim Base   Nips Believed Continuing Withdrawal To Mountian Line

YANKS MOVE LINES CLOSER AROUND ST. LO   Germans Are Being Squeezed Into Cherbourg Peninsula Base.   Seven Towns Taken  On a 48-Mile Front

Ancient Fortress Town in Cherbourg Peninsula Is Being Gradually Surrounded by Allies.   SEVEN MORE TOWNS IN FRANCE RETAKEN

TWIN THRUSTS ARE REDUCING NAZI DEFENSE   Seven Towns Captured By Doughboys Along 48-Mile Front

St. Lo Being Passed By On the East   Nazi Defenders , Being Strangled By Arms of  American Thrust

YANKS TIGHTEN IRON TRAP ON NAZIS IN ST, LO   American Troops Advance or 48-Mile Front, Take Seven Towns

Seven More Towns Fall to Advancing Yank Troops as British Score More Gains

Allies Push: Over Bodies In Advances On Fortress   Lessay Threatened On ‘Another, Front

Germans In Ancient Fortress Town. Being . Gradually Strangled as Americans Bypass Town; Savage Counterattack Repulsed; British Recapture Maltot:

Powerful Yank Force Takes Seven Towns   Gains Are Made Along 48-Mile ' Front In France

YANK CLAMP TANK PINGERS TO GHOKE FOE   rive “Has Bypassed Main Road Nazi Strongpoint in Frontline Gains.

Americans Capture Seven Towns, Gain On 48 Mile Front To Surround Base

Americans Push Ahead. In Normandy   Trap Closing Around St. Lo; Seven Towns Fall

Americans Push Their Advance Around St. Lo   Heavy Fighting Still Raging On French Front

Doughboys Pass By Fortress at Peninsula Base   Germans Prepare To Make Last Stand in Rubble As Tanks.  Infantry Advance

Offensive Sweeps Or Past City   Seven More Normandy Towns Taken; Bitter Battles Rage in Italy; Bombers Raid Munich

Yanks Slowly Strangle Foe Around St. Le   Seven Towns Captured By Americans In Gains Along 48-Mile Front.  pres THROUGH VFESTLy

GERMANS IN ST. LO BEING GRADUALLY STRANGLED TODAY   Powerful American Tank and Infantry Offensive Panien the Fortress,   SEVEN TOWNS TAKEN   A Gain All Along the 44-Mile Front Reported by Supreme Headquartern.

ST. LO. IS BYPASSED IN ADVANCE   32 Divisions Massed In 14-Mile Area,  Paris Reports

DOUGHBOYS LESS THAN TWO MILES OF NAZI BASTION   THREATEN TO ENGULF ESQUAY AS BRITISH RECAPTURC MALTOT

ST, LO VISIBLE FROM NORMANDY ADVANCE LINES   Americans Widen Bridgehead Across Vire River; Turn Back Sharp German Counter Blows

mohiv F SRIOEUALY  7 Towns Captured By American Forces On  48-Mile Front   Terrifie Artillery Barrage Aids U. 5. Forces In Scoring Biggest Territorial Gains In Several Dawe St Ta Th Buing

Powerful American Offensive Swings By Town —— Supreme Headquarters Announces Capture Of Seven Towns In  Gains Along 48-Mile Front

American Guns on Dominant Heights Have Made City Untenable Except for Die-Hards in Cassino-Like Debris.

Powerful  Tank Force Has Passed By Fortress   Seven Towns Fall In Gains Along Firing Front

Tank, Infantry Push Passes Town to East   Paris Radio Says 32 Allied Divisions Now in France; Germans Report Artillery Barrage Heaviest Yet

Allies Pin Nazis In Old Fortress   Yank Tanks and Infantry Have Already Passed St. Lo on the East   SEVEN TOWNS TAKEN   Fall of St. Lo Would Force Germans to Withdraw  From Peninsula

Closing in On pete and St. Lo   Twin Drives«. Against’ Both  "Centers Take at: Least 'T: --Towns on: 48-Mile Front:         BATTLE: NEAR CAEN”          British Take One: Town, - Bu : Lose “Another: Americ Gains Bestin-Days..

FALL OF IMPORTANT TOWN OF ST. L015 BELIEVED IMMINENT  KINGPIN OF GERMAN HIGH WAY COMMUNICATIONS

STRANGLE GERMANS AT ST. LO   MUNICH PLASTERED THIRD DAY   SURGE NORTH IN ITALY BATTLE

American Tanks And Infantry Pass Town on East   Seven More Towns Captured by Allies On 48-Mile Front

IN DRIVE   Report Gains On 48-Mile Front In Normandy   32 DIVISIONS   Concentrated In Area Of Ancient Fortress Now Held By Germans

Bradley’s Men — hve Key Bastion In Closing Vise   Terrific Artillery Tank and Infantry Attacks Wear Out Nazi Defenders

‘La Boulaye Captured on Left of Town   Only Two and Half Miles From Nazi Base; Counterattacks Checked

TWO AMERICAN COLUMNS CLOSE TRAP ON ST. LO   British Forces Beat 0! Nazi Counterattacks In Caen Area

Heavy Artillery Fire Rips Nazi ‘Lines In France   Germans Suffer Heavy Tank Losses

St. Los Fall Is Near; Yanks Clamp Strangle Grio On Nazi Fanatics

GERMANS IN ST.LO GRADUALLY BEING STRANGLED BY POWERFUL TANK AND INFANTRY DRIVE   Seven Towns Captured by Americans and An‘cient Fortress City By-Passed, As British Second Army Makes Gains in Caen Sector in Bitter Beahtina

U.S. Troops Face Grim Enemy Fire   Artillery, Tanks Charge Against Fierce Nazi Line

In Mile And Half Of Strongpoint In Drive   Also Push Forward Northwest of Town; British and Germans at Stand-off Around Orne-Odon Triangle

City By-passed on East And Seven Towns Captured   Bridgehead Over Vire River Widened While Yanks Mount Similar Squeeze Against Lessay

St. Lo Nazis Squeezed by  Americans   Armor and Infantry Continue To Surge Forward

Nazi Madman Holds Out in St. Malo Hole   OFFICER DEFIES’ YANK BLASTINGS FROM UNDERGROUND CITADEL

Five Young Men  Enlist In Navy ‘Passed Preliminary Tests Tuesday _

FIVE MORE BOYS JOIN THE NAVY   All Pass For Radar Training With Chance At  Rating

Nippon’s Rule Warns Nation  Outlook Bad   Premier Too Admits Progress Has Been Insufficient

Japanese leaders Warn People War. Becomes Critica   Home Front-Criticized By. Premier for Lack’ Of Proper Spirit

NUMBER ON GAS COUPON BEFORE BOARD ISSUANGE   Sly Stunt To Offset Black Market Is Introduced For Area By OPA Chiefs

FAIR -NOUGH   WESTBROOK PEGLER   REE LOUISIANA JRGED BY DAVIS   ys He Wants To Be Elected With Friends Or Not At All   AERICAN_TRAINED CHINESE ADVANCE

We Lost 61 Bombers and Fourteen Fighter Planes.  HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE BELOW ROME  310 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed in Three Days.

Americans It ltaly Halt 2 Nazi Attacks   Are Reported Massing For third Major Attempt To Crush Our Positions

Allies Forced To Move Back On Cassino Front. Nazis Pooling Armored Farcee For Ric Drive.

RECORD VOTER REGISTRATION   ILLINOIS TOTAL IS 4,500,000 MORE THAN 4 YEARS AGO

Sink Eight Nazi Ships Off Vir   Intercept German Boats Near Dalmatian ‘sles

GERMAN FORCES TAKE BEATING ON ALL FRONTS   Allied Planes Join Assault As Weather  Improves

Margaret Aird — Becomes Bride —  Weds Eli John Lloyd Of Washington, D. C.

AKRON AIR CADET MARRRIED IN WEST   ee ee ee: eres,  Miss Myrtle Hart And Cadet 0. Donald Boden — Yoka Vows At Wolivwanr

EIGHTH ARMY GAINS IN ITALY   Canadians Push Toward Cesena Against Heavy German Resistance

Nadians ‘ake Gains ear Rimini   t Along Importan hway Fronting On Raly’s Valley  Of the Po

Trap Nazis Still Left. Along Coast   Other Allied Forces Reported Already in Germany; Battle for South France Near End

VETERAN OF SENATE IS STRICKEN AT 8   TempestousC areer Of New Deal Foe Is Closed

‘Cotton Ed’ Smith,  Senate Dean, Dies   Heart Attack Claims 80-Year-Old Solon

Civilians, Do You Do as Well  As Service Men? Fighting Men at Army  Airy Baca in Ardmava

Nimitz Fleet Strong Enough to Go Anywhere   Says Forces Can Land in China When Ready

Nimitz Confident of Pacific Force   Points Out Strategic Value of Palau Isles

Nimitz Is Anxious To  Aid China    More Cargo Ships And  Landing Craft Are  Needed, Says Chief Of Pacific Fleet

Nimitz Confident His Forces Will Be Able to Land on China Coast When Ready Despite Jap Advances

Yanks Gan Land In China When Ready: Nimitz   Says U. S. Fleet a, Now Strong Enough ‘To Go Anywhere’

GOP SENATORS AID COV. KELLY   Vandenberg And Ferguson Broadcast Addresses; Fry Active

State Politica Drives Near Enc   Michigan Campaigns In Final Lap

FRY, KELLY AIDED BY PARTY LEADERS   Senators Ferguson, Vandeénberg Praise Governor; Vanwagoner Supports Dem

Largest Kindergarten Enrollment In Flistory  Of LeMars Schools .

OVER - OPTIMISM TO PROLONG WAR   Gen, Marshall Tells President Spirit Of Over-Confidence In U.S. Threatens Farly Suerace

Lop Military Commanders Put Job Slacker  in Class With Deserters, Over-optimism

MILITARY CHIEFS CRITICIZE CIVILIANS   Put Job Slackers in Class With Deserters; People Too Optimistic.

Top Military Heads Warn Job Slackers   Also Declare Over-Optim ism at Home Endan  gers War Effort

Overoptimism Now Threat To Home Front   Top Military Chiefs Wart Dangers Caused By War Slackers

Nation's Top Military Commanders Place War. Job Slackers in Class of Deserters

Brush-Off Girls Form New Club   Jilted By Soldier, Girl Forms Organization

Brush-Off Girls Form Consolation  Clubs In Nation   Jilted By Men  In Armed Forces

JILTED CALIFORNIA  LASS NOW NATION'S  NO. 1 BRUSH-OFF GIRL ATTRACTIVE LOUISE COZ.  INE SAYS “CONSOLATION CLURS” REINGC FORMED

Public School Band Concert Monday Evening  First Appearance  Of Band This  School Year

Sentence Of ‘Bird Commuted   Governor Explains Action In Case Of One-Time Public Enemv.

Vormer Publie Enemy Granted ‘Commutation   Gov. O’Conor, In Announe: ing Action, Says Conviet Is Blind and May Die Soon

THREE PLANES IN CRASH TODAY AT CREENVILLE. $. C.   Fate of Crews Unknown As Army Air Base Withholds Facts Relative to Crash

US. B-29's Bomt Nagoya, Japan’s Aircraft Center   Planes Hit Most Concentrated Group of Targets They Have Yet Attacked.

Nazis Evacuate  All of Greece   Nation’s Spokesman Calls for Expansion

DEWEY T0 SOUND MIDWEST VIEWS   Nominee Will Spend Aug. 1 in Springfeld, Ill., on Trip to St. Louis

DEWEY PLANS MIDWEST TEST   Candidate Set For Six Day Tour To Determine GOP Strength

TEAM UP FOR A RAID   B-29s and Liberators Hit Iwo Jima : Over Week End

LONDON PAPERS FAIL RUSSIAS « pOMANIA DRIVE   +Molotov's Assurance of Fight to.ind : Meets with Favor.

LONDON PAPERS HAIL foalA a ROMANIA URIVE   ‘Molotov’s Asscrance of Fight to “nd Meets with Favor.

TAXPAYERS’ ASS'N* ~ DIRECTORS CHOSEN   Unnecessary Expenditures During Wartime Hit in Resolutions

Taxpayers’ Ass'n Elects Directors   Resolutions Hitting Unnecessary Expenditures Adopted.

YANKS BATTLE ~INGIDE METZ   Sensational Advances Made Along Flaming 400 Mile Front.  ~   RESISTANCE FANATICAL

American Troops Go Into Metz      House-to-House Battles Are Being Fought With Fanatical Nazis   S88 OFFICERS ARE DIRECTING DEFENSE   Another Third Army Force  Also Pushes Toward Saar  On 15-Mile Front

Army Takes Over Cudahy Plant   Packing Firm Seized On President’s Order

British Press Lashes at Japanese Atrocities:  Pledge Full Penalties

Britain Determined To Beat Japan   Paper Says Last Doubts Dispelled

‘Gen. MacArthur Writes He Does Not Seek GOP Nomination for President ‘But implies He'll Accept If Drafted

IF DRAFTED, MACARTHUR T0 BE CANDIDATE   But He Will Not Seek U. S. Presidential Nomination, Declares in Formal Statement.

GENERAL SHIES AT NOMINATION   Just Want to Win the War, MacArthur Declares

MAC ARTHUR DOES NOT “SEEK” GOP NOMINATION   However. Implies He Will Accent Honor if Drafted

MACARTHUR WILLING TO BE DRAFTED   Not a Candidate But Would Accept  Nomination ‘

MacArthur Tips Hand In Politics   Hints Willingness To Be Drafted As GOP Candidate

‘MISS BLOOD, 81   Retired: Teacher Was Wel e Known In Concord © and Pepperell

HOLD PRIVATE SERVICE FOR "MISS BLOOD, 81      Retired Teacher Was Well ¢ Known In Concord and Pepperell

INJURY PROVES FATAL ~ TO MRS, PFAFFENRATH   Dies in Penna. Hospital, Phila.; Both Legs Were Broken  "es (Bir ee A OY oO A WOR Tre rs A 4+

ATH WAR LOAN ‘DRIVE OPENED   * Etsenhower,, Nimitz, Morgenthau Voice Pleas

Fourteen Billion  Is Goal as  Loan Drive Open Five Million  Salesmen Begin Canvass

Question Of Lend-Lease Is  Before Senate   Few Changes Expected To Be Made In Bill Passed By House For Extension Of Act

Predict Passage of Lend-Lease ©   Expect Senate Okay On House-Approved Measure

HOUSE VOTES TO EXTEND LEND-LEASE   Measure Passed By Vote of . 334 to 21

Seize Three Coast Holds   MacArthur Calls on Filipinos to Rise; Protected by Naval, Air Bombardment

Japs, Allies Strike Ahead  In Offensives   Menace Each Other's Supply Lines in Burma, India, As Chinese Take Town

Allies Make Gains in Burma   Threatens Japanese Communications— Tingring Captured   My RICHARD ©. BERGHOLZ Associated Press War biditor

ALLIED DRIVE IN BURMA NOW LOOKS BETTER   Little Change In Jap Standing In India

Atties Endanger ° Enemy Positions On Burma Front   U. S.-Trained Chinese Push ' Down Mogaung Valley To Capture Tingring

ALLIES EXTEND OFFENSIVE Ih BURMA SECTOR   Mfficials Report No Change in Situation at Imphal in India

At Same lime Japs Menace Supply Lines in India   Chinese Troops Sweep Down Mogaung Valley To Capture Tingring

Allied Offensive in Burma is Spreading  Southward Steadily   Allies Have  Stranglehold on Japanese Communications

THREAT TO JAP LINES IN BURMA   UL $. Trained Chinese Troops a Imphal Situation -

Threaten Jap Supply Lines   Allied Pressure in North Burma Increases; Little Change in Situation at Imphal

ALLIES GAIN STEADILY IN BURMA DRIVE      Troops Spreading Southward Now Threaten Nip Communications, Just as the Japs Menace Allies in India.

FFENGIVE IN BURMA GROWS   Threatens Jap Communica. tions in Area Allied Commanders Report.

Allies Menace Japan's Burma Communications   Enemy Invaders’ Pressure Around Imphal In India Continues.

Allied Drive into Burma Spreading   Jap Communications Are Menaced; Little Chance at Imoho! ©

Allied Drive In. Burma Is Fanning Out   Commanders Minimize Jap Advance in Favor - Of Allied Thrust

Allies Threaten Jap Supply Lines in Burma  Stall Nippon Drive Into India

ALLIES EXPAND BURMA OFFENSE   PUSH SOUTHWARD TO THREATEN JAP LINE OF COMMUNICATIONS

ALLIES ADVANCE INBURMA SMASH   U.S.-Trained Chinese Take Tingring Village In Push

ALLIES EXTEND DRIVE IN BURMA   Air And Naval Forces Ham: mer Hansa Bay Base

ALLIED OFFENSIVE INTO BURMA SPREADS STEADILY SOUTHWARD  REPORTS INDICATE LITTLE CHANGE IN JAP INVASION INTO INDIA

Allied Drive. Into Burma © Is Deepened’   Both. ‘Sides Move On Supply Lines— New Guinea Shelled

Allied Offensive Similar to Japs’ Drive on Imphal   Both Sides Menace Enemy Supply Lines; Bombers Over Pacific

New Offensive by Russians in North   Red Columns Move To Prussian Border

Great New Red Drive Reported   Berlin Tells of Assault On  Rast Prussian Border On 95 Mile Front   LARGE SCALE MOVE BROADCAST SAYS   Attack Near Vilkaviskis .Added To Other Thrusts at Prussia

New Russian Offensive Has Opened   Large-Scale Drive Started Against Nazi Defense Lines

Russians Strike in Lithuania   Massive Ascault For Eset Prussia Started, Berlin Says

Reds Driving ‘Heavy Force Into Prussia   Great New Offensive Via Lithuanian Line Renorted by Germans

POWERFUL NEW RED OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED AGAINST PRUSSIA   Russians Also Reported Massing Tanks for Assault on Warsaw  While in Balkans Battle Rages in Hungary and Yugoslavia—British in Control in Greece

Russians Oven New Offensive   GERMAN  CETY FACING GREAT ARTILLERY ATTACK   The Weather

AUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE   German Communique Acknowledges It Reaches E. Prussian Border.   145 TANKS DESTROYED

Reds Launch New Offensive Toward German East Prussia   Vilkaviskis in Lithuania Is Jump-off Point for Drive

Reds DI... ~~: East Prussia On, Nazis Say   Artillery Fire and Bombings Precede _ Attack of Infantry And Tanks, Reported

SOVIETS OPE NEW ASSAULTS   [Reach East Prussian Border From Lithuania, Tilsit Totters

New Offensive ls Launched By Russians   Drive Menaces East Prussia On Wide Front

Offensive. Started 1 Yesterday . on: ‘Both. Sides of the: Lithuanian. Town of. Vilkaviskis, the Berlin Radio Declares:

BIG BATTLE IS RAGING, NAZIS SAY   Offensive On 25-Mile  Front In Lithuania Sector Claimed

Reds Open Great Drive For Prussia   Berlin Reports Big Push Is Launched  At Vitkaviskis;  A Pincers Operation

Nazis Report Red Assault.  In Lithuania   Battle  Of. ‘Belgrade  ‘Enters. Last. Phase:

NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ON EAST PRUSSII   Masses of Red Forces Plow Forward on 25-Mile Front Around Town in Lithuania

NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE TOWARD FAST PRUSSIA   Soviet Troops Threatening Rail City of Tilsit Inveding 1,099 Square Miles In Memel Area

RUSSIANS LAUNCHED GREAT OFFENSIVE ON EAST PRUSSIA FRONT  HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE PRECEDED THE INFANTR\ AND TANK ATTACKS

ARMY LEADERS JOIN RUSSIANS   Open Revolt In Army Against Nazis Is Indicated

Reds Reach East  Prussian Border   The Russian Offensive Is Launched Northeast of  Vilkaviskis   Other Soviet Troops Are Threatening Rail City of Tilsit

Claim Russians Open New Drive To Fast Prussia   Massed Concentration’ Of Troops In_ Lithuania Reported By Germans

EAST PRUSSIAN LINE STRUCK IN LITHUANIA AREA   Germans Acknowledge Big Offensive, Claim 145 Red Tanks Knocked Out

Masses Of  Infantry, Tanks, Artillery. -And Fighter Bombers ~At  _ tack; Great ~Tank ‘Force-Also Massed For  - Imminent Assault On Warsaw; Nazi. Resis‘tance Still Tremendous.

Reaches East Prussia Line  At Vilkaviskis   Russian Offensive Wins fnitiat Gains Along 25 Mile Front After Heavy Barrage   1060 TANKS MASSED FOR WARSAW ATTACK   Bulgarian-Yugoslav Advance As Allics of Russian Armies Gathering  Speed In South

SAY NEW SOVIET PUSH FOR EAST PRUSSIA STARTS   Nazis Report Twin Drives Reach Border Northeast of Vilkaviskis

Reds in New Drive Toward East Prussia   Great Offensive Has Begun Say Germans; On 25-Mile Front

East Prussia Objective of New Attack   Germans Report Great Russian Offensive Under Way

reat Battle Reported Raging Northeast of Lithuanian Town of Vilkaviskis; Fight For Relgrade Enters Final Phase

Russians Advance Along Front Of 25 Miles And Powerful Drive Gets Under Way

Masses Of = Infantry, Tanks, Artillery And Fighter Bombers Attack; Great Tank Koree Also Massed For Imminent Assault On Warsaw: Nazi Resistance Std Premendous.

STORM AGAINST GERMAN DEFENSE LINES IN EAST PRUSSIA BEGUN FROM TWO PARTS O°- LITHUANIA

Russians Reach Border Of East Prussia In Big New Attack, Berlin Radio Says

Reds Open Drive  On East Prussia   Great New Offensive Starts on Both Sides Of Lithuanian Town

Berlin Claims Strong Defense Being Offered   Tilsit Threatened By Russian Forces Besieqging Memel

Reds Launch New Drive  On E. Prussia   Froops Besiege Memel; Warsaw Battle Shaping; Belgrade Fall Near

Drive to Prussian Border   Well Prepared Attacks Launched or. Indicated At Many Points, in cluding Warsuw Area

Soviets Open New Push On  East Prussia   Starts on Both Sides of Lithuanian Town, Germans Announce

Soviets Open Herce New Drive on Foe   Offensive Reaches East Prussia Border Stronghold

NEW OFFENSIVE MADE TODAY BY SOVIET TROOPS   Drive Toward Eas Prussia Started By Large Force

Russians Reach E. Prussia In New Offensive   Germans Report Red Drive From Lithuania On 25-Mi. Front.

Reds Slug It Out With Germans In Belgrade, Menace Nazi Flight   Russian Army Fans Out Along Trans-Balkan Railway Below Fallen Nis; Berlin Says New Offensive Near Warsaw.

NAZIS CLAIM DRIVE IS ON VAST SCALE   German Position In Yugoslavia In Great Jeopardy

Reich Reports New Soviet Attempt to Take East Prussia   Bitter Fighting Raging Near Vilkaviskis as Nazis Press Defense

‘Is Husband Wife's Guardian?’ Asked   Attorney General Must Decide Minor s Status

226,416 WAR PRISONERS IN UNITED STATES   Patterson Reports Widespread Employment Men

226,416 Axis Prisoners Nows  In U.S. Campsil   Being Used as Laborers.at General Depots, Arsenals and Ordnance Installations

‘Many Prisoners To This Country   U.S. Has 226,416 By August 1, Says Patterson

RETAKE WAR PRISONERS   Two Germans Had Escaped Fror Camp Crowder

Naval Clash Off Coast Of Britain   Keport Light Clash Of British And German Naval Forces Off Beachy Head

FOLEY FOUND 10 BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER   Clay Jury’s Verdict Carries 1 To 5 Year Paonaliv

Foley Is Found Guilty by. Jury   Voluntary Manslaughter Walton Bancaniat

NOT GOOD FOR AXIS War Analyst Foresees Day of Reckoning In Allied Moves

Hit-Hitler Plan Fails to Halt  Pacific Drive   Anglo-American-Sino War on Japs Advances Rapidly

Allies’ Startling success In Europe Matched In Pacific  rpretateé B  vane  Cn

Japan Faces Fatal Blows From Allies   Startling Successes By Allied Troops Below Rome Matched By New Attacks In Urient

Shoe Rationing Will Be Reduced   Likely Will Get New Pair Each 8 Months

State Rests Case In Murder Trial Of UMW Organizer   Prosecution May Introduce Later ‘One Or Two Witnesses’

NAZIS IN MOSCOW BUT AS PRISONERS   57,600 Move Through Streets Of Capital They Sought

PRISONERS MARCH THROUGH MOSCOW   57,600, Captured in Red Army Offensive, Trudge . Through Streets.

Card Homers Defeat Browns 2 to 0  in Series Battle All-Time Strike Out Record Is Set  in Thrilling Pitching Duel; Tiqmand Claccec Will Racumea Tadauyu

Shut-Out Scored By Cooper   Booming Home Runs By Sanders And Litwiler Only Scores  Made In Game.

Card Homers Defeat ‘Browns 2 to 0 din Series Battle   All-Time Strike Out Record Is Set in Thrilling Pitching Duel: Diamond Classic Will Resume Today

HARBOR, MOUNT, AIRDROME TAKEN BY U.S. FORCES   Capture Of Summit Enables Artillery To Lay Accurate Barrage

SAIPAN’S LARGEST TOWN, GARAPAN, IS YANK’S OBJECTIVE   Aim to Take Péace-Time Capital of Marianas After Winning Saipan’s Biggest Airport, Harbor and Mountain

: 20,000 Japs Herded At North End of Island...  American Artillery ~ Rains On Garapan

American Troops Fighting Hard For Principal Town On Saipan Island Today

Yanks Drive On Garapan   Artillery Lays Down Huge Barrage on City

American Soldiers Battling for  Marianas Capital  Biggest Harbor, Best Airdrome Taken Ry Yanks on Saipan

YanksFighting Hard To Take Saipan Capital   Artillery Shells Rock Gar‘apan, Considered Leading City of Mari  anas Group

Yankees Take Saipan Peak   Driving for Japanese Capital of Marianas After Scoring Victories

Russian Forces Halt Desperate Counter-Drives   Soviet Campaign Gains Momentum In East Prussia

EXTEND DRIVE FIVE MILES ON AO-MILE “FRONT   Nazis Ciaim Port Establish. ments At Nice And Canneg Are Blown Up

On 40 Mile Front Against; Spora lie Resistance —5, ‘owns Taken  BEGI 3ATTLE FOR PORT OF ST. TROPEZ  Priveners Of All Ages Being Rounded-up By Allies

Yanks Seek To Envelop Naval Base   “Invasion Proceeds According to Blan,’ Gen. Wilson Report:

Violent Fighting Raging Along Front; Allies Take Number of French  Towns.

WILL BE SPARED FROM _ BATTLE, SAY ALLIES, 3—sIF GERMANS PERMIT      MEANWHILE, AMERICANS ARE CLOSING IN ON ETERNAL CITY FROM SEVERAL DIRECTIONS AS CLOSE AS 13 MILES

CHIEF IS WRECKED   Five Killed When 12 Cars Leave Tracks on an  Arizona Curve

9 Persons Die i Santa Fe Wreck  Westbound Chief in Ditch in Arizona

Five Killed in Santa Fe Wreck   26 Other Persons Injured in Derailment Of Westbound Chief

5 PERSONS DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK   Santa Fe ‘Chief’ Derails in Arizona, Killing Fireman, Four Others

5 Die, 26 Hur In Arizona Train Wreck   12 Cars of Santa Fe ‘Chief’ Leave Rails In Desert Mystery

Five Dead, 26 Hurt When Crack Santa Fe “Chief” Is Derailed   Locomotive and Tw relve Cars of Westbound Train Overturn 18 Miles West of Flagstaff, Arizona

Davis Objects To Holding Up Anzio Reports   Declares Public Entitled to News

CENSORSHIP PROTESTED BY ELMER DAVIS   Who Declares Public “Is En.titled To Fullest And Most Rapid Supply Of  Rlawye ”?   “Keen Your Shirt On”

No Panic...  AMUSEMENT PARK FIRES DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT OVER MILLION DOLLARS

Nazi Peoples Army Failure In Metz Battle   But May Give Better Account of Itself in Home land

Soviets  aunch New Offensives Against Finland  See k to. Clear Murmansk: ani.w.rrd = Relhwovw   Seek to Clear MurmanskLeningrad Railway tn Near Future

Two Surprise Drives Begun Against Finns   ( Additional Story, Page 2) Re PISSFELI LANDSTROV

Reds Open Twe New Offensive: Against Finns   Russians Attempting To Knock Finland Out of War Quickly

NEW OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Russians Driving From Twe Directions From Cap tured Viipuri   FINNISH PEACE BID IS EXPECTED SOON

SURPRISE RED DRIVE MOVES INTO FINLANE   SEVEN DIVISIONS OF GERMAN TROOPS MENACED

Soviet Army Captures Viipuri; Finland’s Second Larest City And Port   New Red Assault Carries Forces Within 120 Miles Of Helsinki, Capital Of  Finland

Reds Launch — 2 New Drives _ Against Finns   Lake Oncga, Svir River Offensives Throw WeinswertRanle

New Thrusts Launched On Shaky Finns  _ Two Widespread ms @_, pre

RUSS LAUNCH NEW DRIVES IN FINLAND   Assaults Opened to Knack _ Nation Out of the War

WAR WEARINESS GROWING AMONG GERMAN PEOPLE   ‘Russion Defeats and Air Raids on Reich Cause Clumm in Merale

BIG AIR ARMADA POUNDED AXIS CITIES SUNDAY   More Than 4,500 Warplanes Deliver Great est Blow Of War   BERLIN, BUCHAREST SEVERELY BATTERED

Territory Aims Are Forsaken   Prut River Is Crossed at Many Places By Army

Red Army in Swift Advance   Forces Cross Along 165-Mile Front to Threaten lasa

Chinese Fighter Pilot Uses “Oriental Trick’ To Bag First Nazi Plane

CHINESE FIGHTER PILOT BACS NAZI PLANE BY ‘AN OLD ORIENTAL TRICK’

ATTACK REPORTED      Shorter Work Day To Be Sought By Coal Miners Union.

SHORTER WORK DAY IS ASKED BY UMW   Basic Rate Withheld as Most Demands Are Aired

MINERS PREPARE PLANS FOR NEW UNION CONTRACT   Everything Set Except Scale Of Wages

Tiindreds of American Bombers and Fighter Planes Participate Spearhead Third Straight, Day of U.S. Attacks on Berlin’ and Western Germany.

Huge Force™ Heads For  Axis Europe   BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS START OFF ON WAR'S BIGGEST DAYLIG ATTACK BY YANK AIRMEN _

BiG DAYLIGHT ATTACK MADE ON CONTINENT   Hundreds of American Bombers and Fighters Launch Great Onslaught.

Eight Saar Valley Steel Towns Under Third Army Attack   House-to-House Battle In side Sarreguemines; Saarbrucken Blasted   Western Front

Security Blackout 4 , Retained  Boche Drive G: Carries 20       che Drive Carries 20 Miles Into Belgium One Place   : Western Front

War News Probe Wins Support Of Republicans   Democrats Are Cautious: Ex-Director of OWL . Asks Check of Delays

Chance of Discord in Assembly      Special Session Opens With ’. Possibility of Many Political Clashes      * CON-CON ALSO CONTINUES MEET   Comes. In for an Early Blast; Some Appropria“tion Bills Draw Fire

Opening Gavels Fall at Noon For Legislature Called by Donnell to Consider Refinancing a Dozen State Agenciec   Governor Proposes 70 Days for Distribution of Soldier Ballots

Lad Calls Police from Phone Booth, Bandits ‘Are Quickly Cantured

Thousands Of Germans  Are Doomed   Soviets Encircle Hungarian Capital In Flanking Sweep.

Russians Storm into Budapest      THOUSANDS OF GERMANS DOOMED TO DEATH IN CITY

RUSSIAN ARMY HAS STORMED INTO BUDAPEST   Completely Encircle That City In Flanking Sweeps That Dooms Germans

AED Thala DOOM TRODPs IN BUDAPES    Army Breaks Into Toitering Capital with New Government at Heels.

THOUSANDS OF ENEMY TROOPS ARE TRAPPEL   Fierce Counter Attack Hurled Back by Rus sian Legions

RED ARMY STORMS INTO BUDAPEST; MOWS DOWN DRUNK GERMAN SOLDIERS   Enemy In Full-Fledged Retreat From Capital

Red Army Storm: Budapest, Severs  Roads To Vienna   New Provisional Govt. Ready To Move In Behind Russians

Thousands of Enemy Trapped Inside Capital   Russians Slash Rail and Highway Routes from City

Russians Storm Into Budapest After Completing Encirclement   Thousands Of German And Hungarian Troops Doomed In Capital

SOVIET ARMY STORMS INTO BUDAPEST   Hungarian Capital Encircled By Russians

RUSSIANS ENCIRCLE THOUSANDS OF ENEMY TROOPS IN TOTTERING [BUDAPEST AFTER EXTENDED SIEGE

ESCAPE ROADS REPORTED CUT BY RED ARMY   Foe Preparing For Fina Stand In Tottering Capital

REDS STORMING INTO BUDAPEST FROM THE WEST   Twenty Thousand Germans And Hungarians Lost

RUSSIAN ARMY ENTERS OITY OF BUDAPEST   Metropolis Encircled by Spectacular Flanking Sweep by Soviets.

Red Army Storms Into Budapest — From West Side   Flanking Sweep Dooms Thousands of Germans  To Surrender Or Die

TANKS ARE DESTROYED   Red Army  Repulses 25 ® Counterattacks In  24-Hour Period

RUSSIANS PUSH INTO BUDAPEST; NAZIS RETREAT   Germans Fall Back to Doomed City After 25 Panzer Attacks Fail

Over 6.000 Sorties Made  In 24 Hours   Principal Target Of Widespread Raids  Is Deep In Germany.

BOMBERS: RAID HAMBURG, OTHE NAZI TARGETS   Dive-Bombers Make Hits On Fit Key Points Around Vire And Avranchés

Swift Planes Hithiambur¢   ~ Night Raiders Jolt French Rail Cities

Big German Port and Oil Wells Raided   British and Americar Planes Also Sunoport Invaders

RAIL TARGETS IN NORMANDY HIT BY ALLIED BOMBERS   Battered Hamburg Revisited  Age Airmen Carry Gut More Than 6,000 Sor tine

Battered Hamburg Again _ Hit By Allied’ Bombers; Normandy Front Strack   By WALTER CRONKITR

More Schooling For Army Pilots   Period in ALU. S.  Centers Lengthened

Nancy Freed Of Germans by U. 8. 3rd Army   American Armies Drive Deeper into Siegfried Defenses

Aachen To Fall Shortly   Siegfricd Line Proving Obaolete Under Heavy Fire

Other Units Close In On Aachen   Allies Announce Three Penetrations Into  Siegfried Line; Street Battles Rage in Brest

Patton’s Forces Seize Nancy in Northeastern France As Berlin Admits Loss of Netherlands City of Maastright—Germans Rush More Troops To Defend Siegfried Line, Which Is Proving To Be Obsolete.

Big German City In U. S. Grip Tonight   . Siegfried Line Proving ' To Be Obsolete; Yank Drive Continues

‘Americans Drive 10 Miles  Into Reich North of Trier   Siegfried Line Proving Itself Obsolete Correspendent Reports, Nazis Throw SS Soldiers, Deaf Men into Line

Aachen Threatened, With Encirclement ‘After Vise Topples 2 Strongholds; Powerful U. S. Armored Forces Drive Wedges 2 to 8 Miles Deep In Siegfried Line:

FIGHTING IN SUBURBS OF ANCIENT CITY   Slashing Through First Line of Siegfried Defenses, Americans Tear 10 Miles Into Reich

Maastricht and Nancy, Strongholds Of Germans, Fall To Big Offensive

Possibitity Now of Two Allied Invasions of Hitler's Europe   Mediterranean General Hints His Troops May Invade So. France.

Two Allied Invasions Possibility      Gen. Wilson Hints His ' Armies May Strike Into Southern France «4

Allied Mediterranean Commander Hints His Troops May Invade Southern France Simultaneously With Western Europe Landings

GENERAL HINTS ALLIED TROOPS MAY STRIKE ON TWO INVASIONS   Possibility Of Co-ordinated Attack Against Hitler’s Europe From Britain and Mediterranean.

Hint At Western Invasion of Japs   Eniwetok Attack May Give Key To Offensive

Strategic Rooke Island is Invaded by Americans as Eniwetok is Softened Up

JAP AERIAL POWER ALSO IS BROKEN   Sir Archibald Sinclair Tells Commons Road to Berlin Blasted Open.

SUPREMACY IN AlR FAVORING ALLIES   Blasting Opens Way to Berlin, Japs Have Already Lost Air Superiority.

HINTS OF GERMAN COUNTER DRIVE IN SPRING WITH NEW AND MORE IMPROVED WEAPONS ADMITTED

Nazis Hope to Stand Off Wholesale Invasion of Reich for Long Time

Germany, Aided By  -Tides of Fortune, May Delay For Cop: sidcrable Time Full Invasion of Reich

MacKenzie Says—  Nazi Drive In °45 May  Materialize   Big Counter -Offensive Depends On German Forces Being Able to Stall Allies

Word Comes to London, Nazis Plan 1945 Counter-Fight   Belief Is Offensive Will Center Around New Secret Weapons

[nites Forgot Lesson Of Firat World War— aw—wRY EMO w, AAD  ‘vr.Boats Are No Substitute For Nazi Navy

Elton C. Fay Says: ‘Hitler's Failure To Provide Navy  ‘One of Main Reasons for His Defeat

Oniy Nine Men in Ill Fated ‘Lost’ Battalion Escaped Death or Capture in Java

AMONG THE LIVING: Nine Men Survive Battalion Which Went io Java in ‘4]

FREES MOTHER TO MIND BABY   Infant Causes Court t Suspend Sentence

DEMS TIGHTEN GRIP ON HOUSE   Greatest Strength Since 1940 May Be Assured By Final Figures

TREAGURY APPEALS TO WAGE EARNERS   Wants Them to Fill Out Tax Returns As Soon As Possible.

INCREASE It DEBT LIMIT IS CUT 20 BILLION   President Meets With Leaders On Return From FourWeek Vacation

APPROVE BOOST IN DEBT LIMIT   HOUSE COMMITTEE ACTION OPPOSED BY REPUBLICANS

AGREE TO SLAG AN DEBT LIME   Administration Asked ~ $260,000,000,000 Ceiling In First Request

Bul Boosting Debt Limit Gets Approval   HOUSE COMMITTEE OKAYS NEW CEILING AFTER REQUEST SLASHED

Approve Cut-Back Debt Limit   House Committee Reduces Limit To 240 Billion From 260 Billion

(Continued On Page Five  240- BILLION LINIT SE! SET ON U. 5. DEBT

NU ae i FOUND   Discovered By Home-Bound War Worker in Weed Clump

NEW DRAFT PLAN FOR FARM WORKERS   County War Boards Given Another Formula For Measuring Military Eligibility Of Men On Farms

NEW FORMULA . FOR DRAFTING FARM WORKERS   Replaces. s Unit’ System Abolished By S. 8. Headauarters.

Farm Deferment Plan Outlined   County War Boards  Receive New Formula On Deferments

New Formula For Farm Deferments   ‘Local Boards Have Been  Advised On Method of Calculation

Escape Route for Eight Nazi Divisions May Be Closed in Italian Drive   6000 Allied Planes Strike New Heavy Blows at German Rail Centers; Russians Hammer at Hitler’s Shipping

H'rankfurt and Berlin Dealt Lleav y Blows   Allies Advance  (in Russian FrontStrike Within 18 Miles of Rome

Raid Caps Assault On Berlin   Germans Reported Ready to Leave Dying Capital

Fight Hundred U. S. Planes in  Precision Raid   Fifth Army Expands Its Beachhead; Now But 19 Miles to Rome

U, §. Bombers Hit Frankfurt in Maior Raid   Industrial City Target Saturday of a Fleet of 800 American Planes

800 Bombers Hit Frankfurt Today After Bomb Raid   Allied Armies Gain More Ground in Russia and Italy

DESTRUCTION NAZI INDUSTRIAL CITY BY BIG U. 5. BOMBERS  ANOTHER SATURATION

HearGe rmans to Evacuate . Torn Capital      Fifth. Army: Pushes “Fwelve Miles to Within ‘19 Miles of Rome t fj RG oe epee =

800 Heavy Bombers Hit German City   Frankfurt Scene of Precision Attack By Americans; -Russians Advance Toward Vital Rail Line; Allies 19  Milee af Rame

New Tax Simplification Provisions Are Countered in Senate Testimony

Panama Assembly Is Dissolved  President Suspends the Constitution

All Objectives Gained and Yank Losses Are Few   Marines on Peleliu Find Going Tough

Another Jap Isle Capturedby Army   Landings in Palau Group Extended As Marines Battle on Peleliu

HARRY HOPKINS’ SON JS KILLED IN ACTION   Loses Life in Marshalls and I Buried at Sea, Roosevelt Notifies Father.

Hopkins’ Son Dies in Action   President Roosevelt Notifies His Friend Of His Loss

Harry Hopkins’ Son Killed in Action  Roosevelt Sends Word to Long-time

Hopkins’ Son  War’s Victim   Stephen, 18, Marine, Killed In Marshalls

 Killed In War;  Buried At Sez   Stephen Hopkins, . 18, ‘Loses Life ‘in - Marshall . Islands Action; Was  U. S. Marine .

No Job ‘Exodus’ Says CIO Report   Calls Stories of War Work Quitting False

Labor: Exodus Said. :‘Fictional’      CWO) Deelures Problem Tiel, Qleerel 

Civilian Goods To Await Fall of Reich   Growing War Needs May Bring End To Reconversion

NEED OF BOOST IN WAR OUTPUT GETS EMPHASIS   Discussions Around Reconversion Causing Shortages to Develop

BYRNES HITS AT WAR SHORTAGES   THREATENS TO HALT THE MANUFACTURE OF CIVILIAN GOODS

MAY GHEGK.ON MAKING GOODS FOR CIVILIANS   Would Halt Production If War Needs Require It, Mobilizer Says.

War Production Lag Alarming   Resumption Of Civilian Goods Faces Delay --

Byrnes Chills Hope Of Early Easing Into Civilian Production; WPB Witholds Plans

Plans'To Turn To Civilian Goods Output Will Remain Secret Until Germans Fall

Scores Arms  Output Lag      Production Till War Needs Met, Says Byrne:

Hope Of Easing Into Peacetime Output Dwindles  WPB To Hold Back Disclosures Of Broad Recon:  ear ime. Sy Dlewe

Emphasis Laid On War Needs  Brynes Says Munition Goals Not Being Met

Halt in Reconversion Threatened by Public's Lack of War-Consciousness

Civilian Goods Production Will Wait On Victory      Byrnes Cites Urgent War Needs, Says People Too Prone To Forget About  "or.

Byrnes Threatens Complete Halt of Civilian Manufacture if Necessary

Disclosure Of Reconversion  Plans Delayec   To Withhold Broad Plans Until Germany Falls; Byrnes Deeries Lack War-Consciousness

Byrnes Warns Needs of War Must Be Met   May Call a Halt on Production of Civilian Goods

DELAY MAKING ‘WON WAR ec      Production May Be Held Back Until Collapse of Germany. .   MUST REMEDY SHORTAGE

Byrnes Chills Hopes For Early Civilian Goods:  - Detailed *V-E-Day’ Plan Kept Mum For Pree) eee a -enl BD ro.

War Needs Must Have Priority, Byrnes Declares  Civilian Goods Tn Bea Mele tin

Reconversion Plan Withheld By WPB Order   Civilian Goods Must Wait for War Production

Shortage of Weapons Might Prolong the War  _ To Halt Resumption of Civilian

Committee Votes Nearly 4 Billion For Lend-Lease   Included ls Adterican Contribution To UNRRA

Enemy Installations On Southern Mindanao Island Left In Flames In Assault

WHISKEY RATION TO BE UNCHANGED   Rum, Gin, Liquers, Cordials To Be Ration Free; Virginia Quota to Remain Same for December

Tokyo Tries To Minimize Yank Gains   Says U. S. Unable te Gather Strength  For Invasion

Alvia Parker Is Killed   Ada Mon Hod Gene’ Back Inte Action After Being Wounded in Leyte Fighting.

Alvia Parker Ils Killed   Ada Man Had Gone Back Into Action After Bélng ~ Wounded in Leyte Fighting

Daniels Offers To Be Witness Before Senators  panto Action. gains poreniened ‘ie ‘

Jonathan Daniels Agrees To Anewer Questions Bearing On Reported. Resignation Demands

atmo   AGREES TO. ANSWER SENATE ' QUESTIONS AFTER THREAT ‘OF CONTEMPT ACTION,

President's Aide Agrees to Answer Senate Questions  Acquiesence Follows Talk With Roosevelt, Threat of Contempt

REA Head Acted On ‘Suggestion   Daniels Testifies He Advised Slattery To Take Another Job

Daniels Ready Now To Testify   Witmess Reverses Stand Tn Senate Prohe

President's Aide Is Cited For Contempt By Senate Committee   Jonathan Daniels, Diplomat’s Son, To Face Congressional Revolt Against Administration; Charges Note Refusal To Answer Senate Queries

Russians Capture Brehebycz Bail Elsewhere Fighting Recamec Sintionary   RULLETIN

Sambor Falls To Onrushing Soviet Army   Eleven Russian Armies Now Hammer Retreat: ing Enemy on Kast

Eleven Red Armies Pound Forward as Resistance Grows   Artillery, Bombs ‘Aimed at Nazi Fortresses on 1,200 Mile Front   BULLETIN

DAMBOR TAKEN BY RED TROOPS      Stronghold in Carpathians 42 Miles Southwest Of Lwow.   POUND OTHER TARGETS

FDR LASHES AT VOTE STRATEGY OF REPUBLIGANS   GOP Seeks To Prove Horse Chestnut « Is Chestnut Horse, President Says   STARTS ON VITAL TOUR   Roosevelt Seeks To Cinch 95 Electoral Votes In Two Day Drive

U.S. Takes Heavy Jap Aircraft Toll   Report Average Is 13 To One In Pacific

OFFENSIVE IS SPREADING Ci LONG FRONT   Gen. Patton’s Third Army Gaining on 85-Mile Line. Scoring 5 Miles; Metz Center.   1,500 Prisoners

Great Battles Raging Around Fortress City   Patton’s Third Army Pushes Ahead; Nazi Counterattacks Repulsed; Hurtgen Fight Continues

U. §. ADVANCES GAINS IMPETUS AROUND METZ   Fortress May Be Enveioped Soon as Veterans Slash Toward Nazi West Wall

Plane Crash Kills  Paratroopers, Crew   Tragedy Occurs Sunday Evening During Maneuvers At North Carolina Camp

FRANCO GETS ULTIMATUM TO RETIRE   Republicans Say Action Taken to Keep Spain Normal

GEAMANS PUT MORE TROOPS IN BEACHHEAL   American Forces Tightening Grip on Strongholds About Cassino.

ALLIES SHORTEN LINE, TIGHTEN GRIP ON COAST   Repulse Fierce Counterattacks

Beat Back Nazi Blows Below Rome   American Tanks Tighten Noose Around Cassino Stronghold.

ES TIGHTEN GRIP AROUND CASSINO AREA   German Infantry And Tanks Make Successive Stabs At Beachhead

Germans Hurl Tanks, Infantry Against Allies Repulsing All Thrusts   Enemy Siege Guns Lob Shells Into Anzio Harbor, Port Of  Allied Invasion Forces

bth Army Beats Back Attacks on Italian Front   Yanks Tighten Grip Around Cassino

ALL NAZI BLOWS SOUTH OF ROME ARE BEATEN BACK   Meanwhile Allies Tighten Grip Around Stronghold of Cassino.

Grip Tightened On Cassino By Tanks, Infantry   Waves of Nazi Units Repulsed Time After Time On Beachheads

GERMANS FAIL IN NEW DRIVES SOUTH OF ROME   American Tanks and Infantrymen Tighten Their Grip on Cassino.

BREAK MENDED IN LINE ACROSS OUR BEACHHEAL   Allied Grip Tightened Around Cassino As Beachhead Counter Attacks Are Repulsed

Motions Filed For Soldier Vote   Ask Emergency Court Ruling On Measure

WESTERN CUBA Io HIT BY HARD GALE   ls Forerunner of Advancing Caribbean Hurricane; All Of Southern Florida Is Put On Alert

Gale Sweeps West Cuba, South Florida In ItsPath —   ‘Caribbean Hurricane. - Heads for Havana,  Exposed Florida Keys  Likely To Be Lashed —  WARNINGS ISSUED

Strong Gales Racing North Toward Florida   Western Cuba Caught In Storm Expected to Hit Southern Florida  With Hurricane Force

HURRICANE IS GOING TOWARD FLORIDA COAST   Soldiers Of U. S. Army Evacuated From  Island

Caribbean Hurricane Sweeps: Western Cuba; Florida Keys Prepared For Storm Today   Isle Of Pines, Off Cuban Coast, Isolated; Havana In’  Path Of Tropical Blow Due To Strike This  Morning; Warnings Given Florida

Operators Open Offices By Order   Trucking Resumed  Under Federal Control

Evidently Most Of Tham Are Victims ~ U.S. Aides Rejected  As ‘Psychoneurotic’

Bureaucrats Defined: Some Are Psychoneurotic and Unfit For Army Service, Says Draft Board

KEY U. S. OFFICIALS RATED “UNSTABLE”   House Group Told Army Is Re jecting Men in High Places ag “Pavchonenrotic.”

Men In'‘High Government Places’ Said Rejected By Draft As 'Psychoneurotic’

First Women Federal Jurors Anna Brauch Seeks  To Recover Payment

First Women —  Federal Jarora. Adin: Bratch Seeks   To Recover Payment

Nation Welcomed New Year in  Traditional Way  Shortage of Liquor Fails to Halt Noisy Celebrations

Nation Welcomes New Year's Advent   “Almost as Usual’ stoughout Country

Forget War Worries   Nation Welcomes New: Year With Near-Nermal Gaiety

Nation Casts Off Its War Woes To Greet New Year In All Sectors Of Country

NATION CAST OFF  WAR WOES FOR FEW  HOURS LAST NIGHT WITH PROMISE OF VIC.  TORY NEW YEAR WELCOMED IN CAY MANNER

TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY   DAYTON JURY FREES WOMAN IN DEATH OF WRIGHT FIELD SOLDIER

Bowles Wants Funds to Fight Gas Racket   Money Will Buy Evidence, OPA Administrator Says; (Enforcement Handicapped

Will Renew Fight on Black Markel  ' Bowles Wants Funds to Buy Evidence .

OPA BLAMES GAS RATION CUT ON ACKMADKET,  ie Se: nei Se:      Witt'Seck Money To Fight Coupon Counterfeiters.

LAUDS BRICKER, RUNNING MATE, ON GOP SLATE   New Yorker, Ohioan Unopposed on First Ballot

GOP Candidate Is Impressive In Chicago Speech   Reflects Inspiration Of Young America As Against “Administration Grown Old And Worn Out” In Pledging Vigorous War For Free Nation.

Volley Fired At Crities By MacArthur   General Disayows Rap at New Deal; Silent on Accepting

Meaning Read Into Letters Repudiated By MacArthut   Meant No Criticism Of Administration, He Says of Letters Written to Rep. Miller   * WERE NOT INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION    General Sull Silent On Move To Draft Him As G.Q.P. Candidate

GEN. M ARTHUR HITS SHARPLY AT CRITICISM   Saye Miller Letters Not Intended For + Publication

Floyd Lee Again Named President  Of Wool Growers   Association Calls For Government  Aid in Marketing

ARMY IS SATISFIED WITH NEWEST PLANE   Improved Musiang Has Speed of 166 Miles Am Hour And A Service Ceiling Over 36.000 Feet

New Long-Range Fighter Plane Is Described as an Improved Mustang With Speed of Over 400 M.P.H. .

ALLIES WRECK 69 PLANES AT BIG AIR BASE   OPPOSITION FADES; MARINES EXTEND GROUND GAINS

Nazi People Get Warning   Bloody Summer Seen By Hitler Newspaper

Germans Get New Warning On Invasion   Hitler’s Paper Tells People Bloodiest Battles ~ Of History Ahead

German Homefront P repared For Bloodiest Of Battles   Prediction Made by Stockholm Reporter for Nation al Broadcasting Company Invasion Will Come Sometime Before First of May: Cites Season of Greatest Channel Tides

wr vv vv VY vv Vv vv? 7 Vv 9 9° 3  Hitler’s Paper Warns People;  Invasion To Come In April ?

Hitler's Newspaper Sees Losses Ahead   Swedish Reports Say Invasion Soon

Nazi Paper Sees Bloodshed Aheac  Broadcaster Predicts Invasion by Mayl  .

Hitler Press Warns People Of Hardships   Confronted ‘With Hardest and Bloodiest Times In History

EXPECT INVASION BEFORE MAY 1ST  Nazis Warned of Hardest, Bloodiest Battle in History

Hitler’ S Paper For esees Loss  Of Territory   Bloodiest Battles Looming, It Warns; New Invasion Rumor

WORST YET TO COME GERMANS ARE TOLD   Homefront Warned Invasion Time Drawing Near

Warn Germans of Bloody Battles   Hitler's Paper Pictures Invasion  And Red Drive

PORTSMOUTH HIGH DOORS CLOSED YET   1,200 Pupils Demand That Principal Stay

Great. Destruction Reported In Tokyo; Other Large Cities Pounded by Superfortresses

STATE'S RIGHTS VOTE MEASURE BECOMES LAW   No Chance Of Further Amendment, View Of Its Backers

Soldier Vote Bill Now Law   Roosevelt Fails to Sign Measure; Asks Amendments

SOLDIER VOTE BILL BECOMES LAW OF LAND   Enactment Became Automatic At 12:01 With President’s Signature

inadequate’ Soldier-Vote Bill Becomes Law Vithout Roosevelt Signature or Approval

TROOP VOTE ACT LEGAL TODAY, SHARPLY FOUGHT   Becomes Effective When F.D.R. Refuses To Act On It

Allied Submarines Gel in Hard Licks   Some of Victims Sunk Deep In Jap Empire Waters

Allied Subs Get 32 Enemy Ships  13 Are Japs Sunk  Sn ie a or tr as

TOKYO SHIPPING LOSSES MOUNT   Allied Submarines Sink 32 Vessels Deep In Enemy Waters

2 SHIPS SUNK ie BY ALLIED SUBS   THIRTEEN WERE JAP MER. CHANTMEN—NIP WATERS DEEPLY PENETRATED.

Allied U-Boats Sink 32 Ships   13 Vessels Were Jap Merchantmen: Submarine Strength Grows.

32 JAP SHIPS SUNK BY SUBS   Navy Discloses Submersibles Active ‘Deep in Japanese Empire Waters’

Planes Lash German City - Of Coblenz   Heavy Pambers Altuck Military Targets At — Schweinfurt_ And _  ’ Mainz

POUNDING OF GERMANY I$ KEPT GOING   By Fleet of 2,000 Heavy Bombers; Lash at Coblenz, Schweinfurst and Mainz.   Bad Weather

RESUME REICH AIR ASSAULTS   2,000 U. S. Bombers Raid Coblenz, Schweinfurt And Mainz

Patton’s Forces Now Reported Only 90 Miles From Reich Border After  Reaching River in Serjes of Thruete

EX-BUND BOSS TESTIFIES IN SEDITION CASE   Identifies Three of The Defendants As Members

TRAFFIC HELD UP IN CRASH   Speers Crossing Scere Of Bad Smashup; Local Driver

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL IN QUEBEC   Stalin Invited, But Too Busy With Giant New Drive

FDR, GHURCHILL BEGIN VITAL ‘VICTORY’ TALK   Emphasis on Pacifie War

HOUSE FORCES CALLAGHAN 10 GIVE UP SEAT   Removal Proceedings Als Pending Against Dombrowski

FOR NOMINATES SEVERAL ENVOYS   Ambassadors to Three Coun tries Freed from Nazis Named by President

President Names Ministers to  Liberated Countries  Others Will Serve  For Nations  About to Be Freed

Envoys Named To Freed Lands  U.S. Ambassadors to Belgium, Netherlands Desiqnated by F. D. R.

FR Appoints Envoys To 3. Free Nations   Ambassadors Go to Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands

Ambassadors  To. Liberated  Nations Named President Nominates  Envoys for Three -» Countries a

ANIBASSADORS T0 4 COUNTRIES NAMEL   FDR Nominates Men te Serve Newly Liberated Countries,

Engineers Now Balance Diets   Freezing, Trucking Help, Says Dean

Trial DisclosesLonergan’s Plan To Kill Himself   Attempts To Buy Poison For Suicide Revealed In Unsigned Confession

CLAIMED LONERGAN MADE ATTEMPTS AT TAKING AWN LIFF   UNSIGNED CONFESSION TC KILLING HIS WIFE ADMITTED BY COURT

NINE MERCHANT  VESSELS HIT   Intensified Assault Being Made on dapanese Shipping — Four New Attacics Made on Strategic Island.

Halmahera Hit Again By Allies   Report Eight Jap Ships Destroyed Or Damaged

Sink Or Damage Nine Jap Ships   Bomb Enemy Vessels In Philippine War Theatr:

Airdromes on Halmahera Isle Blasted   Many Planes Hit Rabaul, Other Solomons Targets

Bombers Sink 8 More Jap Ships   Two-Day Strike Knocks Out Halmahera Fields

Dawson and Holt Are Trailing in W. Va. Primary   Raymond Funkhouser and Clarence Meadows Take Leads in First Returns

MOST WORKERS ON STRIKE IN DETROIT AREA   Naval Vessels Are Delayed By Strike  At San Francisco

Over 30,000 War Plant Workers Strike   Detroit-Windsor, Ont. Area Hardest Hit by Walkouts  Re EPNITET PrmmMee

30,000 IDLE DUE TO LABOE DISPUTES   War Plants Over Wide Area Are Affected

HIGHWAY GROUP 10 ORGANIZE TONIGHT   Washington Countians to - Attend Myersville Meeting

Allies Blast Italian Ports   American Heavies Attack Aircraft Plants in Austria

Genoa, Italian Cities Blasted  Vital Railyards at Parma Also Target For Allied Bombers

Aerial Offensive  Reaches New Peak n  wo-Way Raids   ermen Redio Tells of Simultaneous Blows by Yanks in Rereania, Indicating Heaviest Coordinated Assault of War /   ERCE BATTLES OVER SOUTHERN GERMANY

HEAVY RAIDS ARE MADE (N AUSTRIA   Newton Pilot Brings Total Victories To Ten

North Italy Subjected To Hammering   Parma Railroads Hit; Genoa And Other Ports Raided

Rail Yards In Italy Bombed   Mediterranean Forces Destrov 51 Craft

BOMB SUPPLY ~ LINES IN ITALY   Rail Yards in Parma ind Port Cities Hit

Truk Atoll Struck By Liberators  In Caroline Raid  Hall Islands Also Hit _ As Planes Sink

'2 New Atolls In Marshalis Are Capturec   Army and Navy Bombers Hammering at Japs on Truk

STRIKE CLOUDS ARE CLEARING   Truck Drivers, Detroit Workers To Resume Jobs

See-Saw Fight Rages Along Siegfried Line   British Lash Out Near Arnhem; Vanke Drive Steel Wedge Deeper

British Infantry ~~ Gains Mile Toward German Frontier    American Tanks and Doughboys ‘Battle Forward Slowly in Cologne Area Against Stiff Nazi Resistance

Mile Gain hy British in North      Heavy Fighting Renewed Near Arnhem; Canadians Also. Push Ahead   THREATEN TO CUT OFF 15,000 NAZIS   Dempsey’s Forces Make Hard-Won Headway Between Waal and Neder

Wedge In Nazi Line Widened   British Infantry Attacks In Several Sectors.

HEAVY BATTLE ALONG GERMAN FRONT BECINS   Allies Make Gain Of About One Mile Today

PRIMARY BOOTHS OPEN HOUR LATE   Ballot Tuesday Between Hours Of 7:30 A. M. And 7:30 P. M.

In Six Miles Of Rail Hub   Wipe Out Enemy Groups; Clearing Moscow-Leningrad Railway

Russians Pursue Beaten Germans From Leningrat   Within Six Miles Now Of Vital Rail Line Many Nazis Laying Down Arms

Soviet Army Nears Nazi Rail Center   Three-pronged Drive Threatens te Clear Germans From Estonia

Reds Take. 70-Towns. Kill 2,500 Hitlerites   werman lroops Laying Down Arms And Surrendering; Two Leningrad-Moscow Lines Cleared

Pursue Defeated Enemy; Clear Rail Route   70 Towns Taken; Many Germans Lay Down Arms

Soviets Close on Rail Hub Near Leningrad  Russians Retake 70 Towns As Enemy F lees

MANY PRISONERS, BOOTY CAPTURED   Russian Forces Close in on Important Rail Hub   OTHER GAINS MADE   Reds Clean Out Last Pockets Of Surrounded Nazis West Of Novgorod

Soviets Close In on Vital Railroad Hub   More Than 70 Towns Are Captured in Leningrad Area

Reds Close In On Important Railroad Hul   Russians Only Six Miles Of Great Krasnovgvardeisk In aera   70 TOWNS CAPTURED

Vital rail line freed by soviets   Panie stricken Germans retreat

Red Armies Hasten To Free New Railroad System  Numerous Towns Fall Before Advance; Nazis Lose Heavily

GREAT RAIL HUB MENACED BY RED DRIVE IN NORTH   Russian Troops Six Miles From Town Controlling Trunk Lines to Estonia  and to Poland.   LENINGRAD SIEGE DECLARED BROKEN   Long Limes of Captives Move Through City as Fleeing Comtrades Try to Avert Major Disaster,

Seventy Town: Are Swept Up In Offensive   Third Major Railroad Line Between Leningrad-Moscow Nearly Opened

Reds Closing In On Vital Railwav Hub   Russians Threaten To Regain Control Of Lines Into Poland And Fstonia

Russ Clearinc All’ Leningrac Rail Lines   Contre! of Estonia, Polish Routes Neor In Drive on Hub

Troops Drive On, to Free Third Route   More Than 2 500 Ger rmans Killed in Leningrad  App   70 TOWNS ARE TAKEN   Many Prisoners and Much Booty Seized on  All Seetors

Soviet Forces Within 6 Miles Of Prize Goal   Fall of Krasbogvardeisk - and Hub to Estonia and —   Poland Believed Mat ter of Hours

Soviet Forces Close in on Ke Railroad City   70 Towns Captured,  More Than 2500 Nazis Killed, Many Prisoners And Much Booty Seized

TRAP CLOSING ON BESIEGERS OF LENINGRAL   GREAT RAILWAY HUB WITHIN GRASP OF RUSSIANS

Reds Within Six Miles of Rail Hub   Soviets Pursue Beaten German Besiegers Of Leninarad

Two Yankee Spearheads _  Reported On Soil Of Reich   ‘Troops ‘Said. To Have Entered. Antwerp

Advance Would Place Al. lies 10 Miles From Netherlands; German Frontier Reported Crossed. At 2. Points; Battle Of South France In Final Phase.

BEL =: HITLER NP ANGER IN (STROL   Increasing Reports State Himmler DeFacto Head of Reich

BEY << HITLER NP <NGER IN ws. ve IROL   Increasing Reports State Himmler DeFacto Head of Reich

Sick, Mad or Dead, Hitler Appears No Longer Ruling Affairs of Nazis

Change in Nazi Lineup: Hitler Out, Himmler Pitchina   New Indications Seen That Fuehrer Has Relinquished Reins in Favor of Gestapo Chief

Better See A Fortune Teller ; Farmer's Wife Asks Turkey Ceiling, Gets 30,000 Word OPA Reply But No Price:

Bomb Damage Inside Germany  To Be Studied   Lessons’ Learned Will . Be Applied In Prosecuting Air War Against Japan

Nazi War, Study For Jap Mop Up   Army Experts Gaining Lesséns In Europe For Future Attacks On Nips.

Bad News ‘For Japs.   Lessons Learned from Bombing Germany Will Be Used in. Pacific

NAZIS OBSERVE ROBOT BOMBING   Piloted Planes Join In New Attacks On England

NAZIS NOW SENDING PILOTS TO OBSERVE BOMB TARGETS   PLANES FOLLOW WINGED BOMBS TO SEE WHERE THEY: " LAND—BUDAPEST., ‘AREA BLASTED

Battle For Great Black Sea Port Commences;Axis Attempt To Evacuate Troops Is Failure

FINAL ASSAULT ON SEVASTOPOL DRAWS NEARER   Nazis Fail to Achieve Large-Scale Flight From Doomed City

Final Attack On Port Coming Soon   Vichy Says Battle Of Sevastopol Already Has Begun

Russ Armies Converging In Sevastopol   Axis Forces Trapped In Crimean Port os ‘Dunkerque’ Fails

tor Final Blow At Sevastopoli   Two Big Soviet Armies Near Junction to Hit Axis Forces in Streets Of Black Sea Port

I'wo Great Soviet Armies Are Nearing Junction in Outskirts Of Sevastopol As Garrison Totters

2 BIG FORCES NEAR JUNCTION ‘AT SEVASTOPOL   Unable To Flee‘by Sea, Axis - Troops: Barricade Streets To. Defend ‘City.

—RKUSSIA—  TWORED ARMIES NEAR SEVASTOPOL   Near Juncture For Final Onslaught On Frenzied Axis Garrison   ESCAPE BLOCKED   Berlin Radio Announces Battle For City Has Commenced

FIGHT FOR SEVASTOPOL COMMENCES   Axis Garrisons Barricaded In Streets Of City

Red Armies Converge on Sevastopol   Final Attack On Frenzied Axis Garrison Is Near

2 Big Units Near Junction In Outskirts   Mountain Position Has Been Cracked — Troops Moving to City

Sevastopol Junction Near   Two Russian Armies Near Outskirts; Nazis Caught in Trap

Heavy Fight At Sevastopol, Nazis Report   Soviet Correspondents Write Scenes Of Fiery Horror Of Thousands Trapped Beyond Hope

Russian Armies Near Juncture In Crimea Drive   Thousands of Enemy Stranded In Black Sea Port; Axis Prepares For Determined Defense of City

Two Red Armies May Join Forces   Russian Troops Are Carrying Onslaught Against Sevastopol   NAZIS REFUSE TO QUIT   Germans Report Withdrawal Being Effected in Perfect Order

Juncture of Large Russian Armies at Sevastopol is Near   Germans Fail in Large Scale Evacuation of Burning Navy Base

\Z1S FOILED EFFORT 10 ACUATECITY   ped Axis Forces Enaver to Get Away From Port in Any Craft Available

Two Armies Attack Port   Forcing Way Into Doomed City, Escape Cut Off By Planes and Warships

Red Armies Uniting At Sevastopol   Germans Report Heavy Fighting In _ Fortified Area Of Big Port.

2 ARMIES ARE NEARING CITY   Red Troops Prepare for Final Onslaught Against Sevastopol.

RUSSIANS GET READY FOR BIG FINAL ASSAULT   Sevastopol Now About To Fall Before Reds

Two Red Armies Rush in for ‘Kill’ At Sevastopol   Twin Forces Nearing Juncture in Suburbs Of Burning City; Evacuation Fails

Two Armies Converge on Doomed City   Frenzied Axis Garrison, Escape Blocked, Barricades Streets —Theusands Stranded

Soviet Planes Hit Port Of Galati On Danube In Romania   Reds Extend Bridgehead West Of Dnestr, Taking Toll Of 2,000 German Troops South Of Chisinau

TWO SOVIET © ARMIES NEAR A JUNCTURE         Germans Say Issue. “Ale ready Is Being Décided, With Very Heavy Fighting in Fortified Region of the Town. ee pdb

Russian Armies Near Juncture For Final Push   Soviet Big Guns And Bombers In Heavy Blows At Defenders

Soviet. Armies. Set For Final Assault On Nazi Garrison   Germans Report That Great Battle For Sea Port Has ‘Commenced;’ Attempts At Evacuation Futile

Aloo ARMIES CONVERGE FOR FINAL ASSAUL   Advance Through Minefields to Join Troops Filtering Past Barricades.

Thousdnds of German and Romanian Troops , Reported Stranded on Sevastopol Docks Unable  To Escape by Sea, As Reds Get Ready to Admin tctar Dyeaath Rlaw

GERMANS FAIL TO EVACUATE PORT ON LARGE SCALE   TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES NEARING JUNCTURE IN CITY’S OUTSKIRTS

Germans Fail In Evacuation Efforts   Two Red Armies Converging on Port; Street Fighting in Suburbs Reported

Few Nazis Escape Trap   Two Big Red Armies - Near: dunction.at: ‘Sevastopol a ay Te oe eT

Break Up Evacuation Attempts   Rustiens Are Moving Downhill Into City After Smashing Nazi Mountain Position

VICHY REPORTS . SAY BIG FIGHT IS UNDER WAY   . Two Great Russian Forces Near Juncture for Finol Kill Today

Walkout of 68,000 Workers at 64 Ohio, Michigan War Plants is Off

Heavy Rains Stall Leyte Campaign   Troops Mark Time as Planes Hit Jap Bases

NAZIS ACKNOWLEDGE THEY HAVE GIVEN UP THE SOUTHERN END   Rome-Bound Offensive Now Has Gained as Much as 17 Miles in First Week of Fighting.

Allies May Be Trying To Trap Nazis   Outflanking Maneuver Ir Italy Shapes Up As Amer ican-Polish Affair .

Americans Are Pushing Ahead In Vicinity Of Itri. Fighting Is Bitter.

American And Polisi  Forces Pressing On In Close Pursuit Of Nazis

EIGHTH ARMY CLOBES OF PERUGIA AND FRENCH -: COMPLETE CONQUEST  OF ELSA ISLAND

EIGHTH ENTERS CITY 82 MILES ABOVE ROME   Drive Into Perugia; French Forces Whip Nazis on Elba

Senators Charge Grand Jury Investigator With Prejudice But Legislature Grants Funds

SENATE BLASTS GRAFT PROBER   Flareup Fails to Stop Approval of New  Grant

Resselring Continues To Hurl Counter-Attacks At Vanks Driving Toward Imola

100 Super-Forts Rip  Rangoon, Thailand   Reconnaissance Photos Show Damage Done To Vitsubishi Aircraft Works in Wed. Raid

B-29’s Hit Thailand Targets   ian Superforts From India Bases  Roar Over Thailand While One  Big Fort Is Seen Over Tokyo Arcain   JAPS SEE AIR RAIDS “BECOMING SERIOUS’

FROM INDIA SOCK JAPS   100 Giant Bombers In Siam Blow; Pacific War Chiefs Meet

Record Raid Fires Plants, Damaging Vital Machinery   Toduy’s Attack Carried Out By India-Based  Superfortresses

Nagoya Raid Is Success   Thailand, Burma And Tokyo Target: Of Big Bombers

‘SUPERFORTS HIT RANGOON AND THAILAND   Tokyo Also Raided: Damage Extensive . At Nagoya Plants

Forty Hits Blast Plant At Nagoya   Yesterday's Raid Extensively Damage: Aircraft Factory.

Japanese Report Another B-29 Nuisance Raid On Tokyo   INDUSTRIAL POINTS IN THAILAND Hilt   Japs Claim Five Bombers Shot Down By Antiaircraft Fire

AIR ASSAULT ON JAPANESE CONTINUES   Tokyo, Rangoon Follow Honshu As Targets

AIR OFFENSIVE PRESSED ON JAP'S EMPIRE   New Raids Come Less Than 24 Hours After Big Aircraft Plant Is Struck.

Assert Willkie Would Not Run As Independent   Backers Deny He Would Bolt If He Lost. GOP

GUATEMALA CHIEF OUSTED IN REVOLT   Twelve-Hour Battle Is Fought in Capital—Triumvirate Forms New Governnient.

HANG 100 FRENCHMEN   German Troops Blast  Way Inte Guerrila-Held French Villaze

— (CPV wa wl \s Sal Tce ante ee  Basil O’Connor Appointed Chairman of the Red Cross

NEW RED CROSS CHIEF NAMED   Replacement For Norman  Davis Is D. Basil O’Connor.

O'Connor Made Red Cross Head   President Appoints Head of Infantile Paralysis Group

()’ Connor Given Red Cross Post   FDR Names Former Law Partner To Succeed Norman Davis.

(Connor Named Red Cross Heat   One Time Law Partner Of President Roosevelt To Head American Red Cross

AMERICANS LAUNCH NEW PARIS DRIVE   Strike Toward Chartres, 46 Miles Southwest of Capital.

U. S. TANKS RESUME DRIVE TOWARD CHARTRES; ALLIES NARROW NAZI ESCAPE GAP

WAR BOND ORIN NEARS MILLION TOUEAR FIRHIRE.   Total. Purchases. a Through Last :‘Week Pass, $993,000

WA BONO Chive NARS MILLION DOLLAR FIGURE   Total Purchases Through Last Week Pass. $993,000

First Division Closing in on Peleliu Airport   Guadalcanal Heroes In Bitter Attacks

THROW BACK JAPS; CLOSE ON AIRPOR]   { Enemy Eaunches Several  - Counter - Attacks —  Beaches Under Sporadic Artillery Fire.   MORE AMERICANS POURING ASHORE   Invasion, With Landing -on Morotai, Poses Double-Pronged Threat to Philippines.

U.S. And Austalian Troops Occupy Three More Islands Off New Guinea

Great Battle Reported Developing Near Reich Frontier, Perhaps Decisive Struggle of Europe War   Road to Berlin

Americans Smash At Two Points In Siegfried Line   Third Army Slowed Up At Metz, First Army Points At Aachen And Maastrict In Rhineland Capture 25,000 More Prisoners.

Great Battle [s Developme On  Border Of Retch   U.S. Troops Are Meeting Stiff  Nazi Resistance

Big War Show: Here Tomorrow   Spectacle Scheduled At Filstrup Field

WAR SHOW TO THRILL CROWD   Pacific War Hero To Appear At Big Event Saturday Eve

Germans Plan Second Ailantic Wall  QCanetmentian aw   Construction on Fortifications to Start at Once

Germans Plan Second Atlantic Wall   Construction on Fortifications to Start at Once

STRIKE HALTS CITY TRAVEL   Philadelphia Walks To Work Today   All Trolley and Bus Service Stops

TRAVEL HALTED IN PHILADELPHIA   Surprise Work  Stoppage Paralyzes Trolleys and Buses

Dorsey-Hal! Balcony Brawl Is More Clouded Than Ever   Jury May Be Taken To View Spot Where Actor Jon Hall Almost Lost His Nose; Defense Seeks Dismissal

Balloting By Soldiers Is Debated   Congressional Leaders Meet With Roosevelt As Senate Prepares For Showdown Vote

Roosevelt Meets Party’s Congress Chiefs To Spur [Federal Soldier Vote Plan

FR Confers On Soldier Ballot   Says GOP Amendments Shows Fourth Term Fear

FDR Chafes Over Soldier Vote Delay      Confers With Congress Leaders As Vote Nears

DEWEY ENDS TOUR; FEELS TIDE TURNING AGAINST ROOSEVELT   Last Public Speech At Bellefontaine Rail Station

Colorado Rail Crash fs Fatal   One Passenger Killed and 50 Injured in Collision of Two Santa Fe Trains

FRONT REMAINS QUIET    Last Snipers Are Cleaned Up on the Italian Front

All Quiet On Italy Front   Little More Sniper Resistance Reported Jn Central Florence.

TROOPS DANE. T0130 MILES  BEYOND PARI’   Six Columns Pointed Toward Border: Raid Sedan and Verdun.

Allied Leaders Say Battle For France Ended   One Objective Of Rapid American Push Only 18 Miles From Belgium; British Cross Seine, Aim For Robot Bomb Coast

Sixth Crossing of Seine River Made   People Of Luxembourg And Alsace-Lorraine Warned American Army Is Comina Throvah

Maginot Line Forts Appear As Objectives   Spectacular Allied Gains Paced By Bombers Blasting Nazi Columns

sudan, Verdun Targets   Allies Head for Area Where Nets Hit Macinot Line

ATTACK FORTS WHICH HITLER WON IN 1940   Both Objectives Lie 130 Miles Past  Paris

Germans Retreat Toward Rhine  As Perils Mount   Kisenhower’s Headquarters Warns Luxembourg, Alsace-Lorraine  Armies Soon Will Cross Their Soil

Japs Name New War Leaders In The Philippines   Drastic Attempt To Halt Yank Surge; Manila Raids Take Heavy Toll.

Nippon WarLords Replaced   U. S. Units Push on on Leyte in Face of Bitter Counterattacks

TOKYO SHUFFLES ALL ARMY, NAVY CHIEFS   Philippine ‘Commanders of Land, Sea and Air Forces Lose Posts After U. S. Raids

Manila Strike Wipes Out 469 Jap Aircraft   29 Ships Also Sunk Or Damaged In TwoDay Yank Attack  BY LEONARD MILLIMAN

TOP OFFICERS   Tokyo Shakes Up Commanders in Philippine Islands Today.

29 MORE OF JAP FLEET SUNK OR HIT   By LEONARD MILLIMAN neisted Pres. Wie Ediise

Americans Wipe Out 29 Jap Ships, 469 Planes in 2 Days; Enemy Changes Gammand

Japs Change War Lords in Philippines   New Land, Sea and Air Com. manders Appointed in Ef. fort to Halt Devastation Inflicted hy American Forces

Japs Replace All Leaders in ‘Philippines   Move Desperately tc Halt Onslaught of Yank Forces

JAPS RESHUFFLE IN NEW MOVE T0 HALT MACARTHUR  uUsAoD 1 Aone OCD ACE   WAR LORDS REPLACE TOP COMMANDERS IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

War Lords Oust Entire Command  In Philippines   Ranking Officers Get Kicked Out As US Troops Continue Victories

NIPS RESHUFFLE LAND, SEA, AIR, COMMANDERS   Yanks Destroy 469 Nip Planes, Hit or Sink 26 More Ships in Two Days

JAPS ATTEMPT TOHALT DRIVE IN PHILIPPINES   War Lords Replace Top-Ranking Men In New Move

JAPAN HAS REPLACED TOP COMMANDERS IN PHILIPPINES AREA  RECENT CARRIER PLANES STRIKE AT MANILA BAY COSTLY TO ENEMY

Japanese Chiefs in Philippines Defense System Given Boo!   Tokyo Announces House Cleaning Move to Halt American Onslaught

Defeats Cause Shift by Tokvo   War Lords Announce Change in Command. ers in Philippines

JAPS CHANGE COMMAND FOR PHILIPPINES   Take Steps to Halt U.S. Ons!aught Against Their Power in the Skies and on the Sea   By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Acanciated Presse War Fditar’)

Tokyo Acts As Yank Drive  Gains Force   24th Punches Way Through Enemy On Leyte

Tokyo Names New Leaders In Philippines   Replace Top-Ranking Men In An Effort To Break Up American Land-Sea Onslaught

Chinese Admit Loss of Foochow   Japs Closing In Along China’s Eastern Coast

Large Number From County In Dratt Summons   Fifty-nine Registrants, One of Largest Since the War Started. Go Today for Examinations.

Allied Forces  Continue Drive On French Front   Enemy Resistance Desperate But Allied Troops Con. tinue Gains   American Patrols Nearing Livorno; british Make Gains

BRITISH DRIVE: W TO. FLORENCE   ‘American Patrols. Reach Outskirts. Of Montenero’ .

BRITISH PUSH PAST AREZZO   } Drive Miles Closer To Florence  Yanks Only 4 Miles From Leghorn

BRITISH DRIVE ON TO FLORENCE   American Patrols Reach Outskirts Of Montenero

Marines Advancing In Tinian Invasion   Thitd of Airstrip Captured, Admiral Nimitz: Announces—New Accent on American Threat to the Philippines   Japanese Assault At Aitape Smashed

Yanks Sever Orote Point   Kurile Japs Bombed Again;  Nimitz Silent on Tinian

MARINES ADVANCE INLAND ON TINIAN; CASUALTIES LIGHT   Nimitz Reports Penetration of 1,500 Yards and Cap‘ture of Western Third  of Airstrip.   PART OF JAP FORCE ON GUAM TRAPPED   Undetermined Number of Nipponese Troops Hemmed In by Yanks on Orote Peninsula.

Yanks Cut Off Japanese Holding Guam Peninsula   ADVANCE ON TINIAN

TAKE WESTERN THIRD OF AIRSTRIP   Saipan Conquerers Land on Northwest Coast Sunday   SECURE BEACHHEAD   Guam Invaders Completely Cut Off Jap Troops on Orote Peninsula

JAPS TRAPPED IN GUAM PUSH BY AMERICANS   NEW INVASION ON TINIAN ISLAND MADE SUNDAY

Allied Aerial Power Used Against Truk   Many Enemy Planes Are Destroyed During Hollandia Attack

Mighty Air Blows Struck in Pacific   Bombers Wipe Out TwoThirds of Jap Air Power At Hollandia, Hit Truk Again

6 Neutralizing — Raids on Truk By U.S. Airpower   Two-Thirds of Enemy Airforce at Hollandia Now Wiped Out

Yank Air Power" Rakes Flank — Of Palau Attack   Blows Against Truk. New Guinea, Hold Jap Planes at Bay

TRUK POUNDED FIVE TIMES IN LAST 3 DAYS   PALAU OPERATIONS STILL CLOAKED IN SILENCE

Truk Bombed Six Times In 72 Hours   Co-Ordination Blows Protect Sea Forces at Palau

Neutral Capitals Hear Persistent Reports Of Difficulties For Hitler

OVERTHROW OF HITLER ASKED BY CHURCHILL   Developments Add to Woes of Losing Army in France

President Asks Time Off To Vote   Roosevelt Thinks Eniployers Should Grant Lav.off

Witness Relates In Federal Court: How Bund Star lec   Three of 79 on Trio! For Sedition Pointed Qut As Members

Attack on FDR Featured Mass Sedition Trial   Lawyer Says Stalin Controls President

HISTORY MAY REPEAT ON SUBSIDIES ISSUE   Congress Ban, Then F. D. Veto Indicated

OKYO REPORTS BLOW AT JAVA’S KEY NAVAL BASE   Says Allied Carrier-Based Planes in Indian Ocean Hit Surabaya

Germans Move Air Troops To  Invasion Area  Gen. Student Shifted From Italy; Big Moves By Allies In Italy

Hitler Gets.  Best: Troops ‘Set To Meet Allied ‘Army   ‘Airborne, ‘Parachute ‘Units..Being Shifted

Paratroop Expert, Gen. Kurt Student Sent By Germans To Atlantic Wall

Hitler Transfers General Kurt Student To West Front  Nazi Paratroop Expert Is Shifted Into France

HITLER MAKES PLANS 10 HOLD INVADING ARMY   Allies Attempting To Lure Nazis Into Trap

STATION BATTLE TESTED VETERANS IN DANGER ZONES   GERMAN BROADCASTS PREDICT LANDINGS BEHIND “THE WALL”

Parachute Troops Shifted to France   Germans Prepare to Meet Men Dropped Behind Lines by Allies

Nail ParatroopsSent From Italy To‘Atlantic Wall   Airbore Forces Reported Given Assignments In Special “Danger Zones”

NAZI TROOPS IN ‘DANGER ZONES   Battle-Hardened Men From Italy Transferred to Atfantic Wall.

NAZI CHUTIST EXPERT SENT T0 THE WEST FRONT   Hitler Moves Battle-Hardened Parachute and AirBorne Troops from Italy To France

aac ncn en renee ernment  ‘Fients And False Alarms’ ‘Hitler Puts Paratrooper coe On Invasion Coast

Hitler Shifts Chute Expert To Coast Area   Also Has Moved Battle  Hardened Parachute and  Airborne Troops From  Ttaly to ‘Atlantic Wall’

GERMANS TRANSFER ITALY PARATROOPS ITO-FRENCH AREAS   Nazis Say ‘Chute-Troop Expert Kurt Student Now In France—Claim Sky Soldiers At “Atlantic Wall”

Nazi Paratroop Expert Sent To  French Coast   Germans Expect Allied Landing To Be Made Behind Atlantic Wall

Germany Is Moving Veteran Troops  To Invasion Front  Top Parachute Expert Goes to France; Allied Feint Seen

CASUALTY LIST FOR NOVEMBER TOTALS 57,775   Nazi Break-Through ‘Not Damaging’ Says Official

U8, CASUALTIES IN EUROPE AT 87,778   rall Figures Since D-Da: ove Over There Placed at , O58 194.

DEWEY SUBMITS TAX CUT PLAN   CANDIDATE ASSAILS “WASTE, EXTRAVAGANCE”

DEWEY HAS SIX-POINT TAX PROGRAM      Wants Some  Taxes Elminated; Others Lowered .

Tax Revision Urged by Dewey   Six Point Program Offered to Nation

DEWEY FAVORS TAX REVISION   ‘Simplification, Cut In Income  Levies Proposed

Dewey Outlines Six-Point Tax System for U. S.   Hits Administration Fiscal Policy; Asks Immediate Revision, Reduction in Income. Other Levies

High Income, Lower Taxes Dewey’s Aim   Assails Extravagance and Waste of Roosevelt Ad ministration.

Politics   Dewey Offers Plans To Revise Nation’s Entire Tax System

Six-Point Victory ‘Tax Program Is Dewey Proposal   Waste, Extravagance of Administration  Assailed In Address

Dewey Suggests Lower Taxes in Post-War Era   Would Increase National Income To Pay Debts

Dewey Sees New Deal Tax System As Brake In U. S. ‘Job - Creating Machinery

POSTWAR TAX PROGRAM CUT DEWEY’S PLAN   Depression Prolonged By F. D. Tax Policies, He Charges

Stable Tax Law L reed By Dewey   Says Present _aw  Jurts Business

Proposes Six Point Program   G. O. P. Candidate Warns Tax Policies Must Be Revised For Post War Progress.

TAKE 3 PEAKS IN GOTHIC LINE   Fifth Army Troops Push to Within 27 Miles of City of Bologna

STH ARMY SEIZES 3 PEAKS IN ITALY   PUSH TO WITHIN 27 MILES OF BOLOGNA IN SAVAGE MOUNTAIN FIGHTING.

U.S. 5th Army   Nears Bologna   Three Key Gothic Defense Positions Tonnled

Americans Take  Gothic Line Peaks   U. S. Troops Within 27 Miles of Bologna

Fifth Army Takes Three ‘Vital Peak   ‘Americans New Fight   Within 27 Miles ~OF-   Bologna in Fierce Mountain Butlles

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GOING IS SLOW FOR 5TH ARMY   Gothic Line Peaks Are Seized After Savage Mountain Conflict

FORCES WITHIN o ONE-HALF MILE OF VITAL TOWN   OF irst Forces Strike at Duren; Part of River Defenses Seized

Within  Half Mile Of Duren   _Push to Roer River  As Germans Pull Forces Back; New Yank Push in Hacnenan Area

Th Opens New Major Offensive   First Army 17 Miles Into Germany In One af Three U.S. Drives

HURTGEN FOREST IS LEFT BEHIND IN NEW ATTACK   Reds Fight Into Suburbs Of Embattled Budapest; Action Flares in taly

Haguenau Is Taken; Yanks  on Roer Bank   General Patton’s Men ol Third Army Pound at Saar Basin Towns

First Army Breaks Out Of Forest   Seizes 1,000 Yard: Of West Bank Of Roer—Big Air Fleet Out”

U.S. FIRST ARMY TANKS AND INFANTRY ‘SEIZED RIVER BANK  SEVENTH ARMY BROKE   SEVENTH ARMY BROKE THROUGH MAGINOT LINE FOR SIX-MILE ADVANCE

3 OTHER YANK ARMIES POUND GERMAN LINES   Fleet of “2,200 Airplanes Bombs Nazi Oil Refinery, Railyards

Seize 1, 000 Yards Of West Bank Of Roer _ River ROR DRDrerpc sricyv

ALLIES SMASH NAZI ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAD   ‘Bad Weather Curtails Ground Acfivity on All Fronts but Patrols Continue Stabs   RAIL YARDS HIT   2,000 Pieces Rolling Stock in Litforo Yards At Time of Bombing, Headquarters Says

Three Minor GermanBlows  ~ Are Repulsed   Beachhead Forces Stand Off Weak Blows Following Major Nagi Failure

Allies Check Nazi Thrusts ‘On Italy Front   American Troops Beat Back With Artillery Fire One Assault; Other Enemy Blows Weak

ALLIES OMA NAZI ATTACKS   Germans Continue to Stab Weakly at Allied Beachhead Lines.   LATEST OFFENSIVE FAILS

3 Nazi Attacks Smashed   YANKS AT CISTERNA BEAT BACK ASSAULT, DESTROYING TANKS

ALLIES CHECK NEW BLOWS BY NAZI TROOPS   Germans Conduct Three Smal! Assaults Against Anzic Beachhead

NAZIS CONTINUE TO STAB WEAKLY AT ALLIED LINES   ALLIED AIRFORCES HAMMER TARGETS IN NORTH ITALY, ROME

ANZIO REPELS THREE SMALL NEW THRUSTS   Weather Curbs Land Operations On All Fronts

THREE GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL ON BEACHHEAD   Americans Force Enemy Retreat In Mountains

Germans Make Weak Stabs At Anzio Line   Five Nazi Divisions Were Employed in Latest Full Assault

Allies Break Up New Nazi Thrust   Three German Attacks On Beachhead Fail

‘New NaziJabs At Anzio Line PunchedBack   Rome Railvards Blasted: Foe’s Crack Outfits Badly Cut Up

BAD WEATHE CURTAILS * ACTION   Over 3,500 Nazi Prisoners Taken Since Landing   U, S, BOMBERS   Pound Rail Yards In Rome; Yugoslav Coast Again Target Of Attack

ATTACKS FAR ON BEACHHEAL      Nazis Stab. ‘Weakly, at A. and. British Positions  - Below Rome. ©

Three Nazi Attacks Against Beachhead Below Rome Smashed   Estimate at Least 5 Nazi Divisions Used in Recent  Costly Beachhead Attack

ALLIES DEFEAT 3 SMALL JABS AT BEACHHEAD   Slashing Air Blows Are Struck at Lines in North Italy and Rome

Three Weak Nazi Blows  Are Halted   Weather Checks Grounc Fight At Bridgehead. But Allied Planes Fly 1,400 Sorties

Weak Nazi Stabs At Anzio Repulsed   Unfavorable Weather Curtails Ground Operations On All Fronts

Small Nazi Attacks On Beachhead Thrown Back   Five Enemy Divisions Were Used In Their Recent Costly Assault On Allies

HAVE BEEN CAPTURED   Bad Weather In Italy Slows Operations; Airmen Active

Repulse Three Small German Stabs In Italy   Nazi Thrusts At Beachhead Weak; Bad Weather Curtails Fighting.

REPEL MINOR NAZI ATTACKS BELOW ROME   Unfavorable Weather Checks Major Ground Operations on All Fronts

Foe Stabs Weakly At Allied Lines South of Rome   Three Nazi Thrusts Are Smashed As Weather Curtails Ground Operations

WEYERHAUSER AND LONGBELL MILLS STILL OPERATING   World’s Largest Sawmills Running With Short Crews Despite Their Decision at Meeting to “Go Fishing”

TWO SAWMILLS STILL WORKING   Largest Mills Operate Despite Decision of CIO Mass Meeting.   SOME DISPUTES ENDED

LUMBER STRIKE HITS SAWMILLS   Two Great Mills Forced to Consider Shutdown

Russians Capture Kirovograd, Rail City In Dnieper   Polish Spearhead Is Widened, Others Push Closer To  Rumania

Spearhead in Old Poland Is Widened   Red Army Also Gets 11 Miles Closer to Border of Rumania

Widen Spears Endanger Nazis Bend Positions   Enemy Surrenders En Masse in Streets; 100,000 in Retreat

All Nazis In Dnieper Bend Now in Danger   German Units Surrender In Mass; Reds Dash Toward Last Escape Railway

ENTIRE ENEMY POSITION NOW IS ENDANGERED   First Ukraine Army, Mean/ while, Widens Its Spear head in Old Poland: 11  ' Miles Nearer Rumania   ENEMY DISMAYED BY - SOVIET SUCCESSES   Paris Commentator Declares Offensive Most Formidable Military Ef fort of Whole War

Great Railway Center Falls: Near Rumania   Be a  German Army Units Surrendered In Mass In WarTorn Streets.   MANY FOES SURRENDER

Germans Reel Before New Red Thrusts   Reds Take Kirovograd, Gain in Poland; Enemy Loses Severely

Russians Win Rail Junction: Of Kirovoarad   Reds Rout 100,000 Germans and Drive Up to 31 Miles in  QN_Mile Wide Smach

Trap Menaces 750,000 Nazis   Surging Russians Capture Kirovograd, tout 100,000 Enemy Troops In 31-Mile Onslaught

Rout 100 OOO Nazis As Kirovograd Falls   First Ukrainian Army Moves Forward On 300 Mile Arc; Nazi Units Surrendering

Two Red Armies  Near Junction  In Dnieper Bend Greatest German Debacle of War,  Entrapment of 750,000 Troops Loomsin Joining of Russ Offensives  > Russia (Official) —By Avsociated Press TAWTON Gunday Tan O—The Riuagian Seeond Tkrainten

Russians Plunge 11 Miles Nearer Rumanian Border   Hitler’s Eastern Front Near Collapse; —Moscovites Widen Front Inside Old Poland

Nazi Menace Mounts,-Rail Center Falls   Prisoners Taken n-Larae Number:

100,000 Nazis Flee Kirovograd   Russ Capture Dnieper Railway Bastion After Breakthrough on 80-Mile Front; Vatutin Army Plunges Near to Rumania

SECOND UKRAINE “ARMY GAINS ON 80-MILE FRONT   Kirovograd Falis After Four< Day Battle—Nazi Units Surrender in Mass in City’s Streets,   OTHER KED COLUMNS ADVANCE IN POLAND   Southern Wing of Vatutin’s Forces Plunges 11 Miles Toward Rumania te Seize [intsy.

OPENED BIG NEW OFFENSIVE IN BESSARABIA  REPORT RUSSIANS   Soviet Armies Also Gain Initiative In Fighting On Polish Front.

\Soviet Attacks In Lowe: \Dnestr; Gain Initiative In Stanislawow Sector

MCKAY QUSTER IS DEMANDED   Sen. Ferguson Says State GOP Boss Unfit for High Office

Sen. F erguson Demands Resignation of Frank McKay as GOP Committeeman

JEEPS PLAY PART INBALKAN BATTLE   REDS NOW USING THEM IN ROMANIA ALONG WITH U. SMADE TRUCKS.

Today in.  W ashington   A Roundup of Developments From _ the Nation’s Capital   MONETARY

LEY MAYERS aFFOMES BRD   d:To Capt. B. F. Collie: tNoon Wednesday At  Carolina Terrace

Claire Steele And Ja ane Peters Wed At Church Service   ‘Popular: LeMars “Couple Pledge . Marital Vows

Shirley. Myers — Weds Captain In Air Forces  Marries Captain. Ben Collier In Ceremony At California Terrac

PETERS-STEELE ~ NUPTIALS WED.   Young Coupie To Make Their Home In This  City

Labor Council Offers Program   Housing and Public Works Plan Urged

Allies Speed. Inland To Join Airborne Arm}   Invade Normandy Coast of France 120 to 190 Miles - Northwest of Paris, Nation’s Capital   \Nazis Say Dozen Landings Are Made       ies Expected : to’ Strike ‘Foward Paris and Cer- ~ “tainly Into-Germany Beyond

Nazi Resistance dn Italy-Stops~ ~~ Allied Advance   Armies At Virtual Hall On Entire 150-Mile Fighting Front

Allies Halted By Nazis on Italian Front   Germans Reported to Have Reinforced. Their Forces

FIFTH ARMY DRIVES WEDGE BELOW CAEN   Outpost of Gothic Line; Report Gains along Coast Where American Troops Near Livorno.   Lose 8 Bombers

ALLIED ADVANCES ~— IN ITALY CHECKED   Increased Enemy. Resistance Slowing Up Campaign ..

Italian Drive Is Slowed Down by Nazi:   Americans Chalk Up New Gains North of Fallen Volterra

BIG GUNS STOP DRIVE IN ITALY   Loss Of Volterra Proves Blow To Nazis On West Coast

FIFTH ARMY NEARS PORT OF LIVORNO   U. S. Troops Drive Wedge Beyond Volterra In Thrust At Arno River Outposts

Luxury Club for Enlisted Fighters of Allies Will Be Opened in Paris

British, Canadian Forces Breach Nazi Defenses At Caen   German Position Serious on Eastern Front; Marshal Konevy Makes 125-mile Breakthrough

Leghorn Falls, Allies Gain On Other Fronts   British Smash Through Nazi Lines Near Caen

Says General Sessions Of Security Conference Should Be Open To Press

Montebourg Is In Allied Hands, Vicomte Captured   Crisis at Hand For the Germans

Last German Escape Rail Route Is Cut   Americans Capture St. Sauveur le Vicomte, Retake Montebourg:   VIRTUALLY ISOLATED Last Escape Highway Now Within Range ort? Ss Aeillery

Last German Rail Escape Route From Cherbourg Cut by Advance — Axis Forces’ on Peninsula All but Severed — Another American Column Gains 3 Miles Southwest of Carentan:

Yanks Capture St. Sauveur On Nazi Rail Route   Retake Montebour After Four Days of Furious Battling

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Allies Retake  Montebourg in Bitter Battle   Troops But Nine Miles From West Shore of Peninsula; 3-Mile Gair Made Near Carentan

Last Escape Railway for Germans Cut   Montebourg Regained Peninsula About To Be Divided in Two

Last German Rail Escape Line Is Cut  Cherbourg Nazi:  Face New Cricic

LAST GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE IN GUN RANGE   HIGHWAY HUB HELD; MONTEBOURG IS RETAKEN

German scape Route Severed  By U.S. Forces   Last Rail Line Out of Cherbourg Cut by Americans With Capture of St. Sauveur—Montebourg Retaken

(serman Escape Route Severed By U.S. Forces      Last Rail Line Out of Cherbourg Cut by Americans With Capture of St. Sauveur—Monte  ea: ry eee

NEW THREAT TO DEFENDERS OF CHERBOURG   American Gunfire Cuts Peninsula; Doughboys Defeat Nazis Near Ca ypantan.   No Change At Caen

Sgt. Majorowicz Weds Miss Hoefs At LeMars, la.   Ceremony Performed by Bride’: Father Tuesday, June 6

Nine-Hour Day For Army Branch   Service Forces Men, Civilians Affected

ARMY 54-HOUR WEEK DIRECTED   Service, Headquarters Personnel Will Work Nine Hours Daily

British Flank Nazis Along Rocket Coast   Disorganzed Reich Legions Unable ‘to Make Stand Anywhere

Nast Defenses Sa g As Five ‘Other Allied Armies Strike Crippling And Powerful Blove:   Village After Village Lost By Enemy, Who Shows Signs Of Crackup; Cologne Plains Ang “Rich Ruhr Valley Lie Before Allies

Nazi Defenses Sagging By 5 Other Armies   Has Been The Week Of (,reatest Promise Since Normandy Breakthrough.   DRAW UP TO SAAR

FRENGH TROOPS BREAK THROUGH BIIRRIINDY GAP   Third Army Takes Part Of Metz In Great Advance

Great Winter Offensive Smashes Sagging Nazis In Many Sectors      French Troops Break Through Historic Burgundy Gap At Belfort, Unhinging Entire Southern German Flank At Swiss Border

French Troops in  New Offensives   BREAKTHROUGH REPORT: ED AS GERMANS FALL BACK

French Forces Reach Rhine at Belfort While Five Other Allied Armies -Make Gains.   ONE-THIRD OF METZ IS IN ALLIED HANDS

French Cut Through Burgundy Gap and Reach Rhine River   Five Other Armies Hit Sagging German Defense Positions

REACH RHINE TO UNHINGE NAZI LINE   Third Army Units Draw Up To Saar Border   SIGNS OF GRACKUP   Shown In Spots By Enemy; Belfort Is As Badly Ringed As Metz

French Break Through To Historic Burgundy Gap to Reach the Rhine

Belfort Bypassed In 35-Mile Gains   Four of Six Main Passages in Vosges Seized; Third Army Crushing Metz; Three Allied Armies near Colaone

Troop s  Bur                 5 Other Allied Armi Sagging Nazi Ljn Invasion Routes se

American and French Forces Seize Four of Six Main Passes Through Vosges Mountains to the Rhine

Other Allied Armies Pound  Nazi Defenses   Lines Sagging Along Historic Invasion Route;  Southern Flank Unhinged

U. S.. Others Assist by Lasning Foe   German Defenses Sag; Week Holds Best Promise Since Normandy Invasion; Enemy Columns Are Battered and Sent Fleeing Before Allies

Entire German Southern Flank Unhinged As French Troops Break Through The Belfort Gap   American Third Army Fights In Center Of City Of Metz

rench Penetrate istoric Gap To each the Rhine   : Armies Roll Germans Back in Brilliant Successes Along 400-Mile Front as Nazi Stand Shows Signs of Cracking  wer ceantra@  TEaLit -ANTINIES CLEANUP OF METZ

Southern End Unhinged As Front Sags   French Now Standin Watch On Rhine  In Swiftest Advance Since St. Lo

French Reported Through Belfort Gap at Mulhouse; Third American Mops Up Metz As Other Yank Units And British Hit In North Sector

Village After  re —_ Village Being  Taken In Reich   German Stand Sho wing   Signs of Crackup In  Spots As Yanks. British Press Forward   Pattonites Draw  Up to Saar Border   French Advanée Made Through Historie Burs sandy Gap At Belfort Sunday Night

Break Through Burgundy Gap   Five Other Allied Armies Hit Sagging Defenses Along Other Invasion Routes French Unhinge Entire Southern Flank at Swiss Border

Troops Burst * Through Gap Near Belfort   ; Other Allied Armies Hit  Sagging Nazi Ljne on Invasion Routes ‘

German Defense Lines Sag on Entire Western Sector   Third Army Extends Metz Grip, Drives To Saar Border; Simpson’s Forces Drive Mile Forward

French Plunge Through Belfort Gap, Reach Rhine   Allies Advancing Against Sagging German Lines In All Fighting Areas

French Troops Break Through Historic. BurGandy Gap At Belfort And Reach Rhine - As Five Other Allied Armies Hit Nazi  Lines Along Lengthy Front ._

J OTHER ARMIES CHALK UP GAINS IN ALLIED DRIVE   Third Of Metz Taken Over; Entrances Seized To 4 Of 6 Vosges Passes

Surge Past Historic Burgundy ‘Gap At Belfort As Five Other Armies Roll On 

Move Open: Southern  Nazi Flank  At Border   rE nitrances: To Major. Vosees ‘Passes Held.

Allied Armies Smash Hard at Sagging Lines   Third of Metz Fortress Captured; Barriers Before Cologne Blasted

Third Army, Crushing Metz In Grip, Draws Up To Saar Border As French Drive On Fortress City Of Belfort.

Greatest offensive since Normandy breakthru takes push to city of Mulhouse

All Historic Routes ToGermany Assailed   German Defenses Sag; Third Army Crushing Metz and Punching Across Border; Others Advance Near Aachen

FIVE OTHER ALLIED ARMIES HIT SAGGING GERMAN LINES ALONG THE HISTORIC BURGUNDY GAP

Other Allied Armies Hit Nazi Defenses On Roads-Fo Reich   Seize Four Main. Vosges Passes; Third Pushes To Saar Border; - Detect Crackup In Enemy Stand

Five Other Armies Hit Nazi Defenses   This Is a Week Of Great Promise

Transportation Paralyzed fin St. Louis By Strike of Street Car, Bus Drivers

People Walk In St. Louis   Public Transport Halted By Strike  wegee* we!

Strike Causes Transportation Tieup af St. Louis: Walkouts of Lumber, Bakery Workers Near End

MEN RETURN TO JOBS IN DETROIT   ‘Seattered-Strikes in’ - Nation Are Reported

14,000 STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK   THOUSANDS STILL IDLE THROUGHOUT COUNTRY

B-29s Revisit Nagoya Factories   Return Engagement Intended To Finish Off’ Hatsudoki Plant Already Burned by two Bombings

B29S STRIKE AT NAGOYA FOR 3RD TIME IN TEN DAYS   RAID ON JAP WAR CENTER MADE BY 100 GIANT PLANES

B-29's Make New Raid On Nagoya  City Bombed Third Time In 10 Davs

CIO Told Workers Are Needed   Gen. Somervell Assures Convention Doughboys Need Mortars, ‘Ammo’

Gen. Somervell Tells ClO Convention that 100,000 Workers are Needed to Offset Shortage of Equipment on Warfronts

War Plants Need 100,000 Workers   Shortages Mostly In Critical Material Field

U. S. Battleships Bombard Islands Guarding Philippines   BY LEONARD MILLIMAN

ASKS FOR HUGE SUBSIDY FUNDS _ ONU. S. FOODS   Bowles Tells Congress That Billion and Half Needed g ‘ to ‘Hold the Line’   Orders Boost in Meat Points Sunday to Offset Drop » .__ in Supply

Noose Tightens On Starving Japs  Yanks Check Drive (ve AG OY in Tean

344 JAPS KILLED IN NEW GUINEA   U. S. Troops Cut Off Advance Units Of Starving Nips

Cut Off Advance of Japs On Aitape   Yanks Hold Solid Line  Along Driniumor River

YANKS ABSORB NAZI ATTACK, STRIKE BACK   Regain Initiative After Foe’s Major Drive Forces Salient: Germans Admit Lines Broken.

More Than 500 Hitlerites Are  Taken in Savage Tenn én Blame Beaks

TROOPS WEATHER FIRST SHOCK OF NAZI OFFENSIVE   Third Battle Along 1300Yard Front Continues In Full Fury, Allied Big Guns Join In Attack.   AROUND CLOCK BOMB"ING RENEWED ON AXIS   Americans Start Qut In Morning After RAF Blasts Stuttgart Plane Center During Night.

Americans Stage Counter-Attack   Germans Driven Back in Bitte: Fighting After One-Mile Gain

YANKS REGAIN MILE-DEEP AREA LOST ON ANZIO   Weather First Shock Of Third Major Nazi Offensive

U. S. Bombers Swarm Into ‘Anzio Fight   Furious American Ground Attack Forcing Germans Back.

Finns Balk At Proposal  STORY ON PAGE 15   Germans battered Back on Anzio Beachhead in Furious Struggle

ard Battle For Anzio beachhead Waging As Big Guns Spit Death   Yanks Regain Two-Thirds Of Foe’s Salient, Capture More Than 900 German Prisoners

FIRST SHOCK OF NAZI BLOW IS WEATHERED   Battle Below Rome Still Being Continued as Enemy Is Thrown Back.   BULLETIN

Americans ~   HEAVY BOMBER FORMATIONS AID ALLIED TROOPS IN THIRD BIG BATTLE AT ANZIO ,

U.S. Infantry Wins Initiative On Anzio Front   Drive Nazis Back In Bloody Hand to Hand Fighting

German Forces Blasted Heavily In Air Attacks   Allied Troops Regain Initiative, Reported Driving Nazis Back

Yanks Gain Initiative At Anzio   Allies Renew Heavy Raids On German Production Centers

Allies Regain Ground   Major German Offensive Roars Into Third Day

Infantrymen Attack Bee hind Bombardment, Driving Enemy Back   Tactics Similar To Salerno Battle   Americans Plunge Forward In Savage Hand-ToHand Fighting

Yankees Regain Initiative in Italian Struggle  ‘Heil Hitler,’ Cry Germans Riding on Tanks to Slaughter

LARGEST TIRE QUOTA   But “A” Motoists May Not Get New Tires Until Spring

Says France. Wants Large Partin War   DeGaulle Says Counhy Is Not Receivi.g Enough Supplies  From Allies

4 Sap Ships Destroyed in Borneo Port   Allied Bombers Also Hit Philippines And East Indies

AIRCRAFT DESTROYS FOUR SHIPS   Six Barges  Included In Record Bag Of Navy Catalina

Navy Bomber Sinks Four Japanese Ships  Single Catalina   Single Catalina Blasts Nip Shipping Off Borneo

Bomber Sinks 4 Jap Ships   Six Barges Are Also Blasted By Huge Catalina

Col. Zemke, Leader Of U.S. Airmen.  Ts Missing   Shot Down While Leading Fighter Group On Bomber Escort Mission

Colonel Zemke, Noted Fighter Pilot. Missing   He is Shot Down Inside Germany as - He Led Fighter ‘Group On Escort -Mission

LEADING AMERICAN ACE MISSING OVER GERMANY  Col. Hubert Zemke Is Shot Down “While Leading Group on Mission

Bitter Fighting Looms In House On Tax Issues  Freezing Of Social Security Is Topic OF Selane’ Dahata

‘Fightingest U S. Pilot’ Zemke Is Reported Shot Down Over Germany

Montana’s Air Ace Hub Zemke, Is Lost Over Germany  Young Flier Is Shot Down After Many Triumphs in Battle

Colonel Zemke Is Listed Missing  Flyer Is Shot Down Over Germany

FIGHTINGEST PILOT REPORTED MISSING   Col. .Hubert Zemke, 3) Turned Down Desk Job - For Fishtina.

FIGHTING YANK COLONEL OF AIR FORCE MISSING   Montana’s Ace Zemke Shot Down In Germany

ANOTHER D-DAY COMING SOON IN PACIFIC   U. S.’ Sea and Air Forces Soften Jap Front Line Defenses

NIP FRONT LINE SOFTENED FOF MAJOR THRUST   MacArthur’s Airmen Assault Enemy Positions Along Route To Mindanao   PALAU BASTIONS HIT   © Pattern Of Action Same As Preceding Landings On Saipan, Tinian, Guam

Jap Front Line Positions Peunded   Another D-Day Looms In Pacific

LANDINGS ON ~MINDANAG. IN ~ NEAR FUTURE      CONTINUED BOFTENING UP OF  ce FAP STRONGHOLD “TNDI i CATES NEW B-DAY. 18. - IMMINENT

BOMBINGS SHAPE D-DAY IN PACIFIC   Mindanao Raids _ Indicate Move Soon in That Direction

Hard Fighting Near Caen, 9 Miles Inland   Enemy Cleared From Beaches; Link Beachheads

4000 Ships, 11000 Planes Back Blow   SUPREME HEADQUARTERS. ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY

Berlin Admits Landing Craft In Estuaries   Barges Push Into Orne And Vire Behind Vaunted Nazi Defense Line

MEN, EQUIPMENT CROSS CHANNEL IN AVER 4000 SHIPS   1, 000 Planes Back Greatest Amphibious - Assault, ‘Re sistance of Axis Below Ex. - pectations.   FIRST FIVE HURDLES READILY OVERCOME   Nazi Broadcasters Admit. Penetrations: Up to~ 16, Miles as Shock Forces, : Paratroopers Ashore.

Great Armies Carried, Supported By 4,000 Shins and 11,000 Planes

Greatest Amphibious Assault of All Time Said Successful   4,000 Ships, 11,000 Planes Aid In Establishing F ootholds In ‘ ‘Thoroughly Satisfactory Manner”

POINTED STRAIGHT AT PARIS ON 75-MILE FRONT   First Reports Of Invasion Was Given Out By Ger. many At 12:42 A. M. London Announcement Came At}:33 EWT

11,000 Planes, 4,000 Ships Transport Mighty Armada  For Assault on Europe

iH ON JAPAN 5 RST OF SIMI AR ATTACKS   ‘Many Problems of Lozistics Must Still Be Overcome

HAI GN JAPAN 0 Final OF SHMILAR ATTACKS   Many Problems of Lovistics Must Still Be Overcome

Henry Kaiser [Asks for Big ‘Postwar Fund   Wants Assistance for States and Local Communities; Many Other Activities Reported in Washinvton

New Dewey Attack Scheduled Tonight  “One Man Government’*  Will Be Nominee’s

Dewey Plans To Give Labor Talk Tonight   Republican Candidate Will Speak at Pittsburgh; Democrats Blamed for Pearl Harbor Disaster.

‘One Man’ Next Dewey Subject  President Prepares To Reply Saturday

Dewey to Aifack One Man Control Qf Government   Followers Jubilant At Forcing President to Campaign; Think Democrats Doubtful Of Ontcome

Presidential Race  Now Free-For-All   Dewey Prepares New Attack on Allegations of One-Man é Government, Roosevelt Getting An Answer Ready :

CAMPAIGN NOW TREE FOR ALL   Dewey Prepares New Attack On ‘One Man Governmen?’ of FDR.   DEMOCRATS HIT BACK

Dewey Will: Speak Tonight In Pittsburgh   Truman Tours Montana; Bricker In Nevodo

DEWEY SPEAKS IN PITTSBURGH      Renews Attack On FDR’s “One Man Government’   In Talk Tonicht

Says Roosevelt Visions Defeat  “Reason for New York Trip, Claims Dewey

Free-For-All Stage Reached  In Campaign   ‘President Readies An An swer to Dewey’s “One Man Government” Talk Tonight

Dewey Plans New: Attacks.   Pittsburgh Address Tonight To Be. Hot

Presidential Race is Heading Toward Free-For-All Stage   Dewey Prepares New At. tacks on FDR for Pittsburgh Crowd

Dewey Asserts FDR Is Attempting To Reverse Trend  Democrats Betray Fears That GOP Is Winning

Dewey Plans New Attack  Speech in Pittsburgh Tonight Brings Drive Ta Free.far-All Stage

DEWEY TO THROW NEW PUNCHES AT ‘ONE- MAN’ GOV'T   SPEAKS TONIGHT IN PITTSBURGH; FDR PREPARES REPLY

COURT. UNTIES MARITAL. TIES OF JOAN BLONDELL AND ACTOR DICK POWELL

BRICKER GAINS NEW STRENGTH   Senator Tait Hits Claim That Dewey Is ‘Good As In’

Pet Rabbits Help Relieve Foxhole Boredom Among Front Line Troops   (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK.)

ww VV oe we Bee lS OT SSCoeOeNemE™  ELECTRIC THEATRE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

Dairy Payments lo Be Continued   Rate To Be Increased On Production During March and April

Bill Te Force 4.F’s Into War Work Opposed   Predicted Senate Group Wall. View Legislation With Little En- -thusiasm

SENATORS SNAG 4-F WORK PLAN   See ‘Catches’ In Contrast To House Group’s Approval

Senate Cold To 4-F Work Draft Bill   Work or Be Drafted Proposal Meets Chilly Reception in Committee

LABOR DRAFT BILL MEETS OPPOSITION   Measure Designed to Force  Million 4-F’s Into War Inaho

Bailey - Brewster Work Or Fight Bill Hits Snag With Senate Group

SENATE FINDS CATCH IN NEW LABOR DRAFT   Bill Designed to Force Four Million 4F's Into War Jobs Encounters Opposition

SENATE COOL TO WORK OR FIGHT MEASURE   Bill Would Affect’4-F's Spurning Jobs In Essential Industry

FIND FAULTS IN 4-F DRAFT PLAN   BILL MEETS WITH STRONG OPPOSITION IN SENATE COMMITTEE

4-F DRAFT PLAN HITS OPPOSITION IN SENATE MEET   Claims Act Without Industry Draft Would Disrupt Production

LF Bill Meets With Disfavor Before Senate   Catches Are Found In Plan Endorsed By The Lower House

Labor Draft Bill Meets Opposition   include Industry, Senator Declares

Big City Bosses Placed FR On Ticket Again, 3 G. O. P. Speakers Charge On Radio

Charge FDR's Plans Dictated By New Dealers   3 GOP Governors Open Republican Presidential Drive

Three Republican Governors Smash  At New Deal   Tieup of 4th Term Ambitions and Machines Explained

‘War in Pacific ‘Enters New Phase   Heavy Philippine Raid Promising for New Developments; Invasion Forces Score

Air Blows Hurled At Philipines; Palaus Mopped Up   Both 'Angaur And. Peleliu Virtually Conquered; Morotar Base: Appar:  a aye EE

BOMBERS RAID SO. PHILIPPINES      Battle of the Approaches Roars Inte Action As Palaus Totter

BOMBING OF PHILIPPINES IS RENEWED   Gen. MacArthur Continues “Battle of the Approach” With Ultimate Occupation As Goal. .

Battle of Approaches To Philippines  Increasing in Tempo   Newly Acquired Bases at Morotai Provide Medium Bombers With Springboard Cor Devastating Attacks on Mindanao

Philippines Under New Attacks As Americans Secure Palau Holdings   MacArthur’s Planes Batter Mindanao, Celebes Apparently From Morotai; Angaur Is Virtualls Conquered, Peleliu Ready to Fall;  Jap Concern Grows

Heavy Raid On Philippines First Since Morotai-Palau Invasions; Cleanup Near End   Conquest Of Two Islands Virtually Complete; Battle Enters New Phase

Air Blows Hurled At Philipines; Palaus Mopped Uy   Both Angaur And Peletiu Virtually Conquered; Morotar Base Appar enthy In C)yneratioan

HEAVY NEW AIR BLOWS THROWN AT PHILIPPINES   One Of Two Invaded Islands In Palaus Occupied And Second Is Tottering

New Base for Raids on Japs   PHILIPPINE -APPROACHES BLASTED BY _ YANKS

Battle Tempo In Philippines Drive Mounts   Palau Island Conquered, Another fxpected to Fall

Stage Being Set For Invasion Of The Philippines   Yank Planes At Morotai Begin Softening Up Process

First Major Attack On Islands Since Twin Invasions Of Morotai And Palaus Indicates Expansion Of Crushing Tactics In Pacific — Mitchell Mediums Hammer Airdrome And Piers At Buayan On Mindanao— Conquest Of Angaur And Peleliu Nears Completion

U.S. Raiders: Clearing Path For Landings: On Philippines   Battle of ‘Approaches Enters. New. ‘Phasé

Philippines Hit Smashing Blow. By U.S. Bombers   Marines Advance on Peleliu, Angaur; Koror Isle Bombed

New Phase Of “Battle Of Approaches” To Southern Philippines Is Indicated

NEW AIR RAIDS IN PHILIPPINES   Fliers Bomb Jap Defense: In South; Palau Conquest Near End

Morotai Air Base In Use   Planes From There Raid Philippines; Going Rough Yet On Peleliu

Big Raid Made On Philippines   Reports Imply Attacks Being Made From Newly Taken Morotai Base

ROARS INTO NEW PHASE IN SOUTH: AIR BASE IN USE   Japan, Concerned Over Prospect Of Losing Islands, Attempts Sneak Night Attack.

HULL DENOUNCES FALSE RUMORS   Reports Had Circulated in Latin America That United States, Britain Were Preparing Appeasement Policy

Chinese Smash Foochow Attack   Chiang’s Troops Block Interior Spearhead

Offensive Over North Germany Flatland Is Aim      Massive British Army. and  Airborne. Troops Already” Straddled Lower  Rhine In Holland <.-  Yanks Meeting : Boche Resistanncs   Two Doughboy. Columns Thrust 20 Miles Toward Strashourg; Boulogiie’~ Falls, Algiers Reports

HITLER MAY BE LEAVING NAZI iKUUPS   Allies Now in Position for Great New Invasion of Germany Around Siegfried Line.

Path Opening For Drive Across Low Lands of Germany   Airborne Troops and Supplies Are Landed In Holland For Fourth Consecutive Day, Supreme Headquarters Announces   RESISTANCE TOWARD BELFORT GAP TIGHTENS

More Air Troops, Supplies Landed; Rhine Straddled   Siegfried Line Is Being Outflanked; Brest In U. S. Hands: Armies Gain

GOP Candidate Colorado Victor   National Party Leaders Hail Election of Dean M. Gillespie, Anti-New Dealer in Corgressional Contest as Indicating Swing Against Roosevelt. ‘   STATEMENT BY SPANGLER

Republicans Hail Victory Of Gillespie In Colorado.   Believe New Triumph Indicates Trend Against New Deal,  Dianannests hteawcan   8TH G.0.P. VICTORY IN TEN ELECTIONS   Republicans Now Have 210 Seats in House To Democrats’ 216

Denver Victory Pleases 6.0.P.   Say It Indicates New Deal Defeal

REPUBLICANS HAIL COLORADO VICTORY   SIGN NEW DEAL IS DOOMED SEEN IN G. 0. P. CAPTURE OF HOUSE SEAT.

REPUBS HAIL VICTORY IN COLGRADO RACE   Election of Dean M. Gillespie Over Democratic World War Vet Brings Jubilance to GOP

COLORADO SEAT LOST BY DEMOS   Republican Business Man Beats War Hero Opponent For Congress; GOP's Think America Through With New Deal.

GOP. Joyful O’er Victory In Colorado   DEAN M. GILLESPIE, BUSINESSMAN WINS FROM WAR HERO— POLITICAL NEOPHYTE IN CONGRESS ELECTION   Democrats Unhappy

GOP JUBILANT OVER VICTORY   Dean Gillespie Elected in Special Colorado Congressional Election.   HAVE SEVERAL VICTORIES

G.0.P. Hails Election as Victory Sign   Upset in Colorado Shows New Deal Is Through, Say Chiefs

GOP VICTOR IN COLORADO VOTE   Take House Seat Held By Democrats for Last  12 Years

Republican Leaders Hail. Win In Colorado Election   Chieftains Say Gillespie Tri umph Is New Evidence That American People  “Are Through With The New Deal”

GOP Leaders Hail Victory In Colorado   Denver Business Man Defeats War Veteran In Special Election

 GOP Leaders Rejoice  Over ‘Denver Victory’   View Result of Colorado Special Election As Evidence of National Trend; Eye Runoff Votes in Five Other States

Allied Force Moves Past Port Livorno   Elements of 11 Nazi Divisons Defeated

ANCONA PORT SEIZED IN BiG ALLIED PLUNGE   Germans Surprised By Suddenness of Drive

Yanks Capture Livorno in Surprise Move   Polish Troops Take Ancona, on the Adriatic Coast

U, S. Gives Italy Full Recognition   Kirk and Count Sforza To Be Ambassadors

Adams Palominos Are Entered In Horse Show Here   Animals Won Top Honors At American Royal and Other Events

Adams Palominos Are Entered In Horse Show Here  Animals Won Top Honor: At American Royal anc

ASKS TRUTH ON PEARL HARBOR   KIMMEL CHARGES FALSE STATEMENTS IN TRUMAN ARTICLE

Truman Magazine Article Contains False Statements Says Adm. Kimmel

- Picked Shock Troops Lead Allied Advance  Yankees Strike From Beachhead

Kerr May Keynote Democrat Meet   Up to Roosevelt, Partv Leaders Sav

KERR MENTIONED FOR HIGH HONOR   Convention Keynoter to 8B Named When FDR Returns to Capitol

 Democrats Eye Selection  Of Keynoter   Await Roosevelt’s Return to Name Candidate

Oklahoman May  Keynote Demos  Confers With National Chairman Hannegan

GOV. KERR FIGURES IN KEYNOTER TALK   TRUMAN, BARKLEY AND CLAUDE BOWERS ALSO CONSIDERED FOR POST.

Kerr May B« Keynoter For Demos   Oklahoma Governor On« Of Few Choices For Convention Opener

Demo Keynote to Be Named  Awaits Roosevelt's _ Return to Capital

NARVA ESCAPE SHUT OFF BY RUSSIAN FORCES   Remnants of German Armies Driven Into Peatbogs, Forests -

‘Soviets Drive Seige Armies Into Marshes   Germans Abandon Guns, Mortars In Flight To Forests

Red Forces Within Sight Of Estonia   Germans Abandon Supplies, Equipmen In Hasty Retreat

FLEEING NAZIS BEING CAUGHT IN BED TRAP!   Russians in Sight of Estonia Drive Enemy into Bogs and Forests.

Russian Armored Forces Smash To Within Sight Of Estonia All But Shut Off Shattered Elements Of Siere Armies   OVER 1,000 NAZI SOLDIERS KILLED

Red Troops Smash Within Four Miles. Of Estonia Border.   ‘Shattered Remnants of Nazi Ar my Flee: Befor. €. Tightening Pincers; : Falk cf Vital Kinzisepp Expected

Allies Smash at Hitler Line as Airfleet Blasts Germany; Capture of Myitkyina Near

ALLIES STORM NORTH BURMA BASE OF JAPS   Garrison Cut Off There: Air - Borne Troops Are Landed

Escape Routes From Myitkyina Claimed Closed   Allied Troops Fight Way Into Outskirts of Important Base .

Allied Troops In Outskirts Of Myitkyina   Japanese Garrison In North Burma City is Trapped

NIPS TRAPPE INCITY OF MYITKYINA   Allied Troops Fight Way into Outskirts Of Jap Burma Base

All Escape, Reinforcement Routes Are Severed; Cornered Foe Losing Heavily

Germans Launch More Robots in Strange Venture   "Secret Weapon” Not Convincing

Unmanned Shins Causing Damage Across Channel   Hitler Propagandists Are Boasting Of Pilotless Aircraft

NAZIS UNLEASH SECRET WEAPON OVER S, BRITAIN   Longest Air Raid in England Sinee Blitz.—Damage Done, Casualties Caused, Admit.

hobots Cause Casualties  And Damage  German Radio Claims  Cony oy in Channel a Lh a) es ree    BRITONS CARRY ON DESPITE NEW HAZARD

Deaths and Damage Caused by Germans’: Pilotless Weapons   Radio-Controlled ‘Aircraft Explode on or Near the Ground

Nazy Piiotless Planes Strike English Sector   Bomb-Packed Craft Are War’s Fantastic “Secret Weapon”

NOVEL SECRET WEAPON TAKES TOLL OF LIVES   RADIO-CONTROLLED CRAFT EXPLODES ON OR NEAR THE GROUND

Nazis Using RocketBombs   New Attacks Launchec On East British Coast

ROBOTS TAKE DEATH TOLL RIP BUILDINGS   Germans Claim Virtual Annihilation of Convoy of Ships in Channel With New Weapon.   CRAFT LAUNCHED FROM CALAIS AREA   Flame-Spitting Planes Fly Low at High Speed, exploding on Contact With Targets.

Unmanned Craft Smash Buildings In Fantastic Raid   ‘Secret Weapons Are Launched From Bases in France

Pilotless Planes Attack Ensland   -. + Craft Explodes On Or Close To The Ground

Fantastic Nazi Robots Are Loosed On England, But No  Bia Military Damage Done

Nazi Pilotless Planes Continue Attacks Upon Great Britain   Some Loss of Life and Damage Results: None Taken Intact Yet for Examination

‘Scores of Explosive-Packed Planes Launched by Nazis      FANTASTIC SECRET WEAPON PUT IN USE   Little Evidence Found of Important Military Damage

Pilotless Planes Dive Into Britain   Germans Make First “Secret Weapon” Answer to Invasion  -XPLODE ON LANDING

Pilotless Planes — Driven by Germans Against England   Flame-Spitting ‘Secret Weapen’ Explodes After Landing—Badio Control Thought Probable

Germans’ Surprise Weapon!   Pilotless Airplane Bombs Southern Part of England

ROBOT PLANES HIT ENGLAND NIGHT-DAY   “Secret Weapon” Assault Is Fantastic; Bombardment Starts in Dark nade    Definitely Dangerous

NAZI ROBOT PLANES SMASH COASTAL AREA   London Officials Believ: ‘*‘Headless’’ Craft is Launced From Special Emplacements Along Pas-De-Calais Coast Of France

Flame- Spitting Planes,  Pilotless, Hit England   Germans Strike Back with “Secret Weapon”: Radio Controlled Craft Explode After Landing.

Fantastic Secret Weanon Declared German Vengeance   Robot Attack Is Continued During Daylight Hours

U.S. Planes Sink Ten Jap Vessels; Bomb Air Fields   General MacArthur Reports Refineries At Bolikpapan In Borneo Have Been Destroyed

HITLER'S COAST FORTS POUNDED   Allied Pre-Invasion Air Assault Runs _ Into Sist Day

U. S. Airmen Blast Nazi Coast Forts   Pre-Invasion Air Offensive In 31st Consecutive Day

Allies Bomb Coastal Line   Pre-Invasion Offensive in Thirty-First Day

Pre-invasion Air Offensive Carried into 31st Day      NO AIRPLANES LOST IN DAY’S OPERATIONS   Comparative Lull Hangs Over Western Air Front

Small Formation Of U.S. Bombers Allacks Defenses   Pre-invasion Aeria Campaign Carried Into 31st Day

Chinese Troops Closing In On Vital Base As U.S. Engineers Build New Burma Road

BOND TOTAL HERE IS SLOWLY RISING   County Still Under Quota as Campaign End Nears

BOND TOTAL HERE IS SLOWLY RISING      County Still Under Quota as Campaign End

ONE MAJOR TASK 1S LEFT FOR MEETING   Monetary Group Must Fix Initial Capital for World 7 Rank

Legion Urges U. S. Participate With Other Nations in International Force for Preservation of Peace

Legion Favors Force for Peace   Asks Full Surrender for Germany, Japan

REDS BEAT OFF > NAZIS IN POLAND      KILL, 900°SOUTHEAST OF STAN. ISLAWOW—SOVIET Am.

RED AIRCRAFT HIT JUNCTION IN POLAND   Mass Attack on LWwow Touches Off Fires and Explosions, Russian Attempt Rumored Dashed   Wreck Equipment

REDS oTAGE LONG ATTACK FLIGHTS   Planes Touch Off Fires and Explosions in Mass Raid on Lwow; Repuse Nazi Attacks Near Stanimawor

SOVIETS FORCES KILL 800 NAZIS   Repulse Of Russians At Sevastopol Claimed By Berlin

Russians Plan Powerful Winter Attack  Have Assured Allies That Offensive .  Ie Comina In Soon

Claim new alignment of soviet forces pointed at heart of Hitler’s bastion

NAZIS OAY REDS UPEN NEW DRIVE   Push Along From Southwest Of Budapest Reported   MOSCOW SILENT   Soviet Troops Clean Out Ger. mans From Mountains of Northern Hungary

RUSSIA PROMISES BIG-SCALE DRIVE AGAINST GERMANY   Forces to Be Realigned for Winter Offensive With Spearheads Moving Toward Heart of Reich.   ‘WHERE BLOW WILL - FALL REMAINS SECRET   Thrust Intended to Hasten Collapse of Enemy—Answers Rising Demand in U.S. for Action.

ALLIES ARE TOLD. — OF RED OFFENSIVE   Powerful Red Armies to ‘Strike for Heart of Germany

NEW OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS   Berlin Says 100,000 Men Hacked Out Gains Southwest Of Budapest   ROAD AND RAIL HUB CAPTURED BY SOVIETS

General Russian Offensive  Expected Within 48 Hours   Observers Expect Drive In East To Be Co-Ordinted With Allied Invasion Of Western Europe; Action For Two-Day Attack Mapped At Teheran

Russian Offensive Now Expected To Coordinate With Allied Invasion  NAZIS IN DISORDERLY RETREAT IN ITALY  Germans Lost 7,000 Men, 305 Tanks, 313 Planes’ In One Week 6 ig  faa oe hy

Russians Pepped Uj By News   Crushing Sovict Drive from East Believed Near

New Revolt Breaks Out At Wapun   Wisconsin State Prison to Get Complete Shakedown, Warden Declares

ADVANCING REDS GAIN 400 TOWNS dN EAST PRUSSIA      Soviets Inflict Big Losses While Driving 19 Miles , Inside Reich

Red Army inflicts Heavy Losses On Nazi Defenders Of Prussia; Take 400 Towns

Burma Fighters ~ Push Back Japs   Japs Retreating In Northern Burma and On Arakan  Front.

EISENHOWER, FREE FRENCH IN AGREEMENT   French Given : ‘Part in Governing Liberated Areas:

F.R. May See Some Part of “‘Liberation”’   Attack on Europe Not Invasion; Plans New Churchill Conference

F.D.R. Believed Planning New  Trip Abroad   May Meet Allied Leaders And Get Closer Took At War:

—F DR  FDR Plans © Visit With. Churchill   ‘Hints He May Be Close At Hand When In' yasion Comes

FR. Hints He May Witness Liberation   ) ‘Spring Trip‘ to See Churchill Rouses Capital Speculation

PRESIDENT MAY TAKE TRIP FOR LOOK AT WAR   Suggests Blow Across. Chan. nel Be Called “Liberation” Instead of ‘Invasion.”

Roosevelt Hints Another Trip to See Churchill   Lendon Possible Scene of Talks President Stresses Liberation Aspect of Invasion

Roosevelt May Cross  Ocean Again   President Says He Hopes To Confer With Charchill

TOMEET AGAIN   Definite Date Or Place o Expected Conference Is Not Given.

Today In  W ashington   A Roundup of Developments From the Nation’s Capital

Roosevelt Hints Of Another Trip   Tells News Conference He May See Prime Minister Churchill Between Now and Fall to Get Closer Lock at War.  NR GOATITT RTS AWATITEN         DE GAULLE IS AWAITED

FD. R. PLANS TO *SEE CHURCHILL   ANNOUNCEMENT LEADS 70 BELIEF THAT HE WILL GO OVERSEAS

Roosevelt May Get First Hand Glimpse ‘Of Invasion Start’  President “Hopes” to g Make Another Trip

TRIP T0 LONDON BY PRESIDENT NOW IN OFFING   Whether It Will Be for Close View of Invasion Is One Of Big Capital Topics

FDR Slates D-Day For Summer   Hopes To Meet Again With Churchill In The Near Future.

Hershey Predicts Continuing Draft   Reduction Unlikely in Inductees Numbers

Moscow Buzzes Over Relations With Her Allies   Pravda Rumor, Ankara News Story a Hot Topic

Soviets show keen interest in relations   Ts biggest topic  of conversation

GILMER CHARGES CRABLE’S WORDS ELUDE VERACITY   Tulsa Prosecutor to Confer With Miskovsky, He Discloses at Capital

Testimony of Crable Scored   Dixie Gilmer, Tulsa County Attorney, Says It Is Untrue

Army Shifts ASTP Units To War Duty   Move Affects Schools Hit Hard by War, Leader Says

AS.T.P. Youths To Go Overseas   Army Cutting Down On Education Program As Draft Fails To Meet Manpower Requirements.

Army Kills Most Of ASTP Program, Blaming Shortage Men Asked: Foydn Dentt.

ARMY COLLEGE PROGRAM ENDS   Specialized Training -Students Being Transferred . To Combat Fields

Army Will Send 110,000 ASTP Youths to Combat   Action Is Decided As Draft Boards Fail to Meet Needs

About. "£10,000 000’ Youths. to be Assigned to Com-.. Bat Fielde:

From College to War: Army's Special Training Program Will Be Practically Eliminated      110,000 Boys To Be Transferred from College Campuses fo Combat Service within Few Weeks

Army Kills Most Of ASTP Program, Blaming Shortage Of Mon Asked For In Draft

COLLEGE TRAINING — - PROGRAM SLASHED   About 110,000 Youths to be Assigned to Combat Fielde

GERMAN SHOOTING DUE-AFTER WAR   Presumably Hitler Candidate as, Hull Discusses Hard Peace

BOMBER ATTACK HEAVIEST SINCE DAY OF INVASION   ®ritish and Americans Pound France from West and South

Balkan Revolt Spreads to 3 Axis Satellites.   Army Revolts in Hungary, Bulgaria Asks Peace Terms

BULGARIA AND HUNGARY FEEL CAISIS 15 NEAF   Switch of Romania to Allies Followed by Fighting with Germans,

Bulgaria Seeks Terms of Peace as Romania Quits; Battle in Streets of Paris   Report of City’s Liberatior Premature, Report Bordeaux Captured

NAZI BALKAN FRONT CRACKS AS ROMANIA DESERTS AXIS CAMP   King’s Acceptance Of Russian Armistice Jerms Called ‘Treachery’ By Berlin; Tension High In Bucharest After Michael’s Peace Appeal!

Bucharest Under Siege Awaiting German Reprisal   Romania First Balkan Country To Deny Axis Alliance

Germany's Hold On Balkans Cracks As Romania Aligns © Herself With Allied Cause —

ROMANIA’S TIE TO ALLIES SNAPS SATELLITE RING   All Balkans Seen In Throes Of Politica! Upheaval

Hungarians And Bulgars  Face Crisis   Romania Proclaims Decision To Join Allied Nations

Bulgaria Said To Have Asked  Peace Terms   Hitler’s Balkan Satellites Reported To) Be In Throes Of Political Upheaval On! Same Order ‘As Occurred Prior To The Collapse Of Germany In 1918

BULGARIA HAS SOUGHT PEACE TERMS, CLAIM   Hungarian Army Near Revolt Against Axis, Report

GERMANY'S SATELLITES CRACKING UP   Romania Quits; Bulgars Ask For Peace Terms

Hungary's Nazi Puppet Premier Orders Immediate Dissolution  Of All Political Parties In That Nation   BULGARIA ON VERGE OF QUITTING AXIS

BULGARIA ASKS FOR PEACE TERMS   Proclaimed Decision To Join Forces. With The Allies

1918 Being Repeated as Romania in Allied Fold, Other Satellites Saqgine

HITLER FACES REVOLTS IN ALL BALKAN STATES   Romania First To Surrender —

SATELLITES CRACKING UP   Romania Quits; Bulgars. Ask For Peace Terms

ARMY REVOLT IS REPORTED IN HUNGARY   Bulgaria Asks Peace Terms After Romania Deserts to Allied Cause.   Flood of Reports.

King Michael’s Message. Causes. Other Balkan: Nations to Think Fast As Allies Thunder Forward

U. S. Troops Gain 2 Miles Up Peninsule   Light Armored Element: Thunder Forward Or West Coast

Public Member Demand: Changes in Opinion Covering Maintenance of Union Membership

Union Security  Splitting WLB   Membership Maintenance _, Clause Starts Row  a ae ee ee

Act to Streamline Collecting of Tax   Code Group Moves Toward Centralized Revenue Départment

PRIEST DROPS HIS DEFIANGE         POLISH PRIEST WHO WENT TO MOSCOW TO ENTER MONASTERY: FOR PERIOD OF MEDITATION

SEES RUSSIAN PLAN DEFEATED   Reds Hoped Thru Priest To Divide Polish-Americans

NEW SCHEDULE OF WITHHOLDING TAXES REPORTED   Single Persons To Pay Heavy Penalty For Unencumbered Estate

New Withholding Tax Plan Slated   Proposal Would Go  In Effect Next Year

Seven Goals In National Debt   ROGER BABSON WRITES ABOUT HUGE U. S. DEFICIT.

AYY DITLALINAIN LAL L Saket bbe     Self-Liguidating Obligation Can Be Reducec Slowly, Part of Interest Paid on Bonds Coes Back as Taxes.

POST-WAR CARTELS ‘HOLDS SPOTLIGHT IN STATE DEPARTMENT   U. S. Policy On Industrial _ Agreements After War Being Worked Out.

Aircraft Plants In Belotum And  France Target   Heavy Daylight Attacks Are Made On Enemy Aircraft Production   REVEAL BOMBERS STRIKE IN POLAND

HEART OF NAZIS’ FIGHTER OUTPUT HIT THIRD TIME   J.S. Bombers Over Europe Sunday Shoot Down 43 Planes

NEW DAYLIGHT AERIAL BLOWS ROCK GERMANY   Occupied France Hit Last Night by RAF   GREAT ARMADAS

Vy ASSAULTS  N CONTINENT IN-THIRD DAY   DAYLIGHT RAIDERS OVER EUR OPE AS CURRENT NON-STOP “+> AERIAL OFFENSIVE  +s, + GONTINUES

HORT SOCIETY ELECTS HEADS   Ransom H. Braman, Belding, Succeeds Bartz As President

Braman Heads Fruit Grower:   Belding Man, Only 36 Elected. President

Caltech Says Big Quake Hits Japan   SHOCK DESCRIBED AS GREATER THAN SAN FRANCISCO 1906 QUAKE

WHOLE EARTH VIBRATING FROM SHOCK   Stronger Than Quake Which Hit San Francisco

OF ATROCITIES BOOST CLAMOR   4 More Punitive Peace Terms Urged Unless Japs Relent

DRAFT QUOTAS   More Than 262,000 Registrants Affected By National Ruling.

OLDER MEN NOT IN WAR PLANTS FACING DRAFT      Lack Sufficient Men Unde 26 To Fill Doubled Draft Quotas

Robot Blitz Will Insure Stern Peace   ~—BY DEWITT MacKENZIE~ Associated Press War Analyst

WAR TODAY   Use of Robot Bombs Stiffens Demands for CompleteDestruction Of Prussian Militar. isin

DEVILISH ROSOT BOMBS LIKELY’ TO BRING HEAVIER PENALTIES VO GERMANS AT-PEACE TABLE

New Incendiary Bomb Used By American Airmen On Nazi Europe Can’t Be Put Out ‘Once It Starts Blazing War Dept. Reveals

HILLMAN ADMITS $408,069 SPENT   ClO Chief Defends Political Action, Hits ‘Agencies of Reaction’

SECOND RAID WITHIN MONTH   American Planes Hit Vital War Industries in Oceupied China and in Japan — Entire Raiding Force Returns Safely to Base.

U. S. Superfortresses_ Smash At Vital Jap Industries, Damage To Targets Reported:

B-29 PLANES HIT NUMBER OF TARGETS   Some Objectives Were on Coast of Occupied China

Hankow and Laoyao Stunner By Latest Blow   Sasebo, Naval Base, Receives Most of Bombs

Blast Hankow Supply Base In East China   Entire Force of Bombers Return Safely to Bases

B-29S HIT TARGETS ON CHINA COAST   Communique Lists Jap Cities Bombed In Friday's Raid

Strike ona Broad Front Say Nazis   Summer Offensive Reportedly Starts In White Russia; Moscow Its Silent

TELL OF FIERCE BATTLE RAGING ON EAST FRONT   HINT LONG-AWAITED SUMMER OFFENSIVE HAS BEEN LAUNCHED

Russians Announce New Offensive Against Nazis  In Area Around Vitebsk

Nazis Say Big Soviet Drive On   Long-Awaited Offensive Launched Near Vitebsk Says Berlin; Not Confirmed As Yet

PLACE SCENE NEAR CENTER OF THE FRONT   High Command and ‘Broadcasts Say Soviets Advanced Yesterday on Broad ‘Front in Nogilev-Vitehsk Sector.

Soviets Hurl New Offensive Avainst Nazis   Grand Offensive Opens -On Direct Route To Warsaw. Berlin

Summer Drive Is  Launched by Reds   Germans Report Start of - Russian Offensive on. East Front   NO SOVIET - COMMENT   Artillery and Tanks Are : Being Used on a Grand  cale

Hillman Flayed as Saboteur of Democracy  Helena Attorney Lashes Out at P. A. C. Director

Hillman Flayed  as Saboteur  of Democracy Helena Attorney  Lashes Out at  nirnAnt

Body of Woman Murder Victim Found in Trunk   Los Angeles Mystery Similar to Case  Of Winnie Ruth Judd

Here Are Several Tips on Mailing Christmas Packages “Over There”

Christmas Overseas Mailing Period Sept. 15 to Oct. 15— ‘and the Earlier the Better

Keep Rules On Gifts Fo  Overseas   P. O. Department, as Christmas Mailing Time Nears, Give Instructions

PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS RISE THE PAST MONTH   Report For August 15 Shows The Average Is Up About 1 Per Cent Over The Figure For The Period Ending July 15.

TEXAS’ SIXTH WAR LOAN CAMPAIGN IS MOVING ALONG WELL  SEVERAL COUNTIES AND CITIES ALREADY REPORT: EN OVER ONINTA

Several Texas Counties, Cities Exceed War Bond Goals Before Campaign More Than Started

DIRECT HITS SCORED   Italian Liner Is Now In the Hands of the Japanese -

RED CROSS MONTH, 1944 iy The President Of The United States Of America  "4 PROCLAMATION.

Norris Denounces Service Vote Bill Congress Passed As ‘Bogus’   Former Senator Declares It Virtually Disfranchise Fighting Men; Hear President May Allow It To Become Law Without Signature.

Service Men’s Vote Bill Is ‘Bogus’ to Norris   Former Senator Says Service Men “Practically Disfranchised”.

NORRIS CALLS SERVICE VOTE BILL ‘BOGUS   Former Senator Crificises Republicans for Solid Backing of Measure Now Before President

oAYS VOTE BILL Io A BOGUS’ MEASURE   Norris Says It Will Pract cally Disfranchise Fighting Men.

Congress Ponders Bill To Provide  Farm Telephones   Southern Solon Savs Necessity

New Lists Total 9000 Nips Dead, -13 Vessels Sunk   ‘Tokyo. Reports Reshuffling   Of ‘Ranking Officers; "- Okamura Replaces Hata

13 More Jap Ships Sunk by U. §. Naval Force   Enemy Losses Are Mounting Steadily; Planes Destroyed

Jap Losses in Leyte Island  Fighting Soar   Thirteen More Nip Ships Sunk and Forty Planes Shot Down in Pacific

JAP SHIP LOSSES INCREASED BY 13   Cruiser Among Latest Sunk: Leyte Fighting Goes On

Knock Out Jap Leyte Defenses Piece By Piece   Enemy Losses Of Men, Ships And Planes In we Pacific Soar.

Japariess ‘Losses O1 Men, Ships Mount  In Philippines   13 More Nipponese Ve els Sunk In Raid At Brunei Naval Base’ On Borneo; ; ‘Enemy’. Dead ‘On 2 Islands Reached 63.388 ©... -

IU. §. INFANTRYMEN CRUSHING RESISTANCE ON LEYTE AS 13 (MORE JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK

YANKS SMASH NIP DEFENSES ON LEYTE ISLE   Sink 13 More Jap Vessels; B-29 Gunners Down 40 Japanese Planes

BEING BLASTED   13 More Enemy Ships Sunk, 9,000 More of Enemy Troops Killed.   DESTROY 40 AIRCRAFT

JAP DEFENSES KNOCKED CUT BY AMERICANS   Thirteen Enemy Ships Sunk In  Borneo Area

STEADY GAINS REPORTED ON LEYTE ISLE   _ 9,000 More Nips Killed Or Captured In Clean-Up   Down At Least 20 Planes; Enemy Changes Leaders On China Front

Japs Suffer Severe Arr.  Land Blow:   63.388 Killed In Fighting Marianas: Yanks Advance On Leyte

Yanks Sink 13 More Jap Ships   Infantry Knocks Out Nip Defenses on Leyte; 9000 Enemy Troops Casualties in Marianas; Superforts Destroy 57 Imperial Airplanes

YANKS BATTER JAP DEFENSES ON LEYTE ISLE   i3 More Nip Ships Sunk, Tokyo Reports New Army Shakeup

Americans Rig Jap Defenses On Leyte Isle   Enemy Reshuffles High Command, Tokye Reports

JAP DEFENSES uf ‘LEYTE A NE BEING BASHED      Piece by. Piece Battering Goes On as Enemy Losses are  Pushed Hicher   THIRTEEN MORE ENEMY + SHIPS ARE DESTROYED

JAP DEFENSES ON LEYTE ARE BEING HACKED TO PIECES   13 MORE NIPPONESE SHIPS SENT DOWN, INCLUDING CRUISER

JAPS LOSE 13 MORE VESSELS TOU. S. AIRMEN   Yanks Battle Ahead Through Mud in North Leyte Island Fight

Jap Losses of Men, Vessels, Warplanes Continue to Meunt   MacArthur Hacks at Last Ditch Stand at Limon, Leyte

Japanese Losses in Pacific Mount  Widespread Attacks Weakening Enemy

ENEMY LOSSES OF MEN, SHIPS, ® PLANES MOUNT   9,000 Killed Or Captured As Marines Mop Up In Marianas, Carolines

Harsh Steps Near in Bus Tieup, Riots   Army Preparing To Make Arrests As Men Stay Out

Showdown Appears Imminent In Philadelphia As Strikers Defy Army In Transit Tie-up   Arrests Threatened In Dispute; Whites Protest Negro Uparadina

Arrests Likely As Transport, Line Operators Ignore Army, Appeal to End Strike »

STRIKERS FACE ARREST SOON IN PHILADELPHIA   Showdown Looms as Transit Drivers Ignore Army Appeal to End Strike

Showdown in Philly Strike Thought Near   Refuse to Heed Army Appeal— Possible Arrests May be Imminent

Firs’ ¢ my Units Rc, - "ved Pushed  Across Border.   British Airborne Units Fight Against Odds In Arnhem Area

PATTON FORGE ENGAGED IK MAJOR BATTLE   Desperate Fighting Reported All Along Siegfried Line As Nazis Realize That Disaster Impends   REPORTS LAGGING FAR BEHIND ACTUAL FIGHTING

Attempts at Rescue Are Ineffectual   Americans Forced Back and Situation of Force Is “Critical’’

Trapped Troops Pounded by Nazi Artillery   Sctback to Yanks In Sector 23 Mi. Northwest of Trier

Vicious Counterattack Sends  Ist Army Back fo Our River Stolbera Falls to Left Wind

broadcast, in the German language, and directed to Europe, was reported by the FCC.

Business And Financial Outlook For The Year 1944   Noted Analyst Makes  Predictions  :

BABSON GIVES OUTLOOK FOR 1944 BUSINESS   Most Firms ‘Booked’ To Capacity For Year

Demos To Nominate Roosevel For 4th Term Today; Fight Still On For Running Mate

Roosevelt Scheduled To Be Renominated For Fourth Term; Running Mate W:!! Bo Chosen

DEWEY  BE SPEECHLESS   Invasion Of West Planned By Republican Presidential Nominee

INE OSWEILR WEDS NAVY ENSICA      Wedding Solemnized Satur y At St. James a) Cotholi, Church -.

Pretty: Wedding  Celebrated At  St. James Church Caroline Osweiler  Becomes Bride Of Ensign Grabowski

Allies’ Crack Hitler’ s Wall Of Diplomacy   Pressure On ‘Neutrals: Is Now ‘Showing Fine: Results. . - They're Convinced:

INVASION DRIVE MAY INFLUENCE NEUTRAL SPAIN   Other.Neutrals Who Have Not Been Convinced AIllies Could Win May Soon Change Views

See Break By Neutrals   Invasion Expected to Convince Shay Nations Allies Will Win War:

Rome’s Fate Is In Hands Of Enemy   Allies To Attack Only Insofar As Enemy Uses City

Allies to Spare Rome If Germans  Do Not Defend   Fate of Eternal City Placed Squarely Up to Nazi Military.   Nazis Say City Is Free of Armed Forces

Declare Rome ‘Open City   Nazi Broadcast City Free of Armed Forces — Pope’s Plex

ALLIES ISSUE AN ULTIMATUM FOR ~ SPARING OF ROME   Military Measures Planned If Germans Attempt to Defend, Berlin Says City Has  _- No Troops.   GERMANS HAVE HOPES © OF SAVING OLD CITY   Berlin Broadcast Declares Efforts Have Been Made For Months . to Keep War From Capital. -

Allies Pledge Precautions To Spare Rome From Ruin;  Nazis Claim Army Cleared

U. 5. BRITISH HOPE TO SAVE CAPITAL   Destruction Of Nazi Army Only Goal Of Allies   AMERICAN TROOPS   Capture Monte Castellacio; Enemy Defense Line Not Yet Broken

Germans To Be Ousted If They Remain   Berlin Broadcast Says City Free Of Armed Forces; Position Of United Nations Known

Fifth Army Wins Most Of Alban Hills   Fate Of Eternal City Up To Germans, Says Allied High Command; Force Will Be Used If Nazis Defend Capital.

German Radio. S ine Revorts~ City Cleared   But NoProof Has-Been 0 fered; Allied” Cominan: = States. Position.                ACTION. FOLLOWS +" “° THE POPE'S PLEA   U.S. “and Britain “Hope ithe “Enemy Will Not.-Choose to’ Defend Capital: 2

NAZI ARTILLERY SLOWS ADVANCE OF YANK FORCES   Germans Now Coming Out in ‘Suicide Attacks’ on Some Fronts

Desperate Nazi  Attacks Halted   American First, Ninth and Third Armies Inch Forward in Saar

Five Killed When Train Piles Up   All-Pullman Luxury Train Wrecked In Arizona

Luxury Train Jumps Tracks, Leaves 5 Dead   Santo Fe Chief Piles Up During Night in Arizona

THOMAS SENTENCED  TO DIE ON CHARGE  MURDERING DOCTOR PAROLED CONVICT CON VICTED BY JURY AT PLAIN VIEW IN HIINT SLAVING

Clark’s Army Battles Near Leaning Tower   Germans Shell Historic Pisa; Eighth Army Closes On Florence

Big German Guns Shelling Southern Section of Pisa   Uv. fs Lt At   Yanks Consolidate Hold Along Arno, British Advance Within Eight Miles of Florence

Nazis Step Up Shelling Of Pisa Area   Eighth Army Within Eight ’ Miles of Florence; Vienna Military Installations Are Bombed

NAZIS INCREASE PISA SHELLING   British Advance Two Miles in Florence Drivé »

German Guns Batter Pisa   Eighth Army Drives Within 8 Miles of Florence Outskirts   Leaves From The Note Book Of A War Correspondent

NAZIS SHELL "ALLIED LINES BELOW ARNO   Batter Southern Portion of Pisa, Penetrated by Fifth Army — Britisl Forces Now Eight Miles From Florence.

Nazis Batter Historie Pisa      Big German Guns Step Up Shelling Of Areas Below Arno River.

Americans Near Famed Leaning Tower Of Pisa   Captured German Reveals . Nazi Lie, Boast About en» Se > ey ee Aly

Battle For Florence Continues   Pisa Battered By German Big Guns

NAZIS SHELLING AMERICAN-HELD SECTOR OF PISA   Gains Place Eighth Army Eight Miles From Florence

German Guns  Shelling Pisa   Big Guns Step Up Battering of Yanks In Southern Portion

GERMANS SHELL PISA HEAVILY   Eighth Army Penetrate: To Within Eight Miles Of Florence

Pisa Battered As Allied Ar my  Nears F lorence   German Big Guns Shelling Histovie City; Eighth Units In Sight Of Leaning Tower

YANK POSITIONS. SOUTH OF RIVER ARNO UNDER FIRE   Nazis Step Up Shelling of Allied Holds in Southern Section of Pisa—Eighth Army Nearer to Florence

YANKS OCCUPY PART OF PISA   8TH ARMY FORCES ADVANCE WITHIN 8 MILES OF FLORENCE

—ITALY—  PISA BATTERED BY GERMAN GUNS   Southern Section, Held By Allies, Under Artillery Fire

PISA IS SHELLED BY NAZI FORCES   Part of Italian City Held By Yenks Given Heavy Pounding Today

Nazis Shell South Portion of Pisa   Allies Drawn Up On Arno River Bank

GEAMANG BATTER PORTION OF PISh   Step Up Shelling of Areas Below Arno Held By  Amorizanc

Historic Pisa Feels Effects Of Artillery   Eighth Advances On 30-Mile Front; Make Other Gains

BIG.NAZI GUNS HAMMER PISA   Eighth Army Troops Push Within Eight Miles Of Florence

Nazi Big Guns Baifer Pisa   Shell Areus Below Arno River Which. Are Held by Americans

BRITISH NEARING FLORENCE; FIFTH ALREADY IN PISA   German Big Gunz Oper Up on Americans Who Are Near Famous Lean ing Tower

German Shells Are Rained On Yanks Below Arno   Heavy Fire Poured On Pisa And On Americans crossing River; Allies Close In On  - Blarencre

TOWN OF PISA BATTERED BY GERMAN GUNS   Germans Lose 65 Aircraft; Tank Plant Bombed

TODAY   Himmiler’s Plan for! Sabotaging Allied Occupation of Reich Will Exceed Anything in Frightfulness. HE bt Succeeds

VAST UNDERGROUND BODY FOR PERPETUATION OF NAZISM IS INOW BEING FORMED BY HIMMLER

=e @® @ @ 2 @ 2222  The War Today  Report Himmler Is Organizing Nazi Lindararnunmd Aemuy

HIMMLER REPORTED ORGANIZING VAST NDERGROUND MOVEMENT IN GERMANY TO PERPETUATE NAZISM

Machenzie Says—  Nazis Ready Big Guerrila Battle Plan   Fight To Finish In Germany Is Being Prepared By Himmler

Gestapo Chief Reported Forming Vast Underground Organization ~~ ~"Fo Sabotage Allied: Occupatior

Fight Killed By Tornadoes   Two Borders Counties In Wisconsin and  Illinois Hit Hard

\8 Persons Killed by Tornado in Wisconsin;  100 Buildings Leveled

Twe Wisconsin and I!inois Counties in Path of Storm   Property Damage is Estimated al Many Thousands Today

TORNADO KILLS EIGHT PERSONS   GREAT DAMAGE IN 2 BORDER COUNTIES OF ILL., WISCONSIN

Eight Persons Die in Tornado   Many Injured Along Border of Illinois, Wisconsin, Reported

a VICTIM OF FLOODS W WOW   Seven-Year-Old Boy Drowns _ In Spencer While Playing With Others.

Ralph B. Ball Clerk With Unit Be Cited Twice   Now Authorized To Wear Oak Leaf Cluster

BRICKER ATTACKS NEW DEAL IN TALK   Rerublican Candidate Heard in Detroit; Fears Split in Parity

isle In Bonins Group Hit; Jap Vessel Is Sunk In Davao Gulf; Paramushiro Raided

Bombing Features Pacific Campaign   Bonin Islands Are Again Targets for American Bombers; Ships Sunk

Tulsan Admits Part In Boof-Leg Ring   Pleads Guilty to Charges Alleging Tri-State Set-Up

Expansion of Food Rationing Seen renter nese  Farm Leader Predicts Bows And Bread Will Be Includec

Food Rationing May Be Expanded   Bread and Grain Coupons Possible

Expansion of Food Rationing Seen pr ee a  Farm Leader Predicts Bees And Bread Will Be Included

Yanks Will Have To Invade Japan, Nimitz Declares   Says Americans Must Make Sacrifices For Victory In Pacific

aaneeeeeeenenemnetnnenatnaneennnEaEaaee ne a RR SN a RN Ne  Williford New Exalted Ruler Of Local Elks   Succeeds Ed W. Davis; Lodge To Issue Elks Courtesy Cards.

Williford New Exalted Ruler Of Local Elks   Succeeds Ed W. Davis; Lodge Te Issue Elks Courtesy Cards.

Base of San Elia Captured   Americans Ford Swollen River as British Move Up

FRENCH CAPTURE SAN ELTA, LAST ENEMY DEFENSE   Ford Swollen River And Smash Heart Of Gustav Line

BHAMO IS CAPTURED BY CHINESE   Last Important Jap Position On Burma Road Seized

Jap Resitance In Burma Broken   Only About 50 Miles of Famed Road Closed

JAP DEFENSES © IN NORTH BURMA  COLLAPSE BEFORE ALLIED PRESSURE   Reopen Most Of Burme Road Supply Route

JAPS GIVE UP      Opens Up 40-Mile Stretch of Burma Road to China

Delegates Elect Sen. McClellan   Arkansas Group Holds Caucus Enroute To National Convention

CHURCHILL AND STALIN: BEGIN TALKS   Subject of Discussions Not Announced

Churchill, Stalin In Conference   Meet Last Night In Kremlin for 3Hour Talk;  Eden Sees Molotov

CHURCHILL AND STALIN BEGIN TALKS   Prime Minister Is Given Rousing Welcome in Moscow

STALIN. MEETS WITH CHURCHILL BEHIND CLOSED KREMLIN DOORS   Prime Minister Has Praise For Red Army

CHURCHILL AND STALIN CONFER   Meeting May Lay Basis For International Framework

Churchill Visits  Stalin In Russia   Begin Discussions On  Dumbarton Oaks Talks

Churchill and Stalin Begin Talks in Moscow   Reportedly Discuss Matters Which Cannot Wait for U. S. Election

R. M. (Putsy) Gentry Announces For Sheriff, Tax Assessor and Collector

BRITISH SLOW UP JAP INDIAN DRIVE   Nipponese Dislodged From Roads South Of Imphal —

Three-Pronged Drive of Enemy Meets Setback   Japs Dislodged South of Imphal Says Mountbatten

Points In India. Retaken   Japs Dislodged From Three Road  Blocks Near Imphal

Japs Ousted From Blocks Near Imphal   Air-Supplied British Troops Battling Nips; Road Severed Between Base And Tiddim

Twin Jap Advances Into Burma Menace Valley Road Center   Nips Within 30 Miles of Imphal; News of Pacific Warfare

BRITISH FORCES HAVE DRIVEN JAPS FROM INDIA POSITIONS  ENEMY TROOPS WITHIN  30 MILES IMPHAL IN  maT RIMM ae

Block Jap Offensive In India      British Dislodge Nips From Road South of Imphal; Repulse Other Forces to Southeast

Enemy Offensive Believed Aimed At Imphal: Convoy Is Blasted Off Wewak

British Score On Japs Near Imphal   Enemy Is Dislodged At Three Points By Jungle Troops

Second Tokyo Column Still -Menacing City   Has Advanced Sixty Miles  _ Into India After Crossing Border From Tid  den Area, N. Burma   Enemy Ambushed ~ In Kabaw Valley   Lose Up to 700 In Killed In Less Than Week, Admiral Mounthatten Announces _

3 Jap Columns Yow in India   British Rout Foe From 3 Road Blocks South of Imphal

British 14th Army Supplied By Planes   Some Enemy Positions Reported Within 30 Miles Of Imphal

Allies Attack Jap Column   Invaders Moving Toward Imphal in India Have Rough Going Now

Breaks Road Blocks Near Imphal, India   Fourth Position Under Attack; Another Big Jap Force in Jungles

FOE DRIVEN FROM THREE POSITIONS   British Attack Column: Driving In From South

apanese_ Knocked  From Three Positions After Having Advanced 60 Miles Into India Toward Imphal; Jap Invasion Of India Seen As “More Political Than Military.”

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  FOUR RAILROAD TRACKS BLOCKED AT NESHAMINY FALLS

Tropical Storm Heads For Sea   Approaching Hurricane Misses CarolinaVirginia Coast.

STORM MISSES COAST STATES   Hurricane Heading Out To Sea After Threatening Eastern Area

SHOCK FELT AS FAR INLAND AS CHICAGO   No Extensive Damage or Casualties Reported, However

Japs May Renew Effort to Break Through Trap   First Effort of 45,000 Encircled Enemy Troops Ended in Bloody Defeat -

Japs Repelled In Bitter Drive   FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES ON NEW GUINEA FRONT

Japs in New Guines Open Bid to Escape Yank Trap  Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses in First Stages of Battle

 Prelihdnary ‘Attack Near Aitape Checked _ In Bloody Fighting With Heavy Losses On Both Sides; Large-Scale Bat.  tle Near.

JAPS TRY TO BREAK TRAP   Ist Efforts Fail But New Attack Is Expected

Heavy Loss Reported in New Guinea   Action ' Is"; Mounting’. and Heavier Jap Assaults . Are Expected *- :   AMERICAN VETS "HOLDING LINE   Many “Enemy. Troops Are -Slain-But Our Losses May ‘Be Considerable

New Guinea Jap Attack Is Smashed   Allies Pour 53 Tons of Ammunition on Trapped Army

Trapped Japanese Mass for Battle  Vanquard of Big New Guinea Force   Vanguard of Big New Guinea Force Smashed Back in Preliminary Drive

Belgian Capital Aiso Liberated in Wide Advance   BATTLE 1S OPENED. FOR NETHERLANDS   Unconfirmed Reports Say U. S: Soldiers Break “Into Reich

British Arrest Consul as Spy   Argentine Regime Admits Aelion “Canmramixine®

Argentine Consul Is Nabbed As Spy  British Make "Pinch" Ir  Trinidad

Consul for Argentine Arrested by British ‘As Suspect in Spy Case

CALL FOR LEAGUE AT END OF WAR   BRITISH COMMONWEALTH LEADERS BACK PLAN TO PREVENT AGGRESSION.

Hl Says Soviet Did Not Consult With U.S. Before Recognizing Italian Government of Badoglio

DOUBT TRUTH OF JAPANESE STORY   War Officials Believe Execution Report Propaganda

Congress Off To Slow Start: Big Job Ahead   Major Problems To Be Brought Up Next Year; War-Powers  Act To Be Extended

Extension of Wartime Powers of President, And Crop Insurance Are to Be Considered

CONGRESSMEN MEET TO STUDY ODDS AND ENDS   Thumb-Twiddling Start Made; Major Issues To Await Until January

—CONGRESS—  QUIET GATHERING OF LEGISLATORS   Congress Gets Under Way With Thumb-Twiddling Sescjnns   LITFLE RYUSINESs   Senate Takes Care OF Routine, Then Plans Another Recess

Freeze Urged On Payroll Tax   Sen. Vandenberg Offers Bill as Congress _ Reassembles for Year's Final Session; Poor Attendance, Holiday Mood Prevail

Session Is Resumed By Congress   Only 100 Members Of  House Are On Hand _ For First Meeting Since  Election

CONGRESS IS IN SESSION AGAIN   But There’s No Work Set Fo Few Days — Vandenberg Offers Bill

Slow Start For Congress   Democratic Leaders And President Meet To Discuss Program

Congress To Take It Kasy  For Few Days   Consoling Election Losers, Congratulating Winners Kept People Busy.   100 PERCENT IN HOUSE

CONGRESS CONVENED TUESDAY IN FINAL SIX WEEKS SESSION  _, SENATOR VANDENBERG OFFERS BILL TO FREEZE SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES

Congress Back At Desks for Six More Weeks   Bill to Freeze Social Security, Taxes Introduced

 Congress Reconvenes But ~ Won't Consider Business  _ Agenda For Several Days

FINAL SESSION IS STARTED BY 18TH CONGRESS   Neither House Nor Senate Tackling Heavy Legislation This Week

FINAL SESSION—  Pace Of Congress To Be Slow   SOLONS CONVENE, BUT WILL WAIT A FEW DAYS BEFORT STARTING WORK

Congress Meets But Will Loaf Out the Week    ABIll to Freeze Social Security Tax For Another Year Seeks Early Action.

CONGRESS OFF TO SLOW START   NO WEIGHTY BILLS SLATED IN EITHER HOUSE THIS WEEK

Congress Nof In Any Hurry   Nothing Specific Planned For Few Days, Rayburn Outlines Immediate Legislation

78th Congress Convenes For Final Session   Dilly-Dallying Solons Delay Getting Down To Actual Work.

Congress Opens, Will Mark Time   ‘Leaders Look +o Future Rather Than Present; Next Meeting Important   THREE BILLS DUE ' TO PASS SOON    a  Extension of President’s  War Time Powers First On List Now

Congress Meets To Study Taxes, SecurityProgran   U. S. Crop Insurance Revival Policy, Expenditure Topics 

CONGRESS alla AND: TWIDDLES   Demo High Command to Talk With President About Legislation.   'NO PROGRAMS PREPARED

Sioux County Tornadoes Devastate  Over Fifty Farms In Wide Area   Many Homesteads Entirely Swept Away And Stock Killed

Gain Artillery Control Of Last Escape Route   Allied Pilots Slaughter Columns Rushing To Help Main Nazi Force; Americans Mopping Up Remnants On Cherbourg Peninsula.

British On High Ground Over Caen Escape Route   Allied Pilots Take Heavy Toll Of  Nazi Columns

British Seize Heights, Gain Artillery. Control Over All Escape Roads; Fliers  Slaughter German Reinforcements * _

a ee, ee ee Ta ae  Willkie Reads With  Interest Reaction [To His ‘Watk Out’

Lull In Russian Battle Continues   Black Sea Fleet Sinks 11 More Enemy Ships

RUSSIANS MAKE READY FOR LARGE SCALE BATTLE   3,000: - Ton Transport ‘and 2 Barges Are Sunk in Black Sea

German: Guns Were Pointed For Attack by 2ca~—   Americans Pulled A Singapore Al Cherbourg

Allies Regain Initiative on Rome Beachhead   Toehold Was ‘Never More Secure’ as Nazis Lose Ground

Allies Regain Initiative After Repulsing Nazi Assaults On Beachhead

DeGaulle Escapes Assassins’ Bullets   Two Attempts to Kill French Chief Reported

De Gaulle Barely Misses Death  Shot At In Victory   Shot At In Victory Parade; Paris Greets Eisenhower.

De Gaulle Barely Misses Death   Shot At In Victory Parade; Paris Greets Eisenhower.

Red Cross Total Rises   Three-Fourths of Way To Goal; Workers Urged To Complete Their Canvass

8th Army Troops Enter Florence  Advance as Far as   Advance as Far as the Arno River

Franco Feels  Allied Squeeze   Envoys lo Berlin, Loudon Called to Madrid

Diplomats Await Spanish Decision   Oil Suspension Brought Home To Spain Fact That American Means Business.

SPAIN FOREMOST AFTER EDEN AGT   British Secretary Fails to Appear In Commons; Rin -> + Ely

lAdmission Of Defeat   Germans Say New Retreat Necessary to Save Lines

Spratt   14 Barges, Four Jetties Destroyed in Allied “Bombardment of”  Harber Area

RABAUL AGAIN HIT BY ALLIED FLIERS   Explosives Rained on Japanese Base in New Britain —.

PLANES HIT ENEMY BASE AT RABAUL   More Than 200 Ships Join In Hammering Enemy Strongpoint; 14 Barges,   Yanks Advance 15 Miles

14 Jap Barges Hit as Allies: Blast Rabaul   Allied Raiders Draw No Air Interception For Seventh Time -

RAIDERS FLATTEN: RABAUL BUILDINGS   TWO HUNDRED PLANES BLAST JAP BASE—14 BARGES . SUNK OR DAMAGED..

OVER 200 YANK PLANES BLAST RABAUIL AGAIN   No Aerial Interception  Offered by Japs at [ Island Base

HOLD AIR DOOR OPEN FOR RUSSIA   U, S, PUSHES FOR SOVIET ENTRY INTO WORLD-AIR AGREEMENT

United States Holding Door Open For Russia Into Aviation Parleys

Many Jap Planes  Downed at Rabaul  At Least 129 Enemy  Fighters Destroyed

Yankees Down at Least 125 Japs  Scores Are Made in Last Eicht Dave

Four Other Enemy Atolls in Marshalls Also Blasted by Navy, Marine Fliers   300 Japs Killed in Boucainville Attack

ALLIED TROOPS DRIVE TOWARD MYITKYINA FROM TWO POINTS   YANKS WIPE OUT BOUGAINVILLE ASSAULT AS HEAVY BOMBERS STRIKE KURILE ISLES

JS. Marines  Grab Emirau Island Is 600 Miles From ~ »   Island is 600 Mites From — Once-Vaunted Base At Truk

Marines Seize Jap Island in New Threat to Truk  U. S. Battleships   Pound Strategic ma ~ 2. sss

U.S. Marines Grab Emirau   Island Is 600 Miles From Once-Vaunted Base At Truk

Isolate Japs In Bismarck Archipelago   Marines Take One Emirau Island; Ships Blast Kavieng

Bulgarian Troops. Said Revolting —   Swedish Subject Reports Sofia Nazi Administrative Center

REVOLT REPORTED AMONG TROOPS IN BULGARIA   Travelers Report Disturbing Conditions in Bulgaria Following Soviet Ultimatum

Soviets Hear Bulgars Are Restive   Travelers Report Army Units To Be in Revolt

Uhnrcnil Back In London, Fully Recovered  Roar of Cheers Acclaims Famous Briton

Churchill Back In London After  Pneumonia Siege   Wildly-Cheering House Greets Prime Minister  On Return To England

British Chief Home Again   Churchill Reecives Ovation in Commons

CHURCHILL IN ENGLAND AFTER RECENT ILLNESS   Appears Completely Recovered  From His Attack Of  Pneumonia

Prime Minister Back in London   --House-ofCommeone~ Cheers Churchill

COMMONS GREET CHURCHILL WITH WILD CHEERS   Promises Report on War’s Progress in Near Future

Heavy Bomber: From Ttaly  Pound Vienna   Raids, Follow: Smashes _ Over Week-End on Reich.  Industrv.: Transportation

15th Air Force Bombers Blast Vienna Targets  British Based RAF and U.S. Planes Grounded pm.. B&B...) ta). 2b.

Italy-Based 15th Air Force Hits at Reich Industries ° And Transport

Continuing Weekend Scourging of German Industries and T rans  nayte   On Siegfried Line

17 Village: Taken In Advance   Canadiens Battle For Air Field Near Caen

American First Army Within One Mile Of La Haye Du Puits, Nazi Line Anchor In Normandy  BULLETIN .  With U. S. Forces, July 5 —()—Amere«. ican troops entered La Haye Du Puits today,

PROGRESS NOT EASY AGAINST GERMAN TROOPS   Fierce Battles Reported Near Caen Sector

Inauguration Shifted to White House      President Believes Transfer Will Effect Big Saving

Nazi Defeat Near, Stalin Predicts   Roosevelt Receives  Reply From Marshal

Americas Split Over Argentina      Uruguay And Paraguay May Extend Recognition

496 ITALIANS DIE OF ASPHYXIATION   Smothered as Train Is Stalled In Tunnel

Heavies Batter Three Cities In Western Reich  Up To 1,000 Yankes Planes Strike Nazis, Karlsruhe Target O

xk *& *& * Raiders Rake Rahr & Rhineland   Rescued Fliers — Won’t Forget Scripture

RUHR AND RHINE VALLEY OBJECTIVES HAMMERED SATURDA}  STRONG FORCE OF BRITTSH HEAVIES JOINS WITH lL § ROMRERS

Bombers Continue Heavy Pounding Of Nazi Targets  Big British Planes Join in Daytime Assaults on Reich

RUHR, RHINE VALLEYS HIT BY BOMBERS   German Concentrations of Several Varievies Hammered by Large Allied Air Fleets.

Ruhr and Rhine Rail Centers and Depots Strafed   Allied Air Attack Continue:  Despite Bad Weather—Nazi  Send Many Fighiers Aloft

'PHONE GIRLS GALL STRIKE   UNEXPECTED WALKOUT AT DAYTON IN DISPUTE OVER PAY RECEIVED BY OUTGOF-TOWN OPERATORS

Hold Out On  Argentine Aid   Escobar En Route Ts  ‘Conference With Hull

RED CROSS BLOOD BANK COMING SOON   Registration for Donors in Lawrence to Start Monday   TO NEED 504 DONORS

RED CROSS BLOOD BANK COMING SOON   Fegistration for Donors in Lawrence to Start  Monday

Two In Balkans Seek Way Out   Bulgaria Aud Romania Reported Seeking Peace Terms With Alhes.

 Hundreds of Fires Left Burning After Another Super Raid on Japs

Many British  Die In Camps _ At Jap Hands   Health of Others Deterior ating, House of Commons Told by Foreign  . Secretary Eden   Thousands Dead: Many Seriously Tl   Three Who Tried to Es  cape Are Beaten and Then Shot, But Not — ” Killed Outright

Eden Warns Japs On Atrocities  “Britain Will Not Forget Misdeeds”

ANTHONY EDEN TOLD  HOUSE OF COMMONS  OF JAP ATROCITIES GREAT BRITAIN ALSO  FILES INDICTMENT AGAINST BESTIAL ENEMY

Eden Tells Of Atrocities   Thousands of British Soldiers Have Died As Jap Prisoners

BRITISH DIE AT HANDS OF      Eden Tells Commons Thousands of Soldiers Perish for Lack of Adequate Food, Clothing. Shelter, Medicine.

Eden Charges  Atrocities   Declares Britain Won’t Forget Inhuman Treat- — ment By Japanese.

Eden Discloses Jap Barbarism Against British   Many “Thousands” Die In Stockades, Commons Informed

Thousands of British Died  As Prisoners   Secretary Eden Reveals Treatment of Soldiers Captured by Japanese

Britain Won't Forget Japs’ Cruelty—Eden      London Leader Reveals Many Captive Tommies Died of Atrocities

Kden Relates To Commons Of Jap Atrocities   Warns Japanese That Britain Will Not Forget Japans Misdeeds.

Britain Not To Forget   Eden Warns Japan Misdeeds Will Be Brought to Account

Eden Tells House British Died, too, Of Jap Torture   Secretary. Warns Britain Will Repay Japs. for Atrocities

Eden’s Statement Adds To Atrocities Committed By Japs   Thousands Of British Troops Starved, Beaten, Bayonetted In Back: Enemy To Be Made To Pa

BRITAIN WONT FORGET EDEN BARES JAP ACTS   Thousands Perish in Jungle Camps While Tokyo Reports 100 Deaths

Eden Report Is Similar To American   Britain Will Not Forget, He Tells Commons, Reporting Mistreatment of Prisoners

British Foreign Minister Declares Conditions Among British Prisoners of War in Hong Kong And Other Centers Grows Worse and Japs Re fuse to Allow Neutral Inspection of Prison Camps

Britain Will Never Forget Jap Crueity   Eden Warns Nipponnese Government— Cites Other Atrocities

Says British Prisoners  Maltreated   Eden Declares Britons Have Received Same Savage Treatment As Captured Americans

1,100 Planes Batter Base:   Yanks Bomb U-Boat: At Wilhelmshaven'

‘Americans Hit  \Wilhelmshaven   Bombers, Long-Range Attack Great German U-Boat Building Center

MORE THAN 1,100 YANK BOMBERS HT Be nui PORT      U-Boat and Ship-Build. ing Center In Flames   PROBABLY NEXT TO THE LARGEST RAID

1, 100 U.S. Planes Make Attack On  German Port   Wilhelmshaven Target For Concentrated Assault By Bombers And Fichters

German U-Boat And Shipbuilding Center Plastered  1100 American Planes In Big Wilhelmshaven Raid

1100 Planes Hit Wilhelmshaven  —EBoat Target   Sixth American Operation In Seven Days Reported Made In Clear Weather

1,100 BOMBERS BLAST NAZI PORT   Wilhelmshaven Shattered ir Daylight Assault

GERMAN PORT CITY BLASTED   1,100 American Bombers Plaster Wilhelmshaven

Yanks Bomb ~ Wilhelmshaven   Flight Represented A 700  Mile Trip; Target Is One of Germanys Main Po:'s.

1100 Yank Planes Over Nazi Harbor   Great Air Fleet Attacks Wilhelmshavyen

BLAST GERMAN U-BOAT CENTER   1,100 Yank War Planes In Pulverizing Attack On Wilhelmshaven

U.S. BOMBERS STRIKE TARGETS   1,100 American Planes iy Heavy Attack on Wilhelmshaven

Yankee Bombers Blast Germany  More Than 1,100 Pound Wilhelmshaven

Huge American Bombers Blast  Wilhelmshaven   More Than 1,100 U.S. Planes Take Part in Attack On German Shipbuilding Center

Yankee Bombers Make Raid Upon Wilhelmshaven  British Blast Wectern Raich

OFFICERS SEE EARLY VICTORY   Believe Nazis Will Quit Before Paris Is Reached

Allied Officers in Normandy Think War to End Before Armies in Paris

Hepcats Moan “B. G. Blues;” Benny’s Gone   Goodman Swing Ends as Leader Surrenders: to Draft Depletions.

Severe Cold Due Tonight   Snow and Freezing Rain Blanket State; Some Rivers Are Out

(Clipped from Stanton Reporter) Sheriff Of County Three Terms And Pioneer Hotel Man

FOURTH ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Allied And German Forces Reported Jockeying For New Positions

Senate Rejects Seaway Project QverF R Plea   Votes for Postwar Program, Also Passes ‘Missouri Basin Bill

Senate Approves  Snake River Canal   $58,625,000 Voted For Postwar Project

TELLS. OF CARRIER ~ STRIKE ON ISLANDS   Navy Dep’t Official Ex plains Amazing — Success 

City Schools Presented Stunt Night Last Week   A Large Crowd Attended The Program

Athens High School’s Annual Stunt Night Proves. Popular With Room-Filling Audience

JAPANESE DRIVE "NEARER LOYANG   Nips Advance to Within 35 Miles of Chinese City

JAPS-INTENSIFY DRIVE FOR LOYANG IN CHINA   Attack Less Than 35 Miles From Six-Time Capital

TODAY ON THE  Why ie von bs   LONDON, Aug. 17—(?) — The German broadcast tonight said fighting had reached St. Arnoult, 23 miles from the Paris ci‘y limits.

Jap vessels  engaged in. Philippines  Foe vadio says  liweeln *e Wists

PHILIPPINE   Battleships and Cruisers Pounced Upon as They Move Toward Scene of U. S. Invasion.   SIGHTED IN SULU "~*~ AND SIBUYAN SEAS   Details of Onslaught Not Yet Available — Foe’s Armada Apparently . in Two Groups. ;

U. S. Planes Strike Enemg Battleships In Two Regions   Tank Column Crosses Strait From Leyte To Establish Beachhead on Samar Island; Japanese Counterattack in Tacloban Area

LABOR DRAFT. ~ SPLIT IN CIC   UNITS IN ORGANIZATION NOT -UNANIMOUS IN. OPPOSITION TO NATIONAL SERVICE  . -  +« LEGISLATION

ClO DIVIDED ON LABOR MEASURE   Three Unions Support Bill: AFL Voices Opposition

RUSS TERMS. REJECTED BY FINNS   Will Continue To Negotiate for Peace, However

Finns Formally Reject Armistice   Promise To Continue  Efforts For Peace

Germans Claim Allies Massing Forces In Italy   Predict Preparations For Invasion Assault

GENOA AND OTHER CITIES AND RAIL TARGETS WRECKED; HEAVY TROOP MOVEMENTS REPORTED   Pattern of Air Force Operations Over Northern And Central Italy Supports Te Theory That New Offensive There Will Be ed with Invas sam im Wl aet

ram  Leverkusen   Hit Chemical Center; Also Rail Yards in France; Activity in Italy

Nazis Fear Southern Assault To Strike With West Invasion   Americans Rehit Rocket Coast; Declare Rails in France, Belgium Made Useless in German Defense Plan

Germans (Guess Recent Move Is Getting Ready   80,460 Tons Bombs Hurled On Nazis In April; ‘Climax’ Hinted Near

Allied Bombers Batter — Northern Italy On Eve  Of European Invasior

Air Havoc On Nazi Rail Lines   Invasion Coast System No Longer Capable of Carrying Peak Load, Says British Official

HEAVY BOMBERS POUND INVASION DEFENSES ANEW   Rails of Northern France, Belgium Crippled by Large Aerial Forces

Report Large T roop Action In South Italy   Allied Air Foree Operations Support (Cuess—Russian Bombers Hit Lwow   Bulletin

Johns, Pioneer Arizona Public  Servant, Dies      Held Many Political, Civic Offices During His 62 Years In State

SOVIETS SMASH INTO WARSAW   Span Vistula River After Taking Praga, Head  For Reich

Over the Vistula  To Enter Warsaw   Bridges Kept. Intact for Use by Russian and Poli Troops ——   ROKOSSOVSKY DIRECTS   Soviet Force in Warka Region Threatens to Outflank Capital City

SOVIETS STORM INTO WARSAW   New Red Offensive Opens On Northern Front

Russian Troops Drive Into Warsaw  « Reds Launch Tremendous Attack Against Nazi-Held Polish Capital

Russians Believed In Warsaw Proper.  Germany Reports Red   Germany Reports Red 40-Division Offensive Possibly in Finland

Reds Believed — Driving Into Heart Of Warsaw   Smash Across Vistula From Captured Praga In All-Out Offensive Aimed At Reaching Germany.

BARRIERS ON THE VISTULA FOUND INTACT   Climactic Battle for Besieged Capital Believed Rapidly Drawing To  a Clace   SUBURBS EVACUATED

Reds Believed To Be Inside Warsaw Limits   Russian and Polish Troops Are Thought to Be Fighting in Capital; New Assult Reported

RUSSIAN AND POLISH TROOPS BELIEVED STORMING INTO CITY PROPER ACROSS VISTULA RIVER

Russians Believed Storming Into Warsaw Across Vistula River From Captured Praga   Germans Report Another Great Red Offensive In North Sector Of Front

Battle Raging Inside Warsaw   Russians And Poles Are Storming City

RUSSIAN AND POLISH TROOPS BELIEVED BE MOVING INTO WARSAW  RED ARMY FORCES CONTINUE SUCCESSES SOUTH ERN END OF FRONT

Pole Troops Aid Soviets  In Advance On Capital”   Industrial Suburb ‘Of: Praga Captured

TROOPS MOVING INTO WARSAW?      ‘Believed to Be Storming in Across Broad Vistula From Praga.

Russ, Polish Units Storm  Into Warsaw   Believed to Have Crossed Vistula From Suburb Of Praga  

Red, Polish Troops Are In Warsaw   Correspondent Says Four Vistula Bridges Into City Still Standing; River Crossed Below Polish Capital

Russians, Poles Storm Warsaw: Launch Drive   Believe Offensive Is Opened In Finland As Deadline Arrives

Reds Take Praga, Gate Into Warsaw   Germans Report New Offensive fo North, Reds Thrust Across Rarew Toward Eas? Prossia

THINK REDS ARE PUSHING INTO WARSAW   Front Dispatches Report Four Bridges Leading Into the Polish Capita! Still Standing Across the Vistula.

REDS BELIEVED STORMING INTC WARSAW TODA\   Four Bridges Remain Across Vistula Over Which Russians Aim to Go Into City

Red Armies in Assault On Warsaw      Big Gins Are Barking Fro. eraga as Big Assault Continues   ANOTHER BLOW IN NORTHERN ARES      Nazis Tell. of Offensive Which May Be in Baltic Near Riga

Russian and Polish Forces Believed To Be Fighting Way Into Warsaw

“Russians In Warsav Proper”   Believed Storming Across Vistula from Captured Praga; Berlin Say New Drive Started

Russians. Peles Said Storming Into Warsay   Red Batteries Warned Not To Demolish 4 Intact ~—-Byridees~Across Vistula:

NEW OFFENSIVE ON GERMANS IN FINLANDTOLD   Polish Capital Described By Soviet Correspondent; Bridges Stand

Soviets, Poles Storm at Warsaw Gate   Troopers Advance After Capture Of Praga Suburb

REDS AND POLES CAPTURE PRAGA STORM WARSAW  OTHER RUSS UNITS apace wierTill A ii

Russians Believed Storming Into Warsaw Today   Finnish-German Clash Reported by Helsinki Bulletin

RUSSIAN AND POLISH ARMIES STORM WARSAW   Yugoslav Forces Join Troops Of Reds Today

Russians, Poles Believed Driving Across Vistula Into Warsaw Proper Today

‘Reds Believed To Be Storming City Warsaw   Meanwhile, Germany Reports Yet Another Great Russian Offensive, Possibly In Finland

Russ Drive  On Warsaw   Advance From Capture Praga; Strive to Cross River Barrier

WARSAW FALL NEAR AS RUSS CROSS VISTULA   Troops Believed Entering Polish Capital As Second Force Closes From South

Russians and Polish Troops  Enter Warsaw   Another Russian Offensive May be On in Finland

Reds Open Grim Battle For Warsaw   Storming of Polish Capital Believed To Be Under Way;  Prooreace in South

‘12 Allied Gliders, 12 Transports ‘Missing As Resistance Increases All Along Cherbourg - Seine Sector

NO SPECIFIC WORD © FIXING EXTENT OF ALLIES SUCCESSES   2 German Armies Headed By Rommel! Racing To Invasion Front _ Counter-Attack—Airborne Troops Land Constantly.   ALLIES KEEPING SECRET _ WITH INVASION DETAILS

Continuous Waves of Air-Borne Infantry Being Landed Hourly   Allied Troops Pushing Inland: Despite Clear Evidence of Increasing Enemy Action. -

Fail to Attach ~ Price and Grade Tags on Meats   Chief Problem Shown by OPA Survey

Five Girls Drown In Susquehanna   Sixth One Oheyed Mother’s Injunction “Not to Play In the Water’

Jap Fleet Loses Twenty More Ship:   United States Submarines Account for Sinking Of 589 Japanese Vessels Since Pearl Harbor

TWENTY MORE VESSELS SUNK BY AMERICANS   JAPANESE FLEET BATTERED; BIAK PUSH RESUMED

20 More Jap Ships Sunk by Subs, Planes   Six Transports, 10 Cargv Boats in Bag: Changsha Threatened

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Germany and Hitler Fight to Thwart Hungarian Truce

LIVESTOCK DEALER HURT IN ACCIDENT   Auto Driven by Scott De neen Hits Rail Locomotive

Re PETEIRERS  UAW Asks British Kease Interfering in Greek Affairs

Bricker Urges Outlying Bases  Failure To Fortify Islands Laid to FD

Strong Bases Declared Need By Gov. Bricker   Blames Roosevelt For U.S. Failure To Fortify Guam

BRICKER URGES MAINTENANCE OF OUTLYING BASES   Advocates America Build Up Strong System of Military Outposts—Says Failiire to Fortify Guam Fault of F. rh. rR.

BLAMES FOR FOR FAILURE AT GUAN   Bricker Says Island’s Fortification Not In President’s Program

Handicaps Of Wartime Make Better Newspapers, Ohio Association Told

HITLER TALKS GLOOMILY ON ANNIVERSARY  Starts 12th Year Of Power Facing

HITLER WARNS ON DEFEAT   SAYS RUSSIANS THREAT TO EUROPE CIVILIZATION

Culture Lost If Soviet Wins Hitler Wails   Bombs Rock Berlin as 12th Anniversary Speech Harps on Defeat - . -

Hitler’s Tune Changed on Anniversary   Old-Time Thunder Is Missing in Speech to German People

Claims German Victory Will  Save Europe   -Rations Sold Souls To Juadism, Face Total  Bolshevism, Says Fuehrer

GLOOMY HITLER SEES BUT ONE VICTOR IN WAR   Russia Or Germany He Says In Talk On Anniversary

HITLER GLOOMY ON ANNIVERSARY OF NAZI REGIME   Offers Battered People No More Hope Than Crash of Berlin Bambino.

Hitler Begins 12th Year In Power After Gloomy Anniversary Speech

HITLER WARNS DEFEAT MEANS EXTERMINATION   Starts 12th Year In Power Address Filled With Gloom

Gloomy Talk Delivered By Adolf Hitler   Fear Of Russians Again Evident As Hitler Speaks On Anniversary Of Nazi Regime

Gloom Marks Hitler ‘Birthday’   Germany or Russia to Win, Reich Told

DELEGATES 10 Bt SELECTED TODAY   Fourth Term Sentiment to Get Ballot Test in Massachusetts; Vote in Pennsylvania Expected to Be Light

WOUNDED GIVEN BLOOD PLASMA   FDR Denies ‘Vicious Rumor That Fighting Men Required To Pay

Blood Plasma Sale‘  Branded As A ‘Lie’   Roosevelt Says Rumor I: Unqualified Falsehood

FDR DENOUNCES “VICIOUS RUMOR’   Says Blood Plasma Story “Unqualified Falsehood’

U. §. SEIZES 8 BITUMINOUS COAL MINES   Properties Will Be Taken Over As Fast As Strikes Develop

Government Seizes More ~ Coal Mines   Takes. Possession o Eight More Pits as Strike Continues Ta Snrand

U.S. To Seize All Mines As Struck   SECRETARY ICKES EXPECTS 7 MORE MINES TO STRIKE AND BE TAKEN OVER BY GOVERNMENT   McAlpine Gets Cold Sholder

Pits Will Continue To Be Seized So Long As Strike Continues   SUPERVISORY UNION SEEKS RECOGNITION

WORK LAG NOW PROLONGS WAR   More Intense Fighting Duc Before Nazis Crushed Says Churchill

HARD FIGHTING NOT YET OVER, COMMONS TOLD   y Huns Hope To Wear Down Resolution Or Cause Split Of Allies   » ALL-OUT EFFORT URGED   Prime Minister Hopes For Three Power Parley Before End Of Year

BATTLE FLARES IN PO VALLEY   German Resistance Grows Fanatical Before Bologna

NAZIS MAKING DESPERATE STAND. (IN, EFFORT ‘TO FRE: a VENT CAPTURE. OF:  ® : BOLOGNA.

No Nazi Fighters Show Un   Heavy Overcast Keeps German Planes Grounded

BLAZING CITY RIPPED BY DAY; DEFENSE WEAK   Fourth Attack By Heavy Planes In Last Six Days

RUMOR KING HAS LEFT BUCHAREST   Michael May Fly to London  tA Baal Paara

Japs on Offensive In China, Burma And India Fronts  In Pacific, Allies Keep Up Attacks On Island Bases

Japan’s Asiatic Armies Now On Offensive in China, Burma And India; Repulsed at Loyang

Allies Retain Punch In Pacific, However   Campaigns. in China, India, Western -Burma Paced By Enemy; Raiders Blast Timor

WARD CASE NEAR SHOWDOWN WITH ELECTION TUES.   Gov't Seeks Injunc tion to Keep Firm . Officials From In- ;  terfering

TO AoK FR 10 MODIFY RULES   Some Senators Do Not Want Tightening of Draft Deferments.   COMPROMISE VOTE BILL

Today in  Washington   A Roundup of Developments From _ the Nation’s Capital

REDS CAPTURE KLESOM, OPEN POWER DRIVE   Preak Through Nazi Line: ! Along 62-Mile Front

Counter-Drives West Of St.Jean Are Beaten Off   British And Canadian Lines Pushed Back At Caen; Village Lost By Allies

Furious Indignation Sweeps Nation as Result of Official Revelation of Brutality

AMERICAN HATE  FOR JAPS IS MOUNTING   Wave of Furious Indignation Sweeping Nation

JAPANESE STIR NEW WAVE OF ANGER IN U, S.   Demand Grows In Congress For Harsh Peace Terms To Emperor   MAY “OUTLAW” NATION   Latest Revelations On Prisoner Treatment Brings Out Blasts

Mounting Wave Of Indignation Is Sweeping Natior   Revelation Of Japanese Tor ture Of American Prisoners Arouses Nation   DEMAND SPEEDING OF WAR UPON JAPS

ATROCITIES BY JAPANESE ~ RILE NATION   Wave of Indignation Sweeps U. S.   MURDER YANKS   Say Nazis Use Same Torture Methods

Mounting Wave of Furious Indignation Sweeps Nation Over Japanese Brutality

Quick Stab. Brings Fall Of FortNeat   Baltic Army Clainps Siege on Rail Hub: At Latvia Approach

Imperil German ‘Capital” of Ukraine: Nazis Counter-Attacking Bitterlv in Southeastern Area.

Reds Breach Defenses of Rovno, Clamp Seige Arc on Rail Junction Near Latvia

RED ARMIES PIERCE OUTER ROVNO DEFENSE   Nazi-Held Center Seer Giving Way; Battle Near Climax

Temperatures   Russians Wedge Forces Around  Key Ukraine City   Latvia Freedom Predicted; Soviets Gain in Baltic; Yanks Cross Italian River

PREMIER LATSIS TELLS PARTISANS RIGA WILL FALL   Moscow Broadcasts That Various “Fighting Sectors Are Linking into Vast . Battlefield.   FALL OF ROXNO WILL RE VERY HARD BLOW   British Inform Soviets That No Discussions Are Under Way For Separtee German Peace.

ROVNO'S LOSS WOULD FORCE LONG RETREAT   Russians Close On -Rail Junction In Baltie Offensive

Siege Arc Placed On Novosokolnik: East of Latvia   Surprise Red Assault Cracks Defenses of Administrative Center

RUSSIANS WIN SAARE ISLAND   Berlin Admits Retreat in _ Eastern Slovakia West Of Ungvar

Berlin Tells of Rec  Gains in Latvia   Soviets Overwhelm Nazis on Saare Island

LAST GERMANS OVERWHELMED ON SAARE IS.   At Mouth of Riga Gulf; Berlin Announces Russian Gains in Large Latvia Offensive.   Threatens Kralejvo

JAPS NAILED MEN TO TREES, PRISONER SAYS   Captives Liberated at Hollandia Tell of  Atrocities

Sikhs, Liberated at Hollandia, Tell of ‘Japs’ Brutal Treatment of Prisoners; Chinese are Crucified in Malaya

_ Uninese Who Aided Guerilas Urucined DY tNIPS ~  New Japanese Atrocities Revealed

HOLLANDIA RAID LIBERATES: 707 WAR PRISONERS   Japs Have 1502 Dead and 290 Captured in’ Invasion

Japs Drove Nails Through Heads of Chinese Who Aided Aussie Guerrillas

FRENCH-RED PACT TERMS PUBLISHED   English Treaty With France May Complete Security Triangle

ree  ~ TERMS TOLD   RUSSIAN-FRENCH TREATY PROVIDES FOR MUTUAL AID OVER FWENTYYEAR PERIOD

Mountbatten "Opens Drive   Major Offensive In Burma Js Indicated

ALLIED TROOPS SEIZE PORT OF MAUNGDAY   May Be Preliminary To Mountbatten’s Big Offensive

SCORES NEW DEAL —-GRASP-FOR POWER      Bricker Says American: Worried Over Post War Controls

Bricker Charges That Administration Flouts. Circumvents and Twists Laws

BRICKER CHARGES LAWS TWISTED   Says New Deal Has Flouted And Disregarded Laws to Achieve its Ends; Speaks In Oklahoma

Nazi Command Says Advance Moves West   Report Drive 40 Miles Inside Belgian Border

Allies Say Main ‘Force Of Thrust Has Been Blunted   Germans Report St. Vith, Garrison Of Yanks Captured, Bridgehead Established Over Ourthe River; Eisenhower Says Offensive Will Fail

NAZI HIGH COMMAND  ANNOUNCES ADVANCE  FARTHER WESTWARD ALL ENEMY ATTEMPTS TO  HOLD GERMAN ATTACKS DECLARED FAILURE

GERMANS CLAIM DRIVE SUCCEEDS   Boast “All Enemy Attempts To Hold Attacks In Betgium Were Smashed Yesterday.

‘Germany Says  Drive Unchecked   Claim 40-Mile Penetration of Belgium  After Smashing “All Efforts to Hold Drive’

Ourthe River Crossed, Says Berlin Story   St. Vith Won, Enemy Reports; Say Yanks Drawing Off 3rd Army To Raolcter Pacitinn

f{ACKENZIE SAYS—   Reich Cities lo Face Fate Ff Aachen   litler May Turn Famed Towns Into Forts When Siegfried Line Is Cracked Open

WAR. TODAY   Hitler Faces Problem  Of Whether. Indus‘trial Cities Shall Be  Wiped Off Map Or  Declared To Be  ab en??

FALL OF AACHEN ‘S$ SIEGFRIED LINE ANCHOR POSES QUESTION AS TO FATE OTHER NAZI CITIES

CRACKING OF SIEGFRIED LINE POSES PROBLEM OF DECLARING IHISTORIC CENTERS OPEN CITIES

ROBOTS SHOWERED ON-ENGEAND-ARAIN   DEATHS AND DESTRUCTION FOLLOW TWO STRAIGHT NIGHTS OF RESPITE.

Solon Protests Rubber Program   Disapproves of Plan To Join Other Nations

Repatriates Bring Tales Of Sorrow   Gripsholm Passengers Relate Bitter Stories Of Horror and Privation.

 Tales Of Starvation, Privation, Hope Of Allied ‘Invasion Brought Back By Gripsholm Passengers

BARE TERROR OF NAZI CAMPS   Repatriates Tell of Starvation, Inquisition and Privation

BITTER STORIES OF STARVATION INNAZIEUROPE   Refugees On Gripsholm Hope Day Of Avenging  Invasion Is Near

 ‘Big-Dog’ Rule of World Opposed  ‘Dewey Urges Postwar Voice for All Nations

DEWEY STRIKING AT PRESIDENTS PEACE PROPOSALS   Brownell Claims That Negroes Have Legitimate Right to Vote

i Tho OF DEWEY’S BLAS)   Committed to Small Nation Participation In eace Plans

Peace Parley To Include Small Nations   Dewey Commits GOP On Post-War Issue

DEWEY COMMITS GOP TO PEACE TABLE POLICY   Says Small Nations Should Be Allowed To Join _ In Discussion

Dewey Commits GOP Party To Small Nation ‘ Particivation In Peace Decisions After War

Car Owners Must Apply Now for Now “A” Books   Should Have Application In at Ration Board Before September 15th

CAR OWNERS MUST APPLY FOR NEW BASIC “A” BOOK   Should Have Application In  . Ration Board Office at Once; Dead Line Set For September 15th,

Gun Salute Is Prepared For De Gaulle   Full Milita ‘y Honors to Be Accorded French Gen eral ai Capital

Capital Ready For De Gaulle   French Leader Expected To Arrive In Washington Late  Today.

PLAN SALUTE FOR DEGAULLE   French Leader to Arrive in Washington Today

ALUTE PREPARED FOR GEN, DE GAULLE   French Leader Expected to Arrive at Capital Late Today.

DE GAULLE BE GIVEN SALUTE OF SEVENTEEN GUNS, WASHINGTON  FRENCH LEADER TO HOLL  CONFERENCES WITH

De Gaulle Gets 17-Gun Salute   To Be Accorded Full Military Honors Upon Arrival in Washington

CAPITAL AWAITS ARRIVAL OF DE GAULLE TODAY   French Leader To Get 17-Gun Salute; Two Meetings With FDR

POPES VILLA USED AS REFUCE      "Whale ‘Towns Sought ; Protection as Fighting Ee3zan at Anzio

Pu) VILLA USED AS REFUGE   Whole Towns Sought » Protection as Fighting Pesan at Anzio

F reighter Sunk ia St. Lawrence;  45 Are Missing  i   Say Submarine May Have Again Penetrated The River Mouth; 17 Saved

British Ship Sinks, 45 Mer Are Missing   Nazi Subs In St. Lawrence

2 U-Boat In St. Lawrence? 45 Merchant Seamen Are Lost In Sinking

17 BELIEVED DEAD AFTER SHIP BLAST   One Dies Of Burns, 16 Others Missing In Sea Explosion

Navy Probes Blast, Blaze On Lighter   17 Sailors Die  Near Boston

BLAST ABOARD SHIP KILLED 17, IS FEAR   Naval Inquiry Is Started by Court in Boston

Explosion Kills 17 Sailors In  Boston Harbor ..Navy Lighter Blows Up

Fear 17 Sailors Die In Explosion   Naval Court of Inquiry Begins Investigation of Tragedy Aboard Lighter About 14 Miles Northeast of Boston Harbor Thursday Afternoon,   13 SURVIVORS LISTED

Engineers Agree on Phases of River Program Major Decisions Are  Left for  Oanerac tn MAaban

Engineers Agree on Phases of River Program  Major Decisions Are   Major Decisions Are Left for Congress to Make

‘Killer’ Fringes Carolina   Center of Storm Moving Northward Due in Tonight

NEW YORK GALES DUE, 1S REPORT   Most Dangerous Storm In Recent Years Roaring North

\North Carolina Coast Is. Ripped By 50-ft Waves, Terrific Winds; . New England Gets Warning —

DEADLOCK IN ~~ RENGH SPLIT   EFFORTS BEING MADE TC ‘HAVE DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD.REACH AN  ’ ACREPEMENT .

FBI Joins in Probe of Explosion That Caused Near Panic in New Hampshire

EASTERN BLAST PROBED BY FB   Dynamite In Warehouse Explodes, Creating panic In Area

WINGED NAZI BOMBS RAINED ON ENGLAND   Robots Fall on London and Southern Part of Country in Almost Unbroken Stream.

Soviets Capture Big Danube Port   Valcov Falls To Swift-Moving Red Army’s Mighty Offensive Aimed At Bucharest

Large Area Is Cleared Of Germans   Valcov And Ismail Fall To Russians; Galati Gap Neared

RUSS SEIZE DANUBE PORT OF VALCOV  Reds Also C apture   Reds Also Capture Fortress City Of Ismail

Reds Push Routed Nazis  Near Bucharest Gateway   Swift-Conquering Russians Capture Big Danube Port in Drive; Launch New Assault to Free Warsaw

Soviets Clear Danube River For 92 Miles   Valcov Port Seized, Famed Ismail Falis In Romanian Drive

Soviets Open Mighty Drive   Red Army Within § Miles of Galati: Danube Cleared ne OF ATlee   PRAGA OUTEFLANKED   “Russ Massing for Giant Push Through Galati ; Gap Defenses

Russians Rout Germans in Romania Area   Wide Region Is Cleared in Big Offensive

Russians Nearing Bucharest   Reds Approaching Polesti Oil Fields In Crushing Drive

JAP TRANSPORT CARRYING BRITISH PRISONERS SUNK   The Sinking Occurred Novem. ber 29, Laat, 11 Wan Disclosed Today.   RECKIVE VICTIM LIST   The Hrief Statement Did Not Give the Number of Casualties.

Allied Drive In Central Italy Halted   Germans Turn on Pursuers With Counter-attacks on 160 Mile Front

NAZIS TURN TO FIGHT ON GOTHIC LINE   Allied Drives In North Italy Are Slowed or Halted

- NAZIS TURN AT GOTHIC LINE T0 - ATTACK ALLIES   Advance Of 5th And 8th Armies Slowed On Italian Front

Enemy Turn: On Pursuers;  Fights Back   Germans Lash Back, Slowing U. S., British Advance in Italy

Gothic Line Stand Made  e Tren Th Kiawhkt   Nazis Turn To Fight On Italian Front

Germans Hit Back Fiercely In Italy  Allied Fifth  And 8th Army  Advance Slowed   Enemy Trying to Blunt Spearheads At Several Points

DEWEY DEFINITELY TO COME 10 STATE   May Only Hold Conferences with GOP Leaders but Major Speech Expected

THOMAS DEWEY T0 COME TO MICHIGAN   Gov. Kelly to Leave Lans: ing for Upper Peninsula Wednesday.

Dewey Coming To Home State   GOP Nominee Decides To Visit Michiaan

DEWEY PLANS MICHIGAN TOUR      GOP Standard Bearer Will Deliver Key Speech In . State, Says Kelly

Patton Revealed Leading Speedy U.S. 3rd Army   Heads Lightning Group That Broke Beachhead,. ‘Helped Trap Nazi 7th

Gen. George Patton Revealed as Leader Of Third U. S. Army:  Wins His Promotion

REVEALED IAD ARMY LEADER   Drives Rampant Third Across Brittany, Through Le Mans And Then North; Senate Confirms Promotion

RAMPANT THIRD ARMY IS LEAD BY GEN. PATTON   Senate Confirms Patton’s Promotion To Permanent Rank Of Major  General

M.C.Grier, Veteran Court Reporter for 50 Years, to be Honored at Des Moines by Association on Sept. 30

Reject Aussie-New Zealand Plan To Internationalize Civil Aviation

Khaki Vestments   Catholic Priests Get Permission For Use As Protective Step

Nips Suffer Losses Off  Bougainville   Rabaul is Bombed By 200 Planes Ath Cieniah+ Tima

YANKEE AIRMEN HIT JAPANESE SMASHING BLOW      Destroy 29 Planes, 34 Barges, Two Cargo Ships, At Bougainville

Attack Seeks to Neutralize Big Japanese Bases   Smashing Blow Is Delivered Off Bougainville

U.S. AIRMEN. DEF BOUGAINVILLE SMASH AT JAPS   Aided by op Ty Boals Bring Down 29 Planes, 34 Barges,  9 Ships

 Another Heavy Blow Delivered ‘Against Nippons   Allied Airmen Combine With Navy PT-Boats In Withering Smash

U. §. AIRMEN HIT JAPS HARD   Total cf 29 Planes, 54 Barges and Two Cargo Ships Destroyed or Damaged Off Bougainville Satur. day.

AMERICANS DEAL HEAVY BLOW TO NIPS   Hit 29 Planes 34 Barges In Raids in Southwest Pacific

Alarm Spreads In Belgium by German Drive   National Leader Offers to Remobilize Resistance Forces

German Assault ‘Spreads Alarm © Through Belgium   Offer Made Allies To Remobilize Disbanded  Resistance Forces

Belgium Has Nazi Jitters   Disbanded Resistance Forces Offer to Aid In Stemming Tide

Injunction Halts MontgomeryWard Officials Interferring With Government Operation   Executives And Employes To Continue 100 Per Cent Resistance

Nine Killed in Bomber Crash   Smashes Into Commercial District Of Montreal

TWIN-ENGINED BOMBER FALLS IN MONTREAL   Nine Killed, Several Injured and Dozen Dwellings Are Wrecked and Left In Flames   SOLDIERS GUARD AREA

Two-Engine Plane Crashes lato Montreal Street  Nine Persons Killed, Dwellings Are Wrecked by Plane

Bomber Hits In Montreal   Crashes in Commercial District, Kills Nine, Leaves Dozen Houses Aflame

BOMBER CRASH FATAL TO NINE   ‘Downtown Montreal Buildings Set Afire When Struck by Plane

Seven Killed and Buildings Wrecked ‘When Bomber Crashes in Montreal

Bomber Falls Into Montreal Business Area   Nine Known To Be Dead; Fire Follows Accident

Bomber Strikes Homes: 9 Killed   Number of Others Injured as Big Plane Crashes in Montreal’s Downtown Commercial District. Today, Leaving Dozen Dwellings Wrecked and in Flames.   EXPLOSION DESCRIBED

BOMBER GRASHES IN GITY «9 DEAL   Many Injured, Building: Wrecked In Montrea Accident

Yankees Keep Up Air Blows Against Nazis   Second 2,000-Plané - Arm ada Sent Against Enemy Homefront Today With  "Devastating Effect   ‘Belgium. Airbase io ‘Also Bombarded   Today’s Raid Follows RAF Raid On Stutigart Last . Night and Assault -On Leipzig

RAF FOLLOWS UP WITH SMASHING STUTTGART RAID   AMERICANS SHOOT DOWN 126 ENEMY PLANES, LOSE 24

Attack Northwest Part Of Germany Today In Fourth Great Aerial Blow In 36 Hours

U.S. Bombers Hit Reich Again Today   Daylight Raid Comes Few Hours After Heavy RAF Assault

FOURTH OF GERMAN FIGHTER PRODUCTION BEEN KNOCKED OUT   AMERICAN, 2,000-PLANE RAID SUNDAY FOLLOWED BY OTHER ASSAULTS

Flying Fortresses 8 And Liberators Hit  Following Great Blows Of Saturday and Sunda

LARGE ARMADA MAKES BIG DAY ASSAULT ACAIN   Heavy Toll Taken of Nazi Fighters, Plants; Stuttgart, Leipzig Hit

Seven Nazi Cities Battered By 2,00 American Planes   RAF Follows Up Attack Of Forts And Liberators

TOLL TAKEN IN GIGANTIC SUNDAY RAID   ‘Attack on Reich Targets by 2,000 U. S. Craft Knocks Out a Fourth of German Fighter Plane Production.

BIGGEST U.S. AIR MISSION IN HISTORY STAGED WITH — ‘OVER 2000 PLANES IN RAID   Northwest Germany Object of Crushing Attacks Following RAF and American Raids Sunday Over Leipzig, Stuttgart, Munich and Other Plane Centers.

3rd Big Raid Upen Germany Carried Out During Night   Airplane Factories Target On Saturday

2,000 Planes In New Day Assault   Follow Up Great RAF Attack on Stuttgart on Southwestern Border; Fourth of German’s Fight Plane Production Plants Smashed

Quarter of Nazi Plane Output Cut   2,000 Planes in Great Armada Which Flew Over Germany

Fourth Big Aerial Blow In 36 Hours   Armada About As Big as 2,000 Plane Attack Sunday

Pound Germany In 4th Massive iRaid In 2 Days   Attack Approximates 2,000-Plane Blow Of Sunday After RAF Hammers Stuttgart

Cui Fightér Production One-Fourth   7 German. “Industrial - Cities Hammered as 2,000 American Planes Stage Raids

Germany Hit Again Monday by U.S. Air   2,000 Plane Atfack of Sunday Followed by Similar Attack

Fourth Great Raid In 36 Hours Rips Targets in Reich   Sunday’s Attack by Yank Bombers—’Greatest in History’—Foilowed by RAF Pounding Of Stuttgart, Another Assault by Fortresses on Enemy Military Plants.

NAZI HOME FRONT DEALT AERIAL BLOW BY THE AMERICANS   Fortresses. and Liberators Bombarded Northwest Germany Today.   SEVEN CENTERS HIT   At the Same Time U. S. Bombers Hit the Coxyde Air Base in Belgium.

Huge Yank Plane Armada Deals German Home Front Fourth Blow In 36 Hours

U.S. PlanesBomb. Nazi Homefront In 4th Bis Raid   Raid On Northwest Reich  Follows Big Attacks On Stuttgart and Leipzig

NAZI FIGHTER PRODUCTION HARD HIT   Sunday Raids by U. S. Planes Said to Have Knocked Out at Least One-Fourth

YANK RAIDERS BLAST GERMAN FIGHTER PLANTS   British Blast Aircraft Engine Production Plant

GREATEST DA' ATTACK MADE BY YANKS   126 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down In Battle  STITT GART   Handed Crippling Blow By R. A. F.: British Lose 79 Over Leipzig

NAZILAND ROCKS UNDER SMASH OF ALLIED BOMBERS   Pre-invasion Assaults Made By More Than 2,000 Planes Hit War Factories

Devastating Blow .dministered Nazi lane Production   Night by New R. A. F. Forays Against  . Making Attack on Continent is Followed During Unidentified Taraets   WENTY-TWO ALLIED WARPLANES FAIL TO RETURN

Seven German’ . Air Ceniers ~ Are: Blasted   Growing American Might Evident in : Preliminary:toInvas

AERIAL SWEEPS CRIPPLE NAZIS   Fourth Of German Plane Output Bombed Out; Blast Stuttgart

YANKS THROW 2,000-PLANE RAIDS AT FOE   Fourth Of Germans’ Fighter Production Knocked Out In Sunday’s Attack

Massive Raids Crumbling Nazi Fighter Output   U.S. Heavies Hit Today in All-Time Record Numbers  Bw AeenriatanH Drace

Fourth Big Air Attack in TwoDays   Heavy Damage Done Plane Factories,  Other Areas Hit.

Yanks Pound  Germany   126 NAZI PLANES DOWNED IN GREATEST DAYLIGHT, AIR RAID

Quarter Of — Nazi Fighter Output Lost   Greatest American Daylight Operation in His' tory Is Reported Today

U.S. Air Fleets Hit Reich Twice   Great 2000-Plane Attack Today Follows Sunday Knockout of Foe Plane Plants; R.A.F. Night Blows Make It Four in Row

Claim 2,000 Planes In Huge Air Assault; RAF Hits Stuttgart   (ive Nazi Europe Fourth Large Aerial Blow in 36 Hours; Withhold Name of U. S. Target

Only Ten Aircraft: Are Lost   Follows Record Raid On Nazi Plane  Factories.

Ath Massive  Aerial Blow Tn 26 Hanis   Gen. Arnold Estimates of Enemy Fighter Output Knocked Out   126 NAZIS BAGGED   Stuttgart and Leipzig Bear Brunt of Greatest  Davlight Operation

Germany Dealt 4 Great Blows In 36 Hours by Allied Bombers   Sunday's Attack by Yanks Called Greatest Day Smash in History

NAZI PLANE PRODUCTION BADLY HURT   Largest Air Raid Of War Staged By Allied Airmen

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACKED NORTHWEST GERMAN)   MONDAY RAID FOLLOWS TERRIFIC BLASTING OF GERMANY BY AIR FORCES

Greatest Daylight Raid In History Made On Nazis   126 Enemy Planes Knocked Down

'U. S. Bombers Deal Home Front Fourth Great Blow in 36 Hours; One-Fourth ‘Of Nazi Fighter Production Smashed

Huge Armada Deals Heavy Blow At Nazis   U.S. Planes Bombard Northwest Germany For Fourth Attack In 36 Hours.   FACTORIES DESTROYED

Knock Out 25 Per Cent Nazi Planes   Seven Aircraft Centers Hit By American Bombers.

Add Stuttgart To Victim List   Four Tremendous Raids Cut Enemy Fighter Plane Production  LEIPZIG HARD HIT

FOURTH GREAT AERIAL ATTACK   Force Anproximates 2,000 Planes Which Attacked Leinzia Sunday.   TARGET NOT ANNOUNCED

2,000 U. S. Planes Attack German Centers In Daylight Raid: 126 Nazi Planes Downed

Germany Staggers ‘Under Air Attacks   Huge American Raid of Sunday Followed by More Smashes Today

Fourth Of ‘Nazi Fighter ‘Plane Qutput Knocked Out   126 Enemy Planes Also Shot Down In Attacks Sunday; RAF Pounds Stuttrart Again

126 Nazi Planes Shot Down While We Are © Losing 24.   THE GREATEST AIR. RAID IN HISTORY

aoe The War Todsy — U. U.S. Puzzled by Churchill’s Stand on Spain  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE (2 War Analyst

COURTING OF SPAIN BY BRITISH  PRIME MINISTER CAUSES CONCERN 'TO AMERICANS ON INVASION EV   America Like Britain Wants Spain’s Friendship But Insists on Spain Stopping Aid to Hitler Whicl Will Result in Loss of American Lives in Battle

_ THE  rODAY   urchil’s “Kindly Tords About Spain” ausing Puzzlement, ‘ot Unmixed With  ‘oucern it U. S   By DeWitt MacKense eopciated Freee War Ausiyed

OPA ANNOUNCES DATES   Tells When Additional 10-Point Stamps Will Be Good

Announce Dates On Meat Stamps   Blue Tokens Effective First of Each Month

First Reports Indicate America Bombing Was Accurate; Twit Engirled Mosquitoes Round O1   MNight’s Activities   2,000-TON DAYLIGHT ASSAULT SHATTERE

HIMMLER CURBS BLOODY RIOTS   GOEBBELS SHOUTS FOR GERMANS TO BEAR UP

Soviet Recognizes Badoglio Gov't; © Opponents of King Hope Britain and 1), 5. Will Not Follow Example

Reds Recognize Government of  Itaian Premier   Foes of Badoglio Fear U. S., Britain Will Follow Suit

GET REQUESTS GIVEN 10 BOARD   State Spending Units Ask $144,700,000 Appropriations During 1945-1947 Biennium

Breaking Hitler Line Part Wi in  Allied Drive In Italy Brings Crisis Near

FEDERAL VOTE BILL DECISION THIS WEEK   Administration Will Attempt To Get Another Decision On Bailot Measure In House

Administration's Chiefs Map New Ballot Strategy   Determine to Force New Vote in House On Soldier Suffrage

Soldier Voting Battle To Be Resumed Today   Senate Div ided On Backing FDR

TO RESUME DEBATE ON SOLDIER VOTE   Administration Determined to Force House Decision on War Ballot

SOLDIER VOTE FIGHT GOES ON   Another House Decision on Federal Ballot Plan Will Be Sought

Senators Seek 2d House Test On War Ballo   Sen. Lucas Is Hopeful, Says ‘We Are Going to Get Federal Ballot Yor?

CAMPAIGN COSTS SHOULD BE LIMITED   Reasonable Limitation on Expenditures Advocated By Weeks.

KINDERGARTEN wee a  irst Session Is   First Session’ Is Planned Monday at Two Buildin-s-

KINDERGARTEN OPENING SET   First Session Is Planned Monday at Two Buildin«s

GOOD GAIN IN ITALY   British Troops Advance in Tough : Sector of Po Valley

British Have Crossed ‘King of Ditches’ Canal Bordering Forli Field

British In Mile of Forli, in Italy   Struggle Now on. For Possession of Air Field

STATE. BATTLES oBIG SNOWSTORN   Struggles to Free Itself From old of Record Blizzard; ome Highways Open but Dangerous

STATE, NATION STRUGGLING TO FREE TRAFFIC   Warm Air Mass Moving In From West, But East Expect Cool Days Yet

DRAFT AND APPEAL BOARDS JOB HARD      State Selective Chief Challenges Them te Be ‘Big Enough’ for Task.

DRAFT BOARDS ARE TOLD NOT TO BE TIMID   Advised By State Selective Head to Do Duty As They See It

‘SEAT PORT IS OWED ON THREE "QS BY SOVIET   veavy Arliltery. Air Fleets Baal Cily to Bits—-Thouaanaa on Dooks.

Russian Troops Storm Sevastopol   Attacking City From Three Sides

YANK AIR RAIDERS ATTACK JAP-HELD MARIANA ISLANDS   Carrier-Based Armada Badly Batters Isles Far West of Marshalls.

Solons Ineligible For Military Duty  Decision Given F. R. By  Attornev General

Arnry Service Is Closed To  Lawmakers   Constitution Forbids Military Service By Members Of Congress, Asserts Roosevelt

Ban Servite By Congressmen  May Not Serve With Armed Forces, President Sevs

Members of Congress Cannot Serve in Active Branches of Armed Services

CONGRESSMEN OUT OF FIGHT   CAN'T SERVE IN ARMY OR NAVY, SAYS ROOSEVELT

President Says Congressmen Can  Not Be In Army   Gives Opinion  Of Leoal Head

CHECK IS PLACED ON CONGRESSMEN   Must Resign Before They Can Serve in The Armed Forces

Bans Solons From Services   F. R. Orders Members Of Congress Cannot Serve in Armed Forces

Congressmen’ s  Service Ended   FDR Tells Knox,’ Stimson That Members Cannot  Serve: At Arms

CONGRESSMEN BARRED FROM ARMY AND NAVY   President Advised Constitution Forbids Dual Service, Notes Elected After War Declared

Congressmen Barred. From Armed Services   ¥. D.R., Acting On Advice Of Attorney General Bid> dle Says Constitution: ‘Forbids Simultaneous: Garvisas Ta Asmed Portes And Coneress’

FDR GIVES RULING FOR CONGRESSMEN   Says They May Not Serve In Active Components of Armed Services

Congressmen  Can’t Join Up   Must Resign Seat If The; Want To Serve In Armed Forces.

Solons Forbidden To Quit And Join Armed Services   FD Orders Members Of Congress Tc ‘Stay Put’ Where They're Needed   Nation Needs Them

Members of Congress Cannot Serve in Legislature and Army at Same Time

Congressmen Can’t Be In Armed Forces  President Asserts   President Asserts Attorney-General Has Given Ruling

Congressmen. May Not Serve  ; FDR Says Members ‘Must Stay At Posts

Congressmen Barred From Armed Service   President Says Constitution Forbids Suen Action

SOLONS BARRED FROM UNIFORMS   Biddle Says Congressmen Can Not Serve In Armed Forces

Service For Congress Out   FDR Savs Members Of Congress May Not Serve In Armed Services.

CONGRESSMEN NOT TO SERVE IN THE ARMY   FDR Says Lawmakers Doing Duty

Say Solons Can’t Go Into Service   ER Cites Legislation Banning Active Service

PRESIDENT BANS CONGRESS FROM ~ ARMED SERVICES   Members Must Resign 1  They Wish to Serve in Army or Navy

THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CANNOT ENTER SERVICE   President Roosevelt So _ Instructed Secretaries of War and Navy Today.   A STATEMENT ISSUED   Attorney General Biddle Says the Constitution Forbids Such Practice.

Senafors Can't Be Sergeants   Roosevelt Announces Congressmen May Not Serve Armed Forces

Lawmakers Barred From Armed Units   Roosevelt Says Constitu: tion Forbids Simultaneous Service

Aarauding Fleet Hits *hilippines, Blasting ‘5 Ships, 36 Aircraft   . New Blows Run Seven-Day Toll To 1.014 Planes, 160 Vessels; MacArthur Bombers Jom Battle

Halsey Boosts Bag of Ni lippon   i Si rIne  ALE PD ie "lanes   One Thousand of: Latter -and 300 Vessels Destroy. ed By Marauding Third United States Fleet

RAISE BAG OF. NIPPON PLANES TO PAST 1,000   Halsey’ § ] Raid Also Sends Ship Losses Hicher   Navy Discloses Action Of Its: Third Meet .

Halsey's Airmen Get 1,014 Jap Planes, 160 Ships  Latest Raid on Manial Brit  ne a to ~~   Latest Raid on Manial Erases Pany Nip Air Force, Raises Seven Day Total of Havec

JAP LOSSES HEAVY   Halsey’s Third Fleet Ac- counts for 1,000 Planes, 300 Ships

Heavy Damage Is Dealt Japs —   Raids. Carried Out In: Philippines

Halsey Raises Big U.S. Navy   DRIVE TO RECAPTURE PHILIPPINES IS STARTED

)Halsey Raises Bag of Jap  Planes To 1,000 and Ships Above 300 In Latest Raids

Haley Bags Planes, Ships In Philippines   U.S. 3rd Fleet Batters Enemy On Huage Scale

Halsey’s Fleet In New Heavy Blows In Philippine Area   Bags Jap Planes, Sinks 22 Ships; Jap Combat Fleet Stays Away

New Blast By Halsey. "Hurts Japs   “Latest Philippine + Blow Sinks 22 . Ships; Accounts for 90 More Aircraft 

Latest Raid Against Philippines Boosts Total Enemy Losses to 1.014 Planes. 160 Ships.

JAPAN'S GRIP IN PHILIPPINES IS GREATLY SHAKER   Islands Battered Saturday For Seventh Day In September

HIT NEW BLOW AT PHILIPPINES   Air Arm Swings Seventh Day This Month With Deadly Effect

More Than 1,000 Nip Planes Downed, And 300 Jap Ships Sunk by U. S. Third Fleet

Reds Believed Already In Bucharest   Russian Army Takes Ploesti Fields, Badly Damaged By Germans

Considerable Damage Done  To Oil Fields   After Taking Ploesti, Russians Go to Bucharest

CH OL FELIS. HELD BY SOVIETS   Third Of Germany’s Pe. troleum Supply Cut Off By Sweeping Advance   - WELLS DAMAGED   Romanian Delegation In Moscow To Discuss Peace With Stalin ~

Russians Now In Bucharest   Occupy Ploesti Oil Fields, Find Serious Damage Done There By Germans   Aid in Putting Out Huge Fires; Romanian Armies Lining Up With Reds

Reds Save Oil Wells Of Ploesti   Swilt Brive Prevents German Effort te Buran Installations— Ressians Believed in Buchares

GERMANS ADMIT 2 ENTRIES MADE INTO HUNGARY   Tolbukhin’s Forces Driving To Bulgarian Border On Coast

Russians Break Into Bucharest, Romania Capital   Bulgaria, Romania Get Allied Terms; Slovakia in Revolt

Soviets Believed To Have Entered Romanian Capital   Russians Reported Only 17 Miles From Bucharest at Midnight; Rich Oil Fields Taken by Reds

REDS CAPTURE CAPITAL AFTER PLOESTI'S FALL   Destruction of Major  Oil Fields Checked By Quick Victory

New Advances Follow Capture Of Ploesti .   Loss of Ploesti Preempts Third of German Oil Supply; Russians Await Word of Bucharest’s Fall

BELIEVE SOVIETS  ARE ALREADY IN  ROMANIAN CITY GREAT PLOESTI OIL!  FIELDS HAVE BEEN SEIZED BY RUSSIANS

Fall of Ploesti (pens Way To Bucharest   Russians Advance 40 Miles in Balkan Campaign

Soviets Hold Third of Nazi  Oil Supplies   Russians Await Final Word As Armes Plunge Toward Junction

Bucharest Is Captured By Soviet Army   Russians Advance Nearly 46 Miles in Day; Ploesti Oil Fields Now in Hands of Red Forces

Bucharest Is Taken by Russ Troops   Stalin Announces Fall ) Of City, End of Nazi Menace From North

Russian Army Thought to Be in Bucharest   Sweep on to Capital After Capture of Ploesti Oi! Fields

Big German Forces Are  Hemmed In   London (#}--The Red army has entered Bucharest, Marshal Stalin announced tonight.

Belreve Russians Are In Bucharest   Take 50,000 In Southern France

Soviet Army Has Entered  Bucharest   Marshal Stalin Reveals Fall of Capital and  Routing of Germans

Russian Radios Tuned In to  ‘Hear of Bucharest Capture   London: (AP)— The Red army has ‘entered Bucharest, Marshal Stalin announced Thursday night,

PLOESTI FAL’   Russians Advance Forty Miles Through Fallen Balkan Kingdom

Believe Red Army Now In Bucharest   Russians Catch Germans In Ploesti Firing Oil Fields

Muscovites Keeping Radios Tuned For Premier Stalin’s Order of the Day   Foe Geis No Time To Wreck Oil Wells   Serious Damage Done, However; Romanian Workers Help Douse  Peaiae.

REDS NEARING OLD BORDER OF REILGADIA   216,000 Enemy Troops Captured In Twelve Days

Believe Reds Enter Capital Of Romania   Muscovites Stand By Ra dios For Official An. nouncement

SURGING SOVIET ARMY ORES INTO. BUCHAREST   - LONDON, Aug. 31—(?)}—The Red Army has entered Bucharest, Marshal Stalin announced tonicht.   Oil Field Damaged, Rut Not Destroved

Kuss Sweep Ploesti Oil Fields in Bag  Germans Reported to  Have Set Wells Aftre Be Oxsce, vitvened t mecw   HUGE NAZI LOSSES   Red Army Wins Control of Four Passes Into Transylvania

Red Army Enters Bucharest      Third Major European Capital Taken By Allies; Ploesti Fields Revorted in Flames

Reds Occupy Capital City Gf Rumania   Speedy Drive Prevents German Destruction Of QPloesti Oil Fields.

Russian Army May be in Bucharest, _ Day’s Reports Say   Ploesti Oil Fields Are Captured; Nazi Supply Broken

REDS REPORTED AT BUCHAREST   New Conquest Indicated After Russians Seize the Rich Ploesti Oil Field

GERMAN THREAT 5 LIQUIDATED   Romania Capital {ts Third Major European Capital Entered.   FIRST BOMBED APRIL 4

Ploesti Seized To Cut Nazi Oil Supplies   Reds Accuse Bulgaria of Double-cross in Claims of Neutrality While Hitlerites Admit Revolution Has Broken Out in Czechoslovakia Under Leadership of Tito

oviet Army ; Believed 1 Bucharest  News of Romanian Capital's Capture May Come Tedav

BELIEVE REDS PUSH INTO CITY OF BUCHAREST   Soviets Capture Ploesti 0 i Fields; Advance 40 Miles Wednesday

Marshal Stalin Breaks News of City’s Canture   Seizure Eliminates Threat from North; Report Oilfields Damaged by Nazis

REDS THUNDER TO GATES OF CAPITAL CITY   Ploesti Oil Fields Are Taken Intact; Nazi Oil Supply Cut

Moscow Looks Suspiciously On Bulgaria   Nation Accused Of Aiding Nazi, Despite Neutrality

Red Troops Enter Romania's Capital   Third of Germany's Oil Supply . Cut Off by Advancing Russ Armies

GREAT DAMAGE DONE 10 OIL REFINERIES   Germans Did Everything Tc 7 Destroy Famed Wells   NAZI LOSSES   Tremendous in Romania; Report Capture Of 15,000 More Enemy Troops

Capital Invaded After Reds Take Ploesti Oil Zone   Germans Put Torch To Rich Romanian Prize, Leaving It In Flames

Russians Believed Closing In On Bucharest Following Seizure Of Rich Oil Fields

Russ Forces Now Reported In Bucharest   Red Army Believed To Be In Romanian Capital After Capture Of Ploesti.   NO OFFICIAL WORD

Red Army Forces Enter Bucharest   Romanian Capital Is Occupied After Capture of  Ploesti   CLOSE TO BULGARIA   About One-Third of Ger* man Oil Supply Now in Soviet Hands

BELIEVE REDS IN BUCHAREST, REPORT SAYS   One Third Nazi Oil Supply Is Lost

Russian Columns Enter Bucharest, Moscow Believes   Official Announcement Awaited as Russians Drive Nearly 40 Miles in Day From Ploesti Toward Romanian Capital

Bucharest Taken By Soviet Army, Stalin Reports   Other Soviet Columns Invade Hungary In New Offensive

Reds Broadcast Romanian Terms   Romania Will Fight On Allied Side; Will Pay Russia $300,000,000.

ROMANIA-MUST— PAY REPARATIONS      Reds Announce Peace. Terms . That Pledne Fight on Athied Side

ROMANIA PLEDGES TO ASSIST ALLIES      Terms of Armistice, Signed Wednesday, Are Broadcast

JAPS OPEN DRIVE FROM SOUTH I CENTRAL CHINA   Seek Junction of Armies to Cut*Natioh in Twain

Jap Plane Losses In June Hit Recore  Peak of 1036   Enemy Pushes Drive To Take Control Of Chinese Railway

Japs Launch New Drive To Conquer Chinese Railway   By LEONARD MILLIMAN (AP War Editor)

Japan Launches New Drive From Canton Area   Campaign Started As Offset To Month Of Damaaing Reverses

Lepke Wins 4th Reprieve From Dewey   Attorney - Obtains Show Cause Order Returnable Feb. 14

More Than Two Million G-I Votes Cast Already, State-By-State Survey Shows

Soldier Vote Forecast at 2,300,000  Roundup Shows 600,000 Ballots

Pee we * Estimate more than 2,300,000 soldier aentoe antll hbo enet In Non. Vi election

Well Over 4,300,000 Men, Women in Armed Forces Have Applied for Ballots for General Election

Red Army Closing in On Odessa   Enemy Has Strong Forces in Manipur State, Reported

Willkie May Now Play Silent Game  Both Parties Pondering His Plans

WILLKIE SILENCE WORRIES CRITICS   FAILS TO GIVE ANY HINT OF PLANS FOR FUTURE IN POLITICS

Willkie's Plans Remain Obscure  Party Colleagues Considerably Worriec

'WENDELL WILLKIE MAY GIVE CRITICS SILENT TREATMENT ACCUSED OF TALKING TOC  * MUCH HE IS EXPECTED TH UWATR COTINGCET

Silence May Be Willkie’s Future Plan   Many Conjectures Float About His Prospective Moves

Willkie Going Home For Rest.  Expects To: Work For Liberal Foreian Policy

Willkie Remains Mum On Future Political Plans   Will Rest In  Hoosier State

Willkie May Put Silent Pressure (On Republicans   Do Not Expect Willkie To Make Known His Plans In Next Few Weeks.

Willkie Is silent On His Plans   GOP PARTY LEADERS DOING SOME WORRYING

Willkie Silent About His Plans For the Future   GOP Officials Wonder Who He Will Support

CONTRIBUTIONS HERE THIRD OF OELWEIN QUOTA   County Figure At Fifth Today

COUNTY NEARS QUOTA IN WAR CHEST DRIVE   Fund Tops War Projects Here

BIAK LANDING ENDS CAMPAIGN SAYS M'ARTHUR   Remaining Positions Of Japanese Are Isolated

Reconquest of Dutch Guinea Nearly Ended:   New Landing Puts Yanks 800 Miles From Philippines

New Guinea Landing Puts U. S. Forces 350 Miles Farther in Drive West

U.S. Troops Reconquer  Biak Island   200-Mile Advance Brings Philippines Within 800 Miles.

Dutch New Guinea Fighting Near End   General MacArthur Says New Invasion Gives Americans Bases in 800 Miles of Philippines

Yanks Within 800 Miles of Philippines   Campaign Virtually Ts Ended in New Guinea

742 Japanese Planes Lost In One Week   Americans Continue. To Meet No Resistance In Mindoro Invasion  ADVANCE ON LEYTE

YANKEE GAINS SCORED TODAY IN PHILIPPINES   Nip Warplanes Offering Only Opposition For Mindoro Invasion; Gain On Leyte

Total of 742 Jap Warplanes Destroyed in Philippines; Mindoro Drive Moves Swittly

742 Jap Planes Disabled In Week; Yanks On     Mindoro Continue Without Nip Resistance.

‘Total Of 742 Jap Planes . Hit During The Past Week   Aircraft Destroyed or Damaged in Stepped-up Operations—77th Division Advances to Enemy-Held Airdrome on Leyte

742 JAP PLANES 'ARE DESTROYED IN SINGLE WEEK   Construction Battalions Building Airstrips On Mindoro Island   RECENT LANDING WAS EASIEST IN PACIFIC

Americans Meet No Resistance On Mindoro Isle   MacArthur Plans To Bomb Manila

TWO RABIES CASES DISCOVERED HERE   Deg Owners Near Wil. liamsport Warned to Confine Animals 

TWO RABIES CASES DISCOVERED HERE   Deg. Owners N Neor Wil amsport Warned to ‘Confine Animal«

Two Cases Of Rabies Found   Dog Owners Near Williamsport Warned To Confine Dogs.

Chinese Assault Forces Outflank Jap-Held Base Of Bhamo, Burma Gateway

BEEF BLACK MARKET WILL BE COMBATTED   Flat Price Ceilings Thought To Be Solution

Two Lost Out of Big Task Force   One Crew . Safe, However Says First Communique on Tncomplete- Reports   NO LOSSES FROM. . . ENEMY ACTION   Fury of: Pacific Offensive Mounting; - Various Reports Given' Out. by Tokyo. :

Two Planes Lost Through Mishaps In Raid On Japan  One Crew Safe, Army Reports

Two Of Raiders Lost In Accidents; Great Factories At Yawata Razed

RAID ON JAPAN IS SUCCESSFUL   No Bombers Lost to Enemy Action, War Dep’t Reports

Sth Of Nippon s Steel Industry Smashed, Belief   Four Super Forts Are Lost, Including Two In Accidents, One Over Taraet One Missina

Mighty Bombers Based in China Roar Over Targets In Nip Industrial Districts

Four Huge Warplanes Lost in Raid on Japanese Mainland  es ec eee: Fa hae Pick Tank

Two Superfortresses Lost, Neither To Enemy Action; Crew Of One Plane Is Safe

Super Fortresses Fly From Bases in Western China to Blast “Pittsburgh of Japan’

Two Planes Forced Down by Accidents—Crew Of One Safe After Assault Causing Heavy Damage to Japan's Big Steel Center— Fourth Bomber Reported Missing.

Tokyo Announces Assaults Few Hours After Bomb- ing of Janan.   REPORT SAIPAN ADVANCE

‘STEEL MILLS AT YAWATA   Estimate Fifth Of Japanese Steel Production Hit

Bombing Of Jap Centers ‘Accurate’   Two Planes Lost Through Accidents, None to Jap Fire; Answers Pearl Harbor

KYUSHU ISLAND PLANTS LASHED BY AIR RAIDERS   Crew of One of Lost Planes Is Safe, Says Army Report

BONIN ISLANDS, KOREA, LATEST RAID TARGETS   War Being, Carried to Japan's Front Steps in Other Than Super Fortress Attacks

Targets Left Mass Of Wreckage   Both Planes Lost Through Accidents and Not Enemy Action ——- Crew of One Safe — Communique Based on Preliminary  And Incomplete Reports

Yawata, Japan’s Pittsburgh, Hit By Superforts   World’s Most Powerful Planes Make Longest Bombing Flight.   bombing Flight.  Is But the Beginning, Army Official Savs

Four Big Bombers Are Lost   Targets At Yawata, Japan’s “Pittsburgh” A “Glowing Mass of Wreckage” After Raid

Yawata, Steel  Center, Target Of Big Planes   Describes Super Fortresses’   Attack On Jap Steel Mills

Four Planes Lost   Two Went Down Due to Accidents, One Lost Over Target, Other Missing

Super-orts Smash Steel . Center in Attack on Ja) ay Mainland: 4 Planes Los

Four B29s Lost in: ‘Raid from China Said To Have Destroyed One-fifth of Jap Steel Industry

THO HGH 18-295 LOST INAGEIDENTS.           Neither, ‘Howev: fas-'T) _g¢neimy Action, It Is ee" Apnounced.      CREW: OF ONE IS SAFE   Number of Participating Air: craft in Attack: Was Not: Made Known. -

SUPER FORT RAID ON JAPAN IS ANSWER TO PEARL HARBOR: 4 FORTS LOST DUE TO ACCIDENTS   None of This “Sizable .Task Force” of Giant Fortresses Lost As Result of Enemy Action. Planes Overated from Bases Recently Made in China.

YANK BOMBING IS “EFFECTIVE AND ACCURATE”   2 Sky Giants Downed in Accident, 1 Is Shot Down, 4th Is Missing

Four B24s Lost By Accident in Daring Attacks  Seg kee   Historic Raid Marks Beginning OF New Offensive

‘ONLY ONE SUPER FORT SHOT DOWN BY ENEMY FIRE   Iwo Super - Fortresses Lost By Accident In Spectacular Raid On Japanese Industrial City Of Yawata; One Shot Down, One Missing.

Four Huge Warplanes Lost in Raid on Japanese Mainland   One Superfortress Is Lost Over Target, One Is Missing and Two Are Accident Victims; Bombing Effective

Nip War Industry Suffers Severely  in B-29s Assaul   Fifth of Empire’s Entire Stee! Output is Knocked Out

Industrial Plants At Yawata Chief Targets; Flight Made From New Bases In China   Crew Of One Of Missing Craft Known To Be Safe, War Department Announces; Bombing Is Reported Accurate: Large Fires Observed

BUT TWO LOST BY ACCIDENT ARMY SAYS   Crew Of One Plane Is Safe, Department Says   INDUSTRIAL AREAS   Targets Of Super-Fortress Attack: Planes Operate From China Bases

B-29 Blow Turns Industrial Targets Into “Glowing Masses of Wreckage;” Two of Bombers Lost in Accidents

Attack Seen As Surprise; Two Planes Are Missing   Tons Of Bombs Hit Nippon War Plants

SUPERFORTS ARE OPERATING FROW BASES IN CHINA   ‘Pittsburgh’ Of Nippon Is Left As ‘Glowing Mass Of Wreckage’

Super-Forts Flew From Sian In China, Says Tokyo; Four ‘Planes Lost, U.S. Report

Bombing Described as Accurate and Large Fires and Explosions Observed; Anti-Aircraft Fire Moderate to Intense

Crew of One Ship Safe; Both Lost Through Accidents  ‘Glewing Masses of Wreckage’ Lalt in Steel Mills of

U.S. Loses 4 Super-Forts In Yawata Attack   One Is Shot Down, Two Victims Of Accidents, One Missing.

Super Fortresses  ‘Dainaged Japan   HISTORY MAKING RAID ... STAGED BY AIR oo). RORCES”

JACKIE COOPER IS FREED OF CHARGES INVOLVING MINORS   Former Screen Star and Com panions Acquitted of Delinquency Charge

JACKIE COOPER 1S ACQUITTED   Ex-Film Star, Three CoDefendants Freed On Morals Charge

Cooper Freed By Judge Of Vice Charge   Three Others Also Acquitted

JACKIE COOPER FREE IN SOUTH BEND TRIAL   Ex-movie Star Naval Trainee Acquitted of Delinquency

Court Frees  Jackie Cooper Of Charges   Juvenile Referee Gives Verdict Of Acquittal In Case Of Actor And Three Co-Defendants

JACKIE COOPER CLEARED OF SOUTH BEND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY CHARGES

JACKIE COOPER WINS ACQUITTAL   FORMER MOVIE STAR FREED BY JUDGE OF DELINQUENCY CHARGE

COOPER IS ACOUITTED   FREED OF CHARGE CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF GIRLS

Removal Of WRA Director Asked   ‘Dies Group Seeks’ —“Ducter-OfL Maver

Dies Committee Asks Removal  Of WRA Chief   Also Recommends Firing ' Of Tule Lake Camp Head As Result of Jap Riots

‘Dies Group Asks Removal of National ‘WRA Head_and Tulelake Camp Director

OO  Group Asks WRA Head Dismissal   Says Tule Lake Camp Director Unable To Cope With Disloyal Japanese.

Removal of NRA Officials Urged  Dies Committee  LOS OOS .. CURRIER

Tishomingo Man Is Killed   Sat. Homer Hutchins Dies in Action in European Theater

Tishomingo Soldier Killed in Action   Sgt. Homer K. Hutchens Dies in European Theater

USS. 1st Army Scoops Up 17 More Villages   Offensive Tempo Increases as Reds, Yanks in Normandy, italy Forge Gains

German Report Indicates Reds Open New Drive   Berlin Officials Declare Nazis Abandon Kowel; Kaunas, Wilno Menaced

Russians Reported Attacking in Old Poland Only 490 Miles from Berlin After German Defenses in White Russia Smashed—Hitler, With Catastrophe Creeping Nearer, Pleads With Germans To Have Courage and Makes Vague Boasts That War Will Be Won

Nazis Abandon Kowel As Reds  Launch Assault   Aim Mighty New Drive At Center Of Germany

May Mean New Red Offensive   : Russians Move On ‘Vilna After Taking: Polotsk; Nazi Lines Stiffen in Italy

Nazis Quit Kowel,  490 MilesSoutheast Of Hitler’s Capital   Yanks Advance Down Cherbourg Peninsula; British Forging Ring ~ Around Defenses of Caen

Nazis Say Kowel Abandoned: Reds March On Wilno   Announced Withdrawal Of German Salient Indicates Red Offensive Qn Central Front

Hints Oiler Of The Day Issued By Commander ~The Chief: ‘To American, English And * Canadian. luvasion: Forces

Eisenhower s  Address To French   Says All Patriots Will Have Part to Play in Crisis; General Urges Against Premature Uprising, Asks Patience

House Passes Soldier Vote Bill 95 fo 2   Difference With  Senate Measure to Be Worked Out in Conference, Stated

SOLDIER VOTE BILL PASSED   House Approves State Measure, 95-2—-Senate Already Has Okayed It

House Passes Soldier Vote Bill Today   Goes to Conference; Decision Made to Review Jury Textbook Findings

REVEAL HEAVY ~ RAIDS ON NIPS   ‘Air Strength Grows In N. Pacific  Fly Kleven Missions on Sunday

WAKE INCLUDED IN 11 AIR RAIDS   Two Enemy Cargo: Vessels in Vicinity of Marcus Island Hit

‘English Strikers Now Include More Than 90,000 Men   Spreading Walkout Endangers British War Plants, Transportation System; 165 Mines Are Idle As Miners Ignore Government Appeals

More Coal Mines Close as British Strike Spreads to Scotlish Fields

Miners Ignore Lloyd George’s Plea  British Coal Strike Of Alarming Proportions With 90,000 Men Idle

MINE STRIKE SPREADING; - 160.0001DLE   Coal Fields in South Wales Paralyzed by Walk-._ oufs r   MANY MINES SHUT - DOWN DURING DAY   Nation’s Concern Express_ ed by Editoristsin  ' Desee

90,000 Welsh Coal Miners  Now On Strike   Fresh Wave Of Walkout: Threaten To Cripple Transportation.

Strike Closes Most Of Coal Mines In Wales   Scant Supply Alarms British

Welsh Strikes Become Alarming   Fresh Wave of Walkouts Boosts Number Idle TO 90,000: 165 Miles Idle

90,000, About 90 Percent of Total in Coal Fields, in Welsh Strike.

BRITISH COAL STRIKE SPREADS TO 90,000 MEN   Little Chance Of Ending Deadlock Until Union Leaders Meet On Saturday

90 Per Cent — Idle in Welsh Coal Fields   Strike Spreads to. Scottish Pits, Despite Appeals by Union Leaders

Wales Strikers Refuse to Yield  Englis Wh Go al Tre uble ing  ecomes Alarmin

90,000 Welsh Miners Go Out   Strike Continues To Spread, Grows More Serious

Britains Coal Strike Spreads; 165 Mines Are Closed  Stoppage Paralyzes   Stoppage Paralyzes Rich Wales Fields; 90,000 Are Idle

160,000 BRITISH   2 More Regions Join South Wales Men in Coal Fleld Strike

WELSH COAL      War Industries And Transportation Are Threatened

165 COAL MINES IDLE IN BRITAIN   STRIKES SPREADING IN WELCH FIELDS, 90,000 MINERS OUT

STRIKE TIES UP BRITISH MINES   Rich Fields Paralyzed: Walkout Spreads To Scottish Pits

Mine Strike  Is Growing   90,000 British Idle; Pleas Are Rejected

90,000 Welsh Miners Now  On Strike   165 British Coal Mines Idle as Workers Quit

BUILDING HOPES BLASTED BY WPB   Construction Limitations Likely To Remain Until Japs Are Whipped

No Confirmation of Jap Reports; Nimitz Reports Complete Capture of Garakayo Island.   90,000 Killed

JAPS FEAR YANKS      Nips ‘Warned They ‘Must ‘Not Be Caught Off. Guard. by  _ American Raiders

Tokyo Thinks Carriers ‘Lurking’   Strike at Islands 200 Miles Away Friahtens Niopanese

Japanese Oil Supply Base {s Blasted   Yank Heavy Bombers Strike Balikeapan

98 NIP SHIPS AND 14 PLANES OUT OF ACTION   Jittery Tokyo Radio Warns Carrier Force  Still Near

Japanese Warned U.S. Task Force Still Lurks Near By  Homeland Residents Told Not to . Be Caught Napping

Nazi Resistance Rugged, Counter Attack Expected   Gen. Eisenhower Pays Visit To Invasion Beach head And Reports Project “Running Pretty Well According To Plan.”’

Invaders Liberate First City After Clearing All Beaches; Heavier Fighting Predicted

Bombers Hit Battle Zone In Normandy   Fly 3,000 Sorties From Dawn to Dusk te Halt Movement of Nazi  Reinforcemsits

NAZI TARGETS HIT IN AERIAL RAIDS   Offensive Is Stepped Up as -, Weather Conditions Improve —

Bombers Back , Norman Front   21 German Fighters Last Te Alied Ate Flea:

THREE FIELDS IN FRANCE ARE SMASHED   Heavy and Medium Bombers in Wide-spread Attacks Support Invasion Front; Vienna Hit.   Shell Landing Strip

NAZIS REMOVE LEOPOLD oul OF BELGIUM   To Germany in Anticipation of Invasion, Says Belgian Premier in Broadcast.

Brown And Cardinal Fans Taking St. Louis To Pieces On Eve Of America’s Annual Culminating Baseball Event: Cards Favored

Jobs Pledged By Wallace  ee Denet.baus U..11     Vice-President Holils ‘Work More Likely -Under FDR Regime

‘Wallace Urges Shipyard Workers Consider Jobs   Vice President Tells Cramp Employes Vote Ticket They Think Best for Postwar

ALLIES. MADE FEINTS  SUPREME UEADQUARTERS, AL ryED -FEYPEDITIONARY FORCE

REPORT BOWLES TO CRACK DOWN ON PRICE BOOSTS   TAX RELIEF PLANS ALSO DISCUSSED IN NATION‘S CAPITAL

PRICE, TAX RELIEF SEEN   ‘Chester Bowles Ready tc  Crack Down on Recent — Price Raises

Bowles Plans New Clamps to Control Rising Price Lis!   Promises Crack-Down to Steady Pay Scales; Tax Relief Soucht

SHEFFIELD STEEL  PLANT AT HOUSTON  WAS CLOSED FRIDAY SHARP DIFFERENCES AS  TO CAUSE OF 1,700 WORWERC REINC IDLE

20,900 Surrender Without a Fight   Small U. S. Patrol Make: Deal With Germans

American 9th Takes ‘Lost Army’   20,000 Troops Attempting Escape From South France Surrender.

20,000 Nazis Lay Down Arms to Gen. Simpson   Street - by - Street Fight Reported German Tactic

Reds Reach Baltic, Cut Land Escape for 150,000   British and Greeks Occupy Corinth;  Demand Aachen Surrender

Carry Note to Doomed Nazi City   Three Soldiers Take Part In Drama Serving As Lesson To Germany .   TELL OF MARCH  INTO THE CITY   Blindfolded Much of the Way As. Germans Lead Them To Au Officer

Aachen Under Paper Bombardment Demanding Sur rnanndar   OBLITERATION PROMISED

ALLIED TROOPS AWAIT DECISION FROM AACHEN  Three Americans Carry Message Ta GCarmance They Mict Surrender

Besieged Germans Answer Is Awaited   ..Hodge’s Messengers Back from Ultimatum Trip

DOOMED CITY LIES BEFORE AMERICANS JUST INSIDE REICH   TIME RUNNING OUT FOR AACHEN WITH DEADLIN} AT 10-50 TOMORROW

TIME RUNNING OUT FOR CITY AS MESSENGERS RETURN AND NO ANSWER MADE BY NAZIS

Aachen Silent Waiting Doom   Time Runs Out Fast After Hodges Demands Unconditional Surrender

Message Delivered To Aachen   Two Lieutenants, One Private Soldier Take American Ultimatum To German Garrison

Chinese Embassy Denies Reporls of Separation Of Chiang and his Wife

CLEARS DRAFT ORDER   State Director Brig. Gen. M. R. MeLean Speaks Up

Yanks Fight On Toward  Isle Airdrome   Invasion Veterans Within 900 Miles of Philippines

Joint Unit Agrees on Excise Taxes to Yield Over. Billion Dollars

HIGHER EXCISE TAXES PLANNED   Theater Admission Levy Doubled; Bill To Net Billion A Year

THREE-PRONGED NEW DRIVE MAY END STALEMATE   Outflanking Move Success

SUDDEN ALLIED SMASH OPENS ON CASSING FRONT   New Move May. Outflank Stalemated Area to the  Southwest Now.

Surprise Assault  Captures Mountain Attack Shifts to Hille of    Attack Shifts to Hills of Central Front in Hope of  Gettine Behind Emhattled Town

Allies Overwhelm German Defenses In Surprise Thrust   Attack Made on Northern Front Of Stalemated ‘Fortress’ City; Gains Peril Other Nazi Troops

Italian Front “ Comes To Life: Allies Attack   5th Army Seizes Spot, Tries To Outflank  Cassino

Allies in Cassino Advance   Take Mount Marrone in Three-Pronged Outflank Maneuver

Fifth Army Captures Mt. Marrone   Gain Threatens German Positions Around Cassino

ALLIES TAKE HILL NEAR CASSINO   Mount Marrone Is Captured, Menaces German Positions

ALLIES IN MOST IMPORTANT GAIN ~ ON CASSINO LINE   Fifth Army Smashes Forward For Mile, Captures Mt. Marrone and Ends Lull of Past Month.   ALLIES OPEN APRIL IN BOMBING OF GERMANY   Swiss City Is Bombed By Mistake, Number Report ed Killed When Structures Are Blasted.

“Overwhelm Strong German Defenses To Score Important ” Allied Victory In Italy

Drive Threatens Outflanking of Cassino Front    Strong Defenses Are - Overwhelmed Under Heavy Artillery Fire

HOLD WILLKIE ~ FUNERAL RITES   New Yorkers Pay Tribute to Political Leader

FINAL TRIBUTE.     ~PAID WILLKIE   NOTABLES" GATHER ‘FoR FU: “NERAL SERVICES“AFTEE .THOUSANDS WALK : PAST BIKE: :

South Pacific Commander Says Japs Being Beaten At “Own Vicious Game”

American Forces Advance on Roer; East Saar Invaded, Other Forces _ Rip Clear Through Maginot Defenses

FOE WITHDRAWS TOLINESFOR LAST SHOWDOWN   East Bank of Roer May Be Site for Battle

Firing Squad Executes Ciano   ll Duce’s Son-in-Law One of 4 Blackshirts Slain As Traitors

COUNT CIANO WAS EXECUTED TODAY   Mussolini’s Son-in-law  Put to Death With Others.

Christmas Workers, Even Children, Must Have Social . Security Cards

TANKS AND INFANTRY OF ALLIED ARMIES IN SMASHING CAMPAIGN  DESTRUCTION OF CREAM OF GERMANY’S FORCES

British, Canadian and Ameriean Troops Swiftly Collapsing Huge Nazi  Pocket in France.   END OF NAZI ARMY IS LATE PREDICTION

Escape Route NowLess Than 16 Miles Wide   Canadians Cross River Near Falaise In New  All-Out Attack; Yanks Seize Alencon, Surround Argentan; Paris Is Prize Of Battle

Trapped Germans Fight Confused And Gruelling Battle For Survival

Cream Of Nazis Forces Caught In Jaws Of Pincers   Yanks Driving North, Canadians South As Nazis Try To Escape Clutches of Death

100,000 GERMANS FIGHTING CONFUSING AND GRUELLING BATTLE IN NORMANDY TRAP   Gen. Eisenhower, in Rare Order of the Day to All Men In Forces Sees "Definite Opportunity For  Major Victory"   AMERICAN ARMOR IS NARROWING ESCAPE GAP

Alli es Spurred To New Effort  By Eisenhower      U.S. Tanks and Infantry, and Canadian Forces Swiftly Collapse Huge Nazi Pocket   Fall of Paris Like Ripe Plum Possible   German Escape Route Nar rowed to 16 Miles; Enemy Flees; Argentan Surrounded

ALLIED GAIN {§ 1-12 MILES IN DAY   Escape Hole Is Narrowed To Less Than 16 Miles   GREATEST VICTORY   Of Invasion May Be Scored, Eisenhower Says; Canadians In New Drive

100,000 NAZIS IN NORMANDY   Cream of German Forces Fleeing Toward Paris

German Armies In France Face Destruction   Yanks, Canadians And British Clamp Jaws Of Pincers

Gain 7-12 Miles; Canadians Advance   American Armored Spearheads Close Around Argentan—Narrow Escape Gap To 16 Miles--Germans Mowed Down by Hundreds—Allied Planes Fill the Sky

‘Military Miracle If the Germans Should Get Out Anywhere Near Whole,’ Says Allied Officer

U.S., British Converging ON Escape Route   American Armored Spearheads Sweep In Around Argentan ~——Canadians Active

AMERICAN INFANTRY: 4S ADVANCED 12 MILES Fyt= NEW OFFENSIVE TODgkm   Canadian Tanks and Infantry Ca AY  Forward With Major Attack Which Gair_ wo Miles  And Crossed Laison River Towa      ‘alaise

American Forces Advance Seven To Twelve Miles While Canadian Armored Infantry Smashes Forward On New Offensive — Cream Of German Forces In Northwestern Europe Threatened

CANADIANS ALSO LUNGE AHEAD IN NEW OFFENSIVE   Allies Tighten Vise Around 100,000 Nozis — Paris’ Fall May Come Soon

[New Major Attack Launched By Canadians; Yanks Gain From 7 To 12 Miles

Yanks, Canadians Only 16 Miles Apart Today   100,000 Confused Germans Believed Caught in Pocket

7 10 12-MILE ADVANCES FOR ALLIED TROOPS   New Offensive in France Aimed at Destructicn of Large German Force Jammed in Pocket   By GLADWIN HILL

Narrow Germans’ Kseape Corridor To Less Than 16 Miles   Yanks Push Forward 7 to 12 Miles as Canadian Armored Forees Launch Drive To Seal Nazi Trap

ESCAPE AVENUE TE MILES WIE   Allies Have Fleeting Chance To Score Biggest Victory in West.   SEEK TO DESTROY FOE

Attack Huge Nazi Pocket   Eisenhower Says Greatest Victory in West Possible In ‘Fleeting Moment’   Escape Gap Narrow   Under Shellfire Now; Canadians Attack After Yank Imperils Germans

Escape Hole Narrowed To 10 Miles   Canadian Infantrymen Strike Ahead in Drive Near Falaise

Huge German Force Has Escape Hole Less Than Sixteen Miles Wide   Eisenhower Declares Allies Have Opportunity For A Great Victory.

Escape Gap Cut to Less than 16 Miles as All Allied Forces Drive in—Success May Take Paris without Battle

Canadians. Struck. at® Destruetion of the Cream of: Ger‘man Forces in. Nort western: Europe:   AMERICANS ADVANCE REACHED 7:-TO 12° MEEES   “Tt Will Be a Miracle if the  Gernians Should Get. Out: Anywhere. Near .Whole,”.__ Allied Officer Declared.

ESCAPE GAP IS LESS THAN 16 MILES IN WIDTH   Allies Plunge Forward in. Opportunity to Score Greatest Major Victory

Germans Fight To Break Out   Armies Near Junction To Close Big Trap  American, British

GERMANS BATTLE DESPERATELY 10 ESCAPE VIA GAP   No Word Released On Positions East Toward Paris, South

Allies Closing In On Fleeing ‘German Hordes   Americans Sweep 7 To 12 Miles; Canadians Launch New Offensive

Escape Gap Narrowed To 16 Miles   Allied Leader Sees Chance for Maier Vietery

New Offensive Threatens To Destroy Cream of Germany's Forces In Northwest Europe

Allied Armies Launch Mighty Drive on Enemy   Small Gap Remains Through Which Foe May Escape Yanks

News Day And Night   Doughboys Advance Seven Miles And Canadians Smash On In Offensive   Escape Gap Is Cut To Bare 16 Miles   Eisenhower's Order Spurs Troops To Greatest Victory Of War

Only 16-Mile Escape Path Still Is Open   Yanks Strike Rapidly Ahead As Canadians Punch Forward 2 Miles In Giant Pincers

90,000 Allies Storm Defenses Of Capital City   Germans Pour Troops Against Beachheads At Nettuno, Anzio

Yank Infantrymen Maks ing New Chapter in Battle History.   TURN BACK STRONG GERMAN ATTACKS   90,000 Allied Troops Have Driven Inland Below Rome.

Nazis Are Pouring Reinforcements Down  From North Italy   Germans Still Fighting Desperately On Gustav Line Despite Battle to Rear.

GERMANS POUR REINFORCEMENTS INTO MAIN DEFENSE LINES IN ITALY   Hand-To-Hand Battles Raging As Americans Meet Enemy On Apnroaches Tan Rome.

TALKS START WITH STALIN IN MOSCOW   Prime Minister Churchill Plunges Immediately Into Conferences With Russian Premier

CHURCHILL, STALIN DISCUSS ISSUES IN MOSCOW TODAY   First Discussion Between the Two Occurred Yesterday Shortly After Churchill Arrived--May Continue For a ‘Enll Week .

Churchill Plunges Immediately Into Talks With Stalin   Talks May Deal With Occupying Germany Russia War on Japs

Churehill- And Stalin Confer On War Issues   Polish Problem on Agenda; Russia’s Eventual Entry Into Jap War Held Possibility

Allied Chiefs ToConfer Entire Week   Churchill and Stalin Jump Right Into War and Peace Talks

CHURCHILL OPENS TALKS IN MOSCOW:   ‘No Hint of What Allied Lead ers Are Discussing, Prob - ably Routine Problems

Churchill And Stalin Confer In Moscow:   _ Numerous ‘Pressing - Questions. Under - Probable Discussion

NAZIS HOPE     EEN Gok arcu gaia      DR, BOWEN DIES AT FORT DODGE   Widely Known Physician Formerly of Whittemore

Heavier the Hog the Less the Money Under Unique Market Conditions

J apanese Run ‘When They  See a Marine   For First Time on Guam Flee Instead  Of Fighting

Tire Rations  Are Leaner   Civilians sto Get 20 to 40% Fewer in °44 Than Had Been Expected

‘RUBBER DIRECTOR SAYS TIRE FAMINE NOW ON FOR ARMY, INDUSTRY, MOTORIST

Tire Famine Is Now On   Fewer For Civilians; Trucks, _Bus Hauling May Be Cut

Tire Famine  Is Expected   Slash In Civilian’s Use Seen This Year

DELEGATES. ARE ARRIVING IN CHICAGO   Wallace Faces Fight From Half Dozen Hopefuls

Democrats Gather for Convention   Leaders Are Silent About Second Place

Vice Presidential Hopefuls Begin Chicago Scramble   Favorite Son Groups Active; F.R.-Wallace Messages in Prospect

Hillman Says Labor, Liberals Will Flect FDR  * C10 Poli tical Action _ Leader Calls Election

FOR Announces — _Understeting ~~ With DeGaulle   French Leader Receives -—De Facto Recognition—Ac Authority

Two Russian Armies Force Germans Back   One Reaches River Tisa on Way to Budapest

RED ARMY OFFENSIVE SWEEPING FORWARD IN DRIVE. TO ' CLEAN OUT BALKANS -

P--OsIAN DRIVE CNGULFING BUINAPEST   Nazis Pressed Back After Defenses Are Outflanked by Reds

PROPOSE WIDE TAX REFORMS FOR MICHIGAN   Win In Fight To Assess Realty At True Cash Value

PROPOSE NEW TAX REFORMS   State Tax Study Committee Recommends Sales Tax Setup Be Changed

RED CROSS DRIVE PLANS ARE MADE   Junior Organization to. Complete Membership Drive by' Nov. 22. ~

RED GROSS Dave PLANS ARE MADE   Junior Crganization to Complete Membership Drive by Nov. 2)

SEES ESSSSSSESSSO SES SESS OSS OSES SES SOOEOEOSDESEES  THE WAR TODA Y

The War Today   No Change Seen in Stalin’s © Views in Recognizing Badoglio

The War Today  Stalin Has Not Committed Himself In Recognizing Badoglio.

RECOGNITION OF BADOGLIO’S — ITALIAN GOVERNMENT BY REDS DOESN'T REATTY MEAN MIICH

RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF BADOGLIO REGIME NOT SEEN AS PERMANENT; BALKAN KINGS IN PREDICAMENT

Today’s War Moves Appropriate Time Not Near  for Italians to Change Rulers

-t he War £oday— Stalin Recognition Of Badoglio’s Regime No Sign He’s Let Down Reds

WAR TODAY   re:  Hadoglio Regime, Merely Commits Self During Eniergency.  stalin, hi Hesognighig

DR. PRITCHARD TO SUCCEED PRESBYTERIAN SECRETARY OF MISSIONS      Atlantan To Succeed Secretary of Home Missions September 1, Conference Decides

YANKS PUSHED OUT OF SCHMIDT BY BITTER GERMAN TANK ATTACK   VOSSENACK POSITIONS STRENGTHENED DESPITE ENEMY ACTION; ALLIES ADVANCE IN HOLLAND

YANKS FORCED BACK FOR HALF MILE IN FIGHT   Local Gains Scored - Elsewhere by Americans Along 500 Mile Front

Yanks Driver Back Half -Mile By Tank- Paced Enemy Attack   Allies in Holland Drive 2  Miles Deeper Into Maas Bulge

U, S. Troops Strengthen Their Positions At Vossenack, Break Up Attack Near Hurtgen

Germans Hit Back On Aachen Front   Counterattack Recaptures Town Taken Yesterday by American Troop:

Tank-Supported Nazis Rewin Schmidt; Resistance Stiff In Plunge Past Aachen   Oust Nazis From Greece; British Land At Salonika

Temperatures   Hitlerites Advance In Third Attack, Led By Tank Troops

Allied Soldiers 28 Miles From Rhine   ..Lecal Gains Scored Along 500-Mile Front

NAZIS RETAKE SCHMIDT IN HEAVY BLOWS   Village, Captured by the Americans Yesterday, Lies 15 Miles Southeast of Aachen,'Scene of a Doughbey Offensive. ©

SUPPORTED BY TANKS GERMANS RECAPTURE VILLAGE OF SCHMIDT: FIGHTING ALONG ENTIRE LINE

AMERICANS DRIVEN: OUT OF CAPTURED GERMAN VILLAGE   TANK-SUPPORTED ENEMY ATTACKS LAUNCHED SOUTHEAST OF AACHEN

Nazi Counter-Attack Drives Yanks Out of New-Won Towr   Bitter Fighting Rages on Limited Seale in Forest Southeast of Aachen

German Tanks Spearhead Day Assaults   Village of Schmidt, Captured Friday, Lost Again as Enemy Mounts Counterblows; Americans Hold On at Vossenack, Hurtaen

Marines Slaying Japs In Close Range Fighting. Halsey Returns To U. S.

No Rest For the Japanese   Suffer Raids Over Wide Areas; 2100 Are Killed On Gloucester   Admiral Halsey Predicts An Early Allied Celebration  in Tokyo When Germany Falls

BORNEO OIL BASE OF JAPS BOMBED    FOUR-HOUR ATTACK MADE ON BALIKPAPAN—REFINERIES, ' - AITRDROMES HIT,

U.S. Prisoners Mostly Well Treated By Nazis and Japs, House Reports

Nazis Treating Captives Okay  Prisoners In Japan Faring Fairly Well

PAUBEHG FIND DIFFERENCE IK ENEMY CAMPS   Americans Not Badly Off in Germany; Betier Than at Jap Bases.

Congress Gives Report On War Prisoners’ Care   Nazi Treatment  Of Yanks Humane

Yank Prisoners in Germany, J apan Humanely Treated, Congress Is Toldi

Yonk Prisoners Of Nazis Humanely Treated, House Committee Renorts

Japs’. Care Only Fait; Eneinie Held in This Country: are Not: Pampered

U.S. Prisoners Treated ‘Good’ In Nazi Camps   Japs Treat Those Held In Homeland Best. Report Shows

AMERICANS IN PRISON CAMPS WELL TREATED   Report Says Japs Treating Men Much Better

NazisHumane In Treatment Of Prisoners   Captives Fare Better In Japan Than in Occupied Areas

GIs Held In Germany  Are Treated Humanely   House Military Group Makes Report: Says Axis Prisoners Treated Well Here

Report U.S. Prisoners in Japan Prope Treated Better ‘Phan in Occupied Land.

GERMANS TREAT PRISONERS WELL   HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORTS FINDINGS ON WAR PRISONERS

U.S. Prisoners In Germany Found To Be Humanely Treated  Americans In Japan Proper Fare Better Than Those Held By Enemy In Occupied Territory

Prisoners In Germany And Japan Get Fair Treatment, Investigation Discloses

CONDITION OF CAPTIVE YANKS REPORTED FAIR   Germans Treat Prisoners Humanely ; Japs Improving Camps

Treatment Of ‘Prisoners In Reich ‘Humane’   House Probers Find Axis Captives In America Not Pampered.

ROUTED NAZIS INFLIGHT T0 NEW OFFENSE   American Tanks and Troops Ordered to Wipe Out Enemy Forces.

GEN. CLARK SAYS FLIGHT SO PRECIPITATE FIFTH ARMY HAS LOST CONTACT

Liberation of Italian — Capital Said Complete   Two Partially Smashed German Armies Reported Retreating In Wild Disorder

Rome Found Undamaged as Allies Enter —   20,000 Prisoners Taken; Nazis Outrun Yanks For New Line

Eternal City Is First Axis-Held Capital In  Europe Liberated  From Hitler's Grip

Clark Calls Take Stepping-Stone to German Surrender, 600 Enemy Tanks, Vehicles Destroyed, Highways, Bridges Bombed to Halt Retreat, All Alban Hills in Allied Hands

Partly Smashed German Armies Flee From Rome   Liberated Capital Has Taken On Carnival Air

ritth Army Loses Contact With Huns Fleeing From Rome   Allies Given Royal Welcome Upon Entering Eternal City

Heavy Artillery Fire, Bombing Precede Attack   British Troops Enter Burning Suburbs of City

British 2nd Army Storming Defenses Of Nazi-Held Caen   Gen. Montgomery’s Troops Fight Way Into Burning Saburbs For Showdown Battle Wirth Hutleriies

Allies Take The Offensive  Against Japanese In India   Three Small Enemy Defensive Positions Northeast Of Imphal Plain Taken; Fighting In Kohima Area Unchanged; Allies Rule Air

Allies Smash Thru Flank Of Jap Are Besieging Imphal   Tank-lLed Infantrymen Capture 3 Enemy ~ Strongpoints

Swarms of Infantry,  Armor Pacing Assaul  Allies Admit Sav age ( Counter- -Blow  A?lawe

Nazis Punch Several Holes In Allied Line      Americans Ride Out German Blows In Belgium And Luxembourg Sectors

C0-ORDINATES WITH SAVAGE V-BOMB BARRACE   Americans Ride the German Blow and Put Up  Increasingly Stiff Resistance as Shock of Attack Paacag

FIRST ARMY HURLED BACK INTO BELGIUM ON 70-MILE FRONT   linemy Also Surges Back Into Luxembourg; Heaviest Nazi Drive Cracks U. 8S. Lines To Depth Of Several Miles   Ry JAMES MeGLINCGY

Strong Counter-Blow Aimed at First Army   Spokesmen Admit Gravity of the Situation  As Cerman Onslaneht Vounts in burs

Counter - Attacks Spreading North; Stake Everything   First Army Spokesmen Admit Enemy Offensive Poses Grave Situation

 Saipan, Tinian Isles Hit by Davlicsht Raid:   Yanks Piant Fiag on Two More Atolls in Marshalls Group

Yanks Attack Jap Bases in Marianas   U. S. Forces Plant Flag on Two Atolls in Marshalls

Heavies Go Into Action   Marshalls Bases Are Utilized in New Offensives

Yanks Boml 2 Jap Bases In Marianas   Land-Basec Plaves Smash Installations At Saipan, Tinian

Army and Navy Planes Strike Marianas Group   Targets Are Less Than 1,400 Miles South of Tokyo

Arrest Trio For Diverting Nylon   Charged With Making Stockings From Material Needed By Army.

BRITISH BLOGK NAZI ATTACKS IN CAEN AREA   Threaten Large Airfield, Widen Foothold Over River

Boy Dies In New Guinea But Medal, Homestead In Texas And Proud New Fighting Ship Keep Memory Green

GIGANTIC PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM SET   TATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE PREPARED FOR POSTWAR PUMP-PRIMING

Gigantic Public Works Program All Set For After War, C. Of C. Head Reveals   Distillery Is Accused - Of Breaking Price Code

Home Works Plan Urged © By Johnson  For Nation   Would Allow States, Localities To Help

Battle Rises. In Intensity For Cassino   Allied Artillery Fires Point-Blank

Infantrymen Move Slowly Up Hillside   Field Guns Back Foo! roops as Allies Take Over More  Buitdiiiae

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USE BIG GUNS ON GERMANS AT CASSING   Parachutists Under Fire of Allied Artillery As Battle Reaches Furious, Pitch At Continental Hotel Ruins.   800 Sorties

Allies Gain Slowly. In Cassino Fighting   Infantrymen, Using Everything From Flame-Throwers to Bush Knives, Advance Against Bitter Germen Resistance and Terrain Handicaps

“Save Your.”  WASTE. PAPER.  For The City. Wide  PICKUP’  Friday, March 91 ' (Pickups for: Yural areas ‘wi   Battle Rises. In Intensity. For Cassino:   Allied Artillery” Fires- Point-Blank

Cassino Battle Rises to Its Wildest Pitch   Allies’ Artillery Blasts at Nazis in Hotel, Other Spots

Wild Battle Rages for Cassino   Allied Artillery Blasts at Nazi Parachutisis

Point-blank Fire Directed at Nazis Clinging to Ruins   New Zealanders Inch Forward In Bitter Hand-to-Hand Cassino Struggle

Guns Move Up To Hit Cassino   Allied Troops Inch Ahead Avainst Nazi Fighters

liberaturs Bomb [wo Jinia, 21st Time This Mont!  Navy Reporls Aircraf  Runs Into Heavy Fire Quer teland

Japs Call For More Troops   Fighting On Four Main Sectors On Salween

Dewey Congratulates Pres.. Roosevelt AndCalls For Cooperation 10n Americans Part

New York Govetnor Feels that Re, gardless of His} Defeat, Campi nig Has Brought N;

DEFERMENT FOR MINERS SOUGHT   Hershey Sends: Orders Out to Certain States

in Effect Demands Poles Accept Red Borders With Lanc  From Germany

Churchill Says FDR And Stalin Are Behind Him   President And Russian Chief Are Asked To Attend Parley In England

Red Demand for Slice, OfEast Poland Backed ;   New Warsaw Rule Held Faiture; Nation to Get German Territory

FDR, Stalin  Are: Invited  To Conference Upon Borders   -Polish Frontiers Needing. Attention

Long Awaited Conferenceon Oil Announced   Names of Officials to Represent American Interests Are Revealed  ARABIA PRIME SUBJECT

U.S.. Britain Confer On OF   Prime Subject Of Joint Discussions Pipeline Across Saudi Arabia.

British-U.S. Oil Talks Are Planned   Cordell Hull Will — Head U. S. Delegates Conference to Be. Held in Washington

Last Phase Italian Fight Draws Near   Americans Cross Arno River From Florence To Sea

ALLIES REPORT ALL OF FOES IN ITALY DOOMED   Heavy Fighting Rages Wher American Fifth Army Spans Arno River

Allies Open New Drive in Italy   Kighth Army Breaks Nazi Gothic Line— Entire Force Menaced

BULLETIN. ROME. (/P)-American troops of the Fifth army today captured Pisa.

British 8th Army Rips Through German Gothic Line On 20-Mile Front

Gates To Po Valley Onened   Complete Destruction tion Of Germans In Italy Near.

Nazi Line Broken In Italy as Allies Launch New Drive   “Americans Plunge Ahead in Florence Area While British Smash Through Vaunted Gothic Line in Classic Maneuver

British Eightt Penetrate Gothic Line   Expect Destruction 0 All Nazi Forces hi Italy Soon, Claimed

BRITISH BREAK GOTHIC LINE ON 20-MILE FRONT   YANKS CROSS ARNO RIVER WEST FROM FLORENCE EO SEA

BRITISH - CRACK GOTHIC FORTS   Complete Annihilation 0: All Nazis In Italy  Seen Imminent

Gothic Line Broken Along 20-Mile Front   Gates to Po Valley Opened; Only Matter of Time Before All German Forces in Italy Completely Destroyed

OFFENSIVE DRIVES NAZIS FROM ITALY   Eighth Army Troops Have Breached Enemy’s Gothic Line qu 20M  Livanwt 

Eighth Army Rips 4 Miles Into Nazis’  Gothic Line   Breach Made On 20-Mile Front; Fifth Attacks And  Ceaceas Arna River

Americans Lunging Across Arno River   Negro. Division, Aided by Japanese, Take -Objectives— Broad Offensive in Italv Opens

GOTHIC LINE DEFENSES AREBROKEN   Yanks Cross Arno In Spectacular Drive From Florence

British 8th Cracks Gothic Line on 20-Mile Front —   Americans Open Assault as Final Phase of Battle for Italy Opens with Complete Destruction Nazi Forces Goal

Allied Army In Italy Smashes German Defense   Rome (7)—American troops of the Fifth army today captured Pisa.

Germans Are About Crushed In North Italy   British Have  Penetrated Nazis’ Gothic Line Along 20-mile Front, Opening into Po Valley.

British Eighth Army Smasnes Gothic Line      Great French City OF Lyon Totterine

GOTHIC LINE IN ITALY BROKEN BY 8TH ARMY   Next to Last Phase of Italian Campaign Opens Way to Po Valley

FIFTH ARMY ALSO BEGINS AN ATTACK   ¥ Yanks Cross Arno From _ Florence West to Sea as  Tommies Establish 20i Mile Breach Along the  i Adriatic.

Br ‘itish Open Gate Toward Po River, Italy   Germany’s Yaunted Gothic Line Broken by Eighth Army Along Twenty Mile Front

Po Valley's Gates Opened by Eighth Army Breakthrough   British Army Troops Drive 20 - Miles Into * Naz: Gothic Line

10 Miles Gothic Line Shattered   New Drive Opens Way to Po Valley

NAZIVAUNTED GOTHIC LINE IN  TTALY BROKEN   Opened the Gates Along a 20Mile Front to the Po Valley.   NEXT TO LAST POSITION   Declared Only Matter of Time  Before Complete Destruction  of Nazi Forces in Italy.

20-MILE SLASH IS _ MADE BY BRITS IN NAZIS’ GOTHIC LINE   Eighth Army Troops by Gaining Wide Breakthrough, Open Gates to Po Valley— Complete Nazi Destruction Forseen

Nazi Gothic Line in Italy Broken  Sth Arm Moves Up on a 20-Mile Front

Open Gates to Po Valley on “90-Mile Front    New Drive Carries Yanks Across Arno From Florence to Sea; Nearo Troops Used

On Move Again — In Italy   Fighting Rages Along Whole Front As Allies Crash Through Last Barrier Before Po

Gothic Line Cracked by British Army   Last of Fixed German Defenses in Italy; Heavy Fighting Rages

GATES OPE TO PO RIVER _ VALLEY   Destruction Of Nazi Units In Italy Is Assured   FIFTH ARMY   Smashes Across Arno River; Heavy Fighting Along Entire Front

British, Yanks Crack Defenses Near Adriatic   Drive To Clear Nazis Out Of Northern Italy Under Way

British Troops Cut Gothic Line, Open Po Valley   Lact Of German Prepared Defenses In Italy Gone; Yanks At Arno River

Club Women Entertain Large Group Tuesday At Annual Guest Nicht   B, P. W. Club Women Hear Address By . C. D. Roseberry. .

Club Women Entertain Large. Group Tuesday At Annual Guest Nicht   BPW: Club Woren Hear Address By. “OCD. Roseherry..

Hildreth, Hale, Pettis Win In Maine Primary      Jullien Democrat Governor Choice

Last Japs Routed On Imphal Road   British, Scottish ©  Forces Are Joined

British Control... Vital India Route   Last Japs Driven From Supply Road

ALLIES BLAST REICH, PLOESTI   Nazi Airfields And Transportation Facilities Hit

Two-Way Air Blows Shake Nazis Again   30 Fighters Lost In Heavy Assault

U.S. Planes Strike Twin Air Attacks Against Foe   Airfields And Rich Oi Regions Raided

Allies Aid Reds With Air Raids Near Red Fron!   Second Group Roars __ From Britain

Twin Blows Struck From Britain, Italy   30 U. S. Fighters Fail to Return After New Blows

RAIDERS AGAIN STRIKE IN TWIN AERIAL ATTACK   Rucharest and Ploesti Among Targets of Yank Bombers

U.S. Airmen Blast  ~ Bucharest, Polesti   Powerful Aerial Forces From Britain And Italy Possily 2,000 Planes, Attack Several Vital Axis Targets In Widespread Areas

Thirty, American Fighters Missing: 18 German Planes Shot Down in Sweeps on Reich, Ploesti. Bucharest

2,000 Yankee Planes Hit Axis Targets   Bombers Based in Italy Smash Bucharest, Ploesti

BOMBERS HAD BUCHAREST AND PLOESTY FIELDS   Nazis Hit in Two-Way Attack from Britain and Italy; 30 Fighters Lost.

1-WAY ATTACK ALSO SMASHES NAZI AIRFIELDS   Thirty Yank Fighters Fail To Return From German Raid

American Air Forces Also Blast Reich   Bucharest and Plesti Given Heavy Blows To Aid Russians

Fighter Swarms Hit Reich Fields   Americans Lose 30 Planes In Sweep Over Europe

2000 Yankee Planes Launch Double Blast   Vital German Points Ravaged;-30 Fighter Planes Are Missing

YANK AIR POWER > BLASTS REICH IN MIGHTY ATTAGK   e 2,000 U. S. Planes Hit Axis From Invasion Coast to Ploesti Oil Fields

American Heavies Blast Ploesti, Bucharest Centers   Air Forces Sweep Over Ten German Occupied Airfields

Yank Fliers in Blast in Balkans  Drop Bombs [50 Miles Behind Nazi Lines

Americans Hit From Tialy And British Bases   Saf Germau Airfields and Transportation Facilities and Bomb Romanian Oil Fields   30 U.S, Fighters Are Lost i in Raids   Largest Loss Ever Suffered in Single Day’s Operation; 18 German Fight-  ers Baesed in Air

Bucharest Is Again Bombed  By U. S, Flyers   Shoot Down 18 Nazi Planes And Lose 30 Fighters

Huge Fleets of U. S. Plane: Pound Hitler's Fortress; Rumanian Targets Included

U. 5. BOMBERS STAGERAIDS OVER ROMANIA   PLOESTI OIL CENTER AND BUCHAREST HAMMERED

U.S. Fighter Planies Strike At Nazi Base:   Airfields, Railway Lines Attacked; Estimated 2,000 Craft Involved In Day’s Operations

Targets: Hit  In Romenie  aaa Omang  And Germany  Buchiatest, Ploesti “Giver . Pounding. Airfields in Reich Attacked  30 FAIL TO RETURN Some Penetrate as Fan  as Airdrome Near Raplin

Americans Hit In Support of Russian Army   30 U. S. Fighters Fail to Return for Heaviest Fighter  Loss in Single Day

BUCHAREST HIT BY U. 5, AIRMEN, PLOEST! BLASTEL   German Airfields and Transportation Facilities Struck in Support of Russian Army.   30 PLANES ARE LOST, 18 NAZIS SHOT DOWN   Targets Sitrafed From Low Levels in Daylight Assault by Armada of 2,000 Cratt.

STATE REJECTS BERRIEN PLEA   16-Million Increase In County’s Valuation  To Stand

Allied Assault Hurls Germans  Back 15 Miles   Americans, French Smash Through Hitler Line, Inflict Heavy Loss On Hun Forces   Drive To Within 30 Miles Of Anzio   Nazis Retreating From Line At Rapid Rate: Los. ing Vast Amount Of Equipment

Poles Take Hitler Line Anchor City   Advancing Allies Only 25 Miles From Beachhead at Anzio

Stricter Job Regulations Planned To Halt Exodus   War Manpower Commission Preparing To Tract Down Straying Workers And Force Them Back Into Production Lines

W.M.C. TO TRACK DOWN STRAYING WAR WORKERS AND RETURN THEM TO PLANTS.

Truck, Bus Operators Urged To Recap Tires Soon, Reduce Speed   Many Drivers May Go Out Of Business Unless Tire-Careful

PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR VESPER SERVICE AT LINDNWOOD   Dr. Harry M. Gage WIll Give ai Address at Services Sunday Evening.

= Mail Handlers In 36th vision APO Speed Christmas ‘ To Texas Fighting Men

Nazi Prisoners From New War Front In Normandy Expect “Stalemate” Soon

Neutrals Told Not To Harbor War Criminals   Those Who Do Will Feel Allied Wrath, Declares Hull In Warning

(SHEEPRAISERS) Stewart Electric Clippers, $26.95 SEARS ROEBUCK & CO.—Ad.

Allied Blockade ~ Hurting Japan   AIR AND NAVAL FORCES SHUT OFF NIPS FROM WORLD

U.S. Blockade  Paralyzing J ap Islands   §00-Mile Garrison Chain Supplied Only by Small Ships   FACE DISASTER   New Philippine Strikes Sink Freighter: Halmahera Hit Again

BLOCKADE CUTS  OFF SHIPMENTS  TO JAP ISLANDS POSES THREAT TO  ENEMY HOLDINGS ’ §OUTH OF CHINA

SEA-AIR BLOCKADE PARALYZING JAP ISLAND HOLDINGS   Blasting of Vital Shipping Routes Below the Philippines Jose Ultimate Threat To All Nip Bases South of  , at a

Air Blockade Paralyzes   Jap Strongholds In South Pacific Starving to Death

JAP’S HOLDINGS SOUTH OF CHINA ARE THREATENED   Naval Blockade Over Sea Lanes  Has Started

Blockade Spread Creeping Paralysis Across Vital Jap Sea Lanes Below Philippines

Navy Blockading The Philippines   23 Jap Planes Knocked Out In Last Raid On Halmahera.

THREAT TO JAP   Creeping Paralysis Spreads On Sea Lanes Below . Philingines.

Paralyzing Jap Sea Lanes   - : Bee snc Re Sc eS a i a Tie  Bombs From Air Sink 1,000-Ton  Japanese Freishter

U. S. Blockade Threatens Japan’: iStolen Empire —   MacArthur Paints Graphic Picture Of Discester Now Faced by Enemy

Tighten Allied Blockade Over Jap Sea Lanes   New Air Raid Carried Out Against Nips On Philippines; Hit 23 Planes On Island

Blockade Hems In Philippines  Japs’ South China Holdings Periled by Allied Sea, Air Fleet

BLOCKADE HITS JAP SEA LANES   ‘Allied Sea-Air Attacks -  Paralyzing Japanese Supply Lines

Allied Sea, Air Blockade Threatening   Jap. Shipping   Nippon’ Ss: Sea Lanes ‘In Pacific Crippled

Air and Naval Blockade Paralyzes Japanese Sea Lanes Below Philippines

 Sea, Air Blockade Spreading Creeping Paralysis Over Jap Lanes Feeding East Indies   Allies Pose Ultimate Threat to All Enemy Holdings South of China

Blockade Perils Jap Holdings   MacArthur Discloses *Makeshift Shipping” As Philippines Hit

Japs Lack Ships ToSupply Bases  * Planes: ‘And Sea Force: Take Henvwy Toll 

PLANES BLAST ENEMY TANKS   Thendedholes Make Attack On Nazi Armored Force In Nancy Area

RAF ARMADA SMASHES AT RUHR TOWNS   Rhineland Centers Bombed in Great Strength by British in Continued Air Offensive.   Rain Squalls

Japs Fall Back Along Railroad ~ ~ InBurma Sector  Offer Little Fight te  British Who Occupy

Remnants of Jar Forces in Burma Retreat  Offer Only Slight Opposition to British Troops

BRITISH - SPANISH WAR THREATENED   Newspaper Warns Against Spanish Violation of Neutrality

Great Britain May Force. Showdown  With Spain   Attityde Stiffens  In Neutrality Dispute And May Mean War, Sunday Observer Says  HELSINKI BOMBED BY RUSSIAN PLANES  May Be Opening Move By Russia To Force Finland Out of War

BRITISH IRED BY ATTITUDE CF SPANISH   If Sharp Protests To Franco Are Ignored War May Develop; Demand Strong Action: Up To Franco.   Glorified Torpedoes

YANKS REDUCE JAP POSITIONS IN LEYTE TRAP   GRIM INFANTRYMEN PREVENT BREAK AT LIMON

THIRD TYPHOON HINDERS LEYTE BATTLE FORCES   Americans Fight Off New Jap Counter-Attacks, Make Progress In Limon Area

Typhoon Whips Leyte Fighters  Closing on Foe   Road-Block © Withstanding Continvous Jap Attack  Tin divin nwa

TYPHOON SLOWING FIGHT FOR LEYTE   Americans Fight Off New Thrust by the Japa/“ '  . wage

TYPHOON WHIPS YANK TROOPS ON LEYTE ISLAND   Fierce Winds And Walls Of Rain Hammer Fight sno EPrante   JAP COUNTER-ATTACK HAS BEEN REPULSED

TYPHOON RAKES LEYTE ISLANL   Mud - Begrimed Infantrymen Fight Off Furious CounterBlows; Tighten Grip Around Trapped Remnants

Jap Positions on Leyte Being Reducec   Enemy Attempting to Break Through Yank Trap

AMERICANS BEAT OFF JAP ATTACKS ON LEYTE ISLAND   Ring Closed Around Trapped Nipponese Remnants’ in ’ the Northern Ormoc Corridor.   WINDS AND RAIN  LASH BATTLE ZONE   Gen. MacArthur’s Headquarters Reports Progress in Reducing Positions Near Limon.

TYPHOON SLOWING FIGHT FOR LEYTE   Americans Fight Off New Thrust bythe Japa nego

ITALIANS NOW EATING BETTER   Bread Ration Increased; Allies Clamp Down On Black Markets

Soviet Forces Strike Within 33 Miles of Rail Line. ar  MANY TOWNS TAKEN  IN LATEST ATTACK   Collapse of the German Troops in the Dnieper Bend Imminent

Take 110 Towns, Kill 2,300 Nazis, Moscow Declares   Rapidly Approach Rumanian Border

TWO POWERFUL UNITS ADVANCE ON LONG FRONT   Russians in 33 Miles of Warsaw-Odessa Rail Artery; Retreat ‘Chaotic’

Enemy faces huge disaster as Russ drive   Vital rail lines are threatened

ONE OF GEN. VATUTIN’S ARMIES IMPERILS ODESSA-WARSAW RAILROAD AND NAZIS EVACUATION ROUTE FROM SOUTH.

Enemy Forces In South May Be Entrapped   Red Generals Keep Up Advances and Get @lose to Rumania

REDS PLUNGE TO 33 MILES OF VITAL RR   2300 Troops Killed as 11¢ More Towns Fall to Vatutin, Konev   MOSCOW PREDICTS END FOR 750,000 GERMANS

Soviets Gain Province Next  . To Rumania   Now Within 33 Miles Of Escape Railroad From Warsaw to Odessa  WIN MICH ROOTY

Soviets Drive On Foe’s Vital Railway Links   Two Powerful Russian Armies Capture 110 More Towns: Germans  In Dnieper Face Trap

SOVIETS STRIKE CLOSE TO VITAL ESCAPE RAILWAY   Hundreds Of Thousands Of German Troops Fac ing Disaster   IMMENSE BOOTY IS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS

Americans Hit Bonin Islands,  Tokyo Reports   Naval Task Force Sends Planes Against Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima Islands

Japs Report U.S. Task Force Attacks Bonins: Americans Seize Noemfoor

JAPANESE SAY BONIN ISLES ARE ATTACKED   Tokyo Radio Reports Aircraft From Naval Task Force Hit Two Points in Group, 600 Miles From Homeland.

AMERICANS RIP BONINS, 600 MILES OF TOKYO. SEIZE NEOMFOOR ISLE   NEW GUINEA BASE CAPTURE, MADE AFTER AERIAL POUNDING, GIVES FOOTHOLD FOR PHILIPPINES

Americans Invade  Noemfoor and  Smash “2 Bonins Forces Support Move  On Saipan, Hit Numerous Targets

MacArthur’s Men Land 100 Miles Farther West, Battie For Saipan Nearing Bloody Close, Chinese Still Resist

Noemfoor  Island Seized By US Forces   Most Westerly Penetration of Japan’s Ocean Empire; Bo-nin Islands Raided

ENEMY’S BASES POUNDED ANEW BY U.S. FORCES   Tokyo Reports American Raid: On Bonins to Support Last Invasions

NEW, HEAVIER BLOWS STRUCK AGAINST NIPS   Naval Task Force Operating in Enemy Waters, Says Tokyo. All Fronte  Flaming with Activity

Canadian Draftees Fight With Regulars, Townsfolk At Fort Frances, Ont.

CANADIAN HOME ARMY IN RIOTS   Draftee Troops Battle With Regulars At Fort Frances

Canadian Draftees Battle Regular Service Men and Ontario Civilians

County War Fund Now Totals $6189   CONTRIBUTIONS COME IN THE PAST WEEK FROM AIR BASE: TERLINGUA

‘Nazi Propaganda Campaign Grows Hysterical as Air Raids Continue

Chicago On June 26 Is GOP Choice   Halleck Predicts House Control for GOP In November Election.

Chicago Chosen By Republicans   Schedule Conventior Opening June 26

1944 National Meeting To Open June 26  Award Chicago GOP Convention

J, 0. ~ ARGENTINA AELATIGNS NEAR POINT OF GRISIS   May Take Sudden Turn for Worse, Diplomats Believe

Drive Wedges Into Line on Roer River   Nazis Strike Back to Push Yanks  From Two Towne

AMERICANS SEIZE OEGTOR OF SANK   Furious Battle Rages Before The Cologne Plain   PRESSURE GROWS   Allies Smash Nazi Attempt To Plant New Bridgehead On the Rhine River

Furious Battle Rages Before Cologne Plain As Germans Bring Out Air Force First Time In Months

Yanks seize 9 mile strip of industrial Ruhr; new dents driven in Roer line

But Americans Are Pushed Out Of Two Towns   Third Army Fichts Up to Saar Basin

Third Army Drives to Saar on Nine-Mile Front  MERZIG BRIDGE-IS WRECKED BY NAZIS  Bloody Battle Rages. at Edge of the Cologne Plain

ROER DEFENSE LINE CRACKED BY AMERICANS   PLAIN OF COLOGNE SCENE OF BLOODY CONFLICT

§-MILE SECT OF SAAR VALLEY TAKEN BY YANKS   Americans Are Pushed Back From Towns Between  Linnich And Julich   LUFTWAFFE SPRINGS INTO SUDDEN ACTION

Tribute Paid To Willkie By  District Women   County Group, Gathering for Program Thursday, Joins in Resolutions for Former Leader.

Six Perish In Mishaps   eae &7 22078 owe pow  Several Others Injured Two Dead on  a a ae

Sedition Trial Court Adjourns   First Six Prospective Jurors Disqualified

Russ Temper Peace Terms For Finlanc   Parliament Meets Mon day- for Important Government Announcement

Reds Modify Peace Terms   Finland Considers _ What Is Purported to Be More Moderate Terms

Russia Eases Finn Terms   Return of Viipuri, Hangoe Area 0.K.‘d; Reparations Asked

Parliament. Summoned  At Helsinki   Russians May Not Insist on Viipuri And Hangoe Area

Report Russia Eases Finnish Peace Terms   Parliament of Little Nation Called To Meet Monday

Russians Said To Have Modified Terms fo Finns  Fi ross i. Viip iipuri, Peninsu sla:

RUSSIA SOFTENS TERMS TQ FINNS   HELSINKI OBTAINS MODERATION IN ARMISTICE CONDITIONS AT. PARLEY.

RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS MODIFIED   Finnish Parliament Meeting. ls Set For Monday

Finns Get: New Terms From Reds   Conditions Said “Milder In Many Vital Respects”

BETTER PEACE OUTLOOK SEEN IN NEW MOVE   Parliament to Gather Monday to Discuss Red Proposals

Japan Defeat Seen Certain       Russian Newspaper Sees Allies Winning

PRAVDA SAYS JAPS* PLIGHT VERY SERIOUS   Russians Hear Nothing Can Save Nips From Crushing  Defeat

RUSS PAPER SAYS JAPS ARE-BEATEN   Claims Nothing Can Save Them From Defeat

Russia Foresees Total Jap Defeat   Says Nip Production Hopelessly Outclassed

Nazis Fail to Gain Ground in Series Of Powerful Assaults; Situation Now Well in Hand, Says Spokesman

Willkie Announces He Will Not Enter California Presidential Primary Poll

FDR, MacArthur And Nimitz Map Plans In Hawaii   Leaders Chart New Offensives To Bring Nips To Unconditional Surrender

U.S. President Holds Conferences With MacArthur, Nimitz   Roosevelt Pledges Return To Philippines, Renews Unconditional Surrender Terms To Japanese

President Reiterates American Goals, to Retake and Free the Philippines and to Drive Japan to Unconditional Surrender — Further Blows Coming Relatively Soon— Trip to Hawaii Made by Cruiser— ‘Halsey and Richardson at Parleys.

PRESIDENT HOLDS CONFERENCES WITH PACIFIC WAR HEADS  RALCOCTOC WIRZIT? ARN   MEETS NIMITZ AND MACARTHUR IN HONOLULU AFTER SEA TRIP

THE PRESIDENT HAS CONCLUDED VISIT TO PEARL HARBOR   Held First War Time Con ference With Gen Douglas MacArthur.   A THREE-DAY MEETING   Their Talks Covered Every Phase of the Quickening Pacific Conflict.

Roosevelt Inspects Hawaiians   Talks With MacArthur, Nimitz, Other U. S.: War Chieftains

President And Pacific Chiefs Map Strategy   Conference Covering War With Japs; Return To Philippines Is Promised

EF. D. Hawaiian Conference Revealed   GOES OVER PACIFIC WAR PLANS WITH MACARTHUR AND NIMITZ IN THREE-DAY STAY

Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor For War Talk:   President Spends Three Days In Military Conferences With Top Strategists of the Pacific

MacARTHUR, FDR CONFER   Pacific Goal Reiterated: To Retake And Free Philippines; Force Japs’ Surrender

MACARTHUR. ‘TO RETURN  ‘TO PHILIPPINES AND _ JAPAN, AWILL BE AMMERED' INTO. UNCONDI:'  _ “DITIONAL SURRENDER, PRESIDENT. DECLARE att “AFTER MEETING WITH HIGH ARMY AND: NAVY OFFICERS AT PEARL “HARBOR ;

LEFT SAN DIEGO AFTER RADIOTALK   U. S. Going Back Into Philip. pines’ With MacArthur Lead--

CONFERS WITH WAR CHIEFS AT PEARL HARBOR   Reiterates “Unconditional Surrender” As Offensive Is Intensified

President Met MacArthur at Pear! Harbor   New Offensives Against Japanese Reported Planned

Roosevelt In Conference In Pacific   Visits Pear! Harbor On Inspection Trip

President Visits Hawaii, Maps New Offensives Against Japanese i in  Conference With Pacific Commander:

New Drives On Japanese Planned On Trip Of FDR   President Was In Hawaii Three Days; Conferred With Nimitz, MacArthur On Strategy

VISIT-T0 PEARL. HARBOR IS PAID BY ROOSEVELT   Holds Conferences. With Military  Strategists   INSPECTS ISLAND   President Makes Brief Talks To Servieemen

LEADERS HOLD WAR TALKS AT PEARL HARBOR   Adm. Nimitz Among Officials Gathered  For Sessions

Pr esident Meets Pacific  — Leaders; Talks War Plan:   Roosevelt Confers With General MacArthur and Adm.  _ Nimitz in Hawaii and Views the Defenses of Icland 

F.D.R. Talks With Pacific  Commanders   "’ Says Gen. MacArthur Will Lead. Americans Back to Philippines  PLANS RADIO REPORT

ADMIRALS JOIN IN 3-DAY MEET ON PACIFIC WAR   President Warns Japanese to Surrender or Feel Full Might of U.S.

FDR Reviews War From Hawaii Base   President Declares U. S. Will Again Go to Philippines

MEETING HEL IN HONOLULU IN JULY   Nimitz, Other Ranking Officers In Conference   NEW OFFENSIVES   Planned For Pacific Front, President Says On Visit To Pearl Harbor

New Drives On Nippon Scheduled   News Of Three-Day Meet Of President, War Leaders, Ended July 29, Released

MacArthur And Nimitz At Parleys   President Completes Pacific Conferences On July 29

F.D.R. CONFERS WITH M ARTHUR AT HONOLULU   President At Pearl Harbor Ends Three-Day Strategy Talks

PRES. ROOSEVELT AN TAWAII3 DAYS, MAPS OFFENSIVES      Trip to Pearl Harbor Was Closely Guarded Secret; MacArthur and Nimitz Greet Him.   TRIP FROM SAN DIEGO ABOARD U. §. CRUISEF   President Holds First Wartime Meeting Across-theTable With His Allied Leaders of the Pacific.

New Attacks Against Japs Are Planned   Conferences Are Held With Chiefs Of Army And Navy

*FDR Conters With . Nimitz, MacArthur “On Honolulu Visit   Emphasizes Return To Free Philippines From Japs

Roosevelt Meets Admiral Nimitz, Gen. MacArthur   Historic Meeting Held at Honolulu

ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGNED IN HAWAII   Sidney Hiititnan’s Fourth Term Candidate Had MacArthur and Other Tops Come.In.   Secret From Home Folk

Full-Scale Offensive Set for Philippines; Attack Slated ‘Soon’   » MacArthur, Nimitz, Halsey Meet President in Momentous Parley; Pear! Harbor Defense ‘Amazins?

Roosevelt Confers With Staff At Pearl Harbor; Mae Arthur There   g * Says Japan Must Surrender Unconditionally

Roosevelt Meets Pacific Leaders   New Offensives Planned in  Late July Conference at Honolulu   ‘VISITS PEARL HARBOR

Commander-In-Chief Praises Amazing Conversion Of Jap-Wrecked Pearl Harbor Into Armed Bulwark.   Spends Three Days On Island

Roosevelt In Hawaii On Tour   Pans Fresh Blows Aguinst Japs With MacArthur, Nimitz

3 Days Spent in Hawall   President Meets Gen. MacArthur for First Time of War

CONFERS WITH MILITARY AND NAVAL CHIEFS   President’s Trip to Hawaii Is Carefully Guarded - Secret

Roosevelt Goes  To Pearl Harbor   Chief Executive Confers With Nimitz and MacArthur on Next Move Avsainst Nipponese

- Roosevelt _at Honolulu Conference   Reconquest of Philippines Is Near, President Has Announced

ROOSEVELT MEETS TOP COMMANDERS AT PEARL HARBOR   Plans to Smash Japan Into Unconditional  Surrender Mapped at Three-Day Conference.   M’ARTHUR AND NIMITZ TAKE PART IN TALKS   President Ins pects Island’s Defenses, Reviews Troops —tIrip Made Aboard Supercruiser.

FDR in Hawai, Meets MacArthur   President Spends Three Days * In Conference over Pacific War

President In Honolulu Concludes Talks On Quickening Pacific Conflict

ROOSEVELT IN CONFERENCE ON WAR IN PACIFIC      Discusses Plans With General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz

FDR CONFERS WITH PACIFIC COMMANDERS   Meets MacArthur and Others in Hawaii;  Map War Plans

President, Visiting Honolulu, ‘Renews Vow To MacArthur, Studies Plan To Crush Japs

SIPC MEET      First War-Tithe Conference Is Held With Gen. MacArthur.   COVER ALL WAR PHASES 

Holds Three-Day Strategy Talks; Visits Pearl Harbor, Other Installations

 ys . Roosevelt Visits  Pear! Harbor   Confers With Nimitz. MacArthur in ThreeDay Consultations

FDR Conduets War Council at  Pearl Harbor   Strategy for Defeat Of Japanese Mappec At Meetings With MacArthur, Others

F.D. RB. Confers in Hawaii  on Pacific War MacArthur. Other   MacArthur, Other High Commanders Take Part in Meet

Holds First Wartime Talk With Leaders   President Plans With Top Strategists on New Jap Offensives in Pacific   Arrived at Pear! Harbor July 26th

PLANS DRIVES WITH NIMITZ AND M'ARTHUR   President Inspects Pacific  Forces On Secret Vier

New Assault: Against Japs Are Outlined   Nimitz, Holsey Also. at-Parley' At Pear! Harber.

Three-day “Strategy Talks’ Over Pacific Conflict, Ended July 29th in Hawaiian Islands.   PLAN NEW DRIVES AGAINST JAPANESE

MacArthur Attended Conferences   President Spent Three Days Talking And Inspecting Pearl Harbor Defenses

Reveal President Boarded Cruiser for F ortress Island After Nominating Speech; See veltte Other Leaders; Every Phase  f  of Pacific Conflict Discussed,

Roosevelt Meets Pacific Leaders   New Offensives Planned in Late July Conference - at Honolulu   VISITS PEARL HARBOR   President Sees Intensive Training for. Coming  Operations

Chiel Executive Confers With MacArthur And Nimitz On Full Scope Of Pacific War

Views Bases, Sees Drives. On Japanese As Nearing   -Conferenées: Between, Leaders Are: Success

FR. In Hawai ‘Council of War   MacArthur, Nimitz and Other Top Strategists Confer With President; Plans for Drive on Philippines Hinted

FDR, MacArthur, Nimitz Plan Pacific Offensives   President Reiterates Goals of Pacific War, to Free Philippines and Drive Japanese to Unconditional Surrender   Plans New Offensives

FDR Concludes  Inspection Of Hawaiian Bases   Confers Three Days With American Military Chiefs

Crowd Applauds as He Greets MacArthur With ‘It’s Good  To See You Doug’

Details of Inspection Trip to Fortress Island by the Chief Executive Given in Dispatch

ROOSEVELT VISITS HONOLULU FOR MILITARY CONFERENCE   MacArthur and Nimitz Talk Over Strategy With Chief, Who Visits Pearl Harbor and Other Bases

President, Mac Arthur Wind Up First War-Time Strategy Talks In Hawaii

FDR, Nimitz, MacArthur Map Strategy   Pledge Renewed To Free Philippines. Bring Japs To Knees   Arsenal At Pearl Harbor Is Amazing   President Spends Three Days At Birthplace Of Pacifie War

Roosevelt Plans Return To Philippines in Hawaii Talk With MacArthur

McArthur, Nimitz, Halsey, Richardson Attend Conference   President Spends Three Days In Conferences and Inspecting Military Establishments

PLANS ARE LAID AT CONFERENCES WITH OFFICERS   Commander-in-chief Meets Gen. MacArthur - - Hints Of New Drive Soon

POC DUGE AEVEALED TOON   President Spends 3 Days Inspecting Hawaii’s Military Defenses:   PLANS DISCUSSED   Exectitive Reaches Pearl ‘Harbor Aboard Naval ‘Cruiser July 26

F.D.R. Recently Held 3-Day War Parley, Inspection Tour On Island Of Oahu

Strategy Talks Aimed To Speed Pacific Contlic   Roosevelt, -MacArthur In First Wartime Meeting; Other Leaders Confer

Holds War Strategy Talks With Top Generalsat Pearl Harbor After 11-Day Trin

President Has War Conference  ~ AtPearl Harbor   Discusses War Strategy In Pacific With Gen. MacArthur And High Officers   WARNS JAPAN OF FATE NOW IN STORE

IN PACIFIC AT PEARL HARBOR   President Icily Demands Unconditional Surrender of Japan

Nation’s Chief Has Talks With Military Heads   Inspects Fortress Island Where Japanese Blast. ed United States Into War   New Offensives On Nips Planned   Adntiral Nimitz and Gen. eral MacArthur Meet President On Ar. rival July 26

F.D.R. Confers in Hawaii on Pacific War   MacArthur, Other High Commanders Take Part in Meet

Plan Strategy For FullScope Of Pacific War   President Reached Pear) Harbor on July 28— Reviews Troops

Chief Executive Sees Top Commanders of U. S. Armed Forces  Operating In Pacific

GONFERSFOR d OWS WITH TOP PARIF(C: RHEE   Nimitz and MacArthur Join in Planning New Blows at Jananese.

CONFERRED WITH ADMIRAL NIMITZ, GEN. MAC ARTHUR   PRESIDENT SAYS NEW OFFENSIVES AGAINST JAPS WERE PLANNED

Chief Talks Witt Commanders In Pacific War   Confidence Bolstered by Three-Day Stay

PRESIDENT IN PERSONAL TOUR ISLAND BASES   Will Soon Make Talk To Nation On Trip

F.D. R. Confers With Leaders On Pacific War   Sessions With Top Commanders Held At Waikiki Beach

President in War Council At Honolulu   MacArthur and Nimitz Discuss Pacific Strategy

Military, Navy Leaders Meet In Honoluli   President And Head: Of Pacific War Map Strateaqy

Roosevelt Sees Military Heads AtHonolulu —   Philippines To Be Freed, He Says, And Nips Conquered

U.S. PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH GEN. MA°ARTHUR ON PACIFIC WAR   Roosevelt Visits Pear] Harbor and Pledges Philippines Will Be Taken By Americans.

Supply MacArthur With Vital Information Guerillas Aid Invasion Forces

GUERRILLAS PAY JAPS FOR TRIALS BY GIVING MARTHUR INFORMATION   EXPERTS BELIEVE ENEMY’S EMPIRE WILL BE CUT IN TWO WHEN AIR SUPREMACY ESTABLISHED

HITLER LAUDS GERMAN YOUTH   Praises Youth Nazis for Willingness to Die

[Request Troops ‘In Storm Area   Power System Paralyzed In Los Angeles Region

Yank Planes Heavily Bomb Marcus Island   Japs Battle Bitterly Against Encircling Allies at Myitkyina

Jap Island Is Attacked   Tokyo Reports Planes Bomb Marcus Island

Navy Is Silent On Jap Claims Of Marcus Raic   Our Task Force Reported To Catch The Nips Nappina

Nazi Defenses in France Again Blasted   Liberators Smash Vital Targets Without Single Loss

RAF Bombers Cross Channel  Toward Continent  Night Raid Follows U- S. Liberators in Daylight Assault

RAF Follows U. S. In Savage Attack on Europe  Heavy Force Crosses Channel to Hit Germans’ Defenses

SENATE TAKES UP TAXES SOON   Disputed Mensure Will Be Called Up This Week, George Says

Tax Bill To Face Fourth Big Test   Disputed Tax Measure to Be Called Before Senate This Week.

SENATE TAKES UP TAXES SOON      Disputed Measure Will Be Called Up ‘This Week Ceorme: Save

Sharply Disputed Income Tax Bill Will Go Before Senate This Week   George Will Ask Vote First on Freezing Social  Security Levy at Present Level Rest of Year

Men In Pacific Raid Praised By Admiral   Spruance Says His Only Regret Was Flight of Japanese Fleet

‘WELL DONE,’ SPRUANCE TELLS ALL HANDS; REGRETS MISSING JAP FLEET

FIGHT YEAR OLD SAVES SIX LIVES   Smoke Wakes Him: He Calls Fire Department

French in Interior Ordered to Fight  Told to Attack Every Withdrawing German

GUNTINUE SEARGi FOR NAZI GEFIGERS   Recapture Six Enlisted Men Believed Left As Decoys

NAZI ESCAPES STILL AT LARGE   German Officers Left Camp Through Tunnel

Postage Rates Go Up Tonight   $96,000,000 Boost In Revenues Forecast Through New Increase

Penny Here, There Will Net Millions For Revenue From  New Postal Rates

Postal Rates Go Up At Midnight; New Revenue To Reach 96 Million Mark

New Increased Postal Rates To Go Into Effect   Local Letters, Parcel Post Major Items In Advance

SUDDEN JAP DRIVE   Thrust Is Made To Capture _ Entire Canton-Hankow Railroad

INDICATIONS POINT TO NEW LANDING IN JAP ISLAND AREAS  BATTLES FOR SAIPAN ANI HENGYANG ARE MOUNTING IN BITTERNESS

Japs Thrust * Much Deeper   ‘By-Pass. Hengyang_ To Threaten. ‘Area

Japs Pushing By Hengyang   By-Pass Rail Junction In Drive to Capture Canton-Hankow Route

ANOTHER JUMP ON NEW GUINEA SEEN IN OFFING   Chinese Still In Partial Control Of Burning Hengyang

JAPS THREATEN VITAL RAILWAY   Enemy Spearhead Thrust 46 Miles Below Hengyang}3 Seek To Capture CantonHankow Line.

NOEMFOOR ISLANC BLASTED 9 TIMES   Air Raids ‘May: Indicate New ‘Allied’ Jump Toward Philippines ‘

Wilno Fall Near; Reds Push Fi ght  In Streets _   East Pr ussia- nar,  4     To Russian:

SOVIET TROOPS SLASH THROUGH ENEMY’S LINES   Reds Reported Within 6 Miles of East Prussia; Wilno Fight Rages

REDS WITHIN BO MILES OF FAST PRUSSIA   Soviet Forces Tighten Grip On Tottering Wilno

-nemy Forces Falling Back In Disorder   Heavy Fighting Continues in Streets of Wilno

RUSSIANS PUT DEATH CLAMP UPON WILNO, WITH CITY ENCIRCLED  CAVICT ADMIC?C CONTIANIE   SOVIET ARMIES CONTINUE SMASHING ADVANCES IN ALL SECTORS

Russians Cut Vital Railway   Advance On Both Sides Of Wilno, Also Fight House-to-House for City

Soviets Clamp Tight Hold Upon Wilno   Vanguards Are Withii 60 Miles of East Prussia Now

Russians Clamp Death Hold On Wilno and Race West   _ Germans Still Battle Within Nearly " Encircled City While East Prussia  Prepares for Defense

German Garrison Forced Be~ hind Barricades, Into... City’s Center.   IENEMY TROOPS. MUTINY.

Soviets Sever . Key Rail Link To. Lithuania       Street Fighting Rages: i Wilno as Stalin’s Forces Fan Out From City —

Red Troops In 60 Miles East Prussia   Soviet Forces Continue Advance While Troops Fight in Streets for Control of Wilno

Soviets Sweep Around Wilno; Nazis Mutiny   Baltic Army Sweeps Up 700 Towns And Captures Latvian Border Town

GO 20 MILES INTO PRE- WAR LITHUANIA   Plunge Could Cut Off Area Estimated to Be Garrisoned by 40 Nazi Divisions—Wilno’s Fall Expected Soon.

Reds Drive On Towards Hitlerland   Russians Reported to Be Within 60 Miles of East Prussia

RED ATTACKS MOVE NEARER EAST PRUSSIE   Frontier Is 60 Miles Away: Battle for Wilno Rages

RED VANGUARDS WITHIN 60 MILES OF EAST PRUSSIA   Tighten Death Grip on ‘Wilno; Troops Move With Startling Speed. -

Clamp Tighter Death Hold on City of Wilno   German Garrison Forced Behind Barricades of Encircled City.   Russians Cut 70-Mile  Gap in German Lines

Russians Storm Past Besieged City of Wilno   70-Mile Gap Cut In German Lines Below Baltic Sea

Soviets Within Sixty Miles of  East Prussia   Reds Race Past Flanks of Doomed Wilno Toward  German Soil

Russians Cut Rail Line of Two Key Citie:   Fighting in Streets Of Wilno Continues As Germans Plan Baltics Withdrawal

SOVIET COLUNI SEG  Russia n Va ards Repor ore Within 8 Mies Of East Pru      WILNO DOOMED   Reds And Nazis Battle In  Streets Of Lithuanian  Capital

Report Soviets 60 Miles From East Prussia   Vital Railway Line To Kaunas Cut; Reds Now In And On Both Sides Of Wilno

BIG GAPS TORNIN NAZI LINES INEAST AND RED ARMY PUTS DEATH HOLD ON VILNA AREA   German Force Estimated at 40 Divisions Now Defending Baltic Sector Endangered by Soviet Surge Across Lithuanian Plains and in Old Poland

BP Baebes B Bah  LONDON, Jaly 10 ®—The British press said tonight that the Russians had advanced to a point within 60 miles of East Prussia.

Other Soviet Units Bypass Doomed City      Battle Within 60 Miles -Of East Prussia; Berlin Predicts Early Offensive in Iasi Sector

Reds Only ~ 60 Mi. From East Prussia   Spearheads Race Beyond Wilno, Now Being Choked Into Submission.

RUSSIAN ARMY COLUMNS STREA%,, “AST THE WILNO FLANKS AT RAPID PACE TOWARL” © CLOSEST AP- PROACH TO EAST PRUSSIA—-TO TH: ~ “RTH OTHER - RED UNITS PUSH 20 MILES INTO PRE-W“t LITHUNIA

Allied Forces 30 Miles From Paris, Report   Gen. Patton’s Armored Forces In New Swift Dash Toward French Capital   ADVANCE ALONG WIDE FRONT TODAY

HAN 30 MILES FROM CAPITAL   Cracks Nazi Defense on 60-Mile Front; Fir ing Heard in City

GREAT AREA TS CLEARED OF SHIPPING   Pre-Invasion Moves To Be Screened By the Fleet

TODAY   Russian Offensives De veloping With Great Speed As Allies Get Set At Cherbourg for All-Out Drive

Induction Of Essential Men 26 And Over Ordered Delaued   All Local Boards Directed To Postpone Calling Of Upper Age Groups Effective Wednesday

Induction of Men Over 26 Postponed By Pennsylvania Board Effective April 12

Pennsylvania Boards Get Instructions Not To Call Those In War-Aiding Work

County Red Cross Names Directors  All Parts Of County Represented on Board

WON WINGS AND BOOTS   Jvt. Junior L. Mason Is Now an Army Volunteer Paratrooper.

BASKETBALL SCHEDULE   Fay Peterson Completes ‘Tra tnines as a Paratrooper

Charge Free Mail Privilege Abused By 13   Republicans Have Mailed 3,116,000 Copies Of Speech At Expense Of Government, Is Claim

Republicans Use Franking For Politics   Free Mail For Campaign Talks

SOLONS NAMED FOR ABUSE OF MAILING RIGHTS   Senator Moore, 12 Others Charged with Franking Violations in House

SOLONS USEF FREE MAIL PRIVILEGES      Committee Investigating Re ports of Abuse of Franking Privilege

GOP Mails Out 3,116,000 Cards at U. §. Expense   House Campaign FProbers Give Report on Republican Use of Free Mail Rule

Frank Used To Distribute GOP Speech   Committee Told Congressmen Sent  3.116.000 Copies

Dan Reed Named As Using Frank on Political Speech  Chairman Andersen Tells Preb  TT a )  ne   Chairman Anderson Tells Probe Commitice 13 Republicans Mailed 3,116,000 Copies

NEW MEXICO PROBE CHAIRMAN CHARGES 13 GOP SOLONS WITH ABUSING FRANKING PRIVILEGE

High Court Upholds  Powers Of Counci  Verdict Is Directed  Reitz Case

POLLS INDiGATE nO OF FEDERA ceAUICE BALLET   Indicate House Will Reject Voting Bill © by Hundred Votes

HOUSE TO REJECT PROPOSAL BY ABOUT 100 VOTES,. ACCORDING TO CANVASS  ’ OF MEMBERS

SENATOR TRUMAN'S VICE PRESIDENTIAL STOCK IS SOARING   ANNOUNCEMENT OF CHINA VISIT MAY MEAN WALLACE ORDERED OUT

Truman May Be Running  Mate for F DR   Rumor Wallace Trip Ordered:  Opening for Senator

Boom Truman  As FDR Mate   Wallace to Be in China During Convention

Political Speculation! “Is V. Pres. Wallace Taking Himself Out of Pres. Race?”

Sen. Truman Talkec As Nominee  For Vice President  Wallace May Step Out of Office To Visit Chinese

Senator Truman Appears Possible FDR Running Mate   Politicians Speculate Whether Wallace Out Of Race Under Orders

TRUMAN STOCK UF FOR NO. 2 PLACE   WALLACE MAY BE TAKING HIMSELF OUT OF THE RACE

See Wallace Taking Himself Out of © Vice Presidential Race Under Orders

D-Day Losses Are Held Low   Invasion Medical Service So Thorough Casualties Far Below Planned For

Gen. Emmons Warns Jap Evacuees ‘They Must Not Return to West ‘Coast Without Special Permits

WARN JAPS OF PACIFIC COAST   EVACUEES MAY NOT RETURN WITHOUT PERMITS

Lenroot Quits as Judge Of U. S. Customs Court; ‘Almost’ U.S. President

RAMAGE MAY ENTER SERVICE   Would Bring First Break in Martin Cabinet if He Passes Examination

Liberated Peoples Can Supply 90 Per Cent Of Basic Needs: Roosevelt

Liberated Peoples To Supply Most Of Their Own Basic Needs  ‘ Rousevelt’s UNRBA Report To Congress Tells

FACE PEOPLES UPPLY MST OF OWN NEEDS   Roosevelt’s Reporton UNRRA Shows, However, Big Task Ahead.

People of Liberated European Areas Able to Supply 90% of Basic Needs

UNRRA REPORT ISSUED BY FOR   Freed People sople Supplying Basic Needs, Con cress lold

Freed Europe Has 90 Percent ‘Of Basic Needs   Roosevelt Reveals Status of Liberated Peoples In Submitling Report On UNRRA

Suburbs Pounded In Prelude To  Storming Port   Last Ditch Effort To Hold Black Sea Base Claimed Doomed

AXIS REPORTED FLEEING FROM ODESSA TODA)   Thousands Fleeing From Capital of Hungary After Bombing by Warplanes of Al'ies

Clashes in Spain Spread   Rebels and Forces of Franco Battle in South and North

GUERRILLA WARFARE SPREADING IN SPAIN   Germans Reported Going tc South America That Way

Internal Battle Said Spreading To South Spair   Guerrilla Raids Continue In Northern Section, Says > Officer Of Republicans

New Clashes In Various  Parts of Spain   Spanish Republican Guerrillas Against Franco’s Forces

Spain Revolt Success Is  Debated   Republicans in Madrid Declare Rebels Wiped Out; Anti-Franco Forces Deny Claim

Report Spreading Claskes in Spain   Anti-Franco Forces Fight in North And South Areas

Report Increase In Casualties   Total Up 23,249 In » One Weeks Fighting

Sharp Increase In U.S Casualties   Severe Fighting In Normand: Causes Increase

SHARP INCREASE IN CASUALTIES   284,838 TOTAL FOR ALL AREAS REPORTED

Patton Flays Demo Policies On Production   ADeclares ‘Demolition Crews’ of Searcity Advocates Cripple OPA

Patton Calls for Policy to Produce Fully   Farm Leader Holds Scarcity Advocates Would Ruin Country

New Typhoon Hits Along Leyte Front   Americon Forces Continue Gains in Spite Of Storms and Resistance by Japanese Troops

U. S. CARRIER TASK FORCE HITS LA      Ormoc Roadblock Holds Firm; Nayy

GUAM IS UNDER DAILY ATTACKS BY TASK FORCE   Air Blows Struck At Half Dozer Or More Evemy Bases

VOTES FUNDS FOR YEAR   Appropriations Body Also Approves International Relief

Prava Declares Hitler Diplomatic Maneuvers  Against the Allies Fail

RALPH WOODS [S$ NEW ~ TRIPLE-A CHAIRMAN   OFFICERS ELECTED DEC. 9   Fred Hateh Resigns After Nine Years; MeWilllam and Chas. Leonard on Committee

PDAS DANE ALLELE ANON TS  FACTORY ‘SECOND’ TIRES AVAILABLE TO MOTORISTS

LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR KIDNAP-MURDER      Sentence Passed by 3-Judge Court in Cleveland

GOP WILL BE BLoY DURING NEXT MONTH   To Put on Burst of Speed to Pick 420 Convention Delenates.

GOP To Speed Up Naming Delegates   Demo State Groups Tend To ‘Wait and See’

G. 0. P. TO PICK DELEGATES FAST   420 To Be Selected In 17 States And One Territory In April

@ PLAT PLATFORM COMPARISON  Democrats Outbid by G. O. P. for Votes of Negroes

POLITICAL OBSERVERS MAKE COMPARISON. OF PLATFORMS   NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES [NOTED IN WORDING OF “PLANKS” OF THE RIVAL PARTIES

Yanks Close In  Cleser On Japs  Holding Limon   Roadblock South of Town On Leyte Strengthened: Enemy Fails to Break Through

American Force Tightens Grasp On City of Limon   Infantry Severs Japs From Supplies In Island Battle

Doughboys Tighte nl p  On Limon   Resistance Of Nipponese Is Tough—Planes In Heavy Air Blows

JAP ATTEMPT 10 AID GARRISON MEETS FAILURE   Enemy Defending Limon With Intent

Japs Battle To Hold Limon   Seek to Delay Americans While Defenses Further South Are Rushed

Yanks Close Noose on Limon Village   Toll of Japanese Planes in Leyte Campaign Hits 500

Americans Close Tighter On Stubbornly Resisting Japs At North End Leyte

U.S. DOUGHBOYS IN FRESH GAINS ON LEYTE ISLE   Nips Fight Hard To Hold Limon Areas As Vital Supply Line Fails

U. S. Forces Close Tight On Jap Fort   Japanese Stubbornly Resist On Isolated Town Of  limon.   DOWN 500TH PLANE

U.S. Soldiers Battle Tough Jap Defense   Yanks Close in on Limon Village at ‘Northern End of Leyte Island

Yanks Tighten Grio On Limon   Nips Fight Desperately to Hold Area While Philippine Commander Builds Rearward Positions of Resistance

TRAPPED JAPS HOLD FORTRESS AGAINST YANKS   Resist Stubbornly to Gain Time for New Defense Lines

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON JAPANESE TRAPPED AT LIMON   Enemy Troops Fight Stubbornly to Hold Fortress Town—Supplies Are Cut Off.   AMERICANS BAG 500TH PLANE OF CAMPAIGN   Fighters and Anti - Aircraft Guns Shoot Down Seven of 15 Attackers on East Coast.

ENEMY GUT OFF FROM SUPPLIES   Panks Shoot Down 500tI Jap Plane of Leyte Drive   ROAD BLOCK TIGHTENS   U. S. Bombers Attack Installations at Ormoc; Fight ers Blast Shipping

HASTENS DRIVE TO CHINA COAS)   U. S. Sea Victory May Mean Early Attack on Japs’ Home Islands

General Patch, Hero of Guadalcanal, \Commands Seventh Army Which \Spearheaded South France Invasion

PUSH INLAND FIGHT MILES FROM BEACK   Resistance on Fourth Front Still Relatively Light as More Troops, Supplies Pour In

Troop-Laden Barges Sunk   _ Attempt to Bolster Palau Troops Fatal

Atwell Expected To Rule Thursday In Humble Oil Suit  Charges: Government   Charges: Government Agencies Conspired To Seize Inaleside

GILLETTE LEAS IN (OWA VOTING   Special Elections To Be Helt In New York Today to Fil House Seats in 4th an 11th Districts

MacKenzie Says— V.-2 Raids  Are Aimec At Civilians   Retaliation In Kind Is Opposed by Both U. S. and British Soldiers

British Leader Opposes Retaliatior Of Nazis at Present   Says Indiscriminate Reich Raids to Lower Morale Unjustifiable

RETALIATION AGAINST GERMANY IN KIND FOR ROCKET BOMBINGS IDECLARED TO BE UNIUSTIFIARI FE

BOMBARD BRITAIN, ANTWERP, PARIS WITH V-2 ROCKETS   ARC 70 MILES HIGH TO PLUNGE DOWN AT 700-MILE HOUR SPEED   Nazis’ New V-2 Bomb Called Horror Weapon

Sensational Drive Goes 32 Miles   Break-Through Circle: 30 Divisions In Esthonia And Latvia.

Red Army Drives to Baltic To Cut Off Huge Force; Warsaw Reported Aflame

GREAT ARMADAS BOMB AIRFIELDS “AND RAIL YARDS   1,750 U.S. Planes Attack on Heels of 1,000-Ship British Blow

ALSO POUND RAIL YARDS IN FRANCE   Attacking Force Estimated at 1,750, Including Fighters

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFERi ENCE OPENS TODAY   - Jresentatives of 44 Nations Meeting Today at Bretton Woods, N. H.

Last Member Of (Noted Sister ‘Act Succumbs   Effie Cherry Dies as Result of Broken Hip Suffered Several Months tog

Bricker Will Open His  Flection Campaign Sept.9   Death Rings Down Curtain on Last of Famed Cherry Sisters

U.S.Warships Hit Guam at Close Range      Bombers Sink Many Ships : “Loaded With Troops : and: Supplies-

Much Japanese ‘Shipping Sunk   Warships Move In Ti Can’t-Miss Range

Jap Defenses on  Guam Blown Up   Battleships, Planes Continue Heavy Attack On Nip Men, Supplies

BATTLESHIPS BLOWING UP JAP DEFENSE   Japanese Hich _Army Officers Transferred

NAVY POUNDS GUAM   MacArthur's Aerial Blows Sink Supplies Needed by Enemy

Guam Defenses Are Battered By Battleships  Move Close To Their Targets; MacArthur Reports New Toll Of  a ek sae

Battleships Blast af Guam   American Bombers Send to Bottom Jap Men and Supplies

SHORE GUNS ON GUAMSILENCED BY BATTLESHIPS   BATTER JAPANESE DEFENSES FROM A CAN’T MISS RANGE

Battleships Level Guam’s Defenses   MacArthur's Pilots Score Impressively

AMERICAN FORCES BLOWING UP JAP DEFENSES GUAM   Twenty-Five Ships Definitely Sunk, Ranging Up To 4.000-Ton Freighter

White ‘Way. in " Busine District Ito Burn Dusk”  to Dawn i. 6%)   COUNCIL AIDS POLICE:

TO LIGHT UP TOWN © THRU ENTIRE NIGHT   White Way in Business District to Burn Dusk  ak to Dawn   COUNCIL AIDS POLICE

AIR CLINIC TO SUGGEST PLANS   State Vs. Federal Rights Is Chief Topic

New Ceiling Prices For Synthefic Rubbe Tires And Tubes   Kegulations 1o Become Effective . May 1. 1944 ‘

Army In City of “Brotherly Love’   Move Into Philadelphia To ‘Take Over Transit

ARMY UNITS ARE MOVING INTO PHILLY      Faced with Getting Transit Lines Into Operation

ARMY READY TO TAKE OVER IN SHILADELPHIA   FBI Probe of Leaders Hinted

Army to Reopen Philadelphia ,!ransit Systems  Drastic Steps Loom To End Strike, Restore War Output

‘Suggest FDR Take Lead, Ask All Smokers to Co-  onerate in Idea.

U.S. Fleet Crossed Jap a To Win  Sete ee: CEE CVA   Principle Of Old Maneuver Employed Successfully

Reveal Navy Used Classic Sea Maneuver lo Crush Jap Fleet   Nips On Receiving End Of Tactics They Used To Defeat Russian Navy In 1905

Classic Maneuver Used: , U.S. Warships Crossed Nip ‘T° To Rout Foe Force Off Leyte

DOG-COYOTE CROSS BLAMED FOR RAIDS      Eastern Ohio Farmerg Track Marauders in Snow

—GERMAN PROPAGANDA   -»WHILE HIMMLER WHIPS NAZIS INTO SOLID FRONT AT HOME

Germany Directs “Christmas Peace Drive” Toward Outside World While Telling People They Must Fight On

WARNING GIVEN ALLIES ABOUT PEACE FEELERS   Germany Readying “Christmas Peace Drive,” Swiss Reports Say   JAPAN LIKELY TO OFFER COMPROMISE

Cotton Purchase Details Given by County AAA Head   Producers Assured of Parity Price, 21.90 at Memphis, Tennessee

Capital Ripped Wide Open By R.AF.’s 1,200-plane Assault; Entire Load Fell in 20 Minutes   Nearly 6 Miltion Pounds Of Steel And Explesives Turn City Into Sea Of Fire—Frankfort Is Alse Rambed At Same Time

RAF Hits. Berlin In Heavy Raid   1,000 Raiders Drop Explosive and Fire Bombs; Smother Nazi Capital

Heaviest ~— Aerial Blow In History   NAZI CAPITAL STAGGERED BY 2800 TONS OF BOMBS, DROPPED AT RATE OF 140 TONS PER MINUTE

GERMAN CAPITAL BLAZING INFERNO; HUNDREDS KILLED   Royal Air Force Dumps 2,800 Tons of Bombs in Twenty Minutes

Capitai Staggered By Bombs   2,800 Tons Fall On Berlin After Two-Week Lull

NIGHT RAID ‘TS HEAVIEST IN HISTORY   Nazi Capital Staggers Under 2,800 Tons of Explosive and Fire Bombs.

Record Bombing Staggers Berlin   RAF Drops 2,800 Tons of Explosives

Saginaw Solon Offers To Help Clean Up State   Grand Jury Charge Is Admitted; Hints He’ll Expose Others

STATE SENATOR HOWELL ENTERS GUILTY’ PLEA   Makes Dramatic Confession To Participution In Graft Plot

STATE SENATOR PLEADS GUILTY      Howell Admits Taking Bribes, Offers to Make Atonement.

SAGINAW SOLON ADMITS GUILT   Offers to Atone for Mistakes by Helping to Clean Up Situation

3-HOUR AIR ATTACK IS MADE ON BRES'   Gun . Emplacement “of HoldOut Nazi Garrison Wrecked—Fuel Dumps Set On Fire.

oosevelt Move o Sooth Southerr  mocrats Seen  Georgia Governor Calls on President, Pradicte Statemant

Roosevelt Makes Peace Move to Southern Group   Talks Politics With Gov. Arnall

F DR. Calls in Governor —  Of Georgia    Some Democrats See Move Peace Gesttire By Chief Executive ©   ARNALL SAYS F.D.R. WILL BE CANDIDATE  - Fourth-Term Forces In Texas Are Set Back By Court Decision

Hatchet Fiend’s Second Victim Is Found in Lake   Mutilated Body of Another Woman Taken from Lake Of the Ozarks.

OFFICERS FIND BOOY OF A SECOND WOMAN IN LAKE   to Be That of 3 ‘Woman 26 Years Old; the Body Mutilated.   DISCOVERED MONDAY   First. Body Found in Lake of the Ozarks Sunday by Patrolmen.

Two Mutilated Bodies Found, Both Women   Find Second in Ozarks Lake While Investigating First

gNeither. One Identified; Be: ‘lieved Work:of. “Crazy Fiend’:-No-Clues

Headless Bodies Of Women Found   Killings in Lake of Ozark Area Work of Crazed  Fiend, Ginn Says.

Hacked Bodies Of  2 Women Found  Both  Headless, Neithe: Identified

MUTILATED BODY OF WOMAN FOUN   Gruesome Discovery Made a Scene of Another Murder

PETIT AND GRAND JURIES NAMED FAR FEB, COURT   TO CONVENE IN. SPIRIT LAKE FEB. 14. JUDGE DAVIDSON PRESMING

U.S. FLIERS SCORE MORE SUCCESSES   Destroy 30 Planes, Number Of Vessels In Pacific Sweeps

Reports Fertilization Of      Baaehee ee ow ETeD in hawt i mine MO MCRGRmee eM Sr Vee Ke om eee ne

9 HURT IN BLAST AT AKRON PLANT   Fire Threatens Chemical Tanks After Explosion

Two Thirds of Italy Taken Allies Prepare For Attack  On The Nazi “Gothic Line”

Blow Is Poised  At Gothic Line   Allies Strengthen Clamp  Unon Arno Positions

Outlook in italy Greatly Improved   Year of Revolt Comes to an End

YANKS CLOSE IN ON GOTHIC LINE   City Of Pisa Cleared Up, Florence Almost Within Grasp

Yanks F irmly Established on Arno River   Prepare for Assault On Gothic Line Still Guarding One-Third Of Italy in Nazi Hands

Yanks Preparing Attack Gothic Line   Americans Firmly Established On Southern Bank Of Arno River Between Florence And Pisa; Hit Enemy Resistance

Clark’s Troops Fight Way Through Pisa and Are Now Firmly Established Between That City and’ Florence on Arno River—Germans Are Strongly Entrenched on High Ground Rising From Northern Banks of Stream.

Florence Almost Within  Grasp Of Fifth Army  Troops Slugging Along Highway No. 2

Two-Thirds Way Through Italy; Preparing to Assault Gothic Line Beyond Piso.   Hold Monastery

REDS KNOCK OUT 122 NAZI TANKS   Repulsed German Assault Near Iasi Costly to Enemy

British Army Cui Cassino Highway  W ARSHIPS HELP  Take dents San Giorgion

Mile To Go To Cut Line   Threaten With Decisive Flanking Movement

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Allies Threaten Flanking Movement Against Gustav Line

OF TWO TOWNS   Demoralize Southern Sector as British Cut Vital Highway

SOUTHERN END OF GUSTAV LINE ~ ‘DEMORALIZED   Fierce Battles in Yugoslavia; Ludwigshafen Battered by British Bombs

Many Soldiers Back From Italy Among Victims   Crack Dixie Flyer Rams Engine of Mail Train During Fog

OVERSEAS U. S. FLIERS AMONG THOSE ABOARD   65 Injured When Fast Passengers Collide in Fog Three Miles From Terre Haute Today

Allied Troops Pushing Drive On Jap Bases   Commandos Destroy Communications In Vicinity Of Indaw

SEVERAL ENEMY ~ POINTS GAPTURED BY ALLIED TROOPS   Taken North of Kohima in Assaults Designed to Lessen Jap Pressure.   AIDS FRONTIER BASE   Allied Forces on the Southern ‘End of the Burma Front, Quit. Paletwa.

Strong Points  Fall To Allies   Gains ‘To North Of Kohima Reperted

ALLIES CONTINUE TO SEIZE ENEMY DOINTS IN INDIA   North Burma Sino_ Americans Advancing On Warong

JAP POSTS FALL INKOHIMA AREF   Allies Forced To Evacuate Burma Front Village

British Expand Normandy Gains   Penetrate Eight Miles Into German Defenses East of Caen

Burden Of Attack Taken By Infantry Tn Caen Area   British Second Army Not Advancing At Armored Offensive  Too Lam Vex: Phuc:

British Canadians Expand Powerful Caen Offensive   Reds Seize Stranglehold Alona The Baltic Front

LARGE SCALE ADVANCE MADE IN CAEN AREA   Main Nazi Army Fails To Meet Montgomery

s  Allied Forces Drive Fight   British and Canadian Infantry Take Lead in Offensive; Mai Nazi Army Not Yet. Contacted.

Germans Main Army Keeps Out Of Reach   Rommel Keeps Armor And Reserves Back From French Front

Germans Flood Coastal Route To Le Havre   British, Canadian Infantry Launch Attacks In Caen Area.’

Allies Expand  Advance at Caen   Movement Is Slow As Infantry Takes Over Major Burden

Nazis Beaten Back By British Assault From Invasion Area   Comparative Lull Settles Over Sector Held by Yanks as Rair And Mud Slows Progress

British Plug Forward in  Stiff Fighting   Rommel Using Only Few Tanks To Slow Attack

British Tanks Expand Gains © To Eight Miles in Caen Are:   Thus Far, However, Gen. Montgomery Has Not Attained Main Objective of Bringing the Main German Army to Battle.

U.S. Subs Bag 17 More Jap Ships  Trntnl Klaw Stande ak      Total Now Stands at 823 Sunk, Damaged

i7 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY US SUBS   Undersea Craft Finding Targets Hard to Locate

U.S. Subs Get 17 Jap Ships; Bag Now 823   Targe(s Beginning to Be Scarce as Rate of Sinkings Falls Off

U. S. Raiders Get 17 More J ap Vessels   ‘Escort Craft, Five Transports Among Yank Sub Victims

SHUTTLE BOMBINGS JOIN OHIO BROTHERS   Maytos Brothers Meet a Italian Fortress Base

Smash Deeper Into German Fortifications   Vake Strategic Wills Aud ‘Towns ln Italian: Offensive,  Castleforte Reported Quaking Mass of Ruins, Germans Said to Be “On the Run’ -

Armies Capture Five Villages  In Grim Advance   Stiff German Resistance Encountered In Strong Mountain Positions; Seven Strategic Hills Fall in Drive

Resistance To Smashes Stiff; 6 Towns Taken   Total Includes Strong Bastion Germans Say They Evacuated; 8th Takes Sant’ Angelo

) VILLAGES ALSO SEIZED: BY ALLIES   Grim Fighting Takes Place as Fifth and Eighth Armies Push Deeper Into Gustav Line,   COUNTER-BLOWS  OF FOE COSTLY,   First German Prisoners Begin Filing Into AngloAmerican - Held Areas of Blazing Front. :

ALLIES SMASH THRU FOR GAN OF TWO MWLES   Now Hold Five Villages and Seven Strategic Hills Taken from Foe.

Fighting Grim At! Every ‘vy Point On ltaly Fronts   Allies Capture Several Strategic Positions in All-Out Drive to Destroy Hitlerites   Gains Up To Six Miles Are Scored   British Eighth Army Fights Bitter Battles With Ger  man Parachute Troops  in Cassino Sector

Allies Take Five Villages, Seven Key Hills   Germans Flee Cosmo San Damiano So Fast They Leave Food on Tables

Grim Fighting Is Reported In Big Offensive   Fifth And Eighth Armies Smash Deeper Into Gustav Line; Key Village Of Castelforte Reported Evacuated By German Forces

Allies Push Deeper Info Gustav Line   Gains Announced by  Both Fifth and Eighth Armies Against Stiff German Resistance —

BATTER GRIM RESISTANCE OF GERMAN UNITS   Seven Strategic Hills And Five Villages Fall to Attackers

Nazis Put Up Grim Defense   Nazis Predict And Fear Leapfrog Landing

Germans Resist Grimly in Strong Mountain Posts   Five Villages and Seven Vital Hills Won in Hard Fight

Six Villages Fall in Face Of Grim Nazi Defense; 5000 Planes Hit Europe   Allied Aerial Campaign Roars Through 29th Day in Full Force; Reds Report No Changes at Front But Air Blows at Foe

Nazis Admit Casielforte Evacuated   Two-Mile Gains Increased Despite ™ erce Resistance 

NAZIS RESIST GRIMLY; FRENCH TROOPS ASSIST   Five Villages and. Seven Hills Taken in ae Days of Campaign

Several Strategic Positions Taken  In All-Out Drive On Italian Front

[Hammer deep dent in heavily-fortified Gustav defense line   Capture five villages, seven hills despite crim German resistance

Germans Evacuate Several Villages   On Tyrrhenian Sea Front American Infantry Forces Capture Several Strategic Positions

INCREASE GAINS AS GERMANS OFFER GRIM RESISTANCE IN STRONG MOUNTAIN POSITIONS   Nazi Radio Reporis Evacuation Of Castel forte, Boosting T'o Five Villages Held By Allied Forces; Seven Strategic Hills Also Fall To Attackers

Drive In Italy Bags 6 Villages   Grim Germans Forced Back Two Miles Or More; French Troops Sweep On Bevond Objective

SLASHING DRIVE AGAINST GUSTAV LINE PAYS OFF   Advance of Two Miles Reported in Italy——Five Villages Are Seized

Northern Russian Army Closing On Nazi-Held Pskov   Hitler Said To Be Visiting Leningrad Front In Effort To Bolster German Armies For Defense Of Ballic States. Poland. And Prussia

Hitler Seeks Cause of Nazi Amy Defeats   Goes to Northern Front With Staff Generals to Bolster German Resistance

Reports Say Hitler Visits Northern Front   Russians Complete Strong Line Near Border of Latvia

HITLER REPORTED. ON SOVIET FRONT TOPROBE RETREAT   Reds Race On Toward Pskov, Capturing Two Large — Railway Stations in Their Advance.   GERMAN FORCES LACK TIME TO DIG IN   Field Marshal Von Kuechler Said to Have Been Imprisoned for Failing to  Stop Reds. —z.

Forces Close  About Pskov; 318 Localities Are Captured   Germans Are Denied Time For Reforming ‘

Japs Put on Steam in Drive Toward Imphal   Hold 15-Mile Road Stretch But Must Estoblish PreMonsoon Communications

Japs Increase Burma Effort   Must Establish Communications Quickly or Lose Whole Gamble to Monsoons

JAPS INCREASE BURMA THREAT   India Invaders Holding 15 Mile Stretch of Vital Roadway

Japs Risk Big Stakes on L5Mile Streteh   Invaders of India Must Establish  Line—Huge Force Hit. New Guinea

Japs Increase Drive Along Assam Front   Allies Admit Enemy Holds Road Stretch: Nipponese Take Hard Beating in Pacific

Japs Regrouping For New Offensive Thrusts !n India   Enemy Pressure Increased Along Whole Assam Front

Japs Hold Tight To Road to Impha   ~ Enemy Faces Difficult Problem In Maintaining Communication Lines

Disaster Faces Japanese Units In East India   Pre-Monsoon Weather Communication Line May Cost The Japs.

Japs Holding 15 Miles Of  Imphal Road; Making Gains   Allied Headquarters Admits Enemy Not Yet Dislodged; Merrill's Borces Strike Again

JAP GAMBLE VINA AE DISASTER   Must Establish Line Within Six Weeks Along Road They Now Hold.

JAPS GAIN HOLD ON-INDIAN ROAD   Enemy Pressure Increases On Whole Assam Front

Japs Increase  India Drive   Mountbatten Admits Enemy Forces Not Driven From Highway

Show Down Near In Jap Invasion  In Imphal Area   Enemy Holds 1-5 Mile Stretch Of Road To North Of Imphal; Bio Ficht Looms 

Japs Probing In India Must  Fix Line Soon   Face Loss of Their Long _ Gamble Unless Present Line Is Stabilized

Japanese Invaders of India Blocking Road Into Imphal   Increase Pressure Alon Whole of Assam Front

NIPPONESE INVADERS OF INDIA REPORTED BE HOLDING ROAD  SOUTHEAST ASIA COM.   SOUTHEAST ASIA COM- MUNIQUE DECLARES~ JAP PRESSURE INCREASED

FOE HOLDING 15 MILES OF IMPHAL ROAD      Must Work Fast To Make Line Secure Before Rains Come

Japs Seize 15 Miles Of Indian Road   Allies Drive On In North, South Burma To Menace Akyab, Myitkyina; Enemy Sustains Heavy Losses In Fighting Around Imphal

Japs Clutch Much of Indian Road   Enemy Must Take Hold Of Area Firmly Or Suffer Badly Soon

JAPANESE HOLD IMPHAL - KOHIMA HIGHWAY SECTOR   Invaders Of India In Possession Of 15Mile Stretch of Vital Road; Must Establish Line Within Six Weeks To Beat  Monsoon.

Jap Forces Hold Manipur Road in India Battle  U.S. Planes Smash 288 Nip Air Craft At Hollandia Base,

ong Gamble ay Lose By  onsoon Time   Japanese Pressure is Reported Increased On Entire Assam Front

Invaders Face Threat Qf Monsoons and Must Hold Line to Avert Defeat in Loug Gamble

Japs Holding Vital Road in Imphal Drive   Enemy Raising Pressure on Assam Froni; Allies ~ Advance in South

Holding 15 Mile Strip In India   JAPS MAINTAIN GAINS IN NEW OFFENSIVE ACTION.

JAPS HOLDING 15 MILE AREA NEAR IMPHAL   Allied Troops In Mountains Given New Supplies

ROAD BETWEEN IMPHAL, KOHIMA CUT BY INVADERS   STILWELL’S TROOPS HARASS THE ENEMY IN MOGUANG VALLEY

Japs Increase ~ Pressure on India Border      Great Gamble for Imphal   and Cut in Allied Rail Tuine: Renewed    MUST WIN BEFORE MONSOON SEASON   Casualties Reach 9,000 and Allies Have Air Power in Overwhelming Numbers —

Jap Invaders Holding a Road   Is a Fiften Mile Stretch Between Imphal and Kohima, It Is Announced.

NIPPONESE FORCING REAR GUARD ACTION   Allied Troops Depending on Supplies and Ammunition From Air Fight Way North   CHINESE MAKING GAINS

Arrest Over 100 On Fraud Counts  FBI Charges Men Were Makin ng  False

37 WORKERS AT SHIPYARD NABBED   Charged With Conspiring to Defraud Government; FBI Declares Most Extensive Fraud Racket Uncovered

100 ARE ACCUSED OF WAR FRAUD   SHIPYARD WORKERS AlLLEGED TO HAVE OBTAINED  HUGE OVERPAYMENTS,

137 WORKERS HELD ON FRAUD CHARGES   Shipyard Employes Accused by Agents of the FBI

New Action Flares In France, Yanks In Surprise Drive; Axis Pounded Hard

Vast Program Is Ahead For ‘Legion Women   Members Will Have Big Task After War Is Won

Says Synthetic Will Replace Natural Rubber   Director Dewey To Dissolve Agency By September 1

AUTOMOBILE MAKERS. COOL TO WPB PLAN   Tell Government Agency They _Are Too Busy at War To Plan Post-War Models

Bill On World Relief Passed »   - UNRRA Measuire.s ees MO BS eg te Coles

Bill On World Relief Passed   UNRRA Measure Is Sant To Precident

U. S. support pledged in rebuilding war torn nations after liberation

Wodehouse, British Author,  Is Under Arrest In France   Caucht By Nazis

” emit JAN. 6   MR. AND MRS. IRA WELLS RE . CEIVE ‘OFFICIAL NOTICE OF ' §ON’S DEATH MAY 12

ome The War Today ==  Hitler Faces Disaster on Soviet Front  ev mewmrTT as ArwEeATIiCc

Nazi Debacle Is Imminent In  White Russia   Battle for Minsk Called A Turning Point in  the War

VICTORY. AT MINSK IS PRELUDE TO GREATER DISASTER FOR NAZI LEGION IN EYES OF WAR CHIEFS   Berlin Itself Admits Great Losses and German Distress Is Apparent Today. Minsk Victory Wil Rank As One of Greatest Contributions to Hitler’e Defeat

Disaster Facing Nazis in Russia   Berlin Admits Red  Advances So Rapid That Their Units Left Behind.

Nazi Order Sets Stage For Defeat   —BY DEWITT MacKENZIE— Associated Press War Analyst

German Army Falling Back To Po Valley   Italian Battle Entering  Final Phase-—Enemy Prodhe Wend

NAZIS RETREAT ~AUNORTH ITAL   Remnants of 12. Divisions Fall Back Before Allied : Drive to Po Vallev

Italian Battle Enters Its Final Phase  Diiwawewee at Atsous   Remnants of Nazi Divisions Fall Back to Po Valley

NAZI TROOPS DRIVEN BACK IN PO VALLEY   Hopes of Germans Hold. ing Northern Italy Blasted

Nazi Remnants Are Driven Into Po Valley   Falt of Rimini Dashes German Prospects in Italy

Into Po Valley; Canadians, reeks Cross Mareeehia  , Nazi Divisions Retreat   Advance Is West of Captured City of Rimini And Apparently Seals Fate of Italy, Making It Impossible for the Germans to Hold Out During Winter; Opens Way for Tanks

Allied Forces Capture Rimini, Nazis Fall Back Into Po Valley   Greek and Brazilian Troops Make Advances As Battle for Italy Enters Final Stage

NAZIS RETREAT TO PO VALLEY   Hopes Of Holding North Italy Through Winter Blasted At Rimini

BATTERED NAZIS. ARE FALLING BACK INTO PO VALLEY   Breaking of Gothic Line at Rimini Blasts Enemy’s Hopes of Holding “Northern Italy.   GERMANS APPARENTLY FACE FIGHT FOR LIVES   British Prepare to Strike in Two Directions—American Troops Storm Into Firenzuola.

North Italy Appears Lost  To Germans   Gothic Line Fails After Rimini Taken by Allied Forces

Russians Drive To Liberate Warsaw In Full Swing Along Northern Approaches City

SOVIETS RENEW DRIVE 10 FREE WARSAW   Reach Last Enemy Defense Line Guarding City

lowa Behind in lts Draft Calls  Boards Now Studying Former Deferments

lowa’s Draft Quotas Short, Says Lancaster   State Has Been Unable to Fill Quotas For Past Six Months

NO COMPLETE DRAFT QUOTA FILLING, IOWA   ‘Hasn't Been Done For Past Six Months, Selective Service Of ficials Reveal Monday.

Monastery ‘Destroyed   Photo Reconnaissance Shows Bombing Results

Monastery Is Reported To Be Destroyed   chotographic Reconnaissance Show Direct Hits Scored on Buildings   ROADS ARE DAMAGED

MT. CASSINO MONASTERY 15 SAID DESTROYED   Air Photographs Reveal Nearly Complete Destruction

Direct Hits Scored on Buildings Turned Inio Fort by Nazis, Las! Raiders Set Fires   ‘NO ALTERNATIVE’   Eisenhower Laid Down Rule Men's Lives Count Infinitely More Than Buildings, FDR Says

PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW MONASTERY AT MT. CASSINO DESTROYED   Was Subjected to a Heavy  Bombing Attack Yester  . day by Americans.   'DIRECT HITS ARE SHOWN   ‘Buildings and Roads Leading  to Them on Adjacent  Grounds, Damaged.

HANSEN-LUDWIG NUPTIALS TUESDAY      Young Couple Married At ' Alton. To Reside Near Ovens

Hansen-Ludwig Wedding Tuesday At Alton Church.  Arlene Hansen Brid Of Norman Ludwig “OVE LoMare

NAZIS REPORT RED DRIVE ON LATVIA FRONT   German Commentator Says Purpose of Carefully Prepared Attack Is to Clear Wester n Half of Country.

9 Cult Members Are Convicted Cn Federal Charges   Second Setback For  Fundamentalists

Nine Convicted In Second Polygamy Case   White Slave and Kidnaping Guilt Established

Simplified Income Tax Bill Now Law   Complexities of Payment Eased

Nazis Begin ‘Withdrawal Of Troops To  Kast Prussia   To Abandon All Estonia Most Of Latvia; Enemy Also Reported Leavinge Norway

Germany Pounded As Pre-Invasion Raids Blast French Coast   RAF, Americans Team Up to Continue All-Out Offensive

Kiel Yards Blasted By  Americans   Other German Towns And Airfields In France Also Bombed By Raiders Today

Brewster Co. Establishes Picket Line   Hits Cancellation; Employees Work Without Pay

 VASTLY ALTERED POST-WAR SPHERES OF INFLUENCE OF RUSSIA AND ENGLAND IS / LIKELY TOPIC AT MOSCOW CONFERENCES

MACKENZIE SAYS—  New Parley  At Moscow Seen Vital   Suspect Parley Will Deal With Postwar Future In Europe, Other War Plane

BELIEF GENERAL THAT MEETING OF CHURCHILL AND STALIN IS ONE MOST IMPORTANT OF WAR

WAR TODAY   Moscow Conference of Churchill and Stalin’ May. Set Pattern For Europe After War With Russia More:  : i a es

Moscow Talks Important and Far-Reaching      New Dominant Role of Rus. sia Undoubtedly One of Main. Topics   MOSCOW RISING ‘ABOVE LONDON:   Peace of World Involved in Making Changes to- Meet New. Situation

Churchill-Stalin Conference In Moscow May Rank Among Far-Reaching Events OfThe War: Might Speed Assaull Upon Reich

lay : [Fewer Press ‘Conferences  Twiee-A-Week Talks ' Are Being Discarded

TRAVEL, ILLNESSES COMBINE TO REDUCE NEWS CONFERENCES  PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HELD MINIMUM NUMBER DURING PAST YEAR

FDR Reduces  News Parleys   Absences And IInesses Keep Press From Two Meetings Weekly

(Continued on Page 4)  The Vote In Nearby York County Districts   Sale Register

Buchalfer And Two Pals Die   Boss Gangster, Associates Executed for Slaying Done In 1936

Members of Murder Ince. Executed   Louis Lepke Third to Die in Electric Chair

BUCHALTER IS LAST TO GET CHAIR   Crime Career Of Head Of ‘Murder, Inc.,’ Brought To End

LEPKE GOES TO DEATH IN CHAIR   Two Pals In Murder, Inc., Also Pay Penalty

Lepke Dies In Chair With 2 Henchmen   U. S. Supreme Court Denies Application for Writ to Delav End   STATEMENT GIVEN   Doomed Man Denies Offer.to Talk in Exchange for Life

Buchalter, Pals Die In Chair   Boss Gangster and Two Other Mem bers of Murder, Inc., Electrocuted For Murder in 1936

Boo GANGSTER ONC OF THRE TOBEEXEGUTED   Chief of Murder, Inc. Enters Death Chamber With No Sign of Care.

Lepke, Pals Die In Sing Sing Electric Chair   Execution Liquidates ‘Murder, Inc.,’ Pays for 1936N. Y. Gang Slaying of Brooklyn Candy Store Proprietor

Lepke, Henchmen Executed in Electric Chair   Trio Pays With Live: For Murder Of Brooklynite

Gangster Trio Electrocuted   Lepke, Weiss, Capone Pay Penalty For Crimes

Lepke, Pals Die in Chair for Murder   Penalty Exacted for Rosen Death; Ends State-Federal Dispute

Murder, Inc., Trio Dies; Courts Refuse Last Pleas  Buchalter, Aides Lose Long Fight for  Lifes Claim Frameun

LEPKE, CAPONE, WEISS DIE IN SING SING CHAIR   Final Appeal Denied By Supreme Court

“Murder, Inc. Chief, Aides Die in Chair   Lepke Involves Four ‘Powerful Figures’ Before Death, Claim

Lepke, Two Aides In Murder, Inc.  Die in Chair   U. S. Supreme Court Rejects Petition To Stay Execution

Louis Buchalter And Two Aides Die at Sing Sing   Alleged Gangster Boss Is Silent As End Approaches

Lepke, Associates Are Electrocuted  Murder, Inc., Member: Die At Sing Sing

Buchalter And His Pals Die In Electric Chair  3 nr LJ. i   Boss Gangster Denies He Tried to Trade for Life

HOTEL:BRAWL. ~~ STILL -MIXUE   CONFLICTING. STORIES GOING ROUNDS IN WASHINGTON CONCERNING. FIGHT, <= AFTER-BOOSEVELT:  yo... PERO

Levee Keeps Waters From Sand Springs Industries; Jenks Cleaning Up

Truck Gardens To Be Flooded   Water Expected to Pour Across Lowlands In Muskogee District

Predict Allies Will Cut Off Food, Coal Shipments to Eire in Retaliation For Refusal to Oust Axis Diplomats

Eire Position Based On Fear of Axis: Hull   Secretary Says Spies May Use Country As Stand For Activities

NEAR-BLOCKADE IS NEXT STEP   TENSION GROWS IN ALLY-EIRE ARGUMENT

FUTURE USE OF EIRE BY SPIES FEARED BY HULI   Strong Line May Be Taken

AMERICANS BAG 30 NAZI PLANES   Enemy Makes Greatest Bid In Days To Stop Yanks

Sky Control Disputed By Nazi Planes   30 Shot Down By Americans; Kassel Hit By Bombers

SIEGFRIED LINE BUSY   Someone With Sense of Humor Hung Clothes on It

AAF Bombers Sink Enemy Cargo Ship In Marshalls Raid  Two Other Ships Thought Damaged   Two Other Ships Thought Damaged Off Wotje Friday

Roosevelt Sheds Wartime Secrecy  In Tour Ot Ot N. Y.   Down-Stretch Votes Drive

ROOSEVELT ON ~NEW YORK TOUF   President To Speak On Foreign Policy Today At 8:30

F.D.R. Invades Vote - Laden New York City   Will Make Major Addres: Tonight Before Foreign Policy Association.

FDR CARRIES 4TH TERM BID INTO NEW YORK CITY   SLATED TO MAKE. MAJOR ADDRESS AT 8:30 TONIGHT

Roosevelt Makes Tour Of New York   Will Make Radio Speect At 9:30 P. M. Over NBC-BLUE Networks

PRESIDENT PAYS NEW YORK VISIT   ‘Opens Stretch Drive In Bic To Win Fourth Term

FDR Makes Tour of New York   Slated to Attend Demo Rally This Afternoon And Give Major Politieal Speech Tonight

President Will Deliver Campaign Speech Tonight After Touring ” City’s 4 Boroughs

U. S. Bombers Hii Oil Port  on Ceram Isle   MacArthur Reports Entire Target Was Left in Flames

Last Suicidal Enemy Resistance in La Haye Stamped Out, as British Clear Path to Paris.

Americans lake lia Have in  Bitter Fi ohting   Remnants of Division and Half of Nazi Troops Have Been Trapped Behind Allied Lines and Are Being Dealt With

WS SMASIE THROUGH uT INOS OL CRACKING 44EL RRMAN DELENSE LINES   Nazi Holdauts. Tranped-

Potent drive  seals fate of  withered foe Nazi remnants securely trapped

Nazis Open Floodgates At Cabourg   Doughboys Hammer At Center of German Defense Line; Yank: Are Nearing Lessay

U. S. FORCES TAKE TOWN OF LA HAYE   Allied Gains Reported In Bridgehead Across Odon River And Cau mont-Tilly Sector

[Nazis Back Out of Caen ‘During Night   Loss Leaves Germans With No. Defense Base Within 20 Miles   AMERICANS DRIVE SOUTH OF LA HAYE   Caen Called Greatest Triumph for Allies ’ Since Cherbourg

Hundreds of Nazi Prisoners Stream Into. Allied .   CAEN FALLS WITH SURPRISING EASE   SURPRISING EASE  Victory Is Hailed as the “El Alamein of France” . i

Norman City Compared to EI Alamein   Final Victory Comes to Britons After 36-Hour Offensive

26 JAP PLANES   Bombers Blast Supply Dumps, Gun Posts In Wewak Raid

Allies Down 26 Japanese Planes  Heavy Attack Made on Base at Wewak

SHOWERS FORECAST   Slightly Cooler Temperatures Predicted for Kansas

Proposes Flood Control Program For Midwest   Mo. River Commission Would Administer Problems Here

Army Nears Great Base Of Krakow   Russians Hurdle 2 Water Barriers In Non-Stan Puch

NAZIS REPORT RED DRIVE ON GERMAN SOI   Russian Armies Hurdle Two Barriers In Push To Silesia

Worships Ground Hitler Walks On   German-Born Nurse Surrenders American Citizenship in Detroit—Deesn’t Like U. S.

Unit Citation Won By Son Of Local Couple.  For Precision Bombing

Claims for Unemployment Compensation to Be  Taken at Local Office

OPEGULATION ABOUT TWVASION RESUMEL   Berlin Commentator Says Most People Think It Wilt Be in May.

Price Ceilings Set By OPA For Used Cars  Levels Which Were Prevailing January, 1944. Established

OPA Slaps Price Ceiling On All Used Passenger Car:   January, 1944, Levels Set For Autos Whether Sold by Dealers or.  - Owners

OPA Puts Ceiling On Used Cars   Dealers Or Private Owners Cannot Go Above Jan. 1944 Levels.

Order Ceilings On Used Autos  Peak To Be Price Of January This Year

Ceilings on All Used Automobiles   Dealers Get Month For Adjustments

CEILINGS PUT ON USED CARS   Order, Effective July 10. Sets January, 1944, Prices

Ceiling Clamped On Cars   PRIVATE OWNERS’ AND DEALERS’ PRICES PUT UNDER OPA CONTROL

PASSENGER CAR CEILING PRICES ARE SET BY OPA   Surprise Move Will Be Effective July 10; 6,000 Models Covered

All Used Autos Put Under Price Ceilings by OPA  ek brerating s Pre

Change IsNeeded Bricker Declares   Reports People Spurn New Deal   Gives Objectives

BRICKER LISTS ~ FOUR OBIECTIVES   Republican Candidate Says People Through With New Deal Plans

Canadian Wheat and British Seed Spuds Planted Near Italian Front

CANADIANS STOP ENEMY IN ITALY   Trap Threatens To Snap Shut On Nazis North Of Faenza

Russian Army Forces Now Fighting In Suburbs Of Pskov: Narva: Outflanked

ee  SOVIET TROOPS FIGHT WAY INTO PSKOV STREETS   Russians Outflank Narva in Estonia, Reds Drive Near Vitebsk in White Russia  ‘

. RAID ON STUTTGART    Russians Outflarik Narva: Fight In Pskov Suburbs

tempting To Seize Objectives Before Next Thaw; Throw Bridgehead Acroee Narova River.  tem Says Russians At-

Reds Press Drives Simultaneously on Three Key Positions   Russians Closing in on Narva, Pskov and  Vitebsk in North

SOVIET TROOPS CLOSING IN GN GERMAN FORCES   Three Cities Are Threatened By Red Armies

Russians Closing In On 3 Enemy Bastions   Simultaneous Drives On Narva, Pskov And Vitebsk, Keys To-German Positions In North. Being Pressed.

Soviets Drive On Reval Fron All Four Sides   Another Russian Army Smashes Closer to Gateway City of Pskov, Moscow Savs

RED ARMY FORGES ARE CLOSING IN ON GERMAN KEY BASES   NARVA, PSKOV, VITEBSK APPEAR BE DOOMED NAZI STRONGHOLDS

Reds Closing On 3 Principal German Bases   Narva Threatened From Four Sides as Govorov Crosses River 

Reds Move On Trio Hun-Held  Russian Cities   Soviets Threaten. Strongchelds of Narva, Pskov = cand: Vitebsk ‘On 350- ;

Reds Close In Three Points   Relentless Drives Seek To Take Narva, Pskov, Vitebsk, Key Defense Bases in North

Red Forces Closing On 3 Points   Advancing on Narva, Pskov And Vitebsk, Defenses Bases

arya, Pskov and Vitebsk Periled by Advance of Red Army  SCAPE LINE IS CUT  1e Soviet Unit Smashes   1e Soviet Unit Smashes 15 Miles Inside  Estonia

REDS CLOSE IN ON 3 NAZI STRONGHOLDS ~ ON NORTHERN FRONT   Narva, Pskov and Vitebsk Nooses Drawn Tighter; Faster Tempo Noted   ITRY TQ BEAT THAWS

Russians Press 3 Simultaneous Drives In North   Soviet Armies Tighten Their Squeeze On Narva, Pskov And Vitebsk.

Pskov, Narva About To Fall Before Red Army Assaults  Third Soviet Drive Is Aimed at Capturing Vitebsk

Reds Closing About Three Key Defense  Bases Of Foe   ‘Narva, Pskov, Vitebsk Objectives Of Drives

NARVA, PSKOV AND VITEBSK IMPERILLED    Great German Strong-holds Endangered by Surging Russian Armie: In North

SOVIETS DRIVE ON KEY CITIES   Russian Forces Tighten Noose Around Narva,  Pskov, Vitebsk

CLOSING IN ON O STRONGHOLDS   Narva, Pskov, Vitebsk Are Key Defense Bases on Northern Front.   IBRIDGEHEAD ON RIVER

HIN STRONGHOLDS   Narva, Pskov, Vitebsk About:To Fall Into Russian Hands   NAZIS HOLDING NARVA TRAPPED

Reds Move In on Three Key Points  Narva, Pskov and Vitebsk Menaced

VITEBSK ALSO IS UNDER HUGE RED PINCERS   White Russian City Has Been Under Sieg: Since Last Year

SOVIETS CLOSING IN ON VITEBSK, NARVA AND PSKOV   THREE GREAT NAZI STRONGHOLDS IN RUSSIA IMPERILED

REDS PRESS ATTACKS ALL ALONG FRONT   Troops Are Closing in Relentlessly on the Three Great German Strongholds of Narva, Pskov and Vitebsk.

Reds Close on Narva, Pskov, and Vitebsk   Communications Broken at Narva: Reds Advancing Relentlessly, Making Nazi Position Hazardous,   . Te BRekonew Secherwtke

Reds Closing In  On 3 Stronghold:  Move On Narva, Vitebsk. Pskov For Kills

REDS CLOSING IN ON THREE STRONGHOLDS   Key Defenses of Narva, Pskov and Vitebsk In North Are Menaced By Soviet Drive  ESCAPE RAILWZAY CIT   ESCAPE RAILWAY CUT

Berlin Says Russians Attempting To Seize Objectives Before Next Thaw; Throw Bridgehead Across Narova River.

‘Northern Front  Ready To Buckle   Russian Tempo Mounts ‘Jn Great Drive Upon Bastions: — Railways Curt.

Narva, Pskov And Vitebsk Threatened   Red Army Machine Gunners Reported In Streets Of Pskov

Reds Closing In on Pskov,  Flank Narva   Russian Tommy-Gunners Fight! Way Into Suburban Streets o: Pskov, Mascow Says   DRIVE ON VITEBSK   Germans Suggest Russians Trying fo Achieve Objectives Before Spring Thaw

Russ Drive ‘On Three Key Nazi Points   Narva, Pskov and Vitebsk Under Attack; Guard Northern Positions

‘Reds Smashing Relentlessly \At Great German Strongholds ‘Of Narva, Pskov And Vitebsk   Fighting In Pskov Streets; Narva Outflanked; Rail Lines Are Severed

Red Forces Are Closing Strongholds   Key Defense Bases Of Narva, Vitebsk And Pskov Hit

Closes In On Vitebsk, Narva And Pskoy   Nazis Acknowledge Soviets Stepping Up Offensive

Russians Close In On Three Nazi Fortresses ‘Along Northern Fron‘

RED ARMY FORCES ARE CLOSING IN ON GERMAN KEY BASES  NARVA, PSKOV, VITEBS! APPEAR BE DOOMED

UNDER ATTACK   INCOMPLETE. REPORT ON, GREAT NAVAL. BATTLE : SHOWS 58: ENEMY WARSHIPS WERE SUNK OR .. “(DAMAGED ‘BY U..$,.SHIPS._AND PLANES— MACARTHUR ‘ANNOUNCES INVADED IS‘LANDS CONTROLLED BY HIS FORCES _

PREPARE FOR RECORD LOAD   Transportation Officials Expect  wds Over the Holiday

BATTLE NEARS END 10 FREE DUTCH ISLAND   NAZIS SURROUNDED; YANKS HOLD GAIN BELOW AACHEN

azis Concede alcheren To  lied Armies   Doughboys Hurled Out Of Schmidt Bu Advance In Southern Sector

Nazis Batter Yanks Back   Nazis Retake Schmidt, But Fail In Other Areas; Walcheren Fight Over

U.S. Divebombers Flatten Town, Only 2 Houses Standing  Other Troops Reach” Within 3 Miles of 7

Allied Troops Inside Holland Plunge Ahead   Enemy On Walcheren Island Can Only Swim, Surrendé er Or Die,   RECAPTURE OS PEEL

Yanks Holding Firm Following Schmidt Loss   U. S. Divebombers Hit Town A Destructive Blow Few Minutes After Withdrawal

YANKS SCRAMBLE ” OUT OF SCHMIDT   ¢ ive-bombers Flatten fewn After Withdrawal   ALLIED FORCES   Binge Forward in Southwestern Holland; Walcherene Battle Near End

Yanks Driven Back From German City   Allies Continue Gains In Battle to Secure Walcheren Island

Nazis Defense of Walcheren Proves Futile   Battle for Island Nears End; Bitter Fighting About Aachen

Temperatures   German Pressure Forces Retreat From Reich City   Allied T- Troops Plunge Ahead on Front In Southwest Bolland

78th Congress Fades F Into History, Its Work ‘Not Ouite Completed

CONGRESS IN ITS FINAL ADJOURNMENT   78th Congress Has Passed Into History

78th Congress Fades Into History, Appropriated Over 182 Billions Of Dollars

VACATION-HUNGRY CONGRESS CLOSES 78TH SESSION   Work Is Left On Calendar By Solons

18th Congress Adjourns Sine Die Last Night   Many Members Leave Early and Work  Te Ilneamnileatad

CONGRESS HAS QUIT WORK FOR YULE VACATION   Session Fades Into History, Ap prove State Department Nominations

T8TH CONGRESS CLOSES SESSION   Work Left Undone In Haste To Start Vacation

Congressmen Homebound For Holidays   Session Concluded As Postal Pay Bill Fajls 10 Get Vote

WORLD POL DETACHMENT INCLUDED   Big Four And France Would Dictate Policy   Of Such A Program Will Be Long, Difficult Job, Hull States

Allied Nations Announce New Security Plan   Tentative Proposal Includes Force to Insure World Peace

SPECIAL AIR FORCE WOULD ~ BE CREATED   Council of 11 Would Have Power to Use Force Against Aggressors, Dumbarton Oaks Securitv Planners Agree. _

France Gets Seat On 11-Man Council; World Court Slated   National Air Force to Be on Guards Aggression Vote Problem Unsettled; Assembly to Mect Once Each Year

United Nations Announce Peace Organization Backed By Powerful Armed Forces   Special Air Detachments Capable Of Lightning Blows Included

World Security lan Announcec   Tentative United Nations Blueprint ° Provides for Armed Forces, Including Ready Air Command, to Enforce Peacs

International Peace Army Planned   United Nations Security Organization Program Is Disclosed Today

UNITED NATIONS WOULD PROVIDE FIGHTING UNITS   Forces, Including Air Arm. Would Be Directed By 11-Member Board

Four Powers Announce Plan: For. World Peace Organizatior Backed By Powerful Armed Force

SECURITY PLAN OUTLINED FOR POST-WAR PEACE   Air Detachments Under United  Nation Care

AGGRESSORS WOULD FACE QUICK KAYC   Authority Would Be In vested In Security Council of Eleven

SECURITY PLAN PROVIDES FOR USE OF FORCE   Authority To Maintain Peace To Be Vested In Council Of 11 Members

ARMY PEACE GOUNGHL WITH AERIAL MIGHT   Incomplete Plan to Convert United Nations into Peace Group Announced

HULL SUBMITS A BLUEPRINT FOR SECURITY   Powerful Armed Forces, In _ cluding Special Air De-  tachments to be Used Aaaginst Aaaressors   BACKED BY "BIG FOUR"

Authority To Be Vested In Council Of 11   Hull Warns There Is Much Work Yet To Be Done On Tentative Proposal

Tentative Peace  Plan Outlined   Powerful Armed Forces Would Back United Nations Organization

Would Inchide Special Ait Detachments Capable of Lightning Blows Againat  Future Aggressors   Security Plan Still Teniative   Forces. Woulkl be Con tributed by All Nations, Including U. §. Under. Special Agreement

POLICIES WILL BE BACKED BY ARMED FORCES   Allied Leaders May Meet To Settle Disputed Articles

Postwar Security Plan Is Outlined   United States, Britain, Russia and China and Eleven Other Nations Would Form World Council With Power To Preserve Peace With Military Force— Heated Debate Expected Here

“Big Four” Reveal_ Tentative Program To Enforce Peace   U. S., Britain, Russia, China Plan _. Air Units Capable Of Lightning  Moves On Future Aggressors

Is Called Tentative, incomplete   Backed by Force Including Special Air Detachments

BIG FOUR ISSUES BLUEPRINT FOR STANDING ARMY   Lists Tentative, Incomplete Plans for Allied Peace Organization

Future Aggressors To Face Lightning Blows   Authority To Use These Forces, To Whickt Each Nation Would Contribute, Vested In Council.

Awaits © Formal Approval   Delegates to FourPower Parley Agree On Framework of Security Program

[Now It's Official: Roosevelt Is Elected for Fourth Term, Electoral College Finds

Navy Pounds Guam Base   U.S, Carrier-Based Bombers Blast Isle Eleventh Straight Day

Guam Sea, Aerial Assault Extends To Heventh Day  Spruance Forces Join Mitscher’s Fliers Tah Hammer Outnoost

U.S. Warships, Planes Batter At Guam Again  Isle Attacked For 11   Isle Attacked For 11 Straight Days; Enemy Checked On Guinea; Oil On Ceram Blasted

Hurl Bombs And Shells On Guam Island Blast Airfield   Blast Airfield At Orote Located On West Coast

oat > Lom + lad S100: own 3. .a)2-enes Over "Nrec<-Srewn case O- %4 au.

Believe 62 Jap Planes Blasted In Rabaul Raid   30 Downed in Battle, 12 Scored ‘Probable,’ 20 Hit on Ground

BREAK THRU IN SIX-MILE DRIVE BELOW ARNHEM   EAS” SITUATION DESCRIBED LAST NIGHT AS CRITICAL

Paratroops Holding Out Against Nazis   War's Fate in West Hoengs on Success Of Rescue Forces

Slash Through Six Miles Of  Nazi Barrier   Artillery Roars Onl to Support Airborne Division Enecircled Across  River   Critical Plight OF Situation “Eased”   Juneture of Ground aud Sky Troops Would Open Rurh Road to Rerlin

Rip Through © Six-Mile Wall ‘Blood, Steel’   Swirling See-Saw Battle ~ Rages All Along Re  lief Route

First Army Penetrates Nazi s Seigtried Line fo Put. Troops on Highway Toward Cologne   Patton's Army Now Only [5 Miles From the Famed Saar Basin in Move to Cut Off Metz;  Aachen. on Road to Berlin, May Be Teppling

Hodges’ Army Plunges Past Siegfried Line   Patton’s Forces Cut Behind Metz, Menace Saar Basin; Americans 12 Miles East  Of Aachen; Brest Falls, Is Claim

Six Allied Armies Push ing Forward on. 506 Mile Front — Whole West Wall Imperiled; pe      PATTON'S FORCES NEAR SAAR BASIN   Fight Way Into Thionville —Doughboys Burn German Village to es Out Snipers. oe

U.S. Troops Reach: Open Country. After Piercing West Wall Beyond Aachen   . Strong Resistance Met in Many Sectors» As Advance Continues on Broad-Front: Capture of Brest Reported by French

Six Armies Hit Germans Along 500-Mile Front; Aachen Break-Through Is Complete

On Super-Highway Near Cologne As Allies Pound On A 500-Mile Front

U. . SOLDIERS NOW 26 MILES FROM COLOGNE   Six Armies Advancing Toward Berlin on  500-Mile Line

Ist Army Fans Out Into Open Country   Hard-Hitting Third Army Frees Thionville to Threaten Rich German Industrial Saar Basin: Cut Behind Mats

Six U.S. Armies Push Forward  Against Boche   First Fights Inte Open on German Super-Highway Afier Drive Through Sieefricd   PATTON EMPERILS RICH SAAR BASIN   Patrats Beyoud Last LDefenses Before Rhine; Aachen Toppling; Huns  Surrender Brest

Americans Drive Germans Back on 900-Mile Front   First Army Reaches One of Super Roads Built by Hitler

Patton Threatens Saar Basin Tn Swift Thrust   Six Allied Armies  Drive Forward  tm FAM ATL. Deenwk

Hitler's Highway: Handy to Yanks In Forward Push   Troops Nearing Cologne and Others Free Western Half of Town Of Thionville Near Saar Basin

Six Forces Hit  Nazis Along 500- Mile Line   Paris Reports U. S. Troops Capture 12,000 Prisoners in Penetrating Port of Brest ; Fall of Surrounded Aachen Appears Near

Smash Siegfried Line, Take To Super-Highway   U. S. Ist Army Fights Out In Open Within 26 Miles Of Cologne; Width Of Westwall Breach South Of Aachen Perils Defense System

Reaches One Of Hitler's Famous Super Army Roads   Third Army Slashes Behind Metz, Now in 15 Miles of Saar Basin

First Army Drives Through Siegfried Line Onto Paved Hiwav: Third Cuts Off Metz.

Allies Race For Cologne   First In Open On Super-Highway And Five Other Armies Smash Forward

Yanks Driving On Cologne IN Break Through   German Defense System Threatened Below Metz— Battle Blazes On 500-Mile Front

AUSSIES NEA -MADANG BASE + INNEW GUNIER   Yanks Close in on Airfields: q Japs Say Liberators Raid Guam

AUSTRALIAN UNITS 4 MILES FROM MADANG   Seizure of Airbases Will Permit Raids on Philippines

12 Percent Pay Tax For S. S. Urged   Federal Board Asks Congress To Brosden Coverage and Up Rates.

FDR READY 10 CALL NAMES IN CHICAGO SPEECH   Challenge Accepted Ir Two-Fisted Verbal Slugging Match   TO REQUEST TEAMWORK   Tumultuous Reception Accorded President In Philadelphia

LEWIS, NYE AND GERALD __SMITH_SLATED_FOR MEN. ' "TIO! EFENDED PRE-. .  PAREDNESS RECORD . LAST NIGHT

ROOSEVELT REPLIES 10 DEWEY   Claims Republicans Place Party Above Welfare of Nation

President Expected fo Continue Vigorous Attack on His Opposition

Rebellion Of German © Mercenaries In France Complicates Nazi Job

Rebellion by German Mercenaries in South France Told by Underground

NAZ MERCENARIES IN OPEN REBELLION   Complicate Task of Controlling Aréa Behind Normandy Battlefront.

Hundreds Of American and British Planes Hit   Belgian and French Invasion Coasts.

Yanks Carry Out Another 2-Way Assault On Nazis; rierce Air Battles Retiiitied

Liquor Making to Resume in August   Month’s Production Permitted by WPB

ENDURANCE FLIER OF 1930 1S KILLED   Crash at El Paso Fatal Te Capt. Forrest O’Brine

GOP GOVERNORS MEETING TODAY IN ST. LOUIS   Dewey And Bricker To Discuss Fall  Election Plans

Officials of Election Board Declare Wets’ Leads Will Stand;  Record Vote Reported

FILGAS TRIAL IN THIRD DAY   Hints of Further ‘Significant Disclosures’ Before State Rests Case.

Rates Second in the State After Selling 111% of ‘E’ Quota   60 Crewmen Lost . ~ When U.S. Sub Sinks in Pacific  CO OO VT. 2n TIN 8. RT

U.S. Submarine  Is Listed Lost 60 Men Aboard In Trainina Exercises

U.S. SUB LOST ON MANEUVERS   No Survivors of Crew of 60 Men and Officers

U.S. SUB LOST INMANEUVERS   Entire Crew of Nearly 60 Mer Lost on $-28

60 Crewmen Lost When U.S. Sub  Sinks in Pacific   S-28 Was in Training; No Chance of Raising the Doomed Craft

Old Submarine With Crew Of 60 Lost In Pacific  Sinking Occurs      Sinking Occurs During Training

20-Year-Old Sub, Crew Of 60 Lost   Hope Abandoned for Recovery of Missing Men Due to Depth of Water, Navy Says

ae  U.S, SUB LOST, NO SURVIVORS   S-28 Goes Down During Training Exercises

20-Year-Old U. S. Sub With Crew of About 60 Men Lost During Exercises

NA ANNUNCE 1.5, SUB LOS   Craft Is Lost During Training Exercises In Pacific; No Survivors -

U. S. Training Sub Lost af Sea   Hope Abandoned for Rescue of Complement Of About 60 Men

AMERICAN SUB LOST WITH 60 MEN ABOARD   S-28 Sinks During Training Exer cises in Water So Deep Salvage Is Impossible.

U. S. SUB $28 AND CREW LOST   UNDERWATER CRAFT GOES DOWN DURING TRAINING EXERCISE

SIXTY MEN ARE LOST WHEN SUB GOES TO BOTTOM      Old Submarine Accidentally Los During Training Exercises In Pacific

U.S. Warships, Planes Team Up To Smash Mili   Attack Against Atoll May Presage Another Invasion of Marshalls

SURANCE RULING UPHELD  High Court Stands Pat   UNDERWRITERS REMAIN SUBJECT TO SHERMAN ANTITRUST PENALTIES

Insurance Ruling Change Is Denied   Supreme Court Refuses To Reeonsider Action

American Troops Reported Within 15 Miles of Rome   ‘Units Batter Forward Another Hard Mile In Violent Fighting

GEN. ENT’S CONDITION JIS SERIOUS   SECOND AIR FORCE CHIEF INJURED IN TEXAS CRASH

Yank Tanks Break Into Gustav Line   Only Minor Advances Made by Allied Forces In Area Below Rome  6 DIVISIONS ASHORE

Nazis Divert Rapido With Little Effect   U. S. Engineers Enable Attackers to Ignore Water Obstacle

Germans Reported Evacuating Rome   Leave Demolition Bombs in Buildings

U.S. Aerial Armadas Hit Brunswick and Hanover  At Cost of 25 Aircraft   Americans Pierce Gustav Line With Great Tank. And Infantry Push; RAF Blasts Berlin Again;  Russians Report More Success in North

  JAPS LINE UP 30 YANKS AND SLAUCHTER 29   One Makes Miraculous Escape And Lives To Tell Story

THIRTY AMERICAN PRISONERS LINED UP AT RAIL OF JAP SHIP AND SHOT IN BACK—ALL BUT ONE

One Got Away But Japs Shot 29 ¥ *% -M HF -* Others In Back: (Buy War Bonds)

AMERICAN SOLDIER WhO ESCAPED FIRING SQUAD TELLS HORRID STORY OF JAPANESE ATROCITIES

Japs Shoot 29 Bound And Helpless Americans In Back And Throw Bodies Into Sea, Escapee Tells

Firemen Answer Three Calls Here   Texas Sergeant Tells Of Miraculous Escape From Japs

HEMP PLANT AT LADD TO START PROCESSING   Adjusting And Testing Machinery Has Been Completed

HEMP PLANT AT LADD READY TO START LAST WEEK   Force Of Workers Will Be Doub led As Work Of Combing Ou! Fibres Gets Under Way; Ma} {Not Operate The Bureau Coun ty Plant Next Year.

PENETRATE LAST GERMAN LINES BEFORE PARIS   Nazi Troops Abandon Le Mans Without Serious Fight

AMERICAN ARMOR 15 BELIEVED DRIVING INTO o0-MILE ZONE  _ GERMANS EXPECTED MAK!  Tr aWnrrrrne err. wart   GERMANS EXPECTED MAKE STAND ABOUT 50 MILES FROM ZAPITAL

Believe Armor Driving Into Last 50 Miles   Actual Location Of Americans Is Shrouded In Mystery

“American Armor Believed! Within 50 Miles of ; the City   PUSH CLOSE 10 LOIRE  Germans Call - Call the Fight a  “Battle for French eee tal’ id

* American Troops  Now 87 Miles From Capital; St.  ‘Malo Captured   Revolutionary New Airborne Army Formed s Under Leadership of Gen. Brereton

BATTLE NEARS 50-MILE LINE RUMORS CLAIM   Capture of Strategic Ports in Brittany Sought Early

Battle For Paris Is Open   New Air-Borne Army Consolidates Chutists, Gliders in Powerful New Weapon

Tanks Shred German Line — In Lunge Into Last Zone Qt Defense Before Paris

Airborne Units Form New Army   Headquarters Announce Existence Of New Kind Of Army As Troops Push Toward Paris

POWERFUL LINE PUSHES ENEMY   Formation of New Airborne Army Presages More Victory Blows.   LOCATIONS ARE NOT TOLD

Announce A New Air Force   No Effort to Defend Le Mons; Next Line Of Defense Within  50 Miles of Paris

U. 5. Troops Move Rapidly Toward Paris   Believe Armored Force in Last 50 Mile Zone of German Defenses

U.S. Forces Reported In 50-Mile City Defense Zone      Formation of Revolutionary New Air. Borne Army Announced; Presages New Yank Blows For Victory

NEW AIRBORNE JNIT FORMED IN NORMANDY   Irganization Consolidates Parachutists, Glider  Troops and Necessary Elving Pearcannel   .ES MANS ABANDONED

TROOPS REACH SO-MILE LINE BEFORE CITY   Germans, Confronted By Allied Arc, Admit Battle For Paris On

In Last Possible Defense Zone Of Nazis Said To Be 50 Miles From Capital

Exact Position Secret; Possibly In 50-Mile Zone   Canadian Thrust South of Caen Is Slowed by Nazis

Army Heads Silent on Positions   May Be Into Last 50 Mile Zone of Defense Of Capital

Nazis Faced By 175-Mile Unified Arc   Present Lateral Line Of Communications Is North From Orleans.

New Air Army Presages Blow to Foe   Allies Report Gains All Along Wide Front Toward Capital

U.S. TANKS MAY BE WITHIN FIFTY MILES OF PARIS   Eisenhower Forms Air: - borne Army for New Smashes at Enemy

Yank Gain Not Being Disclosed   ‘But Yon Can Be Sure They Are Not Comping -at- Le Mans,’ Observer Says   NAZI EVACUATION ATTEMPT AT BREST   Bitter Resistance Continues in Several Sectors as Allies Push Ahead

U.S. Airborne Army Is Formed   .. Angers, Lorient Surrounded; St. Malo Taken

GERMANS FACE 113 - MILE ARC QF ALLIED MEN   New Air-borne Army Expected to Make Final Thrust; Nazis Retreat From Le Mans

After Giving Up Without Serious Fight, Key City of Le Mans, Nazis Withdraw Toward Capital.   ALLIES REORGANIZE AIRBORNE FORCES

AMERICANS £0 MILES FROM CITY. IS RUMOR   Mw Airborne Army Is Organized; ‘Battle For Paris Is On’

Spearheads Thought Within 50 Mile Zone of Capital   Brereton Commands Revolutionary Combination of Glider Troops, Chutists. and Planes —_

New Airborne Army Headed By. Brereton —  To Lend Help   Capital’s Distance ‘Wrapped: In Secrecy

American Armor May Be Only 50 Miles from French Capital; Heavy \Battles Rage Before Peninsula Ports

MORE TROOPS BEING RUSHED UP BY GERMANS   Canadian Assault from Caen Area Poses Another Grave Problem for Nazis

American Armor Believed Within 50 Miles of the City   PUSH CLOSE TO LOIRE   Germans Call ‘the Fight a “Battle for French Capital”

Battle Started For Control Of French Capital   U.S. Spearheads Believed within 50 Miles of Goal

Formation of New Airborne Army Announced   Allies’ Advance Beyond Le Mans Wrapped In Mystery

“AMERICAN VANGUARDS SURGING TO WITHIN 50 MILES CAPITAL; — ‘BATTLE FOR BREST IS UNDER WAY   American-British Front Extending in Winding 175Mile Arc Gradually Pushing Germans Back Toward Seine. Nantes Falls Without Much Resis ,

TANKS BATTER LAST DEFENSES GUARDING CITY   Yank Armored Units Reported 50 Miles From Canrtal

Battle for Paris Begun, Germans Say   Armored Units Push Beyond LeMans; Nazis Offer More Resistance

‘Battle For Paris’ On Nazis Say   American Armor Is Be lieved in Last 50-Mile Defense Zone

Armor Inside Last 50 Miles In Fast Push   Anti-Tank Screen Is Erected By Germans Around Canadians In Wedae Before Falaise

New Air Unit  - Formed Under  Gen. Brereton   Nazis Claim Stand Is “Battle For Paris; They Abandon Le Mans.   Yank Spearheads 40 Miles From Capital

Nazis Abandon LeMans As Allied Arc Tightens on French Capital Defense

YANKS WITHIR FINAL ZONES OF DEFENSE   Formation Of New Airborne Army Is Announced   EXACT LOCATION   Of U. S. Spearheads Is Not Disclosed; Angers, Lorient Surrounded

Revolutionary New Airborne Army Formed   *‘Chutists and Gliders Put Under Command of Brereton

Believe American Armored Units Are Driving Into Last Fifty Mile.Zone Of Defense For Paris — Formation Of Revolutionary New Airborne Force Is Disclosed

Americans Driving Fast Toward City   New Air-borne Organization Set Up in France

FIVE MISSING IN EXPLOSION AT BOMB DEPOT   Oregon Ammunition Dump Blast Felt In Next State

a  SIX KILLED Ih BOMB BLAST   Force of Explosion Al Arms Depot Is Felt 30 Miles Away

Ammunition Depot Blows Up In West   Several Missing Following Blast

LEGISLATORS MAY HEAR FORD GIVE OUTLINE OF PLANS   Expect Governor to Present to 29th ~=Legislative Session Opening Next Week Broad Plan‘ of Postwar Devélopment in State

Northwest States Seek Annual Highway Grant  Governors Name Ford  Chairman of Veanrly Conference

Japs Ambush Yank Troops On Biak Isle   paperman the invasion Saturday of Biak in the Schoutens).

Americans Ambushed as Wily Japanese Put Un Stiff Resistance on Biak Isle

‘Yanks’ ‘Buffaloes’ Save Battalion Cut Off by Japs in Biak Invasion

Etiemy Using Same Maniacel Cunning Displayed At Guadalcanal And Buna

Japanese Murderous in Biak Defense Correspondent Gives Account of Bloody Fighting

American Newsman Describes Invasion of Biak in Schoutens   By Spencer Davis Associated Press War Correspondent.

‘Buffaloes’ Rescue Survivors of Two ‘ Battalions Cut Off by Enemy Fire

Americans Suffer Heavy Casualties As Japs Resist Fiercely at Biak

Yank Yank Spearhead Suffers — Heavy Casualties at Biak   Amphibious Tractors Bring Aid to Trapped Battalions and Carry Out Wounded; Field Hospital Soon Overiaxed

Yanks Run into Murderous Fire From Japanese on Biak Island   Br Spencer Davic

Enemy Strikes With Same Maniacal Cunning in Mokmer Village Battle

To Operate On Hiccup Victim   Army Surgeon Arrives To Operate On Girl For Second Time.

MacArthur Lands  With Americans  OnTwo Beachheads General's Appearance Electri fies Troops Carrying Oui Classic ally Execated Assaults

GENERAL MACARTHUR MINGLES WITH MEN ON DUTCH NEW. GUINEA   AMERICAN TROOPS CARRY OUT MOST STAGGERING BLOW TO JAPANESE

Gen. MeArthur Leads Attack Qn Hollandia   Commander Goes Ashore While Ships Blast Path  For Troops

Bey BOS TT  bos arin Goes With Men Info Hollandia   Commander-in-Chief Inspects Success Of His Bold Plan To Cut Off Jane

Gen. MacArthur Rubs Shoulders With Privates as Landing Forces Push Ahead in Attack on Hollandia

MacArthur Sees N ew Guinea Attack Wades Through Mud to Front Lines

Bold New Landing Moves Yanks Up New Guinea Coast   MacArthur Ashore As Invasion Forces Seal Doom of 60,000 Japs In Hollandia Blow

MacArthur ‘Ashore at Beachheads   Commander in Chief Inspects Jap Béoty Captured in Attack On New Guinea Base

M'ARTHUR WITH MEN IN SWAMPS   Assault Executed Classically During All Its Phases

ALLIES DRIVE ON FLORENCE   Germans Report New Offensive     Amaricanc Stallad In

SUPPLY BARGES OF JAPANESE REPORTED SUNK   100 Enemy Troops Either Killed Or Wounded In  Pacific Area   ATTACKS CONTINUE ON RABAUL BASTION

Airmen Sink, Damage 30 Enemy Barges   100 Japanese Are Killed or Wounded in Attacks

Allies Sink, Damage 30 Jap Barges   Widespread Attacks Cripple Pacific Supply Lines

ALLIED AIRMEN HUNT JAP BARGES   Sink or Damage 30 Vessels Killing or. Wounding 100 Of Enemy; Fighting on New Britain Falls Into Lull

Ground Fighting Goes Into Lull   ‘Enemy Shipping In’ “Other Areas Lashed

30 SUPPLY BARGES OF JAPS DAMAGED   Airmen Make Widespread Attacks on Enemy hinc

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT 30 VESSELS   Supply Barges In South Pacific Are Hunted Down by Fliers

AIRMEN SHOOT UP JAP BARGES   Enemy Casualties Total 100 At Rabaul, Thirty Vessels Sunk

AIRMEN GET 30 VESSELS OF JAPANESE   ‘onditions Favorable For Allied Planes To Hunt Them Down Instead of Concentrating On Staging Points.   Aussies Advance

PLANES BLAST 30 JAP TROOP, SUPPLY BOATS   Allied Airmen Smash Foe Barges at Island Bases

30 SUPPLY BARGES OF JAPS DAMAGED      Airmen Make Widespread Attacks-on Enemy Shins :

Mystery of Where ‘Big Bill’ Thompson Got So Much Currency Still Unsolved

$1,466,250 in Currency Found in Safety Box of Former Chicago Mayor

MYSTERY OF HOARD FUND {$ UNSOLVED   Two Other Safety Boxes of Thompson May Contain More Money.

PHILOSOPHY OF PLENTY URGED   Ohio State University Head Speaks To Lane Grant Group

“€Nazis Driven  « From Greece   Rear Guard Flees Into Yugoslavia.

Mainland Of ‘Greece Free “Of Germans   Last Nazi Rearguards . Are Fleeting to North

WARNING GIVEN OF ‘CON’ MAN   Represents Self As Accredited Worker To Home Owner

Russians Believe Greatest Climax  Of War Nearing   Silence On Activity On Eastern Front Taken As Forecast Of New Moves

WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH  — Vs tw tw   Soviet Forces Restoring Battlefront Communications

FIERCE BLOW IS DELIVERED AT OTH ARM   LANDINGS AT ROM STILL MOVING INLAND

Powerful foe hits fiercely at Fifth front   Open hot battles for canal bridges

Nazis Lashing Out Savagely   Desperate Gamble Believed Started Aaainst Dual Blow   Last Nazi Escape Line Cut By Reds   250,000 Nazis Pocketed,. And Reportec  Pleasing Ae(sea ne? we

Another Salerno Type Battle May Be In Making; Nazis Launch Savage Assaults on Cassino Front

German Tank, Artillery, Infantry Forces Open Counterattacks on Allied Beach Heads South of Rome   Kesselring’s Combat Teams Open Series of ‘ights for Canal Bridges in Flat Lands as Nazis Seek to Repair Epic Staff Blunder

ALLIES FAN OUT FROM THE GOAST   Nazis Take Gamble to Repair Epic Staff Blunder   AMERICAN TROOPS   Forced to Fall Back Across Rapido River After Running Our of Ammunition

Germans Launch Counter-Atlack To Profect Rome   Port of Nettuno Taken by Allies

Germans Hit Allies Along  Cassino Front  Enemv Annears« To    Enemy Appears To Be in Desperate Gamble — to Repair Blunder

Salerno-Type Battle Looms South of Rome   Germans Strike at Old Sth Army Front Italian Patriots  Cut Vital Railway

Allied Troops 30  Miles from Rome   Italian Defenders Trying To Repair Blunder That Permitted Allies To Land Unopposed At Rome

Enemy Reports New Landings Were Made   Devastating Blow Is Aimed at Clark’s Forces

DRIVE REGARDED AS STEP TO MEET THRUST AT ROME   Grim Fighting Takes Place Until Americans, Out of Ammunition, Fall Back Across Rapido River.   AMPHIBIOUS FORCE LENGTHENS BEACHHEAD   Nazis Are Expected to Turn and Strike at It if Present Counter-Attack  Ta Snereeefnl

FOR SURPRISE LANDING NEAR ROME SATURDAY; AMERICANS NOW WITHIN 30 MILES OF ETERNAL CITY.

Desperate Gamble Being Made After Capture :’ of Nettuno :      SEEKING TO REPAIR BIG STAFE BLUNDERS   Amphibious Operation Is Called “Classical” by Commander a

Germans Battle For Bridges South of Rome   Kesselring’s Combat Teams Fight To Hold Canal Crossings; Wilson Warns of Another Salerno

Port Of Nettuno Is Captured By Allies   Beachhead Expanded As Troops Drive Four Miles-Inland: Nazi Drive Is Proving Costly

Americans Foreed Back Over Rapido   Allies Take Littoria With Great Airport, Morocco Radio Says  LEADERS CAUTIOUS

Nazis Attempt Tc Cover Blunder With Fierce Counter-Attack In Italy

ARMY “MISTAKE CAUSES LOSS OF A\( PARATROOPS   War Department Reveals That 23 Planes Fell During Gunfire of Allied and Enemy Gunners.   FACTS KEPT SECRET OVER EIGHT MONTHS   News Correspondent First to Reveal Incident, Craft Followed Enemy Planes Over Battlefield.

Loss of 410 American Paratroopers  Misidentified by U.S. Forces Is Tola

CONFIRM LOSS OF 4}0 PARATROOPERS   Killed in Action Over Sicily When Pianes Were Mis-— took for Enemy Shins.

23U.S.Planes Shot Down by Own Guns   War Department f Reveals Loss of 410 Paratroopers in Mistake in Sicilian: Skies

Air Tragedy Over Sicily   Mistaken for Enemy: Planes, Transports Are Downed By Own Guns

410 Americans ‘Lost When Shot Down By Allies  _ . . Bag Sigtliagn C'eraancian

Willkie Says Landon’s Free Trade Speech “Provocative, Instructive’

Berlin Radio Off Air for Third Successive Night; Big Air Field Useless

Berlin Takes Stiff Beating From British   Biggest 8th Air Force Concentration Stages Daylight Assault; RAF Loses 47 Planes

Berlin Shudders in Ally Smash   LIBERATORS, FLYING FORTS RATTLE VITAL ENEMY INDUSTRIAL CITY; REPORT COMPLETE EVACUATION OF BURNING CAPITAL CONTEMPLATED

Berlin Again Is Target _ For British   More Than 800 Liberators and Fortresses Hit Frankfort Today After RAF Loses Eorty-Seven Planes in Berlin Night Raid

Largest Force ~ of Big. Planes: _ U.S; Ever Used   Hundreds. of ‘of : Fighters” Go Along on-Raid Against : “Industrial. Center   ‘TIGHT CENSORSHIP  --: ON. BERLIN’ RAID   ‘One of Most. Horrible. of All’ Sweden Hears; Reich: Capital May Be Evacuated:

Berlin Still in Flames After RAF Blow; May  Be Evacuated   Nazis Clamp Censorship on Details of Attack on Capital

Record Assault Follows Second Heavy Blow By RAF On Reich Capital In Two Nights

Springfield ‘Ward Plant Has Strike   Chicago Controversy Is Not Involved, Report of Spokesmen

Democrats Will Meet March. 3   County Convention Ti Be In St. Joe

DEMOCRATS 10 MEET FRIDAY   To Convene In St. Joseph To Name Delegates to State Conclave

BROWN'S DAUGHTER INJURED IN CRASH   Auto Mishap Als Also Involves Young Actor, Freddie Rarthalamaw

Joe Brown’s Daughters Hurt in Auto Collision With Freddie Bartholomew

U. 9. ADMITS AID FROM LEND-LEASE   British Reverse Goods Played Major Role In Preparing Yanks For Invasion.

BRITISH LEND- LEASE PLAYED BIG  INWASION ROLE   Entire Putput of British  re Steel Rolling Indusrc td or Three Months One te

NEW POLITICAL TACTICS USED BY PRESIDEN]      Shows No Inclination 16” Take, Hand ‘in State’and Local » Bections --

FDR Changes His Political Tactics:  Shows Less Signs Of Purgine Party

ALLIES IN ITALY TAKE MOUNTAIN AN GAINING MILE   5th Army Advance 16 Miles « North of Cassino Marks New Fighting

Alles In Advance In Central Sector On Italian Front   Flareup Of Fighting Is Reported In Sector For First Time In Weeks   U. S. DESTROYERS SHELL NAZI FORCES

ALLIES GAIN MILE IN ITALY   Capture Strategic Mountain Cassino Pounded By Big Guns

ARMY TAKES VITAL ITALIAN HILL   Seizes Mount Marrone, 16 Miles North of Cassino

ALLIES SEIZE ~ MOUNTAIN IN -CASSINO ARE!   HEIGHT NORTH OF CASSINO. TAKEN DURING MILE AD VANCE IN CENTRAL  ot “+. SECTOR

News Behind The News  Copyright McCiure Newepapar   WASHINGTON Ky Kay Tucker

WIDOW OF 7816 BILL" FAINTS WHEN BIG.FORTUNE IS FOUNE      MORE THAN MILLION DOLLARS  IN CASH IN FORMER CHICAGO MAYpR’S DEPOSIT BOXES _

SENATE FIGHT _ OPENS TODAY   REPUBLICANS TO HAVE BAL  ‘ANCE OF POWER IN DE CIDING STATE DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS. ”

SENATE DEBATES NEW APPOINTEES   Républican Votes May Save Some Nominees From Defeat

STATE BATTLE MOVES BEFORE SENATE   Bitter Debate Expected With New Dealers Leading Revolt

Believe Spanish Situation Easing   U. S. May Continue Sending Certain Supplies

Yanks Blast Five Truk Islands  Most Vital Targets Are Sineled Out

Few Japs Hold Out i in Saipan  Enna lmene Lica KAne   Foe Loses Five Men To Americans One

Five Japs Lost For Each Yank Killed Or Saipan   SS  U.S.” se as In  ay & Fighting oe 0 15,053

95% of Japs Lost on Saipan   11,948 Enemy Buried After Bloody Fighting

Noxon Declared Guilty of Murder, Sentenced to Die   Protests Innecence Again Alter Verdict Reperied on Death of Mentally Deficient Sea

Steel Firm Is Acquitted   Not Guilty of Concealing, Falsifying Records of Tests

Motorists Are Still Stranded  Will Be Worse When Hialeah Park Closes

Draft Heads Balk At Pins For 4-Fs   Selective Service Systen Opposes Issuance of Any Recognition Emblems

KILLS WIFE BECAUSE SHE TIED HIM DOWN      ‘We Always Got Along 100 Percent,’ He Admits

COMPANY SOLD JAPAN META      Dow Chemical Officials Tes: tify Concerning Magnesium Sale.

SOLD JAPS IN ‘3 OFFICIALS SAY   1,525,000 Pounds Sold, Dr. DowTells Senate Committee

VITALU, S, GOODS SOLD TO JAPAN   Michigan Firm Admits Shipping Nipponese Magnesium In 1938

Main Routes To Rome In Range Ot Allied Guns   Yanks Advance As Others Drive To Within 19 Miles OF Canital.

Troops Get Into Range Of Cisterna   Additional Forces Pushing North Of Anzio

Allies Held To Slow Advance In Italy   German Air Attacks Beaten Back With Heavy Losses

YANKS EXTEND ~ TTALIAN. HOLD   Within Artillery Range of Cisterna Now; One Force 19 Miles From Rome

Yank Troops Advancing to Appian Way   Beachhead Pushed to Within Light Artillery Range of Cisterna

ALLIES WITKIN RANGE QF CITY   Cisterna ts Astride Appian Way and Main Rail Line To Cassino Front.   NAZIS ATTACK SHIPPING

sell Hl UNE ANG APPIAN, WAY   Cisterna, 14 Miles North' east Of Anzio, Under Artillery ‘Fire .° :   WARSHIPS HELP:   Germatis Are Again Badly. Mauled In: Beachhead Aerial Battles

Germans Launch Heavy Air Attack Against Anzio Harbor   36 PLANES DOWNED   U.S. Tanks and Infantry Hack Out Gains North of Cassino

ITALIAN RAIL LINE AND APPIAN WAY ARE UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE   American Beachhead Troops Continue Their Advance Below Rome   NAZIS ATTACK SHIPPING

Light U. §. Guns. Threaten Town North. OF Anzic   Allies Pushing Up Anziaté ‘toad: Reach Point. 19 “Miles Southeast Of Rome

Allied Troops Drive Forward  South Of Rome   Germans Lose Total O: 36 Planes In Furiou: Skv Battles.

Heavy Battle Rages Along Italian Front   ‘Nazi Air Attacks On Allied Shipping Prove Costly

OTH UNIT TAKES BRIDGE 19 MILES SOUTH OF ROME   Nazis Lose 21 Planes in Raids on Allied Ships Near New Beachhead

Nazi Planes Shot Down kx Attacks On Allied Ships   Further Gains Made On ltalian Front; Accurate Fire From Naval Guns Severs Enemy Train

Germans Fail To Halt Allies   American Troops Gair South of Rome, Also North of Cassino

DESTROY 36 MORE NAZI PLANES IN FIGHT FOR ITALY   ALLIED TROOPS PUSH TOWARD APPIAN WAY AND MAIN RAIL LINE

AMERICAN TROOPS  HAVE ADVANCED IN  NEW BEACHHEAD ARE! GERMANS AGAIN LOST  HEAVILY IN AIR AS 36  PLANES SHOT DOWN

OTHERS NEAR RAIL ROUTE TO CASSINO   Are Within Light Artillery Range of Cesterna, _Astride Appian Way as Well as Tracks to Southern Front.

YANKS STRIKING FOR CASSINGS SUPPLY ROUTES   Beachhead Troops Within Light Artillery Range of Cisterna

AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE ADVANCED IN RANGE OF CISTERNA   Are Striking Toward the ApPian Way and the Main - Line to Cassino Front.   BRITISH ROUTED NAZIS   This Allied Force Was About ‘19 Miles Southeast of Rome.

Tanks, Infantry Hack Out Gains In Fierce Battle   One Allied Force Now Nineteen Miles Southeast of Rome

ALLIED FORCES ADVANCE ON TWO ITALIAN FRONTS   Now Within Light Artillery Range of Cisterna; Other Forces Pushing North From  nzio Capture  Bridge.

Americans Striking Toward Appian Way Within Lighi Artillery Rance of Cisterna   NAVY GUNS ACTIVE   Warships Bombard German Positions While Airmen Down 36 Nazi Planes to Loss of Five

U.S. Troops In Ran ve Of Appian Way   Cisterna Brought Unde Light Artillery Fire: Bridgehead Within 19 Miles Of Rome

Allies Show ~ New Gains in All Sectors   “Warships Join in Attack, One Salvo Cutting Nazi Supply Train in Half   “GREAT SEY DUEL, -. HRAVY BOMBINGS   Rainstorm Fails to Stop Vio# lent Fighting; Allies. Only 49 Miles From Rome ©

Allied Troops Advancing Toward Rome   Heavy Aerial Blows Smash German Planes and Trains

‘U.S. Forces Push Deeper Into Italy.   Now Stand Only 19 Miles from Rome; Appian Way Key Within Gun Rance

IN-HOUSE TODAY   Bilf Would Vest Full Control in Army, Navy Despite - DBaet EDR Rulinne

Hit ‘Anything’ Inside Germany  U.S. Airmen Bringing Hard Facts To Reich

Tanks Lead Marines  In Advance   Yanks Within Two Miles of Jap Base On New Briain

Tanks Spearhead Marines Pushing Toward Talasea   New Britain Jap Base Also Attacked By U. S. Planes

MARINES NEAR JAP BASE IN NEW BRITAIN   Only Two Miles From Ta: lasea Despite Strong Resistance: Los Negros Grip Tichtened.

MARINES TWO MILES FROM TALASEA   Approach Jap Base on East Side Of New Britain

U.S. MARINES WITHIN 2 Mi. OF TALASEA   Planes Attacking Jap Base Only 170 Miles From Rabaul

Marines Advance To Within 'wo Miles of Base   Meet Strong Resistance Near Talasea

Foe Leaving Piles Of Dead Along Cape In Bloody Retreat   American Planes Pound at Base On Northern New Britain Coastline; Cavalry Widens Hold on Los Negros

TANKS SUPPORT MARINES’ DRIVE ON WILLAUMEZ   U.S. Forces Within Two Miles Of Talasea, Jap Base

Marines Within Two Miles of  Jap Talasea Base   Sherman Tanks Pave Way For Williaumez  Drive In New Guinea

MARINES MAKE FURTHER GAIN NEAR TALASEA      Advance In Fighting On New Britain Aided By Tanks

Marines Within 2 Miles of Talasea  Sherman Tanks Qno ) vhaa p   Sherman Tanks Spearhead Steady Drive   Japs Abandon Many Dead As They Flee Southward

CHURCH FAVORS VIEWS OF KIMMEL   CONGRESSMAN SAYS BLAME FOR DISASTER LIES IN WASHINGTON

Pearl Harbor Fault Said In Washington   Congress Splits Between Truman, Kimmel On Blame For Setback

Dewey Would Confer With Willkie On Campaign Plans   Republican Nominee Holds “World’s Bigges! Press Conference’; Welcomes Aid Of “Every Good American” in Nation

DEWEY SAYS ~ HES AGAINST PEACE ARMY   Don’t Want Yank: In Internaticnal Police Force

DEWEY PLANS TO MEET ALL PARTY CHIEFS   Willkie to Be Included in   Consultations on Presidential Campaign Pians,  Nominee Says at Press Conference.

Dewey Would Confer On Campaign Plans   Republican Nominee Holds ‘World's Biggest Press Conference’; Welcomes Aid Of “Every Good American” in Nation

Harmonious Convention Points Toward Highly Organized And Unified Campaian J

“One Man Rule” Blasted By Dewey in Acceptance Of GOP’s ’44 Nomination

TEMPERATURES:   Party Leaders Confident He Will Beat FDR   Nominee Asks Return Of Government To The © American People

APPEALS T0 ALL VOTERS TO OUST ONE-MAN RULE   Delegates Cheer New York Governor as He Accepts GOP Nomination

Dewey in Appeal To End ‘One-Man  ~ Rule’ in America   » Repub lican Presidential Nominee Tackles Biggest Case in Career.   " He Is Wildly Cheered By Perspiring Crowd

Campaign Planned At Conferences As Convention Closes   Bricker Effects Unity by Accepting Second Place on GOP Ticket With Dewey Who Says First Job To Win War Then Follow Middle Course in World Affairs

Gov. Dewey Briefs Course For White House In An Apbbeal To All Parties

Dewey OK To Several GOP Planks   Endorsés... Foreign Policy Approved by Convention; Won’t-Discuss ‘Cabinet   SOME. PLANS TO BE “<EREVEALED: LATER   Numerous. Questions, Are ered. at Conference

GOVERNOR DEWEY STATES HIS CASE      Would End One-Man Government In America

DEWEY IN BIG PRESS MEETING    Nominee Gives Speedy. Indorsement to Many Planks of Platform.    MANY PRAISE HIS SPEECH

DEWEY SPEEDS UP PLANS FOR GOP CAMPAIGN   Says He'll Meet Al! Leaders, Including Wendell Willkie

Keynote Is Youth Vs. Age   Accepting GOP Nomination Dewey Blasts . At Men ‘Grown Old and Quarrelsome in Office

First Press Conference Held at Chicago Today by GOP Presidential Nominee.   DEWEY SPEAKS LAST NIGHT AT CONVENTION

DEWEY PLANS TO CONFER WITH ALL GOP LEADERS INCLUDING WILLKIE ‘ON HIS PLANS FOR PRESIDENCY   Republican Nominee Declines to Discuss Cabinet Possiblities If He Should Win Election, But Gives  Endorsement to Many Plans in Platform

DEWEY STARTS HIS PRESIDENTIAL DRIVE WITHOUT LOSS TIME   HOLDS “WORLD'S BIGGEST PRESS CONFERENCE” IN CHICACO THURSDAY

THOMAS DEWEY TELLS BACKERS OF PARTY AIMS   GOP Presidential!  Nominee Talks To Nation

Promises To Carry Fight To Roosevelt..... Dewey Tackles Campaign  With Lawyer's Precision

Willkie Included, He Tells Reporters; Pledges End To One-Man Rule

Dewey Accepts Republican Nomination, Gets Down To  Winning His ‘Biggest Case’   GOP Presidential Nominee Addresses Huge  Convention Crowd; Remains In°Chicago

a enna a eminence  Newey Tackles Biqaest Case of Life; Theme -- Youth Versus Age

Dewey Asks Voters ‘Of Every Party’ To Help Him End ‘One-Man Government’  ‘Takes Middle of Road Stand on F. oreign Policy, Hands Off to Let Military Win War, Asserts Jobs for All First Objective

Dewey Outlines His Viewpoint Before ‘Biggest Press Parley’   Endorses Foreign Policy Plank ; Says He'll Confer With Willkie

Gov. Dewey and Party Expected to Leave for Albany Some Time Saturday  TO MEET WITH PRESS

Dewey Intends fo Confer With All G. 0. P. Leaders   Nominee Endorses Many Planks of Party's Platform

Help Of All Republicans Will Be Sought By Dewey   Tom Dewey Was Egotistical As Boy, Principal Recalls

Candidate Dewey Remaining in Chicago to Map Campaign Strategy With Leaders

Gov. Dewey Tackle: Biggest Case Today   Plans Drive . To Win The  Presidency   Acceptance Address Ap: peals to All Parties te Aid Him

COP Candidate Wildly Cheered By Delegates   Republicans Head For Home After Acceptance Speech By New Yorker   Bulletin

Dewey Gets Into Drive  For Ballots With Speed   Conferences Held With Leaders At Chicago

G. 0. P. Unified Behind Dewey As Confab Ends   Nominee Drafts Strategy to Defeat Rooseveit

Dewey Meets Reporters ‘At Biggest Conference   Nominee Declares He Will Confer with Republican Leaders, Including Willkie, in Mapping Plans.

Thomas FE. Dewey Is Tackling Biggest Case In Accepting GOP. Presidential Nomination

Dewey Plans To Meet All GOP Leaders   Tells Worlds Greatest Press Conference’ Republican Platiors Represents Mis Views

End ‘One-Man Rule f  America’, Dewey's  - Plea To Voters ~   New York Governor Accepts G. O, P. Nominatiot * For President And Begins Task Of Shaping Hi:  Campaign: Praises Bricker

Nominee Launches Campaign   Dewey Holds Big Press Conference; Will Seek Advice Of G. O. P. Leaders

TO MEET LEADERS   Dewey. Announces Preliminary Campaign Plans tlofres =

DEWEY STARTS WORK PLAN TD WIN CAMAIEN   Arranges Conferences With Leaders; Speech Wins Popular Praise.

Cov. Die” cy To Ask Advice of Party Leaders   Republican Presidential Nomi_nee Is Interviewed at Huge Press Conference That Follows National Convention

Bricker Is Given Ovation As He Takes Second Place On GOP Ticket for 1944.

CLASSES NEW DEAL TOO OLD, UNSURE, FUTILE   Meets With National Committee To Discuss Strategy For Vote Drive

G.0.P. NOMINEE SPEEDS PLANS FOR CAMPAIGN   Answers Queries of Newsmen At ‘Biggest’ Press Conference

Revitalized G.O.P. Hail: 1944 Chief   Able U. 5, Cabinet In Place of One-Man Daminance Pledzged

Dewey Rolls Up Sleeves   FORMER RACKET BUSTER ASKS FOR VOTES TO END “ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT”

TRUMAN, UNNOTIFIED MEETS 1918 COMRADES   Democratic Nominee Awaiting Word From Presi¢snt On Plans For Campairn

HEAVY RAINS CAUSE DAMAGE IN NEWARK AREA   Cars Stalled, Fields Flooded, Crops Flattened by High Winds

First Division Revealed as Leader of Reich Invasion   Soviets Advance 22 Miles in Sweep Through Yugoslavia   Russians Widen Danube Bridgehead. Drive for Major Rail Center of Nis

CHURCHMEN iT ALLY BOMBINGS   BRITISH LEADERS RAP SMASHES AT GERMANY

CHURGHMEN RAP ALLIED AIR RAIDS   BOMBING OF GERMAN CITIES PROTESTED IN ENGLAND’S HOUSE OF LORDS.

Airplane Plows Into Houses,  3 Die, 5 Hurt   Three Navy Fliers Die, ‘Five Civilians Injured At Coquille, Ore.

Congress May Not Recess Tomorrow   Number Of Bills Remain To Be Acted Upon

Democrats Name Judge Rhodes to ~ Run in Primary   Party Le aders Enter < Stroudsburg...Man - Against James

END OF RATIONING TO COME GRADUALLY OPA HEAD REVEALS   Grangers Told Postwar Goal Is To Keep Farm Income At ‘Fairly High Level’

BALANCED SUPPLY, DEMAND 10 SPELL END OF RATIONING   Se Declares Bowles, OPA Head, In Address To Grange Masters

MAKES CHARGES AGAINST BIDDLE   Assistant Accuses Chief of Bad Practices

Air Row Over ‘Biddle Attempt To Fire Littell   Attorney General Is Accused Of ‘Meddling’ In Tom Corcoran’s Behalf.

Senate Body. Probes Row   CF acts “Are Presented In Littrell Squabble

NEY KAZI Ghat 10 BE cOERE GF BIER FIGHTING   Gne Soviet Column W.thin Eight Miles of Vital Seaport.

CAPTURE OF SAiL ‘CENTER PLACES  NIKOLAYEN AND ODESSA IN PATH OF AD VANCING RUSSIANS

 Fall Of Finland Appears Imminent—— -—DYyY mirke lL. JIMpso  ‘Beds Opening North Gateway To Germany

Archbishop Of Canterbury Dies   Was Friend of Labor and One of England’s Popular Churchmen.

Archbishop And English: Primate Dies   Dr. William Temple Suffers Heart Attack

HUNGARY TO STAY IN WAR WITH HITLER   Germans Tighten Hold on Slovakia With Full-Scale Military Occupation.

Allied Truce WithBulgars, ‘Turkey Hears   Armistice Signing Seen Near: Hungary Keeps Ties to Berlin

Bulgars May Sign  Armistice   New Premier Declares Hungary Will Continue Fight On Germany’s Side

But Hungary To Fight On With Hitler   Bulgaria Expected To Sign Armistice At Cairo Meeting.

PEACE TERMS ARE ACCEPTED BY BULGARIA    May Sign Armistice At Cairo Within Next Few Days

Bulgarians Accept Terms Cairo Hears   Russia Assails Turks for Playing Both Ends

Report Bulgaria Has Accepted Allied Peace Terms; Hungarians Stay in War on Germany's Side

Japs Ship Planes To Rabaul Areas Now Threatened   Allies Report Sinking of 10,000 Tons of Nip Shipping In Raids

» STRONG AERIAL SUPPORT SENT > TO JAP BASES   Japs Constantly Replace Plane Losses At Rabaul

Reinforcements Sent to Pacific Area by Japan   Aerial Strength Added by Enemy, General Says

12 MORE JAP VESSELS ARE SUNK IN PACIFIC         1U,000 Tons of Enemy Shipping Sunk, 49 Aircraft Shot Down

Tokyo Moves to Hold Key Bases at All Cost   Rabaul, Kavieng Protected by New My Bleek. Marine General Warns.

JAPS RUSH MORE PLANES INTO PACIFIC   Consider Rebaul And Kavieng Very Important

JAPS RUSH AIRPLANES TO RABAUL   U. S. General Warns Nips Are Bringing in Reinforcements

Lamb Cuts GoBaek On List   Extra Points To Be Asked For Beef Steak. Rooct

CHOICE LAMB CUTS BACK ON RATION L151   Some Cheese Also Will Again be Put Under Rationing

‘Some Lamb Cuts And Cheese Go Back On Ration List Sundau And Point Values On Beef To Rise Slightly

UP POINTS ON BEEF STEAKS   Choice Lamb Cuts And Some Cheeses Back On Ration List

OPA Puts Lamb, Cheeses Back On Ration List  Beef Steaks, Roasts Boosted One to Two Points for July

OPA Returns Choice Cuts of Lamb to  Ration List, Increases Beef Points

Lamb Put Back On Ration List   Beef Steak and Roast Rise Two Points; Some Cheeses Back.

LAMB CUTS AND T SOME CHEESES:I ON RATION LIST:N   Current Values On Beef Steaks And Roasts Go Up One To Two Points   OPA TAKING ACTION BECAUSE OF SHORTAGE

cadice am), JU'S, Some U1eese: “o %e“urn -0 4acion _is"; 3eeS-ea<. 204875 Poin- 7a.ues Zaisec

Lamb Cuts Go Back on Ration: List; Point Values of Beef Steaks Boosted

Baby Switch Case ls Compromised   Parents Accept Girl, Drop Suit

TO REVIEW 85,000 DEFERMENT CASES   LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS ‘TO STUDY ALL OF MISSOURI'S OCCUPATIONAL DELAYS.

Draft Boards to Review 85,000 Mo.  Job Deferments All Available Must   All Available Must Be Made Ready for Induction Earp Says

SCHOOL LUNCHEON ~~ SERVICE EXPANDS   Cafeteria Operations Prov. : ‘ed Very Successful . -Last Year. _

SCHOOL LUNCHEON -< SERVICE EXPANDS   Cafeteria Operations Prov‘ed Very Successful © ' "Least Year .

Pastor in Court On Wife's Charges   Says He Clubbed Her with a Bal

DEFERMENTS FOR YOUNG MEN MAY BE PROHIBITED   Men Under 26 Years Of Age May Not Be Longer Deferred

DEFERMENTS MAY END FOR UNDER 26 MEN   Local Draft Boards Ordered to Refuse Deferments Without Okay of State or U.S.

House Group May Seek to Ban Draft Deferment For Any Man Under 26

Congress May Halt Deferments   Selective Service  Rule Tightened

UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN  EXPECTED TQ ACCEPT RE-_ QUEST OF POLISH EXILE GOVERNMENT

U.S. May Help Settle Dispute Over Border   Outleek for Russo-Polish Accord Brightens

Japs Faced With Major Defeat  In Nerth Burma   Launch Fruitless Counter-Attacks Against Troops

Missionaries Die by Mistake   “Americans Bomb ~ Jap Internment Boat Off ‘New Guinea Coast

1,000 BOMBERS POUND GERMAN PLANE CENTERS   Allies Trying To Knock Out Nazi Air Power Before Invasion

DESTROYING. OF CAPITAL -(S PRESSED   Record Amount Of Bombs Thought Unloosed

35 Of 700 Bombers Are Lost      Nazis Hasten Prepara: tions For More  Raids.

Allied Bomber Fleets Again Strike Europe   ‘Day And Night Assault On Hitler Fortress Is Continued

RUSSIAN TROOPS " CAPTURED PUSHKIN AND PAVLOVSE   Large Railway Junctions and Powerful German Defense Strong Points.   SOUTH OF LENINGRAD   Two Points Are on the Middle of a 50-Mile Front Below the City.

1000-PLANE  FLEET HITS RAIL CITY   1300 British Bombers » Hammer Two Vital French Centers

Nazi Forces Around Caen  Are Pounded   Mosquitos Are Busy Despite Low Clouds

U.S. BOMBERS DROP RUIN ON NAZI TARGETS   Great Air Fleets Follow Up Estimated 9,000 Planes Used Yesterday.   BULLETIN

German Radio Reports Violent Air Battles Developing Over Reich   Raid Evidently Two-Pronged As Bombers From Britain And Italy Drop Devastation

American Planes Join British In Increasing Tempo Of History's Greatest Air Assault.

AIR WAR—  BLAST RAILROAD YARNS IN REIGH   Ploesti Region Of Romania Also Lashed By Yank Bombers   AIRBASE ALSO HIT   Fifteenth Operation Of Month «By Eighth: Air Force:

Prime Minister Asked Stricter News Censorship   Churchill Praises Correspondents

ALLIED AERIAL MIGHT STRIKES FRANCE TODAY   Seventeenth Day Of Air Attacks Against Nazis

Aerial Smash -. Strikes France   ALLIED ARMADA HITS INVASION COAST TODAY.

RAF Assists — In Attacks  Upon German Arms Dumps   17th Day Of Raids Sees More Activity

Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Goes Into 17th Straight Day Ae Yanks Pound Nazi Positions

Yankee Fliers Continue Big Air Offensive   Thousand Smash at Nazi Installations to Start 17th Day

Reds Scatter Nazi Forces Near Rumania   Steadily Wid d en And Deepen Bridgehead Across. Dniester

SOVIETS FLAY GERMAN RALLY   KONEV’S ARMY DEEPENS DNIESTER BRIDGEHEAD

Are Within 20 Miles of Prut River   Reds Smash Through Ger man Rear Guard Re.  sistance Today

Russ Seatter Beaten Enemy In Bessarabia   Men Pouring Across the Dniester; 3rd Army At Nikalaay

RUSSIAN ADVANCE CONTINUES   Repeated Nazi Counterattacks In Poland Fail

Flying Columns Smash Through Nazi Rear Guard   German Units Rallying For Desperate Battle Broken Up By Russians

UKRAINIAN ARMY 'SCATTERS NAZIS [AND RUMANIANS   Halfway Across Bessarabia, Reds Smash Through Enemy PRoesistance

Sedition Trial Calm   Today's Session in Marked Contrast With That Held Yesterday

SEDITION TRIALS CALM DOWN AFTER EARLIER. -FLAREUP   Judge, However, Reserves. De cision on Two Motions  For Mistrial

FORD PLANT STRIKE ENDS   3,580 Feremen Remain Away From War Plant Jobs .

Heavy Bombers Launch Massive Aerial Assault   6,000 Planes Over Western Germany

PLANES POUND ROAD TO RHINE   Heavy weight  Bombers Back Up Troops In Aachen Area

NEW AERIAL OFFENSIVE iS OPENED   Thousands of American and RAF Planes Hit West Wall of Germany ; Raging Inferno.   5,000 Tons Bombs

AERIAL ARMADAS SUPPORT ATTAGK   Launch Massive New Aerial Assault on Germany   TOUCH OFF OFFENSIVE   Marks First Time Since DDay RAF Strikes in Direct Support of Yanks

5,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Aachen Area in Air Attack   AMERICAN SKY ARMY

AIRMEN HAMMER SIEGERIED LINE    THREE THOUSAND HEAVY  BOMBERS SMASH NAZIS AS-OFTENSIVE OPENS.

3,000 Heayies Soften Enemy Tn New Drive    Almost ag Many Mediums And Fighters Launch . > Massive Aerial Assault

3,000 PLANES AID BIG DRIVE   Allied Bombers Hit Westwall as Big Offensive is Begun

Three Thousand Bombers Launch Massive Assault  FLIERS ASSIST IN . ALLIED OFFENSIVE     ‘Heavyweights Strike in  Support of Ground Forces

Launch Big Air Assault Along Front   iMassive Altuck Staged By British and U.S. Bombers to Aid  Offensive

GERMANS FLEE FOR HOMELAND BEFORE DRIVES   Allied Forces Closing In On Lyon in Southern France; Rocket Coast Doomed

JONES SEES END OF CORN FREEZE   Expects Removal of Sales Ban in Few Days

Wheeler Scores Move Toward One-Man Power   Says Only Congress Should Be Able to Authorize War

Private Walter  Kettler Killed  While In Action Cited For Bravery On Battle F ield —  Te. AT ~wth A ‘goes an oe.

Private Walter  Kettler Killed  While In Action Cited For Bravery On Battle Field ©  Tee AT ~wsh. A f°...

BiG GAINS SCORED ON LEYTE, SAMAR   Million and a Half Filipinos Have Been 1 therated

Yankees hold two-thirds of  strategic isle _ Million and half people liberated

Liberating Million and Half Filipinos on Leyte and Samar; Now Control 1,800 Mile Area.   Open Churches

Million And A Half Natives On Leyte And Samar Have Freedom Returned   DAGAMI IS CAPTURED BY AMERICAN TROOPS

RESISTANCE OF JAPS ON LEYTE, SAMAR BROKE}   Liberation Of Both Major Islands Now Virtually Complete, Reports MacArthur

Yanks in Control Of Two Thirds of Island of Leyte   ‘MacArthur Reports Capture of Dagami

Leyteand Samar Liberation Said Almost Finished   Big Gains Reported On Both Islands; Japanese Helpless

Career Came First:  Rep. Judd Charges FDR Saw Peril From Japs, Lacked Courage to Act

Says FUR Knew of Danger but Would Nol Risk Caree   Judd, Ex-missionary to China Says President Failed to Act

‘Contour Schools Being Contracted      Need Other Sites for Otasses; Four Are Listed,

TOLL IS SEVEN WARCRAFT, 25 MERCHANTMEN   Carrier-Borne Bombers  Raid Manila In New Aerial Assault   War In Pacific Far Ahead Of Schedule

Allies On Defense As Offense Starts   Great Number of German Tanks Concentrated Around Cassino As Fierce Battle Is Waaed

ALLIES YIELD HILL, BRACES” FOR ASSAULT   Enemy Claims Fall Of 600- Foot Castle Hill

Gen. Roosevelt Buried In American Cemetery Near Normandy Village

RITES HELD FOR GEN. ROOSEVELT   MILITARY SERVICE IN SOUND OF BATTLE

Gen. Roosevelt      Rumble of Gunfire. Back“drop for Rifle Sahite. and-Notes of Taps

GEORGE ALBERS TAKEN BY DEATH   “dent Dies At Hawarden. Hospital.  Well: Known Struble Resi-

GEORGE ALBERS TAKEN BY DEATH   Well Known Struble Resident Dies At Hawarden. Hospital

CORINTH IS CAPTURED BY ALLIED FORCE   British and Greek Patriots Meet No Opposition

Corinth Falls: Peloponnesian Conquest Over   British And Greeks End Reconquest Quickly ; Slight Opposition

ALLIED FORCES ENTER CORINTH: HOLD ISTHMUS   Greek Patriots, British Complete Conquest Of Peninsula

CORINTH FALLS TO BRITISH, PUSH TO ATHENS NEYT.   ‘Adoption of International Air Force By Dumbarton Oaks Seer As Victory For Soviet Russia

Allies Are Welcomed At Corinth   British and Greeks Occup City—Ready for Push on Athens

Plans Rigid Civil Rule for Germany   Morgenthau Works  On Instructions   Private Wanders Into Dutch Village to Become Commander of Its Army

Politics      Accuse Anti-Negro Group for Blocking Vateran Renefit Bill

Hal Boyle Watches Angry Frenchmen Shave Heads of 30 Women Friends of Nazis

More Sober Frenchmen Deplore Shearing Heads of Women as Examble of Mob Justice —   (LEAVES FROM A WAR COBRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOE.

Japs Continue China Advance:  Revolt Gives New Crisis To Observe

REDUCE FREE CHINA AREA   Japs Advance Pincer-Fashion on Kweilin and Lieuchow

Butte $6,000 Short of Goal in IRed Cross Campaign   Sum of $39,644 Totaled So Far in Drive Which Will End Saturday: Women Working Hard

Financial Campaign  of Red Cross _ ‘Hits $35.193 Total   Amount Reached Without Single Divisior Making Its Final Report: Competition Amona Workers Is Keen

Anti-Poll Tax Bill Shelved by Senate   Democrats, G.O.P. Join To Defeat New Deal

Cloture Rule Voted Down By Senators   Rejection of Debate Gag Kills Anti-Poll Tax   West Va. Senators

GREAT SPLURGE OF  WAR BOND BUYING  MARKS DRIVE OPENING CIVILIAN D-DAY IN TEXAS GETS UNDER WAY TO  -  - AAnH erapr

LONGTIME RESIDENT, — MRS. BELLE GARDNER, DIES IN HOSPITAL   SERVICES ‘ARE HELD IN DELPHI ON THURSDAY AFTER. NOON

VITAL MATERIAL OUTPUT CURBED   Lack of Manpower Reduces Bombers, Gas, Bearings Patterson Says

SOFIA IN WAR DECLARATION AGAINST REICH   Flying Ukrainian Units Seize Varna Naval Base In Drive to South.

Red Army 80 Mi. Fron   Berlin Reports  Soviet Offensive Through Poland Toward Krakow

Red's Invasion Of Bulgaria s Unopposed   Fast Columns Within 60 Miles of Turkey

GERMANY’S LAST HOLD ON BLACK SEA IS BROKEN   Soviet Armored Columns Racing Unopposed Through Bulgaria

Red Forces Race Toward Turkey Across Bulgaria  Nazis Report New Ruce Tivive ;   Nazis Report New Russ Drive Through Poland

Turk Border Looms Ahead Of Red Armor   Soviets Race Unopposed Through Bulgaria In Bloodless Invasion   SEA HOLD BROKEN   Reluctant Bulgars Now - Declare War Upon  Nazi Government

NEAR BORDER OF TURKEY   Soviet Forces Race Unopposed Thru Bulgaria

Soviets Nearing Turkey   Bulgars Technically At War With Everyone

Ushijima Calls for ‘Ball of Fire’ ‘Radio Warns Japanese To Expect New Blows

Ball Says Dewey Again Failed To State Clearly Position On Vital Issues

Black Sea Port Is Russian Objective   Captured German Prisoners Say Officers Are Beainnina To Leave Area tn Transport Planes

15 GERMAN “DIVISIONS ARE CAUGHT  )   Russ Trap at Odessa  Tightened When Skala Falls

Tighten Noose On 15 Divisions Of Trapped Nazis   Third Ukranian Army Shelling Great City From 14 Mile Range, Closing In On Mile-Wid. Escape Corridor To Black Sea.

FINNS FIGHTING TO OUST NAZIS   Large-Scale ‘Battle Rages As Germans Resist

German Troops  And Finns Clash   Nazi Security Troops Forced To Withdraw After Attacking Finns   FINNS SEEK TO DRIVE NAZIS OUT

Osowiee, 15 Miles. From . Prussian : Border, . _ Captured  GREAT ADVANCE IN ESTONIA REPORTED  Big ‘Battle . Is _Raging + Northwest. of ‘Bialystok: 

Osowiec, 15 Miles: From Prussian: Border, Captured —  GREAT ADVANCE INESTONIA REPORTED  Big Battle, Is Raging 4 Northwest of : ... + Bialystok -

NEW RAID HITS JAP OIL DEPOT   Yankees Smash Desperate Borneo Defense, Lose 7 Liberators

FDR Defeat.  Isolation Win   Loss For Roosevelt Would Mean Vietory For Isolationists- Truman,

MACARTHUR IN “AECEPTIVE MODE   Pacific Hero Being Boom: ed By, Friends For’ Sec. retary Of War

Sotons Suggest Gen. MacArthur As See. Of War   Joint Democrat-Republican Recommendation Made As Candidacy Weighed

(MacArthur Fox ‘War Secretary P ut Forward   Republican and Demoeratic  Senators Advance Pro : posals As Politicians © Caleulate Mood

MacArthur Proposed as Sec'y of War   Politicians Appraise Effect of General’s Correspondence

MM’ Arthur Is Not Opposed toNomination   General Leaves Way Oper for Draft Movement in Letters to Solon

URGE M ARTHUR FOR WAR OFFICE   SECRETARY OF WAR APPOINTMENT PROPOSED

NAMING MACARTHUR SECRETARY OF WAR LATEST PROPOSAL   POLITICIANS BELIEVE ARMY LEADER RECEPTIVE TO COP NOMINATION

General Leaves Way Open For A “Draft” Meike  MacArthur Is Promanaael For Secretary Of War

MacArthur As War Secretary Favored By Both Parties As He Appears Amiable To Plan

MACARTHUR Io PROPODCO Fh CABINET POST   Senators Suggest General for War Secretary After Statement.

Proposal Made Of MacArthur as Secrefary of War   Letters Interpreted To Make Him Open To GOP Nomination

SAY MARTHUR SHOULD HAVE STIMSON’S JOB   [wo Senators Propose General as War Secretary

MacArthur Proposed as Secretary   Politicians Calculate Effect of Letters

Propose MacArthur For War Secretary, Believe He’s Open To Presidential Nomination

THO PROPOSE MACARTHUR 1N CABINET SPOT   can and Democratic senators Make Suggesn in Capital.

Senators Suggest MacArthur as Secretary of War  Genera! Also Has Chance to Seek President’s Office

Gen. MacArthur Is Proposed As War Secretary   His Letters Hint He’s Receptive To GOP Pres idential Nomination.

WOULD APPOINT MACARTHUR AS 'WAR SECRETARY   Republicans Have Plan ‘Looking to Replacement Of Stimson with MacArthur Being Recalled Home

Mapia Is scene of Landing   Warning Station Is Object of Invasion Thrust

Invaders Drive to Knock Out Warning Station   Only Slight Resistance Met in New Smash; Troops on Leyte Probably Have Encircled Enemy Forces in Envelopment Move-at Limon

JAP WARNING STATION IS KNOCKED OUT   Gen. MacArthur Springs Trap on 3,000 Enemy Troops on Leyte Front.

AMERICAN INVASION FORCES LAND ON JAP-HELD MAPIAS   Enemy Is Deprived of Observation Post; Yanks Practically Cut Limon-Ormoc Road

Encounter Slight Jap Resistance  MocArthur Reveals  New Landing to Knock Out Foe’s

U. 3. Forces Land On Mapia Islands Above New Guinez   In Drive To Knock Out Radio Station

J, S$. TROOPS LANDING ON MAPIA ISLANDS   Knock Out ‘Enems Warning Station on Route ‘to .Philippines

NEW LANDINGS ON NEW GUINEA AID PHILIPPINES   MacArthur Springs Trap On 3000 Japs On Levte

Yanks Land on Mapia Islands Off New Guinea   Seek Knock-Out of Japanese Air-Raid Warnina Station

Jap Station Knocked Out By Invaders   Position Captured On Bombing Route Above New Guinea.

Yanks Seize Nip Isle on Bomber Route   Warning Station for Philippines Wiped Out by New Landing

YANKS TAKE ISLAND OFF NEW GUINEA   Knock Out Enemy Warning Station On Bombing Route

Troops On Leyte Spring Trap On 3,000 Japanese   Invasion Forces Seek To Knock Out. Jap Warning Station

Mapia Island Invaded by  J.S. Forces   Leyte Doughboys Spring Trap on 3,000 Japanese

Crush Jap Outpost On Mapia Isles   Enemy Had Used Garrison To Warn of Approaching Planes.

YANKEES MAKE LANDING IN THE MAPIA ISLANDS   Small Party Ashore To Silence Jap Warning Station

Russians Push Forward In Romania  Nazi War Plants Are Captured In

Soviet Troops Drive Deeper Into Romania   Advance Aimed at Trapping Any Nazis Stull in Their Path

Romania Oil, Wheat In Path Of Red Army   Drive Aims to Trap Nazis; Offensives in North in High Gear

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES CONTINUE ALL ALONG EASTERN WAR FRONT  GERMAN AND ROMANIAD FORCES FIGHT AS REDS SWEEP FORWARD

Driving on in Romania  and Poland   Reds Overrunning Hundreds of German War Factories in Great Drive      PUSH ON TOWARD ROMANIA OIL   Great Noose Being Formed Around Enemy Forces in Bessarabia

TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES ROLL INTO ROMANIA   Soviets Evidently Aim at Trapping Any Nazis in Their Path Across Balkan Kingdom

Hostilities Increasing As Oil Area Is Neared:.   Russians. Announce Sweeping: Advances

Red Armies In Drive To Trap Nazi Remnants   LONDON, (7) — Marshal

REDS SPEED UP ROMANIAN PUSH   ‘Drive For Ploesti Oi Fields, Bucharest;  Lay New Trap

Huge Red Armies Move on Romania   Russians Aim Drive in Attempt To Trap Germans in Balkan Nation

Two Red Armies Smash Forward   Nazis Turn Machine Guns On Romanians, Is Report; Foe Evacuating Warsaw, Claim

REDS DRIVE IN DANUBE SECTOR IS UNMOLESTED   German Armies Split In Area Near Lomza

TO OIL FIELDS   Captives Report Hostilities Between Germans, Ro maniane   REDS TAKE WAR PLANTS

RUSSIANS CARVI OUT NEW GAINS IN TWIN STAB   Soviet Forces Driving Deeper Into Romania—Many War Factories Are Seized

RUSSIANS DRIVE AHEAD IN ROMANIA, POLAND   Red Army Troops Neat Fortress City of Lomza, In Attempt to Cut East Prussia-Warsaw Lines

SOVIETS AIM DRIVE TOWARD RICH KINGDOM   Two Great Russian Army Groups Advancing on Oil And Wheat Areas of Capitulated Country   WAR FACTORIES TAKEN

New Victories Won In Poland Weaken Enemy   German War Factories Seized; Russ Roll Through Romania

Russians Push Info Romania To Trap Nazis   Offensives in South And North Poland by Russians Continue, Moscow Announces

Russ Sweep Nearer Heart Of Romani:   Hundreds of Nazi War Lactories Overrun in Advance   27 ARMIES IN DRIVE   German Troops Defending East Prussia, Warsaw Beine Split

Russians Report _ German Strife      ROMANIANS BATTLE THE NAZIS ON EAST FRONT

Say Nazis, Romanians Fichtine   2 Great Soviet Army Groups Sweep Across Country

Red Armies ush for Oil Fields   Soviet Radios Make No Mention of the Fall of Romania

Nazis, Rumanians Clash While  Russians Advance   Enemy Horde Faces Entrapment as Battle For Vast Oil, Wheat Land Rages; Strategic Factory Plants Are Captured

Two RedArmies Sweep Ahead  Thru Romania   Aim to Trap Any Nazis Still In Path Yn Heart of Oil and Wheat Kingdom

Reds Overrun Hundreds of Nazi Arsenals  ‘Two Drives In Paland Continue

Reds Roll Deeper into The Balkans   Companion Drives North and South Of Warsaw Gain; Nazis Have Turned On Former Allies

Two Great Russian Armies Sweeping Into Romania   Companion Drives Into South and North Poland Keep Pace, Threaten te Divide Nazi Force:

Russ Driving ii vazis Out Of Romania,  One Of Allies   Companion Offensives In North Poland Gain; Town Bristling With War Plants Seized

Nazi, Romania Troops Battling  Russian Offensives Still Spending Ahead

Reds Sweep On ‘Toward Galati Gap   Twin Drives On Ro-.  manian Oil and Wheat Center Aimed at Trapping Remaining Nazis.

SOVIET ARMIES PUSH FORWARD INSIDE RUMANIA   Russian Units Drive Toward Heart of Wheat, Oil Centers Today

Romanians and Germans Now Fighting   Two Great Russian Armies Drive Forward to Cut Off Nazis Still in Oil and Wheat Kingdom

Two Soviet Armies Drive Toward Romanian Wheat,  Oil Areas To Grab Nazis

5 Jap Ships Sunk Off Bonin Islands   80 Enemy Planes Downed At Cost Of Nine

U. S. Power Blastinc Japanese in Pacific   Task Force Shatters Bases 700 Miles From Tokyo; All But Eighth of Saipan Conquered; Noemfoor Falling

Warships Smash Enemy Base 700 Miles from Tokyo   Saipan Repe:ted Nearly Occupied By American Forée

U.S. Warships Celebrate Fourth With New Victories Over Japs   Bombard Enemy Bases 700 Miles South Of Tokyc Destroying Five Jap Warships, Scores Of Planes; Saipan Conquest Near.

Navy Forces Hit Volcano, Bonin Isles   Throe Jap Destroyers Sunk or Beached, Twe @ther Ships Sent Bown with 64 te 80 Planes

Jap Bases Only 100 Miles South Of Tokyo Bomber   Yanks Move Ahead in Daring Fourth Of July Assault

[Bombard Bonin Isles .   Sink or Beach Five Enemy Ships; Now Hold Seven-Eighths of Saipan, Most: of Noemfoor

Warships 400 Miles Of Tokyo   Yank Marines, Soldiers Now Have Seven-eighths of Saipan Island

Navy Celebrates By Shelling Japs   FOURTH OF JULY FOR PACIFIC FLEET OBSERVED

Ships, Planes Nit Jap Bases   Americans Hit Enemy 700 Miles South of Japanese Capital

Warships and Planes Blast Jap Islands   700 Miles From Tokyo; Battle for Saipan Nears End

Bases But 700 Miles From Tokyo Shelled   Jap Destroyers Sunk As American Task Force Attacks

Flaming Action Carries Yankees Closer to Tokyo   Warships Shatter Jap Bases  and Invasion Progresse: on Saipan.   Noemfoor Is Falling In Quick Operation

U.S. Bombs  hit Closer To Tokyo   Sink 3 Destroyers In Blow at Bonin And Volcano Isles; Cavture Goranan

Ships, Planes Pound Jap Isles 700 Miles. From Tokyo; Saipan Fall Near

‘Guam, Rota Are ‘Blasted Again By U.S. Task Force   Carrier Aircraft Hit Installations On Both Islands

Medina Truck Driver Killec   B. and O. Train Crashed Into Truck Wed. At Creston

eee eee ee ee ren ee  Million More Babies Born During 2 Years Of War Than Same Peace Period

Would Postpone Trial of Kimmel   Forrestal Opposes Action:in Wartime.

“Not During.War” Navy Chief Opposed To Trial _ Of Pearl Harbor Commander

Kimmel Trial Now Opposed   Secretary Forrestal Not in Favor of Trial During War

NAVY SECRETARY AGAINST KINIMIEL TRIAL AT PRESENT   Does Not Favor His Court Martial Trial During The War.

MAVAL SECRETARY POSED TO EARLY IAL OF ADMIRAL,            pposes Quick Court Martial As Committee Considers  Deadline Date

Pearl Harbor Trial Opposed By Forrestal   Navy Secretary Would Delay Until After War

Navy Opposes Early Kimmel Court Martial   Charges Neglect At Pearl Harbor

EARL KIMMEL TRIAL OPPOSED   Navy Chief Favors Court Martial After War

\Opposes-Geurt Martial Now Of Naval Officer   N avy Secretary Forrestal Expresses Views Regarding Trial Of Admiral Kimmel In Connection With Pearl Harbor Attack

Vital Statement: Awaited Today At Buenos Aires   U. Si 7 Other Republies - Refuse _ To. . Recognize New Bolivian Leaders

U. S. Refuses To Recognize Bolivia Rule   Further Joint Action To Destroy Pro-Axis Moves in Americas Seen

U, S, REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE BOLIVIA GOVT,   Believe Break Of Argentina And Germany Near

BOLIVIA FINDS ITSELF OUTCAST   American Republics Push Fight On Pro-Axis Ties

Diplomatic Prive Foreshadowed   U.S. Has Refused Bolivia Recognition

Bolivian Regime Is. Snubbed by Many  American Nations      Immediate Goal Is Forcing of Argentina to Break With the is

Argentina Expected To Break With Axis   “Important News” Promised Momentarily by Nation’s Foreign Minister as Result of Allied Non-Recognition of Bolivia.

U. §. Frowns onNew Bolivia Government   Recognition Refusal Seen as Warning to Araentina Government

DUMBARTON OAKS DISPUTE WON BY RUSSIA   Right to Veto Security Council Action Apparently Conceded

mew LV UPR E EE LULA Lm  AEAGH HISTORIC WORLD WAR AREA  Amerteanc Canture      Americans Capture Meaux As Nazis Yield Without A Fight   SWEEP ON SEDAN   Another Famous Battlefield Only 105 Miles To  Northeast

On Battleground Of Ist World War   Americans Sweep Through Unchecked Ag Germans Yield Without Fight 24 Miles Southeast Of Chateau-Thierry

Enemy Continues Flight Homeward   Yanks Reach Battlefield Which Marked German High Tide in 1914— 20.000 Trapped Along Seine

MEAUX TAKEN BY ALLIES IN MARNE SECTOR   Americans Fight On Battlefield Of Last War

Germans Do Not Fight For Battlefield of World War I, Route to Nazi Rocket Coast

Yanks Move in Wide Arc to Cut Off Retreat of German 15th Army; Win 1918 Battlegrounds Without a Struggle.

Allies Pour Unbroken Flood of Troops, Tanks Across Seine to Write Off Last of Defeated German 15th Army

Meaux Captured By Yankees In Unchecked Push  4 Bridgeheads Across   4 Bridgeheads Across Seine Widened; Vitry Reported Reached By Advancing Troops

Fighting On World War Battleground  Germans Yielding _ Without a Fiaht

Enemy Yields Battleground — Of World War Without Fight   American Units Now Stand Only 118, Miles From Germany; Great Port of Le Havre Doomed; Continue Drive

Attack  Swings To North   LeHavre and Rouen Virtually Doomed; Heavy German Troop Movements Near Coast

Allied Troops Seize Meaux   American Armies Sweep in Wide Are 23 Miles East of Paris to Fight Foe On Battlefields of First World War

Germans Apparently Are Yielding Battle Grounds of First World War Without Fight; Meaux Marks Nazi High Tide

TEMPERATURES:   Yanks Again Fighting On Battlefield Of First World War

AMERICAN TROOPS GROSS THE MARNE, CAPTURE MEAUX   City Is Located in the Loop of. the River, 23 Miles East of Paris.   SWEPT IN A WIDE ARC   The German Line of Retreat Into the Reich, Is . Threatened.

Americans Occupy Meaux on Marne River Without Fight   J.S. Units Threaten German Lines Flee: ing Toward Reich; Allies Form Fifth Bridgehead Across Seine

THREATEN NAZI FORCE FLEEING BACK TO REICH   Yield Famed Battleground Without Fight; Allied Attack Swings North

Ailies Swing Line To North   Drive Ahead From Four Strong Bridgeheads, Threaten Retreat Routes   NUW FIGY fs JPiuy  Little Resistance Met at Meaux as American Armor Reaches 1914 Battlefield

Nazi Troops Yielding Famed Battlefield of World War ; US. Troops Capture Meaux   Allied. Attack Swings North; Half of Enemy Force in South Reported Lest Since Invasion

‘Germans, Heading Back into  Reich, May Find Difficulties on Road East of  ) Paris.   \ FIGHTING ON SAME  LAND AS FIRST WAR  !

U.S. Forces Sweep On; 105 Miles  From Sedan   24 Miles Southwest of Chateau-Thierry ; Four Bridgeheads  A apnce Going INananona

RETREAT PATH: MEAUX SEIZED   Allies Swing North Along Almost All of 200 Mile Seine Front

BATTLEGROUND OF 18 GIVEN UP BY NAZIS   Fallen Town Is 24 Miles From Chateau-Thierry   ROUEN DOOMED   By Allies’ Steady Advance; Le Havre Is Threatened By Encirclement

Allies Cross River Marne: Enter Meaux   Americans Threaten German Lines of Retreat Into Reich

Marne Is Being Yielded By Nazis   .. Allies Virtually Doom Port of Le Havre

GERMANS YIELD WITHOUT FIGHT   First Time in War Yanks Fight on World War 1 Battleground,   23 MILES BEYOND PARIS

World War  Battlefield Is Yielded by Nazis   Entire Channel Coast Flanked by Eastward Advance

Germans Yield Battle Ground Without Fight   Four Bridgeheads Over Seine River Widened

Extent of  Gains Noi Disclosed      Meaux Is Captured as German Yield More Land Without a Fight   GENERAL GAINS ON 200-MILE FRONT.   Several Bridgeheads Are Established Along Seine; Retreat Routes Threatened

GERMANS STILL GIVING GROUND BEFORE ALLIES   First Time in This War When Americans Have Fought on World War One Battleground

First Time This War, Yanks Fight or Wart Battlefield   Whole Allied: Attack Swings North On Or. Across Seine River

Enemy Yields Battleground Of First War   Allied Forces Aim Attack at Buzz Bomb Area

Meaux Taken To Threaten Nazis’ Escape   Germans Yield Battleground Of First World War

Sweeping in in Wide Arc,  * Threaten ae Lines . of Retreat   YANKS CAPTURE MEAUX   American Drive Northeast From Paris, North From Troyes

Yanks Cross Marne. Seize Meaux In Loop   Armored Spearheads Wheel North Along Flank Of Re treating Nazis.   RESISTANCE 35 LO W

Germans Yield Battleground of  First World War   Americans Sweep in Arc Threatening Hun Line of Retreat to Germany.   Allied Attack Swings  North Across Seine

REICH IS SAID LESS THAN 100 MILES DISTANT   4 Meaux, World War I High Tide Of Germans Is Captured

Sedan Nears As American Armies Push  Much Deeper   Port Of Le Havre,  Rouen Are Doomed

5th Bridgehead Across Seine  Won by British   Yanks Only 21 Mi. Southwest of ChateauThierry

Americans Threaten Nazi Retreat Into Germany As Foe Yields Without Fight

SWEEPTHROUGH MEAUX, 23 MILES EAST OF PARIS   GERMANS YIELDING OLD BATTLEGROUND WITHOUT A FIGHT

Fighting on World War 1 Battlefield   Steady Progress Is * Made By Allies in Western France

U. S. Troops Cross Marne River   Germans Yield Ground Without Fight; Town of Meaux Falls

20,000 Nazis Being Killed In New Trap   Germans Rushing Men And Supplies Into Low Countries for Fight

Ameriean Tank Force Seizes  Town Of Meaux   Germans Yielding Battle. ground On Marne Of  First World War  Without Fight    Bridgeheads Over  Seine Deepened   Allied Armies Doom Rouen, Center of German Resistance Such As It Is

Nazis Retreat Toward Reich Is Threatened   Germans Yield Marne Battleground Of First World War Without Fight   Allies Establish Another Killing Ground Near Rouen; Batter 5 German Divisions   20,000 Nazis In 3 Loops West Of Seine Trying To Escape Are Pounded

Dewey Prepares  To Tour Midwest   Farm Speech Slated For Tuesday Night

ANNUAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST PARALYSIS   In Hardin Folks are Expected “to Coritribute.

WEST PACIFIC POSITIONS OF YANKS BETTER   Allies Ontimistic r Outlook  In War

@ FROM DEATH VALLEY  Tregaskis Writes of Carnage in Argentan-Falaise Pocket

Camage in French ‘Death Valley’ Worst Of All, Says Famed War Correspondent

CASE LIMITED TO 4 SUSPECTS   No More Genuine At: tacks of “Anesthetist” Reported

F.R. May Talk in Four States  Dewey Giving False Impressions, Charge

FR. to Make AState Tour   President Considers Trip to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iflinois and N.Y.

FDR MAY TOUR FOUR STATES   Gov. Dewey Will Speak On Forum Next Wednesday

STILL FIRST CHOICE OF PRESIDENT   Byrnes Withdraws As Democratic Meet Opens In Chicago

FDR Declines To Speak On N. Y. Forum   May Campaign In Pennsylvania, Ohio  And Illinois

Vice-President Wallace To Direct His Own Campaign   FOR RENOMINATION AS VICE-PRESIDENT   President Roosevelt Will Be Renominated For Fourth Term Tomorrow

135 Eastern Votes Eyed By Roosevel  Plans Speeches In Populous Atlantic Areas

FDR CONSIDERS MIDWEST - TRIP   Three Important States Attract. Attention

FDR Ponders  3-State Tour   President Considers Going Into LiL, Pa.. Ghio

FDR Expands Speech Plans   May Go Into Four Key States; Replies Made To Dewey’s Quotations

F.R. May Carry Campaign Into rour Big States   Pennsylvania, Ohio Illinois, New York Are High on His List

OPENS TOMORROW   Conanaittee Hopes  to p= _ Campaign in County by, Last of Week   A QUOTA OF $30,143

DRIVE FOR FUNDS OPENS TOMORROW   Committee Hopes to ~ay Campaign in County by Last of Week   A QUOTA OF $30,143

POSSIBLE LANDING IN YUGOSLA   German And Neutral Sources Expect a “FifthFront” To Open Soon

SPECULATE ON NEW LANDINGS   Nazis, Turks Look for  Move Into Yugoslavia

Invasion Of Balkan Area Due   ; Tito’s Guerrillas May Soon Get Aid Via Allied Landing

Fifth Front May Be Opened On Dalmatian Coast   Churchill's Visit to Tite  Believed Significant, Qiarmance Think

Allies Ready. To Meet Any Japanese Threat In Imphal, Kohima Area

ALLIES READY MEET ANY ENEMY THREAT TMPHAL-KOHIMA AREA   DIVEBOMBERS REPORTED AIDING IN CLEARING ‘JAPS OUT INDIA

ALLIES SAY KOHIMA AND IMPHAL SAFE   Declare Forces Are Pre- pared to Meet Any Jap - Threat to Two Bases in : Eastern’ India—Pushing -- Ning. Back..

Allies Ready To Meet Jap Drives   Situation in India Is Better Now; Tanks Push Ahead

ALLIES IN INDIA WELL PREPARED   Ready To Meet Any Japanese Threat In Imphal And Kohima Areas, Headquarters Claims.

Allies Repel Jap Attack   Holding Defenses at Imphal and Kohima; Tokyo Claims Gains

ALLIES READY TO REPEL JAPS IN INDIA AREA   No Japs Activities in Kohima Sector, Allies Report, and They Are Ready for Any Eventu.  oalitey

Allied Forces Prepared Meet Japs In Burma   Infantry and Tanks Continue Push Outward On Manipur Plain.

Prepared to Meet Any Jap anese Threat in Imphal and Kohimz Sectors. Headquarters Savs

Forces Ready To Meet Jap Push in India   Heavy Losses Caused Enemy by Attacks Of Dive Bombers

Jap Big Shots Knew Of Nip Atrocities, Writer Believes   BY MORE BWAREIC

Did Big Shots Know Of Atrocities?  Man Who’s Been There Says Its Part Of Jap Training

Canadian Zombies Parade As Debate On King Continues   Observers Confident King Government  Will Survive

Reds And Nazis Locked In Hard Dunestr Battle   Germans Suffering Heavy Losses in Effort to Wipe Ont Bridgehead Northweet of. Tiraspol

Russians. Nazis In Fierce Fight On Dnestr Bank   Strong Forces Are Used By Germans In Move To Wipe Out Bridgehead

Russians and Germans in Fierce Battle   Nazis Hurling Strong Forces Forward to Wipe Out Bridgehead

20,000 AXIS TROOPS KILLED AT SEVASTOPOL   During Last 3-Day Assault Say Reds, Who Report Capture of 61,687 Men with Much Booty

Russians Battle Superior German Force on Dnestr   Mazis Eepalsed in Delermined Efferis to Wipe Oui Bridgehead but Battle Continues

Russians And Germans Engaged In Big Battle On Dnestr’s West Bank

FIERCE STRUGGLE RAGES ON WEST BANK OF DNESTR   REDS CLAIM 4,000 ENEMY TROOPS, 400 TANKS WIPED OUT

German Forces Fight -Fiercely on Dnestr   Hurl Strong Forces ‘Against Soviets in Sec. tor Northwest of Tiraspol in an Effort . to Wipe Out the Reds’ Bridgehead.

BATTLE NEAR TIRASPOL   Germans Hurl Strong Forces Against Reds; Would Wine Out Bridgehead.

Battle Rages For Russian  Bridgehead   Germans Strive To Force Reds Back Across Dnestr Rivet

BATTLE RUSSIANS FOR A BRIDGEHEAD   Germans Put Up Fierce ‘Struggle on West Bank of Dnestr   SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES

Russians and Nazis Battle, Dnestr River   Germans Attempting to Wipe Out Bridgehead Held By Reds

BATTLE RAGES IN BUDAPEST   Russiuins Forming Great Pincers Around Strife-torn Capital—Siege Line Already Established = on Southern Outskirts of Danube.

reap       Storm Sweeps Out To: Sea and Heads for New Brunswick; Twenty Dead   DAMAGE TOLL MOUNTS TO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

Hurricane Blows Out to Sea; 21.Dead, Damage Is-Millions lin Northern: and Eastern Area

Hurricane Blows Out to Sea After Sweep Up Coast   Storm Leaves Trail Of Destruction and 16 Dead; Atlantic  City Hardest Hit

HITLER FACES WORST DEFEAT IN HISTORY   Latest Reports Put tussians Only Ten Miles From Border

Dewey To Propose N. Y. State Sponsor Seaway Project If U. S$. Doesn‘t

Dewey Proposes State Sponsor St. Lawrence Plan  Legislature Uraed to Build Seaway, Power Development a

YANKS CAPTURE ASLITO. AIRDROME   Drive Eastward All the Way Across Saipan Island   JAPANESE ATTACK   American Task Force; Marks @Greatest Pacific Air Battle Since Midway

Enemy Suffers Heavily In Greatest Pacific Fight Since Midway   ASLITO AIRDROME IS CAPTURED BY YANKS

300 Jap Planes Shot Down Off Saipan Island   Marines and Army Troops Advancing

NIPS ATTACK TASK FORCE “OFF SAIPAN   Carrier Fighters and “ Anti- Aircraft Guns Drive Off Enemy—No Estimate of U.S. Losses.   AMERICAN GROUND FORCES ADVANCE   Drive Completely Across Island on Fairly Wide Front—Capture Aslito ‘Airdrome.

YANKS DRIVE OVER SAIPAN; DOWN PLANES   More than 300 in Greatest Pacific Air Battle Since Midway; Nimitz Savs: Rebuild Bases.   Truk, Palau, Yap

J aps Attack Carrier Force  Off Saipan   Island Is Cut in Two By American Troops, . Airdrome Captured  U. 5S. SHIP DAMAGED

Attack On U.S. Carrier Force Off Saipan Brings Greatest; Pacific Scrap Since Midway.  _ Ground Troops Capture Airdrome And * Lunge Across Island In Quick Drive. ~~:

Troops bross Saipan, Take Aslito Base   Huge Air Fight Rages Off Coast Of Jap-Held Isle

U. S. Task Force Beats Of}  Heavy Plane Attack; G god Rooms BE = ergo 

300 Planes Of Japs Wrecked. In big Battle   U. S. Forees Capture Important Airdrome on Saipan Island as Greatest Aerial Engagement Since Midway Is Reported

German Lines Are Flooded By New Move   Technique Similar To ‘One Used By British In Flooding Germany

Allied Planes Bomb Huge ‘Dam in Italy   Flooding Torrent Is Loosed on German Positions

HUGE WAVES ROLL OVER ENEMY LINES   Picked Air Crews Brave Flak To Hn Target

NAZIS STAGE ~ LONDON RAIL   SERIES OF FIRES STARTED  - DURING NIGHT ATTACK DUR ING WHICH ENEMY LOST  NINE PLANES

Troops Reach Indian Front   Major Battle Looms For Imphal Garrison

lan Troo ps inforee British ore Im phal ht Way Ont  ap Trap Jungle

CRACK UNIT  FIGHTS WAY INTO CAPITAL   17th Division Hacks Through Japanese Road Blocks

Allied Army Digs In for Decisive  Battle at Imphal   Crack Indian Division Hacks, Fights Through Jungle to Join Garrison; Stilwell’s Men Advance in Mogaung

Gas Supply Route Over Himalayas   Details Of One Operation Underscore Problem Of Getting At Japs

CONGRESS GETS SET FOR NAZI COLLAPSE   Demobilization and Conversion Bills Are Approved

BRISTOL ELKS ENDORSE WORK OF RED CROSS   Paul C. Voltz, Exalted Ruler, Urges Members to Aid War Fund Drive   MAKES STRONG PLEA

Front In Russia Continues Quiet   Tension Over Blow ty VWrect Mounting

Tension Mounting  In Soviet Capital  Red Paper Calls For Swift. Crushing Blow

Invasion Tension Mounts in Moscow   Eastern Front Remains Quiet as Red Capital Specrlates on D-Day

'  TENSION IN RUSSIA RISES AS SOVIETS PLAN NEW DRIVE TIMED WITH INVASION

LIBERATORS RAID GUAM FIRST TIME   Deepest Penetration Of Japs’ Southeast Approaches

GUAM NAVAL BASE BOMBED, FLYERS IN LONG FLIGHT   Allies Open Two-Way Attack On Japs In Kohima Area Whiie Indians Make Deeper Penetrations.   GERMANS STEP UP ATTACKS IN OLD POLAND   Russians Press Comments Greatly on Stalin Meeting Catholic Priest, Talk Over Situations.

Guam Attacked by Land-Based J. S$. Liberators   New Assaults on Truk, Ponape and Wewak Revealed

Planes Return From Long Raid Without Loss .   American Bombers Sweep 1,100 Miles  Across Pacific Ocean

LAND-BASED YANK BOMBERS ATTACK GUAM   Deepest Penetratior Of Japanese Southeast Approaches

4merican’ Bombers W iii Knock Out Rabaul’s Air Defenses.   JAPS LOSING AT SEA ON LAND, AND IN AIR   Landings on New Britain and New Guinea Puts Japs on Defense.

lowaGongressmen Hope to ‘Land Important Position:      Democrats Now Hold Only a Hairline Majority

flany Servicemen ire Not Old Enough Fo Vote This Fall   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

U.S. Bombers Raid Enemy Metz Lines  Crews Report Flying In 45 Dearees

GERMAN FRONT LINE POSITIONS IN METZ AREA ARE BATTERED  MORE THAN 1300 AMER ICAN HEAVY BOMBERS IN ACTION THURSDAY

GERMAN FRONT LINE POSITIONS IN METZ AREA ARE BATTERED  MORE THAN 1200 AMER

ROOSEVELT IN HAWAII THREE DAYS   -Conferred With MacArthur. and Admiral Nimitz

President Spends Three Days At Key Pacific Base   Roosevelt Leaves Islands Convinced of Victory Over Japan

FDR Predicts Crushing Jap Defeat After Tour - Of U.S. Base at Hawaii

Visits Pearl Harbor or Conference With Pacific War Leaders   Notes Great Progress Mande Since Treacherous Jap Attacx And Discusses Strategy With Admiral Nimitz And General MacArthur; Will Report To People In Radio Broadcast.

FDR. Trip to Honolulu Is Just Revealed   Left San Diego Aboard Cruiser on July 21

President Confers With Pacific War Leaders On Plans To Grush Japs

PRESIDENT PAYS VISIT TO HAWAII   Inspected Oahu Defenses July 26- 29 Met MacArthur:

Amevieam Planes Blamec For Swiss City Bombing   Liberater., Headed for Southera -Germany, Set Houses and Factories Afire in Schaffhaucen

Bombs Drop On City in Switzerland   Planes Identified  As American in Swiss Dispatches

BOMBERS BLAST REICH, SOME HIT SWITZERLAND   April Offensive Opened fy U. S. Fliers; Swiss Report Fires, Casualties

Swiss City. Bombed by Mistake   ‘Schaffhausen Is Hard Hit—Natives  Blame Americans

Liberators Open April Offensive  Against Germany   ‘Small F ormation of Eighth Air Force _ In Attack. On Reich

U.S. Planes In New Raic On Reich   Swiss Report VU. S. Bombs Dropped On Schaffausen, A Swiss Capital

Rehabilitate Persons, W. emisphere   Thousands Distributed  @From Canada to Chile in South Ameriea to Need Assistance

PLANES PLAST. ~ JAP VESSELS   [EN MORE FREIGHTERS AND “BARGES LOADED WITH’ TROOPS ADDED TO TOLL

FLYERS SINK 10 ~ JAP FREIGHTERS   New Bag Raises 2-Day Total to 27 Plus 41 Barges, Coastal Craft

PRESIDENT WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH PROBLEMS   Meeting With Stalin And Churchill Seen Soon;  Domestic Issues Present   POPULAR VOTE EDGE CLOSEST SINCE 1916

Capital Ovation Today for FDR   End of Washington Parade To Find With Many Problems

BIG PROBLEMS FILL SCHEDULE OF ROOSEVELT   President to Get Big Reception in Washington Today

Great Tasks To Face President; Returns Today   Tremendous Reception Planned for Roosevelt in Capital Today—Democrats Have Total of 432 Electoral Votes

BIG TASKS FACE FDR ON RETURN TO WHITE HOUSE   President Wins 32 States With 432 Electoral Votes; Dewey Gets 99

AWAIT RETURN OF PRESIDENT   CAPITAL BALLYHOO TO GREET FOURTH TERM WINNER

Big Problems Await President In Washington   Big Reception Planned: Capital Hears Rumors Of Changes in Cabinet

Mighty task awaiting F.D.R.  on return to nation’s capital  Tremendots celebration is planned;  Miahioaw cemwcwe ta ddéitwranwnate.n Pat

Winners To Join In Big Parade   Vacancies, Big 3 Parley, Other Tasks On FDR's Schedule

Roosevelt Maps ‘Victory’ Trip To Capital Today   Grave Tasks Ahead Fail to Dampen Ardor of City’s Reception Plauners; Electoral Vote Count Mounts to 432

‘oosevelt Goes back to Capital n Triumph Today  Electoral Vote Count Now Shows Victory By 432 to 99

Roosevelt Faces Hefty Problems  Returns to Capital   Returns to Capital City Saturday

Roosevelt To Return Today To Big Tasks   Popular Vote Lead is Lowest Sirte in 1916

German News Agency Correspondent Pays High Tribute To Sky Troops

Tons of Supplies Landed for Yank Troops on Leyte   MacArthur Plans New Drive in Philippines; Invaders Smash for Ormoc Air Base on West Coast; Romulo Says Two Isles Captured

Japs Drive Yanks From Fourth Air Base in China.   Tanchuk Evacuated And Destroyed, Stilwell Reports

Japanese Force Yanks to Abandon Field  Americans Driven From Fourth

U.S. ABANDONS ATH AIR BASE IN SOUTH CHINA   Tanchuk Quarters Eva. cuted And Destroyed, Stillwell Says

U.S. Loses 4th Base In China —   Despite Losses Planes Still Pounding Japs Advancing In Kwangsi.

AMERICAN AIR FORCE QUITS ANOTHER BASE   Advance Field At Tanchuk Evac. wated And Destroyed; Japs  Continue Drive

Fall Of Great Port City Is — Now Only a Matter of Hours      Germans Work Feverishly to Cripple The Port For Use of Allied Forces  In Battle for France

Fall Of Great Port Cit Now Only a Matter:of H        Germans Work. Feverishly. to C ipple The Port For Use of Allied Fe  In Battle for France

EAPLANE AND AEAGUE onlPa PIGK UP 1 db!   Transport Sent Down Last Fall in Pacific By Enemy Action.

Transport Is Lost At Sea  Only 70 Of 1,429 Men Aboard Are Not Saved

Reinforced Japs Strike Back at Yanks on Leyte   Nip Airmen Score Hits on U.S. Docks And Airfields on Island’s East Coast

Japs Are Getting Set For Last-Ditch Battle Upon Leyte  . Nipponese Airmen Blast American Ammunition Dump

Grim Bid For Hold On Leyte   Strong Motorized Reinforcements Landed Under Rain of Fire; Attack 3rd Fleet Unit

Japs Rally To Protect Philippines   Nipponese Airmen Attack Leyte Docks, Bomb Ship in Harbor

Enemy Defies Superior Forces Of American Men And Guns North And South Of Ormoc In Apparent Finish Fight — Nipponese Airmen Make More Than 35 Low-Level Raids On Airdromes And Docks— U. S. Ajrcraft Carrier Group Struck

JAPS ATTEMPT RESISTANCE ON WESTERN LEYTE   Several United States’ Ships Hit by Bombs

JAPANESE MAKE STAND FOR WEST SIDE OF LEYTE   Bring Up Reinforcements Under Barrage By U.S. Planes, Guns

Airmen “ast At Japanese Reinforceme. ‘s Gathered  Oi Leyte For Finish Fight

JAPANESE REINFORCE FORCES   “Defy Superior ‘American Forces To Gather Strength

Fresh Units Of Japs Join Leyte Fight   Reinforcements Land At Ormec In Determined Attempt To Break Up American Advance

J aps In Ormoe Marshal Forces  For Last Stand   Defying Superior U. S.  Forces; Several American  Warships Qaniaged in Enemy Airc Attack

Jap Reinforcements - Sent to Leyte Isle   Tanks, Troops and Artillery Put Ashore at ~Ormoc Despite Heavy Aerial Attacks _ on Convoy by American Airmen.

Japs Mass Forces for Finish Fight   Foe Airmen Make Low-Level Attacks on Airfields, Docks

Nipponese Prepare Do-or-Die Defense For Western Leyte   Marshall Fresh Troops for Ormoc Showdown; Blast Yank Carriers

JAPS MARSHAL FORCES UNDER RAIN OF ALLIED AERIAL BOMBS FOR FINISH FIGHT ON LEYTE

Japs Reinforce Fighters On Leyte Island   Several U.’S. Ships Damaged In Attacks By Nipponese Fliers

Aerial Blows Herald Finish Fight on Leyte   Jap Fliers Make 35 Attacks on Bases, Docks, Blow Up Ammunition Dump; Several U. S. Ships Damaged; 2 Enemy Transports, Planes Bagged

DEFY SUPERIOR U.S. FORCES IN ORMOC SECTOR   NIPPONESE AIRMEN ATTACK CARRIERS, LEYTE AIRFIELDS

Japs Make Desperate Comeback   Marshal Reinforcements Under Hail of Bombs in Fight For West Leyte   BEST AIRMEN ARE SENT INTO BATTLE   Yank Airmen. Blast Away At Motor Convoy; Japs Attack Our Airfields

Enemy Turns Planes Loose On U.S. Forces   Reserves Landed In Desperate Bid To Halt Yankees

Fear High Quake Toll ek oe e   Death List In Argentina May Mount To 3,000 Mark

Argentine  Death Toll Near 3,000   Nation Observes Davy of Mourning After Quake Wrecks San Juan

Given 1,086 votes on first  Vice presidential _ nomination today

Gets 1086 of 1176 Votes; Truman in Race With Wallace for Vice President

AFL TAKES STAND AGAINST POLL TAX   Condemned as Unamerican by William Green

‘Rumor From Cairo’ - Was Omitted Today   There Was No Editorial Comment in Izvestia or Red Star on Subject

PUBLISHED IS MYSTERY   ‘Russia Remains Silent; Lisbon Calis It “Echo”

COUNTY 6.0.P. RALLY BILLED   Hoffman and Brown to Ad. dress Meeting Tomorrow Night

Roosevelt Lists  100 Billion Budget   Financial: Requirements Of Victory And Plar For Early Economic Reconstruction Listed

‘Moscow Says Important Nazi Defenses In the Kirovograd Area Have Been Surrounded.

Tanks and Guns Pouring Through Breach In Lines   Germans Surrounded In Kirovograd Area; Street Battles Rage

Mead ‘To Direct Senate — Inquiries   Heads Important War In vestigating Committee

MEAD PICKED 10 SUCCEED TRUMAN   NEW YORKER HEADS THE SENATE'S WAR INVESTIGATING BODY

FORMER POLICEMAN HEADS WAR PROBERS   Mead of New York Replaces Candidate Truman

SOVIETS PUSH WESTWARD 10 EAST PRUSSIA   WEDGE IS DRIVEN DEEPER INTO OLD POLAND

Red Advance Nears Reich  ‘On to Konigsberg’ le Nowect Battle Cry

Reds Continue Their Advance In Baltic Area   Aim Smashing Thrust Between Bailystak And Brest Litovsk

Reds Pound On Toward  East Prussia   Aim Smashing Wedge ’ Between. Bialystok And Brest Litovsk  RATT WAY. MENACEN

Smashing Thrust of Soviets Threatens Out-—  flanking    MANY TOWNS HELD IN LATE ADVANCES   “On to Koenigsburg” Is Bottle Cry of Soviet Forces

Russians Drive  Steadily West   Fortress Cities. Are Goal Of Relentless March

Reds Aim Drives  At Two Fortresses   Soviet Forces Pose Imminent Threat Of Outflanking Bailystok and Brest Litovsk; Sebezh Seized in Swift Gain

RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING ON EVERY FRONT      Pound Entrances to East Prussia; Menace Old Lithuanian Capital; ‘On to Konigsberg.’   Under Shellfire

SUPERFORTS HUT WAR FACTORIES IN MANCHURIA; SET TOKYO BLAZE   Japanese Claim Damage Is Slight

B-29s “Remember Pearl Harbor”; Blast At Tokyo  And Factories In Manchuria

Forts Blast Tokyo on Anniversary   Nip War Factories In 8. Manchuria Also Get a Pasting

B-29 Superfortresses Raid Japanese War Factories In Manchuria  100 BOMBERS STAGE TWO-WAY ATTACK  Japs Fearful Of Other Revenge Attacks That Will Follow

PEARL HARBOR DAY OBSERVED BY AIR BLOWS   Jap War Factories Hit; Fire Admitted In Nip Capital

4 Tokyo Citizens Get Pearl Harbor Day. Explosive Barrage   B-29’s Dump Bombs on Capital; Japan Claims Damage Only Slight: Saath Manchuria Factories Jolied

Japanese War Plants Are Bombed   Third Anniversary of War Sees Raids on Mukden and Tokyo

At Least One Fire Started in. Air Attack ow Tokyo Itself; Nips Miniiize Dainage

Super-Forts Raid Jap War Factories In Manchuria And Attack Tokyo Again

Forts Bomb Manchuria  And Tokvo   Jap War Plants Hit On Mainland; Capital Set Afire.

TOKYO AND MANCHURIA ARE RAIDED   Big Task Force of Super-Forts Ushers In Third Anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

Big Superfortress Force Strikes...  Southern Manchuria, Jap Capital

70 Planes Raid War Factories Tn Manchuria   Japanese Fear Revenge Attack on Pearl Harbor Day

B-29’s Raid Factories In Manchuria   Superfortresses ‘Usher in 3rd ‘Anniversary of ‘Pearl Harbor

Superforts Raid Jap War Plants   PEARL HARBOR DATE IS OBSERVED BY YANKS

Superforts Hit Jap War Plants   Yank B-29 Raiders Strike Savagely at Manchuria and Tokyo in Celebration of the Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

DAY OBSERVED BY SUPERFORTS   Anniversary Recalled by Attacks on Manchuria And Tokyo

 Artillery Shells City From Height   Other U. S. Forces Attack La Meauffe Encircled Garrison.

‘GOOD PROGRESS BY YANKS I$ REPORTED   British Hold Ground Over-Looking Orne River As Germans Break Off Counter-Thrusts  Around Caen 

American Shock Troops Drive on Nazis in St. Lo   Germans Offer Stiff Resistance To U.S. Armor

Nazis Drive British and Canadians Out of Louvigny, Two Miles Southwest of Caen.

Torpedo American Destroyer   SECOND WARSHIP SINKS IN LOWER NEW YORK BAY 163 SURVIVE SEA MISHAP

NAZIS LOSE 100 BADLY NEEDED FIGHTERS   Fail in Effort to Halt Daylight Raid on Steyr, Austria

Germans Lose Hundred Planes In Steyr Battle   Nazi Fighter Strength Suffers Hard Blow In Clash With Yanks Over Austria   FRENCH NAVAL FORCE SINKS NAZI CONVOY

Jungle-Wise Allied Airborne Troops Hack At Vital Jap Communications In Burma

Allied Airborne Troops Hack At Jap Supply Lines   Attack Vital Japanese Com. munication Lines Within 50 Miles Of Mandalay

ALLIES MAKE NEW ATTACKS ON JAP LINES   MORE AIRBORNE TROOPS IN "ACTION IN BURMA. “AND Q AT THE FRONT -

YANKS ADVANCE WITHIN 2 MILES OF VITAL cin)   Tanks Plunge Deep Into Heart of Nazi Defenses, Tighten Hold

GREEK PATRIOTS REVENGE SLAUGHTER OF VILLAGERS. WIPE OUT 250 NAZIS

NEW MYSTERY ENTERS CAPITAL FORGERY CASE   Memorandum Copy of Second Hopkins Letter Introduced

NEW DISPUTE. ~~ QVER LETTER   SPARKS SENDS SENATORS / COPY OF ANOTHER LETTER  ALLEGEDLY WRITTEN BY  we BARRY. PROPRING “

SECURITY TAX STAYS "FROZEN   FDR Reluctantly Signs; Congress to Quit

Solons Make Hasty Exits _   Congressmen Freed  As FDR Signs. Bill

Signs Social Security Freeze  A 2. rr. Veh A   After FDR Acts Congressmen Start For Home

Bill Freezing Security Tax Becomes Law   Roosevelt © “Retuctantly” Signs Measure; Blocks Increase Fron: One to Two Percent

FDR SURPRISES NATION; SIGNS TAX ‘FREEZE’   Signature ‘Reluctant’ On Social Security Limiter a

F.R. Signs Bill Freezing Security Taxes   Solons Immediately Start Leaving for Holiday at Home

ROOSEVELT SIGNS BILL BLOCKING PAY ROLL TAX BOOST   Action Means Levy Will Remain at 1 Per Cent Another Year—Approva! Brings House Applause.   LAWMAKERS BEGIN EXODUS FROM CAPITAI   With Major Legislation Out of Way, Leaders Hope for Final Adjournment by Wednesday.

AL SECURITY FREEZER SIGNED   Reluctant Signature of President Starts General Congressional Exodus From Washington

SOCIAL SECURITY BILL I$ OKAYED   FDR Adds ‘Reluctant’ Signoture on Act Freezing Rate at 1 Percent

FAIR BOARD TO OFFER RACES ON FOURTH OF JULY   Bureau County Folks Are Of fered Fine Program Of Enter tainment Here On Independ ence Day.

CELEBRATION PLANNED BY FAIR BOARD   July 4th Holiday To Be Observed At Fair  Grounds

RED CROSS FUND ~ JUMPS 10 $50,039   ONLY 17 PER CENT OF JOPLIN'S QUOTA REMAINS TO "(BE SUBSCRIBED.

Open Way for Senate Inquiry of Pearl Harbor   Men of Both Parties Are Rehind Move

PROBE {S$ PLANNED OF PEARL HARBOR   Senate To Seek  “Facts” In Case

Ninth Army Units Struggle Through Julich Streets   Bad Weather Prevents.  Aerial Support Over, Fighting Fronts __

Patton Battles Nazi Pockets In Saarlautern   U.S. Ninth Army Battles Through Streets of Julich

Cross Saar River Inso.— Saarlautern         THIRD ARMY HAS CITY ALMOST SUBDUED; NINTH __. BATTLES IN JULICH STREETS.

ARMIES MASS FOR PUSH TO RUHR VALLEY   Saarlautern on East Bank of Saar River In Flames as Yanks Smash Ahead.   BULLETIN

While Finns Delay Peace Terms Russians Push On With New Offensives

ROBOMBS CARRY INCENDIARIES   More Bombs Reported After 24 Hour Lull

Robot Bombs Now Carrying incendiaries      They Scatter By Force Of Blast As Plane Hits 

Robots Carry Incendiaries   Fire Scattered By  Foree Of Explosion

SECRET PLANE FALLS IN CITY'S SUBURB   Civilian Test Pilot Parachutes To Safety on Ground

SECRET FIGHTER CRASHES IN TEST   Pilot Leaps as Burning Plane Lands in Cleveland Suburb

ARRAIGN THREE BERRIEN MEN   Accused Draft” Violator And Physician Face U. §. Court

Soviets Will Give Answer 'To Poles Soon   British Prepared tc Act in Border Dispute

Soviets Expected To Answer Polish Overtures Soon  _Speed of Red Army Lends Urgency ;

Soviet Reply Expected Soon   Answer To Polish Overtures Toward Negotiations Of Boundary,

Soviet Reply to Polish Move Anxiously Awaited   BELIEVE U. S. FAVORABLE.

Soviets May Reply To Peles Soon In Land Dispute  War Progress Lends Urgency to Boundary Question

KAVIENG IS ATTACKED BY U.S. SHIPS   Jap Base Gets 1, ts 1,000 Tons Of Shells While American Troops Land On Emirau Island.   Pincer Pounding

. 5. WARSHIPS ASSAULT SAPS: KAVIENG BASE   1,000 Tons of Shells Hurled; Yanks: Land On Emirau Isle

Battleships Hit Kavieng; Yanks Invade Emirau   Operation Places U. S. Within Bombing Range «f Truk

Japan's Kaviene Base Attacked By Battleships   1,000 Tons of Shells Hit Area; Yankees Land at Emirau

BLAME CATHOLICS FOR OBSTACLES IN LATIN AMERICA   Southern Baptiste Charge Roman Catholic Church Seeks to Rid Latin. Amer: ica of Protestant Mistion ariae

Argentina Has Major Problems   U. S. Leads Foreign Diplomatic Pressure

Allied Planes Sink Three Jap Merchantmen at Rabaul; Navy Blasts Caroline Islands

3 MERCHANTMEN SUNK AT RABAUL BY AMERICANS   Hits Scored On Eight Jap Ships; 18 Enemy Planes Shot Down   AERIAL DEFENSES OF. NIPPONESE STRONGER

U5. FLIERS SINK THREE JAP SHIPS, HIT FIVE QTHERS   Encounter 100-Planes in Raid on Rabaul—Shoot Down at Least 18 and Lose 12 of Own.   YANKS OUTNUMBERED IN FIERCE AIR FIGHT   €nemy Sends Up Heavy Curtain of Anti-Aircraft Fire From Barges at Mouth of Bay.

Jap Ships Ai Rabaul Bit By Yanks   Torpedo, Dive Bombers Blast 8 Vessels, Sink 3

War Authority Renewal Seen For President   ‘Judiciary Committee Gets -. War Powers Extension’ . Rl Feom Sub dlnit -.

Congress Acts to Extend President’s Powers; Leaders Anticipate Little Opposition

WAR POWERS OKAY EXPECTEL   Congress ~ Expected Te Extend Wartime Act Speedily

CONGRESS IS SET TO RENEW -WARPOWERS      Measure Expected to be _ Passed With Little H Opposition”

U. 8S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD A~ALTZrawwWmmnrnmes Wb..<.<a8 CS «hea -_ =

Gains of 3 Miles Reported   Americans Lash Out Under Cover Of Rainstorms

SMASH AHEAD IN A SAVAGE ATTACK TODAY   Doughboys Over Top at Dawn Made Advance of More Than Two Miles on One Sector

Full-Scale Caen Assault Begins   U. S. Forces Strike Out in Major Drive Along Western Peninsula, Capture Five Towns in Tilly-Sur-Seulles Sector; St. Lo Push Looms

Reds Push Into  Warsaw Suburbs   Drive Toward Hungery  Takes 200 Localities

Admiral Says U.S. Navy Will Equal Combined World Fleets In 44; Urges Same Ratio For Peacetime

U S. WILL TOP WORLD NAVIES   Combined Fleets Will Be Surpassed by Yank Units In 1944

U. S. Fleet To Equal Total Of All Others   Maintenance Of Flee! Will Be Guaranty Of World Peace, Assert: Admiral Cochrane

LEGISLATURE FAVORS SESSION.   Poll Of State Body On Soldier Vote Session

65 Enter Contests for State Offices   37 Republicans, 28 Democrats File in Ohio Pumary  ~

PARTY LINES DRAWN FOR OHIO PRIMARY; 65 CANDIDATES FILE   37 Republicans And 28 Democrats Seek 11 State Offices

(Major Kallmyer Declares Plum Brook Not Closing; iPersonnel Cuts Unlikely 

TAKE CARENTAN AND RE-ENTER MONTEBOURG   Push Powerful Drive to Cut Cherbourg Peninsula at Base

Powerful Drive For Control Of Peninsula   Germans Use Great Tank Forces

GERMANS HAVE ESTIMATED 319 DIVISIONS LEFI   Military Observers Figure Foe Has Great Forces on Russian Front

Estimate Nazi Strength On Invasion Eve   Believe Germany, Satellite’s Countries, Boast 319 Divisions

40 RED DIVISIONS BEGIN NEW DRIVE ON BALTIC FRONT   Soviet Guns Blast Burning Warsaw as Frontal Assault Nears

Report Russians Open New Drive In Baltic Area   ‘Soviet Artillery Hammers At Warsaw As Reds Mass For Assault   FALL OF WARSAW SEEMS IMMINENT

The Great  Game of Politics   __By FRANK R. KENT A Fruly Trusting Soul

War Casualties Rise to 217,131   Losses in Europe Are Not Included

LOSSES OF U.S. IN WAR 217,131   Casualty List Has Nea Figures From Europe Offensive As Yet

FLOOD DAMAGE  1S WIDESPREAD   Crest of Flood Expected at St. Louis by Saturday.

U.S. Forces Said On Belgian Soil   Patton's Swift Advance Breaks Ali Records; Races Thru Argonne

REPORTED 25 MILES FROM GERMAN SOIL IN RECORD ADVANCE   Patton’s Army Storms Through Argonne, Crosses Meuse To Take War I Citadel; lst Army May Be In Belgium   (RULLETINS)

GUNS WITHIN 300 MILES OF JAP MAINLAND   U. S. TASK FORCES POUND MATSUWA AND SAIPAN

Early Landing In  Guam Area Hinted By LEONARD MILLIMAN Net ate ae amr: ™  .._. eae. wm ht

Navy Shells Jap Islands   Chinese Check Jap Attack on Burma Road

Two U.S. Task Forces Shell  Japanese Bases   New American Invasion Hinted as Warships Back Up Planes

U.S. Maps Huge. War End Cutback   20 Billion Dollar Drop To Follow Nazi Defeat

Artillery and Bombers Smash for Ground Forces as Reds Near White Russian Capital

White Russ Capitalls — Menaced By Three Armies   Reds Secure Direct Rail Route From Leningrad To Odessa; Qarioy Ta Fall

Reds Within 37 Miles Of Minsk   Driving Nazis Back Over Road Napoleon Followed In Retreat

Re TAM’ CTY eaeApr pw   SPEED OF RUSSIAN ADVANCE INDICATES HITLER HAS CHOSEN SHORTER LINE ON OLD POT AND

Nazis in Retreat Before Russians   "Red Armies Converge on Minsk, Capi  tal of White Russia, Reaching Point 37 Miles From City Along Road Traveled by Napoleon.   MOGILEV CAPTURED

Soviet Reaching For City Of Minsk As Mogilev Freed From Fleeing Huns

IN 37 MILES QF CAPITAL   Russian Red Army Reaching Out Like Fingers to Gather in Great White Russian Prize.

Soviet Troops Advancing On  Toward Minsk   Within 37 Miles Of White Russian Capital: Have Direct Rail Route.   THREE MAIN THRUSTS

Leningrad-Odessa Rail Line Opened By Russians With Capture Of Mogilev

Russians Thrust Closer. to Minsk   Germans Are Pushed Back By Reds Within 37 Miles of City

Russ Armies Only 37 Miles From Minsk   Germans Fleeing” Along Same _°Road:: Napoleon Followed in eRtieat   MOGILEV: IS SEIZED

Soviets Get Near Minsk As Germans Flee Areas   Along Old Route Of Napoleon

Russians Now 37 Miles From Minsk   Armies Tightening Web Around White Russian Capital; With Mogilev Freed Rail: Between Leningrad and Odessa Open.

Reds Race Unchecked For Minsk   Three-Way Push Moves Within 37 Miles of Bastion

Units Fan Out Like Fingers ! Toward Minsk   Germans Retreat on Road To Warsaw and Nazi Capital

Germans Suffering - Onc Of Greatest Defeats O! Any Army In History As Fingers Of German Offensive Reach For ‘ward On Road To War. saw And Berlin.

SUVICL ANNIE). CONVERGING. ON ~ MINSK: TODAY  Drive Within’ 37. Miles . Of White: Russia ; »Capital ». !  ieee FORWARD   SMASH FORWARD   Key. Rail -T Town’ “Of “Mogilev. “Taken OS Py Pade: fey OE

Red Planes. Guns Back Up Soviets Near. Minsk   Germans Are Faced With Early Defeat

SOVIETS NEAR WHITE RUSSIA CAPITAL TODAY   Germans Pushed Back By Red Land Force

Germans Back Up On Soviet Front   Russian Troops Pushing Nazis Over Road Napoleon Traveled   REDS IN QUICK MOVE   Axis Forces Retreat Without Doing Damage to a Rail Line

—RUSSIA~  REDS WITHINGT MILES OF MINS   Nazis Driven Back Over Same Road Napoleon: Followed   MOGILEV FREED   Direct Rail Route Between Leningrad And Odessa Reopened

Russians Only 3? Miles From Minsk  ahs 1 hk   Pinchers Threaten Provincial Capital

German Army Backtracking  Toward Minsl   Taking the Same Road Na poleon Followed In His Disastrous Retreat From Moscow

FOUR RED ARMIES DRVING ON MINSK   Germans: ‘Being Pushing Back Swiftly In Near Rout

SOVIET TROOPS 37 MILES FROM CITY OF MINSK   Nazi Retreat Nears Rout As Triple Drive Gains Speed

Reds Converge On Capital of White Russia   Hitlerites Retreat _Along Napoleon’s "Fateful Road

Russians Roll On Toward Key City Of Minsk   Germans Retreat Along Same Road ‘Napoleon Took From Moscow.

First Time in Three Year: Russians Have Direct Rai Route Between Leningrad and Odessa

SOVIET FORCES PRESS ASSAULT AGAINST MINSK   Nazis Pushed Back Over Road Napoleon Followed in Defeat

RED OFFENSIVE ROLLING INTO WHITE RUSSIA   Soviet Armies Converging on Minsk Within 37 Mnes of Important Capital City   MOGILEV IS CAPTURED

Russians Reach Out For Minsk   Within 37 Miles of White Russia Capital In. Swiftly-Moving  Manvy-Pronged Drive

Red Armies Spreading Out Over Wide Area in Their Sweep Through White Russia Freeing Vital Points and Converging Now Toward Wa saw and Rerlin

SOVIET ARMIES CONVERGING ON CITY OF MINSK   Push Germans Back Swiftly On Same Road To Warsaw And Berlin Which Witnessed Downfall Of Little Corporal.

Russians In 37 Miles Of Minsk   Three Armies Closing in On City; Route Napoleon Followed in His Retreat

Reds Reaching For Minsk Along Napoleon Road   Mogilev Is Freed to Give RussiansLeningrad  Odessa Rail Route.   Employ Outflanking Movement on Minsk

Russian Armies Advance Swiftly On Vital Minsk   Germans Pushed Back on Route of Napoleon’s Retreat

SOVIET ARMIES CONVERGING ON ‘MINSK TODAY  Drive Within 37 Miles f White Russia . Capital  SMASH FORWARD Key ‘Rail T Town Of   Key Rail Town O: Mogilev Taken By Reds

MOGILEV FREED IN CENTER OF TRIPLE PINCERS   Osipovichi Taken; Borisov Heavily Menaced By Russian  Tiel > oe

Reds Drive Within 37 Miles Minsk   Twe Large-Scale Ouiflanking Movements Develop as Soviets Fellew Three Reads te Goal

RUSSIAN TROOPS DRIVE WITHIN 37 MILES OF MINSK   Reds Have Direct Rail Route Between Leningrad, Odessa

REDS WITHIN 37 MILES OF MINSK IN MIGHTY PUSh   Soviet Army Drives Toward White Russian Capitol With Bomber Support

Secret's Out; Story Is Tole! How Peace Talk Rumor Started Around

Absurd Peace Yarr Heard in Algiers  Claim Nazi Mission Came to Africa

PEACE RUMOR ORIGIN: TRACED TO ALGIERS.   Arrival of Cuptured Nazi Officers at Fime of Calra Conference Led to Fantastic Tale.

Newsman Prohes Peace Rumor Says Such Stories  oOmmMon in Aflsiaeg

Training Program To Be Considered ~-By New Congres:   Political Hot Potato Sure to Meet New Leaislators 

May Vote On - -House Plan —  in Novembe:   Court Orders Petitions Be Accepted by Missouri Secretary of State

Jackson Opinion Final Stockard Ordered to Accept Unicameral Vote Petitions

FINNS GIVE UP UNDER MASSED BAIN OF SHELL   Stockhoim Dispatch Reports Capture of Finnish Key Seaport.

Reds Nine Miles From Viipuri   Finnish Defenses Along Gulf Collapse, Correspondent Says

ACTION IS NOW WITHIN 9 MILES OF FINN’S PORT   Lines Held By Axis Satellite Collapsing Before Soviet Drive

Viipuri Falls, Sweden Hears   Russians Capture Great Finnish Port, Reported

Soviet Army Force Drives Into Viipuri   Fall Of City Expected Any: time: Finnish Retreat Turned Into Debacle

Viipuri Reported To Have Fallen in Battle of Finland   Mannerheim Line’s Fall Brought End To War in 1940

RED ARMY GUNS POUND VIIPURI   DECLARES FINNS’ COASTAL DEFENSES HAVE COLLAPSED

Sweden Reports Viipuri Taken By Soviet Army   Finland Expected To Get Out Of War As Key City Falls

Planes And Big Guns Attack Finnish Shipping  Fall Of Viipuri To Red Army Appears Imminent

Finn Port ‘Yields’ To Enemy in Wake Of Heavy Shelling   Soviet Artillery, Set Hub to Hub Sends Deadly Salvos Inio Center; Swedes Repert Stronzhold’s Fall

MASSED SOVIET GUNSBOMBARD VITAL SEAPORT   Surrender to Russians Expected to Stop Finn Struggle

Fall Of Finnish  Port Imminent   Spearheads Of Russian Forces Fighting In Viipuri’s Suburbs.

heds Advance Within Miles  Of Finland’s . Main Seaport   Viipuri’s Fall May Come Within Hours

Viipuri S Fall      Russian Artillery Wheel to Wheel Shells City After Breaking Last Line of Finnish Defense

VIIPURI TAKEN, STATES REPORT FROM SWEDEN   Claim Key Seaport Gave Up After Heavy Shelling by Russians

Reds Reported Only Nine Miles From Finn Por   “Remarkable” Offensive Said To Be Increasing; Proecope Leaves Friday

Reds Bombard Outskirts Of Vital Port   Soviet Airmen Sink 16 Ships In City’s Harbor

Capture of Viipuri By Russians Is Reported As Finns Speed Retreat

VIIPURI SEIZED BY RED FORCES   Stockholm Reports Finns Have Given Up Fight to Hold Seaport

Viipuri Port Falls To Red  Army Troops    a : ad * oe ~ ‘Shell Finnish Seaport From  Positions Less Than 9  Miles Away.   NO RED CONFIRMATION

VIIPURI HAS FALLEN, SWEDE SOURCE CLAIM   No Immediate Confirmation From Either Side Regarding Fate Of Main Finnish Seaport

Sweden — Says Viipur: Captured   Soviet Drive   Soviet Drive Turns Finnish Retreat into a. Complete Debacle

Viipuri Falls Before Russ Assault   Swedish Report Says Key Port Taken After Mass Barrage

LONDON HEARS VIIPURI FALLS TO RUSSIANS   Travels of Diplomats Suggest That Finland Seeks  Panne   Coastal Defenses on  Viipuri Gulf Blasted

REPORT SOVIETS CAPTURE VIIPURI   FINNS ROUTED BY SWIFT RED ADVANCE

Reds Shelling Vuipuri Port; Fall Imminent   Capture of City May End War’ With Finland; Troops Fighting In Surburbs.

Red Artillery, Wheel To Wheel, Nine Miles Away, Reported Shelling Port City

Fall Of City Might Bring Halt To War   Hint Peace Activities Already Under Way By Diplomats

Swedish Dispatches Say Finnish Port Of Viipuri Has Fallen To Russians

Swedes Hear Great Port Captured By Russ Army   Red Artillery, Wheel To Wheel, Had Been Battering City; Many Shine Wore Sunk

Massed Red Guns Bring Down City   Fall in First War Lead to Surrender by Finns

VIIPURI'S FALL NEAR; SOVIETS AT OUTSKIRTS   Red Army Converging On Finns’ Third City In Wide Are

Ath Termers 2 Governor Candidates   MEADOWS IN WEST VIRGINIA AND LAUSCHE IN OHIO ARE NEW DEAL PRIMARY  VICTORS,   Dawson, Stewart for GOP

FUNKHOUSER IS HANDED DEFEAT   Holt Also Loses In West Virginia Primary; New  Dealers Nominated

LABOR DISPUTES INVOLVE 11,000   Street Car And Busline Operators Back On Job In St. Louis

Sixth Air Raid Made On Sofia By Allied Fliers   Night Attack Follows Up Daylight Assault On Bulgarian Capital   YUGOSLAV RAIL CENTER ALSO HIT

SUBS SINK TWO JAP WARSHIPS   Underseas Boats Bag Light Cruiser, Destroyer, 18 Merchant Vessels

U, S. SUBMARINE SINKS CRUISER   Japan Suffers Heavily In Underseas War; 82 Warships Lost

SIMPLIFICATION OF TAXES. NEXT ON COMMITTEE LIST   NEW SYSTEM MAYBE WORKED OUT TO ELIMINATE FILING ‘OF THOUSANDS OF RETURNS

ey -RECETVR SOTDIFR'S MEST,   JAP WEAKNESS FOUND In East China Sea Sector

Youth Confesses Slaying Girl   Touring Camp Employe Killed 14-Year-Old Girl, Detroit Police Report

Japs in China Reap Two Harvests From Successful Drive on Hengyang

JAP CAPTURE OF HENGYANG AIR FIELD ENDANGERS AMERICAN HOLD IN CHINA AND MAY PROLONG WAR   Japs Can Now Use Newly Captured Field Against Bigger American Base at Kunming and Also May Hamper Reopening of Burma Road. Cutting Off Of China Bases Has Wide Potentialities

VITAL AREA LURES JAPS MAIN DRIVE   Pr PRES EEIN Cele) EA (Chief of Associated Press coverage of the China-Burma-India theater,  substituting today for DeWitt Mackenzie }

0,000 ENEMY DUT OF AGTION IN EIGHT DAY!   In Southeastern Poland. Red Forces Take Nazi Base at Tarnopol.

Tarnopo: Taken By Russians   Triumphant Red Army Three Miles Of Sevastopol

Waves of German Planes Lash Anzio Beachhead as ‘Forces Mass for Big Battle

German Planes Hit af Allies On Beachhead   Nineteen Nazi Planes Are Shot Down; Big Guns Roar as Prelude To Major Battle

Yankee Bomber: Blast Frankfurt  Total Destruction of City Under Way

FURY OF ATTACK INDICATES CITY TO BE DESTROYED   OTHER AIR UNITS POUND TARGETS IN NORTHERN FRANCE

American Flying Fortresses Bomb Frankfurt Again  City to Be Given Obliteration Like That of Hamburg

Boche Increase Fury  Of Beachhead Assault   Flying Forts Thunder Bombs on Frankfurt

‘Planes and Artillery Open Attack   Major Battle Expected At Invasion Point Below Rome, Allies Reveal

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES BLAST FRANKFURT AGAIN  LIBERATORS AND MARAUDERS POUND NORTH. ERN FRANCE TARGETS

Germans Throw Planes Against Allied Forces   Thunderous Artillery Shelling Continues In Prelude To Batide Before. - Eternal Citv   Cassino Fighting Continues Grim   Americans Have Nearly Surrounded Town; But Nazis Hold ThreeQuarters Of It

Forts Strike At Frankfurt Again Today   Fury Of Attack Indicates City Will Be Ruined

U. S. Planes  Smashing at  Frankfurt   Great Allied Air Offensive  Js Resumed

Evacuation Hospital Hit In Fighting: Nurses Dead   Important Battle Is In Making Over Italy

U.S. NURSES KILLED WHEN BOMBS STRIKE   Single Nazi Plane Wrecks American Hospital Mon.

Forts Attaek Frankfurt In Heavy Forces   RAF’s Swift Mosquitos Bomb Unspecified Objectives In Germany.   RAID BEFORE NOON

WAVES OF NACL “BLANES ATTACK   Thunderous Artillery Shelling Prelude To Impending Clash   GRIM FIGHTING   Allied Forces Furthe~ Consolidate Positions Below Rome

Heavy Bomber: Hit Frankfurt   Daylight Assault . In Force Reported

Flying Furtresses Hit At Frankfurt In New Damaging Daylight Blow

U. S. Evacuation Hospital Bombed In Full Daylight   Bombardment Is Prelude to Major Battle Coming Soon

Manufacturing Center Target Of Fortresses   American Flying Squadron Makes Furious Attack On Frankfurt

[American Fortresses Hit Frankfurt In Daylight Attack   Long-Range Fighters Accompany Bombers On 400-Mile Foray into Germany; Liberators, Others Smash Into France

FURIOUS BATTLE BELOW ROME IS AT STANDSTILL   Fighting Continues In Cassino As Yanks Near Summit Height

U. S. BOMBERS HIT GERMAN PLANTS TODAY   Frankfurt In Path Of Great Aerial:  Bombardment

Flying Forts Unload Again On Frankfurt   Targets In Northern France Are Given Con centrated Poundings

MANUFACTURING CENTER 10 BE “OBLITERATED   Northern France Targets Also’ Pounded by Large Fleets of Allied Bombing Machines

ALLIES SHOOT DOWN 19 NAZI ATTACK GRAFT   22 Killed, 63 Injured in German Dive-Bomber Attack on U. 8.  Evacuation Hospital 

DESTRUCTION OF NAZI INDUSTRIA CITY ISBEGUN   Targets In Northern. France Are Blasted Again By R.A.F.

Frankfurt Area Showered Again By U.S. Bombs  Daylight Assault Bllawe ¥'¥. DAT   Daylight Assault Follows Up RAF Blow At Germany

Targets in North France Also Pounded   Mosquitos Hit Western Germany In Sixth Attack On Seven Nights

FORTS AGAIN RAIN BOMBS ON FRANKFURT   Heavy Force Returns for Third American Raid on Nazi War Cenfer, Hii by RAF Eartier   WOULD RAZE CITY   voncentrated Aerial Blows Dealt Pas de Calais Area, Other Sections Northern France

Allies Consolidate Lines, Get Ready ~ For Major Battle   Germans Still Hold Three-Fourths of Cassino; American Forces Capture 500 Enemy Troops in Sector

LARGE FORCE POUNCS NAZI SHOP CENTER   Liberator Bombers Join In Separate Attack On Northern France

BEACHHEAD BELOW ROME ATTACKED   Major Land Action Lacking But Air Fighting Stiff

NAZI PLANES DESTROY (LS FELD HOSHITAL      Heavy Artillery Bombardment Pouring Into 100-SquareMile Invasion Area

Major Battle Below Rome  Near. Belief   Violent Fight Continues In Cassino; U. S. Army Nurses Killed, First Due To Enemy Action

Nazi Bomber Waves Strike Deiow Kome  Thunderous Artillery   iThunderous Artillery Shelling Hammers at Yankee Emplacements   ALLIED LINES HOLD

German Planes and Artillery Unloose Savage Onslaught   Allied Beachhead  Expecting Tremendous Drive by Nazis

Frankfurt Hit By Fortresses   Obliteration Of Another Big German Center Well Under Way.

Blows Against Continent Continue  Frankfurt Well On Way To Being Wiped Out As Fortresses Raid Again  ee ae

Frankfurt Again Bombed   Flying Fortresses in Force Thunder Against Manufacturing City

Frankfurt on Obliteration Schedule Now   Heavy Formations of U.S. Flying Forts Pummel ‘City Once Again

U. S. Hospital ls Bombed: 27 Are Killed   Correspondent Declares Evacuation Unit Was Victim of Deliberate Attack; Germans Lost 19 Planes in Raids on Allied Holdings

FRANKFURT (3 BOMBED AGAIN   Indicates Obliteration of Another Vital Center Is Well Begun.   CITY SEVERELY DAMAGED

Flying Forts Thunder Bombs ~” On Frankfort’ Again. Today;: . -Obliteration. Seen Well Begun

FRANKFURT AGA 1,5, IR TAREE   American Heavy Bomb, ers Unleash New Attack On Nazi City

Major Battle Is Shaping Up South Of Rome   Germans Intensify Air, Artillery Attacks; Yanks  Consolidate Positions.

Nazis Make ‘Heavy Attack By Air On Beachhead   Terrific Artillery Shelling Is Also Prelude To Major Battle Near Rome

YANKS STAGE A HEAVY RAID ON FRANKFURT   Fortresses Strike With Fury Which Shows Obliteration of Anothex Nazi Industrial Center Hag Started.

MADE MONDAY   Thunderous Artiliery Shelling Continues in Beachhead Area.   LITTLE LAND FIGHTING

‘OVER AREA ‘BELOW ROME   Luftwaffe Blow Is Heavy  and Comes as Shelling - Continues in Prelude to Impending Major Battla.

WAVES OF GERMAN PLANES STRIKE AT ALLIFD INVADERS   NAZI AIR AND ARTILLERY ATTACK BELIEVED MAJOR BATTLE PRELUDE

Artillery Shelling Coninues, Indicating Major Gerinan Attack Against Beachhead: Fighting Continues in Cassino.

ATTEMPT TO OBLITERATE. REICH CITY   Other Formations Make Punishing Raids On Coast

Hospital Hif By Nazi Bomb, Nurses Killed   Heavy Shelling Continues Today In Battle for Rome

Fortresses — Again Blast At Frankfurt   Long-Range Fighters Escort Fortresses; Liberators Aid in Mission Over France

American Fortresses In Force Pound Great Ger. ‘nan. Manufacturing .  . City by Daylight   Attacks On North France Continued   New Assault Follows In Wake - of. Speedy RAF * Mosauito Bombings af  . Reich During Night

Cassino Street Fighting Rages; 30 Nazis Taken  Fourth Of Town Held Rv IY <_

Major Battle Is Impending   Most Enemy Bomber Formations Broken Up; Yanks Near Top of Mt. Cassino.

ALLIES POUND INVASION COAST, WEST GERMANY   Believe Assault Underway Tc Level Huge Manufacturing Center in Reich

USAAF Continues Raids To Obliterate Important Rail, Aircraft Center

MAJOR BATTLE NEAR AS HEAVY GUNS THUNDER   Grim Fighting Goes on in Cassino; Nazis  ‘Hold 3-4ths of Town

Heavy Aetial' ; Attack Sent Over Beaches   Fighter Bombers Attack ‘Hospital Despite Its ~ Red Cross Markings  —

U. S. Fortresses Start “Wipe Out” Nazi Frankfurt   American Planes Deal Great Manufacturing City A Staggering Blow In Today’s Raid; 700 Mile Trip.

—_—  American Nurses Killed By Foe Pilots in Attack On Evacuation Hospital

ARTILLERY AND PLANES BLAST ALLIED FORCES   Germany- Yanks ‘Locked In Bitter Street Fight For Cassino

Forts Attack Frankfurt In Heavy Assauli   U. S. Bombers Strike Industrial City While Other Planes Raid Northern France   No Losses At Night

Nazi Planes ‘Punch Hard :At Allies   Major Battle Looms At Beachhead Below Rome; Foe Attacks American Hospital

FRANKFURT IS SUBJECTED T0 HEAVY ATTACKS   Obliteration of Another Great German Manufac‘turing City Is Begun ~~~

German City Again Hard Hit   Frankfurt Blasted While Targets in France Attacked.

INDUSTRIAL CITY LEFT IN RUINS; FRANCE ALSO HIT   Second Attack Aimca! at NaziHeld Area After Bombs Smash Targets

22 Killed Including Nurses And Doctors; Nazi Artillery Batters Anzio Bridgehead

WAVES OF GERMAN PLANES STRUCK AT - ALUED BEACHHEAD   Artillery Shelling Continuec in Prelude to an Impending Major Battle.   TROOPS CONSOLIDATED   Germans Also Strengthened Their Forces Around the Invasion Area.

Allied Aerial Attacks Move Nearer Japan   Hollandia In Dutch New Guinea Given 250-Plane Raid With 320 Tons Of Bombs

250-Plane Raid Hits Jap Base   Hollandia In Dutch New Guinea Subjected To Heavy Blasting.

250 War Planes Raid New Jap  Guinea Bases   Hollandia Catehes Brunt Of New Attack — Truk Takes 4th Bombing

HOLLANDIA AGAIN TARGET FOR 250 ALLIED AIRCRAFT   Once-Powerful Jap Base In New Guinea Given Second Hard Bombing — Shows Westward Movement of War Avainst Japs

PLANES FLY AT WILL IN GUINEA   Allied Aircraft Roam Skies Over New Guinea At Will As Ground Troops Consolidate Their Positions; Guam And Truk Bombed.

AMERICAN PLANES ROAM THE SKIES OVER NEW GUINEA.   Air Lanes Over Big Island and Beyond Controlled By Ailied Aircraft—Keep Jap Landing Fields Immobilized

Allied Planes Master New Guinea Skies: Blast West End and Rabaul

Yank F ighters Rout Japanese  [Near Hollandia   American Troops Able to Consolidate Positions in New Guinea: Nip Airdromes Pounded   Rabaul Again Hit  By Allied Airmen   Chinese Troops Battling to Stem Jap Drive in Honan Province: Hu. Jao Pass Is Taken

RUSSIANS SET “POLES AT EASE      Moscow Stresses Friendship, Announces No Territorial Ambitions

FINNS WARNED BY ROOSEVELT TO SEEK PEAGE   President Urges Helsinki Get Out of War to Avoid More Suffering

PEACE APPEAL: SENT FINLAND. “BY. ROOSEVELT   7 ior i oor Te a, PRESIHENT DECLARES FUR» THER DELAY WILL. ONLY   BRING FINNS MORE —  Jc. SORROW AND ©  ‘bh. ¢ SUFFERING. .

PLAN TO.STOP.. NAZI ESCAPES AT WAR’S ENE   BTATE DEPARTMENT PUTTING PRESSURE ON ALL NEUTRAL . NATIONS: TO ELIMINATE  - AXIS “HIDEOQUTS" - -

U. S. Trains Diplomatic Bloodhounds To Hunt Down Hitler and Gang

Philip W: Boever  Becomes Benedict Weds Miss Marjorie  ~ Russell, San F ranciscc

Philip W. Boever Becomes Benedict  ‘Weds Miss Marjorie Russell, San Franciscc

RUSSIANS CUT BUDAPEST IN TWO   Split Defending Nazi Forces; Head For Vi enna.

QUICK PALACE COUP UNSEATS ARGENTINIAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT   Vice-President Farrell in ~ Post Vacated by General Pedro Ramirez   SIGNIFICANCE NOT CLEAR

‘Concern Felt Over Shakeup  In Argentina   Security Of Hemisphere May Be Affected By Latest Coup, Asserts Stettinius Today

U.S. Concerned Gver Argentina   American’ Republics  May Hold Meet

NEW SHAKE-UP IN ARGENTINA EYED BY U. §.   Ramirez Supplanted By Farrell In Palace Coun

Ramirez Out As President Of Argentina   Latest Political Upheaval Regarded As Another  Palace Coup.

U. 5. Studies Araentine Row   Acting Secretary Stettinius Admits Concern Over Coup

QUESTION OF RECOGNITION   Ramirez Forced to Yield Reins to Vice President by Army Clique Opposed to Break With the Avic.

STETTINIUS ADMITS CONCERN AS RESULT ARGENTINA SHAKEUP  QUESTIONS MAY BE   QUESTIONS MAY BE RAISED AFFECTING SECURITY OF HEMISPHERE

Troops Enter Home Of Ramirez; Leader Resigns at Gun Point   Viec President Gen. Farrell Takes Over Helm; Pro-Nazi Admiral Scasso Reportedly Named Secondary Chief

GEN, RAMIREZ RESIGNS POST IN ARGENTINA   Claim Army Has Hand in Move That Places Farrell in President’s Office

Vice President Gen. Farrell Takes Over Presidency in New Army Move—Details Censored

ARGENTINE GETE NEW PRESIDENT   Gen. ‘Pedro Ramirez Resigns  ‘in Favor of Vice- President Gen. Edeliro J. Farrell

RAMIREZ OUSTED ARGENTINA HEAD IN NEW UPHEAVAL   Vice-President Farrell Takes Over Reins of Affairs of 9-Months - Old Military Government.   CENSOR RESTRAINS ISSUANCE OF ALL DETAILS   Smoldering Cabinet Opposition In Ramierz Cabinet With Breaking Axis Relations Are Factors.

Express Concer Over Argentina  News Disturbing to State Department

FARRELL A NEW ARGENTINE HEAL   Ramirez’ Va ae a at es Presi . dency. In. ‘Another’ Pelit ical: U pheavat 

Axis Friends Take Over Argentina   Ramirez Forced Out as President At Point of Gun

State Officials Eye Situation In Argentina   Latest Government Shakeup May Raise Questions Affecting Security  RAMIREZ FORCED OUT

ADMIT CONCERN VER SHAKEIIP   Argentine Clique Forces President to Give Powers to Farrell.   IBREAK WITH AXIS CAUSE

Gen. Farrell Takes Office   Argentina’s Leader Quits During Night

RAMIREZ OUSTED BY PRO-AXIS ARMY COUP IN ARGENTINA   Force President’s Resignation ot Gun Point; Farrell Named Succascar

PALACE COUP OUSTS RAMIREZ   Argentine President Resigns in Sudden Buenes Aires Political Upheaval.

Army Officers Favoring Axis! Seize Argentina Government; Stettinius Voices Conearn

Concern Over Argentine Situation Is Confessed   Stettinius Says It Might Raise Question Of Security Of Hemisphere

MAY AFFECT ENTIRE PAN-AMERICAN STATUS IN FUTURE   Full Effect of the Change Is Not Yet Known. Axis Sympathies May Cause  — Rlackades

Soldier Vote Sole Purpose - Of Legislature   Bill Presented Today, And Governor Urges Prompt Passage

War Ballot »Bill Before lowa Solons   Provides A_ Bipartisan Commission, Extends Votine Time.

vy  Less Butter For 5  Civilian Use During:  -_» + Séptember Predictéd

TENTH AIR FORCE MOVES   Is Now Distinct Unit With Eastern Air. Command

Earthquake in Argentina Takes Tremendous Toll   Ancient Provincial Capital of San Juan Is Levelled

5000 Feared Killed by Earthquake   Entire Argentine City Razed By Temblor

New Shipwreck Rations Developed by. Navy Scientists; Require Less Room

Gen. Eisenhower Urges Foreigners In Germany To Hide, Be Ready to Aid Allied Troops When They Arrive

Heavy Casualties  inflicted on  Enemy in India Counterattacks Are  Being Begun North of Imphal

POSITIONS AT IMPHAL PLAIN ARE IMPROVED   Glider-Borne Forces Set Down 60 Miles Northwest Of Mandalay in Southward Penetration  As em Ve LiraARmARIL A BOS

British Stage New Attacks af Enemy Troops   Mountbetten’s Headquarters Are Moved to Ceylon

Mountbatten Sets Up Headquarters In Ceylon; Jap Casualties Heavy

Allied Assaults. Brighten Picture  ‘In Indian Theater   redvy Casualties Are inflicted and Vital Positions Captured North of Impha]

Allies Capture Important Jap Posts In India   Counterassault _Inflicts Heavy Casualties On Ninnonese Invaders.      Gigantic Transport /Sets Trans-U. S. Record

—PACIFIC— _  NIP CASUALTIES REPORTED HEAN'   Communique Issued From Mounthatten’s New Headquarters   OUTLOOK BRIGHTER   Glider-Borne Troops ‘Are Reported In Vicinity Of Mandalay

India Taken   Very Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Nipponese: British Improve Their Position Near Imphal

Burma Fighting Is Now Intense   HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED IN BATTLE FOR INDIA. ;

Important Jap Positions Taken In India Warfare   British Improve Positions Nea Imphal, Silence Cloaks Movemeonis of Air-Borne Troops

Counter Blow Sets Japs Back on Heels   New Allied Attack Stalls Nip Invasion  Of India With Enemy Suffering Heavy Losses

Counter-Offensive In Burma Gains Against Japanese   British Reported Improving Defenses Around Imphal

ALLIES IMPROVE POSITIONS IN IMPHAL DEFENSE   Enemy Strong Points Taken in Counter-Drive Against Indian Invasion.

India War Picture Brighter   Allies Take Key Jap Points in Burma, Improve Positions at Imphal: Rip Jap Isles

Launch Own Counterblows   Improve Positions in Imphal Area, Send GliderBorne Attacks on Jap Lines

Glider For Stabs Be al Foein Burma      Heavy * “Losses ‘Inflicted in Counter “Thrust at Japs in India.

JAPANESE SUFFER % “RY HEAVY CASUALTIES IN BATTLES IN THAT RE %, IN—ALLIES ALSO TAKE MANY IMPORTANT POSIT. ‘S—BRITISH IN HILLS NORTHEAST OF IMPHAL BE <~ 2R THEIR POSITIONS

Glider Troops Flood Down Behind Invaders of India in Daring Counter Offensive - - -Nips in Bad Elsewhere As Blasting of Far-F lung Bases Continues

IMPORTANT ENEMY POSITIONS BEEN CAPTURED BY ALLIES   GENERAL SITUATION IN BURMA AND INDIA REPORTED IMPROVED

Important Positions  Near finphal Are Captured   Mountbatten Reports Allied Gains And Very Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Japs

EASE JAP THREAT IN NORTH BURMA   MOUNTBATTEN SAYS ALLJMPHAL PLAIN “4S-IN OUR HANDS

ALLIES BETTER POSITIONS ON INDIAN FRONT   Heavy Casualties Inflicted or Japs, Important Areas Captured.

Allies Hit — gickad India Line   Important Points Are “Cap.. tured, Heavy Losses In-.’ flicted.on..Enemy-” .°   GLIDER-BORNE : “TROOPS. ATTACK   More. Confident: “Picture Comes:-From ‘Mountbatten ~~ at. New’ Headauarters

JAP POSITIONS ARE CAPTURED   Allies Inflict Very Heavy Casualties in CounterDrive in India.   SILENT ABOUT TROOPS

Allied Glider Troops Set Down Behind Enemy Lines. ... . Jap Casualties In India Reported Very Heavy

Allies Clamp Death Grip on Japs' NorthBurma Lines — _   “Imphal Plain Entirely ih Our Hands," Adm. Mounthatten Cammuniaue. Ranaprte.

A,llied Position Gains New Strength In India Through Counter-Jabs

Allies in India Gain Ground   Now Hold Imphal Plain; Inflict _ Heavy Jap Losses

“The Imphal Plain Is Entirely in Our Hands”, Says Lord Mountbatten in Report from Allied Headquarters. Allies Materially Strengthened Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Japs

Imphal Plain Entirely in  Allied Hands   Air Borne Allied Troops Land Near Mandalay

Important Japanese Positions in India  Retaken by Allies   British Improve’ Their Positions in Hills  North of Imphal

Heavy Casualties Inflictec   On Enemy By Allies In   Capturing Important Positions      Officials Silent On Airborne Unit:   New-Found Strategy of Infilration Appear To Promise Turn In Barma-India Campaign

Allied Drive Pushes Back  Japs In India   Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Enemy: Imphal Position Improved

Allied Blows Suceesstul in India, Burma   Tide Turns As Troops Clamp Death Grip on Jap Lines, Make Other Gains

Allies Now ~ Hold Imphal Plain Safe   Airborne Unit Lands 60 Miles From Mandalay To Harass Jap

Sales of War Bonds Cross  $650,000 Mark   South Penn Oil Co. Starts Fund With $500,000 Purchase

Sales of War Bonds Cross  $650,000 Mark   Northeastern Container  Corp. Places Order For $65,000 in Bonds

Fourth Term Wins In Massachusetts   Dewey Gains More Strength in GOP

Two Eastern States Favor Fourth Term For Roosevelt   Pennsylvania Republicans Give Dewey Large Write-In Vote; FDR Also Given Handsome Support In Keystone State; Kentucky Will Support “Favorite Son”

F.D.R. Leads in Massachusetts Primary Voting  Dewey Is Given  Large Vote  In Pennsylvania

Fourth Term Delegates Win In Mass.; Republicans Pile On Dewey Bandwagon In Penn.   “FDR Himself Receives Fair-Size Write-In Vote In GOP Primary

Dewey Wins Pennsylvania With Write-In Landstide.....  Fourth-Termers Win In First Real Voting Test

FDR ALSO GETS HEAVY VOTE IN PENNSYLVANIA   Dewey Fares Well in Republican Side of  Tuesday Primaries

Fourth Term Gets Support in Massachusetts   Dewey Polls Remarkable Vote In Pennsylvania

DEWEY 1S AHEAD IN PENNSYLVANI   STATE'S 10 -UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATES EXPECTED TO SUPPORT HIM.

Dewey Far Ahead In Penn. Primary      Gov. Edward Martin ls Second Choice

Fourth-Termers Name Delegates To Convention   First Opposition To Roosevelt Is Quickly Put Down

Dewey Lead In Primary af Mounting   ue} ‘ ) OE a resi  Wak €n. lee ~ Cerand Chaice

Fourth Term Dele gates Win  DRancavalt Mareac On   Roosevelt Forees On Top In Massachusetts

Roosevelt Favored At  Primaries   Additional Blocks 0: Delegates Added Tx List—Dewey Piles U; Pennsylvania Lead

DEWEY AND FR   FR Opposed in Massachusetts Primary; Pennsylvania GOP for Dewey.

Fourth Term For F.D.R. Given A Boost In Massachusetts Vote ~   Opposition Bowled Over In First Tangible Test; Pennsylvania Republicans Indicate Dewey Is Their Choice.

FOR WINS IN MASS. PRIMARY   Gov. Dewey Leads Re publicans In Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Write-Ins Give Dewey  Taroe Lead   Gov. Martin Second As Favorite Son  And MaeArthur Third In Primary Balloting   ROOSEVELT GETS REPUBLICAN VOTES   James Polls Top Vote Jn Bi-Partisan Race For Superior Court

Dewey Is¢ Over swhalming Republican Choice —  -. In Pennsylvania... .         New York. Governor Far Ahead Of Field Through Write-In Votes; ‘Massachusetts Democrats Bowl Over Opposition: To Fourth Term -

TERSE COMMIUNIOUF   Roosevelt Fourth-Termers Repulse Opposition In Mass.; Dewey Wins

DEWEY IS LEADING  IN PENNSY VOTING   New York “Governor Ex. pected to Capture the State’s Deleqation

Dewey, Roosevelt Top Presidential Preference Primaries in East ~

Dewey Has Long Lead  In Primary   WHICH IS APPARENT INDICATION HE WILL GET SUPPORT OF STATE’S 70 UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATES.

PRESIDENT GIVEN 4TH TERM BACKING   Massachusetts  Primary Is Roosevelt Victory, Picks Up Strenath in Pennsvivania

President Also Given 3,397! WriteIn Votés on ‘ GOP Ticket in : Pennsylvania 

Dewey Sets Pace In Oregon Vote   Takes Overwhelming Lead Over Stassen -

‘Roosevelt Delegates Lead in Massachusetts Primary; Dewey Gets Large Write-in Vote in Penna.

Dewey Gains New Strength in GOP Race   Tuesday's Delegates Show Preference for New York Governor

Dewey Leads GOP Write-In Choices in State Election   Governor Martin Displaces Roosevelt As Second Choice of Republicans; James Leads in Contest for Superior Court

Fourth Term Vote for F.R.   Massachusetts Democrats Back President; GOP In Pennsylvania for Dewe,

Pres, Roosevelt Has No Trouble In Mass. Primary   Dewey Sweeping Pref. In Pennsylvania

DEWEY LEADING PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY VOTI   Fourth Term Delegate: Take Big Lead In Mass .   BRICKER SPURNS TALK OF VICE PRESIDENCY

F.D.R. NABS 72 MORE DELEGATES   PENNSYLVANIA'S G. O. P. BALLOTS GO TO DEWEY

Rooseel and Dewey Score in Primary Votes   Balloting Held in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts

DEWEY SNARES LEAD IN OREGON   NEW YORK GOVERNOR PACES STASSEN, BRICKER

Dewey Holds Big Lead © In Oregon   Cake, Willkicite, Wins Vote in Write-In Primary

4th Terr mer § Far i in Lead  Ta R rs wit By VLEEET   Dewey Write-in Vote in Pennsylvania Indicates 70 for New Yorker

Martin Is Second As  Native Son   Massachusetts Shows Preference For Fourth Term For  President Roosevelt.

QUAKER STATE FOR DEWEY AND F.D.R.   Fourth-Termers Bowl Over First Tangible Opposition and N. Y. Governor Wins Write-In Place in Primary.

Pennsylvania Vote Favors Dewey In Primary Election   President Roosevelt Leads Massachusetts Preferential Ballot

Politics   Dewey Tops Pennsy GOP; Roosevelt Gets Massachusetts Demos

4th Term Wins Bay State Test   Dewey Wraps Up Pennsy And Kentucky GOP Delegate Slates

Fourth Termers Make Advances   Win Out Over Ely In Massachusetts, Gain in Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA FAVORS DEWEY   Roosevelt Fourth- Termers Bowl Over Opposition

Fourth-Termers Win First Tilt  In Massachusetts   Dewey Wins Again In Pennsylvania

HURRICANE WINDS BATTER KEY WEST   STORM MOVES TOWARBD WEST  POAST OF. FLORIDA —SIX  DEAD IN HAVANA. —

COMPTROLLER IS NAMED   FALL FATAL TO WOMAN   Cold Wave Sweeps from Canada And Covers Most of United States

Winter Arrives:     Cold Wave from Canada Covers Most of Nation; Heavy Snowfall

COLD WAVE GRIPS MOST OF NATION   RISE IN MERCURY IN MIDWEST LOOKED FOR TODAY AS WARM AIR MOVES IN.

REPORTS VARY ON REVOLT 10 UNSEAT FRANCE   Unrest In Spain Obscured By Conflicting Accounts

Civil Warfare Flares Against Franco Forces   Republicans Crossing Border As Conflict Spreads In France

REVOLT AGAINST FRANCO SPREADS   SOME LOCALITIES REPORTED LIBERATED

Conflicting Reports bscure Spanish War      ‘Republicans Claim Revolt Spreading: Franco Says Outbreaks Are Put Down.

Spanish Patriots Make Progress   Several Cities  Reported Liberated

Say Uprising Inside Spain Is Spreading   Franco's Radio Claims Border Rebellion Put Down

New Uprisings Reported in Spain; Franco Declares Revolt ‘Put Down

KANSAS’ DEMOS FOR FDR AGAIN   Convention Delegates.Are Instructed ta Ballot for a Fourth Term

Britain Has Huge Social Security Plan For Isles   Will Affect Every Person In Britain; To Be  Effective In 1945.

ALLIES PUSH ON CENTRAL ITALY FRONT   Occupy Mile-High Peak Northeast Of Cassino

Allied Troops Make Sudden Gain On Central Front  Heavy Artillery Used To Support Men In Italian Battle

ALLIES ATTACK ABOVE CASSING   Seize Mountain Peak 13 Mile: Northeast of Bastion

Allies Hit on Cassino Front   Launch Sudden Blow Which Nets Gain of Mile for 5th Army

Sth Army Breaks Stalemate Takine Hill At Cassino   Surprise Move Along Apennines Shatters Lull

Thrust By Allies Wins Italy Peak   Troops Occupy Heights 13 Miles From Cassino

Allied Troops Seize Mount Near Cassine   Mt. Marrone, 15 Miles Northeast Of Cassino, Taken In Surprise Move.   NAZI ATTACKS HALTED

Fifth Army Lunges Ahead   Sudden Attack Captures Mountain Northeast of Cassino, Breaks Lull

Allies Occupy Mt. Marrone In Central Italy   Lines Straightened By Seizure; Big Guns Active In Cassino Area.

ALLIES MAKE SUDDEN THRUST IN CENTRAL SECTOR ITALY LINE   UNIDENTIFIED UNIT ADVANCES MILE AND OCCUPIES MT. MARRONE

ALLIED TROOPS IN ITALY MAKE GAINS IN SUDDEN ATTACK   Occupy Mt. Marrone, Mile High Peak 13 Miles Northeast of Cassino

llies Capture eak In Quick alian Move   Monastery Overlooking Cassino Is Shelled By Heavy Guns

ALLIED TROOPS IN SMALL GAIN   Make Sudden Thrust in Mountainous, Long Static Central Area of Front.

Takes Peak Northeast Of Cassino   Mile-High Mt. Marr: Captured by Allied Units

NEWEST ALLIED ATTACK ALSO HITS 2 TOWNS   Nazi Attacks On Beachhead, At Cassino Are Repulsed

Allies Occupy Mt. Marrone Near Cassino   Mile-High Peak Seized in Thrust Backed Up By Artillery

Allied Troops Make Sudden Gain On Central Front  Heavy Artillery Used To Support Men  Ben lbeclicann Bwtéla

Fifth Army Seize  Marrone Mountain  Marks Important Aid To Allied Line Above  Oe ee 9 es  ee OS Se kr ee

Push Ahead In Mountainous Central Sector; Again Shell Cassino Monastery.

PEAK OCCUPIED BY ALLIED UNITS IN SUDDEN PUSH   Gain Of One Mile Announced; Heavy Guns Continue To Shell Monastery Heights Overlooking Devastated Cassino.

Peak Northeas! Of Cassino Occupied   Artillery Paves Way For Advance; Nazi Units Beaten Back

Allies Capture Mountain Top Before Cassino   Surprise Attack Enables Our Forces To Straighten Battle Line

t. Marrone s Captured  y Allies   Line Around Cassino Partially Straightened Out by Advance

ALLIES OCCUPY _MT. MARRONE, NEAR CASSINO   Mile Thrust Tends to Straighten Qui Line Between Salients of Alfadena and Cassino   RAIDERS REPULSED   Destroyers Hammer German Positions on Beachhead, Heavy Guns Shell Monastery

Mt: Marrone Seized As . Fifth Army Stages Gain   Victory Straightens Allied Forward Line

Artillery Covers Surprise Allied  Cassino Advance   Mt. Marrone Taker As 5th Army Drive: In Northwest Secto1 Of Cassino

i s Seize SAS da Mt: Won one, Near Gassirio   Capture Siraightens Val. ley Line; ‘Yank Vessels Shel! Beachhead

SUDDEN THRUST ON _ CENTRAL SECTOR OF THE ITALIAN FRONT   Allied: Troops Advanced  Mile and Now Occupy Mt. Marrone.   PEAK IS A MILE HIGH   It Was Seized by Troops of an Unidentifed Nationality.

Capture! Mt Marrone in New Thrust   ‘Extent of Action ~~ Not Disclosed—Nazi Raiders in Cacsina ©:

ALLIES GAIN IN ITALIAN SECTOR   OCCUPY MT, MARRONE NEAR CASSINO WITH ARTILLERY SUPPORT

Mountain Peak Captured in Advance of Mile   Raiding Parties Are Beaten Back In Cassino Area

Sudden Allied Thrust Takes Cassino Hill   Capture of Position Helps to Straighten 5th Army Battle Lines

ALLIES ADVANCE IN GASSINO AREA   Gain One Mile To Seize Hill: Monastery Shelled Again

West Must Unite On Water, Trade, Chamber Is Told   James H. Rowe of Butte Tells Montanans Postwar Plans for State Must Be Based on Future Federal Policies

Regional Efforts To Preserve Western Markets, Production And Water Ureed

Japs Wipe Out 2 Villages in Fast Indies   CIVILIANS BURNED ALIVE, TORTURED, DOCUMENT REVEALS

Japanese Entirely Wipe Out Two East Indies Towns  Whole Populations Are Destroyed And Villages Burned

Atrocities By Japs Told By  Netherlanders   Bloated Prisoners With Soapy Water, Then Jumped On Them

Japs Wipe Out Dutch Villages   Emulate Germans At Lidice By Burning Towns, Murdering Inhabitants.

Bi ATROCITIES OF NIPS IN SUMATRI   Headquarters of Netherlands Forces Announces Typical Jan Brutality

Japanese Atrocities In Two Towns  Reported As Almost Unbelievable

Bombers Are Likel) To Take Over As Winter Nears  Stalemate on Ground To Result in Air Assaults on Germany

Air Power Appears Likelv to Return to Forefront in War Over Germany

Hurl Robots ‘At England To End Lull   Public Speculates onPossible New Terror From Improved _ ‘Rockets

MORE FLYING BOMBS HURLED   London, South England Hit; Britons Demand Terror Weapon Information

Bailey Stabs At Labor Groups   Senator Serves Notice He Will Bolt Party If AntiPoll Tax Plan Adopted.

FIGHT OPENS -ON POLL TAX INTHESENATE      Senator Bailey Threatens to Bolt Democratic Party   REPEALER 1S_ 1S HIT BY TEXAS SENATOR   Petition to Limit Debate ‘to be Filed Todav

Bailey will bolt democratic party if anti-poll tax plank adopted in platform

Bailey Threatens To Quit Democrat:   Attacks Poll Tax Bill in Senate

Anti-Poll Tax Bill Criticized By Sen. Bailey   North Carolinian Threat. ens To Bolt Democratic Party

TEMPLETON NOTIFIED HIS SON MISSING IN ACTION. OVERSEAS   MAN WHO PREPARES NAVY CASUALTY LISTS LEARNS 18-YEAR-OLD SON 18 WAR VICTIM —

Irony of War Catches Up With Man Who Sends -  Qut Casualty Notifications; His Son Missinc

Bricker Takes Day Off, Attends Church  Say Republican Only Liberal Party Today

Tax Freeze Bill Passed, Sent To President  Senate Vote Is 47-19 Enough to Override

Roosevelt Gets Pension Freeze   Congress Expeets Veto. Adjournment Delaved

Third Raid Starts Big Tokyo Fires   first Night Blow of War by Super Fortresses on Japanese Capital Reported

SAIPAN B-29S FIRE TOKYO IN NIGHT ATTACK   4,000 Men Sunk Jap Convoy,

CIVILIAN DEFENSE FUNCTION CHANGEL   To Be Disaster. and Wai Service Group Now

FDR Accepts Nomination; ‘Cites Aims   Speaks from Unidentified Pacific Coast Naval Base to Democratic Convention

FDR ACCEPTANCE FROM WEST COAS)   President Speaks From Special Train at Undisclosed Navy Base.

SECRECY GUARDS PRESIDENT’S TRIP   ACCEPTANCE SPEECH IS DELIVERED FROM WESTERN NAVAL BASE

FDR Accepts Nomination From Bastion   Special Train  On West Coast

Crowds Take FDR For Gov. Dewey   President’s Trip Shrouded With Heavy Cloak of Secrecy.

President On Tour   Makes Acceptance Speech From West Coast Naval Base

ROOSEVELT BROADCASTS ACCEPTANCE   Climaxes Cross-Country Trip Shrouded in WarTime Secrecy to Say That He Accepts.   From Pacific Naval Base

ITALY FIGHTING HEAVY, REPORT   German Attack Against 5th Army Enters Second Day

EMPLOYMENT CLINIC FOR PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED AT BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 26th   Men Of 4-F Classification Ant Discharged Veterans Eligible

Employment Clinic For Physically Impaired To Be Held April 20th   Men Of 4-F And Discharged Veterans Are Eligible To Attend Clinic In Birmingham, Ala.

JAPANESE LOSS FIGURES MOUNT   Nimitz Says 20 Vessels Sunk, 87 Planes Downed Instead Of 18 And 64

th Army Breaks Into Po Valley   Thrust Succeeds After 4-Weeks Offensive

‘Rimini Is Captured by Eighth Army   F ifth Army Troops Take Fir enzuola; Gothic Line Is  Crumbling Befere Terrible  Allied Might

Rimini Falls In Climax to British Drive   Yankg Capture Major Road Junction in  Gothic Line

Seaport City Was Stubbornly Defended By Enemy For Four Weeks.   FIRENZUOLA ALSO TAKEN

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS SWEEPING INTO RICH PO VALLEY TODAY   AMERICANS OF FIFTH ARMY CAPTURE GOTHIC LINE ROAD JUNCTION ©

Eighth Army Sweeps Inte  Rich Po Valley   Take Stubbornly Held Seaport Of Rimini; Fifth Advances

RIMINI IS CAPTURED BY ALLIES   Firenzuola Is Seized By Yanks; Gothic Line Crumbling

RIMINI FALLS TO-8TH ARMY ON ADRIATIC FRONT   Rich Po Valley; Fir Troops Sweep Well into -  enzuola ey

Allies Capture Rimini to Turn End Gothic Line  Kesselring's Treops Face

Smashing Victory” InItaly    Capture of Rimini  -And Firenzuola Hold Threat of Disaster . To Kesselring’s Army

GOTHIC LINE IS CRUMBLING UNDER BLOWS   Simultaneously With the Eighth Army Advance, ‘Fifth Army Seizes Vital Road Junction on Opnagita Rnd af Brant.

Yanks ‘Take Important Road Junction Leading To Valley; Twin Victory Threatens Kesselring'’s Troops.

8TH ARMY MOVES INTO PO VALLEY; CAPTURE RIMINI   Drive Into Rich Industrial Val: ley Climaxes Fierce. MonthLong Offensive on Adriatic Sector of Italian Battle Line

Eighth Army In Po Valley   Rimini Falls, Americans Take Important Road Junction in Gothic Line

Eighth Army. Units Sweep. Into Po Area   Yanks of 5th Army Capture Firenzuola, Key Highway Junction

Rimini Falls To Allies As German Gothic Defenses Begin To Crumble

8th Army Sweeps Into Po Valley   Four-Week Drive Is Now Paying Off

RICH VALLEY ENTERED BY FIGHTH ARMY   Climaxes Four  Weeks Of Hard Fought Battle

CAPTURE OF RIMINI TURNS GOTHIC LINE   Eighth Army Sweeps Well Into Rich Industrial Po Valley After Taking Stubbornly Defended Port  GREEKS CLEAR TOWN

8th ‘Army Forces Enter Po Valley   Seaport of Rimini Falls ~ After Four Weeks of ' Heavy Attack =    YANKS GRAB JUNCTION   Fifth Army ‘Takes Road Center in Heart of  Gothic Line

ENGLISH SWEEP INTO PO VALLE)   Eighth Army Seizes Rimini Yanks Take Firenzuola

British Eighth > Army Captures ‘City of Rimini   Po Valley Invasion Presages Disaster For Kesselring’ s Army; ‘Bia Gain for Yanks

RIMINI FALLS TO CHARGING EIGHTH ARMY   Port Taken After 4 Weeks’ Offensive; Americans Advance

8TH ARMY DRIVES INTO PO VALLEY; CAPTURE RIMINI   YANKS CAPTURE FIRENZUOLA IN GOTHIC DEFENSE

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES RIMINI   Forward Sweep Places Allied Forces Well Forward In Rich Valley Of The Po.

2 Armies sweep Into Po Valley   Gothic Line Crumbles  As Rimini, Firenzuola Fall To 8th,  5th Armies

Fighth Sweeps Into Po Valley   Capture Stubbornly Defended Seaport Of Rimini In Thundering Peak.

BRITISH SEIZE RIMINI, DRIVE INTO PO VALLEY   Eighth Army Unit Captures Italian Seaport After 4-Week Battle.

TWIN TRIUMPHS ARE SCORED BY ALLIES IN ITALY   Eighth Army’ Troops Sweep. Into Pe Valley   SEIZE RIMINI   U.S. FifthArmy Captures Important. Road Junction

Allied Army Smashes Into  Rich Po Valley   German Army Defending Gothlic Line Threatened With Disaster.

ALLIED TROOPS SNATCH RIMINI FROM GERMANS   Yonks Take Firenzuola is Heert of Gothic Line In Another Push

British Sweep Up Industrial Po River Valley as Americans Capture Road Hub in Center of Gothic Wall

‘BIG BILL’ THOMPSON LEAVES BIG ESTATE   Most of $2,000,000 Fortune In Cash in Safe Boxes

Slav Partisan Army Drives On Belgrade   11 German Divisions Reported in Trap _ Set by Romanians

Small Island In Palaus Invaded By U.S. Pacific _ Units: Zamboanga Raided

U.S. Forces Invade Tenth Island Of Palau Group  Southern Philippine Coast City of

Yankees Invade Another Island In Palau Group   Garakayo Is Tenth To Be Invaded; Zamboanga Is  Raided From Air.

Yanks Invade Garakayo Islet   Big Neutralizing Raid Made on Zamboanga In Philippines

Yanks Invade Tenth Islet in Palau Group   MacArthur Planes Hit 6 Ships, 6 Planes in Philippine Assualt

Yanks. Tnvade New: [sT6t On Palau Island   First. ‘Heavy: Raid on Zam: -hoanga; Important Southerm Y Eblipuines Coast . City,, Made

NEW PALAU ISLE INVADED; 2ND P. I. CITY HIT   Borneo Oil Center At Balikpapan Bombed Anew

U.S. Forces Invade Tenth Island Of Palau Group  _ Southern Philippine Coast City of ZJamboanaa Raided

Tenth Island, Palau Group, Is Invaded   is Announced By Adm Nimitz; Mae Arthui Tells of Philippine City Bombing

Americans Invade Another Island In Palau Group   Big Air Ratd Made (1 Zamboanga In Philip pines.

YANKS INVADE ISLE OF THE PALAU GROUP   Pacific Commanders Report First Big Neutralizing Raid on Southern Philippine Coast City   OPPOSITION IS LIGHT

U. S. Tank Unif Fights in Burma   Attacks Strong Ja Positions Near Inkanaqahtawna

All-American Tank Outfit Joins Battle   Intensified. fied Allied Campaign To Clear: ‘Nation Of Japs

Japanese Bases Are Being Seriously Threatened  First U. S. Tank Unit Is Now In Action In Burma

Stilwell Races Monsoon Rains Mogaung Valley   Allied Forces Have Recaptured About Half of Region

STILWELL HITS HARD AT JAPS   Two Years After Defeat, American General Is Routing Foe in Burma

Stilwell Roars Back  Into Burma   Recaptures Nearly Half Of Mogaung Valley From Japanese Forces

U.S. Tanks Into Fight  ForBurma   Spearhead Successful  Drive Down Mogaung Valley; Japs Mass for Assault on Imphal

Tanks Spearhead Gen. Stilwell’s Drive Down Valley  All-American Unit Provides Speed  Pao. Aes Recomm lé

U. S. TANKS BEGIN ACTION IN N. BURMA   Form First All-American Armored Unit to Fight on. Asiatic Continent— Allies Hold Half of Mogaung Valley.

Stilwell Leads Mogaung Drive, Retakes More Than Half Of Lost Area

Stilwell Retakes alt Of Valley  In North Burma   Comeback Open After ‘Hell Of Beating; First U. S. Tankmen In Action

Tanks Spearhead Gen. Stilwell’s Drive Down Valley  All-American Unit Provides Speed For Allied Assault

NORTHERN BURMA FORCES AIDED BY FIRST TANK UNIT  GEN. STILWELL’S TROOPS THREATEN TWO  mmueemmmmned mail naee

All-American Tank Unit In  ‘Burma Action   Had Opened Attack On Strong Positions Held  Ry Tananece

U.S. Tanks Enter Burma Battle For First Time   Stilwell Recaptures Almost Half Mogaung Valley of North Burma; Japs Mass For Huge Assault On Imphal. e

VISIONS A parite BOMBIN G      Lt. Gen. Harmond Sees Blows Like Those Against Nazis _

Italian Issue Is Considered  By War Chiefs   Gradual Transfer Of More Responsibility Planned In Italy

Italy Slated For Increase In Self-Rule   FDR and Churchill Also Chart Fatarc Of German Nation

STUDIED ITALIAN SITUATION--FDR   Talked of German Future, President Reports

Allied Leaders Study Plans For Italy-Germany At Conference In Quebec

President Says Much Time at Quebec Parley Devoted fo Plans for Giving More Responsibility to Italian Gov't.

Italian Problem  Important Issue   FR, Churchill Devoted Much Time To Matter

FREEDOM NEAR, GEN. ‘IKE’ SAYS TO EUROP!   Hour of Liberation for Occupied Countries Near, Chief Says

Mixter Whacks Hoffman Agair   South Haven Editor Denies New Charae

BURMA DRIVE IS DEVELOPING   Surprise Offensive Taking Shape Southwest of Nyitkyina

Allied Airborne Commando Units Spring Surprise Offensive on Burma Japs.

SURPRISE OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED IN BURMA  British and Indian Commandos Land Far Behind Japanese Lines

Supply Lines Severed by Swift Thrust   2 Landing Fields Hacked From Jungle By Army Engineers

Says Morgan To Be m Run Off Primary   Old Regulars Make Tentative Decision to Enter Second Primarv Against Davis;  Cawea flirmencsigian WS aewe

OLD LONG FACTION IN LOUISIANA PLAN SECOND PRIMARY  JAMES H. DAVIS OF   JAMES H. DAVIS OF SHREVEPORT LED LEWIS MORGAN BY 5,624 VOTES

OLD LONG FACTION IN LOUISIANA PLAN SECOND PRIMARY  JAMES H. DAVIS OF SHREVEPORT LED LEWIS

SAY DECISION IS. TENTATIVE   Assert Belief Morgan Can Beat Davis In TwoMan Race   DAVIS BOOSTS LEAD

MORE FOODS POINT-FREE   Eight Canned Vegetables Added to List, Start i ing Sunday

Canned Tomatoes, Corn And Asparagus Off Ration List   Eight Vegetables In All Will Be Added To PointFree List Starting Sunday, OPA Announces.

OPA Places Canned Goods On Free List   Eight Types of Vegetables Drop Ration Stamps on Sunday

EIGHT VEGETABLES MADE RATION FREE   Tomatoes, Corn, Beets, Asparagus And Four Others Given Zero Point Rating By OPA, Effective Sunday

Tomatoes, Corn Other Veaetables Ration Free   Your attention is called te ragion charts on Para &,

OPA Increases List o1 IRation-Free Vegetables   Tomatoes, Corn,’ ‘Beets, Asparagus And Four Othe: ‘ee : Wepetables  ‘To Be Added Sunday To List .0: .. Processed’ Foods Not On Ration.

Eight Canned Vegetables To Be Point Free   Tomatoes, Corn, Beets And Asparagus Among Processed Foods Going Off Ration List

EIGHT FOOD ITEMS MADE POINT-FREE   Canned Vegetables Affected by OPA Action, Commencing Sunday

TOMATOES WILL BE RATION FREE   Corn, Beets, Asparagus, Other Vegetables Listed in Processed Foods Changes

Additional Canned Vegetables Become Point-Free Sunday   OPA Acts to Remove Old Stocks; Makes Room for 44 Pack

Eight Processed Foods Off Ration List Sunday; Canned Tomato Juice Demand Forces Sharp Rise

Vegetables To Be Point Free  Move Canned Goods; New Season Coming

OPA Drops Vegetables Off  Rationed List   OPA Moves To Clear Grocers’ Shelves To Make Room for New Seasonal Pack

Vegetables  Point Free   OPA. Taking Canned. Goods Off Ration List

OPA Releases 8 Vegetables From Rationine   No Stamps Needed for Tomatoes, Corn, Beets, Asparagus

MORE VEGETABLES ARE ADDED TO THE POINT FREE LIS!   Tomatos, Corn, Beets, Asparagus and Four Other Vegetables to Be Free.   IS EFFECTIVE SUNDAY   Move to Clear Store Shelves  for the Season’s Pack, i Now in Preduction.

More Vegetables To Be Non-Ration Processed Foods   List Includes Corn, Tomatoes, Asparagus Beets and 4 Others

Eight Veqelables Will Be Taken Off Dation List .   Tomatoes, Cora, Boots And Asparogus Are: included == «

POINT VALUES DROPPED CN FEV CANNED FOODS      Several Articles Lowered; Goes  _ In Effect Sun.

Eight Vegetables Become Free Of Points Sunday  Soups Are Reduced But Several Values Are Hiked

NEW POINT VALUES ARE NOW IN FORCI   Tomatoes, Corn, AsPparagus, Beets, and Others Now Free

Eight Canned Vegetables To Be Point-Free   Tomatoes, Corn, Beets Asparagus Included In Mav List.

NUMBER VEGETABLES  ADDED 10 LIST OF  RATION-FREE FOODS TOMATOES, CORN, BEET!  AND OTHER CANNED FOODS: FREE SUNDAY

Canned Tomatoes, Corn and Six Other Vegetables To Be Point-Free Sunday

8 Canned Vegetables WillGo On OPA’s , Ration- Free List Sunday   Tomatoes, Corn, Asparagus, Beets, Nte., Affected; Soup Reductions Ordered: Fruit Butters Cut

More Foods Point Free   Right Additional Vegetables Off Ration List To Clear Store Shelves

ToS CORN ‘MADE POINT FREE   Zero Rating . Given Some Other Vegetables on Food’ Chart for May .

Tomatoes, Corn, Beets, Asparagus Off Ration List   Spinach Included In Move to Clear Out for New Crop

Eight More Vegetables Go Off Ration List   Effective Sundny, Move ts Taken to Clear Shelves For New Sen«can'’«c Park _

Processed Food Point Values Ordered Changed On Sunday   Some items Are Made Available Without Points; While Cost of Others Is increased.

Can Tomatoes; Corn, 8 Others Unrationed   New Values Announced For Many Articles 8 Items Removed From Ration List

OPA Decrees Vegetables To Be. Ratio Free   Corn, -Tomatoes and Six ‘Other’ Canned Items Are - Going on. Zero List

TRADE TALKIN U.S..ASSAILED  BRITISH NEWSPAPER SAYS AMERICA HAS TRADE ADVANTAGE

Pacific, Fighters _ Jeer V-Day Plans'&   Ask Don’t Lugs Know There’s War Pacific? Are We Foraotten Men? ©

 Hey! There’s a War in the Pacific  GI's Score VE-Day Plans   Hullabaloo Abou’ Europe Victory Hits Morale

Boys In Pacific Express Disgust   Swear Bitterly When Hear of V-Day Plans’

U. S. Troops on Pacific Battlefront Trate at Talk of V-Day Celebrations At Home When European War Ends

Fighters Rap V-Day Fetes on Nazi’s Fall   PACIFIC VETERANS FEEL THEY ARE “FORGOTTEN” IN VICTORY PLANS

RBeaeSe ee RH He HR HF MEN ON PACIFIC FRONT CUSS TALK OF V-DAY CELEBRATIONS

With Ernie Pyle at the Front: .  Mechanical Wizards Do ‘Army’s Toughest Job»  Keep Machines Going Is Job of Ordnance 12-16-Hour Day Under Fire

With Ernie Pyle ashe Tron: ~ Mechanical Wizards Do Army’s Toughest Job  Keep Machines Going Is Job of _ Ordnance 12-16-Hour Cay Under Fire  Vs _— By Ernie Pyle

President Gen. . Jorge Ubico Resigns After Cabinet Quits Following Eight! Davs Of Riots n Nation 

UBICO GOVERNMENT FALLS IN GUATEMALA   Military Junta Tdkes Reins—Prom. ises Restoration of Constitu._Honal Richts.

Lindbergh, Ford Face Court Call   Says Defense Attorney In Sedition Trial

NAZI PATROLS STAB ALLIES Ih ANZIO SECTOR:   All Three Fronts i ini  Italy “Relatively Quiet.” However 

NAZI PATROLS STAB ALLIES 1 ANZIO SECTOR   All Three Fronts im Italy “Relatively Quiet,” However

REVEAL 75,000 IN NAZI ATTACK   Fifth Army at Anzio Beats Back Desperate Blow by Five Divisions

ANZIO FRONT . ~ARAIN QUIET AFTER DRIVE   ONLY MINOR PATROL ACTIV. XTY REPORTED IN ITALY : FOLLOWING DEFEAT i OF NAZIS -

TARE 2 TOWN UN Weal BANK UF AUER RIVER   Doughboys of First, Ninth Armies Hold Nearly 18-Mile Area.

Seize Last Two Fortified Towns On West Bank Of Roer River  NINTH ARMY ENJOIN BATTLE OF THE ROER  This New Two-Pronged Advance Promises To Be Difficult

BREAK GERMA RESISTANCE ON BANK OF ROER   Drive Through Snowy Forest

YANKS STORM OUTSKIRTS OF DUREN   Comp!:.e Conquest Of 1° Mile Section Along Roer River

Towns Near Key Citadel Are Taken   Part of First Army Set for Frontal Assault on City Today

Three Yank. Armies Make New Gains —      COMPLETE CONQUEST OF. 15-MILE STRETCH OF WEST BANK OF ROER RIVER

‘15 Mi. Stretch of Roer River Bank Held By Ist Army   7th, Smashing To Rhine Beyond Seltz, Only 4 Mi. From Germany

U. S. Doughboys Open Siege of Duren Outskirts   First Army Plunges Through Monschau Forest Southwest of Cologne; Vichhoven, Schophoven Capture Clears Nazi Forts North of Bastion

River Bank Is Cleared   Key Citadel on Road to Cologne Being Stormed

Hodges Army Knocks Hole In Siegfried.   Day-Old Offensive In Monschau Woods Developing Rapidly

1st Army Clears 15-Mile Stretch Along Roer Bank   Drive in Monschau Develops; 7th Army Smashes to Rhine

Duren, Key City On River’s Edge, Under Assault   First Army Doughboys To South Drill Into Siegfried Defenses

They Admit He’s One Of Best, But... Two Yank Aces Gunning For Boastful Nazi Maior Meuer

Top U. S. Flyers in European Theater Hope to Shoot Down German Braggar

Scrapping Wage Formula Is Urged   Pay Boost After V-E Day Suggested

Public Members WLB Ready to Urge Relaxed Wage Controls after V-E Day  CIO Leaders View Plan as Meaning Delay of Stee] Wage Case Now Before Board

Relaxing of Wage Control May Be Urged   Public Members of WLB Favor Action After Victory in Europe

Labor Advisory Group Recommends  Formula Scrapped But Members Say  Get No Imnroccinn   But Members Say Get No Impression From FDR on His Views

Union Leaders View Proposal With Suspicion  ClO Sees Mov — roi "Substitute

Wage Code Discussed With FDR   Labor Committee Urges Little Steel Formula Be Revised. Upward   BUT PRESIDENT DOESN'T GIVE VIEWS   WLE Head for Relaxation of Controls After Victory in Europe

LABOR ADVISORY GROUP TO TALK WITH PRESIDENT   FDR Says Big Policies T Be Aired — May Not Smash Controls

Wage Problem Put Up ToF.R.  Formula Is Outmoded Labor Leaders Say

RELAXATION OF WAGE CONTROLS 1S FAVORED   Public: Members Of WLB Ready ‘To Back Plan

Would Scrap Wage Policy      Labor Advisors Tell FDR “Little Steel” Formula Outmoded

WLB To Ask For Let Up In U.S. Wage Controls   CIO Believes Government Will Order  General Increase.

WLB Public Members Favor ‘Wage Controls Relaxation After Victory In Europe

PRESIDENT 10 CONFER WITH LABOR GROUP   Possibility of Breaking Little Steel Wage Formula Not Included In Discussion Today   MAY ASK RELAXATION

Labor ‘Advisory Group To Meet At White House   Roosevelt ‘Says He ‘Does  “Not. Rgneer ie Discuss:  Little Steel Wage Fors niula At Conference -

 e . Relaxation Of Wage Controls   Public Members Of WLB Prepared To Recommend Change To FDR.

Favor Relaxation of Wage Controls  WLB Expected te Recommend Changes

URGE SCRAPPING WAGE FORMULA   F.R: Labor Advisory .Group Makes Report

Eased Wage Curbs Favored After V-E   ClO Fears That Action By Public Members Of WLB May Be Substitute For Goal Of Boost At U.S. Order

Parley Is Held On Wage Control   Relaxation OF Rules Finds WLB Favor

Sectors Near Manila Bay Are Bombed Again   After Scoring Decisively Against Japs Yesterday, Waves of Planes Return Again Today.

37 SHIPS, 205 NIPPON PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Blast Airfields, Cavite Dockyard Area In Philippines

Fear Invasion, Japs Declare Martial Law   Enemy Reports Continuing Attacks After 205 Planes and 37 Ships Knocked Out in Great American Air Victory

Philippines Under Martial Law After Second Attack; ¢ Japanese Fear Invasion»   ‘ Harbor and Airfields-Battered; 250 Enemy, Planes and 37'Ships  Wrecked: American Losses Light:

Hit on Second Day as Japan’s Losses Mount   Surprise Attack “Superlatively Successful,” Says Admiral Nimitz

HIT HARBORS AND AIRFIELDS   First Raid Successful Attack Which Caught Japs By Surprise.   MARTIAL LAW IN EFFECT

DESTROY 205 JAP PLANES AND 37 SHIPS IN OPENING ATTACK (TO RECAPTURE PHILIPPINES 

242 JAP PLANE AND SHIPS. ARE KNOCKED OUT   Martial Law Declared As Nippon Chiefs Voice Fears Of Invasion

American Carrier Planes Strike At Manila; Score Greatest Air Victory

AMERICAN CARRIER PLANES ATTACKING MANILA ARE AGAIN   THIRTY-SEVEN SHIPS AND 205 PLANES OF ENEMY DESTROYED THURSDAY

U.S. BOMBERS RAID MANILA AGAIN TOBAY   Japanese Lose 205 Planss, 37 Ships

Carrier Planes Catch Enemy By Surprise; Japs Declare Martial Law, Fear Invasion; No American Ships Hit

NIPS ANNOUNCT NEW ATTACK ~ ON HARBOR   205 Jap Planes, 37 Ships Are Knocked Out   MARTIAL LAW   Goes In Effect Throughout Philippines As Invasion Danger Mounts

37 Ships, 205 Planes Bagged   Jap Broadcast Reports Another Strike at City; Military Rule Proclaimed Because of Invasion Peril as Bataan Vengeance Begins

A Waves Of Planes  Rake Area   Nimitz Carriers Score One of Greatest Victories in Pacific

ASSAULT ON JAPS GOES ON   Drive To Retake Philippines Opens With Telling Aerial Attack

Waves Of Plane: Blast Airfields, Harbor Facilities   Airmen Play Havoc With Japanese Planes, Ships; Fleet Unchallenged

205 Planes, 37 Jap Ships Sunk   Yank Carrier Force Gives Japanese Fearful Pounding, Returns Today With More; Martial Law Declared

205 Jap Planes 37 Ships Shot. Out by Raiders   Martial Law Clamped Down as Filipino Puppet President Prepares For Inevitable Yank Invasion

205 Nip Craft Destroyed, 37 Vessels Sunk   Enemy Radio Reports Assault In Its 2nd Successive Day; Yanks In Great Air Victory

205 PLANES, 37 ‘SHIPS'LOST BY -"JAPS IN DEFER   Martial Law Put in Effect in Philippines as Result of Havoc

30 Indicted for Nazi Compaign To Incite Military Revolt, Fascism

JUSTICE DEPT. ~ INDICTS 30 IN NAZI PLOTS   Charged with — Inciting Mutiny in U. §. Armed Forces

30 Indicted for  Plot Against U.S. Charged with  — Campaign to  _ Incite Mutiny;  ~ Wichitans Named

Conspiracy Is Charged   Nazi Campaign to Incite Mutiny in Armed Forces Included in Investigation

30 Indicted In Nazi Plot   George Deatherage Named by Grand Jury

30 Indicted In Campaign To Incite Mutiny   Plan to Set Up Fascist Regime in This Country ls Charged   TWO WOMEN NAMED

Two Women, 28 Men Indicted For Conspiracy   Justice Department Says Group Would Se Up Fascist Regime

THIRTY ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY   Two Women And 28 Men Under Indictment In Investigation Of Nazi Propaganda Campaign In U, 8,

30 LINKED WITH NAZIS IN-PLOT FOR U.S. MUTINY   Two Women and 28 Men Charged With Attempting io Overthrow Amerxican Government

2 WOMEN 28 MIEN ARE INDICTED FOR ‘NAZI PROPAGANDE   Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, Author, Is Among Group Charged With Plot to Incite Mutiny.   SOME ALLEGED STATEMENTS ARE REVEALEL   22 of Defendants Are Named in Another Indictment Returned Year Ago But Not Yet Passed Upon.

Indict 30 On Charges Of Nazi Plot   Planned to Incite Mutiny in Army and Overthrow Government

30 ACCUSED OF PLOT T0 FORM FASCIST RULE   Two Kansans Among Group Indicted in Nazi Propaganda Campaign

THIRTY INDICTED IN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY FOR FASCIST REGIME  GOVERNMENT CHARGES PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO INCITE MUTINY

Indict Thirty On Charges Of _ Aiding Nazis   Two Women And 28 Men Named In Widening Inquiry Into Alleged  . Pre-Nazi Propaganda

28 ARE ACCUSED OF NAZI PLOT 0 INGITE REVOLT   Mutiny in U. S. Armed Forces And Set Up Fascist Regime Purpose of Conspiracy

30 Face New Disloyalty Indictment:   Two Women Held fo Nazi Plan to Incite Army to Mutiny

Indict Thirty On Conspiracy   2 Women, 28 Men Under Investigation For Nazi Propaganda Plan.

30 Indicted By U.S. As Germar  Propagandists   Accused Of Plot To Incite Mutiny, Set Up Nazi Regime In America.

Indict 30 Fo: Plotting To Destroy U.S.   Mutiny In Army, Fascist Resime

Viereck, McWilliams, Dilling, Pelley, 26 Others Indicted On Charge Of Aiding Nazi Propaganda

30 Indicted In Probe of Propaganda   Justice Department Claims Ring Formed to Spread Nazi Philosophy

30 Indicted For Stirring ~ Up Mutiny In U. S. Armies   Nazi Propaganda Used To Incite Feeling Of Bitterness, Revolt, Is Charged

30 INDICTED AS PROPAGANDISTS FOR NAZI PARTY   DEFENDANTS ACCUSED OF CONSPIRING WITH OFFICIALS OF REICH

30 UNDER ARREST IN ALLEGED ANTIAMERICAN EFFORT   Justice Department Charges Nazi Propagand: Campaign At Work to Incite Mutiny in Ri  Be.

U.S. Indicts 30 For Seditior   Two Women And 28 Men Named In Charaes

0 INDICTED IN CONSPIRACY   Organized Nazi Propaganda Campaign to Incite Mutiny in Armed Forces.

Thirty Indicted on Conspiracy Charges by Federal Jurors   Allegedly in Campaign to Incite Muting in the Armed Forces

30 Indicted on Charge to Incite Mutiny   Conviction Carries Maximum Penalty of Ten Years in Prison

TWO WOMEN A TWENTY-EIGHT MEN INDICTED   Charged With Nazi Propaganda Plot In This Country

30 ARE INDICTED AS PROBE OF NAZI ACTIVITIES GROWS   Two Women and 28 Men Held As Justice Department Tells Cf Nazi Prcpaganda Campaien in This Country 

20 INDICTED IN NAZI PLOT   Charged With Campaign to; Incite Mutiny In   Armed Forces )

JAPS RETREAT IN NEW GUINEA   Try to Evacuate all Western Portion

ASSEMBLY CALLED . TO:MEET MARCH 6   Soldier Voting and Teach.¢r Bonus Legislation: Planned.

LEGISLATURE TO MEET MONDAY AT ANNAPOLIS   Absentee Vote Bill And Teachers’ Bonus Prin cipal Measures   PRESIDING OFFICERS ARE TO BE ELECTED

Special Session Of Legislature To Open March 6   Called for Expressed Pur pose of Enacting State Absentee Voting Law

Greek Rebels Gain Against British   RAF Headquarters At Athens’ Encircled:

ELAS ATTACK QUSTS ALLIES FROM PRISON   RAF Headquarters Encircled by Leftists

JAPS REPORT BASE RAIDED IN SUMATRA   Announce Davao In Philippines Also Attacked

HOLIDAY AT THE PLANT   All Employes at Sunflower Will Have Vacation December 25

Two Sharply Contrasting Senators Lose Seats in Democratic Primaries

TWO SENATORS TASTE DEFEAT   COTTON ED SMITH AND MRS, CARAWAY LOSE IN PRIMARIES

‘Cotton Ed’ And Neighbor, Senator Caraway, Must Give Up Seats To New Solons

Senate Seats  Are Vacated      Ed Smith, Hattie Caraway. Defeated

World Security Conferees Recess to Let Secretarial Staff Catch Up

W ould Limit Scope World Security Group   Expect Elimination of Plan To Hand Over Peace Conference Problems To Aveney

BRITAIN, REDS STOP U.S. PLAN   Peace Problems Will Not Come Up Before World Security Group

Peace Plan Is Limited   “Security. Gathering’ cy Task Being: Reduced.

World Security  Group May Have  Limited Scope US Peace Plan  Elimination Seen

Security Plan May Be Apart. From The Peace   British, Russians Favor Such Proposal; Hull Reports To Senate

MAJGR PARTI Ca FORECAST BALLOT VICTORY TUESDAY   Possibility Election Will Depend Upon How the Big Coal Counties Go   HIGHEST INTENS) TY OVER COAL MINER VOTE   Political Forecasters Wonder About 40,000-odd Sol. dier Votes; Polls Will Open 7:30 a. m., Close 8:30 p. m., Eastern War Time

STATE DEMS GET HIGHEST VOTER MAJORITY EVER   Both Parties Predict 50,000 Vote Wins On Tuesday

OKLAHOMA VOTES * PLEDGED F. DLR   DEMOCRATS CALL FOR WORLD .FREE PRESS PLANK IN PARTY'S 44 PLATFORM.

F.D. R. BACKERS SCORE IN TEXAS   Opponents Plan To Take Elector Battle Into Courts

BROAD PLAN ON DOMESTIC ISSUES TOLD   Dewey and Bricker to End State-Federal Bickering

Jewey Seeks Tarmony on Jome F Front   Republicans Map Program to End 12-Year Conflict

YANKS ARE FIGHTING IN GUERRILLA ARMY   Losses in Balkan Battles Are ‘Extremely Light’

Correspondents Attend Meeting Of Tito’s Youthful Organization In Yugoslavia

bill f ee ee, eee ® BUSSPRN SER P BS EE  Kepresenting the Combined Ameri  ean and British Press—Distributed hv The Aeecaclatad Peace

Partisan Territory Is Really Liberated, Writer Says After Trip to Tito’s Land

Allied Newsman Finds Large Part Of Yugoslavia Freed   Germans Pushed Out OF Big Hunk Of Area By Slav Partisans; Prisoners Taken   Traffic by Night

Yugoslavia Young Folk Pledge All  To Freedom   Writer Finds Land  solid Behind Tito

MAY REVISE. LEND-LEASE   VORYS PREDICTS CONGRESS WILL PROVIDE FOR NEW , RESTRICTIONS IN NEW BILL 

Week Deals Heavy Blows  To Factories   Spokesman Sees Luftwaffe Facing Certain Disaster

Record Raids Smash Plants   Effect Felt Friday During RAF Bombing:

641 German Fighters Destroyed in 6 Days  Unprecedented Blows Paying Off;   Unprecedented Blows Paying Off; Attacks Eliminating Plane Plants

German Defense: Crumble Under Sustained Raids  By Walter Cronkite United Press Staff

FDR Corrects ‘Error Relative  To GOP Mail   Printing of 3 Million Copies of Speech on  Communism Paid for But Mailed at No Cost

Railroad, Oil Centers in Romania Hit   6,000 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped in Daylight Hours

Railroad, Oil  Centers in  Romania Hit 6,000 Tons of Bomk   6,000 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped in Daylight Hours

Jap Deienses In Ryukyu island Chain Shattered By Blistering Yank Blows

DESTROY 89 ENEMY PLANES   Blow Landed Only 280 Miles From Nips’ Homeland

Tank, Infantry Attacks Fail To Oust Yanks   Beachhead Held in Four Hour HandTo-Hand Battle

LEYTE CAPTURE COMPLETE; JAP LOSSES 113,221   Americans Set Signis : Other Islands In Philippines

‘Nuts? Said Gallant Commander of  Bastogne Yanks in Ultimatum Reply

American Says ‘Nuts’ To Ultimatum   Heroic American Garrison Rescued

“Nuts!” is Yank Reply to Nazi  Ultimatum   Then Heroie Men Pointed Artillery In all Directions

Bastogne Story Partly Told   “Nuts” Is U. S. Reply To German Demand For Surrender

“Nuts!” Was Reply To Surrender Ultimatum By Defenders of Bastogne

Besieged Yanks At Bastogne Repliea ‘NUTS’ To Nazi Surrender Ultimatum

“Nuts” Was Yankee Reply To Germar Demand For Surrender Of Bastogne

BASTOGNE SAGA HAS CONCLUDED   Rescuing Drive Saves Surrounded Garrison That Refused To Surrender.

COMMANDER GF BASTOGNE GARRISON ANSWERS “NUTS” TO NAZI DEMAND FOR SURRENDER OF GARRISON

 HUNGARIAN GENERAL KILLED   Heroism Of Medics In Bastogne Told By Lieut. Charles Phalen

Bastogne Siege Is Broken. After 7 Days; Yanks Send  ‘Ultimatum Answer-- Nuts!’

“Nuts,” Yank Answer to Nazis at Bastogne  U.S. Stand Tied Up Five Enemy Divisions

New Concession  To Rail Unions   Pay Hike, Vacation Given 3 Unions

RAILROADWAGE HIKE EXTENDED T0 ALL UNIONS   ‘Roosevelt Grants Three  “Hold-Out” Brotherhoods Raise Providing They Cancel Strike Order

THREE UNIONS GET OFFER OF WAGE ADVANCE   Same Terms Extended To Holdouts in Rail Labor Dispute

Three Brotherhood: Are Offered Terms  Strike Cancellation Is Only Condition

Hold Up Pay Hike - For 3 Rail Unions  Must Call Off Strike  Ta Cain Inereace

5-CENT RAISE OPEN TO 3 RAIL UNIONS   F. D. H. Says Boost Depends on Cancellation Rather Than Postpohement of Strike Order.

FD. R. Offers Wage Award To 3 Rail Untons   Terms Of Award Are Five Cents An Hour; Week’s Paid Vacation.   ‘CHIEFS NOT AVAILABLE

Terms Offered Rail Unions  By President   Recaleitrant Groups May Get Same Award as Two Others

RAILWAY WAGE OFFER STANDS   Conductors, Firemen And Switchmen Urged To Cancel Strike

Same Terms To All Railway Unions Planned   But Three Must Cancel, Not Postpone Strikes

3 RAIL GROUPS OFFERED: RAISE BY ROOSEVELT   Must Cancel Strike Order, Not Postpone It

FDR Makes Offer fo Railway Men  e Boost If Thr Unions te “aE On sir ike

Allied Forces Hammering Foe nto Homeland   Simpson's 9th Hits Reich’s Defenses At Dutch Border; Patton Marking Up Gains

A: Other Allied Armies On March In Giant Winter Campaieon      Ferrific Air Bombardment By 1,700 Planes Leads Attack On German Defenses Northeast Of Aachen; Yanks Close In On Metz

LONDON, Nov. 16 (AP)---The American First and Ninth Armies, paced by a 1,700-plane bombardment of German defenses northeast of Aachen, launched a massive offensive into the Rhineland tadav.

First and Ninth Armies Strike in Aachen Area   1,700-plane Bombardment Precedes Ground Attack; Allied Activity Intensified Along Entire Western Front

HeavyGunsand Aerial Attacks  Battering Huns   American and Ninth Arm. ies, Long Idie, Driving  eainst Germans  In Rhineland          At Least 6 Allied Armies On March   Metz Tottering Before Pau. tor’s Army Now Only Mile and Half From Foriress City

ALL-OUT WINTER DRIVE STARTED   Mysterious U. S. Ninth Army Joins In Action: 1.700 Planes Support Movement Near Aachen

PUNCH FORWARD FROM HOLLAND TO SWISS ALPS   U. S. FIRST, NINTH ARMIES AND FRENCH FIRST ARMY STRIKE

U.S.First, Ninth Armies Launch Assault Paced By 1700 Planes   Whole 400 - Mile Allied Front Is Now in © Motion

Six Great Armies on Big Drive   Entire 400-Mile Front On Move; Thousands of Planes in Air

1,700 Planes Bombard Nazi Lines Northeast of Aaches   At Least 6 Great Allied Forces on March As General Eisenhower Hits Sieg fried Line in Winter ‘Showdown’ ..

Six Great Separate Units On the March In What May Be Big Winter Offensive

Mystery Army Sees Action After Lull   Action Flames All Along Western Front from Swiss Alps to Sodden Holland Marshes: Presagee Smash

Simpson's “Mystery Army’ Thrown Into Battle As Third Draics Closer To Metz Fortress   Gains Made By French, Assaulting Wednesday, And By British In Low Countries; More Than 1,200 Fortresses And Liberators Blast Enemy

Big Push Is Sprung war                    Ist, Oth Spearhead Aitech

Terrific Dual Drive Opened   U.S. First and Ninth Armies in Thrust At Rhineland After Weather Clears For Prelude by Thousands of Bombers

First and “Mystery” Ninth in Action in the Aachen : Sector   AIDED BY AIR BLOWS   Allied Forces in Action From Swiss Border to Holland

6 Great Armies on Move   Americans Gain North of Metz, But Lose Ground on Two Sides

6 Allied Armies Are On March   Sudden Strike By Gen, Eisenhower Paced By 1,700-Plane Assault On Nazi Defenses; Entire 400-Mile Western Front In Motion

AMERICAN FIRST AND NINTH ARMIES OPEN MASSIVE CAMPAIGN  ENTIRE 400-MILE LONG WESTERN LINE WAS IN  MOTION TONAWY

NEW ATTACKS LAUNCHED BY i, S, ARMIES   First And Ninth Troops Moving Against Nazis

Ninth Army Shows Up In Holland  Eisenhower's   Eisenhower's Big Push May  Be Under Way

400-MILE LINE SHAKEN IN NEW ALLIED ATTACK   Assaults Hit Enemy in Aachen and Dutch Border Areas

Ninth Army, Unheard of For Two Months, Springs Into Action Southeast of Aachen.   SIX GREAT ALLIED ARMIES ON MARCH

Ninth And First Go Into Action In Germany   Heavy Aerial Bombardment Precedes Attack

UGH 1S AIMED AT RHINELAND   First Army Starts Drive at Tt-a. m., Followed By Ninth Army.   SIX ARMIES ON WARCH

Whereabouts Of Ninth Had Been A Secret   400-Mile Front From Lowlands Of Holland To Alps  In Action.   AW AIT CLEAR WEATHER

‘Six Armies Assault Nazi Lines   Bombardment of German Defenses by 1,700 Planes Paces Eisenhower's All-Out Offensive Along Entire 400-Mile Front

U. S. First and Ninth Open Drive   Third and Seventh Still Slugging Forward; French  Also Open Attack   BRITISH ASSAULT ALONG THE MAAS   1,700 Bombers and Heavy, Artillery Support New Yankee Push

Temperatures   British Second Army Advances Within One Mile of Maas -

6 Great Armies On the March Into Germany  Ahatinn hd hdnne   Action May Mean Start of Final Winter Offensive

Ist and 9th Armies Open Massive Offensive Against Rhineland in Aachen Area   Veterans of Many Campaigns Spring Forward ot 11 a. m. Thursday as 1,2Gé Heavy Bombers Crash Bombs en the Durer-Eschweiler Arc

U.'S. Ist And 9th Armies Suddenly Go Into Action   Whole Front Ablaze Behind Thunder Of Artillery And Aeria! Bombardment

Mighty Drive Is Paced By 1,700 Plane Bomb. ardment Of Enemy   100-Mile Front Now A Blaze Of Action   Patton’s Army Tightens Grip Of Steel Around Metz Fortress

Hammer Toward  Frontier   U.S. Third Army Mile and Half From Metz. Troops South Lost Fort, Village

1,700 Planes Pacing Huge  Land Assault   Smash By Eisenhower’s Great Winter Push; All Armies Advance

‘Mystery’ Unit Attacks Along Dutch Border   Hodges’ Troops Begin Drive In Aachen Sector As Patton Tightens Grip On Metz; French Forces Plow Forward On 25-Mile Front

French Ist Army Pushes 5 Miles In Belfort Stab   Hun Counterattacks Halt Americans To South, West Of Metz

Nhissive  Of ferists Rhineland Newr  \ cn Nd Duteh Be Nas Stgnal beasciide ors Creat Wate:  fonsives Fentire (0% i ferent Po Nfetron

Oth Hits At Duteh  Frontier   AlLOut Winter Offensive May Be Under Way

‘Big Push’ May Have Started   Western Front Blazes From Holland to Alps With Six American  Armies On the March

US Ist and 9th Armies Hit Rhineland; At Least Six Allied Armies Are on the March: May Be All-Out Winter Drive

1,700 Planes Blast Nazis Along 400-Mile Front in ‘All-Out’ Drive

First, Ninth Units Open Major Drives; Fliers Renew Attack   Patton’s Forces Tighten Metz Pincers; Reveal Simpson’s Troops Strike Near Holland Border

U. S. Ninth Army Strikes in Holland, Joining First, Third and Seventh in \Nassive Assault on German West Wall

U.S. Ninth Army Attacks   Launches Blow Near Dutch Border, Third Tightens Death Grip on Metz   French Attacking   Smash at 25-Mile Front, British Punching Out New Gains in Holland

Recess Is Called In Sedition ‘Tria!   G-Men Will Search Nation For Missing Defendant

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Mefendant Anorchended.

Panic Grips Puppet Rulers In Capital; Nazi Troops Mutiny   Swift Advance of Russians Fans Sabotage Acts; Guerrillas Attack; Martial. Law Clamped on Country

Rebellion Breaks Out in Slovakia.   Patriots Aid Soviets. By Attacking Nazis ;

Declare Martial Law In Slovakia   Rebellion, Sabotage. Sweeping Puppet State

Fanic Grips Government With] Russian Armored Columns Only Few Miles From Slovak Frontier, Sabotage Reported      CLAIM MUTINY IN GERMAN TROOPS

Think He Could Smash 4th Term   Fight Bound To Give the Nation’s Enemies New Hope   SOLONS ALL SET TO OVERRIDE VETO

FIGHTING-MAD CONGRESS RALLIES BEHIND BARKLEY IN HIS BREAK WITH PRESIDENT ON TAX BILL   Kentucky Senator Seen As Most Potent Democrati Presidential Possibility Outside the White House. Political Vanes Trying to Size Up Situation

BARKLEY’S BREAK WITH PRESIDENT GIVES HIM STRENGTH   KENTUCKY SENATOR EMERGES AS PROBABLY MOST POTENT DEMOCRAT

Kentuckian, Who Led Revolt Against President After Tax Bill Veto After Years of Support, Emerges a Democratic Presidential Possibility—Roosevelt Appeals To Old Friend Not To Resign

Seize Much Meat Unfit  To Consume   Decomposes For  Lack Of Points

MEAT RATION PLAN ~ BLAMED FOR LOSSES   Spoilage Cited as Reason for Increased Allowance

Reds Cross Hron River In Advance   Slaughter Nazis Bloody Fighting In Streets of  Budapest Rages

Reds Gain Anew Above Danube  Austrian Bound - Troops Move Forward

‘Russians Make Further Gains Toward Austria   Meanwhile, . Bloody Fighting Rages in Streets of _-Budapest With In creased Fury °

Soviets Leap River Barrier To Vienna   Street by Street Fighting Continues In Budapest

Austrian-Bound Reds Roll On  To New Gains   Russians And Germans Locked In Deadly Budapest Battle.

Reds Austria - Bound In Hungarian Drive   Bloody Fighting Rages With Increased Fury in Streets of Budapest and One Suburb Becomes Slaughter Pen For Trapped Germans - - - Russians Only 81 Miles from Vienna

RED ARMY GAINS IN _ HUNGARY    Tighten Death Trap On Germans:Caught North Of. Budanest

Russ Troops  Continue Push For Austria   Forcing Strong German Defenses Above Danube; Bitter Budapest Battle

AUSTRIA-BOUND RED TROOPS MOVE AHEAD UNCHECKED TODAY  RUSSIANS REPORTED SLAUGHTERING TRAPPED SAvIC IN DIInADCe?T

BUDAPEST. STREET FIGHTING MOUNTS   Reds Slaughtering Trapped Nazis.In Buda Section Of Capital

TRAP AND KILL FOES   Budapest Is Tottering Under Savage Blows Of Red Forces

RUSSIANS LASH AHEAD, AIM FOR AUSTRIAN LINE   Battle Rages Along Streets of Budapest Against Trapped Nazis

Russian Drive  Moves Closer  To Austrian Line Crossing of Hron Effected;

Austrian-Bound Russian Troops Plunge Forward   Budapest Nazis Fight Vainly in Red Death Trap

Strong Nazi Defense Line Is Forced By  Russ Army   Bloody Fighting In Strects Of Budapest Reported: Foe Caught Jn Trap In Hills

RED ARMY GAINS TOWARD VIENNA IN DANUBE PUSH   Russian, German Forces Locked in Deadly Budapest Battle

’ Why a Farmer Should : Buy and Keep War Bonds by Gabriel Lundy  Head, Dept, of Agricultural Economics South Dakote State Cdllece

Allies Plunging After Germans Across Holland   Food for Beloians

TRAP TIGHTENED ON NIP FORCES SENT TO LEYTE   Prospects for Opening of Ledo-Burma Road to China Growing Brighter

YANKEE PLANES HIT JAP SHIPS IN MANILA BAY   New Offensive Gains Power Toward Reopening Of Burma Road Line

4 Jap Ships. a Sunk, Damaged. ‘In Manila Bay   Burma “Road Strongholds '.. Are Hamimered By U. S. ‘Land-Based Aircraft

Carrier Planes Claim Toll Of Two Destroyers   American Forces Draw Barbed Net About Nipponese

14 Ships Blasted In Manila Raid   Pincers Closing on Japanese on Leyte

Yanks Bomb 14 Ships in Manila Bay   Double Flanking Move Draws Net Around Foe on Leyte

Carrier Planes Batter 14 Jap Ships At Manila   Other American Aircraft Pound At Enemy’s Burma Road Strongholds.

Planes Blast 14 Ships Of Japs’ Flee   Clever Maneuver Threatens To Cut Jap Spearhead From Shaft On Levte.   HAMMER BURMA ROAD

Yanks Closing Trap On Port Of Ormoce In Three-Way Drive   Japanese Warships And Merchant Vessels Targets For Bombs From Carrier Planes; Burma Road  Stronzholds Also Hammered -

U -9. Planes Sink 14 Jap Ships   Noose Tightened At Ormoc; Nips Near Junction In Ching,

Ground Forces Flank Japs in Leyte Fighting   Yank Airmen Hit Foe’s Strongholds Along Burma Road

Planes Sink pe: Jap Ships In Manila Bay   Americans Also Report Advance In Burma And In The Philippines

U. 8, FLIERS HIT 14 NIP SHIPS IN MANILA. ATTACK   Yanks Flank Jap Troops Or Leyte in Drive For Ormoc

DRIVE T SUPPLY LINE TO CHINA   Burma Road Strongpoints Hit By U. S. Planes   NET TIGHTENED   On Enemy In Philippines; Yamashita Line Below Limon Threatened

Japs Dwindling Fleets Blasted  _ 14 Ships in Manila Bay Sunk or Damaged

AMERICAN CARRIER PLANES BLASTED 14 JAP SHIPS AT MANILA  U. S. GROUND FORCES ON   U. S. GROUND FORCES ON LEYTE DRAW NET AROUND STRONG JAP FORCE .

Yankees Batter Manila, Knock  Out 14 Shins   In China, US Plane: Bomb _ Strongholc To Vital Supply  Lines

Speed Plans to Re-Open Burma Road   Yanks on Leyte Threaten Jap. Spearhead Thrust from Port of Ormoc

Planes Blast 14 Nip Ships   U. S. Forces Draw Barbed Net on Jap Fighters on Leyte

SMASH 14 JAP VESSELS WITH RAID ON MANILA   Allies Hammer Drive for Reopening Vital Supply Line to China

400 PLANES IN BIG ATTACK AS _ GROUND FORCES CLOSE PINCERS ON JAP FORCES IN LEYTE AREA

US. Airmen Drive to Open Burma Road   Carrier Planes Blast 14 Jap Ships at Manila

Champ Wins With Dehydrated Blonde--Woman Takes WhopperTitle   WAC Captain Is  Year's Best Fibber

GIRL JUDSED '44 CHAMPION LIAR   Promises to Mail Dehydrated Blondes to Men Overseas

31 MORE CONVICTED OF PLURAL MARRIAGE   Salt Lake City Trial fo Polygamists Continues

Captured Heroes Of Bataan And Corregidor Tortured With Deliberate Starvation, Denied Medical Aid, tipagtaeac ta! Some Beheaded, Some Buried Alive.

Sickening Detail of Atroci. ties on Bataan, Corregidor Heroes Told By U. S.

DID NOT EXPECT ~ FURTHER SUPPLIES TOGET TO PRISONERS   That Is Reason Given for Release of Japanese Atrocity _ Against Americans.   STATEMENT BY EARLY   Thousands of -British Troops Also. Have Died as Pris“ohers of the Japs.

NO HOPE HELD TO AID YANKS IN JAP HANDS          Presidential Secretaty Says That Is Reason for Release of Story or Treatment of Philippine Defenders.

Amny, Navy Reveals Sickening Details of ©  Torture US Prisoners   Men of Bataan Deprived of Water Given Little Food and Exhaustec Ones Shot: Many Thousands Die

Ghastly Story Of Japanese  Atrocities Released; Thousands  of U.S. Heros Starve To Death

Bataan Heroes Bare Story of Jap Atrocities   Sworn Statements of Escaped Officers Reveal Account of Infamy of Enemy

JAPS FORGET HUMANISM IK PRISON CAMPS   Americans Suffer Untold Agonies; Hundreds Die

Jap Atrocities Bared By Army   U. S. PRISONERS GET - SAVAGE TREATMENT IN CAMPS

Release Stories  Of Jap Atrocities ‘To U.S. Prisoners   May Indicate Govt. Has Given. Up -Hope For Relief or Return of Men

Reveal Revolting Jap Atrocities   ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE REPORTS TELL OF INFAMIES INFLICTED BY JAPS OD CAPTURED MEN OF BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR: THOUSANDS DIE IN JAP CAMP:

Jap Atrocities Revealed by Army  Captured Heroes of Bataan ot  raAtn ar u_een<«  cAAKwe

Report Of Japan’s Horrible Treatment Of Heroes Of Bataan And Corregidor, Based On Eye-Witness Account Of Escaped Officers, Released By Army, Navy

Americans and Filipinos Tortured .and Starved After Bataan’s Fall   SOME BURIED ALIVE   Army-Navy Release Gives Details of Atrocities on “March of Death”

Japs Refuse Allow Relief To Captives   ... U. S. Not Permitted Send Sipplies--Early

Unbelievable Story Of Mistreatment Is Bared  By Washington   Farther Relief Dim

Thousands Die Under Tortures   Army and Navy Release Story Compiled from Sworn Statements By Officers Who Escaped

Fiendish Cruelty Features Japanese Prisoner Treatment   Unbelievable Atrocities Told by Escaped Officers Today 

: Y ° e RS }Pratal Starvation and Torture, Inflicted on Yank Prisanere hy Inne Po.) LO Age

JAP TORTURE KILLED 7,000 U.S. SOLDIERS   Sworn Statements o! Escaped Officers Tell Story

Japs Subject Yanks To Horrible Torture   Revolting Story of Beheadings, ‘Sun Cure—March of Death’ Told

Americans Starved,  Beate n, Murdered   U. S. Government Makes Public Revolting Facts Of Nipponese Cruelties To Yanks Taken At Bataan And Correaidor

[Three American Officers -Who Escaped Tell of “March of Death” end Other Atrocities; Thousands Died

Abandon Hope Getting Further Supplies to the Prisoners of Japanese

This Ils On Your Back, Toj  Story Sadeiled Of Sickening Japanese Atrocities

PRISONERS STILL DIE OF CRUELTY, HUNGER   Men Say They Would Not Have Surrendered lf They Knew What Awaited Them

Army, Navy Report Catalogues Infamy Of Brutal Enemy   Thousands of U. S. Soldiers Died in Agony During a Reign of Terror

Bataan Heroes Beaten,Starved, Tortured, Shot, Buried Alive   Army, Navy Releases Story of Three Who Fled Foe

Give Up Hope Of Supplies To Prisoners   Early Explains Why Japanese Atrocity Report Released

Heroes Of Bataan And Corregidor. Vietims OF Japanese. Atrocities; ~ British: ‘Troops Also. Malireated

Bataan Heroes Tortured, Starved. Murdered By Japanese Captors  (ae ee en Chae n e ere 

THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS DIE BY JAP TORTURE   Story Based on Sworn Stat& ments by Escaped Officers   Allies Raid Stepping Stones To Philippines Without Los:

DEPORT JEWS, SMITH PARTY PLAN URGES   America First Chiet Frowns Upon Measure

AMERICA FIRSTERS IN SESSION   One Delegate Would Deport or  Sterilize All Jews

Ask Youth To Discuss Health Matters   Young People Are Invited To Take Over On Child Wealth Day On May 1, 1904

Thousands Of Bombers Aid Attack   Nine Allied Armies Now Active Along Whole West ern Front

Firstand Ninth Forces Smash For Germany   Heavy Aerial Bombardments Pave Wav For Ground Troops’ Drives.

6 Allied Armies On Move   Ist and 9th Armies Join in Attack On Western Front

Vast Fleets Of Bombers Jolt Enemy       U. S. 9th Goes Into Action  Jointly With British 2nd Army.

TWO MORE U.S. ARMIES STRIKE IN CAMPAIGN   Ist In Germany and 9th In Holland Join Eisenhower In Great Push.

Two More Yank Armie  Join Europe Offensive   Hodges. Units Slash Toward Rhine; Simpson’s Forces Move Into Holland

Oth Army Swarms Into Holland As  Ist Hits Germany   Campaign Supported By Thousands Of Bombers, Field Guns As Simultaneous Drives Are Opened On Western Front

areeeaead by Al Hom bardment Which Continued With Operations  4,300 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON AACHED  Six Allied Armies Nov Hammering Germans On Western Front

Allied Bombers Sink 11 Jap Ships,  Damage Five  24 More Enemy Planes Shot Down In Rabaul Attack

Eleven Japanese Vassels Are Sunk, Five Damaged By Fliers  Japanese Interceptor Plane Losses Raised "3A 1. Aina Méianth Cwar Santh Pacific

Add 11 Ships to Japanese Toll In S.W. Pacific   Enemy Suffers Biggest Loss at Rabaul as Planes Go Into Actior

ALLIED BOMBS TAKE TOLL OF “TL JAP SHIPS   5 Cargo Vessels and Tanker Destroyed In Rabaul Raid

Greatest Toll Is Taken in  Rabaul Raid   MacArthur Reports Our Losses Unusually Light

TAKE TOLL OF 11 JAP SHIPS   5 Cargo Vessels and Tanker Destroyed In Rabaul Raid

ELEVEN SHIPS SUNK; FIVE MORE INJURED   In Southwest Pacifie And Off Asiatic Coast; Biggest Toll At Rabaul; Harbor Lined With Hulls.   Loses Contact

U. S. View on Poland Given   Won't Object to Agreement on Future Frontiers

SEEK ROOM FOR RECREATION — CENTER   All Other Plans Rapidly Being Completed

Oil Magnate Scoffs At Fuel Shortage   Synthetic Alone Sufficient For 1,000 Years, He Says

Americans Bomb Southern Part Of Philippines   Jap Island Bases Get Hard Pounding

MILITARY MOVE ON PHILIPPINES FEARED BY JAP‘   Islands Guarding Southern End Of Archipelago Struck By Yanks   ‘BIG ENEMY TANKER SUNK OFF ZAMBOANGA

U.S. Planes Smash Again At Mindanao   Jap Expectations o f U.S. Operations in Philippines Logical

CLAIM GERMANS ARE EVACUATING GREEK TERRITORY      British Invasion Forces Swarm Ashore — Occupy All Tslands

NAZI TROOPS ARE FLEEING FROM GREECE   Evacuate As Brit. Continue To Swarm Ashore

British Invasion Units Push Drive On Greek Capital   Terrible Vengeance Being Exacted For 1940 Defeat By Nazis

Planes Maul Greece Nazis  Ki eratienn Attemot   Evacuation Attempt Tarned to Debacle

PULLING OUT UNDER SEA AND AIR BLOWS   Also Try To Evacuate Aegean Isles; British Planes, Warships Batter Foe As More Invaders Swarm Ashore

NAZIS FLEE. FROM GREECE BY SEA, AIR   Germans Getting Out Under Merciless Attack by Allied Planes, Warships.

Nazis Fleeing Greece Poundec   Allied Planes, Warships Blast Retreating German Vessels; Troops Swarm Ashore in Landings; Most of Peloponnesus Occupied

German Troops Evacuate Greece      British Swarm Onto Aegean Islands

British Ships Harry: N azis  From Islands   Planes Join in. Destruction of Boats Seeking Safety

‘Germans Evacuate Greece Under Hail ‘Of British Shells   Report Street Fighting In Athens; Drive For Corinth

NAZIS REPORTED LEAVING GREECE BY SEA AND AIR   British Occupy. Nearly All of Peloponnesus Mainland

BRITISH IN NEW .  INVASION: OF GERMAN SOI!   Overrun Nazi Elite Guards at Nijmeren

By Allied Forces   American Troops Occupy Center of German Resist ance in Italy—Immense Food Supply Dumps Captured in the Advance

Americans Gain on Italy Coast, Seize Huge Nazi Food Supplies   Finns Throw Fresh Troops Into Fight Against Russians on Karelian Isthmus

Allies Capture Orbetello, Pust Ahead in Italy   Immense Food Supply Dumps Taken; Vital Road Hub Near Lake  Bolsena Threatened

Allies Seize Major German  Base in Italy   Huge Food Supply Is Lost by Nazis When Orbetello Falls

Allies Take Vast Nazi Food Supply   Center Of Resistance To-Fifth North»  WED Sane Ellice Tenant Deacd CaRwaed

MERICAN FORGES TAKE ORBETELLD   Center of Nazi Resistance to Fifth Army Falls   ROAD JUNCTION TAKEN   Allies Gain Control of Immense Food Supply Dumps On Orbetello Peninsula

GREAT NAZI FOOB STORES IN ITALY SEIZED BY ALLIES   ‘Hidden Supplies Come Under American Control as Whole Orbetello Peninsula Is Taken Over.   CENTER OF GERMAN — RESISTANCE OCCUPIED   British Eighth Army Within Gun Range of Terni and _ Its Fall Is Believed to Be Imminent.

Orbetello Seized _ By Allied Forces   American Treops Occupy Center of German Resist: ance in Italy —Immense Food Supply Dumps Captured in the Advance

Americans Crack Center of Nazi Line in Italy   Capture Immense Supplies of Food

Allies Take Vast Nazi Food Supply   Center Of Resistance To Fifth North OF Rame Folle: Tronns Press Forward

————e  ORBETELLO {8 CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Swing Past Strongpoint On West Coast of Italy; Cut Strategic Highway. Junction; Food Stores.   Close on Narni

Allies Take Key ' Nazi Italian City   Huge Stores of German Food Supplies Coptured by Advancing American Fifth Army

Allies Seize Huge Stores Of Nazi Food   Capture Orbetello In Swift Advance Up Coast of Italy  ROAN IUGNCTION PATTI!

oth Uncovers Foe’s Hidden Ration Dumps      Vietors Press Northward In Haly as 8th Army Sweens Upner Tiber

Collett’s Counsel To Ask New Trial   Condemned Slayer Still Denies Guilt

YANKS SEIZE ALL OBJECTIVES ON ~— PELELIU ISLE   Re-Conditioning of Airdrome Ahead at Top Speed.

AMERICAN CAMPAIGN ON PELELIU IN FINAL PHASE; JAPS REPORT RAID QN KOROR

Red Artillery Has Sevastopol Control   Every Street Under Fire; Mean to Wipe Out Enemy

SOVIETS SAY END NEAR AT —-SEVASTOPOL   Artillery, Commanding Every Street in Black Sea Port, Is Firing Point-Blank at . Nazis’ Last Defenses.

Sevastopol Is About To Fall, Dispatches Say   Soviet Artillery Firing Point Blank Into The City.

Soviet Appears To Be Wiping Out Enemy af Any Cost   Artillery Commands Every Street in City of Sevastopol

RED ARTILLERY IS ROUTING FOE AT SEVASTOPO!   Germans in Final Stage o Losing Effort to Hold Vital City

SEVASTOPOL BATTLE IN FINAL ST AGE-SOVIETS   Russians Sink Five Transports Carrying Axis Troops From Base

Direct Heavy Artillery Fire On Sevastopo!   Nazi Attempts To Hold City Are Approaching Final Stage, Russian Dispatches Indicate

SOVIET ARTILLERY COMMANDS ALL PARTS OF NAVAL BASE AND FINAL STAGE OF CRIMEAN BATTLE NEARS   Germans and Romanians in Last Shelters Under Artillery Fire and Heavy Naval Losses Among  Fleeing Axis Troops Are Reported by the Russians

Reds Battle Germans In Sevastopol   Fire Point Blank To Keep Forces Of Axis On Run

RED ARTILLERY HAMMERS NAZIS IN SEVASTOPOL   Complete Destruction Of Once Great Naval Base Appears Imminent

topol  \     7 ar wa ja eis dae"      Russians Destroying Sevas  fa

FIRE POINTBLANK INTO SEVASTAPOL   SOVIET ARTILLERY COMMANDS EVERY STREET IN GITY

Big Russian Guns Take Command Over Sevastopol   German Attempts to Hold Now Have Reache Their Last Stage; Soviets Decide Not to Spare City in Wiping Out Enemy

SINET BIG BUNS FAP SEVASTORIL   Russian Artillery Reported Firing Pointbiank Into City   CAPTURE IS NEAR   Germans And Romanians To Be Wiped Out At Anv Cost

‘Soviet Gans Firing Int  ; ~Streets of Port at   Point-blank Range; Hill Is ‘Taken

FIGHTING NOW IN LAST STAGE   Apparent That Soviet Has Decided to Wipe Out Enemy at Sevastopol.

RESISTANCE OF NAZIS NEAR END IN SEVASTOPOL   Russian Artillery Firing Point Blank Into City, Determined To Wipe Enemy Out  Even At Cost Of City’s Destruction.

Heavy Artillery Pelts Nazis In  Besieged Streets Of Battered City

Fighting Rages In Sevastopol   Moscow Declares Last Stage of Nazi Defense Is Reached

SEVASTOPOL IS SCENE OF MANY BITTER FIGHTS.   Germans Making Last Stand To Hold City

Russian Guns Command Every Street in Battered Sevastopo   Reds Say Attempts. ‘of Gefmans To Hold Out indefinitely Are Doomed; Five Nazi: Transports ‘Sunk.-

SOVIETS APPEAR DETERMINED TO  }  ‘DESTROY NAZIS   May Mean Complete Obliteration Of Oncejreat Naval Base

Sevastopol Defenders Face Final  Red Attack   Artillery Pounding Germans’ Defenses

Sevastopol Resistance  Ih Final Stage   Reds Guns Assaulting City to Wipe Out Enemy—Fighting Flares In Old Poland.

Russ Shells Rake Nazis at Sevastopol  Soviets - Determined to Wipe Out Enemy at

Russian Guns Rake Streets In Sevastopol   Nazi Attempts To Hold City Appear In Last Stage; Reds Capture Hill

GERMANS IN LAST DEFENDING STAGE OF SEVASTOPOL   Soviet Artillery, Commanding Every Street, Firing Point Blank Into City.   ARE IN LAST SHELTER   Soviet High Command Decided to Wipe Out Enemy at Any Cost,

Soviet Artillery Commands Every Street In Sevastopol; Five Troop Transports Sunk   German Attempts To-Hold Out Haye Definitely Entered Last Staae   TRANSPORTS SUNK

Soviet Artillery Fires Directly At Sevastopol   Reports From Crimea Say Nazi Effort To Hold Out Now In Its Last Stage

Fall of Sevastopol Is Imminent: City Hammered by Russian Artillery

VICE PRESIDENCY WAY BE TEST-OF DEM, SENTIMENT   President’s Unconditional Acceptance Leaves Sécond  Place Wide Open. -

COALITION TEST IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY DUE AT CONVENTION   F. D. Trying To Appease Conservatives In Wallace Case

Unity May Get New Test   Wallace Successor Looms as Issue in Right, Left Wings

Second Place Race Tests Coalition   Nomination Of New Dealer To Prove Power

COUNTY BOND SALES TOTAL $86,811.25   Clearfield Registers Blockton Goes Over

COUNTY BOND SALES TOTAL FALLS SHORT   Clearfield Registers: Athelstan Near.’

10,000: Idle n Midwest ‘ck Strike      Freight ‘Tied Up In Eight States By New Walkout

YANK MARINES REPULSE JAPS      Cape. Gloucester Airdrome Area’ Being Cleared Of Beuten Enemy

All Japanese Attacks ‘Driven Baclz   Marines Clear Nips From Airdromes at Cape Gloucester

GAINS ARE HELD ON NEW BRITAIN   Marines Beat Off Jap Counter Attacks On Cape Gloucester

ALL JAPANESE ATTACKS ARE BEATEN OFF      ) Against Newly-Won Marine  _ Holdings At Cape Glouces ter, New Britain; Marines Hold Lines.   War Vs. Barges

JAP ASSAULTS ARE REPULSED   New Britain Positions Hold Firm Against  Counterattack

Japanese Counter-Attacks © Beaten Off, Communique Says    Marines of East Flank, Opposing Enemy Forces in the  Borgen Bay Area, Hold Line—Enemy Remnants Are Cleared Out _

U.S. Marines Hold Tighily In New Britain   Jap Counterattacks Beaten Off; Planes Deal Foe Hard Blows

MARINES REPULSE COUNTER-ATTACKS ON NEW BRITAIN   Additional Ground Gained by Leathernecks—Supporting Aircraft Bombs Jap Positions,   DEFENDING AIRSTRIPS COST ENEMY 500 DEAD   Work of Repairing Field Believed Under Way—Sixth Army in Skirmishes at Arawe,

NEW RISE IN FLOOD EXPECTEL   Ottumwa Authorities  ~ Ask for‘Help Again -

Allied Warplanes Swarm over Europe In Big Offensive   Unload at least 11,000 Tons of Explosives on Hitler's Fortress

8,000 PLANES HIT GERMAN FORTRESS   HEAVY DAYLIGHT BLOWS FOLLOWED BY R. A, F. NIGHT ATTACK ON BERLIN,

AIRMEN PAVE WAY ~ FOR NEW ASSAULT      Allied Planes Drop Many Bombs On_ Hitler's Fortress

15th Airforce Grows To Big  Size In Year   Chases Nazis  Out Of Skies

State Set To Convict Noxon   Evidence Proves Son Died From Electrocution

Circus Fire Toll 157; Prayers — ers Offered In Hartford Churche:

Sorrowful Rites For Fire Victims   Circus Dead 157, Six Unidentified

TOKYO WARNS HOMELAND   Urges Increased Aircraft Production for Defense

LAWYER SLAYS NOTED ALIENIST   Love Triangle Called Motive for Killing in Downtown Washington

CAPITAL HAS. ~~ MURDER CASE   NATIONALLY. KNOWN PHYSI   CIAN SLAIN BY PROMINENT LAWYER: WHILE sIT FING IN AUTO

Probing Murder Case In Capital   Love Triangle Blamed In Sensational Washington Shooting Case   LAWYER IS HELD IN DOCTOR'S DEATE

TO D0 DOUBLE DUTY      Virginian Registers Twice and Gets Two Calls

Navy Will Cut Its Pilot Training Program by Half  Casualties To Date Have Been Far Under Estimation

CUT PILOT PROGRAM   Low Rate of Casualties Reason : far Navy Change 

Temperatures Tumble After Heavy Storms  But In Alaska, People Are Suffering From ast Preactratinn

Freak Storms  Break U. S. Heat   But Alaska Continues To Suffer From WeekLong Heat Wave.

Nation’s Heat ~ Wave Abated   Temperatures Tumble in Wake of Rain After at Least 10 Deaths Are Reported

Fast-Falling Temperatures Follow In Wake Of Storms In Most Sections Of U. S.

COOL WEATHER If VARIOUS SECTIONS   Temperatures Drop As Muct As 45 Degrees in Some Parts of Nation.

SHELL SHORTAGE FELT AT AACHEN   Eisenhower Says Ammunition  Dearth Delayed Allied  Drive

U. S. Government To Give Buchalter to New York  Qtatnia Cantanra! af Death   State’s Sentence’ of Death Against Convicted Murderer Gets First Call. Biddle Rules

ORDERS PHONE ELECTION   Draft Directive For Local Selective Service Boards

Seven Die in Cincinnati Fire   Employes Working on Christmas Goods in Pencil Plant Trapped

SEVEN KILLED IN CINCINNATI! FIRE   Flash Blaze Sweeps Thru Pencil Plant Quarters

PERPETUAL VIGIL  Six Scholastics Keeping Watch at Cardinal's Bier   Prelate's Bedy Liés in State at Tiny Chapel of Episcopal Residence

Cardinal ~ O'Connell,  84,1s Dead   Bronchial Pneumonia the Direct Cause; Will Lie ‘In State "Til Friday

Thousands of U.S. Bombers  Over France   Fleet of 500 Planes Assault German Oil Plants From Italv

Allies Blast Fuel Supply. Rail Centers   Planes Sweep Targets In France And German Silesia

Planes Raid Fuel Plants And Depots   Attacks Launched From Britain And Italy

BLAST NAZIS IN FRANCE   Italy-Based Planes Raid Oil Plants in Silesia

[American Bombers Hit Fuel Tanks Bridges, Rail Junctions In France   Other Bombers Roar From Italy Hit Plants In German Silecia

U.S. Bombers  Blast Carolines   Hit Truk In Second  Successive Raid ~

Hazardous Driving Conditions Bring Death to Nineteer   Only One Main Highway Qut of Dixon is Open; Motorists Warned

Missouri is Covered With  Snow Blanket   Nineteen Die in Traffie Accidents Over Weekend

HEAVY ONOW HITS WIOWEST   Forecast Calls for More of Same; 19 Die in Traffie Mishans.

BLANKET OF SNOW COVERS MIDWEST   Travel Hazardous -- Toll of Week End Is 19

Russ Within  18 Miles of Bucharest  Romanians Surrender bys  Thousands in Face of Onslaught  NAZIS STILL FIGHT Soviets Tell Romanians They Must Help to  PRattl Carmoane   NAZIS STILL FIGHT

Reds Rolling Up Large Gains In Confused Nation   Soviets Reported To Be Within 40 Miles of Galati Gap Area

Romanian Troops Surrendering to Advancing Reds   Russians Nearing Bucharest; Nazis Said Withdrawing

ADVANCING IN ROMANIA   Romanians Are Surrendering; Nazis Offer Resistance

Germans Quit Country as Front Breaks   Soviet Eorces Push To 40 Mhies From Galati Gap

THOUSANDS OF ROMANIANS ARE TAKEN CAPTIVE   25,000 Surrender In One Day As Resistance Collapses

Soviet Push Overruns Bessarabia   Dispatches Indicate Complete Collapse Of Romanian Army

Balkan Army Collapses A: Reds Pour In   Romanian Soldiers Give Up By Thousands In View Of Onslaught

ROMANIANS ARE GIVING UP T0 SOVIET FORCES   Surrendering By Thousands [In Face Of Russian Onslaught

NATIVE TROOPS SURRENDERING BY THOUSANDS   German Withdrawals Are Reported As Front Disintegrates Rapidly

Romanians Giving Ut As Reds Near Border   25,000 Surrender in 24 Hours: Nazis Makine Last Ditch Fisht

REGIMENT ATION HIT BY DEWEY   Bricker Attacks ‘Politics’ o ‘New Deal Court’

90 NON-NAZIS ARE GETTING DEMOCRACY   They Will Be Policemen When Germany Surrenders

Sea ee ese a Ne:  Gains. Made On ‘Adriatic   -Righth Army Forces . Push Beyond Cervia

ADVANCE-CONTINUED TOWARD PORT AND COMMUNICA-. ‘. TIONS  CENTER—NAZI. ATTACKS BROKEN UP

Allied Advance Driving Close To Port Of Livorne   Hub Of Arezzo In Italy Also Being Approached By Allied Forces   NAZI RESISTANCE APPEARS STIFFER

Late Bulletins   Recidents of Manila Start Evacuation   Britich-eIndian Forces Near Tiddim

Prime Minister Churchill Back to London This Morning   On Hand for Final Alliec Invasion Planning by Generals.

Has Medel Ballet for Soldiers   Measures 9x12 Inches and Is Easy To Mail

Assured ‘of Ballot  in Coming Elections   Arrange for Earlier Rune Date for: All Candidates

 Ballot Approved For Voting Of lowa’s    Servicemen Overseas   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent 

Japs Cling to Imphal Posts-Yield Bogadjim   New Guinea Triumph Offset by Isolation Of Imphal by Japs Blockading Route

JAPS. LOSING IN NEW.GUINEA BUT GAIN IN INDIA   Australians Capture Bog-adjim and Much Booty, Imphal Now Virtually   Iso’ ated

BOGADJIM FALLS TO AUSTRALIANS   JAP TROOPS CLING FAST TO POSITIONS THREATENING IMPHAL

Japs Cling To Positions In India   Yield Bogadjim In New Guinea To Australian  Troops

Bogadjim on New Guinea Coast Is Taken by Aussies   But Jap Success In India Offsets Gain in Pacific

Kurile Islands Raided For Fourth Straight Day: Tojo Announces Full Agreement Reached By Germany, Japan On War Plans

ALLIED BASE AT IMPHAL 1S ISOLATED   ‘Japs Cling Fast to Lasi  Road Link Between Defenders of Bastion and ‘the Main Allied Forces  ae Teadin.

Enemy Clings to Positions Near Imphal   Japanese - German - Italian Conference in Tokyo Expresses Confidence

New Guinea Bese Falls to Aussies   But in India Japs Cling to Positions Menacing Imphal

Aussies Drive Japs From Bogadjim bu! Imphal is Isolated  Allies Move Against Madang ix New Gninea While Jap Threa

(APS GLINGING TO POSITIONS   Hold Sites Threatening tmphal and Supply Line in N. Burma.   YIELD WN. GUINEA POINT

Maintain. Threat To Imphal And Allies  ~ Rall. Fina   LOSSES HEAVY   Australians: - Capture Booty: of War ~ - BRauinment::

Aussie Troops Take Bogadjim, On New Guinea   Japs In India Cling To Threatening _ Positions  Around Imphal.

Jap Base In New Guinea In  Allied Hand:   Bogarjim Is Captured; Enemy Holds Position In India Area; Imphal Mav Be Isolated

JAPANESE YIELDED NEW GUINEA BASE BUT HOLD IN INDIA   IMPHAL AND RAILWAY LINE OF ALLIES THREATENED BY ENEMY

JAPAN YIELDS BOGADJIM TO ALLIED GROUP   Offsets Loss In India; Hold New Imphal Line

Isolation Of Imphal Now Is Possible   Nazi and Jap Council Held In Tokyo—Tojo Praises Wehrmacht

JUDGES CHANGE —MNICOL ACTION   High Court Orders Appeals Body To Review Evidence

Guam Hit By U. $. Planes   First Land Based Air Attack Is Successful

Americans Blas! Guam, Former U. 5. Outpost   Nimitz Announces First Land-Based Strike at Island

Nazi Defenses All Way Across Italy Broken   Key Highway Center of Siena is Captured

Allies Crack Open Florence  Line Defenses   French Capture Siena: Yanks Take Cecina

Siena Falls As Gothie Line Breaks   Allied Forces Drive Up Both Coasts In General Advance

NAZI DEFENSES ACROSS ITALY BROKEN OPEN   Allies Capture Siena. Push Rapidly Toward Livorno And Ancona

ITALY TAKE KEY CENTER   iena Falls as All Nazi Defense: Break Open

Allies Pulverize Long Nazi Line Below Florence   Take Highway Center of Siena, Eighth Also: Goint

Allies Driving Up Coasts of Italy   Break Upon German Defenses and French Forces StOrm Into Siena—Florence Objective

NAZI LINE IS CRACKED IN ITALY   French Troops Capture Siena, Key Road Center

Allied Troops Break Open Nazi Defense Across 160 Mile Belt Of The Italian Peninsular Today   Capturing The Key Highway Center Of Siena On Florence Road

French Grip Historic Art City of Siena   German Lines Foiding Across Width of Thaly

NAZI DEFENSES CRACK, FRENCH OCCUPY SIENA   Allies Push Toward Coast Cities Along 160-Mile - Line Across Italy ©

German Defenses Across Italian Peninsula Broken   Key. Highway Center of Siena On Road  -Te Florence Seized .

Cecina, Siena Fall to Allies   British Also Gain on Italian Front

Exports From Italy, Including Wine, Rat — Poison, Arrive In U: S.

ieetieneeiieeee es  Yanks Retake Bougainville Tree After 17.- Day Strugele

Yanks Near Nazis’ Lifeline in Italy   U. S. Troops Advance Mile Toward Bologna

FRIDAY TO BE. MILD   'Snow Blanket Still Covers Much of Northern Kansas

MAY LOWER RATION POINTS = ON BEEF STEAK AND ROASTS   FOOD OFFICIALS ISSUE STATE‘MENT ON SUPPLY OF VAR. ‘1OU8 PRODUCTS IN FUTURE

pHEAVIER BEEF SUPPLIES SEEN   Reduced Pork Output May Return Rationed Cuts

CIVILIANS MAY. . ” RECEIVE INCREASE IN BEEF STEAKS   Less. ‘Butter, ‘Cheese and Eyaboniis Milk During July and . uo. pele MBE OS

‘More Steaks ‘Expected in ‘Late Summer   Ration of Choice Pork Cuts Likely, Says WFA Report

Madison Capital Times Declares Support Of Democratic Candidates For Offices Of U. S Senator And Governor—Calls For Progressive And Liberal Solidarity

Yanks Win Battle For Italian Town   Lajatico Captured After Fierce Fighting

Hurricane Is Moving No rthward   Storm Misses North Carolina Coast; May Strike In New England

Hurricane on Way North   Howling Storm Passes Hatteras Bound for New England Coast

BYRNES GA IN DEMO RACE FOR 20 PLACE  INS   One of Five Men Acceptable to F. D. R. as Running Mate

REPORT BYRNES GAINS SUPPORT AT CONVENTION   MOBILIZATION. DIRECTOR SAID TO BE GETTING EDGE OVER BARKLEY-—-WALLACE. CHANCES FADING:

WALLACE GETS F.D.R. SUPPORT   James Byrnes Gains Ground in Wide Open Second Choice Tilt

Byrnes Gaining ~ As Possibility For Nomination   President’s Letter ‘‘Gently Blesses’’ Wallace For Vice President

BYRNES GAINING GROUND IN RACE FOR F D. RUNNING MATE   President Prefers Wallace— But Won't Dictate To Convention Delegates  Mississippi Caucus Against Roosevelt— Big Dem Show Opens Tomorrow

BYRNES GAINS AS CHOICE FOR RUNNING MATE   Roosevelt's Letter “Blessing” Wallace Expected To Have Little Effect

BASES OF JAPANESE. BOMBED BY AIRMEN   Truk and Woleia Islands Are Again © Raided

TRUK ATTACKE SECOND TIME BY HEAVY BOMBERS   Fuel Stores Set Afire On Dublon Island; Woleia Raided   RADIO SILENCE MASKS OPERATIONS OF FLEET

Pal “AXIS GROUPS UPSET ARGENTINA   Three of President Ramirez’s Ministers Are Forced to  Rasigqn

Argentine Axis Group in Control   Bloodless Coup Threatens Pro-Allied Government

Three Argentine Heads Ousted   Coup Engineered By Group Opposed to Break With Axis

ARGENTINA WAR FOILED BY ARMY   Young Officers “Prevent Leaders Declaring Hostilities on Axis

NATIONALISTS CAUSE CRISIS IN ARGENTINA   President Ramirez Apparently Left in Precarious Situation By Bloodless Coup   PRO-NAZI IN CONTROL

Force Resignation O: Three Top Officials President Himsel! May Quit

PATERNITY SUIT MAY BE RENEWED   BARRY ATTORNEY HINTS AT “DAY IN COURT”

RA STRIKE THREAT MADE   ILLINOIS CENTRAL MAY HAVE . “°WALKOUT AS RESULT OF . HIRING JAP-AMERICANS — AS TRACKMEN -

Chaplin’s Defense Curtailed   Court Ruling Against Joan’s Relations With Other Men  Limits Testimony.

FOURTH TERM ENDORSED      Democrats Recommend Burke for Vice President

Panic Develops in Balkans  Fe Sy on. Sh, nn,    Civilians Ordered From Bessarabia

NEW SYOTEN EFFECTIVE OK FEBRUARY    Draftees May Be Called For Medical Examination At Least 21 Days Before They Are Called For Induction   MOVE IS MADE TO PREVENT HARDSHIP‘

Draft Boards Begin Working On New Plan   Change In Procedure To Aid -JIn Removing Uncertainty For Registrants

Draft E Boards 8 tart New ‘Test Policy   1-A’s. to Be Examined at - Least 21 Days: Before: “Induction <0 «:

Men To Take Exam, Then Learn If Eligible For  Service; Induction Later

Ike Calls for More Supplies   Home Front Is Urged to Push Its Job With Mounting Invensity   INOT CRITICIZING, NEED IS GREATER   Maximum Effort Required, Must Increase Pressure Steadily on All Fronts

Eisenhower Asks For More Supplies   To Increase Pressure On Nazis; Praises Feat Of French At Belfort

GENERAL SAYS ALLIED ARMIES TOHIT HARDER   Calls for Increased Production to Speed The End of War

More Supplies!’ ls Eisenhower's Plea To Nation   Pressure To Increase Until Germany Is - . Crushed

WILL SPEED UP ATTACKS UNTIL NAZIS CRUMBLE   Yanks In Need Of Mor Supplies to Hurry Day of Victory

Picket Line At Local Telephone Exchange      Eisenhower Sounds Call. For More Supplies

Eisenhower Plans  To Hit Germans On All Fronts   Appeals for Supreme Effort At Elome to Contmue Until Day © of Victory.

Eisenhower Calls for More Materie   Says He Plans to Increase Pressure All Along Western Front Until Germans Are Crushed

GEN. IKE" ASKS MORE SUPPLIES   PLANS TO INCREASE PRESSURE ON WEST

EISENHOWER 10 PUT PRESSURE AGAINST NAZIS   More Supplies Are Needed For Quick Victory March

Keep on Job, Message. Sent to Home Front   isenhower Asks More Supplies in Outlining Plans for Campaign

Kisenhower In Need Of More  Arm Supplies   General Says Plan I. To Increase Pressure Steadily  All Along Front.   FIGHT UNTIL VICTORY

Calls Allies ‘To Greater Effort _   Eisenhower Says Pressure On Nazis Must Increase Till Will  TN, Bight Collanses

Eisenhower Tells Of Plans for Continuing War  Commander Prepare: To Add Pressure, Wants More Supplies

MORE SUPPLIES NEEDED IN WAR   Eisenhower Says More SupPlies Are Needed Than Army Is Getting.

Appeals For More Supplies To Feed PowerhouseDrive   Commander Declares Plan Is To Step Up Pressure Until Germany Crushed

Greater Supplies Necessary To Crush Germany Supreme ‘Commander Declares in Talk

Supplies Needed   PRESSURE TO BE STEADILY INCREASED ON WEST FRONT UNTIL GERMANS CRUSHED

Eisenhower Asks Greater Supplies For Western Front   ‘Says Future Plan Is To Increase Pressure Until Nazis Crushed

General EisenkewerSays > Allied Pressure To: Increase All Along Western Front

General Plans to Increase  Pressure All Along West-  ern Front Until Ger maus Are Crushed 

Eisenhower Asks More Supplies _  Calls For Great Home Front Effort

More Supplies Declared Need By Eisenhower   Allied Leader Plans to Increase Pressure cn Nazis

No Sign of German  Crackup   Eisenhower’s Plan Is to Steadily  Increase Pressure And Crush Enemy

Tempo of Pressure to Be Increased Until Germany Falls, Says Eisenhower

Eisenhower to Increasc Pressure; Needs More Supplies on West Front

Eisenhower Announces Plan To Increase Pressur All Along Western Front Until Nazis Surrender

GENERAL CALLS ON NATIONS FOR MORE SUPPLIES   Allied Commander Declares Pressure Will Increase Along Entire Front

Eisenhower to Hit Nazis With More Pressure   ~ To Steadily Increase Blows Against Enemy Until They Surrender, ‘Allied. Chief Says

Eisenhower Says More Pressure To Be Exerted   Supreme Commander Calls On Home Front For Greater Efforts

More Supplies Needed, Says Eisenhower   Plans To Increase Pressure Steadily Against Germans

Applying Pressure Until Nazis Crack Is Formula Eisenhower Gives for Victory: Asks More Supplies

CAMP PERRY HEAD RECEIVES PROTEST   German Prisoners Allowed in Streets, Charge

'Mother Proud, But Worried, Too ‘Piqua Flier America’s Ace ‘Of 2 Wars If Claims O. K.’d

NEWSPAPER EDITORS IN ANNUAL MEETING   Society President Dedicates Session ta ‘Responsible Journalism.’

URGES NATION'S  PRESS TO GUARD  THE HOME FRONT PRESIDENT OF ASNE  SAYS CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS AIM

NEWSPAPER EDITORS HARP TOO MUCH ON FREFROM OF PRESS   PRESIDENT OF BODY SAYS FREE PRESS MUST BE DESERVED TO SURVIVE

EDITOR REVIEWS VITAL PROBLEMS   Nation's Papers Must ‘Keep Home Front Sound’ K. C. Stor Editor Avers

Fierce German Resistance Stops Reds at Budapest; Berlin Reports Huge Russian Armies in Hungary

Stiff Nazi Resistance  Stalls Reds   Moscow Silent on Progress of Drive Against Budapest

BUDAPEST MAY BE ‘STALINGRAD’ OF HUNGARIANS   Reds Stalled At Gates But Tighten 50-Mile Siege Are

‘Axis Spokesman Admits Pressure And Calls Off  Hungarian People  :   TO MAKE THEIR CITY LIKE STALINGRAS   Both Sides Were Reported Suffering Very Heavy Casualties

i ical Nazis * Soviets At , * dapest Gates   Hungarian Citizens Called On To Make Stalingrad” Stand

DESPERATE STAND BY NAZIS STALLS SOVIET ASSAULT AT BUDAPEST GATE   City May Become New Stalingrad

CLIMAX NEAR IN BATTLE OF BUDAPEST   Russians Stalled Momentarily At Gates of City

Germans Stall Budapest Push   Hope to Make City ‘Another Stalingrad’

Battle Scene Like Old Comedy Acts   Rangers Chased Germans, Then Had to Beat It

BYRNES: THINKS INSURANCE BLL IS TQ LIBERAL   War Mobilization Head - Intervenes in Coming - Congressional Battle 

BYRNES OPPOSES $35 WEEKLY _AS-UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS   PAYMENTS UP TO $24 WEEKLY UNDER STATE CONTROL PROPOSED BY MOBILIZATION DIRECTOR

BYRNES TniftAS INSURANCE. BILL IS [00 LIBERAL   War Mobilization Head Intervenes in Coming Congressional Battle

BYRNES ENTERS, JOB PAY BATTLE   Proposes Compromise Be tween Bills Now Studied

BYRNES ENTERS ~ SECURITY FIGH   War Mobilization Chief : Opposed To Kilgore Bill

HEAVIER PACIFIC BLOWS PLANNED   Operations Outlined By High Navy Officials

Powerful Blows On Japs Mappec   Retired General Swears Vengeance

Ne're Going to Pour in’ on Japs   Increasingly Powerful Blows in Pacific War Outlined by Military Leaders at West Coast Conference

HEAVY BLOWS AGAINST JAPS ARE OUTLINED   Holcomb Says Yankees Will “Pour In”

Bloodiest Battle Of Pacific War Rages on Saipan   Nippons Surround Vital Chinese City of Hengyang

BLOODIEST BATTLE OF PACIFIC ON   Rages Across Tiny Saipan Island In Marianas

Lively Allied Air Action In Pacific Area   Stirs Jap Fears After Heavy Week-end Superfort Raids

Allies Seal Doom Of Jap Points In Pacific Area  Aussies Storn Sio; Yanks  - Ascend Hill 660

2 Key Jananese Strons Points May Fall Today   American Marines Forging Ahead In Cape Gloucester  Area

Marines Storming Hill 660; Heavy Raids On Marshalls By U. S. Bombers

Fall of Two Jap Bases ir Pacific Near   Aussies Storm Sio, New Guinea; Marines Battle for Hill 660

Jap Points About fo Fall   Nipponese Trying to Files; Huon Peninsula ‘ -

Australians Storm Into Sio Outskirts   Marines Battle For Hill Position Dominating Bay

Allies Imperit Two Jap Strongholds   U. S., Aussies Storm Sio and Vital Hill on New Guinea

TWO JAPANESE POINTS TOTTER   Aussies Reach Outskirts of Sio, New Guinea—Marines Battle for Hill

New Guinea Stronghold N ear Collapse   Aussies Capture Jap Gung, Supplies In Vicinity of Sio

Fall of Two Jap Key Strongpoints Believed Near  Australians Storm Into Outskirts of Base at Sio

JAP PATROLS GUT DADS IN IMPHAL ARE!   Move Apparently Designed to Take Railway Lifeline to Stilwell.

Japs Reported Severing Roads Around Imphal   Offensive Obviously Aimed At Railway Lifeline To Stilwell’s Forces

Nipponese Patrols Cut Roads Leading to Manipur Capital   Crisis at Imphal Not Re. garded as Serious by Allied Command

Stilwell's Lifeline Seen As Objective   Crisis At Imphal Expected To Be Ove! come Shortly .

Roads Around Imphal, India Cut By Nippons   British Officials At New Delhi, However. Do Not Fear For Safety of Garrison

aah A Area   of fensive Seen’‘Aimed at  Dimapur; Enemy  Harassed in South

—PACIFIC—  JAPS CUT ROADS  AROUND (MPH!   Offensive Is Aimed At Dimapur On AssamBurma Railroad   HEAVY FIGHTING   Indications Are Threat To Manipur Capital Will Be Broken

Fierce Fighting Reported In Hill Country Of India . .  Jap Jungle Patrols Have Cut Roads Into Imphal

CUT HIGHWAYS AROUND IMPHAL   jap Patrols Aiming at DimaPur, Lifeline to Stilwell’s Forces.   ACTION NOT NECESSARY?

OFFENSIVE SEEN AIMED ATDIMAPUR   Allies, Minimizing Menace, Say Crisis Will Be Overcome

IMPHAL ROADS CUT BY JAP PATROLS IN INDIA.   Allied Command Apparently Regards Enemy Penetration as Not Serious

Jan Forces Slice Roads To Imphal Allies Confiden!   Yank Commandos In Gliders Land Tc Cut Supply Lines Of Enemy

WILL HANDLE THE JAPS IN INDIA   Situation There Not Expected To Become Critical

FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES IN INDIA AS JAPS FROM BURMA CUT LINES   ‘Elsewhere in Pacific War, However, Enemy Bases Are Smashed by Allied Planes and Battered by Jungle Fighters

Japs Sever Road North Of Imphal    Enemy Endeavors To Cut Stilwell’s Supply Line

CUT ROADS IN IMPHAL AREA   Enemy Directs Offensive At Dimapur, Vital Lifeline Of Stilwell’s Forces

Allies Repulse Jap Drive to Reach Highway)   Anflict Casualties on Nips Attempting to Advance on Imoha

Pushes Toward Allied Key Town   JAP ADVANCE PATROLS REPORTED MAKING GAINS.

Japs Sneak Onto Plain Of Manipur, Cut Imphal Roads   Filter Through Jungles In Eastern End Of India

Japanese Cut Imphal Roads In East India   Offensive Obviously Aimed At Dimapur, Allied Life Line.

Roads Around Imphal Cut by Jap Patrols   Offensive Aimed At Dimapur, on Railway Lifeline  Of Allied Forces

Jap Patrols Cut Roads Near Imphal In Manipur   British Still Say Crisis Will Be Overcome; Enemy Is Being Held

Imphal Is Isolated ‘By Jap Forces   Invading Troops Aim Their Offensive Ai Dimapur In Effort Tc Cut Assam-Burma Line

Imphal Road Cut By Japs   Filter Over Jungles. In Ditmaphur Drive

Jap’s Burma Drive Is Aimed at Isolating Stilwell  Roads Around Imphal Cut; Second Nip Column Halted

Japs Isolate Imphal, Menace Stilwell Line   Enemy Patrols Filter Through Jungles Of  Eastern India

Japs Cut Roads Leading To Key Manipur Capital   Allies Confident Crisis To Burma Lifeline Can Be Overcome.

Japs in India Cut Roads   Fierce Fight Rages In Wild Hill Country

JAPS CUT ROADS AROUND IMPHAL, MANIPUR CAPITAL   AIM OFFENSIVE AT DIMAPUR ON ASSAM TO BURMA RAILWAY

Roads Around Imphal Cut   British Still Profess to Be Unworried; Myitkyina Further Cut Off

IMPHAL ROADS CUT BY JAPS NEAR DIMAPUR   Japanese Suffer Heavy Losses On Islands

DR. HOSSAIN 10 SPEAK HERE   First Talk of Hour Club Address Planned at Method'st Church

DR HOSSAN TQ SPEAK HERE   First Talk of Hour ~ Club. Address. Planned’ at Methodist Church

‘Democratic Party Prepares To, Send  Walker On Tour To Soothe Southern Members

Bombers Unload 113  Tons of Explosives on Japs at Halmahera   Heavy, Widespread Damage Caused to Enemy Installations; Nips Fail to Send Up Any Interception

FLOODS RAGING: ‘IN TWO STATES   ‘THREE ‘DEATHS REPORTED IN KANSAS AND MISSOURI— - WICHITA THREATENED.

Flood Waters Extend Over. A Wide Area   Missouri And Kansas Stricken By Heavy Downpour

JAP BALLOON STUMPS MONTANA RESORT CITY   FBI CALLED TO INVESTIGATE MYSTERIOUS DEVICE; MAY HAVE CARRIED ENEMY AGENTS

Gasoline Trucks Taken Off Roads   Complications of Strike Spreading

Fuel Shortage  Menaces State   Truckers Dispute Brings Serious Shortage To Motor. Tractor Fuel.

#lull Urges U. 5. To Spur Efforts   Warns Against Over-Optimism About German Situation

Hull Says Attack on Hitler Shows Realization of Defeat Spreading

Hull Warns of  Overoptimism   Says Germans Realize Impending Defeat

Yanks Chase Jap Troops Into Hills   Destruction Of Yamashita Line Ends Resistance

Yank Divisions Pursuing Isolated Japs On Leyte   Yamashita Line Now Completely Destroyed, Dispatches Reveal

Leyte Campaign Has Reached Mop-Up Stage   Combat Engineers Complete Oil Strip On Mindoro Island

Americans Smash All Organized Enemy  Resistance in Leyte Island Campaign   Substantial Superfortress Force Bombs Manchuria Arsenal Cente

JAPANESE DEFENSES ARE SPLIT   Three U. S. Divisions Pursue Enemy Into  Corner Of Isle

MOPUP STAGE REACHED ON LEYTE ISLE   Isolated Groups Of Japs Pursued By U. $._Troops_

CAMPAIGN ON LEYTE NEARLY OVER, REPORT   Three American Divisions Mopping Up Japs In Hill Area

INDIANS JOIN IN MURDEROUS JAP  ROUT AT ARAWE   2-Year Training in Jungle . Warfare Terminates In Bloody 1,000-Yard Advance.

U.S. Indians In Arawe Attack Upon Japanese   Jap Defenders Forced To Retreat After Savage Frontal Attack   “BUSHMASTERS’’ OPEN ATTACK UPON JAPS

TWO CRUISERS, ‘SUNK’ _ BY JAP RATIO, RETURN  "TO SEA AFTER REPAIRS

WORK DRAFT “TS PROPOSEE   USE OF 4-F MEN IN WAR PLANTS 1S AGAIN BROUGHT UP FOR CONSIDERATION

PROPP*AL TQ DRY af § Pood   . ¢ Asked as Means to. Sure Critical Manpower Shortage

Violent Artillery Battle Taking Place On The Cassino Front In Italy

CASSINO BOMBERS ALSO HIT ALLIEDHELD VENAFRO   Accidental Bombing of Own Troops by Americans Re vealed in Delayed Message.

Victory Ahead But Fiehts To Be Costly   Odds Favoring The Allies In Power  Forge Triumph

WAR OUTLOOK OF NEW YEAR IS REALISTIC   NO BREAKUP WITHIN REICH EXPECTED BY A L LIES

Allies Give Up Hope for Nazi Morale Break; Hard and Costly Battles Expected in 1945

ENEMY WITHIN 12 MILES OF STRONGHOLD   280,000 Men Gather Upon Changsha, on Main Railread

Japs Nearing Key Chinese Rail City   Enemy Now Only 12 Miles From Changsha

Surprise Attack Made by British At Beachhead   Germans Are Driven From Strona Point

MANY NAMES ARE MENTIONED ~ AS ROOSEVELT RUNNING-MATE   WASHINGTON POLITICIANS AP. PARENTLY AGREED THAT. WALLACE WOULD BE  ” ‘LIABILITY IN RACE

FARMER GOAL “NOT REACHED   WPB, REPORTS FARM MACHINERY OUTPUT ABOUT FIVE’: PER CENT BELOW.  ‘BCHEDULE = ¢

FARM MACHINERY FELL OFF IN PRODUCTION   Some Items Still in Critical Shortage Category   GARDEN TRACTORS OFF

VISITS 2 HOMES IN CITY DURING NIGHT   At Residences of Ardell Spangler and Mrs. Laura Junken

FIREWORKS FOR CELEBRATION OFV-DAY   Display in Lytle Park to Climax Observance

Bob Burlingame, News Commentator Discusses War and Peace to Follow   WHO Broadcaster Addresses Large Forum Audience In LeMars

LAST OF METZ FORTS FALLS TO AMERICANS   Long Air and Artillery Bombardment Finally Puts Jeanne d’Areé Out of Action.

U.S. Planes Hit North of Japan  Aleutian Craft Strike   Aleutian Craft Strike  Closer to Foe’s Isles

Aleutian-based Bombers Strike ai Kuriles, 310 Miles from Japan   Raid on Balikpapan Costly —7 Big Planes Lost on Mission over Borneo

KITA ISLANDS HIT BY GREAT BOMBER FORCE   Borneo Bombed In Attack On Jap Oil Fields

Bomb Kurile Islands, 310 Miles of Japan   Two Bombers Shot Down in Fierce Air Battles

Bombers Based In Aleutians Strike Within 310 Miles Of Japan In Record Kurile Raid

Bombers Hit Kurile Isle, Oil Centers   Aleutian-Based Planes Strike Closest to Tokyo of Any Previous Raid

BOMBERS STRIKE FROM ALEUTIANS   Sweep Within 310 Miles of Japan in Deepest Raid

Tokyo Reports Attack on Kurile Islands  Americans Have N¢   Americans Have No Confirmed Jap Story of Raids

U. §. Bombers Strike Near Nip Homeland   Target In Kuriles, But 310 Miles From Japan, Attacked

KURILE ISLAND TARGET STRUCK   Yank Bombers Hit Kitka in Deepest Penetration Of Jap Isles

Liberators Attack Kita  Island Twice   ‘Balikpapan Attack Costly but Successful; Nine More Jap Freighters Destroyed or Damaged

South Kurile Isle Bombed By Americans  7 Liberators Lost    7 Liberators Lost In Latest Air Assault  On Balikpapan; Hit Important Positions

BOMBERS BLAST JAPANESE BASES   Kuriles, Borneo Oil Center Are Main Targets

BOMBERS BASED IN ALEUTIANS HIT NEAR JAPAN   Blast Jap Target in Kurile Islands Only 300 Miles From Homeland

YANKS BOMB BORNEO REFINERIES AGAIN, SHOOT DOWN 19 ZEROS   ALEUTIAN-BASED PLANES HIT KITA IN KURILES ONLY 310 MILES FROM JAPAN; 9 SHIPS SMASFIED

Attack Made On Kita Island In Kuriles   Bombers From Aleutians Penetraie Deeply Into Kuriles To Deliver Blow Against Japs

—PACIFIC— Island Near Japan Hit By  U.S. Bomb:   Aleutian-Based A irme I Strike Within 310 Miles Of Nippon oo

Americans Blast Kita Isle, 310 Miles of Japan   U. S. ‘Suicide Boys’ ‘Bomb Hell’ Out of  Borneo Oil Center

U.S. Bombers Strike 310 Mile: From Japan   Kita, In Kuriles, Blasted By Planes From Aleutians

Yankee Bombers Within 310 Miles Of Japan In Raid   Fly From Aleutians To Strike Hard In Kuriles

Planes From Aleutian Base Sweep Within 310 Miles Of Japan.   REPORT 2 PLANES DOWN

US Bombers Make Raid  In Kuriles 2nd Balikpapan Raid A “Success”

Tokyo Reports American Raid On Kita Island   Japs Report Attack On Babelthuap; China Picture Gloomy; New Chinese Front Asked

JAPS SAY U.S. BOMBERS HIT KURILES SPO      Kita Island Raided By Planes From Aleutians

U.S. Planes Strike Deep Into Kuriles Near Japan   ‘Deepest Strike Is. Made From Aleutians

U.S. Planes Sweep Within 310 Miles of Japan; Smash  Kita Island From Aleutan:

Bomb Kita ‘In Kuriles, Tokyo Says   7 Liberators  Lost in Bombing Of Balikpapan, MacArthur Reveals

Planes From Aleutians Hit Kurile Isle:   Sweep to Within 310 Miles Of Japan In Deepest, Strike From North  Rases

RAIDERS STRIKE CLOSE TO JAPAN   Hit Kuriles Only 310 Miles From Enemy Homeland

BOMBERS HIT 310 MILES OFF JAPAN COAST   Liberators Attack Kita in Kuriles. Costly Liberator Raid Made on  Borneo Oi! Center

Tokyo Reports U. S. Bombers Hit Kuriles, 310 Miles From Japan   Borneo Oil Center Hit Again At Cost Of Sever Liberators And At Least 19 Zeroes; Enemy’s Defense Vicious.

Stage Deep Raid On Kurile Isles From: Aleutian   Report: 2. Liberators Lost  "In Battle Over Kita; 11,043 Jans Palau Toll,

MIGHTY BLOWS STRUCK FROM NORTH, SOUTH   ' Aleutian - Based Planes  In Deepest Strike Against Kuriles

Planes Sweep Within 310 Miles of Japan   Attack Follows up Another Blow at Great Japanese  Oil Center

OUTER DEFENSES OF JAPS BOMBED   ‘Suicide Boys’ Blast Oi Center on Borneo Again

Planes Hit Jap Targets  Near Toky O   J’, S. Continues Devastating Attacks Against Enemy Fuel Supplies

Aleutian Planes Close to Japan  Raids in Borneo   Raids in Borneo Heavily Opposed

AMERICAN BOMBERS SWEEP TO WITHIN 310 MILES JAP MAINLAND  ANOTHER DEVASTATING _ ATTACK ON ENEMY GASO‘ LINE PRODUCTION

ALEUTIAN-BASED  BOMBERS POUND  KITA IN KURILES ATTACK ON BORNEO  OIL CENTER COSTLY BUT GETS RESULTS

Yanks Bomb Kita Island   Jap News Agency Reveals Deep Kurile Islands Penetration

Yank Planes Attack Outpost 310 Miles From Nip Homelanc      Seven “Libs” Shot Down in Balikpapan Raid, Air Force Says

BROWNS LEAD WORLD SERIES BY ONE GAME   Sportsman Park Scene Of 1944 Ball Classic

Browns Have  Edge   ~Cards ‘Will Have to Hustle to Keep RedHot Rivals from Running Away With Series

Cooler Weather At Today’s Came   Jakucki. Brecheen to Oppose Each Other on Mound at St. Louis

FDR OUTLINES ECONOMY AIMS   Crowd Of More Than 100,000 Hears Chicago Talk

Large Crowd Hears FDR At Chicago.   Makes a Review of His Accomplishments

resident Proposes Aid To Business To Employ 60.000, halal Ww vorke “rs   karm Guarantees Aiso On Agenda   More Vhan 1LOO.OOO) At Chicago Hear Him Scorn GOP For Claims

110,000 AtAR HIM SPEAK IN SOLDIER FIELD   Proposes Gov't Help Private Enterprise fo Finance Plant Expansion.

‘President *Cites Plans For Peace   Crowd Of 100,000 Hears Roosevelt In Chicago  Speech.  @. WEwmmrmazaaw a rerrys

U.S. FLIERS BLAST NORTH NEW GUINEA   281 Tons Dropped; Biggest Attack Aimed At Hollandia

YANK AIRMEN UNOPPOSED IN PACIFIC RAIDS   Japs Put No Planes Ir Air In North New Guinea Area

Confesses To  Slaying Child   Delay In Trial Of Anothe Accused Of Crime To Be Sought.

British Guns Shell German  Escape Route   Tommies Within Two Miles Of Breda; Canadians In Bergen Op Zoom

British Press Three-Column DriveOn Breda   Canadians Take Bergen Op Zoom To Tear Away Enemy West Flank.

Stettin, Nazi Baltic Port, Bombed   Mosquitos Back Agair Over Ber'in, Other Enemy Targets

Stettin Is Hammered In Latest _ RAF Blow   Big Nazi Baltic Port Given Heavy Dose; Battered Berlin Hit Again

GERMANY’S MAIN PORT ON BALTIC POUNDED BY RAF   Stettin Hammered by Bomb ers—-Mosquito Planes Hit Berlin Again

BRITISH LOSE 15 PLANES IN STETTIN RAID   Half Of Berlin Reported Destroyed

Assoult Is Linked With Berlin Fight; Kiel Base Pounded; 95. Nazis Downed

MOSQUITOS HIT BERLIN NEW BLOWS   Dual Raids Intended To Shatter German Lifeline To Russia

Sfettin, Nazi Port On Baltic, Baftered By RAF   Double-Edged Raid Seen As Disrupting Supplies To Berlin

Stettin, Big "Nazi Baltic Port, Bombe   Assault Aimed At Dis. rupting Vital Germar Supplv Route.

LARGEST NAZ BALTIC PORT RAID TARGET   Double-Edged Assault Calculated to Disrupt Emergency Supply System to Berlin   FIFTEEN CRAFTS LOST

Target Vital Marine and: - Railway Terminal For   Supply of Huns In i Russia     ROWwL DITNTHN Doroir   BOMB-PITTED REICH CAPITAL ALSO HIT   Fifteen Aircraft Are Lost!  . In_ Assorted Attacks   In Germany and France

Heavy Attack Is Made Upon Stettin   Berlin Also Blasted Again by RAF; 15 Planes Are Lost

Stettin Suffers Heavy Attack; Berlin Also Hit   U. S. Planes Wreck Keil's Arsenal ‘And Shipyards

Mass Raid On Big Baltic Port; Berlin Bombed Again   Reds Race  Toward Rumania

ALLIES BLAST BALTIC PORT   American Bombers Attack 800 Miles of Enemy  Territory

Baltie Port Blasted by RAF Bombs   Berlin Also Assailed in Continuous Battle

TWIN AIR BLOW ROCKS EUROPE   BOMBERS POUR DEATH ON STETTIN, BERLIN

‘Stettin, Germany's Chief  Baltic Seaport, Blastec   RAF ’Town-Wreckers’ Smash Key. To Hitler's Russian Front Supply Line As Mosquitos Deliver New Blows Against Berlin

Kiel Shipyards Hit By Yankees  95 German Planes Shot Down In Daylight

BRITISH BLAST STETTIN IN BIG WIGHT ASSAULT   Mosquito Bombers Hit Berlin, West Germany and Northern France

R. A. F. Hits Stettin, Nazi Port on Ballic   Attack Carried Out On Large Scale With Good Results; Berlin Blasted by Mosquitos

Stettin Feels Fury Of RAF's Town Wreckers   Emergency Supply System Of Berlin Is Disrupted

RAF Raiders Blast Vital German Port   Berlin Also Bombed By Mosquito Planes In Double Assault

British Bombers Rock Stettin, Port on Baltic  Berlin Also Hit Along With  Coast of France

RAF BOMBERS BLAST STETTIN   Mosquitos Hit Berlin fr Double-Edged Assauit

ALLIED AIRMEN BOMB BERLIN, STETTIN, KIEI   feavy RAF Raid Blasts Balti Port, Center for Supply Lines tc Russian Freni   52 PLANES LOST   U.S. Bombers and Escorting Fighters Credited with Downing 95 Nazi Planes Wednesday

Blow Aimed At Battered Capital's Emergency Supply System; Estimate ~Berlin Now Half Destroyed, Additional 25 Per Cent Badly Datnaced.

NAZIS’ BALTIC PORT, STETTIN, BOMBED BY RAF   Supply Lines In Berlin Blasted In Night Raid

Stettin Port For . Russian Front  This Baltic Life Line Receives Severe Battering  BERLIN KEPT IN QraAtTh OF STRGR

‘STETTIN BOMBED BY RAF IN HEAVY NICHT RAID   ' British Mosquito Bombers Again Raid Berlin to Disrupt Emergency Supnly Line to Russia

Report Assault. On -Stettin Is Carried Out In Bright -: Moonlight On Big Scale.

Supply Lines Of Battered Capital Hit   Sweeping Raids Into Hit ler’s Europe Add 95 Nazis to Yanks’ Bag   i3 OF ALLIES LOST   Swedes Report. Huge Damage to Port of Kiel in Raid Wednesday

STETTIN, BERLIN BOMBED IN DUAL BRITISH ATTACK   Site of Largest Baltic Port Hit Hard by RAF Airmen

BIGGEST PORT ON BALTIC SEA   Blasted By RAF’s Heavy Town Wreckers; Berlin Raided Again.   FIFTEEN AIRCRAFT LOST

RAF Armadas Blast Stettin And Berlin   Heavy Bombers Assault Baltic Port In Effort To . Disrupt Lifeline to Capital And Russian Front.

RAF Blasts Stettin, Baltic Port   Berlin Bombed By Mosquitos— Hit at Emergency Supply System

Twin RAF Blow Jolts Nazi Cities   Baltic Port of  Stettin and Berlin  Are Flailed by “Town Wreckers’’

STETTIN GIVEN HARD BLOWS BY RAF BOMBS   British Flyers Disrupt Traffic Terminal; Yankee Bombers Destroyed Big Works in Kiel Raid.

Stettin Is Blasted By Night Shift   Berlin Also Peppered By Mosquito Attach, Part Of Twin Bill

Warplanes Hint of Next Objective   Giving Attention To Enemy-Held  Schouten Islands

TWINS DIE TOGETHER      Girl Falls Into Water and Brother Jumps After Her

WARD OFFICIALS REFUSE RECORDS   EARLY ACTION ON COURTS ON ARMY SEIZURE LIKELY

Early Court Action In Ward Case Likely   Final Settlement Of WLB Dispute Up To Supreme Court

Ward Refusa To Co-operate Hinders Army   Early Court Action To Confirm Seizure Considered Possible

Ward's Refusal To Submit Books May Speed Action  Early Court Hearing Seen As Officials Declare Army Must Take Records Unaided

U.S. Third Army Closing in Toward Fortress of Metz  Advance of 9 Miles Senedd in

Yanks Approach Enemy At Metz —~On-North, South   Seuth Nazis Reinforced: Reds Gain In Hungary; Allies Advance In Italy

Third Army Closing in Toward Metz   Patton Throws More Tanks Into Rising Offensive

Patton Steps Up Tempo of Offensive   Germans Pour in Reinforcements for Budapesi Battle; Supply Line in Danger

PLANES LAND ON WAKDE ih 48 HOURS   After Sixth Army Troops Drive Ashore; Gen. Mac Arthur Reports  Airdromes in Operation.   Two More Airdromes

Big Planes Already Using Wakde Strip   Yanks Running Into Stubborn Fight As They Drive On Toward Mainland Fields

Governors Split On Public Works   Sharply Divided On Postwar Plans

Drastic Cut in War Work Seer   Four Million To Need New Jobs—McNutt

WMC To Free Hold On Four Million Jobs   McNutt Is Also Planning Cut-Back In Munitions Program

V-DAY 10 END J08 CONTROLS   Four Million Workers To Lose Jobs Then, Says McNutt

Defeat of Nazis to See 4,000,000 Workers Released in United States

GOVERNMENT CONTROL TO END WITH SURRENDER OF GERMANY, McNUTT REVEALS AT MEETING

NAZI DEFEAT TO FREE 4,000,000 WORKERS   McNutt Says Munitions Wil Be Cut Back 40 Percent

BOB HOPE'S TROUPE IN CRASH-LANDING   Entertainers Unhurt as Trip in Australia Continues

‘Bob Hope, Miss Langford Escape Injury When Plane Is Forced Down

WAR TODAY   War Against. Japau May Run. Into. 1946 and Early End of War in Europe Is Oniy One’ Phase of Gigantic Effert

FIGHTING EXPECTED TO REACH — INTO 1946, ACCORDING TO NEW GOVERNMENT WAR COMMUNIOUE

Soviet Forces Over running  Budapest City   Nazis Reeling. Backward In - Westerit Sector But Gon-.. tinue Resistance In the Eassi

—RUSSIA—   Doomed Nazis Fight Grimly In Budapest   Cling To Eastern Sector Of City With Suicidal Resistance , _  1

Reds Plunge Into Budapest   Nazi Garrison Driven Back In Part of City, Holding Firm in. Eastern Sector

Budapest Fall Is Imminent As Russians Gain   Reds Extend Foothold In Capital; Nazis Cling With Suicidal Resistance.   INNER DEFENSE RIN(

SUICIDE TROOPS FACE RED ARMY   Nazi Defenders Take Tight Positions In Central Budapest.

German. Army Forms Inner~ Defense Ring Of Budapest    Troops: Flee FP rom » West. Part Of. City

Germans Still Cling to Parts of City   Russians Penetrate Several Defense Lines in Budapest

GERMANS BATTLING FANATICALLY FOR HOLD ON BUDAPEST  ONLY CHANCE FOR ESCAPE IS THROUGH AIR BY NIGHT IS REPORT

GERMANS FIGHT TO HOLD CITY   Garrison Of Foe Sent Reeling In Western Part Of Capital

Russians Storm Into Budapest, Doom Garrisor   Nazis Cling To City Throw Up Inside Defenses Abou  Capital

NAZIS REELED BACK IN CITY OF BUDAPEST   Are Driven Before Reds Pushing Into Western Section of City, but Cling Desperately to Its Eastern Half.

Nazis Resist in Doomed Budapest   German Troops Cling To Last Smoke-filled Sector as Reds Slash

Nazis Battle Grimly in Budapest   Soviet Forces  Pound Toward Heart of City— Nazi Losses Big

Germans Retreat To Inner Ring of Capital Defenses   Russians Now Are Attacking Budapest From Three Directions; Drive for Vienna

SOVIET FORCES EXTEND GAINS IN BUDAPEST   Fall of Hungarian Capital Imminent; Threaten Nazi Airfield

Reds Extend Penetrations  Of Budapest   Fall of Hungarian Capital Appears Near as Russ Attack Grows

GERMANS BATTLING FANATICALLY FOR HOLD ON BUDAPEST ~ ONLY CHANCE FOR ESCAPE IS THROUGH AR  wy RITCU? ro

Russians Fight in Budapest   Doomed Nazis Reel Backward But Put Up Stubborn Fight.

Budapest Fall Near; Reds Push Deep Into City   Nazi Suicide Garrisor Clings To Eastern Sec tion Of Capital

NAZIS CLING 10 EAST POSITIONS   Russians Attacking From Three Sides in City of Budanest.

Reds Batter Doomed Budapest Garrison      Berlin Admits Withdrawal To Inner Defense: For Last Stand With Three Russian Armies Pounding Toward Heart Of Capital.

FORCE DOOMED NAZIS BACK IN WEST BUDAPEST   GARRISON CLINGS TO POSITIONS IN EASTERN SECTOR

BATTLE RAGES IN HUNGARY'S CAPITAL CITY   Fall of Budapest Imminent; Soviets Drive Toward Austria

Nazi Troops In Budapest Are Doomed   ‘Russians Attacking Hungarian Capital From Three Sectors

Nazis Fight In Budapest  Doomed Garrison Reels Backward; Red Air

Doomed Nazi Garrison Reels ‘Backwards In Smoke-Filled Streets Of Western Budapest   Clings To Positions In Eastern Sector With Suicidal Resistance

Nazis in Budapest Cling To Positions   Reds Attack On All =e DO nm: he et Or

DOOMED GARRISON: OF GERMANS IN BUDAPEST REELING   Enemy Retrcating Through Smokefilled Streets.in Western Area of. City But Cling Tenaciously. to. Positions in Eastern Section

Reds Closing Budapest Trap   Battle Surges Through Hungarian Capital

NAZI RESISTANCE ENTER BUDAPEST   Fad of City Is Imminent With German Garrison Resisting in East Seecter,.

Doomed Nazi Reels Under Red Attack   Soviets Drive Toward Heart Of Budapest

GERMANS CLING TO POSITIONS j IN BUDAPEST  Red Air Forces  Hold Maste a

Suicide Stand In Budapest  Doomed Nazi Garrison   Doomed Nazi Garrison Clings to Positions In East Sector of City

Promise Broker By Finland, Soviets Charce.   “Germans Pemnitted To Remain in Country, Moscow: Paper: Asserts

Superior Foe Raiding Isles, Say Japanese  In Broadcast   U.S. Remains Silent ‘On Marshall Attacks

Nipponese Await Yank Landings On Home Shore   U. S. Bombers Hit Kuriles; American Ground Units Near Carigara Junction

Kurile Raid Stirs Alarm Among Enemy   Thought to Be Forerunner of U. $. Landing

~—WAR IN PACIFIC—  Japan Fears Landing   -.-On North Shore Of Home Island

Another Bombing Raid Is Made on Kurile Islands. .   Japs Say the Flight Over Tokyo... “Was Confined To Reconnoitering”:

TOKYO REPORTS AIR ATTACK ON KURILE ISLANDS   Down More Nip Planes it Pacific; Japan Asks China to Desert Allies

JAPANESE TANKS ARE TRAINING FOR ALLIED INVASION OF JAPAN   AMERICAN GROUND FORCES CONTINUE MOVE AHEAD IN PHILIPPINES

Japs Prepare for Home Invasion    Japs Ask Chiang To Join Nippon

Japs Hint Of Marshall Landing  Axis. Radio Stresses ~ Size Of Yank Force

JAPANESE TANKS ARE  TRAINING FOR ALLIED  INVASION OF JAPAN AMERICAN GROUND. FORCES CONTINUE MOVE  sent 1. gar WITT IMmnrer

TOKYO TELLS OF PREPARATIONS 10 REPEL INVASION   RADIO HINTS U. S. LANDING ON NORTH JAPAN IS EXPECTED

 ‘Superior’ U.S. Force Str cuck First Early Sunday   Land Action Hinted In Talk About Nip Army Units ‘Intercepting’;  Report Fierce Fighting

NIPS. BELIEVE AMERICANS MAY SOON TRY INVASION OF JAPAN PROPER AND PREPARATIONS ON

Tanks Training For Strike af Jap Homeland  Predict Philippines May Be Freed in

Tanks Train In Sector To Meet Blows   Meanwhile, U. S. Increases Production of Landing Craft

Kurile Islands: Bombed Again  By Americans   Tokyo Radio Reports Tanks Are Training To Meet Ex+ pected Landing by Yanks on Northern Shores of Nippon

JAPS PREPARE FOR INVASION   Expect Landings On Home Isles; Yanks Gain In Philippines

Nips Train Troops For Allied invasion of Northern Shore   U. S. Superfort Raid on Kuriles Stirs Jap Fears, Tokyo Reports

Japs Prepare for Landings by Americans   Believe Invasion of Island Is Only Matter of Time

Japanese Begin Setting Up Defenses In Belief Yanks To Land In North Japan

RRAMEL £ EL Es  U. S. Forces Closing Tu On Carigara Village In Leyte Campaign ©   [Bombing Raid On Kurile Islands Causes Tokyo’ Radio To Release Statement Of Preparations To  Renel American Invasion

Toky o Insists  Yanks Driv ing  On Marshall.   (Radios “Superior Enenty  ; Force Has Been Raiding   Islands Group” Since Sunday; U.S. Silent

Jittery Japs Fear Invasion Of Homeland  Petes, ee, eS, a ee   Train Tank Forces Along North Shore; Tokyo Changes Stor) On B-29 Activity

Nips Prepare For Landing  On Jap Shore   Enemy Tanks Training To Meet Expected American Invasion In North,   HIT KURILES AGAIN

Nips Train Tank Units To Repel Anticipated Landing As Kurile 1s Bombed Again

Japs Voice An Expectation Of Yank Invasion   In Philippines, American Forces Near Junction At Caricara.

U.S. Forces Near Junction in Philippines Battle   Report Second Bombing of Kuriles; Japs. Invite Chiang into Fold

JAPS EXPECT U, S, LANDING ON HOME SOIL   Preparing Tank Offensive To Meet Forces

Japanese Expect American Landing In North Islands   Yanks Converging On Carigara in Battle for Leyte

ANOTHER RAID IS MADE ON KURILES   { Tokyo Invites Chiang Kaishek To Quit Allies   AMERICANS   Near Junction At Carigara Enemy Escape Route In Philippines

EXPECT YANKS 10 THRUST AT NORTH SHORES   President Osmena Sees Complete Victory in Philippines Soon

Nips Expect U. 8. Landings on Northern Japan  Yanks Advance on Leyte Isle; No News On Tokyo Raic

JAPAN FEARS TANK LANDING ON MAINLAND   Reveal Another Allied Raid on Kuriles.—U. 8S. Forces Advancing Across Philippines.

‘Anticipate Drive on. Homeland   MacArthur's Men Fighting For Control OF Leyte Island.

Kurile Islands Bombed Again   U. §. Command Silent On Tokyo Raid

MONDAY BROUGHT NOTHING BUT SETBACKS FOR HITLER’S WALL OF DEFENSE INSIDE HIS EUROPE

German JSouth Ukrainian Armies May Be Forced Back to Bessarabian Border As Russians Crowd  Them into Corner. Aerial Offensives Blasts Roarlin

Great Allied Offensives ‘Tear Into Hither From Both Sides Iu Climactic European War

BRITAIN REFUSES RECOGNITION 10 FARRELL REGIME   Joins U. 8. in Move to Curb Power of New Argeritine Government.

SETBACK FOR ~NEW REGIME   BRITAIN JOINS U.S. IN REFUS ING TO RECOGNIZE NEW AR_GENTINA MILITARY GOVERNMENT

Great Britain Joins United States in Refusing Argentina Recognition

LIVORNO RAKED BY ENEMY GUNS   American Engineers Face Big Task To Reclaim Blocked Harbor

Yanks Make ‘New Gains Along Arno   Patrols Fight on North Bank of River Against Heavy Resistance From Hills

CLARK'S FORCES. SCORE NEW GAINS   YANKS ADVANCE ALONG 23MILE STRETCH OF ARNO WEST OF FLORENCE.

YANKS GAIN ALONG LOWER ARNO RIVER   American Engineers Face Difficult Task Of Reclaiming Livorno  Harbor

5th Advances  On Lower Arno   Patrols Find Foe’s Lin Strenely Protected

NEW GAINS SCORED -BY ALLIED FORCES   American Infantry anc Armor Move Along  River

ccc To Purchase Wheat At Parity   Unredeemed 1944 Crop To Be Bought May 

Farmers Capture Nazi Fugitive !n Ditch Hide - Qu   German Offers N.  Resistance

NEW ATTACKS ARE MADE Oh AXIS EUROPE   Light Stab Made At Blazing Bertn; U. &.. Bombers Follow Through In New Attacks; Mosquitoes In Nuisance Raids   ‘SPRAWLING CHEMICAL : FACTORIES ARE HIT

Parliament Expresses Criticism   “Atlantic Charter Has Become A Ghost”, Charged

B-29s Strike New Heavy Blows at Nip War Plants   Mindoro Campaign Keeps Rolling On; U.S. Subs Sink 33 Ships

Yankees Seize Airdrome From Japanese  Enemy Positions on   Enemy Positions on Geelvink Bay Again Are Blasted

Yankees Seize Airdrome From Japanese   Enemy Positions on ,Geelvink Bay Again Are Blasted

Yank Assault Forces Make Crossing In Face Of Fire From German Small Arms

DRIVE AGAINST RICH FACTORY REGION MOUNTS   Situation To North Along Roer River Remains Virtually Unchanged

rive Mounts In Saar Region   Only Light Opposition Is Encountered

INTENSIFIES ITS DRIVE INTO SAAR   rive Further Into Siegfried Line; New Crossing of Saar   IxPAND BRIDGEHEAD   atton’s Forces Batter Way Toward Saarbrucken, Five Miles Away

FINLAND T9 SEND SOVIETS NEW ppapocal   Finnish Children Moved To Sweder  For Protection

Finns Consider Peace Terms  Given by Moscow   Indications Given, However, That Nation Wants End of War

FINNS DRAFT OWN TERMS   Counter-Peace Proposals To Be Submitted To  Moscew

FINLAND MAY OFFER COUNTER PEACE PROPOSAI   Finnish Said To Have Chance. To Express Own Views

Finns Consider Red Peace Offer   No Indications Of Acceptance   No Visit to Moscow

Finns May Iry Some Trading   May Offer Counter-Proposals to Russia’s Harsh Armistic Terms of Peace

Crew Of First Superfort Over Tokyo Decorated   Dunbar Staff Sergeant Receives Air Medal With Shipmates

TWO MORE GERMAN VILLAGES   Fighting Probably Fiercest Ever Seen on German Soil

TWO VILLAGES ABOVE AACHEN FALL TO YANKS   Fierce Fighting Now Rages as Germans Contest Road to Cologne

QUOTAS FOR CARROLL COUNTY WAR CHEST OCTORER OF and 10   * * War Chest Drive October 9, 10; County’s Quota Set At $18,073

NEGRO PRIMARY VOTE IS UPHELD BY COURT   Highest Tribunal Rules or Case from Texas

Yanks Sink Ship  off Davao   23 Planes Destroyed in Air Blows Paving Way for Island Return

ClO BOARD FOR CONTINUING PAC   Urges Hillman Stay in Present Position

Italian Units To Aid Allies: By Rendering To The: War Effort.   Volunteer Groups ‘Formed Must Be™ . Approved By Army

Non-Combat Units Will Be Organized Under Leadership Of U. S. Officers

Italians Held W ar- Prisoners  Are Organized   Creation of Volunteer NorCombat Units Under American Officers An noanneen

Prisoners Go In  Non-Combat Units  Accept Volunteers With 1. 8S. Officers

Bolivia Ready lo Battle Axis   New Regime President Declares Parliament Will Declare War

Dewey Blast Stirs Hull To Give Data  State Department Kept Advised Of Treaty Moves

NEW DEAL BLASTS GOVERNOR DEWEY'S LATEST CHARGES   State Department Says There Was Nothing Irregular in Way Accord With Romania Was Signed.   ROOSEVELT REPLY MAY COME SATURDAY   Senator O’Mahoney Declares G. O. P. Candidate “Recklessly Demands” Open Break With Russia.

Dewey Charges Draw Reply” By State Dept.   Republican . Candidate’s Forum Talk Also Hit By .Senator O'Mahoney

New Dealers SquirmF rom Deweys Lash   IGNORE GOr CANDIDAT® \ CHARGES AS TO ITALY, POLAND GERMANY AND FRANCE IN NEW YORK.   Roosevelt May Reply

OPA Faces Threat On Cattle Ceiling   West State Senators Hint at Retaliation

Hourly Temneraturres   Crippled Fortress on Way Back to Base Does Marvelous Job of Hedqehoppinag

lowan Tells Little Willie's — Pilot to Dodge Curbstones in Flight Thru German City

Capture Two Jan Air Fields   Americans Gain New Bases on Biak for Drive on Philippines

U.S, SEIZES TWO MORE AIRFIELDS ON BIAK ISLAND   Americans Have Four Airports Within Bombing Range of Philippines

Take 2 More Biak Airbases   Americans Now Have Four Airfields From Which Can Attack Philippines

THO MORE JAPANESE AIRPORTS ON BIAK: ISLAND CAPTURED    Supported By Artillery And Tanks ‘U. $. Troops Drive Japs From Ridges and Seize Borckoe and Sorido Airstrips

TwoMo re Japanese Dromes On Biak Island In Hands Of American Troops Today

Yanks Take ) Airfields   Cleanup in Schouten Isles Continues; Japs Driven From Ridges

TWO MORE BIAK AIRSTRIPS FALL 10 AMERICANS   MacArthur Can Use 4 Dromes To Protect Fleet In Battle

‘Hard-Boiled On Fathers   Must Be Tougher About Drafting Dads to Protect Industry from Drain of Skilled Men

More Faihers Must Be Taken is Avoid Robbing Indusiry cf Key Men, Aides Report   Fresident Expected io ‘Clarify’ Review Order, Held Wreagly Used to Defer Fathers

May Be Tough on Nation’s Fathers   FDR Expected to Ask Draft Boards fora Hard-Boiled Policy

F. D.R. Expected To Ask Draf Boards To Be Hard-Boiled And ‘Call Up All Fathers U.S. Needs

Fathers Must Be Dratted   FDR EXPECTED TO URGE SKILLED WORKERS BE KEPT IN VITAL WAR PLANTS

EXPECT DRAFT ORDER OF FOR   Predict President to Ask Hard-Boiled Attitude

President Set To Tighten Father Draft   Expected to Ask “HardBoiled” Policy to Protect Vital War Output

FDR EXPECTED TO INSIST ON  DRAFT OF DADS   Var Worker Induction : Called Peril To  Production

Roosevelt For Drastic Call Pre-War Dad:   Expected to. Ask Local Draft Boards to Adopt Hard-Boiled Policy Regarding Fathers

FATHER DRAFT STAND DUE FROM PRESIDENT   Roosevelt May Move To Aid Vital War Industries

IRAFT POLICY   Will Ask Boards to Adopi Hard-Boiled Policy on Dad Draft.

FDR May Clarify His Draft Order   Boards May Be Asked to Be Hard Boiled to Aid Industry

FATHER DRAFT 10 BE GIVEN GREEN LIGHT   F.D.R. Expected To Clarify Selective Serv: ice Review Ruling

FD, R, OUT 10 TOUGHEN DRAFT   President Expected To Ask Local Boards To Adopt Hard - Boiled Policy On Drafting Of Fathers.

THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE TO FOR   President Urges Draft Boards To Adopt ’Get Tough’ Policy for ‘44

President Expected to Clarify Memorandum for Determents Review  MESSAGE IS. EXPECTED   MESSAGE IS EXPECTED

STERN POLICY ON INDUCTING DADS NOW ANTICIPATED   Roosevelt Expected to Change Recent Memorandum to Prevent Draining Industries of Men.   WHITE HOUSE RULING IS DUE IN FEW HOURS   McNutt and Nelson Confer With Roosevelt on Ocupational Deferment, Exodu   of Trained Men.

Roosevelt to Ask Increase in Draft of Fathers  Protection of Vital War Industries In Manpower Seen

Plants Protest. Key Man Draft  “FDR: May: Eniphiasiza; More Fathers Needed

FDR May Act In Plant Calls   Factories Complain Key Men Beine Neafted

FDR EXPECTED 10 ASK HARD-BOILED POLICY IN DRAFT  PREDICTS EMPHASIS ON FATHER DRAFT;

FDR Expected To Ask Draft ‘Boards To Get Hard-Boiled ‘Toward Calling Of Fathers   Calling Of War Workers Declared Menace To Nation’s Production

FDR May Crack Down On Fathers   Action Planned To Ease Drain On War Plants

HARDER FARMER DRAFT LIKELY   Roosevelt Wants To Pro. tect War Industries From Drain

F.D.R. May Ask A ‘Hard-Boiled’ Policy On Draft   President Expected To Clarify  Memorandum On Dad Inductions.

War Factories — - Object to Loss  Of Key Workers   President Expected te Take Action in New-Draft Controversy

DRAFTING OF FATHERS MAY GET BACKING  Would Protect Vital War mo  lantc«

F. D. R. Is Expected to Take Steps to Alleviate Manpower Problem

Father Drait Expected To Be Stressed   President Likely To Urge Hard Roiled Policy

ROOSEVELT 10 ASK HARD-BOILED POLICY ON FATHER DRAFT      President May ‘Clarify’ His Memorandum on Oceupational Deferments   TRAINED MANPOWER LOST

Be Hardboiled, FDR To Tell Dratt Boards   On Drafting Fathers, To Protect War Industries From Drain on Skilled Men

F.D.R. May Ask Hard - Boiled Draft Policy   War Worker Induction Called Peril To War Production.

F.R. May Ask Draft Boards To Tighten Up   Get Hard-Boiled and Call Fathers; War Worker Induction Perils Output

RAF RECEIVES FIRST JET PLANE   Production of New Craft Already Is Under Way.

YANKS SMASH ALL BARBERS AEFORE PARIS   Sweep Through Suburbs in Broad Arc; Threaten Whole German Army.

FRENCH CAPITAL LIKELY 10 BE UNDER SEIGE IN MATTER OF HOURS   General Patton’s  FastMoving Americans Cut Enemy Troops To Shreds.

‘Entire German Front Reported _ Collapsing In Bloodiest Nazi  Rout Of Western War; Last  Natural Barners Crossed   ‘NAZIS SLAUGHTERED Ry TANK GUNNERS

COLLAPSE IS CALLED WAR'S BLOODIEST ROUT   Siege of Paris . Expected Hourly

Three American Columns Racing  Through Suburbs   -Old French Capital Will Be Ensieged In Matter of Hours

PATTON'S COLUMN ACROSS BARRIERS, CITY UNDER SIEGE   American, British and Canadian Armies Cutting to Shreds Last Enemy Units in Normandy Pocket.   SAVAGE TANK FIGHTING’ SOUTH OF CHARTRES   Front Dispatches Estimate Americans Have Captured 45,800 Germans; Killed 10,600, Wound 48,000.

German Front is Collapsing In Bloody Rout   Pace Of Patton's Force Threatens To Bring French Capital Under Sieg

PATTON FORCE NEAR PARIS AND GERMANS OUTED IN DISORDER   sazis ‘Hunted Like Rats’ Attempting To Flee Normandy Pocket; Entire Seventh Army Facing Annihilation

Americans hacing lhroughn Outer Suburbs of Paris; Cermans in Goriest Rout

Americans Race Thru Paris Suburbs As Foe Flees In Bloody Rout   Allies Fight Without Rest For 5 Days To Give Germans Worst Defeat In Western War

Nazi Front Reported as Collapsing   About to Take Important Objectives at Each End  of Invasion Front

Siege of Capital Due In ‘Matter of Hours’   Enemy Forces May Abandon City; Nazis at Seine ‘Hunted Like Rats’

Entire German Front From Paris To Channel Coast Collapsing   Hundreds Of Enemy Troops Were Slain By Allied Tanks

SPECIAL CALL:  FOR ASSEMBLY   GOVERNO R CALLS SPECIAL SESSION APRIL.26 FOR AC- TION ON SERVICE VOTE. LEGISLATION...

SERVICE BALLOT SESSION APR, 26   Bricker Aimits Legislative Action to Armed Force Voting

Reds Smash Nazi Lines  At Vitebsk   Russians Make Two Breakthroughs To Widen Front To 150 Miles

Two Red Armies Clamp Pincer On Nazi-Held Town   More Than 7,500 © Germans Killed in Powerful Smash

stalin Tells Of Momentous Successes {In Three Orders Of Day   VITEBSK-POLOTSK RAILWAY IS CAPTURED BY SOVIETS

Mighty Soviet Armies Closing  In On Vitebsk   German Fortified Town in White-Russia Already Is Threatened With Encirelement:

Red Troops Close Trap On Vitebsk   Russians Break German Lines On Wide Front

Russians Close in On Vitebsk, Great  German Fortress    Red Army Crashes Forward Supparted By Massed Artillery and Aircraft And Make Two Break-Throughs

5,500 NAZIS “ARE KILLED ‘IN FIGHTING   German Fortress Threatened With Encirclement as Soviets Score New Break-Throughs.   REDS MAKE GAINS © UP TO 25 MILES   Struggle for Stronghold  Is Bitter With Enemy _ Rushing Up Reinforce*- ments From South.

Fight Spreads Over Front OF 150 Miles   Nazis Rushing Troops By Forced March To Curb Red Drive

2 MIGHTY RED FORCES MOVING ON VITAL CITY   Three Special Orders Of the Day Issued By  Premier Stalin

2 Major Breakthroughs Won By Reds At Vitebsk   Long-Prepared German Defenses Broken : 2-Day-Old Offensive Wins Ground

Reds Closing On Vitebsk ©   Threaten Encirclement After New Break-Through In Widaning Battle Front

WHAT OUR BOTS ARE DOING TO 1 WIN THE WAR   , 6. 4.0.0.0.0.0.8. 8.8.

WLB Composition May Be Revamped If President Wishes   Three Members Of Board Ask FDR To Accept Their Resignation

THREE “PUBLIC MAWBRRS OF WIB AGREE 'r0 SI'AY ON JOB UNTL V-E DAY

TWO BROWNFIELD WOMEN BEATEN TO DEATH LAST NIGHT   PAROLED CONVICT BEING SOUGHT IN CONNECTION BRUTAL MURDERS

Seek Ex-soldier in Fatal Clubbing  Claim Kentucky Mail Carrier Buried Alive

Stranglehold Around Nazis Is Tightened In Vosges   U. S. 9th, British 2nd Deeper in Germany, Eschweiler Menaced Bye TI &@ Brece Armt   FRENCH DRIVE AHEAD

‘Twin Allied ‘Drives Push -Germans Back   Several Strategic Towns ® Captured in New Advance

Advance Toward  Berlin Continues Along West Front   80 Nazi Planes Destroyed, U. S. Loses 57; Eschweiler Is About to Fall; U. S. Seventh Army Occupies Sarrebourg in Thrust Toward Strasbourg

Mrs. G. H. Frerichs Claimed By Death  ‘Resident Hers F or  Sixty-four Years

Black Market o Be Attacked   House Committee Approves Funds to Waae Battle

House Group Favors More  OPA Agents   Needed To Hit Black Market

BRITISH RETREAT FORCED BY JAPS   Report First Major Battle of India in Full Swing

JAPS ARE NOW IS MILES INSIDE INDIA FRONTIER   British Fall Back As Enemy Invaders. Push Nearer to Imphal.

Russ Massed to Close on -Retreating German Force; Japs Advancing in India

BATTLE IS RAGING ~ INEASTERN BURMA   Noose Tightened About Trap ped Japs in Burma.

Jos Subterina Heavy Loss in Indian Invasion   Allied Troops Have Taken Up New Positions

Allied Troops Dri iven Back 15 Miles in India   Major Battle Being Fought Within Border

Japanese Ignore Heavy Casualties To Drive Ahead   First Major Battle of Indian Campaign Reported In Full Swing

BAITTon INDIAN THOOPOPUoHtEL BAGK 12 MILE:   First Major Battle Reported in Progress on Fringe of Sombra Tract.

(BRITISH © FALL BACK JIN INDIA   q Japs Suffer Heavy  Losses But ‘Gain Ground

‘Jap Invaders Swarm Through Somra Hills   Defenders Trying To Stop Move Toward Imphal

Enemy Gains 15 Miles in Big Battle   Imperial Troops Exact Heavy Tol  Inside Frontier

Major Battle Under Way to’ Oceupy Imphal   Nipponese Ignore Losses, Hurl Defenders Back . Fifteen Miles

British Fall Back Before Japs in India   First Major Battle of Cam. paign in Full Swing — Many Japs Killed

CARTFIQUARE filld CENTRAL JAPAN; JAP CONVOY SUNK   Encircling Move on Ormoc Made by Daring Amphibious Landing

QUAKE DAMAGE LIGHT SAY NIPS   Earth Slides, Tidal Wave Inundating Houses Admitted

scieeeneniinmetiinaeneeneamn  EART ee 4 STRn. “ iP HOMELAND   Tidal Wave, Landslide Result; Damage Minimized by Japs

EARTH SHOCK — ~ ROCKS JAPAN   TIDAL WAVE FOLLOWS . TER. RIFIC QUAKE-REPORTED CENTERING 200 MILES FROM  MAIN ISLAND

RATION TOKEN OUTLOOK IS GIVEN BY OPA   New “Change” System To Be Put Into Ise On February 27

Report Chinese In Wild Flight From Hengyang   Jap Base In Bengal Bay Hit By Allied Planes; British Gain In India

Jap Wireless Reports Attack On Philippines      Report of Allied Raid on Davao Not Confirmed

Japs Say 2 Allied Plane; ‘Attempt Philippines Raic   Attack, Not Confirmed, Would Be First; Davao Target

Philippine Base Said Attacked   Jap Radio Claims Raid ‘On Davao Attempted

Japs Claim Allied Planes Tried To Attack Town On Island In The Philippines

U.S. Heavies Hit Berlin In Sharp Attack   German Capital Bombed For First Time In 2 Months

WakdeGets Swift Job Of Repairs   Rabaul’s Once-Famou: Airdrome .Network Is Destroyed; Allie: Gain in Burma   Raid Is Unified   Attack on Soerabaja I: Carried Out by Three Commands

Rabaul’s Five Fields Useless   Captured Airfield On Wadke Being Swiftly Repaired

Allied Fifth Army Prac. tically Surrounded Cervaro.  GERMAN DEFENSES 4 MILES OF CERVARO  British Eighth Army in Eastern Italy Is Snow bound.

British Eighth Army In Eastern Italy Is Snowbound. Main Nazi Supply Base For Jugoslavia Blasted.

LOUIS LEPKE PUT 10 DEATH   Murder, Inc., Boss and Two Lieutenants Dies in Chair at Sing Sing

Racket King Put to Death At Sing Sing   Two Associates Die With Lepke After Court Rejects Last-Minute Plea

Bucharest Is Bombed Night And Day   Allied Planes Hit Romanian Capital 3 Times In 21 Hours

Allied Bombers Unleash Fury On Bucharest   ~ .o ...dan Capital Pounded For Third Time In 24 Houre

Bucharest Hit By RAF Planes In Night Raid   Bombs Are Loosed On Romanian Capital Third Straight Time

3rd Big Raid In 24 Hours On Bucharest      Fierce Offensive Aimed At Wrecking Roads And Plants

JAP RESISTANCE IS OVER   British Report No Organized Opposition at Ukhrul

Yanks Move to Seal Corridor Into Town   U.S. Enfantry Fights Near Center OC Gaeniderine Medieval City

RAIN, SNOW STORM HITS THIS SECTION   November Precipitation Is . Still Far Below Normal

RAIN, SNOW STORM ~— HITS THIS SECTION      November Precipitation Is Still Far Below Norma!

TRUCE BE HALTED ~ PORT BATTLE   CANADIAN AND GERMAN TROOPS. CEASE FIRING TO —-- PERMIT OrVILIANS  : TO ESCAPE

Pearl Harbor Avenged By Wiping Ou 19 Ships And 201 Planes At Truk

U. S. Losses Set At 17 Aireraft, One Warship Hit   Ysland Air Defenses Smashed Quickly, Nimitz Reports; Marines Extend Gains in Marshalls

Smashing Blows Given To Japs In Historic Combat   Details Announced By Navy Show That Enemy Lost Nineteen Ships, At Least 201 Planes Destroyed.

Reds Charge London Poles  Seek ‘Split’   Call Exile Government ‘Hostile Political’ Force

ANTI- SUBSIDY BILL VETO BY FDR. UPHELD   House Sustains President’s Action By 151-226 Vote

Roosevelt To Send Tax Measure Back   Will Presumably Take His Veto Along With It

EDR Returns New Tax Bill   President Roosevelt’ Sends Measure Back To Congress —-Presumably With Veto,

FDR TO HAND TAX BILL BACK TO CONGRESSMEN  Measure to Be Returned Monday Presumably with Veto Message

TAX BILL’S VETO DUE MONDAY OR TUESDAY   Roosevelt Prepares To Give Plan Back To Congress

TAX BILL VETO ACTION HINTED   President Plans Message Te  Congress Early Next Week

a  F. D. R. Tax Bill Veto Seen Likely   Chief Executive Comments Today He Is Sending Measure Back On Monday Or Tuesday.

FA TO RETURN TAX BILL 10 CONGRESS   $2 Billion Revenue Measure Will Go Back Presumably With His Veto.

NEW TAX BILL BE SENT BACK CONGRES: MONDAY OR TUESDAY  PRESUMED VETO WILL ACCOMPANY RETURN BUT COMMENT WAS REFUSED

VETO OF TAX BILL MONDAY IS EXPECTED   President Says He Will Send Bill Back Next Week

Roosevell Expected To Tell Party He Wants Wallace for Running Mate

LADY ASTOR TO RETIRE: $.0.0N   First Woman Partiament Member Was Rorn in U.S.

3ritish Use Flamethrowers in Mop-up) Operations; Canadians -Adwanee.

British mop up final nazi resistance  Hertogenbosch aliost cleared

Germans In Retreat On 15-MileFront Tn Holland   British Turn Flame-Throwers Against Enemy Bazooka Nests

BRITISH SMASH NAZI LINES ON 15-MILE FRONT   Most of Enemy Driven From Vital City of 'S Hertogenbosch

MOPPING UP - OPERATIONS UNDER WAY   Germans, Meanwhile, Fall Back on 15-Mile Front Below City—All Enemy Forces Below Mass River Imperiled.

CITY IS TAKE AS GERMANS RETREAT   Canadians Gain In Drive To Free Antwerp   WHOLE STAND   Of Germans Below Maas Is Threatened: Resistance Strong In Spots

Nazis Retreat From Dutch Highway City   British Mop-Up Today in ‘S-Hertogenbosch; Canadians Make Progress

British Driving Through Hub of 'S Herfogenbosch   Germans Putting Up Strong Fight In Antwerp Area

Germans Fall Back Before . British Drive   Capture of . Vital Road Junction  “Announced =   Ruhr Cities Lighted Up; Defiance to: Hitler Seen:

GERMANS FALL BEFORE FLAME THROWER FORGE   Allies Penetrate Deeper Into Nazi Line

Are Mopping Up in Captured s’ Hertogenbosch, - Dutch Highway Cenier; Canadians Score Gains.

Nazis Retreat On Fronts Near Base In Holland  German Position In   German Position In Area Imperilled As British Capture  ’S Hertogenbosch

British Take Big Dutch Road Center   German Troops Flee As Flame Throwers Are Used: Roads Cut

FLARES IN HOLLAND   British, Canadians Threaten 60,000 Trapped Nazis

BEFORE BRITISH FIRE THROWER‘   Gun Nests Burned Out In Key Junction Of *S Hertogenbosch

Brifish Take Key City and Nazis Retreat   Canadian Forces  Make Gains Toward Clearing Approaches To Port of Antwerp

Big Dutch Road Junction, ‘'S Hertogenbosch, Taken; Clearing Antwerp Area

Nazis Retreat From Holland Road Junction   "S Hertogenbosch Fall Near as British and Canadians Advance

Germans Begin Withdrawal on Holland Front   Retreat on 15-Mile Front; British Mop Up ‘sHertogenhosch; Cut Supoly Lines

NAZIS RETREAT ALONG 19-MILE HOLLAND FRONT   British Troops Win Most Of ’S Hertogenbosch, Key Dutch Road Center

RITISH CUT ESCAPE ROAD IN HOLLAND   Tommies Sever Principal Road, Railway In ‘S Hertogenbosch

Hertogenbosch Captured And Nazis Trapped   Between 60,000 and 70, 000 Germans Imperiled By British-Canadian Moves Today

VITAL ROAD HUB 'S CAPTURED IN BRITISH ATTACK   Americans Making Steady Progress on Their Sectors, But Less Spectacular

Nazi Defense Line Smashed In Dutch City   British Rout Enemy With Flamethrowers

Germans Fall Back In Hollanc   British arid Canadian Drive Increases Peril Of All Nazi Troops Below Meuse River

NAZIS RETREAT ON 15 MILE LINE ALONG HOLLAND   *S Hertogenbosch Is Mopped Up as British Push Steadily Ahead

Nazis Retreat On Wide Front In Dutch Sector   Holland Junction City Captured By British Troopers

British Flame Throwers Make  Nazis Retreat   Big Dutch Road Junction Captured —Allies Score Gains Along Front

British Force Germans Back   Enemy Falls Back After Hertogenbosch Captured, ‘Canadians Pushing Ahead

British Mop Up In Dutch Road Junction City   Germans Retreat Along 15-Mile Front . Beyonce eS Llertacenhacch.

Flames Turned On Foe   NAZIS RETREAT ON i5-MILE FRONT ABOVE AND BELOW CAPTURED HERTOGENBOSCH

90,000 OF ENEMY MAY BE TRAPPED   S Hertogenbosch Is Captured By British ® Troops, Report

British Press Advantage At Dutch Town   Allied Leaders Report Progress As Being Steady

Germans Fall Back 15 Miles In Holland   British Forces Use Flamethrowers Against Nazi Bazooka Nests

Flame Throwers Knock Germans Into Retreat   British, on Western War Front, Blast Out Nazi Bazooka Nests and Advance on 15-mile Front.

BATTLE MENACES NAZI STAND IN WEST HOLLAND   Canadians Continue Battering Antwerp Water Approaches

WHOLE GERMAN STAND BELOW MAAS PERILED   ’s-Hertogenbosch Taken, And Supply Roads Snipped

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM KEY DUTCH CITY BY BRITISH   CANADIANS PROGRESS IN TWO OFFENSIVES TO CLEAR ANTWERP

Nazis in Holland Retreat   British Take  °S Hertogenbosch Except for Isolated Enemy Pockets

“CENTER TAKEN   ¥S Hertogenbosch Captured; Germans Retreat on 15 Mile Front.   SUPPLY ROADS SNIPPED

BRITISH, CANADIAN TROOPS BATTER NAZI FORCES IN HOLLAND  GERMANS FALL BACK O} 15-MILE FRONT ABOVE ‘AND BELOW KEY CITY

EE  BRITISH FORCES TAKE KEY DUTCH ROAD JUNCTION   ’S Hertogenbosch Falls to Allies; Canadians Gain in Antwerp Drive

Nazis Retreat From Fallen Dutch Center   British Use Flamethrow ers in Mop-up Opera tions; Canadians’ Ad vance.

Nazis Hint Invasion Of Norway By Reds: Allies Surging Across Holland   Report Germans Fleeing Norse Port And Koenigsberg; ’S Hertogenbosch Falling

BRITISH USE FLAMETHROWER’ IN OFFENSIVE   Russians Driving Into Norway, East Prussia

Allies Make New Gains In Holland   British and Canadian Forces compel a German Retirement   Troops of Eight German Divisions Endangered by Moves

British Break Through Dutch Road Junction  Germans Retreatinc On 15-Mile Front;

GERMAN TROOPS LEAVE FINLAND?   Report 20,000 Troops Sail For East Prussia From sSoeuthern Bintand

Reds Lay Siege to Warsaw After Capturing Praga   Other Russian Forces Move Ahead Rapidly Toward Budapest; Berlin Reports Push Into Greec

Dewey Attacks Demobilization Plan; Says FDR Fears Another Depressioi

Dewey Flays New Dea Plans to Use Amy \s Depression Agency                Quarreling Administration Afraid of Future, Nominee Charges; Speedy mobilization After Victory Urged

Universal Service Act Would Slow Draft of Fathers  Draft Chiefs Assert law Would Aid Essential Industries

FATHER DRAFT SEEN SLOWED   Status If National Service Bill Passed Says S. 5.

SERVICE ACT WOULD SLOW ‘DAD’ DRAFT   Would Provide Replacements for Non-Fathers in Eesontial Work.

SEE JOB DRATI AS FATHER CURB   OFFICIALS PREDICT SLOWER DAD INDUCTION

Hershey Urges National Draft  Measure Will Eose Draft of Fathers, ene le Tat

700,000 Will Be Drafted In Six Months   Service Bill May Defer Dads’ Call

Labor Draft Aids Fathers   Provides Replacements For Non-Fathers Now In Essential Pursuits

Induction Of Pre-War Fathers Would Be Slowed By National Service Bill

Service Law [0 Slow Father Dratt   Several Hundred Thousand Men Must Be Drafted By First Six Months of °44.

J08 DRAFT 10 SLOW DAD CALL   So Says Selective Service Chief In Note To  Congress

Telephone Strike Affects 24 Cities   No Early Settlement Indicated in Ohio

TELEPHONE STRIKE “SPREADING IN OHIO      Twenty-Four Cities AL ready Affected by . Walk-Out

Matter Is-Ref erred _ To National“Labor ‘Board For ‘Appropriate: Action’

Ohio Phone strike Hits 25 Cities   NO PROSPECT OF EARLY SETTLEMENT OF CONTROVERSY OVER PAYMENT OF EXPENSES TO EMERGENCY HLEP.   Youngstown Latest

OHIO TELEPHONE STRIKE SPREADS   Maintenance Men Join Walkout Which Affects  Vasnnmatriuin Ctlanal Mantas

Phone Strike Spreads Into Northern Ohio   24 Cities Affected  With No Prospects of Early End; Action by Labor Board Awaited

Yanks Are Less Than Three Miles  From Cassine   Battle Way Forward To. ward Nazi Stronghold Road To Rome   NAVAL FORCES AID ITALIAN CAMPAIGN

FIFTH ARMY SPEARHEADS REPORTED ONLY THREE MILES FROM IMPORTANT GERMAN STRONGPOINT ON ROAD TO ROME--RUSSIAN FORCES CONTINUE TO SLASH ENEMY DEFENSE LINES...  —AIR ARMADA OVER EUROPE:. 8

FREEDOM OF NEWS RESOLUTION OK'D      Congress’ Calls for Adoption of International  Compacts

Calls for Unshackled _ News Flow   ‘Gengress Unanimously in Demur:.i for Frea _Xlintarchunge , of   7 Infosudion

Congress Calls For Guarantee On Free Press   Believe Unh'indered Flow of News Will  Play Part in Peace

15,000 Germans Die in Smash   NORTHERN RED ARMY GRABS BULK OF SPECIAL LONG-RANGE SIEGE GUNS; TROOPS JOIN AFTER STRIKING OUT IN TWO POWERFUL PRONGS

U.S Thunderbolts Down Jap Planes  In Wewak Battle   Americans Lose Only 2 Planes Routing 40 Fichterce

Down 26 Jap  Airplanes in Wewak Fight   U. S. Fliers Lose Only Two, Break uy Big Enemy Force

Reinforced Jap Air Force Loses Over 26 Planes   Aerial Combats Precede Heavy Attack on Wewak

Airmen Down 26 Jap Planes  On New Guinea   Thunderbolts Return  Unscathed After Clearing Way For Heavy Bombers

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST WEWAK NEW GUINEA   26 Nip Planes Downed, Others Are Destroyed on Ground

GUAM PLAINLY MARKED BY U.S. ~ FOR INVASION   Other ‘Links In Mari-anas To. Be Neu- . tralized

GUAM AND ROTA POUNDED: OTHER ISLES MENACED   Remaining Mariana Bases Marked For Invasion

Pacific Islands Plainly Marked For US Invasion   Mop-Up Squads Continue To Liquidate Isolated Nip Pockets On Saipan

GUAM MARKED FOR INVASION BY AMERICANS   Taken By Japan 4 Days After . Pearl Harbor

Guam to Be Invaded or 'Neutralized   Jap. Bases in Carolines: Bombed; Chinese Recapture Yungfeng; Jap Resistance at Ukhrul Ceases

See Guam Target Of U.S. Invasion,  _ Neutralization   Japs Claim Strong Enemy Fleet Of 2 Carriers And 30 Cruisers Off Tinian

GUAM MARKED ~ FOR INVASION   Other Links in Mariana Chain ‘Blazed’

Guam Possible — Target of Nimitz   Japs Report Huge Task Force Roving in Marianas Area; Pacific Fleet Chief Reports Guam Is Shelled by U. S. Ships

GUAM TABBED AS NEXT OBJECTIVE   U. §, DESTROYERS AND PLANES DEAL SOFTENING BLOWS

Invasion of Guam Loomsas Former U. §. Base Shelle¢   Tinian, Rota, Near Captured Saipan, Also Heavily Hit

Invasion of Guam Likely   Powerful U. S. Fleet In Area, Tokyo Radio Declares

Guam Probable Next Island To Be Invaded   Former U. S. Territory Strongly Attacked

Guam Marked for Neutralization Or Invasion Soon   Ships and Planes Bombard Former U.S.-Owned Island

GUAM MARKED FOR INVASION BY AMERICANS   Other Major Links in Marianas Chain Due For Action ‘

(;uam Shelled  By U.S. Navy   Attack Presages Invasion of Island. Others in Marianas

All Major Islands in Marianas Are Marked for Invasion, Neutralization

“We Can Lick The Japs Alone If Necessary”: Frazier Hunt   Famous War Correspondent Pays Tribuic to the Brilliance Of General MacArthur in Winning Southwest Pacific Campaign Despite Handicaps from Washington

MacARTHUR’S MILITARY SKILL AND DEFEAT OF JAPAN ARE AS CLOSELY RELATED AS ANYTHING CAN BE, SAYS FRAZIER HUNT

YANKS ADVANGE ON LEYTE ISLE   Strong Foe Force’ In Otmox Valley Expected To Launch Final Push

Yanks Keep On Advancing   Pushing Through Jap Mountain Defenses in Leyte Campaign Finale

U.S. Troops Push Ahead On Leyte   Last Jap Stronghold Only 16 Miles Away; Japs Reinforced

Americans Advance In Ormoe Drive   Fanatic Night Banzai ‘At. tacks Repulsed Bloodily ms Allied Pincers Pi  ri

Americans Advance In Ormoc Drive   Fanatic Night Banzai Attacks Repulsed Bloodily As Allied Pincers Push C Yew

Yanks Continue Drive To Ormoc   Beat Off Three Strong Jap Aftacks; Japs Await Final Blow.

YANKS PUSHING ON TOWARD LAST JAP BASTION ON LEYTE   Now - Four Miles South of Carigara Bay, U. 5. Vets Pierce. Hill Defenses on  * Road to Ormoc and End of  . the Leyte Campaign .

Japs Lie In Wait   Final Leyte B: Battle Believed Shaping Up On Approaches to Ormoc

Leyte Advance Is Continued   Japs Waiting to Launch Final Attack On Americans

FINALE NEAR IN FIGHT ON LEYTE ISLAND   Americans Continue Unchecked Advance Through Mountain Defenses On Road to Ormoc   BOMBERS ATTACK CEBU

JAPS ON LEYTE LOSING EROUND   ‘Final Climactic Battle Shapes Up As Yanks Make New Gains

American Veteran: Continue to Advance on Leyte  Finale of Campaign Is in Sight for MacArthur's Troops

YANKS PUSHING AHEAD AGAINST JAP DEFENSES   Strong Counter - Attacks By Japs Are Repulsed — VU. S. Troops 1l16 Miles  - From Ormoc.

Yanks Advance Against Ormoc  In Leyte Drive   Doughboy Veterans Within 16 Miles of Last Japanese Stronghold Qn Island

Truman, Douglas Approved; Ickes  Warns President   Roosevelt Letter on Possible Running Mates Made Public

GEN. CLARK HEADS ALLIES IN ITALY   Appointed Supreme Chief tain To Succeed Gen. Sir Alexander

Bucharest Gets First Air Raid   U.S. Heavy Bombers Attack Capital o! Rumania Today, Following Yesterday’s Smashing Assault Upon Budapest in Hungary.   RAF HITS LATTER CITY

U.S. Bombers Hit Bucharest   Rumanian Capital Heavily Bombarded, After Pounding Budapest Twice

Bucharest ‘ets. Bomb Baptism —   U. S. Bombers Blast  Rumanian Capital for First Time; Fly Close To Ploesti Oil Fields

First American Raid On Rumanian Capital Dur-  ing War, In Tactical   Support of Russians    Budapest Given Second Bombing   British Blast Steel Works, Armament Plants and Railroad Yards; Many Fires Set

U. 5. Heavies Make Aifack On Bucharest   Fortresses and Liberators Blast At Targets Within Rumanian Capital

Bombers Hit Bucharest First Time   Attack Follows Twin Aerial Blows on Hungarian Capital

BOMBING IS THEIR FIRST ‘ATBUCHAREST   Liberators and Fortresses ' Based in Italy Strike at Military Objectives “in ~ Considerable Strength.”

U.S.HitsCapital Qf Rumania in Strong Force   Raid Follows RAF Blow at Budapest Arm Works

U. S. Bombers Execute First  Attack On City   Liberators, Forts Strike In Considerable Force At Rumanian Capital.   BUDAPEST POUNDED

AIG U. S. BOMBERS OF 13TH AIRFORCE HIT CAPITAL RUMANIA  FIRST AMERICAN AIR AT  FIRST AMERICAN AIR ATTACK AGAINST BUCHARES} MADE TUESDAY   HUNGARY BEGINS TO PAY FOR FAILURE TO RESIST GERMANS AS BUDAPEST BADLY BATTERED

RAF FOLLOWS UP BUDAPEST ATTACK BY U. S.   Allied Assaults in Balkans Aid Russians Fighting in Lower Europe

Hit Targets tn Capital Of Rumania   Attack in Strength With Escort of Fighter Planes

U.S. Heavy Bombers Raid  Bucharest   Attack Rumanian Capital In Strength In Followup To Smashing Attack on Budapest Yesterday.

CAPITAL OF RUMANIA HIT FIRST TIME   Hungarians Receive Third Plastering From Allied Forces

*May Bring , on Balkan Upheaval   ep 7.5. Raid Is Fourth in Iwo Days by American and British Fliers   HITLER'S SUPPLY LINES CRIPPLED!   Heavy Assaults Made in Coordination With Russian Drive in Bumania

Capital Of Rumania I: Hammered   Third Balkan Capital Is Battered By American Bombers Striking At Hitler’s Defenses

Heavy Bombers Follow-Up With Bucharest Raid  pe a oem   Second Hungarian City Blasted By Forts. Liberators

BUCHAREST HT BY U.S, PLANES   Big Bombers of 15th Air Force Attack Rumanian Canital.

RAF Follows Up Budapest Bombing   Make Night Smash Against Steel Works In Hungarian Capital

Bucharest Hit As  Reds Push Invasion   Military Objectives Struck and Fiires Started by Explosions; Budapest, Yugoslav Railroads Hit

BUCHAREST GETS (TS FIRST ATTACK  FROM AMERICANS   ‘Struck at Objectives in the  City Only 24 Hours After Hitting Budapest.   AN IMPORTANT POINT   Bombers Flew Within a Few Miles of the Ploesti Oil Fields.

U.S. Heavy Bombers Raid Rumanian Capital Of  Bucharest For ‘First Time

Yanks Bomh Bucharest First Time   Blasting Of Rumanian Capital Follows Heavy Attacks On Budapest.

VITAL TARGETS IN BUDAPEST ARE BLASTED   Manfred-Weiss Steel Works and Armament Factory Among Points Devastated by R.A.F.   24 PLANES SHOT DOWN

Bucharest Is Next On Bomb List   U. S. Formations Strike Rumanian Capital For First Time Today

Attack 200 Miles From Red Forces   Budapest Is Given Battering as Balkans Begin to Shake

dmerica’s Big Bombers Strike Bucharest, Rumanian Capital   Heavy Attack Follows Assault Yesterday On Budapest: Aiding Drive By Russian Army

Hitler's T op Men Confer      Reported Grand Coun. cil of Military Leaders May Lead to Complete Change of Strategy

German Army Chiefs Meet Der Fuehrer   Reich’s Critical War Situation Is Diseussed

German Military Leaders Holding Serious Discussions With Hitler -

NAZI WAR CHIEFTAINS REVAMP DEFENSE PLANS Military Leaders Grow Ws.:'e3  Over Critical Sttuatieasn ar fronts

Hitler Holds Crisis Confab   Leaders of Military Forces Declared Set To Change Defenses

Nazis Reported To Be Debating Sharp Change In Defense Plan   Ponder Withdrawal from Norway and the Balkans

Nazi Military Leaders Hold Serious Discussions With ‘Hitler On ‘Grave Situation’   Consider Withdrawing From Norway And Balkans To Bolster Home Defense

Hitler Conferring With Generals On Revision Of Germany s Defense Plans

Meeting Like Kaiser Held In World War   Enemy May Revise Entire War Plans to Defend Homeland from Attack

Hitler Holds Serious Talk   Complete Revision Of Defense Plans May Be Made Before End Of Month.

NaI MILITARY CHIEFS CONFER ‘WITH FUEHRER   How to Meet Three Front Attack by Allies Poses Major Problem for Ger rwaarc

Hitler Confers With Generals On War Crisis   Peace Bid Possible; Pattern Resembles That Of 1918

HITLER CONFERS WITH WAR LORDS   COMPLETE REVISION OF DEFENSE PLANS MAY BE MADE SOON

Hitler Holds Meeting With ‘Army Chiefs   New German Defense Plan Charted at  Consultation

Nazis Hold Confab On War Crisis   But Reports ‘May Be Nazi Trick to.Create Over-Con-’ fidence. Among. Allies

Parley Said to Be Like One Kaiser Held in 1918 When Germany Decided War Was Lost—Change in Defense Plan Expected.

Nazi Military Chief: Holding Serious Discussions of War  Complete Revision Of Defense Plans Is Expected

New License ‘Numibers: Do Not Affect Validity Of Gas Coupons...”

RY PAUL MILLER   Natural Obstacles On Saipan’ ‘Almost As Formidable As Enemy

Jap Garrison Entrenched Behind Strong Points Built Over 27 Years Ago

GOAL IN VIEW FOR U. 6, INVADERS OF SAIPAN ISLE   Jap Strongpoints Lie Ahead After 13 Days of Battle

FINAL REPORT ON POLIO DRIVE FOR COUNTY THIS YEAR   Judge Hollerich Submits Detail ed Report On Contribution: Received For Infantile Paral ysis Fund.

WAR DECISION WILL COME ON RUSSIAN FRON]   Germans Claim to Have Stopped Russian Thrust at Sea, Made As Flanking Movement.   NOT THERE?

Indicate Nazi  Army Head Out   Field Marshal General Von Mannstein Seen [In Civilian Clothes.

Russians Slash Swiftly Ahead, Routing Enemy   Spearheads Within 15 Miles Of Bug River; Crisis For Hitler

Mexico Planning to Send 2,500 Fliers Overseas To Fight Against Nazis

Mexico ts Planning To Send 2,500 Aviators Overseas To Fight Nazis

DeWitt Sees Signals in Jap Attacks   DEFENSE COMMAND CHIEF SAYS COAST STABS WERE AIMED BY NIPPO AIDES

BUILD FOUNDATION FOR DRYING PLAN]   'Workmen Will Complete Foundation for New Addition at Creamery Tomorrow.

Son Of Heaven Warns Situation ls More Critical   Tells Jap Diet That Subjects Must “Truly Devote Total Effort” To War.

REMOVE POINTS ON VEGETABLES   Eight Off List During May to Clear Warehouses for New Crops

3 MNILLIGN WILL ASSIST IN ORWE   Flag From Worthless War Metal Will Be Presented to Each Contributor.

PUSH THROUGH TOMILE GAP IN WEST WALL   Allied Armies Push Eastward On Curving 500Mile Front

U.S. Smashes Nazi Defenses on 10- Mile Front Past Aachen   American Troops Cross German Border in Fourth Sector 63 Miles South of Encireled Aachen

Tighten Noose  On Aachen   First Army Breakthrough Is East‘of Doomed City; Resist ance Stiffer at Prum

Americans Pour Through Breach In Seigfried Line   10-Mile Gap Torn In Main Defenses As New Crossing Is Made; Fighting Raging Inside Aachen, Germans Report

VANGUARDS SENT OVER STREAM TO REICH ‘HOLYLAND’   German Baltic Army Is Threatened With Encirclement; German Armies io North Charge Northwest

Telephone Strike May Bring Priority For Long Distance   Walkout, Which Started in Dayton, Now Affects 29 Cities In Ohio and May Spread to Michigan in Spite of Labor Board’s Settlement Efforts

BEL STRIKE MIGHT SPREAD 10 STATE   Officials of Union Ordered to Show Cause Why Walkout Is Necessary

A.T.T. Workers Abet Strikers   Phone Leaders Will Face National WLB

Phone Strike More Acute   Long-Distance Workers Vote to Observe Picket Lines in Ohio

RATIONING OF LONG DISTANCE CALLS LOOMS   Strict Priority May Be Demanded As WLB Calls Hearina

Fifty Thousand Armed French Patriots Aided By Several Hundred Thousand Citizens Defeat Germans.

Turn Tank Columns On Meuse As Foe Reports Fall Of “Lost Division”      Germans Claim 1,500 Of 8,000 Red Devils Were Killed, 1,700 Hurt In Ten-Day Struggle

ANGAUR ISLAND IS CLEANED UP   Few Japanese Remain; Natives Flee From Ruined Homes

TO MORE ENEMY VESSELS ARE SUNK   American Submarines Deal Heavy Blow. to Jap Merchant Fleet.

American Subs Sink Sixteen More Jap Vessels fo Raise Month's Total to 50

16 More Jap Ships Sunk By U.S. Subs" To Bring Total For War Up To 77

 PVUYEEYV VY VVTYVYTTTV TTY  American Navy Sinks Sixteen  Jab Vessels

US. Subs Bag 16 More Jap Cargo Ships   Month’s: Total 5 50; - For. restal Tells. Subs’ Part in I Mariana Battle

U. S. Subs Sink 16 Jap Vessels   Rate of Kills by Subs Better Than One Ship a Day

16 More Jap Merchant Ships Are Sunk By U.S. Submarines  Brings Number Sent Down By Underwater ...42 Th. Pn Dae Mato Afanth: £296 In All

Subs Take Heavy Toll   U. S. Submersibles Bag 16 Jap Ships; More Than One a Day Sunk in Past Month

YANK SUBS SINK 16 MORE JAP MERCHANT SHIP!   Total Of Sinkings, Probables By U-BoatsIs 774 Vessels

U.S. SUBMARINES SINK 16 VESSELS   Japanese Merchant Fleet Giv. en Terrific Beating in Pacific Operations

2 SHIPS A DAY IS JUNE RATE   .. Newest Bag Includes II Medium Cargo Vessels

U.S. SUBS STRIKE NEW HARD BLOW   Scene Of Latest Strike In Pacific Is Not Disclosed

Yankee Subs Sink More Jap Vessels  Cut 16 Out of Dwindling Merchant Fleet

U-Boats Sink 16 Foe Ships   Navy Holds Policy Of Secrecy Giving No Hint Of W hereabouts.

U.S. Subs Sink 16 More Japanes Ships Recently   Navy Gives No Information As To When Or Where.

15, SUBS BAG. “TRAP SHIPS   Another Heavy Blow . Dealt To Enemy Shipping By Yanks

Yanks Outnumber — Japanese on Saipar   Troops Surge Ahead on Gateway to Tokyo and Philippines to Wipe Out 20,000 Nips Apparently Abandoned to Their Fate.   Subs Have Sunk 16 © ~ More Jap Vessels   A Naval Auxiliary and 11 Medium Cargo ‘Ships Among Victims—Undersea Raiders -. Accounting for 1 Nipponese Craft Daily.

SIX UNIDENTIFIED pEAGAW ARE BURIE   Lost Livés. With 152 Others in Greatest Circus Catastrophe.

BURY VICTIMS OF CIRCUS FIRE   DEATH TOLL MOUNTS TO 157 WITH SIX STILL UNIDENTIFIED

Circus Fire Victims Are Laid To Rest   Mounting Death List Is Now 158

Six of Circus. Fire Dead Unidentified   Toll Mounts to 157; Funeral Services Are Held

Germans Hit At Seventh Advance   Heavy Fighting Is Reported  In Bavarian Palatinate

Ist Army in Fierce Battle West of Duren   Nazis Rush Fresh Troops to Combat Seventh Army

NAZIS REPORTED SEEKING PEACE, BRITISH TREATY.      Reich Offers To ‘Junk Navy, Air- — force, Evacuate  > 

RANDALL KITT IS TO BE MAJORITY FLOOR LEADER   Same Leaders as Last Year Are to Be Retained by the House.   ELLIOTT TO BE SPEAKER   Selection Made at a Caucus of Republicans Elected Last Month.

Break Seen h Strike At Philadelphia   Four Jailed As Army Seizes Transit Lines

Transport  Stoppage Nears End   Troops Ready To Take Over At Midnight.

Major Part Karmarked  Hor Navy   Committee Approves Cut In Estimates By 28 Per Cent.

OUSE SLASHES BUDGET 28 P. ¢,     H   ARMY AND NAVY DEMANDS NOT TOUCHED

JAP CAROLINE BASE WIPED OUT   Fire-Bomb Attack Level: Ponape On Ponape Isle.

TOO MANY BARS SAYS QUEEN CITY DIRECTOR   Asks Fisher ToC Close Part of : 1,100 in Cincinnati

Japs Attacking In Force All Along Kohima Front: Enemy Losses Mounting

LUNES 10 SLOW SAIPAN DRIVE   Stiffened Resistance . Encountered By Yankees

Japs Savagely Cling To Hold On Saipan Isl   Jap Base in Burma Falls: emy Gains in Honan; U.S. Bombs Hit Yap

Stiffened Jap Resistance Slows  Saipan Drive   Japanese Freighter Sunk, Three Others Damaged by Flyers

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(Enemy in Breakneck Flight in Major Disaster to Defenders of France, As Americans Complete Destruction of Nazis Caught in Normandy Trap.

RESISTANCE IS STIFFENED BY NAZI TROOPS   Saar Industrial Area, Saar. brucken, Are Threatened By Patton

Spearheads of Third Army Pointed at Saar   German Escape Route at Metz Cut by Advance

Children s Shoes Off Ration List   OPA Frees 5 Millon  Low-Priced Pairs

Solons to Bare Cigaret Facts  House Agricultural Committee Plans Expose Tomorrow

GESTAPO FORCE HOLDS PETAIN   Aged Chief-of-State Refuses Nazi Order; Taken Prisoner

SECRET POLICE ARREST PETAIN   Aged French Marshal Believed to Be Prisoner in Germany.

German Police Arrest Petain At His Home   Hero Of Verdun In First World War Is Reported Seized Sunday Morning Along With Associates

Marshal Petain Under Arrest of German Gestapo  Several Qiker Vichy Official Seized, Government Reporte:

Marshal Petain Arrested by German Police  Chief af Senfft   Chief of Staff Of Vichy Regime Seized Sunday

SAY GESTAPO HOLDS PETAIN UNDER ARREST   Refused Nazi Request To Go With Laval To New Capital

Petain Is Arrested Hurr iedly  By Germans   Not Given Time To Shave; Taken To Unknown Destination; Laval In Flicht

Petain Is   ‘Seized By Gestapo Upon Refusal: to Go With Laval to Belfort

Germans Arrest Marshal Petain   Aged French Chief of State Had Refused to Go With Laval.

Marshal Petain Arrested by Nazis   Collaborationists Have Left Vichy

Swift Action by Hitler's Police Indicates Ger. mans Place No Credit In Verdun Hero

ee a a nr  German Secret Police Arrest Petain; Whereabouts Unknown

GESTAPO NABS MARSHAL PETAIN   VICHY GOVERNMENT HEAD REPORTED SEIZED

GERMAN POLICE ARREST PETAIN   Believed That German Ges-tapo Place No Trust In Marshal, One Time Hero Of Verdun.

AGED VICHY HEAD IS SEIZED ALONG WITH ASSOCIATES   ACTION INDICATES HITLER PLACED NO TRUST IN MARSHAL

Petain Is A Prisoner. Of Gestapo   Aged Marshal Seized Sunday After Refusing to Flee With Laval   VICHY ATTACKED  BY THE MAQUIS   ther Vichy Officials Are Arrested Along With the Old Marshal

PETAIN, FRENCH CHIEFTAIN, PUT UNDER ARREST   Verdun Hero of War ] Taken Into Custody by Nazi Gestapo

PETAIN UNDER ARREST, TAKEN OUT OF vice   Aged Marshal Is Removed by Gestapo; Whereabouts Not Disclosed.

German Police Arrest Petain, Chief of Vichy   Aged French Marshal And Associates in German-Dominated Government Seized

REICH’S POLICE ARREST PETAIN   Aged Marshal Reported Seized Sunday, Probably Taken to Germany

French ‘Chief of State’ and Hero of Verdun in First World War Seized in Vichy by Germans Who Apparently Did Not Trust Him as Yanks Encircled Paris and Patriots Entered Provisional Capital as Traitor Laval Makes Dash Toward Germany

PETAIN SEIZED BY GESTAPO IN VICHY OFFICES   French ‘Chief Of State’ And Aids Whisked Away To Secret Destination

NAZIS ARREST HENRI PETAIN   Aged French ‘Chief Of State’ And Other Vichyites Taken

Secret Police Arrest Petain  At His Hotel]   Aged Marshal of Fallen France and Associates Taken

OTHER VICHY OFFICIALS ARE HELD   Laval Reported Installed Ir Belfort Near Reich   GOVERNMENT   Moved To Unidentified City As Maquis Battle For Control Of City

Nazi Police Arrest Petain at His Vichy Residence  Aged Marshal Falls Captive; Maquis Storm Enemy City

Report Petain Arrested by Gestapo Men   Aged French Marshal Is Taken From Vicky Hotel as Maquis Attack

Marshal Petain Is Under Arrest Gestapo Acts as  Official; Refuses Te Crm with Teced

Petain Seized By German Secret Police   Five Others Arrested With Aged Marshal 

COLLABORATION CHIEF. SEIZED “SUNDAY MORN   Five Others Reported Taken By Distrustful Nazis

Taken by ‘German Secret Police at His Hotel Headquarters in Vichy.   WAS SEIZED SUNDAY   88-Year-Gld Hero of Verdun Refused to Go to New Provisional Capital.

> —FELAIN— *.  ARREST IS MADE aA ? min  ssoctates      LAVAL IN BELFORT   French Underground Report In Control Of Party Of City

Gestapo Has Petain Now   Marshal Seized So Suddenly He Didn’t Have Time to Shave

Farm Bureau Chie! Renews Battle on Food Subsidies  Tells sik  Banking Committe   Tells House Banking Commiitee Congress Intended Adjustmenis in Farm Prices

Pantless Bike Rider Is Fined   Bearded Cyclist Has Motorists Jittery

PANTLESS BIKE RIDER PAYS $5   Bewhiskered Nudist Is Fined On Disorderly Charge

Only Four Townships In County Have Reported Reaching Bond Pledge Quote

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Alhes Forge Thin Corridor To Trapped  Aerial Force   Morale of Britons West of Arnhem High And Position Termed Nefinitely Brichter   HUNDREDS OF PLANKS POUND AT GERMANS Situation in Holland   Improves for Allies _ Ae Raad Te Reanened

Thin Corridor Has Been Established From Nijmegen To Neder Rhine Bank   ROAD BLOCK MOVED TO OPEN SUPPLY LINES   Br HOWARD COWAN

Hold Thin Line Across Rhine  To Push Supplies   Glider Units Join Troops Preparing For Full-Scale Surge at River; . Yanks Enter Reich Below Nijmegen

Thin Corridor Established ~ When Poles Cross River in Rubber Boats to Contact Beleaguerec Men; Reopen Supply Lines.

‘Tanks’ Bolster Vital Roadway ToUpper Rhine   Trapped Sky Troops Given ‘Limited Assistance;’ ; Front Cunec Dine]

hin Corridor s Established ‘0 River Bank   \mericans Capture Beek German Village Southeast of Nijmegen

Position of Troops West of _ Arnhem Is “Definitely Brighter’ MORALE REPORTED TO BE VERY HIGH  Ground Actions Supported  by Hundreds of Planes _

ALLIES DRIVE CORRIDOR 10 MEN IN TRAE   Nazi Roadblock North Of Eindhoven Broken By British

Allies Batter  To Rescue of British Unit   Americans Holding Nijmegen Area Get Reinforcements; 2né Drives on Maeseyck

Martial Law Decree Ends BoliviaCoup   Vast Conspiracy Fails as Nation Crushes Movement

Revolution in Bolivia Reported Downed   Martial Law Is Declared to Be in Effect

Bolivia Declares State of Siege   Plot To Take Over Government Fails

Just What Is — The Nip Heet?   And Where Is This Terror Of The Pacific Waters?

Jap ‘grand fleet’ intended for home defense: cream of Nip naval power

Liberators Again Blast Truk Base   ‘Carolines Bombed F or Eighth Raid In June

GERMANS START REIGN TERROR  IN FINLAND,  CLAIM RUSSIANS   Nazi High - Command Claims Soviet Troops Have Opened Another Offensive On Southern Front.

War Factory Union Rows  Flare Again   Chrysler Strike Renewed; Other Thousands Idle

Chinese Close In At Tengchung   City’s Wall Blasted  By American Bombers

U. §. Airmen Blast Hole in Wall At Tengchung; Chinese Mass For All-Out Assault on Jap-Held City

Now if Can be  0id—  What Went Wrong With The Liberation Of Paris

SOVIETS MAKE STEADY GAINS ON 4 FRONTS   RED ARMY HOLDS 80 - MILE LINE IN POLAND

COL, GABRESKI, U, S. LEADING . FLIER, MISSING   Ace Reported Missing; Was  Expected Home to Marry Wisconsin Girl

Japs Stiffen Their Defense In Burma   Allies Seek Out Positions On Chin Hills

Counter-Attack Made By Japs   Fighting In Burma Is Continuing Today

Resistance of Jans Stiffens   Japs Counter-Attack In Kaladan Valley In Burma, Reported

BANK BUILDING SOLD   H. H. Harris Purchases Structure at Ninth and Massachuselts

London Target Of Fire Bombs   Dark of Moou Gives Cover To Low-Flying Nazis

GERMAN RAIDERS RETURN TO LONDON   COUNTLESS INCENDIARIES DROPPED IN APPARENT EFFORT TO FIRE CITy. *

Germans Resume Raids on London   Many Incendiaries Dropped on Capital

LEYTE I$ BOXED ON THREE SIDES BY U.S. FORCES   "Yamashita Line’ Below Limon Also Threatened By Gen. MacArthur's Troops

Jap Troops on Leyte Caught In ‘Nutcracker’ Vise by Yanks   14 JAPANESE SHIPS SMASHED AT MANILA

YANKS CLOSE IN ON JAPS NEAR ORMOC   Troops Press From Three Sides in Move Designed to Lop Off Spearhead Thrust Forward From the Port.

Jap Spearhead May Be Cut Off At Shaft On Leyte   Clever U. S. Maneuver Of Wide Envelopment Threatening Large Enemy Force

Yanks Envelop Jap Spearhead North of Ormoc   Twenty-Fourth Division Swing: Around Nipponese Near Limen as First Cavalry Seizes Hills

Enemy Forces OnLimon Are in Trap   Strategic Maneuver Provides Chance To Smash Jap Units

Triple U.S. Pincer <‘Hems In’ Japanese ‘Units Before Ormoc   Leyte Spearhead May Be Severed From Main Body of Enemy Troops Wank Artillery Taking Heavy Toll

Yanks On Yanks On 1: fee: ‘Sides ree Sides 01 Japs’ Leyte Svearhead  Thrust North from Ormoc

Trap Threatens Jans on Leyte   Yanks on Three Sides Of Jap Spearhead On Islerd

Americans Threaten To Cut Off Ormoc dn Thrust Along Three Sides Of Leyte,

T hreaten Jap Line  On Leyte   Flanking Thrust By Yanks May Cut Off Enemy Forces Spearing North of Ormoe'

MARTHUR MEN SQUEEZE JAPS FROM 3 SIDES   Move Threatens to Sever Enemy Spearhead Above Ormoc: U. S. Artillery Blasts Nip Supply Line.

On Three Sides Of Leyte Islanc   American Fighting Men Thrust North From Port  of Ormoc.   SWING WIDE TO WEST   First Cavalry Units Close in on Mt. Catabaran to the East

NEW MANEUVER ON LEYTE IS BLOW T0 JAPS   Americans Now On Three Sides Of Spearhead

MacArthur Threatens Jap Spearhead   Infantrymen Make Strategic Maneuver North of Ormoc

Yanks Threaten Jap Spearhead Enemy North of  Ormoc May Soon Ra Corer meiee Fog

YANK DRIVES MENACE JAP SPEARHEAD   American Artillery Giving Infantrymen Highly Effective Close Support on Leyte

Three-Sided Envelopment Threatens Yamashita Line, Says MacArthur Message

Yanks Menace Jap Spearhead On Leyte Isle   Wide Enveloping Action Threatens Yamashita Line

Yanks Close In On Three Sides: Of Enemy Force   Infantry And Artillery Driving Nips Into U. §. Nutcracker

Three Sides Of Advance  ‘Are Facing: Yank Force   Strategic. Maneuver Fools: Nip Leadéra

MacArthur Describes Maneuver As “Wild Envel-  opment” and Says En-  dangers Enemy Line _

TWIN FLANKING ACTIONS PERIL NIPS AT LIMON   Cut Off Big Force Holding Up Advance On  Ormoc 

Americans On Three Sides Of Enemy   Nipponese Line Near Limon Menaced By U. S. Advances

‘Spearhead Surrounded (On 3 Sides  Alin Sunoly Lines   Nip Supply Lines Raked By US Guns

Threaten Jap Spearhead On Leyte Island   Gen. MacArthur’s Forces Attempt Envelopment  Of Japanese Units North Of Ormoc

Yank Guns Raking Japanese Supply Line Twisting up Through  The Mountains

SWINGS WIDE 10 CUT OFF ENEMY FROM THEIR PORT   AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN ADVANCE FROM THREE SIDES FOR KILL

Japanese Line On Leyte Isle Is Threatened  Clever Maneuver   Clever Maneuver May Cut Enemy Spearhead at Base

YANKS DRIVE TO COT JAPS LEYTE SPEAR   Clever Maneuver Brings Americans On Three Sides Of Foe

‘Wide Envelopment’ of Nip Front Line on Leyte Reporter   Nutcracker Maneuver of Yank Infantrymen Threatens Limon

Yank Stal May Cut Jap Line   MacArthur Manenyer Aime to Split Enemy Spearhead on Jeyte

Ford Goes Out on Limb  Auto Magnate Predicts  Wer Will End in 2 Month<

Motor Magnate in Atlanta in Interview States That “Laziness and Idleness Are the Cause of All The World’s Troubles”

FORD SEES EARLY END OS A Odes   FEELS IDLENESS CAUSE OF WORLD'S TROUBLES

ENEMY TOLL BOOSTED T0 41 WARSHIPS   Our Loss Announced As Six Vessels, Plus P-T’s

3 Battleships, 5 Cruisers, 6 to 8 Destroyers Sunk in Surigao Strait, Admiral Says; Total Bag Now at 41

Yankee Triumph Costs 6 Warships And Few PT Boats   Destruction Of One Whole Fleet And Crippling Of Another Leaves Enemy Incapable Of Taking On Small Part Of American Sea Force.

Yanks Don’t Like Normandy’s Old Castles Look Romantic But Poor Place To Spend Night!

French Chateaux Less Impressive To Live In Than to Look At  ED ne oe oe we we ee Ore SOT Ce OT ESE” fl

Sailors Irked By Walkouts   Crew of Naval Vessel Takes Up   Collection for Strikers al   Airplane Plant

Strikers Dealt Crushing Blow Crew Of Seaplane Tender  Sends $412 Cash, A- Plea They Work While Men Die

SAILORS OFFER MONEY TO PAY STRIKE DEMANDS  Crew of Plane Tender Coos Bay

Sailors Offer Pay - Boosts to Strikers      Crew of Seaplane Tender Contributes $41: to “Money-Hungry” War Workers and Urges Uninterrunted War Production.

Navy Crew Sends $412 to Buy Off “Money Hungry” Air Plant Strikers

Sailors Implore Plane Workers  To End Strike   Give Money For Wave Increase

Navy Crewmen Rap Strikers   Men On Seaplane Tender Write AP Appealing For Continuation War Work.

CURFEW LAW IN EFFECT   Makes Parents Liable For Children After Cur few Hours

COMISH ADOPTS CODE DESIGNED TO CURB YOUNG   Night Hours Of Youths t Be Limited On Feb. 18

Col. Munson Occupies A Warm Seat   Army Information’s Task In Political Year Not Easy

KERCH CAPTURED BY INDEPENDENT MARITIME ARMY   Naval Base Of Sevastopol Believed Next Russian Objective   MINOR NAZI VICTORY ADMITTED BY STALIN

Kerch Is. Captured —  By Russian Forces   Red Army Descends on 100,000 Beleaguered Nazi and Romanian Troops in the Crimea— Railway Junction Seized

Soviets, Descend On 100,000 Nazi, Romanian Troops On Big Peninsula   Swiff Advances Presage Quick Dash for Sevastopol; Ferry Terminus Falls to Reds

Dzhankoi Junction And Heavily Fortifiec Town Of Kerch Seized As Russians Sweep Upon Beleaguered Axis

KERCH FORTRESS IN CRIMEA FALLS ~TORUSSIAN ARM)   ‘Strategic Rait Junetion Also Taken“ by Reds as They "Press ‘Down on “100,000 . P Axis Troops.   PUSH. ON SEVASTOPOL _  PRESAGED BY SPEED   . -Retreating Nazis. Pounded in Odessa Area —’ Germans. Break Into Trap West oft Skala...

Russians Move With Speed Against Nazis   Fortified Town Is Also Taken Over by Soviet Forces

AERCH WIPED UP BY SPEEDY SOVIET FORCE   KEY RAIL JUNCTION INTO CRIMEA CAPTURED

Kerch, Dzhankoi ‘  Fall to Germans   Soviets Pursue Romanian Rahhilo Taward Rreacia

NIMITZ SAYS VICTORY GREAT STRATEGIC ASSET By LEIF ERICKSON  RK ee np wiatacnl Desa Gtaté Ul oitae

HALT NAZI OFFENSIVE   Fall of Sevastopol Is Expected In Few Hours

Sevastopol Siege in Last Hours   Germans Hurl Tanks, Infantry At Soviets in Estonia, Poland

Russians Slaughter German Attackers On Cisne Front   Tens Of Thousands Of Nazis Hurled Against Soviet Armies Massing For Spring, Summer Offensive Soon as Sevastopol Liberated

Germans Open Counterattack  From Poland   Attempt Made To Smash Gathering ‘Russian Army

Set Stage for Drive  in Poland   Nazis Hurl Forces in Estonia Against Massed Red Troops

Reds Hold Firm Against Counterattacks   Stand at Sevastopol By Germans May be in Tite Final Houre

Red Forces Hurl Back Nazi Tanks   Estonia, Poland and Latvie  Scene of Latest Activity  Reported

Reds Check Nazi Attack Via Estonia:   Hordes of Infantry And Massed Tanks Lash Back in Vain

Germans Hurl. Thousands Of \Infantrymen Against Reds ‘Who Are Massing For Drives

GERMANS HURL TANKS AGAINST MASSING REDS   Fail to Crack Soviet Forces Gathered for New Campaigns

Russians Repulse  ‘Knemy Drive   Soviet Capture Of Sevastopol Believed Near

GERNANS Th TQ FORESTALL SPRING DRIVE   Sevastopol Stand ‘Believed in Last Hours as Reds Press On.

hed !roops ‘Slaughtering Nazi Forces   Russians Holding Firm Against Big German Attacks

New Nazi Attacks Stopped   German Stand in Sevastopol Now in lits Final Hours

Nazis Hurl Large Units At Reds In  Estonia, Poland   Russians Hold Firm; Two Armies Close In On Sevastopol Base

Heavy ‘Preventive’ Attacks Made To Upset Soviet Strategy For New Offensives On Baltic, Polish Fronts

BISHOP CARNIN ~ DIRS IN CHICAGO   Methodist Clergyman Active in Anti-Saloon League , Work in Nation

BISHOP CANNON, FOE OF LIQUOR, DIES IN CHICAGO   Was Stormy Petrel Of Methodist Church— Fought Al Smith In 1928-— Involved In  Controversies.

BISHOP CANNON DIES OF STROKE   Noted Methodist . Temperance Leader Succumbs °*

Death Claims Leading ‘Dry   Bishop Cannon, 79, Hemorrhage Victim

Bishop Cannon Dies Suddenly In Chicago   Methodist Prelate Fought Liquor And Election Of Alfred E. Smith

Death Summons Bishop Cannon,  Foe Of Liquor   Storm Center In Politics

Cannon Dies In Chicago —   Bishop - Known For “Smith Opposition:

Bishop J. Cannon, Methodist Leader, Dies at Age of 79  Charchmian Long: Waged Bitter  Batile Against Liquor, Fongh! Al Smith for Precdency

Methodist Dry Leader Stricken   Bishop Cannon Dies Of Heart Ailment

Bishop Cannon Dies After One Week’s IIness   Was Attending Meeting Of Anti-Saloon League; Native of Maryland Eastern Shore

JAS. CANNON, BISHOP, DIES AT 79 YEARS   Noted Temperance Leader, Helped Defeat Al Smith

 Lincoln Kin Killed  i °  \Noted Psychiatrist Murdered ‘In Downtown Washington

KIN OF LINCOLN SHOT TO DEATE   Noted Psychiatrist I: ‘lain In Car: Capital Attorney Held

Capital Doctor Slain in Auto,  Attorney Held   Wife of Lawyer Sitting In Car with Victim When Shots Are Fired

PSYCHIATRIST ~ SHOT TO DEATH   Prominent Washington Attorney Held In Downtown Slaying

Psychiatrist, Kin of Lincoln, Slain in Capital; Attorney Held on Open Charge, Wife Witness

PSYCHIATRIST SHOT - TO_DEATH IN CAR   Criminal Attorney Held in _ Slaying of Dr. John ©  Lind

Dr. John Lind Shot to Meath __ InWashington   Husband -of Former City _ Woman Killed While  Sitting in Car. -

PSYCHIATRIST SHOT ~ JO_DEATH IN CAR      Criminal Attorney Held in “- Slaying of Dr. John. ° Pore ee be ee ee

Doctor Is Stam On Capital Street   Washington Lawyer, 67, Held by Police

Three Men Killed And 3 Houses Damaged. As Plone Overshoots Field

BALK JAP EFFORT’   AMERICAN ARTILLERY PREVENTS EVACUATION OF 200 ~GROGGY DEFENDERS,

END IN SIGHT ON SAIPAN IS. OFFER ESCAPE   To Civilians with Promise of Food, Water and Safety; Report Loss of 58 Japanese Ships.   Cleanup Noemfoor

APS ATTEMPT TO FLEE SAIPAN   Yanks Break up Effort to Evacuate 200 Groggy Japanese; Americans Press For Knock-out Blow

Wallace, Chiang Talk On Jap War   Prosecution of Battle  Must Be Done Quickly

BINTTERNESS AGAINST: une MAN'S. POLITIOAL GROUP INDICATES  PROBES.”  WILL BE ORDERED:

Drive Against CIO Politics Nears Break   Sponsors of Demands  For Probes to Seek Committee Action

LAOH POINT NEARED I ATION NGAI! Go L U.   Labor’s Rale in Campaign Is Top Issue of Session

ClO VOTE PLAN UNDER SCRUTINY   Congressional Action Looms In Two Resolutions

Varying Views Are Expressed By Politicians   Results of Primary Elections Analyzed by Republican and Democratic Spokesmen.

Protects un Flank      GOP Opens New Attack On Administration; 18 Congressmen Are Unseated This Year

POLITICAL LOSSES IN PRIMARIES GET DIFFERENT VIEWS   Senators Draw Conclusions. on Defeats as Forecasts. for  November Trend

TRUETT’S RITES SLATED MONDAY   Churchmen Of Nation Mourn Death Of Famed Baptist

But He Won't Say What His Chances Are   ‘I’m Just a Delegate,’ Vice. President Tells News Reporters

BRITISH ROLL TANKS OUT ON OPEN COUNTRY   Belgian Underground Adding Its Voice, Efforts to Allied Invaders in West Europe.

Nazis. Unable To Stabilize. Their Lines; Batiles Rave         Underground: Rises In Belgian Cities

BRITISH ARMOR PRESSES NAZIS   Tanks Slash Into Open Fields Past Caen; Yanks Gain

British Armored Divisions Branch Out in Several Directions, Cutting into Nazi Tanks.   FRENCH UNDERGROUND REVOLTS IN BELGIUM

Nazis Unable To Stabilize Fighting Lines   Heavy Fighting: “Rages In Troarn: Area; Un. derground Revolt Re. ported underway inBel gium; American: Front Oijjet)

Go Forward In Several Directions   Keep Fighting Within 5 Miles Of Caen On Wide Front

British Slash in  Many Directions   Nazis Unable to Stabilize Lines; Yanks Quiet Near St. Lo.

BRITISH ARMOR SLASHES FORWARD JIN SEVERAL DIRECTIONS IN GOOD \TANK FIGHTING AREA FOR GAINS   Fighting Southeast of Caen on Road to Paris Bri ish Block German Tank Attacks. Comparative Quiet on American Front in St. Lo Vicinity

British Advance In Normandy   Tank Battle Rages On Front Near Caen

Nazis Unable To Stabilize Their Lines   Underground Revolt Reported  In Belgium— Yanks Make Gains

British Slash Forward On Broad Front; ‘Heavy Fighting Rages Southwest Of Caer

BRITISH ARMORED FORCES BATTLING BREAK NAZI LINES   HEAVIEST ACTION IN NORMANDY CENTERED IN CAEN BATTLE SECTOR

BRITISH THRUST GAINS 5 MILES SOUTH OF CAEN   Allies Claim Armored Columns Gaining in All Directions

lfanks Smash Forward Into Open Country On Five-Mile Front Southeast Of Caen

British Tanks Rage Forward, Penetrate Southeast of Caen   French Marquis, Belgian Underground Join Forces in Action

Nazi Troops Are Unable To Set Up  Firm Lines   Heavy Fighting Is Raging Around Antitank Area .

Tommies Move Ahead Slightly South Of Caen   Approaching Vimont On Road to Paris, Gaining Four to Five Miles  ~ Qn Wide Front

British Push “Ahead On A Broad Front   Germans Unable To Sta bilize Their Lines O;  Caen Plain.

British Tanks — . Advancing On  Broad Front   Heavy Fighting: Raging Near Troarn and. Bigger Battles Are Ahead   AN UNDERGROUND REVOLT IN BELGIUM   Rommel’May Not Risk Major Battle in Present Enoacements

—INV ASION—  BRITISH ATTACK AN WINE FRONT   Allied Columns Approaching Vimont On The Road To Paris   U.S. FRONT. QUIET   Fighting Swirls For Third Day InPlain Country Near Caen

Germans Are Unable to Stabalize Their Lines — Southeast of Caen   { British Armor Cuts Into Good Tank Fighting ‘.Country On The Third Day Of Offensive

British Break Into Open Land South Of Caen   Country Suited For Tank Battles; Nazis Unable To Stabilize Lines

British Armor Slashes Ahead Beyond Caen  Russians Closing. In “On Seven Key Cities “Still Held By Nazis

CARVE OUT GAP OF 4 MILES iN ROMMEL’S LINE  AMERICANS MAKE   AMERICANS MAKE LOCAL ADVANCES IN ST. LO SECTOR

British Info Tank Country   Drive Forward On Broad Front, Germans Unable To Stabilize Line

BRITISH PUSH FORWARD ON BROAD FRONT      Armor Slashes Out in Sev: eral Directions Inte Good Tank Country Five Miles Southeast o! Bio Inland Port.

Unable to Stabilize Lines in Third Day of Offensive.   BRITISH ON PARIS ROAD

British Armor Slashes Ahead In Normandy  American Front   American Front Reported Quiet; Some Gains Made

Allies. Still’ Push The Nazis Back   British Roll Into Good Tank Fighting Country, Keep  - Going .   UNDERGROUND ACTIVE   Comparative Quiet Prevails on American Sector of _ Peninsula  Pe;

Armored Units Hit  Germans.   Spearhead Carved Out Near Troarn, Columns Approach Vimont

British Armor Advances On Broad Front In Good  Terrain Southeast Caen

Enemy Fails To Hold  Firm Front   Heavy Fighting Rages in One Antitank Screen But Allies Sweep Through Rail Town; French Underground in Belgium Gives Help

UNDERGROUND IN BELGIUM HELPS ALLIED FORCES   New Revolt Spreads as Naz Hordes Are Battered On Caen Plain

British Tanks Extend Baitle South of Caen   Heavy Armored Battle Rages Near Troarn, Comparative Quiet Along American Front

British Jab Forward in Tank Battle   Swiftly Moving Forces Give Nazis Little Time to Stabilize Lines«

Allies. Still Push The Nazis Back   British Roll Into Good Tank - ighting Country, Keep oing   UNDERGROUND ACTIVE   Comparative Quiet Prevails on American Sector of  Penin

British Armored Forces Smashing Deeper in France   praz) Tank Attacks Are Routed By British In Latest Clashes   GERMAN AERIAL ASSAULTS BEATEN

SOME CROP DAMAGE   Floods, Rain and Cold Have Adverse Effect in Kansas

Would Gradually Drop Emblem Use   Bill Would Provide For Slowing Commercial Use Of Red Cross Emblem

Jap Assault In n Mars halls  TROL Sinus  Beaten Off  Mathie ‘Night Fighters Block Pre-Daw n Raid on Eniwetok .  NEW KURILES BLOW Paramushiro and 2 Other  Islands of Foe’s Northnews Kaxxcl¥oouss Decxch Sel   Paramushiro and 2 Other Islands of Foe’s Northern Anchor Bombed

BOMBING KEPT UP IN KURILES   Northern Road To Japan Attacked; Eniwetok Raid Repulsed

Noted Personalities Aid and “bet Skelton in M-G-M’s ‘DuBarry   Electric Theatre Saturday and Sunday

. KEARN AND DAUGHTER FIRST VICTIMS   Both Recover; Robber Fails to Get Into Home

WOMEN IN CHICAGO SWITCHING TO PIPES   Stores Report Hundreds Have  Adopted New Form of Smoking Due to Cigarette Shortage.

lons Divide on FDR Appointees   MacLeish and Clayton Opposition Develops

Senate Fight on MacLeish, Claytor  Nominations Seen  Others Named to State Department Draw No Opposition

R. B. Creager . Predicts Texas Delegation Will Suppert Gov. Dewey

French Fleet Wipes Out Big Axis Convoy   Enemy Escort Also Destroyed in Adriatic Sea

FRENCH SHIPS SCORE VICTORY   Destroy Enemy Convoy and Escort, Is Report

French Sink Nazi Convoy In Adriatic      No Casualties, Damage To Ships

French Warships Blast Nazi Convoy   Second Time They’ve Wiped Out Convoy

French Sink Nazi Convoy  Fe be Se Bee RE   Warships And Other Vessels Are Wiped Out

STATE CONVENTION ENDORSES BALDWIN   Connecticut Governor s Given Boost for Place on National Ticket

GOP Boosts 2 Governors In Primary:   Congressman Asks MacArthur To Announce Candidacy

BOTH MENTIONED : : FOR SECOND PLACE   Congressman. Miller Discloses “He Has. Asked MacArthur’: cc State Formally His * _  S-/Availability, ee

ROMANIAN LEADER SAYS HIS COUNTRY READY AID ALLIES  PLAN TO MOBILIZE MANPOWER TO FIGHT WAR FOR LIRERTY

Romania Signs Armistice; Full Aid to Allies   Chief Peace Delegate Says Manpower of Country Will Be Mobilized for War

Romanians "Don't Have Right to Be Dissatisfied" With Armistice Term:

Romania Will Mobilize for All-Out War   Peace Delegaie Declines to Discuss Terms of Armistice

ROMANIA READY TO MOBILIZE ALL ITS MANPOWER   Delegate To Peace Conference Says Country Ready For Liberty And Free dom.

Armistice Terms Not-Disciosed Romania Ready to Mobilize Manpower for Total War

Allied Offensive May Soon Extend To the Adriatic   Germans Concede Loss Is Serious

NAZIS QUIT LEFT BANK OF TIBER   Port of Ostia Included in Area Reported Abandoned; Germans Admit Loss of Rome Blow to Prestige

STASSEN WILL ACCEPT ‘DRAFT   FORMER MINNESOTA GOVER ‘ NOR, NOW-ON DUTY, SAYS’ ° WE-WILL NOT SEEK  ae NOMINATION

Planes And Torpedo Boats Credited With Sinking Of Troop-Filled Jap Barge

NAZIS SEIZE © YUGOSLAVIAR COAST TOWN   - Capture Senj, Below Fiume, After Fierce, Costly Fighting

NAZIS OCCUPY TOWN OF SENJ   Tito Reports Heavy Fighting Continuing, Streets of Tuzla, Rail Line Cut

YANKS CLOSE ESCAPE GAP FROM AACHEN   Nazis Mass Armor For Counter Cffensive

Close Enemy Eseape Gap From Aachen   ‘Capture Fortress; Canadians Gain In Antwerp Sector

Outlying Fortress Captured, Most Of German City Mopped Up; Six Nazi Attacks Smashed by Ist Army

TANKER. AND SHIP COLLIDE IN OCEAN   Small Coastwise Boat Bursts Inte Fames After Mishar.

Tanker Collides With Cargo Ship, Bursts Into Flames   One Man Missing, Survivors Landed Following Crash Off Delaware Capes

Turmoil in Reich Stirs All Europe   Revolt of Two German Divisions in East Prussia Rumored   (COMMUNICATIONS CUT   Order of the Day to Troops in France Urges Loyalty  to Fuehrer

Conspirators Linked with Attempt ‘On Fuehrer’s Life Are Executed: Two Prussian Divisions in Revolt

HINT CIVIL WAR INSIDE GERMANY STILL RAGING   Cut Communications Off With Outside World; Start Blood Purge

Fuehrer Admits Revolt   High Officers in Army Purged After Attempt To Assassinate Hitler   SOLDIERS QUIT FIGHT ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Gestapo Given Free Hand To Impose Terror Reign To Curb Uprisings

Hitler Attempts Purge Of Generals   Upheaval Is Aftermath of Bomb Throwing; Communications With Reich Cut Off

Mutiny, Civil War Seen In Germany: Beck Liquidated   Others Purged On Claim Of Comact With Enemy;  Secrecy Cloaks Moves

A Purge Amrr~ Genera... .akes  Place in Reich   Broken Communications Mask Conditions After Bombing of Hitler. ~   Chief of Staff Shot  In Hitler: Vengeance

Broken Communications Between Berlin And Stockholm Indicate Revolt in . German Army May Be Gaining Ground

Purge Of Generals May Be Under Way   Broken Communications Mask Conditions In Germany — Some Indications That Revolt Within Reich Still On — General Beck Dead, Berlin Radio Says

2 GERMAN UNITS: ANREVOLT SAYS TRAVELER STOR   Himinler “Believed Carrying  on Blood Purge Among " Generals After Attempt to > Kill Hither.   BECK, WHOLE GROUr OF CONSPIRATORS DIE   Hitler Gives Purge Order, Extraordinary Powers to Gestapo Chief to Stop Further Action.

Chief Claims   Trairors Seek Peace   Two Army Divisions Revolt in East Prussia Fuehrer Purges Group of Generals After Futile Attempt Is Made to Slav Him

Conspirators for Surrender are Executed; Secret Radio Says Eastern Troops Are = Deserting; ;Communications Broken —

Revolt of 2 Hun Divisions Heard   Hitler Names Himmler Commander-in-Chief  Inside Germany; Blames Army Leaders for  Attempt on His Life.; Col.-.Gen. Beck — Is Named as Conspirator

Hitler Death Plot Purge Under Way, Troops In Revolt   Gen. Beck Dead, Himmler Has Dictatorial Powers

Gestapo Blood Purge Ordered To Halt Revolt   Striving to Snuff Out Lives  Of All Those Symps thetic With Rebel  lious Forces   Armies Deserting, One Source Radio:   Believed Himmler Meeting Resistanees; Hitler, In Speech, Tries to Pacify Homeland

Gestapo Butchering Hitler Enemies To Crush Rebellion   K KK KK KK Von Kluge Pleads For Loyalty 

Purge Ordered In Effort to Curb Uprising   Conspirators Meet Death by Execution Says Berlin Report

Purge of Generals Follows Attempt to Assassinate Hitler   Exeention of Group of Conspirators Announced; Former Chief of Staff Aniong Victims of Fuchrer’s Fury

Report German Troops Revolt In East Prussia   STOCKHOLM —UP)— Air travelers from Berlin arriving at Malmo late today said the German capital was in a virtual state of siege.

NAZI UNITS IN PRUSSIA REBEL   Broken Communications Shroud Climactic Events

Hitler in Purge of Leaders   Presumed Gen. Beck Among Ones Shot in Vengeance From Baskece

Start Purge Of Generals   Himmler Acts After Assassination Attempt; Von Kluge Clamps Down

Report Revolt of Two Nazi Divisions; Purge  Of Generals Going On

Reich Facing Revolt   TWO GERMAN DIVISIONS ARE REPORTED TO HAVE REBELLED IN E. PRUSSIA   Beck Put To Death

HIMMLER GIVEN JOB OF PURGING GERMAN REBELS   CONSPIRATORS WHO PLOTTED TO KILL HITLER EXECUTED

Two Nazi Divisions Are Said to Have Revolted   Pur rge Of Generals Apparently Proceeding.   Purge Of Generals Apparently Proceeding In Germany After Attempt To Kill Hitler -

REPORT REVOLI OF PRUSSIAN DIVISIONS   Reuters News Agency Says Civil War In Reich   FUEHRER DECLARES   Perpetrators Of Attempted Assassination Sought To Surrender To Allies

Revolt Of Nazi Troops Known By Berliner:   Traveler From Reich Capi tal Says-It Ocenrred In Easi Prussia; Believed Touched Off Revolt

'Attempted Death Plot And Rebellion Of Troops In  East Prussia Ires Fuehrer

East Prussia Mutiny Claimed   ‘Precautions’ Taken in Berlin, Purge Of Generals On in Wake of Attempt To Kill Fuehrer; Plotters Executed

TWO DIVISIONS OF NAZIS REBEL IN EAST PRUSSIA   Bloody Reprisals Effected By Fury Of Hitler, Himmler

Himmier s Gestapo Takes Control In Seething Reich   Hitler Charges Generals Sought Separate Peace

2 Divisions In Revolt In East Prussia, Report   Col. Gen. Beck Forme Staff Chief, Execute For Part In Plot To

REPORT TROOPS ARE REVOLTING   Purge of Generals Is Aftermaith of Attempt on Hitjar’s Life,   EXECUTE CONSPIRATORS

Mutiny of Two East Prussian Divisions Precedes Attempt on ‘Hitler's Life; Himmler Charged with Blotting Out What Feuhrer Calls “Army Conspiracy” With Surrender as Goal; British Believe Civil War Threatens Reich 

LONDON, July Zi (AP)--The Keich that fit- ler built creaked today like a house ina thunder storm, haunted by the ghosts of a new blood purge. 

Purge of German Generals Is Apparently Under Way   Broken Communications Mask what May be Civil War in Reich, Aftermath Of Attempt to Assassinate Hitler

GEN. BECK IS VICTIM OF PURGE   Attempt On Hitler’: Life Results In New Reprisals

Nazis’ Purge Of Cenerals In Progress   Two German Divisions In East Prussia Touch Off Widespread Revolt.   PRESUME BECK SHOT

Purge Comes After Attempt To Kill Hitler   Generals Go In Effort To Halt Maior Uprising

i TS COS Ge —  Purge of Reich Generals Is Now Apparently Under Wa

REPORT BECK EXECUTED AS PLOT LEADER   \Vas in Contact With Enemy Power, Says News Agency

TWO GERMAN DIVISIONS IN REVOLT   SS Units March To Berlin To Keep Order

TWO NAZI DIVISIONS REVOLT   Communications Break May Mask Civil War In Reich

2 Nazi Divisions Participated In Uprising; Hundreds Are Killed By Himmler Gestapo   Generals Among Executed as Hitler  Revenges Attempt to Assassinate Him And Pave Way for Surrender to Allies

Rumor Mutiny In Reich   Himmler Given Task Of Wiping Out AntiHitler Army Clique  Accused in Death Plot

Hitler Begins Wide Purge As Mutiny Flares   Civil War And Violence Within Reich Is Hinted Today

Purge Pushed Among Nazis; Censorship’s . Lid Is: Tight ©   Gen. Beck Is Dead; Civil War: Rumored

Purge of Generals Following Attempt On Hitler's Life   Former Chief of Staff Reported No Longer Among Living

Himmler Acts on  Orders of Hitler   Broken Communications Mask Conditions Within Reich; Two Divisions Reported to Have Revolted; Many Linked in Plot Executed

Army Ranks Reported On Brink of Rebellion   Gen. Beck Eliminated as Himmler Sends Gestapo Against Enemies

JAPS CAPTURE HENGY ANG FROM CHINESE TODAY   Could Be Point From Which To Split China

City's Fal ls Peril to China   Yanks Mop Up Nip Garrison on Guam, Blast Halmahera

Japan Ends Defeat String With Win ‘of Vital Hengyang   Five -Chinese Generals Remain in City Until End of Fight

More Than 10,000 Already Counted Dead or Island; Foe Trapped on New Guinea Cut into Three Groups; Allied Planes Raid Halmahers, Pound Yap, Nauru, Paramushiro

HENGYANG FAL GIVES JAPANESE MAJOR VICTORY   Chinese Defenders Slain -Almost t0a@ Man

Japan Captures Hengyang, Key City a China   Chinese Generals Send Farewells— Nipponese Lose on All Other Fronts

‘Last Message’ Informs Allies Hengyang Falls   Extermination Of Last Jap brine Orr eran tate Reported In Full Swing

Japs Finally Achieve Win At Hengyang   Extermination of Foe On Guam Pressed  By Americans

JAPS CAPTURE HENGYANG AFTER EXTENDED FIGHT   Chinese Commander Sends ‘My Last Message’ From Besieged City

EW OKLEANS COTTON   ‘Japanese Take Henavana And Threaten Tc Solif China In Two

JAP CAPTURE OF  HENGYANG OPENS  SOUTHERN CHINA ENEMY IN POSITION  FOR DRIVE SOUTH TO SPLIT CHINA IN TWO

Japs Snap String Of Reverses With Fall of Hengyang  Vital Chinese City ~ Falls to Nips; :All uae... hl 2 ADO

MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND JAPS COUNTED DEAD IN GUAM: AMERICAN FORCES TAKE OVER   Remaining Defenders Herded in Small Corner of Island Where They Are Doomed for Destruction in A Fifteen-Square Mile Area Cut Off from Any Li oie

NIPS CAPTURE HENGYANG IN 6-WEEK FIGHT   Chinese Garrison Battles te Last Man in Effort to Save City

Hengyang Falls In Jap Drive To Split China  Yanks Mop Up on   Yanks Mop Up on Guam; 10,000 Nip Dead Counted

HENGYANG 18 ~— LOST TO JAPS   Vital Chinese Rail Link Falls After Long Siege

CHINESE FA CRISIS AS JAPS TAKE HENGYAN(   Nips Can Drive South to Split Country in Two; Five Generals Lost

Hengyang Breaks Jap Defeat Series   Chinese Defenders ‘Slain to Last Man’

In Heroie Chinese Defense of H. onguyang  5 Generals Remain to Die

VITAL CHINESE CITY CAPTURED   Japanese Can Drive South From Hengyang to Split China in Two.   ALLIES POUND ISLANDS

Nippos Win Big Battle In China   Capture Hengyang, Vital Rail Center

Japs Capture Hengyang, Slay Chinese   Drive To Split Nation In Two

HENGY ANG FALLS TO JAP ATTACKS   Chinese Defenders Of Base Die Almost To Last Man

Germans, Usin g Forest As Fortress, Killed Like Flies By Murderous American Attacks

JAP CIVILIANS SURRENDER T0 U.S, ON GUAM   Seven Airports Captured By Americans

Yanks Capture 7th Airstrip  Qn Marianas ©   Allies-Slug Ahead ‘As Japs Stiffen. - Guam. Resistance .

Yanks Get Seventh Airfield on Guam, Close in on Japs   Nimitz Reports 33,000 of Foe Killed, 3,589 Americans Dead, 1,550 Missing, 17,548 Wounded

YANKS EFFECT CAPTURE OF GUAM AIRFIELD   Noose Tightened on 10,000 Trapped Nips Whose Re- — sistance Stiffens- = —

U.S. Tightens Guam Noose On10,000 Japs   7th Airdiome Captured in Marianas; Aitape Force Blasts Foe

TIGHTEN NOOSE ON GUAM JAPS   10,000 Face Annihilation: Smash Escape Attempts At Aitape

10 000 Japs Face  U.S. Trap   Yanks Take Seventh Airfield in Marianas; Kill 33,000 Troops

US Tightens Noose on Japs in Guam   100.000 Nips Pressed Into Northern Third of Island; Another Airfield Has Been Captured

U. 8. Troops Tighten Noose On 10,000 Japs   Airfield Is Seized By Marines And Soldiers. Or ’ Guam; Admiral Nimitz Declares 33, 000 Of Enemy Killed On 3 Islands... .

TIGHTEN NOOSE ON 10,000 JAPS IN GUAM POCKET   YANKS HAVE KILLED   7 ENEMY SOLDIERS FOR EVERY ONE LOST

Americans Seize Another Airdrome On Guam Island   33,000 Japs Have Been Killed So Far In Marianas Drive

PUSH NIPS BACK ON GUAM, YANKS SEIZE AIRFIELD   Tighten Pincers on 10,00C Japs on Isle; Kill Nippons at 7 to 1 Ratio

YANKS TIGHTEN NOOSE ON 10,000 JAPS ON GUAM   Americans Push Forward, Take Another Airfield   KILL MANY  NIPS   33,000 Slain In Invasion Of Three Islands

Seventh Airdrome in Marianas Falls to American Force   10,000 Japanese Pressed Into North Third of Guam Island

Americans are Tightening  Gri ip on Guam   Enemy Has Made Sharp Gains in Offensive in China

10,000 Japs Are  Trapped on Guam   Yanks Tighten Noose. Seize Airdrome In Relentless Drive

Americans Tighten Noose About Japs   Slay Seven Of Enemy For Every One Lost

YANKS CAPTURE GUAM AIRFIELD   Americans Now Hold Seven Dromes_ in Mariana Be Islands.   TRESISTANCE {S RISING

10,000 Japanese Caught In American Guam Trag   Seventh Marianas Airdrome Captured By U. S Troops With Heavy Losses To Nipponese; MacArthur Extends Grip In South

Yanks Draw Noose Around Japs in Guam   Americans Driving Foe Into Northern Third Of Pacific Isle

Yanks Mop-up Guam, Killing Japs 7 for 1   Enemy Attempts To Break Out of New Guinea Trap Fail; Nip Drive in China Fails To Take Hengyang

Americans Seize Seventh Drome In Guam Battle   Noose Is ‘Tightened ‘Around ‘10,000 ~ Japs on the Island

YANKS DRAW NOOSE ABOUT 10,000 JAPS   Army and Marine Troops Killing Seven Enemies for Every One Lost As They Push Forward   NEW AIRFIELD IS TAKEN

Fliers Hammer Nazi Rail Lines To Anzio Area   Enemy Relaxes in Ground Thrusts After Severe Casualties

Nazis Flee In Upper Rhone  Resistance Crumbling As Allies Advance

Nazi Troops Flee North From Lyon   U.S. Seventh Army Makes Contact With Retredting Germans

FOE DEFENSES WAVER BEFORE YANKS’ ARMOK   German Resistance Crumbling In Upper Rhone Valley; Valence Falls

FIGHT NAZIS NOW FLEEING TOWARD LYON    U. S. Seventh Army Troops Make Contact With Withdrawing Forces in Area 10 Miles Above Fallen Valence.

Fast. American Attacks Crumble Germans’ Defense Toward Rear   Allies Chase Enemy Away From Upper Rhone, Several Towns Fall; Nazis’ 19th Army Despairs of Escaping Battle as Full Unit

iSwiss Report Yanks Cross into Italy Joining-Forces-with Italian Partisans

YANKS SMASH NAZIS IN UPPER RHONE VALLEY   Report American Troops Cross Italian Border From Nice

RETREATING GERMANS IN.SOUTH FRANCE BEING HARASSED AND SLAUGHTERED BY AMERICANS -

German 19th Army Breaking Up Under American Pursuit  Rearguard Resisiance Crumbles as Yanks Purcne Mazic Ua

Disordered Flight of Nazis in South  _ France Spreading   German Units Ordered te Get Out by Their  “Own Resources”

Fall of Lyon Imminent As Nazis Retreat   American Units Reach Voiron, 55 Miles From Swiss Border

Germans Pursued  Up Rhone Valley      Nazis Give Up Hope is Ex  “tricating 19th Ann: : Fighting,Unit   i   SCATTER TO ESCAPE   French Flying  Column, at : South Is Near Spanish :  Border  

Allies Pursue Fleeing Boche At Great Speec   Americans Less Than Fifty Mles From Great City Of Lyon In Rhone  Vailey ss   Yanks Reported Acreass In Italy   Swiss Correspondents Say Junction With Halian Patriots Affected; 19th Nazi Army Smashed

MAKE CONTACT WITH GERMANS   Enemy Fleeing North and Northeast of Big City of ‘Of Lyon.   VALENCE IS CAPTURED

Allies Pursue Nazis to Within 9 Miles of Lyon   Ordered to Return -To Germany Through Own Resources

Nazis Flee From South Top Speed   German Command Orders 19th Army To Return Home

Contact With Nazis Made Below Lyon   French Column Is Near Spanish Border

Germans in Flight From City of Lyon   American Seventh Army Makes Contact With Enemy; FFI Active

NAZIS RETREAT NORTH OF LYON   German Command Abandons 19th Army; Re treat Becomes Rout

U. §. SEVENTH ARMY TROOPS ARE IN HOT PURSUIT OF NAZIS.  GERMAN FORCES RE- TREATING UP RHONE VAL

Americans Near Lyon; Nazis Flee   Junction With Italian Patriots  In Italy Reported; Valence Taken

RESISTANCE IN UPPER RHONE IS SMOTHERED   Enemy Flees North at Top Speed With Allies Less Than Fifty Miles From City of Lyon

U. S: 7th Army Is Less Than 50: Miles From  Key City Of Lyon   Gernians, Despairing Of Getting 19th Army Out Intact As Fighting: Unit, Leave Troops To Shift ‘For Themselves

Americans Expected to Reach German Frontier by Nightfall; May Already Be in Belgium   Two American Armies Sweep Through Verdun and Sedan and Press with Incredible Speed on Way to Germany and Belgium

Part OfU.S. Uth Army Reported To Be In Italy   Junction Effected  With Italian Patriots; Nazi Resistance In Rhone Vallev Crumble

Nazis Abandon Fight in Wild Escape Effort   Broken Army Is Fleeing to Lyon With Yank Troops Close on Heels

Germans Pursued  Up Rhone Valley   Nazis Give Up Hope of Ex-tricating 19th Army as _ Fighting Unit —   SCATTER TO ESCAPE   French Flying Column ir ; South Is Near Spanish :  Border

Americans Race Up Rhone; Lyon Capture Looms   Germans Still Flee Ir Disorder Before U. S Gaventh Army. .-

Germans in Upper Rhone ‘Are Fleeing at Top Speed   Troops Ordered to Return to Germany by “Own Resources”

Allies Within 50 Miles of Lyon   ° ~ 7 Allies Take Valence As Germans Rush  Pell-Mell for Reich

RAINS PASSING ON      Rains Mostly Over by Tohight, Says Forecaster

Bond Drive Off To Good Start Here   Workers Raise 8101.61.25 Of 52.993.000 Quota Set For Calhoun County

War Bond Sale Hits $661,274. Over Week-End   Officials Well Pleased With Response Attained Here To Date

WORKERS HALT "DETROIT STRIKE   Over 50,000 Ic Idle Before Maintenance Men Heed Pleas

UNION OFFICIAL WHO, FLEW TO, SCENE IN ARMY BOMBER:  “ BUCCESSFUL. IN”  7 Ey pre

3,500 Bodies Cremated in Quake City   Toll Expected to Increase ’ as Hunt for Victims" Continues

3,500 Bodies Cremated Since Earthquake Last Saturday In San Juan

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE OPENS NVESTIGATION INTO SEIZURE OF MONTGOMERY WARD COMPANY

HOUSE PROBE OF WARD CASE IS STARTED   War Labor Board Head Says Seizure Was Necessary

CLAIMS WARD'S IN WAR EFFORT   Davis Says WLB Has Duty Of Keeping Labor Peace

CASUALTIES GAIN 4947 IN A WEEK      Latest Report Sets Total a 173,239 for U. S. Army And Navy.

War Casualties Now at 173,239 Total   Figure Increases 4947 in Week for All Services

Casualties Reach 173,239   Increase of 3947 ' Reported in Week,. Stimson Announces

Third Cracks Strong Nazi Defense Line   Stubborn Resistance Found Along Entire West Front

New Drive Launched On Saarbrucken from South   Nazis Pay Weavy Price For  Ther Stnbhorn Recictance

‘Nazis Lose 17 Divisions In First Three Weeks Of Winter Offensive.

U.S. Tanks Slug Ahead Against Siegfried Line; ‘Snow Covers North Front

Forcing Way Slowly Ahead   German Resistance Costs Emery Equivolent at 17 Divisions it Three Weeks

NEW DRIVE INTO SAAR ON SOUTH JOINS WEST PUSH   New Attack On Hagenau, Minus Artillery, Achieves Gain

DIVISIONS LINK 1M CONCERTED DRIVE   Germans Resist Stubbornly Along Entire Front   SALIENT WIPED OUT   Enemy Loses Equivalent of 17 Divisions in Three Weeks of Offensive

Nazis Losses Are Reported As High   Supreme Command Announced Equivalent of 17 German Divisions Destroyed Since November 30

Enemy Losing Many Men in Western War   German-Used Maginot Line Defenses Are Cracked by Americans

DEFENSE LINE CRACKED NEAR SAAR BORDER   WINTER OFFENSIVE COSTS GERMANS 17 DIVISIONS

Nazi Resistance  Proves Costly As Troops Defeated   17 Divisions Wiped ‘Out; Achen Defense Cracked; Weather  Slows Fliers

Yanks Drive Deeper Into Saar Basin   Gain in Face Of Stubborn Resistance

Nazis Fight Savagely Al Along the Third Ari Front.as West Wall P etration Is Deepened,          PROGRESS SLOW _ IN OTHER SECTOE            Allies Announce Destrue tion of 17 Enemy ' sions in First 3 Weeksof. Winter Offensive. ~~

Recapture of Suiping Is Reported by Chinese; Japanese Break into Strategic Loyang.   Shift Attacks

Chinese Break Japanese Hold on Major Rail Line  Nipponese, However,   Nipponese, However, Break Into Loyange at Three Points

Chinese clip Jap hold on railway line  Enemy troops enter Loyang

‘nese break ps Hold on tal Railway   nese Break into tegic Loyang at Points: (Casualties Roth Sides Heavy

WHEELER PROPOSES LOWER DRAFT AGE  FOR FAMILY MEN   To Introduce Bill Providing 26 As Maximum Age.

NO FUNDS FOR “PROBE OF REA   {Senate Committee May Have t , Close Investigation Into re New Deal Bureau

Bricker Lashes New Deal Lack In Job Program   Says U.S. Dragged To Low Industry Recovery Position

New Deal Slowed Nation's Recovery Gov. Bricker Says   Great Britain Restered Lis National Income ts 1925 Leve In Three Years, Ne Asseris

G. 0. P. Congress Group Backs Thomas E. Dewey  Bright Prospects Are Viewed  hy Meaeeochiicatic

Bay State Is On Dewey Band Wagon   REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION HEADED BY MINORITY LEADER MAKES REPORT AT CONFERENCE IN ALBANY.

Walnut, la., Farm Wife Dies of Burns; Used Kerosene to Start Fire

Woman Quickly Puts Out Fire   Her Quick Thinking Averts Serious Fire Set bv Incendiary

Frisco Fire Bug Is Still Being Sought   Another Fire Last Night Believed His Work — But Fire Is Controlled

San Francisco Firebug Strikes Again Today   Slim, Dark-Haired SixFooter Being Sought As Incendiary.

FIRE-BUG IS HUNTED IN SAN FRANCISCO   Flames Put Out in Another Apartment House Day After Hotel Burned

Firebug in Action Again   Apartment House in San Francisco Fired Following Hotel Blaze

RED CROSS WAR FUND   Frisco Arsonist  Starts 12th Fire   Police Double City Patrols In Search, Warn Hotels, Apartments Against Fire-Bug

Final Stand May Be Made At Athens   Report Places British 50 Miles From Corinth.

Germans Relax Hold on Greece   Flee From Islands as Allies Close In

PELOPONNESUS SAID NEARLY FREE OF FOE   British Vanguard: Said 50 Miles From Corinth

Panicky Nazis Fleeing Into North Greece   Planes, Warships Pour Murderous Fire Into Ranks

ADVANCE SLOW IN SAVAGE BATTLING   Losses Of Americans Held Low By Siege Plans   STRATEGY   Believed Calling For United Drive From All Fronts To Get Early Victory

REICH HIT FROM ALL DIRECTION:   Heavy Three-cornered Blast: ing of Nazi Strategic Tar: gets Continues; RAF Blasts At Kiel Twice

Bombers Sweey On Reich from All Directions   Coordinated Aerial Assault Inflicting Heavy Toll on Nazis

Allied Bombers Blast at Reich From All Angles   Continue Gigantic Three-Cornered Attack Upon Nazis

Allied Planes — Rock Germany   1 hree-Cornered Blasting Of Industry Cantinusc

Allied Fliers Sweep Over Reich; Kiel Base Hard Hit    Gigantic Three-Cornered Blasting of Nazi Targets . Continuing—Heavy Toll Already Inpo flicted, It Is Believed: :. 

Germans Attack On Eastern Front   Moscow Says Only Slight Dent Made in Russian lines

Nazis Break Lull On East Front With New Attack   Enemy Dent in Russian Lines Is Believed To Be Attempt to Break Up Red Army Troop Concentrations; Losses Are Heavy

GERMANS DENT RUSSIAN LINES   BREAK LULL IN LAND FIGHTING ON EAST FRONT

GERMANS BREAK EASTERN LULL   Moscow Reports Dent In Lines Near lasi

GERMANS BREAK LULL IN RUSSIA   Nazis Penetrate Soviet Lines in Rumania

Germans Make Dent In Red Lines   Large Force Attacks North Of lasi in  Romania

Ger mans Drive Small Dent In  Russian Lines   Six ‘Weeks’ Lull In Land . Fighting. Broken With Attack In Romania,  ‘North Of Tasi

GERMANS MAKE STAB AT REDS IN IAS! AREA   Much Equipment Lost By Nazis During Raid

Large Forces of Tanks’: ‘Inf. ti try Used to Reopen War-, * fare On ‘Soviet:Front -

Nazi Forces Break Red Lull   Attack Appears to Be Attempt to Upset Troop Concentrations

NAZIS MAKE SMALL DENT IN.RED LINES   Break Six Week Luff in Land Fighting on Long Eastern Front.

Nazis Make Dent In Russian Lines  On Romanian Fron  Sharp Attacks, Not Viewed as Beginning of Offensive, Break  Ta, a a 2  ee 

Germans Dent Russian Lines   Nazis Attack With Tanks and Infantry, Moscow Announces

TANK DRIVE IS STARTED NEAR IAS!   Enemy Suffers Heavy @ Losses In Smash, Soviets Report

NAZIS BREAK RED SILENCE   6-Week Lull on Russian Front Ended as Germans Open Attack.

Nazis Attack  Soviet Lines   Small Dent Made In Defenses, Says Moscow; Enemy Losses Heavy

GERMANS BREAK RUSSIAN: LULL   Make Smail-Dent In Red ‘Lines Above Iasi

Eisenhower Declare: Liberation Is Near   Allied Supreme Commander Broadcasts Message To Belgium And Luxembourg.

Texas Oilmen Oppose Pact With England   Jester Urged to Present Group’s Views to Senate

Yule Rush  Jams Stores   Bus And Rail Lines Have ‘Terrific’ Crush

Buses, Trains Filled Leaving State Point:   Maryland: Prepares: to: Cele: brate Yule Holidays With ~ ‘All Traditional Festivi-. lies War Permits

Veterans First, Says Truman   Doesn't Believe Unions Can Afford to Stand In Way of Preference   HE IS FOR THE LAW AS WHITTEN   Believes an Understanding Will Be Worked Out Between Vets and Unions

Fall Of Bayeux Opens Avenues For New Advance Deeper Into France; Reinforcements Pour In By Sky Trains.   102 Enemy Planes Shot Down

Allies Advance On Cherbourg  Peninsula Base   Reds Launch Offensive, Yanks Gaining In Italy

Paratroops, l'anks In Heavy Fighting:  Pour Im Reserves   Beachhead Troops, Linking With  _ Airborne Forces, Push Ahead; 2 Weather Conditions Improve

Fierce Battle Rages As Invaders Tighten Grasp on Coastline   Nazis Ordered to ‘Fight to Death’; - Troops Fan Out From Bayeux; Defenders Step Up Aerial Warfare

WPB Hopeful On Arms Production   Krug Claims Drive To Meet All-Out War De- .  mands Is Progressing.

Nazis Escape Prison Camp.   “Force -Is Nécessary To Halt Celebration

25 Cermans Flee Stockade   Escape During Heavy Rain From Arizona Camn.

Nazi Prisoner Celebration Broken Up With Clubs; Twenty-five Escape

War Prisoners Riot In Phoeniy   Detention Of Germany's U-Boat Ace Revealed

BROKE UPNAZL =. PELEBRATION   The Army Guards Had to Use ~ Clubs to Restore Order at Camp Near Phoenix, Ariz.

Army Breaks Up PW Celebration, Then 29 Internees Flee   Only Six -Recaptured in PW Camp Break; Nazi Sub Ace Safe

GERMANS STILL AT LARGE AFTER PRISON BREAK   Nazi Submarine Commander Did Not Escape

NAZIS IN PRISON REVEL IN DRIVE   Enemy War Prisoners In Arizona Riot In Celebration Of German Advances.

2 Nazi Prisoners Escape Camp   Demonstration Over Von Rundstedt’s Success Screened German’s Break.

DEMONSTRATION BY NAZI PRISONERS OF WAR BRINGS ESCAPE  TWENTY-FIVE GERMANS ESCAPED FROM PHOENI}

Guards Stop  Celebration in  - Prison Camp   25 Nazis Flee After ‘Victory’ Demonstration; Prien Still Held

25 Germans Escape Prison Camp In  Arizona; Noted U-Boat Chief Held

URGES BUSINESS, PLAN ON POSTWAR   Commerce Secretary Jones Says Military Victory. May Arrive Unexpectedly...

BROUGHTON JS CHAMPION   Broughton School Leads - Nation In Tin Can Collections — State Officiale To Honor Pupils.

BROUGHTON IS CHAMPION   Broughton School Leads Nation In Tin Can Collections — State Ofi _ciale Honor Pantle 

Manpower Rules In Effect Here   Stabilization Program Is Now In Force

TIGHTEN WMC REGULATIONS   To Check Workers Who Have Left Jobs With out Permission

ALLIED PACIFIC DRIVES GAINING   Americans Win New Base For Aerial Assaults

CAPTURED AIRDROME   Nip Landing Attempt Repulsed; Marines Score Advances

CHECK MARAUDERS ON MORALE BREAK   Transfer of Leader Not Connected with Shift in Convalescent Action

HELSINKI GIVES PEOPLE REPORT ON PEACE MOVE   Confirms Rejection of Armistice Terms Dictated by Moscow While Protesting Desire fo:  oc eee   RUSSIA ADAMANT   Tinland Asked Clarification of Demands, Right to Express Own Viewpoint Before Accepting

Action Practically Extinguishes Hopes Of Further Peace Negotiations Between Helsinki, Moscow; Offer Is Called Too Hard

REJECT THE TERMS   However Finns Still Insist They Want Peace With  Russia

MAINTAINS HER POSITION WITH GERMANS, DECLARING SHE WILL NOT ACCEPT TERMS OF. SOVIETS   Armistice Terms Said To Be Such As To Leave Finland Without Hope and As Detrimental to National Security. Declare They Still Want Peace

FINLAND ADMITS ‘NO’TO RUSSIANS   Helsinki Tells Of Moves For Taking Nation From War

DESIRE PEACE BUT TERMS 100 SEVERE — FINNS   Inconsistent With Demands For Nat’l Security, Moscow Told

Finns Desire Peace, But Ask Easier Terms   Red Demands Seen As Endangering National Security

FINNS WOULD STILL DESIRE PEACE TRUCE   Russians Decline To Modify Its Last Demand

Finns Affirm  Peace Destre   Declares Armistice ‘Terms Dictated By Soviet Russia Unacceptable.

NS ——————————————EEeEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeEeEeeEeeeEeEeE—e—————EEEEaee  Finland Still Seeking Way Out of War

._FINLAND—   FINNS TURN DOWN AUIS SIAS TERA   Hopes Of Further Peace Negotiations All But Extinguished é   LONG COMMUNIQUE   Still W ant Peace But Cannot Accept Moscow’s Proposals

Eager To Get Out Of War If Soviet ‘Terms Modified   Rejection Embodied In Lengthy Statement Giving Own Version Of Efforts To Quit

FINLAND SPURNS RUSSIAN TERMS   Finns Assert They Would Prefer Peace, But Not As Reds Offered It

Finland Rejects Red Truce Terms      Affirms Desire For Peace But Not At Terms Russia Offered.

Writer Says Finns Wish Peace Without Price of Defeat   Claim Armistice Offered by Russians Too Severe; Reds Refuse To Modify Pact as Negotiations Fail

RED PEACE TERMS REJECTED BY FINNS   Reply, However, Expresses Hope for War’s End

Finns’ Peace  Hopes Are Gone   Government Wants N clonal Security

FINNS AFFIRM PEACE DESIRES   Leaders Insist They Want Peace, But Can't Accept Russian Terms.

FINNS SAY REDS GAVE NO SAFETY IN PEACE OFFER   Helsinki Still Hopes For Peaceful: Relations With Russia

Finns Turn Down Soviet Peace Terms   Definite Rejection Announced by  Helsinki

Finland Refuses Kremlin Terms   Affirms Desire For Peace With Russia— Slight Hopes Held

FINNS REJECT SOVIET TERMS   Government Affairms Continued Desire To Seek Peace

Helsinki Expresses Desire fer Peace But Not on Present Conditions  ASKS LONGER TIME  Seek “Clarification” of Meaning of “Harshly  Stated” Conditions   ASKS LONGER TIME

Clearfield County Looks Like This Today:   Thousands of Japanese ‘Wiped Out As Americans Slam Ormoc Door Shut

JAPS BEING WIPED OUT IN ORMOC TRAP   Headquarters Reports Thousands of Crack Imperial Troops Annihilated South of Port City

Crack Imperial Troops Wiped Out In Trap   U.S. Infantrymen Eradicate. 26th Nipponese Division

MacArthur Tells of Victory Over Crack Enemy Troops Whe Fought Desperately   "Many Thousand: Caught in Trap

Wipe Out Enemy Division In Trap   Crack Imperial Troops Deistroyed in Vain Defense of Ormoe   U.'S. Drive Now Centers on Clearing Northwest : Leyte

JAPS TRAPPED WITHIN ORMOC   Annihilation Of Enemy Is Underway; Japs Remain In Leyte’s Mountainous Northwest.

Wipe Out Enemy Division In Trap   Crack Imperial Troo stroyed in Vain se iy ense  of Ormoc   U. S. Drive Now Centers on Clearing Northwest Leyte

Leyte Drive Is Intensified   MacArthur Attacks Last of Yamashita Line Beyond Ormoc

ORMOCIS TRAP FOR JAPANESE   Thousands of Enemy Die In Fighting, Others Face Annihilation

THOUSANDS OF JAPS KILLED IN ORMAS TRAP   Enemy Hopelessly Caught In Vise Made By U. S.

C rack Troops Of Nipponese Army Within Deadly Trap    Yamachita Line May _ Be Entirely “Crashed

Japs Caught In Death Trap   Fighting at Ormoc Turns to Slaughter

Thousands Of Japs Wiped Out In Deadly Trap Just South Of Port Of Ormoc

Garrison Is Annihilated   Crack Imperial Troops .. Wiped Out, York Columns Tuten On Remaining Enemy

TWO DIVISIONS OF U.S. TROOPS EFFECT JUNCTION   ANNIHILATE CRACK 26TH JAP DIVISION SQUEEZED INTO VISE

Wipe Out Trapped Jap Froops   Thousands of Crack ‘ Enemy Forces Destroy: ed:in Vain Defense  Of Ormoz. On Levte

THOUSANDS OF CRACK JAPANESE TROOPS INTO TRAF   Vain Defense of Ormoc Took on Proportions of Annihilation Today.   SOUTH OF THE CITY   The 77th and 7th Infantry Divisions Eradicated Nipponese Division.

Wipe Out ‘Japs South Of Ormoc   Destruction of Full Division Caught  In Hopeless Trap MacArthur Resorts

Destroy Japanese At Ormoe   Yanks Find Enemy Well Entrenched And Taking Base I: Not Easy Matter

Tr ap Slammed Shut On: Enemy In Leyte Area   Thonsands OL Nipponese Wiped Out By American Troops In Snare South of Ormoc

Nonagenarian Is Taken By Death  Tom. Love, Early  Settler: Lev eras

Writer Has Trillion in Exnense Items   But the Currency Is the Highly Inflated  PDrachma.

Balkans Getting   News Agency Says Nazis Show Signs Of Leaving Rome; Not Confirmed.

Gernans in Italy Given No Respite   Allies Push Forward Along Entire Front

ALLIES PUSH AHEAD ALONG WHOLE FRONT   Nazis in Italy Again on Run and Hope to Make Stand on Pisa-Florence Line, is Belief.

OTH AND 8TH ARMIES ROUT NAZI FORCES   Sweep Forward On Entire Front In Italy

Nazis Fail To Halt Drive Up Peninsula   Whole Italian -Front Moves Northward

ALLIES SWEEP TOWARD SIENA; NAZIS ROUTED   » Troops Push Closer To German Defenses In Northern Italy

NAZIS REELING BACK IN ITALY   Allies Only 35 Miles From Florence, Declared An Open City by Hitler.

Alliesin Italy Rout Nazis, Drive Ahead   Yanks Converging On Siena, 33 Miles South of Florence

Allies Push Aside Delaying Action On Italian Front   Sweep Forward Along Broad Area Throughout  Entire Peninsula -

ALLIED ARMIES SUCCESSFUL IN -TTALIAN . DRIVE   Sweep Forward on _. Whole Front :From. Atrintie to: Tyrrhe-*

U.S.Army ets Trap at Siena   Transport Center’s Fall Near, Cecina Siege Arc Tightened

ALLIED ARMIES PROGRESSING ON ITALIAN FRONT   Sweep Forward From Adriatic To Tyrrhenian Sea On Whole Front

Patton Patrols Penetrate Paris Outer Defenses   American Tank Columns 12 Miles From Capital

Allies’ North Flank Moving Eastward   Toward LeHarve   Airmen Blast 16 Bridges Over Risle; Enemy In South Said Crumbling; U. S. Invasion Losses Under 300

Troops Within uler rrmge French Capital   Yankee Patrols Speed Over Highways Within Sight Of Eiffel Tewer

Plan to speed up flow of  eR ee ae Pere cen ne’ Reeenierd Se Bie”

SERVICE STORIES TO BE SPREDER   OW!, Army and Nevy Agres Upon Polley Hitting Theater Delave

PPPPPPP PP PPP PDL PEPE PES ‘Army, Navy and OWI Move Toa Speed News

NO NEW TIRES FOR ‘A’ CARS   Output of Casings Reduced For Civilian Use

TAP AI RDROMES BOMBED   Output of Passenger Car Tire Casing To Be Reduced

Americans Smash New Wedges Into  German Defenses Main [ine In   Main Line In Normandy Is Swaying

Eight-Pronged Attack Moves Ahead 3 Miles   1l New Wedges Are Smashed Into German Defenses

Yanks Drive 11 New Wedges in Foe’s Defenses, Take 15 Villages, Gain 3 Miles as Shaken Enemy Flees

Drive 11 Wedges, Take 15 Villages In 3-Mi. Advance   Tanks And Riflemen Bring Lessay-Periers-St. Lo Highway Under Artillery Guns At Half Dozen Places As Germans Fall Back.

FOE RETREATS NEAR LESSAY, PERIERS AREA   ‘Suicide _ Squadrons’ Left Behind to Guard Road

Fliers Hit From Many Directions OE noni  First Triple Shuttle Raid Made By American Airmen

] Bomber Fleets Attack Germans   Americans, British Cover Wide Area

FIRST TRIPLE SHUTTLE RAID COMPLETED   Britain to Russia to Italy; Heavy Bombers Strike Again from West and South.   Bomb E Boats

REICH TARGETS CIVEN NO REST   Mediterranean Airforce Blasts Refinerjes In Romania

TODAY   eal Pence, Now En: dangered, Depends On Continued Close Cooperation of U.S, Britain and Russia

RUPTURE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN BIG THREE AS RESULT OF GREEK UPHEAVAL CGULD MEAN NEW WAR

GREECE MAY BE CRUCIBLE IN WHICH STRENGTH OF UNITY OF IBIC, THREE NATIONS BE TESTED

NEW CONTROVERSY DEVELOPS IN MONTGOMERY WARD GASE   AVERY. REITERATES HE WILL NOT AGREE TO MEMBERSHIP ‘CLAUSE IN UNION CONTRACT

: Avery Congratulated ' on Return to Office; After 12-Day Absence

ALLIES GAIN FIVE MILES IN BURMA DRIVE   Advance Slowly Despite Jap Counterattacks

Allies Thrust Further Into Burma Jungle   Drive Japs Back Five Miles In‘Continuation Of Push  From Maungdaw

Allies Push On  To Burma Port   Mountainbatten’s Troops Take Knyindan, Dilpara

Chinese Drive  Toward Bhamo   Threaten Big Enemy Base Dm Terawnaddv River

11 Minor Craft Listed As Sunk   Losses Reported In Mediterranean Area

Retired Street Sweeper--He’s for $60 Pensions and FDR--Heads for: Congress

Floor Fight Looms On GOP  Plank On Foreign Policy   Committee Approves Pledge For International Organization Employing “Peace Forces” Over Protests Of Willkie And Fifteen Governors

‘World State’ Plank Rejected  Platform Completed; Opposition Develops To Post-War Policy

Platform Is Submitted to Republicans   Convention Committee Refuses To Eliminate Part of Plank on Foreign Policy Objected To by Wendell Willkie

REPUBLICAN PLATFORM WILL OPPOSE WORLD STATE; WARREN MAY MAKE ‘KNOWN POSITION ON GOP TICKET.   Controversy on Platform Drafting Being Smoothec Out As Pressure Being Brought to Get Californi Governor to Run for Vice Presidency

Foreign Policy Plank Faces Criticism _   Would Enforce Security By Use of ‘Peace Forces’; Willkie, Many Governors Critical

Nazis Bore 18 Miles Into Belgium  e & % £ & e & & , ~ % & % + & x + * u * * 8 oe hee o . r      ‘American Front Ripped Wide Open’ German Stories Sa\

More Surprises Are Promised By Germans   Front Torn Wide Open, Much Ground Reeaptured. Broadcasts Announce

(Germans Hint “More Surprises to Come’ ‘As They Boast of Great Counterdrive

Eight Killed In Bomber Crash   ~ Plane Burns In Takeoff At Nebraska Air Base

Ninth Army Masses Along River on 20-Mile Front   Flossdorf and Roerdorf Fall in Push; Yanks Sweep Ground for Cologne Drive

Survivors, Among Hitler’s Best SS Troops, Trod Thru Mud to Prison

U.S. First Army Bursts Out of Hurtgen Forest   Patton’s Troops Hold Firm Against Series of Counterblows

STRATEGIC TOWN OF LINDERN CAPTURED — BY AMERICAN NINTH  “EXTENSION GREAT ALLIED OFFENSIVE CRACKING ROER RIVER LINE

IS GUARDIAN OF COLOGNE, DUSSELDORT   Ninth Army Takes Lindern and FightsThrough Beeck as First Army Emerges From Hurtgen Forest in Hard Blowsg, ;;

Americans Stab For New Gains Before Cologne   Cracking Roer Line Yields Towns of  Lindern and Beeck; Dead Litter Ground

NAZIS STIFFEN NEAR COLOGNE   Third Army Holds Firm Against Series of Countarattacks.   FROST HARDENS GROUND

STRATEGIC TOWN OF LINDERN CAPTURED BY AMERICAN NINTH  EXTENSION GREAT ALLIED + OFFENSIVE CRACKING

FOR POLLS UPSET WIN IN MICHIGAN   ‘Correction of Detroit Error   Creates 17,000 Margin for  President

Roosevelt Takes Secure Lead In Michigan Voting   Unraveling Of ‘Snarls in. Wayne County Turns Tide

STATE GOES TO FOR BY 20.000   Untangling of Wayne Errors To Take Two  Weeks

TANGLE IN DETROIT   Correction of Errors ir Count Gives Michigan to Roosevelt

FDR AHEAD IN MICHIGAN VOTE   Recount in Detroit Sends President to Front

VET VOTE BILL ROW CONTINUES   Guffey Fears Compromise Will Perpetrate Election Steal :

Guffey Assails Vote Bill As Organized Steal   ISays Bil) Will Disfranchise 12 Million of Servicemen.

ASSAILS VOTE COMPROMISE   Guffey Hits Soldier Ballo’ Plan After Connally Defends It

‘Organized Steal Of Soldier Votes Senator Charges   Fight Flares Over Pending ‘States Rights’ Compromise

Guffey Flays State Rights Soldier Bill   Senator Argues Measure Will Disenfranchise V9 ATS ian Vatorc

Soldier Vote Debate Rages Guffey Attacks Compromise Bill In Address In Senate

The War Today  Fighter Planes Demonstrate Ability To Protect Bombers Better,

WILL DISCUSS WORLD ISSUES   Dewey Expresses Gratification With Progress At Dumbarton Oaks

MacArthur is undisturbed  when bullet whisks close PY MORLIN SPENORR.

Gen. MacArthur Narrowly Escapes Death   Japanese Bullet Hits Wall Just One Foct From His Head

BULLET MISSES  WPARTHUR BY FOO)   50+ CALIBER MISSILE PLOWS. _ INTO WALE 12 INCHES. - FROM HIS HEAD.

DESTROYER INCLUDED IN TOTAL   41 Enemy Vessels Are * Reported Blasted  During Month

15 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY AMERICAN SUBS   War Ship In List Of Successes; Raises WNomher To 573

15 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK: BY U.S. SUBS   Bring Total Bag By Submarines ‘To 573 Vessels

JOJAP VESSELS HAVE BEEN SUNK   Satisfactory Progress Is Re ported From Myitkyina, Japs Beaten Off.

American Subs. Sink 15. More Jap Ships   Destroyer Is Included Among Vessels; Total Of Jap Losses To Subs Is 573.

14 More Nip Ships Sunk by U.S. Subs   Latest,Catch Includes Destroyer, 2 Tankers

ENEMY PRESSURE ON KOHIMA HAS  BEEN DECREASET   Allied Forces Fighting Hard to Clear Japs From ImphalKohima-Dimahur Road.    NO IMPORTANT CHANGE   South of Imphal the Allies Cleared Out Last Enemy Road Blocks. —

JAPANESE PRESSURE AGAINST KOHIMA IS REPORTED DECREASED   ALLIED DRIVES MAKING PROGRESS IN FAR NORTH: ERN BURMA AREA

Enemy Pressure Decreases on Front in India   Allied Troops Inflict Heavy Losses on Jans

Jap Pressure Decreases In Kohima Ares   Allied Forces Fighting Hard To Clear Invaders From District Near Road To Dimapur

Jap Pressure Is Decreased   Allies Clear Enemy Road Blocks From Important Highway

Stiff Allied Defense Eases Jap Pressure   Enemy Reports Assault On City Near; Stilwell Gains In Burma; Foe’s Losses Heavy

Japs Occupy Hill Overlooking Plain, Are Attacked and Suffer Heavily

Allies Relieve Jap Pressure On Kohima, Imphal  Nips Say Major Atéaal: fim Tranhkal   Nips Say Major Attack On Imphal Fast Approaching

RUSSIAN DRIVE DRAWING NEARER OIL IN BALKANS   Fighting Flares Again ir Cassino Ruins and Anzio Beachhead

STALIN ANNOUNCES RUSSIAN TROOPS TAKE BLACK SEA CITY   “MOSCOW, HOWEVER, HAS NOT CONFIRMED CAPTURE OF CITY OF ODESSA

Lava Flow Slow But Resistless In Power   Eyewitness Says It Destroys Like Slow-Motion Bomb Explosion; War Can’t Equal Impressiveness

“A PP WAR CORRESPONDENT GIVES: VIVID PICTURE OF MT. VESUVIUS ERUPTION   2 Villages Already Destroyed By Flood Of Lava

Kennedy F inds Vesuvius Eruption Terrifying But Fascinating Sight

Lava from Belching Vesuvius Is Terrifying in Its Destructiveness

Eyewitness Tells Of Volcano’s Terrors  Vesuvius In Eruption More Terrifying Than Destruction Of Battle  Se wk ee

Americans Witness Power of Mt. Vesavius  Buildings Tumble in Hot Lava

Great Fires Beyond Beach   Night Torn With Gun Flashes and Dull  Glow of Fires

Countryside Behind The Normandy Beachheads Seen Blazing With Big Fires

 Marshall Field Buys ‘Outstanding Capital Stock Of Radio Station

Demos resorting to use of double talk, assertion of Dewey   “Speak of government ownership of plants while denouncing communism’

Dewey Charge: Double Talk of Mr. Roosevelt   Republican Nominee Says F. D. R. “Softly” Denies Welcoming Votes OF Cammuniete Faccicts

Gov. Dewey Charges Administration  With Double Talk   Republican Presidential Nominee Says F. D. R.’s Soft Disclaimer of Communist Support Comes a Trifle Late

Dewey Points to New Deal Double Talk   FDR's Communist Disclaimer Comes a Bit Too Late

Gov. Dewey Assails ‘Double Talk’ of  Democratic Leader   Asserts Roosevelt Speaks on the One Hand Of Government Ownership, but ‘Softly’ Disavows Support of Any Communist Group

DEWEY GLAIMG FOR SUPPORTS STATE PLANT:   Accuses Him of “Double Talk” on Government. GQwned Factories.

Dewey Carries Campaign Into Southland   New York Governor Pictures New Deal As Engaging in Double Talk During Binet Vieit in 4 Years to W. Virginia

DEWEY CHARGES FDR NOT CLEAR IN HIS TALKS   Governor Accuses President of ‘Softly’ Denying Support Of Communists

Says Ath Term Is Essential To Isms   x GOP Candidate Sees ~ Secure Future For Coal Industry

Dewey Into South In  Campaign   At Charleston, W. Va.. Pictures Administration  In “Double Talk”’

Double Talk, Avers Dewey   Charges Administration Talking Out of Both Sides of Its Mouth

DEWEY SCOFFS ATFOR'S DENIAL OF REDS’ HELP   Says President Made ‘Soft’ Repudiation Of Communists

DEWEY TAKES UP ROOSEVELT ‘DOUBLE TALK   SOFT DISCLAIMER OF COMMUNISTS TRIFLE LATE

Dewey Pictures Administration Using Double Talk   Disowns Communist . Support; Discusses U. $.-Owned Factories

Service Vote  Plans Okaved   Conferees Back Sharpl; Cat Radees] Rallast

Conferees Place New Restrictions  On Soldier Ballot  Hatch Votes Against   Hatch Votes Against Measure Approved By Joint Committee

Clerk Charged With Shortage      Worcester County Court Clerk Is Charged With E.wbezzlement.

Court Clerk At Snow Hill Is Accused  Of Shortage      Tawes Announces $19,000 Deficiency Exists In Accounts Of Worcester Official

Berlin Admits  Rommel Injured   Claim Desert Fox Not _In Critical Condition

ROMMEL OUT OF NORMANDY ACTION   Berlin Admits Former “Desert Fox”’ Seriously Injured. Today and Thursday

Andrew Lario, Suffers Crushed Skull In Automobile Crash— Nephew Escapes Serious Hurts   TROOPERS DECLARE MAN TRIED TO PASS

GREAT BATTLE © FOR UKRAINE “REACHES PEAK   GERMANS HURLING. RESERVE - TANK AND INFANTRY FORCES INTO FRAY TO HALT REDS-

CRACK GERMA UNITS TRY 10 STOP SOVIETS   Tank Battles Mount In Intensity  200 TOWNS FREED  Reds Control Nazis’ Rail Avenues

NAZIS STRIVE TO BAR ROAD TO RUMANIA   Fighting at “Hurricane Fury” With Crack Units

GERMANS MAKE €RANTIC EFFORT TO CHECK REDS   Crack Tank and Infantry Forces Oppose Push a“ for Rumania

German Divisions Fight Desperately To Stem Red Army Drive Toward Romania

Anti-Roosevelt Group Wins Round One; Allred Has Hard Time Getting In; O’Hern Tries To Keen Crowd Orderly

Super-Forts Hit Jap Homeland, Nips Lose 20 Ships  Made By Yanks; Four Planes’ Lost —

US Superfort: Jar Jap Home Islands Twice   Liberator Sinks Large Cruiser

SUPERFORTRESSES JOLTED HOMELAND OF JAPAN TWICE SUNDAY  LIBERATOR SANK BIG JAI   LIBERATOR SANK BIG JAP CRUISER AND PHILIPPINE DEFENSES BLASTED

1 pably :stinky~ or, damaged since Piel Harbor. by, our, submarines.          JAPS' WEEKEND, B "Rw §F & Brmincae

B-29s Hit Yawata Industry   Liberator Sinks Nip Cruiser; Airmen Blast Philippines

B-29’s Bomb Japan By Day And By Night  Second Wave Sees Fires Of First Raid; B-24 Sinks Cruiser

Japan Is Jolted By Double Blow Of Super Forts   Hit Industrial Area Of Yawata 7] yuehu;  Sink Enemy Cruiser

SUPERFORTS IN RAID ON JAPAN   MacArthur’s Airmen Finish Off Jap Aerial Defense Of Islands.

MACARTHUR GIVES JAPS SUNDAY PUNCH   Liberator Sank 14,000Ton Japanese Cruiser And Strafed Enemy:  Defen Rea

JAPAN BOMBED TWICE WITHIN SEVEN HOURS   Super-F ortresses Strike Japanese Homeland Area

Superforts Bomb Jap Home Islands   Four B-29s Lost in Two Dayliht Raids; Liberator Sinks 14,200-Ton Japanese Cruiser

SUPERFORTS HIT. JAP HOMELAND TWICE SUNDAY   Report Good. Results From ‘Daylight, ‘Raids   Smash ‘Philippines Aerial Défense Of Japs”

B-29s Stage Two Raids on Japan   Jap Heavy Cruiser Sunk by Plane, Stilwell Reports

11 Men Killed in Naval Depot Blast   Bodies Blown to Bits By Torpedo Explosion

1,000-Plane Raids Are Already Being Conducted In Pacific By Allies

CAA HEAD SWORN IN   Theodore Wright, Former WPEB Official Steps Up.

Plane Crashes in  Camp, Killing 12   Trailer Houses Burn; 21 Seriously Tijured

FALSE “OSCAR” BALLOTS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED, PICTURE INDUSTRY SAYS

Fleeing Soldiers Are Being Raked by Shell and Bomb Fire —_—   MANY HEMMED IN,  AP WRITER SAYS   New Encirclement Shaping Between Paris and . South of Seine

Nazis Face Seconc Trap Nearer Paris   Remnants of Eleven Divisions Seeking to Flee From Normandy May Be Outflanked

RETREAT 10 PARIS {5 CUT BY 3RD ARMY   REMNANTS OF NAZI DIVISIONS BEING DESTROYED

] Under-Strength German Divisions Caught In Normandy Trap   ANOTHER SNARE BEING FORMED NEAR PARIS

HEAVY FIGHTING IS REPORTED 40 MILES FROM GITY   Nazis Tell of New Drive as  Canadians Storm Inte Fa-  laise to Pinch “Death — Corridor.”   AMERICAN FORCES CAPTURE PUTANGES   Pocketed Troops Bombed and Shelled as They Try to Escape—Von Kluge Extricates Armor.

Americans Seal Bottleneck, Take Town of Putange:   Canadians Join In Great Drive

Nazis May Have To Withdraw From All Russia   Berliti Quoted As Saying Total Withdrawal Ma‘ be Necessary — Troop: Push Closer To Vita Warsaw - Odessa Rail wav,

NAZIS HINT WITHDRAWAL FROM RUSSIA   Dismal! Outlook May Be ‘Buildup’

HUNS MAY QUIT ‘RUSSIAN FIGHT ‘GERMAN CLAIMS   ‘Military Spokesman Quoted Saying Withdrawal  Possible In Face of.  Giant Red Offensive   WEAKNESS OF NAZI  ': MACHINE APPEARS   ‘Underscored by Slowness  Of Germany In Hurling - Adequate Reinforce ’ ments Into Sector

Berlin: Queted As Saying ‘Total Withdrawal Mays be Necessary — Troops Push Closer To Vital! Warsaw - Odessa Rail. Veet.

Tulelake Returned To Civilian Control  Army Holds Peace Has Been Restored

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ASSAILANT IS REPORTED DEAD   Mexican President Narrowly Escapes Death

CAMACHO ESCAPES SHOT OF KILLER   Army Officer With Nazi Documents Attempts to Kill Mexican President.

Avila Comacho Helps Catch Assailant; Wounded In Flight From Guards

Shot Taken At Avila Comacho   Mexican President Unhurt By Bullet

BULLET PIERCES CAMACHO’S COAT   MEXICAN PRESIDENT HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM ASSASSINATION

PRESIDENT MEXICO NARROWLY ESCAPED BEING ASSASSINATED  YOUNG MEXICAN ARMY LIEUTENANT WOUNDED IN ESCAPE EFFORT

Camacho’s Assailant. Reported To Have Died  iMtnen Shout Pres..Camache on

Army Officer Who Tried To Kill Camacho Shot in Break for Freedor

ASSASSIN BULLET MISSES CAMACHO   Tears Coat of Mexican President; Army Lieutenant Is Held

Pres, Camacho Narrowly Escapes Bullet Fired By a Mexican Officer

Mexican President Escapes Death - And Captures Would-Be Assassir

Assassination Attempt Fails   fp resitiant Camacho SEscapes Bullet Fired By Army Lieutenant

Assassin's Shot Misses   ‘Young Army Officer Makes Attempt on Life Of Mexico’s President

CAMACHO HAS A NARROW ESCAPE      President Of Mexico Barely Escapes Assassination;  - Bullet Pierces Coat; As aien Seriously Woundect.

Mexican Head Escapes Bullet   Fired on at Close Range by Army Lieutenant

Camacho Ha: Close Call By Assassin   Wound Soldier After Attempt

Mexican President Escapes As Bullet Punctures Vest   Youm Army Officer Believed Pro-Nazi; # Is Seriously Wounded In Escape

Report Nazis To Blame For Bold  Attempt To Assassinate Camacho   President Of Mexico Escapes Unhurt But Young Army Lieutenant, His Assailant, Is Seriously Wounded.

LOSE CLL FR MEXICAN LEADER   Army Officer's Attempt Yo Kill President Camacho Fails

GERMAN ANGLE PROBED IN SHOOTING   Nazi Documents Are Found On Army Lieutenant   AVILA CAMACHO   Asks For National Unity; Bullet Penetrates Coat Near Breast Pocket

Bullet Stops Assailant Of Camacho   Officer Who Shot President Is Reported Killed

ANDREWS TRIAL RECESSED AS D. A. PREPARES FINAL SPEECH TO JURY   DEFENSE ATTORNEY MARTIN BRINGS TEARS TO SPECTATORS IN APPEAL FOR SOCIALITE

Robots Still Plague England   Sporadic Attacks Believed Aimed At Keeping Liehts Out.

Flying Bombs Raid England   Casualties Include Several] Children Returned From Country,

Robots Again . Sent Zooming  Over Britain   Casualties Include Several Chitdren; New Secret  Weapon Said to Resemble Flying Pole

Buzz Bombs. ‘ Blast London ®  Sector Again   Tell of Capture of Robot Factory Underground Near Luxembourg .

CHAPLIN QUASH MOTIONS FAIL   SEVEN IN COURT ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE

Motions Refused By Federal Judge   Chaplin to Face Trial March 31

Understanding On Occupation \Of Germany   Russia, Britain Are In Accord With U. S.. President Declares

OTHER ALLIES AGREED   AFTER . AXIS . SURRENDERS PLANS BASED ON GENERAL UNDERSTANDING. FDR SAYS

General Agreement on Occupation of Reich Exists Among United Netions

Allies Have Understanding ‘On Occupation Of Germany    President Explains You Can’t Plan Details In Advane: Bat Everything Going Along All Right; Another Meeting Planned With Churchill

Roosevelt Says There Is No Detaiied Arrangements With Other Allies When Huns Fall

TO OCCUPY GERMANY   Manner of Ending War Immaterial, Says Roosevelt

FDR Emphasizes Occupation Of Reich Planned  President To Submit   President To Submit New League First To Senate Action

ALLIED ACCORD ON OCCUPATION   General Agreement Among: Allies, President Roosevelt Says.   DEWEY PROPOSES MEET

OCCUPATION PLAN POPULAR WITH ALL   President ‘Roosevelt Says China Will Probably Allow lanan to Be Entered

Allies Agreed OnOccupying Hitler’s Reich   Roosevelt Says No Details Are Arranged but Matter Is Understood

WPB, IN ‘MUST ORDER, LIMITS DEFERMENTS   Affcets Those Worker: Under 26, In Specified Wap Plante

EGULATIONS. MADE PUBLIC “KODAY .TIGHTEN DEFER" MENTS EN. .NATION’S “2. INDUSTRIAL PLANTS

FIX LIMIT OF _ _DEFERMENTS   Witb Kheleases “Crittcal” List  State Draft} Heads Have Last Word

WPB TO CURTAIL DEFERMENT 0.K   Chairman Warns Against General Wage Limit in Industry

UONGRESS HEARS TAXPAYERS’ STORY   Passing Scores Of Bills lor Relief Of Damage Inflicted

Ketchup Bottles, Mules, Gasoline -Conaress Has Its Problems    Settle Citizen ‘Damage Claims

Now, if GI Joe Would Please Take It Easy, Congress Will Really Be Thankfu

Guns Thunde1 Celebration in Normandy   MIGHTIEST BARRAGE OBSERVES FOURTH IN EMBATTLED EUROPE

Candidates For Senate Claim Victory Ahead  Federal a ts To Watch Voting In  Cam aot atmtioce

‘Happy Warrior ls Buried Today   Thousands View Body Ir ~ New York Cathedral

THOUSANDS VIEW HAPPY WARRIOR,   FINAL RITES FOR. ALFRED E, SMITH IN NEW YORK TODAY

New York Pays Final Honors to Alfred E. Smith  Body Lies fn State Overnigh  At St. Patrick's Cathedral Bare Creawd Of Meernare Wie

100,000 Pay Tribute To Smith  Gov. Dewey. Visits. “St. Patrick's ‘Church

Anti-Roosevelt Forces Claim 15 Electors To Vote Against Party Nominees

GIVES RULING ON NLRB AG)   Court Rules Employer Must Bargain Collectively With Union.

BARGAINING LAW UPHELD BY COURT   Individual Contracts Have No Effect. Bench Rules

Must Bargain With Union   Must Act Despite Individual Contracts,  High Court Rules

Hull Praises Co-operation of Americas   Says Path Leads to Human Liberty, Welfare

Allied Beachhead Extends From Anzio § Miles South To Astura   50,000 Allied Troops Threaten Trap To 9 Nazi Divisions Between Beach, Front Line

MORE THAN EIGHT THOUSAND JAPS KILLED BY TERRIFIC ~ BOMBARDMENT AND * LAND OPERATIONS

Jap tank force is  defeated.   Initial armored battle in Pacific

ARMORED UNITS CLASH ON BIAK   Marks First Tank Battle of War in Southwest Pacific; Americans Emerge Victorious From Seesaw Struggle

JAPANESE ASSAULT QUICKLY REPULSED      Bleody Battle Is Raging for Biak Air Field

Japs Lose In Tonk Battle   Yanks Win Biak Struggle Rit Fail To Reach Mokmer

MacKenzie Says—  Politics In Europe Hit Bitter Peak   War Ushering In New Political and Social  Epoch In Freed Lands

“WAR TODAY   European Political Convulsion Marks Beginning of New  -Epoch Born of Glo : bal War

SOVIETS SMASH WITHIN 72 MI. OF AUSTRIAN BORDER   CAPTURE TWO NAZI STRONGPOINTS ON SLOVAKIAN BORDER   Political Upheavals Hover Over Europe

Europe Right, Left Wingers Fight In War’s Wake   By DeWitt MacKenzie AP War Analveat

“The War Today   Political Turmoil To Follow in Wake Of Wear in Europe —

THE WAR TODAY   Ea PERE ANE IA K  Civil Wars May Sreep Continent

THE CLOSER EUROPE GETS TO THE WAR’S END THE GREATER BECOMES POLITICAT. UNREST

Europe Civil. Outlook Dark   War's End May Bring Bloody Internal Fight

APPROACH OF END OF WAR BRINGS “VIOLENT POLITICAL UPHEAVALS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF EUROPE

TWO U. 5, SOLDIERS ‘CONVERGE’   Historie Contact Of Anzio, 5th Armies Descrihed

Two Yanks Make Allied Juncture   CAPTAIN, LIEUTENANT FIRST ASK ABOUT BEER

Usual American Greeting As Armies Join Forces   Exchange Lacenic Remarks As Historic Juncture Is Made

Yanks Blast Europe From West-South   Hit Retreating Gerrans In France and Vital  Plants Within Baich

U.S. BOMBERS HI RETREATING NAZIS   Force of 1200 Heavies Meet  Meet No Opposition  Over France

CONGRESS SET FOR VACATION   Solons Confident FDR Wil Not Veto Reconversion Or Property Bills

CONGRESS TO OPEN RECESS   Await White House Action On Reconversion Bill

CONGRESS: TO. a TAKE RECESS   SEVEN: WEEKS “ELECTION: CAM: PAIGN RECESS IS SCHEDULED . PO-START THIS WEEK. ;

RED BOMBERS. MAKING RAIDS   BREST-LITOVSK RAIL FACILI“TIES POUNDED AND TROOP  °" AND AMMUNITION ‘TRANIS HIT

Scenes On Leyte Island Different From Last Days On Corregidor, 1941

GERMANS FACE PINCH IN FOOD   Loss Of Rich Productive Areas To Be Felt By Reich In 6 Months

65 ENEMY PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Light Opposition ls Encountered By Allied Airmen

Island Invasion  Predicted   5 ENEMY SHIPS DAMAGED, 6 NIP FIGHTERS DOWNED IN MARSHALLS ATTACK

Nazi Airdromes In France Hit in American Raids   Large Force of Bombers Used in Attacks, Following Night Raids on Essen

° ° ’ American Air Force Batters at Airfields   Big German Plane Concentrations In France Attacked by Big Fleet OF Heavy U. S. Bombers

BIG ARMS CENTER 15 BATTERED   Yanks Follows Up Night Raid With Day Attack

RAF BLOW AT ARMS CENTER ENDS RESPITE   Essen Attack Followed By Yank Air Force Day Offensive

Yanks Hit Nazi  Airports   R. A. F. DUMPS 2800 TONS OF BOMBS ON NAZI ARMS CENTER

BOMB NAZI AIRFIELDS   Follows RAF Raid On Krupp Works At Essen, Germany

KRUPP WORKS IS GIVEN NEW AIR BLASTING   Allied Bomber Formas tions Head for Cons tinent After Night Blow by RAF.   BULLETIN

dal U.S. Bombers Plaster Nazi Dromes in France   Essen Blockbusted By 2800 Tons Of British Bombs

SEEKING END T0 CIVIL WAR   King George of Greece Agrees. ‘to Estabilsh Greek Regency — Actien Taken as Result of Blunt Demand, of King George.

GREEK REGENCY LOOMS, REPORT   Athens. Archbishop Offered Post By King, Claim

Greek Ruler Seen Willing To Bow Out   Regency Regarded Sure After Report On Churchill Visit

U.S. Subs Sink 15 More Jap Ships   Mounting Nip Losses Include Destroyer

ROBOTS IN STRONG ATTAGK ON BRITAIN   Rocket Bombs Seem to Include Some of a Different Type.

Nazis claim new’ secret weapon is taking heavy toll of allied shinnino

Nazis Now Claim New Radio Craft  ‘Explosion Boat’ Causing Trouble

Yankees Bury 268 Japs in Aifape Area   Initial Nip Drive Dwindles as Enemy Reorganizes

Pearl Harbor Attack Probe Is Completed   Kimmel Scores Secret Report

Adm. Kimmel Says Hearing Delay Is Political Move  Pearl Harbor Secret Report Is Being Reviewed by Navy

SECRET NAVY REPORT   Pearl Harbor Report Reviewed Prior to Publication

Secret Report Ready on Pearl Harbor Attack  Kimmel’s Lawver   Kimmel’s Lawyer Objects to Delay In Publication

Robert Hannegan Says GOP Seeks Power Through War   Democratic Chairman Speaks in Dallas To Party Workers

Youth Accused In Torch Death   But State Will Leave It To Jury To Determine TDeoree OF Guilt.

Forrestal Sees Danger of Another War if Japs Are Not Cul Down Now

Serviceman Temporarily Out of a Job Is Entitled to Get Unemployment Pay From U.S.

Kligible Unemployed War Veterans Can Get U nemployment Compensation

Pre-invasion  Talk Expected    Of Churchill   Premier To Make Address Sunday Over BritishAmerican Hookup

Pre-Invasion Unity: Topic: Of Churchill]   Address, Due at 4 P.M. Today, Held Significant, After View of U.S.Trocps 

Churchill Expected To Give Pep Talk   Pre-Invasion Address On Present Anglo-American Status Predicted

Churchill To Speak Today   Pre-Invasion Fight Talk Thought Likely

CHURCHILL FIGHT  TALK IS FORECAST   Broadcast Today Expected to Pre pare U. S. and Britain for Invasion of Continent.

CHURCHILL GOES ON RADIO TODAY   People To Be Prepared For Grand Assault On Europe

Churchill Sets U.S., Britain Radio Speech   Maps Talk Sunday; Scen as Prelude To Grand Assault

U.S. BOMBERS ATTACK FROM ITALIAN BASES   Assaults Follow Heavy Raid by the RAF on Kiel

RAF Pounds Stuttgart, Berlin, France   500 Yank Bombers From Italy Hit  France, Yugoslavia

REGROUP FOR THIRD ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Infantry Trying to Pierce Lines Thrown Back by Americans

* INFANTRYMEN » TRY TOPIERCE YANKEE LINES   @ * Nazis Suffer Severe Casualties  @ 1,600 AIR DRIVES Enemy Repulsed at  a  eo - Cassino

German Forces Preparing For  Third Attack   Allies Expect New Counter Attacks Against Beachhead In Italy   NAZI CASUALTIES HEAVY IN REPULSE

Fifth Army Traps German Force in Italy   RUSSIAN UNITS BREAK THROUGH ON FRONT NEAR VITEBSK.

Guns Smash Cherbourg ‘Dunkerque’   Nazi Evacuation Attempt Crushed ; New Heichts Taken

MANY PLANES HIT ~ PRIORITY TARGETS   ‘More Than 1,000 Heavy  Bombers Take Part  in Raids

AIRMEN GIVE SUPPORT T0 PARIS DRIVE   Huge Armades Smash at Nazi Frontline Positions

FLIERS BLAST NAZI TARGETS “INDAY RAIDS   Nearly 5,000 Bombers and Fighters Join in Assaults

HUGE AERIAL ARMADASHIT NAZITARGETS      Germony's, Ho me and Fighting Fronts Are © Blasted 

HUGE AERIAL ARMADASHIT -NAZITARGETS   Germany’ s Home and Fighting Fronts Are” Blasted 

Jap Cabinet Ready for Sig Battle   Preparations for Wartime Government Completed, Tokyo Radio Says

PAN-AMERICAN DAY EVENT AT AIR BASE IS SET   High Mexican Officials to Be Guests at the Aerial Review, Graduation

Pilot School's Pan-American Day Program Announced   American and Mexican Army, Government Officials Coming for Events, April [4

GAL IN RED SLACKS EXONERATED BY WLE   Referee in Case Says Ford Plant Manager Erred in Calling Garb Production Hazard.

GOOD FOR THE CROPS   Kansas. Temperatures Continue j Rough, on Folks

MINERS DEMAND BACK PAY, SAYS JOHN L, LEWIS   $18,000,000 Due Workers, UMWA Head States

PROMPT RETROACTIVE PAY ASKED BY MINERS   Lewis Says They’re Angry Over Delay

BACK PAY OF MINERS DEMANDED BY LEWIS   Leader Says Men Angry At Delay In $18,000,000

Lewis Asks Back Pay for Miners   U. M. W. CHIEF DEMANDS -MONEY FOR WORKERS IN LETTER TO ICKES

MINERS GETTING IRESTIVE, LEWIS INFORMS ICKES   Union Head Demands Prompt Payment Of $18,000.000 Retroactive Pay   CONTRACT AWAITING LABOR BOARD ACTION

LEWIS SAYS MIEN ENTITLED 10 PA   Lewis Charges Miners Vic tims of Conspiracy Over Retroaoctive Sums.

John Lewis Says Miners Restive   Demands Payment For Portal-to-Portal Wages; Says Conspiracy Afoot.

Says Miners Are Becoming Angry ings Angry  Lewis Seeks Prompt Payment  Of Portal-To-Portal Wages

John L. Lewis Makes Demand  For Miners   Effort to Defraud Workers Alleged by President of Union

CONSCRIPTION ISSUE MOVES TO SOLUTION   Canadian Parliament to Resume Deliberations Today After Debate Long Into Night  S7GR3S* G©CAFERERESRTE Or CL mA RS

Canadian Troop Outbreaks Take  Mutinous Turn  Soldiers at Terrace Prevent Regiment Leaving for Furone

Canada Moves Toward Solution Of Army Mutiny  Parliament Meets in Secret Deliberating Move to Draft Troons for Overseac Service

CANADIAN IANS: DEBATE CONSCRIPTION: BILL   Drafted Troops in Pacific Coast Region Still Protest over Oversea Orders

Parliament Nears Answer to Canada’s (Overseas Problem   King Gains Confidence; Treops Block Trains in British Columbia

Canadians Are Still At Odds On War Policy   Dominion Parliament Resumes Discussions This Afternoon on Sending Men Overseas.

Canadian Draftee Troops Stage Demonstrations  Men Refuse to TF alee Pincl aoe   Men Refuse to Take Orders From Superiors

MUTINY BREAKS OUT IN CANADA ON DRAFT ISSUE   Troops Demonstrate As Parliament Meets In Secret Session To  Air Problem

King Appears Sure Of Vote Of Approval   Canadian Draft Problem Solved

CANADA DRAFT BATTLE WANES   Mutinous Camp Outbreaks  Quelled; Prime Minis ter In Control

Canada's Draft Issue Still In Explosive Stage   Pacific Coast Protests Continue As Parliament Resumes Study.

Tomorrow is  WASTE PAPER an): ) Go   Explosive Draft Problem In  ~ Canada Moves Near Solution

'‘Draftees In Canada Still ‘Make Protest  Attitude In British Columbia Is Called  "mr yt _

TROOP PROTESTS GO ON IN CANADA   King Appears To Have Won Needed Confidence Vote

Draft Problem Nears Solution In Parliament   But Canadian Troops Tn Camps On Pacific Coast Siill Protesting Policy

Canada Still Troubled By Outbreaks.   Conscription Problem Nears Solution, Parliament Believes

Draft Crisis ls Unsettled   One Canadian Draftee Regiment Keeps Another From Entraining For Overseas

EASE CRISIS OF CANADIAN DRAFT   KING APPEARS TO HAVE WON BACKING OF PARLIAMENT

CANADA DRAFTEES STAGE MUTINOUS DEMONSTRATIONS   Refuse to Take Orders From Officers as Parliament Debates Conscription Crisis.   KING SEEMS ASSURED VOTE OF CONFIDENCE   Prime Minister’s Program to Send 16,000 Home Service Men Overseas Expected to Win Approval.

Canada Unrest Near. Solution.   ‘Parliament Finishes. With. Secret. Session”

COMMONS DEBATES. ISSUE OF DRAFTING   Arguments Heard as Draftee Troops Demon- _ strato 7

Draftee Outbreaks Reported In Pacific Coast Comme: Ae Tension Manis

Canadian Home Troops Protest   Conscription Issue Nears Solution in Parliament

King Government Winning Out In Canada On Draft   Army Units Still Mutinous On Conscription Issue As Parliament, In Secret Session Last Night, Appears Ready To Approve New Polic

Unrest Marks Debate Qver  Conscriptiox   Canadian Troops In Pacific Coast Camps Still Prolest Against Govern: ‘ment Poliey

Canadian Draftees Mutiny Against Conscription For Overseas Duty   May Delay Adjournment Ot Conaress

Canadian Conscription Problem. Nearer. Solution In Parliamentary ‘Phases’

Major Thrust By U.S. Third Army Awaited   Resistance in Huertgen Forest Still Strong

State Units In Anzio Fight   34th Division Has Action Record In Battles

Participate In Attacks On Germans   Gdentify the 34th Division as Seeing Much Service  in Italy

1,334 POSTWAR PLANS FILED      Projects Planned In Michigan to Cost Estimated  $250,000.000

Week-End Dead Totals Twelve   South Bend Apartment Fire Heads Longest  Toll With Four Dead

4 Persons Die In Hotel Fire At South Benc   7 Other Hoosiers Lose. Lives In Traffic. Crashes

Carrier Task Force Returns From Second Jap Attack   Two-Way Aerial Offensive Is Carried Out Against Enemy Positions Protecting the Philippine Islands

Carrier Task Force Returns From  Second Jap Attack  Two-Way Aerial Offensive Is Carried Out Against Enemy Positions   Two-Way Aerial Offensive Is Carried Out Against Enemy Positions Protecting the Philippine Islands

Both Claiming New Congress   Campaign Committee Chairmen Exchange Forecasts on House, Senate

Parties Vie For Control Of Congress   Rival Chairmen  Clash In Claims

Claims Conflict Over the belieccin Wie Control of Next Congress Pleases Trume

LEYTE BATTLE HAMPERED BY BLINDING RAIN   Fight for Road Seethes Through Fourth Day With Neither Side Claiming Victory  LIMON IS FOCAL POINT

BATTLE ON ROAD TO ORMOC ENTERS 4th DAY  ss gs  WarrrTmer was ee 6 arse

Ormoe Road F ight Rages —   ‘Storm Is Hampering ‘Philippines’: Action

KILLED IN PLANE   Merle R. Harvey of Kansas City Victim of Crash  Near Here

Servicemen Can Apply Soon For Benefit Check:   USES Offices in State to Begin Taking Requests Sept. 4

LESS CANNED FOODS FOR CIVILIANS   Sharp Reduction in Supplies Unless Nazis Quit Soon

EXPECT CANNED GOODS SCARCIT!   Defeat of Germany Would Reduce Demands

CANNED SUPPLY MAY BE SLASHED "BY 20 PERCENT   German Collapse, However, Could See Lifting Of Rationing   HEAVY SERVICE DEMAND   Farmers Appear Chalking Up One Of Best Food Producing Records

antl Ht TRAP ON SAIPAN   YANKS. €LOsING IN ‘ON THOUSANDS. HUDDLED. ON NORTH‘ERN. TIP. OF, ISLAND. 

Japs Face Liquidation ~ On Saipan   Nips__Prepare for Fina Stand in Northern __  c Tip of Strategic 7 beled _—

THOUSANDS OF JAPS FACE LIQIBATION   In Last Stand on Saipan Isla:(1; Few Expected to Surrender; Civilians and Troops Crowded.   Constant Pressure

Nomination Won By Benz And Sauthoff   Appleton Man Defeats Vaudreuil With Margin Of 241 Votes; Sauthoff Gets Total Of 23,650

Expect War Message By FDR   Probably Place “Emphasis On Home Front”

KLX TO BROADCAST, RETURNS IN STATE AND LOCAL PRIMARY ELECTION TONIGHT

Torpedo Sinks Canadian Ship   Channel Fight Drives Burning Nazi Destroyer To French Coast.

CANADIAN SHIP SUNK IN FIGHT   Nazi Destroyer is Driven Ashore in Flames; Foe Convoy Also Attacked

Canadian Ship (oes Down in  Channel Clash   Nazi Destroyer Sent Aground in Flames; Attack Enemy Convoy

Canadian Destroyer Sunk and Germar Warship Is Sent Around in Flames

Australia Is To Bill Flaherty Like United States, LongkAgc   Wiovies There Are From 8 ‘to 10 Months Behind * Times

Set. R. L. Peterson Wounded on Leyte   Local Soldier Said to Be Slightly Hurt

Tornadoes, Spring Storms Kill 32 Persons, Do Much Damage In The Southwest

TORNADOES AND FLOODS SWEEP. THE SOUTHWEST   NEARLY 500 PERSONS FORCED FROM HOMES IN OKLAHOMA, KANSAS

THREE STATES   30 Persons Killed in Arkansas, One Each in Oklahoma. Texas. -

32 Killed, at Least 140 Hurt in Storms   Tornadoes Claim 30 Lives in Arkansas and One Each in Oklahoma and Texas—Many Are Driven From Homes by Floods. 

Winds and Floods Sweep Southland  Tornades Take Toll of 14 Dead, 150 Hurt

Damage To Property Is Extensive   More Than 150 Injured As Violent Spring Storms Sweep Ove: Several States

‘VIOLENT SPRING STORMS LEFT TRAIL DEATH, DESTRUCTION   MORE THAN 30 PERSONS  KILLED IN SCATTERED

Tornadoes And Floods Strike   Two Dead, Many Injured During Storms Sweeping Through Southwest

Storms In South Kill 32   140 Hert In Arkansas   Objectors’ Camp Hit.

‘Thirty Killed By ‘Tornadoes in Arkansas   Violent Storms Strik ¢ Through Southwest; Alabama ‘Town Hit

List 32 Dead After Storms In Southwest   Over 140 Others Hurt: Floods Drive Hundred:  From Homes.

A Trail of Death In Storms’ Wake   Tornadoes Kill 30 Persons in Arkansas; Widespread Damage

Arkansas Tornado  Death Toll! At 30  Oklahoma, Texas Feel Spring Storms’ Sting

Winds Scatters Wreckage Across Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas While Rising Water Adds To Damage and Discomfort—Ohio Soaked by Continued Rains

WIND KILLS 30 IN ARKANSAS   Series of Tornadoes Strikes Large. Section in Southwest-

Deaths Mark Storms Wake   Tornadoes, Floods Strike in South: Leave Trail of Damage

HOSPITAL CUTS FACILITIES AUK TO SHORTAGE OF HELP   METHODIST CHURCH

PLANES ATTACK ~ JAPS IN BURMA   AERIAL SUPPORT. FOR GROUND     “TROOPS'IN CAMPAIGN STRIK-. ING BLOWS AGAINST. ENEMY .

ALLIED PLANES: HELP ON TWO BURMA FRONTS   Land Blows on Arakan Peninsula; Japs Cross Chindwin River

Film Slicker George Raft Denies Using, Loaded Dice To Clean Big-Businessman

Jap Plane Losses In The Southwest Pacific May Total 717 For January

Jap Air Losses In Defense Of Rabaul Heavy   At Least 546, and Probably 717 Planes. Destroyed By American Forces During January

At Least 546 Jap Ships Are Lost In Month   Total May Mount To 717 In Rabaul Area; Allied Losses 97

JAPS' LOSS OF PLANES HEAVY   January Proves Enemy’s Blackest Month In Aerial Warfare

PERSONAL SKETCH OF OF VICE PRESIDENT ELECT HARRY TRUMAN  MISSOURIAN TAKES NOTH. ING FOR GRANTED; HAS ’ ONE HORRY. HARD WORK

PERSONAL SKETCH OF OF VICE PRESIDENT ELECT HARRY TRUMAN  MISSOURIAN TAKES NOTH. ING FOR GRANTED; HAS  AIT RARMUY Marr wan wLw

State Golf Meet Set for Butte  J. D. Murphy Named 1944 President

Most Inductees To Be Under 26  Few Older Fathers To Be Called, Belief

Younger Men  To Fill Draft   Majority of Those Called During 1944 Under 26 Years Old

FATHERS WILL PROBABLY GET LONG DELAYS   Military Committee Says ‘Younger Men To Fill Quotas

BELIEVE MEN ‘UNDER 26 WILL FILLUP QUOTAS   Bbw ee eg) TS  “That ‘Ave Going. / -° Tn TQAA ;   THAT IS —~ MAYBE   Upsets -On Fighting Fronts Could Alter _ Situation

Men Under 26 to Fill Draft Calls  Few Fathers Over That Age Face Induction

FEW DADS SEEN BEING INDUCTED   Men Under 26 Expected To Fill Calls For '44 =

Draft Calls For Rest Of Year Will Be Filled Mostly By Men Under 26, House Group Believes

DRAFT CALLS YOUNGER MEN   Latest Figures Indicate Most 1944 Inductees Wit) Be Under 26

Most. 1944 Draftees To Be Under 26?   House Committee Believes Few Fathers Over That Age Will Be Called

ee nae  MEN UNDER 2670 FILL DRAFT CALL   Few Fathers Over:-That :“Age To” Be Inducted Latest View.

FATHER DRAFT IS EXPECTED 10 TAPER OFF NOW   Row Over ‘GI Bill of Rights’ Flares Anew as Capital Labor Squabble Goes On

Draft To Call Mostly Men In 16-Year Group   Few Fathers Will Be Inducted With Younger Men In °44

Few Fathers Over That Age Will Be Inducted Bar.  ring Big Upset on War. Fronis

Barring Upset Only Men Under 26 Face Draft   Indications Are Few Fathers Over That Age Be Inducted.

Few Fathers Over 26 Likely   To Be Drafted   Latest Selective Service Figures Indicate Draft Calls Will Continue To   Be For Younger Men

House Hears Drafi Calls to Skip Most Fathers Now  Selective Service Says Men Under 94 en EI] Quatac

Most 1944 Inductees Will Be Under 26   Latest Draft Figures Indicate Few Older Fathers Being Called

Fathers Over 26 Will Get "Break   Few To Receive Draft * Calls Rest OF Year

Enough Young Men for Time   Fewer Older Men to Be Called Unless Strategic Plans Require Changes

Draft Figures Indicate Most of 1944 Inductee:  Will Be Under 26 Years

Forecast Most of "44 Inductees Will Be Under 26 Years   House Committee is Giving Figures; Coal Mining Affected

DRAFT TO TAKE FEW MEN OVER 26, IS REPOR]   House Committee Believes Most Fathers Will Escape Calls This Year

Sufficient — ‘Men Under 26 _ForThis Year   Selective Service Figures Show Today, Committee Reveals

Babson Predicts Collapse Of Germany by Spring, Big Year for Farmers, in 1945

Babson Forecast For 1945  Predicts Farm Income Equal to That of 1944   Ganeral Business

Nazis to Collapse Before Spring 1945   By ROGER W. BABSON GENERAL BUSINESS

Babsoan’s Authentic Statement   Copyright—1944——Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 194:

On The Home Front      A ELE TS = 2 See TT ERE OE ee  BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1945   THUMBNAIL OUTLOOK FOR 1945   PETATL COMMODITY PRICES

BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1945 By: Roger W. Babson  IiYarTwv rm AY wwreYTrrorarecee es

Babson's Business, Financial Forecast For. Coming Year   BY ROGER W. BABSON  PFowoo 4.TF BS WIess

People Coming To Realize No Peace Secure Without Spiritual Awakening   Says Roger Babson, Who Here Predicts Cutbacks In Most Businesses During Coming Year; Sees War’s End

SLIGHT BUSINESS DROP PREDICTED FOR COMING YEAR   Lower Production Rate Is Also in Prospect, Says Babson

BABSON’S BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1945 PREDICTS 10° PCT. REDUCTION IN U. ‘S. BUSINESS, HIGHER RETAIL PRICES

Taxes Will Not Increase In °45, Reductions Seen  BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1945 By Roger W. Babson

B Babson Sees War Production Cut, Rapid Reconversion During 1945, With Rationing and Higher Retail Prices

More Than 1,100 Planes Hit Reich   Record Raid Costs 25 Bombers, 13 Fighters

Draft Board Saves 24 Men From Service   Although They Are Un. der 26 Yis.; They Are Key Individuals In  Cheese Industry

DRAFT BOARD DEFIES GOVT   Refuses To Call 24 Young ‘Key’ Men In Cheese  Factories

MEN NEEDED IN FACTORIES   Draft Board Refuses to Reclassify Key Men in Cheese Industry.

No Fear Of Red Army   Returned Reporter ; Says Nazis Confident They Can Meet Threats * From East and West

GERMANS DECLARED NOT TO BE ALARMED BY SOVIET ADVANCE  LARRY ALLEN BELIEVES _ GERMAN POWER HAS NOT D  EOe CDOEATIY IMDAIDE

Chinese Troops Are Pressing Siege Of Jap-Held City  Ragged Army Blasts “Fox Holes” in Town’s Stone Walls

ORDERED FLOGGINGS    Court Maktial Directs Directs Dismissal of 1 ‘Officer From Service

COURT MARTIAL ~~ FOR FLOGGING   MAJOR FOUND GUILTY. OF HAVING NINE. PRISONERS: WHIPPED AT MISSI8 SIPPl CAMP: .-

Yank Units 10 Miles Fram Gates   German Troops Flee Valmontone  Yank Captures Town ‘By Mistake’

Valmontone Captured "By Mistake" By Lone Yankee   Engineer Makes Way Into Town Believing Capture Had Been Effected by Troops

Allies Open Fire to Destroy City Held by Nazi  Forces  MAJOR FIGHT FORMS        German Fieserves Put on Roads on Way. to Defend City

Alli Fire to Destroy “Cit Held by Nazi  Forces     MAJOR FIGHT FORMS  ino ie Ne MRR HII

AMERICAN ARTILLERY, PLANES OPEN UP ON CITY; NAZIS ARE RUSHING IN REINFORCEMENTS   Demand for Unconditional Surrender is Ignored as Germans Elect: To Fight to Death; Major Engagement Developing for Farbfied Boundary Strouchold

Warsaw Poles Rise on Nazis   Reds in Annihilation Campaign on 200,000 Germans in Baltics

Warsaw Battle in Last Stages   Reds Drive Through Eastern Suburbs

Make New Cross Into Holland: Say Trier Taken  Resistance Is   Resistance Is Reported Weak Around Aachen

No New Report On Activities of Hodaes’ Men   New Attack, 15 Miles North of Liege Plans To Close in on Nazis From Opposite Point

CITY OF AACHEN ENTERED TODAY BY AMERICANS   Siegfried Line Shelled By U. S. Third Army

GERMANS NOT-NOW- RISKING “LARGE NUMBERS OF U- BOAT:   HITLER MAY MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO.RULE. ATLAN‘TIC BUT CAUTIOUS NOW

Tiny Mining Town Battered   53 Houses Crumpled Like Matchwork—11 Persons Killed

DESIGNING POLICY OF PERPETUAL WAR?   Postpones Final Day of Rec: koning With Injustice, Brutality,::

ACT TO EXTEND VOTING HOURS   Gov. Kelly Calls Special  Session of Solons  Next Friday

Special Session Is Called Friday   Legislature Will Ponder Longer: Voting Hours

CALLS LEGISLATURE TO SPECIAL SESSION   Wayne County Requests for Extension of Voting Hours Prompts Kelly to Act

Filibuster Assault Seen in Senate On Soldier Vote  Administration Seel   Administration Seeks Some Decision On Political Issue

ACTION SOON ON VOTE BILL IN CONGRESS   Want To Get Vote Started Monday Or Filibuster

Soldier Vote Filibuster Charge Airec   Administration Seeks Vote, But So Far Stymied; Work on Tax Bill Nearly Finished

Filibuster Assault Seen in Senate On Soldier Vote  Administration Seek:  Some Decision re PP

Soldier Vote Bill Starts Second Week   Administration Ready to Cry ‘Filibuster’ If No Vote Monday

Demand Vote or Soldier Ballot  Administration Ready to Cry Filibuster

CALL SOLDIER VOTE APOLITICAL ISSUE   Administration Sehators in Favor of Vote on Plan Started Mondav.

ADMINISTRATION TO DEMAND ACTION ON FEDERAL VOTE BILL   Roesevelt Followers Prepared to’ Cry “Filibuster” If They Can’t Get Vote Started Mondag

200,000 Japs Are Stranded   Legion Head Says Men on Islands Bevond Aid

Dies Charges CIC Collaboration  With U. S. Officials   Political Action Committee Hopes to Raise Five-Million-Dollar Fund From ClO Members to Push Roosevelt's Re-Election

SENATE DEBATE ON CONTINUED PAY FOR WAR WORKERS HELD  MATTER DEVELOPS INTO PARTY CONTROVERSY IN TIPPER HOTISE

Idle War Workers Pay Still Debated  Senate Hears Dewey Called Defender OF Vactad Intaracte

CONTROVERSY WAGING OVER JOBLESS PAY   Argument Arises on Whether Committee Clerk Can Speak to the Presiding Officer

Continue Debate On Jobless Pay   Republicans Blast at “Pollyanna Economists”  —Dems Hit Dewey

Americans Swarm Through Streets Of Conquered City; Reinforcements Join Tommies

HUNDREDS OF MASSED BIG GUNS PAVE WAY FOR  VICIOUS ASSAULT ON BROAD FRONT; TILLY ACKNOWLEDED LOST BY GERMANS; ALLIED REINFORCEMENTS POURING IN.   25,000 MORE TROOPS IN 350 SHIPS ANCHORED OFF SHORE NORTHEAST CAEN   Capture of Cherbourg Will Allow Allies to Land Heavy Equipment; Will Be Restored to Full Use in Matter of Days, Say Engineers.

WMC OPPOSES ‘DICTATORIAL’ SERVICE ACT      ‘cNut! and Aides Base Work on Co-operation, Would Avoid Infeciering wilh Family Life   Patterson Says Service Act’s . Effect Will be Mostly Morale

‘American, W arships Join Aireraft In Furious Bombardment Of Japanese-Held Marshall Atolls

Uo GOING Ih TO ALL AFT Ch OUTPOSTS FALL   Réport Nazis and Hungarians in Full Retreat West of Capital.

Hospital Officer. . Ends Life   Bullet Wound in Head Fatal to Li. Col. Robert J, Wilson

ADVANCE IN ITALY   Eighth Army Units Completing Encirclement of Faenza

Eighth Takes San Prospero   Rapidly Completing Encirclement of Faenza

Sth Army Push Perils Faenza In Lamone Area      Allied Forces Advance in  taly“After Capturing —  ’ San Prospero; Nazis Fight: Bitterly

BRITISH SEIZE SAN PROSPERO   Three-Mile Advance Marked Up By Eighth Army

SAN PROSPERO CAPTURED BY FIGHTH ARMY   Advance  Three Miles In North Italy

EIGHTH IN ITALY CIRCLES FAENZA   Captures San Prospero On West Bank Of Lamone, While German Troops Fall Back.

Official Report Is Made on Nazi Massacre Several Examples  of Enemy , pee ) ee eee .

Nazis Massacre Yank Prisoners   Using Sneak Tactics In Counteroffensive; Seem to  Need Materiel Badly.

U.S. PRISONERS ROBBED AND SHUT   Take Cigarettes And Al Valuables, Then Mow Them Down

FACTS onQULD BE TOLD DAIL   Palmer Hoyt Believes Japs Will Treat Prisoners Better Then.   /FEAR TO DO OTHERWISE

FORMER OW! DIRECTOR DECLARES "FULL BLOODED STORY OF THIS WAR". NOT BEING PROPERTY GIVEN PUBLIC   Recent Events Cited to Show That Authorities Have Withheld Information from Public and Tried To Create Wrong Impression in Minds of People

EX-0.W.1. MAN WANTS JAPS' CRUELTY TOLD   Japs Will Be Forced Te Better War Prisoners

Full Story Of War Not Told  Former OWI Director Attacks IJ. S. Poliey

Attorney Cites Constitution Violation If Judge Holds Any Other Public Office

Leif's $50 a Day For 147 Days Cited by Smith   Paid at Rate of $18,000 a Year While Drawing $7,500 Annually as Associate Justice OF State Court, Helena Attorney Points Out

Designed National Episcopal Cathed: ral in Washington, D.C. and Other © Noted Churches; Funeral Today . ©

Designed National. Episcopal  ‘al ral in Washington, D.C. and Ott _ Noted Churches; Funeral Today =

FEDERAL AID 10 JOBLESS CIVIES STILL POSSIBLE   Solon Predicts Early Revival Of Bill To Help Stranded War Workers

TRAP FORMING AROUND BUZZ BOMB AREA   Allies 55 Miles From Belgium, 100 From Reich   CANADIANS   Are Within Sight Of Rouen; Verdun And Compiegne Forest Also Mentioned

New Allied Drive Threatens To Flank Germans At Coast   Canadians, British Push Close To Rouen. Across Seine

AMERICANS IN WHIRLWIND DRIVE NEAR BELGIUM-GERMAN BORDERS WITH GAINS OF 15-25 MILES   Armored Columns Driving Within 55 Miles of Belgium Border and 100 Miles of Germany Borders. Troons Now Within 50 Miles Historic Verdun

Yanks Within 70 Miles of Belgian Frontier Today   American Forces Plunge on Through War  Battlefields

'Whirlwind Advances Carry .U.S. Forces To Battlefields iWhere Fathers Fought, Died   Parallel Columns Reach Fismes Area; Our Troops Less Than 50 Miles From Verdun: Bridgeheads Become Solid Front

Canadians In Sight Of Rouen   Any Nazi Plan To Hold Marne-Somme Line Is Shattered

AMERICANS ARE ONLY 70 MILES FROM BELGIUM   Mighty Drives Carry to Scenes Of First War; Gains In South France

Swift Troops Capture Vital Ground   U. S. Fighters Seize Chateau-Thierry, Soissons Regions

Battleground Of Ist World War Captured   Troops Less Than 50 Miles From Verdun Sector

New U.S. Push May Flank Robot Bomb Ramps; Allies Near Belgium Border

NAZIS CUT OFF AS ALLIED TIDE SPREADING OUT   German Toll Grows While Onrushing Forces Surge Along Road to Berlin

Patton's Swift Advance Threatens New Nazi Trap   Narrows Escape Gap to 76 Miles, Leaves Germans No Defense Short of Reich Except Albert Canal

Chateau-Thierry and Soissons I akeninDrive   Big Arc Moving Forward Narrows German Escape Gap in France, Advancing To 55 Miles of Belgium, 100 of Germany.

Historic Citiés of Last War Are Latest Prizes Taken   by General Patton’s   Men.   ROBOT BOMB ROW IS BEING OUTFLANKED

Yanks Less Than 100 Miles From German Border   Drive Within 70 Miles Of Belgium On French Soil Hallowed By Blood Of Fathers; Flanking Pas De Calais

NEAR BELGIUM, REICH BORDERS      Historic World War I Bat tlefields Occupied  Without Fight

Sensational Yank Advance Narrows  German Escape Gap Across Northern France to 76 Miles, it Is Reported

Narrow Escape Lane   Advance Threatens to Outflank Robot-Bomb Coast; Allies Extend  Hold On South France

Americans Flank Nazi Rocket Bomb  Coast Positions   U. S. Third Army Units Within Ten Miles of Forest of Compiegne Where First World War Armistice Was Negotiated   MARNE IS BREACHED SOME MILES EAST OF MEAUX

U.S. Fliers Attack Own Boats, Two Pianes Shot Down   Mixed Signals Blamed For Battle; Few Casualties Reported

Yank Planes Battle U.S.PT-Boats   MacArthur Blames Failure of Recognition Signals

Yank Planes Battle U.S.PT-Boais   MacArthur Blames Failure of Rarnanilaw [ en pe

U. S. Losses Prove Light   Planes Attack Boots Which Answer Fire

DENIED BY BROWNELL   Republicans Are Accused Of Spreading False Reports About Roosevelt's Health

“Hannegan’s Shennanigans” Brownell Scotches New Dealer's  Charge of GOP Whispering Attack

Whispers On FDR Vigor Hit   Brownell Calls Hannegan Rap  A ‘Shennanigan’

RED ARMY TROOPS WIDEN IN BALKANS   Drive Through Southeast Sector Of Yugoslavia, Cut Main Highway

Reds Place Block In Nazi Escape Route From Greece    Drive Through Southeastern Par Of Yugoslavia, Expand Sweep

Reds Extending Drive Through Balkan States   Cut Main Highway from Greec into Yugoslavia — Marshal Tito’s Forces Have Part

Main Road From Occupied Greece Cut By Russians   Red Army Advances Through Southeastern Section of Yugoslavia

Reds Expand Sweep In — Balkan States To Block _,.Germans’ Escane. Route

REDS PUSH ON IN SWEEP THRU BALKANS   Place Further Blocks in Nazi Escape Route

Russian Forces Cut  Balkan Escape Road:   Nazi Fronts In Balkans Deteriorate; Reds Rout Nazi Lapland Army In North

RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN YUGOSLAVIA   Cut Nazi Escape Route From Greece

Reclamation Bureau Spokesman Sees ‘Plenty of Water   Says Interior Department Proposals for Post-War Development Will Assure Enough for All Purposes

Army Plane Falls Near Anthon, Ia.; Eleven Men Die   Names Withheld Pending Notification of Relatives

NATIONS TO ASK LEAGUE SEATS   ELECTION TO DETERMINE COUNCIL PARTICIPATION

Bid for Seats On New United Nations Council  To Be Made   However, Big Five Will Have Permanent Positions in Setup

DONNELLY 10 PICK FD. R, SUPPORTER   SAYS MAN HE NAMES SENATOR MUST BE IN ACCORD WITH FOREIGN POLICY.

TO NAME DEMOCRAT   Governor- Elect Will Appoint Successor to Truman

Relief Force Nearing Yanks   Hundreds of Tons of Supplies Dropped By Planes

Relief Near for Trapped Yanks   Radio Reports U.S. Columns Only 1% Miles from Bastoane

Americans In Counterattacks Blunt Two Enemy Spearheads Before Celles And Ciney

Transport Planes Drop. Hundreds Of Tons Of Supplies to Trapped Yanks At Bastogne

Counterattack . Halts Germans  In Celles Area   Deughhboys Make Stand Ouly Four Miles From Meuse River and Eight From France   Blunt Nazi Move In Direction Ciney   Later Developments In Ac: tion lo Check Enemy’s Spearhead Thrust Nat Diselosed

Supplies Sent Yanks Holding On af Bastogne   Sky Trains Fly From England and France With Cargoes for   Herofe Douahhave

TONS OF CARGO DELIVERED TO TRAPPED FORCES   German Towns Of Winden Cleared Below Duren; 7th Gains

Something Special For Radio Fans!  KF Y0 ‘Goes Into High Gear’ Today With ‘Blue’ Schedule

aomething Special For Radio. Fans? 37 FET  KF YO ‘Goes Inio High Gear’ Todau With ‘Blue’ Schedule

Bricker Hits At Federal  Usurpation   DEMOCRATIC FEDERAL GRANTS FOR DOMINATION OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AT SAN BERNARDINO,   Must Free Business

BAICKER SCORES FINANCIAL GRANTS   Protests Usurpation of State And Local Authority; Says Trend Will Lead to Political Domination

Bougainville Made Prison For Japs - Where They Must Starve Or Give In

Rule Applied Specifically To Sweden; Cooperating Neutrals First to Get Aid

Post-War Benefits Depend on Neutrals   U. S. Sets Rule in Pressing Sweden To Halt Shipments

Put It Up To Sweden   Postwar Trade With ' Allies to Depend on Willingness to Stop Shipments to Germany

EXTENT OF NEUTRALS’ COOPERATION — WITH ALLIES TO DETERMINE BENEFITS

Hull Resents Swede Rebuff   Sale of Ballbearings To Germans Is Present Controversy

Policy of U.S, With Neutral: Is Clarified   Extent of Co-operation Now Will Be Standard Upon Which Post-War Aid Will Be Extended

ISWEDEN MAY NEED ALLIED HELP IN POST WAR DAYS   Right She Plays to Germany But Indications Are That Conditions Will Change

MONOPOLY CHARGE ON ROSS HOSPITAL   Chillicothe Hospital Taxable, State Says

YOUTH IS FREED IN CAR TRAGEDY   Greenville High School Boy Acquitted In Death Of Girl

YOUTH ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE   16-Year Old Defendant Is Freed by Jury in Sen cational Case

David Filgas Is Found Nof Guilty   Acquittal Causes Joy in Courtroom

CHILDREN DEAD IN LANSING FIRE   Baby Boarding House I: Swept By Flames; Parents At Work

‘Discord Between Britain and \Russia Believed Reason Behind ‘Eden’s Sudden Dash to Quebec

Nazis Strike Back with New ‘Secret Weapon’, Pilotless Bomber Released From Control Plane

PILOTLESS PLANE USED BY GERMANS   Pick-a-back Craft Is Released from Control at Great Distance.

NEW NAZI WEAPONS CRASH IN ENGLAND   TWO PILOTLESS BOMBERS RELEASED FROM CONTROL PLANE EXPLODE, DAMAGE SLIGHT

BRICKER URGES SLASH IN TAXES   Says Action Would Facititate Payment Of Debt

BRICKER CALLS FOR TAX CUI   Expansion of Incomes to Provide U. S. Revenue

Cat In-Income  Tax Promised  -If Dewey Win:   Bricker Says Expansion Of  Business and Indusiry to Increase National Income Provides Method

Soviet Supply Lines Jammed  With Materiel   Russians Bringing Up Quantities Of Equipment

WEATHER      EF or ‘Attack In Romani   Columns-of Supplies and Aritery Move Up to Front Lines   BOMB SEVASTOPOL   to Final Red Army Assault

Reds Move Materials For Push   Great Offensive By Russians Is Believed Near

State Employes in Armed Forces  Nearly 15 Per Cent Now in Service

Nimitz Steps Up Aerial Assaults   Kuriles, Marshals and Carolines Hit Again

Reds Start New Ukraine Drive; Mass Retreat On   Germans May Have To Cross Into Rumania;  Eyacuating Berdichev, Former Headquarters

REDS BEGIN DRIVE AGAINST GERMANS CENTRAL POSITION ON UKRAINE FRONT TODAY.   Germans Counter-Attacking Repeatedly Trying To Keep Control of Railway Running from Belaya Tserkoy Westward to Odessa-Lwow Line

Vatutin Gains Force; : Von Mannstein Tries To Push Back Red Tide

NAZIS BATTLE DESPERATELY TO HOLD FOE   Germans Try Repeated Counter-Attacks to Keep Lines Free

Red Columns Moving Fast   Von Mannstein Races to Get Forces From Dnieper Bend Beiore Encircled

WARFARE FLARES IN WEST BURMA   Japs Lose Substantial Number of Men in Defending Mayu Ridge Range.

FINAL ARGUMENTS SLATED MONDAY IN TRIAL OF CHAPLIN   Stork Conversation With Joan Barry Denied By Comedian

CHAPLIN CASE T0 JURY TUESDAY   ATTORNEYS PREPARE FINAL ARGUMENTS

Briggs Charged With Forgery; Indicted by Federal Grand Jury   Hopkins Had No Part In Notorious Case, Jury Reports

Sees > Gepost  Indict Briggs i in Letter Forgery   Confidential Aide of Secretary Ickes Charged With Forgery by Federal Jury

Briggs Indicted By Federal Jury   Say Hopkins Letter Forged By Ickes Aid

ICKES, HOPKINS CLEARED AFTER 2-WEEK PROBE   Fake Declared One-Man Affair

INDICTED IN LETTER CASE   Grand Jury Accuses Ex-Aide of Ickes Of Forgery

KANSAS SKIES DRIP   Forecaster Thinks the Rain Will Let Up Tomorrow

WEATHER MAN ALL MIXED UP; ~ STATES GENERALLY DRY GET .AIN; DROUGHT IN MIDWEST

Soviets Rout  rR oy  Reni man is v  9 Axis Ar nies  Red Army ny Hammers Out ‘ One-Day ‘Gains: as High   100 TOWNS SEIZED   ‘Berlin Reports Russians ' Have Reached Gateway to Czech Border

Reds Only 24 Miles From Odessa   Nazis Driven Out Of 100 More Towns In Soviet Advance

PARATROOPERS KILLED BY U. S. ACK-ACK GUNS   Tragedy in Sicily Told

Freakish Tragedy Brings Loss of 410 U.S. Lives   AMERICAN GUNS DOWN 23 ALLIED PLANES IN SICILIAN MISTAKEN IDENTITY FIGHT

Knock-Out Drive Against Marshalls Seems Under Way   Big U.S. Force Smashes At Jap-Held Islands For Seconc Straight Day   AIR AND SEA POWER BROUGHT INTO ATTACK

Heavy Aerial Blows Are Made on Japs   Warehouses Set Ablaze by Allied Raiders

Air Raids On Halmahera Island Set Big Fires, Sink Eight Jap Vessels

Japs’ Philippines Defense Line is Periled as Allied Bombers Hit at Halmahera

STILWELL’S MEN TAKE 2 VILLAGES   Nips Intensify Drive In.China; Losses At  Hollandia Mount

Nips Driven Back In India, Losses Heavy   Have Lost 15,000, Not Including Casualties Inflicted in Stillwell Drive

BRITISH CONTINUE ‘TO PUSH JAPS BACK IN INDIAN SECTOR   Nips Casualty Lists High in Fighting on Arakan Front, Reports State

Japanese Lose  15,000 Dead, India Fighting   Figure Excludes Losses Inflicted By Chinese Stilwell Force

Enemy Losses Placed at 15,000 Dead   Gen. Stilwell’s Men Also Have Taken Heavy Toll of Nips

15,000 Japs Slain During India Battles   Attempt at Invasion During Last Two Months Proves Costly

BRITISH CONTINUED  DRIVE JAPS BACK IN  INDIAN INVASION OFFICIALLY ESTIMATED  ENEMY HAS LOST 15,000 IN NEAN ALONE

Japanese Lose 15,000 Dead, India Fighting  Figure Excludes Losses   Figure Excludes Losses Inflicted By Chinese Stilwel] Force

15,000 JAPS DIE IN BURMA, INDIA   ENEMY LOSSES IN ATTEMPT TO INVADE INDIA SET AT 8,000

Japanese Lose 15,000 Dead In  Burma Sectors   Figure Excludes Casualties Inflicted On Japanese By Stilwell’s Force Once Totaling 5,000

JAP DEAD ON ARKAN FRONT OVER 15,000   Tank - Supported Chinese Forces Swarm Through Two Mere Villages East  of Mogaung Valley  VALIAAA DEAsAIC Allie

India Fight Costs Japs 15,000 Men In 3 Months   British Continuing To Stage Advances

Allies Drive Japs Back in India and On Burma Front  Mounthatien's Neadquariers Pats Jap Losses Since Feb  i

Japs Are Driven  Back by British   Enemy Losses Have Been Heavy on the Arkan Front of Burma   CHINESE -HELPING OUT   Fighting Continues on the Outskirts of the Kohima  Base

NOW DEAD IN INDIA, BURME   oll Has Been Taken Since February 1 ‘on -Arkar ~ Front, and inthe Imphal “vand, Kohima Sectors, Al + Hae Renort.. bs

BRITISH CONTINUE TO FORCE JAPS T0 RETREAT IN INDIA   Estimates Place Nip Losses ai  ' 15,000 Dead Since February  on Both Burma and India  Battlefronts

Put Jap Dead At 15,000 in Burma-India   British Estimate Covers Slain From February 1 To Date

BAIT on DAW JAPANESE BACK   Report Enemy Has Lost 15,000 in Burma-!ndia Area Since Feb. 1.   STILWELL’S MEN BUSY

Leslie Fain Dies Suddenly   Associate of W. E. Hightower and Frank Porter Dies in West

Leslie Fain Dies Suddenly   Death of Hightower Associate Shocks Capitol Circles

Other B-29’s Hit Shanghai, Nanking Targets   STEP UP CAMPAIGN   Photos Show Heavy Damage Inflicted by Earlier Air . Strikes at Nagoya

PANZER BRIGADE WIPED 0177   Patton, Men Also She Shatter German : 16th Infantry

Western Atlantic Free From U-Boat Attacks: Air Patrol Gets Credit

NAZIS CAPTURE AU. $, GENERAL   ARTHUR W. VANAMAN FIRST OF RANK TO BECOME PRISONER OF GERMANY.

PARTIAL POWER CUTOFF EARLY TUESDAY HERE   No Classes at Bryant School Today. Warmer Air Brings Partial Abatement From Ice.

‘Joan Berry Tells  Of Chaplin Trysts  Girl's Story Is Told In   Conrtroaam

Joan's Letter To Chaplin Read fo Jury   Missive to Comic -Hints She Planned To Wed Anether Man

MYSTERY LETTER IN BERRY CASE   ASPIRANT ACTRESS ON STAND ALL MORNING

A. Dibie-.lloment Added to lowa’s Political Picture   Labor Organization Active in Five Big Counties   Rune to Chicarvo

C.I. 6, ss In Jou  Campaign This Gall   To Spend Money To Elect F. D. R. Again

Lights Come on Again in Paris and People Are Happy, But Bit Hungry

Parisians Awake To Find Themselves Free But Hungry; Yanks Welcomed

Parisians Find Themselves Free, But ‘Begin fo Realize Hunger-and Weariness

Fleet Admirals, Army Generals Created By FDR   Firat’ Navy Appointments Of Kind In’ History; . ‘Three Army-Men Named

‘SUPER’ RANKS FOR 7 LEADERS   Nominate Four Generals And 8 Admirals

SEVEN GIVEN NEW HIGH SERVICE RANK   Four Made Generals Of the Army; Three Admirals of Fleet

F. D. R. Signs Bill for New Military Rank   FLEET ADMIRAL OF NAVY, GENERAL OF ‘ARMY ESTABLISHED BY ACT

 President Signs ‘Bill Creating Increased Ranks   Four Generals, Three Admirals Nominated For Higher Positions

FDR SIGNS BILL FOR NEW RANKS   Titles Of 5-Star Admirals And Generals Is No Longer Mvystervy.

9- Star Rating Bill Is Signed  Three Admirals, Four Generals Nominated

New Army, Navy Ranks Created   President Names  _ Nominees for . Posts—Pershing fe Sill Hinhkact

President Signs Bill Creating Military Chiefs  Fleet Admirals, Army Generals

TWO NEW RANKS CREATED TODAY BY THE PRESIDENT   Signed Bill Creating Fleet Admiral o fthe Navy and General of the Army.   SEVEN ARE NOMINATED   miral of the Navy and and Four for Generals of the Army.

FDR Signs Bill To Raise Ranks Of Top Military   New Super Ranks Give Prestige Equal To British Officers

FDR Signs Bill Creating Higher Ranks   Names Four General: And Three Admirals  To New Positions

FOUR GENERALS THREE ADMIRALS GET NEW RANK   Named by FDR Today, After He Signs Bill Providing for Fleet Admirals and Generals of Army.

Fighting Rages in’ Greek Civil War:   20,000 Lettists Shell British in the Heart of  Athens; Hope tor Some Settlement Fades

GREEK CIVIL WAR RAGING.   Hope for Early Compromise Settlemenf Fades—Bloody Street: Fight. ing Being Continued in Athens,

20,000 Fight British Who Use Bombers   Left Wingers Fire On Headquarters With Artillery

20,000 Leftists Battle Troops   Well-Equipped Rebels Shell Government and British Strongholds as E. L. A. S. Revolt Goes Into Second Week; Peace Overture Rebuffed

Bloody Street Fighting In Athens Enters Second Week; RAF Bombers Hit At ELAS Strongholds

Street Battles Still Raging ln Athens   British Are Sending MacMillan in Attempt To Solve Crisis

Bloody Street Fighting in Athens Rages Into Second Week   Hope For Early Compromise Of Greek Civil War Faded Today

DO NOT FIGHT BACK   Hope for Compromise Fades as Greek Rebels Open New Battle

Hope For Early Compromise In  Greek War Fades   20,000 Well-Armed : Leftist Troops Still. -. Sniping Away In Athens

CIVIL WAR CONTINUES IN GREECE   Hope [or Early Sett!_ ment of Revolt Fades

Leftists Shell British Lines   Tentative Armistice Feelers Offered

Hope for Peace Among Greek Groups Fades   Street Fighting in Athens Now in Second Week

PEACE FEELERS TO END ATHENS WAR_REBUFFED   Street Battlk Continues With 20,000 Rebels Still Sniping

Prospective Jurors In Sedition Trial Are Disqualified   Court Expected to Excuse Some Who Heard Prosecaior's Bemark Abeut Previews Convictions

Part Of Jury Panel Will Be Disqualified   Prosecutor's Reference To Previous Cases Is Cause Of Arguments At Sedition Trial

MUCH COOLER IS FORECAST   End of Indian Summe  Weather Indicated

Japan’s Borneo Gas, Oil Source Hit Heavy Blow   Sixty U. S. Bombers Batter Balikpapan In Longest Mass Raid.

MASS RAID ON JAP GASOLINE SUPPLY AREA   Liberators in Longest Flight In Southwest Pacific Attack Oil Sources On Borneo

Strike Terrific Blow at Japan’s Gasoline Supply   Sixty Bombers Raid Refinery in Borneo’ In Longest Mass Raid in Pacific

Big Jap Oil Source Hit   Balikpapan, Borneo, {s Liberators’ Target In Knockout Drive

Raiders Fire Big Refinery At Balikapan   MacArthur Acting To Wipe Out Oil, Gas Sunply of Foe

Bombing Jap Oil Sources   Big Fleet of Liberators Opens Drive to Wipe Out Vital Borneo Installations

Long ; Aerial Attack Opens Drive To Wipe Out Jap  OF. Gas Sources In Borneo

Attack Marks Opening Of _, Drive to Wipe. Out En: . emy’s Supply Or Aviation Gus !

‘MacArthur Opens Air Drive To Wipe Out Japan’s Source Of Gas And Oil On Borneo   Announces Crippling Blow Dealt By Bombers In Long Mass Flight

Liberator: Bomb Jap Refinery   Huge Enemy Oil and Gas Center On Borneo Left Blazing After Hour-Long ‘Strafing

Borneo Oil Refineries  Are Bombed   Liberators, in Longest Strike, Do Untold Damage

BOMBERS HIT HUGE BORNEO REFINERIES   Longest Mass Raid O} Pacific War Made By Liberators

Russians Bring Beler: ade  Within Artillery Range   Army Reported Within LO Miles Of Capital; Tito’s  Partisans Reported Fighting In Pancevo: No News Given From Other Fronts In East

Dewey Will Speak On Labor Tonight   G.O.P. Nominee Boards Train for Pittsburgh

Sadistic Japs’ Names Entered  On Death List   U. S. Is Compiling Record Of Those Responsible  ‘Wan Apinntatne

Nips Who Ordered Torture of Captives Marked for Justice on Reckoning Day

U.S. Compiling Death Ledger For Jap Sadists   Enemy Officers to Pay For Atrocities Against Prisoners

RESPONSIBILITY FOR ATROCITIES T0 BE CHECKED   Retaliation Pledged; Aid Of Russia In Pacific Conflict Demanded

Del Rioans Return Heme From Lion Club War Activities Conference In Corpus Christi

Annual County Farm Bureau Picnic July 4      COUNTY GATHERING TO BE HELD AT METHODIST CAMP AT NOON

TOWN WARRANT WOULD CHANGE POLICE DEPT      Would Make Chairman of ’- Sudbury Selectmen, ‘Chief of Police .

Nazis May Be Preparing To Leave Warsaw   pall Of Black Smoke Indi. cates They Aro Setting Fire To City

FLEEING GERMANS SET FIRE TO CITY   Soviets Also Crash Across Vistula River in Drive Toward Reich.

Germans Admit Loss of Important Railroad Base of Uman.  500,000 NAZIS IN RED PINCER MOVE  Hitler Is Evacuating Key Military Officers in Finland.

Asks Full * Aid Uniil Axis Falls   Roosevel; Cites Loss of 700 Houses Every Hour in England From Robots   OUR OTHER ALLIES HAVE CREAT COLL   Says Continuance of LeaseLend Is Needed Until Enemy Surrenders

V-DAY IS PLEA OF PRESIDENT   FDR Says Weakening of Supply Plan Could Delay Victory

PRESENT NAZI DRIVE MAY BE SWAN SONG   Offensive Compared to German Push Mark: ing End of Last War

STRIKE CLOSES ) WAR PLANTS   General Motors Workers Dissatisfied With Order Of WLB

9 GENERAL MOTORS WAR PLANTS CLOSED   C. I. 0. Strikers, Dissatisfied With Regional Board Order, to Carry Fircht to Nationay WiLoD.

German Attacks _ Foil Dempsey’s Rescue Efforts    Position Described As Critical Unless Assistance Can Be Driven Through; Tommies Hurl Shells Into Area

Germans Declare  Enemy In Arnhem;  Report City Aflame   \Nazi Counter Push Holds 2d Army” At Standstill 2 Miles North Of Captured Bridge At Nijmegen

Germans Battle British Armor To Standstill   Dempsey’s Drive Halted Two Miles North Of Captured Rhine Bridae

Arnhem Position Called Critical   German Resistance and Counterattacks Virtually Stop British Second Army Armor — Reinforcing Ils Made  Difficult by Bad Weather

British Army Virtually Halted By Fierce German Resistance: Pat. ton’s Army — Enters Fourth Day Of Most Tremendous Tank Buat : tle Since D-Day.

—GERMAN INV ASION—  Arnhem Under Fire Of British Tommies AndYank Paratroopers —      Allied Airborne Forces Reported Holding Open A Bridge Across Last Branch Of Rhine: Steady Gains Recorded In Slueging Advance

British Virtually Halted in Efforts To Break Through   Air Reconnaissance Reports Arnhem Aflame and That Germans Are Pulling Back to East Before Heavy Shellfire  rar ae ee te ne mr neem ane RT   PATTON'S TROOPS ARE WITHIN SIX MILES OF METZ

German CounterAttacks Have Halted 2nd Army  WEATHER IS BAD  Must Gain Six More - Miles To Form

Airtroops in Grave Danger About Arnhem   British 2nd Army Stopped in Effort to Effect Junction

END RUN LOOMS AROUND LASHED SIEGFRIED LINE   Enemy Loses 196 Tanks In Three Days During Hard Fighting Along Rhine

OFFENSIVE OF BRITISH 4$ HALTED   Airborne Troops Must e Be Joined Soon By Ground Forces

Airborne Army Enters Arnhem Germany Says   British Tommies Joined By American Parachulists Warling Shells Into Reich City   Thrust Into Ruhr Valley In Prospec   Air Reconnaissance Reports Arnhem Is Aflame and That Nazis Are Pulling Back

BRITISH AND POLES _ BESET BY GERMAN ~~ GOUNTERATTACK   Are Fighting a Desperate Battle for Preservation : of Crossing.   IS ON THE RHINE RIVER   Allies Making an Effort to Sweep: Into Northern  Germany.

Cassino Proves New Stumbling Block To Allie   Nazis Indicate Battle Fo, City Is Not Becoming A Rout

NAZIS BATTLE FUROWSLY I -CASSINO AREA   Allied. ‘Troops: Fight Way to. Town's Rail: road Station

FIFTH ARMY FORCES CAPTURE ALMOST ALL BLASTED CASSINO   STOUTLY RESISTING GERMANS DRIVEN FROM ALL BUT CORNER OF TOWN

Germans Still Holding Part Of Cassino   Allied Troops Get Railway Station by Hard Fighting

Claw Way Up Heights at Cassino      Allied Troops Within -100 Yards of the Top of Mouastery: Hill   CASSINO: STATION ALSO IS SEIZED   Next ‘Trains Are: Expected to Run on Allied-Time, Not Hitler's

CASSINO RAILWAY STATION CAPTURED BY ALLIED TROOPS   Germans Retain Hold On Southwestern Outskirts and Offer Fierce Resistance to Advance.   FIGHT FROM DUGOUTS, CAVES AND TUNNELS   Indian Units Move Up Mountain ‘to West and Have Reached Point 100 Yards" From Summit.

Clark's Army Pushes Fight for Cassino   Makes Progress in Town and Surrounding Mountainous Heights

Nazi Forces Still Holding Italian Town’s  Southwestern Corner and Block Road to Rome for Another Day; Fresh New Zealand  ied Indian Troops Battle Through Ruins

Allies Take Rail Station At Cassino   ‘Also Claw Their Way ‘To Within 100 Yards “ Of Mt. Cassino Summit  RESISTANCE TS CTRRN

FIGHTING RAGES ON HILLS BELOW ANCIENT ABBEY   Nazis Hold Out In Caves And Tunnels; Enemy Capitalizes On Slow  Advance

Nazis Cling To One Corner   Stiil Fight Hard to Block Fifth Army; RAF Sends Bombers to Mediterranean

NEW ZEALAND TROOPS DRIVE NAZIS IN TRAt   Escape Route Closed Off Against German Garrison Which Fights From Rubble Piles

NAZIS RETAIN FOOTHOLDIN CASSINO RUINS   HIGHWAY TO ROME STILL BLOCKED BY ENEMY

TOEHOLD RETAINED BY GERMAN FORCES   ‘Allied Troops Fight Way Into Cassino Railway Station

Enemy Driven From Cassino; Fight In Hills   Savage Battle Reported - On Rocky Slopes Of Abbey Fortress

‘Nazis Still Hold Cassino   Allied Troops Fight Their Way Forward

Win All Except One Corner Of  Ruined Cassino   Allies Capture . Several Strategic Heights Overlooking Town.

WITHIN 100 YARDS OF TOP LATE. IN DAY   New Zealanders, Meanwhile, Assault Nazis Pinned in Corner of Town.and Allied Tanks  Reach Railway Station.

Allies Fight Way Nearly To * OP of Monastery Hill; Battl:Goes On In Valley

Allies Fight Way To Rail Station But Nazis Hold   Indian Ghurkas Claw to Within 100 Yards of Abbey’s Summit

5th Army Within 100 Yards Of Summit as Conquest of [Town Nears Completion

Nazi Remnants Cling to Ruins   Troops Probe Way Ahead On Monastery Hill

ROAD TO ROME STILL BLOCKED AS GERMANS HOLD TO CORNER OF BESIEGED CITY; DISPATCHES NOT OPTIMISTIC OF BREAKTHROUGH SOON.

British Advance 1s Powerful Drive Launched   3,000 Planes Bombard Enemy Lines in Most Concentrated Attack of All Time; Big Gains Made on Wide Front

Record Aerial Assault Paves Way for U. S. Advance; British Drive Two Miles in Double-Barreled Offensive

Marshall Islands Hold Strengthenec   Another Atoll Captured in Chain; Japs Driven Back at Bougainville

ANOTHER ATOLL OCCUPIED IN MARSHALIS AREA   Other Jap Bases Raided On Friday

Wothe Atoll Occupied As Yanks Blast  Enemy Forts   ‘Bougainville Area Scene. OF. Vietories

U. S. Takes Wotho Atoll In Marshalls   Bombers Also Weakening Other Defenses in This Island Group

UMW CONVENTION IN CINCINNAT   2,700 Delegates Representing 650,000 Miners Open 10-Day Meeting

Americans Have St. Lo Almost Within Grasp, But Are Not Quite Able To Do the Job At Pres on A

GAINS MADE IN NORMANDY SAYS GEN. EISENHOWER   German Broadcast Tells of Large-Scale Attack Which Is Not Borne Out in Allied Communiates

American Vanguards Are Repelled At St. Lo   However Gains Up To a Mile Made A Lesen ce A 4 Miile Wesainé

Japs in Flight as Chinese Drive — Rips Deep Into Kwangsi Province

East Is Covered By Deep Snow   Death Toll Now 67. Cold Strikes South

SNOW BLANKETS . MIDWEST, EAST   FORTY-NINE PERSONS DEAD IN STORM~WAR PLANTS * ARE HAMPERED.

Death Toll in Storm Reaches 49: Clogged Roads Hit War Production

FORTY-NINE DEAD RESULT OF STORM   Heavy Snow Covers East.  -, ern Section of the hoe

30,000 Prisoners And Huge Stores Of Material Captured   Stubborn Knot Of Nazi Resistance Breaks When Enemy Surrenders: Field Hospital Taken

0,000 Enemy Troops Slain, Injured, Seized Since D-Day   German General, Admiral Taken Prisoner; ‘Monty’ Opens Drive

HEAVY NAZI CASUALTIES   Dead, Wounded and Captured Since D-Day Total 70,000

BRITISH DRIVE SWEEPS UP 3 TOWNS   Germans Lose 4 Divisions In Defense Of Port   GENERAL, ADMIRAL   Among Nazi Captives Taken In City; Caen Is Next Allied Objective

70,000 Nazi Casualties SUPREME HDQRS, ALLIED  ph REN NN RE Mi 8 wag ek igo ae ae

Salvage Experts Start Repairs On (Cherbourg Docks   nemy Loses Greater Part of Four Infantry Divisions, Numerous Naval and Marine Units in Fall of Great Harbor   4IGH RANKING NAZI OFFICERS TAKEN BY YANKS

British Expect Fall of Florence Thru Week-end   Yanks May Be Forced To Destroy Pisa’s Historical Treasures

Kighth Army Now In Sight Of Florence   Italian Art Center Expected To Fall During WeekEnd: Yanks Storm Pisa

More Than Score ~ Perish In Plunge   Bus Topples From Ice-Covered Bridge Intc Passaic River; Diver Sees ‘About 25 Bodies’ In Bus

BUS INTO RIVER, _ 20 FEARED DEAD   LIGHTS PLAY ON WATER AS SEARCH IS MADE FOR - JERSEY VICTIMS,

25 PASSENGERS OF BUS DROWNED IN NEW JERSEY   Vehicle Plunged From Ice. Covered Bridge Into  Passaic River   CONSTRUCTION CRANE PARTLY LIFTS BUS

ALLIED AIRMEN BOMB JAP CONVOY   HITS. SCORED ON SIX SHIPS -TRYING TO SUPPLY BE_LEAGUERED GARRISONS.

NAZI AIRPLANE OUTPUT DEALT TELLING BLOW   RAID MADE BY 700 U. S. BOMBERS; 59 LOST

Americans Suffer Record Loss of 59 Bombers, Five Fighters   MANY PLANES TAKE .. PART IN ASSAULTS   Excellent Results Obtain. ed Despite Savage Reacictance

U.S. Sustains 64 Plane Loss; 1200 Aircraft in Raid   Shoot Down More Than 100 Enemy in Fierce Battle

59 U. §. Bombers And Five Fighter Planes Destroyed   Reich Airplane Centers Wrecked

59 Bombers, 5 Fighters Are ‘Lost By Allies In Attack On Nazi Aircraft Factories   Record Loss Is Far Under German Claims; More Than 100 Enemy Planes Shot Down; Three Fighter. Planes Suffer Severe Damage

64 US. PLANES LOST IN GREAT AERIAL FIGHTS   More Than 100 Enemy Aircraft Downed By Americans

1,200 Craft Pound Nazi Plane Plants   Excellent Results Reported in Attacks On 3 Assembly Shops  595 AIRMEN LOST.

Over 100 Nazi Planes Bagged In Great Attack   1,200 U. S. Aircraft Strikes at Cerman  Assembly I .ans; All Of Enemy Force Out

German Lines Subjected To Heavy Gunfire   Definite Signs Appear That Resistance Of Nazis In Hurtgen Area Is Wearing Down

‘(Nazis Mass In Romania’   Air Scouts Report No Sign of German Evacu: ation of Territory

GERMANS TO MAKE STAND   Oppose Sizeable Group to Russian Advance on Bucharest 

B-298, FLEET UNITS HIT JAP WO JIMA BASE   China Claims Gain in South

Rocket Plane Enters War For Germany   Allies Encounter Five in Raid On Central Europe

FOIL GHIO PEN TUNNEL BREAK   Four Inmates Trapped After Digging Far Through Foundation

PRISON ESCAPE PLOT IS; FOILED   Raid By Guards Reveals Tunnel Being Dug

FINLAND TO ISSUE COMMUNIQUE TODAY   Statement Is Expected to Deal With Country’s Peace Negotiations With Russia.

Russian Phase  of Talks Over   Say Conversations  Have Been Useful

Russian Phase of Dumbarton Oaks Conference Ends Without Complete Agreement of World League Plans

DELEGATIONS REPORTING TO COVERNMENTS   Anglo-American Talks With Chinese to Open With Formal Ceremonies.

Dumbarton Oaks Meet Fails Full Agreement   Representatives Of Three Nations Declare Progress Made In Parley.

Virtually All Meat Made Ration Free   Surprise OPA Order Eliminates at Midnight Tonight, Points.for Everything Except Beef Steaks and Beef Roasts.

MEAT TO BE RATION FREE   All Cuts But Beef Steaks and Roasts Removed from Control,

End to Lend-Lease, Heavy Market Flow Brings OPA Action   Red Points Needed Only for Beef Roasts and Steaks After Midnight; Stamo Validation Period Doubled

BEEF ROASTS MADE POINT FREE BY OPA   ‘Steaks Excepted; Other Meat Cuts Are Taken  From Ration List

RED POINTS FOR  BEEF STEAKS AND BEEF ROASTS ONLY   All Meats Except These Cut: Are Ration Free at Midnight Tonight.    ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY   ‘This Action Taken Because of the Wide Variety of Meats Becoming Available.

All Meat but Beef Roasts and Steaks Made Ration Free   OPA Announces Red Points Must Last Twice as Long as Result—Federal Buying Curiailed

Same Point Values Retained For Latter, And Must Last For Four Weeks Instead Of Two   All Cuts Of Pork, Beef, Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Also Hamburger, Stews, Canned Meats, Variety Types Affected By Order Effective Midnight

Most Meat Point Free. OPA Order   Order Affects all But Beef Roasts, Steaks; Effective Midnight Tonight

Meats Made Ration Free at. Midnight   Bowles in Surprise Moves Lecives Beef Steaks and Roasts

Only Beef Steaks And Roasts Mill Require Points   New OPA Order Take: Effect At Midnight; Supplies Mount

Beefsteaks — And Roasts Need d Stamps  ISuyprise Action Action br OPA  Takes Effect at   * “Midnight ISTRETCH OUT TIME ‘Red Stamps Now Must ; Be Made to Last 30   ‘Red Stamps Now Must ; Be Made to Last 30 Days Instead of 15

All Pork, Veal Lamb, Mutton Off Point List   Surprise OPA Order Effective At Midnight Tonight; Beef Steaks And Roasts Kept In Restricted Group; Red Points Cut

Ration-Free Meat  Ordered By OPA   Steaks, Roasts Only - Cuts Unchanged

Effective Tonight at Midnight   Red Points Must Last Longer — Length of Order Not Known

Beet Steaks, Roasts, Still On Limit Lis!   Bowles Makes Surprise Announcement: effective At  Midnight.   POINTS LAST LONGER

OPA PARTLY LIFTS MEAT ‘RATIONING   Beef Steaks And Roasts Still Require Points

NEW OPA ORDER EFFECTIVE AT MIDNIGHT TODAY   Halt Lend-Lease Pork Buying: Services Need Less, Says Bowles

OPA Removes Ration Point Values From All Meats Except Beef Steaks, Roasts

All Meats But Beef Declared  Ration Free   Beef Steaks And Beef Roasts Excepteds Fffecthiw

Most Meats Are To Be Ration Free   Only Beef Steaks and Beef Roasts Retain Points After Midnight Tonight

All Meat Except Beef Steaks and Roasts To Come Off Rationing   Surprise Change Is Effective at Midnight, Red Ration Points Are to Last Four Weeks Instead of Two Under New System

Reduced Army, Navy Demand; Crowded Storage Space Among Reasons,   CONTINUES 3-4 MONTHS

RELAXATION OF RATIONING ON VARIOUS MEATS   With Exception of Beef Steaks and Beef Roasts OPA Lifts Ration  D actetstinne

OPA Announces Midnight Change   Beef Steaks and Roasts Only Animal Products Still Requirin;  Points—Varied Reasons Given

ORDER MAKES MOST MEATS RATION FREE   Effective Tonight All Cuts Excepting Beef Steaks and Roasts May Be Had Without Coupons   EXTENDS RED POINTS

Meat Is Taken Off OPA List, Beef Excepted   Ration-free At Midnight. Bowles Announces In Surprise Statement; Cites: Reasons

Surprise Move Coes Into Effect At 12 Tonight   Halt in Lend-Lease, Slash in Service Demands Are Cause

Beef Steaks, Roasts Remain On Point List   Red Coupons Now Must Last Two Weeks Longer

SURPRISE RULE IS EFFECTIVE AT MIDNIGHT   Only Beefsteaks and Roasts To Require Points Under New Program

ACTION BY OPA RESULTS FROM LOWER DEMAND   Chester Bowles Points Out Lend-Lease Buying Halted, Army Needs Less

ONLY 2TYPES OF BEEF WILL STAY ONLIST      Red Points On Other Items Now Must Last Twice As Long Under Change

All Meats, Except Beef Steaks and Beef Roasts, Removed from Ration:

Most Meats Are Made Ration Free   Only Seef Steaks And Roasts Will Remain on List  After Midniaht

Meat Off Ration Lists   All Meat Except Beef Steaks and Roasts  Point-Fréee; Effective At Midnight Tonight

OPA Decision Is Effective At Midnight   Housewives Required To Make Points Last Twice As Long Under New Satun

Removal of Ration Points Announced By OPA Administrator Chester Bowles At Surprise Press Conference

Most Meats Will Become  ‘Ration Free   3Inly Beef Steaks, Roasts To Require Red Stamps —Time Lene thened

All Meats  Excepting Best Beef ' Point Free   Steaks, Roast ‘Still ‘Require Red Stamps

‘Surprise Act Effective at Midnight   Halt in Lend-Lease Buying; Cut in Military Demands Among Reasons

Beef Steaks, Roasts Alone Take Points   Restrictions Taken Off Others; Coupons Must Last Twice As Long.

ALL MEAT IS RATION FREE EXCEPT BEEF   Only Beef Steaks and Roasts Cost Points —Butter Unchanged

Prints. Must — ‘Be Stretched ~ Over.4 Weeks   Starting Next. Sunday the 30-Red: Point Ration. Must’, Last: Twice as: Lone      MILITARY: DEMANDS.         New Meav’ statis Now ee pected to Last. “for a : Or..4 Months"

0. P. A. RULING IS EFFECTIVE AT MIDNIGHT   Red Points, However, Must Last Twice As Long   NEW STATUS   Expected To Extend For At Least 3 Or 4 Months, Bowles States

All Meats Except Beet Steaks And... 'Roas's Ration. Free   Red Points To Last: * ‘Twice As Long’ As’. Usual Beginning 5th

OPA Announces. All Other Meats Off Point Systen   Rule Affecting Remaining Beef Cuts, Pork, Veal Effective At Midnight

MOST MEATS 60 OFF RATION   Beef Steaks and Beef Roasts Still Require Paints

Meat Rationing Except On Beef, To End Tonight   OPA Acts As Needs Of  Armed Forces Decrease

ACTION SURPRISE; IN EFFECT TONITE      Beef Steaks, Beef Roasts Still Rationed; Red Points Extended

Meats All Ration Free Except Beef   {  Removal of Points on Cuts of Pork, Veal, Lamb and Mutton and Also Beef, Other Than Steaks and Roasts, Announced at Surprise Press Conference Today.   BOWLES EXPLAINS MOVE

Meat Rationing Ends, Except on Beefsteak, Roast   Red Points Must Last Twice  As Long, However

D-Day, H-Hour, War’s Greatest Secret, Was Hatched Months Ago   Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives Dpended On Successful D-Day Choice, Which Gen. Eisenhower Picked After All Reports In.

Huge Pile Of Information First, Then Eisenhower Set Date, Then Vast Preparations Were Started

pou Facing Disaster On ftalian Front   peaten and Mauled Germans Must Re reat or Be Smashed; Supply Limes Colhncing

PERIL OF NAZIS IN ITALY GROWS   DISASTER SEEN FOR GERMAN FORCES SF THEY ELECT TO STAND AND FIGHT,

Germans Must Retreat or Be Smashed   Spearheads at Rome’s  Thresholds in Two-Week Campaign

Water Storage ~ And Flood Aid * Works Proposed   Power Generation I: Also To Be Studied Old Differences Are Settled

U.S. AND MEXICO SIGN TREATY FOR CONSERVATION WORK  ". PLAN STORAGE AND FLOOD PROTECTION PROJ.

Water Rationed In San Benito And Harlingen   Lawn Watering Cu By Mayor Ramsey Mayor Spradley Urges Aid

30-Day Extension For Filing Income, Victory Tax Figure   No Delay Allowed, However, For Filing 1943 Returns Due March 15

EXTENSION GRANTED FOR 1944 ESTIMATES   But No Delay Will Be Granted For Filing 1943 Tax Returns Due March 15, Treasury Says

IDEADLINE.FOR FILING 1944 INCOME, VICTORY TAX ESTIMATES EXTENDED

FOLLOW UP OF THURSDAY RAID IS MADE   Jap Casualties In Philippines is Put af 82:554

Three Ships, 91 Planes Lost by Nins tn Raids   Two American Columns On Leyte Expected to Make Junction Soon

Three Japanese Ships and 91 Planes Destroyed at Leyte   Japanese Casualties Now Reach 82,554 On Leyte Alone

Soften Up Luzon For New Invasion   Leyte Campaign in Its Final Stage with Jap  Casualties Listed at 82,5357; L. S. Dead 2,176

U. S. PLANES SMASH AT LUZON ISLE   Leyte Campaign Approaching Its Fine! Stage

Main Island Softened Up With Bombs   Leyte Campaign Approaches Climax In Bloody Fight.

Conquest of Leyte Near;  91 Jap Planes, 3 Vessels Wrecked in Luzon Raic

NIPPON LOSES 82,500 MEN IN LEYTE DEFENSE   American Losses Stand At 10,400

OF THURSDAY RAID IS MADE   Jap Casualties In Philippines is Put at 82,554

Jap Casualties — On Leyte Reach Total of 82,554   Two American Columns Nearing Junction On Philippines Island

THREE AAF OFFICERS AT COURT MARTIAL   ieee Ge ss Accused With Neglect in Plane  Engine Inspection

Himmler Is Conducting  Wholesale Blood Purge   Churchill, Calling German Upheaval A Revolution, Predicts Early Collapse Of Nazis;  Hundrede Believed Slain

Frontier Report  if  Says Opposition Is Untouched by  Himmler Purge   Resistance Group Made Up of Military, Church Representatives

CHURCHILL SEES WAR SHORTENED BY NAZI REVOLT   MORALE OF GERMA‘’ ARMY APPEARS TO BE BADLY SHAKEN

CRAZED HUSBAND SLAYS FOUR   FIGHT FOR DAUGHTER LEADS TO GUN BATTLE

Warns New Car Conld Shatter Industry Plans   Independent, with. financial backing, could put new car on market ‘ahead of: others.

All Flaugher Estate Property Ordered Sold  Court Orders Sale And Distribution O1  Proceeds To Heirs

All Flaugher Estate Property Ordered Sold  Court Orders Sale And Distribution  O  Te... _.._§ J.

Sinatra, Crosby i in Musical Battle Duel Staged For Benefit of Troops

NEW BLOWS STRUCK. IN PACIFIC BATTLE:   Fighter Plane Sweeps From Saipan Island Are .. Indicated

Inner Defenses of Japan Being Blasted   Pagan Island Hit by Fighters; Saivan Bases Used

On Japan’s Inner Island Defenses, with Indications Sweeps Came via Conquered Saipan.   Powerful Fleet

Inner Defenses of Japan Being Blasted   Pagan Island Hit  by Fighters;

SMASHING NEW BLOWS RIP JAPANESE DEFENSES   Fighter Planes Based On New Saipan Field Add Weight To Attack On Jap-Held Istands; Pagan Isle Is Hit .

American Forces Strike New Blows at Japan’s Inner Island Defenses; Planes Use Saipan

YANKS RIP UP TOJO'S INNER DEFENSE LINE   PAGAN ISLAND HIT NEW BASES USED ON SAIPAN

U. S. FORCES RIP NIPPON ISLE DEFENSES   Light American Warships Continue Shelling Guam And Rota Islands

Allies Driven Back From Part of One Hill Mass, but Capture Other Heights

Fitth Army Is Driven Back By Fierce Counter-Attack   German Personnel Liberally Expended In Violent Action on Italian Front: British Eighth Army Expands Bridgehead Across Rubicon

YANKS DRIVEN FROM PORTION OF HEIGHT   Nazi Command ‘Expends Li berally His Personnel’ te Attanl

Fifth Driven From Hill Mass   Germans Stage Strong Counterattack——Eighth Extends Bridgeheads

YANKS DRIVEN FROM HILL PASS   Fifth Army Troops Dislodged From Important Italian Sector; Eighth Army Holds Bridgehead.   ~BY NOLAND NORGAARD—

Fifth Pushed Back In Italy By Germans   Nazis Lose Heavily In Attacks; Eighth Extends Bridqeheads

Doughboys Driven From Italy Height - by Furious Attack   Nazis Expend All Personnel in Effort to Save Gothic Line

Nazis Drive  Back Yanks   Suffer Heavy Losses In Taking Portion of Monte La Fine Hills

GERMANS PAY HEAVILY T0 STEM YANKS   Strong Counter - Attack Drives Fifth Army From Portion of Monte La Fine  Pill Near Bologna  EIGHTH IS ADVANCING

NAZIS ATTACK IN BOLOGNA SECTOR   DRIVE AMERICANS FROM POSITION iN HILLS SO, 0

Counterattack Drives Yanks Off Heights in Italy   Eighth Army Extends Bridgeheads Across  Hictaric Riuhiean

Germans Drive Americans {from Monte La Fine   Yanks Advance in Other Areas of Italian Front, British Extend Rubicon Bridgeheans

Nazis Drive Yanks From Hill Position   Efforts Being Made to Regain Sector; Eighth Army  Extends Bridgeheads Across Rubicon

FIFTH ARMY IS SET BACK BY GERMANS   Counter-Blow Drives the Yanks From Hill Mass Below Bologna, but Enemy Loss Is Heavy, Allied Report Says.

AMERICANS ARE FORGED BACK ON HILL POSITION   Efforts Made To Regain Sector  In N. Italy

ALLIES DRIVEN BACK IN ITALY   Report Says ‘Nazi Com. mand Liberally Expended Personnel’

Counterattack Drives Fifth Army From Hill   Germans Inflict Setback Near Bologna,

Germans Drive  Yanks From Hill   Enemy Losses Heavy In Action As Eighth Army Makes Gains

‘Americans Driven Back South Of Bologna In Italy; Eighth Extends Rubicon Bridaeheads   Nazi Command Expends Liberally Of Personnel in Counter-Attacks

NAZIS IN A GAIN   Germans Counterattack and Drive Fifth Army Troops Back

ALLIES EXTEND BRIDGEHEADS Oh RUBICON RIVER   Strong Nazi Counterattack Forces Yanks Back From Hill

STRONG GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS BY NAZIS IN ITALY  AMERICANS DRIVEN FRO! . DORTION neg UT canTy

Fifth Troops Beaten Back   Fierce Nazi Attack Stems dtaly Advance

Nazis Retake Italian Peak   But a Allies Advance, Despite Heavier Use Of Enemy Artillery

YANKS SET BACK IN ITALY BATTLE   British, However, Continue Drive Up Po Valley

Nazis Retake Italian Peak   But Elsewhere Allies Advance, Despite Heavier Use Of Enemy Artillery

ITALIAN HEIGHT AT HEAVY COST   Kesselring Moves In More Men, Steps Up Artillery In Bid To Halt Yanks

SUPERFORTS ENGAGE IN FIRST BIG AIR BATTLE   Giant Bombers Blast Omura, Big Aircraft Center; At Least 20 Enemy lanes Are Shot Down, Others Hit

Super- -Forts Blast Jap Plane Plants:   20 to 36 Jap Craft Shot Down in Battle Over Omura in Japan

In First Big Air Battie Over Japan; Third Bombing ir Month; Many Planes Destroyed.   Under Clouds

RAID ON OMURA MADE BY 8-298   Big Planes Have First Aerial Conflict Over Japan

20 JAP PLANES DOWNED AT OMURA   eet gee ha . SUPERFORTRESSES IN FIRST ‘BIG BATTLE OVER JAPAN—:  LOSSES UNDISCLOSED,

JAP FACTORY ATTACKED BY BIG BOMBERS   Super-Fortresses Engag¢ in Air Battle Over  Japan

NEW STRAIN IN RELATIONS WITH ARGENTINA; AMBASSADOR TO U. S. RECALLED: U.S. POLICY CLARIFIED

ARGENTINA ORDER RECALL OF ENVOY   Decision Caused No Surpris Since U. 8. Ambassador Has Returned.

U, S.-ARGENTINE STRAIN TIGHTENS   Troubled Relations Cloud; Envoy Recalled

Warning Of Casualties ‘Such As Never Suffered’ Sounded As Nation Pays Homage To Warrior Deac

NATION MOURNS SOLDIER DEAD   Officials Warn More Casualties Soon to ' Come .-.

MITLEH OTL SILENT WHILE BUMORS CRON   Berlin Says Fuehrer in Good Health: Report Says He Had Four Doctors.

Specialists Believed In Attendance   Ramors Persist Despite Nazi Broadcast Thal Germany’s Fuehrer I:  In Excellent Health

FOR AIDES WORK TO) EASE BREAK   Heads of Agencies Confer with Congressional Leaders; Expect OPA Battle may

YANKS CLING TO POSITIONS ON SCHOUTEN ISLES   Nipponese Throw Tanks Into Battle For First Time; Suffer Heavy Losses in Personnel

PLANES BLAST GERMAN AND FRENCHPOINTS   Strong Formations Of Bombers And Fighters Take Part In Daylight Missions Totaling 1000 Planes.   Mosquitos Sting

Tennessee Corporal Wins Medal  1 ; oy Tye  Paul B. Huff Is Winner Of   Congressional Medal Of Honox

BISENHOWER  1S IN BRITAI   Allied Commander Oversens After Seeing President, Marshall in U: 5.

Gen. Eisenhower In England for Coming Invasion   General Recent Visitor fo U. 5.

R IS IN BRITAIN   Allied Commander Oversea: After Seeing President, Marshall in U. S.

Eisenhower Talks To Roosevelt   General Goes to England After Secret Trip to Washington

Gen. Eisenhower Reaches Britain  Takes Over Duties  as Invasion Chief

Fisenhower Now In Britain For Invasion  Confers With F. D.R General Marshall Before Talking Poct

EISENHOWER ARRIVES TO DIRECT OFFENSIVE   Bulletin Reveals That General “Spent Few Days” In Confer ences In Washington

Gen. Eisenhower Now In London Te Direct Allied Invasion Of Continen

Eisenhower In Britain to Direct Attack   General Sees FD and Marshall: Churchill Talks With DeGaulle:  New Invasion Rumors

en. Eisenhower Back In London After U.S. Trin  Supreme Leader Visits Capitol And General KA nw vek all

\Gen. Eisenhower Reaches England ‘To Direct Attack   Zero Hour Believed Near For Great Western Assault.

EISENHOWER IN BRITAIN FOR INVASION   Former Commander. Of Mediterranean Theater Takes Over For Western Attack On Hitler’s Fortress.   “Berlin This Year”

REDS ADVANCE TO WITHIN 14 MILES OF RIGA   Russians Hurl More Than 500,000 Men In Baltic Struggle

BALTIC FRONT BOILS; 500,000 REDS IN FIGHT   EFFORT MADE TO CRUSH 2 NAZI ARVIIFS

GREATEST BATTLE OF BALTIC RAGES   Reds Hurl More Than 500,000 Men Into Fray; Battle Nazis 14 Miles From Latvian Capital of Riga

Russians Hurl 500,000 Men At Baltic Foe   Reds Pushing for Taliun Riga in Massive Drive Related he Raxvli.

United Brethren G. M. TALBOTT, Pastor   Methodist Church L. B. HAWES, Pastor   Church of Christ  W. J. HASTIF Pastor

AT  CuuRCHE  S   Methodist Church L. B. DAWES, Pastor   Church of Christ W: J. HASTIE, Pastor

Japs Report U.S. Raid Upon Manila   Cavite, Clark Field And Harbors Are Targets for Fliers

Jap-Controlled Radio Broadcasts Reports Of Heavy Attacks By American Airmen

ADMITS DAMAGE TO WARSHIPS BY CARRIER PLANES   Clark Field Also Raided; Nips Claim 34 Aircraft Downed

Planes Rake Isle Capital  Ene omy Admits s Hits Scor edo orships

Tokyo Radio Reports Manila And Cavite Areas Attacked   Raid Made By 400 U.S. Planes, Nips Admits Damage To Warships In Area

TOKYO RADIO REPORTS RAID OVER MANILA   Philippine Capital and Nearby Airfields and Installations Are Damaged

Shells Flatten Town   Tokyo Reports Warships Hir in Manila Raids

U. §. AIRPLANES BLAST MANILA, AND AIRFIELDS   Japs Admit Damage Is Caused to Warships and Installations

J aps Say 73U.S.  Planes Dowr   Tokyo Radio Declares Waves of American Planes Hit: Capital And Nearhy Airfields

Yank Planes Hit Manila, Tokyo Says   73 Shot Down By Interceptors, Japs Say—Jap Ships Damaged

Manila Is — Air Target   Four Hundred: U. §. Planes Raid City, Says Tokyo Radio

AMERICANS HIT MANILA   Japs Report Slight Damage to Ships and Installations

400 Carrier Aircraft Jolt Manila Area   Clark Field Bombeds Warships in Harbor Caught by Raiders

NEW 400-PLANE ATTACK BY U.S. TOLD BY TOKYO  ENEMY OFFENSIVE PLANS FRUSTRATED

American Raiders Blast Manila Port, Airfield Targets   Tokyo Says ‘Slight’ Damage Inflicted on Military Objectives

Japs Admit Damage To Warships In New Attack ‘Gn Manila. Cavite Areas

Japs Admit °  Some. Damage To Vessels, Planes Lost   “Clark Field Also “Attacked By-U.'S,

Tokyo Reports Raid on Manila   _Waves of Bombers Did Little Damage, According to Radio; No U.S. Confirmatiay

No Confirmation of Attacks Or Losses Claimed Inflicted By Enemy.

CAVITE, CLARK FIELD TARGETS FOR BOMBINGS   U. S. Troops Taking Heavy Toll of Japanese Defenders in Battle On West Leyte Island,   Ry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Japs Report U.S. Raid Upon Manila  Cavite, Clark Field   Cavite, Clark Field And Harbors Are Targets for Fliers

41,000 KEPT IDLE BY LABOR DISPUTES   Detroit and Lumber Cities Center of Troubles

LABOR DISPUTES KEEPING 41,000 FROM WORK TODAY   Walkouts in Northwest Lumbering Area Listed as Main Labor Trouble Front at  "Present Where Over 24,000 Are Idle

41,000 Idle in Labor Disputes Over Country   Pacific Northwest Ant Detroit Area Chiat Coane

U.S. Mrikes Hold 41,000 Workers Idle   No Indication Seen That Settlement of Dispute Is Immnient

NATION'S STRIKES KEEP 41,000 IDLE   TROUBLES CENTERED IN NORTHWEST AND THE DETROIT AREA

Labor Disputes Keep 41,000 Workers Idle   Chief Troubles Center in Pacific Northwest Lumber Industry and in Detroj?

hreaten Casilina W.      Labor Disputes Keeping 41,000 Away From Jobs

41,000 Men In Labor Disputes.   Weodsmen in Northwest and Detroit Workers Make Up Most of Idle

Labor Disputes in Nation Unsettled; 41 Thousand Idle   No Indication Settlement of Controversies is Imminent

STRIKES KEEP 41,000 IDLE THRU NATION   Picket Chrysler Plant In ' Detroit In Fresh La bor Dispute

Disputes Keep Up To 41,000 From War Jobs   Chief Troubles Center in Northwest Lumber Area, Detroit Industry

41,000 Idle In Strikes   No Indication Settlements of Disputes Likely

41,000 Workers Idled by Strikes; Power Plants Hit   Picketing of Chrysler Plant Adds Trouble in Detroit; Providence Workers Strike

A{ 000 Workers Remain Idle In Labor Dispute:   Washington And Oregon Face Crisis; Chrysler Factory Closed

LABOR STRIKES KEEPING 41,000 OUT OF WORK   Detroit Workers At Chrysler On Picket Line

Labor Disputes Keeping 41,000 Off Vital Jobs   Trouble Centers In Detroit And Lumber Areas Of Northwest.

New And Ok Strikes Hit U.S. Output  In Wartime   Lumbermen In Pacific Northwest Remain Out: Many Tieups In Michigan Industries Renoarted

STRIKES KEEP © AL 000 IDLE   No Indication of Settlement Of Walkouts in New, Old Disputes.   CHRYSLER TIEUP LATEST

‘COUNTY POULTRY RAISERS PRAISED FOR PRODUCTION   Government Asks Local Commun ity To Produce 3,485,474 Doz en Eggs This Year—Public Is Urged To Eat More Eggs.

Eden Says Officers Were Murdered  In German Prison  Nazis Admit Slaying Fifty Reported Resisting Capture

Germans Admit Killing Captives   Claims R.A.F. Officers Shot While Resisting Capture After Escape.

NAZIS ADMIT . FLIERS’ DEATHS   Eden Says Germans Killed 50 Prisoners Near Dresden March 25

Nazis Admit Killing Allied Officers Murdered Deliberately, Eden Claims   Foreign Secretary Flatly Rejects German Explanation Of Mass Slaying

NAZIS ADMIT SLAYING 50 ALLIED OFFICERS   RAF Men Shot While Trying To Escape Prison

GERMANS ADMIT MASS MURDER OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR ‘EDEN TELLS HOUSE OF COMMONS

eo ooo © 6086 ooo eo  Eden Says Germans Admit Killings In Prison Camp 

Nazis Admit Killing Fifty Allied Airmen  ecretary Eden   Secretary Eden Claims Officers Were Murdered

NAZIS MURDER 50 PRISONERS   Eden Promises Commons Guilty Will Be Punished

GERMANY ADMITS ULLING SOFLYERS   Nazi Communication to Brit: ish Government Claims Men Attempted Escape.

Germans Admit Mass Murder Of 50 Allied Flyers   Eden Makes Report To Commons On Latest Nazi Atrocity

ADMIT KILLING OF 50 ALLIED OFFICERS   Germans Say — Prisoners Were Shot While Resisting Capture.

GERMANS ADMIT OFFICERS SLAIN   Eden Charges 50 Allies Murdered by Nazis

NAZAIRE AND BREST SOUGHT   Americans Moving Swiftly Forward in Their Great Push

PEMINOULA OF BRITTANI NOW TWO-THIRDS SEVERED   Paris-Bound Americans Sweep 20 Miles Be« yond Key C ity of Rennes   GERMANS SUFFER 190,000 CASUALTIES

ISOLATION OF NAZAIRE AND BREST SOUGHT   Americans Moving Swiftly Forward in Their Great Push

40,000 Nazis Are Squeezed Against Maas   Rapidly Losing Hold On Harbor of Antwerp. Continue To Retreat  RAKED FROM SKIES

Enemy’s Hold on west Part of Coun Broken — Use Boj      CANADIANS GAIN: IN ANTWERP ARP       Last Barriers.to Belgiatt Port Totter — Gert Offensive in East ; land Collapses. -

Campaign to Clea Antwerp Region Makes Progress  Berlin Admits Troops   Berlin Admits Troops Are Withdrawn; Flyin; Weather Improves

GERMANS PUT TO FLIGHT IN MAAS SECTOR   CANADIANS CLEAR OUT APPROACHES TO ANTWERP

2 Allied Armies Spring Trap On Holland Nazis   Entire South Netherlands Lines Break Up Under New Gains; Roosendaal., Schelde Bases Fall

Enemy Driven Back by Two Allied Armies   Germans Pounded as They Flee Over River; Foe Attack in East Holland Fails; Hold on Antwerp Slipping

Enemy Control Over Antw erp Now Slipping   40,000 Enemy Troops Being Squeezed by Allied Advances

Antwerp Defenses Are Slipping Fast   British Spokesman Admits Most of Trapped Germans Miaht Make Good Escape to South

Canadians Vir tually Clear Antw erp: Allied Bombers  Pound Foe Crossing Maas

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LIES SQUEEZE NAZIS INTO ‘0 MILE STRIP ALONG MAAS. ADVANCE UP TO FIVE MILES

GERMANS HOLLAND POSITIONS CRUMBLING UNDER PRESSURE   Two Allied Armies Squeezing Enemy Troops Into 40Mile Strip Along Maas River; Strangle-Hold On Harbor Of Antwerp Fast Slipping

[FINAL PHASE OF BATTLE FOR ANTWERP   Under Way With 40,000 Germans in Flight From Holland as Onrushing Armies Near Bridges.   RR Equipment

Allied Pressure Dooms Germans In Holland Area   Capture of Antwerp Harbor Predicted

BULK OF ENEMY SAID ESCAPING   Retreating Force Pounded Mercilessly By Our Bombers; Flee Southward

Allied Armies Report Gains Up to Five Miles  HOLD OF ENEMY ON ANTWERP SLIPPING        German Troops Pounded Mercilessly From the Sky

PE. REFINANCING PLAN IS ENDORSED   Program of Company Coy. ers Only First Mortaqaae Bonds

REFINANCING OF POTOMACEDISON BONDS PLANNED   Tentative Plan For First Mortgage Bonds Approved By Directors   PREFERRED STOCK IS NOT INCLUDED

P. E, REFINANCING PLAN IS ENDORSED   Program of Company Covers Only. First Morteaae Bonds

Charge Delay in Attacking Hurts Allies   Gives Naris Chance to Solidify Defensive Positions in France

‘Offensive Delay Threatens to Put Nazi ‘In Strongest Positions Since ‘D-Day, Rommel Increases Forces

Allied Delay in Opening Drive To Smash Out of Normandy Beachhead May Help Nazis

Allied Observers  Concerned Over Expected Attacks   Fear Rommel’s Reinforcements May Hold When Gen. Montgomery Decides On Drive

British Hold Less Territory After 40 Days of Fighting Than Six Days After D-Day

Allies Losing Early Advantage in Normand   Delay in Co-Ordinated Offensive Lets Nazis Reinforce: Montgomery’s Beach Holdings Dwindle

at bee © Cewres tsa. ALES “pea y Lit UF PP ERSLUE  May Help Nazis In Normandy

‘DOOM NAZIS ~ ON.300-MILE BALTIC FRONT   giieds Driving Into Estonia Reach Gulf of Finland, Cut Off Narva 

Russian Forces Reach Gulf Of Finland In Drive Toward Estonian Capital Of Tallinn

BATTLE ALONG - BALTIC FRONT   RED/ARMIES CRUSHING. BITTER RESIBTANCE ‘IN PUSH ° TOWARD SEVERAL KEY ‘POSITIONS

as i aii ein  FLIERS DESTROY. JAP BARGES ~_ ENROUTE TO SUPPLY FORCES   FORTY BOATS ATTEMPTING TO REACH NEW BEITAIN ISLAND _ BLASTED BY WARPLANES

Jap Drive Is Stalled By Chinese   Artillery Duel Halts Invad ers—Japs Claim Capture of U. S. Planes

Patton First Commander Since Attila The Hun to Capture Rhine City Frontally, Ringed by 40 or More Forts

French Crumble ~ German Lines In Southern Sector   Americans Reported In City Of Eschweiler On Aachen Front; Strasbourg Threatened By Drive Against Enemy’s Flank

Onrushing Allies Dig Deep Into West Wall Of Nazis;  Renort Saverone Falle ©:

Germans Face Entrapment   U. S. Seventh Army Drives to Within 23 Miles of Strasbourg on the Rhine; Nazi Front in North Broken   By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Preace War FAitar

More Than 1,000 Prisoners Surrender: Progress in Aachen Area Reported Slow

70,000 NAZIS ARE PERILED BY NEW DRIVE   U. S. 9th Army Drives To Within Sight of Roer River Near Aachen

Mulhouse Seized; Last Enemy Units Smashed At Metz   Germans’ Front Broken Up In Vosges Mountain Region; Progress Reported To Be Slow In Aachen Area; Capture Of Belfort Declared Imminent

Mulhouse Captured By French   Nazi Resistance Ends in Metz; Yanks Push-On

ERASE GERMAN FRONT ON NORTH SLOPE OF VOSGES   MELANCHOLY NAZI BROADCASTS TELL OF TANK BATTLES

ESCHWEILER 1S TAKEN IN NORTH FLANK THRUST   French Armies Reported to Be Within 19 Miles of Strasbourg

ALLIED ARMIES ARE  REPORTED BE DRIVING  SWIFTLY UPON RHINE ALLIED ARMOR AND IN FANTRY MOVING AGAINST CRUMRIING RESISTANCE

Mulhouse and Met: Fall Today In Swift Advance To Rhine   French Reported Within 19 Miles Of Strasbourg

Americans — in Drive on. - Strasboure   70,000 Germans Near Great Stronghold. Mass “Boats ; -. for Escape Attempt         (FALL: OF BELFORT  ALSO IMMINEN   Battles N ear xr Aachen Said to Exceed in. ‘Violetice. Any’ . thing Since the Invasion.

Allies Driving  Swiftly Against Shattered Nazis   Approaching. Strasbourg; Advances Made Against Crumbling Resistance

French Already 22 Miles ~ Beyond Mulhouse; Allies Plunge East) On  Wide Front,

E.ntire Nazi 19th Army of 70,000  In Imminent Peril   Breakihrough of Allied Forces on Southern End of the Western Front Erases Definite German Defense on Vosges Slopes   SLOW PROGRESS REPORTED IN AACHEN SECTOR   RULLETIN

French   Take Mulhouse, Push on Toward Colmar  in Alsace   ‘METZ IN U. S. HANDS   Ninth Army Carves Out New Gains in the Aachen Sector

The Whole German 19th Army in Imminent Peril   Paris Radio Reports French T roops Are Within 19 Miles of Strashours

Allies Take Eschweiler On Road To Cologne; All Metz  Resistance Is Overcome

Strasbourg Neared In French Offense   German Front Shattered by Blows; Army of 70,000 Near Entrapment, Gains Hacked Out on Aachen Frant

FRENCH FORGES PUSH TOWARD STRASBOURG   Resistance Is Crumbling On Wide Front   Overlooking Roer Cities Won By Ninth: Fall Of Belfort Imminent

Resistance Of Foe Crumbling   U.S. Ninth Army Within Sight Of Roer River On Aachen Front; Savage Fighting

Troops Plunge Into Germany On Wide Front   Nazi 19th Army Now Reported in Peril of Capture

Two More Places. Metz and   Mulhouse. Have Fallen   Before the Onrush of Allied Armies.   ONE ENTIRE GERMAN ARMY IS IN DANGER

70,000 SURVIVORS GERMAN 19TH ARMY IN IMMINENT PERIL; NAZI FRONT IN ALSACE TOTTERING

‘70,000 Nazi Troops Face  New Peril   French Within 19 Miles Of Strasbourg; German Lines Fast Crumbling

Americans Driving North  Of Aachen In Face Of; Bitter Resistance

PART 19TH GERMAN ARMY STAFF TAKEN BY FRENCH TROOPS   ESCHWEILER, NORTHEAST OF AACHEN, NOW IN AMERICAN HANDS 

1,000 Jerries Taken In Fall Fortress City   American Troops to North Punch Within 23 Miles Greater Stronghold Of Strashourgz   70.000 Germans In Area Lmperiled   Sealed Against’ Homeland order; Massing Barges In Attempt to Orwanize Eseape

NAZI DEFENSES KNOCKED DOWN IN GREAT PUSK   German 19th Army of 70,000 Menaced By Yanks, French Troops

ALLIED TROOPS PLUNGING EAST   Bitter Weather, Savage Resistance Encountered By Ninth Army. te!   TANKS NEARING COLOGNE

Mulhouse and Metz Fall as French Close in on Strasbourg; Enemy Force Of 70,000 May Be Trapped on Rhine. Yanks Take Eschweiler, Siegfried Key

French Armies Drawing Close To Strasbourg   Allied Troops On Northern Flank Of Front Captures Eschweiler.   TAKE PART OF STAFF

Stronghold Of Strasbourg In. Path Of Forces   German Front Along Northern Slope Of Vosges Mountains * Now Erased By Allies

Paris Says French Within 15 Miles Of Strasbourg Bastion   Nazi Resistance  Is Falling Apart   Americans Reported Drive ing To Within 28 Miles — Of Colegne

French Near © Strasbourg ie 3 Mighty Push      Allies Plunge Eastward As German Defenses Crumble pos

Nazi Defense Is Crumbling   French Sweep to Colmar, 19 Miles From Strasbourg, Seventh Army 23 Miles Away   French at Colmar

Allied Armies Lunge Loward Khine; Metz and Mulhouse Are Captured

LINES ERASED BY VICTORIES   Yanks Advance Slowly Against Tough Foe In Cologne Drive

French Near Strasbourg In Mighty Push   Allies Plunge Eastward As German Defenses Crumble   BULLETIN

Wipe Out NaziFront In Vosges   Mulhouse, Metz and Eschweiler in Allied ‘Hands; German Resistance Bitter in North

French Troops Are Driving On Strasbourg   Smashed German City of Eschweiler, Key Defense Point on Major Highway From Aachen to Berlin, Also Captured

Allies Drive Swiftly Upor Rhine Lines   U. S. Seventh And French First In Breakthrough

French ‘Are 19 Miles From Strasbourg In Their Drive Through Alsace-Lorraine

Gen. Patton First  Leader to Captare Fort in 1500 Years   French Take Mulhouse And Part.of German Army Staff There

YANKS LEVEL NAZI TOWN  wwe PLR Oe ee Po RMR RRR Sinrictgetery een untor

Allies Plunging  Kast on Broad  Front Against Crumbling Foe   Entire German 19th Army, 70,000 Strong, in Imminent Peril

Americans Smash Ahead Through German - Defenses While Mulhouse and Metz Fall ‘Fo Allies —— Entire 19th German Army “Te Threatened By New Gaine

PFU. ANDREW GOOD RECEIVES WOUNDS   Was Serving With Armed Forces Somewhere In France

THEGDURE TURPIN RECEIVES WOUNDS   Sighteen Year Old Linton Boy Injured On Duty In France

GERMAN OBJECTIVES HEAVILY BATTERED AS NEW WEEK OPENS   RAF NIGHT ATTACKS EXPLODE AMMUNITION AND BLOW UP RAILROADS

inemy Detense Is Negligible Against Raids   RAF Explodes Ammunition Dump Preceding Furious American Assault

1,000 AMERICAN PLANES ATTACK NAZI DEFENSES   Heavy Assault on France Comes on Heels of RAF Night Raid

Northern France Is Battered After Amrounition Dump Hit.   By RICHARD McMURRAY  AD War Bdftar

Thousand Planes t More Daily Pounding Europe   North France, Italy And Germany Hit: Reds _Regrouping For Attack

Democrats Again Elect Hannegan   Chairman Pledges His Efforts to Welding All Factions of Party

R. E. Hannegan Reelected As Demo Chairman   Immediately Pledges His Efforts To Take Out’ Faetions In Party.   FDR WIRES TRUMAN

FDR-Truman Race Shaped  By Hannegan   Missourian Re-Elected Chairman, Will Work For Unity In Party

Hannegan Again Be  Chairman   Roosevelt In Congratulations  To Running Mate. Harry S. Truman

DEMOS PREPARE FOR VOTE DRIVE AND CASH HUNT   Fund of Three Million to Be Raised—Truman Set to Aid Roosevelt

HANNEGAN IS RE-ELECTED AS DEMO CHAIRMAN   Southern Split Threat Seitléd By Rejection Of Wallace

Truman to Take Main Burden of Party's Campaign   Roosevelt Will Give Most of Time to War, Committee Is Told

}oemocrats Re-elect J obert E. Hanneaan IAs National Chairman   }Faces Task Of Welding All Factions In {Party To Bring Victory In November

Democrats Re-Elect  Hannegan   Will Undertake To Weld Party’s Disputing Factions

DEMOGRATS OUT TO SEEK UNITY   Check Shows H. Truman Defeated Wallace 1,031 To 105

Demos Reelect Hannegan Party Chairman : National Committee  Officers Renamed In Chicago Conclave

Chairman Promises Effort to Bring Together All Factions Within Party—Fund of $3,000,000 to Be Raised to Carry  On Fight for Ticket—Truman Slated to Make Extensive Campaign While Roosevelt Gives Most of Time to War.

Party Holds Hannegan  As Chairman   Democrat Slate Reelected, Plan  Campaign Fund

ALLIES CLOSE TRAP IN MOGAUNG; 23,000 JAPS DIE IN INDO-BURMA   BRITISH STRIKE SUPPORTING BLOW NEAR KAMAING, CHINESE FALL BACK IN HONAN

U.S. GEIDERS, TRANSPORTS LAND BRITISH   Nip Communications Disrupted in Burma :

Allied Troops Land Behind Japanese Line:   Operation Is First in Southeast Bsia War Theater

U.S. Flyer Draws Jap Fire So Squadron Can Sink Four Enemy Destroyers

Davae Swept Clean Of Jap Planes, MacArthur Says  Nipponese Back Away From Aerial Might of Americans

Yanks Batter Jap Airfields On Mindanao   ‘Big Fires Set at Davao; More Bombs Thunder on Halmahera

FURIOUS AIR BLASTING GIVEN 50. PHILIPPINES   Tokyo Warns Of Imminent Invasion; Davao Fields Swept Clean

Davao Dromes Swept Clean Of Enemy Craft   Aerial Prelude Sweeps To New Fury Before ~~ Reconquest

JAP AIRFIELDS — AT DAVAO RIPPED   Tokyo Warns People of “Assault on Philippines

Davao Swept Clean Of Jap Planes, MacArthur Says  Nipponese Back Away From Aerial  aac. 8s 2 A une tomme

Furious Yank Attack Leaves Davao in Ruin   MacArthur Planes Turn Philippines Base Into Rubble

ALL JAP PLANES CLEANED FROM DAVAO AIRPORT   Neconquest Of Philippines Rises To New Heights Of Fury As U. S. Air Power Drives Japs Back.

Yanks Beat Crack Nazi Divisions in Surprise Thrust North of Le Mans

LLYCWIUICSS DLOLY OF VOUIUL tVilsoLUll  Crack SS Unit Ripped To S.: “ds

U.S. Armored Column on Secret Mission Rips Crack Nazi Divisions to Shreds

Bewildered Nazis Walk Around With Guns Unfired as Yanks Rin Crack Division

FRENCH GREET YANK LIBERATORS AS NAZIS STAND BEWILDERED   Freed Townspeople Mete Swift Justice To French Traitors

Yanks Rip to Shreds Crack Nazi Division   Shatter Morale Of Enemy Left in Disorganized Groups

Cotton Conference  Will Be ordered   Representatives Will Attend From Among Growers, Ginners, Processors’ Financiers, Transporters.

SOLDIERS T0 GET MORE GAS   May Now Get One Gallon A Day On Longer Furlough

Paratroopers Carry Brunt Of Early Invasion   Land Behind Nazis Defenses to Disrupt Enemy’s Rear Lines

PARATROOPS SUCCESSFUL IN LANDINGS   ‘With Sheath Knives and Tommyguns Drop on France in Pre-Dawn Blackness.   Gliders Drop

REAL JOB DONE BY PARATROOPS   Hardy Fighters Deliver First Smash Along Western Front

AIR TROOPS FIGHT BENIND NAZI LINES   Force Descending on France Largest in History — Bear the Brunt of Battle in Early Stages.

WAR } MEETING TS ARRANGED   CHURCHILL, AND ROOSEVELT TO HOLD.NEW CONFERENCE —OCCUPATION PLANS NEARLY COMPLETED .,

The Malted Milks Were Mighty Fine   Drug Store Had No Trouble Selling Out

Bricker Weakens On Ballot: Issue   Authorizes Election Law Amendment

War Restrictions On Home Front Made Stricter   Indications Given That Civilians Must Give Up Yet More

Home Front’s Bell Tightens   Drastic Limitations on Shoes, Ammunition, Recapping Part Of Sweeping Orders

Tighter Rein Placed Upon Home Front   Civilians To. Be Alloted Fewer Shoes This Year

Hunters to Be Denied Ammunition! Recapping Of Tires Limited; Hom Front Tightens Belt

Present Coupons Still Good, But-—  No Additional Shoe Stamps Validated  Betore Next Summet!

U. 8. CUTS SHOE “RATIONS; REDUCES POULTRY SUPPLIES   Civilians to Get Fewer Than {two Pairs of Footwear a - Year Under Order of Price Agency.   GRADE A CAMELBACK DENIED MOTORISTS   Manufacture of Civilian Ammunition. Banned — More Home - Front ‘Restric ’ tions Appear Likely.

Belt Tightening In Future Decreed With Promise Of Little Civilian Relief

See Tighter Control on Home Front   “All-out Mobilization" for 1945 Indicated as Byrnes' Pledge

THAT OLD PAIR OF SHOES WILL HAVE T0 LAST   Two Pairs-a- Year Schedule Upset as Government Tightens Controls

Cut Civilian Shoe Ration:   Validate No New Shoe Coupon Until “Some Time Next Summer.’

HOME FRONT TO TIGHTEN BELTS IN NEW YEAR   Shoe Rationing Will Be Much Stricter In 1945

RESTRICTIONS ON HOME FRONT ARE TIGHTENED   Officials Drop Broad Hint Sull More Is  To Come

Staff Sgt. Wm. Stoffel Wins Silver Star - - Bronze Star to S - Sgt. James L. Doran   Both Distinguished Themselves In Combat In Italy

Fierce Fight Rages  From Houseto House   Doomed Germans Told To Resist To Death, Carry Out Orders  Against Overpowering Assault

U. S. Assault Trogps Drive Mile Into City’s Inne! Defenses In Hand-To-Hand Fighting With Nazis

DOOMED NAZI TROOPS RESIST STUBBORNLY   Captured Order Tells Defenders “To Stand To The Death"

Battle Rages At White Heat  or Prize Port   Doomed Defenders Resist Stubbor ny fn Fierce Hand-to-Hand F ighting.

YANK TROOPS NOW HAVE PENETRATED INNER DEFENSES   Nazis Order Stand-to Death; Stubborn  Resistance -_Is Met and Overcome ~ By. Amariean Tenans   ROBOT BOMBING IN .6TH CONSECUTIVE DAY   Counter Blows Stall Yanks Advance In Italy; Heavy Mud Slows.Up Artillery Vehicle Movement.

Japanese Start New Chinese Power Drive   Sino Counterattack Faring Well; Burma Push Progressing

em Alexe He Washburn” - Normandy Invasion _ How tt Was Made “Built Clty on Woter   : Shortage of Husbands, Is , Census Report

‘Gloom for Girts Only 1,700,000 Single Men for  4,000,000 Potential Brides

JUST PART OF A MAN EACH: Go West, Young Lady, To Find That Scarce Item--A Husband!

Germany to Withdraw Forces From Certain Occupied Countries   Hitler Expects Additional Allied Landings In France

Germans May Pull Back  Its Armies   Occupied Countries May Be Relieved Of Troons

Hitler May Give Up Norway And The Balkaiis In Order To Bolster Battered Armies

Hitler Calls Military Into Quick Parley   Nazis Say Patton. Te Lead Southera Drive Into France

‘Fess GOP Ohio Legislature Choice   ROBOT PLANES USED AGAINST YANKS?   Hint Nazis May Pull Out Of Norway And Balkans, Fearing New Landing Under Patton

Nazis Deeide To Bolster Home Armies  Occupied Areas" To Be Abandoned

Nazis Consider Leaving Norway And Balkans      Hitler Confers With Generals As Crisis Grows

NAZIS 10 CALL ON OCCUPATION UNITS FOR AID   Supreme War Council Decides to Bolster Threatened Areas

Hitler's Supreme War Council ‘Decides on Withdrawal from. Several Occupied Countries

NAZIS LIKELY 10 WITHDRAW TROOP: FROM NORWAY AND BALKANS   Berlin Newspaper Says “Blood and Guts” Patton Will Lead New Invasion Against Ger-

TO WITHDRAW NAZI TROOPS FROM NORWAY   Also from Balkans To Bolster Armies Now in Battle --

Sforzafor ~ ‘Cabinet Post   Former Italian Minister Would Accept Place

CLAIMS BRITAIN RIGHT TO HELP IN GOVERNMENT   Apparently Applies Words to Future of All Liberated Europe

Says Britain Within Rights   Eden Soys Entitked to Try To Shape Governments of Liberated Countries

Eden Defiant Of U. S. View   Opposition Voiced To Sforza in Italy

BLVEIW S2YVU £2 VIVE     Eden Reiterates View Which Caused British to  Oppose Sforza

Britain Stands Pat In Italy Row   America’s Statement Is Discounted By Eden

Says Britain To Remain Firm On Italian Policy   Eden Takes Issue With America’s “Hands-Off” Declaration.

‘BRIT POLICIES IN LIBERATED AREAS DEFENDED BY EDEN   Says Britain. Right: in Trying to Shape Governments of Freed Countries—S p lits With U. S. “Hands Off” Policy jn Italy

Eden Declares: Opposition To  Tialian Count   Takes Direct Issue With America’s Hands Off Policy; Replies To Labor Members

HOLDS TO POLICY   Eden . Reiterates View Which Caused British to Oppose Sforza

U. §., British At Odds In Policy Stand   Eden Says Nation To Have Part In Shaping Other Governments

UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN DIFFER ON NEW GOVERNMENTS   BRITISH FOREIGN SEC  BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY SAYS BRITAIN WITHIN HER RIGHTS

EDEN INSISTS IN RIGHTS 10 ‘SHAPE’ POLICY   Splits With America On ‘Hands Off’ Principle

‘\British Insist on Right to Use Their Influence “In Shaping of Governments of Other States

Foreign Secretary Says Britain Within Rights in Shaping Governments for Freed Peoples While U. S. Holds to Hands-off Plan—Meanwhile, British Troops Take Hand In Greek Affairs as Violence in Athens Continues

Eden Backs Serza Veto, Salits With “Hands-G8” Polier   England and U.S Torn by Rift Over Italian Government Selup

EDEN HITS. BACK   BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY TAKES DIRECT ISSUE WITH U. S.. “HANDS-OFF” STAND

Eden Firm. Opposes L.S. Stand   Claims British Have Right to Shape G;overnments of Liberated Countries

Eden Asserts British Right To Intervene  Government's View Diverges Sharply

EDEN DEFENDS BRITISH STAND   Will Continue to Shape the Government Created in Liberated Nations

EDEN CONTENDS BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IS RIGHT   SPLITS WITH U. S. HANDS-OFF POLICY IN GREECE, ITALY

Eden Balks At ‘U.S. Hands-Off Policy In Italy   Declares Britain Has A Right To Shape Governments In Freed Lands.

Yank, British Stands Differ On Italy Plan   Eden Defends His Nation’s Position Opposing Sforza A Foreign Minister -

Britain's Hand To Remain in Polifics of Liberated Nations   Split with American ‘Hands Off’ Policy Seen in Statement by Foreign Secretary

EOEN Routt HIGHT 10 BACK BUNOM! GOV'T   Defends Action on Sforza as British Press Brands U. S. Note “Rude.”

Eden Stands By Veto Of Sforza   Splits With  U.S. Declaration Of Hands-Off  In Italy

4  Strong Statement Made  After 0). S.) Declares  Liberated’ United Na.  tions Should Elave,  Right Fo Form Own Csovernments.

British. Troops Tattle Greek loft Wincers   Eden Splits With U. 5. “Hands-Off" Policy In  lenly

EDEN REJECTS US. POLICY   Foreign Secretary Splits  With American Stand  On Italy Gov't

Britain “Within Rights in Interference in Europe   Foreign Secretary Stands by Veto of Sforza In Italy; Commons to Debate Tomorrow

Britain i in Right To Help Shape . Liberated Countrie   Says Eden, Splitting.’ “Fully With US. © Hand-Off Italy Policy

Open Split On Policy In Europe   Eden Defends the British Effort to Shape Governments of Liberated Nations   U. 8. OPPOSED  TO INTERFERENCE   American Declaration Is Termed ‘Rude’ in British Press Comment

Eden Says Britain Has Right To Help Reshape Freed Nations   POLICY MAY APPLY TO GREFK TIRWMOTI.

Yank Policy Is Disliked   Eden’ Takes Issue: ‘With U.-S. ‘Actions

Asseris Britain Within Rights In Greek Crisis   Anthony Eden  Voices Split With U.S. Policy

Chinese Open New Push Toward Burma   CHINESE COUNTER-ATTACK IN HONAN PROVINCE

CHINESE IN NEW DRIVE ON BURMA   Strong Forces Cross Salween River

Strong Chinese Forces Pushing Toward Burma   Major Offensive Aimed At Crushing  Nippon. Resistance

OIL REFINERIES HIT IN ROMANIA   Russian Airmen Join In Night Offensive Over Germany

BOMBERS MAUL ROMANIAN AREA   Refineries and Pumping Station Pounded

OIL REFINERIES ATTACKED ANEW   Yank Bombers Blast at Ploest Area, Aiming at Five Big Plants

Airmen Attack  Oil Retineries   Fuel Stations At Ploesti.. Romania Hit By 500 Flying ‘Forts.’

Refineries _  Are Bombed   Bad F lying Weather Hinders Offensive —

5 OIL REFINERIES AT PLOESTI BOMBED   Eighth Air Force Blasts Rall Tar. gets at Tours, Orleans and South of Paris,

Americans Hit Oil Refineries:   Yanks Again Blast Ploesti, Romania; Strike Rail Targets

Bad Weather Checks Allies  Planes Down In Day, But Go Out At Night

10 Bombers Hit Oil Fields   Italy-Based Planes Pound Refineries at Ploesti; Weather Bad

Triple Developments in Patton’s Sector Part of a Series of Sensational Advances by Six Allied Armies Hitting With 1,250,000 Men Toward Rhine Along a 400-Mile Front— Third Army Push is New Attack, and Is Going Strong.

Western Front Armies Hammer Out Slow Gains   More Than Million Men Strike at 400 Mile Front

Temperatures   Sensational Advances Made By Allies On 4.00-Mile Front

British Ram German Flank In North; Yanks In Metz   Kk KK ‘Britist’ Second

Allied Forces In Sensational New Advances   3rd Driving Toward Northern Saar; Moves Into Germany Near Perl: French Gain

Advances Are  Made All Along Front   Fanatical Resistance Encountered as Allied Armies Push Into Germany; American Troops Battle Germans in Streets of Metz

BRITISH, AMERICAN ARMIES HAMMER AT GERMAN DEFENSES  WMATTRrANC THD ADR

British Go Into Line Near Yanks   Three. Armies Form. Solid Assault-Arc in the Widened Aachen. Sector   BLOODY BATTLES ‘ALL ALONG FRONT   Germans Throw in Everything at Reckless Cost In Attempt to Stop Americans

Doughboys to the South Fight House-to-House Battle With Foe at Metz

U. 5. MAY RUN STRUCK TRUCK SYSTEMS   New Flurry of Labor Trouble Cuts Into War Production

STRIKES CURTAIL WAR PRODUCTION   75,000 Now Idle in Truck, Plane and Other War Industries

Forrestal Is  Naval Chiel      Officially Made Head Today; Holds First News Conference.

FORRESTAL NOW TOP NAVY MAN   Fourth Chief to Hold Post Under Roosevelt

Head of Japanese Navy Reported Killed   Nipponese Say Death Occurred in Plane During Battle; Move Indicated To Check MacArthur's Drive

JAPS ANNOUNCE DEATH OF NAVY CHIEF. ADM. KOGA   Claim He Was Killed While Directing Operations at the Front—-May Have Committed Herakigi  eieitt he 2 ree a

Koga Killed At Front In Plane, Tokyo Report   British Bombers Hit German Traffic In Romania; All War Fronts Are Quiet

Tokyo Reports  Death Of Koga, Jap Naval Head   May Have Killed Self Over Allied Advances

ACTION, TOKYO REPORT CLAIMS   But Wording of Announce ment Hints Suicide  By Navy Chief ~~

PHRASES SAME AS WERE USED FOR YAMAMOTO   Broadcast Says Nippon Chief Died “Directing Operations From Plane’

COMMANDER - IN - CHIEF KOGA OF _ JAP NAVY KILLED IN ACTION — ~ SAYS TOKYO REPORTING DEATH   Virtually Same Words Used in Announcing Death-of His Predecessor Admiral Isorotu Yamaoto, Again Used. Tokyo-Says He Was i in Plane ‘Directng Operations At Time

Japanese Navy Chief Dead   Killed in Plane In March, Tokyo Radio Says

Comman d er     OF Japanese      Adm. Toyoda in Command of Combined Jap Fleet; Allies Land Around  Hollandia Coastal Area

Commander Of Nipponese Navy Reported Dead   Koga Follows Fate Of Yamamota, Planner O} White House Peace

Admiral Koga, Chiel Of Jap Fleet, Is Reported Dead  Battle-Reluctant Navy Now Is Headed bv Tovoda

EDEN EXPECTED TO STEP DOWN AFTER EASTER   Changes Will Allow Foreign Minister To Prepare For Leadershi

Anthony Eden Is Expected To Quit Foreign Minister Post During Present Week

LEAVING ‘OBS INSUPPORT OF OHIO WALKOUT   New Yorkers Refuse CallsFrom Ohio Districts

Ohio Badly Crippled By Tie-Up   Drastic Federal Action Momentarily  Expected To  Protect War Effort.

RUSSIA REFUSES 10 PARTICIPATE   In International Aviation Conference To Be Held Wednesday

AMERICAN GUNS CLOSE TRAP ON SEVENTH ARMY   Allies Cut Escape Route for Over 100,000 Germans to Around 10 Miles

Cassino’s Mop-Up Nearly Completed   Allied Tanks Smash Through Last, Rubble Strewn Enemy Remnant of Town—130 German Planes Reported Destroyed

Tanks Smash at Enemy-Held Cassino Remnant   Take Many Prisoners As Mop-up Slowly Jars Germans Loose

ENEMY CLINGS TO FEW HOUSES AND HOTEL AS MOP-UP CONTINUES; MANY PRISONERS TAKEN, AIR BASES BOMBEN IN ITALY.

Tanks smash thru ruins of  scarred town Allies capture many prisoners

Hard Battles Continues To Rage in Hill Areas About Bomb-Blasted City

Allies Squeeze Out Many Nazi Prisoners   Tanks Push Through Last Enemy Remnant of Cassino

Cassino Mop-Up Nearly Complete   130 Nazi Planes Downed by Allies

Allied Tanks Lead Mop-Up of Cassino; 150 Planes Blasted   Large Number of Prisoners Are Taken as Tanks Close to Hotel, Chief Center of Nazi Resistance; Allies Lose 12 Planes

ENEMY CLINGS TO ONLY FEW HOUSES, HOTEL   130 Nazi Planes Destroyed in Day on Kalian Front

 American Tanks Smash Into Last Edges of Cassino   Allied Airmen Destroy 130 Nazi Planes In Massive Air Raids Saturday

Stubborn Nazi Battle to Hold Gateway City   Russians Only Few Miles From Estenian Border in Steady Push

Steady Advance “Toward Estonia   Battle Stubborn: Nazi Units _ On Streets Of Kingisepp, *13. Miles  Froni: Narva

Russ Troops Fight in Gate  N34.- 4, Del4s, Viuy LU EoeLRURe Leningrad Army Battle: Nazis in Streets of Kingisepp  CROSS LUGA RIVER  Pincers Move Isolate: Disorganized Groups af Axte Troaone

RED ARMIES BATTLE WAY TO ESTONIA   Baltic States In Quandary About Their Future

Reds Staging Steady Drive On Estonia;  Luga Crossed   Kingisepp Scene Of New Fighting   LONDON, (4) — The red ‘army has captured Kingisepp, Moscow announced tonight.

Red Army Gains In Drive Toward Estonian Front   Heavy Fighting In Kingisepp Streets With Stubborn Foe

Reds Near Estonia; Battle Rages Eight Miles From Frontier   Small Groups Of German Troops Are Isolated In Drives; Two Armies Push Toward Junction

GOVOROV'S TROOPS BATTLE GERMANS IN KINGISEPP STREETS   Leningrad Army Continues Drive Toward Narva, Five Miles Inside Estonia   NO REPORT FROM UKRAINE

Russian Army Knocking At  Estonia Gates   Berlin Admits Russian Break Through In Dnierer Bend.

Russians Knock At Gates of Estonia; Approach Narva   Both Moscow Communiques and Front Line Dispatches Report Continuing Red Army Success Along Northern Front   LUGA RIVER IS CROSSED AT SEVERAL POINTS

ol elS Fight Nazis Inside Of Kingisepp   Russians Continue Drive Toward Old Estonian Frontier; Success Reported

Soviet Army Draws Closer To Estonia   Strect Fighting Reporled—Nazis Claim Victory

GERMANS ADMIT RED ADVANCE IN NIKOPOL SECTOR   Soviet Forces Fighting Only Eight Miles from Border

Steady Drive On Estonia ls Continued   Soviets Report Fresh Successes All Along Winter Lines

Ne  GEN. DE GAULLE IN BRIEF VISIT TO FRANCE   Trip Heightens Controversy Over Status of His Committee

GEN, DEGAULLES NORMANDY TRIP. cOuRG aSAAIE.   Contriversy Thredtens Success of ‘Miltdry 48 Oper:tions in France 

GEN. DEGAULUEY NORMANDY Thr OPURS DISPUTE   Contriversy Threatens Success of Military Oper.tions in France

288 Jap Planes Destroyed in U. S.  Attacks on Base  At Least 17 Enemy Ships Sunk by America Subs, Surface Forces

All Enemy Planes On Island Smashed   Every Ship That Had Not Fled From Palau Is Sunk In Naval Engagement In South Pacific

BIG AIR BASE AT HOLLANDIA IS WIPED OUT   FLEEING NIPPONESE WARSHIPS CAUGHT OUTSIDE ATOLLS

Navy in Daring Attack on Three Caroline Islands   gNipponese Air Force at Hollandia Wiped Out MacArthur Says

Soldier Vote Sidetracked   Delay Is Forced By Coalition In Senate

Senate Holds Up Vote Bill   Sidetracks Federal Ballot For  State's Rights  But Delays Vote.

>. 8, ATTACKS ON PHILIPPINES CONTINUING   Next Week May Bring Momentous Developments on All Fronts

Germany Still Packs ~ Plenty of Power   Guide For Yanks ©  Visiting from Overseas

eee EE —_—e  Bloody tal Battles Sneditible, Lean. lew,  How Strong Is Germany: Here Are Expert Views

GERMANS STILL STRONG-ALLIES   Must Have Western Front to Defeat Nazis

Nazi War Machine Is Still Mighty in  Leaders’ Opinion   Experts Believe Only Invasion Will Bring Hitler’s Defeat

HITLER HAS LARGE ARMY IN RESERVE   Allied Leaders Say Nazis Are Under  Only One Leader

YUGOSLAV KING DROPS COUNCH   Mikhailovich Oustet Appears Imminent

YUGOSLAV KING FORMS MINISTRY 10 APPEASE TIT0   Move Toward Reconciliation With Partisan Leader Would Unite All Fac ~

(Half- Million en Facing Each Other   Reds Invade Prussia: Bombings Pave W For New Assault.

nae  BRITISH SECOND ARMY HOLD SOLID FRONT IN HOLLAND  GERMANS CLAIM RUSSIANS HAVE SWEPT INSIDE REICH ON EAST FRONT

British Capture ‘Venray   Other Sectors Quiet As Fortes Gather For Final Assault Inte the Reich

Americans Drive Within Four Miles Of Metz As First Army Continues Cleanun At Aachen

Fire Destroys Fair Building   Oldest Structure On ‘Grounds Burns Down

MT, CASSINO BOMBED BY: AMERICANS   Monks Ordered Tx Leave Abbey By Allied Army

House Starts Tax Streamlining   Doughton Confident of Passagel Of Tax Simplidibesion Law.

Montgomery, Declaring Second Front Is Open, Says Invasion  Of Continent Will Be A “Set-Up”

PROGRAM  — SEALY —   Coming Soon;—  Edge: of Darkness _ wien Errol Elynn, Ann Sherdian,

Believe Japs May - Have Taken Lovana   Thousand U.S. Airmen Interned by Neutrals

Clanip Tight. Upon Lo Loyang  Ancient. ~~ Capital _ May Haye Fallen Already,   Reports Indicate  CHINESE TOO FEW Dianne Maten Pie Trl]   Planes. Take. Big Toll but Armored Columns Batter Ahead

The War Today  Nazi Resistance May Prove Aid to Finnish Position

The War Today   Finland Has New Chance for Rehabilitation With Allies

FINLAND JUST CAN'T KEEP OUT OF WAR; ENDS SECOND IN FIVE YEARS AND THEN ENTERS THIRD

Germany Has Forced Finns To Drive Them Out— ——DY J. Wie NODEEL  Finland Enters Third War In Five Years

WAR TODAY   -Finland’s Situation Is  Strangest of All ByProduets Of Main War; Ends Second Conflict, Engages 1 In Third

French Smash Creates Serious Breach In German Defenses —   Americans Drive Enemy From Two Important Villages And Hold Vital Mountain Positions In OQreat Aled Drive In Italy

GUSTAV LINE BREACH IS. SUBSTANTIAL   Yanks, Meanwhile, Have Gained Four Miles in Minturno Area, Taking: Two Villages and Mountain Positions. as   RTT FR TIN,

24 U. S. Air Heroes Killed In Train Wreek   Two Passenger Trains Collide Head-On in Heavy Fog: Reports Show 27 Persons Dead

24 of Victims of Crash of Dixie Flyer in Indiana Air Force Veterans

 Dixie Flyer Wreck Kills 27 cf I Uncluding 24 Air Veterans Of Fifty ‘Overseas Missions

Train Wreck Kills 22 Air War Veterans   Four Civilians Also Killed tn Accident

25 Air Force Veterans Die InR.R.Crash   TWENTY-FIVE PERSONS KILLED AS CRACK DIXIE FLIER MEETS t#XPRESS—MAIL 'TKAIN HEAD—ON,   65 Persons Injured

24 FLIERS KILLED AS TRAINS CRASH   THREE OTHERS LOSE LIVES IN HEAD-ON COLLISION NEAR TERRE HAUTE, IND.

24 Veteran Flyers Among 27 Killed  In Train Collision Army Men Were Back  From Combat Areas;  40 Other Persons Hurt

FLIERS KILLED AS TWO TRAINS CRASH   24 Air Force Veterans Among Victims in In diana Wreck

SLAY “SUICIDE” JAP FORCES ON BOUGAINVILLE   U. S. Cavalrymen Take 2 More Islands in Admiralties ——

FOREIGN RELIEF SETUP OUTLINED   Liberated Countries To Pay Own Way With Forcign Exchange Resources

4,000 CHURCHES HIT IN RAIDS ON ENGLAND   American Soldiers Lauded By London Minister

‘OPEN CAMPAIGN JO RETAKE ISLE SEIZED BY JAPS   "Planes and Warships Pound Enemy Defenses While Troops Land

NAVY. REPORTS OPPOSITION BY JAPS MODERATE   Warships And Planes Support Marines And Assault Troops

oe LLED SUDDENLY   Known Salesman Diec rly This Morning Following Stroke —

HARD WILLIAMS LED SUDDENLY   Known Salesman Diec tly This Morning F ollowing Stroke

Telephone Strike Called Off   Strikers Called Back to Work After War Labor Board Referred Problem to White House

Unions Call Off Telephone Strike   Action Follows WLB’s Shifting Of Case To White House For Seizure

Ohio and Washington Union Leaders Act After WLB Turns Casi Over to White House  SEIZURE LOOMED

Strike Ends As Operators Resume Jobs   Nation-Wide Walkout Of Operators Headed Off By Union Leaders

Phone Strike Called Off By Leaders   DETERMINED ATTITUDE OF WAR LABOR BOARD CONVINCES STRIKERS OF FUTILITY OF THEIR COERCION   After White House Referral

STRIKE OF PHONE WORKERS CALLED OFF BY LEADERS   Washington and Ohio Unions Notify Labor Board of Decision After Case Goes to Roosevelt.   PROPOSED SYMPATHY _ WALKOUTS DROPPED   Voluntary Action Comes as Steps Preliminary to Seizure of Struck Facilities Are Taken.

‘Phone Strike Called Off by Operators   Union Leaders Act After Case Is Given White House

ACTION TAKEN AS DISPUTE IS GIVEN TO FDR   Sympathy Strikes in Chicago, Detroit Also Stopped

Cancel telephone strike; workers asked to return   Ohio and Washington union leaders act ‘svympathv’ walkouts are halted

BOND DRIVE ENDS TODAY IS SUGBESS   Carbondale Sales Over Top; More Expected Today

BOND SALES In CARBONDALE REPORTED GOOD   Forty-Four Per Cent OF Quota Sold Te Date

CARBONDALE HAS REACHED FOURTH OF BOND QUOTA   Yesterday’s Sales Reported Good By  Local Chairman

HALFWAY REACHED HERE IN BOND SALES   More Than $20,006 In War Bonds  Sold Thursdav

LOCAL BOND SALE DRIVE NEARING END   Only $30,000 More Sales Nasa’ To Reach Quota

There Are Several Things That Proposed ‘Streamliner’ Tax Measure Will NOT Do, Even Though It Does Simplify

FRENCH ARMY FIGHTING FOR FRANCE ON FRENCH SOIL WITH ALLIES TODAY   After Four Years of Grief and Hardship They Ar Fighting Again for The Liberation of France fror Hitler’s Iron Yoke of Torture

AMERICANS HALF WAY ACROSS LEYTE   Remaining Japs Trying to Escape Island

invading 1anks Near Air, Sea Base Of Ormoe  Troops Push Into Wild Hills Of Leyte Half Way Across Island  -—s tert oo ok a ioe} TrTrirTr we      1.8800 MILES HELD   Jap Garrison Remnants Attempting To Flee Across To Cebu

PRACTICALLY LIBERATED   Most of Leyte And Samar In American Hands

YANKS HOLD TWO-THIRDS OF LEYTE HEAD FOR ORMOC BASE ON COAST   HALF MILLION FILIPINOS ON LEYTE AND SAMAR LIBERATED, CHURCHES OPENED IN FREED AREAS

Yanks Pushing Half Way Over Leyte Island  Advance Upon   Advance Upon Ormoc Air and Sea Base

American Invasion Troops Drive Into Wild Hills Nearly Half Way Across Island—-Pushing to Within 16 Miles of Ormoc Air and Sea  Base on West Coast.

Doughboys Push Half-way Across Island And Near Ormoe   Foe May Attempt Es ‘ape Via Sea   More Than 212 Miles Of Leyte Coasts In U, S. Hands

Invasion Troops Drive Into Wild Hills of Leyte   Push Within 16 Miles of Ormac Air, Sea Base On West Coast

FLEEING JAPO IN LEYTE MAY TAKE TO BOATS   U. S. Troops Drive Into Hills on Heels of Scattered Garrison.

REDS REPEL NAZI MOVES INE. PRUSSIA   Russians Also Continue Gains Toward Budapest

NAZI ATTACKS REPULSED IN EAST PRUSSIA   Russians Prepare For New Drive On Koenigsberg

INVASION HOLD BEING EXPANDED   Rabaul Giver Respite Fram Bombing After 15 Straight Days

INVADERS GAIN AGAINST JAPS HOLDING ISLE   U. §. Troops Advance After Repulsing Enemy Attacks

AT LEAST 22 PERSONS DIE IN "FRISCO HOTEL BLAZE   Police Looking For Arsonist; Fire Spreads Rapidly

22 DIE AS FIRE RAZES S. F. HOTEL   Blaze Is Believed One of Series Set By Arsonists

93 Die in Blaze That Destroys Hotel in ‘Frisco   22 Also Injured As Structure  Swept By Flames

Nazi Air Fields Bombed by Yanks   10,000 Sorties Cover Wide Area

Equal Status for Montgomery and  Bradley Planned   Proposal Draws Criticism From British; U. S. Stand Is Explained

McLendon Gives Manufacturers’ Views. .. .  Textile Mills Contend Union Demand For Pay Raise Aid To Inflation

NEW WORK OR FIGHT ORDER FACES MEN IN 26-37 AGE BRACKET   Review Of Deferments Planned Under Policy . Change

ATTEMPT MADE TO ALLEVIATE WORK SHORTAGE      New Policy Issued For Men Be aween Ages Of 26.37

Selective Service  Speeds Draft Order   Work-Or-Fight Edict To Be Enforced Through Reclassification Of Selectees

WORK OR FIGHI EDICT STUDIEL   Selective Service Headquarters Scan Their Records

Draft Aides Map Quick Action On Work-or-Figh  All Deferments in   All Deferments in Upper Age Group ; Will Be Reviewed

KINGISEPP NOW IN POSSESSION ~- OF RED TROOPS   Russians Believed To Have Reached Estonian Border In The North   WITHDRAWALS ARE ADMITTED BY NAZIS

Kingisepp Falls: Many Towns Are Taken in Drive   Germans Acknowledge Wholesale Retreats in Northern Sectors

Russians Reach Estonian Line  Th Drive West   Border Village Captured ‘After Kingisepp Falls  Ton Govoray’s Army

Believe Soviets Have Reached Estonian Border   Reds Also Take Frontier Railway Station, Kingisepp

RUSSO TROOPS TAKE TOWN ON ESTONIA LINE   Germans Staggering Back All Along Front In North

Record Wheat  Crop Forecast   Large Corn Production Also Is Indicated

‘DeGaulle Regime Faces Showdown On French Red   Return Of Thorez, Leader Of Communists, Sought - In Campaign Revival.

HUGE NEW PLANE READY   Carrying 100 Passengers, It Can Easily Make World Circling Flights in Stratosphere.

lpPOoTzEeT SOLVES PROBLEM   Plant Makes Enough Vitamin A For Daily Dose for Every Person

Palmyra   NEWS CORRESPONDENT $302 Harding Avenue Phone> Herehev Anon?

1100 BOMBERS STRIKE NAZI OIL INDUSTRY   Aircraft Plants Targets Also For Liberators and Forts

NAZI OIL, PLANE PLANTS LASHED   Raiders Hammer Hannover, Dollbergen, Brunswick

GERMANY’S OIL REFINERIES HIT BY U.S, PLANES   Robot Launchings Bombed At Pas De Calais

WEATHER GOOD FOR AlR RAIDS   More Than a 100 Planes  ” “Objectives.

Planes Thunder Over Gerinan Oil Targets   Weather Favors Giant Raids Over Continent; Bagged 50 Planes Friday

OIL STATIONS   German Raiders Also Hii Aircraft Plant: Rumania Blasted Friday

Americans Are Now Halfway Across Breton Peninsula; British Crack Northern Anchor.   MANY AERIAL TARGETS IN GERMANY ARE HIT

HUNS RAID OWN TROOPS WITH THE FIFTH ARMY ON  MWigsn arr FEL) WEA CHIEZE ATS Amril

Visit Visit With Omar Bradley ~ Best Tonic for War Nerves   He Has Boundless Faith in. American Soldier and Weapons; He Is Too Honest to Hold Out False Hopes

Truk Fortres: Is Set Aflame By U.S. Airmen   Heaviest Night Raid In South Pacific Section Staged Gn Japan's Island Bastion   i3 Enemy Planes Listed As Downed   Wewak, Rabau! And Other Nip Bases Blasted By Yank Fliers; Ships Hit By Bombers

Truk Fired As Raiders Dump Heavy Bomb Loads   Night ‘Attack Made Upon Japs’ Fortress

Allied Planes Set Fire fo Jap Truk Fortress   General MacArthur Reports Heaviest . Night Raid Launched From South Pacific

Fortress Of Truk Set Afire   Daring Naval Raids Sink 53 Japanese Ships In Islands

GREAT FIRES SET AT TRUK FORTRESS BY NIGHT RAIDERS   Dublon Island Base at Stronghold Blanketed With 51! Tons of Bombs by MacArthur’s Airmen,   JAPANESE POUNDED ON BOUGAINVILLE   Nipponese Positions Near Empress Augusta Bay Are Bombarded by American Warships.

Truk Blasted By Heavy Night Raid   Sets Record for Night Bombing With 51 Tons

Great Fires ‘Startedin ‘Raid on Truk   Solomons Based Raiders Drop 51 Tons of Explosives

ISLAND BASE LEFT SMOKING; RABAUL BOMBED   Wewak Also Attacked In Sweeping South Pacific Thrust

Truk Fired By Bombers   South Pacific Planes Blast Dublon Base; Ponape Hit Again

More Men to Be Drafted in Age Group 26 to 37   Those Who Have Quit War Jobs to Be Reclassified

Byrnes Orders Heavier Draft Of Men, 26-37   Deferred Workers Quining  Vital War Plant Je T., RR. Ranle..

Drafting of Men Of 26 to 37 Age  To Be Increased  Men Who Have Quit Vital War Jobs  Face Reclassifying

BITTER FRAY DELAYS MOVE TOWARD ROME       Allied Troops Slowly Advance: weird : Hold Mount ©

U. S. Air Force Batters German Plants, Loses  35 Planes in Heavy Raid   Reds Sweep Within 25 Miles of Rumanian Frontier to Cut Trunk Rail Line Needed by Hitler for Withdrawing Troops

Bomb-Torn Brunswick _ Out of War   Nazi Aircraft: Center Joins Other Blitzed  Cities in Germany

Average Of 90 Tons A Minute Dropped On The Factory Area Where Messerschmitt Js Made

Fifth War Loan Bond Sales One Third Of Quota  Second Letter To Be Mailed Out

Fifth War Loan Bond Sales One Third Of Quota  Second Letter To Be Mailed Out This Week .

17 Separate Food Items Point Free On Sept. 17   Ration Processed Foods Given It: Largest Single Cut Today

SEVENTEEN [TEMS NOW RATION FREE   Ruling Becomes Effective Sept. 17 Comes As Surprise

CANNED GOODS ~ RATIONING CUI   Byrnes Announces 17 Items  Removed From List

Most Canned Foods Made Ration-free   No Points to Be Needed for 17 More Processed Items After Sept. 17

New High Reached fn Morale of  Soldiers in Italy   Wave of Optimism Hits  Plunging Tide in     Daft Acdyvencac

New High Reached In Morale of Soldiers in Italy  Wave of Optimism Hit: Plunging Tide in Infantry Advances

Allied Morale Hits High Peak in Italy   Newsman Describes Transformation as Wonderful Thing

Canal in Italy Falls to Allies   Secondary Defense Line Lost bv Nazis

Dewey Turns to Study of Farm Problerr   Holds Farm Prosperity Hinges on Employment in Business, Industry

FULL FARMING OUTPUT. NEEDED   Dewey Says Peak Production Boosts Agriculture

Profitable Farms Up to Labor, Dewey Declares   . Full Production And Employment Upheld By G. 0. P.

Hungarian Government Reshuffled  Changes Made By Nazis To Prevent Feared Crack-up

Hungarian Government Reshuffled  Due to “Tensions” Nazis Announce

Hungary Rule Gets Shaking; Balkans Agog   Nazi Troops Said To Be Abandoning Isolated Bulgaria

Ingarian yvernment shuffled   ermans Tell "Tension" In ceupied Country

Paris Joyous As Allied Armor Hits Last Nazis   ‘Shake-Up Hits Hungary; Nazis Admit Romanians Aiding Reds

HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLED   Germans Announce Change Following Romania Split

Hungary Regime Reshuffled  gim Tn Face Of Political Tensions   G ermany Announces Ac liou “Because of Events   In Romania’: Ten -  stons Not Explained

Nazis Busy In Hungary.   “Shuffle: Government “To Meet. New. Crisis

GERMANS BOMB BUCHAREST IN HEAVY ATTACK   Reports by Way of Cairo Claim Germans Abandoning Bulgaria As Well as Romanian Realm.   IN HUNGARY

NAZIS REVEAL CABINET CHANGE   Report Reshuffle of Rulers in Hungarian Government

HUMOR IS NOT LOST BY LT. HENRY FONDA   Former Movie “Star Caught Under Table in Grill

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA BEGIN TO SHAPE SPHERES OF INFLUENCE ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINGENT

BRITISH LABOR MINISTER HAS APPARENTLY CONFORMED RUSSIE AND BRITAIN PLANNING COUP

WAR TODAY   British Cabinet Mem- ber Virtually Com firms Eng land and Russia Are Establishing Separate Spheres

LUDWIGoHAFEN 10 rOATAESS TARGEI HADIO NiAINTAINS   Underground Source in Germany Says Bavarian City Hit

INE CITY ~ BLASTED BY AIR ATTACK   LUDWIGSHAFEN REPORTED TO HAVE RECEIVED “DEATH  BLOW” DUBING DEVAS: TATION RAID

ANOTHER NAZI CITY BLASTED BY BOMBINGS   Ludwigshafen Given Death Blow

Air Battering (f Nazi Targets Is Continued   Speedy Mosquito Bombers Hammer Western Germany During Night  STEADY ATTACKS CwOHOW NO TETIUP

RAF P AIRDEVASTATION ON NAZIS’ CITIES   Raid Follows U. s. Bombers’ : Attack on Chemical Centers

Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., Is Given New Army Assignment   NEW COMMANDER IS VETERAN OF PACIFIC

Gen. Patch New Commander Of Seventh Army   Replaces Gen. Patton who Gets New Command. Gen. Patch Guadalcanal Vet.

: Liberators Boost Deadly Hail of Bombs Ele Flak-Rocked Air ‘of Invasion Coast   PATCH REPLACES PATTON WITH /TH

PATTON SWITCHED TO NEW COMMAND   ‘GENERAL? To" LEAD’ ANOTHER ‘ ARMY—SEVENTH PUT UNDER GENERAL PATCH.

Germans Pull: Out Of Riga Under Rain Of Red Bombs   Panic and Confusion Spreads Through Naz Ranks as Russian Tanks and ‘Infantry Roll in From All Sides

Finland Pays Heavy Price To Reds For Peace   Stripped of Richest Industrial Territory and Burdened With Huge Cash Reparations

HEAVY BURDEN IS DEMANDED OF FINLAND   Immediate Concern of Nation Probable Bloody Task of Removing Germans From Country   BREAKS WITH PUPPETS

Dedicate Nation To Building Up New Existence   First Armistice Move To Rid_Country Of Nazis;     Loss Of Land Sore Point

FINNS LOSE RICH  TERRITORY: PAY  GASH FOR PEACE KARELIA GIVEN TO  RUSSIA; MUST HELP OUST NAZI TROOPS

Nazis Blut: Of New And Larger Robot   Threats Believed Just: ’More Talk”

GENERAL IS WAR VICTIM   BRIG, GEN. WHARTON KILLED. IN ACTION IN ERANCE~SEVENTH GENERAL TO. DIE

RAF Goes Out While Others  Are Returning   Nazi Capital May Be Night Raiders’ Target: Strong Resistance Offered by Germans

Americans — Back in Air In Full Force   Big Attack Appears To Equal or Exceed Christmas Eve Raid  OPPOSITION LIGHT

Report RAF night attack on Germany   Massive blow strikes France

Rocket Coasi IsLashed By Big Armada   Berlin Indicates Capital Hit Aaain

Nazis Report Night Raid by the B.AF.   Up to 1,400 Planes Hit Military Targets in France

Eighth Army In New Bridgehead   Threaten German Stronghold of Forli In Northern Italy.

RONCO RIVER IN ITALY GROSSEL   Eighth Army Troops Menace Stronghold Of Forli

PUSH ON IN ITALY   Indian Eighth Army Troops Threaten German + 9 OE at

Threat Increased To Forli Stronghold   Greek Guerrillas Seize Arnissa, Seven Miles from Yuaoslavic

Indian Troops Increase Threat To Forli By Crossing Ronco River ‘

Indian Troops. Threaten  Nazi Stronghold of Forli  In North Italy Fighting

Indian Troops In Threat to Forli   Throw Bridgehead Across Ronco River in Italy

ALLIES WIN FOOTHOLD ACROSS ITALIAN RIVER   Bridgehead Over Ronco Set Up By Indian Forces

LINDBERGH GIVES AVIATORS LESSONS   High Altitude Flying Taught Americans in Gilbert leland Area

~29’s Hit Industrial argets on Kyushu Isiand; agoya Damages Heavy

ERIE GIVES WRONG BODY   Coast Guard Says Not Man Whom Wife, 17, “Shoved Off Dock”

Less than 12 Miles hKetween 3 Allied Armies To Close Trap  GREAT AERIAL AND ARTILLERY BARRAGE  Encirclement Of 100,000 Germans Expected Momentarilv

RACE TO SHUT STEEL TAP ON 100, 000 NAZI   Escape Corridor Is Cut to 12 Miles or Less With Swift Thrusts.

Nazi Escape Corridor Reduced to 12 Miles As Germans Attempt to Withdraw Bulk of Troops: No Indication Yet of Panic

100,000 Germans  In Jaws of Pincers   Only 12-Mile Corridor Now Open to Enemy With Canadians Closings It

100,000 Germans Are in Danger of Entrapment   Three Allied Armies Converge on Falajse

Tanks Slash Thru Defense At Falaise   German Escape Path Is Narrowed to Twelve Miles.

3 Allied Armies Race For Juncture Which May Spel Greatest Victory of War

U.S. GHOST FORCE GAINS 40 MILES IN DAY   Three Armies In Power Drive

Corridor of Nazi Escape Narrowing   zanadians Closing Northert Jaws of Trap in Attack  at Falaise

Panic Grips Enemy Units Inside Trap   3 Armies Moving Against German Faree in France

Last Escape Gap Periled Near Falaise   Gigantic Aerial Bombardment Launches Drive

MEETING WOULD TRAP 100,00 GERMANS; WOULD PAVE WA TO CAPTURE OF PARIS ">

‘Allies Converge On Falaise In —  Full-Scale Drive   Three Armies Advance On Foe Behind Great Air, Artillery Barrage

Air-Artillery Barrage Leads Three Armies   Greatest Victory Of War In West May Envelope 100,000 German Troop:

German 7th, 15th Armies Reeling Back On Paris And Seine River, Attack Preceded By Rolling Aerial Bombardment   SEEK TO ENVELOP 100,000 GERMANS.

AMERICANS RACE TO EFFECT CIRCLE AND TRAP 100,000 NAZIS   Rendezvous Of Allied Forces Sought To Block Re treat Of Enemy; Eisenhower Makes Bold Stroke To Capture Paris

FDR Holds Important ‘Conferences   House Minority Leader Says Price Control Absolutely Necessary: Extension of Lend-Lease Urged .

President Holds War Conference   Martin Asks Speedy Extension Of Controls Act

27 DEFENDANTS WILL BE TRIED   Judge Carr Orders Trial of Men in Graft Conspiracy Case.   HEARING JIS ENDED TQDAY

Hemans Tells Of High Jinks   Drinking And Gambling Rife In Lansing

CARR RETURNS TRIAL DECREE AFTER HEARING   ‘Defendants Bound Over To Ingham County  Circuit Court

Soviets Gird for ‘Fierce Battles’   Lull Continues While Russians Mass Power

Reds Thought To Be Driving Tc Encircle Capital   Russians Now Holding Key To Five Routes Into Czechoslovakia

Eneireling ‘Of Warsaw May Be Plan Of Russians   Germans Report Several Breaks In Lines; Reds May Ontflank Krakow, Cut Communications

HURRICANE FURY PASSES CLIMAX   26 Persons Already Dead; Winds Diminish as Core Moves Up U. S. Coast

Tropical: Storm Is - Diminishing   Hurricane Death Toll Placed At 26

Storm Kills 1b, Causes Much Damage   Force Diminishing As Hurricane Moves North Along Coast

LINE IS HOLDING   Canadian Bridgehead North of Faenza Is Hit by Heavy Tanks

Canadians Holding Fast To Bridgehead   Germans Throwing Heavy Tank Attacks

German Forces Hurl Tanks Into Italian Battle   Armor Spearheads Heavy Counterblows By Desperate Nozis

THREE PROBING NAZI THRUSTS ARE QUASHED   Fifth Army Forces Retake Initiative In One  Sector

REDS PREPARING FOR FINAL BLOM   Jap Strength at Rabaul Sinks to “All-Time low,” Only Few Vessels Seen.

RED ARMIES NEAR DNO, STRATEGIC RAILWAY CENTER   ‘Hitlerite Germany on Way to Catastrophe,” Premier Stalin Declares

NAZI FORCES iN UKRAINE FACE CRUSHING BLOW   Reds Mark 26th Anniversary With Seizure Of Krivoi Rog Ore Center

EXPECT FALL OF DNO IN RUSSIA IN SHORT TIME   ie Russians Make New Strides, . Allies Holding Firm  At Anzio

Congress Is Headed for Veto Battle  Social Security Tax Ie Tha lecua

House Unit Votes  To Freeze’  Social Security F.D.R. Veto Looms  ; if Measure : 1 Reaches White Hous

House Group Votes Freeze Security Tax   Nine Republicans  Vote Solidly for Freeze Are Joined by Eight Democratic Members

Social Security ‘freeze Voted By House Group   Eight Republicans  In Solid Vote; Veto Fight With President Looms As Result

House Group Votes ‘Freeze’   Committee Action  Forecasts Veto Fight Wilh White House

Tax Freeze Proposal to House   Ways and Means Committee Votes 17 to 7 for Measure, Opposing Administration   POSSIBILITY OF LATE VETO FIGHT   Some Democrats Predict Privately That Roosevelt Will Win Out

SECURITY TAX ACT   ‘ominitiee Votes te Freeze Tax But Veto Expected and . FR Will Win

House Committee Votes Freeze On Security Tax  - §Session-End Veto  Battle Seen  By Conaresemen

Security Tax Freeze Ok'd   House Committee Sends Approval to Floor, Risking Veto Battle

House Votes To “Freeze”’  Security Tax Nine Republican and Eight Democrats Cast Rellate Aaaimet Rana

SOCIAL SECURITY FROZEN IN HOUSE   Vote Of Representatives Is 17 To 7 Favoring Present Structure For Social Securitv Taxes.

—TAXES—:  SECURITY. ‘FREEZE WOTEL   Democrats On House Committee Deliver Rebuff To Administration

VOORHIS PRI PROPOSES INVESTIGATION BY HOUSE COMMITTEE   Circumstances Leading Up To Discharge of Littell Sought By Solon

STEPS INTO A ROW   President Fires Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell

ROOSEVELT FIRES NORMAN LITTELL   INSUBORDINATION IS CHARGED IN REMOVAL

PEACE MOVE BY FINLAND   STOCKHOLM OBSERVERS SAY FINNISH AND RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVES MEET: © ING AGAIN. —

PEACE TALKO OM AGAIN AS FINN FEAR NAZI COUP   Direct Negot:aticns between Russ.a and Finland Resumed.

REDS AND FINNS TALKING PEAGE   Fear of Nazi Coup Similar to Balkan Move Spurs Negotiations

FINLAND AND AUoolA OTA NEW PARLEYS   Finns Fear Germany Plans Coup Like Those in Balkans.

Lack of Interest In Primary Election  Only Month Away   State Capitol. News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Little @ Interest in: Primary Election ‘Coming ‘on. June 5   Governor Candidates Make Effort to Get Out the. Vote

Germans Set up Rumanian State   Antonescu Yields To Nazi Pressure

Congressman Will Protect Ward's Rights   TERMS SEIZURE OF FIRM’S PROPERTIES “UN-AMERICAN”

Yanks Burn China Base  at Liuchow   Tokyo Reports American Warships Shell Iwo Island, 750 Miles South of Tokyo —

U.S. Infantrymen Close in on Ormoc From 3 Directions   Yanks Inch Way Over Treacherous Ground, Fanatic Jap Defense

—PACIFIC—  U8. SHIPPING —TSNIP TAREE]   eat Fliers In Suicide Attacks On Ships In Ft Philippines   GIVE UP LIUCHOW   U.: ‘S.. 14th Ais Force ‘Abandons Base In “Southeast China

CLOSE IN FROM 3 DIRECTIONS ON ORMOC POSITIONS   NIP PLANES RENEW SUICIDE ATTACKS ON U. S. SHIPPING

Base At Tinchow Said Abandoned By U.S; Airfore   Report B-29 Over Honsbii; Warships . Shell © Iwo: Shanghai Again Bombed

INFANTRYMEN INCH THROUGH LEYTE ISLAND   Japanese Lose 13 Destroyers, 29 Planes

ene nl  Americans Close In on Ormoc and Japs Appear To Have Given Up Attempts To Reinforce Doomed Troops — In China, Yanks Destroy and Abandon Air Base At Liuchow

U.S. Air Forces Abandon Their Base at Liuchow   Well-equipped Enemy Contests American Advance on Leyte

Yanks Draw Noose Tight On Jap Units   Close In from 3 Directions On 45,000 Enemy at Ormoc, Philippines

3-Way Yank ‘Squeeze On Ormoc Japs   Capture’ Strategic Peak Dominating West Leyte Battleground.

YANKS CLOSING IN ON JAPS AT FLAMING ORMOC   Nippon Armies Drive Toward Junction To Cut China in Two

MacArthur's Men Meeting Stronger Resistance: U.S.  Air Base Blown U;

REINFORCED JAPS MAKE STRONG EFFORTS T0 BREAK PRESSURE OF THE AMERICAN FORCES

YANKS ADVANCE ON LEYTE ISLE   Japs Renew Suicide Air Attacks on U. 8. Ships  By LEONARD ILLIMAN

Yanks Closing in On Ormoc From Three Directions   Another American Air Base in China Wrecked, Abandoned

Jap Planes Renew Suicide Attacks on U. S. Shipping in Islands.   ‘TWO VESSELS ARE HIT.

Yanks Tighten Gap On 45,000 Jap Soldiers   Seize Peak Dominating Ormoc Battleground; Report Iwo Isle Shelled.   Il JAP PLANES LOST

3. INFANTRYMEN CLOSING IN AGAINST BURNING LEYTE PORT  TOKYO CLAIMS AMERICAN WARSHIPS SHELL ISLAND

U. §. INFANTRYMEN CLOSINGIN AGAINST BURNING LEYTE PORT  TOKYO CLAIMS AMERICA WARSHIPS SHELL ISLAND 750 MILES FROM TOKYO

YanksInch Forward  On Ormoc   No Further Effort To Reinforce Jap Garrison Indicated

Suicidal Air Attacks Made On U. §. Ships   Announce American Air Base At Liuchow Smashed, Abandoned  Refare Nin Advance

Yank Troops Fighting Way Towards Ormoc   Japanese Abandon New Attempts to Brin Reinforcements on Western Leyte

ENEMY SUICIDE PILOTS ATTACK JS, SHIPPING   No Further Attempt To Reinforce Land Troops Seen

Soong Denies U. S. Pressure on China Political Problem   By SPENCER MOOSA

Prison Official Trampled Into Unconsciousness and  Then Drowned in Tiber River

MOB STORMS TRIAL IN. ROME   Lynch Man, Alleged to Have Favored Nazis

Zaney!  Music-Filled Woods Remained Mystery ~ For But A Short  Se ene fo

ALLIED AIR ARMADA BLASTS GERMAN POSITIONS IN ITALY   Greatest Fleet Assembled in Mediferranean Area Supports American and British Forces

Great U.S. Aerial Armada Blasts German Defenses   Support Allied Ground Forces Battling Against New German Onslaught

Nazis Return To Offensive At Beachhead   But Great Air Armada Pounds German Troops And Communications   HEAVY BOMBERS AID LIGHTER PLANES

LARGEST U.S. AIR ARMADA FIGHTS NAZIS   In Attempt To Break Up Full - Scale Onslaught Against Anzio Beachhead Bv Reinforced Divisions.   Four Planes Lost

Great Aerial Armada Blasts _ German Attackers In Italy   ’   Fliers Try to Break Up Full Scale Onslaught Against Anzio. Beachhead—No Substantial inter- ception Made by Nazis

Fliers Try. to: Break: Up’ Full: Scale Onslaught Against ; Anzio. Beachhead——No Substantial Inter. * ‘ception Made by Nazis:

FIFTH ARMY HOLDS FIRM IN STRUGGLE   All-Out Effort Under Way to Break Up Furious Nazi Onslaught Against Beachhead..

Allies Fight To Break Up New Nazi Attack On —Beachhead; Amass Ships   German Air Fleet Fails To Interfere; Full-Scale Assault On Anzio Launched By Enemy

GREAT AERIAL NAZIS IN ITAL)   Foe Blasted in Effort To Halt Full-Scale Onslaught

Great Aerial Armada Blasts Nazis   Thousands of Bombs Are Dropped in Beachhead Area

Allies Stop New Beachhead Blow:   Greatest Air Armada Ever Assembled In Mediter ranean Aids Battling Invaders; Both Sides Rush Reinforcements

Capture Rennes, _ Threaten Lorient  And St. Nazaire   Powerful American Drive Mushrooms Over Vast French Area As Demoralized Nazis Fall Back In All Directions.

GREAT VICTORY AS NAZIS FLEE OVER BRITTANY   Ports’ Fall Slated By Tonight, Allies  Believe

jap Base In Volcano Isles Also Pounded By B-24’s And Fighters; New And Powerful Blows In View

‘NEW POWERFUL BLOWS AGAINST JAPS NEXT YEAR    Pacific Fleets Steam Up To Iwo. Loose Broadsides At Shipping

Jones ‘Amazed’ Murray Doubts Boards’ Honesty   G. 0. P. Chief Asserts Gestapo Tactics Not Needed at Polls

Ashton Jones Decries Murray s Gestapo  Methods in Viontana  G. 0. P. State Central Committee Chairman Voices Amazement Senator Questions Honesty of Fellow Citizens on Election Boards

Ashton Jones Decries Murray’s Gestapo Methods in Montana  1 1 OD Chante Plantunl Prammmitinn Chat  AIPEMman   G. 0. P. State Central Commiilee Chairman Voices Amazement Senalor Questions Honesty of Fellow Citizens on Election Board:

REVOLT FAILS. IN NICARAGUA   REBEL FORCES REPORTED DEFEATED IN SHARP CLASH ALONG COSTA RIOA  ~ BORDER

Ohio: Man Held For Slaying Two   Admits Stabbing Ex-Wife, Companion

ALLIES OCCUPY VITAL POSITION ON COAST ROAD   U. S., British Shock Troops Take Bridgehead Several  Miles Long

Ist Army Opens New Attack in Hurtgen Forest   Armored Units, Doughboys Go Over Top in Fifth Day of Drive to Tear Hole in Nazi West Wall: Troops Meet Bombardment

Still Plow .      NAZI COUNTER-ATTACKS REGAIN TOWN FEW MILES TO THE NORTH, HOWEVER

First drives to — point within 27 miles of Cologne  _ Ubach salient deepened as nazis reaain Beaaendorf

Cap De La Hague Fall Brings Haul of Roaring Drunk Nazis  Feeling Runs High Among Americans as Foe   Feeling Runs High Among Americans as Foe Quits Pillbox Safety to Give Up After Bitter Advance on Stronaholds

Cap De La Hague Fall Brings Haul of Roaring Drunk Nazis   Feeling Runs High Among Americans as Foe Quits Pillbox Safety to Give Up After Bitter Advance on Strongholds

Nazi Actions Anger Yanks At Cherbourg   Germans Stay in Pillboxes to Kill Americans, Surrender When Surrounded

Caen Struggle Near Climax as Both Forces Rush Troops Into Terrific Tank Battle   Marshal Rommel Reported at Front and Agcin Resorting to Old Tactics; Americans Mopping Up Last of Foes on the Tip of Cherbourg

42,000 NAZIS TAKEN BY U. S. TROOPS ALONE   British Hurl Back Dozen Counterattacks On Caen Sector

Last Germans in Cherbourg Area Surrender  Yanks Take 5,000 Prisoners in the Last 48 Hours

Nazis Give Up Above Cherbourg  Yanks Claim 5,000 German Prisoners

Allies And Germans Kush Men‘ And Material Into Line For Impending Battle; Yanks Mop Up Tip of Cherbourg Peninsula

Want Platform Tailored To Dewey’s Talk   Seek Foreign Policy in Line With His Utterances

Party Plank  Revamp Due   Plan May Be Altered To-Fit Dewey's View

Babson Forecasts Reyolution In Education in Postwar Era. More Emphasis Upon Training Character.

Training For Business Next   BABSON SEES VARIED CHANGES IN U. S. EDUCATION

Yanks Dig In On Suburbs Of St. Lo Ruins   Boyle Describes Stiff Resistance Americans Facing

Repel Nazi Thrusts   Captured Germans Report High Number Of Enemy Casualties

POLE DOB : OTHER CRIMES   Unable to Link Suspect With Ones Out of the  State

Former Waiter Questioned in  Other Slayings   Los Angeles Murderer Apparently Not Involved In Crimes in Other Cities

U.S. ROCKETS Te FURNISH PUNCH   WILL BE USED ON BOTH JAPS AND Ce PMANS

ANIERICAN PLANES IN RED OFFENSWVI   Yank Airmen Shoot Up Nazi Airfield, Gun Positions In Lwow Assault.

East Bank Of Wisla River Reached In Pulawy Area; 66 Miles Southeast Of Warsaw; Fierce Battle Ravine For Rail City

Russians Crash Against Wisla Line In Poland   German Garrisons Doomed In Lwow and Other Naziheld Cities, As Reds Encirele Them   Troops Rout Huns   Fleets of Bombers Aid Red Armies Sweeping Toward Warsaw, Only 50 Miles Away

BERLIN IS ONLY 358 MILES AWAY   American Planes Give Direct Support To Attacking Russians  DRIVING ON WARSAW.

Wisla Is Reached By Red Forees   Russians Given Support by U. S. Fliers Storm Lwow, Rail City

Russia-Based Yank Planes Support Reds   U. S. Bombers For First Time Play A Tactical Role On East Front

AUDS aT ORM LOW, REACH WISLA RIVER   U. $. Mustangs from Russian Bases Knock Down 38 Nazis Near Lwow.

U.S. Bombers Help Russ © Army Crash ‘Wisla Line —   Germans. Surrounded. At Lwow Rail Center

U. S. Planes Give Direct Support To Reds For Ist Time   Soviets Reach Wisla River, Other Columns Storm Into Encircled Lwow

Planes Bomb And Strafe German-Held Air Bases Without Loss   Cossacks Reach Vistula River   New Soviet Offensive Aimed At Hungary And Czechoslovakia

Soviet-Based U. §. Planes Aid Red Army's Drive   Reich-Bound Red Offensive Goes On Without Pause

Cossacks Reach Banks of Vistula   U.S. Planes Support Russ Troops In Massive Attack Made on Lwow

GROUND AHEAD IDEAL FOR RED ARMY ADVANCES   Russians, Germans Embattled Only 385 Miles From Berlin on One of Several Fronts

Americans Enter Battle in Poland   German Flight Toward Warsaw . Continues—Lwow Stormed— 30 Divisions Endangered in Baltics

Russians at East Bank of Wisla River   US Tactical Planes Join Russians in Attack on German Garrison ‘ in Surrounded Lwow: Advance Continues

Cossacks On River's Banks   Other Forces Storm Into Lwow; U. S. Fliers Aiding Russian Advance

Soviets Reach Wisla; Storm Into Rail City   Surround German Garrison Of Lwow: Plain Invites Swift Advance.   DRIVE ON TO CAPITAL

Break Into Lwow, Threaten Warsaw   Russian Cossack wed Germans to East  Bank of Wisla iv.., vo Miles From the Capital of Poland.   Beyond Wisla Rolling Plain Ideal For the Advancing Russian Tanks   On Rolling Plain

SOVIETS REA GERMAN LINE AT WISLA   ther Forces Storm Great Rail City Of Lwow   Shot Down By Americans; Four Great Objectives — Listed For Reds

Reds Batter Way Into Lwow; Near Wisla In Their Drive  Toward Germany's Frontier

Cossacks Ride to Vistula   U. S. Fighter Planee Now Aiding Russian Advance

Lwow Encircled As Soviets Enter City; Warsaw 40 Miles Ahead Of Army Spearheads; American Planes Support Ground Fighting

Russians Engage Broken Nazis 358 Miles From Berlin   Other Russians Driving Frontally on Warsaw Along Main Railway From Kiev Are 40 to 50 Miles From Polish Capital

SOVIETS REACH VISTULA RIVER   Russian-Based U.S. Planes  Support Red Drive On Lwow

Cossacks Reach East Bank Of River; Other Russians Push Nearer Warsaw

COSSACKS AT EAST BANK OF VISTULA RIVER   Other Russians Drive To Within 50 Miles of Polish Capital

Germans Acknowledge Reds Have Reached Important Stream—Several Towns Menaced by Advancing Troops—Soviet Columns On The Way to Warsaw.

U. S. Planes Give Support to Advancing Soviets   Lightnings and Mustangs Flying From Russia: Bases Shoot Down 38 German Planes Without Loss; Red Army Reaches Wisla River

Cossacks at East Bank ol Wisla River   U.S. Flyers Maul Hemmed In Nazi Troops At Lwow

Cossacks Reach Last River Barrier Defending Warsaw   Reds, Supported for First Time By U. S. Planes. Smash Into Lwow

Russians Go Into Lwow; Nazis Mauled   No American Plane Is Lost; Reach Vistula

Red Cossacks Engage Germans  At Wisla River   Beyond the River There Are Rolling Plains Ideal for Tanks and Horsemen To Advance Swiftly.

Nazis Admit War In East Is Reaching HighestFury   Yankee Warplanes Are Being Used In Fighting

RUSSIANS REACH WISLA RIVER; ENTER LWOW   Soviet Cossacks Within 358 Miles of Nazi Capital

SOVIETS ENTER LWOW; GERMANS BEHIND LINES   Russians Drive To Within 40  Miles Warsaw

Poles Join Red Advance  On Warsaw   Decisious Appear Near In Four Majer Drives of Russians from Baltic to Hungary   Fly from Red Base

oxcacks Reach Wisla River: Second Red Force Aided By U. S. Planes Storms Info Lwow “>

Cossack Calvary Paces Advance;  Planes Support  Red Armies —   Decisions Near In Red Armies Drive  To Achieve Four Objectives

Yank Planes Cover Red Army Storming Into Doomed Lwov   Hard - Riding Cossacks Reach Wislo in Drive  Against Prussia

Reach Wisla River; Capture Narva —   x kK k * - Polish Rift: Worries Allies

Red Advance  Mauls Germans  On Wisla Bank   Surround Lwow Garrison  And Storm That Rail City

GOP Advocates Use of Force to Maintain Peace   Committee's — Proposal to Be Adopted, Belief

Argentina Asks Confab of All Americas To Consider Accusations Against Her

Argentina Wants Conference of All  American Nations  Concern Over Attitude Of Some Countries ‘Expressed in Plea

Argentina Calls Conierence Of Foreton Ministers   Resents Being Termed Pro-Nazi

HEART OF MANSFIELD IS SWEPT BY FIRE   Business Block Is in Ruins After $500,000 Blaze

American Troops Now In Greatest Battle Since Invasion Of Hitlerdom

Yanks Battle Breakthrough Losses Heavy   Americans in Biggest War Crisis as VonRundstedt Attacks St. Vith With Tanks, Men

MORE VILLAGES RECAPTURED BY “SURGING RED ARMIES AND 6,000 NAZI TROGPS REPORTED SLAIN   Flat Terrain of Old Po'and Being Over-run by  Russians Who Nowdmperil Half Million or More Germans in Ukraine Sector. Nazis Abandon Mach War Material

Push Nazis Back Across Polish Flat   Allied Bombers Raid French Coast And Hit Vital  Targets in Italy

Soviets Dr ive Nazis Across Flats of Poland   Enemy Abandoning War Material Galore; 7,600 Germans Killed; British Eighth Army Improves Position

Soviet Forces Are 180 Airline Miles From Warsaw Now   Bombings Continue As Italian Line Remains Unchanged

500,000 Germans In South Russia Facing Disaster   Ileeing Hitlerites Unable To Stop Long Enough To Fight; 6,000 Killed Yesterday

‘New Threat To Nazis In Ukraine '   ‘Allied Bombers Pound Germans from West and South; Nazi Position In Yugoslavia Critical.

IN SOUTH RUSSIA   Demoralized Nazis Abandon Guns in Path of Red Avalanche

CHRYSLER WORKERS IGNORE WLB ORDEF   11,500 Workers Idle as Group  Pickets in Protest Over  Dismissal of 16 

CIO Votes To Continue Chrysler Strike, Tying Up 10,000 War Workers, Defying WLB, Ail Over Discharge of 16 Rioters

11,500 Chrysler Employes Idle   Men Ignore Labor Board Order To Resume Work

11,500 DEFY WLB ORDER TO RETURN   Chrysler Plant Workers Refuse To End Strike

Jap Casualties: 113,331; Tokyo: ‘Claims: ‘Subs.         ‘Alone American. Const

Remaining Japs Sealed Off When Escape Port Falls   Naval Force Shells, Bombs Nip Bases  In Volcano Islands

FOURTH TOWN OCCUPIED ON UPPER ROER   South Wing of First Army ' Take Village of Kesternich, Traffic Center of Euskirchen   SEVENTH DRIVING ON

ON ROER BANK   Wiping Out Last Stubborn German Remnants West Of River.   ‘WEATHER [S IMPROVED

Swiftly Wipe Out Germans  West of River   Seek to Envelope Co Plain, 21 Muddy wien To Rhine River

Establish Line Along Flooded Roer River   Americans Within 20 And One-Half Miles Of Cologne

Three Yank Armies  Make Gains   Only Two Small Pockets of Germans Still Hold Out Along Roer River Bank; Fortified Village of Kesternich Fails

Ist, 9th Armies Hold 14 Milesof Flooded Stream   Sunny Weather Promises Air Aid for Hodges’ Men

‘ist, 9th Armies Gain 14-Mile Front   Yanks Cross Barrier to Cologne At Places; 3 Improvised Defense Lines Remain After Bridceheade

NOW WITHIN: 70.5 MILES. OF COLOGNE   First and Ninth Armies Have Won Positions on Flooded River From Linnich to a Point Northwect of Doren.”

Yankees Are Now 20 Miles From Cologne   _ Epics Of First Army Gain A Mile Or More   Cleacrinc West Bank.

AMERICAN ARMIES WIN LONG STRETCH ALONG ROER RIVER.   THIS PLACES U. S. SOLDIERS WITHIN TWENTY AND HALF MILES COLOGNE

On Enemy’s Side  Of Roer, Moving Between Hurtgen and Monschau Forests

MILE ADVANCE RECORDED BY FIRST ARMY   ‘Move Less Than 21 Miles From Cologne   Strengthened By Patton’s Forces: Nazis Pulling Back Into Saar

GAIN 14-MILE STRETCH ALONG FLOODED RIVEE   Secretary Stimson Declares Allies Have Put German Forces Under Terrific Strain   Re FOWARD KENNEDY

—WESTERN FRONT  TWO ARMIES 30 MILES FROM CITY   First And Ninth Win 14Mile Stretch Along Flooded Roer River   -TOWNS CAPTURED   Last Of German Remnants West Of River Being Cleaned Gut

OF FRENCH ARMY IVAN ADVANGE   Gained a Mile Today, Overrunning a Fourth Village Near Upper Roer.   20 MILES EUSKIRCHEN   Nearly All the Germans Had Been Cleared Out by Noon.

STILL GAIN IN STRUGGLE FOR COLOGNE PLAIN   German Retreat From Saar Continues to Deeper Positions

Allies Win 14-Mile Line Along Flooded Roer  From Linnich to Duren

Out Germans:  West of Rives        Seek to Envelope Colog _ Plain, 21 Muddy Mi To Rhine River . _

First Pushes Flank Drive Upon Duren   Continues Advance in Seeking Conquest of the Cologne Plain

Advance Presages present For Blow Against Cologne   First Army Also Makes New Gains Along Roer River

20% Miles To Cologne   First and Ninth Armies Win Stretch From Linnich to Duren

Roer’s West Bank Being Cleared of Stubborn: Germans   Anievicah First and Ninth Armies Win 14-Mile Stretch on River

U. S. FIRST ARMY ADVANCES 1 MILE TOWARD COLOGNE   NINTH ARMY TROOPS SPRING INTO ACTION 20 MILES NORTHWARD

Win Area: ‘Along Roer From Linnich. To Duren To Forge ‘Way 201 Miles From City

New Drives Place Doughboys Within 21 Miles of Cologne   Fast Moving First Army Overruns Fourth Hamlet in Push Along Both Sides of Roer

First Army Is Across River Near Source   Americans 20 Miles From Cologne; Troops Hold West Bank Of Stream From Linnich  To Point Within 2500 Yards Of Duren

American First and Ninth Armies Win 14 Mile Stretch Along Flooded Roer River

American Armies Gain Along Roer   i” Fourteen-Mile Stretch Is Taken Northwest of Duren   FOURTH HAMLET TAKEN   Outskirts of Gurzenich I: Reached by EightyThird Division

First Army Moving Down Reet After Swinging  Around Source of River PRESS TOWARD DUREN’  After, Koen is Crossed, Yonks Stli Heve Three Limes, Erft River Ahead

Yanks Overrun Fourth Hamlet On Upper Roer   Two Almost Forgotten . Divisions Fight Along Banks, Seek Conquest Of Coloane Plain

Win 14 Mile Stretch Along Flooded Roer   Advance Places Americans  Within 20 Miles Of Cologne

First, Ninth Armies Hold 14-Mile Line   Another Town — Falls as Yanks Clese In on Duren

GAINS ALONG FLOODED ROER ADVANCES LINE TO WITHIN. 20 MILES OF COLOGNE GOAL -

U.S. First, Ninth Armies Extend Gains   Americans Forcing Cam: paign Designed To En: velop Cologne Plain.

Ninth Army Springs Into Action Again;  Takes Town   Two Unnamed Divisions Of First Army Also Thrown Into New Fight On Roth Sides Of Roer

Threaten New Lines. Near Roer   ‘Advance: Carries. to Within . 20: Miles of Cologne, the. “ Nearest Approach   ROER. IS CROSSED : IN ONE SECTOR.   Germans West of River Being Mopped Up in Bulge: Straightening Drive

First And 9th Armies Win 14 Mile Roer Area   Stretches From Linnich to Within 2,500 Yards Northeast of Besteged Duren   Kesternich Taken y Other Yankees   German Remnants Being Wiped Out West of River   Roer In Cologne Plain  Enveloping Move

Istand 9th 20 Miles From Cologne   Other Units of First Army Overrun Another Hamlet

Advance Places Troops Within 20% Miles Of City of Cologne; ird Batters Slowly Through Siegfried Line

First and Ninth Armies Win li-mile Stretch Along the Flooded River, 20!; Miles from Coloene.   FOURTH TOWN HAS FALLEN TO ALLIES

U.S. Ist, 9th Armies Wipe Out Germans Holding West Bank   New Advance Places Americans Scant 20 Miles From Cologne; 7th Cuts Through Maginot Line

Yanks Hold Roer Front Of 14 Miles   Germans West of River Gradually Are Being Mopped Up;: Pressure on Duren

Americans Poised on Swollen River 20 Miles from Industrial Cologne  As New Offensive Gets Under Way

Plan Allied Offensives In S. E. Asia   British General Named a: Leader for New Moves  on Continent

DeGaulle Orders French Forces   100 Gendarmes Assigned As Protection Against Any Future Possibilities

ANDORRA OCCUPATION REPORTED BY FRENCH  Autonomous State in Pyrenees

FRENCH NOW OCCUPY ANDORRA   Act for Security on Spanish Frontier

FRENCH OCCUPY BORDER STATE   Move Into Pyrenees To Insure Security

French Oceupy Andorra State   Action Has No Connection With Orders For Count Of Paris Arrest.

FRENCH OCCUPY BORDER STATE   Andorra in the Pyrenees  Seized by Gendarmes to Nip Strife

HUSS WATC INVASION ON CRUISER   Says Allied Forces Struck With Volcanic Fury

Shells Blast Area Near Des Moines  aS rr 1 »    2 Carloads of Ammunition on Great Western Blow Up

Shells Blast Area Near Des Moines  2 Carloads of Am  munition on Great

Ammunition Set Off in Train Fire   Two Carloads Explode As Flames Destroy Live Shells

Strike Leaders Obey Army Order In Philadelphia  Workers Told to Go Back to Work; U. S. Arrests Four Men

TRAM STRIKE CALLED OFF IN PHILADELPHIA   U. S. Troops Were Prepared to Operate Transit Lines

Strikers Told To Return To Work; Leader Is Jailed   Troops Pour Into Philadelphia Ready To Operate Transit Lines If Strikers Fail ‘To Report For Work After Midnight On Monday Morning

Philadelphia strikers are ordered back to their jobs  - Action follows army ultimatum; four : charged as anti-strike act violators

Unionists Bow To Ultimatum From U.S. Army   Employes of ‘Transportation Company In Quaker City Ordered Back to Work   Troops In City To Break Walkout   Soldiers Were To Have Started Operating Trains and Buses at Midnight Tonight

Army Serves Ultimatum on Striking Philadelphia Transit Workers: Deferments Are Cancelled

LEADER ORDERS MEN TO RETURN TO THEIR JOBS   Transit System Employes Obey Army Ultimatum—Their ‘Boss’ Arrested

Ultimatum Is Heeded By Strikers   Thousands of U. S. Army Troops Sent © To Philadelphia

Army Ready to Operate Philly Vehicles Itself; Work or Fight Order Issued, and No Referral to-Strikers for Other Jobs

THOUSANDS OF TROOPS STAND BY   Bhiladelphia Transit Employes Told To ‘Work Or Fight’

Troops Enter Philadelphia To End Tieup   Soldiers Will Operate Vehicles if Drivers Refuse Ta Wark

Army Serves Ultimatum on Striking Philadelphia Transit Workers: Defermenis Are Cancelled   By JOHN A. GAUDIOSI

Leaders of Five-Day Strike Halting Philadelphia Travel Order Followers Back toWork

MEN TOLD BY. LEADERS TO 60 --BACK TOWORK   Gov't Crackdown and Rifles With Bayonets Start. Buses Running. .

Back-To-Work Order Issued  Transit Men   Strike Leader Tells Men To Obey Army Order In Philadelphia

Strikers Ordered Back On Jobs As Troops Stream In   Leaders Arrested; Selective Service Issues Blunt “Work Or Fight” Order

Order Strikers Back To Jobs In Quaker City   Leaders Call  For Response To Army Edict

LEADERS CALL OFF TRANSIT WALKOUT IN PHILADELPHI:   Order Men Back to Jobs as Thousands of Troops Pour Into City to Restore Service.   ACT IN OBEDIENCE TO ARMY ULTIMATUM   Head of Strikers’ Group and 3 Others Arrested on Charges of Violating SmithConnally Act.

Strikers Agree ~ Return To Work   " Back-To-Work Order Authorized By Philadel phia Transit Workers Leader Few , Minutes Before Arrest

Strike Chiefs Under Arrest  Troops In Readines: To Operate Lines

® Strike Leaders End Tie-Up In Philadelphia   Five-Day Transit Strike Halted By Army Ultimatum

Philadelphia Strike Leaders Bow To Army Order  Back-to-Work Word Issued as Lrrests Are Made

STRIKE LEADER SEIZED; DRAFT DELAYS ENDED   Action To Restore Service Is Pushed Speedily

Society Woman Victim Of Attack. ._ olice Disclose   Mrs. Francis Higginson Found On Floor By Her Two Sons, 7 And 4&

SLIPPED BY A CENSOR   “Argentins Attempted~ to Delay . News of Recall  i

4. HITLER'S NEXT BIG RESISTANCE WILL PROBABLY BF A LAST-DITCH FIGHT ON THE RORDERS OF REICH   Germans Will Defend Paris If They Can, But The Fuehrer Is Swinging His Front Back Northeast, Usine the Bloody Caen Sector As His Pivot

TODAY   Hitler’s Strategy Of Withdrawing Troops Gradually Into Inner German Fortress Itself Seen Persisting

“Allied Channel Crossing Would Mean Disaster— obey SFU Te eee  gitler Must Profect Coast During'Retreat

Maechenze Says—  Allies View Positions of  Nazi Stands   Hitler Calls In Forces te Defend Reich From Allied Drives In East And West

Joint Invasion Effort Pledged By Red Leader   Molotov Says Blows From East And West Will Hit Germany

‘Russians Will Cooperate With Invasion. Lull In Fighting On Soviet Front.

'So Says Russian  Foreign Commissar   Also Reveals That Soviets Will Start Simultaneous Offensive.

Huge Air Fleets Hit From British, Italian Bases  Of Crimea Freed Fram Hitlerites

12 Killed When Army Plane Hits Big Trailer Camp   Scores Injured In Maine Tragedy

Plane Crashes In Trailor Camp   12 Killed and Scores Injured When Plane Crashes Trailor Camp.

Plane Crashes Amid Trailer Camp; 12 Die   Dozens of Trailers Demolished and Set Afire as Craft Crashes Into Them; Scores Of Persons Injured; Two of Victims Airmen

PLANE CRASHES INTO TRAILERS   Several Killed As Fire Spreads Through Portland Camp

Pittsburgh School Workers End Strike  1-Day Recess For 80,000  Students

FBI EXPERT LINKS COLLETT WITH ALL 3 M’COY SLAYINGS   Same Gun Used State ‘Surprise’ Witness Tells Jury

TWO THOUSAND U. 8. WARPLANES SMASHED AT GERMAN CAPITAL  ACTION WAS PROBABLY GREATEST DAYLIGHT ATTACK IN HISTORY

0 TTURS FORTRESS DURING Ti WEEKS AERIAL OFFENSIVE   pur Serious” Attack on Berlin by Over 2,000 Bombsis  Be ands Today with Others from Italy Striking at Nazi  1 in ASot and Submarine Pens at Toulon. France -

GREAT DAMAGE IS ADMITTED BY NAZIS   75,000 Tons Are Dropped In 15 Days Of Raids  Mmmirieit   Strike At North Sea Port: Objectives In France Also Under Fire

U.S. Bombers from Italy Blast Sub Pens at Toulon   Yank Attack on Capital Probably Greatest Daylight Assault in History —Nazi Depot Near Oslo Strafed

Iwo Thousand U. §. Bombers Let Loose  2,500 Tons of Steel   German Capital Under Probably Greatest Day: light Attack

2,000 PLANES IN BERLIN RAID   Warplanes Smash at Canital With Probably Greatest Daylight Attack.   2500 TONS OF BOMBS

Americans Put On Daylight Bombardment   Attack Believed To Be Greatest In All History; Meet Opposition

Great Damage Admitted by Nazi Capital   Nearly 1,000 Yankee Bombers In Assault; Follows Night RAF Smash

RecordU.S. Raid Blasts Reich Capital   Pre-Invasion Air Onslaught Grows Heavier

\Probably the Greatest. Daylight Aerial Attack in History; Other Bombers Hit  ' Port at Toulon, France.   75,000 TONS OF STEEL UPON HITLER AREA   A Force Approaching 1000 Heavy Bombers Were Accompanied by at Least as Many Fighters.

Nazi Radio Announces Damage Was  ‘Serious’   1,000 U.S. Bombers Accompanied By An Equal Number Of Fiehters

Invasion Talk Grows With Fury Of Air Offensive   Today’s Daylight Raid Is Probably History's Laraest

Terrific Blow Landed By Big Bomber Fleets   1.000 Warplance Pound City to Climax 15th Straight Day of All. Out ‘Air Attacks   Greatest Daylight Attack Of The War   Escorting Pi gehters Are Met by Strong Forces of Nazi Planes, Saye Berlin Reoort

Paste Reich Capital   U. S. Bombers Dump 2,500 Tons of Explosives on Berlin in Heaviest Raid of War

Toulon Submarine Pens Are Blasted   Allied Air Invasion Of Europe Thunders Into 3rd Week: 75.000 Tons Bombs Hurled

Toulon Submarine Pens Blasted By Bombers From Italy At Same Time As Berlin Raid

Huge American Armada Hurls 2500 Tons of Bombs on Hitler's Capital; German Radio Admits ‘Serious Damage’; R.A.F. Hits Norway

Greatest Daylight Raid In History Shatters  German Capital   Force Approaching At Least 1,000 Bombers Escort ed By Equal Number Of Fighters Deals Out : Terrifie Destruction To Nazi City

BERLIN DEALT 7TH DAYLIGHT AERIAL RAID   Nearly 1,000 American Bombers Climax 15th Straight Day of Offense.   Capital in Confusion Over Terrific Blast

2,000 Planes Blast Capital In Day Raid   Bombers Based In Italy Strike At Toulon, France

RECORD DAY RAID OF WAR      Blow Indicates Capital Re-« ceives Up to 2,500 Tons of Missiles — “Heavies” From Italy Hammer Toulon. “say

Great Daylight Raid on Reich Reported Today   Toulon, France, Area Smashed By Air Squadron

ALL OUT AIR OFFENSIVE IN TS 15TH DAY   Industrial and Military Targets Blasted; Severe Damage Is Admitted

(ermalis Admit Much Damage; Toulon, France  Also Pounded   Tremendous Blow Follows RAF Night Raid”  on Norway

GERMANS ADMIT  SEVERE DAMAGE  TO CAPITAL CITY ATTACKERS LEAVE  FIRES RAGING; BATTLE IN SKIES

Drive May Prove Greatest Daylight Blow Of All Time   Port Of Toulon And Submarine Pens Battered By Planes Flying From Italy; Industrial, Military Targets Singled Out In Raid Against Nazi Capital

Nazi Flight To Somme, Marne Seen   Abandonment Of Much Of Channel Coast By  Qarmane.! ikaly.

Fight at Reich Borders Looms   Four Allied Armies Converge on Le Havre; Germans May Evacuate All Northern France for Last-Ditch Battle on Homeland Boundary

Carpenter Falls, injures Foo!   Raleigh Man To Undergo Operation

Lillybrook Motor Man Is Injured   Dewey Gray Caught Between Motor, Top

Miner Suffers Back Injury   Raleigh Miner Enters Hospital For Treatment

Four Men Hurt In Nearby Mines  Receive Treatment At Recklev Hoasnital

Educators Alarmed At ASTP Cut   Stanford Man Calls Army Move Mistake, Lack of Foresight

Wapello Now $400,000 Over General Quota But $237,946 Short On.E’s.

FFI OPERATE WITHIN PARIS; BIG BATILES   French Take Up Task of Ridding Paris of Germans With Arms Delivered By Plane.   Control Third Of France

Paris “Liberating Itself”? As Yanks By-Pass City, And Allies Reveal Details Of Airborne Sunplies To Maauis

French Assume Job of Ridding  Paris of Nazis   Big Planes Deliver Arms to Forces Now In Interior; Violent Battles in Capital

F reuich Forces. Now Operating Inside Paris.   NEeHON PATENT KILLS. HEMSELE   OF FENSIVE PATTERN : Of Allies Clear on War Maps

Soviet Long-Rang Bombers Blast Polish Rail Centers  German Convoy Is Attacked Off Norway By  DD ectan: Blxwne:: Atbaciktinen Shae Scannia Tink

Russ Bombers Hit Five Rail Centers   Soviet Ground Forces Kill Thousand Nazis

VETS TO GET. TRIPS HOME   SOME OF MEN OVERSEAS TWO YEARS’ ARE TO° RECEIVE _. FURLOUGHS HOME.

JIM FERGUSON OF TEXAS DIES   Colorful Former Governor And Husband Of ‘Ma’ Expires

STATE MOURNS DEATH OF FORMER GOVERNOR   Jim Ferguson Controlled Lone Star Politics 25 Years

LOCAL BOARDS GET CALLS FOR DRAFI   Procedure Set to Call Men in the 18-26 Age Group

Supplemental Request On Local Draft Boards Will Affect Many; To Summon Large Group

75-mm. Gun Opposed To Nazi Rocket   Weapons Sound Potent But Not Effective In Air Duels

NAZI PUSH DIES IN NORTH ITALY   Four-Day-Old German Drive Pushed Allies From Roads And Rivers Before Slow ing

German Drive in Italy Is Halted  American Fifth  Army lost Ground - In 4-Day Atéen-L

FIGHTING HAS DIED DOWN IN SERCHIO AREA   Germans In Italy Unable To Hold Allied Armies

NAZI DRIVE IN ~ TTALY SLOWED   Fighting Dies Down Along 4 Serchio Front, Report

Fighting Dies ‘Down Near Serchio  ' Strong German Offensive Pushes Alliance Denes Raener

REPORT FIGHTING ‘HAS IED DOWN   Germans in Strong Counteroffensive in Serchio Area.

Say Fighting In Italy Has ‘Died Down’   4-Day German Drive Slowed; Yanks Fan Out In Po Valley

GERMAN DRIVE LOSING DEPTH   Attack in Italy Slows Down After Allies Yield Two Towns

FIGHTING DIES DOWN IN ITALY   NAZI OFFENSIVE DRIVES 5TH ARMY BACK FROM BARGA

RE-ELECTION OF HILLMAN SEEN   P. A>C. ALLOTMENT IS MAIN QUESTION

Soldiers Die In Indiana Train Wreck   Overseas Veterans Are Victims of Two-Train Crash

Air Veterans Die In Wreck .  At Least 25 Killed, 65 Hurt In Train Wreck

MANY SOLDIERS ARE  KILLED AND INJURED  IN TRAIN COLLISION OVERSEAS AIRFORCE VETERANS ON FURLOUGH:!  Qramincrn maw wes. ake ae

TRAINS HIT ‘HEAD-ON IN INDIANA FOG   ‘Passengers Are Air Force Veterans, Most of Them _ Wearing Purple Heart, Back in U. S. on 30-Day Furloughs.

TRAIN CRASH “EARLY TODAY. FATAL 1025   WOUNDED MEN AND FLIERS ON FURLOUGH FROM. EVBOYE < AMONG VICTIMG. OF DISASTER =.

25 Are Dead, “65 Injured in Train Collision   Dixie Flyer, Mail-Express Crash Near Terre Haute, Ind., Thursday, Most of Victims Are Soldierc

Head-on Crash in Indiana   Bodies of Dead Scattered Along Track Among Many Of Injured Passengers

25 Killed, 65 Hurt  In Train Collision   Two Crock Chicago and Eostern Illinois Passenger Trains Crash at Terre Haute

More Than Score Reported Killed  In Train Crash   Passenger Trains In Collision Five Miles From Terre Haute, Ind.   MANY OF VICTIMS ARE SERVICE MEN

25 KILLED, MANY HURT AS TRAINS CRASH HEAD-ON   Nearly All Dead Were Soldiers Wearing Purple Heart And Other Military Dec mratiane

29 Die in Indiana  Rail Crash   Veterans’ Medals Scattered Among Car Wreckage

Many Victims Fighters Back From Overseas   Air Force Veterans Holding Decorations Included In Toll

25 Killed, 65 Injured As Two Trains Collide  Soldiers Chief  Victims Of Crash Aleaee T el ul mera

Dead, by turt In Indiana Railroad Wreck  Most Victims Are   Most Victims Are Air Force Vets Home on Furlough

MANY SOLDIERS ARE KILLED AND INJURED IN TRAIN COLLISION  OVERSEAS AIRFORCE VETERANS ON FURLOUGHS VICTIMS OF WRECK

Head-on’ Collision. in Dense Fog" ‘Smashes. Two ‘Pullmans Coseatning Soldiers

At Least 25 Die, 65 Others Hurt  In Train Crash   Many Overseas Airforce Veterans On Furlough ‘Said Among Victims

Twenty-six Die ir Train Collision  65 Others Injured in C. & E. Crash

25 Die, 65 Injured As Veterans’ Cars  SplitIn Rail Crash   Virtually All Dead Or Hurt In Indiana Wreck Reported To Be Wearers Of Purple Heart Home On 30-Day Furloughs Before Returning To Service

25 Killed in Train Wreck   CRACK DIXIE FLYER AND FAST MAIL COLLIDE

TRAIN WRECK CASUALTIES TOTAL 25 PERSONS   Head-On Collision of Dixie Flyer And Mail Trai: Train In Terre Haute Indiana Early Today Claimed Lives of Mor Than 25 Persons—65 Re ported Injured.

FLYER LOADED WITH SOLDIERS IN COLLISION   Two Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Passenger Trains Collide Head-on Near Terre Haute   VETS FROM OVERSEAS

REDS POISED FOR FINLAND THRUST   Drive Into Mainland After Seizure Of Viipuri

Switzerland Now Has 500 Americans   That Number of Bomber Crew Members Interend There.

Crews of Twelve Bombers Interned   One Hundred and Thirty Americans Have Been Forced Down in Switzerland.

130 YANKS IN SWISS INTERNMENT CAMP   Crews of 12 Bombers Which Landed in Switzerland

U.S. BOMBERS RETURN TO JOB OVER GERMANY   Western Germany and Coast of France Object of RAF and American Pre cision Raids

Smash At Muenster And  Invasion Coast In France   CAPT. MAHRURIN

Muenster and French  Coast Hi      Ainericans ‘Make. Big. Two: ‘ Pronged: Attack; Not. a : ‘Bomber. Lost ~   BRITISH RAID.ON 2 + FOUR, FACTORIES   Marathon Against Rocket and Robot. Plane: Center “- ‘Resumed “Again

Muenster Attacked by  Fortresses   American Bombers Drive Over Western Germany; Blast French Coast

U. 5. FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS RESUMED OPERATIONS TODAY  HEAVY BLOW AT WEST. ERN GERMANY AND

ALL BOMBERS BACK FROM MISSION   Aircraft Plants Pounded By R. A. F. Units   AIR OFFENSIVE   Carried Out In 10 Of Last 13 Days: Mosquitoes Strike By Night

No Bombers Are Lost In Day Raid   Muenster, Rocket Gun Coastal Cities Are American Targets

American Planes Bomb West Germany, France   Resume Record Marathon of Air Blitzkrieg; New Assault Aimed At Rocket Factories; Four Factories Hit In Raid.

YANKS STAGE HEAVY BLOW TO THE REICH   Fortresses Hit Muenster. in Western Part of Nation, and Liberators Raid the Pas-de-Calais Area.

BOMBERS MAKE SAFE RETURN IN 2 PRONGED RAID   But 4 Fighters Are Lost; RAF Raids 4  Factories in France

U.S. Heavies Lash Muenster In W. Germany   Big Bombers Also Hit Hard At ‘Rocket Coast’ OF France.

AMERICANS IN ~D-WAY ATTACK   Hit Muenster in Germany And Military Objects in. France.   RAF TARGETS IN FRANCE

LARGE FORCE —-ROAMS EUROPE   Berlin, Stuttgart May Be RAF Targets

TOKIO WARNS  YANK SHIPS} ARE NEARBY i   SOFTENING OF NAZI POINTS HAS BEGUN   Small Force of Fortresses Escorted by Fighters Fly Through Clouds to Coblenz and Cologne.   Hold Positions

ODD WEATHER BLANKETS U.S   Break In Cold Wave Is Forecast; Lowest  Here 8 Above

Reverse Stand On Tax Bill   To Permit Firms to Charge Off Contributions To Vets’ Groups

SOLDIERS MISSING - INTENNESSEE FLOOD   Raft Capsizes While Crossing River on Maneuvers

The Fifth War Loan Drive Is Now On!   THE NATIONAL GOAL INDIANA’S GOAL  ne a ws $16,000,000,00¢ ee ae  $281,000,000 CARROLL COUNTY GOAL  ct $729,700

YOUNG PEOPLE ARE HAVING FINE SERVICES THIS WEEK AT CHURCH   he F ith War Loan Drive Is Now%On!   THE! NATIONAL GOAL -._. $16,000, ,000. INDIANA’S GOAL .s—”t .. . $281,000,000. aes $729.700.1

2 PLANES LOST BLASTING JAP STEEL CENTER   Attack From Chinese Base Caused Large Fires And Explosions

Only Two Planes Lost In Big Raid Over Japanese Mainland. Damage Was Heavy.

Jap Cities Plastered By B-29 Super-Bombers   JAP CABINET IN SPECIAL SESSION; THREE INDUSTRIAL CITIES HARD HIT; KOREA ALSO FELT POW. ER OF NEW LONG-RANGE U. S. BOMBERS.   LOST ONLY TWO PLANES

‘ONLY 2 B-23°S LOST; ‘BOMB DAMAGE WAS GREAT, AIRMEN SAY   y‘Sizeable’ Force Of Super-Forts Made China-Based Raid; Japs Report New U. S. Attacks On Korea And Bonin

Raid on Japan Launched From China, Is Word   Two of B-29s Lost; Yawata Suffers Damaaqe

2 B-29S ARE LOST ON JAP ISLAND RAID   Yawata, On Kyushu isle, Identified As Target

Super Bombers — Hit Targets In Yawata Areas   Admit Loss of Two Planes But Not Due  To Japanese Action

Super-Heavies Lash Yawata   Four Planes Lost in Historic Smash, Crew of One Saved, Bombers Meet Enemy Aircraft, Fliers Report Blasts Accurate

Facts About Raid On Japs Told Today   . arr Steel Works At Yawata Smashed; Two Super Bombers Lost

War Department Describes Task Force Which Carried Assault As “Sizable’—Losses Not Due To Enemy Action   ONE OF CREWS REPORTED SAFE

B-29’s Bombed Yawata Only Four U.S. Super Fortresses Lost on Raid   Bombing Causes Big Fires and Explosions At Nip Steel Works

WAR VIEWS OF ‘MONTY’ CITED   Briton Repeats Fight Will End In Europe This Year

Big Four To Form  Permanent Council   Smaller, Peace Loving Nations, ' May Also Get Place— Roosevelt Proposal Adhered To

AGREEMENT REACHED AT fONFEDEN(T   Three Big Powers Aaree on World Peace Enforcement

Yank Advance Units Entered Reich Sunday, Then Withdrew   Battle of Germany About To Begin, Eisenhower Declares

Eisenhower Tells Foreign Workers How to Aid Allied Troops.   [ENEMY DEFENSE WEAK

U.S. Armored Patrols Cross Border Into Germany and i  BATTLE, NEAR NANCY Advanced British Units  Are Reported Near Rotterdam

Two Air Blows Down 21 Nazis   U. S. Losses Total 13 In Dual Attack

Two Air Blows Down'21 Nazis  Ct} @ € soe i a   U.S. Losses Total 13 In Dual Attacle

‘Six States Play Political Pipes During This Week  ; Indiana Loudest in   Indiana Loudest in GOP: Both Parties at  Governors’ Meeting

Voters In Six States. Go To Polls This Week   Indiana To Name Next to Last G. O.P ™ Delegation; Hershey Host to Governors’ Chat

REDS CAPTURE TWO PORTS IN CRIMEAN DRIVE   Sixth Day Of Brilliant Campaign Sees Three Fourths Of Area  Reconquered

REDS MOP UP CRIMEA, TAKE 2 MAIN PORTS   SEVASTOPOL, NEXT BIG PRIZE, ONLY 35 MILES AWAY

GERMANS ROUTED FROM STRONGEST LINES OF DEFENS              Three-Fourths of Pening Cleared of Enemy ‘Troops in Six-Day Soviet Advance, :        RUSSIANS 25 MILES FROM SEVASTOPO   Two Big, Ports and: Strongh i

Flag Day Observed Quiefly In Ada   College Has Special Flag Day Assembly Program

Flag Day Observed Quietly In Ada   College Has Special Flag Day Assembly Program   Sooners Gct Air ae ee

ATTENTION JAP WORRYING DEPARTMENT: —New Sky Giants, Bigger Than Superfortresses, Being Tested

Free Examinations Sponsored by County Medics und State Commission.

MacArthur Troops Advance From  Biak Beachhead   Americans Consolidate Island Positions, Drive  For Three Airdromes

SOVIET VICTORY MARCH SOON WILL ENGULF PSKOV   Fall of Important Communications Center Expected Momentarily as Reds Converge On City From Three  Sides.

RUSSIAN FORCES CLOSING IN ON NAZI STRONGHOLD CENTER OF PSKOV  Red Army Units Are Within Sight Of Their Objective — Only Few Miles From Outskirts.

GOP STRATEBIOTS SHIFTING ATTACKS?   May Switch From Demo's Domestie Record to Its Foreian Policy.

‘Oklahoma Outcome May Cause G.O.P. Strategists ‘To Shift Their Attack

Oklahoma Vote May Bring Change   Strategy Shift to _ Foreign Issue Soon

GOP MAY SHIFT LINE OF ATTACK   May Change Line Of Fire To Administration’s Foreign ropey As Result Of Oklahoma Sethack

NAZIS’ FALL TO MEAN MORE GAS   No Change In Rationing Expected Before Germans Collapse

 ‘No Gasoline Changes Until Reich Quits   Then Trucks Come First, B Cards Second, Then If Any Is Left A’s Will Get Drov or Two

DEMOCRAT WINS OKLAHOMA SEAT 4 LOWER HOUSE  VICTORY HAILED BY   ADMINISTRATION AS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

Administration Followers Heartened  Democrets Win Election In Oklahoma In Face Of Strong Bid By The GOP

DEMOCRATS WIN OKLAHOMA TEST   Vote of Confidence Givén Administration;

Demos Defeat Republicans in Oklahoma Voting  Outcome Hailed as Confidence Vote In F. D. R. Regime

Democrats Win Primary In Oklahoma   Rally Behind Banner Of F. R. to Dislodge Strong GOP Assault

Democrats Win Campaign Test In Oklahoma  Weather Blamed   Weather Blamed By Republicans For Light Vote

G.0.P. Fails In Oklahoma Special Vote   Democratic Party Forces Rally Behind Roosevelt Banner to Keep Congress Seat

Oklahoma Vote For Democrat Stirs Debates   Adminisiration Points To Victory As Confidence Vote For Roosevelt: GOP Not Convinced

TRIO INDICTED IN RATIONING FRAUD   Michigan Publisher Accused In Illegal Handling of Stolen Gas Coupons -

Trio Indicted In Rationing Violation Case   Michigan-Publisher, Ration Board Clerk and Hus band: Former Theatre Manaver Held

Three Indicted For Huge Black Market Scheme   Ex-Ration Board Clerk One-Time Candidate For Gov. Accused

HELD FOR SALE OF GAS COUPONS   Three Face Ration Violation Charges In Detroit; Ace cused Of Selling Thousands Of Gas Tickets.

SURVIVORS OF SOVIET TRAP HYSTERICAL   Ten Nazi Divisions Being Decimated  cement one  CUT TO RIBBONS  Russian Victories Growing

Germans Hin Bulgaria To Be Occupied  Quisting Reginie Sat Fry Lu rie Ae

Nazis Move Into Rumania And Bulgaria as Invading Red Armies Surge Forward   Bulgarian Cabinet Considers Demand For More Help to Fight Off Soviets; Budapest Due for Quisling Government

Hitler Seeks Quisling Rule For Hungary   100,000 Men Occupy Small Balkan Nation; Formal Seizure of Rumanian Imminent

Bulgaria Believed _   Taken Over Nazi Forces Reported  Rushing Southward Toward Rumania

CNE COMMAND FOR BALKANS?   Germans Extend Full Milltary Occupation to Bulgaria, Rumania.   GET LITTLE RESISTANCE

Will Tie Them With Hungary In New Rule   Rumania May Seek Armistice With Russia Now in Bessarabia

Further German Steps in Balkans   London Hears Hitler Plans to Extend! Full Military Occupation to Bulgaria and Rumania as Well as Hungary to Intensify War Effort,   RUSSIANS NEAR PRUT

Think Reich to Take Over 3 Satellites      Already in -Control on Hungary, Nazis Ex pected to Occupy Rumania and Bulgaria, Placing Them Under One Command.

GERMANS PICK BULGARIA FOR NEXT VICTIN   KEY COMMUNICATION CENTERS IN SOFIA HELD BY NAZIS

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Resistance Is Halted By Hitler’s Gray Horde   Berlin Keeps Quiet ‘Over Its Intentions

100,000 Nazis Resisted in Hungary As Hitler Plans to Establish —- Quisling Regime in Country

RUMANIAN AND BULGARIAN KEY POINTS TAKEN   Hitler Seeks To Bolster Defenses As Reds Push Thru Bessarabia

BULGARIA AND RUMANIA NEXT IN LINE FOR NAZI OCCUPATION ‘AS PART OF BALKAN DEFENSE   Steady Advance of Russians Over Wide Front Forces Germans to Take Drastic Steps to Prevent Uprising and at Same Time Oppose Reds

REINFORCE LINES IN EAST AGAINST ONCOMING REDS   Hitler After Occupying Hungary Decides to Take Control Over Shaky Balkan Satel-. lites Who Seek Peace With Allies

HITLER SETTING UP OWN REGIME OVER HUNGARY   Communications In Sofia Taken Over By Nazis; Some Hungarians Showing Fight

NAZIS EXPAND BALKAN HOLDS   Germans Reported Moving In On Bulgaria and Rumania Today

German Troops Are Moving Into  Bulgaria, Rumania  Hitler May Name One Man to Command All Balkan Efforts

TURKEY SAYS KEY POINTS ARE TAKEN   Hungary, Other Satellites May Have One Ruler   Reported Seeking Peace With Russia; Berlin Remains Silent

Hitler Launches Supreme Effort To Dominate Balkans   Advices From Neutral Capitals Indicate Nazi Divisions Ave Seizing Strategic Military and Civil Administration Centers   QUISLING REGIME BELIEVED PLACED IN BUDAPEST

All Balkans To Feel Weight Of  Nazi Overlords   Rumanian Premie Was Reported Ir Move For Peace  With Russia

SAY BULGARIANS MEET TO STUDY HITLER'S ORDERS   Claim German Chief Demands Bulgaria To Declare War on Russia

Ruthless German’ Blitzkrieg Occupation: Aimed. at_- Bringing ; Both  "-.Eountries Under Same Control As Hungary — Ramanian Premier Reported Planning to Seck Armistice With Russia.

BULGARIA, RUMANIA ARE REPORTED BEING TAKEN OVER BY NAZIS   ADVICES INDICATE STRA. TEGIC MILITARY AND CIVIL POINTS TAKEN

Already In Full Control Of Hungary  Hitler Is Expected To  Place All The Balkans Under Single Command  2: 2:8 @

Germans Move To Control All Of 3 Countries   Bulgaria And Rumania Appear To Be Goal Of Military Occupation

Nazis Extend Balkan Grab Into Bulgaria And Rumania   Hitler Expected to Set Up Single Command for Area

Balkans Turn Against Hitler  - Troops Sent To Hold Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria in Line   Berlin Bombed Again By Yanks   Ruins of German Capital Rocked as Big Bombers Escorted b' Fighters Attack in ‘Very Great StrengthY—Germans, Meanwhile, Say They Are Moving To Make Rome an Open City

Nazis Move Into Rumania, Bulgaric   Seek to Bolster Eastern Defenses

Germans Cut Off Sofia; Tighten .... Grip on Huno>ye"   Raillines Firmly Held; Hitler Seeks to Install New Quisling

Nazis May Kxtend Balkans Control   Report Nazi Troops Moving Into Bulgaria And Rumania Now

OME dae  HUSSIAN i FORCES NEARPRUT IER  Raaanian Premier To      Rumanian Premier To Seek Armistice With Soviets, Report   “RAIL LINE CUT   Red Troops Threaten Nazi Escape Route From Odessa ”

Be Moving Toward Bulgarian Invasion   Rumania Also Slated To Be Taken Unde Nazis’ ‘Protection’ In Current Action

HITLER MAY BE PLANNING NEW REGIME      in Hungary As Occupation Army Of 100,000 Fans Out And Seizes All Communications Centers.   Ottlik Goes to Berlin

Bulgaria, Rumania Reported Occupied by German Soldiers   Single Command fo: Southeastern Area Hitler’s Scheme

(Hitler Speeds Armies (Of Occupation. Into ‘Rumania and Bulgaria   Berlin Is Silent But Ankara Reports ' Fuehrer Is Arranging for Defense of All Balkans Under One General

British Report Premier Seeks Soviet Yerms   German Troops Move In To Take Over Control Of Bulgaria, Rumania  As Reds Advance   Nazis Seize Vital Military Centers   Marshal Tito Is Reported Contacting Hungarian Anti-Nazis to Fight German Forces

100,000 Troops Roll OverHaplessHungary   Hitler Believed Extending Rule Over Bulearians and Rumantans

Two More Balkan Nations Occupied   German Forces Reported Moving Into Bulgaria And Rumania; Troops Control Hungary

Turks See United German Command Over Countries 'Of Southeastern Europe

Nazis Act While Army of 100,000 Occupy Hun- © gary  Sere errata  &§ 2 oe ee ee oer ees ae sh oth ell   TELEGRAPH-POSTAL OFFICES OCCUPIED   Pro-Nazi Former Premier Heads Hungary Gov ornmenk

Nazis Act While Army of 100,000 Occupy Hungary ;   TELEGRAPH-POSTAL OFFICES OCCUPIED   Pro-Nazi Former Premier Heads Hungary Government :

 COMMAND FOR 3 NATIONS SEEN   Bulgarian Cabinet Discusses Demand For War On Russia   HUNGARY DOMINATED

Full Military Occupation Is Taking Place   Bulgaria And Rumania, As Well As Hungary, Feel German Heel

Nazis Extend Occupation   Move Into Bulgaria And Rumania, Neutral Capitals Hear

REPORT NAZI TROOPS MOVING "INTO BULGARIA   ‘Ankara Hears Germans May Extend Occupation and Conirol to Both Bulgaria and Rumania   HUNGARY QUELLED   Country Occupied With Only Minor Resistance, Germans May Se! Up ‘Quisling’ Government

Moving Into Bulgaria And Rumania   Troops Seizing Important Points With Speed and  Ruthlessness

Nazis Extend Control Over Balkan State:   Plan To Carry Out Full Mili. tary Occupation Of Bul. garia. Rumania.   INTENSIFY WAR EFFORT

Occupation of Bulgaria And Rumania Likely to Follow Hungarian Seizure

Germans Hin Bulgaria To Be Occupied  Quisling Regime  Set For Hunaarv

Nazis reat Balkan States Same As Foes   Occupation of Entire Section Theauch? Under Wav

Bulgarians Face Same Fate as The Hungarians   New Puppet Regime Planned by Hitler

Nazis Complete Domination of All of Hungary   Hitler to Place Balkans Under One Military Command

Britain Lists 700,000 War Casualties   White Paper Reveals Extent of English War Effort

Britain’s Huge Output Under Fire Revealed   Munitions Workers Turn Out 70 Per Cent of War Materials Used by Commonwealth; 11,500,000 Tons of Shipping Lost by 1943

British Build 102,000 Planes 25,000 Tanks   Suffer Almost 700,000 Civilian And Military Casualties In First Five Years Of War

700,000 Civilian, Military Casualties Suffered So Far by British Isies   Reveal Production of 102,000 Planes, 25.000 Tanks Since War Started

British White Paper Reveals Isles Have Produced 102,000 Airplanes

NEW ADVANCES POINT 10 JOINT DRIVE ON PARIS   Fighting Continues at Brest, Nazis Ignore Ultimatum to Surrender

Rommel May Be Wounded   Captured Germans Say So French Red Cross Worker Adds More

ROMMEL SLAIN, SULDIERS TOLD   Captured Germans Think Noted General Is War Casualty

, GERMANS AVER ROMMEL HURT; » MAY BE DEAD   Captured Nazis Say ‘Desert Fox’ Injured in Air Strafing Attock

1,100 American Airmen, interned in Romania, Freed on King's Order

PLANES POUND FOE AT RABAUL   Buildings, Gun Positions Are Blasted; At Least 24 Jap Craft Downed

Thirteenth Air Force Bombers Covered By Fighter Escort Knock Down More Than Half Of Interceptors.   Aussies Near Reiss

SILENCE ENEMY GUNS ON RABAUI   AMERICAN’ AIRMEN DOWN 24 -AND POSSIBLY 30 PLANES  IN LATEST RAD.

U.S. airmen leave Rabaul blazing ruin   Japs lose half of  interceptor force

Public Warned By ODT On Labor Nay Traveling   Convention Being Cancelled By Many  acerca Canaan eee

Drop Destruction On Kiel Shipyards And Other Targets   Range Over 800-Milc Front” In Widespread Operation, Down 95 German Planes At Cost OL 25 Bombers. Raid Airfields Tn Fr

KIEL SHIPYARDS POUNDED, BOMBS STARTING FIRES   Yanks Also Blast Industrial Targets in West Part of Reich and Tours and Bordeaux Airfields,   NAZIS THROW UP A STRONG DEFENSE   Widespread Operations Carried Out in Daylight--R. A. F. Continues to Hammer Invasion Coast.

Big: American Bombers Range From Kiel to Bordeaux; Strike at Foe Shipyards, Plants and Airfields

Kiel Shipyards And Airfields In France Hit   25 U. S. Heavy Bombers, 12 Escorting Fighters Lost in Day’s Operations

Tow-Bombs Used In Nazi Defense   25 U.S. Bombers, 12 Fiahters Lost

U.S. Airmen Blast  95 German Planes   Enemy Craft Shot From Sky As American Wing Way to Kiel Shipyards, Airfields At Bordeaux And Tours

95 German planes are shot down      Greatest U.S, raid on enemy targets

KIEL DISTRICT BOMBED AGAIN BY AMERICANS   GUNNERS DESTROY 95 AIRCRAFT IN HEAVY RAID

37 Planes Are Lost in Heavy Raids   95 Nazi Aircratt Reportedly Are Shot Down

SHOOT DOWN 95 AIRCRAFT   Kiel Shipyards, Airfields at Bordeaux Are Main Targets   BIGGEST DAYLIGHT RAID SINCE EMDEN, DEC. 11

German Ship Yards, French Ait Fields Targets   U.S. Bombers, Fighters Range Across Record 800 Mile Front

98 NAZI PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN IN SINGLE RAID   25 American Bombers And 12 Escorting Fighters Lost In Forays   ATTACKS CARRIED OUT ON KIEL, BORDEAUX

Allied Airmen Blast German Targets And Down 95 Plane:   Fliers Range Across Record 800-Mile Front to Strike Kiel Shipyards, French Airfields and Other Points ~~Attackers Lose 25 Bombers and 12 Fighters

fours and Kiel Given Terrific Rain of Bombs   37 Allied Planes Lost in Attacks

Yanks Plow Through Rocket Craft Towing Aerial Bombs to Pour Missiles on Shipyards and Airfields

95 PLANES BLASTED BY U.S. BOMBERS      Ranging Over 800 - Mile Front; Strike Kiel Shipyards, Airfields And Industrial Targets.   Forced Landing

Congress Hopes To Call Recess   Will Try to Push Pending Measures

Superfortresses Bomb Aircraft Plant in Tokyo  Flyers Report Good Bombing Over

Superfortresses Bomb Aircraft Plant in Tokyo  Flyers Report Good Bombing Over Japanese Capital

Superforts Get Good Crack at Tokyo Targets   Big Aircraft Plant Set Afire; Admit Loss of One Plane

Renomination On First Ballot Seen For FDR Tf He Says Word   Fourth Term Backers, A After Check, Say. ‘They. Can Now Count On A Minimum Of 604. Of Conven Hon’s:1.176 Votes

‘President's: Backers Sure of at- Least 604 Votes in. Convention

ROOSEVELT CAN GET NOMINATION ON FIRS} BALLOT IS CLAIM   FOURTH TERM BACKERS CLAIM MAJORITY DELEGATES IN SICHT

GOP Achieves Solid Triumph In Nebraske   Thorough-Going Republican Victory Sweeps State Offices.   GAIN HEAVY MARGINS

FR May Leave Within Six Weeks   Plans To Visit Stalin, Churchill In Europe

LIST PROBLEMS FACING BIG 3 SESSION SOON   Predict to Roosevelt to Europe in Next Six Weeks. Guess Where Parley May Be

NEW ISSUES PUT INTO. CAMPAIGN   Liquor Overstocking, Registration Frauds Charged

r- Vicaclay Writes Graphic Account Of Country s Efforts Against Nazts

'Yugoslavs Fight for Right To Choose Own Government Keep 36 Axis Divisions Occupied

LIONS TO BE Scout HOSTS   Valentine Party Will Have Club-Sponsored Troop Members As Guests

LADIES’ NIGHT FOR LICNS   Scout Troop To Be Guests With 0. H. Close Speaker At Tuesday Night Meeting

Fierce Kachin Tribesmen Of North Burma Kill Japanese And Rescue American Pilots Frem Enemy Areas

1,000 Planes Hammer Three Nazi Airfields   Americans Carry Big Air Attack Through  llth Day; Germans Warn Planes Out Agair

ALLIED AIR DRIVE. ENTERS 12TH DAY   NIGHT RAIDERS. ROAR TOWARD GERMANY ON HEELS " OF DAYLIGHT SMASH.

Raids extend from Atlantic  to Black sea Enemy fighter  agcton dwindles

 ,000-PLANE FLEET ROARS 10 GERMANY   Industrial Targets, Channel Fortifications and Airfields Blasted 11th Day of Sky Assault.

HEAVY LOADS OF BOMBS DROPPED   Raiders Blast Three Airfields Deep in France   CHANNEL AREA HIT   Radio Warnings Indicate Allied Attacks Entering 12th Consecutive Day

1,000 US.   Buy Raid Covers Wile  Area us" RAF East orks . On Avollier Night ent _slua

Nazis Given. No Chance To Let Down   Airfields in France, Southwest Germany,  Channel Points Hit DEFENSES WEAK

Pre-Invasion Attacks Wreck Nazi Airfields   RAF Also Assaults Enemy Positions

Targets in France and Germany Blasted During Day  NINE PLANES LOST IN THE OPERATIONS  Day Raids Follow Heavy. Night Attacks by RAF

Local Boy Gets Wound In France   Pfe. Joseph Caiazza Of Priendship Street Slightly Wounded, Family  ls Infermed Ledays

CHANGES IN COMMAND IMMINENT   London Papers Report The Big Regrouping le On

NAZI SALIENT CUT DOWN TC 16 MILES NOW   Nammer Blows by U.S. Third and First Armies Constantly Pushing Von Rundstedt Back

SHIFT IS RUMORED   Changes in Allied Com_mand Discussed by Lon: don Papers

U.S. Parachute Troops Made Most Successful Attack in War History

BERRY FIRST 10 FILE FOR OFFICE   Lieutenant Governor Climbs Into Senate Race—-Cordell Has Busy Day

KOISO’S CABINET NAMES PREPARED   Co-Premiership Plan lqnored in Report as Japan Reforms Group

JAPS CLAIM 11 B-29's HAVE BEEN DESTROYED  a, eae “area ee Er - Pa ati te eat i)

Believe Roosevelt May Drop Wallace   See Signs President May Accede ‘To New Running Mate For Fourth Term Eflort

REPORT WALLACE 1S DROPPED FROM THE.NOMINATION LIST   ROOSEVELT SAID TO HAVE YIELDED TO DEMANDS OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY ‘ LEADERS

Bitzer, Pioneer Cameraman, Dies   Once Wealthy Billy, Whe Helped Many, Dies In Pennijless Obscurity.

ALLIES ADVANCE ON N. GUINEA   200-Mile Leap By Macér. thur Men Clinches Conquest of Island.   GUAM, TINIAN SECURE

Japan's Southwest Pacific Empire Toppled By 200-Mile Allied Leap

JAPAN EMPIRE IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC RUINED   New Gain. ain Clinches _ Congurst Of New . Cine   MORE ADVANCES   Guam And — liman Campaigns Draw ° Near A Close

MACARTHUR-MEN LEAP 200 MILES IN NEW INVASION  LAND ON NORTHWEST TIP OF ISLAND TO SEAL TRAP ON JAPS

New MacArthur Landing Spells Doom  To Japan's Southwest Pacific Empire

200 -Mile ‘Leap Clinches Hold: On Nev ew Guinea   ‘MacArthur's ‘Force Set for Jump ~_ To Philippines

Conquest of New Guinea Clinched   Jap Southwest Pacific Empire Topples Before Huge Allied Leap

Nippou’s Empire In-South. Pacific Viewed In Ruins   200-Mile Westward Leap _. Pats MacArthur Within Reach Of Philippines

MacArthur Takes Sansapor Village Without Fighting   Leaptrog Landing Completes Conquest of New Guinea, Puis Planes 600 Miles from Mindanae

Reconquest of New Guinea Complete in MacArthur Surprise   Amevicans Now  Within Amphibious Reach of Philippine Islands

New Landing Has Clinched Conques' Of New Guinea   MacArthur Within Amphibious Reach Of Philippines

CONQUEST OF NEW GUINEA COMPLETED   Guam And Tinian Campaigns Also Drawing To End

U.S. ‘Leap Seals Fate Of 250,000   Sansapor Captured, Philippines Periled By 200-Mile Jump

CLAMP UPON JAPS ON GUAM IS TIGHTENING   American Soldiers, Marines Sweep Swiftly Through Island Capital Town of Agna

CAPTURE OF SANSAPOR PUTS AMERICANS 600 MILES FROM PHILIPPINE ISLAND REGIONS   Japan’ s Vast Southwest Pacific Empire Lay in Ruins Today and Americans Now Within Amphibious Reach of Philippines. Jap Losses Heavy

200-MILE WESTWARD LEAP ‘CLINCHES NEW GUINEA HOLD, SHORTENS ROAD TO PHILIPPINES

WITHIN REACH PHILIPPINES   Conquest Of New Guinea Clinched  In New Drive

Jap's Empire in the Pacific Laid in Ruins   New Allied Leap Clinches Conquest of New Guinea

Yanks Set to Invade Philippines   MacArthur Clinches Hold on Entire Island, Isolates Quarter Million Japs:

Conquest of New Guinea Is Clinched   Japan's Southwest Pacific Empire Lies in Ruins; MacArthur Within Amphibious Reach of Philippines

AMERICANS LEAP-FROG ON GUINEA   Forces Of MacArthur Now Within Reach Of Philippines

Yank Landing On Guinea to Help Philippines   Half Million Nippons Trapped; Conquest  Of Guam, Tinian Near

Jap s Southwest Pacitic Empire Is Now fn Rum   N. Guinea Completely In U. S. Control; Guam And Tinian Also Taken

RAIN. DEFICIENCY HEARLY 3. INCHES   Precipitation So Far in July Only .47 of  Ine

RAIN DEFICIENCY NEARLY 3 INCHES   Precipitation So Far in _ duly, Only AT of. meh.

US Airforce Has Good Year Over Enemy   4,110 German Fighter Planes Downed Last Year

Destroy 4,100  German Planes   During 1943, 55.000 Tons Of Bombs Were Dropped  On Nazi Territory.

Sth air force bagged 4,100  nazi fighter planes in year   Unleashed 55,000 tons of bombs at 4 percent overall loss-Eaker

Yanks Bagged 4,100German Planes in °43   Eighth Aijrforce Showered 55,000 Tons of Bombs on Nazi-Occupied Europe, Report Discloses.

Yank Fliers Down 4,100 Nazi Fighters in 1943   Fortresses Pour 55,000 Tons of Bombs on Europe, Eaker Reveals, With 1P.C.  Loss; Use Secret Fog-Piercer —

ALLIED AIRMEN DOWNED 4,100 NAZI FIGHTER’   Britain-Based Air-Force ‘Dropped 55,000 Tons of Bombs-On Nazi-held Areas In 1943

General Review: Air War Record   U.S. Unit Destroys 4,100 Nazi Fighters

Year Takes Big Nazi Plane Toll   Eaker’s Boys Down 4.100: 3-1 Ratio

U. $. 8th Airmen Destroy 4,100 Nazi Planes in ‘4:   55,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazi Held Europe

Defeat Of EDR Asked By Lewis   UMW Chief Says He hick. ed Every Miner In Face

John L. Lewis Says Roosevelt ‘Kicked’ Coal Miners in Face in April Dispute

EXPECT LEWIS WILL SHOW HIS HAND ON ELECTION ATTITUDE   Mass Meeting Of Miner Foes Broken Up At Cincinnati

Lewis Calls For Defeat Of Roosevelt   Tells Miners They Were “Kicked In the Face”

LEWIS CHARGES FOR ‘PUBLICLY KICKED’ MINERS   But Withholds Dewey Pledge

MINERS HEAR  JOHN L. LEWIS DENOUNCE FDR   Says President Publicly Kicked Them in the Face Last Year

LEWIS ASKS MINERS NOT TO VOTE FDR   Roosevelt Kicked Miners in Face, UMW Head Charges

Lewis Urges Defeat of FDR For President   Says Miners Were “Kicked in Face During Contract Neg tions

NAZI DEFENSE OF KRIVOI ROG COST HEAVILY   Russians Report Many Germans Killed and Much Equipment-Abandoned in Tron Ore’ Center.

Senate Democrats Tell President He Can Have Cooperation Of Congress

IDEMOCRATS AND REPUBLI‘CANS ALSO SEEK CRACK- _ DOWN ON SOME OF PRESIDENT’S ADnn VISERS «°°

RIGHT FRAME OF MIND   De Gaulle Makes Nev Attempt To Place Gen. Giraud On Shelf

SHELF FOR GIRAUD   DeGaulle Plans to Assume Command of Entire French Forces

SOCK THE SAVIOR, EH!   Italian Adds 20 Per Cent To Bill To Americans

Two Bishops Are Elected By Methodists   Drs. Paul Garber And Cos: ten J. Harrell Chosen At Atlanta Session

GOP May Capture Most House Seats   Martin Would Be Chosen Speaker In That Event

GOP MAY GET MAJORITY Ot HOUSE SEATS   Brownell Predicts Elections Will Give Republicans _ Vote Control.

MILITARY EXPERTS SAY ~ EF FORT TO HOLD ISLAND WiLL SPEED VICTORY IN PHIL IPPINES

White House Announces Suspension Of Martial Law in Hawaii and Restoration of Habeas Corpus

FDR Silences Rumors on Nelson’s Trip   Assures Mission To China Will Not Change WPB Policy

Nelson Offers to Quit Position   Kick in Teeth” Denied by F.D.R.

BEN LANEY NEXT © ARKANSAS GOVERNOR   Camden Business Man Becomes Democratic Nominee as Opponont in Runoff Withdraws.

Soviets Poised ror Great Blow Against Reich   Winter Offensive May Begin Moving At Any Moment

Russian Artillery Barrage Causes Panic Of Nazis   Germans Massing For Attack On Romaniar Front; Soviet Torpedo Boats Sink Barges At Sevastopol

GERMANS CUT DOWN BY RED ARTILLERY   3,000 Nazis Dic Before flaming Guns of Russians

Soviet Artillery. Panics Nazi Lines   No Confirmation of  New Red Offensive 

ARTILLERY BARRAGE  PANICS THE GERMANS   500 Tons of Bombs an Hour Dropped on Enemy

REDS SMASH NAZ RUMANIA DRIVE   3000 GERMANS KILLED, ENEMY POSITIONS SEIZED

SOVIET BARRAGE MAKES GERMAN TROOPS PANICKY   Artillery Fire In ‘Romania Causes Death Of 3.000 Nazi Soldiers

RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN ROMANIA   4 Landing Barges Are Sunk Off Sevastopol

Democrats Up Lead In House  AndSenate   Rep. Hamilton Fish De  feated; Clare Booth Luce Wins In Connecticut; , * Danaher Loses

Democrats Clinch Majority In Senate, Increase Margin — In House Of Representatives

Fish Beaten, Danaher Out: Nve Trailing   Claire Luce Victor, But James J. Davis Is Trailing Badly

Democrats To Control Both House And Senate   Danaher Defeated; Nye Trails; Fish Loses; Wagner Is Re-elected

Smooth-Working Legislative Machine Seen As Result of Increased Democratic Maijorities

Forrestal Reveals. 7- Point Plan . - To Guarantee Peace, Security

RUSSIANS WIDENED FRONT IN POLAND FROM SARNY AREA  STRONG GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS BLUNTED B

Reds Fan Out tn Poland, Move On Rovno And Kovel   Cervaro Is Captured In Italy; Weakened Jap Supply Lines Battered Anew

RUSSIANS WIDENED FRONT IN POLAND FROM SARNY AREA  STRONG CERMAN COUN.   STRONG GERMAN COUN. TERATTACKS BLUNTED BY VICTORIOUS RED ARMIES

5,000 NAZI DEAD LIE IN WAKE OF RUSSIAN DRIVE   Yank and Aussie Fliers Hit Jap Lines as Crisis Looms In Jungles

Russians Wid ery Sarny Salient  New Offensive Aimed At Pinck le Rallina

Widen Sarny Front   Sweep Strikes with‘in’ 50 Miles’ of Pinsk — Cervaro Falls to Italians—  ' Japs Try to Escape Jungle Trap

Cervaro Falls  To Allies Who Gain In Italy      U. S. Bombers Wreck 3 Big Nazi Plane Plants

Soviet Forces Are Within 50 Miles of Pinsk   Reds Advance on All Fronts; Cervaro Falls to Allies; Three Fighter Plane Factories Hit in Tuesdav’s Raid

Soviet Forces — Have Driven Withit 50 Miles of Pinsk   New Offensive Is Progressing North Of Pripet Marshes

Cervaro Falls To Allies On  Road To Rome   Details Of Sky Battle Over Sofia Show Victory For Americans,   PUSH TOWARD PINSK

FRENCH TROOPS JOIN ALLIES IN CASSINO DRIVE   Hit at Nazis From Three Sides in Battle for Key To Rome

NETHERLANDS ORDERS SHIPS FROM KAISER   36 Coastwise Cargo Vessels For Use In South Pacific Wilt Be Built Next Year

RUSSIANS PENETRATE INTO YUGOSLAVIA   Soviets Reported To Have Smash. ed 22 Miles Inside Southeastern Hungary.

Reds Within 43 Miles of Belgrade-Nis  Rail Junction   Report Puts Soviets, Romanians 22 Miles Inside Southeastern Hungary; Nazis Resis

Reds Drive Deeper i into Yuvoslavia   Other Forces Reported Advancing Steadily Toward Budapest  Boe en aemapmepmrepns: ‘ammmenvmes  sppsagema, Sizourammmawcsise: 4s semis asadh

‘00,000 Germans fay Be Trapped n Great Drive   Tito’s Partisans Helping Russians

Soviet Infantry Closing in On Escape Railroad   MOSCOW SILENT ON  HUNGARIAN DRIVE   Swift Thrust Toward City of Budapest Re-  ported 

Soviets Strike 23 Miles  in Yugoslavia  Are Only 43 Miles From German Escape Railway

REDS 3 ais , YUGOSLAVIA   While Other Forces Smash 22 Miles Inside Hungary, Preparatory to Thurst for Budapest.   Long Seige

Soviets Swarm Across Danube To Yugoslavia   Russian Pincers Menaces All of Enemy Forces . In Lawer Ralkane

AXIS ISLAND FALLS T0 GREEK COMMANDOS   British Help Take Simi and Wreck Base

KAY KYSER MARRIED WITH POLICE ESCORT   ‘Gawgeous Gawgia’ Carroll Quizmaster’s Bride

Americans Battle Into Gothic Line   Italy Drive Pierces Arno River Deferises

Marines Seize Talasea: Port On New Britain   Allies Hit Rabaul Shipping. Without, Any Air Opposition

Marines in Thrust to: Take Rabaul   Advance to Northeast Follows Capture of Willoumex Peninsula

MARINES TAKE TALASEA BASE, SEIZE AIRFIELL   Speedy 4-Day Drive Aims New Spearhead At Rabaul

MARINES OPEN UP   Four-day Conquest Reduces Willaumez Penineuta and Provides Advanced

BEATING BACK NAZI ATTACKS   Gernian Morale Sinks to Low Ebb As Result of Failure to Fulfill Hitler's Order to Eliminate Anzio Beachhbead.

TALASEA {S CAPTURED BY US. MARINES   Rabaul is Goal Of New Spearhead On New Britain

Talasea Taken, Marines Drive  Toward Rabaul   Vital Harbor Gives U.S 3rd Holding On  New Britain

Troops Isolate Japs In Drive On Peninsula   Spearhead Aimed At Rabaul, Heavy Nip Naval, Air Point

‘All of Railways, Main Highways Behind Atlantic Wall Wrecked By Allied Bombs in Recent Weeks

Mrs. A. J. Bond Dies in Bradford   Widow of Former County Commissioner

Mrs. A. J. Bond. Resident Here 50 Years. Dies   Widow of Former County Commissioner Ill for Some Time

Bridgehead On Danube Widened   Driving Across Ceechoslav vakia Toward  ihe Big Railliead Of Nis, Moscow Says.

Cards Win, 2-0 On Home Runs, Tight Pitching   Sanders, Litwhiler Hit For Circuit, Cooper Fans 3 Pinchmen

CARDS SCORE 2-0 VICTORY OVER RIVALS   Two Homers Feature the Great Pitching Duel

Cards Win Fifth Series Game With  Two Home Runs  Natinnale Naw I ead   Nationals Now Lead 3-2; Cooper, Galehous Both Pitch Superbly

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Court Denies Rail Strike Violence Writ   High Tribunal Holds Carrier Refused Full Arbiiration

Important Rail Section Taken  Slugging Americans Continue Advance

ALLIES CONTINUE GAINS IN BURMA      Chinese, British Drive Inte Mogaung From 3 Sides

TOMMIES CATCH HUNS IN GREECE   Retreating Troops Dealt Sharp Defeat Near Yugoslav Border

GREEK TOWN FALLS TO BRITISH FORCES   Tommies Inflict Sharp Defeat o1 German Troops in Capturing Kozane.

‘Innocent’ He Claims As Jailed   Charged Only In Slaying Wife—Is Ordered Held Without Bond

MURDER CHARGE » LODGED AGAINST EX-CONVICT, 43   ®@)Missourian Named in Decapitation Slaying of Wife, Molly Holland, 36

Patrol Ends , Month-Long Investigation   Ex-Convict Denies Guilt in Beheading at Lake of Ozarks

HOLLAND DENIES BEHEADING WOMEN FOUND IN LAKE   Ex-Convict Protests Innocent After He Is Charged With Slaying 36-Year Old Wite.   ACCUSED COMMITTED TO JAIL WITHOUT BOND   Arrest Follows 4-Week Probe of Mystery—No Complaint Filed in Death of Second Victim.

Expect FDR to Veto Bill  on Subsidies   Administration Leaders Confident That Veto Will Be Sustained

PFC'S FRYMAN, ALFRED LATEST CASUALTIES   Fryman Killed in Italy, Alfred on Sunken Troop Ship

Assert Vaunted German  “West Wall” Just Myth   Atlantic Defense Barrier Claimed To Be Biggest Bluff of Whole War

Finds Vaunted Nazi ‘Atlantic Wall’ Biagest Bluff of the Whole War

Willkie: and /F.D. R. Have  ‘Politicians Guessin;      Both are Silent on. Fature Political Plans

Will Roosevelt Run Again? What Will Wendell Willkie Do?   State Capitel News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Corresnondent

Willhie Is Still The Rig  ?  in Politics   Eyes Are On F. D. R. and His 1940 Opponent

PUSH AGAINST RHINELAND, RUHR AND SAAR   Third Unit Breaks Into Metz; Aerial Forces Aid

Enemy: Defenses. Wavering: . Under: Terrific: Impact -+ Ot Aled  Bilnwa

KERR ATTACKS. DEWEY CHARGE      OBLAHOMA  GOVERNOR. AS. : SAILS G.Q. P. CANDIDATE “IN BATTLE FOR ILL... ” “WOIB VOTES:.

British-American Group To Confer On Future World Petroleum Policy

DISNEY MAY SEEK RUN-OFF IN OKLAHOMA   Loser of Senatorial Nomination Considers Court Action to Force Prompt Restoration of Run-Oft Primary.

Navy Yard Workers Needed   Agent To Be Mount Air; To Enlist Workers

THROWN OUT, YANKS RETURN TO STRONGHOLD   C ount erattacks On Beachhead

Fierce Fight For Cassino Is Reported   American Troops Ente: Town—Germans Counter Attack on Beachheads

French Take ~— 1,000 Nazis   American Motorized Column Closes In On Bordeaux From North.

2 AR TO BE CLOSING INONBORDEAUY   Appears to Be Last Center of Resistance in Southwest France

1,000 Germans Surrender As Patriots Surround Bordeaux In Huge Sweep

1,000 Nazi Troops Give Up to French  American Motorized Column Closing in

Patriots and Troops Move On Bordeaux   1,000 Nazis Surrender To French Volunteers; Yank Column Advances

FRENCH TROOPS GIRGLE TOULON   Americans Sweep Westward In Drive to Isolate Marseille.   OTHERS 69 MILES INLAND

Local:Boards To Continue Control   SELECTIVE SER\ SERVICE SAYS FINAL POLICY UP TO © . COUNTIES,

BLOODY FIGHT RAGES AROUND LA HAYE PUITS   Yanks Hold All High Ground Around  Nazi Base

By-Pass Pockets Of Franatically Resisting Nazis   Score Of Towns Are Liberated As Americans Gather Speed In Normandy. Fifty-Six Thousand  Prisoners Taken By Uncle Sam’s Forces.

' Scott Ferris’ .Wife Passes   Well Known Oklahoma Woman Political and Club Leader Dies

Anniversary Finds Nazis Unhappy   Four Years Ago Launched Mighty Blows Westward; Today in State of Siege

Climax Nears In Preparations For Invasion   Fourth Anniversary Of German Advance Noted in Europe

Report Germans Striving To Plug Gaps In Their Saveing Western Defenses

Nazis Strive To Plug Gaps In West Wall   4th Anniversary Of Holland’s Fall Finds D-Day Near

Unhappy Anniversary. {dolph Tables Turned on Naz 4. Years Since Blitz

Germans On Defensive O1  Anniversary  of  Of Victory   29-Year-Old Gen. Pelz Named Air Commander In West: Hour Is Near, Moscow Radio Savs

Triumphant Nazis of Four Y ears Avo Suffering Bad Case ol Jitters Today

NAZIS HARD AT WORK ON THEIR DEFENSE LINES   War In West Has Swung In Full Cycle, Reversing Position Of May 10, 1940; Three New Phases In Invasion Preparation Noted.

HITLER MOVES TO PLUG GAPS IN WEST WALL   Crimea In Reds’ Hands: Nazis Retreat Further In Italy

Nazis Strive To Tighten Western Defenses on Anniversary of Drive

REORGANIZE AIR  FORCE TO MEET  ALLIED INVASION GERMAN RADIO SAYS  CRITICAL HOUR IS FAST APPROACHING

Hitler Plans To Strike Back   Gen. Oberst Pelz Given Command of Air Force in West

Hitler Places Pelz at Head of Air Force   Striving Hastily to Give Defenses Greater Strength

NAZIS PREPARE FOR INVASION; D-DAY S NEAR   Germans Expected To Release Full Air Might

Anniversary Finds Nazis, Tightening Up Defenses   Air Attacks Prove Invasion Is Close.

Nazis Strive To Plug Gaps In West Wal!   Fourth Anniversary Of Low lands Invasion Finds DDav Near   GIVEN ASSURANCE

Nazis Now Living In State Of Siege, Says Enemy Commentator As Air Blows Continue   29-Year Old General Air Chief   Recall 4 Years Ago

Nazis Reported To Be Trying To Tighten Defense   Outlook Changes From Four Years Ago When Mighty Took Weak

Climax in D-Day Preparations Seer  In Air Offensive   ourth Anniversary of Nazi Drive Through the Low Countries Finds Gigantic British-American Offensive Unchecked   THREE IMPORTANT NEW PHASES ARE NOTED

Nazis Are Striving To Tighten Coastal Defenses   Fourth Anniversary of Drive Through Lov Countries Sees Tables Reversed; Hitler Assigns Pelz to Command Airmen

ee S  Climax In Alhed Prepar stions Seen; — Hitler!  Names  Anti-Invasion  Air Chief; Heads of  Conquercd Nations Call Upon People.

German Air Role Reversed   On Fourth Anniversary Of Low Country Blitz Conclusive Air Defeat Stares Hitler in Face

Nazis Strive To Plug Gaps As 4th Anniversary Of Lowlands Invasion Finds D- Day Near   Hitler Hastily Assembles Air Force To Combat Coming Allied Offensive

‘FOURTH ANNIVERSARY: OF GERMAN DRIVE THROUGH LOWLANDS FINDS NAZI \DEFENSES IN WEST BADLY SHAKEN   Germaty Supreme in Air and on Land on May 10 1940 Over-ran Holland and France, But Today Conclusive Defeat Stares Hitlerites in the Face

Besieged Germany Under Tension of Invasion Threat   Try Frantically to Restore Shaken Western De fense Lines

Fourth Anniversary of Drive into Low Countries Finds Situation Reversed

(DEFENDANT CALLED *COLD_. BLOODED GREED KILLER” . BY PROSECUTOR—ALIBI"   DEFENSE SHATTERED

CALLS COLLETT ‘GREED’ SLAYER   Arguments Being Given With ~ Jury Soon to Get Case

MUSICIANS DEFY RECORD REQUEST   UNION VOTES AGAINST COMPLIANCE WITH WLB

President’s Plea Denied By Petrillo   Musicians’ Union Head Says Recording Ban Sticks

Recording Ban Will Continue, Petrillo Says   Union of Musicians Refuses To Observe Labor Board Order

Musicians Ignore Roosevelt's Order   Refuse to Lift Ban On Certain Recordings

WILL JOHNSON DIES IN CHAIR FRIDAY      Murmurs Prayer As He Pays For Butcher Murder

Air Assaults Cut Nazi Oil  To Minimum   Shortage Having Serious _ Effect on Mobility of Enemy Troops

Nazi Mobility Has Been Thwarted By U.S. Bombings  Reduced Petroleum Production Has Hurt Ground Troops

Mobility of Nazi Ground Force Hit _ By Oil Bombings   American Planes Have Attacked 64 German Oil  . Installations.   air Force Decreasing In Occupied France

Maocich Attacked Second Day In Row, South France Hammered By Near 2,000 U. 5. Planes:  sume forest % miles south of      Van Oi! Daids Effect Mobility Of Nazi Ground Forces

Raids Curtail Oil Production   Military Officer Says Thwarting Of Nazi Mobility “Achieved.

Shortage of Oil Beginning to Cut Mobility of German Troops   Nazis Have Lost 7655 Warplanes to Yanks In 5 Months

German Oil Production . Curtailed By Air Attacks   U.S. Air Forces Have Destroyed 7,655 Nazi Planes & naa Tanne

Nazis Short Of Oil  SUPREME HDQRS, ALLIED t EBPYPEHNHITIAVARY TARO?

Yank Airmen Blas: 64 Nazi Oil Plants In Six Months   Output Reduced to Point Wher Mobility of German Ground Forces Seriously Hamsered

ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACK MUNICH DURING 2ND DAY   Important Oil Dumps Behind Nazis’ Normandy Lines

Nazis Are — Slowed hy Bombings   American, Attacks Achieve Objective of Thwarting German Mobilitv   ENEMY AIR FORCE ALSO CUT DOWN   7,655 Planes Knocked Out Since January ;Big Smashes Again Today

Oil Shortage ls Crippling ‘German Army   One Big Objective Of U.S. Air Force Reached High U. § Officer Reports

GERMANS LACK OIL FOLLOWING ALLIED ATTACK   64 German Oil Installations Dealt Smashing Blows by Air Forces; Effect Important.

ALSO IS ON THE DECLINE   Discussing Results of Allied Blows, Allied Officer Says German Plane Losses Greater Than Re - nlacements _

AIR ATTACKS ON 64 GERMAN OIL INSTALLATIONS   Has Had important Effect on the Mobility of Wazi Ground Forces

Says Allied Prisoners Of Wor Forced To Share Parcels With Germans

PREMIER TELLS JAPS OF DANGER   Koiso Warns Yanks Appear Ready To Hit Homeland

ISLAND OF YAP NEUTRALIZED BY ALLIED PLANES   Japanese People Told ot Serious ‘National Difticulties’

Japs Told Of Peril Facing  Their Empire   ‘Counter-moves on Grand, ~ Bold Scale Expectantly _ Awaited’

GuamCapture Near an End;  Foe in Corner   Jap Premier Wa Warns Nation of ‘National Difficulties of Unprecedented Seriousness’

Japs Told Home Front Threatened    Empire Confronts “National   Difficulties of Unprecedented. Seriousness;” Japanese Doomed on Guam

Japs Warned of  Gravity of War   American Victories Prompt Message by Premier Koiso to Nips

Japanese Called fo Greater Effort  Inroads by Americans Causes Worry in Tokyo

Japanese Are Told of Seriousness of Empire’s Situation   National Difficulties are Stressed by Premier _ on Radio Appeal

Japan's Millions: Warned Empire In Great Peril   Conquest Of Guam Nears As Yap. Is Neutralized; Say Nips Hold Hengyang

JAPAN ADMITS SITUATION BAD   Nation’s 100 Millions or Notice That Condition Is  Rapiniic

Mp Premier Sees American Blow: At Jap Homeland   Offcial Hints at ‘Jap Counterblow Against U. S. Forces

Serious View Is Taken By Jap Premier   People Are Warned Of Possible Decisive Blow By Americans Now In Marianas

JAPS FACING FALL ON ALL BATTLE LINES   Seriousness Of Empire Told Populace

JAP PREMIER WARNS PEOPLE   Homefolk Also Told of Coun. termoves. on. Grand: and Bold Scale.

Allies To Hit Jap Homeland Premier Says   Nips To Launch Big ‘Countermove, Claim; Tokyo Becomes More Alarmed Hourly

Jap Home Front Really Nervous   Tokyo Talks of Bold Counter Moves

KOISO REFERS TO MACARTHUR IN ALARM CALI   Nippon Premier Anticipates Strike At Homeland After Marianas Invasion By U. S.

JAPANESE TOLD EMPIRE FACES CRUCIAL TEST   Countermoves On “Grand And Bold Scale Are Expectantly Awaited’ 

Tokyo Predicts Smashing Blow Will Come Soon   Premier Calls Upon Entire Nation To Take Up Arms In  Defense

J APS WARNED BY KI0SOTO EXPECT HOMELAND BLOW  CALLS ON PEOPLE * TO ARM AS ALLIES

Jap Double Talk Adds Up to More And More Grief   Tokyo Radio. Moans of The. “Unprecedented Difficulties’ Ahead

KOISO ADMITS GLOOMY DAYS IN VIEW FOR NIPS   End of Battle Near for Yanks on Guam; Japs Say Hengyang Falls

James Farley Re-Elected For Ninth Time   Roosevelt Endorsed For Fourth Term During Meeting Of New York  Democratic Committee

Farley Renamed N. Y. Chairman   Expected Opposition To Farley Fails To Develop

New York Bourbons Rename Farley As State Chairman  Convention Delegates Are in Favor Of FDR Fourth Term

Party Elects’ Farley, Urges Fourth Term   New York: Democrat: Call for, Return .. Of. Roosevelt:

Democrats Name James V. Rogers As New Chairman   Olean Man Succeeds Shane— Mrs. Kathleen Bryce Is Elected Vice-Chairman

Former Governor Cox Calls Upon Nation To Insure U. S. Future By Putting Patriotism Above Politics

Jewey Forces nvade Chicago: ricker Gaining  New Yorker's Backer: Say He Will Accept   Draft Nomination

‘DRAFT DEWEY’ UNIT MOVES TO CHICAGO   New Strength Gained  Bv Bricker in  CG O.P. Camp

24 From County Enter Services  Shelton Brothers  Are Now Marines

PROSPEROUS AGRICULTURE ASKED BY DEWEY, TOURING FARM BELT   REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE TO SPEAK TN MINNEAPOLIS TUESDAY; TELLS TWIN GOALS

Dewey Speaks In Minneapolis Tuesday Night   Third Visit To Midwest Includes Address At Chi:  caso Wednesday.

Gov. Dewey To Report on Farm Stand   Heads for Minneapolis for Major Agricultural Talk Tomorrow Night

Dewey Heads for Farm Belt   Candidate Favars Improved Dict as Ald to Farming

DEWEY HEADS FOR MIDWEST   Declares Prosperous Agri culture Dependent Upon Industry

Big Japanese Base At Halmahera Also Is Blasted; Nip Ships Are Reported Sunk

MacArthur's Airmen Con tinue To Blast At Jap Philippine Naval Targets

FOREIGN POLICY 1S HOLDING ATTENTION ALONG HOME FRONT  _ SENATOR AUSTIN PROPOSES POSTWAR MILITAR}  BACKED WORLD COURT

Republicans, Make Foreign Policy Ma: jor-Presidential Campaign. Issel In Special Addresses

Republican Senator Proposes World Court Backed By Military Powers

‘Austin Urges Police. Force’  To Keep Peace   Republicans Believed T: Be Planning Foreign Policy Major Issue for Campaign

FOREIGN POLICY ISSUE STRESSED   Republicans Making Major Presidential Issue Of Policv; Austin Proposes World Court.

Japs Blaiming © West For Opium   Rumored That Jap Soldiers Falling Victims To Own Curse.

Car Hits Sign At Bluffs; 3 Youths Killec   Six Young People Returning from Football Game Seriously Injured

First. Meeting  Of Civic Forum Topic “Germany And World War IIT’

First Meeting —  Of Civic Forum  Topic “Germany: And World War Ill”

Coutances, Choke Area, Under Dire Threat Now   Twenty-Mile Line Is Opening Up For Advance

Tanks Within ‘Two Miles of  Nazi Refuge   Thousands of  Nazis in Imminent Danger Trapped. in Coutances Pocket

Coutances Is Threatened With Early Capture   Eleven-Mile Push Since Wednesday Slices Up Nazis

Tanks Pouring Through German Lines   U. S. Armor Advances On 20-Mile Front In Normandy Battle

fanks Crash Through Gaps In Nazi Lines  11-Mile Advance   11-Mile Advance Made by Bradley's Forces in France

COUTANCES SEIZURE IS 4MMINENT   11 Miles Gained Since Americans Launched  Drive Wednesday

Believe Fall Of Coutances Close   German Rout In Normandy Declared Worse Than That Of Rommel’s Troops Across Africa; Roads Choked

PUSH ENEMY AGAINST SEA   American Tanks and Armor Advance ona 20-Mile Wide Front.   TWO MILES FROM CITY

BRADLE’S ME} ARE 2 MILES FROM CITY   Patton In Charge Of Move, London Hears   COUNTERDRIVE   Around Caen Is Repulsed; Advance From Captured Lessay, Periers

Pour Through Enormous Gap In Normandy   Bradley's Forces Cut 84th Army Into Little Knots

German Retreat in Normandy Described Same As One Which Rommel Suffered Over Year Ago in North Africa—84th German Army Cut Into Pockets of Resistance as Thousands of Foe Troops Try to Elude Trap.

Enemy's Dead Cover Ground on Beachhead   General Clark Pays Tribute to Courage of Troops

Cong. Hoffman lays Editor   Links So. Havenite With Winchell, Hillman

HOFFMAN TWITS EDITOR MIXTER   Advises South Haven Publisher To Brush Up On Constitution

aU NATIONS 10 DRAFT AIR PACT   REFUSAL OF RUSSIA TO TAKE PART DISCUSSED

Russia Refuses to Meet With Other Rations At  Civil Aviation Gonference

Nip Offensive  In India Lags   Counter Attacks Stop Nip Advancement Against Bengal-Assam Rail.

ALLIES HAVE SLOWED JAP OFFENSIVE FOR INDIAN RAILROAD  GEN. STILLWELL TROOPS   GEN. STILLWELL TROOPS -HAVE SCORED HEAVILY IN BURMA DRIVE

STILWELL FORCES “SCORE BIC GAINE   Improvement In Situa tien Around Kohima Rannrtad   BOMB HANSA BAY   American Infantrymen Rout Nips From. Village In Burma

ALLIES RETARD JAP OFFENSIVE IN INDIA DRIVE   U. S. Fliers Extend Pacific Raids; Paramushiro Among Nip Targets Hit

Hansa Bay Is Chief Target of U.S. Planes   Mountbatten Reports General {Improvement in Situation Around Kohima Base

ALLIES BETTER ANDIA-POSITIONS      Counter-Attacks Slow Japs Drive On Vital Railroad

Slow Up Nippon Counterattacks   Stilwell’s Troops Score Successes Against Japs in Burma,   Japanese Are Routed

Japanese India Offensive Slows  Mountbatten Reports General Improvement

Stillwell’s Troops Score Notable Successes in Their Burmese Campaign

Blunt Jap Advance In India   Situation at Kohima  Improved; Allied Drive Gains in ‘Burma; Rain Bombs on Hansa Bay

ALLIED COUNTER ATTACKS ALONG BURMA FRONT EFFECTIVE; JAPS MAKE GAINS IN IMPHAL AREA   Nips Have Edged Around to Northwest of Imphal ' _ And Are Makisig Thrusts at Airfield There.  Bencal-Assam Rail Line Under Attacks by Allies

Deeper Arms Cuts Hinted IBy Message   War Spending Figures Indicate Drop Of 62 Billion Dollars :

First Army Men Bitter   Skeughter of Unarmed American Priseners Stirs Treaps Te Hatred

Slaughter of —  Yanks Fires  New Hatrec   First Army Troops More Determined Than Ever _As They Face:Nazis

First In New Hate Measure   Germans’ Slaughter Of 150 War Prisoners Brings Hatred To Army.

PURE OXYGEN AS ARTHRITIS CURE   Tests Show Benefits Ik Treating Sprains, Wound: And Burns

Nebraska Votes For 15 Delegates   Willkie's Name Still on Ballot Pelegate Lists for Stassen and Governor Griswold

Stassen Can Pick Up 15  Delegates   MacArthur Sole Name On Ulinois Presidential Preferential Ballot

U. 5. Files Anti-Trust Action Against.U. S., British Firms On i Charge Restraint of Trade in Alkatis

A TRANSPORT IS MISSING      Twelve Were ‘Aboard Plane That Left Wichita for Los Angeles 

Peleliu Island Drive Speeded   7,020 Japs Killed Since Tole Teeadod

9 Dead as Floods Continue To Spreac Throughout !owa   Creston’s Rainfall Lighter Than Rest of County

Four Iowans Drown in Flood Areas   Weather Deaths Mount To Nine; Forecast  More High Water

REPORT SCORES ARE HOMELESS; LOSSES MOUNT   Chelsea Isolated by Waters; Floods Spread in Des Moines Valley

9 Known Dead, Many Homeless In lowa Floods   High Water Due To Continue For Days; Property Damage Soars.

U.S. Bombers Attack French Coast In 17th Straight Day of Air Raids As Part of Huge Pre-invasion Blast

WEATHER SLOWS UP ALLIED AERIAL WAR   tAF Sent Great Pre - Invasion Bombardment Through 16th Night; German Gas Plant, French Railroads Hit

European Aerial Raids Move Into 17th Straight Day   Transport Hubs, War Plants In Germany, France, Italy Blasted

HIT ROCKET COAST   Raid Follows RAF Night Attacks On Transport Hubs

AMERICANS HIT ROCKET COAST II NEW DAY SMASH   Transport Hubs, War Plants In Germany Smachod Ry Nicht

Europe Rocks in  17th Day   British Planes in Assaults on War Plants, Rail Centers

WAR INDUSTRIES IN THREE LANDS HEAVILY POUNDED   U. §. Liberators Open 17th Day of Pre-invasion Offensive In Bombing French “Rocket” Coast.   RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN ROMANIA EXPANDS   Germans Launch Three Small-Scale Attacks on Anzio Beachhead, Each Overcome By Allies.

Leaves From a War Correspondent’s Notebook  Army’s New Arctic Suits Next Thing to Palm Beach

SINGLE BOMBER HAMMERS TRUK   Naval Plane Sinks O Damages 3 Vessels, Sets Fires

—WESTERN FRONT—~—   4. Allied Armies Launch Battle Of Germany ~ On Wide Front   Yanks Smash Heaviest Nazi Counterattacks Since  Battle Of Normandy; British Smash Last German Unne Tin Praak Caactal.Tran

Enemy Rushing Reserves Into  _ Stegfried Line Defenses _   K— «K »¢ KCK South France

Third Army. Beats Off Heavy Jab    British Second Also Crashes  Nazi Attempt to Break Out of Coastal Trap   IGERMANS POURING IN ALL RESERVES   Reich” Being Depleted. in Move for All-Out Stand ] on: Siegfried Line

Counferattacks Beaten Back by Allied Troops   Desperate Foe Musters Troops For Bitter Stand

Four Allied Armies Poised To Smash Siegfried Line   Nazis Spring Heaviest Attack Since Normandy Break-through in Apparent Effort to Divide Yank Forces

NAZIS FAIL IN EFFORT TO CUT INON 3RD ARMY   Germans Deplete Reich of Reserves to Bolster * Siegfried Line Defense

British 2nd Army Crushes Desperate Nazi Attempt To Break Out Of Trap

Battle for Reich Rages   Americans Hurl Back Greatest German Attack Since Normandy Breakthrough As British Stop Attempt to Flee Trap

British Blast Last Hope Of Break-Out   Patton’s Third Engages In First Full-Scale Battle Since Normandy

Siegfried Line Is Objective Of Attack   Counter Blows Of Germans Are Smashed

Doughboys Rain Crushing Blows All Along Front  Moselle Crossed In 5 Places; Allies Aim een an, icy ai

Patton’s Men in Breakout Fight Along Moselle   Third Army Starts First Full-Speed Scale Battle Since Normandy; German Deplete Homeland of Reserves to Bolster Menaced Defense Line

AEY DEFENSE WITHIN BIG GUN RANGE   Fortress Of Liege Taken By American Force   OTHER UNITS   Cross Moselle River In 5 Places; Exact Positions Are Not Disclosed

First Full Seale Fighting Since U.S. Normandy Breakthrough   Germans Reported Stripping Reich of Its Reserves

Germans Threw Hardest Punch Since Normandy   Forces From South Are Near Escape Gap at Belfort

Allied War Planes In Three Pronged Assault On The Rhineland Area

Planes Hit Ahead ‘of Allied Army   German : Cities ‘Hard “Hit2Robots* Come Over Again

THREE PRONGED ASSAULT MADE ON RHINELAND   More Than 1,200 Planes Take F In Attack On Great Bastions

‘Great Rhineland Bastions Blasted By Allied Planes   Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ludwigshafen Attacked As Weather Improves

Wartime Canning _ Classes Slated   Oanning, Freezing Will Be “Shown in County.

1,450 Japanese Planes Downed In Six Months   Steady Whittling Of Enemy Airpower In Pacific Noted

1,450 Japs Downec In Rabaul Attacks  Campaign Becomes Cima OF Crant Ai   Campaign Becomes One Of Great Air Victories

Destruction Of Jap Air Force Grows   1,450 Nip Planes Smashed In 6 Months In Southwest Pacific

Rabaul-Bougainville Drive Becoming One of Greatest  Allied Air Victories In Wat

SUFFICIENT MEN _ FOR ARMY NEEDS ~ REMAINDER OF YEAR   Selective Service Stated Men Already in Class. 1-A and 18 Years Old, Plentiful. *   THEY WILL TOTAL 690,000   Estimated Manpower Need for Remainder of Year Is 600,000.

Draft Will Require Fewer Men in Remainder of Year  Current 1-A Class, 18-Year-Olds Will Fill Demand

ARMED FORCES NEED 600,000 BEFORE JAN, ’   Hershey Figures New 18Year-olds, Men Now 1-A To Fill Calls

Present 1-As And New Registrants Adequate To Supply Armed Forces

Present 1-As and Men 18 Sufficient   Hershey Says Supply Good Until Jan. 1

HERSHEY SEES DRAFT SURPLUS   Those In 1-A end 18-YearOlds Can More Than Fill Need

Sees Surplus In Army Draft  1-A Men and 18-Year. Olds Exceed Needs

Present Draft To Take Care  Of Services   Director Hershey Says Class 1-A and New Suicidal Combat on

DRAFT NEEDS ARE LISTED   Can Be Filled From 1-A and 18-Year-Olds Hershey Says

Draft Lists Adequate fo. Supply Needs   Youths, 1-A Men More than Enough To Fill Demands

Males Now In 1-A, 18-Year-Olds To Supply Draft Needs For 1944   Selective Service Director Expects 690,000 Will Be Available From Those Sources Alone, While Onlv 600.000 Needed.

Draft Director Cites 1944 Needs  pe ically Able Men Are Available

DRAFT NEEDS TO, BE SUPPLIED BY! I-A AND YOUTHS   ‘er Reelassifieation Will Be Needed at Least Until First Of Next Year

Hershey Cites Draft Surplus   Youths, Men in 1A To Fill All Needs

New 18-Year-Olds, 1-A’s Enough To Fill Service Needs Rest Of °44

DRAFT TO EASE FROM NOW ON   Only Men in 1-A and Boys of 18 To Be Taken

‘New 18-Year-Olders Will Fill the Current Demand:of Armed Forces, Says Hershey

Present 1-A’s, 18-Year-Olds fo Fill Draft Needs   - Selective Service Says 690,000 Men Available far 1944

MORE MEN THAN NEEDED AVAILABLE FOR DRAFT   Director Hershey Says Registrants In 1-A And New 18-Year-Olds Can Fill Requirements

18-Yr.-Olds Will Supply ’44 Demands   Hershey Figures 690,000 Boys Are Physically Fit For This Year's Induction .

Men Already In I-A And 18-Y ear-Olds To Supply Needs For Rest Of 1944

GERMANS FORCE BRITISH BACK   NAZIS LAUNCH COUNTER-ATTACK IN ITALY

BRITISH RETREAT IN ITALY BEFORE NAZI ASSAULT   Allies In Northwest Continue Slow Advance

Water Treaty Speed Urged   Sumneérs Says Hearing Is To Be Expedited

LEYTE-SAMAR CAMPAIGN END NOW ‘IN SIGHT   30,000 Jap Casualties Remnants Try Sea Escape

Invaders Cut  island In Two To Pocket Japs   Ground Forees Close In On Garrison Krom Three Sides As Flight Begins.

Remnants Of Japanese Garrison On Northwest Part Of Island Begin To Plee By Sea; Over 30.000 Jans killed   END OF LEYTE FIGHT IN SIGHT

END OF LEVTE AND SAMAR CAMPAISA NEAR-VARARTHID      Remnants Of Japanese Forces Driven Into Small Confined Sector   AMERICANS CLOSING IN FROM THREE SIDES   Jap Planes Attack American Shipping And Cause Some Damave

LEYTE-SAMAR CAMPAIGN NEARS CLOSE   Japs Fleeing By Sea From Ormoc

MacArthur Mer Pin Foe Back To West Coast   Campaign Nearly Over: Japs Lose 30,000 in Ten Davs

remnants of Japanese Forces Flee ~~ By Sea as American Drive Gain:

Island Split In Half Dy [th Division   30,000 Enemy Die In Hopeless Fight — Against U. S. Troops

End of Campaign In Two Islands  ‘Said In Sight   Over 30,000 Enemy Troops Casualties In 13-Day Assault

Leyte Japs Flee by Sea Fromls land   General MacArthur Reports More Than 20,000 Killed, Wounded, Captured

ALLIES POUNDING ROBOT- BOMBERS’ TAKE-OFF RAMPS   Some Of Self-Propelled Bombs Have Been Captured Near Cherbourg.

@ FROM PREPARATION JSLE   Huss Writes Allied Invasion Troops Will Meet Test

PREPARATIONS. FOR INVASION  FISENHOV ER GROOMS "FORCES FOR ° D” DAY   By PIERKE J. HUSS  oe a eo! ee =P

NEW AUTO PLATES GO ON SALE DEC. 1   New Plates for the First Time in Three Years; But Only Rear Plates for Next Year.

NAZIS PUMP 100 SHELLS INTO BRITAIN   4-Hour Barrage From Coastal Guns Aimed At Invasion Ports

Nazis Emptying Guns At British   Several British Towns Hit As Big Guns Open Fire.

Nazi Big Guns Shell British Coastal Ports   Believed Trying To Unload Ammunition Before Allies Arrive.

Railroads Again Ask Rate Boost   Restoration of 1942 Increases Requested

INDUSTRIAL AREAS BEHIND SIEGFRIED LINE ARE ATTACKED   - STRONG FORCES OF _AMERICAN HEAVY BOMB ERS BLASTED KASSEL

Bombers Blast Nazi Defenses  1200 Yank Heavies Rip Siegfried Line, Belfort Gap Feeders

Air Blows in Support of Armies   Kassel and Munich, Both Back of Crucial Lines, Are Heavily Assaulted   AID ALSO GIVEN TO ITALIAN FRONT   Instruments Used to Find Targets Because of the Heavy Overcast

Bomb Kassel And Munich   Heavy Yank Bombers Attack Germam Points Rehind Siegfried Line

BOMBERS BLAST KASSEL, MUNICH   Roads in North Italy Also Hit by -Air Fleets

Attack Behind Siegfried Line   U. 5. Air Power Effective Against German industry

KASSEL, MUNICH BLASTED BY AIR   Planes Support Armies in France, Italy

Jap Force Of Unknown Size Is Isolated   Correspondent Tells OF Attack By U. 8. Warships

ELSEWHERE FOE FLEES BEFORE VANK ADVANCE   Ajitape Area Cleared As Nips Retreat to Nearby Hills

Americans Close In on Three Hollandia Airfields; Wewak Airdromes Are Again Blasted

For Blasting By Fortresses and Liberators of U. S. 15th Air Force Based in Italy.   24,000 Pounds

Morgenthau Will Head U. S. Group At Money Parle;   President Names 12 Leaders and Economists tc Attend Session

14, 000 Nips Lost in Week on Leyte Isle   American Casualties Number 2,160; Foe Is Fleeing into Mountains

Japs Damage 16 U.S. Planes At  Base In China   Yanks TakeSamar Island, Tighten Grip Upon Leyie

Three Americar Air Fields In China Bombed   Notorious ‘Death March Division’ Of Enemy Whipped

TOKYO CLAIMS SMASHING OF 16 SUPERFORTS   Samar Island, 275 Miles From Manila, Engulfed By Yanks

YANK AIRMEN OPERATE FROM PHILIPPINE BASE   14,000 Japs Fall on Leyte: Seize Samar Capital in New Drive

WAR MATERIALS FOR NAZI BLOW HIT 24 BILLION   Three-Fourths To Britain And Russia, Much In Recent Months

United States Leases Ships To the British   Contract for Duration; Titles  With United States

ADDED ARMOR      95th Division Spearheads  Advance to Point Near : Metz.   SWEEPING TOWARD SAAR

Third Army Makes Rapid Gains and Troops Reach to Within Few Miles of City of Metz.   10-MILE GAIN IN THREE DAYS, MADE

35th Division Takes Cha, teau-Salins, Northeast of Nancy     RBAAV CAMDCINC £wx.4ar"Te   MAY ENCIRCLE METZ   Thrusts Thru German Lines Are Made Above and Below City

Patton’s Men Shake Off Shackling Mud  in Great Ofensive   Advance 10 Miles in 3 Days in Places in Metz Sector

Advances Up To 10 Miles Are Reported   Flanking Assaults End German Hopes Of Winter Lull; More Allied Armies Active

Patton's Third Army in “Full Bloom’ Offensive Gains Up to Ten Miles in Drive Threatening to Engulf Metz

Patton's Forces Drive 10 Miles On Broad Front   Enveloping Move In Progress On 55-Mile Circle

Heavy Tank Battles Are Fought   Two Main Prongs of General Patton’s Drive Are Closing Upon Metz as Western Front Sorinasc Inta Life an Lenathv Sector

Three Days Gain 10 Miles   Threaten to Cut Off Fortress City Blocking Route to Saar Basin

WINTER DRIVE SCORES GAINS OF FIVE MILES   Assault Breaks Out in New Spot to Menace Nazi Positions

GEN. PATTON THREW ADDITIONAL ARMOR INTO DRIVE FRIDAY  UP TO TEN MILES GAINED ON 55-MILE ARC  IAT RAT? CEeeCToAD

iPatton’s Men Seize Several Towns In New Offensive; Pass Trenches of 1918 Armistice

Trenches Of 1918 Armistice Passed By Third  Arniy    Forces Closing In On Metz Fortress   Gains Of Five Miles, Capture Of Several Towns Reported

General Patton’s Forces  * Take Several Villages As They Move Beyond 1918 Armistice Line

New 5-Mi. Advance Closes in On Fortress City After 10-Mi. Early Gain; Bridgehead Grows

DOZENS OF TOWNS CAPTURED IN BIG THIRD ARMY PUSH   THREATEN TO CUT OFF THE FORTRESS METZ FROM BEHIND

THIRD ARMY’S WINTER DRIVE — CARRIES TROOPS NEAR FRENCH FORTRESS CITY OF METZ TODAY

Trenches of 1918 Passed   Patton’s Men Smash Forward in Wide Offensive at Metz

SHELBY COUNTY LEADS IN \OWA   Franklin County 45% of War Bond Quota

BORDER TOWN OF ESTONIA IN SOVIET HANDS   SWEEP CONTINUES TOWARD BALTIC SEA COAST

Frontier Railway Station of Kingisepp !s Cap‘tured   PRE-WAR. ESTONIAN BORDER IS REACHED   More Than 50 More Communities Taken Dur- ina Drive

Border Town Is Captured By Russians.   ¥  Offensive Believed To Have Carried Reds To Estonian Frontier  KINGISEPP, KEIKINO GOBBLED IN SWEEP - More Railway Centers Fall in Great Drive  Roweh af Taninorarl

RED ARMY IN DRIVE TOWARD ESTONIA LINE   Advances Along 50 - Mile Front From Baltic To Lake Samro; 2000 Germans Killed: Take 50 Communities.   Canture Kingisipp

RUSSIANS REACH ESTONIAN BORDER IN SWIFT DRIVE   Two Thousand Germans Killed and 50 Communities Fall to Reds in Day’s Fighting.   ADVANCES ARE MADE OVER 50-MILE FRONT   Other Columns Are Cleaning Up Between LeningradMoscow and Leningrad Novgorod Railway.

Red Army Ai Border Ql Estonia   Leningrad Troops Scoop Up Supplies In Drive To West

NATION HELPS FDR CELEBRATE. HIS, BIRTHDAY   ‘Benefit Functions: Over Nation Help Swell Infantile Paralysis Fund

NATION OBSERVES FDR’S BIRTHDAY   SWELL COFFERS OF NATIONAL FUND TO COMBAT POLIO

FOR OBSERVES HIS BIRTHDAY SUNDAY   Nation Joins By Attending Benefit Functions Over Weekend.

Infantile Paralysis Fund Donations Help President:-Observe Birthday

ALCOHOL FROM ~ OLD POTATOES   Government Plans To Divert 18-Million Bushels To Control Price

Surplus Potatoes to Go Into Production Of Industrial Alcohol for War Purposes

PAG LOOKING ~ BEYOND VOTE   HILLMAN ORGANIZATION PLANNING TO TURN. ATTEN: TION TO NATIONAL PRO-  DUCTION COUNCIL

PAC PLANS TC AID IN GUIDING PEACE. ECONOMY   Intention ts Indicated In Proposed Continuation After November 7   POST WAR PROGRAM SET   Hillman Says Committee is To Continue As independent Force

Yank Armor Widens Breach in Siegfried   Tremendous Artillery Barrage Kills German Defenders; General Patton’: Forces Fichtine Aton Fort Rriant

Yank Forces ‘Widen Gap In Defenses  ‘Near Ubach   British Gain Along Arnhem Corridor

BRITISH ATTACK IN NUMEGEN AND ARNHEM SECTORS   YANKS TEAR 3-Mi. GAP IN SIEGFRIED DEFENSE AT UBACH

Germans Bring Up Reinforcements And Make All-Out Effort To Prevent Crumbling Of Line: Patton’s Army Wages Grim Pane At Fort Driant.

Allied Units Renew Heavy Fighting In Arnhem Corridoz   Nazis Use Every Available Gun To Stop U.S. Drive in Aachen Sector; Enemy Dead Hampers Push

GERMANS RUSH FRESH TROOPS TO CHECK FOE   New Action Flares in  Nijmegen Area as British Attack

U. 5. CASUALTIES TOTALED 417,085 AS OF SEPTEMBER 21   WITH THE FIRST U. S. ARMY, Oct. 5—()}—American  tanks advancing more than a mile captured Bexsensderf today.

Nazis Battle Fiercely to Keep Entire Line North — Of Aachen fromCrumbling   Patton’s Third Army Is Engaged: In a Grim Fight at Fort Driant ~

J. §. DOUGHBOYS BREAK THROUGH WIDE GAP iN LINE   Fierce Fighting Flares Along Wide Area— Third Army In Coie Fight To Hold Fort Driant.

Progress On Western Front Rated “Slow”   Siegfried Line Punctured; Enemy Sends Uo Fresh Mer

Massed Artillery Blasts Path for Men and Armor   Heavy Fighting Rages Along All Western Front

Wont Extension  of Lend-Lease   Knox Emphasizes Nations’ Cooperation

REDS CLAMP SIEGE ARC ON VITEBSK   Russians Launch Offense At Historic Smolensk Gap

SIEGE ARC MADE AROUND VITEBSK BY RED ARMIES   Russian Summer Of. fensive Third Phase of Plan at Teheran  Moet.

Reds Clamp Siege Arc On Vitebsk In New Offensive   Soviet Drive Menaces Thousands Of Nazis In Baltic States

Russians Forge Trap Around Nazis in Vitebsk   Action Flames on 300-Mile Eront As Soviets Attack

Third Phase of Plan For German  Defeat Launched   Roads From Fortress Being Pounded Heavily By Russian Planes

Practically Surround For tress as White Russian Offensive Gets Going With Many Gains.

RED ARMY CUTS OFF NAZI MAIN ESCAPE ROUTES   Railways Radiating Fror City of Vitebsk Were Severed During First 24 Hours of Fighting.   ‘JAP CARRIER SUNK BY U. S. SUB—REPOR'

High Men in Briggs’ Trial   Hopkins, Ickes and Others to Testify When Hearing Starts

Hear Bigwigs In Briggs Suit   Hopkins, Ickes Appear In Trial Growing Out Of Forged Letter Episode.

Briggs Facing Forgery Trial   Former Hopkins Aide I: Indicted. Over Letter. By Grand. Jury

BRIGGS’ TRIAL 10 START IN SPRING   Expected to ‘Bring Together Notable Array of Wit-

BRIGGS FACES FORGERY TRIAL   Contidential Aide To Secretary Ickes Is Indicted

Secretary Hull Attacks ‘Hard And Fast’ Paet With Germany   War on Russ Has ‘Direct Bearing on Allied Effort’

NEW ROBOT BASES ARE BELIEVED USED   182,000 Mothers. Children Evacuated from London

Jury Checked On  Fair Complaints   Says Not Sufficient Evidence To Warrant Action:

JURY REPORTS ON FAIR COMPLAINTS      Not Sufficient Evidence te Warrant Action, Jurors Say

ee ee eee et eee een ene  Roosevelt Speeds To White iis After Short Rest

ROOSEVELT MAKES QUICK TRIP BACK TO. WASHINGTON.   President Expected © to Make Informal” Talk. From His Car:

Heavy Attack Is Made on  Mindanao Base   Waterfront Area Raked by Fire, Explosions

Shattering Air Raids Continue On Nazi Europe   Gigantic Plane Formations Again Rip Targets In France And Belgium   FOLLOW HUGE NIGHT ASSAULTS

HAMMER NAZI RAILWAYS AND AIRDROMES   Allied Bombers Make Three Trips to Berlin in 24 Hours

HOPKINS LETTER DEFINITE FORGERY   Federal Attorney Conducting Grand Jury Investigation.

‘Hopkins Letter Called Forgery By Prosecutor   Interior Department Employe Suspended Until Matter Clears

19th Division Pays Tribufe To Its Dead   Solemn Rites Held In New Cemetery

Lamb Back on Ration List; Beef Raised   Better Distribution of  Supplies Purpose, Says OPA

Choice Lamb Cuts Restored To Ration List   Beefroast and Steak Point Values Raised To  Improve Distribution

OPA Orders: Choice Cuts of Lamb Restored fo Ration List; Increases © . Point Values of Beef Steaks, Roasts

RESTORE POINTS TO CHOICE CUTS OF LAMB SUNDAY   Increase Point Values Of Most Beefsteaks, Beef Roasts

Choice Lamb Cuts on Ration List Again   OPA INCREASES POINT VALUE OF STEAKS, BEEF ROASTS FOR JULY

Lamb Rationed Again As Beef Points Put Up   OPA Orders Change In Effort To Better Distribute July Supplies Available

LAMB RATIONED AGAIN; BEEF 2 POINTS HIGHER   Better Distribution 0: Meat Supplies In July Is Aim

CHOICE CUTS OF LAMB RESTORED TO RATION LIST   Point Values On Steaks Increased In Now OPA List

Delay Draft of Men Over 26   Enough Under That Age To Fill Out Quotas Until Next Fall

‘Under 26’"Men Ample Till Fall   Pre-Inductee Headaches Relieved By Current Hershey Statement

Men Over 26 Not To Go Till Fall   Younger Group Will Fill Army's Needs, Says Director Hershey

Nazi General Huhe Killed In Mishap   Hitler and Goering Will At tend Puneral—Recently Decorated hy Reich

Fifth War Loan Drive To Open June 12 and Continue Through July 8   Plymouth County's Quota For Sale Is $1,258,000

Fifth War Loan Drive, To Open _ June 12 and Continue Through July 8   Plymouth County’ 8 Quota For Sale Ts $1.258.000° ©

Says Manpower Has Been Wasted   When Manpower Waste Has Been  Correctec There’s Be No Need Fo Labor Draft.

Says Cost-Plus War Contracts Are  Aggravation to Manpower Shortage  

WAR LABOR DRAFT ISN'T NEEDED NOW   Murray Says Senate Investi‘gation of War Contracts Will Prove Fact.

Invasion Of Morotai, 250 Miles From Philippines,  Cuts Life Line.

BIG OIL BOOST ASKED BY NAVY   Request Forecasts Heavy Sweeps Against Nips

PUSH AGAINST JAPS FORSEEN   Bard Urges Early Action to Permit Oil Production Boost

HEAVY BLOWS “AGAINST JAPS_ ~ ARE FORECAST   NAVY'S REQUEST FoR ani. TIONAL THIRTY MILLION BARRELS OF OIL 18  SIGNIFICANT +

Dewey Fires _  New Blasts   Re-elretion of Roosevelt Seen by GOP Nominee as Threat te: World Peace

ewey Seeks emo Support  DE GOP Party   s World Peace Organizaion Will Be Wrecked By One Man’s Will.’   ANDING OVATION

Dewey Says FR. Perils World Peace   Secret Diplomacy, Home Bickering Hit In Baltimore Talk

Dewey Bids for [Democrat Votes   Voting G.O.P. Only Way Demos Can Win, He Tells Baltimore Crowd

Security in Danger: Dewey   Says Democrat Party in Hands of Coalition of Subversive Elements

DEWEY stEK DEMO SUPPORT   Addresses Huge Crowd in Baltimore, Gets Big Ovation.

Work With Congress, Is  Dewey Theme   Elect An Administration Ready To Co-Operate With Congress, Say: Dewey At Baltimore

HENGYANG IS IN JAP HANDS   Important Junction City Captured by Foe After Grim Chinese Stand

JAPANESE TAKE HENGYANG CITY   Chinese Defenders Are Killed Almost To Last Man

Security Tax Bill Faces Veto by FDR   Congressmen Laying Plans to Override a Objection

Congress Adjournment Sine Die May Be Postponed To Prevent Tax Veto

Co-Operation Cost Problem Of Delegates   Monetary Group Still Undecided

MONETARY QUOTAS STILL TO BE SET   Await Word from Moscow  How Much Gold She Will Deposit

New Hopes of Stopping Gov. Dewey   New’. Yorker’s - Opponents See His Indiana Setback » ag Start of Shift   DEWEY’S FORCES CLAIM 390 VOTES   But Rivals--Contend There Arve Enough Left to Avert -a Convention Stampede.

Indiana GOP Rejects Pledge For Gov. Dewey   Bricker Group Hails Action as Sweeping Victory

Dewey Given Setback by Indiana GOP   Bricker Faction Scores Victory; First Ballot Choice Seems Remote

LAST DITCH STOP DEWEY MOVEMENT GETS NEW LIFE   Indiana’s GOP Convention Show Its Down Proposal to Pledge State’s 29 Votes to Dewev

Stop-Dewey Movement Is Renewed   Last-Ditch Drive Reported Under Way Among Republicans

Republicans Launcl New Drive to Halt Dewey's Race  Indiana Vote Is Said By Some to Be Beginning of Trend

New Life In Stop-Dewey Movement   Bricker Forces Hail Indi. ana Results As Sweeping Victory

REPUBLICANS IN INDIANA REFUSE TO BACK DEWEY   PROPOSAL TO PLEDGE STATE DELEGATION IS SHOUTED DOWN

Dewey Foes Hail  Shout-Down’ Move  Indiana GOP Refuses Teo Pledge Votes

Snag Hit by : ~- Dewey Boom   New York Governor's Opponénts Heartened by Action of Indiana Convention .

Last-Ditch Action To Stop Dewey Taking On New Life As Result Of Indiana Vote

Indiana Shouts Down Gov. Dewey   The Stop-Dewey Movement Gets Under Way in Mid.  west State.

‘Dewey Shout-Down Hailed By Opponents As ~<A New Lease On Their ‘Stop’ Movement

INDIANA GOP'S CONVENTION IS “10W UNDERWAY   Other States In -Pre-Convention Meetings

Yanks force Japs to seek safe waters  Nimitz says foe ater farce ‘hroken’

200 Foe Planes Are Blasted In Second Attack      Americans Force Foe Fleet to Quit Philippines; Nipponese Air Power In Islands Broken, Nimitz Says

Twenty Damaged And 200 Planes Are Destroyed   Eighty-six Vessels Are Put Out of Action in Two Days

Loses 103 Ships. 405 Planes, Nimitz Reports   Toll Results From Two-Day Assault While Japs Claim 2-Later Raids; Yanks Also Break Enemy’s Air Force

49 More Ships Sunk Or Damaged In Manila Bay; 200 More Planes Bagged   JAPANESE AIR FORCE IN ISLANDS BROKEN

2-Day Assault By U.S. Force  Punishes Jans   Heavy Damage Also Done Enemy Installations In Phikecnt...

Another Devastating Raid on Area Reported by. Nimitz  86 JAPANESE SHIPS GO OUT OF ACTION Nipponese Air Air Forcé in  the Islands Is  Broken

40 Enemy Vessels Sunk 357 Planes Destroyed In Two Days’ Assault   Large Number of Ships, Aircraft Damaged, Manila Installations Crippled by Navy Flyers at Loss Of Only 11 Planes; Kweilin, China, in Danger

Other Troops of srd Army Threater Saarbrucken, Use Fight-inch Artillery

Fighting Well Into Siegfried Line Beyond   Other Troops Threaten Saarbrucken; ‘ Army to North Deadlocked With Germans at Roer, 22 Miles From Cologne

Saarbrucken Heavily Threatened As Third Expands Bridgehead   Patch’s Seventh Army Besieges Hagenau, Selestat In Process Of Clearing Alsace, Lorraine Areas; Nazis Holding Roer Line

Third Army Drives Past Saarlautern Into Sieafried Line   Reach Towns More Than Mile Beyond Captured Saar Bridge

Saarlautern Passed by Third Army Forces Advancing Through Shellfire; Saarbrucken Threat

‘Third Army Forces Push on Beyond Saarlautern to Penetrate Germany’s West Wall; Saarbrucken Threatened

DRIVE BEYOND THE CITY OF SAARLAUTERN      Doughboys Now Fighting Well Inside Siegfried Line—Other Third Army Forces Threaten Vita] Saarbrucken.

THE 95TH INFANTRY DIVISION THROUGH SAARLAUTERN   And Now Is Fighting Well Into the Siegfried Line Beyond.   TWO TOWNS BY-PASSED   Roden and Franlatern Passed Up by Americans Advancing Through Fire.

‘American Thrust Carries To Siegfried Line; Two Towns Across Saar Passed

U. S. Troops Plow Through Saarlautern and Push Germans Well Bevond Fortress City.   PATTON'S ARMY NEAR CITY OF SAARBRUCKEN

American Line Advance I: Pushed Beyond Captured Saar Bridge      NAZIS LEAVING FRANCE   Only Small Strips in Lorrain and Alsace in  Their Hands

THIRD ARMY FIGHTS PAST SAARLAUTERM   Penetrate Well Into Siegfried Line Defenses Whi'e Ist Army Also Makes Advance

Patton Men Push Beyond Saarlautern   Other Third Army Units Threaten Saarbrucken, With Artillery Aid.

Selestat Taken By Seventh Army   .. After Three And Half Days Of Bitter Fighting

Allies Batter Ahead To Edge  Of Saarbrucken   Third Army Virtually Completes Seizure Of Saarlautern, In ‘Defense Zone

PUSH NORTH THRU TOWNS OF RODEN AND FRAULATERN   BIG GUNS BOMBARD SAARBRUCKEN FROM ONLY 6 MILES AWAY

Patton’s Army Passes Through Saarlautern    Third Army Artillery Shelling Saarbrucken .

95th Smashes Through Saarlautern   Saarbrucken Threatened by Other Patton Forces

Temperatures   Americans-Nazis Deadlocked Near Cologne; Heavy Bombers Blast Berlin Again; Russians Surge Through Western Hungary

American Line Advance Is Pushed Beyond Captured Saar Bridge  NAZIS LEAVING FRANCE Only Small Strips. in Lor rain and Alsace in  Their Hands         NAZIS LEAVING FRANCE

)STH INFANTRY DIVISION OF THIRD ARMY DRIVES THROUGH “ORT CITY OF SAARLAUTERN   satellite Towns of Roden and Fraulatern, Each Mile and Half Beyond Captured Saar River — Bridge Are Passed   VE UNITS OF PATTON'S FORCES BEAT FORWARD

Ninth Infantry Spears Advance Into Defenses Of Siegfried Line; Other American Forces Deadlockex

S ADVANGING   Other Troops of Patton’s Third Army Threaten _ Saabrucken,   IST ARMY TAKES TOWN 

‘Two Towns  Taken Beyond Saar Bridge —   Patton’s Third Army Threatens Saarbrucken; Battle Civilian Troops

Third Army Drives Into Seigfried Line Beyond Nazi Bastion   Patton’s Troops By-Pass Two Nazi  Towns, Threaten Saarbrucken; Yanks Fight Mustered   Civilians

American Force Drives All Way Through Saarlautern; Saarbrue ken Being Shelled   Patton's Men Dy-Diiss Geiiian Towa And Advance Through Enemy Shellfire; Five Others Batile Inside The Saar

2TownsBeyond Captured Saar Bridge Passed   Patton's Third Army Forces Advance Through  - Shellfire From German   Artillery Emplacements   Saarbruckerr Also Being Threatened   Blackened Buildings of Arsen! Region Of Stecl and Coal Are Being  Bombarded Fr

Saarbrucken Is Pounded By Artillery   Patton Widens Saar Bridgehead.

Patton’s Men Hammer Into Siegfried Line   City Of Saarbrucken Threatened By Third Army’s Offensive; Bitter Fighting Is Raging Along Roer River Front

Saarbrucken  Shelled by U. S. Troops   Recently Mustered Civilian Army Encountered By Yanks at Saarlautern; Nazis Pound Bridge Over Saar River With Heavy Artillery

Saarlautern Is Cleared; _ Yanks: Pune I  Mile Ahead >   . Brid ached WwW idenedOn Saar’s: East. Bank

Yank Troops Push Beyond Saarlautern  Two Towns Seized Beyond Captured

95th Infantry Of Third Army Makes Gain   Saarbrucken Is Threatened Also; See Counter-Blows

THIRD ARMY DIVISION HAS DRIVEN THROUGH TOWN SAARLAUTERN  OTHER THIRD ARMY TROOPS THREATEN ARSENAL OF SAARRBRIJCKEN

U. S. THIRD ARMY GOES THROUGH SAARLAUTERN AND THREATEN: SAARBRUCKEN, CAPITAL CITY

Saar Front Is Widened, - Deepened   Allied-Forces Now Inside or: at, Fringe of Germany. On 200-Mile Front —   UP AGAINST STRONG, DEEP «. DEFENSES.   3rd. Army Executing Clas-. sic Wheeling Movement; Saarlautern the Pivot

Third Army Advances on: Saarbrucken   Mighty Push By Ameri‘ cans Threatens Great Industrial Area of Saar  eee  nS EE eee a tis _ me Sa tee

Patton Wheels Flank Against Saarbrucken As Guns Pound City   Troops Advance Under Heavy Fire; Lull Covers Front Before Cologne; Nazis Blow More Dikes on Rhine

9th Division Fighting Inside Siegfried Line   Saarbrucken Under Threat; U. S. Ist, 9th Armies Deadlocked With Enemy Troops

TIGHT INSIDE SIEGFRIED DEFENSES   Saarbrucken Is Menaced By Forces Of Patton   BERGSTEIN   Falls To First Army Witt Selestat Tumbling To Men Of Seventh

HANMER DEEP INTO SIEGFRIED LINE DEFENSES   Threaten Saarbrucken, Expand Bridgehead Across Saar River

Third Army Advances onSaarbrucken   Mighty Push By Ameri‘ cans Threatens Great Industrial Area of Saat

Siegfried Defenses Penetrated   Third Army Threatens Saarhrucken; First Army Deadlocked

Fighting Well Into the Siegfried Line Defenses Beyond Fortress City 

Big Guns Rain Heavy Barrage On Doomed City   Ninth Army Drives Nazis Across Roer at Julich: First Army Moves Along Super-Highway to Coloane

Other Forces Of Third Army ‘Are Closing In On Saarbrucken   General Patten’s 95th Infantry Division Has Pene  trated Well Into Important German Defenses  Across The Saar Rivey

Saarlautern  Captured by Patton’s Men   Germans Pound Roads and Bridges  With Big Guns

Germany's Main Defenses Hif By Third Army   Yanks Sweep Through Saarlautern, Nazi Fortress City

Allies Meeting Stiff Opposition North of Rome   Nazis Reported Fighting Back Savagely

70,000 GERMANS ARE PRISONERS IN ITALIAN CENTERS   Fresh Nazi Divisions ‘Rushed From North to hid Remn“ants of Army, Turn on Ainerlcan Fifth?”   YANKEE FLEET SAILS ° TQ, GUARD ISLANDS   Finland Brings Up Reserves to Batile Reds. ‘Advancing on Broad Front 40. Miles “From Viipuri.

Congressman Charges Army Makes Heroes Out of Italian War Prisoners

Russians Seek Encirelement  Of Budapest   Other Soviet Units Renew Onslaughts on Nation’s Capital

RUSSIANS CRACK GERMANS’ TISZA LINE IN HUNGARY   Plunge 17 Miles Toward Budapest—Other Soviet Units Renew Attack in Capital’s Suburbs.   AXIS FRONT NORTH OF CITY TOTTERS   Moscow Announces Armies Have Killed 100,000 Enemy Troops Since Invasion of Country Began.

REDS ADVANCE FROM BALKANS «TO BALTIC ARE}   Pilsit in East Prussia Shelled eas Smash North of Memel Develops

AUSSIANS SHELLING TILSIT   Begin Firing on German City as Offensive Develops

Russian Batteries Cpen Fire On Tilsit; Isolate 100,000 Nazis In Riga Area

SHAFT ECHOES -VANSH HOPE NORIO HIN   66 Entombed Miners Fail to Answer Queries

Hope Abandoned For 66 Miners   Three-Inch Shaft Sunk by Rescuers

No Answer From Miners Entombed      DRILLERS BREAK INTO TUNNEL WHERE 66 WERE SHUT OFF BY FIRE LAST WEDNESDAY; ALL HOPE VANISHED.   Except Echoes

HOPE FADING FOR ~ ENTOMBED MINERS   Drillers Break Into Tunnel But Only ‘Echoes Answer Calls

ENTOMBED MINERS GIVEN UP FOR DEAD   Only Eerie Echoes Come Up Through Air Shafts

Huge Virtually Gone for Rescue Of Ohio Miners   No Answer Raeceivec Over Telephone Low-.. _ered Throuyl. Core 

Congressman Scores Letter Hospital Sent To Woman Outlining Burial Plans For Seriously Ill Soldier Husband

CAMPAIGN LETTERS GO 10 SERVICEMEN   Both Parties Use Loop-hole In Ballot Law

Reds Launch ‘Bio Offensive   Heavy Gains Made First Day In Three-Way Nazi Squeeze

RED ARMY OPENS LONG-EXPEGTED DRIVE IN EAST   German Lines Attacked on Both Sides of Fortified City of Vitebsk in White Russia.   “ENORMOUS LOSSES” INFLICTED ON NAZIS   Moscow Reports 10-Mile Advance by Its Forces and Liberation of More Than 150 Localities,

). Long-Expected Offensive By \: Reds Launched On Two Sides  Of Vitebsk; Germans Jittery   “Enormous Losses” Inflicted On Enemy, Moscow Communique Reports; 10-Mile Advance Made As Artillery And Aircraft Join In “Wall Of Fire”

Soviet Summer Drive Launched On Large Scale   “Enormous Losses” inflicted on Nazis

Russians Gain Up to 10 Miles On Wide Front   Drive Is Third Phase Of Tehran Plan to Conquer Germany;  150 Towns Liberated

‘Bio Offensive   Heavy Gains Made First Day in Three-Wav Nazi Squeeze

Long Expected Russian ~ Summer Offensive Is Opened ' SOVIETS GAIN 10 MILES: FIRST DAY,  Germans Report at Least Four Major Areas of. Attack

BLOW STRUCK NEAR VITEBSA BY RED ARMY   GAIN OF OVER NINE MILES MADE ON FIRST DAY

— ws  RA LT MESS.  m 08 Qe ~~ a -—— ho "eyo } 7 by Kok ee bh  a ‘eae   Crash Into Nazi Lines on Both Sides Of Vitebsk: Claim Losses of Foe ‘Enormous’   Germans “a7 aian + ig 1, Face ci-cer Soun-eras7ac<

Soviets Open Push in Area Of Vitebsk —   Gain Up to Nine Miles Along 19-Mile Front, Liberate 150 Towns DRIVE THIRD PHASE OF TEHERAN PLAN Germans Report Four  Major Attack Areas On 240-Mile Front

Nazis Claim Many U.S. PlanesDown   Big American Air Assault Believed Success

GERMANS SAY 136 PLANES DOWNED   Greatest Sky Battle Ever Waged, Nazis Claim   Of Losses Made By Allies; New U. S. Fighter Ship In First Showing

YANK BOMBERS BATTLE NAZIS   Planes Fly Over Berlin—Germans Claim 136 Allied Aircraft Lost

Berlin Claims 136 American Planes Downe   One Of War's Greatest Sky Battles Fought Over Germany

136 Ships Shot Down, hazis Claim   No Statement Made on American Losses by  8th Air Force

heich heport Says 136 Allied Planes ShotDownInFight   Say Greatest Air Battle Of All Time Started By American Bombers; Magdeburg And Halberstadt Hit

German Radio Asserts 136  Planes Down   Set Off Greatest Sky Battle Of All Time: Nazis Use New Tacties,   ENEMY LOSES Nive

Nazis Claim 136 Planes Shot Down   Big Four-Engined Planes Claimed Shot Down

GREATEST SKY BATTLE STAGED OVER GERMANY   Magdeburg and Halberstadt Major Targets of ©  U.S. Bombers ~~

U.S. Bombers In Great Sky Fight   Strike at Madgeburg, Halberstadt; Germans Making Claims Many Shot Down, Allies Say 59 Lost

LARGEST AERIAL BATTLE OF WAR FOUGHT TUESDAY   Claim 124 Bombers in Group: First Time Americans Over Berlin in Daylight

136 Ships Shot Down, Kazis Claim   ; No Staternent ! Made on Americar + Losses by  8th Air Force

HEAVY LOSSES ARE FEARED IN RAID, HOWEVER   Allies Advance in Italy o1 Road To Rome and Reds Still Slug Nazis Back

DNB Puts at 136 Total of Planes Downed in Daylight Raids With Flight Over Berlin   MACDEBURG HIT

124 AMERICAN FORTS DOWNED, BERLIN CLAIMS   Allied Sources Believe U. S. Losses Very Heavy

BRITISH PRES § SPECULATES ON LOSS BY YANKS   No Official Report By Americans Is Given On Greatest Battle With Nazi Warplanes   BERLIN ANNOUNCES 136 WERE DOWNED   'Fortresses Fly Across Ber lin Outskirts For First   Time; Pound Rail  road Yards

SOVIET F THRUST DEEPER INTO BUDAPEST   ‘Nazis Making Death Stand Foreboding Extensive Damage To City

Cutting Way Slowly Toward Center ot City — Bitter Resistance Being Reported — Defenders Cut Off from Outside Help.

Soviet Units Pierce Heart Of Budapest   Cornered Hungarian And German Forces Face Extermination

FATE OF LITTLE STEEL FORMULA MAY BE AT STAKE   WLB PANEL BEGINS HEARING ON BASIC STEEL WAGE DISPUTE

‘Wage Decrease Request Given ‘ToLabor Board   Decision In Ty pewriter  Company’s Case Mav Be Paleen For Others  - Following. War

58 Ships And Small Craft Sunk, Damaged; 89 Planes  Bagged In Ryukyu Attack   Aircraft Of American Third Fleet Hit Islands 200 Miles South Of Japan In Great Force And With Complete Surprise

Navy Planes Take Heavy Tolls At  Formosa, Kyukyu   Destruction Wrought In Great Sweep Of Far Western Pacific Bases Continues To Mount; Americans Lose No Ships, Few Planes.

Planes Damage  Ryukyu Craft Below Japan      Surprise Attack 500 Mile: From China Destroys 58 Ships, 89 Planes

$9 Aircraft Destroyed,  58 Ships Sunk Or Damaged   Carrier Planes Strike Jap Ryuku Islands, Eastern Doorway  To East China Sea DESTROYER IS SUNK

HITS = RYUKYU NEAR JAPAN   Fifty-Eight Ships Sunk or Damaged; 89 Planes Destroyed; Other Vessels Accounted For.   Blast Troop Barge

228 Ships Sunk; 530 Planes Lost   Assault on Formosa and Pescadores Islands Accounts for 100 Shios and 296 Airmlanec

U.S. Carrier Planes Batter at Eastern Doorway to ‘China; Sink, Damage 58 Ships; Destroy 89 Planes

U. §. CARRIERS BATTER SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT   Eighty-nine Jap Planes and 58 Ships Damaged or Destroyed in Raid   CARRIERS BLAST RYUKYO ISLES IN SURPRISE RAID

Surprise Blow Is Struck By Carrier. Planes Only 200 Miles From Japan:

Many Planes Also Wrecked   Surprise Blow Is Struck By Carrier Planes Only 200 Miles From Japan

Navy Planes Raid Boldly  Near Japan Ships, Aircraft   Ships, Aircraft Destroyed in East China Sea

U.S. Carrier Planes Blast 58 Jap Ships, Small Craft And Destroy 89 Warplanes

Third Fleet  Destroys 89 Planes   Halsey’s Fliers Attack Every Enemy Vessel In Sight in Daring Foray; No U. S. Vessels Are Damaged, Plane Losses Light

28 Jap Ships — Hit In Attack By USS. Fliers   Carrier Planes Make Surprise Raid on Ryukyu Islands Some 200 Miles: South of Japan— 89 Enemy Planes Destroyed

Destroy 36 Enemy Planes   Heavy Strike In Central Philippines Is Revealed  By Admr. Nimitz

Much Damage Is Caused on Ryuku Islands   Lie Only 400 Miles From China Coast

Investigation Asked in Pay ‘Kick-Backs’   Cole County Prosecutor Wants  Grand Jury Called

“KICKBACK” PROBE URGED   Cole County Prosecutor Asks Grand Jury Investigation of Alleged Refund of Secretary Pay tq Senators.

DR Signs Two Bills . Into Laws   oth Intended to Guide  ‘ation's Manpower And  Business from War To Peace

NATION GETS SET FOR STEP TO PEACETIME   RECONVERSION BILL IS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT

Reconversion  Bills Signed   Roosevelt ; Reluctantly Okehs New Agency,  Surplus Measure

Rescue Crews Crack Under Strain _ After 38 Bodies Brought from Mins

Five Mile Gain Reported after Furious Battle   Armored Forces In Heavy Action

CAPIN NAZL     IS WIDENEL   British Capture Three Villages in Fierce Struggle of Tanks. and Infantrymen,   STRONG GERMAN _. THRUST SMASHED   Enemy’s West Flank Sages  as Bradley’s First Army Advances Down the Vire River.

In Fierce Armored And Infantry Fighting General Montgomery’s Forces Occupy Village OF Touffreville

Yanks Pursue Nazis Over South France   Bag of Prisoners Is Now at 45.000 Mark

AMERICANS POUND GERMANS FLEEING UP RHONE VALLE   One Three- Mile Column Is Wiped Out—Other Remnants of Hitler’s 19th Army in Danger.   NAZI REINFORCEMENTS MOVE IN FROM ITALY   Strong Armored Force Cross es Alps and Drives Americans From Fortress  Town of Briancon.

YANKS BATTER SURVIVORS OF ISTH ARMY   Along 20-Mile Stretch of Rhone Valley; Nazi Armor Penetrates France From Italy.   “Hotly Followed”

U.S. Forces Batter Survivors —  Of The German 19th Army   Americans: Hack Relentlessly at Fleeing ‘Nazis‘in the ‘Rhone Valley—Nazi Armor Penetrates From Italy

Germans Seek To Extricate  Trapped Army   Nazi Column Crosses Alp: To South France in Bid Te Reliewan Dawicdac

Yanks Hack Fleeing Nazis i Rhone Valley   Strong German Force Strikes Into France From Italy in Effort To Relieve Pressure

Retr eating  Foe In South France  Suffers Severely       Nazi Force ee ity : Essay Diversion: ‘Attack

Americans Hack at Fleeing German Forces  German Column   German Column in South France Launches Attack

Rhone Valley Becomes Nazi Death Trap   Strong Enemy Force Strikes Into France From Italian Frontier

German Armored Column Strikes In South France   Force from Italy Attacks in Effort To Relieve Pressure

Nazi Column Crosses Alps   German Armored Force Strikes Into France From Italy; Yanks Pursue é Foe Up Rhone Valley

Threaten Phone Strike at Dayton   Walkout Might Spread Thru Ohio

DAYTON PHONE OPERATORS VOTE TO STRIKE DEC. 3   Protest Hiring Out-of-Town Help at Salary Plus Expense Accounts

Three Ruston High Students Share The Tech Scholarship   Two Girls And One Boy Rotate Use Of The  Regen Bap T stems

SCHOLARSHIP IS 10 BE SHARED   Three To Participate In Same Grant To College Entrants

Political Action Group Branded Communist Fron!   Dies Committee is Reminded of Bridges Case

STEVENSON 10 TALK WITH FOR   Governor Accepts Invitatior Of Chief Executive

Ground Operation  Held Up   Several Penetrations Of German Lines Claimed, But No General Battle.

Germans Admit New Russ Gains   Sevastopol ‘Plastered By Red Fliers Again

HAUNTED’ SCHOOL IS HOAX  Pupils Invent Dancing Coal Mystery To Fool Nearsighted Teacher

Pupils Admit Joke Played On Teacher   Nearsightedness Kept Young Instructor From Solution

NAZI PERSONNEL BEING EVACUATED FROM FOUR PLACES   Field Dispatches Say Soviet Vanquard Has Advanced Unimpeded ta Within 40 Miles of Pskov. ,   RABAUL AIRFIELDS = ABOUT NEUTRALIZED   Move Is Launched to Acquire Chinese Bases on Mainland For Final Knockout of Japanese.

CONVERGE FROM 3 DIRECTIONS ON VITAL PSKOV   Key German Personnel Evacuating Cities; Luga Seized

Nazis Fall Back Before Russians  In Pskov Drive      Gestapo, Administrators Pulling Out of Offices In Key Personnel Posts

Germans Evacuate Cities   Russians Push Through Swamps, Deep Marshes

RUSS POUND PSKOY, KILLING 0 OF 10 NAZIS IN THEIR PATH   COSSACK CAVALRYMEN JOIN IN EXTERMINATION OF GERMAN EIGHTH ARMY BELOW CHERKASI

Reds Smash To 40 Miles Of Latvia   “hree-Pronged Drive On Pskov Gears Up After Nazi Collapse.

RUSSIAN ARMIES CLOSE IN ON KEY TO LATVIA   Nazis Reported Leaving Town

Soviet Army Forces Close  In On Pskov   Nazis Evacuate Key Per sonnel After Resistance Collapses

Soviet Army Hammering at  Gates of Pskov   Cossacks Disposing of Last 100,000 Nazis Caught In Cherkasi

Red Army Reported Fewer Than 40 Miles From Pskoy LUGA IS CAPTURED  Germans Evacuate Minsk, Hallin. Kowel and

Pershing and ‘Star Spangled Banner observe 84th and 130th birthdays

Charges U. 5.               Attorney in Sedition’ Trial Blames ‘Professions Jews’

‘COMMUNISM’ IS CRY IN SEDITION DEFENSE CHARGE    Says FDR Ordered — Trial ‘To Cover Crimes Of Government’

Charges U.S. On Verge Of  Communism   Attorney in Sedition Trial Blames ‘Professional  Jews’

Sedition Lawyer Hits At Leaders   Klein Says Communists Control! . The Government

Klein Says U. S, Is Red-Controlled   Atorney Names as Chief Aides of sn’  Sedlitio

Says Communists Threaten Nation  Attorney Enlivens Sedition Trial

Reds Control Government Court is Told   Sedition Trial Attorneys Defend Their Clients

ROOSEVELT BRIDAL . PARTY IN ARIZONA   President's Son and Actress Fay Emerson to. Be Married at 9a m. Today.

U. S. INFANTRY CLOSE IN ON JAPS AT MOKMER   Australians Occupy Bunabun. Harbor West of Madang

PRODUCTION BY U.S. FARMERS NEARS RECORD   Top Output Of 1942 Like. ly To Be Exceeded This Year, Report Says

EXPLOSION DEATH TOLL REACHES 371   No Explaation Of Ammunition Ships Exploding

Death Toll In Ship Blast Rises To 377   Damage Caused As Ammunition Blows Up Estimated At $5,000,000.

377 LISTED AS DEAD IN BLAST   Property Damage Tops Five Million, Navy Reports

RAISE DEATH TOLL IN BAY EXPLOSION   Estimated 377 Persons Were Killed In Frisco Disaster

Death Toll: Estimated at 377 in Munitions’ Blast   Property Damage More Than Five Millions; Injured May Total 1000

Death Toll Rises to 377 in Explosion of Munitions Ships as Navy Prepares Probe

Ten Men Reported Lost, Two Vessels Sunk in Lake Erie   Four Ships in Collision When Heavy Fog Sweeps Over Lake Ai Dawn—At Least Three Hur!

Collisions Sink Two Freighters  10 Seamen Listed Lost In Great Lakes

Reds Smash For Ploesti, Galati Gap   Germans Report Russian Attack: on Broad Frent North of Iasi, Reavy Fighting in Progress

Canned Milk Is Subject of Check      tate Institutions Warned Not 10 Use Prodnet Unul After Inspection

British Carrier Force Planes Attack Targets Along Norwegian Coast

Hit Nazi Shipping Off Norse Coast  Bice  Carrier-Based Planes Damage Four’ Vessels

Demobilization To Be Slow in Army,  Fairly Quick For Most War Agencies

love to Replace pangler Heard  n GOP Circles   Dewey or Bricker Expected to Want A New Chairman

ee  — Man In Spangler’s Job Planned   SOME REPUBLICAN LEADERS DON’T LIKE NATIONAL CHAIR MAN; NOMINEE WILL HAV! CHIEF VOICE IN DECISION.   ‘Politicians Guessing

NoGround For Pear! Harbor Trials Founc   Inside Story of Disaster Will Continue to Remain Secret

Short and Kimme to Escape Trial  Army and Navy Heads Against Court Martial

No Grounds Found for Court Martial Proceedings in Pearl Harbor Case

Trials Fading   NO GROUNDS FOUND FOR COURT-MARTIAL OF GEN. SHORT. ADMIRAL KIMMEL   Washington Errers Tee

ARMY AND NAVY RULES NO SHORT, KIMMEL TRIALS   DECLARE EVIDENCE DOES NOT WARRANT COURT PROCEEDINGS

No Kimmel, Short Trials   Court-Martial Grounds Absent, Say Army, Novy; Errors Admitted

‘Inquiry Board Finds  ‘No Grounds to Start ‘Court Martial Action

Army, Navy Quiz Finding Kept Secret   Errore of Judgment In Washington Seen Factor in Tragedy

2 BOARDS OPPOSED TOCOURT-MARTIAL OF SHORT, KIMMEL   Army and Navy Probers of Pearl Harbor Attack Find No Grounds for Action Against Two.   REPORTS TO BE KEPT SECRET TILL WAR ENDS   Investigators Say Errors of Judgment in Both Washington and Hawaii Had Part in Disaster.

No Grounds Found For Court Martial Proceedings Against U. S. Military , Personnel—Errors In Judgment And Lack Of Skill In Both Washington And Hawaii Cited As Contributing To Pearl Harbor Tragedy— Inside Story Still Blanketed By Secrecy

Boards Of Inquiry Find Errors Of Judgment In Both Washington And Hawaii Had Part In Pearl Harbor Disaster

Court Martial Proceedings _ Ruled Out By The War Dep't   Evidence in Pearl Harbor Investigation Does Not War rant Institution of Proceedings, Secretary Stimson Declares

PEARL HARBOR CASE CLOSED, CHIEFS SAY   Full Story Ot Attack To Remain Secret   SUFFICIENT ACTION   Already Taken Against Of ficers, Report Stimson And Forrestal

No Grounds for Court Martial At Pearl Harbor   Army and Navy Blame Washington In Part for U.S. Howatian Disaster

Kimmel, Short Court - Martial Are Abandoned   Officers in Washington and Pearl Harbor Blamed For Success of Sneak Attack

Findings of Army and Navy Boards Revealed But Reports Withheld   Errors in Judgment in Both Washington And Hawaii Are Found; Forrestal, Stimson Say They Will Continue Personal Investigations

—PEARL HARBOR—  NO rN FOR COURT MARTIAL!   Prospect Of Pearl Harbor . Prosecutions-Near Vanishing Point .

Clear Kimmel, Short; Probers Find No Cause For Court Martial Act

Army and Navy Decide to Drop rope of Commanders At Pearl Harbor, Data Withheld

Army and Navy Report ‘Errors’ At Pearl Harbor   Find No Grounds For Court Martials

No Grounds For Court Martial Ir. Probe Of Pearl Harbor Disaster -

No Pearl Harbor Trials   Army and Navy Boards Report No Grounds Found for Court Martial Against Officers .

No Grounds For Pearl Harbor Court Martial  Report Clears Military Heads

PEARL HARBOR DEATH AND DESTRUCTION 15 BLAMED ON JAPANESE   ARMY-NAVY ANNOUNCE  SHORT AND KIMMEL NOT BE COURTMARTIALED

Errors Of Judgment Blamed For Pearl Harbor Disaster By Army And Navy Officials   ‘Stimson And Forrestal Say Both Washington And Hawaii To Blame For Attack But No Grounds For Court Martial Proceedings Have Been Discovered

No Basis For Pearl Harbor Prosecutions   -Probers Find Errors In Judgment In Both Wash ington And Hawaii.

PEARL HARBOR BLAME RESTS SOLELY ON JAPS   investigation Board Admits Errors in Judgment Were Found

Somebody Blundered But... Story of Pearl Harbor  Given Hush Treatment

Pearl Harbor - Disaster Now a Closed Case   Any Further Punishment Probably Will Be Upon the Japs Alone   NO PROSECUTION TO BE INSTITUTED   Errors “in _ Judgment: and Lack of Skill in’ Both Washington, Hawai

Court Martial Plans Dropped   No Further Inquiry Into Pearl Harbor Blow Is Now Likely

Army, Navy Boards Report on Pearl Harbor Probe   Investigators Finds No Grounds for Court-Martial Proceedings; Texts of Findings to Remain Secret

PEARL HARBOR PROBE CLOSES   OFFICIALS VINDICATED BY ARMY, NAVY BOARD

Army, Navy Find No Grounds For Pearl Harbor Court Martial   Gen. Short, Admiral Kimmel Are Vindicated by Boards of Inquiry

Supply Bill Is Slashed In New  Economy Drive   Over 91 Millions Cut By House Appropriations Committee.

APPROPRIATION PLEAS SLASHED BY COMMITTEE   $91,235,064 Cuts Effecied in Firs Deficiency Supply Bill for, Fed eral Agencies

ECONOMY TREND IN CONGRESS  $91,234,064: Slashed From Fund Requests

HOUSE ECONOMY KNIFE SLASHES BIG FUNDS BILL   Federal Agencies Would Get 91 Millions Less Under Committee's Action

CONGRESSMEN REDUCE FUNDS FOR AGENCIES   House Appropriations Committee Cuts $91,235,064 From Requests

JULONG BEGIN ECONOMY DRIVE   $91 Million Cut in Deficiency Supply Bill Recommended By Committee.

Economy Drive. Given Impetus  Big Slash Proposed dor Federal Agencies

Economy Axe Swings at Capitol House Committee Rips Federal Bureau Fund

Solons Swing Economy Knife   Committee For Lopping $91,000,000 From Sum Federal Agencies Asking

Slash Funds  For Agencies   Committee Recommends Decrease In \ppropriations  For Federal Works.

House Sroup Cuts Funds   Swings Economy Axe on Appropriation: Asked by Agencies

Gasoline Black Markets Keep Illinois Motorists From Getting More Fuel

25TH STRAIGHT DAY OF ALLIED SKY SMASHING   France, Belgium. Luxembourg Reck To Bombs From 72,000 Planes Bearing Allied Svmbols

Heaviest Aerial Offensive   Two Thousand U. § Planes Over Nazi Europe Tensely Awaiting Invasion

Biggest Day of Pre-Invasion  Raids Hinted   750 RAF Bombers Hit Many Targets by Moonlight

Germans Air Bases. Rails Are Plastered   British Lancasters And Halifaxes Pour 3,360 Tons Of Explosives On Tactical Targets

2,000 Yank Planes Raid French Area   Heaviest Day Aerial Offensive in History Enters 25th Day

2,000 U.S. Planes Lash At Europe   Gigantic Air Fleets Cascade Bombs on 10 Separate Targets In Three Countries

Superfortresses Carry Record Loads Of Bombs in Their Attack on Rangoon

Italian Populace Cheers As Liberators Break Shackles   King Expected to Abdicate in Favor Crown Prince Umberto in Formal Ceremony

Italian Populace Cheers As — Liberators Break Shackles           King Expected to Abdicate in Far : Of Crown Prince Umberto i in 1 Fo mal Ceremony 

Tiber River Is Crossed  In Attempts To Nip Foe   Allied Planes Bomb  Retreating Germans

“Food Front Alert Week’’ Important In Palo Alto  Farmers To Fight

Dala Alta  £a1y F3ilu.  Food Front Plans Laid   Schedule “Mectings In Every eo venice March -6-11-------:=

Promises Democrats, if Kept in Power, Will Put “Human Welfare First and Profits Second” in Reconversion Job— Speaks Before Crowd of 25,000 —- Says Party Hopes for Peacetime Use of Factories Built for War.

Son of Major and Mrs. Raymond Em-erson, He Wed Margaret Cochran Three Months Ago .

Son of Major and Mrs. anlaje -erson, wie Wed Margaret Coc. - Three Months Ago 

Massachusetts Democrats  Endorse FDR For 4th Term   Pennsylvania GOP Favors Dewey, Democrats For FDR

Roosevelt Backers Win Massachusetts Primary Over Ely  New Deal Critic's Delegates Unsuccessiul in Six of Seven fanaressional Districts

SentimentShown For Fourth Term   Massachusetts Presidential Primary Shows Party Members Favor Roosevelt to Head Party Ticket Again in Election Next November.   ELY WINS ONE DISTRICT

State Primary Shows Trend To 4th Texm   Ely Candidates Behind in 6 Of 7 Districts

Commons Debates Activities of Yank Army, Businessmen  Member Charges American Troops Got Pinms in Invasion, Phaene Racnecemon [nfiltrahne

British Lawmaker Complains U.S. Troops Get Plums While British Are Given Tough Jobs   Questions Are Raised In Commons On American Business, Military Activity

HIGH - ALTITUDE JUMP IS FATAL   Army Officer Dies In Plunge From 42,000 Feet

PARACEUTE FAILS, HIGH JUMPER DIES   ARMY OFFICER, MAKING TEST, DROPS FROM FORTRESS UP 42,000 FEET.

R. A..F. Blasts Stettin After Feint at Berlin Hopelessly Confuses Nazi Air Defenders

RAF Feints At Berlin And ‘Then Bombards Baltic Port  Nazi Night Fighters So Confused They Fail  To Interfere With Bomber Raid On Stettin

PLANT TIED UP AT WILLOW RUN   Labor Disputes Make 30,000 Idle: Work Week Reduced

MANY STILL IDLE: - STRIKES CONTINUE   Approximately. 38 ,000 Men and Women - on Strike

38,000 Idle By Strikes In America   ‘THIRTY THOUSAND OF THEM OUT AT FORD WILLOW RUN LIBERATOR PLANT AT DETROIT,

Ohioans In Service Get Full Ballot: Governor Signs Bill, Session Ends

BRICKER SIGNS ~ BALLOT BILL   Enables All Eligible Ohioans in Service to Vote

Dewey Has 729 Votes Assured On First Ballot   California Keynoter, Sureshot For Second Place, Sends Republican Convention Into Hich Gear With Denunciation Of New Deal.

Landside For Dewey Assured, 792 Votes Are Promised  For Nomination

Sugar Shortage in U.S. Forecast   Rationing to End When Japs Fall

Explosion Hits Nebraska Naval Depot   SEVERAL SOLDIERS BELIEVED DEAD IN HASTINGS BLAST

FINNS BATTER GERMAN TROOPS   Slav Partisans Are Reported Approaching Beigrade

FINNS ADVANCE AGAINST NAZIS   Attempt to Expel Germans According to Treaty

Finnish Troops TakeSuomussalmi   Attempt To Comply With Soviet Terms

Nazis Attack Allied Convoy  Five Axis Planes Downed Off North  Afvica

Nazi Fliers: Raid Convoy Off Africa   2 Of 6 Raiders Bagged; Ships Escape Safely

German Raid On Convoy Fails   Attack Made Off North Africa But None Of Our Ships Damaged.

EEO OE SS aaa eee ee  Palau Blasted In Prelude To Pre - Philippine Push

US. Warships Open Fire on  Palau Isles   New Move Apt To Be Part of Plan for Retaking Philippines

Yank Warships Turn Big Guns On Palau Isles  Fleet Of Planes Aid Naval Unit

‘ Warships Bombard Palau Islands As Mando Is Pounded From The Air. MacArthur's Troops Seize  Sucpiovi Island

THREE- WAY INVASION EXPECTED   Soepiori To West Of Biak Seized; Air  Blows Continue

Navy Pounds Palau Island   May Be Beginning Of Three-Way Offensive

Carriers Bash  3 Jap Islands   Yap, Halmahera Undergo Heavy Yank Pounding

WAROHIPS TURN GUNG ON VSLANG:   May Be Start of Expected 3-way Amphibious Blows   ISLANDS NEEDED   Before Attempt to Retake Philippines; Troops Land On Isle West of Biak

M acArthur Wins Another Island Off New Guinea; Sea, Air Raid on Palaus

Ls Planes . - Sent Out in Heavy Raids.   Bombers. Blast. Brunswick? and Fighters Tear. Into: Enemy: Air. Bases ;             1,000- PLANE R RAID  BY. THE BRITISH   Frankfurt. ‘Heavily: . Blastec Last Night and New Blows. Are. Struck in: France: :

U. 5. Airmen Again Smash Nazi Targets   Follows in Wake of Raid on Berlin and RAF Blast at Fraikfurt

‘Tunney Returns on Huge Craft Mars Completes First Trip  As Passenger and Cargo Plane

TROOPS FIRE AT A RANGE OF 3 MILES   Patton’s Men Hammer Home Attack Mile and a Half Into Siegfried Line and Hight Miles Deep  in Saayv Vallav.

King Watches British Fleet’s Striking Power   Monarch Witnesses Simulated Attack on Subs by Destroyers

NAZI 7TH ARMY REMNANT FACES DEATH ON SEINE   SS Units Lead German Flight

Field Dispatches Say All Organ ized Resistance Has Vanished   Everywhere On 135 Mile Front _ From Paris To Coast.   WITHDRAWAL FROM  FRANCE EXPECTED

Battle for Northern France Deaenerates Into Massacre of Retreatina Elite Guard

German Seventh ‘Army Is Headed For Annihilation   Yank Tank Columns Reported Astride Seine. River Already

Counties Seek More Authority In Welfare Administration   Committee Named to Study Welfare Laws and Report _Back—Comimissioners Express Concern Over Growing Cost of Relief

WELFARE COSTS ARE ASSAILED BY OFFICIALS   Commissioners Of State Start Move For Handling Relief At Home   PRESENT LAW WILL.  BE INVESTIGATED

BRITISH TROOPS SEIZE MELDOLA   Beachhead On Ronco River In Italy Is Improved

IMPROVED POSITION ON ITALIAN FRONT   Eighth Army Clears Germans From Meldola on West Bank of River.

EIGHTH FORGES IMPROVE RONCO RIVER HOLDING   Counterattacks Fail To Cause  Much Concern

ALLIES BETTER RONCO POSITION   Yanks Repel Nazi Attack in Hand to Hand Battles

Cadet C. M. Edwards  to Athens, Georgia      Flight School for a 3Months Traiminc..

Truk And Yap Hammered By U.S. Bombers   Other Areas Blasted   Yap Heavily Fortified

Allies Poised Near Cassino   General Wilson Says Rome May Fall Soon

Troops Push Nearer Final Dash To Rome   New Commander Takes Up His Job

YANKS SURGE TO BANKS OF RAPIDO RIVER   WILSON TAKES OVER AS SUCCESSOR TO EISENHOWER

Troops Push Nearer Final Dash To Rome  mi... f*......... Jj.   New Commander Takes Up His Job   Gypsy Smith, Once British Seaman. Leads Revival Here

Yank. Freneh Forees Reach  Rapido River   Another Big Battle Shaping Up; Wilson Says Nazis to Be Hit Wherever Possible

AlliedForceMoves Upto Rapido River   Americans and French Gein Points Favorable for Launching Attack on Cassino; Gen. Wilson Optimistic

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Allied Assault Upon Cassino Believed Near   Yanks, French Smast At Gustav Line On 30-Mile Front

YANKS, FRENGH SMASHING AT “GUSTAV LINE”   Reach Rapido River And Other Points Within Reach Of Cassino; Wilson Avers Rome Chief Objective.   Southern Thrust

American, Frenct Troops Approach City of Cassino   (anlure of Key Position Looms

Hammer naz: lines on 30  mile front   Rome objéctive of offensive: Wilson

TROOPS READY FOR  CASSINO ASSAULT   Rapido River and Other Favorable Points Are Reached

Argentine Not To Modify {ts Foreign Policy   Close Cooperation With Other Republics Farrell’s Aim He Says

Argentine Chief Says Foreign Policy Is Same  Farrell. Promises to Have Elections at Some Early Date

SAYS ARGENTINA JO COOPERATE   Farrell Says He Is Qaly Acting As President In Temporary Capacity To Fulfill Mission.

Argentine War Policy Favorable To Allies Pledged by Gen. Farrell

MAKE COMPARISON:  OF YOUR SACRIFICE  WITH THAT SOLDIER CONSIDER RED CROSS  GIFT IN RELATION HUMAN LIFE. RISKED

MAKE COMPARISON OF YOUR SACRIFICE WITH THAT SOLDIER  CONSIDER RED CROSS

PROMISES 10 REDEEM ALL LOST AREAS   Repeats Famous “I Shall Return” to Philippines

EDR Greets Wounded Hero Of Saipan War   Marine Smiles When Chief Chats With Him At Hickam Field

Reds Push Forward Five To 11 Miles; Viipuri Being Evacuated, Reports From Stockholm Indicate

Stimson Urges Congress Push Draft Of Labor   Says Men In Battle Areas Demand All Americans Aecept Same Liability

Stimson Urges Civilian Draft   Says Fighters Demand Civilians Accept Liability that They Do.

Stimson In Appeal For Labor Dratt   Senate Committee Also To Hear Knox; Congress Cool To Proposal.

Stimson in Plea for Service Bill   Men ot Front Demand Measure, Secretary of War Tells Congress

SOLDIERS DEMAND ALL-OUT DRAFTING   Stimson of Opinion Congress Should Give. Americans Same Liability.

MARINES SLAY 200 MORE NIPS   Gain Ground Against Hard Resistance

REDS ONLY 23 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   Capturing 60 Towns and Villages Between Danube and Tisza Rivers in Swift Offensive.   Fresh Troops

SOVIETS SWEEP TO WITHIN 23 MILES OF CIT)   Roar Of Artillery Heard In Budapest; Many Prisoners Taken

Russians Roll ‘Shattered Enemy Back   Drive Is Aimed at Knocking Out Hungary Quickly

Russians Now Only 23 Miles From Budapest   Flash on Guns in Battle Visible by Night in Capital

REDS CLOSE IN ON BUDAPEST   Roar of Russian Guns i Heard in Imperilled Hungarian Capital

Russian Troops Sweep to Within 23 Miles ‘of City  MANY TOWNS HELD IN SWIFT ASSAULT  ‘Roars of Soviet Guns Are Heard in Imperilleéd Capital

sTmperilled City Heats Roar of Red Artillery, Resistance Weakening

REDS 23 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   ROAR OF RUSSIAN GUNS HEARD IN CAPITAL AS GREAT BATTLE RAGES.

Soviets Sweep Nearer Budapest   Hungarian Capital Hears Roar of Guns

Jab 23 miles  from capital  Bitter resistance  is said crumbling

Red Armies Close In On Budapest   Soviet Communique Announces Seizure Of 60 More Towns

REDS 23 MILES FROM BUDAPES!   Swift Offensive Cleans Up 60 Towns; Capital Hears Roar Of Guns

Situation At Anzio Tenses Up   Sharp Exchanges On Right Flank; Liberator: Pound Italian  Supply Coast.

WORLD'S MOST FORMIDABLE; BATTLESHIP TO BE LAUNCHED,   ‘U.S. S. Missouri, Constructed At Cost Of $100,000,000, Capable Of Sinking Any Ship Afloat; Contains  All Of Latest Weapons Developed In This War

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CHU AGHILL [poco WARKIKE 10 NEUTRALD   Renounces Hope of Turkish Cooperation in. Werld Struggle

Last Natural Barrier 140 Miles East Of  Germany  GERMAN DEFENSES CRUMBLING TO REDS  In Italy, American Troops Closing In On Florence

WARSAW AWAITS HOUR LIBERATION ‘AS BATTLE DRAWS NEARER 10 CITY   German Troops Said To Be Preparing For ‘Last Battle” Of Polish Capi tal

Bialystok Lost To Red Armies, Berlin Reports   Moscow Reports Fighting In Brest-Litovsh As German Retreat Continues; Russians  Smash Within 37 Miles Of Warsaw

DEMAND JAPAN, BE WIPED OUT   NATION'S LEADERS SHOCKED BY STORY OF NIP ATROCITIES

omens ox      THOUSANDS CAPTURED HEROES OF BATAAN AND CORREIGDOR VICTIMS OF INHUMAN TORTURE   RETALIATION ON JAPAN Is DEMANDED   “Bomb Japan Out of Existence and Hang The Mikado Is The Battle-Cry

Defeat Japs, Hang Mikado Is Chorus Of Angered U.S.    Revenge Demanded In Senate And House For Terrible Enemy   Atraritioe

Demands Bombing of Japan   ‘Senator Clark Calls for Blasting It Out of Existence:Would Hang Mikado   WEEP RESENTMENT . OF U. S. EXPRESSED   Must. Quit Fooling Around a and Steam Straight Into " \ojrio’ Reo. May Says

Sen. Clark Demands Japan Be Blown Out Of Existence Anc Mikado Himself Hanged

Destroy Japan, Solons Demands  .0 More Supplies Can Reach Prisoners

Jap Torture of Prisoners Brings Retaliation Demand   ‘Bomb Japan Out of Existence. Hang Mikado,  Senator Clark Urges — Hull Says  U. S. Gathering Evidence    AMERICANS STARVED, BEHEADED   Three Officers Who Escaped Bataan Tell of Barbarous Treatment, "March of Death’ Denial of Water, Medicine

SENATOR CLARK IN DEMAND THAT JAPAN BE BOMBED OFF MAP  WOULD HANG MIKADO IN IN RETALATION FOR ATTROCITIES ON AMERICANS

Sen. Clark Demands U.S. Retaliation  For Jap Atrocities  Solon Would Hang Mikado, Bomb Isles Off Earth

Captured U. S. Soldiers Die By Thousands   Eye-Witness Report Of Atrocities Staaaers Imagination

CONGRESS ANGRY OVER STORIES OF JAP ATROCITIES   Blow Tokyo Off Map, Hang Mikado, Tenor of Cap ital Comment

HEADED BY “AMERICANS   gi hree Landing Strips And Nine Airdromes In France Raided

Yankee Flyers Attack Nine Nazi Airdromes   Other Bombers Hit Rocket Coast: Aid Ground Forces

GERMANS BATTLE TO ESCAPE TRAP IN SOUTH FRANCE   Yanks Drive Wedge Into the Rhone North of Marseilie in Effort to Block Nazis’ Retreat.   FLEEING COLUMNS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   More Than 50,000 Enemy Troops Killed, Wounded or Captured in Less Than Two Weeks.

TRAP CLOSES ON NAZIS IN SOUTH FRANCE   Enemy Fights” To Avoic Being Cut Off From Route To Ger many

Armored Columr Throws Deadly Wedge into the Rhone Valley   Heavy Losses Inflicted on Fleeing Enemy Troops; Last Germans in Marseille Surrender

Rhone Trap Is Closing on Battered Nazi:   American Armored Column Cuts Ol Escape Route

More Than Half of Southern France Force of Enemy Destroyed   MARSEILLE IS HELD; GERMANS SURRENDER   Amazing March of 200 + Miles in Two Days Renorted

South France Proving Trap For Germans   One American Column Advances 200 Miles

SOUTH FRANCE TRAP CLOSING   Nazis Fight Desperately to Escape As Yanks Push Into Rhone Valley

Last of Foes Yield Selves At Marseille   Germans’ 19th Army Faces Closing of Escape Door By Sneedinge 1.6 Hh

LAST AVENUE OF ESCAPE IS CLOSING UP   For Remnants of Battered German 19th Army in France; Heavy Losses on Rhone.  wee

BOMBERS HIT VITAL TARGETS   Bomb Rebot Bases in Northern France — Hit Synthetic Oil Plant in Germany,

GOOD HARVEST DAYS   Temperatures From 65 to 75 Foreeast for Tonight

UNDERGROUND FORCES OF FRANCE ON ALERT   By RALPH HEINZEN  oF Se Erte: Cineenseanincerctews

$61, 500 GOAL.OF - RED: CROSS. DRIVE   Local Chapter Completing ~ Plans for Big-Cam. Rs > Balan:

$61,500 GOAL OF RED CROSS DRIVE   Local Chapter Completing Plans for Big Cam- paian.

OUSTED PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA DIES   Advocated National Policy o' ‘Prudent Neutrality’

SOURCE OF WAR DELAY CHARGE NOT DISCLOSED   Labor: Leader. Blames: General Marshall; AFL President Challenges Him to Prove Statement

Defend Marshall In Strike Threat   Congressmen Suggest Union Leaders Be Taken To Battlefronts To Hear Soldiers’ Opinion.

SPOKESMEN IN RUSH TO BACK LABOR REMARK   Rickenbacker Says He Supports Marshall

Demands Rise For Author Of Strike Opinion   Authorship Of Statement Was Attributed To Marshall By Green,   CHALLENGES GENERAL

Strike Charge Storm Grows   Demand That Author Of Statement Make His Identity Known

Asks Charge Against Labor Be Clarified   Want Statement on War Prolongation by Strikes Supported or Recanted

ADD PRESSURE ON ‘DELAYING WAR’ REMARK   Labor Union Chief Charges Marshall With Making Statement

CAUSE DISPUTE   Green Demands Support to Statement Attributed To Gen. Marshall

Demand  Support for Blast   GREEN CHALLENGES MARSHALL TO PROVE REPORTED STATEMENT

CRITIC OF STRIKES IS GIVEN SUPPORT      Gen. Marshall Gets Credit and : Praise

Storm Brews Over Strike Statement   AFL President  _ Charges General Marshall with Authorship

Demands Mount For Identity of Critic of Labor   Gen. Marshall Accused By Green Of Making Statement

Storm Grows On Strike Statement  Congressmen Join Unions In Protest

LABOR DEMANDS MARSHALL TALK   Green Challenges General To Prove Statement He Reportedly Made

Gen. Marshall Gains Support   Statement. Upon Strikes Is Now. Attributed: To Chief Of Staff

—LAB ABOR—   PUSH DENN ron STATEMENT QUIZ   Green Attributes Author. ship To Gen. George C.  Marshall 7   CONGRESS STIRRED   (Responsibility For’ Declaration Should Be Assumed, View

MARSHALL SILENT AMID FUROR      General’s Name Is Brought Into Discussion Over Labor Criticism   SENATOR REED DEFENDS HIM

Marshall Hasn’t Replied To Accusation Demand Grows For AntiLabor Statement To Be Backed Up Or Recanted

ASOUME MARSHALL MADE STATEMENT   Contended Labor Disputes Had Prolonged War, Cost Lives.

GREEN INSISTING ONALL FACTS IN LABOR DISPUTES   Wants Identity of Person Who Made Statement on Prolonging War or Have It Recanted.   DECLARES GEN. MARSHALL MADE REMARKS   Members of Congress Ex Press Opinions That Uni dentified Person Assume  = Pasnonstbitity.

Green Calls h or Suppor! Of Charges   Marshall Credited With Claiming War Slowed

Demands Grow For Statement That Rail And Steel Disputes Prolong War Be Supported Or Denied

Chiefs Agree With Marshall   Congressional. Public Spukexsien Support Statement On Labor Strikes.

Union Statement Demands Multiply  Green Challenges Marshall in Issue

_ Roosevelt's Secretary Indicates F.D.R;. Backs War Delay Charge

LABOR, SOLONS SAY “BACK UP” OR “RECANT’   Demands Multiply for . Identity of Man Who Talked War-Tieups

RALLY BEHIND CEN. MARSHALL   Praised for Strike Statement Being Credited  To Him

DEMAND STRIKE CHARGE AIRING   Solons Join In Demand Anonymous Author   Be Named

Labor Blast Attributed to Gen. Marshall   Demand Crows That Author of Anonymous Statement Be Revealed

DEMAND GROWS FOR REVELATION OF NAME OF PERSON WHO BLAMED LABOR WITH PROLONGING OF WAR   _. President Green of AFL Blames Statement on Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff. Some  Congressmen Declare Statement Was Treasonou:

['. S. Needs China. Nelson Declares   fo Our Advantage To See Her Rise. He Says

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   NEW ATTACK LAUNCHED TOWARD ARNHEM

NAZIS REPORT NEW BREAK IN WEST WALL   Dempsey’s Forces Steadily Wearing Down Germans

BIG GUN DUEL ONLY ACTIVITY BELOW ROME   ALLIED FLIERS TAKE OVER INITIATIVE AGAINST NAZIS

STRIKE CLOSING DETROIT PLANTS IS-NEARING END   3500 Foremen In 14 Indus: tries First Among 74,000 to Resume on Recommendations of Leader.   WORKERS HEED REQUEST OF GENERAL   Officer of Air Forces Declared Stoppage “Most Serious Setback” Endangering Men's Lives.

FOREMEN VOTE TO END STRIKE   14 Detroit War Plants Ready To Resume

REDS HAMMER QUT GAINS IN BALKAN DRIVE   Soviets Near Yugoslav Border; Crack Foe  Lines in Poland

Russian Forces Near Yugoslavia In Swift Advance   Reds, Formally at Wa with Bulgaria, Are Massed on Frontier

REDS 50 MILES FROM FRONTIER OF YUGOSLAVIA   Russians Silent On Military Action Against Bulgars

RUSSIANS NEARING YUGOSLAV BORDER   Red Armies ies Race Beyond . Craiova i in Western Romania.

RUSSIANS NEARING - YUGOSLAV BORDER   Red Armies Ra Race. Beyond _ Craiova’ in, ‘Western Romania.

SOVIET TROOPS ONLY 115 MILES OUT OF SOFIA   German Line On Narew Cracked In Attempt To Bypass Warsaw   CRAIOVA IS TAKEN IN UNCHECKED DRIVE

\The War Today—  Chinese Lifeline Would Be Severed If Japanese Force Captures Imphal

JAPANESE INVASION OF INDIA. . HAS DEVELOPED INTO DANGEROUS RACE FOR TIME AGAINST RAINS

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Preae War Analvat

WAR TODAY   Jap Invasion of India Has Developed Into  Fierce and Yangerous Race Against Tene

Fear of Monsoon Spurs Invaders  30,000 Japs Pin Hope OfSurvivalonImphal

\JAPS FIGHTING AGAINST TIME OF MONSOON MAKING DETERMINED AND TERRIFIC DRIVE ON INDIA BASES   Hope to Capture Imphal and Kohima and Be Prepared for New Offensive in August. Effort Carries Danger to Allied Forces Who Are Believed Able to Hold Enemy —

Point Values  To Continue  OPA Loses Row With WFA; May Make  Wie ee es Be Be

NO CHANGES NOW IN POINT VALUES   F ood Point Values Will Remain Unchanged as Result of Clash Between Departments.

FOOD POINTS MAY NOT BE CHANGED   ‘OPA, WFA Not Able to Agree on Proposed Changes; Vin son Gets Problem

FA. WINS ROUND BAT         ‘ood Peint Values to be Unchanged for Next Period  Starting Sunday

Food Points Unchanged      WFA Rejects OPA Proposal to Put Many Items Back On List

Revision Of Point Values Is Postponed   WFA Rejects Proposals Of GPA To Put Most Point-Free Meat On Ration List Again

OPA and WF Disagree Over Food Rationin«   Cigaret Shortage Draws Attention Of Congressmen

POINT VALUES MAY CONTINUE   OPA Wants Unrationed Meat Cuts Restored to Point Charts.

Cigaret Shortage, Rationing Werries Plague Wash‘ngton   GovernmentalExperts Say Fag Decline Due to Several Factors

Other Raiders Dump Bombs Or Northern France   Germans Again Fail In Counter-Attacks On Anzio Beachhead

‘iarce Artillery Duels Raging Along BeachHead Below Rome. Allied Air Force Active.

OPA Will Boost May Quota Of New Auto Tires   No Increase In “B” Gas Rations

March Use Bars “B” Increase, Says OPA— Tire Outlook Better— Quota of Synthetic Tires May Be Boosted  92 Per Cent. is Hit by Fuel Oil Index

“B” Ration Hike Out   Gas Supply Not Good Enough to Allow Increase at This Time

More New Tires  But No More Gas   Increase In “B” Ration Not Warranted In Any Part Of U. S.

BLACK HATRED STIRRED iN LONDON BY ATTACKS  - Buzz-Bomb Bombardment of City   Wane Strang Ranctinn Amana Pennl:

HITLER _ HATRED AT PEAK   WORK AND LIFE GO ON ABOUT AS USUAL DESPITE ROBOT BOMBARDMENT

Buzz Bombs Stir Hatred of Nazis, But Fail to Crack British Morale

BOMBARDMENT ROBOT PLANES STIRS MORE HATRED FOR HITLER  GERMAN ROCKETS CAUSING DAMAGE AND SOME TERROR IN LONDON

BLITZ VETERAN TELLS HORRORS ‘OF ROBOT BOMB   Three Weeks of Steady Bombardment Have Stirred Blackest Hatred For Hitler; Many Are Fleeing From London.

Solon Charges Rigid Censorship Giving Home Front. Vets Distorted War Picture

Soldiers’ Ballots Ninth of Total   Two Million Already Have Made Application

‘American Doughboys Use Trenches Yanks Made 25 Years Ago Near Nancy

Why Did Raymond Clapper, Other Reporters Die? They Were Trying to Report the News

KNEE-DEEP MUD COMES 10 HELP NAZIS’ DEFENSE   Weather Puts Real Damper on Allies West Front Assault

Navy Is Closer  To Tokyo   Surface Ships blast Matsuwa, 500 Miles From Mainland;  Hit Marianas.

Powerful U.S. Sea and An Forces Batter Jap Bases   Warships Hit Less than 500 Miles From Mainland in Record Assaults

CLINTON COUNTY HAS DRAFT BOARD FINALLY   Re-organized Board To Make First Call This Month

12 Are Killed as Trains Hit in Texas Blow   Extra-Car Ttrain Smashes into Another That Stopped at Station

TWO PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE IN SNOW STORM   WRECK OCCURS ON SANTA FE RAILROAD AT NOVICE, TEXAS

12 Die, And 75 Hurt In Wreck   TWO PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE AT TEXAS TOWN

12 REPORTED KILLED IN WRECK IN TEXAS   Troop. Train Crashes Inte Standing Passenger

TRAIN WRECK KILLS TWELVE   Passenger Trams Collide In Trafhic-Snarling Snow Storm

12 Killed, 40 Hurt As Santa Fe Train Hits Another  assenger Kams

Twelve Die In 2-Train © Collision   75 Others Injured As -Four-Car Extra Crash. es Into CaliforniaBound Train in Texas

12 Dead, 75 Hurt In Train Collision   Santa Fe Passenger Trains Pile Up in Texas Snowstorm

12 Killed In Train Wreck   Many Hurt As Special Hits Reqular At Novice Station

12 PERSONS KILLED. IN TRAIN WRECK      75 Others Hurt in Collision of Santa Fe. Trains in Texas Durino’ Snowstorm ~’

12 Killed, Many Are Injured in Texas Train Crash  Passenger Wreck  & or a] Pee ee ee ee

12 Persons Are Killed In Texas Wreck   '-Car Extra Crashes Into Rear of CaliforniaBound Passenger

12 Killed in Train Wreck   75 Others Injured When Two Passengers Collide in Snowstorm

Casualty List Delayed As Communications Broken   Carefree Travel Turns Into Shambles When Trains Collide; Many Are Injured

12 KILLED IN RAILWAY WRECK   Special Train Crashes Into Rear Of Passenger

Twelve Are Killed And 75 Injured When Two Passenger Trains Collide At Novice

12 DIE IN TRAIN WRECK   Seventy-five Others Injured As Two Santa Fe Trains Collide   THREE DEAD IDENTIFIED

12 Meet Death In Rail Crash   Two Trains Collide Near Texas Station; 73 Are’ Believed Injured

Twelve Persons Killed When 2  Trains Collide   Seventy-Five Injured; Crash During Traffic - Snarling  . wmrnnwectarr.   IH APPENS IN TEXAS

TWELVE KILLED IN TEXAS TRAIN WRECK THURS.   Seventy-Five Are Injured: Trains Crash In Snow

12 REPORTED DEAD IN COLLISION OF TWO TEXAS TRAINS   75 Others Reported Injured in Santa Fe Carsh Near Novice, Texas

Twelve Killed In Passenger Train Wreck   Many Injured in Collision During Snowstorm In North Texas

(2 REPORTED DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK   FORTY TO 100 HURT IN COLLISION DURING SNOWSTORM AT NOVICE, TEX.

12 Dead; Toll In Santa, Fe Train Crash   Extra Hits Rear of Halt ed California-Bound Express’

Train Wre ek :   Many Hurt As Special Hits Reaular At Novice Station

12Persons Die, 75 Others Hurt In Train Wreck   Four-Car Train Bound For Camp Barkley  Crashes Into Rear of  Passercer Train

TWELVE KILLED AND 75 HURT AS TRAINS COLLIDE   Crash at Novice, Tex., Stafior Blamed on Snowstorm and Faul. ty Communications

12 DIE, 75 HURT IN TEXAS WRECK   Santa Fe Passenger Trains Collide in Snowstorm

12 Killed And 15 Injured As Trains Collide   One Santa Fe ‘Train Plows  Into Another In Texas Snowstorm

75 Hurt When Two Trains Collide in Blinding Snowstorm   Only Three of Dead in Crash Identified at Early Hour Today

Texas Railway Wreck Kills 1:   75 Injured At Novice Tex.. During Storm

12 Die, 100 Hurt In Rail Wreck   One Train Plows Into Rear of Another

1 ‘NUTS’ REPLIES ; GENERAL 1 VULTIMATUN   HIT SHIPPING: ‘ UF JAPANESE OFF LUZON

BOMBERS HIT ENEMY « SHIPPING OFF LUZON: PLANES RAID MINDORO   g¢ight Of-23 Attacking Enemy Aircraft Shot Down; Raid On Yank Airfield And Shipping Causes Damage

JAP COUNTER AERIAL RAID IS ALSO DAMAGING   268 More Nippon Dead Counted In Mop Up Of Isolated Foe On Leyte

Yanks Raid Enemy Ships ~ Off Luzon   7,000-Ton Freighte Heavily Damaged By Mitchell . Bombers

ENEMY FREIGHTER IS DAMAGED BY PLANES   Jap Shipping In Lingayen Golf At tacked: 265 More Dead Nips Are Counted

BOMB JAP SHIPPING OFF LUZON ISLAND   U. S. Alrmen Damage 7,000-Tor Freighter—Eight Nip Planes Downed at Mindoro.

U.S. Amphibious Forces Drive Along Biak Coast Toward Vital Airfields

Santa Coming to ‘Nubbins? Hoffman Sunday Be-« cause He Might Not Live to Dee. 25

Allies Keep Germans ~ Busy On South Front; Reds Strong In Eas?   Our Strategy Finds Nazis) Pinned Down On Three Sides

Food Scarce ‘in  Germany, Russia   Congress Receives  Wickard Report

STARVING JAPAN INTO SUBMISSION TO BE DIFFICULT   . Wickard Gives Congress 252 Paye World Food Report, Germany Not as Bad Off As In 1918.   RUSSIA MOST SERIOUS OF UNITED NATIONS   Japanese Able to Prolone War With Large Rice Stocks and Supplies Ob tainable Elsewhere.

Hilliard Brooke Resigns Job As OPA H ead, Enters Veteran’s- Hospital To Recuperate

Several Pilotless  Bombs Shot Down   German Robet Bombs Downed In Davlight Attack On Seuthern England

To Crush Nazis in Balkans   Allied Commandos Land on Yuqoslay Coastin Strength

Bomber Crashes South of Menlo   Some Crew Members Burned to Death

FEAR 6 DIED IN BOMBER CRASH   Three Taken to Hospital, Phone Operator Says

D-Day Clears U.S. Strikes  No Action On Docket Of WLB For First Time

Invasion Clears WLB’s Docket — Of Strikes, First Time in History

LABOR TROUBLES HAVE CLEARED UF   WLB Believes European Invasion Has Brought About Changes.

PLAN TO PLACE TWIN CITIES NO. 1 JOB AREA   Would Mean No More War Contracts; Organize To Fight Move

HunsSpend50 Tanks Trying to Halt Drive   Reds Continue Spectacular Gains; Yanks Elght Miles from Liverno 

Yanks, British Get Only Minor Gains In Normandy Area   Russians Continue Damaging Blows ai Enemy on Eastern Front; Doughboys Batter St. Lo ;

YANKS SLUG ON THROUGH TOUGH FIGHT IN ITALY   Germans Getting Scared as Russians Near Prussia; Air Attacks Continue

Midwest's Cold Snap Is “Definitely  Broken", Federal Forecaster States

American Bomber Shears Off Top Of Schoolhouse. Scores Are Known Dead

Tired Yanks Push on in Saipan   Carrier Planes Bomb Rota Without Opposition

MIXED CHORUS WILL PRESENT OPERETTA NOV. 1   ‘Rings In The Sawdust’ Will Be Given On Friday, November 10.

HiGH SCHOOL CHORUS GIVES OPERETTA   Give ‘Rings In The Sawdust’ At High School Gym On Friday.

RUBERT BEDWEL RECEIVES WOUNDS   Coalmont Woman Gets Word Frem U.S. War Department

Allied Planes Smash Danzig   Mighty Aerial Blitz Roars Into Fourth Day

Planes Hit Danzig Area To Aid Reds   Also Take Heavy Tell Of Nazi Transport “In Three Days Of  Heavy Attack

British Navy Takes Island Near Greece   Both Greece and Italy Lay Claims to Island *

Seize Another Island Off Greece   British Take Scarpanto For United Nations

SCARPANTO IS CAPTURED: NO OPPOSITION   Island Between Rhode: and Crete, is “Ex-En emy Territory”, Says Communique.

BRITISH WARSHIPS SEIZE SCARPANTO   Island Midway Between Rhodes and Crete Is Occupied Without Onposition.

BRITISH FORCE SEIZES ISLAND   Naval Venels Toke Scarpanto, Midway Between Rhodes and Crete   Garrison Already Held

British Seize Aegean Island   Scarpanto Is Now Ex-Enemy Territory

REHEARING IS DENIED IN DISPUTE   Anti-Fourth Term Men Silent On Plans To  Contest Decision

Elusive ‘Goon the Coon’ Hides After Gnawing on Roofs of Homes in Denver

Arrange for Meeting — - Of Big Three Nations   Fate of Nominations ~  Remains in Doubt as ‘Senate Delays Action

Another Meeting Of Big Three Soon Return To Power Politics Is Seen

Big Three Meeting Scheduled, for  Policy Decisions  Late January, or Early  F February Likely Date;  Pees a  ee Ee he ee

Big 3 Leaders To Confer Soon On War Snarls   January-February Date Set, With Place of Mecting TT. Re Ontside IL Ss.

THREE POWER MEET SET FOR EARLY INYEAR      Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin to Confer in January or February

NEXT MEETING OF BiG THREE EARLY IN 194%   ALLIED DIPLOMACY STRIKES SNAGS OF DISCORD

Second ‘Big Three’ Meeting Has Been Arranged for Late January, Early February

Three Allied Leaders Will Meet in Late January or Early February Probably Outside United States—Differences _' Arising Over Treatment of Italy, Greece and Other  Areas to Be Taken Up—Stettinius and Eden May Attend.

PARLEY WILL TRY TO CLOSE ALLIED RIFTS   European Trends and Discord is Causing Grave Concern

Arrange Meet Of Big Three Powers   Great Need for Consultations On Allied Problems and Diplomatic Discord.

Possible Plot T é Take Church’ 2°  Life Thwa a :    Dynamite UC... ound Under Hotel In ..thens, British Headquarters

Find Dynamite Planted Under Athens Hofel   British Leaders in Greece for Parley To End Civil War

DYNAMITE CACHE is FOUND NEAR. ‘ATHENS HOTEL   Conference On To End War

Muskingum Flood Control Funds Allocated   War Department Plans to Resume Work on Projects

FIERCE FIGHT DEVELOPING ON TOWN PERIMETER   Wewak, Rabaul, Kavieng Blasted By Allied Bombers

JAPANESE WAGING STUBBORN FIGHT ‘ON MANUS ISLAND   Americans Moving on Loren. gau Break Through Enemy Lines at Points With  Aid of Tanks.   NEW AIR RAIDS MADE ON NIPPONESE BASES   Wewak Is Target, of Heaviest _ Assault — Ten Gun Positions Hit in Attack on Kavieng.   Air War Carried Closer to Japan  As Planes Strike at Kurile Islands

Yanks Battle  For Lerengau   Pillbox Defense System Found on Manus Isle

Roosevelt Urges’ Finns To Quit Nazis   Condemns ‘Hateful Partnership’ Despite Report Finland Refuses

APPEAL T0 FINNS TO QUIT GERMANS   UNITED STATES JOINS BRITAIN IN PLEA TO THE FINNISH PEOPLE

FR Appeals To Finnish: Peopte   Joins With Britain In Urging People to Break “Hateful Partnership’ With Germany.

Bid Follows Blunt Appea By Britain    America Views Recent Action With Gravity

FINLAND ASKED T0 “BREAK WITH AXI   Direct Appeal To Accept Russia’s Armistice ‘Terms Sent:By FDR   REJECTION. SEEN   Step Is- Taken: In Effort ‘To Prevent Collapse’ Of ’ Negotiations .

Roosevelt Appeals To Finnish People To End Hateful Partnership With Nazis

U.S. Urges Finns To Quit The War   President Makes Appeal In Formal Statement

President Again Ask: Finnish People To Get Out of War   U. S. and Britain Urge Nation to Terminate Its “Hateful Partnership’ With Nazis in Last-Minute Appeal for Peace

U.S., Britain Make Appeal To Finland   Hope Finns Will Sever Ties With Germany; Finns Seen As Rejecting Red Terms

U. $.-Britain Urge Finns To Quit War   Make Direct Appeal to People to Break With Germany

U.S, ASKS FINNS TO LEAVE NAZIS   Roosevelt issues Statement After Britain’s Appeal —

U. . APPEALS FOR FINN PEACE   COUNTRY ASKED TO END RELATIONS WITH NAZIS

Roosevelt Urges Finns To Break With Germany   U. S. President Makes Direct Appeal To End “This Hateful Partnership”

AMERICA JOINED BRITAIN TODAY IN APPEAL TO FINLAND  FATE OF SERVICE MEN'S garr ptr CMY Rr

U.S. JOINS IN PLEA TO FINNS   FDR Urges ‘Hateful Partnership’ Be Ended

APPEAL TO FINNS   Are Asked to End Hateful Partnership With  Germany

APPEAL SENT T0 FINNISH PEOPLE   }. S. Joins Britain In Making Appeal To Finns To End “This Hateful Partnership; Rejection Of Red Terms Disappointing.

U.S., Britain Urge Finland To End Fight   Roosevelt Urges Tin 3 Nation To Break Uy ‘Hateful Partnership With Germang«

UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN MAKE APPEAL TO FINLAND   ROOSEVELT CALLS SITUATION HATEFUL PARTNERSHIP WITH NAZIS

F.D.R. APPEALS TO FINNISH TO TAKE RED PEACE   Decries ‘Hateful Partnership’ With Nazi Germany

L.S.. Britain Appeals to Finns   Ask Termination of “Hateful Partnership” With Nazi Germany

Roosevelt Makes Direct Appeal to Finns to Break ‘Hateful Partnership’

dey BRITAIN JOIN IN APPEAL      Urge Finland to Accept Soviet Terms Or ‘Court National Disaster.’   FR SPEAKS FOR NATION

ISSUES DIRECT PLEA TO BREAK WITH GERMANY   More Sorrow and Suffering Only Alternative, ._ He Declares

Urge Finland To Drop Ties   With Germans   U. S. Joins Great Britain In Appeal To End ‘Hateful  Partnerehin”   ISEND FINAL WARNING

Roosevelt “Asks They. ~ Quit Nazis      Washington - and “Lond Take a Grave View of: :       OTHER: NEUTRALS - ; KEEPING: WATC             Last-Minute: Efforts. A “Made to: Avert: Break in “Armistice. Negotiations.

PLEA TO FINNS MADEBYF.D.R   President Voices Regret That Nation On Side Of Germany

ROOSEVELT ASKS FINNS QUIT WAR   Joins With British in Direci Appeal to Finnish People to End “Hateful Partnership’

‘US Appeals To Finland tc Make Peace   Judge Urges Maii Restrictions; Service Vote Bill Headed for White House

DROP NAZIS OR FAGE DISASTER, DUAL WARNINE   United States Joins Britain in Forecast of Dire Consequences.

AMERICA JOINED  BRITAIN TODAY IN  APPEAL TO FINLAND FATE OF SERVICE MEN’S  VOTE BILL STILL REMAING TINCERTAIN

FD. R. Urges Finnish People To Ouit Hitler   Helsinki Reported Drafting Formal ‘No’ To Russian Peace Offers.

Hint Finland Will Reject  Soviet Terms      British Warn People That They Will Be Courting National Disaster

U.S. and Britain Appeal to Finns   President Roosevelt Asks Them to End Hateful Partnership

U.S-BRITAIN ASK FINNS TO QUIT THE WAR   Formal Presidential Statement Pleads for End Of “This Hateful Part nership” with Germans

US And Britain Urae Finns To End Nazi Ties   President Appeals For Termination Of “This Hateful Partnership”

FDR Directs Final Appeal To Finland   Last Minute Effort Made To Prevent Collapse of Peace Move

UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN MAKE APPEAL TO FINLAND  ROOSEVELT CALLS SIT‘UATION HATEFUL PART.

alls Nation 0 Break Tie vith Nazis   President Calls lta "Hateful" Partnership

U.S. in a Final Appeal to Finns   FLD.R. Joins Britain In Urging Nation to  Aecent Panacea Tarmce

Helsinki Refusal To Accept Soviet Peace May Be End To Negotiations

Allies Direct Peace Appea To Finland   U. S. Joins Britain In Urging Finns to End ‘This Hateful Partnership’ With Nazi

Appeal to Finns To End ‘Hateful Nazi Partnership   Formal Presidential Statement Issued at White House to Finland.   Britain Urges Finns To Accept Red Terms

PORTUGAL BANS ORE SHIPMENTS FOR 3RD REICH   Is First Neutral To Comply Futty’ With Allied Reauest

PORTUGAL IS COOLED BY ALLIED INVASION   First of Neutrals To Yield

A NEW HITLER ORDER   Nazi Party to Take Over Nation’s Air Raid Services

VITAL KOHIMA RIDGE CAPTURED BY ALLIES   Reuters Says Biggest Battle Of Border Has Ended

Allies Check New Thrust at India’s Border   Enemy Admits Difficulties in Kohima Campaign

A NEW JAPANESE THRUST GLOSE 10 BORDER OF INDIA   220 Miles Southwest of Imphal; Reported by South-east Asia Command.   ATTACK WAS REPULSED.   This Was 10 Miles West of Daletme, East of the Indian Frontier.

JAPANESE AGAIN DRIVE CLOSE TO INDIAN BORDERS   Declare New Thrust Is Made 220 Miles Southwest of Im phal —- Jap Attack Near Fina labman

Advance Air Base Is Captured By China Offensive   Tokyo Admits It Is Within Range Now Of Raids; Advance  Is Continued

SALWEEN IS BRIDGED AT MANY AREAS   Offensive Indicates Allies May Have New Base Within Bombing Range  of Japan  BRITISH CLEANING UP

Several Enemy Attacks Reported Repulsed . . .  New Thrust By Japs 220 Miles To Southwest Of Imphal Now Under Way

Repulse New Jap Thrust   Enemy Forces Engaged Close to Borders of India Near Buthedaung

Jap Attack On Daletme Is Repulsed   British Destroy 15 Enemy Bunkers In Kohima Area

New Offensive Of China Army Sweeps Aheac   Airbase Within Bomb Range Of Japan Reported

JAPS START NEW DRIVE NEAR INDIA   Attack 11 Miles East Of Frontier Said Repulsed

JAPS OPEN NEW THRUST AGAINSI INDIA FRONTIER   Drive Takes Place 220 Miles From Imphal

Japanese Repulsed In New Thrust to Borders of India   Mountbatien Reperts Enemy Altack 220 Miles Southwest of imphal: Allies Mop Up in Kohima

DRIVE NIPS FROM STRATEGIC AREAS   Capture Several Tmportant Points West Of Salween River   AIDED BY U.S.   First Major Chinese Offensive In Seven Years - Of War

Kohima Ridge Clear of Japs   Japs Try Attacks Farther South But Efforts Repulsed By Allies

LAUNCH ARMY RESCUE SHIP   iMrs. Dorot>= Vawter  Sponsors Craft At RobJ inson Yards

Dewey  Predicts Morse Victory In Senate Race   “Speaks at Eugene; Ore., ° Enroute -io.San Francisco For Next Major Address

Politics   Reckless Words’ Use Hit by FDR; Rejects  Cammunishe Support

FDR ACCUSES REPUBLIGANS OF ‘RECKLESS TALK’   Foresw ears § u pport of Communists and : Fascists in-:Speech .

Chiefs Dispatch New Directives  To Pacific Area   Roosevelt, Churchill Remain Silent On Decisions Pending ‘Revelation  Of Full Story in Military Reporis

Post-War Plans Believed Drawn At Quebec Talks   Range From Control Of Germany to Cartels Red-Polish Dispute

QUEBEC ORDERS SENT PACIFIC WAR THEATERS   Besides Unrevealed Battle Decisions, 6 Matters  Settled

GOVERNMENT BUYING STIFFENS EGG PRICE   Purchase of Frozen Eggs Also Is Contemplated Now

MOVE TO TRAP ENEMY REAR GUARD GROUPS   German’s Defensive Positions Not Yet Broken, Is Report

LOSS EXPECTED TO RUN FROM   Flames Start in Manual Training Room; Classes Held Today

LOSS EXPECTED TO RUN FROM $3000 TO $5,000   Flames Start in Manual Training Room; Classes Held Todav

Force Facing Encirclement   Nazis Evacuate Headquarters Town Near Zhitomir

350 Commuter:  Are In Wreek Pennsy Train Crashes Inta Parked Coaches

Reports from Battle Theater Are Cenflicting   Japanese Announce That Americans Have Landed and Are Using Mechanized Forces

Chinese Say U. S. Has Landed Men   Conflicting Reports Heard on American Raid On Enemy Base; Japs Say Mechanized Units Being Used, Situation Is ‘’Serious”’

BUT FURTHER REPORTS ARE CONFLICTING   A Second Tokyo Broadcast Speaks of Mechanized Attacks and a Third States Designs of Americans Uncertain.

“Japanese Broadcasts S$ To Indicate Furious.  tle Now in Procress

Tokyo Admits Fighting For Truk Is ‘Fierce’: Mentions Mechanized Units In Action

Scouting Trip Found Harbor Full of Ships   All Yank Sources Silent on: Details - Of Major Operation

Tokyo Warns U.S. May Land Troopson Truk   Oriental Broadcasts Conflict on Character Of Newest Attack

Chinese Say Japs Announce Isle Invasion   ‘Powerful Mechanized Units’ Used In Operation Says Broacdeasts.   IN FURIOUS BATTLE

WINE TO TAKE ODT Lew's Restaurant 522 3rd st, SE. era      ATTRITION’ EFKALRRUIETR.

HARVEST NEARLY OVER   Rain Has Hurt Wheat But Helped Corn and Sorghums

Ce re ee  HARVEST NEARLY OVER   Rain Has Hurt Wheat But Helped Corn and Sorghums

Court Rules Bequest to Buy Hamburger for Cat: Aaains? Publie Policy

The War Today  See Yank Thrusts As Preliminary to All-out Offensive

FIRST ARMY ATTACK MAY WELL BE PRELIMINARY TO AN ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE ON CERMAN DEFENSE

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Hard Fight Lies Aheac For Alllies   Eisenhower Faces Big Problem of Supply; Weather Plays Hand

Exact Point Of Allied Culminafing Smash Info Germany Nof Yet Disclosed; Attacks On Sieatried Line May Be But A Feint

ALL-OUT. OFFENSIVE-FOR- DEFENSES . OF GERMANY MAY BE FORMING BUT  HAN TASK FACING ALLIED ARMY LEADERS

WAR TODAY   lies Face Tongh Task To Break Through Siegfried : Line; ‘Series of Attacks Anticipated by Observ-

Quick Peace Doubted By Churchill   Commons Told End Of War May Not Come Before 1945 Summer

Third Fatality In Auto-Bus Crash   Washington Soldier Dies After Operation

Hollandia Smashed By Bombs   Record Assault Wrecks Airfields at Jap Base  In New Guinea; Finish Off 288-Plane Nip Fleet

Nerve Centers of Nazi War Administration in Berlin Are Destroyed

Soviet Airmen Blast Naz! Convoy Attempting To Break Qut Of Sevastopol

REDS CL SEVASTOPOL  OSE IN ON BESIEGED   Airmen Credited With Disrupting Nazi Dunkerque

Soviet Airmen Disrupt Nazi Escape Efforts   Break Up Enemy Attempts To Stage Major ‘‘Crimean Dunkerque’’   REPORT SINKING FIVE NAZI SHIPS

RETURN VIA TOKYO      That’s Route Back Home for Boys in Europe, Tip

Many Men To Be Needed In Jap Fighting   Lear Says Soldiers In Europe May Come Home By Wavy Of Tokve

Yanks May Return Home Via Tokyo  Much of European   Much of European _Army'to Be Needed In Pacifie Says Lear

States European Army May Return Via The Pacific   General Lear Expresses View In Address At Cincinnati.

YEARS OF ABSENCE FORESEEN BY LEAR   Chief of Ground Troops Says Army May Return By Wav of Tokyo.

“THE MISSOUR?” LAUNCHED TODAY   World’s Mightiest Battleship To Be Launched by Sen. Truman and Daughter.

Truce Permits Civilian Flight At Dunkerque   Resumption Of Fighting Is Expected To See Canadians Assault Port.

War Contracts in Region Numerous   Reconversion Will Be Very Limited Because Of War Production

TRUCK DRIVERS POSTPONE STRIKE   WALKOUT PUT OFF PENDING LABOR HEARING IN CAPI'  TALJULY6 

Teamsters Union Postpones Strike Of 26,000 Drivers   War Labor Board Orders Hearing on Pay Dispute July 6

Mokmer Ridge Taken hy U.S. Forces   Strong Japanese Units Block Wav to Airfield

rete titre NE ree ace  RIDGE PEAK      Mokmer Defense Appears Cracked

6TH ARMY ON BIAK ISLAND “REACH MOKMER   MacArthur Sp okesman Reveals Ridge Is Reached

Mokmer Ridge Taken by U.S. Forces  Cleaner laneanaca   Strong Japanese Units Block Way to Airfield

Record Weight ‘Of Bombs Hit  Nazi Fortress   Over 4,000 Allied Planes:  Sear Targets as Enemy 

SPECTACULAR DOUBLE-HEADER BLOW ON NAZI INSTALLATIONS IN FRANCE ROUNDS OUT 18 HOURS OF ROARING  ATTACK.

RECORD BLOW MADE AGAINST NAZI BASTIONS   EIGHTH AIR FORCE HITS WITH 1500 BIG BOMBERS

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Reds Open Latvia Drive, Say Nazis   Push Termed Prelude To Winter Offensive

REDS LAUNCH BIG PUSH ON LATVIA FRON}   FORCE OF 270,000 LASHES OUT IN BALTIC AREA

‘SOVIETS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE INSIDE LATVIA   270,000 Russians, Including Ski Troops, Start Big Push   IS PRELIMINARY TO FULL-SCALE DRIVE

Japs Capture Three China Strongholds  Make Gains Aleag Two Rail  Make Gains Along Two Railreads, Threaten le Cat Off Changsha, Neutralize Airfields

JAPS TAKE THREE NEW STRONGHOLDS   Advances Made  on Drive To Capture Railway

UL S., BRITISH COMMANDOS {      Detachment Lands on Dalma tan ‘Coast ‘Under Lead of Churchill's Son..

Capt. Churchill’s Parachuting Into Yugoslavia Starts Nazi Reports of Commando Attack

Berlin Reports Allies Land On  Yugoslav Isle   Says Lissa ‘Commandos’ Are Led By Capt. Randoloh Churchill.

Capt. Churchill Reported To Be Their Leader   German Broadcast Says The Move Is of Little Value Militarily

Nazis Report Churchill's Son Leads Landing on-(sland Off Yugoslavia

NAZIS REPORT LANDINGS ON LISSK ISLANI   Berlin Radio Says Son of Churchill and Commandos in New Attack,

SAYS ALLIES ATTACK OFF ~ YUGOSLAVIA   Both Americans and British Under Randolpt Churchill Strike at Lissa Island, Berlin Radio Declares.

DRIVE AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA IS SFEN BY NAZIS   CommandosLed bySon Of Churchill, Says German Report

Allies Land On Island In Adriatic?   Berlin Reports U. S.British Commando  Landing on Lissa Off Coast of Yugoslavia

COMMANDOS LAND ION LISSA ISLAND   1500 AMERICAN AND BRITISH IN FORCE, SAYS BERLIN RADIO

Report Not Confirmed In London   Gen. Churchill In Command, Berlin Radio Report Says

BERLIN SAYS CHURCHILL  AT HELM   U. S. And British Forces Reported In Action  LIRCA   Off Dalmatian Coast Is 10 Miles Long, Five Wide; Near Port Of Split

American and British Units Under Command Of Copt. Churchill in Landing, Berlin Says

Berlin Claims Churchill Son Leads Attack   British Lanecasters Strike At Aircraft Factory Near M arcarlio   ALLIES NONCOMMITTAL

Commandos Land On Isle of Lissa   Berlin Reports Military Action Off Dalmatian Coast of Yuqoslavic

Claim Capt. Churchill Leads Invasion Off Dalmatian Coast   xermans Announce Evacuation of Uman as Soviet Troops Use Horses To Advance in Ukraine

Young Churchill Is Leading Allied Commando Attack  British and American Forces Land on lela MEE VYunaclavia

Germans Say Churchill Son  Leads Forces   Takes Charge Of Troops On Isle Off Yugoslavia

Churchill Son Mentioned In Lissa Landing   British and American Commandos Active Off Dalmation Coast  a ema iase - stk £7™ AR RIP PPa Ui oR!

NAZIS DECLARE LISSA INVADED BY COMMANDOS   Report Churchill’s Son Leader in Landing Near Dalmatia Coast

Churchill Leads  Lissa Campaign   Group of Allied Commandos Land on Isle Off the  Dalmatian Coast.

NEW COMMANDO LANDINGS BY ALLIES CITED   Berlin Reports Lisa Island Off Dalamatian Coast Invaded by British.  Americans

YANKS LAND ON LISSA ISLAND   Churchill’s Son Commands Expedition Against Dalmatian Isle

Young Churchill Leads U. §. And British Landing   Nazis Admit Loss Of Uman In Ukraine; Japs At Negros Weakening

AlliesInvade Lissa Island OffDalmatia   Randolph Churchill Leads British, Yanik Conimmando Assault

Young Churchill Said Directing New Landings   Report Of New Action Is Unconfirmed

BRITISH, U. 8. FORCES JOIN MARSHAL TITC   Berlin Radio Says Com. mandos, Led by Gen. Churchill, Invade Lissa

Capt. Churchill ~ Reported To Be Their Leader  German Broadcast Says : The’ Move Is of Little  EY FF... Wwr*t*i ._.29F._

Allies. Under Churehill’s  Son, Land On Yugoslav Isle   Occupation Of Lissa May Result In Inereased Aid  To Tite’s Revolt Against Domination By Germans

Landing on Slay Island Led by ‘Gen. Churchill Berlin Reports   Broadcast Apparently Re fers to Son of British Prime Minister

 British and American ‘Commandos Reported On HIsland Off Yugoslavia

Island Off Yugoslavia Is Occupied   Berlin Radio Says “Churchill” is Leader of Forces

RESISTANCE AT ANTWERP GATE BROKE)   Germans Admit Tha Battle of Schelde Estuary Is Con cluded.   Battle Concluded.

AMERICAN FORCES PLUNGE DEEPER IN NAZI WEST WALL   Smash Last Organized  Enemy Resistance In Gateway To Antwerp _   WIDEN FOOTHOLDS ON WALCHEREN   British Make New Landing On Western Tip Of Walcheren Island

SCORE 2-MILE GAIN; GERMANS RUSH RESERVES   British Smash Nazis Defending Gate To Antwern

Germans Say Schelde War Concluded   British Forces Smash Resistance South Of Antwerp.

Germans Rush in Reserves   Drive on Cologne is Stepped Up By American Troops

. 9. AIRFIELDS OPERATING NEAR MANILA   New Bases Located on Mindoro; Leyte Campaign Ending

AMERICANS KILL JAPS AT RATE OF EIGHT TO ONE   U. S. Beachhead on West Coast of Guam Linked. for Final. .  . Fight .

Americans Link Guam Beachhead   458 Americans, 3,724 Japanese Dead in Invasion OF Guam, Tinian

YANKS KILL NIPS AT RATE OF 199101   Americans Gain In Fighting On Guam, Tinian

Killing Japanese by Ratio of Eight to One — Major General Says Forces on Guan Cannot be Run om Now.

Yanks Link Beachheads On Guam, Begin Wiping Out Trapped Japanese   On Tinian Marines Kill Foe 100 To 1 In Gaining Control Of Ushi Point Airfield

Amercians Join Guam Strips   Nip Losses 8 tol; on Tinian, 100 to 1

Yank Troops Link (suam Beachheads   15 Marines Reported Killed In Fighting On Tinian; Jap Losses 100 Times Higher

BEACHHEADS ON WEST COAST OF GUAM LINKED   Battle Of' Annihilation Start: Against Isolated Enemy Pockets

AMERICANS ON GUAM LINKING 2 BEACHHEADS   _ Jap Losses Eight To One There, 100 To One On Tinian Isle

Jap Dead on Guam, Tinian Total 3,724   American Killed On Both Islands Show Total of 458

Americans Slay Enemy At Rate of Eight-To-One   Beachheads Linked On West Coast of Tiny Pacific Island

GAP IS OPENED IN NAZI RANKS AFTER TERRIFIC ATTACKS            Japs_are Killed. at Ratio of Eight to One in Fighting on Guam

American Forces Link Beachheads On Coast of Guam; Annihilate Japs

Yank Toll of Japs on Guam Is Eight fo One   Beachheads on West Coast Are Linked

YANK ASSAULT FORCES ON GUAM KILL JAPANESE AT RATIO 8 T0 1   Our Beaches Well Secured, States Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger.

BEACHHEADS ON GUAM ARE NOW JOINED   Yanks Killed Jap Forces At Ratio Of 8 to 1

Yanks on Guam Link Positions, Trap Jap Forces   Tinian Airfield Is Captured; Nippon Losses Are 8 to 1

Russians Near Minsk, Capture Mogilev, Lepe   Nazi ‘Fatherland Line’ Reported Cracking

Soviet Forces Keeping Up Minsk Advance   Five Nazi Divisions Are Encircled On Eastern Front

Soviets Strike Within 33 Miles of Key Warsaw-Odessa Railroad and Smash Closer to Rumania

Red Advance Rolls On 450-Mile Front; Nazis Break, Flee   Odessa-Warsaw Main Line, Dnieper Area Feeders Coming Under Attack at Points Behind Huge ~ Enemy Armv Trving to Eseane Westward.

Nazis Claim V-2 Battering England   Heavy Destruction By New Weapon Reported

Germans Claim London Blasted  - Say Secret Weapor Weed Since Orctoher

Germans Claim London Blasted  Say Secret Weapon Used Since October

Berlin Claims New Weapon Blasts London   Says Great Euston Railway Station Has Been Destroyed

Greek Troops With Allied Eighth Battle To Within 2,000 Yards Rimini Port   Infantry Of Yank Third Punches Forward Against Fierce German Resistance

NEW ADVANCES ° “ARE SCORED ON. -TTALIAN FRONT   Gakens AIDING EIGHTH ARMY IN ADVANCE. TOWARD “RTALIAN PORT 0)  ar cemrnyerorer

Chaplin Cas Jury Hears Final-Pleas   Fate of Film Comic Moy Be in Hands of Panel by Nightfall

Chaplin Had No Sex Intent Geisler Says   BOTH ATTORNEYS GIVE FINAL ARGUMENTS, CASE TO JURY TOMORROW

REPORTS FALSIFIED ON WRIGHT TESTS, WITNESSES CLAIM   Say Records Faked To Let Engines Pass Inspection

Texas Boy Is Losing Battle For His Life      Donated Blood  Plasma Fails

SEES GOP CHANCES - ASVERY 6001   North-Seuth. Border States’ Battle Forecast

RAZE TARGETS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE   Greatest Fighter Force Ever Sent on Single Mission Hits Objectives in Daylight Offensive.     pe  Sere. ) lat keh, Lene ee

American Bomber: Hit Nazi Supplies   Largest Armada of Fighter Planes Escorts Heavyweights on Missions Over France

¥ Heavies Hit ch Airfields, Rails   Attack Western Germany; Escorted by test Fighter Foree Ever Sent on Single ion: 4000 Allied Planes Participate

Huge Escort Force Taken On Air Raid   Moré Than 1,000 Fighter  PRET coy PD  Bombers on Attack   Over Europes

Bombers Covered  By Record Escort   Dortmund Fired by Heavy RAF Nioht Acsanlt

American Heavies Pound Targets in Western Germany   Record Fighter Force in Action

AMER CANS RAIN  BOMBS ON FRANCE, WESTERN GERMANY   Heavies Accompanied On Raids by Greatest Fighter Force Ever Sent On Single Mission.   FLY LOW TO STRAFE GROUND TARGETS   Four Planes Fail to Return British Lose 35 Ships in Fierce Pre-Dawn Air Battles.

BIG BOMBERS BATTER NAZI RAIL CENTERS   ESCORT FORCE  [f[S LARGEST ONE IN HISTORY

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST FRANCE AND GERMAN)   Liberators Hit Airfields And Freight Yards In  Occupied France

4,000 Planes Over Europe  In 18 Hours   War’s Greatest Force Of Fighters Escort 750 Bombers Tuesday  FEW AIRCRAFT LOST

Southern Part Of Florence Falls to Allies   Nazis Hold North Section Despite Open-City Pledge

Shells Roar In Florence   Axis Artillery Fire Belies ‘Open’ Claim

8th Army Holds All Florence South of River  Germans Make      Germans Make Firm Stand On North Bank

Germans May Fight It Out For Florence   Guns Line Both Sides Of Arno; 8th Army In Part Of City

TASK FORCE HITS MARCUS ISLAND — ABOUT 1200 MILES FROM TOKYO   Americans Hammer Jap: anese Outpost In Two Day Assault Against  Enemy.

Tokyo Reports Two Day ‘Air Assault On Marcus Island By Task Force

SOVIET TROOPS NEAR FRONTIER OF YUGOSLAVIA   Other Forces Clearing Nazis From 40-Mile Area Along Danube

Russians Smashing Across Romania Toward Junction With Tito’s Partisans

MARINE PFC. BORGSTROM DISCHARGED   PARENTS. WHO LOST 4 SONS IN WAR. APPEAL FOR RELEASE OF FIFTH

Announces Arrest Vichy Champions   Charles Maurras, Fier: Royalist Leader, Apprelhended In Lyon

Russian Army Pushes Over  Czech Border   Soviet Forces Move Up to Within Sever Miles of Beleaguered Odessa While Other Units Kill Many Nazis

SOVIETS MAKE 40-MILE PUSH INTO RUMANI   CZECHO - SLOVAKIAN BORDER REACHED BY RED FORCES

REDS TIGHTEN SIEGE PINCERS AROUND ODESSA   Truk Area Left Blazing After Tank Night  aid

Truman Didn’t Hear Dewey’s  Talk ~- Truman   Democratic Senator Claims Dewey Helping FDR Cause ‘More All The Time’

Truman Answers Dewey's Charges   Says. Criticisms Were  Met With By Party

CANDIDATES ON BACK STRETCH   Compuigning for Nominations in May 9 Primary Enters Final Week

STEWART AND PAUL HERBERT CLAIMING VICTORY AT POLLS   Backers Optimistic Ir GOP Campaign For Governor

DELAY PROBABLE IN VOTE RESULT   '8 States Count Soldier Ballots After Election

DELAY: IN COUNTING SERVICE VOTE COULD WAVE EFFECT . ye MARGINS one Loe Caner « Fa,  ace

MAY BE LONG NFL AYED   Results of Presidential Election Might Be Three Weeks Late

7,600 PLANES ROAR ACROSS AXIS EUROPE   Berlin, Vienna Hit; Paris Airfields Blasted

Three Allied Raids Blast -Nazi Capital   Planes From All But Two of Allied Forces in Britain ond Mediterranean Pound Reich

7,600 Allied Planes Blast Europe   Six Air Armies Hit Nazi Fortress in Great Assault

Greatest Air Blow In History   Six Armies Drop 7,000 Tons Of Bomb: On Enemy Centers; Yanks Loss 58.

Barrow, Gilt Price Raised   OPA Decrees $14.75 Hundredweight Top

17 JAPANESE SHIPS — HIT DURING RAIDS   Figures on Ryukyu Losses Are Revised Upward

77 Ships, Including Four Small Subs, Are Sunk Or Damaged Around Ryukyu   119 Japanese Planes Bagged, According To Revised Figures Released By Admiral Nimitz; Little Opposition Encountered In Raid On Luzon Island

BATTLE RAGING IN BOLOGNA ARE!   GERMANS FIGHT AMERICANS AFTER ENDURING FURIOUS AERIAL ASSAULT.   77 Japanese Ships Sunk or Damaged Off Ryukyu; 119 Planes Knocked Out

ISLAND STRIKE IS HARD BLOW FOR JAPANESE   NIMITZ LISTS 7 SHIPS SUNK OFF RYUKYUS

Back Nazis Across The Danube   German Armies In a Mass Flight Out Of Balkans—  Desire Peace

At Least 4,000 Nips En. ronle to Reinforce Japs on Levte Perish in Sen °

Yank Airmen Blast Four Jap Troop-Laden Freighters Off Ormoc; Tighten Land Trap

Four Vessels Laden With Troops Blasted  At Least 3,500 Nips   At Least 3,500 Nips Are Drowned, Communique Says

Four Ship Convoy Hit by Americans   Vessels Were Carrying Supplies for Japs on Leyte Island   FIGHTER PLANES SCORE   Twenty-Six JapanesePlanes Were Destroyed on the ’ Ground

U. S. Fighter Planes Blast Reinforcements for Foe On'Leyte.   WEATHER IS IMPROVED

7  Japs Are Drowned   Yank Airmen Fly Mast High to Blast Four-Ship Convoy

U. S. FIGHTER PLANES _ HAMMER JAP SHIPPING OFF LAYTE AND LUZON   Hard-Fighting American Division Maintains ‘Stiff Pressure Against Japanese Battling Around Limon

JAPS HEADING FOR ORMOC ARE SHELLED   By Yank Artillery and Mortars; Loss of Limon Costly Defeat For Enemy; Lose Division.   Pose Threat

Planes Destroy Another 4-Ship Japanese Convoy   Leyte Reinforcement Attempts Cost Enemy 17,000 Men

MacArthur Fighter Planes Knock Ont Leyte Relief Units      Industrial Sections of Tokyo Left Ablaze by Suverforts

Four Jap Troop Ships Caught Off Cebu Isle, All Carao. Men Lost —

4 TROOP - LADEN FREIGHTERS HIT IN LEYTE AREA   Jap Attempt To Reinforce Troops Thwarted By American Fighter Planes

Yanks Destroy Another Convoy Of Jap Troops   Four Ships Carrying Estimated ,3500 Nips Sunk Off Leyte;  A Destroyer Bagged

Japanese Convoy Sunk by Americans   Estimated 3,500 Nips Believed Drowned in Blasting of Relief Transport for Levte Fighting

FOURTH LEYTE CONVOY SUNK BY U.S. FLIERS   FOUR TRANSPORTS WIPED OUT WITH 2,000 TROOPS

HELP GUT OFF FOR JAPANESE AROUND LIMO}   TROOP - LADEN SHIPS SUNK; YANKS KEEP UP PRESSURE

3,900 KILLED AS FLIERS SINK 3 TRANSPORTS   Air Bombs Also Send Destroyer To Bottom Near Leyte (sland

Four-ship Convoy Sent to Bottom  ~ Leyte-Based Planes in Attack   Leyte-Based Planes in Attack On Enemy Ships, Kill 3500 Japs

Troop-Laden Jap Ships Are Blasted  Yanks Maintain , Pressure Beaund Timan

PLANES SMASH JAP CONVOY ON WAY TO LEYTE   3,000 Enemy Soldiers Killed as 4 Ships Are Destroyed

JAPS LOSE 3,500 TROOPS AS YANKS DESTROY CONVOY   Nipponese Reinforcements for Leyte Killed -or Drowned . in Bombing of Four Veasels.   3 SENT TO BOTTOM, FOURTH SET AFIRE   MacArthur’s Ground Forces Cross River Below Limon Repulse Attack South "west of City.

WIPE OUT JAP CONVOY: 4,500 DIE OFF LEYTE   Sink Or Hit 14 Other Enemy Ships In East Indies

CONVOY OF FOUR JAPANESE SHIPS IS DESTROYED   4,000 Enemy Soldiers Be lieved To Have Drowned In U. S. Triumph

JAP CONVOY IS SUNK BY U.S. FIGHTER FORCE   Fighting Tempo Quickened By Good Weather

Four-Ship. Japanese Convoy Is Sunk By Yanks Off Leyte  - Enemy Loses 3,500 Troops; U. S.  Dinnae Mit Rarnac

Planes Sink 4 Jap Transports   Estimated 3,500 Jap Troops Killed Or Drowned

4 TROOPSHIPS SUNK TRYING TO GET TO LEYTE   Navy Reports 27 Other ips Sent Down  By Subs

Yanks Sink Four Troop-Laden Jap Ships Off Ormoc   Action Heads Off Reinforcements for Enemy Forces on Island of Levte

JAP VESSELS SUNK OFF OF LEVTEISLAND   Convoy Destroyed and ' Land Forces Continue Gains

Four-Ship: Japanes Convoy Is Sunk By Yanks Off Leyte  Enemy Loses 3,500 Troops; U. S. Planes Hit Borneo

Japs Lost 2,000 Iroops . Which Were Being Sent . As Leyte Reinforcements S            Reinforcement Attempts Have Co: Nips a Total of Some 17,000: Troops.

Japanese Transports Are Sunk   At Least 4,500 Enemy So: diers on Way to Leyte Go Down With Ships

Warhawks And Thunderbolts Set Three Packe@ Transports On Fire Southeast Of Masbate Iz Philippines   DESTROYER SUNK IN BALABAC STRAII

JAPS LOSE 3500 : SOLDIERS WHEN CONVOY ISSUNK   AMERICAN AIRMEN POUNCE ON LEYTE BOUND TRANSPORTS

Entire For 3 # hip Convoy ': fded For Le’ * Punk   : oe 4,500 ny. Troops Drowie ~Or. Burned   To Death In Attack

Yanks Sink Jap Reinforcement Shins Off Leyte   Estimate That 4,500 Nipponese Drown; Land Forces Advance

AMERICAN PILOTS HAVE FIELD DAY; 4,500 JAPANESE BURNED, DROWNEI   14 Other Vessels Sunk Or Damaged

2,000 More Japanese Troops Are Killed In Destruction OF  Reinforcina Vessels

FLIERS SINK 4 NIP VESSELS ON WAY TO LEYTE   Kill or Drown 3,500 Japs} Doughboys Inch Ahead On Isle 4

Jap Convoy Destroyed By Planes   3500 Nipponese Killed In Raid ‘By U. S. Fighters From Leyte   3 TRANSPORTS AND ESCORT ARE SUNK   Enemy Reinforcements Were Enroute to Leyte; Another Air Battle

TROOP-LADEN JAP VESSELS BOMBED   FOUR FREIGHTERS DESTROYED OR DAMAGED. BY U. 8. AIRMEN OFF ORMOC. —

Japs Attempt To Land More Men on Leyie   Four Troop-Laden Freighters Sunk by U.S. Fighter Planes

U. S. Pilots Sink Ships Carrying Reinforcements  Bag 27 Mo Enemy Vessels

JAP CONVOY WIPED OUT BY U. §. FLIERS   Four Ships of Enemy, Attempting to Land Troops on Leyte, Are Sunk.

Another Four-Shiy Ja ap Convoy Sunk   ‘Total Reaches 16 Transports And 14 Warships; Subs Send 27 More Down

Four Japanese  Vessels Sunk   3,500 Troops Aboard Drowned; Ships Bound For Levte Island

FOUR VESSELS CARRYING MEN, SUPPLIES SUNK   17,000 Enemy Troops Wiped Out in Two Weeks

1000 KILLED OF OROWNED AY FICHTERS   Approximately 17,000 Enemy  Japs Die in 2 Weeks Near Leyte.

Is Second Convoy Sunk In Two Days   General MacArthur Reports All Vessels Were Heavily Laden With Men For Japanese Forces

FOUR-SHIP JAP CONVOY WIPED OUT      Was. Taking 6000 Troops To Leyte

4 Japanese Troopships Sunk off Leyte   6,000 Troops Killed, Bringing to 15,000 Tol  Of Reinforcements WANKS CAIN ACQHTORE

Troop-Laden Craft Attacked Off West Coast of Island   Nimitz Reports 17 Jap Ships Sunk in Blow At Luzon Saturday

Four-Ship Jap Troop Convoy Sent To Bottom   3,500 Nips Dead Or Wounded; Yanks Dow: 42 Enemy Planes As Air Tempo Quickens

War Planes Rip Jap  Convoy      3,500 Enemy Troops Believed Killed Or Drowned in Attempt To Reinforce Leyte

Four Troop-Laden Jap Freighters Sunk or Damaged Off Leyte Island

U S. Planes Wipe Out Convoy Of 6,000 Jap Troops   4500 Enemy Soldiers Drowned Or Burned Off Leyte Coast

2 JAPANESE TRANSPORTS ARE SUNK   U. S. Fliers Wipe Out 4 Ship Convoy In Philippines

3 Transports Sunk With  4 500 Aboarc   Enemy Soldiers Die In Flaming Sea; Warship Also Sunk

Troop laden vessels are  struck by air Nimitz reveals  Taiwan ctieibkne

Yank Air. an Blast 4- Shig Jap Convoy ~ tended to. Reinforce Leyte Garrison

Desperate Enemy Attempts To Reinforce Leyte Costs 17.000 Men   Carrier Planes Hit Bonin Island Bases   Americans Clear Foe From Heights East Of Ormoe Road On Levte

4,000 JAPANESE  TOLOIERS DROWN   Four Ships Striving Reinforce Leyte Victims   TWO OTHER TRANSPORTS   Together With Escort Vessel Sunk Off Masbate; Yanks Gross Leyte River

JAP VESSELS. SUNK OFF OF ~ LEYTEISLAND      Convoy Destroyed and Land Forces Continue Gains

F our Ship Jap Convoy Sent to Bottom. Killing Estimated 3500   Craft Bore Reinforcements for Enemy on Levte

Four Jap Ships Sunk, 3,500 Die   Enemy Convoy Is Caught Off Leyte Island

4 Troop-Laden Jap Freighters Hit Off Ormoe   Carrier Planes Blast 17 Other Ships; Nips In Limon Trap Still Under Yank Pressure

Jap Convoy of Four Ships Sunk By U. S. Planes   Were Carrying 6,000 Troops to Reinforce Leyte

American Bombing Cripples Nazi Propaganda Net  German News Agency Broadcasting System Knocked Out

NEW RECORDS IN CHRISTMAS BUYING SET   Retail Sales Through Nation Are Greatest Ever

NAZI GARRISON DOOMED; SIEGE OF CITY NEARS   All Telephone Service To Ireland Blocked By Britain

‘Black Sea Port Of Odessa Is Russia Goal   British-American Air Activity Over Europe Picks Up.

WFA To Survey  Corn Surpluses   Government Will Attempt To Relieve Shortages

MINERS GIVEN TERMS OF AFL   IN AGREE ON PAY AFL ON DISCHARG   Lewis Told Union Will B Taken Back at Status If Left Federation

AFL DECLINES TD READMIT UMWA   Not Willing Recognize Lewis’ Right Organize Outside Coal Industry; Way Left Open For Further Negotiations

LEWIS IS LOSER IN FIRST ROUND   Door Left Open By AFL For Bargaining With Mine Workers

MINERS GIVEN TERMS-OF AFI        ewis Told Union: Will Be Taken-Back at Status Uf Left Federation...

LEWIS TURNED DOWN ON BARGAIN WITH AFL   Told UMW Must Return As it Was, Not As It Is

AFL Rejects Miners’ Terms For Admission   Lewis Must Accept Status Of Union Before. s lit,

AFL Outlines  Its Terms tor Lewis’ Return   Door Left Open for Further Negotiation By Two Parties

A. F. L. Sets Forth  Terms for Lewis  Miners’ Chief Loses Bargaining Bout

Lewis: Gets His Answer:  ete haan a aren Ri nee AE ARGH Ast so reenaemagse  Mine Workers Can Return to AFL, But Only on Terms of the Latter

AF of L Gives On Readmission   CIO Head Loses Bargaining Bout; Door Left Open

Lewis Loses Labor Bout   A. F. of L. Will Admit United Mine Workers As They Were Not As They Are.

AN ALLIED FORCE OF 2,000 PLANES. BLASTS CERMANY   Attack Sunday Aimed at Wiping Out German Air Force   NUMEROUS PLANE ~  . FACTORIES HIT

2,000 PLANES IN ASSAULT OVERGERMANY   Estimated Loss To Industrial Plants Very Heavy; Many Plane Factories Hit In Largest Operation Of War.   79 Planes Lost

Gigantic Armada of 2,000 Allied Planes Strikes at German Aircraft Factories   22 Yank Bombers Lost as Plants in Half Doz en Places are Blasted; 79 British Ships Missing After Night Raid on Leipzig

American Bombers Knock Out Fourth Of Nazi Fighter Production in Huge Raid

The Future Role Of China UpTo Allies   How Speedy Necessary Help Can Be Had — U.S. Pilots Bag 24,000 Tons of Shipping

Fnemy Battles Desperately !n Palau Island:   Campaign Nearing End After Seven Days Of Hard Fighting

First Army Infantry and Tanks Unhinge Entire German Southern Flank at Swiss Border as. Five  _ Other Allied Armies Hit ‘Sagging Nazi Defenses Along All the Other Historic Routes of Invasion. :

Troops Break Through Belfort Gap And Sweep to Mulhouse; German Defenses Sag us Five Other Allied Armies Strike at Reich Invasion Route:

BEGIN BUILDING BRIDGE ACROSS RIVER, REPORT   Entire Southern Nazi  Anchor Torn Away, French Claim

3RD ARMY GAINS FIVE MILES IN DRIVE ON SAAR   FRENCH FIRST ARMY TROOPS SURGE INTO BELFORT OUTSKIRTS

Bs Lipper Attends  Vessel Launching  Lt. Rowland Dillard  Was on Board Ship Witsh tAhen Witebine

CRIMEA PORT ISOLATED BY RED FORCES   Tarnopol, Stronghold In South Poland, Captured

Reds Close In For Finale At Sevastopol   Kill, Capture 18,00C . Nazis in Poland As Tarnopol Falls

Sevastopol Next Goal of Soviets   66,000 Enemy Troops Killed or Captured m First Week of Drive

Enemy Is Pressed Into Small Pocket   One Soviet Wing Is Within Light Gun Range Of Town Where Russians Mode Gallant Stand

BUTTER, CHEESE SUPPLY BOOSTED   Civilian Allowances Increased  For 3-Month Period

Stettinius Visits .  Russ Ambassador ‘Sees Heads Of Exiled  Countries

Workers Go Back To Jobs   UNION, COMPANY HEADS NEGOTIATING CONTRACT AFTER HALF-DAY STRIKE

Greeks Demand Territories   Tell Bulgarians To Hand Over Thrace  and Macedonia.

Greeks Demand Bulgars G.ve Up Macedonia, Thrace; Want Settlement With Albani:

GREEK DEMANDS ON BULGARS REVEALED   Control of the Mountain Passes Also in Postwar Settlements

Greeks Demand Territory Return  Want Macedania Thrac   Want Macedonia, Thrace They Tell Bulgaria

GREEKS DEMAND BULGARS GIVE UP TWO AREAS   Macedonia, Thrace Wanted Unconditionally And At Once

IAP SUULESSED THREATEN. ARR FORGE SUPPLIES   Les: of China Bases Will Doub e Dis ance Supplies Must Travel

JAP GAINS IN CHINA SLOW I} § SUPPLIES   May Disrupt Flow of War Needs to lth Air Force

Miller Acquitted Of Murder Charge  TF aurwaw Sage Ila   Lawyer Says He Still Loves Wife

REINFORCEME NT OF U.S. MOVE TO FRONT ON BIAK   Invasion Forces Aided ‘in Breaking Enemy Resistance at  -Mokmer ~—

More American Troops Land On Biak Island   Units of 6th Army Poised on Plains Refore Mokmer "Drome

MORE U.S. TROOPS LAND ON BIAK ISLE   Reinforcements Join Force Near Mokmer Airfield

U.S. Troops Move Up On Biak Front   Reinforcements Land ' Without Opposition:

HELP I$ RUSHED TROOPS ON BIAK   Reinforcements. Are Landec Without Opposition

Rein orcements Move to Attack Jans on Biak   Invasion Forces Seek to Halt Enemy Resistance

Russians Smash German Line in Vitebsk Section   Kill 20,000 Nazis In White Russia   Germans surrender

Russians trap By Other Units. Near Bobruisk       Orsha Falls to Columns  Of. Red Army as. Nazi Tiefencne 10...

Reds Sweep Ahead, Seize Railway Hub   Fighting Rages in Streets of Mogilev; 20,000 Nazis Left Dead in Vitebsk Area

BOBRUISK 3 COLLAPSING UNDER BLOWS   From Russians, While 20,000 Germans Are Left Dead on Battlefield Near Vitebsk.   20 Miles From Poland

Ursha Falls In Powerful.  Soviet Drive  Russian Troops Fight In Streets of Mogilev And Enter Bobruisk  20.000 LIQUIDATED °* IN VITEBSK POCKET  Two Pincers Pointed At City of Minsk

ORSHA SEIZED IN GREAT RED ARMY THRUST   ‘FATHERLAND LINE’ IS SHATTERED IN WHITE RUSSIA

Mighty Red Drive Sweeps Forward in White Russia.   MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN VITEBSK FIGHT   Many Populated Places Captured During Davy

Early Capture Of Minsk, Lepel And Polotsk Last Nazi Bases On Russian Soil Appears  Cartain

Mighty Red Drive Sweeps Forward in White ___Russia     'y hh Ree UluhklCUrelUlKhlC lr ll etlCO a Eth EB   MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN VITEBSK FIGHT

U.S, FLIERS HIT ~ FORMOSA PORT   Attacking American Planes Based in China

U. S. Liberators (Bomb Formosa   China-Based Planes Strike at Takao Harbor Shipping

LIBERATORS RAID FORMOSA DOCKS   Takao, Jap Shipping Center, Receives Hard Pounding

Yanks Smash Jap Port in Night Atfack   Docks and Harbor of Tokao Hit by China Based Liberators

Japanese Gains In India Pose Chinese Danger   China’s Military Future Imperilled By Nip Advances

WAR ON CHINA HAS BAD TWIST   Success For Japanese In India Would Prolong Bloody Struggle

Southern France Trap Nearly Closed   Unofficial Report Says Forces Joined

U.S. UNIT NEAR SWITZERLAND   "Yanks Gain in Drive Towarc Doubs Valley

FRENCH, AMERICAN TROOPS ATTEMPTING BLOCK NAZI ESCAPE  SEVENTH ARMY FORCES NEARING BORDER OF SWITZERLAND

U.S. Armies Fort Junction Neat Nazi Frontie   Northern And Southern Forces United, Rome Report States

SWEEPING UP MORE TOWNS IN S. FRANCE   Americans Within Reach of Stra. tegically Situated Valley Along Switzerland Border

SOUTHERN CHASE STILL CONTINUES   More Towns Are Swept Up: Allies Near Swiss Line

Ameri ricans Are ‘ N earing Doubs Valley, France   Strategically. Important! Area Joins Western Switzerland; Numbers of  .Fowns Captured

Yanks and French Sweep Up Towns In South France  Unofficial Report Says Yank Armies of North and South France Already United

South Fr rance. Drive Gaining   Annie ieans, KF rench  Take. More Towns

SWEEP UP TOWNS IN SOUTH FRANCE   AMERICAN FORCES NEAR DOUBS VALLEY ALONG SWISS BORDER

Nazis Outrun Allied Force   Troops Hurrying North in France Still Meet No Major Fighting

Gains Continue In South France   German Troops Outdistance Allies

Americans Near Doubs Valley   Allies Sweep Up Towns in Southern  France Drive

Yanks Are Approaching ‘Doubs Valley   Main German Force Still Outdistancing Pursuers; French Troops Advance Up West Bank of Saone.

Troops Nearing Doubs Valley   Sweep Up More Towns In Rapid Advance; Position of Main Nazis Unknown.

Fleeing Nazis KeepAheadof Pursuing 7th   Allies in South of France Mop Up Many Towns in Race North

DRIVE 10 TRAP FLEEING NAZIS   ‘Yanks Approach Strategic Doubs Valley In Push From South France

Nazis Outdistance Allies in Pursuit Along Doubs River   Decisive Battle for North. ern Italy is Thought Near

FRENCH, AMERIGAN TROOPS ATTEMPTING BLOCK NAZI ESGAPE  SEVENTH ARMY FORCES   SEVENTH ARMY FORCES NEARING BORDER OF SWITZERLAND

Speeds OK for Lease  Lend Aid   Senate Committee Votes Approval-of, Extension. in Record Time   ‘MORE ESSENTIAL “NOW. THAN EVER   Administrator ‘Gives’ Data on Aid, Showing Large Shipments to Russia’

Lend-Lease Wins  Speedy Approval  Crowley Reports Aid Given Allied Nations

AID BILL VOTED BY COMIMTTEE   Lend-Lease Extension Act  Ready for Senate

Lend-Lease Bill Approved By Committee   Favorable Action Taken  By Senate Committee After One Of Shortest Hearings On Record

Rus 0 Miles From Budapest   E. Prussian Invaders Some Distance From Konigsberg, Capital

AUSSIANS SLASH ESCAPE ROUTE:   Reach the Danube South of Budapest; Soviets Break Through Highway 10 and 18 Miles Inside Prussia

Reds 50 Miles From Budapest In Power Push  Nazi Escape Lines. Cut; Russ 18 Miles Inside East Prussia, Germans Declare

Reds Cross Tisza Line:   Danube. Is. Reached; Budapest Jmperiled.

Soviet Forees Drive 50 Miles  From Budapest   }German Eseape Lines Cat  By Russian, Romanian Troops; Red Tanks Hurt Huns Back

Russians Go Across River  In Hungary   Germans ‘Tell About Gigantic Battle on East Prussian Soil

REDS CONTINUE “TWIN ADVANCES   Push Nearer Buda Cut - Deeper Tite Pras 

Reds Advance In Hungary, East Prussia   Nazi Defense Lines Severed Near imperiled Budapest

Telegr am to Sen. Ty ‘uman   Newly-Elected Vice President Uneasy at First

As Maine Goes, So Goes Nation   Today All Politicians Are Watching the Little “State For Clues?”

Watch Political _ Straws In Maine   State Election Being. Conducted Today

POLITICIANS LOOK TOWARD MAINE TODAY   Figure Nation  Will Foliow State’s Trend

Maine Voting Scanned for Kall Clues   ‘Governorship ‘and Three Seats in House at Stake

Nation Watches Maine Results For Nov. Tip-Off  CIO-PAC Strength Tested In‘One Maine District

Politicians Turn Eyes on Maine Vote   Even Skeptics Await Figures on Voting There

MAINE VOTING BEING WATCHED   Politicians Look Hard for Clues to What Will Hapven in November,

MAINE ELECTIONS ARE WATCHED FOR NOVEMBER CLUES   Trend of Laber in State Elec tion Given Attention of Pohtical Leaders

Eyes Today On  Maine Election   Politicians Look Hard For Clues To What Will Happen In November.

— POLITICS —  AWAIT NIAINE’S BALLOT RETURNS   Eagle-Eyed Politicians -_ Interested In Outcome ft -Of Party Seraps

FAMILY TRAGEDY LAID 10 FARMER   Officer Says He Killed Son, e Self, Injured 3 Other  Children

FEDERAL BUREAU EMPLOYES HIT   ‘House Attacks Propagandizing To Boost Funds

First Indoor Helicopter Flight In America Occurs In Buffalo, N.Y.

SOLDIERS MOPPING UP, REPORT STATES      More American Reinforcements Put Ashore on Los Nearos —

BOMBERS FROM ENGLAND, ITALY HIT WAR PLANTS   Daylight Raids In Third Day

Blast German Targets From Two Directions   Allies Plan. To  Hold Off Enemy Defense Onslaughts

AMERICANS IN TWIN DAYLIGHT BLOWS ON REICH   Bighth And Fifteenth Forces Strike From Retain And Tfaly

MOSQUITOES CONTINUE AIR ATTACK   Allied Bombers Dropped 10,000 Tons In 36 Hours

Aircratt Factory Blasted   American Planes From Britain, Italy Hit Huns

Simultaneous Attacks Are Made By Air Forces Stationed In Italy And Great Britain

SEEK NEW PROBE (F WRITER DEATH   CONNECTION SEEN WITH EMBASSY THEFT CASE

MAUARTHUE TROOPS NOW  HAVE THREE AIRFIELDS “WITHIN 800 MILES OF  ” " MINDANOA ISLAND

MRS. WOOD REPORTED AS MISSING   Kellogg Man’s Wife Left Slippers And Jewelry On Bank

BODY OF WOMAN NOT RECOVERED   Coast Guard Continues Te Drag Local Canal

Old-Timers March On Same Road As 26 Years Ago  Armistice Day Finds Veterans at Spot Held in 1918

26th Armistice Day Finds History Repeating Itself   Hitler Faces Oblivion He Knew on Nov. 11, 1918

PATTON'S YANKS. SWEEPINGONMETZ, TAKEUP WHERE PERSHING'S DOUGHBOYS LEFT OFF GENERATION AGO

Patton’s Men Beyond Line Where Yanks Were in 1918   Leaves From The Note Book Of A War Correspondent

Armistice Day Finds Yanks On Historic Soil   Gls Battle Where Thei Dads Were Poised On November 11, 1918

JAPAN SAVuc. HER SEA AND AIR POWER   Fears Allied Moves Into Philippines and Home Waters

JAPS WAITING ALLIED MOVES IN HOME AREAS   UL. S. Task Forces Meet No Planes  WAKE ATTACKED  Yanks Storm Matlin Airdrome

‘AIRPOWER AS WELL AS NAVY  :  BEING CONSERVED’ FOR FIGHTING CLOSER TO . ENEMY HOMELAND

Churchill Tells Of Nazi Invasion. Attenipt in 1940   Discloses Germans Had Large Concentrations — Of Men and Shing -

2,594 Jap Planes Destroyed By Carrier-Aircraft Flying With Two American Fleets   Losses Incurred By United States During Two-Month  Period Approximately 300, With Many Crew   Members Rescued, Headquarters Announces

Churchill Hints  At Invasion Soor  Inspects Our Troops {1  England

Churchill Praises U.S. Parchutists   Watches Mass-Leap  In Invasion Practice

FUNDS FROM WAR CHEST TO AID SCOUTS   Campaign to Open Monday With Goal Set at $24.000

ALLIES WILL OFFER TERMS TOBULGARIA      Surrender Terms to be Presented to Envoy Seon

Soviet Soldiers Plunge 10 Miles  Into Transylvania   Allied Surrender Terms Will Go to  Bulgarians Soon

Tass Agency Broadeasts  British Denial   But Cites London Story As Basis for Rumors Germans Seeking Peace  PROPOSALS LISTED

BRITISH QUOTED ON PEACE PROPOSALS   Moscow Acknowledges Denial of Negotiations With Germans But Quarrel Goes On

Repudiation of Peace Rumor — Is Acknowledged   News Story in British Paper Cited; Denial Broadcast to Russians

Moscow oc ee Great Britain's 'Renudiation of Peace Talks With Nazis

Soviets fully acknowledge peace denial   Cite British paper  for rumor basis

Russia Accepts British Denial Of Peace Talks   Moscow Cites Story in Brit ish Newspaper as Basis for Rumor

 Moscow Acknowledges Britain's Repudiation Oi Peace  Talks With Germany, Cites English Paper As Rumor Basis

Dispatch Printed. In London Quoted   Reich Propagandists Seize Qn Allied Dissension

Pros P=   “XeCS ACSNOW- ec ge Mngis.1* enia_o- “Zamor “rom. Jairo’

Russians Cite Story on Proposed Peace   Acknowledgment Is Made of British Denier) ‘

Peace Talk Repudiation Is . Acknowledged By Soviets   Moscow, at the Same Time, Cites Story in London Paper as a Basis for Rumors that the Nazis Were Seekina Peace

Reds Broadcast British Denial   Newspaper Story Is Cited As Racic.

WAR BOND QUOTA UF 3/60,000 OE] FOR FIFTH DRIVE   Individuals Assigned Increased Purchases In June-July Period

REVEALS MORE HELP TO CHINA   Mighty Offensives Against - Japs Indicated by U.S. Report

Enemy Opposition Is Fiercer Than Expected As Allies Take 3 Towns.

DO OR DIE FIGHT TO GRUSH NAZIS IS PROGRESSING   Great Battle Rages on 25: Mile Front With Enemy Offering Resistance te Check Allied Advance,   AIR BATTLES CONTINUE, BOMBING IS HEAVY   Nazi Radio Warning Systen Reports Bomber Forma tions With Single Planet Over German Cities.

Clark's Yanks Seize Hills On  Cassino Route   Germans Throw Their Heaviest Barrage  Of Artillery

GERMANS ARE ROUTED FROM STRONGHOLDS   Nazis Resisting Fiercely In Allied Do-or-Die Push to Capture Rome.

Chaplin Not Father, Doctor Tells L. A. Jury   Judge Allows Testimony On Blood Test Only  As ‘Oninion’

UPA IN PROVINCES THREATEN FRANCO ESIME   REVOLT IN SPAIN CENTERING  IN NORTH BUT SPREADING  OVER THE NATION

Catalonia, Other Parts Of Spain, - InRevolt Against Franco Regime

Wrecking Crew Begins Work On Sudan’s Spring Ceremonial Here   Everything In Readiness For Big Shrine Event Here Thursday.

SEDITION TRIAL APENS TOMORROW   Justice Eicher to Hear Noble’s Complaint Today

NEW ACE TIES MAJOR BONG’S PLANE RECORD   Capt. Robert Johnson Shoots 27th Plane In European Theatre

FIGHTER ACE ~ RECORD TIEI   Okla. Flyer Shoots Down 27th German Plane

Nazis Suffer. Holocaust in Dnieper Pocket   Soviets Literally Grindin; Up 240,000 Germans Left Behind

Russ Drive On In Giant Eastern Push   Grind Up Remnants of Two Trapped German Armies.

LIBERATOR BOMBERS  ATTACK SOUTHWEST  GERMANY SATURDAY SWISS GOVERNMENT AN NOUNCES BORDER RAIL CITY WAS ATTACKED

American Bombs Set Blazes In Swiss R. R. City   Yankees Attack Southern Reich

Swiss City Bombarded by Yank Planes   Schaffausen Hit By Mistake; Allies Open New Month in Air

US. Bombers Over Germany   Swiss Town Reports Mistaken Attack by American Planes

Liberators Attack S. W. Germany   Considerable Force of Planes Streak Across Channel

US. Air Force Starts New Month  Southw «t Germany Attacked Saturday

Swiss City Is Bombed by Mistake   Much of Schaffhausen Said to Have Been Wrecked by..U. S; Planes   30 TO.50 KILLED AND 100. WOUNDEL   American. Liberators Start New ‘Month of Raids on Germany

BERNE REPORTS SWISS CITY HIT BY U.S. BOMBS   Claim Fires Set in Schaifhausen, Near German Border Made in Government Communique   REICH BOMBARDED   Germans Report Daylight! Raids on Middle Rhine Area as Americans Open New Monih of Raids

U. §. Bombers Lash Germany to Start New Series  Explosives Are Loosed On Switzerland By Fliers’ Mistake

Liberators — oo Begin New. Air Month   Southwestern. Germany Is Hit Today — Switzerland Accidentally Hit :

American Planes Hit Germany   March Was Month: Of Victory For Allied Fliers.

Liberators Raid Germany Again Report U. S. Bombers  Hit Swiss Rail City

Yanks Bomb. Swiss .Town _ By Mistake      Numerous Fires Caused in City Near German Border 

A’’Mistake Bombing” Of Neutral Territory   Swiss Claim American Airmen Loose Bombs On Border Town

Liberators Make Attack On Southwest German Area   U.S. Planes Blamed By Swiss For Droppin Incendiaries On One Of Their Cities

Swiss Charge Neutral Territory Hit.....  American Planes Begin New Month With Blows At Southwest Germany

BOMBERS HIT NAZI TARGETS IN DAY RAID   March Was Month Of Victories For Allies

SWISS SAY RAILWAY CITY BOMBED IN AMERICAN RAID ON GERMANY   INCENDIARIES LOOSED ON CITY NEAR GERMAN BORDER: RAIL LINES “SUSPENDED TEMPORARILY”

Aerial Assault Roars on Across Europe   March Victory Month Despite Record Single Loss of 94 Planes; Swiss City Hit in Error

U.5, BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   Swiss Government Announces American Bombs Hit Neutral Area.   NUMEROUS FIRES BURN

U.S, AIRMEN RIP TARGETS IN SOUTHERN REICH   Report Americans Bomb Neutral Country, RAF Hits Germany

American Bombers Raid Southwestern Germany   incendiaries Fire Switzerland In ‘Mistake Bombing’ Of Neutral Rail Town; March Hit New Air Peak

uiberators Blast Southwest Germany; Swiss City Near Border Reported Hit

Caucus Lets Barkley Out; Exalts Him   IS EXPECTED TO OVERRIDE PRESIDENT’S VETO OF TAX BILL TODAY BY HUGE MAKCIN.   Adds to His Prestige

$8,000,000,000 WAR CONTRACTS ARE CANCELLED   Held Only: Beginning That - Will See Many Commu  _ nities Facing Unem “ployment Problem   OVER-PRODUCTION   Selective. Service: Director Says Servicemen Should Be Kept In Uniform “Until Working 

Unable to Locate Physician or Ambulance, Davidsons Call Chief Foley.

POLICE CHIEF LIVERS      Unable to Locate Physician. or Ambulance, Davidsons  Call Chief Foley

Reds Cross Narva River In Estonia; Advancing TowardGatewayToLatvia

Soviets Occupy Eastern Bank Of Narva River   New Gains Reported On Estonian Front As Civilians Flee

Seize Police Barracks   Kirke L. Sintpson Says: Allied Trap Is Yawning for Nazi Divisions Cut off from Retreat

4 KILLED IN BOMBER'S FALL ON MONTREAL   Four Engined Liberator En Route to England, Destroys Most of City Block in Crash.   Wreckage Catches Fire

Bomber Crash In Mid-Montreal Kills at Least 14   Falling Liberator Wrecks 14 Buildings  In Downtown Area

“Bomber Crash Wrecks Block Of Buildings  - “TA Kanwn Dead In   4 Known Dead In Montreal Mishap.

Nazis Afraid, Jabber, Shout, Leave Quickly   Leave Little in Community but Deep Burning Hatred

Conferees I ry Adjust Measure   New Tax Bill Will Put A Long String of Wartime Purchase Taxes In Effect On March 1- :

LET'S-FACE-IT’ MOOD TO TAXES      Senate, House Groups Attempt to Adjust Differences

War Contracts Delay Tax Bill   Renegotiation Is Main Stumbling Block

Flames Sweep  Berlin After Huge RAF Raid   Allies Batter Capital, Points Upon Continent

RAF Batters Anew At Capital   Bombers Resume Obliteration Assaults: On City—Beachhead Offensive Grows Stiffer—Reds Near Esthonian Border—Japs Lose 16 to 22 Planes

NIMITZ OPPOSED 10 LIFTING =: MILITARY RULE IN ISLANDS   FLEET COMMANDER SAYS  THERE 18 NO DANGER OF IN _ VASION BUT JAPS WATCH JNG.HAWAITIAN ISLANDS

HAWAII TOLD JAPS ABLE 10 STRIKE ISLANDS   Nimitz, Richardson Cite Need For Continued Military Control   NO DANGER OF LANDING.   ee  Pearl Harbor Declared Most Remunerative Target For Nips

Russian and Polish Committees Far From Accord on Postwar Proposals

Red-Sponsored Poles Declare Bor ‘Criminal   Rebuff of Move for Unity Seen as Seed of Future * Civil War in Palend

LONDON POLES ARE REBUFFED   Change in Commander-inChief of Troops Draws Moscow Blast

INCENSES RED POLISH UNIT   Political Controversy Near Exploding ; Paint

Poles on Verge  Of Civil War   Soviet-Backed Group  Spurns Peace Move

'Nazis Call Time Out—  Battle Lull Taken To Clear Dead And Wounded Off Field

GERMANS SOUGHT TRUCE TO REMOVE DEAD-WOUNDED  Fierceness. of Fighting Be:- tween Americans and Nazis Along Rapido River Inadicat,

Halting of Battle Arranged to Permit _ Allies, Germans to Remove Casualties -

BATTLE HELD UP FOR REMOVAL OF DEAD, WOUNDED  U. S. CAPTAIN AND PRIVATE MARCH WITH RED CROSS FLAG

German-Asked Truce On Italian Battlefront Granted While Field Is Cleared Of Casualties

Red Cross Banner Flag Of Truce   Nazis Made Request For Lull In Battle To Remove Casualties

THE WEATHER   U. S. WEATHER BUREAU Mrs. Joe A. Forester, Observer.

Pension Office ls Moving   U. Ss. WEATHER BUREAU Mrs. Joe A. Forester, Observer.

THE WEATHER   U. S. WEATHER BUREAU Mrs. Chilton Terry, Observer.

Grim Battle Rages Before ‘Cologne Gate   Americans Fight To Hold Position In Hurgen Forest

TOUGH BATTLE BEING FOUGHT AT VOSSENALK   Germans- Counterattack With  Tanks and Infantry in  Center of Town.

Yanks Battle’ To Hold Gains Aaainst Nazis   Enemy. Thrust West on  -Hurtgen Thrown Back, But in Another Sector Yanks Forced Back

Nazi Thrust Temporarily Gives Enemy  Dutch Town   Yanks Advance. West ‘Of Schmidt Is Slow

Flaming Battle Near Schmidt   American Forces Fight Against Stubborn Resistance

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING IN FOREST AREA   Americans Try To Clear Way To Cologne

infantry Troops Supported By Planes Battle Powerful Nazi Force In Hurtgen Forest

Fight Hand To Hand  In Hurtgen Fores t Area   Americans Struggle For Opening Leading To Cologne Plain; New Cains Renorted

NORTH BURMA NIPS DOOMED BY PINCERS      Sino- American Army About To Join Commandos

Allies Tighten Jaws on Japs In North Burma   Enemy's Advance Across tndian Border Is Stalled

46 Nipponese ships sunk or damaged  Blast 160 planes and 54 vrobables

At Least 160 Foe Planes Destroyed, Over 60 Buildings Wiped Out; — U.S. Loses 25 Aircraft

160-214 Enemy Planes Destroyed, Buildings Ground Installations Wiped Out by American Task Force In Thrust Only 530 Miles East of Philippines

American Aircraft Carrier Task Forces Wreak Havoc for Three Days On Islands; 160 Planes Destroyed

DESTRUCTION SPREAD OVER THE PALAU ISLANDS FOR THREE DAYS; ONLY 600 MILES FROM PHILIPPINES; 160 TO 214 PLANES BAGGED.

Between 160 And 214 Enemy Aircraft Bagged In Raids On Palau Islands   ENEMY BATTLESHIP IS CRIPPLED BY U-BOAT

‘8 Others Damaged, 160 To 214 Planes Bagged: Heavy Destruction Leff AtBases   Powerful Carrier Force Spends Three Days Battering {slands In Carolines

Carrier Task Forces Report Major Victory   160 to 214 Enemy Planes Shot Down

2 Destroyers Among Ships Listed Sunk, 18Damaged   U.S. Losses Announced As Only 25 Airplanes Of Hundreds in Force; 18 Fliers Lose Lives   GREAT DESTRUCTION. SPREAD OVER ISLANDS   Japanese Battleship Damaged by U.S. Sub Previous to Air Attack

TOKYO LOSES 214 PLANES Ih PALAU ATTACK   DOCKS AND HANGARS ARE DESTROYED AT ISLAND BASES

160 Nipponese Planes Destroyed, 54 More Listed as ‘Probables;’ Battleship Torpedoed In Attacks on Palau, Yap and Other Islands

Nimitz Reports Result of Blow At Palau. Yap   Strong U. S.-Task- Force Loses 18 Airmen, 5 Atrahina

American Warships Emerge Unscathed   Attacking Force Bags 160 To 214 Jap Planes; Two Destroyers Among Ships Sunk; 25 Planes Lost

160 to 214 Nip Planes Bagged in  3-Day Operation   Admiral Nimitz Says Cost of Assaults On Caroline Bases Was 18 Fliers and 25 Planes; No Ship Losses Reported;  ll. S. Submarine Tornedoes Rattleshin

18 Enemy Vessels Damaged In Great Naval, Air Victory Americans Unchallenged   Hosts of Warships Unscathed; U. S. Loses 25 Carrier Planes, 18 Fliers in Attack Only 530 Miles from Philippines Adm. Nimitz Says

Three Boys, Adrift 22 H ours in Leaky’ Rowboat in Lake St. Clair, Didn’t Cry

Soviet Arc Tightens . On Budapes   Russians Break Through To Danube Half-Encircle City

DANUBE NORTH OF BUDAPEST   Berlin Reports Reds Have Half-Encircled City

RUSSIANS SEEK 10. ISOLATE BUDAPEST   Hungarian Capital Half. - Encircled by Soviet * . ’ Forces

RUSSIANS SEEK TO ISOLATE BUDAPEST   Hungerian Capital Half> Encircled by Soviet   ' Forces

SOVIET TANK UNITS CRASH OVER DANUBE   imporiant Kail Junction Of Aszog Falls To Superior Red Forces, Berlin Says

Assassination Try Made Upon Life Of Adolf Hitler; Berlin Radio Reports Burns And Concussion Of Brain   Several Generals Seriously Hurt In Bombing

THREE GERMAN OFFICERS NEAR DEATH IN BLAST   DNB Says Fuehrer Continues Work, Only Suffers Minor Burns

—HAITLER—   Berlin Reports Fuehrer Burned. And Bruised; Aides Are Injured   DNB Dispatch Says Nazi Leader Was Able To Continue Work And Hold Conference With Mussolini Following Attack

ADOLF INJURED, MILITARY AIDES SEVERELY HURT   Fuchrer Suffers Burns and Bruises—Nine Other Officials Are Victims

Hitler Injured In Attempt To Take His Life   Suffers “‘slight’ burns and « contusions,” the Berlin announcement ‘says: others injured.

Fuehrer Burned In Plot On Life; HeResumes Work   $3 Generals, Collaborator Among Seriously Hurt; Eight Others Slightly

Attempt Made On Hitler's Life   GERMAN CHIEFTAIN BURNED AND BRUISED; OFFICERS INJURED

Injured by Explosion at Headquarters   Four High-Ranking Officers Seriously Hurt by the Blast

Attempt Made to Kill Hitler   Fuehrer “Slightly Burned” By Bomb DNB Announces

Der Fuehrer Is Burned, Bruised By an Explosion   Three of His Top Military Leaders. Seriously Injured

Assassination Misses Fire But Fuehrer Suffers Burns AndBruises; Aides Badly Hurt   Berlin Reperts High-Ranking Nazi Generals and Admirals Seriously Hurt by Bombinea at Undisclosed Place

3 0f Fuehrer's Army Advisors Badly Woundec  Orker Hiah-Ranking.   Other High-RankingArmy And Navy Men: oct ln Exolocion

Chancellor Only Burned, Says Berlin   Six Generals and Two Admirals Injured by Explosion of Bomb

NAZI FEUER HURT BY BOMB   German Dictator Attacked Recently, Says German Radio Report.    SEVERAL GENERALS HURT

Adolf Burned Bruised, Berlin - Radio Reports   But: He Is: Able to Keep Up His Routine; 3. Military’ Chiefs Seriously Hurt: -’   SCENE OF ACTION. .NOT. DISCLOSED:   Bomb. or -: Dynamite ‘Used, -. Probably’ at Meeting: *, ‘of Generals...

“Fuehrer” Injured In Explosion; New Upheava Inside Germany Hinted

Bombing Plot Burns, Bruises Nazi Fuehrer  3 Military Leaders Injured Severely; Several Others Are

Attempt On Life Of Fuehrer Looks Like “Inside Job”   Nazi Commanders Are Seriously Injured  In Hdq. Blast

Fuehrer Is Burned But NotSerious      Several of His Personal Staff Badly Injured Including General, Says DNB Broadcast.

Attempt Is Made On Hitler's Life:  ) Suffers Burns, Bruises. Berlin Says:

Attempt on Fuehrer’s Life Fails   Nine Leading Military Advisors Wounded, Three Of Them Seriously

GERMAN REPORTS ADMIT NAZIS ‘CHIEFTAIN BURNED-BRUISED: ‘HIGH OFFICERS BADLY HURT   Attempted Assassination Believed to Have Occurred Somewhere in Belgium Puring Consultations with Rommel and Others. Disagreements Within His Command Have Been Reported

Blast Injures 12 Nazi Leaders At Headquarters   Berlin Says Hitler Suffers Concussion From Explosives

9 Aides Hurt In Blast   BERLIN ANNOUNCEMENT SAYS FUEHRER BURNED, BRUISED IN AN ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE

Fittler Escapes Death DNB Report Says Fuehrer Slightly Hurt   Explosion Injures Rankine Nazi Officers

Hitler Suffers Brain Injury In Attempt On Life   General and Two Colonels Also Seriously Injured.

Berlin Reports Nazi War Lord Object Of Bomt   Minor Burns And Cuts Sustained: Officers Wounded

Several High Nazi Men Are Wounded   Bomb Attempt Made On Life Of German Fuehrer; DNB Says He Was ‘Slightly Burned And Sustained Some Bruises’

Fuehrer Is Burned In A Bomb Attack   Several Generals And Admirals Injured, Three Of Them Seriously.

Fuehrer Injured: 11 Of His Chiefs Suffer Wounds   Berlin Minimizes Hurts But Other Sources Say He Has Brain Concussion

Army Leaders Also Injured   Fuehrer, Aides Burned, Bruised by Bomb Hurled in Assassination Attempt; Condition of Several Officers Serious

German Leader Wan Hurned and Hrulsed in the Incident Which Probably Occurred in Holland.   THREE OTHERS WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED      One German Droadcast Sald the Attempt on Fuehrer's Life Was Made With Dynamtle.

Attempt Made To Kill Hitler, Berlin States   German Radio Says He Suffered Burns and Bruises and Three War Leaders  Seriously Injured.

Suffers Bruises, And Burns   . Three Nazi Military Leaders Critically Injured, Others Hurt in Attack on Der Fuehrer

Bomb Attempt Made on Life of Hitler, Who Escapes With Slight Burns, Bruises

uffered Slight  urns, Bruises  a Fuehrer   jeven Generals Among Those Injured In Blast   SECOND ATTEMPT   lieve Feud Among Germans May Have Been Cause

PLOT AGAINST HITLER'S LIFE UNSUUEE SoTL   Some Members Of Party Injured And Burned

Reich Chief Burned, Bruised in Explosion   12 High Military Aides Injured; Time and Place of Blast Unknown

Adolf Hitler; High German Officials Seriously Injured   Hitler Came Out With Only Burns, Bruises And Brain Concussion  INJURIES MAY BE MORE SERIOUS  May Have Been Work Of  European Underground Or Allied Bemb

Three Military Leaders Seriensly Hurt, Eight Others Less Seriously in Assassination Try

Fuehrer and SLeadersin = Narrow Escape   Rommel Is Again On Run On Normandy. Line

11 OTHER NAZIS INJURED BY EXPLOSION   Berlin Broadcasts Also Say Fuehrer Suffers Bruises In Attempt On Life

FUEHRER ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT, BERLIN STATES   Top Military Advisers Are Also Injured "y  Blast

Others in Party with Fuehrer Are Injured, Two Seriously; Berlin Reports Dictator Escapes with Bruises, Burns

ASSASSINATE ADOLF HITLER   Fuehrer Slightly Burned; Several Others Injured

Bomb HurledAt Fuehrer, Reich  Agency Radios   Fuehrer “Only Slightly Burned” and Bruised By Explosion, German Report Says   Six Generals And (Two Admirals Hurt   Attack Believed Made At Bredna, Holand; Grave Dissent In High Com. mand Held Existing

Hitler Hurt In Attempted Assassination   Several Of Fuehrer’s Aides Slain In Blast At Headquarters.

Assassins Escape; Seven Generals, Two Admirals Are Injured In Attack

Feuhrer Is Burned and Bruised; Other Nazi Chieftains Are Hurt Assailants Escape, Police Say; May Have Been at Staff Brawl

Nazi Fuehrer Is Burned And Bruised as Result of Attack on Thursday

German Ruler And Several Others Hurt   Fuehrer Suffers Minor Injuries, Berlin Asserts

SEVERAL AIDES ALSO REPORTED - 10 BE INJURED   Attempt on Life Occurs Just Before Fuehrer Was Due to Meet Mussolini, Conference Held.   D. N. B. NEWS RADIO ANNOUNCES ATTACK   Gen. Jodl, Hitler’s Personal Chief of Staff Among Injured, Goering Visits His Superior,

Bomb Blast Only Slightly: Burns Adolf; Others With. Him Seriously Hurt DNR Save.

The Fuehrer Burned and Bruised by Bomb, DNB Reports   SEVERAL AIDES HURT   Blast Believed to Have Occurred at Hitler's Head quarters

Blast Causes Brain Injury, DNB Reveals   His Hurts ‘Slight;’ 13 Top Officers Hit; Mussolini Escapes

NAZI LEADER ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT: REPORT      Li. Gen. Schmundt, Hitler's Chief Aide, Among 3 Seriously Injured

Attempt Is Made On Hitler's Life, DNB Says   German Chief Is Burned and Bruised, News  Agency Says, But Hurts Are Slight; Several High-Ranking Officers Are Hit

Chief Advisers Are Injured in Bomb Explosion   Fuekrer Suffers Burns, Bruises, Brain Concussion

Suffers Only Light Burns And Bruises   Three Others in Group Seriously Injured, Berlin Says

Injuries Are Called Slight   Several German Officers Injured in Explosion— May Have Been Bomb

High Military Men In Reich HurtByBomb   German Fuehrer Bruised In Blast From Bomb Of Assassin

Bomb Blast _, Burns Nazi  Party Chief  Seven Generals and Two Admirais Also Injured in Explosion  SCENE NOT GIVEN Fuehrer Back at Work  Right After Attempt, pu Darlin Radin      SCENE NOT GIVEN   Fuehrer Back at Work Right After Attempt, Says Berlin Redio

THREE OF HIS MILITARY HEADS SERIOUSLY HURT   Attempted Assassination Believed to Have Been in Holland. Second Against Adolf

Bruised But Not Serious:  Staff Injured   Three Military Leaders Seriously Hurt; Place Of   Bombing Not Given.   ‘CONFERS WITH DUCE

Slightly Burned, Nazi Agency Says   Some Generals Injured, Berlin Announcement Declares

ATTEMPT MADE AGAINST HITLER   German Leader Injured Ir Explosion, DNB Says

Attempt On Life  Causes Injuries Of Minor Nature   Confers With Il Duce, Members Of Staff Hurt

Three Military Leaders Are Seriously Injured In Bomb ‘Explosion. Berlin Announces   Other Generals And Admirals Among Victims; Time And Place Of Attack Not Given; Nazi Radio Says He Met With Mussolini Afterwards

U.S. Seizes 103 Trucking Firms To Halt Strike   Expect F ull Operation In 8 States By Sun. Or Mon.

Trucking Firms Are Taken Over  By Government   ODT Takes Control of Strike-Bound Lines To Halt Walkout

U.S. CONTROLS STRIKE - BOUND TRUCK FIRMS   F. D. Orders Seizure To Halt Tieuv Of Lines In Midwest

ODT Controls Truck Lines   Firms Seized By Government To Halt Strike

STALIN BRANDS  JAPS, GERMANS  AS ‘AGGRESSORS' DECLARES THAT ALL  AGGRESSOR NATIONS MUST BE DISARMED

Stalin Refers To Jap Nation As Aggressor   Mentions Pearl Harbor As Example Of Attack By “Aggressive” Nation On Peace-Loving One

Brands Germany, Janan Aggressors  Stalin Declares They Must Be Contrelled

Stalin Brands Japan, Germany As Agaressors  Says Such Nations Are Always Prepared Car Ware Onthronl-

JAPAN CALLED AGGRESSOR BY JOSEF STALIN   Russian Premier Speaks for Disarming of Aggressive Powers After World War ll

Japan, Germany To Be Unarmed, Stalin Reports   Premier's Address Points to Views That Russia May Soon Regard Japan As an Enemv.

Stalin Terms Japan, Reich “Aggressive Nations” in Address   Red -Premier Calls for Disarmament by PostWar-Peace Outfit

TOLEDO MESA WALKOUT ENDS   Workers Respond to Back to Work Order

Vossenack   Yanks Continue To Push Toward Plain Leading To Cologne.

YANKS BATTLE NAZIS IN RURTGEN FOREST   Allies Begin Cleaning Approaches to Antwerp, Big Drive Expected Soon

FIGHTING ‘IN HURTGEN CONTINUES   Drive To Roer River @ Continues; Planes Aid Infantrymen

Quebec Conference Closes Today   Leaders’ Movements Blacked Out Again

War Conference Takes New Turn  Germany in Limelight with Eden's Arrival

Foresee Future Allied Meeting With Stalin   Report Eden Brought Demand For Clarification  of Anglo-Red Views.

Polish Question — May Be Subject  Of Future Talks   New Meeting Looms With Stalin Present As F. D., Churchill Quit Quebec

ALLIED LEADERS "MAY GONFER IN » CAPITOL LATER   Roosevelt and Churchill Into ‘Closing Phases’ Of Citadel Parley

Churchill, ‘FR. in Final Quebec Talks   Meeting With Staffs Set; Revelations of Decisions Awaited

—QUEBEC CONFERENCE—  Roosevelt, Churchill End Parley Saturda’   Further Informal Conversations May Be Held Between Allied Chiefs Before British Prime Minister Returns Home

FDR, CHURCHILL CLOSE SECOND QUEBEC CONFAB   New Talks With Russia’s Stalin Expected Soon

CONFEREES END QUEBEC PARLE}   Observers Speculate Stalin May Join Later Talks

Churchill Is To Go Back To London From talk   Press Conference Postponed Until Later On Today

TALKS AT QUEBEC NEAR CONCLUSION   HINT AT FURTHER CONVERSATIONS AT SOME OTHER PLACE

F.R., Churchill To End Parley Keep Contact   Early Indicates Wor Developments Make New Talks Likely

Wind Up At Quebec   Hint That Fast Pace Of European War May Mean More Talks Soon

CHURCHILL AND FDR HOLDING — PLENARY TALKS WITH MILITARY ISTAFFS BEFORE RETURNING HOME

TAKE UP ISSUES INVOLVING NAZIS   Contérences With ° ‘Stalin Are Possible -

Press Conference This Afternoon   Roosevelt-Churchill Conference in Quebéc Closed Today.

Big Chiefs to Remain in Contact   Quebec Conference Ending, Bu: F.D.R. and Churchill May Continue Talks   QUICK PACE OF WAR.THE REASON   Pacific Questions Decided But Other Developments Bring Fresh Proposals

‘Announce Plans Woven To Defeat Japs Soon As Possible; Economic Problems

Parley to Close on Saturday   Roosevelt and Churchill May Remain Together For Further Talks

Stalin May Join  FDR, Churchill  For Conferences . Allied Victories in Europe Point Meed for Accords as

QUEBEC TALKS TO BE ENDED ON SATITRDAY   FDR and Churchill, However Will Remain in Contact For Canvereatiane   FINAL GO-AROUND OF WAR SESSIONS UNDERWA}

Quebec Conference  Plans Funeral of  Nazi Militarism Eden's Coming Shifts Stress  in Paenna feam Deeiiie Dalend

DISCUSSIONS AT QUEBEC 10 END SATURDAY   Quick Pace of War In Europe May Hold Roosevelt and Churchill In Personal Contact

QUEBEC CONFAB ENDS SATURDAY   Hint FDR, Churchill May Meet Elsewhere

War Parley At Quebec Due To  End Tomorrow   F. D. R. May Continue Talks With Churchill In-

Quebec Meet Will Close Tomorrow   FDR-Churchill May Remain in In Close Personal Contact

Nazis’ Disposal Is Main Topic At Quebec Parley   Eden’s Canadian Journey Attributed To Fact That Allies Reach Germany

Churchill ~ fo Return  to London      Further Talks Are Left to Another Time and Place, Quebec Hears    MUCH SPECULATION ON EDEN’S VISIT   ‘Sensational Reports’ On Reason Not Confirmed; Conference Ends Today

Reich Occupation Conference Topic   German Problem Paramount with Eden’+ Arriva!

Conference In Quebec Winds Up Tomorrow  Military Staffs Of 2 Nations To Continue

SECOND CONFERENCE BRITISH-AMERICAN LEADERS NEARS END  CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT DISCUSSIONS WILL CLOSE AT OUEBEC SATURDAY

‘Eden Asks Clarification of Russian Views 2s Quebec Parley Ends   The War Today

War Conference Draws to an Enc  Churchill, Roosevelt May Confer Further

HINT ‘BIG THREE MAY MEET SOON   Fast Advances May Require Talks With Stalin

Eden Arrives, Political Set-up Likely Subject; Final Day Of Conference

FDR-CHURCHILL WILL CONCLUDE MEET IN CANADA   May Meet Stalin To Discuss War  In Europe

Churchill To Extend His Visit   Quick Pace Of War May Keep Prime Minister In Contact With F.D.R.

Vital Matters Considered At Quebec  FDR-Churchill May Have To Talk With Stalin Yet

Anthony Eden Joins Parley   “Trade. Cartels. Are Also Under. Study

QUEBEC MEET ENDS SATURDAY   Indications of Further Meetings Before Churchill Returns Home.

LAYING PLANS FOR HANDLING OF NAZI-LANL   Arrival of Eden at Quebec Confer. ence Widens Agenda for Parley Of Churchill, F.D.R.

Quebec Conference Nears End; Confab With Stalin Likely   Pacific Military Pattern _ Charted at Conference Tahle

FDR- CHURCHILL TALKS NEAR END   Shackles for Nazis Studied After Jap Defeat Mapped

Need Talks With Premier. Stalin  ro... PL ys   _ Future Conference Hinted ‘at Quebec; Pacific Strategy , Believed Settled

Roosevelt And Churehill Wind  Up Conference   Hold Plenary Session With  Military Staffs; ChurchiW Returning ta London

WAR MAY REQUIRE MEET WITH STALIN   Roosevelt, Churchill Expected To Meet Russion Leader

FDR-Churchill Will Conclude Talk Tomorrow  More Conversations Indicated Before Churchill Returns

FDR; CHURCHILL WIND UP SECOND QUEBEC PARLEY   AGREE ON MILITARY STRATEGY AIMED AT WIPING OUT JAPAN

Churchill To Head  For Home   ‘Black-Out! Due For Prime Minister, Until Acrival

‘QUEBEC CONFERENCE WILL END LATE TODA) WITH PRESS SESSION  CHURCHILL PLANNING TO RETURN TO LONDON; FURTHER TALKS LATER

Further Talks With Stalin To Follow Quebec  Europe’s Explosive War Marches May  Require Meetina

Eden Sits i in on FOR- Churchill War Conference   Burying. Militarism Of .Germany Become: - Paramount. Topic -

QUEBEC TALKS NEARING CLOSE   FDR, Churchill Meet With Eden To Discuss Oc cupation of Reich

Voters Decide on Senate to Ratify Peace   REPUBLICANS MAY GAIN NOMINAL CONTROL OF TREATY FORMATION

Execute Italians in Retalia. tion for Slaying of Gestapo Officers

Nazis Slaughter Rome Cifizens   550 Said Slain For Attack On Gestapo

00 REPORTED PUT TO DEATH IN ROME   THREE HUNDRED SAID TO _HAVE BEEN MASSACRED FOR ‘ATTACK ON GESTAPO, -

Counterattacks  On Biak Repulsed   Yanks Move Toward  Last Two Airfields ©

INCOMPETENCE OF NEW DEAL HIT BY DEWEY   Cites Prolongation Of War, Lack Of Harmony At Home

DEWEY CHARGES NEW DEAL WITH WAR BLUNDERS   Tremendous Crowd in N. Y. Cheers GOP Leoder; Babe Ruth for Him

Inept F. R. Prolonging War, Claim   Morgenthau’s Plan For Reich Stiffened Nazis, Nation Told

DEWEY BLAMES FOR FOR DELAY IN ENDING WAR   Says Morgenthau Put Fight Back Into The Germans

President Denies Change in WPB  Program Planned   Nelson’s Mission to China Stirs Talk Of Agency Shakeup

Jap Invasion Of India Said To Be Halted   Allied Headquarters Display Optimism in Announcements

JAPS CHECKED IN FIGHTING IN INDIA   Still Strengthening — Positions

INDIA STALLED   Allies Strengthen Positions In Imphal-Kohima Area With Aerial Aid

JAP. INVASION FOUGHT 10 STANDSTILL   In Imphal-Kohima Area with Stronger Positions for Imperial forces Due to Allied Aviation Aid.  ee

British Cheek Japs at Imphal And Kohima   Strengthen Stands With Aid of Allied Aviation, Optimistic Special Note Reports

Japanese Drive On India Halted   Enemy Offensive Fails Attain Primary Objecttives; Fighting Fierce.

JAPS CHECKED IN FIGHTING IN INDIA      Mountbetten Soys Allies Still Strengthening - Positions

Japanese India Invasion Halted   Nips Fail to Take Primary Objectives

JAP DRIVE IN INDIA BROUGHT TO STANDSTILL   Enemy Fails To Achieve First Objectives In Imphal-Kohima Section

Flying Bombs Hit England At Intervals   London Reports ‘Few Casualties’

especially Trained Troops Moving Up; Patton’s Men "Within 4 Mies Of Metz

High Command. Ie Moving Troops. Toward Strategic Positions. Along Front ©   AMERICANS REPULSE NAZI COUNTER-ATTACK IN AREA OF AACHEN.   Big Industrial City Of Cologne Is Again Heavily Bombed

DEMANDS REPORTED BY ITALIAN STRIKERS   Situation Remains Confused As Germans Bar Road

YUGOSLAV PEOPLE TO VOTE FUTURE WHEN WAR IS OVE   ‘Mission Sent to London Wil  — Not Confer With Kin   Peter on Future Policies o Country.   NATION’S COUNCIL HAS RULED AGAINST PAC’   Tito Also Has Military Mlission In Moscow, Expects to Send Another to, This Country Later.

Tito Mission  Spurns Accord   No Agreement Possible With King, Savs Officer

No Wartime Peace For Tito and King   Yugoslav Council Bitter At Peter; People to Decide What They Want

Spokesman States King, Council Are Still at Odds  Tito Wants Mission To Visit U. S. for Discussion of War

MORE RED GBG35 QgwORS LISTER .   iPefrect Girclo*  “Employes Give $409 ‘(As Drive Nears ‘End.:

RGAE ED GAG ngHORS LISTED   Pefrecit C.rcl2 Employes Give $409 As Drive Nears End.

Nazis Seek to Avoid Trap «* Following Romania’s Capitulation; Fate of Antonescu Unkown

French And American Troops Pouring Into Battle Of Paris; Nazi Army In North Flees

Reich Not Ready To Quit Says Hugh Baillie After He  Visits Front In Germany

NO SURRENDER SIGNS BY NAZIS ON WEST FRONT   Correspondent With American  Army Writes of Determination Displayed by German Forces

Nazis Show No Sian of Quitting on Western Front   Garrison Feared Lost: British Swing to North   2nd Army Drives At Anchor Posts Of Siegfried Line

Admiral King Predicts Heavy Blows At Japs   Declares Enemy's Fleet Is So Badly Crippled It Can't Do Comeback   JAPS ARE EVADING MAJOR SEA BATTLE

NING SEED NeW OtA-Aln BLOWS BY JAP   Attacks Will Come in Next Few Months Admiral Says.

JAP FLERT OUT, CAN'T COMEBACK ADM. KING SAYS   U.S. Commander, En Speech, Predicts New Rlows On Tokyo

KING SEES NEW SEAR BLOWS BY JAPS   Attacks’ Will’Come in Next Few Months Admiral Says.

NO COMEBACK POSSIBLE, SAYS FLEET CHIEF   Bases Within 1,000 Miles of Tokio Hit 4th Day in Row

ENEMY LINE NOW BROKEN FOR 200 CONTINUOUS MILES   Probably 150,000 Men Within Cherkas+ Bulge Along Dnieper Facing Threat of  Encirclement.      REPORT MARINES ARE : KILLING MANY JAPS   Tedious Advance Toware Borgen Bay !s Slowly Progressing Against Very Tough Resistance.

Nazi Command Has Lost Control Of Troops In Some Areas, Says Russian Newspaper

ARMY CHIEFS ARE LOSING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION   Russians Break Defense Along 200-mile Polish  Erant_

Su Scviet Column Captures Gorodnitsa; Allied Fifth Army Offensive Surges Along Ten.  ' Mile Frort In Central Italy   \MOSQUITO BOMBERS i HIT NAZI TARGETS

Wild Nazi Rout Line Crumples   Germans Moy Evacuate Russia as Troops. Flee in Disorder While Red Army Drives . Ahead Along Continuous 200-Mile Front

Troop Control. Reported Lost By Nazi Command   Soviets Push Actos. Old Border Line t  Into Prewar Poland ;

Reds Penetrate Dozen Miles Inside Poland  Germans Attempt To Resist Advance - p Bitter Fighting

Disorderly. — Nazi Flight. Reported   RED ARMY HAS BROKEN GERMAN DEFENSES ALONG CONTINUOUS. a 200-MILE LINE

Three Pronged Advance Is Boring Into Nazi Lines In As Many Directions; Troops In Poland.

Shatter German Forces Hiding In Ancient Shrine   Planes Also Batter Other Targets In Rome Where Enemy Sought Shelter Behind Holy Walls To Take Toll Of American Soldier Lives.

U. $. Bombers Blast — Goals Inside Rome   Nazis Routed From Mt. Cassino Abbey By Thunderous Cannon Barrage

Nazi Troops Fleeing Fort   Enemy Offensive On Beachhead Weakenina

Nazi Immunity Behind Holy Walls Is Ended   Twin Blows Aimed to Drive Enemy Into Open

Smashing Twin Blows End German Immunity Behind Holy Walls At Cost of Lives of Allied Fighters

JAP RUSH CHECKED UN NEW GUINEA   NIPS TRYING TO BREAK OUT OF TRAP SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN FIGHTING.

OFFERS PLANES FOR SALE   CAA Fifth Regional Office Disposs . ing +g Trainers

ANTI-NEW DEALERS WATCRING FLORIDA   Pepper, Staunch Supporter for FDR, fs Seeking .  Renomination

Real Democrats Watching Florida   Hope for Defeat Of Sen. Pepper

Use Pepper’s FatetoGauge Sentiment   ANTI-NEW DEAL DEMOCRATS WEIGH CHANCES FOR SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO BEAT 4TH TERM   Florida Primary Tuesday

Florida Primary May Mark Fate of  New Deal Foes   If Pepper Is Forced Into Runoff South May Start New Party

Rebels Eye Vote On Pepper for Third Party Cue   Antinew Deal Group May Launch Independent Democratic Drive In Dixie If Signs Support Hopes

third Party to. Be Sia “ln Florida   Anti-New Paglars Will Gauge Graces Ly” ' Primary

Warning Out On Weather   Killing Frost or Freezing Temperatures Due Over Oklahoma Tonight

HEAVY FROST IS PREDICTED FOR STATE TONIGH]   Temperature in Miami 37 Early Today — Lowest Reading of Fall

COMMANDO KELLY IS BACK IN PITTSBURGH   His Widowed Mother And Eight Brothers Among Thousands At Airport

Commando Kelly Is  Welcomed At Home  “Mom" Meets Hero Sor la Pittsburah

Pittsburgh Agog As ‘Commando’ Comes Home   Family and Huge Crowd On Hand To Greet Kelly As He Arrives bv Plane

‘Commando’ Kelly Arrives  Home to Visit His ‘Mom’   Crowd of Several Thousand Greets Hero On Arrival in Pittsburgh; Celebration Planned for ‘One-Man Army’ Tomorrow

Soviets Storm Narav Suburbs; Spring New Trap   Five Nazi Divisions Are Encircled; 175,000 Now Face Extinction.

Russian Army Penetrating — Narva Suburb. Says London   Reds: Busy Cutting Down Trappéd Foe

Yanks Capture ‘Limon on Leyte  In Philip pines   i Mud-Slogging American In  funtrymen Are Lunging ! Southward From For-- . i mer Jap Bastion

Yanks Destroy Jap Division in Capturing Limon   Rush on After Seizure of Leyte Strenghold Hope To “Roll Up” Nips

Americans Capture Limon Bastion And Continue On  er Long, Bitter Fighting

Limon Captured After Furious Battle on Leyte   Jap Ist Division Destroyed Reports From Front State

Heavy = Fighting = Stull Ahead for Battle-worn  Troops; Jap Division Destroyed

YANKS DRIVE ON AFTER WINNING LIMON IN LEYTE   Jap First Division Virtually Erased; Whole Enemy Line May Collapse

Jap Bastion On Leyte Falls To 3nd Division   Yanks Battle To Limon Through Typhoon Swept Mud

YANKS LUNGE SOUTHWARD FROM LIMON   Capture of Bastion Climaxes Longest and Bitterest Fight of Leyte Campaign   ENEMY ON DEFENSIVE

Limon Stronghold Taken by Yanks   U. S. Infantry Drives Southward Toward the Port of Ormoc   JAP LINE IS MENACED   Two Enemy Divisions Have Been Destroyed in Leyte q Battle

Yanks Take Jap Bastion   American Troops Push South From Limon; Lone Rattle Ended

YANKS CAPTURE LIMON BASTION      Drive Southward On Leyte In Drive to Roll Up  Yamashita Line

Limon Taken By Infantry   Yanks Smash Southward After Capture; Another Jap Division Called Destroyed

MUD -SLOGGING ns GHBOYS. IN      Move Southward-On Leyte Af. ter Capturing Limon Following Bitter Battle   HEAVY FIGHTING STILL . “NOT OVER“ IN: SECTOR

Leyte Drive Heads South   _Kasier Terrain Lies.  Ahead Of Yank’Army

Leyte Offensive - Gpened Up Again   MAC ARTHUR'S FORCES DRIVE THROUGH MUD

DINO DIVISION LUNGES SOUTH   Jap First Division Beaten As Yanks Capture Limon Bastion.

Americans Lunge Southward From Seized Limon On Leyte   Smashing Of Yamashita Line Climax To Long And Bitter Invasion Campaign

Yanks Smash Limon Bastion and Push On   Japanese Ist Division Practically Destroyed In Long Campaign   EASIER COUNTRY AHEAD OF YANKS   But Heavy Fighting For Leyie Has Not Ended; More Air Blows

Push South From Limon      Yanks Into Easier: Terrain After Fall of Yamashita Bastien -

Limon Won By 32nd Division  Climax Bitterest Fight Of Leyte Campaian

YANKS DRIVE SOUTHWARD FROM LIMON   MacArthur Reports Destruction of Japanese First Division it Dough‘boy Capture of Yama  ghita Line Bastion.

Yanks Take Limon: Hit RoadSouth   Troops Reach Leyte River In 1,000 Yard Advance

Infantrymen Smast At Japs From Captured Limon   Enemy Bastion Falls After Bitterest Fighting on Leyte

TINEA LEYTE   Capture Of Limon Perils Enemy Stand On Entire Island

Victorious Russians Mass Armies For New Offensive   Relative Quiet) Prevails Along Front; Rearguard Services Moving Forward: London And Berlin Expect Soviets To Strike Soon In Poland

‘iInvasion Interlude Lr  British Declare 700-Mile Coastal Strip “Out of Bounds”

English Coast Is Restricted Area  Action Taken for Security Reacons

Bombsight ‘Face Trial   Accused of Conspiracy To Hamper Output of War Devices Vital To Air Success

MEET TOUGHE OPPOSITION ON PELELIU   Veteran Leathernecks Gain Third of Mile, However ._..

ARMY TROOFS oN ANGUAR- 18. LAND. ENLARGE. BEACHHEAD ‘BETTER RESIBTANCE ON PELELID. .- ol         By: RICHARD v.. HALLER: Ynlernatlonal. News Service

Stilwell Recall Reveals That U.S ‘Committed To Support Regime ‘In China That Is Undemocrati:

Says Chiang More Concerned in Maintaining Political Regime Than in Fighting Japanese

MAY DISCOUNT CHINA'S PART IN FUTURE OF WAR   New York Times’ Correspondent Brooks Atkinson Says Chiang Demanded That Stilwell Be Removed  ~May Fight Japan Alone, He Said.

America Bows To Demands of General Chiang   Stilwell Removal Represents Triumph For Politica! Group

U.S. DISCOUNTS CHINA THEATRE   War Observer Says Stil. well Recall Climaxes  Rift With Chiang

Chiang’s Fear of China Communists Forced- Removal of Gen. Stilwell

RECALL OF STILWELL.  MAY MEAN CHANGE IN  AMERICAN INTEREST UNITED STATES MAY  HAVE DECIDED DISCOUN’ CHINA’S WAR WorRTHU

Rainey Discusses Medical Industries As School Dean Appointment To Boost Bor

Rainey Asks That Interlocking State Boards Be Studied   Ex-Texas U, President Says He’s Frightened By Such Practices

RAINEY SAYS HE WAS “SHORT-CRCUITED” ON SPIES SUCCESSOR  CHARGES CAMPAIGN OF SABOTAGE USED TO GET MEDICAL DEAN OUT

Germans Scheme To Save Hitler By Aid Of Japs   European Prisoners Would Go To Japan And Be Exchanged

Tokyo, World's Third Largest City Highly Vulnerable Bombing Target

xk KK & Kk City of 7,500,000  Covers 225 Square Miles   Yanks Advance In Philippines ©

Tokyo Is Seat Of Jap Power   The World’s Third Largest City.Now Marked for Ruin

TOKYO IS THIRD LARGEST CITY   Heart of Big Japanese Em. pire Also Is Great Industrial Center

Crull, Turnipseed Air Force Selectees   Seniors in High School Here Qualify for Enlistment in Army Air Corps Reserve

Early Denies Repert About Roosevelt Trip   Ferms “Unirue”- Publish.  ed Story He Will Meet:  Churchill in “London _ or Paris”

Engineer Gives Life Trying To Land Fortress After Shot Kills Co-Pilot And Injures Pilot

Heroic Engineer's Glorious Failure is Acclaimed by Mates   Wouldn’t Leave Wounded Pilot in His Plane; Dies With Him

Three Die in Attempt to. Save Ship With Dead Co-pilot and Hurt Pilot

Engineer And Navigator Of Flying Fortress In Glorious Failure To Bring Crippled Plane Home

8th Army Gains Along Adriatic      Poles and Italians Advance Two Miles

ALLIES GAIN IN ADRIATIC AREA   Take Hills Dominating Ceasno Valley. Italy

EIGHTH ARMY FORCES GAIN TWO MILES   Indicate Germans In Florence Are Blowing Up Buildings

ALLIES TAKE 3 ADRIATIC TOWNS   HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES EAST OF FLORENCE

ALLIES RECORD SLIGHT GAIN ON ITALIAN FRONT   Capture Hills Dominating Ceasno . Valley, Occupy Three Key Towns

Heavy Blasts in Florence Area Held by Germans   Building Evidently Blown Up by Nazis — Poles and Italians Make Small Advance

ALLIES IN ITALY MAKE 2 MILE GAIN   On Six Mile Front In Adriatic Sector Take Dominating Heights

EISHTH ARMY LEAPS FORWARD IN ITAL!   Makes Two-Mile Gain in Adriatic Sector

POLES, ITALIAN TROOPS GAIN 2 MILES IN ITALY   Capture Hills And Three Key Villages In Adriatic Area

Eighth Army Moves Ahead Qn Adriatic   Poles and Italians Gain Two Miles In New Offensive

Polish, Italian Troops Gain In Adriatic Sector   Balance of Italian Front Reported To BeComparatively Quiet

Invasion Forces Receive Support Of Heavy Bombers As Enemy Strafed

HUGE SKY FLEETS CONTINUE SUPPORT OF INVASION FORCE:   Allied Forces -Pile Up 22,000 Sorties; Down 144 Nazi Planes: Lose 119°   BLAST SIX RAIL CENTERS

PLOESTI OIL FIELDS DEALT MORE BLOWS   Explosions And Fires Set Off in Refineries

RAIDERS AGAIN BLAST PLOESTI'S OIL FIELDS   Flames, Explosions Left In Important Nazi Refinery

ee Ad 7 i t i  8 Large Ships Sunk, 3 More Probably; Toll May Go Higher

WAR MAY BE SHORTENED BY MONTHS   Brilliant American Victory Apparently Leaves Emperor's Navy Without Power To Again Engage In A Major Action At Sea

Nip Navy Stripped Of Carrier, Heavy \Warship Seapower   War Shortened By Months, Belief After Main Jap Fleet Given Whipping

Most Crushing Defeat Ever  suffered By. The Nip Navy In 3 -Pronged Philippines Scrap

Fate Of MacArthur’s Invasion Hung In Balance As Great Air-Sea Engagement Fought Off Philippines; May Shorten War   Our Losses Two Small Carriers

Two Carriers, One Battleship and Five _ Cruisers Sunk; Two More Battleships and One Carrier Are Probably Sunk :

Blasting of 30 Ships Strips Foe of Power   Nine Warships Definitely Sunk; TJ. S. Admits Second Carrier Lost

-Enemy Navy Badly Crippled After. 26— Major Units of Fleet Sunk or Badly. Damaged. in Three Important. Clashes 

ENEMY SUFFERS MOST CRUSHING NAVAL DEFEAT   Battle Off Philippines May Shorten Pacific War By Months

Three-Day Battle Is Broken Off   U.S. Planes Still On Hunt. for Remnants of Three.  Enemy Flotillas   26 SHIPS SUNK OR HEAVILY DAMAGED   Reports Not Yet Complete; Action May Shorten War by Many Months

STRIP NIP FLEET OF TOP SHIPS   Iwo Carriers. One Battleship. Five Cruisers Included In Losses: U. S. Casualties Light   One Force Escapes

War Believed Shortened by Months as Victory Opens Path To Recenguest of Philippines

Incomplete Reports Indicate Over  26 Enemy Warships Sunk or Heavily Damaged; Major Obstacle fs Removed From Path to China Coast and Japar

MOST CRUSHING ENEMY DEFEAT   Wreckage Marks Possible End of Fleet As Major Obstacle in War.”   THREE-PRONGED BATTLE

Enemy's Fleet Crushed in Battle For Philippines   Nimitz, MacArthur Continue to Count Cost to Nipponese

Pacitic War Shortened By Victory   Reports by American Commanders Show Eight Nip Vessels Sunk, Three Probably Sunk And 15 Damaged; Casualty Total Will Grow

Japanese Suffer Crushing Defeat in a Three_ Pronged Battle      MAY BE END OF FLEET   Hirohito’s Navy Is Stripped of Carrier and Cruiser Power

Americans Inflict Heavy  Casualties Upon Mikado’s Highly Prized Sea Force *  Two Small Carriers And Many PT Boats Sunk And Damaged Make Up American Losses In Naval Battle

Nip Navy Finally Comes Out  Of Hiding And Knocked Out  Cyt Wa Tr TYienetak ac Oh Axx

(39 MOSTLY CARRIER AND BATTLE GRATT   Full Reports on Shattering Defeat Expected to Raise Total. -

Possibly A Mortal Blow To Tokio Fleet   Overwhelming American Victory In Philippine: Waters May Open Path To Japan And China Anc Shorten Pacific War By Months.

Battered Enemy Flees   Crushing Defeat Meted Out to Imperial. Navy May Shorten War In Pacific By Years

Foe Stripped of Greater Part of Known Heavy  Fighting U nits   3 Carriers, 10 Battleships Sunk, Probably Sunk  or Damaged

Greatest Naval Defeat Of The War, MacArthur. Our Losses Are Light

Two Small Carriers And PT Boats Known American Losses In Fighting

JAPAN’S FLEET ALMOST WIPED AIT IN BATTLE   Greatest Victory In Naval History Goes To U. S.

Way To Coast Of Nippon May Be Mpened   Shortening Of War In Pacific Seen As Result

Incomplete Reports Show That More Than 26 Japanese Warships Sunk or Damaged.   TRIPLE ATTACK HAS SWUNG INTO ACTION

Naval Victory To Shorten War By Many Months   Final Reports Expected to Show Heavier Nip Losses

Japs Penetrate Hengyang Lines   Enemy Attempting To Break Through City’s Outskirts.

CHINESE TURN BACK JAP COUNTER-ATTACK   Positions Are Safe, Defendin; Forces Report Frem * Weman Prevince

Meet Stiff Defense Near German Soil   Within Few Miles Of Border At Several Points

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service )   3 CRACK ALLIED ARMIES SWEEP ON TO GERMANY

HOSPITAL NOTES      News of the Sick at Sacred Heart Hospital, LeMars

Demo Platform Places Hopes ot 12-Year Record   - Promises to Speed Victory, Establish And Maintain Peace

SHAKEUPS LOOM IN CHINA POSTS   COMMUNISTS MAY GET JOBS IN GOVERNMENT

HAMLIN COMMUNITY GOAL IN SIXTH WAR LOAN DRIVE SET AT $193,000.00

County's Quota Is $920,000 in Sixth War Loan   Stamford Assigned $169,200 of which $204,000 is Series E

Would Change Foreign Policy   Peace Planning Committee Would Purge Politics From Policy.

Dewey Works On Draft of Forum Speech   GOP Candidate Slated To Speak in New York Tonight at 9:30

TAX BILL VETO ~ EXPECTED TODAY   ‘HOUSE G, 0. P. GROUP   REACHES TENTATIVE DECI  . BION TO. RESIST ACTION.

EXPECTS VETO TO BE UPHELD   FDR Picks Washington's Birthday To Let The Axe Fall

(On Washington's Birthday:  Lacking a Cherry Tree, President Plans To Use Axe on Tax Measure

TAX BILL VETO DUE ON FEB, 22   Roosevelt Will Do What Washington Did To The Cherry Tree

TAX BILL VETO SET FOR TODAY   Republicans Planning Bat tle to Override President’s Action

TAX BILL ACTION PREDICTED TODAY   Presidential Veto Expected as Republicans Oraw Lines

‘Cherry Tree’ Veto Planned By President   May Apply Hatchet Today To Tax Bill Avowed Nat Bic Fuough

Roosevelt To Veto Tax Bill   Veto Day Said To Be Washinaton’s Birthday

111,587 Germans Killed by Reds At Sevastopol   Many Ships Sunk In 5-Week Battle

Nazi Remnants In Crimea Wiped Out   Reds Say 137,587 Axis Troops Slain Or Captured, And Total of 191 Ships Sunk

Soviets Exact  Big Axis Toll   German Gen. Boheme Said ‘ Captured in Crimea

Crimea Area Is Liberated   Reds Say Defenders Have Been Rounded Up

RUSSIANS DESTROY LAST AXIS TROOPS NEAR SEVASTOPOL   Moscow Announces 111,587  Germans and Romanians  Were Killed in Five-Week Crimean Campaign,   BIG BATTLE RAGES ON LOWER DNESTR   Soviets Repulse Enemy Attacks, Killing 4,000 Nazis and Knocking Out 100 . Tanks in Two Days.

SOVIETS WIPE OUT ENEMY IN CRIMEAN PORT   REDS CLAIM OVER 130,000 KILLED OR CAPTURED

25 French Girls Have Heads Shaved for Being Too Friendly With Germans

750 GERMANS TAKEN PRISONER BY YANKS   Fast-Talking Americans Persuade Gullible “Supermen”™ To Sur render To Canadians

Allied Warplanes Jar Japs Over Big Pacific War Area   MacArthur, Nimitz List Attacks Upon Supplies

Air Whiplash Rakes Japan’s Island Bases   Sirikes From Philippines to Timor Rip Oilfield, Planes. Ships

Allied Planes Wreak Havoc In Jap Areas   Aerial Blockade Strike: Heavily in a Solid Line At Enemy

14 PLANES DESTROYED   Allies*Attack Along 1,008 Miles ‘of Japanese Supply Line

Jap Aircraft Blasted Airdromes Cratered, Ships Sunk. by Heavey Blows

Japs Lose 14 More Planes: And 3 Ships’   Supply Lines Raked Cn 100-Mile Front, - Gen. MacArthur Says

22-MAN GROUP TO DISCUSS mt BUREAY HEADS   Chamber of Commerc: Crganizing Committee to Meet Friday Night

22MAN GROUP PHAN HANS   Chamber of Commerc? . Crganizing Committee to Meet Friday Night ©

Navy Officers Tell Of Sevap In Hotel Lobby   Gne Relates How He Floor.  ed Several Men Who. Identified Themselves At Teamster Unionists

Throws New Light on Fiotel Fight   Dickins' Companion Confirms Denied Story

Naval Officers Tell of Fight With  Teamsters Over Roosevelt Address

Tell Of Fight Affer President Made Address.  La Pamade ©1223   Lt. Comdr. Suddath And Lt. Dickins Describe Hotel Bottle

MUMMERS’ PARADE AGAIN CALLED OFF      Annual Spectacle - Will ' Not be Held This . Fall

MUMMERS’ PARADE AGAIN CALLED OFF   Annual Spectacle “Will Not be Held This 3 Eell

Civilian Fruit Supply Cut Is Predicted   OUTPUT OF PROCESSED FOOD FROM BOUNTEOUS YIELDS NEEDED FOR WAR

Fruit Harvest May Set Record   But Civilian Supply May Be Less in ‘45

SUBSIDY OUTLAY “OF $1,500,000,000 BEATEN IN SENATE   New Deal Forces Suffer Major Setback in Attempt  to Put Ceiling on 44 Program.   FOES HAIL BALLOT AS DECISIVE TEST   George Charges During Debate Administration Plan Is “Politics of Rawest Kind.”

SUBSIDIES’ FOES " WIN-FIRST ROUND   Maloney Proposal, Supported By Administration, Turned Down

Food Subsidy Foes Achieve  Big Victory   Amendment to Bill KiSling Payments Is Defeated in Senate

Anti-Subsidy Senators Win Opening Test   Administration Supporter: Fear Food Payments Plan Donamed

Subsidy Loses Senate Round   Senate Turns Down Spending Permit for '44 By Vote of 49 to 26.

Anti-Subsidies  Senators Score  Major Victory Reject Plan Of  Federal Spending

TEST IS WON IN SENATE BY SUBSIDY FOES   Plan to Spend Billion And Half in 1944 Is Defeated

SUBSIDIES FOES WIN MAJOR Teal   Get Preliminary Victory Over Administration When Senate Turns Down Proposal To Authorize Fund

Anti-Subsidies Bloc Wins Major Senate Victory  Chamher Reiect«   Chamber Reiects Billion and Half ‘Ceiling’ Proposal

SENATE REFUSES APPROPRIATION FOR SUBSIDIES   Administration Loses Preliminary Round As Debate Is Renewed   PROGRAM IS CALLED LABOR APPEASEMENT

NEW SUBSIDY FIGHT OPENED IN THE SENATE      Foes of Program Score a Major Victory in First  Round   HEATED DEBATE IS FOLLOWED BY VOTE   George Calls-Proposals-of Roosevelt “Sheer Nonsense”

Senators Say Subsidies Attempt To ‘Appease Labor At Expense Of Farmer

SUBSIDY FOES SCORE VICTORY OVER MEASURE   Administration Handed Defeat by Opponents In Senate

ROOSEVELT N 0:2 COMMITTED ON POLISH QUESTION   ‘Cautious Statement in Contrast to One by Churchill

Planes Bomb Manila; New Island ‘Taken   MacArthur Reports 53,000 Japs Killed Or Wounded

Manila Is Bombed by U.S. Planes   Japs Say 300 Carrier-basec Bombers in Raid—New  Island Landing

MANILA HIT BY CARRIER BASED DLANES   Americans Make New Landing An Asia Islands

Democrats Favor  Short Platform   Brevity Advocated as Way to Avoid Strife

In Today’s Paper    Vatican fed third of Italian capital's population during German occupation

House: Committee. Expect: ed to Sustain Senate’s: “Freezing” Action; La- :  ‘bor Favors Increase

WANT SECURITY RATE CHANGED      ‘Freeze’ Creates Obligation For Congress to Subsidize Pensioners.

Altmeyer Asserts Freezing Of Social Security Levels Will Bring About ‘Subsidy’

YANKS INSIDE SAARBRUCKEN, SAYS ANKARA   Third Great Breach In Winter Line Of Germans

Smash Into Four Rhine War Centers Held by Nazi Suicide Squads;  Patton Circles Mer zig, Saarlautern

Break-Through Tc River 21 Miles From Cologne   Simpson’s Doughboys Overrun Anchorage At Lindern; Suicide Squads Hold Out In Four  Towns; Patton Develops Pincer Movement.

my Hurled Back to New Defenses ‘21 Miles From Cologne; Ninth Army Drive Cuts Off Two Fortresses

Churchill Warns People Of Greece   Says British Army Will Se That Order There I -Maintained i. 7

Churchill Talks To  Commens   Reports Say U.S. May Have Taken Stand In Athens Affairs

CORN-HOG RATIO STABLE, CLAIM   Price Administrator Replies To Senators’ Criticism

Holds Ratio Has Been Restored  OPA Official Replies to Senators’ Complaint

AXIS RADIOS” TEL OF US. ~ BOMB RAIDS   (Borneo Oil Center . Blasted; Koror Said Hit

U.S. FORCES MOVE ONWARD  ON PELILIU   Diher Powerful Blows Registered in Palau and Southern — Philippines; Strike at Balikpapan.   Retake Diongloh

7TH ARMY SCORES BIGGEST ADVANCES   Unit Has Gained 00 Miles Since General Eisenhower Launched His Winter Offensive.

Beightler Leads 37th Division From Cities, Farms To Glory on Battlefield Against Nips

Contend Future Deals Impossible   Pravda Says Poles Hinder Friendship

MISKOLC FALLS IN REDS’ DRIVE ° OVER HUNGARY   Other Key Towns Overrun © Spearheads 60 Miles from Austria

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Soviet Armies Steam-Roller Through Hungary

REDS G0 MILES FROM AUSTRIAN FRONTIER   Desperate Measures by Germans Fail to Halt Three Armies

FORTRESS CITIES CAPTUBED IN RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE THAT ’ GRINDS TOWARD AUSTRIAN EORDER

BAINS BOG DOW U.S. FIFTH ARMY   Smash Back Fierce German Counterattack.

ONLY 207 OF COUNTY BOND QUOTA RAISED   Purchases to Date Are Short of Same Period In Sth Drive

69% OF COUNTY WAR BOND GOAL HAS BEEN MADE   Freeport Area Still Has $100,656 ‘to Be Raised: Ends Wednes.

Capture Provides U.S. With Bases for Aerial Raids of Philippines   Allies Gaining on Three Jap Fronts But Enemy Advances in China; Navy Reveals 1000-Plane Blows in Pacific

SOVIETS READY TO CROSS INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Launch Fierce but Futile CounterAssault

Another Trap Set For German Army   Patton’s Troops At Versailles; Falaise, Four Other Towns Captured; Little Resistance Encountered

Yanks Less Than 35 Mi. From Capital   Lunge On Across Aunay After Taking Chartres, 3 Other Key Cities.

ESCORT CARRIERS CUT: LOSSES OF SHIPPING   No Sinkings Reported In Western Atlantic Last Week; Japs  Takine Heavy Losses

peau fo Move Capital   Will Transfer From Algiers to Liberated France, He Announces

De Gaulle To Move Capital   Change Places From Algiers  To Liberated French ee   ritorv Soon.

De Gaulle Ends Washington Trip  Expects to Move Capital to France

De Gaulle Plans to Move Capital to Liberated France   FRENCH LEADER SAYS UNDERSTANDING WITH F.D.R. ATTAINED THROUGH VISIT; STATES OBJECTIVES

DE GAULLE T0 MOVE CAPITAL . FROM ALGIERS   To Be Located in France as Soon as Possible, He Tells Newsmen.

FRENCH CAPITAL TO BE MOVED TO LIBERATED AREA   De Gaulle Says Discussions With Roosevelt Resulted in Better Understanding

De Gaulle Will Move His Capital to Liberated France  Better Understanding Attained With FDR, Leader Says

DE GAULLE TO MOVE TO FRANCE   Better Understanding With F. R. Reported

FRENGH LEADER PLEASED WITH FDR DISCUSSIONS   Says France to Take He Rightful Place in War, Peace

DE GAULLE WILL MOVE CAPITAL 10 FREE FRANCE   General Expresses Deep Satisfaction With Visit: In N.Y.C. Tonight

Plans Move To France   French Capital From  Algiers Soon ‘As Possible, Says De Gaulle; U. S. Visit a Success

DeGaulle Soon Go to French Territory   Declares France Plans to Participate  With the Allies

De Gaulle To’ Move Capital From Algiers   Will Transfer Headquarters to Liberated Area Of France Soon

Nazis Fight Back   Gen. de Gaulle To Move Capital To France As Soon As Possible

DE GAULLE SAYS TALK WITH FOR IS SATISFYING   FORSEES BETTER UNDERSTANCING IN THE FUTURE

De Gaulle to Move Capital lo France   French Leader Concludes Talks With Roosevelt

DE GAULLE ENDS CAPITAL VISIT   French Leader Well Pleased with Conversations at White. House.

Conferences Here Helpful, DeGa ulle Says   Better Understanding Obtained, Says French Leader's Statement

DeGaulle Pleased With F. D. R. Talks   Plans Moving His Capital to France

De Gaulle Pleased With U. S. Visit   Better Understanding Has Been Reached, He Tells Renorters

De Gaulle Ends Talks With U. S. Executive   'French Leader Declares He Will Move Capital : From Algiers To Liberated French . Territory J As Soon As Possible

DEGAULLE SAYS HIS VISIT HAS BEEN HELPFUL   - Cenversations with Presi dent Roosevelt Have Provided Better Under standing

FRENCH LEADER CONCLUDES HIS CAPITAL TALKS   De Gaulle Believes ‘Principal Object’ of Better Understanding Achieved

Borough War FundReaches $23,371 Mark   Chairman. Carl N. Moore Announces New Total— . Drive Ends Soon

AUSOIANG URGE ACROSS BIEBRZ!   Reds Cross River in Northern Poland, Attack on Threshold of German East Prussia: Planes Aid

Large Forces Of Soviet Planes Patrol Baltic Coast Watching For Any German Effort To Escape

New Deal Loses House Majority   G.O.P. Presses to Fill Vacancies

Democrats Lose House Majority   Deaths Reduce Number, Give GOP Leaders Hope

British Subs Toroedo Jap Cruiser And Aircraft Carrier Off Malaya

Three Years After---Japan iPays For Pearl Harbor: ‘Utah Remains Monument

PEARL HARBOR VICTIMS HURL DEFIANCE NOW   All Six Jap Carriers In Treacherous Raid Are On Bottom of Ocean

PEARL HARBOR CASUALTIES HAVE REVENGE   Jap Carriers on Pacific Bottom While 11 U. S. Ships Dathaged Then Are in Action.   Carriers Sunk

House Approves GI Bill Unanimously   Heavily-Amended Plan Now Goes Back To  Zamdta CAk Compraanes On Dirferbnces

House Passes Vets’  G. I. Bill of Righis   Maximum of U. S.-Guaranteed Loans Is Raised to $2,500 Before Measure Sent Back to Senate for Amendment Action

House Passes Much Altered Veterans Bill   Union Card Ban Rejected:  _ Score of Améndments Re eee: CE

House Approves ‘Bill of Rights’  For Veterans   Amendment To Prohibit Union Requirements  On Closed: Shop Rejected

GI BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE, 387-0   Veterans’ Measure Sent fo the Senate for Concurrence

HOUSE PASSES WAR VETERANS BENEFITS BILL   Score of Changes Are Made in G. IL.  Measure

House Approves GI Bill Unanimously   Heavily-Amended Plan Now Goes Back T¢ Senate For Compromise On Differences

‘C1 Bill of Rights Passed by House, By 387 to 1 Vote   Rejects Amendment Barring Unions From Requiring Cards

Veterans’ Bill Of Rights Wins In House Vote   Greatly Changed From Senate Plan

U. §. First Army Masses Forces in Attempt To Stabilize Front as Germans Continue Their Batfering-Ram Assault With Unabated Fury

FOG CUTS OFF SKY SUPPORT OF AMERICANS   FIRST ARMY PUSHED BACK 20 MILES IN FURIOUS ATTACK

Tank-Led Battering Ram Continues As First Seeks To Stabilize Front

Nazi Counter-Offensive Assumes Proportions Of  A Major Breakthrough   Tank-Led Battering Ram Continues Probing Into Belgium, Luxembourg On 70-Mile Front

First Army Masses Armor, infantry As Enemy Rams Forward On 70-Mile Front

AMERICANS oTAGE DESPERATE FIGHT   Only Few Dispatches Trickle Through News Blackout   LONG FRONT ABLAZE   Nazis Reported Halted South Of Monschau; Hodges Uses All His Power

German Drive Into Belgium Gains in Fury   Major Breakthrough Hinted; U. S. First Army Masses Forces to Stabilize Front

Nazi Drive Assumes Propor—tions Of Attempted Major — Break-Through :

ON A FRONT. “OF 70 MILES   Despite Doughboys’ Holding Fight, Enemy Armor Probes Into Lux-. embourg and Belgium.   GI’S STAND BRAVELY; RUN OVER BY TANKS   Apparent Attempted Major Smash Is Stopped in One Sector, but Battle Is Fluid in Another.

First Army Mobilizing Infantry And Armor In Effort To Stabilize Front   ‘GROUND FORCES AIDED 'BY FLYING FORTRESSES

Foe Advances Along Front. Of 70 Miles In Big Drive   Allied Heavy Planes Join Effort To Check Desperate Attempt To Break U. S. Line  CAINS INDERINITE

Germans Drive For 20 Miles In One Sector   Infantry, Armor Massed By 1st Army In Effort to Stabilize Front; Fury of Attack Undiminished   Attack is Continuing

allant Doughboys Halt Nazis South of Monschau, but Are Unsuccessful Further South

Secrecy Shrouding Actual Situation.   First Army Pushed Back ot Least 20 Miles, But Situation Further South Still Obeeure

American Setback Is Most Serious . Since Tunisia  Bombers Help Blast Nazi Supply Lines  oe

Despite Americans’ Desperate Holding Fight the German Tank-led Battering Ram Continues to Probe Into Bel¢cium and Luxemboure.

Yanks Countering With All  Available Forces   Enemy Assault Assumes Proportions of Attempted Major Breakthrough; Battering Ram Probes Belaian Reaion

Germans Fail To Halt Progress Of Soviet Tidal Wave   Huge Red Army Drives Steadilv Forward Toward Borders Of Germany   FRANTIC COUNTER ATTACKS REPULSED

GERMANS LAUKGH COUNTER -ATTAGKS AGAINST RUSOIANS   Reds Threaten Nazis With Loss of Baranov:chi

German Counter-Thrusts Of Little Avail On Red Drive Along Warsaw Road

NAZI ATTACKS FAIL TO HALT RED FORCES   Try Counter-Drives on Russians in Baranovichi Area

10,883 MEN LOST IN NORMANDY BY AMERICAN ARMY   Dead Number 3,283, Wounded 12,600—Bradley Says Beachhead Is “Absolutely Secure.”   PREDICTS CHERBOURG FIGHT WILL BE BITTER   General Believes Germans May Attempt Evacuation by Sea If Land Escape Route Is Closed.

Gen. Bradley Reports on American Casualties of Invasion Start.   12.600 ARE WOUNDED

15 883. Yankee . ~ Casualties in: ~~ Opening Front      Gen; a Gives-Out Figin: irst. Press Con erate Since D. “Day ::      PAYS. HIGH: TRIBUTE TORUS: ‘SOLDIERS   Two: Critical. Periods: “Since Landing * ‘Disclosed:, ‘Beachhead Ts: Absolutely. Secure.

BITTER BATTLE RAGES ON SAIPAN       U.S. Invasion Toll--3,282 Dead, 12,600 Wounded

3,283 Killed Ande12,600 Wounded First 11 Days Of Campaign; Gen. Bradley Praises Courage Of Doughboys At Beachhead

12,600 Injured In First Eleven  Days: Bradley   lst Division Casualties  Higher Than Expected, Others Lower

12,600 OTHERS ARE WOUNDED ON NEW FRONT   Figures fer First Eleven Days Are Released by Gen. Bradley

3,283 AMERICAN INVADERS KILLED   Casualties for First 11 Days Are Reported

Americans Lose 3,283 Killed, 12,600 Wounded in Opening Invasion of France

Beachhead Absolutely Secure—-Bradley  U. S. Casualties 3,283 Killed, 12,000 Wounded In Launching Invasion

U.S. Casualties In France 15,883   Gen. Bradley Says Germans May Have 100,000 Men Fighting To Hold Cherbourg; May Attempt Sea Escape

12,600 Wounded Up To Mid: night Of First 11 Days Of Invasion   BRADLEY DECLARES HOLD IS ‘ABSOLUTELY SECURE’

INVASION TOLL OF U.S. FORCES IS 3,283 DEAD   12,600 Other Wounded, Is Report of Gen. Bradley, Who Praises Men

Yank Invasion Casualties More Than 15,000 Killed, Wounded To Present Date

3,83 Yanks Died First 11 Days Of Invasion   Gen. Bradley Pays High Tribute to Courage of Soldiers

U, S, INVASION LOSSES GIVEN AS 3283 DEAD  Report 12,600 Injured First

U. S. Forces Suffer 15,883 Casualties In French Landing   3,283 Killed and 12,600 Wounded in First 11 Days, Gen. Bradley Disclases

3,283 Doughboys Killed, 12,600 Wounded In Opening Normandy Front, General Bradley Reveals

12,600 YANKS WOUNDED, 3,283 DIE IN FRANGE   American Losses on Central Front Higher Than Anticipated, Others Light

Lists U. S. Casualties   3,283 Killed, 12,600 Wounded in First 11 Days of Invasion

3283 AMERICANS DEAD IN NORMANDY FIGHTING  First Casulty List Made Public  Shows 12,600 Wounded in 11 Days

American Army Had 3,284 Killed, 12,600  Wounded in Invasion   Gen. Bradley Reveals Casualties in the First 11 Days of Drive

Casualties To  U. S. 18,883   Gen. Bradley Says Beachhead Has  Been Made Secure

3,283 Yanks Are Killed  In Normandy   General Bradley Also Reports That 12,600 Were Wounded

Casualties in France 15,883   3.283 Killed and 12,600 Wounded Up to Midnight Last Night

3,283 AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILLED DURING INVASION   Gen. Bradley Announces Over 12,000 Wounded in First 11 Days of Drive

Bradley Reveals U. 5. Casualties  Total for First Ii Days at 15,883

3,283 Yanks Killed, 12,600 Wounded In’ 11 Days In Battle Of Normandy

Casualty List Of Invasion Up to 15,883   U. S$. Lost 3,283 Killed and 12,600 Wounded

12,600 WOUNDED IN OPENING OF WESTERN FRONT  ‘TOTAL OF 15,883  PACIAI Tice cioer

3,283 U. S. Soldiers Killed In All Of Fighting In France   Total Casualties 15,883; Elements Of 29th And All Of First Division Suffered Most

COST 15,883 MEN   General ‘Bradley Reports Casualties in Opening Western Front

Invasion ! Casualtie 3,283 Killed   12,600 Wounded In First 11-Days of Fighting— Just U. 8. Forces

3,283 U.S. Troops Killed, 12,600 Wounded Up To Last Night In Invasion Of France   Bradley, Announcing American Losses, Pays High Tribute To His Soldiers

3,283 Americans  Die in Normandy   Army Announced That 1 2,600 Wounded in First 11  Days of Invasion.

TAXIS IN COLUMBUS ARE AT STANDSTILL   Drivers Protest Rule Against Double Loading

NAZIS CLAIM HUMAN SHIELDS USED BY U.S.   Say Prisoners Anc Civilians Stop German Bullets

Strain Too Much For Divorcee to  Keep Up Her High Wire Circus Act

Add, Drop, and Change Sections Nov. { and After   Registrar’s Office Gives Details Of 4 Procedures

‘CROWDED COMMAS’ NEWEST MYSTERY OF HOPKINS PROBE   Sparks To Tell Jury Of Own Role In Letter Case

HOPKINS LETTER PROBE RECESSED   ‘Crowded Comma’ Enters Political Mystery

WAR CHEST ORIVE      Half of Workers In County Report On Money Collected

WAR GHEST DRIVE 10 G0 OVER {OF   Half of Workers In County Report On Money Collected

Plymouth County War Chest Drive. Andicates Designated Quotas Reached   Four Districts So ; Far Reported. Have. * Reached Goal Set _

Take Mulhouse; Yanks Pour Through Vosges   Germans Fight Desperately to Hold Belfort;  Americans Drive to Rhine, in Sight of Reich

French Take German lor!  Of Mulhouse   Last Resistance Is Ended In Metz: Fight In Belfort.

And Pouring Eastward Against Crumbling German Stiff Resistance  WITHIN SIGHT OF THE RIVER RHINE BANKS  Germans Abandoning Weapons In Haste To Escape The Americans

Gateway Into Rhine Pierced by 7th Army   Yanks Pour Through Saverne Gap Against Weakening Resistance

NEOSHO BOY A NAZI PRISONER OF WAR   Son of Isaac D. Johnson of Route 2 Shot Down Over Germany.

MANY WAR BONDS ARE CASHED HERE   Business at. Banks Much Heavier Than Anticipated

THREE SUPER-FORTS LOST IN JAPAN RAID   RESULTS WERE “GOOD,” SAYS WAR DEPARTMENT  NAGASAKI, JAPAN, AND PALEMBANG, SUMATRA BLASTED IN DOUBLE RAID.

SOVIET UNITS “INFAST PUSH FOR BUDAPEST   Motorized Columns Within 84 : Miles of Capital of Hungary.

 . . 8 Russians Continue Hungarian Drive   Saber-Swinging Cossacks Slash Way Through Panic-Stricken Enemy Ranks To Roli Ahead

Reds Capture 300 Villages   Troops Converging On Hungary Capital

Soviets Near Budapest in  29-Mile Push   Sabered Cossacks Cut Path for Spectacular Drive

Allied Tactics Make "Rusty Sieve’ Of Goering’s "Curtain Of Steel”

FINLAND REJECTED SOVIET PEACE TERMS STAYS WITH HITLER   RUSSIAN FORCES CONTIN UE THEIR ADVANCE IN RUMANIA AND POLAND

Reds Outflank Warsaw, Reach  City Suburks      Other Russian Forces Invade Norway After Prize Port Captured.

Russians Drive Over Vistula Above Warsaw  British, Canadians   British, Canadians Advance In Holland To Clear Antwerp

WARSAW FACED WITH RUSSIAN ENCIRCLEMENT   Surprise Plunge Poses New Threat To E. Prussia; Norwegian Port Falls

“New Red Drive Has Outflanked Polish Conital   Vistula Bridgehead North of Warsaw Offers Encirclement Threat to City

REDS, POLES OUTFLANK WARSAW   Breakthrough May Trap Nazis In Capital City

Russian And Polish Forces Score Sudden Breakthrough Of Warsaw-Vistula Defenses   Outflank Polish Capital; Gains Made In Norway; All Transylvania Held

RUSSIANS AND POLES ADVANCE ALONG VISTULA   Great Bridgehead Established In  Warsaw Sector

Russians Break Through Warsaw Vistula Line   Capture Prize Arctic Port and Clean Up In Transylvania.

SOVIETS TAKE ARCTIC PORT OF KIRKENES   Conquest Of Transylvania Reported Complete   BRIDGEHEAD   Driven Six Miles Across Vistula; Move Comes As Big Surprise

BRIDGEHEAD MADE ACROSS VISTULA RIVER   Russian and Polish Troops Outflank Warsaw and Pose New Threat to East Prussia   ARCTIC PORT CAPTURED

Allies Renew Warsaw Fighting   Reds. Poles Drive Bridgehead North of City. Pose New Threat

FOE POSITIONS IN CALAIS AREA   Allied Air Superiority Shown as Nazis Put .  Up No Fight

U. §. Bombers Maul French Invasion Coast   Run ls Made Without Fighter Escort, All Planes Return Home

LIBERATORS BOMB POINTS IN FRANCE   Prove Superiority Over Invasion Coast With Unescorted Sunday Smash At Pasde-Calais Area.   Weak Nazi Raid

Allies Make Trip Without Opposition   Demonstration Given of Anglo-American Control of Air

SUPERIOR AIR POWER SHOWN IN COAST AREA   Military Installations At Pas-de-Calais Are Hit Second Successive Day By Airmen

By po . iz , e -eri--rcre } PA opsicafis  wade FN +o ey  C Sa aia ‘ ve Hi , wally : : ah  lar an rine fee 9 Co. Au ww Ui vine FOC

Liberators F] y Unescorted to Their Targets   RAF Mosquitos Hit Hamburg for First Time in Weeks: Nazis  Raid English Coast

Liberators Pound Area Without Loss   Planes Based in South Pound Genoa, Padua, Florence and Toulon  KORCULA SHELLED ~

INSTALLATIONS IN FRANCE ARE HEAVILY RAIDEL   Pas-de-Calais Area Is Attacked Without Fight er Protection   NUISANCE RAID IS STAGED ON HAMBURG

America Has Been Fighting In Russia To Tune Of Over Four Billion Dollars

REDS ARE GIVEN GREAT QUANTITY OF WAR SUPPLIES   7800 Planes, 4700 Tanks - and Tank - Destroyers, 177,000 Tons of Explosives Under Lend-Lease. —   VALUE SHIPMENTS AT OVER FOUR BILLIONS   Peak Reached In December as Ship Losses Are Lowered, 3000 Airplanes Flowr to Destination.

CROWLEY LISTS AD TO. RUSSIA   Shipments’ ~ Value Through 1943 Under Lend-Lease ls $4. 943. 804 000

Red Lend-Lease Receipts Total $4 243,804,000   7800 Planes, 2,250,000 Tons of Foodstuffs Since October 1941

Lend- Lease to Russia:  7,800 Planes, 4,700 Tanks, Tons Of Explosives Provided the Reds

THROW JAPS FROM SECOND RR. TOWN      Chinese Sweeping Forward West of Salween in Big Drive to Open Road to India.   Gains Momentum

CHINESE CAPTURE RAILWAY TOWN   JAPANESE HURLED BACK IN OFFENSIVE TO OPEN HIGHWAY TO BURMA.

GERMANS FACING PO VALLEY TRAP   Fifth Army Seizes Peak Dominating Vital Highway

Monte Capella, Important Peak, ‘Taken By Yanks   Doughboys Repulse German Counterdrive At Monte Battaglia

YANKS THREATEN GUTOFE OF NAZIS   Fifth Army Captures. Height - Dominating Road.

To Yanks ‘In Haly   Peak Dominates Florence-Imola Road; German Forces May Be Isolated

YANKS TAKE PEAK ABOVE PO VALLEY   Important Height Dominates Nazi Escape Route

PEAK CAPTURED BY FIFTH ARMY   Makes Thrust Which Threatens To Cut Of Germans In Po Valley

Monte Capella Taken by 5th Army Troops   Thrust Threatens To Cut Off Nazis Retreating Up Po

American Fifth Army Troops in Italy Capture Monte Cappella   Threaten To Cut Off Enemy Being Driven Up Po Valley By British

Petrillo’s Boast Bringing Action   Boasted Power to Keep High School Music Off the Air

CHAPLIN WILL BE ~ ARRAIGNED FEB. 21   Film Actor Formally ‘Sur" stenderstoFederal Clharase ‘

CHAPLIN APPEARS BEFORE MARSHAL   CURIOUS ON HAND IN LOS AN. GELES AS FILM COMEDIAN SURRENDERS. .

FILM COMEDIAN IS ARRAIGNED IN CALIFORNIA   Charlie Chaplin Balks At Photos During Finger printing

Chaplin Appears To Face Charges   Many Women Gather To See Funnyman

About 50 Per Cent Of Leaf Crop In This Area Sold   Later Opening of Upstate Marts Will Help Clear Up Crop in This Belt— Lighter Piles Will Slow Up Buving.   By Jasper C. Hutte, Supervisor Lumberton Tobacco Market

About 50 Per Cent Of Leaf Crop In This Area Sold   Later Opening of Upstate Marts Will Help Clear Ulp Crop in This Belt- Lighter Piles Will Slow Un Buying.

German Forces In Italy Face ‘Destruction’    Allied 5th and 8th Armies Keen. on. Move

Germans Suffer Catastrophe. in Italy; Face Threat of Complete Destruction

Italy Front Major Defeat For Germany   Army's Destruction Now Appears Certain

Yanks Take  Tuseania  Nazi Army Suffers   Nazi Army Suffers A ‘Catastrophe.’

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u. S. Tanks * Hit Japs in Burma   Allied: Vise Is Being Tightened; American’ Action “Just Being Revealed      YANKS CUT-OFF fo 8 -JAP RETREAT   Chinese Infantry ~ Follows : Formidable  Column. of oe U.S. Panks -.

Pacific Sector Gets New Life   GEN. MACARTHUR HAS JAPS ON RUN NOW

NOEMFOOR ISLAND ATTACKED BY PLANES AND P-TBOATS — AS OTHER BATTLES RACE   New Allied Jump Toward Philippines Seen in Mac Arthur’s Latest Move. Bitter Fighting on Saipan Island and in Hengyang, A Vital China City

New Allied Jump At Philippines   Island Near Guinea Catches Bombing Raids Over the Week-End,

Possible New ’  Jump Toward  Philippines   Saipan, Hengyang Battles Mounting In Bitterness

MacArthur Hits Three-Ply Blow . Against Noemfoor  New Allied Jump Toward Philippines ~ May Be Back of It

Jap Pocket on Saipan Cut Down   Hengyang, Burning from Jap Raids, Partially in Chinese Hands

MacArthur's Sector of Pacific Assumes Fresh Significance   Three-Pronged Blow Against Noemfoor, Near Philippines

[ hreé-Ply Blow  Hits Noemfoor   Thrust May Indicate New Allied Jump Toward Philippines

See Another Jump Towarc Philippines   Noemfoor Island Hit; Saipan Struggle Is Still Undecided

Another Jap Island Tagged For Seizure   Yanks Apply Squeeze to Japs in Bitter Fighting on Saipan— Chinese Continue to Hang to Part of Battered Hengyang, Key Railroad City

SOUTH PACIFIC SECTOR FLARES INTO ACTIVITY   Noemfoor Island May Be Next Step to Philippines

Noemfoo Gets U.S. Blasting   Allied Leap Toward Philippines Indicated by Bombing Assaults

PREDICT NEW JUMP TOWARDS  PHILIPPINE!   Three-Ply Blow Slammed _ at Noempgor, 800 Miles Away.

AMERICAN RAIDS SOFTEN UP ISLE   FIGHTS FOR SAIPAN AND HENGYANG ARE MOUNTING IN FURY

THREE-PLY HT ON NOEMFOOR   MacArthur’s Sector of Pacific War Stirs to New Action.   LOTHER “BATTLES HARD

RAID NOEMFOOR ISLE ON ROAD T0 PHILIPPINES   Heavy Attack — Suggests New Plans; Extend Saipan Gains

Noemfoor Island Hit by Air and Sea_   Battles for Saipan and Hengyang More Bitter; Garapan  Is a Mass of Flames  }

New American Pacific Jump Is Indicated ©   Island Attacked—  Saipan and Hengyang Fishtine Bitter

NEW "JUMP" IN PACIFIC SEEN NEAR   Three-Ply Blow On Noemfoor Island May Bring Invasion

Noemfoor Attack May Open Push On Philippines   Saipan, Hengyang Batiles Mount In Bitterness; Japs Cut Railway Line

Bomb Attack On Noemfoor Is Significant   MacArthur May Be Clearing Way for His Return To Islands '

MacArthur's Flyers-Hit Another Isle   6,015 Japs Already Kill ed On Saipan—Chin ese Hold

Yanks Gaining On Saipan Isle  Hengyang Partially In Chinese Hands

MacArthur Up To New Jump   Battering of Noemfoor Island Opens Two Possibilities; Yanks Advance On Saipan

Raids On Noemfoor Hint Of Landing; Fight For Saipan, Hengyang Mounts

JUMP NEARER PHILIPPINES IS EXPECTED   ‘Three Raids Staged on Noemfoor Island Over Week-End Suggests Allied Preparations to Invade Jap Base.

NEW PACIFIC ISLAND IS HIT BY U.S. BOMBS   Noemfoor, Off N. Guinea, Blasted; Saipan Battle Progresses Slowly

MacArthur Blows Hint Possible New Jump In Direction of Philippines

New Life in Three-Ply Blow Against Japs   Action May Indicate Allied Jump Toward Philippine Islands

May Bring New Land  >. Offensive   Size‘of Air Action An Indication of New Moves By’ MacArthur   SAIPAN BATTLE IS CONTINUING   Bitter Struggle ele Also Still Is “Raging at Hengyang Now Cut Off By Japs

NOEMFOOR ISLE GIVEN POUNDING   MecArthur’s Bombers Blast At Three Jap Airdromes Over Week-end

New Allied Blow May Be Opening Of Another Jum   Jap Positions On Saipan Narrowed By U. S. Gunners

ALLIES SHELL NOEMFOOR ISLE IN 3-PLY BLOW   Hint New Invasion on Way to Philippines; Yanks Push Ahead on Saipan

Thief Takes Car With Sleeping Girl   BELIEVED CHILD’S PRESENCE UNKNOWN, SEARCH LAUNCHED

MORE RAIN FORECAST   Kansas Streams Receding, Some Still Gut of Banks

Second Bla 24 Hours :             BRUNSWICK ALSO HIT HARD‘ Ag PRE-INVASION BOMBARDMEN ENTERS INTO FOUR WEEK. ":

uermans Veer Into Bombers   Brunswick Also ls Target tor Allied Airmadas

Germans Brave Own Flak lo Attack Bombers Over Target Area   Frantic Defenders Ram Fortress   Installations Along Inva. sion Coast Also Hit As Raids Continue

STRIKE CITY SECOND TIME IN 24 HOURS   2,000 Tons of BlockBusters and Fire Bombs Hurled on Capital.   BULLETIN

SecondBlow At Berlin in 24 Hours   Two Thousand American Planes in Today’s Raid— Other Centers Hit

SECOND BLOW AT REICH CAPITAL IN 24 HOURS   Luftwaffe Puts Up Fight

AERIAL BATTLE HITS FANATICAL PITCH OVER REICH   Capital Takes 2000 Tons for 2nd Straight Day—Many Collisions.

2000 U. S. PLANES RAID BERLIN: GOAD NAZIS INTO SUICIDE RAMMING TACTICS

2,000 Planes Rain Bombs Into Heart Of German Capital   Brunswick Aircraft Center Razed; Fanatical Luftwaffe Pilots Swarm Over Yanks, Fail to Crack Defense

Suicide Nazis Ram Big Bombers; Romanian Capital of Bucharest Hit By 1,000 Italian-Based Planes

Enemy Fighters Attempt To Ram American Planes   2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Capital In Fourth Week of Drive

[Massed Nazi Fighter Planes Ram American Bombers At Brunswick   45 Below Zero Weather, Clouds Worst Enemy Over Berlin; Batter Atlantic Wall

Praise Allies Forgetful Of OwnSoldiers   BRICKER DEPLORES ATTITUDE OF PEOPLE UNMINDFUL OF U. S. SOLDIERS IN EVERY PART OF GLOBE,

Gov. Bricker Disgusted With - People Who Constantly Laud Allies, Forget Our Soldiers

FINNISH CAPITAL RAIDED TWICE BY RUSSIAN AIRMEN   Stockholm Newspaper Says Peace Discussions Have ee ee 

Soviet Planes Blast Helsinki   Rumor Finns Open.  Peace Discussions

NewBombing Of Helsinki Warns Finns   May.Be Move to Speed Peace Talks Reported Now in Progress —

Finnsin Peace Overture!   STOCKHOLM REPORTS CONVERSATIONS UNDER WAY WITH RED ENVOYS

Raids Attempt To Hasten Finn Peace Answer   First “Real” Talk Reported Between Government Officials

RED BOMBERS RAID. HELSINKI   Attempt to Hasten Peace Decision Is Seen

FINN-RUBS PEACE TALKS UNDER WAY   Representatives Of Two Nations Meet in Stockholm

400 SOVIET PLANES RAID HELSINK!   Peace Discussions Are Believed to Be Under Way

Soviet Raid Speeds Finns’  Decision   400 Bombers Punetuate Surrender Demands

Red-Finnish Peace Talks  Commence   Helsinki Raided By 400 Soviet Air Force Planes

PUBLIC HEARING ON STRIKE SITUATION   A Possible Prelude to Action Against Organization of Foremen.

Foremen’s Strike Threatens Output Of Long Range Mustang Fighters

WLB Considers Detroit Strike   Summon President, Foremen’s Union Board To Appear At Public Hearing.

Foremen’s Strike  May he Certified  To James F. Byrnes War Department Concerned When Preduction of P-51Mus Bema Winhtensr Vienrtannd

PLANS HEARING FOR FOREMEN   WLB Orders Strikers to Defend Position

\Eyes of Weary Worl ell Be  \Ur. ha ttinius      a J Endorsement Ss Senate Appears 4finitely Assured

Rushton Assistant to Start Condemnation Proceedinas at Bessemer.

Resistance Met By Marine And Army Invaders   Opposition Fails To Halt Gains Made By U.S. Forces

FEAR 19 DEAD IN MINE BLAST   Explosion-Comes After Crew of Fire-Fighters Enter W. Virginia Pit

FEAR 19 DEAD IN MINE FIRE   Terrific Explosion Is Felt Two Miles  Flames Drive Back

500 WPB Orders Repealed V-Day   200 Will Remain To Protect Supplies

Plans Are Ordered For Ending of  Industry Controls  WPB Is Arranging Return to Norm When V-Day Comes

WPB Controls To Be Dropped   é Plans Expected To Be Completed, Soon

WPB TO RELAX INDUSTRY LAWS   Krug Readies Plans to Cancel 500 Controls On V-E Day

EXPECT QUICK COMPLETION OF PLANS FOR DROPPING INDUSTRIAL CONTROLS

WPB PLANS T0 EASE CONTROLS   500 To 700 Orders Expect: ed To End On ‘V-E Day’

Textiles Not To Be Affected..... Pushing Plans To Drop War Industry Controls; See Little Difficulty

V-Day To Shear WPB Of Power:   Plans Being Drafted To Drop Most Controls

WAR HEROES LAND CHEST   Three St. Joe Boys Tell of Experiences At Report Meeting

avvvyvyvryvyry yr rr er eee Failure to Wash Hubby’s Back No Soap Says Judae

Beachhead Rest Camp, Closest To Front Lines In This Or Any War, Offers Se Little, So Much

Monessen Man Found Insane In Death Case   John Hreno, "Monessen Defense Worker, Committed To Farview Hospital

[Allies Land Forces Across 100-Mile Front   Troops Land From Armada Of 800 Ships

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.   New Invasion Armies Hold 100 Mile Front

New Blow at Tottering Nazi Legions Struck’ in Toulon Area of France

_a  ‘Draft Is Isnored By FDR   ... As Demo National Committeemen Gather

ROOSEVELT MAY IGNORE FOURTH TERM DRAFT   Democratic Committee To Pick New Chairman Today

Fourth Term Draft Demands Growing Louder   FDR to Ignore Democrat Meet tn Washington

FOR MAY (ENORE. PARTY GATHERING   Democ rati c National : Committee To Meet In Washington Saturday

President May Ignore Fourth Term Clamor  Nie AAaccana Sinted   No Message Slated For Democratic Committee Meet

FDR TO IGNORE NOISE - MAKING ON FOURTH TERM   President May Not Even Send Message To Tomorrow s Conference; Chorus  Grows Louder As Meeting Nears.

FDR IGNORES ATH TERM CRY      May Not Even Send Mes sage To Democrat  Pow Wow

FDR Ignores Fourth Term Draft Noise i   May Not Address Party Members

Roosevelt May Ienore Fourth Term Chanting   Might Forego .Eyen._Sending Message to Demo‘eratic National Committee Meeting

DEMOS GATHER FOR MEETING   FDR May Ignore Fourth Term Noise Created By Committee Members.

Roosevelt Ignores Fourth Term Talk;  Committeemen Meet   May Not Even Send His Greeting to Members at Gathering

Joe Ciechanowski : Reaches London   The Polish Ambassador tc Washington Goes Into Consultation.

NIPS CLOSE IN ON IMPHAI ON ALL SIDES   British-Indian Troops Isolated By Japanese Scige

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates' World News Today.      nm Telands Bombe

Bricker Hits At 4th Term At Capita!   OHIO GOVERNOR SAYS THERE SHOULD BE NO NEED OF SECOND BILL OF RIGHTS AS SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT.   Stands for Business

(Exile Government Is Subject Of Attack By Pravda   Polish Political Parties Are Included In New Organization Within Frontiers

New Climax To Red-Pole Row   Soviet-Sponsored Union Of Polish Patriots Organizes Couneil.

Red-sponsored Polish Union Sets Up Council   Russian Conflict With Exiled Poles Reaches. New. Climax

NEW MOVES BY REDS ENFLAME POLISH CRISIS   Finns Reported Pushing Peace Feelers

Pole Council Is Completed’   Reds Sponsor Union Of Patriotic Groups

Other Forces Crush Nazis In West and South France: Armies Near Swiss Border

BATTLE FOR PARIS APPARENTLY BEING FOUGHT BY ALLIES   ELSEWHERE IN FRANCE INVASION ARMIES CONTINUE TO ROLL FORWARD

Tighten Seine Trap on 90,000   Bordeaux Reported Captured; German Resistance Weakens Along Arno; Soviet Asks German People to Surrender as Red Armies Advance on All Fronts

CEILING PRICE ON LIVE HOGS STAYS   Remains at Present Stage Until the 20th of June, 1945, AAA Committees Learns

Extend Ceiling Prices On Hogs   Hope To Avoid Rush In Livestock Markets

PRESENT CEILING PRICE  ON HOGS TO HOLD AT T.PASh TNTTE. TITATE On 74

Former Chicago Mayor Succumbs   “Big Bill’ Thompson Dies of Heart Trouble

Former Mayor of  Chicago is Dead   “Big Bill” Thompsor  Succumbs Sunday

Biggest Story Since Deluge To Be Handled by Best News Staff Ever Assembled

Invasion To Be Biggest Story Since Deluge   More Than 300 Men From World's Papers Already Assigned

Greatest Reporting Staff in History is Ready for Invasion   Set to Cover Biggest News Story Since “The Deluge”

REPORTERS SET FOR GREAT SHOW   Greatest News Staff Ever Assembled Ready To Cover “Biggest Story Since The Flood.”

CTARE 5 SEI   Will Cover Invasion of Europe — ‘Biggest Story Since the Deluae.’

ANGEL GME MARE BMS AA very 2urn -~By Kirke L. Simpson (   Reds Strive Desperately For Knockout Blow

U.S. Convoy Is Attacked By Jap Planes   Eight Nipponese Aircraft Downed; U. S. Lesses Unknown

Jap Air Thrust at U.S. Convoy Off Panay' Thursday Cost Nips 8 Planes Shot Down

116,770 JAPS LOST ON LEYTE   MacArthur Says Attack on Convoy Cost 8 Planes

Raid on Convoy  Costs Japs  Right Aircraft Tokyo Radio Claim 20 Ships Sunk

Japs Attack U.S. Convoy In the Philippine Islands   Eight Japanese Planes Shot Down; Nips Claim Sinkitig’ of 20-Transport:

Eight Jap Planes Attacking Convoy Are Shot Down  Leyte Campaign Costs Tokyo Nearly 117,000 Men, Says MacArthur

Convoy Raid Costs Japs Eight Planes   Enemy Losses On Leyte Put At 116,770

CONVOY HEADS FOR MINDORO: JAPS ATTACK   TOKYO FORCED TO GET TROOPS OUT OF MANCHURIA

Fish and Clark Face Voters Today   Colorful Congressional Figures Meeting Tough Opposition at Polls

Fish, Clark Facing Tough Vote Battles      wo of Corigress’ Most Colorful Figures Up for Renomination   417 STATE CONTESTS   Dewey and Willkie Urge Defeat of New York Lawmaker

Colorful Figures Seek Renominatior   Nation’s Eyes on Efforts of Hamilton Fish, Bennett Clark

FISH AND CLARK FACE TOUGH FOES   Two Colorful Cor Congressmen Bid for Renomination

CLARK AND FISH IN TOUGH FIGHTS   CHANCES OF FISH ARE AFFECTED BY DEWEY OPPOSITION

Fish Seeks Return To House InN. Y. Elections Today  DNawav Willkia Ara   Dewey, Willkie Are Both Opposed To Renomination

Hamilton Fish  Opposed By  Dewey, Willkie Nominee Continues  Tour After Meeting  aa Ditech pak

—POLITICS—  NEW YORK VOTES ON FISH'S FAT   Senator Clark’s Contest In Missouri Is Drawing. Attention

Dems Prepare For Campaigr   Van Wagoner Refuse: To Be A Candidate

VAN WAGONER WILL NOT BE CANDIDATE      Announcement Opens Battle for Selection of Democratic Party Leader

CARRIER WANTED     Daily Democrat route open; good pay. Apply in person at   ARMY TAKES OVER HOT SPRINGS HOTELS

VISIBLE FOR 7) MILES.   Third Heavy Raid on German Capital Since Start of Year

ES FIRES VISIBLE FOR 1) MILES   Third Heavy Raid on German Capital Since Start of Year

NATIONAL LABOR POLICY NEEDED. DEWEY DECLARES   Feels System Necessary 5o Future of Labor Won't Be Dependent on a Single Political Party or Individual  ‘et ‘arent cee

Thomas Dewey Is for Labor Policy   Time Has Come for Its -Establishment, He Told a Seattle Crowd.

Sees Need of Policy for Labor   : Dewey Says Time Has Come to Fix Rights on Natural Basis   WOULD NOT DEPEND UPON ANY PARTY   He Intends to Outline His Plan in Radio Speech Tonight

Need for National Labor Policy Seen by Dewey  GOP Candidate Will Make Major Talk At Seattle Tonight

Dewey To Speak on. Labor —   Nominee Contends New Deal Bureaus Dominate Workers

HUGE AIR FLEETS BLAST GERMANY   ESSEN, FRANKFURT AND OTHER CITIES HIT-—AMERICANS LOSE 18 PLANES.

‘Round the Clock Air Assaults on Reich Continued  Powerful Blows Delivered Aaainst Germans

Rail Jct. In Poland Objective   Sixth Drive In Month Carnes Into Pripet Marshes, Taking Heavy Toll.

Student Soldier ‘Missing After Fire Destroys Dormitory at U. of Maine

SOLDIER DIES IN DORMITORY FIRE   ANOTHER MISSING IN RUINS OF HALL AT UNIVERSITY OF MAINE

AGH FIELDS UE OL NEAR   Drive 10 Miles Into Transylvania  CAPTURE BRETCU  ee  Renew Drive Against Finland

REDS PLUNGE WITHIN: SIGHT OF OILFIELDS   Other Units Drive Thru Moun: tain Passes Into Transylvania

British Make Double Raid iOn Berlin; Yanks Blast [Pas de Calais Area Aaain

Ground Offensive In Romania Also Said To Be Underway. Red Navy Set For Attack In Bal kan Sea.

Japs Told to Be Disereet In Talk   J Seem ee  Discussion of “False Re  ports” Dangerous Practiee, Gkada Says -

BRICKER SEES — - RED’ CONTRO!   GOVERNOR: DECLARES PAC __AND COMMUNISTS HAVE /TAKEN. OVER ‘DEMO. -CRATIC PARTY

Communists Take Over New Deal, Bricker Avers in San Diego Speech

DANES REPORT NAZIS MOVING   {2 Troop Trains Seen Caing Toward France

F amous Benedictine Structure  Used By Nazis As Fortress, Ts Struck Squarely By Bombs   Germans Had Been Wreaking Havoc On U. S. Forces Fighting Way Up Hillside In Battle For Cassino; Machine-Gun Nests On Slopes

SO DIRECT ITS ARE SCORED BY FLYING FORTS   Allies Forced To Blast Germans From Positions Inside Famous Abbey

Planes Smash At Monastery  rv 1 vF oe gh  SRC twy i iN .aZis  Ancient “Abbey 1 Fortified  and Used by German Machinegun Units  STH PATROLS BUSY  German Attacks in Region of Bridgehead Repuised With Lossp<

Only Walls Of Ancient Home  Of Monks Stand   Destruction Decided Upon i To Save Lives of Ameri cau Soldiers From : Guns In Building   F ate of Priests ©  Not Determined   Allied Artillery Now Shell. ing Area Overlooking Cassino; Was Blocking  ¥ankee Victory

ABBEY FOUNDED IN 529 A. D, IS PARTLY RUINED   Many Relics Thought To Have Been Moved To Rome

MONASTERY HIT WHEN NAZIS USE IT AS KEY FORT   Pressure on Allies Catight In Pocket Continues—Reds Kill Germans in Trap

Berlin Claims No Germans In Famous Abbey   Bombing Follows Warning Carried By Bursting TimeQialle   CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE

Big U. S. Bombers Score Two Hits on Famous Abbey, Many All Around After Warning  Monks, Italians Inside to Leave

Smoke Pours From Ruins  Atop Peak   Scores Of Forts Blast At Germans Entrenched On Peak

New Invasion Weapons Arrive in Great Britain   verman Mobs Lynched U.S. Airmen, Swedish Paper Says

Survivor tells Of Brutality by Nazi $8 Guards   Yank Lieutenant, Five Doughboys Shot Down in Cold Blood

SERMANS KILL, STOMP ON U.S. PATROL OF SI?   One of Them Managed to Survive, — Crawl Back to Report Bestiality  Of Nazi Captors.

NAZIS STOMPED IN YANK FACES   Murdered Captured Patrol.  Survivor Reports

Nazi SS Guard Kill 5 Yanks In Cold Blood   Hobnailed Boots Ground Into Faces Of Dead Victims

TAKE KEY ISLES NEARER TO TRUK   Marines Now Only 580 Miles from Foe’s Main Base; Kavieng Hit

YANKEES TAKE MORE ISLANDS IN TRUK AREA   Swarm Ashore In St. Matthias Group  GREAT SEA FORCE  Kavieng Reduced To Rubble

Gen. MacArthur Closer To Returning To Phillipines   AMERICANS OCCUPY TWO KEY ISLANDS

Greek ELAS Renew Battle   British Paratroopers Join ‘ oleitece fas “Abhoorc

More ELAS Advancing Or Athens Area   British Troops And Tanks Battle Snipers

British Troops Move To Intercept ELAS Force Reported near Athens

Trouble in Greece Not Yet Ended   British Troops, Tanks Move to Intercept Elas Advancing  On Athens

GUNFIRE SOUNDS ANEW IN ATHENS   British Troops and Tanks Dig Out Snipers; Move to Intercept New Force of Leftists Advancing on City

FIGHTING RESUMED ~— IN GREEK CAPITAL   British Troops and Tanks Dig Out ELAS . Snipers

British, Greeks Renew Fighting   ELAS Force Reported Moving on Athens

ATHENS MOPPED UP BY BRITISH   Militant Leftists Head For City; Snipers Are Dug Out

Kast WU. 8. Butteted By Storm   ..+ Dense Fog Blankets Midwest Sections

RADIO STATION » CENSORS TALK   New York ‘Solon’s Address To Legion Attacked

B. & O. Express  Train Derailed   None Injured, However; Trains Rerouted Through This City.

Main Line OF  B.&OIs  Blocked By  14.Car Wreek   Train Carrying Express Material Crashes Into It Near Engle. W. Va.

JAPANESE CLOSE NET ON CHINESE CENTERS   Battle Near Rail Base Only 31 Miles From Kweilin

6! OVAK REVOLT      Patriots Hold All But Border Towns: Reds Crack Bulgars

Balkans Fast Cr acking Up; Moscow Slap: At Bulgaria   Sofia Government Castigated In Sharp Warning; Accused Of - Shielding Nazis

Stiffen Attitude Toward Bulgaria   Russia Says Nation Still Collaborates With the Germans

Russia Brands Bulgar Neutrality Sham As Envoys Discuss Peace   Soviet Rebuke Helps Strengthen Hand Of American And British Negotiators At Cairo: Romanian Envoys In Moscow.

RUSSIA ADOPTED A STIFF ATTITUDE TOWARD BULGARIA   Accused Her of Still Collabor. ating With the Germans,   DENIES THE CHARGE   Bulgarian Commission  Discussed Peace Terms With Western Allies in Cairo.

Bulgaria Gets Soviet Warnine   Accusation Comes On Eve Of Armistice

RUSSIA STERN WITH BULGARIA   Double-Dealing Charged As Peace Terms Are Talked

Not Really Neutral, Still Collaborate With Germans, Charge Russians

Bulgarian Commission Opens Peace Talks At Moscow As. Soviets Charge Collaboration

Dewey Believes GOP Tide Is In      Confident He Will Be Elected In November

Service Men And Women Are Going To Get To Vote But It Will Be Real Headache Before It’s Ove:

SENATE FUEL INQUIRY   Reed is on Committee That Will Meet in Kansas City

TOWNSHIP: PLANS MEETING 10: SEE FIRE PROTEGTION   City Announces  * ‘Termination ‘of . ‘Country Fite Runs

TOWNSHIP PLANS MEETING 10 SEE! FIRE PROTECTION   City Announces Termination of Country Fire Runs

Orlemanski III: Ordered to Bed   Priest in Danger Of Mental Collapse

Priest Suspended. For Moscow Trip. Hearing Collapse  Father Orlemanski or Verge of Brea kdown,  Bhweet ete Mk

Governor Queries FEPC Director On His Authoritv To. Overate Under Texas Laws:

Beachhead Is Still Growing   Takes in 500 Square Miles; Yanks Near Toulon, all Beachhead Forces Linked

Allies Within 10 Miles of Toulon   Beachhead in Southern France Embraces Some ~ 500 Square Miles      TWO CITIES OCCUPIED   Junction, Has Been Made With Strong Airborne Units Inland

Beachhead Extends Some 500 Square Miles: Foe Says Troops In Cannes

South Coast Beachhead Is Expanded   Germans Report Allies Have Entered Cannes; Siege of Toulon fs Near

Allies Push Near Toulon, Also Cannes   Germans Prepare For Desperate Stand In Toulon and Allies May Be Attacking

Ormoc Bay Scene Of Sharp Naval Engagement, Loss   Japs, Americans Each Lose Destroyer

“Black Cats” Play Leading Role In Rescujng Crew Of American Vessel.

Blows Are Traded In Gulf of Ormoc   Americans and Japs Both Lost Destroyers at Battle Saturday    THRILLING U. S. RESCUE   Flying Boat Picked Up 56 Men Out of Oil-Black ened Waters

Foes T rade Naval Blov Off Ormow   “Black ‘+: Stages Thrilli;.: sescue of Crew «f Sunken U. S. Ship: Japs Lose One

Navies Clash In Ormoc Gulf   Japs, Yanks Lose Ship Each in Fieht

Flying Boats Save Survivors Of Destroyer   One of Navy’s Black Cats Picked up 56 Men ‘After Destroyer Went Down With Guns Blazin

Amer?...ns’ And Japanese Both Los.estroyers In Sea Battle On.’ Ormoc Gulf

J6 MEN SAVED IN THRILLING AIR RESCUE   } Ground Activity Limited To Minor Clashes   TWO FREIGHTERS   Sunk By Yanks Off Borneg; 1,821 More Japs Slain On New Guinea

U. S. Destroyer Sunk; Most Of Crew Rescued   One Flying Boat Makes Getaway With 63 Aboard in Sight of Japs

Both Lose. Destroyer; Yank Crew  Picked Up   Flying, Boat - Makes Thrilling: Rescue «

TRADE BLOWS WITH JAPS IN ORMOC GULF   Flying Boats Save Majority OF Survivors

NAVAL BATTLE SETTING FOR RESCUE EPIC   Sharp Blows Are Traded By American and Japanese In Ormoc Gulf Off Leyte Island   LITTLE GROUND ACTION

U. S., JAPS EACH LOSE DESTROYER IN ENGAGEMENT   AMERICAN CREW IS SAVED, SECOND JAP DESTROYER DAMAGED

Americans And Japanese Each Lose Warship   Destroyers Sunk In Ormoc Gulf, U.8, Vessel In 55 Seconds; Most of Crew Saved

U.S. and Jap Destroyers Sunk in Fight   American Boat Blasted In Two; Flying Boats Save ‘Most Survivors

SHARP NAVAL BL TRADED BY THE U.S. AND JAPANESE   Each Side Lost a Destroyer in Ormoc Gulf, It Was Announced.   'U. S. SHIP RIPPED IN TWO   The Majority of Crew Was Saved, the Communique Said.

U. S. Destroyer Lost Off Leyte   Majority of Crew Saved—Jap Vessel Sunk

NAVAL BLOWS TRADED TODAY IN PHILIPPINES   Americen Vessel! Ripped Into By Japanese Fire

Destroyer Lost In Sea Battle  Jap Warship Sent   Jap Warship Sent Down In Fight

Yanks, Japs Fight to Draw In Ormoe Gulf   Each Side Loses One Destroyer in Naval Battle; Flying Boats Rescue Yank Sailors

HITS PRESSURE BY AAA ON GAS   Ohio Congressman Declares OPA Agrees to Remedy Checking Method

ANA PRESSURE CHARGE MADE   CONGRESSMAN FROM THIS pig: TRICT SAYS COMPLAINTS ‘LINK GASOLINE WITH  . MEMBERSHIPS .

70-Mile Push By Americans   Nazis Admit Patton-Led Yanks 82 Miles From the Capital

Lightning 70-Mi. Advance To Edge Of Defense Zone   Great Comziunications Center May Already Be In Allied Hands; Germans Trying “Dunkerque” Evacuation of Big Brittany Ports.

Another Force Veers Off  ‘Toward Orlean:   Lightning Advances Carry Americans Near Communications Center, Which Is Only 50 Miles From Paris

MINE RESCUE SQUAD NEAR END OF WORK   New Shaft Sunk After Month Of Effort

Japs Withdraw Warships From Rabaul: Harbor   Domei News Agency Reports New Allied Raids On Wake Island

Wake Island Hit Again by U. 8. Bombers   Jap Navy Quitting Rabaul—Gains Made in Burma

Optimism On Food Jolted   Hopes for 1944 Acreages Can No Longe! Be Expected

Food Outlook Handed Jolt   Delay in Spring Planting and Labor Shortage Held Reasons

DELAYS IN SPRING PLANTING MENACE TO’ FOOD SUPPLIES   Optimism Over Food Situation Gets Severe Jolt by Re port on Craps

U.S. Crop Report Jolts Optimism On Food Supply   Late-Spring Planting,.Lack ‘arm or Viewe Threats To Production

Optimism Over Food Situation Jolted As Ag Officials Tell of Late Plantings

Spring Planting Delay Serious   Hope For 1944 Acreage Now Blasted; Season Reflected Next Fall.

Food Outlook ls Given Jolf   Serious. Delays In Spring Planting Wipe Out Much Optimism

Balkan Crisis Spreads; Nazi Wars Turks   Signs of Revolt Grow in Hungary As Reds Advance

COURT OKAYS RENT EVICTION   State Tribunal Says Ten. ants Creating Nuisance Can Be Evicted

China Begs For Help   Says More Supplies  Urgently Needed to Repulse New Jap Drive

Se eee eR NERD  Give Us Weapons, Plea of Chinese ‘In Desperate Spot

Moscow Magazine Attacks Republican Party as. ‘Citadel of Isolationism’

American Bombers Meet Heavy  ‘Opposition Over Rabaul: Yanks Lose 12 Planes In Fierce Fighting

STILWELL'S RECALL MAKES CHIANG RESPONSIBLE FOR FIGHT ON JAPS   BAKERSFIELD MAN GIVES BEHIND-SCENES STORY OF CLEAVAGE BETWEEN U. S. OFFICIALS, GENERAL

With Stillwell Recalled, Chiang KaiShek Must Prove His Ability Alone   Rw Darrell Berrigan

INSIDE STORY ABOUT RECALL OF STILWELL   Deep Cleavage Between Washington and Chungking Is Revealed.

Inside Story of Stillwell's Removal Related; Washington and Chungking Officials Differ on Conduct of War   By DARRELL BERRIGAN  ‘FeaaRiiasl Bbeemeccs CE ff eneresncs fas eeaken:

ecall of Stilwell Reveals Rift Between U. S.. Chiano Kaj-Shel   BY DARRELL BERRIGAN

The Inside Story of Gen. Stilwell’s Removal   By DARREL BERRIGAN

Inside Story Of Stilwell Removal Told   Dispute Between Chiang and U.S.  Chiefs Continues

Child Welfare Law In-Effect. .   Ramg Cee gr in hoe aaeg Te LAr ake gpg Tm ‘Substitute ‘For Widew Pension Plan

Child Welfare Law In Effect   - Substitute For Widow Pension Plan

NORMANDY ARE NOW OVERJOYED   Rugged Independent Normandians Who Refuse to Bow to Nazis Weleama Invaders

Germans Seek to Escape in Vosges   American-French Pincer Closing On Rhine; Hard Fight in Progress

FIERCE ACTION BLAZES ALONG WESTERN FRONT   Grip On Strasbourg Tightened With Seizure Of Dozen Nearby Forts

ERMANS FACING NTRAPMENT MAKE LIBERATION BLOW   uthern Wing of Western Front Blazes With New Action   ESISTANCE STIFFENED

DESPERATE   Nazis Resist Stubbornly in Attempt to Escape Entrapment

ALLIED ARMIES ROLL ON IN ITALY   MEET STIFF RESISTANCE IN SECTORS—YANKS NEARING: _FOE’S GOTHIC LINE,

ALLIES MAKE NEW GAINS IN ITALY DRIVE   Northward March Con: tinues Despite Suicidal  Opposition 

ALLIES GAIN ALL ALONG ITALIAN FRONT   Overcome Bitter Resistance of German Suicide Units in Some Sectors; Fierce Opposition,   Qid Glory Before Balcony

Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses In Pisa Area   Allied Armies Within Range of Gothic Line

Allies Surging Ahead in Italy   Advances Up to 10 Miles WVMiade on Wide Front

YANKS WITHIN FIRING RANGE OF GOTHIC LINE   Allies Register Gains Of More Than Eight Miles Along 165-Miles Front Despite Nazi Resistance

Beachheads. Consolidated, Americans  ‘Move Inland   Tacloban Airfield And City Main‘Points Of Attack on Leyte, Two Vessels Damaged  “ASTIALTIES LIGHT

250,000 Men Landed From 600 Vessels   Island Beachheads Won with Light Casualties; Appeal is Made to Filipinos by MacArthur

Enemy Opposition On Leyte ~ Island Reported Light In MW Arthur Communique

600 Ships Land 250,000 Men in Great Invasion   Japs Open Fire With Artillery

Philippine Invasion Forces Meet Bitter Opposition at Only One Landing Point—Japanese Air Force Damages One American Vessel — U. S. Casualties Light in Initial Operations.

Two Airfields Are Captured By Yanks   Japanese Opposition Grows, But Supplies Continue to Pour From Ships Onto Island

Helen Gahagan Doesn’‘t Feel Like A Congressweman At All   +++ Pretty Actress Just Trying To Get Breath

Jans Oriving to Kweiyang, Occupy Town of Hochin  Of American Air Base At Nanning

Marshall and Monty Confer  Air Strength Disposed Throughout World, ‘Declares General

Trouble in Pacific -- War Is Long Way Ahead of Schedule Says Gen. Marshal

FRONT ALONG RHINE BANKS IS LENGTHENED   Soviets And Nazis Engaged In Furious Battle Along Ipoly River

Rear of German Lines in Saar Zone in Danaer   Nazis Rush Reserves To Meet Soviet Threats on Route to Vienna; Seige Arc on Budapest Tightened by Reds

Of Europe Gains Fury on 11th Day   Skies So Full of Planes, ‘No Room’ For Luftwaffe

AIR ATTACK ON NAZIS IS STEPPED UP   U. S. Bombers Meet Heavy Flak At Pas de Calais

U.S. STEPS UP QFFENSE   Hundreds of Alticd Bombers Blast Western Europe During Night— Planes Continually Shuttiing Back and Forth Over Channel.

‘OFFENSIVE IN LITH DAY: BOMBS RAIN ON FRANCE   1000 British Planes Near Paris During Night Ferays

Pre-Invasion Air  War in llth Day   Fringe of Europe Taroet for Attack

Nearly 2,000 ‘Planes Hit Coastal Regior   Atlacks Believed Direcied at Cherbourg Peninent~

Nearly 2,000 Planes Hit Coastal Region   Attacks Believed Directed at Cherboura Peninsula

PORT HIT BY WAVES OF PLANES   22 German Planes Are Destroyed; Raid On . Finland Reported

Klansman? Not Truman, He Asserts   HILLMAN’S VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SAYS HE HELPED BEAT HARRY HOFFMAN FOR OFFICE IN 1922.   No Comment From Hoffman

Battle Front Week's News  Heartening  Only in Isolated China Is Pieture Bleak; German High Command Pressed For Relief Troops  By ELTON C. FAY associated Press Staff Writer

War News Of Week Is Best For Allies In Last Five Years  Interpretation By

Soviet Advance Units  Sever Railway Routes   Russ Forces Now 300 Airline Miles From The Vital . Ploesti Fields—Main Nazi Oil Source

 Rumania To Get Lambasted From The Air-— —By Kirke L. Simpson (7  Allies Move Eases Closer To Ploesii Oil

Regents Decline Committee Bid To Send Additional Witnesses © To Inquiry Re-opening Monday

Reger.:s Nof To Appear at Senate Probe   No Action Taken on Electing a President

Three Members Seek To Resign From WLB Posts   Chairman Davis Sets His Deadline Jan. 1; Others Want Relicf

Three WLB Members Would Quit   Davis Hopes to Resigr Chairmanship Before First of Year

Fall of Base Due In Hours   Germans Attempt To Flee From Sevastopol Today

Soviets Storm Nikopol, Narva, Flanking Nazis   Germans Bury Tanks And Guns In Earth As Pillboxes

MURRAY BLASTS CONGRESS, WLB   CiO =President #Demands Change In Board Policy Or Personnel

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   CIO Demands Changes in War Labor Board Policy

Russo-Finnish Peace Meeting Plan Revealed   Premier Says Nazis Need All Forces for Defense Of Reich Fathertiangd

RUSSIA READY TO MEET PEACE DELEGATIONS   Germany Agrees To Withdraw All Of Her Troops From Country

INVASIGN NEWS TO BE FLASHEI   Robt Sherwood Urges Caution And Discretion On English

Two-Way Invasion Looming   Such An Arrangement Is Hinted By Robert Sherwood,  Of War Information.

2-Way Invasion Hinted in OWI Advice to Europe   Eisenhower, Wilson To Flash Word: As Allied Troops Strike:

ALLIES DROP BACK ABIT BELOW ROME   Heavy Rains Again _Deprive Them of Air Support

Heavy Rains Cutting Off Air Support   Germans Attack With Great Ferocity — Open  Cassino Offensive

Rains Again Cut Troops’ Air Support   Ferocity of Nazi Attacks Increases In Anzio Area

NAZIS LAUNCH HEAVIEST DRIVE ON BEACHHEAD   Incessant Rain Deprives Invaders Of pr Suonort

FULL SCALE EFFORT MADE BY GERMANS   Allies Are Temporarily Deprived of Air Support Due to Heavy Rains.

Newer Basis Seen To Fix Living Costs   M odified Stabilization Program For 1944 Possible

Charge 17 Took Drug fo Induce Blood Pressure in Attempt to Evade Draft

17 Men Arrested for Using Drugs To Help Selectees Escape Service

2000 PLANES HIT REICH, FRANCE   NAZI SIEGFRIED LINE LASHED BY U. S. BOMBERS

War Industries‘in Siegfried Line Zone Blasted to Pave Way for Yank Advance

2,000 BOMBERS STRIKE GERMANS   Blast Siegfried Line Zone Le Havre in France

2,000 Bombers Besiege Le Havre Siegfried Zone   U. S. Fighters  Blast Plants At I ssdlesrsachalen

NAZIBASES TORN BY 2,000 PLANES   Targets Hit In Sector Ahead Of Patton’s Third Army

U.S., RAF Planes Batter Reich   Besieged Nazi Garrison At Le Havre, German Plants Hit.

2,000 Bombers In Big Attacks   Hit Installations In Germany, Nazis At Le Havre

2,000 PLANES HIT GERMANY   Bomb Installations In the South, Nazi Garrison At Le Havre

2,000 Bombers Hit Nazi Targets  Le ‘Havre, Southwest Germany Are Bombed

HEAVY BOMBERS IN RAIDS ON SOUTHWES GERMANY ON FRIDAY  ORJECTIVES IN SIGFRIED

Atlantic’ al ‘Defen: ” slasted  By Allied Planes   Preinvasion Raids On. Western Europe ‘ Move Into 11th Day

750 U. S. Bombers in Today’s Raic   Attack by Americans Fol lows Big Night Assatilt by British

5TH ARMY TANKS, INFANTRY PLUNGE INTO GHOST CITY   ADVANCE IMPEDED BY. DEBRIS AND HEAVY GERMAN MORTAR FIRE

Resistance By Nazis. Ruins Slow Advance   Fifth Army Infantry, Tanks Plunge Into City Cevered By Barrage.   BOMBERS RAID SOFIA

Mortar Fire _ From Hillside’  Slow Progress   Rubble Also Delays Our Sappers in. Clearing ~ Way for Troops

FIFTH ARMY TANKS  AND INFANTRY MEET  HEAVY OPPOSITION AIR ATTACK DESTROYED FORTRESS BUT NAZIS  PATTI ir Paci

FIFTH ARMY TANKS AND INFANTRY MEET HEAVY OPPOSITION  AIR ATTACK DESTROYEL AV7TIC  rAR rnrcea   AIR ATTACK DESTROYED FORTRESS BUT NAZIS CONTINUE FIGHT

Nazi Survivors Of Bomb Deluge Still Resisting   Infantry, Tanks Plunge Into Ruined City On Italian Front

Fifth Army in Ghost City of Cassino Impeded by Ruins Left by Bombers And Continued Resistance of Enemy

YANK TROOPS DRIVE AHEAD INTO CASSING   Tanks Aid Infantry Ir Penetrating Italian Ghost City

Tanks Punch Into Rubble Of Cassino   ‘Nazis Sul Resisting on  Rim of Battered Town; ' Sofia Hit From Air

Cassino In Ruins WhenArmyEnters   Debris Left by Record Bombing Hampers. Infantry «°   ENEMY JS SCATTERED   Allied Bombers Are Active All Over Southern ' Europe -

Debris Slows Up Advance Of Allied Forces, Moving In After Record Bombardment Of Italian City; Allies On Move On Beachhead  Front.

Allies Move Into Ruins Of Cassino   Destruction Wrought By Wednesday Bombs Actually Slows Tanks; Troops Also Advance in Nearby Hills

DEBRIS HELPS SLOW ALLIES’ CASSINO PUSH   Nazis Continue To Fight On ‘As Fifth Army Plunges into Smashed Base

HARD FIGHT SLOWS CASSINO DRIVE; RUINS HOLD UP TANKS   Nazis Hidden in Blasted City Put Up Fierce Resistance; Artillery Pounds Yanks

big Artillery Barrage Covers Entry Into City  Decision Reported   Decision Reported Near; Lull Breaks On Italian Front

CLARK'S TROOPS MOVE AHEAD IN CASSINO RUINS   Wreckage, Nazi Snipers Retard Speedy Advance of Allied Units

Germans Obey Hitler Order and Fight On   Resistance Continues When Ground Troops Scramble Over Rubble

HEAVY BARRAGE COVERS TROOPS IN TOUGH FIGHT   Russians Are Surging Toward Rumania as German Defenses Smashed

U.S. Tanks Smash Into Ghost City   Enemy Still Offers Strong Resistance In Bombed Cassino

Huns Battling In Bomb-Razed [Mountain City   Groznd Forces Pounding - Ruins to Force Nazi   Defenders Out After  Record Bombing   Allied Tanks Are Delayed By Debris   American and British Guns  Batter Foe In Hills Near   City Shattered By Air Armada

Heavy Artillery Covers 5th Army “Tn Cassino Pust   Steady. Progress ‘Reported _. In Devastated City And “In: Hills To: Northwest

Surviving Nazi Fight Back As Allies Enter   3360 Tons Bombs On Reich Yesterday

RUING HALTING NEW ADVANCES   Fifth Army. ‘Infantry and Tanks Actually Delayed By Cassino Ruins.   INAZIS ARE RESISTING

Impeded by Resistance, Bomb Holes   Germans Lay Down Mortar Fire on Town  From Hills

‘Nazi Resistance. impedes Allied Drive at Cassino   But Steady Progress “Is Made in Face of  Heavy Mortar Fire; ' On the Move at Anzic

STRONG POINTS HELD BY NAZIS IN HILLS      Beachhead Treops Capture and Hold 2 German Positions During: Advanre

Germans Oppose Advance ‘Of Fifth Army; Allied Sky Fleets Pound Sofia

SOME GERMANS HOLDING OUT IN WRECKED TOWN   Nazi Mortar Fire Hinders Efforts to Clear Away Debris

SOON   Enemy’s Mortar Fire Hinders Clearing ‘of Bombing Debris, Which Also Impedes the Allied. Advance. . .

Desperate.) Nazis      Impede Advance   Steady Progress Made Behind Artillery Barrage Despite Germans Holding Out In Vicinity — Targets at Sofia Are Pounded.

U.S. Tanks and Infantry Drive Into Ghost City of Cassino   Ruins of Buildings Actually Delays Entry of Americans into! Town Blasted to Bits by Bombs. 

Nazis Still Holding Out In Rubble Of Cassino   Allied Armor Also Delayed By Fallen Buildings; Make Gains On Reachhead

HEAVY MORTAR FIRE POURED » ON ALLIES   No Building Left Standing In City After Raid  SOFIA   Again Bombed By Eaker’s Airmen; Yanks Inch Forward At Anzio

Allies Advance On Devastated City in Italy   Rubble in Streets Hampers Progress Of Sth Army Men

FIGHTING IN ITALY NOW IN FULL SWING   Cassino Practically Wiped Cff Map By Air Raid Wednes.

RUINS IMPEDE TROOPS’ ENTRY   Official Photographs In. dicate No Buildings Left In Town  3000 FLIGHTS MADE

Big Guns Cover Troop, Tank Attack   Advance Hampered By Ruins; Desperate Nazi Resistance Continues.

Stubborn Foe In Hills Makes  Advance Slow   Artillery Ensconced In Mountains Lays Down Heavy Mortar Fire On Advancing Yanks

Germans Impede Yank Drive on Ruined Cassino   Thundering Artillery Barrage Covers Allied Advance; Enormous Destruction Wrought by Bombs

Infantry and Tanks Go Info Ruins of City   Germans Put Up Stiff Resistance Despite Pounding by Planes and Artillery

Severe Fight ls Raging For Cassino   German Resistance, Demolitions Are Hindering Advance

Foe Still Battles In Cassino Ruins   Advance of Allied Forces Into Italian Town, Devastated by Record Ait Attack Yesterday, Impeded by Continuing German Resistance.   PROGRESS REPORTED.

Allies Routing Last Nazis in Cassino Ruins   Blitz Destruction Hinders Speed Of Growl Forecs

NAZIS FIGHT BACK DESPITE RECORD RAID   City’s Wreckage Also Retarding 5th Army Push

British Say Red Patrols Operating Inside East Prussia For 36 Hours

FIGHT ON EAST PRUSSIAN SOIL   Radio Reports Say Red Patrols Have Been On German Territory for  Past 36 Hours.   SURGE AHEAD ON ALL FRONTS   Discuss Terms of Roman ian Armistice in MosCAW

Capture Ends of Jap Supply Line   Clear Nips From All But 10 Miles of Road

Nimitz Reports Counter-Attacl By Desperate Japs With Heavy Losses On Both Sides

Americans Smash  ‘Banzai Assault,  Slay 1500 Japs U. S. Casualties  Heavy, Admiral  WNiiemite Renarte

Casualties Terrific On Both Sides   Doughboys and Marines set Nips Back Following Suicide Counterattack

PEOPLE’S REVOLUTION IS IN PROGRESS HERE   Wallace Says Reactionaries Can't Quite Figure Out What Is Taking Place

Revolution Is Here: ‘t's Led by Liberal Democrats, Vice President Wallace Asserts

Three American Prisoners of War Executed, Japs Reveal: Year Later.

U.S. bombers Hit Jap Formosa, — Pescadores Isles   Halmahera, Iwo Jima Islands Softened  For Future Invasion   Hleven Nazi Planes Downed By Yanks

Funeral Services To Be Held Friday For Isham L. Roddy   Resident of This City For Past 36 Years.

Navy Building Weapon fora  Knockout Blow   Airplane Engine Being Constructed By Pratt & Whitney

Veterans of Pacific War Zones May Be  Returned Home New Policy of .   New Policy of Troop Rotation to Be Inaugurated

AMARILLO IS HOST Annual Fat Stock Show March 6-9   Furlouah Plan Due in Pacific

ROTATION OF TROOPS ON FURLOUGH SYSTEM   Army Officer Says Attempt Will, Be Made To Relieve Men On Battlefronts Tuo Years

Limited Troop Rotation Planned   Some Pac thie Vets To Get Furloughs

ARMY VETERANS GET FURLOUGHS   Two-Year Service Men May Be Replaced Gradually

Japanese Drive Deeper Into Interior China   PEPCUE FUE aid l4th AAF Sinks wNip Gunhoat In  Vanet ve PD °.,.

Start Rebuilding Of Arms Depot; 350 Known Dead   Cause Still Undetermined; Death Toll May Mount: Few At Base Unhurt

Death Toll of Port Chicago Munitions Explosion Is 350; Rebuilding of Port Begun 

Wrecked Port To Be Rebuilt   _ AIL Ayailable Men Are to Report for Reconstruction Work

LIST OF DEAD IN EXPLOSION REACHES 350   Cause Remains Undetermined  By Officials

Only 4 Bodies Recovered in Coast Blast   Officials Estimate Death Toll at 350 in Port Chicago Explosion

Rebuilding Port Chicago Base Begins   Death Toll Reaches Approximately 350

Toll of Blast Of Munitions Reaches 350   Navy Begins Rebuilding  Port Chiesoo

Blasts Felt 80 Miles From Muntions Depot: Navy Will Rebuild Base; 4 Bodies Are Recovered

Workers Begin To Rebuild Port   All Available Workers Urged To Report to Devastated Area While Death Toll Estimate Remains at 350.

Rebuilding Is Launched      “Port. Chitags Toll . Unknown, Over 300

Fear Blast Toll 350   Reconstruction Of -Navy’s Wrecked. Ammunition Depot Planned

Reconstruction of Ammunition Depot Begins as Death Toll Approximates 35(

ESTIMATE 300 DIED IN BLAST   RECONSTRUCTIONNOF: NAVY AMMUNITION DEPOT IS UNDERWAY

Blast Death Toll About 350   Little Left for Investigators to Secure Evidence

Ammunition Ship Explosion Cause Unknown  Port Chicago Death Tol  Pot At 350

Rebuilding Start: On Shattered Port Chicago Site   New Casualties Are Counted in Worst Traged Nation Has Suffered During Wartime; Death Toll Stands at 350; Many Are Injured

Reconstruction of Port Chicago Base Is Begun by Navy   Death Toll in Blast Monday Stands at About 350 Today

START WORK TO REBUILD PORT CHICAGO DEPOT   Death List Totals Nearly 350 in Nation’s Worst Wartime Explosion

DEATH LST 390 IN MUNITION BLAS   Cause Undetermined — Find No Evidence For Agents to Base Charges.

‘GAUGE UNDETERMINE(   Devastation Leaves Little For Navy, FBI Agents te Investigate.   FOUR BODIES RECOVERED

DEBRIS HIDES CAUSE OF BIG NAVAL BLAST   Workers Clear Wreckage From Shattered Dock Area

Cause of Blast Remains Mystery  Port Chicago Death Toli Approximates 350

Estimate 350. Dead In Blast  Reconstruction Of Port Chicago Beaqun

Begin Work on Wrecked Depot   Death Toll of West Coast Explosions Approximates 350

DEATH TOLL 10 350 IN BLASTS   Nevy end FBI Uneble to De termine Ceuse of Ship Explosions

START WORK REBUILDING BLASTED PORT   All Available Workers Called to Restore Port Chicago, Where Munitions Blast Killed Approximately 350.

Reconstruction of Devastated Dock Area at Port Chicago, California, Started Following Explosion That Rocked Countryside—No Survivors from Vicinity of Ships

BULGARIA HAS RED ULTIMATUM   Must Abandon ProGerman Policy Before Midnicht

REPORT SOVIET ULTIMATUM TO BULGARIA SENT   Germans Pouring Troop Into Country To Maintain Grip

Nazis Widen Bulgar Grip At‘Deadline’   More Troops Arrive As Soviet Ultimatum Nears Expiration

BULGARIA FACES RED ULTIMATUN   Has Until Midnight to Make  Decision

Nazis Reinforce — Army In Bulgaria   See Little Prospect of Break With Germany

Four Are Killed In Rail Collision   Freight, Passenger Hit at Fairmont, Neb.

CHINESE TROOPS TO DIE FIGHTING   Five Generals Stick With Men In Doomed City Of Hengyang

ISLAND PRESIDENT LEAVES WASHINGTON   Osmena Leaves Presumably To Be Ready for Quick Return to Homeland.

APPEAL ON FILE IN GOLLEI1’S BEHALF   Hearing Before October To Be Sought

IN SUBURBS OF GARAPAN   Others Fight Way Up Cliffs Guarding Mount Tapotchau

Americans Tn Saipan Capital City   Enter Suburbs Almost Unaposed By Japanese

Americans Drive Way Up Sheer Cliffs of Saipan   Southwestern Section of Island Turned Into Mighty Artillery Base

By RICHARD W.-JORNSTUN (United Press Staff Correapondent) a DN LETDONITIONNARY

Marcus, Amoth In Verbal Duel  Candidate Demands Statement Retraction

Move to Speed Production of Military Needs   War Plants Ask  For 300,000 Workers To Bring Schedules Up to Demand

Speed Shells To Yanks   All Agencies Tie in To Job of Overcoming Lag in Arms Output

CONGRESS BLAMED FOR THE SHORTAGE   Krug Says Service Aci Would Have Kept Work- ers on Job.   WAS NEEDED.YEAR AGO

Byrnes Acts To Speed Lagging War Production   New Assistants Named; Big Manpower, Transportation Problems.

Munition Lag Being Probed    Byrnes,. Assistants : . Pushing: Production

HUNDREDS OF HEAVY BOMBERS HURLED AT GERMAN ARMORED COLUMNS AS WEATHER CLEARS

roe SKRICS ADIAZOC ++  Batter German Targets   Hundreds Of Allied Planes Go To Work

NAZI LINES ARE BOMBED. AND. STRAFED   84 Enemy’ Planes Shot Down In Fights With © U.S: Air Force:

Hundreds of Planes  Hurled at German  Armored Columns Allied Fighters, Bombers Get   Allied Fighters, Bombers Get _ First Crack at Olfensive Since Nazis Commenced Drive

HUNDREDS OF ALLIED WARPLANES POUNDED ON GERMANS TODAY  DESPITE FANATICAL NAZI OPPOSITION GOOD RESULTS ACHIEVED

Mighty Air Fleets Lash At Nazi Rear As Weather Break:   Rails and Road Junctions Under Constant Attack

FINAL BREAK BETWEEN U.S, AND ARGENTINA   Ambassador Is Recalled By Farrell Group

Recall Of Ambassador Completes Break  Between Washington And Buenos Aires

Ambassador Of Argentina Is Recalled   Diplomatic Rift Been Developing Many Months

Argentine  Ruler Calls U.S. Envoy Back Home   Relations Severed Between America, Buenos Aires

U.S. ARGENTINA NEARING BREAK   South American Republic Recalls Envoy In Surprise Move

Break Between Argentina, U.S. Now Completed   South American’ Republic Recalls Its Ambassador from Washington, Bringing About Break.

OMPLETES BREAK   United States Is Watching the Developments in Argentina

Troops Guard Levees Near Rising Rivers   Many Families Evacuated, Being Done as Needed

MIDWEST RIVERS NEARING CRESTS   FLOOD CRISIS IS FAST APPROACHIN “ALONG MISSISSIPI

Soviets Are Prepared For Conferences  Indications Point to Deus te Da wthian VAlaw

WASTE PAPER DRIVE SUNDAY: IN CONCORD   Boy Scouts Ask Cooperotion of Citizens To Aid War Effort

ODT Assumes Operation Of Truck Firms   Government Takes Over 103 Over - The - Road Truck Companies To Bring Strike To End

OPERATORS 0 MEET ODT MEN   First Action to Start Trucks Moving Will Start Tomorrow.

Trucks Will Start Work on Sunday   ODT Representative in Minneapolis Calls for Meeting of Operators

Truck Lines Under ODT Command   Until Settlement; Pay Boost Granted

Famed Gothic Line Cracked By Allied Drive   Way Opened to Po; Enemy Reported in Full Flight

ROMANIAN, RED OFFICIALS IN PEACE TALKS   Expect Talks Between Allies Bulgarians To Begin Again Soon

Red, Romanian  Talks Are Begun   New Bulgarian Cabinet ‘Reportedly Organized

Record Blows Struck At Japs By U.S. Airmen   Crushing 2,000 Pound Bomb Assault On Rabaul Is Included   DIVE-BOMBERS ARE USED IN ATTACKS

Bricker Reveals §-Point Program   Would End ‘Chaos  In Government

Bricker Urges Constructive Program Of Governmental Reorganization

US. Indians in Action in New Britain Attack   New Gains Made From Expanding Beachhead

Infantry Beats New Arawe Path   Guardsmen Shove Japs  Back On U. S. Beachhead

Americans Advance in South Pacific   ALMIED PLANES CONTINCE HEAVY ATTACKS ON ENEMY SHIPPING.

INDIAN TROOPS EXPAND ARAWE N. B, BEACHHEAL   Bushmasters Drive Japs Back 1,000 Yards In Battle Debut.

BEACHHEAD AT ARAWE WIDENED BY U.S, TROOPS   Drive Japs Back 1.000 Yards, Two Japanese Coastal Vessels Sunk

AMERICAN INDIANS !N JAP FIGHT   Bushmasters from 20 States Hurled Against Japanese

U.S. Troops Widen Arawe Beachhead   Bushmasters Go Into Action First Time Against Japs

ARIZONA TROOPS GAIN NEAR ARAWE   Bushmasters Push Japanese Back 1,000 Yards

Japs Pushed Back Along  Arawe Beach   ‘Bushmasters’ Including Many U. S. Indians Take Part

Indian Fighters Expand Gains On Arawe Beachhead   U. S. Bomber Sets Fire To 9,000 Ton Jap Ship

Gen: MacArthur Will Retain Past Despite the Fact He Will: Reach Retirement Age of 64 on Jani:26

MacArthur Will  Retain Position   General Reaches Age of Retirement Soon

Age Limit Won’t Apply, Stimson Says ; U.S. Losses  in Italy 19,210 ©

MACARTHUR TO HOLD COMMAND   Reaches Usual Retirement  Age Late This Month

Soldier Vote Bill Receives Party Approval House Takes First  Steps As Senate  Studies Appointment:

HOUSE VOTES APPROVAL OF BALLOT PLAN   Four Bills to Strip Red Tape From Military Legislation Adopted Unanimously By Lower Body   APPOINTMENTS STUDIED

Service Vote Bill on Way   Short, Snappy Session Is Seen By Party Heads

Conferees End  Deadlock on Soldier Ballot   Reach Compromise On Federal, State’s Rights Plan

Soldier Vote   Compromise:   Only Rankin Opposes Measure, Federal-State Plans Joined

Helena Boy Lies Near Death as Result of Burns Received When He Tried to Save Sisters

 T e é S Helena Boy Lies Near Death as Result of Burns Received  When He Tried to Save Sisters

Last Enemy Machinegun Stilled in Paris as Bradley's Men Begin to Help Feed, Run City!

PARTS PUT UNDER ALLIED CONTRO! AS BATTLE ENDS   Isolated Pockets of Resistance Being Cleaned Out on Heels of Surrender of Nazi Garrison.   CITY CELEBRATES ITS LIBERATION   Hundreds of Thousands Surge Into Streets for First Night of Liberty in Over 4 Vears.

LAST GERMAN GUNS CLEARED QUT OF PARIS   FOOD STOCKS SENT TO FEED HUNGRY CAPITAL

LAST OF NAZI FORCES WIPED OUT IN PARIS   Capital Celebrates Its Liberation; Allied Food Comes In

Bradley’s Men Rush Food Into City Where Starvation Loomed; Final Resistance From Germans Cleaned Up, Thousands Surrender

Joy In Paris As Food Is Moving In   Admission By Germans They Had Cleared Out Of French Capital

Paris Becomes A Carnival Of Celebration As Last Nazi Machinegun Is Stilled

PARIS BECOMES CARNIVAL GITY WHEN NAZIS GO   Troops Hunt Last Stragglers Atter Estimated 10,000 Nazis Surrender,

FRENCH CAPITAL ENTIRELY FREED OF FOE TROOPS   Paris Is a Carnival of Joy Aft. er Four-Year Opression Ends

Bradley Men BeginFeeding  Freed od Capital  Yankees ~ Help _ Patriots  Hunt Down Last Nazi Sniper Pockets  ERASE WAR'S SCARS  Greatest Damage Done io Public Buildings in Luxemboure Gardens      ERASE WAR'S SCARS   Greatest Damage Done to Public Buildings in Luxemboure Gardens

ALLIED ARMIES ARE 200 MILES FROM JUNCTION   Advances Believed Much Greater Than An nounced   Paris City Of Wild Joy As Last Nazis Surrender

Paris Stilled As Last Shot Rings Out   a Of Feeding rench Capital Is Inaugurated

ALL MAY ENTER UNITED NATIONS   Big Four Reveal Master Plan to Keep World at Peace

FULL MILITARY MIGHT OF BIG 4 I$ PLEDGED   World Organization to Be Known as United Nations

BRITAIN'S REPAY ~UNUKELY. BELIE   Solon, Back From Overseas, Says Nation Unable to Pay Debts

100-Mi. Coast Across From ‘Dover Blasted   Selected Anti - Invasion Installations Get 1,000  Tons of Bombs      DRIVE IN ON SOUTH   American Heavies F ind Fires Still Burning in Dash Into Romania

U.S. Airmen Blast Key Targets   Hammer Points On French Coast And Smash At  Romanian Cities

Americans Hit German Shore Installations   750 Mediterranean Planes Smash Romania Cities Handling Traffic For Russian Front

Romanian Rail Cities Also Raid Targets   Indications Given of RAF Night Attack After Day Assaults

100-MILE STRIP OF FRENCH COAST BOMBED BY ALLIES   One Thousand Tons of Explosives Dropped On Landing Beaches From Calais to Dieppe.   PARIS SAYS CASUALTIES IN AREA WERE HEAVY   Fleet of .750 MediterraneanBased Planes Blasts Five Railway Cities in Romania.

Nazi Defenses Bombarded By U.S. Air Fleet   A nti-Invasion Installations Between Calais, Dieppe Pounded.   RAID OIL REFINERTES

/,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES HIT FRENCH COAST   750 Planes Maul Five Romanian Rail Cities To Help Russians

Beaches Near Brifain Feel Yankee Power   100-Mile Stretch Of Atlantic Wall Rained With Shells

IOO-MILE LENGTH OF COASTLINE HIT   Bombers Hammer Anti-Invasion Installations   NIGHT. RAIDERS OUT   Flying Fortresses and Liberators Strike Rail Centers in Romania

Heavies Lash French Coast   100-Mile Strip Of Beaches . From Calais To Dieppe Hit

AREA BETWEEN DIEPPE, CALAIS HIT ON 22ND DAY   Germans’ Secret Anti-Invasion Installa: tions Blasted

Bad Weather  Fails To Halt  Channel Raid   American Marauders Riy  Diecppe-Boulogne Area, South af Coelete 

Selected Hun Installations Yank Targets   Axis-Controlled Paris Radie Says Many Locali* ties Attacked With Heavy Casualties   500 Bombers Used In Calais Assault   Twin Raid Siaged Yesterday, While Italian-Based Planes Blast Five Cittes in Roniania

Yank Bombers Soften German Beach Landings   Scatter Explosives Along Wide Stretch of Invasion Coast

Thousand-Ton American Raid Rocks Long Stretch Of Coast Nearest Britain.   German Radio Warnings Indicate Another Night Raid Under Way; Romania I« Attacked From Italy

Temperatures   Secret Targets Hit In Morning Raid Along Calais Sector

YANKEES DROP 1,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES   ! ‘ ‘Mediterranean Bombers  Smash Romanian  Rail Centers

Hit Across From Dover   Huge Fleets of U. S. Warplanes Smash Five Romanian Rail Cities

CALAIS COAST IS RAIDED BY U.S. BOMBERS   FIVE ROMANIAN RAIL CENTERS SMASHED BY 750 PLANES

te COR Kate Troops? IN 8. Te .  Nazis Fight F uriously To Defend Homeland

Hal  Boyle Doesn't Like Way Some Commentators. Dismiss German Foeman as a Fighter

Hitler's Reservoir of Soldiers. Running Dry But Army Still Tough

Germans Say Battle Is Near Climax   Americans Increase Eight-Day Toll of Tanks Smashed to 125; Enemy Troops Hold Only Small Foothold at Strasbourg Bridge

Closing in on Jalich, Roer River Bastion, Take - Tank Toll   BLOODY FOREST FIGHT   French Forces Seek to En. trap Germans in the Vosges

Yanks Smash Deeper Into Hurigen Forest   Germans Claim Decisive Clash Is Nearing Climax

Closing in on Jalich, Roer River Bastion, Take > + Tank Toll  f      BLOODY FOREST: FIGHT   French Forces Seek to ‘En‘trap Germans in the Vosges:

Roer River Bastion Is: Under Assault: Nazi Tank Toll 125; Enemy Backed To Rhine River

Ninth Army Closes Upon Roer Bastion   Nazis Lose 125 Tanks in 8 Days; Backed to Strasbour Docks; French Trap Enemy in Vosges Mountains

Soviets Meet Resistance Near Warsaw   East Prussian Battle Tempo Increases; Tito Junction Near

Striking North Of War: saw Against Heavy Op: position; Junction With Tito Now Matter Of Hours

SOVIETS LAUNCH E, PRUSSIA PUSH ON WIDE FRONT   Reds Meet Heavy Resistance} Russians Drive to Join Tito’s Forces

MEET STRONG OPPOSITION FROM. ‘GERMANS NEAR EAST PRUSSIA; DRIVE ACROSS BALKANS WIDENS   WAR DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES SKELETONIZED PLAN FOR DEMOBILIZATION WHEN GERMANY 'S DEFEATED

RUSSIANS IN SOUTH NEAR YUGOSLAVIA   Offensive North Of Warsaw Declared Along Broad Front

REDS STRIKE TOWARD EAST PRUSSIA SOIL   Germans Giving Stiff Opposition, On Another Front, Reds 50 Miles From Vugoslavia   me ASSOCTATED PRESS

Nazi Defense Of Prussia Is Desperate   Reds Encounter Tough Resistance in New  Drive on Reich

Russians Near Junction With  Yugoslav Army   German Resistance Shows Increase As Russians Crosa Narew River To East Prussia

SOVIETS OPEN NEW DRIVE ON EAST PRUSSIA   Cross Narew River North Of Warsaw; Meet Bitter Opposition

TROOPS NEAR TITOLAND, IRON GATE ON DANUBI   Junction With Yugoslavia Expected In Hours By Moscow

Furious Opposition Met By Russians During Smash Across Narew River

Red Troops Cross Narew River in Drive on Prussia  Other Russ Forces  Qnly 50 Miles

Reds Drive on East Prussia On Broad Front   On Southern Front Russians Drive for Yugoslavia to Join Up With Tito’s Force:

RUSSIANS IN NEW ADVANCI ON PRUSSIA   » Resistance Now - Strong; Near Yugoslavia

Soviets Race To 50 Miles OfYugoslavia  Red Army Advances 7 Miles in Single Day in Romania NAZI LINE CRACKED Oslo Radio Says Russiar  Troops Have Entered Doatlwowts   NAZI LINE CRACKED

Council Approves Franchise Plans  Subject To Vote  Special Election To  Be Held In

Council Approves Franchise Plans Subject To Vote   Se  Bleonting TA   Special Election To Be Held In LeMars February 15

3200 American Planes Take Part in Day’s Blows at Nazi Targets   Speed of First Army Advance Indicates Strman Forces Being Pulled Back Across Roer River » Seventh and Third Armies Report Advances

BOMBERS STRIKE — _ AT RAIL CENTERS   Seventh Army Yankees Take Great-

American Dive Bombers Are Blasting At Germans While Artillery and Mortars Cut Path for Advancing Doughbays

Dirty Nazis Being. Dug Out By Yanks   Are Being Hunted Street By Street Block By Block, House By House

Big Guns Cut Out Lane For Infantrymen .   Resistance Is Not Strong; House By House Battle Is On

YANKEE DOUGHBOYS DIGGING, SHOOTING BEARDED GERMANS   GROUND TROOPS OF FAMOUS AMERICAN DIVISION BATTLING AHEAD

U.S. Heavies Blast Netherlands Air Field; AEF Aloft   Invasion Eve Air Assaults Continue Through 18th Day Slightly Diminished On Account Of Bad Weather Over Continent.

Bombers Stab Europe In Twin Raids   Nonstop Attackers Stream From  England and Italy

Abandon Fed. Wage Control ‘to $200 Group   Senate Committee Would Help 20 Million Now  Being Squeezed

Today In Washington  Ask Easing Of Federal Wage ' Curb   Senate Group Would End Control Over Pay Up To $150 a Month To Aid ‘White Collars’

SEEKING END OF *LOW WAGE ORDE   20 Million Persons Now Living Between “Subsistence and Privation.”

[Little Maw Hard Hit  White Collar Group Offered  Hope Of Relief By Senator.  [

SENATE COMMITTEE URGES ABANDONMENT SOME WAGE CONTROLS  TWENTY MILLION PERSONS IN WHITE COLLAR

WAY 1S CLEARED TO END DISPUTE — ON MINERS PAY   Special Committee Submits  ‘Report Finding Tavel Is  - 10.29 Minutes More Than Under Fstimatc.   ROQSEVELT GETS FIND INGS ON INVESTIGATION   Report Is Based on Returns  of 141,000 Coal Miners - fn 1000 Mines With 63 Per Cent of Outout.

Final Action Due On Mine Wages   WLB to Decide on Basic Pay Scale

Moscow Makes Announcement Of Armistice   Fina! Negotiations Opened On Thursday With Allied Leaders

Desperate Try To Relieve Nazi Troops Thwarted   Two Industrial Areas Overrun In Push To  Drive Out Germans *

Beat Back Try To Open Relief Door   Overrun Two Industria Districts In Push For Trapped City.

Hodges’ Troops Slug Toward Observatory Hil   American Shock Troops Drive Into Rothe-Erde Factory District; Planes Blast Path for Infantry; Reinforcement Attempt Smashed

Troops. Storm Burning City In Attempt To Drive Out Nazis   Germans Bring Up Ist Class Troops   But Doughboys Beat Them Down And Overrun Two Industrial Sections

BREAK GERMAN ATTACK, HOLD TWO DISTRICTS   Bombs, Guns Wreck Aachen

U.S. Ist Army Storms Burning City of Aachen   Two Industrial Districts Are Overrun

Americans Enter Factory Area ‘As Dive-Bombers, Artillery Continue to Pulverize Town

Burning Aachen Stormed   Americans Drive Back Crack German Reliet Columns

Fresh American Divisions Joining In Attack; Nazis Herding Tanks Back From Perimeter Of Sahent. Calline On Infantry   FORCES OF PATTON. eRI7e PTUR TOWNS

THIRD ARMY CUTS INTO CORRIDOR   Six Miles of German Border Area Seized

By J. EDWARD MURRAY (United Press War Correspondent)   Ratter Ahead

Ohio Phone Strike Spreads as WLB Orders It Ended   Cleveland A. T. & T. Employes Agree Not To Cross Picket Lines

RAIN FOR THREE DAYS   Heavy Precipitation May Brir.g Rivers Up Again

RAIN FOR. THREE DAYS   Heavy ‘Precipitation May ‘Brirg . Riyers Up Again

Railroad Wage Dispute Settled   President Anpounces Return Tonight of Carriers to Owners

Americans Stop Nazi Advance in Stavelot Sector   Both Gain and Lose

Enraged Yanks Take Heavy Toll Of Foe   AP Correspondent Wes Gallagher Interviews Troops Caught In Von Rundstedt’s Drive; Fog And Mud Add To West Front Heli!

Summer Weather, Smooth Seas Lay Benignly Upon England.  As Invasion Tenseness Grows

SIXTH ARMY HAS. CROSSED TOR RIVER   Yanks Advancing on Matfin Bay Sector with Two Airfields; Strike at Truk Reported.   Sink Merchantman

RIVER IS CROSSED BY UNITS OF ARMY      Gains in Dutch New Gui- nea Fighting Are Reported

AMERICANS MOVE ON JAP AIRFIELD   YANKS UNDER HEAVY FIRE AS THEY PUSH FORWARD IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA,

Supported . By 3000  Airplanes            BIGGEST FORCE OF PLANES  . ; EVER SENT ON SINGLE MISSION BRITISH GAIN MILE BELOW CAEN

BRITISH RIP NAZI LINES TO GAIN MIL!   Sky-Bursting Air Assault Paves Way for Biq Push

INFANTRY, TANKS MOVE AHEAD ON FALAISE HIGHWAY   During First Few Hours They Overrun St. Martin and Verriers Located 5 Miles South of Caen.   1500 U. S. BOMBERS JOIN IN BIG ASSAULT   American and British WarPlanes Smash at Secret Rocket Bomb Bases After Raid on Stuttaart.

MMIES, YANKS EN NEW DRIVE NORMANDY   Suge Air Force Aids Troops .

Allied Ist, 2nd Armies Coordinate New Drive In Normandy Offense   Under Umbrella Of Artillery Fire, Allies Go “Over The Top” To Score Mile’s Advance

TWO ALLIED ARMIES ADVANCE OVER MILE IN TWIN OFFENSIVES   Co-ordinated Attacks Begun On Both Sides Of Front After Heavy Artillery, Aerial Bombardments

AIR ARMADA IN NORMANDY AIDS NEW OFFENSIVE   Drive Extends Below Caen; Nazis Give Fierce Air Firkt

Attack Designed To Deep. en British Position Below Caen  MITCHELL BOMBERS BLAST STRONGHOLDS  Largest Air Force Ever Dispatched On Single Mission

British- American Forces Open Up New Offensives:   U. S. Aircraft Drop *y 5,500 Tons of Bombs  On German Positions

OFFENSIVES LAUNCHED IN NORMANDY   Allies Ist And 2nd Armies Gain In New Drives

Heavy Yank Bombers in Air Support   British and American Armies Make Gaing in  Normandy

Yank Attack in Normandy Aided by 1500 Bombers   Nazi Air Force Swarms in Greatest Strength Since D-Day

3,000 Planes Support the New Offensive   Montgomery Says 2nd Army Attack Has Limited Objectives

FOUR AWARDED NOBEL PRIZES   Two Scientists in ‘United States, One Hungarian and One Dane Are Winners

Press Inland to Fertile Valleys      1 Have Returned,’ General MacArthur Tells Fikpinos; Urges Islanders +6 ‘Rise and Strike’ Jap Conquerors’:

ASKS PEOPLE TO RISE AND STRIKE JAPS   Guerrilla Warfare Called For By U. S. General

Gen. MacArthur and Filipino Government, Including President Sergio Osmena, Go in Witt Troops and Broadcast Call On Guerrillas To ‘Rise and Strike’ Japanese Invaders   By DEAN SCHEDLER

MacArthur Urges  Filipinos Rise,  Strike Japanese a ae ee      Broadcasts His Return To Islands

Nips Taken By Surprise   Strong Beachheads Won By Yankees And Casualties Are Reported Lighki   U. S. Navy And Air Force Rule Scene

Proclaims “!l Havé Returned,’ His Forces Dedicated To Restoring Liberties

Three Strong Beachheads On Leyte Taken by Ground  F orces After Bombardment

“T Have Returned,” MW Arthur Tells Filipinos Issues Radio Appeal to Rise Against Japs

‘I Have Returned! MacArthur Calls on Filipinos  To Rise and Strike the Enemy  ' ; :

‘Rise and Strike Call to Filipinos   General MacArthur Broadcasts Appeal Over Seeret Radio

Corregidor Survivors Return To Liberate Wainwright's Men Imprisoned by Japanese

GENERAL SPEAKS TO FILIPINOS FROM LEYTE ISLE   Philippine Vice President Osmena Returns As Invaders Seize Beachheads

MacArthur Lands Heavy Invasion Forces On Isles  E*itntanm Deactdand   Filipino President Lands With Troops; Supplies Pour In

MacArthur Calls On Patriots To Hurl Back Japanese   ‘Invasion Sidelights

“T Have Returned,” MacArthur Says In Broadcast; Filipinos Urged To “Rise And Strike!”

Insurrection Asked  By Gen. MacArthur   J Have Returned’ Filipinos Told; Urged to Strike Jap Conquerors;  Farly I osces in  anding are! ioht

Rise, Attack! Filipinos Told   + MacArthur Avows Freedom at Hand

MacArthur’s: Voice Heard   Appeals To Island  For All Assistance

(MacArthur in Broadcast Calls on Filipinos to Rise and Strike Foe

Americans Pour Reinforcements On Leyte Island   Survivors of Corregidor Return to Help Americans Liberate Philippines; Landings on Leyte Surprise Japs

URGES REVOLT IN PHILIPPINES   MacArthur Tells Natives, ‘ Have Returned’

MacARTHUR CALLS ON FILIPINOS TO STRIKE   GENERAL, WITH PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT OSMENA AT SIDE, PLEDGES TO RESTORE ISLANDS’ LIBERTY

TEMPERATURES:   MacArthur Leading Yanks In Great Blow At Heart OF Islands   Calls On Natives To Arise Against Nipponese; Great Beachheads Secured After Terrific Bombardment: Troops Press Inland

General Urges People fo Rise Against Japanese   Filipinos Told Their President ls With Americans

FILIPINO PEOPLE URGED TO RISE UP AGAINST FOE  MacArthur Voices Calf via Radio For Guerrilla Warfare in Islands

‘Rise and Strike!’ Is MacArthur A ppeal   To Filipino Guerrillas

if i  ‘Ground Forces Pour Ashore to Seize  Three Beachheads on Leyte Island; MacArthur Personally Leads Invasion

 Have Returned .. . Rally te to Me  eras as Mm! ht  Pos oc. Paes gk eee SE

U.S. Makes Landings  On Leyte   General MacArthur and Philippine President Re-Establish Government on Island Soil; Corregidor Survivors Return to Fight Japs

RALLY TO MEP GENERAL CRIES IN STRONG PLEA   Natives Assured That Hour Of Redemption Is Here In Appeal Over Air

W Arthur Asks Full Support Of Filipinos   General Tells People His Army Has Come To Liberate Them

Troops Already Press Inland as MacArthur Lands, With Every AbleBodied Survivor of Corregidor Accompanying Him — Ground Forces Put Ashore in Heart of Islands Under Protection of Terrific Air and Naval Bombardment. i

Yankees Go Into Heart of Islands       Great Convoy Protected by  Terrific Naval and Air  Bombardment   THREE BEACHHEADS ON LEYTE ISLAND   President..of Philippines With Our Troops; People Urged to Fight Japs

Tells Filipinos, “Your Hour Of Redemption Here—Strike”   Broadcast “Voice Of Freedom” Calls For Uprising Aqainst Jap Forces

Gen. MacArthur Calls on F ilipinos To ‘Rise and Strike’ in Broadcast

M’ARTHUR URGES FILIPINOS’ HELP TO CRUSH JAPS   Invasion Forces Storm Ashore On Leyte Isle — Positions Won Quickly

JAPS TAKEN BY SURPRISE AND BEACHHEADS GAINED QUICKLY. WITH ONLY LIGHT CASUALTIES

DEWEY PLANS TRIP INTO TWO STATES   GOP Presidential Nominee Sets Campaign in Motion

DEWEY TO STUMP DOUBTFUL STATES   GOP NOMINEE MAKES PLANS TO SPEAK IN PA, AND KENTUCKY

Dewey, Bricker Make Plans For Campaign Talks  Carry Fight In Rorder States

Dewey Plans Speech: Tour   Noniinee Will Visit Doubtful: Territory:

Dewey To Begin Speaking Drive In Border States   First Speech In Philadelphia On Sept. 7, Next In Louisville

‘Dewey Lists  Two J oO Addresses   Philadelphia, Sept. 7, Louisville, Sept. 8 _

Dewey Starts: His Campaign ~ Talks Sept. 7   To Speak In Philadelphia ‘On That Night and Tu "Louisville, Kentucky,  September 8

DEWEY SLATES SPEECHES IN BORDER STATES   GOP Candidate Opens Campaign In Pennsylvania, Kentucky

STREET BATTLES AAGE IN BUDAPEST   Reds Capture Twelve More Eastern Suburbs   OTHER RUSSJANS   Push Westward Toward Aus. trian Frontier; Hundreds Of Prisoners Taken

Soviet Troops Take Twelve More Suburbs Of Budapest      Russians Take One Place Six Miles From Heart of the City—Other Forces Push Westward Along Both Sides of Danube

Red Troops Tighten Hold On Budapest   Twelye East Suburbs Seized From Germans

REDS BATTER INTO SUBURBS OF BUDAPES!   OTHER UNITS SWEEP TOWARD BORDER OF AUSTRIA

MORE SUBURBS OF BUDAPEST FALL TOREDS   Shock Troops Of Two Soviet Armies Fighting In Half Of City   HUNGARIAN GENERAL IS AMONG CAPTIVES

Reds Reported Six Miles From Budapest Cente   Other Units Sweep Westward 58 Miles From Austrian Line

Capture 12 More Suburbs Of City; Push Within 58 Miles of Austria

‘FOUR KILLED AND FIVE HURT: AS AERIAL BOMB 1S ACCIDENTLY DROPPED

MAN HELD AFTER IMPERSONATING AGENT AT DONORE   Donald Crall, 35, Reported To Be Charleroi Resident, Held For Court

Challenger Jumps Tracks Near Colfax   More Bodies Sought, 7 Injured; Servicemen Vistime

COLFAX TRAIN WRECK KILLS 12   SCORE SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN 3 CARS DERAILED

Senate Rejects Taft Amendment   Administration Scores  On Soldier Vote Bill

SENATE OKAYS FEDERAL BALLOT IN 46-40 VOTE   Measure Now Back in House

BUNYAN’ OF SIERRAS SOUGHT   “WILD MAN” WANTED IN VETERAN'S SLAYING

Aerial Assault on Philippines in Seventh Davy   Aparri, Where Enemy Invaded Island, and Airfields in Manila Bay Area Are Blasted: Enemy Airforce Bacien Off

Yankees Destroy More Than 100 AircraftIn Blow At Philippines   Big Sea Battle Reported By Japanese Has Not Mater: ialized—Third Fleet Units Seek Combat  In Enemy Waters

Fleet Attacks  In Seventh Day   Admiral Nimitz Says Our Losse: Smali, Tells Nothing of Tokyo Warchine

SHOOT DOWN 11 00 JAPANESE Pi AIRPLANES S,   Third Fleet Starts Seventh Day of Raids Over Luzon; Japs Attack at Terrifie Cost,   Report U.S. Losses

‘Superforts Again  Blast at Formosa   Tokyo’s ‘Navy in Action’ Stery Not Confirmed

YANKS BLAST AIRFIELDS. IN MANILA AREA   Two Attacks Made On Luzon — Enemy Airmen Fight Savagely as Nimitz Drive Continues,   AMERICAN LOSSES NOT ANNOUNCED   Confirmation of Reports That Nippon Warships Have Gone Into Battle Still Lacking. 

AAPANESE RADIO MAKES BIG CLAIM   Nimitz Fails to Mention Con. tact With Enemy Fleet   PHILIPPINES RAIDED   ap Airforce Attacks Furiously; Slight Damage to U. 8. Ships, Report

Little Damage Done to Historic City Despite Stiff German Resistance. Until Last; Allies Take City After Nine Month of Sacrifice

ALLIES CHASE NAZIS AFTER TAKING ROME   Germans Put Wp Fierce Fight But Retreat

Abdication Of King Expected In Favor Of Prince Umberto   Italian Capital Appears Virtually Undamaged ‘2 In Early Reports; Bare-Chested Italians Hit German Rear Guards In Early Hours Of Capture

Pursue German Armies Across The Famed Tiber  Populace Cheers   Populace Cheers Allied Entrancé; Rome Unscathed.

Nazi Dead, Blasted Vehicles Glut Road Beyond Tiber River   Partisans Fight Foe Barehanded; Peril to Kesselring’s Soldiers Growine as Panzers Tamnoe Ahead

Last Ditch Enemy Rear Guards Die In Street Battles As Italian Partisans Fight With Fascists And Hitlerites In Brief Struggle For Liberation — Populace Cheers American And Allied Infantry And Tanks —Most Of City Appears To Have Escaped Damage

Pursue German Armies Across The Fanned Tiber  Porulace Cheers Allied Entrance; Paamne,  lneonbhasl

Italians Battle Nazis As Allies Enter City   Airmen Pound Retreating German Columns, Capture Main Escape Route for Germans Between City and Sea

 Troops Stop Hardly Long Enough For Glimpse At Seat Of Mussolini’s Fallen Empire   German Ambassador Seeks Refuge In Vatican; Allied Representatives Leave There, Return To Former Residences; Umberto To Take Reign

Americans Fail To Stop in Plunging Drive Across Tiber in Hopes of Destroying Two Armies

Allied Forces Drive Through Italian Capital   Romans Fight Enemy In Brief Hand-To-Hand Battle For Liberati f Eternal City As Citizens Cheey Victorious Yanks

Troops Pursue Remnants Of Fleeing Nazis With Hardly a Glance at Eternal City

Crosses Tiber River, Pursues Mauled Germans   Roads To North -Littered With German Wreckage; Rome Taken In Street Battle   Joyful Romans Smother U. S. Troops With Kisses, Roses; Partisans Aided In Capture   “Why Were You So Long Coming?”, Some Ask; All Display Their Gratitude

lialian Reds Fight Fascists In City Streets  Fternal City   Eternal City Escapes Dainage During Capture

POWERFUL FIFTH CROSSES TIBER INPURSUIT OF 10TH AND 14TH GERMAN ARMIES NORTH OF ROME   Last Ditch German Rearguards Died in Shadow o Roman Forum. Damage to City Believed Light All Quiet at Vatican. Many Italians Died During  Nias? RDanesdiiea

Last Ditch Rearguard Are Killed At Position   Yankees Cheere  _ As They Thread City Streets

Troops Cross Tiber to Follow Nazis   Air Force Continues To Harass Nazis As They Flee North

FIFTH ARMY TAKES HARDLY A LOOK AT ~ CAPTURED ROME   German Armies Are In Flight Toward Northern Italy   ROME SUFFERS . - LITTLE DAMAGE

Planes Hammer At Fleeing Foe   Last-Ditch Nazi Rearguards Die in Shadow of Forum—lItalian Capital Seemingly Unscathed—Axis Diplomats Go to Vatican City, Berlin Says

Damage To City Slight   Most of City’s Sacred ‘Monuments Unscathed In Spite of Period  Of Street Fighting

Pershing Hails Paris’ Liberation   Daughter Of Jerome Kern Seeks Divorce From Artie Shaw

Berlin Takes Notice of Japan's Reluctance To Meet U. S. Advance   Jap Air Weakness Emophasicea

Atlantic City Piers Damaged; 3 Known Dead   Hurricane Heads For New England

90-Mile Winc  Deals Death,  Ruin in East N. J. Badly Hit; Damage May Total Millions

Hurricane Hits Eastern States; Heavy Damage   90-Mile Wind Wrecks Jersey Resorts; Three Deaths Are Reported

RAINFALL WAS LIGHT   Scattered Showers Dotted the Kan. sas Weather Map Today

GOP Nominee Declares Foes Sell Something  They Avoid Writing About  ”

G. 0. P. Nominee Invites Dems To  Recover Own Party B Defeating New Deal.

He Gets The Drift At Last Snow Stalls Fleeing Thief, Officers Recover $125 Looi

Utah Cultists Rap Federal Attorney   Defense Brief Filed, Case Goes to Judge

Income Tax Refund Checks Being Mailed Rapidly As Possible   18,000,000 Cases to Be Processed, 9,000 Weekly, Present Rate

WASTE PAPER SALVAGE WILL SPEED VICTORY   Local Boy Scouts Are Collecting Paper

Race Two-Thirds Of Way Across Breton Peninsula   Reds Pour Through Breach In Drive Toward Silesia

Cut Off Most of Peninsula   Swift Drive Carries ta Within 43 Miles of St. Nazaire and Nantes; Mop Up on Rennes >

DE GAULLE SEES VICTORY IN 1944   France Must Be ‘Strong anc Free,’ General Tells Delegation

DE GAULLE SEES VICTORY IN 1944   Thinks Last Germans To Be Driven From France This Year

France Will Be Greaf and Free   So Says De Gaulle, Who Predicts France Will Be Freed in 1944

Last German From French  Soil in 1944.   Gen, De Gaulle Declares France  Will be Free

'De Gaulle Says All Germans Will Be Driven From France [n 1944 .

French-American Relations Aided   General De Gaulle’s Visit Conducive to Working Agreement

DEGAULLE HOPEFUL   Confident Germans Will Be Cleared From France ©  This Year -

GEN. DE GAULLE. SEESALL FRANGE FREE OF GERMAN:   Declares That: Year: of 1944 : Won't ‘Pass ‘Without! Last Nazi Being Killed. or Chas ed From Soil: “   SAYS HIS LAND Must. ’ BE STRONG AND: FREE   Visitor Has: First Conference With Roosevelt, ‘Recogn » tion Not Included  Di CuUSSIONns:: 2

DEGAULLE HEARD AT WASHINGTON   Says France Must ’ Be Great or Die 

DeGaulle Sees Strong France   Past is Over, Future Greatness Possible; Germans to Be Out in '44

De Gaulle Says France Will Be Free This Year  Declares Nation Must Be Great

1,000 Enemy Troops Are Slain   Two More Islands Are Occupied Under Fire Cover

Thousand Japs Are Wiped Out   Fierce Battle in Bougainville Torokina Junale Area

U: S. Troops Closing Ring About Anchor of La Haye  NAZI ESCAPE ROAD UNDER. HEAVY FIRE  Great Aerial Assaults Delivered During the Day. :

Planes Aid Normandy Drive; Reds Open Drive On South End of Front

YANKS PUSH SOUTHWARD ON PENINSULA      Savage Fighting Prevails Near La Haye Widening Front a Mile Despite Enemy Strategy.   Maquis Busy

Nazi Escape Route Now Is Under Fire   Capture of the City Would Unhinge German Defenses

Americans Throw Steel Ring Around Nqzi Defense Anchor, Storm to Edge of Great Forest

WTO LAMY "TRNEN OUT   Doughboys Twice Enter French City. Only: to ‘Fall Back —.Threaten Fill Dominating’ Town.   BATTLE RAGES = _EAST OF CAEN   British Face. ‘Greatest Concentration’ ‘of Nazi  _ Manpower Ever Massed “on Narrow Front.

Yanks storm well fortified foe heights  Advance widens  Carantan contar

Yanks Closing Ring About Haye du Puits   Storm to Edge of Foret De Mont Castre; Last Nazi Escape Route  Is Under Heavy Fire

British And Germans Pour Armor And Infantry Into Battle For Carpiquet Airfield Only Three Miles From Caen

Allies Shell Escape Route From La Haye   Forced To Relinquish  Town’s Rail Station’  But Threaten Heights PEANES ARF ACTIVE .

SUREEN TESTS TU END FEB: 1   Draft Boards to Start Call. ing Men Next Monday Under New Procedure

Yankees Approach Florence   Russians Drive 16 Miles Toward East Prussia

French Troops Smashing Near Florence   American Tanks Aid New Drive; Nazis Fighting Furiously

Allies Continue Advance in Italy   French Troops Within 20 Miles of Florence

Naval Planes Blast Bases In Kuriles   Jap Positions Also Hit Again in Carolines and Marshalis

GERMAN OIL PLANTS, RAIl CENTERS HIT   Bombers Striking From Italy After RAF Night Foray

ALLIED PLANES BLASTING SOUTE OF REICH TODAY   Ft .lows Night Attack On Oil Plants, Rail Targets

Allied Planes Hit Germany  Nazi Radio Indicate  Planes from Italy

Rail Centers Are Blasted.   Tealian. ‘Based Air “Force. Hits: South:

ALLIED PLANES FROM ITALY IN MOVE ON NAZIS   Ruhr Oil Plants Bombed By RAF Night Flyers

Benton Harbor Woman Suicides   Mrs. Sam Sicard Dies Of Monoxide Gas

MONOXIDE GAS KILLS WENN      Found In Cab Of Truck With Hose Connected To Exhaust

Vichy’s Propaganda Chief : Kilted—Laval Calle It “An Act of Civil War.”

Disguised Patriots Kill Vichy Leader   Philippe Henriot Shot to Death Before Wife in Paris Bedroom

Vichy Propaganda Minister Slain, Presumably by French Underaround

Vichyite Henriot Is Assassinated   Fifteen Disguised Men Enter Propaganda Ministry in Paris

PRO-GERMAN AIDE IS ASSASSINATED   Philippe Henriot, Propaganda Minister In Vichy Is Felled By Bullet.

Philippe Henriot, Vichy Minister Ot Propaganda, Slain By Patriots

Philippe Henriot Shot When He Answers Door—Lavai Calls Killine Civil War

Laval Calls Slaying Act Of Civil War   Propaganda Ministe: Of Vichy Regime Slain In Bedroom.

HENRIOT SLAIN IN PARIS HOME   Vichy Propaganda Minister Marked As Traitor

OFFICIAL IN VICHY GOV'T ASSASSINATED   Philippe Henriot Shot in Heart In Paris Bedroom

VICHY OFFICIAL SHOT TO DEATH   Minister of Propaganda Henriot Assassinated

‘UNDERGROUND’ SHOOTS VICHY PROPAGANDIST   Collaborationist Henriot Is Killed By French Patriots In Paris

_U.S. Loses Only 2 Subs; Enemy for First Time  Fails To Defend Rabaul

Japan's Air Fleet Refuses To Fight   Raiders Strike At Rabaul Again, But Enemy Planes Stay Away; Jap Losses Reported High

JAP STRENGTH SLIPS FAST Ih BISMARCK SEA   ZEROS OFFERING NO OPPOSITION; SHIPS FEW AT RABAUL

Japanese Flyers Shun Air Fight Over Rabaul °   Big Enemy Base Bombed; President  Cites Barge Losses

RAIN AND COOLER _ WEATHER A RELIEF   Lawrence Area One of the Lucky Spots of the Na tion Just Now #   RAIN WAS 1.17 INCHES

WEATHER A RELIEF   Lawrence Area One of the lly Spots of the Na =  tion Just Now #   RAIN WAS 1.17 INCHES

Senate Okehs Stettinius for Cabinet Post   Secretary of State  Confirmed as Langer Protests Are Brushed Aside: Vote Is 67 to I

BUTTER CUT BY MILK DIVERSION   WFA Sees Little Hope For Increase In Production Before Next Spring

MILK SUPPLY * ~ 1S PROBLEM   WARTIME DEMAND FOR MLK PRODUCTS CANNOT MEET ALL DEMANDS

AS HALF SUMMER   First Half of August Was Hot and the Last Part  Col

ROADS ARE JAMMED   Nazi Troops and Motor Convoys Are on Greece Highways

NAZIS TRAPPED IN GREECE BY ALLIES AS OFFENSIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA BLASTS RAILS

ARMY INDUCTIONS MUST CONTINUE   100,000 Men A Month Until The End Of The Year Called To Service

600,000 Men Facing Call, Hershey Says   Registrants Under 26 Will Furnish Most Of New Troops For Balance Of Year, Draft Chieftain Asserts

Draft Will Cal 100,000 Monthly   Selective Service  Work Not Done

DRAFT RATE MUST CONTINUE, AT LEAST UNTIL END OF YEAR   So Declares Hershey In Letters Sent All Boards

ARMED TO CONTINUE CALLING MEN   ‘Work Of Selective Service Is Fa From Finished, Says Director

Not Letup In Draft Calls, Hershey Says   Armed Forces Need 600,000 Men Up To First of the Year.

BiG GUNS STAGI INTENSE DUEL AT.CASSINO   German Batteries In: crease Firepower South of Town

STEP UP NAZI FIRE IN ITALY   Enemy Appears to Expect Large-Scale Allied Attack

‘Dangerous Hurricane Whips Northward Toward Cuba; Florida Keys Are Warned

NAZI GENERAL DIES IN FRANCE   Hitler Announces Death of Norman Leader

Nazi Commander In Normandy Dead   Col. Gen. Dollmann Directed Defenses

Seaboard Airline Strike Scheduled For Noon Today   Threatened Tieup Goes fo President

WHITE HOUSE ACTS IN RAILWAY DISPUTE   Roosevelt Moves to Check Threatened Walkout on Seaboard AlrLine Raihvav.

Seaboard Enginemen And Firemen Threaten Strike; Referred To President

STRIKE THREAT IS PASSED ON TO WHITE HOUSE   Employes Of Seaboard Airline Railroad Plan To Quit Today At Noon

Post-War Tax. Law Rejected   Proposal Branded » As “Impracticable” °

War Industry Strike Ended At Cleveland   Struggle Is Seen Between John Lewis And CIO Workers

VITAL OUTPUT NEAR NORMAL AT WRIGHT FIRM   Workers Return Before ‘Work. Or-Be-Fired’ Deadline Becomes Effective

Bulgaria May Be Included In Jugo Plan   Other Balkan Nations May Be Embraced By Federa. tion Program.   PREPARE CHANGES

Balkan Federation On Large Scale Seems Imminent  Tito Believed Choice For Premier With Red Backing

Marines Take Jap Barge Base On New Britain   Yanks Also Step Up Air Drive Against Admiralty Islands

Jap’s Barge Base Seized   Marines Advance Aground As Air Blows Rain On Nips

MARINES SEIZE JAP BARGE BASE   LEATHERNECKS MOVE INTO ENEMY-HELD TERRITORY _ EAST OF BORGAN BAY.

MARINES SEIZE JAPANESE BASE   Planes From Solomons Cruise Over Rabaul, No Interception

Spanish Maquis Force Of 40,000 Said Holding Corner Of France In Defiance Of De Gaulle’s Rule

40,000 Maqui: Defy de Gaulle  Report Force Active In Border Area

SPANISH MAQUIS DEFY DE GAULLE   FORCE CONTROLS FRANCE CORNER ON FRONTIER

American Officials Regard Situation There As Fantastic, Not Critical; Spaniards Are Defiant of Gen. De Gaulle’s Government

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR SGT. MILLER   Veterans of First World War Honor Victim ‘of. Crash

Final Honors Paid Youthful Soldier  Funeral of Sgt. Miller  Held At Oyens

Allied Troops Breach Gustav Line In Italy   Allied Break Through Achieved By U. 8. And French Infantry Units

ALLIES CRACK GUSTAV LINE   Heavy Fighting in Progress on Invasion Front South of Rome

American i French Pounding  On Westw.        SENSATIONAL DEVRLOPMEN ON N. RUSSIAN FRONE ANTICIPATED. . -¢  whe tn gh So * ext oR

‘REDS PROMISE ‘SENSATIONAL’ DEVELOPMENT   Main Nazi _ Defenses North Of Cassino Are Collapsed

Allied Supremacy In Air Seen   Forecast Paralyzing of German Industries

Allies Nearing Air Supremacy   Clear Way to Berlin, Says British Leader

Air Supremacy Is Now Within Reach Of Allies, Says British Air Minister

FHOUSAND: ALLIED AIRMEN ~-BELEASED BY ROMANIANS   PRISONEKS OF WAR FLOWN TO TFALY AS RESULT OF RO‘ MANIA‘S SPLIT WITH GERMANY   By, JAMES L, KILGALLEN International News Service

"Rules Ickes Neet »Not?Relinquish Control of Mines   Attorney General Ruling Permits Goy’t. Continuance

Need Not Relinquish Coal Mines   UNTIL ASSURANCE IS_ GIVE) THAT NO WORK STOPPAGES WILL OCCUR, RULES _ AT: TORNEY GENERAL BIDDLE.   Refuse to Sign

40 INJURED IN ARIZONA CRASH   Santa Fe Chief Derailed While Rounding Curve

Crack Train Piles Up; 12 Found Dead   Scores Injured As Sante Fe Chief , Wrecks in Arizona

Pfc. Robt. Sweeley Slightly Wounded   Had Been in Action In France Recently

ROBOTS STILL ~ CAUSE HAVOC      FAMOUS LONDON. BUILDING PABTLY WHEC KED—17,000 HOUSES HIE TY. 2” #4 BOURGT

City Under Siege For 28 Months      GERMANS DRIVEN BACK sonne CANNON RANGE; OVER 700 OTHER TOWNS AND VILLAGES FREED: - -:

BLOCKADE OF NORTHERN CITY LASTED 2 YEARS   German Front Fallmg Apart

Russians Advance Almost at Will   Closing Trap on Upwards of 250,000

Restore City In Smashing Drive ‘Against Germans   Governor Hails Troops With Celebration After Seige of 22 Months

Drive. Forces German Evacuation Of Town  Of Evdtkuhnen     Nazis Say Push Aimed At Danzig   Moscow Silent. But Emphasis Placed On Hinimler’s Home Defense

Czech Drive Is Linked   Campaign for the Liberation of Budapest Pushed

REDS CROSS DANUBE FOR BUDAPEST BLOW   Transport Center Entered; Armies May Outflank City

TRANSPORT CENTER I$ CAPTURED   Soviet Offensives On Hungarian Capital Are Developing

NAZIS SAY REDS NAB REICH TOWN   EAST PRUSSIA BORDER CRACKED, SAY NAZIS

DANZIG COAL OF NEW DRIVE BERLIN, SAYS   Armies Meet in Czechoslovakia

BERLIN SAYS REDS ARE IN EAST PRUSSIA   Report Not Confirmed Yet By Moscow

SOVIET FORCES IN JACZBERENY, GERMANS ADMI   Moscow Reports Red Army Established Bridgehead Below Budapest

Nazis Lose Ss up ply Hub  In Hungary   Russian Smash Into Jaszbereny; Moscow Says . .   Danube Is Crossed

EEE EE  Reds Link Drive On in Budapest; E. Prussia Reported Invaded

Robot Bombs Hit Britain After Lull   Double Assault Last Night Heavier Than Usual But Demage Is Slight

Allies Bombard Europe Fort In Record Assault  Over 5,500 Tons Of Explosives Dropped Dn Vay Inctallabéianec

Planes Fly From Italy And Britain   77 Germans Downed. While Americans Lose  32 Bombers, 16 Other:

Fifth Gains on Faenza Road   Nazis Thought Falling Back to Straighten Bulge in Line

NAZIS FALL BACK   Straighten Bulge in German Line Between Bologna and Faenza .

Yanks Move Along Florence-Faenza   German Withdrawal May Even Bulge Line On Bologna-Faenza

Reeling Nazis In Poland Are Split By Reds   Seviets Achieve Division By Capturing Lublin and Lukow; Close On Last Enemy Barrier   Red Pilots Report  Panics In Warsaw   Roads Choked With Transports; Russians Within Two Hours Marching From East Prussia

Russians Drive {0 Miles Within Last 24 Hours   Roads Choked With Fugitives Reports Moscow

Red Forces BeingPacet By Fighting Tank Might      Cossacks Are Well Along Warsaw Road Today

ADVANCE 40 MILES   Red Army Is Nearing ® Wisla River, Last Barrier To Reich

Reds Drive For Warsaw And Vistula River; Nazi Losses Soar   Russian Armies 40 Miles In Last 24 Hours

Capture of " Lublin Has * Split Foe   Red Army Moves Over Unobstructed Plains Less Than 50 Miles from Warsaw

Russians Move Closer Toward  City Of Warsaw   Red’s Seven Great Army Groups Are Making Rapid Progress in Their Drives Against Germans.

Nazi Armies Are  Split In Poland   Swift Soviet Columns Are Covering Last 50 Miles  to Warsaw   NEAR FINAL BARRIER   Seven Russian Army Groups Sweeping Aside All Opposition

Swift Soviet Columns Are - Covering Last 50 Miles  "to Warsaw   Seven Russian Army Groups Sweeping Aside. All Opposition

TEYMPRPRATIRG &   CAPTURE LUBLIN, LWOW AND SPEED TOWARD WARSAW  GERMAN ARMIES IN miFaneyr AP OwWAL ALITY   GERMAN ARMIES IN HEART OF POLAND SPLIT BY ADVANCE

German Armies In Poland Are Split By Reds   Lublin And Lukow In Soviet Hands As Big Force Begins Closing Toward Warsaw

Russians Drive 40 Miles Forward in 24 Hours and Are Less Thar 20 Miles of Wisla River

Red Army Closing On Polish Capital   Enemy Armies Reported Fleeing In Panic—Lublin Falls— 536.000 Nazis Destroyed

Russians 50 Miles Kast Of Warsaw   Panic Reported at Polish Capital; Soviets 20 Miles from Last Barrier To German Homeland

* Russians, On - Open Plains, ’ Gain 40 Mile: In 24. Hours   Germans In Warsaw In Panic With Soviet Armies Less Than 50 Miles Away

Reds Advance 40 Miles In 24 Hours   Flanking Of Wisla River To Outflank Nazis Possible

Panic Reported: Around Warsaw, Roads Choked   Seven Red Army Groups Race West Under Huge Swarms Of Airplanes

Panic Prevails Around Warsaw; Roads Jammed   Russians ‘Advancing Swiftly After Splitting Nazi Armies In Poland

40-MILE GAIN TAKES TROOPS BUT 24 HOUR   Lublin And Lukow Captured; Tanks, Cossacks, Planes Lead Fast Advance

SOVIET T DRIVE TOWARD POLISH CAPITAL   Russians Report Advance Of 40 Miles In 24 Hours Thru Poland

Russians Drive 40 Miles Within 50 Miles Warsaw   Soviets Less than 20 Miles from Wisla River, Crossing of Which Would Outflank Canital—Panic Indicated in City

Germans Fall Back On Wisla   River Forms Last Natural Defense Line in Russia; Red Fliers Report Warsaw in Panic

Russians Now Within Fifty Miles Warsaw   Soviet Forces Advance 40 Miles in 24 Hours; New Offensive In South Predicted by Germans

REDS CLOSING IN ON NAZIS ON ALL SIDES   Only Two Hour Drive From. E. Prussia

Russians Rush On To Warsaw   Drive 40 Miles in 24 Hours Across Plains Less Than 50 Miles From Warsaw

Nazi Armies Split In Heari Of Poland   Russians Less Than 50 Miles From Warsaw

—RUSSIA—~   Lublin And Lukow Fall To Reds Less Than 50.  Miles From Warsaw    \Soviet Forces Advance 40 Miles In Less Than 24 Hours; Russians 20 Miles From Wisla River, Last Natural Barrier To Reich

Nazi Armies (plit by Drive Across Polanc   Reds, Approaching Vistula River, May Outflank Warsaw

WEATHER   Soviets Make 40-Mile Gain In 24 Hours   Tanks, Cossacks, Planes Pace Swift Drive on Warcaw   PANIC AROUND CITY   Red Army Is Fewer Than 20 Miles From Wisla River

Soviets Make 40 Mile Gair In 24 Hours   Red Pilots Report Scenes Of Panic About Warsaw

PILOTS REPORT PANIC IN WARSAW VICINITY      Germans Say Reds Prepare New Offensive North of  le? ta Dxcawnita

Lwow Totters; Poles  Revolt Against Nazis Lublin and Lukow Bastions Fall

German Armies in Heart of Poland Split in Drive on i§ Warsaw.   LUBLIN, LUKOW TAKEN

WARSAW GERMANS FLEE RUSS 50 MILES AWAY —   Red Armies Nearing Vistula River; Nazis Lose Half Million Troops During Offensive

Shattered Nazi Armies Yield Lublin, Lukow as Reds Lunge for Warsaw

Russian Columns Continue In Drive Toward Warsaw   Shorten Distance to Wisle.Biver, Last “Gennon Barer

LUKOW TAKEN; SILESIA IS 150 MILES DISTANT   Isolated Brest-Litovsk Still Unoccupied; Lublin Seized

River, Flowing by Warsaw, Is Last Natural Barrier to Reich Itself—Enemy Armies Are Split at Lublin, in Poland.

LUBLIN, LUKOW ARE CAPTURED IN ADVANCE   Roll Forward 40 Miles In Last 24 Hours   FIGHT IN LWOW   Reported By Nazis: Scenes Of Panic Around Warsaw Described By Reds

Soviets Push Nearer to Pole Capital   Red Army Advance: Forty Miles In Last 24 Hours

Soviets Split Foe Army With Lublin Capture   With Russian Columns Less Than 50 Miles From Polish Capital.  orem tcmemanineremetnsa

Russians Surge Ahead 40 Miles In Single Day   Seven Armies In Westward Plunge; Warsaw Is Immediate Goal.

RUSSIANS SPLIT GERMAN FORCES IN POLISH PUSH   Reds Capture Lublin, Lukow; Advance 40 Miles Monday

Florence Evangelist To Speak Here At Church Of Christ   Franklin T. Puckett Scheduled To Speak Sunday Afternoon At Church of Christ—Apostasy And Reformation To Be Discussed

FOR WOULD HELP VETS ONU. §. JOBS   Preference ts Asked Through Congressional Legie- ce

Roosevelt Asks Job Preference  For War Vets   Ex-Serviée Men Will Be Designated for  Federal Employment Under Proposed Law

Lucas Charges Vote Politics  Hits GOP Position _ On Soldier Ballot

NORTHERN REPUBS FLAYED BY LUCAS ON VOTE MEASURE   Democratic Senator Says They Have Played Politics With Issue of Votes for Armed Services

Service Vote Becomes Issue   Lucas ‘Acchses GOPs Of Playing Politics

().P. Accused laying Politics Soldiers’ Vote   cas Charges Republicans Have Played Politics with Measure From Very Beginning.

down a Jap hiding in the brush not two feet from where Swet was peacefully snoozing.   TIGHTING IN ITALY.

Notes And Addresses Of Service Personne   This Column Contains Interesting Items. Concerning Our Boys And Girls In Service

Sa ee ntact or geen BUSEY DRAIN ASSESSMENTS AT COUNTY TREASURER’S Onno.

Germany Forced To Occupy Satellite Nations lo  Defend Reds’ Rush.

HUNGARIANS RESIST MOVE INTO NATION   New Anti-German  Government In Exile

Rumania And Bulgaria Hit InNew Move   Communications Are Seized In Capitals Of Balkan Nations

ClO GROUPS 10 SUPPORT DEMS   Political Committees Plar Active Campaigns

CHIEF GREENWAY POSTS MERCHANTS   Require Identification Before Cashing Any Checks

FRENCH FORCES AIDING ALLIES   Resistance Groups Praised In Special Communique By Eisenhower

ff ae  LT  FIGHTING IN. FRENCH AREA   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS BAYS :GERMANS FORCED TO USE © CONSIDERABLE STRENGTH i <)> IN PYRENEES "

NAZI FO : FAILTD: sO? . RED ADAVNGE   MOSCOW SAYS 110,000 GERMANS _ HAVE BEEN LIQUIDATED  SINCE OFFENSIVE -OPENED

LOS ANGELES RADIO ~~ STATIONS OFF AIR   Close at Order of Ar Army Command on Approach of an “Unidentified Target.”

SCORE EARLY   KRAMER STARTS FOR BROWNS AND WILKS FOR NATIONALS   FIRST INNING

Browns Win Third Game Of Series 6-2   Crowd of Close To 35.000 on Hand at Opening Of Today’s Game

Browns Ahead 4-1 at End of Third Innina   Sewell’s Men Score Four Runs in Third, Threatening to Take Series Third Game

Browns Lead Cards 4 To ]  In 4th Inning   Americans Put On Hit Parade In Third To Forge Ahead

BROWNS LEAD 4 T0 1 IN THIRD GAME   American League Club Scores Four Runs in the Third   Score at end of the seventh inning: Browns 4; Cardinals 2.

Cards. Browns  In Third Game   Lineups Shaken As Teams Meet With Honors All Even

New Turkey Island Dam To Be Built   Flood Control Project Here Is Expected To Cost $147.600.

ehieh eet ree K COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA:   Plan for $147,000 Flood Control Dam at Ottumwa

ARMY - NAVY GRID GAME IS SOLD OUT   War Finance Committee Allotment Exceeded

New Italian Cabinet Near  Includes Communist As Vice- Premier  at = —- —_

PTH TAKES HALF OF SAN VITTORE WITH BAYONETS   hgies Press Large-Scale Offensive, Battle Nazis in Streets

FIFTH PRESSES BATTLE F SAN VITTORE   Fight Germans in Streets of Town on Road to Rome

Churches To Hold Special Services     Christmas To Be Marked By  Song, Sermon And Cantatas

Churches To Hold Special Services PCat Services  Christmas To Be Marked By Song, Sermon And Cantata:

BALKAN NOOSE IS TIGHTENED   British and Yugoslavs Ad. .vance to Make German Position Hopeless

BALKAN NOOSE DRAWS TIGHTEE   Garrison On Corfu I Isolated; No News Krom Greece

Albania, Greece Sweep Continues   Retreating Nazis Fight Only When Trapped

aw Noose ‘ound Nazi Ikan Army   is on Many Frousts Rapid Germons ive Up Hope Of Making Stared

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GERMANS RINGED IN BALKAN STATES   ALLIED ADVANCES SO SWIFT NAZIS GIVE UP HOPE OF MAKING ANY STAND.

NOOSE TIGHTENING AROUND GERMANS      Allies Score Big Advances in Southeastern Europe

PLANS FOR EARLY MEETING OF “BIG THREE” HIT SNAG   Earlicst Date Now Likely for Big-Three Parley Will be Early in 1945 — Forces Changing of Conference Schedules _

Big 3 MEET HITS SNAG   Early Meeting 1 of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Unlikely

TRI-POWER MEETING PLANS HITTING SNAG   FDR-Churchill-Stalin Parley May Be Shoved to 1945

Big 3 Plans For Conference Run Into Snag   Best Prospect Seen for Parley Early Next Year

BIG 3 TALKS NOT EXPECTED UNTIL 1945   War Developments Be. lieved Reason for Delay in Parley Which Leaders “Earlier Had Said Should Be at Once.

—CONFEREN CE— ;  MEETING OF i THREE STALLED   Best Prospect Now Is For Conference Early Next Year —

Roosevelt’s Meet With Stalin, Churchill Delayed  Date of Conference Is Moved Up, Perhaps Till Sorina

Blo 3° PARLEY PLANS REVISED   SCHEDULE FOR POSTWAR CONFERENCES, CHANGED

Big Three’s Meeting Plan Strikes ‘Snag  May Be Next Spring Before Conference Of  ' +r + + @Briwd

‘Winter Talk Of Big Three ‘Now Remote   War Developments » Change Allied Hopes ‘For Early Mecting

FDR, Churchil To Confer. Within Month  “Postwar Security, Among Many Problem

FDR Believed ‘Planning Trip   President to Meet © With Churchill

F.R. to Meet Churchill   Two Leaders Will Formalize Plans for Control of Germany

Expect FDR, Churchill to Meet Soon   Grave Problems of Peace to ‘Be Discussed; Red Diplomacy Must Be Matched

FDR, CHURCHILL MAY MEET SOON  ON GERMAN RULE   ‘BIG TWO EXPECTED TO PLAN CONTROL OF DEFEATED GERMANY

Meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill Within Month on German Control Seems Sure

Meeting Of FDR, Churchill Slated During Septembe   Current Rumors Say Plans For Reich’s Control To Be Made

ROOSEVELT 10 MEET CHURCHILL WITHIN MONTH   Will Formulate Plans For Law In Germany

FOR - CHURCHILL MEETING LIKELY WITHIN MONTH   Plans for Controling German And Postwar Security To Be Discussed

“Bis Two” Meet Soon   Observers Sure FDR And Churcehill Will Meet'. Within Month

F.R., Churchill Soon to Map Rule of German   Britain’s Part in War on Japs Also To Be Topic

Roosevelt And Churchill Will  Confer Soon   Expectell to Make Plans For Contre! of Germany and Security of Western World

Allied Chiefs To Confer on Reich Control!   Roosevelt and Churchill Also to Chart Greater British Aid in Pacific

FDR To Talk To Churchill   Meeting Expected: To: Result in Plans for Control of Ger: many After Its Fall

FD, Churchill Seem Certain To Meet Soon   Many Matters To Claim Attention

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL PLAN A MEETING SOON:      Seems Certain Before An other Month Passes, Say Washington Reports.   ON POST-WAR SECURITY   Will Also Formalize Plans for Control of Germany, It Is Announced.

PRESIDENT 10 SEE CHURCHILL WITHIN MONTH   Meeting to Formalize Plans For Control of Germany and Post-War Securitv Ils Rumored   STRATEGY IN PACIFIC

Big Two May Mee! Within a Month   Decisions on Control Of Germany to Be Made by Roosevelt And Mr. Churchil}

Churchill And Roosevelt Due To Meet Soon   Must Agree Soon on Control Of Germany, Immediate Security of Postwar World

FA, CHURCH  IL TO MEET SOON      Will Formalize Plans for Control of Germany— Now Facing Defeat.

200 Planes Lost By Japs in Clash   Operations Continue in Pacific Aaainst Strong Enemy Opposition

AIR BATTLES NEAR MANILA   Japs Lose 200 Planes In First Sky Duel As Forays Flare .

Japs Lose 200 Planes In One Day   Yanks Catch Up With Nip Air Force On Approaches To Manila.

U.S, RAIDERS BAG 200 MORE JAPS   Big Battle Still Continues In Central Philippines

Yank Fliers Down 200 © Jap Planes   Sky Battles Rage All Along Road to Philippines Capital

Jap Airforce Loses Heavily   More Than 200 Planes Destroyed in Day, No Slackening of Yank Blows   Second Blow Heavier

Carrier Force Blow At Philippines Now Going On In Pacific   Allied Penetration Within 200 Miles Of Manila 200 More Jap Planes, Numerous Cargo Vessels

Sky Battles Arc Raging Along Path to Manila   Two Hundred Japancsc Planes Are Destroyed In First Day of Arueriean Attack

Down 200 Jap Planes in Raid On Philippines   Air Operations Are Continuing in the Manila Area Says Admiral Nimitz

Japanese Lose 200 Planes in One Day to Americans  U. S. Fliers Continue Their Pounding Of Philippine Isles

Carrier-Based. Air Hit Central Philippines; Down Over 200 Jap Planes

Philippine Raid Nets 200 Planes      “Fierce Air Battles ‘Believed Still Raging Over Central ‘Islands Below  Manila

Japs Lose 200 Planes in One Day to Allies   Smash at Manila Approaches Nets Heavy Total Nip Aircraft  To American Fliers

Chinese Retaking North Burma Base   American Warplanes Pace Attack On Bhamo

GUS SONNENBERG PASSES LAST NIG      Served As Navy Chief Specialist_ at Great Lakes Before Illness.

STORM UNITS BATTLING THR CITY SUBURBS   Russ Also Reveal New Drive in Prussia to Raise Red * Flag Over Berlin.

Nazis Quit Jaszbereny Under Attack   Final Stage Reached In Soviet Assault On Haunogarian Canital

Push On Hungary Capital Appears In Final Stages   Soviets Swarm Across Danube To Invest City From Western Approach

KEY ROAD JUNCTION EVACUATED   Soviets Storm Across Danube To Join In Capital’s Siege

Soviets Push Into Suburbs Of Budapest   Moscow Says Assault On Hungarian Capital In Decisive Stage

Russ Penetrate Suburbs of Hungary Capital   Fleeing Hitlerites Are ‘Cut Down By. Cossack Sabers

STRUGGLE FOR CAPITAL NEARS CLOSE, REPORT   Troops Threaten City /rom All Directions, Moscow Declares

RUSSIANS IN PINCER MOVE AT BUDAPEST   Battle Believed In Its Final, Decisive Stage

SOVIET TROOPS IN BUDAPEST’S SOUTH SUBURBS   d Assault On Hungarian Capital! Appears To Be In Pinal Phase

Russian Storm Troops Drive Into Suburbs of Budapest; Capture Soon   Finish Off Germans

ASSAULT ON BUDAPEST IN FINAL STAGE   Russians Drive ‘nto. Southern Suburbs of City

53,000 Japs Knocked Out   American Forces Recapture One of Palau Island Group

oHow Up. Yank Rado on   Romanian Port. _of Constanta Also Attacked by Allies

Italian-Based RAF Bombers Hit Budapest  Follow In Wake Of Yank   Follow In Wake Of Yank Attack On Airport At Beélorade   Unfit Weather Hold: . Allies On Ground In -Ensland

WELLINGTONS HIT BUDAPEST RAIL YARDS   American Aircraft! Aesault Relorade

Tokyo Claims 70 Of B-29s Returned For Arother Attack On Nagoya Early Today; Hankow In China Ts Attacked   BIGGEST AIRCRAFT CENTER IS BOMBED

SUPER-FORTS HIT NAGOYA AND HANKOW   Big Mitsubishi A ircraft Industry Is Attacked Twice Within Week.

B-29’s Raid Nagoya, Hankow   100 Superforts Attack Japanese Aircraft Factories; Big Supply Base

B-29’s in Dual Raid On Japs   Targets in Japan And China Blasted By Big Bombers

Strong Force Attacks Jap Factory City   Another Large Flee! Flies Across China To Hit Hankow

SUPERFORTS RAID NAGOYA AND HANKOW   Aircraft Works Blasted By Saipan Based Bombers

TWO RAIDS HIT JAPAN AND CHINA   100 B-29’s Are Used @ In U. S. Attack On Japs’ Homeland

Big Armada Hits Nagoya  Second Time   Huge Planes Strike Vengeance Blows At War Industries

 = RAIDS— Planes From Italy: Smash Rail Areas   "Two Yards At Marseille Among American Bomber Targets

Big Air Fleets  Resume Attacks   Liberators and Fortresses in Force Batter Rail Yards Near German Border and French Plant.

‘Home Front Prod uction Goals Met   Why Labor Draft Not Needed, Despite All Hubbub

Allied planes rule skies of New Guinea  Pincers closing an 2 airfields

U. S. Planes Rule Skies; Japanese Opposition Ebbs   Close in On Airdromes From Both Directions; Successes in India

SLIGHT OPPOSITION AS AMERICAN FORCES SWING CLOSER; FIFTH AIRFORCE BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS USING SEIZED TADJ! AIRFIELD NEAR AITAPE.

YANK PINCERS CLOSE ON JAPS AT HOLLANDIA   U. S. Forces on New Guinea Meet Little Resistance

Americans Moving On Fields "From Two Directions With “Bombers. and Fighters Supporting 1 Drive, oe oo   ‘IAPS ‘AROUND TADIE. ” .. CHASED INTO HILLS   Airmen _ Range ‘Over’ .Wide Hitting Eat jete  . Enemy ‘Might Muster: for.  LOS” Cit aes A tte, -

Aitape Perimeter Is Cleared of Enemy Forces      JAPANESE FLEE TO. JUNGLES AND HILLS   Madang and Rabaul Raids Continued by Airmen  Pa

'Pincer Jaws Draw Closer  On 3 Fields   Opposition Is Light As American Forees Press Hollandia Drive  ADVANCE RAPIDLY

Americans Drive  ‘On New Guinea   ~ Swing Closer On Hollandia’s Three Airfields; Bombers And Fighters Rule Skies From Captured Airfield

Yanks Closing Hollandia Trap   Three Airfields To Be Taken Soon   Japs Flee inte Jungies   Fnemy Base Bombed

Red Troops Are Forging Are Of Steel About City   Advance. Spearheads Of Russian Force But Ten Miles From Outskirts   SOVIETS ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT

US. Troops Drive Toward Brittanv   M.S. Troop Captures Half Of Guam; Clean Out Japs

Reds Reach 1940 Border Of Bulgaria   318.600 Germans Eliminated in Romania: Warsaw Battle Blazes

Nazi Losses In Romania  318 £600 Mer   Battles For Warsaw And East Prussia Are Blazing Anew.

Russ Reach Old Border Of Bulgaria   Nazis Suffer Loss of 318,600 Troops in Romania, Moscow Says

REDS WITHIN 100 MILES OF YUGOSLAVIA   318,600 Nazi Troops Dead or Captured In Romania

News Behind The News Copyright McClure Newspaper   WASHINGTON Rye Rav Tucker

Yanks Gain ~ On Mindoro   US. ASK FOLKS CLOSEST ‘lO MANDILAY IN BURMESE DRIVE

Secure Hold on Southern Mindoro is Won by Yanks; Jap Line on Leyte Turned   Americans Advance Six Miles Past San Jose In New Invasion; 77th Division Drives Seven Miles in Heavy Fighting

Infantrymen Six Miles Past San Jose; Skies Cleared Of Jap Planes   HEAVY FIGHTING IS CONTINUING ON LEYTE

M ARTHUR SAYS SOUTH OF ISLE IS NOW SECURE   General Declares Enemy Yamashita Line Has Been Outflanked On Leyte.

U. S. Infantry Drives 6 Miles Past San Jose      Mindoro Drive Progresses; Yanks Outflank Yamashita Line on Leyte Island

Attack on 100 Mile  Front   Russian Tanks, Infantry Drive South of Mogilev North to Vitebsk

Berlin Reports Soviet Drive  Is Under Way   Long-Anticipated Summer Offensive Declared Launched In White Russia.

BERLIN CLAIMS LONG-AWAITED ATTACK BEGUN   Soviet Army On March Along 100-Mile Front In White Russia

Nazis Report Red Offensive Along Route To Berlin   Say Attack Launched On 100 Mile Front In White Russia

Nazi Radio Report Big Russ Drive   Red Troops Con tinue Push to Encircle Finns.

LONG-AWAITED OFFENSIVE IS BERLIN-BOUND   Strong Russian Tank and Infantry Forces Strike Over Broad Front.

WHITE RUSSIA PUSH STARTS. MOSCOW SAYS   New Campoaiqn to Re Coordinated With Others Soon

RED ARMY BEGINS, SUMMER ATTACK, -JOQ-MILE FRONT   German Broadcasts Report ed . Today. That : Large, Scale “Assault” Opens In "White Russia at Mogilev.      GERMANS CLAIM THEY.  ARE HOLDING INTACT   Red Army Troops Start Move to Clear. Finns From All Lines © of Leningrad . and Murmansk Railroad. —

GERMANS CLAIM SOVIETS START NEW OFFENSIVE   Centers Along Both Sides 0. Smolensk—Orsha-Minsk Hichway

ATTACK ON OLD ROAD TOWARSAN AND BERLIN   100-Mile Front  Formed; All Counter Wisc Cuenca

Roosevelt’s Acceptance Talk May Calm Convention Storm; Wallace Likely To Be Shelved In Favor Of Truman

OGA COUNTY POMONA GRANGE!      Will Meet At Pomona Hall, Wellsboro, Thursday And Friday.

TIOGA COUNTY POMONA GRANGE   Will Meet At Pomona Hall, Wellsboro, Nex Week Thursday And Friday.

HUGE 10 END DEBATE ON TAK BILL GHANGES   Passage of New Simplification Law Is Expected Scon

KILLS GIRL FOR DATE REFUSAL   Shoots Fiancee on Street, Then Commits Suicide

IDEAL FALL WEATHER   Weatherman Sees No Immediate Change for State of Kansas

News Day And Night   Eisenhower's Winter Of. fensive Driving Toward — German Plains   U.S. Fighters Down $6 Gere man Planes   Several Border Towns Taken In Slogging Ad. — vance Of Allies

British 2nd Army Joins US 1st and 9th in Mighty Push Toward The Rhine.   US 3rd Army Makes New: Invasion Of Reich and Fights Inte Metz”

ARMIES SMASH SO-MILE PATH FROM AACHEN   Battle Now Raging Is One of Greatest of World War II

Nazis Offer Desperate   Resistance U.S. Planes Join —   U. S. Planes Join Battle of Tanks; Metz Is Battlefield

SEVERE BLOWS ARE STRUCK BY ALLIED FORCES   BRITISH 2ND JOINS BATTLE INSIDE GERMANY

Allied Forces Forge On In Germany   Field Reports Claim Battle Among Greatest of War

Offensive Is Launched on 30-Mile Front in Aachen Region; Allied Winter Operations Hit New High Marl

British, American Armies Are Joined as Terrific Push Starts Toward Rhine   Allies Hammer Along Entire 400 Mile Front: Patton's Men BattHe House-to-heuse as They Move Into Metz; French Drive Near Belfort

British Forces Join in Plunge Toward Rhine   Germany Battles Desperately Against Allied Advances

British Join First, Ninth As They Shove Out From 30 Mile Path From Aachen

Forge Ahead On Path From  Aachen Area   British Second, U. S, Ninth, First Wage Mighty Offen 2ria   ‘GREATEST BATTLE

U. 5. Planes Attack 200 Yards Ahead ~ Of Troops in Aachen   Patton's Men Begin Grim House-to-House Fighting Inside Metz

President Cracks Down, Fires Norman M. Littell, Attorney-General’s Aide

President Ousts Norman Littell   Firing Follows The Breaking Open OF Biddle-Littell Feud Wednesday

WILL END ROW. KRUG ASSERTS   Threatens Wholesale Ousters to Restore Peace In WPB Affairs

Another WPB Official Resigns   Krug Says He Will End Dissension If He Has To Fire All Responsible.

Krug Promises He Will Bring WPB Conflict to End   Aide Resigns as New Chief Pledges Accord With Nelson Policies

FOR SUMMER SESSION   Registering for Special Teachers Course at K. U.

Greeks Capture Athens Bastion; Quisling Flees   Averoff Prison Seized As ELAS Spread Attack; British Are Striking Back

Ex-Premier Jean Rallis Being Sought; Other Political Inmates Escape; ELAS Fortifying

Strong Flas Force  British To Abandor Averoff Bastion   Quisling Ex- -premier Rallis Apparently: Escapes During Riot

Strong ELAS Attack Forees Prison Release   Hunt For Quisling Ex-Premier Jean Rallis Whe Escaped In Disorder.   BRITISH WITHDRAW

‘We ORI     ANE COPTOY   Greek Affack Forces British To Abandon Bastion In Athens

ELAS FORCES CAPTURE PRISON   Counter Attack Is Launched by British

ELAS Troops Take Prison  In Athens.  Quisling Ex-Premier Jean Rallis Escanee

PRISON SEIZED “BY ELAS UNITS   British Forced ‘Te Yield Bas“tion Under Atteck+—ExPremier Escapes

GREEK FORCES CAPTURE PRISON   Quisling Ex-Premier Makes Escape During Disorder

British Forced By Greeks From  Prison Bastion   Search Underway for Quisling Ex - Premier Who Escaped During Fighting. '

Elas Force — Withdrawal   “British Stronghold : Taken By. Militia

Papandreou Agree: To Greek Regency, Wires Greek King   Quisling Leader Escapes As ELAS Men Attack Prison

Athens Prison Taken by Greek Rebels   Counterattack Has Been Launched By British Troops

ELAS CAPTURE ATHENS PRISON   Free Ex-Premier Jean Rallis: Among 235 Escapees

British Routed By ELAS Forces   Greek Insurgents Storm Big Prison

ELAS UNITS TAKE PRISON IN ATHENS   Drive Tommies From Bastion, but Intensely Sought Ex-Premier Jean Ballis Escapes During the Disorder.

GREEK SITUATION CONTINUES CAUSE SEVERE FIGHTING  STRONG ELAS ATTACK ON AVEROFF PRISON

PURSUE FLEEING  GERMANS BEYOND  THE RIVER MEUSE FIRST ARMY FORCES  PENETRATE SEDAN, 5 MILES FROM BELGIUM

Columns Reported At Or Across Border Into Belgium   Verdun Is Taken Without Fight   Doughboys Finding It Dif ficult To Catch Fleeing Germans

Brifish Cutting Off Coast Area In Fast Advance  All-Out Assault On Brest Opened; Patto Gains 65 Miles In   DA bane Dariand

Yanks Sweep Through  Nazis Forts   Avalanche of Men, Tanks Captures Historic Cities Of St. Mihiel, Sedan, Verdun, Approach Belgian Border and Close Off Rocket Coast

American Avaianche May Spill Over Into _ Reich Before Night   British Virtually Close Off 80 Miles of Rocket Coast as Canadians Advance on. Dieppe   BULLETIN.

THREE-MILE ESCAPE GAP UNDER FIRE   Annihilation Fight Rages Furiously Inside Toulon

LATE OHIO CROPS EXCEED ‘43 YIELD!   Turning Out Better Than Expected, Service Report Indicates

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REPORT U.S. PLANES BOMB NAZI CAPITAL   First Planes To Reach Berlin, Although Germans Strenuously Deny Fact; Cognac, Other Points Hit.   50 Below Zero   Only Fortresses

Allies Also Pound  Targets in France      verman Broadcasts Report Coloene, Bonn Bombed

Fourteen German Planes Smashed In Air Battles   Four Liberators Fail To Return

U. S. Bombers Smash at South France  Assault Follows R. A. F. Raid  on Nazi Canital

Nazi Bomber and Fighter Base at Cognac Attacked —  ANOTHER ASSAULT ON REICH CAPITAL  Fourteen Enemy Planes Shot Down by Fighter Escort

Calais Area Also Suffers Sunday Raids   Follow RAF Mosquito And First U. S. Raids On German Capital  23 FIGHTERS LOST

Fighter Base At Cognac, Bergerac Hit   Fourteen Enemy Aircraft Downed: Yanks Lose Nine

GERMAN BASE IN SOUTHWEST FRANCE IS HT   Yank Attack on Cognac Follows up Raids  On Berlin

Nazi Bomber ond Fighter Base at Cognac Attacked ~      ANOTHER ASSAULT ON REICH CAPITAL

Aerial might unleashed on French bases   RAF Mustangs  hammer Berlin

vies Make rth Attack Four Days   if Enemy Aircraft Sot Down by F ighter feort; U. S. Makes se Rhid on Capital

Liberators Attack Cognac, Bergerac on Heels of Heavy Saturday Bombing of Berlin

PICKET FOUR WARD STORES IN DETROIT   Unionists Fress Strike to Force Company to Accept Labor Board Directive.

State fo Buy Orphans’ Home   Use as Hospital for Epileptics Planned

Jap Mainland Again Hammered by U. S. Superforts  Results of Bombings At Nagoya Are Termed “Excellent”

Jap Plane Factories Hit New Blow 7A 2 Nin Planes Bagged Last Week

B-29s Pound Three Targets   xk *k& kk * Jap Labor Camp Horrors Revealed

RAID JAPAN AGAIN   China Based Planes Pound Enemy Aircraft Plant at Omura

Supertorts in New Smash At  Jap Factories   Rip Omura Plane Plant; Americans Advance Unannoased On Mindoro.

Kyushu Island Targets Raided Again By B-29s   ‘Medium Force’ Sent To Attack Site Of Big Aircraft Plant; Many Hits Reported

220 More Localities Lost To Russians; Temporary Lull In The Air Offensive Against Reich   After Last Week's Pounding   ARTILLERY DUELLING ON ITALIAN FRONTS

Two Cullman Fliers Awarded Silver Star; Capt. Edward E. Baily Wounded, Lost ln Jungle Ii Days   Sergeant Clyde A. Pollard Flew 42 Missions In European Theatre, Shot Down Plane, Wounded: Has Air Medal, Purple Heart  \

Nazi Officials Thought Buried In Bomb Ruins   Rescue Squads — Search Ruins Of Chancellory

Adolf Hitler's Chancellery Is Destroyed By RAF Raid  Experienced Airmen Say Ten More Raid.   Experienced Airmen Say Ten More Raid. Would Be Enough To Kneck Out Berlin

W. orld Policy  Irks Solons   European: Situation Causing.-Rumblines,

TROUBLE IS BREWING   Furious Debates Expected to Break Out in New Senate Session

RAILWAY WALK-UUT ENDS IN CHICAGO   Five Cent Hourly Wage Boost Accepted By Unions

ASSEMBLY TO _ ~~ MEET TONIGHT   LEGISLATLURE ‘TO TARE’ AC. ! TION ON: MARKING OF BAL-LOTS AND RodsTiNa -BCHOCL FUNDS.

Cheese  Shortages Sometimes Show Up In The Least Expected Places

TIPTON COUNTY FAGES LOSS OF ONY HOSPITAL   Emergency to Close After Army Takes Dr. Kurtz -May 1

IIPTOH COUNTY AGES Loo UF ONLY ROSPITAL   Emergency to C.ose After Army Takes Dr. Kurtz May 1

82 Ja Ap » Planes Are Destroyed  In S. Pacific   Americans Smash Enemy Strongholds At Hollandia And Truk

Allied Forces Destroy 82  Enemy Planes  57 Nip Craft Are Hit  on Ground; 14  re ee

Allied Forces Destroy 82 Enemy Planes   57 Nip Craft Are Hit on Ground: 14 Rnocked From Aire

82 Jap Planes Destroyed by Allied Fliers   General MacArthur Sends Allied Planes On Widespread Raid: Against Jap Bases

RED ARMY DRIVE GAINS IN NORWAY   _Other Forces Are Advancing In East Prussia

Russian Arctic Forces Take Big  Base In Norway   New Advances Made — By Soviet Troops On East Prussian Front

ALLIES IN FRANCE. TOREMAINUNTIL. ~DFFEAT OF NAZIS   Stimson Says Foothold “ls Now Secure, In’, Europe, Looks For Big: Counterattacks-as War Progresses.:   BRIDGE DESTRUCTION - SLOWED UP GERMANS   Department Says. Casualties “at Invasion ‘Were Not as Great . as Expected By Commanders.

Stimson Believes Yanks in Europe To Stay Until Germany is Defeated

ALLIES WAVE FIRM FOOTHOLD ON COAST   Stimson Cautions That We ~ Must Expect Greater “Counter Attacks.

Allies In France To Stay. War Secretary Tells Press   Stimson Cautions “We Must Expeet Counter-Attacks Greater Than Any Yet Met; West Wall No Myth Or Pushover For Us, He Emphasizes  a

Firm Foothold Is Established   We Are in France To Stay, Declares Secretary Stimson

SECRETARY STIMSON SAYS FIRM FOOTHOLD 15 NOW ESTABLISHED  ’ ASSERTS THAT GREATER COUNTER ATTACKS ARE YET TO BE MET

FOOTHOLD FIRM SAYS STIMSON      Units There to Stay Reports Secretary of War

Death March of Bataan!   Shocking Details Exposed hy Escaped Officer

Death March of Bataan  ae, Tolle Cragae nl Tory   Colonel Tells Story of Jan Cruelty

DE GAULLE 10 SET UP GOVT. AT CAPITAL   Faces Vast Rehabilitation Task

OCCUPATION OF MAPIAS IS COMPLETED   Americans Gain On Leyte, Tighten Grip On Limon

Forces Close in on Leyte Japs in Pocket   New Invasion Knocks Off Another Warning Post on the Bombing Route to the Philippines

Asia Group Is Invaded by U.S. Troops   Ring Around Remnants Of Japs in Limon Pocket is Tightened

ASIA ToLANDs RAIDED AFTER MAPIAS FALL   Rains on Leyte Slow Up Yank Encirclement of Japs in Limon Pocket.  ; 

NEW LANDINGS IN ASIA GROUP ARE DISCLOSED   Jump Of 215 Miles To West Tc Hit Jap Warning Post In Pacific

American Troop: Storm Asia Isle Warning Posts,   Yank Forces On Leyte  ‘Tighten Encirclement In Limon Pocket

Occupation of Mapia Islands ls Completed   Warning Post of Japs in Asia Group Invaded

France May Use U.S. Government Pattern   Powerful Group Wants New Republic With Gen DeGaulle As First President, or ‘George Washington of France’

SLOWLY BEAT DOWN GERMAN FOES, CASSINO   Bitter Hand to Hand Fighting Still Rages Over Wreckage of Little Town in So. Italy

New Zealand Infantrymen Seek To Beat Down Weary German Units   GIVE TO THE RED CROSS

Battle For Cassino Rages Desperately   Battle-Weary. New Zealanders Cling To Positions And: Others Hola To sieht. 

Close-Quarter Battle Deadlocked in Cassino   Stubborn Fighting Rages Through Eighth Day In Southern Edge Of Mountain Bas tion; Nazis Reinforced

NEW ZEALANDERS USE KNIVES IN CASSINO FIGHT   Desperate Batile For Ruined Town Goes fins Nae Adiaak

Allies Cling to Hard Won Heigh Near Cassino   Battle Weary itew Zealanders Fight at Town’s Edge

Biggest Allied Guns Open Up in Cassino   Troops Push Ahead Steadily Throuch the Ruins

NAZI ATTACKS REPULSED AT-CASSING   New Zealanders Driving Germans Back In City

New Zealand Forces Still — Fight Fiercely In Cassinc   Other Allied Troops Cling Stubbornly to Hard-Wor Heights—No Important Position Change Reported Since Tuesday

Fierce Battle Rages for 8th Day ini Cassino   No Important Change In Position Reported; Hotel Fighting Bitter

Allies Held Motionless Ai Cassino   Weary New Zealanc Troops Cling To City’s Outer Edge

New Zealanders Fight Nazis With Knives And Guns   German Planes Sweep Over Allied Lines Near Rapido

Allies Gradually Wearing Down Nazis In Cassino   Strong Counterdrives Launched By Germans To Relieve Troops ©

BITTER FIGHT FOR AUING OF GAOOING ENTERS NINTH DAY   Battle - weary New Zealanc Troops Fight at Town’s Southern Edge   ALLIED FORCES CLING TO HARD-WON HEIGHTS   Some of Most Desperate Fighting Swirls About Ruins Of Continental Hotel, Retaken by Nazi Paratroops; German Stabs Repulsed

Battle weary  allies cling to Cassino hold  Turn big guns on beleaguered foe

Nazis Open New Attacks On Cassino   ” Weary New Zealand Warriors Doggedly Push Enemy Back

BIGGEST U, S. CANNON SHELL CASSINO NAZIS   Savage Battle Inside Town

Stalemate Continues In Cassino   Nazi Paratroopers Fight Savagely To Maintain Hold

ve German. Tanks: ‘Knocked ‘Out, in. Strag truggle., Aroun ung / Continental "Hotel. ‘and’ . ‘Nearby. Buildings. Le The            ALLIES HOLD FIRM ~ ON HEIGHTS TO ‘WEST   -Two Counter-Attacks. Against = Castle Hill ‘Beaten Back— Nasi, Airmen Bomb  - Shipping Off Anzio. -

CASSINO FIGHT STILL FIERCE   Furious Battle Rages With No Important Change  In Position

240-MILLIMETER SEIGE GUN HAS 10-INCH SHELL   Allies’ Seige Gun Destroys Large Fortress

WEARIED NAZIS WEAKEN SLOWLY   Germans Making Effort to Retieve  pressure on Besbaitled Paratroop. Enside City — Stalemate Continues in Ruined Town,

Bitter Fighting Continues Inside City of Cassino   Counterattacks Are Launched By Germans

BATTLE-WEARY NEW ZEALAND TROOPS STRUGGLE AT TOWN’S OUTER EDGE, WHILE DESPERATE FIGHT CONTINUES AT CONTINENTAL HOTEL RUINS.

Allied Triumph Near in Burma   Falls of Myitkyna Appears Imminent

MYITKYINA SURROUNDED BY ALLIES   Victory Will Alter Situation in Burma

Allies Crack Jap Lines Of Resistance In Burma; Fall Of Myitkyina Imminent 

Major Victory Js Believed Near in Burma   Merrill's Troops Drive 400 Yards Into Strategic City

Soviet Drive On Pskov Is Unrestrained   Seizure of Major Road And Rail Junction Expected Soon

RUSSIANS NEARING VITAL NAZHHELD BASTION OF PSKOV   iRed Army Troops from Lake Imen Zone Also Threat i eanina fina

SOVIETS RESUME ATTACK IN SOUTH   Northern Armies Advance Unchecked Toward Pskov

ITALIAN FRONT GAINS LIMITED   Axis Resistance Drops Off Near Florence; City Shelled

FORMER BUNDIST FIRST ON STAND   DESCRIBES ACTIVITY OF NAZI SOCIETY AT MASS SEDITION TRIAL

BRITISH PLANES BOMB BULGARIA   Sofia Attacked by Large Force of Wellingtons; Capital in Ruins

RAF FOLLOWS UP ASSAULT BY AMERICANS   Bulgarian Capital : Declared Wrecked In Heavy Bombings

SOFIA BOMBED SECOND TIME   RAF FOLLOWS UP YESTERDAY'S BLOW BY FLYING FORTS

RAF BOMBERS HiT SOFIA IN NIGHT AITACK   City Left Burning; Other Cities Ave Suffering Now

END OF ISLAND IS DESTROYED BY ARTILLERY   Kwajalein Covered By Blanket Of Hot Steel Which Leaves Nothing Alive, Not Even A Crab Or Tree.   Monstrous Plow

American Guns Destroy, Foot by Foot, Part of Kwajalein: Kill Everything

YANKS SHOOT DOWN 130 NAZI PLANES   Toll Taken in Greatest Air Battle Ever Fought Over Reich— Two-Day Bag of Enemy Aircraft Totals 255.

OVER 1,000 HEAVY BOMBERS * ATTACK OIL PLANTS WHILE — RAF HAD BLASTED LE HAVRE

Greatest Air Battle Of War ‘Over Germany   American’ Fighters Shoot “Down: 130 Enemy - Planes Today As Luft- waffe Stages Major Op nositren.

Yanks Down 130 German Planes in Great Air Battle   Thousand or More U. S. Bombers Attack Nazi Towns, British Blast Le Havre Again

ALLIED PLANES BLAST GERMANY FROM ALL SIDES   Europe Saturated By Bombings From Britain, Italy’ And North And South  _. Fraree—tdit Leipzig  i Am! Le Havre. 

Yanks Win Big Air Battle   Shoot Down Many Nazi Planes; Bombers in Great Force Attacking Germany

Bring Total For 2 Days Co 255 Ship:   4th Straight Day of Attack By 1,000 Planes On Germany

1 ARMENIN” BREAT CONFLICT   Germans Lose 255 Planes . In Assaults Sunday ‘And Today .   ROMBERS. ACTIVE   More Than 1,000 Fortresses’ Batter Targets In Hitler’s Homeland

YANKS BAG 130 FOE PLANES IN AERIAL BATTLE   Fighters Escorting Bombers Score Greot Triumph in Fight Over Reich

800 U. S. Fighters Clash Head on With German Squadrons   Toll by Bombers Not Tabulated; Reich Oil Refineries Bombarded As Escorts Run Up Record ‘Kill’

YANKS MEET LUFTWAFFE IN GREAT BATILE   Climaxes Allied ‘Saturation’ Of Europe’‘s Skies

GERMANS LOSE 130 PLANES IN AERIAL DUEL!   Downed by U. S. Fighters On Raid of Nazi Oil Plants In Reich

Gigantic Air Battle Enters Hts Fourth Day   Two Day Bag of_ German Planes 255; Sky Saturated  With Allied Craft

Two American Armies Now Within 10 Miles Of Reich   Greatest Air Victory Over Reich Scored   Luxembourg Falls

130 Nazi Planes Downed In Fight   One Of Greatest Battles Of War Fought Over Reich Today.

OIL PLANTS HIT IN GREAT BLOW AT REICH BASES   Germany Raided For Fourth ~ Day In Row; British Lash At Le Havre Again

Heavy Bombers Bring Havoc On Nazi Targets   Greatest Air Battle Ever Fought Over Germany Reported Directed Upon Oil Plants.

American Fighters Destroy 130 Nazi Planes Over Reich   Greatest Sky Fight Recorded Takes Place Over Oil Plants 

HURL GIANT AIR BLOWS AT REICH   . SWARMS OF ALLIED PLANES HIT FROM NUMEROUS BASES

American Fighters Escorting 1,000 Heavy Bonthers Blast German Interceptors   Boche Oil Plants Attack Targets   Flying Fortresses Raid Merseburg, Lutzendorf and Misburg; Havoc In Berlin Created

AMERICAN FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN 130 NAZI PLANES IN BATTLES   TWO-DAY TOTAL OF 255 ENEMY PLANES REPORTED MONDAY

» Greatest ~ Air Battle * Over Reich   Allied Planes, Filling the ® Skies, Strike aj All Vital German Centers   125 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED SUNDAY   Fighters Knock Out the Last-Ditch Defenders as Bombers Roar On

U.S. Airmen. Fight Great Battle .With.-Luftwaffe;... Shoot Down 130 Planes

DOWN 130 NAZI FIGHTER PLANES   Largest U. S., German Air Battle Over Reich

Yanks and Germans Stage Greatest Air Battle Over Reich; Bag 130 Planes

U. §. Fighters Achieve Record Score in Heaviest Reich Fight   Germans Lose 130 Planes; Allied Fliers Work Havoc on Berlin, Other Nazi Cities; Enemy Troops Reel Under Blow

French Report Full Liberation Of Paris   _. . Comparative Caim Restored In Capitat

Paris Freed ‘By French’The Charles   Germans Still Deny It Kisenhower’s Head. quarters Silent

Joyous Paris Crowds Hear Gen. De Gaulle   City Comparatively Quiet. But a Few Snipers Remain

ie _—  STATE UNEM. SECURIT’ COMMISSION TO ACTIV ATI Ver UNEMPLY'T COME

Americans Lose Bridgehead  Across Seves   Hitler’s Old Friend Gen. Dietrich, Heads Panzers in Normandy

Nazis Shift Leaders in Normandy   General Dietrich, Persona Friend of Hitler, Is Placed  in Command

Dietrich Commands  SS Panzers   Old Line Nazi Now Heads Corps; British Make Gains

GEN. DIETRICH HEAD OF PANZERS IN NORMANDY      Sharp Local Engagements Take Place South of Seves River, North of Esquay, and  nn fyraa

NAZI COUNTER ATTACK IS’ SUCCESSFUL   Wipes Out Amer. Bridgehead Across  River in France

OLD LINE NAZI fer ooh CHIEF      . General Takes "ley. Post Yanks Back

Hitler Pal Given Command Of Naz  Troops In France   Counter Attack Wipes Out U. S. Bridgehead Above Periers

Nazi Counter-Blow Takes  Yank Bridgehead As Rain Slows Normandy Fighting

Nazis Wipe Out American Gain in Seves River Area   Hitler Crony Named Head of Panzer Corps in France

TEXAS PRISON PROBERS TO PRESENT EVIDENCI   YANK VETS GET INTO ACTION ON BURMA FRON?

. 5, VETERANS IN ACTION ON BURMA FRONT   Japanese Force in Naga Hills Area Smashed After March Through Dense Jungle Section.

U. S. Veterans Trap Japanese Army In Burma   Surprise Thrust Catches Enemy: Major Battle Believed Imminent

JAP FORCE IN NAGA KILLS SMASHED BY li S TROOPS   Surprise Move Traps Enemy Army Of 2.000 Men

GAINING IN NORTH BURM/   American Veterans Of South Pacific Trap Jap Force

Yankees Trap 2000 of Foe In Naga Hills   Boys From South Pacific Now Revealed in  India War

Yanks Enter Burma Drive   American Pacific’ Veterans Smash Jop Force, Corner 2000

Smash Japanese Force In Burma   Yank Vets Tra 2,000 Of Foe After 200-Mile Jungle Thurst

Jap Force In Burma Smashed   Americans Trap 2,000 Nips In Kukaming Valley

/American Veterans in Burma Drive   Make March of 200 Miles To Attack Japanese

TRAPPED BY NEW DDIVE   Yanks March Throuah Jungle To Spring Trap

300.000 More Needed To Fill War Plant Jobs   Manpower Officials Scour Nation: Vital Munitions Must Be Produced

Near 300.000 More Needed In War Work   Manpower For Stepping Up Flow Of Ammunition

WAR PROGRAMS NEED 300,000 MORE PERSONS   WMC Officials Certain Goal Will Be Met To Double Arms Flow

LARGEST RED CROSS QUOTA 15 $18,000   Drive Starts Feb. 28; Quota ‘Based on Needs of Chapter, National Fund

Plans Being Made For Red Cross Drive In March   Nation’s Total Is $200.000.000

Lee County's Quota for Red Cross War  Fund is Increased   Campaign in March to Raise $22,000 Is Announced by Chapter

ROMANIAN OIL REFINERY HIT   italian-Based Bombers Also Blast Budapest

FDR VISITS N.Y, CITY'S DENSEST AREAS ON TOUR   President Will Make First Major Speech Campaign Out side Capital Tonight

Ninth Battles Into Linnich, Roer Bastion   Patton’s Troops Mass for Blow Along Saar Valley

PATTON'S TROOPS MASS ON 10 MILE SAAR RIVER LINE   SAVAGE BATTLE RAGES AT INDEN AT CENTER DF AMERICAN BULGE

150,000 m Struggle to Oust Foes   Pin Down German Divisions Needed On Other Fronts

TEXAS SERVICEMEN WILL GET NATIONAL BALLOT   INCOME TAX DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT TONIGHT

Germans Yield Ground Slowly On Rome Route   Americans Encounter New Nests Of Nazis Beyond San Vittore

Lewis and Clark Leads Bond Drive  Silver Bow County in Third Place -

Daily Temperatures   Big. U. S., British Corporations Are Accused of Violating Antitrust Act

Anti-Trust Law Evasion Charged   Three Big Firms Accused by U. S.

WORLD CONTROL BY 3 CHEMICAL FIRMS CHARGED   DuPont and Remington Sued

Large Chemical Firms Accused  Of Anti-Trust  Laws Violations   Civil Complaint Is Filed In New York District Court bv Riddle

Government Sues 3 Giant War Firms   Du Pont Included In Count Against Vast Conspiracy

~ TO HIDE CRIME BY BROADCAST   emOfficial Claims U. S. Guilty Of Atrocities, But His Argument Is Weak

ATROCITIES ON JAPS CITED   Jap Leader Trying to Justify Japanese Barbarism Charges Allies Guilty Of Brtual Treatment

Jap Seeks to Reply to U.S.   Charges Americans With Mistreating Japanese Prisoners

Claims Allies Are Guilty of Many Crimes   Jepan Seeks Reply to United States and British Charges

Jap Spokesman Answers U.S. Qn Atrocities   Oguchi Cites What He Said Was Record, Of Outrage: Against Japs.   CLAIMS  JAPS SKILLED

Japs Charge U. 5. With Atrocities  “Tokyo Attempts To Offset Allied Charges

JAPANESE AGENT. SEEKS 10 REPLY TOUS. CHARGES   Sadao Iguchi Says Campaign to Spread Hatred Was Motivated to Cover Crimes In United’States.   CHARGES 2400 JAPANESE WOMEN WERE RAPED   Housing In Dilapidated Tents and Slaying of Two Jap Men In Utah Are Cited as Other Incidents.

Japs Tell Their Story Of ‘Outrages   Reply to Charges Of Atrocities With Tales of Sadistic Torture of Japs

Japs Launch Own Atrocity Charges Against Americans   Declare Anglo-American Reports Aimed at Cover: ing Up Own Crimes Against Japanese Nationals

TOKYO TRIES TO COVER UP OWN CRIMES   Statement Broadcast by The Berlin Radio Charges British and Americans With Atrocities   ACTS OF MISTREATMENT

APO COUNTER ALLIED CHARGE OF ATROCITIES   Tokyo Spokesman Cites List of Alleged Murder and Rape of Civilians.

Toky ro Charges U.S. Outr ‘ages Against  Japs   Seek” ‘to Reply to Allied  Charges of Atrocities by   Claiming Nip Women  Raped In Philippines

Japs Answer To Atrocities   Tokyo Lays Charge of Brutal Treatment to U. S. and Britain.

Nippos Charge U.S. Atrocities   JAPANESE BOARD OF INFORMATION SPOKESMAN CITES “RECORD” OF “NUMEROUS OUTRAGES” AGAINST CAPTIVE CIVILIANS, WAR PRISONERS

SPOKESMAN FOR JAPS ATTEMPTS TO REPLY ATROCITIES CHARGES  CLAIMS RECENT CHARGES BROUGHT TO COVER UP U. S. ATROCITIES

Jap Charges Atrocities   “Numerous Outrages’ Cited in Berlin Radio Broadcast

Churchill And Eden To Moscow   Indications Are FDR Will Not Join Parley With Stalin—the Firs Since One at Teheran

CHURCHILL AND AIDES TO MOSCOW   Polish Question Expected To Be Major Topic In Talks With Stalin   SEQUEL TO RECENT TALKS AT QUEBEC   U.S. Ambassador Will Rep resent This Country In Discussions

British. Heads  Are In Russia   “Churchill, Eden”  » Arrive In Moscow.

Churchill and Anthony Eden Reach Moscov   British Leaders to ‘Confer With Marshal Joseph Stalin and  Cammieenr AAalatny

Churchill Meets Stalin In Moscow   Election Believed Reason For Failure  Of U.S. To Attend

Churchill, Eden Fly to Moscow For Conference   U.S. Envoy to Take Part in Parleys With Marshal Stalin

Churchill and — Eden In Moscow   W. A. Harriman Represent U. S. Meeting Sequel To Quebec Conference.

Wilt Confer. With’ Stalin and “Molotov; U-ScAm bassador: Harriman to  . Represent ‘America

CHURCHILL, EDEN ARE IN MOSCOW   British Leaders To Russia For Parieys With Stalin And Molotov

Churchill, Stalin —  Begin Conferences   British Prime Minister With Anthony Eden and Other High Officials Fly to Moscow to Plot Military Blows Aaaginst Germany

Churchill, Eden Arrive i in Moscow   Talks with Stalin May Concern Poland; Harriman Represents The United States

Russians Greet Big Delegation Of Top British   U.S. To Be Kept Informec Of Conference In  In Moscow

Churchill, Eden Arrive In Moscow   British Leaders To Discuss Peace and War With Stalin

Churchill Is In Moscow For  Stalin Parley   Ambassador Harriman Representing U. S. At Big 3 Conference.

Churchill, Eden Arrive In Moscow   Harriman to- Represent U.S. Which Will Be Kept Informed On. Conference

Churchill, Eden In Moscow For Important Talks   Speeding of Final Nazi Assault Believed.  One Discussion Topic

Churchill and Eden Fly to Moscow To Talk With Stalin  Speculation Raised That FDR Might  fain in Cantaranre

GERMAN BALTIC FRONT WAVERING   REDS ADVANCE 62 MILES; 15 ENEMY DIVISIONS CUT OFF

Churchill Is At Moscow To Meet Stalin   British Prime Minister Accompanied By Eden For Sequel To Parley Held At Quebec

Churchill, Eden Arrive in Moscow   Will Confer With Premier Stalin

BRITISH LEADERS REACH MOSCOW   Chuschill and Eden Ready  For Conferences

CHURCHILL, EDEN VISIT MOSCOW   EXPECTED TO DISCUSS QUEBEC CONFERENCE

Churchill And  Eden In Moscow To Meet Stalin   Nazi Baltic Front Is Cracked By Powerful New Red Drive.

Churchill, Eden Reach Moscow   Polish Crisis Said To Be At Acute Staqe

CHURCHILL TO MEET STALIN   Prime Minister, Eden And U. S. Envoy Harriman Reach Moscow

CHURCHILL, EDEN NOW IN MOSCOW TO MEET STALIN   Sequel to Quebec Parley Expected to Discuss Poland

CHURCHILL, EDEN ARRIVE: IN MOSCOW   First Meeting With Stalin Since Terhran Conferenra 

Churchill, Stalin Hold Conference On Plans for Wai   Eden and Molotov Also Take Part

Britons Arrive  To See Stalin   Churchill Heads Official  Delegation to Mescow

CHURCHILL ARRIVES IN MOSCOW   Accompanied By Eden and Top Military Aides

CHURCHILL IN MOSCOW TO SEE JOSEPH STALIN   Election In United States Kept FDR Away

Churchill and Eden in Moscow  To Meet Stalin  F. R. May Join Big Leaders at Parley

CHURCHILL AND EDEN ARRIVE IN SOVIET CAPITAL   Number Of Political And War Problems To Be Dis. cussed With Stalin   HARRIMAN REPRESENTS AMERICAN INTERESTS

Churchill Flies To Meet Stalin   Roosevelt Absent From Conference in Moscow

Baltics All But Cut Off By Russians   Last Big Flight Route Out of Transylvania  Also Severed. by Reds

CHURCHILL, EDEN IN RUSS CAPITAL FOR MEETINGS   British Officials to Confer With Marshal Stalin, Molotov

CHURCHILL IN MOSCOW FOR TALK WITH STALIN   Harriman Represents U.S.; Eden Among Conferees; Polish; Jap Questions Loom

Retail Food Stores To Determine Proper Group  For Price Schedules

GAINS ON PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORTED   All of Apra  Harbor’s Shorelines on Guam _.: Captured

Guam and Tinian Invaders Advance Casualties Light  Japs Give Defenders No Hope; Forrestal, Adm. King Discuss Driv

Yanks Close  Guam Pincers   Tavaders Press Japs Back On Tinian Island

GAINS REPORTED ON GUAM, TINIAN BY ADM. NIMITZ   Only 15 Americans Listed As Killed To Date  On Tinian   HARBOR AND AIRFIELD ARE PRIZE CONQUESTS

AMERICANS PUSH FORWARD ON GUAM — AND IN TINIANS   Admiral Nimitz Announces at Least 3,727 Japanese Killed . in Fighting Against 458 U. S. Dead.   JUNCTION EFFECTED NEAR APRA HARBOR   Beachhead on Tinian Widened to Three and a Half Miles —Much of Airfield Is Overrun.

MORE DADS GET NEW 1-A TAGS   Draft Board’s Action Is Confined Mostly to Deferments

BOARD REVEALS NEW 1-A GROUP   Those Regarded as Essential Farm Workers Granted Deferments Here

IT WILL TAKE YEAR AND HALF TO CRUSH NIPS   OW! Fixes Minimum Length Of Time Required to Knock Out Japan

Two More Years Minimum. Needed To Defeat Japan  OWI Points Out _ Big Task Is Ahead After Nazi Defeat:

Factors Given In Japan's  favor; Jap Plant:  "Turning Out Planes A: Fast As We Destroy Them.

BATTLE FOR JAPAN EXPECTED REQUIRE MORE THAN YEAR  OWI GIVES SUMMARY OF WAR AGENCIES’ DAT/ ON WAR SITITATION

ean eee mms  OWI SAYS 2 YEARS FOR JAP DEFEAT AFTER GERMANY FALLS

, May Last 2 Years After « Nazis Licker   OWI Cites Several Factors Which May Delay Crushing Of Nips.

‘Japs’ Defeat Will Take At Least 18 Month: After Germany Quits, OWI Survey Report:

May Take Two Years To Win Against Japs   OWT Summary Declare: _Nips See Close of European War Ag Start of Pacific Fight

Job of Crushing Japan Expected to Take  Minimum of Two Years   Psychological Effect of War’s End in Reicl Expected to Favor Nipponese, OWI Says; Letdown in Effort Seen After Germany’s Fall

OWI, Summarizing War Agencies’ Re_port, Says End of European Conflict Favors Nippon, Psychologically, and Points Out That Plane Production Exceeds Losses, and Enemy Has 2,000,000 Physically Fit Men Not Yet in Uniform — 

CLAIM DATA SHOWS MINIMUM OF 1.5 TO 2 YEARS NEEDED TO DEFEAT JAPS

Will Take-One and Half Years to Crush Japan  After Nazi Defeat--OW!1

OWI Asserts Long War Is A Possibility   Many Factors Favor Enemy, Agency Reports in Summary

Minimum of One and a Half Years Required To Crush Japan Is O. W.1. Warning

ONE AND HALF TO TWO YEARS NEEDED TO BEAT JAPS AFTER NAZIS WHIPPED, OWI ESTIMATES

OWI Figures Estimate On Jap War End   Expects 18 Months to Two Years Following Defeat Of Germany

OWI SAYS JAPANESE WAR TO LAST YEAR AND HALF AFTER GERMANY’S ARMY CRUSHED   Hints That Even Two Years Or Longer May Be Required

FORECAST TW MORE YEARS OF JAPANESE WAR   Year And Half After Nazi Fall Absolute Minimum, OWI Indicates

‘OWI SEE 18 MONTHS 10 2 MORE YEARS   Federal Agency Sets “Absolute Minimum” On War's Length

OWI Says Japs Can’t Be Defeated In‘Less Than  Year and Half After Nazis

Long Months Ahead Before Japan Defeat  Sees Strunale   OWI! Sees Struggle Lasting Two Years After German Defeat

ABILITY OF JAPAN TO CARRY ON ON WAR FROM CHINA REVIEWED IN OFFICIAL STATEMENT TODAY

LONG WAR IN PACIFIC SEEN BY OFFICIALS   Set Minimum Time of Year And Half After European War Ends

OW! Sees Japs Holding On For Two Years After Nazi Defeat; Victory To Hurt U. S.

Job of Beating japs fo Require Year and Half   Difficult Task Ahead After Fall Of Hitler's Reich

WAR TODAY   Explosive Controversjal Issues Pending For Postwar Settlement Must Be HanNet Cautiously

Begin Shift Of Factories In Rumania   Advancing Russian: Worry Nation; Roads Clogged With Carts Moving Peasants

FACTORIES 0 FRONTIER ARE ORDERED MOVED   tasty Action Taken By Rumanians As Russians Advance To Within 50 Miles Of Border; Bulgarians Counting On Russian Kindness.

RUMANIA DISMANTLING BORDER PLANTS HASTILY a mn naraAa BF HAWKING

RUMANIA HAS BEGUN HASTY DISMANTLING BORDER FACTORIES  THREAT OF RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE BRINGS AT-

Rumanians Start To Dismantle Factories in East  Evacuation Underway In Bessarabia, Budapest Reports

ame Begins ismantling Of Frontier Towns   Soviet Forces Advancing Within 50 Miles of Rumanian Frontier, Threaten Small Northern Towns.

RUMANIA MOVES FACTORIES T0 INTERIOR AREA   Dismantling Speeded as Russian Armies “Move - Within ‘50 “Miles of  >. Old Frontier: - ° -

Rumania Moving Factories as Red Armies Come Near   Civilians Panic Is Being Shown by Mass Evacuation

MOVE PLANTS IN RUMANIA   Factories In Frontier Towns Being Hastily Dismantled

Dismantling Of Factories On In Rumania   Machinery Being Moved As Soviet Advance Continues

RUMANIA HASTILY DISMANTLING SOME OF HER FACTOIRES   The Border Factories, Threatened Now By Onrushing Scviets, to Be Moved to the Interior Behind Mountains 

INVASION FEARS GRIP RUMANIA   Factories Being Dismantled as Reds Near Border

Panic Sweeps Over Rumanie as Reds Near   Factories at Border Points Being Moved Rapidly to Interior

Rumania Dismantles Frontier Industries   .. +» Mowe Inland As Reds Advance, Budapest Says

RUMANIA FEAR OF RUSS GROWS   RED ADVANCE PROMPTS REMOVAL OF FACTORIES

RUMANIA HAS JITTERS; FEAR SOVIET DRIVE   Factories Moved To Mountains In New Scare

Dismantling Has Started In Rumania   Red Drive Causes Country To Get Set For Raid   Soviet New Year Offensive  Is Keeping Nazis Entirely Off-Balance In War Efforts

Rumania Begins Moving Factories to Interior As Russians Near Frontier

Machinery Is Moved To Interior As Russians Advance To Within 50 Miles Of Border

Pas-De-Calais Area Pounded Today After British Deliver 11th Great Blow to Nazi Capital During Night—Assault on Germany Lasts 20 Minutes.

IRAF SMASHED AT  BERLIN WITH OVER  9300 TONS OF BOMBS   It Was the Greatest of Eleven Blows at the Reich Capital City.   U. S. BOMBERS BUSY   Launched Attacks on the Targets of the Pas De Calais Area in France.

FIRES BURN AT GREAT HEIGHT   Bomb Load Is Heaviest Ever Dropped On German Capital   35 BIG PLANES LOST

RAF Bomb Load Sets New Record For Concentration   Offensive Continues Today with Attacks By U. S. Bombers  On Northern France

MASSED WEIGHT OF 800 RAF BOMBERS GERMANY’S CAPITAL  NEW RECORD FOR CON. CENTRATED BOMBING

Reich Capital hit by Heavy RAF Assault   Mysterious Section Of French Seacoast Under Attack Today

Tons of Bombs Batter Reich Capital af Dawn   Attack Followed By American Blow At French Tarqets

Germany's Capital  Has Biggest Raid   American Planes Follow Uj Great RAF Attack Which Leaves Nazi City Ablaze

Great Fleets : of Planes in” New: Aulack:   Resumption. of Heavy. Scale Offensive-Follows Earlier: Blows'on: Rome-‘Area.:®   700. PLANES: BOMB® 32° GERMAN’ CAPITAL      35 British’ Bombers’; Lost}: Flak-Is Heavy But: : Few Fighter: Planes ‘Are: Me

2516 Tons 0 Bombs Fal On Capital   U.S. and R.A.F. Join In Follow-up Blow At Rocket-Gun Area

100 RAF Planes Drop 2,000 Tons On Nazi Capital   Stream Of Large Bombers Continues Raids Over Channel

Berlin -Hit Hard Blow By Bombs   800 Planes Hurl New Record Load Upon Nazi Capital; Daylight Raids Friday ~

100 Tons A Minute Dropped By RAF; -TotalOf2576Tons   Think Raid Involved 700 Planes; Yank Heavy Bombers Continue Assaults On Pas-De-Calais Area

One Ton a Minute Is RAF Record   U. S. Heavy Bombers Foliow With Attacks on ‘Rocket’ Coast

2,300 LONG TONS HURLED BY 800 BRITISH BOMBERS   35 Aircraft Lost In Night’s Operations; Americans Over French Coast Today

Berlin Bombed Heavily By 700 Allied Planes   Nazis Stagger Back From Novogorod; Navy Aids Drive In Italy

2,240 Tons Of Bombs ‘Dropped On Berlin: Alone  GIGANTIC RAID Daylight Raiders Hit  Northern Lvanre

Drop 2,576 Tons in 30 Minutes   About 800 Plane. Believed Used— 35 Bombers  Fail to Return

Rain 2,576 Tons On City In 30 Min.   American Heavies Join British In Big Daylight Follow-Up Attack On Wusnmatk, fcimad

AIR OFFENSIVE CONTINUED BY U). §. BOMBERS   Daylight Assault Hits Mysterious Calais Area in France

Thirty-Vive Planes Lost In Huge Raid   Airports in Rome Suburbs Bombed As Allies Press  On—Reds Advance

American Bombers Follow Berlin Raid With Attack On France,   RAID LASTED 30 MINUTES

HUGE FIRES LEFT BURNING IN RAID ON NAZI CAPITAL   BRITISH LOSE 35 BOMBERS OUT OF 700 IN OPERATIONS

RAF RENEWS BATTLE OF BERLIN WITH 11TH GREAT BLOW AT CITY   First Attack. in 11° Nights Rains 2,400-Ton Bomb Load on Capital   DAWN RAID HITS FRANCE

Berlin Struck By Night and Coast By Day   Largest Fleet of Heavy Bombers Yet Employed Pound Berlin

2,576 Tons  Dropped In Heavy Raid   U. S. Heavies Out Today Striking At Mystery Targets On Coast Of  France

YANKS ATTACK COAST BY DAY   German Capital’s Ruins Hit by Biggest Raid Yet

Allied Airmen Keep Up Blows On Nazi Areas   American Heavy Bombers Launch Attacks On Mysterious Targets Aloug  French Coast   Blow Against Reich City Devastating   Sets New Record For Con. centrated Bombing; 35 Planes Lost: Flames Sweep Metropolis

HEART OF NAZIDOM HARD HIT IN RENEWAL OF ‘AERIAL WAR: COASTAL AREAS BOMBED TODAY   Reich Capital Feels One of Most Disastrous Attacks of War When RAF Unloads Hundreds of Tons of Bombs. Americans Over Europe in Continuation of Attacks Today

PasDe-Calais Area Is Raided By Americans Today After Record Bombing Of Berlin

BRITISH BOMBERS RESUMED ATTACK ON CAPITAL NAZIDOM  BLOW AT GERMAN NERVE CENTER CAME AS OTHER

American Bombers Hit Invasion Coast Of Northern France   1,300 Acres of Nazi Capital Leveled Since November; Russians Score New Gains in Northern Sector

RAF Attack on Berlin Sets New Record in Histor   Russians Continue To Advance on 12 Mile Active Front

2.300 Tons Of Bombs Rained  On Reich City   American Heavy Bombers Launch Attacks On French Areas Today.   AROUND 800 PLANES

2,576 Tons Bombs Dropped On Berlin ‘Within 30 Minutes   700 British Planes Make 105th Attack -on German Capital; Russians Roll Forward on Northern Front; Great  Stores Captured

10-Night Lull Broken   R.A.F. Ploughs Through Heaviest Barrage To Reach Capital; Indicated Nazis Used Only Anti-Air-. craft Defense.

U.S. Bombers Again Hit Calais Area   Daylight Raid Follows British Assault On Berlin at Night

Reich Capital Rended by 2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped in 20 Minutes

Concentrated Attack Lasts 30 Minutes   American Planes Start Roaring Over Channel Today

NEW RECORD IN INTENSITY. ESTABLISHED   Missiles Fall at Rate of 100 Tons a Minute— U.S. and R. A. F. Blast Nazi Defenses on North Cnact af Hrancra.

U.S. Planes RaidFrance Early Today   Biggest Fleet Ever Is Sent Across  To Hit Nazis

2,576 Tons of Explosives Hit Capital   RAF Stages Night Smash; 35 Planes Lost; Daylight Raid Reported

Lancasters And Halifaxes Smash At German Capital In  Greatest Of Eleven Recent Major Assaults—35  Aircraft Reported Missing From This And Othtr Night Operations—Huge Formations Of U. §. Fortresses And Liberators In Action

TITH MASSIVE RAID BATTERS NAZI CAPITAL   American Raiders Attack German Installations On French Coast

12 More Jap Merchant Ships Are.Sunk By Yank Subs   800 BOMBERS BATTER BERLIN

‘Heaviest Attack Made On German Capital; Continue Raids On Coast of France

British Attack Is Greatest of 11 Major Raids On Nazi Capital   Yank Heavy Bombers Attack Calais ‘Mystery Coast’

800 British Bombers Indicated 22 Taking Pari in 1ith Great Assault on Reich Capital   35 BOMBERS LOST   American Bombers Renew Daylight Assaults in Heavy Force on Rocket Gun Coast

Nazidom Heart Is Beings Erased   _. Serial Smashes At Reich Cest RAF 35 Bombers

Allies Close On Port 40 Miles North of Rome   5th Army Drives Nazis in Disorder Along Broad Front

Resistance Of Nazis Mounts   Neutrals Report Landings In South France Expected

New Thrustin Italy, Rumor   Large Allied Fleet Is Reported Off Genoa; Landing Expected

SUN PUBLISHER SUED BY AVERY   Montgomery Ward Chief Charges Libel In Chicago Paper

Swollen Rivers Flood Four States   Wichita, Kansas. Center Of Midwestern Floods Of Large Proportions  THOUSANDS APF

DEATHS MOUNT. AS MANY FLEE ¢ FLOOD IN WEST   Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas e and Illinois Are States , Worst Hit

HIGH WATERS — ~ ARE CAUSING ~~ SEVERE LOSS   MOUNTING: TOLL’ OF - DEATH \ AND PROPERTY DAMAGE REPORTED IN SEVERAL MIDWESTERN STATES 

FLOOD DAMAGE TOLL 1S RISING   Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas And Hilincis Are Hit

iii: iehiasigiibeieiimetiinsal  HOURS OF SUN AND MOON FOR WICHITA FALLS AREA

Allies Employ Wakde ’Drome   Air Operations Extended 110 Miles by Canture

MacArthur Bases Planes on Wakde Island Air Field   Airstrip Is 1100 Miles From Davao; Japs Say Marcus Bombed Again

Postwar Divorce Rate Will Be High, Ohio University Psychologist Fears

List Materials  Sent To Allies   Disclose Shipment Of 23.000 Tanks, 750,000 Military Vehicles.

THREE JOIN SERVICE   Fifteen Inducted Into The Army—Eight In Navy.

89 Jap Planes Downed   Crippling Blow Struck Japs in Own Home Waters

Fifty-Eight Ships Are Sunk Or Damaged And 89 Planes Destroyed By U, S. Carrier Force

BLAST JAP ISLANDS   Thrust Deep Into Nip Home Waters, Hit 58 Ships

Daring Thrust Made in Enemy Home Waters   Halsey’s Third Fleet Attacks Nips’ “‘Doorstep’

Carrier Force Delivers Blow At Japan’s Very Doorsteps, Sink Or Damage 58 Shins

DESTRUCTIVE THRUST MADE AGAINST JAPS   New Blow at Doorstep of Nippon Sinks, Damages 58 Ships: Destroys 89 Planes.

Blow at Japan's Very Doorstep Is Effective   Believed Opening Phase of New Campaign

Powerful and Destructive Theos into Jupan’s Home Waters — Of. fensive Made Monday by U.S. Carrier Furee.

Adm. Mitscher's Task Force Steams Within 200 Miles of  Japan Bagging 58 Nip Ships

Ship Planes Spread Ruin In Ryukyus   Mitscher’s Force Bags 58 Ships And 89 Planes.

Strong Carrier Force Bombards Ryukyu Islands   58 Ships Sunk Or Damaged In Attack 20( Miles From Homeland

58 Jap Shins And 89 Planes Are Destroved   Monday Raid Takes Place on Japan's Front Door Step

FLEET STRIKES INTO JAP HOME WATERS; BLAST RYUKYU ISLES   Carrier Force Sinks Or Damages 58 Ships, Bags 89  : Planes; Island Chain Only 200 Miles Off : Jap Mainland

swarms Of Planes Raid Ryukyu Islands, 200  Miles From Japan   98 Enemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged   89 Planes Are Destroyed: Bold Thrust Not Challenged By Japanese

Raid Islands Near Japs’ Homeland   Believed First Phase ot Campaign on Japan and  China Coast

Attack Made On Ryukya Islands, 200 Miles From Homeland   GROUND DEFENSES DESTROYED WITHIN 600 MILES OF TOKYO   Failed To Bring Response From The Imperial Fleet, Slight Air Resistance

58 ENEMY SHIPS. ARE DESTROYED   89 Nip Planes Blasted In Daring Raids On Ryukyu Islands

GOP Governors Say New Deal’s Plan For Reconversion Courts National] Disaster

Churchill Warns Jews Terrorists Must Be Purged  Says Future of Zionisa Is Endangered by  Aertivitiac

CLUB HEARS OF CORN RESEARCH   ‘Pioneer Hi-Bred Expert ‘Tells Kiwanians of - ~ ‘Experimental Work:.--.

CLUB HEARS Ct PORN RESEARCH   Pioneer Hi-Bred Expert Tells Kiwanians of — Experimental Work

Air Power Strikes at German Installations Around Front And About Cassino as Lifting of Weather Permits 800 Sorties Sunday   IMPACT OF MASSIVE ASSAULT BELIEVED BLUNTED

AWAITS VIOLENT NAZI ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Soviet Troops Drive Toward Pskov, Gateway To Estonia And Latvia

Reinforced Fifth Army Regains  Initiative  AIR FORCE BUSY  Believe Germans Re. forming For New Assault

AMERICANS GAIN IN BATTLE FOR CASSINO TODAY   Advance of 200 Yards Reported—Russians Rout Germon Forces

Fifth Army Has Regained Initiative On Anzio Front   Yanks Advance 200 Yards in Cassino; Planes in Action

Yanks Move up 200 Yards in Cassino   Flying Weather ther Clears; . British Make Local Gains in North Sector of Beachhead

SUCCESSFUL LOCAL ATTACKS BY BRITISH IN BEACH BATTLE   AIR POWER COMES TO ALLIED AID IN ITALY AS WEATHER IMPROVES

LESSENED INTENSITY AND SEESAW FIGHTING MARKS BATTLE AFTER CRISIS OVER WEEK-END   Improved Weather Gives Allied Air Power Some Chance to Assert Itself. House-to-House Advances Made by Americans in Cassino Sector

Tide Turns To Allies Near  Rome, Cassino   Fighting Still  In Crucial Stage— Russians Closer To Vital Gateway

SUCCESSFUL LOCAL ATTACKS BY BRITISH IN BEACH BATTLE  AIR POWER COMES TO ALLIED AID IN ITALY AS

British Gain In Local Attacks In Battle Of Beach      Allied Air Power Strikes Installations Of Nazis

19th Daily Dose of Air Warfare Bombards Enemy   Four-way Smash Made At Rocket Gun Coast, Rail Hubs In France 

BLOCKBUSTERS USED TO SMASH SYSTEMS LEADING TO FRONTS   serman Anti-Invasion Defenses are Blasted

YANKS, BRITISH HAMMER FRANCE   Coastal Defense Zone. Rail Hubs Are Bombed

SMASH AT PAS DE CALAIS   French Rail Hubs Are Blasted By Allied Bombers

BAD WEATHER BRAVED BY 100 YANK BOMBERS   Nazi Invasion Defenses Along Coast Hit 19th Straight Day

Daily Doses Of Explosives Wreck Nazis   Enemy Works Desperately To Restore Important Rail Centers

‘ROCKET’ COAST PICKED FOR 19TH DAILY BLAST   Planes Conquer Murk; Clouds And Storm; More Rails Crippled

Allied Bombers Continue Raids on Cermon Anti-Invasion Pefenses   Four Way Bombings In 19th Day And Night Raids

BAD WEATHER FAILS TO  HALT ALLIED AIR RAIDS   Liberators Strike At Pas de Calais

Clouds, Rair Reduce Air Raids Today   But Daily Dose of Explo. sives Given Rocket Gun  Coast, Rail Hubs

All Liberators Return Safely From Nineteenth Straight Daily Dose Of Explosives In Axis Europe   ROMANIA ATTACKED BY ALLIED PLANES

Cambrai, Somain  Feel Hits   Doolittle Leads Raid, All Planes Return; Unchallenged in Fight

{9TH DAILY BOMBING FOR ATLANTIC LINE   Rocket-Gun Coast and Rail Hubs In France Smashed Up Again.

Milk Delivered In Detroit Once More   Unauthorized Strike Of Dairy Workers Ends

HOLLAND'S HOME REPAPERED SINCE 2 LAKE KILLINGS   Patrol Learns New Flooring Was Placed in Several Rooms and Cannot Find Discarded Boards.   EX-CONVICT QUIZZED FOR LAST THREE DAYS   Officers Told He Often Visited Lake and Used to Dock Beat Near Place Bodies Were Found.

New Finishings Found in. Home Of Slain Woman   * House Figuring In _ Ozark. Mystery Was “Repapered Recently

Muskegon Judge To Sit In Court Here Next Week, Due To Evans’ Illness

65 Lose Lives When Liberty Ship Sinks   Ship Laden With Ex. plosives and Boukd For Alaska Sinks.

Liberty Ship Cracks Apart And 65 Men Believed Lost   Vessel, John Straub, Carrying Explosives, Sinks in North Pacific OLt Alaclean Danitnerla   15 SURVIVORS FOUND, NO HOPE FOR OTHERS

Ship Breaks Up At Sea, 65 Die   15 From Liberty Craft  Rescued Near Alaska

65 Lives Lost In Breakup of Liberty Ship   Vessel Sinks Off Coast of Alaska

65 MEN MISSING IN SHIP DISASTER   Liberty Ship John Straub Sinks in Alaskan - Weaters

Liberty Ship Breaks Back; 65 Men Lost   Vessel, Laden With Explosives, Sinks Off Alaska; Was on Third Voyage, 15 Survivors in Cold Lake, Alaska Hospital

55 Men Lost As Liberly Ship Sinks   15 Seaman Survive Wreck Of Vessel Bound For Alaska

LIBERTY SHIP BREAKS IN TWO; 65 SEAMEN LOST   Vessel Sank 21 Miles Of Sanak Island, Alaska, Last Wednesday

65 MEN MISSING IN SHIP DISASTER   Liberty Ship.John Straub Sinks in Alaskan © -  - Whatere .

Fear 65 Lost as Liberty Ship Cracks Up, Sinks   Craft Reported Laden With Explosives For Alaska War Area

Sink Jap Ships In Dutch Indies   24 Enemy Vessels Hit In Two Days Fighting

Probe of 2 U.S. Judges 's Asked   Resolution Calling For Inquiry Reported by  House Committee

Chrysler Plant Has Shutdown   Foremen’s Union Defies  War Labor Board Order

TWO-WAR VETERAN SHOOTS THREE AND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE   Kills Wife, Son, Wounds Daughter; Condition Is Critical

Plane Taking Pierlot Back To Brussels   Belgian Cabinet Is First Exiled Regime to Return to Homeland

TASK FORCES SMASH AT TRUK BASES   Ponape and Satawan Islands Destroying . 126 Japanese Planes in Two Dav Attack.   “Protracted Shelling”

FIGHTING STEPPED UP AROUND ANZIO   Germans Gain Southwest of Carroceto—Allles Raid Enemy Positions on Right Flank.

Nazis Reported Making Small Gains In Fighting on the Anzio Beachhead

CLASHES OCCUR SOUTH OF ROME   eee =>  Germans Make Gains At Carroceto; No Change In Battle Lines

‘2 Attack Planes Sideswipe, . Fall Ablaze.in War Show as 100,000 Stunned Folk. Watch

100,000 See Two: Bombers Collide  Wa. ON Ba oie Wiel dou oe hao   War Show Previously Dubbed Biggest Thing Ever Staged

Four Perish In Plane Collision At ‘Army Air Show   Hanover Man Among Victims

FOUR ARE KILLED IN WAR SHOW MISHAP   Urowd of 100,000 People Watch Two Attack Bombers Collide.

THOUSANDS SEE PLANES COLLIDE   ACCIDENT OCCURS DURING WAR SHOW; FOUR MEN KILLED

CHILD HURT IN PLUNGE   Two Year Old Maurice Girl Climed to Top OF Elevator -

Annual Message Read By Clerks; President Plans Radio Broadcast Tonight

Also Wants Law Written That There Will Be No More Strikes.   GIVEN CONGRESS  The President Goes to Bat for the Soldiers V ato

PRESIDENT URGES CONGRESS ADOPT  D-POINT PROGRAM FOR WAR VICTORY   Roosevelt’s Annual Message To Congress Suggests Eve Able Bodied Man and Woman Should Be Drafted.

Critical Phase Arrives: ‘Strength of Impending German ‘Counter Drive Closely Watched   Danger to Allies Is N Not Expected To Pass For at Least 10 Days, Says Wes Gallagher

Sweep Across Vital Railroad, Highway; Beachhead Fighting Enters Most Critical Phase

ALLIES TO FACE ~ TEST ON BEACHES   SHALLOWNESS OF SEIZED AREA MAKES IT SUBJECT TO BREAK-THROUGH.

CRITICAL PERIOD OF NVASIONTO. ~ PASS IN 10 DAYS   Initial Phase of ‘Situation ‘Occurred. With Landing ~ and Establishment  of . Beachheads.   TIME WILL REVEAL STRENGTH OF NAZIS   Atlantic Wall Now Seems te Be Myth, Germans Try t Make Best Showing By Counteratiack.

JOHNSTON VISIONS HUGE BED MARKET   Reports Soviet Union Wants Time Purchase Pian

Big Orders from Russia: Soviet Union Wants To Spend Many Billions in U. S., Johnson Asserts   President of Chamber of Commerce Says Russia Would Make Payments for All Purchases in Full

Favor Compulsory Military Duty Congress May Constrain Youth To War Training  oe ae a

Postwar Road Building Plan May Help Veterans, Cost About $3 Billions

Three - Billion - Dollar Road Building Plan Is  Discussed In Congress

OPEN HEARING ON BIG ROAD MAKING PLAN   Project, Before a House Group, Would Call for  Three Billion in Federal  ~ Funds First Three Years After War.

BIG POST-WAR ROAD PROGRAM   Shaping Up As Result Of Wartime Building  Holiday

Stop Work On Blast  Furnace   Pittsburgh Steel Co Asks Cancellation; Project 95 Percent Completed

RFC STOPS WORK ON PGH, STEEL BLAST FURNACE      Unit Was Nearly 95 Percent Complete; Not Needed E Is Said

Third of British Fleet Air Pilots Training In U.S. with View to Joint Action Aqainst Japs

YANKS DRIVE TO EASTWARD NEAR AITAPE   New Guinea Conquest Nearly Complete; Nips Cut Off

Yanks Open Drive On Trapped Japs   U.S. Troops Attack to Wipe Out 45,000 Nips

Yanks Repulse Jap Efforts To Break Leyte Trap, Grind Forward in Ormoc Offensive

JAPS PINCHED IN TIGHTER ON LEYTE ISLAND   BATTLE TO DEATH IS) ORDERED AT LIMON

FIRST DIVISION BEING SQUEEZED IN LIMON AREA   Jap Attempts To Relieve Beleaguered Division  Result In Losses   MANY DIFFICULTIES CONFRONT AMERICANS

Yanks Again Repulse Japs Near Limon   Heavy Enemy Losses Reported In Battle For Ormoc Corridor

JAP ATTACK ON LEYTE BROKEN BY U. 8. FORCE   Enemy Losses Heavy As Attempt To Break Road Block Is Repulsed

JAPANESE TRYING TOREACH TRAPPED UNIT BEATEN BACK   Americans Inflict Heavy Losses on Nipponese as They Storm Leyte Road Block. .   PRESSURE MAINTAINED ON LIMON DEFENDERS   ‘Yanks Overcome Many Obstacles in Savage Fight for Town Dominating Or- © moc 'Corridor.

Germans Regrouy At Anzio Under  American Fire   Fifth Army Trades Heavy Blows With Nazis At Cassino

IIPICN BOWS OUT UF TOURNEY RAGE   Ke'xomo Has Too Much rcwer for Local Lads and Triumphs 32-23.

TIPTON. BOWS OUT OF TOURNEY RAGE   Kekomo Has Too Much Pewer for Local Lads and Triumphs: 32-23.

Opinion Favors End of Europear War in 35 Days   Tomorrow Marks Fifth Anniversary of Great Struggle

Allies Could End War In 5 Weeks   Eve Of 5th Anniversary Of European Conflict Finds Hitler On Ropes Ripe For Knockout Pymeoh

ALLIED FORCES — PUT PRESSURE ON FLEEING NAZIS   Germans Are Retreating On All Fronts in Their Mad Rush for Homeland

Canadians Move on  Dunkerque   Germans Fight Hard To Cover Withdrawal In Southern France; Hold to Brittany Ports

U.S. Troops  Approaching SiegfriedLine   Eighth. Army Crack: Nazi Gothic Line In Northern Italy 

BRITISH EFFECT JUNCTION WITH U.S, AIRTROOPS   Nazis’ Hold on Amsterdam and Rotterdam Now Imperiled

‘Texas National Guard Marks Fourth Anniversary of Its War Activation

WAR RECORD OF 36TH DIVISION REVIEWED ON 4TH ANNIVERSARY ~ OF ENTERING FEDERAL SERVICE

Saturday Marked 4th A nniversary Of Texas National Guard Since Drafted Inte Federal Service At Camp Bowie

Americans Destroy 208 German Planes  in Finest Victory   Thousand British War Planes Follow With Nicht Assaults

ALLIES SCORE GREAT AERIAL VICTORY TODAY   Dusseldorf Gets Blunt Of 1000 Bomber Attack

U.S. Fighters of 8th Air Force Win Great Victory   The Seove: 208 German Planes Destroyed Avainst 59 Lost by US

British Drop 4 480 Tons On Duesseldorf  208 German Planes Listed Destroyed It Merseburg Area By

HAIL VICTORY AS GREATEST OF WAR   Dusseldorf Hit By 4,480 Tons Of Bombs   SEVEN RECORDS   Established In Fight Over Synthetic Oil Center Of Merseburg

Eighth Air Force Wins Great Victory   British Follow in Dusseldorf Blow

YANKS SCORE GREATEST AIR BLOW OF WAR   British Continue Raids After 208 German  Planes Downed

208 GERMAN PLANES LOST IN AIR TILT   Thousand British Heavies Lay 4,000 Tons of Explosives and Fire Bombs On Enemy Arsenal   VICTORY FOR YANKS

RAF Attacks Great Arsenal Of Dusseldort   Drop 4,480 Tons Of Explosives Few Hours After Eighth Air Force Destroys 208 Planes

CENTER IS HAMMERED   RAF’s Night Bombers Pound Dusseldorf In Heavy Attack

NAZIS LOSE 208 CRAFT AS UL S. FLYERS ATTACK   8th Yank Air Force Wins Its Greatest Victory Over Luftwaffe

Dusseldorf Is Target Of Bombers   Over 4,000 Tons Bombs Rock Arsenal City in Searing Sequel to Yesterday’s Sky Triumph

1000 BRITISH BOMBERS LAY BOMB LOADS ON. DUESSELDORF 'AFTER GREATEST AIR BATTLE

208 Germans Fall In Sky Battle;U.S.Fighters Win Greatest Victory

Air Armada Shatters Nazi Arsenal City   4,000 Tons Bombs Rain on Dusseldorf; Allies Bag 208 Enemy Planes

—GREATEST  208 NAZI PLANES ERASED   Luftwaffe Suffers A Heary Less Attempting Smash American Raid  LASH PtSSELDORE

4,480 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Reichland   Bighth Air Force Win Greatest Vietory Of War Over Luftwaffe.   DOWN 280 PLANES

THOUSAND BRITISH. HEAVIES IN BLASTING DUSSELDORF ATTACK  AMERICAN FIGHTERS Wit   AMERICAN FIGHTERS WIN GREATEST VICTORY OVER LUFTWAFFE THURSDAY

Victory Won By Fighters Over Luftwaffe   208 German Planes Destroyed In Battle Over Merseburg

British Drop 4,800 ‘Tons on Dusseldorf   Yanks Destroy 208 Nazi Aircraft In Greatest Victory Of Fighting Over Germans’ Vaunted [_uftwaff.

penne tennneeeeenes ee eS  DUSSELDORF HIT HARD BY 1,000 RAF BOMBERS   U. S. Airmen Win Greatest Air Victory of War, Down 208 Nazi Planes

Yanks Destroy 208 Enemy Planes In Largest Victory   4,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Greatest Arsenal of Dusseldor

British Drop 4,800 Tons On Arsenal   Blow Follows Yank Destruction Of 208 Nazi Planes At Merseburg.

U. S. Fighters Win Mighty Aerial Battle   Destroy 208 German Aircraft Over Merseburg; British Bombers Busy

10 U. S, PLANES REPORTED LOST, LAND SAFELY   208 German Aijrcraft Over Synthetic Oil Center Are Downed —-U. S. Planes Land At French Bases.

Great Air War Continued On Reich Sector:   British Pound Hitler’s Huge Arsenal of Dusseldorf In Wake of U. S. Victory Over Luftwaffe

1,000 RAF Planes Hit Dusseldort  Eighth Scores   Eighth Scores Greatest VictoryYank Losses Scaled Down

Destroy 208 German Aircraft In Big Batthe Thursady      British Follow With Smashing: Raid On Dusseldorf

Russians Near Budapest Area   RED ARMY SMASHED INTO CITY’S OUTER DEFENSES

SCORE GREATEST VICTORY OF WAR OVER LUFTWAFFE   LIST 59 AMERICAN AIRCRAFT LOST IN RAID ON MERESBURG

1,000 BOMBERS BLAST ARSENAL   U.S. 8th Air Force Fighters Win Greatest Victory Of War.

New Records Set In Huge Aid Raid On Nazi Plants   2,000 Allied Planes In Attack As 208 Enemy Fighters Downed

Yanks Set ‘Record in Sky Battle   Destroy 208 Nazi Planes as Luftwaffe Rises in Defense  Of O}f Plants

_ SAIR BATTLE—  Nazis Lose 208 Planes ; In Great Air Battle:      U. Ss. Bighth Air Force Wins Greatest Victory Of War Over Luftwaffe In Gigantle Conflict Tn , Stes

U.S. FLIERS BAG 208 NAZI PLANES FOR WAR'S GREATEST AIR VICTORY   1000 BRITISH BOMBERS RAKE DUSSELDORF ARSENAL WITH 4480 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES

4.480 Tons Of Bombs Hi Nazi City Of Dusseldorf   RAF Night Assault Follows Greatest Air Ligeia Of War Ry U.S. Flyers

Record-Breaking Daylight Aerial Battle Over Reich   RAF Pounds Dusseldorf In Heavy Night Attack

Launch Drive to Chartres  ~ Allies Capture, Kill Fleeing © ce ee en

REMNANTS OF NAZI FORCE BREAKING UF   Small Bands Making Frantic Efforts ta Escape Ring of Steel.

FINNISH PEACE OFFER RUMORED   Pressure Increases As Soviets Bomb More (Cities

FINNISH PEACE PLAN BELIEVED OFFERED REDS   Political Leader Ready to Fly Stockholm to Moscow If Soviet Approves   Social Democratic Party Puts Pressure on Helsinki to Quit War

DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS 8AID  _ ‘TO. HAVE BEEN OPENED BY © ’ OFFICIALS IN 8TOCKHOLM” ’

REPORT FINN PEACE OFFER GIVEN STALIN   Political Leader In Stockholm  mero sem  APPLY PRESSURE  Russian Bombings Resumed

40 P. C. of Reich Labor Done by Slave Workers   Bye TAYLOR HENRY

GERMANY [ANY HAS APPROXIMATELY TWELVE MILLION WORKERS OF OTHER NATIONS ENSLAVED NOW

U.S. Employment Reforms Urged   Bricker Tells Program To Cut Huge Pay Rolls

LEGISLATOR CHARGES WAR GOODS ‘WASTE   Sabath Seeks Prosecutions And Jail Sentences

DECLARED SURPLUS  WAR MATERIAL NOW  BEING THROWN: AWAY CHAIRMAN SABATH OF  HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE DEMANDS SOME ACTION

Some Surplus War Goods Already Being Thrown Away House Committeeman Says

Stockholm’s Suburbs Hit By Bombers   Explosives Identified a: Being of Russian Origin

BOMBS DROPPED MYSTERIOUSLY ON STOCKHOLM   Many Windows Smashed Wher Mystery Planes Hit Two Places

Stockholm Raided By Foreign Planes   Identify Some Bombs  As Russian

Three Aircraft Bomb Stockholm   Swedes Say Missiles Of Russian Origin

Stockholm Rocked by Russ Bombs   THREE MYSTERY PLANES DROP BOMBS ON SWEDISH CAPITAL; NONE DEAD

BOMBS FALL IN SOUTH SUBURBS OF STOCKHOLM   Russian Origin Claimed; Three Planes Cause No Deaths

Greeks Agree On Regency as Peace Move   Churchill Narrowly Missed by Sniper's Bullet in Athens

PRIME MINISTER SAID ON WAY TO LONDON TODAY   Warring Greek Factions Agree To Temporary Grecian Rerency

GREEKS AGREE UPON REGENCY   Churchill Indicates Big Three Will Consider  S:tuation Soon

Greek Factions Agree To Form A Regency   Sniper’s Bullet Narrowly Misses Britain’s Yhavcehill.

Greek Regency Agreed To But Setup Delayed   Minority Favors Postpone ment; Some Warring  Elements Withdraw  ing From Athens

Greek Groups Agree To Forming Regency      Most of Conferees Want One Set Up Immediately; King is Opposed to Regency;; Sniper's Bullet Misses Churchill

Greek Political Factions Agree On Regency As Temporary Government

Churchill, Eden Leave Athens   King Will Be Urged To Accept Regency

CHURGHILL AND EDEN HAVE LEFT CITY OF ATHENS   Have Gone to London to Con. fer With King George if.   SEEK GREEK REGENCY   Warring Greek Political Fac. tions Agreed to Formation of a Regency.

Greek Factions Take Step Toward Peace:  Churchill Almost _ Struck By

Churchill Will Urge Acceptance Of Greek Regen!   BBC Report Says He Means To Ask King to Accede

Greeks Agree To Form Regency   ELAS Withdraw From Athens to Hiyhways As Peace Plans Shape

‘Regency For Greece Likely  Warring Factions Hay   Warring Factions Have Avreed On That

Greek Faction: Agree to Have Regency  ELAS Forces Leaving Athens as Work Of Clearing Goes On

Greeks Favor Regency for Little Nation   All Party Conference Favors Formation as Means to Bring Peace

Warring Greek Factions Agree To Formation of Regency  British Report Withdrawal of

Factions in Greece Acree On Regency   First Step to End Strife; Sniper’s Bullet Narrowly Misses Churchill

British Plan For Greece To Be Uraed   Churchill And Eden Return to England With Reaency Plans

GREEK FACTIONS FAVOR REGENCY   SNIPER'S BULLET NARROWLY MISSES WINSTON CHURCHILL

CHURCHILL LEAVES GRECIAN CAPITAL      Prime Minister to Recommend Regency for Greece

TO URGE KING GEORGE 9 UA. FOR AEGENGY   Churchill Leaves Athens as ELAS Troops Begin Withdrawal.

ELAS FORCES WITHDRAWN FROM ATHENS   Rival Factions Make Move To End Civil Strife:

GREEK REGENCY PLAN IS PUSHED   Consent Of Exiled King To Be Asked In Step Toward Peace

GREEKS AGREE ON REGENCY AS STEP 10 PEACE   Churchill, F.R. and Stalin to Take Up  Question in Near Future

WARRING POLITICAL  FACTIONS IN GREECE AGREE TO REGENCY  CLEARING ATHENS OF ©   CLEARING ATHENS OF ELAS FORCES PROGRESSING SATISFACTORILY

Bullet Fired At Churchill “Strikes Girl   Most of Conferecs At Athens Friendly To Regency Rule

REGENCY MAY BRING END 10 GREEK STRIFE   Warring Political Factions Agree at Ali-Party Conference After a Talk With Churchill

Greek Factions Agree to Have Regency  ELAS For Leaving   ELAS Forces Leaving Athens as Work Of Clearing Goes On

Churchill to Recommend  Greek Regency   Prime Minister and Eden to Propose Plan to Monarch

Regency Approved By Greek Factions ELAS Withdraws  Compromise Mee! Punctuated By Sniper's Bullet Fired Be Betmae Minictar fhacehill

GREEK REBELS APPROVE MOVE FOR REGENCY   Fiehting Continues While Leaders Of Ovposing Factions Choose Peaceful Means.

WARRING POLITICAL FACTIONS IN GREECE AGREE 10 REGENCY  CLEARING ATHENS OF ELAS FORCES PROGRESS “ING SATISFACTORILY

0 GREECE Greek Warring Factions Approve Regency Plan   : Withdrawal Of Some Elas Forces From Athens To ; Positions On Highways Outside City, Report-. y ed: Sniper’s Billet Misses Churchill

Another Attempt To Take Life of Churchill Fails   Machine-Gun Bullets © Miss Prime Minister,  Greek Girl Wounded

Greeks Agree On Formation Of Regency   Sniper's Bullet Misses Churchill, Woman Is Killed

GREEK PEACE EXPECTED IN NEW REGENCY   Clearing Athens Of —Elas oe:  Very Slowly ©

Greeks Agree To Regency   British Announce Withdrawal of Some Elas Forces

Greek Factions Agree to Regency   Decision Is First " Step Toward Peace; A’Sniper’s Bullet Misses Churchill

Greeks Agree On Regency   * Most of Conferees Fa‘ vor Taking Step Now; : Next Move Up to King

Agreement Is Reached On Exports   U. S. And Britain Plan Reconversion For Peacetime.

Halve Lend-Lease To Britain When German War Ends   5 Billion-A-Year Flow Of Exports Begins To Slacken

Lend-Lease to Britain May Be Cut in Half   Aid to Be Slashed With End of  Warin Furone

Missourr: Votes Bound To Roosevelt   Hannegan and Mrs. H. C. Chiles on  National Committee

Student Poll   g Republicar   St. Joseph High School For Dewey, 302 To 205

Break Through to Danube at Vac, Seal Off Most Of City on East Bank

Last Eseape Of Germans Almost Cut By Russians   Capital’ $ Railroads: Near Being: Severed

Government Flees As Reds Surround City   Nazis Now Have Only One Escape Route Left To West And That Is In Danaer

REDS BESIEGING — BUDAPEST SCORE BREAK-THROUGHS   Nazi Defenses North and Southwest of City Ripped -Open—Capital Three . -Fourths Encircled.   GERMAN-DOMINATED _. GOVERNMENT FLEES   Part of Russian Forces Appear Headed Toward Auserin Without Waiting Fall of City.

Hungarian Capital Near Encirclement   Magyar Government Fills Budapest With Red Army Columns Only 15 Miles From City On South

Red Troops Smash Within Nine Miles of Budapest  Flying Columns Race Toward Austria In Flanking Move

Two Armies Converge on  Doomed City   Part of Capital Is Sealed Off; Government Flees

Russians Drive Near Heart of Budapest   Larger Part of City Is Sealed Off East of the Danube

Allied Bombers Over Germany   British Planes Hit Area in Front of  Seventh Army

GiantWedge Driven Into West Lines   Northern Forces Plunging Deeper In Estonia, Latvia

Soviets Driving Wedge Between East Prussia And Warsaw   Ist Russian Army Has 60-Mile Front   Coordinated Attack Aimec At Outflanking Warsaw, East Prussia

RUSS CRACK DEFENSES OF EAST PRUSSIA   Drive Great Wedge To North of Warsaw

Two Armies Link Astride Railroad Line  Other Soviet Troops Deeper Into Estonia and Latvia  BREACH ENTENDED Russians Attempting to Outflank East Prussia  weve Vode aewworee:

Reds May Outflank Prussia   Two Huge Soviet Armies Plunging Through Germans

Two Armies Link Forees  In Offensive   Other Russian Units Smash Into Latvia And Estonia

‘Allocate $60,000 Of War Bonds Here   Milwaukee Railread Purchase to  Re Cpedited to County on Sixth War Loan

Railroad to Credit $30,000 to County   Milwaukee Buys 15 Millions of War Bonds in Fifth War Loan, Is Announced

Allies Holding Against Strong Nazi Assaults: Other Attacks Repulsed

So Far Fifth Army Has Held Back Enemy. Allies Maintain Air Supremacy.

RENEW ATTACKS ON THE OLEO TRUST   GOP Lawmakers Urge Ac tion to Avoid Threats to U.S. Dairymen.

Nimitz Hints — New Offensive   Says Saipan Will Be Used To Full Advantave

U.S. to Make Full Use of  Saipan Base   Nimitz Turns Spotlight On Concentrated Naval  And Air Bombardment Of Nearby Guam

Truman Gains GroundInVi icePresident Race   Fight Over Second Place Continues as Governor Ker: Delivers Keynote—Roosevelt Expected to Accent hy Radin -

Bible More Important Than Bazooka For One U. S. Soldier In Italy

Private Poole Has No Wing, But He Manages To Come in on a Praver

Bastogne Wedge Wider   Patton’s , Counterattack Breaks Back of Enemy Drive; Germans Held  Without: Gain 48 Hours

Patton’s Army. Blasts Nazis’ Southern Flank   Heroic Bastogne Garrison Relieved; Neck of German Bulge to North Is Narrowed to Only 17 Miles

Advanced Spearheads Hurled Back 10 Miles   Neck of German Bulge Narrowed to 17 Miles as Patton Throws in More Tanks; Battle 3,000 Pocketed Nazis on West.

ADVANCED UNITS OF. VON RUNDSTEDT ARMY BEEN THROWN BACK  _ AMERICANS HAMMERING GERMAN BULGE ON ALL THREE SIDES

ENEMY CHASED ACROSS LESSE, HOMME RIVERS   Nazi Bulge in Belgium, Luxembourg Slashed—Patton Rolls 20 Miles

Driven Across Lesse, Homme, Into Rochefort   Bulge tit On Three Sides Foe’s Push in Reverse

Yanks Kick German  Drive into Reverse   Americans Cut Off Nazi Thrust Beyond Rochefort; Reds Drive Huns from Suburbs of Budapest

"TROUBLE MAKERS AT SIDNAW MOVED   Several Nazi Prisoners Sent To Oklahoma; Some Refuse to Work,

Luxury Taxes Given Increase  Canornace’ Can foarna.   Congress’ Conferees Near Heated Issues

- U.S.-British ForcesCrast Main German Defenses °15 Miles From Capital

Soviet Advance Troops Near Crossing of Estonia Borde:   Nazis Fleeing to Nearby Marshes and Woods; Drop Supplies.

Tojo Sees Golden Opportunity   Cites Allied Unrest And Exhaustion

Predicts Roosevelt To. — Vote For Dewey, Dewey. To Support Roosevelt

Thirteen Killed In Air Training   Nephew of Mrs. A.’ F. Ward Killed in Glider Crash.

(Continued on Page 3.) mcblave “ewe Tin: Casein’   § Paratreopers Drown

MYSTERY LETTER IN MURDER TRIAL   ACCUSES ANOTHER OF YOUTH SLAYING LAID TO HEIRESS

MURDER RING IN PARIS SEEN   Formed to Prey on Wealthy Persons Fleeing Country

Yanks Advancing On Philippines   Seizure of Tinian Held Great Help

CARY GRANT QUITS AFTER FAMILY ROW   Actor and Wife Decline To Make Comment

SHOOTING AT ROME AS GOVT. CHANGES HANDS   Underground Leader and Former Premier of Italy Takes Reins of Liberated Nation

Marshal Pietro Badoglio Turns Over Government Of Liberated Italy   IVANOE BONOMI HEADS NEW REGIME

GUNFIRE GREETS APPEARANCE OF PRINCE HUMBERT   New Royal Head of Italy May Have Been Target-—Guilty Qne Not Found.

GUNFIRE MARKS ITALIAN CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT   Believe Assassination  Of Prince Humbert Was Attempted

New Italian Regent Get: Irate Salute   King’s Successor Believed Periled By Demonstratian

GUNFIRE AIMED AT ITALY S HUMBERT   ROYAL DEMONSTRATION BROKEN UP BY SHOTS

GUN AIMED AT CROWN PRINCE   Royalist Demonstration in Italy Broken Up

Humbert Fired On As Italian Rule Changes   Demonstrator Escapes In Crowd; Ivanoe Bonomi Named Premier

HUMBERT, NEW ITALIAN KING, ESCAPES BULLE]   Rome Patriot _ Leader Premier

Shots Fired as Umberto Talks  Underground Leader   Underground Leader Heads New Cabinet; Badoglio Is Out

Shots Fired at Prince Humbert at Royalist Demonstration in Rome; Bonomi Named Badoglio Successor

CROWN PRINGE DUGKO BULLET: GUNMAN FLEE   Rome . Underground Leader !s Asked ta Form New All-Party Cabinet.

, Shots Scatter Crowd "As Bonomi Regime » Takes Over Haly   Burst Of Gunfire Apparently Aimed At Crown Prince Humbert In Rome

CHOSEN PREMIER OFITALY, ADED WV INDEREROIN   Attempt. Made . ta. Murder “Crown Prince Umberto as : lvanoe Borioni Heads: New Renime.   GUNMAN MADE ESCAPE IN CONFUSION OF 5000   Umberto Had Just Stepped to  » Palace Balcony to Wave to Crowd of Royalist Demonstrators.

Humbert. Escapes Apparent Attempt At Assassination   Ivanoe Bonomi Named  New ltalian Premier —  To Succeed Badoglio

ITALYS NEW REGIME MARKED BY GUNFIRE   » Crown Prince Humbert Target Of Wild Shots As Badoglio Steps Down In Favor Of Wndervround Leader

Shots Fired As Italian Prince Names Underground Leader Bonomi Premier

~Start Work on GOP Platforn   Document Will Be Designed To Help Campaign To Place Tts Nominee in White House

Republicans Prepare for Convention   Anti-Fourth Term Democrats Call Convention

PARTY LEADERS START WORK ON GOP PLATFORM   Spangler Says Republicans Will Name Presidential Candidate Wednesday

Republicans Are Expecting To Choose Their Candidate Before Next Wednesday

G.0.P LEADERS MAP PLATFORM   Start Drafting of Policy: Bricker Backers Continve Optimism

DRIVE WILL BE PRESSED FOR YOUTH DRAFT   Campaign Continues Despite Industry and Farm Protests   BOARDS LAGGING ~ QUOTAS FOR MONTHS   Congressional Inquiry In. ‘to the Problem Will be Launched

FIGHTING MEN TO BE SECURED, OFFICIAL SAYS   Industry And Asriculture Will Have To Supply Draft Needs ~

Military Requests Young Man’s Army   [Drive-For Younger Service Group 1s Made ‘Despite { Protest Of Industry, Farming

Weather Cuts Air Attacks   Enemy Radio Reports Attack on German Targets in France

LULL IN AIR RAIDS DUE TO BAD WEATHER  6000 Planes In Attack Thurs. On Continent

Enemy. Targets In South France 1 ambed Today By Italy-Basea “I. S. Planes

Bombers From Italy Raid Railyards In Southern France  Bottleneck for Rhone Valley Attacked By American Planes

AERIAL INVASION DWINDLES WITH BAD WEATHER   EUROPE HAMMERED BY 6,000 OR MORE PLANES YESTERDAY

Bad Weather To Slow Air Drive   PRE-INVASION BOMBING HALTED OVER EUROPE.

ITALIAN BASED BOMBERS ATTACK LYON RAILYARDS   Bottleneck for German Supplies Through Rhone Valley to Southern France Blasted

Air Drive — ‘Kept Going From Italy   Bad Weather Grounds. thi . Force,in Britain, ButNinth Pounds France   LYON RAIL YARDS ’ ARE-HAMMEREI   German Forces in Italy,Supply. Center for, Yugoslavia Also Bombed

Rail Yards at Lyon Bombed   Yank Planes From Italy Carry on Allied Air Offensive

Weather Grounds Allied Air Forces  Vichy Statace JL van   Vichy States Lyon St. Etienne Regions Attacked Friday

U.S. AIRMEN KEEP AIR OF FRANCE HOT   Bombers Based in Italy Drop Loads on Key Rails Centers   ENGLISH BASES OUTET

LYON RAILYARDS ARE BLASTED   Au F leéts Hit Supply Line in Rhone Valley

DWINDLE DUE 10 WEATHER   Lull Comes After Day Of Hammering By 6.000 Planes

Bad Weather Slows Down Air Offensive   Lull Today Came After 6,000 Planes Hit Europe

Most Planes Grounded by Bad Weather   Vichy Radio Reports Attacks -—Speaks of Violent Battles

‘Air Offensive  Slows Down   Bad Weather Over Most of Europe Today

(Continued on Page, %.)  =mave Your Tin Cameo   Bad: Weather Brings Air Invasion Lull

Allied Bombers Hit Lyon   BOTTLENECK FOR NAZI SUPPLY THROUGH ‘  RHONE,

ELIGIBLE FOR. FREE TRAINING      Air ‘Corps . Enlisted Reservists Not 18 By a June 1

NAZIS SAY WEST ATTACK STARTED WITH AIR DRIVE   Claim Captured Fliers Regard Themselves as Invasion Troops

Say Big Push Already Begun   Berlin Regards Air Offensive As Part Of Actual Invasion

Invasion Talk Mounts With: Air Assauli   Helsinki Paper Says .Big i Drive Is Under Way; NoAllied Confirmation .   MADRID PAPER SAYS ‘TODAY OR: TOMORBEOW   Berlin Says: Drive Is -On, Practically. Speaxing, 1nthe Aerial War

Defenses Ready, Germans Says  Nazi Suspend Phone   Nazi Suspend Phone Service Between Denmark and Sweden

REICH CLAIMS INVASION HAS BEGUN BY AlR   Says Captured U.S. Fliers Regard Themselves As First Attack Units

INVASION ALREADY ON  SAY BERLIN DISPATCHES  tleavy Air Raids Over Europe Considered Start of Allied Drive

DENMARK CUT PHONE LINES TO OUTSIDE      Eisenhower On Quick Tour Of Air Fields   SPAIN JOINS   In Speculating On H-Hour; Petain Tells French To Remain Loyal

Invasion Reports, Rumors Are Heard Throughout Europe   New Guess Concerning D-Day Hour Is Made by Spanish Paper

BERLIN DISPATCHES CLAIM INVASION IS ALREADY UNDER WAY   AIR OFFENSIVE DECLARED TO BE PHASE OF WESTERN EUROPE PUSH

Allied Forces Handing Japs Beating On Five Fronts   Berlin Says Invasion Already Under Way

‘Nazis Announce Forces   Set for Onslaught by   Allies; Commander for “Wall”? Named   Petain Gives Plea  To Check Revolt   Eisenhower Says Airmen “Will be Required to _ Do More” in BI ws  Against Enemy

GREAT AIR BLOWS VIEWED AS FIRST INVASION ACTION   TELEPHONE SERVICE BETWEEN COPENHAGEN AND STOCKHOLM CUT

Air Assault Is Invasion Start, Asserts Berlin   Says Defense: Command Ready For Action; Denmark Isolated Again.

BOMB: ATTACKS SEEN AS START OF INVASION   Berlin Calls Week’ $s “Heavy Air ‘Blows Beginning of Allied ‘Drive.

German Invasion Jitters.  Mount As D-Hour Nears:   Stockholm-Denmark ‘Phone Service Cit Again—Rommel! Reported in Command

Berlin Reports Invasion Airmen Actually in Fight  Beclare Invasion Began Week   Age, Practically Speaking— Rommel! Reported Chiei

HELSINKI PAPER SAYS LANDINGS HAVE BEEN MADE   Aerial Offensive Is, To All Practical Purposes, Beginning O! The Invasion, German Military Circles  Think.

Air Assaults. Interpreted As Invasion   Berlin Dispatch” States Recent Raids Opened Invasion

NAZIS REPORT ‘ANTI- INVASION COMMAND SE]   Rumor Rommel Now Is In Charge of  Wat Wall: ..-

‘Axis Paper Reports Allies Have Landed In ‘Several Places’   Wild Rumors F ly as Invasion Day Nears for Continental Europe; Scandinavian Telephones Down

Rommel In ‘Command Of — West. Froni    Rumor Places African _ Leader In __— Position  Held By Rundstedt -

Nazis Say Invasion Air F leet Already in Action   Report 40,000 Armed Danes Ready To Help Allied Invaders; Telephone Com munications In Denmark Again Suspended.

Fliers Assert Invasion Has Started   Berlin Says Reserve Air Crews Have Been Put on Jobs

Nazis Regarded Invasion Begun   AIR BOMBINGS PART OF _ ALLIED LANDING STRATEGY.

Make Several Landings, Is Rumor Today   Nazis Declare Big Air Blows Usher In Assault

Aerial Phase of Invasion Already Under Way, NaziSources Declare.

Allied Invasion Already Under Way, According To aHelsinki Newspaper

Invasion Hour Near, Is Belief   Continued Air Assaults On Continent Regarded In Berlin As Actually Part Of Invasion

Berlin Claims Invasion Now Is Underway   Reserve Aerial Forces Thrown Into Assault; Fliers Captured

Says Air Raids Start Invasion   Berlin Dispatches Declare Blow at   Western Europe, Practically Speaking, Began With Heavy Plane Aseqult a Week Aon.   QUOTES ALLIED FLIERS

GERMANS SAY INVASION IS NOW UNDERWAY  Flyers Regarded   Flyers Regarded As Invasion Troops

lnvasion Began a Week Ago, Berlin Dispatches Assert   Use of Reserve Air Crews and Planes Constituted Opening Phase, Nazis Claim

Nazis Maintain. Invasion . Really Began Week Ago When Air Drive’ Started

Noon Attack Made By U.S. Air Force   Industrial And Military Targets Left In Flames; American And British Planes Blast Other Invasion Obtectives

INVASION RUMORS GROW: AXIS REPORTS LANDINGS   Air Phase Began Week Ago With Heavy Raids, Berlin Dispatch Tells Sweden

Invasion Start Seen By Nazis Tn Air Attacks   rermans Interpret Statements Made By Captured Flyers

Holds Invasion Now Under Way  Nazis Believe Air Raids the Becinnina

G. Ls Ready to Fight Star “Boy Fashion”   SOLDIER LETTERS UPHOLD C. B. . NEWSPAPER IN CRITICISM OF SHOWS

Bride Is Arrested at Brown Palace for Alleged Stealirig of 14 Year Old Hubby

140,000 ENEMY TROOPS ON WAY TO SAD CHOICE      Surrender Or DeathInviting Barge Flight Facing Ten Japanese Divisions; Fight Hellcat Fighters Beat 15 Japs In Carolines.

140,000 JAPS FACING DEATH OR SURRENDER   Relentless Extermination Raids by Land and Sea in New Guinea, New Britain, And New Ireland Isolate Them

Bombers  ‘Lash. ‘Sek atiten Isles’ Where Ke oe Tries to: Mass Planes  6 BARGES BLASTED  PT Craft Team Up With rank Fliers to Pound New Guinea Bases

Allied Raids In South Pacific Forcing Japs -TowardSurrender, Death

Airmen, PT Boats Harass By-Passed Japs in Southwest  Relentless Raids Ferce Isolated Enemy Units Toward Surrende or Death-Inviting Flight

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MAJOR BATTLE MOVES NEARER IN ANZIO AREA   Big Guns Join German Effort to Repulse Invasion Forces

NAZIS HURL HUGE AIR FORCES INTO ITALIAN BATTLE   Nineteen Enemy Planes Shot Down; Fighting Contnues at Cassino

NAZI AIRMEN SHOT OUT OF ITALIAN SKY   German Warplanes Make Determined Effort to Smash Al: lied Beachhead.

ALLIES NEAR ROME FACING STIFF FIGHT   Germans Trying To Drive Allies Back Into Sea

LUFTWAFFE IS REPULSED BELOW ROME   19 Planes Downed By Allied Fighters Over Beachhead

ALLIES DIG. IN AS _ ARTILLERY BLAST HITS PEAK   19 German Planes Knockec Down—Observers Await Turning Point.

GIGANTIC AIR BATTLE RAGES “BELOW ROME   ‘Luftwaffe Attempts to Drive Allied Invader Forces from Beachhead:

ASSAULT COSTS LUFTWAFFE 19 WARPLANES   Shells, Bombs Rain on 5th

LUFTWAFFE HURLS “MANY ARPLANES TO STOP ADVANCE   Germans Make Most Determined Aerial Assault Upon Beachhead Since Battle on January 29.      NAZI BOMB HOSPITAL, 26 DEAD, 43 INJURED   1500 Bombers and Fighters Make Day Raid on Frankfurt, Greatest Fleet Ever Assembled.

FIFTH ARMY AGAIN TAKES INITIATIVE   Germans Bombard Another Allied Field Hospital

AGAIN TAKES INITIATIVE.   Germans Bombard Another Allied Field Hospital

Monschau, One of Focal Points fo German Drive in Belgium, Taken by U. 8S. Troops.

Nazis Expanding Drive Into Offensive Against All Allied Front Lines   Foe 13 Miles From Luxembourg City, 22 Mi. From Liege—Attacks 3rd  3 _ Army—Himmler Commands

Powerful Punches Being Poured Into Exposed Shoulder of Enemy Salient

BUT TANK FORCE STILL RACING ACROSS BELGIUM   Three Titanic Battles Raging

Yanks Turn Foe Back in Critical Belgian Battle   Result May Hasten or Delay War End; Fighting Furious

Great Tank Battles Are Developing   Seriousness of Situation Ad mitted—Nazis May Strike  on Other Fronts

U. S. PUNCHES DENT NEW NAZI OFFENSIVE   Situation Grave, Reports State; American Troops in Control at St. Vith, South of Aachen; Enemy Within 13 Miles of City of Luxembourg: May Hold Whole Southeast Corner of Country

Westward Sweeps Of German Armor Unchecked But Shift In Trend Of Conflict Hinted

DEATH DECREE ~~ FOR TRAITOR  H   FORMER HIGH VICHY OFFICIAL - BENTENCED TO DEATH BY FRENCH MILITARY ©. TRIBUNAL °~

JAPS LEYTE LOSS PLACED AT 32554   MacArthur Says Yank Casualties in 55-Day Fight Only 10,400

PAYING HEAVY PRICE ' FOR DEFENSE   FNEMY HAS LOST NEARI* THIRTY-TO-ONE IN DEAD IN BATTLE FOR LEYTE  ISLAND

M'KITTRICK’S LEAD STILL 20.000 VOTES   Reports Now Tabulated From 4,328 of State’s 4,512 Precincts for Democratic U. S. Senatorial Namination .

ITTELL ACCUSES FALTOR CHIEFS   OUSTED ATTORNEY SAYS  WAS OBJECT OF “GET”

Littell Attacks Realty Interests   Attempt To Control Disposal of War Land

SOVIET ARMY IN OUTSKIRTS OF POLISH CAPITAL   Germans Cleared From 200 Miles Of Danube Bank

Massive Russian Forces Roll Through Romania With Almost Ne Nazi Opposition

Prison Escanees Caught   Girl Kidnaped, Seven Cars Stolen By Flecing Trio

SIX LOSE LIVES IN EXPLOSION AT DOCK   22 Sailors And 10 Civilians Rewain Hospitalized Of More Than 100 Who Were Injured

WEST DOCK FIRE TOLL. REACHES §   Los Angeles Harbor Naval Dock Section Wrecked Saturday —

BURMA MA PUSH GOES AHEAD   CHINESE FORCES WITH BOME U.S. UNITS DRIVING JAPS~ . .. FROM LEDO ROAD  : : pope ote

RUSSIANS PUSH FROM KHERSON TO TRAP NAZIS   lanes, Tanks and Infantry Slash Forces Pocketed in Lower Ukraine

SOVIETS GAIN “MILE-AN-HOUR THROUGH MUD   Drive Relentlessly  Toward Nikolayev   BERLIN FRANTIC   Admit More Surprise Offensives

RUSSIANS MAUL FOE CAUGHT IN SOUTH UKRAINE   Evacuation at Odessa Reported; British Deny Story

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  slash Relentlessly at Nazis Pocketed in Lower Ukrain

French Patriots Punish Women Seen with Nazis   Shave Their Heads Or Execute Them

U.S. Virtually Unopposed At Hollandia   Reported Within Artillery Range Of Big Airdrome

HOLLANDIA FALL NEAR; SEE NO JAPS   Indications Are Forces Have Been Withdrawn in Dutch New Guinea; Air Bases Pounded. *

U.S. Troops Nearing Big Airdrome   Jap Forces May Have Been Withdrawn From Area

DRIVE DEEPER IN HOLLANDIA   Yank Forces Move Within Sight of Main  Airdrome

YANKS SWEEP NEAR AIRPORT ON HOLLANDIA   Other Allied Forces Occupy Another Marshall Atoll; Guam Raid Reported

EXPECT FALL OF HOLLANDIA “BASE SOON   With. Yanks Sweeping Unopposed Through Jap Positions, There Is  _ Speculation Nips May Have Quit Sector.

Yank Invaders Near Vital Site . In New Guines   Report 6th Army Troops Within Artillery Fire Gf Hollandia Airdrome

—PACI FIC—  CAPTURE OF JAP. BASE SEEN NEAF   U.S. ‘Sixth. Army’ ‘Within Artillery Range Of _Hollandia Airdrome :   WEAK RESISTANCE:   Occupation Of Ugelang In Western Marshalls _ Is Announced

YANKEE FORCES CONTINUE PUSH ON HOLLANDIA   No Major Opposition Met tn Drives On Three Airdromes

Yanks Advance In New Guinea   Within Artillery Range of Big Airdrome At Hollandia

Yanks Unopposed As They Advance  Over New Guinea   Speculate as to Whether Japs Withdraw Most of Their 60,000 Troops.  Airbase Is Made Safe  For American Fliers

Alles Sweening Unopposed To New Objectives   Hollandia Airfield Fall Is ‘Imminent;’ One Jap Plane In Attack

Yanks Sweep Through Japs Tn Hollandia   Reported Within Artillery Range Of Air Base

YANKS WITHIN GUN RANGE OF HOLLANDIA BASE   American Troops Advance Unopposed Through Dutch New Guinea

Sixth Army !s Within Artillery Range of Airport   Much of Enemy’s Strength May Have Been Withdrawn

Allies Near Main Hollandia Airfield   its Fall Close at Hand As Invaders Sweep Through Foe’s Positions

Hollandia's Airfield Is About to Fall   Lack of Major Opposition Brings Speculation Japs — May Have Got Troops Out

TROOPS NEAR HOLLANDIA      Meet No Major Opposition; Yanks Stize Ujelang Atoll in Marshalle ;

AMERICAN TROOPS CONTINUE TO SWEEP ‘DUTCH NEW GUINEA   REPORTED TO BE WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF HOLLANDIA ‘IR BASE

Fall of Hollandia Airdrome Near As Yanks Advance  U. S. Meets Little   U. S. Meets Little Opposition From Jap Forces

Yanks Within Fire Range Of Big Airdrome   Americans Push Toward Hollandia Field; Fall Believed Imminent

U.S. Bombers Hammer Anew  At Robot Bases   Daylight Blow Follows Night Of Heavy Aerial Attacks On Germany.

BLAST CALAIS FOURTH TIME      Busy Day For U. S. Bombers; Reich Is Hit In Night Assaults

U. 5. Planes Blast Nest of Robot Rockets   Attack Pas de Calais for the Fourth Time in Forty-eight Hours

Allies Assault Rocket Grounds For Fourth Time   Day Attacks Follow Night Raids Extending From France To Ruhrland

ROCKET PLANE BASES BOMBED BY BIG FORCE   Devastating Blow Dealt Germans During Attack

Rocket Area Is Pounded Fourth Time   France To Germany Bombings Reported

GERMAN ROCKET BASES POUNDED BY BIG BOMBERS   American Heavies Give Flying Bomb Platforms Fourth Hammering In 24 Hours; Far Flung Night Attacks On France And _ Ger many.

ROCKET LAUNCHING  GROUNDS IN FRANCE  BADLY HAMMERED   This Was the Fourth Attach in Less Than TwentyFour Hours.   IT WAS DAYLIGHT BLOW   Followed Night of Far-Flung Aerial Attacks Extending to Industrial Ruhr.

Rocket Area Is Pounded Again By Big Air Armada   Heavy Daylight Blow Again Delivered By American Fortresses And Liberators

Yank Planes Pound Rocke Coast Area   Attack Follows Night of Far Flung Aerial Operations

American Bombers Pound German Rocket Coast; After Berlin and Other Areas Blasted as Planes Fly to Russia

YANK BOMBERS POUND FRANCE   Robot Launching Coas Hit Fourth Time In 24 Hours

ROCKET LAUNCHING GROUNDS OBJECT ALLIED BOMBING   American and British Bombers Hyg Calais and Other Areas As Well As Berlin

Big American Bombers Blast Rocket Bases   Operations on Coast  Follow Attack on Rhur And Berlin and Flight To Bases in Russia

Berlin, Rocket Coast Hit By Allied Bombers; Britain-To-Russia Shuttle Route Is Opened

Big Planes Batter at Robot Nests   ‘Berlin, Ruhr Also Attacked; Launchers Pound in Normandy

Rocket Coast Pounded'by Yank Planes   Nazis Continue Robot Attacks in Reply To Air Attacks

Medical Board’s Blood Test Decision Accepted—White Slave Charges Remain

Chaplin Not Father Of 'Toan Berry’s Daughter   ‘Medical Board Announces Results Of Blood Test Prove Film Comic Not Child’s Father; Decision Is Accepted, By Counsel For Both

Film Comic Is Exonerated In Paternity Test   Blood Test Proves Conslusively Chaplin Did Not Father Joan's Baby

Chaplin Is Not - Father Of Baby   Counsel For Both Sides Accept Blood Tests -

CRIMINAL CHARGES — WILL BE PRESSED      Charlie Chaplin to be Pro: secuted Despite Blood ;  “ests —

BLOOD TESTS CLEAR CHAPLIN   Prove Indicted Actor I: Not Father of Joan Berry’s Child

CHAPLIN CLEAR Of PATERNITY SUIT   BLOOD TESTS SHOW COMIC NOT FATHER OF THE BERRY BABY -

CHILD 1S NOT ~ CHAS. CHAPLINS   Medical Board Clears Famous Actor of Paternal Charces

GHAPLIN FREED IN BABY CASE   Medical Tests Accepted As Final In Paternity Suit

Chaplin Cleared Of Father Charge  mamadinan Tea Ra   Comedian To Be Prosecuted Anyway Mann Act Charges

Free Chaplin On Berry Paternity Charge  Physicians Hold He Wa his P.1k.. Aa O.L.. &**.

BERRY BABY IS NOT MOVIE COMEDIAN’S   , Three Doctors Determine Through » Bleod Tests That Charlie Chaplin Is Not Father

CRIMINAL CHARGES ~ WILL BE PRESSED   Charlie Chaplin  to be Pro: aecufed Despite: Blood F : Tacte: ¢:

ACTOR CLEARED BY BLOOD TEST OF ONE CHARGE   Counsel for Chaplin, Miss Berry Accept Verdict of Medical Board

Chaplin Freed Of Fatherhood By Blood Test   Paterni ty Charge Dropped By Joan Berry’s Lawyer Under Agreement;  * Had Paid $15,000

Daring Attack On Japs’ Marianas Island Bases Is Told Of In Detail

Brothers Meet: In Italian Camp. '  * Sons Of A: E. Muller Of LeMars _

RUSSIANS BREAK OND DEFENSE LINE IN VNPURI DRIVE   Helsinki Dispatch Says Finns are Starting Complete Suaniation at Civ.

RUSSIAN ARMY BREACHES NEW DEFENSE LINE   Advance Rapidly Toward Viipuri. Civilian Evacuation Ordered

Soviet Drive Real Threat To Viipuri   City Being Evacuated by Finns; Situation Critical

2ND FINN LINE SHATTERED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Soviet Troops Speed Up Northward Push On 65-Mile Front

Reds Stream Toward Viipuri   Civilians Evacuated; Russ 28 Miles Away

REDS BREAK SECOND FINN DEFENSE LINE   Russians Score Gains In Drive Toward Viipuri

Second Finnish Defense Pierced   Evacuate Viipuri As Soviets Close In

WAR PROBE GROUP'S FUTURE NOT JELLED   Truman’s Resignation Brings Speculation on Course

Reveal Russia Won Major Point at Parley   New League Can Call on Air Units For Urgent Measures

Reds Win Major Point At Meet   Big F may Powers Agree To Call On Air Forces

Air Force Use Tn Peace Plan Russ Victory   Final Draft Includes Com: promise of Soviet Request

Russian Idea Adopted at  Conference   League of Nations Could Call on Use OF Snacial Air Barca

TRUK BLASTED IN DAY ATTAGK   Explosives Rained On Jap Bastion In Heaviest Assault Of War

American Bombers Unload Heaviest Bombing Attack of the War on Truk

DRAFT BOARDS TO GO EASY ON MEN OVER 30   Pressure on 4-F’s to Obtain War Work Increased

AGE CLASSES ARE ORDERED   DEFERMENT REGULATIONS  : TIGHTEN FOR MEN UNDER 30 ‘.' YEARS—LENIENCY FOR  £ OTHERS

PUT PRESSURE ON 4-EFFERS 10 GET WAR WORK   McNutt, Hershey Issue Edict

DY:BARUCH OFFERS ED'POST-WAR PLAI TE TO GOVERNMENT   ANTI-SUBSIDY:B/ {ETO SUSTAINED PO Y HOUSE VOTE TO   No Need For Ancther De pression, Elder States man Says   CONSTRUCTIVE TAX PROGRAM SUGGESTED

Blueprint for Prosperity: Bernard Baruch Tells Nation How To Change-Over from War to Peace

Baruch Gives Nation Plan For Gigantic Change-Over From War To Peace To Prevent Another Depressicn

Baruch Present: Blueprint for Postwar Period   Elder Statesman Suggests Plan As ‘Adventure in Prosperity’ For Chance to Peace Production

Minimum Is Placed At 27   Troops On Leyte Forge Solid 40-Mile East Coast Front, Overrun 15 Towns

Naval Victory Is Greatest of War   Enemy Lossés Now Placed at More Than 30, With Reports of Damace Still Being Received

Ten Japanese Battleships Knocked Out In Big Battle   Two American Carriers Lost in Engagements; Several Escort Carriers, Destroyers Damaged  TOTATS INCOMPTETE

10 BATTLESHIPS ARE VICTIMS OF NAVAL BATTLES   Two Carriers And Five Cruisers Lost; Several Destroyers Sunk   TRIUMPH PROBABLY WILL SHORTEN WAR

U. S. Naval Victory Over Japs is Nearly Knockout; Over 30 Foe Ships Blastec

Victory In Pacific Naval Battle May Shorten The War,  Observers Declare

Juncture of Two American Corps Dooms Jap Force   Japanese Seapower Ended for Duration

Two Carriers, Two Batth ships, Five Cruisers and® Three Destroyers Sent to Bottom.      6 CAPITAL SHIPS & DAMAGED IN FIGH'      itu  Two Other Dreadnoughts: Listed as Probably Sunk ‘—Blow M ay Chang Pacific Strategy. «

FINNISH FORCES FIGHT GERMANS   Most Of Hogland Island Regained; War May Be Declared On Nazis

15,000,000 Must File, Make First Payment On Income * BY JAMES MARLOW AND

Now That You've Paid Your 1943, It Mav Be Time To Declare For 1944

Sen. Ball To Vote For FDR   DECLARES ROOSEVELT MEETS FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES MORE SQUARELY THAN GOV, DEWEY

Sen. Ball Swayed By FDR’s Speech   Republican Solon Says He'll Back President

Senator Ball Announces His Support of FDR   Rival Candidates For Presidency Speak This Week

SENATOR BALL TO SUPPORT FOR   Dewey’s Middle of the Road Policy Turns Republican Senator from Party

Sen. Ball, Minnesota Republican, Abandons GOP, Supports FDR On Basis Of Foreign Policy Stands

SENATOR JOS. BALL, REPUBLICAN, COMES QUT.FOR ROOSEVELT  SAYS PRESIDENT HAS MEI FOREIGN POLICY ‘ISSUE BETTER THAN DEWEY

BALL BACKING AODSEVELT ON POLICY BAS?   Senator Says Issue of Third World War Tops All Bomestie Aims.

Ball Supports FDR Candidacy Instead Dewey   Minnesota Senator Abandons Party In Presidential Election.

F. R, BACKED BY GOP SENATOR   Ball of Minnesota ‘ Abandens His Party

Ball Announces  Support Of FDR   Minnesota Senator Says He Has Met Foreign Policy Issues.

SENATO WILL SUPPORT F.D.R.S BID   Favors His Foreign Policy as Compared With That of Candidate Dewey of New York.

Senator Ball to Support Roosevelt   G.0.P. Senator Says  President Best Meets

Senator Ball Will Support  Roosevelt   Minnesota Republican Says Mandate Is Clear

SENATOR JOS. BALL, REPUBLICAN, COMES OUT FOR ROOSEVEL?  _ SAYS PRESIDENT HAS ME’ FOREIGN POLICY ISSUE  Re rTnrrr Tepes kt FAMurruyr

BALL COMES OUT FOR ROOSEVELT   REPUBLICAN SENATOR AGREES WITH F. D. R. ON FOREIGN POLICY

ROOSEVELT WINS BALL’S SUPPORT   Foreign Policy Considerec Firmer Than Dewey’s

Senator Ball, Republican, Is For Roosevelt:   Minnesota Man Says F. D. R. Meets Foreign Policy. Issues More  Sauarely Than Dewey

Ball Out For FDR.      Says President’s Stand. On Foreign Policy Is Firmer -Than Gov. Dewey’s

SENATOR NATOR BALL TO SUPPORT FDR FOR FOUR MORE YEARS   Claims Roosevelt Has Met For:  eign Policy More Squarely } Than Dewey :

Senator Ball For Roosevelt   Minnesota Republican Makes Announcement

Republican Ball Annuonces He Will Vote for Roosevelt   Says FDR Has Met Foreign Policy More Sauarely Than Dewey

Senator Ball To Support Roosevelt; Charges Dewey With Riding The Fence

Senator Ball Announces He Will Back F. R.   Minnesota Republicar Says President Meets Foreign Policy Issues More Squarely

Republican Abandons Own Party   Minnesota Senator To Vote For Roosevelt Because Of Latter’s Faraion Paliew Stand

SENATOR BALL SUPPORTS FDR   Favors Roosevelt on Foreign Policy Stand

Senator Ball Will Support ‘FRinElection   Minnesota Republican Expresses Belief President Better Qualified

Senator Ball to Suppor t FDR  Breaks With Party on Foreign Policy

BALL WILL GIVE SUPPORT 10 FDR   Minnesota Senator Favors Foreign Policy Stand

. Senator Ball To Vote For © Roosevelt   Minnesota Senator Abandons Party On Foreian Policy

SEN, JOS. H. BALL COMES OUT FOR MR. ROOSEVELT   Vlinnesota Republican Abandons Party; Says FDR Meets Foreign Policy Issue More Squarely Than Dewey.

GOP Senator  Ball To Vote   For Roosevelt   Minnesotan Abandon: Party For Presidential Race On Foreign Policy Issue

Sen. Ball to Suppor! Roosevell   Abandons Own Party Because F.D.R. Meets Foreign Policy Issue Squarely   SEES CONFUSION IF DEWEY WINS   War Gives Proof We Are Stronger at Home Than Ever Before, He Says

MEAT RATION BY BOWLES   Anti-Poll T: Tax — Bill Shelved in Senate

Reds Pouring Death Into Trapped Nazi  Divisions   10,000 Reported Killed Already In Upper Dnieper Bend; May Be Another Stalingrad

Trapped Nazi Units Being Wiped Out   Russ Troops In North Converging  On Narva

Soviets Push Westward Along Entire Line From Raltice Ta I lleevaine

REDO SLAUGHTER TRAPPED ENEMY   Germans Wander About, Fai to Break Ring.

Reds Set Upon Trapped Nazis   Start Extermination Drive; Main Forces Westward On Long Line

Germans Lose 10,000 in Dnieper Bend   Soviets Killing Nazis Methodically; Take Much Materiel

Reds Slaughter Huge Nazi Army In Dnieper Trap   Entire Russian Front Aflame As Red Army Presses On.

ESTIMATE 100,000 NAZIS ENCIRCLED IN DNIEPER BEND   RED FORCES FORGE WESTWARD FROM THE UKRAINE TO BALTIC

Cherkasyls Scene Of German’s Fa ll To Red Forces   Germans Yield Territory In Estonia, Poland; Smella Falls To Advance

Reds Exterminating Trapped Nazi Groups   Main Russian Forces Push Ahead On ,200-mile Front; No Mention Of German Retreat Inside Old Poland.

Entire Soviet Front Aflame; Reds Gaining   Russians Press Drives In Estonia, Poland. Ukraine; Nazis Set To Flee Crimea

Soviets Hack At Nazi Units In Dnieper Trap  Reported Shorn Of Equipment

MORE THAN’ 100,000 TROOPS ARE CUT OFF   Germans Have Become Groups of “Wanderers” Red Star Commentator Says   NARVA 18 BY-PASSED

Systematic Mopping Up Under Way   Exhausted Nazi Units Wander in. Swamps, en Swollen Sireams— Pictured Like Stalingrad   NARVA  Y-PASSED   Hew Trap Apparently Set in Esfonian City for Germans Who Waited Too Long

Nazis Caught In Red Trap Face Death   10,000 Already Killec As Russians Press Westward Drive

Trapped Nazis Being Hunted by Red Troops   Germans Caught in Upper Dnieper Bend Killed by Thousands

Soviet For ‘ces Forging Ahead Toward Baltic   Meanwhile Systematic Ex. termination of Encircled German Divisions Is  Underwav

10 ENCIRCLED DIVISIONS IN GRAVE PLIGH]   Russians Rolling Ahead All Along Lengthy Front

Ten Nazi Divisions Encircled   Nearly 10,000 Have Already Died By  Russian Arms

Systematic Extermination of  Ten Encircled German Divisions  In Dnieper Bend, Well Underwat

Ukrainian Trap Like One at Stalingrad; Nazis Being Exterminated Methodically

Reds Killing Off Trapped Germans   Main Soviet Forces Continue Westward

Soviets Begin Extermination Trapped Nazis   10,000 Already Slain And Thousands Wander Within Ring Which Reds Are Tightening

RED ARMIES EXTERMINATING NAZI TROOPS   10,000 Germans Killed To Date Bv Soviets

Red Military Units Roll Across 1,200 Mile Front   New Power Drives Meet With Success

Reds Annihilating Trapped Germans In Dnieper Bend  Main Saviet Forras   Main Soviet Forces Continue to Surge Westward on A Wide Front

—t.S. 7th Races To Swiss Border—  NAZI GRIP ON FRANCE FAST VANISHING

Local Physicians To Back Program   County Society Names Committee To Work In Support Of Bills.

CARE OF INDIGENT PROGRAM BACKED   Committee of Local Phy. sicians to Work for Legislation -

Street Brawls, Looting Mark Strike Of Philadelphia Transit Workers

President Asks Lend Lease Fund Of $3,450,570,000   Would Use Unexpended Balances and Repayments Also in Mee!ing Needs for Coming Year

Roosevelt Asks Lend-Lease Fund   Also Kequests Appropriation For FEA Administrative Expenses.

FDR Asks Congress For $3,450570,000 to Use  For Lend-Lease Program

3 Billions Asked for Lend Lease   Unexpended Balances . Maj _ Give 7 Billions for Aid In ‘Next. Year   REQUEST. SENT IN BY. WHITE HOUSE   Sen. Ellender : Urges’ U.S. Fix Policy Now on Final Settlements

FDR Asks Funds for Lend-Lease  Wants Appropriation at ¢2 4650 570.000

3.4 Billion for Lend-Lease Asked   $7,188,893,000 With at oe Pere een

Lend-Lease Fund Boost Is Sought   Presidents Request Would Hike Total For Year To $7 Billion; Settlement Plan Asked

Billions for Lend-Lease   F.R. Asks Huge Sum For World Aid in Next Fiscal Year

Lend-Lease Funds  Asked by President   More Than Three Billions Needed To Carry on Program with Allies

$15 Billion More Sought For Army  Total Expenditures To Reach $49 Billion

ELLENDER CALLS FOR AGREEMENT ON SETTLEMENTS   DECLARES WE MAY FIND OURSELVES OWING OUR ALLIES

Fund Asked By President For Ensuing Year   Aiso Requests Any Unex  pended Balances of Previous Appropriations be Made Availabie   Makes Aggregate Sum $7,188,893,00(   Recommendation - Made After Senator Ellender Called for Fixed Policy  ou Final Settlements

Manchuria Objectives Targets For Superforts   Jap Radio Says Incendiary Bombs Were Also Dropped On Tokyo Again

MIPS CLAIM   Yar.k Attack Made On Third Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor

But J ap Push In China Still  Is Progressing   It’s Been a Long Hard _ Road for U. S. Since  December 1,1941 .

WAR PLANTS IN MANCHURIA HIT BY SUPERFORTS   Also Stage Light Raid on Tokyo. Japs Claim Use of Paratroopers in Leyte Area

HUGE BOMBERS HIT MANCHURIA   Yanks Breach Jap River Line On Leyte, Tank Attack Repulsed

Raiders Strike  Heavy Blows at wo Jina Bases  Attempt to Knock Out  Fields Threuteninz  -«Y.§.-IHeld Saipan

PRAPRPPAAPPPPPPPPPEES AAS  Bombers Hit Jap Base To North of Saipan

Marines Land — On Islands In - Palau Group   Forces Have Secured One Additional Islet Aleards and Are Mopping Up on Another—Big Airfield {s Captured

Embattled Partisans Rout Nazis In 4 Days Of Bloody Slaughter      Powerful Yank Spearheads Strike Beyond Seized Sens For Troyes, 130 Mi. From German Border

Angry French  Chase Nazis From Cit y   LONDON, (U.P) — An angry army of French patriots rebel. led against their Nazi conquerors and liberated their capital city of Paris today.

Parisians  Strike for  Freedom  City’s Capture Deprives Germans OF Kev Railroad

Embattled Pansians Storm Nazi Barricades, Overwhelm Enemy, Garrison, Hoist Tri-Colors Over! Cty    DEPRIVE CERMANS OF RAILWAY CENTER

See Battle For France Nearing End   American Invasion Force Pushing into Country at Great Speed

No Nazi Is Lett In City   Germans Driven Out of Capital After Four Years

Angered French Patriot Army Overwhelms German Garrison   ~ Reconquest of Noted Capital Most Spectacular Blow. Struck By Smouldering Underground Armies of Europe

Angry French Drive Germans From Capital   Hundreds Of Thousands Of Parisians Join In Bloody Fighting In Streets

Angry. Patriots Rise Up, Oust German Garrison; City's Capture Cuts Off Nazis’ Rail Escape

PARIS PATRIOTS FREE CITY IN STREET BATTLES   Four Years of Nazi Rule Ends

Patriots Oust Nazis After 4-Day Battle   I]]-Armed Troops Rout Bulk Of German Occupation Forces, Slauchterino Rear Guards

PATRIOTS LIBERATE PARIS   REPORT THIRD INVASION   DASH 140 MILES TO NORTH

A-DAY BATTLE DRIVES ENEMY FROM CAPITAL   Special Announcement By De Gaulle Tells Of Victory

BLACKOUTS ARE TO END IN LONDON   Effective Sept. 17; Danger from Piloted Planes:Past .

Destruction of Liquor Fought   Mrs. Mary DcBlois Dies in New Orleans   England fo Litt Five-Year Blackout As War Nears End

Claim Jap Troops Captured Yushih   Enemy Taking Control Central China Plain

Japanese Extend Gains In China   Yushih, Southeast Of En. circled Chengsien Taken

MOVE TO CUT ‘U.S. SHARE OF - RELIEF FUND   Soine in House Seeking 7 To Cut Proposed Contribution

House Bloc (pens Battle on Fund For World Aid   Debate Started On $1,350,000,000  Sum for ‘Kitty’

FOREIGN RELIEF © PLAN UNDER FIRE   _HOUSE CRITICS CALL FOR CUT ‘MIN PROPOSED: $3,500,000,000 , CONTRIBUTION,

FOREIGN RELIEF FUND CRITICIZEL   Move Launched To Cut Down $1,550,000,000 Contribution

Debate Rages In House Over  Allied Relief   Move Launched to Cut American ‘Kitty’ to Fund to Aid Those in War-Devastated Areas

Fight Is Begun To Whittle US. Share-of Relief   House Group Would Trim  - Fund, Attach Strings kT. TNRRA ~o--

U.N.R-R-A Drive   Move Launched, To Curtail Proposed Contribution To United Nation’s “Kitty”.

Move to Curtail Postwar Aid Abroad Starts   Group of Prewar Noninterventionists Open Drive in House

DAMAGE FROM HURRICANE PUT AT 30 MILLION   23 Killed In Sweep Through 5 New England States

€ Srends uty Over Ocean   Blows Out to Sea After Bringing Deutl, to 23 Persons and Causinty Huae Losses

Coast Begins Gale Cleanup, Damage Heavy   Atlantic Storm Causes 2: Deaths—Property Loss _ Set at 30 Million

HURRICANE LEAVES 28 DEAD. IN PATH   STORM SWEEPS OUT TO SEA AFTER HITTING EAST— DAMAGE $30,000,000.

23 ARE KILLED BY HURRICANE   Property Damage in Storm Is Estimated at Close To $300,000,000

23 Fatalities, $30,000.000. Damage Left  By Hurricane   Heads into. Atlantic After. Leaving Trail . .Of Devastation. ‘Along.  “Be hans: Cnacthina   SHORE PROPERTIES,  TREES. CROPS SUFFER   ; New Vark- New Jersey, New England: Areas Feel Wing? s Full Fury

23 Are Killed As Hurricane  Heads for Sea   Property Damage Is Reported as Being ‘About $30,000,000

BATTLE RAGES 3 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA   BATTLE FOR WARSAW ENTERS FOURTH DAY OF BITTER SLUGGING

Reds Within 3 Miles of  East Prussia   Savage Armored Drive Nets: Soviets 3 More Cities

Russians Just Three Miles From East Prussia Now   Battle of Warsaw Enter Fourth Day Of Bitter Slugging

REDS FIGHT NEARER EAST PRUSSIA   Hammer Crumbling Nazi Defenses Outside Warsaw

RUSSIAN ARMY 3 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Shell Nazi Border Defenses: Warsaw Battle Mounts In Fury

Shell Nazi Soil From Stand On Prussian Border   Battle for Warsaw Enters 4th Day of Grim Fighting

SOVIETS CHARGE NAZI DEFENSES   Shells Are Dropped In East Prussia By Besieging Army .   Bitter Slugging On 20Mile Front In Battle For Warsaw

Reds Now on East Prussian Frontier Ready to Carry War into Germany Proper. Nazis Cling  _ To Line Fixed PORAEALIONS 1 in Warsaw Suburbs. R74. RNlaar Riga

Nazis Cling To City Of  ’ Warsaw   Russians Are Attempting To Outflank City By Expanding Bridgehead  - Along Vistula River

CANNONS SHELL GERMAN LANDS   Soviet Sweep Across Bor. der Is Expected Momentarily   FIGHT FOR WARSAW

Battle Is Opened Eor East Prussia   Targets on German Soil Now Under Fire of Rus sian Cannon   CLOSE TRAP IN NORTH   Bitter Slugging Battle for arsaw Goes Into  Fourth Day

Reds Surging Near Prussia   In Three Miles of German Soil, Battle for Warsaw in Slow, Bitter Stages

Outside Warsaw Red Forces Hammer at Slowly Crumbling Defenses On the Vistula   THOUSANDS IN TRAP

Soviet Shells Already Fatting On Nazi Soil   By-Passed Warsaw Under Heavy Siege From All Sides

BATTLE RAGES UNBORDER OF EAST PRUDOIA   SheitsFall..on Nazi Soil as Thine imy's Drive  lunges Ahoad.

Red Army At Boehe Boundary,   Expected Momentarily To Place Foot on East Peussian Soil

Russian Army Goes Forward In Fierce Drive   Artillery Barrage Shakes Soil; Warsaw Reported Ablaze

SOVIET FORCE HITS HARD AT THREE CITIES   Bitter Warsaw Battle Enters Fourth Day; Carpathian Passes Are Probed

‘Russian Cannon ‘Shell Pre-War ‘German Soil: ‘Panic Grips Arec   Nazi Defenses In Warsaw Area Crumbling Slowly Under Heavy Red Army Blows

Soviet Troops Are 62 Miles From Krakow   Forces Nearing Czech Border 13 Miles Away

Reds Drive To German Borderland   Effort to Carry War to Enemy Soil Intensified; Furious Struggle On at Warsaw

FIGHTING RAGES NEAR PRUSSIAN BORDERS TODAY   Russians Shell German Soil In Fierce Battle

Fighting Rages Within 3 Miles Of East Prussia   Cherniakhovsky’s ne Forces Charge Upon Vital Border Cities.

WAR TO REACH GERMAN SOIL _ VERY SOON   Fight For Warsaw Enters Fourth Day   OTHER FORGES   Advance Within 62 Miles Of Krakow; Polish Underground Helping

Russian Guns Shell German  Soil in Prussi   Heavy Fighting Rage: Only Three Miles : from Border

Reds Within 3 Miles of German Soil   Two Soviet Armies Moving Swiftly to Invade East Prussia

Hammering Upon Gates of Prussia   Russian Arnior Charges Upon Defenses Before Three Border Cities   SHELLS FALLING ON GERMAN SOIL   a Bitter. Battle Continues _ at - Warsaw; Reds Maintain Progress. Everywhere

Armor Charges Enemy Defenses Before Three E. Prussia Cities   Battle Rages Three Miles From Border   Reds Hammer At Crumb ling Nazis On Vistula Before Warsaw

O MILES FROM EAST PRUSSI   Third White Russian Army Surges Ahead in Determined Drive.   GERMAN SOK. SHELLED

Russians Charge Savagely Before German Defenses   Bitter Fighting Continues on Fourth Day in Battle For Warsaw.   Nazis Cling to Forts Surrounding Capital

Baffle Raging On Frontier Of East Prussia   Struggle For Warsaw Ir Fourth Bloody Day; Nazis Weakening

Battle Rages At Prussian Border    Gen. Cherniakhovsky’s Forces 28 Miles From Important German City Of Tilsit

Drive Will Carry War to German Soil   Russian Armor Charges Savagely Against German Prussian Defenses

Battle Rages 3 Miles From East Prussiz  ,........”) CUM   Soviet Armor Charges Delenses Belore Three Border Cities   RAIL CITIES PERILED   Slowly Crumbling Nazi Delenses at Warsaw Hammered

RED ARTILLERY DROPS SHELLS ON REICH SOM   Struggle for Warsaw Continues to Rage  On 20-Mile Front

SOVIET ARMIES 3 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Russian Drive Set Te Carry War Onto German Soil

Battle for Warsaw In Fourth Day of Slow, Bitter Fightin; On 20-Mile Front

SOVIET SHELLS NOW FALLING ON NAZI SOM   Battle for Warsaw Enters Fourth Day; Polish Capital in Flames.

SALONIKA REPORTED ‘IN BRITISH HANDS”   Germans Evacuate Greek Port— Pressure Maintained on Nazis Fleeing Country.

BRITISH FORCES REACH SALONIKA   Second City Of Greece Evacuated By Enemy In Flight

Nazis Abandon Salonika City  British Reach Port as Germans Evacuate

McNutt Has Returned To Talk-Making   Advances Program For Postwar Period In Six Orations

Japanese Fail In Attempt To Retake Arawe   Americans Hold Upon Peninsula

PROPOSE CEILING FOR FARM WAGES   WFA Puts Limit at $2400 Annually, Wages Are Now Highest In Years.

WAGE CONTROL FOR FARMERS IS ORDERED   Maximum Ceilings Of $2400 Yearly Now In Effect

CEILINGS OF $2,400 A YEAR SET BY JONES   Order Sets Up State Groups To Fix Maximum Wages For Agricultural Workers Like War Labor Board.

WEA Action ts Unprecedented In U. S. History   State Boards Will Hold Hearings and Establish Maximum:   Snecial Instances

WAPE CONTROL PLAN SET UP FOR FARM WORKERS   Food Administrator Puts  Maximum Ceiling at $2 400 Per Year

PUTS CEILING ON FARM PAY   Jones Orders $2400 Maxi mum for Agricultural Workers.

Sets Up Wage C ontrol For Farms First  TimeIn U.S.   WFA Establishes Ceiling Of $2,100; Workers Have Been In Position To Bargain

Jones Orders Maximum Farm Wages  Food Adminstrator   Food Adminstrator Sets Top Pay At $2,400 Per Year

Jones Orders Maximum Farm Wages   Food Adminstrator Sets Top Pay At $2,400 Per Year

‘Farming Wage Reins Ordered   WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATOR MARVIN JONES SETS MAXIMUM CEILING OF $2400 A YEAR IN MOVE UNPRECEDENTED IN U. S. HISTORY

Clamp Lic On Farm Wages   Maximum Ceiling of $2,400 a Year Ordered. By WFA;; Sub-Standard Wages Not Affected

FARM WAGE ~ CONTROL ORDER   Maximum Ceiling of $2,400 Detailed by WEA Jones

‘ood Administrator Jones in Move Unprecedented in American Farm History, Places a Maximum Ceiling  _ of $2,400 a Year.   State Farm Waye Boards Will Hold > Hearings to Establish Top Wages

PROGRAM CALLS FOR CEILING TOP’ OF $2400 A YEAR   FOOD CHIEF ORDERS STATE HEARINGS TO SET MAXIMUM WAGES

Farm Labor Wage Ceiling ~ Set at $2,400   WES Chief Orders ‘State -Farm Pay Boards Set Up- 

Wage Ceilings Ordered For Farm Workers   State Farm Wage Bear me. om we hd tel

Farm Wages Put Under WFA Control   Maximum Set by Unprecedented Order at $2,400 a Year

Wage Control . Is Set Up For Farm Workers   Ceiling Wage Of $2,400 A Year Is Ordered By Food Administrator In Unprecedented Move

Orders Farm Wage Controls  Maximum Ceilings Of $2,400 a Year Have Been Set

Farm Workers’ Wage Control Setup Ordered   Move- by War Food Administrator Unprecedented in All American :-Agricul- tural History   Maximum Ceiling Ts $2400 Yearly   Wages on Farms Have Reached Highest in 20 Years: Sharp Increases _ Made Recently —

Jones Decrees Farm Workers’ Wage Control   Maximum Ceilings Of $2,400 Year Ordered By WFA Chief.

ORDERS CEILING ON FARM WAGES   WFA Places Maximum Price at $2,400 Per Year

Farm Wage Control With $2,400 Ceiling is Ordered by WFA   Move is Unprecedented in History of United States

$2400 Yearly Is Maximum  To Be Paid   Unprecedented Move Is  Taken After Wages Reach 20-Year High

Wage Controls Announced For Farm Workers  wee Order Sets U  SSS, Cee OCMC) og Wee Ba ER,

A Wage Control Program for Farm Workers Created   In Unprecedented Move, WFA Chief Jones Orders $2,400 A Year Ceilings

American FarmLabor Held To Annual Income Of $2400 Under Ruling Of Uncle Sam

FARM LABOR WAGE CONTROL PROGRAM ORDERED BY WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION

$2,400-a-Year Farm Wage Maximum Se’   Under Unprecedented Control Plan, WF:A . Will Set Up State Boards to Determine Exact Scale, Within the Pay Limit. <¢

?residential Nominees Praise Press as National Newspaper Week Gets Under Way   BY THOMAS E. DEWEY:

F.D.R. Praises  Free Press   President Says It Is In Forefront Of Batt}e For Survival.

YOUNG SLAYER DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR, PRAYER ON HIS LIPS   Farm Hand Pays Penalty For Killing Son Of Employer

Vinson Warns We Cannot Relax Our War Time Wage Controls   Stabilization Director, Taking Issue With Some Congressional Sentiment, Says We Must Hold Prices At Present Levels.

Cost of Living Debafe Begun   With Little Steel Formula Under Attack, Vinson Says Can’t Relax Controls

CONGRESS SENTIMENI  FOR RELAXATION OF  WAR WAGE CONTROLS VIEWS OF STABILIZATION  DIRECTOR VINSON OPPNCEN BOWEVER ~

Senators Ask Waye Formula Dropped   But Vinson Says Worker's Purchasing Power Must Be Saved

Abandonment Of Little Steel Formula Urged   View of Some Senators Collide With Views of Stabilization Director Vinson

CONGRESS SENTIMENT FOR RELAXATION OF WAR WAGE CONTROLS  VIEWS OF STARITIZATION   VIEWS OF STABILIZATION DIRECTOR VINSON OPPOSED. HOWEVER

Says Prices Must Be Maintained at Present Levels   Vinson Takes Stand In Growing Fight For Little Steel Formula Revision

Vinson to Insist On Wage Control:   Report Submitted to President Says Living Costs Continue to Soa

VINGON OPPOSED 10 RELAXING CONTROLS   Some Sentiment in Con: gress for Breaking Little Steel Formula.

VINSON BALKS ON SCRAPPING PAY CONTROLS   Stabilization Chief Is Opposed Despite Rise In Living Costs

POST-WAR PLANS WILL BE DEBATED   All-day Meeting Called in Baltimore by County Commissioners

Army and Navy List 6 Casualties   Four Soldiers and One Marine Killed in Action; Aviation Metalsmith Is Missing in Battle Area.

Four Others Are Listed As Wounded   One Southtown Man Is Killed Over Germany, One in France, Three in Italy.

Two Others Are Listed AsWounded   Casualties Include Two Men Lost in Ship Sinkings, One Killed in Italy, One Dead in Pacific.

1 Killed in War;2 More Are Missing   Sgt. James Maine Dies in Pacific; Pvt. James Mahoney, Pvt. Hans Spruck Lost: 4th Man Hurt.

Two Flyers Lost Over Germany   Lt. Floyd McGowen and Lt. Alexander Bender, Members of Same Crew, Bail Out of Bomber.

Four Other Men Listed As Wounded   Dead Are Pvt. Warren Coyle, Lt. John Egan, Sgt. James Warren Gray and Sgt. James Marshall.

Manila Raids Damage Japs   Carrier Planes Sink Heavy Cruiser, Destroyer, 14 Other Ships

Jap Cruiser And Destroyer, 14 Other Ships, 72 Planes Wiped Out In Raid On Manila

Japs Lose 16 Vessels, 72 Planes      Halsey Boosts Jap Toll Around Luzon to 250 Ships Since Sept. .20   DOES NOT INCLUDE _ BIG SEA BATTLE

16 Nip Ships Toll at Manila   Heavy Cruiser and Destroyer Sunk by U.S. Carrier Planes   SUPER-FORTRESS PILOTS TERM RAID ON BANGKOK RAIL SYSTEM ‘PICNIC’

16 More Nippon Vessels Sunk In Manila Area   Ships Tuclude Cruiser and Destroyer; Seventy-Two Enemy Planes Also Are Bugged

Manila Battle — Sees Jap Losses   HEAVY CRUISER AND OTHER SHIPS ARE SUNK

z3 ap Wa rships Sunk In Action Off Manila Bay   11 Other Ships. 72 Planes Wiped Out: Ground Forces Gain On Levte

Manila Attack Nets 16 Ships   72 Jap Planes Also Destroved in Raid

Japs Lose 16 More Ships in Manila Area   Cruiser, Destroyer, Included in Losses Sustained Friday, Nimitz Announces

JAP HEAVY CRUISER, DESTROYER, 14 OTHER SHIPS, 72 PLANES WIPED OUT IN CARRIER RAID

Enemy Ships Are Blasted   Japs” Lose’ Heavily. In Patifie, Action

CARRIER UNIT AGAIN RAIDS MANILA AREA   Jap Heavy Cruiser, Destroyer, 14 Other Ships and 72 Planes Wiped Out in Latest Attacks  FIirrits Aer FLIer ptAPRAITLI

Saipan Renorts Rescue of Entire Cra vy of One B-29 F; “xa Tokyo Raid.

Saipan Reports Rescue of Entire Crew of One B-29 From Tokyo Raid.

U.S. Carrier Aircraft © Wipe Out 16 Jap Ships, 72. Planes Near Manila

16 JAP SHIPS WIPED OUT IN RAID ON MANILA   Toll Of 72 Enemy Planes Also Taken; Navy Rescues Guice Tudor

Destroy 16 Jap Ships At Manila   272 Enemy ‘Planes Wiped Out in Fifth Raid of -Month On Luzon Area ‘By Carrier Aircraft 

REVITALIZED U. 5. FOREIGN POLICY SEEN   Diplomats Believe Stettinius Will Unify His Department

New Spirit Stirs State Department As Stettinius ‘Team’ Shifts Policy

AMMUNITION BEING REFUSED CIVILIANS   Shioments Cf Shells And Rifle But. lets Have Been Stopped At The Factories

FUND WILL PROVIDE $1,000 FOR PATTON   Texas Man Originates Plan for General to Haye $1,000 Bill to Wave in Berlin.

Normandy Line Anchor Passed On Two Sides   British, Canadians Hold Firm Despite Nazi Counter-Blows

TANK, INFANTRY BATTLE RAGES WEST OF CAEN   Doughboys Advance Foot by Foot Against Stubborn Germans

Americans Outflank Western Anchor of Nazi Normandy Line; Others Fiaht in Town

2 Spearheads Thrust at La Haye   Doughboys Push Nazis Back in Stubborn Fight

Normandy Line Outflanked By American {sf   Doughboys Advance Almost Foot-By-Foot Over Stubborn Huns

ALLIES WIDEN FRONT TODAY NEAR LAHAYE   Germans Throwing More Tanks Into Caen Battle

Concord. and Acton Give Vote ' "  bese and Cahill; :Favor : Furbush for 5. ue _

Concord and Acton Give Vote To Dewey and Cahill; Favor) Furbush for Scnntor

Enter Polities In Soldier Vote   Group With Unlimited Money Play Partisan Politics With G. LL. Voting.

Dewey Unarges False Reports b Money Group  Asks Fighting Men Be Told Truth About

Russians Advance In Smashing Drive   Jump Rivers To Attack Last German Stronghold

Boat That Carried General Clark Was Under U. S. Fire   One Officer And One Fnlisted Man Killed As Mistake Is Made Near Anzie BReachhead

Gen. Clark Fired On By U. S. Craft   ... Last January While On Way To Anzio

Accidental Fire Of U.S. Vessel - Kills 2, Wounds 3   Minesweeper Fires on P-T Boat Carrying Gen. Mark W. Clark

Gen. Clark Misses Death   Two Killed and Three Wounded Abcard P-T Boat Carrying Commander

CLARK WAS FIRED ON   Accidental Fire Killed Officer on General’s Boat

REVEAL CLARK ON BOAT HIT BYU. S. SHIP   Minesweeper Fired on P-T Craft Carrying General to Anzio Beachhead Jan. 28—Two of Crew   Killed, Three Hurt.

A Narrow Escape For General Clark   Officer Was in ?-T Boat Fired on by U. S. Minesweenear

Raid On German Plane Factories Was Big Victory   Secretary Stimson Says Later Reports Reveal Factories Badly Ruined

NAZI AIRPLANE PLANTS RAZED   Stimson Says Yanks Score Great Victory: in Raids on Berlin Area

War Secretary Says Factories Out for Months   Mass Raids on Borlin Area Wreaks Havoc With Nazi Production

NEW TAX BILL SIGNED BY FR   Promises End to Great Confusion of Returns for Millions.

Simplified, Tax Law Is Signec   Complicated System [ Thing Of Past

NEW ERA DAWNS INU, S. TAXATION   Report on Plane Production And War Contract Cutback Hold Capital Interest

J, S. ENTERS ON A NEW TAX ERA   Income Tax Confusion Eased For 50,000,000; Congress Turns: To Task Of Simplifying Corporation Tax-

New Tax Bilin    ‘FDR Signs Measure Ending Confusion for 50,000,000 Taxpayers

INEW SIMPLIFIED ITAX BILL GIVEN IEDR ‘APPROVAL   Relieves 30,000,000 off Necessity of Making — . Complicated Tax Returtt

President Signs Tax Simplifyer   New Tax Bill Becomes Law; 30,000,000 Are Relieved of Filing.

U. 5. ENTERS NEW TAX ERA   Income Tax Simplified ; May Be Extended to Corporations

F.R. Signs Simplified  ‘Tax Measure   Eases Figuring for 30 Millions Starting Next January 3

REDS BATTLE FOR NIKOPOL      Russian Baltic _ Armies Take Eighty Fowns, Threaten Railway

Russian-Captured Spot Was Last Hold of Germans on Eastern Bank of the Dnieper

Seven Divisions Are Defeated As Nikopol Is Taken   Manganese Center Was Last German Bastion East of  The Dnieper River

Nikopol Scene Of Fighting; Hitler Troops Giving Ground   “Pocket At Cherkasy. Fast Being Reduced.

Vital Ore Base Into Red Hands   Russians Defeat Seven Nazi Divisions in Great Triumph at Nikopol   STAGGERING BLOW -. TO HITLER FORCES   Practically All. Territory East of Dnieper Now Cleared. of Enemy

Thousands Of Fo oe Being Butchered In 26 ‘real ‘Traps      Russians Shell” ‘German. Airfields ~ Cutting: Last. Cherkasy Escape ord Route; Nikopol Battle Rages

Reds Wipe Out Nikopol Bridgehead   Inflicted Heavy Defeat on Seven Infantry  Divisions

GERMAN BRIDGEHEAD AT NIKOPOL WIPED HT BY RED ARMY   -LAST POINT HELD BY NAZIS ON EAST BANK DNIEPER RIVER LIQUIDATED

Savage Nazi  Attack Likely On Nettuno’s Allied F orces   Doubtful Situation Arises Over Supply

Na azis Dive- Bomb — American Hospital Killing 26 Persons   ae 2 Nurses’ ‘Among Victims; _ Cassino Scene Of Violent Battle; No Major Action In Rome.Area

NAZI TRAPPED TROOPS SLAIN BY RED ARMIES   Germans Dislodged From Estonia By Soviet Forces

Panic Prevails In Bottled-Up Nikopol As Germans’ Hope Of Escape Dwindles

Nazis Have Lost Last Holding East of Dnieper   Bridgehead at Nikopol, Manganese Center Liquidated by Russian Army Forces; Seven Infantry Divisions Suffer Defeat

Nazis Mass Troops; Major Battle Looms   Showdown Nearing in the Italian Campeign: Reds Moving Forward

Fall of Last Position East of Dnieper Robs Germans of War-Vital’  Mannanese   BIG TRAP CLOSING   Thousands of Nazis Slain as Russians Close In--Red Troops Score New Gains in Nerth

Sovict Army Cuts Down Thousands of Axis Soldiers  BATTLE IN NIKOPOTI,   Fighting in Dnieper Bend Is Roaring Toward ° Climax _

15 NAZI DIVISIONS IN DESPERATE PLIGHT ON RUSSIAN FRONT   1,600 German Dead Reported At Gates of Strategic Nikopol   MILITARY PRIZE AT STAKE

Reds Mopping Up: ‘Encircled  German Troops   Soviets’ ‘and Huns Bartle Tn  Outskirts of Nikopel: < Dnieper Battle Rages   --* Péward Cline. .

GERMAN BRIDGEHEAD AT NIKOPOL HAS “BEEN LIQUIDATED   Nazis Driven From Their Last Stronghold East of the Lower Dnieper.   iREDS CAPTURE THE CITY!   Russian Army Has Defeated - Seven German Infantry Divisions.

Bridgehead At Nikopol Is Wrecked   Red Success Reported With 15 Divisions Of Nazi Army Trapped Rw Onslaughts

Nazis Maintain Initiative In Grim Battles   Flying Fortresses Bomb FrankfurtRussians Victors All Along Front

Reds Slaughtering Germans ‘Trapped In Dnieper Bend By  Thousands; Gain Elsewhere   Russians Cutting Down 15 Divisions By Wholesale; Fighting In Nikapol

POSITIONS OF ALLIES ARE CONSOLIDATED   Southern Italy One Theatre In All World Where Enemy Holds a Measure of the Initiative   LONDON DISAPPOINTED

Reds Erase. ‘Nazi Nikopol Bridgehead   Vital Dnieper Bend Manganese Center Falls Into Russian Hands.

Reds Tighten. Circle Around Trapped Nazis   ‘Russians and Germans Fight Without Quarter At Edge of Manganese Center of Nikonol

Moving Slowly In Italy   Nazis Pour Shells On Rome Beachhead; Allies Can’t Push Enemy from Cassino

Trapped Nazi ‘Armies Find Plight Worse   Red Armies Slay Hordes As Circle of Death Is Narrowed

German Planes Raid Heavily In Rome Area   Two Fighter-Bombers  Attack U. 8. Crowded Evacuation Hospital.   TWO NURSES. KILLED

Russ, Germans Fight To Death   No Quarter Battle For Nikopol Raging

germans Massing Troops for Mighty Effort to Drive Americans, British Into the Sea From Beachhead Below Eternal City; Enemy Planes Kill 2 Nurses at Hospital.

VITAL CITY OF NIKOPOL TAKEN   Russian Army Clears Wide Area, Takes Important NManaanese Center.   OTHER CITIES CAPTURED

Trapped Nazis Being Slain   Reds Cut Down Enemy; Near Conquest of Maganese Area Around Nikopol

Trapped Nazis Being Chopped Down By Reds   Bitter Fight Rages For Rich Manganese Center, Nikopol

SITUATION OF 15 DIVISIONS IS DESPERATE   Soviets Cut Down Thousands of Axis Troops and Narrow Circles of Death  Around Enemy Forces   CHERKASY POCKET CUT

Stalin Orders 124 Gun Salvoes To Commemorate Victory  Tn Vast Industrial and Mine Center

Battle Of Cassino Mounts In Fury   ... Fresh Victories Scored By Russians

Rome Beachhead Under Barrage  From German:   Russians Drive Into Nikopol, Managaese City; Italy Drive Is  isappointing

 Russians Chop Trapped Nazis To Pieces   Battle Raging In Outskirt: Of Nikopol, Manganese  Center.

REDS CAPTURE NIKOPOL AREA   Last Nazis Driven Out of Dnieper Bend; Soviets Take Mine City

Reds Draw Circles of Death Tighter;  Nazis Bewildered   Russians Mopping Up Germans Trapped at Nikopol, Cherkasy

ARTILLERY AND PLANES SHACK STH ARMY LINE   Soviets Drive into Nikopol, Tighten Death Traps Around Germans

Ring Around 15 Divisions Is Tightened   Slaughter Grows As Desperate Enemy Attempts Escape

FREE NIKOPOL BRIDGEHEAD, CAPTURE CITY   Industrial Cen Center Pros duces Most of Mangas nese for Hitler’s Way Machine—All of Lowewt. Dnieper Cleared. «4

Final Nazi Stronghold On Dnieper Is Blasted   Fifteen Divisions Of Nazis’ Facing Desperation

NEW PARTY TO BE FORMED   Official Predicts If Will Nominate Roosevelt

B-29 Production To Step Forward   By Stop PVE Wwurg  Boeing’s Seattle  Plant Conversion , ot Oper (oe Pee 2s Coe ee i

TO MAKE MORE B-29s   Seattle Boeing Plant to Produce Superfortresses

Last Lesson for Project Leaders   Fourth Schooling Slated in County Next Week.

Sink Or Damage Three More Jap Ships Fleeing From Philippines   Pave Way For Future Blows Against Japanese Homeland

Auxiliary Sea Units Caught by Liberators   Transport, Cargo Ship Blasted;_. Nippon Faces Mounting Disaster

PLANES BASED IN CHINA HIT 3 MORE VESSELS   Bombers Catch Part Of Task Force Fleeing Leyte Gulf

Planes Sink Or Damage Three Ships In Action Near Hongkong   Bag For Sea Battle May Total 10 Ships   Carrier Planes Pursue Kleeing Enemy: Japs Plan Third Battle

Attacks Boost Toll Of Ships To 37 Or More   Stilwell’s Planes Cateh Jap Force Kleeing From Philippines Fight.

Hit Transport, 2 Other Ships In S. China Sea   Boosts Toll of Enemy Vessels Sunk Or Damaged to 37

TOLL OF ENEMY — VESSELS NOW. THIRTY -SEVEN   MacArthur Announces Americans Have Gained Control of 40-Mile Stretch of Levte’s Fastern

TOLL OF SHIPS IS BOOSTED T0 AT LEAST 37   Part of Task Force Fleeing from Philippines Is Caught by U.S. Bombers.

Navy Says U. S. Lost Six Warships In Philippines; Planes Keep Up Attacks

China Based Bombers Join In Destruction Of The Remnants Of Jap Fleet:

Senate Bickers Over Plan For Flood Control  Barkley Move  Delawe Actan

OPA RULE CUTS FRESH PEACHES   Price to Be One Quartei Under ’42; More Steaks, Roasts Seen

Russians Hurl Nazis Back in Odessa Area   200,000 Germans Are Faced With Entrapment

fortress Near Big Black Sea Port Captured   Many Nazis Trapped in Small Area of Extreme South Russia

Nazis Hurled Back  By Russian Troops   German Stronghold of Ochakoy, 38 Miles From Odes. so, Captured by the Soviets—Gains Are Scored on Other Fronts

Soviets hurl big German forees back  Russ ready for Rumanian drive

Ochakoy Falls; Tasi Rails Cut   Battle Flares Near Pskov:  al men: Pint

Russians Capture Nazi Stronghold   Smash Axis Escape Route into Rumania

SOVIETS PUSH NEAR BIG PORT ON BLACK SEA   Another Red . Army is Within 12 Miles of Hungary Border

Reds Push 38 Miles From Port of Odessc   Main Axis Escape Route Into Rumania Cut With Seizure of Sipotyany; Soviets Within 12 Miles of Hungarian Border

aaS[Yr- °°.  HURLING THOUSANDS OF EXHAUSTED GERMANS INTO BOTTLENECK ON BLACK SEA; CAPTURE 18TH CENTURY FORTRESS ONCE SEIZED FROM TURKS.

GERMANS ARE HURLED BACK INTO ODESSA   AXIS ESCAPE ROUTE ACROSS RUMANIA IS CUT OFF

Russians Hurl Nazis Back  in Odessa Area  200,000 Germans Are Faced

Thousands Of Germans  Hurled Back   Reds Capture Ochakoy With Aid of Marine Attack from Black Sea  SIPOTYANY TOPPLES

ESCAPE ROUTE INTO RUMANIA CUT BY SOVIETS   Nazis Forces Pushed Into Bottleneck Of Odessa

NAZI FORTRESS OF OCHAKOV IS TAKEN BY REDS   Stronghold Is 38 Miles East Of Big Black Sea Port Of Odessa   SOVIETS MAY LAUNCH AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT

Cut Main Axis Escape Route Into Rumania   Soviet Marines Drive Across the Bug and Dnieper

FDR WARNS OF ~ COSTLY BATTLE   President Speaks Near Time Invasion Troops Leave

FDR Carefully Evaded Invasion   Spoke But Gave His Listeners No Tip-Off On World Shaking News

Victory Will Be Tough and Costly, Roosevelt Says   President Seems Preoccupied Broadcasting on Conquest of Rome as Big Push Opens

Victory Seen  ‘By President   Roosevelt Tells Nation, However, Subduing Germany Will Be Tough and Costly

Pvt. G. Walters Is At N.C. Hospital   Fairmont Soldier One of Invasion Casualties ,  Flown from Overseas. 

Writer Rides With Bomber To Kuriles   Within 450 Miles. Of Jap Mainland

Trio On Trial  For Treason   Three Jap-American Sisters Charged With Aiding Nazi Prisoners.

1,500,000 CIGARETTES GO UP IN SMOKE; FIRE DESTROYS TOBACCO HOUSE

Supplies Flown to Parafroopers Die-Hard Nazis itz   Die-Hard Nazis in Calais Area Blasted

Solons Headed  For Campaigns   Elections Will Tell If GOP’s Get Control

ewev Claims DR Prolongs  Allied Victory   « At Morgenthau’s Plan ro Reduce Germany To mpotent State.   ims UP CAMPAIGN

Asks What Became Of Eisenhower War End Forecast   Dewey Charges F.D.R. Hasn't Told Whole Story, Assails Morgenthau Incident

Dewey Charges I. R.’s Incompetence ‘Has Prolonged War   Republican Presidential Nominee Demands  Pa  a tt ee 2 2   Republican Presidential Nominee Demands io Know What Has Happened Jo Eisenhower's Prediction of Victory This Year

Dewey Cha res F.R’s Incom petence Has P rolonged War   Republican Presidential Nominee Demands to Know What Has Happened to Fisenhower’'s Prediction of Victory This Year

Ask What Happened to General’s: Prediction of ‘44 European Victory   Russian Tanks Crash Into Soroksar Area

MORGENTHAU AlD TO NAZIG, SAYS   Asserts Treasury Plan put Fight Back Into Army   DEMANDS TO KNOW   What Has Happened to Can. cel Eisenhower's Predic- tion of War’s End

Roosevelt's Policy Made War Longer   TOOK MORGENTNAU WITH HIS BRUTAL SCHEME TO QUELLE FOR TALK WITii PREMIEK CHURCHILL   Dewey’s Charge

incompefence Puts Fight in Nazis, He Says   Morgenthau’s Plan For Disposing of Germany Stiffened Will to Fight, He Say

Incompetence Prolongs War Governor Says   GOP Nominee Declare: Morgenthan’s “Clamsy”’ Plan for Germany 5tiff  -ened Enemy Defense   Tragic Blunder  Candidate Say:   Declares Americans Are Paying For Improvised Meddling by Roosevelt Regime With Blood

Dewey Charges Morgenthau Plar Delays Victory   Candidate Claims FDR Incompetence Slows End of War

CHARGES FDR WITH DELAY OF VICTOR}   Improvised Meddling Costing Lives Says Dewey

 DR Charges GOP With Distortion And Falsehoods, And  Dewey Claims “Confused Incamnetence”’ Prolonaqs War   War End Forecast Is Claimed Upset  Rr GARDWER BRIDGE

Governor ot New York Says War Prolonged   Morgenthau Target in New York Speech of Republican.

CHARGES WAR PROLONGED A ~ COST OF LVES   Dewey Lashes Incompetence of Rooseveli; Flays Morgenthau.

Dewey Charges Roosevelt’ S ‘Own Confused leonnpsiones Has Prolonsed European War

FDR Charges GOP With Distortion And Falsehoods, And  Dewey Claims “Confused Incamnetence” Prolanas War

Fight Put Back Into The Nazis   Dewey Asserts European War Prolonged By Incompetence

Dewey Asserts FDR Prolongs War By Incompetence   Republican Candidate Charges Roosevelt's Clumsy, Confused Meddling “As Good as 10 Fresh German Divisions”

“ASKS WHY WAR’! END SET AHEAD PAST 2 MONTHS   GOP Candidate Attacks Release Of So-Called Morgenthayu Plan For Nazis

$35.700.000 Kinzua Dam Project Explained by U.S. Engineers at Rotary Meet

Tluge Kinzua Dam Explained at Bradford Meet   $35,700,000 Will he Expended on Allegheny River Reservoir

ALLIED AIRMEN RAKE AMBOINA   Moluccas Blasted In Heavy Two-Day Assaults

Basket Weicht Limit 300 Pounds      All Markets Cut 30 Per.  Cent in Daily Sales Time.

EARLY STRIKES OM IAPAN. FORESEEN   Remnants of Nip 7 Scattered Fleet Are “Unable to Give Defense

TWO RIVERS — ARE BARRIERS TO THE RHINE      Ninth Army Has 15-Mile Front on Roer and Third Army Reaches Saar and Siegfried Line on a Like Stretch. :

British Stand _ Is Reaffirmed   Eden Sees No Change In Poland Since 1939 In Policy Review

Eden Reaffirms British Policy Or Map Status   Uses Caution In Avoiding Showdown On Question Involving Reds, Poles

SHOWDOWN ON ISSUE IS AVOIDED   Eden Reaffirms Policy But He Leaves Loophole

Changes Not fo Be Recognized   Eden Reaffirms Policy Of Britain in Regard To Post-War Period

EDEN SIDESTEPPED TICKLISH QUESTION OF POLISH BORDERS  REAFFIRMED BRITISH POLICY ON WARTIME CHANGES: LEFT AN OU’

Territorial Changes In Poland Not  Recognized   Eden Says Country  Stands On Principles Outlined In Atlantic Charter

LILLIE GROEPPER "WEN? NAVY MAN      Remsen Girls Marriage Takes Place at Miami Meach, Tla.. June 8

LILLIE GROEPPER : WEDS NAVY MAN   Remsen Girls Marriage Takes Place at Miami Meach, Ela... June 3

Would Broaderi Security Laws   New Deal Agencies Ask States to Help

New Deal Urges States to Broaden  Jobless Benefits   4-Point Program Suggested for New Legislatures

PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIP TO TRUK PROVED HAZARDOUS MISSION   PLANES MADE 2,000-MILE FLIGHT IN MISERABLE WEATHER TO GET DICTURES. OF JAP BASE

in S Special Session   Starting This Week   ‘Soldier. Vote Wiil Be Main Business   A Pattern

Hunt Is Candidate For Lieutenant Governor of lowa   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s . Special Correspondent

Prison — Be Prollem  For Speciar Session   Anamosa Investigation Takes New Turn.

TANKER HIT BY JAP TORPEDO SAILS ON   Delivers Cargo to Navy and Then dourneys 5,500 Miles to a Repair Base.

Tax Simplification Plan To Be Effective Lutle By Little   You Won't Feel It Entirely Until Next Year But Changes Will Affeet All Your 19.41 Taxes

New Simplif ied Tax Law Will Take  Effect Gradually Throughout Year

East Waco Evacuated As Brazos Nears Flood Stage      Texas Tornadoes Kill Three As Rivers And Creeks Rise, Cover. Highways

Howse Seeks © Treaty Voice   Open Bid to Break Senate Two-Thirds Rule

Charges Soldiers Lives Sacrificed For Quebec Votes   King’s Partial Draft Attacked

Canadians Battle Over King’s Service Program  Conscription Plan Denounced in  =6- Stranaqest Terms

BRICKER CAMP STILL HOPEFUL   Ohic Governor Supporters Faintly Hope for Miracle at Chicago

Yank Infantrymen Hit Limon Defenses   Japs Ready to Sacrifice Division To Hold Strategic Port; Units of 32nd Division Relieve Gaimt 24th

Biennial Headache, Budget, At Hand for State Departments   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent -

BUTE TOR COMING YEAR’   ‘Always 8 Big Problem to Divide State Income.   Rarial Welfare

Invasion To Be Covered By 215 Yank Reporters   Associated Press Leads Field With ThirtyFive Correspondents

Germans Scurry In All Directions From Greek Trap   Hunt of Extermination Being Pushed On Land, Sea and In Air.

British Warships and Planes Hound Nazi Evacuation Fleet; Allied Forces Occupy Islands

SOUTHWEST JAP BASES ENCIRCLED BY YANK FORCES   Kavieng, Rabaul Surrounded. 90,000 Japs are Trapped In Archinelaao.’

Capture of Two Isles Completes Encircling Move   Frontal Attack Against. 90,000 Trapped Jap Troops Gets Under Way

St. Matthias Islands Seized to Seal Up 90,000 Jap Troops   American Battleships Launch Attack by Shelling of Kavieng: Nins Facing Death or Surrender

Allies Ring Garrisons On  Archipelago   Marines Seize Islands While Ships Shell  New Ireland

BISMARCKS ENCIRCLED BY ALLIES   Marines Seize Two Islands In St. Matchias Group

U.S. Seizes Two Isles to Trap 0,000 Nippons  U. S. Battleships Obliterate Jap

Islands in St. Matthias Group Seized by U.S.   Encirclement Of Bismarcks Is Completed

BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO ENCIRCLED   Kavieng Undergoes Heavy Blasting From U. S. Warship:

COMPLETE RING AROUND 90,000 TRAPPED JABS   Marines Grab 2 Islands Kavieng Blasted By Warships

_MARINE LANDINGS ISOLATE TWO BASES  a TriTrvroriTrTt?: ‘* et73°" 4 7. ©] A [ee eee ee

‘M’Arthur’s Planes And P-T Boats Sink Three Jap Troop Ships And Seven Destroyers

SINK SEVEN MORE JAP DESTROYERS   Three Large Transports Also Victims

PT. Boats  Sink 10 Jap Convoy Ships   Seven Destroyers, Big Transport Sunk In Air-Sea Battle

JAPANESE FLEET AND AIR FORCES (0 INTO HIDING   ‘Latest American Blow at Philippines Costs Nips 357 Pianes and 86 Ships Sunk or Damaged.   SPECTACULAR ATTACK IS MADE ON DAVAO   Enemy Seaplane Tender and Two Destroyer Escorts Are Knocked Out in a Single Run.

Jap Fleet, Flyers Badly Battered, Go Into Hiding   U. S. Navy Air Raids Bag 86 Ships, 357 Planes in Philippines

RAIDS. FORCE TAPS 10-60 INTO HIDING   Philippine Defenders Warv of Yank  Power

Halsey Raiders Searching Japs At Philippines   U. S. Forces Are Keeping Eye On Skulking Nips

Kuriles Bombed oth Straight Day  Encounter Little Anti-Aircraft Fire

NAZI TROOPS AND TRANSPORT SHOT UP BY AIR FORCE   Yank Fliers Pound Fleeing Enemy Troops, Airfields and Transportation Facilities In  - Thousands. of Serties Today

American Airmen Strafe Fleeing  Germans in France  Blast 1! Troop Trains, Other Targets While Planes from Haly

«ALLIES BLAST COASTAL AREA NAZI EUROPE   RAF Lancasters and Halifaxes with Fighter Escorts Do Great Dam aco

Air Attacks On Fleeing Nazi Units    Airport and Transport Fa. cilities Heavily Asaulted  Over Wide Areas   PLANES AID ALLIED AND RED TROOPS   Flying Bomb Centers Also Made Targets of Big Raids

TAUVUSANYS UF ORI Ihe  Nazis Hit In Mighty Air Swipe   FLEEING TROOPS, AIRPORTS AND OIL PLANTS BATTERED

Allied Planes Smash Nazis —  ~ On All Fronts   RAF Bombers Blast New  Long-Range Robot  Ramps in France

Yanks Bomb Troop Trains  Cil Plants, Bridges   Oil Plants, Bridges All Over Nazi Europe Sky Fighters’ Targets

AIRMEN INFLICT HEAVY DAMAGE   Smash or Destroy 1,500 Nazi Freight Cars

Foe Airfields Hit In Reich   RAF Blasts Rocket Nests During Night; Go As Far As Frankfurt.

FLIERS STRAFE FLEEING NAZIS   Fighters and Bombers Fly  Thousands of Sorties

Thousands of Planes Roaming Over Europe   Transport Facilities Are Special Targets In Widespread Raids

BOARDS ORDERED TO FILL HOLIDAY DRAFT QUOTAS   State Director Says Some Offices Falling Short of Calls Due to Postponements

WAR CHEST DRIVE IN A GOOD START   Total of $10,730.76 Is Faz_ ported Collected in Two Days  THE GOAL IS $30,143

WAR CHEST DRIVE: WA coon START      Total of $10,730. % Is Ree ‘ported Collectedin Two Days   THE. GOAL IS $30,143:

MORE WET WEATHER   Showery Week End is Forecast by Flora for Kansas

OHIOAN YOUNGEST WA   Lad, 15, Fooled Army On Age; Mother Anxious For Son After 32 Months

"Miraculous Fractions" of Blood  Plasma of Many Human Medical Uses

Splitting of Blood Plasma Into Fraction: One of Greatest Achievements of War

Group Reveals Secret Plane   But Sub-Committee, Warns Ot War Shock Caming

Rude Awakening Sure, Says Group   Warning Sounded On Over-optimism

Allies Hail Work Of Underground   French Execute Master Plan of Sabotage

ion  Front-Behind-The-Front—  “French Effecting Sabotage Plan  ‘er-)

Maquis Block Transportation Behind Front   Allied High Command Hails French Guerrilla’s Aid

Front-Behind -Front French Force Sabotages Nazis  Underground Executes Master Resistance Without Official Call

GUERRILLA BANDS BOLSTER INVASION   Allies Hail Successful Operaations of French Underground: Set up ‘Front-Behind-the-Front’ in France

Counties Get Funds From Car Licenses   McKean County’s Share Of Payment $6,215

STREET CARS, BUSES HALTED IN ST LOUIS   Strike of 3,500 Workers Paralyzes Transportation

JAPANESE IGNORE 89 U. §. PROTESTS IN PAST 2 YEARS   Handwriting on Wall Appears as Only Hope of Military Experts That Conditions Will Improve.   PLANES, TANKS, GUNS WILL BE BEST ANSWER   tate Department Announces Detailed List Protests, Warnings, Demands Sent to Tokyo.

Diplomatic Failure Leaves Little Hope for Americans in Jap Hands

~ JAP MISDEEDS   Tokyo Silence leaves Many Americans With Little Hope of Better Care

WITH FAILURE   Scant Hope of Better Treatment to Thousands of Jan Prisoners.

TITLE MOPE MELD: FOR BETTER TREATMENT AMERICANS STILL IN JAP HANDS

Thousands of Americans Still Face Nip Atrocities as Diplomatic Protests Fail

Trek Up Gobbler’s Knob To Groundhog Planned   Hope For Curbing Jap Brutality Placed In Warning In Publicity

Hope Fades For Captives   Scant Hope Exists That Prisonezs Will Get Better Treatment

Wants War In Pacific  Stepped Up   Scant Hope Of Better _ Treatment For Amer- ieans Held By Japs

Japanese Ignore All Protests   Senator Demands More Action In Pacific As Only Answer To Jap  _ Atrocities

DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS AID PRISONERS OF JAPANESE FAILURE   EIGHTY-NINE PROTESTS AND WARNINGS FORWARDED TO TOKYO

U. S. Diplomatic Profests On Jap Atrocities Fail   Thousands Still Face Mistreatment From Nip Captors

US Protests Fell on Deaf Ears in Tokyo   State Department Discloses Efforts to Curb Japanese Atrocities; Senator Chavez Wants Tempo Increased

Immediate Aid to MacArthur Demand of Senator Chavez   Failure of Diplomacy to End Atrocitites of Japs Noted

U:S: Sent Japs 89 Protests In Two Years      Doubt Other Prisoners Will Fare Better Unless Tokyo Sees Peril

All Atrocity Protests To Tokio Futile   Scant Hope For Better Treatment Of American  Prisoners Of War.

Thousands Of Americans Still Face Atrocities; UJ. S. Files 89 Protests Against Jap Government

Hull Reveals 89 Protests With Nippons   State Deportment Reports Diplomatic Efforts Fruitless

Planes, Tanks, — Guns fo Answer   Senator Chavez Wants More Supplies for General MacArthur

URGES STEP - UP UF PAGIFIG WAR   Senator Chavez Demands Quickening Of Pace Of War Against Japan As Result Of Atrocity Report.

REPEATED FAILURE OF DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO CURB JAP ATROCITIES EXPLAINS PUBLICATION OF DETAILS   Only Hope Now for Thousands of Other Prisoners . Is That Japs Will See Hand Writing on Wall and Try to Make Some Amends for Acts

Many Face Jap Atrocities As Protests Fail   Only Hope Is That Jap Militarists Soon See Handwrit. ing On Wall.   WANTS ACTION NOW

SPEED UP DEMANDED IN WAR WITH JAPAN TO AD PRISONERS      State Department Tells of 89 Protests Made On Prisoner Treatment   18 CHARGES ARE LISTED

Japan Ignores Protests from United States   Failure of Diplomatic Efforts To Curb Atrocities Leaves Prisoners with Scant Hope of Better Treatment

J apan Ignores U.S. Demand to End. Atrocities   Requests From -State De vparument. Go. Unheeded ;  =. Stepped-up. War On NipsCalled For

Japs Ignore U. S. Protests Over Treatment of Prisoners;  Attempts Made to Stop Horror

Fall of Japanese Held Port Climaxes Swift Drive  FORCE TRAPPED BY AMERICAN TROOPS  Bombs Dropped on Installations of the enemy

LOSS OF PORT HARD BLOW TO FOE ON ISLAND   Three Forces Are Converging on Trapped Nipponese

Four Days’ After the American 77th Division Surprised the Japanese With Landings Strategic Supply Port on Leyte Island is Captured.

Enemy Supply Port Falls fo Veleran Yanks   Heavy Fighting Reported Ahead

Ormoce Loss Serious Blow To Japanese      Further Constricts Trap Being Forged Around Enemy Forces  WTTATIC ARTMRE Tat ATOM

77TH DIVISION ISOLATES NIP FORCE ON LEYTE   Enemy Troops Compressed In Trap Numbers Many Thousands

ORMOC IS TAKEN BY 77TH; YANKS CLOSING WEDGES   Gen. MacArthur Optimistic As Two Divisions  Near Junction   ENEMY AIRFIELDS ARE BLASTED WITH BOMS

ALLIES SEIZE MT. MARRONE IN ITALY   Surprise Attack May Outflank Cassino.

GERMANS CLEARED FROM SAARE ISLE NEAR RIGA GUL   Four Nazi Warships Offshore  _ Sunk, Four Others Dam - aged—Way Paved for New: Russian Blows.   52 RED DIVISIONS PUT IN LATVIA FIGHT   Gains Made on 52-Mite Front —Soviet Forces in Hun-  ‘ gary Are Outflanking  Rndanest.

Reds ‘Smash 4 Nazi Warship:   Foe Is°Clcared on Saare i. Boeaing Gnlf. of Rica

Soviets Clear Nazis From Saare Island   Conquest Frees Riga Gulf for Blows Against Nazi Coast

Nazis Crushed On Saare Island Off Estonia   Four German. Warships Sunk by Soviet Airmen Off Latvia, Moscow Says

Reds Clear Last Nazis  From Saare   Supporting Soviet Airmen Sink Four Ships Off Island

Powerful Nazi Defense Line Cracks   Front Crumbles in Northeastern Hungarian Battle

Reds Race Across Estonian Island   Berlin Acknowledges New Russian Victories

ISLAND IS CLEARED OF GERMAN FORCES   Russian Units Clear Enemy From Island of Sarre

NAZIS CLEARED FROM ESTONIAN ISLAND OF OSEL   Moscow Says Four Ger man Warships Sunk, Four other Damag ed by Red Airmen

AUSOIANG CLEAR FORTIFIELD (Lt   Reds Rout Last Germans  From Estonian Isle   AIRMEN SINK SHIPS   Soviets Hurl 52 Divisions Against Foe in Latvia; New Peak of Violence

FORCE RAMIREZ TO RESIGN AT POINT OF GUN   Coup Worries ‘Washington

Yank Tanks Thrust Way  Near Paris   General Montgomery Says End of War Near; Mantes Bridgehead Secured

Americans Establish Firm Bridgehead Across the Seine River; Meet Heavy Resistance on Sweep Toward the Rocket Coast.      Allies Fight in Versailles Area; Meet Slight Resistance in Paris

ARMORED UNITS SPEAR ON BOTH SIDES OF PARIS  FIERCE REVOLT OF  ee se ee ee ee Sr ee; ht

Revolt Mounts In French Capital   . . Firm Bridgqehead Established Across Seine

Yanks Reach Seine on Opposite Sides of French Capita   Bridgehead at Mantes New Threat to Trapped Nazi Forces

Yanks Aim at Robot Coast   American Forces Drive Ahead on Both Sides of Paris, Cross Seine, Battle in Outskirts of Capital as Revolt Flares

‘Decisive Victory Scored In Northwestern France as U. S. Pincers Yawns for Paris

Yanks Fighting In Area Close  To Versailles   American Tanks Have Thrust Into Sectors On Opposite Sides of the French Capital   Underground In Capital Revolting   U. S$. Force Crosses Seiue At Mantes. Threatening Sweep Toward  Rocket Const

NAZIS FIERCELY TRY 10 BREAK FROM 2 TRAPS   American Vanguards Reported Fighting in Vicinity of Versailles

Tanks Probe Toward World War Battle Fields Near Paris   Germans in Pockets Being Cut to Pieces; End of War In Sight, Says Monty

Underground Forces Given Equipment   Remnants of German Seventh Army Being Cut to Pieces in  The West

Heavy Resistance ls Met Beyond Seine Bridgehead   Tanks Probe 15 to 35 Miles Southeast Of French Capital

Tanks Thrust Into Sectors Above and Below the Capital  BATTLES IN POCKETS      “Monty” Says Enemy Is _ Defeated and End of War in Sight

Montgomery Says Enemy Has Suffered “Decisive Defeat’; Nazis ‘Resist At Rocket Nest

Forces on Two Sides of Capital    Enemy Defeat Complete and  Decisive, End ‘In Sight,’ Says Montgomery   THREATEN NEW SWEEP TO COAS'T   French Underground Rises in Paris; Violent German Efforts Fail

“End Of War In Sight” Say Gen. Montgomery   American Tanks Establish Bridgehead Across Seine River to Nantes, 25 Miles Above Paris

YANKS BA OPEN PATH 10 ROBOT COAST   Yank Armored Units Crese Seine River North and South of Paris

MONTGOMERY SAYS END OF —WARINSIRHT   Yanks Have Seine . Bridgehead and Threaten Sweep “to Rocket Coast.

THE END ISIN. SIGHT, STATES MONTCOMERY   Tells Troops To Put Everything Into Battle

TEMPERATURES:   French Patriots Fight Germans In Streets  Of Pre-War Capital

U.S. Moves Closer Upon Paris   British General Urges Fighters to Continue Efforts, Finish Battle Quickly; Enemy Reels Under Heavy Blows From All Sectors

Bridgehead: On 2 Sides Of Capital   Patton’s Army !s Cutting Nazi Links With South; See Sweep to Marne .

American Tanks Had Thrust Into Sectors on Opposite Sides of Paris, Supreme Headquarters Said.   MONTGOMERY SAYS END OF THE WAR IS IN SIGHT   Americans Established Firm Bridgehead Across Seine at Mantes, 35 Miles From the Capital.

ND OF WAR DIN SIGHT!   ) MONTGOMERY TELLS TROOPS IN FRANOE   nerican Tanks on Two Sides of Paris—Patriots Fight in City,

OTHER UNITS BATTLE NEAR VERSAILLES   “Monty” Declares Gere mans in Northwestern France Decisively Defeated and Says End of War in Sicht.

End of War in Sight, Briton Tells Troop:   U. S. Tanks Thrust Inte Opposite Sides of Paris

GERMAN LOSSES CONSTITUTE ABOUT ELEVEN DIVISIONS IN FRANCE SINCE AUGUST FIRST.   Gen. Montgomery Told Allied Troops That Enemy In Northwestern France War Defeated, ‘Definite, / Complete and Decisive with End of War in Sight”

General Also Says, “Let Us Finish Off the Business in Record Time” — Paris Capture Near.   TANKS ARE POISED NOW ON TWO SIDES

ALLIED FLAGS FLY IN MANY PARIS AREAS   Montgomery Says End Of War in Sight, Urges Effort

Yanks Establish Firm Bridgehead Over Seine 25 Miles From Capital In Sweep Toward Rocket Coast   End of War In Sight, Montgomery Tells Troops; Report Fierce Fighting Between French Underground and German Forces

Way Open for Sweey On French Capital   Patton’s Forces Battle Nazis Near Versailles, 10 Miles From Heart of City

POINT TOWARD COISSONS AREA   ‘End of War in Sight,’ Gen. Montgomery Tells Troops Today.  &°   AMERICANS CROSS SEINE

SOVIETS RENEW DNESTR ATTACK e CLAIM OF NAZIS   Russian Bombers Hit Nazi @ Communications Back of Eastern Front

Secretary of Stafe Ill; Ruling on Soldier Ballot Marking Delayed

Eire Declines To Bar Nazis From Asylum   Government Reserves Right To Shield War Criminals At Own Discretion

EIRE WON'T PROMISE TO BAR ‘WAR GRIMINALS’   Reserves Right To Make Own Decisions, Briton Says

‘Meath March from Bataan fiendish Brutality of Japs Bared  by Escaped Prisoner   Wanton Torture, Starvation and Murder Revealed as High Officials Decide ta Lift Ban on Atrocity Stories

BOMBERS BLAST NORTH GERMANY   Over 2200 Bombers and Fighters in American Raiding Force Today.

2,000 Planes” Again Hit Reich   Nazi Military Targets  On Baltic Sea Blasted

THOUSANDS OF U. S. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Dozens of Nazi Military Targets Are Heavily Hit

STRONG ELAS ATTACK AGAINST RIGHTISTS NORTHWEST GREECE  GREEK SITUATION CONTINUES MUDDLED AND WARLIKE SATURDAY

ELAS Violate Patriot Treaty   Left-Wingers Invade EDES’ Territories

RIVAL GREEK ~UNTS BATTLE   ed By ELAS In North  Rightist Guerrillas Attack Greece

GREEK GUERRILLAS IN FIERCE BATTLE   British Force Is Landed at  Harbor of Piraeus

Attack On EDES By: ELAS Forces Breaks Bargain   British: ‘Claim Progress’ In Move On-- Insurgents After Piraeus Landing

ELAS Attack Rightist Army   Advance 20 Miles [ato Edes Territory; Firing Resornied j

STRONG ATTACK INN. W. GREECE MADE BY ELAS   British Land on North Side of Piraeus Port, Report Progress Made

Greek Forces Battling Each Other   British Leader Says New Attack Has Violated Agreement

847 MILLION GIVEN “BUCK TO TAXPAYERS   Amount Was Errorieously Collected in 12 Months Ending June 30.

Many To Get Tax Refunds   N ames Of Thousands Reported To Congress

SUBDIVISIONS GET $684,595   Lima Receives $169,213 In Real Estate Tax Split

COUNTY UNITS SHARE $279,912 IN TAX MONEY   Personal. Classified Nets $418,389.06 In Lima Area In 1944

Marines Swing Out With Bagpipe Band Just to Prove They Can Do Anything

Yankees Baitle  Japanese  Inside Lorengau Bombers Continue  to Hammer

Yankees Battle Japanese Inside Lorengau  Bombers Continue to Hammer Nipponese Bases

GIRL'S BODY FOUND IN FILLED BATHTUB      No Evidence of Foul Play But Probe Started

Heiress Found Dead In Bath, Inquiry Begins   Police Believe It Was Accident

steetietenenmeneeseiaeemnemeee  Bathtub Slaying Mystery Revealed

Girl Found Dead in Tub   Daughter of Former Oil Executive; Death Believed Accidental

Yanks Batter Way Into Last Defense Lines Below City   Fifth Army Commander Confident Germans to Yield in ‘Few Days’; Nazis Wold Allied Gains to Yards

STF..-TINIUS Ht DED TOUGH OBLEM   dicklish Argentina Relations Job Is Dumped in His Lap

Forest Service Allocates $58,209 to New Mexico; Has $23,283 for Roads

Knox Successor May Be Chosen ‘After Conventions   Question of Available Qualified Men May. ~ Be Better Clarified

CHOOSING NEW SECRETARY OF NAVY DELAYED   ROOSEVELT CHOICE MAY HINGE ON CONVENTIONS

F.D.R. Expected To Delay Naming New Secretary   Forrestal Figures Highly In Congressional Sentiment

REP. FULBRIGHT — ‘INTO SENATE RAGE   THREE-WAY FIGHT DEVELOPS IN ARKANSAS FOR HATTIE 'CARAWAY'S SEAT.

RUSSIAN FORCES BREAK THROUGH 112-MILE FRONT   Drive Across Old Border Into Southern Poland, Led by Gen. Zhukov

12 ERMAN DIVISIONS rAut TRAP  acters Ml   : Hitlerites Reel on 112 Mile Front   RETIRE 31 MILES  Stalin Summons Gen, Zhukov

orees Wage (Crim Struggle _ For Cassino   ew Zealand Troops Wipe Out German Fortifications jAt Edge Of Town,   MD ROCKET COAST

MORE GERMAN PRISONERS IN ALLIED HANDS   Nazis Reinforce Stronghold In  Cassino Area

Anzacs Push Nazis to Last Cassino Hold   180 Prisoners Taken it Lobby of Hotel; Enemy fnew Holds- Hill i0->

BITTER CASSINO FIGHT RAGES Oh   Reinforced Nazis Keep Hold On Part Of Ruined Base

Battle Rages For Cassino   Po Ee ag Pee New Zealand Troops Wipe Out Part of  German Fortifications

Grim Struggle Continues for Ruined Town: German Artillery Blasts Allies

FIERCE BATTLE CONTINUES FOR CITY OF CASINO   Allies Push Nazis Back Despite Reinforcements, Capture Many Prisoners

180 ENEMY TROOPS ARE CAPTURED   F ight For Ruined Town Enters Fifth Day As  Foe Is Reinforced

Cassino Battle Goes on in Ruins   New Zealand Troops Capture Some Nazi Fortifications

Guam Bombed And Shelled In Sea, Air Blows   U. S. Warzhips:And Planes ‘Batter’ Buse “Séized! By Japs After War Opened -in. Pacific

Guam Unde Fire From  U.S. Ships   Japs Say ©. S. Fliers Executed After B-29 Raid

E.D.R. Talks With Invasion Heads   Roosevelt Says He Is Quite Mystified By Pravda Peace Reports.

ROOSEVELT CONFERS WITH MILITARY MEN   President Comments On The Ne ecssity Fer Asstring Adequate Supplies In War Theaters

RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY IS BEING EXAMIN®®   Marshal Sialin is Believed As Have Ordered Withdrawal or Delegates To Aviation Paricy

- 2ussian ~“Vicacrawa_ -rom /.eria. “aq cceSiecs joron ‘oreion Aims

Stalin’s Hand Seen in Ban On Aviation Conference   - Seen Following Policy  ’ Of Stern Opposition To Anti-Soviet f ‘Political Influences  <n O a  e  e e

Decision Is:'Seen By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER BReckwiatest Drece Staff Writer

RUSS ACTION ON AIR MEET IS PUZZLING   Stalin Believed t to Have Reversed Decision fo Attend

Russia Is Believed Unwilling to Participate in Conferences With AntiCommunist Elements.   Reds Are Reaching Out

Stalin Believed Behind Decision To Spurn Parley   Moscow Attitude Traced to Premier

1600 to 2000 Planes Smash Factory In Suburbs, Other Targets, With Loss of 54. and Bag of 83 Machines

Erkner Ball-Bearing Plant Is Specific Target; 10,000 Bombs Loosed

China Will Be Reassured Of Help By Allies   Wallace To Tell Chiang Delay in All-Out Attempt To Retake Burma Is Only Temporary

China Will Be Reassured By Vice President   Wallace Expects To Be Back For  Convention

Wallace to Embark On Diplomatic aMission to China   Aim Is to Reassure Chinese People of Continued Allied Aid

Wallace Slates Reassurance Trip to China  Diplomatic Mission   Diplomatic Mission To End in Time  For June Conclave

WALLACE READY TO VISIT CHINA   Vice President Assigned To Assure Kai-Shek Of U.S. Support

Wallace Will Be at Convention  Will Carry Message to China's Leaders

Lend-Lease Bill Passed by House   Committee Chairman Hints Invasion Here

Four Billions Voted By House  For Lend-Lease   Action Follows Dropping Of Hint Invasion May Come In Few Days

House Decides For Extension  Of Lend-Lease   Invasion Date Hint Given Legislators in Remarks Snnnariting Men...

After Hearing Invasion Hint House Passes On Record Vote Fund For Lend-Lease Supplies

SUPPLY BILL IS OK'D BY HOUSE   Lend-Lease, Aid Measure Is Sent To Senate

 Only 27 Dead, Nine Missing And 190 Wounded In Action At South End Of Atoll, While Marine Casualties At  North Tip Are Estimated Less Than 100 Killed And 400 Wounded—aAdditional U. S. Troops And  Equipment Landed To Wipe Out Jap Remnants

1S THE NIPS’ DEFENSE CORE INMARSHALLS   Bulk of Kwajalein’s More Than 32 Islets Now in American Hands and Reinforcements Are Pourine Ashore.

CONQUEST OF KWAJALEIN IS BELIEVEDNEAR   Reports from Momentous Invasion Tell of Amazingly Light American Losses In Fighting   RESISTANCE TOTTERS

U.S. Conquest Of Kwajalein Appears Near   More Men, Tanks, Guns Pour Ashore to Proceed With Annihilation Of Jap Defenders

Yanks Secure Bulk Of Main Marshall Atoll: More Troops Are Landee

Japanese Resistance Dwindles   Fall of Kwajalein Believed Imminent; Entire Marshalls Poninded Rv Romher:

Concuest of Kwajalein Seems Near   Early Reports Relate Amazingly Light American Casualties   By CHARLES H. M’MURTR‘

LOSSES LIGHT Ad U. 3. GAIN LARGE WEDGE   Core of Japanese Defensive System in Marshalls Is Near Fall.

Men, Tanks, Guns Pour Ashore; Victory Is Near   Amazingly Light ° Losses ‘Are Suffered By Yanks In .Five-Day -Invasion

NAMUR ISLAND IS CAPTURED ~ BY YANKS   American Losses Reported Amazingly Light   STIFF RESISTANCE   Expected At Southern End Of Atoll; Big Bombers Continue Attacks

American Troops Pour Ashore to Wipe Out Enemy   Deep Anchorage Is Prize Sought tn Marshall Isles

Reinforcement In Guns, Tan  Still Poured In            Nimitz Says Most of 32: Islets Are Now in. Our Possession  He ak

Resistance By Nippons Being Battered Down   U. §. Seventh Division Re.  inforcements and Me‘chanized Equipment Smothering Enemy   1,250 Out of 2,000 . Japanese Killed   Slight U, 8. Losses Credited To Bombardment By Navy Before Invasion Got Underwav

POUR ASHORE 10 ANNINILATE JAPS INTHE AWAJALEI   Americans Appeared Today to Be on the Verge of Conquering All the Island.   U. S. LOSSES ARE LIGHT   Admiral Turner Ordered All Transports Inside the Lagoon for Protection.

KWAIALEIN TOTTERS AS U.S. INVASION ENTERS FIFTH DA   Core of Enemy Resistance or Largest Atoll Pounded * By Tanks and Guns   LIGHT AMERICAN LOSSES

All Kwajalein About to Be Captured   Men, Tanks and Guns Pouring Ashore In Marshal] Islands

Most of Coral Isles © Enclosing Anchorage -For Large Fleet Now -In American Hands

More Yankee ~ Forces Land in Marshalls   Army. on Verge of . Taking Kwajalein, the Largest ” Atollin Area —   MARINES CAPTURE: , ROI AND NAMUR   U.S. Casualties Surprisingly Light; No Challenge. to Fleet Indicated

\AP DEFENSE DWINDLES ON MAJOR ATOLI   U.S. Losses Amazingly Light, Commander of Assault Reports

Fighting Men, Tanks, Guns Moved Ashore In Marshalls   Kew Losses Marking Stroke At Japanese

Fighting Men, Guns And Tanks Pouri Ashore To Occupy Key Japanese Isle

Yanks Cleaning Off Kwajalein   Core of Marshalls Defenses Being Cleared of Dwindling Jap Forces

Marshalls: Defense Ke} -Tottering   Reinforced American Forces on Verge of Conquering All  Of Kwajalein

Marshalls Conquest at  Light Cost   Last of Enemy Forces Cornered on   Kwajalein at Southern End of hinll]   726 CASUALTIES   27 Dead, Nine Missing on Roi, Namur, 100 Estimated Dead on Kwajalein °

FEW MEN LOST BY AMERICANS   Casualties Set At 27 Dead, Nine Missing And 190 Wounded

WORK CONTROL. ~ METHODS HIT   LACK OF 6,000 EMPLOYES SERI. OUSLY AFFECTING « THE PRODUCTION OF HEAVY. TIRES:

AMERICANS ADVANCING ON LEYTE   Jap General Is Gambling All On Ormoc Battle

35,000 Fresh Japanese Troops Enter Struggle —   Difficult Terrain ‘Slows Up Movements  of U. S. Tank Units

Hurricane Lashes  Whole Battle Area   Japanese Planes Raid Saipan and Tinian as Americans Attack Long Jap Island Chain

Japs Pouring In Aid to Leyte Force   Tomoyuki Gambles In an Effort to Save Philippines

Reinforced Japs Battle © Fanatically Against The American Forces On Leyte

Yanks Battle Japs in Slime, Mud on Leyte   Hurricane Lashes Battle Areas, Grounds Planes: Nip Planes Hit Saipan, Tinian

Japanese Reinforcements Pour Into Raging Battle For Philippine Foothold

JAPANESE HAVE RUSHED EXTRA MEN TO LEYTE   Attempting “Do-Or-Die” Tactics In Effort To Halt Invasion

Enemy Fights Fanatically Against Hard-Driving 24th Division  eniieineeinaee      Rain And Terrain Slow U. 8. Tanks   Heavy Artillery Hammers Japanese Along Ormoc Corridor And Port

Americans and Japs Fighting  In Hurricane   Hills Flanking Ormoc Road Attacked by U. S. Infantrymen

LEYTE ISLAND HGHT RAGES IN HURRICANE   JAPANESE POUNDED WITHOUT LETUP AT ORMOC

JAPS REPLACE 3,000 TROOPS LOST ON LEYTE   Sneak Men Through AirSea Blockade After Dark, Report

Fresh Japanese Troops Battling in Philippines   Ormoc Corridor Pounded by U. S. Artillery

Japs Land 39,000 Nev Troops  MacArthur Says Americans Make Gains Despite   en: er Se

Tropical Hurricane Lashes Battle Areas   3 Jap Planes Bagged in Monday Raid on Saipan, Tinian; Leyte Fighting Vicious

35,000 Fresh Jap Fanatics Battle For Ormoc Area   Superior U. S. Artillery  Pounding Corridor And Port City

$17.50 Ceiling On Live Cattle Sought By Government  OPA Announcement Expected Today at of »° . G8F%sh Lf wwescawe

THE DAILY NEWS WILL PUBLISH FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL EISENHOWER

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Germans Defending Gop Put Up Stiff Resistance   DOLE-CAPTURED BY_—— AMERICAN TROOPS   Big Battle Reported Rag. ing Near Blamont Village

ALLIES NEAR BELFORT GAP TAKE TOWNS   Bitter Fighting Against Germans Defending Gap Leading to Black Forest Area.   Capture Brianton

Germans Battle Fiercely In Defending Belfort Gap   Raids on Outlying Jap Bases Cause Tokyo to Believe Attack Near

French close in on Belfort  Encounter bitter  ° ° Nari PRrcictanna

French Pound At Belfort Gap   Battle Is Opened Before U. §. Column Arrives

French and Nazis Engage in Bitter Fighting  Belfort Gap May Become Great Battlefront

French Strike Within 16 Mile: Of Belfort Gap   Fight Rages at Blamont 36 Airlines Miles From German Frontier; U.S. Troops Also Advance

GREEN ASSAILS LUCAS’ SOLDIER VOTE MEASURE   Governor Asks Legislature to Adopt His New State Plan

Cote Is Winner Of Boston Race   Montreal Runner, Defending Champion, Registers His Third Victory ini 48th Annual Marathon of the BAA in Exciting Finish Today in 2.31 :50.   KELLEY IS SECOND

News Day And Night    Twin Drives By First Army Leaves Germans Escape Gap Of Only Mile   Adolf Hitler Road Is Cut By Hodges   Germans Counter - Attack Bitterly But Fail To Halt Offensive

Island’s 2d  City Falls To  U.S. Troops   Americans Command 20Mile Stretch On Philip pine Island.

Palo Is Captured By U. S.   Captured Capital Is to Be Used as Giant Springboard

‘The Battle for San Vittore Has Been Won   Evewitness Account of American Victory Tells of Combat Enaineers

ALLIED PLANES BOMB ROME IN NEW AIR ATTACK AGAINST NAZIS .   German Troops Return To Ruined Benedictine Monastery In Another Attempt To Stop Our Advance.

Bold Feat Puts Strong Force Between Two Enemy Armies   Troops Rushed in After Engineers Build Airdrome in Day   Jackie Coogan First  Fan Biers te Teel

Wallace Gets 12  Senators’ Votes   Ten Other Candidates Suggested For VicePresident By Democrats.

Favor Wallace's Renomination   Gets 12 Votes In Poll Democratic Senators; 10 Others Mentioned.

Duce Refused to Help Ciano Says Italian Prince   By REYNOLDS PACKARD Representing the Combined American Press (Distributed by the Associated  Dieace &

Mussolini Helpless to Save Ciano's Life .. Despite Pleadings of His Daughter, Edda

L DUCE SPURNED DAUGHTER'S PLEA TO SAVE HUSBAND   Edda Mussolini Humbled Herself But Father Denounced Ciano

ee eee ’ > ' Duce Deaf to Daughter's Plea for Ciano; “Ballon Dictator Now Religious Fanatic

63 German Planes Are Accounted for in — Yesterdays Raid  GERMANS SUFFER _ LOSSES IN ITALY  Hitler Calls 500,000 Women for the Armed Services

‘American Bombers Attack Nazi ‘Production Centers In Germany: British Hit Objectives In France

WAR TODAY   1.5. Blow At Jap Fieet leaves Enemy With No Hope of Victory ty Pacific.

News From Pacific Called Grand As Another Assault Aids Pearl Harbor Avenge

ae The War Today ——— Grand News From Pacific  War F ront  me pee mas Pai vic

IT’S GRAND NEWS FROM PACIFIC BUT AGAIN JAPANESE APPEAR TO HAVE EVADED FINAL PAYMENT 2

FEATURE BILLING FOR CHAPLIN   Film Fans Fight For Seats As Comedian Goes On Trial

Chaplin Roundly Berated As:  Attoy ney Presents Aranmont!  FUleO LEE UCU 

DOVER I$ FREED FROM SHELLING   People Dance In Streets As Nazi Long-Range Guns Are Stilled

GERMANS CAPTURE AMERICAN. WOMAN   MRS. GERTRUDE LE GENDRE TAKEN PRISONER ON THE - WESTERN FRONT.

Allied Arms Press On Gothic Line   Nazis Reported Building Defenses in Alps

R.A.F. Batters German Town   Tremendous Allied Blows Centered on Hitler’s Strained Transportations

Aerial Blows ‘ Rain On Nazis   OVER 750 ALLIED PLANES IN NEW RAIDS . TODAY.

ALLIES BLAST KORCUA ISLE OFF DALMATIA   Inflict Heavy Damage on Germans   ENTER FLORENCE  mr es sem  Fear Nazi Vandalism In Art Center

HEAVY DAMAGE INFLICTED ON NAZI CITADEL   Battleships Cover Raid Off Yugoslav Coast By Task Force

Alhed Raiders Strike Korcula, Off Yugoslavia   German Military Installations Are Badly Damaged On Ancient Pirate Stronghold   TROOPS ENTERING FLORENCE OUTSKIRTS

Germans Reveal Signs of Panic   Report Terror Grips Hearts of People

1000 MEN RESCUED IN PACIFIC CRASH   Liberty Ship Goe: Goes Aground met Rain” and” Ean

1,000 Sailors Saved from Rocks   Transport Shipwrecked In Fog On Farallon Islands.

1000 MEN RESCUED IN PACIFIC CRASH   Liberty Ship Goes Aground  in Rain and © Fac

MORE THAN 1,000 NAVY MEN RESCUED AT SEA   Taken From Stricken Transport And Surrounding Waters After Ship Goes Aground On Farallon Island Off Golden Gate

SHIP STRIKES ISLANDS OFF GOLDEN GATE   Passengers Take to Sea  ~ and Are Picked Up by  - Shore-Based. Craft Hur-Yied to Scene.   ‘NO LIVES LOST, = - REPORTS INDICATE   Transport Inbound When : Jt Runs Into Fog—Life ’ Jackets and Rafts Used  by ‘Survivors.

TRANSPORT HITS REEF, 1000 SAFE   Liberty Ship Breaks Up On Island Outside Golden Gate

000 Men Rescuer s Navy Transpor uns Aground  Ship Loaded With   Ship Loaded With Pacific War Veterans Crashes Into Island

1,000 Saved As Transport Runs Aground   Liberty Ship Bound For San Francisco Loaded with Navv Mer   ENROUTE TO U. S. FROM PACIFIC AREAS Hits Farallon Islands West of Golden Gate;  Casualties Reported

DOWNPOURS IN WEST   Will Fill Republican and Solomon Close to Bankfull

 Here’s Story of Desperate  Fight, With Yanks Defending a Deserted German Pill-Box

MacLeish’s Poems Are ‘Senseless;’ Says League for Sanity in Poetry   Allegedly Discard Rhyme, Meter, Clarity, Music, Consecutive Thought—'‘Indeed, Thought Itself’

Raiders Damage  63 Ships   Philippines, Borneo Oil Center Also Hit By Ranging Forces

63 Ships Sunk Or Damaged in Carrier Attack   Tokyo Reports New Blow At Island Off China Coast   BULLETIN

NIMITZ REVEALS RESULTS OF BIG FORMOSA STRIKE   JAP FLEET FAILED TO GIVE BATTLE; 22 U. S. PLANES DOWNED

Attack on Formosa Enters Fifth Day, Jap Radio Reports; American Ships Escape Loss

formosa Again Being Battered, okyo Reveals  63 Nip Ships Sunk, mo mmeade Pals mane   63 Nip Ships Sunk,  Domaged; Balikpapan Hard Hit; Luzon Area Bombed Anew By U. S.

U.S. Planes Heap Ruin ‘On Formosa   Destroy 396 Jap Planes; Sink or Damage 63 Ships In 2-Day Attack

Private Plane Owners Get Unlimited Gas “Supplies: OPA Seeking Way To Plug Leak

No Restrictions On Airplane Gas  Lightplanes May Get All Gas They Need

Restrictions Lacking On Plane Gas   Private Flying Is Resumed; Frederick On Corridor From D. C

No Gasoline Ration On Private Planes  OPA Admits That Under Present Regulations It

Weont Gas for Vacation?  All You Need Is Plane: “OPA Must Furnish Fuel

GAS UA eT LOOPHOLE GITED   No Restraint Placed on Airplane Users

Vacation Trips Included Loophole in Rationing Allows Unlimited Gasoline to Planes

PRIVATE OWNERS CAN GET SUPPLY FOR VACATIONING   ONLY REQUISITE IS THAT GAS MUST NOT BE USED FOR AUTOS

NoGas Limit On Airplanes   But Many Protest : Against Unlimited Private Plane Use

Smash Back Germans At Odon River   Nazis Hurl Parts Of 7 Tank Divisions Into Battle For Caen.

Decision Near in France   Rommel Takes  Personal Charge Of Nazi Defense; Assembles Armor

Seven Nazi Tank Divisions  In Furious Battle   Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, July 1 (#) American troops have captured Cap de la Hague.

NAZIS AREREPULSED BY BRITISH   Germans Renew Stabs With Attack West,Of Caen

German Command Hurls Seven Tank Divisions Into Furious Fight to Regain West Flank of Corridor; Yanks Ad vance.

GERMAN ARMORED ~ SPEARHEAD TURNED: -—-BACK'BY BRITISH   Nazis’ Were Attempting te Crash: Into the Odon River ‘Bridgehead.   ASSAULT BROKEN UP   Nazi Command. Threw ‘Ele: ments of 7 Tank Divisjons Into the Battle.

Marshal Rommel Takes Command   .. Allied Planes Bomb Nazi Panzer Reserves

Hurricane Sweeps Into Mexico, Full Strength In Gulf   Smaller, Milder Storm To Strike South Today

DIED AT HOME. ~ OFDAUGHTER   Private Service Held for ‘Gilman Pritchard, 90, Retired Hub Businessman »

Enterprising Yanks Lift Selves Out of Mud by Building Shacks Out of Odds and Ends at Hand

P-T BOATS SINK ENEMY BARGES OFF NEW GUINEA   160 Japanese Troops, Replacements For Be sieged Defenders Of Madang Killed; Two Planes Lost

LOADED ENEMY BARGES SUNK   Craft Surprised Trying To Land Force on New Guinea

P-T Boats Sink Four Jap Barges  160 Nip Troops Are Killed in Action

TROOP-LADEN JAP BARGES ARE SUNK   EFFORT TO REINFORCE MADANG DEFENDERS COSTS 160 NIPS THEIR LIVES.

JAPS THWARTED ENDEAVORING TC SUPPLY MADANG   160 Enemy Troops Are Lost When Speedy P-T Boats Sink Barges   RAIDS CONTINUE ON  MARSHALL ISLANDS

160 Jap Troops Slain by Allies   Loaded Barges Sunk In New Guinea Area

Japanese Killed When P-T  Boats Catch Them-In-Boats   Troop-Laden Enemy Barges Surprised by Allied Craft -——Repeated Bombings Suggest New Drive by Australians

NAZIS DECREE DEATH TO HALT DEFEATISM   No Danger of Food Shortage In Germany Seen

Nazis. Tighten .. “Up        Flagging German Morale "Ja - Closely.’ Watched By Himmler

WANING MORALE BRINGS WAVE OF DEATH TO.NAZIS      ‘Action. ‘Making ‘Tt mpossible For Any Group to ’* Organize Revolution, Observer Says ©

WEAKNESS OF NAZIS BARED   Disclosed By Slowness To Hurl Reinforcements At Russians

Nazis Dooming All Who Feel War Is Lost   No Chance Of Uprising Because Doubters Put To Death.

Sagging Morale Causes Wave Of Death Sentences In Reich   Executions Of Defeatists Make It Impossible To Organize A Revolt

FDR, Morgenthau “To Speak ‘Tonight   ‘‘Money Is Trivial,” 5th Bond Rally Crowd Is Told

Kone of Big Bombers {ost in Two-Way Raic jn Tokyo, Bangkok; {or Industries Hit

BLAST = TOKIO! INDUSTRIES, HIT ~=BANGKOK)   Forced to Use Instru ments Over Targets: No Planes Lost; No An ticraft Fire.  ee

B-29s Blast Tokyo, Hit At Bangkok   Japs’ Capital Visited Second Time in Four Days; India-Based Planes Active

Two-Way Blow At Japanese Made by B-29’s   Planes Based in India Hit Bangkok at Time Others Attack Tokyo

B-295 BLAST TOKYO AGAIN   Superforts Also Raid Bangbok, Capital. of Thailand

To Reclassify, Men 25 to 30   More Men Needed To Fill Draft Quotas, Sava Colonel Cobel.

Soissons Also Ts Occupied By U.S. On Aisne   Other Columne Reach Fis ines, Less Than 50 Miles From, Verdun At Two Upper Marne Points   Places Doughboys ‘100 Mi: From Reich   ‘Seine Bridgehead Pointing Into Robot Bomb Row Swelling, to Bursting Points   larvation Thr eatens French  - In Toulouse Since Nazi Left

Bombing Japan Held Supply Problem; U. §. Air Force Said World’s Larges!

100 TANKS LEAD NAZI ASSAULTS ON RED FORCES   Germans Using Reserves in Effort to Retain Rail Junctions

VIOLENT TANK BATTLES RAGE ON RED FRONI   Key Rail Junction Is at Stake     BOOTY CAPTURED  Nazis Strike Back In Narva Area

Flyers Resume Philippine Blows, Hitting Airdrome  29 More Jap Ships   29 More Jap Ships Sunk by Submarines ; Continue Palau Gains

Bombers Resume Their Attacks On Philippines   Hit Jap Positions On Mindanao, Wreck Three Warplanes

Democrats Are Scored ByBromtield   FAMOUS AUTHOR SAYS PARTY IS TIRED, QUARRELSO ME SHIFTY WRECK, DIVIDED BY BITTER FUEDS   Need Fresh Pack

BROMFIELD FLAYS NEW DEAL SET-UP   Asserts That Party Is ‘Tired, Quarrelsome and Politically Shifty’; Raps Claims of Being Liberai Party

Democratic Party Tired and Shifty, Says Bromfield   He'll Vote for Dewey, He Tells Republicans

OPA ATTACKS BUTTER PRICES   Launches Campaign Against ‘Upgrading’ by Dealers

PLANES SHUTTLE OVER CHANNEL   Bombers Hammer Bridges, Airfields In Normandy

500 Planes Hit German Rear Lines   U. S. Craft Blasts French Targets; Rip Gun Posts Near Cherbourg

Allies Bomb Big Guns at Cherbourg   Pound Defenses of Germans Holding Back Advancing Infantry

PLANES BLAST NORTH GERMANY   RAILWAYS, AIRFIELDS IN NORMANDY BLASTED

PLANES HIT NAZIS BEHIND BATTLE LINE   Normandy Battle Zone Heavily Bombed and Other Planes Range Far Over France and Europe

Heavies Batter Reich   Follow Morning Blows Upon Normandy Area; Polesti Is Target

North German Cities Hit By Bombers   Marauders Rip Oper Cherbourg Blocks For Infantry Break

BOMBERS RAKE FRENCH FRONT   500 Yank Planes Rip Nazi Communication Lines  Behind Beachhead

Fortresses And Liberators' Range Over France Andi Normandy Battle Zone; Follow RAF Assaults

AIRMEN BLASTS NAZIS IN FRANCE   U. S. Pounds French Bridges, Airfields; Report Reich Raid

WARPLANES JAM CHANNEL SKIES   HAMMER AT GERMAN DEFENSES BEHIND NORMANDY LINES

Planes Again Scorch Nazi Lines and Oil  Fields In Romania   Germany Reports Heavy Bombers Going Into Northwest Germany Today; Normandy To Reich Ripped Open.

German Gun Positions  Hit From Air   Marauders Obtain Devastating Results In Cherbourg Attack

ALLIED AIR ARMADA KEEPS UP ASSAULTS   Battlefields and Supply Lines Are Blasted

U. S. Bombers Fill  Normandy Skies   Alr Hosts Rip Foe's French Positions and Roar into Germany 

Zi Installations ehind Battle Zone in France Blasted   rauders Dump Many ‘ons of Bombs on  Cherbourg Guns

Forts and Liberators Pound Nazi Targets in Northwest Reich After Brit Fliers Hit French. Rails, Bridges and Airfields

All Types - of Planes — ~ Into Fight   Channel Skies Jammed. as .. Weather Clears; Heavies Hammer. Germany   /FRONT LINES ALSO ~ BY ° ARE POUNDED   Warplanes. Gontinue Raids -_on Troops Trying to Get : to Beachhead:

SWARMS OF PLANES HIT IN FRANCE   Marauders Rip Nazi Guns Blicking Push Into Cherbourg

HAMMER NAZI TARGETS   Bridges, Airfields and Other Instal, Jation Bit in Germany

PLOEST! AREA IN ROMANIA BOMBED   Intense Flak and Enemy Planes Encountered , During Raid.

Forts, Liberators Hammer Targets in  Northwest Germany  500 Others Range Over France In Close Support of Invasion Forces, Hit Gun Positions

LABOR  CRISIS: FACES DETROIT; STRIKE VOTED          MAINTENANCE MEN © OF . Wat PLANTS VOTE WALKOVS. TOMORROW 400,000. WOULD BE AFFECTED  

Russians Crush Rumanian Divisions   Reds Widen Hold Beyond Dniester, Surge on Rail Hub in Old Pofand

Russ Crush 2 Rumanian Troop Units   Soviets Fan Out Toward :Carpathians and Danube Estuary

Red Troops Fan Out From Break Into Bessarabia   ‘Rumanians Shot For  Not Holding

RUSSIAN TROOPS FAN  OUT IN BESSARABIA  IN CONTINUED DRIVE OTHER RED FORCES RE PORTED SURGING TOWARD POLISH RAIL HUB

Dewey Tells Crowd At Springfield, IIl., He’s Still Chasing Ganesters of Sort

3,000 PLANES IN SUPPORT ATTACK BATTER GERMANS   Largest Single Mission Of 1,500 Bombers Aids Allies

Assaults On Palau Called: Greatest Surface And Naval Bombardments Ever Staged   Two-Thirds Of Jap Air Power Wiped © Ont At Hollandia As Attack Support.

Jap Fortress Hit by Shells Of Warships   Attack Part of Vast ‘ Plan, Correspondent in New Guinea Says

Assault on Japs Palau Base Heralded as One of Greatest Ever Staged by U. §. Navy   Part of Widespread Attack That Gave Truk Battering From MacArthur's Air Fleet; 82 Nip Plones Destroyed in Last 72 Hours

U.S. Warships Rocked Palau   Bombarding Was Greatest: Trok Hut 8th Time

Palau Attack Described As Greatest Yet   MacArihur’s Planes Keep Jap Airforce Pinned Down To Let Surface  Ships Shell Island

Palau Assault Called ‘Greatest   Philippines Neaxsdl Tc Within 530 Miles

PALAU REPORTED ‘HEAVILY SHELLED BY U.S, WARSHIPS   Dispatch Describes Bombardment of Jap Naval Stronghold as One of Greatest Ever Staged by Navy.   NIP PLANES AT OTHER POINTS PINNED DOWN   Air Raids on Central Pacific Islands Enabled Nimitz’s Task Force to Carry Gut Mission.

Enemy Fort Is Shelled In Sea, Air  Ensasement   ‘Island. Planes Kept Grounded In Fight

Great’ Naval Blow Landed On Jap Base   Assault On Palau iI: Called One Of War’: Stiffest; Enemy Aerial Strensth Crinnled

Japanese Bastion Near Philippines Nearly Neutralized   Daily Bombing Raids Have Leveled Halmahera, Key Supply Base for Nips

ST. LOUIS TALK BY DEWEY SET MONDAY. NIGH]   ‘Slippery ‘Tactics’ His Retort To White House Reply

CAMPAIGN IS INITSLAST THREE WEEKS   Dewey to.Give Major Address in St. Louis Tonight

Polish Woman Sentenced Because Her Dog Growlec At Nazi Colonel’s Canine

RED CROSS REPORTS ON JAP PRISON CAMPS  Conditions Called Satisfactory But Mail Situation Declared Poor

Nippons Treating Prisoners Well  But One Camp Has No Mail Since May, 1942

RED CROSS REPORTS CONDITIONS FAIRLY GOOD IN JAP CAMP   NO MAIL RECEIVED, HOWEVER, FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS BY PRISONERS

No Mail in One Jap Prison Camp Since May, 1942, But Otherwise Conditions Are “Satisfactory”

International Red Cross Reports on ‘Show’ Camps Where Conditions Are Good

Rates Japan's Prison Camps ‘Satisfactory   Food Sufficient, Mai Receipt Poor, Says Re Crosse Renort.

No Mail Since May, 1942, but Jap Prison Camp Reported Satisfactory

Conditions Are Satisfactory At Several Jap Prison Camps   Red Cross Reports Indicate, However, No Mail At One Camp In 18 Months: Xmas Menu Given

All Candidates Are Qualified   Democratic Nominees On November Bollot

RESTRICTIONS EASED FOR MEN’S CLOTHES   Late Spring Suits May Have Belts and Pleats

SIMPLIFIED INCOME TAX FORM AVAIL- _ ~~ ABLEIN MARCH   Form. Designed For Those Who Ar Required to: Submit Itemjzed Computation.

Aerial ‘Support . . > Held to Minimux   Difficult: Flying Weather Re f: ported. in _Normpndy: the -East Three Days. © -

Yanks Establish Front On Bank Of Arno River After 9 Mile Advance

RECESS NEAR FOR CONGRESS   Senate Calendar Clear. House 7 Faces Debate

Exemptions on Income Tax to  Be Filed Soon   Emplovers Get Blanks For Use Lnder New Law—Must Make Re ports by December I   Uroed To Protect Self.

PRAVDADOUBTS CERITY OF HELSINKI   Delay in Acceptance of Terms May End Negotiations

NAZIS REFUSE FINN REQUEST   Break In Peace Negotiations Seen During Week

NAZIS WON'T QUIT FINLAND   Germans and Finns End Discussion  Russia May Soon End Peace Talks

GI Swing Band Finds Liege Youth Hottest Jitterbugs Outside U. S.

Doughboys Enliven Belgian Cafe   Tommygun Packin’ Yanks Send Jitterbuggin’ Liege Kids Out of This World When They Take Over With Music in Night Spot

‘Housewives Will Be Askec About Their Problems In  Defense Council Survey

Housewives to Be Asked For War Problems   Defense Counci Survey of House hold Difficulties

‘Abbey’s 2,000 Held by Nazis Under Bombs   Plea of Priest to Evacuate Cassino Monastery Met by Guns at Gate

B-r-r-r!   Americans Shiver From Wichita To Boston As  Maerriury Drone

NATION VISITED. BY COOL WAVE   Record Is Abnormaliy Low Temperatures From Wichita to Boston.

NATION CHILLED BY RECORD LOW MERCURY DROF   Southern States, Boston, Other Eastern Points Shiver In the 50's

Cold Wave Hits Country From Wichita-Boston   State of Kansas Gets Both Wet And Cold Weathe;x.

Allied Troops Record New Kohima Gains   Stilwell’s Forces Continue to Advance in North

YANK FLEET SHOWS PUNCH   Overwhelms Truk After Aiding Hollandia  Invasion

eavy Air Assault Hits ermany  American Drop 3360 Tons on Reich in Massive hanial Attark

British Deal Berlin 12th Blockbuster   Raids Cause Almost Complete Blackout Over Europe

ADMITS SENDING DATAIN LETTER   SUSPENDED,NAVY MAN TIPPED PRODUCTION LEADS TO HIS FIRM

Commander John D. Corrigan Admits Sending Letter ‘To Chicago Firm !n Which He Retains Half Interest

Suspended Navy Officer Testifies  Explains ‘Restricted Letter To Firm   Information Valuable

Dempsey's Troops Fight Violent Battle in Steets Nijmegen Near Rhine

BRITISH PATROL THRUSTS ACROSS HOLLAND LINE ©   Panzer Units Take Peatinge

Allied Drive Is Slowed on West Front   Nazis Slaughtered in Reck less Counter-attacks Or dered by Hitler

BRITTO ON WAY, Pichi VITAL ZONE.      Allies Have Lot To Be Thankful For “With Hitler In Command,” Declares General Montgomery   OPEN COUNTRY TO BERLIN LOOMS AHRFAD

Hitler Assumes” Direct Command of Nazi Troops,   Shock Units Fight Desperate: Battle For, .. City of Nijmegen 

Fuehrer’s Presence  Already In Evidence By Reckless Attacks Bringing Frightful  Loss of Nazi Lives

Cross Into Area East Of Hol land.   MOVE IS MADE AS. HITLER’ TAKES OVER DIRECT COMIN OF DEFENSE OF THE REICH

RAF Slashes. Nazi Targets   Night Blows Follow U. S. Opening Of Fateful Month

NIGHT AIR BLOW IS DEALT FRANCE BY R. A. F. FLEET   Attack Follows Hurling of 2,500 Planes Against Inva- * sion Coast in Daylight  Agacantlt.   OFFENSIVE ENTERS .ITS EIGHTEENTH DAY,   Railroads Near Belgium and On the Seine River Northwest of Paris  Are Targets, ~

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Heavies Attack Invasion Coast And Rail Yards   Wide Area Covered As Raids Continue

Throw 2,500 craft against  nazi defense Hit network of rail junctions

Bombing Results Are Good and Enemy Resistance Negligible   Three Fighters and as Many Heavy Planes Reported Missing: Axis Radios Leave Airy as Assaults Continue Monday Night

Yank Flyers Make Heavy Attacks on Calais Coast Targets and 17 Junctions of Rail Network

‘More Than 2500 Planes  Hurled Against Axis : Defenses  [CALAIS AREA HIT BY LARGE SWARMS  Vast Network of Rail Junctions Aiso Hit During Day  !   l

Axis DefensesonCalais Coast Near Britain Are Targets of 2500 Planes   Vast Network of Rail Junctions Blasted, Losses Light; Enemy Offers Little Resistance Night Raiders in Action; Florence Struck

More Than 2500 Planes Hurled Against Axis  Defenses   CALAIS AREA - BY LARGE SWARMS Vast Network of Rail Junctions Also Hit —. During Day

2,900 Planes Take Partin. Monday Raids   RAF Opens 18th Day Of Pre-Invasion Raids With Night Assaults  RESISTANCE LIGHT

Enemy Resistance Almost Negligible   Royal Air Force Bombers Out Over Europe After American Bombers Complete Attacks

RESULTS GOOD AND ENEMY RESISTANCE  NEGLIGIBLE; EVEN NAZI ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE ONLY MODERATE; 2,000 1) S PLANES IN RAIDS.

YANKS SEND UP 2,500 PLANES IN DAY ATTACK   Great Aerial Offensive Enters 18th Day Of Pre-Invasion Softening

DISORGANIZED GERMANS FACE SEINE POCKET   City After City Seized By Fast  French Patriots

300,000 Nazi Troops Put Out Of Action, 1200 Tanks Smashed By Allied Forces Since D-Day

"30,000 Prisoner: * Surrender In »Falaise Trap   American Forces Southeast of Paris Push to Within 30 Miles of Marne River—World War I Battlefield

Roll Germans Back Upon Lower Seine   British Strike Eastward Canadians Make 4-10 Mile Gain

West France is Held by Allies   FRENCH FORCES DRIVE GERMANS OUT OF — . PARIS -

ENEMY SO DISORGANIZED THEY ARE UNABLE MAKE ANY COORDINATED STAND   Thirty Thousand Prisoners Taken in Falaise Trap With Thousands More Throwing Up Their Hands: Pocketed Germans Virtually Wiped Out

Four Allied Armies Put On Squeeze   Bridgeless Seine May Become Death Trap for Germans; Prisoner Toll Graws

Gains Made By v. §., Canadian, British Forces   Enemy Unable To Make Coordinated Stand In France

Nazis Being Rolled Back As Vast New  Pocket Forms   Thousands Of Foe Taken Prisoner; German Dead Not Yet Counted

Four Ally. Units Closing In On Well Bled Huns   Seyenth German Army Struggles Frantically After Escaping One Trap; Into Another   Von Kluge Saves Most Of His Men From Falaise Trap But They Run Into Another   Patton’s Razzle-Dazzle Tactics Harass And Disorganize German Defense

CLOSE POCKET FROM FALAISE TO SEINE LINE   Germans, Surrendering By Platoon s, Scramble To Get Across River

Patton’s Third Army Drives West and North From Mantes Toward Rocket Gun Emplacements on Pas de Calais Coast

Armored Troops Close In For Battle Of Annihilation   100,000 GERMANS CAUGHT IN TRAP   Enemy Shipping In Brest Harbor Attacked By Bombers

FOUR ARMIES ARE PUSHING IN FOR KILL   Murderous Air And Land Bombardment Hammers Escape Corridor

Terrific Land And Air Bombardment Bottles 100,000 Nazis In Trap   Allied Armies Close On Enemy In Normandy Pocket To Achieve History-Making Triumph

#oe’s Route For _ Escape Is Nearly Closed In France   “Blood And Guts’ Patton’s Third U. S. Army And Canadian Troops Narrow Gap To Only 10 Miles; German Position ‘Hopeless’

Nazis’ Escape Gap Narrowed In Normandy   Allied Armored Forces Close in From All Sides -

GAP BETWEEN ARGENTAN AND FALAISE IS SHUT   Dazed German Prisoners Stumbled Througt ¥ Allied Line Last Night and This  Moarnine

Patton's Columns Poundine Within 8 Miles of Falaise.  Canadians Storm Southwarc

NORMANDY NAZIS TRAPPED BY U. 8. ~ ARMORED FORCE   German Troops Numbering Over 100,000 Reported to Be Streaming Through Lines as Prisoners.   BOMBS, SHELLS POUND DAZED ‘SUPER-MEN   U. S. Planes Blast Luftwaffe Bases In Germany, Belgium and Holland; Robots Again Active.

Army Trapped By Swift Drive Of U. S. Forces   Allied Planes, Tanks And Infantry Rain Death On Cornered Nazi Troops

NAZI ESCAPE GAP CUT 10 10 MILES   100,000 Germans Are Cornered in Narrow Pocket

BATTLE BEGINS TO WIPE OUT NAZI THOUSANDS   Yanks Pound Enemy Near Falaise; Canadiane Sinem Ganth

Allied Forces Close In To Annithilate Doomed Nazis Trapped In Normandv Pocket

MUCH DANAGE FROM STORM   High Winds Reach Velocity Of 50 Miles An Hour at Times in Wisconsin.   30 HURT IN MILWAUKEE

ALLIES ADVANCE BEYOND CAPTURED FAENZA IN ITALY   Troops Take Positions Along Senio River

ANTON HULMIAN, J. IS GUEST SPEAKER   Large Crowd Expected At Greater Linton Club Meeting ,

Japs Losing Heavily in Saipan Raid   Warships Bombarding Enemy Strongpoints

Troops Drive Toward Jap Airfield   Nip Headache Grows With Aerial Attacks on Kuriles

French Patriots Stage Uprisings At! Many Points   Extend Almost Length Of Eastern France,  Swiss and Swedes Say

French Patriot: Occupy Three Vital Centers   Major Uprising From Metz to Avignon as Partisans Get Arms

LOYAL FRENC IN CONTROL OF THREE CITIES   Collaborationists In Toulouse, Limoges And Tarbes Are Shot   PARTISANS GETTING ARMS FROM ALLIES

PARTISANS IN FRANCE START UPRISING   Seize Strategic Centers in Three Cities; from Metz to Airgnon; “Major Coup” at Bellegarde.   Arrest 6,500

FRENCH TAKE THREE TOWNS REPORT SAYS   Uprising of Partisans Told  in Direct Dispatches

any Uprisings sported from ralegic Area   one and Mayors  hot by Partisans

CRACK DIXIE FLICR, MAIL TRAIN CRASH   Many Of Casualties Were Soldiers Riding In First Three Cars Of Fast Train; 64 Are Reported  Tninred   BELIEVE DEATH TOLL MAY RISE

25KILLED IN INDIANA TRAIN WRECK   ‘Dixie. Flyer- Rams Mail Train; 64  Are Jniured

IN INDIANA TRAIN WRECK   Dixie Flyer Rams Mail Train; 64 Are Injured

25 Persons Die in Train Wreck At Terre Haute   Crack Dixie Flyer Crashes Head-On With Mail Train In Fog

Russians, in New Drive, Threaten Polish Bastion   German Defenses arounc Lwow Cracked; Nazi Plight Is Grave

Reds Smash German Defenses Around Lwow   Russians Cut Lwow-Kowel Trunk Railway And Pave , Way For Wide Drive Into Broad Plains Of Nazi-Occupied Poland

GERMAN DEFENSE OF LOW COUNTRIES APPEARS T0 HAVE FALLEN APART   Most of Belgium Now In Allied Hands; British and Americans Con tinue To Drive Ahead:

Simplified tax plan expected to win congressional-executive approval

! . ° . o Stmaplitied lax plan expecled to win ‘convressional-executive approval

Simpler Tax Plan Mappec By Congress   Higher Exemption For Dependents is Now Scheduled

U.S COMMANDOS UNLOCKED DOOR FOR INVASION SOUTHERN FRANCE   Tens of Thousands of Americans and French Troops Pour Across Beaches.

American Rangers Spike German Coastal Guns fo Let Doughboys Land in Safety  Daring Commando-Type Troops Scale Cliffs, Capture Nazi Gun Crews on Coast of France

NAVY GOT "EM THERE BUT IT WAS COMMANDOS WHO UNLOCKED DOOR YESTERDAY   Daring Invasion Was Officially Ruled Out by Navy As Being Impossible But The Army Insisted That It Could Be Done

U. S. Commandos Silenced ‘Coastal Guns, Paving Way ‘For Successful Invasion

Rangers Silence Coastal Guns   Pave Way for Landings into Southern France   Plan Was So Daring Navy Men Insisted It Was too Dangerous but Entire Operation Was Carried Out Successfully

Commandos Silenced Coastal Batteries Prior To Invasion Slipped Ashore, Scaled Cliffs, Overwhelmed

Navy Got ’Em There But Commando-Rangers ‘Unlocked The Door To Southern France

RANGER AND COMMANDO UNITS: -SIX.HOURS AHEAD OF H-HOUR   TROOPS PUT ASHORE BEFORE - MAIN LANDINGS WIPED OUT OREWS OF COASTAL GUNS ~

COMMANDOS OPENED DOOR TC SOUTHERN FRENGH BEACHHEAD   DIY UBVAGHE IPUCALRR Associated Press War Correspon naAant+

Says River Bills Have Power As Primary Object   Navigation and Irrigation Secondary Senator Charges

Many States Hard Hit by Cold Wave   Fourth of U. S. Shivers, Many Regions in ‘Below’ Weather

ALLIES CUT THRU NAZI DEFENSES BELOW ROME   U.S. Armored Forces Team With French te Capture Key Towns of Pico Pico and”: Lannla- ~-

17 NAZI UNITS BATTERED BACK ‘ON MAIN FRONT   German Ring Around Beachhead Pierced As New Drive Gains Power

Make Gains Across the Appian Way   Cut Off Main Escape Route Available for German Retreat

Americans Punch Holes In German Ring Around Beachhead As 5th And &th Armies Gain In South Italy   Ry REYNOLDS PACKARD

Finns To Reject Soviet Proposal   *  Parliament Meets Secretly Hear Premier’s Recommendation.

Finnish Parliament Meeting In Secret Session To Consider Rejection Of Russian Peace Term:

FINN REJECTION OF TERMS SEEN   Premier Reported To Have Advised ‘No’ To Russia

Gasoline A Cards Slashed In Fight On Black Marl-ot      Air forces instructing’ Nazis; General Ike Gives Out Dual Reprimand And Officer Quakes: Tidhite OF Tandon

Air Forces ‘Instructing’ Nazis; General Ike Gives Out Dual Reprimand And Officer Quakes: Tidbits Of London

PVT. AMORE KILLED IN ACTION IN ITALY   Resident of Marenisco Wa: First Reported Missing In Action,

Soldier Vote Plan Strikes Snag  Many Counties Can’t Pay Poll Taxes

Bombers Support Attack _   U. S. Heavies Lay a — Carpet of Explosives Along 50-Mile Front; Reds Mass for Assault

BIG. OFFENSIVE UNDER WAY, IS BERLIN OPINION   vew Thrust in Aachen Region Also Near, Germans Say

Send 1,300 Bombers In Support Of Attack On German Positions In Metz Sector

Third Army Nab: 9 More Towns   Pincers Clamped on City in Offensive Aimed for Valley; Score of Towns Captured; Nazis Say 500,000 Men Massed for Attack

Three New USS. Divisions Are Hurled at Foe In Metz Region   Berlin Terms Assault Pre lude to Big Allied  Offensive

YANKS PUSHED BACK IN ITAL)   Nazis Launch New Attack Both Sides of Gallicano Near Ligurian Sea

YANKS PUSHED BACK IN. ITALY   Nazi Thrust Makes Gains In West Coast Area  7

GERMANS OPEN DRIVE IN ITAL!   Yanks Forced To Withdraw In West Coast Sector

THRUST HIT FIFTH ARMY   YANK UNITS IN TTALY FORCED » BACK BY SUDDEN ATTACK NEAR WEST COAST

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   AMERICANS WITHDRAW NEAR ITALIAN COAST

Texans Work, Play And Buy Bonds As Nation Celebrates July Fourth

Host's Silver Missing: Indian Rajah Enterfains Yanks At Festival in Elaborate Palace

GERMAN UNITS “MELT” UNDER SOVIET BLOWS   What's Left of 10 Divisions, Caught In Red Trap, Spurting Blood,” Russians Say.

SOVIET FIRE MELTS TRAPPEL GERMAN UNITS   Doomed Nazis Used As Bait

TIGHTEN NET ABOUT NAZIS   New Trap Seen As Lines Penetrated Near Cherkasi

Temperatures   Soviets Closing in On 100,000 Nazis In Ukraine Sector

Nazis Squeezed Into Red Trap   Battered Into 36 Square Mile Area

See Reds Baiting New Nazi Trap   Pocket of Germans in Ukraine Being Pressed Steadily Smalier

RUSS LURE NAZIS INTO NEW TRAP; KILLING LAST OF 100.000 AT CHERKASI

TRAPPED GERMANS BUTCHERED   Survivors Are Now Compressed In Tiny Pocket

German Units Melting Away In Tiny Pocket   Secondary Russ Troops Cut Off Rescue Squads  In Southwest Sectors

Reds Squeeze Blood From Nazi Pocket   Ten Trapped Divisions Driven Into Smaller Area, Is Report

RUSSIAN FORCES. SQUEEZE GERMANS   ‘Americans Gain Control of 75-Mile Straiis In Capture of Rooke Island.

Soviets Believed to Have Permitted Penetration -of Lines  FOE ‘MELTS AWAY’  Loss of Korsun Ends Hope of Helding Out Against Onslaught

10 Trapped Nazi Units Face “Kall”   Reds Use Doomed Germans as Bait For Another Trap

Acoue UMN ABOUT IOWA   Light Call for Draft Revorted for October

Vinson Says Wage, Price Policies Must be Maintained, Indicating No Changes Planned in Little Steel Code

Fred Vinson Against Higher Wage Ceiling   Stabilization Director Joins Opposition To Labor’s Demands For Revision Of Formula

Britain, Russia Are Criticized By Congressmen   Churchill Scored In Heated Debate

GAVIN SCORES BRITISH POLICY   Sets Off Angry Debate by Attacking Churchill Regarding Draft

BRITAIN'S DRAFT POLICIES RAPPED   CRITICISM OF ENGLAND AND RUSSIA LEADS TO ANGRY DEBATE IN HOUSE,

Congress Rings With Loud Angry Debate   w +  Restless Solons Fight Over Criticizina Allies

BITTER DEBATE RAGES AMONG CONGRESSMEN   Pennsylyania Representative Is Critica) Of Both Britain And Russia In House

British Policy Is Criticized By Rep. Gavin   Administration Backers Charge ‘Careless Talk’ May Prolong Conflict

Eisenhower Calls On Peoples Of Belgium And Luxembourg To Rise Up; Tells Them Liberation Near

Liberation  Of Belgium, Luxembourg Near, He Say:   Eisenhower Also Tells People Of Holland, Norway Their Time Is Near

U.S, ADVOCATES SECURITY TALKS   Hopes to Hold Meeting of Nations in January

Se curity Meet May Be Held In [Early Winter   Undersecretary Stetiinius Says Dumbarton Oaks Confab Lasted Longer Than Planned:

Anticipate J anuary Conference   Government Hopes United Nations Will Meet in Washington On World Peace Plan

Allied Nations To Confer On Security Plan   Stettinius Discloses U. S. Hopes For World Peace Parley in January

United Nations Security Meeting ir January Planned   May Follow StalinChurchill-Roosevelt Conference Soon

WORLD SECURITY TALKS PLANNED   - U.S. House Session to  Be Held in January

Swiss Federal Council Donates 200,000 Francs To Aid Bombing Victims

SOONG DISCUSSE STILWELL RECAL   Entirely a a Clash of Faraqaliiis With Chiang, He Says

Personality Only Issue In China   Says’ Stilwell Matter Won't Affect Policies

Shaping Plans 'To Reconstruct  Italian Nation   New Policy Of Greater Home Rule Worked Out - By-Roosevelt and * Churchill

Home Rule to Be Given Italians  Plan Worked Out by Roosevelt, Churchill

Allies to Turn More Home Rule to Italy   One-Time Enemy Country to Shift Gradually From Military to Civilian Basis, Starting Right Away

Plans Drafted For Home Rule For Italians  One-Time Enemy Teh Re Shifted tn   One-Time Enemy To Be Shifted to Civilian Basis

PLAN ECONOMIC HELP FOR ITALY   ITALIANS TO GET MORE CONTROL OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Allies to Nurse Italy Back to Economic Health  New Policy Permits r,s   New Policy Permits Greater Home Rule for Italians .

To Set Up Civil Control Plan Reconstruction Of  Italy On Far- Reaching Basis; O'Dwyer Reports

Push Pians for ‘Reconstruction of Italian Nation   More Home Rule, Food, and Military Aid Are Goals Set By Aljied Leaders

Italy Will Get More Home Rule With New Policy   FDR and Churchill Announce Step To Resume Relations With Country.

NAZI TROOPS CHOPPED UP IN “GRINDER”   German 14th Army May Have Been Virtually Destroyed, According to Gen. Clark

Two Way Attacks On Truk   Seventh Air Force Blasts Five Islands, M’Arthur’s Fleet Joins Attacks.

‘American Air Units Continue Attacks on Truk as Naval (Force Strikes Near Philippine:

Japs Lose 14 Ships  to Subs   All Craft Anchored Sunk or Damaged in Palau Thrust

Task Forces Maintain Radio Silence   Attacks Believed Continuing in Philippines Area

LEFT FLANK OF GERMANS TORN LOOSE   ‘Swarm Over Stream In Assault Boats

Opens Path For Possible Flanking Of Saarbrucken   On The Other Three Brideeheads To The North American Doughboys Called Upon To Resist Fierce German Tank Attacks.

Santa Fe Division Crosses River at Three More Points; 3-Mile Gains Scored at Southern End of Front

Yanks Drive Back Foe West of Carentan; Hot Fighting for Montebourg

Four Divisions of Armored Troops in Lines Around Caen   Fierce Fighting Reported; Situation in France  Fluid

Montebourg Fate Remains Uncertain  As Combat Rages   Battleships And 1500 U. S. Bombers Support Allied Invasion Drive; Beachhead Extends 100 Miles

Heavy, Inconclusive Bat tles Also Raging For Mantehnanura Trnarn.

THROW AnMOR DIVISIONS INTO COUN TERDRIVE   Montebourg and Troan Scene of Furious Attacks on Allied Armies.

Four Divisions Rushed in Battle Against Allies   Heavy Fighting Rages at Both Ends of 100-Mile  Front i in France.   _ British Advance 23 Miles, Outflank Town

Focal Points Are Two Main Town             FEnemy’s Objective Is To Hold Eastern Battle Line Bastiofi Of Caen 7 oe

Nazi Counteraction on Eastern Flank in Normandy Follows British Drive 23 Miles Inland.   GERMAN BASES ARE TARGETS FROM AIR

Allies Gain in Mighty Fight   British Drive 23 Miles Inland; Caen Outflanked; Yanks Push Germans _ Back Several Miles West of Carentan

Yanks, Germans Battling In Streets Of Montebourg.   Firm Foothold

Focal Points Are — Two Main Towns   Enemy’s Objective Is To Hold Eastern Battle Line a Of Caen

SAVAGE GERMAN DRIVE AGAINST INVADERS AND HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES ALONG 100-MILE FRONT   Caen ‘and Caumont Scene of Bitter Fighting with Tide of Battle Raging Back and Forth. Allied Warships Lend Great Aid to Invaders   DILEMMA OF GERMAN COMMAND AS TO MAIN ALLIED ATTACK AND WIDENING OF BRIDGEHEAD HAS AIDED INVASION   Differences in Viewpoint Between Rommel and Von Rundstedt Have Played to Allied Advantag And They Are Now Better Prepared for Nazi  canbe Aownerlba

Nazis Hurl 4 Armored: Divisions Into Frays   Trying to Save Stronghold of Caen - From Threat Envelopment; — ‘Other Sectors Active ,

Nazis Hurl Armor into Caen Fight   Towns at Opposite Ends of 100-Mile Front Change Hands In Savaae Action

Fierce Fighting  At Opposite Ends Of Battlefront   Savage Counterattack Follows British Drive 23 Miles Inland To Flank Caen

\LUIES EFFECT ENCIRCLEMENT OF CAEN, EASTERN ANCHOR OF NAZI DEFENSES

Nazis Throw Four  Tank Divisions Into Battle East of Caen   Allies Report Montebourg, Troarn Each Change Hands During Past 24 Hours

NAZIS FLING 4 ARMORED UNITS AGAINST YANKS   Mighty Tank Battles Gam In Fury On 100-Mile  Front

Terrific Fight For Great Port Nearing Climax   Allied Armored Unite In Cherbourg Sector Meet Stiffened Resistance From Hun Forces   Two Towns Change  HandsOverni ght   Snvage Battles Under Way  ; On Both Ends of 100. Mile Front; Armored  Struggle Rising

British Tanks Outflank Caen As Americans Resist Strong Counterattack at Montebourg   Caen Fast Crumbling to Debris As Naval Units Join Land Forces and Pour in Steady Stream of Cannon Fire; Nozis Battle for Troarn

British Outflank Caen in Preliminary to Battle, Americans Battle for Montebourg, Warships Shell Troarn

YANK ATTACKS ARE ENLARGING INVASION AREA   Deep Gashes Chopped in Naz? Lines Around Cherbourg In Savage Fighting

Fierce Battle Rages Today   Both Montebourg, Troarn Change ( Hands Often

Armored Forces Hurled in Fight   Counterattack by Nazis As Allies  Gain Some Ground

VIGOR, SKILL MARK FIGHT OF GERMANS   British Tanks Have Driven 23 Miles Into Normandy as Front Widened to 100 Miles.

4 Nazi Armored Divisions Thrown Into Bitter Fight   Fierce Engagements At Each End of 100-Mile Long Front

German Defense Stiffer   Troarn and Montebourg Change Hands More Than Once in Fierce Fighting in Normandy

NAZI DEFENSES CUT THROUGH IN TWO PLACES   Caen Under Heavy Fire From Ships In Channel

Germans Stage Savage Attack Against Towns  Armored Struggle Reported Rising  Is. bniewesetesn Wea

French Front lOO Miles; Fights Rage At Beachhead Ends   Rye THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FOUR DIVISIONS DRIVE AGAINST ALLIED FORCES   Heavy Fighting Rages At Opposite Ends Of Beachhead

Savage Counter-Attacks Made at Ends of Line; Yanks Drive Farther Inland And Caen In Flames

Heavy Counter-Attack Follows Deep Altied Drive West of Bastion   Tide of Battle Flows Baek anid Forth at Troarn And Mountehourg; Anchors 100 Mies Apart, Change Wands Several Times

Germans Defending Cherbourg Against  U. S. Troops Counter Attack at Montebourg

Huge Battle Is Raging For France   Towns Change Hands; Struggle for Caen Is Intensified

Four More Divisions Sent ic Bulwark Defense Around  en   PUSH NEAR CHERBOURG   Both Sides Halve Fought _ Way in and Out of Montebourg and Troarn

Allies Facing Four Armored ‘Nazi Divisions   Towns of Montebourg And Troarn Change Hands During Last 24 Hours

Caen Bastion Highly Prized By Germans   Nazis Send Four Armored Divisions; Say Le Havre Attacke

4 Nazi Divisions Thrown Into Fray   Savage German Counter-Attack at Caen Follows British Armor’s Slice Inland— Heavy Clashes in Yank Sector—Montebourg and Troarn Change Hands

FIERCE FIGHT N NORMANDY   Enemy Flings Four Armored Divisions Into Battle for , Caen.   2 TOWNS CHANGE HANDS

British Battleships Support Operations Around Troarn; American Liberators And Flying Fortresses Support Army

Britons Face Bleak Christmas; Grim Hope Of Ultimate Victory Only Consolation

AALMAHERA  MN  PRACTICALLY NEUTRALIZED   MacArthur Reveals Success of Raids on Vital Jap Base

JAP BASE NEAR PHILLIPINES — NOW REPORTED ‘NEUTRALIZED'   LAST STRONGHOLD BETWEEN NEW GUINEA AND PHILIPPINES NO LONGER EFFECTIVE BASE

Halmahera 1s Badly Battered By U.S. Bombs   Jap Stronghold Is ‘‘Prac. tically Neutralized’’ By Repeated U. §S. Air Attacks   Main Defense Threatened

KNOCK CUT JAP AT HALMAHERA   Last Stronghold Between Dutch New Guinea and Philippines Razed

Berlin Hit Again as Bombers Begin Shuttling Between England, Russia

RAF Adds To Ruin Heaped Upon Berlin   Attack On German Capital Is Part Of Widespread Aerial Operations.

RAF Raids German  Capital   Berlin’s Public Buildings Hit; 48 Bombers Lost In Operations

BERLIN ATTACK FIRST SHUTTLE RAID OPERATION   Britain - Based Bombers Continue To Bases In Russia

Willkie Loses  In Wisconsin   Governor Dewey Apparently Captures Majority Of States 24 Delegates

DEWEY WINS MAJORITY. OF  ++ WISCONSIN . DELEGATES  ——"WFTH: WILLKIE . LAST -— IN FIELD OF FOUR

WILLKIE FAILS IM MAJOR Tel; SIASUEN SECOND   New York Governor Gets 17; Stassen 4 and MacArthur 3.

GOV DEWEY WINS IN HOT PRIMARY   40 Nominee Fails to Win Delegate; Gets Oregon Unopposed

WISCONSIN VOTE BLASTS WILLKIE AS 44 NOMINEE   Dewey Gets Majority of 24 @ Delegates, Stassen Second

Soviets Drive Ahead Into Warsaw Lines   German Defenses Crumble Under 16-Mile Advance

Reich Troops Reported Marching _ To Occupy Other Axis Satellites

Nazi Army Takes Over in Hungary  Other States May Meet Same Fate

Reuters Says Hungarian Leaders Heid in Reich As Germany Moves Forces In To Sian Russians

RUSSIANS NEAR POINT WHERE HUNS INVADED   Claim Germans Suffering Worst Defeats of War

SOVIET ARMY MOVING NEAR NAZI BORDER   German Dead Line Highway; 75,000 Trapped

Destroy  Trapped Germans   Red Army Rolls On As Nazis Perish; Americans Hold Gains On Italian Beachhead

RED TROOPS NEAR INVASION STARTING POINT   ‘Nazis Suffer Some of War's  Worst Defeats Along  :  1,200-Mile Front.

Russians Capture Five More German Divisions, Raid Finnish Capital

75,000 Nazis Facing Death   Third Ukrainian Army Starts to Kill Trapped Men

GERMANS SUFFERING DEFEATS — ALONG 1,200 MILE RUSSIAN FRONT   Ukrainian Army Ruthlessly Destroying Five Trapped Nazi Divisions; Russians Advance In Dnieper Sector.

Nazi Army ‘Dazed by Red Blows   Germans Suffering Worst Defeats of War; Only 45 Miles To ““Hop-Off” Point

Germans Reel Under New Red Thrusts   Soviets Reach Point 45 Miles From Where War Began

REDS CLOSE TO ADOLF HITLER'S INVASION FRONT   Rampaging Soviets Are Toaking Heavy Toll of Nazi Lives at Cherkasy

Pe orem nenaipeenenen nn RenenR EIRENE  GERMANS SUFFERING DEFEATS — ALONG 1,200 MILE RUSSIAN FRONT   Ukrainian Army Ruthlessly Destroying Five Trapped Nazi Divisions; Russians Advance In Dnieper Sec-

Nazi Losses in East Among War’s Worst   Soviets Gain Up to 40 Miles in Nikopol Sector, Ruthlessly Destroying Five Trapped German Divisions.

RED ARMIES WITHIN 45 MILES OF NAZI ~ STARTING-POINTS   175,000 German Troops Face Death in Two Russian Pockets   WAR BOOTY CAPTURED

Reds Cut Into Trapped Nazis   Ring of Death Drawn Tighter; New Trap Sprung

REDS GA  INING IN ALL AREAS   Army 45 Miles in Some Points From Where Invasion Started.

175,000 Nazis Caught in Two Pockets on Dnieper Bend Front   Germans Are Suffering Some of Worst Defeats of War

Germans Suffering Some Of War’s Worst Defeats On Wide Russian Front

SOVIETS TRAP MORE GERMANS   Reds Less Than 45 Miles From Hitler's Original Invasion Line

NAZIS SUFFER WORST DEFEATS ON WAR TODAY   * Red Armies Now Within 45 Miles of Point Where Hitler Launched Attack On Roiracia

Within 45 Miles OfStarting Point In Hitler Drive   Nikopol Fall Near; Soviets Continue Destruction Of Germans In Traps!

Battered Germans Dealt One of War's Worst Defeats On 1,200-Mile Front

NAZI DIVISIONS   Reds Only 45 Miles from Point Where Hitler  DB ccanenatamcl Beans em

Nazi Resistance Crumbles Under Russian Hammering   Germans Suffering Worst Defeats Of War; Soviet Army Now Only 45 Miles From Where Hitler Launched Invasion; Many Nazis Trapped

RUSSIANS NEAR INVASION LINE   175,000 Nazis Face Death Or Capture In Two Ukraine Traps

eds Tighten Hold On 15  azi Divisions n Ukraine   Soviets Plunge Ahead All Along 1,200 Mile Front

ENCIRCLE FIVE NAZI DIVISIONS   Russians Proceed With Destroying Additional Trapped Group  NIKOPOL IS SEIZED

GERMANS SUFFERING  SOME WORST DEFEATS  ON RUSSIAN FRONT RED ARMIES NEARING  LINES WHERE HITLER LATINCHED HIS INVASION

REDS CLOSE TRAP ON 2ND ENEMY FORCE   Soviets Less Thon 45 Miles From Spot Where Nazis Struck

INDIAN TROUPS IN ITALY CROSS RIVER   Establish Bridgehead Near Meldola,. Circling Forli

8th Army Troops Span Ronco River   Pincers Within Six Miles Of Bologna-Rimini Road

EIGHTH ARMY CLOSING IN ON FORLI   Fifth Army Makes Gains In Drive Toward Bologna

Gain Bridgehead On Ronco River   Torrential Rains Bog Down Assault

Allies Cross  Ronco River  Pincers Are Closed About Italian City.

INDIAN PATROLS FORGE CROSSINGS   Secure Bridgehead On Banks Of Ronco River

Capture of 100 U-Boats Looms   -Yanks-Virtually End Battle of Atlantic

KIEL MUTINY DURING 1918 IS RECALLED   Himmler Is Reported Unleashing Firing Squads to Quell Disturbances.

NAVAL UNITS BELIEVED IN REBELLION   Marshals Rundstedt And Brauchitsch Reported Killed

Army Heac Arreste      INCLUDES 34 GENERALS WHO. ».: PLANNED REVOLT; SWISS REP SAYS NAVY NOW REVOLTING:

Claim Naval Units At Kiel, Stettin Revolt despite Execntions Of High Officials; Details Are Lackine   HITLER CONTROLS i RADIO. NEWS SERVICE

NAZI BLOOD PURGE IS CONTINUED   Hundreds Of Officers In Army Slain By , Himmler, Claim

Report Brauchitsch, Rundstedt. Among Generals Dead; Swiss Say Uprising Has Spread to Navy -

HEAR NAVAL REVOLT STARTS; REPORT 4 GENERALS ARRESTED   All Neutral Capitals Agree Rebellion Not Stamped Out; Ruthless Purge Continues In Germany

SWISS DISPATCH SAYS REVOLUTION IN GERMANY HITS BALTIC BASES   Claim 5,500 German Officers of Various Ranks Have Been Arrested.

Details Remain Unavailable On Purported Revolt   Additional Uprisings At Kiel, Stetten Are Reported By Swiss

Hundreds Die in Wide Nazi Blood Purge   Stockholm Dispatch Estimates 5500 German Officers Executed; Revolt Spreading to Navy Baltic Bases of Kiel and Stettin

Rommel Says Allied Blow Is Imminent  Main Thrust Said Due From Channe.

Allied Armies Of Millions Are Expected   Vast Armada Ready To Smash Into Coast of Europe

Field Marshal Rommel Warns Germans Of Impact Of The Coming Allied Invasion

Rommel Tells Nazis Time Is Drawing Close   Balfour Says Invasior Really Got Under Way With Mass Air Bombardments

FIELD MARSHAL ® ROMMEL WARNS THRUST 15 NEAR   Berlin Radio Quotes Writer as Asserting Main Blow Wik Be Across Eng- . lish Channel.   GLIDER LANDINGS BEHIND LINES SEEN   Eisenhower’s Problem Is Not in Putting Troops Ashoré, ; Foe Says, But in Sup- ~ : plying Them, :

Rommel ‘Says ‘Surprises’ Await Allies   Kerial Offensive Is in Effect Invasion Beginning

Invasion Near, Rommel Warns German People   British Officials Says Raids Make Landing More Secure and Road To Berlin More Direct

German Commentator Predicts Alhes Will Hurl 2,000,000 Men at Europe, Using 100,000 Landing Craft

L ] Predicts Blow Across’ Channel, At Southern France, With Diversionary Thrusts   Sees 2,000,000 Men Hurled at Germans   Rommel Resigned to In. vasion; Tells Germans It Must Be Reckoned as imminent

Nazis: Given. Cold Facts — On Invasion  By Goebbels   Warns That Attack Will ‘Come Shortly

Rommel Says  ‘Surprises Await Allies Aerial Offensive Is in Effect  Tneureitan Rastimanine

RIVERS COMING UP   Marais des Cygnes Expected ia Rise Near Bank Full

* PILOT JUGGLES A BOMB   Removes 500-Pounder Dangling From Another Plane  ;

New and Overwhelming Blows Planned by Eisenhower   MANY GERMANS ARE > PUT OUT OF ACTION   Patton's Forces Reported ‘Within 12 Miles of _ . French Capital

PATTON BLOCKS PAETR RETREAT TOWARD PARIS   Germans Fall Back on Ak most Bridgeless River— Eisenhower and Aids Map New Blows.   CHANCE TO LIBERATE ALL OF FRANCE SEEN   Push Toward Paris Continues With Americans Reported Only 12 Miles From Capital,   BULLETIN.

Allied Victory In All France Now Impending   Two Nazi Armies In Wild Flight

Nazi 15th Army Unable to Holkc Allies, Beaten   At Least Half of Nazi Rocket Coast Defense Units Lost: Patton 12 Miles From Paris

German 15th Also Smashed  In France .   Eisenhower Summons. His Field’ Commanders _ New Big Blows Loom  12 MILES FROM PARIS

GUSTAV LINE IS TORN; ALLIES AIM AT 2D BELT   Cross Key Roadway; Occupy Ausonia; Take Mii Prisoners

New Type Of Rocket Gun Used By U-§   AMERICAN KOMBERS ARE RESUMING PRE - INVASION BOMBARDMENT.

FRENCH ARMY IN BIGGEST VICTORY AS AUSONIA FELL   Americans to South Cut Over Cassino-Formia Road tt Advance Over Two Miles, Take Two Towns.   REDS MAKE MOVE TO OPEN NEW CAMPAIGN   Shortly After Eating Breakfast Americans Launch Attack In France, Open Fifth Week,

Main Enemy Defense Belt Barring Roads to Rome Ripped Open In All-Out Campaign Along Italian Front   Sth Drives Ahead.

30 Square Miles Of Moun tain Territory Taken . By Allies  2,000 GERMAN PRISONERS TAKE!  Germans Claim Allie Lost 50 Tanks South. Of Cassino

Rebel Prisoner At Atlanta Slashes Wrist   One of Ring-Leaders in Fed. eral Prison Revolt  Wounds Self.

4,000 ENGAGE IN PHONE STRIKE   Telephone Communications In Ohio Further Crippled As Walkout Spreads

PHONE STRIKE NOW AFFECTS - 96 EXCHANGE!   WALKOUTS, BY OPERATORS ‘ CONTINUE OVER STATE— NO SETTLEMENT "3 IN SIGHT

POLITICS BREWS ON WEST COAST   Intensive Drive Planned By GOP Nominee: He's “Loaded For Bear”

DRIVE IN WEST   Intensive Campaign With Two Addresses Scheduled in Coast Area

 Dewey Maps Intensive Campaign Tour For Pacific Coast Borderline States

DEWEY TO oPEAK “ON WEST COAST   Two Major Addresses Wil! Be  @Made in California, Will Start Cross-country Trip Next Thursday

POSTWAR POLICIES OF RUSSIA ARE NOW BELIEVED CLARIFIED   DIPLOMATS SAY ATTACK ON WILLKIE’S SUGGESTIONS HAS BROUGHT .OUT TERRITORIAL PLANS

ROOSEVELT TALKS WH MAG ARTHUR   Three-Day Conference fan at Pearl Harbor With Pacific Commanders

RUUSEVELT TALKS. WITH MAC ARTHUR   Three-Day Conference Held at Pearl Harbor With Pacific Commanders

New Deal Rebels On Nominations  Senators Pepper, Guffey   Senators Pepper, Guffey Prepare To Filibuster

New Dealer Revolt  Bars Adjournment   Nominations To State Department Posts Face Continued Fight On Senate Floor

A en mC ERE ANNO OIC CE cae  GENTILE, FLYING MATE HEAD HOME FOR REST

German Attacks Slow Italy Drive   Fifth Army Meets Fierce Counterblows

U. 5. Severs Its Ties With Finland   Break Announced By Secretary Hull

FINLAND FACES DEFEAT AS U.S, BLACKLISTS 1   Break Could Lead to War Declaration When Congress  Reconvenes

Hurricane Nears Atlantic Coast   Residents Warned To Seek Safety

Violent Hurricane Bears  On North Carolina Coas'   storm, Fraught With Peril for Life and Property, Is  Headed Inland—Grave Warnings dvs Panndad

Storm Nears East Coast   Dangerous Hurricane Due To Strike Today

140-Mile Winds indicate Worst Storm in Years   Coast Citizens Are Evacuated

i  Violent Hurricane Bears On North Carolina Coast   Stari Fraught With Peril for Life and Property, Is Headed Inland—Grave Warnings Are Sounded

Yanks Advance Four Miles Toward Ormoc   Small-Scale Enemy Counterattacks Declared Repulsed

NOOSE THROWN AROUND ORMOC BY U. S. FORCE   Long Toms Blast Japanese Positions As Final Battle Of Leyte  Develops

Americans Make Four-Mile Gain In Ormoc Drive   Pour Shells Into Japs Holding Last Leyte Island Port:

EXPANSION OF REA SEEN BY WICKARD   Bays Employment Would Be Vital in Postwar Period

WICKARD BOOMS REA EXPANSION   AG Secretary Says It Would Create Employment

NATION GRIPPED BY: SEVERE HEAT WAVE   Temperatures of Over 100 Registered in Many Sections...

Russians Slash Through Groups Of Fleeing Axis   Many Germans, Romanians Surrender by Battalions; Troops Out of Control.   Fall of Sevastopol Is Hoped For by Russians

Spread!  She Bought 2 Tickets For The Ride, Because, Well, Read on!

FIRST ARMY. SCORES GAIN OF 2 MILES   Doughboys With Fixed Bayonets Stream Over German Border on New Front. Near Aachen.   INFANTRY ATTACK FOLLOWS BARRAGE   Air Show Biggest Since St. Lo — Blows Struck at Two Other Points By Hodges’ Forces.

Hodges Gains 2 Miles In Surprise Attacks   Ist Opens Up on Surprised Germans, Driving Along SixMife Front North of Aachen After Tremendous Aerial And Artillery Bombardment

KURILE ISLANDS LEAD 10 TOXYS   Knox Says Short Route Will Be Taken To Whip Tojo

SAYS KURILES TO BE INVADED   Knox Declares U. S. Plans To Use Islands to Get to Tokyo

Knox Says U.S. Plans Invasion  Of Kurile Isles   Weather [mportant  Factor in Operations In North Pacific

Big Allied Drive In Italy Looms   Soldier Paper Hints At Giant Offensive

Gen. Lull Soon To Be Replaced   European Report: Indicate Invasion  Hour Is Close; Nazis Say Overdue.

U. S. ARMED FORCES MAY BE MERGED INTO ONE ORGANIZATION   Preliminary Steps This Week Toward Creation of Single Department of National Defense.

GERMANS CLAIM PENETRATION OF CARROCETO   Soviets Pyramid Death Blows On Hitler Troops Encircled - At Dnieper

Republicans Hear Sharp Denunctiation Of New Deal; ‘(Permanent Officers Chosen

VETERAN GOP LEADER CHARGES DEMO. PARTY IS NOW PRISONER   Permanent Chairman Joe Martin Raps New Deal At Third Session Republican National Convention.

Joseph Martin Denounces New Deal as Democratic Interpretation of Fascism

Declare Short Haul Air Travel To Be Wasteful   Examiners Proposed Early Action To Extend Air Service To Small Cities.

POLISH PREMIER TO JOIN PARLEY   Mikolajczk Going Ti ' Moscow To Iron Out Russ Differences

Embezzlement Charges Filed Against Schnell   Former Chief Patrol Clerk to. Tria! August 3

HIGHWAY PATROL CLERK ARRESTED   ROY M. SCHNELL TO FACE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING MORE THAN $65,000.

Warns Government's “El-Advised” Meat Program Threatens Nation's Stockpile

LANDINGS MADE ON ASIAS OFF GUINEA COAST   Palau Isle Recaptured; Marines Hunt Out Last Japs On Saipan

RECAPTURE ISLE OF NGEREGONG IN THE PALAU GROUP   MORE THAN 53,000 JAP CASUALTIES IN PHILIPPINES

Jap Cruiser, Battleship Hit in Manila Bay   Chinese Troops Capture Mangshis, and Penetrate Bhamo in Burma Campaign

Jap Casualties Mount to 53,000  Philippine Defender Suffer Heavy Losses

Yanks Invade Small Asia Group, Retake Palau Island Point   Over 53,000 Japs Kiiled in Philippines Campaign; Other Pacific News

Jap Losses In Philippines Put At53,000 Men   Americans Recapture Palau Isle Recently Won By Japs; Chinese Gainina In Burma

NEW INVASION REPORTED OFF NEW GUINEA   53,000 Japanese Casualties In Philippines

Yanks Invade Asia Islands Off New Guinea Coast   Chinese Capture ~ ! Mangshih, Penetrata Bhamo at Either End

YANK ASSAULT FORCES INVADE ISLAND GROUP   More Than 53,000 Jap Casualties Counted In Philippines

Planes Blast Manila   Chinese Mark Gains Along Burma Road; Cabinet Reshuffled

YANK ASSAULT UNITS HIT NEW PACIFIC ISLES   300 Bombers Rake Manila, Batter Jap Shipping In No. Borneo

81ST DIVISION RETAKESISLE OF PALAU GROUP   53000 Jap Casualties 01 Leyte; Kai-Shek Changes Cabinet

Gen. Chiang Reshutfles His Cabinet   Jap Losses Mount On Leyte; Chinese Score New Gains

ONE IN PALAU GROUP TAKEN BACK BY U, S   Chinese Also Make Oriental War Theatre Picture Brighter by Burma Road Victories.

U. §. Forces Invade New Island Group Near New Guinea   More Than 53,000 Japanese Casualties In Philippine Drive

45,000 Enemy Casualties On Leyte Islanc   Yanks Invade Asia Islands Bomb Borneo Battleship Clean Up Saipan.   1.133 YANKS KILLED

AMERICANS INVADED NEW ISLAND GROUP NEAR NEW GUINEA  JAPANESE RADIO REPORT SAY MANILA RAIDED BY  DI ANEC Crransav

New Island Group Invaded By Yanks Off Guinea Coast   U.S. Bombs Nazis In Ruhr Valley

AMERICANS INVADE NEW ISLAND GROUP OFF NEW GUINEA COAST: JAP PHILIPPINE LOSSES 53.000

Yanks Invade Island Group At New Guine:   Jap Casualties Reach 53.000 Mark As One of Palau  Group Is Recaptured

AMERICANS INVADED NEW ISLAND GROUP NEAR NEW GUINEA  JAPANESE RADIO REPORTS SAY MANILA RAIDED BY U. §S. PLANES SUNDAY

Recapture One of Palau Islands, Count 53,000 Jap Casualties. :   HUNT JAPS ON SAIPAN

Yankees Invade Asia Islands, Off New Guinea  53,000 Nips Slain , On Leyte; U, 8. Planes Bomb Manilz

Yanks Invade * Asia Islands  _ Off New Guinea   Retake One Of Palaus: Jap Casualties In Philip pines Exceed 53,000.

New f Made On Isles Off New Guinea   Recapture One Of Paulas; - Chinese Gain In Burma; '. Japs Lose 53,000 Men

U.S. Subs Sink 15 More Ships   Total Now 532 In Da-ifie Far Enqst

PORTSMOUTH AND PEACE   SRR! ERE AG EEE  NUMBER THIRTEEN FINANCING OUR PEACE PROGRAM

Manuel Quezon, 65 Exiled Philippine President, Passes  Disciple of Freedom Cast Lot With U. S. After Invasion

SECOND BLOW AT MARIANAS IS ANNOUNCE!   U. & Task Force Strikes Again; No Details Are Given

NEW: RAIDS“ OW. JAP BASES NEAR PHILIPPINES   Aerial Offensive Ultimately Aimed at Japan Itself

CIVILIAN GOODS PRODUCTION BEEN GIVEN GREEN LIGHT  MORE THAN 750 PLANTS _ PLACED UNDER SPOT AU THORITATION DIAN

Civilian Goods Production OKed In 750 Plants   WPB Heads Estimate New Applications Made at 500 « Week

Civilian Production Authorized   lt is Announced That 75¢ Plants Have Beer Given Blue Light Or Necessary Peacetimi Clande

WPB Authorizes Civilian Goods Production In More Than 750 Plants

Civilian Goods Production Authorized’ In Over 750 Plants Under “Spot” Plan

WPB SPOT PLAN STARTS CIVILIAN GOODS ON LINE   PRODUCTION HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED IN 750 PLANTS

WPB Authorizes 750 Firms To Engage In Production Of Needed Civilian Goods

Plants Returning to Civilian Good:   Reconversion Is Moving Swiftly

Production For Civilian Goods Now In Progress   More Than 750 Plants Producing Home Front Goods Under “Spot Plan’

CIVILIAN G000S ARE PRODUCED   750 Plants Making Goods Under ‘Spot Authorization’ Plan.

Civilian Goods. Output! Okehed   Is ‘Authorized In’ : Over. 750 Plants:

SPEED CIVILIAN GOODS QUIPUT   Peacetime Production Is Authorized by WPB In 750 Plants

Invasion Date Set:  45,000 More Landing Craft Needed, Says Forrestal in Plea for Speed

Allies Bolster Anzio Position   Germans, Forced on Defense, Must Divert Troops From Russian Front

A PROGRAM ON WREN      ‘National League Title  Goes to the Cardinals

Veto Message Blasts Congress For Legislation   Measure Called Relief for Greedy Not Needy by FDR

F DR Vetoes New Revenue Act, ‘lerms Measure Ineffective; . I'inds Dangerous Precedents

TAX BILL IS TOSSED BACK TO CONGRESS   President Brands It “Wholly Ineffective” And A Relief Measure ‘For the Greedy”

President Vetoes ‘Wholly Ineffective’ Tax Legislation —   Rebuffs Congress For Passing Relief Measure ‘Not For Needy But For Greedy’

Charges It's Relief For The “Greedy”   Indefensible Special Privileges For Favored Groups Included, He Savs.

Tells Congress It Is Relief Measure, Not for the Needy, But for the Greedy

NEW TAX BILL SENT BACK T0 HOUSE BY FOR   In Veto Message, President Declares Two-Billion-Dollar Act ‘Ineffective’

President Hands  Tax Bill Back   Veto Message Savs t aan) @ Bill “Ineffective” And “For the Greedy’

VETO MESSAGE PRESENTED CONGRESS   Says It’s Relief Measure For Greedy, Not Needy   COMPLEX FORMS   Blamed On Congress, Not Treasury Department; Suggests Changes

Bill ‘Not for Needy’ But ‘Greedy’ FDR Says   President Calls for Measure to Support Stabilization, Not to Favor ‘Special E Privtleges’   SAYS REVENUE LOSS $150 MILLION   Wants Renegotiation Continued, Increased Social Security Tax—Blames Complexities of Bill on Congress

ROOSEVELT VETOS NEW TAX BILL .   Declares It Wholly Ineffective And “Not Fo Needy But For The Greedy“

Tax Bill Back To Congress   Roosevelt Sharply €ritical In Veto, Says Bill Relief Measure For ‘Greedy’

EoUh ASINEFFECTIVE   Bill Is Relief Measure ‘Not for the Needy But for The Greedy.’   VETO MAY BE GVERRIDEN

TAX BILL IS TOSSED BACK TO CONGRESS   Veto» Message Froni F. D, R: AES. IgCant: :   RAPS MEMBE   Blames:.Congr essmen. . For Inéome Tax.  Confusion:

Pres. Roosevelt Vetoes Tax Bill; “Not For Needy’   Terms Two Billion Figure “Wholly Ineffective;” Doubt Vote To Sustain

BLAME PLACE ON CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt's Veto Message Describes Tax Bill As Wholly Ineffective

new For The Greedy’  House Already Rumbling _ With Talk of Overriding  The Veto; F.D.R. Says  Bill Would Set Dangerous  Precedent.

FDR Is Irked With Congress On Tax Bill   President, in Vetoing Measure, Tells Congress it Is - Their Business To Provide  War Funds.

SAYS CONGRESS HELPS GREEDY, NOT THE NEEDY   President Denounces Measure as Favor  To Privileged

Veto Sends Whole Plan ToCongress Once Again   Solons Are Taken To Task; Bill Aids Greedy

lax Bill Vefoed by Rooseveltin Angry Words   Accuses Congress of Failing to Meet Its Responstbility

Veto Says Tax Bill Wholly Ineffective   FDR Says it Sets Dangerous Preceden'

Describes It As Wholly Ineffective   Blames Congress For Complexity Of Tax  Returns

Howse And Senate Groups Gathering Strength For Move To Override Action

New Tax Bill Tossed Back to Congress   F. D. R. VETO MESSAGE; CALLS TAX ORDER RELIEF FOR GREEDY   Highlights of Roosevelt Tax Veto Message Given

CONGRESS WILL VOTE ON VETO THURSDA\   Simplification of Income Tax Laws Urged by Roosevelt in Messace

SENDS TAX BILL TO HOUSE WITH VETO MESSAGE   FOR Describes New Revenue Measure as “Wholly ineffective’

ROOSEVELT TURNS DOWN 2 BILLION: DOLLAR TAX BILL  DESCRIBES MEASURE AS INEFFECTIVE IN

FDR Tosses Tax Bill Back  to House   Measure Is Termed Wholly Ineffective, is Relief for Greedy, Not Needy

Tax Bill V eto.          ‘President Terms Measure j “Not For Needy But For  1. Greedy,” ‘and “Whol H * Wwolneffective™’

TAX MEASURE TOSSED BACK TO CONGRESS   In Vetoing Bill, President Describes It as Being "Wholly Ineffective"   FORMS ARE DISCUSSED

Roosevelt “Vetoes New Tax Measure   Tart Message To Con. gress Labels Bill ‘Relef For Greedy.’

Roosevelt Vetoes Tax Bill; Sends Hot Message   Not Even A Dictionary Or A Thesaurus Could Define It, He Tells  Cangracc

Vetoes Tax  Bill   FDR Calls Measure “Wholly Ineffective” ; Veto Vote Set By Congress for Thursday

OUP In House Solidly In Favor Of Overriding   President Critical Of Tax Complexities ‘And ‘Blames Conaress

NEW TAX BILI VETOED BY FOF AS INADEQUATE   Measure Called ‘Reliet for Greedy’ - - Congress Blamed For Complex System

More Rain, Colder Weather Forecast In North Texas —   Weather Bureau Says Temperatures Hover on Freezing

Wuchow Falls To Advancing Jap Forces In China   Nips Reinforce Northern Line Conimunications

Japs Strike At American B-29 Base On Saipan   Bid For Initiative In Air Warfare Fails, Reports Indicate

Dewey Demands En To Generalities In Farm Program   Assails Confusion From Theories, Would Get Down To Practical Moves

DEWEY SCORES FARM POLICIES   GOP Presidential Candidate Condemns ‘New Deal Theorists’ in Capitol

Dewey Assails Abundant Life Generalities   Republican Candidate Raps What He Terms “New Deal Theorists” In National Capital

Dewey Calls For End Of Generalities   New Deal Theorists Accoiled in Speech

Dewey Blasts rena ists For  Farm Program   Assails Administration In Talk On Agricultural . Policies; Proposes Price Controls

Scores Are killed By Robot Bomb   Explosive Falls In Crowded Street At Lunch Hour

Missouri’s New Constitution Is Completed In One Year   Delegates Finish Rewriting of 69-Year  ALA Pasa mant Cin Eicct Annivarcary With

New Basic Law Ready for Voters   Convention Completes Work on Constitution in YearLone Session   SPECIAL ELECTION WILL BE CALLED   $700,000 Already Spent on Work: Some Fear Voters Are Too Indifferent

Convention Completes State Law   Work Must Now Be Submitted  To a Special Statewide Election

~GHARTER IS COMPLETED      Constitutional Convention  Ends. Work Just One Year From Opening, and Document Will Now - Co Before - Voters.

Livestock Feed Shortage Nears Critical Stage   Mills Closing Down Because Lack of Supplies; To Liq@idate Stock.

Farm Production May Be Badly Hurt  North Carolina And All Southeast Face Serious Livestock Feed Famine

Halsey’s 16-Inch Guns Shell Japs On Marcus Island   American Fleet Pounds Ouipost

OHIO SHIVERING IN COLD WAVE   No Immediate Relief Seen by Weather Observer

“Price Control Act Provisions. Held Constitutional   Supreme Court Also Upholds OPA’‘s Rent Control Program and Portal to Portal Pav

PRICE-FIXING, RENT CONTROL ARE HELD VALIL   OPA Wins Double Victory in Supreme Court Rulings.

High Court UpholdsRent Price Control   OPA Wins in 8-1, 6-3 Decisions; Miners’ Portal Pay Approved

Rent Control Ruled Valid   U. S. Supreme Court Upholds OPA Edict in Decree Handed Down

OPA Price Fixing and Rent Control Program Upheld in Rulings by Supreme Court

Tribunal’s Rulings Are 8-1 On Housing And  6-3 Over Appeal Of Meat Dealer«

Court Rules Rent Ceiling Plan Legal   Jurists Uphold by 8-1 Vote OPA’s Control Program; Justice Roberts Writes a Dissenting Opinion.

OP A—  OPA Price-Fixing And (Rent Control Upheld   Suprenie Court Decisions Hold Provisions Of Emer- gency Priee Control Act Are Constitutional .

Supreme Court Upholds Rent,  Price Control   Federal Programs Held Constitutional in 6-3 and 8-1 Decisions

COURT UPHOLDS RENT CONTROL   JUSTICE DOUGLAS. GIVES DECISION FAVORING OPA

Price Fixing Valid   OPA RENT CONTROL PROGRAM DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL

Price Control Constitutiona!   Supreme Court Rules Office Of Price Administration Program Legal,

Tribunal Rules Miners’ Portal  Pay Also Valid   Supreme Court Sustains Price Contro) Act Ty, Decision   IRON MINERS CASE   Judges Declare Congress Granted Powers In “~ FKixine Rents

HIGH COURT RULES OPA RENT CONTROL 1S CONSTITUTIONAL   EMERGENCY PRICE CON. TROL ACT IS GIVEN HIGH COURT O. K. ALSO

High Court Upholds OPA  Price-Fixing   Government Agency Wins Test Case; Rent Control Also Legal

COURT UPHOLDS OPA RENT CONTROLS   Price-Fixing Approved By A 6—3 Vote In Decision Today

High Tribunal Upholds OPA Control Plan   Supreme Court Vote: 6-3 for Declaring Constitutional Price Fixing Provisions

Price- Fixing, Rent Control - Acts Upheld   Portal Pay: for: Iron. Miner: Also: Sustained “by - Supreme. Court

COURT UPHOLDS OPAS ACTIONS   Decisions in Price - Fixing And Rent Control Program Constitutional.   VIOLATORS SENTENCED

Rent, Price Control Acts Upheld By Court   High Tribunal Affirms Power To Curb Inflation

J * MARINES AND ARMY ‘TROOPS OPEN DRIVE ON ISLAND— ~ BRITISH ARMY OFFEN.. SIVE GAINS

China-Based Blow Against Japan Soon   Stilwell Promises Land Campaign to Fit in With Nimitz Drive Across Pacific

OFFENSIV AID PACIFIC WAR MAPPED   Lt. Gen. Stilwell Says New Offensive Will Spring From Land-Locked Mainland   RABAUL ROCKED AGAIN

Allies Planning Big China-Based Attack On Japan   Bombing At Hong Kong And In Burma Preliminary To Main Push.

New Drive From China Promised   Stilwell Promises Aggressive Land And Air Campaign

Predicts New Allied Drive  From China   General Stilwell Says Japs Will Have To Combat  Two Fronts Soon

JAPANESE MAY BE FACING NEW THREAT FROM CHINA SECTOR  GEN. STILLWELL PLEDGE AGGRESSIVE LAND AND AIR CAMPAIGN

STLNELL MNS. HEWATTAKS AMAR PHC   Aggressive Land And Air ~ Campaign Pledged. By U.S. Leader   FLIERS ACTIVE   American ‘Bombers Hit “Jap: Positioris In Solomons,. Hong Kong

GEN. STILWELL SAYS JAPS MUSI FACE NEW DRIVE   New. Offensive ‘Will  Spring From Free China

APS PROMISED NEW OFFENSIVE      Will have to Deal With Attacks From Mainland of Free China.   DEFEND SEA BASES TOO

Gen. Stilwell Pledges Drive Through Chine   Japs Threatened With Offensive From Two Sides

NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPS 1S PROMISED   - Gen. Stilwell Outlines  - Land Based Attack Soon.  Rabaul Still Under Bomb Attack ‘

Japan Facing New Offensive Based in China   General Stilwell Pledges Land and Air Campaign

New Drive Against Japs Taking Form In China ~ Along With Island War

Offensive From  China Pledged   Lt. Gen. Stilwell Asserts Aggressive Land, Air Campaign From China.

Japs To Be Hit from China Bases   Stilwell Promises Air and Land Campaign; Nip Positions Near Héng Kong Rombhed ; .

Mighty Air War Pledged   Offensive Will Be Launch. ed Against Foe From Land-Locked China

GEN. STILLWELL PROMISES STEP UP IN ASIA WAR   PLEDGES LAND, AIR BLOWS AGAINST JAPS FROM BASES IN CHINA

Stillwell To Open His Push In Free China   American Commander Says He Can’t Wait for Naval Penetration

ENEMY TO FACE ALLIED ATTACK IN CHINA SOON   Stilwell Pledges Land, Air Drive; U. S. Fliers Sink 3 Nip Vessels

Offensive From  China Promised  Stilwell Makes Pledge  As Raids Continue

Offensive From China Planned By The Allies   Japs Would Have Tc Hold Two Fronts Gen. Stilwell Bare: New Plans

Stilwell Pledges Offensive In China; 51 Planes Lost By Japs Over Rabaul

NEW BLOWS 10 HIT JAPS FROM CHINESE BASES   Stilwell Pledges Aggressive Offensive; Aerial Raids Rock Rabau!

Stillwell Seeks China Bases To Blast Japan  Yankee Pledges Ric Campairn   Yankee Pledges Big Campaign In Pacific Fight

JAPANESE MAY BE FACING NEW THREAT FROM CHINA SECTOR  GEN. » STILLWELL PLEDGE  Cwitrre$taARm ANITY   GEN. STILLWELL PLEDGES AGGRESSIVE LAND AND AIR CAMPAIGN

REVEAL CHINA WILL BE BASE FOR OFFENSIVE   General Stilwell’s Words, Allied Bombs Serve Notice on Japs of What's to Come,

Stilwell Tells of Plans fo Use China As Offensive Base   Japan's Outposts Receive Increasing Loads of Bombs   Agressive Campaign

Will Meet Pacific Drive of Nimitz   Allied Planes Pound Jap Strongholds in Southwest, Central Pacific, Burma

Japs Are to Be Object of New Campaign   Allies Are Preparing To Smash at Nips From Chinese Bases

New Offensives on Japanese Promised  by General Stillwel   Will Spring From Landlocked Mainland of China, He States

NOW OPCRAIORG NOT SATISFEQ WITH PAY. RAISE   F.fteen Broth rhoods Still Hold Out for Higher Rate

OPERATING UNIONS SIGN FOR NINE CENTS PER: HOUR RAISE ‘1. SECOND AGREE t + MENT SEEN’

DISPUTE OF 3 RAIL UNIONS SETTLED   Only Cases of NonOperating Groups Yet to Be Solved

POLISH DISPUTE NEARS CRISIS   -Russian Patience Seems  .. to Be:at:Low Mark

Russo-Polish Crisis Coming  To a Head   British Attempts At Mediation May Fall Through

SHOWDOWN NEAR ON RUSSO-POLISH BORDER DISPUTE   Red Army Approaches Cur. zon Line; May Set Up Rump Government.

Dairy Payments To be Continued During January   Rate of Subsidy for All Texas ~ Counties Now Uniform at 50 Cents

IFIRST CONCERT FRIDAY   Summer. Band “Wil Present Pro. _gram in South Park: Tomorrow

Mistreatment In Medical Center At Springfield   Testimony Indicates - Inmates Were Beaten

38 Jap Ships Are Sunk or Damaged   One Town Declared to Have Been Entirely Destroved

Horthy Prisoner In His Palace   Gestapo-Directed Hungarian Nazis Hold Him

Six Attacks on Marshalls Made  Navy Plane Down: Three Nip Fighters

Six Attacks on Marshalls Made  Navy Plane Down:   Navy Plane Downs Three Nip Fichters

Berlin Fishes For  Invasion Data   Predicts Quick Move Into Europe

More Yanks  In Britain   Germans Pour Forth Invasion Propaganda As Troops Increase

Nazis Worried About Invasion  London Swarming With American Soldiers

Germans Pour Out Stream Of  Invasion Talk   Claim That Allies May Hit Sooner Than Is Felt Militarily Wise

Nazis Pour Out Stories Of Invasion   Unconfirmed Rumor In Sweden Says Allied Landings Made On Dalmatian Coast Isles

One Army Is Ten, Second Eighteen Miles Away   Invasion Talk Mounts High As American Troops Throng Through Streets Of London

Nazi Propaganda Mill Grinding Out Huge Quantities Of Invasion Chatter

INVASION TALK ie      Nazis Say Moscow Tries To Speed Up Second Front -

NAZIS SPREAD INVASION TALK   Claim Political Reasons To Speed Up Attack

Allied Columns Near Florence   Patrols Stab Four Miles From Pisa

Fifth Drives To 14 Miles Of Florence   Three Allied Columms Ad vance on City With Clark’s Men in Lead

Allies Close On Florence   3 Great Armies Focus On Famous City as Last Gothic Line Block

Allied Forces Converge On Florence   Two Fresh Nazi Divisions Enter Battle in Italy

Aim 3 Columns For Florence — Other Allied Forces  4 Miles From Pisa

ALLIED FORCES NEAR FLORENCE   Three Columns Stabbing at Coastal City

3 Forees Hit  For Florence   Allies Drive Enemy Back Despite Reinforcement

Germans Unable to Check Allies .  Three Columns Move on Florence, Pisa

Allies Mareh On Florence   One Column Less Than 14 Miles Away: Patrols Werth in 4 Miles Of Pisa.

ALLIES FIGHT-WAY TOWARD FLORENCE   THREE COLUMNS MARCHING ON ITALIAN CITY—ONE ONLY 14 MILES AWAY.

March Is Made On Florence  _—[aE- hm . 7   Patrols Within Four Miles Of Tower Of Pisa

Allies Push On Florence   Three Columns Press For Historic Italian City, Allies Announce

Three Alhied Armies March On Florence   Enemy Falls Back From Sea To Sea Toward Gothie Line

FIGHTING RAGES NEAR FLORENCE   Three Allied Columns Advancing Up Italy; Patrols At Pisa

Germany In Worse State Than 1918   But Bitter-End Nazi Defense Might Yet Force Allies Into Weather - Bound  ~-- Ras) apy nic

STETTINIUS TO LONDON   Will Get First Hand Account of Greek Situation

BLAST BIG JAP CRUISER IN SEA BATTLE SUNDAY   Closely Knit Team Of Young Americans In B-24_ Liberator Sends Jan Ship To Bottom Of Sea.

BOMBS FALL ON PARIS   ‘Several Deaths and Injuries and  Damage to Buildings Result

French Capital's First Raid Since August 27; Planes Not Identified

Three Killed In  _ Bombing of Paris   French Capital Experiences First Air Raid Since Last August 27

BOMBS DROPPED ON PARIS LAST NIGHT   Area Near Famous Landmarks Hit; Three Killed, Several Iniured.

3 Die As Bombs Fall On Paris   French Capital Gets First Raid Since August 27.

Machinists Face Navy's Sanctions   Strikers Must Return Or Lose Right to Work

Navy Pounces ()n Machinists   Invokes Severe Sanctions To Get Full War Produce.

3000 BOMBERS IN TWIN DRIVE FRON BRITAIN, ITALY   Invasion Coast And Five Balkan Rail Centers Pummeled

Channe!} Coast Hit Heavily   Two-Way Attack From Britain, Italy Speels Up Air War

Doolittle Hurls 1,500 Plane ‘Fleet Against Calais In Full ‘Scale Renewal Of Bombings

3,000 Planes From England And Italy Smash Coastal, Balkan Areas   Raiders Achieve Splendid Results   Returning Pilots Report No Fighter Opposition And Very Little Flak

MYSTERIOUS INSTALLATIONS OF NAZIS HIT   Gen. Doolittle Hurls 1,500-plane Fleet Against Pas De Calais Area.   BULLETIN

Fleet of 3,000 © Planes Strikes At Axis Centers   Five Balkan Railway Hubs Bombarded By Italy-Based Forces

3,000 PLANES POUND FRENCH COASTAL AREP   Hammer Pas-de-Calais In One of Heaviest  Raids of War

French Invasion Coast, Balkan Centers Raided   About 8,000 Bombers and Fight. ers Used on Missions from Brit ye ain and Italy Today

3000 Yankee Planes Blast  Nasi Tavwate   iDoolittie Armadas Mak Savage Attack on Mrvyetery Targceta

HEAVY BLOW STRUCK AT AXIS COAST   1,000 Bombers Raid Pas De Calais Coastal Strip

Bond Is Refused Accused Matron   Parents of Slain Boy Say She Was Jealous

Stimson Warns German People   Says Cities Will Be Destroyed In Advances

BOND SALES HERE GIVEN BIG BOOST   Subscription of $500,000 to Put County Over ‘the Goal

AMERICAN HEAVIES BOMB SOUTHERN GERMANY TODAY   Schweinfurt, Augsburg and  Other Points Hit.   ITALIAN-BASED PLANES BLAST AT HUNGARY   Double Blow at Budapest and Osnabruck by RAF Last Night.

Daily Washington Merry -Go- Round  (Trademark) oe Ta a  nrormnkh?

Russians Continue Liquidation of Trapped Germans   Kotka Bombed in New Offensive ' Against Finland

DEATH BLOWS FOR GERMANS IN RUSS TRAE   Great Battle Of Annihilation Against Some Of Herr Hitler's Once Best Troops

COMMITTEE T0 STUDY UNITY OF COMMAND   Sec. of War Stimson to be One of First Witnesses Before Special House Committee   SURVEYING OPINIONS

Unification Being favored   Top Army and Navy Men Behind Moment For One Department

Unification *  Plan Pushed:   Single Armed iy orce _C€ommand. Favored

Both Army, Navy Men Favor Unified American Control   Survey Shows Differ or Organization Form, Question of Timing

Both Army, Navy Men Now Favor Joint Command   Differ As To Method Of Unifying American Armed Forces

Hearty Approval Of Unification 01 Forces Exnected   Hearings Begin Next Week On Single Dept Of War For All Arms

Approval Of Plan To Unify U. S. Armed Force: So Universal, Work May Begin Ere War Ends

Approval Of Witnesses Expected At Hearing On Army Unification Plans

UNIFICATION FOR AMERICAN ARMED FORCES FAVORED   HEARING ON PLANS FOR SINGLE DEPARTMENT OF WAR NEXT WEEK

Propose Single War Department   Hearings To Start On Lnification of Armed Forces

ERO OF GHOUP ACTED WITH BIKS   Removal of WRA Officials In Tule Lake Disorders Criticized.

Calls WRA Report Bias   Minority Member of Dies Inquiry Committee Makes Views Known

TEMPERATURES:   Nippon Warships Flee _ After One Look At Yonk Armada

Fnemy Rejects Lure of Battle   Admiral Nimitz Gives Lie to Nippon’s Fantastic Claims of Sinking Large Part Of American Pacific Unit: New Raid

Jap Fleet Decided Nol fo Fight After Seeing U. S. Power   Superfortresses Hit Formosa Third Time in Four Days

Nimitz Posts His Score   Communique Lists Slight Damage to U. S. Fleet, Terrific Losses for Enemy

DISCOVER SIZE OF UL S. FORCE, DASH TO BASES   Nimitz: “No Damage of Consequence to Our Warships, Carriers’

Jap Navy Takes Look At Powerful U. S. Third — Fleet, Turns, Flees Without Giving Battle

843 Jap Planes Are Destroyed  In Huge Raids   American Third Fleet Sustains No Losses As Jap Torpedo Planes Damage Only Two  Ships Which Have Withdrawn Under  Own Power—Nimitz

Japs Took > One Look and Fled   800 Enemy Planes Knocked Out In First Week Of Raids Near Japan   STRENGTH OF OUR FORCE UNIMPAIRED   Two American Ships Damaged, But Able To Retire On Own Power

NIMITZ GIVES LIE TO TOKYO VICTORY TALE   Says Nip Force Sees American Strength at Formosa and Steams Away—tTwo U. S. Ships Hit in Aerial Action.

Yanks Bag 830 Planes, 146 Ships   x KK KO OK Japs Put Up __ Fierce Fight In Air

Found Yank Fleet Unhurt   Japs Had Only Succeeded In Getting Hundreds of Own Planes Shot Down

Nimitz Report Belies Claims  Made By. Nip:   Enemy Naval Foree. Came Out to Oppose U.S. Third Flect But With.  drew Almost At Once   TWO.OF OUR SHIPS SLIGHTLY DAMAGED   Superforts Bomb Formosa Third Time In 4 Days As U. S. Raids Con  ttn ne Their Havoe

Nimitz Spthes Fantastic Tokyo Clams; U.S. Superforts Attach Base Again Today; Japs lose Over S00 Aircraft ln Week Of Raids.

 ‘More Than 800 Enemy Planes L ost ln Week OF Fi ghting v;  American Attack Continues   Two Of Our War Vessels Damaged, But Retire Under Own Power; Statement By Nimitz Gives Lie To Absurd Nip Claims

Finding U. S. Task Force Unimpaired, Jap Commanders Turned And Sought Safety

VenturedOut But Ran At Sight Of Big U. S. Armada   Nimitz Flatly Contradicts Tokyo's Boasts: 2 U. S. Vessels Damaaed

Nimitz Says Nip Seamen Look And Run   Denies U. S. Vessels Sunk Or Damaged Badly By Enemy

AMERICAN FLEET LOSSES NOT MATERIAL SAYS ADMIRAL IN REPORTING FLIGHT OF JAPS.

Only Two Medium U.S. Ships Damaged   China-Based Superforts Bomb Formosa In Third Attack; Nips Lose 800 Planes In Week of Raids

REFUSE BATTLE AFTER VIEWING YANK ARMADA   Two U. S. Ships Damaged; Nip Plane Losses Reach 800

PROPAGANDA CLAIMS GET K, 0, PUNCH   No Damage Of Consequence To U, S. Fleet, Nimitz States In His Denial Of Rumors

U. S. Strength Overawes Jap Leaders .   Admiral Nimitz Says American Planes Still Attacking Philippines, Carrying Raids Into Second Week: Japs Lose 800 Warnlanes

Bag Of Planes At Formosa Is Above 800   Superforts From China Take Part In Fighting

Bombs Rip Ruhr Valley Rail Center   U.S. Heavy Planes Stage Evening Attack on Hamm

Allies Lash Rundstedt’s Fort Chain   Rohr Rai. Center Of Hamm Pounded By 2,000 Bombers

SLAVS ISOLATE SPLIT GARRISON   Big Adriatic Port Is Cut From Supplies

Yanks Regain Control Over 8,000,000 Square Miles of Pacific From Japs

Navy Forces Hit Japs on Wide Froni   Strike on 3,500 Mile Line ‘In Pacific and Control 8,000,000 Square Mile Area

POLL TAX LAW TEST PLANNED   j ‘Action May Upset Senate Dis. i cussion Of Issue

War: Mobilization Director “Byrmes,: ‘With -Roosevelt’s ’. Approval, Issues Calls to Managements

F.R. Approves Byrnes’ Ruling   Winter Meets in Four States Will End January 3, as War Mobilization Director Stresses Present Battle Crisis in Decree

Urge Race Track (wners To Close   Byrnes Says War Situation Needs Manpower - Transportation Used By Tracks.

Race Tracks Asked. Te End Meets By. Jan. 2   War Mobilization Director Byrnes Declares. Existing War Situation Demands Manpower And Transportation Now Being Used

Supply Dumps Are Hard Hit   Alexishafen-Madang Area. Again. Raided

Allied Planes Hit New Guinea Jans  Bougainville Blasted   Bougainville Blasted By Destroyers

Allied Bombers  Hit Coast Japs  On New Guinea Wreck Enemy  Suonlv Dumnec

Four Marshall Atolls and One Island Occupied   Recent Action Revealed in Navy Announcement

Major Portion Of New Britam In Allied Hands   10.000 Japs Killed Since Drive Opened; Enemy Plans Rabaul Stand

Japs Lose 10 000 in Island   Nips Leave Fuel, Supply Bases in New Britain Retreat

SIX MORE MEN INTO THE ARMY   One Taylor County Revistrant Is Delinquent

INDUCTED INTO NAVY & ARMY   Six Taylor County Boye Enter The Armed Forces

Scotland Yard Operatives Raid British Section of Fourth International

JAPS ENCIRCLE LOYANG CHINESE   U. S. TROOPS ADVANCE IN BURMA, NEW GUINEA

Cannon Plans  Spending Cut   ‘Non-War Agencies Will Be: ‘Affected .

Few Men Past 25 Will Be Drafted Before Next Fall   Those Under 26 Will Fill Quotas For Four Months

Hershey Explains Ruling   Men Between 26-30 May Not Be Called Until Late Fall

26- Group To Fill Present Needs —   Source To Be Enough Until Fall: Hershey

GIRL MARRIED GIRL BUT IT DOESN'T LAST   Annulment Is Granted After 24 Days of Ignorance

Newspaper Backs Fourth Term Move   Buffalo Publication Want Roosevelt and GOP  Running Mate

Noose Tightens On90,000Nazis   Yank Forces 150 Miles from German Border; Other Balkan States Mica Desert Hitler

Romanian Forces Move On Hungary In Cause Of Allies   Magyar Political Units Menaced; Bulgars, Slovaks Seek Peace; .. Reds.Urge Germans. Surrender.

Town Hit By Deluge Of Bombs   RAIN OF BOMBS UNINTERRUPTED. FROM DAWN UNTIL NOON; EVERY PLANE IN MEDITERRANEAN ARSENAL USED

BOMBS CRASH ON STRONGHOLD FOR FIVE HOURS   Opening Phase Of ‘Big: Push’:

Italian Town Wiped Out WithBombs   Hundreds of American Planes in Action — Oc.  cupy Nazi Positions

ALLIES LAUNGH RECORD Maga PLANE ATTAGK   Fly 3,000 Sorties in 5 Hours to Clear Out Town tor Infantry Assault,”

Shatter Positions Retarding Drive In Central Italy   1,400 Tons of Bombe Fall On Focal Point  of German Defenses

21 Will Report For Service; 23  To Take Exams   Group Entering Armed Forces Leaves July 13; Others Go on July 12

Ore Steamer  Sunkin Crash   Collides in Lake Erie With Canadian Ship

STEAMER SINKS AFTER COLLISION   Ship Hits Canadian Vessel on Lake Erie in Heavy Fog

SHIP SINKS IN LAKE ERIE COLLISION   Ten Lives May Be Lost Following Vessel’s Crash in Fog With Canadian Steamer—26 Survivors Picked Up.

Steamers Ram In  Fog On Lake Erie   One Vessel Laden With Ore Sunk: First Reports List Ten Dead

LAKE STEAMER SINKS AFTER FOG COLLISION   Early Reports Indicate Ten May Have Been Lost, 26 Saved

FIGHT FUR ITALY Hag BEEN LONG   Americzn Doughboy Keen'y Interes.ed in Different Things

FIGHT FOR ATALY WAS BEEN LONG   American Doughboy Keaniy Interesied ‘in Different Things 

BULGARIAN WAR MOVES BUNGLED   Nation Is Technically Enemy Of Both Nazis And Allies

Bulgaria at. War With Both Allies   And Germany as Result of Bungle

BULGARS AT WAR WITH EVERYBOLY   Apparently Fighting Nobody; Fantastic Bungle Tops Anything Yet Seen in Second World War ;

Bulgaria s Seeking New Peace Terms  Fe ee ee ee fF   Armistice Expected To Be Sianed Soon

Aerial Blows Batter Enemy   Marshall Isles Are Hit By Heavy Attacks

Japs Lose 22 More Planes at Rabau!   Admiralty Islands Are Bombed Again

Russians Capture 50 Communities In Danube Drive   DeGaulle Arrives In Moscow For Stalin Conference

Moscow Reports DeGaull Arrival for Conference With Russian Premier

Fall of Important  Jap Airdrome In New  Guinea [s Imminent   Will Give Americans Another Air Field Within Bombing  Range of Philippines.

Fall Of Maffin Airdrome Imminent; Japs Warned Of Heavy Blows To Come

EDITOR WALTER BEALL CALLED FROM EARTH   Publisher of West Union Argo-Gaxette Passed Away at Rochese ter Hospital

U.8.Third Army intersGermany  As Metz Falls   American Tanks Merge With British In Assault On Siegfried From Holland

Patton Men Take Metz, Enter Reich   Nazi Resistance Turns To Disorderly Retreat As Fortress Falls

Third drives into Metz as German resistance buckles on entire front

US. Third Stabs Reich After Thrust Into Metz   Enemy Resistance Buckles Along Entire 400-Mile West Front; Flees in Confusion Before Patton

Nazi Defense Buckling On Whole West Front   Enemy in Disorganized Retreat; Yanks Join British to Span Maas

Yanks. British Merge   Third Army tn Metz; Final Drive On Germany Is On

3rd Army Tanks And British Join North Of Aachen   Joint Offensive On 20-Mile Front Carries Within 25 Miles Of Duisburg; Patton’s  Forces Storm Into Metz On Two Sides

Outflanking Force Drives Through Fontainebleau Forest; Thousands Of Enemy Troops Die in Wild Fiicht

Rabbled Remnants of Nazi Seventh Arm, Are Mowed Down by Thousands as They Try to Escape Across Seine

Dozens Of Street Battles Reported “Raging In Paris   Trapped German Army Tries To Cross Seine River And Thousands Mowed Down. Seventh  German Army In Wild Confusion,

Stettinius And (Eden Will Soon ‘Air Greek Case   Meanwhile, Senalors indicate Violent End to ‘Genilemen’s Agreement’ On Farcign Affaire

Anticipate Blasting of Homeland   May Be Linked with Earthquake—Plan Joint Allied  Naval Action i rf }

GESTAPO UNITS SEIZE CONTROL INBUDAPEST   Nazis Move to Counteract Armistice Request by Hungary

Nazis Begin Reign of Terror 'As Hungarians Seek Armistice   Storm Troopers Seize Budapest as Horthy Seeks Peace; Chaos Reigns

HITLER FACES NEW DEBACLE IN HUNGARY   Last Large Nazil Vassal Nation Reported Engulfed In Reign of Terror as Collapse Nears

HUNGARY SUES FOR ARMISTICE      Terror Reign Reported As Natics React

Terror Reigns In Budapest As Hungary Asks Truce Of Allies   Germans Reported To Have Seized Control, With Gestapo Reported Making Mass Arrests; Hear Horthy Seized And Taken To Germany.

GERMAN CLICHE SEEKS 10 HOLD OFF ARMISTICE   Near Revolution Appears Shredding Puppet State

Re Oe PLY TV ONE _ AT   Terror. Grips Hungary. After Peace Move’

NAZIS. UGH MEN 10 HUNGARY   Regent Horthy Asks Armistice Terms but -Germans Take Contro! of Nation

HUNGARY REPORTED IN THROES OF REIGN GF TERROR MONDAY  GERMAN AND HUNGARIAN NAZIS SEEK TO BLOCK ARMICTICN BEOTIR<eT

MRS, HANLEY OF MUSCATINE DIES   Mother of Lieutenant  Governor in N. Y. Was 92

TO NAME SCHOOL! . FOR W. A. WHITE   School.of Journalism. toRe:. 7 place Department ‘at. : University ~~   ACTION BY RECENTS

TO NAME SCHOOL FOR W. A. WHITE   School of Journalism to Re: - place Department at University

Goodland Enters  Governor Race  Announces Candidacy. Points To Record

FALL OF NARVA IN ESTONIA IS IMMINENT   Germans Fall Back Steadily Under Hail of Red’ Artillery

STATE PLANS FOR POSTWAR PERIOD   Many. Projects Already “Listed, Governor An -” nounces. 

STATE PLANS FOR ~ POSTWAR PERIOD   Many. ‘Projects. Already Listed, Governor An” nounces

48 MILLIONS TO BE EXPENDED ON CONSTRUCTION   Governor Outlines Pro. gram In State For First Post-War Year

Nazis Also Admit the Red Army Has Broken in Rail Base of Jassy.  ‘SOVIETS 60 MILES ROM ODESSA PORT  Russian - Finnish Peace Talks May Come to Life Again.

Loss Of Cernauti Shatters Nazis Communications Vital To Southern  Army.

Hospital - Send A Medic, A Guys Been Wounded--Uh Oh, Send One For Me Too

Wounded Italian Campaign Veterans Of 36th And 45th Divisions Arrive At Ashburn Hospital In McKinney

Toje’s Disclesare Of Trak Defeat: te Pee ple Held Lessou ba icaikmass Fee U. 8. ‘tnuthearsties E

 ALLIED OFFICIALS COULD TAKE. LEAF FROM TOJO’S BOOK ABOUT GIVING RESULTS OF BATTIFS

Allies Could Take A Pointer From To jo, MacKenzie Says   By DeWITT MacKENZIE Assoctated Press War Analyst

Estimates Vary as to Fate of Air-Borne Division of 8,000, Trapped at Arnhem, Which Underwent Terrific Bombardment for Eight Days—Heroic Band Credited With Killing Between 12,000 and 15,000 of the Enemy,

Sleeping Sickness Reported in County   Several Cases of Disease Among Horses Known

Berlin Declares "Heights C hange Hands Several Times” In Italy .

Eighth Army Crossing the Rapido River   American-French Force Takes Three Towns in Advance

Berlin Declares Battle Tide Coes Forward and Back   Germans day Fighting itr Italy is Mounting in  Violence 

BERLIN REPORTS ‘GIVE AND TAKE? ITALIAN BATTLES   Germans Claim Hill Positions Change Hands Several Times Friday

Gustav Line Not Reached.  ‘Berlin Says   German Commentator Says Fighting In Italy Is Bitter

BERLIN EXPECTING ANOTHER DRIVE IN NEW ITALIAN AREA      Germans Declare Several High Points Have Changed Hands  Several Times

Eighth Army, » Crossing the ~ Rapido River   American-French Force Takes Three Towns  n - Advance oe

Tien Failsa ta Mention Move   Germans Report Battle Fluctuates On Italian Front

GERMANS SAY: New Allied Landings In Italy Loom   Expect Attacks Elsewhere; Report Fierce Fighting

Violence Of Clash Mounts, Nazis Report   Heights Change Hands: Berlin Commentator Believes Offensive  Divereianaryw Rlaw

Foe Elects to Defend — Port of Cherbours   th Division Veterans Roll Ahead; 1,300 U. 3, Heavy Bombers Blast Oil Depots

California And New Jersey To Back 4th Term   Expect Final Approval For FDR Tomorrow; Washington Adds 18.

First Ballot Nomination For Roosevelt  FDR Delegates To be Named in Threa Statoc

F.R. Nomination In the Bag as Three States Vote   Oklahoma, New _ Jersey, California Favor Fourth Term

Roosevelt Near Clinching First Ballot Choice   Oklahoma Democrats Lead Off In Expected Selection Fourth Term Delegates

Roosevelt To Get Majority Of Delegates   Will Have Enovgh To Nominate Him Before Present Week Ends

NAMING ROOSEVELT ON FIRST BAYTAT IS ALMOST ASSURED  PRIMARIES TODAY AND TOMORROW IN THREE STATES MAY CINCH IT

This Week's Three State Primaries   Will Nominate Roosevelt For 4th Term, Place  Dewey Close to Same ' - Dosition

POLITICIANS WATCH VOTE IN MONTANA   Several States To Choose ’44 Delegates

NOMINATION IN THE BAG FOR FOR   Fourth Term Supporters Due To Have 677 Pledged Votes By Tuesday; Only 589 Needed,

FDR To Add More Fourth Term Votes  During Week   California, Jersey Primaries Are Near

NOMINATION ON FIRST BALLOT SEEN FOP FDR   Voting Today in Several States with Assured Dele gations for Fourth Term

OKLAHOMA AT POLLS TODAY   California Dems Expected To Pick Fourth Term Delegates Tuesday

EXPECT DEMS IN OKLAHOMA TO SUPPORT FOR   Democrats From California. New Jersey Can Seal Ist Ballot Nomination

Fear Secret W eapon May Have Been Used in Recent Sneak Attack on London Theatre

NINE KILLED IN PLANE MISHAP   Large Airliner Crashes Into Side of Mountain

HITLER PUPPET SWEPT OUT IN BALKAN ACTION   ‘Quisling Dictator of Croatia Turned - Over to Tito Partisans, Further Menacing Nazis

Over 2,000 Planes Belieyed in Assaults During Day  VIOLENT BATTLES RAGE IN THE AIR  E nee aft 5O Bixee knw e > ae lf   Loss of 19 Bombers and Six Fighters in Operations Reported

VIOLENT BATTLES RAGE IN THE AIR’   Loss of 19 Bombers and Six Fighters in Operations Reported.

LARGEST FLEET OF BOMBERS ATTACKS   Germany’s Rail Centers Pounded With 6,000 Tons Explosives.

Maul Nazi Rail Lines   Greatest Air Armada In History Rips Reich ‘With 6,000: Tons Bombs

Supply Bases Of Germany Were Targets For Greatest Flight Of Heavy Bombers.

1600 American Bombers Blast Rail Centers   6000 Tons of Explosives Dropped; 800 Fighters Along

Three-Way Air Blow spits Reich   Italy Based Planes Aqain Over Austria

Yanks Bomb Reich In Zero Weather   Makeshift Fuel Used In Nazi Aircraft Has Little Winter Value

1,600 Heavies, 800 Fighters Lash Railways  50 Below Zero Fails To Stop Americans, But Germans Fail T«

Raid Over Reich Sets New Record   Sixteen Hundred U.S. Bombers, 800 Fighters Drop 6,000 Tons of Explosives on Targets

GREATEST FLEET OF U.S. HEAVIES AND FIGHTERS HIT NAZIS  REICH BLASTED WITH HEAVY BOMBERS FROM ‘TuUpEE AIR RORCES

2400 AMERICAN PLANES HIT REICH   BIGGEST FOUR-ENGINED ARMADA OF WAR IN RAID

6,000 Tons Of Bombs Fall On Hun Rail Areas   2,400 American Planes— Greatest Flect Ever Mounted—Patticipate In Attack

2,400 U.S. ‘Planes Hit Nazis Hard   1,600 Bombers An   1,600 Bombers And 800 Fighters Form Greatest Force

Germany Shudders Under Heaviest Aerial Pounding  Largest Bomber Fleet Of War Drops Ria Lead an Reich

ALLIED PLANES STRIKE FOE RAIL LINES TO FRONT   1,600 Heavies Raid Nazi Centers With 6,000 Tons of Bombs

Mighty Air Fleet Pounds Rail Lines In German Centers   Heavy Bombers Blast Targets In Great Raid

Famed Nazi Radio-Controlled ‘Goliath’ Proves To Be An Ineffective Midget

Senate Committee Agrees To Hearing On Water Treaty; Valley Men To Leave Soot

att ARMY MAKES ADVANCE IN SNOW   Great Air Battle Is Reported Raging Over Europe, Berlin Radio Says.

Fifth Army Slashes Inte Foe’s Center   Two Spearheads Now Converging Qn Cassino

VANKS GAIN TWO MILES IN ITALY   Pound Northward Slowly Thru Mud and Snow

JAP CASUALTIES HEAVY IN INDIA   Operations Seek to Clear Kohima-Dimapur Road North of Imphal

CITATION IS AWARDED FOR ~ STAMP SALES   Peter Bulkeley . School Is Commended fer Purchase of Jéep 

CITATIONS AWARDED FOR ~ STAMP SALE:   Peter Bulkeley _§ A ; —, oF

U. S. Planes, Warships Hunt Jap Vessels Surviving Naval Disaster

Nip Ships, Limping Away From Philippines, Being Followed; May Have Lost 40

Fliers Hunt Crippled Jap Ships.   Toial of Enemy Craft Sunk or Damaged  oMEay Rencl tO

Yanks Search For More Jap Warships   Imperial Navy May Have Lost 40 Ships in Battles

—PACIFIC—  DECISNE KILL SOUGHT BY NAVY   U.S. Bombers Maintain Dragnet In Search For Survivors   JAP SHIP TOLL 40°   Skill And Daring Of AL lied Commanders In Battle Praised

GREAT HUNT IS UNDERWAY FOR JAPAN’S FLEET  1   Believe Maximum Strength Cut At Least Half

Us S. Sea-Air Forces Hunt Crippled Jap Ships; 40. Believed:Accounted For. -

Nip Fleet Cut in Half by U.S. Forces in Philippine Fight; Planes Hunt Others

Yanks Hunt Down Nipponese Ships   Jap Fleet Strength Believed Cut in Half As Dragnet Maintained

Planes, Ships Hunt Crippled Jap Warships   Bombers Maintain Aerial Dragnet Over Extensive Area In Effort To Find Retreating Vessels

Jap Sen Power Cut in Half by Recent Defeat   Estimate Now Forty Ships Were Sunk  Or Damaged; Two Battlashins Included

Yanks Search For More Jap Warships  De wm ah Perce Pheer   Imperial Navy May Have Lost 40 Ships in Battles

PLANES, SHIPS DOG CRIPPLED JAP WARSHIPS   Planes Patrol South China Waters To Sulu Sea in Quest of Additional Enemy Prey.

Japanese Still Strong, Nation's War Chiefs Say   Warn Against Belief Battle Nearing End; Nip Fleet’s Power  Cut Down For Awhile

U. §. Bombers On Hunt For Jan Ships   Americans Lose Six Vessels In Battle Near Philippines

Scour Sea For Jap Ships _   U. 8. Fleet Hopes to Add to Enemy Losses  Now Estimated at 40 Craft Sunk or Damaged

Bombers Seek Remnants of Japanese Fleet  40 Jap Ships Sunk Or Crippled In  Incomplete Score

BOMBERS GEEK HUT SURVIVORS   Surface Craft Also Hunting Down Ships Limping .. From Disaster. ht   DISPLAY SKILL, DARING

Crippled Jap Fleet Units Under Pursuit   Aerial Draqnet Reaches Out for Enemy Straqglers

JAP LOSS MAY BE AO SHIPS   Bombers Spread Dragne! For Surviving Vessels

Yank Bombers. Shi ps Chasing Crippled Japs   huperial Navy’s Strength Cut ‘in ‘Half as Result of Defeat; Losses  Stull: Mounting

SCOUT MORE JAP WARSHIPS      Imperial Fleet Loss Is Upped to 40 Ships In Latest Reports

YANKS SEEK FLEEING JAP WAR VESSELS   Both Planes and Surface Craft Hunt Down Ships Limping From Scene of Disastrous Battle of the Philippines.

Philippine Naval Battle Score Now 40 Jap Ships Lost   Imperial Fleet. Strength Cut in Half by U.S. Navy

GRIP TIGHTENED ON PHILIPPINES; AIRFIELDS USED   Americans Claim Revenge — For ‘Death March’—China : B-29 Bases Attacked

AMERICAN PLANES AND SURFACE CRAFT HUNTING JAP SHIPS  AIR AND SEA SEARCH MADE FOR CRIPPLED ENEMY NAVAL UNITS

Imperial Fleet, Badly Crippled in Philippine War Zone, Is Being Hunted by Air and Sea.   JAPANESE MAY HAVE LOST FORTY VESSELS

FALL OF LOYANG DENIED BY CHINESE   Chiang’s Forces Say They Still Hold Stronghold, but Situation * ts Confused.

REDS CAPTURE IASI, DRIVE FOR BUCHAREST. PLOESTI OILFIELDS   GERMANS REPORT SOVIET GAINS, LAUNCH COUNTERBLOW TO AID TRAPPED BALTIC ARMIES

Soviets Seize Romanian Ia lasi;  Nazis Hurl 60,000 Men, 900 Tanks Into Baltic Offensive

Germans Widen Baltic Corridor   - Renew: Gontact-With Encircled Forces

Reds Sweep OnBuchares! And Ploesti   Germans In North Launch Offensive To Save Armies

IASI SEIZED WHEN REDS BREAK LINES   Germans Hurt Sv Armored Divisions  At Reds in Baltic

NAZIS CUT ESCAPE LANE IN BALTICS   Seek to Widen Route For Rescue Of 30 Divisions

Germans Launch Counterattack In Riga Sector   Romanian Stronghold Abandoned In Face of Red Armored Drive

Germans: Blast Corridor for Baltic Forces   Russians Prepare Flanking Drive on Warsaw from North  e

GERMANS TRYING TO WIDEN RIGA ESCAPE CORRIDOR      Hurl Six Additional Panzer Divisions Into. Counter Offensive

JAPS JITTERY: OVER LATEST BOMBER RAID   Move To Strengthens Japan s Defenses

CZECHS URGED TO FIGHT NAZIS   Ambassador Says Moment Of Deliverance Is Near

STUDY ILLINOIS PROGRAM OF AID TO WAR VETERANS  OUTLINING PLAN AT   OUTLINING PLAN AT STATE SCHOOL IN JACKSONVILLE, ILL.

British Pushed From Bridgehead   Minor Setback Reported in Italy

British Driven rrom River Hold  Small Force Driven Back by Tanks

5th Repulses Nazi Attacks   Germans Erase Bridgehead By &th Near Riminj

British Driven Off Small Bridgehead  Reverse Suffered Across Fiumicino River. Near Rimini

Germans Push  British Back   Kighth Loses Bridgehead Across Fiumicino River Near Rimini. -

BRITISH DRIVEN BAGK IN ITALY   Forced From ~ Small River Bridgehead Northwest Of  Riniini

British Lose: Ttalian Bridgehead; Yankees Cling To Mountain: Front

NAZIS DRIVE BRITISH FROM BRIDGEHEAD   Tommies Lose Positions on Fiumicino River in Italy—Americans Hold Firm.

Nazis Drive  British Back      Americans Hold Fi To Halian Positio

NEW THREAT FOR FLEEING GERMAN ARMY   Von Kluge Gets Much of Armor From Nermandy Pocket But Flicht Under Heavy Attack

Eisenhower, Field Generals Confer   Momentous Decisions Indicated at Parley

SIMPLIFIED TAX SYSTEM SOUGHT   BILL TO REMOVE COMPLICATIONS IN MAKING RETURNS MAY BE READY SOON.

Make Progress In Plans for Simple Tax Form  Some Taxpayers May Not Have to File Returns

OUR DORE GASES HEART   Two New Suits Also Are Filed in Circuit Covrt

FOUR DIVGRSE ACES ticgDn   Two New Suits Also. Are Filed . au! CHrenit Cornet

Pies Disappear From School as Judge Talks  an Jnuvaniia Delinquency

DEWEY STICKS. TO DUTIES AS N. Y. GOVERNOE   Declines To Comment On Withdrawal Of Willkie

Dewey Sticks To State Duty   Governor Refuses To Be Stampeded Into Statement

Willkie Back In New York   Noncommital On Hi  Political Future, “I  Made My Statement In Omaha

‘Willkie Does Not Talk Plans   Returns to New York And Refuses to Add To Omaha Statement

STICKS DILIGENTLY TO TASKS OF STATE   Dewey Indicates He Will Not Be Stampeded Into A Declaration.

Willkie Says He’s Going to Practice Law   Back in New York, De clines to Add to Omaha Statement

Gov. Dewey  Still Silent   Noncommittal On His Will Not Be Stamped, ed Into Declaration

Estimate Less Than 5,000 Jap Troops Leff in India After Manipur Defeat

Important Expose Of High Officials Promised by Dies   Cabinet Members and Others Involved in Texan’s Revelations

Dies declares he will issue expose involving high government officials

RAF Blasts. At Cologne’   Fierce  Air “Attacks ‘Launched On Nazis

ALLIED RAIDS “CONTINUED ON GIANT SCALI   HUNDREDS OF PLANES THUN.  DER OVER CHANNEL IN .GREAT NON-STOP AIR OFFENSIVE —

WHITE COLLAR WORKER VICTIM OF INFLATION   Bowles Says Further Increases ir Prices Inevitable Unless Con gress, Public Support

Bowles Fears Higher Prices   Increases Inevitable Unless Congress and Public Aid

Higher Living Costs Warned   Bowles Urges Vigorous Support Of Congress, Public

Today In Washington  Sift Charge ‘Heat’ Put  On Farmers   Claim They’re Told To Follow U. §. Programs Or Face Draft And Ration Cuts

Say Farmers Are Coerced  into Deals   IN WASHINGTON TODAY: Study Food Situation, Butter to Russia, Draft Revision

TWO CONGRESSMEN CLAIM FARMERS ARE PUT UNDER PRESSUR   SENATORS, SEEKING _ “ANSWERS ‘TO CERTAIN QUESTIONS FROM WEA:

Former Alpine Boy Said  Missing After Bombing Mission Over Austria

East Battles Against South’s Rail Rate Case   Say ‘South Just Slow In Getting Started Industrially.

AWAIT CHANGE  INDRAFT RULES   Hershey to Announce New Policy on Thursday . for Men 26-30

EN. HEROHEY 0 DloGLOoe: NEV JRAFT RULINGS   Officials Retyrn After Three-Day Conference

Enter Local  Students In Music Meet   WILL TAKE PART IN SOLO AND ENSEMBLE CONTESTS AT TERRE HAUTE

Revolt In Greece   Fear of Communist Uprising Expressed By Greek Leaders

GREEK REVOLT 19 FORECAST   GREEK COMMUNISTS REPORTED PLANNING TO SEIZE POWER WHEN CCCUPA.  = TION WEAKENS

FRENCH SOLDIERS AGAIN FIGHTING ON THEIR HOME SOlL   Troops Form Armored Division—Go Into Battle on Sherman Tanks Wear ing Red Caps.   CHEERING CROWDS OVERFLOW THEIR PATH   Travel Over Carpet of Flowers—Bottles of Rare Vintage Drunk to Celebrate Homecoming.

TOLL OF TRAIN WRECK MOUNTS   30 Soldiers, Two Trainmen Are Killed As Troop Train Plunges Into Gorge

Movie Serials Lose Pace-Setter’  Henry M’Crae, 68, Dies After 30 Years Of Movie Thrillers

Movie Serials Lose Pace-Setter cee meee  Henry M’Crae, 68, Dies Af ter o0 Years Of Movie Thriller:

"Yank Fliers’ ‘Mass Escape estory Told   California Officer Tells How He Planned Romanian Adventure

= eet See eee  Model City Will Swoosh Trash From Homes by Suction Pipe

Soviet Troops Cut Trunk Rail Line in Bessarabia, Push Close to Prut River

‘Russians Fashion  Noose for Odessa Sovict Spearheads . Sight   Sovict Spearheads . Sight Brody in Old Poland

Soviets’30 Miles From Prut River   Russian Troops Sever Trunk Railway, Storm Hhrough 40 More Villages

Russian Troops Enter Bessarabia, Approach Nazi ‘41 Invasion Line

RUSSIANS SWEEP THROUGH 40 MORE -RUMANIAN TOWNS   Drive Back Troops Covering Nazi Flight to Reach Point 30 Miles From Prut River.   OTHER COLUMNS PUSH FORWARD IN POLAND   Sixty-Two Villages Overrun - in Drive Toward Lwow '  —_Gains' Made on Other Fronts.

TRUNK RAILWAY LINE CUT WHILE ARMY ROLLS ON   Soviets Pushing South Toward Danube About To Pocket Enemy Near Odessa

Soviets Only 30 Miles From Prut River   Nazis Face Trap in Odessa Bottleneck: Russians Close to Brody in Old Polan«

Russian Troops Sweeping Info Bessarabia   Smash Nazi-Rumanian Resistance Near Prut; Threaten a New Trap

RED ADVANGE IS 900 MILES FROM BERLIN   DNIESTER CROSSING SWEEPS THROUGH if VILLAGES

Railway Between Bessarabia and Capital Cut   40 VILLAGES ARE CAPTURED IN DRIVE   Gains Are Also Scored in Old Poland As saults

Russians Cut Nazi Railway   Point Nazis Launched 1941 Drive Is Neared

Soviet Troops. Sweep Across ‘Bitlector River   Turkey Dispatches Re veal hat Rumania I Next On Hitler’s Pro gram io Strengthe: Mold On Southeast Eu rape, Marshall ‘lito Or vanizes Partisans

ANOTHER RAIL LINE SEVERED BY RED TROOPS   Russians Now 31 Miles From Where Nazis Launched 1941 Invasion   ODESSA BOTTLENECK THREAT TO GERMANS

NAZIS EVACUATE ST, LO IS REPORT   ‘Small, Unspectacular Gains’ Made by Americans in Normandy

U. S. Forces In Anzio Beachhead Make Local Gains; Rail Targets Hit

ROTARY ANNS START MOVE FOR LIBRARY   Will Collect Funds and Book: For Library at Memorial Hospital

ROTARY ANNS RECEIVE MANY LIBRARY GIFTS   Meeting This Week Held With Mrs. Daniel T. Dougherty at Home on North Street

CHINESE GOVERNGR QUSTED BY CHIANG   Move Is in Answer to Russian Demands, Claim He Sent Troons into Mongolia

Six Thousand Tons of Ex. plosives Dropped On 20th. Straight Day of Allied. Offensive. :                  Night Attack Made On Bu  arest — British Lose’ 49  Planes in France and .. Germany.

Liberation Of Paris Places Allies In Command Of A Vast Network Of Railroads

Paris Liberation Will Speed End of French War   Allies Gain Command of Gigantic Network of Highways, Rivers

Nagasaki Anc Philippines Are Bombed   Superfortresses Hit Japanese Mainland

Enemy Industrial Center is Hit By Super Fortresses   Airdromes at Davao in Philippines Smashed By Liberators; Sumatra Refineries Also Blasted

PLANTS CLOSED AS RESULT OF STRIKE   Approximately 50,000 Are Idle in Detroit War Factories —

90,000 WORKERS MADE IDLE BY UNION WALKOUT   War Production Stalled In Detroit Area By Work Stoppage

50,000 Detroit War Plant Workers Idle in Strike of Maintenance Men

Board Urges No Lowering Of Physical Gtandardc   Contexls Family Men Now Are Prime Source From Which Services Must Draw Recruits   LAWMAKER URGES LOWER STANDARDS   But Commission Says Action Would Cripple March Toward Victory

White House Medical hoard Advises Against jay Redaction of  pirsical Requirements

Oppose Lowering Draft Standards   Doctors Say It Reduces Efficiency

Doctors Doom Family Men To Army Life   Physical Standards Must Not Be  Lowered, They Say

Speed Drafting Of Family Men Under New Plar   Medical Board Advise: Against Lowering The Physical Tests

Military Physical Standards Must Not Be Lowered, Special Commission Asserts

Doctors Avow Drafting 4-Fs Risks Victory   Sound Family Men Ratec Necessary To Maintain MESlTienew Efftataa

OPPOSE LOWER STANDARDS IN PHYSICAL TEST   Commission Reports * On Military Re quirements

FAMILY HEADS TO BE DRAFTED AT FASTER CLIP   Service Doctors Insist Physical Standards Low Enough

FEAR LOWER ARMY GAUCE ~ CRIPPLING      Physical Standards Stie Debate in Capital

Navy Readies Heavy Blows at Japs; 100 Carriers "In or Near Action”

‘Too Little, Too Late’ Now Applies to Axis      Navy Readies Vast Fleet ForShowdown With Janar

MIGHTY NAVAL BLOWS BEING PREPARED FOR AXIS NATIONS   Navy Now Has Approximately 100 Carriers “In Or Near Action”; New Twin-Engined Fighter And Scouting Plane To Be Hurled Against Foe

Navy Ready For Heavier. Blows at Foe  In Pacific    Mighty Ocean Armadas Including 100 Carriers, Preparé. To Blast Japs. Vice Admiral Asserts   NOTES ANNIVERSARY. OE NAVAL AIR ARM _   "2.300. Japanese Planes . Destroyed During Year. 560 Lost by Navy 

Blows Hit at Foe so Far Light Compared to What Navy is Set to Deliver

Navy Discloses 100 Carriers Ready To Deal Heavier Blows to Enemy

FDR’s No. 1 Problem Lie:  In Congress   Musi Overcome Isolationist Minority in Senate

Michigan Goes Over to F.D.R.   Count Is ‘Tentative’; Popular Vote Margin Smallest Since 1916 Election, President Faces Critical Problems

President Must Overcome Senate Isolationist Minority   NEW DEAL AT HOME MAY BE REVIVED   Mr. Roosevelt Expected To Leave For Paris Qoan

Gordon Gammack Talk Scheduled at High School At 8:30 O'Clock Tonight

iE. A. Stephens 's Candidate For 'U. 5. Senate   W.H. Talbot, Jack McCarthy, Succesful Davis Managers

NAZI ATTACK REPULSED ON ITALY FRONT   Germans Launch Heavy Barrage West of Cassino

German Patrols Are Repulsed on Italian Front   Enemy Artillery Has Launched Heavy Barraqe

Alliesin Italy RepelAttack   Artillery Activity By Nazis Increases

German Patrols Repulsed in Italy   Nazis Attempt to Break Up Offensive

Nazis Air Blast at Cassino   Allied Troops Beat Back Garigliano Valley Attack

NAZI ARTILLERY FIRE HEAVY ON CASSINO FRONT   Foe Trying To Disrupt 5th Army Plans For General Drive

Nazi Attacks In Garigliano Sector Halted   Heavy Barrage is Loosed by Enemy  Weeds af f‘aacatan

HUGHES DECIDES NOT TO RUN FOR A STATE OFFICE   COURTNEY LOOMS 4S LIKELY DEMOCRATIC CHOICE FOR GOVERNOF

SONG WRITER IS LEADING IN LOUISIANA’S FLECTION   DAVIS TAKES COMMANDING MARGIN OVER CANDIDATE OF THE HUEY LONG. MACHINE

Strikes Ended  In Middle West   Other Minor Walkouts Blot Nation’s Industrial  Picture Te WNITEH PRESS

CSGAPE SEALED DESPITE HEAVY FIGHTING IN CITY   German Soldiers in Vosges Are Ordered to Make Death Stand

Japanese Applaud Killing Of War Prisoners Who Tool Part in Raid Over Tokyo   BY YIN TSO

DESTRUCTION OF PLOESTI FIELDS IS ALLIED PLAN   Loss Of Oil Fields To Germans Could Hasten End Of Conflict   LUFTWAFFE MAY BE ELIMINATED SOON

Yank Bombers Lead Offensive In Balkan Area   Four Vital Targets Hit in Week; 2,000 Tons of Bombs Fall

Air Power Gets Responsibility  Opens Offensive in Southwest Europe

Allied Air Forces Open Spring Drive   Fliers Emerging for Offensive Against Nazis in Southeastern Europe—Four Vital and Heavily Defended Targets Bombed This Week

AIR POWER RESPONSIBLE FOR OFFENSIVE   in Contrast To Checkmate Of Allied Armies South Of Rome, Heavy U. S. Bombare Stave.   Nazi Targets

ALLIED AIR POWER IS TAKING OVER ‘SPRING DRIVE’ AGAINST NAZIS   sca With Virtually Complete Responsibility For Campaign; Hundreds Of Bombers Hit Balkan Targets

Bombers Striking Hard at Balkans   Hundreds Attack German Positions

Henry Ford, 81 Years Old Sunday, ‘Looks With Confidence to Future

FORD OBSERVES 81ST BIRTHDAY   Predicts Prosperity Anc¢ High Living Standard After War

Over 300 Injured In Blast   Plaster Blown From Walls Over 30 Miles Away

HUNDREDS HURT AS AMMUNITION SHIPS EXPLODE   ‘Cause of Blast Still Unknown

TOWN AOGKED. BY EXPLOSION OF MUNITIONS   Hundreds Others Injured in Naval Disaster on ’ West Coast.’

Ammunition Blast Destroys Two Vessels   259 Navy Officers, Men ‘Presumed Killed’ in Disaster

NAVY VESSELS EXPLODE NEAR SAN FRANCISCE   Victims Estimated at 350 Dead While Hundreds of Others Hurt at Port Chicago

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Congress In Recess Of Five Weeks   PAST SIX MONTHS HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO CHARTING COURSE FOR RETURN TO NORMALCy.

CONGRESS GETS 5-WEEK LAYOFF   Laws Passed To Help Post-War Return To Normaley

Congress Has  3-Week Reces:   Long, Stormy Session Ended By -Sclons

 Congress Leaves Capital For Vacation After Term  Devoted To Charting Course For Postwar Conversion

LOngress  eaves For Five Week _. Summer Recess  Closes Session Devotec   Closes Session Devotec Largely to Postwar Problems ‘

RESISTANCE BY GERMANS STIFFENING   Overnight Advance by Americans Threatens to Upset Nazis.   BULLETIN

3rd Army Brushes Off Counter Blows, Seizes Two Towns Below Metz   Allied 7th Army Carves Out Gains In Belfort Area; Battle Lines Below Aachen Unchanged

Yank Tanks Plunge Into The Breach   Patton’s Forces Hurled Through Soft Places In German Defenses

TANKS SWING THROUGH 20 MILE BREACH   Chateau Salins and Louvigny Captured By 3rd Army Troops

OVER 1,300 SQUARE MILES TO PATTON   Third Army Has Less Than 83 Remaining in France and Occuplies 40 of German Soil.

Yanks Capture Airfield on Manus Island   Enemy Resistance Appears to Be Disorganized

Americans Take Jap Airdrome On Manus Isle   Drive of Cavalrymen Carries Them Into Outskirts of Town

Defenses Of Japs Crumble   Americans Wipe Out Bougainville Offense

HITLER STRATEGY MAY PROVE COSTL'   CHANCE FOR ALLIES TO DESTROY A NAZI ARMY IN ITALY BELIEVED GOOD.

May Be Wined Out Because Of Hitler’s ‘Fight-AndDie’ Order   Wie UiGer  GERMANS CAN ILL AFFORD HEAVY TROOP LOSSES NOW

U.S. Troops In Drive Against Jap Strongholds   Advance Toward Madang And Borgen Bay In New Guinea And New Britain   MANY JAPS SLAIN IN NEW ATTACKS

SPEED UP NEW GUINEA DRIVE   Sixth Army Pushes Toward Madang  aetna mami  ra , & Marines Close In on

SPEED TEMPO OF DRIVES IN PACIFIC   Americans Press Attacks on Madang and Borgen Bay

36-Hour Ban Set for Fruit Shipments   EMBARGO PLACED ON STATE LOADING BY COMMERCE GROUP

Encounter. Heavy Fire From Japs   American Troops Are Taking Each Pillbos In Turn In Theit Attack On Kwajalein

, ane, ‘ ; Rommel Escapes Being ; Killed When He Is Late ‘To Nazi Headquarters

KIMMEL ASKS ‘OPEN’ TRIAL   Wants Free, Open, Public Trial in Pear) Harbor Court Martial.

BOTH HOUSES MOVE TO HOLD COURT MARTIAL   ~ Kimmel Demands An “Open Trial’ Soon, Houses Move to Allow ' More Time for Court Martial

Area North of Aachen: Blazes Into Action-as Metz Streets Stormed:

Victory Day Is Delayed.  3-6 Months By Setback:   Little Hope Held For Early Victory

Germans’ Big Drive Means Longer Wat   U. 8: Too Optimistic And Alfied Intelligence Made Two Blunders

Strategists Add Three to Six Months to War  Victory in Europe Delayed by  j ee eee eae ee emery

(Military Experts Now Add 3 to 6 Months To European ‘War; Rap Allied Optimism

VICTORY DATE  5 PROLONGED   Military Strategists Add Three to Six Months to — Estimated Date.

VICTORY DATE AGAIN SET BACK   Nazi Drive To Delay V-EDay Three to Six Months Experts Say

Strategists Extend Date For Victory   Military Men Sight Longer War In Europe As Result of Offensive

Strategists Add Three to Six Months to War  Victory in Europe Delayed by  Nazi Counterdrive

Nazi Dtive’ Seen Adding Te War's Length   Strategists Now Talk Of Victory Next Fall Or Winter

Nazi Offense Sets Back Victory Date  Optimism And Poor Allied Planning Blamed For Success   Isolated, Outnumbered 100 to One. 400 Escape Germans on Christmas

Strategists Add Three to Six Months ‘To Estimate Date for Europe Victory

V-E DAY IS SET BACK BY NAZIS’ MIGHTY PLUNGE   Leaders Now Estimate Reich’s Fall To Require 3 to 6 Months Longer

War To Last Longer, Belief  Shakeup Moy Come Ir Military Intelligence

END IN EUROPE NOT DUE SOON   If The War Is Prolonged As Strategists Estimate, A Shake-Up In Our Command Is Due.

German Drive Toward Meuse Checked by Americans in Celles and Ciney Vicinity   American Garrison at Bastogne Making Epic Stand, Resisting Every Effort of Germans © to Capture Vital Point on Westward March

Events Shafter Hope of Early Allied Victory  Part of German Success Laid to Qwvar.améies tems

Several Months Added To Guess On Victory Date   German Success Laid To Overoptimism In Allied Hicgh Command.

US. Hope for Early Victory Over ‘Nazi Offensive Forces Now Waning

Military Stratezists Now Adding Three To Six Months To Victory Date

Victory Date ln Europe Is MViore Remote   German Drive  Adds Months

Strategists Add Three To Six Months To Estimate Of Date For V-E Day

ALLIED MILITARY STRATEGISTS ADDING MONTHS TO WAR TIME  HOPE THAT GEN. EISENHOWER MIGHT TRAP GER  MANS GRAY AND WANING

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Strategists Revise  Estimates of Date o: Victory over Nazis   They Now Believe it Will Take Until Fall or Winter of 1945.

Reported Almost All Way Through Maginot Line And Near Hitler Siegfried Wall   British Capture Vimy Ridge; Allied Troops Believed To Be In Belgium; Rocket Coast Is Ahandoned: Nazis In Outright Flicht

British, In New ‘Drive On Flanders, Take Viny Ridge 20 Miles From Belaan Line

Americans Reported 11 Miles From Reich   Allied Troops Reach Thionvil le; Cerman Invasion Now Hours Away

ARMORED UNITS SPEARING OUT FROM . VERDUN   Troops Speed Over Battle Lines Of World Warl

Drive to Near Thionville   Advance Carried to Within 20 Miles Of Saar River Forts—Almost All the Way Through Old Maginot Line

Germans Report U.S. Near Thionville On Moselle River   Americans Within 20 Miles of Siegfried Outposts; Nearly Through Maginot Line, Huns Claim

Shelled City © Falling Apart   Americans Smash Defiant Garrison And Column Rushing to Rescue 

Three Grecian Islands Reported Freed By British   Fate of German Garrisons Occupying   Isles Not Disclosed

ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN GREECE SEEN AS 3 ISLANDS REPORTED LIBERATED   BRITISH COMMANDOS LAND ON KYTHERA, 6 MILES FROM MAINLAND, CAIRO CORRESPONDENT SAYS

COMMANDOS TAKE  PAFEK ISLANDS   ‘May Presage Landings ir Southern Greece.

COMMANDOS HIT FIRST BLOW IN. GREEK CAMPAIGN   Liberate Three Islands Off Main land, Report Today States

COMMANDOS CAPTURE THREE GREEK ISLANDS   British Raiders Strike First Blow To Free Greece

Three Islands Off Greece Captured   British Commandos Start New Drive

Three Greek Islands Taken By Commandos   First Effort ‘To Liberate Country Reported

GREEK ISLAND LANDING MADE NEAR MAINLAND   British Commandos Free Places Six  Miles Offshore

DEWEY STRATEGY BOARD IS BUSY   CENTER ATTENTION ON CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS CONTROL

Dewey, G.0.P Head Confer By Telephone   Candidate Puts in Quiet Holiday at Executive Mansion

Roosevelt Reaches Decision on U. S. Attitude to French  To Be Announced After Scrutiny by State, War Dept’s.

Plan Conference On International IC ommunications, News Exchange

Cheadle, Casey Lead in Races for Supreme Court Justice, Public Service Commissioner. Respectively

BULLITT = MAJOR IN FRENCH ARMY   Former Ambassador Enlists As Commandant

Sink Nip Aircraft Carrier, 3 Tankers, Possibly a Destroyer   Not a Single Yank Vessel Lost; » Three Enemy Clat-eTons Batlechin Damaced

DIES OF SCARLET FEVER.   FOUR-WAY AIR ATTACKS On Reich May Be Allied Plan

4-Way Allied-Russian Air Attack On Germany Predicted by Simpson   Says Bastions of Roofless Fortress Europe Are Now Crumbling

SOLDIERS VOTE ‘HOME BALLOT’   Bricker Says Ohioans Can Help Pick State, Local Candidates

Nazi Opposition Stiffens Against UJ. §. Air Raids   Fighters and Flak Greet Americans Over Vienna Rut Results Good

Enemy Aircraft Reported Heavy      Italy-Based Bombers Raid Upper Silesia

Dixie Democrats — Boost Rayburn   Senator Maybank, However, Says “We Haven't Picked Our Man Yet”.

RAYBURN BOOMED FOR VICE PRESIDENT   All-Out Drive to Put; House Speaker on Democratic Ticket Is Pronised.

Comeback Attempt of Nazi Warlords Through Communism Seen by Welles

Germans Try In Vain To Flee Reds   Soviet Forces Reach Rail Station; Foe Meets Disaster

Soviet Forces Battle in Luga Suburbs   Troops in Ukraine Tighten Ring Around Huge Trap

tal Railway ine Cleared 3y Russians  eoOnn *]2 We   is Lose 4,200 in Ef at to Smash Soviet Ring in Ukraine   ANDON WEAPONS   remely Fierce Fight x Marks Final Stage of Battle

Reds Reach Quiskirts Of Luga   Important German  Defense Point in Weareth Theactancsad

WRECK 70 TANKS, KILL 4.500 NAZIS   Germans Battle Desperately To Rescue Trapped Divisions   MORE THAN FORTY TOWNS AND HAMLETS ARE TAKEN

: : _) & Russians smash to nazi base   Progress seven miles in drive

Reds Reach Outskirts — Of Luga   Important German Defense Point in Warth Theastensd

Reds ‘Pierce Luga Suburbs; Nazis Halted Upon Dnieper   4,200 Germans Dead In Attacks On Ring

Red Army Reaches Suburbs Of Luga, Rail Center   MANY TOWNS TAKEN    Moscow Reports Nazis Suffering Big Losses in Men And Material

Reds Battle Outside Luga Capture Near   4,200 Nazis Killed in Effort to Break Ukraine Trap

Soviets Reach Luga Suburbs: F all Imminent   Important German Defense Point Protests Axis Retreat Into Es  tonia and Latvia —   Rail Junction of  Batetskaya Taken   Desperate Effort To Res - cue: Trapped ‘Hordes in Ukraine Results inDeath of 4,200 Huns

Reds Advance Toward Latvia And Estonia   40 Towns Captured, 4,200 Nazis Killed and 70 Tanks Wrecked

Reds Penefrate Suburbs Near Leningrad   Russians Drive Wedge Into German Lines Of Retreat ,

4,200 N azis Slain Trying  To Break Ring   Attempt To Rescue 1€ Trapped Divisions: Russians In Suburb: Of Luga In North

SURRENDER OR DEATH FACING 100,000 NAZIS   RUSSIANS SQUEEZE FOE INTO SMALL 11-MILE STRIP

Soviet Troops Fight Nazis in luaa’s Suburb:   Other Russian Forces Captured Batetskaya; In the South Red Forces Tighten Ring of Death

Scores of B-29's Left City Ablaze   Yanks Knock Out Fifth of Japan’s Steel Production

Great Pillars of Flame  Are Visible   Scores of the Huge Bombers Take Part in Attack

4. B-29s Lost as Jap Steel Mills Blasted   Scores of Super-Forts Smash at Yawata, “*Japan’s Pittsburgh,” in Longest Bomb Flight in History; Great Fires Started

n Longest Bombing Flight in History; Four $1,500,000 Planes Fail to Return.

Jap Steel Center Damaged Critically by U. S. Raiders; Four B-29s Fail to Return   Fifth of Metal Production at Yawata Knocked Out by Rain of Explosives; ‘Just Beginning Destruction of Foe’s Industry,’ Says Commander

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Jap Pittsburgh Takes a Beating   4 Superfortresses Lost in Atfacks

Scores of Deadly Superfortresses  Turn Jap Steel Mills Into Rubbish

Japanese Steel Works Hit . - Hard In Super-Plane Attack   Four B-29 Super-Fortresses: Lost in Historic Blow at “Japan's Pittsburgh”—Detailed Stories Given of Longest. Bomber Flight in History

FourSt uper- -Fortresses Missing, Jap Steel Pr -oduction. Suffers.

JAP STEEL CITY TARGET IN RAID; GREAT FIRES SEI   Flames Visible for 60 Miles After Scores of Superplanes Poured Explosives on Yawata.   FOUR FORTRESSES LOST IN ONSLAUGHT   Stories of Wreckage Indicate Fifth of Production of Mills May Have Been Knocked Out.

Scores Of Superfortresses Participated In Raid On Yawata; 4 Bombers Lost _   Z,000-MILE TRIP BY AMERICAN RAIDERS

U. S. Marauders Blast Positions   Heavy American Bombers Are Reported Heading Into Northwest Reich

FLIERS AID IN CLEAN-UP AT CHERBOURG   Supporting Ground Troops - Attacking Port, Airmen Blast Four German Gun Positions on City’s Outskirts.

Bombers Plaster Nazi Gun Posts  Devastating Results Caused in Cherbourg

Heavy Bombers Strike Massive Blow at Nazis   British Reported Bombing Germany

INVASION GOAST IS POUNDED BY ALLIED PLANES   1,400 Planes Blasted Military Targets In North France Friday   GERMANY 1S DEALT ANOTHER RAF BLOW

French Coast  Ts Pounded By Big Air Force   Onslaught of Possibly 1,400 Allied Planes May Have Exceeded Record Christmas Eve Raid— Losses Reported as Small .—«—_—a«_—s.—

Night Attack Follows Raid On Germany   Pas De Calais: Area Is. Given’. Heavy: Pounding ‘Allies: Say-

POWERFUL FORGE OF PLANES AAIDS COAST OF FRANGE   Possibly 1 400 Planes Stage Massive Blow At ‘Rocket- Gun Coast’   MAY EXCEED RECORD CHRISTMAS EVE RAID   Marks First Attack on Continent of American Fortresses and Liberators Since Battle Tuesday in Which 65 Aircraft Lost

LARGE AERIAL ARMADA RAIDS FRENCH COAST   t; 400 Planes Hit At : "Rocket Gun Areas RAF Over Reich

1400 Planes Blast Rocket Coast; Nazi Defenses Weaken   Fleavy Bombers And RAF In Assault On Mystery Targets In Northern France And Reich: Little Fighter Opposition Is Encountered

Indications Point to New Raid On Berlin; Escorts Push Nazi Fighters Back

Powerful Allied Air Force Pounds ‘Rocket Gun Coast’  “RAF Reported Following Up. With Night Raid On Germany: Hundreds Of Planes ‘In Attack

Russia Offers Terms fo Finns   1940 Borders Must Be Accepted by Finns, Swedish Paper Says

REPORT REDS OFFER FINNS - PEACE TERMS   Proposal Would Give Russians Right to Cross Finland

Reds Advance Finland Faces Cabinet Crisis   New Russian Terms Offered, Steckhotm Hears

RUSSIAN PEACE OFFER 10 FINNS BEING REPORTEL   ‘Three-Point Plan Concerned With Freedom of Movement of Troops ' of Soviet Union

Report Soviet Peace Terms Given Finland   Meanwhile, Red Army ~ Opens Two New Drives  To End the Conflict

SOVIETS DRIVE FORWARD TODAY AGAINST FINNS   Report Says New Peace Overture  Now Offered

SAYS STALIN DOES NOT COVET EUROPE   Flatly Rejected Any Such Idea at Teheran Conference, an Editor of Saturday Evening Post  Naeplaradc

Post Editor Says Stalin Does Nof Want Europe   Forrest Davis Declares Statement Was Made af Teheran Conference

Stalin Disclaims Europe Ambitions   Russia Too Busy kor More Territory

BATTLES HEAVY FIGHTER SCREEN TO FIRE CITY”   First Mass Daytime Raid

Heart Of Berlin Feels Sting Of Bombs Dropped By Vast U. S. Air Fleet

15-Miie-Long Parade Thunders Over faz! Capita! for Half Hour   First Mass Daylight Assauit Of War on Berlin !s Success

Nazis Claim Air Battle Is Waged  Over Germany   Allied Reports Show Raid Is Scoring Big Success 

First Big Assault By Daylight   YANK AIRMEN ABLE TO BOMB GERMAN CAPITAL ON A PINPOINT PRECISION BASIS

Temperatures   Yank Planes flit German Capital In Heavy Attack   Swarms of Fighters Escort Yank Raiders to Target ©

NAZI FIGHTERS TRY IN VAIN TO AVERT ASSAULT   Running Air Battles Over Europe Last From 2:te 4 Heurs

Day Raid Scores Success   NAZIS SAY STRONG RESISTANCE GIVEN AERIAL ASSAULT

["-Mile-Long Parade Of Bombers Set Great Fires In Capital   Nazi Fighters Put Lp Bitter Defense   Enemy Says Greatest Air Battles Of War Fought Over Western Germany

Chinese Break Through Outer Defenses Of Tengchung, Jap Base on Salween

FIRST ARMY GAINS NEARLY TWO MILES   7th Army Reaches  Rhine; Shelling Enemy Across River

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KILGORE WON'T RUN FOR GOVERNOR: JUDGE MEADOWS EXPECTED TO. ANNOUNCE   Fight Over Democratic Committee Posts Indicated

DEClOta M0 STAY OUT OF SOVERNOR’S RAGE   Will Remain in Senate Where His Term Does Not Ex“4 pire Until 1947   SIGNAL FOR OTHER CANDIDATES TO ACT   “Only Democratic Aspirant So Far Is Rush Dew Holt, Opponent of State Administration; Dawson GOP Can. didate Files Formally

-—FORESEE HOUSE NGSENATE. DEADAG   Republican Leader  Predicts House ot ‘Accept Liberalization

Allies Advance into Reich On 500-Mile Front   Smash Westwall To Cross Border At Fourth Point

Yanks Grab Three More  Palau Isles   Control Nine Islands And New Airfields; 9.000 Jans Slain

Americans Hold’ 9 Palau Islands, Vital Airfield   Bases Near Philippines Used With Good Results

Palau Yanks Grab 3 More Island Bases   New Airfield Won; MacArthur: Bombers Hammer 17 Vessels

THREE MORE PALAU ISLES GRABBED BY YANK TROOPS   New Strides Taken By Americans In Drive Toward the Philippines

Extend U.S. Control »Over Palau Group   Yank Forces Hold Nine Islands; Gain Another Air Strip:

SECURE NGESBUS, KONGAURU A ND UNNAMED ISLAND   DRIVE JAPS OUT OF ARTILLERY RANGE OF PELELIU FIELD

Yanks Land on 3 More tslands  “Fo orces Control il Airfield in Palau Gro

3More Islands InPalaus Won By Yank Forces  New Airfield Seized, MacArthur’s Planes Blast 17 Of Japan's ie Jaa in

Nine Islands and:a New Airfield in the Palau. Group in Hands of Yanks

WOODWARD CHAIRMAN BOARD OF REGENTS TEXAS UNIVERSITY  REORGANIZATION BOARD COMPLETED AND ROUTINE RIIGINESS TAKEN ITIP

BRICKER ENDS TRIP IN WEST   Governor : Well Satisfied With Campaign Results, He Tells Newsmen

BRICKER ENDS WESTERN TRIP   Governor Weill. Satisfied. with Results of Campaign for G.G.P. Nomination.

OHIO GOVERNOR BACK IN CAPITAL      Approves Warren’s Selection as Keynoter

SATISFIED WITH WESTERN JANI   Bricker Returns To Columbus: After 10-Day Trip To West Coast

Other Allied Forces Are Across Marne And Head Toward Chateau Thiery   ALLIED ADVANCES IN NORTH MATCHED BY SUCCESSES IN SOUTH   Americans Are Thundering Up Rhone Valley; Paris Returning To Normalcy

HOPE DWINDLES FOR 66 MINERS   Men Will Be Declared Dead; Shafts Being Sunk To Tunnel

Race From English Bases to Flaming Front in Germany.   DOWN 108 NAZI PLANES

BOMBERS, FIGHTERS RACE FROM BRITAIN TO AID FIRST ARMY  SMASHED THREE GERMA   SMASHED THREE GERMAN RAILHEADS SUPPLYING COUNTER-OFFENSIVE

Bombers Race Toward First   Smash Three German Railheads Supplying CounterOffensive,

Foe Penetrates American Lines: No Alarm Felt   Allied Command Sees Enemy In Final Bid To Avert Collapse

1,000 HEAVIES RE POUNDING ATTLEFRONT   Hundreds of Forts Dump 2,000 Pounds of Bombs On Enemy Key Cities Despite Clouds  TDIPIE RPILOW AT NIGHT   TRIPLE BLOW AT NIGHT

Allied Air Armadas Join Battle   Over 11,000 Planes Hit At Nazi Railroads Supplying New Offensive; Follow RAF Assault

Planes Race to Battle Region   1,100 Bombers and Fighters Smash at German Railheads

PLANES SMASH RAILS LEADING TO NAZI DRIVE   1,100 Bombers and Fighters Race to Blazing Front Line

1.100 Planes Smash At Foe InDrive To  Aid 1st Army   Three Railheads Of Enemy Supplying Counter-Offensive Are Smashed

Hun Railheads On West Front Heavily Raided   Huge Armada of Heavy Bombers Smash Enemy Supply Lines On Flam.  ing Battlefront

HEAVY BOMBERS BACK 1ST ARMY   SMASH 3 RAILHEADS BEHIND NAZI LINES ON WESTERN FRONT

BOMBERS, FIGHTERS  RACE FROM BRITAIN  TO AID FIRST ARMY SMASHED THREE GERMAN  RAILHEADS SUPPLYING COMINTER_OELENCIVE

RAF Bomber Command Strikes Three Mighty Blows At German Rail Centers

U. 5. Heavies Hit Reich Today  RAF Dropped 7,000 Tons Last Nicht

Huge Bombe: Force Hits Nazi Targets   Three German Railheads Supplying Enemy’s Counterdrive Are Smashed by Big Planes; Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz Are Hit

HEAVY BOMBERS SHOWER BLOWS ON FOE CITIES   Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz Are Targets Singled Out to Slow Nazi Drive

AERIAL ASSAULT AIDS OUR SIDE   Bombs Strike Supply Lines Of Nazi Counter-Offensive On Western Front.

Rush Big Bombers To Allied Defense   Nazi Railways and Supply Columns Are Given a Pounding

Yankee, RAF Planes Hurled Against Nazis  1,100 Strike Along  Ist Army Front; Ca Fighters From All

Big Air Fleet Roars To Aid of Doughboys   1,100 Bombers, Fighters Blast Railheads Supplying German Drive

11,000 Planes In Big Attack   Smash Three German Railheads Supplying Big Counter Offensive

Heavy Bombers Hit German Railheads   Blows Aimed At German Supplies

NAZIS SHIFT 16 DIVISIONS FROM CENTRAL GERMAN\ TO BATTLE FRONT   Hitler Gives German Soldiers Order To Fight To Finish.

Nazis Fight F erociously On Frontier   Counter-attack on Eastery Border of East Prussia  and at Krakow

NAZIS HURL IN RESERVES, SLOW REDS   Russian Onslaught Is Temporarily Stemmed

Germans Told To Hold Reds On Border   “Reich at Your Back,” Hitler Says In Order of Day

Fight To knd Hitler Tells Army In East   16 Fresh Divisions Thrown Into Battle; Civilians Dig Border Trenches

Germans Rush Men To East   16 Divisions Are Sent to Bolster Eastern War Zone

Hitler Sends 16 More Divisions To Eastern Front   Troops Given Orders To Fight To Last Man Along Borders

HITLER URL MORE TROOPS AGAINST RUS!   Orders Germans to Fight to Last Man in Defense of East Front.

HITLER SENDS MORE MEN INTL EAST PRUSSIA   16 Additional Divisions Added Tc Force Fighting Against Rus. sians, Ordered To “Fight To Last Soldier”   NAZIS RECAPTURE VILKAVISEKIS, CLAIM

16 New German Divisions Tie Up Soviet Onslaught   Nazi High Command Tc Defend Prussia  “At Any Cost”’

Ordered To Fight To The Very Last Soldier By Hitler  NAZIS RETREAT AT FLORENCE British Eighth Army Now  Control! All High Ground In Area

Fresh German Troops Check Russian Drive   Fuehrer Orders Army to Fight To Last Man

Reinforced Nazi Divisions Check Reds’ Onslaught   ‘Hitler Rushes New Troops To Eastern Front  With ‘Do Or Die’ Orders; Russians Are  Confident Stalemate Only Temporary

Hitler Orders All To Fight To Last Ditch   Heavy Counterattacks Against Russians  Aa. Dims ff lead emenemes

Hitler Sends  16 Divisions  Against Reds   Reinforcements Ordered To Fight ‘To Last Soldier’

Nazis Order Fight to Last Man in East   Hitler Rushes 16 More Divisions To Eneaurre Russians

G. 0. P. Foreign Policy Agreement Seen  Dewey Favored for Nomination on the First Ballot

G.0.P. Draws Up  Peace Program   Taft Named Head of Platform Committee

Japanese Fuel Resources Pared By Heavy Blow   74 Tons of Explosives “Dropped On Plants In City of Balikapan

Borneo Bombing Believed To Have Cut Oif Jap Fuel   Balikpapan Supplied Ehemy With 1-6 Of Gasoline and Oil

Japan Loses Sixth Of Her Fuel Resources In Alliec Raid On Balikpapan

Liberators Blast Japs’ Oil Supply   Believed to Have Crippled Enemy Oil Center On Island of Borneo

Liberators Bomb  Borneo   60 U.S, Bombers Attack Big Jap Oil Centér on Balikpapan, Sat.

RAID CRIPPLES JAPAN'S MAJOR FUEL OIL BASE   Bombers, In 2,500 - Mile Flight, Smash At Borneo Target

YANKS RAID BALIKPAPAN IN BORNEO   Major Jap Fuel Storage Center Is Blasted

NO THREAT OF COLD   But Forecaster Advises Folks te Take Look at Calendar

AGREE ON PLANS TO OCCUPY REICH   ‘Roosevelt Reveals Britain  and Russia to Join  With U.S. Arms

ALLIES AGREE ON OCCUPATION OF GERMANY   President Reveals Accord of U.S., Britain, Russia

President Says Occupation Plan Is Agreed Upon   United States, Britain And Russia Reach Agreement On Military Occupation Of Germany

ROOSEVELT #EVEALS AT .’ PRESS. CONFERENCE {THAT OCCUPATION. FLAN. HAS BEEN APPROVED

ON OCCUPATION   Plans Ready For Entering Germany   U.S., China to Discuss Tokyo Later

ON OCCUPATION OF GERMANY   President Reveals Accord of U.S., Britain, Russia,

ay Will Relieve 30 Million -From Filing Complicated Returns; Others Aided

STREAMLINED TAX MEASURE SENT 10 FDR   His Signature. Is Expected By Congress Chiefs

50,000,000 Rid of Tax Arithmetic After 1944.   Congress Sends Streamlined Income Levy Bill to President Whoa Ts Sure Ta Sion Tet

Leaders Say Passage Is Almost Sure   ‘Paineless’ Tax Bill Would Relieve Many Millions  ‘  U.S. Taxpayers

STREAMLINED TAX BILL SENT T0 WHITE HOUSE   Leaders Fee] Certain That Roosevelt Will Sign the Bill Into Law. at Pop -Javity Record -- :

‘Painless” Tax Bill to F. D. R.   Leaders Predict President Will Sign Streamlined Measure to Eliminate Filing of Returns for Most Payers

‘Simplified Tax Bill Sent to Roosevelt; Signature Forecast   Legislation Eases Return Process For 50,000,000 Federal Debtors; No Filine on Salaries Under #5.000

Simplified Tax ‘Measure is Sent To White House   House Acts Unanimously, Senate by Voice Vote to Relieve Taxpayers of Involved Returns

Painless Tax Measure Goes To Roosevelt   House, Senate Approve Sim: plified Income Measure For Taxpayers.   OK AMENDMENTS

WHITE HOUSE RECEIVES NEW TAX MEASURE   50,000,000 Income Taxpayers Will Be Affected

Congress Sends Simplified Tax Bill To White House   Measure Rearranges Whole Individual Tax Structure; Discards Old Wartime Victory Tax

Tax Simplifier Goes to FDR   President Expected To Sign Measure, Leaders Say

ROOSEVELT GETS INCOME TAX BILL   Senate Amendments Accepted By House, Signature ts Anticipated.

CONGRESSMEN FORWARD TAX BILL TOF.D.R   His Signature Will Pui Simplified Plan Into Operation Jan. 1

Bill Near Law   Measure, Passed Unanimously by House and by Voice Vote in Senate, Relieves Some 30,000,000 Persons of Necessity of Making Out Returns.   PRESIDENT TO SIGN

Simplified Tax Bill Is Passed   President Gets New “Streamliner” Bill Adjusting Payments

Legislation Simplifies Return Process for 50 Million Taxpayers.   ‘EXPECT FR WILL SIGN

TAX BILL SENT TO WHITE HOUSE   House Accepts Technica! Senate Amendments

Congress Sends Simplified Tax To White House   Leaders At Capital Certain President Will Sign Streamliner Into Law

PRESIDENT GETS SIMPLE TAX BILL   PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY HOUSE AND VOICE VOTE IN THE SENATE

Painless Tax Bill Sent to White House   te - F. R, Certain to Sign 8 Measure Simplifying  Returns, Say Leaders

TAX BILL GOES TO ROOSEVELT   Signing Of ‘Streamliner Into Law Considered Certainty

OALVE.TO TAA HOWL SENT 10 ~ WHITE HOUSE   Congress. Finally Approves Simplified Tax Bill. for 50;000,000.

Simplified Tax Bill - Passed By Congress Sent To President   Measure Is Answer to Annual Howl Over Difficulty in Making Returns - - Farm Machinery Argument Fed Fuel in Congress and Ward Seizure Probe Goes On

Congress SendsT ax Simplification Bill To President For Signature —

Painless Tax Bill Sent to White House   Leaders of Measure Satisfied President  Will Attach Signature

Tax Bill ToF.D.R.   ‘Sure President Will Sign Streamlined Revenue Measure

TAX BILL GOES TO ROOSEVELT   Congress Completes Work On Simplification Plan

RUSSIANS CUT LAST GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE   WARSAW IN PERIL; THREE FORTRESS CITIES FALL

LAST ESCAPE ROUTE CLOSED TO GERMANS   In Baltic States As Series of Staggering Blows Are Inflicted By Russians.   “Black Thursday”

Reds Capture 6 Major Nazi Strongholds   Last Big Escape Route « Out of Baltics Cut ’ By Powerful Surges VISTTIT A TS CROSSED

Berlin Announces Last Natural Defense Barrier Is Being Slashed And Imperiling Warsaw

6 Key German  Bastions Fall To Russ Blitz   Most Staggering Series Of Defeats of Entire War Hondad Branwce

*  Soviets Cross Vistula River Near Warsaw   Lwow, Bailystok and Stanislawow Among Cities Seized; Escape Line in Baltic Falls

Announce List Of Inductees   Those Who Left Hagerstown July 12 And Assignments Announced.

Many Assigned To Army, Navy   Draft Board No. 1 Announces List Of Those Assioned July 25.

Many Accepted F or Army, Navy   Draft Board No. 1 Announces List Accepted On January 24.

Concern Over Japanese Push Grows in China   Foe Gains Full Control of Peiping - Hankow Railroad

Chinese Situation Serious   Another Jap Thrust - On Loyang Listed In Report

CHINESE REPORT JAP SUCCESSES IN LOYANG PUSE   Defenders Alarmed by Rapic Advance of Nip Forces; Railway Seized

Japanese Reported In New Thrust Toward Loyang ‘   Enemy Has Gained Control of PeipingHankow Railroad

Japs Make Deep Drive ~ Into Chine   Gain“ Contro), of Railroad Linking. Northern and Central Forces   NEW THRUSTS.ON -LOYANG REPORTED   " Chungking Deeply Concerned; “Enemy Offensive Is the Largest Since 1935

Mounting Concern Over War in China   Japs Gain Control of Vital Railway and Drive on Lovanag

APO CONTROL CHINA RAILWAY   Atmosphere of Unconcealed Concern Spreads with Reports.   LINE LINKS TWO FORCES

Japanese Launch Major Campaign Against China   Concern Spreads As Nips Take Rail Line And Cross River

China Facing Worst Threat in Six Years   Rich Wheat Lands in Northern Honan Being Threatened

JAP OFFENSIVE AGAINST CHINA HITS NEW PEAK   Chinese Report Lnemy Has Crossed Yellow River, Apparently Gaining Complete Control Of PiepingHankow Railroad  Line.

Japs Create Grave. Concern in Their Thrust at Loyang   Most Important Offensive in China Since 1938 Goes On

Biggest Nip Push Since 1938 Threatens Loyang; Japs Control Railroad

Japs Control China Railway   Concern Spreads As Japanese Forces  Prosecute Thrust Against Loyang.

JAP OFFENSIVE IN HONAN PROVINCE 1§ DIRE THREAT CHINA   CROSSING YELLOW RIVEEF BY INVADERS THREATEN: OUTFLANK LOYANG

Japs Gain Control of Railroad   China Concerned Over Another Thrust at Loyang

OPA Sees Reduction OfTire Quota For . Commercial Vehicles   Military Needs Seen As Reason For Th OC Shapeeh teees:

TIRE SAVING IS NECESSARY   Serious Situation Confronts All Users Of  Bakke TT’...

Pilot Of Bomber Reported Missing  Word About Otto. Bey Received Saturday

Chinese Command Main Honan Line   Uireled Loyang Defense Holds Grin on Clive

Allies Roll Japs Back In Burma Fight   Enemy Thrown On Defensive On Eve Of Monsoon Period

BACK JAPS IN NORTH BURMA   Nips Squeezed By Stil. well’s Forces On Both Sides Of Myitkyina  Base

Allied Forees Roll Baek Nip: On East, Vest   Japanese, on Eve of Monsoon Period, Are Thrown on Defensive

Allies Force Japs Back East and West  Bl rene: ft ee mew elins mee   Nips Generally on Defensive in Indo-Burma Area

JAPANESE FORCES ARE ROLLED BACK IN NORTH BURMA   Allies Push Forward Against Enemy Both East and West of Big Base of Myitkyina.   PRINCIPAL HIGHWAY TO KAMAING CUT   American - Trained Chinese Surge Westward in Yunnan Province After Crossing Salween River.

Japanese Losing Ground in Burma   Allies Optimistic Over Lale Advances

Allies Force Japs Back East and West  Nips Generally on Defensive in Indo-Burma Area

ROLL ENEMY EAST-WEST IN NORTH BURMA   Japanese Said to Be on Defensive on Eve of Monsoon Period; Stilwell’s Chinese Busy.   Pounded From Air,

JAPS ROLLED BACK; ALLIES “STRIKE HARD   Enemy Thrown on Defensive on Eve of Monsoon Period

Reds Smash Forward in Many Drives   Germans Tell Of Loss of First Town in East Prussia

Red Attacks Smash Nazis A long. Major Battie Area   Successes €ontinued As Eydrkau Is Held

Argentina Notified More Yet Expected   Hull Lauds Axis Break, But Says Other Continentol Security Measures Needed

Hull Applauds Argentina's Break With Axis   Hints Other Steps Needed to Finish Re-orientatjon

Patterson Emphasizes Urgency For Army and Labor’s Need of All 4-Ps

UNIFORMS FOR AFS ASKED   PATTERSON SAYS MOVE WOULD SPEED VICTORY

PATTERSON SAYS TIME TO DRAFT 4-FS   3,900,000 Men Eligible for Assign ment to Industry or Draft in Le bor Battalions

Thousands of 4-Fs May Be Called To Relieve Fighters   Inductions Into Labor Groups Proposed by War Department

MANY REJECTED MEN MAY DON UNIFORMS SOON   4-F’S PRESUMABLY TO BE FURLOUGHED TO ESSENTIAL JOBS

House Group Told 4-Fs Mast Be Conscripted   Army Induction Or War Work Seen For Many ‘Rejects’

Want 4-F's ” in War Job  or Uniform   Time for Such Action. Has “sArrived, “Patterson  < “Pells-Honse™      OUTLINES METHODS '. SBERORKE COMMITTEE   Would Send: Men to War in dustries or to Army.” - Labor Units

Time Has Arrived For Use Of 4-F Registrants Declares Patterson Today

Army Wants 4-F's In Vital Jobs Or Labor Battalions   Work Corps Bill Urged

‘Patterson Says Time At Hand For 4-F’s ‘To Enter War Industry Or Army Service

Thousands of 4Fs May Face  Army Service   Would Take Place Of Younger Men For Active Duty

Thousands Of 4-F’s May Be Called Into Labor Service To Free Young Men To Fight

4-F's Face Call  To Army Service   Assignment to Essential Industry Of Labor Battalions Being Uraed

Use of 4-F’s Is Advocated By Patterson   Would Send 3 Million Into War Production Or Armed Services

MAY CALL 4-FS INTO SERVICE   House Military Commit tee, Planning Move, to Hear Patterson

Assignment of 4-F’s Is Urged   Should Be Inducted Into Industry, Says Robert Patterson’

“Time To Use 4-F's”   Patterson Says Such  Men Should Be Put Into Essential Jobs Or Into Army Labor Battalions

Patterson Declares 3 1-2 Million Should Be Placed  In Essential Jobs or Army

(May Draft 4-F’s Into Industry or Army Labor Group   Patterson Says Time Has Come to Assign All Such Men Between Ages of 18 and 27

Essential Industry As Only Alternate,  ~ Asserts Patterson   Would Extend Draft Law To Take Men Not Engaged In War Work, Give Deferments To Others

— as  ‘Army Aide Asks Draft of 4-Fs Into Key Industry or Labor Battalions

Draft 4-F's For Industry, Solons Told   Patterson Proposes Service Status For 3,500,000 Rejectees

USE IN ARMY OR INDUSTRY RECOMMENDED   House Told Present Controls Fail To Utilize Rejected Inductees

‘Undersecretary of War Patterson Tells House Military Committee Time Has Arrived for Them to Take Essential Jobs or Join Army Labor Units.   ACTUAL DANGER FACED

War Official Urges Action For 4-F Men   Secretary Patterson Says 34, Million 4-F Men Should Be Assigned to Essential Industries.

Patterson Wants 4-F’s In Industry or Army   Time Has Come War Undersecretary Says To [se 3,500,000 Between Aoee of 18 anrl 37

A-Fs Face War Work   Assignment to Army Labor Service or Vital Duties Proposed

PATTERSON STATES TIME ARRIVED FOR USE MANY 4-F MEN  WILL BE ASSIGNED TO ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY OR ARMY LABOR

MEN IN ARMED SERVICE SOON   Younger Men To Be Released For Combat Duty

Says Situation So Seri ‘That'-Men: in..'T  Army Cited As ‘Oo --Method.

District Soldiers Wounded In Actior  List ls Announced By Wa Department

District Soldiers Wounded In Battle  Casualties In European Area Listed

District Soldiers Killed In Actior  Local Youth Included Ir List

SOVIETS DRIVE FOR BELGRADE   Push For Junction With  Tito’s Army; Battle  To Free Warsaw

Reds 90 Miles of Belgrade; Believed to Have Ferried Danube, Reach Yugoslav Soil

Uniy 70 Mules Between Reds And Belgrade Danube Believed Ferried By Soviets; May Be Through Gate  o_o oe «= =~ a =F Er r= Ww ret sh   New Battle May Free Pole Capital; Fight Along Narew

Reds 90 Miles From Capital Of Yugoslavia   Believed to Have Ferried Danube to Reach That Country South of Iron  Gate Gorge

Reds Ferry Danube, Advance inte Yugeslavia fo Within 98 Miles of Belgrade

Soviets Drive To 90 Miles Of Belgrade  Believed ~ Already Acrass Danube on Yugoslav Soil FIGHT FOR ORSOVA  Two Russian Armies Ate tack in Battle te Free Warsaw   FIGHT FOR OGRSOVA

BELIEVE SUVIET FORCES ENTER YUGOSLAVIA   Report Reds Within 90 Miles of Belgrade, Cross Danube River

RUSSIAN TROOPS BELIEVED 10 BE IN YUCO-SLAVIA   Are Fighting Within  90 Miles of Belgrade  Red Army May  Be Using Parachute Troops.

Reds Gain in  ‘Warsaw Area   Raise Hopes For Early Operations Against Pole Capital

Red Soldiers In A Swift Advance   Prussian Troops Are Reported Within 90 Miles of  - _ Belgrade   BATTLE FOR WARSAW   Soviets Move on’ Toward Southern Border of East  Prussia

RUSSIANS REPORTED BE FIGHTING WITHIN 90 MILES BELGRADE   BATTLE INCREASED IN VIOLENCE THAT MAY FREE WARSAW

SOVIET TROOPS NEAR BI:LGRADE IN SWIFT MOVE   Liberation Of Warsaw May Be Next Plan

Soviet Army In 90 Miles  Of Belgrade   Russians Pursue Germans Through Iron Gate; Battle North of Warsaw Increases In Violence. 

Believe Red Army Is in Yugoslavia; Hurdle Iron Gate   Battle For Warsaw and East Prussia Gains Momentum

Red Army Is  Now Within 90 Miles Of Belgrade   Great Battle Also  In Progress In North Poland May Liberate Warsaw From Nazis

RUSSIANS NEAR JUNCTION WITH TITO’S FORCES   Speedy Red Troops Reported to Within - 90 ‘Miles of Belerade

RUSSIANS NEARING BELGRADE IN GREAT DRIVE WHICH MAY BRING JUNCTION WITH YUGOSLAVIANS

REDS FIGHT GERMANS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Ninety Miles From Capital; Violent Battle in Poland

Russian Troops But 90 Miles From Belgrade   Parachute Troops May Be Trying To Meet Partisans

SOVIET ThOOPS NEAR BELGRADE   Swift Russians Reported Fighting Within $0 Miles Of City.   HAVE FERRIED DANUBE

Yugoslavia Seavte) ated by Soviets   Russians Reported Across Danube And Within 90 Miles Of Belgrade

BATTLE FORE. PRUSSIA RAGES ABOVE WARSAW   Reds Are Said Within 90 Miles Of Yugoslav Capital

Carroll Had 3  Second Piace _ Awards; Noon Music Contest Centers - Well Filled Last Night,  Woday -

Carroll Had 3 Seconu Place Awards, Noon   Music Contest Centers Well Filled Last Night, Today

Coalition Group Introduces a ‘Compromise Plan   . Propose Federal Ballot Only for States Minus Absentee

Senate Group Introduces Soldier-Vote Compromise   Republicans, Southern Democrats Would Provide U. S. Ballot Only to Those From States Without Absentee Facilities

COMPROMISE SOLDIEK VOTE PLAN OFFEREL   U. S. Ballot Would Be Given for States Without a Law

MILITARY VOTE BILLS DEBATED   Senator Taft Submits Compromise Absentee Ballot Proposal

Compromise Voting Plan For Soldiers  Introduced   Gives Federal Ballot To Soldier-Citizens  Of States Not Providing For Absentee Voting  FEDERAL VOTE BLOC HALTS AMENDMENTS  Group of Republicans, Southern Democrats Offence Suheatute Plan

Senators Offer Compromise Plan  For Soldier Vote   Republicans, Democrats Join in Proposal To Settle Dispute

 ining Sige  Taft Proposal Follows Failure to Revise. Original Bill

COMPROMISE VOTE BILL INTRODUCED   Substitute Proposal Offered by Senator Taft ~~ of Ohin

Labor Chiefs Angered Over Accusations   Karly Remarks Roosevelt! Apparently Thought on: Critical Lines, Too

Early Announces ‘Roosevelt Thinks ‘Threat Of Strikes  Encouraged Nazis   Chief Is Defended: Union Heads Seek  Information

Union Chiefs May Ask Senate Probe Of Anonymous Critic   Statement Stoppages Delayed Victory Over Germany Arouses Labor Officials

Identity Of Union Critic Is Demanded   Truman Commitee May Be Asked to Investigate Source of Statement   IS RESENTED BITTERLY

UNIONS SEEKING NAME OF CRITIC   Railroad Union Leaders To Ask Investigation Of Source Of Statement By Anonymous High Govern. ment Official.

sien hea nceiinatianeineriime adnate  Union Chiefs May Seek Senate Probe  of Anonymous Critic; Resentment Up

Labor Unrest Aids Germany   F. R. Hints Morale Of Enemy Stiffened By Trouble in U. 5S.

FOR THINKS ON SAME LINES AS "HIGH OFFICIAL   Ate Belieyes Labor Trou i) es Strengthen Nazi it Morale.

UNION CHIEF BLAST CRITICS   Labor Resents Claim That Strikes Are Aiding  wie

Presidential Secretary Stephen Early Cites Remarks Made by President to Chiefs of Brotherhoods and Other Discussions: Relative to Wage   Thenimtece

Strike Critic's Identity Sought By Rail Unions  Labor Heads Seek   Labor Heads Seek Source Of Charges Victory Delayed

Unions Assail Attack Made on Strike Program   President Thinks Along Same Lines His Secretary Says

FDR Supports ‘Anonymous’   Apparently Feels Wage Dispute Boosts German Morale

HINTS PRESIDENT VIEWED STRIKES AID 10 GERMAN!   White House Supports “High Official” Who Rapped 1 Unions

STRIKE CHARGE AIRED FURTHER   Early Declares President Als¢ Thinking Along Lines o! War's Delay.

STRIKE CHARGE _ ANGERS UNIONS   Roosevelt Action Reviewer In ‘Victory Delay’ Row

RAILWAY UNIONS PLANTOASK PROBE OF CRITIC   Resent Remark Strike Threa Delayed Victory Over Germany

Plan Ask Investigation of and Reason for Anonymous Statement That Threat of Strikes May Have Delayed Victory.

FR. ‘Agrees With’ Strike Critic Views   Anonymous Statement Hitting Labor Draws _ Demands for Probe

Rail Chiefs to Demand Senate Investigation of Criti_ .cism That Victory. 4 Deferred ‘   “DEFINITE STEPS” _ - “FOR INQUIRY DUE   Seeking Source of Blast Against. Unions Made By - Anonymous Official,  . Citing Strikes -

President ‘Thinking On  Same Lines’   About Victory Over Germany Being Held Tp By Strikes

cee ee ee A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA:   from moved  Re  stle  Whi  y ar Old Bo Ye  12  t of 1

Spears as far As 40 Miles At One Point   Eisenhower Appeals To Allies to Crush Big German ‘Gamble’

Offensive Had Thrust 40 Miles —    Fighting Ureaks Out In New Place Farther South; Berlin: Says Reds Strike in North

New Russian Attack On Eastern Germany May Ease Pressure   Nazis Have Penetrated 40 Miles into Belgium But Field Reports Say Assault Is Losing Momentum—Action on : Other Sectors of Western Front Is Dwarfed by  Comparison With That of First U. S. Army

Navy Venturas Again Blast At Paramushiro   Heavy Antiaircraft Fire Is Encountered By American Raiders

Argentina Exposes Big Nazi Spy Ring   Used Buenos Aires as Base for Sending Out American Defense Data to Berlin

DEWEY 10 BE UNDER GUARD   Detective And Two State Troopers Will Watch Candidate

WEST COAST STRONGHOLD QUTFLANKED   Fall of Coutances, Big Rail and Highway Hub, Is Considered “Tmminent.”   BULLETIN

GERMAN ARMY IN NORMAN POCKET: THOUGHT TRAPPED   Front Dispatches Said Tank. Column Slashing Down: St:  Lo Road Is In Position For find Reanglt.. -) F      GERMANS WITHDRAWING DOWN WEST-COAST ROAD   Gen. Lewis Brereton Advises War Department That Some Americans Are Kill ed By Own Planes.

Gains Of Four Miles Made As Nazis Begin Dis . orderly Retreat   Armor Is Massed Around Coutances   Henry Gorrell Writes From Front That Fall Of Tawn Ise lnminent

Yanks Plan Assault on Coutances   Mass to Attack Normar City—Report Germans in  Disorderly Retreat

German Forces Being Wrecked by Onrushing American Tanks and Infantry; Bradley. Races Forward

OIL TARGETS IN REICH BLASTED   aE  Nearly 2,000 U. S. Planes Smash Germany

Other Aircraft Hit German Transport Routes Along Normandy Front And RAF Again Blasts Stuttgart

LIDICE MASSACRE IS TWICE REPEATEL   Germans Wipe Out Two More Czech Villages and Slaughter Their Inhabitants.

ON FACTORY AT NAGOYA   Washington Reports Raid On Thailand— Tokyo Reports Rangoor Strike

SOVIET FORCES ONLY 40 MILES +. FROM NAZI OIL   One Column Advances From Galati to Occupy Danube Port

Daily Temperature:   4,064 Jap Planes Destroyed by Army Air Forces in First 27 Months of War At Cost of 1,163, Stimson Reveals

STIMSON CITES ~ JAP AIRLOSSES   Nearly 4 to  Over Yank Total, Says Secretary

Army Air Forces Have Destroyed — Over 4,000 Jap Airplanes in Pacific

YANKS DESTROY 40}64 JAP PLANES   STIMSON REPORTS WAR TOLL, INTRODUCES BONG

Daily Temperatures      Ry UNITED PRESS   4,064 Jap Planes Destroyed by Army Air Forces in First 27 Months of War At Cost of 1,162 Stimson Reveals

IRMY AIRMEN'S ‘AP PLANE TOLL SET AT 4,887   Our Losses In Pacific 1,414

Stimson Reveals Toll Wrought By Army Air Forces,   Major Richard Bor New U.S. Air A’ At Press Conferé.. «

Jap Pacific Plane Losses Four To One   Nearly 10,000 Have Been Destroyed In Battles In Pacific

Japs Say Yanks Attempt Raid on Steel Center  Enemy Fails to Identify Type of Bombers Used

Tokyo Claims Repulse Of Planes Attempting Southern Manchuria Raic

2,000 PLANES LEAVE CITY BLAZING RUIN   Planes May Have Gone to Russian Bases After Raid

U.S. ‘Forts’ Attaek  Berlin   2,000 Bombers Hit Nazi Capital for First Time Since Invasion Day

SOLON UPHOLDS ~ DEMO BOLTERS   Rep. Johnson Claims Meet Was Not ‘Democratic’

Woman Suffers Hatchet Wounds   Wife of Pleasantville Farmer In Hospital

Soviet Russia Putting Nazis Into Retreat With Attacks   Latest Offensive Is In Addition To Others

New Soviet Offensive Hurls Germans Back Toward Latvia; Army Advancing In South

Latvia In Path Of Red Drive   Hundred Thousand Germans Killed In Three Weeks.

RUSS OFFENSIVE SWEEPS TOWARD LATVIAN BORDER  REDS CLAIN 100,000  GERMANS KILLED IN PAST THREE WEEKS

Reds 55 Miles Inside Poland   Cold Wave Makes Pripet Marshes Solid For Tank Columns; German Blows In Ukraine Beat Back

Strong New Attacks Roll Back Germans   Cold Wave Offers Advantages for Soviet Forces

CUT RAILS IN DRIVE TO BALTIC   Germans, Taken hy Surprise, Lose Nasva, Rail Town—Drive Popniations West   REDS NEAR ROVNO      Vatutin's Forces Advancing Into Did Poland Within Nineteen Miles of Base

Russ Driving Info Latvia   Powerful New Offensive Coptures 40 Towns; 100,000 Nazis Slain

New Russian  e a) Drive Sweeps OnIn North  Near Latvia _   Red Army Spearheads Driving Toward Big Rail Junction Of Rovno In Old Poland

RUSSIANS CUT THE AL LINE FROM + LENINGRAD ‘ARE!      Germans Herding Local . Populations. Ahead  of Them ALL BRIDGES AND HOUSES BLOWN UP

GERMAN LINES BROKEN QUICKLY } IN SURPRISE ATTACK BY REDS: RUSSIANS NOW SURGING FORWARD   German Lines Being Ripped and Their Retreat Intercepted by Russians Moving Across Smooth Snow Fields. Both Sides Using Many Tanks

eNew Soviet Drive Sweeps Nazis Toward Latvia as *Reds Gain in Old Poland

Reds Launch New Offensive   Sweeps Toward Latvian Border; Vatutin Drives On

Soviets Sweep Toward Latvis   New Red Offensive Hurls Germans Back On One-Mile Front

Nazi Forees  Hurled Baek   New Soviet Offensive Sweeps Toward 70-Mile Distant Border Of Latvia.

New Offensive In North Cuts Vital Railway   Kisenhower Says Invasion Plans  Far Advanced— Peace Rumor Denied

Other Spearheads ‘In South Drive Toward Rail City   Rovno, Rail and Highway Junction in Old Poland Threatened — Drive on Pinask Continues—ii%),000 Germans Slain in Three Weeks. ;

Nazis Reel Before New Red Drive   Northern Offensive Gains on 9-Mile Front; Soviets Take Huae Toll in South

NEW DRIVE AT LATVIAN LINE   Red Spearheads Also Push On Rovno, Rail, Highway Base In Old Poland

New Red Drive Surges Toward Latvian Border   Enemy Loses 100,000 Men In 15 Days To Forces Of General Vatutin

New Soviet Drive Hurls Nazis Back   Sweeping Toward Distant Latvian Border; Two Forces Drive on Rovno

New Soviet Drive Pushes Nazis Back   New Thurst Toward Latvian Border —Reds  Push Toward Rovna

Troops Fight Fiercely Along Gulf of Finland   Latvia Border Only 70 Miles Away; - 100,000. Nazis Slain in 3 Weeks

REDS GAIN ON BROAD FRONT   Hurl Germans back In New Offensive; Many Enemy Soldiers Slain

OLD POLAND ARMY DRAWS NEAR ROVAO   100,000 Dead Seen By Reds; 7,000.  Captured’ —

‘SAY 100,000 NAZIS. KILLED IN UKRAINE   Rovno, Cammunications Hub in Old Poland, Menaced By Vatutin’s Armies

Sweeping: Toward -70-Mile ~Distarice - Latvian’ Bor-. + ders “Claim -100,000°on oe ee wi Nico © ow’ ”       yee

Reds Pushing Germans Back Toward Latvia   Vatutin’s Army Credited With Killing $00,000

Russia Claims 100,000 More Nazis Killed   Germans Attemoting To Demolish Everything In Their  Path, Says Pravda

Nazis Thrown Back Along Wide Front  Red Army Units in PoJand Drive Closer to Rovno GERMANS WORRIED Berlin Says Russ Have 1,000,000 Men Poised for Massive Drive   GERMANS WORRIED

REDS CONTINUE FIERCE DRIVES ON WIDE FRONT   Allied Planes Attack Big Messerschmitt Plant In Austria

GERMAN LINE PIERCED ON A O-MILE FRONT      Other Red Army Spearheads Push Toward Rovno to the South —  ‘100,000 Germans Killed sn Mhree-Week Period. .

A NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAUSED GERMAN RETREAT   Moving Before the Pressure  of a Powerful New Red  Army Drive.   A RAIL LINE IS SEVERED   The Russians Are Striking Forward Over Smooth Snow Fields.

Germans Hurled  Back In Poland On 9-Mile Front   Drive Cuts Important RR; Russians Also Forge  Ahead In White Russia

GERMANS FALL BEFORE SOVIET BORDER DRIVE   New Offensive Is Giving Nazis More Worries

New Russian Drive Heading Toward Latvia   (nits Far to South Are Now Pushing Toward Rovno

Russians Drive Enemy Toward Latvian Border   Advance On 9-Mi. Front In North; Near Rovno In Old Poland.

SOVIETS HURL GERMANS BACK      Powerful New Offensive Is Sweeping Toward Latvian Border.   DRIVE TOWARD ROVNO

‘New Red Drive Sweeps Toward Latvian Border   Soviet Spearheads Threaten Junction In Old Poland

Candidates Will Paint Ciear Picture of Issues in Sabina School Hall

Four New Deal Factions War Over Hull Post   Secretary of State Ill, But May Not Resign

FACTIONS WAR OVER POSSIBLE  HULL RETIREMENT   Naming of Possible Successor Features Undercover Pa'tle

Reveals Capture of Majoro Atoll   LACK OF JAP SHIPPING MAY BE CONTROLLING FACTOR IN NIP ACTION IN FUTURE; TOKYO RADIO ADMITS “DIFFICULTIES” IN SOLOMONS

Six New Directors For Chamber of  Commerce Named  ~ New Board Will Organize Friday; Hear Dr. Dyer

Six New Directors For Chamber of  Commerce Named New Board Will _ .Organize Friday; — Hear Dr. Dyer ~

ARCTIC BASE IS EVACUATED, FOE REPORT STATES   British and Canadien Armies Extend Their Gains On Western Front

Germans Imply Russians Have Invaded Norway as They Flee U-boat Base on North Atlantic Convoy Route — Hitler Forces Face New Threat in Balkans

Reds Hurl Men,  Armor into Battle      German Defenses Stiffen a-' gainst Red Drive into East, Prussia on 150-Mile Front:

GERMANY ANNOUNCES NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE IN POLAND SECTOR  GERMANS FALL BACK ON WESTERN FRONT AND ' 60.000 NAZIS TRAPPED

EXCHANGE VESSEL CARRIED BIG LOAD RED CROSS PARCELS  WILL BE SENT TO GERMANY FOR AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR

900 Americans and Britons Exchanged for Nazi Prisoners   Wait For Gripsholm to Unload 1,600 Pieces of Red Cross Mail

900 Allies Await Return On The Liner Gripsholm   1,600 Red Cross Pack.ages Being Unloaded For War Prisoners.

Exchanging  War Prisoners   Americans and Britons Changed  For Germans

Larry Allen, AP Writer, Tells Of Conditions in Prison Camp.   60 AMERICAN SOLDIERS

Gripsholm Will Return June 10   900 Britons, Americans Exchanged

SOLDIER VOTE ROW MAY GET INTO COURT   State Auditor r Takes Up Black Pencil Fight

Ferguson, Attacking Bricker, Demands State Send Black Pencil to Every Soldier Voter

20 Burned, Hur Tn Explosion At Jamestown   Blast at Tire Company Shatters. Many Windows In Three-Block Area

AMERICANS IN LEMANS TODAY IN PARIS PUSH   Germany Admits Break-Through Of Defenses

Germans Hint S iege Of St. Malo Near Ene   Garrison in North Breton Port Yielding After 4-Day Attack

Preduction Halted On Fifty Vessels °   In Ooklané, Alameda Shipyards; General Meeting Of Union Called

Methodist Church Okoboji Conference   Outstanding: Speakers on Program at the Annual Church Bvent

U.S. Airborne Units Drive Into Germany   Supplies Are Being Ferried to the ‘Lost Division’

Supplies Dropped To Them   Rescuers Cross Rive: Lek Sunday Under Hail Of Fire From German Artillery.

Enemy Escape  Gap Narrows:  Yanks Advance   Ti e Force Rence Parachutists; . Skytroopers Drive 2 Miles pi. Reich in Renewed Offensive

Gen. Stilwell Recalled to Washington   For Eastern Chief May Lead Invasion Of China, Japan

Gen. Stilwell Gets New Post   Two Commands, China, Burma and India Theater

VINEGAR JOE SHIFTED FROM CHINA SECTOR   RECALL OF GENERAL STIRS UP FRESH SPECULATION

Burma Veteran Jerked Out Of Far East Post   Stidden Shake-up “Brings Speculation; Slated To Take Another Important Assigmument

STILWELL TO GET NEW JOB   Possible Invasion Of Chinese Coast Is Hinted

Commander To Be Given New. Important Job       Unexpected Shakeup In Far East Stirs Speculation Along ? Lines.   SPLIT C-B-I THEATER

Gen. Stilwell Given New Post In Sudden Shift  For East Command Divided; China Invesion Hinted

Stilwell Recall Gives Rise To Speculation   New Command Post’ For General Not Yet Announced

Stilwell ‘Jerked  From Asia Post   Unexpected Shakeup In Far East Revealed

STICWELL SHIFTED IN MYSTERY MOVE   TALK STIRRED ARMY MAY BE SENT TO CHINA UNDER ‘GENERAL’S COMMAND.

Allied Fighters  Get Score Of Jap  Planes At Rabaul Drop 16 Tons Of

JAP. VESSELS ARE: BOMBED   SIX SHIPS AND THREE BARGES  SENP DOWN BY AIRMEN " BABED ON NEW GUINEA

GROUND FORCES TIGHTEN GRIP ON PHILIPPINE STEPPINC-STONES   Invade Ninth Jap Base In Palaus

Lucas Demands Lyttelton Quit   Came After Secretary Hull Sharply Rebutted Britishers Assertion.

British Minister’s Statement Entirely Erroneous: Sec. Hull   Gives Sharp Rebuttal to Assertion Made by _ Lyttleton

British Official Accused of ‘Slur Against U. §. A.’   Capt. Lyttelton Retracts Statement Jap Atack Forced

HULL RAPS BACK  AT REMARK U. S.  PROVOKED JAPS BRANDS STATEMENT  BY LYTTLETON OF PRITAIN AC IINTRIIE

‘SHOULD RESIGN’   Congressman Says Lyttelton Brings Joy to Hitler

Solon Urges Lyttelton s Resignation   ‘Nation Slurred’ by Briton, Senate Told As Minister Apologizes

Special 5 Scout Service ‘Swnday P.M. Chestnut 'S&. Methodist Chuech

Nazis Stage Offensive On Cassino Line   Reinforced Germa1 Troops Send Out Tanks, Hold Hotel

NO PROGRESS TANK SORTIE AT CASSINO;   Germans Show Offensive Spirit, Shove Tanks Into Open From Battered Continental Hotel Fortress.   Good Coverage

Neither Side Makes  Progress in Cassino   Hitler Reported Making Desperate Grab at Ploesti

GERMAN TANK MANEUVER AT CASSINO FAILS   Neither Side Gains in _ Slugging Match in Wrecked Town

BRIEF TANK SORTIE MADE BY GERMANS      Fighting in Cassino Turns Into Slugging Match

Reinforced  nazis display  greater spiril Cassino battle slugging match

Allies Repulse.  Cassino Sortie   Continental Hotel Tanks Checked hv Artillery

NAZIS STIFFEN INSIDE GASSINO   Germans Strengthen Their Hold On Continental Hotel Fortress

Germans Launch Tank Offensive In Cassino Ruins   Reinforced Troops Stage Brief Sortie

Lonergan Given 35 Yrs. To Life In Wife’s Death   Eligible For Parole In 23 Years If Behavior In Prison Is Satisfactory

Lonergan Gets 3) Years-Life  Was Convicted Of 2nd. Degree Murder

WAYNE LONERGAN ~ EWEN 35 YEARS   Convicted Of Brutal Slaying Of His Wife

Lonergan Gets 35-Year Term   Conviction and Sentence to Be Appealed

Lonergan Sentenced   Given From 35 Years To Life for Slaying Of His Heiress Wife

35-Year Term Is Meted Out To Lonergan   Eligible for Parole Afier 23 Years; Attorney Will Appeal

LONERGAN GIVER 35 YEARS FOR WIFE'S MURDER   Appeal Will Be Made, Attorney Says

LONERGAN GETS PRISON TERM   Judge Sentences HeiressWife Slayer To From 35 Years to Life

RCAF FLIER GETS LONG PEN TERM   Gives Lonergan 35 Years to Life Sentence

Lonergan Is Given 35 Years   Appeal To Be Taken, His Attorney Says

LONERGAN GETS '39-YEAR JOLT’   Judge Sentences Convicted Wife Slayer to Long Term In N. Y. Prison

Wayne Lonergan Gets 35 Years to Life for Murder  Defense Attorney Broderick Plans Appeal—Aircratisman Bisedsanned Usirace Wile

Lonergan Is Sentenced To 35-Year Term   Defense Counsel Plans To Appeal Conviction And Sentence Of Man Who Killed His Wife

File Murder Charge — Against U. S. Soldier In Englishman’s Death

174 Indicted in U. §. as Nazis   March of Time Film Editor Is Among Accused

174 German Aliens Named In Indictments   Concealing Or Conspiring To Conceal Affiliations With Nazis Is Charged.

CAPTURE GASOLINE DUMP   Germans Get Total - Total of 85,000 Gallons From Americans

Freedom Of Air Willi Be Defined   54-Nation Committee A Work On Question

Two Rail Escape  Routes of  Nazis Slashed   Russians Plunging Ahead in an Effort to Trap Upwards of 500,000 Enemy Troops in Southern Sector

U. S. OFFERING TWO ‘FREE AIR’ PLANS FOR USE   International Aviation Paper Offers World A Choice For Postwar Air Control

GERMANS ARM CIVILIAN ARMY AT BUDAPEST   Form Nondescript Force For Desperate Last Stand In Streets

Germans Arm ’ Rag-Taggers , For Defense  Of Budapest   Red Shock Troops Storm Into Suburbs Behind Barrage  Of Artillery

Fires Raging As Budapest Finis Dawns.   Nazis Arm Civilian Army for Suicidal Defense of Capital

Arm Rag-Tag Magyars In Budapest   Moscow Says City Is at Russ Mercy As Reds Advance

Nazis Arming Hungarian Civilians for Suicidal Stand Before Budapest   As Soviet Tanks And Shock Troops Storm Through Suburbs

Germans Arming Hungarians For  Suicide Stand   Soviet Tanks, Troops Storming Through . Suburbs of Budapest

DEATH STAND PLANNED IN BUDAPEST   Civilians Armed; Russians Storm Eastern Suburbs

NAZIS ARM BUDAPEST CIVILIANS FOR SUICIDAL STAND IN CAPITAL   REDS STORM THROUGH SUBURBS AFTER HEAVY GUNFIRE BARRAGE; HOUSE-TO-HOUSE FIGHT OPENS

FIGHTING IN STREETS OF BUDAPEST   Germans Arm Hungarians for  Suicidal Stand

GERMANS ARM CIVILIANS TO SAVE BUDAPEST   Moscow Says Hungarian Capital Is At Mercy Of Reds

Germans Plan Suicide Stand In Budapest   Begin Arming Civilians For Death Struggle To Hold Capital

Germans Using Hungarian Civilians in Desperate Move   House-to-House Fighting in Budapest Racine in Suburbs

Japs Fight Hard To Protect Borneo Oil Installations   ; Knock Down Seven Liberators But Big Bombers Spread Destruction

NRECA Is Real Issue Of Inquiry   Lobby Formed To Look After Rural Power Co-op Interests

ALLIES STRIKE HARD BLOW AT HITLER LINE   Northern and Southern Ends of German Defenses May Be Turned.   BULLETIN

Troops Abandon Supplies   German Ketreat Becoming Rout, Allies Announce

RETREAT OF NAZIS NEARING A ROUT, ) YANKS PUSH ON   Italian Advance of Allies Speeds Up Alt Along Froni—Gaeta Is Fired.

Enemy Burns Gaeta As Defenses Crack   Americans and French Pour Through Gap in Ri ght Wing-—  Seize Hea ve Cane a oft in Bisaht

NAZIS RETREAT, LOSE WING OF HITLER LINE   Fire Town As . Allies Race On

Allied Forces Contact Anchors Of Hitler Line   British, Exploiting Fall Of Cassino, Push On To Piedmonte

TWIN ALLIED DRIVES THREATEN ANCHORS: MAY OUTFLANK FOE   New Gains Represent Advance Up To 17 Miles From Starting Point Of Offensive In Italy Ficht Davs Ago

Germans Leave Heaviest Guns In Hasty Flight   Americans Approach Stronghold Of Itri, Hitler Line Anchor

‘Falling Back Of Huns Is Almost a Rout   Enemy Demolishing Everything at Gaeta

Hammer Flanks Of Hitler Line   Eighth Army Drives Beyond Cassino To Piedimonte, German Stronghold

NAZIS FLEE IN DISORDER INITALY   Yield Right Wing Of Hitler Line To Allied Troops

Allies Racing Through Fortifications Of Hitler Line _   NAZIS ABANDONING RICH EQUIPMENT   Germans Splitting Up I Small Units To Save Themselves

Allies Threaten to Turn Anchors of Hitler Line   Within Striking Distance of Itri and Piedimonte

Allied Soldiers Racing Through F ortifications —   Nazis Abandon Rich Stores of Equipment In Headlong Flight

Dewey Slate Is Reduced To F ifteen  Names   Seven Candidates Drop Out Of Contest In Response to Request  Of N. Y. Governor

GERMANS HURL NEW WAVES OF ROBOTS AT FOE   British Also Drop Bombs on Industrial Targets in Ruhr

SWARMS OF PLANES IN’ DAYLIGHT RAIDS TODAY—BERLIN BOMBEES LAND. IN . RUSSIA. >

WAGE INCREASE OF ABOUT FIVE CENTS GRANTEI   Steel Workers Lose Fight Before WLB, However, On 17-Cent Demand

WLB Okays Steel 5-Cent Pay Hike In New Ruling  Guaranteed Annual Wage Plan Called To FDR’s Attention

F.D.R. Asked To Name Group To Study Wages   War Labor Board Okeh: Wage Increases to Average Five Cents Hour to Steel Folk

Propose Grou p For Steady On Annual Wage  WLB Approves  — Wage Adjusting t* — —“- aw - a  :

STEEL WORKERS — WAGE ADJUSTEL   Main Demands For Pay Raise Referred To White House

WLB Proposes Creation of Commission   Asks F.D.R. to Name Group to Study Guaranteed Wages

Guaranteed Wage Study Is Urged as Steel Pay Is Raisec   WLB Asks President To Create Board to Take Up Ouestion

Democratic Party Split   So Asserts Willkie, Who Says F. D. R. Has Lost Control of Party

Democratic Party Falling Apart Says Willkie in Radio Speech   GOP Nomination Papers Filed By Willkie and Stassen Backers

WILLKIE CLAIMS DEMOS CRACKING   GOP Candidate Charges Party In Power ‘Torn by Disunity’

Wake and Nauru Take Poundings   Army and Navy Liberators Unload Explosives On Jap-Held Bases.

PACGWENTIAL Ah ALAN IdaUES Aric TEAM ANGLED   Lyons Agrees ta Quit Post With Certain Conditions In.olvcd

PRESIDENTIAL ARL AUN. Sie We ITERMINGLED.   Post With Certain  Lyons Agrees “a Conditions In.olvtd

BLOODY FRAY .     BACK 4 TIMES   Allies Face Supreme Test In Drive On Rome

Roosevelt Tells Finland To Accent Russ Peace   President Appeals Direct to People To End ‘Hateful Partnership’; Deadline for Armistice Draws Near

ASKS FINNS TO QUIT GERMANY   Roosevelt Makes Plea In Name of All  Americans

PRESIDENT APPEALS TO FINNISH PEOPLE   End ‘Hateful Partnership’ With Germany, Roose-  velt Wires

FINLAND URGED 10 SIGN PEACE   Roosevelt Sends Direc Appeal To People By Radio

‘Surrender or Die’ Ultimatum Is Broadcast to Nazis  Trapped German Demolition Squads and Allied Bombardment Leaves Town

‘Surrender or Die’ Ultimatum Is Broadcast to Nazis   Trapped German Demolition Squads and Allied Bombardment Leaves Town in Flames as Invaders Near Outskirts

Dewey Promises to » Return Government _ to People of Nation   Hits “Roosevelt Depression” in Springfield  Speech This Morn

Dewey Promises ‘Best Peace’ In Platform Speech   Asserts Will Restore Government to the People Of the U.S.

Dewey Promises ‘Best Peace’ In Platform Speech  Asserts Will Restore Gov-

Dewey Promises Best Peace World Has Ever Seen   Tells Springtield Crowd He Weuld Besiore Government io Peeple, Pledges Postwar Jobs

Dewey Promises Lasting Peace elf He Is Elected   He Also Pledges io Give Government Back to the People

Dewey fo Build Best Peace   Makes Promise in First Train Platform Tolk at Springfield

DEWEY GIVEN ANOVATION AT SPRINGFIELD   Republican Nominee, In Train Platform Speech, Promises to Build Best  Peace Ever Offered   MEETS G. O. P. LEADERS

Dewey Greeted In Chiéago By  Great Throngs   Promises, If Eleeted, To Build. Best Peace World Has Evar Seen: Hits One-Man Rule

Dewey Promises “Best Peace”   Makes First Train Platform Speech at Springfield, Ill.

Nazis Check Seven Army By Blowing Bridges; Patton’s A Measures Gains By t Scores of Yards; Thi Advances in German

Seventh Army Is Checked At Seltzbach   "Third Measures Gains In Scores of Yards In Siegfried Line  WAV UPI thr TrT a memo omar Tr

TROOPS SEIZE Q-MILE STRIP ON ROER RIVER   Seventh Army’s Drive —__ Toward Palatinate Checkec When Bridges Are Blown

HODGES MEN DRIVE AHEAD FOR 2 MILES   Seventh Army Drive is Checked; Third Ad vances Slowly

Advance two miles; Third  slowed down  Seventh is halted hv blown bridces

Submersibles Herring and Golet Long Overdue and Next of Kin of Crewmen Are Notified — Commanders of Both ‘ Craft Had Been Decorated for Daring Raids on Jap Shipping—32 U. S. Undersea Boats Sunk Since Pearl Harbor.

Navy Recruifer To Be In Ruston Every Other Week   Many Opportunities Now Offered To 17-¥r.-Ole Youths

Navy Recruiter To Be In Ruston For Benet Of 17-Yr.-Old Youths   Recruiter To Be At ‘Post Office Every Other Tuesdav

MRS. HENRY GROW DIED APRIL 2151   Funeral Tuesday For Pioneer Plymouth County Resident

Mrs. Henry Crow Taken By Death  Life Long Resident in “This Vicinity

Quads Born To Private’s Wife   Four Boys Reported To Be In Good Condition

Curley Denie: Mail Fraud Charges   Friend Also Indicted Collapses Before Justice

Rep. J. M. Curley Pleads Innocent In Fraud Case   Companion Collapses Ae He Is Arraigned In U. S. Court In Washington

RECEDING AT WICHITA   Thousands of Evacuees Are Given Temporary Quarters

Romania Must Earn Place   Reds Demand Romanians Fight Nazis; Russians Rush Toward Key Places

Romanis Totter   Mihai’s Army Must Fight Germans To ‘Farn Armistice’

Berlin Admits Romanians Have Stopped Fighting   Bulgaria Seeks Haven in Storm, May Give Up Soon

Nazis Admit Some Troops Quit Fighting   Russia Demands Romanians Line Up  With Allied Forces.

Reds Insist ‘Mihai’s Men ‘Earn Truce   Joining Russians In Fight Against Hitler Is Price OF Peace.

ROMANIA MUST HGnT NAZI9, AUS STA WARNS   Bulgaria’s Capitulation Is Matter of Days, Say Ohsearverse.

Admit Grief In Romania   Nazis Find Former Comrades Now Turned Against Them 

Allies Cleaning Up Along Seine; Bloody Fighting Rages In Paris   Bulgars Dicker For Armistice   KR Reds Surgel Deeper Into Romania —

Red Armies Drive Into Country   35 Miles From Galati Gap Hear Bulgaria Seeks Peace

Nazis Admit Few Romanians Have Quit F ighting As Reds Demand Actual Aid In Battle

Russia Says Romania Has to Fight Nazis   Such Assistance Only Means For Speedy Cessation of War, Says Statement Issued by Red Commissariat

Romanians  Fight Nazis  : i i Te ee   Germans Report Som Troops Stop Fighting  For Cause of Axis

Romanian Troops Stop Fighting For Nazis, Germany Officially Announces

LONDON THINKS BULGARIA WILL ASK ARMISTICE   Events Hasten Complete Collapse of Hitler Rule in Balkans

Germany Admits ‘Some’ Romanians Are Not Fighting   Hungary Has Shake. Up as Uncertainty Spreads in Balkans

Allied Planes BlastReich Western Rim  Rail Points, Factorie:  Amann Tearnopte   Rail Points, Factories. Among Targets Of Shuttle Attacks

Mystery Military Objectives Battered In Aerial Offensive  Outer Rim Of Hitler's Western Defenses Hit In New Attacks: Now On Round-The-Clock Basis

Senator Jarvis Hunt Addresses Reformatory Em ployees at Elks Hall

Fuel For Germatis Scarce   Germany Putting Up Grim Battle To Save Important City Of Warsaw From Capture

Harmony, Novelty to State Voters, Reigns In Both Parties As Primaries Draw Near   Davis Gets GOP Support for Reelection to Senate

Senator Davis Backed By GOP For Reelection  To Higher Court As Factions Merce -

Harmony -A Novelty To Penna Voters -Reigns In Both Major Parties As Primary Draws Near

Japs Weaken Under Attacks  of Air Forces   Liberators Pound Carolines, Marshalls; Nips. ‘‘Losing Strength”

— WEAKNESS OF AP AIR POWER NOTEN   somplete Occupation of 08 Negros Nears Todav

JAPANESE ATR FORCES GROW WEAKER   All Yank Planes Returned from  Last Week’s Raids

TRUK ISLAND DEFENSES HIT BY Ul, S. AIRMEN   Growing Weakness of Japanese Air Forces Becoming Apparent

Dorsey Counsel  To Ask Assault  Charges Dropped Physicians, Actor

AND THEY CALL IT REAL TRIAL   Tommy Dosey, Two Others Defendants, But No One Knows Why

U.S.To Get Nothing From Britain But Will Have To Pay For Service

BOMBER CRASH CLAIMS 13 MEN   FLYING FORTRESS EXPLODES IN AIR NEAR SACRAMENTO

Fortress Explodes   In Storm Over California, Only One Man Survives

FLYING: FORT EXPLODES HIGH IN AIR: 13 DI   Officer Who Came Down . in Parachute Only Survivor.

13 KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES   FLYING FORT EXPLODES AT McCLELLAN FIELD

Explosion In Fortress Mile High Mystery   But One of Crew of Fourteen Survives Tragedy in California   DURING NIGHT FLIGHT

Flying Fort “Explodes in Air   Thirteen Men Perish; Commanding Officer Only Survivor

Russian Cavalry And Ski Patrols Drive Germans Deep Into Frozen Swamps; French Capture Key Town In Italy   BIG U. S. BOMBERS HIT JUGOSLAV FIELD

FIGHTING ENDS ON GUAM; JAPS TAKE HENGY ANE   End at Guam Comes After 19 Days of Rugged Battling; Enemy Routed by Air, Sea, Land

Hengyang Falls To Jap Troops   Chinese Admit Loss of Key Railway Center

HENGYANG FALLS AFTER LAST CHINESE DEFENDER DIES; ALLIES CAPTURE TAUNGNI

CHINESE LOSE KEY CITY OF HENGYANG   Fell To Japanese After Chinese Defenders Had All Been Killed

House Sends Recore Navy Finance Measure to Senate  Solons Declare U. S. Must Keep Fleet Intact After War

House Unanimously Votes Record Navy Appropriation Bill   Debate Centers on Demands   Voiced hy Both Parties for  es pee le Bitar War

Navy Bill Sent To Senafe Friday  Postwar Plans for World’s Largest  Navy Caceiaw TaAnix

HOUSE PASSES     UNANIMOUS VOTE   Record High Appropriations Bill of $32,647,134,336 Sent to the Senate Today

House Passes Big Navy Finance Bill  Unanimous Vote Sends Measure To Senate

HOUSE VOTE ON NAVY BiLL IS UNANIMOUS   Record Naval Appropria tions Measure Awaits Senate Approval

House Votes Big Navy Bill  Unanimously   Members Insist On Sea Dominance In Postwar Era

House Strong For Big Navy   Sentiment For Keeping It Mighty After War; Already World’s Largest   Will Need It

Navy Bill Is Passed Unanimously; Future Junkina of Fleet Opposed

HOUSE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES RECORD NAVY APPROPRIATION BILL  DEBATE CENTERED MAINLY ON MATTER MAINTAIN TERIA Pre 2rrrem wWiAnD

House Passes Huge Naval Bill   Bill Now Goes To Senate; Few Changes Made In Amendment Stage.

HOUSE PASSES HUGE NAVY BILL      Approve Record Measure by Unanimous Vote

Navy Bill Passed By House:  Large Postwar Fleet Urged   $32.047,134,.3360 Measure Adopted Without Single Important Change: Congressmen Demand That LU. S. Keep Top Position In Sea Power

House Places 0. K. on Gigantic Naval Bill   Unanimous Vote Sends 32 Billion Appropriation Measure to the Senate

NAVAL SUPPLY BILL ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY   Roll-Call Vote of 257 to 0 Is Given Record Appropriation Measure In House   AFTER DAY'S DEBATE

Navy Bill Ok'd By Full Vote   House Unanimously Approves Record Appropriation Measure

OPA in Warning to Dealers in Clothing   Scliers of Women's and = Girls Outerwear Goods Must File Pricing Charts

AP Will Fight Federal Control  irectors Report oh don ual Meeting

AP Will ‘Resist To Utmost’ Effort To Control News   Directors Say Free Press Maintenance Essential. To Democracy

Federal News Control To Be Opposed By AP   Board of Directors. Say Appeal From Ruling of Court Was Taken to  Protect Rizhts

Maple's Trial Held Behind Closed Doors   AP to Resist ‘Government Efforts to Control News

Committee Faces  Subsidies Battle   Amendment Would Give Congress Full Control

PriceControl Bill Before Committee   AMENDMENT BY SENATOR TAFT OF OHIO WOULD FORBID SUBSIDIES AFTER NEXT APRIL   Poll Taxes

Marne Line Wrecked: Gen. Dittmar Hints for Peace Offer   German Resistance Ends in Lower 77 Miles of Rhone Valley; French Capture Nimes

NAZI PAINTS DIRE ~ WARFARE PICTURE   Lieut. General - Dittmar Acktiowledges German Reverses ©

Nazis Might Quit Fight If Allies Eased War Aims   German General Hints As He Complains Of Our Superionty

NAZI PAINTS DIRE ~ WARFARE PICTURE   Lieut. General - Dittman ‘Acknowledges German  - _ Reverses

SEEK EARLY AGREEMENT ON TAX BILL   Next Big Job Before Congress to Be Simplification

GOP-Democratic Slate Advocated   Republican Group Likes Sen. Byrd

BYRD SUGGESTED FOR GOP TICKET   Group Of Republican Congressmen Favor Virginian  For Vice Presidency

BREACH WIDENS BETWEEN GERMAN ARMY. HITLER'S §  Large Scale Battle to Annihilate Nazis Be low Seine River Developing  ae, ences ee ncctmmaan  ENEMY TRIES TO FLEE ALLIED NET  Fuhrer’s Elite Troops Keep Selves Intact at Kxpense of Wehrmacht

Fape GAINS — - NEAR TOULON      GERMAN. DEFENSES CRUMBLING ON ALL FRONTS IN FRANCE AS. ALLIED TROOPS CONTINUE TO HAM.  - MBR'ENEMY WITHOUT LETUP—ONLY 300 ALD CABLALTIES UP TO NOON YESTERDAY IN: ‘SOUTHERN FRANCE.             “ily INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

County’ Lthd-o -owners to Vote on Soil -District'at 12 Towns Saturday, Dec. 23

County Land-owners to Vote on Soil District at 12 Towns Saturday, Dec. 23

Allies Gain In India and North Burma   Stilwell’s Men Get Within 11 Miles of  Japanese Center

Stilwell’s Men Near Jap Base   Allies Push to 11 Miles Of Kamaing in’ Burma

Allied Forces Hit ai Nip Base in Burma   Stilwell’s Trdops Open Major Pre-Monsoon Drive

Tank-Led Chinese in Drive On Japs’ North Burma Bases, Near Kamaing

Allied Forces Hit at Nip  Base in Burma Stilwell’s Troops   Stilwell’s Troops Open Major Pre-Monsoon Drive

S JAP HOLD Oh NIRAILWAY IS AINOW BROKEN   STILWELL IS) JA ADVANCING  INR/ \GRTH BURMAIN(   Smash to Within 11 Miles of Japanese Base of Kamaing, While Potsangbam Is Virtually Taken.   Hit Supply Centers

Stilwell Force Pushes Ahead  In Burma Area   Tank-Led Chinese Near Big Base; Ridge Won Close to Kohima

PREDICT CLEAR SKI   First Freeze of Season Registered in Kansas Last Night

Domestic, Foreign Crude Oil Stocks Show Increase  Of 529,000 Barrels

Former Military Governor of Rome Visits With Family While Awaiting New Assignment

Fourth War Loan Drive Moves Into Second Day With Many Quotas Topped

4TH WAR LOAN REPORTS BEGIN   Quotas Already met And Passed by Several Communities

TOP Quis NATH LQAN   Roosevelt Predicts ‘Difficult Days Are Ahead

Hoey Bond Dollar Strikes Blow at Foe, Saus Roosevelt; Many Towns-Over Top

HOSPITALS IN BAD CONDITION   HOUSE COMMITTEE FORCES MANY CHANGES

U.S. SMASHES EAST OF AACHEN BARRIER   Infantry Drives Through Two Belts Of Defenses In “One Of The Greatest Victories Of Invasion”; Some Defenses Fake Or Weak

Writer At Front Describes Spectacular -. Assault And Victory Af Vauntéd'S) iit

Siegfried Smash “V” For Infantry   Forward Attacks Find Defense Spots Weak And Even Faked.

Patrol Sent to Scout Siegfried Line Surprises Officers By Going Through It; Finds Dummy T raps, Few Nazis

Writer At Front Describes : Spectacular = Assault And Victory Af Vaun fed Sneatiiar :

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Spectacular spearhead  makes break U.S. Ist army in  gcreatest victory

NAZI-FINNISH POSITION IS UNTENABLE   Mannerheim Sends Pessimistic Message to Hitler

FALL OF NARVA IS FATAL TO FINLAND 'MANNERKEIM SAV   Hitler Told Ally Will Be Un. able to Fight on After Soviet Advance.

Nazi-Finn Plan Now ‘Untenable’   Mannherheim Hopes To Bring German Removal

FINNS TRYING TO OUST NAZIS BY PERSUASION   "Mannerheim Tells Hitler Fal o : Narva Would “End” Finn-German Military Relations.

Report Mannerheim Wired Hitler That Fall of Narva Would Make Military Position of Finland Untenable

FINNS SEND MESSAGE TO HITLER   Hope to Persuade Germans to Withdraw Troops From Finland

VERDICT .OF GUILTY WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION FOR  -. MERCY QUICKLY RE . + PURNED AGAINST  . COLLETT

COLLETT FACES ELECTROCUTION FOR KILLING TRIO   Jury Denies Mercy to Man Accused of Greed Slaying

VERDICT BRINGS FLOOD OF TEARS TO DOOMED MAN   “Oh, God” Cries 60-Year-Old Farmer A$ Jury Verdict Is Pronounced   PANEL DENIES LENITY   “Greed Slaying” Indictment Upheld In Deaths Of McCoy Family

Six Men Left for Induction Today   Last Group to Be Sent to Camp Dodge

Six Registrants Report Today For Examination   Nine Other Men From Union County Are Transferred

Blast Rumanian And French Rail  Road Junctions   Warplanes Continue Heavy Bombing Through Nineteenth Day Despite Unfavorable Weather, Gales And Thick Clouds.

italian Based Bombers Hit \Again at Romanian Field   Invasion Coast Area At Pas De Calais Hit In Another Of ‘Round The Clock Bombings

Take Readers over Reich  in Raid on Ruhr Valley   Two Flyers from Percy Jones Hospital Give  Graphic Description of How Airmen Enter Germany During Air War

Join Purple Heart Airmen on Raid Over Germany, Sojourn in Prison Camp

  Work Stoppages Slow Production Of Vital Parts For B-24s, B-29s

STRIKES STALL PLANE OUTPUT   Labor Disputes A t Ford, Dodge Plants Hurt War Effort

Strikes Stop Bomber Work In 2 Plants   30,000 Idle at Willow Run, Dodge Chicago Shop Shut Down

00,000 OUT IN WORK DISPUTES   Strikes Slow Production o! Vital Parts for Fighting Planes.

Production of Big Fighting Planes is Halted by Strikes   39,000 Workers Idle ir Nation Because of Labor Disputes

WORK STOPPAGES TIE UP TWO LARGE BOMBER PLANTS   HALT PRODUCTION AT WILLOW RUN AND B-29 FACTORY IN CHICAGO

6,000 Warplanes Attack Targets  ce se a See yee   Robot Experimental Stations Blasted

Thirty German Tanks Knoc Out In Four-Hour Armored f Northwest Of Vital Trans) Hub Below Rome   NAZI OPPOSITION BECOMES LIGH"

TENSION IN BELGIUM KEEPS ALLIES ALERT   Resistance Groups Resent Collaboration Trial Delay

Belgian Crisis Causing Alarm  15,000 March in Protest at Brussels

Belgians Clamor For Termination  Of Pierlot Rule   Eisenhower May Give Protection

REPORT REQUEST FOR PROTECTION   Expect Belgium Leader to Ask for Allied Rule as Unrest Grips Brussels

Yanks Invite Japs to Quit Saipan Caves      Chinese Score Smashing Success as Eighth Year of ‘War Opens

INVASION COAST BELT 1$ SEALED   Affords Screen Protection As British-U. S. Troops Mass

Finland Rejects Modified Terms For Red Peace   ' Discussions Are Termed “Repeat Performance” Of Mid-March Parley

Finns Turn Down New Peace Plan   Spain Accelerates Clamor for Settlement Move

Finns Reject Modified Red  Peace Terms   Linkomies Gets Confidence Vote

Finns Again Rejecting Soviet Terms   Modified Peace Plan Fails To Get Avproval

RED'S PEACE TERMS TURNED DOWN BY FINNS   Situation Same As Before; No  Moderations

Finns Reject Soviet Terms   Modified Peace Plan Fails; Parliament Gives Premier Confidence Vote

MODIFIED TEAMS REJECTED BY FINNS   Reports From Helsinki Say Premier Is Given Confidence Vote.

V-MAIL BREAKS RECORD   Report Finland Has Again Rejected Soviet Peace Terms

Finns Passing Up Red Terms For Armistice   Modified Peace Plan Offered By Moscow Evidently Iqnored

Chinese Surge Back Across Railway In Central Honan; Hold Firm at Loyang

CHINESE RALLY ALONG RAILWAY   Surge Back Over Vital Line At 4 Points

MANY GERMANS ARE RESCUED WITH 100 MISSIONARIES   This Announcement Made by General MacArthur Today.   FORTY NUNS EN THE LIS1   There Were Also Thirteen Americans Captive at Hollandia.

Allies Rescue 100 Foreign Missionaries   _23 Missionaries  Taken to Hollandia From Dutch New Guinea Hills on Stretchers

‘uns Are Rescued By Yank Soldiers   ne Hundred Missionaries On Dutch New Guinea Saved From Jans

100 Foreign Missionaries Rescued on Hollandia by MacArthur's Force

Japs Repulsed in {Indian Drive  coo cee a, ODI OBR   Enemy Fails to Reach Vital Road

BRITISH BLOCK JAP COLUMN IN IMPHAL SECTOR   New Enemy Attempt To Reach Vital Supply Road Repulsed

British Troops — Stop Jap Attack   Attempt To Capture Imphal Road Repulsed

British Halt Jap ‘Advance in India   Imperial Troops _ Stop Enemy Column

SAY BULGARIA HELPING NAZIS   Reds Assail Sofia Govern: ment, Call for Declaration of War

Russians Prod Slow Bulgars   War Declaration Demanded Of ‘Neutral’ Bulearia

Bulgars To Get No Easy Peace   Reds Call Balkan Country To Count For Aid To Germany.

Clo CIO POLITICAL ACTION GROUP. -STILL-STRONG BALLOT FORCE      LABOR POLITICAL OBRGANIZA: TION NOT.COUNTED OUT - DEBPIT DEFEAT AT CONVENTION

MUKDEN AIRCRAFT PLANT I$ BOMBED   THIRTEEN JAPANESE PLANES DESTROYED—TWO SUPER* FORTRESSES LOST.

SUPERFORTRESSES BOMB MUKDEN PLANE PLANTS   Target Struck With. Good Results, War Department Announces; Makes Third Airplane Factory Bombed This Week

AIRCRAFT PLANT HIT AT MUKDEN   Two B-29s ‘Lost In Raid Over Manchuria; Air Opposition Strong

JAPANESE FACTORY AT MUDKEH RAIDED   Two 6-29’s Lost and 33 Enemy Fighters Hie.

B-295 ATTACK MUKDEN PLANT   2 of Superforts Lost and 33 Japanese Fighters Blasted in Raid

Superforis Raid Mukden Plane Plant   Strong to Moderate Defense Encountered

Mukden Lashed By Yank B-29’s   Big Jap Airplane: Factory -Senred be U.S. Ramhe

Superfortresses Bomb Enemy Aircraft Plant  Two of Big Planes Are Reported Lost in the Attack

LAMBOANGA HiT BY LIBERATORS   Enemy Seaplane Base Ir Philippines Softened For Invasion

Summer Season Reaches Clima   Labor Day Week-Enc Ushers In Autumn

BANNER RESORT SFASON ENDING   Most Successful In Many Respects In History Of Industry

‘SISTER AIMEE’ : DIED SUDDENL'        lwoRLD’ FAMOUS" WOMAN  1 EVANGELIST SUCCUMBED * ON SLEEP AYTER TAKS ING, SLEEPING DRUG -

oe  POLIN 10 GUARD AGAINST RUSSIA   Pol:sh-American Congress Hears Latest Accusation

Seven High Nazi Political Chiefs.  Face Execution   Group Charged With Complicity In Try On Hitler’s Life

Condemn Seven To Di In Foiled Nazi Coup   Notorious Peoples Court Has Pass. ed Sentence After Mock Triai

FORMER MAYOR O LEIPZIG DIES IN. ANTHITEER PLOT   By WILLIAM R. HIGGINROP AW

Seven More Nazi Plotters Sent to Death   Former Leipzig Mayor Called Chief Conspiratar

Last Barrier.   Nazi “Traitors” Condemned By German Peoples’ Court DY 

Allies Smash More Than 100 Enemy’ Tanks; Fierce Fighting Rages Around  By-Passed Dutch City of Niimegen *

BATTLE RAGES FOR ROADS T0 RUHR, BERLIN   Allied Aerial Army Bears Brunt of Counter Blows

British Drive Two Spearheads [nto Rhineland   Desperate Efforts Of 200,000 Germans To Break Out Of Dutch Pocket Develops Bitter Fighting. Heavy Armor Battles On 200-Mile Front.

No Provision Mor Seizure Says Counsel   Harold Smith Says SmithConnally Act Limits Such  * . ee   NEVER BEEN EQUALED

Montgomery Ward  Counsel, Biddle  Debate Seizure Mail Order Neuse Contends   Mail Grder Neuse Coatends Retail Store Nei Covered by Law. Biddle Declares lit Is

Says Seizure Unequalled in U.S. History   Ward Attorney Argues Government Action Was Without Authority

Vecision Delayed  Ward Counsel Continues Araquments Aaainst Seizure

PILOTLESS PLANES USED BY GERMANS   Against American Troops In The Front Line For First Time

ARE BATTERED BY TASK FORCE    Infantrymen Swing In To Finish Garrison On Biak Island

U. S. Fleet Hammers at Japan’s Door   Second Attack Made on Marianas By Task Force

Realty Market Has Quiet Week   Sales Total Around $80,000 For Week Rwwlinw.

Realty Market Not So Active   Sales Total ‘But $60,000 In The Aggregate For Week Ending Todav.

Realty Market Fairly Active   Sales For Week Ending Today Eestimated At $60.000.

Realty Market Has Quiet Week   Sales Total In Aggregate Value But enn o0nn

Tokyo Radio Says Two Superfortresses Shol ‘Down Over Northern Chine

H. V. Stephens To Speak Here   Aspirant for the U. S. Senate Give Speech Wednesday

WVU BOARD REQUESTS LAWALL’S RESIGNATION   Dean Davis Is Returned To His Position As  Professor Of Civil Engineering; Neely  Addresses Board Meeting

Governors Ask Lawall Resign At University   August 31 Is Set as Last Date for Resignation Of WVU President

HOT AGAIN IN KANSAS   Air Is Moist as Temperatures Move Up the Scale

FDR, Churchil Begin Victory Talks in Quebec   Invitation Declined by Stalin; Conferees Consider Plans  For Quick Knockout of Japan

Roosevelt, Churchill Meet To Map Swift Liquidation Of Hirohito's Jap Empire

Stalin Rejects Invitation Because He Is Needed To Handle Armies.

' HAS 10'DAYS TO ACT   Biddle Informs Roosevelt on Pear! Harbor Court Martial .

Bill Extending Court-Martial Date Before FDR   President Given 10 Days to Act on Legislation; CIO Officer Calls Avery “Petty Tyrant”

BIDDLE ADVISES ON PEARL HARBOR CASE   Says FR Had 40 Days in Which to Act on LegisJation in Case.

“Will We Win In November?”   + =. a ae a  That’s Top Question In Minds Of Republican Delegates As They Gather In Chicago

POOL THE RHICAGE FRORT Men from City and Country (Are Assembled for Biq Show

100,000 AWAITING TRIAL FORNAZICOLLABORATION  First of ‘Numerous Defendants  on  ee oe ef mek

‘COLLABORATION’ TRIALS STARTED   Journalist’s Case Heard As France Launches Purge

TEXAS ARMY NURSE RELAXING IN BONHAM HOME AFTER DODGING INAZIS IN GERMAN-HELD ALBANIA

Makes New Air Record   P-51 Flies from Los Angeles to New York In Six Hours, 31'4 Min.

West-East New Record. 6Hrs., 40 Mi.   P-51 Mustangs, Carrying Full Battle Equipment, Average 370 Miles

A NEW FLIGHT RECORD   Pilot for Gen. Arnold Flies Mustang Fighter Across Country

OHIO FAIRGROUNDS NORTH OF CAPITAL   New Location Chosen; State Fair May Be in 1945

AMERICANS FIGHT IN METZ STREETS   One of the Greatest Battles Of War in Progress   FIRST MAKES PROGRESS   Germans Put up Grimmest Sort of Resistance; Air” Forces Aid Invaders

BRITISH 2ND JOINS ATTACK BY 9TH. 1ST   Patton’s Third Army Invades Reich At New Point, Enters Metz, Nears Saar

ARMIES PUSE NAZIS BACK      Strike From Aachen Area on 30-Mile Front—One of Greatest Battles of War Rages.   PATTON’S TROOPS SMASH INTO mend   Street Fighting Rages. in City-—Other Third Are my Units Cross Reich Border in Force.

Great Fight  Being. Waged As. Germans  Match Blows   Deep Salient Seen: Toward River. Roer

Allies Smash Against Stiff Nazi Defense   U. S. Ninth Airforce  Planes Attack os Close As 200 Yards Ahead ofAdvancing Doughboys'

Allies Smashing Stubborn Foe   U.S., British Drive Deep Salient Into Vita Geilenkirchen Area; Patton Crosses Reich Border, Fights in Metz Streets

Americans And Tommies Press Back Germans   British and Doughhoys  Joined at Dawu in Mighty Push Toward Rhine Alone 30-Mile Path   House-To-House Struggle In Metz   Yanks Battling Enemy Hand-to-Hand: French Smash Deeper Into Belfort Gap

Kingsley Girl Becomes Bride  Betty Nash Weds S. Set. J. A. Pagan

Kingsley Girl —  Becomes Bride”  . ‘Betty  ‘Nash ‘Weds  §. Sot. JA: Pagan

Pros To Ask Ballot Place In Primary  Suit Threatened  iz Dil... Dahirerdl

Pro-Roosevell Electors Ask Primary Test   Allred, Wirtz Threaten Mandamus if Ballot Listing Refused

Besieged Americans Answer Nuts’ To German. Ultimatum. to Surrender

Hungarian Army in Revolt, Rumors Say   Upheavals Cripple German Control of All Balkans

Revolt Breaks Out In Hungarian Army; Bulgars Seek Peace   Balkan Nations Following Path Of Germany's Allies During ‘18

Romania Leads Parade To Join Allied Forces   Hungarian Army Said In Revolt; Bulgaria Asking Peace Terms

Red Army Troops Still Pushing Forward Despite Announcement of Peace; Rucharest Prepared to Firht Nazis

Polish: Troops Capture Most. of City of ; Breda   Allied Fighter ‘Bombers Rip at Fleeing Enemy

Polish: Troops Capture Most. of City of © Breda   VILLAGES TAKEN: BY ‘AMERICAN FORCES   Allied Fighter Bombers Rip at Fleeing Enemy

DOING FIRST. MAJOR JOB IN NORMANDY      Tearing Gap Four Miles. Deep in, Nazi Lines, Yanks Take Two Key. Highway Towns and  Dozen Other Villagés.-

SMASH THROUGH  FOR 4-MILE GAIN  WEST OF ST. LO GERMANS BATTLE  DESPERATELY TO  ereas THE NRIVE

Tear Gap Deep Info Defenses   Infantrymen Ride Tanks, Win Control of Marigny And St. Gilles

Seize Road Keys   Smash Four to Five Miles in First American Armored Drive On Normandy Front

4-Mile Breach Made West 0f City Of St. Lo   Americans Make Additional Gains In Other Sectors

Doughboys, Riding to Battle on Shermans, Pick Off Bazooka Gunners; Dozer Villages Fall: Bri Stopped

Key Highway Towns West of St. Lo all to Amer- jean Attack   ENEMY IS OUTFLANKED   Rommel Loses Many Tanks in Futile Attacks on British

TEAR BIG GAP IN NAZI LINE IN NORMANDY   Americans Capture Two Key Points as Armored Punch is Made.   Hundreds of Bombers Pace Yankee Attack

GET MARIGNY,  ST. GILLES IN ~-BANLEDAWE   Troops Ride Armor Thrust as Bombers Pace Way in Flaming Battie. -

‘Capture Two Key Highway Positions   Gap Four to Five Miles Deep Made; Outflank Nazi Anchors

Five-Mile Gap Is Torn in Enemy Lines   First U. S. Armored Assault on French Soil Is Success; Thousands of German Troops Face Trap; Foe’s Casualties Grow

Tanks In Ist Major Battle Street Fight   Hammer Into Flaming Attack With Enemy Armor In Marigny Streeis.   BOMBERS PACE WAY

Breach German Lines In Area West Of Sf. Lo   Infantry RidesOn 4 Tanks As Bombers * Lead The Way; Nazis  Throw In Tiaers .«-

Tanks Plow Through Fot 5-Mile Gain   Yank Infantry Captures Marigny And St. Gilles; Nazis Outflanked

rive-Mile Gap Torn In Front   Marigny, St. Gilles Fall to Americans Riding Sherman Tanks Cowboy Fashion; Thousands of Germans Facing Capture

2 TOWNS NEAR ST. LO TAKEN   Doughboys Control Marigny And St. Gilles, Vital Hichwayv Villages.   ‘ENEMY BADLY MAULED

Marginy and St. Gilles Fall After Allies Make Heavy Thrust with Tanks and Big Bombers.   GERMANS THROW IN THEIR BIGGEST TANKS

St. Gilles Falls to Yanks   St. Lo-Periers Road Cut by Americans; La Chapelle Captured

DRIVE 4-MILE HOLE THROUGH ENEMY’S LINES   Marigny and St. Gilles Firmly in American Hands, Report

BREAK - THROUGH CREATES BAD SITUATION FOR GERMANS AND FIGHTING GROWS MORE FIERCE   Germans Fight With Suicidal Fury Trying to Halt British-Canadian Advance Below Caen and Entire Line Is Now Flaming with Armor

GOPs Make Plan: For Four-Year National Campaign  Republicans Have Cas! Surplus to Open Drive at 1948 Goal

Brownell Plans  New GOP Drive   Chairman Looks  2 and 4 Years Ahead

PARTY MEN PLAN LYEAR GAMPAIGK   Chairman Brownell Starts Ball Rolling to Elect Mayors, Congressmen, Gover nors and a President

Contest Ends With Surplus   GOPs Finish Drive: With Cash: On Hand

JAP STRONGHOLD ON NEW GUINEA IS THREATENED   Australian Troops Reach Outskirts of Besieged Sio, Enemy’s Main Base on Island.   BITTER GLOUCESTER BATTLE CONTINUES   American Marines Still Moving Up Slopes of Hill Against Pillboxes and Mortar Fire.

Pressure on Both Flarks Is Increased   American Third Army Clears Way Along Luxembourg Border

Resistance Is Increased Near Border   Russian Fight Seven Miles From “Holy Soil.”

Huge Oil Center Is Captured   Russians Less Than 70 Miles From Nazi Borde:

AEDS FIGHTING NAZI FANATICS REPORT GAIN!   Soviet Troops Take .Stryjin and Stoski; Near East Prussia Border.

RUSSIAN ARMY SEVEN MILES FROM GERMANY   Misinterpretation i: Blamed for False Announcement

Suspended Navy Officer Is  Scored By Senator Truman   Missouri Solon Recommends That Commender_John D. Corrigan be Court Martialed-——Grand  Jury ta Proahe Cace

Truman Attacks Naval Officer   Urges Commander Be Detained for Prompt Court Martial

Truman Suggests Court Martialing Of John Corrigar   Suspended Navy Trouble Shooter Recommended For Prosecution

Industrial Areas Register Heavily For the Election  Smaller Total Likely  In Nation: Bricker,

HGH IN UL S. INDUSTRIES   Signs Point. However, to Smaller List aft Fligi:hles

President Sends 49 Billion Dollar Army Budget to Congress for Fiscal Year Beginning July Ist

ARMY BUDGET IS NEAR 50 BILLICK   Fund of 652 Million !s ProProvided For Relief of Many Civilians.

49 BILLIONS SET AS ARMY BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR   F.R. Sends Request To Congress; Only 15 HRillions Is New Outtay

49 Billion Army Budget Submitted   More Than 33 Billion In Fund Carried Over

IOWAN DIES IN TRAIN CRASH   2 M. St. L. Freights Callide at Searsboro

Great Losses Inflicted; U.S. Units Are Mauled, Lose Much Equipment. -

Battle in Belgium Takes High Blood Material Tolls   Tucumcari Soldier One of Flak Group In Narrow Escape

NAZI DRIVE IN BELGIAN AREA BROKEN   Germans Attack on 20Mile Front Only to Be Hurled Back at a High Price in Blood.   WEATHER HALTS ALLIED AIR ARM   Troops Fight in Hell of Fog and Mud— Roads Slick, Cars Drive With Lights On at Noon.

Auto Makers Disagree On Reconversion   All Want Even Start When Barrier Lifted, Smaller Ones for Regulated Output

Motor Car Makers Split  On Reconversion Policie:   Big Firms Favor Unrestricted Production, From Outset With _ Small. Companies Urging Limitation—All Want to Start Making Cars at Same Time, but Nelson Opposes Scheme —Conference on Problems to Start Monday.

RECONVERSION PARLEY LISTED   ‘Motormakers All Want To  Start At Same Time

Post War Autos Mav Hit Snae   Motor-Makers Disagree In Washington ‘Talks OF Peace Plans

Yanks, Frencl Break Thru  Gustav Line   Nazis Throwing Main Strength Around Cisterna Area

ALLIES BREAK THRU GERMAN. GUSTAV LINE   Make Distinct Gain North Of Cassino

Allies Smash Gustav Line Below Rome   Fifth Army Spearheads Beachheads To Split  Nazis In Central Area

GUSTAV LINE IS PIERCED BY ALLIES   Spearheads Thrust From Beachheads Below Rome

ALLIES BREAK THROUGH NAZI GUSTAY LINE   Other 5th Army Troops Battle to Extend Beachheads Below Rome.

Kane Youth Dies Of Gun Wounds   Young Man a Relative Of Smethport Folks

HITLER ORDERS RUTHLESS PURGE   As Result Of Attempt On His Life Last _ Month

“Court of Honor” Set by Hitler to Continue Purge   24 More Ranking Officers Are "Expelled"

Army Purge Set in Germany   “Court of Honor” Set Up to Carry Out Expursion; Nazi General Deserts to Reds; Vatican Ambassador Revolts Against Reich

Ole’ Man Winter Laps Into Spring   Lubbock Outlook fo: Fruit, Vegetables Reported Gloamy

Dies as He Explains His Heart Condition to Court in Diverce Suit

ToFeteChatham Bond Workers   To Dine Pancake Derb) Winners Monday Evening

Local Sergeant s  Missing In Action No Word From David E.  : Huston

HIT BERLIN TWO NIGHTS IN SUCCESSION   Dropped 1000 Tons Of Explosives On City Last Night

Claim Fuehrer’s ‘Headquarters Hit During Air Raid   1,000 Tons of Bombs Dumped On German Capital By RAF Units

Million Nazis Forced to Evacuate the City   Hundreds of British Four-Engined Bombers in New Raid Last Night   28 PLANES ARE LOST   Swedes Report the Armada Dropped Another Thousand Tons of Blockbusters

Nazi Capital. Ripped Second Night in Row   Center of City Hit As Million More Are Evacuated

1,000 TONS OF BOMBS HURLED ON BERLIN AREA   Sweden Reports Million Civiljans Ordered To Evacuate Blazing City

REPORT HITLER HEADQUARTERS HIT BY BOMBS   Million More Civilians Ordered To Leave Stricken City

Berlin Takes Another Blasting Fa R.A.F. Night Fighters; Hitler's Reich Chancellery Hit   oS eee BALE EAGT  Miore Fires Started

Jolt Berlin In Another Huge Attack   Reports Say Hitler’s Head. quarters Hit in Devasta ting Raid.

HEADQUARTERS OF HITLER BLASTED   Canadians Battle Big liaiian Blizzard and Fierce German Resistance.

BERLIN SUFFERS ANOTHER STIFF BOMBING FROM BRITISH RAF   Swedish Reports Say Hitler’s Headquarters Were Hit. Fighting In Italy Slowed Up.

BERLIN HiT 10iST TIME BY R.A-F.   Stoke Fires Stiil Burning From Previous Raids

Stockholm Dispatch Says Hitler’s Headquarters Was Hit in Raid.   BERLIN INDUSTRIAL OUTSKIRTS TARGETS   Bad Weather Has Closed Down the Italian Battlefront.

TEN POINT: RECONVERSION PLAN - PROPOSED BY: SENATOR BARUCH   RAISING GF BTANDARD OF LIV ING 18 THEME OF SENIOR SENATOR'S PROPOSAL FOR POST WAR ERA

BARUCH OFFERS HIS PLAN FOR CONVERSION   Confident There’s No Need for Another Depression

GOVERNOR AND WIFE ON TOUR   State Executive Visits Upper Peninsula After Signing 13 Bills

KELLY SIGNS 13 BILLS INTO LAW   Plans to Go to the Upper Peninsula for Rest; to Be Gone a Week

KELLY LEAVES. TO GIT U.P   No Itinerary for Trip, Says Main Purpose to Afford Rest.

ONLY LIGHT RESISTANCE ENCOUNTERED   As at Guam, Landings Going Well, Heavily Supported by Sea and Air Arms.

Entire west  front flares  with action Canadians slice  hold on Schelde

New Action Flares on West Front   Savage Battle Rages South of Schelde River Estuary as U.S. First Army Units Smash Counterattacks in Aachen

Savage Fighting Marks Drive for Port of Antwerp   New German Affack At Aachen Fails   Nasi Attack Hepuilsed   Patton Treeps Advance   Canadians Driven Rack

Hodges Doughboys Gai: in Fight Inside Aacher Canadians Try to Fre Antwerp, French Dee; en Bridgehead in South

CANADIAN UNITS ARE FIGHTING TO CLEAR ANTWERP   Heavy German Counter-At tack At Aachen Repulsed By Doughboys   REICH IS POUNDED BY ALLIED AIRMEN

Thwart Aachen Relief   Americans Beat Counterattack; Canucks Advance

HOLD BEACHHEADS ON BROAD FRONT AFTER 12 HOURS’ FIGHT AGAINST WEAK RESISTANCE   Fierce Battle Reported Raging In Area Of Caen As Allies Hold Mastery Of Air In Supporting Ground Troops

SURPLUS GOODS BOARD IS NAMED   Technicality To Delay Appointment Of Sen. Gillette

FDR APPOINTS ~ SURPLUS BOARD   Ex-Governor Hurley To Get Chairmanship

Rule Holds Up Surplus Board   White House Says Members Of Congress Cannot Be Appointed.

Law F orbids Appointment   Gillette: Is Selected” For War Surplus Job

REDS SMASH THRU FINNS’ NEW LINE   ‘New Mannerheim Line’ One Of Last Barriers on Way To Seanort.

Russian Smash Breaks Through At Mannerheim   Great Gap Cut In Strong Defenses Built Around Finnish Port Of Viipuri

Crack Last Big Barrier To Viipuri. .. . .  Mannerheim Line Is Smashed By Soviets

Great Gap Cut in Fortifications of Tank Traps, Mine Fields. Trenches and Dugouts Along Gulf of Finland

Cut Gap In Finn Line   Latest Break-through Gives Russian Army A:Grip On Two-thirds Of Karelian Isthmus

SOVIETS SMASH FINN DEFENSES   Russians Break Through ‘New Mannerheim Line’

SOVIETS CRACK FINN DEFENSES   SMASH THROUGH AND PUSH BEYOND NEW MANNERHEIM LINE

Reds Smash New  Vannerheim Line   Finns Have Elaborate Fortification System Resisting Attack

Soviets Smash Through New Finnish Line   Mannerheim Line Is Tremendous Fortification  With 4 Lines Of Wall.   THOUGHT IMPASSABLE

MANNE RHEIN LINE PaACKED BY BEDS   Last Barriers On Way Tx Viipuri Are “Smashed By Russians   TOUGH DEFENSES   Soviets Found Finland’s New Fortifications Formidable

Reds Break ‘Impassable’ Finn Front   Fall of Mannerheim Line Brings Threat To Viipuri Seaport

RED ARMY SMASHES OVER MANNERHEIM LINE  Tremendous Finn Fortifications Reported Broken by Russian Troops

Reds Smash  ‘Through Finns   Vauntel New Mannerhrenm Line Broker

Finn’s Main Defense Line  Is Breached  Soviets Brush Away Last Main Obstacle in Westward Sweep

Reds Crash  Finns’ Line   Last Barrier Broken In Drive On Viipuri

RUSSIANS CRASH FINLAND'S “NEW” MANNERHEIM LINE   This Wall of Defense Claimed Breached By tke Sovict Is One of the Barriers On Way te Virpuri

SOVIETS SMASH NEW FINN LINE   Crack Barrier On Path Te Viipuri Seaport

Russians Smash Mannerheim  Line Of Finns   Breach Last Barrier On Way To Key Seaport Of Viipuri.

Gap Smashed In New Mannerheim  Line By Red Army      Tear Hole In Tremendous Fortifications; Face Hard Struggle.

SOVIETS SMASH WAY THROUGH FINNISH LINES   ‘Mannerheim Line’ Broken;. Last,  Port Barrier

Germans in Saar Basin Make Stand   Yanks Pound Steadily Int Siegfried Line Defenses Today

STH ARMY IS MAKING SLOW GAINS ITALY   Yanks Forces In Outskirts of Ormoc On Leyte

Clapper Finds Red Cross Is On The Job In Pacitie Area   Three Women I[n Area

YANKS PURSUE FLEEING NAZIS ACROSS TIBER   Allies Bridge River on 7-Mile Front to Destroy Foe

BATTERED NAZI FORCES FLEE FOR * LIVES IN ITAL   ‘Armored Columns Chase Enemy Five Miles’ Beyond Tiber River, Germans Offer Little Resistance.   REDS PREPARING FOR PART TO CRUSH AXIS   Japs Lose Several Planes and Three Ships In Pacific Fighting, Other Vessels Damaqed.

Allied Columns Push Five Miles Beyond Tiber   Battered Germans In. Disorderly aire be ‘On 17-Mile Front

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES ABOVE ROME   Nazi Forces In Disorderly Retreat

NAZI RETREAT AGROSa TIER BECOMES ROUT   Fifth Army Columns Strike Five Miles Beyond River in. Pursuit.

-RESISTANCE TO ALLIES I$ FEEBLE   @ Fifth Army Advances On 17-Mile Front Beyond Tiber

OTH ARMY DRIVES 9 MILES BEYOND TIBER   Germans Fleeing North In Italy Offer Only Feeble Rear Guard Fight; 2,000 Surrender In Body To British

Plans Laid Before Chiang  Wedemeyer Foregees * Tananese Strategy

China Drive Plans Ready   New U.S. Commander Outlines Campaign, Submits lt to Chiang

JAPS’ POSSIBLE MOVES IN CHINA ARE OUTLINED   Wedemeyer Suggestions to Chiang “Simple and I Hope Sound”

BOARD PRESIDENT INDICTED BY JURY   Worcester Co. Commis. - sioner Accused of Misfeasance

BOARD PRESIDENT IS UNDER INDICTMENT   Samuel E. Shockley, Worcester County, Charged With Misfeasance In Office

Bases in France And Invasion Coas! Day’s Targets   Moscow Reports Half Million Nazis Slain or Captured

BRITAIN 10 GIVE U.S. NOTHING CHURCHILL   No Question of Territorial Cession, Says Prime Minister

NO AGREEMENT  ~ ON WAR BASES   CHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS  CEBSION, OF BASES IN BRI_ TISH TERRITORY NOT PLANNED. 3

WFA APPEALS FOR RELEASE OF CORN IN MIDDLE WEST   ASKS FARMERS TO HELP SOLVE VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM

Midwest Farmer Urged Release Corn Holdings   Eleven Million Bushels Needed By Processing Industry For War.

ASK FARMERS TO RELEASE . PART OF CORN   Would Ease Serious War Problem Now  Facing Nation

Farmers Urged  To Market Corn   WEA Official SayGrain Needed Urgentlv to Prosecute War

Farmers in Midwest Urged to Sell Holdings of Corn  Serious War Problem May Be Averted Wl Grain le Sold

Farmers Are Urged To Sell Portion of Corn for War Need   Materials for Army and Navy Threatened by Lack Of It

Yankees Pour New Fireon  Blazing Berlin   Huge Armada Loses ‘Only Seven Craft; Opposition Weakens

Latest Attack One Of Most Successful Of War; Only Seven Bombers Lost From Great Attacking Fleet: Luftwaffe, Surprised, Fails To Appear.

LIGHTER TOLL CONTRAST WITH OTHER ATTACKS   Luftwaffe Grounded; Secret Bombing Devices Usedl

THREE-MILE ADVANCE FOR YANKS, FRANCE   Battleship She'ls Open Path For _ Allied Advance Which Has Cherbourg For Main Goal

ELECTORS MAY VOTE FOR BYRD   Other Texas Democrats Believe Harmony Will Prevail

Anti-FDR Leaders See Byrd As Possible Presidential Nominee; Blalock Expects Peace Sept. 12

POLES ASKED TO HELP RUSSIANS   Government in London Moves to Avert Any Clash With Reds

Underground Called Upon  'To Aid Reds   Folish Leadeis Urge Resistance To _ Nazis, Withhold Order to Assist Soviet Command —

BAR A bint Slane NE Ni lee Rae cd arc aaa Le  Action Taken to Avert Clash of Poles, Soviets

WMC: RULING ~~ [$ ASSAILED   ‘ Se al POLICE AND FBI BITTER OVER REFUSAL TO PERMIT THEM TO LOOK OVER FILES ©

OFFICIALS VOICE BiTERNESS OVER MCNUIT'S ACTION   WMC Chief Refuses te Make USES Files Available to Officers

VISTULA IS CROSSED BY RAPID REDS   Patriotic Poles Battling Germans Inside of Warsaw

METZ DEFENSES CRUMBLING BEFORE PATTON’S 3rd ARMY   Doughboys Hold One-Third Of German Fortress City: Geilenkirchen, Key Northern Bastion Of Siegfried Line, Falls To Anglo-Americans

Allied Armies Advancing on Entire Front   Germans in Retreat Toward Rhineland

First Army Carves Out Four-Mile Gain; Other  Forces Pour Into Metz   Nazi Resistance Said Crumbling Under Terrific Pressure From  Ground And Air

Nazi Stand Before Rhina Believed ‘to be ’ Cracking  SECTION OF METZ TAKEN IN ASSAULT  Forces Drive to Within 30 Miles of Dusseldorf

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Siegfried Line Key Bastion  IsCaptured By U.S. Ninth   Patton’s Men Pushing Into Crumbling Metz — And French Reported Battling into Alsace  CTT aA OVI T tw at OTM

Capture Key Bastions on Siegfried; Smash Into Center of Metz; Battle in Alsace for First Time

Allied Troops Advance From Holland To Swiss Frontier: Metz Totters

Geilenkirchen Takenin Drive  Of Ninth Army   First Smashes Four Miles Farther Into Reich; Patton’s Men Fight In Metz; French Near Belfort

HITLER CALLS AXIS PARLEY   Assistance for Germany to Be Sought at Meeting At Berchtesgaden

AXIS CONFERENCE CALLED BY HITLER   Bern Newspaper Says Japan Wil Be Asked What Immedinte Aid She Can Give Germany.

Hitler Seeks — Help of Japan   Fuehrer Calls Conference of Nazi Leaders and Puppet Quistings to Mobilize All Resources of Europe

POLLS SUGGEST MIDDLE GLASSES MAY SWING VOTE   Presidential Race Could Be Decided By Middle Classes, Soldiers

SOLDIER VOTE COULD SWING CLOSE: POLL:   Straw Polls - Indicate Labor - Still: Democratié

FOUND DEAD AFTER WIFE FILES SUIT   Wealthy Business Man Leaves Note; Wants No Rites

Oil Man Dies From Burns   L. E. Douglass Passes In Country Estate At Sedaqwick, Kan.

Fighters Hit French Fiela  RAF Attacks Berlin ‘thout Single Lace

Russian Armies Menace Wilno   Soviets Mav Reach Latvia or Lithuania Within a Few Days

POLAND IS EVACUATED   Finns Report Landings ®y Red Troops On 5 Narva Bay Isles

Old Polish Cities Under Soviet Threat   Kowel Evacuated; Russians Drive Clase to Wilno

RED ARMIES IN STRONG DRIVES   Troops Pushing Toward Latvia and Lithuania at a Rapid Pace.   MENACE IN 80TH AREAS

Russians Strike For . = Baltic States   Only 10 Miles From Latvia and Close To Lithuania

NAZIS RETREi. BEFORE SPEED! SOVIET ADVANCE   Either Latvia Or Lithuania May Be Reached Within Three Or Four Days: Russian Planes Hammer Wilno.

RED TROOPS LANDING   Russians Start Operations Behind the Finnish Lines

REDS POUND 0 TOWARD LATVIA AND LITHUANIE   May Reach One or Both in Three gr Four Days; Menace Wilno

Germans Wilt As Red Armies Near Baltic   Two Republics Moy Be Reached Before End of This Week

Red Armies Pound Ahead   May Reach Latvia, Lithuania in Few Davs, Nea: Vital Railway

Russians Push On To Baltic States   Two, Powerful Armies Thrust Toward Lithuania and Latvia   ‘THRU .LAKE COUNTRY   German Efforts to ‘Stop Russian Advance Lack  Success

2 Powerful  Red Armies Make Drive On Baltics _   Latvia, ‘Lithuania ‘Are Now, Menaced

Red Armies Pound on Toward Latvia; Menace Lithuania   Germans Appear to be Unable to Halt Terrific Drives

Wilno Now Menaced by Red Armies   Press Toward Latvia, Lithuania Germans Quit Kowel, They Say

Big Operation Started by Reds Against Finns   Attempt to Establish a Bridgehead Behind the  Finnish Lines.   Other Armies Pound Way Toward Latvia

Reds Pound Forward in  Baltic Area   Powerful Drive May Reach Laivia, ‘Lithuania in Three o Feur Days. Menace: Wilne

Soviet Forces Near Borders Of Two States   Advance Is So Swift Germans Are Left Behind; Supply Routes Cut

Two Russian Armies Drive Germans Back   Wilno, Polish City: Menaced By Forces Of Soviets

Kowel In Old Poland Given Up By Enemy   Wilno Softened Up By Russian Planes; Soviet Landings On North Shore Of Viipuri Bay

Reds Open Nev Offensive In Viipuri Sector   Nazis Admit White Russian Drive Is Proceeding at Baffling Rate

REDS AIM PUSH AT VITAL RAIL HUB INLATVIA   Other Soviet Forces Advance in Poland, Strike at Lithuania Capital

Russian Armies Drive Into Latvia   Powerful Forces Press Campaign Aaainst Two Baltic Republics

REDS ADVANCE UPON BALTICS   Likely To Reach Frontiers Within Three Or Four  Daves   NAZIS DISORGANIZED

rowerful Russian Armies Sweep for Baltic Republics   Soviet Forces Already Menace Latvian And Lithuanian Cities on Rapid March Toward Warsaw and Berlin .

NAZIS GIVE UP, KOWEL REGION ~ NOLDPOLAND   Germans Appear Unable T¢ Curb Russian Advances On Wilno, Kaunas

NAZIS UNABLE _ TO CHECK DRIVE   Push Toward Wilno After » Capturing Polotsk   BERLIN-WARSAW   Rail Line Next Objective: Germans Quit Kowel Salient In Old Poland

Reds Near ~ Laivia and - Lithuania   Two Powerful Armies,- Are Within 15. Miles of the Baltic States   CAPITAL CITIES . ARE THREATENED   Large Scale Bridgehead Be- ing Established.Behind '. . “ Finnish Lines

BALTICS’ KEY SECTOR NEAR FOR RUSSIANS   Two Huge Red Armies Advance Rapidly On Latvia and Lithuania

Tremendous Gains By Red Army  Continued   Likely To Soon Reach Latvia And Lithuania; Nazis Quit Kowel; Reds Land In Narva Bay

Russian Drive Nears Borders Of Old Latvia   Nazi Resistance Disorganized As Reds Push West

ARMIES POUND TOWARD BALTIC; VILNA MENACED   Reds Are 10 Miles From Latvia, 17 Miles From Lithuania

Powerful Reds Move On Baltics   Two Russian Armies Pound ing Toward Latvia and Lithuania; Nazis Announce Evacuation of Polish Town

LATVIA AND LITHUANIA   ‘At Their Present Pace, Soviets May Reach One or Both of the Baltic  _ Republics in Three or Four Dave.

Russians Almost In Latvia and Lithuania Today   Soviet Landings on Finnish Islands and Coast Are Reported

Two Powerful Soviet Armies Pound On Toward Baltic Republics With Possibility One Or Both May Be Reached In Three Or Four Days—Lithuanian City Of Wilno Menaced—Germans Say They Have Evacuated Kowel, 200 Miles To South

Two Soviet Armies Turn Power on Latvia, Lithuania   Nazi Forces Evacuate Kowel, in Old Poland, As Russians Land Other Forces on Five lelands in Baltic Sea: Air Force Is Active

Two Russian Armies Drive On Baltics  ermans Fiee   Germans Fiee Kowel Salient In Old Polend

Large-Scale = Russiar Landing Operations Be gin Off Viipuri Bay Ir Effert To Establish Bridgehead Behinc Finnish Lines.

QUICK GERMAN DEFEAT SEEN   Reich’s Armies Beaten, En Of War Is Near, AP Writer Declares

‘Americans And Chinese Recapture 1800 Square Miles In North Burma

1,800 Square Miles of Territory Was Recaptured.  FOUR THOUSAND JAPANESE KILLED  Allied Pilots Strike at Jap Bases Only 1,000 Miles From Tokyo.

‘AMERICANS INVADE IHOLLANDIA, AITAPE   General’s Avowed Return 500 Miles Nearer With Two Landings Upon New Guinea

EI Salvador's  President Suits   Action of Martinez  Follows Revolt, Strike

Martinez is out as head of Salvador  Executive quits tm ectatorn hahalf

Tax Refunding Plan Approved   Citizen May Decide That He Wants Cash And Get  Government Check

Borough Civic Leaders Favor Plant 2 Action   Postwar Benefits to Town Cited, Action on Fund in Near Future Is Indicated

Allies Clear Area  Around Florence   Supplies Rushed to City’s Needy Civilians

Nazi Resistance Pockets Are Liquidated   Medical Supplies, Food, Water Taken to Florence

Colleagues Give Courtney Backing At Springfield   Gov. Green Opens State G. O. P. Campaign  Today

BOOM COURTNEY TO HEAD SLATE   DEMOCRATIC STATE’S ATTORNEYS PLEDGE DOWNSTATE SUPPORT

HUNGARY IS TORN BY FREE-FOR-ALL BATTLE   Appears Headed For Total Disaster Following Horthy’s Appeal For Peace; ProNazis Seek Hold Line

Chaos Overtakes Hungary After Bid for Peace   Germans Act to Prevent a: Debacle; Budapest Seized By $5 Divisions

Nazi-Inspired Reign of Terror Follows Hungary's Bid for Peace   LONDON-—CP)— Hungary has toppled into political chaos after Regent Nicholas Horthy’s dramatic bid for

HUNGARY'S BID FOR PEACE IS BLOW 10 NAZIS   Hungarians Are Fighting Each Other Today

Chaos Grips Hungary Affer Bid for Peace   Last Statellite Of Hitler Gives Up the Battle

Hungary in Chaos, Horthy Now Prisoner After Asking Peace; Nazi Party Seizes Government

Hungary Heading For Disaster As Peace Is Sought   Nation Torn To Pieces By Free-For-All Fighting Regent Horthy’s Men Battle  CC aera ne

Germans Admit Regent ‘Horthy’s Bid For Arwnistice Damages  -War Effort

SS Troops Rushed To Budaves!   Nazis Take Over Following Horthy’s Bid for Peace, a Blow to Germany   HUNGARIANS FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES   Political Chaos Melts Barrier Before Onrushing Bed Army

German Terror Reign Imposed On Vassal State   Nazis In Desperate At. tempt To Offset Armi etire Raniect

ans Act Stave Oif bacle   eize Budapest Fol owing Peace Bid; ungarians Fighting mong Themselves

NATION TORN TO PIECES BY PEACE MOVE   Hungary Faces Total Disaster as Pro-Nazis Battle

Political Chaos  In Hungary As Peace Bid Made   Hungorians Fight Among Themselves; Reds Driving On

Civil War Rages In Budapest   German SS Troops Seize Public Buildings, Issue Death Decraa

Peace Bid Brings Chaos In Hungary   Nazis Take Over at Budapest When Horthy Tries to Quit War   TO STAVE OFF DEBACLE   Hungarians Fight Among Selves and Some Fight rmans

Political Chaos ~ After Peace Bic   Magyars Fighting - Among  Selves In Some Areas, Battle Nazis In Others

Political Chaos In Hungary As Peace Is Asked   Germans Gain Control In Budapest After Horthy Sues For End Of War With Allies

Regent Horthy Seeks To Put End To Fight   Damage To Waging Of War Admitted By Germans

Hungary In Chaos After Bid For Peace Report Horthy In Hands Of Nazi Gestape

Hungarians  Fight Among  Tocenecives Petition for  Peace Damaging i. la Cc CN.C«Ci‘

Hungary in Chaos After Bid for Peace   Germans Seize Control In Budapest; People Fichtine Among Themselvs«

Chaos Reigns As Magyars Bid for Peace   Germans Grab Control of! Satellite Nation; Regent’s Fate in Doubt

Hungary Thrown Into Chaos After Bid For Peace ~   Pro-German — Elements Seize Control; Action Of Hungarian _Army ‘Uncertain.

Hungary Is Topplec Into Political Chaos by Peace Bid  Hungarians Battling Among Selves, Not Against Soviets

Hungary In Throes Of Political Chaos   Admiral Horthy’s Dramatic Bid for Peace Emphasizes Hungarians Are Fighting Among Themselves, and Nazis in Some Cases.

Hungarians Fighting Among Selves After Horthy’s Bid for Armistice With Allie

PEACE BID FOLLOWED BY TURMOIL   Hungarians Battle Each Other, Also Nazis; Foe Active

CHAOS ENGULFS HUNGARY AFTER BID FOR PEACE   Nazis Control Budapest, Magyars Fighting Among Selves

Satellite Is Torn by Civil War   Germans Make Last Effort To Keep Ally in Line

Horthy’s Peace Plea Topples Hungary Into  Political Chaos   Native Nazi Party Has Taken Over, Budapest Radio Says

HORTHY Bis FOR ARMISTICE   Hungary Topples Into Political Chaos Following Action of Regent.

ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH © blocks south of Hidalgo Garage Rev. Pverett Smith, Pesta

HEAVY AIR + FORCEOVER ‘N.W. GERMANY   Cross North Sea ) To Hit Undisclosed , German Targets.

GREAT ALLIED BOMBING FLEET RAIDS GERMANY   Forts Fight In Bitter Cold Over North Sea To Plaster Tarcets

Huge Fighter Escort Paves Way for Raid   Northwest Sector Of Reich: Target; Ai Offense Grows

Scout Court Of Honor Thursday  Parents And F riends Urged To Attend:

WARTIME SHORTAGES CURTAIL CIGAR AN DCIG ARETTE OUTPUT   SMOKERS ARE “IN THE MIDDLE” OF MANPOWER FROBLEM AFFECTING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY

RAF Suffers Record Loss In Giant Raid  -Nuernberg Attack   -Nuernberg Attack Costs 94: Craft In Bitter Battle

Brit Bombers Hit Hard © at Nurnberg   R.A.F, Loses 94 Big Planes in Air Battles

Drops 2240 Tons Upon Nurnberg   Moonlight Attack Encounters Largest Fleet Nazis Ever Sent Aloft.

Brit Bombers Hit Hard at Nurnberg  R.A.F. Loses 94 Big Planes Gee Oe Revttlacg

RAF Hits Vital Nazi Rail Center   Record Loss Of 94 Planes Is Suffered When Nurnberg And Western Germany Targets Hit

Gev. Warren To Open Convention   Named Keynoter of Republican Session

WARREN GIVEN ‘SPOTLIGHT JOB AT CONVENTION   CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR 5SELECTED TO MAKE “KEY. : NOTE” BPEECH BEFORE G, 0..P, DELEGATES 

Lawyer on Trial On Murder Charge   Miller Faces Chair In Doctor's Death

Vice-President Tackles Photographer Who Took His Picture, Pins Him Down In Washington Hotel

After Five Hours’ Wait Wallace and Photographer Scuffle Over Candid Picture

Vice President Pins Photographer In Lively Struggle Over Picture

Vice President Wallace In Scuffle With Photographer   Washington Hotel Lobby Scene 0! Round; High Officer Pigures

Photographer Pinned Down  By Wallace   Vice-President Makes Flying Tackle in Hotel

Uncle Sam Seizes 10 Pa. Mines   ROOSEVELT ACTS AT REQUEST OF WLB—4200 MEN AFFECTEL BY SUPERVISORY EMPLOYES WALKOUT.  Cambria Affected

8 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   8 Others ‘Chute to Safety After Collision

Fry Is Picked by Democrats for Governor   Voters Follow Kelly’s Plea and Oust Lieut. Governor Keves

Fry \s Chosen For Governor By Democrats   Auditor General, With Kelly Support, Easy G. O. P. Winner

Youngest Volcanc Menaces Village   New Eruptions Light Countryside

STRONGHOLDS. ~ ARE FALLING. ~ TO: RUSSIANS   SOVIET FORCES BY-PASSING "9OME DEFENSE -BASTIONS AND CAPTURING OTHERS IN ADVANCE

Russian Forces Reported Only 56 Miles From Warsaw After Capturing Lukow

Greensburg Mother 6f 9; Is Honored   Awarded Medal As “Catholic Mother of 1944”: 5 Sons in Army

C10, AFL JOIN ~ DRAFT BATTLE   Green, Murray Confer With President

Union Chief: Join to Nip Labor Draft   Murray, Green Discuss Issue  With President

N azis Denied Breathing Spell   Allied Winter Offensive Causes Heavy Casualties

German Manpower  Losses Are Serious; Allies Giving Them No Chance For Rest

PRESIDENT COMES BACK TQ GAPITAL   Dates With Diplomats at End of Busy Day Points to Prospects of Second Big-Three Meetina

F. D. R. Returns To Washington,  Sees Envoys   Asserts That Big Three Wants To Meet Again; Off in Election Forecast

FDR RECEIVES BIG WELCOME IN RETURN TO DUTY   President Has No News On Proposed Meeting Of “Big Three”

Roosevelt Given Rousing Washington Welcome: Holds Meeting of Cabinet

Roosevelt Returns To Work; Meets Cabinet, Diplomats  Greeted by Thousands; Hopes for Conference Wish Charchill Stalin

FDR Tackles Foreign Issues  After Welcome   Cabinet Has First Post-Election Meet: Big Three Want to  Confer, He Declares

President Turns To Foreign Problems After Big Welcome   Conferences With Cabinet Members and Diplomats Held Following Press Conference—No News on Tri-Power Meet

FDR TACKLES TASKS AFTER BIG RECEPTION   Calls Cabinet Meeting, Confers With Lehman, Envoys

GRIND RESUMED BY ROOSEVELT   Tough Problems Ahead No News As Yet On War Conference

Another French Town Falls Before Might Of Advancing Allied Columns—Marks Fourth Cap tyra   OFFICIAL BULLETIN TELLS OF ADVANCES

ISIGNY JUNCTION, TREVIERES FALL, BATTLE PENTERS      Allies Now Operating Planes From Two French’ Bases, Another Foothold Made at  Trevieres.   BOMBING IS-RESUMED - : AS WEATHER IMPROVES   1000 Planes Blast Numerous Places, Enemy Destroyer Sunk, One Beached as Others Flee.

Germans Assert Enemy  Within 10 Miles of Port   Air Bases On French Soil Being Used By Allies For First Time Since 1940

U.S. TROOPS. TAKE 4TH TOWN IN BAYEUX AREA   Two Airfields In Use Now

Yanks Storming Hill- Over Base At Gloucester   Seek To Smash Foes In - Last Positions Near  _ New U.-S. Base

HILL 660 IS BEING STORMED BY MARINES   Japs Believed to  Be Getting Ready For Show-Down Ficht on New Britain

Marines Lash New Britain Jap Hill Fort   Jungle Fighters Kill 200 ‘of Foe in Drive From Cape Gloucester

Beachhead In Saidor Sector Is Extended   Jap Forces Caught In Trap Between U. S. Troops And Another Unit Of Australians

Report Marines Storming Hill On Cape Gloucester   Jungle Veterans Advance Despite _Fierce Nippon Fire

MARINES TAKE HILL 660 IN CAPE SLOCESTER   Important...0 bservation Ridge Reported Under Fierce Japa- naa Eten

Report Marines Storming Hill 660 In Decisive New Britain Advance

Yanks Storm Hill 660 in New Britain   Mdnine Veterans Face Heavy Jap Fire in Offensive

MARINES STORM JAP POSITIONS ON CAPE GLOUCESTER   Nipponese Battle Desperately to Hold Vital Ob eervation Ridce

MARINES STORMING RIDGE OVERLOOKING POSITIONS SN CAPE   Kill 200 To Reach Hill, Attack Under Heavy lire

MARINES STORM KEY HILL NEAR CAPE GLOUCESTEE      Reach Hill After Killing 200 Japs; Jungle Veterans  Advance

——— ee ee  Yanks Raid Honshu Island Japs Report Invasion ‘Fleet In Mindanao Sea

B-29’s STAY OVER JAPAN   Hit South Central Section of Honshu “Tonight.”

GUNGREGS PLANS LONG HOLIDAY   Vacation Expected to.Continue Until © After Labor Day

CONGRESS PLANS LOW HOLIDAY.   “Vacation Expected’ -to.Continue Until  After Labor Day °

CONGRESS MAY EXTEND RECESS   Favor Holiday Until : After Sept. 4

SOLONS INVITED TO RIVAL SHOWS   JACK & HEINTZ FIGHTS RENEGOTIATION LAW — WPB PUTS ON EXHIBIT.

WPB, Jack & Heintz Vie for Guests at Party As Both Seek Solons to Hear Their Ideas

NAZI FLYING BOMBS RAIN ON LONDON   Apparently Being Fired From Well Inside France

PLANS, BABSON URGES COUNTRY   Business Boom Is Seen by Economist; Some -Unemployment

Babson Tells Of After War Boom   ECONOMIST OPTIMISTIC OVER FUTURE OF NATION

WAR WAGES AND WAR COSTS ARE DEBATED TODAY   Roosevelt Says War Costing Millions Daily

Congress Wrangles Over Little Steel Formula, War Costs   Senators Argue Wage Program is Obsolete, Ask Pay Rate Revision

STAGGERING WAR COSTS KEYNOTE SIXTH LOAN DRIVE   CONGRESSMEN OPEN NEW PLEA FOR HIKE IN U.S. PAY SCALES

shes AGE a S   6th War Loan Starts; Vinson Sounds Keynote to Stabilization ‘Hold Prices’

Japs Deny  Executions   : Official . Broadcast : “Heard From Tokyo

JAPANESE DENY KILLING FLIERS   Assert B-29 Crewmen Not Executed And No Such Action Planned

Heavy Bombers Hit Cologne, Frankfurt Areas   American Flyers Are Unopposed by the Luftwetffe

U.S. Heavies Hit Military Targets Within the Reich  Prodkfurt, Culyuité” Are   Frouckfurt, Culygite “Are Attacked to Support Yank First Anuy

Heavy Bombers  Hit Cologne, Frankfurt Areas American riyers  rraramrmamaa nr,   American Flyers Are Unopposed by the Luftwaffe

ENEMY LEAVES: ——-ARGEAN ISLE   Discover Dodecanese Garrisoning Hard

Bricker Asks ‘Protection Of ~ Trade Route:       ays American Armed -Forees Should Guard Na tion Wherever Tervitory Flag Flies

GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Believes U. 5. Should Protect Her Interests ‘Wherever Her Flag of Commerce or Territory Flies”

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT Mr. Roosevelt And The Radicals

FDR DISAVOWS ALL COMMUNIST PARTY BACKING   Charges Opponents With Spreading Fear Propaganda

34.46 Carat Diamond is Discovered In West Virginia By Horseshoe Tos:

Lucky Pitch Uncovers Diamond LIarseahoe Pitcher Finds  arcest Diamond Found In The ll! S

DEWEY HINTS ‘HE WILL RUN IF NOMINATEL   Says He Is Doing Nothing to Discourage Talk That He Is Leading in Preconvention Delegate Contest. ,

CAN'T CONTROL HIS CANDIDACY DEWEY ADMITS   Governor Almost Says He'll Accept the  Nomination

Not Discouraging Talk, Dewey   Comes Closer to Saying He's Candidate Than Ever Before

DEWEY HINTS HE  IS WILLING TO  RUN IF CHOSEN DECLARES HE HAS  NO CONTROL OVER — DELEGATE CONTEST

DISCUSS ISSUES, BRICKER PLEA   Dewey Comes Closest To Declaring Candidacy at Governors’ Rally

DEWEY VERY NEAR ADMISSION THAT HE IS ACANDIDAT      Reporters at Press Meeting 4 Are Told Nothing Is Be\k ing Done to Discouraoge i Talks.   386 DELEGATES PROMISED TO NEW YORKER   « Guess  Don’t Have Any Control Over That” Wher Asked For Statement or Being in Race.

Dewey Might Be Willing to Enter Race   Shows Signs of Changing Former Positive Stand

Dewey Almost Admits He Is GOP Candidate   Bricker Challenges Aspirants To Debate Issues Of Campaign

TEMPO INCREASES IN GOP CAMPAIGK   Bricker Hurls Challenge To Candidates To Discuss Issues

EXPLAINS ATROCITY REVELATION   No More Supplies May Be Sent To Japanese Prisoners

Operations On Schedule. F.R. Asserts   Losses Light and Enemy Caught Off Guard by Attack

Ankara Radio Report Is Without Any Allied Confirmation; News Beamed to Bulgaria

DAY ALLIES HAVE INVADED ALBANI!   AN UNCONFIRMED TURKISH BROADCAST REPORTS LANDING AT DURAZZO PORT.

Another Invasion? Allied Forces Reported To Have Landed at Durazzo in Albania

Berlin Admits Normandy Defeat a: U.S. Tank Columns Rip Through Foe Trying to Escape Trap

Powerful Invasion Army * Strikes at Heart of the Philippines   NAVY GUARDS CONVOY      Philippine President Os: mena and Cabinet Are With Troops

TURK RADIO SAYS ALUES IN ALBANIA   Unconfirmed Report Tells of - Forces Landing at Durazzo

SENATE APPROVES INCOME TAX BILL   Measure Now Goes Back to House for Consideration Of Changes.

Streamline    Senate Approves’ . Measure “Relieving 30,000,000; Per-. ‘sons From Making Returns’   MINOR CHANGES ) > ARE-INCLUDED   ‘But They: Are Techuical and ‘House: Is’ Sure’ to ‘Give. _Ouitk Okay.

Senate Votes Approval Of  Tax Measure   Millions Of Citizens To Be Relieved Of Figuring Out Their Income Reports

Senate Passes Streamlined Bill   New Tax Bill To Relieve 30,000,000 Tax Payers of Return Computations.

CAN'T FIGURE OUT SIMPLE TAX BILL   SEN. LANGER SAYS NEW MEASURE IS FAR TOO COMPLEX

Wins Promise Of Slash in  \Cabaret Tax   Necessary to Save Night Clubs,  VMoPavran Fwuloing

SENATE PASSES SIMPLIFIED TAX   30,000,000 Won't Have  to Compute Amounts

Say Finns ‘Sign Peace With Russia   Troops Move Nouiliward Against Germans as tre Toward Nazis Increases

REDS, FINNS SIGN PEACE, 15 REPORT   SWEDISH NEWSPAPER SAYS LATTER ARE MOVING NORTH AGAINST GERMANS.

FINNISH PEACE TREATY SIGNEID   Burning Of Farms And Villages By Nazis Stirs Up Anger

Finland and Russia Sign: Finnish Troops Reported Marching Against Retreating German Army

—. S. Files Suit In Lincoln Court—  J.P.Morgan And Co., Kuhn,LoebNamedinr Federal Complaint   Conspiracy To Maintain High Rates, Retard Improvements Alleged In Gigantic Action

Soldier Ballot Reaches Senate Vote Shortly   Administration Is Confident Of Victory

Administration Leaders Confident Federal War Ballot Will Be Approved

Leaders Believe Federal Vote To Win Approval   F R Backs Lucas-Green Bill, Denounces State  Soldier Ballot Plan

 Administration Leaders Confident Lucas-Green Federal Soldier Yote 'Measure Will Be Passed by Senate

SENATE OKAY SEEN OF FEDERAL BALLOT FOR SOLDIER VOTES   . D. Rap Shifts Enough Southern Democrats From State Plan

BACKERS THINK SGLDIER VOTE BILL TO PASS      iSenate Approval Of War Absentee  Ballot Is Seen By 1 Administration

49 AXIS PLANES tar cuAT AT   'Heavy Damage Reported In Attack On Third  Balkan Capital   ON NEW RAIDS   U. S. Liberators Attack Targets In Pas-De-Calais Area-

Annihilation — for Trapped Huns Is Seen   [First Army Grips Most, of Tarnopol; 3,000 Nazis Slain in Three Davs

‘Soldier, Two Others Killed At Crossing  Struck By Train At Dan:  geraus Intersection

BOMBERS ROCK REICH TARGETS IN YANKS’ PATH   Karlsruhe, Ludwigshafen and Stuttgart Blasted by Armadas

487,692 LISTED AS CASUALTIES   Increase Of 14,913 Noted During Past Week

Casualty Total Reaches 628,441   Increase of 65,973 ; Reported In Two Weeks

Casualties  ® Increasing U. S. Battle Toll Rises to 487,692; 14.913 Ahove Last Week

FOOD SUBSIDY ROW TO BE FOUGHT OUT ON SENATE FLOOR   Barkley Gives Up Hope Of Compromise With Farm Bloc

Food Subsidies Left For Senate   Farm Bloc Hostile To Food Price Control

Escaped Convicts Captured at Davenport   At Large About 24 Hours; State Senator Captures Two

FOUR CONVICTS ARE RECAPTURED   State Senator, Former Sheriff, Aids Seizure Of Two

U.S. Air Might Hurls More Blows At Jap Islands  Tokyo ey  Klee Damage bb 2%

Aerial Smashes At Jap Island Bases Reported   Cabinet Meets to Hear Bad News Following B-29 Raids; Appeal Made to All Asiaties

WITH YANKEE TANKS REPORTED ON HITLER’S “SACRED SOIL.” BATTLE OF GERMANY HAS BECUN

Patton's "Rule the World"  Statement, Amazes, Shocks   Army Congressional Circles Displeased; No Official War Dept. Comment Yet

Italian Fleet Disposition A Mystery   Russia’s “Third” May . Turn Out to Be British or American, In‘stead of Italian Ships

Jap Planes Raid Saipan   Industrial Targets in Jap Capital Blasted by Superforts From Saipan   Jetties, Warehouses and Railyards in Jap-Held Sumatra Battered

American Air Forces Concentrate Attacks Against Jap Islands   Naval-Air Assault On Carolines Seems Start Of Campaign To Clear Lane To Philippines

OBJECTIVE IS TO REDUCE-FRUK AND OTHER STRONGHOLDS TO. POINT OF USELESSNESS. .

Additional Raids On Truk, Other Atolls Reported   Pacific Ground. Forces ’ Also Make Advance On Admiralty Islands

Bombers Hit Truk, Other J ap Bases   Raids on Tokyo's Shrinking Island Empire Stepped Up

RENEW AERIAL BLOWS AT JAP ISLAND EMPIRE   Eight Attacks In Two Days Include Two ore On Truk

mpaign To Reduce Jap Truk Base Started With /Eight Aerial Gestures —

U.S. FLIERS BLAST JAPS IN CAROLINES   Warships Attacking Palau Maintain Radio Silence

Full Scale — Bomber Drive Against T ruk   Yanks Pound Jap: Bases—Task Force Maintains Silence

YANKS EMBARK ON FULL SCALE DRIVE 70 REDUCE TRUK   Air Forces Complete Eight Attacks in 36 Hours {in — Far Panitic.

Reinforced Japs Strike At Chinese      Two Columns Attack Positions Eighty Miles From Liuchow

WLB ORDER ENDS STRIKE AT AKRON   Unionists Go Back To Work After Halting Tire Output

RUBBER PLANT STRIKE ENDING   General Tire Workers Heec WLB Order To Return

STRIKE CALLED OFF AT GENERAL TIRE CO,   Intra-union Strike Halt: Production 30 Hours

Anchor of Naz! ine Captured   Castelforte, 4 Other Towns, Nine Strategic Hills Taken 'As German Defenses Crack

Entire Gustav Line Blazing Under Blow   French Troops Take Hill Positions: Luftwaffe in Sky for Initial Battle

American Tanks Smash Into Towr Of Castelforte .   British. Troops Try to Outflank Nazis in Cassino

TAX BILL DEBATE “OPENS IN HOUSE   DOUGHTON PREDI€TS PASSAGE OF SIMPLIFICATION MEASURE—VOTE TODAY.

Curtis Seores Simplified Tax Bill in House   Nebraskan Sees Cut In Contributions: Committee to Revise Corporation Taxation

House Debates Simplified Tax; Adoption Seen   Dough ton Asserts ‘Painless  Levy Will Not Reduce  [4s Phe,

Streamlined Tax To Be Extended  To Corporations  Doughton Reveals Pla: While House Argues Tadsosdiesal Miamebtsame

SIMPLER TAX BILL DEBATED   Committee Begins W ork On Corporation Levy Measure

QUICK ACTION FORECAST ON TAX MEASURE   Two Day Debate Opened on “Painless Tax” Bille   APPROVAL ASKED BY  HEAD OF COMMITTEE   Lone Assault on tegislation Made by Kansas Solon

Corporation Tax Plans Considered   Committee Calls For Streamlining   Curtis Attacks Plan   House Votes Friday

REPORT B-29 PLANES ROAR OVER TOKYO   First Allied Aircraft Since  Doolittle Raid

SUPERFORTS. REPORTED OVER JAP CAPITAL   Raid if Confirmed Is First Since’ Doolittle’s Two and a Half Years Ago

No Allied Comment On Report   Japs Think Super Fortress Was From Base On  ees  Saipan Island

Lieut. Swancutt Killer of Four Hangs Himself   Convicted Army Officer Was Under Sentence of Death

Lieut. Swancutt, Facing Death For 4 Murders, Hangs Self In Hospital

Lt. Swancutt Ends His Life   Army Officer Faced Death Sentence for Slaying Four Persons

EXECUTION CHEATED BY ARMY OFFICER   Sentenced To Death, He Hangs Self in Hospital

LT. SWANCUTI ENDS OWN LIFE   DOOMED SLAYER HANGED HIMSELF WITH BED SHEET

Army Officer Hangs Self  be ee ee, Sa. eee   Unuler Death Sentence For Killing 4

SWANCUTT FOUND HANGED IN ROON   Court Martialed Officer Reported’ Suicide in Hospital

Condemned Man Ends Own Life   . Lieut. Swancutt Hangs In Army Hospital in San Francisco

LT. SWANCUTT HANGS HIMSEL   Convicted Killer of Four Cheats Gallows In Hospital

‘High Waves Break Pier, Threaten ‘Homes at Malibu; Bridge Washouts, Toppling Power Line Reported

Hail and Snow: Wind Damage  Foot Deep on Hills; Power Lines Down in Southern Counties

Ridge Blocked by Snow, Slides   CASTAIC AND SAUGUS AREA INUNDATED; FOUR TRAPPED SKIERS REPORTED SAFE IN MOUNTAIN HUT AS PLANE DROPS FOOD

COUNTY FARMER IS SUED BY GOVERNMENT   Secretaty Of Agriculture Take: Action Against Howard N. Pear! Fer Wheat Penalty

FLAT DISAGREEMENT OVER AN ALLEGED GAC ORDER FOR RAINEY   UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL SAYS ORDER MADE; REGENT DENIES IT

No Strike Pledge Again is Renewed By Steelworkers  Incipient Revolt Coupled With  Pettieiem alt BDittchurn

STEELWORKERS RENEW PLEDGE NOT TO STRIKE   Check Revolt Movement Against No-Strike Agreement

-USW Pledge , Renewal of ‘No Strikes”   President Murray Made Plea for Such Action; Some Obiectors

Renew Pledge O£No-Strike   Incipient Revolt Among CIO Steelworkers Quickly Squelched.

THE WEATHER   Temperature Reading By The Bee's Radial Thermamatear

Heavy Bombers Hit Northern Italy (but Storms Hamper French Raids

Allied Airmen Raid Jap Bases ‘In So. Pacific   500 Tons Explosive: Dumped On Targets From Wewak to Bougainville

BOUGAINVILLE, WEWAK RAIDED ‘ANEW BY ALLIES   Trapped Japs Quiet Around Yank Beach head; Aussies Near Madang

Berlin Posters Denounce Nazis   Signs Mysteriously Appear On Streets...

DOWN WITH HITLER POSTERS IN BERLIN    Report Says They Appeared on  Nazi Capital’s Streets

Chinese Wipe Out Japanese Column   Chiang’s Forces Threaten Kwangsi Capital

5 MORE JAPANESE SHIPS SENT DOWN   Figures for July 4 Foray Increased by Adm. Nimitz

JAPAN IS NOW FIFTH RATE NAVAL POWER, ADMIRAL SAYS   Commander Of Task Force 58 States War In Pacific Will Begin To Slow Down Because Of Tremendous Supply Problem; Enemy Shipping Suffers Heavily

JAP HOMELAND 18 LEFT WIDE OPEN   Task Force 58 Commander Reviews Enemy’s Position   FIFTH RATE POWER   Adm. Mitscher Fears Pacific War Will Lag Because Of Supply Problem

Reports Jap Navy Now Fifth Rate   Naval Aviation Nearly Gone, Says Mitscher

Japan Left Wide Open By Losses   Mitscher Says Pacific War To Go Into Low Gear Because of Supoly Problem

NAVAL DEFEAT FELT BY TOKYO   Enemy Reduced To Fifth Rate Power, Mitscher Declared

STORMS IN IOWA SLAM LIVES   Tornadoes, Floods, Heavy Rains Are Costly in “Property Damane

Floods, Tornados Take Lives of Four lowans   Trail of Damage Left Throughout Northern Section

TORNADOES, HEAVY RAIN D0 DAMAGE   2.32 in. of Rain in Boone Floods Basements. Wind and Hail Accompany Big Downpour

Prices Pegged on Used Automobiles   Ceiling Order Goes Into Effect Today - -

PRICE CEILINGS ON USED CARS NOW IN EFFECT      OPA Seeks To Halt Continued Increases In Retail Prices

CEILING PRICES - PUTONUSED . _ AUTOMOBILES   The. OPA Sets Down a New Set ‘of Regulations on Used Cars. :

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Oil Pipeline Is  In Second Year   Line Through County Has Done Work of 23.000 Tank Cars

White Stor y Is Criticised   Russian Commentator Dislikes His Book

Gazette Editor's Book on Russia : ‘Arouses Ire of Pravda Commentator

READER'S DIGEST REPORT ON USSR STIRS PROTEST   Communist Newspa per Pravda Dis parges Eve-Witnes: Writer Willham L White.

Red Raps White  Communist Flays Writer F or “Fascist” Views In Macazine

8400 TONS ~ DROPPED ON NAZI LANDS   All European Allied Nations, Join U.S., British Attack

5,000 War Planes Drop 8,400 Tons On Bomb Targets   Blasting Of Anti-Invasion Defenses, War Plants And Communication Centers Keeps Allied Attacks Growing; Night Attacks Follow Day.

Bucharest Left In Gaunt Ruins - -By-Nazi-Herdes   ‘German Claiii Asserts Red Suramer Offensive Has Been Widely Stemmed

Russians Find Bucharest  City of Ruins   City Attacked By German Planes August 24, 25, 26

Nazi Wrath Vented On Bucharest  By Bombs   Romanian Capital Given Terrific ‘Assaults After Nation’s Surrender

Bucharest Is Left Damaged   Germans Vent Fury on City With Three Days of Heavy Air Attacks

German Fury Turned Loose   On Bucharesi   Gay Capital of Romania Is City of Blackened Ruins After Three Days Air Attack

ChINA GHEERED BY GOOD NEWS   Tuhshan, Railroad Town, Recaptured; Jap Units Flee In Disorder

Trapped Japs Delay Start Of New Drive   Foe Badly Mauled ir First Effort to Break Circle

WARSHIPS SHELL, JAPS NEAR AITAPE   ENEMY BELIEVED REGROUPING FOR NEW ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT OF TRAP.

Japs Regrouping for New Attempt  urroun: ded Enemy 5 ils to Get Free

A MAN AND HIS DOG: General's Sympathy Accounts For Texan's Joy in Hospital

Pacific Command Question All Settled; U. S. Navy Will Have Lead in Jap Drive

Quebec Settles On Chiefs  For Pacitie   Assigns-U. 8. Navy Dominant Role, According to Early

Liberators Make First Hit on Truk   Land-Based Bombers Open Assault to Eliminate One-Time Jap Mystery Base

New U.S.  Landings Reported   CAVALRY TROOPS ON MAIN ADMIRALTY ISLE

G.O.P. Favors Peace Group   Plank Calling for Co-operative Organizatior Among Nations for Peace Gets Committee Approval; Pledge to Maintain Jobs Given

G. 0. P. IS SET TO HEAR LUCE, HOOVER SPEAK   Wendell L. Willkie Is Sniping at Platform Makers from New York Pillbox.   BULLETIN

Log Dramatizes Last Days on Raft Flier Died With Love on His Lips

Dramatic Log Of Last Days On The  *  mained .     2 emmmancer fy oes Jy mem Pacific In Raft Kept By Airman

“Girl Shy,”’ Senior Class Play Next Thursday-Friday  Thursday Afternoon  Ret dau Reawniang

Senior Class Play; Annual Banquet;  Other School News  “Girl Shy” At Audi trariu~m RAn<c £

U.S. SUBS TOOK ARMS, MEDICINE TO FILIPINOS   MacArthur Help To Underground

M ARTHUR SENT SUPPLIES BY SUB 10 PHILIPPINES FOR TWO YEARS   ANNOUNCEMENT REVEALS PATRIOTS GAVE DATA TO U. S. ON JAP MOVEMENTS THROUGH RADIO   Weather Observatories

Philippine Patriots, Supplied F or Two Years By MacArthur. Great Help To American Army

Gen. MacArthur Reveals Filipinos Built up Vast Resistance Group, Aided by Arms Sent in by Subs

MacARTHUR AIDED PHILIPPINES EVEN BEFORE INVASION   Reveals Arms and Ammunition Sent over Past Two Years Enabled Pa.triots to Build Up Formidable Organization.

HEALER ADMITS LANSING BRIBES   Retired Naturopath Is Willing To Help Out State’s Testimony

PLEADS GUILTY TO BRIBE PLOT   Ex - Naturopathist Admits Conspiracy Before Judge Carr

Falkner Admits Bribery Charge   Naturopathist Will Testify For State

Riots In Athens Between Leffists And Royalists  Leftwing EAM Calls  General Strike, Quit BR... gg fama -

Pfe. Earl McFarland, Fath er of Two Children, Held in Death of Dorothy Berrum

Marine Is Held  In Murder Case   Veteran Suspected In Attack-Death At Washington

Seize Marine  For Slaying Guadalcanal Veteran Father Of 2, Is Held

Marine Is Held In Girl's Death   “Accused ‘Of Murder In. Capital Slaying:

MARINE I$ HELD IN SLAYING GIRL   Guedalcanol Vet, 21, Father Of Two, Accused in Washington Murder

FIX NO BLAME IN TRAIN CRASH ON C.N.W. LINE   State Commerce ‘Commission in Report After Inquiry.—No Public Report From R.R.

MAN CONFESSES SLAYING HEIRESS   EX-SOLDIER VOLUNTEERS BAUERDORF CONFESSION

First Wounded In France Here  Aa PEL. nt   An Officer and an Enlisted Man Arrive By Hospital Plane

Reelected Head of Democratic National Committee Today.   TRUMAN 1S NOMINATED

Senator  on F.D.R Ticket   Wallace Defeated 105-1031 in Final Convention Session

Seized Nazis Pessimistic Over Chances   Some Say Germany Will Be Defeated Within Two Months

Launching May Come Too Soon   Enemy Radio Reports 750,000 Men And 80,000 Paratroopers Massed For Action.

Says Outcome Of Battle For Kweilin Will Be ITurnina Point In War

Russians May Join In War  Against J pan   Stalin's Charges Against Knemy Hint Help May Be On Way

State Legislature Opening Next Week Regarded as One of Most Important

Governor Sees Postwar Use For Balances   Conservation of Cash Urged; Cites Need For Peacetime Jobs

Instructional Groups Rebuild Chinese Army   Far-Reaching Program Is Under Way To Give New Life To Troops Under Kai-shek

CHINESE ARMIES REVITALIZED BY AMERICAN AIL   One of Most Ambitious Programs in Military ‘History Revealed.

Americans Are Revitalizing Chinese Army For Coming Attacks; Material And Routes Lacking

FAR-REACHING PROGRAM OF U.S. HELP REVEALED   American Army Officers and Men Under Stilwell Secretly At Work Since Last April On Re-Vitalization Of Chiang’s Armies.

Build Up China’s © Army   Ambitious Military Program Well Under Way, Backed By U. S.. Men and Equipment

American Help Is Revitalizing Armies in China  U. 5S. Soldiers Are Active Now in Chiang’s Homeland

Girls Marching Attacked By Cur  Causes Commotion  On Play Ground ~

U, 5. HEAVIES BATTER THREE AERIAL BASES   Following Un Big Night Operation of R.A.F. in Which Brunswick Was Heavily Battered

Brunswick Raid Follows Heavy RAF Battering   Report Street Fighting in Kovel— Russians Intensify Drive for Bessarabia   BULLETIN

STRIKE SECOND DAY IN A ROW   1000-Plane Night Raid By RAF Is Aimed Chiefly At Frankfurt.   GERMANS REPORT FIRST

Follow Up RAF Assault On Frankfurt   1,500 American Bombers And Fighters Engaged; Germans Offer Battle

AMERICAN BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS HIT AT NAZI AIR FORCE   HEAVY DAYLIGHT RAID FOLLOWED NIGHT BLAST. ING OF FRANKFURT

Yankee Blow Follows Big RAF Assault   1,500 U. S. Planes Raid Brunswick And Enemy Airfields; Big Aerial Battle Reported

NAZIS STRIKE FIFTH ARMY IN NORTH ITALY   Americans Using Fighting Lull Time On Roads

Coal Advisory ‘System Is Set Up Over lowa   Ickes Calls Upon Retail Dealers to Safeguard Distribution

Ickes Places Burden Upon Coal Dealers   Looks Forward to Fair Distribution of Coal Supplies

ANTE-FDR BLOC      Mass Hysteria Sweeps Town In Fear of Gas-Spraying Maniac

IPANIC GRIPS ENTIRE CITY IN WAKE OF GAS ATTACKS   Mystezious Night Marauder Upsets Tranquility of Matton, Illinois

Mattoon’s 18,000 Residents Stay Indoors When Sun Goes Down and Mysterious Night Marauder Comes Out; People So Nervous, Police Tells Them To Put Guns Away So They Won’t Shoot Others

 Moors Ana Windows Barr ed  Spray Gun ‘Poisener Croates ‘Mass Hysteria

YANKEES AGAIN RIP FRANKFORT   One-Two Aerial Punch Also Strikes in Northern France

BOMBERS HIT “ANOTHER BLOW "RT FRANKFORT   THIRD MAJOR RAID. IN TEN DAYS ON BIG INDUSTRIAL ‘CENTER—OTHER TARGETS BLASTED

GREAT AERIAL FLEET POUNDS AT FRANKFURT   Today Should Seal City’s Doom  ————  COAST SMASHED  Northern France Is Blasted

FINN REPLY 10 ‘SOVIET PEACE TERMS IS DUE   Flat Rejection Expected When Answer Is Delivered To Russia

De Gaulle Leaves  Moscow With Plan    Gets New Franco-Russian Treaty of Alliance

3 P. C. Sales Tax Earmarked For Schools Proposed In Bill Introduced In State Senate   Would Reduce Levies On Real Estate And Tangible Personal Property

Sales Tax Bill Is Proposed      Senator Hodges Launche: Measure . -Earmarked~’ Bor Schouls ”

TO BREAK LAST NAZI HOPE OF WEST DEFENSE   Yank Armored Patrols Reconnoiter on German  Soil, Test Barriers

Patrols Have Crossed Line   Reconnoitered, Withdrew; Third Army Crossing Moselle River in Strength   British In Hotland   Battles Soon to Be Fought On German Soil, Proclaims General Eisenhower

Battle About To Begin— Eisenhower   Strong Forces Are Established Firmly Across Moselle River

YANKEE FORCES PUSH’ ACROSS MOSELLE RIVER   Prepare For Assault On West Wall Guarding Reich Border

Battles Soon To Be Waged In Germany— Ike   Secrecy Still Covers American Movements, British 2nd Army In Netherlands

Yank Patrols Probe Across Nazi Border   Eisenhower Tells Foreign Workers How ¢o Aid Allies

Third Army To Storm Hitler's Line   General Eisenhower Says Battle of Germany “About to Begin”; American Armored Patrols Return After Deen Stab Into Reich

3rd Army Masses For Assault On Reich West Wall   Eisenhower Says Battle For Germany Is Beginning; British Reported In Sight Of Rotterdam; Patrols Entering Reich Returned To Moselle Line Sunday

YANKS RETURN AFTER GOING INTO REICH   Eisenhower Says Germany Soon To Be Battlefield   AMERICAN UNITS   Set Across Moselle River; ~ Total Bag Of Prisoners

Fighting Flares Along Border, ' Already Crossed By Patrols   x *k *« * South France

Eisenhower Says Battle of Reich Will Begin Soon   Siegfried Line No Stronger Than Atlantic ‘Wall’

Battle for Reich About to Begin, Eisenhower Says   Patrols Return After Reconnaisance On German Soil

German Defense Stiffens   NO CONFIRMATION OF PARIS RADIO REPORT THAT BRITISH ARE CLOSE TO ROTTERDAM

NAZIS GUESSING WHERE ALLIES WILL HIT LINE   Border Crossed by Patrols As Prelude: Mop-up Goes On in Southern France

Stiffer Resistance Indicatec As Patton's Army Groups Before Hitler's West Wall

Our Troops Are _ Perched Across Moselle’ River, Awaiting Word for Start of Battle.  HITLER’S DEFENSE  yYfpr=a.eyYwyv. woe sfrxTywTt_wuwsrtirnmrietryrs.

Yanks Cross Moselle With Strong Force   “Battle of Germany About to Begin” Says Eisenhower

Yanks Get Set Across The Moselle   Strong Forces Are Poised for Battles  On German Soil;  _ Prisoner Bag 205.00¢

American Patrols Enter Reich, Return To Main Line Sunday   Yanks Capture 205,000 Nazi Prisoners Since D-Day; Confirm British Forces Drive Into Netherlands

PENETRATIONS OF NAZI FRONTIER MADE BY ARMORED PATROLS AND WEST WALL ASSAULT TO BEGIN

Eisenhower Says Fighting Will Start Soon On German Soil '   Foreign Workers Get lnstructions   Headquarters Spokesman Says Siegfried Line Will Be Smashed

‘Battle For Germany Is About To Begin’, Eisenhower Says; Patrols Probe Border Areas

ONLY PATROL ACTION, SAYS HEADQUARTERS   Real Invasion to Come Later, Spokesman for Army Explains

U.S. SRD ARMY PATROLS CROSS REICH BORDER   Patton’s Army Drives For Strasbourg; British In Netherlands

American Patrols Back From Reich, Resistance Grows   Yanks Pouring Across Moselle River Against Increasing Nazi Opposition

STRONG THIRD ARMY FORCES ESTABLISHED ACROSS THE MOSELLE  ARMORED PATROLS RE. CONNOITER ACROSS GERMAN FRONTIER

Third Army Patrols Go Into Reich   Gen. Eisenhower Says Battle of Germany About to Begin

Action Seen As Forerunner To Attack on Herr Hitler's Great Western Defense Line

Last River Line Short of Rhine   Capture of Saarbrucken Not Denied Nor Contirmed in Official Reports   (8RD. ARMY PATROLS  PENTRATE REICH   First Army Liberates Namur, and British Are in The Netherlands

FOUR NATION POSTWAR PLAN TO BE SOUGHT   Info rmal Meetings In Washington In August

THURMONT MAN FATALLY HURT ON MANEUVERS   Funeral Services For Pvt Raymond L. Pryor To Be Wednesday   WAS INJURED WHEN EXPLOSION OCCURRED

 THERE IS NOTHING BLUE FOR THE ALLIES IN WAR NEWS ON  THIS MONDAY: PUSHES CONTINUE

“WAR. TODAY:       Times.  Eaiveiidiieds  Bitter Trials of Wan. ' fare on Own Land

JOBS IN ALASKA SOUND GOOD TO TOO MANY   CAA Buned by Avalanche of Applications: Only 50 Married Couples Wanted Now

18 Other Officers, Men Lost in Airplane Crash ‘With Admiral Cecil

19 LOST LIVES WHEN BIG PLANE CRASHED   12 Army And Naval Officers And Six Members Of Pan-American Crew Killed With Adm. Cecii

SILENT SCREEN STAR DIES IN OBSCURITY   Mildred Harris Was Bit Player Where Once She Reigned

Grahl Issues Draft Setup Clarification   Registrants Generally May Fall in 4 Age Clas gifications

Stale Attempts to Clarify Confusion On Draft Policy   Two Bulletins Are Issued Today for lowa‘s Local Boards

SHORTAGE HITS CIGARET SUPPLY   Smokers Lucky To Cet Any At All; Popular Brands Missing

New American Honor Roll: Three Fighting Divisions Named For Halting Great German Drive

PLAN IS APPROVED, GEN. CHIANG SAYS   All Japanese Militarists Must be Wiped Out, Leader Savs

Important Meeting. ak. For Service: Station ~~ -Operators’Sept. 13th.

Turkey Orders Istanbul Blackout   Von Papen Leaves With No ‘Heil Hitler’

ORDER BLACKOUTS FOR TURKISH CIT   Precaution Taken Afters Break With Reich — Von Papen Leaves Ankara.

Gasmata Deserted In Hasty Retreat   Last Hold On Major Island Stronghold is Slipping As U. S$. Marines Make Advances

Airfield and Supply Area Are Abandoned by Enemy Who Prepares Last Stand   Steady Aerial Attacks Are Continued on Major Outposts Protecting Rabaul From Assault by Land Troonos

M000 JAPS FLEE TOWARD RABAUL BASE   May Make Stand on Northeast Tip Of Island

Two Air Fleets Blast German Plane Factories   Bombers From Britain, Italy Deliver Massive Double Blow al Plants in Reich, Austria

Schweinfurt Again Target OfBritish —   German Airplane And Bearing Plants Still Being Pounded  STEYR JS HIT AGAIN

Two great RAF forces raid Europe   Hit Schweinfurt twice in one day

NAT AIRCRAFT “PLANTS BLASTED, AQ: PLANES LOS)   Americans Flying From Eng- land and Italy Strike at - Factories in Germany ’ and Austria. .   66. ENEMY FIGHTERS — ARE SHOT FROM SKIES   Two Thousand Ships in British-Based ‘Force—Marauders Bomb Three Air fields in. Holland.

British. U. S. Planes Hit  Nazi Factories   R. A. F. Follows Up Daylight Raids by American Flyers

British Bombers Hit at Continent During Night   Italian Based U. S. Craft Bomb German Aircraft Plants

Nazi Plants Lashed Again   Massive T wo-Way Assault Continues; RAF Out Aqain

Plants. at Gotha, Schweinfurt, Steyr Pounded By Huge Armada Flying’ From Britain-and Italy

NAZI PLANTS AGAIN HIT BY FLIERS OF U.S.   Coordinated Twin Attacks Made From Britain  and italy   ASSAULTS MADE.ON AUSTRIA. GERMANY   Quick Follow Up Made by Bombers on Schwein- . nee +

Heavy Bombers Damage Germar Plane Factories   London Attacked For Fifth Night

Officer Killed In Holdup of Oakland Club   Two Men With TommyGuns Raid Night Spot, Woannd Cuoctamer

Reds capture summit over Sevastopol  Soviets report ‘no important change’

CLOSES TRAP ON MANY THOUSANDS IN AREA POCKEI   First Major Enemy Counter Action Against First Arm, Offensive Was Cryshet Decisively.   GERMAN RESISTANCE IS SAID TO BE GREATER   Bad Weather Has Hampered Air Support But Clear Skies Today Finds Planes Again Attacking.

F.D.R. Proposes Program To Put Vets On Farms   Asks Wickard, Hines To Work On Project For Men In Service

DESTRUCTION OF MONASTERY IS COMPLETED   Doughboys Approach Mountain Top   GAIN IN CASSINO

ALLIED TROOPS PUSH NEARER  CASSINO ABBEY   Airmen Provide Continuous Umbrella in’ Beachhead Area

DOUGHBOYS HAVE BETTER CHANCE AT CASSINO NOW   Germans Intre duce Ski Troopers Against Eighth. Welcom: Ar Support.

Flying Bomb Hits Nursery In England   Babies.and Nurses Die. Britona Seck Speeding Of Counter-Measures

Bombs Kill Babies:  Sree a te ACNE OETA SANS H tne i cnntnert hema  Hitler's Rocket Weapons Crash Into English Nursery and Homes

HITLER'S WINGED BOMBS KILL BABES IN NURSERY HOME   Buildings Wrecked, Crushed Bodies Are Found Among Smashed Toys—Hunt for Victims Continues.   ROBOTS IN DEADLY . PARADE ALL DAY   Cross Channel in Increased Numbers, Hitting Hotels, Busses, Shops and Dwellings.

Hitler's Vengeance Bombs Drone Across Southern England in Deadly Procession; Nursery Is Hit

Adverse Weathe Grounds Fliers  Mediterranean Units Strike ct Hungary

 Messerschmitt Factcries Clustered  Around Wiener Neustadt Hammered; Vital Targets Hit In Zagreb, Split, Yugoslavia   INVASION COAST TARGETS RAIDED

Knock Out Last German Rearguard in Front of Bank of Italy, Near Trajans Column.

Nazis Fleeing North, Chased By Fifth Army   Capital Taken After Furious All-Day Battle in Suburbs; Populace Hysterical With Joy

Lanks Occupy City and Sweep North in Pursuit Of Fleeing Nazi Foree:

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Mop-Up Of The Heart Of The: Eternal City Reported ~ As Completed 

First Capital Ot Europe To Be Taken  From Enemy   600 Motor Vehicles Wrecked or Damaged By Allied Warplanes Ac Nasxic Flee North   OPPOSITOS SEEMS ‘TO BE TAPERING OFF   Rome Falls 24. Days After Allies Unleash Powerful Offensive

People cheer as allies edge  into outskirts Rome utilities are destroyed

Fifth army troops reach heart of capital following heavy battle in suburbs

fears, Kisses of Hysterical Citizenry Greet Entrance of Troens Inia Rama   HEAVY BOMBERS KEEP UIP HAMMERING STRONGHOID

BATTLE IS FOUGHT IN ROME SUBURBS      Eye-Witness Tells of the Capture of the Eternal City

Describes Fall of Rome: AP Correspondent Daniel De Luce Gets Ahead of Troops Taking City

Labor View Is Explained   Dewey Will Issue Gerieral Message On Labor Day

Dewey to Give Labor Views   Will Be Given in Regular Labor  Day Proclamation

DEWEY PLANNING LABOR MESSAGE   Declines AFL Invitation For Special Reply

To Outline View: in Regular Way  Dewey to Issue Labor Dev Preclamatian

Dewey to Give Labor Views in State Message   Rejects Request Of AFL Writer for Special Statement

Will Outline General Views  As To Labor   Gov. Dewey Will Issue His Regular Labor Day Proclamation for New York, in Due Time.

Dewey To Give Talk On Labor And Air Views   Answers Criticism of AFL Columnist; Gevernor Says Roosevelt Voyage Was “Holiday Trip”

DEWEY 70 ISSUE LABOR DAY EDICT   Declines to Write Special Message for AFL Editor; Roundly Criticized

ov. Dewey Will Outline Labor View: h Proclamation: Criticized By AFI

Dewey's Views On Labor Problems Will Be Outlined In Proclamation

Dewey To State Views On Labor   GOP Nominee Criticized By AFL Spokesman

Dewey Refuses To Give AF of L Labor Views   Says His Regular Labor Day Statement Will Include All.

Dewey to Tell  Views on Labor  Problems Soon   Criticized By Labor Pa- per; To Issue a Proclamation

SAYS 1,000 CLUB 1S NON-PARTISAN   Official Says Plans Were Made in Chicago

Compromise on Security Tax Boost Possible   Freezing Levy At Two Pct. Is Newest Plan

COMPROMISE ON PAY TAX URGED   ‘Doubling Of Levy Would Be Done In Two Steps

BIG BATTLE RAGES AS ALLIES CRACK NAZI BARRIER BARRING TH ARMY ADVANCE ON ROME   Russian Army Believed Surging Across Pre-War Estonian Border; British Mosquitoes Stage Nuisance Raid On Smouldering Berlin -

ALLIES DRIVE THROUGH GAP NEAR CASSING   Smash Forward From Bridgehead  ALBANO MENACED 250,000 Troops Locked In Battle   ALBANO MENACED

AMERICAN AND FRENCH IN BREAK-THROUGH, NEAR CASSING AS BEACHHEAD * FORCES ALSO AD- — .  “VANCE 

AMERICANS ANO FRENCH CRUSH NAZI DEFENSES   Advance on Front of Several Miles North of Cassinc

Girl j in 1 Accident Which  Killed 3 Youths Saturday  Gaid in ‘Poor Condition

Girl in Accident Which Killed 3 Youths Saturday Said in ‘Poor Condition’

Air Invasion Surprises Japs In Burma, Menaces All Their Supply Lines

LAND TROOPS BEHIND NORTH BURMA LINE!   Surprise Stroke Puts British in Position to Cut Off Enemy Supplies.

Allies Exploit Breakthrough   Aerial Invasion Largest Undertaken By Allies Since Start Of War.

British Move Threatens Jap Hold on Burma   Airborne Troops Are Placed Far Behind  Lines of Enemy

Air-Borne Force Menaces Jap Lines in Burma   Operation Is Largest Of Kind Staged By Allies in War

Dewey To Fly To Convention Tf Naminated Rv   If Nominated By Tomorrow Afternoon

Harold Bell Wright, Former Missouri Author, Dies; Once Lived at Lebanon

HAROLD B. WRIGHT. NOVELIST, 15 DEAD   Works Once Made Him Most Widely Read Novelist In Nation.

Death of Famed Fiction Writer, Who Left Pulpit to Take Up Pen, Follows Two-Week Hlness—Spent Years in Missouri Ozarks and Material for Some of His Books Was Found There—Wrote Steadily From 1903 On,

ROLD WRIGHT, NOVELIST. DIES.   WIDELY READ WRITER SUCCUMBS IN LA JOLLA

HAROLD B. WRIGHT, AUTHOR, IS DEAD   Famed Writer Expires in Hospital, Aged 72 Years

H. BELL WRIGHT, NOVELIST, DIES   AUTHOR OF MANY BOOKS SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA

BRICKER ENTERS WEST VIRGINIA   Claims New Deal Embraces Nazi Doctrines

BRITISH CAPTURE THREE ISLANDS OF GREECK IN YEW PINCERS OFFENSIVE

Three Islands Off Greece Are Captured   Drive to Free That Nation Starts With New Offensive

Heavy Fighting Rages in Town  Of Vossenack   Forest Fired by Planes; Last Nazi. Rearguards’™ Retreat Across Maas. ©

MOST OF LOST GROUND RETAKEN BY DOUGHBOYS   Yanks Seize Initiative In Fighting Back Into Vossenack Stronghold

Fighter Bombers Set Scores O;: Acres Ablaze, Force Enemy From Positions

Take Vossenack From Nazis in Vicious Attack   Continue Battle In Aachen Area

Heavy battle is raging in heart of city  Allies clean out GQahaldea actnar<y

HODGES’ TROOPS FIGHT WAY BACK INTO VOSSENACK   Fierce Struggle Rages in Center of Town—Airmen Set Part of Forest Afire to Dislodge Foe.   ALLIES REACH MEUSE ALONG 50-MILE FRONT   Nazis Pulling Last Rear guards Across River in Holtand — U. S. Third Army Captures Berg.

PUSHGERMANS BACK ACROSS MAAS RIVER   As Battle for Southwestern Holland Now Nears End; Nazis Pull Rearguards Across River.   Support Devers

U.S. Infantry Forces Gain in the Aachen Sector  ENEMY. CASUALTIES REPORTED AS HEAVY  Allied Armies Push Germans Back Across Maas

Yanks Fight Back Into  Nazi Bastion   Fire Bombs Hurled on Hurtgen Forest; Air War Now in 3rd Day; Budapest Attack Eases

YANKS REGAIN GROUND LOST NEAR AACHEN   VICTORIES ON MAAS OPEN kOUTE FOR DRIVE ON RUHR

YANKS BATTLE TO HOLD TOWN OF VOSSENACK   Big Fires Are Set in Hurtgen Forest to Drive Out Nazis

ENEMY CASUALTIES REPORTED AS HEAVY   Allied Armies Push Germans Back Across Maas

Yankees Fight Way Back  Into Vossenack   Fighterbombers Set Forest Afire to Flush Germans

RHINELAND AND RURR   Hamburg Hit Anew In Effort To Foil  Nazi Reconstruction

Ruhr. Rhineland Hit By Raiders RAF Mosquitos Keeping Up Assaults

RURR TARGETS BOMBED ANEW   Hamburg Is Also Visited By RAF Heavies and Mosquito Planes

Hamburg Hit Bv RAF Fleet   British Bombers. Mosquitos Attack Objectives In Ruhr, Rhineland.

Other Objectives In Rubr aud Rhineland Also Targets Of Night Attacks

BRITISH REHIT NAZIFACTORIES   Hamburg, Targets in Ruhr Rhineland Raided by RAF

RAF RAIDS HAMBURG AND RUHR   Resume Campaign To Thwart Nazis‘ Reconstructions

Mosquitos Blast Hamburg, Other Targets in Ruhr   Night Raid Follows Heavy Attack hy Liberators on Pas-deCalais Area cf France

Nazi Industrial Areas Again Hit By Allied Bombs   Ruhr and Rhineland Undergo Raids by RAF That Loses Only One Plane.   U. S. Bombers Strike At Croatian Capital

RAF MOSQUITOS ATTACKED HAMBURG  AGAIN LAST NIGHT   3  Other Objectives in the Rui  Also Were Hit, It Is  Announnened.   ‘ONLY BLOW LAST NIGHT   The German Radios Warned Shortly Before Noon Today of Enemy Planes.

R. A. F, Blasts Af Hamburg  Smash at Other Targets in Ruhr And Rhineland

MOSQUITOS ALSO BLAST RHINE, RUHR CITY AREA   Action Follows Yank Stab At Pas.De-Calais

64 American Planes Lost in Huge Raid; Against 100 of Nazis   Oscherslaben, _ Halberstadt and Brunswick Factories Main Targets of Forts and Liberators.

AMERICAN RAID ON GERMANY BY BIG FORTRESSES CALLED GREAT SUCCESS   Production Wiped Out

Tokyo Admits Loss OF Isles In Marshall   Japanese Acknowledge Garrison Of Kwajalein, Roi Annihilated.   4900 CASUALTIES

Japs Admit Losses Large In Marshalls      Yankees Wipe Out 4 500 In Garrisons

mma a aD  TOKYO ADMITS NEW SETBACKS   Announce Loss of Kwajalem; Royal Prince Is Casualty

TWO JAPANESE GARRISONS ARE ANNIHILATED   American Forces Kill 4500 on Kwajalein and Roi Islands...   SEIZED STRONGHOLDS   Last of Japanese Defenders Died Feb. 6 in Final Counterattack.

Report Transpor' Plane Missing  Was Flying Wounded Home From Europe

Air Transport Lost With 26_ People Aboard   Plane Carrying 18 War Wounded Vanishes Between Iceland and Newfoundland En Route to Mitchell Field From Scotland

PLANE LOST ON OCEAN CROSSING   Was Bringing Wounded Back to U.S. 

Ist Transport Plane Is Lost   C-54 Believed To Have Gone Down Between leeland, Newfoundland.

Twenty-Six On U.S. Transport  Plane Lost   Aboard Were 18 Patients On Way To Hospital

TRANSPORT LOST WITH 26 ABOARD   Army Plane Enroute to N. Y. From Scotland Overdue, Wear Dept. Says

New Mexico Boys Aboard Plane Los! At Sea With 26   Two From State Were Among 18 Wounded Being Brought to U. S.

ARMY HOSPITAL PLANE MISSING   Air Fleets Hunt Ship With 18 Patients In East

ARMY HOSPITAL PLANE MISSING   Lost on Hop From Scotland To Mitchel Field

Transport on Way From Scotland to New York Goes Down Between Iceland and Newfoundland—Widespread Search Under Way With Ships and 150 Aircraft Participating —First Casualty in Army’s Air Evacuation Program.

Mercy Plane With 26 Lost Over Atlantic   Passengers Included 1: Army and Three Navy Stretcher Cases   SEARCH ‘CONTINUES   First Casualty of Kinc in Evacuation of 950,000

Ambulance Plane Missing Over Sea   26 Aboard Including 18 Wounded Men

Yanks Occupy Shemya Island In Aleutians   Semichi Island Base Now An Important Link In Chain

STEEL PRODUCTION HALTED BY STRIKE   Largest Steel Plant in World Halted By Crane Men’s Walkout.

Large Steel Plant Stopped   39 Cranemen Walk Out Estimated 5,500 Bagialivcaa. fala

STEEL OUTPUT STOPS AT LARGEST PLANT   26 Cranemen Walk Out i Gary; 12,000 Are Idle

COAL CRISIS IS SEEN IN PORTAL PAY CONTROVERSY      Ickes Admonishes Both Sides Against Bullheadedness, Lurid Vocabulary

Bricker Schedule: Nine Addresses In Missouri   Says White Collar Worke: and Farmer Are the "Neglected Men’

BRICKER PLANS MISSOURI TALKS   Will Make Strong Bid for Home State of Rival; Says White Collar Workers and Farmers Neglected

Pacific Offense  - Hits Jap Base   ALLIED TROOPS LANDED ON ANOTHER ISLAND

MARIANA ISLES LIE 1,500 MILES SOUTH OF TOKYO   Japanese Says U. S. Losses High in Two Landing Efforts

Tokyo Says Landings Tried atSiapen, Tinian   Japs Assert Attempt Foiled, With No Confirmation From Allied Sources:  Marianas Islands Heavily Bombarded

Enemy Forces Open Fire on Mariana Isles   Admiral Halsey Being Assigned To New Role

Tokyo Says Heavy Fighting Is Raving   Enemy Report of Landing Follows Powerful Attack” Rwy Tack Foree -

Americans Place Ground Troops on Marianas Islands   Follows Closely Concentrated Surface and Aerial Bombardment.   A Bold Invitation For Japs to Risk a Fight

ALLIED FORCES REPORTED NOW ON MARIANAS   Only 1500 Miles From Tokyo; In So. Pacific

ALLIED ATTEMPTS TO STORM MARIANAS IS REPORTED BY JAPS   Doolittle’s Men Made First Attack

TOKYO CLAIMS _ALUIES TRY NEW LANDING   Report Assaults Are Made On Marianas Islands

Marianas Are Center Of Vast Allied Assaul   American Landings At Saipan And Tinian Reported Today

Japs Claim froops Sent Into Shores  Cf Islands   Nimitz Begs Enemy To Come Out Sea For Battles

Draft May Taper Off By July   Warn Boards Against Slackening Efforts As Army And Navy Near Goals.

HEAVY DRAFTS* TO CONTINUE UNTIL JULY   Navy Not Yet At Peak; Army Needs Replacements __..

‘OL = Millions   Army,, Alone at Strength: of 7,700,000; No Slash in ‘Inductions: Near

75 - 100 Thousand Men Per Month Needed In Army   Army Expects To Get Men Under 26-For  Replacements

Army Reaches Peak Strength   However, Induction Rates Cannot Be Reduced Before July

America’s Armed Forces Just 400,000 Short of Goal; : But Rate of Induction Cannot Be Reduced Until July

ARMY REACHES PEAK, DRAFTING WILL CONTINUE    Taduation Rates Cannot Be Re duced Before Next July, Report

Army Reaches Peak Strength of 7,700,000   Induction Rates Not to Be Cut Before July

Army Hits Goal “OFZ, 700,000; No 'Letup In Calls   ® Replacement Needs, Navy Requirements To Govern Draft Rate; Reduced Calls Not Likely Before July

‘Army Reaches 7,700,000; Officials Warn Induction Rates Will Not Be Cut Materially Due to Needs of Navy

RED TROOPS SMASH GERMANS’ ATTACKS   Enemy Counterattacked i Some Sectors; Casualties Heavy.

SOVIET ARMIES SMASH GERMAN LINES AT IASI   Fight Hundred Nazis Killed In Four Days

Reds Repulse Nazi Attmepts To Crack Line   Toflict Heavy Losses. Ox Enemy In Counter-Attacks Along Some Romania Sectors

Russians Halt N azi Attempts To Crack Lines   In Some Sectors Reds Even Launch Counterdrives Against Germans

KVSO   Friday   Russians Smash German Attacks   Counter-Attack And Inflict Heavy Casualties on Foe

ANZIO, CENTRAL FRONTS BECOME TRAP FOR NAZIS   More Than 200 Square Miles Come Into Allied Possession in Dramatic Victory Today

BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ANGRY AT FDR   Say Influenced to Veto Tax Bill by Irresponsible “‘The orists.””’

RED ARMY FORCE IS PLUNGING ON ACROSS POLAND   Russians Within 30 Miles Of Strategic L.wow; Turkish Dispatches Report Headlong Flight Of Civilians From Old  Rumanian Border.

RED FORCES WITHIN 70 MILES OF LWOW IN WESTWARD DRIVE   Civilians ‘in Headlong Flight From Rumanian Border as Other Troops Advance   NIKOLAEV IS HEMMED IN

ARMY LOSSES _ REPORT MADE   STIMSON SAYS ITALIAN MAIN. “LAND CAMPAIGN. DEAD NUMBER 4,158 —~ROTA -. TION IN EFFECT.

Willkie Death Seals Forever Preference   Statements of His Wife Close Friends and Ad visors Deepen Politica Mystery

Willkie Choice Remains Secret  Widow Asks End Be Put to Speculation

Reds Attain Threshold  Of Key Port After Fight   Capture Of Viipuri Believed Imminent

Soviet Army At Threshold ~ Of Finn Port   Fall of Viipuri May Cause Small Nation to Sue For Peace

Soviets Smash Toward Viipuri   Capture Koivisto Fortress at Mouth Of Viipuri

‘Russians at Viipuri Gates   Finnish Army’s Back skonoars Broken

SOVIETS GAIN GROUND TODAY NEAR VIIPURI   Finns Unable To Hold Lines As Reds Push On

Soviet Army Smashe: Mannerheim Line,  Opens Viipuri Attack   Koivisto Fortress Guarding Viipuri Bay Taken as Other Force Progresses Alona Lake Ladoaa: Finn Army Broken

To Gates Of Viipuri   Soviet Smash Through Finn Defenses Boosts Early Victory Hopes

Fall Of Finnish Key City To Red Troops Impend:   Soviets Smash Forward To Threshold Of Viipuri

Reds Approach Key Finn Port   Smash Through Mannerheim Line To Reach WVunuri’s Threshold.

Russian Troops Smash Forward To Viipuri Gates   Finns In Critical Position As Result O£ Red Drive Up Karelian Isthmus

Mannerheim Line Broken   One Swift Rush Takes Reds To Outskirts of Viipuri, Finn War May Be Near End

Reds at Threshold _ Of Viipuri, Finland   Smash Through Mannerheim Fortifications and Appear Now to Have Broken the Back of Finnish Army in 9-Day Drive.

Russians Are on Viipuri Threshotd  ~ Old Mannerheim ~ Line Is Smashed

Reds Smashing To Threshhold Of Key Viipuri   Inland Troops Drive 2 Miles Past the  Mannerheim Line.

SUTUATICN OF FINNS CRITICAL   Red Army Smashes Forward To Threshold of Viipuri, A Key City.

MIANNERKEIM LINE BROKEN BY REDS   Russians Smash To Threshhold Of Viipuri, Key Finn City

Soviets Drive Near Key City   ‘RUSSIANS MAY TAKE - SVJIPURI IN NEW ADVANCE

REDS STANDING ON THRESHOLD OF VIIPURI   Break Mannerheim Line Capture Koivisto Fortress And Endanger Entire Finn Defense

Reds Advance Onto Virpur   Break Mannerheim — Line. Capture Koivisto Fortress At Bay Mouth.

Reds Smash To Threshold Of Viipuri   Break Powerful Mannerheim Line And Capture Korvisto Fortress.

Russians Close In on Viipuri   Reach Edge of Finland’s Key City After Breaking Mannerheim Line

MANNERHEIM LINE BROKEN BY RED ARMY   SOVIETS CAPTURE KOIVISTO FORT; END MAY BE NEAR

Finnish Army Is Facing Crisis   Red Army Smashes to Threshold of Viipuri After Breaking Line

Red Army At Threshold Of Viipuri, Finn Key City   Swedish Paper Hears Position Of Helsinki Troops Is Critical; Lines Are Smachad

RUSSIANS POUND ON VIIPURI GATE   Red Army Knifes Through & Mannerheim Line, Captures Kovisto Fortress

Reds Strike At Viipuri_ Gates   Mennerbeim Line Broken a: Russians Capture Fortress of Koivisto.

‘Soviet Army ‘Closing in -On Viipuri   Invading Forces Smash Mannerheim _ Line; Artillery Is Chief Red Weapon

RUSSIANS SAY FINNISH ARMY NEAR COLLAPSE   Soviet Forces Smash Forward to Key City Of Viipuri

RUSSIANS DRIVE NEARER VIIPUR   Reds Break Mannerheim Line, : Use New Weapons

Ignominious Defeat Near For Finland   Army’s Back Seems Broken as Russians Smash Near Viivvri

Soviets Reach Threshold Of Viipuri;  Mannerheim Line Smashed In Advances

RED ARMY SMASHES FORWARD TO WITHIN FEW MILES VIIPURI   MANNERHEIM LINE BROKEN AND RUSSIAN FORCES ADVANCING IN FINLAND

Reds Smashing On To Viipuri As Finns Wilt  Russians’ Quick Victories Laid   Russians’ Quick Victories Laid To Artillery

SOVIET T NEAR VIPURI   Red Army Smashes For. ward After Breaking Mannerheim Line

CIGARET RATIONING NOW IN PROSPECT   OPA Attorney Said Hoarding Was Chief Cause

Rotgen is Six  Miles East of Eupen; Patton’s Army Goes Into High Gear

Enemy loses India village Kanglatongbi  Two Jap blows  are thrown back

British Foil  Jap Invaders   Attack Sweeps Foe Of LTnynhal Road Link

British, Indians Capture Village  Road Block Held by Japs Broken

ALLIES MOVING — OUT OF IMPHAL PUSH JAPS BACK   Tide of Battle. Turns As Brit” {sh and Indians Capture Village On Highway to Kohima.   PART OF MANIPUR -. “ROAD IS REOPENED   Army Observer Estimates _ 4,900° Nipponese Have  Been Kilted in Imphal Area Alone.

Thousands of Britons Have Died in Jap Camps; Representations Ignored

Horror Torture Also Inflicted 7 On The British   Eden Tells Commons Of Savagery Of Japs On Prisoners

Many Britons Died in Prison Camps in Asia   Eden Cites F ew of Many To wre Cases  Inflicted by Japs

EDEN TELLS COMMONS OF ATROCITIES   Perpetrated Upon British Subjects By Their Japanese Captors; Answers From Tokio Evasive.   Out of: Mind

Navy Is Jubilant Over Domination Of Waters 600 Miles From Manila

NO AMERICAN WARSHIPS DAMAGED   Nip Battleship, 17 Other Vessels Are Hit   YANK LOSSES   Limited To 25 Warplanes; At Least 93 Enemy Aircraft Downed

18 Vessels Damaged In Big Attack   Americans Dominate Waters 600 Miles From Philippines

NIMITZ REVEALS 25 ENEMY SHIPS. CAUGHT AT PALAL   18 OTHER VESSELS DAMAGED; 160 NIP PLANES DESTROYED

214 Planes Destroyed In Palau Smash; U. S. Rules Philippines Waters

American Ships Control Waters Near Philippine   Damage 18, ~ Destroy 160. ‘Nipponese Planes

U. §. Forces Also Destroy 160 Nip Planes in Three Day Battle.   [OTHER CRAFT DAMAGED

28 JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK IN PALAU ATTACK   Navy Also Discloses 160 Enemy Planes Destroyed; United States Losses 18

Naval Force Destroys 28 Jap Ships And 160 Planes   Eighteen Other Enemy Vessels Damaged Durin; Three-Day Attack In Palau Area; Not A Singl American Warship Hit.

Destruction Strewn In Carolines   Forty-Six Jap Vessels Sunk Or Damaged By Planes During Attack By Naval Task Force

Brilliant U.S, Victory Gained Over Japanese   Twenty-Eight Enemy Ships Sunk in Aitack en Palau; Loss of 18 Americans Only Damage to U. S.

26 Jap Vessels And 160 Planes Bagged in Raid  On Carolines   Battleship Hit; U. S. Los: Only 25 Aireraft, 18 Pilots

~—PACIFIC--  Americans Lose 25 Airplanes But All Warships Are Safe

U. S: Jubilantly © Reports 3-Day Naval Triumph   Dominated Waters Only 600 Miles From Philippines; Sowed Destruction

Navy Planes Exact Heavy Toll of Jap Ships in Carolinas   28 of Enemy Vessels Sunk; No American Warship Damaged

Americans Rule Waves Three Day: Off Philippines  TEN Mie Blarec Nectenvald Ca   160 Nip Plares Destroyed, 54 More Probably, Palau, Yap, Dlithi, Woleai Blasted

'28 Japanese Ships Sunk, 18 Damaged By Big Task Force   160 Enemy Planes also Destroyed in Great Attack; U. S. Warships Dominate the Pacific

U. S. Planes Sow Destruction in Caroline Group   Not a Warship Damaged as Americans Sink Twenty-Lavht Jap Vessels.   Dominate Waters 600 Miles of Philippines

Navy Sinks 28 Japanese Ships ‘Without Damage to U.S. Vessel   Americans Sailed Into Jap Stronghold To Rule Sea West of Philissines in. Carolines Raid.

Naval Planes Smash Japs in Paula Raid   Take Big Toll of Enemy Ships, Planes With Little Loss

U.S. Warships Ruled the Sea During Palau Raid; 28 Japané:e Ships Sunk   EN ADDITION: , ENEMY VESSELS WERE DAI! AND 160 PLAN.” DESTROYED WITH 54 OTHE  SABLES"—ONLY _* AMERICAN PLANES LOS 1. PDPAT ATTA”    By REMBERT JAMES

Navy Jubilant Over Great Triumph; 46 Jap Ships, 214 Planes Destroyed, Damaged

3-Day RaidNet: 28 Ships And 160 Planes   All U. S. Ships Escape Damage in Foray Taking Them Within 600 Miles of Bataan

Navy Jubilant Over Suceess Against Japs   Warships Rule Water: Near Philippines A: Planes Rip Carolines: 28 Enemy Ships Sunk

SINK 28 OF NIPS FLEET IN RAID ON CAROLINES   Battleship in Group, Down 160 Jap Planes, Probably Wrecking 54 More

American Warships Dominate Waters Near Philippines As Planes Strike

46 Enemy Ships Sunk, Damaged In 3-Day Attack   Navy Announces Domination of Wide Pacific Area

28 Jap Ships Sunk by Yanks   Dominated Waters 60 Miles From Philippines For Three Days

s Win Might  98 Japanese Shios Sunk   18 Other Nipponese Vessels, Including Battleship, Damaged; 160 Jap Planes Are Destroyed; 25 Warplanes Only U. 8S. Loss

INO AMERICAN SHIPS DAMAGED AND ONLY 25 PLANES LOST IN RECENT [ATTACK IN THE CAROLINES AREA   Damage Inflicted on Japanese Concentrations at Palau Proves Great Aerican Naval Victory and  Though 2,000 Miles West of Marshalls No Jap Ue wolwiman Sinhktesl

28 JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U, S. PACIFIC NAVY   No Ships Lost As Americans Score Victory

160 PLANES IN BIGUS. BLOW   Not One American Warship Damaged And Only 25 Yank Aircraft Lost

Inflation Fears Add to Delays In Reconversior  WMC Sees No Manpowe Crisis in American Wer Preduction

SAY INFLATION WEAR TO DELAY RECONVERSION   WPB Officials Fight Complacency, Civil¢ ian Letdowns

he Ceiling Ruptures Feared hlarly Preparations for hnpping Production Controls

Price fears holding back reconversion  Says manpower stination stable

Inflation Fears Retardine WPB   Public Complacency Hold:  In Recronversion Plans

Dozen Divisions Retreat As Reds Press Big Drive   Odessa-Lwow Railway New Offensive Objective

dF LABOR DnATT MAY OURIRE ONAD INU. 5. SENATE   W.llis, Danaher Hit Proposal to Put 4-F’s cn ‘Garbage Deta.l.”

4F LABOR CRAFT SHAY STRIKE SNAG WU, 5. SENATE   Wallis, Danaher, Hit pi i to Put 4-F's **Ga bage Deta.1.”.

LABOR PROGRAM FOR 4-F GROUP: ~ MEETS OPPOSITION IN SENATE   srrren DISTUTE DEVELOPING OVER PROPOSAL FOR LIMI TED SERVICE FOR MEN’ CLASSIFIED 4-F

San Vincenzo Is Taken, Livorno Port Next Goal      Italian Partisans Aid Yanks In Drive

Key City In Italy Falls To 5th Army   San Vincenzo Made Into Fortress By Nazis to Impede Allies   BY NOLAND NORGAARD

Key City In Italy Falls To 5th Army   San Vincenzo Made Into Fortress By Nazis to Impede Allies

Town Only 32 Miles South Of Leghorn Falls After Heavy Fighting; Other Allied Advances Made

YANKS WREST ITALIAN TOWN FROM NAZIS   Capture San Vincenzo, 32 Miles Below Big Port of Livorno, in a Bitter House-to-House Night Rattle.

San Vincenzo Falls After Bitter Fight   Fifth Army Takes Big Port And Pushes On In North Htaly

San Vincenzo Is Wrested From German Forces   Eighth Army Moves Forward Against Strong Opposition

Slug Ahead In Italy   Fifth Army Rolls Forward Despite Stiff Resistance

3th Army Takes Strong Nazi Fort Below Livorno   San Vincenzo Falls After Bitter House to House Fighting; Allies Meet Fierce Resistance In Al Sectare.

5th Army Wins San Vincenzo In Furious Battle   American Forces Slug Steadily Ahead Toward Port Of Livorno.

FIFTH ARMY IS 32 MILES FROM PORT ATLIVORN   San Vincenzo Taken After Bitter HouseTo-Honse Fichtinge

San Vincenzo Wrested From Huns In I tal   Takex In Bitter House-To. House Battle; Fifth Army Slugging Its Way Forward

SAN VINCENZO, A FORTRESS, WRESTED  ~ FROM THE GERMANS      This Followed Bitter House House Batiles Lasting for Several Hours.    ‘5TH: ARMY FORWARD :   All Civilians Were. Evacuated Then Barricades Were Erected.

OTH CAPTURES SAN VINCENZO   Drive on Toward Big Port 32 Miles Away

Fifth Takes Town In Bitter Fray   House-to-House Struggle Waged for  San Vincenzo

ath Army Storms German Fortress  San Vincenzo Falls After Stiff Battle

Allies Move Ahead After Seizing Key to Port City of Livorno in Bitter Fight

FIFTH ARMY — SLUGGING ITS WAY FORWARD   San Vincenzo, on Italian West Coast Taken from Germans After Bitter Fight

‘Other Towns Taken by Allied  Forces; Eighth Army Moves Forward Against Fierce Opposition

NAZI FORTRESS TAKEN BY YANKS   Fifth Army Slugs Steadily Forward In Italy

FOR May Veto Soldier Vote Bil  :.Medsure” Is Likely To: Pass ‘Conqress

Congress Fears Veto Of Vote Bill   Compromise May Not -Be Satisfactory To FDR

RUSSIANS PRINT BRITISH DENIAL ‘OF PEACE TALKS   MOSCOW RADIO GIVES AN INKLING OF HOW THE STORY STARTED

PEACE FEELER TALE ANGERS THE BRITISH   Newspapers Indignant Over Pravada Dispatch From Cairo on Alleged Secret Meeting With Von Ribbentrop.

Russia Broadcasts British Denial of  Peace Terms Talk   British Press Appears Placated; Possible Explanation Given

Soviet Radio Broadcasts Official British Denial Of “Cairo Rumor’

~PEACE RUMOR—  SITUATION EASED BY SOVIET STEP   N umerous Other Reports “Of Attempted Negotiations In Circulation —   NO CONFIRMATION   Halifax ; Confers With “Hull ‘Regarding Publication Of Story

REDS BROADCAST BRITISH DENIAL OF PEACE TALK   Sent to Entire Nation, Eases Pressure on Allied Officials in Moscow

Mincing No  Words Today  In Comment   Flat Denial Is Made By Government — Nobody Will Sponsor Report

British Press Indignant Over   ‘Peace Talk’ Rumor Denounced As Slanderous And Ineultingc.

Peace Lie Is  Dead, Asserts British Press   Denial of Pravda Report Is Broadcast By Mos cow Radio

Foreign Office n Flat Denia  Of Pravda Stor   Moscow Has Given Nx Explanation; Many Sources _ Disclain Knowledge

British Press in Furor Over Rumor Of Separate Peace   Report Denounced  As “Insulting” and “’Slanderous;’’ No  Moscow Explanation

PEACE’ RUMOR IRKS BRITISH   London Press - Indignant Over Story Released By Communist Paper

STORY CRISIS EASED TODAY   British Anger Subsides as Moscow Broadcasts London Denials; Nazi "Fish. ing” Expedition Blamed.

British Protest Russ Rumor Of Peace Talk   London Press Calls Secret Parley Story Scandal’ and ‘Insult’

IRE OF BRITISH COOLS   London Official Denial Broadcast By Moscow

Reds Announce British Denial   Englands Newspapers Plac ‘rated By Moscow Radio's Broadcast.

BRITISH PRESS SLAPS BACK AT PEACE RUMOR   Deny All Reports; Spanist Claim Von Ribbentrop Was Not in Madrid

British Press Indignant Over Pravda Peace Story, Calls Report ‘Insulting’

Soviet Denials Of Peace Talk’ Soothe British   Reds Broadcast Official Version Of London Press

London Indignant At Red Peace Yarr   Newspapers Call “Cairo Rumor” Slanderous Accusation of Britain

Story Denied And Termed Insult”   No Explanation Made by Soviets, Nor Anything More Published

Indignant At Pravda Peace Story   British Press Sharp In Criticism But  No Explanation Is Offered By Moscow

Reds Report Denial, But Make No Comment..  British Press Placated By Russian Broadcast Of Pravda Story Denial

British Press Indignant Over Pravda Rumors   London Daily Mail  Denounees Publication As Insulting. Slander.   NO MOSCOW COMMENT

Story Arouses English Press   Nazi Peace Talks, Claim Termed Insult; Shows Surprise At Pravda  ©

MOSCOW AIRS BRITISH REPLY   British Placaded by Soviets Broadcast of Peace Conference Denials

English Press  Less Critical   Moscow Report Placates Tre Over Peace Rumor Spread By Pravda «

British Denounce “Separate Peace”   Manchester Guardian Calls The Rumor A “Slanderous Accusation.”

PRAVOA RUMOR CALLED INSULT   British Press Indignant Over Publication of ‘Separate Peace’ Talk.   EMPHASIZE FLAT DENIAL

Indignation Is Expressed By British Papers Over Pravda’s “Separate Peace” Talk Rumor

See Hope Reds May Accept Hull’s Offer... ..  British Bitter In Flat Denial Of Red Charge

British Show indignation   Press Calls Rumor Slanderous Charge As Well as Insulting

SEPARATE PEACE TALK DENOUNCED BY BRITISH PRESS   FOREIGN OFFICE ISSUES A DENIAL OF PRAVDA REPORT

British Press Mollified By Moscow Radic   “Peace Rumor” Excite. ment Subsides When Reds Broadcast Denial Of Pravda Story

Moscow Broadcast Of British Denial Of ‘Peace Talk Rumor Placates London Papers

Indignant Over Pravda’s Report On Peace Parley   London Daily Mail Denounces Russian Publication as Insulting.   No Explanation Comes From Official Moscow

British Angry Over Rumor   Press Denounces Publication Of ‘Separate Peace’ Talk

RED BROADCAST QUIETS BRITISH   Moscow Radio Airs English Denial Of Peace Parley

British Press Indignant Over Rumor   Separate Peace Talk Story Denied, Called Ridiculous

Moscow Soothes British Press  Publishes British Denial of Pravda

Reds Placate British on Peace ‘Lie’   Denial Broadcast Over Moscow Radio to Entire Nation

BRITISH VIEW ‘PEACE LIE’ NOW DEAD   Soviet Broadcast Of Denial Placates Press In London

British Refute Separate Peace   Press in Britain Indignantly Denounees Report in Pravda

Russ Broadcast British Denial Of ‘Peace’ Rumor; London Press Calmec

British Press Stirred Over ‘Pravda: Peace       London: Daily : Mail: “De.  “mounces: It ‘As ‘Insulting;.  G “Another: Terms. It) ~ py - *Slanderous”

Woman’s Body Discovered In Downed Plane   Found In British Bomber -In Denmark; Stirs Speculation

‘Woman in Uniform’ In Death Crash   Berlin Says Was on British Plane Downed in Denmark   Strategic Metals Impoart«

Sweeps 1000 Miles From Ceylon Base  To Assault Sabang   First Air-Sea Hit At Dutch Indies; Japanese Caught By Surprise; - Allies Advance On Indian Front

BRITISH SWEEP ACROSS INDIAN OCEAN TO ATTACK   Sudden Offensive Thrust Against Jap Held Bases Indicates Growing Might In Asiatic Theatre

Was Held By Enemy Since Invasion Of  Soviet Union   Last Major Strong Point Occupied By Germans Since .1941; Reds Near Ovidiopnol

Reds Race On City -In Effort-To Sliee Last Escape Route   [Berlin Reveals City Abandoned; Moscow Says 2 Red Colunms Few Miles From Black Seaport

Hitler’s Forces Pull Out Of Great Black Sea Naval Ba After Two Year Occunatio

AVERY FIGHTS U. §. SEIZURE ~ ORDERS AGAIN   Government Assumes Control of Wards

OHIO’S SOLDIER VOTE MEASURE WINS APPROVAL   Even Democrats Label GOP Bill As ‘Better Than Expected’

Legislature Completes Action on Soldier Vote   Democrats Unsuccessful in Efforts To Legalize Federal Ballot

Germans Prepare For Strong Defense of Pisa   Allies May Be Forced  To Blast Leaning Tower

Nazis Barricade Streets of Pisa F or Long Battle   British Eighth Army - Units Reported Closing On Florence

Germans Fortify Pisa For: House-To-House Defense, Place Observers On Tower

‘NAZIS USING FAMED LEANING TOWER 'FOR OBSERVATION; MAY BE SHELLED

NAZIS BARRIGADE STREETS OF PISA   New Fury Flares In Battle For Ancient City

Pisa Streets  Barricaded  Americans Set For   Americans Set For Bloody Battle.

HOUSE TO HOUSE FIGHT RAGES IN PISA TODAY   Long Range Gung Directed by Spotters in Leaning Tower

NAZI USE MAY DOOM LEANING TOWER IN PISA   Spotters Atop Monument Direct Gunfire At Yank Troops

Gripsholm Sails On Its Second  Exchange Trip   Swedish Liner Is Due Back Early in June With Sick, Wounded  Prisoners From Reich

US. and Perna Prisoners Again To Be Exehanget Grijasolrn -te Cvay Out  Treesfar Schaculed  As Reareala.

GRIPSHOLM TO SAIL TODAY WITH CAPTIVES   German Sick and Wounded to 3B Exchanged for Americans at Rarcelons. Spain.

Gripsholm To Make Another Mercy Trip  Exchange Will Take Place  Soon In Ssain

44} ACHIEVEMENT WI NERS LISTED   Liver y Township 4-T%i Le ders H-nored; Pra‘rie Group Meets

AH ACHIEVEMENT WESNERS LISTED.   Liber'y Township ; 4-H Le ders H-nored; Prairie Group Meets

PETAIN HELD BYGESTAPO, ~ REPORTS SAV   Aged French Marshal Re_ ported Witsked From : Vichy - .

Petain, Laval —  Held by Nazis   Former Vichy Government Chiefs Kidnaned

PETAIN HELD BY GESTAPO, - REPORTS SAY   Aged French Marshal Reported Whisked From Vichy -

Report Nazi Of Petain   Report French Marshal Whisked from. Vichy To City Inside Geriyany

Marshal Petain Reporied Held By Nazi Gestapo   Aged french Collabore tionist Said To Be Confined at Wiesbaden

Nazis K idnap Petain to Belfort, Ending Vichy Regime’s Existence   Germans Mass Troops to Defend Rhineland Gateway. Give Laval Chance to Elude Patriots

PETAIN KIDNAPED BY NAZI GESTAPS   SEIZED AT VILLA IN VICHY~— REPORTED A PRISONER IN EASTERN FRANCE,

PETAIN, LAVAL HELD BY NAZIS   Two Are Virtually German Prisoners at Belfort in , Eastern France

Measure Curhing ‘Executive Power » Meets Approval   Bill Giving Congress Power to Allocate Funds Favored 

Bill to Curb Power: Of President OK'd By Senate Group  Congress Approval For Executive Agencies Sought

ACE OF PACIFIC WAR IN NATION'S CAPITAL   a al  Maj. Richard Bong at Press Conference With Stimson

GEO. METZGER VICE- : “PRESIDENT OF GAS  TAX CONFERENCE   Nominee ‘For Republican State Auditor is State Inspector © at Ollc.

Hatch Joins South In Fight Against Anti-Poll Tax Bill   Senator Declares Proposed Measure Is Unconstitutional

NAZI OFFICERS GOT MEN DRUNK, THEN FLED TRAP. SAY GERMAN PRISONERS

Nazi Officers, Scrambling Aboard Planes To Escape, Shout: “Keep On Aid Will Come” To Doomed Troops

Reds Scorn Conduct Of Nazi Officers   Flee By Plane, Telling Doomed Men to ‘Keep On’

 Hagerstonian About Italy British Defenses In Italy Described By Local Write

Hagerstonian About Italy panes. niehcieninanlaninialabana!   British Defenses In Italy Described By Local Write:

Amarillo Weman  Is Slain on Street   Wife of Navy Man Nearly Decapitated

COURT REFUSES TO INTERFERE   Appellate Group Will Not Take Part in Nazi Conspiracy Trial.

Court Won’t Interfere In Sedition Trial   Rules That Controversy Is Subject to Review in  Any Event

Sedition Trial Will Continue  Court of Appeals Refuses Applicatiot

Serious Coal  Shortage Next  Winter Seen   Shortage of 38 Million Tons Is Predicted  Before State Dealers

SEES SERIOUS LACK OF COAL   Solid Fuels Official Says Nation Faces Gravest  Shortage This Year

Tekes’ Office Sees Nation Facing Grave  Coal Shortage   Official Fears Gap Between Mine Output And Winter Needs  ‘About 38 Million Tons   DRAFTING OF MINERS CHIEF OBSTACLE

Germans Battle To Save Cassino   Americans Meet Stiff, Resistance

Americans Report Germans Are Fighting From Every Tenable Building in Cassino

MacArthur Places U.S. Losses There At 5,691   in Reinforcements,  Enemy Makes Futile Attempt To Ruz Limon Ficht Bitter '

Red Armies Push Nazis  Into Square   Struggle Repeats Kiey Battle Pattern as Panzers Are Destrayed

NAZIS FIGHTING LUKE MADMEN 10 ESCAPE RED TRAF   Russian Capture of Korsun Dooms Germans in Charkact Packoat

REDS BATTER NAZI FORCES   Soviet Ukranian Forces Squeeze Last Survivors of Encircled Ger. man Eighth Army into 36 Square Mile Area.

DOOM SEALED FOR ENCIRCLED GERMAN ARMY   ® Russians Capture Korsun, Lure Rescue Forces Into Trap

Panzers Fail To Rescue  Trapped Army   Reds Blast ‘Tanks And Drive Toward Wd Poland

Call For A Halt In Wining, Dining And Entertaining War Prisoners

Washington Roundup  Soldier Vote Alterations Not Expected   Congress Cool -Toward- FDR's ‘ Suggestion

CHANGE IN WAR VOTE UNLIKELY   Holiday - Bound Congress Reads President's Suggestions With Interest, But There Is No Indication Of A etinn.

SERVICE VOTING TO STAND, SAYS OHIO SENATOR   Queer-quirk Found in Tax Law And Capital Gets Set for Oil Investigation

NEW SOLDIER VOTE LEGISLATION UNLIKEL'   Barkley Agrees With Presider as Congress Recesses

DRASTIC STEP TO END MANY DEFERMENT!   Seek to Place All Fit Men Under 26 in Armed Services

TO END MANY - DEFERMENT   Seek to Place All Fit Men Under 26 in Armed Services

Occupational Deferments Cut In Pennsylvania   Replacement Schedules For AU Men Under 26 Prohibited by Mellon

PLANS MADE T0 HELP VETERANS   Organization Guarantees To Pay Tuition At Colleges

WILL NOT REPLY TO CAMPAIGN CHARGES   Wallace Says 4 Usually Don’t Engage in Personalities Myself.’

Allies Are Waging Desperate Fight to Bolster Up Supply Link to Sky Troops

Big Push For Berlin Shaping Up All Along Battle Front From Rhine In Holland To Belfort Gap In East France   REINFORCEMENTS FOR ARNHEM BRIDGEHEAD

Thousands Of Shells And Bombs Pulverize Defenses Along Rhine     re * es . .   British Relieve Marooned Troops   Patton’s Army Hammers Nazi Tanks; Deeper — Penetrations Made

Guns, Planes ‘Soften’ Rhineland as Big Push Nears All Along Line

Resistance Units In Germany Told “Hour Has Come’   Signs Indicate Thats Big Push For Berlin Is Now Shaping Up

Rhineland Gets Softening-Up Bombardment   Resistance Cells in Germany Called Upon ta Act

Speed Complete Relief Of Trapped Skytroops; Americans Carve Gain

Push to Berlin Readied   Foreign Workers In Germany Are Called to Action

STRIKE NOW, UNDERGROUND Ih CERMANY TOLD   Big Push For Berlin Shaping

Planes, Big Guns Blast Rhineland   Opponents of Nazis in Ger many Told Time for  Action Is Here

Temperatures   British Reinforce Marooned Force  Of Paratroopers

GUN VICTIMS   Nine Others Have Died From Non-Shooting Causes in . Michigan,- - > *

IS KILLLED IN HUNT MISHAPS   20 Are Wounded As Season Enters Sixth Day

Beachheads Are Secured, Nimitz Says   Resistance to Landings ’ Light Thanks to Great Bombing and Shelling

Troops fight inland.  aim at Apra harbor   American losses light in landings  on Guam’s west coast. Nimitz cave

Guam Invasion Is Going Well, Nimitz Reports   Forces From Two Beachheads Advance On Valuable Harbor

Light Casualties Sustained In Landings Or West Coast Of Island On Either Side Of Port Apra; Resistance Stiffens

Yanks Advancing From Beachhead: On Isle of Guam   Rapidly Closing In on Port Apra

GUAM INVASION 1S GOING WELL NIMITZ STATES   Marines, Soldiers Advance: From Beachheads On  West Coast   AGAT IS REPORTED BLASTED BY SHELLS

GUAM INVASION IS GOING WEL, NIMITZ REPORTS   U.S. Troops Moving In From Beachheads on Either Side of Port Apra, Fine Pacific Harbor.   LOSSES SUFFERED IN LANDING LIGH!   Japanese Resistance Stiffer in Interior—Additional Soldiers Are Going Ashore.

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Minor Changes in Values of Blue Points to Become Effective Sunday

Dry Beans Off  Rationed List   Fruit Butters. Prune Juice Also Pointless—  Butter To Be Graded

BLUE POINT VALUES ~ CHANGING SLIGHTL   Dry Beans, Fruit Butters, Prune Juices Ration Free.

Blast Takes  Five Lives   Landing Ship Burns At California Dock.

 Aussies Knew Nothing iO Jap Fleet Nearing 'Pearl Harbor In 1941

BRITISH DRIVE NAZIS BACK N HOLLAND   Along 15-Mile Front, Driving Swiftly on Tilburg, City of 81,000; Furiously Defended.   Yanks Make Gains

GERMANS HURLED BACK SIX MILES IN HOLLAND -AREA   Nazis Retreat to Outer Defenses of Tilburg Under Blows of British Second Army.   FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN ’S HERTOGENBOSCH   Dempsey’s Infantry and Tanks Slowly Gouging Enemy Out of Strongpoints  in City.

British Slash On In North   Nazis Steadily Beaten Back As Wall -Of Armor.And Fire Blankets Sector

NAZIS TOTTER BACKWARD ON DUTCH FRONT   WALL OF BRITISH ARMOR NEAR KEY ENEMY BASTION

BRITISH MAKING SLOW HEADWAY INSIDE HOLLAND   Germans Are Driven Back Along 15-Mile Front At ’§ Hertogenbosh   CANADIANS CLEARING ANTWERP APPROACHES

British Drive Nearing City Of Tilburg   Germans Indicate Full Withdrawal From West Holland

British Drive Toward Nazis’ Dutch Bastion   Germans Forced Back to Outer Defenses of City of Tilburg

BRITISH DRIVE NAZIS BACK IN HOLLAND FIGHT   Slash Westward To ward Bastion of  Tilburg

Nazi Forces Driven Back In Holland   British Push Ahead ’ Along 15-Mile Front And Threaten: Tilburg  ESCAPE ROAD CUT

British Advance On 15-Mile Front In Holland Drive   House-to-House Battle On in ’S Hertogenbosch; Other Front Areas Quiet

Communications Center of ‘S Hertogenbosch Captured  FORCES CLOSING IN ON CITY OF TILBURG  Enemy Retreating Before Power Drive of Second Army

MAXIMUM FINES CIVEN ANACONDA   “4 Defendants Sent to Jail in War Fraud

Japs Outer Defenses Hit Aerial Blows   Tokyo Bemoans Fate Of Once Mighty Truk

Americans Blast Iwo Isle Within 150 Miles Tokyo   As Japanese Radio Bemoans Fate of Big Garrison at Truk

Japs Bombed On isles of  Palau and Iwo   Tokyo Bemoans Fate of Its Soldiers at By-Passed Points

Japs Blasted  On Volcano  _ Island Bases   Tokvo Bemoans Fate of Trek: Liberators Hit Palau Hard Again

Nips Bemoan Fate of the Great Garrison at Truk   Truk lsolated; New Air Blows On Iwo Island, 750 Miles From Tokyo

BOMBERS HIT VOLCANO GROUP   Raids Creep Steadily West: ward Closer To Tokyo

British Capture Four Key Towns In Strong Drive   Germans Unable To Halt Advance

British troops move on Hertogenbosch; Canadians withdraw   Second army wipes out one entire batizlion: Breskens action rages

GERMAN LINE IN HOLLAND {5 BADLY DENTED   LIBERATED DUTCH CHEER BRITISH SECOND ARMY

BRITISH HAMMER “TOWARD BASTION   Hard-driving Tommies Cap@ ture Four Pivotal Towns   GREAT WELCOME   gAmerican First Army Continues Mopping up Operaations in Aachen Area

British Hammer at Nazi Fortress in Holland as Canadians Quit Breskens   Enemy Defenses at ‘s-Hertogenbosch Seen About to Buckle; See-Saw Fighting on Schelde Estuary is Reported

Nazi Bastion Buckles Under British Blows  Tommies Battle Savagely to Gain ’S-Hertogenbosck

FIGHTING FOR HILL 660 IS VERY BITTER   Marines Count Almost 500 Jap Dead In Two-Day Invasion Period, With Total Of 3000 Since Invasion.   Hit Tobera

000 JAPS KILLED IN 2-DAY BATTLE NEAR BORGEN BA   American Marines Encounter Fierce Resistance in Drive Toward Strategic Hill 660.   ADVANCE UP SLOPES UNDER HEAVY FIRE   Shaliow Graves and Unburied Dead Show Enemy Is Haying Little Time Except to Retreat,

MANY JAPS KILLED IN FIERCE BATTLE   Fight Rages. for the Control of Strategic:

FIGHT AAGES FOR STRATEGIC HILI   Japanese Lose Almost 50C Men in Two-day Period   PLANES RAID BASES   Aussies Move to Within Three Miles of Japanese Barge Base of Sio

Yanks, Japs Baitle Near Borgen Bay   Japanese Death Toll Climbs To 3,000  Since New Invasion

FIGHTING RAGES FOR HILL 660 AT BORGEN BA   Nearly 3,000 Japanese Have Been Killed In Defense Of Gloucester Area   WIDESPREAD AERIAL RAIDS ARE CONDUCTED

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   Marines Kill Almost 500 ir Bitter Fight for Hill Near Borgen Bay

larine Inviders in New _ Beitain-Cunt 500. Dead Japs in Bitter Fighting

Marines Count 200 Jap Dead In Hill Battle   Fighting Rages on New Britain: East Indies Areas Raided

Crack Enemy Division Sent ToRome Area   Allies Victorious In First Big Clash South of Capital

Nazi Armor Crushed  Near Rome   German Armored Division Crushed; Enemy Leaves 120 Soldiers Dead on Battlefield; Cassino Has Been Abandoned

Tighten Wedge On Germans In Central Italy   Men, Supplies Pile Into Strategic Wedge Menace  To Rome.   ABANDON. CASSING

First German Counter Blow Smashed By Allied Army   Transferred Herman Goering Division Loses Tanks And Men In Beachhead Battle

Allies Pile Men Into Battle Area   Other Forces Within Half Mile Of Liri Valley Gateway

Fierce Engagement Just South Of Rome Favorable To Allies   Other American Units Continue To Uproot Germans East Of Littoria; British Front Is Reported Quiet

Cassino Abandoned by Germans But They Hold Strong Mountain Posts

ALLIES BEAT BACK GERMAN ARMOR ATTACK   Ficrce Local Engagement With Hermann Goering Division in New Line Below Rome

More Attacks Are Awaited   Hermann Goering Division Repulsed; More Men Ashore On Expanding Beachhead

Allies Widen Beachhead  Below Rome   American and French Troops Drive Forward in Cassino Sector   CISTERNA BOMBED   Yanks Repulse Crack Hermann Goering Division on Edge of Marsh

NAZIS STRIKE BACK AT ARMY      First Counterattack Against Allies Thrown Back With Crushing Force.   GOERING’S MEN IN FIGHT

ALLIES THROW BACK FIRST COUNTER BLOW IN NETTUNO SECTOR   Hermann Goering Armored Division ls Repuised Southwest of Littorio   MEN, SUPPLIES FLOW IN

THE GERMANS IN A COUNTERATTACK SOUTH OF ROME   Was the First of Many That Probably Will Be Launched, It In Said,   HOPE TO ROUT ALLIES   The Nazis, However, Thrown Back With Crushing of German Armor,

First Of Expected Series Of Assaults In Effort To Wipe Out Allied Beachhead Repulsed With Crushing Of German Armor Near Littoria—American Units Reported Within Half-Mile Of Liri Valley Gateway,  Overlocking Ancient Monastery Town

German Counterattack Below Rome Thrown Back By Allies; Cassino Front Fighting Heavy

Nazis Fail To Destroy Beachheads   Men And Supplies Still Flowing Into Wedge

Crush German Counterattack South Of Rome   Goering Armored Units Repulsed; Allies Gain On Caceina Frant.

ALLIES WIN FIRST  MAJOR TILT AT  NEW BEACHHEAD GERMANS LEAVE 120  DEAD ON FIELD IN FIERCE ENGAGEMENT

Crush German Armor   British and Yanks Continue Threat To the Italian Capital; Meet Herman Goering Division South of Littoria; Nazis Abandonine Cassino.

Allies Beat Back Nazi Push   Germans Stopped In Conter-Theust Near Littoria

Germans Leave Dead On Field Near Littoria   Meanwhile, Men and Supplies Continue to Pile Into Allied Wedge Threatening Rome   Americans Within Half Mile Cassino   Ancient Monastery Town Appears to Have Been Largely Abandoned By Nazi Armies

FamedHerman Goering Unit Is Employed   Allied Supplies Continue To Flow Onto Shores at Landing Points

Repulsed in Fierce Engagement at Littoria, Opposite Nettuno—Allies Continue Struggle Toward Abandoned Cassino — Strong German Attacks Below Rome Expected.

FURIOUS GERMAN SB AT INVASION FORRES ppncHEN      Allied Armies Continue To Threaten Italian ; Capital   NAZIS HURL BEST TROOPS AT YANKS

HERMANN GOERING  ARMORED DIVISION  WAS THROWN BACK FIRST NAZI COUNTERAT  TACK BELOW ROME HAG REEN DEFEATED

First Assault Thrown Back South of Rome   Crack Division Broken in Drive Against American:

German Armored Unit Repulsed by Yanks and Britons   Enemy Left 120 Dead on Field as Spearhead Withdrew

Foe Is Beaten in First Attempt to Destroy Beachhead   Units of Hermann Goering Division Appear on Scene; Allies Tighten Grip

FIRST GERMAN ARMOR ATTACK BADLY CRUSHED   Gain Around Cassino And Tighten Squeeze On 100,000 Nazis

Crack Nazi Troops Thrown Back in First Attack on American-British Bridgehead   FIFTH ADVANCES   Americans Struggle Forward Across Swollen Streams to Envelop Cassino

NAZIS ROUTED IN FIRST ATTACK ON INVASION FORCE:   Allies Pour Troops and Supplies Ashore on Italian Beochhead

GERMANS FAIL TO DISLODGE ALLIED UNITS   Montgomery reports Fierce Engagement South of Italian Capital

Allies Rush In More Troops, Materiel Into New Beachhead   120 Germans Moved Up From Lower Italian Front Killed in Initial Battle by Invaders

Yankees Beat Off First Nazi Counter Blow   Crush German Armor As Men and Supplies Pour Into Wedge Threatening Rome

Na azi Attack South Of Rome Repulsed; Fifth Army Inches North From Cassino

Famed Goering Armored Unit Beaten Back   Nazis Expected To Wage Furious Battle At Beachhead

MRS. LUCE GETS MOST PUBLICITY   HEADLINES ANNOY OTHER MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE IN ETO

Medical Ad Ban Act Is Upheld   Court Of Appeals Rules On Challenge Of Baltimore Doctor.

American Troops From Beachhead Advance On Rome   Two Important Roads Cut By U. S. Forces In Drive Toward Velletri; Piedimonte And Aquino Captured By Eighth Army

New Advances From Both Ends Of Italy Battleline; 12 Q00 Germans Cantured

GERMAN LINE ROLLS BACK AT BOTH ENDS UNDER HEAVY BLOWS   Nazis Near, Beachhead Withdraw Into Alban Hills, 15 Miles from Rome.

ADVANCE THREE MILES BEYOND APPIAN ROUTE   Alban Hills Objective for Hastily Retreating Nazis Who Leave Men, Materiel Behind.

Fifth, ighth Armies in New Gains   Germans Cut Off In Pontiné Marsh By Swift Advance

American Tanks Roll Into Action   Germans Retreat Into Alban Hills, 15 Miles Below Eternal City; Thousands Made Prisoner   Cisterna Captured.

CORI CAPTURED BY STH -ARMY   Eighth Army Takes Monte Cairo and Town of Ros PACAANnG   LIRI VALLEY CITY TAKEN

Quick Thrusts Feature Drive On Rome Road   Prison Count Now Stands at 12,000 For Entire Drive

Cisterna Is Taken After Heavy Fight   Main and Anzio Troops Advance 3 Miles, Cut 2 Important Roads

Beachhead Troop: Drive Three Miles Past Appian Way   Germans Leave Carpets of Dead, Mounds of Material and 2,000 More Prisoners to Joint 12,000 Previously Surrendered   JUGULAR SUPPLY LINE WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE

Allies Force Nazis Back m Advance on  Both Ends of Fron!   Unified Fifth Army Fans Out Swiftly From Beachhead

GERMAN LINES ARE CRUMBLING BEFORE ATTACK   Roccasecca, Monte Cairo, San Giovanni Among Points Taken

Cisterna Cori Fall to Allies   56 Towns, 12,000 Prisoners Bagged in 14-Day Advance

Eighth Army  Captures Monte Cairo   Dominating Mountain Positions Are Taker To Free Beachhead From German Artillery Fire; Important Roads Are Cut

Allies Smash Toward Rome  In Fast Push   Germans In Pontine Marshes Trapped By Swift Advance; Lose Cisterna. Littoria

Seven Miles Beyond Anzio   Near Highway 6 Leading to Enemy In Liri Valley.

NEW ADVANCES SFEN AT BOTH ENDS OF LINE   Cisterna Captured as Fifth Army Drives 3 Miles Ahead

ALLIED FORGES MAKING SWIFT ROME ADVANCE   Germans Pushed Back; Hitler  Line Broken

Swift Push Places Force Seven Miles Outside Beachhead   Several Towns Are Scooped Up in Coordinated Drive; Neer Vital Highway

Make Gains AtBoth Ends Of Line   Anzio Forces Take Cisterna— 8th Takes Aquino And Piedimonte

Cisterna Falls To Fifth Army As Last Hitler Line Strongpoints Are Subdued

New Offensive Grows In Fury In Fourth Day  Nazis Rolled Back   Nazis Rolled Back In Swift Advance By Allied Forces

New Gains Scored by. — Sth Army   American. Armored: Infantry, Leads Assault; One Key: : Supply ‘Point ‘Taken <="      ANOTHER ENEMY °°. ARTERY: ‘THREATENED   Bighth’ “Amny Also.” “Movea Forward;. Allies Near _ -Nazis’ Last Gine“

Yanks Take  Cisterna in Fierce Fight   British Swing North From Eastern End of Line

RECORD GAINS AT BOTH ENDS OF BATTLELINE   Cisterna Captured After Fanning Out Operation From Beachhead

Seven Miles From Former Anzio Beaeh   Eighth Army Takes Monte Cairo, Roceaseeca Beyond C accino.   NEAR HIGHWAY Six

Eternal City Is  Approximately 15 Miles From Front   Littoria Falls To Advancing Troops; Area Around Mussolini’s Former Model City Is Littered With Wreckage Of Once-Strong Nazi War Machine In Italy

Captives Total 12,000;Planes Destroy 1750 Enemy Vehicles   Sth Seizes Aquino, Piedimonte: Foe Flees Littoria   Ry ENWARD KENWEnY

Nazis Beat Hasty Retreat Leaving Carpets of Dead; Considerable Material

BIG GAINS IN VELLETRI PUSH   Key Supply Road for 12 Nazi Divisions Un der U_S. Fire

TAKE CISTERNA AFTER HEAVY FIGHTING   Report Germans Quit Last Of Hitler Line   TWO ROADS   Are Severed In New Drive; 1,750 Enemy Vehicles Damaged In 2 Davs

TOWN OF CORI, SEVEN MILES OUTSIDE OF THE FORMER BEACHHEAD AREA AT ANZIO TAKEN TODAY BY FIFTH ARMY FORCES—EIGHTH ARMY, IN COORDINATION, GIT STRIDE IN DRIVE NORTH OF CASSINO

Troops Seize Cisterna and Plunge Onward   Americans Within Artillery Range  Of Highway 6 After Cutting Appian Way   Bulletin

ARMORED MIGHT OF ALLIES 1S CRUSHING RESISTANCE ALONG WIDE ARC LEADING TO ROME   Hard-Fighting Americans Fan Out from Anzio As Fifth Army and Eighth Army Co-ordinate Crushing . Attacks on Germans Who Have Lost .  12,000 Prisoners and Mountains of Material

Allies Clear Hitler Line of All Nazis; Sth Takes Cisterna   iedimonte. Aquino Fall to 8th; Canadians Establish Bridgehead Across Melba River West of Cassino

‘Fall of Town Cuts Line to ‘Calmontone   German Troops Left In Pontine Marshes  Withaut Communication

TAKE CORI, 7 MILES. BEYOND ANZIO SECTOR   Allies Have Isolated Nazis Left in Pontine Marsheg and Are Near Supply, Road Serving Enemy, in Liri Valley.

RAIN AGAIN TONIGHT   Warmer Weather Predicted With Temperatures of 75 to 80

Brunswick Blasted by Bombers   1,000 U. S. Planes Take Part in Raid; Report New Russian Offensive Aimed at Galati Gap

AIR INVASION NAZI EUROPE CONTINUES (INARATEN TONAY   GERMANS DECLARE RUSSIANS HAVE OPENED OFFENSIVE ON BROAD FRONT.

ANOTHER 1000-PLANE U.S. * [RAID ON BRUNSWICK AND OTHER STRATEGIC CENTERS IS MADE   Twelfth Continuous Day Finds Allied Aerial Fleets Pounding German Centers on Broad Front In World’s Greatest Air Offensive   AMERICAN PARATROOPERS DESTINED TO PLAY BIG PART ININVASION ~” (OF THE EUROPEAN FORTRESS   Indications Seen That Air-Borne Troops Will Be A Major Factor in Effort to Crack Enemy Defenses Hitler’s General Rommel Says They Are Ready

Americans Smash at Brunswiek   Russians Launch Attack on Broad Front Along Lower Dnestra River

Russians Opening New Offensive   Air Raids Continuing Over Germany

tussians Open Offensive on Dnestr River   Appreciable Air Support Accompanies Red Drive—Allies Gain in Ital

Axis Says Soviet Forces Drive West On Lower Dnestr   Brunswick Is Today’s Target of U. S. Heavy Bomber:

Axis Tells Of’ ‘Soviet Drive ‘Along Broad . Front * .  BRUNSWICK - HIT  Huge U.S: Air Fleet Is. Over. Europe  i Roain Tadao’ 

Reds Hit Germans in ABroad Front   Central Nazi Aircraft Building Center Is Hit by Bombs   ‘NOT A BOMBER LOST   Allied Troops Are Improying Positions on Anzio  Beachhead

LULL AT END ALONG BROAD RIVER FRONT   Soviet Objective a Mountain Gap Which Would Make Most of Balkan “Available” to Reds.

Reds Initiate New Drive : long Dnestt      Anzio Forces mprove Positions; Cassino Artillery Duel Heightens in Center —

OHIO {SKS FOR 300 SOLDIERS FOR WORK   Furloughs Given To Relieve Manpower Shortage

Fighter Planes ‘From Mindoro Fly Over Luzon   New Runways Bring US. Aircraft Within 145 Miles of Manila

YANKS FLYING FROM MINDORO   AIRFIELDS ARE ONLY {45 MILES FROM MANILA

PLANES USING NEW MINDORO ISLAND BASES   Forward Airfields Bring Luzon Under Steady Aerial Blows

U. S. Planes Using Bases On Mincore   Two American Columns Join and Cut Off Many Jans on Leyte

U. S. FLIERS BLAST JAPS ON LUZON   Planes Operating From New Bases On Mindoro

PAGEANT WILL BE GIVEN AT HASKELL   Students and Staff Mem_ bers to Have Part in Nativity   TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19

Students: and Staff: Mem; bers to ) Have Part i in ©   TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19

President Says Political Foes ~ Hit War Record   Makes Major Bid For Big Block Of Votes In The East

President Tells Of Growth of   Army and Navy   Gives Votes of Republicans in House to Show That They  ‘Did Not: Aid in Preparation far War

GOP Policies Are Attacked By Roosevelt   Says Politics Placed Over Love of Country

President Defends His Con duct Of The Nation’s War Effort   AMERICA’S FIGHTING MEN ARE COMMENDED

Roosevelt Raps 6.0. P. Campaigi In Major Talk   Promises Early Return of Troops

‘oosevelt Charges OP Puts Politics  \bove Patriotism  Cites Administration’s Preparedness Record,  And War Policies

ROOSEVELT SCORES GOP POLITICIANS   President Speaks to Gathering at Philadelphia Perk

‘FDR Asserts Republicans Place Political Advantage - Above Devotion To Nation

TOKYO'S DEATH ROSTER MOUNTS   American Troops Clean Up In Islands, Kill 63,588 Nipponese

Not Many Prisoners: 3,167 Japs Captured on Marianas  ‘And Palau Islands; 63,388 Killed

SOLDIER HELD AS JAPANESE AGEN]   U. S$. Army Corporal Arrest. ed by F. B. 1 Men

Corporal, Once General in Chinese Army, Floorwalker, Commentator Held

Ward Plant Vote On C.I.0. Orderec   NLRB Sets Election Within Seven Days

Ranger Outfit Loses Six Dead In Desperate Two-Day Beach Battle   ‘Fourth of July’ Stunt Helps Rout Foe; Lse Nazi Weapons When Own Guns Are Empt

Yank Rangers Fight With  German Guns   Beat Off Every Enemy Counter-Attack for Two Long Days

AMMUNITION GONE, YANKS USE NAZI GUNS  GERMANS CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED BY DARING OF U. S. RANGERS IN INITIAL ASSALLT.

Rangers’ Heroic Beachhead Stand Reveals Treachery Of Nazi Troops

[Advance Within 18 Miles of Cherbourg   Allied Beachhead Troops Advancing in All Sectors Despite Fierce Resistance Of Germans; Halt Enemy Counterattacks

Troops Gain On Cherbourg   Powerful New Thrust Carries Americans Within 18 Miles of Important Seaport; Mighty Land Battle Rises in Intensity —

STETTINUS MAKES FURTHER CHANGES   Senate to Confirm Four New Appointees; Create Two New Posis

MORE STATE DEPARTMENT CHANGES SEEN   Greatest Top Strata Shakeup in History of New Deal

Three Shoved Out in Drastic Reorganization   Stettinius Picks Successors; May Name Two More

Ban On> Wage Freeze Asked ByUnionLabor   it Constitutes Fraud On Workers, Leaders Tell Panel Of WLB

WLB Hears AFL Arguments for Increased Wages  Meany Says ‘Little Steel’ Formula Constitutes Fraud on Workers. Serviremen

Says Little Steel Formula Is Basis For Depression  AEFI FR. _3__..   AFL Declares It Violates Promises to Labor, Servicemen

Disclosure of Eisenhower Visit to Capital Prompts “WacArthur for President” Talk

Reveal Visit By Eisenhower To Washington   Gen. MacArthur Only Com mander Not In U. §S. Since Pearl Harbor  Ry WHEELIE AAC & ae we eee ce rk

A CHILLY WEEK END      Snow and High Winds Forecast for Most of Kanses

PLANES FLY LOW OVER PHILIPPINES   BLAST JAPANESE CONVOY IN DAYLIGHT RAID, DESTROYING 62 TRUCKS.

‘Activity at Anzio Beachhead Picking Up   Germans Hang on To Hinge of Broken Gustav Line at Cassino

Allied Warships Shell Terracina, Flank Of  New German Defense   Gen. Alexander Reports Allies Are Giving Enemy No Respite; Take 5,500 Prisoners

British Within Mile Of Germans’ Only Avenue of Escape   Advancing Fifth Army Reaches _ Approaches to Hitler's Line; All Castay Defenses Overcome

Now Only © 26 Miles.  From Anzio      BASES OF ITRI AND GAETA CAPTURED BY ALLIED TROOPS; WARSHIPS BOMBARD TERRACINA

ALLIES ARE 15 MILES CLOSER TO BEACHHEAL   Germans Attempt New Stand 26 Miles From Anzio

BRITISH WITHIN ONE MILE OF ONLY NAZI ROAD FROM CASSINO   Gustav Defense System Overrun As Allies Contact Outposts Of Last Fortified Barrier To  Rome Plains

LAST BARRIER IN FRONT OF ROMAN PLAINS   Outer Gustav Defenses Are All Smashed From Liri River to the Sea.

DISORGANIZED GERMANS ARE DRIVEN BAGK   American Assault Forces Capture Southern Anchor of Nazi Defenses.

British Deepen Bridgehead   Threaten Nazis’ Escape Route From Cassino

ROUTED NAZIS ARE FORCED BACK TO LINE ANCHORED AT TERRACINA. NEAR ANZIO

Army at Hitler Nazi Line   Troops Sweep Forward 3 Miles, Seize German Supply Line

‘Reach Hitler Line After Smashing Gustav Line Defenses  (25 TOWNS—33 PEAKS IN SIX DAY DRIVE  ‘Now Within One Mile Of _ Nazi Only Escape Route From Cassino

French Contact Hitler Line As Yanks Push West   British Seize Supply Line; Nazis Report Anzio Activity

TROOPS ADVANCE. SMILES, ATTACK SEVERAL POINTS   American Divisions. Under Command. of Maj.’ Gen. “Keyes. Receiving First Combat Experience.   FRANCE SOFTENING IS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE   Mosquito Bombers Keep. Up Attack When Gales Force Grounding of Greatest Aerial Figet.

DISORGANIZED NAZIS FORCED TO NEW POSTS   Southern Flank Of German Defense Positions Is Overpowered

ALLIES ADVANCE TO WAKE ATTACK. TO REACH ANZ   iri, Anchor of Nazi Defense, Captured By Americans and Gaeta Naval Base. Is Lost By Enemy,   3 GERMAN AIRDROMES ASSAULTED FROM AIR   5000 Planes Probably In Big Formations For Non-Stop Parade, Over 6000 Tons of Bombs Dropped.

Progress Being Made Toward Anzio Beachhead   Naval Base of Gaeta,  Itri, Southern Anchor of Hitler Line, Fall -

Attaekers Crumble Gustav Deienses   Nazis Admit “Disengaging Movements’”—-British Widen Brideehesd—French Gain Grannd

May Trap Nazis in Cassino   French Overe ame Stiff Resistance To Push Ahead

ltri Captured: German Retreat ls Virtual Rout   Fifth Army Is 58 Miles From Rome 26 Out of Anzio

Nazis Forced Back After Allies Pierce Strong Hitler Line   Entire Southern Flank of Reich’s Greatest Defense Wall South of Rome Overrun by Advancing Allies

HITLER LINE REACHED BY FIFTH ARMY   Eighth Army Deepens its Bridqehead Across Rapido

LLIED DRIVE © ORCES SECOND AZ RETREAT   Part of Hitler  ‘Line Abandoned

Methodists’ Quadrennial Conference   Convenes Today In Kansas City to Chart Future Course

Methodists Celebrate Their 200th  Anniversary, Chart Future Course

Bodies of Three Army Men Found   Hunters Perished in Storm Near Artesia

Democratic Candidate Wins Election In Oklahoma  Stigler Victorious   Stigler Victorious . Over Republican Clark For Seat in Congress   LEFT WING FACTION  WINS NEW YORK VOTE Right Wing of ALP Had Said Its Defeat Would Hurt President

STIGLER IS ELECTED IN OKLAHOMA RACE   Democrats Win Special Congressional Battle

Democrat Wins  Congress Race  In Oklahoma Piles Up Nearly 4000 Vote Lead  Over Nepublican

Demos Hold Safe Lead In. Sooner Vote   New Deal Regine Meete:Challenae

Democrat Wins Oklahoma  Congress Race   Unofficial Returns Show Stigler Leading by Solid Margin; ALP Lefiists Victors m N.Y.

Administration Wins Oklahoma   Democrats Triumph In Election Against Rising G.O.P. Tide.

DEMOCRAT WINS ELECTION HELD IN OKLAHOMA   Victory Is Third For Party In 11 Congressional  Contests   POLITICIANS STUDY VOTING FOR TRENDS

SEAT IS WON BY DEMOCRAT   Stigler Victor in Oklahome Congress Race; Weather Holds Down Vote

DEMOCRAT WINS HOUSE SEAT IN ~ OKLAHOMA RACE   Stigler. Defeats Clark in Contest Which Both Sides Proclaimed Put New Deal  : on Trial.   RAIN KEEPS MANY  ' AWAY FROM POLLS   Returns From 304 of District’s 331 Precincts Give New Dealer 20,198, Opponent 17,771.

Democrats Win Special Election In Oklahoma   W. G. Stigler Defeats E. 0 Clark for Congress in Democratic District

Admiral Sees Occupation ;  To Win Peace   Reveals ‘New Air Raids On Marshalls, Bonins, Carolines. Marianas

Invasion of Japan Not  ~ Needed to Win: Nimitz   Occupation Necessary, However, to Wir Peace; Admiral Says After Return from Guam and Sainan

Nimitz Asserts Japs May Be Defeated Without Yank Invasion of Foe Homeland

Defeat of Japan May Come Without Invasion-Nimitz  Péstwar Occupation of Home Islands, However. Said Needed

NIMITZ SAYS INVASION NOT NECESSARY   To Win War, But Occupation of Japan Will Be to Keep Peace; Announces Attacks on Islands.   Bomb Rota

OFFER GABLE — ~- BIG PENSION      POPULAR. STAR TO GET $49,100 ANNUALLY. IP HE STAYS ' WETH LOEWS UNTIL 63

HISTORIC CITY BEING FORTE FIED FOR STREET BY STREET FIGHTING BY THE GER *-MAN GARRISON

AMERICAN NINTH ARMY SPEARHEADS ATTACK SIX MILES INSIDE GERMANY   Four of Seven Allied Armies Are Seasoned American Troops; Nazis Plan Street by Street Defense of Historic Metz

May File Your  Canning Sugar’ Requests Now   Cut Commercial Use to Give Homemaker 1944 Allowance.

BLASTS CAUSE . HEAVY LOSSES   3 ee o 2 .  THIRTY DEAD AND @77 INJURED   IN TWO MUNITIONS EX¥LO -... SIONS. IN-HAWANIAN - -- -ig - IBLANDS

Arnall Chats With FDR. Then Predicts Hell Run   Georgia Governor Says President Will Accept Fourth Term Nomination If It Is Tendered Him By Democratic Convention

F. D. R. May Tell Fourth Term Plans   GEORGIA GOVERNOR PREDICTS PRESIDENT WILL TAKE NOMINATION

ARNALL SAYS FDR WILL BE CANDIDATE   Georgia Executive Confers with President at White House and Makes  This ProdicFan

Gov. Arnall Says Roosevelt to Make Fourth Term Statement after GOP Mee!

Russians Open Showdown Battle  For Sevastopol   Artillery, Planes Pour Fire Into  Besieged City

‘Red Siege Armies _ -Seek to Knock Out Sevastopol Nazis   Russians Pouring Torrents of  Shells and Bombs Into Bastion; 9 German Transports Are Sunk

Showdown Battle In Progress For Sevastopol Black Sea Naval Base   Germans Lose 15 Vessels And 36 Planes In Past 24 Hours

Sevastopol Showdown Battle Near   Red Air Force, Fleet Air Arm Sink 15 Vessels, Destroy 36 Planes

RUSSIANS MAKE STRONG ATTACK AT SEVASTOPOL   Prepare For Showdown Battle Por Black Sea Naval  Roca

REDS POUR SHELLS INTO SEVASTOPOL   Prepare for Shells Into  Naval Base

) Soldier Vote Bills Voted by House Members   Sixth Runs Into Amendments; to Come up Today

d SOLDIER VOTE “BILLS APPROVED   SIXTH RUNS INTO AMENDMENTS AND FINAL HOUSE ACTION IS POSTPONED.

Commander Famed For Exploits In Mediterranean Credited With Bagging One Of Nippon’s Warshins.

BRITISH SUB SINKS JAPANESE CRUISER   Jap Supply Ships Also Are Sent To Bottom

BRITISH U-BOAT SINKS JAP SHIP   Credited With Sending Enemy Cruiser Down In Indian Ocean

British Admiralty Lauds Sub_ Commander For __ Another Daring Exploit

British Sub Gets Credit For Jap Ship   First Direct Hit Is Made Within Close Range

[British Sub ‘Sinks 5100-ton. Jap Cruiser-North of Strait of Malacca

JAP CRUISER SUNK BY SUB IN INDIAN OCEAN      Comdr, Bennington, Mediterranean Hera, Directs Attack -~ Three      FLIERS ADD SCORE   Calaline Bombers Destroy Jap Ammunilion Ship, Two Cargo Vessels—Wewak Raided

British Hero of Malta Takes Sub to Pacific   Bennington Sinks Jap Cruiser As English Warships Join America Against Common Enemy

Government Will Help War Veterans By Guaranteeing Part of Their Loans

Record Fleets Of Heavies Attack Unstated Cities   Pilots Report No Interceptors Nor Flak Over Capital; British Introduce 6-Ton SuperBlockbusters: Ten Bombers, Seven Fighters Lost

U.S. Planes Fly Over Berlin As Record Bomber Fleet Hits Other Targets in Reich

F.R. Salutes Allied Forces   Says Nation Rejoices  Over Paris Liberation

Red Aie Forces Fighting N Reseve Planes in Ukranian Si —Enemy Troops Sneircled with Terrific Artillery Barrage.

RUSSIANS SHOOT DOWN GERMAN RESCUE PLANES   Doom of 100,000 or More Encircled Nazi Troops Sealed

Reds Smash 85 Nazi Air Transports   50;000 of Doomed ‘Troops Annibilated By Soviet Avencers

24 PER CENT WAR GOODS PRODUCTION IBOOST DEMANDED BY GEN. SOMERVELL

Eisenhower Warns Natives Of Province  Of Allied Approach   American Armor Reported Within 130 Miles Of German Border; U. S. Forces Capture Briancon

This Was the Announcement Made Today by General Eisenhower in an Order of the Day.   A 200-MILE ALLIED FRONT IS EXPANDIN(   Being Stretched Eastward and Northward Toward Germany and Belgium;  Americans Cross Seine.

Routed Nazis Prepare For  Final Stand   200-Mile Allied Front Is Extended Eastward

Huns in a Frantic Effort to Escape   Canadians Close in on Rouen Where Germans Massed; General Lisenhower in Order of Day Advised Inhabitants of Advancing Armies.   Bulgaria Assures Russians of Its Neutrality and Will Oppose Nazis

PUSH FORWARD ON 200-MiLE WIDE FRONT   People Of Alsace-Lorraine Warned War Is Coming   CANADIANS   Reported Closing On Rouen; Nazis Expected To Stand At Somme-Marne Line

Roosevelt Seen ‘Ready to Run’ By GOP Head:   Republicans Convineed He Will Accept. Nomination After He Shies From Direct Questious

President Silent on Fourth Term  Impression Grows He Is Candidate

President  Refuses To Talk 4th Term   Party Leaders Are Now Convinced He Will Aecept Nomination

ACTION TAKEN IN DEFERENCE TO PRESIDENT   HASN’T ANNOUNCED WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO, SAYS ALLEN

Capital GOP Certain F.R. To Run Again   Refusal to Talk About Fourth Term * Tipoff of Acceptance

President Keeps Silent On 4th: Term Support  Cleveland, Cincinnati Mayors Nominated .

Convinced FDR To Run Again   President Rebuses To Discuss Hannegan’s Speech Saying He Will Accept.

FDR PLANS TO RUN AGAIN IN OPINION OF GOP'S LEADERS   Some Democrats Also Interpret Roosevelt's Silence to Mean Acceptance -

Roosevelt's Silénee Held Ath Term Sign   President Refuses to Discuss Plans as He Did Four Years Ago

Sure FDR Will Run      Refusal to Talk On Subject Convinces Politicians President Is Candidate

FDR Declines Again to Talk About 4th Term   Renewed Refusal To Commtnt Means He‘ll Run Say Some

FDR REFUSES T0 TALK 4TH TERM   MOST REPUBLICANS IN CAPITAL SURE HE PLANS TO RUN

MacArthur Only One Listed as Candidate for Presidency Here   Democrats Decide Not to Enter Roosevelt in State Primary

Roosevelt Still Refuses SLAYER GIVEN To Discuss Plans For '44 $!,.000 DAMAGES

Northwest Ohio Synod Of Evangelical And Reformed Church Has Meeting Here

Prairie County Again First To Fill Quota  Sixth War Loan Sal: Now $66,000 and

Prairie County Again First To Fill Quota  Sixth War Loan §   Sixth War Loan Sale Now $66,000 and Is Tops for Nation

China Cut In Two By Junction Of Nip Armies, Tokyo Reports; B-29s Again Hit Jap Homeland

Seven Youths Accepted For  Armed Forces   Names of Those Judged Qualified Are Received by County Selective Service Board

Kight Accepted  In Armed Forces   Half of County Group Qualifies For General Military Service

Admits They Have Killed More Than Battle Of ©  ' Normandy Alreadv

Casualties First Three Weeks At 0,000 In London; Children Moved   London Is Placed On A Blitz Basis With Casualty Lists To Be Announced Every Month

Churchill Names London As Main Robot Target; Casualties Total 10,752

HITLER'S SECRET ‘WEAPON TAKING “AFEARFUL TOL   Eight Thousand In. jured In Addition To 3,752 Killed

(8,000 Others Injured But Toll Considered Light; All Possible Being Done To Combat New Weapon, Report

Churchill Reports 2,752 Are Dead; 8,000 in Hospitals From Bombings.

Nazi Robot Bomb: Have Killed 2,752 in Britain   More Than 8,000 Others Have Been Injured As London Again Evacuated Children And Puts Deep New Shelters Into Operation

London Hard Hit By Nazi Rocket Weapon   Assault Continued As Churchill Makes Report To Commons

ROBOTS’ KILL 4,735, INJURE 14,000 MORE   817,000 Houses Destroyed Or Damaged By Weapon

ROBOT BOMBS KILL ~ABSIN ENGLAND   CHURCHILL REVEALS SEVEN“ WEEK TOLL — 14,000 SERIOUSLY INJURED,

FLYING BOMBS HAVE CLAIMED 4.735 TIVES   14,000 Others Injured, . 17,000 Homes Destroyed, 80,000 Damaged

Churchill. Tells Commons 2752 Persons Are Killed, 8000 Wounded By Robots

6,000 OTHERS INJURED, PRIME MINISTER SAYS   English Being Evacuated From London. Special! Study for Dealing With Blitz Bombs

Commons Told Of Damage Done By Robot Bombs   Churchill Says New Type German Bombs Have Killed 2,752 and Wounded 8,000 Others in 3 Weeks.

2,192 PERSONS KILLED BY NAZI ROCKET BOMBS   Churchill Reports To Commons On New  Typwiea   g O00 ARE INJURED   Officially ly Discloses London Has Been Bombed

‘Casualties From: Flying - Bombs Exceed 10,000, : 3.) Churchill Says —   REPORTS TO: COMMONS   Children and Others Being _ Evacuated from Bnitsh Capital’ -

RobotBombs Have Taken Heavy Toll   2,752 Persons Killed Since Attack Began Three Weeks Aaqo ©

4735 Killed by Flying Bombs  14,000 Hurt, 800,000 Houses Damaged, Chuorchil]} Renorte

ROBOTS DAMAGE 817,000 HOMES   Flying Bombs Kill 4,735; Wound 14,000

Grim Report On Rocket Is ~ Given People   London Evacuates Children, Populace Takes to Shelters Once Again

ROBOT ATTACKS CAUSED 2,792 DEATHS TO DATE   Churchili Tells Commons About Flying Bombs

London Under blitz Ruling Savs ‘Winnie   British Evacuate Children; Put Shelters Held In Re serve Into Use.   CARRY 2.200 POUNDS

NEARLY ALL OF CASUALTIES IN BRITISH CAPITAL   English Losses in London More Than in France First 15 Days   TAKE CHILDREN FROM CITY   Churchill Reports Nazis Have Discharged 2,750 Robot Planes From France

2,752 Killed,  8 000 Hurt — In Few Weeks.  Says. Premier   ‘London: “Main: Goal: Of Buzzing: Bombs.

2,752 Killed, 8,000 Hurt  By Germans’ FlyingBombs   Deaths Greater Than During First 15 Days: Of Normandy Invasion Churchill Penortse

Churchill Reveals Toll of Robots in  First Three Weeks   8,000 Sent to Hospitals; Sent Over at Rate of 100 a Dav n

TEMPERATURES:   Thousands Injured, Most Near London   Churchill Reveals Seriousness Of New Nazi Weapon In Speech To Commons; British Air Power Diverted

Children Taken Out ‘of London   But We Will Never Be Con“, quered, Churchill Says - In “His -Report.      NUMBER OF YANKEE ~" SOLDIERS KILLED   War in. France: Still Comes “First as: Britain Pushes: - Defense Measures...

Rocket Bomb Toll to Date Put at 2,752   More English Killed at Their Homes Than on Normandy Fields

8,000 To Hospitals: London Is Main Target   Children Being Evacuated As In Old Blitz Days; Emergency Reserve Shelters In Use As Britain Maps Counteraction.

Invasion and Russian Attack Planned at Teheran—Gives  Soviets Chief Credit   4735 Britons Killed, 14,000 Injured, . 800,000 Homes Damaged From Robots

CHURCHILL TELLS EFFECTS OF NEW GERMAN WEAPON   LONDON HARD HIT WITH MORE THAN 10,000 CASUALTIES

London Is Main Target, Children Being Evacuated   8,000 Sent To Hospitals In 3 Weeks, Churchill Discloses In Statement

2752 DEATHS IN ENGLAND BY ROBOTS    Total Covers First Three Weeks of Use by Germans

Robot Bombs Claim 10,000 Casualties   Churchill Makes Report To Commons; Method of Stopping Bombs Sought

[Robot Bombs Killed 2,752. ‘In Three Weeks, Churchill 'Reports to British Commons   8,000 Persons Hospitalized as New Type Explosive Hits England at Rate of  100 to 150 a Dav.

Reveals 8.000 Hospitalized By the Attacks   Gives Long-Awaited Report to Commons On Pilotless Planes

2,752 Killed By Whiz Bombs  More Britons Meet Death in FKnoland Than in [nnasion

CHURCHILL SAYS ROBOTS KILLED 2,752   Tells Commons 2,700 Have Been Fired In 3 Weeks

2,152 Britishers Die From Bombs   ROBOT PLANES CAUSED MANY DEATHS IN ENGLAND

Nazi Flying Bombs Taking Frightful Toll Of Life in England, Discloses Churchill In Announcing Effect Of Hitler Weanon

Churchill Puts Toll At 10,752   Many City Areas Reduced to Ruin; 150 Fired Daily

GERMAN ROBOT BOMBS KILL 2.752 BRITONS   Over 8,000 Wounded Since Start Of Attacks, Churchill. Reports

fasualties From: Flying ‘ Bombs Exceed 10,000,  Churchill Says   REPORTS TO COMMONS   Children and Others Being Evacuated from Brit ish Capital

Robot Bombs Kill 2,752 Londoners ‘In Three Weeks. Churchill Discloses

Secrecy Of Blast Toll Cleared Up   Churchill Says Most Victims Were Felled In London.

CHURCHILL SAYS 150 ROBOTS HIT LONDON DAILY   2752 Persons H av « Been Killed By Pilotless Bombs

ROBOTS KILL 4,735 WITHIN SIX WEEKS   Nazis Hurl 5,340 Buzzers Through July 31

Robot Bombs Kill 2752 in Three Weeks   Nazis Fire 100 to 150 Daily, Churchill Says

Three-Week Toll Revealed Today By Churchill   ‘Various Methods’ Are Being Used to Combat New Weapoa

Children Evacuated From British Capital As They Were in Blitz Four Years Ago, Prime Minister Reveals

YANKS LISTED AMONG KILLED BY CHURCHILL   Childr en, Non-Essential Civilians To Leave London

Churchill Fells Coninons 8,000 Others Hlave Been Hospitalized;  Nmertcan Soldiers Among Casualties: london Suffers Heaviest.

Churchill Reports 2,752 Persons Killed by Robot Bombs In Three Weeks

Churchill Telis Commons . 8,000 Others Have Been Hospitalized; Americar. Soldiers. Among Casualties; London _ Suffers Heaviest.

Children Sent From London   “Very Large Proportion” of Rocket Missles Fails To Cross Channel, Commons Informed

2,752 Killed, 8,000 Badly Injured By Rebot Bombs. Churchill Reveals   London Children Evacuated, Reserve Shelter: -Put in Use, Special Defense Board at Work Prime Minister Says

2,152 PERSONS IN LONDON KILLED BY THE ROBOT BOMBS   These Deaths Occurred in the last Three Weeka, Churchill Said Today.   8000 SENT TO HOSPITALS   London Was Evacuating Children as in 1940, It Was Announced.

BRITISH REVEAL HEAVY TOLL IN LONDON FROM NAZI ROBOTS DURING PERIOD THREE WEEKS   Buzz Bomb Being Fired Indiscriminately at London and Producing Greater Hatred of Hitler Than During Blitz Period 1940-41. Much Damage Done

Flying Bombs Kill 4,735 Persons in Britain-Churchill   Prime Minister Says That 14,000 Injured, 17,000 Homes Wrecked

Children Are Being Evacuated   Churchill Says Emergency Shelters Into Use; Bulk of 10,752 Casualties in Capital

2.752 Persons Killed In England In Last Three Weeks  SOME 8,000 PERSONS HAVE BEEN INJURED  Churchill Said He Could Give No Guarantee For The Future

Churchill Says Dead Total 2,752   Eight Thousand Are in Hospitals; Defense Methods Are Under Way

Nazi Robot Bombs Kall 2.752   London Evacuates Children, Some American Soldiers  Have Been killed

Children Are Evacuated By London Authorities; Total Deaths Are 2,752  No Estimate Given as to Number  Of American Soldie rs Slain; Chliuvehill Addraccoc Cammane

Churchill Discloses Heavy Toll Taken By Flying Bombs   4,735 Killed, 817,000 Homes Razed, Damaged; Warns Of More Deadly Weapons

REPORT GIVEN BY CHURCHILL TO COMMONS   Most Of Casualties Took Place In London   Being Sent From Capital: 60,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Launching Posts

Robot Details Given:  4.735 Killed, 17,000 Houses Destroyed, Churchill Declares

LONDON IS TARGET; 8,000 REPORTED HURT   Churchill Reveals Children Are Beg ~ Evacuated From City

CHURCHILL GIVES ACCOUNTING ROBOT ROCKET CASUALTIES   LONDON CENTER OF ATTACK WITH OVER 10,000 CASUALTIES TO DATE

Flying Bombs Kill 4,735 Persons in Britain-Churchill  Prime Minister Says That ANNO Intnred. 17.000

NAZI SUB BASE IN NORWAY HIT   RAF Bombers Batter U-Boat Lairs In Daylight Blow

News Behind The News  Canyright MeClura Newaepaper   WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker

NAZIS PUTTING. FRESH TROOPS INTO GONELIGT   Fifth. Army at Cassine Front Pushes Germans Back at’ Several: Points. -

GERMANS STREAM DOWN TO BATTLE FOR ETERNAL CITY   American, British and French Troops Knife Into Gustay Line Furiously Pushing  Nasvie Rark

Fifth Army Only 15 Mi. From Rome   Germans Crumble At Cassino, Rush Up Reinforcements

ALLIES DRIVE TO WITHIN 15 MI. OF ROME   Gustav Line Is Pierced At Several Points

Allies Drive To Within [5 Miles of City   Nazis Reported Withdraw ing to Hills Behind Cassino Stronghold

Forces Push To Within 15 Miles of Eternal City   Nazis Abandon Positions Near Cassino, Rush Troops To Strongholds

Allied Army Forces Surge From Beachhead Within 15 Mi. Of Rome   German Reinforcements Streaming From North For Showdown Rome Battle; Gustav Line Still Resisting

GERMANS SEND TROOPS SOUTH FOR SHOWDOWN   On Main 5th Army, Front Americans, British and French Cut Gustav Line.

oth Army Forces Drive Within 15 Miles of Rome   Reinforcements Being Poured In by Germany

Allies Only 15 Air Miles from Rome   Showdown Fight for City Near; Gustav Line Hit

ALLIES AGAIN STAGE A RAID ONFRANKFURT   Strike Nazi Industrial and Transport Center Second Time in Four Days — French Coast Also Attacked.

Atlantic: Wall Again Pounded By Yank Force   German Defense Barrier Along Coast of Europe Hammered For Third Time This Week

Marauders Hit Invasion Coast For 3rd Time In 24 Hours Early Today

Marauders Blast “Atlantic Wall”  No Letup in Air War Over Europe

ROCK FRANKFUET IN NEW ASSAULT              Maintain Round - the - Clock . gtaheateurdbe £

INSTALLATION CENTERS ARE RAID TARGETS   U. S. Marauders Pound German “Atlantic Wall" for Third Time In Little Over 24 Hours

Frankfurt Again Blasted By Our Flying Forts   Rocket Gun Coast Of France Plastered By Tahberators.

U. 5. BOMBERS HIT FRANKFURT   Other Planes Strike At ‘Rocket Gun’ Sector Of France

: S, MARAUDERS ROARED BACK TO NORTHERN FRANCE   Pounded German “Atlantic  Wall” Installations Today.   ITHIRD TIME IN 24 HOURS      Daylight Formations Swung Out After RAF Night Bomber Raids.

FRENCH COAST TARGET AGAIN; BERLIN RAIDED   RAF Resumes Nuisance Night Attacks On Nazi Capital

YANK FLIERS POUND FRANCE   NEW ALLIED SKY BLOW SHAKES “ATLANTIC WALL’

Fortresses Hammer Frankfurt While Other U. S. Planes Bomb “Rocket Gun” Sector Of France

Forts Blast Nazi Center  Of Frankfurt   vi, ite Liberators Slash At Pas-de Calais Area: Rocket Gun Area Raided.  CONTINUOUS R AIDS

AGAIN UNDER BOMB ATTACK   German Industrial and Transport Center Suffers Another Devastating Assault -

Frankfurt Is Bombed by Fortresses   Liberators and Britis! Plans Keep Up Raids on  French Coast

2d Raid Made On Frankfurt   Forts Blast Enemy Industria] Center ,

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND NAZIS’ "ATLANTIC WALL’   Air War Continues Over North France, ‘Western Germany

U.S. Planes Strike Area  OverFrance   Third Raid Inside 24 Hours Occurs This Morning

Fortresses Hit Frankfurt In New Raid   Other Bombers Strike At French Invasion Coast Defenses

BOMBERS SMACK FRANKFURT AREA   “Rocket Gun” Sector fr Northern France Also Hit

Yanks Again Hit Frankfurt   Flying Fortresses Blast German City With High Explosives

FLYING FORTS HIT FRANKFURT SECOND TIME   Allied Aerial Offensive Against Fortress Europe Kept Going With 89 Nazi Planes Downed

French Coast Again Hit   Bombers Keep Up Steady Blasting at “Atlantic Wall”

FRANKFURT HAMMERED BY FORTRESSES  Liberators Lead   Liberators Lead Attack on French Invasion Coast

AmericansStage  On North Franee   Pound Installations Near German “Atlantic Wall” Following RAF Attack

FORTS MAKE DEVASTATING NEW ATTACK   Liberators Make Heavy Assaults  Along Coast

American Forts Lay Eogs Again On Frankfurt   Industrial Center Is Raided Second Time In Four Days

Forts Return To Frankfurt In Heavy Raid   More Than 84 Nazis Shot Down Over Brunswick   Intense Attacks Rake  Northern France For 4th Dav In Row

U. S. Hiers Smash Anew at Nazis’ French Defenses   Marauders Again Roa  Over Continent     Tr Acenil Enemy Line

MARAUDERS HIT INVASION COAST INSTALLATIONS   RAF Planes Accompany U. S. Airmen in Heavy Assault on France

U.S. MARAUDERS POUND AT GERMAN “ATLANTIC WALL”  RAF NIGHT BOMBERS STRUCK AT OBJECTIVES IN CERMANY AND FRANC

Believe Allied. Planes Bombing Paris Targets   Paris Radio Went Off Air At 4:42; Americans Pound Nazi Atlantic Wall While RAF Struck At  Germany.

U.S. Planes Hit Frankfurt In Big Assault   City Has Second  Air Raid in Four Nights—Reds Kill Trapped Nazis

AIR WAR—  HAS ATLANT “WALLIS BOMBEL   Ue ‘S.- Marauders Carry ‘Otit' Raids On Northern French. Targets

MARAUDERS HIT ATLANTIC WALL   Nazis Channel Defense Plas. tered Third Time in 24 Hours by U. S$. Planes.

'Tons Of Bombs Again Dropped On German City   Second Time In Four Days Industrial and Transport’ ~ Center Given Ftat tening Attack _   Rocket Gun’ Area ‘Of France Raided   Germany Defense Reported Greatest Yet By ‘Pilots. Returning From Yes: . terday’s Assaults;

U.S. Planes Raid Center Second lime   Liberators Attack Independently Of Forts

DROP MANY TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON NAZI CENTER   Industrial City Hit Hard Second Time In Four Days; Liberators Strike Again At Targets In France

‘Atlantic Wall’  Pounded Again   U.S. Planes Roar Back To The Attack

Germany Blasted Again   Flying Forts Hit Frankfurt Fourth Time in Weeks

Frankfurt Bombed By  Fortresses   Transport City Is Raided Fourth Time Since January 29 — French Coast Also Attacked

U. S. Fortresses Again Pound Frankfurt In Daylight Assault   Industrial Center Gets Its Fourth Heavy Raid This Month; Other U. S. Planes Bomb Two Parts of North France

U.S. AIRMEN AGAIN BLAST FRANKFURT   Others Raid North France; Mosquitos Slash At Germany

AAF In Repeat Raid; New Attack On Invasion Coast   ‘Allies Gain On New Guinea

BOMBERS VISIT FRANCE REIN   Fortresses Continue To Pound German Staff's “Atlantic Wall”

Yanks Blast French Coast From Air   Nazi “Atlantic Wall” Pounded Third T me in 24 Hours

U.S. Fliers Smash Anew at Nazis’ French Defenses  Marauders Again Roa   Marauders Again Roa Over Continent To Assail Enemy Line

FRANKFURT HIT BY U.S. ‘FORTS   American Planes Also Lash ‘Rocket Gun’ Sectors

American Flying ‘Forts Again Hit Frankfurt; Others Bomb Frarice   Large Southwest German Industrial And -Transport Center Is Bombed For Second Time In . ‘Four Days-By Yank: Airmen

Frankfurt Blasted By Fortresses   Liberators Slash at Pas de Calais  Region

HARD HIT BY U, 5, BOMBERS   Down Eichty-Four Enemy Planes  During Raid

Berlin, Frankfurt, French Coast Hit By Allied Heavies   Token Resistance By Germans Contrast To Yesterday

CONTINUE WITH RAIDS ON NAZI COASTAL WALT   German Installations in France Pounded . Again and Again by A

FLYING FORTS HAMMER FRANKFURT AGAIN; NORTHERN FRANCE ALSO RIPPED

France Hit 3 Times in 24 Hours   American Marauders Go 100 Miles Past Coast. to Blast Rail Yards   ATTACK MADE IN SOISSONS AREA   Other. Planes Go After Military Tragets in the Northern Section

NAZI INDUSTRY BLASTED AGAIN   PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON MILITARY TARGETS

American Fortresses Smash Frankfurt  Again Friday as Air Tempo Steps Up

DEVASTATING ASSAULT ON FRANKFURT   American Flying Fortresses Blast Industrial Center Second Time In Four Days

Flying Fortresses Make Another Big Raid On Frankfurt   Other Yankee Bombers Hit At Nazis In France

AIRMEN RAID RAIL YARDS IN FRANCE   More Than 200 Marauders, on Third Mission in 36 Hours, Strike 100 Miles Inside Nation — North Coast Hit.

New Devastation On German City   U. S$. Campaign to Flatten Frankfurt Continues with Another Accaf+

LC. S. Airmen Pound German  Atlantic Wall   RAF Bombers Strike Objec: tive In Germany, France: 19 Planes Down.   TWELVE ALLIED LOSSES

FRANKFURT HIT BY U.S, PLANES   ‘Forts’ Pound Targets With Tons of Explosive—Second Raid in Four Days

AMERICAN PLANES BLAST FRANKFURT WITH EXPLOSIVE:   Struck Southwest German li dustrial Center for Second Time in Four Days.   LIBERATORS ACTIVE   Acted Independently of For tresses, Slashing ai Mih-tary Installations. -

Frankfur “t Is Target Of Teday’s U.S. Attack   High Explosives Blast Industrial City While Liberators Smash Pas De Calais Area

Forts Strike Frankfurt In New Blows   Allies Raid French Coast In Round the Clock Attack.

 Yanks Blast Ruhr  Industrial Cities   Fighter Opposition Said Light; R.A.F. Lays Mines In Nazi Waters

Germany’s “Atlantic Wall” Pounded Anew By Marauders   Daylight Formations Blast France After Night Of RAF Aeriaj Foravs

Forts Blast At Frankfurt In New Blow   ‘Rocket Gun Coast’ Also Bombed; Air Assault Goes On With Fury: Sky Battles Rage

BOMBERS ATTACK ~ FRENCH TARGETS   Tergnier Railway Yards and Shops Blasted

U.S. Planes  yan Hamme! Atlantic Wall   Americans Blast Targets on Invasion Coast for Third Time In About 24 Hours

French Coast  Placed Under Heavy Smash   Tons of Explosives Dropped on Vital Industrial Center

Forts Hammer Frankfurt Again   Round-ihe-Clock Raids Net 85 Axis Planes

FRANKFURT HIT HARD AGAIN BY U.S. AIRMEN   2nd Time Industrial Center Attacked This Week; Blast Invasion Coast

Proposes Little Steel Formula Be Relaxed So Wage Earners’ Income Would Be Boosted Additional 3 Per  gs   Frankfurt Again Comes Under Yanks Bombsights

Holiday Sweets Get Boost from Food Authority   But There’s a Catch to It for the Kids

25 SEAMEN LOST AS SHIP BREAKS      20 Rescued Before Vessel Founders Off Coast of Maine

Holiday Calm Setfles Over Wards   Army Has Office Facilities Installed, Consolidates Position

Coast Ci ties Alerted Against Aerial Blitz   Luftwaffe Pilots, Ground Crews Reported Movine Into Denmark

Hitler Pours Paratroopers Into Denmark   Rushes Luftwaffe Pilots, Ground Infantry for Possible Attack

SWEDES FEAR INVASION BY GERMAN ARMY   Increasing Concern In Stockholm Elaborate Raid Drill Carried Out

Nazi Attack On Sweden Is ixpected   Reinforcing Of Garrison In Denmark Causes Alarm ta Stockholm

Swedes F 5 Féar Invasion by Danish Nazis   Large » “Scale  Reinforcements From Reich Held Sign of Assault

Swedes Think Nazis Preparing to Invade Their Country as Troops ‘Are Poured Into Denmark, Norway

NAZTO OENDING PicoH TOURS TO GARRISON!   Pitots and Plane Crews, Air Borne infantry Among Reinforcements.

SWEDEN NERVCUS, FEARS NAZIS ARE READY TO: INVADE   Conoentvations in - Denmark Believed Pretiminary to * . New German. Move.

OPA Issues  Ration Order   Put Hams. Pork Loins Back Under Points, Cheaper  Beef Cuts Free.

Meat Ration Change Ahead  Points For Ham, Pork Loins: Cut On Beef

Cheaper Beef: _ _ Grades to Be Ration Free   Hams and. Pork Lion to Ga Back Under: Point’ System About Aucust 1

HAMS AND PORK LOINS ON LIST   Points to Be Required for Certain Meat Cuts Under Order Coming Soon

LAKE SHIPPING HANGS ON HERE   Three Boats Arrive Ove: Week-end, More Are Scheduled

Harbor Is Busy With Shipping   Two Tankers, Coal Boat Here Over Week-End

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE 60 MILES IN OLD POLAND   Win Compared To Stalingrad

Victory One of Greatest   Reds Also Grab Two Key Cities 60 Miles in Poland

IN ESTONIA AND POLAND   Vatutin’s Forces Driving Toward Polish Capital

Soviets Trap 10 Nazi Divisions on Ukrainian Front   Nazis Admit Loss of Rovno and Luel to Soeviet Forces

Soviet Armies Reach Estonia. Attack Latvia   Twin Drives Anticipate General German Evacuation

Nazis Lose Rovno in  Ukrame  Luck, Railway City, Also Falls as Caviets Drive 55

GERMANS ADMIT VAC CAPTURED BY RED FORCES   Key Transport, Defense Center Is Lost — Kussians Step Up Pressure

Enemy Line in Ukraine Is Caving In   Russians Execute Pincers Move to Envelop Many  Nazi Troops

Rovno, Luck Bases Fall. To Russians   ‘Nazis Admit. Loss OF Ukraine: Arniy. Center; Rail Town

RUSSIANS END DEADLOCK ON POLISH FRONT   Red Armies Pour Across Northern Border Into Estonia

Trap 10 Nazi Divisions In  ‘Double Thrusts   German Front Caving In Southern Areas  Under Renewed Blows

SOVIET ARMIES ON THREE SIDES p OF BUDAPEST   Civil and Military Leaders Reported Leaving The City

GERMANS LOSE TWO IMPORTANT TOWNS FAR INSIDE PRE-WAR POLAND   Russian Troops Cross Border Into Estonia. Nazis Said To Be Evac patting Narwa_

Soviets Take Vac, Danube Rail Center, As Officials Flee Imperiled Budapest

DEATH TRAP IS CLOSED AROUND CASSINO TODAY   Germans Admit Loss Of Rovno In Ukraine — Reds Enter Estonia

Russians Trap 10 Nazi Divisions in Twin Drives   Take Rovno, Luck, Deep in Poland as Axis Front Caves In

Rovno Loss Acknowledged  By Germans   Vatutin in Action On Southern Front; Soviet Armies Are Pourine Into Fetonia

REDS GAIN IN ESTONIA AND POLAND   Vatutin's Forces Driving Toward Polish Capital

150,000 GERMAN TROOPS DOOMED ~ IN THE UKRAINI   Two Russian Armies Meet. Af ter Break-through—Reds ‘Advance on All Fronts.

NAZIS ADMIT LOSS NEAR BUDAPEST   Key Transport Center Captured By Russians

Soviets Take Rovno And Luck In Poland: Make  New Crossing In Estonia

Vac, 16 Mi. From Budapest, Falls To Soviet Army   Civilians, Officers Quit Hungarian Capital, Ankara Reports

Assault On? Narva Is _  Under Way   HISTORIC TOWN IS SIX MILES. INSIDE ESTONIA; LAUNCH —. OFFENSIVE TOWARD LATVIA   TO SOUTH

NEW STUDENTS TO HAVE BUSY 3 DAYS   Classes at University of Kansas Will Start on July 4      WILL ENROLL JULY 3

HAVE BUSY 3 DAYS   Classes ‘at University’ of Kansas: Will:Start on July 4 ‘   WILL ENROLL. JULY 3

U.S. MILITARY GOVERNMENT RULES ANGAUR   Assault Forces Continue Mopping Up Operations

TRISH FIRRI IN STAND AGAINST BANNING AXIS   Eire’s Stand Revealed With Th Publication Of Note Exchange

Soviet Troops Closing Cirele Tn Major Drive   Russians Surging Toward Austria Are Reported To Be 119 Miles From Vienna   Hungarians Flee   As Reds Advance   Government Officials Es eape Doomed Capital As Rail Lines Are Cut By Saviets

BUDAPEST CUT OFF BY REDS ON ALL SIDES   GOVERNMENT FLEES FROM HUNGARIAN CAPITAL

Russians Encircle Most of Budapets   Drive Within 15 Miles Of Last Nazi Rail Escape From Capital

Fall of Capital Near; Pest Entry Reported   Escape Gap Narrowed to 37 Miles: Fortress Town of Vac Captured

Budapest Almost Surrounded By Soviet Forces  Other Muscovites Cross Danube River And Capture Ersci

Russ Threaten Budapest With Eneirelement   Drive Within 15 Miles O14 Last Escape Route Ir Breakthrough,   ‘GOVERNMENT FLEES

Encirele Most of Budapest   Russians In Major BreakThroughs While  Nazis Retreat

SEES POLITICS IN RATIONING   Congressman Predicts. Fur ther Relaxation Before ‘November Election.

SAYS POLITICS ARE DICTATING POLICIES   Congressman Predicts Ra tion Tightening If FR is Reelected.

IMPLIES OPA IS PLAYING POLITICS   FURTHER RATIONING CUT BETWEEN NOW AND ELECTION SEEN

. i a a RRR apa a at) a maim etic a mR = ngry Spaniard’ Who Gave aiters $100 Found, Penniless

HUNGRY SPANIARD MYSTERY SOLVED   He’s Bewildered Italian Ignorant of Money

GI's Won Out And Hold French Hamlet   Both Sides Proved Willing to Fight for Airel

Army Saipan Chief Removed By Marine   Holland: Smith. Says He: Was. Forced To Relieve Ralph Smith

SAIPAN GENERAL TRANSFER TOLD   MARINE CHIEF TELLS OF CHANGE IN COMMAND

GENERALS ON SAIPAN CLAS   » Army Chief Ralph Smith Relieved Of Post

Gen. Holland Smith Says He Was “Forced” To Relieve Gen. R. S. Smith

NO HAVEN FOR WAR CRIMINALS IN THE NEUTRAL AREAS   British Government ‘Will In. - sist on This, Churchill : - Announced.   SOME STATEMENTS MADE   No - “Particular Pronounce~ ment” From Spain Has ‘Been Noticed.

Britain Insists War Criminals Find No Haven In Neutral Countries

Churchill, Back In London; Insists War Criminals Find No Haven In Neutral Nations   To Make Full-Dress Statement On Thursday; No Promise Made By Spain

Must Be No Haven For War Criminals   Churchill in Commons Warns Neutrals; Points His Finger at Spain

CHURCHILL GETS WARM GREETING   Prime Minister Repeots Promise Nazis Can't Hide in Neutral Lands

Churchill in New Warninc   No Neutral Havens For War Criminals, He Tells Commons

CHURCHILL TO SPEAK TO EMPIRE THURSDAY   Cheered as He. Returns Tc Parliament from Quebec

Churchill Firm on War Criminals   Tells Commons of Pressure on Neutrals

PRIME MINISTER BACK INLONDON   Churchill to Address House of Commons Thursday

COMMONS HEARS CHURCHILL TALK   Insists War Criminals  Find No Neutral Havens

Churchill Again Emphasizes No Haven For Nazis   Says Spain Has Made No Commitments To Allies In Speech To Commons.

“EVOIES LATece Statements = SANS NECN  Churchill Cheered As He Enters: Commons

Churchill Reiterates Gov.  ernment Insists On Neutral Territories Denying Haven to Uuipries

War Criminals To Have Trouble Finding Haven   Churchill Waits For Spain to Act On Sanctuary Plan

NEUTRAL LANDS GIVEN WARNING BY CHURCHILL   Tells Commons War Criminals Must Not Be Given Haven

No Neutral Haven For Criminals   British Seek  To Prevent Nazi War Criminals from Neutral Countries

No Haven For Hitler,’ Churchill   Britain Insists That War Criminals Not Find Refuge in Neutral Countries   NO STATEMENT MADE BY SPAIN   Prime Minister Cheered in Commons as He Discusses Some War Topics

BRITONS CHEER PRIME MINISTER   TELLS COMMONS NO HAVEN FOR HITLER WILL BE PERMITTED

No Haven for  War Leaders   titel eS rl  Churchill Says Britain Insists That Neutral Aatiane Cive No Aid

Churchill Avoids Quiz on What to Do With Germany   Prime Minister Cheered hy Commons; Eden Sets Thursday for Start of Debate

Prime Minister Demands No Haven For Criminals  Of War Among Neutrals

No Peace Haven For Criminals, Says Churchill  Speaks Of Spain's Clask OF Silence

PARLIAMENT TO HEAR CHURCHILL THURSDAY   Prime Minister Cheered On His Return To London

DEATH TAKES ~~ AUS ‘KATIE   MRS: AL SMITH DIED EARLY TODAY OF PNEUMONIA © AFTER ILLNESS or “FIVE WEEKS

Paratroops, Big Air Force Support  All-Out Enemy Attacks; ‘Everything At Stake,’ German Leader Declare< -

Furious Counter Thrust On Sunday Blasted Ist Army   German Field Marshal Urges His Forces To Superhuman Efforts, Saying Everything It At Stake; Your Hour Strikes.

’Don’t Change Horses’ Theme Song is Banned By Four Radio Networks

CONGRESS 1S ASKED FOR MONEY ASSURE VICTORY IN WAR  — NATIONAL SERVICE ACT enincrur pv ANMINISTRA   NATIONAL SERVICE ACT SOUGHT BY ADMINISTRA. TION GETS OPPOSITION

CONGRESS 15 ASKED  FOR MONEY ASSURE  VICTORY IN WAR NATIONAL SERVICE ACT  SOUGHT BY ADMINISTRA. TION CETS OPPOSITION

HOME ISSUES MAY BRING F. D. R. VS. CONGRESS BATTLE   Policy Issues Likely to Reverberate Throughout PeKtical Campaign — Taxes, Subsidies, Saldiex Voting on List of Contests

HOME FRONT BATTLE FACES FOR, SOLONS   Subsidy,  Service Vote and Tax Bills Probably Will Stir Un Collision

Home Front issues Into  ‘hh Election   Congress, Roosevelt Seem Headed to Collision On Explosive Questions

President and Congress Seen Moving Toward Collision on Many Policies

Clash Between Roosevelt And Congress On Series Of Home Front Issues Nears

Roosevelt And Cones At  word s Points Congressmen Fear   gAdministration Will Force Blame-On Ther

rDRk, Congress May Clash Over Domestic Issues  Homefront Policy   Homefront Policy Seen As Subject In President’s Race

THE PRESIDENT EXPECTED 10 VETO TAX BILL   Head-on Collision Looked For Between White House and Anti-New Deal Groups That Will Create Debates   PRICE CONTROL

FDR AND D CONGRESS BREACH WIDENS ON MAJOR BILLS.      Head-On Collision See’ me: Inevitable Over Series .o Home Front Policy, 4  Ceewaa

FDR, Congress Head For Clash On Home Issues   Lines Are Drawn For Battle for Political Power

Head-On Collision Over Home Front Issues Looms  Between FDR And Congress

AIRMEN SINK 9 JAPANESE SHIPS   44 Nip Vessels Sunk in Week in Bismarck Area

Nine More Jap ShipsInConvoy Sent To Bottom   American Planes Sink Ves sels As They'Steam Away From Battered Rabaul

9 More Jap’ Ships Sunk,  New Ireland   Fugitives From -Rabaul Are Huntéd Down — Total for Week Is 44

Nine More Jap Vessels Are Hunted Down By Allies AndSent To Graveln Ocean

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIA European Wars  Start In East, May End There

40,000 Jersey Workers Go Out   Supervisors Ignore WLB Order to End Strike

STRIKE CLOSES 5 WRIGHT PLANTS   40,000 Workers Made Idle as L 800 No Supervisors

Lewis and Clark Favors Ford  Te on ance tn th cme fae   Republicans Carry Legislative Races

Lewis and Clark Favors Ford   Republicans Carry Legislative Races

Port of Brest Left in Ruins   Surviving Germans Retreat to Peninsula For Last  Ditch Stand.   Force of Doped SS Guard Slaughtered by Yankee:

Reds Seize Hatvan, Key to All Nazi Defenses East of Budapest; Also Conquer. Most of Moskolc

Soviets Capture Key Hungary City   Other Troops Within 7 Miles of Budapest

KEY BUDAPEST DEFENSES ARE HELD BY REDS   HUNGARY’S FIFTH LARGEST CITY CAPTURED

Russians Take " Hatvan, Fight Into Miskole   Germans Say Reds Within 7 Miles of Hungary’s Canital Cire i

MERRILL'S MEN SLUG WAY INTO BURMA BASTION   Americans, Chinese Block Important Road

Yanks, Chinese Battling Way Into Myitkyina   Indian Army Throws Road Block - Across Tiddim Highway South of Japs at Imphal

MERRILL'S MEN IN OUTSKIRTS OF MYITKYINA   Jungle-Fighting American And Chinese Troops Capture Airdrome And Penetrate Into Edge Of Important City.

Allies Dent Myitkyina   Airborne Reinforcements Enter Outskirts After Capturing Jap Airfield

Allies Close. On Myitkyina   Indian Army Brigade Climaxes Forced March With Slashing Attack

ALLIES SEIZE JAP AIRDROME      Jungle Fighters Take Field At Outskirts of Myitkyina

PENETRATE SUBURBS 0! JAPY BASE   Asiatic Offensives Continue To Bring Allied Troops Gains

Allies into Outskirts Of Big Japanese Base   U. $. and Chinese Forces Punch into Myitkyina After Taking Airdrame

Allied Forces Penetrate City Defenses   Battle Is Progressing On Outskirts Of Myitkyina Today

Fight in Edge Of Myitkyina   Another Road Into Base Cut By Allies; Indian Brigade in Imphal Area

Allied Troops On Outskirts Of Myitkvina   Other Troops Thrusting Toward India City From North; ¥ illage Of Nawraw Sakan

BREAD RATIONING TERMED INEVITABLE   Senate Told Grain Reserves ‘Squandered’

CLAIMS BREAD RATIONS SURE   Government Feed, LiveStock Policies Are Blamed

Blames Squandering Policy Believes Bread Rationing Is Inevitable Before End of War

Youth Tells Of Slaying At Humboldt   Arrested Following High. way Accident Sunday North of Winston, Mo.

HUMBOLDT MAN KILLED; YOUTH UNDER ARREST   Farm Hand Admits Beating Employer; Caught in Missouri

Former Merrill People Marry In Los Angeles  Groom Is Now Serving In  U.S. ’Navy

Allies Gain On Anzio Beachhead  Nazi Raid Repulsed North Of Cassino

Allies Regain Anzio Outpost  Strong German Raid   Strong German Raid Is Also Thrown Back

Allies Gain Old Outpost   Strong German Raid Fails Near. Cassino.

Allies Win Back Outpost on Flank Anzio Beachhead   Throw Back Sirong German Raid North of Cassino in Fierce Hand-to-Hand Fighting

Fierce Clash At Beachhead   Allies Regain Lost Position; Repulse Naz Raid in Cassino Area

Caroline Isles Get Battering   Three-Day Sweep — Made On Jap Sector

REVEAL THREE-DAY AERIAL ATTACK ON CAROLINE ISLANDS   Double Raid Blasts Truk, 42nd Blow At Big . Japanese Base

U.S. Bombers Stage Double Raid on Truk   Allies Advance ln New Guinea, Admiralty Isles

Three-Day Sweep of Carolines Is Reported   Center Attack With Double Raid Upon Truk

U. S. Fliers Attack Caroline Islands Double Raid is Made on Truk

TRUK GIVEN TWO BOMBINGS DURING THREE DAY SWEEI   British Open Heavy, Attack on Outskirts of Kohima In Move to Destroy Enemy Positions.   GERMANS OPEN ATTACK ON REDS AT TIRASPOL   Russians Kill Many, 60 Tanks Knocked Out With Massed Fire, 100,000 Jans Move In China.

Remove Guards In Philly   Grand Jury Prepares To Hear Additional  Witnesses in Inquiry

JAPS POUNDED ON ALL FRONTS   Allies Inflict Heavy Aerial Blows in Entire Pacific Area.   ON DEFENSE IN BURMA

SETBACKS GIVEN TO JAP FORCES   Invaders Repulsed In Burma And China Drives

Allies Pound Wakde-Sarmi  Area Heavily   nvaders Set Back In Indian Campaign; Repulsed In China.   (ATD PARAMUSEIRO

_ GUAM, KURILES AND CAROLINES ARE ‘GIVEN NEW PASTINGS BY BOMBERS WITHOUT LOSS OF SINGLE PLANE   Increasing Vulnerability of Japan’s Island Outposts Throughout the Pacific Seen in Unrelenting Attacks from Land-Based and Carrier Flown  Planes

JAP DEFENSES POUNDED HARD   Nips Now On Defensive In Burma; Chinese Rally

Japanese Meet Reverses on Three Fronts  Navy Bombers Strike Kuriles   Navy Bombers Strike Kuriles In Day Raid

Jap Forces Take Pounding On All Far Flung Fronts   Chinese Troops Rally ta Defense of Loyang in Honan

Allied Blows Rock Foe on All Fronts   Air Assaults Stagger Japs While Land Campaigns Falter

Japanese Drives In Both India and China Slowed Dowr   Paramushiro, Guam New Guinea, New Britain See Raids

Japs Set Back By Allied Drives In india And China   Pacific Island Bases  Are Pounded By Planes

Jap Bases On New Guinea, Guam Among Raid Targets; Allies Rally In Burma

ALLIED AERIAL FORCES STRIKE JAPS HARD BLOW   China’s Northern Province Scene  Of Big Fight

Japs Are Set Back  in India   Yank Flyers Blast Japs the Length of Their Pacific Defense Perimeter

Set Japs On Heels      Enemy on Defensive In India-Burma Area; Repulsed in China: Island Bases Blasted

ISLAND BASES ARE BLASTED BY YANK BOMBERS   Americans Bag 16 Nip Planes Without Loss in Far-flung Aerial Assaults

Japs Repulsed Tn Waning Push On India Front   Also Suffer Sethacks In North Honan Province By Allied Counter Drive

Japs Suffer Heavy Blows   American Planes Pound Enemy Bases In Pacific Theater

HEAVY ARMORED BATTLE RAGING   Yanks Smash to Within Twe Miles of St. Lo   BIG GUNS SUPPORT   British and Canadians Give Up Some Ground Southwest of Caen

Troops Smash to Within Two Miles of St. Lo  NEW GAINS SCORED _. : IN BRITISH DRIVE  vu, S. Armies Only Three. Miles From Lessay Base.

WHOLE FRONT IN NORMANDY CRACKED OPEN   AMERICANS NEARING TOWNS OF ST. LO AND LESSAY

=eavies" /.rmoret 3a7_e 0: "Wa ar Rages. ¢ usice S-. ~0, Jermat. Ves- .an< eri_ec

Big Tank Battle Rages on Nazi Normandy Flank   Yanks Supported by Dive-Bombers, Big Guns Smash Enemy Back, Capture Heights Dominating St. Lo

Big Guns Pound Nazis as Yanks Conquer Heights   British Fall Back Slightly near Caen

Dominant Hill Changes Hands  In Caen Battle   Y¥anks Push Nearer Lessay. In West Coastal Lange, ..  fLlaeo Im an Darinsa 

Drive Perils Entire Nazi  West Flank   British Hammer Out New Gains Northeast Of Caen; Bombers Destroy 21 Nazi Tanks

Rommel Huris Picked Army Into Battle   Entire German Flank Imperilled by Drive Headed by Americane

Entire French Front Blazes in Great Battle   Big Guns, Dive-Bombers Are Being Used in Powerful New Offensive: Bitter Fighting Now Races Southwest of Caen

Northeast Of Caen British Forces Drive Southward To The Outskirts Of Faubourg De  Vasrallese

Germans’ Entire Western Flank for St. Lo to Sea Is Imperilled; Destroy Score of Nazi Tanks.

West Flank  Of Germans Threatened   Toss Reinforcements Into Armored Battle, Lose Score of Tanks  YT ARATE’ COME PWT §FTrco 2A

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5, TROOPS: RIP THROUGH NAZI LINES   Capture 10 Towns and Strongpoints in Surge Forward on 40-Mile Front in Normandy, »   ENEMY’S WESTERN -: FLANK IMPERILED   Rommel Throws in Crack Panzer Units and One of Fiercest Tank Bat-: tles of War Rages.

Reds Within Shelling Range Of Memel   Advance Wiping Out Dangerous German Baltic Salient

Soviets. in  Gun Range Of Memel   Red Armies Launch New Offensive on Baltic Front, Plow Ahead 16 Mi. a Day

BALTIC PORT OF MEMEL {5 THREATENEY   Huge Russian Drive Under Way Along Wide Front

Reds Move Nearer to E. Prussia   Threaten Major German Forces by Plunging Across  Lithuania

Two Soviet Armies Plunge Forward Within Sheiting Range Of Baltic Port Of Memel; Threaten To Trap Germans   RUSSIANS USING 35 INFANTRY DIVISIONS

REDS PLUNGE TOWARD MEME   Threatening Nazi Forces With Entrapment—Soviet. Press Says Day is Not Far Off When Battle Will Shift into Reich Territory.

Iwo Armies Drive Within Shelling Range Of Port Of Memel   Nazi Garrisons Face Entrapment   Moscow Says It Will Not Be Long Until Fighting Moves To Reich

Two Soviet Armies  Close ‘In On Memel   Nazis Threatened With Entrapment; Russian Press Predicts Early Invasion

Smash 80 Jap Planes In Raids On Wewak   BAR SLAMS VIL VV CWdaaA  200 Tons Of Bombs Crash On Nipponese; Enemy Fighters Caught Hour Later Refuelino: Madano Advance Cantinnec

80 Japanese PlanesRuined By U.S. Fliers   Americans Destroy 72 Grounded Ships, Shoot Down 8 at Wewak   LOSSES ARE LIGHT   Australian and. MacArthur Forces 24 Miles -. Apart at Madang

U. S. Fliers Smash 80 Jap Planes   Majority Caught on Ground in Slashing Assault on Wewak

80 Enemy Planes in Newak’s Airdromes  Destroyed by Yank:   Americans Wait Until Japs Build Up Aijr Force and Strike

AMERICAN PILOTS DESTROY 80 JAP PLANES ATWEWAK   72 ENEMY FIGHTERS CAUGHT ON GROUND WHILE REFUELING

J ap Attack On ‘Iwo Superfort Bases Fizzle   Fail: Even To Hit Rumways of Jumping Off Places * of Bombers That Raided Anshan

States Rights Reconversion Bill Passed By Senate   “Sets Up New: “Agency To Co-ordinate Plans For: Gigantic Switch:  To Disa netics sc Brannnmy   FEDERAL STANDARDS MEASURE REJECTED : Beaten: Down,, 49.2  » After Benefit Rates.  . Are Reduced:to:$25.

States Rights Reconversion Bill Approved   Senate Rejects the Murray-Kilgore Measure, 49 to 25

STATES RIGHTS BILL APPROVED   George Measure Passed By Senate Leaving Jobless Pay Rate to States

Senate Passes Coalition Plan of  Reconversion Murray-Kilgore Bill  Rejected in Favor  Of ‘States Rights’ Plan

Senate Okays State Rights Post-War Bill   George’s Coalition Beats Kilgore’s Followers

MURRAY KILGORE POST-WARBILL BADLY BEATEN   Features Demanded By Labor Organizations Re moved By Senate Action   MEASURE ADOPTED IS ALONG BARUCH PLAN

Senate Passes "States Rights’ Postwar Measure   Coalition Defeats Federal Plan, 49-25

Senate Passes  George Bill   Reconversion Measure By Murray, Kilgore  Is Rejected 49 to 25

MURRAY-KILGORE MEASURE BEATEN   State’s Riphts- Postwar Reconversion Bill Pass-

Senate Passes George Bill By 55 to 19   Murray-Kilgore Plan Rejected in Favor of ‘State Rights’ One

RAIL CENTERS RAIDED AGAIN   American Heavy Bombers!-'Smash ‘Teappes Rail Hub Outside Paris Also Bomb German Chemical’ Cen+ ters of Levergusen. :

Armored Units Have Smashe Three And One-Half Mil North Of Velletri; Hard Figh ing On Approaches To Rome   GAIN NORTH SLOPES OF ALBAN HILI

Welsh Miners Strike  Moves Into Scotlanc   Officials Fear Dispute To Spread Through Other Industry

16 States of Soviet Union Grantec Independent Voice in Foreign Affair:

RUSSIA MAY GAIN 16 SEATS AT PEACE TABLE   Soviet Constituent Republics to Have Own For. Policies

Pushing on Toward Rome   Much Equipment Abandoned by  Retreating Nazis

Reconnaissance Units, Approaching Via Casilina, Reported In Vicinity Of Artena, Near Valmontone, Strong Point In Center Of Nazi Defense Line Below Rome—Enemy Defeated In Heavy Tank Fighting On Main Front-——Masses Of Equipment Abandoned

ALLIED UNITS IN VICINITY OF ARTENA   Germans Chased Back Into Alban Hill Defenses   MUGH EQUIPMENT   Abandoned By Retreating Enemy; 9,000 Captives Taken In Drive

Fifth Army Fights Close To Rome Defense Line   Fleeing Germans Faced With Entrapment; Enemy Defeated In Heavy Tank Fighting

Allies’ Fifth Army Nears Via Casilina as Germans Retreat   Nazis Leave Masses of Equipment, Including Tanks, Behind

Mazis Defeated in Tank Battle hy Canadians, British, Leave Masses ef Exuipment Behind

Germans Fall Back on Main Front   Report Patrols In Vicinity  Of Valmontone, In Defense Line

Allies Smash Nazis In Heavy Tank Battles Along Entire Front   Clark’s Troops Approach Center of Enemy’s Defense Line 16 Miles Below Rome at Velletri

Fifth Army Is Near Last Nazi Route To Rome   Gen. Clark’s Troops Race Ahead 12 Miles - From Former Beachhead; Enemy Defeated  In Furious Tank Battle In Southeast

Enemy Forced To Fall Back On Rome Road   Much Equipment, Including Tonks, Left In Retreat

Allies Near Last Nazi Escape Route   Advance of 1244 Miles From Beachhead —  More Prisoners

Nazis Retreat, Leaving Much Booty Behind   Eighth Army Defeats Enemy In Battle Of Tanks Near River

Fifth Army Power Drive Moves Close To Vital Highway   Allies Driving from Beachhead Only 237 Miles from Rome; Smash Foe in South

Nazis Forced To Retreat From Tank Battle On Main Front: Lose Counterdrive

NAZIS ANZIC ESCAPE ROUTE IS THREATENED   Germans Retreat To Mountains; Lose Supplies

NEARIN CITY OF VALMONTONE   Clark’s Troops Pace Drive From Anzio Beachhead

SHARP ENEMY ATTACKS ARE BEATEN BACK   Defeated Germans Leave Masses Of Equipment Including Tanks

Fifth Army Thrusts Near Valmontone, Strong Point In Nazi Rome Defense Line

British Win Fierce Tank Battle At Right of Line—French Gain New Hill Positions

Said Short Distance. From Strong Point In Center Of Line   Masses Of Enemy Equipment Left _ Behind As Nazis On Main Front - Suffer Defeat In Tank Battle

CLARK’S TROOPS PUSH 12 MILES NORTH OF ANZIO  GERMANS FALL BACK ALONG MAIN FRONT:

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF FIRST LANDING   4 By RICHARD C. HOTTELETT,  ‘Representing the Combined U. S. Press).

Witness Gives Enemy Scene at H Hour   WATCHES TROOPS HIT BEACH FROM PLANE, SEES PARATROOPS LAND

DOUBLE-BARRELED RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY IS SEEN    Separate Peace Story Leads to Belief Moscow Is Hedging Bets on Post-War Security.   SENSATIONAL RUMOR DENIED BY BRITAIN   Opinion Held U. S. May Have Erred in Assuming Reds Would Go Further Than  Actual Agreements. —

Russ Seen Trying To Straddle Policy   Pravda’s Publishing of Rumor Claiming British, Nazis Talked Separate Peace Hints Reds Hedee Bets on Postwar Meets

Dual Soviet Foreign  Policy Taking Sh ape   Soviets Appear to Be Hedging Their Bets on Postwar Security’ Washington Stunned by Pravda Peace Rumor Stery

Dual Russian Policy Is Seen   Prepared in Event Collaboration Fails

Russians Seen  Hedsine Bets       weil Preparing For Post-War, Turmoil

Dual Red Foreign Policy Is Seen Taking Shape in Peace Rumor Publication

NO DICTATION FROM ALLIES   Washington, Along With London Wondering About Motives For Publishing “British Separate Peace” Rimmor.   Hopeful Of Reply

Trouble Flares In Mississippi   Three Rebel Electors Say They Will Vote For Senator Byrd For President.

ROMANIA SEEN AS WEAKEST FOE   Experts Give Opinions On Axis Satellites

HUMAKIA THOUGHT MOOT UIRELY 10 HEEW ULTIMATUM   Close Control Would Prevent Revel. tion _ in Other Latellites

HUN SHACKLES TO REMAIN ON “THREE NATIONS   Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria Believed In No Shape To Stage Uprising   BUCHAREST IN TROUBLE   Nazis Control Capital And Country Fearful Of Advancing Reds

BOND SALES IN CHESTER REACH 85 PC. OF QUOTA   Local Chairman Sees $12,000,000 Total “In Rac”

Bond Sales Now Half of Quota   County's Sales Reach 46 Per Cent. of Quota Of $4,729,400

* Endorses st War Plan   gislation Will Set Up Special Congressional ilitary Planning Group.

Mississippi Breaks Levee   Spreads Over 51,000 Acres Behind Broken Levee at Preston, Ill.

MAJOR ILLINOIS LEVEE BREAKS   MISSISSIPPI SPREADS OVER 51,000 ACRES

Flood Waters Spread Through  Breached Levee   Break Sounded Like Explosion; Another Big Dike Menaced.

Mississippi Tears Another Levee Asunder in Flood  Illinois Continues On Rampage; Records Are Noted

FLOODS BREAK ANOTHER DIKE   51,000 More Acres Are Inundated As Levee Goes Out

Miggissipp Rampage Now Becoming Worse   Another Levee Ripped Open As 51,000 Acres Covered In Water.

Mississippi Loses Another Levee   51,000 Acres Under Water Today

SWOLLEN RIVER RIPS OUT LEVEE NEAR PRESTON   FLOOD WATERS COVER 51,000 MORE ACRES OF ILLINOIS FARMLAND

Illinois Levee Blasted Today By Mississippi   Army Men Say Break At Preston Like Explosion: 51,000 Acres Inundated

RIVER SPREADS OVER GREATER AREA '® STATE   Levees Give Way As Illinois  Overflows

Mississipp! Rips Levee  Spreads Over 51,000 Acres at Preston, Ill.;  Break to Ease Pressure

Mississippi — Flood Rises,  More Damage   Covers 51,000 Acres Of Land

Mississippi Breaks  Levee; Floods 51,000 ‘Acres In Illinois   Rampaging River Said Receding Slowly; New Break Expected To Relieve Pressure . On Weakened Walls Further Downstream

Great Air Force ‘Smashes Hard At  (Nazi Positions —   Largest Armada _ Ever Mobilized Over Italy Blasts Germans

_—_  ———-hg  oe  an   ”,§. Sscor: Carrier Sun< “n h- an ic: 5 2a) S1Ns 4agzec

Patton Pushes 16 Miles Into  Enemy's Flank   Nazis Report Spearheads Menacing Meuse and Those on South are Withdrawn ‘According to Plan’

Another Nazi Horror Camp Is Uncovered   3,000 Slain as Soviet Troops Neared, Say Escaped Inmates

Another Atrocity  People In Vicinity Of Tallinn Tell How Group Was Shot And Burned.

efor io VEN LD A WHREK  Nazis Put Torch To Bodies Of 3,000 Labor Camn Victjme

Nazis Murder 3,000 Jews, Russians, Estonians In Big Klooga Labor Camp

zaR AER A PB   MASS GERMAN HORROR BARED NEAR TALLINN   3,000 Estonians, Jews, Russians Reportedly Murdered as Russian Army Approached

Esrcane Waterspouts   3,000 Methodically Slain By Nazis In Estonia Labor Camp

Another Nazi Slaughter Pen Found; 3,000 Men, Women, Children Killed

NAZI TORTURE ‘CAMP EXPOSED   3,000 Prisoners Systematically Murdered by  Germans

Another Nazi Mass Atrocity Center Found  Say Thousands of Pris oners Killed

Fleeing Nazis Slaughter 3 3,000  ya pe oe BO  a Klagaa Lapor Camp Morro:

RUSSIAN ADVANCE INTO ESTONIA — REVEALS NEW MASS MURDERS BY GERMANS ON JEWS AND RUSSIANS’

REDS DISCOVER HORROR CAMP IN ESTONIA SECTOR   Prisoners Killed Wholesale By  German Army

Germans Executed Slaves in Labor Camp Before Retreat from Russians

WAR DEPARTINIENT 10 Denigbill/t ARMY, NAVY WEN   Congress Indicates ‘*Hands Off” Pclicy on Se: vicemen Dismissal

ARMY DEMOBILIZATION PLAN ~ REPORTED NEARLY COMPLETED   MEN LONGEST IN . SERVICE AND THOSE WITH OUT“STANDING RECORDS ‘  FHaeT ON LIAT :

OPA PRICE CEILING ~ AT PUBLIC SALES  ARE HELD ILLEGAL   Probate Court Rules After Farm Sale Complaint

Potential G. 0. P. Candidates Agree On Some Issues, Differ About Others

Home Front Mismanagement Attacked . ! By 3 Potential Presidential Candidates

HOPKINS BRANDS  LETTER “FORGERY”   President’s Adviser Appears Retare Grand fury

Letter Fake. Jury Hears   : Hopkins: Takes: Stand At Federal Inquiry

Letter Forged Hopkins Tells Grand Jurors   Thinks He Knows Who  Forger Is, He Declares After Hearing

LETTER FORGED, HOPKINS’ CLAIM   Thinks He Knows Who Wrote Missive

ICKES DEFENDS PROPOSED PIPE LINE IN ARABIA  DEBATES SUBJECT  WITH SEN. MOORE ON RADIO PROGRAM

Philly Awaits Action By F.D.R To End Tieup   New Wave Of Window Smashings Attributed To Neégro Youths.

PHILADELPHIA LOOKS 10 FOR FOR ASSISTANCE   New Wave of Inter-racial Violence Sweeps City

"ROOSEVELT IS — URGED TO ACT   Philadelphia Asks President to  End Work Stoppage, Race Fights

Draft Boards Breclassiting Strikers As 1-A   Violence Continues In Philadelphia; Transportation Still Locked.

Arms- -Producing Center Looks To White House For Action — In Tie-Up Of Transportation 3

CIANO’S EXECUTION VIEWED AS PART OF NAZI PURGE PROGRAN  ITALIAN PATRIOTS HAVE BEEN SLAYING HIGH FAS CISTS IN NORTH ITALY

NAZI PURGE OF ITALIANS IS EXPECTED   Execution of Ciano and Others Who Ousted Mussolini Seen as Part of Move Against All Who Deserted Reich.

Execution of Ciano Indicates Start of Purge Against Fascists Viewed as Traitors’ by Nazis

NAZI-ANNEXED JAREA ENTERED BY RED FORCES   Rerlin Admits Foe Stand: on Arc Six Miles from Warsaw

SOVIET ARMY ONLY 6 MILES FROM WARSAW   Berlin Admits Loss of Kaunas   NEW OFFENSIVES   Siedlie Falls, Baltic Port Menaced

RUSSIANS PUSH ASSAULT INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Kaunas Seized By Reds As German Homeland Feel Blows Of War

Anti-Nazi Posters Scattered In Berlin   Police Offer Reward For Information On Distribution Of Peace Propaganda.

\nti- Nazi Posters spreadinGermany   Berlin Police Offer Re ward For Distributors

UNREST IN GERMANY MOUNTING   Thousands of Peace Posters Appear in Berlin

Anti-Nazi Posters Appear In Berlin   Forecast Early End of War In Europe

Baseball Results  mr. i. A anaAntinétnln Prace   American League

Gov, Dewey's Rise to Fame Started \s Successful Lawyer in New York

Senators Set Deadline for Aid to Europe   Congress Leaders Urge FDR Not to Veto New Revenue Bill

FAKING CHARGED ON PIECE - WORK   55 Shipyard Welders And Counters Nabbed By FBI

Heavies Out. In Strength F riday Night   Take to Air After Day Of Idleness Imposed By Poor Weather   PLANES FROM. ITALY HIT MUNICH AREA

BAD WEATHER CRIPPLESAIR INVASION TASK   MUNICH BATTERED BY ITALY-BASED BOMBERS

Allies Mounting Pincers Attack To Squeeze Nazis From Key Town Of Orvieto

PRESSED IN RACE FOR NORTH ITALY   FIGHT FURIOUS DELAYING ACTIONS IN EFFORT TO GAIN TIME FOR RABBLE TO REACH MAIN DEFENSE LINE.

Germans Facing Pincers Attack  Americana, British Drive On Twa Sidac

Huge Ocean Area Is Out of Bounds   British Warn Ships To Stay Out of Bay of Biscay; Invasion And Blockade Indicated

Record Barrage =. Precedes Attack   Vaet Air Cover, Warships Pave Wav far Tracana

Fifth and Eighth Armies Advancing Against Germans   Initial Objectives Reported Captured

Assault Begun To Crush Axis   Soldiers Of Fifth And Eighth Seore Gains Of Two To Three Miles In All-Out Offensive

Big Push Gets Underway on  25-Mile Front   Artillery Barrage and Aerial Cover Support Troops; Furious Nazi Resistance Is Met

FIRST DAY OF ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE SEES GAINS OF TWO AND THREE MILES; ELIMINATE COUNTER ATTACKS.

Gains Are Made In Both Allied Areas   At Other Points tn Strongly Fortified Line Allies Are Blocked By Furious Nazi Defense

Advance 7 to 3 Miles in First Day's Assaults   Allies Meet Furious Resistance at Points Of Nazi Gustav Line

DEEP HOLES MADE IN GERMAN LINES   All-Out Battle Starts to Destroy Nazis, Said   FURIOUS RESISTANCE   25-Mile Front From Cassino To Gulf of Goeta Blazes; Nazis Counter-attack

Furious German Resist ance Blocks Progress 3 Other Points . Alon; Blazing Battle Front,          FIGHTER-BOMBERS SUPPORT ATTA         Top Commanders Decla ir6 Aim of All-Out Offen: sive is destruction:  ” Hitler’s Forces ‘in Italy.

Fighier-Bombers Back Offensive to Wipe Out Nazi’s Gustav Line, Hit Important Strongpoint of Foe

Gains of ‘Two to Three ‘Miles Reported   At Other Points of Strongly Fortified Gustav Line Fifth and Eighth Armies Are Blocked by Nazi Resistance

FDR M1 Must Pu Push Service Scheme   Faces Party Opposition Unless‘ He Gains Okeh Prior: To: July.

Labor Draft May Become Political Issue If Congress Rejects Roosevelt Proposal

Opposition Faces  President in  Civilians’ Draft Quarrel May Continus  - For Months, - Become Election Issue

Labor Draft May  Be Issue at  Demo Conclave Session Slated  To Select  Party Chieftain

LABOR DRAFT MAY COST FDR SOME SUPPORT   Demand Seen As Presidential Campaign Issue

Service Bill Arouses Wrath   National Service Legislation Brings Outspoken Opposition From Both Sides.

Mass Movement To The Battle Lines  Drafting Of Young Men Under 26 Is Speeded Up By Government’s Order

18-25 DRAFT SPEEDED UP   Federal Agencies Rushing Data On Industrial Deferment Needs

WILL SPEED DRAFT QF MEN UNDER 26   They Are To Be Called Up For Immediate Pre-Induction Physical Examinations Despite Classification

To Speed Draft of Young Men to Meet  Calls for Fighters   Federal Agencies To Rush Data on Needs  of Industries

EARLY PHYSICAL TESTS POSSIBLE FOR GREAT MANY   New Agency to Ration Deferments of 18-to-26 Men Is Expected to Act on Postponed Cases.   INDUCTIONS WILL BE SPEEDED UNDER PLAN   365,000 Holders of Non-Agricultural Deferments Are Affected, Early Calling ts Anticipated. .

Men Under 26 to Move Fast to Battle Line   Mass Movement From Jobs to Army Started by Selective Service

MASS MOVEMENT OF MEN UNDER 26 FROM JOBS TO WAR FRONT  SUCH MEN BEING CALLE FOR IMMEDIATE PHYSI-

—DRAPIT—  Order Speeds Physical Examinations For  ‘Men Under 26   i. Selective Service Orders Them Called For TinmediAte Tests’ As Government. Agencies Gather . Data On Manpower Needs

Speed Draft of Young Men for Military Service   New Regulations Designed to Boost Fighting Forces; Machinery Revised

Draft Of Young Men Is Speeded By New System  Federal Agencies Rush Data On Industrial De.

YOUNG MEN UNDER 26 LEAVE JOBS FOR WAR  Selective Service Calling Youth  Daw Deenerdiantbe leAarawBlianm Inte Awe

SPEED UP DRAFT INDUCTIONS OF MEN UNDER 26   Remove Expiration Dates on Farm Deferments, Can Be . Called Anytime

Men Under 26 Are Being Rushed Into Physical Examinations For Immediate Military Service

ORDER DELAYS  CONSIDERATION  OF OLDER MEN PHYSICAL EXAMS  OF YOUNG MEN TO REIN RIQUT AWAY

Draft Speeds Call for Men — Of Under 26   TO COMB ELIGIBLES   Length of Deferment N Longer Counts; Plant - Needs Siudied

PHYSICAL TEST OF YOUNG MEN IS SPEEDED UP   Selective Service Postpones Con: sideration Older Men Except 1-A jo Hasten Drafting   NEW ORDERS OUT   Single Committee to Rule on Men Essential io Indusiry Under Tighter Res!

Deferments for Men Under 26 Canght By Draft   New Regulations Being Put Into Operation By U. §

Speed Youth Draft   Immediate Call to Men Under 26 Will Put Off for a Time Review of Older Men

Call for Younger Men Is Stressed   Movement of Those Under 26 Years From Jobs to Battle Lines Speeded as Physical Examinations For Older Men Are Postponed.   NEW DRAFT RULING

of Younger ~- Men Soon   Immediate -Physical “Exams Are: Ordered Under’ New. “Draft:Program ;   CENTRAL AGENCY. 22): . “FOR -DEFERMENTS   Hershey: “Tells.-of' ‘of Plans i Handle: “Inductions and. . “Deferments.

Those Under 26 Placed on First Call for Service   Action Places Some Order in Confused Manpower Situation

FASTE ORDERED FOR MEN UNDER 25   Present Deferment Not Considered  In New Order

Speed Movement Youths fo Army   Begin Calling Men Under 26 For Immediate Physical Exams.

DRAFT OF MEN 18-26 SPEEDED   PHYSICAL TESTS SLATED FOR YOUNGER MEN

Speed Draft OfMen Under 26 In Nation   Federal Agencies Rush Data On Industrial Deferments; State Directors Notified

Hitler Reported Toe Have Fled To  Guarded [state   Curfew Imposed In Berlin  By Nazis

Stockholm Reports State He Has Gone To The Rhineland   Reports From Other Neutral Countries Claim That Berlin Is Seething With Unrest. Blood Purges Continuing,

Soviets Crack Nazi Lines sor Big Gains   Drive Against Finns Continues to Move Rapidly Ahead

Soviets Crack Nazi Lines tor Big Gains  Drive Against Finns  Continues to ni TD ie Ot ON TT: ce

Wallace Trip Stirs Speculation   Personal F.D.R. Request Said To Be Back of Vice President’s Russian Trip.

Brushoff for Wallace: He May Be in China af Request Of FDR When Successor Is Named      Plan To Eliminate Vice President Is Seen In Move To Send Him on New Foreign Mission

WALLACE TRIP “STILL MYSTERY ~IN WASHINGTON   Roosevelt Asked Vice President To Go To China; Purpose Unknown

WallaceTrip To China Is Questioned   SPECULATION RIFE ON PROPOSED VISIT OF VICE PRESIDENT TO CHIANG KAI-SHEK; AT CONVENTION TIME.   Official Capacity

Leafiets Dropped Over Nazis Giving Them Chance To Surrender as Big Port City Is Doomed.   AMERICANS ARE WITHIN 1,500 YARDS OF THE CITY

ALLIES BATTLE IN SUBURBS OF BESIEGED PORT   Collapse Is 's Only. Matter of - Hours, Headquarters Announce

Troops Drive Between Two Forts   Fall of Port Expected Soon; Germans Fall Back on Left Flank

YANKS FIGHT IN SUBURBS CHERBOURG   _, France’s Third Biggest Port Toppling To Allies

Yanks Storm Fortresses   Capture Two Key Defenses, Fight House to House In Surburbs of Port  DRIVE TOWARD HARBOR  Chances for Germans to Escape by Sea Lessened By Capture of Acaueville

Inner Fortresses of City Assaulted by U.S. Doughboys   House-to-House - Fighting Rages Within Mile of Docks

American Troops Smash Within 1,500 Yards of Cherbourg.   MATTER OF HOURS NOW?

25,000 to 50,000 Trapped Germans Devastate Harbor  As Allies Approack

FALL OF PORT CITY EXPECTED IN FEW HOURS   Troops Continue Gains At All Points on  Norman Front

Fall of Port A “Matter Of Hours”   American Troops Smash Within 1,500 Yards of City’s Waterfront

"AMERICANS ARE WITHIN A MILE OF PRIZE POR   City’s Capture Seen as Matter ¢ j#Of Hours as Yanks Drive on

Attack Fortress Mile From Docks   Yanks Take Acqueville and Teurtheville Hague on Western Tip — Bitter Fighting On in Tilly-sur-Suelles Region — Nazis Fight With Fanatical Fury

Pile-Driving Offense Made by Americans Through Suburbs of Normandy Port and Germans Called on to Surrender,   Demolition Squads Hard at Work To Cripple the Facilities of Port

AMERICANS IN SUBURBS, NAZIS USE DYNAMITE   Within Mile of Waterfront as Air, Artillery Provide Cover For Advance on Germans.

Drive Within Mile of Harbor Thru Inner De+  - fense Works   FALL OF, CITY: NEAR   American Forces’ Make At tack on City, From Three Directions

fanks Close In On Great Freneh Port   nly 1.500 Yards From Cherbourg; Fall Matter Of Hours.   AID FROM RED BASES

Expect Allied Entry Within A Few Hours   House to House Combat Rages in City As Germans Stiffen Defenses in Last-Ditch Effort to Hold On; Bombardment Heavy

Yanks Advance Within 1,500 Yards Of City   Piledriver Attack Crashes Through Suburbs of Town

Yanks Are Less ° Than Mile From’ Waterfront Today   Fall of Urgently Needed Supply Ports Is Imminent Tonight

Yanks Within 1500 Yards of Waterfront in Power Drive   Necond Force Seizes Base of Cape de la Hague Escape ‘Finger’

Yanks Storm Fortresses   DRIVE TOWARD HARBOR Chances for Germans to  Escape by Sea Lessened By Capture of Acqueville

Allies Less Than Mile From Port   ‘Two German Strong Points Captured As Power Drive Crashes Into City’s Suburbs

News Day And Night   Are Of Steel Clamped Around Port While Big Guns Move Up      Defense Declared In Final Hours   Germans Believed Blows ing Harbor Installations In Port

LENINGRAD SIEGE LIFTED; RUSSIANS CAPTURE NOVGOROD   40,000 Germans Are Killed as Russian Northern Armies Roll Along   BALTIC FLEET IS FREED

Russians Roll On In Two Tremendous Drives To Entrap Enemy Now Facing Naw Disaster

Baltic Fleet Is Freed By Offensive   Hitlerites Facing Worst Disaster Since Stalingrad

Upwards of 250,000 Germans Troops Now Fac Entrapment, With Many Units Separated and Being Annihilated or Captured by Surging Red  Armies

REDS ROLL ON IN ATTEMPT TO TRAP GERMANS   Dispatches Indicate Large Nazi Force Is Facing Disaster

~ BIG DISASTER . AT LENINGRAD   With Russians Lifting 2» Year Siege of City, Their Forces Push Forward.   Are Panic-Stricken  Within Red Tentacle

40,000 Nazis Are Slain In Soviet Northern Offensive; Remaining Troops In Trar

Moscow Claims ‘German Forces Panic-Stricken   Soviet Kadio Indicates Enemy Facing One. of Worst Disasters Since Stalingrad   10.000 Killed Tn 6-Day Campaign   Red War Machine Rolling Ahead From Captured Novgored In Effort to Trap 250,000 Nazis

TOWN’S 2-YEAR SIEGE BROKEN   250,000 Germans Remaining In Sector Face Entrapment  BALTIC FLEET FREED

Thousands Are — Facing Death — ~~ or Surrender   Large Units Already Cut @ - Off-and 250,000 May Be Encircled by Reds   MAY BE -WORST ‘SINCE STALINGRAD   Enemy. Bleeding Profusely and Forces Are. Panic. Stricken, Moscow Says

Leningrad’s Siege Lifted By Russians   Baltic Fleet Also Freed By Offensive

Russians Seek To Complete Encirclement Of Possibly 250,000 Germans Remaining In Leningrad Sector  After Taking Novgorod And Slaying 40,000 Enemy Troops—Other Soviet Forces Reported To Have  Surrounded Large Units In Strelna Corridor

 —RUSSIA— . _ 250,000 Others —  Face Entrapment   Dispatches From Moscow Indicate Germans Are Facing One Of Their Worst Disasters Since Stalingrad; Reds Report Steady Progress

Reds Seek To Trap Enemy   Nazis in Desperate Straits Getting 250,000 Men Out

GERMANS ARE DRIVEN FROM LENINGRAD  AN ANN Navgic Ts   40,000 Nazis Die In Russian Six - Day Drive

Reds Closing Trap In Leningrad Area   Near Point Through Which Most Troops Must Seek Escape — Threatened, ‘Disaster One of Worst Since Stalingrad.

' NORTHERN RUSSIAN ‘ARMIES LIFT LONG ‘SIEGE OF LENINGRAD   DRIVE CONTINUES IN NORTH FOR ENTRAPMENT OF BIG GERMAN ARMY

Leningrad Siege Lifted; Soviets Roll On In Effort To Trap Upwards Of 250.000 Germans.

Reds Roll Or In Drives in Nort Area  Ge .. SaEOeRN Be ay   Try to Complete Entrapment of Upwards of 250,000 Nazis

Russians Roll Westward At Fast Pace   Forty Thousand German Troops Reporte Slain; Fall of Novgorod Opens Way for Drive Into Southern Estonia  Be

RUSSIANS SAY * 40,000 AXIS TROOPS DIE   Fight To Complete Entrapment Of 250,000   NORTHERN ARMY   Nine Miles From Krasnogvardeisk, Rail Town South Of Leningrad

RUSS LASH FOE   Germans Face One Of Worst Disasters Since Stalingrad

‘Reds Roll On. After Killing 40,000 Nazis   Moscow Indicates Enemy Facing One Of Worst Disasters Since Stalingrad, With 250,000 Facing Entrapment.

Capture Of N ovgorod By Red Army -Opens.Road.T. ia;  Report Nazis Fall: Back In Haste

Rus; Attack In North Still Rolls Ahead   Twin Smash Has Lifted Siege of Leningrad; 40,000 Germans Killed

Red Army Rolls on Along Whole Front: 40,000 Nazis Killed   Entrapment of 250,000 Germans in Leningrad Sector Threatened

Staggering Losses Dealt Nazi Forees   New Soviet Triumphs In Leningrad, Novgorod Areas Bring Death To 40.000 Germans

RUSSIANS BREAK LENINGRAD SEIGE   TELL 40,000 GERMAN TR tED AND 4,000 MORE CAPTURED

Conquerors Of Novogorod Continue Push   Moscow Says 40,000 Germans Are Killed And 4000 Captured In Six-Doy Drive

Capture of Novgorod Opens Road To Lake Peipus and Southern Estonia; Encircle Nazis Caught In Strelna Corridor.

Panic Grips Foe In. Leningrad’s Battle Sector   Reds Slam Escape Door On Enemy Forces In 50-Mile Area   Russian Baltic Fleet Now Free

ONE OF WORST NAZI SETBACKS SEEN BY REDS   Soviets Hope to Catch 250,000 Germans in  Leningrad Sector

Soviet Troops Continue Push To Tran Nazis   To Coop Up 250,000 Germans Around City Is Reds’ Present Goal

Fall Of Novgored ‘Opens Road Te Southern Estonia   Reds Pursue Novgorod Garrison Fleeing To. ward Estonia — Govorov’s Forces Approach Nazi Rail Escape Junction.

290,000 NAZI TROOPS FACE SOVIET TRAP   Russians Continue Ad. vance Threatening Ger. mans With Worst Dis. aster Since Stalingrad.

SOVIET ARMIES ROLLING AHEAD   Try to Complete Entrapment Of Nazis Still in Lenincrad Sector.   ENEMY PANIC STRICKEN

Soviet Army Rolls Ahead  Over Enemy   Efforts Are Made To Trap 250,000  In ‘Sector

Reds Slay 40,000 in  New Drive   Whole Nazi Army fs Trapped in Northern Front as Germans Are Beaten Back

Disaster Looms for Germans   Soviet Forces Take Staggering Toll in Drive to Entrap 250,000 Troops

Entrapment Of 250,000 Nazis Is Threatened   German Units ‘Remaining In Leningrad Sector Face Disaster, Say Russian Dispatches

DRIVE TO TRAP  USSIANS PUSH 250,000 NAZIS   Moscow Reports 40,000 Germans Slain in Leningrad Area, Enemy Units Encircled   DRIVE FOR ESTONIA      Russians Declare Germans Face One of Worst Disasters Since Stalingrad

40,000 Nazis Slain in Twin Soviet Drives   Reds Roll On in Effort To Trap 250,000 in Len  ingrad Sector

Red Army Drive in Leningrad Area Finally Frees Baltic Fleet for Action

Capture of Novgorod Opens Path Toward Southern Estonia  GERMANS IN PANIC  ° pe es ¢ ™ > £m AAM PP      Soviets Report 40,000 of Enemy Slain During Six-Day Battle

RUSSIANS ROLL ON, SMASHING GERMAN LINES   n Six Days Have Lifted Two-Year Siege Of Leningrad, Captured Novgorod, Slain 40,000 Of Enemy And Threat. en 250,000 More.

 MURPHY RANKING DIPLOMAT   Will Participate in Allied Military Government of Germany

Murphy To Be Ambassador In Occupied Reich   Going To London With Perscnal Rank Of Ambassador.

Manila Bay Is Battered by Warplanes   Shattering Attack Causes Much Damage to Enemy

MANILA ATTACK SINKS PAIR OF NIP DESTROYERS   Cruiser is Damaged: 11 Cargo Ships Smashed

Destroyers Sunk, Cruiser Heavily amaged and 11 Cargo Vessels ent to Bottom or Left in Flames

12 Other Ships Hit At Manila   Task Force Carries Out Shattering Attack Upon Water Shipping Area.

Bucharest Falls; Russians Smash Deeper Into Area   Reds’ Positions Around Warsaw Are Improved

SURROUND REICH WITH NON-COOPERATIVE NEUTRALS  AIM OF AMERICAN DIPLOMaTeC

Allies Expected To Court Neutrals In Attempt To ‘Surround’ Germany

Renewed Pressure  On Neutrals Seen Non-Cooperating Powers To Be Affected

Hope To Ring Nazis With Non-Cooperative Neutrals  U. S. Plans Diplomatic Offensive On Continent

Turns Attention toNeutral Nations  Break With Germany United States Object

NEW EFFORTS FOR NEUTRALS’ HELF   May Ask Turkey and Spain to Shut Off Shipments of Essential Metals.

Allies Planning To Ring Reich With Non-Cooperating Neutrals   Would Hake Turkey And Spain Shut Off _ Shipments Of Essential Metals And Clamp Dowrn-On—Esvionace——————

Invasion Plans May Lock Reich in Band of Non-Cooperating Neutrals

Seek Barrier Of Neutrals   Ring of Unfriendly States Around Germany Aid to Invasion

U.S. Purpose Is To Ring Germany By  Neutrals   Nazis Will Face Non-Cooperation If American Efforts Are Successful

Allies. Seeking To Ring Reich With. Enemies   New Gestures To Be Made: To Turkey,  Spain. and: Perhaps Sweden.’

Greeks Facing Food Shortage And Epidemics   Fighting. Still Rages Between Elas, British

BRITISH BOMBERS ATTACK LEFTISTS IN GREEK CAPITAL   REPORT FIGHTING HAS ALREADY COST GREEKS 1500 DEAD

Acute Food Shortage And Epidemics Threaten Strife-Torn Greek Capital

Food Shortage Sighted in Greek Capital   - British Employ Plane: In Effort to Wipe Out Leftists

Bombers Hit Greek. Elas..   ‘Athens: Threatened, _By Huneer, Disease

British Heavy Bombers Hit Greek Elas   Sangwinary Fighting Continues In Athens Area; Food Short

Heavy British Bombers Raid Athens Area   Join Saugninary Fighting For First Time In -Week-Long Civil Struggle

Food Shortages, Epidemics Face  People Of Greece   British Bombers Attack Leftists

—GALECE—  ATHENS FAGING FOOD SHORTAGE   Strife-Torn Capital Also In Danger Of Disease Epidemics   STILL FIGHTING   British . Heavy Bombers Join In Attack On Leftist Groups’

Famine, Disease Threaten Athens   ELAS Attack Repelled By Tank, Field Guns Of British Troops

British Planes Bomb ELAS Units   Acute Food Shortages Threaten Strife Torn Athens

Greek Fighting More General   Food. Shortages Hit Athans: Bombers, Artillery in Actien. as Mediation Fails

Athens Faces Food Shortage And Epidemics   British Heavy Bombers  Of ELAS Around City

Food Shortages, Threats of Epidemic Felt in Athens As Fighting Rages

Food Lack tn Greek Capital   Imminent Danger Of Epidemics Threaten — StrifeTorn Capital.

British Turn ‘Big Bombers (On Greeks   Athens Threatened by Food Shortage and Epidemics

British Attack ELAS Forces With Bombers   Food Shortages, Epidemics Threaten Strife-torn  Greek Capital

British Bombs ~ Fall In Athens   Flyers Attack Revolters; City Facing Famine

RAF Planes Join In Athens Battle Against Leftists   Greeks Face Food Shortages and Epimedics As Struggle Continues.

Food Shortages, Disease Pose New Threat to Beleaguered Athens  l ofticte Lact ANNN Teaanc in Riacd

Food Shortages And Danger Of Epidemics Threatening Strife-Torn Greek Capital   British Heavy Bombers Attack Elas Concentrations Near Athens

EMBATTLED ATHENS FACING FAMINE, THREAT OF DISEASE   RAF Heavy Bombers, for the ’ First Time, Join Battle Against ELAS Concentrations as Food Shortages Be rome Acuta

BOMBERS RAID GREEK REBELS   Food Shortages, Epidemic: Threaten Athens; Situation Grave

Food Shortages Menacing Athen:  Capital Filled With Dead and Wounded

Hunger And Disease In War-Torn Greece   Fighting Continues Between Rival Greek Political Factions With British Troops in Middle of Civil Strife

Distnited Nations Front  Hunger and Disease New Threats to Greek People

100,000 Germans Trapped by Allies   Troops Enter Duchy of Luxembourg; Nazis Are in Flight toward Fatherland; Americans Carry Fighting onto German Soil

: 00,000 GERMANS TRAPPED ON ROBOT BOMB COAST BELOW CAPTURED PORT OF ANTWERP

Saipan Battle,: Bloodiest Of Entire Pacific, Still.  Continuing In U.S..Favor

9.752 American Casualties On Saipan So Far   Bloody Tarawa Eclipsed As 1,474 Yanks Die In First Two Weeks.

Japs Battle To Hold An Island   Gains Are Made by Americans Despite Tough Resistance    DROP BOMBS ON TAKAO   United States Soldiers and Marines Still On the  « Offensive

New Ridges Seized By  Americans On Saipan   Fight For Island Bloodiest Of Pacific War

Americans Drive Ahead Despite Fierce Struggle   Island Battle Proves Pacific War's Bioodiest

LUNGE ON TO NEW LINE ON SAIPAN ISLE   ‘Marianas Campaign Has Provert Most Costly in Pacific With 9,752 Casualties So Far.

Saipan, Costliest U. S. Battle Ground in Pacific, Claims 9,752 Casualties Yanks Drive Through Japs to New Ridge-Tor  Lines, Hold Fourth of Garapan—Japs Told Ur. Wo? Thee Wae Waald Ro Trracach

MCKITTRICK HAS LEAD OVER CLARK   Margin. May Depend on 30,000 Estimated Absentee Votes - .

MOKITTRIGK tid LEAD OVER GLARI   Margin May Depend on 30,000 Estimated Absentee Votes .

Stott Convicted Of Stealing Auto And Pointing Gun   But Steuben County Jury Frees Former Railroader of Charge He Kidnaped His Friend Murphy

Petrillo Refuses To Lift His Ban   Rejects Roosevelt Plea To Break 26Month Recording Ban.

PETRILLO REJECTS ~ ROOSEVELT'S PLEA   Request to Remove Ban on Recordings Turned  . Bawn

REJECTS PLEA MADE BY FDR   Petrillo Refuses Request for End of Musicians’ Ban On Recordings

Is Rejected  By Petrillo   26 Montli Old Bun On Making Recordings To Continue In Farce

F.D.R. Request Turned Down —  By Petrillo   Contends Such. Step Would Take Business  From Contract-Firms

Third Tinker Is Missing   This Time It’s Young Flier From Pawhuska

HARDEST “BLITZ RATTLES HOMES THRU ENGLAND   Ceaseless Procession Of Yank Bombers Crees  Channel

Pre-Invasion Raids Growing Fiercer as The Day Approache:   English Houses Rattle From Bombings of the Continent

Transports Bring Jeeps, Men, Weapons   No Opposition Encountered From Enemy

Individual Sale Bonds Be Stressed. In Next Campaign   FIFTH*WAR LOAN DRIVE TO BEGIN JUNE 12 AND EXTEND THROUGH JULY 8. EXPECT COUNTY QUOTA SOON

County Makes.  Good Showing In Bond Drive   MORE THAN $200,000 WORTH OF BONDS SOLD TO TOP QUOTA. DRIVE WILL END MONDAY JULY THIRTY-FIRST

ESSENTIALS SAFE UNTIL DECEMBER 1   At Least, That’s What Draft  Director Says Now.

LEGISLATIVE PROBE TEXAS UNIVERSITY TROUBLE PLANNED  CHAIRMAN OF SENATE COMMITTEE SAYS CLEAR VIEW OF DISPUTE NEEDEI

MUSTER-OUT "PAY SLASHED _ IN CONFERENCE   Senators Bow to Unbudging House  Members on Amounis—Soldier   Vote Bill May Come Next

BOND ORE HITS NEW Hi   ‘County Purchases. . Total $1060, 925. in War Loan. Drive

BOND DnWve To NEW HGH   County Purchases Total $1,060,925. in War Loan Drive

Dewey. Warren  May Be GOP Slate   Governors Believe Warren Not Eager— Wallace Given Boost

Japs In China D Preparing . N New Drives G   a Dewey CanBe Nominated 'Govs. Hear   Most of States Delegates WiitR&ui His Coluinn Warren. ¥or V. P.

TEXAS UNIVERSITY REGENTS STUDY NEW MEDICAL PROPOSAT   IF STATE BUILDS HOS. PITAL FOUNDATION WILL MATCH SPENDING

Maj. Don Muller  Among First To  Arrive In Rome ‘Has Been With  Heavy Artillery In

Maj. Don Muller Among First To Arrive In Rome  ‘Has Been With _   ‘Has Been With Heavy Artillery In Italian Campaign

Captured Nazi “Hero” Admits War Is Lost   FIELD MARSHAL JOINS IN ASKING WEHRMACHT TO OVERTHROW HITLER

REICH HAS LOST WAR, ADMITTED BY VON PAULUS   Captured General Breaks His Silence After 18  Months

PRESIDENT MAY SEIZE TRUCKERS   50,000 Drivers And Freight Handlers Are Off Jobs

AWAIT TRUCK STRIKE ACTION   Shutdown Spreads to Other Midwest Companies

TOKYO INNER DEFENSE RING BADLY SHAKEN   U. S. FLIERS SINK 13 SHIPS, DAMAGE 16, BAG 141 PLANES

Task Force Sinks 13 Jap Vessels, Damages 16 More   141 Nippon Planes Shot Down in Raids  On Marianas Islands

HUNDREDS AT FAIR AS HORSE RACING BEGINS   Today Children’s Day: Wednesday One of Busiest of Week

BRITISH STRIKE IN. TREMENDOUS FORCE AT HUNS   Home Of Hitler’s Racial And Purge Decrees Suffers Hard Blow   SOVIETS SURGE AHEAD   PFight For Cassino Flares Again As Allies Halt Two Strong Attacks

Former Le Mars Resident Dead  Mrs. Heales ‘Passes Awav In California

Former Le Mars.  Resident Dead .  Mra. ‘Heales’ Picied Meee: ln California

Latest Reports Place the Russians Only Ten Miles of Port.   ODESSA POCKET  Moscow Silent About Encircled Tarnopol in Poland.

ESCAPE OF GERMAN TROOPS VIA LAND BELIEVED CUT OFF   Nearly 100,000 Nazis Thus Sealed in Pocket and Are Likely to Be Liquidated.

Fate Of Thousands Of German Troops Sealed By Strong Russian Offensive.

Peace Advocates Believed Ready With Proposals   Moscow Appears More Friendly

Tojo’ s Cabinet Falls After Confessing ‘Inability To Deal With Existing War. id

Japan Shaken By Collapse of Tojo’s Cabinet   Military Mene Trying to Form New Government

MILITARISTS 10 ORGANIZE NEW NIPPON REGIME   Tojo Cabinet Resigns: Stockholm Reports All Not Well In Berlin

GENERAL AND ADMIRAL T0 SUCCEED T0I0   Cabinet Quits; Admits Inability to Meet War Crisis

TOJ0 CABINET OUT, ADMITTING FAILURE   Further Important News Is Expected Tonight   NEW WAR _ LEADERSHIP

Tojo’s Cabinet Falls After Confessing Inability To Deal With Existing War Situation

GENERAL AND   Cabinet Quits; Admits Inability to Meet War Crisis

7 Hospitals Hit As Robots  Batter England In Record, ‘Unbroken 14-Hour Assault   Anti-Aircraft Gunners Maintain Continuous Barrage Against Planes

Longest Robot Bombing Suffere  English Death Toll Increased to 4.762

ROBOTS IN SHOWER   Longest Sustained Attack Falls on London and  South England

Britain Reports — 14-Hour Attack By Buzz Bombs   Kill At Least 18 Persons; 10 Patients Lose Lives As 7 Hospitals Are Hit

FLYING BOMBS KILL AT LEAST 28 IN ENGLAND   Longest Sustained Attack Since First Robot Was Fired Hits London

Long Raid On London By Robots   14-Hour Assault is the Longest to Date, With at Least 18 More Killed   SEVEN HOSPITALS HIT BY BOMBS      Anti-Aircraft Kept in Action Most of Night; Some Americans Hurt

Rail Lines Mobilized For Hauling Casualties   ‘Will Rush Injured To U. S. Hospitals

anks Remove erman Bombs ust in Time   Valor Saves Allies From Tough Setback

ROAD OPENED FOR DRIVE 10 RUHR VALLEY   BRITISH TANKS RACE ACROSS SPAN DEEP IN HOLLAND

RUHR DEFENSES ARE PENETRATEL   British Forces Fight to Junction at Arnhem   CITY IN FLAMES   Germans Strike Back Fierce.  ly Against American First And Third Armies

Loss of Vital Bridge Perils  German Flank   British Race Toward Arnhem Afte , Yank Aerial Troops Take Span; Battle Heavy in Other Areas

NAZIS NORTH TLANK TURNED BY SEIZURE   British Tanks Cross Span and Race Deep Into Holland Through Defenses Guarding Ruhr,   BATTLE SWINGS TOWARD ARNHEM   Allies Press On toe Save Trapped Sky Units— German Blows Slow Patton and Hodges.

BRITISH TANKS RACE OVER SPAN INTO HOLLAND   Tommies Penetrate Enemy Defenses Guarding Industrial Ruhr   ISOLATED UNITS AT ARNHEM ARE HOLDING

Tanks Start on Ruhr Road: Glider Pocket Relieved   Hitler Hurls Heavy Counterblows at U. S. First and Third Armies

ZIS SAY TOMMIES: FIGHT 0 JUNCTION WITH TRAPPED IRBORNE FORCE AT ARNHEM

British lanks Race [Through Nazi Dickeiaue   Berlin Says Junction Has Been Made With Airborne Troops at Arnhem and That City Is Now in Flames

British Tanks Race Over ~Span Deep in Holland  SEIZURE 16 BA iS DARING, DISPATCHES STATE  Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses _ in CounterAttacks

right swings to Arnhem as British spurt   Foe armor takes severe poundins

American Airborne Troops  Take Bridge at Nijmegen  To Make Entry Possible   Complete Junction of Two Allied Groups In Arnhem Area Would Plant Powerful Striking Force Within 50 Miles of Essen, Home of the Famous Krupp Works

UNITED STATES NAVY UNITS ON PROWL IN WATERS OF PACIFIC "CARRY OUT NEW FORAY:   UNCHALLENGED BY  ‘JAPANESE CRAFT

U.S. Warships Make Bold Raid   Sink Jap Destroyer Or Minelayer, Four Jap-Loaded Barges

NO CHALLENGE GIVEN PACIFIC NAVAL FORGES   Most Daring Raid Of War Made By U. S. Sauadron

American Navy Prowls Pacific Unchallenged   New Forays Carried Out To Continue Attacks On Japs

Jap Convoy Sunk In Sea Attacks Above Solomons  Americans Tighten Blockade of Nip Island Bases

AMERICAN FLEET RAIDS SHIPPING LANES OF ENEMY  NIP DESTROYER OR MINELAYER AND 2

U. S. Naval Forces Strike Bold Blow in South Pacific   Famed ‘Little Beaver’ Squadron Sinks 7 Enemy Vessels in Daring Surface Raid

LITTLE BEAVER ; SQUADRON. MAKES JAPANESE WARY.   United States Attacks ("i . Vary_in. Intensity But Are: Effective in New Sectors.”  Of The Vast Pacific Aréé

JAP SHIPPING. ISLE BASES HIT BY U. §. FORCES   Blockade Around Bismarck Area Being Tightened, MacArthur Reports

U. §. WARSHIPS BOTTLE UP JAPS   Naval Units Score New Successes Against  Nip Shipping

Blockade in Pacific Tightened   American Naval Forces On the Prowl Without-Being -Challenged   MORE SHIPS SUNK, BASES SHELLED   1,000 Japanese Go Down With Four Barges; Daring Task Force Raids

JAPS’ PACIFIC FORCES FADING   Nava! Forces Carry Out New Forays Against Enemy Bases. Shipping.

U.S. Naval Foree  Hits Jap Shipping Daring Surface Assault - Made By Squadron

U.S. Navy Forces   Americans Range Pacific Without Meeting Opposition

Jap Warship And 2 Other Vessels Sunk   American Naval Forces Tightening Blockade On Bismarck Bases

Naval Forces Continue Raids   Successful Forays Carried Out Against Jap Shipping Lanes

U. 5. Forces Smash Convoy in New Prowl   Americans Finding Little Opposition in Pacific Sea Lanes

U.S. Navy Sinks Seven Jap Ships   Blockade Tightened In  Daring Foray

3 of Jap-Held Marshall Isles Hit by Planes   ‘Naval Forces Shell Kavieng, New Ireland, Duke of York Island Off Rabaul ‘

Pacific Thrust North of Solomons Most Daring Yet   Three Jap Ships Sunk and Kavieng Is Shelled Again

Sweep Japs From Sea Lanes   U.S. Naval Task Force Unchallenged As It Prowls Pacific Far North of Solomons

PROWLS OCEAN UNGHALLENGEL   American Navy Carries Qut New Forays Against Japanese Bases.

Allied Forces Strike at More Jap Pacifie Bases Without Being Challenged; Daring Raid on Shipping

U. S. Ships and Planes Prowl Pacific In Search of Timid Japanese Taraets

NAVAL FORGES EXTEND SWEEPS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Sink 3 Nip Ships, 4 Barges in Daring Attack North of Solomons

Surface Raid Made on Japs’ Shipping Lanes Nets 8 Ships   Famous “Little Beaver” Makes Foray North of  Solomon Islands

Canadians Mopping Up Channel Coast   Dieppe Defeat Of 1940 Avenged

U.S? Casualty List Now Totals 197,841  Number Of Names Are : _ Transferred

WAR CASUALTIES SOAR TO 197,84   LOSS OF 5,005 ADDITIONAL MEN BY U. 8. ARMED FORCES REPORTED,

LIQUOR RATION PERIOD CUT TO THREE WEEKS   Fisher Declares Increased Supply Permits Slash

LIQUOR RATIONS EASED FOR OHIO   Period Starting Monday T« Be Cut To Five Weeks

Willkie Views Stalin as World Chief   Thinks United States Statesmen Failed To Take Leadership

U.S. Leadership Has Failed, Says Wendell Willkie   Our Lack of Direction Has Put Stalin at Top Of List, He Avers

Nit ~~ TBNORES AY   HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE SAX: MEMBERS BEING EXPELLED -FOR NOT HELPING PAC -”

Japs Lose 2600 Planes in Battle   Toll Is Terrific in Philippines Fight

Japanese Plane Losses Heavy   2,594 Lost And 252 Probably Destroyed

Morell Gets 6-12 Years In Western Pen   SENTENCED IN MERCER COUNTS COURT FOR KILLING MRS His'&N WILSON ON A DAIRY FARM.   On Manslaughter Charge

37 More Polio Cases Reported  Ohio Total Is 205; One Death Occurs

Sgt. Cranford Suffers Grave Battle Wound   Casualty In France; A Recent Arrival

BRICKER CITES NEW DEAL COURT   Points to Fact Roosevelt Has Appoined 88 Per Cent of Supreme Court Justices; Warns of Danger

BRICKER CALLS FOR A FREE JUDICIARY   Governor Speaks, to. Large Audience in Bal: .timore

Bricker in Baltimore: Ohio Governor Sees Grave Danger ‘In One-Man Appointment of Judges

Nazis Say Fighting At Heaviest Stage For German Bastion   Don Whitehead Reports Yanks Repel Enemy Attempts To Reinforce Garrison in City

Nazi Attempts To Relieve City Are Beaten Off   Escape Corridor Continues to Be Under Heavy Fire

FIRST ARMY IS CLOSING IN ON BURNING AACHEN   Greatest Battle Since Invasion Is Reported

West Front Battle  Is Growing   Enemy Admits Yank Advances Near Key City Of Siegfried Line; 6,000 Experts Are Put to Work Demolishing Rotterdam

riillery and jombs Blast jerman City   Signs Indicate Nazi Breakup in Hollend

Big Guns and Planes Keep Up Pounding   Berlin Radio Calls Battle Greatest Ever Fought on West Front

GREAT BARRAGE PRECEDES YANK DRIVE ON CITY   Germans Blow Up Rotterdam Docks, Breakup In Holland Near

REPULSE NAZI ATTEMPTS TO RELIEVE CITY   Assault Garrison Behind Curtain of Fire From Big Guns and Planes; Allies Gain in Holland.

Possible Nazi Breakup Seen; Demolitions In Rotterdam Observed   Sudden Withdrawal From Area South Of Neder Rhine Effected; Yanks Gain North, South Of Aachen German Aims In Dutch Port Not Clear

SIGNS OF NAZI BREAKUP SEEN AT ROTTERDAM   Berlin Calls Aachen Battle “Greatest Ever Fought on Wesi Front”?

Infantry Digs Out Die-Hard Defenders   x *K& KK KS Battle Of Aachen   Raiders Pound Aircraft Plants

Nazis Seem To Be Abandoning Holland   Divebombers and Heavy Artillery Are Followed By Infantry Into Aachen

Berlin Radio Says Great Battle Fuges for Burning City   LAND FORCES PUSH IN   Fires Rage Unchecked; Signs Seen of Breakup in Holland

Breakup of Germans Appears i in Holland   Big Guns Blast Jewel of Culture’ As Two Nazi Relief Columns Beaten Ry Shatterino Allied Bombardment

Doughboys Are Closing In Qn  Burning Town   Berlin Describes Battle Greatest Ever’ Fought on “Western Front; Admits  American Gains   Hun Breakup In Holland Foreseen   Rotterdam’ Roads Clogged With Nozi Transperi, Moving South and East;  - Demolitionists Busy

Germans Blow Up Docks In Rotterdam   Berlin Apparently Ready To Abandon Dutch Port City

Nazis Call It Greatest — Battle Ever Fought On° The Western Front

City Still Not Destroved But Infantrymen Move In After Terrific Blasting By Bombs & Guas; Nazis Demolishing Rotterdam And Start Moving From Holland.

U. 8. FIRST ARMY INFANTRY CLOSING IN ON DOOMED CITY   WITHDRAWAL FROM HOLLAND INDICATED BY NAZI PORT DESTRUCTION

Nazis Ready To Give Up Holland Port   6,000 Demolition Experts Blow Up Quays, Dock Facilities

Aachen Burning as U.S. ' Forces Close in; German Line Cracks in Holland

Nazis Prepare Abandonment Of Dutch Port City   Allies Improve Positions On Siegfried Line

Demolition Crews BlastRotterdam’s Quays And Docks   U.S. First Army Moves Nearer German Siegfried Base As Planes, Guns Keep Up Blows At Burning City; Yanks Smash Back German Rescue Coliumn

Troops Enter Outskirts Of Burning City   Daylong Counterattack By Nazis Is Repelled German Garrison Not Fleeing, American  Officer Says; Corridor Is Pounded

Doughboys Smash Germam Effort To Relieve Garrison   Gray Pall of Smoke Soars Over Sprawling Reich Border City As American Soldiers Move Against It   HARD FIGHTING REPORTED IN OTHER SECTORS   BULLETIN

Berlin Claims Aachen Battle Greatest Yet   American Troops Begin Closing In On Burning City

Nazis Call Battle (ireatest Fought On West Front   Holland Units Near Break; Dutch Sites Demolished; “Abandon # Avihieny Row   By JOHN F. CHESTER

Signs Appear Of Breakup Of Foe In Holland   Although Yanks Pour Ex plosives Into Aache n, Town Sull Standing.   BLOW UP HARBORS

Possible Nazi Breakup In Holland Foreseen   Planes Hit Rhineland.

NAZIS. CALL IT BIGGEST BATTLE   Signs of Possible Enemy Breakup in Holland Are © Appearing.   MOVING SOUTH AND EAST

Guns, Planes Pouring in Steady Fire   Hard Fighting Continues in  Metz Area—Nazis Retreat in Holland

U.S. ist Army Renews Attack Upon Aachen   German Fortress Is Slowly Being Reduced te a Mass of Rubble

Factory Section at Outskirts Cleared Of Nazi Defenders   Enemy Is Wrecking Facilities in Great Port of Rotterdam

City Undergoes Heavy Artillery, Air Assault  ‘Hungary Expected To Capitulate To

A Breakup in Holland Indicated   Germans Blast Docks and Quays at Rotterdam and Begin Moving Out   MAY PULL TROOPS BACK INTO REICH   Roads Are Clogged With Transport; May Seek to Set Up New Line

U.S. Assault On  Aachen Continues   Berlin Threatens Vengeance; Big Guns, Dive-Bombers Resume Blast

Germans Destroy Over 10 Miles of Rotterdam Docks   Roads of Second City Of Holland Clogged With Enemy Transport

German Bastion Ablaze as Yanks Fight in Streets   To North, Signs  Of Nazi Collapse  In Holland Grow; Evacuate Rotterdan

CITY BURNS AS NAZI FORCES RESIST SIEGE   Signs Appear Of Possible Break-Up Of German Front In Holland

Berlin Radio Even Admits That “Greatest Battle Ever Fought on Western Front” Under Way.   MANY GERMANS TRY TO BE PRISONERS

Nazis Say Aachen Battle Is ‘The Greatest Ever Fought on Western Front’   Germans Have Blown Up Ten Miles of Docks in Rotterdam 

11 JAP BASES HIF BY BOMBS   Nimitz Says Navy Ready For Non-Stop War

JAPS RECEIVE BAD NEWS FROW ADM, NIMITZ   To Throw All  Against Enemy In Pacific

Nimitz Says Fleet Ready For Nonstop Action; Tokyo Admits U. S. Air Power Is Treble Japan’s

Allied Planes Hit 11 Enemy Bases In Pacific Area   Admiral Nimitz Declares Navy Set For Non-Stop War Against Japanese

Allied Planes Raid 11 Jap Bases; Nimitz Says Navy Is Set for Non-Stop War in Pacific; United Nations Won’t Stop Short of Actual Occupation, FDR Warns Axis

11 JAP BASES HIT BY PLANES   Tokyo Says U. S. Air Pow. er Treble That Of Japanese

U.S. Fleets In Pacific To Keep Pounding   Nimitz Promises Use Of Nonstop Tactics Ir Effort To Win War As   Quickly As Possible

Jap Bases Subject of New Raids   Japan To Be Occupied After Defeat—F-D.R.

Navy Set for Non-Stop Pacific War- Nimitz   Allied Planes Strike New Blows at 11 Enemy Bases

UNWELGOME NEWS FOR JAPS THURSDAY FROM THREE DIRECTIONS  U.S. AIR AND NAVY READY — EOR NON-STOP ACTION:

ALLIED FLIERS HIT NIPS ON 11 PACIFIC BASES   Nimitz Says American Navy Ready for Nonstop War Against Japs

US Navy Set For Nonstop Pacific War   Allied Planes Bomb 11 Enemy Bases; Tokyo Says US Air Power in Pacific Treble Japan’s

PLANES STRIKE NEW BLOWS AT 11 JAP: BASES   . Nimitz Says Navy All Set For Non-Stop Pacific War

Japs Hear Bad News From 3 Directions   Allied Airmen Strike _ New Blows, Nimitz Says Navy Ready

ALLIED PLANES HURL BOMBS AT 11 JAP BASES   Nimitz Says Navy Set for Nonstop Pacific War

JAPS REELING ON ALL FRONTS   Nimitz Says Navy Ready For Non-Stop War; Hit 11 Bases

Tokyo Admits U. S. Controls Air In Pacific   American Power Trebble That Of Japanese, Says Broadcast

Allied Planes Hit At Eleven Japanese Bases  Nips Hove Bad New: Beran: This Bee sk ce

Adm. Nimitz States Navy is Ready for Nonstop Tokyo Rur   Nipponese Struck by Three Pieces of Bad News Today

ALLIED BOMBERS STRUCK BLOWS ON 11 ENEMY ISLANDS   Tokyo Acknowledges That Allies Air Power Treble That of Japan

Japan Will Face Non-Stop War From Two Fleets   Eleven Nip Bases Hit New Blows By Allied Planes

BRITISH TANKS PUSH NAZI FOE » BACK 5 MILES   Allies Great 1t Strength Gains to South and East of Caen

FIGHT KEPT UP TO CURB FLOOL   Missouri's Grand River Up 14.7 Feet; Illinois Levees Weakened

WEATHER EASES THREAT IN TEXAS   Fresh Flood Complications Made By Streams in Missouri

Raps Secrecy of. Dumbarton Oaks   Senator Ridicules “Press Conference”

Peace Parley Secrecy Gets New Blasting   SENATOR SAYS PRESS GETS “DIPLOMATIC BRUSHOFF” AT MEETING

U.S. Liberators Blast Invasion Coast OF France   Yanks Drop 3900 Tons On Nazis In 48 Hours;, eet te Hat

British Blast Berlin, Yanks Batter Reich   American Bombers Hit Central German Cities

OPA Boosts Red Points For Pork   Stamps Given Value Two Points Higher.

Total Bond Quota 80 Per Cent Sold   series E Sales Lagging, However, With Less Than Half Of Thie Otinta Sihereiha!

Total Bond Quota SO Per Cent Sold   Series E Sales Lagging, However, With Less Than Half Of Thic Ouiota Subscribed

U.S. Marines Land on Tinian  In the Marianas  Third Amphibious Operation Against  so Dame in Ielande

Marines pout onto Tinian;  defense light Guam toll 1,958; create hew post

Nimitz. Announces — Invasion Of ‘Tinian   Landings Being Continued Against Light Opposition “ —Beachheads on Island in Marianas Firmly Established

Yanks Secure Beachheads Beyond Saipan   Land on Tinian, Third in Drive To Gain Marianas

a .  r  J@258 E22 nee “—™~ e  Pe aw ere Morry   Firmly Establish Beachheads In  Followut of Ssisan. Ciam Actiane

Opposition Is Slight, Nimitz Says   Move Puts Yankees On Third Island  In Marianas Group

Battle for Southern France -Is‘Nearing Completion  GREATER. PART-OF 7 ARMY WIPED OUT  Americans Slash Relentessly at Fleeing _ Enemy  ;

BOCHE FLEE FROM TRAP IN SOUTH FRANCE   Greater Pert OF Foe’s seme Wiped Out In Rhone Vsiley

Battle for Southern France - s:Nearing Com pletion ~ GREATER PART-OF—  ~~ ARMY WIPED OUT  Americans Slash Relentlessly at Fleeing Enemy 

PATCH'S MEN CHASE FOE UP RHONE VALLE}   Disorganized German Remnants Leave Equipment

Bulk of German Forces in South France Erased   Disorganized Remnants of Nazi Army Flee Up Rhone Valley

Southern France Battle Ending  Greater Number of Nazis Wiped Out

‘Southern France Battle Near End   German 19th Army Is Near Destruction And Montoelimar Js Jn American Hands

GERMANS ARE SCATTERED UP RHONE VALLEY   EQUIPMENT IS LEFT BEHIND; YANKS GIVE CHASE

NAZIS FLEE UP VALLEY   Disorganized Remnants, While Others Trudge Back to Allied Prison  C‘amnc.   7,000 Surrender

Nazi 19th Army In Hopeless Rout   Disorganized Enemy Flees Rhone Valley Defenses

Gen. Bor Is Captured by German Foe   dis Loss Upsets Plans Of Government for Leadership of Polish Army ~

GENERAL BOR HELD BY NAZIS   Polish Leaders in Londor Confirm German Report Of Capture

GEN. BOR’S CAPTURE BY NAZIS CONFIRMED   Leader of Warsaw Guerrilla Army and His Entire Staff Taken Prisoner.

NEW DEAL HIT ASDRIVEFOR DEWEY OPENS   Three Republican Gover. -nors Hit Communism. in Broadcasts _

HILLMAN USE OF FUNDS HIT   Govs. Warren, Baldwin and Green Open Campaign For Dewey

3 Republican Governors Open DeweyCampaign   Hope To Keep Hillman From Buying Election, Cov. Warren Declares

GOVERNOR WARREN ATTACKS HILLMAN   Speaker Says Attempt Is Being Made To Buy The Election  TWO OTHERS SPEAK

Warren Declares Republicans Will _ Not Buy Flection   Speech and Those O Baldwin and Green Open Campaign

TRAPPED BRITONS NOW TRAP JAPS     Turn Tables On Japs in West ern Burma.

Japanese Casualties Mounting “After Failure To Drive British F'rrom Western Burma

LLOYD CANTRELL WINS AIR MEDAL   Veteran of Six Combat Missions Is Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cantrell, Sr., of Neosho.

. Sgt. Hohensee Gets Air Medal   Completed Five Separate Missions Over Europe, According to Press Report 

Air Medal Is Awarded To Set. Warner   Gunner With BAT Flying Fortress Group Operating From England

Palmyra Boy, Top Turret Gunner of Flying Fortress, Awarded Air Medal

LT.WM.C.HOWE > AWARDED THE AIR MEDAL FOR COUR   He Has Taken. Part in. Six Comba: Missions on B-17 Flying Fortress. —

LIEUT. STANLEY CRESSEY AWARDED AIR MEDAL   Bath Man Navigator of Flying Fortress in Raids Over Europe

Troops — Welcome Action   Blazing Offensive Comes As Relief to Men Cooped Up at Anzio for 122 Days

OTH ARMY HITS NAZIS AT DAWN   Cooped Up Yank Troops Strike Savagely In Direction of Rome

TEMPERATIIRES:   Offensive Aimed At Rome; Center Of Hitler Line Broken   RY NDANTEYT, DE LICE

A Day of Destiny For Allies Cooped Up on Beachhead   Vowing to Drive to Rome, Fifth Army Troops at Anzio Lash Out Savaaely

BOMBERS DOWN IN SWITZERLANG   12 Damaged U. S. Planes Land and Two Other Crash; One of Crashed Planes Shot Down by Swiss Fighters

South to again support demos says Broughton   ‘Solve problems within the party’

Predicts South Will Stay in Line   North Carolina Governo: Views Political Turmoil

Allies Threaten ToCut Nazi Army Into 3 Section:   ‘Americans Cut Last Read Junction Leading From Cape Barfleur To City,

YANKS CUT LAST ROAD TO PORT FROM BARFLEUR   U. S. Meets Strongest Naz’ Resistance Since D-Day on Tip on Peninsula

TWO WOMEN FATALLY HURT IN CRASH AT COOK’S CORNER RAILWAY CROSSING   One Other Woman Critically Injured and Two Men Less Seriously Hurt When Car Collides With Freight Locomotive

British Broaden Dutch Wedge in 4-Mile Drive   Russians Threaten 200,000 Germans in Balkans with Entrapment

First Army Out In Front Of New Ailied Assault   Land And Air Attack Made In Aachen Area

rp Line   Coordinated Assault Follows Week-end Advances by Yank, British Forces in 2 Sectors

B-29s Hit Japanese   Seto Naikai District Is Blasted by Superforts in Destructive Raids

Superforts May Be Searching For Jap Fleet   Whereabouts of Jap Fleet Has Been Mystery Since Flight After Defeat in Philip pines in October

SUPERFORTS RAID CENTRAL NIPPON IN POSSIBLE STAB AT KURE NAVY BAS!   “Nuisance  Aitacks”  Again Made On Tokyo

TOKYO REPORTS RAID BY B-29'S   Giant Planes May Have Sought Out Tap Fleet

Tokyo Hit by 'Incendiaries  In New Raid   Foe Says Giant Bombers Renew ‘Nuisance Raids’ In ‘Nerve War’

50,000 MARCHERS REVIEWED BY DEWE\   Governor Announces He Favor: “Reconstitution of Palestine as a Free State.”

Nominee in New York for Columbus Day, Confers With Zionist Leader

Willkie Predicts Great Invasion Before Election   ! Warns That Republicans Must Not Build Strength On Wartime Discontents

Total contributions in Red -; war fund eampaion.       enton Has Raisec Three-fourths of Red Cross Quota

Nelson Lifts Ban on Many  Home Items   Vacuum Cleaners, Refrigerators May Be Produced

Vacuum Cleaners Come Back Soon   Sewing Machines, Other Domestic Items, To Go In Production

Nelson Lifts Ban on Some Civilian Goods   Go-Ahead Given Areas if Facilitics, Labor Available

CIVILIAN GOODS OUTPUT ORDERED   75 Classes Of Items Are On New WPB List

CIVILIAN ITEMS 10 BE PRODUCED   ORDER PERMITS LIMITED PRODUCTION OF GOODS

WPB Permits Limited Production of Vacuum Cleaners, Sewing Machines

WPB Chief Issues Order Permitting Restricted Production of Vacuum Cleaners and Sewing Machines

SPECIAL SESSION ON ‘TAX MUDDLE’ MEETS DISFAVOR  {Cancoe iat CTATE

MAY CALL EXTRA SESSION ON TAX MUDDLE IN STATE   Downstaters Face Possible Jump In Tax Rates

U. S. Troops in High Spirits on Invasion Craft-If We Get It Done We'll Get Home Some Day'

Nation Honors U..S. Fleet By ‘Fetes, Parades   High Officials Praise Defeat Of. Jap Navy, But Warn Heavy. Fight Ahead

TRIBUTE PAID 10 NAVY'S VICTORY   23 BATTLESHIPS NOW OPERATING WITH FLEET

NATION HONORS ‘MIGHTY FLEET   Praises Navy for Latest Victory Over Japs

\U.S. Fleet Paid High Tribute As Navy Day Celebrated; Supply Depot Works as Usual   Yank Helps Kill 800 Japs. In Philippine Guerrilla War

NAVY DAY OBSERVED BY NATION      Navy Dep’t. Gives Out Figures as To Present Strength

Celebrations Held For Navy Day   Tribute Paid Fleet For Latest Victory

SETS MAXIMUM VEGETABLE  Tow ive’ Cc   FARM SUPPORT PRICE PROCRAM

-_ - hess  Those With Sons On Battle Fronts Most Faithful War Loan Customers

REICH, FRANCE HIT BY BOMBS   Yanks Resume Daylight Raids On Nazi Targets on Home Front

BREAK IN HEAT WAVE FORECAST FOR OHIO   Relief Predicted Sunday With 80-85 Temperatures

AGAINST JAPS HOLDING ISLE   U. S. Troops Advance After Repulsing Enemy Attacks

AMERICANS GAIN. ~ IN ADMIRALTIES; ~ FIGHTING BITTER   Yanks ¢ on Los Negros ‘Island Move Forward in All Direc -tions From Mile-Long = _  ‘i> Beachhead. ;    NIPPONESE. TROOPS — _RESIST. FROM RIDGES   Advance, Which Wins Firmer Foothold Around. Vital Airdrome, Supported by Aircraft.

Yanks Take Firmer Grip In Pacific   Cavalry Troops Reinforced Arounc Momote Airdrome

YANKS MAGNIFY INVASION HOLD IN ADMIRALTIES   Attacks Against Ra baul Stopped By Bad Weather

Cavalrymen Move Against Jap Defenders   Planes Meanwhile Hit at Bases Still Under Control of Nippon

- 498 D1: ~y $trer 4 Aga As Ss. 4ein-or semenss s.rive;’ ‘Yaic cw tu -Scae “nvasion

NEW TROOPS EXPAND HOLD ON MOMOTE   Airfield On Los Negros Island Invaded Tuesday; New Advances Give Allies Firmer Foothold.   Large Air Base

MINE MAY DISCONTINUE OPERATIONS   Cannot Operate Suc cessfully With Too Many Regulations

PRODUCTION COST MAY KEEP VALLEY MINE INACTIVE   Company Reports It Cannot Op. erate At Reduced Coal Price When Labor Costs Must Be In. creased.

RUSSIANS HAIL ALLIED GAINS   All Gut Drive for Paris Is Called For

Nazis Collapse At Calais After Barrage   Dover Celebrates End Of Four Years Under German Guns

Siegfried Line   113 German Tanks, Equivalent Of One Armored Division, Knocked Out In Two © Days; British Defend Positions

Resistance By Hun ta Coastal City Collapses   Brought to Knees After TwoHour Actillery Bar. bardnient; Hitlerites Taken Prisoners   Doughboys 9 Miles From Belfort City   Challenging Germans Along’ Chain ‘of Peaks Blocking Southern Route te Rhineland

French Art, Landmarks, Escape Harm   Most Treasures Renorted Safe

Maine’s Fourth War Loan Quote Is $59,000,000  e gn =i      York County’s $5.337.300

Swedish Ports. Will Be Closed   Will’ Not Permit  Foreign, Shipping

Reconnaissance Shows Germans Use Italian Art City As Rail Hub   Experienced Marauder Squadrons Take Care To Avoid Damage To Historic Buildings

FLORENCE RAIDED BY YANK AIRNIE!   German Morale ts Reported Lower on Anzio Beach After Attack Failures.

FORTS STRIKE INTO GERMANY BEYOND RHINE   French Invasion Coast Hit; Florence Raided First Time

TRIPLE BLOWS RAINED ON AXIS FLORENCE HIT   Germany, France, lialy Atlacked By Allied Planes

FLYING FORTS STRIKE INTO GERMANY   Liberators Hit At France, Marauders At Florence

Florence Is Raided by Our Planes   North Ireland Action Seer Probable—U. §. Refuses Ships to Irish

YANK FLIERS AGAIN STRIKE INTO GERMANY   Hit Beyond Rhine River; Also Strike _ At Florence Again

Stockard Secretary  Of State   Jefferson City Republican Appointed for Unexpired Term

France Takes Place Among free Nations   Regime of De Gaulle “ds Given Recoanition

China Outlines Huge Relief Program, Asks UNRRA Aid   By ROBERT J. MANNING

CHINAHAS — MAPPED POST WAR PROGRAM   Intend to End Misery and Destitution

War Bond Sales Hit $63.668 Mark  P . oie ae » : as Campaign Begins

Gestapo Nabs Hitler Plot Ringleader   MAN CHOSEN TO HEAD “PEACE GOVERNMENT” ARRESTED IN PRUSSIA

Albuquerque Youths Nabbed After Outbr ‘eal   Zoot . Suit Gang Members, _ Others, . Cause Trouble ~ ; In Duke ‘City:

Boys Arrested At Albuquerque   “Zoot Suit Gang” Boys And Other Youths Clash in Streets

HONOR GEORGE HOLMES   Noted Correspondent—Widow Will launch Lihertv Shin

‘Restaurant Prices Are to Be Checked   The Week of April 17-22 Has Been Selected for the Check-Up.

OPA Will inspect focal Restaurants   Marks Second Major Phase of Current Price-Checking Plan

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To All In The Various  Communities

JOINT HlGH SCHOOL HAS BEEN CREATED   Southampton and Warminster School Boards Join Forces   IN NEW ARRANGEMENT

SOLONS SET FOR PAY TAX FIGHT   ‘Adjournment Hope Fades As Congress Awaits Action By FOR

Fight Looms on Social Security   Vandenberg Seeks To Have Tax Frozen

ing”? Tax ‘Freezing   Congress to Await Veto, Ready to Take  ON eS ae ee RA wciam

HEARINGS WILL BE ENDED ON TUESDAY      Few Protests Made’ tc Farm Property Re:essessments _  f

HEARINGS WILL BE. ENDED ON-TUESDAY   Few Protests Made" tc . Farm Property Re:: ‘ assessments

GERMANS STILL TOUGH BUT WAR TREND APPARENT   Prime Minister Churchill Sees Possibility Nazis May Defeated Before  Summer’s End

REBELS BATTLE ANEW IN ATHENS   New Forces Make Way to Capital, Fight British From New Positions

GREEK REBELS STILL STRONG   MORE ELAS TROOPS INFILTRATE INTO ATHENS—FIELD MARSHAL SENT TO SCENE

NEW ALLIED AIR BLOWS ON JAP BASES   Kurile and Palau Isles Blasted by American Bombing Force.

Republicans Will Control Senate In  1945 Legislature   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Jowa G.6.p. Aas Zinn’ Control of General   Cannot Possibly Lose Its Senate Majority

of Senate. Control Next Legislature   ‘Their Majority in in 1943 Senate Was 45 to 5

Danes Blow Up War Plant   French Forces Hampe: German Supply Lines

Danish Armament Plant Blown up   Underground Army On Move in Europe

SERIOUS BLOW FOLLOWED BY MARTIAL LAW   80,000 Italians Mass In Hills South Of Bologna

BAND MEMBER FINED $100 IN COLUMBUS   Charged With Contributing to Girl’s Delinquency

PARENTS GIVEN TAN. SENTENCE   Arraigned Under New Law For Encouraging Girl To Play Truant

Osage River Out ‘a Banks  In Missouri   War Interferes With Flood Control Of State Rivers

GERMAN RESISTANCE ‘FRANTIC   Americans All But. Reach Sea On Both Sides Of Port

Near Sea on Both Sides Of Fortress   Montgomery Lashes Out on Eastern Wing of Normandy Beachhead

Motor Boats Dash Into Center of Convoy Trying to Escape, Sinking or Damaging Five of Seven Ships

‘Nazi Resistance Stubborn As Bradley’s  Forces Take Key Posi brn

PROGRESS SLOW BUT ASSAULT IS NOT EASED UP   Break in Weather Permits Better Landing of Supplies; Caen Sector Fight Flares

Yankees Push Through Outer German Lines   Cherbourg Defenses Are Showing Signs of Crumbling Away

Yd.-By-Yd. Smash Made By Americans  AtCherbourg   Hand-To-Hand Fighting With Nazis, Who Resist Fanatically; Pillbox Nefense Punctnrad

P-T Boats Sink Five Ships From German Convoy   Defenses of Port  City Crumble Under All_CQhit Aceniilt

British Smash Nazi Attempt — To Evacuate Soldiers From . -4 Cherbourg in Merchant Ships   Five Vessels of Night-Running Convoy Sunk by Torpedo Boats; Nazi Defense Ring Is Crumbling

Our Troops Have Swept Around to South of Port and Engage Germans Hand-to-Hand.   HAVE REACHED SEA  NOW ON BOTH SIDES

YANKS WITHIN 2,000 YARDS OF DOCKS   Two Fortified Hills Still In German Hands   BETTER WEATHER   Brings Better Aerial Support To Allies; More Supplies Unloaded

Dispatches Say Nazi Defenses  Are Crumbling   Doughboys Smash To Mile From Port Against Fanatical  German Resistance

ind-To-Hand ruggle For ized Ports   einforcements  ji Send Up Battle Rages

AMERICANS IN SIGHT OF DOCKS   Yard By Yard Advance Made By Doughboys * Toward Key Port

Germans Weaken In French Port as U.S: Increases Assault   Americans Less Than 2,000 Yards From Goal; British Break Lull, Take Town Near Caen

U.S. Doughboys Smash Deep Into Powerful Outer Shell Of Normandy Port Defense

German Convoy Smashed as It Flees from Port   Nazi Resistance May Develop in Street Fighting

Enemy's Lines Begin Crumbling   Port Doomed As Nazi Stronghold; Now Big Death Tray

‘ALLIED REPORTS SAY ENEMY DEFENSES AT FRENCH PORT SHOW SIGNS OF CRUMBLING   American Doughboys Push Forward '2,000 Yards Into Outer Shell of Cherbourg Defenses in Bitter Battle.  Port’s Defenses Buckle Under Heavy  AetiNary Rarrage

British Torpedo Boats Break Up Night-Running Convoy; Bitter Fighting Marks Land Attack.

FIVE GERMAN BOATS STRUCK   [British Torpedo Boats Sink Or Damage enemy Ships : In Convoy.   LAND FORCES ADVANCE

Five Ships  With Troops GoTo Grave During Dark   Yankee Spearhead Less Than Mile  From Port

YANKS HITTING HARD AT CITY'S OUTER DEFENSES   Doughboys Drive To Within 2,000 Yards Of Great Port Itself; Great Wedge Blasted In Lines By Allies In Bitter Battle.

Pound City From Every Direction   Advance Measured Yard- By-Yard to Doomed - French Port

Five of Seven . Véssels in Night-Running Convoy nt Down.  ——_  FIGHT CLOSE TO PORT   Yanks Press Street Fight“ing Against Weakening Defenders

DOUGHBOYS BLAST DEEP WEDGE INTO THE GERMAN LINE NEARING SEA ON  BOTH SIDES OF —  PECICAEN eoRT

Within Sight Of Docks   Area a Death Trap For Thousands of Germans Ordered to Fight to the Death

Seven Vessels Blasted in Night Battle   American Forces Fight Way to Within Mile Of Port From South; Nazi Resistance Is Crumbling; Street Engagements Feared

GAIN GROUND AFTER SEVERE BOMBARDMENT   Americans All But Reach Sea on Both Sides of Besieged Port

YANKS CRACK OUTER SHELL OF CHERBOURG   Push To Within Mile Of Docks; Nazi Resist ance Crumbling

NAZI EFFORT 10 FLEE SMASHED AT CHERBOURG   Defenses at Port Show Signs of Crumbling ; Gains Are Slow

SMASH NAZI ATTEMPT TO LEAVE PORT   British Boats Sink Five Merchantmen in Night Running Convoy.   Yanks Push to 2,000 Yards of Cherbourg

Smash Ahead Yardby-Yard Deep Into Strong Quter Shei   Drive to Within Two Thousand Yards of Port From South

Germans Fail in Night Evacuation   Germans Expected to Wage Stubborn Street Battle In Port; Two German Ships Sunk In Escape Attempt by British Craft

Yanks Smash Yare By Yard Toward Doomed Seaport   Sea on Both Sides Of City Is All but Reached in HandTo-Hand Struaale

Yanks Within Sight Of Docks Of Fiercely Defended Port City   . + Progress In Bloody Struggle Measured In Feet   2 Sunk, 3 Damaged.

SPAIN PAPERS BLAME RUSSIA   Accuses Soviet of Trying to Incite Rebellion, Over throw Franco

SPANISH PRESS ACCUSES RUSSIA   Menacing Civil War Incited By Reds; Dispatches Say

Spanish Press Charges Reds  Inciting Revolt   Madrid’s Concern Ove Possibility Uprising May Develop Into  Full Seale Civil W ar

Says Russia Stirs Civil War In Spain   SPANISH PRESS BLAMES MOSCOW FOR DISORDERS; FRANCO CONTINUES TO RULE BUT MENACE REMAINS.   Official Britain Silent

VATICAN LOSES ~ HIGH OFFICIAL   PAPAL: SECRETARY’ OF. BTATE SINCE 1936 DEAD--ACTIVE {JN PEACE PLANS

VATICAN STATE SECRETARY DIES   Cardinal Maglione, 67, Suffered Long Illness

Illness Fatal fo ltalian Cardinal   Papal Secretary of State Dies Today

DEATH CLAIMS PAPAL OFFICIAI   Cardinal Magilone, Vatican State Secretary, Dies

PAPAL OFFICIAL DIES OF ILLNESS   Heart Attack Is Fatal to Cardinal Maglione

NAZI ACTIVITY NEAR CASSINO IS REPORTED   Show Sign. Of More Aggressive Spirit; Anzio Front Quiet

GERMANS IN MORE AGGRESSIVE SPIRIT   Reacting Sharply to Allied Reconnaissance in Cassino Area.

Germans Active In Cassino Area   Reacting Sharply To Allied Probing  Moves in Region

Farm Elections  To be Conducted On December 15   Eighteen Communities of County to Elect AAA Committeemen

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.  (Rw Teletwne)   Shoppers Stranded   Churchill Faces Commons

Allied Subs Sink 17 More Jap Vessels   12 of Enemy Ships Sent to Bottom by U. S. Undersea Craft

17 JAP SHIPS SENT DOWN BY ~ SUBMARINES   Cruiser and Three Destroyers Included in “The Kill"  TWELVE SUNK BY AMERICAN VESSELS   Five Are Victims of Attacks by British Ships

Allied Subs Sink 4 Jap Warships   13 Other Enemy Ships Destroyed

‘Light Cruiser, Two Destroyers Among Japanese Vessels Sunk   ALLIED SUBMARINES Strike Deeper Into Jap Waters

17 JAP SHIPS SUNK BY SUBS   Yanks Send 12, Including Cruiser, 2 Destroyers, To Bottom

Subs Destroy 17 Jap Ships   4 Enemy Warships Listed For Angle-U.S. Graft

Allied Subs Hach at Jap Shipping   17 Enemy Vessels Reported Sunk

Fleet Closes in on Japanese ‘at Dusk Monday   Nimitz Fails to Reveal U. S. or Enemy Losses

Refugees Killed In Allied Attack — On Nippon Vessel   Airmen Turn Aside Upon Discovering Nature of Target

7OKILLED At PLANES BOM AEFUREE SHI   Allied Airmen Attack Enemy Lugger Transporting Missionaries.

70 Refugees Are Slain As Allies Attack Ship   Planes Turn Away When They Find Jap Vessel’s Deck Crowded Wih Wamen and Children

ALLIED ERROR BLOW KILLS 70 ON RESCUE SHIP   Some Were Rescued Missionaries; Ship Hit OW Guinea

G.0.P. GLAMOUR GIRL’S VICTORY BLOW TO EDR:   Clare Boothe. Tice Won Despite Heavy _Onvvosition.

PELELIU RIDGE CAPTURED AFTE! VICIOUS BATTLE   Crisis Past For. Marines

Half of Jap Force Killed On Palau Isle   Yanks Gain on Angaur: Tokyo Reporis Attack on Mindanao City

Marines Capture  Point On Peleliu      Primary Objectives. Taken By Leathernecks

YANKS KILL 5,495 JAPS ON PELELIU   Nimitz Reveals MacArthur to Lead Philippines Drive

Yanks Kil 5543 in Palaus   Asias, Peleliu’s Main Town Nabbed; Angaur Drive Speeded

BLOODY BATTLE FOR PELELIU IS NOW NEAR END      Americans Wipe Out More Than Half Of Garrison, New Phase Starts

Battle for Peleliu Nearly Over, as New Phase of Pacific Drive Opens

Peleliu Fight Nears End As Yanks Mop Up   Half Of Jap Garrison Wiped Out; Angaur Island Falling”

American Forees Wipe Out More Than Half of Garrison in Fight for Feletiu in Southern Palaus,

Bloody Battle For Peleliu  Draws To Close   Over One-Half of Garrison Wiped Out By American Troops

MacArthur Sends Carrier Aircraft Over Halmaheras   Bloody Peleliu Battle Nears Final Stages; Occupy New Isle

Yanks Wipe Out Half of Jap Force on Peletiu   Ngarmoked Island  Seized by U. 8.3 Philippines Raided

Kill Half of Jap Forces On Peleliu   MacArthur Is Chosen To Lead Philippines’ Recap ture.

HALF OF JAPS DEAD, PELELIU CONQUEST NEAR      MacArthur Selected” To Lead Invasion Of Philippines

M’Arthur Will Lead Campaign For Philippines   Sends Carrier Planes to Blast Jap Atrdromes

MacArthur Will Lead Campaian for Philippines   His Selection Announced by Admiral Nimitz

FIGHT ON PELELIU IS NEAR END   ‘New Phase Opened Ir  Southwest Pacific  Drive By Yanks

U.S. Negro Troops Attack Italian Service Unit at Seattle; One Former POW Is Found Hanging from Treetop

NEGRO SOLDIERS © — ATTACK ITALIANS   ONE MEMBER OF SERVICE UNIT FOUND HANGING. TO TREE AT FT. LAWTON.

U. S. Exploiting Sweden As Bomber Assembly Place, Germans Charge

Allies Protecting  Areas In Normandy  Set Up Defense From Ai Attacks

V.R. FREDERICK IS CHAIRMAN   Conservation Committe Elects First Officers

ALLIED OPERATIONS IN BALKAN AREA APPARENTLY MINOR WITH AIRBORNE AND COMMANDO UNITS

WAR  TODAY   Allied Operations In Albania Aimed Merely At Helping Plugging Nazi Escape Routes From Greece.

Pre-War Foreign Policy To Play Little Part in Coming Senatorial Campaigns

Seeking to stiffen law on strikes   ‘Delay of victory’  charge aftermath

Strike Statement  Stirs Discussion   Member of Congress Plans to Offer Bill

U.S. Strikes Aid  German Morale:   Stiffened Laws May Make Act ‘Crime’

Capitol Talks Of Stiffening  Striking Laws   Some Legislators Suggest Up To Roosevelt To Take Leadership.   SLRIKR ES  AiD AXis

CLAIM STRIKES DELAY-VICTORY OVER GERMANY   Stiffened Laws Proposed ‘Th Congress To Combat Labor Disputes; Say War Prolonged.

Congressmen Study Stiffer Strike Curbs   Roosevelt Criticized For Handling of Recent Labor Disputes

Laws to Make Wartime Strikes Criminal Talked   Labor Disputes Delay Victory Over Nazis, Says High Official °°

Charge Made Labor Rows Delay- Vicory   Union Men Indignant Over Charge Nazis Say Strikes Mean U. S. in Chacs

Stiffer Labor Rulings Urged   Unions Deny Giving Help To Nazis After, Week Of Strike Threats

Capitol Talking Stiffened Laws In War Strikes   3 Rail Union Men Refuse Any Blame for ‘Giving Cainfane? to Eile?

WARTIME STRIKE BAN CONSIDERED      RECENT DISPUTES LEAD TO TALK IN CAPITAL OF NEW LEGISLATION,

Nelson's Tenure As WPB Chairman Is Uncertain  FDR Doesn't Know Whether He'll Have Same Job When He Returnc

Nelson To Take Over WPB Post   Naval Officer Will Be Acting Chairman Until His Return

KRUG WILL TAKE NELSONS PLACE AS WPB CHAIRMAN   Donald M. Nelson Will Take Over Again When  He Returns from China

Report Nelson To Resume WPB Job After Trip      J. A. Krug To Be Acting Chairman Succeeding  :- Wilson, Resigned, During Nelson’s Trip To Chunsking: _

Nelson Still Chief Of WPB Roosevelt Says   Can Not Say Now Whether He Would Be In Same Job On Return From  ¢ China Mission

DONALD M. NELSON TO RUN WPB ALONE   Charles E. Wilson Resigns; Lt. Commdr. J. A. Krug to Be Acting Chairman

FDR Evasive About Nelson   Can't Say Whether He’! Have Job en Return

F.D.R. Hints Nelson May Be Replaced   Chief in Control but President Refuses to Predict His Future

ROOSEVELT UNCERTAIN ABOUT NELSON'S STATUS  Future of War Board Chairman ee » ee Pe ee ee  een FY ba en » Ve ee

NELSON STILL WPB CHAIRMAN   However, President Won't Say How Long He'll Keep Job

Wilson Resigns; Gives Nelson Full Control Over WPB      Naval Lieutenant Commander Krug, Formerly Of TVA, To Substitute While Nelson Is In China

On Nelson Future  Still Head of WPB, No Assurance He Will Be On  Return From China

Nelson To Keep ' Control Of WPE   Resumes Authority On Return From China

Nelson To Direc WPB Fully Aft Wilson Resigns Bitter Controversy  Breaks. Out -After  ee! Kaabii

KRUG NAMED 10 HEAD WPB WHILE NELSON IS AWAY   SUCCEEDS WILSON WHO RESIGNED AS RESULT OF A FEUD -

NELSON STILL 5 WPB HEAL   Question As to Future Siatus Is ‘Iffy,’ Says President. ,

Nelson Future Is Iffy, FDR Tells Press      Wilson Resigns In WPB Wranocle

N elson: Will” Hold Powers   Krug Is ‘Appointed “As WPB Boils Over

NELSON MIGHT LOSE HIS JOB   But President Says He Can’ Say Whether WPB Changes Coming

Krug Takes WPB Post as “Wilson Quits   Chairman. on Mission te China, Still Holds Office, Roosevelt Says

'Tokyo Claims Counterinvasion of Peleliu: U.S. Pilot Bags Nine Nips

Tokyo Claims Jap Invasion On Peleliu   Yanks Begin to Close ~ Vise on Foe Caught In North Leyte

Who Can Discern Who From Who? ... .  Double Trouble Coming For Legislators’ Names

0. C. To Declare Those Jobs Vacant   If Garbage Truck Drivers Don’t Return to Work

DNORGE Sul HFA i GUI   ee ene Case Also Venued 1} From Bf fadison County: ‘to Tipton Court

Nahe ATTPREPO Liat i PRLS J  able C ig) NUE vat fi iii  ait Th Yr TAA Wy URE Ha  at ty GU  Sat 7. £ Win = Se, 5 ome sa SSN ae Sts 2   Liege LED AN WY GUURT   Case Also Venued rrom ifadison County to ‘Lipton Court

Russians Are Near Port of Nikolaev   Reds Score Major Advances Through Nazi Lines

Powerful Spearheads Are Thrust Within 30 Miles of Rumanian Border   RAILROAD STATION CAPTURED IN DRIVE   Remnants of Germans Trapped in Soviet Pocket Split

CROSS BUG AND PUSH NEAR RUMANIA   Reds Crush German Defenses 13 Miles  From Nikolaev

Reds Sweep Across Middle Bug; Near Port of Nikolaev   Drive Spearhead Within 30 Miles of Pre: War Rumanian Border; Ukraine Army Splits Remnants of 45,000 Trapped Foe

Thousands of Nazis Killed In Big Drive   Germans Cast Away Their Rifles in Panicky Flight

RED ARMY PUSHES ACROSS BUG RIVER ON 62-MILE FRONT   Pound Toward Bessarabia After Break-Through — — Spearheads 30 Miles '- From Rumania.   NAZI FRONT CRUMBLING IN NIKOLAEV AREA   Remnants of Trapped Force of 45,000 Germans Being _ Exterminated, Moscow Announces, 

Nazi Defenses Near Black Se: Port Crushed   Thousands of Trapped Germans in Ukraine Wiped Out; Cross Bug On 62-Mile Front

(5,000 Germans Face Death in Nikolaev Area   Tarnopol Battle Still Undecided

Reds Capture Trainloads: Of Equipment   Pour Across Bug River On 62-Mile Front, Gain 12 to 18 Miles  CLOSE TO NIKOTAFEV

Reds Plunge: On Over Bug River:   Spearheads [n’30: Miles Of Rumania

Reds Break Across Middle Bug River   Remnants Of About 45,000 Force Split, Being Rapidly Exterminated; Gains Of 12 To 18 Miles Made In Breakthrough

SOVIET ARMY IS CLOSING IN FOR THE KILI   DISASTER IMMINENT FOR GERMANS IN SOUTH UKRAINE

HULL DEFENDS FOREIGN POLICY   Meets Republican Freshman Representatives to Open Reply to Critics

HULL DEFENDS WORLD POLICY   Uutlines U. S. Stand to Young G.O.P. Sticking To Atlantic Charter

DEMOBILZATION MAY START FIGH   ‘Congress ‘May Be First Battle Ground in the Presidential Campaign

DEMOBILIZATION ISSUE MAW. ENTER POLITICAL CAMPAIGN   CONGREAS MAY BECOME FIRS1 BATTLEGROUND IN PRESI* DENTIAL CAMPAIGN OVER DEMOBILIZATION MEASURE 4,

(hinese Advance Under Stilwell  American-Trained  Aemu fiaine fraund

CHINESE GAIN AGAINST JAPS   U. §. Trained Soldiers Clearing New Supply Line

PATRIOTIC ORDER PRESENTS FLAG WAYSIDE SCHOOL   Holy Bible Also Given In Ceremony Held Yesterdav.

Wins Firm Bridgehead In Powerful Drive To  End Italian Deadlock -

Allies Beat — Back Foe In italy Drive   British Forces Storm Across River at Night, Gain Firm Hold.

BRIT. CROSS GARTGLIANO IN ITALY   Fight Way to North on Blazing Battlefront

Icy River Is Crossed By Veterans Under Cover of Darkness   Long Italian Deadlock Is Broken: Anchor Threatened

THE GAVIGLIANO RIVER 1S CROSSED. MOVE UP VALLE   Gen. Clark Seeking to Break Back of Stilf Nazi Defenses.

8 Strong Beachheads Consolidated On North Bank; Nazi Mountain Stronghold Now Besieged From 3 Sides

Powerful Offensive Results in Crossing Of Garigliano River   Fifth Army Troops F ighting Way ‘ Northward Across Valley Floor _After Ripping Open Nazi Lines

Fortresses Pace 6th Day’s Raid  Over Continent   Bomb Tonnage Hurled Against Reich To Reach 22,500

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT GERMANY   Handreds cf Lighter Allied Planes Batter Widely Scattered Targets in Wostern europe.

U.S. Fliers Again  Punish Germany   Doolittle Sends Medium-Sized Force Back Over Channel Today

Chinese Okay Security Plan  Dumbarton Oaks Meet To Wind Up Tomorrow

China Accepts Security Plan   Agrees to World Security Organization Set-Up Big Three Allies Drew Up

931 Electors Cast Ballots for President   OFFICIAL SELECTION BEING MADE WITH F. R. GETTING 432 VOTES

"44. Electors Ballot Today   150-Year-Old Method Picks Out’ President

Electors Cast Votes Today   Wiener Won't Be Anwounced Until Jan 6— But Everybody Knows. Result

Russ Seek to Close Trap on 300.000 Foe   Citadel of Novgorod Abandoned by Germans As Push Continues

Gulf States Plans Post-War Expansion of Rural Telephone Service in Kaufman Section

PLAN TO IMPROVE RURAL PHONE SERVICE   Joint Committee of Bell and Independent Companies  Has Been Formed   TO KEEP COSTS DOWN

Company M Of Annapolis Is A Unit Of Organization That Captured 5%. Lo

 115th Made Record Of Valor, Says ‘War Dept.   Capture Of St. Lo  Was Only One Of Many High Spots In History Of Famous Md. Onitfit

MORE JAPS KILLED AS CONVOY IS HIT   Tokyo Bombed Again by American Superfortoo S F@SS@S cee ee

0,000 MORE JAP COL DIERS PERISE   Planes Sink Transport and 9 Three Small Freighters   OTHERS IN FLAMES   aises Enemy’s Reinforcement Losses to 29 Transports, 18 Escort Ships

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Another Jap’ :  Leyte-Bound _ Convoy Sink   5,000 ‘Nip Troops Drowr In Futile Enemy Bid T Oct Wankes”

000 MORE JAPS LOST AS ANOTHER CONVOY 15 SUNK   Four Ships Carrying Rein_ forcements and Supplies   for Leyte Garrison   Are Destroyed. —   ENEMY SUB SENT DOWN IN THE ORMOC GULF   Rains Curtail Ground Activity on Island, but Pressure Is Maintained on Nippon’s Forces.

Ormoc Bound Ships Destroyed By Army Planes  Rains Continue to oo 9. Oe ee Oe es   Rains Continue to Delay Ground Troops Report Palaus Toll

9,000 Enemy Soldiers Are Drowned   Japs Scatter Convoy Cautiously but It's All Discovered

MORE JAPS KILLED AS CONVOY IS HIT   Tokyo Bombed Again by American Superfort. eeeeag

Roosevelt to make major  talk tonight  Lewis says club  is ‘non-partisan’

F. D. R. Speaks in Phila. Tonight, Talks in Chicago Saturday Night

President Goes On Air Tonight   Major Address Schedulec At® At Philadelnhia

SECOND CAMPAIGN TRIP FOR F. 0. R.   PRESIDENT TO ENTER HOTLYDEBATED AREAS—MAJOR SPEECH TONIGHT.

Yanks Using Pillbox Type Of Warfare to Climax Battle for Factory Area

CITE GERMAN'S YACHT PARTIES FOR OFFICER   House Committee Files Report on Studies of Hawait Sneak Attack.

Lightened Taxes, To Aid Business Recovery, Urged  House Committee’s Post-War Plan Favors . +-2f 3 fhe

LOW BUSINESS TAK IS PROSPERITY KEY   House Told Such Act‘on Needed If Jobs Found for Al) After War. _

Business May Get Tax Relief   House Economic Group Proposes Post War Program of Lower Taxes.

CONTINUE MINE RESCUE EFFORTS   WORK CREWS TOIL TO SINK SHAFT TO 66 TRAPPED MINERS

SINKING SHAFT TO IMPRISONED MEN   Efforts “to Sink Air Ven Seems Futile Gesture to Most People.

FIGHT IN BELGRADE   Soviet Troops and Partisans Battle Germans in Streets

RUSS BATTLE NAZIS IN STREETS OF BELGRADE   Liberation Near; Partisans in on Kill; Three-Way ‘Siege’ of East Prussia Opens

Russians Said — To Be In Streets Of Belgrade   Liberation of Yugoslav Capital Appears At Hand.

TWO POWERFUL RED  ARMIES RELEASED BY CAPTURE OF RIGA  - CONCERTED DRIVE SOUTH  WARD AGAINST EAST PDITCCIA EBaprracr

British Forces Approach Arno On Wide Front   Heavy Battle Said Raging 5 Miles From Florence; Poles Enter Senegalia

Americans In Burma Action   Reveal U. S. Troops Are Fighting Alongside Chinese Forces In Burma

Russ Frontal Assault Launched at Warsaw      “Other Soviet Forces Smash Within 15 Miles of Riga, Berlin Announces

Germans Batter Attackers   Russian And Polish Forces Under Murderous Fire From Guns  On High Cliffs.

GENERALS APPEAL TO NAZI OFFICERS   Express Conviction That Further Struggle Is Hopeless

Captured Generals Urge Germans To Resist Hitler   Officers. Veterans Of Both Present And Last World Wars, Express Conviction That Further Struggle By Germany Will Be Hopeless

NAZI GENS, URGE HITLER BREAK   Petition Cohorts From Captivity on Eastern Front

Sixteen Captured German Generals Urge Officers in Action Break with Hitler

PEACE CRISIS BEFORE FINNISH PARLIAMENT   Lawmakers Hear Government Proposals—Partios to Decide Course’ They Will Pursue,

TIERNEY TO HEAD STATE COALGROUP   Bluefield Operator Is Named President of Coal Institute; Industry Told. Little Tax Relief in Sight

Serious Egg Famines in Many Parts of Country Later in Year Predicted

NATION'S EGG MART FLOODED: SCARCITY SEEN   Declining Prices and Ris: ing Feed Costs Hitting Poultrymen Hard Throughout Country

BiG EGG SURPLUS FLOODING MARKETS BUT FAMINE SEEN  CLAIMED LOWER THAN CEILING PRICES TO CAUSI SELLING OF FLOCKS

BIG EGG SURPLUS FLOODING MARKETS BUT FAMINE SEEN  CLAIMED LOWER THAN CEILING PRICES TO CAUS

EGG SURPLUS THREATENS TO REDUCE FLOCKS   Poultry Leaders Say Flooded Mar kets, Low Prices Mean Famine Later If Not Corrected

Will Nominate Candidates.   Ammunition Dume Explosion Kills 10 in England

10 Killed In  London Explosion   Six Servicemen Die In Ammunition Blast

Yanks Threaten Main Roads To Berlin; Allied Patrols Enter Lyon; Belgium Almost Liberated; British Push Into Lille.

British Columns Reach Mechlin and Boom, Less Than 10 Miles From Antwerr And 15 From Holland, Headquarters Say:

Hero Signs Movie  And Magazine Contract That Will Bring  Him $50,000.

Enemy Bombers Damage Several American Ships   LE LL LL Aas  British Near Yuaqoslav Line

Bremen Blasted By Huge Force of RAF Planes   Saarbrucken, Berlin, Dortmund Also Hit In Four-Way Assault

RAF Blasts French Coas' Railyards   Ploesti Again Pounded by Modilerrancan Planes; Murky Weather Slews OHensive

Double Blow Dealt to Nazi War Machine   Allies Move in West for Quick Knockout at Cherbourg as Heayy Losses Are Inflicted on Foe by Russians

Mexico Bans Siesta To Save Power   More Recreation Hours Afforded Workers

ALLIES LAUNCH! NEW DRIVE IN BURMA JUNGLE   Tnflict Heavy Losseson Japs in Sector South of Mogaung

Allied Jungle Fighters inflict Heavy Damage On Japanese Burma Forces

Ireland Has Reasons to Stay Neutral   Present Impasse Has Roots in Partition Act Back in 1922

Partition. of Ireland Root of Present Trouble Between Eire and Allies

SAYS JAP SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED   Secretary Also Reveals 14 More Sent to Bottom by Subs

Sink 14 Mere Japanese Ships   First American Report On Results at Palau

U-BOATS SINK 14 MORE JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC AREA   Seeretary Reveals Foe Losses In U.S. Attack On Palau Reeently

 7 annee Subs Sink 14 More Vessels;  Knox Says Jap Ships Sunk at Palau

M4 dAP Wich  SHIPS DESTROYED   ~U. S. Submarires Send 14 More to Pacific’s Bo.tomi.

ENEMY SHIPS SUNK-DURING “PALAU ATTAGK   KNOX REVEALS ‘TASK FORCE SENT DOWN JAP S40Ps— SUBMARINES GET 14 CARGO VESSELS

KNOX REVEALS MORE RAIDS ON JAP SHIPPING   U.S. Subs Sink 14 Adtional Vessels   REPORT ON PALAU  Task Forces Inflict Heavy Losses

Secretary Knox Reports 14 More Jap Ships Sun}   American Subs Continue To Take Toll Of Japanese Merchant Shipping   FIRST MEAGRE FACTS ON PALAU RECEIVED

eS SSS ae ror mom erclclCOormCcCOorwrmOchCorhceCceh  Gen. Clark Says: GERMANY WORRLING

Massive Line Opens Way   What Would Have Been Tieing Touchdown Lost t Ada On Clipping Penalty

Massive Line Opens Way:   What Would Have Been  Fieing. Touchdown host t Ade On Citpping Pencity

Germans Are Still Holding  Tight on the Cassino — fighting Front.  NAZI PRESSURE KEEPS MOUNTING  }  We Are Now Fighting Purely Defensive Battle in Italy.

Allied Army On Rome Beach Now On Defensive As German Pressure Mounts  Daily.

Americans Beat Off Six Powerful Nazi Troop and Tank Attacks. Fighting At Cassino Continues.

Germans Evacuate Rouen.  Algiers Says Laon Taken   Americans and British Join in 35-Mile Front Pushing Toward Pas-de-Calais Wrecking German Hope of Stand

One Enters Reims and Pushes on   Another Approaches Laon. Both. Are Within 40 Miles of Border ~   MOVING IN ON ROCKET CENTERS   Rouen Reported  Evacuated  as Allies Advance Steadily  on All French Fronts

ARMORED COLUMNS LESS THAN 40 MILES AWAY: RESISTANCE ‘FROM GERMANS NOT STRONG

One Armored Column Drives Beyond Reims   Report Germans Withdrawing From Rowen

Other U.S. Columns 38 Miles From Belgium; Nazis Flee Rouen   American Armored Units Reported Advancing Beyond France’s Ancient Cathedral City And Siege Bastion In Last World War

2 U.S. Columns Within 40 Miles Of Belgian Line   Germans Announce Evacuation of Port of Rouen

Yank Armor 40 Miles from Belgium Cuts Off Retreat of Nazi Forces on Lower Seine and Buzz-Bomb Coust; Reims Falls: Battle for Laon Begins

One Column Pushes Ten Miles Past Reims While Another Approaches La~  Doaonohhoave Cnt Feeane Path   Doughboys Cut Escape Path  For Germans Above the Seine

March Info Reims as Nazi Forces Evacuate Rouen Port   RULLETIWN:

Tw o Columns “Are Moving Closer To . Belgium ..  crosiNG — ‘TRAP  Push. Farther. ‘Across Escape Path For.  f" emo

Columns Less than 40 Miles From Belgium, Allies Advance on Widening Front

Pass Reims, Slash Ahead For Belgium   Seine Port City Of Rouen Evacuated By German Forces.

Allies Nearing Belgian Line   Nazis Flee Rouen as American Armor Drives Far Past Paris; Laon Menaced by U.S. Advance

TWO AMERICAN ARMORED COLUMNS NEARING BELGIUM   Less Than Forty Miles Away Today; One Column Into Reims.   PUSHED BEYOND CITY   Another Unit Battled on the Approaches to Laon, London Announced.

American Column Beyond Reims; Another Crosses Escape Gap Above Seine

Approaches Near Laon Are Sought;  Rouen Open   Great. Allied Wings Shee North France

Yankees Are Reported Only 36 Miles of Belgium; Doughboys Make Dazzling Drive as Others Plunge Across Marne River.   British-Canadian Troops Force  Way Toward the Robot Bomb Coast

Nearing Belgian Border; Germans Evacuate Rouen   Two American Columns Less Than 40 Miles From Belgium: Cross Vesle River

Rouen, Port City, Evacuated by Germans. Latest Report Puts Beigium Only 10 Miles Off.   NPARING REICH

Cut Nazi Escape Corridor   Reims Is Captured As Armored Columns Push North and Head For “Rocket Coast”

One American Column Pushes Beyond Reims   70-Mile Front Crawls Eastward; Rouen Evacuated

FIRST COL GOES INTO REIMS   Other Unit Is Battling At Approaches To Laon   ROUEN EVACUATED   German Command Reports; La Havre Outflanked By Speedy Advance

ARMORED UNIT ENTERS REINS, CONTINUES ON   Rouen Abandoned to British, German Report Says

One Unit Battles on Approaches of Loan, Well Across Escape Path of  Nazis Above Seine   ROUEN IS EVACUATED

Forge Across Enemy Escape Path Above Seine   Invasion Forces Stand Only 192 Miles Apart

Allied Columns Rolling Across North France   Nazis Retreat From Aisne River Line; Evacuate Rouen

PUSH NAZIS BACK  TO LAON FROM  THE AISNE RIVER GERMANS EVACUATE  ROUEN, PORT-CITY ON THE SEINE RIVER

‘Two Columns Forty Miles From Belgium   Germans Announce Troops Evacuated Rouen; Yanks Drive for Rocket Coast

Nazis Give Up Port Of Rouen   .. Patton's 3rd Army Advances On 70-Mile Front

Two Columns Push Forward Against Nazis   Reims and Laon Are Captured; Rouen Evacuated

‘Nazi Radio Today Puts Our Forces as Only 80 Miles from German Homeland Border.   ‘GOOD GAINS MADE  ON BATTLEFRONTS

Second Unit Plunges To Near Laon   Both Columns Within 40 Miles Of Belgium; Nasie Ahandon Rouen.

Two U. S. Armored Columns Less Than 40 Miles From Belgium   Rouen Evacuated as Allies Push Northward From the Seine

American roop! Now Close fo Belgium Border  Advances Reported  “tion Ruane   Advances Reported On Entire Front in Western France

YANKS ADVANGE BEYONO REINS   Another Group in Northwest Battles on Approaches To Laon.   LEHAVRE OUTFLANKED

Armies Only 38 Miles From Belgium, 96 From Germany   Berlin Says Port City Of Rouen Vacated As Allied Columns Slice Up France

Yanks Battle 40) Miles From Belgium   Nazi Escape Route Is Cut; Allies Gain Along Seine

Troops Less Than 40 Miles From Frontier   Cross Escape Path Of German Forces.in Robot Coast Area; Nazis Give Up Roue:

Yanks 10 Miles Beyond Reims; Nazis Abandon City of Rouen; Americans 80 Miles of Reich; Robot Coast Is Being Flanked

Pas-De-Calais Is Outflanked; 38 Miles To Belgium   Rocket-Bomb Launching Area Partially Doomed; Yanks May Isolate Entire Area As Roller Advance Moves Toward Border

10 Miles Beyond Captured Reims   Doughboys Well Past Escape Path For German Armies Above Seine And On Pas De Calais Rocket-Bomb Coast .

BOY CHARGED WITH MURDER   Accused Slayer of Mother And Sister Eludes  Police

33 Nazi Fighters Downed in U. S. Raid on Plants at Steyr, Austria

Hand-To-Hand Fighting Is Bitterest In The Entire Mediterranean Campaign

DEWEY TO VISIT PACIFIC COAST   PLANS CROSS-COUNTRY CAMPAIGN — TO SPEAK AT OKLAHOMA CITY.

DEWEY SHAPES CAMPAIGN TRIP   Republican Candidate Will Extend Jaunt To Far West

STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN TOUR BEING MAPPED   Dewey Expects To Visit Pacific Coast Next Month: Will Make Oklahoma Address

Red Army Swings Into Action Against Defense Line Road To Berlin  12 JAP BOATS, 118 PLANES DESTROYED  In Raids On Volcano Islands Only 650 Miles From Tokyo

Overflow Crowd Of Democrats *At Joplin Rally   Frost to Make Race » for Lieut. Governor; State Leaders Attend

Campaign: ta ‘Southwest: Mis. ‘sourt: ‘Given ‘Rousing ‘Send“a ft: at. Jefferson. Day              SAUDEA-FULLER. __ "39 PRINCIPAL SPEAKER   THunderous: ‘Applause. Greets Declaration Roosevelt + Must ‘Be Drafted. for  Wearth Term:

JAPS CLAIM ALLIES RAD PHILIPPINE IS   Nips Say No Damage Done to Davao By Nutsance Raid

No Damage At Davao, _ Enemy Says   ‘Marines and Soldiers Gain Slowly on Guam, --Last-Ditch Fioht Seen   CHINESE ADVANCE   HINT OF DESPERATION In Nazi Counter-Attack

Japs Report U.S. Strike at Philippines   Nipponese Report Says 2 Planes Over Davo On ‘Nuisance Raid. Absolutely No Damage’

Americans, Renewing Attacks on Japs. Inflict Casualties   Yap Island Is Subjected to Heavy Raids by Bombers and Air Base Appears to Have Been Neutralized by Latest Assaults

‘Japs Report Davao Blow   Yanks Advance On Guam As Disaster Hits Bonin’s Nips

SGT. WILLIAM 6. CARMAN (5 KILLED IN FRANCE   Two Other’ Bristol Soldier: Listed as Casualties   PVT. BILGER IS MISSING

TECH. SGT. CARMAN KILLED IN ACTION; TWO MEN MISSING  Ist. Lt. G. R. Brown, Bristol, mee tleek SAvelbows Bellis   Ist. Lt. G. R. Brown, Bristol, and Pvt, Walter Bilver, S. Langhorne, Missing   BROWN, FINE RECORD   Pvt. Harry Bartle, Jr., Is Slightly Wounded In  France

‘OPA Takes Over (Commercial Gas. Rationing From ODT   Kegulatians Given Local Boards On   ee  er ae

RATIONING PROGRAM OF ‘GAS’ TO BE BROADENED  Office of Price Administration To Handle Some  Work of ODT Office OUTLINES THE DETAILS

OPA Broadens Gas Rationing Program Phase   Temporary Commercial Applications to Ge Before County Board Beginning Monday

LAWMAKERS MAKE POST-WAR STUDY   Committee Urged to Give Attention to Dislocated War Plant Workers as Well as Returning Vets

RED ARMY LEADER HITS AT JAPAN   NIPPONESE ATTACKS ON SOV: IET UNION. RECALLED BY COLONEL TOLCHENOV.

Adm. Kimmel Is Defended   Washington Blamed in Sneak Attack; Fear to Try Accused, Says Solon

Claims True Story of Pearl Harbor Will Shock World; Washington Blamed

‘WASHINGTON TO BLAME’ FOR PEARL HARBOR ATTACK HOUSE COMMITTEE TOLD

PEARL HARBOR REPORT RAKED   Solon Says Washington Was To Blame, Not - Short, Kimmel

Two Largest Sawmills In World. Face Closure; Union Votes Walkout

French Stop Nazi Attaek   Germans Hurl Fresh Armor.  Air Foree Into Batile But — Repulsed,

GERMANS RESIST FIERCELY IN ITAL)   THROW AIR FORCE AND NEW ARMOR INTO BATTLE—AILIES SMASH FORWARD.

NAZIS PUT FRESH ARMOR INTO ITALY   French Elements of Fifth Army Thrust on Through Mountains to Point 115 Miles From Rome

Nazis Using 7  Fresh Armor   Also Hurl Bombers Inte Italy's Battle

Huns In Italy Employ Fresh Armored Units   Also Hurl Air Force Into Battle But Fifth Army Elements Overrun New Territory

French Troops Advance tn ltaly   Japanese Troops Move Ahead In Hunan Province

ALLIES IN ITALY POST NEW GAINS   Fifth Army Pushes on t Omorne River Despite Foe Resistance

NAZIS HURL NEW FORCE AT ALLIES IN ITALIAN PUSH   Enemy Thrown Back On Adriatic Coast In Spite Of Resistance

Much Pioneering Still to Be Done in. New Mexico > Governor Dempsey Says

Forced Sale Bond Plans  Draw Fire   Wahoo Not to Back Down On Plan to Act With Draft Board

Placek Withdraws ‘Pressure’ Policy In Fourth Bond Sale  ... May Change Mind Before Next Drive Begins

NO FORMAL NOTIFICATION:   Bricker Will ‘Accept: Nomination Before Editorial] Association  

ther Troops ress Drive )n Bucharest   Romanian Forces Aid Russians In Oil Region

Advance On Capital, Rich Oil Territory   Stalin’s Units Said to Have Pushed 50 Miles Into Transvivania

Bucharest, Romanian Capital, is 50 Miles  From Russian Grasy   Report Plunge 50 Miles into Transylvania; Carpathians Entered

RUSSIANS ARE NEAR PLOESTI OIL REGIONS   Reported Close To Bucharest In New Push

ROMANIANS FIGHT NAZIS   London, Aug. 28 (AP)—Russian troops have reachd the Hungarian border, the German radio asserted to-

Russians In Ploesti Oil Fields —   German Radio Reports Reds Reach Hungarian Border 3

RUSSIANS CRUSH GERMAN FORCES AT GALATI GAP   Reds Drive Into Ploesti 0) Region; Others Push Toward Bucharest

ar   A Drive Swiftly Overrun the Wealthy Ploesti Oil - Revion.   INTO TRANSYLVANIA   Northern Section Cut Away  From Romania, a Moscow Dispatch Says.

SWIFT ADVANCE INTO ROMANIA   Speed For Bucharest; Oil Fields At Ploesti  Overrun

REDS CLAIMED DRIVING INSIDE TRANSYLVANIA   Armies Less Than 50 Mile: From Bucharest; Fliers Hit Battered Nazis

Ploesti Oil Area Overrun by Reds   Two Russian Armies Less Than 50 Miles From Bucharest   IN A SWIFT CAMPAIGN   Strong Air Forces Are Bombing the Disorganized Germans

Push On Toward Bucharest      Capital Less Than — 50: Miles Away; Other Russian Forces Move Into Carpathians.

Berlin Claims Soviets Reach Balkan Nation   Seem to Indicate Advance Was Through Romania To Edge of Transylyantia   Other Reds Racing Toward Bucharest   Smash Galati Gap Defenses and Bowl Over Ineffen tive Resistance By Germans

Germans Repor! Soviet Army At Hungary Border  Other Russ Troops Only 50 Miles From Bucharest In Push Across Oil Reaion

German Radio Says Red Arrived At One. Of The  Carnathian DP ew cen os

NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLE UNDER FIERCE ATTACKS   Balkans Breaking Away from Hitler and Turning To Fight Germans

Germans Reveal Soviets At Pass In Carpathians   Report Indicates Advance Made Through Romania To Edge Of Transylvania

Soviets Reach Hungary Line,  Nazis Asser!   Two Russian Armies: Within 50 Miles of Bucharest

‘Carpathian  Pass Likely Route Used By Invaders   Drive On Oilfields, Bucharest Reported:

Russians Less Than 50 Miles From Bucharest   Ploesti Oil Is Being Snatched From Germans

Soviet Units Draw Near Rumania Goat   Reds Are Also Said To Bet Driving Far in Transylvania

Reds Reach Hungary, Says Berlin   LONDON, Aug, 28.—U7P)—Russian troops have. reached: the Hungatian dorder, the German radio asserted tonight.

SOVIETS NEAR GOAL IN DRIVE ON BUCHARES}   Report 50-Mile Drive Into Transylvania; ls Unconfirmed

Red Forces On Borders Of Hungary   Germans Clain Counter-Attacks Successiul in Bolling Up Advance—Oil Fields Overrun

Fight Is On In Ploesti Oil Fields   Romanians Battle In Area As Reds Near ' Bucharest, Ploesti

Less Than 50 Miles Away At One Point   Reds At Border Of Hungary, Germans Assert

Red Army Reaches  Hungarian Border   Soviets Reported Sweeping Threv gh Transy lyania—  Ploesti. Oil Welds Overrun

Reds Overrun Ploesti, Move On Bucharest   Other Units Plunge . Into Transylvania  For 50 Miles, It Is Reported at Moscow

Russians . Driving Over Ploesti Area   Heading Toward Bucharest And Carpathian Passes.

Cossacks Pace Great Soviel Balkan Thrus!   Red Columns Converge On Bucharest And Ploesti Today

Nazis Report Russians At Frontier   Soviets To Within 50 Miles Of Capital Of Romania

Russians Reach Hungarian Border   German Radio Asserts Reds Have Reached Border at “One of the Carpathian Passes”

Advance Through Romania to Edge Of Transylvania   Red Troops Swiftly Overrun the Wealthy Ploest Oil Region.   Red Air Force Bombs  Disorganized Germans

GOSSACKS LEAD ARMY DRIVE INTO OULFIELE   Other Columns Reported ir Transylvania; Galati Gap Breached.

—RUSSIA—  1 OTHER GROUPS NEAR BUCHARES!   Colorful Cossacks Pace Swift Russian Advance Through Romania   HIT TRANSYLVANIA   Wealthy Ploesti Oil Region Also. Overrunning By Victorious Soviets

Cossacks Pace Drive of Red Armies to Within 50 Miles of Bucharest  Ploestui Oil Fields Overrun: -

Cossacks Lead Drive in Romania   Units Driving Into the Car: pathians Said to Have Entered Transylvania   MAIN PUSH MADE TOWARD BUCHAREST      Ploesti Area Is Being Overrun; Storm Troopers Try to Force a Stand

REDS OVERRUN PLOESTI AREA   Take Wealthy Oil Regior And Only 50 Miles From Bucharest  PRESS TWIN ATTACK

Bucharest Is 50 Miles From  Russian Army   After Shattering Galati Gap Defenses, Reds Pout In Oil Region.   '  MAKE GOOD HEADWAY

Iranian Trade Unionists, Who Would Celebrate Russian Revolt, Arrested

Berlin Reports Big Red Attack Opening in East   Lull in Fighting Ends in Dnestr Valley Sector

Nazis Report Russians Have Started Big Offensive in Lower Dnestr Valley

SOVIETS STRIKE FLANKING BLOW IN LWOW AREA   Regain Initiative After Week-Long Attacks By Germans

Achieved Defensive Success In Hard Fighting   THE ENEMY LOST NUMEROUS TANKS

Soviets Open Big Offensive Along Dnestr   Germans Say Attacks Repulsed: Russians Hammer Sevastopol

Surprise Thrust Routs Germans In Lwow Sector   Nazis Claim Soviets  Have Opened Drive In Lower Dnestr Valley

REDS OPEN UP MAJOR ACTION   Most Reports of New Soviet Move Coming From Germ.

BERLIN SAYS REDS BEGIN MAJOR PLUSH   Lull on Eastern Front Broken By Rampaging Reds   Prelude to Invasion  Wires Cut, Shipping Is Halted

Soviets Battle in Dnestr   Moscow Confirmation Lacking in Report of Broad Offensive

Eastern Battle Lull Now Over.   Nazi High Command : Reports Attack Along Lower Dnestr Valley:

BIG OFENSIVE MAY BE END OF EASTERN LULL   Opening of Balkan Battle?

Two Senate Seats  Still Undecided   Soldier Vote Expected To Play Important Part

SOLDIER VOTE TO DECIDE 9 RACES   Democrats Have 56 in Senate; Republicans Have 37

NO. 10 FUEL OlL COUPONS VALIDATED   Worth Ten Gallons; New Plan Starts Soon on “R” Coupons

PRESENT INDICATIONS POINT TO’ REDUCTION OF “A” /COURON VALUE TO-~ “TWO GALLONS

Break German Monopolies, Is  Biddle’s Plea   German Firms Constitute Menace To The Future Peace Of World, Says Attorney General

BIDDLE ASKS FOR END OF NAZI MONOPOLIES   Warns That Firms Menace Future Peace Of World

Biddle Hits Nazi Monopoly Cartels  Tells Kilgore’s Group Of Biurane’« Kceconamy

Would End Nazi  Monopolies   Biddle Declares Such Firms Constitute Menace To Peace.

Biddle Proposes Breaking Power Of Nazi Firms   Would Not Destroy German Economic Life But Keep Industries In Check.

Nazi Monopolies Threaten World Peace-Biddle   Power Must Be Broken. He Savs

late Bulletins   LONDON (®}—Prime Minister Churchill returned by air late loday from Italy.

Biddle Would Smash Cartels Of Germany   Menace to Peace Of World Seen  In Monopolies

End Of German Monopolistic Firms Sought   Attorney General Biddle Says They Constiinte Definite Menace to Future Peace of World

Nazi Monopolistic Firms Must Be Broken, Biddle Tells Subcommittee, Citing Menace

House To House And Hand To Hand Fighting In Paris Streets   FRENCH CITIZENS FIGHT BY SOLDIERS

New French Revolution Rages in Paris Streets  Americans Join French In Fighting Germans From Barricades and Houses

Eyewitness Story of Battle In Capital ‘Vive La France,’ Parisians’ Cr}

PATROL ACTIONS ARE ONLY ACTIVITY ON FRONT IN ITALY  ITALIANS CAPTURE GERMANS, THE FIRST SINCE

Italian Units Repulse Nazis  Beat Back Small   Beat Back Small German Attack on Mount Marrone

TROOPS HOLD MT, MARRONE NEAR GASSINO   American Ambush  Captures Nazi Patrol Today

Fy ee italy Troops Push Nazis Back   Yanks and British Beat Gff Beach Attacks as Navy Guns Aid

Small German Thrusts Halted   Italians Take One Of Enemy Prisoner

ITALIAN REPULSE THRUSTS BY NAZIS      Holding Mile-High Peak 15 Miles Northeast of Cassino.

ITALIANS HALT NAZIS ATTACKS   ‘Two Small. Thruste. Are   mall. ‘Thr  Stopped Near Cassino

lfalian Troops Capture German  Patrols Active  Ba DM... .hLt.. 2?

ITALIANS STOP NAZI THRUSTS   Shelling and Clashes by  Patrols Continue

Italian Troops Take Nazi Prisonet On Mi. Marrone   Shelling and Patrol Clashes Centiaue on Main Front, Nazi Atiack on Beachhead Resnlsed

Italians Continue To Hold Hill, Repulse Germans  American Group Trap: Nazi Patrol; Ships Shell Beach

Check Nazis At Cassino   Italian Troops Halt Two Thrusts; Allies Repulse Anzio Advances

TWO ATTACKS BEATEN BACK BY ITALIANS   Allied. Raiders Continue To Blast Communications

LOUD OVATION FOR WALLAGE   Reaches Chicago in Fight For Renominatiton

New Values for Canned Fruits Not Effective Until 12:01 A. M. Sunday

CANNED GOODS, MEATS RATIONED   All Rationed Free Vege tables Now Back On Ration List

OPA Returns Vegetables to Rationing List   Meats to be Back On List Sunday; Stamps Invalidated

Changed Point Values For Canned Fruits Go Into Effect Next Sunday

Quick OPA Move Puts Many Faad Commodities  On Ration List   Beginning Sunday Public Will Have to Put Out Red Points for Number of Afaatis Nina Paint .MWras

FOOD SUPPLIES LOW: RATIONING STARTED AGAIN   In Surpise Move OPA Clamps Down On Foodstuffs

OPA TIGHTENS RATIONING OF FOOD IN U.S,   Housewives Again Paying Blue Points For Most Canned Veretables

Food Supplies Said At Wat’s Lowest Ebb  Will Dole Out More Ration Point:

OPA Tightens Rationing as Supplies Hit Low Ebb; Canned Vegetables Are Returned to Ration List

Tighten Ration Rein   Many Canned Vegetables and About 85% Of All Meats On List; Butter to 24 Points

Flanking Threat to East Prussia and Warsaw is Opened   Berlin Reports Reds Are Only 25 Miles Away From Warsaw

C.1.0. Organize: New Political Group  Avoids Penalties of Corrupt Practices Act

Rommel Wounded But Is Reported Back With Troops   War Knight, 7 to 1 Shot, Wins Arlington Handicap

Engineer Dead, Train Runs Wild Four Miles, Is Stopped by Fireman

Stability Formula for Liberated Countries Sought by U. S., British

BRITISH MINISTER: AT CAPITAL   Richard Law to Confer With  Stettinius

STATE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT   Fastern Shore Counties Vote For Roosevelt  Dewey Carried State Counties By 27,000

Few Counties In Maryland  For Roosevel:   Only Baltimore City aud Nine Eastern Shore Counes Return Margins For President

Slayer Says He Killed In  Insane Spell   KILLED TWO LOS ANGELES WOMEN FOR PURE CUSSEDNESS, WSLSUN TOLD PULAU PSYCHIATRIST, DR. DE RIVERS   Also Admits Theft

More Snow and New Cold Wave Ride Info Ohio   White Christmas Seen Sure With Latest Storm

Says Spain Not To Harbor Nazis   Ambassador To U.S. Denies Moscow Charge

EDEN SENDS SPAIN WARNING TO STOP HELPING THE AXIS    BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY  CRITICIZES PRESENCE OF * SPANISH DIVISION ON RUSSIAN FRONT

Spain Warned by British Against Unneutral Stand   Eden Reveals That He Has Warned Spanish — to Watca Future Action

REPORT ENEMY BIG PUSH HAS SHOT ITS BOLT   German Drive Is Slowed; Red Forces Enter Budapest

Assault Slows Enemy in Europe Fight   Enemy Losses Mount As U. S., British Plances Wreak Havoe

Oil Resources Open To World   President Gives Figures Or Lend Lease

OIL SUPPLIES OPEN 10 ALL AFTER WAR   Disclosure Made by President in 13th Lend-Lease Report

FDR Reveals Post-War Oil Agreements  President Reports On Lend-Lease:  ce: Ble Bice

SAYS NATIONS TOGET EQUAL ~ ACCESS T00IL   Congress Told How Lend-Lease Is Aiding Allies

FDR Discloses Oil Reserves of World lo Be Thrown Open   Intimates Early Invasi2 of German-Cccupied Europe in Offing in . 13th Lend-Lease Rerort to Coneress

Finland Quits By Surrender; Germans Flee  Cerman Foree< Ta 1 eave Canntey   German Forces To Leave Country Or Be Interned By September 15.

Otficer Tells How We Cracked Siegfried Line and of Menace Lying Ahead

Many Children Work Illegally  Only 28 States Have Ratified Labor Act

CHILD LABOR STILL AN AMERICAN =: [PROBLEM AS EIGHT STATES qELAY : ‘APPROVAL OF THE 1942 AMENDMENT.

Jews Blamed For Slaying Lord Moyne   British Envoy In Middle East

British Lord Killed By Jews   British Resident Minister Shot as He Alighted From  Car; No Motive Known.

Hull Presents Foreign Policy   Believe Sunday Address Was Bid For Survival Of Administration Policy   SPECIFIC ATTITUDE ON SITUATIONS GIVEN

hue SEEKING FULL SUPPORT — OF PRESENT FOREIGN POLICY   EECRETARY BIDS FOR BACKING OF PRESENT POLICY RE« GAMDLESS OF ELEC. 1 TION OUTCOME

SEC. HULL BIDS FOR SURVIVAL OF F.D. POLICY   Lists International Goals   : MAS Se BD     CARDS ON TABLE Hints at Possibility of Dems Defeat  

NON-PARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY * ASKED BY HULL      Secretary’s Speech Believed € Keyed to Possible GOP Win in November

SPEEGH otEfl fo bi Fun Until POLICY APPROVAL   Observers Believe Hull May See Defeat ot Democratic Party.

Roosevelt Forces Take Over Control   All Former Electors Qusted And New Ones, Pledaed To Sunnort Roasevelt. Are Elected

MASS HELD AT ST. BERNARD'S   For Thomas F. Giblin, 80, Retired Executive of Boston Store

Manuel Quezon Dies in Exile   Osmena Becomes President Of Philippine Nation

Exiled Leader Of Philippines  Dies at Home   Manuel Quezon Dies Of Tuberculosis: Osmena Is Successor

PHILIPPINES LEADER DIES   M. Quesea, Exiled President, Succumbs; Osmena Takes Oath as Successor

Exiled President Of Philippines Dies af Home   Pulmonary Tuberculosis Causes the Death of Manuel Quezon

First Strong Assault From Ceylon  Heavy Blow Catches Japs Napping At Sumatra And Sabang; Carriers Strike

v. §. Naval Force Into » Indian Sea   First “Disclosure of Big Move by American. Units B. >. in Far-Off Area   ‘OPERATES WITH. _ ALLIED FORCES   » Blows at Sumatra and Sabang a Great Success; Big “Fleet in Area

U.S. Carrier Force Now In Indian Oceat   Joins British, French And Dutch Units For Blow At Sumatra; More Assaults Seen

Speedy Navy Planes, 80% American-Made, Blasted Sumatra and Sahang; Caught Enemy Napping

STRONG U. §. NAVY CARRIER FORCE IN BLOW AGAINST JAPS  SPEEDY CARRIER-BASED

JAPAN CAUGHT NAPPING; BASE BADLY DAMAGED   U. S. British In  Surprise Raid At Sumatra

Strong Yankee Carrier Force: With Allied Fleet That Caught laps Napping Off Sumatra Tip

U.S. Carrier Force ~ Is in Indian Ocean   Has J oined British, French and Dutch Naval _ Units and Participated in Blow to J aps '. gt Sumatra and Sabang. .

U.S. Carriers Operating Out of India   American Ships Were In Surprise Attack on Sumatra

American Carriers In Sumatra Attack   U.S. Planes Join Allied Forces In Raid on Great Japanese Base

U. S..NAVY GARRIER FORGE HAS JOINED OTHER NAVAI IINITS   Aided British, French and Dutch in Blow That Caught the Japanese Napping.   MET IN INDIAN OCEAN   Speedy Naval Planes “Hopp ( Of Froia Ameri British Carri

HOLLAND JIS ARRESTED   To Be Charged With Murder of Wife and Mother-in-Law

HOLLAND IS ACCUSED OF BEHEADINGS   Highway Patrol Chief Says Ex-Convict Will Be Charged With Murder in Deaths of Wife and Mother-in-Law.

Governor Is  Candidate for U. S. Senate   Hickenlooper Will Seek Chair Now Held By Guy M. Gillette

TEXAS DEMOCRATS HEADED FOR COURT   Intra-Solit Finds 2 Slates of Delegates Claiming Recoonition

DEMOGRATS HIT SNAG IN TEXAS   Fourth Term Issue May Cause Court Battle Over Party Split

Pro-Roosevelt Group in Texas  Again Rebuffed  Fight Over Electors Headed for Courts; Referendum Denied

Fourth Term May Be Court Issue  Texas Democrats Have Party Split

Pres. Vetoes Two-And-a-Quarier Billion Dollar Tax Bill Today   Un Ground That It Gave Special Privileges to Favored Groups.

Presidential  Veto Strikes New Tax Bil   Favontism Shown Certain Groups, Roosevelt Charges

NEW TAX BILL IS VETOED RY PRESIDENT   FDR Says Measure Filled With Many Snecial Privileves

FDR VETOES TAX BILL   Compelled To Do So In Public Interest, Says the President

President Vetoes Tax Bill, Scorns Special Privileges   Wants Social Security Raised, Federal Tax Laws Simplified

PRESIDENT HITS NEW TAX MEASURE WITH VETO POWER   Special Privileges fo Favored Groups Held Main Reason; Simple Tax Needed

FR Vetoes New Tax Bill, Hits At “F avoritism’”   .Demands Doubling of Social Security Levy, . Urges Simplification

Hits Federal Use of Gas   U.S. Employes Burn 304 Million Gallons a Yeac

WASTE OF GAS CITED BY BYRD   Senator's Economy Committee Says Government Employes Travel Too Much

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES BURNING A LOT OF GAS  Little Procrese Being Made   Little Progress Being Made In Reduction of Federal Trave!

Federal Folk Still Travel.   Committee Finds Little Being Done To Cut Down Huge Mileage, Gas Use

New Deal Travelers Use  Millions Of Gallons OF Gasoline, Byrd Reports   Appeals To Reduce Mileage Are Ignored B Payrollers As Taxpayers Stay Home; >, Mare Gov’t Cars In Use

Federal Men Still Travel    Use Gas For. Travel, While- Advocating Others To Cut Down -

U.S. Agencies Using Too  Much Gasoline   Not Cutting Down Travel Enough, Says Byrd’s Report

SPECTACULAR GAINS SCORED BY ALLIES IN ITALIAN CAMPAIGN   ‘NOW 90 MILES ABOVE ROME AS FOCUS OF DRIVE SWINGS TOWARD FLORENCE.

MEDITERRANEAN AIR ’ FORCE IS CREATED   Includes American and British— Lt. Gen. Ira C, Eaker Placed in Command.

Eaker Named To New Command   Full Mediterranean Area I> Under Him

QUADRUPLETS GET NAMES, QUIT CRIBS   Health Permits Their Being Placed on Standard Formula

Nazis Form Government In Hungary   Fear Of Collapse Is Seen In New Moves

Hitler Agents Take Hold Of Hungarian Government; Send Troops to Slovakia

Hungarian Chief Ousted By Hitler   Puppet Takes Over as Panicky Cabinet Quits

BARKLEY SENDS PEACE-MAKING LETTER TO FDR   EXPRESSES HOPE FOR CLOSER COOPERATION IN FUTURE ACTIONS

Sersite Ready To Aim Final Blow To Shatter Veto   Chairman George Foresees 80 Votes to Override Veto With Probably 18 Votes For F.D.R.

BARKLEY PAT ROOSEVELT ON BACK IN NOTE   Does Not Change Mind On Veto Of Tax Bill

800 Nazis Killed On Polish Front   Soviets Announce 52 Axis Planes Downed

Outflank Enemy,  Kall Many   Heavy Artillery Due Now Raging In Vicinity Of Sevastopol.

Russ: Kall 1000  ‘Nazis in Estonia   _ Enemy. Counterattacks Repulsed in Poland

Reds Turn Back German Attacks  230 Nazis Die Wher  Assault Fails

Yankee Fliers Surprise Japs   Jap Radio Stations Were Carrying Tojo Statement at Time

PITTSBURGH OF JAPAN POUNDED   Fifth of Steel Production Possibly Knocked Out

May Have Knockec Out Fifth of Jap Stee! Production   Two Mighty Planes Lost on Trip but Enemy Got None

Japan Dealt Great Body Blow   Four Injured in Milwaukee Storm   “NBC Correspondent Broadcast Attack Story

JAP WAR INe:'STRY GIVEN HARD Bic¥ BY B-29 RAIDERS °   Attack On Yawata, the “Pitts, burgh” of Japan, May Haye Knocked Out a Fifth of the Empire’s ‘Steel Production   Re CEYDE A CPARNSWORTH

Terrific ; Blaws al Jap Steel   “May Have: 7e- ‘Kriocked .. ou ‘Fifth of. Enemy’s. Output - in Raid on. Yawata        ‘JUST ‘A STARTER’. z -FOR NEW. PLANES      Tons” ‘Upon’ “Tons of Bombs “Rained Down. in-Swift, Surprise. Attack

ath OF Steel Production In Imperial Out   B-29’s Raid On Japan Knocks Out Great Steel Industries At Yawaia.   FOUR FAIL TO RETURN

Pacific Empire Feels Brunt of Aerial Power   Yawata Imperial Steel Furnaces Left in Flames by Great Armada

RAID CUTS JAPS STEEL OUTPUT   Blows by B-29s May Have Knocked Out Fifth of Nips’ Production

Giant American Bombers Run Into Anti-aircraft Fire and Fighter Planes But Leave Stee! Mills Glowing Mass of Wreckage - - - Two Fortresses Lost Because of Accidents But None To Enemy Action

imperial Plant at Yawata, “the Pittsburgh” of Japan, Is Target of SuperCraft Striking From Base in Western China—One Plane Lost Over Target and Another Is Missing— Two Others, Down Due to Mishaps, _s but Crew of One Saved.

Yawata Hit Hard by Big Planes   Fifth of Production Knocked Out in Surprise U. S. Blow

Fifth of Jap Steel Output Knocked Out By Super-Fortress Raid on Mainland

)ne-Fifth of Jap Empire's teel Production Smashed   World's Most Powerful Bombers Carry Out Record-Breaking Assault

YAWATA, PITTSBURGH OF JAPAN" REPORTED BADLY DAMAGED.BY FLOOD OF DEMOLITION BOMBS   World’s Most Powerful Warplanes, Making Longest Bombing Flight in History Cause Great Des truction on Imperial Iron and: Steel Worke..: *

A Terrific Blow At Jap Industry   One-Fifth of Steel Output May Have Been Knocked Oise

B-29's Destroy Filth of Jap Steel Output   New Superfortresses  Highly Suecessful  In Raid on Yawata, “Japan's Pittsburgh”

Eyewitness Says B-29s Struck Bad Body Blow to Japan’s War Industry

GIANT AMERICAN FORTRESSES SLASH JAP STEEL PRODUCTION IN LONGEST RAID ON RECORD

Japan's Steel Struck Heavy Blow in Raid   Believe Fifth of Production Has Been Knocked Gut

B-2d AIDS A BODY GLOW AT WAR INDUSTRY   Yawata, Steel Center, Feels Crushing Might of New Air Weanon.

Main Steel Works Shattered; * Only Four Super-Forts Missing         Bonin Islands Attack Reported

n Mighty Blow Aga  B- 29S MAY HAVE KNOCKED OUTA THIRD OF JAPS’ STEEL OUTPUT

 Staggering Blow May Have Knocked Out 5th Of Japan’s Steel Output   Eyewitness Says Raid Carried Out  To Complete Amazement Of Japs

Great Yawata — Steel Plant  Left In Ruins   Super-Bombers Fly From West China Bases; New Blows Loom

Heavy Blow Aimed At Steel Production   Iron and Steel Works at Yawata Blasted, In Beginning of Organized Effort To Paralyze Enemy's Industries

B-29’s Bombloads Struck Body Blow _ At Nips’ Pitisburgh   May Have Knocked Out Fifth Of Foes’ Vital Metal Production; 24 Two Super-Forts Fail To Return

Four of Sky Battleships Lost in Raid   Japan Dealt Great Body Blow   Anti-Aircraft Guns At Yawata Send One B-29 Down to Enemy   NBC Correspondent Broadcast Attack Story

Jap Invaders Reach Foochow, Chinese Report      Expect Port To Be Taken Easily

FOOCHOW SAID 4 APTURED BY JAP INVADERS   Yank Raid In Kuriles Sweeps Within 310 “Miles Of Nippon

BOMBERS NEAR NIP MAINLAND   Aleutian - Based Planes Rock Kauriles, 380  Miles From Japan

Japanese Moving on Foochov   One Report Says Important Port Already Has Been Captured by Nips   YANKS CONTINUE SUCCESS IN AIR   Deep Strike Made Near Tokyo; Oil Center Hit Again Despite Vicious Resistance

26th Division Breaks Through To Join 35th   Enemy Salient Wiped Out By 90th Armored; 7th Army Rolls All Along Its Front

6th Division racks Old aginot Line   Snow Blankets Much Of Battlefield As Germans Put Up Fierce Resistance

STEADY PUSH IS MADE THRU MAGINOT LINE   Enemy Counterblows Beaten Back In Fierce Fighting

Yanks Hit Through Maginot Line in Drive on Saarland; 17 Nazi Divisions Destroyed   American Planes Battle Snowstorm to Bomb German Industrial Center; Russians Put Tighter Squeeze on Hungarian Capital

Division of Third Army Joins Second Force Near Reich   Patton’s Doughboys Gird for Mighty Push To Saarbrucken After 26th Pierces Enemy Defenses — Heavy Fighting Over Entire Front Reported.

Yanks Dig Deep Into Saar Zone  For New Drive   Third Army Division, In Breakthrough, Meets Anather U. S. Force Eas of River   Savage Fighting Slows Up Advance   Snow Blankets Section In North, Where Ninth Army Smashed Huns Along Roer River

YANK DIVISIONS UNITE FOR NEW SOUTHERN PUSH   American Troops Still Gaining All Along  Saar Front

Infantry Lunges Against Saarlanc In French Drive   Doughboys Pierce Maginot Defenses To Effect Junction

Temperatures   2 Divisions Jom Forces for Saarland Drive  Famed Fortification:   Famed Fortifications Cracked by 26th In Assault by Acben

Forees Join In New Drive  On Saarland   26th Division Meets 35th Af. ter Cracking Line Near Achen.   EXPAND. CROSSINGS

Third Army Unit Gains. 2 Miles As _  Saar Nears.   Armored Division — ~ Wipes Out Salient

GAIN 2 MILE TO JOIN WHT JOH DIVISION   Juncture Enables Drive from  South Into Contested ! Saarland.

2 US. Armies Join on East Bank of Saar   Heavy Fighting !s Rule on Patton's Front; French Advance

90th Division Press Deep . Into Siegfried Line, — Beat Counter Blow:

90th Division Takes Station At Dillingen   U. S. Seventh Army Attacks Northwest of Haguenau Within Fou: ‘Miles of Germany

PLANES BLAST ENEMY CONVOY NEAR RABAUL   ONE BIG SHIP SENT. DOWN AND TWO OTHERS LEFF IN. " FLAMES BY ALLIED AIRCRAFT

Jap Convoy s Badly Battered By Allied Fliers   One 10,000 Ton Merchant Ship Sunk; Two More Left In Flames   ENEMY LOSES 22 PLANES IN FIGHT

TWO JAP SHIPS BURN, ONE SUNK   Six-Vessel Convoy Caught Off New Ireland by Allied Aircraft

AIRCRAFT CATCH SIX-SHIP CONVOY OFF NEW IRELAND   Supply Ships Fail To Arrive At Rabaul - - Jap Planes Are Shot  Down.

Biddle Justifies Ward Plant Move   Says Seizure Was To Protect Public

Seizure Of Ward Co. Plant By Government Defended   Attorney General Biddle Declares Use of Troops Probably Avoided Violence and Asserts Seizure Was Legal

TAKING WARD PLANT IS LEGAL STATES BIDDLE   Troops Removing Avory Acted in a Quiet And  Sensible Manner

Biddle Avers MW Seizure ‘Was Legal   THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WOULD HAVE “RISKED DISASTER” If HE HAD NOT SENT ARMY.   “Guided Accordingly”

MERCY FLIGHT RECORDS SET   HOSPITAL” PLANES” OF SOUTH. WEST PACIFIC. AIR) FORCE  HAVE EVACUATED 35,000. ” CASTALTIES .

‘Report Progress Made To End  Deadlock Between Communists, — Central Government Of China

MILITARY MISSION T0 PROBE CRIMES ACAINST FLIERS.   Bulgaria’ 's Treatment: of. ‘Interned U: S. Fliers : Is Investigated

PRISON CAM CAMP ~~ PROBE GROUF         mmGATE, CHARGES’ ‘BULGAR. ae 7s

U.S. HEAVIES SMASH ROBOT INSTALLATIONS   Germans Report Allied Air Raiders Press TwoWay Attacks Around The Clock

HEAVY BOMBERS JOLT NAZILAND   Over 3,000 00 Sky Giants In Raid; Robot Roosts Hammered Again

Great Air Fleet Blasts Continent   Germany, France And Italy Bombed

3,000 Heavies. Rake Germans   Enemy: Struck’ in ‘Reich France. Tralw

NAZIS BLASTED BY ~ LARGE AIR: FORCE   More Than 3,000 ‘Allied Bombers: Hit German dé Taraets

Truman Says Dewey Hides Under the Bed   Charges GOP Nominee With Lacking “Courage and Honesty” to. An E . swee His Suggestion

Truman Claims Dewey ‘Hiding Under the Bed’  Democrat Candidate Turns His Fury on

No Answer to Truman Challenge   Gov. Dewey y Is “Hiding Un. der the Bed,’ Missouri Democrat Says   LACKS THE COURAGE TO MEET ISSUES   Sen. Ball Says Dewey’s For eign Policy Talk Fails to State Position

50,000 Taken By Japanese In Philippines   22,331 American Soldier: Sailors and Marines; Rest Were Filipinos

RED VANGUARDS. REACH OUTSKIRT OF VIIPURI   Finnish Retreat:-Turned to Complete’ Debaele, Say Front Disnatehes

Viipuri Is Reached by Red Vanguards   Breach in Mannerheim Line Widened 31 Miles

RUSSIANS REACH EDGE OF VIIPURI   Finnish Retreat Becomes Route After Line is Breached

RE CONTINUE ADVANGE   Soviet Vanguards Reach Outskirts Of Viipuri In New Drive   AT BACKDOOR TO FINNISH MAINLAND

Finn Flight Before Reds Is Debacle   Soviets Converge On Finnish Bastion From Three Sides.

RED VANGUA HAMMERING AT VIIPURT GATES   Fall Of Port City To Soviets Forecast Within Next 48 Hours

Fall of Viipuri Expected Soon   Russians Converge On Finland City

Allies Break Back of All-Out German Drive to Erase Beachhead   Jugoslavs Renew Offensive, Take Two More Towns

Final Rites Hel Rites Held For Mrs. Kistle  Early Resident of LeMars Passes Away

Final Rites Held For Mrs. Kistle  Early Resident of LeMars Passes Away

U. S. Troops Storm Past Fortress of Verdun and Drive on Belgium and Germany   At Belgian Frontier.

CANADIAR CLOSING  ON: DIEPPE   Americans Storm Past F Fortress Of Verdi In I On Belgium And Rhine Nazs Abandon Guns   250,000 AMERICANS WARCH ON GEEM.

Storm Past Fallen Forts ress Of Verdun And Maginot Line Today    ROCKETING DRIVE ON THE RHINELAND   Americans Rolling Up Miles Faster Than Dispatches Can Be Made '

historic Verdun Captured   Amencans Reach Belqrum Border In Record Drive

Advance Units Are 25 Miles  F rom Germany   Offensives Gain On All Main Fronts: British Close On Arras And Dieppe.

Opposition Of Germans Crumbling   Smash Past Verdun into Outer Works of the Maginot Line

Verdun Seized as Allies © Crack Maginot Defenses; Nazis Yield Near Dieppe

DEBATE ADMISSION OF ‘CONFESSION’ AT TRIAL OF COLLET   Jury Completed, Then Inspects Scene Of 3 Slayings

James W. Collett Charged with Triple Slaying——Jury Visits Scene -at Crime — Worth of Confession Being Studied by Judge.

Berlin Report: Red Attack in White Russia   Moscow Silent; Germans Claim Tank Waves Smashed

HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES IN CHINA   Japanese Continue Push For Key Base Of Kweilin

POLES TOLD 10 OUST PRESIDENT   Soviets Ignore Proposals Of Exiled Government

CHAPLIN ARRAIGNMENT IN GIRL CASE DELAYED   Actor, Indicted as Mann Act Violator By U.S., Liberated on Own Recognizance

uf éASTERN ” “ES HO An KEY   Important Areas Have Total of 114 Electoral] Votes

FIV" -ASTERN iy ‘£8 HOLD ut CTION KEY   Important Areas Have Total of 114 Electoral Votes

POLITICOS SEE “5 STATES KEY « FOR ELECTION   New York and Four Others in East Control 114 © = Electoral Votes

kK. W. Timmons, Jr. Into the Air Corps   Sworn Into Service in Kansas City Tuesday; Kemain on Farm This Summer,

HOGS SLAUGHTERED BY  JONES COUNTY FARMERS WITHOTIT RECTABIMm Tene een

Nazi High Moguls Turn To Speculation On Invasion  “Rommel Plan” Invoked In France, Whale Male Panilatian Invalvad

Nazis Admit First Time  Air Raids Hint Invasion   German High Command Declares Raids J: Be ‘Regarded’ As Allied Preparation

Nazi Command Sees Invasion   Expects Russians to Strike at Time of Blow From West

GERMANS RUSHING PLANS IN FRANCE TO MEET INVASION   Rommel Program Said to Cail for Arrest of Virtually Entire Male Population On D-Day.   ALL REMAINING AUTOS , ARE REQUISITIONED   Nazi Newspapers Predict Cross - Channel Blow Will Fall Simultaneously With New Russian Drive.

Nazi mit That ids Prepare Way For Thrust   Comniands Report Sees General Fight

NAZIS BELIEVE RAIDS PRELUDE TO REAL THING   Heavy Air Attacks Described As ‘Preparation for Invasion’ by Allies

Germans View Storm in West   ‘Rommel Plan? To Herd Up  Men in Feanero.

BERLIN ADMITS INVASION READY   Prepares to Imptison Most ' French Men

Aerial Attack Given High Nazi Rating   Invasion Preparation Is Belief of Conservative Chicfs

NAZIS PREPARE 10 RESIST INVASION AT EARLY DATE   Allied Arr Offensive Presages Major Thrust, Declares High Command

Nazis Await  Allied Blow   German Communique For First Time Uses The Word “Invasion.”

Nazi High Moguls Turn To Speculation On Invasion  UD. t Dle!l lec cb ad le Cenuen   “Rommel Plan” Inyoked In France, Whole Male Population [nvolved 

Nazi Command Gives Warning   Speculate As To Blows When The  Invasion Begins

Red Offensive to Set Off Invasion, Nazis Now Believe   Rommel Plan Launched in France to Speed Up Defense Measures

NAZIS DECLARE AIR OFFENSIVE MEANS INVASION   German Command Uses “Invasion” First Time

Shortage Of Cigarettes Stirs Senate   Overton Hints  Possible Probe

FDR Says U. S. Aid SavedAllies   $20 Billion of Lend-Lease VTorned Tide. He Reveals

LEND-LEASE Bb WAR FAGTOR-FOR   Reports Russia Gets 7,800 Fighting Planes from U. S. Plants.

LEND-LEASE HAS TURNED TIDE TO VICTORY E.R. SAYS   Total Now Near Twenty Billion, Massave Raveals

LEND-LERSE [a AD IN KILLING AXIS SOLDIERY    Roosevelt’s Report Reveals 20 Billions Has Turned Tide of War.

REPORT MADE 1 E      eeeepEres MESSAGE TO CoN. GREAS DECLARES LEND. ’ LEASE ERT-THE STAGE .

LEND-LEASE 10 ALLIES TURNS VICTORY TIDE   Sent Material Worth 20 Billion   Boh, Ma VY ba ENEGE UINE     Britain Converted Into Great Base

Voting Machines Are Being Set Up This Week   Polls In All Precincts of the County Will Open at 8:00 a. m. and Close at 8:00 p. m.

Voting Machines Are Being Set Up This Week   Election Officials Urged to Phone In Returns As Soon As Possible After Polls Close

WAR BOND DRIVE MAKES PROGRESS   Foreign Population Throw Support Solidly Behind Effort

Claim Bond Drive Up To Schedule   Individual Sales Nearly One-Sixth of Goal

F.H. Clausen, Horicon, Dies  industrialist Ran For Senate In 1940

FUNKHOUSER HITS  BACK AT GOVERNOR   Industrialist Ri Replies te Scalding Words of Neely

Neely Opens West Virginia Special Session with Attack on Funkhouser

Dewey Challenges Federal Ballot   New Yorker Charges Soldier Vote Politics

Germans Offering Toughest Battle Since Invasion   Fierce Counter-Attack Launched As Yanks Widen Breaches Ir Siegfried Line

Germans Seek to Close Hole in Defenses   Terrific Struggle Raging in Vicinity at Ubach Greach

FIERCE BATTLE UNDERWAY NEAR SIEGFRIED LINE   Germans Attempts To Seal Breach Made By U. S.

GERMANS HURL: COUNTER - BLOW IN U. S. WEDGE   Americans Pushed From One Ridge In Bloody Fighting —

COUNTERATTACK LAUNCHED IN TRY TO HALT ALLIES   British Gain In Heavy Fighting Toward Coast Of Holland

U.S, Avery Head For Showdown In Ward Seizure  . Company Chieftain   . Company Chieftain Says F. D. R.’s - Order Is Megal

Avery Claims Hes Still In Charge As U.S. Moves In   Govt. Force Established in Office Not Far From Ward Chief

Army and Avery Open Riva Headquarters In Ward Co. \Office; Both Claim Control

Ward Chief ‘Defies Army Men at Store   Is Waiting to Be Kicked Out A Seeond Time

ARMY SETS UP OFFICES TO PUSH WARD BUSINESS   Avery Pians To Stick On Job; U.S. Plans Nothing Drastic

Japs Stiffen Biak Defense   Yanks Press Forward Toward Airfield; Trapped Japs Die in Hollandia Area

Biak Isles’ Sixth Army Occupation  Is Pressed   Japanese Increase Resistance To U.S.

Yanks Press Forward in  Biak Drive   Meeting Tough Jap Resistance In New Jump Near Philippines

Yanks Pushing On To Island      DUTCH NEW GUINEA BASE CAPTURED BY U.S.

American Sixth Makes Advances On Biak Island  Yanks Consolidate - Gained Positions  Wear Phitinninac

Americans Pressing Forward. On Newly-Invaded Biak Isle   Consolidate Positions Against Increasing Opposition; Driving To Take Airfleld

JAPS RESISTING FIERCELY NEW U. 5. INVASION   Capture Of Airstrip: Would Place Allied Bombers 880 Miles From Philippines

Sixth Presses Ahead on Biak   Meets Increasing Jap Efforts to Trip Advance

Allied Campaign For New Guinea  About Concludec   New Guinea In Hand.

PACIFIC YANKS LEAP 200 MILES   Press Ahead On Biak Off Dutch New Guinea

U.S. Aims af Airfield Off New Guinea   Jop Resistance Stiffens Against Biak Isle Troops

Yanks Pressing Forward On Biak Island; Now 200 Miles Nearer Philippines

Yanks Push Ahead On Biak Island   Resistance Battered - -Down:in. Latest: Hop. Toward Philippines

U. S. Invaders Press Forward  On Biak Island   Yanks Near Airfield Despite Growing Japanese Resistance.

Sixth Army Gains New Ground in New Guinea Fight  Japanese Increase Resistance Without Success

Yanks Pressing Forward On Biak (In Latest Jump   Japs Putting Up Stiff Resistance In Defense Of Kev Airfield.

Yanks Advanee  On Biak Island   Sixth Meets Tough Enemy Resistance; Con solidate Beachhead.

Yanks Advance Against Bitter Jap Resistance   Gen. Krueger’s Troops Ar ’ Near Airfield in Biak TIsland- Invasion   MAY SOON BOMB THE PHILIPPINE:   Biak Landings Virtually Conclude Allied Drive for New Guinea

DRIVE FORWARD ON BIAK ISLAND   Sixth Army Forces Push Ahead After Landing On  Island Off New Guinea , i ae

WALLACE AS MATE   Slight Choice Shown in Race for Demooratic Vice Preeldant Meminga

Rayburn Votes Top Wallace’s      eralie Poll Reveals Running-Mate Choices

Rayburn Leads In Bourbon Poll   Vice Presidential Ballot Is Taken

Wallace Gets Setback: Democratic Committeemen Favor Sam Rayburn for Vice President

Rayburn Leads Wallace Slightly  In Vice-Presidential Preference   Texan Gets 18 National Committeemen’s Votes To 14 for Incumbent: 32 Decline to Make Choice

Rayburn Holds The Lead For  ~ Vice-President Nomination   Texan Rules as a Slight Choice Over Wallace in Poll of Democratic National Committee—Twentyfour Decline to Vote

RAYBURN HOLDS SLIGHT MARGIN   Speaker Favo re d Over Wallace For Vice Presidency By Committeemen   By BUS HAM And CLAIR JOHXSON (Copyright 1944 B: The Associated

House Speaker Tops Wallace Tn Poll by AP   National Committeemen Place Wallace Second; First Lady Gets Vote

Reds Beat — ~ Off Attack  . Near Lwow   Major. . Counter... Offensive -: Broken. After Violent. .- See-Saw: Fighting      RUSSIAN MARCH _"° > SLOWED: DOWN   4 Mud. a Big Factor ‘and Sov: iets . Need Pajuse to “Regroup Forces

Red Siege in Final Stages   Armies Rip Inner Sevastopol Defenses Planes Raze Ships

Russian Soldiers Sight Sevastopol   Escape Ships of Germans Romanians Are ‘Being Sunk   ATTACK IN OLD POLAND   Heavy Counter Blows by Nazis Are Repulsed By Russians »

Street Fighting In Cassino, Allies Take .Prisoners on  Anzio Beachhead

Surrender Ultimatum Rejected ©   White Flags Fly. Over Some Houses, But Nazi Garrison. Refuses to Give Up

Ultimatum {s Ignored; City Appears Doomed   Garrison Stays On, Choosing to Fight to Death

Nazi Garrison Fails To Reply  To Uldimatum   Hundreds Of Guus Start Destruction After Surrender Demand Is Defied.

SENATORS URGE THAT INTER: NATIONAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS BE ABOLISHED AFTER THE WAR

10,000 PERSONS FILE PAST CASKET   Many Collapse as Evangelist McPherson Receives Public Tribute.

To Give Mental Tests   Youths Qualify For College and Assignment to the Army Reserves.

Butler Co. American Legion ‘Will. Mest at. Allison Dec. 5, Initiation Ceremonies, Lunch

Westbrook Pegler Sued by Bridges   CIO Lonugshoremen’s Lead. er and Labor Groups Kater Suit for Libel

HAMMER AT JAP SUPPLY CENTERS   AMERICAN BOMBERS RANGE THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

Allied Planes And Ship: Hit Jap Bases, Barges On New Guinea Coast

Allies Hammer Japs’ Life-Line   sea and Air Attacks On Jap Plane and Supply Centers Accentuate Warfare In Southwest Pacific.

JAP PLANE:-AND SUPPLY AREAS RAID TARGETS   Enemy’s Lifeline Along:  New Guinea Northeast   ‘Coast Takes Heavy. Hammering

FLIERS RERIT KIP SUPPLY LINES   Marines Continue Advance at Cape Gloucester

New Sea And hir Blows On Japs   Plane and Supply Centers Given Going Over

Jap Barges Sunk and Bases Blasted By Allied Sea and Air Assaults

JAPAN'S SUPPLY LINES SMASHED   Sea And Air Attacks Staged On Enemy Centers

NAIDS MALE UPON JAPAN BASE AREAS   Lifeline On Guinea Northeast Coast Is Target

ALLIES SLASH JAP PLANE AND SUPPLY CENTERS IN SWEEPING SEA. AIR ATTACKS

ENEMY SUPPLY LINES BLASTED BY AMERICANS   U. S. Losses Running Low On Cape Gloucester

SEA, AIR ATTACKS ON: JAPANESE: PLANE AND SUPPLY CENTERS  ENEMY’S LIFELINE ALONC NEW GUINEA NORTHEAS! COAST TOOK HAMMERING

Sea and Air Attacks on Jap Plane, Sunply Centers Accents Warfare.

Allies Hit At Enemy Bases In SW Pacific   168 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Jap Base At Madana

Allies Hammer Jap Air Centers   Northeast Coast of New Guinea Takes Heavy Aerial Beating

Sea and Air Attacks on Jap Pacific Lifeline   Big Base of Madang Hit By 168 Tons of Bombs

Truman Gain: Support for Second Place   Surge Makes Senator Top Possibility as Compromise Candidate

Truman Leads In Contest for Vice President   CIO Sends Shift to Missourian: Wallace Hurries to Chicago

TRUMAN TOPS LIST OF FOES FOR WALLACE   VICE PRESIDENT TO BE IN CHICAGO THIS MORNING

C.1.0. Heads Bandwagon For Truman   ITS SUPPORT OF WALLACE WAVERS AS HILLMAN AND MURRAY CONFER WITH MISSOURI SENATOR.   300 Votes for Wallace

SENATOR TRUMAN BOOMED FOR 2ND PLACE ON TICKE!   Sudden Surge of Support for Missourian Puts Him Among Leading Compromise Pessibilities,   WALLACE APPARENTLY IS LOSING STRENGTH   Vice President Leaves Washington for Chicago to Take Hand in Fight for Nomination.   DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

U.S. Bags 72 Jap Planes at Manila   Two Big Raids Rock Enemy’s Air Center

Unofficial Report Says Reds Have Crossed Border   Capture of Nazi-Held Kenenets Podolski Announced By Stalin

USSR Troops Complete Front 5 Miles Long   Full Seale Invasion Of Balkan States May Have Begun

(Reach Border River Bank; Nazis Erect Fortifications on West Side, Soviets Jubilant   Marshal Konev’s 2nd Army May Burst Across Stream Imminently — Balkan States Worried 2  i

RED VANGUARD MAY BE OPENING BALKAN BATTLE   No Rest for Weary Germans

Evacuation of Residents Near - Anzio Completer   AMG Officer Announces Withdrawal of 10,200 fialian Civilians .

merican Troops pture Fondi  Appian Way   Anzio Beachhead Only 30 Miles Off

‘ondi, Captured Saturday ,Is Appian Way Junction Town Seized in Seven-Mile Advance.

Fondi Capturec Narrowing Ga  To Beachhead   American Troops Push To Within 30 Airline Miles of Anzio; Other Allied Forces Advance

Other Forces Near Fort.  of Terracina   Action Flares on Anzio Beachhead for the First Time

Push Crushes Souther mn End Of Hitler Line   General Advances Made By Allies in ltaly Despite Counter-Blows  PT Ames? ATH WIVTAT

Junction City at Base of  Arc Shaped Mountain. Seized in Advance

Two Japanese Battleships Known Sunk; Four Carriers Wiped Out in Sea Battle

Total Might Reach Above itty Ships   More Damage Reported In New Aerial Attack

U. S. Lists 4 Enemy Flattops Sent Down   MacArthur sas ge 2 Battleshi Definitely Sunk in Raging Fight

Starving Japs Flee Aussies In Ramu Trap   Troops From <Antipodes Smash Toward Saidor; Rabaul Hit Again

Starving Survivors of Jap Army in New Guinea Hide Out in Mountains

ALLIES GAIN IN DRIVE ON NEW GUINEA   Advance Also: Made: By ‘Americans On Bougainville”

Aussies Drive Japs Into Hills In New Guinea   Australian And Yank Troops Closing In On Airfield

New Guinea Jap Army h Flight   Australians and Americans Near Junetion

BELIEVE JAPS 10 ATTEMPT COUNTER MOVE   U. S. Destroyers Circle Leyte In New Move

JAPS ATTEMPT NEW STABS AT PHILIPPINES   MacArthur Admits Some Damage To Yank Flotilla In San Pedro Bay

Jap Forces in Burma Said to Be Retreating   Tokyo Claims Morotai Reinvaded; Leyte Ships Damaged

NIPPON FLYERS DAMAGE SHIPS EAST OF LEYTE   Tokyo Claims Forces Reinvaded Morotai, U. S. Air Base Island

Japanese Launch Counteroffensive In Philippines Area   Reinvade Morotai, Hit American Naval Force

WARSHIP RAIDS BY JAPS CAUSE SOME DAMAGES   Reports Indicate Attempts Being Made to Launch General Counter-Attack In Philippines.

Japs Launch Bitter Counter Drive at Leyte   Ormoe, Jap Key Leyte Defense. Bombarded Heavily by Yanks in Three Hour Attack

ADMIT DAMAGE TO U.S. SHIPS IN AERIAL ATTACK   Tokyo Claims Troops Reinvade Morotai; American Vessels Bombard Ormoc

Hint Nazis May Quit Holland    German Efforts To Relieve Besieged City Frustrated

Third Army Fights Ahead  from Metz   Canadians Seek to Clear Antwerp; Hungarian Fall (Expected Soon °°

German Reliet Move Checked By First Arity   Battle Described by Bertin as Greatest Ever Fought on Western Front—Nazi Withdrawal from Holland Hinted

NAZI POWER WANING UNDER SOVIET BLOWS   Russian Armor Racing Westward Less Than 50 Miles from Warsaw.   BULLETIN

Russia Gives  Promise to  Free Poland Will Turn Nation  Over to Polish National Councjl

Destroy Nazi East Armies   Russians Strike Near Wisla River, Siege Brest Litovsk

Report Nazis Evacuate Warsaw As Red Armies Race Nearer Vistula R.   Momentum Of Soviet Advance Gains Steadily With No Indication That Foe Can Halt It

Ghost--Pooh, Pooh   Father of Three Pupils in ‘Sumping Coal’, ‘Book Exploding’ School Suspects Prankster

Weird Tales of Happenings at School House   Adults Scoff At Idea of  Supernatural

RESULTS OF RETRIBUTION ARE FEARED   Allies May Not Be Able To Control Such An Uprising

HITLER APPARENTLY SITTING ON -KEG HUMAN DYNAMITE TO TUNE OF ABOUT 12.000.000 SLAVES

The War Today   By DE WITT MACKENZIE  Becarinied Precce War Analvst

The War Today   Hitler's Enslavement of Millions May Bring Terrible Retribution

BARKLEY ENTERS OKLAHOMA FIGHT   CAMPAIGNS FOR THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS SEAT

BARKLEY TO ASaloT IN DEMO CAMPAIGA   To Make Two Speeches ir Special Election Drive in Oklahoma.

UNION SERVICE SUNDAY   The Rev. G. W. Landis Will Speak on. “A Great Need”

SUNDAY UNION SERVICE   Rey. Theodore H. Aszman Will Preach at Evening Meeting

Rail Junctions Also Taken By Soviet Armies   Yampol On 1939 Rumanian Border Captured In Red Advance; Zhmerinka And Pomosh naya Fall; German Lines Near Collapse

aa nrUmelUCU RUC REUTUCRRECUC RUC RETCUMSMCUCUE  Congressmen at Dinner Hear ‘Renegotiation Law Assailed

Capture of Myitkyina Imminent   Chinese and American: Seize Airfield at Important Jap Stronghold

ALLIES TAKE AIRDROME IN BURMA   Chinese-Amer. Troops Storm. . Main Stronghold

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE AIRDROME AT MYITKYINA      Pour Mortar Fire Into Main Jap Stronghold In North Burma

CES IN CONGRESS WILL BE DETERMINED   31 Governors Also to Be Elected With Tuesday’s Balloting

ELECTION TO DETERMINE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF 79TH CONGRESS   ROOSEVELT, DEWEY CLIMAX CAMPAIGNS TONIGHT; HUNDREDS OF CONGRESSMEN WILL BE NAMED

CLIMAX OF CAMPAIGN TS REACHED   Both Candidates In Major Talks Tonight

POPULAR VOTE OF 45,000,000 SEEN TUESDAY   Nation’s Total May Be Smaller, Closer Than 1940

Popular Vote to Be Smaller And Closer Than in 1940 as Many States on Borderline

DECLARES PEOPLE ARE. PAYING FOR FD. R. CAMPAIGN   Bricker Charges New Deal Is Spending Millions of Taxpayers’ Money to Promote 4th Term.   ASSERTS ISSUES PURPOSELY CONFUSED   "Says Hundreds of Thousands of Political Employes Are on Firing Line for Administration.

BRICKER ASSAILS _ WASTE OF MONEY   Millions Spent to Confuse Voters, Candidate Savs

[Millions To Mix Voters, Aid4thTerm   GOV. BRICKER ALSO TELLS WILKES - BARRE AUDIENCE NEW DEALERS ARE USING THREATS, INTIMIDATIONS.

Charges Millions Are Spent to Confuse Voters   Bricker Declares New Dealers Resort to Thrente

BOND SALES IN COUNTY REACH 62527000 MARK  End Of First Week Sees Drive Ahead Of Fourth Loan

GRAND JURY 10 STUDY GAMBLING   State To Enter Probe Unless All Dens Close

GAMBLING STOPS AFTER SUICIDE      Grand Jury Investigation of Ohio Gamblers Is Announced hy Prosecutor at Toledo

Berlin Says Reds Make Rapid Push  In East Prussia  Germans Retreat Befor e Allie ied Dri rive   Germans Retreat Before Allied Drive In East Holland

RUML ADVANCES POST-WAR PLAN   Balanced Budget, Reduced Taxes In Nine Points

RUML OUTLINES “POST-WAR PLAN   Lower Taxes And Balanced Budget Asked In 9 Points

POST-WAR TAX PLAN BY RUML   New York Banker Proposes Reduced Levies in NinePoint Program

\Nine-Point Postwar Fiscal  Policy Providing For Lower \Taxes Is Advanced By Ruml

RUML OFFERS NINE-POINT POSTWAR . FISCAL POLICY TO TO SERVE AMERICA

TAX-CUT PLAN FOR AFTER WAR DRAWN BY RUML   Pay-as-you-go Originator Submits Outline To : Congress Committee

CENSORSHIP IS UNDER ATTACK   Stimson Gives Explanation for Delay in Reporting Another Tragic Error

BATTLE ERROR DELAY UPHELD   Understandable When Reasons Are Considered, Stimson Says

‘Planes Lost During Battle, Says Stimson   Transports Down in July; Stimson Explains Reason for Long Delay

No Deliberate Move to Hide © War Incident   ‘Various Reasons for. Delay In’ Telling of ‘Planes. Lost - py Friendly Fire   SECURITY FORBIDS FULL EXPLANATION   Any Defects Wil Serve. as Guide.for Future; PUTEOF and OWI In Report”

Stimson Calls Air Tragedies  Unavoidable   Sceretary Explains Factora in Blunders By Allied Forces

Davis Denies Plane Loss Suppr essec   Stimson Calls Downing of Transports by Friendly Fire ‘Unavoidable’

Release Delay Is Explained   SECRETARY STIMSON DISCUSSES SHOOTING DOWN OF SECOND GROUP OF AMERICAN CRAFT   DAVIS SATISFIED

News Delay By Army Explained   No Deliberate Attempt  Made To Suppress } News Of Accidental ¥ Shooting Of Planes

STIMSON SAYS THAT’ DELAY UNDERSTOOD’: IN SICILIAN ACCIDENT   Shooting Down of American Planes by Friendly Fire Caused by Unpredict able Reasons

Delay Is Called ‘Understandable’   Sec. Stimson Discusses Accidental Shooting Down of U. S, Planes— Elmer Davis Sees no Intention of Deliberately Suppressing News.   44 OCCUPANTS LOST

Planes Downed By Friendly Fire   Stimson Explains Delay in Report

Delay InGiwing News Of Error  Is Understood   Davis Says Army Did Not Deliberately Withhold The Facts

Destruction of 10 More U. S. Air Transports Half by Own Fire, Off Sicily Is Admitted

Sees Reason For Delay    No Deliberate Suppression of Second Plane Loss News, Says Davis

Stimson Defends Plane Loss Story  Withholding Of New: Explained By Official   No Change In Policy

Stimson Says Unpredictabie Reasons Led to Loss Cf Planes.      ‘FRIENDLY’ FIRE CAUSE

Planes Shot Down By ‘Friendly’ Fire Ai Catania, lialy   War Dept. Confirms 50 PC of Loss Probably Due io Error— 10 Planes Downed, 44 Men Lost

Army Cleared of Intentional ‘Gag On News of U. 5. Plane Disaster

Stimson Explains U.S. Losses by “Friendly” Fire   Delay in Disclosure is “Understandable” Says War Secretary; No Deliberate Cloak

Detends Delay On Air Tragedy   Is Understandable, Stimson Tells Newsmen

News Release Delay Okayed by Stimson   PLANE LOSS TERMED “UNDERSTANDABLE” BY WAR SECRETARY

ARKY CLEAREL OF LOSS BLAME   Stimson Says Error. Shootings Understandable: When’ Reasons Are. Considered.

Stimson Explains Why  News Was . Withheld   Secretary Of War Discusses Incidents Surrounding Accidental Shooting Down Of Group Of American Planes In Sicily

British Move ‘Against Japs ; Near Kohima   ‘Tanks and Dive-hombers  Included in Great Force Determined to Hurl Nips From India   Enemy Losses May Be Close To 10,000   Road Running Northeast From Imphal Cleared for Distance of 30 Miles or More

ALLIES OPENING NEW ATTACK ON JAPS ATKOHIMA   Enemy’s Slain Number Over 4,900 Since Onslaught Began

14th Army Moves Toward Kohima   To Hurt! Assault Near Jap Objective On Assam-Burma Area

LONG COLUMNS OF MEN, TANKS MOVING TOWARD. KOHIMA   To Hurl an Assault Against ‘the Japanese Near That Objective.   ON ASSAM-BURMA FRONT   Tanks Are Advancing as a Protective Screen for British Troops.

Japs in Retreat As British Move Into Kohima Area   Reinforcements, Tanks and Guns On Way to City—4,900 Jap Dead Counted, Hali Foe’s Loss

Jap Losses In India Heavy  Road Running From   Road Running From Imphal Is Cleared

Allies Map Burma Drive Against Japs  Daesmentkte Bhan ‘Tah.   Assemble Men, Tanks And Guns to Attack Enemy Before Kohima

Drive One Mile Inland in Surprise Attack   Seize First Foothold on China Sea Periling Jap Supply Route; Pour Heavy Equipment Onto Isle

DAUGHTERS SHARE VICTIM'S ESTATE   Mrs. Williams Leaves Fatire Possessions to Offsoring

Treasury Out For $16,000,000,000 War Loan Drive   President, Others On Hour-Long Radio Progran Over Major Networks

Fifth War Loan Drive Launched   SEC. MORGENTHAU IN TEXARKANA FOR RALLY

FORMALLY OPEN DRIVE TONIGHT   Roosevelt And Morgenthau To Speak; Texarkana Scene Of Big Ceremony. 

TEXARKANA FOCAL POINT OF OPENING OF FIFTH WAR LOAN  SECRETARY MORGENTHAL WILL BE MASTER OF CERE MONIES RIC EVENT

MARINES SCORE FURTHER GAINS ON N. BRITAIN   Saidor Pesitions Consolidated; Aerial Blows Aimed At Rabaul

Allied Forces In New Guinea Make Progress   Advance In Cape Gloucester Area After Defeating Jap Counter Attack   JAP LOSSES IN AREA REACH 1,506

JAPS LOSE 200 IN CAPE CLASH   Decisively Beaten By U. S. Marines

8th Army Gains Up to 5 Miles  Advances to Within 8 Miles of Florence

8th Army Gains Up fo 5 Miles  Advances to Within  8 Milac af Flaranca

Nazis Fall Back  Toward Florence   Allies Within 8 Miles; New Drive Reported

Florence Is Expected Fall Without Michi   British Forces Within Few Miles Of City

Foes Solidify Hold © In Asia By Acti   i Operated Tanks Into Play For First Time © In North Burma e

Norfolk Gets Set For Storm   Hurricane Will Sweep 80 to 100 Miles Off Virginia Capes.

Aerial Attackers Down At Least 123 Nazi Planes; Reds Cut Vital Rail Line   Main Supply Route for German Troops In Southern Russia Is Broken; Enemy Suffers 24,000 Casualties at Beachhead

Nazis Suffer Record Loss   At Least 123 Shot Down; U.S. Loses 68 Bombers

Americans Lose 68. Heavyweights, Nazis 123 F ighter Planes In Air Battles Over Capital

1B German Air Craft Believed Destroyed inRaid   Great Air Battle as Luftwaffe Defends Hitler’s Capital

Raid Costs U.S. 68 Bombers to 123 Nazi Craft   Violent Battle Rages In Air Over German Capital; RAF Night Raiders Are Out Again

11 U.S. Fighters Fail To Return; Drop 2,000 Tons of Bombs on City

23 Foe Craft Are Downed as Yanks Battle Way to German Capital; 11 U. S$. Fighters Are Lost

U.S. Bombers ‘Stage Record ‘Raid On Berlin   American Plane Losses Are Higher Than In & Any Previcus Raid, While Germans Lost 123 In Greatest Aerial Battle In History Of War

SECOND AMERICAN BLOW AT CAPITAL   Estimate 123 German Aircraft Destroyed   BERLIN ABLAZE   Spectacular Aerial Battles Spread Across Germany; Meet Heavy Flak

STRONG FORCE US. BOMBERS HIT BERLIN   With Record Loss Of 68 Bombers; Shoot Down 83 German Planes; Enemy Resistance All Along Way.   Rocket Catapults

Great Battle Costs Enemy 123 Fighters   850 Heavy Bombers  Protected by Hundreds  Of Escorting Fighters CADITAT TWIT WADN

BRITISH REBUFF BOLIVIAN JUNTA      German Agents Believed Connected With Coup Of Revolutionists

Allies Within  Mile of Florence   Retreating Enemy Pushed To Ema River

British Crack Hill Defenses Of Florence   Germans Forced To Retreat Behind Last Line

BRITISH GAIN SOUTHWEST OF FLORENCE   Nazis Defenses Cracked; Expect Fall of City Soon

BRITISH TROOPS GUT DEFENSES NEAR FLORENCI   Rétr eating Germans Are Beaten Back.to City’s Edoe

British Smash Forward Not Far From Florence   Germans Will Make Last Stand Along Ema River I ine

BRITISH BREAK INTO FLORENCE   GERMANS ROUTED FROM DEFENSES BELOW ARNO

CRACK FLORENCE HILL DEFENSES   Major Battle For Italian City Shaping Up.

BRITISH DRIVE ~ [NTO FLORENCE   Germans Withdraw Main Forces Into City

NEAR FALL TO BRITISH   Narrow Ema River Defenses Alone Hold Back New Zealanders Who Are Expected To Take City.

tf;fFrmans Have Witile drawn Their Main Fore: es In The City  SWIFT FOUR MILE ADVANCE TODAY  Nazis Have Brought Strong Reinforcements

BRITISH CRACK GERMAN DEFENSES NEAR FLORENCE   Nazis Bracing For Last Bloody Battle On the  Ema Line.

FLORENCE HILL DEFENSES ARE CRACKED OPEN   British Only Mile From City; Ema _ River Last Barrier

British Crack Nazi Defenses Near Florence   Enemy Driven to Last Natural Line on Ema

Tokyo Prepare: Japs for Chain Of Bad. News   Airforce on Mindanao Pulled Out as Allied Blows on Formosa, Philippines Awaited

AERIAL ASSAULT MADE ON MINDANAO   Prelude To Invasion Of Philippines Has Chased  Japanese Air Force   KOISO CALLS MEETING OF DIET WEDNESDAY

130-Ton Bomb Raid on Davao Smashes Record   MacArthur Reports Pacific Successes

Jap Airmen Driver From S, Mindanao   Furious Attacks on Davao Continued

Strong Naval Force  Supports Ground Units   Groups Hit Extremes of Largest Atoll As Tactics Re  waread tn Theivet

Strike at North, South Tips of Kwajalein Atoll   Marines Fand at Roi; Forces Ready for an Assault on Fortresses

Can’t Deduct Campaign Costs---Rule   > to 4 Decision Says Expenses Are Not Deductible

FLOOD THREAT FADES   Rivers Receding but New Rainfall Will Send Them Up Again

News Hidden By Censors; . Germans Use  New Weapon   Aachen Is. Threatened In Flanking Movement

Rigid News Blackout Cloaks Allied Retreat   Aachen Periled in Flanking Drive; 112 Enemy Armor Vehicles Crushed

PATROLS FROM FIRST ARMY IN TOWN OF DUREN   Yankee Blows to Stabilize Front Thrown ir by Troops, Tanks.— Heavy Support in Air.

German High Command Claims Break-Through And Defeat Of American Tanks In Nioht Battle   Enemy Drive 20 Miles Into Belgium: Drive Fesigued To Retake Machen, Bern Hears; Eisenhower's Blackout Of News Continues

American Infantry and Tanks Strike at Nazis Using Heavy Armor in Latest Campaten.   NAZIS BRING FRESH TROOPS "TO BATTLE

Foe 20 Miles  Inside Belgium   Ist Army Patrols In Duren _ After Crossing Of Roer River

Doughboys Are In Duren North Of NaziDrive   Americans Strike Back At German Armor-Powered Offensive Already 20 Miles Inside Belgium   Recapture Aachen  Held Aim Of Huns   German Tank Thrusts Bex lew Monschan ‘Has Some Success In Frontal Push? It Is Learned

German Troops Drive 20 Miles Inside Belgium   American Blows To Stabilize Lines Thrown _ Against Enemy Forces Probing Forward   On 60 Miles Of First Army Front

American Armor and Infantry Thrown in to Halt ° Nazi Push  °   20. MILES IN BELGIUM   Details of German Power Drive Are Still Under Censorship

Yanks Battle to Stabilize Front; Ist Army Spans  Roer at Duren   Deep Enemy Wedge Poses Flanking Threat to Aachen

Germans Drive 20 Miles in Belgium   fi irst Army Patrols ross Roer River Barrier Into Duren As Nazis Make Bold Thrust On 60 Mile Front In Menacing Action.

FIRST KEEPS PRESSURE ON COLGGRE   Nazi Counter Blow Reported Somewhai Successful

Germans May Be Charging Into Pocke   No Justification for Any Easy Optimism But Nazi Drive Faces Danger   THEY HAVE LAUNCHED SUCH DRIVES BEFORE   Continued News Blackout a Sobering Influence While Word Is Awaited

Ist Army Patrols Cross Roer River, Drive Into Duren   Huns Push 20 Miles Into Belgium Below Aachen With Use of New Weapon

 German Offensive  Deep in Belgium   News Black-out Cloaks Nazi Success—First Army Manages To Cross Roer—Batile Bitter

Broad Threat To Aachen By Deep Plunge   First Maintains Pressure On Cologne Front Des pite German Attack.   DEEP INSIDE BELGIUM

Drive 20 Miles Into Belgium To Threaten Aachen   American Doughboys And Tanks Strike Back At Counteroffensive

American Blows Thrown In To Stabilized Front; Enemy 20 Miles Inside Belgium

ENEMY 20 MILES INSIDE BELGIUM   Allied Units Cross Roer Into Duren; Blackout Of News Continues

Heavy Fighting Rages Along 60-Mile Front, But Allied Supreme Command Blackout of News Continues

Enemy Makes Deep Plunge - Into Belgium      Bold German Operations Threaten Aachen; First  Army Maintains Pressure   COLOGNE DEFENSES BEING FELT GUT   Germans Being Contained in Some Sectors, But One Tank Push Goes Far

ARE STRIKING ON A FRONT OF GO ‘MILES   News Blackout Imposed by Allies Prevents Any Information as to Whether Big CounterOffensive Is Stonned.

Patrols Cross Roer Into Duren   Americans Make Effort to Stabilize Front As Nazis Probe Into Belgium and Luxembourg on 60-Mile Front — Pressure Is Maintained on Cologne Front

First Army Patrols Cross Roer River   Silence Maintained By Headquarters On Offensive

First Army Patrols ‘Cross Roer River   American Blows to Stabilize Front as Germans Enter Belgium, Luxembourg: Battle for 60 Miles

US Infantry and Armor Strike Back at Bold Nazi Counteroffensive   Patrols of the U. S, Fiest Army  Cross the Roer River into Duren

Nazis 20 Miles Inside Belgium In Power Push   Yanks Maintain Pressure In Cologne Area Despite German Counter Drive

German Offensive Continues Along A 60-Mile Front   American Patrols Cross Roer River To Enter Duren

First Army Patrols Cross the Roer River — Barrier Into Duren Area

Yank Doughboys, Tanks Strike Back   American Headquarters Remains Silent On Break-Through Struggle; U. 8. Forces Cross Roer River Barrier Into Duren

Yank Patrols Push Way  Into Duren   Security Silence on Extent of German Drive Enforced; Enemy Troops Are Advancing On 60-Mile Front in Bid to Retake Aachen

Slash at Enemy That Has Cut 20 Miles Into Belgium; Reports Meager

AXIS 20 MILES INSIDE BELGIUM SLOWING DOWN   Berlin Says Aim To Retake Aachen, Expel Allies From Reich

AMERICANS SEEK TO STABILIZE FRONT AS NAZI DRIVE PUSHES HARD ALONG 60-MILE SECTOR

Nazis Advance 20 Miles In Belgium   \German Drive From Above Monschau - Carries Broad Flanking Threat to Aachen Stronghold

Germans 20 Miles Inside Belgium; American Tanks Clash With Advancing Foe

Nazis Storm 20 Miles Into  Kast Belgium   First Army Forced Back 15 Miles As Fighting Rages on Sixty-Mile Front

Yank Tanks And Infantry Thrown Against Nazi Lines   Supreme Headquarters Imposes Security Silence On Powerful Counter-Offensive As First Army Patrols Cross Into Duren   BROAD FLANKING THREAT AIMED AT AACHEN

American Doughboys and   Tanks Struck Back Today   at the Nazi Armored  Counteroffensive.      FIRST ARMY PATROLS CROSS ROER RIVER   Maintained Pressure on the  Cologne Front Despite the Menacing Drive of. the Germans.

Cross River Borrier into Duren While American Armor Is Thrown Into Battle to Stop Nazi Offensive; iSilence Maintained on German Drive

NAZI COUNTER OFENSIVE CUTS  20 MILES INTO BELGIUM; U. S. PRESSURE ON COLOGNE GROWS

‘Yanks Trying To Stabilize Battlefront   First Army Patrols Cross Roer Into Duren, Cologne Under Pressure

'YANK DOUGHBOYS AND TANKS STRIKE BACK AT ENEMY OFFENSIVE  _ GERMANS 20 MILES OR MORE INSIDE BELGIUM AT ONE POINT

YANK PATROLS FORD ROER 10 ENTER DUREN   Nazi Troops 20 Miles Inside Belgium, Reports Say

Terrific Fighting In Belgium; U.S. Patrols Cross Roer River   Reds Storm Into Slovakia

REPORT HITLER PLANNED DRIVE TO TAKE AACHEN   Enemy May Bite Off More Than It Can Chew

LATEST ATTACK DOOMS. NIPPONS IN RABAUL AREA   Admiralty Airfield Gives Allies Potential Base to Smash Truk

HITLER'S FIGHTING MACHINES ON ALL FRONTS ARE BEGINNING BREAK UP WHILE ALLIES BLAST THE NAZIS   Red Armies Are Slashing Entire German Line to "Ribbons at Very Border of “Sacred Soil’ of East Prussia While Nazis Begin “‘The Great Retreat”

GREAT RETREAT MAY BE UNDER WAY IN FRANCE AS ALLIES POUR MEN AND MATERIAL INTO ARFA

WAR TODAY   ‘The Great Retreat” of the German Army in Normandy Heginning, British Headquarters Contend

N S DESERTED BY PAGAN GODS. HITLER AT LAST BEGINS TO FEEL MIGHTY WEIGHT OF ALLIED VISE    By DeWitt MacKenzie

Nazis Face Overwhelming Strength Of Allics— TERY BENE eee    Cormans Are At Beginning Of Great Retreat

July I “Black Day” For U. S., Asserts Nebraskan   Buffett Says Nation-wide Hiring Controls to Snuff Out True Liberty in America By Referral Procedure

HIRING CONTROLS READY 10 OPERATE   Congressman Offers Criticism of National Referral System.

Hiring Controls Into Operation   All Male Labor Except Farmers Must Be Hired Through U. S. E. S.

HIRING CONTROLS ‘BEGIN SATURDAY   SEEKERS OF NEW JOBS MUST APPLY TO U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

Nelson Under Fire By Rubber Director Dewey  “New Storm. Breaks, In _WPB: Relations; Krug _ Mav Succeed Nelcan’

Rubber Czar Flays Nelson For ‘Sniping’   New Attack May Shorien Tenure Of WPB Chicltain

—WPB FIGHT—  NELSON TARGET FOB NEW BLAS   May Not Find Job Gone When He Returns From   China   Br MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH

NELSON'S WPB JOB IS FADING   Rubber Director Bradley Adds to Storm over Nelson’s ‘Head: Krug in Top Spot

NELSON IS TARGET FOR BLAST FROM RUBBER DIRECTOR   Bradley Dewey-Scores ChinaBound: WPB.--Chairman-— New Attack Follows Closc on Heels of Criticism by. Charles Wilson

Rubber Chief Flays Nelson  Criticizes Remarks About Tire Program

Nelson Target Of New Blast In Capital Feud   Rubber Director Assails Statement As More Sniping

RUBBER CHIEF FLAYS NELSON FOR ‘SNIPING’   Krug, Meanwhile, Indicates He Has Broad Authority

U.S., Gain {1 Miles  From Bridgehead   Minor Skirmishes Hint Impending Big Battle

Allied Troops Advance Twelve Miles Inland   Important Rail Center Cut; Russ In New Push

Nazi Opposifion Remains Slight Along New Front   Road to Rome Believed Cut By Advancing Allies

Dominate Highway, Main Coastal Rails   Little Opposition Met; Germans Continue Fierce Attacks On Main Front But With Little Success

MEET LITTLE OPPOSITION 10 FAST ADVANCE   Beachhead Expands to Cover 30-Mile Area North of Nettuno

ADVANCE 12 MILES INLAND FROM COAST   Fascist Press Says Troops Hold 30-Mile Bridgehead From Nettuno to Tibex and Threaten Ostia, Port of Rome.  av:

Possibility Of Treat Altack - By Hitlerifes   Germans. Are: Desperately :in Need ‘of.: Victory, May: Try at Any Cost.      BRIDGEHEAD. OUT. -: OF THEIR GUN RANGE   Cassino Counter attacks. Are Decreased Somewhat. Indi-: cating: Shifting: of: Forces®::

No Formidable German Opposition Encountered; Within 30 Miles of Rome; Appian Way Severed; Several Drivee Starter   More Reinforcements Landed at  Tiber River Mouth Outflankine

Germans Rush Battle Groups From Cassino   In Consequence Naz Counter-Attacks on Main Front Lose Some Intensity’

NAZI BLOWS ON CASSINO FRONT ARE DECREASING   INDICATE ENEMY PULLING BACK TO MEET NEW THREAT

ROME BRIDGEHEAD  IS THRUST FARTHER  INLAND ON TUESDAY RUSSIANS CONTINUE SLASHING GERMAN  erinniy ABTLDIELC

American And British Troops Are 12 Miles Inland From Landing Point At Nettuno

CAPTURE TOWN OF VELIETRI AS NAZIS SHIFT TROOPS TO MEET NEW THREAT TO ROME   Great Battle May Be In Offing As Hitler Desper ately Needing A Victory May Throw Great Forces into Italy. Allied Forces Advance 12 Miilee Inland f

Appian Way, Main Coastal Rail Severed   Capture Velletri, 18 Miles Northeast Of Nettuno; Heap Of Ruins.   NAZIS SHIFT ARN Y

Inland Move Of 12 Miles Is Reported   Geneva Account Says Sth Army Threatens Port Of Rome; Holds  Tange fnactal Area

Town Is Left Heap of Ruins By U.S. Raids   Village On Appian Way and Only Nine Miles From Inland Highwav to Cassino   Fierce Baitle In South Continuing   Meanwhile. Germans Send Planes Into Air In Futile Effort to Halt Reinforcements

Little German Opposition Is Encountered By Clark’s Troops; Bitter Fiohtine Near Cassino

Allies Advancing Inland. From Nettuno Beachhead; Touch Opposition Lacking

Indicated Allied Forces Had  Captured Town, 22 Miles  Southeast of Rome, It  Was Announced.   TROOPS HAVE DRIVEN TWELVE MILES INLAND   The Famous Appian Way to Rome and the Main Coastal Rail Line Are 12 Miles Inland, on Landing Area.

Allies Lunge 12 Miles From Italy Beachheaa   Vital Appian Way Reported. Cut;  Germans Launch Counter-Attack

ALLIED FORCE 72 MILES FROM FTERNAL CITY   Velletri Is Captured By Advancing Troops; Cut Railway

ALLIED TROOPS FORGE AHEAD: NEARER ROME   Very Little Nazi Opposition In Newest Drive

ALLIES PUSK 12 MILES INLAND   Appian Way Is_ Believed In Allied Control   Launched In Cassino Area Decrease In Intensity; Fighting Fierce

Allies Drive 12Miles Deep From Their Beachhead   * Reinforcements And Supplies Pour In With Little Resistance Shown Bv Fnemy

NazisShifting To Meet New Flank Threat   Appian Way and Main Rail Line Dominated by Invaders   OPPOSITION SLIGHT   Germans Still Launching Fierce Attacks Along © Cassino Front

22 MILES OUT OF ROME, NAZI RADIO REPORTS   Appian Way, Main Railway Along Coast Reported Cut. Italo Patriots Helping

FAMOUS APPIAN WAY BELIEVED UNDER CONTROL   Nazis Reported Pulling Troops Northward To Stage Counterattacks

U. S. Troops Take Valletri   American, British Troops Advanc¢e  2 Miles Into Italy.

ANZIO, WEST FROM NETTUNO, CAPTURED   Kesselring Continues Strong Attacks Against Allied  Do a a I erg Pepe ery

Geneva Paper Says Invasion Units Threaten Ostia, on Tiber   Nazi Blows on Main Front in South Decrease in Intensity

Counterattacks In South Decline   Enemy Planes Make Assault On Landing Barges—Appian Wav Under Allied Domination

THREATEN RAIL LINE LEADING TO ITALIAN CAPITAL   Nazis Wreck Velletri, Hint Town 22 Miles from Rome Taken by 5th Army

Road And Rail Lines Under Allied Guns   Port of Rome Said Threatened; Nazi Blows Taper Off

No Formidable Nazi Opposition Reported As Yet   Appian Way Is Now Under Dominatior Of Allies; Rome Is Near

Berlin Says Allies Within 22MilesRome   ‘Allies Announce Advance 12 Mile: Inland; Russians Capture Town A Miles Southwest Leninarad

Appian Way Is Under Attack Now   Germans Lose Planes In Strongest Raid on Beachhead

DOMINATE RAIL LINE AND ROAD   Headquarters Announce No ‘Formidable’ Nazi Opposition Yet.   GROUPS HASTILY FORMED

APPIAN WAY GUT AS ALLIED FORCES - ADVANCE IN ITALY   Germans Rush Troops from South in Desperate Bid  Bow Crm Mat

Nazis Report Loss Of Key Approach City   Velletri On Appian Way Now Is Shambles —Cassino Front Bloody

Control Appian Way, Road Linking Rome _With Cassino Front      Nephina: Anais Beachhead Wider; 5th Army Units Recross Rapido;  Nazi Opposition Less « Intense

Advance Inland Twelve Miles  From Nettuno   Fifth Army Patrols Reeross River As Germans Shift knemy Power   BULLETIN

Berlin Admits Loss of Town On Famous Highway; Allies Drive Inland for 12 Miles   Germans Rush Some Troops North ‘From Cassino Front Where Frantic _ Counter-Attacks Begins te Diminish

Berlin Reports Allies Are Within 22 Miles of Rome   Capture of Velletri Also Gains Control Of Coastal Railway, Foe Shifting Troons

NAZIS REDUCING ATTACKS ALONG CASSING FRONT   Some Enemy Forces _ Pulled Back to Meet Invasion Flank Threat

NEW INVASION FORCE PUSH AHEAD WITHOUT HEAVY OPPOSITION  NAZI DRIVE AGAINST LIETU ARV TINE

Berlin Reports Velletri Taken By U.S. Troops   Indicates Main Coastal Railway Cut As Yanks Drive 22 Miles From Capital

Nettuno- Anzio Beachhead Extended 12 Miles: Meet No ‘Formidable’ Opposition

Nazis Offer Only Light Opposition   Striking for Famous Appian Way; Cassino Front Fighting Rages

Rome Road Cut.   Berlin Says 5th Army Troops Command Appian Way; Americans Back Across Rapido

Main Highway And Railway Reported Cui   Germans: Report. Americans Have Captured Velletri in Push: Near Rome   ONLY 22 MILES FROM < THE CAPITAL CITY   Allies’ So. Far Have. Not Made Clear Their Objective in Fast-Rolling Drive

Germans Repor! Loss of Velletri, 18 Miles Inland   Hitler in Desperate Need of Victory In Italian Campaign

Formidable Opposition ls Missing   Appian Way Is Put  Under Control In Fighting

Beachhead Widens as Allied Forces Develop Invasion   Berlin Broadcast  Indicates Allied Capture of Appian Way

Allies Drive From Nettuno-Anzio Beachhead; Are Near Appian Way to Rome and Main Coastal Rail Line; Meet “‘Hastily Organized”’ Groups

Meet Light Resistance But Fighting In South Italy Fierce And Deadly

Opposition Still Is Not ‘Formidable’   Grimmest Fighting of the Whole Campaign On — Cassino Front

Fascist Press Report Says Allies Now Hold Entire 30-Miles of Coast Neituno to Tiber   BATTLE ON RAPIDO   U.S. Patrols Cross River but German Counter-Ailack Decrease May Indicate Withdrawal

Germans Fail To Present Any Stern Opposition As DriveOnRomeContinues   Famed Appian Way And Main Coastal Rail Line Brought Under Allied Domination; Nazis Continue Hard Counter-Attacks On Main Cassino Front

Yanks Take Town 22 Mi From Rome   Fierce German Counter: attacks Around Cassino Lessen As Foe Shifts To Meet New Threat.

TOWN IS SEIZED BY FORGES, NOW MENACING ROME   Appian Way and Main Coastal  Line Cut — Only 22 AAtiee Bsa fC idyv

Service Ballot Again Revised   Exceptions for Kentucky, New Mevien Made

Compromise Vote Bil Undergoes Another Change  New Mexico, ‘Kentucky Covered by Soldier ©

Conferees Seek Federal Ballot  For New Mexico   Revise Compromise Servicemen’s Vote Bil To Care for State

‘Entire 125-Mile Front In  Eastern France Is Falling Baek  EISENHOWER SAYS NAZIS MUST FIGHT  West Of Khine Expected To Be Seene Of Warfare

STATE DEMOCRAT: TO INDORGE. FORTH TEAM.   Three Nominees for Major Offices Will Have Neo Opponents

STATE DEMOCRATS 10 INDORoE FOURTH TERM   Three Nominees for Major Offices Will Havz No Opponents

Many Of 500 Nipponese Caught On Parade At Hamate Are Killed   VOLCANO ISLANDS HIT BY AMERICAN AIRMEN

Draft Boards Take / Many War Workers  Drastic Deferment Cut  Made

1 VMEFIGHT FOR POLITICAL JOBS  Seek Election To Senate, House Or Governor’     Chair  IMDOPRTANT RACHS   IMPORTANT RACES   Rank Next To Presidential Battle Because Of Events To Come

MANY CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNORSHIPS AND FOR CONGRESS  THESE OFFICES RANK  NEXT IN IMPORTANCE Tt

CONGRESSIONAL PAMPAICNS ENT   GOP Has Best Chance in Dozen Years to Regain Control of House.    DEMOS EXPECTING GAINS

MANY CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNORSHIPS AND FOR CONGRESS  THESE OFFICES RANK NEXT IN IMPORTANCE TC THAT OF PRECINENCY

1,114 Candidates Seek Election To Chairs Tuesday   Important Roles Congress, States Play After War Noted

Miners Give Lewis Firm Hold On Union  Would Extend Term Te  Four Years

Lewis’ Ruling Erases Threat Of Mine Rival   Edmundson Held Ineligible As President Candidate 4-Year Term Anuraved

LEWIS TIGHTENS GRASP ON UMM   Opponent For Presidency Ruled Ineligible, Term Boosted To 4 Years

HOLD IS TIGHTENED BY JOHN L. LEWIS   Only Opponent for UMW  Presidency Ruled  Ineliaible

Lewis Tightens Control of UMW   Officers Terms Are Extended to Four Years

VESTABURG MINE IDLE FOLLOWING WALKOUT TODAY.      1,000 Men Out, Say Foremen Do Not Belong To Superyisors Union

BATTLE WAS WON BY HIS COURAGE   Marine Don C. Hornbeck Won Fight Against Infantile Paralysis.

WISLA RIVER REACHED BY RED COLUMN   Russians Stand Before Last Big Water Barrier on the Way to Germany.

Fast Pace Matrtained By Russians   Reach Vistula River in Bat. tle for Warsaw in  Flanking Move

Shattering German Forces Westward Across Poland  REACH LAST BIG WATER BARRIER  When Russians Capture Warsaw They Have The Hub To Germany

'U. §. Fliers Join Red Drive   BRITISH START GENERAL DRIVE FOR FLORENCE   Advance Three Miles; 5th Prepares Final Attack On Pisa

RED ARMY REACHES WISLA RIVER IN FAST MOVEMENT ACROSS POLAND   Russian Mobile Forces Rolling At Pace Rivaling Peacetime Maneuvers.

Nazi Broadcast Reports Soviets At Wisla River   Water Barrier Is Last on Way To Germany 

Reds Surge On Across  Polish Plains   Berlin Admits Soviets Have Reached Wisla.

U.S. Air Force Joins Russian  Drive in Poland   Berlin Acknowledges That Soviet Forces Reach Wisla River

U. S. AIRMEN JOIN SOVIET OFFENSIVE DRIVING NAZIS WESTWARD ACROSS POLAND

American Airmen Join Russ Forces in Rapid Pursuit Of Shattered Nazi Legions

U.S. Airmen Aid Russian Attack Against Germans   Berlin Admits Reds Reach Wicsla River

U. S. Planes Flying From Russia Support Soviets Sweeping Germans Across Poland

Castagneto Is-Seized By 5th Army  In Advance   American Attacks Upon Large Seale

Yanks Driving Swiftly North Through Italy   Chase Confused Foe To _ Sau 25 ‘Miles i Ot-Teohorn -’

U.S. Fifth Army Continues March   Capture Castagneto; Now 25 Miles From Leghorn,

Allied Fifth Army is Now Within 25  Miles of Livorne   Great Red Offensive Fans Out Northeast of Minsk Today

FIFTH ARMY HAS ANOTHER 5-MILE GAIN   Troops Push Along High‘way Littered With Enemy Dead to Within 25 Miles of the Big Port of Leshorn.

oth Hacks Out. Five-Mile Gain   Germans Steadily Retreat On Ttalian Weer Crncs

Yanks Gain On Italian West Coast   Castagneto, 25 Mile: Below: Livome, Falls To Advancir. ’ Americans

Punch Out Small Gains   Allies Push Steadily On in Italy Against Stubborn Resistance

Yanks Take Five ~ Miles In Italy   Germans Abandoning Arms, Equipment

Allies Progress On Italian Coast   American Troops Take Two Towns. Much German Equipment

U.S, GAINS FIVE MILES IN ITALY   American Troops Capture Town Near Leghorn

GERMAN LOSSES HIGH IN ITALY   Fifth Army Advances Along Road Littered with Wreckage of Retreating Nazis.

American Troops 25 Miles from Livorno: Enemv Is Showing Signs of Confusion in Coastal Area

Five Mile Gain Made By Fifth In West Italy   Enemy Appearing To Be Confused: 32,000 Captured

Allied Forces  Near Liverno   American Troops Capture Town Of Castagneto In Advance Along Coast.

Fifth Nears Livorno; Nazi Dead Glut Roads   Panzers Moving on Vital Port;  Germans Show Signs of Confusion

YANKS MOP UP NAZIS IN ITALY   Another 5 Miles Gained In Stifling Heat Of West Coast

PRESS TOWARD SIENA IN NEW DRIVE   in Effort Made To Stem Clark’s Advance Nazis Fell Trees Across Roads And String Limbs With Booby Traps

FIFTH DRIVES TOWARD PORT BELOW PISA   American Troops Punch Forward Five Miles Along Italy's West Coast and Take Castagneto  ee nt ngs megan Re nee ane Ea pw m=: « £ 2. oe <@ ee Oe OD

ALLIES ADVANGE NEAR LEGHORN: ENEMY WEAKENS   Prisoners Say Americans In  Stride Now

YANKS DRIVE T0 CAINS IN ITAL)   Fifth Army Punches Along Coast While Second Column Cuts Nazi Lines

CASTAGNETO IS LATEST TOWN T0 FALL TO FIFTH   Italian Highways Littered / With Enemy Dead a:d Abandoned Equipment  As Americans Move Up

YANKS PUNCHING AHEAD'N ITALY   ~ HIGHWAYS LITTERED WITH ENEMY DEAD; (GERMANS CONFUSED

YANKS PUSH FIVE. MILES IN VTALY   TAKE TOWN 25 MILES FROM LEGHORN—GERMANS INCREASE RESISTANCE,

Fifth Army Punches Ahead   Make Another Five Mile Gain Along West Coast

ALLIES PRESS TOWARD SIENA AND LIVORNO   (Yark’s Columns Meet Heavy German Delaying Tactics Northwest of Chiusi; Many Dead.   Bad Weather

Roads Littered With Nazi Dead   American Troops Advance In [taly

Americans Score Five-Mile Gain In Italy With Germans Showing Signs Of Confusion   Yank Drives Carry Within 25 Miles Of Leghorn And 31 Miles Of Florence

YANKS PUNCH NEARER LEGHOR} ON WEST COAST   Second Column Moves To Within 12 Miles Of Siena On Italian Front

FORWARD IN ITALY   French and Americans Are Hot on Heels of the Fleeing Nazis —

YANKS 25 MILES FROM LIVERNO   Fifth Army Punches On; Second Column Makes Inland Advances; Enemy Badly Confused.

Allies Gain Five Miles   Capture City 25 Miles From Livorno, Enemy Showing ‘Confusion’

ifanks Register Five Mile Gain   IMPORTANT PORT IN ITALY TAKEN BY DOUGUBOYS

ROADS LITTERED WITH WAZ DFR   Fifth Continues North. -ward Drive In Italy, Nears Livorno

Five-Mile Gain By Fifth Army   Italian Coastal Road Found Littered with German Equipment

AMERICAN 9TH ARMY ADVANCE OF FIVE MILES   Allied Armies Sweeping More ltalian Towns Into Net, Have Tak- © en 32,000 Nazi Prisoners

Yanks Push On In Italy Over German Bodies   Capture Town of Castagneto, Only 25 Miles From Leghorn; Nazis Be come Indifferent

5th Army Troops  Nearing Leghorn   Town 25 Miles From Port Captured By Yanks In Five-Mile Advance; Siena Threatened

Yanks Seize Castagnefo   Another U. S. Column Smash German Lines To Approach Siena

BELIEVE SOVIET FORCES DRIVE INTO ESTONIA   Russian Troops Capture Two Border Towns in Push Tuesday

e  Russian Forces  Reported Inside Prewar Estonia   Govorov Pounds Westward  From Gulf Of Finland On 50-Mile Wide Front

Russ Troops Pound West To Estonia   Soviets Believed Surging Across Prewar Frontier   KINGISEPP IS SEIZED   Leningrad Veterans Take 50 Towns and Kill 2.000 Germans

Reds Believed To Have Pushed  Into Estonia   Driving Toward Narva; Germans Driven From Manv Towns.

Red Armies Cross Into  Estonia   Russians Freeing Soviet Republic Taken by Germans

Soviets Push Across Bordet Into Estonia   Capture Border Town Of Keikino, Seven Miles Northeast of Seaport of Narvo

Reds Thought To Be Fighting  Inside Estonia   Frontier Towns Of Kingisepp And Keikino Fall Before Advancing Russian Troops

SOVIET ANMY DRIVES OVER ESTONIA LINE   Frontier Believed Crossed As Russians Battle Way Westward on 50- Mile Wide Front.

Russians Take Border Towns, Enter Estonia   Surge Across Frontier. Seize Kingisepp and Pound Westward To Lake Samro Area

Reds Believed Surging Over Frontier Line Into Estonia   Leningrad Veterans  Take Border Towns

SOVIETS PUSH TOWARD NARVA   Red Army Troops Believed Over Estonian Border As Nazis Retreat

Soviets Rip Into Estonia   Nazis Lose Kingisepy And Much Material

Russians Are Believed To. Have Crossed Tnto Estonia   Govorov’s Army Lunges Westward On 50-Mile Front; 50 Towns And Villages Captured

Victorious Russ Army Surges Into. Estoniz   Red Troops Pounding Westward After Driving 50-Mile Bréach In German Lines; Enormous Quantities Of Materiel Captured

ALLIED VICTORY OVER NAZIS CERTAIN   Hard Job Ahead But Defeat of Germans Sure— Eisenhower

RUSSIANS SPRINGING TRAP ON GERMANS IN PRIPET MARSHES   HAVE ADVANCED 20 MILES SINCE YESTERDAY IN DRIVE TO SPLIT POLISH BORDER GERMAN ARMIES

JAPS SAY BATAAN REPORT ~ —- 1$ ‘VICIOUS PROPAGANDA’   OUTBURST ‘GF COUNTER. CHARGES EXPECTED FROM THE WAR LORDS OF THE ENEMY

‘Propaganda, Says the Japs   First Reaction to Reitalities Atrad 

Japs Brand Disclosures of Brutality to Prisoners as “Vicious Propaganda”

Japs Utaun Atrocity Charges Only Vicious Propaganda And Counter With Similay A eeuedtiane Anninel TI 2 

Japs Clain Atrocity Charges Only Vicious Propaganda And Counter With Similay Accusations Against U.S.   Difference In Jap Camps Explained

Tribute Paid Dr. Bizzell   Final Services Honor President-Emeritus* Oklahoma University

Dewey Far In Front In State   Democrats Vote Fourth Term Demand for Roosevelt

Dewey, Roosevelt Easy Winners In Pennsy's Primary  New York Governor's Write-Ir Presidential Preference Vote

VOTERS’ PREFERENCE SHOWN IN STATE FOR ROOSEVELT AND DEWEY TO HEAD THE TICKETS   Chief Executive Leads Democratic Ticket To Pick Up 72 Delegates Pledged To His Support At National Convention   ORGANIZATION CANDIDATES ARE VICTORIOUS

State Voters Write-In Dewey   James And:Rhodes Named By Own Parties

Dewey Wins By Romp In  ‘Pennsylvania   New York Governor Gets 98,484  +Wtee fase) Gn Far

Allied Planes Rule Skies In * Orient, Pacific   Japs Pour Through Breach in Chinese Lines in Assault

Allied Power ‘Lashes Japs:  _ Nips Gain Only On Chinese  _ Beant Clacitnn On  avana ©

Nips in Burma, India Retreat; Gain on Loyang  Allied Air Might   Allied Air Might Rules Skies Of Pacific; Orient

Turn Japs In Burma.  India Back   Allied Might Of Air Strikes Two Of Tokyo’s Large  Outposts In Pacific

Allied Power ‘Lashes Japs   Nips Gain Only On Chinese Front, Closing On Loyang

Japs Near Old Chinese Capital Allies Claim Successes In Other Theaters

Allies Make Gains In India And Burma But Lose In China  BY LEONARD MILLIMAN

Allies Smash Japanese Back In India, Burma  New Enemy Drive Menaces Loyang

Pacific Skies Ruled by Allied Might   Air Armadas Create Havoc Among Jap Installations

Allies Ruling Oriental Skies   But Japanese Breach Lines, Drive Within Nine Miles of Loyang

NAVY BOMBERS BLAST EIGHT JAP SHIPS   Sink Six, Force Beach: ing of Two; Down 24. Enemy Planes —

SIX ENEMY SHIPS SENT DOWN NEAR. RABAUL AND AT LEAST 24 PLANES ALSO DESTROYED

SIX JAP VESSELS SUNK AT RABAUL   2 More Stranded on Beach in Daring Noontime Air Raid

SIX MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK; 24 PLANES DOWNED   Two Others Stranded; U. 8. Navy Torpedoes Snread Havoe at Rahan

Six More Jap Ships Are Sunk Near Rabau   Navy Bombers In Heavy Attack In Simpson Harbor and Keravia Bay   MANY JAP PLANES ALSO KNOCKED DOWN

NEW BRITISH BID TO TAKE ARNHEM GAINS ONE MILE   Germans Report Thrust © by Yanks in Area of Palenberg

CONCORD MAN 1S MARRIED IN WINCHESTER   Miss Margaret D. Heath Is Bride of C. D. Wadsworth U.S.N.R.

Superfortresses Hit Jap “Pittsburgh” On Nose; (Great Fires Were Left

B-29 ATTACK ON ANSHAN SUCCESSFUL.   Virtually Ruined Manchurian Steel Center

Returning B-29 Crewmen Report Jay Steel Base Wrecked In Saturday Raic

ALLIES PREPARE FOR ZERO HOUR   French People Told Ta Store Up Food; Nazis Getting Nervous

British Advise French To Store Up Food Stocks   Allied Invasion Warning Sounded

BRITISH TELL FRENCH 10 STORE FOOD   In Preparation for Invasion as “Time is Getting Short”; Nazis Say “Zero Hour” Is Near.   Taken Seriously

British Advise French to Plan For Invasion   Action Produces Crop Of German Rumors ‘Zero Hour’ Is Near: Date Game Intensified

French Advised Allied Push Is Fully Prepared   Warned To Stock Up Food Supplies; Nazis Tell Own Troops To Expect Attack Mamentarily: Germans Jittery

RADIOS SEND OUT. INVASION ADVICE   FRENCH TOLD TO STORE UI FOOD — GERMAN: ‘TROOPS

FRENCH ADVISED TO GET FOOD STORED   British Warn People That Invasion Time is Getting Near. .

Dewey Visioned As a Candidate  Attack on War Ballot - Brings Conjectures

LUCAS 1S OPPOSED TO ELECTION BIL!   Dewey’s Attack on War Bal tot Taken To Indicate Candidacy For President.

Dewey Attack On federal Ballot dints Candidacy  Lucas To Oppose " New Compromise ® On Soldier Vote

LINK DEWEY CLOSER 10) GOP CANDIDACY   ‘Comment on War Ballot Bill Hinted as Tip Off to His  Intentions

Believe Dewey Is  GOP Candidate   Attack on Federal War Ballot Regarded As Strong Indication

DEWEY ATTACKS FEDERAL BALLOT   LEAVES IMPRESSION HE WOULD ACCEPT NOMINATION BY GOP

DEWEY'S ATTACK ON WAR BALLOT IS CAUSTIC ONE   Action of New York Governor Believed to Confirm  Him As Presidential Lrandidata.

1944 MEET IN CHICAGO   New York Governor Is @In,’ Claim; Warren  Due For 2nd Spot

More Board Gov. Dewey Bandwagon   Party Opens First Wartime National Convention  Since 1864

Dewey Draft Lead Growing   New York Governor’s Nomination Assured as More States’ Delegations Fall Into Camp; Warren Top Vice-President Contender

CONFIDENCE MOOD SHOWN BY DELEGATES   Dewey Strength Jumps to 679 Pledged Votes for First Ballot.

Big Republican Convention in Chicago Onens   New Yorker Has 150 More Votes Than He Needs

GOVERNMENT RESTS IN CHAPLIN TRIAL   Butler Testifies Actor Ad. mitted intimacies in  New York

NAZI LINES PROBED BY ALLIED PATROLS ON ITALIAN FRONTS   Fliers Maintain Drive Against Enemy Supply Lines

ALLIES CUT INTO NAZI ANZIO FRONT   5th Army Patrols Active, Destroy Ammunition Dump

Allies Destroy Strong Points On Beachhead   Action Seen As Prelude To ' New Offensive On Anzio: Front

Allied Patrol  E ‘ : \ Kngages Nazis 4   Force Penetrates Enemy Lines At Anzio, Destroy Munitions Dump

ALLIED PATROLS HIT NAZI LINES   Skirmishers On Attack Along Three Fronts

Allied Patrols Pierce Lines of Foe at Anzio   Ammunition Dump of Nazis Is Destroyed

Patrols Knife Deep Into Nazi Anzio Lines   _ Destroy Ammunition, _ Dump in-Second Thrust Within 24 Hours

Allied Patrols Stab Nazi Lines   Ammunition Dump Destroyed at Anzio

Cancel Point Limit Dates   Food Stamps to Be Good Indefinitely As With Shoes, Sugar

EXPECT NEW OFFENSIVE   Expiration Dates On Red, Blue Food Stamps Eliminated

Food Stamps  Will Be Good  Indefinitely   OPA Decides to Eliminate Expiration Dates to End Buying. Rushes

Food Stamp Expiration Dates To Be Eliminated   Will Follow Policy Already Adopted For Shoes And Sugar, OPA Announces

No Expiration Dates on Red, Blue Stamps   OPA Moves to Prevent Buying Rushes, Head Off Hoarding of Ration Tokens   Must Prevent Hoarding

Ration Stamp Expiration Plan Dropped   Coupons Continuously ‘Valid Under Program - Announced Monday

OPA Will Eliminate Expiration Dates of Food Ration Stamps   Action Planned to Elim inate Hoarding of Red, Blue Tokens

No Expiration Dates on Food Ration Stamps  Action Taken to .Avert Buying Rush, Hoarding Of Retion Tokens

Ration Stamp Expiration Date Canceled   Token Hoard Leads to Action  By OPA

NEW PLAN FOR RATION STAMPS   OPA Eliminates Expiration Dates in Line With Policy For Shoes, Sugar.

OPA Eliminates Expiration Dates of Red, Blue Stamps; - Hoarding of Tokens Blamed

] ¢ f  VE STAMP TIME LIMITS   Expiration Dates Eliminatec on Both Red and Blue Ration Coupons.

No Ration Stamp Dates Hereafter  OPA Drives To End Hoardina OF Tokens

No Expirations On Coupons  : Red And Rine Band   Red And Blue Food Rations Changed .

Seeks To End Buying Rushes   Will Eliminate Expiratior Dates Of Red And Rivne Food Stamops.

NO TERMINATION ON FOOD STAMP   Shoe and Sugar System Will Apply to Food After May 20

RATION STAMPS TO LOSE DATES   OPA Removes Expiration Limits From Red and Blue Coupons

Food Ration — Stamps Good Indefinitely   OPA Eliminates Expiration Dates te Prevent Hoarding of Tokens

LIFTS EXPIRATION “DATE ONSTANE   Réed And. Blue Ration Stamps. Will Now Be  Good Indefinitely

EXPIRATION DAYS ON STAMPS ENDED   New OPA Regulation Ti Prevent Buying Rushes at End of Periods.

Light Cruiser Topeka Placed In Commission  Kansas Mayor Among Guests

Yanks Two Miles From Livorno   Advance Units Reach City’s Suburb

Siege Arc Clamped on St.Lo   British Drive Into Noyers, Evrecy Towns, Gain Toward Caen

Lull of One Day in Bombing Excursions  Over Europe Ended   American Fortresses, Liberators Resume Round Clock Drive

rtresses, berators  aid Germany   RAF Lancasters Atck Four Factories In France During Night.

Yanks Plaster Germany And France Anew   Strike At Coast Where Churchill Says Rockets Readied.

U.S. Planes Hit — W. Germany. France   Ace Says 15 Days Can Smash Nazis

Heavy Blow By Forts and Liberators   Record Bombing Marathon Is Resumed After One Day’s Lull

Allied Bomb Marathon Is Continuing   French Coast Struck By Weight of American Heavy Bombers

HEAVY BLOWS DEALT REICH, WEST COAST   Germany's Rocket And Robot Plane Installations Hit

U. 5. BOMBERS OVER FRANCE   Big Planes Out Again After One-Day Layoff; Rocket Coast Hit.

WESTERN GERMANY 1S RAIDED   alais Coast Is Also Hit; RAF Hammers French Targets

Yank Bombers Resume Attacks On Reich Bases   Pas-De-Calais Coast Of France, West Germany Targets Of Fresh Raids

Blé BOMBERS RESUME RAIDS OVER GERMANY   RAF Makes Night Raid ot Four French Factories

BOMBERS HIT COAST LINES AGAIN TODAY   Targets Hammered Sixty Days Last Three Months

YANKS BATTER FRENCH COAST   Yank Bombers Rake NaziHeld Plane, Rail  Factories

Fortresses And Liberators Strike Heavy Blow At Western Reich And Pas-De-Calais Coast In Wake Of RAF’s Precision Attack On Four Factories, Including Three Aircraft Plants And Small Bearing Works—Campaign Carried On After Day’s Lull

American Bombers Hit Western Germany   Resume Marathon Few Hours After RAF Blasts Four Factories in France; One Aircraft Reported Lost.

Americans Blast ‘Rocket’ Coast  Western Germany Included in Raids

Bomb Hits Flooc Dieuze   Canadian First Army Slugs Out Gains in Drive for Big Port

Torrent Loosed Against Dieuze  By Bomb Attack   Formal Surrender of German Stronghold 1] Days After Demane

Revision of soldier Vote Law Is Asked   More Money for. Social .Se@ curity Also to Be Sought "i ‘at Special Session   FOR PAY INCREASES -IN'STATE HOSPITALS   “Penal: Institutions and St. Louis Police Also in Line for Salary Hikes

American Troops Hammer Garrison.  Penned In Aachen   Assault At Belfort Extends Over A 6-Mile Front. Many Small Towns And Villages Have Been Taken By Sixth Army.

Klutznick: Named Eublicidousing.G Chie?  eS pee res oe a perorts

‘Commands Join Forces To Blast \Jap Navy Center   10 Nipponese Ships Receive Direct Hits In Dawn Bombardment

CARRIER-BASED PLANES ATTACK SOERABAS!   Surprise Raid Came ‘From Southeast Asia, ‘Southwest Pacific

CARRIERS’ PLANES HIT JAVA BASE   10 Enemy Vessels Are Damaged; Liberator Bombers Take Part

Surprise Blow At Dutch East Indies Bags 10 Jap Ships   Three Allied Forces Coordinate Raids For 1st Time

Bombers and We ps Combine, to Attack Socrahja, dava — Special Communique Gives Toformation Concerning Atiack,

SOERABAJA, JAVA, BOMBED BY ALLIES   Many Jap Ships, Pianes Hit During 100-Plane Attack

IAPS DEALT HARD BLOW IN SURPRISE PACIFIC ASSAULT   Soerabaja,.Java, Naval Base Blasted By Warships and  Carrier-Based Planes For 10 LUnpipe.   REDS BOMB FINNISH PORT MOSCOW SAYS   Allies Tighten Encirclement  of Myitkyina; Jap Garrison Doomed, Two Writers Are Killed.

ALLIES ATTACK BIG JAP NAVAL BASE IN JAVA   Ten Ships Hit Directly and Other Damage Done In Surprise Raid.

PLANES, SHIPS CENTER ON KEY JAPANESE BASE   Enemy Stronghold Hit For First Time, Damage Is Severe

SURPRISE RAID DAMAGES JAP BASE IN JAVE   Ten Ships Hit, 21 Planes Destroyed By 100 Allied Planes

Planes, SI Ships In Big Raid on Jap Navy Base   Sverabaja Subjected to Heavy Surprise Attack; Co-ordinate Blow

Allies Stage Attack on Soerabaja Big Base in Java Blasted by Planes,  Warships of Three Commands

G.O.P. May Win Senate Control   Five New Seats Definitely Claimed

‘Hedgehogs’ Prove  To Be Death Traps   Russians Counter Defense Wereh Naw Vanities

Rommel Seizes Control of All Railways in France, Cancels All Passenger Service Effective Monday

EL TAKES OVER FRANCE’S RAIL SYSTEMS   All Passenger Trains Will Be Canceled After Next Monday

Traffic Banned to Keep Supplies Flowing to Coast   Workers Unable to Repair Ravages of Allied Bombing

ROMMEL TAKES OVER FRENCH RAIL LINES   All Passenger Train Service in France Cancelled

KEEPING LINES FACE TO MOVE TROOPS Weal   Bomb-Crippled Roads Offer Problem in Meeting D-Day Danger.

NAZIS TRYING 10 KEEP WAR GOODS MOVING   All Passenger Service In France Comes to  Close Next Week

ROMMEL SEIZES FRANCE RAILS   MOVE MADE TO SUPPLY ANTI-INVASION WALL

RAILWAYS IN FRANCE SEIZED BY GEN. ROMMEL   Vichy Reports That All Passenger Train Service Will Be Halted Monday.

French Ralway Lines Seized By Marshal Rommel   Move Made In Effort  To Keep Supply Routes To Coast Open

Nazis Take French Rail ‘Lines in. Desperate Bid To Strengthen Defense:

Rommel Takes Over Control of French R.R’'s   Makes Desperate Effort to Meet © Comina Invasion

Rommel Seizes Control of French Railroad:   Enemy Struggles to Keep Supplies Moving To West Wall Defenses

GREAT AIR BLOWS HAVE DEALT NAZIS SERIOUS SETBACK   Passenger Service May Cease Entirely-—Military Supniv le Hit.

USE OF RAIS TAKEN AWAY FOQM FOENTH   Rommel Issues Final Orders to Nazi Detenders

Rommel Takes Over Railroads of France, Cancels Passenger Service

Ask Dropping of wage Formula   Seek Modification of “Hold-Line” Policy

Air Patrol of Germany  Is Planned   U. S., Britain and Russia to Set Up Joint Combine to Occupy Reich

This Was Dischsed This Morning By the Berlin Radio.   DISCUSSED WAR PLANS   “Complete Agreement” on These Plans Was Reached, ° It Is Said.

VICTORY VIRTUALLY WITHIN GRASP OF AXIS. SAYS TOJO AFTER 3-POWER MEET

ESTONIAN PORT FALLS; FORCES INTO HUNGARY   Soviet Fleet Enters Baltic For First Time In Three Years

Russians Invading Hungary   Red Army's Drive Also Turns In Full Force  On Riga

BALTIC SEA PORT TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   While Bucharest Announces Reds and Romanians Have Crossed Pre-War Frontier.   Lakotos Regime

ARRESTS MADE IN CIRCUS FIRE   Toll Of Hartford, Conn Blaze 152 Dead And 200 Injured

BERLIN GIVEN HEAVY SEARING   American Bombers Loose 1,500 Tons On Nazis; 22 Planes Lost

Capital of Reich Struck and 1500 Tons of Bombs Dropped  22 AIRPLANES LOST ~~ IN DAY’S ASSAULTS  No Fighter Opposition Encountered During  Trip

MacArthur Entered in Illinois Race   Placed by Friends in Pre. ferential Primary Race — Voting to Be April 11

ROOSEVELT T0 BE ENTERED IN STATE PRIMARY  JOHN C. MARTIN OF   JOHN C. MARTIN OF SALEM TALKED FOR STATE TREASURER

Strike Spreads To 65 Sawmills   20,000 Now Idle in Pacific Northwest

Italy Troops Take Chiusi; ‘Plunge North      Storms Past Piombino in Drive at Livorno-Pisa  Fifth Ar

Eighth Wins Back Chiusi   Enemy Driven From Bitterly-Fought Ruins; Eighth Army Advances

Major Issues Of Campaign  Emerge In Clearcut Form   Outstanding Differences Between Dewey Anc Roosevelt Develop As National Election Draws Nearer

Gov. Dewey Studies Roosevelt's Speech For Possible Repl   Four Major Differences Appear Likely to Shape Remainder of Campaign

OPINIONS DIFFER ON FOUR VITAL ISSUES      Dewey Expected to Answer Points Stressed By FR Last Nicht.

DEWEY EXPECTED TO ANSWER FOR   STUDIES PRESIDENT’S SPEECH; MAY REPLY

Four Major Issues Loom   Candidates Differ On Wartime Controls, Service Discharges

4 Differences of Opinion Between  Nominees Shape Up Election Issues

Four Issues Loom Large in Campaign   Dewey and Roosevelt at Odds on Matters of Maior Importance

Candidates differ upon  four issues F. D. R. puts  stress on them

Dewey Studies Radio Address By Roosevelt   Four, Differences of Opinion Between Presidential Candidates Developing Among Major Issues

Four Issues Seen Shaping In Election  Stressed By Roosevelt In Speech

Expect Dewey To Reply Soon   Four Differences May Be Shaping Up as Major Campaign Issues

Major Issues Developing In GOP Strategy   Remaining Weeks of Campaign Will No Doubt See Dewey and Roosevelt at Great Odds.

DEWEY PLANS NEW REBUTTAL   Four Differences Of Opinion Loom As Key Camyaion Issues

British Launch Offensive fo Clear Nazis from Rimini on. Gothic Line

BRIT. LAUNCH ete TN ITALY      Seek to End Bottleneck At Rimini 

SENATOR GEORGE WINS NOMINATION   Georgia Solon Sweeps Every Reporting County; Rep. Cox, Foe of FCC, Apparently Heads for Victory

Soviet Slash Into Balkans Will Trap Thousands of Nazis   Red, Units P Proceeding West to Join With Marshal Tito

Three-Pronged Drive Threatens Trap For Thousands Of Nazis   . BULGARIA ACTS   Government Bans All Or_fZanizafions Having Nazi Tendencies™ : ;

BATTLE FOR” RALKANS IS GOING APACE   Red Armies Advancing From All Points and Revolution is Touched Off in Serbia.

Red Triple Drive Aimed To Smash NaziBalkanHold   Soviets Would Create Wall ~~ £—Steel—EFrem—Black. Sea-To Dalmatian Coast

U.S. Cuts Finnish Relations With Solemn Warning They ~ Must Face Consequences

BROAD PLAN OF ACTION   Brownell Confers With Dewey ‘About His Fall Campaign

Tulsa Woman Admits Beating, Swindling Working Girls for Years   Charges Made by Two Allege Hypnotism And Religion Used to Subjugate Them

Iwo Girls Charge Swindle by Womar   Both Hypnotized, Statement Asserts

IGEN, EISENHOWER  TALKS WITH KING   American Invasion Commander Spends 20 Minutes in Conference With British Sovereign.

Allied Demand Refused   German Division Trying to Save Aachen Garrison

RELIEF COLUMN DRAWS FIRE OF BIG YANK GUNS   Local Gains in Other Sectors

Swarms Of Dive Bombers Prepare To Join In Bombardment Of Medieval City, Ultimatum Expired At 10:50 A. M.   SMOKE, DUST PALL FORM OVER AACHEN

American big Guns Open Bombardment After Nazis Ignore  Surrender Demand

German Garrison Commander Ignores Surrender Ultimatum So Yanks Start Bombardment

Nazis Send Division To 0 Save City —   ATTACKS OUTSIDE RIM OF .. ' AMERICAN CORDON: -AROUNI CITY IN DESPERATE MEASURE

Nazi Columns Attempting to Relieve Aachen   Pulverizing Assault Upon City Stuqed

Relief Columns Attack Outside ‘Rim of Cordon   German Commander of City Turns Down  Surrender Demand

Enemy Relief Columns At Aachen Attack U.S. Outer Line   Hundreds of Massed Yankee Cannon Pour Shells Into Foe

Demand for Surrender Is Ignored      One of Germany’s Cities Seems Doomed to  Destruction

PEWER MARRIAGES ~ HERE DURING 1943   Cupid” Runs Far Behind '1942—-Divorces Jump ot Gh erly :

FEWER  MARRIAGES HERE DURING 1943   Cupid, Runs Far Behind ~ 1942-—Divorces Jump . Sharply o

BILLION MARK   individual Contributions Are -Ahead; Figure Trails Evil Schedule

ut BRAUGH BECOMES BRIDE      ‘Weds. John. Ve: W aldschinitt: Tuesday Morning At. St Joesenh’s Church

LEONA. BRAUCH ~ BECOMES BRIDE      Tuesday Morning At’ “St° Josenh’s Church

STATE READY TO CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING   Most Marylanders Face ‘Turkeyless’ Day; Services Planned

Most Civilians In Ma. aul and  AVYECQE aA Suaan  “Turkeyless’   Survey of Baltimore Wholesalers Shows No Turkeys Available; Scarve In Counties

County Is One Of 20 To View  War Exposition   ‘Special Performances in Interest of War Loan Drive Are To Be Presented Here   February 1.

Frail Mother Shivers in Snow As Rescuers Seek to Free Son’s Body

Tot ‘Helps’ Porter, And Is Killed   Impulse To Move Saves. Two Texas Cousins

Six Million Men Fighting For Hitler   Think Only 1,250,000 Really Fit Troops Are Available   (Turn to Page 10 for estimat of Japanese forces.)  By ROGER GREENE

Six Million Troops Are Available To Defend Germany  _ Poorer Replacement:  Seen; 6 Divisions  Being Lost Each Week

About 6,000,000 German Troops Are Available   About 1,250,000 Really Fit Men on Hand for Climactic Battle   70 DIVISIONS ON WESTERN FRONT   Many Expendable Troops Are Strung Along the Vast Western Front

HITLER NOW BELIEVED TO HAVE 6 MILLION TROOPS READY FOR CLIMACTIC BATTLE OF REICH

HITLER'S ARMY GMILLION MEN   Two and One-Half Million Are Reaily Fit for Climactic Battle.   JEPENDS ON RESERVES

Hitler Still Has 6 Million  Men In Armies   ‘Survey Shows 2,500,000 Really Fit Between 19 and 46 Years With 3000 Army DiVisions.

REICH RUNNING VERY SHORT OF TOP MANPOWE!   Hitler Has About 1,250, 000 Fit Men To Defend Homeland   VOLKS GRENADIER DIVISIONS SHODDY

ESTIMATE NAZI TROOP TOTAL IS NOW 6 MILLION   76 Divisions Believed on Western Front and 130 on Eastern Zone

Figure Hitler Has 6 Million Men Available   Only 2.5 Million Are Called Fit To Fight; Divisions Now Average Lecs Than 11.000

Retreating Nazis Burn ‘Own Towns   Reds Are Reported -To Have Crossed Prussian Border; Huae Force Attacks

Russian Forces Drawing Nearer Warsaw; Capture  Deblin 62. Milés Away 

Jap Gas Supply Dealt Crippling Blow Tuesday   Seven Liberators Lost; Fierce Opposition; Palaus Casualty List.

Crippling Blow At Japan's Oil   MacArthur. Reports U.S, Loses Seven Bombers Over Bornec

Balikpapan Raiders Lost 7 To Leroes;  Kita In Kuriles Hit ~ Palau Dead 11,043 To 1,022.  Jan Pramier Warns Ninnon

Jap Oil Center Raided Again   Crippling Blows Landed Despite Loss of Seven Liberators in Rattle

Yanks Bomb Borneo Oil   MacArthur Men Lose 7 ‘Liberators, Shoot Down 19 Japanese Planes

Vicious Sky Battle for Jap Oil   Seven Liberators Lost In Second Mass Raid  On Balikpapan; About 20 Nip Planes Downed

BORNEO OIL BASE HIT HARD BLOW BY LIBERATORS   Forty Tons Of High Explosives Rained Down On Oil Refineries —- Seven U. S. Planes Lost.

HEAVY AERIAL RAID REPORTED ‘BY ARTHUR   Tells Of Crippling  Blow Dealt Jap .. Rafineriaes   LOSE 7 BOMBERS   19 To.:.24.. Enemy Plaries Shot Down In Rottla

Germans South Of Seine Are Reported In Full: Flight Toward Rouen   American Tanks, Cruising At Will, In Sight Of Eiffel Tower; Allied Front Swinging Eastward From Caen

YANKS CAN OEE EIFFEL TOWER   Patton’s Columns Wage War :  Of Movement 12 Miles; From Capital.   HEADQUARTERS SILENT

Patton's Columns Within 12 Miles Of French City   Wholé Allied Line Moves to LeHavre And Mouth of Seine

Eiffel Tower In Sight   New Blitz May Pin Nazi Forces Against Seine in New Trap; Caen Line Forward

New Trap for Germans Appears Laid on Seine   Strong American Forces Turn North From Argentan, Others Sweep Eastward in Direction of Le Havre   Paris Radio Goes Off Air

Patton’s Tanks ‘Advance To Within Sight Of Eiffel Tower As Other Spearheads Strike Deeply Into German Forces Attempting To Retreat Across Seine

Americans in Sight of Eiffel Tower; Paris  Radio off Air   Germans Retreat Toward Rouen; New Trap Being Forged

Patrols Near French Capital   Strong Formations Swing Suddenly North to Encircle Escaping Enemy  CLOSNG OUT OLD POCKET  Airmen Wreak Destruction On Germans Trying to Cross River By Barges

Patton's Tanks Thunder After German Forces Fleeing Toward Rouen On Seine

Roar of Guns Being Heard In Capital   Americans Swing North In Drive Aimed at Trapping Seventh Army

Drive By Patton's Armor To Environs Of Big City May Be Roundup of Nazis

TEMPERATURES:   Patton's Tanks Slash ThroughNaziDefense   Allies Strike Lightning Blows At Crumbling German Lines 12 Miles From Capital Of France, Long An Enemy Stronghold

U. S. TANKS ARE REPORTED 12 MI. FROM CITY LIMITS   MONTGOMERY FORCES SEALING NEW TRAP ON NAZI 7TH ARMY

’ Patton's Tanks Swing Close to Paris to Head Off * ‘Seventh Army  _PATROLS NEAR CITY   Germans Retreating Toward Rouen Hampered by Seine Crossing

German Dispatches Place Yank Tank Columns 12: Miles West of Paris

U.S. Troops Within 12 Miles of French _ Capital, Say Nazis   Germans Retreating Toward Rouer Along Seine River Face New Trap; Poles Seize Les Champeaux

Patton Said Only 12 Miles Away   Armored Columns Are Pounding After Retreating Germans

“War of- Movement” Carries Yank Armor Within Sight  lof Capital’s Eiffel Tower

Patton's Tanks Drive Close fo French Capital   German Forces Retreat Toward Rouen on Seine

French Capital s Radio Is Silent   ... Yankees Within Sight Of Eiffel Tower

German Escape Path To Capital Cut Off, Belief   Enemy May Be Razing City Communications, Claim Patton’s Armo: 12 Milec Awav

Germans Declare General Patton’s Army Is Within 12 Miles of the French Capital.   PARIS RADIO HAS GONE OFF THE AIR

Allies May Pin Nazis On Coast   Great War of Movement Again Waged in Secrecy; Paris Threantened

NEW TRAP IS SET BY PATTON’S MEN   Americans Within 12 Miles Of Capital, Germans Say; Eiffel Tower In Sight

Patton's Rampage Hooks Northward To Cut Off Enemy   Germans Retreat Toward Rouen; Le Havre British Target

Liberation of French Capital from Four Years Of Nazi Rule Seems Neat   New Roundup Being Made Of Retreating Germans 

Columns Are Reported 12 Miles Away   Swiss Newspaper Hears 30,000 Nazis Preparing Defense

Encircled and Under Air Attack   Multiple Allied Assaults Cut Off Escape to Paris; Yanks -12 Miles. From City   BUT MAIN DRIVE IS POINTED NORTH   Allies Appear More Intent On Destroying Enemy Force Than Taking Paris -

Jap Resistance  Halted In Ukhrul   Clear Defense Points  Northeast of Imphal .

JAPS POUR PLANES INTO MARSHAILS   10 Zeros Knocked Down By American Airmen in Islands

JAPS POURING AIRMEN INTO MARSHALLS   Intend to Keep Islands, Regardless Of the Cost

JAPS REINFORCE MARSHALL ISLES   Maintain’ :Str ength Despite Heavy Losses

Bombers Hit Oil Centers   Ploesti Is Target _ Of Heavies Which Range Far and Wide

U. $, BOMBERS POUND PLOEST!   Settin, Kiel, Berlin Hit Hard by British Airmen

5,606 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPEI ON NAZI FORTS   Blockbusters Dropped on Berlin for Third Succes-' sive Nicht

RAF Fleet Hits Big Nazi Ports And Supplies   Believed To Have Destroyed Supplies for Nazis In Baltic.

RAF Bombers Batter Kiel — And Stettin  Ploesti Is Hit  By US Bombers

BOMBERS RAID PLOESTI AGAIN      Heavy Planes Also Dump 5,600 Tons On Stettin And Kiel   FRENCH BRIDGES HIT

Ploesti Blasted By Italy-Based American Plane:   RAF Heavies Plunge Explosives Into German Baltic Ports

Nazi Ports Of Kiel, Stettin Are Sct Afire   Nearly 1200 RAF Heayy Planes Dump 5,600 Tons of Explosives On Sea Depots

Yank Air Raid On Ploesti Follows Heavy RAF Night Attack On Kiel And Stettin

ALLIES PUSH JAPS BACK NEAR IMPHAL   imperials Capture Enemy Strong Points In Hills

Allied Forces Drive Japs Back   Stage. Counterattack To Smash Imphal Seig«

ALLIED ARMOR DRIVES JAPS INTO KILLS NEAR IMPHAL   Counterattack by British Imperials Is Successful

Allies Close in On Florence From 3 Ways   Troops 14 Miles from City on  South; Americans Within  Four Miles of Pisa; Italians  "Take Belvedere —

ALLIES CLOSING IN ON FLORENCE   5TH ARMY CAPTURES TAVERNELLE AND 2 NEIGHBORING TOWNS

Allies Closing in Upon Florence  Two Armies Advance in Three Directions

CONVERGE ON FLORENCE IN 3-WAY DRIVI   Advance Units of Allied Armies Reported Only 14 Miles From City in North Italy

Allies Close In On Florence From Three Directions  Advance Elements Only 14 Miles From City's Edge, Take Towns In Advance

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES CLOSING IN ON FLORENCE   Drive Toward Key Italian City From Three Sides and Reach -Point Only 14 Miles Away —Take Several Towns

3 ALLIED UNITS NEAR FLORENCE   Patrols 14 Miles From Edge ot Historic City

ALLIES CLOSING IN ON FLORENCE ON THREE SIDES  American Patrols  Only Four Miles

Three Pushes On Florence Under Way   Forces Of Fifth And Eighth Armies Within 14 Miles Of City

ALLIED TROOPS NEAR FLORENCE   Close In On Historic Italian City Fgom 3 Directions

Triple Columns Peril Florence   Allied Troops Tighten Noose on Vital City in 3-Angled Smash

FLORENCE IS GOAL OF ALLIED TROOPS   [Fifth and Eighth Army Only 14  Miles From Edge of City

TO FLORENCE   Fifth and Eighth Armies Closing in on City From Three Sides.

5th and 8th. _ Are Closing On Florence   Allied Troops Advance ir Three Directions; H Miles From City

Allies Closing Steadily On Florence From Three Sides; Several Towns Are Captured   U.S. Patrols Four Miles From Pisa On West Coast; New Gain On Adriatic Side

BOND RALLY TO  BE HELD HERE  NEXT MONDAY   Famous 6-Hitch Team of Clydesdale Horses on Exhibition Here.   ON SQUARE AT 2 P. M.   Averaging More Than a Ton Each the Horses Give a Thrilling Performance.

Enemy Retreats In Disorder to Hungary Capital   100 Towns and Villages Taken In Red Advance

Hungarian Capital's Fall Near   Nazi Forces Reeling Back Before Reds

F > TER F’ ALF OF SUAPEST   Soviets Believe West Half Will Be More Difficult to Take

Ward Store Wrecked By Union Gang   Dearborn Police Arrest Ring-Leaders In Flare Of  Violence.

ROL IN DETROIT WARD GU'S STORE   Dearborn Store Outbreak Of Violence By 75 Store Workers

Ward Dearborn Store Wrecked By Union Group   Labor Leader Says _ Outbreak Instigated By Strike Breakers»

Violence Flares at Ward Store   Alleged Union Crowd Wrecks Cases, Goods

Violence Flares At Montgomery Ward Co. Strike  Counters Overturnes And Merchandise   Counters Overturnes And Merchandise Displays Trampled

Sharp Cold Is Forecast   Low Temperatures On Way May Help Save Fruit

Cold Wave on Way to State   Temperatures Are To Drop to 20 in Southern Oklahoma

MONARCHS TAKE FINAL GAME, 38-25   Humble Mechanicsburg 5; District Tourney Next) —   “READ THE JOURNAL   An Open Letter From Red Cross Chairman >

7,000 planes employed i in record blow  “Resistance costs eee aL apatt

Greatest Single Airfleet in History Altacks   13,000 Sorties or More Flown Against Germans

TRUST CHARGES ON LOAN FIRMS   13 CHAINS ACCUSED OF FIXING INTEREST

Senate Rejects Taft Substitute ‘Soldier Vote Bill   Administration Forces Gain Victory After Setback In House 

Senate Rejects Restricted Plan of Soldier Vote   Administration Scores After House Backs State Ballot

FEDERAL BALLOT WINS AGAIN IN SENATE VOTE   House Sticks To State Bill

FEDERAL VOTE ADVOCATES WIN MAJOR VICTORY   Defeat Taft Proposal To Restrict Use of National Ballot

BIGGEST FIGHT IN HISTORY OFF TO QUIET START   Men Calm As They Embark

Luggage Supply Here Very Short —— eee EY OA  Local Stores Report Stocks Have Been Nearly Depleted

Luggage Supply Here Very Short Local Stores Report Stocks Have Been Nearly Depleted

Ten-Mile Wide Gap Smashed By First Army In Aachen Area   Drive Carries Yanks Out Far Side Onto SuperHighway

¥anks Dig Fhrough- (10-Mile Opening  In Aachen Sector   Fourth Crossing Of Reich Frontier Effected By American Ist Army; Third Army Said Nearing Rhine

Americans Dash for Cologne   Super-Highway On Road To Berlin Reached By Yanks.   Aachen Encircled   3rd Army Reported Well Past Nancy On Wav To Bhin.

Yanks Enter Reich in  New Sector   Strong Point of Aachen Has Been Encircled As American Troops Push Six Miles Into Germany; Other Columns Also Advance

AMERICANS PUSH INTO GERMANY   Siegfried Line Penetrated And Cologne Is Ne&tred

AACHEN RINGED. IN YANK DRIVE   Possibility Troops Broke Into Strongpoint; Push Deener in Germany, .   'NEW BREACH INDICATED

ALLIED ASSAULT SLUGS AHEAD ON 500-MILE FRONT   Drive Threatens Rhineland As Aachen Stronghold Doomed by Pincers

Yanks Thrust Through Long Siegfried Breach   More of Line Ahead.

Key Point Of Aachen Ringed With American Iron; Fighting Reported In City; First Army Deepens Other Wedges

First Army Drives Onto Speedway 30 Miles From Cologne And The Rhine

4th Crossing Of Frontier Renorted   Berlin Indicates Third Army  Is Approaching The Rhine

  ‘Main Siegfried Line East of Aachen Is Being Swept by   10-mile Thrust by   Americans.    FRONT AT AACHEN IS NOW 15 MILES

Troops Race Toward Rhine   Berlin-Bound Americans Push Through Vaunted Siegfried Line, Reach Super Speedway 30 Miles From Vital Cologne

Americans Push Completely Through Siegfried Defenses; Aachen Circled; Fall Near   Breach in German Line Put Yanks On Bread Road Leading to Cologne; Breakthrouch in Force Not Yet Made

New Invasion Wedge Driven nto Germany  mAeAaAr KINA.   Aachen Ringed By U. S. Troops; Front Broadened

Threats Of Riot Cause Temporary Closing Of All Activities At Waupun Prison

Yanks Mass Armor, Men Along Saar   Germans Fail in Attempt to Establish Beachhead at Strasbourg an Rhine

Allies Massed ror Assaults  Along Rivers   Nazis Fiercely Resist  Attacks Aimed At Rhine

Armor, Infantry Of 3d US. Army Massed On Saat   Ninth Regains Positions; Pest Being Evacuated; Repulse Nazis In Italy

Nazis Battle Desperately To Stem Tide  Allies ot Banks    Allies at Banks Of Saar, Maas, Reer and Rhine

Allied Armies Poise To Cross River Barriers   Ninth Army Regains Temporarily Lost Positions on Roer; Russians Fan Out Toward Austrian Border

Goebbles Warns O1 Danger   No Chance of Future Conflict If Armies Fail Now, ‘Doc’ Says

GOEBBELS TAKES GLOOMY VIEW ~- OF OUTLOOK FOR ANOTHER WAR   PROPAGANDA MINISTER SAYS 3F WAR LOST NEW ONE CAN'T BE STARTED WITHIN 30 YEARS

ee ir eee ee ene TN Tee,  China’s War Production Board Makina Proaress

Lujan Claims  22 More Votes   Reports Dona Ana Recount Revealed Them

Lujan Claims 84 Majority   Says Vote Recounts Increasing His Total

Truman, Wallace Cohorts Claim FDR's Approval   Ohic Delegates Pledge Half Their Votes To lowa Man

Wallace Faction Claims Enough Strength to Win   Showdown Due In Bitter Fight Within Party

Delay Action Taking Over Truck Lines   ODT Order Said Written, Signed and Effective  Sunday

Federal Seizure Of Trucks Delayed   ODT Expected to Take Over Sunday

Argentina-Axis Link Outlawed By Hemisphere   Escobar Recalled as Hull arges Farrell Regime Gives Aid ta Fnen?..

Wiener Neustadt Area Receives  Brunt of Blows"   Unprecedented Aerial Campaign Carried Through Another Day

U.S. FLIERS HIT AUSTRIA FACTORIES   Record Aerial Offensive Continues

Nazi Aircraft Plants In Austria Blasted By Italian - Based Heavies   More Than 10,000 Planes Take Part In 4 Day-Night Raids  Preparatory To Invasion

AUSTRIA PLANE PLANTS TARGET OF HEAVY RAID   Italy-Based U.S. Bombers Strike In Sector Near Vienna

Aircraft Plants Are Objectives   HEAVY AMER. BOMBERS STRIKI ~FROM ITALY; BRITISH PLANES  ARE STREAMING ACROSS .—* CHANNEL

FESTUNG EUROPE UNDER 100-HCUR ~ BOMBING ATTACK   faitway lenctions Supplying Coastal Ocfenses are me By Block-busters.

Vienna Plane Works Raided  By Amerieans   Heavy Assault On Austria Follows Mighty Pounding Given Germany

FACTORY AREA NEAR VIENNA’ YANK TARGET   New Blows at Invasion Coast

ITALY-BASED PLANES STRIKE SOUTH OF VIENNA   Vilal Targets In Yugoslavia Smashed; Areas In Germany Hit

PLIGHT TERMED ‘DESPERATE’ AS REDS CLOSE IN   Ukraine Pocket’s Resistance Broken With Capture of Skala

GERMANY FACES — WORST MATERIAL, MORAL DEBACLE   Frontline Reports indicate Reds Are Actually Within Outskirts of

Soviets Make New Advance   Germans Try To Keep Open Escape Corridor

Germans Battle Frantically To Escape Odesse   Escape Corridor Is Narrow. ing Despite Nazi Defense Efforts   NAZI POSITION IS REPORTED DESPERATE

Two Navy Planes Attack Wake  Small Jan Carao   Small Jap Cargo Ship Is Sunk

Congress Gets Bill to Slash Cabaret Levy   Rep. Knutson Asks Cu From 30 to 10 Percent: Work on Simplifying  Statutes Continues

Smoking Ruins of Monastery Are Blasted by Yanks   Infantrymen Massed for Comino Attack

Shelling Of Monastery Ruins Nazis’ Strongest Defenses At Cassino   American Dive-Bombers Pound Rome, Blast Railway Yards Vital To Enemy Forces

AMERICANS BEGIN CLOSING IN UPON RUINS OF ABBE’   1,415-Year-Old Shrine Becomes Twisted, Smoldering Mass of Rubble After Bombing By Americans.   22,000 JAPS IN SOLOMONS NOW FACE DEATH   Seizure of Green Islands Campaign-in Area, Enemy   ts Taken By Complete Surprise.

Nazi Gunners Hold Out Behind Walls of Abbey   Allies Report Ancient Building Has Been Destroyed

Yanks Close in On Abbey ‘Held By Foes   Monastery Fortress Ruined By Shelling In Mount Cassino Battle.

Monthly C. C. Survey Shows Increases   Savings Hit Mark Of $11, 266,773 In Naugatuck During November

Increased Gas, Electricity Ccnsumption, More Telephones Reported

Two Communists Included Among ‘French Officials   De Gaulle Named Head Of Armed Forces As _ Group Expands ~~

DEMO CONVENTION TO OPEN JULY 1   HANNEGAN INDICATES PARTY EXPECTS TO. NAME ROOSEVELT FOR 4TH TERM.

MULHOUSE IS CAPTURED BY EDEN ARMY   Only Nine Miles From Frontier Of Germany

5TH ARMY GAINS IN CASSINO FIGHT   Three-Quarters of Blasted ~ City Taken by Allies _ in Torrential Rain

Push Nazis Back In Wrecked Village  TANKS IN ACTION  Germans Lose Two Anzio Bases

WPB Authorizes Production More Civilian Goods   Hooper Shovel Co. Listed By WPB

Daring Foray Obviously Caught Japanese By Sur-: prise in Home Waters. ,   ATTACK MADE ON FRIDAY

Nips Shocked With Attack On South Front   Two Generals with Navy. as Abservers, Hinting Invasion

Pour Shells On Jap Isle   Warships: Bombard Paramushiro, Part Of Jap Homeland

Paramushiro Surprised By Attack, Defense Confused   Not A Single Warship Damaged; At Same Time, Planes Raid Nearby Bases

Enemy Is Dealt Surprise Blow On Paramushiro   ‘Bombers Participate In Foray; Our Forces Have No Losses

Kurabu Point, On Paramushire Island, Battered; ; Foe, Ratiled, Fires Wildly Into The Pacific

Fleet Raids, Nip Waters First Time   “Task Force Blasts Poramushiro Base; Defenders Surprised

Navy Confirms Raid   Soviet Planes  Raid Helsink   Fires Sull Burn: Hit 200 Buildings, Killing 58 Per Sth,

Aircraft In Paramushiro  Raid, Also   No Damage to Vessels in Daring Attack on Jap Homeland

PARAMUSHIRO IN KURILES TARGET OF BOMBARDMENT   Nips Taken By Surprise As Kurabu Point Is Pounded For 20 Minutes

WARSHIPS AND PLANES STRIKE AT TWO SPOTS   20-Minute Naval Bombardment Catches Japs By Surprise

Not A Ship In Attacking Force Hit; Planes Join In Assault; Army Officers On Board Warships; Bombardment Lasts 20 Minutes

American Artillery Changes Nature’s Face In Italian Push; British, Poles, Indians Advance

US.ARTILLERY “SALVOS HEAVY   Reporter Describes Devastating A. ‘ack In Italian Front Today

FACE OF NATURE CHANGED DURING RECORD BARRAGE   Most Fearful Display of Man made Thunder in This or  Any Other War

5th And 8th Armies In Drive For Rome   wk & & K&. Doughboys Dash In

Bombardment Described As Spectacular   Artillery Barrage — One Of Most Fearful In History Of Wars

Chinese Military — Outlook Brightens   Chiang, Communists Move to Unite Forces

1169 Lincoln nurses join army corps las the nation inducts 96.000 cadets

i * 7” * 5 169 Lincoln nurses jou army corps as the nation inducts 96.000 cadets

Bombers Strike Rail Centers in Bucharest Area   Broadside Delivered On Vital Centers in Ru-.  mania he ZM) Planoe

RAIL CENTERS SMASHED BY 500 U. §. BOMBERS   Weather Slows Western Raids

FLIERS RAID ROMANIAN RAIL CENTERS   500 U. S. Bombers Strike Points Near Bucharest

Defy Weather That Grounded Most Other Allied Planes T Pound North France; Rail Certers In Remania   FIGHTERS ESCORT BIG LIBERATORS

Balkans Receive Main Weight of Allied Assault   : Spring Gales Ground Most of Allied Air Forces In England

BAD WEATHER INTERFERES WITH ATTACKS   Fierce Fighting Rages Around Sevastopol

One Dead in Ridgway Crash  Auto and Two B & O   Auto and Two B & O Trains Involved In Accident

DRAFT QUOTAS  NOW LAGGING   SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICIALS REVEAL DEMANDS OF ARMED SERVICES NOT BEING: MET

SEVERE DRAFT POLICY SEEMS CERTAIN   Boards May Be Unable to Meet Monthly Requirements

Japan Announces Post-War Plan   Allied Planes Hammer Nippon-Held Islands

Over 3 Million U. $. Soldiers Stand Ready For Invasion Declares Secretary Stimson

3,697,000 Yanks Said Deployed Through World   Ground Troops Prepared To Take Advantage Of Preliminary Air Blows

'3,657,000 US. Soldiers Overseas; “Period Of Decisive Action Is 'Now At Hand,” Says” Stimson

Secreary of War Says That There are 8,657,000 U. S. Army Soldiers Deployed in Theatres ‘of Operations Overseas,

3,657,000 Troops Overseas; Action Period Is ‘at Hand’   Bulk of Movement Now Ground Forces Stimson Reveals

Nearly Half TotalStrength Of Army Now  Is Overseas   Secretary Stimson Declares That Period Of Decisive Action. Against Axis ‘At Hand’   3,657,000 SOLDIERS NOW OUTSIDE U. S.

Bulk of Troops Moving Into Combat Sectors Ground Forces, Says Secretary Stimson

Period of Vital Action at Hand. Says Stimson   Army Has 3,657,000 Men Overseas Poised  For Strike at Axis

ARMY REVEALS 47 PCT. OF STRENGTH IS NOW OVERSEAS   ‘Stimson Says 3,657,000 Mer   Are In Foreign Lands, Number to Be Increased tt Five Million.   DAYS FOR FINAL DECISION ARE AT HAND   More Than Half of 34,000 Combat Planes of Air Forces Are Now Stationed at Active Fronts.

Big U.S. Army Now Overseas   Decisive Action Period at Hand,  Stimson Declares

Stimson Says Period Of Decisive War Action Is at Hand   Secretary Reports U. $. Now Has 3,657,000 Troops Overseas, Air Force Is Greatest Striking Power in World History

STIMSON SAYS DEPLOYMENT COMPLETED   Secretary of War Declares American Army Now Ready for Decisive Actior

STIMSON SAYS TIME IS HERE FOR WAR ACTION   Secretary of War Reports 3,657,000 U. S. Troops Already Overseas

DECISIVE ACTION AGAINST NAZIS NEAR AT HAND   Stimson in a News Chat Disclosed That 3,657,000 Soldiers Are Deployed Outside Continental U. S.

THE PERIOD OF DECISIVE ACTION IS NOW AT HAND   This Statement Was Made Today by Secretary of War Stimson.   3,657,000 ARE OVERSEAS   Deployment of Air and Serv ice Forces Is Practically Completed, He said.

3,657,000 YANKS NOW OVERSEAS.   ALREADY DEPLOYED FOR ACTION, SAYS SECRETARY STIMSON

3,657,000 Troops eAlready Overseas, Stimson Discloses   Deployment of Force Is Nearly Completed And “Decisive Period Is Now at Hand”

Stimson Says 3.657 000 U.S. Troops  Now Overseas   Period Of Decisive Action Here; Total To Be 5,000,000  By End Of Year

American Overseas Army in Britain Now Over Million Stronger Than in 1918

“Axis Due -el'o Taste ~U.S. Fury   Secretary Lists Overseas Force At 3.657.000

Declares AEF To Total 5,000,000 By Last Of 1944   Tells Press Conference Deployment Of Air, Service Forces Is Practically Completed ‘And The Period Of Decisive Acting Is At Hand’

THREE, HALF MILLION FROM ARMY ACROSS   By End of This Year, More Than 5 Million Men Will Be Ready for Action Overseas

Ground Forces Moving Out Now To Ready Bases   Air, Service Troops Have Prepared Way; ‘Decisive Action’ Nea:

Deployment Of Airmen Completed   Stimson Declares Period Of Decisive Action Is At Hand

United States Has 75.000 Warplanes   Victory-Winning Blows Poised Against Germans and Japanese

3,697,000 MEN NOW OVERSEAS   Stimson Says Forces Outside Continental U.S. Now at Peak

OVERSEAS ARMY FORCES TOTAL 3,657,000   ‘Decisive’ Period at Hand

Secretary of War Explains Preparedness   3,657,000 Army Troops Ready To Strike Blow

WAR SECRETARY DECLARES  4*57,000 ARMY TROOPS ARE ALREAD OVERSEAS AND THE BULK OF THE FORCES NOW MOVING OUT TO COMBAT FIELDS ARE GROUND TROOPS READY FOR FINAL BLOWS

3; 657, 000. Yanks Ready for Attack  Overseas; Stimson Says Blows Neai

3,697,000 MEN NOW OVERSEAS, CHIEF REPORTS   Deployment of Forces Nearly Completed, Secretary Says

3,057,000 Americans On Foreign Soil Today   Land Troops Are Among Majority Leaving Now

3,057,000 Men Now Overseas, Secretary Says  Deployment Of Air   Deployment Of Air And Service Forces Practically Complete

ARMY ABROAD NEARS PEAK— STIMSON   Preparing for “Victory-Winning Blows,’ Says War Secretary

Decisive Action at Hand, Secretary of War Declares Today   3,657,000 of American Troops Overseas; Plans : Complete

TROOPS ABROAD TOP 3 MILLION   Stimson Says “Decisive Action Period At Hand”

3,657,000 U.S. Troops Abroad   Secretary of War Reveals Readiness Of Army on All Fronts; Airforce Now Is Greatest of Any Power on Earth

Figures Are Announced By Stimson   War Secretary Says We'l Have Five Million Men Abroad by End of Year

PERIOD FOR ACTION VS AXIS AT HAND   Says Secretary Stimson ~ Who States that 3,657, - 000 Soldiers Are Now Deployed outside U. 5.   Baffles Imagination

AMERICAN TROOPS ALREADY OVERSEAS NUMBER 3,697,000  DEPLOYMENT NEARS END ‘AND PERIOD OF DECISIVE ACTION AT HAND

Army Ready To Deliver Death Blow   3.657.000 Men Overseas; Period For Decisive Action At Hand

3,697,000 ME} ARE ON DUTY OVERSEAS   By End Of Year 5 Million Will Be Across   GREAT FORGE   Well Over 1918 Figures; Base Building Near Peak, He Adds

U.S. Has 3,657,000 Men (Overseas Ready For Attack To Beat Germans And Japs

3,657,000 Now  Are Overseas   _Deployment Of Arr, Service Forces Completed; Action Near.

3,657,000 Troops Already Overseas   Period of Decisive Action Near Says Stimson in His Report Today

SAYS PERIOD OF DECISIVE ACTION HERE   Stimson Says Army Has 3,657,000 Men  Overseas

Five Million American Soldiers in Battle Theaters by End of Year   Secretary Of War Stimson Gives Figures On Army Personnel Today

3,697,000 U.S. SOLDIERS READY FOR INVASION   Decisive Action Period Here,  Stimson Says

Yank Forces in Position   Our 3,657,000 Men Overseas Deployed, Decisive Action Period At Hand

Five: Millions” * fo Be: Overseas - by End of ‘4!   @The Period of Decisive Ac "tion: Is. ‘at’. “Hand,” Says . po Secretary:Stimson ~~   gpASES. BUILT AND z PLANES IN ACTION      Ground ‘Troop’ Move  Now Nee Peak;U.S.. ‘Airforce ”“Has.75,000 Planes.

Stimson Says U. S. Set For  Final Blows   Overseas Forces Near Peak for Smashing Germany and Japan

ARMY IS POISED TO BATTER AXIS   Decisive Action Period Now At Hand, Declares Secretary Stimson

Stimson Says 3,657,006 Men Now Deployed   56,000 Miles Length of Supply Routes

Deployment of Air and Services Forces Practically Complete, Secretary Stimson Says   Decisive Period  OF Action Nea:   Numbers. of Military Men Overseas. Will Be In creased to More Than 5,000,000 In °4.4.

Stimson Says Deployment of Nir and Service orces Now Practicalls Completed; Bulk of loreces Now Moving Out Composed — Of (Ground Troops for binal Blows at Enemy.

UNCLE SAM NOW HAS 31, MILLION MEN IN OVERSEAS STATIONS   Period of Decisive Action Is  Now at Hand, Says War { Secretary.

3,557,000 Troops Now Overseas   Deployment of Air, Service Forces Is  About Complete

J,b0/,000 AT PAUNTS WAIT SIGNAL 10 Gf   Service Troops Now Moving Overseas Prepared to Build Air Bases.

Fertod of Decisive Action at Hand, Stimson Says as He Reveals Number of Men Oversea:

Stimson Asserts Period of Action Is Now At Hand   Deployment of Forces Overseas Reported Practically Completed

3,657,000 Men Now Overseas, Stimson Says   Deployment of Air and Service Forces Complete, Period of Decisive Action Now at Hand

NOW OVERSEAS STIMSON SAYS   Poised For Victory-Winning Blows Against Nazis. Japs

‘Period. OF Decisive Action Is At Hand,’ Sec’y Stimson Says   3,657,000 American Troops Now Overseas, With More On Way; Ali Preparations Made Lae Eiznn! Meviva Tn Vietary

More Than 5 Million Yanks Now Abroad   Stimson Reveals Size of Huge Force Overseas

UNITED STATES HAS 3,657,000 MEN OVERSEAS   Secretary Reveals Deployment Of Air And Service Forces Abroad Practically Complete; 5,000,000 Overseas By End of 1944.

Stimson Declares Period Of Action Is At Hand; 3,657,000 Men Overseas

OTH DRIVES INTO ALBAN DEFENSES   Two-Mile Gain Recorded Under Great Aerial Umbrella

Stimson Declares Time for Decisive Action is at Hand  3,657,000 Army Treeps Alread: _ Overseas, Representing About 47 PC Total Strength :

GROU OF 5 MILLION IS SCHEDULED   ‘Period Of Decisive Action Is At Hand,’ Stimson Says In Report

SAYS 3,697 ARMY TROOPS NOW OVERSEAS   Deployment of Air and Service Forces Practically Completed

STIMSON AVERS THAT ‘DECISIVE ACTION’ NEARS   Secretary of War Says U. S$ Overseas Forces to Reach 5,000,000 Soon

3,657,000 Treops Now Overseas; “Period Of Decisive Action’? Here

YANKS OVERSEAS NUMBER 3,657,000      T10N* AGAINST AXIS AT HAND, STIMSON SAYS. .

3,657,000 U.S. Troops Now At Overseas Posts   Period Of Decisive Action Is At Hand, Says  Sec. Stimson.

Establish Overseas Bases First   Ground Troops Who Will Use Bases Now Being Moved From U. S.

Half of Army: © Facing Enemy   Stimson Says Force Wi Ranan Reach & Million

3,657,000 U. S. TROOPS OVERSEAS  ‘Decisive Action At Hand’ -- Hall

3,657,000 U.S. Troops Across;  Action At Hand   Stimson Says Deployment of Air and Service Forces Now Practically Completed; Bulk of Forces Now Moving Out Composed Of Ground Troops for Final Blows at Enemv.

Doughboys Ten Miles in Reich Above German  City of Trier   Siegfried Line Proving to Be Obsolee, in at Least One Sector

American {st Army Pierces Seiafried Line   Vise of Steel Thrown Around City; Yanks 10 Miles Inside Reich

Capture Nancy and Maastricht, Both Strongholds on 180-Mile Front

Nelson Wins Reconversion Plans Fight   WPB, ARMED FORCES, WMC REPRESENTATIVES DRAFT PEACETIME WORK

NELSON WINS IN FIGHT FOR RECONVERSION   Part of Program Goe: Into Effect Soon Despite War

NELSON WINNER, SOME CIVILIAN WORK SCHEDULED   Prompt. Start Planned 11 Program for Limited Renanvereinn.

Benito Mussolini Said To Have Escaped Death From Hurling Of Bomb

Airmen Cut Path lo Philippines  Bombing War Centers On Reducing Outposts That Bar Way to Isles

STUDENTS COLLAPSE BEFORE HYPNOTIST   High School Demonstratior Ends in Hysteria

Clear Japs From Around Kohima   ““Newly-Won Positions Revealed By British

Allies Advance In Kohima Area  General Offensive Aimed at Japanese

Gen. Stilwel Forges." Ahead      Kohima Battle, May De cide Present. Jap Drive: In: Assam et

Chinese Army; Gen. Stilwell, Forges Ahead   Kohima Battle May De-. cide Present Jap Drive In Assam

Allies Blast Romania’s Most Important Railroad Centers; Driving Japs from Kohima

KOHIMA AREA BEING CLEARED OF JAPS BY BRITISH TROOPS   Drive Gains Momentum Enemy Losses Are Heavy

BRITISH GAIN IN KOHIMA FRONT DRIVE   Win New Positions From Japs; Planes Are Assisting

ALLIES GAIN IN OFFENSIVE IN. THE KOHIMA AREA   British And Indian ‘Troops Force Japs Out Of Several important Positions — 5Stil- well’s Men Advancing

British And Indian Forces Advance On iiohima Japanese   Stilwell’s Chinese Go Ahead In North Burma

Japs Lose Important Positions   British And Indian Forces Continue To Advanee In India

FROST FOR TONIGHT   Will Be “Light to Heavy” Over Kansas, Says Forecaster

Sixth War Loan Quota In Rural Areas Of County $250,000 In Series E Bonds; City Organized   Committees For Canvass Of Business _ Section Of City Are Announced; J.T. Yeager, J. C. Sapp, Chairmen

TOUGH SOVIET MARINES BAG CRIMEAN PORT   SEVASTOPOL OUTER DEFENSE RING CRACKED

Armies Joining for Assault on German Defenders   VALLEY OPENED TO CITY OF SEVASTOPOL   Trapped Axis Troops Are Hurled Into 50-SquareMile Pocket

Nazis Trapped in Port Are Battling Desperately; Romanians Being Used as Covering Troops _

Soviet Marines Crack Southern Defense Anchor   Capture of Balaklava Opens Up Valleys Leading Into City

Red Siege Armies Effect Juncture      Tram Line to Sevastopol Caught in Pincer

Move Cracks Sevastopol’s South Anchor   Nazis Force Romanians To Fight Up Front, Russiap Bulletin Says

BALAKLAVA NOW IN POSSESSION OF RED TROOPS   Germans Reported Covering Romanians To Pre vent Desertion      SEVASTOPOL’S FALL — IS HELD IMMINENT

Germans Baitle Desperately To Hold Sevastopol   Romanians Slain By Nazi Troops   Reds Hoid Two Highwave

Crimean Port Captured hy Red Marines   Thousands of Nazis, Romanians Are Said Trapped

BALAKLAVA CAPTURED BY RED TROOPS   Rushing on toward Prize  Crimean Stronghold of ~ Sevastopol; Nazis Held ~ Against Black Sea.   Roles Reversed

DEFENSE SOUTH OF SEVASTOPOL FALLSTOREDS   Capture Of Balaklava ' Opens Valley Into Nazis’ Black Sea Stronghold

Russians Crack Defense Line Of Crimea. Citade   Germans Use Romanians In Hottest Area Of Fire

Balaklava’s fall opens up  valley roads  to shield Germans Romanians need

Fiery Chaplin Denies’ Joan Berry’s Charges   Comedian Declares He Has Committed No Crime As He Takes Stand To Deny He Is Father Of Former Drama’ Pupils Child °

CHAPLIN TELLS OF GIRL’S VISIT   Comedian Erupts Denials at Paternity Trial

"Thats A Lie, It's Not True” Shouts New And Violently Explosive Chaplin

CHARLIE CHAPLIN LOSES ICY CALM   SHOUTS IN COURT ~ THAT HE HAS BEEN VERBALLY LYNCHED

“That’s A Lie,” Chaplin Shouts At Berry Trial   Comedian Denies Charges Of Girls Counsel At Paternity Hearing;   Pounds:.On Stand

CHAPLIN FACES SECOND DAY ON WITNESS STAND   Denies He Fathered Child; Says Defense Infers He’s a ‘Monster’

That's a Lie, Yells Chaplin From Stand   Becomes Violent When Called to Testify in Paternity Action

Courtroom Just Like Stage in Hollywood  ‘T'm Not a Monster,’  Chaplin Tells Jury

PETAIN URGES UNITED FRANCE   Sends Message To People Of France Before Arrest By Nazis

MESSAGE GIVEN FRENGH PEOPLE   Petain Says That All He Had Submitted To  Was For France

Petain Clandestine Message to People   No Longer Free, He Says; Held by Nazis

Traitor Laval Had Self Seized   Also Arranged For Arres Of Petain And Herriot By Germans.

When Seized, Pefain Sends Message to French _ States That All He   States That All He Has Done Has. Been For Their Welfare

Petain.l  Unity of ©  ‘France   Clandestine Letter Sent After Arrest

Writer Quotes Rumors About Gestapo Arrests of Petain, Laval and Herriott

THREE FRENCH LEADERS SENT INTO REICK   Petain, Herriot, Laval Seized Few Days Before Troops Enter Paris

Petain, in Clandestine Message, Urges People of France to Unite; Aged Marshal Held by Germans

PETAIN OBJECT 10 PROTECT PEOPLE!   Urged French People to Unite, Clandestine Mes- sade Savs.

INDUSTRY AND LABOR WARNED TO COOPERATE   Alternative Is Dictator. ship, Watt Advises Economic Club

Sailor Records Dying Wishes on Life Raft   DIARY IN WALLET FILLED WITH COMMENT ON MOTHER, “BIG EYES”

i Admiral Nimitz Moves Up... Soon To Establish New Headquarters Far West’’ of Pearl Harbor

Nimitz To Set Up: New Quarters   Advance Location To Be “Far West’ of Hawaii

Good Weather, Sufficient Mater iel May Enable Allies In West Europe To Achieve Victory By Christmas

PROBING BIG QUESTION AS TO WHETHER GERMANY CAN BE PUT OUT BY THIS COMING CHRISTMAS

Victory by Christmas Depends On Weather and Supplies   UNREVEALED STRIKING DPHNntsArTPp

Notice   The News-Paltadium witl not publish tomorrow— Thanksgivng ‘Day.   Yule Victory Over Germany A Possibility   Depends On Foe Morale And U. S. Homefront, Mackenzie Says

ine War loday  Inevitability of Defeat Accepted by People of Germany

MacKenzie Says— Victory By Xmas Still ls Possible   Early Win Dependent On Supplies Reaching Front, Weather

WAR TODAY   Victory Over Germany By Christmas Possible Tf the Allies Get Breaks On Supplies and Weather

The War Loday— Victory By Christmas Possible If Sufficient Supplies Provided

WHILE CPTIMISM IS JUSTIFIED WE SHOULD STICK TO FACTS AND NOT WISHFUL THINKING, MKENZIE

NAZIS HAVE ACCEPTED’ INEVITABILITY OF DEFEAT BUT ALL-OUT D WAR QUICKLY MAY MEET SO}

1,316 Jap Planes Destroyed In War   Secretary Knox Tells of Losses By Enemy

, U. S., Canada Near Agreemen > On Air Policy  * U.S. Plons Call For a) Groiip ¥ With Guiding  De 1 a .. e..

United States May Concede to Wishes of Canada Skymen   Hint Truce is Pending: Britain Dissatisfied  With Chicago Plane

INTERNATIONAL AIR AUTHORITY IS IN MAKING   Meeting Underway In Chicago; May Change Plans

U.S. May Make Concessions On Airways Plans   Canadian Plan Nearest To That of U. S.; Two May Get Together.

Japan Hinting Countermoves  On Grand Scale   Premier Warns People Of American Drive To Tokio Area.

JAP PREMIER ¢ FEARS STRIKE  AT HOMELAND    Serious War Crisis A Hand, Koiso Tells  People

FRISCO HEARS — B-28°S ATTACK SHANGHAI DOCKS   People Nation Facing  Japan Premier Warns aie Difficulties

Spy Case Defendant. Get Long Terms From Detroit Judge   Federal Court Hands Out Sentences Ranging Up to 20 Years for Five Who Admitted Acting as Agents for German Government

SENTENCE 2 NAZI SPIES   Given Prison Terms Ranging From Twenty to Five Years

‘Countess’ Gets 12-Year Term. On Spy Charge   Grace Buchanan.Dineen Called Group Leader; Four Others Sentenced

FOUR DETROITERS GET LONG TERMS FOR ESPIONAGE.   Varying Federal Prison’ Terms Meted Out to Group of German-Amer.  rn

A COUNTESS! DRAWS LONG PRISON TERM   Miss Grace Buchanan-Dineer Sentenced to 12 Years. Imprisonment.

5 SENTENCED TO PRISON AS DETROIT SPIES   a : Miss Grace Buchanan-Dineen   and Four .Others Oraw Long Terms.  :

Spy Ring Given Prison Terms   Detroit YWCA Worker Given 20 Years

Nazi Conspirators Are Sentenced   Longest Term to Woman Defendant

9 Sentenced On ~ Espionage Counts  ‘Countess’ Gets Term Of 12 Years

Sentence Five For Espionage   Two Women and Three Men Conspired To Violate Act

HVE DETROITERS.  SENT TO PRISON   Members Of. German Spy _ Ring Sentenced In Fed eral Court   NABBED BY FBI   Miss Grace Buchanan’ Dineen. Is Given 12. ” Year Term

Woman ‘Boss’ And OthersIn Spy Ring Are  Given Terms   Grace Buchanan- Dineen Sentenced To 12 Years; erman-American ‘Y’  Worker Takes 20

SENTENCE FIVE "SPY SUSPECTS   “Countess” and Two Other Detroit Men and Women Given Prison Terms

l CREASED, ALLIED, SUPPLIES TO CHINA   RICAN COMMANDER BELIEVES .TIDE MAY BE... TURNED AGAINST JAPS,

CHINA TIDE MAY TURN SAYS GENERAL   Acknowledges Enews has Big Force on KwangsiKweichow Border; Expects Remedy.   Four Day Battle

Wedemeyer Holds Hope For China   Believes Steps Now in  Preparation. to Turn Tide Against the Japanese

ANOTHER HUGE AERIAL BATTLE RAGES, REPORT   Soastal Strip Of France Pounded For Third Straight Day

AMERICAN PLANES SMASH THROUGH NAZI AIR DEFENSE   Berlin Admits Terrific Battle Over German Aire craft Center

Target Is Only 120 Miles from Berlin; Air Fight Terrific   Luftwaffe Challenges Bomber: but Fails to Stop Americans

Terrifie Air Fight Staged Over Reich   Nazis Swarm Up to Meet U.S. Bombers in Raid on Brunswick

Fight Way Through To Brunswick    FLYING FORTRESSES BATTLE WA THRU HUNDREDS OF FIGHTER PLANES TO BOMB GERMAN CITY...

Fortresses Break through Airplane Center’s Defenses   Running Battle Is Fought over Area by Enemy Forces

Running Sky Clash Rages Over Heart Of Hitler’s Empire   Fight May Rival Record Jan. 1 Raid; Liberators Smash Holland Airfield; Calais Area Caucht in 3-Wav Assault

Air Fleet Meets Stiff Opposition   Hundreds of Enemy Planes Battled Along Route

Fortresses  Get Through  To Brunswick   ‘American Heavies Also Lash at Wolland: Coast Hit

Brunswick Hit by U.S.  Fortresses  Aircraft Center J he. i   Aircraft Center Eombed by Yanks, 152 Nazi Planes Are Shot Down

SIG BOMBERS INTTACK SOFIA OR THIRD TIME   15th Air Force Now in Italy

Sofia Is Hit By Flying  Fortresses   Heavy Morale Blow On Jittery Balkans; Move 15th Air Force From Africa

BULGAR CAPITAL BOMBED AGAIN BY AMERICAN PLANES   Sofia Raid Fifth in Two Months; U. S$. Air Earea Shifted

Sofia Bombed As U.S.  Loran Mone Naor Coomy TUIUG CIUPGO INGA! LUIGI:

Vital Italian Port Of Pola — Blasted By Flying Forts   Rv TJOUN A PaRRrYe

Capital Of. Bulgaria Is Given Heavy Pounding ' In Daylight Raid ©

U.S. FLIERS RAID SOFIA, BULGARIA   Reveal 15th Air Force Now Based in italy

ises In Italy Are Used By American Bombers In Their Fifth Attack Within Two Months

BY AMERICAN FLYING FORTS   Second Largest U. § Air Force Is Shifted to Italv

IS MOVED TO ITALY   15th Air Force Is Moved from Italy To Italian Fields

U.S. 15th Air Force Has Moved En Masse to Italy   FIFTH ARMY GAINS.

-S. TO SET FORTH OSONSULTATIVE” SECURITY ' By John M. Hightower.

U.S. WORLD PEACE PLAN READY FOR ACTION OF FOUR   Ideas Taken From League of Nations, Mcans Provided For Use of ‘Force to Suppress War.   SUGGESTIONS SUBJECT TO REQUIRED CHANGES   Participants Woultl Not Use Army in Foreign Places Only For Maintenance ol Peace.

Formula for Use of Force ta Insure, Peace To Be. Offer:               PLAN IS BASED UPON LEAGUE OF NATIONS

U. S. Will Offer a pLeague of Nations Style Peace Plan   Big Four Meeting to Be Presented Formula Providing for Use of Force to Chack War

UNITED STATES: TO SUBMIT ITS SECURITY PLAN   Consultative Formula for Use. of Force to Suppress War Will Be Studied by  Bie Four

U.S. Prepares Security Plan For Peace Era   League-Style Mroposal Will Be’ Submitted at '- Big Four Conclave -

US Gives Plan Patterned After Nations League   World Security Aim Of Movement

First Draft Of Postwar Peace Plan   U. S. Ready to Present Five-Point Proposal  To Four-Power Parley In U. S. This Summer

U.S. Ready To Offer Plan For Security League   Provides Consultative Formula For The Use Of Force To Keep Peace.

OFFER 5-POINT PEACE PLAN   Will Be Styled After Now Defunct League of Nations

New ‘“‘League Of Nations’’ Proposal Is Outlined Briefly  U. S. To Offer Plan For World League At Parley

Peace Setup Patterned Upon League Plan Ready   U, S. Will Suggest War's Suppression

U.S. To Support Plan Similar To. Nations League  Big Four To Consider Postwar Organization ~ Tn Washinaton Soon -

FORMULA T0 BE PUT FORTH AT BIG-FOUR MEET   Five-Point Organ: ization Not Yet Made Public By Administration

U. 5. Ready to Act With Rest of Worle   Outlines of Proposed World League Noted by Hull and Reesevelt

U.S. READY T0  OFFER PLAN FOR  WORLD COUNCH. EACH NATION WOULD  RETAIN AUTHORITY AVCO nwa TRANS

U.S. Peace Plan Ready, League Of Nations Style   America Prepares Plan to Retain  _ Power Over Forces

U.S. To Offer. «Security Plan   LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO INSURE PEACE ADVOCATED

United States To Offer League-Of-Nations Type Peace Plan At Meeting

PLAN TO KEEP WORLD SECURE   Consultative Formula for Use of Force to Suppress War Included

Post: War. Plan To Keep. Peace B elng g Mapped   Patterned Afiec League Of Nations, Security Or-. ganization Is Due   To Be Set Up

U.S. Ready To Offer Big 4 Peace Plan   Patterned On League Of Na. tions: Provides Censultative Formula.   INVITATIONS Ovi

Capture Of Main Hollandia Enemy Airstrip Is Near   Two Adjacent Airfields Have Already Been Taken By Yanks   SPECTACULAR MOVE IS MADE BY ALLIES

Yanks Drive For Control Of Last Jap-Held Airdrome In The Hollandia Area

German Defenses li The Crimea Break: Under Assault of Russians Who Ilave Seized Mai Communications Center of Dzhankoi .

SOUTHERNERS FIGHTING HARD   Have Little Hope Of Gaining Objectives In Platform

THREE WARSHIPS AMONG 94 VEFSSFETS SENT DOWN   Central Ward 4-H Cliuh Rove Flert

MARAUDERS RAIN DEATH ON SEINE   Allied Bombers Concentrate Efforts on Northern France

Bombers Smash Enemy Trying to Cross Seine   Heavy Aircraft From Italy Hit at Targets in Hungary

Allied ;Barnber's Take Vast Toll   Germans Heavily Punished. In French Battle Area

Japs Aitack Loyang From All Points    Chinese Repulse Invaders, Kill 1,000 Enemy Troops

COUNTER-ATTACK BY CHINESE SUCCESSFUL   Japs Besieging Loyang Are Repuised With 1.000 Casualties,  Chungking Sars

BEACHHEADS ARE LINKED ALONG-FRONT   Coastal Stronghold of Isigny Is Captured by Invasion Forces In Normandy.   BULLETIN

Bridgeheads Joined — With British And More Gains Are Made   RIIYVYFTIN

Con Con Seeks Way To Correct Ta Exemption Abuses   Attacks Schools Engaging In Real Estate for Profit

‘Abuse’ on Tad Exemption is Considered  Y vy cre, ge Oe sy em ae   Convention Told of ‘Pseudo’ Gifts Made Schools

U.S. Troops Take Vital Biak Ridge   Yanks Nearing Main Nip Positions on Isle

FEAR SELECTION   Roosevelt Still  Insisting On Choice, Friends In Washington Say

ADVISORS SAID TO BE ATTEMPTING TO HAVE. VICEi: PRESIDENT. DROPPED  : , AT CONVENTION    By WILLIAM E. HUTCHINSON International: News Servies”

RUNNING MA WALLACE.” SAYS THE PRESIDENT   Vice President Must Be on Ticket, Insists Mr. Roosevelt

German Defenses Stiffen In Ital y   Future Gains Will Test Might Of Allies

Yanks Batter Front Edgés   Of Gothic Line      Future Gains Will Be Tes “Allied Might Against German Will To Resist”

Clark's Fiffh Batters Forward On Gothic Line   Fierce Opposition Shown By Germans

Nazi Resistance Grows In Italy   Future Gains May Be Test of Allied Might  As Fifth Army Gains

FIFTH ARMY IS BATTERING AT THE GOTHIC LINE   Enemy Resistance Is Increasing Tremendously; Clark’s Army Cracks Outposts Along West.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM -[S:RAPIDLY BEING PREPAREL   REPORT HEARD THAT RACIAL ISSUE WILL NOT BE IG. ° NORED AS First.  PLANNED '

REPUBLICAN KNOWS GOOD MAN WHEN HE SEES ONE, KVEN IF HE’S A DEMOCRAT

JAPANESE ATROCITIES   Yank Pilots Slain   Editor Powell Tells Of Torture Inflicted On Doolittle’s Raiders

EYEWITNESS STORY  Tokyo Raiders Killed After Inhuman Torture,   Fellow Prisoner Says   Bv FRANCES LONG

William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., Was Seventy-Five   Repatriated American T ells Of Men Who Blasted Tokyo

JAPS MURDER YANK FLYERS   Tortured Unmercifully and Slain, Eye-Witness Reports

rx-Jap Captive Bares Shanghai Horror Story   Nipponese Delighted In Beating Army Men, Editor Relates

EDITOR DECLARES TOKYO BOMBERS TORTURED, KILLED   J, B. Powell, Maimed China Editor, Tells Former Aide of Conditions in Prison Where He and Other Americans Were Held

Atrocities Told — By News Writer   EXECUTION OF YANK FLIERS DETAILED TODAY

JAPS UNMERCIFULLY TORTURED CAPTURED BOMBERS OF TOKYO   REVOLTING STORY TOLD BY REPATRIATED EDITOR CHINA WEEKLY

Japs Took Delight In Torturing Pilots Who Bombed Tokyo, Repatriate Reveals

MORE REVELATIONS ON JAP: TORTURE OF AMERICAN PRISONERS   J.B. Powell, Editor of . _China. Weekly . Review. in Shanghai and Former Pri. ‘soner Recites Gruesome  Story

Maimed Editor Tells How Japs Tortured Captured Doolittle Fliers   BY FRANCES LONG

American Fliers Tortured Before Being Executed   Repatriated Editor Tells of Brutal Traatment Accorded Tokio Bombers

Japs tortu red Doolittle’s men   Crippled Powell  was Nip victim

Disclosure Made That Some Doolittle Fliers Were Tortured to Death

Says American Fliers Tortured . Prior To Execution By Je apanese; - Hope Publicity Ends Slaughter

JAP TORTURE OF CAPTURED PILOTS TOLD   Eye and Ear Witness Account Is Told by Repatriated Prisoner

Editor Maimed By Japs Heard Torturing Of American Flyers   J. B. Powell Says Doolittle’s Men Were Treated Unmercifully Before-Execution

!Eyewitness Tells Of Torture Of Americans By Japs   Renowned Editor Dies

Legless Repatriate Tells How Japs Tortured Fliers Who Bombed Tokyo

American Fliers Tortured, ‘Executed After Tokyo Raia   J. B. Powell, Former Shanghai Editor, Gives  First Eye-Ear Witness Account of Jap Brutality to U. S. Airmen   Tortured Unmercifully

A Jap Home Island Attacked by B-29’s   Superfortresses ‘Assault Targets on Kyushu, ' Southernmost of the Main Nip Group— Tokyo Says 100 Planes Participated.

B-29'S RERAID JAP TARGETS ON HOMELAND   Report 100 Superfortresses in Daylight Assault on Kyushu

eae  Jap Mainland Daylight Blow         Southern Island Of Ky. ushu Hit Heavy Blow By-Over 100 Big Sky Ships From China Bases.

KYUSHU IS ATTACKED BY B-29’S   Japs Claim 100 Giant Bombers Take Part In Latest Blow

100 SUPERFORTS ATTACK KYUSHU   Island Off China Coast Also Target of Raid

Erickson Inconsistent In His CIO Talks, GOP Leaders Believe   His Apparently, Ardent. Spring Flirtation With PAC Cools as Fall Approaches With O’Connell Pal Democratic Chief

G. 0. P. Issues Summary of Relations Between Jerry O'Connell and Erickson

Allies Repulse  Counterattacks   Jap Forces Stopped At Myitkyina Edge

Nips Beat OF Again in burma   St.lwell’s Force Advances Toward Jap Stronghold

ALLIES BLOCK JAP ASSAULTS AT MYITKYINA   Progress ‘Satisfactory’ In Drive To Take  Burma Base

Allies Beat Off Jap Attack  Stilwell’s Chinese ‘orcec Continue   Stilwell’s Chinese Forces Continue  Advance Toward North Burma

Allies Squash Jap Counter-Blows In Week-Old Fighting at Myitkyina

Main Allied Armies United on Coastal Plain Near Rome; Beat Off Japanese Offensive

Services For Willkie To Be ‘Held Today   Gov. Dewey, Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gov. Saltonstall of Mass, Will Be Present

Services for Willkie Today  60,000 File Past Casket in New York City Church

Thousands Pay Last Tribute To Wendell Willkie   An Estimated 6,000 Per sons An Hour Enter Church Pay Respects.

Wendell Willkie Funeral Is Held   Over 60.000 Call At Church—Burial To Be at Rushville

60,000 PASS BIER OF WENDELL WILLKIE   He Will Be Buried in His Indiana Home

Willkie Rites Held Today   Mrs. Roosevelt, Dewey Among Those at Funeral

Funeral for Willkie Today   Burial In India To Await Arrival Of Sailer Gan

Friends Gather For Last Rites Wendell Willkie   Thousands Visit Church Where Body Lies In State.

Many, Leaders Of ‘Nation A't Willkie Rites   Body ¢ to be Placed in Cryp! oi RushvillesInd., to! Await Arrival-of-Son  From .Sea ‘Duty.

Leaders At Willkie Rites  _ Brother To Accompany  Body To Rushville

Many Gather For Willkie’s Funeral Rites   Dewey, Saltonstall, Mrs. Roosevelt To Attend Services   TRIBUTE OF 60.000   Crowds Visit New York Church; Burial To Be In Indiana

Notables Gather at Willkie Bier  ousan ds View Bedy Lying in State

U.S. Leader: At Funeral Of Willkie   Mrs. Roosevelt, Dewey Mourners

$375,000,000. IN ‘ALIEN PROPERTY SEIZED BY U.S.   Roosevelt Submits Report To Congr Takeover Since ¥

PLANE WITH 14 © ABOARD MISSING   MILITARY CRAFT PRESUMED _ TO HAVE CRASHED AT SEA ON WAY TO SEATTLE.

British Drive Germans From Eubsea Island   Mountainous Stretch Is Separated From Greek Mainland By Narrow Channel

LARGE ISLAND NEAR GREEK MAINLAND 13 CLEARED OF GERMANS   ‘NAZIS CONTINUE FLIGHT FROM GREECE THROUGH NORTHERN ROUTE

Biggest Greek Island Clear Of Germans   Evvoia Taken— Eighth Army Pushes Up Italian Coast

Clear Nazis From Island   Allies Report Enemy Troops on Large Aegean Island of Evvoia Quit

Large Aegean Isle Of Evvoia Cleared Of All Germans   Allies Occupy Lemnos, Athens Dispatch Says Khalhkic Suprandore

LARGE ISLAND NEAR GREEK MAINLAND 15 CLEARED OF GERMANS  RIAVIC CONTIANTTIOC Crmcur   NAZIS CONTINUE FLIGHT FROM GREECE THROUGH NORTHERN ROUTE

CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT   Texas’ Governor Stevenson. Refuses to Disclose Topic

Michigan GOP Fight Gets Ho   Auditor General Brown Out For Lt. Governor

STATE'S G. 0. P. FACING HEAVY PRIMARY FIGHT      Brown to Run for Lieutenant-Governor In Keyes Showdown

TO REVEAL PRISONERS LIVE   German Refugee To Speak At Baptist Church Monday; Public Invited .

FORMER PRISONER OF GERMANY WILL SPEAK HERE SUNDAY NIGH?   OSCAR STERN TO TELL OF NAZIOCCUPIED EUROPE; OPEN FORUM AT CLOSE

American Strategy Takes Yanks West, toward Sea While Paris Lies East

Warning from Ford: Motor Company Says Disturbances  May Result in Breaking Contract

Pay for Jobless Up to States, Says House Grouy   Committee’s Plan  For Reconversion   Committee’s Plan For Reconversion Stresses Economy

2,000 Warplanes Hit German Oil, Railroad Targets   Raid Follow-Up To RAF’s Night Strike At Three Points

Eighth Air Force Scores All-Time Record Fo: Single Mission In Battle Over Germany

Dewey Lead In New York Is Narrow   LESS THAN 10 PER CENT OF DISTRICTS HAVE REPORTED; DEWEY LEADS IN NEW VYVORK.   Curran Trails Wagner

87 Billion Spent On War In Year   Average Daily Costs About 307 Million

RED ARMY'S BIG OFFENSIVE THROUGH BULGARIA MAY FREE BALKAN PENINSULA OF NAZIS

Russians Drive Across Bulgaria   May Free Balkans Entirely of Germans  In Less Than Week

Soviet Forces Push Toward Hungary Plains   Stalin Accepts Sofia’s Armistice Request; Tito Helps Russians

Black Sea Supply Route fo Eliminate Long Overland Hau   Quarter Million of Hitler's Troops Appear Trapped

Balkan Nations To Be Freed by Russian Sweep   New Sea Lanes To Ukraine to Be Opened Soon

Soviets May Clear Area Within Week   Would Open Sea Lanes From Mediterranean to Ukrainian Ports   BULGARS JOIN RUSS   Drive Is Coordinated ‘With Tito’s Partisans and Allied Commandos

Russian Forces In Broad Sweep Across Bulgaria   Balkan Peninsula May Be Freed Of Germans Within A Week.

eninsula Ma’ e Free In \bout Week   Opening Of New Sea Lanes Would Be Possible

PRESS DRIVETO CLEAR BALKANS OF ALL NAZIS   Expect. To ‘Complete ed ob In: ‘Less Than Week    SOVIETS GAINING   Armored Forces Are 128 Miles From Hungary

Week May Free Balkan  Peninsula   Allied Commands Units Meve Into Yugeslavia te Meet Russians, Trap 250,000 Nazis

Freed Balkans In Week Seems Likely   Russ Drive Coupled With Partisans, Yugoslav Commando:

SOVIETS DRIVI DEEP INTO BULGARIA   fito’s Forces, Commandos Gain In Yugoslavia   Of Bulgaria Accepted By Russians; Call Again On Hungary To Quit

Soviet Army Has Swept Into Bulgaria   Allies Open Concerted Drive to Clear Germans From Ralkans

REDS DRIVE TC FREE BALKANS   Soviet Advance Across Bulgaria Cuts Off  Nazi Forces

Balkan Peninsula May Be Free Soon   Red Army Hopes to Open Sea Lanes to Ukrain ian Ports   TRAP MANY GERMANS   Heavy German Counter At. tacks Being Made in _ Northern Poland

Short. Route For Supplies Is Objective   Red Aimy, Sweeps Across Bulgaria To Open Black Sea.

RED ARMY CAMPAIGN MAY FREE BALKANS OF GERMANS IN WEEK   SEA LANES FROM MEDITERRANEAN TO UKRAINIAN PORTS OPENED SOON

BALKANS MAY BE NAZI-FREE WITHIN WEER   Russians Greet Bulgars As Brothers In Arms After Sofia Wars On Reich

Red Army Drive To Clear Germans From Balkans Within The Next Week

Soviet sweep in Bulgaria to free Balkans of nazis  Aid of partisans, Slavs theanten 250 000 of foe

A RED ARMY SWEEP THROUGH BULGARIA APPEARED LIKELY   Is Expected to Free the Balkans Peninsula Entirely of Germans.   IN LESS THAN A WEEK      Also: Will Open Sea Lanes From Mediterranean to Ukranian Ports.

Balkan Pace Swift   May Have All Germans Out in a Week; Bulgars Join Allies in Offensive Against Axis

Reds May rree     Apenina Of Sea Lane   ing Of Sea Lane: From Mediterranean, Ukrainian Ports In Prospect Next Week

—RUSSIA—   Dash Through Bulgari Is Expected To’ Free ~ Peninsula In Week   Soviet Campaign Now Coordinated With Operations ' Of Marshal Tito’s Partisans; 250,000 Germans Facing Trap In Southeastern Europe

BALKANS DRIVE WILL OPEN NEW ROUTE TO REDS   U.S. Bombers Attack "Nazi Transport Lines Jamming Greek Roads

Russian Drive Through Bulgaria, Coupled With Combined Operations Of Tito’s Partisans And Allied Commando Units In Yugoslavia, Appears Likely To Force Germans Out Quickly — Sofia’s Request For Armistice Accepted By Moscow

Expect Buléars To Be Assigned Vital Battle Rol   Berlin Declares Russians : Open Fresh Offesisive In Area Of Przemysl

Reds Surge Through Bulgaria and Allied Commandos Join Tito Partisans in Yugoslavia To Combine Power To Drive Out Germans as Threat to Nazis’ Back Door Nears Climax   Savage Battle Raging ~ For Gate To Po Valley

SOVIETS GAIN IN OFFENSIVE 10 ‘FREE’ HUNGARY   Russians Accept Peace Offer as Bulgars Declare War on Germany

Balkans Seen Free of Nazis Within Week   Tito‘s Partisans and Allied Commandos Co-operate in Drive

War Declared On Germany By Bulgaria   Reds Drive to Clear Nazis From Balkans Near Tito’s Troops

Wallace May Not Be Named   Politicians At Washington See Signs He Will Not Be On Ticket Again

aa IS  LOSIN 0 on   NO PICTURE TAKEN WHEN VICE PRESENT. TOLD ROOSEVELT OF CHINA TRIP ©

USE OF SULFA DRUGS ABUSED   Doctors Trying To Compensate For Shortcomings,  Group Informed

Luyten Finds More ‘White Dwarf? Stars   Noted Astronomer, Studying Here, Discovers Two Freak Stars

2,000,000 Civilian Federal Workers To Lose Jobs After War, Prediction

2,000,000 SAG IN GOVERNMENT PAYROLL EYEL   Post-War Employefi Will Take Sharp Cut; Prediction Made by Chairman Ramspeck

PLANS FOR PEACE GUTS, PAYROL   House Group Chairman Says Jobs Will Be Reduced In Year After War.

Peace To Enc 2 Million U.S. Civilian Jobs      Ramspeck Urges Severance Pay

CUT IN FEDERAL JOBS FORESEEN   RAMSPECK PREDICTS 2,000,000 WILL BE DROPPED AFTER WAR

2,000,000 CUT IN PAYROLL SEEN   Civil Service Sets Order For Federal Discharges

[Ramspeck Thinks 2,000,000 Federal Workers ‘Will Lose. Jobs During First Year Of Peace

2,000,000 T0 BE TAKEN OFF U.S, PAYROLL   Will Lose Jobs Soon After War Ends

2 Million U. S. Workers Out At War’s End   Federal Employes To Be Dropped Within a Year After Peace Comes

DEEP CUT INU.S. PAYROLL SEEN   Set Plans Now To Lay Ott 2,000,000 Civilians at ~ End-ot War —

TO CLEAR PAYROLL   Two Million Off Federal List First Year After  War Ends

U.S. EMPLOYES CUT INDICATED   2,000,000 To Be Dropped In Year After War, Claim

Wounded in War Areas 10Killed, 10   Second Son in Family Dies in War; 2 Brothers Are Wounded in Action; One Man Is Nazi Prisoner.

JUDGE UPHOLDS DIVORCE OF DORIS DUKE   SIXTH WAR LOAN SALES REACH $810 MILLION

JUDGE AT RENO RAPS CROMWELL   Divorce Action Against Doris Duke Scored As Extortion Move

Court Charges Fraud in Cromwell's Effort fo Set Aside Heiress’ Divorce

Dewey Calls For Allied Cohesion  To Assure Peace   Senator White Praises Speech

GOP Approve Dewey Stand On Enforced Peace Setup    Democrats Critical In Their Comment

Enforced Peace Up to ‘Big Four,’ Dewey Says   First Foreign Policy Statement Calls for A "GBurable Cohesion”

GOVERNESS WITNESS IN LONERGAN TRIAL   Tells of Sleeping Undisturbed Night Mrs. Lonergan Was Murdered.

HUGE AIR FLEET BOMBS NAZI RAIL CENTER OF HAHN   Violent Air Battles Fought Over City Through Which _ Reserves Must Move to Combat Invasion.   FRENCH COAST HIT’ BY OTHER AIRMEN   One Thousand Planes Fi; Back and Forth Across Channel Blasting Atlan tic Wall Defenses.

German haul HOD Plastered By Yank Heavies   Pre-Invasion Fleets Smash at Hamm, Ramparts of France

Half Million Acres of Farm Land Under Water in Midwest   198,520 Acres of it in Crops; Additional Troops on Duty

FLOOD DANGER INCREASES IN SOUTHERN AREA   More Troops Are Ordered Out By Gen. Boyle

Jap Kuriles Blasted 5th Straight Day   Aleutian Bombers In 4 New Raids On Northern Bases

U. §. Bombers Blast Positions In Kurlie Islands   Four Assaults Bring To 40 Total Attacks  On Japanese Islands

WEVERTON SOLDIER -ISKILLED IN GUAM   Pvt. Wilbur’ L. cL. Munday Loses His Life in. ~ Invasion =

WEVERTON SOLDIER AS KILLED IN GUAM   Pvt. Wilbur oh. Munday - : Loses His Life in. -- Invasion «-

REVOLT REARS OVER HUNGARY AGAINST AXIS   Horthy Holds Out In Budapest Castle

Revolt Against Nazis Sweeps Through Hungary  Fighting Rages in mi: =... SS ry      Fighting Rages in Strike-Bound Capital of Budanest

Revolt Spreads Through Hungary   Nazi Regime Totters As Rebellion Grows

Germans Still Warning Allies About Horrible Secret Weapons to Be Used

SEVENTH ARMY ROLLS 7 MILES TOWARD REE   Heavy Artillery Turned On Karlsruhe; Nazis  Blow Bridges   THIRD FORCES NEW CROSSING OF SAAR

GUNS TURNED ON NAZI CITY OF KARLSRUHE   FLIMSY RESISTANCE ENCOUNTERED BY SEVENTH ARMY

7-Mile Gain Puts 7th on Reich Line   Patton Again Forees Saar; Ist, 9th Tie to Roer

Karlshrue Shelled By Yank Artillery   Four American Armies Hammer at Gotes of Reich ac Warnlanec Swarm Out Over Germany

TELS ATW LEST a = i ie Bil ee a 47938 S22 “salt C-- Gyyaacg: 2-7-5 Pee: ,

Fast Pace Set by Troops on a 35-Mile , Front  FIRST-AND NI NINTH  ALSO SCORE GAINS  Third Army Foi Forces New Crossing Into Saar  Basin

Patch’s Men Turn Big Guns On Karlsruhe   Ist and 9th Armies Push to Roer on 15-Mile Front; 3rd Forces New Crossing Into Saar Basin

Spurt Indicates Break May Be Imminent; First, Ninth, Third Also Gain   Breakthrough Siegfried Would Imperi!l Karlsruhe, Mannheim And Ludwigshafen

Four Powerful U. S. Armies Hammer At Reich‘s Gates: Planes Swarm In

First and Ninth Armies Drive to Roer Along a 15-Mile Front at Edge of Cologne Plain; Seltz Falls to Patch’s Seventh  Army.

Seventh Close To Border as Nazis Retreat   First, Ninth Armies Push to Roer River Along 15-Mile Front  THIRD ADVANCES

ig German City f Karlsruhe Is eported Shellec   Artillery Blasts Siegfried Line

7th registers wide gain on Rhine plains  Turn big guns on K awleswwhka bes

aHINE LAIN   Fast-Moving Forces of General Patch Bear Down on Germany All Along 35-Mile Front.    OVERRUN DOZEN © =. TOWNS IN THRUST   Three Strongpoints Are Knocked Out. by First and Ninth—Third Into Reich at New Point.

HEAVY ARTILLERY HITS KARLSRUHE   Yank Big Guns Are Turned On Siegfried Line   FIRST AND NINTH   Drive to Roer Along Solid 15. Mile Front; Fleeing Nazis Destroy Bridges

RULING S ISSUED ~ BY LABOR BOARD   Employes Who Strike to Secure Unapproved Wage Boost Lose Their Jobs.

REINSTATEMENT HIT UNDER RULE   NLRB Says Strike, Unless Federally Approved, Riohtless

Former Olean Soldier Says He Strangled Wife   Jeseph F. Heilinswerih, 23, Reperied te Have Signed Stale meat ai Colerade Serings

OPA Announces Point Changes   ‘Pineapple Juice, Group 3 Cheeses Go Up In Points; Some Decreased.

SOME FOOD ITEMS FREED OF RATIONING   No Points Needed For Dry  Beans, Prune Juice, Fruit Butters

Prune Juice, Fruit Butters Off Ration Lisi   Present Points on Meat Continued; Some Cheeses Are Boosted Two Points a Pound

Many Believe Nazi Collapse May Be Only Weeks Away  Interpretation  Kirke L. Sin nson

Interpreting the War   Allied Gains Snow-Balling To Doom for Axis Partners

You Can't Figure The JapsAsk The Marines On Guam   Nipponese Often Act Like Madmen; Sniper Suicide After Dog Finds Him

Sociat Security Beard Will Review iCerfain Cases   Cases of Retired Workers, Returning May Be Considered

WILL RE-CALCULATE INSURANCE BENEFITS   Announcement Made By Social Security Board Branch Manager   WANT APPLICATIONS

BOMBS ERASE ENEMY FORCE   Strong Point Eliminated in Record Burma Attack

Many Japanese Troops in Village South of Imphal Blasted by Planes

Profiteers Kept Down By Probers   Fear Of War Contract Seandals_ Bared, However

Siegfried Line Gap Widened in Drive at Cologne   Ubach Captured, Americans Past Best Defenses

ians Prepare r New Invasion   feeh Desert Raider  eported in Action

Belgians Warned to Watch For Sign of New Invasion; Desert Raider in France

Bags 28th Nazi Plane fo Set New Ace Recore   Messerschmidt 190 Downed by Lt. Col. Francis Gabreski

OIL CITY, PA., MAN WINS TOP SPOT AS AMERICA AGE   Lt. Col. Francis . Gabresk Downs. Messerschmitt for His: 28th Victory.

Virginia Hits Wallace as  Ticket Choice   ‘ails fo Comunit Delegation On Fourth Term

Virginia Instructs Delegates to Vote Against Wallace   Makes No Pledges on Presidential Choice in Demo Convention

a——— Lhe War loday ==  Tokyo Shows Worry Over Situation  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

Be War eGay  Government Warns Jap Situation Is Growing More Serious.

WORRIED TOKYO GOVERNMENT HAS WARNED ITS PEOPLE THAT PACIFIC WAR SITUATION IS BAD

The War Today   “Tokyo? s:-W arning to Nation Fair Estimate of Japan’s Peril

SENATE STUDIES LEND-LEASE ACT   Fight Expected To Impose Restrictive Regulations

LEND-LEASE IS ~ UP TO. SENATE   ONLY 21 VOTES CAST AGAINST “EXTENSION IN HOUSE—SEN-  ‘ATE DISPUTE I8 ; : LOOMING

lowa Whisky Sales Down  $5 Millions   Rationing Spurts Rum And Brandy — Increase In Permit Sales

LIQUOR SALES IN IOWA DROP FIVE MILLION   “ull Year of Rationing Slices Into State’s Whisky Profits

NAVAL OFFICER 10 BE IN TERRE HAUTE   To Interview Applicants for Officers Training in Navy.

Private Roy Fry Fry Dies At Trenton —  Family F ormerly. . Lived In This County

Private Roy Fry Dies At Trenton  Family Formerly Lived In This Count

OPPOSED TO BLACKOUTS   Daily Express Calls for Nigh Lights in London

Babson Warned of Mass Action   “FOLLOW THE CROWD” IS BAD THING SOME. : TIMES

DON'T FOLLOW ~ CROWD, IS PLEA   Babson Cites Gas Stations Small Stores, as Real Opportunities

SOVIETS: MOVING TOWARD RUMANIA REACH BUG RIVER   Nazis Face Worst Disaster of War as Two Ukraine Armies Roll Forward on Wide Front.   VITAL WARSAW-ODESSA RAILWAY MENACED.   Scores of Tanks and Big Guns, as Well as Food and Ammunition Stores, Fall to Muscovites.

Germans Evacuate Sarny; Rovno In Steamroller Path: Russians Reach Last Nazi Ukraine Defense   Guerrilla Ghost Armies Join Gen. Vatutin; Berlin Reports Landing Effort by Redson Black Sea Coast; Trap 50,000 at Kirovograd

Reds drive 35  miles beyond  Polish border   Rovnothreatened by encirclement

Germans Reported Evacuating Sarny In Path of Vatutin   Russians Advance to 21 Miles of ‘Warsaw. Odessa Line as Guerrilla Ghost Armies Join Attacks; : Tremendous Booty Cantired be Snetate

Soviet Forees Are Reported At Bug River   * Warsaw-Odessa Road Menaced by Column Only 21 Miles Away  16.000 NAZIS KITT ED

SOVIETS NEAR MAIN GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE   ‘Ghost Armies’ Join Vatutin in Thrust Along Old Polish Border   CAPTURED ENEMY BOOTY LISTED AS TREMENDOUS

Soviets Slash Two More Railway Escape Routes, Kill 16,000 More Germans in Drive to Trap 500,000 of Enemy in Southern Russian Sector.,

12,000 Germans Killed in Two Great Atlacks   Scores of Tanks And Guns Seized

SARNY REPORTED EVACUATED BY GERMAN TROOPS   Rovno, Another Vital Rail Junction Inside Old Poland, Ts Threatened   GUERRILLAS HELPING SOVIET STEAMROLLER

Russians Report 16,000 More Enemy  Troops Slain; Nazis Said to Have Yielded Sarny Rail Junction

Reds Drive Within 21 Miles Of Warsaw-Odessa Railway; Slash Two German Escape Routes

ESCAPE LANES CUT BY REDS   SARNY IMPERILLED; RUSSIANS KILL S000 NAZIS

Russians Only 21 Miles From Odessa Railway   16,000 More Enemy Troops Killed in Day’s Fighting; Soviets Reach Bug River Line

Germans Reported To Have Evacuated Sarny, In Old Poland; Russians Hope. To Seize Railway. .   Oust Von Mannsten

Fleets Pound Targets in  Five Lands  American Fliers Shoot Down 100 Nazi Planes

Plane Plants Blasted by Allied Bombs   Greatest Daylight Raid of War Made on Europe

Plenty Of Rum ls On The Way   W.P.B. To Permit Unlim ited Importation of Rum Three Years Old.

IMPORTS OF RUM TO BE UNLIMITED   a:  Some Relief From Bever. age Alcohol Drought Offered by WPB

U. S. Decides to Permit Unlimited Importation of Three-Year-Old Rum

§S Tax Freeze May Be Tied To War Powers Ac  House Commi ittee   House Committee Favors Holding Levy At 1 Per Cent Level

Battle Over Social Security and Flood Control in Capita!   Day’s Activities in Washington. Briefed for  Readers

Social Security Tax; Flood Control Principal Congress Controversies

SEEK TO TRIP UP FDR VETO   Senators Would Pin Social Security Tax Freeze to War Powers Bill

JAPANESE BASE AT RABAUL RAIDED AGAIN BY ALLIES   Enemy Air and Shipping Strength Reported at All-time Low

TIME MADE NATIONAL ISSUE  AS FARM SECTIONS POUR IN PROTESTS TO CONGRESSMEN

U. 5. Has World’s Best Flying Fuel  Powerful Fuel Ready to   Powerful Fuel Ready to Start in Production

BRIGKEH HEALD FOR WEST GOASI   hio Governor to Carry Aspirations for Presidency to Coast.

BRICKER HEADS. FOR WEST COAST   " Ohio ‘Governor: to: --Carry Aspirations for Presidency to Coast.”

BRICKER GOES. TO THE COAST   GOVERNOR LEAVES FOR PACIFIC STATES AFTER CLOSHING ‘LATEST: MIDWEST  ! rouR IN CHICAGO

ALLIED GRIP ON MYITKYINA IS TIGHTENED   Jap Garrison Being Steadily Driven Out of Burma City

STRANGLEHOLD IS TIGHTENED AT MVITKYINA   Yanks Fighting Hand-To-Hand With Japs in North Burma Base

ENTIRE DIVISION TAKEN TO BURMA FRONT BY AIRPLANE   Unprecedented Aerial Maneuver Seals Fate  of Japs at Myitkyina   Allied Stranglehold Tightening! — ! Within Four Miles of Goal   Now

HULL EXPECTS OTHER ACTIONS   Secretary of State Sees Argentina Moving for Security of S. America

Oil Refinery Again Bombed   More Than 3,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Leuna Plant.

MORE THAN THOUSAND AMERICAN HEAVIES BOMBED OIL PLANTS  - ACCOMPANIED ON MISSIONS BY AN EQUAL NUMRER FICHTING CRAET ~

Yank F ormation. é ot 2000. Planes ~ Raids Refinery   Merseburg Plant Is’ Target Of Two Raids In Weeks Linz, Munich Assaulted

1,000 BOMBERS HIT SYNTHETIC DIL REFINERIES   1,000 Fighters Also in Huge Fleet of Attacking Aireraft

Union Files Suit Against Ward’s   Arguments On Case To Be Heard Friday

1,100 BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Daylight Blows Follow RAF Attacks on Karlsruhe and Frankfort

Woman, 87, Fatally  Burned In Blaze  Fire Chief Rescues Year Old Tot

Says Nazi Resistance Weakening $$$ ENING  Stimson Warns Germans Can  Still Offer Stiff Opposition

German Air Power Weakens   Stimson Cautions of  Strong Opposition Yet To Come.

Says Nazi Resistance Weakening  /Stimson Warns Germans Can  Still Offer Stiff Oppositior

Stimson Reports Nazis Weakening   But They Still Have Many Planes

Uf. 8, AIR LOSSES "IN EUROPE DROP   i 7 '  [NAZI RESISTANCE WisAKEN ENG, STIMSON SAYS—FIGUTER OUTPUT DECLINES. 

Luftwaffe Still Lives, U.S. Warned  Stimson Says Foe Weakens, But  TT. 2... 4. We...

LEVY SCHEDULED 10) ADDRESS CLUB   “Soldier of Fortune to Address Talk of Hour Group Monday Night

Vendors To Get Surplus Foods «   Stocks Will Not Be Dumped On Markets

MEDICAL CARE IN PACIFIC AREA GOO      Commanding Officer-in Area Says It Is Above Avergaae at Home.

Germans Beaten In Great Tank Battle   Enemy's Road Hub Of Brehal, Far Beyond Coutances, In Gun Range

U. S. Assault Menaces Nazi French Line   American Tankmen Hur! Back Desperate Counter-attack By Enemy

Yanks Win Tank Fray And Push On   U.S. Advance May Force Large-Scale Retreat by Enemy; Americans Throw In Reinforcements

Newest Battle for Belgium Has Turned ‘Into Cowboy-Indian War on Grand Scale, Using Tanks Not Horses

New Battle For Belgium Mechanized Replica Of Cowboy-Indian Warfare

It's Cowboy, Indian War   On Grand Scale; Nazis to Lose, As Did Indians, Lacking Enough Men, Guns

YAP ISLAND RAIDED BY AMERICAN PLANES   45 Tons of Bombs Dropyed On Jap Base Southwest Of Marianas; Parked Aircraft Hit

Heavies Hit Nazi Plants  Strange Formations   Strong Formations Fly Over Germany

Cold Grips All Kansas   To -8.6 At Garden City Last Night; to Start Warming Up Tomorrow

Down Jap Planes  Faster Than Made   Enemy Can’t Produce At Rate of Destruction

Up to 2846 Jap Planes Destroyed in Two Months   First and Third Fleets Take Heavy Toll

Jap Plane Losses Exceed ‘Production   U. S. First And Third Fleets Alone Bag 2,594 To 2,846 In Two Months.

Churchill Reports  Gains Made Inland   Prime Minister Says Losses Far Less Than Expected; Air-Borne Troops Make Landings On Greatest Scale in History of World

ALLIES FIC IN CAEN, GET NAZI BRIDGES   Churchill, in Optimistic Report - to Commons, Also .Announces That   AirsBorne Troops Are Well Established.

CHURCHILL SAYS GREAT AIRBORNE TROOPS HOLDING   Several Strategic Bridges in France Seized—Fighting Rages on

General Area Of Big Attack Was Normandy   Penetration In Tremendous Strength Made by Cloudy Daylight, Late Reporlz Reveal   Storm: Several  Miles To Inland   Tanks and Infantry Mak. ing Grand Assault; Nazi Opposition Leas Than Expected

Allied Force Fighting For Caen, Report   Air-Borne Troops In Successful Action On Continent; Churchill Sneaks Confidently

SAYS BATTLE PROCEEDING IN CAEN   Loss Less Than Expected, Prime Minister Adds   PENETRATION   Is ~Several Miles Inland; Declares Many Dangers Are Already Behind

TROOPS SEIZE VITAL BRIDGES   French Spans Taken Before Nazis Can Blow Them Up, Says Churchill

Parachute Troops Well-Established  Churchill Announces Capture Of Strategic Bridaes from Nazis

Churchill {s Optimistic   ‘Invasion Proceeds According to Plan— And What a Plan’

RESERVES OF NAZIS THROWN INTO BATTLE   As Fall of Wilno Is Expected, Reds Report; Expect Debacle Equal to That at Minsk.   Weather Better

German Retreat Is Developing Into A Big Rout   Minsk Defenders Cut Off As Reds By-Pass Citadel

RUSSIANS TAKE KEY BASE WITH FLANKING MOVE   Opens Gates of Soviet Drive Toward Warsaw,  Wilno and Riga

Reds Pounding Nazis at Front  Gates of Minsk   Soviet Tanks and Cavalry Strike Within Ten Miles of Capital City.   By-Passing Columns Sweeping Around City

REDS WITHIN 10 “HILES OF WILNO, - BALTIC GATEWAY   Fall of City Imminent, ‘Moscow Says — Nazis Throw © - Reserves Into Battle  for Town. .   STRONGHOLD OF KOWEL TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   Seizure Paves Way. for Soviet Thrust Toward Pinsk and Brest-Litovsk, Writer.  : ‘Declares. —

Collapse of Nazi Bastion Opens Way for a Soviet Drive on Warsaw, Wilno

STALIN REPORTS FALL OF WHITE RUSSIAN CAPITAL   COLLAPSE OF NAZI RESISTANCE OPENS GATES TO WARSAW

GERMANS HELD  CITY 3 YEARS      Forces of Third and First White Russian Armies Completed Task.   OPENS GATES FOR DRIVE

Transport Center On Narew River In Soviet Hands   Southern Army Moves Within 48 Miles of Yugoslav Border

REDS NEARING WILNO, BALTIC GATEWAY CITY   RUSSIANS ADVANCE ALL ALONG GREAT CENTRAL FRONT

CITY REGAINED AFTER 3 YEARS OF OCCUPATION   Stalin Reports Soviet Victory in Special Order of the Day

RUSSIAN ORDER OF DAY TELLS OF FALL * OF IMPORTANT CITY   COLLAPSE OF GERMAN RESISTANCE AT MINSK OPENS _ GATES TO WARSAW

Reds Advance Along Whole Central Front   Germans Threatened With Similar Debacle As Suffered at-Minsk  NWAZIG TICN RESERVES

Russians Capture Minsk, Taking Key City by Storm   Last Major German Stronghold in Russia Falls, Opening Gate for Soviet Drives Toward Warsaw, Wilno and Riga

Important Nazi Bastion Guarding Road ToBerlin Falls To Soviet Attack

EXTRA!   Minsk Falls *To Charging _ Red Forces   Collapse Of City Opens Way For Russ Drive On Warsaw. Wilno. Riga.

Kowel, in Southern Poland, Occupied by the Reds    BALTIC GATEWAY OF WILNO NEAREL   More Than 550 Populated Places Taken in Assaults

Minsk Taken By Storm   Other Russians Cut Deep On Another Drive, Nearing Wilno

Stalin Announces. Fall of © \Gateway to Warsaw, Baltic \States; 300,000 Foes Trappec

Soviet Troops Score Advances North of Kowel   Within 10 Miles Of Baltic Gateway

Collapse — Opens Way To Warsaw   Russian Armies Storm City After Cutting Off Nazi Retreat Routes

WEATHER   STRONGPOINT IN  m GERMAN USSIA FALLS  t   Other Columns By-Pass. City; Declare Nazi Re sistance Collapsing.

City of Minsk Has Fallen to The Russians   Germans Unable To Break Strength Of Russian Drive

Troops of First and Third White Russian Fronts Capture City of 240,000 by a Flanking Maneuver and Assault —Bastion Is Last of the Important Soviet Cities Heid by the Germans —Way Opened for Drive on Warsaw.

Way Open For Drive To Warsav,   Field Dispatches Describe German Retreat in White Bussia as a Rout   NAZIS ARE DYING BY THE THOUSANDS      Heavy Fighting, But All ot Counter Attacks Futile As Soviet Power Hammers On

Opens Gate For Drive  ‘To Warsaw   Stalin Calls Stronghold Last German Base of Importance in Russia

Storm Breaks Over Vice Presidency   Governor Kerr Declares in Keynote Speech That ‘Tired Old Men’ Doing Well in Wor

Wallace Retuses To Bow Out of Race  For Vice-President   Roosevelt Pulls Out Byrnes, Leaving Truman In Favored Spot; Convention Hears Keynoter Lambast Republicans and Dewey

Democrats Row Over No. 2 Spot on Ticket   Hannegan Maneuvers Stir Blasts From Wallace Adherents; Race Issue Causes Platform Woes

Vice President Row Sweeps Bourbon Sessior   Kerr Keynote Speech Defends Record Of Administration

Party Row Engulfs Dem  Convention   FD Favors Truman or Douglas After Wallace: Platform Writers  Have Their Troubles

Wallace Men Are Furious At Hannegan   Truman Appears To Be Gaining Ground in Second Place Fight

HEAT GOES ON INCHICAGO TO GET WALLACK   VICE PRESIDENT IN FIGHT TO FINISH, HE INSISTS

DISPUTE RAGES OVER F. 0. RS RUNNING MAT!   Storm Breaks as Word Is Passed Out by Hannegan  That Truman Is President’s Second Choice.   LEADERS TRY TO GET WALLACE TO WITHDRAW   Latter Declines Saying He Is In Fight to Finish—Racial Issue Creates Additional Trouble.

Democrats Row Over Vice President Post  Storm Breaks as   Truman Gets Nod From F. D. R.

Old-fashioned party  row engulfs session   Wallace ‘in fight to finish;’ backers call on Hannegan to show his hand

Party Chiefs Try To Deal “Wallace Out   His Backers Demand To Know If Hannegan Has Word from F.D.R  eA A ep aa

Nipponese Port Within 700 Miles of Singapore Hit   Strike Across Indian Ocean For First Great  Blow At Western Flank

Big Allied Fleet Surprises Japs In Indian Ocean   Air, Naval Base At Sabang Catches Terrific Blasting

Allies Bomb Isle Olt Tip  Vee wey Ul Sum RLFa i  Naval Force From India Hits Sabang to Open New Drive on Japs  22 PLANES SMASHED  Bombardment hy Guns of Warships and Carrier  Planes Indicated

Strike 700 Miles from Singapore   Surprise Japs With On slaught on Waterfront, Barracks, Airfields

Warships, Planes Attack Enemy on Another Front   Action Takes Place Within 700 Miles Of Vital Singapore

Warships, Carriers Hit Sumatra. Base   Sebang, at Entrance to’ Matac - Straits, Left Burning From Bombs ‘and Shellfire

Frozen Foods And Canned Peas Have Point-Free Valuation   Shortage Of Cold Storage Space Makes Action Necessary

FROZEN FOODS ARE ~ MADE RATION FREE   Fruits and Vegetables Are Named in the New GPA List

All frozen fruits and vegetables are ration free; low meat value continued

i 55 ;ummnnmiaamalmmmmiali aia a  FROZEN FOODS OFF RATIONED LIST

REMOVE POINTS ON SOME FOODS   Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Ration Free; Low Meat Values Unchanged

A. “rozen 00s Aaion “ree, Many C72ers Ouor az resen:  ow aces in Adri. 2oin7 /aues

MAKE BID TO. TRAP MILLION NA7 TANS   Jittery Balkan People Thrown’ Into State Of Alarm By Onrush Of Soviets Toward Their Border; Three Italian Heights Fall   FIGHTERS STRIEE AT EKIRI, SHIPYARDS

Voters Decide in Wartime Election Who Shall Lead Them in Next 4 Years

4] Millions Are Expected To Cast Votes   Heated War-Time Election Holds Nation’s Interest

Nation's Voters Swamp Polling Places, Heeding Roosevelt. Dewey Call

18 Miners Trapped by Flames, Gas   Rescue Squads Fight Way Inte Kentucky Shaft Where Men Isolated Two Miles Back

Ohio GIs Cheer the First White Woman They've Seen in 16 Months, Frances Langford, Film Lovely

British Plun ge Steadily Along  Florence Road   New Zealand Troops Cap. lure San-Casciano Only Seven Miles From  ' Heart Of City -

British Eighth Army Seven Mile:  From Florence   Battle for Pisa Is About to Bevin

Eighth Army Beseds Close In On Florence   American And Nazi Artillery Opens Battle For Pisa

British Army Is Only 8 Miles from Florence Today   Make Advance of Three Miles on Broad Front —~ Germans Are in Retreat

Allies Close In on Florence   New Zealand Troops Take San Casciano, Seven Miles of City

Sth: Army Plunges  Toward. Florence.           Poles’ ? River Under

Allied Armored Spearheads In Italy Within Eight Miles of Historic City of Florence   British Eighth Army Advances Three Miles On Broad Front

FLORENCE DRIVE ADVANCES MILE   Artillery Duels in First Stages of Pisa Baitle

Florence 45 Miles From Fifth Army   Allies Take Port Of Piombino Without Baitle

NAZIS PUT UP STIFF DEFENSE FOR FLORENCE   British Measure Gains By Yards; Only 7 Miles Away

5th Advances   Toward Siena   Piombind Taken as Yanks Surge for ‘Gothic’ Line

8th Army Moves Ahead Against Stiff Opposition   Draws Closer To Florence As U. §.-Nazi Artillery Duel Opens Pisa Battle

BRITISH 7 MILES FROM FLORENCE   PRESS AHEAD AS AMERICANS OPEN BATTLE FOR PISA

MASS FORCES FOR BATTLE OF PISA   TANKS SPEARHEAD DRIVE 7 MILES FROM FLORENCE

Continue Advance Toward Florence   Spearheads Within Eight Miles of City

BATTLE FOR PISA AND FLORENCE 1S NOW IN PROGRESS   Eighth Army Meets Stiff Resistance at Florence As Americans Duel with Nazis at Pisa

——ITALY—  Allied Forces Closing In On Florence, Pisa   Eighth Army Units Reported Only 7 Miles From Florence While U: S. And Nazi Artillery Duel Across Arno For Pisa

Allied Army Seven Miles From Florence   Guns Rumble In Opening Battle for Pisa

YANKS 45 MILES ~- FROM FLORENGE   FIFTH ARMY TAKES PORT OF _PIOMBINO ~ 8TH MEETS. ‘STUBBORN RESISTANCE,

OTH ARMY GAINS IN ITALIAN WAR   Troops Only 7 Airline Mile: From Florence — Pisa Battle Rages

PIOMBINO IS TAKEN. BY ALLIED FORCES   Americans Near Florence _ in Rapid Italian Advance

Allies Only 7 Miles Out Of Florence   Americans Mass for Battle of Pisa in Nerth Italy  Campaign

EIGHTH ARMY IN. ITALY DRIVING NEARER FLORENCE   Veteran New Zealanders Take San Casciano Only Seven Miles Away-—Artillery Barrages Open Duel For Pisa

Battle for Pisa Looms in West Italy As British Drive Nearer Florence.

FIFTH ARMY DRIVES. NEAR TO FLORENCE   After American Capture of Port of Piombino without Fight; German Resistance Spotty.   24,000 Prisoners

OTH ARMY PLUNGES TOWARD FLORENCE   Americans and Germans ir Opening Stage of Pisa Battle,

EIGHTH ARMY GAINS BELOW FLORENCE   Reaches Point 8 Miles From Historic City

‘8th’ Captures Townon Road To Florence      Only 7.Miles' From City; Artillery Duel Rages in + Battle for Pisa

GERMANS FIGHT ‘DESPERATELY 10 HOLD FLORENCE   Allies Continue Advance Against Strong Force

OPEN FIRST STAGE OF THE PISA BATTLE   American and German Artillery Duel Across Arno River in Prelude to Fifth Army Drive for City.

Eighth Army Advancing ‘On Florence   Capture San Casciano; US and German Artillery Duels Across Arno River; Indians Make Substantial Gains

BRITISH IN ITALY ADVANCE 3 MILES BELOW FLORENCE   Americans Tteady to Attack Pisa; Nazis Face New Zealande

[British Now Only 7 Miles  From Florence   Americans, Nazis Mass .. for Decisive. Battle __ Around Pisa °

Allies Gradually Nearer Florence   Artillery Duel Is Pisa Battle Opening

th Army Plunges Nearer Florence  Artillery Duels wack Battle for Pisa

British 8th Army Sends Spearheads To Within Eight Miles of Florence

British 7 Miles from Florence   Yanks, Nazis Mass for Battle of Pisa   NEW YORK—(‘U.P)—A British broadcast said today that New Zealand troops were only 6 miles from Florence.

DRIVE oTEADILY ON TO FLORENGE   New Zealanders Take Town  Seven Miles Away. 

British Within Seven Miles of City of Florence   Yanks and Nazis Mass for Battle to Control Pisa

ROLL UP WEST COAST OF ITALY   Port Capture Unopposed; Florence Within 45 Miles

Sth Advances  To Florence   German Resistance Becomes  $tiffer: Zealanders Seize  i   San Cascinao.

ALLIES SEIZE SAN CASCIANO   Eighth Army Plunges To. ward Florence Against Stiff Resistance

Pisa and Florence Doomed   British 8th and American 5th at Cities’ Gates

YANK FORCES PUSH TOWARD FLORENCE   Eighth Army Is Meeting Stubborn Opposition On Both Sides Of Lake Trasimeno Near Center Of Long Fighting Front

Yanks and French Gain in Drive To Take Florence   Germans Continue Spotty Resistance

EIGHTH ARMY 7 MI. FROM FLORENCE   Americans Mass For Assault On City of Pisa

Battle for Pisa Begins Yankee and German  Artillery Duels as Enemy Fights Hard

BRITISH PUSH NEAR FLORENCE   Veteran New Zealand Troops Take San Casciano, Only Seven Miles Away.

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY MAKES GOOD GAINS   Spearheads Eight Miles of Florence; Yanks Deploying fo. Accanlt an Pica

BRET. SEVEN ~ MILES FROM FLORENCE   Americans Mass For Hard Battle For Pisa

STORMS CITY OF FLORENSE   Advance Yard By Yard Through Bitter Enemy Resistance   TANKS, INFANTRY SPEARHEAD DRIVE  Allied 5th Army Ready For Assault On

Anzacs Slug  Way to Rim Of Florence   New Offensive Smashes German Hold Before City

Eighth 7 Miles From Florence   Yank-Nazi Guns Duel In Beginning of Battle for Pisa

Allied Forces Draw Closer Te Florence, Pisa   American, Nazi Forces Mass For Battle of Leaning Tower City

BRICKER RAPS NEW DEAL ‘LAG   Says Dilatory Tactics Give Opening to Browder

BURMA CHINESE MAKE ADVANCES   Entire Japanese Regiment Wiped Out by  Invaders

THUNDERBOLT PILOT RIDES WINGS OF BLAST Ammunition Train Explosion Carries Plane in Fast tindrak

California Is Safe--Truman   Predicts Roosevelt Victory By 400,000 Vote Majority

GIRL SMUGGLER ~ SHOT AT EL PASE   Officials Renort She Carried $25,000 in Brassiere as Pay.Off Link

DOPE RING’S PAY-OFF GIRL IS WOUNDED   Treasury Reveals She Carried $23,000 in Brassiere From New York to El Paso.

Senate Opens Jobless Pay Debate Today   Bill Giving Control t PStates Is Given Right oo of Way

SENATORS READY FOR DEBATE 9N PEACE PROGRAM   Federal or State Control Seems to Be the Big Question Involved

Plan to Take Up Critical Relief Issue   Senators Line Up Regarding Federal Direction of Conver-' sion; Unemployment Pay First

Hard Blow Dealt German Shippinc   _- Destroyer Sunk, - OtHeyare Daswaced

Hard Blow Dealt German Shipping   Destroyer Sunk, Others Damaaed

POLIO RESEARCH 5 IN PROSPECT   Badger Program Aimed a’ Helping Reduce Future Outbreaks,

Council Bluffs Police Study Girl’s Death   3 Youths Held, But Still. No Evidence as to How! Girl Died

OUTER WORKS ON SIEGFRIED LINE ‘ARE OVERRUN      U. 8. and French Troops Encouriter Increas: ing Resistance as.Nazis Are Herded. ! Toward Beltfort-Gap to

Soviet Action, Marshall Invasion Two Big Events Hope for Naval Battle With Japs

 The War Today ‘Remolding of Soviet Union ‘To Have Far Reaching Effects

The War Todai   New Soviet Commonwealth Plan And Marshalls Landings Sienificant

2 Events Offer’ Even Greater. Possibilities   New Soviet’ Commonwealth Opens Way for Some: Ma. jor Post-War Developments   REDS MIGHT TAKE” - IN MANY. COUNTRIES   Blow at Marshalls Again. Brings Prospect--of Japs Risking Naval Battle °

Red: Army Only 50 Miles ‘From Prussia   Gain of 10 Miles In Area Beyond Lida

Russian Forces Lunging Deeper Into Lithuamie   Spearheads Sent Driving Toward Riga, Capital City Of Latvia   DRIVING AHEAD ON WIDE FRONT

STASSEN. ~~ FROM PACIFIC   FO RMER MINNESOTA GoveER NOR, SAYS WAR AGAINS T ; TAPS’ GOING, SEXTREMELY.  ia FAVORABLE? ;

Stassen: Is Mute   On Political Outlook; Says Pacific War Is Extremely Favorable

WAR WORKER KILLS SELF AND CHILDREN   ‘ Think It Was Best fo Children,’ Note Reads

Government Retraining © Of Workers Ts Rejected   Provisions Stricken:  From Senate-Approvec Reconversion Measure By House Committee

Proposal to Retrain War Workers for Other Jobs and Giving Them Transportation Is Turned Down

Cause Of Blast Sought As Toll Of Dead Hits 83   More Bodies Found In Buildings; 165 In Hospitals Receiving Medical Treatment

n Cleveland Fire  t Least 83 Die 48 Still Missing   Disaster Leaves 3600 Homeless; Hospitals Care for 165 Injured

Seven Probes Seek Cause Of Explosions   165 Injured Still Confined to Hospitals

DEATH TOLL IN FIRE UP 10 83   Canc of Mystery Blasts Hidden in Debris

Blast Death Toll Rises to 83 Total   Fear Increasing for Those Missing; No Clue to the Cause

Fire’s Toll. Reaches 83   Cause of Cleveland Disaster .fs Mystery

VELAND BLAGT DEATH TOLL SOARS   Fatalities in City’s Greatest Fire Reaches 70; Cause of Mysterious Blasts Yet Undetermined

Cleveland Fire Toll May Rise To at Least 200   Kighty-Four Known Dead, 3.600 Homeless tn §15,000.000 Blaze

83 DEAD COUNTED “INGLEVELAND FIRE   RED CROSS CHIEF FEARS FATALITIES MAY REACH 200— 100 STILL MISSING.

Cleveland  Fire Toll — Reaches 83   Many Missing; Investigations Get in Mation

Cas Explosions alt 70 Lives; Toll May Rise   Cause Of Blast Is Sought By FBI. And Six Other Agencies; 248 Are . Sul Missing

"Cleveland Death Toll 83 With 165 Injured and 248 Missing in Fire!

Deaths Rising In Cleveland   Already 70 Known Dead, Many Injured, Missing After Mystery Blasts, Fire

Terrific. Cleveland Explosion Toll Is 70, Still Climbing   Fear Expressed That Death Toll Will Reach 200 In City’s Worst Catastrophe; 165 Hospitalized, 248 Working Or Living In Area Still Missing

‘Death Toll in Big Cleveland’Service Men Fire Reaches 83: May Mount aid Pickets

Senate Confirms Surplus Property Board Members   State Department Appointments to Come Up Monday

Senate Confirms Nominations of Hurley, Heller  State Department Appointees Came TIn Manday

Two Nominees  Are Approved.   ‘New. State Leaders : ‘Next-Upon Calendar

Senate Okehs Two Surplus Disposal Aids   Sets Monday Dehate On Nominees For Stettinius Staff

Confirmation of two voted Hurley, Heller  cet senate o.k.   Senators Butler and Wherry of Nebraska voted against confirmation.

Surplus Property Board Members Get Confirmation  Senate Clears Way for Action on Six Stettinius Aides

Surplus Board Nominees Win Senate’s Okay   Hurley and Heller: Confirmed; Clears Way For Action on Stettinius’ Aides

Surplus Property Members Ratified   Hurley, Heller Are Approved as Members To Disposal Board

Senators Okay  Hurley; Heller   Pali Citired : for Debate On Sime Nominee~

War Surplus Officials Win Senate Okeh   Clears Way for Fight Over Nominations in State Department

NAZIS DRIVEN FROM GREECE   Whirlwind Campaign Ends In Complete Success

Greeks Driven Out From Greece   Cross Into Yugoslavia 38 Days After Allies Lond on Fsloponnesus

ENEMY DRIVEN OUT OF GREECE   Last Nazis Cross Border Into Yugoslavia, May Never Reach Home

Nazis Driven Completely From Greece   Victory Is Almost Bloodless as Germans Retreat

REWARD POSTED FOR NAZI MAYO!   Leipzig Official cial Charged With Complicity in Hitler

FORMER LEIPZIG LEADER HUNTED   Nazis Offer $400,000 To Capture Plotter Against Hitler

Aim To Throw Germans From South Ukraine; Enemy Fights Heavily To Hold Lines

Three Soviet Armies Push On in Ukraine   Roll Ahead on 500-Mile Front In Effort to Drive Germans From Dnieper Bend, Now Being Sorely Pressed.

Reds Pound 500 Miles Of  German Lines   Mammoth Drive Threatening to Clear Southern Russia of Enemy

3 Soviet Armies Advance Despite Ocean of Mud    Claim 20,000 Enemy. Slain and 300 Towns Liberated; Pivotal  Stronghold Captured

GERMAN LINES   Three Armies Roll Aheac Through Mud, Water in South Ukraine.   ERONT 500 MILES LONG

Three Soviet Armies Shatter Nazi  Ukrainian Defense:  Russians Roll Ahead Through Mud Along 50-Mile Front

Shatter German Defenses Along 300 -Mile Line   Push Aimed at Clearing Foe from Southern Russia

3 Red Armie: Roll Ahead In Ukraine   Shatter Nazi Lines Over  500 Mile Front In Big Push

Three Russ Armies Advancing Through Ukrainian Sector   Reds Break Germans’ Defenses on Front 109 Miles Long

20,000 Troops Slain in New Soviet Drive   Moscow Keports 14 Axis Divisions Routed in 5-Day Battle   HUGE BOOTY TAKEN   Victory Called Doom of  Enemvy’s Dnieper Bend Forces

New. Red Offensive ‘Cracks Nazi Lines -On 500-Mile Front   3 Soviet Armies Launch Third Gigantic Ukraine Drive to Rou Foe From All Southern Russia

SOVIET ARMIES SHATTER NAZI DEFENSE LINES   Despite Mud and Water Reds Continue to Roll Forward Over 500-Mile Front

SOVIET ARMIES ROLL FORWARD REAINST NAZIS   Attemptins To Rid All Russia Of  German Troops

THREE GREAT SOVIET ARMIES ROLL ONWARD IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA  THOUSANDS OF GERMANS REPORTED KILLED AND   QUESTION OF WHEN WAR WILL END IS QUESTION THAT LAYMAN CANNOT ANSWER WITH CFRTAINTY

Russ Shatter 500-Mi. of German Lines   Three Red Armies Driving Ahead to Clear All Ukraine

Germans Face Total Loss of Dnieper Bend   Three Great Soviet Armies Sweeping Over a 500 Mile Frant

SOVIETS OPEN THIRD ATTACK   Shatter German Lines On 500-Mile Front; Rout  150.000 Nazis

Russians Shatter _ Nazi Lines   Three Armies Rolling Through Southern Ukrains.

THREE ARMIE! OF RUSSIANS ». ROLL AHEAD   20,000 Germans Are Killec In New N Offensive  14 DIVISIONS .   Routed In Five-Day Drive; 300 Towns, Including Uman, Captured

GREAT RUSSIAN ARMIES SCORE ON WIDE FRONT   Mammoth Red Drive Breaks German Defenses On 500-Mile Front; 20,000 Nazis Reported Killed.

Shatter German Line on 500-Mile  Front in Ukraine   3 Great Russian Armies Roll Forward Through Mud and Water.   Put on Drive to Clear Nazis From the South

Soviet Forces Staging Mammoth Drive On 500-Mile Front To Clear Enemy From Southern Ukraine— Newest Offensive Breaks Through Nazi Defenses, Killing 20,000 Troops And Capturing 2,500 More— Fourteen Hitlerite Divisions Reported Routed

ARE DRIVING TO CLEAR ALL SOUTH RUSSIA   Third Offensive in Ukraine, Which Hag Routed 14 Enemy Divisions, May Spell Doom of Dnieper Bend Forces,

Capture of Uman Reveals Konev Has Opened Third Offensive in Area, Routed 14 Divisions   DRIVE INTO POLAND   Berlin Reporis Zukhov's Spearheads Dislodged trom Tarnopol, Acknowledge Oiher Losses

Great Surge By Three Russian ‘Armies Shatters Nazi Lines \Over 500-Mile Ukraine Front   Germans Paying Frightful Toll As Great Soviet Forces Smash Ahead

3.GREAT SOVIET FORCES GAIN IN SOUTH UKRAINE   Huge Drive Aimed to Clear All Nazis From  Southern Russia

REDS SHATTER NAZI LINES ON 500-MILE FRONT   14 GERMAN DIVISIONS ROUTED, MORE THAN 300 TOWNS LIBERATED

Three Mighty Armies Driving Foe From Russia   Soviet Troops Break Into Tarnopol, Nazi Stronapoint

3 RUSSIAN ARMIES ROLLING FORWARD THROUGH UKRAINE   Third Army Advances on 109Mile Front, Killing 20,000 Germans   WAR BOOTY CAPTURED

Three Russiar Armies Roll Over Nazis   More Than 20. Killed In Newest Uf fensive In South.

87 Frenchmen Are Executed As Saboteurs   Shootings Reprisal For Derailment Of Nazi Train

Patton Forces Fight Way Into Burning City   Saar Basin Fortress and Industrial Metropolis Set Aflame by 250Bomber Attack   Huns Driven From Strasburg Sector   Gains of Yards Made by Americans At High Cost At Edge of Cologne Testing

Also Penetrate Julich, Other Anchor Point of German Main Defenses

Saar Basin Deeply Gouger By Third Army Advances   Ist and 9th Armies Meet Heaviest Opposition of Winter Offensive

Nazis Put Up, Fierce  Resistance   Last of German Forces Wiped Out At Strasbourg

Enter Julich, Saarlaufern   Americans Win. To River Barriers in Terrific Battle Ageinst Heavy Defenses

Americans Enter Strategic Points On Nazi Defense   Foe Takes Refuge Behind Roer Barrier On Cologne Plain

Saarlautern, And Julich  Are Stormed In Advance   Tw River’ Barriers Are-Ahead Of Units

River Barriers Facing Advancing Americans Battling Deep in: Reich

AMERICANS FACE IVER BARRIERS   Bombardments Dent Siegfried Line Positions   TERRIFIC BATTLE   Rages on Edge of Cologne Plain; U. 8. Ninth Army Recaptures Lost Towns

Ninth Army Occupies Half Of Linnich To Roer River Defenses   Allies Inching Forward On Saar, Rhineland Fronts; Threat Of Eventual Breakthrough Seems Near; Nazi Bridgehead In Strasbourg Is Abandoned

First and Ninth Armies Plunge to Roer Against Fiercest Opposition of Offensive. #      HIGH PRICE PAID FOR GAINS OF YA       Plain Enters 16th: B        With Enemy Suffer ring  Heavy Losses.

Ninth Enters Julich on Roer; Patton Army in Saarlautern; Strasbourg Free of Nazis

Terrific Battle Rages Along River Section   German Bridgehead On Rhine Falls To Seventh Army

TOUGHEST NAZI FIGHTERS °"0W PUSH T0 ROER   Seventh Army Erases Last Enemy Troops Near Strasbourg

First, Ninth Smash to Roer River Against Heavy Nazi Opposition; Seventh Clears Strasbourg Pocket

Patton's Men Enter Burning Saarlautern   Enemy Is Bitterly Opposing Allied Drive Toward Roer

Nazis Launch Hard Hitting Counterattack   Attack Bombers Aid Patton's Men In Capture Of Rich Basin Stronghold

BRITAIN REVEALS 8 YEARS’ LOSSES   Casuaities Total 733,030. Including 136,116 Civilians.

Britain Tells of Great War Cosis, Losses   “733,030 Casualties And Most of the Treasure of Our Grandfathers”

Britain Reveals Her War Story  Nation Converted Into a Factory Fortress

British Have Gone All Out in Five Years of Wor   White Paper ‘Claims Nation’‘s Sacrifice Exceeds That of Other Belligerents

Statistical Story of War  " ee OF nti os   Great Britain’s Casualties 733.030  In Five Years

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Britain Reveals High Casualties and Home Damage

Britain. Reports War Casualties Total 733,03¢   White Paper In Parliament Shows Every 3d Home Destroyed Or Damaged

England's Casualties 733.030   136.116 ARE CIVILIANS; EVERY THIRD HOUSE WRECKED

Britain Has Lost 733,030   136,116 Civilians Among Casualties Since War Began, White Paper Shows

Britain Reports On War Losses For Five Years  Casualties And Damace Heavy

BRITISH WAR ~ CASUALTIES T0 733,030   Losses Include 136,116 Civilians and “Most of the Treasure of Our Grandfathers,” White Paper  Annonnered.

British War  Expense High   Costs 733.030 Casualties, Most Of Treasury Of An cestors,

Britain Counts Heavy Cost (f Five Years   Casualties in England Total 733,030 and “Most of Treasures”’

'British Report On Five Years Of War Tells Of Lost Lives And Treasures

Gen. DeGaulle Sets Up Paris Headquar ers   Resistance Ends After Surrender Of Nazi Commander

RESISTANCE OF NAZIS IN PARIS ENDS   DeGaulle  Sets Up Headquarters ‘In Capital —

DeGaulle In Paris To Lay Wreath On Soldier Tomb As Nazis Remnants Cleaned Up

De Gaulle Triumphanily Sets Up Headquarters In Liberated Capital ©

ACCLAIMED BY PARISIANS   Nazi Resistance Virtually Ended In French Capital

De Gaulle Sets Up Headquarters In Paris; ~All Resistaice Is Ended   Allied Planes Raid Jap Ships In East Indies

DeGaulle Sets Up Headquarters In Liberated City   Six-Point Surrender Signed by German Commander; City Acclaims New Regime Over Forbidden Radias

Nazis in Paris Ceasing Fight   German Commander Accepts Surrender

PARIS ‘FREED’ ALL RESISTANCE COMES TO END   General De Gaulle Sets.Up His Headquarters In French ~ Cavital

JAPAN TIGHTENS FOOD RATIONING   CONDITIONS TOLD BY AN ESCAPED CHINESE STUDENT

Japs Tighten Food Rations   Nipponese Gloomy Over War's Trend, Says Escaped Chinese

Situation Within Japan Growing More Serious As Allied Victories Depress Civilian Morale

People Of Japan Turning Fron Optimism To Dark Pessimism   Escaped Student Says Nips Digging - Slit Trenches Against Air Raids

Restrictions on Japanese Civilians Tightened, Escaped Student Reveals

ALLIES PRESS JAPS HARD IN NORTH BURMA   Wake, Ponape And Ant Islands Hit By  Raiders

ENCIRCLEMENT OF BUDAPEST IS NOW COMPLETED   Russians Fight Their Way Two Miles Into Hungarian Capital   DEFENDERS PUTTING UP STUBBORN BATTLE

Reds Complete Encirelement  Of The Capital Of Hungary   German and Hungarian Garrison in Budapest Doom ed by Russian Drive—Town in Cxechocelavakia Cantured

Sees Great Offensive  Taking Sha pe    MacArthur Reiterates He Will Return To Philippines

Australia Pays Respects On Anniversary  MacArthur Repeats Vow Of Two Years Ago To Go Back To The Philippines

GENERAL GIVES RETURN PLEDGE   GENERAL ASSERTS HE’LL RETURN TO PHILIPPINES

I Shall Return To The Pp hilippines---Ma ae ae   General Repeats Pledge He Made When He Landed In Australia Two Years Ago From Embattled Corregidor

MacArthur’s Goal Fixed   Philippines’ Recovery Determination Voiced:

MacArthur Honored On Annives sary Of His Appointment  American General Again Promises Philippine Return

MacArthur Has Not Forgotten General Reiterates Pledge  To Return To Philippines

REPEATS VOW HE LL GE BACK IN PHILIPPINE:   MacArthur Honored on Second Anniversary of Arrival in Australia.

Gen. MacArthur Recalls Pledge To Philippines   Officer Nearer His Goal Than Two Years Ago

General MacArthur Repeats Pledge That He Will Return To Philippine Islands

BOMB REFINERIES IN BUDAPEST AREA   AMERICANS ALSO BLAST RAH. WAY YARDS—NAZI FIGHTERS GIVE BATTLE,

RAF PLANES LASH ROBOT PLATFORMS   Approximately 50 Fighter-Bombers Harass Rail Lines Back Of Nor mandy Front

FUEL BASES RAILYARDS BOMB TARGETS   Of Planes in Italy, Flying to Vicinity of Budapest, Weather Halts BritainBased Craft.   Move Ramps Inland

BOMBERS BLAST OIL REFINERIES   Bad Weather Curtail: Air Operations On Western Front

Allied Planes Blast Japs Near Imphal  Direct Support Is ro]  Sevan Cleauna   Direct Support Is Given Ground Forces in India

Allied Planes Blast Japs Near Imphal   Direct Support Is Given Ground Forces in India

Pour Thousands Of New Troops Into Beachheads And Move Toward Ports

Cannes And Nice Occupied As Parachuters Threaten To Take Port Of Marseille

ALLIES OCCUPY CANNES AND NICE   PARATROOPERS AND PARTISANS MOVING IN ON MARSEILLES

OPA to Take More Beef Off Rationing List   Ham and Pork Loins To Be Put Back on List, Jones Indicates

Ration Holiday On Beef Steaks, Roasts Looms   War Food Administrato Invokes Authority To Prepare Order

CHANGES PREPARED IN MEAT RATIONING   Certain Classes Of Steaks _And: Roasts To Be Point: Free

BETTER PORK CUTS TO BE RATIONED   Some Beef Steak Cuts, Roasis  to Be Point-Free Under Plan

CUTS OF BEEF GO POINT-FREE   New Rationing Schedule Expected To Take Effect Aug. 1

GEN. RICHARDSON GIVES VIEWS AT HAWAIIAN TRIAL   Declares “We Are In No: Mood To Have Another Pearl Harbor’ — Civilian Challenges Need For Martial Law

Japanese Attacks on Pearl Harbor Still Possible, Declare Officers

ALLIES CLEAR ENEMY FROM MOST OF GIT   First U. S. Troops on Rhine, as Third Army Lashes Out for Saar.

French Mop Up Strasbourg Areca   Patton's Troops Battle on 11-Mile Front Inside Saar Basin Border; LeClerc Leads French Into Historic Cathedral City

STRASBOURG IS OVERRUN BY ALLIES   French, Americans Fight Shoulder to Shoulder In Smash to Rhine.

French, Yanks Overrun S() Pet. Of Strasbourg, Push To Rhine Bridges   U. S. 3rd Army Mounts New Attack Against Siegfried Line On 11 Mi. Saar Basin Front

Most of City of Strasbourg Held by Allies   Nine-tenths of Alsace Capital Is Occupied

Troops Smash to River   French, Yanks Fighting Side to Side Along Front

Strasbourg is Mostly in Allied Hands   French and Americans Re sisted by Pockets of Ger mans in City   Furious Fighting Rages Today on Approaches to Budapest as Battle For Hungarian Capital Near Crisis

Allies Battling On Approaches To Three Spans   Nutcracker Tightened On 50,000 Germans Trapped To South

Nazis Cram Into Tenth © Of The City   FARTHER NORTH GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS CHECK DRIVE TOWARD COLOGNE

RENCH, YANKS ATTLE FOR 3 HINE BRIDGES   New 31d Army Attack in Saar

Yanks Stab North to  Swiss Line  aon in +; on ie   67-Mile Advance Announced in  Unofficial Report

Clothes You Wear Likely Are ‘Black’   Complicated Operations May Extend From Mill To Retailers

Britain’s Airmen Hit Berlin Again   Second Tremendous Assault In Two Days; Allies Gair In Italy

RAF Loses 47 Planes In Second Raid in 2 Nights   Allies Continne to Expand Beachhead Below Rome.

GREAT FORCE RAF BOMBERS RAIDS BERLIN   Forty-Seven Planes Fail To Return From Attack Last Night.

Mustang Ace Bags Three More  German Planes  Captain Gentile Adds To Kill While

Captain Gentile Baas 30th Plane  Ohio Mustang Pilot Breaks Record Set By Rickenbacker

New Ace Runs String To 30   Ohioan Recognizec Ae World's’ Leader

‘He’s Ace Of Aces:  Ohio Pilot Sets New Record, With 30 Nazi Planes Ba ooet

Capt. Gentile Has Big Day, Runs His Bag to 30 Planes   First American Ace To Break Rickenbacker’s Rec. ord of Other World War

SKY ACE RUNS HIS BAG 10 30   Mustang Pilot Riddles ° More Germans In Naziland Raid

BET 0 MORE NAZTO TO RUN HIS BAG TO 30   Ohio Mustang Pilot’s Claim of Five Destroyed on Ground Confirmed.

New American Flying Ace Crowned As Rickenbacker’s World War I Record Topples Before Captain Don Gentile’s Sight.

ACE BREAKS MARK OF RICKENBACKER   CAPTAIN DON 5S. GENTILE RUNS UP BAG TO 30 WITH THREE MORE KILLS,

Mustang Ace Bags Three More  German Planes  ‘Captain Gentile Adds To Kill While Total Is Confirmed

GENTILE WINS WORLD RECORD: BAGS HIS 27TH   Beats Rickenbacker’s 26-Plane Mark in World War 

YANK AGE BAGS Ho JOT PLAN   Capt. Don S. Gentile Breaks Eddie Rickenbacker’s Re¢ord; Gets Three Nazi Planes In Yesterday’s Battles

Don S. Gentile Bags 2 Tth Nazi To Set Reeord   Army Ace Shatters Mark Set By Rickenbacker In World War One

Gentile Becomes Air Ace of U. §  Bags Three Saturday la a Tatal aft 20

Hull Replies To Lyttelton. On Jap War   Britain Expected To Apologize For Blunder.

Hull Angry Over Briton’s Remark On U.S., Japan   Quick Apologies Due From High British Sources

BRITISH RUSH TO APOLOGIZE   Lyttelton Statement Causes Wide Repercussions

HULL DENOUNCES LYTTLETON STOR\   State Department Officials Indignant, Congressmen Were Angry.

Hull, Congressmen Angry Over Lyttelton Statement   Incident Expected To Bring Apology From Highest British Officials

Dewey Pledges History-Making House Cleaning   Tells Milwaukee Audi ence He'll Clean Ou  Riumahna Weaetere

Dewey Will Clean House He Declares   G.O.P. Nominee Tells Milwaukee Crowd He Will Restore Harmony

Says He'll (Clean House ‘As President   Gov.Dewey Denounces Wasteful, Bungling Bureaucrats   See page 5 for Dewey’s speech made Tuesday night in Minneapolis.

Foreign Policy Should Not Be Injected Into Political Controversy,  He Says At Milwaukee

Dewey Charges Corporate State New Deal Develop:  Calls Disavowal of  Communist Support  =Dlanhle Talk

Army and Nav) Begin Probe of Pearl Harbor   Military Courts Follow Order of Congress Resolution

Military Probe  of Pearl Harbor \Disaster Opened   Special ‘Grand Juries”  Set Up By Army, Navy To Investigate Case

HALF WAY MARK IN BOND DRIVE   Sales jin State Now Tota ' $112,900,000

Bond Buying Here Is € ontinuing   Indiana Nears HalfWay Mark in $233.000.000 War Goal

Christmas  Seals Are Sent Out   Annual Campaign In Behalf Of Tuberculosis Work Is  Launched In County.

Heavy Blows Rain On Nips   New Territory Near Truk Blasted; Wewak Is Lashed

New Pacific Atoll In Carolines Is Bombers Target   Wewak, Last Jap Stronghold of Bismarck Sea Hit

Americans Raid Oroluk Atoll In Carolines   Also Bomb Wewak For Fourth Day

AERIAL POWER OF NIPPONESE PROVES WEAK   ATOLL 200 MILES FROM TRUK Is BOMBARDED

U. §. Bombers Hit New Jap Atoll, Pound Wewak  New Aerial Blow Between Truk, Ponape; Chinese Advancing

Limestone Soldier, Now Recovering In England, Says French Great Help

Assault Made on Nazi-Operated Refinery at Trieste   0.056.000 Tons of Enemy Shipping Sunk in 52 Months   1) 160 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Continent in Jan.

‘Dewey Calls for ‘Tax Law Revision  -To Aid Business   Outlines Economy Program to Make Job Opportunities

DEWEY DEMANDS REVISION OF TAX LAWS OF NATION   G. O. P. Presidential Candidate Calis for Levies That Will Encourage New Businesses.   SPEAKS BEFORE 15,000 IN SAN FRANCISCO   Declares He Favors Old-Age Pensions, Jobless Insurance and Farm Support Prices.

MACARTHUR VOTE APPEAL TESTED IN ILLINOIS   Primary Today Will Determine His Strength There While Nebraska Voter an It Cal Stacecon

TESTS TODAY FOR STASSEN, M’ARTHUR   Attention Centers On Primaries In Nebraska, Ilinois

MacArthur Gets Vote Test in Illinois Election  Nebraska Contest Will Plumb Stassen’s Appeal

Illinois Test For MacArthur  Nebraska Balloting To Show Stassen Strength

THE POLITICAL SCENE Illinois, Nebraska Measure Poputarity o  eee ie  MacArthur, Stassen in. 0. P. Primarie:   Backers of Both Candidates Hope to Show Their Men Have Captured Public Fancy

TWO STATES VOTING TODA   MacArthur’s Voter Appeal Tested in Illinois, Stassen’s in Nebraska.

Politicians Watch Illinois And Nebraska  MacArthur And Stassen Getting Test Of VoterAppeal At Polls Today

Candidates — Get Another. Testing Today   ‘Illinois and --Nebraska Holding Primaries ‘

© = POLITICS— MacAr thur And Stassen Lead Primary Interest:   Balloting In Illinois And Nebraska To Test Popularity Of War Heroes; Rain To Cut Visits To Polis

Two States Test Voter Appeal of GOP Candidates   MacArthur, Stassen Put On Bailots in IHinois, Nebraska

Voter Appeal Of General (civen Test   MacArthur's Political Future Decided by Illinois Ballot

Iwo Elections Test Appeal   MacArthur, Stassen Key Candidates in Illinois, Nebraska

MacArthur's Popularity In Illinois Test   Stassen Unopposed In Nebraska Primary © Today

HEAVY A ‘BLOWS HIT JAP BASES   Troops On Biak Gain As Chinese Advance  » In Salween Area

JAPS PUSHED BACK IN TWO SECTORS ©   Allied Air Offensive Also  Continues in Pacific

16 More Jap Ships Sunk By American Submarines; Nips Pushed Back On Biak

Kansas New Dealers In Convention   REPUBLICAN LEADERS STUDY RESULTS OF INDIANA STATE CONVENTION; MUST DEFEAT THE NEW DEAL   Only Nevada Blank

SUSPECTS QUIZZED IN ASSAULT PROBE   Officers Investigate ' Attack on 9-YearOld Girl

SUSPECTS QUIZZED. IN ASSAULT PROBE      Officers Investigate" At. tack on-9-YearCS. Old Gel

DEWEY’S AIDE, HULL CONFER WEDNESDAY ON FOREIGN POLICY   Hint GOP Proposals For Change In U.S. Peace Plan

EARLY FALL OF ROME FORECAS] BY OBSERVERS    Evacuation Of Strategic Coastal  Sector Is Given As Reason

WOMEN WILL MAKE A HOUSING SURVEY   Hercules Employes in Need of Additional Living  rters  APPEAL TO LAWRENCE

Hercules Employes i in Need ‘of Additional Living  :- . Quarters   APPEAL. TO’ LAWRENCE

THIRD ARMY THREATENS SAARBRUCKEN   Fighting at Hurtgen Called “Most Bloody and Terrible” of War

ALLIES SURGE NEARER DUREN AND COLOGNE   Report Langerwehe Taken; Patton’s Third Drives Deeper Into Reich

MANY JAPS ON NEW BRITAIN   Make Slow, Tedious Gains Teward -: Borgen Bay ”

U. 5, MARINES KILL MANY JAPS - NEAR BORGER   Fighting Fierce in Inland Jungles; Planes Make Third Raid

Marines Slaying Japanese Troops  By Hundreds   Toll of Nipponese © Troops On New Britain Now Totals 2,000

Marines in Slow, Tedious Advance On Borgen Bay   Resistance Is Toughest Since Dec. 26 Landing

Marines Are Advancing On Borgen Bay   Take Heavy Toll Of Japs In Tedious Fight To Extend Their Holdings On New Britain

Marines Advance In Bitter Battle  Enemy Hits Back At Uo So Traonerc

U.S. Marines Kill Japs — ~ By Hundreds in Pus      JAP TROOPS CARRY ON IN FACE OF DISASTER

Leathernecks Kill Hundreds Of Japs in Advance on Borgen Bay   Fighting Fierce In Thick Tunele

U5. MARINES STILL KILLING JAPS BY THE HUNDREDS   Advance Towards Borger Bay Meeting Plenty of Nios.

MARINES WIPE OUT 600 MORE JAPS ON CAPE   Foe’s Losses Pass 2,000 But Going’s Tough In Jungles

FOR SENDS THIRD WARTIME BUDGET 10 CONGRESS   Reth Honses of Legi ature Hostile t Former

TRAPPED GERMANS POUNDED BY REDS   Red Army Fighters Move or Ten Divisions, Probably 150,000 Soldiers.

Early End Of Battle Predicted   GERMANS IN UKRAINE TRAPP FROM ALL SIDES; NARVA REPORTED NEAR FALL IN NORTHERN FIGHTING

Nazis Trapped Along 750 Mii.  Soviet Front   From Ukraine To Gulf Of Finland Reds Are On The March

REDS HAMMER 150,000 OF FOE HELD IN TRAP   Double Break - Through Pockets Germans In kraine

Another Big Trap Nearing   New Developments Are Forecast By Triumphant Reds

150,000. Doomed Germans Are Being Hammered, Squeezed By Closing Ring of Russians    Seviets Apparently Determined To Exterminate Them —Other Traps Are Said To Be In Making

Over 100,000 Nazis Trapped [In Ukraine; Reds Moving [Ahead on 750-Mile Front

RUSSIANS CORNER 790,000 NAZIS IN UKRAINE POGKE!   Another Soviet Army Opens New Drive Toward Bug River Defenses

Reds Close Noose on Germans   Over, 100,000 Nazis Caught in Death Trap; Annihilation Believed Certain

10 Divisions Eneircled  In Ukraine   Germans Also Unable To Stop Narthern Surge

Stilwell’s Chinese Peril  Jap Base in Burma   Allies Gain Advantage, Grab Booty After Bitter Jungle Onslaughts; Twin Columns Move on Key Point

Stilwell’s Chinese Forces Push Way To Maingkwan   Hard Jungle Fight Brings Them Near Chief Town Of Hukwana Valley

Chinese Under Gen. Stilwell Make Advance   United Nations Force Reaches Village in Hukwang Valley

aH? TRANSFER 15 DISCUSSEL   Early Says Story Is Tantamount to Getting Valuable Information.

Bridges’ Query On U.S. Cruiser Seen War Leak   Termed Vital Information Which Would Be Banned By Censorship Code

Early Silent On Ship Charge   Says Information Would be Barred By Censorship

Here Is Eyewitness Account Of Saidor Landing By Troops  including Wisconsin Soldiers

Here’s Your Opportunity To Go Along In Landing Craft Headed For Invasion   Rew RORERT FUNSON

Situation Described As Fluid   British Press Reports Is Is Critical and German Accounts Are Conflicting   CUT-OFF FORCES THINLY SUPPLIEL   Aliies Send 1,100 Bombers Into Area; News Blackout Guards Allied Moves

SITUATION 1S CALLED FLUID   ‘ike’ Imposes Security Dimout of News From Middie Holland.   FIGHT TO KEEP FOOTHOLD

REICH REPORTS ON RED DEVILS FAIL TO AGREE   German Casualties on Western Front Set At Near Million

BERLIN TELLS OF BIG U. S. DRIVE ON FRENCH FRONT  OECIICVEH PREI iinc   BELIEVED PRELUDE TO AN OFFENSIVE AGAINST BELFORT

Estimates Include West Front Only; British Fight On   News Blackout Ordered, Cloaking in Secrecy The Fate of Airborne Troops Trying to Reach Ruhr—Over 500,000 Germans Captured By Allies Since D-Day.

NAZI CASUALTIES CLOSE TO MILLION   That Is. the Estimate An Nounced Tonight Since . D-Day.

‘Arnhem Units Wiped Out,  Nazis Claim   Eisenhower Puts Security Dimout on Reports From Holland; Only Thin Trickle of Supplies Now Reaching British Paratreopers

Censorship Invoked To Hide Allied Thrusts In Holland   Alexander Crosses The Rubicon

AIRBORNE FORCE OF BRITISH IS IN TOUGH SPOT   Nazis Claim Pocket Wiped Out, But Yanks Smash Holes in Siegfried Line

Secrecy Covers Fate Of Arnhem Force: Americans Push For South Germany

Germans Give Varied Ac counts of Troops Across Dutch Rhine  THE FICHT GOES ON      Allied. ““Dimout”” of News; First and Third Armies Forge Ahead

Touch-And-Go Battle Rages On Dutch Rhine   Seagoing Trucks Swing Into Action

Silence Cloaks Allied Operations On West Front   British Press Fears Critical Situation In Pocket; Germans Claim o Surrender

Germans Report Entire Airborne Unit Surrenders   Last Report Says Division Is Being Thinly Supplied

NAZIS CLAIM PARATROOPERS AT ‘ARNHEM: WIPED OUT: BRITISH — ‘ADMIT SITUATION CRITICAL

NAZI PROPAGANDA AGENCY DECLARES FORCE WIPED OUT  LATEST ALLIED REPORT WAS “RED DEVILS” HOLDING OUT

News Dimout Over Struggle for Arnhem; Germans  Say British Hold on

OF NEWS CALLS POSTION FLUID   German Agency Claims Isolated Paratroops Have Been Wiped Out

Secrecy Hides Progress Today Of Vital Clash   Germans Hope To Delay Allies Until Winter Comes

HALT NEWS ON DRAMATIC FIGHT ON DUTCH RHINE   Germans Say Red Devils Wiped Out; Allies Say Situation Fluid.

NEWS DIMOU} ON STRUGGLE IN HOLLAND   — Press Says Situation is Critical   THREE DIVISIONS   Hammer At Arnhem Pocket; Allies Menace Kleve in Ruhr Drive

DIVISION IS WIPED OUT   British Press Describes Situation Critical, but Supreme Headquarters Will Not Comment on  Qitnation.

Grim Battle To Control Supply Line   German Efforts to Cut Allied Lifeline  To Trapped Airmen  British Beat Back

Allies Maintain Strict Secrecy   Nazi Sources Not Consistent; Allies Thought Unsupplied

Situation Fluid, SHAEF Says; 1100 Bombers Hit Nazi Rails   British Push Second Supply Line Almost to Nijmegen

There Was No Attempt’ to Position; German. Ac-"~ counts Are Divided. .  ONE SAYS PARATROOPS HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT   Following. Report the Last of Troops Had Laid:. Down. Arms, Indications Were .  They Still Fought: -.-

Nazi Source Says Force  Wined Out   Another German Report Claims Troops Fighting; Situation Very Critical

Hides Fate Of Pocketed ‘Red Devils’   Even Germans Disagree On Whether. Sky Troops Still Holding Out. *

Nazis Announce Destruction Of Airborne Force   Berlin Story Claims Surrender Of 2,000; Latest Allied Account Told Of Hiah Morale

EISENHOWER PUTS DIMOUT ON PUBLICITY   No Indications From United Nations to Indicate If German Claim of Victory Genuine

Eisenhower Calls Situation = ‘Fluid’; British say ‘Critical’; Germans: Units Wiped Out

Eisenhower Clamps News Dimout On Operations In Holland Sector   No Reports Given Since Yesterday   Last News Said Four Ene my Divisions Pounding Trap

Still Holding Out, Other Reports SayAllied Armies Battle Toward Kleve, Open Offensive in Far South

Sky Troops Wiped Out, Nazis Say   Sheaf Calls Situation Fluid, Critical, Says British Press

ARNHEM FORCE IN STH DAY OF HEROIC STAND      Allied Troops Crash Way Through Approaches To Kleve

GERMANS CLAIM ENTIRE BRITISH UNIT WIPED OUT   Allies Say Thinly Supplied Airborne Division Still Holding Out

Mantle of Secrecy Effective I'pon Fierce Battle for Dutch Arnhem by British Troops.   NAZE RADIO REPORTS THEY ARE WIPED OUT

FDR, De Gaulle Begin Talks  In “Har mony   ‘De Gaulle: Predicts Germans Will Be Out Of France By End Of 1944

F.R., DE GAULLE IN CONFERENCE   PREDICTS GERMANS OUT OF FRANCE BY JANUARY

De Gaulle Talks With President   Hope For Harmony With Liberation Committee

Nazis Stand At Florence   Oppose Allied Entrance To Art Center in Spite Of Rating as Open City

Situation Obscure At Florence   German Troops Believed In Florence Despite Declaration That It Is An Open City

British Units Finish Occupation of Suburban Florence   Eighth Army Keeps Pressing Enemy Bac! On Both Sides of Arno River; Mantaomery Cites Violation of Code

Occupy Florence South of River   But Allies Have. Major Battle Ahead In Crossing Arno

Germans Hold Onto Florence   Eighth Army Troops Complete Occupation Of   City’s Suburbs; Nazis Destroy Bridges

Allies Complete Occupation Of Florence Suburbs South Of River, Gain On 2 Sides   Threaten To Cut Weakening Nazi Defenders Into Small Formations

OCCUPY SUBURBS OF ITALIAN CITY   Eighth Pushes Germans Back Deeper Into Florence

SUBURBS OF FLORENCE IN ALLIED HANDS   Germans Blowing Up Bridges On Escape Route

Allies Occupy Florence Suburbs   Although Germans Proclaim City Open, Their Military Use It.

British Troops Reach Suburbs Of Florence   Enemy Crushed In Fighting on Banks of River

Eighth Army  In Florence   Press Enemy Back Against Stream on Both Sides of City

Eighth Army Takes Florence Suburbs South of Arno  Germans Retire After Blowing Bo All but Que Bridne. Battle

Germans (Quit Florence as _  Allies Push On   British Eighth in City South of Arno River

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS OCCUPY FLORENCE SUBURBS TODAY   Paratroopers Are Posted Along Northern Bank of Arno in City Limits

BRITISH DRIVE TO FLORENCE   Suburbs South of Arno River  Occupied by Eighth Army.

CITY SUBURBS ARE OCCUPIED   Troops Push Enemy Back Against Arno River on 2 Sides of Florence.

GERMAN TROOPS IN WITHDRAWAL FROM FLORENCE   British Face Paratroopers On Stream Bisecting Art Center

ALLIES INVEST TUSCAN CAPITAL   Nazis Destroy “Bridges Lead. ing Into Florence; British In Suburbs’

BRITISH OCCUPY FLORENCE AREA   City’s Suburbs Taken Over; Nazis Mass Guns On Hill

FLORENCE IN HANDS ALLIED FIGHTH ARNY   Germans in Retreat Wreck All But One Bridge Although Claiming It As “Open City”.

Allies Mop Up  Florence Suburbs   af A KR Stately Florence Is City of Agony

Nazis Pressed Back Against Arno River   Inhabitants Evacuated from North Bank; Eighth Army Completes Occupation of Florence Suburbs

DRIVE GERMANS TO'ARNO RIVER   8TH ARMY TROOPS OCCUPY SOUTHERN FLORENCE SUBURBS

U. S. Army © Close To  Florence   Troops Are Pushing Enemy Back Toward Banks Of Arno.

NAZIS BEING PRESSED BACK AGAINST ARNO   Allies Bear Down on 25Mile Sector on Both Sides of Florence, the  * Suburbs of Which the EKjiochth Armv Holds.

Strike Closes 130 Schoois in Smoky City   82,000 Pupils Sent Home Because Custodians Won't Keep Buildings Warm  DEMAND WAGE BOOSTS

PITTSBURGH SCHOOLS CLOSED BY STRIKERS   Custodial Employes Demand Higher Pay

Commanders Disa greed Over  Campaign Methods, Is Claim   Army Advocated Slow Cautious One on Saipan; Marine Favored Quick Drive

REPORT SLIGH OPPOSITION FROM JAPS   Entire Leyte East Coast In American Hands   M’ARTHUR SAYS   U. S. Troops Consolidated Positions On All Sectors; Land Supplies

ENTIRE COAST OF LEYTE FOR DISTANCE 75 MILES SEIZED; AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCING

Yanks Advancing From Beachheads On 75-Mile Front   Osmena Will Inform Countrymen  Congress And President Ready  To Give Islands Independence

Tacloban Air Strip ( Objective Of U. S. Liberation Armies   Admiral Nimitz’ Carrier Fliers Blast Manila to Prevent Enemy Air Strikes; Hit Targets on Leyte, Cebu, Negros

Yank Invaders Drive Toward  Leyte Airfields   Japs’ Crippled Airforce In Weak Counterblows

UJ. 5. LIBERATION OF ISLANDS MOVING ON OUTLINED SCHEDULE  MIGHTY LAND AND NAVAI BARRAGES WEAKEN JAP. ANESE OPPOSITION

Entire Eastern Coast of Leyte In Yank Hands   Americans Encounter Light Opposition in Philippine Strike

Philippine Invasion Is ‘On Schedule   75-Mile Coast of Leyte Island Is Secured by Allies

Food and Supplies Landed and Entire East Coast of Leyte Seized - - Airfield First Objective In Attack To Cut Island Chain in Two — American Casualties Are Light

U. §. Forces Drive Inland on Leyte Isle   Entire Eastern Coast of Island Seized in Sporadic Opposition

Americans Push Toward Airfield   MacArthur's First Objective Is To Get Nipponese [6th Division Which Did Most “Of The Dirty Work On Bataan”

Behind barrages Americans widen Leyte beachhead  _ Light Jap opposition as whole eastern coast held

NIP RESISTANGE REMAINS LIGHT ON PHILIPPINES   J. S$. Troops Encounter Jap Forces That Captured Baatan i

Heading for Frontier in Metz Area   Patton Swings Forces Toward German Border  Today

PATTON SWINGS FRONT TOWARD REICH BORDER   Great Amored Battle of Four-Day-Old Offensive Rages Below Metz.

Two Columns Racing for  Reich Border   Germans Report Big Tank Battle Raging Southwest of Metz

Gen. Patton In New Moi Below Metz          TWO COLUMNS LEAP AHEAD AND ARE ONLY 25 MILES  . FROM SAARBRUCKEN

PATTON TANK UNITS SMASH TOWARD SAAR   Report Armored Battle As 38rd Army Tries Break-Through

Patton’s Men Surge Ahead ‘In New Drive   Yankees Lash Out For Breakthrough To Reich Border

BIG TANK FIGHT FEATURES THIRD ARMY’S ASSAULT NEAR NAZI BORDEF   Columns 25 Miles Of Saarbrucken

TWO COLUMNS LEAP AHEAD TO SAARBRUCKEN   First Armored Battle of Four-Day-Old Offensive Breaks Out With 500 Tanks Participatine. Is Report :

First Armored Battle of Drive ‘Said Progressing   Two Columns Leap Ahead To Wihin  25 Miles of Fort

YANKS COLUMNS 25 MILES FROM SAAR BASTION   ard Army Swing Toward Border

SKIRMISHES REPORTED ON ITALY FRONT   Nazis Believed to Have 100,000 Men Near Anzio Sector

Swollen Nazi Forces Seek Anzio Break   Artillery Battles Rage All Along Front in Beachhead Fight

GERMANS 10 MAKE THIRD MAJOR TRY   Nazis Build Up Striking Force Along Beachhead

kK*kekek Ee KEK K  Nazis Poise 100,000 Men For Third Push on Anzio

ALLIES REPEL NEW ATTACKS AT BEACHHEAL   Germans Increase Forces and Try to Pave Way for Entrance Into American,   British and French Lines.

THIRD GERMAN DRIVE SHAPING UP NEAR ROME   Patrol Fighting Grows Bitter; Nazis Mass 100,000 Men

Fights Rage In Anzio Front As Nazis Fortify   Yanks, British Mow Down Germans During Desperate Onslaught

Waves of Nazi Troops Thrown Back at Anzio   Enemy Assembling 10 Divisions for Third Aceanlt

Beachhead Faces New Attack by 100,000 Germans   Clearing Weather In Italy Steps Up Action

Red Drive In Czech. Sector Gains Ground   Picks Up 16 Miles on 25Mile Front West of Unegevar

UKRAINIAN ARMY ON MOVE AS NEW DRIVE LAUNCHED   Four-Week Fighting Lull -in Czechoslovakia Ended by  Russian Troone

MOVING AGAIK   Fresh Russian Drive Grinds Out.Gains Along 25 “~~ Witle Front. ~o

RUSSIANS LASH OUT IN SLOVAKIA   GRIND OUT GAINS UP TO 16 MILES ON 25-MI, FRONT

Reds Clear Island on Riga Gull   Liberation of Saare Is Celebrated; All Estonian Territory Now Free .   NEW OFFENSIVES BY RED FORCES   Drives South of Riga And Another in Czechoslovakia Under Way

Appropriations Bill Is Slashed   Bureau Needed Extra Amount For Overtime

SOLONS SLASH Blo FUNDS BILL   TREASURY, POST OFFICE TAKE $22,783,089 CUT

SOVIETS REACH THE PRE-WAR BULGAR LINE   Believed Improbable Russ Will Enter Balkan Nation

Grand Jury Will Probe Hermit Death   “COLD-BLOODED” KILLING CHARGED BY ATTORNEY; NEW EVIDENCE FOUND

Blow Is Struck Cigaret Famine, Black Marke   Wholesalers, Jobbers Warned To Clean Up Situation

CLAIMS WILLKIE SUGGESTED STOR\   FFC ARTICLE NEVER PUBLISHED AFTER PROTEST BY FLY

AUTHOR TELLS -OF PLANNED FCC ARTICLE   Says Chairman James L. Fly Told Her That Her Ears Would Be Very Red if She Proceeded With Writing It.-

ARTICLE CRITICAL TRCN FCC NEVER WAS                i = ip ression ” Of Story Sugaceted by Wendell Wilikie

FLY AND THE ‘INNER CIRCLE’ Committee Hears Criticism Of  FCC Was Withheld by J. L. Fly

FCC CHAIRMAN UNDER ATTACK   Reader's Digest Writer Testifies About James Fly's Protest to Story

House Group Told FCC Chairman Fly Suppressed Story   Writer Says He Protested Publication of Critical Article

SOVIET FORCES AGAIN CUT MAIN LINE TO ODESSA   German Force in South Split and Kherson Pocket Eliminated

SMASHING RED FORCES REACH DNIESTER   River Separates Russia, Bessarabia at Several Points

RED ARMIES CAPTURE. AN_, OTHER SECTION OF VITAL RAILKOAD AND SPLIT NAZI FORCES

RED ARMY DRIVES TO DNIESTER   Russians  ‘Liquidate’ Nazis In Kherson  Pocket In South

DOCTOR FOUND GUILTY AS SP)   Leniency Recommended By Detroit Federal Court Jury

DETROIT DOCTOR CONVICTED AS SPY   Leniency Is Recommended After Five Days of  Deliberation

The War Today   Finland on Brink of Disaster ' As Soviets Rip Northern Front.

Soviet Embassy Says Finland Stands on Brink of Disaster Reds May Force Evacuation of Baltics

The War Today  Finland, Staking All On Hitlerdom, Is On Brink Of Catastrophe.

RED OFFENSIVE IN LENINGRAD SECTOR BRINGS FATE. OF FINLAND NEARER TO ITS FATAL CLIMAX

Soviet Embassy Says Finland Faces Catastrophe   Russian Offensive On Leningrad Front Threatens Satellite

PALLIERSON  235, 411 American Casualties   Army Dead 33,240, Navy Lists 20,362; Near 1917-18 Mark

U.S, CASUALTIES NEAR WAR I'S   Losses Sustained in France Recently May Place Total Above 1917-18

U5, CASUALTIES APPROACH TOTAL IN WORLD WAR    Battle Losses of 274,626 to -Date Compare With 278,828 in the 1914-18   Conflict.   STILL OTHERS REMAIN TO BE ANNOUNCED   Figures Do Not Include Casualties Suffered in Fight in France Since June 20.

‘American Battle Casualties Approaching ‘Total Yank Losses In First World War

U. S. Casualtie: Pass 274,000  Near Total Loss In First World War

U.S CASUALTIES SINCE START WAR: TOTAL 235,411   ) Figures Revealed Today By Official Announcement From Under Secretary Of War Patter ftrnm

40000 Trapped Japanese Plan Escape Drive ;   American War Casualties Tofal 187,028

American Battle Casualties In Present War Have Possibly Exceeded Total Of Those Reported In Entire World War 

ASUALTIES NEAR — THOSE OF °17-'18   Secretary Patterson Announces Total of 187,028  in This War   HEAVY SAIPAN LOSSES

Casualties Now 214,62€   Increase in Killed Of 1478 Disclosed By Latest Report

American Battle Casualties Near War One Figures  _ 235411 Total Contains Few in Nermandy, None of Heavy Lesses on Saipan

CHIEF IN ROME DOOMED 0 DIE   Police Head Is Charged With Supplying Nazis 50 Hostages

ROME'S POLICE CHIEF TO BE SHO)   PIETRO CARUSO SENTENCED TO DIE FOR COLLABORATION WITH NAZIS,

Tighten Trap on 20,000 Jans on Leyte Island   77th Division Strikes Up Ormoc Corridor

Yanks Tighten Leyte Squeeze   32nd Division Nears Junction with 77th

Tighten Squeeze On Japs In Leyte   Pressure Being Applied Northward From Ormoc

YANKS DRIVE UP ORMOC CORRIDOR   3 Nip Transports Sunk In Ormoc _ Harbor

Churchill Refuses  Further Comment   Speaks of Great Battle Under Way In Europe

PRIME MINISTER REFUSES DEBATE ON GOVERNMENT'S POLICY IN WAR   Shows Strain In Commons Appearance

FRENCH CRAZY WITH JOY FOR ALLIED TROOPS   Cheering Populace in AliliedOccupied Town Fills Streets to Greet Welcome Invaders

ON TO PARIS! CRY FRENCHMEN   Give Tumultuous Welcome To Invading Troops

Reporter Describes Capture Of First Liberated Town   Ry RICHARD D. McMILLAN Untied Proce We es

Natives Cheer Allied Troops Freeing First French Town   POPULACE REJOICES AT “DAY OF LIBERATION,” URGE BRITISH, AMERICANS ON TO PARIS

Eye-Witness Dispatch Sent From Bayeux   Populace Filled With Great Rejoicing As Allies Take Town

Nazi Targets-in France Absorb Shattering Blow   BAYEUX REJOINCES AS LIBERATION ARRIVES.

Phone Strike ‘Ties Capital, Detroit Lines   Chicage Operators May Join Walkout; J. §. Action Likely

Burma Supply Line Cut by Allies .   YANKS, BRITISH CARVE OUT AIR STRIP AND LAND BASE BEHIND JAPANESE LINES, LAUNCH WIDE OFFENSIVE AS SURPRISE MOVE

Isolated Force Short of Food, Ammunition, Fights 10 Days, Slays Many Germans

tsoleted. Force Short of Food, Aummusition,. Fights 10 Days; Sfoys Many Germans

AL SMITH IS WEAKER   Former Governor Has Suffered Several Small Relapses

“AL SMITH IS REPORTED WEAKER: HE’S SERIOUSLY ILL IN NEW YORK CITY

Nazi Leaders May: Overthrow Hitler  Done to-Hald Future: Confidence of Germat  a a a ce ear

NEW REVOLT IN REICH PREDICTED   MILITARY LEADERS WANT NEGOTIATED PEACE

NEW INVASION MAY BRING PEACE OFFER   Overthrow of Hitler Regime Presaged in Report

Nazi Radio Reports On Soviet Drive   Red Army Presses Forward South of Leningrad

Greek Populists Declare Elas’ Peace Proposals Unacceptable; New Fighting Flares Wednesday

Second Peace Talk In Athens Fails After ELAS ‘Artillery Breaks Truce

GREEK CONFAB 1S DEADLOCKED   Populist Party Rejects ELAS Proposals; New Fighting Flares

ELAS Troops Break Truce With British   Prime Minister Churchill Appeals to Warring Factions to. End Their Strife

Greek Peace Conference Fails to Agree   ELAS Peace Proposals Declared by Populists Unarcentable

CONDUCT GRE PEACE PARLEY IN. SEMI-TRUCE   Churchill Pleads for Coalition Government and End of Civil War

ELAS OFFER T TERMINATE WAR FOUND WANTING   Parley Called by Churchill Fails To Reach Agreement in Athens

ELAS Troops Break  Conference Truce  With Shell Bursts   Churchill Appeals to Warring Factions for  End to Greece Fight

ELAS Peace: Offer. Fails   Populist’ Faction Objects; Ce Vettesce Vemaertee Seernan

No Peace In Greece   Second Parley Called By Churchill Ends : Without Agreement

GREEK FACTIONS UNABLE T0 REACH AGREEMENT TODAY  CHURCHILL HAD CALLED  SECOND CONFERENCE TR’

Greeks Fail to Reach Accord At 2d Parley   British Charge ELAS Gunners with Breaking Truce

SECOND GREEK MEETING ENDS WITHOUT ACCORE   Churchill Tells Opposing Forces His Interest Is Truce

Truce Broken By Elas While Conferees Mee!   British Urge. Warring Factions To Settle Issues

Say Elas Broke Greek Truce   Fire on British Warship—Churchill Appeals for End of Strife

CHURCHILL MEETING FAILS TO SETTLE GREEK PROBLEM WITH BRITISH TERMS TURNED DOWN

Leftists Break Truce at Athens  Chur rchill Appea al to End Strife Fails

GREEK FACTIONS HOLD HEARING   Churchill Personally Appeals To End Strife; Delegates Check Weapons At  Daar

LAY DOWN TERMS   Second Meeting Fails as -Other Parties‘Find Them Unacceptable   THE BRITISH POSITION

Truce Broken By Elas Guns   British-Greek Conference So Tense All Delegates Left Side Arms at Door

Greek Party ‘Turns Down  ELAS Terms   Conference Called by Prime Minister Churchill Fails in Agreement

Greek Populist Party Refuses  ELAS Term:   Conference Called By Prime Minister Churchill Ended Without Agreement.   OTHERS TO CONSIDER

Conferees Deposit Side Arms Before Entering  Meet With Churchill,

‘Elas Guns Break Truce In Greece, British Say   Offensive Air Action To Begin Avain; Arms Left Outside When Delewates Met

GREEKS BREAK PLANNED TRUCE   Artillery Fires Upon British Warship and Naval — Headquarters.   TRUCE NULL AND VOID

TRUCEBROKEN AS ELAS FIRE ON WARSHIPS   Anglo-Greek Naval Headquarters Announce That Offensive Action Will Be Resumed   ICONFERENCE IS TENSE

ELAS Peace Plans Turned Down At Meet   Would Dissolve State Claim; Truce Broken  As Greeks Open Fire  On British Warshio

GREEK LEFTISTS LAY DOWN TERMS   Second Meeting Fails as Other Parties Find Them _ Unacceptable   ‘THE BRITISH POSITION

ELAS’ Shots  Break Truce   Churchill Appeals For Strife. To End:

TRUCE BROKEN BY ELAS ARTILLERY, BRITISH ASSERT   FIRE ON BRITISH WARSHIP DURING TRUCE CONFERENCE

Argentine New World Spy Center   Allies Warned They Are Active Too

ARGENTINA HINT! SPAIN INVOLVED IN ESPIONAGE   Also Intimate Allies Operate Spies In Buenos Aires

BRITISH WILL HIT JAPS WITH SHIDS   Two Fleets Ready for Action Against the Nipponese

Only 13 Miles Now Separate Allies From Italian Capital; Fighting Fierce At Valmontone

German: Still Holding Out Along the Via Casilina But Are Being Pressed Hard.

Surprise Outflanking Move Gains Two Miles Into Alban Hills in Rome Line Breach   FIGHTING NOW IN ROMAN CASTLES AREA AND GUNFIRE CAN BE HEARD IN ROME AS FIFTH ARMY REACHES POINT ONLY 13 MILES AWAY

Yanks Now Have Clear  View Of Rome   Their Advancing Forces Have Captured The Lofty Mount Peschio

WAR PLANT TAKEN OVER BY THE NAVY   Aircraft Parts Factory in Erie, Pa. Seized at Order of President Roosevelt.

Navy Seizes Erie Plant; Price Fuss   LORD MFG. CO. REFUSED TO  SUPPLY WAR MATERIAL AT PRICES FIXED BY GOVERNMENT.   First Of Its Kind

Congress Reaches “Stop Talking” Stage aus on Bitterly-Fought Soldier Vote Issue

MOVE FOR COMPROMISE GAINE STRENGTH IN SENATE BUT HOUSE EXPECTED TO “STAND FAST”

Many Places Taken In Advance   British Gain Four Miles In Caumont Sector Of Front

Allies on Move — On French Front   AMERICANS AND BRITISH SMASH FORWARD IN NORMANDY

ALLIED TROOPS ON MOVE ALONG NORMANDY LINE   Prisoners Taken By Thousands,  Few Resist

50 MILLION GALLONS OF SPIRITS DISTILLED   Nation's Distilleries Yook Full Advantage Of August Holiday To Make Beverage Alcohol

JAP DRIVE CREATES CRISIS FOR CHINESE   Enemy Troops in South Threaten to Invade Hinterland Province of Kwelichow.

CHINA TS FACED Wilh GRAVE CRISS   Invasion of Hinterland Threatened by Jap Offensive in South China: Determined to Fight On.   Short Of Objective

GRAVE DANGER   Peril Grows With Threat of Japs to Invade Kweichow Province

GRAVEST CRISIS FACING CHINESE   Situation Worst In Her 7 Years Of War, But Nation Won't Quit

CHINA CONFRONTED WITH GRAVE CRISIS   *  Japanese Offensive Has Made Na ' tion's Military Situation Worst In Seven Years Warfare

Jewel Theft Angle in Mystery Killing of Diplomat’s Wife   Sister of Mrs. Frank S. Williams Advances  Robbery Theory

SEEK CLUES IN HOTEL MURDER   POLICE TO OPEN SAFETY BOXES OF DIPLOMAT'S WIFE

CHICAGO DEAT PROBE STALLED   Police Investigate Jewel Theft Angle In Murder Of Socialite

POLICE ARE STALLED BY MYSTERY KILING   Safety Deposit Boxes May Yield Clue, Is Hope

Police Battled  In Murder Probe   Police Seek Clues In Safety Boxes in Williams Slaying

Army Seizes Nickel Plant, Ending Strike  2,000 Workers Return to Jobs

FATAL HEART ATTACK   Ernest Bartlett Dies Here Half Hour After Attack

'Hell’s Angels Coming Home   Flying Fortress Veteran of 48 Missions and Crew To Visit American Workers

North China Communists May Join Centra! Party in War on Japanese

Japs Announce Loss of 74th Admiral; Ormoc, Leyte Island, Is Captured   British Fleet Is Joining U.S. Sea Power in Pacific

NO CHANCE FOR JAPS TO ESCAPE SAYS MACARTHUR   BRITAIN DISCLOSES TWO FLEETS READY FOR ACTION IN EAST

Americans Face Further Fighting To Secure Leyte   MacArthur Says Conquest .  O£f Ormoc Not The End;   Japs Flee Kweichow

Thousands of Japs Face Annihilation After Capture of Ormoc.   CHINESE MAKING GAINS

Chinese Tag lafter Enemy in Kweichow   London Announces Second Fleet Is Ready for Action Against Nips

Jap Troops Trapped After Ormoc Capture   Squeeze Put On Enemy in Leyte; Chinese Pound at Heels of Japanese Retreating From Kweichow Province.

Thousands of >  Enemy Troops Caught in Trap   Britain Announces 2 Fleets Ready For Japs; Chinese Hot on Heels of Foe Refreating from Kweichow

AMERICANS CAPTURE ORMOC AND ENEMY [5 FACING DESTRUCTION  CHINESE FORCES POUNDING ON HEELS RETREAT

Shelled Ormoe On West Leyte In Yank Hands   Japanese Face Stark Annihilation in Huge American Squeeze Play In Philippine Stand

TRAPPED AND COMPRESSED INTO NARROW POCKET BY AMERICANS NIPS HAVELITTLE CHANCE =

Thousands Of Japs Are Caught In Squeeze Play By MacArthur's Men.

AMERICANS CAPTURE ORMOG AND ENEMY IS FACING DESTRUCTION   CHINESE FORCES POUNDING ON HEELS RETREATING JAPS IN CHINA

Tokyo Discloses Deaths Of Six More Admirals © And Another Genera]

Ormoc Is Taken   “Heavy Fighting Suill Faces Yanks on Leyte, 7 Nin Adoiirale Kilfed

Enemy Units Face Certain Death in Trap   Resurgent Chinese Smash At Nip Forcés Fleeing From Kweichow

Qrmoc, Key Seaport on Leyte, Captured by American Force:   Three Yankee Columns Squeeze Nip Troops Into Narrow Pocket

Jap Troops Face Squeeze As Ormoc Fall   British Ready 2 Fleets to Join In Pacifie War

3 Allied Columns Trap Japs   ‘Enemy Unable To Escape,’ MacArthur Statement Assertc.

ORMOC SEIZED BY YANKEES IN SUNDAY DRIVE   Resurgent Chinese Pound On Heels Of Enemy Fleeing Kweichow Area

SQUEEZE PLAY CRUSHING FOE STILL IN ISLE   Japs Also Forced Back By Chinese Drive in Kweichow Area

Ormoc Capture By Yanks Traps Huge Jap Force   Great American Squeeze On Leyte; Chinese Drive  Foe From Kweichow

GERMANS ABANDON NOVGOROD, VITAL POSITION 100 MILES LENINGRAD   Nazi High Command Reveals That Troops Have Evacuated Communications Center.

Southern Anchor of Nazi Defense Line in No. Russia,  PAVES WAY INTO BALTIC STATES  Russians Capture Great Siege Guns Near Leningrad.

Soviet Forces Cut Vital ” Railroad To Leningrad: , Take Great Siege Guns

Photos Disclose Effect of Raids   Rail Lines Cut, Fires  Burning In Burcharest

Doughboys Come Under ‘Heaviest Fire Third Army. Has Yet Enocuntered ’    ANOTHER BATTLE Is RAGING ALONG WEST  BANK OF ROER RIVER   Germans Have Massed -And Are Using Their Heavy Artillery There . i

Child Dies as Home Is Burned   Mother and Baby of Two Months Reported Seriously Burned

IM ust break reich. into 3 small states, lcrush general staff, Welles declares

_ tlles, i in Book Published Today, a ‘oposes Germany of 3 States

Farm on Guadalcanal Grows Million Pounds of Vegetables in.a Month

BUYS DARLING HOME   Robert Staton Purchased Property on U. S. Highway 36.

Senate Starts On Soldier Vote  Final Action On State Bill Friday

SOLDIER VOTE PLAN HEADS FOR OKAY BY SENATE   Program Is Moving Swiftly, Nears Final Passage   HARMONY SEEN   Rival Parties Act To Assure Vote For Military

CABINET CRISIS.   SOLDIER “NAMED DEFENSE MINISTER TO: SUCCEED FOE. ’ OF DRAFT POLICY. 

Political Crisis in Canada      Row Over -Conscrip: tion Policy Results  In Resignation of  Minister of Defense 

WLB Decide: To Retain Pay Formula   Grants Premiums On Night Work,  Other Concessions

WLB Keeps Little Steel Pay Formula   86 Basic Concerns Must Pay Premiume Te Nicht Workers

Steel Raise Within Limit Of Formula   WLB Grants Premium But Says Lines Intact; Wage Study Urged

Steel Mills’ Night Shifts  Get Premium   Board Rejects Plea For General Boost In Wage Rates.

Night Shift Increase Ok’d; Demands For 17-Cent Pay Boost Denied In Ruling

THIRD BOMBER RAID OF WEEK BLASTS TOKYC   JAPS THREATEN TO MURDER UU. S&S. AIRMEN

B-29 Grews Defy  _ Japan’s Threats   Third ‘Raid Within Week Fires Enemy Capital

ENEMY CAPITAL HIT IN 2 WAVES FIRES STARTED   Japanese Radio Minimizes Effect of Bombings; Official Details Are Not Available

Japanese Attack Chinese Position  Above Kweilin   Fighting Rages As Enemy Is Reigforced.

Curtailment  Of Supplies to Irish Likely   Traffic Halt Sequel To Ban On All Travel Across Irish Sea; No Military Moves Seen

TO BE CLOSED SOON, BELIEE   Allies Appear Ready To Seal Window on  Invasion Flank

May Close Border Between Northern lreland and Eire  Allies Plan Drastic Extension of Ban on Irish Travel

NEUTRAL EIRE BORDER LINES TOBE CLOSED   TRAVEL BAN TO CUT OFF NORTHERN IRELAND

CLOSE BORDER GF IRELAND FROM EIRE   Travel Ban Made Necessary On Account Of Leakage In Invasion News By En.emy Informers.   Security Measures

Brifish-lrish Border May Be Tightly Closed   Formal Sanctions Believed Unlikely

Allies on Verge Of Closing Irish  Lines to Travel   Ready To Seal Tight Observation Window On Eisenhower’s Flank While Preparations For Invasion Are Under Way

 Extension of Travel Ban to Create Problems for Business -- *Goncerns and Transport Companies—High Authority Says There Will Be No Immediate Sanctions Against  " Dublin Government by the Allied Nations.

FIRE BORDER ‘TO BE CLOSED ~ SOON. BELIEE   -Allies Appear Ready ” To Seal Window on  Invasion Flank

Soldiers Poised At Eire Border To Enforce Bar   Allies Ready To Tighten The Window On Invasion Plans

Say Ulster, Eire border to be closed  Big extension of travel ban

Crop Production. Second to 1931 ~   Grain Sorghums and Soybeans Will Set Record This Yeor -

FULL FARM LARDER   Kansas Crop Production Is Best This Year Since 193]

GROUP FORMED TO FIND LABOR SHORTAGE CURE   Upton Named Permanent Chairman; Outline Prosram

Mrs, Andrews Grilled by D. A. In Salinas Trial   Defendant Is Questioned : About Affairs on Night Farmboy Was Shot

INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR MISSING GIRL   Police Shovel T Through 150Ton Pile of Coai at Columbia LU.

COMMITTEE CHANGES   Thomas Will Head Senate Agri_ cultural Group ~

Sixth War Loan Quota Nearly Completed Here  Chairman Heinecke Urges Pledges Roe £2, 4illead Caan

Sixth War Loan Quota Nearly Completed Here  Chairman Heinecke Urges Pledges Be Fulfilled Soon

Sul Ross Ex Flies Through 50-Below Weather in Raid Over Berlin in Daylight

Europe Hears Rumblings Of Invasion   Nazi Commentator Says Germans May Be Set Back

Rommel Ends Final Cheekup Of West Wall   Berlin Predicts Multiple Allied Offensive Soon; Red  Army Readv.   CHANGE COMMANDER

Rommel In Final Check  On Defenses   Von Rundstedt Is Named Commander of  AntiInvasion Forces

NOW ADMIT ALLIES MAY PUSH AHEAD   Acknowledge Nazis Likely To Be Pushed Back From Both Sides

Invasion Rumble Increases Daily   German Commentators Again Admit Nazis Can Be Thrown Back.

INVASION RUMORS: AIRED ON RADIOS OF PARIS, BERLIN   Rommel Completes Inspectior OF West Wall Defenses: Reds are Ready

NAZTO DIoPLAY ANXIETY WHEN INVASION NEAF   Berlin Commentator Admits Germans May Retreat on Both Sides.

Mighty Offensives By United Nations Expected by Nazis   European Radios Carry Steady Rumbling of Invasion Threat

Rommel Checks Atlantic Wall   Dittmar Admits Nazis May Be Thrown Back on Two Sides

ROMMEL MAKES CHECK ° INVASION DEFENSES  European Radios Filled With Talk About Coming Campaign of Allies

FINAL CHECK IS COMPLETED BY GEN. ROMMEL   European Radios Rumble Steadily With Talk of Mighty United Nations’  Offensives   SETBACKS ANTICIPATED

Nazi Radios Talk Invasion   Gen. Dittmar Acklowledges Complete Preparedness Not Possible for Germans

Rommel Completes Final Inspection Of Western Wall   Stockholm Reports Von Runstedi In Supreme Command—Nazis Concede Reverses Possible

E urope Full Of Rumors Of Coming Allied Atiack   Mighty Offensive From Both East And West Is Reported Near; Nazis Are Still Guessing

Rommel Makes Final Checkup Of West Wall   European Radios Buzz With Talk Of Multiple Allied Offensives.

Rommel Checks Defenses Again  Report Von Rundstedt Anti-Invasion Chief

Talk Of Mighty Allied  Offensives Pours From European Radios Today

Final Inspection Of “West Wall” Said Completed By Rommel; Nazis Believe Invasion Near

Allies Occupy Huon Peninsula   Aussie and Yank  Forces Meet on Coastal Plain

Australians And Americans Join Lines In Drive That Took 14,000 Japs

Allies Finish Huon Drive   Peninsula Occupied, Jap Losses Heavy in Five Months Campaign

Allies Complete Occupation Of Huon Peninsula; Costly To Japs   Jap Division Of 14,000 Wiped Out As Yanks And Aussies Join Forces; Air Force And Naval Units Assist In Victory.

Yanks, Aussies Join Forees On HuonPeninsula   Qeccupation Completed After 5 Months Struggle Through Jungle and Up Coast — Jap Division of 14,000 Men Wiped Out.

All Huon Peninsula In Allied Hands; Campaign Cost Japanese 14,000 Men

Huon Peninsula  Occupied by Allie:   Five-Months Campaign Concluded With Defeat of Japanese Division

Huon Peninsula Now Fully In Allied Contro!   5-Month Drive Cost Japs 14,000 Men

CCUPATION F PENINSULA : COMPLETED   of 5-Month Campaign  hich Cost Japs 14,000  Men Annomnced By Gen. MacArthur   ISSIES ARE BIG HELP

Victory to Yanks And Aussies in New Guinea Drive      Allies Join Forces to Complete Occupation Of Huon Peninsula ‘And End Campaian

Yanks, Aussies Join: Forees On HuonPeninsula   Occupation . Completed  . After 5. Months Strug _ gle Through Jungle and Up Coast Jap © Division, of. 14,000° Men Wiped Out.

JAP TERRITORY *PINCHED OFF IN ENCIRCLEMENT   Number Of Japanese Troops, Supplies Said Destroyed

Occupation of Huon Finished   U. S. and Australian Forces Wipe Out 14,006 Japs in Campaian

HUON PENINSULA ON NEW GUINEA TAKEN BY ALLIED FORGES   FIVE-MONTHS’ CAMPAIGN ~ COST JAPANESE DI. VISION OF 14,000 MEN

Allies Occupy i uon Secto1 On New Guinez   5-Months Campaign Costs Japs Division of 14,000 Men; Yanks and Aussies Join Forces

OCCUPATION OF HUON COMPLETE   MacArthur Announces End Of Five Months Campaign In New Guinea.

466 Local Wells Given Allowable Of 6,981 Barrels   Average Allowable Per Well Increased To 42 Barrels.

Relief Column Careens Thru 4 Mile Gauntlet Toward Arnhem Bridge   Ist Army Captures Stolberg; 3rd Inflicts Smashing Defeat On Foe, Destroying 60 Tanks

First Army Captures German Industrial Town of Stolberg: Patton's Forces Repulse Assault

BRITISH DRIVE ON TO RELIEF QF MAIN FORCE   Tanks and Armored Cars In Desperate Race to Save Pocketed Sky Forces.

German Besiegers  Under Shell Fire From Rescue Army   U.S. Ist Army Seizes Stolberg; Patton’s Tanks Inflict Major Nefeatan Strong Enemy Column

Then Drive kor Bridge   SEEK TO AID FORCE WHICH ... IS IN POCKET; OTHER ALLIED: TROOPS CAPTUPRE STOLBERG

TRAPPED FORCE HAS HELD QUT FOR SIX DAYS   Stolberg Occupied, 3rd Army Wins Great Tank Battle

Evidence In Chaplin Case Ends   Comedian Ranges From Tears To Smiles On Stand; Jury To Get  Case Tuesday.

Civic Clubs Will Discuss Hospital   Tulsa Hospital Executive To Be Principal Speaker

Hospital Fund Drive To Open   All Civic Clubs In Joint Meeting Tuesday Night,  Workers Start Wednesday

Churchill Delay on Robots Protested   Address Postponed; Parliament Critical

Robot Bomb Talk Delayed  Churchill Will Speak On Suhtect Thureday

Coal Strike In Wales Spreads   Threat of Major Strike Because of Wage Structure

Dewey Attacks Government's Stockpiling  For War Needs; Says Too Much Wool Kept

WILL GRADUATE AT WEST POINT   Charles F, Frock, Littlestown, Will Receive Commission In Coast Artillery At Exercises Next Month

RED ARMIES SLASH DEEP INTO DEFENSES   Units Of Herman Goering Division  Are Repulsed

Nazis’ East Prussia Lines Are Breached   ‘German Radio Tells Of Break; _ Soviets 30 Miles From Krakow

KRAKOW IS ALSO MADE   Soviet Forces Leap Water Barriers and Make Progress Toward German Selicia Today.

WU INTO FOOD.COSTS: _ PLANNED BY SENATE eROU      AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE DECIDES ON. FAR-REACHING ‘BURVEY OF ENTIRE © FOOD SETUP

¢ seize-camn where 30.000 died by German tortur   Allies seize- camp

Patton's Third Army Launches Push Near Metz   Russians Massing Troops To Carry Out Stalin Pledge

Nazis Claim GIs Prepare ‘Big Drive’   Russian Troops. ops Are Reported Massing for New Assaults . Against Reich

Germans Say Prelude for Big Offensive   Report Americans Preparing for New Assault Near Aachen

SIX U. §. INFANTRY DIVISIONS BATTLING ON CENTRAL SECTOR   GERMANS FEEL THAT ALLIES ARE REAPYING FOR ALL-OUT DRIVE

Class Workers Who Leave War Jobs With Deserters   Top Military Commanders Make Report To President On Situation

‘Top U. S. Military Chiefs Warn Nation War Far From Won and That Tough Fighting Still Lies Ahead

WAR LEADERS ASK WORKERS 10 KEEP ~— UP PRODUCTION   Desertions on Home Front » Would Prolong the Fight They Declare.

Top Military Chiefs Scold Job Slackers   Deserters of War Plants Told Tough Fights Still Ahead.

MARTIAL LAW IN. HAWAIT ENDS   Roosevelt Says Public Safety No Longer Requires’

Charges Collier Obtained Divoree At U.S. Expense   Indian Commissioner Denies Reno Stay Financed by Bureau

Senators Debate Service Vote Bill   Acceptance of Compromise Plan Urged in Speech by Connally

Mill Owners Fight Textile Pay Increase      Violates Wage Formula. Claim

SUBSIDY PLAN IN DEADLOCK   NO COMPROMISE SEEN AND SENATE VOTE TO END SUBSHDIES IS FREELY . PREDICTED

TOBE DRAFTED   Leaders Seek Pre-Convention Accord on Foreign Policy Plank.

"GOP Generally eAgreed Upon  Foreign Policy ® Cooperation In  [ a a cs oe ee Oo    P Cooperation In_ International Field In Tentative Plank

GOP DRAFTSMEN START WORK ON WAR PLATFORMS   BACKERS OF DEWEY, OTHER CANDIDATES BATTLE FOR VOTES

ferned closely alter the Mackinac Pestwal Advisers Council statement.

WORLD POLICE FORCE TO GET GOP BACKING   Foreign Policy Plank for Platform About Ready

GOP Platform Makers at Work  Interest Centers in Ca wdieia te Fights

Begin Work on G.0.P. + Platform   Leaders: Near’ Agreement:-on * Plank Urging” International: Co-operation”.   DEWEY FORCES SEEK ° cs" “BALLOT DECISION   Backers ‘of Other. Candidates  Maneuyer- for ‘Favorite oo! Son? Strength -

PARTY CHIEFS BEGIN WORK ON GOP PLATFORM   Backers of Presidential Candidates Fight For  Nominating Vote

Republicans Agree On Foreign Plank .   May Pledge International Cooperation, Backed By ‘Military Force

GOP PLATFORM IN MAKING BY PARTY WORKERS   Supporters Of Candidates Arriving

GOP Draftsmen -Plan Platiorn For Campaign   “America At War” Theme For Set Of Principses Nominee Will Espouse

Begin Work On GOP Platform   Move Toward Accord on Foreign Policy Plank

Candidates Battle For Nominating Votes A: COP Drafts ‘America-at-War’ Platform Today

G. 0. P. Drafts  Platform   Party Expected to Pledge International Peace Collaboration

Republicans Draft Campaign Platform   Accord Near on Foreign Policy Plank. Favor International Court

GOP Draftsmen Begin Work On Their Platform   Various Advisory Groups Submit Facts Gathered after Nine-months’ Study of Numerous Issues.

‘Republicans Start Draft Of Platform   Candidates Wage Brisk Battles

GOP CONSIDERS FOREIGN POLICY   Pre-Convention Accord on  Plank Is Objective

FOREIGN POLICY PLANK STUDIED   GOP Leaders Are Seeking Accord on Plan From Major Candidates

One-Page Foreign Policy to Dewey Talks Be Offered GOP at Chicage With Chicaac

U.S, SOBERED BY PROSPECTS OF LONG WAR   Possibility That Draft Calls Will Be Larger and Production Will Have to Be “Humped”

D BERLIN HIT BYR AF   U.S: in Most Formidable Raids; Down 95 Nazi Aircraft

BERLIN'S PORT OF STETTIN HIT BY RAF BOMBS   Air War Rages Ceaseless!y With Capital and Other Targets Blasted

RAF SHOWERS TONS OF BOMBS ON STETTIN AND BERLIN AFTER AMERICAN  SMASH. AT KIER 0" ‘ ‘SRWFYARDS 2 t

Drives Opened Against Nazis In Two Areas   Canadians Smashing Ahead Below Caen; Germans Give Way

MRS, LUCE FLAYS F. DR. IN SHARF §..0; P, SPEECH   Pleads for “GI Joes” and "GI Jims”

Amny Threatens To Haul Freight Tied by Strike  708 Trockers in Narrishurg Wark.l auracter Rreoa Idle ix

GERMANS PULL FORCES BACK TO NORTH IN ITALY   Allied Troops Continue Steady Drive Against Retreating Enemy

GERMANS STAGE GENERAL PETREA NORTH OF ROME   Allies Occupy Numeréus Towns in the Adriatic Area

PREDICT NO ACTION ON LABOR DRAFT   Sen. Reynolds - Says It Will Not Ge To Senate Floor

BULGARIA IS MAKING. BID. ‘TO GET OUT OF THE WAR   GREEK GOVERNMENT IN EXILE 38 DEMANDING BULGARIAN LEADERS BE PUNISHED ©

TO TERMINATE SUBSIDIES   Also Believed to Have Strength to Override Veto

Subsidy Foes Corral Forces To Beat Veto   Expect Life Of CCC To Be Extended Til June, ’45

HOUSE SET TO APPROVE ANTISUBSIDY PLAN   Program’s Foes Feel] They Can Override Veto This Time

Civilian Output After War To Be Slow, Nelson Says   WPB Chairman Takes Up Reconversion

$1,600,000 PRICE ON GEN. BOR’S HEAD   Germans Send Out 200 Secret Agents to Get Leader of Warsaw Wnderground.

UNITED NATIONS’  MONETARY MEETING  IS NOW ONDER WAY GOOD PROGRESS REPORT  ED AS FIRST FULL DAY’S SESSION OPENS

U.S. Heads 2 Vital Groups  Chairmen Named For Monetary Conference

U.S. Takes. — Big Role In Money Parley   Gets Chairmanships of Two Important World Bank Posts .

MANY REQUESTS   MONEY EXPERTS PICK CHAIRMEN   United States Gains Leadership Of Two Vital Segments Of Parley; Work Well Advanced.

Eighth In Italy Develops Two-Pronged Pincers Drive Against City Of Cesena   Six Jap Freighters Sunk \Or Damaged In Yank Raids (On Pacific Installations

EIGHTH ARMY CROSSES RIVER   DRIDGEHEAD-ESTABLISHED IN TWO-PRONGED PINCERS.’ ‘PUSH ON CITY OF” ‘- @perna *

ALLIED PINGERS MENACE CESENA   Two-Pronged Drive Meets Stiff Resistance

Eye-Witness Story  Men Laughed,  Joked During Pacific Raia   One Soldier Even Played Boogie-Woogie During Admiralty Invasion

Rough And Tumble Cavalrymen Seize Momote Airfield In Hour And A Half

Cavalrymen Storm Ashore   Men of First Cavalry Division Surprise Japs on Admiraltys

BIG, BRAWLING CAVALRYMEN, TRAINED ON TEXAS BORDER, IN QUICK CAPTURE IAP AIRFIELD

 Fightin’ s Score Again Cavalry Division Leads US. Landing in Admiraltys: Take Drome in Quick Time

Writer Offers Eyewitness Account Of AdmiraltyRaid Which Cost Japan Dearly

Landing In Admiralty Islands Brilliantly Executed By U.S,   Rough And Tumble Texas Cavalrymen Stormed Ashore Under Warship And Aerial Support

Tough Cavalrymen, Trained On The Texas Border, Stormed Ashore In The Admiralty Invasion And Quickly Cleaned Up The Japs

British 8th Is Again In Action   STARTS POWERFUL DRIVE NEAR ** TOMASSO; FRENCH CAPTURE SAN ELIA; AMER. 5TH FORDS   RAPIDO RIVER

FRENCH MOUNTAIN TROOPS CAPTURE ANCHOR OF ENEMY   San Etia Falls to Allies as Fifth Army Fords Swollen Rapids For Thrust Above Cassino.   ONE JAP- VESSEL SUNK, TWO OTHERS DAMAGED   Marshal Brozovith, Jugoslay Partisans’ Leader Report ed Wounded In Militar: Gnerations.

FRENCH CAPTURE SAN ELIA, ANCHOR OF NAZI DEFENSES   American Troops Thrust Into German Pasition on Italian Front

Murray s Gestapo Scheme Amazes  Leaders of GOP   Dan Whetstone Also “Amused” by Call for FB Agents to Guard Montana Polling Places Tuesday Against Purported “Election Steal”

DALE THOMPSON WEDS IN CALIF.   Former _LeMars Youth Weds California  Ctrl

Several Thousand Students March To Governor's Office With Coffin; Sing Fvec of Texas: Protest for Rainev

LARGE AERIAL POLICE BEAT MAINTAINED   Jap Bases Steadily Hit While Troops Press Campaign

‘Americans Maintain Aerial Police ‘Beat Over. Japanese Pacific Bases

Reds Start New Drivein Hungary   Germans Report March Toward Budapest

Reds Launch New Offense On Budapest   Key Town Coptured in New Russian Advance

Patterson Warns Change In Jap Leaders May Be Just a ‘Window Dressind’

Patterson Warns Change in Jap Leaders May be Just Window Dressing to Deceive Allies —

U. S. Will Not Be Fooled by Jap Shakeup   Patterson Says More Ruthless War Lies Ahead

VICHY GOVERNMENT MEMBERS FLEEING   Patriot Groups Begin De. _ struction of. Nazis '" Deafsenses

VICKY LEADERS FLEE TO BERLIN   Resistance Groups Begin Thorough Destruction of Defenses

Vichy Regime Is Evacuated Info Germany   Cabinet Ministers Reported In Berlin

DE GAULLES UPRISING IN FULL SWING   Patriots Attacking Nazi Convoys, Causing Heavy Loses in Men And Equipment

Vichy Government Reported Fleeing   French Patriots Wreak Losses on Germans

Most Members Of Panicky Vichy Regime Flee France   Whereabouts Of Pierre Laval And Marsh Petain Unknown, However; Maqui Forces Destroy German-Vichy Defenses

Vichy chiefs flee in face of partisans  Maqui resistance groups effective

WIDESPREAD BOMBING RAIDS CUTTING JAPANESE: STRENGTH   AIRMEN OF MacARTHUS'S COMMAND HIV-ENEMY TARGETS ‘FROM PHILIPPINES TO.  ’ BAST INDIES

co. Pr ha  Amid Ruin and Utter Apathy.:Business and Life Go On in Invaded Italv

pci! wbalbaeaam ae  -———_—___——= (Life, Business \Go on in Italy iDesnite Apathy     ea od

Charles-E. Bedaux, Facing ‘Treason Indictnient for Communication With — Enemy. Dies in Miami

Charles Bedaux, Mystery Man Of Many Countries, Commits Suicide At Miami

Charles E. Bedaux, Mystery Man, Is Taken by Death  Overdose of Sleeping Powders Taken, Suicide Note Left

REVEAL BEDAUX SUICIDE VICTIM   Man Who Developed “Stretch Out’ System, Friend Of Wales, Takes Overdose Of Powders.

MYSTERY MAN DIES IN MIAMI   Sleeping Powder Overdose Kills C. &. Bedaux; Called Arch Foe of Labor.

International Mystery Man Dead   Charles E. Bédaux Took Over. dose of Sleeping Powders, It Was Said.

INTERNATIONAL  MYSTERY MAN  ENDS OWN LIFE CHARLES BEDAUX  FACED CHARGE OF TREASON BY U. S.

Bedaux, Mystery Man, Is Suicide   Takes Overdose Of Sleep ing Powders On Eve Of Turvy Session.

Bedaux, International Mystery Man, Takes Life; Faced Federal Inquiry

THE MYSTERY MAN. IS DEAD   Windsors’ Friend, Suspected of Treason, Takes an Overdose of Sleeping Tablets and Leaves Suicide Note.

A Suicide Note Left By Bedaux   International Mystery. _Ma Found Dead in Florida; Faced U.S: Action.   TREASON CHARGE WAS. CONSIDERED   Grand Jury ‘Was About: to Begin Inqury Into Acts of Industrialist:

Bedaux Dies Of Sleeping Pills   International Mystery Man Leayes Suicide Note; Ac cused of Treason.

CHARLES BEDAUX, FACING TREASON PROBE, ENDS LIFE   Windsors’ Friend, Unde: Arrest at Miami, Fla., Caramite Siuieida

Mystery Man A Suicide   Bedaux, Friend of the Windsors, Faced Possible Trial for Treason

MYSTERY MAN 1S A SUICIDE   Chas. Bedaux, Interna tionally Known, Took Overdose of Tablets

Rich Treason Suspect Suicide  Windsor's Ex-Friend, Facing Indictment,

C. E. Bedaux Kills Himself   International Mystery Man Leaves Note

French Mademoiselles Aren’t What  Dad Said They Were. But Mud Is

LA BELLE FRANCE—1944 VERSION  GI’s Doubt Tales Theit Fathers Tell

STATE SURPLUS LOOMS AS TISSUE   NEW PROPOSAL ON SPENDING PROGRAM VIEWED AS LIKELY

RED TAPE BANS AWARD TO DOC   Only ‘Persons’ Are Eligible Under Army Rules

War Ndpasiaaiel Must Alter Regulations To Allow Dog Hero Silver Star Medal

Jenner Takes Up His Duties In The Senate   Discharged War Veteran, a Republican. Today  Sueceeds Samuel Jackson, in U.S. Senate.

IMPORTANT TOWN TAKEN BY SOVIETS   Russian Forces Push Be yond Severed Rail. way Line

Gyongyosls Occupied by Red Troops   Vital Communications Center Northeast Of Budapest Captured

Russian Forces Advance Six Miles, Capture Key Communications Center

Soviets Capture Key Road Hub Of Gyongyos in Six-Mile Drive Beyond Cut Budapest Railway

Warships Help Soviet Assault On Baltic Isle   Budapest Encireling Move Guins as Reds Ad ance

Reds Making Steady Gains In Hungary    ~ Communications Hub Of Gyorigyos Captured South of Czechoslovakiz  WINTER DESCENDS

REDS CAPTURE GYONGYOS IN HUNGARY   Seven Other Localities Also Taken; Battle Eniers New Assault Phase; Reds Massing Troops.   145 Square Miles

British Tighten Hold on Bologna   Yanks Beat Off Nazis Near Monte Grande

Washington Again Warns Finns To Halt Aid to Nazis   Farther Darkens Picture for Finland After Russian Raids Devastate Helsinki

U.S. WARNS FINNS ABOUT WAR ROLE   Hull Tells Finland She Mail Shoulder AH the Reenonsibility

Must Shoulder Responsibility of Fighting With Nazis, Helsinki Told

FINNS WARNED TO DITCH HUNS   Get Out Of War Now, I Renewed Advice From United States

FINLAND GETS NEW WARNIN   Must Shoulder Responsibil ity of Fighting With Nazis, Helsinki Told

\U. S. Warns Finns To Quit Rassian War   Nation Must Bear Reds’ Wrath for Assisting Aets Bhiulh Saca

City-County Meetings Launch Fifth War Loan Drive; War Heroes Speak To Large Crowds   Women's Division Organized For Town Canvass; Farm Supervisors Of Beats Announced By Mr. Lawson

Landing Believed Imminent   Berlin Says Allies Ready to Open New Front

Breach Germany's Greatest Natural Barrier West of Berlin   Thrust Aimed Straight at Giant Southwest Industrial Center of Stuttgart

Germans Admit Their Armies in Grave Situation   Combined Drive Launched by U. $ First and Ninth

4,000 Expected to Witness Buda Co.’s E Award Ceremony   Army-Navy Officials will Confer Production Honor on Harvey Plant

DEWEY WILL MAKE ~~ NDDRESS IN STATE   Governor Bricker Also Is Listed for Maryland Speech

Formosa Assault Terrible Defeat  For Nimitz, Enemy   Carrier Aircraft Pounding Invasion Coast Of Luzon: Japs Report Attempt To Land In Philippines And Naval Clash Off Formosa.

Jap Losses Soar As U. S. Planes Continue Attack   Halsey’s Fliers Destroy 89 to 104 Nipponese Aircraft in Raids On Aparriand Targets on Luzon

Superforts Spread New Destruction With Two Raids; Nimitz Reports Only Light Damage to Sea Forces

ALLIES: PLEDGE HELP 10 iTALY   “Aid Seen as Move ‘to Strengthen Premier Ronomits Cnavernmenrt

ALLIES PLEDit HELP [0 IALY   Aid Seen as Move ‘to Strengthen Premier -Bonomi’s Government

Captured Nazis Still Confident   Sure Robot Bombs Will Beat Allies

Veterans Will Be Here Together With Army Band and Group of Entertainers

GL BOND JAMBOREE at FREDERICKSBURG SUNDAY AFTERNOON   Show And Band Concert On Court House Lawn

Prefer to Play "Devil" Rather Than Thaf of Elther Hitler or Toio

U: S. Plans”  Cemeteries   69 Believed Needed To Bury Our Troops

Small Bond Sales Lagging In County  Subscriptions Are Less Than Original Quota

War Loan Quotas  ~ Made For € ounty  Expect Corporations Tc  Pledge $1.7 Million

END REIGN OF NAZIS AFTER FOUR YEARS   Forces of Interior Whip Germans in 4Day Battle in City

1 Enemy Carrier Reported Sunk, 5 Others Damaged As Tempo Of Battle Rises   Nippon F' leet Seeks To Check American Advance Against Pacific Bastion: One U. S, Light Carrier Listed As Lost

U.S. Light Carrier Princeton Lost: Casualties Few, Nimitz Announces

McAlester Firemen Want More Money   City’s Entire Force Quits Except Chief Grantham

British Seize Argentine Consul In Spy Probe  - Several Persons   Several Persons Already Detained

Investigation Opened To Decide Whether Spy Ring Operates In South America Nation

Seize Diplomat From Argentine As Enemy Agent   South American Govt. . Begins ‘Investigation Into. Espionage Ring

New Argentine Consul Seized As German Spy   Oscar Hellmuth Arrested On Ship At Trinidad For Spy Activities

British Hold Argentine Consul as ‘Enemy Agent   Argentine Officials Announce Investigation to Determine Whether Spy Ring in Oper- . ation, Several Persons Detained

BRITON SElZt ENEMY AGENT   Investigation Underway to See If Spy Ring Operates (In Argentine.

SEVEN PERSONS DIED IN FIRE   CHIAGO AUTHORITIES 8USFEUT ARSON IN FIRE THAT SWEPT APARTMENT HOUSE

Civilians To Get Sufficient Wheat   Abundant Supply Despite War Demands

Gestapo Rule Now Complete   Ill-Fated Revolution Gives Hitler Chance To Grab Any Power Still Held By Junkers

REVOLT OF GERMAN GENERALS GAVE MORI POWER TO HITLER  FUEHRER AND HIMMLER SNATCH ARMY LEADERS’

Hitler, Himmler Now Control All of Germany  Police Terror Rule Over Reich Is At Its Climax Now

Nazis Profit On Revolt   Hitler, Himmler Use Chance To Get Power Army Leaders Still Held

Hitler and Himmler Snatch Last °Power Over Army From Officers’ In Dog-Eat-Dog Survival Fight

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Triple-Pronged Blow Dealt Occupied France and Reich

ALLIES P FRANCE, REICH   Air Blows Aimed at Rail Yards Brunswick Attacked In Davligcht

Joint Church Meet March 2   four Speakers Coming lor Countv-Wide Session Here

CHURCHES PLAN PEACE MEETING   Clergymen To Discuss Fu ture “World Government”  fn All-Day Session

New Natural Gas Line From Stowell Will Augment Local Supply Of Fuel

Red Troops Set Stage For Final Push On Capital   Germans Abandon Positions On West Bank of Bierbrza

Hoviets Smash To Within 10 Miles Warsaw   > Near Approaches To Lake Corridor Into East Prussia

REDS ARE AT CORRIDOR T0 HAST PRUSSIA   Siege Are Is Made Tighter Around Embattled City of Warsaw.   BULLETIN

American Craft Bombard Iwo Jima; Two Warships Hit by Shore Batteries

U. P. Receive: Award For Safety Work   Lowest Casualty Rate in 16 of Last 213 Years, Speaker Says

RURAL LEGISLATORS OHIO GOP PROBLEM   ‘Deadlock in House Over : Naming New Speaker

Supervisors Get Air Tratfic Plea   Airport Group Presents Case At Board Meet

URGE COUNTY AIR PROGRAM   Future Of Air Traffic Is Outlined To Board of  Supervisors

GOP Nominees Slate Parley On Campaign   Gov. Bricker To Visit Dewey In Albany Wednesday For Discussion

 Dewey, Bricker To Blueprint Respective  Responsibilities In Conference This Week

Dewey and Bricker  Will Blueprint  Campaign Program Republican Leaders  Will Hold First Gaceian Thic Week

Dewey and Bricker Will Blueprint Campaign Program  Republican Leaders Will Hold First Seesion This Weel

WILL: PLAN CAMPAIGN   Governor and Mrs. Bricker Will Be Guests of the Deweys -

Gov. Dewey; Bricker To Hold Talks   Will Blueprint This Week Their Drives to Unseat The New Deal

It's Christmas Eve For ‘  Little ‘Nubbins’ Hoffman   Santa To Come Early For Little Fellow Who May Not Be Alive On Christmas: Suffers Serious Ailment

Santa. Pays. Visit To Nubbins Hoffman, 3-Year ‘Old Lad Who May Not Live Until December 25

Aimee Semple McPherson, Noted Evangelist, Dies; Was Well Known In This State   Woman: Who “Dived Into Ocean And Came Up In The Desert” Was One Of This Country’s Best Known Evangels

AIMEE M'PHERSON, EVANGELIST. DIES   Founder of Angelus Tem. ple Expires at Age of 524 ;

Aimee M’Pherson Dies Suddenly   Heart Attack Ends Colorful Career Of Evangelist.

Britain’s Labor Ill  Perilous   Fear Worst Strike Year Since 1926 Walkouts

GROWING Lia! UF WALKOUTS ATS BRITAIN   Worst Strike Year Since 1926 Threatens War Effort in England,

Serious Labor Situation Is Facing Britain As Strikes Erupt On Nation-Wide Front

Worst ‘Strikes  Tn Many Years Menace Britair   Labor Situation Erupts On Nationwide Front; Leaders Not Blamed

Britain Threatened By Heavy Strikes   Worst Since 1926 as Labor Plot Erupts On Nationwide Front

Labor Crisis Seen In England; Arbitration Plans CrackUp      ‘Britain Considers F orced Labor As Last a Resort With 100,000 Men Out

LABOR SITUATION BRITAIN APPARENTL) READY TO BLOW UP  INDICATIONS ARE PRES-

Worst Strike Year Since 26 Feces Britain   Grave Labor Troubles Erupting On A Nationwide Front.

Britain Faces Worst Strike Year Since '26   Even Urgency of National Need Not Preventing Damaging, Unauthorized Strikes

Strikes Hurt Britain in 5th Year of War   Situation Called Worst Since 1926

Here's The Result Of Clogged Hot Water Heater Pipes   Worst Strike Year Since 1926 Looms ‘in Britain

‘4 To Be Worst Strike Year For The Britishers   Potential Undermining of National Arbitration Structure Seen as Strike Result.

British Face Strike Spread   Labor Situation Has Erupted on Nationwide Front; Many Idle

Britain Faces ~ Worst Strikes  More Days Lost-So Fa -Than In Other Years .

Clear Summary Of British Strike Situation. ... . Britain Apparently In  ° : For Worst Strike Year

Gateway to East Prussia Taken by Red  Forcec   MANY PLACES ARE TAKEN DURING DAY:   Capital of Lithuanian Republic Appears — Doomed.

Sweep Within 10 Miles of Kaunas Capital of Old Lithuanian Republic; ‘Headed for Berlin,’ Says Moscow

REDS SEIZE GATEWAY 10 EAST PRUSSIA   Grodnos Fall Announced By Stalin After White Russian Armies Enter Fortress.   Tremendous Problem

Kaunas Seems Doomed as Reds Advance   Nazi Losses Total Half Million Men in Last Month

‘Capture Opens  Enemy’s Gates:  Into Homeland   Soviets Report Suecesses Over All Eastern Front  Tm Tmeherked Asasult —

Russians Announce Fall Of Grodno, Fortress City  Gateway To East Prussia   GL LLL LA LAE LED LOD  Kaunas Capital Of Old Lithuanian Republic Appears Doomed As Reds Circle It From East ern Side

Russians Take Grodno, Gateway To East Prussia   Germans Taunted By Moscow Radio

Soviet Sweep Hes rils Kaunas  Tn Lithuania   German Losses Put At Half Million Men In Less Than Month  BIG GAINS GENERAL

TENTH IN NATION   Kansas Secured Its Share of War Contracts to January 1

Soldier Vote Bill Now A Law   State's Rights Measure Becomes Law At Midnight Without  F. D. R. Signature.

Roosevelt Does Not Sign Or Veto Soldier Vote Measure   Measure Became Law At 12:01 A. M. Saturda’ Although President Objected To Features

Biddle Aide  Removed By President   Democrat Calls For Congress Inquiry Into Row

DE GAULLE WILL SEE FDR SOON   Head of ‘Provisional’ Government of France May Arrive End of June

De Gaulle Accepts U.S. Invitation  Receives Full Honor But No Recognition

De Gaulle To  See Roosevelt   Hopes To Visit President Sometime Late This Month Or First July.

Germans Make Mighty Effort to Throw Allied Troops Back to Sea   Next Few Days Seen as Most Critical Penod Since Salemo; Fight to Break German Hold on Cassino Continues

MIGHTY EFFORT MADE BY NAZIS   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE Tinited Presx War Editor

DEMOS QUIT BY SEN. REYNOLDS   China, Russia Ready To Co-Operate In ‘New Era’ In Pacific To Assure Continuing Peace—Wallace

SEE DRIVE FOR RENOMINATION   Believe Wallace Address Seeks Pacific Support

WALLACE SEEKS WEST'S SUPPORT   Says China, Russia Plan New Era In Pacific

MAY NOT GET ON TICKET   Report to Nation Seen as Bid for Renomination, However

R.S. AVIATOR [S MISSING IN ACTIO}   Second Lieutenant John R. Bassler, Jr., Was on Flying Mission Over Europe.

ACTION IN ITALY   @Allied and Axis Patrols Stab All Fronts; Nazi Morale Fading

FORTS BLAST ROCKET COAST INSTALLATION §   Bombers Take Up Attack As British Return From Big Night Sweep   NAZi MORALE FLAGGING   Three Ukrainian __ Drives Run Roughshod Over Hitler’s Hordes

5-SHIP CONVOY IS DESTROYED OFF NEW GUINEA   Many Hundreds Of Jap  Troops And Crewmen Lost, Report Says   RABAUL IS ISOLATED, M’ARTHUR DECLARES

Americans Sink Five Jap Ships Off New Guinea   Iwo Heavily Loaded Troop Ships Blasted

FIVE SHIP CONVOY OF JAPANESE SUNK   More Than an 100° Planes Make Attack Off of Wewak -

Two Troop Ships Are Among Allied Victims   ALLIES SMASH MILI   Battleships and Carrier Warplanes Team up to Hammer Marshall Isle ,

U.S. Bombers Sink 2-Ship Jap Convoy   Two of Vessels Sent to Bottom Loaded With Nip Troops Bound for Wewak: Yanks Pursue Enemy Fleeing Into Manus Hills

NEW AUTOMOBILE LICENSE PLATES READY SHORTLY      Only One Will Be Issued. For Rear Of Car; Deadline Te April 1

GOP PLATFOR APPROVED BY PARTY LEADERS   Protective Tariff And Crop Control  ' Main Issues

_ ip semen eeenion = aeieietaied aan, a  PROTECTIVE TARIFF AND SURPLUS CROP CONTROL ADVOCATED  REPUBLICAN PLATFORM ALSO WOULD GIVE SERVICE MEN pRaTEcTioN

Rumania, Switching Tc Allied Side, Fights Tc Regain Transylvania.

TWO GREAT BATTLES SHAPING  UP INITALY   British Drive On Florence and American Mop Up At Pisa Next On Schedule.

Americans Prepare For Drive On Pisa; British  7 Miles From Florence

Roosevelt Expected to Meet With Churchill, Stalin in Europe Soon

FOR= CHURCHILL, STALIN TO MEET ®   Officials Believe Conference Wil] Not Take Place in Paris

Roosevelt Expected To Leave Soon  For Second Meeting Of ‘Big Three’

Liberators Bomb Marshall Island   Sink Two Ships, Hit Two Planes

Biggest Attack Since 1940 Blitz Costs 8 Planes   Many Fires Started Despite Reports Say Fev Planes Were Able To Penetrate To Center Of City. Americans’ Help Fight Blazes.

Nazi Bombers Start Fires in London Raie   Biggest Attack Since 1940 Made on Capital

HUNDREDS OF INCENDIARIES HIT CAPITAL   Heaviest Raid Since The Big Blitz - Of 1940

BELIEVE RUSSIA MAY AID IN FIGHT AGAINST JAPANESE   Feel Soviet May, at.a Strategic Moment, Make: Available Some of Her . Resources. to.  Alliesin Pacific-Asiatic Congit ss.

MUST HALT AGGRESSION   Stalin’s Designation of Japan as Aggressor Significant

Stalin Talk. Raises Hope      Russia May Strike. Japs: At Right. Time.

Russia May Aid U.S. In Fighting Wa With Japan   Bases May Be Made Available Or Stalin May Join In Attack On Full Seale

Red Resources May Aid Allies ~ In Pacific War   Stalin Discussion Of Japan As Aggressive Nation Renews Speculation

USING TO. an IN PACIFIC WR   Stalin’s- Speech Indicate: Reds Will Move Against Japan

January Sea Loss Is Lowest   Destruction Of U-Boats Increase: Despite Greater Enemy Caution.

Germans Have Onlv 12-Mile Escape Gap Raked by Yank Guns   One Direct Railroad Out of Fortress in Peril — New Rainbow Division Takes Part in Fighting — Other Sectors Advance

Third Army Forces Closing Corridor —   Berlin Reports General Patton is Using 600 Tanks in Offense Headed Toward Saar Basin

“This Is The Army” Nets $10,000,000 For Army lEmergency Relief Fund

‘ARMOUR EMPLOYES BACK   Brief Strike Occurred When Workers Refused to Make Up Time

YANKS STEP UP CAMPAIGN IN MARIANAS   Artillery Blasts Tinian, Across Strait from Saipan

STEP UP CAMPAIGN IN MARIANAS   Tinian, Opposite Saipan, Heavily Rombarded

BAD WEATHER LIMITS ACTION AT BEACHHEAD   Small - Seale German Attack At Anzio Hurled Back

Mountbatten’s Forces In Full Swing To Open Land Route To China lan Casualties Heavy

Full-Swing Allied Drive To Cut Route  Into China   Forces Now Operating On Three Sides Of Megaung, Muountbailen Headquarters Reveals

Allied Campaign In Burma To Reopen Land Route To China Is Reported In Full Swina   Forces Announced Operating On Three Sides Of Moqaung In Northern Sector

Allies Launch Three Big India Drives   Full Bid to Open Land Route to China Is Started

Mogaung Near Capture Now   Determined Chinese-British American Drive on To Reopen Land Route

THREE SIDES OF MOGAUNG UNDER ALLIED CONTROL   Sperations Point ito Strong Move By British, U. 5. and Chinese Troops to Reopen Route to China

Three-Pronged Attack Hurled Against Japs   Strength Is Shown By Stubborn Japs In Area Of Kohima

New Food Stamp Plan Gains Favor   Would Subsidize  Low Income Groups

Give New Support Ta Stamp Plan   Use Of Food Stamps h Place Of Subsidies  Widely Favored ‘1: Upper House

REDS READY FOR ASSAULT ON ODESSA   Siege Guns Placed, Nazi Garrison Virtually Trapped

‘Reds Roll Artillery To Gates of Odessa For Crushing Siege   — ‘Thousands of Trapped Nazis Await Dire Fate in Black Sea Metro polis; 7 Coast Patrolled to Nip Evacnation

Russians Prepare for Big Assault   Final.Storming of Port Near—Thousands of Germans Slain

SIEGE OF ODESSA IS UNDER WAY   Troops and Tanks Move Into City’s Outskirts

Are Curves Around Julich In Cologne Push; Berlin Admits Withdrawal

Fighting Rages Along 26-Mile Front Within Germany’s Border; Doughboys Capture Entire Battalion

iArrival of ‘Missing’ Soldier Son Is Best iGift for Mother's Day

Mother’s Day Happiness Typified As Son, Reported Missing, Returns to Atlanta Home

Believed to be Takeoff Point for Japanese Bombers  Which Raided Saipan

TWENTY FIRST U, S. BOMBER  ws iii eh bokiion Miticecimiae: ie jee sa

FR. and Dewey Step Up Their Flection Activity   Roosevelt to Woo Union Votes Dewey Plans Tour

Dewey Campaigr For Presidency Formally Opens   Roosevelt Plans Address Before Teamsters’ Union

To Address Teamsters ©   FDR Starts Political Campaign Sept. 23; Republican Guns Open

Campaign With Labor Address.  Dewey To Make Tour  Across Nation, Plans ©... Bt. @.8aehe

FD Announces Opening Talk; Dewey Race Or   Campaign For Presidency Starts On Final Weeks:  Gop Governors Active

CAMPAIGN ENTERS FINAL TEN WEEKS LEADERS ACTIVE   PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SCHEDULES ADDRESS; GOP GOVERNORS SPEAK

Roosevelt To Open Campaign September 23 In New York   Pearson Predicts Victory In Europe By Early October

MAJOR PARTIES OPEN CAMPAIGN   FDR. to Speak on Sept. 23; Three GOP Governors Blast at Dem Labor Tieun

PRESIDENTIAL » CAMPAIGN IS COMING TO LIFE      F.-D.-R. Will ‘Speak; ‘Three. Governors  Blast Demos’.

Presidential Campaign Is Speeded Up      FDR, Dewey Open Ballots Battle

POLITICS BEGINNING TO BOIL; THREE SPEECHES FOR DEWEY; FDR TO BROADCAST SEPT. 23

URGE FDR SIGN NEW TAX BILL   Warn Congress Will Not  Pass Another Measure

URGE FDR NOT TO VETO TAX BILL   Claim Congress Will Not Pass Another Revenue Measure

British Forces in Holland; Yanks at Border of Germany   Shells From American Guns Land For First Time on Nazi Soil; German Losses Are Tremendous

GERMANY FEELS ALLIED MIGHT IN LAND FIGHT   American Shells Fall On German Soil Sunday

Allies Taking Heavy Toll Of Nazis   Aachen Under Fire Of American Guns; Luxembourg Falls

U.S. First Army CapturesCapital ~-)i-Taxembours   Yanks Bombard: Aachen; 10 Miles From Reich; Seventh Army At Dijon

Yanks 10 Miles From Germany   Capital of Tiny Duchy of Luxembourg ‘Taken by Yanks— French Units of Seventh Army Reach Outskirts of Dijon — American Guns Shell Aachen, Report

SALARY BOOST PLAN STUDIED   Bricker Confers With Leaders On Special Session

OPPOSITION LOOMS TO SPEGIAL SESSION ON SALARY BOOSTS   Bricker, Aides Continue Conferences On Matter

Flying Forts Bomb Sofia For Fifth Time   Bulgaria Reported Preparing for Attack on Turkey

Bulgaria Reported Girding For Early Attack On Turkey      Rumors Spread and New Signs Are Seen of the Growing Importance of the Balkans as a War Theater—Pacet in Cairo

NEW AIR BLOW TS DEALT SOFIA   RAD MADE AMID REPORTS BULGARIA IS PREPARING TO ATTACK TURKEY.

FORTRESSES BLAST SOFIA   Attack Made as Bulgarians Are Reported Preparing To Attack Turkey

Sofia Bombed ~ By Fortresses   German Satellite ‘Reputed Near War on Turks

Finns Reject Second Russ Peace Offer   Moscow , Calls Helsinki Leaders Responsible for Prolonging War

Finns Reject Soviet Peace   Moscow Says. Country ts Vassal To Nazis

Finns Re ject Soviet Terms kor Armistice   Russians Brand Leader: As Willing Vassals Of Germans

Senate Shelves  Measure To Ban  State Poll Taxes Won't Come Up         Won't Come Up Avain For Year

‘Post- Primary Controversies Reveal  Strife i in G. O. P. and Democratic Ranks

EXPECT QUIET GOP MEETING   To Nominate Balance of Ticket for Election Campaion Tuesday.

GOP CONVENTION. 10 BE PEACEFUL   Dems Close Me Meeting with Nominations; Republican Attorney General ‘Post Open

Americans in uniform world around commemorate Easter in many faiths

(Please Turn to Page Five)  YMCA MAY AID PRISONERS IN PHILIPPINES. JAPS SAY

Churehill at French Front   Sees Fighting With Hich American Officer.

LEADERS VISIT INVASION FRONT   Churchill. Eisenhower, Marshall View Beachheads

Top War Chiefs At Battlefront   Churchill Inspects Beachhead As Eisenhower, Arnold See Troops

Churchill and Eisenhower In Normandy   Other American Leaders Land and Inspect Yankee Battlefront

Commanders Of Allied Forces VisitFronts   Churchill,” Eisenhower, Marshall, King-and- Arnold See Invasion At  Giese Range

Allied ‘Bigwias Visit Normandy; Churchill There   Eisenhower On Tour Of Front With King, Marshall, Arnold And Other Staff Members

Allied Chiefs Inspect Front in Normandy   Churchill, Marshall Eisenhower and Others Tour French Front

Allied Chiefs Visit France   Top Leaders Inspect Beachhead Positions And Are Pleased

BEVY OF ALLIEDCHIEFS INSPECT NEW BEACHHEAD   - Jan Christian Smuts, So. African Premier, AccomPanies Churchill

FDR’s ‘labor draft’ stuns congressmen   President ‘tells people about it’

Chief Says Act To End Strikes. Speed Victory   Five-Point Program Outlined by Presiden In Annual Message To House and Senate

Roosevelt Appeals For National Unity   Goal of Post-War World Security Is Stressed Tee A  aml Dn.

CHANGES VIEWS ON MOBILIZING MEN AND WOMEN   Duration Measure Sought To Prevent Strikes; Stabilization Is Aim

Roosevelt Proposes Labor Draft   President Declares Measure Would ; End Strike Threats

Annual Message Urges 5-Point War Legislation.   Appeals for Soldier Vote Assurance: Outlines ‘Bill of Economic Rights,’ Denies Seeret Teheran, Cairo Pacts

FDR Advocates Civilian Draft For War Work   President Sets Forth 5 Point War Program

President's DemandIvan Type Drait      CONGRESS IS STUNNED BY PRESIDENT S PROPOSAL TO HACKLE FREE AMERICANS “FOR THE DURATION.”   Also Excess Incomes

National Service Plan Key Point in Broad Program for Winning War Offered in Annual Message

President Asserts Measure Would Prevent Strikes and Demoralize the Enemy

Plan Linked With Other  War Measures   FDR Gives Assurances No Secret Treaties Made for America

BROAD MOVES ARE OUTLINED TO WIN PEACE   CONGRESS STUNNED, APPLAUDS PLEA FOR UNITY

National Draft Law Proposal  Stuns Solons   Request of President for Service Act Takes Legisla. tors by Surprise—Five Point Program Laid Down in Message to Congress

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FDR Asks All-Out Draft In War Work   “Key Point In Five-Point Program For. Eull Mobilization Stuns Conaressmen

SERVICE REQUEST STUNS CONGRESS   Key Point in Broad Program Given in Annual Message   WOULD HALT STRIKES   President Hinges Service Act On Enactment of Four Companion Measures

National Service Act Plea S: ins Congress, But President’s Move Generally Applauded  PROGRAM OFFERED TO WIN WAR, PEACE  Such Legislation Would Stop Strikes, Chief Executive Says

PRESIDENT WOULD CONSCRIPT WOMEN, MEN FOR WAR JORS   Suggestion Made in Five~ Point Program He Presents for Winning Both  War and Peace.   CALLS FOR CEILING ON RETAIL PRICES   Urges Tax on All Unreason: able Profits and Re-Enactment of Statute Fix- -—  ing Wages. me

President's Stand In Annual Report ‘Stuns Congress   Executive Offers Five-Point Program  To Win War, Peace

FROM AFRICA TO ENGLANE    Homer City and Indian Soldiers in Most Important Battles

JOHN W. LINT NOW OUT OF AFRICA AREA   Fayette Soldier Took Part In Rattle Actions In Afrita—Now Has Arrived ta Bugiaad

Arlington Soldier, Veteran Of Many Battles, Helping Train Troops For Invasion

15 of Utah Sect Sentenced; Wife Screams Defiance   Fundamentalists Get One to Five Years; Woman Draws Penalty

DRAFT CALLS 10 BE INCREASED   Rejectees 18 Thru 29 Will Be Re-Examined i

ARMY BOOSTS DRAFT QUOTAS   TWENTY THOUSAND MORE MEN PER MONTH ASKED FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY

FOR WARNS OF LAST-MINUTE GOP WHISPERS   New Surge of Name Calling Breaks Out in Political Campaign

Name Calling Marks Finish  Of Campaigr   FR Predicts ‘Last Minute Accusations’ from ‘Undercover Whispering’

New Surge of Name-calling Marks Presidential Campaign  Oe ee eS a  Re N  Conteerie   Dewey Denounces ‘Corrupt’ Tactics; Ickes Lashes at ‘Smear’ Strategy

WHISPERS ARE F:D.R. TARGET   Dewey Denounces Democratic Tactics, Hits Secret Deals

Charges of Corruption Hurledat Democrats By Dewey in Pennsylvania

New Surge of Name Calling Enters Vote Campaign   Slyness and Secrecy Charges Hurled by Leaders of Parties »

Windup of Campaign Is Marked by Bitter Words   FDR Warns Against. Whisperings Dewey Denounces Demo. Tactics

Way Cleared for Push on Livorno  Yanks Advance on  Italy’c Wact Canct

YANKS LAUNC NEW DRIVE 10 CAPTURE PORT   U. S. Forces Ten Miles From Livorno; Take Castiglioncello

FIFTH ARMY BREAKS LIVORNO STALEMATE   Preparing to Storm Last Major Outpost Below Pisa After Capture of Castiglioncello.

'Yanks In Italy End Long Stalemate Below Livorno; Capture Castiglioncello

AMERICANS TAKE TOWN NEAR LIVORNO   Advance 2 Miles in Drive Toward Big Italian Port

AMERICANS TAKE POINT 10 MILES BELOW LIVORNO   Castigiioncello Taken From Nazis in Frontal Push

GERMAN STRONG POINT BELOW LIVORNO CAPTURED BY YANKS   U.S. Armor Drives to Within Nine Miles Of Big Port: Nazi Counterattacks Halted

Advance To Break  Italian Stalemate   Push Forward Toward  Important Livorno Port

YANKS READY FOR FRONT PUSH ON LIVERNO PORT   Castiglioncello Capture Ends Stalemate In Onward Push

Americans Edge Nearer Livorno  Light Armored Forces Crack Defense Lines

Capture Castiglioncello 10 Miles Below Big Port Of Livorno   ALLIES BATTLING AHEAD IN SECTORS   Germans Braced For First Defense Of Homeland Against Russians

U.S. Prepares For Storming Of Livorno   Long Stalemate Broken, Americans Now Nine Miles From Big Port

AMERICAN LIGHT ARMOR ADVANCES ON ITALY’S COAST   Long Stalemate Delaying Frontal: Advance: Appears: ' Ended Now.

FOR, CHURCHILL WILL MEET $9)   , ‘Plan to Draft: Final “Strctegy to Lefeat Javan Next. Summer

PLANS FOR JAPAN'S DEFEAT SEEN AS CONFERENCE GOAL   RUMORS OF GERMAN PEACE CIRCULATED IN : WASHINGTON ARE NOT : ' CONFIRMED ,

COR, GHURGrLL WILL MEET $3)   Plan to Draft Final Strctegy to Lefeat Japan Next. Summer

 Germans Who Telerated Black Market As Morale Builder Now Find Its Growth Is Wartime Hindrance

Democratic Pulchritude To the Fore   Party in Power Not To Be Outdone By Republicans

U.S. Calls On Hungary Io Battle Nazis   Better Treatment In Peace Implied

as Urges Hungary To Oppose Germans   Hull Implies Nation Will Get Better Treatment at Peace Table If Resistance Given; Rumanian Occupation Confirmed

Nazi Reprisals For Slaying Of Henriot Make Paris City Of Terror; UnrestSpreading

Terror Reign Enegulfs All of Paris   Situation Is Worst To Hit France In Modern Times

Nazi Manhunt Makes Paris Terror City   FRENCHMEN ARRIVING AT SPANISH BORDER TELL OF JEW ROUNDUPS

Paris Becomes City of Terror.   House-to-House Manhunts, Anti-Jewish Roundups Take Place

Nazis Make French Capita City of Terror   Oppressive Measures Exceed Everything Happening Heretofore

Mass Arrests Made In Paris: City In Panic   Manhunt Progresses As Vichyites And Gestapo Collaborate

TERROR REIGNS IN PARIS WITH NAZI OUTRAGES   House-to-House ManHunts Being Carried Out  By German Gestapo and Callaharatinnieate

Thousands Of Patriots Rounded Up   Jews Imprisoned To Stadium; Every House $a Searched

Lt.-Gov.Cahill Said Slated To Assume _ Governor’ S Office   No Action: Is ‘Taken By Governor; ‘Senator Wishes To Serve Nation As. Combat Soldier. Overseas

Lodge Quits. Senate Post’ For Servic   Massachusetts . ‘Republi. can. To Become Officer ’ Jn Army - :

LODGE RESIGNS HIS U. §. SENATE SEAT   Massachusetts Solon To Resume Army Duties

SENATOR LODGE QUITS POST TC JOIN THE ARMY   Massachusetts Republican, Who Served in Libya, Will Be ‘Combat Soldier’

Sen. Lodge Quits  For Active Duty  Will Go Into Overseas  i a a a

Cahill Expected To Become Governor and Appoint Former Chief to Capitol

LODGE RESIGNS SENATE POST   ‘SOLON. FO.RETURN TO ACTIVE DUTY IN ARMY

Lodge Resigns For Army Duty   Gives Up Seat in Senate to Get Into Combat Service

Leverett Saltonstall May Resign Massachusetts : Governorship For Ap_ peintment to Senate 

Allies Tell Europe's Underground Army Invasion is “Not Far Distant’

LIBERATION NOT FAR AWAY, EUROPE TOLD   First U. S. Broadcast Te Continent Made By New Station

LIBERATION DAY COMING CLOSER, ALLIES ASSURE   New American Broadcast Station In Europe Asks People be Cautious and Discreet,

INVASION FEVER IS MOUNTING   Eisenhower Will Give Signal For Underground Action

Zero Hour Is Near Say Allies   Occupied Nations Told to Prepare To Aid Invasion

‘Undersvound   New U, S. Stadio Station Wars of Being Tricked Into Premature Move

Eisenhower Will Tell Zero Hour To Underground   Allies To Land Tracks, Locomotives, Cars On Continent

New U.S. Radio Station In Europe Says Day of Liberation Not Far Off

Rains Slow Allied Advance In France   Canadian Troops Capture Town Five Mile:  South Of Caen; Nazi Attack Repulsed

Rain and Mud Slow Fighting   Canadians Capture St. Martin, British Units Push East From Caen

Rains Retard Allied Armies  ~ In Normandy      But Canadians Capture St. Martin de Fontenay, 5 Miles South of Caen

Canadians Siog Forward A Mile To Take Town Near Caen; No LargeScale Move “Accom. plished Yet On British Front, With Rommel Holding Reserves Back From Front Line.

Torrential Rains,  Mud Slow Allies  In Normandy Drive Canadians Capture Si. Martin  de Fentenay, Five Miles Senth al Case Bniich Pech Fact

RAINS B06 DOWN CAEN OFFENSIVE   Canadians Push Forward to Take St. Martin.

Canadian Troops Slog Mile Through Mud To Capture St, Martin de Foutenay   British Gain Fight Miles Toward Paris   Americans Pinch Off Long: er Portion of Road From St. Lo to Periers Despite Rains

Infantrymen  Widen Shaft.   Allied Forces Push:  Drive: Around Caen’

Allied Infantry Pushes Ahead For New Gains  Tn: ‘Caen: Offensive   Gen. Montgomery’s Advance, While Pushing Deeper Into France, Has Failed To Bring Main German Army To Battle

Rains and Mud Slow Advance In N ormandy   Americans and British Score  Added Gains

British Gain Some Yardege and German CounterAttack Beaten Back. Only Local Advances Report ed in American Secior, Air Support Hampered by Weather

Advance Mile In Normandy; Terrain Boggy   Offensive Slows Down Generally Due To Weather

WEATHER SLOWS ALLIED PUSH IN FRENCH SECTOR   Canadian Troops, However. Capture St. Martin de Fontenay, Near Caen

HEAVY RAINS CHECK ALLIES INNORMANDY   Canadians Take Town in Mile Advance; Repel Nazi Tank Attack

Rain and Mud Fail to Halt Invasion   British Make Gain Toward Paris; Progress Is Slow

BRITISH TOMMIES BY-PASS TROARN FOR &MILE GAIN  wm maeeaarri rE AAR e   ROMMEL FLOODS RIVER TO BLOCK LE HAVRE ROAD

Mud Slows Up Allies In Normandy; Rommel Avoids A Showdown Battle

RAINS AND MUD SLOWING ALLIED PUSH IN FRANCE   Canodian Troops Punch Out One-Mile Gain — British Drive Toward Paris

MudlsDeep In French  Battle Zone: Town Falls   British Units Push On Beyond Caen Eight Miles

Allies Drive South of Caer Continues   Gains On Western Front Slow, Due To Determined Resistance

Seas of Mud Slow Advance In Normandy  Bitsich Tianna   British Troops Push Eight Miles East from Guen

Rain,Mud Slow Allied Offensives   Meager Gains Are  Made in Normandy; - Weather Interferes  With Air Support

MUD SLOWS ALLIES INNORMANDY.   “Canadians Slosh Forward A Mile, Capturing Town

Rain and Mud Fail to Halt Invasion  Beisiek AdnLa @fminm   British Make Gain Toward Paris; Progress Is Slow

Canadian Units Capture Town South Of Caen   Torrential Rains And Deep Mud Bog Battlefields, Slowing Allied Activities

Torrential Rains Slow Allied Plans _ In Normandy Fight   British Infantry Takes Over Brunt of Fighting From Tank Units

Mud Bogs Down Normandy Front   British, Canadians Make Some Gains

‘Heavy Rains Slow Drive In Normandy   British Able to Move Ahead Despite Mud On Battlefields

Canadian Troops Make Mile Gain   Heavy Rain Slows Allied Offensives  In Normandy

Bogging Mud Slows Allies  In Normandy   Canadian Troops Push For_ ward To Capture St. Mar tin de Fontenavy.   MOVE TOWARD PARIS

— Puce —  Rains Retard Allied Armies  In Normandy   But Canadians Capture St. Martin de Fontenay, 5 Miles South of Caen

Rain Slows © Allied Armies In Normandy   Canadians Capture St. Martin de Fonteney; British Advance Eight Miles Toward Paris .

Rains Bog Down Offensive In Normandy Allies Take Town 5 Miles South Of Caen

RECONVERSION PLANS FACING MONTH'S DELAY   Situation On Military Needs To Be Re-Examined In Mid-August

Industrial Reconversion Is Faced  With At Least Delay Of One Month

DELAY CHANGE FOR INDUSTR}      DECISION ON: MANUFACTURE ‘OF MORE. PRODUCTS FOROIVILIANS POSTPONED "UNTIL AUGUST

RECONVERSION FACES MONTH'S DELAY AT LEASI   Order to Make Civilian Items May Be Defer.ed

Willkie’s fax Policy Like Roosevelt’s   PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION CANDIDATE VOULD HOLD DOWN NATIONAL DEBT BY TAXES BEYOND IMAGINATION,   Only More Extravagant

Willkie Urges Higher Taxes 'To Cut War Debt   Says Treasury Proposal Of Eight Billion Dollars Should Be Doubled

BIG TAX INCREASE -URGED-BY WILLKIE   SEES CRUSHING NATIONAL DEBT UNLESS GOVERNMENT GETS MORE REVENUE.

Willkie Urges Huge Tax Boost To Cut U.S. Debt   Should More Than Double 10 Billion  Treasury Demand

Willkie Favors Boost in Taxes   Would Double Amount Asked by Roosevell

THIRD ARMY. FIGHT MILES - FROM ODESSA   Zhukov’s Men Drive Over Carpathian Foothills

Mightiest Salute Is Fired In Moscow   Stalin Issues Two Orders Of The Day When - Germans Are Thrown Back on Two Maior Fronts

Hitler Tells Nazts They Face Terrift Tasks This Y ear   Fuehrer Savs Victory By Russia Would Mean  Europe's Annihilation

HITLER URGES DAZED NAZIS TO BEAR UP   Warns Germans Of Bolshevik Terror If Russia Wins; Exhorts His Followers To Fight For Victory.   Sun Will Shine

Hitler Exhorts People to Persevere so That Fight May ‘End in the Biggest Victory of German Reich

Says Only Oue Victor Can Emerge from War, Germany or Soviet Russi

Hitler Says, Says He: Biggest Victory of the Reich May Come This Year, Fuehrer Declares

HITLER PLEA TO GERMANS   Exharts ‘Bomb-Groggy People to Persevere In Fight

Hitler Exhorts Germans to  Stand Ground   Reuews Old Tirade On Jews, Red ‘Menace’ to Allies

Bomb-dazed Nazis Urged to Bear Up   Adolf Hitler Warns Germans Hard Job Ahead: Fuehrer Tells World Bolshevism Is Biggest Danger

GLOOM FILLS HITLER PLEA TO GERMAN   Exhorts Bomb-Groggy People to Persevere  In Fight

Adolf Hitler Tells Bombed People To Keep Fighting   States Victory for Russia Will Mean Annihilation of Europe Where Nazi Triumph Means Preservation of Europe

Hitler Tells Dazed Nazis To Bear Up   Reich Dictator Marks Anniversary In Gloomy Speech

1126 Yanks Evacuated to Italy   AMERICAN AIRMEN INTERNED BY RUMANIA AFTER RAIDS FREED

Main Events of Celebration Here   Monday ' ap. in, Aodeo a5 taland Grove. v  Tueaday 10's. m, Parada. : « m. Radeo at faland Grove. p. m. Concert’ by mucieley eid aymohonic band.   Allies Capture Siena on Way To Florence-

ALLIED TROOPS OCCUPY SEINE      Population Cheers and Parades Famous Flags in Demonstration.   LITTLE DAMAGE IS DONE

Allies Capture Siena, Cecina In Italy Campaign  City With Valuable Art Treasures Has Little Damage; Both

Siena Drive. Ends. Today With F rench Taking City.   Sth “Army. Advances: Near Anconan Port

French Take City of Siena   Win Italian Prize After More Than Week Of Heavy Fighting

50,000 Cheer Allied March Into. Siena   Residents of Art City in Wild Demonstration After Liberation

Allies March on To Northern Italy   Siena Falls to French; U.S. Troops Capture Cecina in Bitter Enaqacement

Allies Occupy Siena, 31 Miles  From Florence   Take City After Week Of Heavy Fighting Through Nazi Defenses.  “eens ner Sas ene rea  City UNTOULCEED

Allies Occupy Siena   City Falls After More Than Week of Heavy Fighting; Score Gains Along Entire Front 

Allies Occupy  Siena Metropolis   Italians Cheer Wildly As French, American Troops Enter City

Allies Enter Siena After Fight Thru  Nazi Lines      Troops Greeted By Overjoyed Populace

Siena, Ii alian.. Metropolis 31 Miles From Florence, Occupied by. Allied Units

TTALIAN CITY OF SIENA, MEDIEVAL ‘METROPOLIS FALLS   French Troops and American Artillery and Tank Forces Occupy City Noted For Its Art Treasures

ALLIES OCCUPY SIENA IN ITALY   Fifth and Eighth Armies Score New Gains In Accelerated Push

FRENCH TROOPS AND UJ. 5. ARTILLERY HAVE OCCUPIED CITY SIENA   AMERICANS CRUSH GERMAN RESISTANCE COASTAL TOWN OF CECINA

French And Yank Forces  Take Siena                    Fighting Through man.-Defenses;_Y:               siderable Casualties.”

* —IPALY—  ANCIENT (TALIAN CITY IS CAPTURED   Week Of Hard Fighting Brings New Triumphs To Fifth Army   POPULACE CHEERS   Eighth Army In Rapid Advance West Of Lake Trasimeno —

Cheering As The Yanks Take Over   Americans Move Into A Medieval Italian Metropolis —   CITY ESCAPES DAMAGE   Eighth Army Troops Make Rapid Gains on Adri- — atic Coast

Allied Forces Sieze Siena   Population Wildly Cheers French, Yanks Entering After Heavy Fighting

Allies 31 Miles Below Florence   Capture Siena In Heavy Fighting

FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY SIENA, NEAR FLORENCE   Bitter Battle Reported At Cecina

SIENA TAKEN BY OTH ARMY AFTER WEEK   Occupy Medieval Metropolis Near Florence In Tough Battle

GOES WILD WITH JOY   Fitth Army Takes Cecina As Gains In Italy Continue

FRENCH SEIZE TOWN OF SIENA   Key Communications Center Falls After Heavy Fighting   ALLIES NEAR ANCONA

AMERICAN AND FRENCH FORCES , CAPTURE SIENA  GERMAN RESISTANCE CRUSHED AT CECINA

YANKS, FRENCH UNITS CAPTURE CITY OF SIENA   Residents Give Allies Rousing Reception—Successes in Italy Pile Up

NAZIS DRIVEN OUT OF SIENA   ;  Medieval Town 31 Miles Below Florence Falls to  Allied Forces.

LITTLE WAR DAMAGE FOR ANCIENT SPO]   Week of Heavy Fighting Gives Allies Strategic Place Just 31 Miles Out of Florence

French and Us Forcés Take Siena   Population Cheers: 8th Army Advances Rapidly West of Lake Trasimano

Yanks And French Go Info Sienz   Medieval Italian Metropolis Is Occupied After Week . of Heavy Fichting

YANKS CAPTURE SIENA IN ITALY   Population Puts on Wild Liberation Welcome

Allies’ Occupation of Siena Brings on Wild Demonstration   Yankees Capture Key City on West Coast of Italy Today

ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE SIENA IN ITALIAN PUSH   50,000 Italians Stage Wild Demonstration for Liberation Forces

Frenel And Yank Forces Take Siena   Climaxes Week of Lleavy Fighting Through German Defenses; Yan ‘Vake Cecina In Vicioy: ighting, Sutter (oa. siderable Castalttes.

U.S., French Occupy Siena Wild Demonstration Giver By Population

Yanks, French In Italy Seize Historic Siena   Wild Demonstration In Liberated City; Amer icans Hold Cecina.   EPL) Bobs Ts 8 BIN, ROME. (/P)-Secretary of War Stimson has arrived in Italy.

British Hit German Shipping North of Danzig  FURIOUS 48-HOUR AIR DRIVE RAGES  Three Rail Centers Hit by the American Bombers

Bombers Batter Baltic Port   German Shipping I: Reported Smashed

LIQUORS ARE UNRATIONED   Whisky Only To Be Left On Ration List After May 15

Birth-Grave Bill Arotises [Medic Storm   Sen. Murray Accuves A M. A. of Issuing “Propaganda” Against It.

PRICE CONTROL REVISION URGEL   Sweeping Changes Favored By House Committee

CHANGES’ IN WAR LABOR BOARD POWERS ALSO PROVIDED IN EXTENSION.  " sd BILL .

Price Control Revision Urged   Recommendations Are Sub. mitted To Congress On Price Control] And Stabilization

German Air Force Pours Incendiaries and High Explosives on London

Foochow, Big Chinese Port. Is Goal Of Drive, Nips Assert; Gains Reported In Wu River District

Japs Claim New Chinese Victory   Say Navy, Army Have Met In Wuchow Area

Gen. MacArthur Fulfills Pledge To “Come Back’ With Tremendous Operation That Catches Japs Asleep And Splits Philippines.

Invasion Forces Making Progress   Leyete island, Half Way Between Mindanao And Luzon, Is Almost Completely Occupied

Qluofa Sel For County   Business, Indusiry Join Promotion  Of Bond Sales

TWELVE MILLION PATRIOTS READY TO AID LANDING   Underground Armed, Waiting

BRICKER ENDS DRIVE IN OHIO   Ohio Governor Believes State to Go Republican

American Jungle Troops Go to Aid of Hard-Pressed Chinese in Jungle War

Nelson Said Due to Make  Mexican Visit      Former WPB Chief To Be on Personal Staff of President

SENATE STARTS FROM  SCRATCH ON SOLDIER  VOTE LEGISLATION CLAUSE IN NEW TAX BILL MAKES Le BENEFICIAL  rrr wh

SOLDIER VOTING BATTLE IS BACK FOR NEW START   New Tax Bill Is Passed by Senate and President’s Attitude Raises Question

CHURCHILL LAUD AMERICAN MIGHT   Declares Allied Progress Towards Victory Fitting Reason for Thanksgiving; Surprise Address

Churchill Hails Military Power   Surprises AngloAmerican Audience with Thanksgiving Speech.

U.S. Greatest Armed Power,  Says Churchill   Together Allies Marct irresistibly Towards Victorious Peace, Prime Minister Says

U.S, GREATEST POWER CHURCHILL DECLARES   Surprise Thanksgiving Speech Hails Armed Might

First Army Of Vatutin Closing In On Rovno   Key Communications Center Of Nazis In Danger; Leningrad Drive Gains Speed

Russians Threaten Key City   Reds Closing in  On Rovno, Poland; Allies Make Gains On Italian Front

Vatutin Throws Three Columns al Nazi Base in Old Poland, One Within 13 Miles of City   RARRIER IN SWAMP   Fall of Rovno Would Imperil Germans in Vasi Area of Southern Russia

Pinch Nazi Traffic Hub On 3 Sides   Other Red Units Roll On In North; Slugging Match In South.

Reds Nearing Rovno From 3 Directions   Fall of Rail Junction Inevitably Would Imperil the German Grip on Large Area of Southern and Southwestern Russia.

IMPERIL NAZIS’ RULD CN VITAL SOUTHERN CITY   Vatutin’'s ‘Ukraine Army Gains; Leningrad Offensive Also Clicks

Soviet Troops Closing on Key City of Rovno   Fall of Point Would Imperil German Grip In Southern Section

Beat Off Savage Nazi Resistance, ‘Capture Tuchin   One Column Now Only 13 Miles From Key Communications Center—Capture Would Further Imperil German Grip On Whole South and Southwest Russia.

Reported Closing In On Rovno, Key German Position   Fall Would Imperil Nazi Grip On Vast Russian Area; Nazis Desperate

Reds Closing In On Rovno   Capture Would Imperil - Nazi Grip on Vast Area

Berlin Reports Soviets Using 250.000 Men in Northern Push   Admits Breaks in Line in Nevel and Vitebsk  Areas

German Grip Imperiled By Offense   Red Army fs Posing Triple Threat For Enemy Defense

SOVIETS IMPERIL GERMAN GRIP IN SOUTHERN RUSSIE   NAZI HIGH COMMAND ADMITS RED ATTACKS GROW IN INTENSITY

RUSS TROOPS ARE CLOSING IN ON ROVNO   Pound German Lines Near Leningrad and In  Ukraine

Russians Ciosing In On Nazi Traffic Hub Of Rovno Inside Old Poland; Advance In North   German Hold On Vast Area In South And Southwest Russia Is Threatened

Soviet Forces Close on Rovno   Fall of City; Would imperil German Hold On Extensive Areas

Fall of Rovno Will Imperil German Stand   Russ Offensive Ralls on Across Frozen Marshes

Capture of Rail Center Would imperil Nazi Grip On Vast Russian Sector

'Vatutin Now Is Closing In In On Rovno   ‘Fall of This Center Would Imperil German Hold On Vast Area

GERMANS’ GRIP ON VAST AREA IS THREATENED   Offensive in Leningrad Front Continues to ' Roll On: 5 Towns Taken

Red Forces Closing in On Rovno   Fall Would Imperil German Grip on South  Russia

Germans’ Grip On South Soviet In Great Peril   Russian Offensive In Leningrad Area Rolling Forward

Reds Battle Germans In ~ Rovno Area   Fight Into Thick Outer Defenses Of Traffic Hub 40 Miles enale Old Poland

Fall Would imperil Grip (f Germans   Strategic Quarter Would Open Up Whole South

Town Is Key German Communications Center 110 Miles South of Pinsk.   /DRIVE IN 3 DIRECTIONS

Germans Face. Peril In Areas  Of Big Battle   Loss of Rovno Would Strip Nazis of Hold On South and Southwestern Russia   Soviets Hammer Leningrad Sector   Five-Day Offensive In Area Continues to Roll Forward With Occ pation 5 Localities

RUSSIANS THREATEN KEY RAIL CENTER: USED BY GERMANS   Fall of Rovno Would imperil Nazi Grip on Southern Front   NORTHERN FRONT ACTIVE

Russians Close In on Key Nazi Point in Poland   Fall of Rovno Would Imperil Two Soviet Railroads Held by Germans.   Offense on Leningrad Front Rolls Forward

German Key Menaced by Red Forces   Fall of Rovno Would  Imperi!l Nazi Grip on Vast Area; Northern Drive Rolls Forward

Russtans Only 67 Miles From Pinsk_   Three Red Columns Bore Deeper Into Old Poland; Leningrad Offensive Rolls Forward

Reds Close In on Rail  Line Center   Rovno in Old Poland Appears Near Capture

SOVIETS DRIVE NEARER POLAND RAIL CENTER   Fall of Rovno Would Imperi Nazi Troops in Southern Russia

Fall Would Imperil Nazis In South   Leningrad Offensive Continues To Roll Forward

Allied Troops Capture Town Near Cassina   Three Russian Columns Drive Deeper Into Old Poland; Patrols Active.   USING 250.000 MEN

Reds Close InonRovno RailCenter   Germons Admit Reds Hoye Breached Lines In North; Southern  Ukraine Gains Made

Ukrainian Forces Menace Nazi Grip On South Russia        Sarny-Lwow Railways Major Objective Of Vatutin Offensive

ROVNO IS NEXT MAIN GOAL OF SOVIET ATTACK   Offensive on Northern Front Continues to  Show Results

DRIVE ON CITY FROM THREE POINTS   Fall Would Imperil Nazi Grip In Southwest   Offensive Picks Up Steam; Vatutin’s Men Throw Back Counterdrives

Burma Opening Nearing Completion   Chinese Flee Japs In Central China  BULLETIN

CITY AND SCHOOL. “WG WEE UKE      Joplin to Name. Two.. Cit; _ Commissioners. ‘and Two - Members: of the Board’ Ee ‘of Education:   MYERS-BONE. CONTEST “ OCCUPIES. SPOTLIGHT   ‘two. Seeking Utilities Post at = City: Hall: ‘Ran Neck-and- = a Neck-in March al o Primary.

HEAVY VOTE LOOKED FOR IN ELECTION   Interest in Contests Increased Since Primary —To Name Two Commissioners _and- Two School Directors.

INTEREST MORE WIDESPREAD IN CITY ELECTION   Substantial Vote Expected. in Selection of Two Commissioners and Two School Directors.   MYERS-BONE RACE VIEWED AS CLOSE   Only Six Votes Separated Two Candidates in Primary— ' Regular School Levies  Also on Ballot.

Russ Advance Along Entire 200- Mile Line   Spearhead Pushed ‘Close to One of Last Two-Naat Railroads: °:   300 TOWNS. TAKEN   Germans Rush Masses of Tanks and Infantry = ‘to Ukraine.

Overrun 300 towns; nazis rush up men   Vinnitsa escape route threatened

Stalin’s Troops Race Almost at Will Through Sagging Nazi Lines; Advance on Entire Ukrainian Front

Court Unholds OPA Price Curb; Portal Wages      Oklahoma Becomes Political Baitleground Of Nation

‘Lava From Mount Vesuvius Buries Two Villages, Threatens a Third

VESUVIUS LAVA BLOTS OUT VILLAGE   Three Fourths of Neighboring Town is Obliterated

Volcano Erupts Madly   Countryside for 10 Miles Strewn With Lava, Ashes

70-Foot Wall of Lava Obliterates Italian Village   Inhabitants Removed From Upper Slopes of Mount Vesuvius

Volcano Blows Crater; Yanks Save Villagers   Two More Towns Periled; Naples, Pompeii in Cloaenlen Qlhewnweck

Vesuvius Explodes; Army Speeds Evacuation of 14,000   Two Towns Destroyed, Third le Threatened .

Nazi Armies . Reel Under New Attacks   Retreats Continue on 3. Fronts; Soviets Near German Homeland

Doughboy Tide Spreading In Direction Of U-boat  Base; Also Near Nantes  Germans Find It Hard To Hold On To 35-Mile Line Below Caen

Americans Burst Through German Lines at Rennes   Doughboys Are Within 43 Miles of Big French Pete   Frantic Nazis Hold Out at Rennes City

Most of Brittany Peninsula Cut Off in Rapid Advances   Yanks Battle Through Rennes Streets Nazi Resistance Crumbles Elsewhere, Fighting Front Shrinks to 35 Miles   Nazis Retreat Near Caen

Americans Within 43 Miles of Ports Nantes, St. Nazaire   Yankees Have Penetrated France 125 Miles From Cherboure

ARMORED, INFAANTRY GROUPS SPREADING OUT REACH WITHIN A3 MILES NANTES, ST. NAZAIRE   Steady Gains Being Made Throughout Peninsula Most of Which Has Now Been Cut Off, Following Capture of Rennes Yesterday. German Losses Since D-Dav Put at 200,000

ARE OBJECTIVE   Troops Reach Within 43 Miles of Nantes and St. Nazaire on Loire.   MOST OF AREA CUT OFF

BRITTANY AREA WIDENED TODAY BY U.S. TROOPS   _ German Loss Since Invasion Totals  200,000 Men

Peninsula Almost Cut Off   Within 43  Miles of Nantes And St. Nazaire; Drive Toward Brest

Allies Spread Over Region In Britfany   Most Of Peninsula Cut Off By Troops Pushing Nazis Back

All Brittany Will © Be Conquered Soon    *k «© Ke Ww General Nazi Flight: From Frarice: Possible

ENEMY U-BOAT BASE MENACED BY DOUGHBOYS   Bradley's Troops Racing Seo Fast Writers Behind In Reporting Goins

Yank Advance In Fast Pace   Sweeping Spread Threatens U-boat Base, Nantes In Huge New Wedge   Tide Spreads Ont

Yanks in Drive of Dazzling Speed \Have. Virtually Cut Off Peninsula; /Germans Begin Retreat Below Caen

Slicing Off Breton About Completed   Americans Advancing at Dazzling Pace; Germans Holding Only One Line

Entire Breton Peninsula — Threatened as Yank Push Closes in on St. Nazaire

BIG PENINSULA 5 ALMOST CUT OFF   Tanks And Infantry Within 43 Miles Of Ports   Rages In Rennes Streets As Americans Battle To Hold Key City

Americans Within 43 Miles Of St. Nazaire, Nantes, Big” Brittany Harbors; New Gains

American Troops Within 43 Miles of Big French Port   Estimated 200,000 Nazi Casualties In France Since D-Day Invasion

Yanks  Drive for Nantes   Armored Troops Slash Two-Thirds Across Brittany Peninsula

Americans Are Moving Rapidly In Effort Tc Cut Off Entire Breton Peninsula

U.S. Units Virtually Complete Cutoff Of Breston Peninsula   Yanks Push Forward in Six Directions in Brittany; Report Germans in Retreat Below Caen

Nazis Abandon Equipment In Headlong Race   Bradley's Men Sweep 20 - Miles Beyond Rennes; Pace Unchecked

ADVANCE ON 2 PORTS TO CUT OFF PENINSULA   Fighting Rages in Rennes As German Forces Seek To Escape Trap

Slicing Off of Breton Peninsula Appears Near At Hand  CAEN LINE BUCKLES     Nazis In Retreat on That   Nazis In Retreat on That Section of Front, Widen Beachhead

SMASH WITHIN 43 MILES OF NANTES AND ST. NAZAIRE   OTHER FORCES RACE TO WITHIN 2 MILES OF TOWN OF EVRAN

U. S. Tanks and Infantry Also Widen Their Lines and Drive Toward Nantes and St. Nazaire.   FIGHTING RAGES IN STREETS OF RENNES

Spearheads Race in Direction of Great Harbors of Nantes and St. Nazaire, While Organized Racictance Shrink<   TOTAL NAZI CASUALTIES ARE PLACED AT 200,000

NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLE UNDER ALLIED ATTACKS   Germans Facing Chaos as They Back Up in Disorder Or Surrender in Droves

SPEEDING YANK DRIVE SPREADS OVER BRITTANY   Nazi Garrison Inside Rennes Surrenders  To Attackers

Allies 20 Miles BevondRennes   rr Slicing Off Breton Peninsula Near Completion

Dazzling Pace Is Maintained Across Briffany   German Forces In Retreat on Wide Front Today

Doughboy Tide Also Approaches Nantes; Half A Dozen Separate Drives.

Brittany Almost Severed by Fast American Advance   Even on Caen Front Germans Reported To Be Retreating

Brittany Peninsula Virtually Cut Off By Rapid Yank Move:   Americans Pass Up Rennes Where Garrison Continues to Fight; British Scthack Caled Final Shot Before Reteant

ST. NAZAIRE’S PORT GOAL OF SPEEDY DRIVE   Americans Also Smash For Nantes; Fighting Goes On In Rennes’ Streets

Yanks Push fo St. Nazaire as Well as Nantes   Americans Spread 27 Miles West of Rennes, Push 108 Miles from Brest

Peninsula Now Nearly Cut Off In U. §. Advance   Gains Punched Out Far Past Rennes As Dinan Falls, St. Male Becomes Objective

To Continue Operations At Green River Plant After Fall Of Germany

Ist, 2nd Armies Strike South Toward Heart of Normandy ir Coordinated Broad Front Stak

DNIVE DESIGNED TO PAVE WAY FOR BREAK STALEMATE ON WESTERN FRONT   Allied New Offencive Aimed At Heart Of  Normandy. Gain One Mile.

Allies Launch Drive to Break Out of Normandy   Twin Smashes. Gain Mile in ‘Opening Phase

Offensive Appears Designed — ta Break - Or Pave Way for Breaking —Stalemate on Western Pront— Advance Up to Mile First Few, Hours,

Early Hours Of New Drive Bring Gains   Germans Strongly Resist On Broad Front

Many Tricks for Landlubber to Learn on Entering the Navy  (LEAY ES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOTE BOOK.)

WAINDLA SOLDIE [5 KILLED IN ITALY      Pfe. Henry Karjalainen, 19, Killed in Action on February 2.

Receive Word Set. McMillan Died in Action   Parents Learn Son. Previously Reported Missing. Was Killed  In European Area   Outstanding As Athlete.

Sander Jacobson  Killed In Action    Son of Ulen Residents  Served In France

4 Kokomoans Fall Before Enemy's Guns - Charles O'Neal Deported: Kullnd

Stall sergeant Charles Gulick ~— Killed in Actior  Local Family Receive Word of Son’s Death  In France Aug. 7

FARM PICTURE FOR 1944 IM   Siate Agriculiurist Gives Pessimistic Prediction On Production

Floor Fight Over Two Nominees  Seen for Senate  Republicans Opposing Hurley, Heller For Property Jobs

HEAVY WIND DROWNS FOUR ON LAKE SHORE   ‘Kicksaw’ Gale Pushes Water Shoreward

Close Sessions Evening School Monday Night   Enrollment Well Over One Hundred Classes  For Men and Women

HARDIN COUNTY JURORS DRAWN FOR SEPTEMBER   Summoned to Appear at Court House at Ten O'clock October 2

CROSS FAVORS  WHIPPING POST TO CURB CRIME ’ CONTENDS PUBLIC  HUMILIATION IS BEST DETERRENT

ILLINOIS GOVERNOR FAVORS RETURN TO WHIPPING POST FOR ‘SPECIAL CASES

Wedge Made In Germans’  Gothic Line   US Infantrymen Advance Four Miles After Capturing Volterra; Progress Slow on Entire Italian Front

STRONGHOLD IN ITALY GAPTUREL   Americans Overcome Dogged Resistance.

Yanks Take Volterra in Italy Drive   Significant Wedge Driven Into Nazis Gothic Line Defenses

Ops Drive Wedge Into Nazi i Gothic Line   Handicaps German FEf.fort To Halt Allied Drive Toward Florence and Pisa; Advance Continues Slow With Germans Fighting Desperately.

Americans Take Vilterra, Knife Ahead In Italy   Overcome Dogged Enemy Resistance To Take Nazi Stronghold.

AMERICANS HAVE CAPTURED NAZIS BIG STRONGHOLD   Have Also Driven Wedg« In German Defenses: Fronting the So-Called  6 nthe Timea”

SETBACK TO NAZIS   Wedge Is Driven in Gothic Line by Yank Infantrymen in Italy

Gothie. Line. Wedge Made By. American Infante: yimen   Volterra vis) Clear : _O# Nazi Defenders

ALLIES GAIN 4 MILES IN ITALY   U. S. Captures Volterra Near Nazis ‘Gothic Line’

Yanks Drive In DeepWedge   Setback Handed German Plans For Stout Gothic Line Defense

Drive Deep Wedge Into Gothic Line    Yanks Knife Way Four Miles Closer to Port of Livorns

YANKS ADVANCE IN ITALY DRIVE   Drive Foe from Volterra As Germans Mass Guns  On Entire Front

ALLIES DRIVE GERMANS FROM GOTHIC LINE"   Progress Slow Along Entire Italian Line

U. 5. Troops Drive Wedge   Advance Toward Gothic Line After Capturing Volterra

U. S. INFANTRYMEN ADVANCE BEYOND FALLEN VOLTERRA   Strong Wedge Driven By American Troops Into German Defenses Fronting the So-Called “Gothic Line”  EE oe ere aN

DRIVEN IN FOE’S LINE   U. S. Troops Advance Toward Vital Port Of Leghorn

Italy   “GOTHIC LINE” THREATENED BY U, S. INFANTR)   Nazis Setback in Attempt to Delay Fifth Army's Drive Toward Arno River

Yanks Drive Wedge in Nazi Gothic Line   Capture of Volterra Spoils Plan for Maximum Delay Action

U. S. Troops Drive Wedge  In Nazi Line   Yanks in Italy Make Significant Breach in Ger‘mans’ ‘Gothic’ Defenses

Filth Drives  Wedge In Line   Although Progress Is Slow. Forces Advance Four  Miles In Italy.

Americans Drive Four Miles Forward In Italy Following Capture Of Vital Volterra   Infantrymen Drive Significant Wedge In Nazi Defenses Fronting Gothic Line

‘American Troops Drive Wedge Into Nazi Gothic Line   Handicaps German Ff. fort To Halt Allied Drive ‘Toward Flor. ence and Pisa; Advance Continues Slow With Germans Fighting Des. nerately.

FOUR-MILE GAIN IN ITALIAN WAR   Yonks Drive On After Capturing Volterra—’Gothic Line’ Menaced

YANKS DRIVE INTO GOTHIC LINE BARRIER   Fifth Army Troops Put Significant Wedge Inte Defense Fronting Ger: man Fortifications in Ttaly

ALLIES GAIN 4 MILE WEDGE IN "GOTHIC LINE’   Further Gains Made On Leghorn; Other Progress Slow

Yanks Dent ‘Gothic Line’   Drive Deep Wedge Past Fallen Volterra in Italy; Closer to Livorno

Doughboys Capture Volterra Fronting Nazi Gothic Line   Americans Drive Wedge info German Defenses, Overcoming Doguged Resistance

Fifth Makes 4 Mile Advance   Drives Wedge Into Nazi “Gothic Line” In Italy

OVERCOME DOGGED. ENEMY RESISTANCE      American infantrymen Drive Wedge in German ‘Gothic Line’

NEW BLOWS JAR ~ ENEMY INITALY   Yanks Hammer Wedge Into Line, Take Stronghold

Americans Drive Four Miles Past Captured City   Nazis Launch Strong Counterattack With Aid Of Twenty Tanks

DRIVE GERMANS FROM VOLTERRA   DOUGHBOYS KNIFE THROUGH GOTHIC LINE IN ITALY

NEARLY ALL RAID RECORDS ARE BROKEN   Over Week-End 40,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Germany—7,000 Planes Used in 15 Principal Attacks.

2 REICH PORTS, SALZBURG TORN INAIR ATTACKS   Bombs Rip Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg And Nazi City Near Berchtesgaden

Michty Ai Air Blows At Germany Smash Bombing Records   Coreat Loud Of Bombs U'nloosed In) Unparallcled Week-end.,

BOMBERS SWEEP LIKE A TORNADO OVER GERMANY   \lmost Every Bombing Record In Books Surpassed Over  Weekend On West eT°n EF uronean Area.

Tornadic Air Offensive Hits  German Cities   Allied Bombers Drop Lethal Leads On Great ‘Ports of Hamburg and _ “Wilhebnushaven

Mighty Air Blows. At Germany Smast Bombing Records      Great Load Of - Bombs Unloosed lin ~Unparalleled Week-end.

Talk Senator Byrd for Vice President  Cav. Dewev Sends«   Gov. Dewey Sends Message to GOP Platform Drafters

Byrd is Boomed For Second Place On GOP Ticket   Virginia Democrat Would Carry Several Southern States, Advocates Declare

Dewey Calls For Regime Of Harmony   Wants to Raise Effi ciency, Competence ot Government

AUTO OWNERS’ PICTURE DARK   WPB Discloses Truck and Bus Demands to Limit Overall Tires

WATERLOO. FISCST WAPTH.   pal Oo SUDGE CANDIDATE ADVERTISED GOOD _POINTS OF RIVAL

Orlemanski For Polish Democracy   Belongs To No -Party or Clique, Hopes to See U.S. System Used

Priest Proposes To Stalin U. S. System In Poland   Father Orlemanski Renorts Red Visit

Priest Returns To Springfield   Went to Russia to Tell Stalin He Wanted U. S. System in Poland

Fr. Orlemanski . Given Reception On. Return Home   Wished -To Inform Stalin. He Desired Poland .To. - Have-American System

NAZIS’ GOTHIC LINE PIERCED   British Troops, Behind Air Barrage, Make Gains Of 1,000 Yards

British Split German Gothic Line Defenses   Driving Offensive Bursts Through Enemy Barrier At Three Poainta

PIERGE DEFENGta OF GOTHIC LINE   British Penetrate Defenses At Three Points Near Adriati¢ Coast; Nazi Troops Take Severe Jott

BRITISH SMASH INTO GOTHIC LINE   PENETRATE DEFENSES AT “3 POINTS—BATTLE NAZIS HAND-TO-HAND,

THREE DIVORCE GASES ARE FILED IN GOURT- HERE   ‘Windfall, Tipton ‘and Liberty Township . People Are Invoived :

THREE DIVORCE GAdcy ARE FILEL IN COURT HERE   Windfall, Tipton and Liberty Township People Are Involved

Prelude To New Russian Drive To Open Up  Soon In West   GERMANS LOST 5000 MEN IN THREE DAYS   American Bombers In Kifth Straight Week Of Invasion Raids

Red Air Force Hammers Nazi Rail Junctions; New Drive is Indicated

Red Planes Pave Way. for or Campaign   ‘Bomb. Nazis Along. ‘600:Mile Front.

Red Air Force Strikes Deep Into Nazi Territory —   Brest Litovsk Hit; — Polotsk, Narva Also Targets of Bombers

Russian Air Force Steps Un Assaults   Soviet Bombers Strike at Fortress City of Brest Litovsk

SOVIET BOMBERS HIT RAIL LINES   Attack Is Pressed Deep Into Enemy Territory

Soviet Air Force Softens Estonia, Poland, Crimea   600 Mi. Pounding Seen As Prelude To 2-Way Drive

RUSSIAN AIR FORCES HIT NAZIS HARD   Dump Bombs on 600 Mile Front in Preparations For Invasion Drive; Hold Off Counter-attacks.

BREST-LITOVSK BOMBED BY REDS; NEW DRIVE NEAR   Narva and Palotsk Also Attacked in Series of Raids on Enemy Strongpointe.

Widespread Air Assaults Indicate New Russian Drive; Brest-Litovsk Is Hit In Heavy Raid

REDS HAMMER CONCENTRATION   Strike Deep Into. Enemy Territory —German Rail and Military Bases Hit Along 600-Mile Front.

SOVIET AIRMEN AND WARSHIPS SINK 12 SHIPS   Step Up Air Attacks In Prelude To New Offensive

RUSS AIRMEN STRIKE DEEP INTO POLAND   Believed Prelude To New Red Drive To the West

Mystery Meteor!  ene  Tf It Was a Meteor, It Is Still An Unsolved Riddle Today.

SIX BURN TO DEATH IN CAR IN LOUISIANA   Ohio License Tag Is Only Clue to Identity

EASIER FOR VETERANS   Unborrowed. Fund Rule. Won't Apply te G.l. Buying a Home

——Kave Waate Faper——  Finn Troops Battling German Forces in Tornea

PANHANDLE GRIPPED BY MOST CRIPPLING BLIZZARD 32 YEARS   UPWARDS OF TEN INCHES OF SNOW AND GALE WINDS BLOCKING TRAFFIC

Worst Blizzard Of 52 Years Hits. Texas Panhandle   Ten Inches of Snow; 42-Mite Wind; 3.2 Temperature Falling

DENTS PUT IN “GOTHIC LINE”   Americans Take Two Towns, French Capture Another

ASSA : aaTTie i ARE STARTED   FIFTH ARMY TROOPS CAPTURE THREE VILLAGES IN. OUTER DEFENSES—-NAZIS END  RETREAT .

Three Italian Towns Taken By Allied Forces   Americans Capture Two And French Forces Seize The Third After Battles

Civilians Are ‘Ordered From ‘Changsha   Japanese Advance to Within 30 Miles of Base

Changsha Future Grim; Japs Near   Civilians Ordered To Evacuate City

‘MAJOR RAIL + TOWN UNDER AIR ATTACK   ; Central Spearhead Crosses River On Barges

Hysterical V Welcome Is Given New “Invaders,” Germans Flee Hastily

Bombers Blast Retreat Routes North of City   With Major Part of Two German Armies Destroyed, Rome Welcomes Allied Troops; Most of Historic City Spared Damage

Big Bombers Join Attack   Forces Race To Cut Off Kesselring’s Germans Between Rome and Sea   Romans Jubilant   Fighter-Bombers Dstroy Many Vehicles of Fleeing German Columns

German 10th, 14th Armies Falling Back   Little Damage To City Enemy Attempted To Declare Open; Report All Ouiet At Vatican

V-E DAY WAGE POLICY DRAWS UNION FROWNS   Labor Not Disposed To Wait Until War’s End For Wage Hoists   CHIEFS PLAN ATTACK   Green And Murray Turn Fire On Little Steel Salary Freeze

LEADERS ARE ‘Nor WILLING TO AWAIT ADJUSTMENT. AFTER VICTORY OVER GERMANY °

LABIR MAY NOT ACCEPT PAY: PLAN   Workers Want an Immediate . General Wage Increase

Henry Ww. Wornley Pays Tribute  To Soldiers at Decoration Services   Impressive Address Delivered by Msgr. Fisch At St. Joseph's Cemetery

Impressive Address Delivered by Msgr. Fisch At St. Joseph’s Gemetery:

‘Severe Quake In South America  Andean City Reported Badly Damaged

Army, Navy Say: No Reason To Court Martial Kimmel Or Short For Errors At Pearl Harbor

Americans Open Flanking Drive Against Toulon   Seventh Army Drives 20 Miles inland Behind Great Base

Seventh Army Threatens to  Qutflank Base   One Column 6 Miles North of City While Another Spearhead Is 20 Miles Due Nort

With German Resistance Still Weak; 7,000 Pris. oners Taken by Seventh Army.   Take Village

Major Naval Base Goal of Allied Troops   French Battleship in Harbor Set on Fire by American Planes

GREAT NAVAL BASE MAY BE OUTFLANKED   Battleship Used by Foe As Fortress Hit by Yank Bombs

Port of Toufon Threatened by Coastal Drive  CASUALTIES LIGHT IN LATEST. INVASION  Capture of Second Nazi General in Two Days  Annaunced

Allies smash toward great  naval bastion  _ Strasbourg hit in Toulon harbor

Seventh Army Smashes Twenty Miles Inland Behind Toulon Naval Base

Toulon Naval Base Being Surrounded   American Assault Casualties For Southern Invasion Placed At Slightly Less Than 300

BEACHHEAD IN SOUTH FRANCE IS EXPANDED   TOULON BESIEGED, BATTLESHIP IS DAMAGED

Nazi-Manned Battleship - . “In Harbor. Is Bombed; Allied Casualties Only. 300

Sweden Reports Nazi Armies Split In Two With 1,500,000 Men Defending Continent

NO PROSPECT OF BREAK IN ALLIED RANKS   Germans Shift Troops to West In Biggest Military Gamble In History.   BULLETIN

Allied Bombers Have Crippled All Major German Railroad Yards In 100-Mite Deep Coastal Belt

No Compromise Peace Germany Tells Satellites   Foe Said to Have Shifted 50 Divisions To Western Front

To Gamble On Invasion Resistance   Transfer Soldiers fror Russian Front to West  —Warn Satellites

Sweden Reports Enemy Making Final Gamble as Invasion Is Expected Momentarily

50 DIVISIONS SHIFTED FROM SOVIET FRONT   Move Is Called Great Military Gamble by Nazis

SATELLITES ARE TOLD COMPROMISE NOW IS IMPOSSIBLE   Germans Have 1,500,000 Men In Western Europe and 1,750,000 Along East:  arn Ratto tina   NEWS AGENCY EXPECTS INVASION VERY SOON   Reich Home Radio Issues Warning That “We Are on Eve of Decisive Military Events.”

Germany Warns Satellites Hope Abandoned for Compromise Peace; 50 Divisions Moved to West Europe

Nazis Reported Switching 50 Divisions to Western Front: Peace Move Fails

GERMANY LOSES HOPE SHE CAN DIVIDE ALLIES   Warns People Worst Is Ahead

Nazis Shift 30 Divisions From East   Troops Transferred At Suggestion of Marshal Rommel

NAZIS ARE BEING HANDICAPPED BY TRANSPORT CUT   Aerial Push Ig Wrecking Key Tracks—Trains are Being Blown Uo.

Report Nazis Moved From Soviet Front   Desperate Measures tc Meet Invasion Cited By Swedish Source

Nazis Shift 50 Divisions West Ir ‘Greatest Military Gamble Ever Made

Germany Shifts 50  Divisions   Braces for Climacti Land Battles; Hope For Compremise Peace Abondoned

Nazi Hope for Compromise Pesce ls Gone   50 Divisions Are Reported Shifted fo Meet Invasion

CANNOT CARRY PEAK LOAD OF AXIS DEMANDS   Boys. Women, Crippled Soldiers Being Used to Operate Trains in Northern France

90 Nazi Divisions Shifted To West From Red Front   Invasion, Battle Will Take Place Shortly, German Citizens Told

STOCKHOLM SAYS 0 DIVISIONS ARE SHIFTED 10 WEST   1,500,000 Men Now Believed Facing Prospective Invasion Fronts.

Allied Bombing: Disrupt Nazi Transportation   Liberators’ Raid ‘Rocket Positions’ AsTempoSlacken:

Dewey Ready To Discuss Tactics  Of FDR Openly   Charleston. Speech Will Be Concentrated On Browder

DEWEY PREPARED TO SPRING NEW ATTACK ON FDR      Will Hit Methods By Which His Opponent Is Seeking Re-election

Dewey Hits New Deal  Control   GOP Noniinee’s Charleston Address Will Again Attack Roosevelt Policies

Allied Assault On Western Front Is Mounting In Fury   British Wedge Widens Into Great Offensive

Striking Phone Workers Defy Government °   Ohio Bell Union Again Ignores Order of WLB

BACK-T0-W ORK DEADLINE OF WLB LONG PAST   Federal Board In Session To Ponder New Issue Injected By Union   NEW ULTIMATUM LOOMS   Labor Leader Says Nation y Facing Serious Problem In Next Few Days

Fresh Troops Join Units in Invasion Drive   Yank Spearheads Only 37 Miles From Rhine; New Attacks Planned At Vantaae Points

Advance To 3] Miles Of Rhine   Other Columns Reach Reich Frontier; New Attacks Threatened

Fresh Forces Poured Into Allied Push  U. S. Ninth A>my ln Drive Aaains? °°

U.S. Spearheads Probe Siegfried Line; Patton Gains New Brideeheads

Double Invasion Of Nazi Soil Carries Yank Armies Within 37 Miles Of Rhine

SPEED UP MAIL FROM ENGLAND   Delays Due to Transport Problem in Invasion Now Ended

MAIL SERVICE ~ SPEEDING UP   INVASION  TRANSPORTATION “AND RIGID. CENSORSHIP DELAYED MAIL FOR

Janitor Held After Slaying Of Librarian   Woman's Complaint Cause of Attack At Cathedral

Negro Is Held For Slaying In Cathedral   Bit of Unswept Dust Blamed By Capital Police for Librarian's Death   CONFESSION IS MADE

Man Admits Club Murder   AvELEER JAVECUE LAL Killed Librarian In Washington; Resented

CHURCH MURDER IS CONFESSED   Unswept Dust Blamed fol Handyman’s Crime

Negro Admits Killing Woman In Washington   Confessed Murderer Says He Was Angered Because Librarian Reported His Inefficient Work.

HOLD MAN IN” MURDER ‘OF MISS REARDON   Body Of Former Library Worker At St. John’s   College Found In Cathedral

Nazi Colonists Quitting Baltic As Reds Advance   Russians Nearing Estonia, Driving Toward Latvia

FLEE BALTICS AS REDS NEAR   German Colonists Joining Troops In Retreat Before Russian Army

SOVIETS REACH BALTIC GATES   Red Army Nears Kingisepp In Rapid Drive From Leningrad

German Colonists Flee Baltic States As Red Army Surges On   Russians Racing Toward Last Rail Station Short Of Estonian Frontier, While Another Red Army Drives Toward Rail Junction.

RED ARMY NEARS ESTONIA BORDER   German Colonists Reported Fleeing In Baltic States

Germans Flee Baltic States To Escape Reds   Soviet Forces Surging Toward Estonian Border; Liberate Fifty More Towns

RED FORCES — NEAR BORDER OF ESTONIA   Rush Toward Last. Outpost This Side of Frontier—German Colonists Reported Fleeing From Baitic States.

Nazi Colonists » ‘Leaving Towss  In Baltic Area   Reds Approach Kingisepp. Last Railroad Junction Near Estonian Frontier

Colonists — Flee With Nazi Army   Great Movement , Reported Under Way as Reds. Reach Gateway to Baltics   HEAVY SNOWS ARE . SLOWING REDS   But Adyance Is Maintained and-Germans Report New Red Blows Elsewhere

NAZI COLONISTS FLEEING BALTIC WITH TROOPS   Russians Sweep Up 50 More Towns and Hamlets Beiween Gulf of Finland. Lake Peisus   CAPTURE VEIMARN   Junction Only 17 Miles from Esionian Border—Swedes See End of Traffic With Germany

Nazis Leave  Balkan Area With Armies Moving Near   50 More Villages Taken ' As Final Rail Station Looms As An Qbiective

Colonists In Balkans Flee  As Reds Gaur   British. Americans Thrown Forward With Redoubled ove In Tale.   GREAT FIGHTS. WAGE

FLEEING FROM BALTIC STATES   German, Colonists Movine Along With Retreating Nazi Troops.   RED ARMY MOVES AHEAD:

German Colonists Flee Baltic States As Reds Forge Ahead   Russian Adva ince Sweeps Up 50 More Towns in Area Held by Germans Wear Leningrad.

German Colonists Flee Baltic States as Reds Draw Near   Sweden Concerned: Fall of Baltisch Would Free Reds’ Fleet

NAZI COLONISTS FLEEING BALTIC   Reds Reduce Distance toa Estonian Frontier

Soviets Drive For Estonia   German Colonists in Baltic States Fleeing  As Russians Advance

Soviet Troops Continue Drive To Estonia   Russians Are Closing In On = Kingisepp, Last Rail Station Before Reaching Frontier

Nazi Colonists Flee Baltic States Before Soviet Army   Fifty More Towns Fall to Advancing Russian As Last Rail Station Short of Estonian Frontier Ils Reached by Govorov

Nazis Reported Getting Out of Baltic States   Red Army Continues To Push German  Forces Back

ANTI-CONSCRIPTION © PARADE BROKEN‘ UP   ‘Demonstrations Staged in Canada ‘as King Warns Lack of Unity on Issue May Bring Anarchy.

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DARING AMERICAN SMASH AT NIPPON BACKED BY PLANES   Pacific Task Force Strikes at Enemy Within 1,200 Miles of Tokvo

Attack Jap Naval Base; Air Raid, Too   First Time Japanese Home Island Had Been Shelled From Sea

U.S, WARSHIPS BOMB JAPANESE HOME ISLAND   Surface Units Bombard Enemy Installations On Coast Of Paramushiro

INITIAL SURFACE ATTACK 1S MADE ON HOME ISLANDS   Unidentified Jap Ship Is Hit as Enemy Coastal Guns Retura Fire Without Any Damage.   GREATER NUMBER OF JAPS ARE CAPTURED   Japanese Lose 2000 Soldiers In Capture of Strongest Air Base, Casualties Reported 40 to One.

Strike Nip Home Bases First Time      Surface Vessels Start Fires On Paramushira, Shimushu; Hit Jap Ship.

STRONGBASE, 1200 MILES FROM TOKYO HIT TWICE   Paramushiro Coast Guns Respond, But Onr nits Esrane

COASTAL. GUNS RETURN FIRE WITHOUT HARM   Marines and Army Troops Complete Occupation of Atoll in Heart of Marshalls, — Round Up Prisoners

Japanese Home Island Shelled By U.S. Ship   Paramushiro Is But 1200 Miles From Tokyo

Paramushiro Hit In Daring Attack   Bold Move Made in North Pacific At Same Time of Marshalls Fight

Surprise Attack Made On Island North of Tokyo   Attack Marks First Time Nipponese Home Isles Hit By Fleet

Navy Ships Shell Jap  Naval Base   Foramushiro Hit By Surface Ships; Fires Started, Ship Is Beached

Number Of Fires Are. Started   JAP SHIP IS HIT; FIRST ATTACK BY U.S. VESSELS ON ONE OF JAPANS HOME ISLANDS :

REP. ENGEL RAPS PENTAGON COST   Statement That E Building Will Pay for Itself Js ‘Inexcusable’ Michigan Solon Says

Bodyguard Of Nahas Is Slain   Michigan City Scene Of Ganaland Murder

Manila Raided Second Time, Japs Assert  Puppet Government   Puppet Government of Philippines Orders Martial Law

Tokyo Reports New Yank Raid On Manila Area   U. S. Fleet Headquarters Silent on Jap Claims Of 2d Air Attack

MacArthur Sends  Planes Against  South Philippines Japs Say 200 Carrier  Aircraft Made Attack On Capital Thursday

NEW AIR RAID ON MANILA REPORTED   Japanese “Broadcast of Second Strike Not + Confirmed — -

NEW AIR RAID ON - MANILA REPORTED   Japanese ‘Broadcast of Second Strike Not Confirmed

17 U.S. Planes Were Shot Dowr Japanese Claim   Wednesday's Attack "Highly Successful,’ Nimitz Declares

Soong Takes Over As China Premier  a a a a oe   Allows Chiang to Concern trate on Military Task

A Premier For Chinese   Soong Takes Post: Move May: Foster Nation’s Unity

Soong Takes Over As China Premier   Allows Chiang to Concen trate on Military Task

New Plans to Chart Post-War Course Outlined by Two Men   Midwest Democrais May Carry Complaints Direct to President

Ist War-Time Presidential Vote In State   Anticipate A Ballot Of From S00 00 Ta. 575.008 Thronuchonut Ne eee   VOTERS OUT EARLY

COUNTY TAX LEVY TO BE INCREASED   Road, Bridge and Welfare Funds Hiked in Budget

Eldred Township Schools Closed; Youth Has Polio   Steps Taken Last Thursday to Prevent Spread of Disease

400 AIR-BORNE TROOPS SHOT DOWN BY OWN COMRADES   Columnist Charges Second o! Such Occurences Still No’  Admitted by Military.

Pearson Discloses 21 U. S. Troop  Planes Shot Down By Allied Gunners

Drew Pearson Charges More Bungiing By Allied Naval Gunners Over Sicily

Senator Wants To Know Who Gives Orders for Junkets fo Battle Area

Finnish Affair: Giving Concern   Helsinki’s Rejection Of Russian Peace Terms Makes Situation Tense.

Capital Takes Grave View Of Finnish Peace Rejection   Influence On Other Neutral Nations Feared By Some Officials In Washington

Sweden May ‘Enter War On Allied Side      Nazis’ Treatment of Norway Expected To Hasten Decision

Liberation of Paris Is Thot Near: Refreat Routes Jammed   Exact Position of Patton’s Army Withheld; Seine Shipping Strafed

GERMAN ARMY NEAR ANNIHILATION FROM AIR, GROUND BLOWS   Liberation Of French Capital Near As Nazi Resistance Vanishes All Along Front; Fleeing Enemy Being Slaughtered

Armies Press Their Assaults   Heavy Explosions; Dense Smoke Over City

Fall Of Paris Reported By Vatican; Germans Say Yanks Are 12 Miles Away   Climax Reached As Nazis Report U. S. Spearheads Reach Seine, Threatening New Traps For Foe

FALL REPORTED BY VATICAN NEWSPAPER   Campaign Against 7th Nazi Army Reaches Last Stage

‘This Makes Sense To John Taxpayer  High-Toned Titles Ditched And Real Work Plan Set Up

Guam Assault  Continues; Invasion Near   Big Guns Continue To Shatter Defenses

U.S. Battleships Soften Guam for Possible Invasion   Bane More Jap Ships   Four More Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged Off Halmahera Isle

U, S. Battleships Push Reduction Of Guam Island   Other Americans Slashing Sea Strength Of Japs In Southwest Pacific

U. §. WARSHIPS HAMMER GUAM   MacArthur’s Men Sink 4 Ships; Bitter Battle For Hengyang

NAVY SQUADRON POUNDS ISLAND AT CLOSE RANGE   MacArthur’s Forces May Move Against Halmahera Next

GUAM BLASTED FOR 13TH DAY   MacArthur’s Forces Whittle Away At Jap Shipping

Yanks Hit Guam  from Close Range   MacArthur's Men Sink, Damage 4 Cargo Ships      Japs Try to Slip Supplies, Troops into Hal mahera Area, New Guinea; Chinese Battle to Hold Hengyang; 1,620 Japanese Soldiers Captured on Saipan

Battleships — Blast Guam at ‘Close Range    No Answering Fire from Enemy; Four Jap Carge Vessels Sunk; Chinese Fight Grimly for Hengyang

Defenses On Guam Being Knocked Out   More Jap Ships Sunk and More Japs Killed Trying To Escape New Guinea Trap—Chinese Hold Own and _ Allies AdvanceinBurma —

Battlewagons Move in To Fire at Close Range and Prepare for Landings.

Big Ships Pound Guam Defenses   No Answering Fire From Enemy, Nimitz Reports

Senate Approves Patton Promotion   Advanced To Permanent Rank of Major General

Canadians Push 10 Miles Ahead Against Nazis  Germans Trying To   Germans Trying To Complete Flight Across Seine

French Tanks Operate in Heart of City   Nazis Weaken In Seine Trap

Nazis May Try Stand On Somme, Marne Linc   Last-Ditch Effort Being Made By Foe To Cross Seine; Silent On Patton

FIGHTING IN NORTHFRANCE ALMOST OVER   Disorganized and Battered Enemy Making Last-Ditch Attempt to Flee Across The Seine   LEAVE THOUSANDS DEAD

Punch- Drunk Germans Still Staggering For An Exit Out Of Lower Seine Entrapment   Von Kluge’s Men Abandon War Gear--Canadians Tighten Noose On Pocket

Germans Make Effort to Flee Across Seine   - Gen. Patton’s Forces Capture Montereau And Montargis and Advance Westward

Nazis in Last Ditch Try to Cross Seine   Pocket Below River Likely to Be Wiped Out in Another 24 Hours

GEAMANY'S OMASHING COUNTER OFFENOIE   Yanks Start to Regain Lost  Ground in Belgium   NAZIS USE BETTER TANK   Luftwaffe Also Out in Force Over Fighting Front   BATTLE IS STILL ON

Citizens to Pay More for Postage, Liquor, Railroad Tickets, Jewelry, Furs and Cosmetics Under Tax Bill

Senate Sets Aside Veto on New Tax Bill   Nation’s Taxes Increased by Over Two Million Dollars By Legislation

NATION'S TAX BILL  REACHES NEW RECORD  OF $42,000,000,000 SENATE FOLLOWED HOUSE  IN OVERRIDING NEW TAY BILE VETO

BEFELTIN THIRTY DAYS   Postal Rates Going Up, Added Levies Effective Later

Mails, Liquor Will Get First Raises   New Tax Will Send Many Costs Up Starting March 1

NEW TAX BILL'S. EFFECTS 10 BE FELT IN 30 DAYS   Postal Rates Will Be Increased: Excise Tax Effective April 1

Tax Bill Now Over A? Billion   Higher Postal Rates And Excise Taxes First To Be Felt As Revenue Act Goes Into Effect

Tax Bill to Record Total of 42 Billion   First Effects Will Be Felt With the Establishment Of Higher Postal Rates

First Effects Of Taxes Will Be Felt April]   Higher Postal Rates Become Effective 30 Days After Enactment of ‘Measure   Jumps U. S. Taxes - To $42,000,000.000   Increased Levy On Whisky and Other Luxuries Also Become Collective April 1

BILL INCREASED BY $2 BILLION   Measure Will Bring Tota Revenue to Over $42 Bijlion.   GOES IN EFFECT APRIL 1

HURLED INTO DEFENSE LINE   Fall of Aachen Said Near; ‘Long Toms’ Batter Enemy

Seven: American Columns Drive Qn Steetried Line   Fall Of Aachen Is Expected Momentarilv

Capture of Aachen, Fortress City, Imminent; Stiffening Resistance Fails Against Hodges’ Mighty Forces

70--Mi. Front Rips Siegfried Wall, Use New Weapons   Nazi Lines Buckle Under Pounding At Aachen And Nancy With Huge Flame Throwers And Powerful New Explosives.

PRICE FIXING CHARGE FACES 16 BIG MILLS   Action Follows Anti-trust Investigations

REDS CROSS BIEBZRA RIVER, LAST OBSTACLE TO PRUSSIA   Soviet Capture of Oswoiec and Antsla Splits Nazi Armies In Baltic   Russians Roll Far Into Estonia—Stalin Hails New Important Victories

RUSSIANS CROSS FINAL RIVER BAR TOEAST PRUSSIA   Osowiec and Autsla Taken on Drive to Split Trapped Baltic Forces

ALLEN-FLANNERY NUPTIALS HELD   Young Couple To Be At Home on Farm Near  Hinton

Thos. F. Flannery Weds Genevieve  Allen Of Onawa   Pretty Church Wedding Held ‘Saturday Night

ARE NOT WORK EXEMPT   Huxman Rules Conscrientious Objectors Must Help in Some Way

MASSED FLEETS TO WAR ON JAPS   Eight Allied Nations Agree to Pool Merchant Shipping

Ace Flyer Disappea red Battling Japs         Boyington Had Shot Down 26th Plane, Dived On Formation

Loss Of Ace Is Bl-w To Pals   Squadron’s Spirit Fed Or Boyington’s Skill, Character.

ARMIES FACING TIRE SHORTAGE   Eisenhower Fears Tieup Of 10 Percent Of His Vehicles

Army Faces Shortage Of Tires      Eisenhoyer Tells Officers and Men of Situation Along German Border   TRUCKING OF VAST SUPPLIES COSTLY   London Paper Says U. 5. Soldiers Pay With Lives for Shell Shortage

AMERICAN ARMIES — FACE TIRE SHORTAGE   Eisenhower Says 10 Per Cent of Army Vehicles May Be Tied Wo by February.

Air Forces Give Up 70 Colleges   Also Withdraw From 14 Civilian Schools Under Contract -

ARMY-COLLEGE TRAINING CUT   Air Forces No Longer to Use 70 Schools — 14 Air Schools Dropped

Army to Close AAF Schools   Order Will Affect 70 Colleges and 14 Civilian Contract Units

ARMY AIR FORCES  ABANDON COLLEGES   Five in Ohio To Go Back Into Civilian Use

Army To Close Many Airfields   CIVILIAN SCHOOL HERE AMONG THOSE ON LIST

COLLEGES LOSE STUDENT PILOTS   Army Airforce Releases Houghton And Albion From Program

Urges President To Investigate Board Members  MESA--Asks~ Check- or “CIO and AFL Men © With WLB -

Political Action Committee To Be Major Factor in Future Elections

This Might Be Any of Us Thinking Over the Year 1944 Nearing Its End

“Little Guy” Gets Sort of Muddled Trying to Remember Everything ‘That Happened During 1944

IAPS FRE! OPPOSITION   Enemy Prepares to Make Last Ditch Stand for Island

Americans Surge Ahead in Battle For Leyte Island   Jap Garrison at Ormoc is Gradually Being Compressed

SET TRUCK PRODUCTION   WPB Says 56,705 Trucks Wil] Be Made First Quarter 

Yanks Repulse Suicidal Blow   More Than 200 Japs Die Under U. S. Fire In Bougainville Area

Japs Achieve New Suicides   Fierce Attack on Bougainville Gains Ground, Wilts Under Yank Fire

JAP SUICIDE SQUADS . BATTER AT U. S. LINES  Americans Surrounded for Time But Beat Off Foe with Heavy Los

HUNGARIANS JITTERY TODAY AS NAZIS STRUTTING ABOUT COUNTRY AND RUSSIAN INVADERS AT BORDERS   Mistakes of Early Days of War When She Aligne With Nazis, Took Slices of Czechslovakia and Otherwise Aided Germans May Now Bring  Ey naver Panaléioc

WAR TODAY   Hungary Begins To Pay For Failure To Heed U. 8. Good Advice to Resist Hitler’s Invasion

NEW HIGH HIT IN BOND SALES   Figure Of $283,643 Is Given In Daily Report

BOND SALES IN COUNTY DRIVE HIT $1,541,141   Campaign Officials Point To Power Left !n Nazi Troops

Big Shakeup In Home Front Jobs Expected With FDR Approval Of Reconversion Bills

Big Shifting In Homefront Jobs Expected   Selection of Men Must Follow Soon After President Signs Reconversion Bill

K CITY VOTE PROBLEM FACES DEWEY   Studies Plan To Keep Polls Open Three Hours Longer

New York Voting Hours Is Problem   Change Considered by Gov. Dewey

oHiO REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE REPORTS SPENDING $370,000   THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS COLLECTED WERE EXPENBHED ‘TUROUGH COUNTY AND DISERICT ORGANI. ZATIONS

NAZIS LAUNCH NEW DRIVE IN ANZIO SECTOR   Censorship and Spot New: Delays Limit Knowledge of Situation.

U.S. AndBritish Bombers — Hammer Nazi Targets In . Aiding Invasion Fi orces

ALLIES CHASE JAPS IN INDIA   Beaten Enemy Retreating Across Burma Border  Toward Tiddim

Japs Leaving India In Retreat   Allies Using Canine Corps In Burma Area.

STORM IN ITALY STALLS ARMIES   KEY PORT OF PESCARA WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF THE CANADIANS,

Weather Delays Drive in Italy   Snow, Sleet, Rain Hamper Fighting

STORM STALLS DRIVE IN ITALY   Snow, Sleet, Rain and Wind Holds Up Fifth and Eighth Armies

Weather Retards Fifth and Eighth oe in nal  "St at lies. on -.. ftalien Front):

Weather Halts Major Action On Italian Front   Allies Resume Air Operations to Hit Nazi Supply-Lines

WEATHER TIES UP ARMIES ON ITALIAN FRONT   ARTILLERY IN RANGE OF PESCARA ON ADRIATIC

WEATHER oTALLa EIGHTH AND FIFTH   Gale Whips Snow, Sleet and Rain Over Southern Italy   SPASMODIC FIGHTING   Fighth Army Artillery Gets in Range of Pescara; Nazis Hold High Ground

EE et x ] ea mo meee Fie On French Invasion Coast  3000 BOMBS DROPPED IN PAST 16 HOURS  Nazis Retaliate With Heaviest Raid in Months On Britain

Army Plan To Demobilize —  Men Revealed   Soldier’s Discharge Will Depend On Priority; No Demobilization Of Sailors

Orderly Return Of Soldiers  To Begin When Germany Falls But Navy Will Increase Size

SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND WILL BE RELEASED, BUT NAVY WILL INCREASE   ‘System of Priority Ratings Will Be Set Up in Deciding Which Men in Army Services Forces Will Be Sent  Home First.

Soldier’s Release To Be Based On Priority Score; Navy fo Be Retained

SENATE VOTES UNRRA MEASURE   Half Dozen Amendments  Attached to Bill

UNRRA Bill Goes Back To House   American Share Would Be Two-Thirds of Total Amount

Vote Total For . City And Conn   Ohio Delegations For Roosevelt And Gov. Bricker

CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR LATEST GOP CANDIDATE   State Convention Unani_mously Proposed Ray_mond E. Baldwin for  Noawatmatine

PATTON HEADS ARMY IN FRANCE   Leads Troops in Drive to Trap German Seventh Army

“Blood and Guts” Patton Commander Dfiving Third Army   Patton’s Men Running Rough Shod Over Nazis  in Lower Normandy

‘Old Blood And Guts’ Revealed As Directing Yank Push  wre FT Elfen ae

PATTON IN. SWING   Leads Third Aovevicas  Army to Close Trap in Normandy

Gen. Patton is Commander of VU. §. 3rd Army   Heads Group that Helped Close Trap On German 7th Army

Patton In Command 0: Third Army  Tn France   Bradley Is Overall Commander Of New 12th Army Group; Fisenhower Optimisti

Patton Leads U.S. 3d Army in Normandy With Bradley as Over-All Field Chief   Eisenhower, Warns Against Expecting End of European War in Matter of Weeks, Says WNaarmbker af Tachecal Virtariese Needed

Patton Leads US 3rd Army  In Normandy      Senate Committee Votes Unanimously to Recommend Promotion of Patton te Rank of Maior General

Patton Heads Third Army   On Marching Wing of Yank Spearhead Trying To Envelop Germans   Associated Press Correspondent Representing the Combined Aemerican Presse

Patton Leads Ar my Dri LVINg Over Germans   “Old Blood and Guts” Cut Off Breton Peninsula and Helped Close Caen Trap

“Tke” Reveals Patton Leader  American 3ra  "Old Blood and Guts” Again Demonstrating Driving Qualities

By HOWARD S. COWAN  Associated Press Correspondent representing the combined American nre«c«

Patton Is Leading Third Army Smas!  In Western France   Eisenhower Confirms Nazi Report; Senate Acts to Advance Him in Rank

He's a Great Soldier! Gen. Patton Will Get  His Permanent Promotion

PATTON LEADS:  NEW SRN ARM   Unit Cut Off Breton Peninsula, Heiped Close Trap On Germans.

Senate. ‘Confirmed “ .Promotion: of Lieut. Gen. Geo. Patton, Jr.

ASK PROMOTION OF GEN. PATTON   Now Leading American Third Army Forces

Patton Leading Normandy Drive   Gen. Bradley Heads 12th Army Group

PATTON LEADS HEAVY ASSAULT AGAINST NAZIS   —BY HOWARD 8S. COWAN— Associated Press Correspondent Representing the Combined American Prec«

PATTON LI YANK THRUST   Heads Arnerican Drive in Normandy and Brittany

Patton Leading Sweep in France   Senate Confirms General's Promotion

"Old Blood And Guts” Leading 3rd US. Army To Wins in Normandy   Allies May Take South France From Nazis Without Too Costly Campaign

Russians Cut Off Germans In Great Push   Nazis Have But One Escape Route

Reds In North Drive To Sever -Last Rail Link   Cut Two Other Lines“And Mop. Up. In’ Leningrad . Seetor:. Circle Chadovo

Reds Drive Toward Vital Rail Line   Cut Important Railroad Link Weat of  Lake Iimen

“ "RUSSIA—  ONE RETREAT LIN LEFT 10 GERMAN!   Russians Driving Toward ’ Leningrad-Pskov-Warsaw Railway

Reds Drive for Nazis Escape Line   Huge Force Heads for Leningrad-Warsaw Railroad Junction

Annibilating Chudovo   Reds Cut Important Leningrad-Vitebsk Rail to Clear Moscow-Leningrad Trunk Rail of Most Danger; 34 Miles From Estonia.

Russians Cut Railway Line   German Forces Below Leningrad Have Only One Retreat Line Left

REDS DRIVE TO CUT NAZIS’ LAST RAILWAY ROUTE   Leningrad-Warsaw Line Only Rails Germans Have Left on Northern Front

REGUL U, 9, AMPHIBIOUS FORGE SWARMS OF ISLES   Light Casualties Accompany Seizure of First Japan Home Territory   HEAVY AIR BLOWS SPEED LANDINGS

Americans Drive Ahead InMarshalls   Big Navy Force ‘Plays Important Role in Landings:

MIGHTY FORCES ASSAULT JAPS’ KEY POSITIONS   Naval and Air Cover Protects Landings on Kwajalein, Casualties Light

Forces Ashore At Scattered Island Points   Major Assaults Against Key Garrisons

TEMPERATURES:   Airborne Army Refuses German Demand To © Lay Down Arms

GERMANS SAY FATE OF WESTERN FRONT DEPENDS ON OUTCOME OF BATTLE OF THE GREATEST FURY

Silence Blankets Fighting   Headquarters Still Awaits Word of Linkup at Arnhen

British Relief Force Up To Rhine; Nazis Put Up Fierce Fight   Bitter Enemy Counter-Attacks Poured Against Lines Of Allies From Arnhem To Nancy-Strasbourg Area; Great Armored Clash Enters Fifth Day

Only River's Width_. Separates British And Trapped Units   Fury Of German Fighting Shows Gigantic Task Faced By Allies In Effort To End War This Year

RHINE DIVIDES RESCUE TROOPS FROM CHUTISTS   Allies Face Gigantic Task To Finish War by End  Year

TRAPPED TROOPS AND RESCUERS SEPARATED (INLY BY NEDER RHINE   BITTER ENEMY COUNTERATTACKS POURED AGAINST ALLIED LINES

It Takes Treachery for Nazis To Kill Doughboy Trapped in House   Enemy Pays High Price for Deed On Hilltop in Italy, East of Pisa

Frozen Fruits, Vegetables Taken From Ration List   Butter and Meat Values Unchanged In April Schedule

Three Jap Ships Are Destroyed By U.S. Bomber Raids   Yankee Fliers Also Shoot Down Or Damage 49 Jap Planes In Latest Attacks   BI AMMUNITION SHIP IS BLOWN UP

Initial Objectives Captured As Hundreds Of Allied Warplanes Support Drive Under Direction Of General Alexander.   Mighty Drive Launched Last Night

BRITISH AND U.S. FORCES — PUSH ON GUSTAV LINE AIDED BY NAVAL AND AIR SUPPORT

Big Drive Jumped Off Thursday Night; Drive Germans from Frontline Positions

OPEN DRIVE THURSDAY NIGHT AT 11   Fifth Strikes On West, Eighth In’ Cassino Sector

Earthshaking Barrage Sounds Starting Gun for Front Line At 11 P. M. Last Evening; Fifth Army Secretly Regrouped.

Leathernecks Battle Way To Guam ¥* * * &* * * Marine Barracks: Retrieve U. S. Flag

‘Marines ‘Burned Up’ When They Find Guam  Japs Have Been Using U.S. Flag as Cushion

Liberty Bell Rings - Out ‘As Invasion Day Starts   Muffied Tones Of Symbol Of Liberty Carried To World

SEEK CAUSE OF SHORTAGE OF CIGARETS   Probes Show Plenty of —  Tobacco on Hanc

WillkieWarns GOP Against Blind Haters   Says They > Will Drive ‘Disillusioned’ Voters to Roosevelt

Harmony in Both Parties For Primary   WATKINS AND BAIRD COMPLETE REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION SLATE; DAVIS ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY  Lawrence Bitter

JAP-GRUISERIS BADLY DAMAGED BY BOMB KITS   Two 500-Pound Bombs Land On Bow Of Ship Off New Guinea

Liberator Batters Jab Heavy Cruiser   > -Warship’s Appearance. Off Guinea Hints - Kise Mav Be - Forcing Fleet.Into Combat :

Liberator Batters Jap Heavy Cruiser   Warship’s Appearance Off Guinea Hints Nips May Be Forcing Fleet Into Combat  By MURLIN SPENCER

Germans Open Heavy Attack And Major Tank Battle Rages With Allies Holding Ground   : Enemy Throws More Air Strength Into New Effort to Dislodge U.S. And British Troops from Beachhead

Manpower Need Confronts Nazis  Enemy Remains Strong Despite Losses

German Army Cut In Half In Past 18 Months. But Is Still Powerful

Still Formidable Nazi Machine Faces Manpower Problem   German Army Has Been Cut in Half by Sovie Campaign But Remains Well-Armed In Onjinion of Doughboys at Anzio Beach

GERMAN ARMY'S STRENGTH EBBS   Size Cut in Half by Allied Successes in the Last 18 Months

German Army Cut In Half in Past” tighten Months   Critical Manpower Problem But Still Strona Reports Say

‘Paperhanger’s Chief Worry Is Manpower ‘Shortage As Army Has Been Cut In Half

GERMANY STILL HAS HUGE ARMY   Strength Cut Nearly In Half, Armament And Morale Good

Corn Sales Halted In Midwest Belt   War Plants Need 80 Million Bushels

Halt Corn Sale Except tc Government   WFA ORDER EFFECTIVE IN 125 MIDWESTERN COUNTIES FOR 60 DAYS

Need for 80 Million Bushels of Corn for War Products Use Halts All Sales at Midniaht

SALE OF CORN HALTED IN 125 AREAS BY WF   Temporary Order Applies To All Sales Except To Government

WFA Stops Corn Sales In Midwest To All But U. S.   Appeal To Farmers To Sell Surplus Feed  To Government

Justices Split On Law of Land   Frankfurter Hits Back at Colleaques

Half of Willkie Vote Goes To Dewey, Gallup Declares   Rest Divided Among Other Hopefuls; Bricker to Get Only One in Twelve

Rains in India Spur Japanese  ToBold Attack   Foe Said Losing Heavily To Gain Dry Bases During Monseon

IN EAST INDIA   Suffer Heavy Losses in Ef. fort to Regain Positions In Manipur Valley

Big Money © Parley Opens   - United Nations Conference Gets Under Way at Bretton Wocds

Monetary Parley Opens Saturday  Forty Nations Gather at Bretton Woods

United Nations Money Parley Opening Today   Will Lay Plans For A Peacetime World Finan cial Structire.

World Bank _ Conference Opens Today   Project Designed to Re~ move Causes of World Wars

ALLIED MONETARY AND FINANCIAL CONFERENCE OPENS   United Nations Delegates Meet In New Hampshire to Lay the Groundwork For -Peacetime Financial Ease

“Department Store” And Bank . Similar to RFC Planned AL United Nations Monetary Méet

DELEGATES PLAN MONETARY BANK   Lay Foundation For Two New Business Houses on Main Street of World.

ALLIED NATIONS OPEN MONETARY PARLEY S      Conferees To Get Message From Roosevelt Today

Store Stocked With Monies of Globe And World REC Bank Will Be Studied

WORLD MONEY PARLEY WILL OPEN TODAY   Representatives of 40 Nations in U. S. to Work Out Plans for an International Monetary System.

Monetary Conference of United Nations Opens at Bretton Woods   Plans Involving 20 Billions to Stabilize Currency and Extend Credit to Be Aired

Great World Mart Planned  By Conference   Delegates To See Nations Have Enough Money

Robot Planes Still Explode in Britain;  Nazis Say Current Blast Only a Prelude

Robot Bombs Hit Blindly at Towns   Fighter Pilots Able To Bring Some Down Without Harm— Berlin Save More Tn Come

Nazi Robot Planes Continue to Strike Blindly at Britain   Intermittent Attacks Bring Death to Several Civihans

SOUTH ENGLAND IS AGAIN BATTERED BY ROBOT PLANES   Several Killed and a Number Hurt as Nazis’ “Flying Bombs” Hit Blindly in Southern Areas Last Night

SEEK DEFENSE AGAINST NAZI ROBOT PLANES   New Projectiles Cause Damage, Casuals In South England

Robot Planes Zoom Across Channel Agair   New Casualties And Damage Caused By Mystery Ships

“Flying Bombs” Strike   ‘Nazi Secret Weapons Cause Casualties in Southern England in Prolonged Assault

Nazi Robots Hit Blindly At England   Intermittent Blows Continue Throughout Night and Morning; RAF Fights Back

South England Is Hit by More Robots   Intermittent Blind Attacks Made By Nazi Projectiles

New Robot Planes Strike Blindly in Southern England   RAF Strikes at Pas-De-Caais, Region Frora Which Robots Launched.   Nazi Fighters Rumble Through English Skies

RAF BOMBS ROBOT BASES   Pilotiess Planes Continue Attack; Oné Kills Several in Nurses’ Home.

Germans Continue To  Huri Robot Planes   Only An Overture, Declares.Enemy_Commentators; Airmen Pound Coast From Where Planes Believed Launched.

STILL HARASS SOUTH ENGLAND   German Militarist Leaders Say What Has Happened So Far Is Only An  Overture

Robot Planes Strike in Night   One Mekes Direct Hit on Hospital Nurses’ Home

ROBOT PLANES STRIKE AGAIN      One Pilotless Plane Hits Nurses Home in South: ern England

Germans Say Attacks Only ‘Overature’ and Admit There Is Question Whether ‘New Weapon Will Mark Another Phase in War as Did Airplane in Last World War’

Nazis’ New Robot  Planes Hit Nurses’  Home, Wreck Shop Several Nilled, Namber Hurt by Blinding Striking—RAF

Explosive Robot Planes Continue To Strike Blindly At South Englanc

Robot Planes Again Sweep Over England   British Claim Efforts to Break Morale Will Prove a Failure

$2 000 Handed Seer At Fair   Police Get It Back At Maquoketa Fair

Reds Slash Way To Edge Of Strategic German Stronghold   Other Troops Take District Center On Important Rail Li ine; 100 Towns Freed

FIVE WARSHIPS LOST BY TOKYO   Manila Bay Strike Bags Cruiser, 4 Destrovers, 11 Cargo Vessels

Japan Lost 16 Vessels   Nimitz. Has ‘Revised ‘Ficures For Pacific

BOOST JAP FLEET TOLL AT MANILA   NIMITZ REVEALS CRUISER AND 2 DESTROYERS WERE SENT TO BOTTOM.

INCREASE FIGURES ON JAP SINKINGS   Revised Report Lists Cruiser, 4 Destroyers, 11 Cargo Ships.

FIGURES INCREASE. JAD NAVY. LOSSES      Sixteen Ships Sunk During Manila Bay Raid Nov. 12th

NIMITZ REVISES MANILA BALD TOLL   Three Warships Added to Japan’s Sunken Fleet-During Attack Nov. 12; Planes Make Other Raids

JAPANESE LOST SIXTEEN SHIPS IN MANILA RAID   Admiral. Nimitz. Revises Previous Figures Upward -

Revise Upward Jap Manila Bay Losses   Nov. 12 Raid Sank Cruiser, Four Destroyers, 11 Cargo Vessels

Nimitz Gives New Figures On Manila Bay Carrier Raid   11 Jap Cargo Vessels And Oiler Also Sunk; Only Two Destroyers Previously Listed Sunk

9 Jap Warships, 11 Cargo Ships and Oilers Sunk in American Raid on Manila

THREE WARSHIPS ADDED TO TOLL IN MANILA RAID   Cruiser, Four Destroyers 11 Other Vessels Sunk By Planes   JAP INSTALLATIONS DAMAGED ON ISLANDS

Nimitz Adds 3 Warships To List Jap Vessels Sunk   Announces Revised Figures Of Results Of Manila Raid.

NEW REPORT ON THIRD FLEET'S VICTORY GIVEN   Seventeen Ships Sunk Nov. 12 By U. S. Navy

NAZIS FALL BACK BEFORE RUSS POWER   Russians Make Advances Thru  Eastern Slovakia

REDS LOOSEN GERMAN GRIP IN SLOVAKIA   Increasingly Heavy Blows By Russians In Vicinity Of Kassa

Loosen Nazi Grip In East Slovakia .   Heavy Soviet Blows Reported On Kassa

REDS LOOSE NAZI GRIP ON SLOVAKIA AREA   Soviets Push Along 100-Mile Front Toward Kassa Stronghold

Two Red Armies Advance Through German Puppet State   NAZIS LOSE 4.000 IN MOUNTAIN PASSES  Prisoners And Stores Of Arms And Equipment Taken By Reds

Russ Cracks Nazi Hold  On Slovakia   Germans Fall Back Under Pressure of Petrov’'s 4th Army

NAZIS SUFFER 4000 CASUALTIES IN SLOVAKIA MOUNTAIN BATTLES   TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES IN CONVERGING DRIVES ON KASSA STRONGHOLD ALONG 100-MILE FRONT

ADVANCE IN SLOVAKIA   Two Red Armies Make Gains In Nazi Puppet State

RUSSIANS CONVERGE ON KASSA   Ged Armies Advancing On 100-Mile Front In Puppet State

SOVIET BLOWS BREAKING NAZI " SLOVAKIA GRIP   Foe Gives Ground Slowly On Wide Front In Puppet State

Dewey Keeps Up Barrage or the New Deal   Charges Incompetency to Handle Changeover From War ¢to Peace

)ffensive Tactics Planned by Dewey on Campaign Trip   ‘olitical Meetings in Valentine, Neb., Are Scheduled for Today

Dewey Stops in Nebraska Today   Meets Leaders in Sandhills Country

DEWEY CARRIES DRIVE TO WEST   ‘Arrives In Nebraska For  Confab With Cattle men, Politicos

Dewey in Nebraska   To Confer With Leaders—Plans Short Rest on Ranch

Big Carrier, 2 Cruisers Destroyed   Other Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged, Is Revealed  Today 

U. S. S. Princeton Sunk: Many Saved   Navy Planes Damage Two Large Jap Carriers, 5 or 6 Battleships, One Cruiser And Other Warships in Three-Pronged Fight Battle Is Still Continuing

Jap Carrier, Two Cruisers, Destrover Lost   Five or Six Battleship Damaged; Great Sea Batile Continues

2 Other Flat-Tops, 5 Or 6 Warships Hit   USS Princeton Lost In Fierce Engagement; Nips Admit Loss Of Three Ships; 150 Enemy Planes Shot Down

Four kinemy Craft Sunk  In Actions   U. S. Loses Light Carrier, But Personnel Saved; Battle Continues

Enemy Carrier, Two Cruisers, Destroyer Sent to Bottom In  Philippine Waters;  One U.S. Ship Sunk

American Ships Forced To Sink Badly Crippled USS Princeton, Most of Crew Rescued

Yanks Lose Flattop In Battle   American Fliers Sink Big Nip Carrier, Damage Two Others, Five or Six Battleships, One Cruiser and Several Other Jap Vessels

Showdown Battle With Three Enemy Naval Forces In Progress  FOR CONTROL OF THE PHILIPPINE WATERS  Amercian Aircraft Carrier Princeton Has Been Lost, Crew Saved

TrEANRL HARDUR, \U.P)— The American Third Fleet has sunk at least one Japanese aircraft carrier, two cruisers and 9 destrover and damaged a

Huge Jap Carrier Sunk and Several Warships Damaged   No Mention is Made in Communique Issued By Adm. Nimitz of Great Sea Battle as Claimed By Tokyo Radio   THE U. S. S. PRINCETON IS LISTED AS LOST

TEMPERATURES:   Nippon Fleet Fails 3 In Surprise Attempt Near Philippines

Large Jap Carrier Sunk By Yank Carrier Planes; Damage Many Other Ship:   Adm. Halsey’s Forces Loses One Carrier; Princeton Is Sunk By Americans After Being Damaged

Air-Sea Battle is Continuing In Philippines   At Least One Jap Aireraft Carrier. Two Cruisers And Destrover Sunk.

Battle Near Philippines Continues   American Vessel Lost; Japs Say Fleets Fighting

U.S. 3RD FLEET SINKS JAP SHIPS. AND AIR PLANES   Admiral Nimitz Announces Greatest Air and Sea Battle of War Is. Continuing North of Leyte. -

Japanese Planes Sink U.S. Carrier Princeton: Crew Rescued: Nimitz

U. S. Loses Light  Carrier To Attack Of Enemy Planes   Yank Carrier Planes Sink Large Cruiser, Damage Six Battleships, Other Warships    Downed 150 Jan Planes

‘Naval Battle  In Pacific Area   U. S. FLEET SCORED HEAVILY IN SEA FIGUT

150 knenvy Planes Destroyed; Action Continues, Nimitz Says: Tokvo Admits 3 Losses   Every Big Battleship Sent Into Action By Enemy Damaged; Halsey Deals Heavy Blow To Foe: Battle Believed Mostly Air Action

‘Most Crushing Defeat of War’   Southern Enemy Naval Force in Flight; More Than 10 Nip Warships Already Sunk or Damaged in Three-Day Battle

American-Japanese Fleets Locked in Furious Battle Off Philippine Islands   Great Three-pronged Battle Continuing os Japanese Seek to Block American Invasion; Both Fleets Reported to Have Suffered Losses

Knemy Losses Heavy   Aircraft: Carrier Sunk And Other Ships Damaged in Engagement; U. S. Carrier Is Lost

ONE LARGE JAP: VESSEL 15 SUNK   Several Gther Large Ones And Some Smail Ships Are Damaaed.   -U.S.S. PRINCETON LOST

Enemy Attempts To Cut Off MacArthur’s Forces by Triple Attack on Third Fleet

USS Princeton Sunk by US Ships After Crippling   Second Carrier Fscort Goes Down Magazines FE.xplode

Carrier, 2 Cruisers, Destroyer Already Blasted By Halsey; UL §. Has Lost One Flat Top:

U. S. Light Carrier Lost, But All Hands Aboard Are Rescued      Major Naval-Air Battle Near Philippines Continues With Two, Perhaps Three, Jap  Forces Destroved

Princeton Sent Down After Foe Cripples It; Sea Fight Continues   1360 of Crew Rescued: 150 Enemy Planes Bagged

U. S. Carrier Princeton Is Sunk By Jap Planes, With 1,361 Men Rescued

(General Action Is Continuing In Philippine Area; Japanese Sink U. S. Aircraft Carrer Princeton, Crew Rescued   JAPANESE ADMIT SOME SHIPS SUNK

Three Pronged Naval Battle  Is Continuing   Strong Force of Land. Based Enemy Planes Attacked U. 5! Group Monday, Says Nimitz   HIT ON PRINCETON SCORED FIRST DAY   Additional Damage Inflieted On Japs, Gne Report Saying That Not One Warship Escaped

Dozen Nip Warships Sunk Or Damaged, U.S. Carrier Lost In Three-Way Clash   Mighty Three-Pronged Naval Engagement Reported Continuing In Philippine Area

Enemy Carrier Is Sunk, 8 Other Ships Damaged; U.S. S. Princeton Lost

_ Damage Toll to Jap Fleet Includes Two Large Carriers, Five or Six Battleships and Several Other Ships

U.S. S. PRINCETON SUNK BY JAPS   Two Other Nip Carriers, Five Or Six Battleships, Cruiser Damaged

NAVAL BATTLE CONTINUES IN SOUTH PACIFIC   U. S. S. Princeton Sunk; Japanese Loss Is Heavy

Light United States Carrier Sunk In ThreePronged Naval Battle Off Philippines But Captain And Crew Rescued.   Terrific Battle Still Is In Progress

Toll Taken By Third Fleet Said To Be Heavy   Aircraft Carrier, Two Cruisers Among Losses of Japanese

U. S. Armada Loses Converted ‘Flattop’ In Philippine Waters   Showdown Struggle Still Ragin Destroyer Sunk; 150 Planes Fall; Showdown Struggle Still Raging

U. S. Carrier Planes Begin Operation Against Japanese Fleet Which Has  Made Appearance.   U.S. S. PRINCETON IS REPORTED AS SUNK

General Demoted and Sent Home Fo. Indicating Time of Invasion Day

Demote General For Revelation  _ Of D-Day. Date   One Of Best Known Air Force Commanders Is Broken, Sent Home

General Demoted For Loose Talk   Sent Home From England For Indicating Date Of D-Day. ’

U.S. Leader In Disgrace  ‘Major General Gets. Demoted for Talking

YANK GENERAL DEMOTED, SENT HOME FOR TALK   Indicated D-Day Time In Advance At Party; Name Not Revealed

Demoted!  eee  General Lowered In Rank ~" For Indicating Tine Of D-Dav.

Major General Gets Demotion   One Of America’s BestKnown Officers Indicates  Time Of D-Day.

He Isn't A General Now   Indicated D-Day Time in Advance, He’s Sent Home ‘Busted’ From Rank

‘Returning Soldiers Of World War Il ‘May Bring Orphans   Hundreds Of Italian War Orphans Adopted By American Troops

VIQLATORS 10 GET CHANCE      Thoso Claiming Religious Objection to Serving Country iu War Times to be Offered Opportunity to Enter Armed Forces.

STIMSON FAVORS CONTROL OF PRICE AS CRISIS NEARS   Secretary of War Testifies Before Senate, Has Hopes For Continuation of Stabilizatian.   SEEKS TO AVOID ANY HOPES OF EARLY END   Contrasts Conditions Wit Previous War, Attributes Success to Number of Factors.

Crisis Nearing In War Effort,  Declares Stimson   Congress Urged Not To Make Modification of Stabilization Plan

~-ALLIED AIR WAR—~ Blast  Berlin   1,000 U. S. Heavies Batter Nazi Capital

Campaign in India, Burma Has Cost Japanese More Than 23,000 Men Killed!

23,000 Japs Die In Burma, India   Annihilation of Nip  Forces Continues

Japs Have Lost 23.000 Men In Southeast Asta   Allied Troops Closing In On Kamaing

BANGKOK ALSO HIT IN DOUBLE AIR ASSAULTS   East-West Attack Made By 100 Or More Superforts

Bangkok Blasted By B-29 Armada   Bansue Railroad Yards Bombed In Daylight Raid

E-BONGS Fh OLDER PEOPLE   Pay 214 Per Cent—Have Ad vantages For Investors and Farmers.

Vote Probers Make Report Of Findings   No Prosecution To Result From Investication

Senators, Probing Indiana Election, Report No Evidence Of Conspiracy

Attacks Launched On Belgian Border   Allied High Command Gives Germans Little  Chanks.ck Malian Avo Castinnd latin:

NAZIS PUSH BACK INTO BELGIUM   Germans Hurl Crack Reserves Against Patch’s Troops

NAZIS SLASH BACK, DRIVE INTO BELGIUM   Foe Hurls Reserves Into Fray Below Aachen Area

Nazis Drive Fifty Miles Into Belowum   Nazi Counter Attack Hits Below Aachen In Diversionary Move

U.S. troops overrun Bavarian gate city, meet fierce attacks   Germans batter back into Belgium at one point: using crack reserves

PATCH MAKES GHD CRU oalNb INTO BAVARI   German Thrust Pushes First Army Back 2 Miles Below Aachen.

Yanks Storm Last Japs on Leyte Island   Torrent of Shells and Bombs Poured Into Ormoc Sector

ORMOC,ON ‘LEYTE ISLAND   12 Miles from  Last Japanese  Stronghold

AMERICANS 12 MILES FROM ORMOC   Indicate All of Leyte Will Soon Be In U. S. Hands

NEARING LAST LEYTE BASE   American Forces Storming Up West Coast of Island to Within 12 Miles of Ormoc — Threatening Rear of Main Japanese Forees,

Americans Within 12 Miles Of Ormoc   Final Showdown Battle on Leyte Is Believed Near

B-29s Deliver Softening Blow for Asia Landine   Huge Bombers Score Direct Hits in Major Raid; U. S. Forces Storm to Within 12 Miles of Last Japanese Stronghold on Leyte Island

YANKS STORM UP WEST COAST OF . LEYTE ISLAND   Now Within 12 Miles Of Ormog, Last Japanese Stronghold

Churchill Gets Commons’ Vote  Of Confidence   Requests Ballot As. Test Of Leadership And Fate Of Cabinet

Churchill Wins House Backing   Commons Gives  Vote of Confidence

Churchill Given Confidence Vote   Prime Minister Gets: 425 To 23 Decision

CONFIDENCE VOTE WON BY CHURCHILL   House of Commons Votes 425 to 23 In Favor

Churchill Victor in Overwhelming Confidence Vote   25 Honest Men” Refuse to Reverse Domestic Stand

MacArthur Repudiates Accusation   General Breaks Silence,  Says Letters Quoted " Not-‘intended for — me  - Bubligation= ~~

QUESTION “1S LEFT OPEN BY GENERAL   MacArthur Breaks Silence on Political Issues

MacArthur Says His Only Ambition Is To Successfully End War   NO CRITICISM OF PRESIDENT MEANT

(MacArthur Statement Leaves  Question of Availability Open  { i i 1

Gen. W Arthur Breaks Silence  OnU.S. Polities   Leaves Door Open on Question of Candidacy For President; Press Charges Repudiated

BLOCK TESTIMONY CONCERNING JOAN'S OTHER BOY FRIENDS   ‘That Closes Our Books, Moans Attorney For Chaplin

ChaplinBlocked From Telhing of  Joan’s Friends   Court Bans Evidence on ‘Other Men’ in Life of Comie’s Accuser

BLOCK CHAPLIN IN MANN TRIAL   COURT RECESSED UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING

Past Life of Joan Ruled Out af Trial   Comic’s Counsel Hints Case Dealt Blow by Decision of Court

Judge Restricts Testimony In Chaplin Case   By FREDERICK CC, OTHMAN United Press ‘Hollywood  .- . era Ze i ee

NIPPONESE DEAD AT AITAPE 1,300   Frontal Assault Fails To Break Allied Trap In New Guinea

FILM COMEDIAN IS ACQUITTED IN CALIFORNIA   Charlie Chaplin Innocent Of Mann Act Charges, Jury Decides   GROUP DELIBERATED NEARLY SEVEN HOURS

Chaplin Acquitted By Federal Jury of Mann Act Charge   Held Innocent on Both Counts; Courtroom Applauds

MICHIGAN GOP LEADERS SEEK TO OUST MCKAY   Launch Campaign to Force Out Veteran State Committeeman

Enemy Attempting To Evacuate in Anything That Floats   COST THE GERMANS THOUSANDS OF MEN   Assault on Sevastopol Is In the Immediate Ofting

Germans in Crimea Pinned Against Sea at Sevastopol   Clean-Up of Huge Peninsula Near as Slaughter of Remaining Nazis at Port City Enters Final Stages.

Russians Reach Outer ‘Defenses Of Sevastopol: -Most of Crimea Captured

GERMANS TRYING TOEVACUATE CRIMEA BY SEA   Russian Front Dispatches Say Makeshift Enemy Fleet Of Transports Being Ueed.

Their Powerful Drive Opens Way To. Rail And Road Hub Of Coutances   BRITISH. RETREAT FROM POSITIONS IN MAY-SUR-ORNE   Germans Say - Allies. Have Started Their Long-Ex. pected Push On Florence

Score Gains In Periers St. Lo Drive   With American Forces in Normandy, ‘.P\_United States armored forces captured Marigny and St. Gilles today,

Politica Pot Bols Full Tilt   Lewis Hits Roosevelt; Dewey Attacked, Texas Still Split.

YANKS CROSS: RAPIDO RIVER © NEAR GASSIN   Hard and Bloody Fightine €Aiso Brings Steady Gain’ in Anzio Area

American lroops Recross Rapido; Smash Forware   Advance In Italy Is Sup. ported By Tanks And Heavy Artillery Fire   BRIDGEHEAD NEAR ROME IS ENLARGED   By J. C. OESTREICHER

GUSTAV LINE BREACHED BY YANK TROOPS   Cross Rapids After Bloody Fight   Eee  CLOSER TO ROME  cea nee  Shoot Down 63 Nazi Planes

Drive Over Carpathian Mountains   Main Russian Offensive  Carries Troops Across  Ploesti Region Toward  Romanian Capital

Reds Cross Carpathians, DNB Admits   Nazis Claim Russ Routed; Soviets Pour Past Galati

NAZI TROOPS PUSH ATTACK ON CADITAL   Romanian Capital Encircled; Reds March to Rescuc

COSSACKS IN PLOESII OIL AREA CONTRO!   Soviet Columns 50 Miles Out of Bucharest. Russian Air Force Aiding Ground Troops

28 KNOWN DEAD IN CLEVELAND FIRE   CITY’S MOST DEVASTATING BLAZE SWEEPS 50-BLOCK AREA AFTER BLASTS. 4

lames Sweep Large leveland, O., District; eath Toll May Reach 41   Hundreds Are Injured; 3600 Left Homeless as Fire Following Gas Blast Strikes Thickly Populated  Region; Citizens Flee in Panic as Fire Spreads

At Least 27  Dead in Blast And Big Fire At Cleveland   Hundreds Injured As 50-Block Area  Is Ripped by Blasts And Many Fires Start  TOLL MAY HIT 40

Forts Batter Marseilles Area  21 Of Fifty Nazi Fighters Destroyed

Forts Batter 3 Airdromes  O41 Of PO A tdnnwletece   21 Of 50 Attacking }oe Planes Destroved

Warren Calls For Honesty In Campaign   Green, Baldwin Hit Political Bosses In Radio Speeches

G. O.P. Launches Canipaign With Fair Play Demanc   Waren Tells Duty of Administration, Calls For Candid Discussion

Bulgaria May Oust Hitlerite:   Reports That Nation May Overthrow Pro-Nazi Re. gime And Join Allies

UNREST SEEN TN BULGARIA   NEUTRALS SAY BULGARIANS PRO-RUSSIAN AND ARE” AWAITING  CHANCE  TO JOIN ALLIES j

Covernment In  Bulgaria Falls   Dis patches Say Telephone. Tele graph Communications Broken Off,  :

Sofia Wires Cut To Turk Capital.   Pro-Nazi Crisis Pictured Shaking Ralkan State

dave Difficulty Forming Regime To Rule ( ountry   Ferst of Kaiser's Allies Has Been Torn Recently by Disorders.   Unrest Is Reported After Cairo Parley

Bulgarian Upheaval Reported   All Communications ~Cut Off; Cabinet, Said ta Have’ Fallen   COUNTRY LONG : TORN BY DISORDERS   Recent Allied Moves Have Increased Clamor for Feace; First to Break: Before

ONE ARMY ONLY: 10 MILES AWAY, ~ OTHER 15 MILES   Novograd Volynsk, Last Major Obstacle, Falls — to Russians.

CUT OFF LINES INTO BULGARIA   Report Government of  Bojiloy Has Fallen

FVU SOLA  LST BABRIE 10 FRONTIER FALLS   Premier Stalin Announe/ es Capture Of Novo grad Volynsk   GERMANS ROUTED   Soviet Columns Reported 10 And 15 Miles From Border

Rumor Bulgarian Covernment ‘Out’ Communications W ith  Turkey Broken Off

PAPER COLLECTION PLANS GO FORWARD   Boy Scouts to ts to Make Big Drive on Saturday, March 4

PAPER COLLECTION PLANS GO FORWARD   Boy Scouts: to Make Big Drive. on Saturday, . March 4

U. S. Invades Saipan Isle In Marianas   Landing Places Americans Only 1449 Miles From Tokyo

SPECIAL FDR TRAIN GUARD IS KILLED   Struck by Another Train; Hurled 80 Feet in Air

Poles’ Hopes Getting Dim   Little. Chance Seen. For. Reds’ Friendship

Settlement Of  Russo-Polish  Issue Far Off   Prospects For All-Around Friendly Settlement Dim; Roosevelt May Issue Statement

POLAND LOSING ITS ARGUMENTS AGAINST RUSSIA   Asks United States Tc Act In Settlement Of Dispute Oven Russias Westerr Boundary.

Soldier-Vote Bill Compromise Is Expected To Pass   Federal Ballot Advocates Make Final Blasts At Substitute Measure

JAPS WITHDRAW IN NEW GUINEA   MacArthur May Make Stand 250 Miles From Philippines

Japs Withdraw  Near Driniumor   Point 250 Miles From Philippines May Be Next

TRAPPED JAPS HALT ATTAGKS   Abandon Escape Efforts In New Guinea

‘Lhreaten to Chop German Defenders into 3 Groups on Tip of Cherbourg Peninsula   Score Advances on Both Sides of Citys Bombers Pound Stronghold for 80 Minutes, Then Artillery Opens Up

Infantry Attack Follows Bombers,  Artillery Barrage  ' 2,200 Planes: Bomb Berlin, , Carntinis i fen: TA Dire cia

No Signs Of Surrender Shown By Nazis There   Fortifications Of Enemy Strong; HouseTo-House Fighting In City’s Streets

Planes And Guns Batter Port Forts   Doughboys Move Up and Begin. Storming Nazi Defenses

—INVASION—   Yanks Battering Nazi Forces Trapped On  French: Peninsula   Swift Advances East And West Of Beleagured Port Threaten To Cut Encircled Germans Into 3 Seements:; Other Sectors Quiet

Yanks Fighting At Close Range With Heinies   American Infantrymen Threaten to Cat Nazi Forces On Peninsula Into 3 Segments   Surrender Demand Believed Ignored   Forces of Left and Right Ameriean Flanks Progressing; Other Beach-   head Areas Quiet

Chicago Policeman Held for Death of Woman in Recreation Building

Reds’ Drive Provokes Outbreaks   Ankara Dispatches Tell Story—Bitter Fighting  Near Leningrad

Russians Seize 40 Towns Near Rail Junctions   Nazis Lose 1500 Men Trying To Save Vital Supply Line To East

Rumor Units Of Bulgarian Army Mutiny   Red Forces Advance 25 Miles From Leningrad, Cut Off Enemy.

FURY OF RED ONSLAUGHT IS INCREASING   Germans May Retreat to Baltic Stat es— Bulgarian Army Nears Mutiny.

Nazis Say Reds Drive  Increasing   Majer Retreat to Baltic States Is Hinted; Mutiny

Little Helena Is Given Unit Citation   Destroyer O'Bannon Nicknamed for This City’s Cruiser

REPUBLICANS WIN   Appropriation ‘Bill for Agriculture  Census Defeated

Gov. Warren Urges Far West Have Greater Voice in Shaping Policies Of the Home Front War Effort

Warren  Asks Plan for West   GOVERNOR URGES GREATER VOICE FOR COAST STATES IN HOME FRONT EFFORT

CAPTURE TINIAN IN NINE DAYS   New Secret Weapon Speeds Victory on Island

MovesSwittly In Marianas   Resistance Ends On Tinian, and Guam’s Doom Is Assured; Ahead On New Guines

CAPTURED TINIAN OND “UNSINKABLE PLANE CARRIER”   Nine-Day American Victory Over Japs on Key Marianas Island Accomplished by Use. of Deadly “Secret Weapon”

Pacific Conquest Gives New Base  To U. S. Fighters   Nine-Day Victory on Tinian, Shortened by Use Of New Death-Dealing Secret Weapon, Gives Yanks Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier

Conquest of Tinian Completed, Guam Defenses Collapsing While More Than 50,000 of Fanatical Foe in Traps Facing Surrender or Death

Yanks Conquer Tinian Island   Jap Possession  Falls in 9 Days; Guam Defenders Whittled Down -

Tinian Seizure Gives Americans More Airbases  - Marines Whittle Guam Onnosition

YANKS HOLD TINIAN   New Death-Dealing Weapon Figured in Reduction  of Island

Tinian Battle Is Now Over   Remaining Japs on Guam Being Whittled Down; Tinian Airfields to Be Useful

‘6-F ELECTION CALENDAR SET UNDER NEW LAW   June 14 Tentatively Set For Be ginning Of Canvass For Soldier Vote

GI” ELECTION CALENDAR Is BEING DRAFTED   State Bureau Hopes to Make Speed Record Like That of. Legislature.

400 Lost In Sinking Of Liner Empress   Italian Prisoners of War Majority of Casualties

LINER'S LOSS BARED: 400 WENT TO DEAT   Empress Of Canada Sinking A Year Ago Confirmed

Giant Empress Of Canada Is Sunk   Four Hundred Lives Lost In Sinking of Liner Off Free  Town, Africa.

400 LOST LIVES IN ~ SINKING OF VESSEL   Empress of Canada Sent - Down: Off Africa Near2 lw Year Aao

Loss of 400 in Canadian Ship Sinking Revealed   Most of Those Dying After Torpedoing With War Prisoners

1400 ITALIAN PRISONERS PERISH AS SUB OF OWN NATION SINKS ALLIED SHIP

Reveal Details of Year Old Sinking  Empress of Canada Ginkina Given Public

400 PERSONS DIED WHEN BIG LINER SENT TO BOTTOM   Sinking of Empress of Canada by Italian Sub In March 1943 Confirm on

400 ON CANADIAN -SHIPLOST AT SE!   SINKING OF 21,517-TON : LINER BY ITALIAN SUB YEAR  AGO REVEALED.

Canada Reveals  400 Lost on Ship   Confirms Sinking Of Liner Year Ago

400 Lives Lost In Ship Tragedy   Empress of Canada Sunk a Year Ago

Loss of 400 On Liner Year Ago.Revealed   Empress of Canada Sunk - by Italian Sub Off — Freetown

LOSS OF LINER “ATAL TO 400   Sinking Of Canadian Ship In 1943 By Italian Torpedo Confirmed

Canada Reveals Liner's Sinking  400 Said Lost In   400 Said Lost In Shark-Ridden Sec

‘Rlamed For Bolivia Change.   First Week War Bond Drive Is  ‘Disappointing’ ... But Pick-Up Seen

Halsey’ S Target Is Tokyo—      Asks Americans Te Accept No Peace Offer

Tokyo No. 1 Objective, Halsey Says   Admiral Urges No Peace Until We Get There

HALSEY HITS JAPAN TRUCE   ADMIRAL WARNS AGAINST PEACE BEFORE VICTORY

TOKYO NUMBER ONE OBJECTIVE IN THE PACIFIC   Admiral Halsey Says Main Target Of Our  Forces. Ie Japanese Capital.

PICTURES TOKYO "NO. 1 OBJECHIVE’   Halsey Urges America to Bar Peace Talk

Republicans To Hold Meet In Chicago   Tokyo Is No. 1 Pacific Objective  "Sse  SS ee” = SI  eee ets = eee = RRR   Halsey Doesn't Want Peace Until Tokyo s Taken

TOKYO OBJECTIVE IN THE PACIFIC   Admiral Halsey Says To. kyo Is Number One Objective.

HALSEY WANTS Th MARCH TO TOKIO   Head of Allied Forces Appeals to Americans to Defer Peace Until Then.

Germans Kill Two Soviet Officers Carrying Ultimatum to Boche Com mander in Budapest   Annihilation Of 100,000 Is Near   German Garrison in Burntrig Hungarian Capital ‘Surrounded hy Red  ¥Forresr °

Annihilation Garrison Goes On, Reds Say   ‘Two Red Emissaries Carrying White Flag Killed by Germans, Moscow Declares

GERMANS REFUSE RED ULTIMATUM; KILL EMISSARIES   Enemy Garrison Hopelessly Surrounded In Last Part Of City —

rmans Kill missaries  t Budapest   Spurn Surrender Terms And Continue Suicidal Fight To Hold Capital

ULTIMATUM OF SURRENDER IS SPURNED   Soviet Forces Are Merged In Center “Of City

Nazis Reject Ultimatum From Soviets   Shoot Two Russian Emissaries Bearing White Flags

NAZIS DEFENDING BUDAPEST REFUSE TO GIVE UP FIGHT   Reds Announce Annihilation of Garrison Is in Last — Stage After Surrender  Demand Is Rejected.   2 RUSSIANS CARRYING  TRUCE PROPOSAL SHOT   Soviet Force Entering City From East Links Up With Western Invasion Ring  in Burning Capital. .

Annihilation Faces Budapest Nazis Who Defy Soviets   Germans Murder Red Officers With  White Truce Flags

Red Conquest Of Budapest In Last Stage   German Garrison Refuses Ultimatum Demanding Surrender

leds Smash Into Eastern sudapest After Germans lav Surrender Enyovs

Nazis in Budapest Refuse to Surrende To Russians   Enemy Kills Two Red Army Emissaries Carrying White Flag

Axis Budapest Flouts Chance For Surrender   Russian Bayonets Cut Way Into “East: Part. of City i ered  gee Pe BR

Germans Refuse Red Ultimatum To Quit Budapest   Nazis Kill Soviet Emissaries  Bearing White Flags

Nazis Reject      Emissaries With White Flags Slain, Russians Report

REDS OCCUPY EASTERN PART OF BUDAPEST   STREETS LITTERED WITH DEAD; TRUCE FLAG IGNORED

Budapest Garrison Spurns Surrender   Soviet White Flag  Emissaries Slain

1100 Yank Airmen Freed in Romania; German Prisoners Replaced Them in Hospital Nazis Quickly Dive Bombed

American Fliers Freed by Romanic  1,100 Given Liberty by Decree of King

1,100 American Fliers In Romania Released   Former Washington C. H. Boy Captured During First Raid On Ploesti Believed AmongYanks Freed by Russians

YANK FLIERS GIVEN AUN OF BUCHAREST   Freed of Prison Cages Following Russian Liberation of Romanian Capital

1,100 AMERICAN FLYERS FREED   ‘Are ta ound: in Bucharest ~ -by-Russian- Troops.

1,100 U.S. Flyers Are Freéd In  Romania   Given Liberty Few Minutes After King Issued Armistice Proclamation

U. Ss. Flyers Unshaekled   1,100: Are Liberated Jn. Bucharest Coupe.

1,100 American Airmen, Prisoners Of War in Romania, Freed by Mihai

eran OT  Romanians Freed 1,100 Yank Airmen When They Quit Nazis   Prisoners of War Given Freedom of Bucharest, Tell Of German Mistake in Bombing German Prisoners

1,100 U. S. Fliers Freed {n Bucharest; Given Run Of City   Prison Gates Thrown Open on Day Romanian King Proclaimed Armistice

Double Blow Struck by Allied Plane:   Americans Complete Last Leg of Triangle

Charge He Was Seized To Prevent Diselasure Prewar Pact With U. S. Followed Arreai

British Announce Ramsay Release From Detention   Imprisoned With U. S. Code Clerk

Release of Ramsay Stirs Commons, Revives Talk of Secret Agreement

Yanks in Italy Suffer Setbacks   Nazis Regain Strong Points Near Bologna

On The Home Front German Crack of Doom Sends ‘Congress On to Post-War Job

Germany’s Impending Doom Sends Solons Back to Tackle Postwar Job

Planes Harass Routed Enemy   No Further Announcement Made on Progress of Paris Spearhead; Seine Bridges Demolished

AIRMEN SMASH 3,800 FLEEING NAZI VEHICLES   Secrecy Withholds Position of Patton’s Forces Near Paris

U.S. SEA AND BOMBERS POWER STRIKES JAP AIR FIELD IN BONIN ISLE OF IWO JIMA

NELSON RAPS ARMY POLITICS   Says Critical Arms Programs Being Met With Minor Exceptions

TAKES ISaUE WITH CONVERSION CRITICS   WPB Head Says All Critical Muritions Programs Are Baing Met.

Nelson Takes Issue With Critics of  His Civilian Reconversion Program

Nelson Asserts All Critical Munitions Programs Met with Minor Exceptions

Nelson’s Stand Against Army  Critics Sharp   Denied to Senate Group Reconversion Program Interfers With Critical  Munitions Output

CHRYSLER STRIKE. COMES 10 ENE   FIRST OF 12,000 WORKERS, IDLE ONE WEEK, RETURN TO WAR JOBS.

CHRYSLER'S CIO WALKOUT ENDED   Local Union Officers Condemned; Hearing Scheduled Today

CARRIER-BASED   Set Two Nip Cruisers and One Destroyer Afire at Kavieng

RAID SETS AFIRE 2 JAP CRUISERS AND DESTROYER   Mac Arthur Reports Ground Progress in New Britain and New Guinea

CARRIER-BASED PLANES BLAST 3 JAP SHIPS   Set Two Nip Cruisers and One Destroyer Afire at Kavieng

Carrier-Based Allied Planes Hit Jap Ships   Two Jap Cruisers And Destroyer Are Blasted By U. S. Fliers

JAP WARSHIPS DESTROYED BY AERIAL BLAST   U. S. Carrier-Based Planes Score  PLASTER RABOUL  ne aman  Ground Troops Gain In Pacific Area

MANY AIRMEN INTERNED   Those in Hungary Are Well Treated And Have Received Packages

Cross-Examination of Joan Berry Is Resumed in Court   Girl Tells  of Numerous Intimacies With Charlie Chaplin

GUN EPISODE AT COMEDIANS HOME RELATED   Intimacies With Film Ac ter Revealed by His  Protege

Russians Operating Naval Base On American Soil, Congressman Says

Soviets Use U.S. Port   Operation As Naval Base Under Lend-Lease A Secret for 15 Months

SOVIET. HAS BEEN USING FORT UNDER LEASE ARRANGE- , ° MENT FOR FIFTEEN: '* ) MONTHS

BARE RUSSIAN BASE IN U. S.   Soviets Use West Coast Port As Cargo, Re fueling Station

[Russian Operation of Naval Base on  U. S. Soil Under Lease-Lend Charged

Russians Operate Great Naval Base On American Soil, Newspaper Is Informed

Double Attack On Kuriles   Americans End Lull On Ten Days in Far North Operations

UF ATHENS TODAY   British Regulars Capture The Leftist Eam Headquarters   GREEK GOVERNMENT IN NEW QUARTERS   British And Greek Regular Forces Support The Civil Power

BRITISH TROOPS AND TANKS ORDERED INTO ‘BATTLE OF ATHENS   Rebel Headquarters Captured After Bloody Street Fight Begins; Leftists March On Center Of Capital

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Chinese Struggle to Hold Pineers Apart at Loyang   High Command Concedes Capture Of All But 14-Mile Stretch of North-South Peiping-Hankow Rails

CHINESE HARD PRESSED IN LOYANG AREA   Trying Desperately to Keep Apart Claws of Jap Pincers; Northern Counter-Attack Beaten.   Vigorous Battle

Chinese Facing Heavy Odds in ‘Honan Province   Announce Reverses In Hard Fighting

PHEASANT SEASON OPENS SATURDAY     Longest Pheasant Season in this State Begins Oct. 28 with a Limit of 6 Birds a Day.

Drop Inspections Of Passenger Tires   Inspection Certificates Required Only When Replacement Tires Sought

‘Passenger Tire Inspection Will End ‘After April 20th, OPA Advises

Tire Check Eliminated   OPA Order Effective April 20 Applies to Passenger Cars Only

SHIFTS ARE MADE IN JAPANESE NAVY   Reshuffling, in View of Grave War Situation, © Announced .

TOKYO REVAMPS NAVY COMMAND   Grave War Situation Is Recognized In Shifts Of High Officials

Japs Reshuffle Naval High Command Because of ‘Grave War Situation’:

Jans Announce - Reshoffling of Naval Commianc   Change Made “In View OF Present Grove . War Situatian’ .

JAPAN COMMAND I) AE-GHUFFLED   Again Change High Naval Command ‘In View of Present Grave War Situation’ In Pacific

Rains Slow Philippine Operations   Yanks Tighten Grip on Leyte, in Spite of Unfavorable Weather

GROCER-CUSTOMER. CAMPAIGN 10 ODEN      Meeting Next Week Will Boost Price Control Program

GROCER-CUSTOMER.. CAMPAIGN TO OPEN   Meeting Next Week Will Boost Price Control . Program

Program Ts Clean Chicago of Machine Rule on Way: Green   Governor Asks State Postwar Planning Men to Tackle Problem

MACHINE STIFLES CHICAGO GROWTH. SAYS GOV. GREEN   DESCRIBES PLAN TO END STAGNATION OF A CITY THROTTLED

GEN, CLARK IN APPRAISAL OF ANZIO FRONT   “In Good Shape There,” Declares After Inspection Trip.—“Open Season on Boches”,

BEACHHEAD IN “E00D SHAPE"   17 Decorations Are  Awarded by Clark

Rebel Attacks Widen   Athens “Liberation” Front Lays Mines, Set Road Blocks

Additional Rebel Forces Arriving  Outside Athens —   Hostile Activities’ Against British, Greek  ~ Troops Increases

MARTHUR SENDS BOMBERS AGAINST MINDANAO; TROOPS MOP UP PELELIU   U. S. Subs Sink 3 Nip Warships

Took Smoky  Plane Engines   Says Army Officers OK'd BReiecied Motor

GET ANOTHER CHANCE   Von Kluge and Rommel, Both Once Defeated, Team Up

Field Marshal You Kluge Replaces Von Rundstedt; Victory For Rommel

MacArthur’s Not Seeking Presidency   Repudiates Interpretation   REPUDIATES INFERENCES FROM LETTERS TO CONGRESSMAN MILLER OF NEBRASKA; HIS TOR IS WIN THE WAR.

MacArthur Still Silent on Draft For Nomination   Regrets Letters Were Made Public

MacArthur Fails io Say Whether He Would Accept Republican Presidential Nomination; Denies His Letters Criticized Any Political Philosophy

Big 40,000 Ton Load Is Dropped On Hitler Cities   Great Pre-Inyasion Air Offense Roars Ahead With New RAF Attack; Nazi Propagandists Say German Defenders At Their Stations

PLUNGES 10 HER DEATH   Buchanan Woman Leaps Out of 3rd Floor Hospital Window

DE VALERA WINS . ~ BACK DAIL SEAT   PRIME MINISTER’S PARTY APPEARS CERTAIN OF PARLIAMENT MAJORITY.

RABAUL PASTED 12TH TIME WITH 134 TONS BOMBS   Three Jap Aircraft Downed Out Of Weak Inter cepting Force   3,000-TON VESSEL IS BOMBED AT WEWAK

RABAUL AGAIN HIT BY ALLIED FLIERS   Total of 134. Tons: 0 Bombs. Dropped. on Three Airdromes

PLANES BLAST RABAUL AGAIN   Jap Island Base is Pounded For 12th Time in 14 - Days by Americans  ;

Air Attacks In Pacific Pushed   Rabaul Hammered 12th Time In 14 Days; 3,000 To Cargo Ship Sent Down As Marines Gain Ground On New Britain

Lewis Calls For Payment To Miners   Retroactive Wage Demand Sts Up Threat of Unrest

New Unrest Stirred By John L. Lewis Demand For Miners’ Back Pay.

LEWIS DEMAND: RETROACTIVE P FOR COAL MINEF   Unrest Stirs Fields Anew President John L. Lewis Makes Statement

BACK WAGE CLAIM BRINGS THREAT OF NEW MINE UNRES]   » Lewis Files Demand Says Diggers Grow ‘Restive’

Byrnes Outlines V-Day Plans In Report To FDR   Mobilization Chief Asks General Return To 40-Houh Week

Urges 40-hour work week after defeat of Germany  Civilian products not now being mada uill anect mara Reyrmec gsawe

Byrnes Urges ((-Hour Week After Victory   Vast Industrial Reconversion  Plan Is Outlined

Reconversion Plans Well Advanced, -James F. Byrnes Report Discloses

Byrnes Urges 40-Hour Week After V-Day   Program Well Advanced for Vast Industrial Reconversion

Workers, Tools  To Be Released for Home Front Work   James F. Byrnes Reviews 40 Per Cent Cutback After Germany Falls; Urges Return to 40-Hour Work Week

BYRNES IN FAVOR OF 40-HOUR WEEK IN PEACE SET-U   Calls for Its Return and Easing of Many Economic Controls With Defeat  of Germany.   SAYS RECONVERSION PLAN WELL ADVANCEI   Report to Roosevelt Reviews  Plans for 40 Pct. Cut in War Production After Nazis Fall. .

Short Hours For Workers  After V-Day   Will Ease Economic Strain With 40 Percent Cutback Save Byrnes

Fall of Reich Will Initiate  Reconversion   Vast Industrial Program  Of Peace Production Outlined he ivrnec

ASKS FDR FOR 40-HOUR WEEK AFTER V-DAY   Mobilization Director - For Abandonment of Manpower Control

Repor ts Plans Advaneed On Reconversion  Byrnes Proposes Return be Made To 40-Hour Week

BYRNES REPORT: ON RECONVERSION   Recommends it Be Accom~ panied by General Return to — 40-hour Work Week; Ease “Many Economic Controls

me inemployment’ Fears ‘Exaggerated’ :  Byrnes Recommends ’ V. Day Economie. Shifts

Byrnes Asks Return to  40-Hr. Week   Proposes Eased Business Curhs  After Nazi Fal]

Reconversion Asks 40-Hour Work Week   Byrnes’s Forecasts For Vast Industrial Reconversion Offered

Easing Of Many  War Economie Controls Aim   ‘War Mobilization Director  Byrnes Also Recom.  mends General Return  To 40-Hour Week   Program Timed  With Huns’ Defeat   Return to Civilian Produc tion To Be Speedy; Fears  - of Prolonged Unemployment Held Exaggerated

Casuaity Exes  Lt. Melvin Dunham Lost In Raid Over Germany      Fighting Exes  Stark Attends Ex Dinner In London

MAG ARTHUR is.                   PRESIDENT ISSUES SPECIAL " BTATEMENT LAUDIQG INVA... “SION GENERAL AND . “CNAVE ADMIRALS”

ROOSEVELT TAILS INVASION OF THE PHIIPPINES =   Chief Promises “Syen More Crushing Blows at Japan

Exclude South  From Committee   Fourth Term Backers May Cause Aggravation

NO SOUTHERNER IN DEMOCRATIC ATH TERM GROUP   Omission May Agegra’ yate Ill Feeling of Old Liners :

Maine Delegates Favor Dewey  For Nomination  Three Wiil Support New Yorker; Others Undecided

Maine Republicans Pick Three Dewey Delegates For National Convention

PLAN BATTLE IN NEW YORK   Derocratic Territory - Te Be Invaded   Tomorrow

GOP Strives toWinHeavy Dem. Dirists.   SPECIAL ELECTIONS TUESDAY IN FOURTH AND ELEVENTH NEW YORK CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT BAROMETER.   Socialists Name Thomas

Finns Ready To Quit War   Russian Terms For Armistice. Considered

100 SOVIET PLANES RAID FINN CAPITAL   Attack Made on Helsinki as Gov ernment Considers Russian Armistice Terms.

HIT BY SUBMARINE ULA      ‘Nazi Naval Vessel and Shipping Damaged by Norwegians

States Must Know Federal  Postwar Plans   So Says GOP Keynoter Addressing Governors

susiness Must Know Where it Stands  In Post-War Plans Savs Gov. Warren

U.S. Holds Ur Peace Plans, Says Warren   "Postwar Blueprint Awaits Government Freeing of Business’

BLUEPRINT FOR GOVT POSTWAR PLANS SOUGHT   Warren Tells Governors Big Federal Investments Pose Problem.

OT Re. AN eye wR Be  SYNTHETIC GASOLINE PLAN "BOMES BEFORE HOUSE SOON   BILL PROVIDES FOR FINANC ING EXPERIMENTS TO PAVE "WAY FOR LARGE VOLUME PRODUCTION

Approximately $1,000 per Month Spent by Government to Heat Empty Apartments to Keep Water From Freezing. 56 of 430 “Homes” Rented. Called “Ghost Town” Housing Project.

Government Communists Village Has Become Ghost Town   Planned On Soviet Model, Abandoned By Real  Americans

Dixie Dems’  Will Forget   Factional ‘Battles: Bein. ‘Tossed ‘Off

WONT PLEDGE STATES VOTES   GOP Leaders Say Delegates Not to Be Committed  Before Convention

YANKS REPULSE 4 NAZI ATTACKS   Germans Surprised by _U.S. Counter Blows

Heavy Battles Raging   First Army Infantry And Armor Slow Ene. my Advances After Gains Up To 29 Miles

Heavy Battles 7 Apparently Still Raging 20 Miles Inside Belgium.   INITIAL DRIVE CHECKED

Better Coverage From Pacific   New Arrangements With Navy and OWI To Give More News.

GERMANS CLAIM BAG OF 6   Soviet Planes Were Shot Down ir Attack on Nazi Conroy

French Forces j in New Landing   Bordeaux Operations Proceed as Planned

Americans Reach Libourne, 15 Miles From Port; Size Of Force  Unknown

YANKS, FRENCH IN BORDEAUX DRIVE   Commandos Among Forces Landed From Sea to  Aid Advance

American and French Forces Drive Toward Bordeaux from Both Sides

ALLIED TROOPS PUSH TOWARD BORDEAUX   Germans Appear to Be Preparing to Make Stand at Great Atlantic Port.

Bordeaux s Atfacked On Two Sides   Americans Reported 15 Miles Of City

NAZIS. PREPARE TO MAKE STAND NEAR BORDEAUX   800 French Commandos Among Allied Forces That ’ Landed Tuesday Night   AMERICAN FORCES ARE AT LIBOURNE

Forces near Bordeaux in  steady drive Marseille taken by French unit

OPPOSITION TO IMMIGRATION ATANE ENENMIEL'OC__nIECG    Marauders to Lose Part of Their Paint

LOVETT MURDER DEFENSE OPENS   JUDGE TO RULE ON TESTIMONY IN RECORDS

Andrews Move To Strike State Testimony Fail:   Defense Begins Case; At: torney Says Socialite Will Take Stand

Greeks Fire on British Troops   British Sherman Tanks Go Into Action Against Strong Points

Capture Industrial City Of Eindhoven And Sweep North  GERMANS ADMIT FALL OF BREST  All. Airhoarno § I andince   All Airborne’ Landings Were Successful And Achieved Objectives

Sky Troops Link With British To Drive Over Ruhr Valley Into Berlin   Canadians Fight Into Boulogne As Patton Breaks Stalemate And Ist Repels Bloody Attack

Yanks Capture Great French Port of Brest   Sky Army Heads Campaign Along Route to Berlin

FAST-BREAKING DRIVE HEADS TOWARD RUHR   Assaults Aimed At Turning Northern End Of Siegfried Line .

Airborne Untts Win Eindhoven In Netherlands   Forces Sweep Northward In Drive To Turn Corner Of Siegfried Line

ONE SKY UNIT BEYOND RHINE IN FAST DRIVE   Great Port Of Brest In Allied Hands After Long Siege

Medieval City of Forli Taken By Eighth Army   Two Strong Columns Take Important Hub In Northern Italy

FORLI CAPTURED. BY BRITISH 8TH   Lines Now Less Than ' $7 Miles From . loona

British Seize City of Forli   Is an Important Communications Hub

ForliSeized B v Tank-bLed kighth Army   British Push Spearheads To The East Bank Of  Montone River

BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE FORL   Major Communications Hub  Falls to Tank Units

FORLI, ITALY IS CAPTURED BY BRITISH   Tanks Reach Montone River, 37 Miles East of Bologna

Finland May Be Taking Peace Steps   Russians Willing to Receive Peace Delegation, but Only One with Power

RAF Bombs Essen After Americans Smach Brunswick   Axis Airmen Refuse To Challenge As Huge Allie Fleets Pound Industrial Targets And Rail Centers On Tenth Straight Day.

Leslie R. Speese ls Undersherif   Sheriff- Elect Kubath Makes Appointments

SPEESE NAME INDER SHERIFF   Sheriff-Elect Kubath Also Announces Other Appointees

$525 1S REPORTED ~ TAKEN FROM AUTO   Pennsylvanian Reports Loss of Cash to the ' Police —

No Artillery Fire Offered From Shore   Pilots Covering Landing Encounter: No Opposition

No Enemy Aircraft Make Effort  To Halt Invasion   Little Opposition Was  Encountered   By Landing Parties

No Artillery Opposition ° In Landing  BEES wed Biifte«we BP weeene

Returning Fliers See Little Artillery Fire As American TroopsLand Close To Rome

Little Karly   Opposition   New Landing Catches Germans By Surprise

Landing Forces Find Little Enemy Opposition, Returning Pilots Say

San Juan Under  Martial Rule   Workers Rush To Get Bodies After Quake

U0, GOVERNMENT OEEKG ANOWER TO HUDSIAN ENIGMA   Reason for Recognition cf Badoglio Gove:nment Sought in Washington.

Balky Solons  Slow Action   eo Appointees “Approv al. -Delayed:In Committee

.Balky Members of Senate Committee Still Object To State Dept. Appointees

Connally Seeks End Of Hearings  Guffey And Pepper Continue Questions

Connally Prods For Action On ‘Six Nominees   But Other Senators Wan To Know More Of State Dent. Aides.

Lagging Quiz Irks Connally   New Objections Face Aides to Stellinias

DETROIT a       Question Now fs How Can T gers Be Stopped From Tak ing League Bunting

Ninth Air Force Preparing Record Blow for Yon Rundsted’s Panzers

NINTH AIR FORGE READY [0 STRIKE RUNOSTEDT'S MEN   Preparations Made For Biggest Blow Ever Made   NAZIS TRYING TO STRIKE NORTHWARD   Experts Believe Activity Will Determine German Strength

AIRMEN WAIT T0. SMEAR GERMANS   GREATEST AIR BATTLE IN HISTORY " SHAPING UP

Weather Grounds Planes For Long Period  Ninth Air Force Set For Big Blow

FORCE READY FOR ACTION      Will Hit German Offensive; Has Been Grounded for Days 

AIRMEN BATTER GERMAN CITIES   Yanks Hammer Stuttgart, Boblingen During Day

ARMY RECALLS COLLEGE UNITS   Special Training Troops Being Assigned To Combat Duty

T0000 toBe Transferred to Combat Duties Ens nie Special fir andy .

CUTS COLLEGE TRAINING PLAN   Army to Transfer 110,000 Students to Combat Assignments

John Savage, 53,  Dies in Corning   Husband of the Former Florence L. Willson

Japs Launch New Offensive   Chinese Announee Enemy Begin Drive North From Canton Area,

MYSTERY SHOOTING CASE IN CHICAGO   Wealthy Woman Of Old Chicago Family Seriously Injured In Strange Shooting

CITY MANAGERS ASK TAX SHARE   Score Efforts To Make Issue a Political   Football

REDS. MAKING: TWIN DRIVES   FINNISH MILITARY. POWER. BE. ING SMASHED—STOCKHOLM : REPORTS “PEACE CABI-~ - . NET? FORMED «

RUSSIA-BOUND U. 8. SHIPS ELUDE SUBS   Lend-Lease to Soviet in 1943 Totaled 51% Million Tons.

COMMITTEES CRACKDOWN HITS W.LB.   HOUSE GROUP CALLS BUREAU POLICIES A MENACE TO BUSINESS   Contravene Law   Report Declares Bureau Goes Beyond Laws, Takes Authority Hlegally,

OF OREGON IS DEAD   Was Floor Leader for G. O. P.; Served in Upper House 26 Years

Task Force 58 orp. Score  Of Flat-tops   History’. Greatest Unit Can Launch More Than Thousand Planes

New Carriers, any Warships nt for Japs   Prisoner Sees Fleet, Says War Is Lost

One Look at Gigantic Task Force 58 Convinces Jap Nippon Has Lost War   Hleet Carries More Than 1000 Planes, Given Whole Pacific as ‘Stamping Ground’

MOST DESTRUCTIVE SEA UNIT IN HISTORY ROAMING PACIFIC   Task Force 58, With The Latest And Swiftest Aircraf Carriers, Battleships, Cruisers And Destroyers Spoiling For Crack At Main Japanese Fleet   2,700 FINNS ANNIHILATED IN ‘FIGHTING ON THREE FRONTS

Senate Votes Record Funds For The Navy   Leaders Demand Keeping Fleet Intact After Peace Restored

Largest Navy Bill Is Passed   61 to 0 Vote Is Taken to Make U. S Greatest Power

U. S. Congress May Have Largest Voice In Post-War Security Plan      Other Powers Know Senate Wil Have To Ratify The Final Treaty

OUTER DEFENSE OF RAIL HUB 1S SHATTERED   Fierce Battle Raging Along Long Normandy Front

Debt Limit To Be Raised   Would Raise 50 Billion  To Grand Total of 260  Billion

iroops Smash at.German _ Line in Attempt to Trap . Enemy Force of 250.000

ALLOUT DRIVE. SETS TRAP ON {7 DIVISIONS   Fifth Army Moves Up Behind Bombardments from Air and Warshins. ,

Allied Forces At Anzio Start Push  To Squeeze Nazis   American Tanks Lash Terracina After Counter-Attack

OPERATIONS NEAR ANZIO REPORTED BEING SUCCESSFUL   Bérlin Acknowledged’ Eva« cuation of Pico, Hinge of Main Line Some Distance Injand.   YANKS LASH GERMANY AFTER NIGHT BOMBING   Greatest Air Fleet of History Expected to Drop 6500 Tons of Bombs Before Ene of Day.

Seek to Trap 17  German Divisions   U.S. Armored Forces Checked In Battle for Terracina .

SQUEEZE PLAY MAY CATCH 17 NAZI DIVISIONS   U. S. Warships Support New Offensive From Beachhead

heds Mass For Smash Across Bue   New Offensive Aimed At Reich; Iwow Outflanked From North

Tank Battles Rage Within Dno Outskirts   Russians In Violent Attack On Key Rail Junction On Way To Pskov   REDS ALSO ADVANCE IN UKRAINE SECTOR

TANKS BATTLE ON EDGE OF DNG   Capture of Key Rail Junction, Barring Way to Pskov, Imminent

ASK “WHODUNIT" IN DORSEY TRIAL   ACTOR HALL SAYS HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO SLASHED NOSE

*W hodunnit’ Mystery Is Dorsey Case   No One Seems To Know Who Smashed Nose of Actor Jon Hall

HALL TELLS OF BALCONY BOUT   Who Slashed Actor’s Nose Still Big Question In Dorsey Trial

Jon Hall Can't Remember  Whedher Fist, Botlle Or Knife Was Used In   Dorsey Fraces

Somebody Almost Whacked Off End of Jon Hall’s Nose But He Can't Tell Jury Who, How Or Why - - - Green-eyed Monster Blamed for Starting Bloody Battle

Whodunit Mystery In Actors’ Trial   Somebody Almost Whacked Off Hall’s Nose at Aug. 5 Brawl

Jury Trying to Find Out” Who Almost Whacked Off Nose of Actor Jon Hall.

Actor Uncertain  On Slashed Nose   Jon Hall Doesn’t Know Who Nearly Cut lt Off At Dorsev Party.

Who Whacked oft Jon’s Proboscis Is Mystery   Movie Actor, Nose Encased In Purple Cellulose, Not Sure Of Assailant In August Parky At Tomtany _-Dorsev’s-House . -

YANKS DEEP IN NORTH HALF OF SAIPAN ISLAND   Air. Sea Forces Pound Enemy’: Bases Along Vast Pacific Front

American Warships Bom¢ bard Kurile Islands; Airmen Assault Paramushiro, Shumshu Basas Of Enemy

U.S. TROOPS TRAP JAPS AT GARAPAN   Cther Forces Advance Up East Coast of Saisan

Leahy Urged for Knox's Successor   Navy Would Be in Professional Hands

Sentiment Seen Favoring Leahy For Naval Post   View Civilian Interference Ended If Admiral Is Appointed Secretary

Japs Score Two Hits On U.S. Destroyer   Ship Fired Upon as it Rescues Pilot Shot Down Near W otje Atoll; Truk Is Attacked by Yank Fliers for 13th Time

Jap Shells Hit U.S. Destroyer   Shore Batteries On Wotje Atoll Score Mino Damage; Allied Planes Renew Attack On Hollandia, Japanese Base

CREDIT, MONEY KEY SUBJECTS   Foreign Delegates Wanted To Know How Much  They Would Get.   SCALING DOWN FIGURES

First Threatens -Duren With Two Mile Armor Gain   Karlsruhe Corner Totters Under Hammering Of Yank Guns; Patch Meeting Light Resistance But Germans Counter Attack French First Army

Gen. Patch’s Troops Open Battle for Baden Capital After 7-Mile Drive; _. New Gains Peril Roer River Bastion

GREAT GERMAN FORTRESS CITY WITHIN RANGE   Yanks Are Shelling Fortification Region

Germans Admit Soviet Successes in Key Sectors of  Red March to Berlin.

REDS ADVANCE ON 350 MILE FRONT: NAZIS ADMITIREVERSES IN KEY SECTORS OF BATTLE LINE

INDUCTION RULE . ON THE OLDER MEK   Local. Officials Get Instruetions on Taking Registrants 26 to 38.

Receive Rule on Induction  _of Older Men   Local Officials Get Instructions on Taking Registrants 26 to 28      AHEAD OF YOUNGER MEN IF PUT IN 1:4   Occupation in War Industry or Agriculture’ the Deciding Factor

EUROPE HiT AGAIN TODAY BY BOMBERS   Two Way Attacks Damage Many War Piants

Japs Fail In Drive Into India   Have Choice Of Death Or Humiliating And Costly Retreat  Back To Burma.

Jap India Forces Face Annihilation   Asia Command Calls Drive Costly Failure

Tax Bill Passage Expected Today   House Ends Dabate On Simplified Plan

91 Jap Planes Destroyed in Blow at Luzon   U. S. Carrier Forces Overwhelm Foe With Series of Swift Assaults  From Marcus Island to Philinnjnes

Four-Day Holiday's Accidental Deaths Estimated at 1,008   National Safety Council Issues Sombre Note of Warning

ESTIMATE 1,000.” WILL BE sua.            Careful and Avoid Deady: And Accidents :

Death Waits Grimly: : July 4 Holiday Will Claim _ "1,000 Victims, Council Says

FEAR HIGH TOLL DURING HOLIDAY   National Safety Council Estimates 1,000 May Meet Death Over Fourth Of July Weekend.

ESTIMATE 1,000 10 DIE OVER HOLIDAY   National Safety Council  Sounds Somber Note for VYapatinnare.

July 4 Weekend Brings Early Reporis Of Deaths from Drownings, Collisions

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev, R. A. Aller, Pastor   METHODIST CHURCH J. H. Meredith, Pastor

Jap Dead on Palaus Now 10,000   Only Two Pockets Of Resistance Left, Nimitz Has Reported

10,000 JAPS ARE KILLED IN PALAUS FRAY   American Control Secure Over Peleliu and Eight Satellite Islets in the Group   SHIPPING LOSS MOUNTS

U.S. Hold On Peleliu Is Secure      Only Isolated Pockets Of Resistance Left On Two of Nine Islands In Southern Palaus

AMERICANS SECURE CONTROL OVER PELELIU. OTHERS:   Nine Islands of Palau Group Now in Hands of Yanks Af_ ter 17 Days of Intensive Fighting —Over 10,000  «Jans Killed. a eh

Yanks Take Over Control   Peleliu and Eight Other Islets Held; 10.000 Japs Killed

Yanks Control Peleliu, Islets   Only Two Pockets Of Resistance Left On Islets

Peleliu Under Yank Control   Two Pockets of Resistance Left; Victory Important To Yank Advance

American Control Over Peleliu and Eight Isles Secure  Mimitz Reports Over 10,008  Japs Killed in Palan Campaign Two Peckets Remain

SHOWERS MAY FALL   Temperatures in Kansas Are Expected to Remain Warm

3 U-BOATS SUNK, OTHERS DAMAGED   SUBS BLASTED AS THEY TRY TO BREAK UP CONYOY  BOUND FOR RUSSIA.

LARGEST NAVAL LAUNCHING   A Carrier and Two Cruisers Were Launched at Philadelphia

Smolensk, Where Thousands Died, Revives Slowly Amid Rubble and Ruin Nazis Left

TEMPERATURES:   Yanks Drive Through  Strong Foe Defenses   First Army Ends Lull In Attack That May Mark Opening Of Victory Smash; British And Canadians Clear Antwerp Approach

New Offensive Points toward Heart of Reich   Full Scale Assault May Wait Final — Clearance of Antwerr

Allies Clear ‘Out German ‘Gun Positions   Nazi Air Force Come Out of Hiding but 208 Planes Are Shot Down

Full Scale Offensive Against Reich Homeland May Await Port Victory

Path To Antwerp Clear, Russians Reach Budapest   Nazis Reel From Hard Land, Aerial Assaults

Battle To Clear Port Of Antwerp Virtually Over   Report Panic In Budapest As Soviet Army Nears Outskirts Of Capital

Fast Prussia Campaign Is Or   Reds Smashing Forward Qn Eastern Fronts

Push Carries Reds 7 Miles From Memel   Advance to Baltic Draws Noose Around 10 Reich Divisions

Reds Launch 2 Big Drives, Germans Say   General Attack  On East Prussia Opens, Nazis Claim: Hit Above Warsaw

Nazis Give Up Taurage Near  Home Border   Germans Admit Two Great New Russian Attacks in North Sector of Front Above Warsaw   NEW DEATH TRAP FOR ENEMY FASHIONED   Soviet Troops on Edge of Meme! and Less Than 15 Miles From Prussian Railread Center

Pope's Influence Is Endangered   Recognition of German Fascism to Reap Harvest

POST-WAR TROUBLES SEEN FOR CATHOLICS   Feport Points To ‘Sympathy’ For Totalitarian States

Other Cities In Finland Also Raided   Uncounted Casualties, Huge Damage, Panic Related by Travelers  U.S. LEGATION HIT

THROUGH CITY AFTER ATTACK   Huge Damage, Uncounted Casualties  Are Reported

G00 RED BOMBERS RAID HELSINGFORS; PEACE ACTION LiKEL      100 Bombs Hit Quay Used by Germans; U. S. Legation Windows Broken   MANY FIRES STARTED

600 Russian bombers hit Finn capital   Helsinki said badly wrecked

Helsinki Hit For 12 Hours By 600 Planes   Much of Finland’s Capital in Ruins as  Result of Red Blow

Russ Raid Rips Finns’ Capital   Helsinki Damage Claimed As Severe as Berlin’s

FINN CAPITAL HAMMERED BY 600 BOMBERS   Helsinki Under Attack For 12 Hours By  Russo Planes

600 Russian Bombers Hit Helsinki With Devastating 12-Hour Altack

Helsinki Bombed On Large Scale, Moscow Reports   Heaviest Attack Does Much Damage

TEN HOUR RAID HEAVIEST ATTACK FINNISH CAPITAL HAS EXPERIENCED; OTHER TOWNS BOMBED ALSO; MANY  CASUALTIES.

JACK & HEINTZ HEAD SUED BY SON'S WIDOW   Unfit To Administer Estate, Petition Claims

INDUCTIONS TO CONTINUE WITH CHANGED ORDER   ‘Altoona Armory Station Will Operate After This Month by New Regulation.

ARMORY TO BE CLOSED AFTER JUNE ACTIVITY   b Induction Station Opened In 1941 Will Cease Operation Under New Order.

iD PLANES RAID CONVOY: DURING ATTACK AT. NICHT   FOUR GERMAN SHIPS SENT . DOWN IN ARCTIC WATERS —AIB BATTLE WAS FOUGHT

$ 38,000,000 Bill Just To Audit Books   Employ 12,000 To Make Checks, Vouchers  Come Out Even 

SCUUND DAYLIGHT BLOW IN 24 HOURS DELIVERED   Heavy Cloud Formations Aid Return of Armada To Capital Today  ee ed   NAZIS LOSE 125 PLANES YESTERDAY   Russian Air Force Expected To Help Reduce Reich Center to Shambles

FIRST RAID TOLL 125 NAZIPLANES TO 53 FOR U. S.   Fires Still Burn from 2,000 Plane Blow When Plants Are Torn Anew

Nazi Counter Blow Broken   Battle Confused As Germans Fali Bock Toward Paris

One More Big Attack May Kayo Nazis   No Such Thing As Line In Brittany; Foe Is Shattered

Nazi Attack Crushed By U.S. Troops  Hitler’s Shattered Forces Drop Back; Collapse Possible

a !Compulsory authorization of six lagencies no barrier to newlyweds

Path Of Escape Cut To 15 Miles   Opportunity At Hand For A “Major Allied Victory,” Gen. Eisenhower Tells Fighters,   Canadians Lash Out.

Under Gruelling Aerial Battle, Fourth of German Army Tries to Escape Jaws of Pincers Just 18 Miles of Being Closed.   After Five Days of Secrecy Allies Tell of Sweeping in 250. Mile Arc

Escape Roads Cut, Allied Air Forces Pound on Every Movement of Enemy

Jap Admiral Who Plotted War Is Dead   Suyetsugu Ace Of Firebrands

Battered ~ Nazis Are  Wedaed in   British Drive Toward Maas Pushing Germans Toward The Sea   ALL MAIN ESCAPE ROUTES AR: CUT   Nazis Face Prospect Of An-  other Debacle Such Ar That. At Falaise Gap

DESPERATE EFFORT TO SAVE NAZI ARMY IN HOLLAND AREA  BRITISH TAKE WEIGHT 0   BRITISH TAKE WEIGHT OF COUNTERATTACK WITH WALL OF STEEL AND FIRE

GROCERS TO MEET WEDNESDAY NIGHT   GPA and Retail Grocer Officials Will Speak Here

GROCERS 10 MEET ~ WEDNESDAY NIGHT      OPA and Retail Grocer Officials Will Speak  Ld ore

Murder Defendant Renounced Claim To Wife's Fortune   Lonergan Action Revealed as Trial Opens in New York

Reveal Lonergan ‘Renounced Claim --To Wife’s Mone  Ayerap by Broderic! To Read Letter in

NAZIS SILENT ON LOSS OF TURK EXPORTS   All Documents Not Avail able, Germans Say, or Ankara’s Suspenson. ‘of Chrome Shipments te thea Raich 

Germany Loses  Turkish Chrome   Ankara Confirms Report All Shipments To Be Halted Tomorrow.

TURKS WILL CUT OFF REICH CHROME TODAY   Ankara’s Position Taken In View Of Tie To Britain

TURKEY FOLLOWS. ALLIED REQUEST   No More Chrome Ship. ments To Nazis; Ban  Effective Saturday

State Democrat, GOP Committees  To Reorganize  Dems. Reshuffle  7 Leaders for ©   geen rage Pio cat bam

Hazard?   WOMAN UNIONIST CLAIMS DOT LAMOUR’S VISITS STOP PRODUCTION IN WAR PLANTS

REPORT OF DAIRY HERD ASSOCIATION   Harold West Herd High for Month Cf June, 1944

MARCH REPORT OF DAIRY HERD ASSN.      Lester Weaver ‘Had High Cow For Month

OCT. REPORT OF DAIRY HERD ASSN.      Robinson Herd High; Whitney Has High Cow

JAN. REPORT OF DAIRY HERD ASSN.   510 Cows Were On Test During The Month

‘DEWEY GIVES HIS VIEWS ON FOREIGN POLICY   Declares U. 5., Britain, Russia ond Chins Must Have Solid Relatidhship To Insure Padéce

U. §. Foreign Policy Causes Much Concern   Would Like to Know to What Extent It Is Handled by FOR

GATE S OPENED TO NOMINATION BY GOV. DEWEY   Front-running Republican Gives Views on Post-war World Policies

GOVERNOR DEWEY If  CONCERNED OVER OUE  FOREIGN PROGRAM SAYS AMERICA, BRITAIN,  RUSSIA AND CHINA MUST ATT WAVE PART

Dewey Voices Foreign Policy   Goyernor, in Speech to Nation's Publishers, Tells His Peace Aims

Dewey Is Deeply Concerned OverForeign Policy OFU.S.; Solid RelationshipIs Asked

Elaborate Statement For Non-Candidate Dewey Outlines Foreign  Policy Views; Takes Rap At Domestic Objectives

DEWEY COMMENTS ON HANDLING CF FOREIGN POLICY   Criticises Private Method !n Speculating on Whether Roosevelt or Hull 1s Managing Affairs.   FAVORS MAINTENANCE OF PEACE BY FORCE   Urges America Maintains Relations With Britain, Russia and China For Solution of Problems.

Dewey Urges. Big 4 Leadership   Cooperation Among Allies For Peace

DEWEY VOICES CONCERN OVER FOREIGN POLICY  Tie Between Allied Countries Uraed to Preserve Future Peace

DEWEY EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER FOREIGN POLICY   Insists It Be Carried Qut According to Constitutional! Methods—Urges Solid Relaticnship Between Allies:  me CARITTON Ter acrmararn

‘Basis of Candidacy’ *°  DEWEY FAVORS “BIG FOUR’ LINK      Expresses Grave Concern Over U.S. Foreign Policy

DECLARES BIG 4 MUST BE UNITED TO INSURE PEACE  REPUBLICANS HAIL   REPUBLICANS HAIL SPEECH AS BASIS OF HIS PLATFORM

‘Dewey Expresses Bélief Rooseveli ‘Handles Foreign Policy Behind Scenes  !  Calls for ‘Durable Cohesion’ Between Big Four Peace Structure Backed by Force

Dewey's Statement on Foreign Affairs  His Most Detailed   New York Governor is Speaker Before Newspaper Publishers

AMERICANS THROW NEW BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS VITAL AISNE RIVER; ARE NOW LESS THAN 35 MILES FROM BELGIUM   Powerful Forces of American Tanks Stream Unchecked North of Reims Toward Ardennes Forest, Gateway to Belgium, Luxembourg and The Reich.   THE WAR AT A GLANCE

Browns Defeated By 3 Io 1   Make Only Three Hits Off Lanier, Wilks; Errors Help Victory.

Cards Take Series in Sixth Game   Browns Again Fail To Hit As Cardinals Get Ten Safe Blows To Take Final Game By 3 To 

WORLD SERIES HONORS TAKEN BY CARDINAL   ‘Hitless Wonders Browns Beaten In 6th Game

DECORATION DAY OBSERVED MAY 30   Annuai Decoration Day Events Held in Ruthven on Tuesday of Next Week.

Returns More Mines fo Owners   Government Retains  Control of Only Two

New Leads From Examination Of Slain Women  Ages Set at 65 and 35; Rope Burns

Great Air Show Is Being Staged  Nazis Fail to Halt   Nazis Fail to Halt Allied Shipping

Great Air Show Is Being Staged  Nazis Fail to Halt Allied Shipping

Armies Near Junction as : Allied Assault Rips Into Entire Nazi Defense Tine

French to Have Funds Held Here   Value of Assets In This Country Has Not Been Announced

‘IMlinois Is Assigned Higher Quota For Bond Sales To Individuals

UP MICHIGAN'S E BOND QUOTA      Purchases By Individuals Are Increased To  253 Millions

Argentina Hits U. S., Britain:   Gonzalez Says Country Is Center of Espionage ~

Argentine Official Accuses Allies Of Conducting Espionage in Argentine

Allied Spies Operate in Argentina   So Charges Buenos Aires Cavernment

CHARGES U, S. WITH ARGENTINA SPYING   Britain Also Accused By Ramirez’ Aide

U.S.-English Spies Charged In Argentina   Agents of All Belligerents Active, Says Aid to President Ramirez .

Major Airlines Plan for Future   One Company Idea Strongly Opposed

War Production Boost Disclosed   Gains in Vital Items Range Up to 19 Pct.

POLICY TOWARD SPAIN. CHANGES   U. S. Officials Stop ~ ‘*Exclusive Buying;” Situation Is Acute

Master Stroke be me lo Tun      Some. Allied Soldiers Already over Rhine, Berlin'Reports —

U.S. Bombers Hit Ships in  Dutch Indies   Celebes: Port Blasted it Sweeps From Kuriles to Marshalls

YANK BOMBERS IN NEW RAIDS   Jap Southern Sea Routes Blasted—Other Aerial Strikes Announced

U. S. BOMBERS ARE BUSY IN THE CELEBES   Eleven Jap Vessels Destroyed or Damaged In New Nipponese Sea Routes In South   CHEKIANG THREATENED

U. S. Airmen Strike Again at Jap island Stronghold  Bombers Hit Celebes And Other Points,  FO Se en

BOMBERS HIT CELEBES   Eleven Jap Vessels Suffered at American Hands Sunday

Bombers Sink More Jap Ships  Celebea: Feels Weight OF Allied Assaults

U. S. Airmen Strike Again at Jap Island Stronghold  Bombers Hit Celebes And Other Points, Cause Heavv Damaae

JAP DESTROYER REPORTED SUNK OFF NEW GUINEA   A Second Enemy Warshi Left Dead In Water Off Manokwari   SLOW ADVANCE MADE ON BIAK AIRFIELDS

BOMBERS SINK JAP DESTROYER   Another Probably Destroyed Off Dutch New Guinea   YANK COLUMN   Advances Toward Mokmer Airdrome on Biak; Outflank Jap Positions

U.S. Planes Sink Jap Destroyer, Damage Another  : Submarines Down Six Transports, 10 Carge Vessels in Pacific

Jap Destroyer Sunk by Allies   Enemy Outflanked In Drive on Biak

NATION WARNED OF SHORTAGES IN FEED BINS   Chicken Hatcheries May Be Closed Three Months

WEA May Curtail Chick Hatching   May Also Ask Cut in Hogs. Cattle, Because Of Feed Shortage

Will Be No Fooling About New Tax Boosts Due April 1   All Fools Day Tomorrow Set By Government As Time For New Levies To Go Into Effect

New Taxes © At Midnight   The Government Ixpects a Billion Dollars Revenue

BRICKER URGES ALLIED ‘BIG 4 REIGN OF LAW   Opposes , World ‘Police Force’ But Favors World Court °

Nazi, Rumanian Lines Cracking Before Strong Russ Offensive   Foe Reported in Wild Con: fusion as Reds Near  Odessa

To Link Up With Marshal Tito’s Partisan Forces And Trap Nazis  OVER 250,000 NAZIS STILL IN BALKANS Soviets Widen Wedge In  German Lines Near .« Warsaw

RED ARMY HEADS FOR BELGRADE   Streams Across Danube Into Yugoslavia To Join Tito

Russians Smash Into Yugoslavia  To Seal Balkans   Soviet Tanks, Soldiers Wedge Nazi Lines Above Warsaw

Trap Closed About Nazis In Balkans   Strong Red Forces Strike Westward Toward Belerade.

Powerful Red Forces Swarm Inte Yugoslavia   Strike Across Danube River To Force Trap Around Germans

Powerful Russian Forces Striking. Westward for Belgrade — Action Might Force Great Trap Around Germans in Balkans.

Reds Swarm Across Danube In Big Push   Partisans Join In March on Yugoslav Capital

RED ARMIES SWARM ACROSS THE DANUBE      Enter Yugoslavia And Start Toward Belgrade

HEAD TOWARD JUNCTION WITH THOS FORCES   Reds Increase Threat To War. saw And East Prussia Areas

Roi Air Field Seized; Harbor Threatened By  Yank Invaders   Enemy‘CompletelyTaken by Surprise’ of U. S. Blow   Bombardment From Sea Blew Japs Out of Namur Pillboxes

Japs’ Marshalls Detense Works Obliterated by Navy Guns Before Troops Land

Some Isles Completely Demolished   Shore Batteries Knocked Sky High In Bombardment

Roi And Namur Islands Made Jap Gr aveyard   Heaviést Naval Bombard - ment In, History On Mar - shialls Blows Nips From Pillboxes ,

Japs Stunned By Ferocity Of US. Attack   Batteries So Wrecked That Defenders Have Only Small Arms Left

Marines Clear Roi, Mop Up Japs Who Fled Onto Namur   Nips Left Only Small Arms for Defense After Naval, Air Blasting, Now See War Lost

OUT-FOXED BY THRUST AT MARSHALL BASTION, JAP PRISONERS SHED COCKINESS, FEAR DEFEAT IN WAR   Marines Win ROI: Mop Up Namur Island

Massed Graveyards of Littered Japs Tell: Story Of Atoll Bombardment

JAPS BLASTED. FROM SHELTER ON ROL. NAMI   Massed Jap Graveyards on Roi Show Results of Heavy Shelling.

Landing Threatens Japs With Loss of Fine Harbor   Cringing Japs-Are Literally Blown From Pillboxes on Marshall I<fac

Marines Mopping up on Roi, Namur After Historic Naval Bombardment

x K K KK Marines Mop Up “What Navy Left   KK KK KK OK Japs Wither Under  Bombardment .

HEAVY POUNDING BY U. 3. NAVAL UNITS LEVELLED ISLANDS   EVIDENCE INDICATES JAPS COMPLETELY SUR. PRISED IN MARSHALLS

HEAVY POUNDING BY U.S. NAVAL UNITS LEVELLED ISLANDS  EVIDENCE INDICATES SAPS COMPLETELY SUR.

 ope ye 2 Terrific Naval Fire And Aerial Bombing x Leveled Roi, Namur   Jap Shore Batteries Blown Sky High; Enemy ~ Dead Litter Islands: Blockhouses Blasted

Todav's Index   Massed Jap Bodies on Marshalls Isle Bear Witness to Effectiveness of Yanks’ Barraas

Guns All But Level Roi and Namur Namur  Blasting Unnerves Sons of Heaven

AEE EE Ee eared  That 25-Pound Baby Actually Weighed 15; Scales Were Wrona

Government Seizure Loom: In Telephone Strike   WLB Brands Walkout Unjustified As Union Disregards Orders; Worker Importation Starts Trouble

PHONE SEIZURE BY U, $, LOOMS   Operators In Ohio Refuse To End Wage Protest

SEN. BARKLEY MAY RUN WITH ROOSEVELT   Current Favorite to Replace Wallace on Demo Ticket

BARKLEY HAS INSIDE TRACK      POLITICAL OBSERVERS SAY KENTUCKY SENATOR MAY GET FIRST BALLOT NOMINATION

SEN. BARKLEY BEST BET FOR FD. PARTNER   Strongest In Field Today  WALLACE IS OUT

FAVOR BARKLEY IN SECOND SPOT   High Democrats Believe Kentuckian Will Be Running Mate

BARKLEY SEEN FAVORITE FOR VICE PRESIDENT   President Expected To Urge Wallace As Running Mate

BARKLEY SEEN GAINING FAVOR   Presidential Statement On Wallace Expected

RETAINING SUGAR RATIONING, PRICE mONTROL PROPOSE   O:ficials fuggest = Continuation for an Indefinite Period -

Key States and Cities May Show Election Trend  Five States With 154 Electoral Votes

You Can Do Your Own Guessing In Listening To Returns Tonight   WwW cen nnay 2. TD. LIN PECL UIUGUUU 1 ULES 20 OE  ‘Cast Today By State Voters

Switzerland Breaks Off Diplomatic Relations With Vichy; Laval Also At Belfort

PETAIN A PRISONER   Germans Reported Holding Him and Laval at Belfort

Yanks Bomb 5 Romanian Cities   Factories, Rail Yards And Oil Depots Hit In Non-stop Raids

Balkans Are Handed Stiff ; Bomb Assaults  Teale . Racad HWaavwiec In   Italy - Based Heavies In Night And Daylight Blows; Rail Yards, Oil Fields Targets ~

POOR WEATHER SLOWS DOWN OFFENSIVE   Invasion Coast Hammered By Small Force   GERMAN LINES   Threatened By Flood Waters From Shattered Pescara Dam

IMPORTENT AXIS AREAS BATTERED   'Fortresses And Liberators from Italy Carry Out Air Attack   FRANCE ALSO HIT   Yanks Keep ._Up Aerial Offensive Despite Bad  Weather

Heavy Nazi Plane Screen Penetrated   Hammer Rail Yards, Plane Plants and Oil Storage Sites

Raiders Strike ThroughHeavy  Enemy Defense   Brasov, North of Bucharest; Campina, Sight of Oil Storage, and Tornu Severin Hit   Big Dam In Italy Hit; Areas Flooded   American Bombers Based in Britain Dump Explosives Into Nazi Instal-_ lations in Pas-De-Calais

BOMBERS LASH RAIL TARGETS, PLANE FACTORY   Other Heavy Assaults Made in Balkans; Dam  Across Pescara Smashed

Yankee Planes In Non-Stop Balkan Attack   Oil Storage and Railway Yards Major Targets

RAIL TARGETS, FACTORIES HIT   American Liberators, Flying Fortresses Continue NonSton Assault.    BRITISH BASES BUSY, TOO

500 to 750 U.S. Craft Hit Rails. Plane Factory   Assault Follows Heavy RAF Overnight Blows

YANKS BOMB. FIVE CITIES ~ IN ROMANI   Liberators and Fortresses,  “ Perhaps ; -500 to; 750  Strong, Lash “Out at . German. Communica' “tions Facilities. ~~

Fire, Wreck Tolls Mount.   Circus Fire Dead 146, Train Toll May Be 40

More Arrests Probable In Circus Fire Probe   Death Toll Mounts to 152, With 250 Hurt; Big Top Treated With Paraffin, Gasoline, Connecticut Attorney Declares

PROSECUTOR HINTS AT MORE ARRESTS IN CIRCUS BLAZE   Tent Flames Consumed Reported Highly Inflammable . From Treatment With Paraffin, Gasoline.    DEATH TOLL TO 152. WITH 250 INJUREL   Ushers Contend Cigarette Apparently Started Fire — - Third of Victims Remain Unidentified.

More Arrests Loom In Cireus Tent Fire   Toll of Dead in Blaze Which Swept Big Ringling Brothers Show in Hartford Set At 146; Five Officials Already Held

TOLL IN CIRCUS FIRE DISASTER MOUNTS TO 14   Number of Injured Increases To 250; Five Charged With Manslaughter   HEAVIEST DEATH TOLL IN CIRCUS HISTOR’   More Arrests Are Probable As Officials Conduct Investigation; Tent Inflammable, Said To Be Treated With Parrafin, Gasoline

CIRCUS DEATH TOLLIS 152   Five Officials Held On  Charges Of Manslaughter  With Prospects Of More Arrests Probable

More Arrests Seen as Circus  Toll Hits 148   Fire-Fighting Equipment Inadequate, Police Commissioner Asserts

148 DEAD AND 250 HURT IN CIRCUS FIRE   Five Already Accused as Result of Hartford — Blaze

Authorities. Hold Five in  Cireus Blaze   Held for Manslaughter And Moré Arrests Considered. Probable  a are   DEATH TOLL AT 152, 250 PERSONS HURT   Investigators Hear Gasoline, Wax Used To Waterproof Tent

Russian Major, With Bag Of More Than 53 Nazi Planes. Tops Red Air Force

EXPECT SWEDEN TD SAY NO TO REQUEST   U. S., . Britain Ask Her to Stop Sending Ball Bearings to Germany. . *

Allied Move Stirs Swedes   Nation Expected to Reject Request for Ban on Nazi Trade

Sweden Not to Stop Export   Allies Make Strong Protest Against Sending Germany Ball Bearings

Believe Sweden Will Not Compl  Expected to Turn Rawna Allied Banrnac .

im  ERY SPEECH      CONGRESSWOMAN MAKES BitTEREST ATEACK, OF CAMPAIGN ON. ROOSEVELT  : PORERIGN POLICY ,

5 Red Armies On March Along 450 Mi. Toward Baltic   Berlin Reports Major Retreat To Save ‘‘German Soil’’

OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE   Pskov-Ostrov Area Is Scene Of Big-Scale Nazi Withdrawal

Russians 12 Miles F rom East Prussia   Nazis Reported Evacuating Latvia in Effort To Shorten Line To Protect Reich Itself

Berlin Claims Troops Are Withdrawing To “Pro: tect Home Soil;” Russians Start New Offen: sige. # Vv

Report Says We Have Now Established Airfields Right Behind the Beaches In_ France. Heavy Fighting Going On. ;

Land rorces Join Paratroopers After Fall Of Bayeux; Fighting Rages In Streets Of Caen

We've Taken Town Of Bayeux On East Coast; In Caen, 17 Miles Below, Allies Are Fighting In Streets; Battle Raging Near Lisieuk

Nazis Jabbing At Italy Lines   Local Attacks Made Alone 5th’s Front

[500 Flying Fortresses Roar  Near Berlin, Raid Brunswick  Without Luftwaffe Opposition

Yank Artillery And Bombers Will Blast City If Germans Spurn Offer To Give Up; First Bia Nazi “Test”   Sieg Line Smoshed, Nazis Lose Aachen

8 AIRMEN HUNTED IN GULF OF MEXICO   Eleven Jump From Superfortress When It Develops Engine Trouble—Three Rescued.

DONNELL’S LEAD CUT 10 4.983 BY ABSENTEE. VOTES   McKittrick Gains 3,256 and Threatens to Wipe Out His Opponent’s Shaky Margin.   ONLY 17,176 COUNTED; 60 PCT. TO DEMOCRAT   More Than 65,000 Remain to Be Tabulated—Plurality of Phil Donnelly Increased.

SERVICE VOTE IS WHITTLING DONNELL LEAD   Absentee Ballots Counted in 46 Counties Leave Governor Only a 3,95§ Margin in the Close Senate Race.

Missouri River Projects Urged   Reclamation Bureau Recommends Plan

Says CIO Group, Im Is Active Malignance, Eats Very-Vital Life Of  Freedom

PAC ASSAILED BY WM. JEFFERS   Ex-Rubber Czar Says Organization Offends  U. S. Wav of Life

Jeffers Asserts C10 Forcing Labor to Make Contributions  Coercion on Part Of PAC Charged

Jeffers Asserts C10 Forcing Labor to Make Contributions  Coercion on Part Of PAC Charged By Rail President

Russians Lose Ossow to  German Forces  Nazis Open All-Out Struggle to Hold Polish Capital

GERMANS BEGIN ALL-OUT BATTLE TO HOLD WARSAY   Prive Russian Forces From Ossow, Seven Miles Northeast of Capital’s Suburb of Praga.   ADVANCE IS SCORED AT TREMENDOUS COST   ‘Nazis Launch Many Counter-Attacks on Estonian Front, but Are Beatan Ractc.

Enemy Slows — Warsaw Drive In Northeast   Russians Claim Foe Paying High Costs for Assaults To Stem Savist Gunes.

Germans Battle Hard for Warsaw   Counterattacks Throw  Reds Back at Ossow

Nazis Battle Hard  At Warsaw’ s Gates   Russians Announce First Loss of Importance Since the Start of Summer Offensive—Successes - Continue on Other Fronts

German blow forees Russ from Ossow  Soviet drive on - Warsaw looming

“Stiffen All Along Frout,, “But Russians: Confident. They ‘Cannot: Be Halted’

NAZIS MAKE LAST. EFFORT AT WARSAW   Force Russians Out of Ossow, Which They Acknowledge, Averring No Cause For Alarm.   Report Successes

RED TROOPS LUNGE AHEAD IN E. PRUSSIA   Russians Acknowledge Loss Of Ossow, Seven Miles From Suburb Of Praga

Nazis Force Russians Ou Of Ossow With Fierce Counter-Attack   ENEMY IS SUFFERING SEVERE CASUALTIES

NAZI FORCES DEFEAT REDS, RETAKE TOWN   RUSSIANS CONTINUE LUNGE TOWARD PRUSSIA

Nazis Drive Reds Out of Polish Town   Counterattack Forces Russians From Ossow _ In All-Out Battle “ For Warsaw

Nazis Throw Reds Back  Before Warsav   Ossow Loss Admitted By Soviets Who Report Situation Well in Hand on Entire Front

Nazis in Gigantic Attack In Fight to Hold Warsaw, Drive Reds Out of Ossow

FORTS COLLIDE ON RUNWAY   5 Airmen Killed and 14 Saved at Sioux City

DRAFT TOLD 10 SPEED RECLASSIFYING   Held Necessary To Mee! Demands of Armed  Services

LINGLING HAS FALLEN 10 JAPANESE   American Airbase in China in Enemy Hands; Fighting Continues in Town’s Suburbs.   Sink Freighters

Talk - Slated’ By. Truman   ’ Ceremony’ Planned By. Hometown Folk:

Truman’s Great Day Arrives; Will Be Told He’s Democratic Candidate

Truman Will Start Campaign  will Be No tified OF Nomina tion Tonight

Capture Key Cities, Within 35 Miles Now   Berlin Describes  Paris as ‘Front Line’ Capital Hears Guns.

Southern Invasion Continues   New Patton Blitz Threatens Paris  And Mey Set! Trap For Fleeing Nazis

Make 15-Mile Plunge Across Aunay River From Chartres, Paris  Virtually Outflanked

YANKS 35 MILES FROM CAPITAL   Chartres, Dreux, Chateaudun, Orleans Captured; Troops In Southern France Move Toward Toulon Naval Base

9, THIRD ARMY DRIVING ON PARIS AT LIGHTNING SPEED  CAPTURE OF FOUR KEY APPROACH TOWNS GIVES CONTROL HIGHWAYS

Two American Columns Push On Key City   Chartres Is Captured; Cannon Fire Reported Heard In Capital, Which Nazis Claim Is Without Food, Transportation, Police

Delegations Climb Aboard N.Y. Bandwagon   589 Votes Claimed For Albany Executive As ‘Gavel Falls

NIEMEN RIVER LINE BROKEN 7] MILES AWAY   Germans Throw Up Street Barricades In Five Eastern Cities

SOVIETS CROSS NIEMEN RIVER IN GRODNO PUSH   Red Army Drives to Within 20 Miles of German Frontier

Russian Forces Poised For Thrust Into East Prussia   ‘talin’s Troops Cross Niemen River; Bialystok, Brest Litovsk Await Soviet Attack

iUincw ofOTEht 10 START FEB. 277K   New Plan Allows Same Food Total

YANKS CLOSE TO HISTORIC PISA   Within Four Miles of Italian City

STEADY ADVANCE .UP.. ITALY CONTINUED BY THE ALLIED FORCES ALONG THE ENTIRE. FRONT

Shocking Tales of Bulgars’ Cruelties Told by Americans   Released Yankee Fliers Recount Atrocities of Their Captors

Liberated American Fliers Tell of Cruel Treatment at Hands of Bulgarian Soldier:

Bulgars’ Cruel Treatment Of Yanks Revealed  Airmen Describe How Captors Beat Them In Attempts To Maki Them Give Data

WEST WALL ANCHOR ALONG SAAR TAKEN; BRITISH SCORE GAIN   Patton’s Forces Mopping Up In Saarlautern; New Crossing Of German Border Made; 9th Masses Strength   Ry  KDWART MIRRAY

ENEMY POCKETS — IN SAARLAUTERN ARE WIPED OUT   Thrust Will Give Americans Springboard for Drive Into Saar Basin With Mines, Factories and Furnaces

Ninth Army Strikes Across Roer River At Julich, Fights Through Eastern Part Of Town — No  flenesing Vor   BRITISH SECOND AIMS TOWARD RUHR

Patton Nears Complete Conquest of 3rd Army’s Ist German City, 5 Miles Inside Saar Basin

Clear All But Scattered Enemy Pockets In Saarlautern   MASS FOR SMASH ON RUHR VALLEY   Gen, Patton’s Army Near Complete Conquest Of First German City

U.S. Troops Ready for Companion Drive in North Toward Ruhr Valley   Breakthrough to Maas River Made by British Second Armv: Ninth Armv Reported to be Fighting at Julich

U.S. 9th Army Jumps Over Roer at Julich   Wipe Out All but Scattered Enemy Pockets In the Flaming Saarlautern on Saar River

U.8.Third Army Nears Conquest Of Saarlautern   Americans Threaten Nazi Industry With Twin Push On Two Valleys

Night Raiders Deal German Westwall Mightiest Blow Of War; Yanks Smash Ploesti

Daylight 3,500 Paine Assiulé Followed By Night Smash At French Coast From Calsis to Cape Gris Nez. German Guts Shelled

German Guns Appear To Be Raid Targets   RAF Blasts Follow 3.900-Plane Assault By Yanks Wednesday  MAY RECORD MONTH

Dramatic Street Fighting Reported Raging in Vel.  fetri, Key Fortress

KEY TARGETS ARE BLASTED BY HEAVIES   Ploesti Oil Center in Romania, and German Railway Centers Bombarded.   25th Attack

BOMBS ARE RAINED ON FRENCH COAST IN HEAVIEST RAID   Blows Struck at Night From Calais to Cape Gris Nez— Blasts Reverberate Across Channel.   FOLLOW TREMENDOUS DAYLIGHT ASSAULT   Crowded Railway Yards in Four Transport Centers in Germany Pounded by Large American Fleet,

RAF Renews Aerial Raids   Night Attacks Follow Huge American Raids

RAF Smashes Coastal Area   . Thunderous Finale Given To  Record Allied Month In Air’

Greatest Blows Of War Struck At Nazi Coast   Long-Range Guns Heavily Bombed

Explosions Reverberate Acnoss Channel Like Earthquakes; / 3500 Planes Carry Out Day Blow

West Wall Pounded by: RAF Fliers   Mightiest Blows Yet Struck .t--Reiabeté. . f Delivered by  Night Force

FOUR GERMAN RAIL CENTERS ARE BLASTED   DESTRUCTION RAINS ON OIL SOURCES AT PLOESTI

Nazi Fighter Plane Output Being Slashed   U. S. Bombings Putting Plants Out Of Order: America’s Production Hitting Full Stride

Nazi Airplane Production Down Over 40 Percent   American Bombers  Are Given Credit

Reich F ighter Plane Output ~ Reduced 40%   Cat, Is Result, of American Heavy Bombers Pinpoint. “ing Gernian Aircraft . "-- Baetories .

TRE PLANE STRENGTH CUT   Yank Bombers Slash Nazi Fighter Production  By 40 Per Cent

Reich Fighter Plane Output Sadly Reduced   American Pinpoint Bomb: ing Cuts Heart Out of Nazi Industrial Setup

Germany’s Production Of Fighter Planes Cut   40 Per Cent Reduction Due Tv Work Of U.S. Air Force, War Dept. Infarms WPRB

ee SE eS eee oe ee ee ee a a  Raids Cut Nazis Fighter Plane Output 40 Percent

Cut German Plane Output 40 Per Cent   American Heavy Bombers Have Inflicted Great Damage On Factories,  Reports WPB Official

REPORT SAYS CAPACITY CUT 4) PER CENT   First Report of Total Damage Inflicted by Yank Air Attacks

Germany Is Losing Air War Two Ways  Piane Output Cut As Ours Increases

Just As America Hits Its Stride   Estimate Of Nazi Loss Made By War De' partment   U.S. WILL STEP UP DESTRUCTION RATE

U.S. RAIDS CUT NAZI AIRCRAFT OUTPUT BY 40%   USAAF NO LONGER LITTLE BROTHER TO ROYAL AIR FORCE

NAZIS LOSING TWO WAYS IN WAR OF ATTRITION IN AIR   Precision Bombing from Britain Cut November Production to 43 Per Cent Of Planned Ficure

GERMAN AIRCRAFT FACTORY OUTPUT HAS BEEN REDUCED   Heart Has Been Cut Out of the Fighter Plane Production in Reich.   REDUCED 40 PER CENT   This “Announcement. Was . Made Today, by Charles E. Wilson.

GERMAN FIGHTER PLANE OUTPUT GUT 43 PER CENT   American Bombers Have Cut Heart Out Of Nazi Fighter Plane Production, Official Washington Report Reveals.

Gut Nazi Airpower   USAAF Raids Reduce Germany’s Fighter Plane Output By 43%.

Production Reduced 43 Per Cent During November, U.S, Official of WPB Reports

Fighter Plane Production In  Reich Reduced   American Heavy Bombers Pinpointing Nazi Aircraft Plants Sever Output.  SEVERED 40 PERCENT

J. S. AIRCRAFT OUTPUT CLIMBS AS NAZIS’ CUT   Wilson of WPB Reveals German  Fighier Production Slashed 43  PC by Eighth Air Force

German Plane Output Cut  Yank Heavy Bombers Cause Great Damage  To Nazi Factories

REICH LOSS HUGE   Hitler’s Power To Make Fighter Planes Cut 13%, By American Bombers

U.S. Raids Cut Heart Out Of Nazi Fighter Plane Output   Bombings Have Reduced Germany's Production Of Such Craft 40 P. C.

U. S. Bombers Slast Nazi Airplane Production Badly  Enemy Is Crippled By Fast Growth Of USAAF Strength

German Plane Production Cut   Accurate U. S. Bombing Re duces Nazis’ Output by 40 Per Cent.

Japs To Face Allied Campaigns From Interior Of China   U.S. Raids Cut NaziFighter Plane Output

Yanks Cut Nazi Air  Factories   PRODUCTION CAPACITY DOWN 40 PER CENT FROM AIR RAIDS

Plane Production In Germany Cut By Allied Raid   Capacity To Produce Is Redueed 40 Per Cent; Holland Bases Bombed

Nazi Fighter Plane Output Cut      Activities of U. S. Heavy Bombers Have Reduced Production Capacity 40 Per Cent, Charles E. Wilson Says.

PUTAR MMREAT AS FALL CAMPAIGN NEARS THE END   Verbal Battles Over Ritito Politics Second to War

Jowa Political Campaign Nou at Its  Climax   Democrats Hope To Secure Truman For Speech

RAID NAZI ON AOADS 10 GUT (FF RESERVES   Most of 7,000 Sorties Flown in 24 Hours Support Ground Action.

GAIN CONTROL OF VITAL OIL LINE OUTLETS   Nazis Lose Black Sea Base   FLEET TRAPPED   Enemy Surrounded In Ploesti Area

a a a a  MORE GASOLINE FOR ‘B’ AUTOS   Increase Attributed To Curbing of Black  Markets

B GAS COUPONS TO BE INCREASED   ‘Action To Apply Everywhere Except on East Coast

T o Hike “B” Gas Rations   Increase to Maximum. Of 720 Miles a Month Expected in 30 Days

B-Stamps May Get Gas Boost In Near Future   Black Market Must Be Controlled

To Hike Gas Rations For B Card Holders   Action Wil! Be Taken Soon if Black Market Remains Under Control

'B’ CARD HOLDERS TO GET MORE GAS?      Substantial Boost in Automobile-Fuel Rations Is Exnected Soon.

May Increase ‘B’ Allowance   Hopeful Eastern Motorist: May Get Gas Roaost later.

B Cards to Get More Gasoline   Allowance to Be Increased to 720 Miles Per Month

'B’ Gas Ration To Be Boosted   Ration Expiration Dates May Be Abolished

B-Card Holders to Get More Gas — Qutside Eastern Seaboard States   Some Increase May Be Granted in East but Control of Black Market Held Essential Factor

A. AND M. FORMER STUDENTS DISCUSS COLLEGE SITUATION  CONFUSION EXISTS BECAUSE OF LACK OF AD.

Save MORE Money, LIVES, and the NATION! Prevent INFLATION An EXTRA $100 Bond will do it!   FAIRFIELD FARM BUSEAU HAS FINE PROGRAM MON.

FREAK STORM AT LOS ANGELES BRINGS RAIN, HAIL AND SNOW   WORST WINTER STORM SINCE 1932 INCLUDES LIGHTNING  AND TWO INCHES  OF HAIL

0.P.A. Prepares Guide For Those — Shoppers Using New Ration ! okens

START G.I. VOTE COUNT   Servicemen’s Ballots May Decide Several Races in Missouri

REDS CONTROL GULF OF RIGA   30 Trapped Nazi Divisions Lose Last Hope of Escape by Sea

Soviets Clear Enemy From Gulf of Riga   Possible Escape of 30 Nazi Divisions Re Sea Prevented

RUSSIANS DOOM NAZIS IN BALTIC   sea Escape Route Sealed By Red Armies In Capture Of Saare Isle In Gulf Of Riga.

SS Bowie Launched At Coast Shiovar<   ‘1,000 Club’ Is Sharply Criticized By Dewey, On Way To Boston

DEWEY READIES ATTACK FROM BOSTON TONIGHT   Will Again Hit Demos On $1,000 Club Angle

Hits 1,000 Club, Calis FDR Promises No Good; Will Speak Tonight.

Gov. Dewey To Turn Guns On PAC Tonight   Republican Nominee Goes To Boston Where He Will Speak Tonight In   Opposition To Hillmar

Nation Tired Ot Promises, Dewey States   GOP Candidate Savs Nation Cannot Live on Promises But Is In Need Now of Performances.

Dewey Talk. Is Tonight —   GOP Candidate Will ‘Be Heard: In Boston

Dewey Opens Fire on the CiO-PAC   Will Speak In... Boston Tonight

DEWEY ASSAILS $1,000 CLUB IN BUFFALO SPEECH   DECLARES HE WON’T SELL GOV‘T AT ANY PRICE TO ANY MAN

DEWEY TO TALK IN BOSTON; NEW ATTACK ON PAC   Says Republicans Have No ‘1000” Club In Party

DEWEY OPENS FIRE ON PAC $1,000 CLUE   Heads For Boston After Attack On Roosevelt's Record In Office

Dewey to Fire on 1,000 Club, CIOPAC Tonight at Boston   Buffalo Audience Hears Nominee Assail FDR’s”  Many Promises

Dewey Takes Rap at PAC, F.R. Record   One Thousand Club Under Fire; Charges F. R. Pledges Worthless

DEWEY OPENS FIRE ON PAC IN NEW ENGLAND   GOP Nominee to Talk From Boston on Air Tonight at 8:30 (CWT)

DEWEY TO RIP PAC, $1,000 CLUB TONIGHT   Lashes FDR’s Promise Ot Postwar Jobs, Urges Two-Term Limit

Dewey Opens Fire On CIO Politicians   Control of Democratic Party To Be Discussed Tonight in Boston

Vichy radio claims naval force lashing vital base at Toulon   Port of Cherbourg threatened with .  complete isolation as: advance grows

Allied Artillery Bombarding Nazis   Germans Admit Their Troops Pushed Bock To Northern Tip of Vitel. Nozi Peninsula

SOUTH FRANCE INVASION DUE, BERLIN FEAR‘   Mediterranean Naval Base Pounded, Says  Vichy Radio

NAZIS FEAR NEW ALLIED INVASIONS   gPowerful ~ Armada I: In Mediterranean, Enemy Asserts

Allied Air and Artillery Smash Seeks to Break Deadlock in Caen Arez

Drive One-Third Of Way Across  NormandySector   Attack Nazi’s Shortened Lines To Southeast of Cherbourg; Expand Their Front to 50 Miles

American, British Planes Continue Great Offensive Against German Centers

MILITARY TARGETS  IN NAZIDOM HIT BY  HUNDREDS BOMBERS AIR ARMADA OF 1,500  TO 2,000 PLANES IN SATURDAY’S MISSIONS

BORE THROUGH NAZI FIGHTER PLANE FORCE      Aircraft Plants, Airfield Among. Targets Singled Out for U.S. Heavy Bombers   Ry ASSOCTATED PRESS

Aircraft Plants Again Targets of Bomber Crews   Russian Forces Within Sight Of Bessarabia

Reds Push on to Reich, 6 Bases Fall   2,000 American Planes Hammer Center of Germany; Communications Cut

Broadcast Has Americans on Edge of City   30 Divisions Face Possible Debacle

Radio Reporter From London Says Yank Drive Ha  Carried To Outskirts Of Paris; Nazis, Facing De  = bacle, Seem Unable To Parry Blows Of Allies   BY JAMES M. LONG

PRIMARY T HELD NEXT TUESDAY   Democrats Have No Contest; G. O. P. in Lively Battle

Lumberton Market Tops Last Year In Money and Pounds   By Jasper (. Hutto, Supervisor Lumberton Tobacco Market

JAPS CLAIM YANKS LAND ON SMALL ISLE   U.S. Warships Steam Into Leyte Gulf, Enemy States

U.S. WARSHIPS IN LEYTE GULF SAYS NIP RADIO   Central Island of Suluan Called Scene of First Re-Invasion

Winchell Meets Dies: Radio Commentator, Congressman Exchange Jibes affer Broadcasts

Dies Says Winchell’s Being Used   HEAD OF UN-AMERICAN PROBERS SAYS RADIO COMMENTATOR IS TOOL OF MOST SINIST ER FORCE.   Villifies Public Men

DIES TALKS TO RADIO AUDIENCE ON WINCHEL!   Columnist Retorts With Newspaperman’s ‘Declaration of Independence’

hag Denounces Water Winchell ‘As Smear Artist   Says He Will Disclose Group Attacking Congress

DENGUNCES COMMENTATOR   Rep. Martin Dies Gets Opportunit Sunday Night te Speak on Radio —Makes Blistering Attack on Walter Winchell.

Winchell being used by one of the most sinister forees. asserts Dies

HAVE YOU VOTED?  Polls Close at 8 p.m.   Dies Lashes Winchell as Mouthpiece of  “Smear Bund” Out to Destroy. Congres:

DENOUNCES WINCHELL   Latter Refuses To Retract Any Of His Statements

Dies Declares Winchell Is Enemy of Congress  fail. taf.len. -4/'..-L.1] “L..l*~   Calis Walter Winchell ‘Charlie McCarthy of a Smear Bund‘

ROBERT DUEMLER RESIGNS   Was Chief of Anthacite Division, Selid Fuels Administration

NATIONAL DEBT 10 BE REDUCED UNDER 2 DISPOSAL BILLS   Surplus U. S. Property Has Value Up To 100 Billions

British Troops Capture Port (Of Sarande   500 Prisoners Taken; German Corfu Garrison Isolated.

British Capture Albanian Port, Isolate Nazi Forces On Corfu, Cutting Escape   Germans At Serande Resisted Hard At First: Patrols Active In Greece

BRITISH TAKE ALBANIA PORT   Sarande’s Fall Isolates Germans On Corfu

PORT OF SARANDE BEEN CAPTURED BY BRITISH IN ALBANIA  NO INDICATION OF ALLIE! ADVANCE BEYOND COR-

NAZI GARRISON IN CORFU IS ISOLATED BY BRITISH FORCE   Capture Albanian Port; Othe: Forces are Reported Patrolling in Greece

British Troops In Albania Seize Port of Sarande   Isolates German. Garrison, Reported Reaiment, on Corfu

BRITISH TAKE GREEK PORT OF SARANDE   Stroke Isolates German Garrison on the Island of Corfu —- Whether Troops Approach Athens Not Known.

Nazi Garrison On Corfu Isle Now Reported To Be Isolated   500 Prisoners Are Taken At Sarande -

Sarande Taken In Albania   Nazis On Corfu Isolated; British Move On Athens

Expect Proposal For Peace Police Quotas Shortly   Officials Say F. DR. Wants Congress To Take Quick Actior

Sees call for allocation of  U.S. troops To provide worid security force

JAP CLAIMS ARE NOT CONFIRMED   Tokyo Propagandists Say Sev. eral U. S. Air and Sea Craft Destroyed

Japs Claim Superfort  AtSumatra Shot Down   Broadcast Tells  Of Attack Made On Pangkalan-Brandon Area By U.S.

Second Survey Flight Over Tokyo Reported By Japs   Longest Daylight Strike Hits Former British Naval Base; Two Unconfirmed Raids On Manila Told By Nipponese; Singapore Drydocks Hit

Luftwaffe Remains Inactive   Flak Fire, However, Causes Loss Of Eleven Flying Fortresses, Liberators.

Heavy Bombers Attack Nazi Oil Refineries  Three Important  Airdromes ' Also Are Plasiered

PRIVATE. ENGLISH KILLED IN ACTION   Local’ Youth. Loses  Life ~ sins Action’ in France

PRIVATE ENGLISH KILLED IN ACTION   Local Youth ‘L ‘Loses Life > ins Action: in ‘ France

OWI RECEIVES HIGH PRAISE AND A RAISE   Information Agency Is Doing Good Job,  Says Commitee

Appropriations of Over Billion for 18 War Agencies Asked   OWI and Merchant Mar. ine Praised in Committee’s Report

Uae GROUP PRAISES OWI   Committee Says OWI Makes Valuable Contribution to War Effort.   IFAVORS APPROPRIATION

OW! Praised by  House Committee   Bill Sent to Floor To Finance Home-Front War Agencies for Year

OWI Praised By Committee   House Appropriation Group Commends OWI For Work in War

By Usually Hardboiled  Committee  By I Lauded   New A pprepriations Measure Is Offered

OWI! Given Pat On Back   Appropriations for Over Billion Given Congress Today

Billion Dollar War Agencies Bill Reported   OWL Gets Hand from House Appropriations Connuitlee

Appropriations Committee Praises Work of OWI  Admiral Land Alse Lauded as  Bill te Provide Funds fer

OWI Given Committee's Approval   Doing Good Job, Is Report—Merchant Marine Praised

Measure Sent — To House Floor Asks For Billion   Committee Lands OWI As It Seeks Funds For Home Front Agencies

owl COMMENDED BY. HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS  _ BILL CARRIES OVER BILLION DOLLARS FOR HOMIE FRONT WAR AGENCIES

OWI DRAWS PAT ON BACK, FUNDS ARE APPROVED   House’ Allots Money For Home Front Agencies

Hardboiled House Appropriations Committee Com~mends Office Of War Information, Recommends $58.000.000 Anproprition.

OW! Group  Draw Praise   Sends Qver Billion Dollar Appropriation Bill To  Committee.

SURPRISES NEVER CEASE, OWI GIVEN PRAISE OF SOLONS   Pat On Back and Cash for Con tinuance Téndered-Kicked Around Agency

Pat on Back Given OWI by House Group   Praised in Report Sending War Agencies Bill te Fleor

$1,003,358, 367 TO PROMOTE WAR AGENCIES   One of Capitol Hill's Pet Targets Draws Pat on Back From Hard-Boiled Committee   FIGURES ARE REDUCED

0.W.I. Is Praised   House Appropriations Committee Reverses Former Stand; Finances Home-Front Agencies

OWI Draws Pat On Back As Appropriations Bill For 18 War Agencies Goes To House   Measure Provides $1 ,033,358,367; Cut Over Last Year; Merchant Fleet Piaiead

~ OWI IS LAUDED AS FUNDS FOR 18 AGENCIES ARE APPROVED   Rv William F. Arbogast

WAR AGENCY BILL OF $1,033,358,36/ IS RECOMMENDED OW! DRAWS PAT ON  BACK FOR VALUABLE  BAIN TO WAR EFFORT

Roosevelt, Democratic Congress  a Mffered Opportunity for Close Teamwork; Many Tasks Are Faced

President And Congress Have Dual Challenge   Opportunity For Greatest. Team Work In History.

BIG CHANCE FO TEAMWORK LIES AHEAD FOR FR   Demos Have Working Majority of 55 in Howse, 19 in Senate

FAGE CHANCE FOR FINE TEAMWCR   Great Opportunity For F. D. R. And Democratic. Controlied Congress   DUAL CHALLENGE   Important J obs Require Immediate Attention Of President, Aides

Next Spotlight Centers Upon New Congress   Tremendous Job Faces Legislators At Next Session

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND NEW CONGRESS INHERIT OPPORTUNITY FOR BEST TEAMWORK RECORD

Chanee for ‘Two P arty Teamwork   Republicans had Mighty Voice in Election, Will Ph: ay Important Role

NEW CONGRESS TO SETTLE PEACE   Roosevelt Declared Winner in 36 States   CONFERENCE   With Allied Leaders Next Job For President; Truman Seeks Unity

Major Tasks Contront FDR And Congress   No Blame For [Lack of Teamwork Can Be Given if President and New Congress Fall Down on Job.

DUAL CHALLENGE LIES AHEAD FOR F.D.R. CONGRESS   RECEIVE MANDATE FROM U. S. VOTERS TO WIN WAR, PEACE

Dual Challenge Lies Ahead For Administration   Winning The War And Writing Peace Tha‘ Will Last Is Major Task Of Today

(PRESIDENT AND DEMO-CONTROLLED CONGRESS HAVE ivGE TASK AHEAD: GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR TEAMWORK

PRESIDENT AND NEW CONGRESS INHERIT GREAT OPPORTUNITY  ALONG WITH ROOSEVELT WENT SENATE AND HOUSI

Opportunity for Great Teamwork Before Democrats   President Has Strong Majority In House, Senate

Great Teamicork Opportunity Faces FDR And New Congress   Sobering, Hard Work On Both Peace And War Lies Ahead: Involves Many Problems

Election Past, Spotlight Now On Congres:   Big Jobs Ahead for Demo: cratic-Controlled Body ; Teamwork Needed

Congress, FDR Face Future With Chance to Display Harmony   Democrats Have Margin of 55 in House, 19 in Senate of Congress

FOR, CONGRESS FACE BIG JOB      Demos Victory Margin Is Extended By Late  Returns

DEMS INHERIT TEAMWORK JOE   Up to Administration to Win War, Write Peace

FDR, Congress Get Chance For Teamwork   Destiny of America In War, Peace Is Facing Them Now

vith Election ‘hrough, Light s On Congress   resident Faces Big-3 Conference. Chinese Problem. New Cahinet.   . ‘pRACE CONGRESS

BIG JOB AHEAD FOR FR, PART   Face Opportunity for Greatest Teamwork Job in Nation’s History.

With Election Over, Spotlight Shifts fo Congress   FDR-Faces Big Meet Chinese Problem, New Cabinet Appointments

Tremendous Job Awaiting 1th ‘Peace Congress  Opportunity For Greatest Teamwork te American Hictary

HAVE SUPPORT JF CONGRESS   Job Ahead Is Tough One; War  Main Issue

President And Congress Have Major Task   Teamwork Job Confronts Those Elected By Voters

TEAMWORK JOB FOR CONGRESS   Democratically - Control. led Group Inherits Responsibility

FDR, Congress Get  Chance to Display  Greatest Teamwork Dual Challenges to Win Victory,  Write Peace That Will Last; ‘Bie Three’ Conference Awaits

President And Congress Face Greatest Tasks   ».¢ « «K «K Cabinet May Stand Pat

FOR, CONGRESS FACE CHALLENGE   Completion Of War, Writing Of Lasting Peace Listed

Jap Bases On Bonin Isle Hit   Along B-29 Route Frem Saipan To Tokyo, Bombers  Raid Fields,

yap Bases On B-29 Route To Tekvo Are Hit   Mareus Island Attacked By A  Liberator Force

Bonins Hit After B-29 Tokyo Raid   Islands On Route To Japan Blasted Afterwards Also

Bonin Isles Are Bombed  Yanks Strike Before, After Tokyo Assault

Blows Dealt Pagan Isle Installations  *Nips Announce Allied Sinking of Qne }

Yank Big Guns Rock > Cassino; Eighth Army * Striking for Pescara   Gen. Clark’s Troops Take 3 More Hills Over ‘Liri Valleys Tommies Wreck Vital Nazi _ _ ‘Span: Over Garigliano

VITAL GERMAN RAIL BRIDGE IS DESTROYED   Mine Fields, Severe  Fire Slows Drive  From Ortona

NAZI DEFENSES INSIDE SHRINE KNOCKED APAR]   Americans Bled and Died for Two Weeks in Effort to Save Historic Italian Monastery.

Gillette Race Is Highlight In  Towa Primary   One Of Lightest Votes In State History Ex: pected Today.

NIPPON FORCES HIGH IN JUNGLE ABOVE VALLEY   British Close In on Jap Position North of Tiddim Road Fighting

NIPPONESE SPREAD OVER LONG FRONT   Enemy Spearheads Drive to Within 30 Miles of Capital of Manipur State.

Jap Invaders 30 Miles From Indian City   Enemy Columns Being Attacked By British Forces

JAPS DRIVEN FROM POINTS IN MANIPUR   British Attack Enemy Columns Invading India

JAP COLUMN 30 MILES OF IMDHAL   Troops Still In High Mountain Jungles, However

Jap Spearheads Within 30 Miles of Indian City   Superior British Forces Closing Pincer On Invading Columns

Allies Ready To Launch Decisive Attack on Reich   Eisenhower's Battle Teams Ready For Massive Assault To Burst Open The Routes Leading to Berlin.

Columns Advance To Metz, Liege In West Wall Sector   Great Assault Front Placed Under News Blackout With Troops Only 25 Miles From Nazi Siegfried Line At Three Points; Albert Canal Crossed

Armies Punching At Siegfried Line   2,000 British And American Bombers Attack Rear Centers Of German Fortifications; News Blackout Clamped On

Blackoutof News Put On Actions   Patton’s Forces On Moselle Only 20 Miles From Siegfried Line

Buffer Zone Before Reich Cracks Slowly  Rettich “Pemname ('emee ATR. Y ccna   British ‘Froops Cross Albert Canal U. S. Armor Massine for Assaults

FOUR RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVE UPON VIIPURI   Finn Army  Retreats Along Karelian Isthmus

Finn Withdrawal From War Seen  Armies Fleeing in Panic From Reds

REPORT HEARD. ~ DOUBLE’ DIED   REFORTS REACHING . SWITZERLAND BAY HITLER HAD BEEN "WARNED AHEAD OF TIME

CHINESE PUSH AHEAD IN BIG YUNNAN DRIVE   Take Strategic Positions on Salween; Battle at Loyang

FIERCE FIGHTING © SAID NEAR LOYANG   Jap Hold on Vi Vital Railway Loosened British Mop Up Area in Kohima Region

Chinese Drive Toward Burma Gains Impetus   New Jap Stab Below Imphal Repulsed as Chinese Continue to Pour Across Salween

U. 5. Air Force Plans To Reestablish Bases As Chinese Make Gains

7 Men Missing As Ships Collide _Near Cuttvybunk   Coastal Minesweeper Is Sunk Following Crash With . Destroyer Escort

Ramirez To Give Up Argentine Post   Political Setup Coutused: Chief Justice To Succeed

Pittston Wants Mines Flushed  Filling Of Holes. Would End Cave-inc

American Fliers Hamme Japs A\t Fort Bayard; Attack Enemy Shipping

AMERICAN AIRMEN DEAL JAP SHIPPING ANOTHER BLOW   One Enemy Vessel Blew Up and Three Others Damaged Near Fort Ravard.

“German Troops Evacuate  Whole Greek Peninsula .   British Navy Landing Men At Piraeus .To Strengthen Athens Already Occupied

Americans Held As Terrorists   “Arrest Soldiers In -Part of Outlaw Gang

x «*K KK Revolt Flames   ~ Another Attempt  to Kill Hitler Expected

Underground Forces Rise In France   Surround Towns; Vichy Reported to Be In Turmoil

Scores Of Towns Reportec Surrounded On Word Of New Allied Invasion

NEW ATTACK ON NAZIS IN FRANCE SPURS PATRIOTS   French Underground Forces Strike at Germans in Many Sectors

PATRIOTS RISE TO HAUNT NAZIS   Underground Forces Become Active Thruout France

Maquis Attack German Garrisons Collaborationists at Vichy Seek To Flee City :

RISING IN FRANCE   News of Landings in South Bring Attacks on Nazis by Underground

French Patriots Besiege Towns as Vichyites Quake   10,000 Maquis Reported Marching on Vichy, Nazi Police Unable te Sten Paris Demonstration

\Tide of Revolt \Growing Hourly (Through France   German Garrisons In Many Towns  Are Attacked; Report A March on Vichv

Underground Rising In All Of France   Tide of Revolt Swells; Vichy in Turmoil As Collaborationists Flee

Revolts Flare As Underground Goes Into Action   Paris Reported Wilc With Joy Since Invasion Has Gol Underway   Stiff Resistance Seen   Paris Is Happy

Patriots Rising . Against Nazis Throughout France   Spurred. by. ‘Allied’ Successes, Maquis. Launch Attack Series

Invasion Sets Off Uprisings Of Underground Forces Of France   German Garrisons In Southern France Besieged As Soon As Allies Land; Vichy And Paris Reported Seething.

Patriots of France Rise Up in Revolt. Against Nazi Foes   Maquis Act on 1 Atranged Plans for Swift At. tacks on Germans

Revolt Against Nazis Spreads ~ Through France   Underground Army Stages Uprising

Underground in France Has Risen to Aid In Rout of Germans   Swelling Tide of Revolt Against Nazis Now Engulfing Enemy; Scores of Towns Surrounded: Surrender VUitimatum Given

Underground Forces Reported Rising in Increasing Numbers Over  France with New Allied Landings

FRENCH FORCES RISING ARAINST  GERMAN ARMIES   Peovle Held In Bondave Four Long Years

Underground Rising, Score Of Towns Surrounded, Report Vichy In Turmoil, With Rumors Patriot

French Underground. Forces Rising In Swelling Revolt Against German Rasicence

FRENCH RISING AGAINST NAZIS   Underground Forces Launch Series Of Attacks, Capture Towns

JOIN IN ALL-OUT BLOW AT HITLER   REPORT VICHY IN TURMOIL; 10,000 ADVANCE ON CITY

No B-29’s Lost In 3rd Tokyo Raid   Jap Capital Blasted 3rd Time Inside Week; Only Two Superforts Lost In . Three Attacks; Results Unobserved

Wilson to Lead Greeks in Battle   Secrecy Veils New Trouble for Nazis

WILSON HEADS GREEK FORCES   R =e CO Secrecy Veils Drive Into Albania

9th In Action   Troops, Unheard From For Months, Attack Near Dutch Border

Ninth Army Put Into Dutch Fight   High Command Breaks Secret of Whereabouts Of General Simpson’s Force, Which Was Last Heard Of When Brest Was Taken

U.S. Ninth Army Virtually Inside Germans’ West Wall  Its Leap-Frogging Tactics Across 800 Miles Dima (MH Ract Ginriag Of Thic War'c Stratevy   In Three Campaigns Without Scratch, Soldier Returns Home

U. S. 9th: Army Forces Attack Nazi Defenses   Lieut. Gen. Simpson Leads Men Against Germans, Revealing @... kg ik VAs ne TL et

HITLER'S LATEST PURGE MAY HURT ARMY MORALE   German Troops on Front Lines Being Knifed by Leaders at Home

RUTHLESS PURGE 1S ‘TAB IN THE BACK’   Nazi Propagandists Have Been Talking About It For 20 Years.

Big Nazi Push On Anzio Beachhead Opens; Allied Airmen Battle Foe; Yanks, British Still Fight  For Cassino; Terrific Barrage Laid Down

Germany's Best Troops Rushed To Rome Sector   Americans, British Attacking Grimly

Near Rome Is Worry   Nazis Still Getting Men and Armor ite  Front Despite Fliers’ Efforts; Rede Tighten Ring

SENATE DUE 10 PASS TAX BILL   Simplification Act Will B Be Considered Today

STALIN BRAND:  prerggennpsi sere gs  JAPS:         Alma Mater To Tlonor Pyle

Phillips’ Jury Is Discharged   Deadlocked 9 to 3 With Majority Vote Favoring Acauijttal

2) PLANES TAKE PARTIN DAY ATTACKS   Germans Unable Flee Odessa: Thaneande Cantured

Russian Bombers Shatter German Evacuation Plans   4th Red Army Opens Offensive Against Axis In Crimea

ANOTHER SOVIET ARMY MOVES 62 WILESIN RUMANIA   Galati Bottleneck Guarding Approaches to Bucharest Ile. Being Assailed.

Admiral Land Apprehensive Over Output for 1944, He Tells Senate Committee in Appeal for Service Measure

Land Urges Passage Of Service Bill   Says Psychological Effect .On Public Would B: Most Beneficial

BARN ON BOLTON FARM 15 DESTROYED BY FIRE   ‘Fifteen Tons of Soy Bean Hay Included in the Loss   OTHER BRISTOL FIRES

BARN, CONTENTS DESTROYED BY FIRE ON BOLTON FARM   30 Tons of Hay Burn in An Early Morning Blaze   LOSS PLACED AT $7,000   Harmon Residence Slightly Damaged by Blaze; Defective Wiring Blamed

LONDON TARGET FOR HEAVY INCENDIARY BOMB RAID   All Fires Are Extinguished Within Five Hours

Germans Hit London With Fire Bombs   100 Planes Stage Heaviest Raid in Last Three Years

100 GERMAN PLANES IN, LONDON RAID   Started Fires But All Were Extin guished

RESCUE SQUADS STILL WORKING      Upwards of 100 German Planes “Btage_ Fire Bombing — Numer. _ pus Casualties Reported — Luft“waffe Loses at Least 13° Planes.

GERMAN PLANES HIT LONDON IN Ble FIRE RAID      Heaviest Incendiary Raid Since 1941; Nazis Lose Nine Bombers

German Planes Pound London In Record Air Blitz   Effort Costs Luftwaffe 13 Bombers In Raid; Result Not Estimated

18th Congress Concludes Its Election Recess   Final Four or Five Week Session Opens

CONGRESS CONVENES TOMORROW   85 ‘Lame Duck’ Members Will  Be Present

Congress fo Resume Work On Tuesday   Crop Insurance, Social Se. curity Tax, Flood Control On Sked.

Congress Begins Session   Legislators to Work on Few Major War, Peace Measures

Congress Will Convene at Noon Tuesday   Four or Five Week Session Is Expected

CONGRESSME END VACATION   Return to Washington for Brief Session

CONGRESS WILL CONVENE TODAY FOR SHORT TERM   Will Act On Few Major War And Postwar Measures Is Believed

Congress heady For Session Tuesday Noon  Leaders to Confer With F.D.R.to Chart New Course

SUPPORT FOR. - STETTINIUS   SENATE CONFIRMATION OF NOMINATION SCHEDULED WITHOUT ANY SERIOUS OPPOSITION

SELECTION OF SUCCESSOR FOR “HULL PRAISED   Disappointment Voiced By Supporters Of James F. Byrnes   FOR CHOICE QUALIFIED   “New Secretary Of State Familiar With All Current Questions

————————EeEeEEEE—EeE eeEeeeEeEEeeeEEeEeEeEEeEeeeeeeeeeee ee  King Declares Situation Dark For Axis, Fleet Unchallenged

Reports Navy Ready to Go Far to Victory   Admiral King Tells of Gigantic Strides Made Since Pearl Harbor ~

King Declares U.S. Fleet Now Queen : Of Seas   Greatest in World. Naval Chief Says, in Urging That Nation Never be  “Napping”? Again

Navy Will Speed Day Of Victory   Situation Is Full Of Promise, Says Admiral King In Report On Progress Of War

King Urges U.S. ever To Helpless Again   Says Navy Is Now The Most Powerful Ir World; Picture Is  Reversed

Admiral  FLEET PREPARED FOR VITAL DRIVE   Warns Against Letting Navy ‘Dwindle’ After Peace

WARNS U.S. NOT TO LET FLEET DWINDLE AGAIN   Admiral King Says We Have Passed Critical Days

Luftwafte, Reported   King Says Fleet Now At Full Combat Strenath

KING PLEAS FOR U. $. TO KEEP STRONG FLEET   Admiral Says Navy Now Big Enough to Roam Seas Unchallenged

American Fleet, A Pre-War Weakling, Is Now Big Enougl ‘To Roam Seas Unchallenged   Admiral King Says Picture Facing Japan Is Dark; Urges Big Navies After War

American Fleet Ready for Victory   U.S. Navy Big Enough to Roam Seas Unchallenged Reports Admiral King

Admiral Makes First Official Report On Progress  King Wants U.S. To Keep Strong Fleet After War

ADMIRAL KING ASKS  NAVAL STRENGTH BE  KEPT HIGH POINT TELLS HOW U. S. FLEET  _ BEEN BUILT UP AFTER PEART HARBOR

‘King Urges U. S. Keep Navy Strong   Plea Is Coupled with Report on Return to Power; Ready for Anything

Powerful Peace Days Navy Urged By Admiral King   U. S. Should Never Be Caught Short Again,   anrar Gave

GRAFT AT CAMP SHANKS CHARGED   HOUSE COMMITTEE TO PROBE STORY BY NEW YORK NEWS

SHANKS STORY  TO BE PROBED   Hints at Corruption in Building and Maintenance of Army Base.

Fifth Army Pushes Near To Livorno   Another Column Captures Peccioli, South Of Arno River

Clark’s Army Begins ( ‘losing In On Leghorn   Americans, In Four-Mile Advance, Only 6 Miles From Prize Port

Yanks Six Miles from Livorno   Fifth Army Closing Along 20-Mile Front

MEN..cWOMEN IN UNIFORM   O. C. Patty, Lueders, Receives Promotion

\ REAL CHRISTMAS   First Such Day at Home in  Four Years for Capt. C. A. Edmondson

Enemy Losses Heavy   New Landing Is Made by Yanks On New Britain

Chinese Net 2000 Japanese   UNITS NEAR RABAUL, GASMATA; CAPTURED AIRDROME IN USE

REGURDER LISTS RECENT CHANGES   Property Transfers Made in County During Week

RECORDER LISTS RECENT CHANGES   Real Estate Transfers Are Made During Past Week

NAVAJO INDIANS IN ARIZONA ARE PLAGUED BY BEARS WHICH _ THEY REFUSE TO HUNT AND KILL

Nazis Resistance Crumbles Under Huge Air Attack   Two Mile Gains Made In Normandy After 4,000 Planes Blast 5-Mile Corridor For Infantry In St. Lo-Caen Battle Sector.

PEOPLE BEGIN EVACUATION OF HELSINKI      Fires Still Burning From Two Heavy Russian Bombings Sunday, and a Third Assault May Be Under Way.

Russians Strike Finns From Air   It Looks Like the Aim of the Russians Is To Knock Fix, Y land Out of the War «   Soon As Possible. a : .

Finn Capital... Blazing Today   Reval In Estonia Also Under Air Attack

HELSINKI FIRES STILL RAGING   200 Buildings Hit and 38 Persons Killed in Red Raid on Finn Capital.

Finnish Capital Bombed Twice By  Russian Planes   City Still Burning From Heaviest Raid Since 1941; Phone  Lines Down

--,  4 RUSSIA BOMBINGS— . Helsinki Afire After  Two Russian: Bombins:

Helsinki. and > Reval Bombed By Red Fliers   Finnish Capital !s - Reported. Ablaze as Russians End Lull

London Hears  ~HelsinkiLaced. . By Third Raid   Fires Stilt Burning In Finn ~* Capital” Following” Two Bombings By Ruesians

RUSSIANS ATTACK FINLAND'S CAPITAL FROM AIR SUNDAY   FIRES STILL BURNING IN HELSINKI; 38 DEAD, MANY WOUNDED

Fires Still Burn In Helsinki After Red Raid  Thirty-Eight Killed, 232 Wounded in

FIRES STILL WERE BURNING AT NOON TODAY IN HELSINK!   Two Russian Bombing Raids _ Sunday Hit Two Hundred Buildings.   223 PERSONS ARE KILLED   Mine Bombs and Incendiaries  Were Dropped by Attacking Bombers.

RUSSIANS ATTACK FINLAND’S CAPITAL FROM AIR SUNDAY  _ FIRES STILL BURNING IN HELSINKI; 38 DEAD

SOVIET BOMBERS BLAST HELSINKI   STOCKHOLM REPORTS FIRES STILL BURN FROM SUNDAY RAIDS

Russian Bombs fire Helsinki   38 Persons Reported Killed by Raid on Finnish Capital

Russians Strike Finns From Air   It Looks Like the Aim of the Russians Is To Knock Finland Out of the War As Soon As Possible.

HELSINKI GIVEN HARD POUNDING   Finns Report 232 Persons Are Wounded in Assault by Russian Planes

TWO RUSSIAN RAIDS MADE ON HELSINKI   Civilians Begin To Evacuate Bombed Finnish Capital

FIRES BURN IN-HELSINKT:   200 Buildings Hit; 38 Dead. in Russian Raid

Fires Stil Burn In Helsinki After Red Raid   Thirty-Eight Killed, 232 Wounded in Two Russian Attacks

ADMITS ROBBING DELUXE CLEANER   James W. French Bound Over to Grand Jury Under $1,090 Bond

Declares Victory Over Japanese Assures Supply and Reinforcements for General MacArthur and Fewer American Casualties in Future — Details Tactics of Halsey and Kincaid in Engagement That Cost Enemy 63 Vessels.

Japs Still Wondering What Hit: Them, Navy Says of Bie Philippines Battle.

Navy Names Vessels Lost In Philippines   Says Victory Assures Supply, Reinforcement For Gen. MacArthur  STRATECY IS TOLD:

U.S. Naval Victory Declared So Overwhelming That It May Prove Decisive Battle of War

NAVY REVIEWS BIG SEA FIGHT IN PHILIPPINES   Reveals Strategy of How Japs Were Caught Off Balance by U. S. Fleets

Navy Says Japs Lost 63 Ships In Philippines   Also Reports Some Damaged U, S. Craft Returned to Duty

Navy Reveals Details of Fight Off Philippines  Jap Battleships Get Upper Hand, Then Withdraw

NAVY BOOSTING PERSONNEL IN PACIFIC AREA   Victories Accelerate War Against Japan

Navy Personnel Needs Increase  Progress in Pacific Changes Situation

NAVY TO CALL FOR MORE MEN   Increase Of 383,000 By June 30, 1945, Planned To Defeat Japs

Navy Will Take 194,000 More Men by Dec. 31  Rapid Pac ific Gains Res vee Big e for Expans ate ce

Navy Needs More Men, Says Chief   Over Quarter Million Required in Next Year, Report

194, 000 Enlisted Men Needed By Navy Before December 31 To Meet Speed-Up In Pacific,

Kansas: G.0.P.. Leaders Issue >  Harmony Pleas   Both of Major Parties Turn to Election Campaign; Interest in McGill

G.0.P. BRACES TO ELECT THE TICKET   Friend Issues Call for Unity ~ In Support of Primary Winners  RE I INBRED : TOY Troecvr ¥ rrracacayrerr ewewe ©

BOMBERS POUND NAZI DEFENSES   One-Two Punch Handed Rocket Nests; Fliers Support Intantry

Some Go After Enemy’ Only 500 Yards Ahead Of Attacking Doughbovs

Allied Air Fleets Rip  Cherbourg-Paris Area   \ocket Plane Installations, Invasion Sector. Blasted, -,000 Forts: Operate la Bia: Offensive:

6,000 Warplanes Bomb Nazi France   Air Fleet Supports Invasion Infantry

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Planes Smash French Targets   Area from Cherbourg To Paris Hit With Bombs, Rockets and Bullets: Nests Blasted

0,000 WARPLANES STRIKE NAZI-HELD AREAS IN FRANCE   Attacks Made With Bombs and Bullets From Cherbourg to Paris in Sup-  port of Invasion.   ROCKET BOMB NESTS AGAIN ARE TARGETS   But Blows Fail to Halt German Bombardment of Southern’ England With the Robots.

Allied Planes Slash at  German Tanks  _ Other Aircraft Hit - Sub Pens and Oil Resources

Airmen Smash Invasion Path  Gathering German Armor   Gathering German Armor Lashed With Hamba

Allied Planes Slash at  German Tanks   Other Aircraft Hit Sub Pens and  OU Ressureae

FUEL DEPOTS. U-BOAT PENS   Hit Concentration of Nazi Tanks Close To Front Line

Planes Strike Submarine Pens on Coast and at Industrial and Oil Cent ers in Germany.      Strafe Airfields

Allied planes hammer tank  concentration  Sub pens struck; assault day-long

STATE GUARDS ON DUTY IN FLOODED AREAS IN MISS.   Aid. for Stricken Areas Provided by State. Waters Receding in Georgia

Southern Floods Subsiding; Nine Is Drowning Toll   Mississippi Prepares To Clean Up Area With State Guards

Allies Forced To Rain Bombs On Monastery   300 Nazis Routed From Anelent Cassino Abhey

Shelling Comes On Heels of  Allied Warning  w)   Allies Weather  Second Crisis on Beachhead—Reds Increase Pressure

HEAVY U. 8. BOMBERS BLAST AT ANCIENT MOUNTAIN ABBEY  ‘WITH RETURN FAIR WEATHER AIR FORCES

300 German Troop: Driven Out Into Artillery Barrage   Second Crisis Is Passed on Allies’ Rome Beachhead

MOUNTAIN POST USED BY NAZIS AS STRONGHOLD   Finns Move Toward Surrenders Soviets Take Korsun, Squeeze Trap

Grey Stone Walls Of Ancient Structure. Aré Blasted By Flying Forts; Fierce Battle Rages In Cassino; Finn: Confers With Russian Officia! In Sweden

Rail Centers Hit For Seventh Day   i5,000 Tons of Bombs Used In Week’s Raids

U.S, SUBMARINES BAG 12 MORE OF JAP SHIPS   Knox Explains Move To Cut Enemy Into Dying Pieces .

PRO-ALLIED CHIEFS IN BOLIVIAN POSTS   Hope Changes in Regime Wil Bring Recognition ' from . U. S.. Other Countries

Gen. Bor And Staff Are Held   Polish Commander At Warsaw Is Captured After Collapse Of Resistance In City

Disclose Capture of General Bor   Preferred To Be Taken Prisoner With Comrades

GEN. BOR TAKEN, POLES ANNOUNCE   End of Organized Polish Underground Seen

Gen. Bor in Nazi Hands   Leader of Warsaw Revolt, Staff Taken, Admit Lendon Poles

And This Is a Taller Tale Than Any Told by Anglers— Fish Have Voices, Some Sing!

New Ration Tokens to Be Put Into Use   10-Point Stamps and Blue Change Tokens Get Test on Monday

10-Point Ration Stamps, Tokens Valid Tomorrow   New System Will Simplify and Speed-up Buying

Use Of Tokens Begins Sunday  Will Get First Real Test In Stores Monday

NEW RATION TOKENS GO IN CIRCULATION IN NATION SUNDAY   Red and Blue Tokens Will Be Given Customers in Change For Coupons   STAMP VALUE 10 POINTS.

BEGIN USE OF RATION TOKENS   New Meat, Canned Food Rationing System Starts Sunday

Tokens Go Into Use Tomorrow   But New Ration Change Won't Get Real Test Until Monday.

Ration Tokens Used Tomorrow  Green Stamps To Help Supply At First

Begin Use Of Red And Blue Ration Tokens   Stamps In Book No. 4 Good For 10 Points Each Under System Effective Sunday

NEW TOKEN SYSTEM IN FEFEPT SHIN.   Expect Confusion First Few Days In Stores

RATION TOKENS 60 TO WORK SUNDAY   New Red and Blue Tokens to Be Worth One Point Each; A Stamns 10 Points

USE OF NEW RATION CURRENCY AT HAND   Ten-Point Stamps And Red And Blue’ Tokens As Change Will Become Effective Tomorrow

Ten-Point Ration Stamps, Red And Blue Tokens Go lato Use On Monday

THIRD ARMY DRIVE PANICS POPULATION   Roads Clogged With -: Vehicles as People Scurry Eastward

Soviets Seize Great Stores  Of Equipment   Moscow Adds 10,000 to Number of Nazis Lost in Korsun Trap

Dnieper Trap Toll 103,000   Russ Kill, Capture 73,000, With Wounded Estimated at 30,000

Russians Claim 73,200 Germans Are Victims   Nazi Commander Of Eighth Army Found Among The Dead

73,200 Nazis Die  In Russian. Trap   10,000 Trucks, 116 Tanks And 618 Guns Alsc Taken; Nazi Commander Killed

Reds Inflict Terrific Loss on Foe   Armies Overwhelm Vast Region; Many Nazis Perish

Soviel Forces Kill, Capture 73.000 Nazis   - Russians Capture 130 More Villages As Well as Railway Station of Plyussa

AUSOIANG SEIZE IMMENSE ARMORY OF NAZI SUPPLIES   Huge Booty in Addition te Casualties Inflicted Taken In Death Trap   JOMMANDER OF NAZI EIGHTH ARMY KILLED   Russian Army Makes Steady Gains in North Where 130 Communities Are Taken in Three-Day Drive on Pskov. Planes Bomb City

130 Towns Taken In Drive On Pskov   Germans Lose Immense Armory Of Equipment

Russians Report More Trapped Germans Slain   Figure for Dnieper Bend Fatalities Mounts to 73,000

REDS KILL 3,000 MORE NAZI TROOPS IN UKRAINE TRAP   Figure Increases Number to Lose Lives in Pocket to 55,000—7,000 More Taken Prisoner.   FIRES RAGE IN PSKOV , AFTER RED AIR RAID   Soviets Moving on Junction Seize 180 Towns—Berlin Reports Assaults Against Krivoi Rog.

Reds Advancing By Three Routes Threaten Pskoy  Red ‘Army Troops In South Close In On Krivoi Rao

Russians Take More Towns In Push On Pskov   Flvusea Seized And 30 ~ Localities ‘Fall. Under. “Red Controls. Derive.  _ Is Unchecked

REDS REPORT 73,000 MORE NAZIS BAGGED   CAPTURE OF 10,000 ANNOUNCED IN UKRAINE

Nazi Toll In Trap 73,200; Reds Get Immense Armory   .!roops Drive On Steadily in North To Free’ 130-Towns.in Push: Toward Pskav

Reds Smash Trapped Nazis   Killed and Captured Enem) Totals Run High; Three Forces Move on Pskov

Korsun Trap Yielded Nazi Armory Booty.  Says Moscow   Reds Pushing Drive Upon Pskov. Gateway

Russians Kill, . Capture Germans  In Korsun: Trap  German Eighth. Army   German Eighth. Army Commander: Reported Found Amonq: Dead

Korsun Trap Costs Nazis  73,200 Men   Much Equipment Taken By Reds; Find Body Of 8th Army’s No. 1 General Among Dead

Deferment To Be Reviewed   Immediate Pre-Induction Physical Exams Set For All Men Under 26 With Industry Deferment

Every One Who Passes Will Be Taker Unless He Is Key Man In Vital Job.

BOMBERS GET... ~ ENEMY SHIPS   JAB TANKER AND TWO BUPPLY “VESSELS KNOCKED: OUT OFF DUTCH. FAST!

Large Jap Tanker Heavily Bombed   Two Small Merchant Ships Also Damaged Near New Guinea

NAZI OFFENSIVE IN EUROPE = ~——-TO DELAY PACIFIC SCHEDULE   HEAVY DEMANDS ON SHIPPING  AS RESULT OF GERMAN AD.  VANCE BITS FAR EAST PLANS

Pilots Probe Fury Of Tropical Storm  Hurricane Over Atlantic  May Veer Off

CAN’T RENT HOUSE WITH 6 CHILDREN - - SO THEY SLEEP IN BUS TERMINAL

BRICKER MAKES POLICIES CLEAR   Answers 7 Vital Questions Which Willkie Dodged

Bricker Opposes Central World Government   Would Keep U. 5. Standards High

FINDS YANKS IN ADVANCE   Medium Bombers Hit Nip Posts, Meet Opposition

Yankees Hurl Back Jap Counteratiack  Advance Positions  PP FR Arr Ae icin 1   Advance Positions on Negros Isle in Admiralty Group

Yankees Hurl Back Jap Counterattack   Advance Positions on Negros Isle in Admiraly Group

Russians Smash Nazi Lines in Multiple Drives   Nothing Can Stop Us, Declares Red Star Article

Soviets Start ‘All-Out Drive ‘Against-Nazis      Germans Appear to Be in Full Retreat Toward Baltic States —

Nothing Can Stop Us, Says Soviet Army Newspaper   Sensational Gains Scored Along Lower End of North Front

French Cabinet Considers Pact  With Red Regime   Assembly Gives Full Approval

French 0. K. On Russ Pact Speeded   RE a a ae  PARIS, ()-The French-so‘viet alliance was ratified today by the French government.

F inland Accepts Peace Terms Described by Government as. “<H ardest in F innish History”

FINNISH PEACE TERMS SEVERE   German Forces Within Country Must Be Disarmed

FINLAND TO PAY 300 MILLION INDEMNITY   Republic Must Relinquish Petsamo Under Terms of Armistice With Russia.

United Nations Association Urged To Dictate Peace  Hatch One of Four Protesting ‘Big Three’  na _f

Yanks Drive to Within 16 Miles of Bologna   Important Road Junction Town Is Captured

YANKEES SEIZE ROAD JUNCTION   Make Steady Gains In Drive Toward Bologna

Sth Army Troops Take Monghidoro   Drives Aimed to Cut Nazi Supply Routes

AMERICAN TROOPS SEIZE TWO TOWNS IN PUSH TO TRAP KESSELRING’S MEN   Doughboys Nearing Bologna, Key City

DRIVE NORTH ~ IN-APENNINES   Several-Points in Ital} Captured; Germans Resist

Yanks Capture Vital Road Point   Take Main Junction On Highway To Bologna

AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE IN ITALY   Driving Northward Through Apennines And Capture Mong hidore

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES INITALY   Weather Prevents Major Action By Eighth Army

BRIGES GIVES. HIS TESTIMON   Says He Is Victim of Game Of ‘Power Politics’ in Letter Case.

BRIGGS CLAIMS HE IS VICTIM OF POWER POLITICS   Seems To Be Saying He Has Been Made A Seane Goat   HAS NO TASTE FOR MESS HE IS IN

FEDERAL JURY CALLS BRIGGS   MAY TESTIFY ON HOPKINS LETTER, TERMED FORGERY

NEW MYSTERY SHROUDS CASE ABOUT LETTER   Assistant of Ickes Disappears in the Heskins Ouiz

George N. Briggs Says He's Victim Of Power Politics  - Ickes Aide Testifies Before Grond Jury  ee eR pees Ce eee

Ickes’ Aide Available to Testify,  After ‘Disappearance’ Is Rumored   Justice Department Makes Announcement; Interior Necretary Appears Betore ‘Hopkins Letter Inquiry

AIDE TO ICKES BLAMES GRUDGE   Hopkins Letter Mystery Adds Another Chapter In Federal Hearing

POWER POLITICS CLAIMED BEHIND HOPKINS LETTER   George Briggs Turns Up for Grand Jury Probe To Give Inside Story

“HOPKINS LETTER” CASE ATTRACTS — NATION INTEREST   Suspended Aid To Secretary Ickes Called Before Grand jury Making Investigation.

Briggs Returns To Give Jury Facts On Letter   Declares On Arrival Ir Washington, ‘‘I Shan’t Be Thrown To Wolves’’   ‘POWER POLITICS’ IS CHARGE OF BRIGGS

BRIGGS ASSERTS HE'S VICTIM OF POWER POLITICS   Suspended Interior Dept. Employe Talks to Press, Then To Grand Jury

Briggs Victim. Of Power Politics’  Man Invalved In Hankine  atter   Man Involved In Hopkins Letter Mystery Appears Before Grand Jury

Victim Of Game, Briggs Says, Naming Sen. Langer   Declares Latter Does Not Like Willkie, Ickes Or Hopkins; Appears Before Grand Jury

PRINCIPAL FIGURE IN HOPKINS LETTER HAS BEEN LOCATED  GEORGE N. BRIGGS,   GEORGE N. BRIGGS, IN NEW YORK, SAYS WILL APPEAR MONDAY

The Plot Thickens: Hopkins Letter Mystery Increased By Disappearance of George Briggs

BRIGGS WONT BE “THROWN TO WOLVES”   Central Figure in Letter Case Charges Power Politics .

FEDERAL JURY. HEARS BRIGGS   KEY MAN.IN HOPKINS LETTER FORGERY CASE SAYS HE 1S BEING “TRROWN.  . TO WOLVES"

Whereabouts of Briggs Adds to Taller Mystery   F.B.1. Trying to Find. Aide Dismissed by Seco retary Ickes 

Briggs Says He’s Victim Of Politics   Denies He’s a ‘Mystery Man’ Points to Langer Motives

Briggs Says. , He Is Victim -. et of Politics      Says Sen. Langer ds ‘Trying ‘to!Throw Him. to “Wolves” - to: Crack ‘Others: *:        GIVES. TESTIMONY #2" “92. ‘TO GRAND JURY   Langer Does Not Like Ickes; Willkie and . Hopkins, ‘Victim’ -Contends

Briggs Calls Self Victim Over Lettet   Being  Thiown to Polit. ical Wolves, He Says on Facing Jurors

Briggs Says He Was Victim Of Power Politics  Faces Quiz On Hopkins’ Letter

Briggs Says Langer Aimed at Higher-Ups   Claims Senator Has Admitted Motive -In ‘Throwing Me to the Wolves’ Was to ‘Crack’ Willkie, Ickes, Hopkins

BRIGGS DECLARES BEEN MADE VICTIM OF POWER POLITICS   MAN NAMED AS GO-BETWEEN IN HOPKIN’S LETTER TO TESTIFY

BRIGGS, HOPKINS LETTER FIGURE, BEFORE JURORS   Te'ls Langer’s Dislikes for HighUps. Southern Demos Left “Out in the Cold”

Briggs Claims Self Victim OF  Jower Politics P Polit   Former Interior Department Employe Named As GoBetween Of Letter.  ‘NO MYSTERY MAN’

Briggs Charges Power Politics   Adds New Chapter To Hopkins Case

Briggs, Quizzed on “Hopkins Letter,’ Says He's Victim of Power Politics

Briggs Shows Up At Grand Jury   Says He Is Victim Of Power Politics

BRIGGS BLAMED POWER POLITICS IN LETTER CASE   Suspended Interior Department Employee Says He is Victim in Hopkins Ielae Mattar

BRIGGS DENIES ht IS MNSTERY MAN’ IN HOPKINS CASE   Ickes’ Aide Charges Lange Seeks to “Throw Me  tea Walvec.”

BRIGGS HINTS OF POWER POLITICS   Go-Between In Letter Matter To Appear Before jury

Briggs Victim of “Power Politics’: Sees Grand Jury   Claims He is Victim of Feud Between High Officials

Briggs Charges Politics   SAYS HE IS VICTIM OF POWER MOVE IN “HOPKINS LETTER” PROBE   ‘  “Thrown to Wolves’

BRIGGS SAYS HE IS VICTIM OF POLITICS   Central Figure in “Hop: kins Letter” Probe ' Goes Before Jury   LANGER IS CALLED 1 HOLDER OF GRUDGE   Suspended Aide to Secretary Ickes. Talks to  Reporters

“Thrown to the Wolves, Says Briggs   Ex-Aide to Ickes Shows Up for Grand Jury Investiaation

HOPKINS LETTER STILL MYSTERY   Confidential Ickes Aide, Wanted As Witness, Disappears

ICKES 1S WITNESS IN CAPITAL PROBE   Whereabouts of George Briggs, Aide, Also a Mystery

Briggs Calls Self Victim Of Polities   Goes Before A Grand Jury Investigating Hopkins Letter; Raps Senator Langer

Briggs Blames ‘Power Politics   Denies He Had Been ‘In “Hiding” While Waiting to Testify

Suspended. Aide to Secretary Ickes Promises to Testify im Probe Monday Morning

Brigss Claims Self Victim Of Power Polities   Go-Between In Handling ‘Hopkins. Letter’? Denies - to Reporters He Is Mystery Man   Says His Accuser Has Many Dislikes   Refuses to Be Drawn Into ‘Anv Discussion of Mys _ tery Letter Before Go . ing Before Grandjury

BEING ‘THROWN TO WOLVES,’ IS BRIGG’S CLAIM   Ousted Aide to Ickes Talks Before Making Jury Appearance

Aide To Ickes  To Be Questionec   Justice Department Presses Hopkins Letter Investigation

Briggs Charges He’: Victim of Politics   Former Secretary to Ickes Shows Up at Grand Jury ProbeRefuses To Be Wolf Meat

BRIGGS SAYS HE’S “GOAT”   Key Figure-in Mystery Letter ‘Claims He’s. Power Politits: Pawn.

Briggs a Victim Of Power Politics   Named Go-Between in the Handling of Mysterious Hopkins Letter.

Ickes’ Aide Vanishes When Sought in Case Of ‘Hopkins Letter;’ Typewriters Examined

BRIGGS CHARGES POLITICS PLAYED IN HOPKINS CASE   Suspended Aide to Ickes ®@ Declares ‘ Shan’t Be Thrown to Wolves’

Ickes Unleashes Attack on Dewey   Calls Anti WPA for World Stand a Slur

ICKES BRANDS GOP ‘ECONOMIC ISOLATIONISM   Qnewe aera  Interior Secretary Infers Dewey Not Sincere In Comments

Ickes Launches Oral Onslaught Against Dewey   Inferior Secretary Says U. §. Won't Allow Nazi Victims To Starve

Yanks Mop Up  Cornered Japs   Guam, Tinian Garrison: Ratd Banting Denth

YANKS PUSH JAP TROOPS BACK ON PACIFIC ISLANDS   Enemy Positions On Guam And Tinian Are Entering Hopeless Stage

Uther Columns at base ol The Brittany Peninsula Nearing St. Nazaire, Nantes

Armored Elements ;Reach Port City of the Breton. Peninsula   RUSH TO SEAL NAZIS   Southern Yank Spearhead _ Within 18 Miles of St. Nazaire

Prohibition Party Has New Candidate for the Second Place on Ticket

War Chiefs Urge “Work-or-Fight” Braft Amendment   Forrestal Calls For  Action To Back Fighting Men

Nazi Supply Lines in Italy Battered   Submarine Yards At Monfalcone Are RAF Target

Installations On Ttalian Boot Get Allied Blasting       "Blockbuster Assault Made On Submarine -Yards At Monfalcone

HEAVY AIR ATTACK OVER CENT. ITALY   Both Sides Get Ready for Major Beachhead Battle

FLIERS RAID NAZI LINES IN ITALY   Communication Line: Blasted In North And Central Italy

German Lines of Supply Bombed   Allied Planes in Raids ACross Center of Italian Boot-—Hit Submarine, Torpedo Yards

ALLIED AIR POWER GROWING IN ITALY; SUPPLY LINES HI]   Nazi Sub, Torpedo Boat Yards Dealt BlockBuster Blow

Russians Reach _ Bulgar Frontier   Reds Seize Giurgiu On Bulgarian Border; Sweep Westward Toward Junction With Partisans .

Reds Speeding To Join With  Tito’s Forces   Russians Already Have Reached Border Of Bulgaria

REDS WITHIN 150 MILES OF SLAV BORDER   Russians Driving Fo Juncture With Tito’s Forces

Soviets Speed Westward Across Rumanie   Berlin Claims Reds Halted at Other Points on Long Front

Soviets Fan Qut Across Balkan Ares   Bulgarian Borders Reached In Advance

Reds Sweep On Westward   Junction With Tito Planned As Other Forces Reach Bulgar’s Danube Border

FOR JUNCTION WITH SERBIANS   Red Troops Are Within 150 Miles of Yugoslav Border

Bulgarian Border  ~ Reached By Reds   Big River Port of Giurgia Seized as Motorized Troops Speed Through Romania to Join Marshal Tito .

REDS’ MOTORIZED UNITS 100 MILES FROM YUGOSLAVIA   Stalin’s Fast - Moving Troops Racing Toward Junction With Marshal Tito’s  Army.   REACH BULGARIA’S DANUBE FRONTIER   Sweep Through 160 Towns and Villages as They Fan Out West and South of Ploesti,

SOVIETS HEAD FOR FRONTIER OF YUGOSLAVS   BULGARIA’S DANUBE BORDER REACHED BY RED BLITZ

Russian Forces Fan Out South, West of Ploesti   Reds, Speeding through Romania, 150 Miles from Yugoslav Border

Reds Sweeping South To Join  Tito’s Forees   Russians Reach Danube Boundary to Bulgaria  eS "ee eee

Russian Motorized Troops, Speeding West Through Romania Toward Junction with Marshal Tito’s Partisan Arniy, Also Are Reported to Have Reached Danube Border

Reds Fan. Out South, East ‘ Of Bucharest   Reach Danube Border 2 Of Bulgaria in Drive. ~~ Through Balkans. + ATN IAD PRANGCVT VANTA

Labor Shortage Hits Cotton Crop   Ready Cotton, Lack Of Hands Producing Bad Situation.

Cotton Harvest Threatened By Labor Shortage   Worst Situation In Southern History Affects Growers

NEW ROW OVER PATTON LOOMS   RUSSIA INCLUDED IN ARMY-APPROVED VERSION

ARTHUR J. PARKS DIED TUESDAY   Last Rites’ For: Plymouth County Resident to -Be. Held Friday

Rail Wage Board  Postpones Hearing  Nothing Is Done As One Absent,

STRANGE ARMY IS FIGHTING ~~~ BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES   GUERILLA FORCES IN NORTHERN ITALY COMPOSED OF ODD MIXTURE OF FIGHTING MEN ©

Patrioti Aid in Strange Italy War   MEN OF MANY CREEDS FIGHT BEHIND LINES TO EARN PASSAGE HOME

COFFEE ASKS U. S. BREAK WITH SPAIN   Charges Professed Neutral Natisn Is Aiding Axis With Materials and Transporting Spies to Latin America.

Demands U.S. Sever Ties with Spain   Rep. Coffee of Washington Says ‘Neutral’ Fascists Aid Nazis Fiaht Allies

Demands Break With Spanish   Representative Coffee Urges To Break Relations With  Spain.

DEMANDS BREAK IN SPANISH TIES   Coffee Classes Franco As “Hitler’s Faithful Puppet”

Attacks Franco; Demands Break  Rep. Coffee Asks Immediate Action

Diplomatic ‘Break With Spain Urged   Rep. Coffee Assails Franco as Faithful ‘Puppet of Hitler’

Coffee Demands Government Cut Ties With Spain   Says We Must Break Now Or Accept A Later One Such As Japan Handed At Pearl Harbor.

Representative Demands U. 5. Break With Spain   Accuses Franco Government Of Aiding Axis Nations

Indian Held On Ist Degree Charge   Leslic Hunt Accused Shooting Edison Hunt ~ “Inquest anne

FALL OF RIGA T0 RUSSIAN ARMY BELIEVED NEAR   Powerful Northern Offensive Has Virtually Freed All Of Estonia   RUSSIAN FLEET CUTS LOOSE IN BALTIC SEA

NAZIS LOSE ALL ESTONIA EXCEPT A NARROW STRIP   Germans Flee Toward One Evacuation Port Left to Them With Russians  , in Pursuit.   HAAPSALU CAPTURED - BY SOVIET FORCES   Red Artillery Pours Shells Into Riga as Ground Troops Close In on City.

All of Estonia Virtually Freed By Red Forces   Russians, Speeding to ward Riga, Win Baltic Port of Haapsalu

REDS PINCH NAZI IN THE BALTIOS   Powerful Offensive Virtually Frees All of Estonia   THIN ESCAPE BELT   Fleeing Nazis Have Only One Evacuation Port Left; Foe Seems Disorganized

Baltic Seaport Of Haapsalu Taken, Reds Free Virtually All Of Estonia

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ALMOST ALL OF ESTONIA IS WON BY REDS   Take Baltic Seaport of Haapsalu; Race Toward Riga

Soviet Fleet Loose in the Baltic for First - Time  FORCES CONTINUING  BATTLE FOR RIGA        Capture of Fifty Localities in Poland Js An~ nounced _

Senators Blast Detroit Hopes In 4-1 Finale   Jakucki Twirls 6-Hit Game to Give St. Louts Hts First Pennant in 43 Years’ American Leacue History

Stambaugh Holds Lead Over Nye   enator Trails Fargo Lawyer by 903 Votes

Nye Trails In Dakota Primary   Former Legion Commander Leads For Republican Nomination.

STAMBAUGH LEADS NYE   Holds Lead of 2,436 Votes  In U. S. Senate  Race

Resistance ~      HOWEVER NAZI TANKS ARE. -MASSING NORTHEAST OF CITY; MAY TRY TO BREAK SIEGE

Nazi Tanks Are Massed For Attack   German Resistance Within City Appear: To Be Cracking.

Enemy Puts Up Strong Resistance   But Yank Casualties Light Today Nazis Concentrate Tanks

Germans Collect Great Armored Force For Attempt  To Break Through And Relieve Garrison Trapped In Burning City

While German Tanks Mass To Northwest For Attempt To Break Siege   YANKS CLEARING EAST PART OF CITY   One Of The Decisive Battles For Germany Appears Developing

Yanks Cleaning Eastern End Of City Four Hours After Attack Begins; Germans Answer With Strong Small Arms Fire   INFANTRY FOLLOWED x BY TANE DESTROYERS

Yanks Inside City Proper Meet Only Light Resistance   3rd Army Battles 6th Day For Village North Of Metz

British Units Drive Toward Main Highway   German Parachute Troops Appear In Danger Of Winding Up In Trap.   ENEMY IS RESISTING

Yanks, French Destroy South End Of Gustav  Defenses And Approach Adolf Hitler Line.

Crack German Troops in Town Now Hemmed it   Gustav Line Broken, French At Hitler Barrier

British Near Road Behind Stronghold In Liri Valley Push   Report Other Allied Units Advance On Adolf Hitler Barrier After Destroying Part Of Gustav Line

Germans Hurled From Positions  In Liri Valley   Cassino Outflanking Feared By Nazis. Who Hurl Tanks  Into Fray

Nazi Positions In Lirt Valley Are Demolished   Americans Take Castellonorato, British Cap_ ture Pignataro In Flank Attack; Germans Expect New Blow By Beachhead Troops  

BRITISH DRIVE INTO LIRI VALLEY   Yanks And French Advance On Hitler Line   GUSTAV UNIT   s Completely Destroyed; Elevations South Of Esperia Seized

Nazi Stronghold Totters Following Swift British Push   Entire Southern End Of Gustav Line !s Overrun As Second Wall Looms Up

British Move North Toward Vital Highway   Americans And French Approaching Enemy’s Hitler Line; 13-Mile Area Ripped Open   Nazis Admit Retreat

TANK BATTLES CARRY ALLIES “NEARER ROME   Germans Admit Withdrawat Before Superiority of Allied Troops.

ALLIES OVERRUN  NAZI DEFENSES  SOUTH OF RIVER ADVANCE ON HITLER  LINE, BARRING WAY TO ANZIO BEACHHEAT

Nazis Now Thrown Out Most Positions in Li Valley and Entire Gi tav Line to South: Overrun.  f

bUSTAY DEFENSES "BOLY SUASHER   Fifth And Fighth Armies Forge Ahead In Bitter BKichtinge   CASSING MENACED   All Original Nazi Positions In Liri Valley Held Bv Allies

BRITISH LUNGE AHEAD IN LIRI VALLEY MARCH   Germans Acknowledge Reversals Piling Up Along Entire Italian Front

BRITISH FORCES CUT BEHIND:. STRONGHOLD AS FRENCH UNITS" CLOSE IN ON ANOTHER SECTOR.

BRITISH DRIVE BEHIND TOWN TRAPS ENEMY   Allies Overrun Entire Gustav Line in  Liri Valley

British Units Drive Down River Valley   Allied Commanders Win Long-Sought Chance To Destroy German Forces in Italy; Fifth. Eiahth Armies Nearing Hitler Line

ALLIES AT HITLER L GUARDINGR   South End of Gustav Lin Overrun; Pignatare Captured

Entire Gustav Line South of Valley of  Lirt River Overrun   Artillery Barrage on Germans Greatest in the European Theater

EIGHTH AND FIFTH NEAR HITLER LINE   Germans Admit Attrition Battle Pushes Nazis Back

Stronghold Due fo Fall   Allies Force Way Into Liri Valley, Plunge Close To Adolf Hitler Line

OPPORTUNITY 10 DESTROY ENEMY IN ITALY NEARS   13-Mile Southern End Of Gustav Line Rolled Up

Nazis Thrown From Pesition In Liri Valley   Southern End of Gustay Line Overrun, Germans: Fleeing Toward Last Line Near Rome   Berlin Anneunces  Troops Fall Back   “Destruction of German Forces In Ltaly” Aim Of Allied Leaders In Wew Assault

GUSTAV LINES OVERRUN; ROAD TO ROME OPEN   Germans Thrown Back On Most  Positions

Entire Gustav Line Overrun By Allies South Of Niri River   Nazis Admit Withdrawal —Expect Smash from Anzio Soon

Nazis in City Threatened by British Thrust   Allies Pressing Toward.Enemy's “Hitler Line"

Whole Section Of Gustav Line ls Overrun   Fifth, Eighth Armies Near Main Defenses Of Nazi Forces

British Drive To North of Stronghold   Crack Nazi Parachute Troops Trapped; Southern End of Line Smashed

BRITISH UNITS DRIVING NORTH IN LIR] VALLEY   Hundreds of Guns Open Heavy Barrage Against Benedictine Monastery

French Units Within Five Miles of Nazis Hitler Line in Italy   Germans Driven From All Original Positions in Liri Valley; Americans Take Two More Towns

Two Allied Armies Set To Athack  Hitler Line   Chance To Destroy Enemy Forces In Italy Believed Won; French In Spectacular Gains

Lower Part Gustav Line  Overrun by Allied Troops   American and British Troops Plunge Ahead toward Adolf Hitler Line, Main Defenses Barring Way to Anzio

' British Units Drive Northward, May Cut Off All in Stronghold  NEARING HITLER LINE      Americans and French Smash Enemy Pillboxes in Rapid Drive

Tank Battles Take Place In Central Italy   Cassino’s Fall Appears Certain; Pignataro Captured

5th And 8th Plunge Close To Hitler Line   .. Great Artillery Barrage Hurled At Nazis

Americans, French Pushing Through In Effort To Get At “Hitler Line’

Nazis Lose — Most of Liri ... Valley Hold   Desperate Defenses Are Hurled Up Before Overpowering Allied Drive”

Nazis Have Time To Re-Form Lines   Stiffer Nozi Resistance Reported After Third Army Forced To Slow its Advance

SENATE OK’s NOMINATIONS BY PRESIDENT   State Department’s Aides’ Battle Closed

Confirm State Nominations   F.D.R. Puts Down Revolt Of New Dealers Who Threaten Filibuster.

VICTORY SEEN ON PENINSULA   Germans Unable To Retreat In Any Direction

NAZIS FACING NEN DEBACLE ~INNORMANDY   Yanks Driving Through Softening Resistance to {Isolate Brittany Area,

Americans Isolating Brittany   British Pierce Center Of Normandy Line; Enemy Flees

Tommies Break Through Center of German Defense Lines—Bradley’s Men Cut Through Weak Resistance in Attempt to Seal Off Peninsula —- Within 30 Miles of Rennes

British Crash German Lines  South Of Caen   ‘Second Cherbourg’ Is Seen As_ Troops Threaten Brest, St. Nazaire

British Break Line In Second Great Normandy Debacle  American Spearheads Drive Through  Reiibtar Cafe Larene

U.S. COLUMNS GAIN IN DRIVE FOR BRITTANY   English Troops’ Successes Threaten To Engulf Rest Of Von Kluge’s Men

Nazi Forces In Area May Face Destruction   Americans Move To Capture Brittany Peninsula

Little Resistandh   Tanks, Doughboys Move Fast To Isolat _ Brittany Peninsula, Seize 20,000  Prisoners

Another Debacle Threatens Nazis “On Norman Front   Center Of Von Kluge Line In Ground South Of Caen Cracked By 2d Army

Allied Noose Tightens on Atlantic Wal   Americans Sweep Aheac in Drive to Reduce Brittany Peninsula   RENNES 30 MI. OFF   Yanks Alone Have Captured 20,000 Prisoners in Eicht Dass

BRITISH BLAST INTO CENTER OF DEFENSES   To the South, Americans Mect Litte Opposition in Push Into Brittany.

BONDS QUOTA MET IN GASH  100 PERCENT   Remaining Purchases  To Put County Far . : Over Quota. 

East Kansas Is Drenched   Cooler Weather Due To Move in As Skies Start Clearing Tonight

Seige Lasts But 31 Days Before Germans Capitulate   *premier-Marshal Stalin Orders Largest Salvo Eceam Moscow's Victory Guns Fired On Tuesday

Crimea Clearer of Invaders by Red Forces   Sevastopol Falls at End of Four-Day Baitle

Snake 3 Miles Behind Lines Near Rome   Trap Thrown About Velletri as Result Of Surprise Coup

Seize Highest Point in Alban ‘Hills in Coup   Crawl Through German Lines; Troops Fighting In Sight of Rome

Doughboys Seize Point On Mt. Peschio In Two-  Mile Advance 4   Romans Hear Roar Of Allied Guns   British Advance While U. 5. Destroyers Pound Nazi Defenses

Germans Are Astonished By Maneuver   Allied Trap Is Set By Bold March Through Enemy Line

Last Defenses Yield to Yanks   Nazis Fall Bock Along Via Casilina Beyond Frosinone as Bitter Fighting Continues Between Valmontone, Valletri

Seize Highest Alban Peak   Gains Below Rome Limited But Important; British Push Fiank Drive Rapidly

Comedian’s AttorneyTo Ouiz Tentative Jurors      Eight Women And ‘4 Men Seated In Joan Barry’s Suit Charging Charlie Chaplin As Father Of Her 14-Months-Old Daughter

Sex Questions Mark: Quizzing Chaplin Jurors   Joan Berry Seeking To Have Comedian Adjudged Father Of Her  : Baby, Carol Arnot

Assails Limits to OPA Power   Restrictions Are Opposed by Bowles

POLICE SEARCH DOWNSTATE FOR MURDER WEAPON   Gun Used In Famed Williams Murder May Solve Case

Fear of Unemployment After Defeat. Of Germany Exageerated.Says Byrnes

Byrnes Declares Post-War Idleness Is Overestimated  War Workers Will Find Employment

HEREFORD ASS'N GIVES HONOR TO CHAS, NEBLETT   Local Man Is Named As Director of Wide Texas District

CAPTURE OF LEYTEIS COMPLETED      Termed Worst Defeat in Japanese History

JAP LOSSES ARE SET AT 113,221 MEN   Enemy Suffers Worst Defeat In History, MacArthur Claims

Japs Gird for Luzon Landing  Manila’s Clark Field Air-Hammered Daily;

Leyte Held Worst Defeat In Jap History   island Conquered, Whole Jap Defense Force Wined Ont

Occupation Of Leyte Has Seldom Been Paralleled In Warfare History   AMERICAN TROOPS LAND ON MINDORO   Japanese Have Suffered Great Losses In Battle Of Philippines

LEYTE ISLE LIBERATED BY YANKS   Campaign Completed After 2 Amphibious Landings Monday

LEYTE CAPTURE COMPLETED BY YANKEE FORRES   Japanese Lost 113.221 Men In Worst Military Defeat In History

Japanese ose 113,221 Men it Worst Defeat   American Losses During Campaig:  Total 11,217 Me.

Japanese Lose 113,221 During Torrid Struggle   Yank Casualties Set At 11,217, With 2,632 Listed Dead

Yanks Set Sights On Other Philippines   MacArthur Announces Jap Casualties On Leyte Island Total 113,221 Men.

Germans Dazed By Speed   Nazi Army Organization in France Completely Disrupted —  Bv Swift Advance

Allied Armies in France Face East With German Border As Next Goal

Germans Unable  To Hold France   Remnants of Nazi Fighting Forces Completely Disorganized.

Front-Line Doughboys Face East Toward German Border, Then Berlin And Victory, News Reporter Says

Main Battle of France Is —  Already Over   No German Strength Great Enough to Hold on Long Is Apparent

Paris Sector   Yanks’ Goal Now Is German Border Berlin, Victory,  And Then Home

Germans Fleeing In Chaotic Disorder. Says Lincoln Man  ae. f£leels TViolle af Alliad need

Main Battle Of France Over, Yanks Aim For German Border—Then Berlin

DOUGHBOYS FACING EAST WITH GERMAN BORDER IN MIND --- BERLIN, VICTORY   There Is No German Strength Left in France Capable of Retaining Nazi Grip So Our Allies Are Headed for Germany’s “Sacred Soil’’

WHALEN SArs  Main Battle of France Is Over Nazis Can’t Cling to Soil ‘Lone

MURDERER OF NIECE FOUND TO BE INSANE   Will Be Tried For Murder In Lee County

State Psychiatrist Pronounces Burton is Emotionally Ill   Young Killer Examined by" ‘Chicago Experts Yestoeudlay

Unobliging Coyote Won't Run Straight   Hunter Shooting From Plane Must Know His Stuff

Allies Occupy  Pesaro, Urbino   Cross Foglia To Begin Assault On Gothic Line

ALLIES IN ITALY ADVANCE 19 MILES   Allies Occupy Ancient Cities Of Pesaro And Urbino

Hinge Of German — Gothic Line Falls   Polish Troops Take Pesaro ‘On Adriatic And Clear Foe From 16 Miles Of Foglia River

TWO CITIES ON ADRIATIC COAST TAKEN BY 8TH   Foglia River Crossed: to Make Assault on Gothie Line

BRITREADY. TO ASSAULT GOTHIC LINE   Occupy Towns Of Pesaro And Urbino

Sth Army Begins Assault on Cothic Defenses   Pesaro and Urbino Fall; Advancing  Taennna (‘rasae Kadlia

Gothic Line Push Starts  _ Pesaro And Urbino  Fall To Eighth Army

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS TAKE PESARO CITY.   Cross Foglia to Begin Assault On Gothic Line

Cold Retains Grip on Dixie   Slight Relief Due In Eustern Region

F’, R. Calls High Officers   President Describes __ Situation As Very Tense

A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA   Denison Man ‘‘Rolled’’ For $614 on His Person

B. 29. Plants Are ‘Opened   Operating” ‘Under ~ Federal Control.

Strike Ends In Production Of Ball Bearing:   War Department Takes Over Cleveland Plant Following Order Ry President

A STRIKE IS ENDED   Production of Bearings for B-29 Resumed at Cleveland

Army Takes Over Cleveland Plant And Work Resume:   Mechanics Educational Society Members Strike in Atiempt to Torte Reinsiaiement of Worker

STRIKERS BACK AFTER SEIZURE   Army Takes Over Factory Building B-29 Parts

GRAPHITE BRONZE PLANTS RESUME   WPB Takes Over Opera~ tion OF Plants Under F.D.R.’s Order

B-29 BEARINGS PLANT RESUMES WORK FOR ARMY   7,000 M.E.S.A. Member: Return To Jobs While Army Operates

Strike-bound Plant Seized   Cleveland Factory Making Superfort Parts Is Reopened

St. Lawrence Job To Have Hearings   Need for Formal Treaty Questioned

Insurance Official Hays CIO and Jerry J. 0’Connell  Speaker Declares Organization  7 ee - ae

Insurance Official Flays ClO and Jerry J. O’Connell  Speaker Declares Organization Lusts for Power

Withdrawal of Stassen Urged   Seventh District Heaa — Makes Plea For Dewey

Sreatest Eruption Since Pompei in Year 79 A.D. Naples Skies Blackened by Smoke

Lava Flow Engulfs  Two Towns   Vesuvius Explode: Again, Moves Upon New Areas

SEVEN IN TEN WOMEN HOPE TO CONTINUE WORK   Survey Shows That Majority Of Women War Workers Plan To Remain At Their Jobs After The War Is Over.

Teday In Washington FDR Back; Finds All's Very Well   Public Debt Pegged At 240 Billions After Republicans Protest Larger Increase

EMICK’S CONDITION GOOD   Pilot Was Injured in Forced Landing of Plane Friday

GOP Has Right to Criticize Adm’n  On Foreign Issues Savs Sen. Wheeler

900,000 MOR" NEW TIRES FOR ‘B’ AND ‘G’ CARS   May Allocation Set at 1,300,000; Tube Quota Also Boosted

TIRE AND TUBE ~ QUOTA RAISED   MORE PASSENGER, TRUCK AND TRACTOR TIRES. THIS MONTH —AUTO SUPPLY LOW

MORE TIRES ADE AVAILABLE FOR MOTORISTS   Kew Synthe!ics Will Go to ‘‘B” and **C” Card Holders .

NEW TIRES FOR B AND ‘CARS   May Allocation Set at 1,300,000; Tube Quota Also Boosted

OPA RELEASES 900,900 TIRES   Larger Production Makes Possible Big Hoist In Quota For May

OPA RELEASES © 500,000 TIRES   Action Cares for Increased Demand by B and C Card Motorists

Seven Towns Fall To Patton’s Men   Foe Forced on Defense in Belgium; Germans Break Off Attack in Italy

Enemy Withdrawing From One Area as Patton Hits Deeply Into South Flank

French Armored. Units: Battle, Inside Paris— German Pocket Below Seine Rediced— Seventh Army Captures Cannes In South. ern France 1000 U.S. Bombers’ Lash Germany—-Allies Advance In Italy.

Alhies Liberate Paris From Grip Of Nazis Forces   German Defeat Deepens In West, South France

FIGHT IN PARIS NEARING END AS YANKS MOVE IN   Allied Forces Are Sweeping Eastward - - Cannes Taken; Fight for Ports Goes On

ara £Yesscta Maquis Get Aid of Troops  E isenhower _ 4 nn ounees LeClere’s Armor I< Operating } in City  SNIPE ps “ON ROOFS   SNIPERS ON ROOFS

MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND SISTER ARRIVE IN RIO DE JANEIRO FOR REST

DE PUE MAN DIES AS FIRE BURNS HOME   Aged Resident Suffo. cated Early Friday Morning

DEPUE RESIDENT LOSES LIFE AS HOME IS BURNED   Frank Gewelke, 37, Dies Of Suf focation When Honie Is Des. troyed By Fire Early On Tues day Morning.

Fight Begins To Save Life Of Lonergan   State Rests Case in Murder Trial; Move t Dismiss Indictment  Denied by Judge

Allies Push Past Venray And Take Two More Towns   British And Yanks Cut Deep Into Enemy’s Maag River Salient With Steady Advance Towards Ruhr Valley

‘Allies Cut Deep Into Maas River 'Salient: Drive Toward Ruhr Valley

Two Towns Beyond Captured Rail Junction _ Seized   COLOGNE BLASTED —— BY ALLIED FLIERS   Nazis Reported Preparing for Assault on Rhine  . City ;

Allies Push Through Dutel  Junction Town   Germans Write Off City of Aachen as Being Lost to Them

Americans Beat Off Counter-Attack at Aachen—~ Germans Write Off City as Lost..   PATTON FORCES 4 . MILES FROM METZ   Cologne Bombed Fourth Consecutive Day as Allies Build Up for Vast New Offensive.

British Push Carries Past  Rail Junction Yank Armor Aid: In Steady Drive To Ruhr Valley

Big Bombers Again Pound Great City Of Cologne   Nazis Prepare Public For Great American Land Assault on City, 40 Miles from Aachen  CANADIANS GAIN

Allies Cut Deep Into Maas Salient   ‘Two. Towns Beyond Venray Are Captured; Rains Ssak Lona Front

Venray Falls To Tommies In  Holland Drive   Yanks Beat Off Nazi Counterattack At Aachen; Rain, Mud Slow Allies; Vast Offensive Seen in Making

BRITISH MOVE TOWARD RURR, TAKE VENRAY   AACHEN GIVEN UP AS LOST, NAZIS BEATEN OFF

Berlin Commentators for First Time Write Of! Aachen; Prepare fo. Attack on Cologne: Rain Falls All Along the Western Front.

Push Past Venray, Take Two Towns   Evidences of Preparations for Big Drive Everywhere Alone Euronoean Front cre Seen

Invade Hollandia In East Indies; Overrun Aitape   Launch Offensive on 150-Mile Front In Three-Point Surprise Landing; Meet Slicht Resistance. No Aircraft

Greatest Offensive Thrust Ever Made In S.W. Pacific Wat   Marks Recapture Of First Netherlands Territory From The Japanese. Terrific Advance Naval And Air Bombardment.

ROOSEVELT FILLS COVT POSITIONS   ¥.D.R. Remembers ° All Factions in His Latest Appointments

All Factions Remembered In Roosevelt Appointments   By WILLIAM KR. HUTCHINSON

Mississippi River Is Stationary After Reaching Top Mark for Years

Flood Conditions  ‘Worst in Century   Missouri and Illinois Suller More Damage

NAVY PLANES SMASH JAPS AT MANILA   Two Knockout Blows Increases to 1,000 Total Nip Aircraft Destroyed; 71 Shios Attacked   SITUATION ON LEYTE

Manila Is Dealt Smashing Blows   Toll Raised To 1,000 Planes, 71 Ships

More of Japs Shipping Sunk   And Many More Planes Destroyed By U. S. Blows In Manila Area

Shipping Sunk   And Many More Planes... ~ Destroyed By U. S. Blows In Manila Area

4A) Jap Planes, ° 2 Ships Sunk ~ In Manila Blow   Nipponese Fleet Suffers Further Extensive Damaae

JAPANESE LOSE 71 SHIPS IN THE PHILIPPINES   Over 1,000 Planes Knocked Out As Attack On Manila Mounts

Yank Fight Is Hardest   Allies, Japs Meeting ‘In Toughest Battle

Japanese Losses Pile Up   Two-Day Carrier Plane Attack On Manila Adds 249 Aircraft and Five  Ships to Enemy Losses

VOTE BILL IS ARGUED TODAY IN CONGRESS   Slight Chance Of Passage Seen By Most Senators

SEEK TO END DEBATE ON SOLDIER BALLOT   Vandenberg Says President's Maceace Wae Uniust

Service Vote Before Both  Senate, House   Dispute Goes On Over Ballot Plans

NOT KISSED BY MISTAKE   Marine Tells Stranger She Is First Woman Seen in 3 Years

New British Secret Weapon Will Be Used for First Time in Invasion

Secret Invasion Weapon Revealed   Device Will Demolish ‘Military Positions

Perfect New Weapon for Invasion Use   British Claim They Car Demolish Enemy Position  in Few Seconds

Nazis to Get Dose of New Weapon   MILITARY POSITION DEMOLISHED IN SECONDS BY BRITISH INNOVATION

New Secret Weanon Expected To Play Big Part In European Invasion

Ward Case Dismissed By Judge   Government Wins Ruling—Com pany Ahbides by Decision

Court Phase of Ward Case Ends   Judge Grants’ Request To Dismiss Matter .

POINT FOR UL 3. IN WARD RULING   Case !s Dismissed Without  Prejudice by Holly,

HEAGH DECISION ON REVENUE BL   Tax Measure In Hands Of Drafting Experts For Final Action

New 2 Billiton Tax Measure In Last Stage   Legislative Drafting Experts Start Final Polishing Todav.   20% TAX ON FURS

ill Agreed On ie :     ncreased Rates Mpected To Be ~  ee Ms pce ae ee

House And Senate Agree On Provisions Of New Tax Bill   STATES’ RIGHTS ADVOCATES WIN   House Refuses Record Roll Call On Ballot Bill

New Tax Bill  Goes to Experts   Will Swell Income Of Government by $2. 315.800.0000

Experts Polishing Tax Bill — Before Final Ratification;  Levies On Many Items Hiked

Revenue Bill Being Readied “For Final Vote   Proposes to Raise. $2; 315, 800, ,000; Tiicreased Ex“cise Levies: to Produce - $1,000,000.000   Individuals Will “Pay 664,000,000         “pect Modified :

NEW TAX BILL ABOUT READY FOR FINAL Ok   Experts Put Finishing Touch on Measure to Bring in’ $2,315,800,000.

Congress To OK ‘New Tax Levies   Speedy Approval By Both Houses Seen

Tax Bill  Nearing Passage   Drafting Experts Working It Up for  , Congress

TAX BILL GETS FINAL POLISH   APPROVAL IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS EXPECTED TOMORROW

New Tax Bill Due For Final Polishing   House And Senate Approval Of Measure Expected Wednesday

NEW TAX> BILL GETS APPROVAL AT CONFERENCE   Passage by Both Houses of $2,135,800,000 Expected; Increases Provided

NEW TAX BILL NEAR PASSAGE   Joint Committee Sends Two. Billion Dollar Measure to Drafting Experts

New Tax Measure  Ready For Action Sharply Higher Levies Included In Bill

EXPERTS GET REVENUE BILL FOR POLISHING   Conference Committee Approves $2,315,800,. 000 Which is Headed For House, Senate  CYPICr PRATREe nao smn.

New Tax Bill Prepared For Final Action   Joint Conference Committee Ends Work on Measure

Final Polishing Given Tax Bill   Senator George Says $2,315,800,000 Measure Will Be Approved In Both Houses Wednesday.

Two Billion Dollar Tax Bill Ready  for Final Passage   Congressional Conferees Agree on Terms of Revenue Bill

NEW TAX BILL GOES  TO FINAL POLISHING  BEFORE ITS PASSAGE MEASURE APPROVED  LAST NIGHT BY JOINT CONEERENCE COMMITTEE

NEW TAX BILL POLISHED FOR FINAL DEBATES   Would Swell U. S. Income To New  High In 1944

Conterees End Work on New Tax Measure   Expected Report Will Be Adopted by Both Houses Wednesday

BILL GETTING  FINAL POLISH   Legislative Drafting Experts Prepare Tax Measure for Ratification.

HUGE TAX BILL GOES TO EXPERTS   Being Polished For Ratification By Both Houses

Final Approval Expected By Tomorrow  New Tax Bill Is Polished Up For Final Okay By The House And Senate

FINNS REPLY TO RED OFFER   Report Peace Terms Rejected Hall Backs Swedish King’s Appeal

KREMLIN GETS FINNISH REPLY   Helsinki Believed Seeking to Continue Peace Negotiation

BRITISH HAVE STRONG HOPES FOR THIS WEEK   Relate Incidents Showing That at Least Some of German Forces Are in Turmoil, Chaos

BRITISH FEEL SUDCESS JUST AROUND GORNER   Some. Sectors of Trapped Germans Near Chaos

Germans Near Chaos As Perhaps 100,000 Face Allied Trap in France

 ROOSEVELT GROUP STANDS PAT  Faction Will Go To Court Ti Necessary, Allred Says

Pro-Roosevelt Group Will Go to Court If Necessary   Announce Decision To Have Electors Names on State Ballo

AIMMORIVEAT ESCAPE ROUTE FROM BALKANS   Within 40 Miles. of AthensBelgrade Railway; Hope . to Capture Nis.

Reds Move Fast Thru Yugoslavia To Trap Germans   200,000 Nazis Face Loss of Escape Route 'n Southern Balkans

Reds Race Across Yugoslavia To Cut Balkan Rail Lines   Mile An Hour Advance Brings 2nd Army 45 Mi. From Nis

Red Army Advances Speedily 40 Miles From Important Rail  Center, Threatens  fo mwemn bee-wnman

Red Army Within 45 Miles Of Big Railroad Center In Bid To Cut Main Escape Reute Of 200.000 Germans

RUSSIANS IN DRIVE ACROSS YUGOSLAVIA   Within 40 Miles Of Belgrade to Athens Railway

REDS THREATEN BALKAN RAILWAY IN SWIFT DRIVE   40 Miles From Transpot Hub

ARMY APPROACHES MAIN RAIL LINK: MAY SEAL TRAP ON 200,000 MEN   Russians Advance At  Mile-An-Hour Clip

JUNCTION WITH TITO PARTISANS EXPECTED SOON   Drive Aimed At Nis, Vital Point On Belgrade-Athens Railway Line

Soviets Menace Escape Route (OC 200,000 Nazis   Reds Near Belgrade, Athens Railroad In Yugoslavia Drive

(Russian Army Smashes Closer To Belgrade-Athens Railroad   Drive Threatens Main Artery 0: Escape For 200,000 Germans

Reds Slash At Rail Line In Balkans   Russians Maintain Mile-An-Hour Pace Across Yugoslavia

Trap in Balkans Readied   Russians Advance Mile an Hour in Yugoslav Drive

RAILWAY MENACED   Russians Expected To Link Up With Tito ® Within Few Days

REDS SPEED DRIVE ACROSS YUGOSLAVIA   Ukrainian Army Is Within 45 Miles of Big Rail Hub of Nis.

RUSSIANS ADVANGE IN YUGOSLAVIA   Threatening Escape Of 200,000 Germans In Southern Balkans

Red Armies Drive Over Yugoslavia   Advance a Mile an Hour and Plan to Join Partisan Army

RedsRace for Vital  Railway   Army Wihin 40 Miles ' of Closing Trap on ' 200,000 Germans

DEPUTY FOR GEN. EISENHOWER PLAN RECTED IN U:S.   Expcrts Dub Suggestion ‘‘Mondzy Morning Quarterback Proposal”

Washington Opposes Ike Deputy, Call  Critics Monday Quarterbacks

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Consider Action on Patten’s Possible Promotion

Nazi Children Are Mobilized   Hitler Drafts Boys, Girls For War Work

Answer Is ‘Hell No’   Married Pilot Says: ‘The More of Those Bandy-legged  Down. the Quicker  Get Back Home To My Wife’

Drive Across Northern Tip Alsace ‘Area  Into. Bavaria   Weak Siegfried: Li ine As. Being “Attae ked

Seventh Army Within 7 Miles Of Karlsruhe   Swift Advances Down Rhine Place Key Border Towns in Range Of Yank Artillery

/th Army Drives Spearheads  Into Palatinate   Climactic Crossings of the Border Put All Four American Armies Inside Reich for Showdown Battles of Winter

7th Army Drives Into Bavarian Palatinate   Closing In On The Grea Industrial Cities Of Rhineland.

SIXTH INVASION NEW THREAT TO NAZI INDUSTRY   Reds in Savage Battle as They Drive for Germany Through Balkans

New Force Crosses Frontiet Four Months After Wading  Achaore On French Riviera

With New Penetration in South, Four U.S. Armies  Now Trample German Soil

Yanks Advance~ ‘Through Alsace In Reich Drive   U,. §.. Tih “Army Nearing - Big - Industrial Cities; . Ist, 9th Hold Roer Lines

REICH ENTERED AT 3 POINTS BY SEVENTH ARMY   Four American Armies Or Western Front Now Inside Germany   7 MILES OF ROER HELD BY NINTH ARMY

TEMPERATURES:   Seventh Army Plunging Deep Into Bavaria   Siegfried Line Hit At Weak Point; Yanks 7 Mi. From Karlsruhe

Is Fourth U.S. Army to Invade Reich   Crossing Made Near Karlsruhe

U.S. Seventh Army Enters Reich Near ‘Karlsruhe   Less Than 7 Miles From German City;  Is 4th American Army On Soil Of Nazis

eventh Army rives Across eich Border   Three-pronged Thrust Cuts Into Palatinate; Ist Army Cleans Up West of Roer

YANKS WITHIN SEVEN MILES OF KARLSRUHE   Fourth U.S. Army Te Hit German Soil — Threatens Saar From Rear

UAUSOES BORDER AT THREE POINTS   Three Divisions Enter Germany on-12-Mile Front   U. S. FIRST ARMY   Wipes Out Last Organized Resistance West of Roer In Vicinity of Duren

7th Army Goes Into Rhineland,  Perils Bavaria   Key Nazi Industria Towns Are Unde! Fire Of  Alliec  Guns

Siegfried Line is Under Fire At Karlsruhe   Gen. Patch’s Swift Offensive Poses Threat To Westwall Elbow; Six Allied Forces Now In Reich; Third Army Hacks Forward

6th Ready to Envelop ‘Saar Basin   Savage Tank Battle Rages in Soviet Drive in Slovakia; Besiege Budapest

Seventh Army Is Over Nazi Border   Grossing Into Germany Is Made Near Eastern Tip  of France   Weakest Points of Siegfried Line Now Under ke Shellfire

PATCH’S UNITS ARE FOURTH TO INVADE   Bitter Fighting Subsiding Alona Roer River   SIEGFRIED LINE   Battered At Its Weakest Points: Patton’s Men Continue Slugging

U.S. SEVENTH ARMY DRIVES INTO REICH   Pushes Three Spearheads  Across Border—Follow ‘Up Forces Seize Seven French Towns.   HODGES’ TROOPS CLOSING ON DUREN   Capture Two More Fortified Villages — Now Control Nine Miles of ‘West Bank of Roer.

Seventh Army Is Over Nazi Border   Grossing Into Germany Is Made Neat Eastern Tip  of France   ‘ALL ADVANCE SLOWLY   Weakest Points of Siegfried _ Line Now Under i Shellfire

First and 9th Drawn  Up Beyond Aachen; Third Moves Slowly Against Nazi Defense

Nazi Line Pierced Twiee   Patch’s Forees Spring From East Tip of France

Three U. S. Divisions Drive Into Germany's Industrial Palatinate

Two Spearheads ~ Are Driven in Near Wissebourq   Eisenhower Now Has Six Armies  On Enemy Soil; North Sector Oi:

NAZI BORDER IS CROSSED IN SWIFT THRUST   U.S. SEVENTH DRIVES SPEARHEADS INTO RHINELAND

2 Spearheads Driven Near Wissembourg   Fourth American Army To Land On Soil Of Germany

YANK SEVENTH ARMY FORGES INVADE REICH   Fourth U. S. Army On Ger. man Soil, Advance  On Karlsruhe

Temperatures   Sixth Allied Force  To Invade Reich Hits Easternmost Tip

Big Industrial Cities In Path of Yank Units   Seventh Is Sixth Allied Army to Invade Reich Territory in This War

Big Guns Hit Karlsruhe   Siegfried Line Weak Spots Ripped By ULS. Artillery

SEVENTH U. 8. ARMY OF GENERAL PATCH MOVES INTO GERMAN  SIXTH ARMY GROUP THREATENS ENVELOP. PALATINATE-SAARLAND

CROSS LINE AT THREE PLACES   First Army is Closing In On Rhine Plain City of Duren

Six Allied Armies Now Fighting On Hitler’s Own Soil   Patch’s Forces Head for Karlsruhe bh Sweep Across Nazi Border in Fast Offensive

Germany Invaded  By Seventh Army   Gen. Patch’s Forces Cross Alsace, Entering Old Bavarian Palatinate; Drove to Reich from French Riviera

Hodges’ Units Tighten Noose Around Durer   3d Captures Saar Town: 9th Spearheads on Roer; Feenelh Fail Attincks

Lauter River ls Scene of  Stiff Battle   New Offensive Opened by Gen. Patch Puts Fourth American Army on German Soil; Other Forces Gain in Vicinity of Duren

FIRST AND NINTH UNITS ARE MASSED ALONG ROER RIVER ON A FIFTEEN - MILE FRONT   Fourth American Unit To Trample Reich Soil Crosses Northeast Tip of Alsace Into Old Bavarian Palatinate   FIRST HACKS SLOWLY INTO SIEGFRIED LINE

2 SPEARHEADS CROSS FRONT   Bitter Fighting Subsides on First and Ninth Army . Roer Front. ff   ISHELL SIEGFRIED LINE

en TANTO WER. TD MAL Tow The V. 9. 2eventh Army invaded Germany today, driving across the northeast tip of - Alsace into the old Bavarian Palatinate less than seven miles from Karlsruhe and 35 from Mannheim and Ludwig« shafen, all great industrial cities of the Rhineland.

Drove Into the Old Bavarian Palatinate Less Than Seven Miles From Karlsruhe; 35 Miles From Mannheim.   GREAT RHINELAND INDUSTRIAL CITIES   The Seventh Was the Fourth American Army to Trample German Soil; 1st and 9th Along the Roer.

Nears Big Fortress Centers   Two Spearheads Pushed Across Border Near “Wissembourg, Schiebenhard   ONLY 35 MILES FROM MANNHEIM   Gen, Patch’s Forces Entered France 4 Months Ago; The Sixth Anny to Go In

ANOTHER YANK ARMY CROSSES REICH BORDER   cnemy Leader Rushes Reinforcements to Battered Units

Fourth American Army To Trample German Soil   Drives Across Tip Of Alsace Into Old Bavarian Palatinate

SEVENTH ARMY MOVES ACROSS BOUNDARY AS PART OF DRIVE TO CARRY WAR INTO NAZILAND

ALLIES MOVING DOWN RHINE IN MANNHEIM AREA   Siegfried Line Being Shelled By Artillery

AMERICANS ARE WITHIN 7 MILES OF KARLSRUHE   Enters, Reich 4 Months After Going Ashore in Southern France

U.S. Seventh Army Drives Two Spearheads Across German Boundary Today

American Seventh Drives Spearhead . _ Through Frontier       Fourth® “Yankee “Army. to Tramp! > on! =, Soil of German

Swift Advance Is Made Across lip Of Alsace   Patton’s 3rd Hacks At Siegfried Line; Ist, 9th On 15-Mile Roer River Front

Fourth U. S. Army Reaches German Soil; Near Three Nazi Industrial Cities

Drives Two. Spearheads. Over Border   Sixth Allied Army In Germany; New . Threat to Industries

U. S. Seventh Army Drives Three Spearheads Into German Palatinate Sector

Bitter Fray Along Roer Subsiding   Third Army  Hacking Way Into Siegfried Fortifications

Seventh Army Less Than 7 Miles From Karlsruhe i TOWN IS SHELLED  Bee SE i IMB Ee      American Troops En. ter Old Bavarian Palatinate .

Pateh Hurls 3 Spearheads  Into Germany   Four U. 8S. Armies, Two British Battle Inside Reich

Less Than. 7 Miles Fror 8 Great Rhineland In dustrial Cities   TWO REACH ROER   Third Slowly Hacking Way Through Seigfried . Fortifications .

7th Army Invades Germany   Fourth U. S. Army To Penetrate Reich; Reds ‘Battle Near Slovakia; Pound Budapest

Hasternmost Point Alhed Have Reached   Fourth American Army To Trample German Soil; Near Wissembourg.   TRAVELED 425 MILES

TROOPS DRIVE INTO BAVARIA FROM ALSACE   Forces Now Less Than Seven Miles From Karlsruhe and 35 From In-. dustrial Cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen,

Seventh Army Drives Two Spearheads Over Boundary and Becomes Sixth To Enter Germany.   FOUR OF THE ARMIES ARE FROM THE U.S

ReichFactory Town Shelled, Germans Say  U. S. Troops Score Gains

7TH ARMY DRIVES TO WITHIN SEVEN MI. OF KARLSRUHE  ADVANCES DOWN THE  RHINE RIVER RANGE 1p TH SEVEN MILES

SIXTH ALLIED ARMY TO INVADE GERMANY EASTERN TIP FRANCE.  . TWO SPEARHEADS DRIVEN - OVER BOUNDARY NEAR.  geemennnoe shivay

hisenhower Has 6 Armies On Enemy Soil   Patch’s Men Send Shells Crashing Tnto ‘Karlsr uhe

3 divisions in latest smash  to Rhineland  Seventh scores an 12 mile front

POUND ACROSS BORDER THREE PLACES FRIDAY   American Armies Inside Germany For Showdown Battle To Crush Hitlerites

Three Spearheads Driven Into Industrial Area  FOUR U. S. ARMIES INSIDE THE REICH  First Army Closing in on the Fortress of Duren

Patch’s Troops Enter Hun Soil At Tip Alsace   Push Into Qld Bavarian Palatinate Less Than Seven Miles From Karlsruhe   Ludwigshafen and Mannheim Near   Third Army Continues Indecisive Battering Of Siegfried Fortifications

Six U.S: And British Destroyers Lost In. . Landings: In: France”

15 VESSELS: LOST. IN THE INVASION   Transport. Was Sunk, But Not a Soldier ‘Lost; Three: o- U.S. Destroyers Lost.“

6 Allied Destroyers Among D-Day Losses   Three Were U. S. Vessels and Other Three Belonged to British—Former American Liner Also Sunk—15 Craft Down.

Six Destroyers Are Lost at Landing Coast   Total Losses 15 Vessels of British And of U. S.

Seven American Ships Include 3 Destroyers _ ‘And. ‘Transport: Anthony

INVASION COST 6 DESTROYERS   U. S. and British Navies Report Losses

SIX DESTROYERS LOST BY ALLIES   American and British Vessels Sunk During Landings In France Named

7U.S. Ships Lost  In Invasion Area   Brings Total Since Start of War to 169

Transport Also Sunk Without Loss of Soldier; Total of 15 Vessels Go Down, 7 American

Other Ships Destroyed By Enemy Forees   Former Grace Liner. Santa Clara, Along Minesweepers Were Lost.   CARRYINGSOLDIERS

Invasion Cost Britain-U. S. 15 Vessels   Seven American And 8 British Units Go Down

INVASION: CASTS ALLIES 15 SHIPS   American Loss Includes For- mer Grace Liner Santa Clara

Allies Lose 6 Destroyers   Lost During Landing Operations in Normandy; Other Vessels Sunk

U.3., BRITAIN LOSE 15 SHIPS   Total of Naval Losses in Landing Operations in France Reported.

Six American,  British Destroyers  Lost in Landings Transport Susan B. Anthony, Three Other American Ships Alse Reported Lest

6 DESTROYERS LOST ON D-DAY)   British, U. S. Each Lose Three Warships in Channel

Six American and British Destroyers Listed Casualties   Announcements Made in Capitals; News From Normandy

6 Destroyers Lost in Invasion   3 American and 3 British  Ships Sunk  Off France

BRICKER ADDRESSES REPUBLICAN GROUP   Says Division Among Party Leaders Can Prevent GOP Victory.

Bricker More Interested in Defeat of New Deal Than in Being President

BRICKER CALLS FOR GOP UNITY   DECLARES PARAMOUNT ISSUE IS TO DEFEAT NEW DEAL ABSOLUTIS‘

JITTERY FEAR FORGOTTEN I PALL OF DUT!   Helen Talboy, of Des Moines Takes Charge When Hospital Hit.

130 Dead, Hundreds Injured as Twister Hits Rural Areas in W. Virginia, Pennsylvania   Millions of Dollars of Damage Caused in 100 Mile Strip From Pittsburgh Into West Virginia: Hesplitals Packed With Injured

PENNSYLVANIA W. VIRGINIA ~ STRUCK   Devastation Is Terrific In Dozens Of Cities   GHARTIERS, PA.   Virtually Wiped Off Map; Red Cross Kept Busy With Rescue Work

At Least 133 Killed by Eastern States Tornado   Pennsylvania and West Virginia Bear Brunt of Storm

ARE  HURT; TWISTER HITS 2 STATES   Many Others Homeless in Pennsylvania, West Virginia Ruined Area

U. 5. OBSERVERS ARE PUZZLED BY STORM PATTERN   Satellite T'wisters In Four States Add To Resulting Havoc

Pennsylvania And W. Va. Towns Are Laid Low By Virtual “Kansas Twister’   Shinnston, W. Va., Coal Town Near Clarksburg, Among Hardest Hit; McKeesport - Waynesburg Area Suffers

TORNADO DEATH TOLL HITS 142   More Bodies Uncovered As Towns Dig Out

Tornado Toll Hits 144: More Bodies Sought  Federal and State Agencies Grapple With Relief Problem

Storm Toll Gets Nearer  Hundred Fifty   Red Cross And Other Rescue Units Search Ruins

Death Toll In Tornado Over East Totals 133   West Virginia Is Hardest Hit With 95 Known Dead

‘Shinnston, W. Virginia ~ Worst Hii   ~ At Least 58° Killed “in. the Little Coal:'Town;Red Cross Pushes Relief Work   + RURAL AREAS OF ©. i = PENNSYLVANIA HIT   Storin, Striking “at. Night. ‘Traps. Many.in Homes; Destruction. Ts: Terrific

DEATH TOLL IN EASTERN WIND STORMMOUNTS   Rescue Workers Probe Wreckage for Addi tional Victims

TWISTER WREAKS  DESTRUCTION IN  EASTERN STATES DEATH POLL CLIMBS  ‘IN PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA

*Hundreds Injured “In Storm Which Skirts Pittsburgh   McKeesport, » Shinnston Hardest Hit

142 Killed In Storm Sweeping States In East   West Virginia Area Hardest Hit

Twister Rips W. Virginia, «Pennsylvania Dead in W. Virginiz Alone, Pennsylyania Toll-Is 31 HUNDREDS HURT Hasnitale Tammed: Sn.      HUNDREDS HURT   Hospitals Jammed; 800Foot Storm Cone Uproots Whole Towns

WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA AREAS RAVAGED   Hundreds Injured And Many Homeless Along Twister's Path

List 142 as Victims of Big Twister   West Virginia Hit Hardest; Homes are Crushed to Splinters

333. Dead As Twister Hits _ Eastern Area   Red Cross Workers Esti mate Damage to Rut In Millions

Scores Hurt As Twister Razes Homes  In Its Path    West Virginia Has Nearly 100: Deaths

MOUNTING REPORTS OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FROM TOWNS AND CITIES HIT BY TWISTER   Fear Death List Will Go Higher As Incoming Reports Tell of Devastating Swept Through Number of Places. Red Cross Estimates Damage at Many Millions

144 Killed and Hundreds. Injured in Tornado’s Path  Southwestern Pennsylvania and

126 Known Dead. Hundreds Injured ‘hell Huge Property Loss As Tornado  Rips Pennsylvania and West Virginia

40 KNOWN DEAD IN PENNSYL VANE   Storm Also Takes Toll of Three in Maryland; Fed. eral, State Agencies Star‘ “Big Job of Relief

145 DEAD COUNTED IN 190-MILE LONG PATH OF TORNADO   Hundreds Left Homeless in Wrecked Communities in Pennsylvania and West  Virginia. %   IMUGE RELIEF TASK ALREADY UNDER WAY   Families Wiped Out, Hospitals Swamped With Injured—Soldiers Patrol * Stricken Areas.

Terrific Storm Takes Big Toll In Pennsylvania  Strange Twister   Strange Twister Cuts Devastating Path, Killing Many

Scores Killed By Tornado in  Eastern Ares   Toll of 126 Dead and Hun dreds Injured Reported in Sections of Pennsylvania West Vircinis and Marvianc

Parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia Devastated By Friday Night “Twister’’   Damage Runs Into Millions of Doilars; Hundreds Injured and Many Homeless; Search Today for Additional Bodies

A Trail of Horror » in Pennsylvania * And West Virginia   Rescuers Battle Way Through Wreckage in Search of Missing;  Whole Blocks Leveled

STORM SWEEPS PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA   Many Missing And Homeless Following Severe Storm; Damage Will Run Into Millions Of Dollars.

Scores Missing.in ~ Pennsylvania and West Virginia Area   Red Cross Estimates the Storm Damage Will Total Millions

Hundreds Hurt, Scores Missiti¢ In Two State:   95 Die, In West Virginia, 35 In Pennsylvania; Think 15 Dead In Maryland

Tornado Leaves Trail of Death In Two States   Sudden Storm Takes 133 Lives, Smashes Houses

Gale Takes Lives of 133   . Hospitals Filled With Hundreds of Injures

FIFTY EIGHT DEAD IN ONE TOWN OF 2800   Houses Blown Off Foundations In Some Sectors

Tornado’s Toll Mounts In 3 States   144 Persous Known Dead in Wake of Destructive Storm

Hundreds of Others Hurt And Missing   Property Damages Will Run Into Millions; Entire Towns Demolished

Tornado Kills 133 In Penna.,W.Va.   Hospitals Crammed, Near Hundred Missing in Path of Twister Stretching 160 Miles South from Pittsburgh   Reaches into Marvland

STORM KILLS 130 " NPENNSYLVANIA AND W. VIRGINIA   Hundreds of Others: Injured In Worst Tornado Ever ‘to Visit Section; Towne. Are ’ Completely Leveled.   SURGEONS AND AIDS WORK BY FLASHLIGHT   Eye - Witnesses Report -it -Was Regular Kansas Twis: - ter, Funnel- Shaped, Green In Color, Lazy Looking.

133 Are Killed —  In Eastern Storm   Scores Missing From Homes in Pennsylvania, West Virginia.

HUNDREDS HURT IN MARYLAND PENNA. W. VA.   Toll Climbs To 95 In West Virginia, Three Are Dead In Maryland

Storm Toll Is 144 Lives   More Grim Details Of Death, Destruction Come In from Stricken Areas

Storm Sweeps Two-State Area Killing 141   Hundreds Injured, Widespread Damage Caused  In W. Va... Penn.

Storm Takes Heavy Toll   ‘Hundreds of Dead and ‘Injured in Wake of Tornado in the East

Tornado’s Death Toll Now Exceeds 133; More Victims Sought   West Virginia and Pennsylvania Are Hardest Hit; Hundreds Are Injured, Many Homeless: Damages Will Run Into Millions

Tornado Cuts Through Parts Of Pennsylvania, W. Virginia Last Night.

truction espread  ine Area   ole Families Wipec t in Pennsylvania West Virginia

Tornado Kills 130. Injures Hundreds In Bi-State Sweep   Many Missing, Big Losses In Penna., West Virginia

133 Killed In Eastern Storm   Scores Injured, Hundreds Homeless in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland As Tornado Wreaks Millions in Damage

Leaves Twisted Trail of Devastation Through Southwestern Pennsylvania And Northern West Virginia~-Hundreds Made Homeless — Search for Bodies

TEMPERATURES:   Hundreds Injured In West Virginia And Pennsylvani:

[30 Dead, Hundreds Injured in Tornado   Still Greater Toll Expected as Workers Battle Through Wreckage in Towns of Penn-  sylvania and West Virginia. :

Eastern Storm Leaves Trail Of 145 Dead   Parts Of Pennsylvania And West Virginia Hit By Tornado

TWISTED TRAM ‘OF WRECKAGE 1N TWO STATES      New Reports of Death and Destructon Still Pouring In

- Handreds Hurt, - Scores Missing In Pennsylvania  And West Virginic

Tornado Kills 139 In East   Sudden Destruction Hits Penney i And West ¥

Death Toll in Storm 145; Many Missing   More Bedies Sought In Wreckage Left by Twister in 3 States

More Vietims In Storm Path   600: Hurt, -200 Serionely$ Property Losses High In Devastated Area

Death Toll In Northern W est Virginia Nearly 100; Southern Pennsylvania Also Hit Hard   Homes Splintered And Shattered; Search Is Continued In Devastated Areas; More Bodies Expected To Be Found: Outside Aid Rushed In

—TORNADO—   Many Injured, Homeless _ As Destructive Storm - Sweeps Large Area   Towns In Pennsylvania, West Virginia And Maryland Badly Damaged Or Wiped Out; Property Loss To Run Into Millions

Rescuers Search Ruins for Storm: Victims  Tornado Death Toll   Tornado Death Toll Reaches 144 In Eastern States

GESTAPO CHIEF NOW HEAD MAN IN REICH ALL SIGNS. INDICATE   London Officials Are Convinced Himmler Has Taken Over For Il] Or Disabled Hitler, Determined To Fight To End

Britain Sure Adolf’s ‘Out’ As Fuehrer   All Facts Indicate Himmler Now Active Leader of Germany

GESTAPO CHIEF WILL FIGHT WAR TO ‘LAST GASP   Fuehrer May Be Ail ing or Mad, British Convmeed

London ‘Certain’ Himmler Succeeds Hitler As Chief   Hangman’s Accession To Power Makes Chance Of Revolution Inside Germany Very Remote

Himmler, Chief Of Gestapo, Appears To Have Succeeded An Ailing Or Insane Hitler

Prato, Pistoia Taken By Yanks On Italy Front   Fifth Army Units Cross Sieve River North of Florence

AMERICANS ADVANCE IN ITALY BATTLE   5th Army Units Take 2 Towns In Central Sector

Yanks Take 2 Vital Centers In North Italy   Troops Advance Northward Engage Nazis Along Cothie Line

Gothie Line Penetrated  Americans Capture   Americans Capture Prato And Pistoia.

Yanks Move up To Gothic Line  On nkicen “Ten Twinn      Capture Two Towns North of Florence

YANKEES TAKE TWO: IMPORTANT ITALIAN TOWNS   Advance Northward To Engage Germans Near Gothic Line

Americans Reach Nazi Gothic Line   Negro Troops Penctrate Minefields To Engage Enemy

Yanks Capture Towns Northwes! of Florence   Engage Germans in Outer Positions of Gothic Line

Chinese Forces Closing in on Town of Hochih   Recent Successes Have Stabilized Military. ’ Situation

Patrol Clashes On Italian Front Grow in Fury   Allied Planes Strike at Enemy Supply Lines

FIGHTING AT ANZIO OPENS UP AGAIN. ‘PATROLS BATTLE   Swarms of Allied Planes Blast At German Supply

Allied Planes Hit At Nazi ‘Communications, Artillery  As Mud Slows Italian War

COMBAT UNITS BATTLE ALONG (ITALIAN FRONT   Planes Smack Supply Lines, Big Guns Commanding Anzio Beachhead

PATROL ACTION REMAINS BRISK IN ANZIO AREA   Weather Still Hampers Big - Scale Troop Movements

MORE PATROL ACTION ALONG ANZIO SECTOR   Still Reporting Great Activity Behind German Lines in Anticipation of New Strike.

Large-Scale Troop Moves Are Hamnered   Germans Attempting To Mass Armor for Thrust at Beachhead

Nazis Mass For One More Anzio Attack   Mud and Flood Waters Hold Italian Fighting to Patrol Actions

Patrols Battle on Italy Front   American Warhawk Stage Spectacular Raids on Nazi Railway Guns

DESTROY ENEMY GUNS ON ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Nazi Casualty Toll 40,000

SKIRMISHES AT ITALIAN BATTLE LINES   Bad Weather Hampers Major ‘Action by Troops; Planes Active

Allied Patrols Battle Germans On Italian Front   Bombers Pound Enemy Supply Lines Near Rome, Hit Nazi Guns At Anzio

Patrol Action [s Stepped Up At Beachhead   Brisk Shirmishes Reported, But Floods Pin Down Major Offensives

German Women To Shoulder  Heavier Burdens   Hitler Plans To Broadcast

GERMANS ORDER WOMEN ON JOBS   Nazi War Leaders Extenc Age From 45 to 50— Release Men.

FDR Asks Petrillo Bow To WLB Rule   Lift Ban on Music Recordings, Leader of Union Is Requested °  ANSWER DUE OCT..9

RECORDING BANLIFTING 1S ASKEL   FDR Urges Pe Petrillo Act; Union Board to Meet October 9

Nomination of Dewey on First Ballot Is Likely  ENOUGH VOTES ARE ALREADY  PLEDGED  Willkie Objects to For_eign Relations Plank

GOP VICTORY IS PREDICTED BY KEYNOTER   PARTY WILL ASSURE LASTING PEACE, PROSPERITY

WARREN ROUSES REPUBLICANS IN KEYNOTE SPEECH    Willkie Opposes Foreign   Policy Plank In Con vention Platform   567 DELEGATES ARE PLEDGED TO DEWEY

BLOW UP 100 FLYING BOMBS   A. P. Writer Describes Nightmare Scene

100 FLYING BOMBS SET OFFIN RAID   A. P. Writer Tels Of Nightmarish Scene Of Ruin

UNRRA Will Start Sending Help To Europe Soon  Relief Work Will Aid 20,000,000 in Axis-Ruined Nations

UNRRA To Mov Relief Supplies At Once To Italy  Balkans Will Also Have Assistance

Ital Y; Balkan Areas Will Get Relief Shortly   Supplies Will Go From Fund Set Up At Montreal By 44 Nations

YANKS Fl PALOOURE IN GASSING   Report Wedge Driven Into Nast Lines  ROME ARE A CALM  Bomb German Posts In North Italy

U.S. TROOPS PRESS DRIVE ON CASSINO   Germans Still Hold Main Part of City on Road to Rome

OFFICIAL ENTRY BLANK VAR BOND QUEEN CONTEST  State of Iowa MmarxtiT nop MATINTY

Shoots Visitor,  Commits Suicide  Columbus Man Pulls Gun After Meeting

MOVE TOWARD TOP   Total Bond Sale in Sixth War Loan Campaign. Is $1,256,811 

MOVE TOWARD TOP   Total Bond Sale i in sa War Loan. Camp; Is $1,256, Bil

BEN HAHN NAMED CAP. COMMANDER   Public Invited To Next Meeting Wednesday _  Fwveninge

Ben Hahn Chosen Commander Of Civil Air Patrol - Organization of — .  New Unit Is  Nearing Completion

Ben Hahn Chosen Commander Of — Civil Air Patrol  » Organization of  New Unit Is

Warns Japs of Yank Air Blows   Premier Koiso Tells Diet Japan Is Facing Grave Situation

Hirohito Terms War “Intense”   Premier Koiso Calls For Maximum Effort By Total Mobilization

Japanese Told Fate of Empire and Race Is at Stake in War   Emperor, Premier, Warn Nips During Lull in’ Pacific Fighting

Jap Diet Told That Empire Is Facing Crisis   Hirohito and Premier Koiso Tell Legislators That War Situation Is Becoming Intense.

JAPS WARNED OF INVASION BY AMERICANS   Hirchito Says War Becoming More Intense Daily

Koiso Warns Japs Against More Air Attacks, Invasion   Premier Says War Lords Plan To Take Offensive

JAPANESE DIET GETS WARNING   Hirchito Tells Lawmakers War Situation Is Growing More Tense.   SOLDIERS FIGHT BRAVELY

my oid Ta Staal Rakenn  eer aed  gainst Raids And Invasion   r Says Life and th of Nipponese lace Itself Is   at Stake

War Situation Is Growing More Intense—Hirohito   Key City Of Lucca Is Occupied  By Americans In Italian Drive

OVGO WARNS OF INVASION   Nation’s War lar Lords Planning on Seizing Offensive; List New Aerial Strikes

KOISO TELLS OF ‘LIFE OR DEATH FIGHT FOR JAPS   Warns of Increased Air Attacks, Possible Allied Invasion of Japan

HIROHITO HINTS WAR SITUATION IS GRAVE FOR JAPS   MAXIMUM EFFORT DEMAND PRESENTED BY PREMIER KOISO

NIPPON CHIEFS FEAR INVASION   Hirohito Warns Diet That War Situation Has Be  come More Intense

JAPANESE WARNED TO EXPECT INVASION OF THEIR HOMELAND  PREMIER KIOSO URGES PEOPLE OF JAPAN TO ~ STEEL THEMSELVES

Hirohito Tells People To Mass Total Strenath   American Submarine, Robalo And 65 Crew  Adambhace Avan  act

: Hirohito. and New. Premier. Warn "Phat : Allied Attacks “Growing Fierce And. Fate-of: Race at Stake

Koiso Warns Japs Against US Invasion   Says Rise or Fall of Empire, Life or Death of Japanese Race Are at Stake

Emperor Calls on Japan To Concentrate Total Power To Combat Possible Invasion

Japanese Dict ~ Warned on War   EMPEROR TELLS HIS PEOPLE OF U. S. ATTACKS

Situation Is More Intense, Mikado Says   Rise or Fall of Jap Empire at Stake, Is Premier’s View

—PACIFIC—   HPS WARNED OF INVASION THREAT   Emperor, Premier Declare Massing“ Of Total ~~ Strength Necessary *  ADDRESS DIET   Life Or Death Of ‘Japanese Race Is At Stake, Js Warning

~JAPANESE ARE GETTING SCARED   Hirohito Warns Nation's Lawmokers That War Situation ‘More Intense’

Hironito Warns War Situation Becoming Grave  Looks gy Possible lnwncsnm (9 lenan   Looks For Possible Invasion Of Japan By Allied Forces Now Gaining In Pacific

Japanese Told Invasion A Possibility   All-Out Effort In Battling Allies Urged By Premier

Jap Premier Warns Nips Of Invasion.  By Yankees   ‘Life Or Death? Of His Race. At Stake

HIRQHITO, KOISO WARN STRUGGLE OF LIFE OR DEATH FACES JAPAN   EMPEROR DESCRIBES INCREASING U. S. AIR BLOWS; SAY WAR LORDS PLAN TO TAKE OFFENSIVE

Hirohito Asks. Total War to Repel Allies   Conflict- More Intense, He Tells Diet;. Premier Warns of Invasion

TEMPERATURES:   Discloses Plans Of War Lords To Again Seize Offensive

Say Life Of Japan At Stake   Leaders Rally People To Defense of Homeland As Allied Threat Grows More Intense

Japanese Lold Fate Of Empire Is In Jeopardy   Koiso Anticipates —Altied Invasion, More Raids;  Would Seize Offensive

Jap Emperor, Premier Admit ‘War Situation Grave; Full Anti-Invasion Effort Urged   Hirohito Calls For Total Strength; . Koiso Warns Life of Jap Race at Stake

War Situation More Infense, Says Hirohifo   Appeals for Japan To Decide Victory By Massing Strength Against Her Enemies

Japanese Fear Yank Invasion   Hirohito and Koiso Attempt to Rouse  People to Greater  Defensive Effort

Yank. Armored Avalanche Is Ready To Spill Onto Nazi Soil; Roll Over Verdun and Sedan While British  Gobble Rocket Coast; Dieppe Falls

Spread To Or Info Belgium   British Cutting Up Rocket Coast; Many Former Strongpoints Overrun

Avalanche of Men Rolls Across Belgian Border; May Reach Reich Tonight

VERDUN, SEDAN FALL IN DRIVE TOWARD REICH   Canadian Troops Take Dieppe Without a Fight, Report

British Slashing Through Rocket Coast Area; Yanks At Or Across Belgian Line

Invasion Frontier of Germany May be Reached by Night   Allies Push Mighty Pursuit Over 270-Mile Long Front; Montgomery’s Troops Close Off Part of Rocket Coast; Pass Historic Battlefields

St. Mihiel and Dieppe ~ Are Seized   iMetz in Artillery Rarige of Dashing American Columns; Lorraine Basin Overrun   MAY STRIKE INTO  GERMANY TONIGHT   British Driving Along Coast  as Allies Maintain Wide,  Lightning ‘Drive

Patton’s Forces Advance 65 Miles In Less Than 24 Hours, Pass Verdun

Dieppe Taken By Canadians   ,... Nazis Hotly Pursued On 270-Mile Front

AMERICAN-BRITISH FORCES MOPPING UP NORTHERN FRANCE  ROCKET COAST BEING CUT UP AND AMERICANS AT

‘Campaign in’ France Nears End With foe in Full —   - -Retreat’ i  NEAR POCVET. COACT      NEAR ROCKET COAST   Taken; Canadians in ‘  a Verdun, St. Mihiel i - Dieppe :

Seventh Army Contacts  Nazi Forces Retreating Up Rhone Valley Toward Lyon

NEW PRODUCTION GOALS FOR 1944   MORGENTHAU SAYS NEW PEAKS VITAL TO WINNING WAR

eeneioneeentetememnaieme nme  BRIDGE WORKER KILLED BY PILE DRIVER

Half Cooked in Ship Explosion, Iowa Sailor Pins Hopes on Plastic Surgery

Catfle Producers Oppose Ceilings   Say Ceilings Will Bring End toFattening Cattle in Feed Lots

Fire Kills 6 at Amusement Park   Denver Blaze Traps Victims in Tunnel

Six Lose Lives In Fire in Denver Amusement Park  Flames Sweep Old Mill Section of Famous  Elitch’s Gardens

Irish Resent U, S.. British Request To Close Relation With Japs, Nazis

frish in Dublin Reported Giving Enthusiastic Approval to Government’s Stand   London Press Deplores Action   Economic Sanctions May be Applied to Force Eire Into Breaking With Allied Foes

BRITISH DEPLORE IRISH ACTION   Eire’s People Enthusiastically Approve Refusal to Close Ayie Finhaescipe

Irish Back Rejection of U. S. Appeal   Reply Represents Will of Irish People, Paper Declares

Kelland’s Home County Rejects Him For G. O. P. ‘National Committeeman

Within mi. Of Livorno   Advanced Units Reach Montenero, Suburb of Port; : Seize Mt. Maggiore

YANKEE FORCES AT MONTENORO, NEAR LIVORNO   Richest Prize ‘Since Taking Rome Is Now Within Reach Of Americans

ALLIED ARMIES SWEEP TO GATES OF GROSSETTO      Advance Through Number Towns 90 Miles Northwest Of Rome

ALLIES GAIN 25 MILES IN ITALY   Indicate Nazis Plan No Stand South of Pisa

LANDSLIDE GAINS REPORTED BY STH ~ AND STH ARMIES   Advances Up to 25 Miles Ir  Single Gay Scored tn Italian War.

YANKEES TWO MILES FROM PORT LIVORNC   German Gothic Line Menaced as Rich Prize in Italy Is Within Grasp of Allies.

ALLTES NEAR GROSSETO, IN ITALY   Reach Town 90 Miles Northwest Of Capital

Yanks Open New Assault On Livorno   Drive Up West Coast to Within Two Miles of Important Italian Port

Yankees Tighten Noose on Livorno   Only Two Miles From Bia Italian Port

Allied Armies Advance 25 Miles Through Numher of Italian Towns   9) Miles Northwest Of Reme And 65 Miles Below Florence

Allies Sweep  To Grossetto  German Resistance   German Resistance Overwhelmed In Italy

Allies Gain 29 Miles on Italian Front   Landslide Advance by ‘Two Armies Sends Germans Back

“Swing East For Two-Way  Assault For Best Prize Since Fall Of Rome

YANKS 2 MILES FROM ITALIAN SEAPORT IN 2-PRONGED ADVANCE   Livorno Is Richest Prize Since Rome; Base Of Gothic Line

YANKS TWO MILES FROM LIVORNO      City Will Be Richest Prize Since Rome

Allies Gain 25 Miles in Italy Drive   Florence Appears Now To Be Objective Of Campaien

Allies Reach Point 90 Miles North of Rome   Advancing Force Only 65 Miles Below Florence

HEAVY NAZI ASSAULTS REPULSED   Fifth, Eighth Armies Continue Advances; Arezzo Captured

Yank Forces Only Two Mile: From Livorno   Ready for Drive On Richest Prize Since Fall of Rome

AMERICANS 2 MI. FROM LIVORNO   Swing In For 2-Way Assault On Italian Port

Army in 2 Miles of Port   Monte Maggiore Hill Overlooking Prize City Taken by Americans

American Troops Open Two-Way Push On Livorno   Yanks Within Two  Miles of Rich Prize In Italian Campaign

ALLIES SWEEP TO SRDSSETTO GATES IN ITALY   Landslide Gains by _Sth ‘and 8th Overwhelm Nazi Resistance 9 wu:

ALLIED ARMIES DRIVE 25 MORE MILES IN ITAL)   Nazi Resistance Stil! Feeble; Florence Next Goal

Allies Are At Gates Of Grossette   German Resistance At Terni, Italy Is Overwhelmed

RM BUREAU DIRECTORS MEETING CALLED FOR 2:00 P. M., SATURDAY, JAN 8TH

59 Bomb:*s Included In Tol::Cost Of Raids   Move Than 10 "Jazi Fighters Downed: As Airplz’,:" Plants in Three Gert 'n Cities Hit

To Write News Stories for Globe-Gazette and Transcribe Radio-Talks

BUDGET BATTLE IS SIDETRACKED FOR NEW BILLS   Voting by Armed Forces And Tax Measure Are Taken Up by Congress

FEW PROTEST FOR BUDGET REQUEST   Rep. Taber of New York Says Figure Padded; Can Be Cut Is Claim

CHURCHILL ON CARPET AGAIN IN GREEK ROW   Parries Labor Demands For Renewed Debate On British Policy

Says Dominions Informed On Issue   Developments In Greece Cause Stir In Commons

CHURCHILL GIVES GREECE DEFENSE   SAYS DOMINIONS KEPT * INFORMED ON FIGHTING

INTERNAL FIGHT FOR MINE UNION   Lewis’ Opponent. Strikes at Appointive Authority

MINERS HIT AT CENTRAL POWER      Group Asks End of Appointive Government in Union

Plan Union Control Shift   Small Group of Miners Starts in On Program To End “One Man Rule’

Eighty Miners Set Out To Sway Convention Of 2,700 For Autonomy In United Mine Workers

Group of 80 . Miners Seek To Aid Union   Coal Workers Would Stop Appointment Rule Within Or. gonization; John L. Lewis Scored.

Small Group’ Demands ‘Eni Of Appointive Government: In their-- Union.

NAZI FAIL LINES IN ITALY BOMBED   Germans Intensify Fire ‘in Cassino Sector.

Many German Targets Pounded In Italy   Ground Fighting Confined to Artillery And Patral Clachac

FLIERS RAID BRIDGES IN NORTH ITALY   Heavy Assault On Nazi Communication Lines Is Launched

Nazi-Operated Railway Lines In Italy Blasted   Stalemate in Land Fighting May Be Approaching End

Doughboys Are Reported  Moving Upon Shell-Torn Port in Laree Numbers

CRUCIAL FIGHT FOR NORTHERN ITALY IS NEAR   British 5 Miles From Rimini, Americans Capture Lucca

Decisive Battle For Northern Italy Is Near   Sth Army Set to Pour Out Into Po Valley

DECISIVE BATTLE FOR NORTH ITALY IS BELIEVED NEAT   British and Canadians Closing In on Rimini as Americans Gain on Other End of Front.   LUCCA IS CAPTURED BY CLARK’S FORCES   German Batteries and Gun Positions Near Adriatic Port Bombarded by Allied Destroyers.

Decisive Figh: for North Italy Is Near   Great Striking Force Poised to Push Onward

Allies Score —  Italian Gains   Decisive Battle Along Po Valley Declared Near

RACE TOWARD BELFORT T0 BLOCK NAZIS   Decisive Battle for Northern Italy Appears Near; Eighth Army Nears Ri mini; Yanks Take Lucca.   Bomber Attack

Decisive Battle For North Italy Appears Near   wee 6.8 4. Tee   Eighth Army Troops Near Rimi; Destroyers  In Adriatic Lend Aid

Allied Forces Land 600 Miles From Philippines   Occupy Sansapor and Secure Beachhead

Surprised Nips Lose Heavily When Powerful Fleet Starts Assault   China Battle Rages

Most Formidable Naval Force To Appear Is This Theater Since Be ginning Of War; De  striction Great.

CAUGHT THE JAPS UNPREPARED AGAIN   Chinese Counter Attack With Heavy Losges To The Japs ©

Thousands Of Chinese Threatened   POPE OY Seca” RUGAL Further, Endangering Chiang’s Armies In Hanan

Japanese Trap Several Hundred  Thousand Chinese  Allied Army Gains In Bitter Fighting Around Kohima

ONAN FRONT STILL BOWING TO JAP DRIVE   Nipvon Troops Being Clear Kohima

Japs Further Peril Chinese In Honan Area   Allies Make Progress In Clearing Nips Out Of Kohima District

Chinese Arnties Nearly Surrounded By Japs  Bee "Wha Accnrinted Demce

Chinese are imperiled by  Jap advance Enemy air, ship  losses mounting

20-Mile Gan Made In Rail   Russians Drive For Rumania After  Break-Through

Russians Capture Railway   7000 NAZIS KILLED IN OUTFLANKING MOVE; RED ARMY GAINS

NAZIS IN BEND NEAR ISOLATION FROM SUPPLIES   500,000 Germans Now Depend on One Track for Men and Materiat

200.000 Germans Facing “A * Possible Envelopment In Lower Ukraine   Other Units Begin Wholesale Flight   Panices Flare In Bessarabia: Unrest Feared  Through Balkans

WILD: FLIGHT  FROM BORDER AS REDS PLUNGE. ON   Soviet Advance Causes Panie

Reds Only 60 Miles  From Line   Germans Said To Be Fleeing In Disorder   Panic Breaks Out In Bessarabia,  N. Bukovina and Rumanian Areas

RED LANDSLIDE PACE SETS OFF RUMANIA PANIC   Wholesale Flight Seen Afler Odessa Nazi Supnly Line Is Cue

Soviet Amy Cuts Main Nazi Lifeline   Germans in Lower Ukraine Lose Chief Supply Route

ENEMY FLIGHT ON LANDSLIDE SCALE, CLAIM   Declare Soviet Forces less Than 60 Miles  : From Rumania

Russians Plunge Through Railway. Near Rumania   German Divisions Isolated In Eastern ~ Sector After Drive ©

Nowe Herseie—  _ Talking Pe Peace With Germany   Claim Hitler’s Envoys Meet Reds In Ankara; Soviet Press Hangs To Story

TEMPERATURES:   Stockholm Report Says Hitler  Seeking Peace With Russia   paper Pravda of a rumor that Britain and Germany had discussed a separate peace,

“Separate Peace” Talk Growing; It’s Soviets, Nazis Now   Swedish Story Tells. Of Conference at Ankara; May Be Nazi Propaganda Mave

New Rumor Of Peace Bids   This Time It’s About Hitler And Russians At Ankara

Peace Feeler To  Soviet Reported Semi-Official Group At Ankara. Claim

Hershey Urges 4-F Land Army   Draft Director Says Young Barmarc Mav Ro Called

400; 000 Farm Deferme nts To Be Combed   Hershey Says Farmers Must Release Every Man! Possible Under 26

British Break Up Series Of Small Attacks   Nazis Attempt to Sneak Through Lines Near the Cassino Sector

Nazis Shell Fifth Army Beachhead   British Break Up Small Enemy Attacks; Infiltrated Germans Mopped Up

SERIES OF SMALL GERMAN ATTAGKS WERE BROKEN UP   They Were Southwest of Carreceto on the Beachhead Front.   ARTILLERY WAS ACTIVE   American Cruiser Engaged in in a Series of Duels With the Germans.

BRITISH BROKE UP SERIES SMALL NAZI BEACHHEAD ATTACKS  ALLIED TROOPS MOPPED UP ON GERMANS IN CASSINO INFILTRATION

Germans Open Heavy Shelling At Beachhead   Bombardment Scattered Over Area; British In Sharp Skirmishes With  Nazi Troops

Small German Attacks About Anzio Blocked   Enemy Troops Breaking Through Near Cassino Mopped Up by Allies

Yankees Repulse Nazi Attack Upon Carroceto Lines   Rome Airfields Are Bomhed Again

Cruiser Gets Results   British Break Up Series of Small Nazi Attacks Near Carroceto; Artillery Fire On Both Sides Is Heavy.

Series Of Small Attacks Broken Up At Carroceto: Rome Outskirts Hit Again

AIRFIELDS AT ROME BOMBED A SECOND DAY   Pounded by American Dive Bombers. Aground, German Thrusts Beaten Off Again

Allies Erase > Infiltration Through Line  Near Cassino   Skirmishes Staged . In Carroceto Area

British Break Nazi Attacks   Allied Troops Mop Up Nazis Who Slip Through Lines

Allied Troops Mop Ui ip Nazis  Near Cassino      British Troops Halt German Attacks Near Carroceto:

Nazi Guns in Heavy Attack   Intense Shelling Of Anzio Beachhead Opened by Enemy

German Guns Open Up on Allies at Anzio Beachhead   Minor Attacks by Foe Are Smashed; American Cruiser Duels with Artiller.

BEACHHEAD IS UNDER HEAVY NAZI SHELLING      British Troops Break Up Series of  Small German Attacks in Molet fa River Ravines   PATROLS IN ACTION   Airfields Near Rome Strafed, Axi: Shipping Sunk but Germar Planes Absent

British Stop Nazi Attacks On Beachhead   Allied Artillery Drives  Germans Back in Moletta Area

-EW CLASHES RE REPORTED NBEACHHEAD   itish Break Up Series Of  Small German Attacks In Territory Southwest of Carroceto   NEMY IS FORCED BACK

British Break Up Nazi Stabs At Beachhead   Allied Forces Mop Uj Infiltrating German Near Cassino.

British Break N azi Attacks   (Other Allied ‘Troops: Mop  Up. Enemy Who Wrig gle Through. Lines   Near Cassino

BRITISH BREAK UP SERIES OF NAZ BEACHHEAD RAIDS   Repulse Germans in Sector Southwest of Carroceto—Infiltrating Foe Mopped Up By Yanks at Cassino

Light German Attacks Halted   BRITISH TROOPS BREAK UP. SMALL NAZI DRIVES

NOTINTENSIVE AT ANY POINT   British Troops Break Up Small German Attacks in Carroceto Area.   ‘OND DAY OF SKIRMISHING

SMALL NAZI THRUSTS BROKEN BY BRITISH. PATROLS ARE ACTIVE   Skirmishing in Carroceto Gullies Occupies British For 2nd Straight Day   NAZI CASUALTIES HEAVY

5th Army Beine ShelledHeavily On Beachhead By Nazi Guns   Enemy Fire: Scattered Over Entire Anzio Area

Germans Open New Drive On Beachhea With Heavy Shelling And Air Attacks

Nazis Open Up With Heavy Guns On Beachhead   British Troops Check Series of German Attacks

ALLIES HAVE ADVANTAGE ON BEACHHEAD NOW   Germans Retreat Near Cassino;  Ships Sunk

British Break Up Series of Attacks   German Probes, in Beachhead Area, on Small Scale—Yanks Mop Up Nazis Who Wriggle Through Lines in Cassino Sector.   By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

British Halt Anzio Attack   Heavy Artillery Fire On Beachhead; German Infiltration Blocked

SHELLING ON WIDESPREAD BEACHHEAD   British Break Up Small German Attacks in Carroceto Section of Front

NAZI BEACHHEAD BLOWS REPULSED   ALLIED ARTILLERY TAKES HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY TROOPS

Infiltrating Germans Mopped Up in Cas sino Hills; Canadians Push Up; Divebombers Rake Rome Outskirts

Halt Attempted Paraguay Revolt   Outlawed Liberal Party Is Blamed

W. HEMISPHERE “FRONT” SOLID AGAINST ENEM)   Move Taken on Grounds of Espionage Activities With Many Now Being Rounded Up

MOVE SEVERS LAST LINK OF ENEMY SPIES   Allied Pressure Brings Cut In Diplomatic Relations

OTH DIVISION IS DRIVING CLOSER TO FRENCH CIT)   Forces Reported Within 312 Miles of Goal — Guns Trained on Roads

Gen. Patton’s Units Seize Fort Orny In New U.S. Offensive   All Roads Leading From German Bastion Within Artillery Range of American Guns; Doughboys Battle in Snow

YANKS PUSH TO WITHIN THREE MILES OF CITY   Fort Orny Captured By Fifth Division Of Third Army

Doughboys Get Fort Orny To Aid Offensive   7th Army Goes Forward In Gain Of Two Miles

AMERICAN INFANTRY PUSHES TO WITHIN THREE AND HALF MILES OF BESIEGED BASTION   Doughboys of Fifth Division Seize Fort Orny and Push On Into Hopital Woods in Closest Approach fo City  ’   PATTON'S FORCES UNHALTED IN THEIR ADVANCE

Yanks Advance Close to Vital Frontier City  Roads to Area Brought Within Artiliary Range

All Roads From City Under Fire   U. S. Troops Cut Behind Fort Driant On Moselle

Yanks Capture Another Fort Outside Metz   Advance To Within 3% Miles Of Besieged City

Yanks Cracking  Tough Dete nses      Fifth Division Within 32 Miles Of Western Europe’s Strongest Bastion; Troops Fight in Snow

Fort Orny’s:  Fall Places Roads Under Heavy Fire    ‘Attack - Scattering In Vosses Séctidii:

Yanks Topple Ath Fortress Ringing Metz   Sieged City Less Than 4 Miles Off; Guns Cover Area

NEW GAPS IN FORTIFICATIONS ‘MADE AS FORT ORNY FALLS IN CONCERTED ATTACK ON NAZIS

U. 5. Forces Near Fortress Held By Nazis   Roads Of Retreat Under Artillery Fire Of Allies

FORT ORNY IS CAPTURED BY U.S, INFANTRY   Metz May Fall Without Very Great Battle

Left Flank Of Third Army Pushes Forwar From Moselle Bridgehead To Within Mile, Half Of German Border; 7th Army Spreads Attack On South

Fourth Fort Before City Is Captured   British Capture San Tome in Bitter Fighting in Eastern Italian Sector

All Roads Leading Out Of Heavily Fortified City Under Fire   Doughboys Hack New Breach Into Fortifications And Push To. Within 34 Miles Of Besieged Fortress: Fort Orny Falls

US. Doughboy: Push Closer to Besieged City   Roads of Retreat and Reinforcement Are Brought Under Range Of American Guns

Lhis brings rattons Men To Within Three And a Half Miles Of Cite

FORTIFIED CITY MAY GIVE UP   All Roads For Aid Or Retreat In Artillery Range

Guerrillas Strike Blows for Allies   French Power System  Hit; Nazis Raid England

Badly Injured in Highway Crash   Edwin Kron of Riverside Sustains Skull Fracture in Accident On Road 22

Four Injured  In Early Crash   Brakes Failed To Hold Car And Hits Wall And Pole.

Dallas, Fort Worth Wet, Dry Forces Predict Victory   140 Counties in” State. Totally Dry; 36 Completely Wet

Soviet Air Fleets Hit Nazi Reserves Tank Formations   Russians Close in Rapidly on Three Cities in Great Bulge, Battering Deep Trenches and Concrete Fortifications

Red Air Arm Blasting rnemy Lines        Entire 100-Mile Nazi Salient Put in Dange By Heavy Soviet Assaults; Russian Fliers Pound Tanks, Bridges, Escape Routes

GERMANS WHITE RUSSIAN WALL NEAR COLLAPSE   Red Air Fleets Ceaselessly Attack The knemy; Germans  Fight Savagely To Hold Bulge.

Soviet Air Blows Speed Nazi Rout —   German Wall on 100-Mile Front Is Collapsing;- Nazis Fight on Hopelessly

Soviets Close on Key, Cities   Begin Converging On Minsk Gateway To Warsaw and Reich

GERMAN LINES IN WHITE RUSSIA NEAR COLLAPSE   Huge Air Armada Pound: Nazi Defenses; Vitebsk, Zhiobin Fall

‘Fatherland’ Front Reels To Air Blow   100-Mile Salient In White Russia Believed Doomed

German Salient Nearing Collapse   Four Powerful Russian Armies Converge on Gateway to Warsaw

Air Blow On Russian Front   GERMAN DEFENSES ‘ARE CRUMBLING BEFORE ATTACKS

Germans Reel Under Terrific Russian Blows   10,000 Killed In 24 Hours; Vast Stores Ara Ahandoned

Russian Air Attack Cause Of Bulge   Red Army Troops Roll on Toward Four Bastions

100 Miles of German Defense Line in White Russia Nearing Collapse: Reds. Seize Orsha

German White Russian Wall  Is Collapsing   One Of The Most Terrific Air Assault Brought On By Russians.   ORSHA SURROUNDED

RED AIRMEN SMASH NAZIS   Terrific Air Assault Ac: companies Drive In White Russia

Four Red Armies Said Converging On Minsk Gate:   “Balge Cities” Menaced As Soviets Reach Outskirts Of Orsha And Mogilev

Air Support For Russians In New Drive   London = (P)—Red army forces have captured = the White Russian bastion of Orsha, Premier Stailn announce.  ed tonight in a spectal order nd the dae.

Reds Smash Forward on Bulge Front   Nazi's White Russian Wall Yielding Before Land and Air Attacks

290 Mile Front Advances On Orsha, Mogilev Bulge   Great Russian Armies Paced by Terrific Air Assault as Offensive Aims at Gateway to Hitler’s Reich Itself

Four Powerful Soviet Armies Are  Advancing Along a 250-Mile Front

NAZI DEFENSE LINE TOTTERS.   Brutal Red Air Attack Hits 100-Mile Salient 

Reds’ Drive Is Speeded As Bastions  Are Seized   Nazi Withdrawal Over Front Seen

WHITE RUSSIA GERMAN WALL FOLDING UP   100-Mile Salient Tottering Under Terrific Attacks Launched by Stalin's Forces

Reds Stage Great Show In Assault Through An   Fleets Are Hitting On Four Fronts During Blast

100 Miles of East Front Tottering   Great Air Blows Back Soviet Thrust

NAZI FORWARD WALL APPEARS TO BE FALLING   4 Powerful Russian Armies Are Advancing Alonso 250 Mile Front

Russians Press on From Vitebsk: Nazi Line Near Collapse   Red Air Fleets Pound En emy Ceaslessly From Four Directions

Russ Forces Blast Nazis From ‘Bulge’   German Position Appears Hopeless in Face of Powerhouse Drive —

Entire Salient Tottering Under Great Red Drive   One Soviet Spearhead Converging On Minsk, Gateway To Warsaw And Germany

Reports Indicate Orsha Encircled South Of Vitebsk   One Of The Most Terrific Air Assaults Of War Accompanies Soviet Drive On 250 Mile Front; Russians Converge On Minsk

Four Armies Converging on Minsk: Soviet Air Fleet Attacks Enemy Ceaselesslv

Most Terrific Air Assault Of War Is Launched B Soviets; Orsha-Mogilev-Bobruisk Bulge Appears To Be Doomed

GERMAN’S WHITE RUSSIAN WALLS NOW CRUMBLING   Red Air Fleets Smash Nazis Ceaselessly

‘Germans May Withdraw From ‘White Russia   Russians Advance So Far, Fear Balkans May Be Prne-hed OFF.

Nazi East Wall Is Near Collapse   Four Red Armies Start Converging on Gateway To Warsaw-Reich Road

German Salient of More Than 100 Miles in Immediate Danger of Collapse Before Russians Whose Advances on 250-Mile Front Endanger Whole  CQevman Nefen en

GERMAN WALL ON RED FRONT IS TOTTERING   Russians Drive From Captured Vitebsk and Zhlobin As Mogilev is Threatened With Encirclement   BULGE GROWS WIDER

Nazis’ White Russian Wall Is Tottering   100-Mile Salient in Imme diate Danger Under Fierce Attack   HIT BY..AIR;: LAND   Fliers From Four Fronts Lend: Support to Four Powerful Red Armies

Big Air Attack Rocks Foe In White Russia  Soviets! Close   Soviets Close In On Three™ Key Cities

REDS DREN FORWARD WAL   Defense Formed By Bulge Cities Seems to Be Crumbling Today.

Reported  Endangered   Four Powerful Red Armies Begin To Converge On Minsk, Gateway To Warsaw

Johnson Does Own Talking   Tosses Aside Script Prepared for Him; Washington ‘Falls’ for Sooner

54,000 Germans Taken By Allies   GENERAL MONTGOMERY TELLS OF HUGE WAR LOOT

Allies Seize 54.000 PW’s   General Montgomery Savs Much Has Been Achieved Since D-Day.

04, 000 GERMANS TAKEN BY ALLIES DURING INVASION   General Bernard L. Montgomery Tells Troops tn “Radio Broadcast Gains Have Been Definite.   PACE HAS BEEN STEADY, BATTLES FIERCE, HARD   Cites Victories at Cherbourg and Caen Over An Enemy Whose Fighting Spirit Must Be Admired.

4,000 Prisoners Taken By Allies  Montgomery Praises Work of Soldiers

Prisoners Now Total 54,000  Allies Firm, Secure,  Dixa Mikntonninewd“ Saws

After the War   Train Accommodations Will Be Over-taxed Moving Fighting Men

Campaign In Antwerp Area Gains   Yanks Make Slight Gains In Luneville  Sector

1750 BOMBERS BATTER SLAY, NAZI TARGETS   Rocket Plane, Robot Bomb Experimental Stations Are Smashed

BLAST REICH WAR PLANTS   1,500 Yank Bombers From Britain, Italy Pound At 14 Targets

HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST TARGETS   Several-Stations Making. New  Nazi Weapons Receive Pastina

GERMAN RESEARCH STATIONS BOMBED   LARGE ALLIED AIR FLEET POUNDS TARGETS DEEP INSIDE THE REICH,

SECRET DIPLOMACY OUT, SAYS HULI   Has Not and Will Not Make Any Secret Agreements or Commitments, Secretary of State Promises in Radio  Address Last Night.

HURRICANE ROARS PAST CHARLESTON   23 Dead; Damage Is Estimated At 50 Millions

TROPICAL STORM IS NOW HEADING FOR CAROLINAS AREA   RY STANLEY WHITTAKER United Press Cnorrecnandont

Fruit Put Under Price Control.   Some Fresh Articles To Be Given Ceiling

Fresh Fr uits To. Be. Priced And Regulated   OPA ‘Action,’ The First To Be Taken: In‘ This Field, Effective: Soon’.

Reds Say Jap Fate Is Sealed   ‘Article Published. In: Party Newspaper

JAPAN'S POSITION SEEN AS HOPELESS BY SOVIET PAPEL   Pravda Declares Nipponese Are Fast Being Overwhelmed by U. S.-British Military Might.   ALLIED SEA POWER TWICE THAT OF FOE   Review Fails to Support Theory That Relations Between Moscow and Tokyo Have Changed.

JAPS HAVE NO CHANCE TO WIN   Pravda, Soviet Newspaper, De. clares Nips’ Position in Wav Hopeless

NO HOPE SEEN FOR JAPANESE   Tokyo Facing Serious Difficulties, Says Russian Paper

Japan's Position  Hopeless, Russian  Newspaper Implies Nipponese Facing  Serious Troubles, Pravda Declares

Germans Capture 2 Correspondents   Two Photographers Also in Custody

JAPS PLANNING ON EXPANSION?   4-Front Battle Would Be Aimed at Wiping Out New Allied Air Bases.   'MASS IN INDO - CHINA

Japs Push Offensive In China   Mass on Four Fronts For Drives Primarily Aimed at Wiping Out New Allied Air Bases

Japs Prepare 4-Front Battle   Seek to Wipe Out Allied Bases Hitting Japanese Shipping

Japan’s Offensive Aims To Wipe Out China Coast Bases   Four-Front Battle Is Expanding Upon Allies

FOUR-WAY OFFENSIVE dS SHAPED   Chinese Prepare For ® Fourth Defense Of Vital Changsha

JAPS EXPAND CHINA DRIVE   Aim At Wiping Out U. S. Air Bases Dominating Coast

Japan Masses Troops For New China Drive   Enemy Expected To Assait Chinese On Four Fronts—Biak Invasion By U, S. Stows Down

Great Offensive  Appears On Eve Of Expansion   Japanese Massing In Indo-China For Possible New Drive

JAPANESE MOVE TO EXPAND ALL AFFRONT LINES   Attempting Push To Take Allied Stronghold

Japs Appear to Be Aiming Drives Against Air Bases   Enemy Continues To Gain Ground In China Offensives

Japs Gather Forces For Big  Four-Way Pusk   Offensive Appears Aimed at Wiping Ow Allied Air Bases  Dominating Coast

Nippons Launch New Offensive In China Battle  Air Superiority Of -Yanks Aids

4-Front Battle Seen Japs’ Aim In Asiatic Area   Enemy In Preparations To Destroy New Allied Air Bases On Chinese Coast

Japanese Appear Ready to Expand China Offensive   Four-Front Battle Believed Aimed at Wiping Out Allied Air Bases Virtually Dominating Paset

Japs Aiming At Air Bases   Great China Offensive Seems To Have Goal Of Wiping Out Airdromes

Broadening Of Jap Offensive In China Looms   Foe Believed Massing For Attempt To Spike Allied Air Bases.

JAPS EXPAND DRIVE IN CHINA   Tokyo Forces Aim at Wiping Gut U. §. Airfields Near Eastern Coast.

Japs May Soon Open Attack. On Kunming   Great. China Offensive May - Be Expanded and Aim: ed at U.S, Bases.   LULL IN. FIGHTING =. “ON BIAK ISLAND   Japs. Continue  Pheir-: Push --on “Changsha, Making 60 Miles in Five Days

Mass for Drive on ©. S.  Air Base at Kunming &  Gather for New Offen-  sive in EHlonan, Possibly Aimed at Chunghing. 

‘New Allied Air Fields  Are Menaced   Japanese Believed Planning Drive To Knock Out Bases

JAPAN EXTENDS BIG OFFENSIVE AGAINST ALLIES   Nips Begin Four-Front Battle in Effort to Rub Out Coastal Bases

NEW ALLIED AIR BASES IN CHINA NOW ENDANGERED   Japan’s Great China OF. fensive Appears on Verge of Widening into Four Front Battle

BELIEVE JAPS PREPARING NEW CHINA ATTACK   Expect Nips to Try to Knock Out U. S. Air Bases Along Chinese Coast

China’s Plight Critical ~~A\s Japs Expand Drive:   Nippon Striking To Prevent Establishment Of American Bases; Civilians Are Evacuated From Chungking, Capita!

JAPS’ CHINA DRIVE MAY BE ON 4 FRONTS   In Addition to Moves South and West, Nips Expected to Attack _ Chungking and Strike From Indo-China.

OFFENSIVE BELIEVED AIMED AT AIRPORTS   FOUR-FRONT BATTLE APPEARS IN MAKING AS ENEMY MASSES FORCES

Japs Great China Offensive Threat to Allied Holdings   Drive Appears on Eve of Expanding Along Four Major Fronts

Allied Air Bases In China Menaced   New Jap Offensive Gathers Momentum and Expanding But Lull Comes To Fighting With Americans on Jungle Islands

Jans May Expand China Offensive   May Seek to Wipe Out Allied Air Bases Threatening Shipping

Expansion of  Offensive by  Japs Looming   Development of Four-Front Battle Would Be Aimed at New Allied Bases That Dominate Shipping Lanes

JAPS MASSING IN'INDO-CHINA,   ENEMY APPEARS ON VERGE OF OPENING DRIVE ON KUNMING

Mass For Blow Against Kunming  Civilians Are Evacuated From Changsha

Jap Offensive On Verge of 4-Front War   Troops Concentrating For New Drives on  Allied Positions

Check Hazards Next Week   Fire Prevention Week Observance Important

MRS. LUGE FLAYS ‘NEW DEAL STATE   Bureaucracy y Trend Scored in h Given in  BBteaniini

‘Red Cross Campaign Council Personnel  ‘Listed by Chairman   Corporations, Labor, Churches, Civic, Fraternal, Patriotic Groups Represented in Setup for County Drive

Red Cross Campaign Council Personnel Listed by Chairman  Corporations. a Churches, Civic,   Corporations, Labor, Churches, Civic, Fraternal, Patriotic Groups Represented in Setup for County Drive

Allied Drive Takes Armored Force Only 160 Miles From Reich   Yankees  Are Half Way Across France as Trap Tightens

Says Mudslinging Will ; Cost G. O. P. Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York

Mudslinging Will Cost GOP  Says Truman   Declares Friend Of Labor is in White House

in Pursuit of German Lapland Army; R. A. F. Hits Tirpitz With 6-Ton Earthquake Bomb.   Blocks Ablaze

Allied Bombers Help Red and Finnish Troops   Finland Being Cleared of Nazis

Pro-Axis Spain May Be Called To Account Soon   Franco’s Party Denounced By Attorney General Biddle.

BIAK TANK BATTLE 15 VITAL VIGTORY   Eight Jap. Tanks — Enocked Out With . Two Losses for U. S.

BAN TANN BATTLE Io VITAL VICTORY   E:ght Jap Tanks Enocked Out With Two Losses for U. S.

Al Capone’s Young Brother Sought in Death of Gambler   Fatal Shooting Alleged to Have Occurred in His Cicero Tavern

Police Seek_ Matt'Capone   ‘Al's Young Brother Wanted In Shooting

SEEK BROTHER  CF AL CAPONE   Matt Wanted in Connection With Slaying of Gambjer. J. Arikin.

Seek Brother Of Al Capone   Wanted in Connection With Slaying of Gambler in Chicago

Seek Matt Capone In Murder Probe  Clues Link Brother Of Al With Slaying

‘Capone Sought By Police For Shooting Man   Brother Of Al Accused In Slaying Of Gambler At Chicago Tavern; Had Argued Over $5

ALLIES SCORE MORE GAINS IN CASSINO AREA   Battle of Annihilation Near End   INAZIS STUBBORN   Germans Admit Rail Station Lost

HARD FIGHTING CONTINUES AT OUTSKIRTS   Allies Winning Despite Fanatical Enemy Resistance

Alhed Forces Join in Drive   Almost Fanatical Resistance In Stronghold

SOVIETS PRESS DRIVE AGAINST CHUDOVO BASE   Four Big Columns Developing Plans To Envelop Or Push Back Germans

4 MILES FROM VITAL CITY ON NORTH FRONT   Objective Is Pivot on Which German Position Depends

Four Big Russian Columns Moving Against Germans   Reds Sweep On Important ’ Nazi Bastion Of Chudovo In North   MASSIVE RUSSIAN ATTACKS CONTINUE

Hoover Fendls Nf Question Barrage About FBI Action  Cammittana Peahina EPL   Committee Probing FCC Gets Some Material “Into Records

“Forbidden”  ‘Hoover Tells House Probe   J. EDGAR HOOVER FENDS OFF TWO-HOUR QUESTION’  BARRAGE ABOUT FBI RELATIONS WITH FCC.   Dared Not Answer Quiz

Joint Chiefs of Staff Express Alarm at Overly Optimistic State of Mind in This Country

SOMBRE REPORT ISSUED ON WAR   There Is Still A Tough Fight Ahead, Nation Told By Roosevelt

FDR ALARWED AT OPTIMISY   Publishes Report of Chiefs of Staff Saying F irht Grim

Tough War Ahead Roosevelt Says In Warning Note   Cautions Nation On Over Optimism

TOUGH FIGHT STILL AHEAD, LEADERS SAY      Roosevelt Makes Public Report From Military Chiefs

LABOR ISSUES HEAD FOR COURT TESTS   Two States Vote To Ban Closed Shop

WLB DIRECTIVES TO FACE TEST   Arkansas, Florida Vote Ban On Union Provisions

High Court May Review Closed Shop   Arkansas And Florida Voters Approve Restrictions.

Flame Of Revolt In France Reported Spreading Swiftly   Traveller Tells Of Heavy Fighting; Partisans Take Over In Some Towns

LOCAL SOLDIER IS KILLED ON FRENCH FRONT   Pfc. James E. Wiles Lost Life July 2; Wounds Fatal Ta Phe. Sier   FOUR OTHERS ARE REPORTED WOUNDED

WALKERSVILLE ARMY OFFICER DIES IN ACTION   Second Lt. Kenneth L Ports Killed In France On September 18

 ma! * ‘Serious Stage’ Here For Japs  Tokyo Radio Again Warns People There

MORE JAP PLANES. DOWNED BY FLIERS   Total Destruction for the Month Is Raised: to 390°

TOLL OF JAP PLANES RISES   Yanka Down 22 to 30-More Enemy Craft in New Raid on Rabaul

U.S. Bombers Get 22 Japs at Rabaul      Australians Drive Forward ‘te New Guinea; Allied Bombs Splattered on Admiralty Islands

22 More Jap Planes Bagged Over Rabaul   Cargo Vessel Hit in Harbor: Admiralty Isles Raided Again

TOTAL PLANES DESTROYED IS RAISED TO 350   24th Day Allied Planes Have Hit Installations At Rabaul Fortress   MADANG OBJECTIVE OF NEXT OFFENSIVE

TOLL OF JAP   Yanks Down 22 to 30 More Enemy Craft in New Raid on Rabaul

Four Die in  Flood Waters   West Coast Cities Battered by Four Days of Heavy Storms

Clearing Skies For California   Los Angeles Storm Believed Over _ With-Over Seven Inches of Rain

Lincoln Co. Case Tests Profits Act   Renegotiation Suit Will Come To Trial In ‘Few Months

Senate Rejects Amendment For Post War Reserves Taken From Firm, Individual Taxes

Reject Plan for Post-war Finance  Would Permit Firms to Build Up Reserves

Senate Putting Contract Renegotiation Law Into The New Revenue Measure

Proposed Tax Amendment Loses Would Set Aside Funds  As Postwar Reserve

Senate Rejects Reserve Plan  Would Have Permitted Firms to Lay Aside 20 Per Cent. of Taxes

CHANGE IN TAX BILL REJECTED   Senate Decides Against Corporations Delaying Full Payment Until War's End

Capt. Eddie Finds ‘Scotch’   Two Offers, 1500 Mile: Apart;. Promised First. Pilot to’ Better Mark...

Doesnt Urink Rickenbacker Gets Two Offers of Whiskey For Maier Bong

ISLAN ~ PHILIPPINES HIT BY NAV)   79 Jap Planes, 21 Ships Destroyed in Major Foray

Guam’s Key Peninsula Is. Captured   Marine Offensive Drives Japs From Orote Sector

Orote Peninsula On Guam Falls To U. 5. Forces   Marine Barracks And Airtield Are Caotured

TRAPPED JAPS ON GUAM ARE WITHOUT HOPE   MARINES RECLAIM OLD BARRACKS LOST IN 1941

Peninsula On Guam ‘Ours’   Gives Yanks Airfield, Noval Base, Barracks; Advance On Tinian

NAVY BASE CAPTURED   Former U.S. Positions On Guam Regained By Marines

Orote Taken Adm. Nimitz Announces  Key Industry City Of Japs; Anshan, Blasted

SUMAY NAVAL BASE, AIRSTRIP ARE RECAPTUREL   Two-Thirds Of Tinian Now Held By Invaders

Marines Battle Wavy Baek Into Old Gaum Barracks   Japanese Losses To Date In Marianas Campaign Is Placed At 50,000 Men; Nothing But Death Awaits Those Remaining

Orote Peninsula On Guam Captured To Give Yanks Air And Naval Bases

AMERICAN TROOPS ON GUAM CAPTURE OROTE PENINSULA   Seizure Is Outstanding Triumph of Invasion—Naval Base and Airfield Fall to Yanks.   30 TANKS, 72 FIELD PIECES ARE TAKEN   Marines Battling on Tinian Have Occupied Approximately Two-Thirds of That Island.

Russian Guns Pound Tallinn   Soviets Within Artillery Range Of Capital O!  Estonia; German Evacuation Reported

See Chance Earhart Still Alive   NATIVE’S REMARK BRINGS HOPE FOR AMELIA EARHART

A Possibility — ~ That Earhart “May Be Alive   Mission - Trained. Japanese “Native. Tells Story Tndicatine Japs Picked Her Up   A NAVY. OFFICER © - DOUBTS. STORY   But Another . Officer, Whe Gave Report, Says Native Sticks to His Story.” 

Isolation of Reich Due As War Ends   Geographic, Economic ‘Jailing’ Planned as Terms Are Worked Out

 With Allied Victory Over Nazis Possible “Suddenty And Sagan.” Writer Dias Into Fate Awaiting Beaten Germany   Reich Itself Due  To Sanction Split  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Recnciatngd Prece Staff Writer

NAZI LINES ARE PIERCED ON 150 MILE FRONTLINE   Gains Of 19 Miles Made On Far Northert Finnish Front

BREAK GERMAN DEFENSE LINES NEAR VITEBSK   Hundreds Of Towns Liberated As Drive  Progresses

Russian Army Widens Front Near Vitebs!.   New Break-Throughs Farther South In Orsha, Mogilev Direction,   LIBERATE 100 PLACES

SOVIET ARMY ROLLS ALONG IN NEW DRIVE   EXPANDS OFFENSES ON EACH SIDE OF VITEBSK

GERMANS’ LINES ARE PIERCED BY SOVIET ARMIES   Reds Score Two BreakThroughs in White Russia, Widening Fronts

Russians Gain At Vitebsk   Two New BreakThroughs Made In White Russia  Widening Fronts

Reds Make 2. Breakthroughs In Nazi Lines   A WEEK o WAR . Analyst Thinks China Cannot Be Helped At Present Time

Soviet Troops Break Througl  German Lines  Three Special Orders of Day Issued by

RUSSIANS MAKE TWO NEW BREAK-THROUGHS   ‘Overwhelm Nazi Defenses Around Vitebsk;  Soviet Successes On All Active Fronts  Shown In Special Orders Of Day

Russians Make Big Advances Against Nazis   Finns Unable To Halt Drive OF Soviet Army

Long-readied German lines overwhelmed  Stalin discloses creat new gains

Grand. Jury Urges Changes — In Set-Up. Of Welfare Dep’           : fit" in Réport—Coui Control: Recommended OS ioeJuyenile. Delinquency Discussed

Grand Jury Urges Changes ~ Tn Set-Up Of Welfare Dep’t   Overall Picture Called "Too Centralized for Real Bene_ fit” in Report—County Control: Recommended — Juvenile. Delinquency Discussed

PRISONER BOX SCORE FOR WESTERN FRONT   First Army Leads With Third Army Second

BIG WALKOUT ~ NOT SETTLED   SEVENTEEN THOUSAND STRIK  BRS AT SHIPYARDS IGNORE:  PLEAS TO RETURN TO THEIR JOBS  7

Increase In Payroll Tax Will Pile  Up Useless Reserve of Billions

To Protect Price Of Farm Products   Senate Writes in Provision For Parity on Sale of Surplus Goods.

Strike Looms, Threatening 300 Factories   WLB Given Ultimatum by Detroit CIO Unien

CIO Union Presents Ultimatum to War Labor Board, Demanding Wage Study

STRIKE AFFECTING 1,000,000 DETROIT WORKERS IN 300 PLANTS THREATENED

Kurile Islands Hit Again By Raiders   Enemy Positions On Los Negros And Manus Islands Bombed As Infantry Moves Forward

Yanks Repulse Japs, Enlarge Los Negros Hold   Adverse Weather Limits Air Action In Pacific Sector

Second Train Sent To Snowbound One   ’ First Rescue Froit Stranded 1G Miles Short of. First One Stopped By Siow

Soldiers — - Vote Law fo Senate   Food Subsidy * Issue: : Laid Aside. Temporarily. as Barkley Forces. Action   SEEKS TO BEAT HOUSE TO PUNCH   Sen. Taft. Overridden in Parliamentary. Maneuvers Preliminary To Vote —

Down Effort To Block Vote Action   Temporarily Sets Aside Food Subsidy

Taft Beaten In Delaying Soldier Vote   Senate Committee. Decides to Rush Alannteon WMeasticcn.

—@SUBSIDIES SHELVED—~  Service Vote Is Up Again   «++ Taft Effort To Block Switch Unsuccessful

* Senate Shelves Food Subsidy .  Issue Temporarily  ‘Would Consider. Soldier Vote Bill  Deedee LE Cnae..

BEAT DOWN SERVICE  VOTE LEGISLATION   One-Man. Effort to Block Immediate Consideration, Was Defeated.

Senate Votes  On Ballot Bill   Beat Down Taft Attempt To Postpone Consideration Of Service Vote Legislation,

Senate Plans Early Action on Soldier Ballots  "£6 Astanmnt   Taft Attempts To Force. Vote On Subsidy Bill

SENATE STUDIES SERVICE VOTE   Beats Down One Man Effort to Block Debate

Bombers Blast Town Retaken By Nazi Forces   German Thrust Gain: Little More Than Half Mile

Nazis Retake Village on  Western Front   Allied Planes Then Wipe Town Out by Fierce Bombing

Schmidt, High Water Mark Of U.S. Drive, Lost   After Douglboys Moved Out of Ares, 15 Milea From Aachen, Bomb ers Ruin Fown   American Lines Are Holding Firm   Alied Troops in Holland Plunging Ahead; Berlin Radio Admits Doom on  Walcheren Istand

Reds Advance 15 Miles Toward Wilno   Beranowicze Rail Junction, Is Under Bombardmen

New Witness In Lonergan  ~ Murder Trial   Nurse Claims Screaming Came From Apartment Of Mrs. Lonergan

Lonergan Witness Hears A Scream   Druggist Says Lonergan Bought Pancake Compact To Hide Scratches.

ROOSEVELT WILL MAKE CAMPAIGN SPEECH TONIGHT   Dewey Also Preparing “Fluid” Speech Designed For Quick Changes

Japs Try To Knock. IChina Out Of War   Squeeze Play Is Pulled On Japs

Tengchung Falls to Chinese Army   First Large City to Be Recaptured

CHINESE LIBERATE TENGCHUNG TODAY   Take First Large City In China After 24 Years Of Jap Occupation

HITLER GIVES DEFENSE ORDERS   Fuehrer Plans Last-Minute Personal Inspection Of Atlantic Wall

66,655 JAPS KILLED ON MARIANAS. PALAU   B-29’s in Great Aerial Battle with Jap Planes

Bond Sales Prove Compulsory Savings Not Necessary For American Citizens

RUSSIANS GAIN IN PREPARATIONS FOR  BIG OFFENSIVES   Take Another Springboard For Drive Through Poland.  DYTQQrTARTQ? CLATAY

Russians Add Another Springboard For Their Thrusts Through Poland

Feature Finder   FDR Terms Atlantic Charter  Objective Toward Betterment

Fi Rs ATLANTIC CHARTER VALID   Principles as True as  When It Was Drawn Up

Farms’ Output To Be Speeded   Post-War Plan Will Funnel Food to World Markets

ATHENS PEALE HOPES MIXCD WITH DENIAL!   One ELAS General Surrenders While Spokesman Says Fight to Go On.

Greek Liberals See Chance For Early Peace   E. L. A. §. General \s Reported To Have Surrendered

GREEK LEFTISTS ~ ARE AUGMENTED   FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ATHENS AS LIBERALS TRY TO END CIVIL WAR.

Leftists. Try To End Fight   Ministers: ‘Resign, ‘Battle For Peace:

Truce in Greek  Civil War Sought   Liberals Back Move As Leftists Split

Elas General Reportedly Has Surrendered  Liberals Seek to Put an End to the Civil War

CIVIL WAR NEAR END IN ATHENS   Rebel General Gives Up; Liberals Promise Peace Monday

Thomas, Tobey Renominated   One PAC-Backed Candidate Leads—~Others Trailing

THIRD BID FAILS   Governor of New Hampshire Is Beaten in Primary Election

Thomas, Tobey Are Victors In Primary Votes   Oklaioma and:New Hampshire Senators Win Renomination As Boston Mayor Scores Victory

NO UPSETS IN SIX PRIMARIES   Tobin, Backed by CIO, Wins in Massachusetts

Tobin Leads In Mass. Contest  — ClO Support Still Question In Bay State

Senators Win Renomination In Primaries   Thomasand Tobey Are Chosen; CIO Mayor  Wins in Boston

PRIMARIES HELD. IN SIX STATES      New Hampshire Governor Defeated In Bid For Third Term

Nips Driven Back By Allied Forces ‘In India Fighting   26,000 Japs Die In Pacific {sland Warfare —

LONG-EXPECTED IMPHAL BATTLE NOW UNDER WAY      Japs Reach Imphal Plains But Are Driven From Hill Position

Japs Driven From Hills Near Imphal   Yanks Near Foes’ Burma Stronghold

Counter-Drive Slows Japs in Imphal Area   Allied Troopsin. Bitter, Hand-to-Hand Battle in: India

Allied Troops — Drive Enemy Oui ‘of Strong Post   Yank Infantry Column Imperils Jap Base In Battle of Burma

JAPANESE IN INDIA ARE REPULSED   Driven from Strong Position Southwest  Of Imphal

Japanese Driven  Back Near Imphal   Ritter Hand-toHand Battle Qn

Main Jap Invading Forces Reach Edge Of Plain. Allies Indicate; Others Driven From Kev Hills

COUNTER ATTACK DRIVES FOE FROM HILLS AT IMPHAI   American Marauders Fight Way ‘Through Jungles Toward Myitkyina ‘Base. .

ALLIES PUS JAPS BACK NEAR IMPHAL   U. S. Troops Drive _ To, Within.20 Miles -OFf Myitkyina

Japs Driven From Position Near Imphal   American Infantry Column Nears Nip Base of Mvitkvina

W.C.1.U. HEAD SCORES FIRMS   SAYS LIQUOR INTERESTS ASK WHEAT FOR ALCOHOL

SENATE COMMITTEE HEARS WOTU HEAD TALK TEMPERANCE  SENATOR BUTLER TAKE   SENATOR BUTLER TAKES ANOTHER SHOT AT LATINAMERICA SPENDING

WCTU Assails Liquor Interests   Mrs. Ida B. Wise Talks to Senators

SENATE COMMITTEE HEARS WOTU HEAD TALK TEMPERANCE   SENATOR BUTLER TAKES ANOTHER SHOT AT LATINAMERICA SPENDING

HET UAT AMERICAN UNITS IN OUTSKIRTS: OF PARIS   Allied Tanks Advance Far Beyond Le Mans Under Great Air Canopy   BERLIN AGENCY BARES NAZI PLIGHT

ANNIHILATION   Headquarters Silent on Progress in Drive on Paris

AMERICANS RAID GUAM AND ROTA   Neutrolization Or Invasion Of Marianas Is Step Nearer

Powerful U. S. Fleet On Prowl, Tokyo Reports   Raids Against Jap Positions Increasing te Intensity.

NEW U.S, BLOWS APCUAM. AQT!   Tokyo Radio Says Powerful American Fleet Is Roaming Pacific   ATTACKS REPORTED   Complete N eutralizatior Of Mariana Islands Re ported Completed

PLANES, SHIPS JOIN IN SIEGE OF GUAM BASE   Berlin Radio Admits “Supremacy” Of United States’ Aircraft Carriers at Guam.

NEW BLOWS INDICATED IN PACIFIC   Japan Reports Vast U.S. Fleet Plying Marianas Waters

War Brood Is Cut To Triplets   Death Takes One Of “Quads” But Father Reiterates Loyalty To Family.

RE AP IN LP Cy eeteerrennn men  Willkie Predicts He'll Be Nominated

ADDITIONAL RAIN, SLEET PREDICTED   County Highways Still-Are _-slippery, State Police . Report

ADDITIONAL RAIN, SLEET PREDICTED      County Highways Still Are _-- Slippery, State Police.  Report —

pMrs. Roosevelt Visits Interracial Hospital, Praises Spirit of Unity

Dr. Ralph Wellons Will Speak Before Two Local Groups   Merchants and Business Women Will Hear Former Missionaty To India In February:

To Force Spain  ~ To Show Hand   ‘Get Tough’’ Policy Being Followed By U. S.—Oil Shipments Suspended  CHARGES MADE

Young Scrap Collectors Take Problem To F.D.R. And Get Needed Wagon

quiry Launched Statler Fight   forrestal Asked to ‘ooperate in Probe

Probe Started In Battle of Statler   Lieutenant Welcomes Senate Campaign Group’s Inquiry.

Two Engineers Clasp Hands fo Signify Union   Lieut. Gen. Clark Reaches Meeting Place; Says This Is Eventful Day for Fifth

Engineers Make Contact   Meeting Place Near Borgo Grappa Five Miles East of Front

Bittie Callahan Is In on Reunion   GI Talk Marks Historie Meeting

2 Hands Clasp Anda Union Is  Consummated   A Main-Front Engineer Meets One From Anzio ToComplete Linkup

ENGINEERS ARE FIRST. TOMAKE CONTACT WITH TWO:FORCES IN __ITALY; GREAT DAY. FOR FIFTE

Yank Combat Engineers Join Fronts   Officers of Two Patrols Shake Hands  In Pontine Marshes

Supplemental Gas Rafions No Longer in Ration Book Form   Coupon To Bear. . Serial Numbers; Keep Down Black Market

DEEPER OHIO RIVER POSTWAR PROJECI   Conaress To! Act on Deepening Channet in 1946, Maybe

Indict Chaplin As Violator Of Mann Act   Film Comedian Traveled Across State Lines With Joan Barry, Says Federal Indictment   (By FREDERICK C, OTHMAN) (United: Press Hollywood  Pn eee

Charlie Chaplin Trial Slated to Be Most Lurid In History of Hollywood

CHAPLIN IS HELD FOR FED. COURT   Moyie Mogul Is Facing Mann Act Violations

Most Aprear in Mederal Court to  Answer to Charees of  Viokition of Mann 4A

lwo Jima Island Bombed By Yanks, Shipping Damaged   Japan’s Inner Defenses Threatened From Saipan Airfield   47 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED IN RAIDS

Iwo Jima Is Hit By Land Planes   Captured Airfields On Saipan Used In Raid, Is Belief; Guam Blasted For 12th Time

NEW PHASE OF PACIFIC ‘Ww. ‘AS. BASES PUT IN USE NEAR JAP-HOMELAND,

Filibustering May Prevent Passing Of Poll Tax Bill   JAMES MAKLOW AND GeaRGE JIELKE

Veterans’ Rights to Jobs Alter War Are Studied by Attorney General

Attorney General To Rule on Job Status of Returning War Veterans

Back to Work Rules For Veterans Sought   a Metal-Sensitive Siren . Locates Fragments In Wounded

Attorney General's Office To Clear Up Some of Questions Sure To Arise When Returning Servicemen Seek To Go Back To Work They Left

Attorney General Tackles Veterans’ Jobs Questions   NUMEROUS AND DEVIOUS

AEEMPLOYMENT 18 TOPIC OF OPINION   Attorney General’s Office Preparing Statement for Exnected Problems —

ATT'Y GENERAL T0 RULE ON RIGHTS OF SERVICE MEN   PREPARES OPINION ON THEIR RETURN TO PRE-WAR JOBS

TEMPERATURES   SALEM WEATHER REPORT   NATION-WIDE REPORT (By Associated Press)

WANTED WOMAN FOR FOUNTAIN WORK 2 OK 3 EVENINGS A WEEK THE CORNER

Legion's Poppy Sale Scheduled Here May 22nd   Largest Sale Seen By President of Auxiliary

a  Annual Poppy Day Is Set For : - Saturday, May 27   Mrs. E. R. Donohoe Named Chairman; Largest Sale In - History Is Predicted

RECORD SALE ON POPPIES EXPECTED   American Legion Auxiliary Leaders Ready For Event

POPPY SALE DAY IS SAT., MAY 27   Mrs. Eli Harrison I: President of Legion Auxiliary in Charre

Biggest Poppy Day Sale Predictec For This Month  Saturday, May 27  ee WR wu

Biggest Poppy Sale In History Of Legion Auxiliary Predicted   Mrs. J. A. Norris Hopes Poppy Service Continues Always

Biggest Poppy Sale in History of Auxiliary Predicted for 1944   Saturday May 27, Chosen for the Sale of Little Red Flowers

GERMANS TAKING ~ TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT IN NORTE   Reserves Sent Into Fight for East Prussia, Slow Soviets Down But Fail to Halt Them.

Germans Hurl Tanks, Infantry And Aircraft Into Desperate Attempt To Stop Russian Drive

LANDSLIDE IN WISCONSIN MAY DECIDE ISSUE   1940 Candidate Fails To Garner Single Delorate

LAST BARRIER TO PHILIPPINE AREA INVADED   ONE LANDING MADE 350 MILES FROM MINDANAO

MacArthur's Men Sweep Morotat  In Halmaheras  Work on Airfield Only 375 Miles From  Dawan Te Inder Wav

Yanks Establish Beachheads on Palaus Islands   Marines, Doughbovs Eollow Up MacArthur Thrust in Moluccas

Nazis Ordered To Cease Firing   Petain Reported as Having Turned Over Disputed Authority

REMNANTS OF NAZI FORGE ROUNDED UE   German Commander In French Capital Region Surrenders to Le Clere.   BULLETIN   LONDON, Aug. 26.— A Fighting French radio station announced today that French partisans have liberated Vichy. .

50- Billion Debt Limit Increase May Be Asked By Treasury Department

TREASURY MAY ASK DEBT CEILING HIKE   Expect Proposal to Congress That ‘Limit Be Boosted 50 Billions to Cover Deficit.

British, Canadian Troops Advance In Antwerp Drive   Allied Forces Score Three-Mile Gain in St. Leonard Sector

ALLIES PRESS GERMANS BACK IN FURGPE   Score Gains in Antwerp and St. Leonard Sectors

CHURCHILL IN STRONG TALK T0 JEWS   Compares Assassins of Lord Moyne to Nazi Gangsters

STRONG TALK T0 JEWS   Compares Assassins of Lord Moyne to Nazi Gangsters

JEWS TOLD 10 END TERRORISM   Churchill Brands Death Of Moyne As Crime That Shocked World

United Frezs. Reports Say Aachen Itself Is Under Military Attack .   GERMANS FACING PATTON'S WORCES MAY BE OUTFLANKED   In Italy Americans Have Captured Strongholds Of Pistola and Prato

Nazi Agents Ordered By Sweden To  Go At Once   Thomsen, German Minister, Now In Berlin With Stockholm Report

FAY FOUNDRY IN NEW HANDS   Twin City Men Form Corporation to Take Over  Plant

ARMED FORGES: I DEMAND 10. BACK INVASION LAWS   No Steps wilt Be ‘Taken, inthe Near Future Says May .

HEROIC STORY OF  BASTOGNE UNFOLDS TROOPS RELIEVED . ' WRECKAGE OF 87 NAZI  TANKS SHOWED WHERE THRUSTS STOPPED

$60,313 REPORTED . BY DRIVE WORKERS      War Fund- Chest Campaign Near the Halfway Mark

$60,313 REPORTED  _BY DRIVE WORKERS   War Fund - Chest ‘Cam. paign Near the Halfway Mark

New Rapid-fire Anti-aircraft Gun Is Revealed After Proven in Italy

Plunge Deeper Into Germany On Wide Front   Nazis Fight Like Fanatics Defending Their Home Soil

Yankees Rip Open F irst Line   Tank Forces Quickly Bypass Anchen, Gain In Luxembourg

Breach Line On a FourMile Front   Two First Army Units Force Breakthrough — While Patton’s Men Widen Moselle Front

Yanks Smash Two Miles Ahead Today   Other American Forces Tear Eight-Mile Gap In German Defenses; Pincers Formed Around Moselle: Hodaes’ Men Pass Aachen

Yank Doughboys Ride In On Tanks   ... Aachen Passed In Plunging Drive Forward

‘Siegfried Defenses Ripped   Open by Americans Who  Dig Their Way Two  Miles Deep in Line.  j   GAINS BEING MADE IN OTHER SECTORS

BATTER OUTER DEFENSE WALL NEAR AACHEN   Americans Smash 2 Miles ~ Deep Into Line In Lux    embourg Area

Doughhoys Cut Deeper Into Reich   Forces of. First Army Penetrate 8 Miles Toward Prum

DRIVE TOWARD MAJOR BASTION   Massive Russian Forces Assault Industrial Suburb Of Warsaw.   ‘ON CZECHO-SLAV FRONT

Breaks Made Near Aachen, Luxembourg   Enter Outer Defenses _ Of Prum Bastion; Doughboys Ride Tanks

Rip Deep Into Line Below Aachen Today   Others Drive Two Miles Into Line in Luxembourg Area; First Army Drives Toward Prum, Third Army Has Deep Salient Threatening Stronghold of Nancy

LARGE SCALE OFFENSIVE NOW * UNDERWAY WITH MORE TOWNS FALLING TO THE INVADERS

2MILE SMASH IS MADE NEAR LUXEMBOURG   Push Toward Prum And Nancy As Blows Gain In Power

Tanks Blow Open Gap In Bitter Attack Below Aachen   Other Units Move On Prum Bastion   Germans Say Third Army Makes 18-Mile Wedge Bevond Moselle

YANKS HAMMER DRIVES ON 150 MILE FRONTIER   Americans Slowly But Steadily Make Way Through Fortifications

Priority Plan For Discharges Of Service Men   Four Factors To Be Considered In Eligibility For Return Home.

War Dept. Reveals Plans For Reducing Size of Army After Germany's Defeat

WILL Uat INDIVIDUAL PRIORITIES   Based On Length Of Service, Service Overseas, Combat Credit, And Parenthood Credit In All Theatres   WAR TO RECEIVE FIRST PRIORITY

Priority Ratin; To Fix Return OfSoldjers -  Some in Needed Services to Stay; Navy Goes On Building Up

War Department Reveals Its Plans For Demobilization, To Follow Priority System   Industry To Be Allowed To “Make Whatever People Want” After Surrender Of Germany

SYSTEM 10 BE SET LD   Soldiers to Be Given New Index Discharge Cards

Army. to Use Priorit System  Soldiers Will Be Discharged on Rules of Justice

MEN OVERSEAS LIKELY TO GET FIRST DISCHARGES   War Against Jap: Will Keep Many

Justice And Impartiality To Rule’ War: Department: Plan. For ‘Demobilizing U.S. Soldiers —

Demobilization To Be Based On Credits For Parenthood, ‘Combat, Overseas Duty, Time

Priority System Set Up for Separating Men From Army After Germany's Defeat

b. . JOE FAVORS PRIORITY SYSTEM IN POSTWAR PLANS   Size Of Army To Be Reduced Substantially After Germany Falls   SELECTIVE SERVICE MAY STILL CONTINUE   Nature Of War In Pacific Will Govern Number Released

Plan to Cut Army When Hitler Quits   War Department Announce Principles on Which Dis charges Based

POINT SYSTEM TO FIX ORDER OF DISCHARGE   War With Japan Gets ‘First Priority’ on All Men

Plan to Reduce Size of Army ls Announced  Surplus Soldiers To Be Returned to Civilian Lite

Priority System Will Be Used In Discharging Men   Battle Against Japan Still Major Factor, Says War Department

Rampaging Yanks Tighten Nazi Noose   Patrols Stab Near Suburbs Of Paris But Main Interest Centers On Annihilation Qf Army Now In Seine Pocket

DEMOLITION SQUADS BUSY IN CAPITAL   Enemy Sets; Off: Explosion and Starts Fires as Yanks Drive Close to City’s Suburbs.   OTHER AMERICANS  ON RIVER SEINE   Retreating Germans Are Trapped in 55-Mile Square Area and Face Danger of Annihilation.

EXPLOSIONS IN PARIS INDICATE FALL IMMINENT   Allies Turn Attention To Destruction of Enemy Forces

Allies Concentrate On Knockout Of German Army   Paris Liberation Is Secondary in Strategy Of General Eisenhower as Troops Swing to Trap More Hitlerites

Destruction Of Germans Comes First   Allies More Inter. ested Right Now In Defeating Enemy Decisively

Destruction of German Army, Not _ Immediate Liberation of Paris Remains Allied Goal as They Hammer Nazis

Huns Believed  Preparing To Abandon City   Explosions and Fires Shaking and Searing Metropolis of France Today   Yank Patrols Are Stabbing Suburbs   Other Americans Reach Seine River in Tremendous Kuockout Blaw Against Germans

Falaise Gap Now Closed; Seine Reached  TA nena fC netéant bla   French Capital Has Explosion and Fires ‘of German Origin

BLAGTS, FLAMES SHAKE, SEAR GITY   American Patrols Stab Nearly Into Suburbs of Paris   ALLIES FASHION   Tremendous Knockout Blow Against Nazis in France; Planes Pound Enemy

GOAL NOW 16 10 WIPE OUT -EEAMAN ARM   Reports Yanks in Capital Not Confirmed; Blasts Shake City.

Foe Awaits Knockout As Dash To Seine Envelopes Ruine OF 18 Divisions

Troops At Seine River As Blasts Shake Capital   Enemy Reported Leaving French City; Seal Falaise Gap

Nazis Rush Demolitions In Paris as Allies Get Set for Knockout Blow

Allied Third — Army Reaches Seine Valley   ‘Explosions And Fires Set’ By Germans Shake Capital

Germans Fire French Capital   Falaise Gap Sealed; Foe Who Escaped _ Are Caught in New Trap; Reports Say , Yonk Advance Units in Paris Suburbs

Patton Armor Reaches Seine. To Close Trap   Falaise Gap Is Sealed Off While Allied Air Power Lashes Reaten Enemy

Advance Patrols Stab At Paris Suburbs; Third Army Masses Along Seine River   Destruction Of German Forces Rather Than Liberation Of Capital Is Immediate Goal, As Patton Squeezes Trap On Seventh Army

Foe Believed Making Ready To Flee Paris   Explosions And Fires In City; Swiss Radio Reports Americans Ir Suburbs Of City

WINTER COMES OUT AGAIN   Lodi Attorney Candidate For State Senate

Nine Governor Races Uncertain   Narrow Margins Prevent Definite Announcements

Congress Speeds Tax Bill Passage   Simplification Plan. Expected To Be Adoptec

SOLDIER BALLOT PLAN DISCUSSED   Bricker. Legislative Leaders Map Legislation

 Discuss Vote ‘Law Revision   Bricker Con fers  With GOP Leaders

REDS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE ON EAST PRUSSIA   Advance On  25-Mile Front and Reach Border in At Least One Point.

NEW OFFENSIVE OPENS TOWARD EAST PRUSSIA; HUNGARIANS JOIN RUSSIANS

Early Capture Of Three Anchor Strongholds By AdvancingY anksExpectec

Le Clerc In Heart Of City   Americans In Out skirts, DeGaulle Column Near;  German Pockets Fight

GEN. DeGAULLE LEADS FRENCH INTO CAPITAL   Pockets of Germans Bar Liberation  Of City

SOVIET SPEARHEADS ARE NOW TEN MILES INSIDE BORDER   Drive On Budapest   Fall of Belgrade Imminent As Russian Artillery. Pours Shells into Capital.

RUSS FORCES RACE THROUGH HUNGARY   Drive for Budapest to K. O. Last Balkan Ally of Germany

RUSSIANS AIM KNOCKOUT BLOW AT HUNGARY   Powerful Red Forces Roll Toward Balkan Capitaf

Boy Drowns Rather Than Cry for Help and Disclose Mates' Position to Foe

French Coast. Austrian War  Plants Blasted   Two Tons of Bombs A Minute Hit European Targets

Three Heavy Assaults Are Made in Less Than 24 Hours   FRANKFURT IS HIT — BY NIGHT RAIDERS   Targets in Austria and France Pounded During the Day

Aerial might unleaslied on Hitler’s fort  2 tons a minule offense rolling

Yank Bombers Pound Calais, Aus’ ‘a Plants   Attacks Follow Raid By Over 1,000 RAF Planes on Frankfurt: 214 Nazi Craft Bagged

Air Ottensive Against Nazis Gets Greater   Three Large Assaults Made on Axis in Less  Than 24 Hours

Two Russian Armies Storm Sevastopol From Three Sides, ‘Germans Falling Back Steadily

Two Russian Armies Storm Great Black Sea Port From Three Sides   Shock Troops See City Torn Apart   Germans Fall Back, Leavy. ing Plain Cluttered With Dead, Wreckage

Nazis Storm Crimean City  Attacks Made   Attacks Made From Three Sides

Battle of  Sevastopol Near Climax   Soviet Guns, Dive Bombers Make Shambles of City

RED ARMIES STORMING SEVASTOPOL   Fall of Biq Base Is Expected Soon

Two Red Armies Storm Inferno Of Sevastopol Last Nazi Crimea Hold   Remnants Of Nazi And Romanian Units Fall Back, Leaving Plain Strewn With Dead

All Axis  Outposts Smashed   Navy Base Inferno as Soviet Gunfire, Bombs Level City

Russians Storming Navy Base   Last Barrier to  Sevastopol Is Seized by Reds

Sevastopol Assault Arc Draws Tight   Germans Fighting Like Trapped Rats In Blazine Port

SOVIET ARMIES STORMING CITY FROM 3 SIDES   Early Liberation Of Big Sea Naval Base Indicated

ONLY SEVASTOPOL NEEDED BY REDS TOEND CAMPAIGH   Three Sides of City Stormed as Soviet Forces Take Over Contro! In Entire Crimea Area.   WRECK JAP AIRFIELD IN 2000-MILE FLIGHT   Airmen Drop 31 Tons ot Bombs on Satawau, Southeast of Truk, Without Least Opposition,

Nazis Build Barricades  In Streets    Red Forces in Complete Control Of Rest of Crimes

Soviet Armies Storm. Crimea   Nazi Resistance Crumbling At Sevastopol, Now Besieged From Three Sides

Cold Wave Into State    Mercury ‘to Drop to Ten in Southeast, With Snow and Wind

New Cold Blast , Bearing Down on Kansas; Near Zero   Forecast Calls for Snow ‘and High, Wind; Travel Conditions To Be Hazardous

Clicking Yank Break-Through on ‘Moselle Was a “Rule Book” Operatior

Moselle River Line Breached By Third Army   Yanks Bridge Iey Stream Under Nazi Artillery Fire

MOSELLE LINE BREACHED BY DARING THIRD ARMY   Engineers Construct River Bridges Under Heavy Nazi Artillery Fire

JAP LINES ARE BROKEN NEAR KOHIMA   Chinese Troops In Burma Batter Down Resistance

Beat Japs Back Farther In India   British Lash Invaders. Chinese Make Gains In Burma Area

Counterattack  Staged In India.      British Armored Units ‘Smash Irito Kohima Area

Allies Batter Kohima Japs   Foc Takes Reserves In India and Burma

British, Chinese In India, Burma Shove Jans Back   Counterattack by British Near Kohima Highly Successful

Take Nip  Kohima Positions   Stilwell’s Men Take Manpin, Threatening Mogaung Valley

Jap New Guinea Gains Wiped Out With Big Losses  Nipponese Reverses Reported in Every Pacific War Area

SOLDIER ADMITS. HOTEL SLAYING   Confesses Killing Another Soldier During Fight  In North Carolina ~

ADMITS KILLING OWA. SOLDIER.      ‘Deseribes Fight in. North. Carolina Hotel

Round-the-Clock Aerial Blows Are Kept Going  R.A.F. Blasis Rail Yards and Synthetic Oil Plant

Round-the-Clock Aerial Blows Are Kept Going  R.A.F. Blasts Rail Yards and

3,300 PLANES ATTACK REICH   About 9,000 Tons of Explosives Dropped; Main Blows at Rail Lines

RAIL YARDS RAIDED BY HEAVY BOMBERS   Around-the-Clock Offen sive Continues: Into  Night -

REDS REACH SUBURBS OF VINNITSA   Wedge Across Odessa-Warsaw Railway Is Widened

PARAMUSHIRO, RABAUL HIT BY YANK BOMBERS   Aussies Start Push On Madang Base; 2 Ships Sunk

Scattered Blows Blast Jap Defense Circle   By Leonard Milliman Associated Press War Editor

Jap Strongpoints Hit By Bombers  Allies Win Air Battle Over Rabaul. 15-6

Dictator ictator Methods Laid to Neely; ‘Meadows Deplores ‘WVU Issue’

ANNIHILATION OF NAZI ARMY POSSIBILITY   Reds Believed to Be Crossing Over Estonian Border In Rapid Drive.

Russians Take 4 Towns Near Estonian Line   German Collapse About Complete With Fall Of Kingisepp

RETURN TO PRE. WAR LIFE TOBESLOW   °Full- Prodaction : Cwilian G Goods: “Waits Japs’ Defeat

Most Pre-War [tems Depend On Jap Defeat   Previous Standard OF Liv. ing Must Await Close Of The War

Ormoe Burns As Yankees — Move Leyte Lines Ahead   Jap Reinforcements “Are. Badly: Defeated

Dares Jap Fleet To Fight It Out   American Naval Power Ready For The Test, Admiral King Says

French Warriors Take Siena After Week of Fighting  Americans Crush Resistance At Cecina, Thwart German -Plans fo Defend River Line

French Warriors Capture Siena  Other Strongholds in traly Falls to Allies

‘French Occupy Siena, Yanks Capture Cecina In Italian Advances   Allies Nine Miles From Port Of Ancona, Are Moving Nearer Florence, Leghorn Despite German Attempts To Hold Line ©

French Troops Take Siena   Yanks Take Cecina After Bitter Fighting— Eighth Makes Gains

Siena Falls To 5th Army   French Occupy Key City to Florence; 8th Also Moves Up

Historic City Of Siena Falls   French Capture Key Communications, Highway Center In Italy.

Japs Lose Three Destroyers In An Attack On Mindore   Battleship and Cruiser Also Badly Damaged By Defending Yank Air men.

Slovak-Polish Border Closed As Patriots Attack Germans Retreating Over Carpathians

Directors 'Are-Named   Four: New Board Members Elected At-Recent Balloting In Organization

Four New Directors —  For C. OF C      Primary Ballcts Being Sent Out In Connection With Annual Election

SEE OMe  Br eak Path To Relief Of Airborne Troops In Arnhem Pocket   Germans Fighting Grimly To Save Historic Defense Line But Appear To Be Losing; Fate Of Ruhr Valley Depends On Outcome

Nijmegen BridgeSeized By Allies In Raging Battle   Seal Of Doom Reported Set On 100,000 Nazi Troops In West Holland Area

—— of British Tank Troops and Allied Sky Seldiers Breaks Open Path to Relief of Pocket of Air-Borne Troops   MAY SEAL DOOM TO 100,00 NAZIS IN HOLLAND

British in Effort To Reach Pocketec U. S. Paratroopers   Seize the Nijmegen Bridge in Battle Which May Trap 100,000 Nazis

Break Open Path to Relief Of Trapped Air-Borne Units   Germans Counter-attack Desperately to Save Defense Line; Our Forces Seal  Doom on 100,000 Nazis in Lowlands

British Tanks Win Battle For  Nijmegen Span   Whole Fate of Germans’  Ruhr Valley and Safety Of Northern Flank Turning On Vietory   Seal of Doom For 100.000 Huns Set   Americans Holding Grimly to Positions At Arnhem, Astride Doorstep to Ruler

SHOP AND MAIL GUFTS EARLY      JAPS CLAIM 5 U. S. SHIPS DAMAGED IN LEYTE GULF

Japs Talk A Victory   Claim to. Have Sunk 15 Allied Vessels in Raids On Leyte Gulf

New Library Hours Beginning May 29  - Receive Shipment — Of Recent Books

New Library. Hours Beginning May 29  Receive. Shipment.  Of. Recent Books.

HOUSE ATTACKS SENATE'S POWER IN TREATIES   Judiciary Committee Discusses Amending U.S. Constitution

CIO Mobilizes Support of Vote   Willkie, Dewey Fall In With Approvals

WILLKIE BACKS SOLDIERS’ VOTE FEDERAL PLAN   Gives View In Answer To CIO Appeal For Support

For Federal Ballot Law   Committee Terms State’s Rights Bill ‘Disgraceful’

General Patton's Forces Apparent ly On Swift New Sortie to Round up Faltering Nazis.   THE LATEST

SOVIETS CRACK NAZI DEFENSES AT KRIVOI ROG   Iron Center Now Almost Isolated, Under Red Artillery Fire

BRADLEY LEADS AMERIGAN ARMY   Lt.-Gen. Omar Bradley Revealed As Commander Of U. 8. Army Troops In Assault On Europe.

General Bradley In Command of Land Forces   Won Fame in Tunisia; Is Widely Recognized As Able Military Man

Lt.-Gen. Omar Bradley Heads D-Day Forces   Commander of U. S. Ground Forces Participating In Assault of Europe.

War Production  Critical Stage  Past, Says Jones Record  Crops  Ascnre Food

VALLEY MAN LISTED AMONG THE MISSING   Cpl. Albert Mazzarona Lost In Action In Germany

AFL Will Decide Postwar Policies   Wants Labor Unity, Better Housing, Lasting Peace

 Yanks Attack Last Pillboxes  Inside City With Bayonet  And Hand Grenade   BRITISH START DRIVE  ALONG CAEN SECTOR

Pole Dispute  Decision Near   Agreement Likely Before Charchil] Denarts

Polish Factions  Seek Agreement   Arrive in Moscow For Vital Conference

Political Action Group Hit a  Dies Calls Committee Of CIO Political Arm Of New Dea

DIES SAYS PAG IS NEW-DEALIST   House Group Looks Into Work Of Political Action Committee

(UlU Group  Political Arm  OfNew Deal,  Report Says  - Dies Committee Paper Accompanied by List —  Of Telephone ( Calls.” wr doe ta White Unie   ‘EARLY INVESTIGATION ‘BY BIDDLE URGED   Record Cites Call By CIO-PAC Official To Mrs. Roosevelt: -

Dies Reveals PAC Telephone Calls To White House  i   Says Labor Committee Is ‘Political Arm’ of The Administration

72 Calls to WhiteHouse From P.A.C.      CHAIRMAN _ DIES SAYS CIO POLITICAL ACTION IS POLITICAL ARM OF NEW _ DEAL ADMINISTRATION,   Biddle, Bowles on List

Says P.A.C. Arm Of The New Deal   Dies Committee Asks Investigation For Violation Of Hatch Act.

FRENCH ROLE IS AGREED ON   Churchill, DeGaulle Plar Saar Occupation, and Strong French Army

Churchill and DeGaulle Reach Wide Agreement  France to Have Full . ia  rer FPinAnre

Occupation Of Saar by France Ok'd   Churchill, De Gaulle Agree to Speedy Rearmament of Army

rostwar role  for France  agreed upon Reach concord on three points

Freneh and British Agree To Demilitarize Saar; __ French to Control Mines

Avery Sues Chicago Sun for Million   Charges Field Published False  Statements

QUIT FOR MILLION 15 FILED BY AVER   Charges Marshall Field Maliciously Published Untrue Stories.

$1,000,000 Suit Against "Chicago Sun   Montgomery Ward Head ) Charges Untrue, False Statements

WARD HEAD SUES MARSHALL FIELD   CHARGES DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS IN SUN; ASKS FOR $1,000,000

Japanese Naval Officers Killed  Uenomyu Artinn”   “Enemy Action” Fatal To Six

STATE CAMPAIGN NEARING CLIMAX   CANDIDATES HURL VERBAL BRICKBATS IN PRIMARY FIGHT

CHRIST CHURCH (Episcopal)   ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. F. M. Grive, Pastor

Somerset Men Held On Liquor Charge  “Moonshine” Case = {1 Federal Court

STILWELLS RECALL ASKED 2 MONTHS AGO   F. D. R. Warns Move Will Not Be Cure-All for China Troubles

AMASSADOR TO CHINA RESIGNS AS RESULT OF DISAGREEMENTS   WHITE HOUSE REVEALS CiilANG HAD ASKED FOR RE. MOVAL OF STILWELL TWO MONTMS AGO

CHIANG ORDERS STILWELL OUT   Roosevelt Delayed Removal Months, White House Reveals

MORE MONEY ASKED FOR NEW SKY GIANTS   Final Appropriation Bill Is Offered in Congress

CONGRESS GETS NEW FUND BILL   Over Half of $415,324,712 Appropriation Would Go To The Navy  >

a el  MONEY BILL UP BEFORE HOUSE   Congress Considers New  Levy Calling For  $415,.324,712

Congress Receives Final: Appropriation — - Bill for. 415 Millions

More Millions Presented for Congress Approval   Final Appropriation Bill Asking $415,324,712, Mosily For Navy, Given to Congress

Congress Studies Appropriations Slated for 1945   Social Security ; Tax Freezing Veto Is Opposed

HOUSE EXAMINES BIG FUNDS BILL   APPROPRIATION BILL TOTALS $415,324,712

Congress Asked Over 415 Million Appropriation:   See 71 Billion Yearly Cost -Of Conquering. Japs; Study New Sky Giants

Proposal Would Boost To $68 Billion Funds That Have Been Voted During This Year By Congress

Congress Asked. For $415,324,712   Final Appropriation Bill Received; Has Recommendation.

F. D.R. Signs Elk Hills Unit Contract Bill   NAVY, STADARD OIL OPERATION PLAN PROVIDED IN MEASURE

Anti-Violence Act Upheld As Constitutional   Supreme Court Rules On Picketing Act In Jefferson Case

Allies Continue Smashing Raids Over Wide Area   Hitler's Inner Fortifications Are Battered: London Says Yanks And British Ready To Strike; Forts Unmolested

PLANES LASH DENY OVER WIDE. AREAS   “Mystery” Spots Hit in Pas-de-Calais

BRITISH TROOPS GAIN SOUTH OF ROME   Attacks Launched With Support of U. S. Cruiser

BRITIS STRONGP OINTS ON BEACHHEAD   Naval And Aerial Craft Active In Hammering Nazi Forces in Italy

- ALLIES SEIZE PAIR OF NAZI STRONG SPOTS   _ Make Slight Gains on : Beachhead  WARSHIPS HELP  ] ‘Allied Bombers Kept Inactive

Minor Action Is Reported On Italian Front   Two German Strongpoints Are Seized By BritishU.S. Cruiser Aids   MANY SORTIES ARE MADE BY PLANES

DECLARES U.S. POLICY WAVERS   Willkie Says Country Is Losing Its Sense Of Direction

WILLKIE GIVES GLIMACTIC TALK IN MILWAUKEE   Says People Have Los Sense Of Direction; Hot Oklahoma Fight

Willkie Praises Labor Leaders   But Scores Those Who Are Arrogant

Finnish Envoys Get Passports   Ambassador Asked To Leave United States Because of Activities.

a Restoring Peace Is Up to General De Gaulle, Who Barely Misses Assassination at Hands of Snipers — Shooting Causes Postponement of His Victory Address—Fleet of  Allied ‘Prucks to Take Food to Capital.

PARIS’ MAIN PROBLEM IS GETTING FOOD   Marquis, FFI Also Must Be Kept In Check, Res idents Believe

Paris In Dire Need of Food   Disorderly Elements In City Must Be Kept In Check as Outbursts Occur

FRENCH CAPITAL ASKS FOR FOOD   Liberated Paris _ Still In Uproar; DeGaulle To Solve Disorder

Hungry Paris wants food and order; triover-happy maquis still run wild

PARTS NEEDS FOOD ANI) CHECKING OF CAPITAT’S ~ DISORDERT.Y ELEMEN'TS

Paris Disorders Must Be Checked By Gen. De Gaulle   city Kept in Uproar by Elements of Maquis and French Forces

FOOD AND-ORDER NEEDED IN PARIS   General De Gaulle Must ‘Solve. Problem of   Policing

Germans Described as Being in “Highest State of Alarm,” Evacuating Poland.   SHARP SOVIET ARMY ADVANCES CAUSING SERIOUS CONCERN

Mrs. Schwiesow  Taken By Death  F ails To Recover ~ Bear Oneration. ©

EIGHTH TAKES MONTE FORTING   ALLIED PLANES BUSY ATTACKING VARIETY OF TARGETS

Under-26 Draft Order Issued to Local Boards By Springfield   None to Be Deferred Except With Special Approval

U. 5. BOMBERS PLUNGE DEEP INTO GERMANY   HEAVY OPPOSITION CAUSES LOSS OF 53 PLANES

Believe Yanks Claim Record in German Planes   Three Hour Aerial Battle Staged Tuesday

Daily Temperatures   L. A. WATER DEPT. WORKERS GET $5 PAY INCREASE

Ward Case Heads For Court Test Of Seizure Right   Avery Charges Roosevelt Invokes Action Indiscriminately, Lets Violating Unions Go Free

Courts May Hear Ward's Labor Case   Hearing on Petition Set For January &

V-2 Robots in Action: Churchill Reports German Attacks With Super-Bombs; Minimizes Loss

churchill Says England Under V-2 Attacks; It Travels At Speed Faster Than Sound

Germans Hurl Giant Explosive-Laden Rockets Against England Churchill Admit

NEW ROCKETS ARE GIVING BRITISH SCARE   Travel Faster Than Sound Plummet to Earth With Ton of Explosives; Commons Informed.   Weighs 15 Tons

SPEED THROUGH STRATOSPHERE AT 1,000 M.P.H   New Nazi Secret Weapon Not Effective ‘So Far,’ Churchill Says

Bombs Plummet Dow Faster Than Sound Fron Height Of 70 Miles —   Explosive Travels 1,000 Miles Hou   Churchill Says, However Casualties Have Not Been Heavy

Churchill Says England Under Attack by V-2   Rocket Travels 70  Miles High at Speed Faster Than Sound, Commons Informed

Casualties And Damage Not Heavy   Churchill Confirms German Claims Of New Weapon.

V-2 ROCKETS HIT ENGLAND   Churchill Reveals Nazis Us. ing Bombs Travelling Faster Than Sound

V-2 Rockets NowDropping On England ©   Nazi Weapon Is Said To Rise 60 Miles . At 700 Miles an Hour  FASTER THAN SOUND

Have Also Hit Antwerp And Paris   Giant Rockets Speed to Earth at 1,000 Miles Per Hour

‘Long Range Rocket Bombs ‘Hit England   British Doubt Germans’ Ability to Launch Sustained V-2 Attack

Churchill Announces England Under Attack By V-2 Rocket   ‘New so-so Flies Through Air At Height Of To 70 Miles And Travels At Rate Faster Than Sound

London Is Under V-2 Rocket Raids   Powerful New Missils Travel 700 Tc 1,000 Miles An Hour; Churchill Says Damage Not Great

SPEED OF ‘NEW BOMB IS GREAT   Sensational Claims By Germans Refuted By s Prime Minister

OUTSTRIP SOUND IN FLIGHT THRU STRATOSPHERE   Less Damaging Than Robombs

Faster Than Sound   Rocket Travels In Stratosphere To Hit Target

NAZIS SHELL BRITAIN WITT V-2 ROBOTS   Churchill Reveals New German Terror Weapon Being Used

TEMPERATURES:   Germany's New Secret Weapon Hits England   Churchill Raises Veil Of Secrecy From ‘¥-2"  Explosive Carrier

¥-2ROCKETS ARE LANDING IN ENGLAND   Churchill Says Casualties Thus Far Not Heavy

NAZIS HURLING GIANT ROCKETS OVER ENGLAND   Churchill, Revealing New Attacks, Says Casualties Have Been Light

Super-Robots Battering London V-2 Missiles Travel Faster Than Sound

V-2 ROCKETS OF THENAZIS ~HITENGLAND   Churchill Announces Nation Being Attacked by New Weapon

GREEN IS SANITARIAN   Successor to Weindel Is Graduate of University of Kansas

47 Officers Of RAF Shot  By Germans   Switzerland Asked By England To Make Inquiry At Onee

Forty-Seven RAF Fliers Shot In Mass Escape  Britain Has Demand Full ew From  ® ao nee eee OO ng sci ins i

47 Allied Airforce Officers Shot In Escape From Camp   No Americans Involved In Mass Flight Frorr Prison Camp In Germany; British Government ‘Shocked’

Eden Reveals in Commons That Allied Air Officers Were Put to Death After Mass Escape From Nazi Prison Camp— Nazis Indicted for Concealing Incident Which Took Place March 22—Explanation to Be Demanded.

AT Officers of RAF Shot After Escape From German Camp   15 Captured Alive; 14 Still at Large, Eden Informs Commons

,ALLIED AIRMEN SHOT TRYING TO ESCAPE PRISON   British People Shocked When Told by Secretary Eden About New Mass Kill ings

British Airmen Shot by German:  a7 pape rted Killed E e Attem  in ESGa

47 FLIERS SHOT BY NAZIS AFTER PRISON ESCAPE   Seventy-six Participated - Venture, Swiss Informed Britieh Government.

Nazis Shoot 47 RAF Prisoners Trying Escape   Mass Break From Camp Near Dresden Revealed By Anthony Eden.

Nazis Execufe 4] Allied: Prisoners   Fliers Shot After Trying to Escape

NAZIS KILL 47 IN ESCAPE TRY   No Indication Any Yank Officers Shot

47 RAF OFFICERS SHOT TRYING TO ESCAPE GERMANS   EDEN DISCLOSES SHOCKING EPISODE AT WAR PRISON CAMP

Germans Shoot 47 RAF Officers After Escape Try   First Such Episode Shocks Country; Escape Tried Near Dresden.

Allied Air Prisoners . Are Slain By Germans   Forty-Seven Killed After Mass Escape From Prison Camp, Report

Nazis Murder 47 Escaping RAF Officers   Shot and Killed in Attempt to Flee ‘Prison Camp

‘Allied Air Force Officers Are Shot To Death Aftfer German Pireon Break

Captives Shot After Attempted Mass Escape   International Law Is Flaunted By Germans; Berlin Bombed Today

RAF MEN TRY TO ESCAPE; 47 SHOT BY NAZIS   Eden Reveals 76 Took Part in Break From German Prison Camp

Fifteen Others Trying Tx Escape German Prison Camp Recaptured: 14 Others At Lareo

Forty-Seven RAF Fliers Shot In Mass Escape  Britain Has Demande:  Full Report From Pee Poncepaiman :

47RAFMen  Shot By Nazis   NAZIS EXECUTE GROUF OF BRITISH. AIR OFFICERS.

GERMANS KILL AT RAF FLIERS IN CAMP BREAK   Eden Says Airmen Shot While Resisting Arrest; Second Escape Attempt Fails

47 RAF Officers Slain by Germans   Shootings Fellow Attempt To Escape   Secrecy Causes Doubt

British Officers Shot To Death After Flight  From Nazi Prison Camp

NAZIS SHOOT © 47 AIRMEN IN PRISON BREAK   British Shocked ‘“Profoundly” by Mass Killinas

Oust Nazis In Fierce Battles   Best German Troops Try To Save Rich Silesian Coal Fields;  Saxons Beaten.

CONTINUE STUDY OF DEFERMENTS FOR INDUSTRY   WPB Seeks to Defer Critical Workers De-pite Army Demands.

WPB CONTINUES DEFERMENT TRY   Armed Forces Emphasize Manpower Need Over ~* Production

Dawson Pled ges Cities Double Share Of State Liquor Profits   @Republican Mayors Hear Gubernatorial Candidate; Committee To Work With Dawson On Municipal Relief Program

Shipbuilding in US. Offsets Allied Losses   Figures Disclosed Officially in London and Washington Also Show War Costly to Britain, Third of Homes Destroyed or Damaged by Bombs With 136,116 Civilian Casualties

SHIPBUILDING EXCEEDS LOSS, SAYS REPORT   Up Until 1944 Enemy Sank 22 Million  Gross Tons

9,/58 ALLIED AND NEUTRAL VESSELS SUNK   Shipping Losses From Be ginning of War Through 1943 Aggregate 22,161,00U Gross Tons

REPORT ALLIED SHIPPING LOSS   5,758 Vessels Destroyed From Start Of War Through 1943

5,158 Vessels Lost By Allies Through 1943   U.S. Production In That Period Roughl;  Faunled Sinkinac

War Costs England 733,030 Casualties; One Of Every Three Dwellings Damaged   Allied And Neutral Shipping Losses Total 5,758 Vessels

5,758 ALL! VESSELS LOST   22,161,000 Gross Tons Said Aggregate Damage

U. S. SHIP LOSSES TOTAL 753 SINCE THE WAR BEGAN   SHIPPING LOSSES OF ALLIES AND NEUTRALS TOTAL 5,778 VESSELS

9,798 VESSELS LOST BY ALLIES   Neutral Ships Also Included In Figures Through *43

Allies Have Lost 5,(98 Ships So Far in War  United States Total  Is Placed at Pirrar FEN Vacenle

Allied Vessel Losses Total 5.758 to 44   U. S. Ships Sunk Reach 753 Marks  Canateurctian Gaines

REVEAL ALLIED SHIPPING 105%   U. S. Shipyards Offset 5,758 Vessels Lost Through Enemy Action, Perils

5758 Allied And Neutral Vessels, _ Totalling 22 Million Gross Tons, Lost Since Beginning Of Conflict

Allied Shipping Losses In War to 1944 Total 5,758 Vessels, Report

ALLIES, NEUTRALS LOSE 5,758 SHIPS FROM START OF WAR THROUGH 1943

Naval Losses. Are Released   ‘5, 758 Vessels’ Sunk Through Last Year

5,108 Allied Vessels Lost Due To War  U.S. Construction Offset Toll Exacted Ry Fnemy

Ship Losses 22,161,000  Gross Tons   Allies, Neutrals Report On War

—WASHINGTON—   Tonnage Losses  Offset   Records Show United States Lost 753 Craft Through 1943:

Allied, Plus Neutral, Shipping Losses Are 5,758 Vessels, Since ’39

Allies Have Lost 5,98 Ships So Far in War  United States Total Is Placed at Over 750 Vessels

Over 5,000 United Nations Ships Sent To Botiom by Axis   OWI Sets United States Losses at 753 Vessels During Last Year

Sale of Individual War Bonds Still $723,116.50 Short   Fourth War Loan Total for This County Reaches $3,558,083.50; E. F and G Quotas Must Be Filled in Next Few Davs

County Nears Quota in Individual  ‘War Bond Purchases   Residents Are Warned That an All-Out Drive Is Necessary to Reach Goal in Nex? Two Davs: Union Grouns to Meet

German Forces Are Repulsed South of Rome   Beachhead of Allies Being Expanded Steadily

NAZI ATTACK NEAR ANZIO IS REPULSED   Allies Expanding Beachhead South Of Italian Capital

HEAVY FORTS OUTSIDE CITY MET BY RUSS   ‘Valley. of Death’ in The Light Brigade Poem Reached

Reds Smash Into Key Junction At Varnutka, Close In From Three Sides.

27MoreJap Ships Sunk By U.S. Subs   Two Combat Vessels Among Craft Destroyed

ALLIES SECURE ON BEAGHHEAN   Secretary of War Stimson Speaks Confidently of Position at Anzio.   PESSIMISM IS. UNTIMELY

Pessimism Over  Beachhead Hit ‘Keep Your Shirt On,’  Stimean Advises

Stimson Confident Of Anzio Victory   Pessimism in News Dispatches Results in Tighter Censorship

STIMSON VIEWS SITUATION WITH CONFIDENT EYE   Secretary of the Army Says Allied Forces Holding Superiority in Striking Power

POSITIONS AT ANZIO STRONG   Allies Are Superior, Says Stimson; Casualty Figures Revealed

Stimson Sure of Success at Anzio   Says Beachhead Firmly EstablishedScores Pessimism

Confidence Is Expressed by U.S. Secretary   Beathhead Firmly Estab. lished Stimson Says; Some Stories ‘Unwarranted’   CENSORSHIP UP : TO COMMANDER   ‘General Wilson in Best Position te Judge’ ;‘Keep Your Shirt On,’ He Adds

SECRETARY STIMSON TALKS OF PESSIMISM OVER ITALY FRONT   TAKES TO FOXHOLE CON. CERNING CENSORING AND DELAY IN NEWS

Draft to Cut Coal Supply, Tekes Fears    Fuel Boss Warns Of More Restrictions Next Winter

Verermen or Miners,  ays Ickes   Predicts More Restric: tions on Use of Coal Next Winter

Larger Coal Shortage Is Foreseen By  Head Of SFA   Ickes Has Little Hope Any Miners Under 26 Will Be Deferred

Miners Under 26 Face Draft Call   Feck Ickes Says Their In duction Poses Critical Coal Shortage

Meat Dealers’ Shops Reopen   Butchers Promised - Supplies: Next Week

7,645 Japs Pay - Supreme Price   U, 8. CAPTURED: ISLAND IN BITTER PACIFIC BATTLES.

Mop-up of Other Islands Indicates 7,045 Nips Slain By Army and Marines in Landinas.

APTURE OF PELELIU NEAR   Japs Make Bitter Last Ditch Stand: Angaur Lost To Yanks

Slow Progress Being Made on Peleliu Island   Heavy Toll Taken Of Japanese During Bitter Resistance

Desperate Japs On Peleliu Driven Into Small Area   Bitter Resistance Marks Defense of Worst Terrain Encountered In Pacific Fighting

Angaur Captured But Resistance Is Bitter On Peleliu   Marines Progress Slowly ‘As Japs Hold “Advantage Of Rocky Elevations On Peleliu.

Jap Resistance Bitter On Peleliu Island But Marines Make Progress

Jap Resistance Reported Heavy On Pelelin isle   Toll of Jap Dead In Ree ent Battles Heavy, U. 5 Now Controls Angaur.

Resistance Of  Japs Bitter On ~ Peleliu. Island   Remaining Enemy Force Favored By. Rocky Ele-_ valious; 7,645 Killed; Angaur Conquered

MacArthur’s Men Hit Installations At Southern End Of Philippines

Japs Giving Ground Slowly; U.S. Planes Hit Davao Again   Nimitz Reports Resistance Is Bitter On Peleliu But Correspondent Optimistic

JAPS PUT UP COSTLY FIGHT FOR PELELIU   Small Island of Angaur Falls  _ To Americans But Resist ance on Mainland Continues Bitter   DAVAO AREA POUNDED

Marines Faée  Bitter Fighting With Japanese On Peleliu Isle   7,645, Nips Killed ‘In Three Battles 

Japs Making Bitter Fight   Still Resisting on Peleliu After Losing Anouar and 7.645 Men

7,645 Jap Dead In  Palaus   One Island, Angaur, I. Captured; No Pelelit Fighting Is Reportec Bitter

1045 Japs Die in Palau Isles Fighting   Adm. Nimitz‘ Report Says Enemy Resistance Slows Our Progress

Palau Costly To Japanese   Lose Islands, Many Lives But Remaining Nips Fight Bitterly On

MEET TOUGH JAPS   Enemy Puts : Bitter Resistance on slands in the Pacific

Judge Freschi To Remain n On Loner: gan Case   ‘Accused Wife Slayer’s AL torney Calls On Jurist to  Disqualify Self For   Contempt Remarks

LONERGAN TRIAL BEGINS MONDAY   Defendant “Is ‘Confident’ of Acquittal

Counsel For Lonergan Ask Judge To Disqualify Himself As Case Called

Marshal Tito Warns Serhs  Urges Them to Rise TIp Banwinet Navsie

Yanks Move To Attack Wewak Japs   13 Planes Hit On Ground; Hollandia Ruined As Base

13 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   206 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Wewak; Little Opposition Met

Thirteen Planes on Ground Are Destroyed in Attack  FORCES MOVING ON BASE AT MADANG,  eit   New Raids Against Rabau! and Kavieng Announced

MEN SEEK WRECK OF MISSING PLANE   May Be Liberator Missing For Nearly a Year With 24 Men.

Show-Down Fight At Border of Germany Near   British Build Up 75-Mile Assault Line in Belgium

Allied Writers Shown Scene Of Massacre   Russians Point. Out Poles Slain By Germans ‘-

U. S. and British Correspondents See Reds Open Graves of Polish Soldiers in Katyn Forest

AMERICAN AND BRITISH REPORTERS VISIT SCENE WHERE GERMANS IN 1941 SLEW THOUSANDS OF POLES   Soviet Investigating Cummission Provides What It Claims Is Proof of German Terrorism During  Early Days of invasion Which Nazis Had Blamec On Rede

 Henry Cassidy Vividly Describes . Grim Scenes As Russians Exhume Polish Victims Of NaziMassacre

Soviet Confirms Polish Massacre   Hundreds of Bodies Exhumed to Prove Slaughter by Naxis

DIES PLANNING REPORT ON Ci0   Political Action Committee Discussed In Letter

DIES TO MAKE ~NEW CHARGES   CONGRESSMAN . PLANS TO BY. PASS PROPOSED PUBLIC * HEARINGS ON FOLITI- — « CAL SETUP -

NINE JAP BOMBERS RAIDED AMERICAN SAIDOR BEACHHEAD  SUMMARY OF SITUATION, HOWEVER, SHOWS IN-

Fag Famine ‘To Be Worse Next Year   Cigaret Shortage Laid in Part to Demands of Army

Tomorrow is WASTE PAPER + DAY!      Shortage of Cigarets To Be More Acute in Coming Y ear

FEWER SMOKES SEEN FOR 1945   Cigarette Shortage Will Be More Acute, Senators  Told

Increased Shortage of Smokes Due   ARMY TO TAKE MORE CIGARETTES NEXT YEAR COLONEL FOY SAYS

Cigarette Shortage May Become Much More Acute in 1945  Huge Army Purchases Listed as Cause For Nation’s Plight

Cigarets to Be Searcer   Semito Tuvestigutors Fold Shortage May Be Acute Next Year

BALKANS’ FATE IN TURK HANDS   Entrance on Allied Side Might Force Germany to Abandon Area

COMPLETE STOPPAGE OF   TRADE WITH GERMANY  COULD HAVE FAR. REACHING EFFECT

TURKEY MAY ENTER WAR ON ALLIED SIDE   Action Could Be Great Help in Liberating Balkans

AIR SMUGGLING RING REPORTED   Some Army Men Caught In ‘Hump’ Black Market

Fire Destroys Home in Coryville   Local Department Summoned to Fire

UNDERGROUND FORTS BUILT ALONG COASI   Tell British 300,000 Germans Ready to Receive Them

 Germans Work Feverishly on Defenses Against the (Coming Allied Invasion of Hitler's Eurove

LIFE WAS PLEASANT FOR YANKS ON LEYTE   Marooned P-T Boat Crewmen Almost Regretted Rescue

TRIPLE ATTACK MADE ON TRUK OVER WEEKEND   Fires, Explosions Started At Big Caroline Jap Base

RICKER PLANS ~—O-STATE TOU    Will Campaign Over Western Half of Nation Beginning Oct. 2 After Week in East.

23 WAR PRISONERS ~ ESCAPE FROM CAMP   Six Germans Later Recap. tured Near Phoenix. Ariz.

23 Nazis Escape Camp at Phoenix   Authorities Deny Noted U-Boat Officer Fled

23 WAR PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM CAMP   Six Germans Later Recaptured Near Phoe nmiy Ariy.

Alhed Fliers Take Big Toll (f Jap Planes   Reports From Pacific Show 546 Japanese Planes Shot Down In Month   RABAUL BOMBING ATTACKS CONTINUE

RAID RABAUL ~ SEVENTH DAY   Japs Lose 66 Planes Yesterday     January Loss Stands at 546

MORE THAN FIVE RUNDRED ENEMY PLANES KNOWN '. DESTROYED DURING PAST MONTH

hye Appeals { Belligerents j Spare Rome   fostff Again Urges faring World to ind Way to Peace a. th Anniversary

Pope Repeats Plea to Save Eternal City      Pontiff Appeals to Wisdom of Responsible Men on Both Sides

Pope Pius . Asks Rome Be Spared   Pontiff Suggests Warring Nations Seek Way  kT nanaect Poneco

PONTIFF AGAIN URGES THAT ROME BE SAVED   Pope Addresses Appeal Tc Both Allies And Germans

PONTIFE ASKS THAT ROME BE SPARED IN WAR   Pius XM Makes Plea To Allied and  Nazi Leaders

Pope Appeals To Nazis, Allies To Spare Rome   _World- Wide Radio Talk Urges Leaders To  Seek Peace To ‘Free Mankind’

THAT ROME BE SPARED IN WAR   Pius XII Makes Plea To Allied and Nazi Leaders

POPE MAKES PLEA FOR SPARING ROME   Appeal fs Belligerent No_. tions Is Made in a Broadcast ,

Spare Eternal City,  — s Plea From Pope Pentift Speaker On Hi  Fifth Anniversary

Pove Asks Allies, Nazis to Spare Rome From Becoming Battleground   Pius XII Reminds in Broadcast That Eternal City Belongs to World; Urges ‘Peace of Liberation:

POPE PLEADS THAT ROME BE SPARED HORRORS OF WAR   Calls on All Belligerents To Spare City Which Belongs to All Fronts and To All Places

POPE APPEALS 10 ‘BATTLING. ARMIES TO SPARE VATICAN   Pius XI! Speaks on 5th Anniversary of Coronation to Roman Crowd.

POPE URGES BELLIGERENTS SPARE ROME   Asks Eternal City Be Not Turned Into Field of Battle

POPE APPEALS FOR IMMUNITY   PONTIFF ASKS LEADERS TO STRIVE FOR PEACE

POPE ASKS THAT ROME BE SPARED   Made Appeal Sunday to Both ‘Allies and Axis

POPE APPEALS 10 SPARE ROME   Calls On Warring Nations To Strive For ‘Peace Of Liberation’

Pope Appeals to War Chiefs to Spare Rome   Speaking to. Great Throng, He Asks Belligerénts for A "Peace of Liberatiean”

POPE APPEALS TO WORLD FOR PEACE   Asks Belligerents To Spare Holy City So Memory Will Be Blessing Instead Of Curse.   Delivers Prayer

WARRIORS URGED TO SPARE ROME   Pope Pius Makes Appeal From St. Peter’s Square, Within Sound of Guns.

PROTEST ROME, POPE’S APPEAL   Pontiff Pleads With Belligerents Not To Make It A Battleground

Spare Rome, Pope Urges   Appeals to Allied And German Leaders; Pleads for Peace

World Pontiff Save Battl: Jn City “Inglorious”   Report Nazis Agree To Abstain From Air Skirmishes Over Vatican

Pope Asks Rome Get Protection   Appeals to Both Allies and Nazis   Pone Gives Meseare

World Urged by Pontiff To Find Way to Peace; Raids on Towns Assailed

Pope Appeals to Belligerents fo Spare Rome From Becoming Battleground in This Grave Hour

PUBLICITY TC BE DEMANDED ON HARBOR PROBE   Senator Ferguson Urging Airing Of All Details On Jap Sneak Punch   INQUIRIES NEAR CLOSE   People Can Draw Their Own Conclusions, Solon Says, lf Facts Are Known

PEARL HABR PROBE NEARS ENA   Senator Ferguson’ Will ° ‘Demand ‘‘Full Publicity’ on Beard Findings  .,

PEARL HAFBIR PROBE NEARS END   Senator Ferguson Will Demand ‘‘Full Publicity” on Beard F_ndings

‘FULL PUBLICITY’ DEMANDED FOR PEARL HARBOR ‘REPORTS   MICHIGAN SENATOR WANTS DETAILS OF ARMY-NAVY IN. QUIRY MADE AVAIL-._ ’ ABLE TO PUBLIC .

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Shut House Probe Into WMCA Sale   REP. MILLER, MISSOURI REPUBLICAN. ASSERTS FORMER PRESIDENTAL AIDE MAY HAVE SHARED $50,000 FEE   To Avert Consequences

FCC Probe Hints Startling Events   Administration Accused of Halting Investigation; Say "44 Election Menaced.

Hinted Aide of F.D-.R. May Have Shared Fee In Radio Station Sale

Germans Senc Troops fo  Scandinavia  Fear Allied Move Across the _ North Ailantic

80,000 NAZIS ARE SENT T0 SCANDINAVIA   Vast Scorched Policy Due If Enemy Has To Retreat

STRIKES STALL  LUMBER MILLS  IN NORTHWEST THOUSANDS IDLE IN  PROTEST OF DENIAL OF WAGE INCREASE

LUMBER OUTPUT INNORTHWEST HALTED BY WORK STOPPAGE   Walkeuts In Over 40 Plants in Pacific Northwest Luthber Area Halts: Production of Vital Material

Thousands Walk Out In Pacific Northwest Woods  Lumber Industry Is Vital To War

LUMBER WALKOUT STALLS 40 PLANTS   Production of ‘Supplies Listed As Vital Materials Shortage.

Production Of Vital Lumber Supplies Seriously Crippled As Result Of Walkouts In Northwest

LUMBER MILLS TIED-UP TODAY AFTER WALKOUT  One Of Nation’s Mo st Vi tal  a Ee eae

Stop Nut Plant To Suspend   -«- When War Contracts End, Say Directors

REGULATIONS BLAMED   Corporation Operated At Loss Because of Government Rules

German wall in Lithuania is crumbling  Two Russ forces wagoatarnr bio cam

IN LITHUANIA   Flying Soviets Also In 72 Miles Of Budapest, — Capital

SOVIET ARMIES DRIVE THROUGH GERMAN LINE!   East Prussia Being Menaced On Two Fronts; Fall Of Hungary Seen   ‘CABINET CRISIS IN BUDAPEST REPORTED

British Take Up Service Pay   War Cabinet Promises Consideration of Increased Pay

Bricker Called ‘Dictator’ in State Auditor's Blast on Ballot Marking

WELL KNOWN LIFE INSURANCE AGENT  DIED IN MEXICO, MO.   Fred F. Peck Was Also a Wer Active Member of the  American Legion,

Republican Big Guns Roar At Armory Rally Here   Gov. Kelly, Rep. Hoffman Are Headliners At Big Meeting Wednesday Night; Blows At New Deal Bring Storms Of Applause

Nazis Boost Their Force In Cassino,  Regain Hill   Heavy Fighting Is Reported In Italy

Nazis ‘Inflict a Cassino Reverse   \Reinforce Strong Points and Take a Hill From Fifth Army   ALLIES GAIN IN TOWN      Germans Raise White Flag Over Hotel; 100 Are , Captured

Nazis Retake Key Hill At Cassino   Enemy Reinforcing What Remains Of Italian Town

Reinforcements Bolster Nazis Cassino Stand   Germans Regain A Hill West Of Ruined Town In Hard Fighting.

Battle Stitt To Oust Germans From Cassine   Nazis Raise White Flags Over Hotel But Cling To Corner Of Town,   Pian? INCH BY IAC

NHS REINFORCE PACING TROLES   Germans Regain Hill To ‘West Of Two From Fifth Army Forces.   BITTER FIGHTING   Allies Take 100 Prisoners In Battle For Wrecked  Hotel

Recapture Hill From 5th Army In Hard Fight   Nazis Holding on to Hotel Ruins Within City Proper

Nazi Troops Regain Hill  Near Cassino   Fifth Army Keeps Firm Hold on Railway Station South of City

GERMANS ARE ON HILL 169 NEAR CASSING   Nazis Reinforce Lines Today In  Italian Town

AlliesEncounter Continued Resistance In Cassino Ruins; RAF Hits Shipyard Mt Monfalcons, French Stop Convoy

Hun Positions Reinforced On  Cassino Front   ‘Succeed In Regaining Hill  From Fifth Army; Allies  Blasting At Holed j ..-.-OUp Enemies

Ardmore Man Downs Planes Over Austria   Lieut. John C. Tate One of American Heroes of Raid From Italy

GERMANS INSTALL 2 TANKS IN RUINS OF CASSINO HOTE!      Continue To Foil All Efforts Of Allies To Throw Them Ont    HUNS REGAIN HILL WEST OF THE TOWN

Nazis Regain Hill By Reinforcing -- Sites At Cassino   Allies. “Continue: -Asgaulis On Enemy Holed-Up In ’ Southwestern Section

Struggle Is Taking Turn In Our Favor   Enemy Reinforcing Few * Remaining Holds In Vil. Jage Itself ¢'

Nazis Install Tanks In Hotel Ruins; Fifth Army Occunies Railway Station

GERMANS REGAIN HILL IN FIERCE CASSINO BATTLE  — en eoiceen eis mbes eh eee eee ee   ENEMY SUCCEEDS IN BRINGING UP REINFORCEMENTS

GERMANS REINFORCE CASSINO TROOPS AND CONTINUE TO HOLD  LARGE BOMBER FORCE   LARGE BOMBER FORCE TAKES AIR TO BLAST AT NAZI OBJECTIVES

Nazis Reinforce Cassino Points   Germans Regain Hill From Fifth Army in Heavy Fighting.

Nazi Troops Are Stil! Holding Out In Cassino Ruins   Europe Has Had 20,000 Tons Bombs In Past Six Days

Reinforce Some Points Within Town   Bombers Batter Points in Austria and Yugoslavia   By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

Fifth Army Compels Nazis In Cassino’s Continental —  Hotel to Wave White Flag:

GERMANS TAKE HILL 105: AGAIK   Succeed in Reinforcing Their Remaining Strong Points In Cassino.

Nazis Bring More Troops  Into Cassino   Recapture One Hill; Sharp Local Combats On Anzio Beachhead

Germans Cling to Vantage Points in Western Cassino   Succeed in Reinforcing Their Remaining Strong Positions

Fresh Nazis Hold Yanks At Cassino   Allied Armor Continues to Pound Enemy  In Ruined City

DRIVE BROKEN NAZIS. TOWARD CARPATHIANS   Nazis Reinforce Cassino Garrison, Recapture Hill Feature

Germans Surrender Hotel in Cassina   Raise White Flag Over Structure Which They Had Made One of Chief Centers of Resistance, but Still Hold Corner of Town.

Germans Regain Hill In Cassino Counter Attack   Allies Turn To Air To Continue Fight A: Advance Stalls In Italian Sector

GERMANS HOL CASSING HOTEL   Enemy Manages To Reinforce Positions To Battle Fifth Army

Nazis Hoist White Flag Over Hote'   Fierce Batiles Rage for Strong points in Cassino, Germans Hole Southwest Corner   NAZIS REINFORCED   Eelief Grows Enemy Has Developed Maze ol Tunnels, Perhaps Even Connecting Abbey, Town

NAZIS REGAIN CASSINO HILL   Reinforce Other: Strong Posi  tions. in Wreckage of Bombed City.

HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES ANEW IN CASSINO TODAY   Nazis Strengthen Positions In Ghost City, Regain One Hill From 5th Army

5th Army Occupies Rail Station While Nazis Battle To Keep Hotel Point

HUNS REINFORCE CASSINO UNITS, RECAPTURE HILL   Record Force of Bombers Hit Targets in Austria, Yugoslavia

Germans Fly White Flag in Cassino Hotel   Enenty Contrives To Keep Hold of Trmnortant Hill *

einforced Nazis Regain Hill From Fifth Army Troops   n Southwest Fringe of Italion Bastion Allied Infantry Continues to Attack Germans Holed Up In Ruins Around Hotel   FLYING FORTRESSES ATTACK AUSTRIAN TOWNS

Germans Fortify Ruins, Slow Up Allied Advance   Nazis Recapture Hill 165, Much Contested Height.

Suspect Cassino-Battling Nazis Being Reinforced Through Tunnel   Germans Regain Hill Position In Heavy Fighting But Fifth Army Keeps Firm Hold On Railway Station.

Nazis Throw More Men Into Cassino Fight   Reinforcements Sent Into Battle And Allies Are Driven From Hill

Nazis Raise White Flag. Over Hotel   Cassino Stronghold in: Determined Defense “Given Up by Germans

Battle Raging For Possession Of Italian Town   Enemy Regains Important Hill In Bitter Fighting

Nazi Strong Point In Cassino Falls Jo Allied Forces   Continental Hotel Is Taken but Reinforced Foe Still Clings to.  J important Positions

GERMANS REINFORCE GASSINO TROOPS AND CONTINUE TO HOLD   LARGE BOMBER FORCE TAKES AIR TO BLAST AT NAZI OBJECTIVES

Reds Continue Roaring Drive Into Romaniz   Vaelui Falls as Troops Await Confirmation  sare hie scummes

REDS CONTINUE ROARING ADVANCE   No Halt in Offensive That Knocked® Romania Out   TOWNS CAPTURED   Russians Likely to Continue Drive to Put Nazis Entirely Out of Romania

Soviets Roar On Through .  Fallen Romani   Russians Are Only 167 Miles From Bucharest

Reds Knock Out New Gains In Two-Fisted Offensive   Capture Vaslui, 140 Miles From Ploesti Oil Center, and Topple Two Big Bessarabian Bastions, Advance in North

Soviet Army’s Offensive Rolls  On in Romania   Russians Disregard Political Action at

TWO BESSARABIAN BASTIONS SEIZED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Reds Push On in Romania Apparently Determined to Drive German Troops From Country.   THREATEN FORTRESS BELOW EAST PRUSSIA   Nazi Counter-Attacks in Warsaw Suburb of Praga Are Beaten Off, Moscow Announces.

Reds Push Ahead  Toward Bucharest   Advance Continues Northeast of Warsaw

RUSSIAN ARMY ROLLS ACROSS ROMANIA   With First Ukrainian Army Lashing Out in Southern Poland _ to Seize Debica.  a   Fortresses Fall

SAVE FOR THE Waste Paper Pickup Sunday, August 27  Paper is the war's No. 1 criti nel mmatastal Wave weure Bund  Political Actions Left To Others In Drive For Ploesti

TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES DRIVE INTO ROMANIA   Punch 60 Miles Int¢ Defenses, Capture  Over 400 Towns

Red Forces Continue Sweep; - Bessarabian Bastions Held   Russians, ’ Disregarding - Political Developments  for the Moment, Deepen Holes in GermanRomanian Defenses ©

Avery Defies  Seizure   Two Camps Form as Showdown Nears on Ward Operation

ne REFUSES TURN OVER 1OKS TO ARMY   “Court Test Set :For January 8

WARD'S REFUSES BOOKS TO ARMY   No Eviction of Avery Is Planned, Says Biddle

ean vO  Avery Again Defies Army Seizure; Challenges Roosevelt's Authority

Avery Defies F.D.R., Army: Holds Office   2 Camps Set Up In Wards: Colonel Refused Baoks

Ward Reject US. Demand For Books   Treasurer Refuses Accounts; Court Sets Hearing for Jan. 8

New Zealand Troops Methodically ' Reduce Stubborn Resisting En emy Pockets In Rubble Heap  §8Of Gassing   FIFTH ARMY ATTACK NOW ALL BUT WON

6000 B-2LLIBERATORS BUILT AT WILLOW RUN PLANT   Other Work’ Expected to Be Intro_ duced at This Plant After Sentember. ,

Allies Abandon Cassino Assault   Germans Stopped Us, Says Stimson

BIG PUSH AT CASSINO IS SUSPENDED   4s Lessons Of Futile Battle Are Studied; High Hopes Dead, Nothing Remains But Patrol Duty.   Air War Continues

Most of Shooting Stops at Cassino;  Milan Yards Hit   Americans Have Knocked Out 101 Planes In Past 4 Days

talian Campaign Settles Down to Patrol Activit   Big Push Suspended as Allies Study Lesson of Recent Battles

BATTLE SUBSIDES ON CASSINO FRONT   ACTION LIMITED TO PATROL! ACTIVITY AND ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT.

Swiss Newspaper Tells Of Huge German Losses And Suffering of Peoole

Gov. Warren Not Candidate, He Tells Backers   His 50 Votes May Go to Gov. Dewey

WARREN REQUESTS NAME KEPT OU   California Gover@e::cAske Republicans’ Ald at” Convention :

Warren Bids G OP Leave HisNameOft   CALIFORNIA'S REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR ASKS CONVENTION NOT TO PRESENT HIS NAME FOR ANY POSITION.   Rut Has State’s Delegates

FINNISH LEADER SEEKS PEACE WITH REDS   Political Party Reported Applying Heavy Pressure

Dewey Far Ahead In New GOP Poll   1940 Delegates  Voice Preferences

DEWEY HOLDS LEAD IN DELEGATE POLL      New York Governor Takes First Place by Wide Moarain

Dewey Leading GOP Candidates   Takes First Place By a Wide Margin

DELEGATE POL! FAVORS DEWEY   New York Governor Up In Prestige Since Last September

List names of Nebraskans eannaried nmicane in action      [Dewey leads by wide margin, national noll among 1940 national delegates

NAZIS PUSH REDS BACK AT OSSOW   Russians and Enemy Also Battling in Streets of Sandomierz

Germans Battle Desperately To Hold Warsaw   Russians Forced To Evacuate Suburb Of Polish Capital Moscow Reports   OTHER NAZI ATTACKS ARE HURLED BACK

RED ARMY IN SANDOMIERZ   FOUSH DasSvuUVit  een ne  Soviets Give Up Warsaw Suburb

RUSS SUFFER FIRST REVERSE OF SUMMER   Forced to Evacuate Ossow, Suburb of Warsaw

UVIETS RAGE TOWARD NAZIOGCUPIED LATVIA   New Drive Tears 92-Mile Gap in Enemy Defense Lines

SOVIETS: RAGE < TOWARD NAZI. agcuieD LATUIA   ‘New Drive Tears Le “90-Mile Gap in ” Enemy Defense Lines

DEATH REVEALS GAMBLING LOSS   Detroiter Takes Poison: Claims Toledo Gang Took $30,000

DISPUTE OVER RACIAL PLANK   DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TO ADOPT ITS CAMPAIGN. PLAT-. FORM LATE THIS. - > AFTERNOON

DEMOCRATS COMPLETE PLATFORM   Mild on Race Issue; “Force If Necessary” to Preserve Peace

PLATFORM SET FOR CONVENTION   Mild Racial Equality Plank Fails To Meet Full Approval

RAIN IS MOVING IN   ‘Weatherman Flora  Predicts” F  Stormy Week End for Kansas

WLB Will Continue Deliberations Without , Help OF -A.F.L. Members

Soviets Reach Approaches To Czechoslovakia   Allies Capture Mount Marrone in Italy. As Bombers \ttuck Germany

RUSSIANS OPEN FINAL BIS PUSH TOWARD ODESSA   German Radios Silent as American Bombers Go Back To Hit Reich

200,000 Germans Threatened by Drive on Odessa   Allies,Gain Mile In Advance Near Besieged Cassino

Red Army Begins Final Push Upon Nazis At Odessa   Berlin Reports Soviets At Gate To Czech Land

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE STRIKING ONWARD  ~ FOR ODESSA TODAY US. -LIBERATORS RE "t SUMED DAYLIGHT BOMB "+? Ar CERMANY

Tighten  Squeeze >  On Odessz   Russians Claim City In Wild Confusion; Other Red Units Close To Czechoslovakia

Reds Drive   onto Odessa. Nearer Pass.   American Liberators . and British. Mosquitoes .;:Attack Germany by Night. and.Day

Russians Drive On To Odessa And Jablonica  Quick Allied Drive Carries For Mile In Central Italy —

Nazis’ Plight A Spectacular Bradley Coup   By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE AND DON WHITEHEAD.

GENERAL BRADLEY HAS ENGINEERED SPECTACULAR COUP  COMMANDER FIRST U. S. ARMY CALM ON EVE OF ANTICIPATED VICTORY

General Bradley Calm as His U. S. First Army Closes Trap on Nazis

Gen. Bradley  Outfoxes Foe Now It Can Be Told  How Trap Was Made

Tell How Coup Was  Engineerec   Wheeling Movement To North Is Carried Out By Troops Commanded By General Bradley

Doctor Gives Testimony In Hearing of Indian Officer’s Slaying Charge

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS PUSH GERMANS BACK   Reds Set For Big Bid To End War This Winter

Allies Swarm Across Senio   Meet. Strong Enemy Fire From West Bank

BiG RED KARELIAN DRIVE REPORTED   FINNS SAY RUSSIANS MAKE EARLY GAINS

REPORT REDS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE   Nazi Broadcast Says Fighting On Karelian Isthmus

Reds Atfacking, Finns Annourice   General Offensive On Karelian Isthmus Not Yet Confirmed

DNB Reports Red Offensive Against Karelian Isthmus   Unconfirmed Bulletin Credits Small Gains  To Russians

35 LOST AS SHIP GOES DOWN IN STORM   Survivors of Amny Freighter Ne vada Tett of Battle With Gale in North Atlontic

35 Lose Lives In Foundering  Of Freighter   Ship Battles Raging Sea 3 Days in North Atlantic: Captain Among Victims

Army Freighter Sinks with Loss Of 35 Crewmen   Vessel Goes Down affer Five-Day Battle with Raging Storm

000 Worth Of Government Rotten Eggs Get $4,200 Ride   ne  Around- The ~:- i fama Hen Country

000 Worth Of Government Rotten Egas Get $4.900 Rid   cats Shifted. Henit Around-‘Fhe-~~ de Country

Nelson Lauds FDR’s Ability   Ex-Chief of WPB To Vote Fer ‘Know How’? Man

Carrier Task Force Hits Marianas Isles   Scores of Planes Blast Guam. Saipan and Tinian

Guam and Other Jap Islands Hit By U.S. Bombers   Palau Is Blasted by Land-Based Planes  From New Guinea

New Attaeks Are Reported On Jap Oil   Tokyo Reports Another Smashing Assault On Balikpapan

ALLIED BOMBERS IN CONTINUED BLASTING JAP OIL SOURCES  SHIPPING LOSSES CURTAIL JAP IMPORTATIONS

Allies Hit Vital Jap Oil Center   Balikpapan Is Target Again—Japs Losing Out in Oil Rice

BALIKPAPAN HIT AGAIN, JAPS SAY   Tokyo Reports 40 Bombers Pound Vital Oil Center

40 Big Bombers Strike Again At Biq Refineries on Borneo   Tokyo Admits ‘Losing Battle’ In Japan’s War of Foodstuffs

YANK BOMBERS BLAST JAP OIL BASE IN BORNEO   Tokyo Admits Losing Battle To Keep Food Supply Meeting Its Needs

TOKYO REPORTS 2ND ALLIED RAID ON BALIKPAPAN   11 JAP VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED OFF PHILIPPINES

ALLIED BOMBINGS WORRY JAPANESE  Tokyo Reports Se cond Mass Raid On Borneo Oil Center      SHIPPING IS HIT   Eleven More Nip Ships ‘ Blasted In Raids Over Wide Area

BALIKPAPAN OIL DEPOTS AGAIN RAIDED   Tokyo Radio Indicates Allies Are Wasting No Time In Campaign To Knock Out Fuel Center  FOOCHOW IN DANGER

Balikpapan  Attackes' by 40 Bombers   11 Jap Ships Sunk or Badly Damaged; Nips on Outskirts of Foochow; Takyo Makes Production Announcement

40 Bombers Hit Borneo Oil Fields   Attacks on Both Shipping and Supply Cripples Oil Supply; Japs at Foochow

Balikpapan Hhit Again By U.S, TokyoRadioSays   American Subs and Planes Smash : 22 More Jap Ships

Hammer Jap Oil Center   Tokyo Tells of Second Mass ‘Bomber’ Raid On Bornea Field; Admit  Damaging Ship Losses

Balikpapan Hit Anew, Report  Japs Still Taking Heavy Ship Losses

SECOND ALLIED AERIAL RAID ON OIL IN BORNEC   Shipping Losses Beginning to Hurt Jap Transportation From Dutch Indies Areas.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN  4A@ Giszwn Wht ccwe i

JAP-HELD BORNEO OIL CENTERS BEINGBLASTEDBY AMERICAN BOMBERS IN BIG MASS RAIDS

Balikpapan Hit Again, Tokyo Says   Jap Troops at Foochow Suburbs, Last ChineseHeld Port

U, S. BOMBERS STRIKING JAP OIL CENTERS   Balikpapan Hit By Large Mass Raid Tuesday

JAPAN CLAIMS BALIKPAPAN OIL CENTER REH!T   Reports 40 Large Bombers Attack Borneo Fuel Targets Tuesday

Allied Warplanes Hand Nip Oil Base Another Hard Blow   40 Four-Engined Ships Repeat Last Week's First Heavy Raid

ALLIES ARENOT WASTING TIME   Continue Long Distance Campaign to Knock Out Borneo Oil Center.

Tokyo Reports New Raid On Borneo Oil Centet Japanese Lose 11 More Ships Off Philippines

ALLIED BOMBERS IN CONTINUED BLASTING JAP OIL SOURCES   SHIPPING LOSSES CURTAIL JAP IMPORTATIONS OF FOODSTUFFS

Second Attack Made Against Oil District   Long Distance Campaign   Carried Out By U. S. Bombers To Knock Out Oil Producing Center 

Japan Admits Losing War Of Foodstuffs   Allied Bombs Knocking Out Oil  Producing Center

BATTER VITAL JAP OIL BASE      Borneo Field Hit Second  Time; Nips Near Port  Of Foochow

NIP OIL CENTER ALLIED TARGET   40 Planes Attack Balikpapan Borneo, Tokyo Radio Reports Today

Move Indicated To Run Byrd For Vice President.  O'Conor Believed Reads To Support Virginia Senator

Leaders Claim O’Conor Will Support Byrd   Marviand Denioeratic Party - Chiefs. Believe He Will Be Backed for Vice Presidency

RETIRING OLD MAN VICTIM OF STABBER      Philadelphia Police Baffled By Killing

Church-Going Man Victim Of Vicious Murder   ‘Revenge’ Believed Motive Behind Killing In Phila. delphia; Playing Radio Leads io Discovery

CHANNEL COAST POUNDED AGAIN   Spitfires Escort American Liberators in Attacking Pas de Calais Area

Yanks Fighting In Ancient Metz   Tanks Supporting House to House Fight

Tank-Supported Infantry Presses Forward In Determined Effort To Crush City’s Defenders

Patton's Men Surge Across Nazi Border   At Same Time Troops Swarm Into Metz From Two Directions

Patton Opens Sudden Drive Toward Saar   Germans Throw Many Big Tanks Into the Battle

INFANTRYMEN FROM THIRD ARE IN METZ   Same Army Invades Reich at New Point, Slams Toward Saar on Front of 15 Miles

American Troops Make Gains To Edge of Lessay —   Yanks Move Nearly . Half Mile In New . Advance On St. Lo ©

Gain Nearly Half Mile Against St. Lo; Overrun Five Outlying Villages,Seize North Bank Of River Ay Beyond Lessay   FIERCE BATTLE FOR oP LO TS RACING

Yanks Reach Lessay Suburbs   Americans Pose Frontal Assaults on Three Key Bastions, Report Capture of Nine Nazi Strong Points, Battle in Martinville

DEMAND FOOD POLICY CHANGES   GOP Group To Press Proposal For Single Chief

MRS. 0. C. TINCHER DIES IN SIOUX CITY   Former Resident of. LeMars Laid to Rest.in City Cemetery Today —

Mrs. 0. C. Tincher Taken By Death  Widow Of Pioneer * . LeMars Barber

British Ships Arrive At Port Of Athens   Germans In Greece Believed In Flight To Yugoslavia

BRITISH FORCES REACH GREECE   Germans Admit Evacuation Of Balkan Nation

BRITISH FLEET IN ATHENS PORT   GERMANS IN GREECE HEAD FOR YUGOSLAVIA

British Invade Port Of Athens   Troops Being Landed At Piraeus By Navy ~

British to Land Troops   Strong Naval Force Arrives at Athens Port of Piraseus

British Naval Units, Troops ~ In Greek Port   Few Nazis Left in Greece Head for Yugoslavia to i Escape Trap

British Navy At Athens Port   Yanks Capture Bologna Hill Town So Stubbornly Defended.

Baseball Today   Parents Ask Half Million for “Son” Who Proves to Bea Girl

GREAT AERIAL ATTACKS MADE BY AMERICANS   Germans Lose 50 Planes In Sky Battle Today

TONAZIPLANES BROUGHT DOWN      American Fighter Pilots Run Up Score in Aerial Battle Today

'2,500 Yank (Planes Drive Into German’      5 Germans Shot Down  as Americans Strike From Britain, [aly      SMASH OIL PLANTS      Desperate  Luftwatfe, Split by Two Assaults, Loses Air Baitle

2,000 American Planes Strike Hard At Germany   Oil And Plane Factories Dealt Heavy Blow By Big Sky Fleet; Over 75 Nazi Planes Destroyed In Great Air Battle.

Two-Way Air Assault On Nazis 70 Enemy Planes Shot Down  One American Fighter Pilot Bags Six Near

Central Eur ope Struck Again At 7 Places "Today   Eighth Air Force Fighters Escort Fortresses And: , Liberators In Raid 7:

LEIPZIG'S WAR PLANTS 1 ARGET OF U, $, PLANES   Large Number of Nazi Fighter Planes Destroyed in One of Greatest Aerial Battles.

Big Air Battle  Over Germany   75 Enemy Planes Shot Down During Attack by Bombers

2,000 American Planes Attack Seven Oil and Aircraft Plants Around Leipzia

79 Foe Planes Lost In Fight   Germans Offer Most Desperate Resistance In Air In Several Weeks.

Great Fleet U.S. Planes Hit German (il Centers   Nazi Opposition Bitterest In Two Months

7 Aircraft, — Oil Plants - Assaulted   Greatest Aerial Battle Since D-Day as Nazis Try to Ston Raid   LONG FLIGHT BY. PLANES FROM ITALY   They Add Théir Blows to Heavy Action by Great Force From England -

SHOOT DOWN 75 GERMAN PLANES   AMERICAN AIRMEN ENGAGE NAZIS IN GREAT AIR BATTLE

Vast U. S. Air Fleet Blasts Central Germany, Downs 75 Nazis In Great Sky Battles   Oil Refineries, Airplane Plants Hit; Fierce Air Battles Rage As Nazis Resist

2000 Planes Raid Reich   Aircraft Factories, Oil Refineries, Austrian Airdrome Bombed

BOMB OIL PLANTS   2,000 U. S. Plaries Attack Centers of German Industry’ ~

2,000 PLANES : BLAST LEIPZIG   Another Force Flies Beyond Breslau.

WILLKIE FLAYS GOP OPPONENTS   Governor Experience ‘No Qualification’

13,000-TON LINER - LOST IN PACIFIC   President Grant. Breaks Up Or Submerged Reef—All Persons on Board Saved.

FATEFUL DAY IN HISTORY ANTICIPATED   Won't Work Unless Five Conditions Are Granted

6 Million Italians  Defy Nazis   Fateful Day Looms As Strikers Court Wehrmacht Bullets  For Principles.

FUTURE OF NATIONAL SERVICE BILL RESTS WITH SMALL GROUP OF SOLONS

SENATE GROUP IS OPPOSED 10 BILL   Five Are Against National Service, Nine Undecided on Legislation.

SOME SENATORS ~—UNCONVINCET      ‘Future of National Service Law Rests with Them

Doubt Need OF  Service Law   Senate Military Affairs Committee Members Oppose Labor Draft

Senate Blee  Opposed to Labor Draft   Fate of Bil Rests With Small Group

Fate Of Draft Bill In Hands.  Senate Grour   Poll Shows Majority of Committee Considering - Civilian Service Act  Against It

5 to 1 Against, 9 Uncertain _ Senate Committee Is Far From Sure We Need Service Act

(iroup Majority Frowns On Use Of Labor Draft   10 Of 18 Against Measure ___Propesed By FDR; See More Harm m Goo

DEPUE YOUTH MAKES ADDRESS IN ENGLAND   Set. John McKinstry Tells Of Scout Activ ity In America

F.D.R. Demands Higher Taxes   Flings New Demand At Congress, Despite Opposition.

Roosevelt Flings His Greatest Tax Demand At Solons In Budget Message   Boost Of Almost Eleven Billion Is Requested

TAX DEMANDS ARE RENEWED   President Asks “At Least’ $10,500,000,000 More

F. R. DEMANDS TAX INCREASE   LEGISLATION TO YIELD $10,500,000.000 ASKED

FDR Demands Higher Tax Bill Again   Present Measure Far Under Amount Asked

FDR DEMANDS BIGGER TAXES   Ten and a Half Billion More Requested I Budget Message

Demands. At ‘Least $10,500, 000, 000;-Needs For. Ad-. "ditional Revenue. Not: Lessened, He Says -

CONGRESSMEN HAVE OPPOSED HIGHER TAXE:!   FDR Renews Demands. for ‘Real istic Taxes’ in Face of Apparent: ly Inflexible Opposition   SENATE HAS BILL   President Puts Net Income at Nea 4) Billion, Had Asked 16 Billion Tax and Savings

PRESIDENT MAKES NEW DEMAND FOR TEN BILLIONS INCREASE OVER PRESENT REVENUES   Declares Time to Impose High Taxes is Now When Incomes Are High and Goods Are Scarce. _ Fiscal Year’s Contemplated Expenditures Run High

WHY ROOSEVELT SHOULD VOTE FOR DEWEY   ART FOER: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE

aT if] a ti ( nin Greec 1 G1 ee ee e »B on »s  sts  Pri ce of Shoes sto $2 00 0 0 0)

Wild Inflation Plagues Greece   Germans Only Ones To Benefit from the Skyrocketing Prices

HORRIBLE EXAMPLE!   Shoes $200,000 in Greece Because of Inflation

NAVY REVEALS ROCKET DEVICE   Jet Units Speed Take-Offs  Of Carrier Planes

Fighters Join Big Bombers in Massed Assault   2,000 to 3,000 Planes in Action

TARGETS HIT INTHEREICH BY BIG FORCE   Americans Blast. Industrial Spots in Germany   18 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE   Airfield at Chartres, Near Paris, Again ts ~~ _ Blhlacted

YANK BOMBERS HAMMER REICH   Record Force Of Fighters Takes Part In Attacks

TARGETS HIT IN THE REICH BY BIGFORCE   Americans Blast Industrial Spots in Ger leaked ah'd   18 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE   Airfield at Chartres, Near Paris, Again Is Blasted

RUSSIANS GET READY FOR NEW MOVES   New Offensives May Coincide with Anglo-Amer. Invasion

REDS READY TO LAUNCH NEW BRIVES   “No Essential” Changes Made on Various Fronts

hussians Regroup Armies, Ready to Launch Powerful New Offensives

RED ARMIES RE-GROUPED FOR ASSAULT   Nazis Lose Many Men Trying to Break Through to Save Some of Their For. mer Postions.

REDS FINISH REGROUPING FOR NEW DISH   Stand Ready to Launch Powerful! New Offensive

sSOVIETS MASS ON VAST FRONT + FOR NEW DRIVE   Nazi Counter - Attacks Slacken In Estonia And Ukraine

SOVIET ARMIES RE-GROUPED IN SEVERAL AREAS   Siege Of Sevastopol In Crimea Area Now In Seventh Dar

TRUCKS BACK ON ROAD   Local. ‘Firm Received Its First Freight Today Since August 4

French Break Throughto — Strasbourg, City Totters   Allies and Germans In North Are Locked In Bitterest Battle Of Big Offensive

MANCHURIA STEEL CENTER BLASTED   SUPERFORTRESSES RAID BOMBS ON ANSHAN AND TWO OTHER TOWNS.

Soviets Near Pskov Center   German Defenses Are Crumbling Jn Sector

Red Army 38 Miles Of Pskov   Russians Aim For One of War: Biqgest Prizes

Russians Seize More Than 300  Towns in Advance   50-Mile Section of Important Railway Also Cleared

ips Lose 7 Vessels, ) ) Planes i in New moc Convoy Battle   four Destroyers, Three Transports 50 to Bottom; U. S. Infantrymen enare to Wipe Out Trapped Enemy

Lewis Raises Strike Threat In 68 Mines   Recognition Sought For Pit Boss Union; Walkout Votes Set

POLITICAL OBSERVERS BE LIEVE MARGIN OF DEWEY'S  VOTES WILI. DE’ AMINE  STEWART'S 8U s

Total Ohio Vote Expected fo be Less Than 1940   Both Parties Make Boasts; But Result Actually is in Doubt

Eucharist Congress In America   Pontiff Expresses Desire to Attend Big Church Meeting in U. 5.

Fifth Army Infantrymen Mass O  Slopes Of Mount Cassino Fo  Assault On German Gunner - At Monastery   REDS STEM GERMAN ATTEMPT AT RESCU   ftBRe tinited Press)

Russians Troops Face Nazi Opposition To Drive Within 85 Miles Of Polish Capita!

HINT GEN. RAMI 1S CHOICE OF ARMY   Leader of Group Opposed to  £x-President to Be New  War Minister

Conscription Of Group Sought   REP. CLARE LUCE SEEKS NEW MEN FOR ARMY

Clare Luce Gives One Solution To Draft Problem   Plan Would Induct NonFathers for Limited Service and Under Army Regulations Would Use Them For Essential Jobs.

Rep. Luce for Ly _ Limited Use of Men, 38-45   Could’ Be. Given -- Uniforms Assigned War. Jobs, She Says: ---

Luce Offers Draft Plan   Would Induct Older Non-Fathers and 4-Fs Into Army for War Jobs

SOLUTION TC DRAFT ISSUE » 1S PRESENTED   Rep. Clare Booth Introduces Bil]  To House Today

HOLIDAY DEATH TOTAL TO 216   Motor Accidents Take 72 Lives In Nation—13 Die in Plane Crash

Holiday Death Toll Hits 218   ‘Soaring Temperatures Send _ Thousands To Beaches,  &treame

Membership Group Reports 1100 Members   Substantial Increase Over the 1943.Membership of 920 Members

Farm Bureau Reaches Quota Set for County   245 New Members Added to 855 Old Members

Shattered Nazis In Wild Flight    Thousands of Axis Troops Captured As Simerfopol, Two Ports Fall

Nazi Troops Fleeing to Big Seaport   Germans Expected to Make Last Desperate Stand Against Soviet Forces

RED ARMIES APPROACHING SEVASTOPOL   Occupy Four-Fifths Of Crimea; Nazis Flee In Panic

Red Armies Push Within 35 Miles  of German Base   Nazi Troops Expected To Make Desperate Stand For Naval Site

FOUR-FIFTHS OF CRIMEA IS OCCUPIED BY SOVIET, TROOPS   Russians Sweep to With'm 35 Miles Of Black Sea Naval Base of Sevastopol

Limited Service Draft Class Is Eliminated  Men Over 38 To Re Listed 4-A

LIMITED DUTY CLASS ENDED   Draft Head Also Halts Re induction of Honorably Discharged Veterans

“LIMITED SERVICE” CLASS ELIMINATED   Action Taken By Selective Service To Halt Re-Induction Of Discharged Veterans

LIMITED SERVICE DRAFTING HALTED      Selective Service Orders an End to Classification

State Memorial To Soldier Dead Wins Approval   Would Be Erected in Jefferson City for Missouri Men

Assails Alleged Rail Collusion   Charges Companies Retard Improvements

U.S. Fleet Now in Indian Ocean  Teams Up With Other Allied Units

U.S. Forces Prominent In Pounding Of Sumatra   American Warships Plow Indian Ocean

Powerful U. § Navy Force in Indian Ocean   Many Flat Tops Are “in Service With a New Allied Fleet

American Aid In Sumatra Raid Revealed   Dutch and French Vessels Included In Attacking Fleet

Sizable Carrier Force Included In Giant Fleet   U.S, Pilots Exceed British Two To One In Sumatra Attacks

ANDAMAN ISLES ALSO BLASTED IN DIVERSION   Installations Fired At Sabang; Observed By Sub After Raid

TRUMAN TO WASHINGTON      Senator Took Part in 35th Division Reunion in K. C,

~~ ™_ FN  “March of Death” Still Going On, Writes Last Man to Leave Bataan

THOUSANDS HAVE DIED AND THOUSANDS MORE ARE DYING AS RESULT OF S? ARVATION, LACK OF MEDICINES AND “JAP” BRUTALITY   By Colonel Carlos P. Romulo

Chinese Fear Paoching Lost   Communication With Vital Point Broken Off

CHINESE LOSE VITAL CENTER   Report All Communication With Defenders of Paoching Cut Off

Donald Nelson's Trip Necessary   Japan Suffering Heavily From Its Transport Losses

General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Dies Of Heart Attack On Normandy Front

U.S. Army to Pay Tribute fo Gen. Roosevell   Full Military Honors to Be Accorded “Teddy,” One of Best Beloved Generals in Army

Gen. Roosevelt, Son of Teddy, Dies in France   Burial Services Set for Tonight In Foreign Soil

Gen. Roosevelt Dies In France   Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Has Heart Attack; Beloved General.

GEN. ROOSEVELT BIES IN FRANCE   FULL MILITARY RITES SET FOR OFFICER

ESCAPED GERMAN PRISONERS CAUGHT   Nazis Who Filed From Gettysburg Monday, July 3, Captured Near York When They Sought Food

GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR CAPTURED   Two Who Escaped From : Gettysburg Camp in — _ ‘Custody

GERMAN PRISONERS ” OF WAR CAPTURED   Two Who. Escaped From Gettysburg Camp in Custody.

YANKS BY-PASS LA HAYE, PUSH TO SOUTHWARD   Canadian Troops Battle German Attacks In Carpi. guet Area

NAZIS SEEK 10 STOP DRIVE   Amertcan Assault Forces By-Pass Embattled La Haye.Da Putts. Main American Effort: Belleved: te Have Been Thrown tn Fight...

8TH TO: EXPAND BRIDGEHEAD OVER RUBICON   U.S. 5th Joins Germans in Fierce,Battle to Hold: Gains -

EIGHTH ARMY IS ADVANCING UP PO VALLEY   Fifth Army Gains In Most Sections In Mountains

Bridgehead Over Rubicon River Being Expanded   F ifth Army Infantry Battles Germans To Retain Allied Gains

BRITISH ARE DRIVING UP PQ VALLEY   Extend Bridgehead Across Rubicon While Americans Also Take Heights and Pursue Nazis.

BRITISH DRIVE UP PO VALLEY   Expand Rubicon Bridgehead Against Stiff Resistance

British Force Expands Gains Above Rubicon   American Infantry Battles Germans In Mountainous Appennine Sector

Seven Cases Of Paralysis In County   Six Children are Patients in Bradford Hospital Ward

Seven Cases Of Paralysis In County   James Russell Flynn Of Children’s Home. Robert Riolti, 6, of  Port. Latest Victims

LABOR OFFICERS APPEAL TOF.D.R ON LIVING COST   Declare Rise Is 43.5 Per Cent Instead Of 2:  By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS

LABOR OFFICERS APPEAL 10 F.D.R ON LIVING COST   Declare Rise Is 43.5 Per Cent Instead Of 24

.abor Bureau Statistics on Cost of Living Distorted and Unfair, Labor Head Tells F.D.R

Germans Hint They'll Quit Rome Proper   Allies Say Interested Sole ly in Destruction of Nazi Armies

GEN. WILSON SAYS ALLIES WILL SPARE CITY IF IT IS NOT DEFENDED BY NAZIS

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  Abortive Attempt at Argentine Coup d’Etat Fails

CLAIM REVOLT. IN ARGENTINA WAS CRUSHED   GOVERNMENT SAYS SITUATION  UNDER CONTROL WHILE «™ OTHER SOURCES DE- ’ CLARE FLEET REBELS.

Reds Threaten Junkers Area Across Narey   Warsaw Menace Grows; Extermination Of Nazis thr Upper ~Baltic Near

DRAW TRAP CLOSER ON E. PRUSSIA   Widen Breach In Warsaw Sector In Encircling Move

Close on Germans In Baltic. States   Russians Apply Pincers on Es Prussia; Threat * From South   MENACE MEMEL, TILSIT   East Prussia. and Warsaw Main Points of Battle on . ‘East Front:

REDS APPLYING GREAT PINGERS   Sweep Within 50 Miles of Tilsit and Memel in E. Prussia Area.   'GO CROSS NAREW RIVER

Advance Sweeps Within 50 Miles Of Tilsit And Memel   South Threatened By Narew Crossing   Russians Exterminating Large German Forces Trapped In Baltics

Tilsit, Memel In Reds’ Path  East Prussia Now In Giant Soviet Pincers

Russian Squeeze Play ‘Put on East Prussia   Drive Toward Memel Also Raises New Menace to Warsaw. Closely Besiered

PLUNGE ACROSS NAREW LOOMS FOR RED FORCE   Russian Troops Sweep to Within 50 Miles of Tilsit, Memet

Red Pincers Squeezing East Prussia   i New Offensive May . Cross Narew River Or Curve to Vistula ' And Outflank Warsav

Reds Threaten Drive Toward East Prussia   Fight Bitter Counterattacks at Several Gateways

SOVIETS MASS FOR DRIVE ON EAST PRUSSIA   Russian Armies Aplying Great Pincers Threaten Plunge Across the Narew River   NEAR POLISH CAPITAL

RUSSIAN UNITS ARE WITHIN 90 MILES OF GOAL   Red Forces Slashing on i Drive to Capture Both Tilsit and Memel

RUSSIAN ARMIES APPLYINGPINCERS TO EAST PRUSSIA  CROSS NAREW RIVER IN NEW THREAT TO

REDS MENACE EAST PRUSSIA FROM SOUTH   General Besieging War- saw Sends Army Group) Toward Junker- Land From Positions Northeast of Polish City.

Last Prussia Menaced by Pincer Move   Soviets Increase Pressure; Warsew Also Threatened

teds Apply Pincers Upon East Prussia, _ Narew-is Crossec   tussian Troops Drive Seven Miles Inside Suwalki Triangle

Red Pincers New Threat To Germans   Advancing Soviets May Soon Encirele East Prussia; Doom For Beltic Armies

Red Pincers Move Nearer East Prussia   Southern Boundary of Junkers Province  Threatened

GREAT PINCERS “MOVEMENT IS: PUSHED BY REDS   Russian. Ar mies Apply Pr essure On Rast Prussia   MENACE WARSAW   Germans Claim They Are Greatly Outnumbered

Sweep Within 50 Miles of Tilsit Meme! in Fiuage Acress Narew, Push Berth of Warsaw

Russians Apply ~ Pincers in East   GERMAN ARMIES’ FEEL BLOWS ON PRUSSIAN FRONT

Plunge Across Narew River In Advance   Warsaw Menace Is Increased By Rokossovsky

Russians Are Squeezing Pincers on East Prussia   Home of Junkers Threatened By Red Plunse Acroce Narain.

SOVIET PINCER GRIPS PRUSSIA   Reds Widen 1 Breach Across - Vistula River, Close  On Kielce

Pincer Move Threatens East Prussia   Russian _Armies Within 50 . Miles of Tilsit and Memel; ‘ Menace to Warsaw Increas ed by Army North of City

Plunge Aeross  Narew River On the South   Siege of Warsaw Enters Twelfth  Day As Army Group Poses New Threat

Pincers Being Closed By Russian Forces Threaten  Borders Of East Prussia

Soviet Armies Advanceon Memel, Baltic   Rokossovsky Moves To Outflank Warsaw on North

Soviets Apply Pincers Against East Prussia   Drive Toward Tilsit and Memel and Plunge Across Narew River; New Thrust May Outflank Besieged Warsaw.

RUSSIANS PUSH PINCERS TOWARE LAND OF JUNKERS   Red Armies Thrust Toward East Prussia From Northeast of Warsaw

Close on Germans In Baltic States   Russians Apply Pincers on t Prussia; Threat From South   East Prussia and Warsaw Main Points of Battle on East Front

TILSIT AND MEMEL MENACED BY REDS; EXTERMINATION OF 300,000 GERMANS: IN BALTIC PROCEEDING   Menace to Warsaw Materially Increased by Besieging Russian Armies Which Have Made A Vast  Encircling ovement Both Southward and Noavthecyanel -

Trap ( Closes .  About Nazis. Near Border of Prussia _   Reds Report Gains. “Along Major F ront_

Another Russian Army Moves Toware East Prussia from Warsaw Sector

Threaten South Prussian Boundary With Plunge Across Narew River.

Reds Mass for Drives * On Prussia   Home of the Junkers Thrown Into Increasing Danger by New Soviet Thrusts   A GREAT PINCERS MOVEMENT STARTED   , BREE Some Penetrations Are Admitted by Nazis, Telling of New Drives

Great Pincers Is Applied to East Prussia   Southern Boundary Of Junkers Land Now Threatened

Reds Applying “Great Pincers  ~ On East Prussi   Menace To Warsaw I: Increasing Daily German Province:  Are Shelled

Reds Apply Pincers on rast Prussia   Sweep Within 50 Miles of Tislit Memel-—Increase Warsaw Menace

Sweep Within Fifty Miles Of Tilsit, Memel   L Pincers Drive Starts on Junkers’ Homeland and Polish Capital

REDS CUT VITAL NAZI RAIL LINKS WITH BUDAPEST   Tighten Grip On Outskirts Of Hungary Capital In Drive

Enter Breda In Holland   One Report of Occupation Of German Village

MKAY DEFEAT A CERTAINTY’      Aides of Kelly, Leader of Opposing Group, Is Given Assurance.

CHINA OUT OF WAR AT ONCE   Jap Land Army Fearing American Approach to  Mainland Exerting Tre mendous Pressure on China

HGHT HARD 10 BUILO DEFENSE   Darkness of Chinese News in Striking Contrast to Navai Victory.   PEOPLE FLEE FROM CITY

Japs Drive Down Hankow Railway   Allied Bombers Attack Andaman Islands—Japs Admit Ship Losses

JAPS ATTEMPT TO KEEP U.S. FROM MAINLAND   American Naval Fleet Intact After Battle

JAPS DRIVING ON HENGYANG   Allies Bomb Port Blair; Gain On Saipan; Nips Admit Ship Losses

Threat to China Tempers Joy of Jap Navy Defeat   Yanks Close In on 20,000 Nips Abandoned To Fate on Saipan When Huge American Force Chases Them Off With Heavy Damage

CONFERENCE. OF GOVERNORS GETS UNDER WAY IN PENNSYLVANIA   Bricker Challenges   Both Issue Statements on Foreign Policy—New York Governor Not to Debate,

DEWEY SAYS AT GOVERNOR'S  CONFERENCE. HE 18 NOT DisCOURAGING BIS.NOMI- 2% __ NATION. MOVEMENT, :

NAZIS STAGE — PRISON BREAK   NINETEEN GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR WHO ESCAPED SUNDAY ARE BEING  HUNTED

Berlin Admits Any Move Will Give Allies Win   Says Slightest Wavering In Germany  Will Be Fatal.

BERLIN RADIO GIVES WARNING   Says Slightest Wavering tc Mean Defeat

Japs Lose Topflight Fighter Pilots In Marshall Foray  No Americans Shot Down in New Attack on Islands

U.S. AIRMEN DOWN 16 T0 22 JAPS OVER MARSHALLS   No American Planes Lost As Yanks Batile Desperate Topflight Nip Pilets During Raid on Marshall Islands

JapAir Losses In Marshalls Growing Dails   Latest U. S. Offensive Bags Up to 22 Zeros: Nips Resort to Strategy Born Of Deaperation   ¢ HAROLD GTREETER

Japan Loses Score Planes  In Marshalls   Biggest Battle In Rising Drive

22 JAP PLANES DOWN QVER MARSHALL ISLES   Desperation of Enemy Is Shown in Biggest Air Battle Over Strategic Arca

16 Jap Planes Lost in Fight In Marshalls   US. Fighters Meet Heavy Opposition at Taroa; Admiralties “Hit

Japanese Pilots Shot Down In Furious Battle  Marshall Island Raids Continued 91 Ree tn a Dae

Jap Loss Heavy In Air Battle   Enemy Fighter, Pilots On Marshalls Intercept Allied Planes

Japs Fight Back Over Marshalls  ~ KRnamv T aces   Enemy Loses 16 Fighters

MEETS HIGHLIGHT -K. U. HOMECOMING   Editors, Debaters, Alumni Gather on University,  us a   HOLD RALLY TONIGHT

MEETS HIGHLIGHT K. U. HOMECOMING   Editors, Debaters, Alumni  Gather on University  ‘Campus Pi.   IHOLD RALLY TONIGHT

Ith Army Moves Through Nice to Italian Frontier   German 19th Army Flees Toward Lyon And Nazi Frontier

Yanks Batter Nazis Fleeing Up Rhone Valley   Seventh Army Units Capture Nice, Largest City of the Riviera; Drive Toward Italian Frontier

Nazis Fighting Where They are Forced To; Heavy Men, Materiel Losses

Seventh Army Units Tak Nice Without Opposition   Other US Forces Chase Nazis Toward Lyon: 50.000 Prisoners

GERMAN DESPERATELY TOWARD NICE   Remnants of 19th Army Fight Costly Reargquard Actions With Pursuing Americans   12 MILES FROM ITALY

Escape Through Belgium Only Corridor Left Open to Badly Battered Nazis   British Tank Units Sweep Inte Amiens to Imperil Half of Rocket Coast, as American Units Push Nearer to Belgium

Germans Make Hurried Race For Lyon   Seventh Army Unit Take Nice; Many Prisoners Taken

German Army Remnants [lee Toward Lyon   Yanks Push on From Fallen Nice Toward Italian Frontier. Twelve Miles Away

Nice Seized Without Nazi  Resistance   Germans Resume Flight up Rhone Toward Lyon

Badly Mauled Germans Racing For Lyon; Nice Captured:   Nazi 19th Army In Desperate Flight To Escape American Seventh Army In Rhone Valley; More Than 50.000 Priseners Taken

Nice, Riviera Playspot, Falls ToUS.Seventh   Southern France Captive Count Tops 50,000 Mark

Remnants Of 19th German  Army Now Fleeine North   Units Of American Seventh Army Take Nice; Prisoner  Total Passes 50,000

South France U. S. Troops Turn To Italy   March Across the Riviera While Other Units Chase Nazis Northward

Chase Remnants Of German 19th Army. to Lyon   Fleeing Nazis Leave Equipment Behind; Yanks Take Nice Without Opposition

GERMANS FLEE JOWARD LYON   Nice Occupied By Yank 7th Army; Nazi Lesses  Heavy

Seventh Army Rolls On Up Rhone Valle   Infliet Heavy Punishment On Battered Nazis: Nice Is Taken.   NAZI LOSSES HIGE

Within 30 Miles Of Belgium   Speed of Nazi Retreat Indicates Abandonment Of All North France;  Capture Nice. in South

Germans Race In Panic Over France   Remnants Show Fight Only When Caught In Corners by Allies

Enemy Racing Desper ately In  Direction Lyon   Lose Heavily In Men and Materiel In Rearguard Actions Against Seventh Army       Nice Capitulates Without Str rugele   Damage to City Confined Chiefly to Harbor Area, Allied Headquarters Announces

Nice Taken WithoutFight By 7th Army   Germans Flee North After Losing More Than 20,000 as Prisoners

Yank Troops In Valence   French Forces Push On to Montpellier; Other Columns Advance

German 19th Army Races Desperately  Toward Lyon Yanks Move Through  oes. Bt, PAE   Yanks Move Through French Riviera City Of Nice Toward Italy

German Army Races North fo Escape Yankees   Costly Rearguard Actions Fought in Southern France

Yanks Push Nazis Back ©   - Move Through N ice In. Drive For Lyon,

German 19th Army Races Toward Lyon In Costly Retreat  Prisoners Pass 50,000 Mark, Much Materiel Abandoned— Yanks Drive East Through Nice

AMERICANS OCCUPY VALENCE IN MARCH UP RHONE VALLEY   FRENCH COLUMNS PUSH SOUTHWEST FROM RHONE DISTANCE 90 MILES

RAGING NORTH TOWARD LYON   Germans Fight Costly Rearguard Actions Only When Necessary. ©   NO OPPOSITION AT NICE

American:Troops- Capture Valence. In Pursuit Of Germans Fleeing up Rhone

Germans Are Racing North Toward Lyon To Escape Trap; 50,000 Prisoners Seized To Date, Report

NAZIS FLEEING TOWARD LYON IN LOWER FRANGE   Yanks Occupy Nice Withou' Opposition in Drive Aimed at Italy

Rome Radio Says Nazi: to Withdraw Military  Installations in Rome

Germans Give Rome Reprieve   Say Will Withdraw Every Installation, Divert All Military Traffic

REPORT PLANS TO ABOLISH ALL DEFENSES   German-Controlled Rome Radio Also Declares All Military Traffic Will Be Diverted From the Capital.

Radio Reports Steps Taken To Avoid Bombings   Military Targets Ta Be Moved; Allies Must Accept Deal First

TO QUIT ROME, NAZIS ASSERT   To Withdraw Military In. stallations, Divert  Traffic, Claim

Nazis Battle Savagely to Hold Cassino   Troops Engage in Desperate Struggle in Southern Outskirts

GERMANS PLAN TO MAKE ROME AN OPEN CITY   German-Controlled Radio Says They Will Remove All Militarv Installations

GERMANS HOPE TO MAKE ROME AN OPEN CITY?   Enemy Would Remove Military Installations, According to Radio Talk

Nazis Claim Troops to Quit Rome   Hope to Place Blame For Raids Entirely On Allied Forces

Nazis Seek fo Declare Rome ‘An Open City   Announce Military Installations to Be Withdrawn and Army Traffic Diverted

Nazis in Move To Save Rome   ‘Open City’ Declared, But Allies to Demand Proof of Good Faith

VIA CASILINA IS SEVERED BY ALLIES   Fortress Of Velletri Entered Ry Fifth Army   FIERCE BATTLE   Reported In City Streets: 100 German Vehicles Wrecked By Fliers

The War Today  Fifth Army Has Reached Encouraging Point On Way To Rome.

CAPTURE OF. MINTURNO AND SIGNS ‘OF IMPROVED WEATHER MAY OPEN ROAD TO ROME TO ALLIED ARMIES   While Many Obstacles Remain t. Be Overcome Signs Point to More Progress Along the Appian Way Which Leads to The Eternal City

The War Today   Breaching of Garigliano Line Brings Rome’s Capture in Sicht

Opposition Strong In Fourth Raid   Pilots Say Trip Tough; Believed Most Successful

Tokyo Is Hit Fourth Time By American Super-Forts   Musashina Factory Revealed as Target And Industrial Area Is Left in Flames

Pincers Close On Vital Ports in New Guinea   One Field Taken, Now Being Used By U. S. Airplanes

YANKS CLOSE IN ON 3 NIP AJRDROMES   American And Dutch Invaders Meet Only Sparse Resistance

Yanks Close In On Hollandia’s Three Airfield:   Invaders Find Mud Hard er To Fight Than Dis.  organized Jans.

Allies Begin Operating  Fromm a Fourth Airfield  ; Less Than 48 Hours Af.  ~ ter Capture} Aussie En.  gineers Worked On I  all Night Under Enemy Fire. -

ALLIES SLOWED BY MUD AGAINST JAPANESE FORCE   Japs Fai! To Put Up Fight; Have Few Supplies

Pincers Closed Around Hollandia By Allied Forces   Ready To Use Aitape Base; -- Japanese - Resistance ~ Is Reported Disorganized

~—PACIFIC-—   Fourth Airstrip On New Guinea Already Put To Use By Allies   American And Dutch Invaders Mopping Up Nips In 350-Square Mile Area Around Captured Boallandia

Yanks Close In On Three Jap Airfields   No Organized F ighting Is Reported So Far; 60,000 Japs a Question

Allies Move Through Mud on Airfields   Jap Resistance on New Guinea Se Far of Little Strength

Jap Defense _ -Demoralized By Invaders  yee wy Sa ee   ‘American Fichter Planes Use Captured Aificids Within 48 Hours

RESISTANCE OF JAPANESE DISORGANIZED   Airfields in 350-SquareMile 4.rea of New Guinea Hemmed in By Allied Forces   AITAPE READY FOR USE

Allies Close On 3 Fields Following Fall Of Hollandia   Yank Engineers Build Roads, Repair Enemy Facilities In 48 Hours’ Time

FOURTH BASE ON GUINEA IN USE ALREADY   101 Enemy Planes Erased During Attack; Mud And Terrain Slow Push

Japanese Opposition Is Weak   Rough Terrain Is Worst Handicap To Advance Of Allied Troops In Hollandia Area

Resistance Of Japs Light; Booty Taken   Mud And Mountains Slow Advance After Thousands Land

Jap Resistance Disorganized As . Americans, Dutch Close From 2 Sides

Americans In Pincher From Pair Of Bays   MacArthur's Forces Threaten to Take Three Airfields; Japs Leave Supplies

Allies Are Closing Upon Three Enemy Airfields   American and Dutch Invaders of New Guinec Are Slowed by Mud More Than Jap Resistance; Fourth Field Is Being Used

Allies Moving In Great Force  In New Guinea   Japan’s Prized Base of Hellandia Toppling Under Attack and Fall Expected

Yanks Close. . In On Three. Jap Airfields   No Organized Fighting Is: Ts. Reported So Far; 60,000: Japs a Question...

MacArthur’s Troops Tighten Pincers On Three Nip Airfields   Place Captured Airstrip Near Aitape in Operation in Less Than 48 Hours After Seizure

Close Pincers on  Three Airfields in Hollandia Theater   American and Dutch Invaders Find Enemy’s Resistance Nil

YANKS NEAR ‘NEW GUINEA ~ AIRFIELDS   Close: in From Two Sides : on Three Strips Around  'Hollandia and Already FE: ‘Are Making Use of a f “Bourth.

Americans Close Pincers On Japs  Around Hollandia   Make Drive For Enemy Airfields In New Guinea

JAP RESISTANCE ON NEW GUINEA IS DISORGANIZED   INVADERS CAPTURE HOLLANDIA; CLOSE IN ON 4 AIRFIELDS

AESIOTANGE [5 NOT ORGANIZER   Hollandia invaders Slowed More By Mud and Mountain Than By Japs.   THREE AIRFIELDS TAKEN

Pincers on Hollandia Airfields   American and Dutch Invaders Close in From Two Sides; Resistance Is Weak

Yanks, Dutch Press Drive Much Deeper  Into Guinea   Mud Slows Advance; Resistance Is Slight

Fourth Flight Strip NowInUse   Mud and Mountains Chief Allied Enemy As Japs Flee Before Yank Advance; Huge Supply, Equipment Stores Seized

Mud and Mountain: Slow Invaders of Dutch New Guinea  American and Dutch Troops   Clese In On Three Airfields  Beeand Cantured Nellandia

Allies Close On Airfields  In NX. Guinea   Mud, Instead Of Japs. Slows Down Offensive: No Organized Fighting

Lack of Jap  Opposition Mystifies   Officers Leading Invasion at Hollandia Believe Enemy May Have Evacuated: Area

No Opposition, Yankee Forces Are Mystifiec   Officers “Near Hollandia  Speculate That Japanese  Have Pulled Out   FOOD JAPS LEFT. BEHIND NOT FRESH   Only Resistance So Far Hardly Worth Mentioning, Correspondent Says

Japs’ Absence Puzzles Yanks   Americans Encounter Little Opposition In Hollandia Area

larine Big Guns On Leyte _ ‘Bereft Of Suitable Tor ants.  Sa ae ORE 5 fey COO

Man Reports for Induction With Baby   PRIVATE GETS PASS TO FIND SOMEONE TO CARE FOR SON

When Johnny Jr. Comes Marching Home to _ Texas Chances Are Bright He'll Have A Job

SERVICE. PAY... CONTROVERS   HEATED DEBATE IN PROSPECT OVER AMOUNT TO BE PAID i SERVICEMEN WHEN DISCHARGED

REMAINDER OF BELGIUM LIBERATED   Dutch Salient Changed Into Solid Front for Next Allied Move on Reich,   BULLETIN

REMAINDER OF BELGIUM LIBERATED   Dutch Salient Changed Into Solid Front for Next Allied Move on Reich.

JAP DEFENSE BOLSTERED IN PHILIPPINES   Action Follows Vv. §. Bombings, Steady Island Advance

JAPAN MOVES  10 NS   Reserves Rushed ‘tc Philippines and ‘Formosa

Wallace Points Way to Victory  Preaches Unity on Liberal Flatform

[Wallaes Says Democratic Party Can Win [Only if Farmer and Worker are United

Average Bridge Score Last Night, 96 Points   Mrs. G. Will Anderson and  Mrs. Tt K. Campbell Were High With 113%.

High Duplicate Bridge Score, 143   Ed Wolter and Mrs. Lewis Anderson Were First in Last Night’s Play.

or Average Score > Of Duplicate Club   The Howell “Movement Was * Used: in Play Thursday ” Night.

RULES BODY IN QUICK ACTION THIS MORNING   Rep. Cox of Georgia Joins with Other .Members of Powerful Committee Seeking Action

Ry: an, Avery Barred From Plant   Resolution Proposing Investigation Seizure Montgomery Ward  Plant to House Floor

Montgomery Ward President Also Barred From Plant; Hearing On Iniunction Ordered

House Committee To Consider Probe Measure   Bloc of Demos Joins Republicans to Force Consideration

Inquiry Into Ward Action  Faces House   Resolution to Force Action Pushed Through House Rules Committee

Representatives Urge Investigatior Of Seizure of Mail Order Plant

Congress May Probe Seizure   Bloc Of Democrats Join With Republicans In Forcing Action.

Committee Asks Ward Case Probe   Sent to House Floor for Consideration  By Members

House Group Will Probe Ward Battle   Committee Will Stud) Seizure Rights In Chicago Dispute

—CONGRESS—  RESOLUTIONS GIVEN APPROVAL   Rules Committee Sends Action To Floor For Consideration   HEARING IS HELD   Bi-Partisan Swuppert Brings Adoption OF Dewey’s Proposal

Push Through Resolution For  Ward Inquiry   Proposal Sent To Floor Of House Following Action By Powerful Rules Committee

IDEA COMES OUT OF RULES COMMITTEE   Demos Join Republicans in Pushing Proposal Through Sabath’s Group  to Get at Facts in Situation at Chicago.

TEMPERATURES:   Congress Acts To Investigate Federal Action   Democrats, Republicans Join In Demand For Formal Inquiry

May Inquire ‘Into Legality OfU.S. Move   Montgomery Ward Goes to Court Over Seizure

Congress Demands Probe of Seizure   Democratic Bloe Joins Republicans Pushing Ward Lovestigation

Proposal for Probe  in House   Right to Seize Private Property Battled by Bloc

Democrats Ask Investigation Wards Seizure   Join Republicans To Force Immediate Consideration by Rules Committee

House Considers Ward Investigation   Seizure of Great Chicago Store May Result in Conaressional Quiz

Chairman of Powerful Rules Setup Beaten in Attempt to Block Investigation of Administration’s Action—Democrats Join GOP In Demanding That Congress Protect Interests of Company.

Congress. Debates Seizure   Tempers Wax: Hot. Over Ward. Case; Bi-Partisan Move for Inguiry   BIDDLE cOMES In4 FOR AN ATTACY   Barkley Urges: Patience, _ However, Until Courts ~ Rule on Law

INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS ARE PLANNED   Attorney for Mail Order House To Ask Government Be Enjoined From Entering Properties   HEARING IS SCHEDULED

WARDS BEGIN LEGAL FIGHT   Attack Legality of Govern ment Seizure of Mail Order House

Resolution Passes Rules Committee and Is Sent to Floor for Consideration

esolution Forced Through “ommittee; Company Opens ight Against U.S. Injunction

Want Seizure Of Ward Plant Investigated   House Rules Committee * Appreves Resolution Presented By Dewey

Rules Committee Votes Probe of Ward's Seizure   Twe Demecrais Jein Republican: In Passing Resolution Over Objections ef Chairmax

WARD ISSUE MAY BE INVESTIGATED   House Committee Passes Resolution Asking Investigation Of Seizure; Sent To Floor; Government Gets Injunction.

Powerful Committee Sends Resolution Te Floor Of House For Consideration

FIRM PLANS TO ; FIGHT SEIZURE — BY GOVERNMENT   COURT ORDER CALLS FOR SURRENDER OF COMPANY RECORDS

Ward Launches Legal Fight To Regain Plants   President Is Ousted Today, Following Forcible Removal  Of Avery

House Considers lavestigation of Ward’s Seizure    Resolution Proposing Probe {s Pushed  -Through Powerful “Rules Committee

Federal Jurist Gives Order To Ban Ward Head   Government Wins Round in Fight to Keep Avery  From Property After Being Ejected :   Roosevelt Power Tested In Action   Mail Order Firm Plans Te. Resist Seizure by Court Action; Army  Force in Coniro}

Russia Rejects  New Border Plan   Soviets Suggest New Polish Government

Russia Rejects Polish Proposal   British Quarters Taken by Surprise

RUSSIA REJECTS POLISH PROPOSAL FOR A SQLUTICA   Polish Spokesman Terms Action ‘Stap in the Face’ to the Allied Leaders.

DEALINGS WITH GOVERNMENT IN EXILE REFUSED   Poles Say Rejection Is ‘Slap in Face’ to U. S., Britain

Reds . Reject Negotiation  Proposal   Russians Not Anxious To Deal With Exiles

Wayne Tops Individual Bond Quota   Labor Advyoeates Purchases With Overtime

Bond Sales Rise As Labor Adds Weight to Drive  House-to-House Canvassers to Continue Work

Over 1,100 U.S. Bombers Strike Munich   Despite Inclement Weather Fighters Escort Heavies on Job

AMERICAN FLYERS BLAST MUNICH DEEP IN GERMANY   Allies Also Bomb Berlin Last Night; Airmen Brave Bad Weather To Make Raids.

MUNICH POUNDED BY 1,100 U. $. BOMBERS   U. S. Raiders Ignore Bad Weather, Heavy Fire By Defenders Of City; RAF In Light Attack On Berlin

CONGRESS EAGER TO TRIM DOCKET   LEGISLATORS WORK HARD SO THEY CAN QUIT FOR HOLIDAYS

Security Tax Work Started  House Takes Up Issue To Speed Its Work

CONGRESS GETS READY 19 QUIT FOR CHRISTMAS   Social Security Tax Legislation Is In House

Congress Settles to Work; Hopes to Pare Heavy Docket   Payroll Taxes and River Bills Promise Delay; State Changes Okayed

——————— Kx °° °°.  CONGRESS STEPS ON GAS TO WIND UP WORK BEFORE CHRISTMAS

junction With Patton Is Reported   Official Reports Places Two Armies Yet 65 Miles Apart.

PATCH’S TROOPS RACE UNOPPOSEL UP SAONE RIVER   Unconfirmed Reports Claiming Seventh Army Contacts Patton's Third

PATCH’S MEN RACE UP SAONE VALLEY TO JOIN PATTON   Germans Failing  To Make Stand

PATCH’S ARNY NEAR AMERICAN IN N. FRANGE   Racing Un § aone River Valley Virtually Unopposed

Fatcns seventh Army Races Up Saone River Valley Unopposed  SWISS RADIO SAYS BOTH FRONTS MEET  Germans Making No Definite Stand And With drawing Quickly

ORD AND 7TH U.S. ARMIES NEAR CONTACT   Lt. Gen. Patch’s Forces Driving for North France Virtually Unopposed.

7TH ARMY © RACES NORTH IN FRANCE   Report Contact Made With 3rd Army Forces

NT ee ns ee eee ALL-SCHOOL PLAY TONIGHT   Three-Act Comedy Will Be Given at High School Auditorium

Sem Me et ees ty ALL-SCHOOL PLAY TONIGHT   Three-Act Comedy Will Be Given at High School Auditorium

Petrillo Asked to Lift Ban on Recordings   F. D. R. MAKES REQUEST IN CASE PENDING BEFORE LABOR BOARD

Plane Engine Workers in Detroit Strike   Brings Total of 12,000 Idle War Workers in Nation

Aircraft Workers Strike in Detroit.  1,400 Walk Out of Chevrolet Factory

Strikes Hamper War Production   New Walkout Reported Soon As One Ended

U.S, SHIPS OFF ARGENTINE RUN   Hull Announces Blacklist ‘of Fascist Helpers to Outlast War

BANS SHIPPING TO ARGENTINA   State Department Order: Embargo Oct. 

His Last Christmas Has Come And Gone  Dying Child Tired But Happy After Great Day

Congressman At Front Says GI Joe Needs Many Things From Home To Finish War   By J. PARNELL THOMAS Bar The Associated Press

Solon Finds War Tough, Slow Going   Visit to Front Reveals bir ing Conditions Terrible, Seldiers Foce Stout Frenry

Senators Touring Fronts See No Early Nazi Defeat   By J. PARNELL THOMAS

G O.P. War Front Chairman On Tour Sees Tough Battling   Representative Thomas Asks More Heavy Ammunition, Blood, Smokes For Soldiers   Ay JPA     THOMAS

‘TRENCHFOOT TAKES TOLL’ Returning Solon Says Enemy Is Still Strong

Mackenzie Kings Government Expected To Get Vote of Confidence Despite Riots by Canadian Home Guards

KING'S REGIME WILL SURVIVE DISPUTE, SAIL   Home Guards Continue To Demonstrate Against Conscription

Expect King to Win Fight Over Conscription   Predict Vote of Confidence for Canadian Premier

No Reason Why People Should Stand In Line For  Two Blocks, OPA Says

CURB CIGARETTE “BLACK MARKET”   OPA BEGINS ENFORCEMENT ACTION—SALES ON BOOTLEG BASIS IN PLACES.

CIGARET PINCH SIFTED BY OP/   Black Market In Detroit In “Bad Odor’; Agency To Crack Down

CIGARETTE "BLACK MARKET’ REPORTED   OPA Field Officers Ar: Ordered to Crack  Down

OPA Looks into Cigaret Shortage   PR mye  Reports a Growing Black Market Is Port of Tearhta

Begin Mop Up Of Hiding  Jap Survivors   Campaign Cost Foe 11,500 Men, 58 Ships, 900 Planes

Resistance Collapses ° On Saipan   ' Capture Gives Yanks Finest, Most Advanced _ Base in:Pacific Drive   COSTLY CAMPAIGN FOR BOTH SIDES   Cost Japs 58 Vessels, 990 Planes and Lives Of.11,500 Soldiers

Japs End All Organized  Resistance   4-Week Campaign Cost Nips 58 Ships, 900  Planes, 11,500 Men; Longest Pacific Drive

Jap ap Resistance In Saipan Ends   ‘Arnetiean Victory Cost. Japan 58. Ships, 900 Planes .. and 10, 000. Men—Victory Was Most Costly: in Pacific So Far _

EST OF SAIPAN IS COMPLETED   Announces Admiral Nimitz; Four-Week Cam.paign Finished Satur: day Afternoon.   Finest Base

11,500 Nips die in bloody Pacific blow  Lose 58 ships and 900 planes

Weather Over Grain Belt from Now on Will Mean Much to World Food Supply

FIRMLY DENIES ~— MOTHER DEATE   Inquest in Chicage Bizarre Slaying Goes to March 3

Believes Mrs. Williams . Was Shot In Gun Scuf fle:      Chicago Police’ Lieutenant ant ‘Advances: Theory. Slain Woman And ‘Daughter Engaged In piriiegle _ And:Vietim' Was Accidentally Shot ~ :

DESCRIBES THEORY ABSURD AND UNTRUE   Mrs. Goodbody Says She Is Withholding Nothing in Mother’s Death.

VICTORY MAY BE SOON: CHURCHILL   4735 DEATHS FROM ROBOT BOMBS REPORTED

Hints Japan, To Fold Soon. After Germany  Nazi Leaders Shooting Each Other as Nation

Churchill Sees Victory “Perhaps Soon   Prime Minister Is Most Confident In Report On War To Commons.

* NAZI LOSSES FRANCE DOUBLE * ALLIES, REPORT   Shorter Interval Seen Between Defeat Of Germany, Japan

REVEALS 4,735 KILLED BY ROBOT BOMBS; MILLION EVACUATED FROM LONDON

Churchill Sees Jap Defeat Not Far Behind Germany’s; “Victory May Come Soon”

Gives Most Optimistic Report Yet   ALSO CONVINCED JAPAN WILL NOT LAST LONG AFTER NACI: FALL; GIVES ROBOT DEATH FIGURES

CHURCHILL OPTIMISTIC IN SDEECH   Says Red Army Hos Torn Guts Out of Germans

EARLY ALLIED VGTORY SEEN BY CHURCHILL   Sums Successes in All Parts of World; Discloses Robot Damage.

Churchill Says War Is Nearing Closing Phase   4,735 Persons Killed By Nazi Robot Bombs,  ‘States Prime Minister

Lists 4,735 As Killed By Robot Bombs   Tremendous Events Taking Place Inside Reich, He Says.

Chaplin Found ‘Not Guilty   Actor Found Blameless on White Slave Count; Prepares to Battle Conspiracy, Paternity Suits Filed by One-Time Mistress Barry

CHAPLIN IS ACQUITTED BY JURORS   Still Faces Two More Charges In Connection With Joan

Chaplin Faces Two More Counts   Actor Acquitted in Mann Act Case

CHAPLIN, FREED OF MANN ACT CHARGE FACES NEW ORDEAL   Comedian Is Found Blameless By Jury—Ferminine Jurors Denounce Joan.

Allies Cross Railway Near  Nazi Bastion   Yanks Finish Mopping Up in Cherbourg; Axis Loses 70,000 Men; Experts Repair Port

AXIS LOSSES INNORMANDY OVER 70,000   HIGHWAYS CUT OFF IN QUICK ATTACK BY BRITISH

British Oufflank Caen, Cut Trunk Highway; Naz! Losses ln Normandy Set At 70,000

CU -anx vaen “0 <eac) V CON iver as ¢ mericans Syeec. Zerair 0-7 Dierourg - Oc<s

Quickly Exploitting Capture of Port by Rolling to within Three Miles of Caen; 70,000 Captured.

(Odon River Is Reached ‘By British   Railway Linking Caen With Peninsula’s Base Severed in New Push   MANY PRISONERS IN CHERBOURG -.NET   75 Miles of Track  ‘Leading to Paris Now in “Allied Hands

Nazi Stronghold Appears Doomed By Allied Drive   10 Villages Taken Within Two Days

Tommies Open Major Attack, Gain 10 Miles   Fall of Cherbourg Boosts Axis Losses to 70,000; Allies Rush Repairing of Port

Climax Near In Offensive  Against City   Troops Compress Ring Behind Tremendous Air, Gun Bombardment   ADVANCE TO SEA BOTH SIDES OF CITY.   BOTH SIDES OF CLPY  Onslaught Greatest ' Since France Invaded by Allies Jone 6

American Ground Troops Move Forward Aft er Terrific Aerial and Artillery Bombard ment and Engage Battered Nazis at Close  ~~ Quarters—1,000 Planes Take Part. in Alp Out Assault. ibe

Yanks Break Last German Defense Line   Unofficial Reports Say Troops Reach Sea On East, West

Onslaught Greatest Since Invasion of France June 6  AMERICAN TROOPS _ PUSH TO THE SEA        Germans Reported Pre: paring for next Inya- ~ sion Phase

Yanks Destroy Fortifications In Great Attack   Nazis Resigned to Port’s Loss, Plan Next Phase; Foe’s Forces Cut Into Three Parts

Rain Of Fire Pounds Port   Final Massive Blows Start — Against Nazis At Cherbourg

ided by Gigantic, Perfectly-Timed Artillery and Aerial Bombardment: Great Onslaught.

FINAL ATTACK ONCHERBOURG NEARS CLIMAX   LAST STEEL RING AROUND PORT SHATTERED

erec..v _imec Aerta, Anc Ari-ery ons.aug 7. <oc<s “N-anrv /-‘ac<s on “ors

Trapped Peninsula Garrison Cut In Three Segments By Yank Advances Along Northern C'‘nact Raade

Onslaught Greatest Since  Invasion: of France June 6   AMERICAN TROOPS _ PUSH TO THE SEA   Germans Reported Preparing for next Invasion Phase

RESIGNS AS ILS. C      William: Spokesfield to Join Teaching Staff at Darien, Conn. April. 17th

"CHS. COACH   William Spokesfield to Join Teaching Staff at Deen, Conn. April 17th

PEACE CONFEREES ~ WILL BAR SPAIN   ALLIED POLICY TOWARD NEU. TRALS LIKELY Fo AFFECT EIRE AND ARGENTINA.

Stern Policy Is Developed Toward Neutrals  Disclose Spain Will Be Barre

PEACE SESSIONS WILL BAR SPAIN   Pro-Axis Neutrals Get Stern Treatment From Allies

RUSSIAN ARMY GOES INTO ACTION ON IMPORTANT KRIVOI ROG FRONT   Berlin Communique Calls Soviet Attack Around Berdichev Unabated  Violence.

Everett McCracken  Now a Paratrooper   Completed Four Weeks of Training During Which He Made Five Jumps.

Yanks Advance On Biak Drome   Jap Resistance Is Steadilv Mounting

Yankees On Biak Gain Half a Mile   Jap Resistance To Drive Toward Vital Airfield Increasing

ew 7 7 JAPS LOSE 65 PLANES AS AIR OFFENSIVE HAMMEES NORTHERN NEW Z ‘ GUINEA BASE 

69 JAP PLANES LOST AT WEWAK   MacArthur Reveals Setback of Nips Over Wide Area

New Jitters For Japanese  — Are Evident   Three Separate Moves In Pacific Theatre Show Danger of Hold

LAND-BASEDU,S. FLIERS HIT TRUK WITHOUT LOSS   Allied Troops Land Behind Nip Lines in Burma; Invade isle in Bismarck Sea

LANDING MADE BACK OF JAP LINE IN BURMA   First Reported Operation Of Its Kind Intended To Clear Supply Route To China

Launch Three Big Ottensives Against Japs   Allies Make AirBorne Landing in Burma, Raid Truk.  And Invade Manus

Hit Nips With Triple Drive   Troops Land Behind Jap Burma Defense: Raid Truk: Take Over Manus.

Japan fs Jittery As Yanks Hit Qn Three Fronts  Land Planes Bomb   Land Planes Bomb Truk, Burma, Manus Isle Targets

NEW LANDINGS IN TWO AREAS ARE REPORTED   Manus Island Is Invaded; Land - Based Planes Bomb Truk

J OMASHES IN PACIFIC AREF   Allies Make Airborne Land. ing in Burma, Raid Truk, Invade Manus Island.

Allies Smash In 3 Offensives In Pacific Theater   Land In Burma, Raid Japs At Truk

THREE SMASHING ALLIED OFFENSIVES AGAINST JAPANESE   ATTACK ON TRUK, NEW . ISLAND INVASION AND ACTION IN BURMA REPORTED

LAND PLANES HAMMER TRUK IN AIR RAID   Airborne Troops Land On Jap’s Base Island

Airborne Troops  Land Behind Japs  Report Burma Action; Yanks On Manus Isle

Allied Offensives Give Japan Reason for Jitters Today   Land Behind Jap Lines; Blast Truk; Invade Another Island

ALLIES DROP MEN BEHIND JAP LINES   Forces In Burma Make An Advance; Allied Airmen Land Based, Make At. tack On Truk Base.

Three Smashing Offensives By Allied Forces Give Japs \Reason For Further Jitters   Airborne Troops Landed Behind Foe’s Lines In Burma: Land Planes Hit Truk

THREE ALLIED BLOWS HIT JAPS   Troops Landed In Burma; Land Planes Bomb Truk

“Yanks Invade Admiralty Island   Close In on Important Lorengau Airdrome; Allied Airborne Troops Land Behind Jap Lines in Burma; Truk Hit by Planes Based in Marshalls

U. S. FORCES INVADE MANUS, . BLAST TRUK   Americans Make Progress on Largest Admiralty Island After Crossing from Los Negros   RAID JAPS’ BASES   Airborne Troops Landed in Burma as Land Based Bombers Make First Raid on Truk

Air-Borne Troops Land Behind Jap Lines in Burma   Americans Invade Manus, Largest of Admiralty Islands

FORCES LANDE BEHIND LINES ~— IN BURMA   Manus Island In Bismarck Sea Is Invaded   CASUALTIES   In All Operations Said To Be Light; Rabaul, Wewak Bombed

Three Smashing Offensives Made  Against Japanese   For First Time Land Based Bombers Drop Their Explosives on Truk,   Nip Defense Crumbles In the War in Burma

Airborne Allied Troops Land Behind Enemy Lines in Northern Burma and Yank Forces Invade Another Strategic Island in Bismark Sea   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

TROOPS LANDED BEHIND NIPPON LINE IN BURMA   Manus Island Invaded in Bismarck Sea; Land Based Planes Hit Truk

Forecast Speedy Passage of New  Tax Measure   Strong Bi-Partisan Support For Streamlined Tax Rill

New Tax Plan Gains Backing   Bi-Partisan Support For Plan to Simplify  NO i a: es gee:

New Income Tax Bill Wins Favor   Committee Backs Painless Plan’’

EARLY ACTION ON TAXES SEEN   Bi-Partisan Backing is Ex. pected to Quickly Enact Streamlining Bill

THREE MILLION OHIOANS TURN OUT 10 VOTE   Most Bitterly Contested Campaign In State History At End   CLOSE COUNT FORECAST      Both Parties Make Claim Of Victory, Observers Say. It Is Toss-Up

PERFECT WEATHER THROUGHOUT STATE GREETS VOTERS —BOTH PARTIES FORECAST VICTORY

  \Conspiracy Defendant Files Suit Against   Attorney, Prosecutors

BRICKER ENDS VOTE DISPUTE   Asks Revision — of Black Pencil Rule

BRICKER TO URGE ANY MARK COUNT (WN 1944 BALLOT   Will Advise "Legislature Validate Pen or Other % ~—s Legible Means

HIT CHANGE TO CRITICAL AREA   Not Necessary If Manpower Fully Utilized, Says CIO Council

THREE GERMAN U-BOATS ARE SUNK   ‘Nazi Raiders Unable To Slip Through Straits Of Gibraltar

Miners Average Over 55 Rinutes Traveling Time Underground, Report Says

SET DATE FOR NEW TREASURY LOAN CAMPAIGN   Opens June 12; t End July 8.

Grand Champion Brings $40,000   Aberdeen-Angus Bull Sets Record Price for All Breeds

Job-Jumpers F acing Swift Induction Cal   Larger Proportion Of Older-Age Men Needed for Quotas

More Older Mer Face Induction In February   “Draft Age Men Were Told To Meet War Responsibilities.

Older Men Face Draft  Teeth Given “Produce Or Fight” Edict; War Not for Young Alone

Produce or Fight, Is Latest Edict  Speedier Induction Of Men 26 to 38 Is

LOCAL BOARDS TO TIGHTEN UP ON DEFERMENTS   War Workers Must Remain On Jobs Or Face  Induction

NATIONAL DRAFT RULING CHANGED   More Men Of Ages 26-37 Will Be Inducted After February 1, As They Leave Jobs,

U.S. Policy Is Outlined By Sec. Hull In 17 Points   Program Js Aimed At Post-War Era Of Co-operation Among All Nations   ALSO SEEN DESIGNED TO ANSWER CRITICS   Liberty-Loving Peoples Called on To Show  Thewre Worthy of It

Hull Lays Down ‘1 Point Plan for foreign Policy   Quick Defeat of Ene-, _ my and International Cooperation Are Aims

Hull Gives 17 Points of U.S. Policy      SECRETARY Of STATE ENUNCIATES PROGRAM FUR FU»51WAR WORLD OF INTERNATION, AL CO-OPERATION.   Defeat Foe Quickly

Hull’s Liberty Aims Call Occupied Lands   Pecgned As Reply to to Criticism U.S, cked Clear Policy, Clarifies Diplomatic Moves  :

y)Lays Down Point U.S. ign Policy   Calls Upon yLoving Men Lands to  liberating Armies

Defeat OF Avis Now {s Supreme Move Of Allies   Secretary Hull Calls Fo: Smashing Of Every  Krew Emacs

HULL LAYS DOWN PROGRAM OF U. 8, ~ FOREIGN POLICY   Sets Forth Fourteen Points Calling for International . Co-Operation After.  F . War.   SECRETARY URGES ” FIGHT FOR LIBERTY   Appeal Directed to Balkans as - Rumors of Peace Feelers Circulate in South . east Europe.

HULL STATES U.S. FOREIGN " POLICY AIMS   Program Seen as. Call To People of Occui pied Lands

~ As¢s Nex> 8  i i" Ts wR mines Ms ,  afi i Pope .. y —gm—-  -/ 20M .. S.A OFIgL - O.1Cy asec on “aT or.c Soovera ior.

Hull Lays Down New American Foreign Policy   17-Point Program Offered to World

Conference For Poles Suspended   Rival Polish Factions Were To Make Final  Decision In Moscow.

Primaries to Select Candidates   Seven States Are Involved in Yote Contests This Week

Keen Political Interest in Four State Primaries  Several Senators And Congressmen  Face Hard Fights

SOLDIER VOTE TOBE FACTOR IN MANY PRIMARIES   Importa t Elections t Be Held This  Week °

Service Men Seek to Say It With Votes   30,000 Mail Requests To Missouri for Absentee Ballots

SERVICE MEN T0   90,000 Apply In Missour * ~flone For Absentee Ralinte

SEVERAL OTATES VOTE THIS WEEK   Week’s Elections To Be Highlighted by Renomination Battles of Senator Clark, Missouri: Fish, New York

Soldier Vote May Be Factor In Week’s Races  Many Requesting Absentee Forms

Heaviest Air Force Hits Nazi Europe   Hungary, Yugoslavia, Germany and France Are Bombed

OIL PLANT, AIR FIELDS, OTHER TARGETS RAIDED   Refinery At Emmerich, Germany; Blasted; Air Bases And Bridges In France Blasted In Continuation of Round-Clock Assault.

Biggest Air Blows Hurled Against Nazis   Oil From Germany To Hungary Hit— Invaders Aided

Air Attack Hits Nazis  In Germany And France   American Heavies From Italy Hit Oil Supplies

1,500 Bombers Pound Europe   Many Planes in Direct Support of Ground Forces

OIL LIFELINES STRUCK TODAY      Great Armada of Bombers Attacks European Targets From West, South, ©   SEVERAL AIR BASES HIT

Aerial Onslaught Sets New Record   ioe “HEAVY BOMBERS AB IN RAID OVER GERMANY —

Greatest Single Striking Force Of War Used; 750 Other Giant U. S. Planes Hit Hungary. Yugoslavia

Record U.S. Bomber Fleet Blast Nazis   1.500 Heavies Attack Targels in France, Germany—Hali Dozen Oil Refineries Strafed

Oil Lifelines For Nazi War Machine Hit   Air Armada Takes Advantage of Fine Weather For Offense

Oil Center Airfields > Alfacked   Planes From Italy Strike at : Refineries.in Hungary ‘and Yugoslavia   OTHERS GO.AFTER ., NAZI AIR NESTS   ‘Enemy Basés « Beyond - the ~Beachhead. Are Pounded by 1500-Big Bombers

Weather Forecast   Air Might Blasts Oil  Plane Bases   Greatest Daylight Sweep Hits German, France, Austria, Yugoslavia

1.500 Planes  Hit Germany   a tae Re te iat  Greatest Single Striking Force In Air History Raid  Nazi Targets.

Record U. S. Air Fleet Slams Foe   History’s Greatest Single Force Lashes France and Germany

Planes Smash Oil Refinery And Air Fields   1,000 Fortresses and Liberators in Day Attack Against Enemy

Record Force Attacks France and Germany Today in Concert With Mission by 750 American Heavies Against Hungary and Yugoslavia From Italy.   OIL LIFELINES HIT

1,500 PLANES BLAST EUROPE   Greatest Single Striking Force In History Hits France, Reich

U0, BOMBERS BLAST HITLEh OIL SUPPLIES   Double Blow by 1,500 Big Planes Struck from England, italy.

1,500 U.S. Bombers _ Hit France, Reich   Greatest. Striking Force in Air History Joins With 750 “Heavies” From Italy to Blast " Nazi Production and Defenses.

Aerial Attacks From Italy And  Britain Mount   Huge Force Pounds Nazi Plants, Bridges, Air Bases In Daylight and Night Raids   Two-Ply Campaign To Be Stepped Up   Ideal Weather Favoring Yank Fliers In Support Of Ground Troops  ‘On Beachhead

1,500 Heavy Bombers Hit Nazi Targets   Oil Refinery and An Bases Pounded by U. S. Raiders

1500 U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS IN: CONCENTRATED ATTACK HIT — NAZI OIL FIELDS AND AIR BASES   Battle Area Along Beachhead Comes insfor Str. ing and Bombing by Greatest Single Striking Force In Air History. Balkans Also Bomb Plastered

AIR ARMADA BOMBS OIL REFINERY IN GERMANY, FRENCH BRIDGES   ROUND-CLOCK RAIDS RIP PARIS BASES, PLANE FORCE FROM ITALY POUNDS MUNICH AREA TARGETS

Allied Airmen Hit Normandy and Germany   Great Armadas Split Up to Blast Airfields, Rails, Other Targets

LARGEST SINGLE » STRIKING FORGE BOMBARDS AXIS   @Other American Heavies Attack Hungory, Yugoslavia—Oil Targets Hit

Cullman County War Loan Drive 25 Per Cent OF Quota, With Over Half Of Time Gone   Only Four Beats In County Have Gone“Over The Top”; Winston First County To Meet It’s Quota

Cullman County _ War Loan Drive 25 Percent Of Quota   Several Beats In County Have Met Quota: Winston Co. First In State ‘To Go Over Top’

Effect New Landing on New Britain   U. S. Marines on Gloucester Make [10-Mile Jump

ALLIES MAKE NEW ADVANCES IN S. W. PACIFI   Bearing Out Words of Gen. MacArthur That End of Bismarck Campaign in Sight

REPORTED ON ISLANDS   Fresh Landings Made @On New Britain; Los Negros Controlled

Nimitz Warns Japanese: ‘Admiral Says United States Navy Will Inevitably Defeat Nipponese

NIMITZ PICTURES BLOWS 10 COME   Notifies Jap People U. S. Navy Will Carry Fight te Vitals of Japan: Uses New Broadcast Station

Nintit7 Notifies... ~boe War Will Be - Carried to Janan  Says Navy” -Will . Bring

45,000 Truckmen Delay Walkout   Week’s Truce Called In AFL-CIO Dispute

Qutunre of Sen. Gillette  Discussed   Reports He Is Receptive To Federal Job

IN iy pf OUR STATE CAPITOL      vt ee Many Post-War Probletis Keep Committees Busy ‘

French Maquis Battle Enemy  Germans Forced To Use Biq Guns, Bombs

American-Chinese Forces Penetrate Southern Part Of Jap-Held Myitkyina

LAST-DITCH FIGHT ON SUBSIDY ISSUE LOOMS IN SENATE   ADMINISTRATION HAS GIRDED TO SAVE FOR FOOD PRICE PROGRAM

Subsidy, Service Pay Debate Set   OWL Says Plant Accidents Have hilled More Than Battles

Forces Gird To Save President’s Food Subsidy Bill   Measure Faces A Flood of Amendments From Floor To Cancel and Modify Yesterday’s Ban. :

Last Ditch Fight On Subsidies Seer   Administration  Ready For Battle

Big Subsidy Battle Near   Backers Plan LastDitch Stand to Save Stabilization Program

FOOD SUBSIDY SHOWDOWN LOOMS AS CAPITAL BUZZES WITH TALK ‘OF INDUSTRIAL RECONVERSION   Cooperative Leaders Discuss International Problems Witt Warning from Ohioan That ‘People Will Get What They Want by Evolution or Revolution’—Political Mystery Shares Interest With Mustering Out Pay

DEBATE (5 SE FOR TOMORROM   Administration ‘Girds Itsell For Fight te Save Subsidy Plan.

Pee Ce eae CT On Tee ae eos weet) Ree  Not Giving Up On Subsidies   Administration Forces Plan Last Ditch Fight

'A Last Ditch Fight : For Subsidies Looming   Administration Forces Get Ready for Opening OF Senate Debate Friday

American Soldiers Pay With Lives for Lack of Shells On West Front

Lack Of Shells  Costing Lives  Correspondent Tells  Oth Army Penorienca

Report Bulgarian Peace Overtures to Americans In Bern, Switzerland

RUSSIANS SEIZE RAIL CENTER IN SLASHING DRIVE   > Thousands of Nazis Killed, Captured—Final Assault On Minsk Near

Soviet Troops Closing Grip Around Minsk   Capture Rail Center, 12,000 More  Nazi Prisoners

Soviets Flank Key City  To Poland   Assault on Historic Route to Warsaw, Berlir Begins as Massed Forces of Reds Drive Irresistibly Westward at Fast Pace

Soviets Close Grip Tighter Around Minsk   Capture of 12,000 Germans in South Announced

Drive Ahead Relentlessly Against Nazis   General “Hangman” Gaman Among  High Officers Captured by Soviets

Drive Opens Clear Path .. For. Russian Aséaulters   Thousands “Of ‘Nazis . ‘Are Taken. Prisoners

Russians Move Along Flanks Of Nazi Stronghold   Surging Red Troops Capture More Than 500 Populated Places

REDS TIGHTE THEIR NOOSE AROUND MINS?   FRONT IS WIDENED; IMPORTANT RAIL CENTER TAKEN

SOVIET ARMIES SuSE NEAR BASE AT MINSK   Vast] Areas Covered a: ' Russians Converge ' on Key ‘City

Red Army Liberates More Than 500 Other Places in White Russia As Germans Retreat

Three Armies Joined for Final Attack   More Than 8,000 Germans Killed in Street Fighting      General Known to Russians as ‘Hangman Gaman’ Is Captured

Reds Tighten Up In Dri ‘ive To Capture Minsk   Kill Thousands Of Shattered Nazis In Their Advance

Russ Close In For Minsk ‘Kill  Three Armies Merge, Begin Attack; 500

RED ARMIES GAIN: MINSK PERIL GROWS   Winter - Reports ‘Assault -qn White Russian Cap: * ital on Route to Bertin      Ath. THOUSANDS IN SWIFT DRIVE   Russians Plunge 20 Miles  ~xon Flanks of City —  - Capture Large Railway Center of Borisov.

Minsk In Tightening Red Grip As Russians Forge  On With Unabated Fury

Assault on Historic Roufe to Warsaw, Berlin Begins as Massed Forces of Reds Drive Irresistibly Westward at Fast Pace

Crushing Offensive Rolls Onward Through 150 Villages    POYEZK! IS TAKEN, COMMUNIQUE SAYS

Soviets Expect to Cross  Border Today   Germans Lose 4,000 Men as Reds Advance 17 Miles

Crushing Offensive Rolls Onward Through 150  Villages   POYEZKI IS TAKEN,  COMMUNIQUE SAYS.   Many Localities Taken by Russians on the Baltic Front 

Expect To Cross Frontier Today, Moscow Reports   4,000 Nazis Killed, 150 Villages Taken

RUSSIANS TARE 150 TOWNS IN GIANT ASSAULT   22 German Divisions Reel Back; Vatutin Hurls 500,000 Into Fray   7000 SQUARE MILES TAKEN IN 10 DAYS

Soviet Army Now 10 Miles From Border   Disaster Threatens German Troops In Dnieper Bend

Soviets Expect To Cross PreWar Border Today; Ru mania Threatened   MUCH ‘EQUIPMENT IS   CAPTURED BY REDS

Wait for Moscow to. Clear Up Mystery  Dee FaLrteteereer Be a mvrwiuis wwe

The War Today  . Pravda’ Grape-Vine Rumor Published Today Is Nisconcertine.

The War Today   Russ Report of British Talk With Ribbentrop Disturbing

Only Moscow — Can Clear Up Peace Story   Pravda Article, However, May Be Indirect Rebuke to Allies on Polish Issue   A SHARP SETBACK ON THAT SCORE   But an Improvement in French-British Relations Ts Indicated

NEW SEPARATE PEACE STORY IS! DISCONCERTING, BUT NOT OF ANY GREAT SIGNIFICANCE. IS BELIEF

WALLACE TALKS AT ClO PARLEY   Vice-President Urges Support Of FDOR’S Goal For 60 Million Jobs

ClO DELEGATES CHEER WALLAGI   Shouts of ‘Forty-Ejight Greet Plea for Backing - -Of FDR Program: -

FIVE GERMAN FACTORIES IN BOMBER PATH   Poland, East Prussia And Northeast Germany Plants Target For Giant Fleet of U. S. Bombers.   Few Rockets

Big Air Fleet  Aids Russians   1,560 U.S. Planes Attaek ai Aireraft Plants

Fleets of U.S. Heavies Pounc Nazi Factories   Aircraft Plants in Poland, Prussia and Germany Blasted; 39 American Craft Lost

Liberators and Fortresses Hit Targets in Prussia and Poland   MANY PLANES TAKE PART _IN ASSAULTS   Deepest Allied Aerial Penetration in Europe Equalled

[91 Heavy Craft and 8 Fighters Lost ' In Raids Over Wide Area; Fierce  » Aerial Battles Are Fought

Giant US. Fleets on. Long Trip   Factories in Northeast Germany, Poland and East Prussia Hit Ry Bio Force”

Bombers Are Out Today   1,500 Planes Over the Berlin and Brunswick rea

1.500 U.S. Planes Renew Attack On  Nazi Area   Heavy American Force Attacks Berlin And Brunswick; Allies Strike French Tareets

Running Air Battle Across Germany to Skies Over Capital   Parade of Planes Over Channel Biggest of War; Arnold Warns

U. S. Heavy Bombers Reopen Assaults On Europe With Raids On Berlin, Brunswick 

1,500 Planes Resume Blows Against Reich   Air-Plastering Has Yet To Reach Peak, Says Gen. Arnold: Force Doesn't Know Power

Berlin Is Target As Yanks Resume Massive Assault   Powerful American Bomber Force Also Dumps Explosives in Brunswick Area

Yank Bombers Batter Berlin And Brunswick   Heavy Aerial Offensive From Britain Resumed After 5-Day Lapse.

Force Of American Planes, Probably Numbering 1,500, Goes Into Action After FiveDay Lull; Running Air Battle Across Germany Reported.

1,500 Planes Over Berlin And Brunswick   Bombardment So Heavy German Radio Disrupted

ASSAULTS ON EUROPE REOPENED   F ive-Day Lapse In Ait Offensive Is Ended; France Also Hit

Allies Bomb Berlin, Brunswick Areas   Blow by Estimated Force of 1,500 Planes Ends Five-Day Lull in Aerial Offensive—Assault on Capital Believed Heavy.

Yank Formation Of 1500 Planes Assaults Reiel:   Berlin, Brunswick Areas Hit By Heavy Bombers After Layoff Of 5 Daya

Big Bombers Resume Raids From Brifain   American Warplanes In Big Force Penetrate to Berlin, With Fighter Escort

1,500 Big U.S.Bombers InDay Attack   Foliow Up Heavy RAF Night Raid; 6-Day Lull Ends

—RENEW AIR ASSAULTS—   1,500 American Planes Strike In Capital Area

After Five-Day Lapse Due to Weather Conditions Fortresses and Liberators Renew Drive on Reich Capital and Industrial Centers. Air Parade Big:  waet ww Raxnea

U.S. BOMBERS RENEW AERIAL WAR ON REICH   Strong American Forces Rit German Capital, Brunswick

Greatest U. §. Armada Hits Berlin, Brunswick   Blow So Heavy That It Disrupted German News Broadcasts; Estimated 1,500 Planes _Took Part In Aerial Blitz Resumed.

BRUNSWICK AND BERLIN AREAS MAIN TARGETS   Offensive Resumed After 5+ Day Lapse With Record Number Of Planes

Allied Offensive By Air Resumes   Big Fleet Strikes at German Capital While Other Planes  Pound at Invasion Coast

MAUL TARGETS NBRUNSWICK, BERLIN AREA’   Biggest Air Parade of War, Say Observers In Channel Area

HEAVY ASSAULT TODAY OVER GERMANY   Berlin Bombed; Brunswick Also Allied Target

‘Air Offensive Resumed After Five Day Lapse   Berlin Targets Attacked in Raids By U.S. Warplanes

1590 Planes Believed Used In Day Attack   Bombardment By Amerieans So Heavy ‘nat It  News Broadcasts   Points In France  Hit By Britishers   Parade of Aircrafi Setting Qut For Continent Today Biggest Seen Doring War

NAZIS TELL OF PLANE BATTLE -QVER GERMANY   Channel Observers Say Parade of Aircraft Is Biggest Yet Seen

Hit Points in Brunswick Berlin Areas   Running Air Battle Across Germany is Reported

American Bombers Resume Aerial Attacks on Europe   Targets in Berlin and Brunswick Areas Are Raided; Running Battle Rages Across Europe as Invaders Send Out Heavy Force

Brunswick Is Blasted As Airmen Renew War      Invasion Railrea  Are Hit By Flyers

Batter Berlin —   “Germans Report Huge Battles Raging Over Reich Territory

1,400 PLANES IN DAYLIGHT ATTACK   Parade Of U. S. Aircraft Is Biggest Of War       nm AF   Hits Unspecified Targets In Northern France: Other Activity

U. §. Heavies Hit at Berlin And Brunswick   Probably 1500 U. S. Flying Fortresses And Liberators Resume Offensive

RESUME GREAT AIR OFFENSIVE   1500 PLANES BLAST TARGETS IN BERLIN AND BRUNSWICK AREAS

REICH CAPITAL, BRUNSWICK HIT   Yank ‘Forts’ and Liberators Smosh at Berlin, Other Industrial Areas

American Forts, Liberators Hit at Berlin, Brunswick   Heavy Bombers Resume Aerial Offensive in Wake of Arnold’s Prediction of Reavier Blows

AIR OFFENSIVE RESUMED AFTER FIVE-DAY LULL   1,500 American Planes Rain Destruction On Reich

FARM DRAFT REVIEW DUE   16 FOOD UNITS NEEDED FOR FURTHER DEFERMENT

Draft Boards Ordered To Review Farm _ Deferments Now Held By 1,700,000 Men

Farmers’ Deferments Tightened   More to Enter Service; State's Ouota Increased

Five Flyers Die, Three Children  Burned in Crash   Bomber Spins Out Of Control in Phoenix, Hits Intersection

Bricker To Keep On Campaigning To Last Minute      Will Speak Right Up to Convention

BRICKER PLANS OPEAKING TOUF   Announces Vigorous Campaign Right up to GOP Convention Urges Dewey, Others Come Out in Open

BRICKER CALLS FOR MORE TALK   Ohio Governor Wants Dewey And Others To Take Stump

Bricker Calls On Dewey to  Discuss Aims   Ohioan Says Public Entitled to Know Leaders’ Position

MAY SEIZE PLANT   War Labor Board Is Following Usual Routine With  Ward Case

WLB SET FOR WARD SELURE      Pay Boost In Detroit Not Considered Compliance By Government

Allied Forces Seize Corinth   Conquest Of Peloponnesus Completed; British And Patriot Troops Meet No Opposition

TAKE HALF OF NIP FIELD   Americans Seize Third of Island Of Kwajalein

Americans Seize Third of Island Of Kwajalein   Gen. Emmons Warns Jap Evacuees They Must: Not Return: to West Coast Without Special Permits

MAN, 75, BECOMES FATHER OF QUADS   Children Born in Bogata, Colombis —Details Concerning. Birth Are Lacking.

FULL PROGRAM AT COUNTRY CLUB IS BEING PLANNED   The Membership Has Now Been Completed by the Committee,

FULL PROGRAM AT COUNTRY CLUB "Te BEING PLANNED   The Membership Has Now Been Completed by the Committee.   4  MONTHLY STAG DINNERS   Family Parties Will Be Held as Well as Fourth of July Picnic.

YANK PINGERS IS TIGHTENED IN PENINSULA   PORT CITY LIKELY TO BE ANOTHER SEV ASTOPOL

Thousands of Nazis About . To Be Trapped   Gen. Bradley Predicts Hard Fight From  Germane at Rag Part

Many Germans Caught as Trap Snaps   Surprise Move Hits Weak Point in Nazi Defense Line

SENTINEL WINS IN STATE CONTEST   AWARDED HIGH HONORS FOR DAILY PAPERS IN CITIES UNDER 25,000

Hard Coal Miners To Work Sundays   Iekes, U.M.W. - Cooperate On Move

STAND OR DIE RESISTANCE I$ CRUMBLING   American Ist and 9th Armies Captures More Enemy Towns Before Cologne.   BULLETIN

YANKS INCH OUT GAINS AS WHOLE FRONT BLAZES   New French Drive Looms

Nazis Sag Under Savage Blows by Yank Units   Finest Reserves Hurled Into Action by German Commanders as Allied Offensive Gains in Fury; Patton Stabs Into Saar

HINA BRIDGE TO HALT YANKS   Bloody Fighting Continues in Villages of Inden, Lamersdorf.

American Armies Make Small Gain In Hard Struggle      Cologne Plain Battle Roars Toward Climax  With Sign of Crackup

Ist Army Loses Lamersdort: Smashes Back Into Grosshau  Germans Show Signs of Weakening In Roaring Battle for Coloane

Nazis Show Signs Of Cracking ~~         THROW BEST TROOPS INTO . FIGHT AS BATTLE OF COLOGN PLAINS ENTERS THIRD WEEK

Ist Retakes Town In Savage Fight: Grosshau Seized   Nazi Lines Sag Back Despite Fanatical Resistance

BERLINERS ARE DAZED BY RAID   Mass Graves-Prepared  for Some of Victims’ Ry HIRERT ISWNKULT.

3ERLIN DIGS FOR DEAD IN RAID   Fires Continne in Center and Suburbs of City

Fires Rage In Berlin Following Great Air Attack   Report Death Toll In “Thousands” Under Debris of Blazing City

BERLINERS DIG IN RUINS FOR DEAD, TRAPPED   Fires Continue To Burn After Heaviest Raid In History

Berlin Dazed By RAP, Digs Mass Graves   Swedes Get Reports of Fearful Wreckage of Heaviest Bombing of War

Berliners Digging Ruins For Dead, Trapped After Biggest Raid in History

Nazis Rush Troops — To Norway, Denmark   Multiplyi ing Signs Hint Allies Planning to Inv ade Seandinavia

Allied Drive Into Scandiriavia Seen   Nazis Rush Troops To Denmark, Norway

NAZI GARRISON IN SCANDINAVIA IS REINFORCED   Denmark And Norway In Invasion Guessing Spotlight

‘Swedes Report Nazis Rushing Troops To Denmark and Norway to Meet Expected Allied Invasion There

INVASION OF SCANDINAVIA 1S INDIGATEL   DNB ‘Reports Large Allied Shipping Concentration in Iceland

80,000 NAZI TROOPS RUSHED TO TERRITORY   Preparations For German BDetense Center In Norway And Denmark

Nazis Reported Rushing Troops To Scandinavia   80,000 Soldiers Said Sent To Denmark, Norway By Germans

SCANDINAVIA TO BE INVADED BY © ALLIES, REPORT   Fermans Rush 80.000 More Troops To Denmark And Nerway

NAZIS PLAN TO NEET THREAT   Germans Rushing 80,000 More s to Denmark and Norway Threat of Invasion.

Stockholm Rumors Said Allies Will Invade Through Scandinavia and German Troops Arrive.

Says Disregard For Men At Sea. fe Sramefut”   Rep. Harness Asks Probe Of “Irregularities” In Procuring Of Life Rafts

Demands Probe Of Life Rafts Issued To Ships      Congressman Savs Unsafe

Rep. Harness To Investigate Use Of Rafts   Feels Irregularities Exist In Procurement Of Life Rafts For Navy

Red Cross To Enlarge Board   Townships May . Have Directors; Plan Fund Drive

SECOND PLACE BALLOT FIGHT ~ IN SPOTLIGHT   BHITER FLOOR BATTLE: FOR VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMI. NATION BEING BTAGED  " ‘TODAY :

ROOSEVELT IS NOMINATED FO; FOURTH TERM   Accepts in Speech From West Coast Naval Base ‘

DEMS 4TH TERM NOMINEE AWAITING RUNNING MATE   VICE PRESIDENT FORGES INTO LEAD   Racial Equality Plank Arouses Southern States—Texas Vote Ordered Split

STIMSON FORESEES ‘HARD FIGHTING YET   Enemy ts Able to Form Con. tinuous Defensive Line On His Borders.

Stimson Predicts  Hard Fight Ahead   Enemy Able To Form Continuous Defense Line

STATE'S BOND QUOTA. _ SET AT $315,000,000   Total for Fifth War Loan Driv Is $23,009,000 Greater Than in -  Paet Campaloen.

Declares F uture Hope of Orient Rests in China   _ Finding Outlet  For Surplus _ After  ' wErr

Declares Future Hope of Orient Rests in China  Finding Outlet  For Surplus After War on D.-~Ll law

COUNTY DEMOS BILL MEETING   Opening Guns of Campaign To Be Fired Here Thursday

Enemy Killed By Thousands South Of Rome   Allies Absorb Every Desperate Assault On Beachhead

Allies Name Bodv To Rule  Nazi Sectors   Military Government Will Destroy Nation Socialism In Reich

ARMY RULE TO GUIDE GERMANY   Allied Military Government Ready to Take Control

ITALIAN KING ASKS SUPPORT OF PEOPLE   Vittorio Emanuele, Seeking to Re tain Throne, Calls on Subjects to Kally Around Him.

Discharged Over ‘Hopkins’ Letter   Employe in Ickes’ Depart ment Linked With Letter About Willkie.

ICKES IRKED BY “HOPKINS LETTER” ROW   Suspends Aide Accused of Giving Out Document for Publication and Denies Personal Complicity in Case.

Ickes Helper Suspended in Letter Probe   Interior Secretary Also Asks Chance to Appear Before Grand Jury

Ickes Suspends Aide In Probe  Outcome Of Hopkins  Letter Case Awaited

Ickes Assistant ls Suspended  Link Briggs With Famed ‘Hopkins Letter

Hopkins Letter Will Prove to Be Faked, Says Aide of Biddle   Sen. Langer Links Icke: Assistant to Publication of Note

“Hopkins’ Letter” Thriller Now Part  of Congress Record   Assistant to Ickes is Called Go-Between in Its Publication  iz_in

“Hopkins Letter” Called Forgery By the Attorney General's Special Aide

Ickes Assistant  Suspended Today   George N. Briggs Suspended Pending’ Outcome of Probe of “Hopkins Letter.”

HUNT MORE CLUES AN TRUNK DEATH   Search Intensified for Man Who Arranged Shipment To ‘California,

FOR SENDER OF MURDER TRUNK   Sought To Clear Up Mystery Veiling Death Of Woman

QUIZ TWELVE IN CALIFORNIA TRUNK MURDER   Unidentified Woman's Semi. Nude Body Shipped In Trunk

‘Trunk Murder Mystery \Ouiz Shifts To Chicago   More Than A Dozen Men And Women Questioned j By Police; Search For Man Who Arranged i Shipment To Los Atigeles Intensified: ‘

Police Probe Into Case of.  Trunk Victim   Search Is Intensif ied For Man Who Arranged Its Shipment

Police Search: for Sender of Murder Trunk in Chicago   Semi-Nude Body _ of Woman Found by Express Clerk Friday

TRUNK MURDER MYSTERY NOW BEING STUDIED   Chicago Police Running Down Various Clues in Effort to Find Slayer of  Woman

Police Search For Sender Of  Murder Trunk   Semi-Nude Body of Woman Shipped From Chi- cago to’ Los’ Angeles Packed in Salt

Find Mystery Body In Trunk   Stream of Blood Leads To Discovery of Death Package.

Trunk Death Mystery of Nude Womar   Centers on Hunt for the Chicago Man That Shipped the Trunk

Police Hunt Sender Of Trunk Bearing Body Of Slain Womar   Mon, Accompanied By Boy, Shipped Gruesome Carao To Los Anaeles

Suspect Quizzed In Trunk Murder  Chicago Man, 26, idk  wa Dal; ir oe: ¥

Seek Clues in Trunk Mystery   Body of Woman Shipped from Chicago To Los Angeles

‘Dewey Is Told He Will Carry Pennsylvania      BLAMES ‘WASHINGTON ORDERS’ FOR RIOT-RIPPED MEETING

Heckling and Fist Fights During Speech by O'Danie   O’Daniel Blames Riot on Lawless Element Backine the New Deal

O'DANIEL’S HOUSTON APPEARANCE MARKED BY DEMONSTRATIONS  TEXAS SENATOR, BOOED CONSTANTLY SAYS AFFAIE

O’Daniel, Heckled, Booed In Riotous Houston Meet, Blames Washington

Barry Glass Located In W. Virginia   First Anti-Toxin Is Administered

POLICE PATROL WARD STORES   Three Injured In Battle Between CIO Pickets, Store Employes

cenneeeiaeiaieemndael  NO WHISKY DISTILLING TO BE DONE THIS YEAR

Truckers Essential.   War Comes First; No Whisky Making This Year--Nelson

NAVY REVEALS DAMAGE DONE  FORMOSA RAID   35 Jap Ships, 221 Planes Hit

TASK FORCE 58 REVEALED AS UNIT STRIKING BLOW  AT JAP FORMOSA   Tokyo Reports New Raid Over Island

Report Big Battle Is On At Formosa   Americans Lose 22 Planes, As Japs Suffer Loss of 221 Planes, 35 Ships

—WESTERN FRONT—  BRITISH ADVANCE TOWARD FRONTIER   Fight Way Into Dutch Town Of Venray, 8 Miles From Border   CANADIANS. GAIN   American Lines Around Ruined German Stronghold Hold Firm-- .-

BATTLE RAGES THROUGHOUT NIGHT   U. S. Lines Ringing City Remain Intact   Declares Americans Preparing New Offensive; Canadians Advance

Germans Seek to Break Yank Hold On Aachen But Attempt Is Failure

New Allied Offensive  Coming On West Front   Nazi Counter- Attacks Stepped Up As Berlin Radio Says Another Drive Is Mounting

anks Throw ack Assault n Long Battle   British Soldiers Fight Their Way Into Dutch Town

Germans Fail To Break Through Aachen Circle   U. S. Lines Around Dying City Hold. Against Fierce Attacks.

Fight Off Series Of Fiei ~Counter-Attacks; Na: Concentrate At Rear

Yankees Hurl Back Germans Counter Blow   Americans Cling to Lines Ringing Doomed Aachen; British Take Venray, Dutch Town

VENRAY SEIZED; GREATEST NAZI ATTACK HALTED   Gains Made In Breakthrough On Schelde Estuary Below Antwery

AMERICANS HOLD LINE AT AACHEN   Counterassault Checked; Nazis Fighting Hard

YANKS SMASH AACHEN DRIVE, LINES INTAG]   British Assault Nears German Border in Northern Area

West Front in German Upheaval   NAZI COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED BY YANKS

Yankees Draw Tighter Net About Aachen   Beat Back Heaviest Counterattack Yet Made by Defenders

Yanks Retain Posts Despite Furious Battle   Fall of Venray Is Imminent As Allies Prepare For New Drive on Rhine

AMERICAN LINE IS HELD AFTER _ NIGHT BATTLE   Reports Indicate Allies Are Mounting New Offensive

Fierce German Counter-Blows Thrust Back   Americans Hold In Heavy Fighting Near Aachen

SERMANS HAVE NO SUCCESS IN AACHEN DRIVE   Rush In New Forces But To No Avail British Enter Towr Of Vanray 50 Mile: North Of Aachen.

GERMANS FIGHT DESPERATELY 10 SAVE CITY   British Press Against Venray With Push To Reich Border Imminent

Nazi Attempts To Break Grip Thrown Back _  By Americans   ’ British Forces Fight Into Dutch Town

Yanks Throw Back Nazi Heaviest Counterattack  US Lines Around the Dying e City of Aachen. Still Hold 

, Yanks Repel Biggest Nazi eAssault Yet   Hold Fast At Aachen In Night-Long Battle; British Enter Venray.

Americans Repel Heavy Nazi Push Near Crucifix Hill   Dutch Stronghold 8 Miles From Border About To Fall Into British Hands

Americans Fight Off Heaviest Nazi Counterattack After a Battle Lasting All Night.   VENRAY TO NORTH OF AACHEN IS DOOMED

HOLD LINES AFTER NIGHT LONG ATTACK   Open Revolt Reported Raging In Hungarian Army

Americans Reported Preparing New Offensive As Germans Step Up Fierceness of Counterblows.

YANKS REPULSE ASSAULT AFTER ALL-NIGHT DUEL   British Troops Enter Town 8 Miles From One Gate To Rhine-Ruhr Area

REPEL HEAVIEST GERMAN ATTACK EAST OF AACHEN   British Enter Dutch City Eight Miles From Reich Frontier

Assault Reaches Peak at Midnight   Aachen Besiegers Hold Lines; British Fight Way North in Holland: New U.S, Drive Formino

NAZIS THROWN BACK IN NIGHT LONG STRUGGLE   German Counter-Attack Is Heaviest of Any Made East of Aachen

25 Jap Ships Sunk Or Damaged   New Attacks On South Philippines Underway

Navy Silent On Saipan Landing   No Confirmation Or Denial On Jap Report

Offer to Workin Shipyard Without Pay on Choristina  e nave Overseas

Annual Yule Seal Campaign Gets Underway   38th Sale Is Launched: Seal This Season Is Designed in Tribute To Postal Employes

Annual Seal Sale Of T. B. Society Now Under Way   Christmas Seals Will Be Sold in Sheets Costing $1.00 Each

Soviet Tanks At Outskirts Of Budapest   Sweep on Ujpest, Rail Junction 2 Miles North Of Hungarian Capital

Aim To Bottle Up  Nazis in Normandy   German Army in France in “Complete Tailspin,” Unfit for More Action. Savs Allied Leader

TANKS ACROSS SEINE ON EACH SIDE OF PARIS   Fan Out Toward Port Of Le Havre And War One Battlefields

4 DIE IN SIOUX CITY AIR-CRASH   Survivor Pulls 2 Others to Safety From Blaze

Four Fliers Die in Plane Crash  Accident at Edge of Sioux City Air Base

Joan Rests After Tears, Revelations   Letters Read, Cause Outburst in Court; 4-Day Recess Called

Joan's Tears Flow: Letters Read in Court   Flees from Stand to Arms of Counsel as Recess ts Taken

Chaplin Cas e  Recessed Over   Christmas Day   Joan Berry, Who Accuise: Comedian of Being the Father of Her Child, Weeps

Joan Given Xmas Respite From Stand After Sobbing Out Relations With Chaplir

Weeping Joan Is Given 4-Day Court Holiday   Flees From Stand To Arms Of Her Attorney As Charlie -Chaplin’s Counsel Introduces Letter She Had Written To Screen Comedian

JOAN SOBS OUT FURTHER FACTS ON LOVE LIFE   Falters Under Questioning Of Chaplin’s Attorney

DEATH TOLL IN STRICKEN AREA BOOSTED 10 11   Property Damage Tops il! wo Million, Says Red Cross

AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVING TOWARD BELGIUM MAY BRING LIBERATION SOON TO NAZI-HELD KINGDOM

Salva ge Corps Stands Ready Off Cherbourg   Poised to Move In With . Cargo of Dynamite To  Tackle Dangerous  - Rehabilitation ©

.. =ITALY— eps  MLIESNEARING ADRIATIC PORT   Rapid Advance Being Made Toward Ancona, ‘Prize Italian City

Allies Near Prize Italian Adriatic Port OF Ancona      Within 32 Miles Of City  With Harbor Next To!  Venice In Port Facili Tes.

ALLIED TROOPS NEAR PORT ON ADRIATIC COAST   Forces Within 32 Miles of Anconia; Nazis Suffer Over 80,000 Casualties

MOVE ON PRIZE ADRIATIC PORT   Allied Forces Carve Out New Gains Along Whole Front

ALLIES NEAR ANCONA AREA IN N. ITALY   Report 100.000 Germans Dead  In 41 Days

Allies Drive On Key Port   Only 32 Miles From Ancona, On Adriatic; Meet Stiff Resistance

Allies Continue Northward Marck  Near Ancona, Prize Adriatic Coast Port

Allied Thrusts Aimed At Ancona   Prize Italian Port O: Adriatic Sought

[Allied ar and Italian ‘Troops Near Ancona, Prize Port on Adriatic

Allied Troops  Near Ancona   Seek Prize Italian Port on Adriatic; Eiehth Nears Camerino

Allies Nearing Port Of Ancona   Prize Italian Port On Adriatic Ranks Next To Venice In Facilities.

Allied Ferces Nearing Ancona  In Italian Push      Prize Adriatic Coast City Imminent Goal Of Drive; Air Activity Stepped Up

Troops Advance Toward Prized Port in Italy    Ancona Believed Next Target of Allied Force

ALLIED AND ITALIAN TROOPS CONVERGING ON PORT OF ANCONA  ’ OTHER ADVANCES REPORTED ACROSS ITALIAN MAINLAND t

Allies Continue Gains in Italy   Within 32 Miles of Ancona, Prize Port  On Adriatic

Eighth Army Troops Approach Camerino; Three oaded Enemy Lighters Torpedoed

Allies Advance In Italy Despite Misty Weather   Casualties Inflicted on Nazis in 41 Days of Allied Drive _Estimated--98,000 io 100,000

ALLIES NEARING CITY OF ANCONA   Drive Within: 32 Miles of Prize Port: on Adriatic: Fighting Weather Improves.

Allies Push For Ancona, Prized Port   Camerino Is Neared By 8th Army Forces

Allie: “voops Are Near Ancona, Prize - Adriatic Seaport   Between 80,000 and 100, 000 Nazis Slain in Italian Fighting

Allied AndItalian Fighters 32 Miles From Ancona Port   Eighth Army Nears Camerino; West Troops Drive

ITALIANS ARE NEARING PRIZE ANCONA PORT   Unit Marching Up Adriatic Coast As Eighth Army Troops Drive Toward Camerino   WEATHER IS IMPROVING

Allies Near Ancona Port   Germans. May Yield Prize Adriatic City

Allies Within 32 Miles Prize Port In Italy   British Eighth Army “Troops Approaching Ca. merino, 35 Miles Eust Of Perugia

Allies Press Toward Fine Italian Port   Ancona One of Best Harbors on Adriatic Coast

ALLIES AIM AT ANCONA, PRIZE ADRIATIC PORT   ESTIMATE GERMAN CASUALTIES OVER 80,000 IN ITALY

Allied Armies 32 Miles From Prize Port  Gains Made All Along Front In Italy

ALLIES ADVANCE ON PRIZE SEA PORT OF ANCON/   Italian Troops With Allies Are 32 Miles From New Obiective

‘ALLIED TROOPS NEARER ANCONA   Prize Port on Adriatic 32 Miles Away as Forces Roll on

NEARING PRIZE ADRIATIC PORT   Allied and Italian Troops Are _ Within 32 Miles of ~ Ancona.   'OTHER GROUPS ADVANCE

Allies Near Ancona; Prize Italian Port   Report German Casualties Between 80,000 and 100,000 So Far

Allies Nearing Ancona, Prize Adriatic Port   Gains All Along Italian Battle Line Scored By 5th And 8th Armies.

Allied Aerial Blows Rock Jap Defenses   Areas From Indies to Philippines Hit: 20 Ships Sunk

TRAPPED ENEMY ASSAULTS FAIL   Sharp Fighting Proves Coals To no Fk Guam, Tinian In  velop With Success

U, S. EVACUATES CHINA AIR BASE   Chennault ~ Congraulates 14th Airforce on Performance

LIUCHOW ABANDONED BY 14TH AIR FORGE   Most Of Men And Supplies Rescued By Plane

EIGHTH ARMY 9 MILES FROM FLORENCE   Allies Press Germans Back Against Gates of City

HEAVY BATTLE FOR FLORENCE   British Within Five Miles of City  Germans Defend Last Hill Line

EIGHTH  ‘ARMY BATTERING: ‘AT STRONG GERMAN. POSITIONS . ‘FIVE MILES FROM CITY ..

Jap Fleet Remains  In Hiding   Tokyo Telling Fairy Tales of Warship Battle

Jap losses 146 vessels; 720 aireraft  Open 2nd week  of naval action

Nimitz Says Carrier Planes Continue Luzon Air Attack; Jap Plane, Ship Losses Mount

100 Jap Planes Are Destroyed In Philippines   No Authentic News Of Japanese Fleet

Japanese Suffer Heavy Losses  In First Week Of  _ Sustained Raids

Japanese Suffer Heavy Plane Losses  Over Aparri   100 Craft Shot Down Or Destroyed Aground Formosa Again Target Of Syner.Fartrescces

Air Attacks On Luzon  Continuing   Second Week of Carrier Plane Strikes Opened; Jap Losses for Week  146 Ships, 705 Planes

ASSAULT UPO PHILIPPINES IN SEVENTH DAY   NO WORD RECEIVED OF TANGLE WITH JAPAN’S FLEET

146 Enemy Ships Sunk Or ‘Damaged And 705 To 720 Planes Bagged In Week   NIP REPORTS REFUTED BY CONTINUED RAIDS

Enemy Flings Full Air Force At Americans: Fleet Prowls to Seek Out Japanese Navy

Want 200 Members Legion by Jan. 25   Leon Beatty Post Now Has 186 Paid Up — Rev. E, H. Wendland Talks at Post Meeting

Legion Post Has 175) Paid-up Members, “4   Reports Received at Meeting Last Night—Santa Claus Talk Given by Kaster

U. 5. Subs Sink 12 Jap Ships as British Bag One Cruiser and Three Supnly Boats

U.S. Subs Sink 12 Jap Ships  British U-Boat Gets Ctnarltt fan Taree

EATH TOLL IN IRCUS BLAZE T LEAST 146   5 Charged With Manslaughter

OFFICIALS OF CIRCUS CHARGED   Fire Which Sweeps Biq Top Spreads Rapidly

Disaster Strikes In Connecticut  When Tent Burns   Five Officials Face Manslaughter Count Following Tragedy

PALA 146 INOW Deal  In Blaze; Only 110 Identified   Fire Believed Traced t _ Light; Negligence * Charge Seen

Five Circus Men Face Manslaughter Counts;  Fire Toll Ils Now 146

oT biC hE R—  BICKER FORCES STILL HOPEFU   Dewey ‘Bandwagon Los ing Its Momentum, ‘Lieutenants Declare

BRICKER FORCES WON'T GIVE UP   Smaller Delegations They Say, Resent Dewey Pressure

‘Still Short Of Artillery Ammunition   Worst Crisis Is Past But Shells Are Still Being Rationed; Blame On Faulty Planning

RATION SHELLS ON WEST FRONT      Errors In Planning Cause Serious Shortage Of Big Calibre Ammo

AMMUNITION IS GREATEST NEED   Yanks Marching On, But They Are Asking for Shells, More Shells

Still Ration Shells On West Front   Army Apparently Underestimated Need On Sieafried Line

Big Shells Are Being Rationed   Shortage Continues on Western Front and Need Has Become Greater   CUTBACKS WERE MADE TOO QUICK   Efforts to Avoid Any Great Surplus Prompted Action; Toughest Days Ahead

Still Ration — Artillery On  West Front   Crisis Past By Lack Of Ammunition Will Prolene War

Much Gasoline On Black Market   CIVILIANS MAY FACE ADDITIONAL GAS CUTS.

‘Hot’ Gas Coupons May Force Cut In Civilian Rations, Polier Says

WARN GAS BLACK MARKET MAY CUT DRIVERS’ QUOTAS   Congress Told Iiegai Opera: tions Draining Off 2,500, 000 Gallons Daily-—Coun terfeit Coupons Sell High  eee re Tree re wary

Gasoline Black Market May Cut  Civilian Ration   Chiselers Drain Off An Estimated 2,500,000 Gallons Daily.

Further Slash In Gas Rations Seen   Official Says Black Markets May Force Reduction

OPA May Cu Gas Rations  Of Civilians   Blames Black Market Sales

Black Market Cirts Into Ration  OPA Official Warns: Of Further Reduction

Gas Black Market Menaces Supplies   Hot’ C Tickets Now Are Bringing Fifty Cents Each

legal “C’ Coupons Rok U.S. OF Vital Gas Supply   War Effort May Be Dangerously Hampered By Greed Of Selfish Civilians, Says OPA Official

HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER ARE BADLY INJURED   t Former Altoona High School Athletic Director Left Here In 1939.

Where’s Kelly?  er ee  Pittsburgh Still Waits For Hero To Receive Honors

“Has Anybody Seen Kelly?”  He’s Wanted   Mom and Much: -of- Pittsburgh Wait to Honor — ‘Italian-Front Hero

Major Enemy Cities, Ports  Blasted Again   800 UB. Heavy Bombers and 950 Fighters Go Out im Major Attacks   AIR SUPPORT FOR DRIVE IN HOLLAND   Today’s Big Raid Piled on Top of Heavy Blows. Over the Week-End

Railroads. Roads. Trains Shot Up By Fighters, For, Pangcing Mosanrtos

Germany's Freight Yards at Hamm Hit  Bombers Also Raid Munster, Twin Cities

Great Bomber Assault Made   Hamm, Munster And Hamburg Areas Battered; Mosquitoes Roam Germany

Bombers Smash German Targets  Widespread Raids Sundav Niaht. Menday

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Germans Predict Allied Capture of Paris May Be Today

AMERICAN SPEARREADS BELIEVED AT CHARTRES   Famous Cathedral City on Edge of Capital’ Inner Defense Belt   BATTLE FOR BREST REACHES CLIMAX   British, Meeting Tough Resistance, Slowly Advance Toward Falaise :

‘Peron Clique Fails  To Win Over Army   Conp Reported Awailing Sienal From Ramirez

Majority of Army Officers Await Signal to Restore Ramirez to Power

NEW ARGENTINE REVOLT LIKELY   Majority Of Army Wants To Return Ramirez To Power

Revolt. in. ~ Argentina” May Ensue   Army Officers Found to Be Ramirez Admirers Awaiting Chance > . To Rise Up

Score Bull’ S- -Eyes on Nazi Tanks  Rogers Officer j in Normandy Crew

Predicts _ Dewey Win   State Vice. Chairman Says Women Voters Hold Balance of Power

BRITISH SMASH JAPS BACK IN KOHIMA AREA   Invaders Fight Against Time To Win Indian Supply Center

Japs Repulsed After Breaking  Kobimo Lines   Enemy Inereases Pressure To Win Supply Center Before Monsoons

Jap Troops Are Repulsed Before Kohima   Manipur Valley is Swarming With Nipponese Forces

British Hurl Back Japs At  Kohima Base   But Invaders Are Pressing Their Attack With Re. newed Fury ,

Japs Thrown Back After Breaking Up Main British Defenses Around Kohima

GOP RESOLUTIONS GROUP IGNORES ‘WORLD STATE’   Upsets MacKinac Plan For International Co-operation

GOP MAY WIND UP CONVENTION IN THREE DAYS   Selection Of Nominee By Wednesday Night A Possibility

Stimson Reveals New Army Policy   Families Who Have Lost Men Are Recognized

Selective Service Boards Tightening Down on  Deferments to Farmers

> .§ lowa Governor Says State to Go Republicar   Predicts Biggest Margin In 15 to 18 Years During Dewey Parley

KK Iowa Governor Says State to Go Republican  Predicts Biggest Margin In 15 to 18 Years Dur ina NDawravu Paviay

Nazis Beaten Back in Italy  Allies Hold Solidly At Anzio, Repulse Three More Attacks

Allies Keep Their Hold On Beachhead  Below Rome   Three Small Drives . Of Germans. Stopped

Nazis Make Feeble Stab At Beachhead   Allies Handily Repulse Weak Attacks; Ger mans Hint End Of Effort To Drive Allied Forces Into The Sea

Nazi Blows At. Anzio Repulsed   Bad Weather Again Closes Over Area

Nazi Blows At Anzio Repulsed   Bad Weather Again  Closes Over Area By EDWARD KENNEDY

ALLIES STICK TOBEACHHEAD BELOW ROME   WEAKENED GERMAN ATTACKS ALL REPULSED

“azis Change Anzio Tune   Repulsed Again, Hint Los: ing Hope of Driving Allies Into the Sea

‘Allies Keep Strong Grip :OnBeachhead   ‘Blunt Every Nazi Attack : Since All-Out Drive by  Kesselring Failed   STEP UP AIR BLOWS   Rome Radio Hints Nazis No Longer Expect to Win Anzio Sector

Allies Pinned In Beachhead, Nazis Report   Wording Hints Germans Abandoning Hope Of Driving 5th Army Off Anzio Battlefield

Three Small Nazi Assaults Repulsed; Air Forces Pound Enemy Supply Line:

New 12,000-Pound Earthquake Bomb Claimed ‘Most Destructive Air Weapon Ever Used” by RAF

GREATER POWER-—~MORE DEATH: British Design World‘s Most Destructive Aerial Weapon

IR. A. F. Uses 12,000-Pound Bomb  Described as Being the Most ‘Destructive Air Weapon Ever Used

Seize Soldier  InSix Slayings   Police Hunt Shotgun Believed Used In Three Double Murders.

SOLDIER HELD IN SLAYINGS IN ‘LOVERS LANE      No Charges Made Against For!   Dix Private, Search Being Made  for Shotgun

FDR Praises Yank Fliers’ Aid To China   Carry Supplies Over “The Hump”

96TH OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL BE ORGANIZED MONDAY   Long, Important Session Forecast; Message By Bricker Due

Kaiser Controls Big Gypsum Co.   To Sell Postwar Building Materials

MacKenzie Finds Allied War Effort. to Be Going Well ‘The Globe Around’

MacKenzie Says—  W ar Effort ls Good In A\ll Sectors      Position of Allies As the Year Ends Indicates They Are On Road to Victory

The War Today  r Situation Is Me ne red — erally Good All over Globe

WAR TODAY   Allies, Despite Setback On Western Front, Can’t Lose Excepting Through: Homefront Shortconiings

DESPITE RECENT WEST FRONT SETBACK ALLIED CAUSE GOING WELL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Have Also Captured  Orleans   FALL OF RAILWAY HUB TO > ALLIES CUTS ALL FRANCE IN TWO; CANADIANS DRIVE TOWARD SEINE

Reports Indicate Patton's Forces May Be In Sight of Capital: Canadians Thrust

German Battle Sereen Guarding Approaches Falls Apart   Gunfire Is Heard In French Capita   Advance Elements Of Pat. ton Army May Be In Sight Of City

U.s. bank Armies JZ Mules From Paris; Orleans Taken; Canadians Forging New Trap

U.§. ARMOR 1S CLOSING IN ON PARIS   Strategic Railway Center of Orleans Taken In Swift Thrust.

Canadians Iry For New Trap Of Nazi Army   German Battle Line Buckles Bcfore Powerful Yank Drive

YANK PLANES USING BASES IN RUSSIA   Move Opens All Axis Europe to Bombardment

Shuttle Raid From Bases In Russia Is Successful   Initial Attack Is Completed, One Bomber, One Fighter Lost

Yank Planes Land in Russia After Mission   New Technique Broadens Allied Bombing Ranae

Open All Europe to Bombings  Rhnmn Cartraoceac   Flying Fortresses From Italy, North Africa, England, Raid Romania

FIRST AMERICAN SHUTTLE RAID HITS ROMANIA   All European Axis Targets Now Open To Bombardment

American Planes Land At Bases  In Soviet Russia   Targets In Romania. Blasted In Mission  Deemed Successful

BLIND SPOTS DISAPPEAR IN AIR WAR   History Is Made When U. S. Fortresses Land “Somewhere’ In Soviet Union.

Shuttle Bases OpenAllEurop To Air Attack   Potentialities Enormous, Say Leaders After First Shuttle Raid

‘ Yank Shuttle Raiders Write New Page In History  -U. S. Planes Get Bases In Russia   HEAVY BOMBERS HIT COAST AREA TWICE

YANKS, REDS IN INTIAL RAD ON ROMANIAN SPOTS   Moscow Radio Reveals ‘Quite Successful’ Results Are Obtained, Airmen Giver, Warm Welcome: °   AMERICANS MADE TWO VISITS OVER FRANCE   ‘German Fortifications tt  Two Areas Are Blasted  Wake of RAF Night Rait  Causing Damage.

American Loss In War Mounts; 55,206 Killed   Figures Include Firat Two Weeks of Fighting In Normandy; 81,000  Are Missing _

American Casualty Total Is Up To 251,158 Now  More Than 55,200 U. S. Troops Listed as Killed

American Casualty Total Is Up To 251,158 Now  More Than 55,200 U. S. Troops  oe eee ee Pd  eee

War Casualties  Up To 244,158   Includes First Two Weeks Of Battle In Normandy; 55, 906 Are Dead.

U. S. Casualties Raised to 251,158 With 55,206 Dead   Win J0,c4Up Dead  Figures For Army, Navy Include 3,082 Killed, 13,12] Wounded, 7,859 Missing in

U. §. Casualties Total - 251,158   55,206 Die In Combat, Some Listed In France

U. S. Casualties Mount To 244.158   55.206 Dead—35, 104 Soldiers, 20,102 Navy Men

Our Troops Have Cut East ward of Le Mans to Within 90 Miles of Suburbs  of Capital.   OTHER ALLIED GROUPS ARE FORMING POCKET

CHURCHILL IS NOW IN ITALY   Headquarters Reveals Prime Minister's Trip

TOKYO BURNS IN WAKE CF FIFTH BOMBER ATTACK   Reporis List Cne B-2)  Los. With Eigh: to 15 vap.Flanes Down d

Plymouth County Still $165,000 Short OF the Fifth War Loan Drive Quota   County Chairman Urges Prompt Purchase Of Bonds

$3,173,250,000 ROAD PROGRAM IS NOW SET UF   Drafting of Postwar Plans May Be Started by Local Subdivisions

HIGHWAYS BILL SIGNED BY FOF   State And Local Govern ments Can Plan On PostWar $8,000,000,000 Roads  ... Deniant

POSTWAR ROAD BILL APPROVED   PROVIDES FEDERAL AID TO STATES ON A MATCHING BASIS

Post-War Roads Act Signed With U. 8. Funds Read   State, Local Sums Will Be Matched With Federal Money

Urge Planning For Highways   President  Approves  Post-War Read: Bill

MORE RAIN IN STATE   Heavy y Downpours Along Republican and Tributaries

S.0.W. WORKER BURNED   Young Woman Was Carrying Tray of Powder Which Ignited

S.0.W. WORKER BURNED   Yo Woman Was C Carrying ‘Tray un Powder Which Ipaited

Pursue  Nip Fleet   Three Destroyers Take to Flivht After Mindoro Attack

Cruiser, . Battleship Damaded   Two U.S. Warships Hit As Task Force Shells Iwo Timea.

3 JAP DESTROYERS SUNK AND OTHER NIP VESSELS DAMAGED BY U.S. PLANES AT MINDOR@

Planes Pursue Jap Ships in Field Attack   Nip Mindoro Shelling Costs Enemy Cruiser, Destroyers as Yanks  Escape Second Attack   Grass Fires Started.

YANKS PURSUE  IAP WARSHIPS   Three Nip Destroyers Are Sunk off Mindoro; U.S. Ships Hit Iwo Jima

U. S. Strike at Iwo Jima Successful   B-29 Raid Flushes Greatest Fighter Opposition but Also Biggest Bag by Yanks

Japs Shell Mindoro, Lose 3 Destroyers   Planes, PT Boats Smash Task Force

American Navy Shells Fall on Nip Airfields   Enemy Loses Three Destroyers in Jab At Mindoro Air Base

JAPANESE SUFFERED HEAVY NAVAL LOSSES IN MINDORO ATTACK  AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST BIG NAVAL UNIT; U. _ §. FORCE SHELL IWO JIMA

Japanese Lose > Destrovers   Shell Mindoro: B-29s Start Fires In Heart Tokyo In dustrial Area.

AP ATT UNSUCCESSHUL   Americans Relentlessly Pursue Ships That Shelled Philippines.   3 JAP DESTROYERS LOST.

Three Jap Warships  Sunk in Attack on  ~ U.S. Mindoro Posts   Only Three Destroyers Es. cape Relentless PTBoat,. Plane Defense

3 Japanese . Vessels Sunk, 2 Damaged   Nip Force Shelling US Alrdromes Get Jolting Blows While US Fleet Almost Unscathed in Iwo Jima Attack ,

3 Destroyers Lost by Japs At Mindoro   Abortive Attack on U. S. Air Bases Results in Heavy Losses

JAP WARSHIPS PURSUED TODAY BY AMERICANS   Mindoro Attack Cost Javanese  Many Ships

PURSUE JAP SHIPS AFTER ISLAND BLOW   Jap Task Force Unsuccessful in Attack at Mindoro With Several Vessels Lost.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN (AD Wee PAitar\)

PLANES PURSUE JAP WARSHIPS   Three Enemy Destroyers Sunk at Mindoro

Reds Driving  From Ploesti   Russians Now Control Half  Of Romanian-Rolear line

BRITISH MAKE NEW INVASION DRIVE   Launch Assault on Beveland Island to Speed Nazis’ Defeat

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)  EFFORT T0 DRIVE GERMANS OUT OF HOLLAND INCREASES IN FURY

Hold Widens On Marshalls   Nearly All Japs Slain And Three More Islands Taken.

INVADERS NOW HOLD MOST OF VAJOR ATOLL   Navy Bombers Strike Bases of Possible Counter-Action

Yanks Capture Three Main Marshall Isles   Kill Virtually All Jap Defenders, Nimitz Announces

Seventh Division Troops Blast Last Japs jOut of Pillboxes on Strategic Marshalls Base; Ebeye and Loi Isles Also Captured

19 Islets of Marshalls Now in U.S. Hands   Conquest of Islands Proving Much Easier Thon Expected

Virtually AllJa aps In Three Areas Killed   Nineteen. of 30-Odd_ Istet: of Kwajalein Not in U.  $8. Hands: Many of Others Unimportant   Coronado Units  Hit Wake Twice   _ American Casualties. Con Unue Moderate; Absence of Jap Air Defense” ' ‘Surprising .-

JAPS WIPED OUT ON 3 STRATEGIC ~ MARSHALL ISLES   Soldiers of Seventh Division _ Capture Kwajalein, Ebeye  and Loe of Kwajalein Group. .   FORTIFIED GUGEGWE -. JS- UNDER ATTACK   Carrier-Based Planes Supporting Ground Invasion— Wake Island, 600 Miles North, Bombed.

Yanks Capture Three More Marshall Isles   Conquests Enable Troops to Control North End of Atoll

Strategic. Points Are Captured   Defenders Are Killed in  Heavy Actian  _

Three Vital Islands Taken   Yanks Hold 19 Islets, Others Unimportant Militarily

Strategic Points Taken by Driving American Forces   F wajaiein, Ebeye and Loi Isles Now in U. S. Hands—19 of 30 Some Islets Have Been Seized—Another Airfield Included in Spectacular Sweep.

YANKS CLINCH HOLD ON JAP ISLAND BASES   KWAJALEIN, EBEYE AND LOI FALL; 19 CAPTURED

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Disaster Spread in Jap Navy As Six More Ships Sink   By Ray Cronin AP War Editor

German Nationals Leaving Turkey   Predict Turks Will Break Relations

Germans Flee Turkey, Break Due Today ~   Trains: Crowded BS Nazis Rush To’ Get  Into. Bulearia ~

GERMANS FLEE TURKEY, BREAK NOW IMMINENT      Embassy Staff Preparing To Fol. low Nationals As Break Nears

Hundreds Of Germans Flee From Turkey   Ankara Government Is Expected To Break With Germany Within Next 24 Hours

Turks Expected To Break With Axis Tomorrow   Nazi Nationals Flee, Embassy. . Ready: to Follow

GERMANS ARE FLEEING FROM TURKEY TODAY   Prediction Made Nazis, Turks to Sever Relations Within 24 Hours

Nazi. Nationals Flee  Across Turk Border   German Threats Of Reprisal Are Made As Turkey Prepares To Break Relations.

GERMANS FLEEING TURKEY AHEAD OF EXPECTED BREAK   Embassy Staff Is Preparing to Leave As Diplomatic Relations End Expected Within 24 Hours.

Turks Expected To Sever Relations With Germany   Nazi Nationals Begin Fleeing Turkey; Embassy Staft Prepares To Follow; Hitler Threatens Reprisals If Turks Cut Ties, But Defiance Evident

MUSSOLINI APPEALS TO ITALIAN PEOPLE   ‘Make Life Hard’ for Allies, His Spokesman Says

ALONE WILL NOT BEAT JAPS   Enemy Must Be Beaten on Ground for Total Victory, Officer Says

Canada Refuses  To Let Idle Men  Work In States Need Help In  a ne ager Se eye

Hurricane Is Heading North’ To Jacksonville   Florida Storm Expected To Hit Carolina Coast With Less Intensitv.

WARNINGS UP FROM DAYTONA TO HATTERAS   Storm Blows Across Florida krom West Coast To Jacksonville— No Loss Of Life In Florida.

‘Ailantic Coast ‘Threatened With Another Hurricane : Storm Crosses Florida State   And Moves At Lessened Speed   Toward City Of Jacksonville

‘More Than 111,000 Sol-. diers Killed in Recent  Fighting   BOBRUISK SEIZED;  NAZIS ENCIRCLED   Dispatches Call German Defeat Greatest in History”

Bobruisk, ‘Last Geriaan Stronghold on “Fatherland Line” Falls te Russians in Fierce Fighting.   Terrific Losses

Premier Stalin Personally Reports The Fall Of Bob ruisk And Petrezavodsk, Capital Of Karelian Gute Ec hte.

Over 110,000 German Are Casualties   Russians Liquidate Five Divisions of Enemy Troops

Germans Reappear Over London; City Still Burns  Britons Are Warned Against Possible

SMOKE FROM FIRES  SET BY NAZIS ROSE  OVER LONDON TODAY   Reconnaissance Planes ‘Touch Off First Bonafide Dav Alert Since July.   FOURTH SHARP RAID   Thousands of — Incendiarics and High Explosives Were Dropped on the Capital.

German Planes Reconnoiter After London Raid   Many Fires Set, Damage Widespread In British Capital

Germans Check  London Damage   Scouts Appear Over Capital After Fourth Sharon Night Raid.

London Gets Another Raid By Germans   Night Bombers Cause Heavy Damage; Day Planes Make Appearance

Nazis Step Up London Raids; Many Fires And Casualties Caused Wednesday Night

Smoke Still Rises From London Fires   Nazi Reconnaissance Planes Fly Over City To Inspect Damage

NAZI PLANES HIT LONDON   SMOKE STILL RISING FROM INCENDIARY BOMBS

Nazi Raiders Continue ‘Air Blows at London   British Capital Has First Deylight Alert in Months; Night Attack Leaves Fires

Nazis Back Over London In Daylight   Berlin Boasts Non-Stop Offensive Is Launched Against Capital

GERMANS STEP UP RAIDS ON LONDON   LUFTWAFFE SHIFTS STRONG BOMBER UNITS TO FRANCE

Germans Reappear Over London; City Still Burns  Britons Are Warned Against Possible Further Hard Blows

Fourth Sharp Raid Is Made Over London   Smoke from Fires Set By Nazi Warplanes Rises Over the City  RECORD MANY DEATHS

Bozens of Deaths, Widespread Damage in Raid on London   Smoke Still Rises From Fires Started by the German Bombers

London Again  In Day Alerts   Smoke Still Rises Over British City; Nazi Planes Fly Over.

Smoke From Fires Set By German Night Raiders Rise From Capital Today

LONDON HAS DAY AIR RAID ALERT   Germans Follow Up Sharp Night Assault

Incendiaries Rained on Capital Cause Extensive Damage; Scores Perish

Nazi-Kindled © London Fires Still Smoking   Thousands of Incendiaries and Many High Explosives Showered On  British Canital

HEAVY DAMAGE » CAUSED BY FOE RAID ON LONDON   Nazi Reconnaissance Planes Over Capital Today, Bringing An Alert

GERMAN SCOUTING PLANES FLY OVER BOMB-HIT LONDON   Reconnaissance Fliers Cause Daylight Alert in British Capital—Last Night’s Raid By Luftwaffe Heavy

LONDON GETS DAYLIGHT RAID   Smoke From Fires Set By Germans Last Night Still Rising Over Capital.

cNGRESS TOLD HITLER PLANNED TOINVADE U.S   Would Have it Through Mexico With anks, Aviation Official Says.

Congress Is Told Hitler Planned to Attack United States from Mexico

Builder Of Airplanes Testifies He Saw Hitler’s Blue Print Plans In 1940 Calling For Invasion of U. S.

REOPEN US-12 HERE FRIDAY   Construction Operations Suspended for Rest Of Winter

Reopen US-12 Section Friday   Work Halted On Main Route To Coloma

Husker General  Ousted   RALPH SMITH RELIEVED OF SAIPAN BATTLE COMMAND BY HIS MARINE SUPERIOR

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaper   WASHINGTON  TD. Dav Tarabar

Demebilization “To Stat When Germany Falls  Much Smaller force De lieved” Ada-wats to” Whip Japan

F.D.R. Outlines Demobilization   Victory Over Nazis To Permit Shift

President Indicates Many To be Demobilized After Allied Victory in Europe

Fall of Nazis Will Start U.S. Army Cu   Roosevelt Predicts Boost in Output Of Civilian Goods

WITH NAZIS QUT GREAT MANY MAY RETURN 10 HOMES   Roosevelt Indicates Return  fo Civilian Production May Begin as Jap Campaign {s Intensified.   DEFEAT OF EITHER TO. ALLOW DEMOBILIZATION   President Outlines Some of Reasons While Others Are Now Matter of Common Knowledae.

Large Scale Demobilization Due When War Wih Cermany Ends, Reosevelt Declares

Demobilization to Start With Defeat of Germany)   Much Smaller Army Believed Adequate to Crush Japanese —Important Parts of Nation’s Industry Will Shift to Civilian Production at Same Time—Pians Revealed by Roosevelt in Budget Message to Congress.

German defeat to allow some demobilization   Even tho fury of  Jap war mounts

Demobilizing Will Follow Reich’s Fall  Of Large Numbers  Of American Troops  F.D.R.2S STATEMENT SURPRISES SOME  Fewer Ground Troops Needed Against Japan,  Decent  wxcxdi Lee oe lat wo   Will Permit Return Of Large Numbers  Of American Troops

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FLOODS EXTEND (VER LOWLANDS   5 Are Dead, Property Damage High as High Waters Cover Four States

Dixie Floods Taking Toll   Heavy Property Damage Five Dead In Four Southern States.

FLOODED WATERS INUNDATE LARGE AREAS IN FOUR STATES WITH AT ' LEAST FIVE LIVES REPORTED LOST      Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and North Louis. iana Confronted With Serious Situation As Result Heavy Rains Which Have Flooded Rivers  ‘And Straame

FIVE DROWN AS RIVERS FLOOD IN FOUR STATES   Towns In Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana Inundated

Floods Nearing Critical Stage  500.000 Acres Covered In Missouri. Illinois

Floods Approach  Critical Stage   7.500 Federal Troops. Others. Try To Stem Major Flood Rampage

7,300 Troops On Flood Duty   Missauri-Mississippi Waters Nearing Peak

Nazi Escape From Finland Thwarted   Sea Escape Route Cut By Reds Winning Key  Junction Near Norway

Fall Of Petsamo ‘Blocks Escape. ’ Of Nazi Forces   Report Red Army Seizes Vital Junction. Close To Norwegian’. Border

GERMAN SEA ESCAPE FROM FINLAND CUT   Soviets Report Capture of Arctic Port of Petsamo and an Important Road Junction Near the Norwoeoian Raorder.

SOVIET FORCES TAKE PETSAMO   Nazi Escape Road From Finland Cut; Drive Into Belgrade

Reds Cut Nazi Escape Route From Finland   Moscow Silent On Fighting In Hungory

Soviet Tanks Move Closer To Norway   Reds Capture Petsamo and Cut German Sea Escape Route From Finland

PETSAMO PORT FALLS TO REDS   CAPTURE CUTS NAZI SEA ESCAPE ROUTE FROM NO, FINLAND

Russians Cut Escape Route   No Way Out of North Finland Now; Others Close In on Nazis Near Riga

‘Superforts In Formosa Raid   SECOND MISSION ON JAP BASE DEALS BLOWS

Berlin Implies Reds Are Now In E. Prussia   Indicate Crossing On 27Mile Front: Sea Escape  * Route Cut Off From Binland.

German Escape Route in North Finland Is Cut   No Information Given on PeaceSeeking Hungary

Arctic Port Of Petsamo Captured; Red Tanks Win Important Road Junction Close To Border Of Norway; Fight In Belgrade

Reds Seize Arctic Port And Important Road Hut   Berlin Iniplies That Russians -Have Crossed Into East Prussia

LONDON, Oct. 16,—(P— Berlin radio indicated today that the Germans had decided to evacuate Greece.

German Sea Escape Route From Finland Now Cut  Key Road Junction Near Norwegian Border Is Captured

PETSAMO, AN ARCTIC PORT, IN RED HANDS    Russians Also Take Highway Junc.  tion Described as “Key to Norway” by Moscow Paper.

Cut Nazi Sea ‘Escape Route   Advancing Reds Win Road Junction Close To Norwegian Border.

AEDS CAPTURE FINNISH PORT   Enemy Sea Escape Route From Area Cut Off With Taking of Petsamo.

Reds Snap New Trap On Nazis   Sca Escape Route Fram North Finlsnd Renorted Cut

Soviets Take Arctic Port Of Petsamo   Capture Of Bastion Cuts Nazi Escape Route From Finland

CUT GERMAN SEA ESCAPE: ROUTE IN NORTHERN FINLAND   This Was ‘Made Possible With the Arctic Port of Petsamo. - ssi ‘*   ROAD JUNCTION TAKEN   Advancing Red Army Tanks Reported to Have Taken ’ Post Near Norway.

CAPTURE PETSANO  CUTS ESCAPE ROUTE  GERMANS IN NORTH SITUATION ON SOUTH  ERN FRONT NOT REPORT If AN RV MOCCOW

CUT NAZISEA ESCAPE FROM NORTH FINLAND   Reds Take Arctic Port; Seize Vital Road Hub Near Norwegian Border

ENEMY ESCAPE CUT IN FINLAND   Russians Capture Petsamo And Vital Road Junction

Russians Cut  German Sea  Escape Route From F inland   ; Aretic Port Of  ‘Petsamo Captured

Petsamo Falls: Nazis Cut Off  Reds Win Junction Near Norse Border

Germans Cut Off In North Finland   Nazis’ Sea Escape Route Blocked As Red: Seize Petsamo; ‘Key To Norway’ Taken

NAZIS. CAUGHT IN RUSS ARMY PETSAMO NET   Sea- Escape Road for Germans Blocked by Capture of Arctic Fort.

Sea Escape Route For Nazis Cut Off By Russ   Arctic Port Of Petsamo Taken; Alpine Divisions Are Routed

CUT ESCAPE ROUTE   Reds Take Important Road Junction on Norwegian Border

Reds Drive Near Border Of Norway   German Escape Route From Northern Finland Cut by Soviets

GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE FROM SEA IS NOW CLOSED   Russians Holding Road Junction  In Finland

TOKYO REVEALS 83 - PLANE RAID SMASHED GUAW   Two American Liberators Attack ed Iwo Jim In Kazan Group 870 Miles From Guam

Guam Raided By 85 U. §. Planes Tokio Declares   Kazan Islands Also Hit, Presumably From Saipar Romber Base.

Guam, Kazan Isles Are Raided Again   Tokyo Says Situation Does Not Allow Second for Optimism

Powerful Naval Unit, Wil Carriers, Butileships, Cruisers, Destroy ers Near Ishiund   Tokyo Depressed  By U.S. Actions   “War Situuion Does Not Allow a Moment of Optintisin.’? Nip Radio Deelares

Big 10-Day - Assault Is Disclosed   Carrier. Planes: Bombing Former. U.S, Outpost, Also Shelled by Navy =   SAIPAN AIRSTRIP  ALSO.BEING USED   War Situation Does Not AL low 2. Moment of Optimism, Tokyo Says

AMERICAN RAIDERS BLASTING AT GUAM   Tokyo Reports Other Activities of Powerful Navy Force   YAP AND WOLEAI HIT

Guam Is Raided By Heavy Planes   Powerful American Unit Continues Activities Near  Island.

85 American Planes Rip Guam Base   Tokyo Reports Big Naval Unit Hits Vital Nip Islands

No Letup In Guam Attacks   Reporting Raid By U. S. Planes, Japs Admit They See No Cause For Ovtimism

FATHER ASKS 10 REGISTER QUINTS   Two of Argentine Babies Not Officially Recorded

FASTER WEEK-END  BROUGHT TORNADO,  “HAIL, RAIN, WINDS BUT PART OF STATE BASKED UNDER WARM  CDDING TIME CIIN

EASTER WEEK-END BROUGHT TORNADO, HAIL, RAIN, WINDS  BUT PART OF STATE BASKED UNDER WARM SPRINGTIME SUN

Easter Weekend Sees Rain Storms   Hamilton County Has Severe Tornado, Hail Causina Destruction

ANOTHER WPB MEMBER QUITS   KRUG THREATENS DISMISSALS FOR TROUBLE-MAKERS

KRUG ACTS 10 END WPB ROW   Threetens Dismissals Fo: ‘Trouble Makers’ In Organization

Weinberg Quits WPB Post With Intrigue Charge Krug Promises One-Man Team

Threatens Group  Making Trouble ‘In WPB Offices   Lt.-Cmdr. Krug Says Those “Not Playing Ball” Will Be Thrown Out Of Jobs

NELSON, BYRNES SWITCH RUMORED   LEADER OUTLINES PLAN AS WEINBERG RESIGNS

Krug Says WPB Policy Harmony  Another Top Leader Resigns From Aaency

DONALD NELSON TO HEAD OWM?   Senotor Ferguson Hears WPB Executive Will Succeed James F. Byrnes

Nelson To Get Jas. F. Byrnes’  Post, Is Rumo   Roosevelt’ Reported Plan‘ning to Turn Over De-  mobilization Work to WPBR Chairman

Picks Nelson For Byrnes’ Post, Report   Senator Reveals Roosevelt Move

EW FLAREUP IN WPB RANKS   Krug Indicates He Will Purge All Trouble  Makers

NELSON TO BYRNES’ POST   WPB Chairman Probably Will Direct Demobilization

One Team at WPB from Now On-Krug  Trouble Makers To Be Dismissed

New WPB Head Flaunts Axe   Trouble Makers Get BRonunee. Saves Krug

Oil Committee Opens Probe Of Pipeline Plans   Senators Scan Persian Proiect

Bulgaria Wants Out Of War If Old  Borders Allowed  Turkish Report Says Government Is Ready for Peace

Battle Still Rages As Three Fresh German Tanks Occupy Cassino’s Continental Hotel

Hotel in Cassino Is Suddenly Famous   Commercial Situation Is Terrible, But It’s Location Makes It Of Vast Importance to Mighty Armies

Air Force May. Back Up Peace  ‘World Grganization ‘Outlined By EDR

RUSSIA AND CHINA FAVOR AIR POLICE   WORLD AIR CORPS GAINS SUPPORT AT PEACE CONFERENCE

Conferees May Recommend Nev Joint Air Force   President In Full Accord With The Proposed Plan

International Air Force May Result From:-Peace Meet   Possibility, Growing Of Getting Four Powet- Approval’

International Air Corps May Be Institut ed   Dumbarton Oaks Conference Believed’ Moving Towards Such FourPower Decision

Russia, China Urging Global Air Corps Plan   Proposal Varies Sharply From Stand Taken By U.S,

International Air Force May Be Recommended  Would Be Used To Avert Wars

AR FORCE FOR PEACE STUDIED   Security Confab In Agreemeat On Availability Of Armies

AMERICANS ADVANCING IN NORMANDY   Within 21/2 Miles of Main Highway To Cherbourg

eo eee oe 4a  NAZIS BLOW UP DIKES AT CAEN   Armored Forces Smash: ing Across Peninsula On A 10 Mile Front

Americans Near Vital Rail Center   Make Advances Toware Cherbourg — Germans Blow Up Dikes

Of Invasion   AT OPPOSITE FLANK OF : BEACHHEAD, NAZIS BLOW UP BRIDGES, DIKES NEAR CAEN

Berlin Says Caen Dikes Blown Up   Nazi Abandonment Of Normandy City Is Foreshadowed

Yanks Nearing Main Highway Into Cherbourg,   Germans May , Abandon Ruined Caen Stronghold

Yanks in Norman Advance   Yanks Gain in Drive on Nazi Railway, Push From Carentan

Yanks Close On Railroad  'ToCherbourg   Troops Only 2 1-2 Miles Away; Weather Turns Bad; Resistance Stiffens

Nazis Blow Up Dikes, Sluices  In Caen Areas   U. S. Troops Move Up To: Within Two Miles of Nazi-Held Railway

Allies Drive to Within 2 Miles of Vital Link on Peninsula, fnamy Fiohts on.

PRESO NEARER MAIN HIGHWAY TO GHERBOURE   Battering Ram Advance Is Within Three Miles of Escape Routes.

Weather Turns Worst Since IT Day, German Resistance Stif ens, But Allies Hammer Q) Gains In Several Sectors   NAZI WITHDRAWAL FROM CAEN SEE

RED CROSS DRIVE TOTALS $20,118   Encouraging Reports Are Made at Meeting Friday Night

RED CROSS DRIVE TOTALS $20,118      ade ey Reports Are Made at Meeting Fridey Niaht

House Passes Veteran Bill  Now In Senate   Differ Over  Some Detaile

House Unanimous In GI Bill Vote   Measure to Senate, Which Is Expected to Approve it

 Annual Student Forum Of LeMars High School Wednesday, Thursday   List Of Subjects and Speakers For The Sessions

THE GREAT GAME OF POLITICS  nor, FRANK R. KENT  (Dist ught Syndicate, Inc.)

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT Cost Of A Candidacy

Russian Army Tears Gap In German Lines   Germons Are Pushed Back As Russians Move Forword More Than Ten Miles To Cross The Dniester River And Move Into Bessarabic

Reds Rip New Hole: In Nazis   Throw More Spearheads Across Dniester River Toward Bessarabia.

Federal Reserve Board Reporls Checking Accoun Increases in 101 Cities

74? Jap Planes Knocked Out In Week's Attacks   No Resistance On Mindoro Encountered; Advance On Levte

WAR IN PACIFIC. FAVORING YANKS   American Invasion of Mindoro Forges Ahead — Foe Plane Losses Heavy

Enemy Plane Losses In Philippines Are Raised to 742  Americans Advancing On Mindoro With  Ala lan Hrnnacisian

Mindoro Proving Yanks’ Easiest Invasion Task   Newsman Reports No Ground Resistance;  Japs Have Received Staggering Air Blow

NO OPPOSITION BY JAPS ON MINDORO ISLE   Easiest Invasion Of War Reported By MacArthur

742 Japanese Planes Destroyed, DamagedinWeek   Nimitz Tells Of Widespread  Destruction Of Jap Shipping

MINDORO PUSH AT FULL TILT   461 Jap Aircraft Destroyed ' in 3 Days; Total for Week fs 742,   MAKE GAINS ON LEYTE

Take Heavy Toll Of Enemy Planes   U. S. Commanders Report 742 Enemy Ships Put Out of Action   Infantrymen Score Impressive Gains on Island of Leyte

Enemy Plane Losses In Philippines Are Raised to 742  Americans Advancing On Mindoro With No Jap Opposition

FIND MINDORA INVASION EASY   742 Japanese Airplanes Destroyed or Damaged In One Week

No Resistance On Mindoro   742 Jap Planes Put Out of Action In Past Week

No Opposition At All doro Except In Are Where Japs Lose Heavily; Impressive Gains On Leyte.

142 JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED IN LAST WEEK   Mindoro Island Invasion Going Full Tilt Ahead

Nippon’s Shipping Also Hit   Doughboys Meet No Resistance in Mindoro Invasion

Yanks Gain On Mindoro; No Opposition   742 Japanese Planes Knocked Out of Air During Past Week

Yanks Meet No Jap Ground Resistance As They Push Ahead Rapidly On Mindoro

Opposition On Mindoro Light   Against Yanks   Dourhboys Going Aheac With Easiest Invasion Joh of the Pa. eific War

AMERICANS RACE AHEAD FULL TILT ON MINDORO ISLE   SCORE IMPRESSIVE GAINS ON LEYTE IN BLOODY BATTLES

YANKS MOVE UNOPPOSED ON MINDORO   Conquest of Island Is the Easiest of Pacific War to Date—Jap Plane Loss to 742 Craft in the  ' Last Week.

Forward Full Tilt On Mindoro   Yanks Amazed By Lack Of Jap Resistance; — On Leyte, Americans Score Excellent Gains

Mindoro Easy Job Thus Far   No Jap Resistence Yet; Jap Flane Losses Grow; More tops Stain on Leyte

742 Planes. Destroyed. By Yankees Past Week   Americans. Surprised At Weak Resistance

sOGGY IR W GEAIRZICR  Solon Asks Lend-Lease  Showdown Must Act Now To Avoid      Must Act Now To Avoid U. S. Debts to Allies After War, Senator Ellender Asserts

Super Cargo Planes  Create New Worle  Will Fly To London Over niaht

BYRNES DENIES . HELL RESIGN   Mobhilization Director . Urges Action in Conerresa

U.S. TASK FORCE SUNK 89 SHIPS, SHOT DOWN 68 PLANES IN RAID ON MINDANAO IN THE PHILIPPINES   Conquest of Former U. S. Islands, Believed to Be Next and Last Step in Island-Hopping Campaign fn the Pacific—China Next Stop.

Explosion At Cleveland Is Disastrous   Damage May Run To Ten Million

TO ADDRESS FACULTY,   Dr, Barzum to Speak on “Pgst War College peak on Ts!

Admirals King, Nimitz, Halsey Map New Blows   Japanese Claim 80,000 Chinese Troops Trapped

Navy's Big Three, King, Halsey and Nimitz Confer   Heavier Blows Against Japan Plannéd at Meeting in San Francisco: New Decoration Is Awarded to Pacific Chief

NIMITZ, HALSEY AND KING CONFER   MEETING OF ADMIRALS STIRS TALK OF NEW BLOWS AGAINST JAPAN,

Bad News For Japs Expected   New Action Seen Following Meeting ef Top Admirals

PARLEY HELD BY TOP AMERICA NAVAL OFFICERS   Admirals King, Halsey An Nimitz At, San Francisco  Meeting   FUTURE STRATEGY IN PACIFIC DISCUSSED

TOP ADMIRALS ~~ HAD MEETING         RECENT ‘CONFERENCE ‘BE: —LIEVED TO HAVE RESULTED IN COORDINATED PLANS _ FOR PACIFIC WAR

‘Three Top Admirals Confer On Drive In Pacifie: Another Award Goes To Nunttiz

Admiral Nimitz Given2d Medal   Admirals Confer on Coast. Restowing Honor

OPA Announces Tires Available   B, C Gasoline Card Holders Eligible .

900 Millions Must Be Spent  On Munitions Facilities   Production Chief Appeals for Immediate Expansion of Mortar Shell Output; Reports Stepup in Some Lageing Plants

Hollandia Is Badly Battered   Northern New Guinea Jap Base Is Picture Of Black Desolation   TWO HUNDRED BOMBERS ATTACK

US to Halt Lend-Lease 4lron-Steel Shipments To Britain on Jan. Ist

Lend-Lease Will  Slow Up in 1945 Says Washington   U.S. to Halt Iron And Steel Shipment: To Great Britain First of January

lron-Steel Aid To Britain To End January 1   Sharp Slash Is Due In Lend-Lease Program For Next Year.

U.S. T0 REDUCE IRON SHIPMENTS   Britain Will Get No Steel After Jan. 1 — New Trade Agreement

WILL TAKE ol PEA GENT GUT AFTER JAN,     Shipments of Iron and Steel to Stop Under New Joint Schedule.

U.S. WILL SLASH AID TO ENGLAND      Lend-Lease Iron, Steel Due To Be Stopped Jan. 1

Tron, Steel Lend - Lease Shipments To Britain to Halt First of Year

Lend-Lease Shipments Of Tron and Steel to Great Britain to Cease January 1   Whole War-Aiding  Program Revised   Agreement Calls For $5,600,000,000 Shipments to Britain During °45; Half of 1944 Figure

U. S. to Sharply Cut Lend-Lease in 1945   Nation Will Halt All Iron and Steel Shipments to Britain Jan. 1.—Aid to Empire to Be. $5,600,000,000 Next Year.

HALT LEND-LEASE IRON SHIPMENTS   EXPORTS WILL BE STOPPED JANUARY 1

DRASTIC CUT WAR AID PLANIN 1945 INDICATED   “Principle of Equitable “Reconversion Worked Out at Conferences

, S. SHIPMENTS TO BRITAIN DUE FOR EARLY END   Lend - Lease Program Will Be Reduced In 1945, With Steel Removed From  Schedule Jan. .

Rhodell Baby Dies Of Burns   Grandmother In “Very Serious Condition”

Board to Set Date for Test   Pre-Induction Physical Long Before Draftee’s Call

ARMY PHYSICAL PLAN STRESSED   Pre-Induction Examinations to Come After Local Board Gronts Approval

East And South Perspiring Freely   Look to Middlewest to Furnish Cooler Weather

Burleigh L. Pratt, Local Chairman; Quota for District Set at $2000:

SALVATION _ ARMY APPEAL TS ISSUED      Burleigh L. Pratt, Local Chairman; Quota for District Set at $2000

ANOTHER FARMER PAYS TAX FINE   Ed Conley of Kingsley vicin. > ity, LatesttoFeel - shaw s-Teeth . ..

ANOTHER FARMER PAYS TAX FINE   Ed Conley of Kingsley vicin_ ity, Latest to Feel . .Law’a-Teeth ~~

Report No Losses In Shuttle Raid   Railway Yards At Metz Blasted By Allies

RUQWIAN, FINNISH ARMISTICE MAY BE NEAR   Bulgaria Said to Be Soliciting Allies for Terms

Potential Crackups At Both Ends Of Nazi Satellite Front Indicated

Axis Satellites Reported Shakey   Finns And Bulgcrians Believed Susceptible To Peace Proposals

OBSERVERS THINK FINNISH-RUSSO ARMISTICE NEAR   Finns Now Are Considering Russian Terms. Red Army Continues To Advance On _ Northern Front.

FINLAND 10 BE OUT OF WAR SOON   Details of Move By Bulgaria Are Still Secretive

Bulgars. Join Finland in Seeking Peace   Sofia Reported Asking Terms: Helsinki Given Them

Hitler’s Northern Ally  May Quit Within Month; Say Sofia Asks Terms

Crackups Seen At Both Ends of Satellite Front   Finns May Be Out of War Within Month; Bulgaria Weakening

Signs of Potential Crackups On Both Ends of Axis Lines   Bulgaria Also Asking for Armistice Terms, Rumored.

FINNS READY TO QUIT; BULGARS ASKING TERMS   Nazi Front Seen Cracking

BULGARIA, FINLAND BOTH WANT PEACE   Bulgaria Seeks To Negotiate With Britain, U. S.

Finns May Quit War In. Month, Hint   Armistice Terms of Allies Sought by Bulgaria, Is Report.

Bulgars Said To Be Set To  Sue For Peace   Underground Reports Tell Of Bulgarian Determination To Seek Armistice

FINNS, BULGARS MOVE TOWARD QUITTING WAR   Finland May Be Out Within Month: Bulgaria Asks Allied Terms

SOFIA REPORTED IN OVERTURE 10 U, S., G. BRITAIN   Peace Terms Submitted to Fin land by Seviet Union Given Okay of British Gov't

Terms for Armistice Requested?   London Report Says Sofia Government Moving to  Quit War

Bulgars Seek An Armistice  With Allies   Envoys Reported En Route To Turkey; Finns May Quit War In Month

Bid for Armistice Believed Directed To U. S., Britain   ind of Hestilities by Finland And Russia Believed Imminent; Terms Win Approval by British

BULGARIA {a SEEKING PEACE TERNS, REPORT   Bulgaria In Process Of Asking United States And Britain For Armistice Terms, Bays t Reliable  “eth nel pipers          CRACKUP OF NAZI SATELLITES SEER

G.0.P. OPPOSES HEAVY INCREASE IN DEBT LIMIT   Says Present Administration Would Reach Any Limit Set

Opposition to Increasing National Debt   Appropriations ‘Increase of 50 Billion Attacked By Rep. Knutson

GOP Oppose Large Jump In Public Debt Figures      ‘Knutson Sees. FDR Attaining Any Sums

Close To Fight Zan On Radio   News Commentator Says Certain Elements Responsible

CLOSE LOSES HIS. SPONSOR      COMMENTATOR, BLAMES RABI_ CAL AND. COMMUNIST ELEMIENTS FOR 308 AGENT.

PATTON ARMY'S PUSH IMPERILS NAZI INDUSTRIES   Rain and Muddy Roads Still Hamper Americans’ Movement

BLAST KILLS FOUR   Second Explosion in Six Months at Naval Ord nance Depot

Town Is Shaken By Explosion At Big Plant   Nebraska Town Shaken And Damaged; Plant Is Nine Miles From City; No Details on Cause

Four Killed In Hastings Depot Blast   Death Toll Reported by Newspaper, Claims 21 Injured

ANOTHER BLAST AT NAVY PLANT   Hastings, Neb., Area Jarred By Explosion— dumber Hurt Unknown

Least: Eight” Killed: With Ad: ditional Casualties to be “Expected

Second Blast at Hastings Rocks Countr:   Explosion at Naval Ordnance Plant Is Felt 95 Miles Away

8 Reported Dead In Blast at Navy Ordnance Depot   Hasting, Nebr., Has Second Explosion in Six Monihs— One Report Says 21 Iniured

Blast Kills 4 at Hastings   Explosion in Naval Ordnance Depot Shakes Towns in Wide Area

ORDNANCE PLANT HIT BY SECOND BIG BLAST   First Of Casualties Brought From Nebraska Depot

Eight Killed in Ordnance Blast  Further Casualties’ Expected in Explosion

Explosion in Hastings, Neb. Kills Eight   Second Occurrence In Ordnance Depot In Six Months

4 KILLED IN PLANT BLAST   21 Hurt in Hastings Ordnance Explosion

ARGENTINIAN'S SPEECH ALARMS U.S. STATE DEPT   Minister of War Says Hope tor Peace After War Is a Mirage.

SOUTH AMERICAN SCOFFS AT PEACE   Argentines War Minister Says Uninterrupted Peace Is a “Mirage.”

Warship Is Torn Apart Near Harbor   Terrific Explosion Blows Many of Destroyer Crew Over the Side.

U.S, DESTROYER EXPLODES, SINKS ~ OFF SANDY HOOK   More Than 100 Survivors are Landed—Details are As _ Vet Few.

108 Injured In Explosion Of Destroyer  Mane Are Belicved Lost   Many Are Believed Lost as Unknown Blast   ‘Tears Boat Apart   OFF SANDY HOOK   Coast Guard Aids in Rescue and Rushes Victims to Hospitals

BLAST SINKS WARSHIP IN N.Y. HARBOR   Explosion Cause Unknown; 143 Men Rescued

NAVY REPORTS 163 MEMBERS OF CREW SAVED   Explosion Rocks Ship As It Prepares To Move Out To Sea ‘

163 Survive From 200 Men in Crew   108 Injured As Mystery Explosion mks Warship Olt Sande Hook

DESTROYER EXPLODES; RESCUE 163   Between 37 And 67 Dead, 108 Hurt In Explosion Off Sandy Hook

DESTROYER — EXPLODES OFF SANDY HOOK    163 Survive Out Of Crew of from 200 to 230 Men

HOLIDAY DEATH TOTAL 19 28   98 Lose Lives in Traffic Mishaps; Similar Number Of Persons Drown.

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL HITS 327   Traffic Deaths Below Estimates; Drownings Cain

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL HITS 323   98 Die In Traffic Accidents, 98 By Drowning

Violent Deaths Over Four Day Holiday Reach 327   98 Traffic Fatalities Far Below Estimates, Exceeded by Drownings: Many Die in Plane:   9S Fatalities Linstate

323 HOLIDAY DEATHS COUNTED IN NATION   California Has Highest Vio lent Death Toll For 4Day Period

ALLIES ENTER LEGHORN TODAY WITHOUT DELAY   Germans Retreat Before City’s Capture

BRITISH TROOPS REACH CAGNY ON ROAD TOVIMONT   PENETRATE ROMMEL’S DEFENSES FIVE MILES IN THE CAEN SECTOR

MAMMOTH TANK FIGHT IS RAGING   Monty’s Forces Five Miles Southeast Of Key Bastion

British Burst "Out Of Caen Onto Plains   Drive 5 Miles Toward Paris; Smash Big German Counterattack.

Engagemen Upon Plain Is Clothed  In Secrecy .   British, Canadians Stage Sheht Gains

Break Into Open Plain Pelow Caen   Ground Suitable for Tank Action; Drive Down Road to Paris

Picked Nazi Tank Units Hurled By Rommel In’. Battle For High Stakes

NAZI ATTACK IN CAEN AREA IS REPULSED      British Whip Nazi Tank Forces, Drive Five Miles Closer to Paris

Fifth Army Takes  Port of Livorno   Third Largest Seaport In Italy Falls As  Poles Take Ancona

Sweep Ahead In Face Of Violent Counter-Aitacks   Americans Wipe Out Pocketed Nazis In Advancing From Captured St. Lo

Fifth Army Takes Port of Livarno In Pincers Sweep   Poles Storm Into An. cona, Important Sea. port on Adriatic

U.S. Captures Third Largest Seaport In Italy; Ancona Falls   Germans Make No Effort To Defend City in Hand-to-Hand Battle With Yanks

Eighth Wins Ancona Fort On Adriatic   German Anchor Posts Crumbled By Mass Attacks

--France- British Units Burst Out on Road to Paris   Smash First German Counter-attack, Roll Ahead For Fi: e Miles

Ancona, Livorno Captured   American Troops Within Sight of Pisa, Gothic Line Anchor

Third Largest ltalian Port Falls to Yanks   Polish Forces Seize Ancone On Adriafic Sea

Fifth Army Puts Pincer On To Seize Great Port   Livorno Captured; Polish Soldiers  - Take Ancona

12 PAGES   CRACK ENEMY DIVISIONS REPULSED   Drive Five Miles Southeast Of Caen Toward Paris   156,000 NAZIS   Eliminated From Battle Since D-Day, Montgomery Reports

Livorno Is Captured by Fifth Army   Eighth Army Poles Take Ancona; British Troops Sweep Across Arno River on SixMile Front

Americans Take Livorno: Poles Capture Ancona  Important Ports On Op posite Sides Of Italy Fall To Allies.

Montgomery :  Battling for High Stakes   British Hammering Thirteen Divisions; First. of Coun-.. ter Attacks Smashed   MILES OF TROOPS, — .. TANKS MOVING UP   Great Air Cover for “Big Push; Americans MoppingUp. Around St: Lo

Yanks Take Key Port On Italy’s Western Coast   Polish Troops Seize Eastern Harbor After Bitter Fighting; British Advance North Of Arezzo; Gothtic Line Threatened

Nazi Forces Along Road Are Broken In Fighting   Rommel’s F Reserve Elite Soldiers Run  For Cover

Na Piled Uj Nazi Tank Attack   Counterattack by Picked ivisions Below Caen  ’ Shattered   YANKS MOP UP ST. LO   Montgomery Estimates 156,000 Nazis ‘Writ-' : _ Off Since June 6

AMERICANS IN SIGHT OF PISA   - 2,000 PRISONERS AND WAR MATERIAL SEIZED BY POLES

Americans Push North On Pisa As Nazis Are Forced Out Of Harbor   Further Inland, Yanks Cut Direct Road Between Florence, Pisa; Polish Sweep Forward following Seizure Of Eastern Port

Strong Nazi Units Hurled Into Fray   Doughboys Make 2'\2-Mile Advance —Tommies Extend Blazing Front

LIVORNO FALLS TO FIFTH ARMY   Poles Capture Ancona In  Accelerated Push Up   Italian Coast

Matis Forced ‘From Harbor   Achieved by Pincers Movement; Poles Win Ancona, East Coast Port

Livorno is Taken by Gen Clark’s Army   Ancona Seized By Polish Troops  Four Hours Before

Livorno Falls To Allies Atter  Pincers Drive   Important Italian Seaport Seized By Lt. Gen. Clark’s Fifth Army Forces.

Germans Driven Out of Leghorn  Capture Follows Fall of Ancona to Poles

YANKS ARE IN LIVORNO; POLta  SEITE ANCONA   Germans Forced Out of Busy West Coast Seaport by Pincers Nove. .

~The Weather   2 Important Port Cities.  Fall In- ‘New Allied Blow   Nazis: Fail To Wage Battles For Streets

Yanks Capture Port Of Livorno   Seize ‘Key Italian Seaport Soon After Poles Capture Ancona.

Rommel Throws 13 Division: Into Conflict To Stop  Montcomery Hittine Inland

Battle of Rising Fury Rages in Open Plain; Counterattack smashed

Tommies Punch Ahead Against Stiff Defenses   Hottot-Les-Bagues, Long A Tough Spot, Captured; Americans Reaister Gains

British Burst Onto Plains Around Caen   Rommel Throws In Best Forces From Reserve, Battle Rising in Fury

Battle of Risin  gFury for High Stakes Rages Over Flat Terrain.   ROMMEL’S BEST FORCES

LIVORNO FALLS TO 5TH ARMY   Clerk‘s Units Squeeze Hitler's Legions From Prize Italian Seaport

if Oo  Italy’s Third Largest Port Held By Yanks;  Poles Seize Ancona      (Wide Pincers Movement Forces Germans To Give  Up Important City; Pisa Expected To Be Next Cael OF Alliac

German Casualties Placed At 156,000 in Normandy; Yanks Advance 2% Miles

British Stop First German Counterattael   fa “48 ‘ Pm  Drive Five Miles Southeast  Of Caen On Road To  Paris: Yanks Advance.  a er ne  © 60.000 NAZIS SEIZED

Adriatic Port Of Ancona Falls To Eighth Army   Key Bastion Of Germans’ Southern Front Taken By Yanks In Pincers

Blazing Front Extended 20 Miles; 156,000 Nazis Written Off Books

Germans Open Grim New Defense Fight   Caen Front Churns Under Violent Two-Sided Action

BRITISH TROOPS CHECK ASSAULT, MOVE 5 MILES   Crack Enemy Forces Beaten in Mighty Struggle Southeast of Cacn

LIVORNO CAPTURED BY CLARK'S FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY   Polish Troops Also Seize Ancona, Important Port On The Adriatic

Yanks Capture Livorno, Third Port of Italy   Pincers Force Nazis Out Poles Seize Ancona on Adriatic

Italy's Third Largest Port Falls To U. §   Nazi. Resistance Collapses After Clark's Fifth Army Works Pincers

BRITISH BURST INTO PLAINS SECTOR BELOW CAEN, SMASHING COUNTER-ATTACKS, MOVING UP   Picked Nazi Tank Divisions Thrown in by Marshal Rommel and Battle of Rising Fury for High Stakes Rages Over Flat Terrain on Road to Paris

U. S.. Poles Take Aneona And Leghorn   Americans Drive Within Few Miles Of Pisa, Western Anchor Of Nazi Line

First German Counterattack Since Fall of Caen Ends In Bad Way for Hitler’s Troops.   AMERICANS CONTINUE CLEAN-UP AT ST. LO

Livornaand Ancona Fall To 8th Army   American, Polish Troops Capture Big Port Cities

Yankees Capture Livorno as Polish Units Win Ancona   Americans Force Germans From Third Largest Italian Port, Few Miles From Pisa Western Anchor of Next German Line

Allied Troops Fake Livorno  And Ancona   Third Largest. Port Falls To Americans As Pol  _ ish. Seize, Ancona . On  =@ ppesitesGoast?=-Push Toward Pisa.

British Advance) Five Miles, Beat Back Nazi Atfack. §   Americans Mop Up Germans in Area of St. Lo

Prized Port Is Wrested From Nazis   Fifth Army Drives Into ltaly’s Third Largest Seaport   'CONA ALSO FALLS)      Polish Soldiers Take 2,000 Prisoners, War Material in Surge

Fierce Fighting Rages On Plain South Of Caer   Yankee Troops Cut Road Extending From St. Lo To Periers

BRITISH BREAK ENEMY’S FIRST COUNTER-DRIVE   Battle of Rising Fury Rages Over Plains Below Caen

Americans Take Port Of Livorno   Pincers Movement Forces Germans to Yield; Eighth Army Has Seized Ancona

Picked Nazis Are Smashed By English   156,000 Germans Are Written Off Since June 6

British Smash Out 5 Mi.Gain On Paris Road   Fury of Battle Mounts as Rommel Hurls in Ace Tank Divisions

Yankees Take Italian Port Of Livorno   Third Largest in Country; Polish Troops Have Occupied Ancona

SMASH NAZI TANK BLOW; GAIN 5 MILES   Rommel Throwing in Reserve of Best Forces as Battle for High Stakes Rises in Fury Over Flat Teryain.

British Burst Into Open Plain On Road to Paris and Rommel Counterattacks Swiftly With Best Tank Reserves.

Tank Battles — Rage Southeast - Of Caen    Robots Land Their Heaviest Blow Yet   x wk k& * Doughboys Dig Inte St. Lo Rubble

Penetration — 3 Miles Deep Is Made Into  German Line:   British At Cagny; Americans, In St. Lo, Cut Off Another  Naz: BRareo

Livorno Is Taken By Fifth Army; Aneona Falls   Americans Capture Great Italian Port; Poles Crash City On Bastern Coast

LIVORNO FALLS TO FIFTH ARMY   Leghorn, Italian Seaport, Captured by Yanks In Pincers Movement

-Temperatures   Rommel Reserves Repulsed in Counter-Attacks.  Yankees Wipe Out Germans in Fallen St. Lo

NAZI DEFENSES BEATEN BACK BY BRITISH ATTACK   Yanks Wipe Out Pocket of Germans Near St. Lo and Continue Advance

Americans Capture Livorno, Italy’s - Third Largest Port; Poles Get Anconz

Livorno, Htaly’s Third Largest Port, Captured   Ancona, Another Important City, ls Won by Poles

GOERING INTO DICTATORSHIP   Goebbels Named Assistant te  Adapt All Activities to War FEff{are

Pennsylvania Leans Into Demo Column, Leaving Dewey 245   LEANING TOWARD DEWEY  a ee oe al

Roosevelt has lead of 41  ‘electoral votes in Ist poll  Dewey listed choice of 20 states;   Penusylvania, Delaware to demos

DWIGHT BROWN DIES   Missouri Secretry of State Succumbs From Complications Resulting From Flu.  ]

IKE MAY DIRECT WAR IN PACIFIC   Switch Distinct Possibility as FDR and Churchill Confer

Gen. Eisenhower After Whipping Germans May Direct Attack On Japan

MAY RUN WAR IN PACIFIC   Change May Come After Germany Has Been Crushed

EISENHOWER MAY BE NAMED ° ALLIED PACIFIC COMMANDER   CHIEF , OF FORCES IN” EULOFE MAY GET OVER-ALL COM “” MANDIN ASSAULT  °  ON JAPB - =

EISENHOWER MAY RUN WAR IN PACIFIC   Change May Come After Germany Has Been Crushed _

+ BE SURE TO Y OTE xy O¥, 1 wom  May Coordinate Pick, Sloan Plans for River

Se Ey pe eee Tie a rs      February Calendar   Hara Kiri Death Unlikely Step “Ror Denosed Nippon Leaders

40,000. GERMANS CAPTURED IN DRIVE   NAZI CASUALTIES IN BATTLES WITH SIX ALLIED ARMIES PUT AT 160,000.

401,000 PRISONER PUT INTO GAGES   Six Attacking Allied Armies  - Bag Thousands of Germans Since Jump-off of Winter Offensive

Unicameral Fight Disrupts Plans. For Adjournment   ' Foes Want TwoHouse System Regardless of Vote

One-House Plan Again Rejected   Con-Con Refuses to Make Plans to Include It in New Constitution   VOTERS TO PASS ON MEASURE NOV.’   But Proposed Constitution Also to Go Before Voters Contains 2-House Plan

POST WAR PLANS ARE STILL BIG CAPITAL TOPIC   Sen. Connally Comes Out for International Police Force; Policies Get Tougher

FORGE FAVORED TO KEEP PEAGE   Connally Asks Strong Navy And Air Arm After War

Demand for Big Post-War Army Made in Senate   Stiffen Attitude to Hitler, Neutrals; Plan Early Auto Industry Retooling

Large Yank Convoy Arrives In England For Invasion Mass   Greatest Contingent Has Uneventful Crossing; Is Pleasure Cruise Compared To Early Journies

Reports Raving ~ Of 19 ItalianTowns By Nari  Vast Program of  Destruction’

U.S. Bombers Blast Jap Ships, Sink One   Army, Navy Planes Stir Up Strang Enemy Opposition

Heavy Blows Dealt to Jap Shipping in Marshalls by Army and Navy Bombers   One Small Cargo Ship Is Sunk and Three Others Damaged: Strong Enemy Interception Stirred Up During Raids

Army and Navy Bombers Attack Marshall Isles   Meet Strongest Jap Opposition   First Enemy Interception

Nips Put Up Stiff Fight In Marshalls  By WILLIAM HIPPLE Reencintad Deace Giant! UWreitae

Nation's Fire Loss Can Delay Victory   Raffle Heads Prevention Drive

Two Hungarian Centers Captured   Soviets Also Circle Big Fortress City

Reds Continue ixpand Gains  In Balkan Area   Fortress City Is Nearly  Encircled

ep aa aN  miler   Roosevelt Legislation =!< to Halting Start ors v Connresea 3% 

FDR's Plan Off To Slow Start   Hostile Committee Takes Up Proposal

Service Measure Greeted Coldly  Senate Splits Over Labor Draft Bill

LABOR DRAFT BILL RECEIVED COLL’   SENATE MILITARY COMMITTER OPENS HEAKINGS ON MEASUBE IT OPPOSES.

Chilly Reception Given Labor Draft Proposal   Senate Group Begins Hearings on President's Plan In Hostile Atmosphere; Green Sees Menace To Democracy

Labor Draft Bill Off to a Halting Start   Praise and Censure Greets Proposal; Labor in Opposition

LABOR DRAFT PLANS BEFORE SENATE GROUP      Hostile Committee Be» gins Work on FDR Proposal

Hostile group tackles labor  drafting plan   Senate opens first hearing

Congress DividedOn National Draft Law   Program Taken Up by Hostile Senate Committee as Plan Is Praised by Under-Secretary of ‘War—aAustin Explains Bill

National Service Law Proposal Gets Off To Halting Start in Hostile Senate Body

Universal Service Proposal Kicked Abou In Halting Start Before Senate Group

Hostile Senate Unit Tackles Labor Draft   Committee Won't Act for Several Weeks: House Undecided on Taking Up Measure: Patterson Sounds Warm Praise for Plan

COOL RECEPTION IN CONGRESS 10 DRAFT OF LABOR   Faint Praise Accorded Roosevelt’s Suggestion Of Service Act      LABOR SITUATION IS  FDR’S “FRANKENSTEIN”

Worker Draft Legislation Given Chilly  PR eeentian   senate Committee Hostile to Measure To Prevent Strikes And Spread War Effort  PATTERSON LAUDS, GREEN ASSAILS PLAN  Committee in House Delays Consideration Of Similar Measure

PEACE MOVE GAINING IN BULGARIA   Parliament Favors Cutting Of Axis Ties

Bulgarian Premier is Supported By Parliament Members for Axis Break

To Launch Last Liberty Ship Today   In 32 Months Kaiser Yards Build 322 Vessels, :Setting Records Unbelievable at Time Proeram Started

8 BIG BARGES ARE LAUNCHED   Floated on Missouri-by . Water From Fort Peck:

YANKS DRIVE JAPS TOWARD COASTAL TRAP   24,000 Nipponese Slain On Leyte; Showdown Battle Shaping Up   Bataan, Corregidor Will Once More Rise To Live— MacArthur

M'ARTHUR NOW CLAIMS FIRM GRIP   Won't Relax It. Until Corregidor, Bataan Restored

PHILIPPINES ARE FIRMLY IN GRASP INVASION FORCES  MACARTHUR PROMISES BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR WILL RISE AGAIN

U, S, GRIP FIRM ON PHILIPPINES   MacArthur Praises Men  for Determination

UNSELFISH DETERMINATION OF MAJOR POWERS IS ONLY THING INECESSARY CARRY OUT SECURITY

MIGHT ALONE CAN ENFORCE POST WAR PEACE ERA AND BIG THREE NATIONS HAVE NEEDED POWER

THE WAR TODAY  Peace Can Be Kept By: Nations With Guts  Pe: eee rare

The War Today  Dumbarton Progran Success Depends On Allied Action

BIG THREE MUST STAND TOGETHER ANG MAINTAIN PEACE, BY FORCE  i I BUT FALLING OUT WOULD MEAN TROUBLE

Dead-Eye Dick Had Nothing on This Sharp-Shooting Marine From Texas

er BATTLE UPTO NAZIS   SECRETARY . HULL ANSWERS  : POPE'S PLEA TO . -AvoID  WAR DAMAGE IN ITAL." “YAN CAPITAL

Responsibility For Air Raids On ~ Rome Placed On Germans By Hull

FATE OF ROME UP TO ENEMY   Hull Replies to Pope’s Ple< That Eternal City Be Spared

LILLY FUNERAL RITES SUNDAY IN HIS CHURCH   Former Mayor’s Death Held Due To Heart Attack

TEACHERS’ DAY IS TO BE OBSERVED   All Board Members in Missouri Are Asked to Observe the Day.

Chinese Say Japs Halted   Claim Nip Drive on Honan Province City

Only Beef Roast, “: Steak, Butter and Cheese Excepted —   Change Is Tomorrow; Validation of Red Points Cut in Half

BEEF ROASTS, STEAKS ONLY COST POINTS   Relaxation Expected to Continue For Three or Four Months, OPA Chief Proclaims Today.

Chinese Circle Jap Division ir North Burma   Series of Successes Scored by Stilwell; British Gain in India

CHINESE ARE ENCIRGLING JAP DIVISION   Near Jade Mines of Northern Burma; Series of Suecesses Attributed to Forces of Gen. Stilwell.   Few Details

Report Russian Peace Terms Listed; Six Demands Made   Armistice Offer Meets Mixed Reception; Optimistic About-Finland Quitting War

FINNISH PEACE TERMS REPORTED IN LONDON   Russians Demand Nazi Troops Be Interned

FINNS MIXED ON PEACE TERMS   Disagree on Interment o German Soldiers

RED TERMS TO FINLAND TOLD   DEMAND INTERNMENT OF GERMAN TROOPS FOR THE DURATION

Finns Divided OnNewSoviet Peace Terms   Informed Sources Opti. mistic of Pact Despite Mixed Reception

Mixed Reacti To Soviet Offer Noted By Finns   Six Armistice Demands From Russians Listed In Londoner’s Report

LIST RED DEMANDS UPON FINLAND   Soviets Want Germans in North Finland interned for Duration. Will Helo Finns

One Report, Listing Six Conditions, Very Optimistic, Oihers Indicate - Finns Divided

Russia’s Peace Terms For Finland  - Are Viewed As Not Too Drastic

Towa Service Vote Passed By Assembly   Bill Rushed Through Both Houses in A. M. Session

lowa Passes Soldier Vote Bill Friday   Senate Accepts Minor Amendments Made by House

SOLDIERS’ VOTE BILL FOR \OWA 1§ COMPLETED   Only Business Left Is to Witness Signatures by Presiding Officers

New assault gains 31 miles in 3 “days   . Eroops batter 3. miles into Latvia; . nazis acknowledge situation serious

‘Soviets Lash Out At Lwow   Nazi Lines Shredded, Reds In Five Miles Of Frontier

Reds Crack’ German Line  About Lwow   Gains of 31 Miles on 125-Mile Front Made: Action Blazes on All Other Russian Fronts

DEFENSES ARE CRACKED OPEN AROUND LWOW   GAIN OF 31 MILES MADE BY REDS ON 125-MILE FRONT

Gain 31, Miles in'3 Days In ‘Extension of Front,  ~FoeFaces Grate Pugit™

New Southern Offensive Into Old Poland Gains 31 Miles in Three Days

REDS CRACK DEFENSES IN OLD POLAND   New Offensive Sends Nazis Reeling as Russians Gain 31 Miles in Three ‘Days; Grave Plight.   Take 150 Towns

Reds Smash Nazi Defense Before Lwow   German Commentato! Says Plight Serious

Armies Of The Soviets Spill Through Realing Germans  CITY.IS OUTFLANKED IN RUSSIAN DRIVE  Gravest Plight ight In Nearly Five Years Faced By Nazis

COLUMNS MARCHING ON BIG BASTION   Russian Troops Rip Through German Lines in Old Poland in a Pow _ erful New Offensive. .   ARMIES IN CENTER ~ NEAR BREST LITOVSK   Forces in North Race Toward Baltic in Effort to Trap Hundreds of Thousands of. Nazis.

ALL GERMAN HOLDINGS IN NORTHWEST, RUSSIA THREATENED BY DRIVE   Transportation Disorganized As Red Army Pushes on Toward Pskov   WRECKS CLOG KIGHWAYS

NAZI PLANS — IN THE NORTH ARE MENACED   Soviet Gains Near Republie’s Frontier and at Pskov Endanger All German-Held Territory, in N. W. Rouecia.

Nazi Bases In Northwesi Russia Gravely Menaced By Red Army; Germans Resisting Near Pskov

Red Artillery Opens on Pskov   All Territory Held By Nazis in Northwest Russia Threatened

Fierce Battle Is In Progress For Baltic Gate City   General Popov’s Army Pushes Within Twelve Miles Of Latvian Border South Of Main Drive

Soviets Battle Inside German Defense lines  Around Pskoy   Troops Farther South Only 12 Miles from Latvia Border .

(Russians Now Fighting Inside   German Defense:   Germans Resisting Fierceyl—City Reported Under Fire From Red Army Heavy

German Holdings To Northwest Of Pskov Menaced   Soviets Locked In Stiff Battle With Defenders

REDS FIGHTIN( IN DEFENSES ABOUT CITY   Transportation System Of Germans Disorganized   RESISTANCE   Of Invaders Still Stiff: Soviet Forces Within 12 Miles Of Latvia

Pskov Cannot Long Be Held, Dispatches Say   Reds Now Fighting Inside Pskov Defenses — In Sight of City

German Holdings In N.W. ®ussia. Threatened By Svat Advance on Pskov

Reds Find ‘Litter of Wreckage   Many Roads “Clogged ‘in Pskov Area by Smashed German Equipment   ENEMY TRANSPORT : IS DISORGANIZED   All Territory Held by- Nazis in. Northwest Russia ‘Gravely: Threatened

‘Reds Reported Within German ‘Defense Lines   All Territory Held By Hit.  ler’s Hordes In North  west Russia Believed. Endangered   Huns Giving Up, - Dying Or Fleeing   Soviet Breakthrough Toward Latvia Causes Disorganization Enemy Communications

Nazis to Lose All North Russ Holdings   Red Army Siege Guns Blast at Pskov; New Offense Bequn

NAZI-HELD TERRITORY AFFECTED   Evidence German Transportion Disorvanized

Soviets Close Ring at Pskov   Vital German Center Within Range of Red Siege Guns

GERMANS IN RUSSIA FAGE SURE DEFEAT   Soldiers Desert, Mutiny Reported In Some Areas

REDS WITHIN SIGHT OF CITY   Nazis in N. W. Russia Are Gravely Threatened

ALL GERMAN-HELD  AREAS NORTHWEST  RUSSIA THREATENED ROADS SO CLOGGED WITH  WRECKED GERMAN MATERIA! CIRANIID Neeonen   FIGURES SUPPORT THE CLAIMS THAT TEXANS HAVE HAD GREAT PART SOUTHWEST PACIFIC WAR

All Northern Line of Nazis. Near Collapse   Pskoy Brought Under Guns of Reds But 6 Miles Away

RUSSIANS INSIDE GERMAN DEFENSES AROUND PSKOV   Red Army Units Are ‘Within Sight of the Fortress City, is the Report.   RESISTING FIERCELY   Red Army Has to Fight Hard for Every Village it It Takes.

RUSSIAN SEIGE GUNS POUND AT PSKOV DEFENSES   ALL NAZI TERRITORY IN NORTHWEST RUSSIA GRAVELY THREATENED

POKOV UNOER FIRE OF RUSSIAN GUNS   All Territory Held By Nazis In Northwest Russia Threatened   Moscow Reports Says German ‘Transportation. System Bogs Down 

Pskov Attack Endangering  Enemy’s Hold In Northwest   Reds Finding Road Full Of Transport

Germans Resisting Desperately As Reds Now Battle Within German Defenses Around City; Roads Clogged With Wrecked Nazi  Foutnment.

AEDS THREATEN NAZI TERRITORY   Evidence of Transportation System Is Disorganized in Same Places.

GERMAN GRIP SLIPS ON ALL NORTH RUSSIA   Nazi Transportation Systen Shows Signs of Collapsing as Reds Near Pskov.

Red Territory Held By Nazis ls Threatened   Transportation Is Disorganized In Some Sections

American Troops Take Jaro; Last Showdown Battle Shaping Up Along Carigara Bay

Final Showdown Battle Along Carigara. Bay Area Appears Imminent as Americans Capture Jaro, ‘Final Mid-Island Jap Stronghold—Sizable. ‘Nip Force Apparently Cornered  - for Final Battle With MacArthur’s Men,

24,000 JAPANESE KILLED IN ACTION ON LEYTE, SAMAR   American Casualties Total 706 Killed, 270 Missing And 2,245 Wounded; Enemy Is Cornered On Carigara Bay For Final Battle; Typhoon Hampers Operations

Enemy Casualties In Last 10 Days Mount fo 24,000   Fresh Jap Troops Arrive on Island

Jap Army Remnants Prepare Last Stand Battle on West Coast of Leyte Island

General Irving’s 24th Division Pushes Forward to Close Gap With First Cavalry Despite 70-Mile  An Hour Typhoon.

U. 5. FORCES MOVE -UP LEYTE VALLEY   Americans Within Ten . Miles of West Coast  of Island

United Press Correspondent McMillan Reports Nazi Defense May Be About Ready To Crack.

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT NAZI TARGETS IN FRANCE, GERMANY   First Triangular Shuttle Air Raid Of The War Is Announced

British Crash Nazi Lines ind Break Into Open Country: U. §. Casualties 24 162

No 2 Cent Mail To Be Allowed   Beckley Postmaster Asks Residents To Help

All Animal Races  Terminate Jan. 3 Under New Decree   Other Sports Wonder If They Will Also Be Subject to Further Curtailment By War Mobilization Director

BYRNES ORDERS RACING TRACKS TO QUIT JAN, 3   ‘Until War Conditions Permit Such Sports Activity Is Ruled Out

Ace Tells How He Bagged His 26th and 27th Enemy Planes in Monday's Raid Over European Continent   By CAPT. ROBERT S. JOHNSON

TELLS OF DOWNING NAZIS NO. 26, 27.   Capt. Robert Johnson First Yank to Surpass Rick’s Record in European Air

Ace Tells How He Bagged His 26th and 27th Enemy Planes in Monday's Raid Over European Continent

SOVIET FORGES ~ ARE GROUPING   RED ARMIES MAY BE PREPAR ING FOR DRIVES IN NORTH AND CENTBAL FRONTS

‘Democratic State Com.  ‘Meets Today   Will Re-elect Lawrence Chairman; Changes In Rules Advocated

Capital Suffers Ants in P ants Pre-Election Nerves Jumpy   Tempers Flare as Clerks Battle E-Day Jitters

Washington is a Nervous Town as Voie'ess Clerks Worry About Their Jobs

De Valera Faces Election Test   Government Defeated In Parliament Vote

Windows Shattered In St. James Palace   London’s Art Row Suffers Extensive Damage

Dewey Lists 15-PointPlar For States   Governors to Get Program Designed To Remedy ‘Chaos’

Dewey Says He Will Wipe Out Friction   15-Point Plan Hopes To End State and Federal. Rows

Sweeping GOP Program To Be: Given Governors   15 Major ‘Issues: Are Involved In Plans Approved By Bricker

DEWEY PROGRAN APPROVED BY RUNNING MATE   Will Be Placed Before GOP Governor Meeting In St. Lonis

Japs Plan Attack On  Bougain’le   Defenders All Set To Meet Heavy Thrust At Hot Corner Of  Busy Island.

Tokyo Again  Is Raided By _ Big Bombers   Daylight Attack on Industrial Targets Announced by the War Department Early Today— Few Details Given

EISENHOWER VISITS— FRENCH BEACHHEAD AGAIN  Bw iia ActrvAhrliastseA BDeace

Russians Continue   Steady Advances   (Railroads Remain Target  For Russ Onslaueht

MORE THAN 50 VILLAGES FALL TO RED TROOPS   Pskov Begins to Feel Pressure of Red Columns

COUNTY SCHOOL BD. ORGANIZES   V. R. Frederick of Acme ls Chosen President

IAF MAY SECURE — LASTING PEACE   Fliers Would Be Under Conirol ~of Allied Council

Peacetime Use Of International Air Force Is Certain To Be Discussed At Meetince

Air Force May Be Agency For Peace In World   United Nations Plan Security

World Police Is Security Subject   Briton Says Use of International Air Force  Has Been Talked.

Planes To Guard Peace Proposed   Would Strike At Order Of Council Of Nations

Discharge Pay Bill To Senate   «+--+ House Approves $100-8300 Measure

WUC. COMPLETES FORTY-FOUR YEARS   Thirty-Seven Seniors Will Receive Diplomas, Degrees, Saturday

Western Union. College Closes. Academic Year  Ends Forty-F ourth Period In History Of Institution

Decrease Shown In Cotton Cro p   Yield Of 11.022.000 Bales Is Estimated

CURRENT WHEAT CROP SETS NATIONAL MARK   More Than One Billion Bushels U Wilt Be Harvest:d This year,  Government Announces

Three Billion Bushels  Corn and 1,132,108,000 Wheat Nation's Record

WHEAT YIELD THIS _ YEAR SETS RECORD   Agriculture De, Dep’ t Forecasts Crop of 1,132,105,000 Bu.

WHEAT ESTIMATE IS UP   May‘ Forecast Is for Yield of 662,275,000 Bushels

Former Chief To Take New Federal Post   More Missions Like That to China Are Indicated by FDR

KRUG SUCCEEDS ‘DONALD NELSON AS WPB’S BOSS   FDR Reveals Retiring Production Chief Will Get New Assignment

NELSON RESIGNS TO TAKE NEW POST   TO GET JOB CONNECTED WITH FOREIGN RELATIONS—KRUG MADE WPB CHIEF,

Nelson Quits as Head of WPB  F.D.R. Asks Retiring Chairmen to Take New Government Post

Nelson Resigns As WPB Chief   Roosevelt Promises  New Important Job

Nelson to Take New Post Assioned By FR.   Turbulent WPB Job Ends as Economic  Appointment Starts

Nelson To Get Some New Job   Out as WPB Chairman, FDR Not Announcing New Post of ‘Major Importance’

Nelson To Go  To A New Post      Succeeded By W. B. Krug As Head Of The WPB

Donald Nelson Resigns Office Of WPB Chief   Roosevelt Says He Will Take New Post Of “Major Importance” In War

NELSON RESIGNS HIS JOB IN WPB   Roosevelt Has New Post In Mind For Former Production Chief

NELOON QUITS Ao WPO HEAD; GETS NEW JOR   Krug Named Successor by RDF, Who Praises Retiring ~ Official.

WPO CHAIRNIAN NELSON RESIGN   Ends Turbulent Career as Head of Board to Take Post  Described by President as Of ‘Major Importance’.

NELSON RESIGNS TO GET UNKNOW! NEW POSITION   Is Succeeded By Acting Chairman Of WPB, J. A. Krug

Donald Nelson Resigns From WPB; J. A. Krug Takes Over ‘Chairmanshir

Nelson Resigns As WPB Chief  To Take Post of  “MA atinr Imnortance’

Donald’ Nelson Resigns Post As WPB Chief   Roosevelt Accepts , Lt: Counting On -Nelson Re: maining In Government  in Mator Post

NELSON RESIGNS ASWPR CH      Roosevelt Says He Will Be Given Foreign Relations Post

Transformer Co. Contract Is Cancelled   WAR DEPARTMENT TRANSFERS ORDERS HELD BY TWO STRIKE-BOUND PITTSBURGH PLANTS ELSEWHERE.   Strikers Obdurate

TAY fo A POSSIBILITY   Dewey Counsel Declines Comment on Report Lepke Has ‘Sung.’   EXECUTION SET TONIGHT.

Murderer Credited With Strange Tale as He Nears Chair   New York News Prints Alleged Statement by Lepke Today

Authority of Senate Group Is Questioned   Objection Raised by John Lee Smith Just Before Investigation

Backs to Wall On 2 Fronts, Foe Desperate   Germany Says Probe In Progress to Decide Next Act; Would Open  Door to Poison Gas

NEW BLOWS AT JAPS INDICATED   Further Invasions By Yanks Being Planned Or May Be Under Way

New Attacks On Jan-Held Atolls In The Marshalls   Aerial And Naval Blows Against New Jap Positions Are Reported   ATTACKS ON WAKE ISLAND CONTINUE

NEW BLOWS ON MARSHALTS HINT NEW INVASIONS   Fleet Airwing Bombs Wake Island, But Dam ave Ie Not Revealed

It's American, British Destiny To Rule World, Says Gen. Patton   Officer Hopes Soon to Get Chance to Kill Japanese, He Tells London Audience

PATTON'S “RULE THE WORLD” TALK REBUKED AT HOME   Declares It is Destiny of U. S. Britain and Russia to Rule the World and They Should “See More of Each Other”

Gen. Patton Criticized For  New Remark   Assertion That U. S., Britain And Russia Are Destined To Rule World Is Assailed

PATTON SAYS BIC THREE DESTINED TO RULE WORLD      Draws Criticism Of Republicans In Washington

General Patton Says It Is Destiny. Of U. S. and Britain to Rule World

Gen.Patton — Misquoted   British Press Interpretation of Sentence Caused Washington Comment

US, BRITISH ‘RULE’ FORECAST BY PATTON   U.S. General Tells Audience In London Of ‘Destiny’

General Patton Says U. $., Britain Will Rule. World: Senator Replies ‘Nonsense

Dispute Over System Of Voting By Members. Of Armed Forcee Is Far From Settlement

House Rejects Senate Soldier Ballot Measure   Disputed Legislation Goes To Conference For Final Settlement

HOUSE IN VOICE VOTE OF 21510 ~TBAREIECTS BIL   Disputed Legislation ts Sent to Conference For An At *~ tempt-at Some Final Set~thement.   WWRANGLING THREATENS PASSAGE OF ANY BILL   Two Propositions Develop to Require House or Senate to Yield, House Has Big Mailoriiy.

Senate Plan Rejected by The House   Turn Down Federal Ballot Amendment—Iowan One  of Confcrees

House Turns Down Senate Vote Bill   ‘Send Service Ballot Mea. gure To Conference tc » End Dispute.

State Rights Soldier Vote Bill Upheld   House Defeats Senate Measure By Voice Ballot

HOUSE REJECTS SENATE FEDERAL BALLOT PROPOSAL   Disputes Legislation Sent to Conference for Setes

Gov. Dewey Maps Tour of Nation  Seven Major Speeches During September

DEWEY TO MAKE 6,700-MILE TRIP   CAMPAIGN PLANS CALL FOR CROSS-COUNTRY TOUR IN SEPTEMBER

Dewey Te Make Seven Speeches   Will Make Tour of Country In September

Dewey to Make Seven Speeches in Coast-to-Coast Tour: Roosevelt Accepts Bid to Teamsters’ Dinner

Dewey To Make Cross-Country Campaign Tour   Seven Major Addresses To Be Broadcast During Gantembher Jaunt.

DEWEY TO-MAKE 7 MAJOR TALKS ON 6.700-MILE TRIP   G. O. P. Presidential Candidate Will Visit 21 Siates on Cross-Country Campaign  Tour—First Talk at Philape ar

Dewey to Make Seven Major Speeches During September On a Coast-to-Coast Tour 

DEWEY PLANS CAMPAIGN TRIP   GOP Candidate To Visit 21 States. Will Give  Seven Key Talks

Dewey Plans Seven Major Appearances   Will Make 6,700 Mile Cross Country Tour to Address Voters

DEWEY TO MAKE 6,700-MILE TRIP   G. O. P. Candidate Plans Seven Major Political Speeches

DEWEY. PLANS SEVEN SPEECHES OVER NATIONWIDE NETWORKS   REAR PLATFORM - ADDRESSEE ALSO TO BE DELIVERED— GOVERNORS SPOKE “LAST NIGHT

Mrs, Caraway Meets Defeat In Arkansas   J. W. Fulbright Appears Headed For Runoff With Another Candidate

SEN. CARAWAY IS FAR BEHIND   Representative J. W. Fulbright Well In Lead In Arkansas

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Assail Allied Political War   Military Officials Growing Restless Over Non-Appearance of Bold Political Strokes,

Nazis Expect Blows from  Three Sides   Report Plane Attacks On Jnvasion Vessels  In English Harbors SPECULATE ON DATE

Nazi Jitters On Invasion Hit New High  Tuesday Is Set . msm om™...vUU Ur!

Speculation Over Invasion Date at High Pitch, Nazis Claim Allied Ships Bombe

Nazi Jitfers Qn Invasion Hit New High  Tuesday Is Set v One Ae D_DRavy

NAZIS REPORT ATTACK ON ALLIED SHIPS   In Undisclosed Harbors Awaiting D-Day Which They Claim May Come Next Tuesday.   Moon, Tides

Nazis Naming Invasion Dates aime, arinctidhatoriadal stints  Berlin Says Allied Invasion Vessels Bombed In Harbors

Germans Launch Bomber Attacks On Allied Ships   Speculation Rife In Nazi Capital

Germans Claim Attack on Allied  Invasion Fleet   Nazis Begin Naming D-Day, One as Early As Next Tuesday

Jittery Germans See Invasion As Soon As Tuesday   Nazis Report Attack On Allied Fleet; Specula tion Feverish

Nazis Naming Invasion Dates   Berlin Says Allied Invasion Vessels Bombed In Harbors

US.CANNOT BE OUSTED FROM THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Don Whitehead After Seeing All Fronts in Europe Is Of Opinion That Rome Beachhead Is Safe Against Any German Attack

DEFYS A SUBCOMMITTEE   Byron Price, Censorship Director, Refuses Use of Intercepts

Death of Million Jews Threatened   HULL PROMISES NAZI PUNISHMENT FOR CRIMES IN GREECE, HUNGARY

Atrocities Of Nazis Flayed  Sec. Hull Denounces German Activities

Face Increasingly Heavy Artillery Fire From Fiercely Fighting Foe   Hull Denounces Nazi Atrocities

Seventh Force Bags. 15 Japs   ‘Complete 21st Day of “Softening” Marshalls

ALLIES BAG 16 JAP PLANES IN RUNNING FIGHT   Softening - Up Raids On Marshalls Pass 2Zlst Day

Revolutionary Movement Against Government In Fl Salvador Put Down

Pound German Airdromes In  French Area   Allied Bombers Also Hit Long Range Nazi Tavgets

POUND BENING BATTLE UNE, AAID AUST AY   Rail Yards, Oil Factories and Airdromes Drubbed by Night and Day.

PLANES LEND HELP TO BIG GROUND FICH   Flying Fortresses and RAF Raiders Blast Reich Airdromes and Targets From Beachhead to Far Inland

Allies Airmen Make Heavy Blows Count   Blast Airdromes Back of Battle Lines, Strike Communications Far Inland

U. S. Bombers Strike Deep Into Germany   Other Planes Support Invasion Forces; Nazi Airdromes Are Targets

Hitler’s Fortress Cringes Under Day, Night Air Attacks      RAF Follows Great U. S. Fleet of 1,400 Planes Over Nazi Europe

U.S. Bombers Fromitaly Raid Munich   Other Planes Provide Close Support for Forces on Beachhead

‘Air Squeeze on Reich Continues   Allied Bombers Lash Germany and Strike At Foe in France

Planes From Italy Pound Targets In Germany ‘Over 7,000 Sorties Flown Over France In Day

Forts Strike Nazi Airports   Munich Area Blasted by Ttaly-Based Heavies

Italy-Based Bombers Hit Munich agair   Targets in Innshrack Area Also Pounded While Lighter Planes Suspvert Invasion Troops

Raymond L. Ruhle, Prominent Butte Business Man, Dies   Cerebral Hemorrhage Believed to Have Caused Death Which Occurred in Hospital at Spokane; Funeral Pending

Mitler ‘Too Busy’ To Talk Christmas   Goebbels Apologizes For Silent Fuehrer

Fight German Army Officers Put to Death   Hanged Following Their Conviction by Court of Plot to Kill Hitler

Eight Generals  In Hitler Plot Reported Hanged   Officers Are Said To Have Confessed; Deaths in Alleged Conspiracy Now 16

Punish Germar Field Marshal  7 Others Involved In Plot Are Convicted

Kight Purged Nazi Officers Put to Death   Rumor Himmler Is Slain, Goering Hort in New Violenee Outhreak

TRIAL ENDS FOR EIGHT OFFICERS IN HITLER PLOT   Court Hearings Last Only One Day, ‘Just Punishment’ Say DNB Reports

8 Expelled Nazi Officers Are Hanged   Unconfirmed Reports Say Himmler Killed, Goering Shot in New Revolt Against Nazis

German Field Marshal, Seven Others Hanged   Alleged Confession They Tried To Kill Hitler Brings Death Before Peonle’s Court

GERMAN TRIAL OF ARMY MEN NOW UNDERWAY   “Just Punishment”’ To Be Given Men Found Guilty

Light Nazis Hanged Says Berlin   Tells of Trial In Which They Admit Plotting To Kill Hitler

Witzleben Confesses Surrender  As Object:   ‘Executions, Oceur After Conviction

Eight German Officers Reported Hanged For Plot: Rumor That Himmler s Slain

Field Marshal And Others Found Guilty   Executions Take Place 2 Hours After Trial

Nazi Purge Continuing   Himmler Is Reported Killed, Goering Hurt

REICH OFFICERS NAMED IN PLOT GET SENTENCES   Just Punishment,’ Berlin Reports Given Eight Who Wanted Hitler Dead

8 German Officers Hanged; Admit Plot to Kill Hitler and Surrender to Allies

Eight Ex-Nazi Bigwigs Are’ Hanged; Himmler Reported Slain And Goerine Wounded

NAZI OFFICERS ARE EXECUTED   Eight Hung For Plot On Hitler’s Life After Trial

Eight Expelled Army Officers Hanged by Nazis   Executions Take Place Amid Rumors Himmler Killed in New Outbreak

Eight Plotters Against Hitler ‘Are Punished   Berlin Says Plot Agains' Nazis By Army Officers Long Hatched.

EIGHT GERMAN OFFICERS TRIED   ‘Just Punishment’ Ordered In Assassination Trial

ExecutionOf Officers Told By Nazi Radio   Marshal Von Witzleben And Seven Other Army Officers Believed To Have Been Executed

People’s Court Hears Hitler Bomb Case   Berlin Declares “Just Punishment” For Eight Officers

GERMAN OFFICERS HUNG IN 2 HOURS AFTER THEIR TRIAL   Eight More Executed Today for Taking Part in Attempted Assassination

FIGHT GERMAN OFFICERS PAY IN NAZI PURGE   Himmler Dead and  Goering Wounded  Say Rumors

Field Marshal, Seven Other German Officers Hanged For Plot Against Hitler’s:Life .

8 German Army Officers Hanged   16 Deaths Revealed From Hitler Plot

Eight German Army Generals Are ‘Punished   Notorious People’s Court Tries Officers For Complicity in Plot on Hitler

Eight High Germa Officers Convicted In Plot on Hitler  ‘Just Punishment’ Meted Out sg. "3 we.. tit e_ =.

Rumors Have Goering Hurt, HimmlerDead   Nazi Prisoner Says . Gestapo Chief Slain In New Army Outbreak  LONDON SKEPTICAL

Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben Reported By Berlin to Have Revealed Details   Plot Hatched In Summer of 1943   He and Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck Were to Have Headed Military Under Coup

Fight German Generals Die   Hitler Death Plot Reported Hatching Since Summer.

EXECUTE EIGHT NAZI OFFICERS   F ield Marshal on List of Hanging Victims

HANGED FOR ATTEMPT T0 KILL HITLER      Von Witzleben, Seven Others Put To Death

Eight German Army Officers Executed   Expelled Army Men’ Hanged in Hitler Purge Amid Rumors Himmler Killed in New Outbreak . Against Nazi Regime 

Eight German Officers Are Tried, Hanged   Field Marshal in Group That Confessed Plotting To Kill Hitler

B GERMAN ARMY OFFICERS HANGED IN HITLER PLO]   Field Marshal Von Witzleber Among Those to Die for Conspiracy to Assassinate Fuehrer.   CONVICTED OF TREASON BY “PEOPLE’S COURT”   Executions Take Place Amid Rumors That Himmler Has Been Killed and Goering Wounded.

Men Confessed In Trial Before Himmler Court  .16 Now Executed ter Part In Bomb  gee. gy PO. LI's ft. .

Eight More Executed By Hitler   A Pield Marshal and Seven Other Army Officers Hanged Today   RESULT OF PLOT AGAINST HITLER   ‘Plot That Failed’ and Allied Advances Changing Outlook of Soldiers

PUNISHMENT METED OUT IN HITLER PLOT   Trial of Eight High Officers Expelled From Army on Charges of Compiicity is Concluded   HIMMLER IN CHARGE

Unconfirmed Reports Claim Himmler Assassinated  And Goering Wounded In New Outbreak

Trial Of Eight Nazi Officers  Is Concluded ‘Just Punishment’  sensor ame co   ‘Just Punishment’ Is Reported Set; 4 Already Slain

PREVIOUS PLAN AGAINST HITLER TOLD 10 COURT   Field Marshal, Three Generals Included In Unrevealed Sentences

Just Punishemnt to Nazi Traitors  Berlin Reports erry kd ba flaca

“Just Punishments” Meted Out in Case of Eight Ex-Nazis   People Court Decides Guilty of Alleged  Conspirators

Hear Gestapo Chief Is Slain, Goering Hurt   Germans Quake Before 1 ,000 Bomber  Mauling; Planes,  Yanks Smash Attack

HANG EIGHT IN HITLER BOMB PLOT   Field Marshal and Seven Other German Army Officers Tried for Part in Attempt to Kill Fueh. rer July 20.

8 OFFICERS ARE HANGED IN GERMANY   For Complicity in Attempted Assassination; Reportts Himmler Killed, Goering Wounded.  ca ee

Nazis Hang Field Marshal Von Witzleben, 7 Others After Army’ Plot Trial

i Gerthan Officers Hanged   Conyicted of Complicity in Plot to _ Assassinate Hitler

8 MORE DOOMED FOR BOMB PLOT   Marshal Among New Group Given ‘Just Punishment’

Germans Hang Army Officers In Hitler Plot   Executions Follow Trial By Two Hours

Nazis Hang Eight Army Officers Found Guilty In Bomb Attack on Hitler

Anelo-Soviet Conference Is Completed   Plans For Final Defeat Of Germany Made

PAY INCENTIVE PROGRAM ~NDER WAY   WLB Approves Wage Boosts for War Metal Output Workers

RAISE IN PAY IS APPROVED   WAGE INCENTIVE PROGRAM AUTHORIZED FOR. WORKERS IN FOUNDRIES AND FORGE SHOPS

~ADER WAY   WLB Approves Wage Boosts for War Metal Output Workers

PEARL HARBOR. REPORT FILED   BOARD OF INQUIRY, COM PLETES A 5,000-WORD RE. , _. PORT ON GEN, SHORTS  - DEFENSE. PREPARA. . tof pone 0 oR

Miami Police Officer Exonerated Qn Charges Of Faking Fingerprint

U.S. World’s Most United Nation. Dewey Tells Crowd   ‘Throng of 10,000 Greets G. 0. P. Nominee Upon Return to New York State’ Capitol

DEWEY DECLARES ELECTION. WILL SHOW UNANIMITY   Republican Nominee Returns Home to Albany ‘Amid Rousing Welcome—Says U. S. Only Nation Daring to Rick an Eleetion

Dewey Gets ig Welcome   Over 2,500 Greet New York Governor On Return to Albany

‘Keep Things We F ight For   Dewey Greeted By Crowds On Return Home

Dewey Back in Albany  from Meet   Tells Welcoming Crowd that Election Will Prove to World America’s Unity

War Election Sign of Free Men---Dewey   U.S. Strong Enough to Argue as It Fights, Albany Crowd Told

¥ arm Welcome { ven Dewey on is Rewurn Home  Election Proves Nation United

Gov. Dewey Given Big Welcome On Arriving Home  Unity of Americans Is Praised by GOP's Candidate

America Most United Nation, Dewey Asserts   Election Will Mean ‘We Are Stronger’ to Ou Enemies —

Crowds Line Streets to Greet Dewey   Tumultons Welcome Given Governor: On Albany Return

Dewey Given Big Ovation In New York   Nominee Says U. S, Most United Netion

SAYS ELECTION SIGN OF POWER   Albany Crowd Cheers Dew: ey's Warning to Axis

Tells Them. Election . Will “Prove “America Most” United Nation.

America United, Dewey Declares   Governor Speaks To Cheerina Crowd

DEWEY CHEERED IN SHORT TALK TO ‘NEIGHBORS’   An Estimated 10,000 Turn Out to Welcome GOP Nominee Back Home

Dewey Given  Bie Welcome   Speaks: On Capitol Steps. To Admirers

‘America Is Most United Nation’   Dewey Is Wildly Welcomed at Albany

Cheering Crowd Welcomes Dewey  Back To Albany   GOP ‘Presidential  Nominee Cites United’ Effort of Americans

Election fo Show Unity, Says Dewey   }- “Example for Whole World,’ Avers Chief As Albany Cheers

GOP CANDIDATE ON WAY HOME   Dewey Maps Campaign Plans With Advisors While En Route

DEWEY WELCOMED   New York Governor Greeted by Thousands on Return to Albany

ALBANY CROWD WELCOMES DEWEY   TEN THOUSAND TURN ouT TO GREET GOVERNOR AS HE. ARRIVES FROM CHICAGO.

U.S. Greatest Nation on Earth  ---Dewey  Able to Argue and Still Be Strong

CHAPLIN DENIED DELAY IN CASE   Judge Orders Paternity Action Be Heard Now

DOUGHBOYS BATTLE WAY INTO GERMANY’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR  BRITISH CLEANING OUT LAST OF GERMANS ALONG MAAS RIVER IN HOLLAND

Yanks Take 4 TownsonWay to Cologne      Reds Sweep within 72 Miles of Austria in Hungarian Offensive

Fight Nearer Siegfried Line; Ist And 9th Armies Inch Ahead   x * *k * Roer River Line A Key to Victory   Japs Ripping Through China

British Reach Maas at Venlo   Doughboys Battle Defenders Of Saarlautern; Russian Troops Within 72 Miles Of Austria

Patton Breaks Into Siegfried Line Defenses  Fall Of Scarlautert   Fall Of Saarlautern Near; British Move To Bridge On Maas; Enter Julich. Linnicl

HOLD DETAILS ON PROGRESS   Germans Show Rising Alarm With Series of Counter  WEATHER .GETS WORSE

Patton’ sT'roops, Tanks Pouring Over Bridge  At Searkaashiath   ‘Ninth Army Battling for Sportsground at Julich

THIRD ARMY TROOPS AND TANKS DEEPEN WEDGE IN GERMANY   NAZIS REFLECT RISING ALARM BY SUCCESSION OF COUNTERATTACKS .

Yankees Battle Last Defenders Of Saarlautern   Britisn Wipe Out Last Nazi Maas Bridgehead

JOUGHBOYS BATTLE WAY INTO GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR  BRITISH CLEANING OUT

Yankees Hold 16-Mile Front  Along River   Germans Show Increasing Alarm; Counter Blows Are Expected   WEATHER IS. BAD ALL ALONG LINE   Germans Open Dikes in the: Canadian Sector; Ninth Battles at Julich

Demobilization Plan Will Be Told Tomorrow  Part of Program Will Be to Educate the Public

Will Air Plan of  Demobilization   Announcement To Be  Made On Wednesday

Demobilization Plans Are R rady   Will Be Announced To morrow By Army

Case Against Chaplin Heard   : Los Angeles Judge Denies Mo tion hy Comedinn’s Counsel  for Dismissal of Suit

Jurist Denies Chaplin Move To End Trial   Comedian Called To Stand in Surprise Maneuver

ied SHIFTED. . JO BADOGLIO   KING AND PREMIER GIVEN CONTROL OVER PARTS OF’ : LIBERATED ITALY  - BY ALLIES -

U.S, TROOPS UROSS RIVER AT CASSING   Expect Appian Way To Be Cut By Allied Thrust

U.S. Patrols In Cassino; Fall Of City May Be Close   Cairo Says Other American Invasion Force Is Only 19 Miles From Rome

Cross Rapido as Nazis Send in Reinforcements   Invasion Group Extends Beachhead; Germans Pull Out of Cassino.   Resistance Very Light, Invasion Yanks Report

Other Forces Meet Stiffening German Resistance; Nazis  Hit Hospital Ships

Americans Cross Rapido River Again   Invaders Cut Appian Way—Cassino Fighting Heavy

GERMAN TROOPS RETREATING T0 PROTECT REAF   Invasion Stab Severs Appian Way—Cassino-Rome Road Believed Under Fire

NAZIS TURN 10 PROTECT REAR   INVASION FORCES SPEAR DEEPER IN THE ROME SECTOR

NAZIS WITHDRAW ° UNITS TO BOLSTER ROME APPROACHES   Still Defend Stronghold From Nearby Heights — Yanks... That Enter Town Forced to Retire. oka       ENEMY RESISTANCE =. BELOW CAPITAL GROWS   No Major Battle Has Been Joined—Allied Reinforce-' ments Continue to Pour Ashore. . _

Nazis Weaken Lines Near Cassino to Rush Men to Oppose Allied Drive Near. Rome: Appian Way Cut

CASSING - ROME ROAD MENACED BY YANK ARMY   Nazis Draw Back Troops To Meet Great Threat Of Invaders

Cassino War Is Speeding For Decision   Fifth Army Troops  Spearing Deeper Against Nazis

TROOPS CROSS RAPIDO RIVER SECOND TIME   Patrols Already Have Entered Stronghold on Nazi Southern Front— Resistance Grows at New Allied Reachhead.

Americans struggle thru hellish fire from nazis in Cassino enveloping move   French troops retake Monte Croce after bitter see-saw engagement

Nazis Pulling Back Forces   May Be Moving Units To Meet Threat to Their Rear’

Troops Recross Rapido and Set Up Bridgeheads   Americans Meet Stiff Fire From Germans; French Recapture Monte Croce From Fos

Ss  YANKS ESTABLIOK NEW BRIDGEHEAD   Plunge Resolutely Forward Through Thick Minefields   SECRECY SHROUDS   Movements of Invasion Force. es South of Rome; Be. lieve Appian Way Out

ALLIED TROOPS MEET STIFFER NAZI DEFENSE   Sull Able to Advance In Thrust Toward Italian Capital

Nazis Fall Back In Cassino Area   Yanks Plunge Back Over Rapido” River

American Patrols Push into Cassino   Forge River in Renewed Battle For Italian Key   Invasion Forces in Rome Area Advance Against Growing German Resistance

PATROL FORCES ENTER CASSINO   United States Troops Again Storm Across Rapido River  FRENCH FIGHT HARD

NEARER TO ROME BY SENDING CRACK UNITS RUSHING NORTHWARD TO OPPOSE NEW THRUSTS; ABANDON CAS INNO)

AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE STORMED OVER RIVER NEAR CASSINO  APPIAN WAY BELIEVED CUT AND OTHER HIGHWAY THREATENED

AMERICANS STORM OVER RAPIDO   Fifth Spears Deeper Against More Resistance

RAPIDO RIVER IS RECROSSED NEAR CASSIN(   ROME BRIDGEHEAD EXPANDED; NAZIS RUSH TROOPS

Heavy Battles Continue ‘As Nazis Shift To Meet ‘Allied Threat To Rome

Cassino Fight  Nearing Close   Rapido River Is Stormed By U. S. Troops; 5th Army Advancing

AMERICANS CROSS RAPIDO RIVER IN NEW OFFENSIVE   Cairo Radio Reports Ameri: cans and British 19 Miles from Rome

Struggle Slowly Forward in Face Of Nazi Gunfire   Enemy Pulls Out Crack Army Units to Meet Americans

Invasion Forces Near Rome Meet More Resistance   Germans Pulling Troops Back to Meet New Threat

Yankees Cross Rapido River, Enter Cassino   Allied Invasion Forces Push Forward Despite Increasing Nazi Resistance

Establish New Bridgehead on Bank of Rapido   Yankee Patrol ls Forced Back

Rome Defenses Being  Bolstered by Hitler   Yankees Drive to Within Half-Mile of Nazi Base at Cassino; Secrecy Hanging Over Rome Invasion Area

CASSINO IS ENTERED BY ALLIED PATROLS: APPIAN WAY 1S CUT   German Resistance Around Nettuno Bridgehead Still Comparatively Light   ALLIED TANKS ENGAGED

New Bridgehead Bolsters Yank  Drive for Rome   Fifth Army Troops Plunge Ahead As Germans Pull Back To Battle Invaders Driving Inland

Germans Pull Men Back  Toward Rear   U. S. Troops Pour Across Rapido River to Push Assault on Cassino; Resistance on Invasion Front Increasing; Hospital Ship Sunk

Appian Way Cut And Only Other, Road Threatened   Via Casilina Believed Uinder Artillery Fire As * Allies Hasten to Isolate Enemy In South — Opposition Increases Below Rome, But Still Light —Advance Con troues.

"WAS BEEN RENEWED BY THE AMERICANS   U. S. Troops Stormed Across the Rapido, Field Dispatches Said.   THE APPIAN WAY CUT?   Cassino-Rome Highway Is Seriously Threatened, It Is Announced.

Resistance ~ Increased Near Rome   Nazis . Apparently - Pulling Units Back From Cassino To Meet New Threat   3 ALLIED HOSPITAL > “SHIPS ATTACKED   Action Increasing, Suggesting Possibility of a Great Battle Soon

‘Heights Fire Keeps Allies  Fr ‘om Cassino   Status of Offensive Below Rome Clouded By Official Secrecy  RESISTANCE GROWS

Yanks Smash Back Across Rapido   Germans Pull Away Part of Their Great Strength

Yanks Storm Across Rapido Again  Battle for Cassino Renewed; Invaders  hbAava Clacar ba Dama

U. S. Forces Slash Back Across the Rapido River  fPEDALAARQIC ABALIRAL!L   GERMANS ABANDON TOWN OF CASSINO   Official Secrecy Still Shrouds the Exact  Mavamonte

. 5. FORCES STORM ACROSS RAPIDO RIVER      Patrols Penetrate Into Cassino but Are Thrown Back as Nazis Increase Pressure ai Neifurno   WIDENBRIDGEHEAD   Nazis Intimate Appian Way Cut at Velletri, 24 Miles From Rome, Afier Town Razed

Allies Fight For Cassino; Patrols Enter   No Word Yet That This   Center Has Actually  Been Taken

U. S. Patrols Are Reported In Cassino   Resistance to Invasior Forces Is “Comparatively Light”

U. S. Units Are North Of Cassino   Nazis Apparently Are Pulling Out In Order To Meet Great Threat In Their Rear

ENEMY NACES     AND BELGIUM   Soissons, Belleau Wood and Chateau- Thierry Engulfed in 25-Mile  Amaweoan Adwanan   CHAMPAGNE BEHIND U. S. COLUMNS   Threat Posed to Foe’s Entire Flank, as Well as to Withdrawal Route of 15th Army.

Capture Soissons Chateau-Thierry, Belleau-Wood  In 25 Mile Dash   Third Army of Gen. Patton Threatens To Flank Nazis’ Rocket Bomb Installations

More Jobs Are in » Sight  For Iowans After the Wai   Plenty of Spots for Vets to Go Into Business Survey Shows

Employment Needs in lowa Greatly Increased After War, Is Indicated

JOBS FOR 130,000 MORE IOWA PEOPLE ~ AFTER THE WAR FADS   Postwar Rehabilitation Commission Surveys Indicate Favorable Opportunity For Returning Service Men and Workers In War Industries.

AWAIT STRIKE 0. K.    Memphis Operators Vote Walkout Paless Granted a Ralse.

Discuss Oil With British   Stettinius Says Talks Planned Concerning Near-East Pipe Line

Oil Parley With British Scheduled   SUPPLY, IRAN PLAN NOT POLITICAL ISSUE, ROOSEVELT SAYS

Bright War Workers Send In Their  Own Ideas, Including Some Dizzies

JAP POPULATION TO BE ARMED, SAYS ~ TOKYO BROADCAS!   Imminence of Invasion of Nir Homeland Seen in Decision.

Jap Civilians~ Will Be Armed   Entire Population To Be Put On Guard, Enemy Report Says

aaa ata nlaai aia  arael ee  te  VETERAN HOSPITAL M. D.’S ON ACTIVE ARMY DUTY

ALLIED PLANES IN TRIANGULAR SHUTTLE RAID      Axis Hit From Britain, Russia And Italy In Epochal Flight

Air Raiders Cat Triangle   Britain-to-Russia : To-Italy Is Route.

osts Only 15 U. ©. Planes As 1000 Berliners Reported: Killed In Condemned City

Aerial Assault on City Carried Into Second Day Monday   2,000 U. S. Bombers and Fighters Encounter Stiff Opposition

1 O00 AMERICAN PLANES IN RAINS   Great Fleet Of ‘Forts’  Hits German Capital Devastating Blow   SECOND ASSAULT   'Today’s Attack Follows  Powerful Daylight Bat tering, Sunday

Berlin Again Battered By U.S. Armada   ‘Condemned to Death,’ Capital Is Hit for Second Straight Day; Air Fury Moauntina

No Let Up In Week-End's Record Blows   German Fighters Ram U S Planes in Suicidal Effort to Halt Armada

Bucharest Ts Pounded Last Night By Bombers   Allies Increasing Pre-Invasion Blow

Berlin rit. For Second Day in Row   6,000 Allied  Planes in Air In 24 Hours

German Fighters in Ferce Pai Up Bitter Battle Against Liberaters Raiding Brunswick

Big U.S. Bombers Rain 2000 Tons Of Bombs On Capital   Brunswick Area Also Lashed By Airmen In Heavy Assaults; German Fighters Give Daylight Raiders Furious Opposition

Nazi Capital ‘Doomed,’ Says  Enemy Account  British Bombers Blast Germans’ Invasion Nerve Centers; Foe Sends Up F ighters  —— eet 2 Ff aawe A

Yank Armada Drops 10,000 Tons Of Bombs   Capital Of Germany Doomed To Death, Residents Admitting

Bombers Hit Brunswick In  Mighty Blow   Follow Night Assaults From West. South Upon France, Reich.   ‘HEAVY OPPOSITION

BERLIN HARD HIT BY U.S, HEAVY BOMBS   More Than 2000 Planes Bomb  Nazi Europe

2000U.S.Bombers  And Fighter Planes Take Part In Raid   ‘City Seen “Condemned To Death;” Bucharest Hit 3 Times In Day; France Target Of Night Attacks

24-Hr. Period Sees 6,000 Planes Rain 10,000 Tons Of Bombs On Europe.

Batter Nazi Capital for Second Day   Smash Follows Powerful RAF Night Assaults From West and South

Great Fleet Of Flying Fortresses Pounces On German Capital For Secand Straight Day—Liberators Hit industrial City 125 Miles To West—Marauders Pour Explosives On Military Objectives In Northern France And Railroad Bridge On Outskirts Of Rouen

Airmen Follow Up Big Assault Sunday On German Capital   Carry Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Into 24th Day, Drop 10,000 Tons on Kurope in 24 Hours

Bombers, Fighters Pounce For Second Straight Day On Capital.   ATTACK BRUNSWICK, TOO

Aerial Blasting Is Given:   OVER 2,000 BOMBERS NEW RAID ON NAZI "GERMANY.

YANK ASSAULT ALSO SMASHES AT BRUNSWICK   Balkan Target Mauled In Night Raids From  Two Directions

Liberators and Fortresses Are Escorted By Lightnings, Thunderbolts, Mustangs, Nazi Targets in France Are Hit

- Raiders Strike Fiercely At Germany, France, Romania   ’ Huns Must Hustle. After Invasion Starts   Bulletins

eich Capital And  runswick Areas  = Planes Raid   yreat Fleet of Flying Fortresses and Fighters Pounce For Second Straight Day on Vital Targets Over the Continent   \UCHAREST HIT FOR THE THIRD TIME IN 24 HOURS 

NAZI CAPITAL IS TARGET OF 2-DAY BOMBER ASSAULT   POWERFUL FORCES BLAST BRUNSWICK AND HIT BUCHAREST

U. S. Planes Return After Sunday Blow   Bucharest Pounded Again in Stiff Aerial Combat

Huns Resort To Suicidal Acts  Against Yanks   Dive Bitterly Against Lib. - erators Bombing Brune. wick, Returning Crews men Report   Colliding Planes Explode In Air   Today's Attacks Follow Blistering Raids On Balkan Cities and Sectors In Frenee Sunday

2,000 PLANES HIT TARGETS IN REICH   Air Offensive Is Carried Into Twenty- Fourth Day   AIR BATTLES   Cost Germans 20 Fighters; Nazi Raiders In Weak Attack On Britain

NAZI CAPITAL GIVEN SECOND STRAIGHT RAID      New Daylight Attack On _ Germany Follows Night Blows On France

Nazi Capital Hit Second Straight Day; Brunswick Raiders Meet Opposition

6,000 ALLIED PLANES OVER EUROPE SUNDAY   Americans Lead Attack Pace In Sunday Blow on Nazi Capital: Romania Hit

Nazi Capital Left Burning   Brunswick Hammered, Bucharest Attacked; Huge Allied Fleets Over Europe

Nazis Say Capital Is ‘Condemned To Death’ By Allied Air Attack   24th Day Of Bombing Follows. Previous Period’s Bombing By 6,000 Planes Which Battered Europe With 10,000 Tons of Bombs

FLYING FORTRESSES ASSAULT NAZI CAPITAL FOR SEC OND STRAIGHT DAY--LIBERATOR FORMATIONS HIT  BRUNSWICK—RAIDS FOLLOW LAST NIGHT’S SMASHES AT FRANCE. GERMANY. ROMANIA

2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Target; Nearly 2,000 Bombers and Fighters Rip Targets in Two Cities After Great Sabbath Raids by Both Yanks and British.

HIT BRUNSWICK AREA, MEETING NAZI FIGHTERS   Germans Admit Their Battered Capital Is “Condemned to Death”

Other Planes Hit Hard At Brunswick   Germans Admit Battered Capital Is Condemned To Death; Today’s Attack Follows Niaht Raids on Germany, France, Rumania

2000 U.S. Craft Attack Capital And Brunswick   Planes ‘Colliding All Over Sky’, Says Returned Pilot

2,000 More U.S. Planes Hit Berlin,  Brunswick   Attack On Nazi Capital Resumed After Heavy  Blow Siiiiday; Northern France Targets Bombed

German Capital Believed Condemned To Death   BRUNSWICK ALSO HEAVILY BOMBED

Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Mounts in Fury  2000 Warplanes Fallaw Attack by

CAPITAL HIT FOR SECOND STRAIGHT DAY   Force of Almost 2,000 U, S. Bombers and Fight« ers Strikes at City and at Brunswick, 125 Miles to the West.

FB! Busy Tracking Down Phonies As War Brings Fake Heroes, Even ‘Racketeers To Prey Upon Public

St. Lawrence Deal May Come To Vole   - Enough -Vates Promised “to Pess it But Chork Threatens Filibuster:

Big Daylight Raid Is Told By Germans   Nazis Claim Furious Air Battle Being Fought — Raiding Berlin?

New Yank Blasi Hits Berlin Area   PLANES DROP 350,000 BOMBS, 10,000 HIGH EXPLOSIVES IN TODAY’S RAID, FIRING RAILWAY CARS; MOSQUITOES ATTACK WAR FACTORIES

POWERFUL ASSAULT IS LAUNCHED   More Than 350,000 Incendiary Bombs Dropped In Raid

Communications In France Hit In Allied Raid.   Railway Yards At Le Mans At Attacked

350,000 Incendiaries And 10,000 Explosive Bombs Dropped On Capital   Swarm Of Fighters Escorts Raiders   Germans Put Up Bitter Battle But Planes Break Through

VAST ARMADA IN GREATEST FIRE ATTACK OF WAR:   Resistance Still Heavy

BIG TEMPELHOF AIRPORT ‘GONE’   Important Berlin Target Is Knocked Out During Latest Acrial Attack

TRAINS CRASH AT ASHTABULA   One Killed, Three Hurt 13 Coaches Derailed

D COMPANY 10 ~ ASUMMER CAMP   Will Leave Here On Special Train July 9 For Camp  ore

Farm Accident Fatal to Leichty   Emery ©. Leichty Dies Yesterday Eevening—Injuted in Kunaway Friday Morning

Farm Accident Fatal To Leichty   Emery Leichty Funeral Held At Wayland

DRAFT ACTION THREAT MADE      MAJORITY OF MEN ABEESTEL IN: PAYROLL, RACKET TO BE. * PLACED IN-FA: z

New Cold Wave Heads East As Winter Begins Tonight: Predict Ten Above In Ohio

COLD WAVE GRIPS PRAIRIE STATES   Moving Across Nation In A South-easterly Direction

DESTROYS RAILROAD CARS   Eighth Air Force Fig! Fighter Bombers Roll Up: Big Score

New Congress Faces Problems  Of War and Peace   Military Training High on List of Legislative Subjects

Small Investor . Must be Careful   ROGER BABSON ° WARNS LITTLE FELLOW TO BEWARE

LEADERSHIP TRAINING   Five Members of New Hope-Solebury Cc F A. at Camo Taitt

FRY DECLINES GOVERNOR BID      Tells Democrats He Won't Be Candidate to Oppose Kelly

FRY REFUSES TO BE DRAFTED BY DEMOS   Telegram Tells Leaders He ‘Definitely’ Will Not Run As Governor.

Tojo Takes Over New Job As Tokyo Admits. Heavy Losses At Truk      BY UNITED PRESS.

New Power Given Tojo In Shakeup   Fleet Adm. Nagano, Gen. Sygiyama ‘Out’: Damage Is Admitted

JAPAN REMOVES ARMY" AND NAVY CHIEFS OF STAFF,   Announcement Coincides Wtih That of Invasion ‘of Truk by U.S.

Tokyo Relieves Personnel of  Military Staff   Shift Follows U. S. Blasting of Nip Bases; © Tojo New Army General

Follow U. S. Victories at Truk Island   Japs Admit Sinking of 18 Ships and Destruction of 120 Planes in Raid

JAPANESE FIRE IMPERIAL ARMY NAVY LEADERS      Also Admit American Task Force Sinks Ships. Destroys Planes

JAPS REMOVE ARMY AND NAVY CHIEFS   Move Follows Disasters at Truk, Eniwetok

Blows   HIGH COMMAND SHIFTS FOLLOW TRUK DISASTER   Admitted Jap Losses For Once Parallel U, S. Claims

Japan Fires Her Chiefs of Staff .   Shifts in Command Come on Heels Of Big Victory by American Fleet

Japan Removes Her Chiefs Of Staff   Announcements Through Domei Follow Losses

ISENEMY SHIPS, “207 JAP PLANES BLASTED BY NAVY   Shore Installations Wrecked In Greatest Naval Victory Since Bismarck Sea Battle in 1943.   ENCIRCLING DRIVES OF REDS THREATENING   Russians Probably Saving Accounts of Victories te Make Anniversary Report Wednesday.

SOVIETS ADVANCE TO WITHIN 24 MILES OF EAST PRUSSIA   Red Army Crashes Into Suwalki Territory Incorporated Into German Province In 1939; No New Gains On Warsaw Front; Niemen Defenses Penetrated

Soviets Crash Into Suwalki Triangle in East Prussia   MANY TOWNS TAKEN BY RUSSIAN FORCES   Remnants of Three Trap. ped Nazi Divisions Annihilated

>ouring Into Giby Soviet Troops Head For Town Of Suwalki, Seven Miles Inside Suwalki  Triangle

WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING TO — WIN THE WAR   » . 2. 6.0.0.8.0. 0.0.0.8.

KKK KKK KKK   WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING TO ~ WIN THE WAR  whe whe he hie ir i ~~ > = a or

Service Vote Comes Before Senate Today   Approval From Congress Expected This Week; Veto Predicied

STORM STRIKES PARSONS PLANT   Damage To Kansas Ordnance Unit Estimated at $350,000 by Officer

Southeast England Rocks Under Blast Suspected As New Nazi Weapon

Stinson Says Patton Transfer Was Not Bue to Face Slapping Incident

Se afliscp arse telaneeasy CE ame ee ee  Patton Incident Closed—Stimson

Ickes Studies Letter Story   Hints That Chicago Isolation Group May Have Hand in Affair

WAR PRISONER FOUND HANGED INSIDE CAME   German Escape Try Frustrated by Guards

Reveal Executive Decision   GOVERNOR REPLIES TO G. O. P. REQUEST; SEES DUTY IN PRIMARY RACE

Warren Okehs  Entrance Into Pepstdent Race      Tells GOP He Considers i Duty to Comply With Request

IOWA HOLIDAY TOLL REACHES 11   5 Drowned and 4 Killed in Traffic Accidents

Nearly 100 U. S. Plane Carriers Roam Pacific   Report Japan Has Abandoned Mariana Islands

Believe U. S. Will Soon Be Hurling Thousands of Planes Against Japan

U.S. Soon Ready To Hurl Several - Thousand Planes Against Japan:

U.S. Will Throw Big Air Fleets At Japan Soon   100 American Aircraft Carriers Threaten Foe’s Homeland

U.S. HAS 100 CARRIERS IN PACIFIC AREA   Can Hurl.” Thousands of Planes Against  Japs in Near Future

CUT DEFERMENT OF GROUP 18-22   Hershey Says Order Won’t Hit Farmers; 126,000 Affected

Deferments for Men Under 22 Cut Sharply  New Program Will Free 126,000 Bary Dei Wihith Awssse Rossseleres

Deferment of Mer Under22 Reducec   » Program Effective Feb. 1 to Affect 115,000 Non-Fathers

Pride, Fear Of Ruin Keep Nazis In War   Returned AP Newsman Says Home Opinion Divided

RATION POINTS ON FOOD CHANGE   Housewives Will Find More Points Required and Supply of Valid Stamps Diminished Effective Today

More Ration Points Required Today; Many Red and Blue Stamps Invalid

MORE RATION POINTS NEEDED INBUYINGFOOD   Canned Vegetables on List Again; Butter Value Hiked

CHANGES MADE IN RATION PROGRAM      More Points Will be Re. quired for Vegétables and Meats

Changes in Food Point Values Effective Today   OPA Announces Schedule Under New  Rationing Program

Ration Values Are Changed;  Some Stamps Invalidated —   Butter Now 24..Points, 95.Percent of Meats Back. on Ration List Beginning Dec. ‘31  PERIODS INCREASED

ASK SCHOOLS TO ACQUIRE BUILDING   Petition Asks Purchase for Vocational Training Work

ARKANSAS VOTES IN PRIMARY TODAY   SEN. CARAWAY FACES STRONG ‘OPPOSITION IN HER BID FOR RENOMINATION.

‘Loyalty’ Bar  Faces Negroes   Arkansas Demoerats Plan To Stymie Afro Vote

SEN, CARAWAY FACES BATTLE   Four Rivals Oppose Only Woman Senator

Donnell and McKittrick  Race is Close   Lead of About 3,000 to Donnell. Mchittrick Hopeful

POLICE HUNT FOR BLONDE KIDNAPPEF   Sailor’s Four Year Olc Daughter Missing

Peace Offer Dropped By Japanese   “Surrender Passes” Chief Weapon of Propaganda Drive

J a pa nese- Prep a re 7 =    Optimistic “Ticket to Armistice’ _ Gives: Instructions, on How ‘to Lay Down Arms,

SOVIETS ISSUE ~ FINNS WARNING   Peace Vanishes as Finland Held Responsible

Russ Officials Warn Finland   Soviets Say Finns Must Bear “Responsibility For W hatever May Happen.’

Russia Expected To Renew Baltic Attack   Failure Of Finn Peace Efforts Will Precipitate New Drives, Berlin Claims

Russia [Issues Crim Warning   Declares Finnish Government Must Take Consequences

NEW SOVIET WARNING DIRECTED AT FINLAND   Further Peace Talks Seem Unlikely In View Of Move

FINNISH PEACE TALK 1S ENDED   Russians Say That Na tion ‘Must Bear Responsibility’

Major Blows To Be Dealt Japs On Many Fronts— —_—by Elton &. ray \  Bia Things Are On The Fire In The Pacific

SENATORS HEAR HULL ON POLICY   Connally Heads Delegation to Help Plan Foreign Relations

Hull Confers With Senators   New Procedure In Nation’s History—Discuss U. S. Foreign Policy

3-Way Strike ‘Staggers Japs. In Pacific   Soerabaja Port Flames Under Sea and Air Assault

ALLIED MOVES ~ AGAINST JAPS ARE SUCCESS   Three Bold Undertakings - Pay Off: Two Vital Air  Fields Under Control

SOERABAJA RAID  PROVES ABILITY  TO HIT AT WILL YANKS, CHINESE  DRIVING ENEMY FROM MYITKYINA

Twin Raids Hit Island of  Soerabaja   Nips’ Dutch Bases Blasted by 3 Air Forces

Display of Strength i in ~ the Pacific   Allies “Deal ~ “Three Bole -Blows*Against Japan: on Widely Separated: Fronts’   SHOW ABILITY. TO “STRIKE ANYWHERE   Stilwell’s Forces \ Driving On:;MacArthur Makes New Gains Toward: Philippines

Hit Soerabaja ‘In Daring Raid On Jap Holding:   Forces Under Mountbatten, MacArthur And Nimits Teamed For First Time

Allied Drives on Japan Move Fast   Land and Sea Based Planes in Raids on Soerabajz Base   MORE GAINS IN BURMA   Airstrip in Wakde Island Area Is Nearly Ready  for Use

Unite tor Blow in  Pacific   Heavily Bomb Jap Holdings in Dutch East Indies

Allies Deliver Three Blows To Japs In Pacific-Burma   Soerabaja Attack ed, Wakde Island Ait Strip Taken

Allies Deal Japs Three Bold Blows   Bomb Soerabaia. Drive Into Mvitkvina, Ready Airstrip For Use

BOLD STROKES ~ BRING PAYOFF      Daring Attack Made on Soerabaja By Allied Carrier Force.   SHOWS STRIKING POWER

ALLIES SMASH 7 HARD BLOWS AGAINST JAPS   Batter Soerabaja, Close In On Myitkyina. and Put  Wakde To Use

THREE BLOWS AGAINST JAPS SHOW RESULTS   Raid Demonstrates Allied Ability In Bombing

Three Bold Blows Against Japanese by Triple Forces   Nimitz -Mcunbatten -MacArthur Forces Team Up For First Time

Combined Fleet Hits Soerabaja on Island of Java   Myitkyina in North Burma Besieged by Three Allied Forces

]HREE-PRONGED DRIVES AGAINST ORIENTAL NATION   Raid in Indies, Clearing of Burma Garrison, N. Guinea Landings on Success List

Bold Blows In Pacific Pay Off —   Bomb Soerabaja In * East Indies and Make Wakde Airstrip Ready For Immediate Use

Another Air Field  Is Taken From Japs   Three-ply Blow Against Enemy Pays Off for Allies in Dutch East Indies, in Burma and on New Guinea

Naval Units from All Pacific Commands Join in Carrier Blow at Soerabaja.

Three Bold Blows Dealt to Japanese  Nippons’ Hold in Pacific Weakened

Soerabaja Hif In Bold Allied Sea-Air Smast   Mighty Blow Is Dealt Japanese In Dutch East Indies

ALLIES DRIVING JAP UNITS OUT OF MYITKYINA   U. S. Confirms Soerabajs Raid; Airstrip Near Completion on Wakde

Battle Of Caen Is Raging With Mounting Fur   Nine Counter-Attacks In 24 Hours Broken By Montgomery Men

Wee CERENONY AT TRINTTY   Nancy Spring Taft i is Bride ‘of Stephen Peacock  Baldwin

Victory Lie Revives Jap Home Frent   Tokyo. Waiting Policy Evidently Shatteritig Morale of Civilians

PERIOD OF WATCHFUL INACTIVITY BY JAP WAR LORDS TOUGH ON HOME FRONT

Propagandists Have Big Job Ahead  Japanese Home Front  Has Little In Way Of Good News These Days  aT = 2 eS

ALLIED TACTICS WORRY JAPAN   War Lords Betray Need Of Home Front Stimulus

NERVOUS JAPS NOW FORCED TO TRUMP UP FAKE VICTORIES   Victory Stimulus Needed On Home Front, So Japs Claim Aarawe Has Been Retaken

False Japanese Claims Reveal ‘angina Morale   Victory Stimulus Cited To Boost Plane Output

FANFAREOVER ARAWEBY JAPS TS REPUDIATEL   ‘Claim of Vv ictory Betrays ' Need of Home Front Stimulus to Whip Up Production

Japan’s Warlords’ Waiting May Be Too Much Of Strain On HomeFront AfterAction

TOO MANY PRIVILEGES   Ascribed as One Cause of Juvenile linqueny

Candidates Repudiated By Dewey   Members Of Slate Will Meet Friday To Rub Sore Spots Resulting From Spanking

Germany May be Putting out Peace Feelers Again   By DeWitt MacKenzie % Associated Press War Analyst

NEW PEACE FEELERS MAY BE EXPECTED FROM NAZIS WITH SECURITY HITLER UPPERMOST

Awaits German Peace Feelers With Nazis’ Safety Main Concern; Little Else For Which To Bargain

WAR TODAY   Britain’s Colossal War Effort Provides An Epie In History Of Allied Stand Against  Nazi Ensclavement

MacKenzie Says— al  New Nazi Peace Bid: In Offing   Britain’s War Effort Is Epic In Allied Stand Against Axis

Southern Democrats Trying To Consolidate Opposition \Into One Unit At Chicago

SOUTHERN DEMOS DRIVE TO UNITE WALLACE VICE-CHIEF OPPOSITION   McNARNEY, ALABAMA CHAIRMAN, REPORTS FAVOR TO CONSOLIDATE BEHIND ONE CANDIDATE

SOUTHERNERS OPEN DRIVE 10 STOP WALLACE   FDR Reported To Favor 1940 Mate; Others Throng Scene

ORDERS FROM HITLER  —_  German Agents Are Told to Break Pan-American Front

JAPS “TALKING”    - APOWERFUL WAR   Claim Virtual Destruction of U. S. Navy and Air Fleets  in Marianas Area.

25 GOP Solons Named On Group To Study Plans For Postwar Taxation

G. 0. P. SETS UP TAX COMMITTEE   Leader Martin Terms Present System ‘Hopelessly Impossible’

Postwar Tax Program Studiec By Republicans   Committee Named To Work Out Plan For Equitable Levy

House GOP Starts Study Tax Problem   25-Man Committee Named to Formulate Post-war Progrem

GOP Starts Tax Study ~   Name 25-Man Committee to Frame Party Policy on Post-War Levies

25 REPUBLICANS ‘WN HOUSE NAMED ON POSTWAR TA   Committee Follows Baruch ldea For Training Party Policy, Two Favor Ending Excess Profit Tax. _   DEWEY I$ REPRESENTATIVE FROM ILLINOIS   Social Security Rate Boost, Postponed on Three Occasions Now. Inevitable, Vandenberg Says.

SIMPLE RITES HELD FOR IRVING S. COBB   Only Ten Minuics Consamed By Funeral Services In New York; His Wishes Fulfilled

lowa Draft Poo! Fails to Materialize   Haven’‘t Been Able To Get Ahead

MOVE MAY BE EFFORT TO OUTFLANK CITY   Strategy May Involve Splitting Nazi Forces

Yanks Said To To Be 40 Miles From Paris.   But Rumor Is Unconfirmed;  Fighting Continues At Gates Of Brest

Dewey Draftins His Acceptance   He Will Leave for Chicago After Nar

Dewey Begins Acceptance  Speech Work   Indicated He Will Fly to Chicago After Nomination

Dewey Preparing His Acceptance   Expected To Fly To the Convention

Marshall War Dads Will Meet Tonigh  Membership Gain Fee  tures New Group

Finns Might Welcome U.S. Occupation After Withdrawal from War With Russ

DIPLOMATIC “CIRCLES HEAR LANDING OF AMERICANS AFTER ARMISTICE WOULD BE WELCOMED

Mammoth Steel Army on Wheels Rolls  Ponderously Over German Hedgerows

HORROR BOMBS WORRY LONDON   Mothers And Children Urged To Get Out Of Danger Zones

British Public Warned Robot Bomb Attacks on London May Get Worse

24 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Nips Continue To Ex. ‘ert Pressure Despite Losses

British Radio Says Indians Reach Imphal   Casualties Reported Inflicted on Japanese Columns in India

Allies Harass Jap Ambushes Around Impha   Enemy Forces Continue To Exert Pressure All Along Assam Front.   RAID AUNGBAN FIELD

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses North of Imphal   Foe Continues His Pressure on Front in India

JAPANESE FORCES DRIVING INTO INDIA EXERTING PRESSURE  ASSAM FRONT SITUATION BAD BUT ALLIES HOLDIN IN OTHER AREAS

Jap Forces InIndia Are — S$tillMoving      Allied Troops Ave Inflicting Severe Casualties, By Ambush

Jap: Pressure Still Exerted In Imphal Area   Allied Troops, Meanwhile, Have Inflicted Casualties On the Enemy In Ambushes Along Front

JAP UNITS EXERT PRESSURE ALONG THE ASSAM FRONT   Allied Forese, However, Take Toll of Nip Troops in Am bushes North and South af  aa ee 

Japs Slowed By Ambushes Near Impha   Chinese Forees Driving for Wakawng: Airmen Blast Airfield

U. S. Grants Italy Financial Help ,   President OK’s Plan For Foreign Exchange

Had 3@ Aces In Group   U. S. Not Giving Enough Blood, Says Army Paper

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER POLL ~ GIVES WIDE RANGE OF IDEAS   CONSENSUS OF OPINION AT CONVENTION I8 THAT EURO" PEAN WAR WILL END NEXT YEAR

LEADERS OF TEXAS REGULARS RENEWED APPEAL FOR VOTES  GIBSON SAYS DALLAS CONVENTION SOUGHT TO EMRBARRASS GOVERNOR

Texas Regulars Leaders Renew Appeal for Votes   Creager Predicts Many Regulars Would Come Out for Dewey

Drive Hardest Of All Says War Board   Give Reasons for Present Need Bond Purchases

THREE TOP-RANK JAP MILITARY LEADERS DEAD   Japanese Announce Deaths Of War Lords. General skimell's Forces Advance

Earth Dances Under Shattering Allied Blows Wiping Life From Scene of Attach

\BVEN FOX, COWS, PLOW HORSES FELT WORLD WAS  ENDING  Earth Dances Under Yanks’ Rain of Steel

Aliepoort Tenmoecratures   -Men and Beasts Shudder Under Most Terrifying Military Blow Ever Seen by Germany

Germa ns Penetrate Defense and Heavily Bomb London Area and lCause. Fires In Heart. of City

Special Session In Minimum Time Cited As Morale Builder For Service Folks.

Nimitz Looks To Day When Yanks Can Land In China   Tremendous Typhoons J lampering Current Naval Operations.

U, S$. FORCES MOVE TOWARD COAST OF CHINA   Tremendous Typhoons However, Slow Progress, Says Admiral Nimitz; Delay Replenishment Of Ships.

Nasi Looks To ree When Yanks Can Land Th China   Tremendous Typhoons Hampering Current Naval Operations.

Tighten Curbs. _ - in Britain: {to Guard Plans   Drastic Measure Applied L Isles.as Day.of Big. Invasion Approaches

NEW SCREEN FOR INVASION STEPS RAISED   Effective Today, Visitors Are Excluded From Area 10 Miles Deep and 700 Miles Long on British Coasts.

Lips Sealed  In Britain   Isles Locked Tight To Prevent Invasion Leaks to Enemy

TAKES ANOTHER SEGURITY STEP      Britain Excludes Visitors From Restricted Area As Precaution.

Britain Camps Pre-Invasion Padlock On 10-Mile Deep Area on South Coast

Tight Regulations Lock British Isles Against Espionage   New Rules Proclaimed to Prevent Leakage of Invasion Moves

BRITAIN 1S LOCKED TIGHT AGAINST LEAKS IN INVASION PLANS   Visitors Excluded From Strip 10 Miles Deep, 700 Miles Long, in Southeast Area   CONVOY ARRIVALS SECRET

BRITISH MOVE T0 PREVENT LEAKAGE INVASION FACTS   Area 10 Miles Deep and Over 700 Miles Long Restricted to the Public

NEW SECURITY STEPS ADOPTED AS D-DAY NEARS   VISITORS EXCLUDED FROM COAST LINE FACING CONTINENT

Strict Control Is Imposed In British Isles   Guard Against Leakage  Of Information Te Enemy As_ Invasion D-Day Approaches

DRAWING NEAR, REPORTS SHOW   Great Precaution Taken To Keep  News Secret

Visitors Barred From Coastal Area; Enemy Steps Up Activity To Meet Invasion

Throwing Money Away   Seal England to Prevent Leakage of Information

DANIELS READY TO ANSWER IN CONGRESS QUI?   Senate Agziculiure Sub- Committee Told President Himself Willing to Discuss Slaitery

DANIELS SET TO TALK TUESDAY IN REA CASE   Pledge To Testify Holds Up Contempt Proceedings

Group Delays Daniels Action   Contempt Proceedings Halted On His Promise to Testify Tomorrow’ Before Hearing.

COTTON’ HEAD WILL QUESTION DANIELS   Contempt Pre Proceedings Ogainst Tar Heel Delaved

DELAY ACHON ON FDR’S AIDE   Daniels Agrees To Appear Before Board Tuesday

Daniels Is Scheduled wee Ve  To Appear Tuesday In Answer to Charges

ROOSEVELT AID DECIDES TO TALK   JONATHAN DANIELS AGREES TO APPEAR BEFORE COMMITTEE

Lend-Lease Policy, Where Does It Stop   Senator Ellender Says Instead of Allies Owing Us, We'll Owe Them

CATTLE GRUB CONTROL MEANS EXTRA MILK   County Agent Of Offers Several Methods of Grub . Treatment

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTEF   (By County Extension Director)   Cattle Grub Control Means Extra Bil

Talasea and Its Airfield Taken Within Three Days After New Britain Landing 

Texas Cavalrymer Advance Against Crack Jap Troops  Stilwell’s Forces   Stilwell’s Forces Slash Forward  In Burma Jungles

MARINES CAPTURE TALASEA, AIRFIELD IN ONLY THREE DAYS ON NEW BRITAIN

MARINES TAKE TALASEA WITH JAP AIRDROME   AMERICAN INVASION SPREADING OUT IN ISLANDS

i ees 7 if eg Attend Today’s Johnson Grass Meeting  TW’ Important To Us All!

Allies Pock-Mark Rabaul Air Fields   Shoot Down 13 Jap Planes In Strong Aerial Punches.

Holiday Toll Exceeds Estimate   At Least 333 Lives Are Taken  Bey TINUED Wb PRA

LOCAL MEN ARE NAMED TO VETS’ SERVICE GROUP      253 Branches Have Been Set Uy By State Veterans Service Committee

Voters In Thirty States To Ballot Upon Referenda  Many Measures Up In November

IOWA DRIVING IS HAZARDOUS   - Highways. Coated With Thin-Laver of Ike ©:

Hershey Sees Peace Draft   100,000 Inductions Monthly After War In Prospect, Says Head

: ~ 7 ‘Soldiers May Be Scent  Overseas After War  ‘Says General Hershey

DARK HORSE MAY EMERGE FROM DEADLOCK AT CHICAGO   Lack of Popular Choice For Vice-Presidential Post At Present Advancing Name of Barkley; Contest Still Wide Open.   RIELITLETIN

Brownell Views Nation Electing Dewey. Bricker   Claims Enough Successful Organizations To Win Needed Electoral Gotes

i:nemy Reported Retreating to Maginot Line   Generals Patton’s Tanks and Infantry Pours Over Nied River Bridges to Register Gains of Up to Four Miles

One Report Says Evacuation Of City Underway   Enemy Retreat Appeared General Along A Twenty Mile Front Between Metz And Chateau Salins. U. S. Fourth Gains 4 Miles.

Evacuation Seen in Flow of Traffic From Fortress City; Counterattack Checked as Wind, Snow Sweep Front

Expert Brand: Hopkins Letter F orgery   Ickes Suspends Aid Pending Probe Of Federal Jury

ICKES’ AIDE 1$ SUSPENDED   Brand ‘Hopkins Note’ Definite Forgery

ALLIES SHUT ALL ROUTES OF ESCAPE FROM DEATH TRAP   Big Guns Hammer at Narrow Corridor in Which Ger- . mans Struggle to Get Through Gap.   DEFEAT COMPARED  WITH STALINGRAD   Von Kluge’s Army Disappears as Force to Be Reckoned With in Future— Thousands Captured.

Doom Sealed for Many Nip Troops   MacArthur Says Southern Part Of Enemy Line Being Destroyed

YANKS TAKE CITY OF ORMOC eth JAPS   Seizure Cuts Off Enemy’s Last Supply Port on Leyte

LOSS OF ORMOC LEAVES JAP NG BASE ON LEYTE   Yanks Continue to Destroy Foe in Steady Advance on Defense Line

FRENCH FORGES HAVE CAPTURED A: DOZEN MORE TOWNS   They Also Have Encireled 1500 Germans Near Paimpol, It Is Announced. ©   STUBBORN RESISTANCE

ITALY DRIVE. ROLLS AHEAL   GENERAL ADVANCE © TOWARD _ FLORENCE 8TILL UN. ! CHECKED BY THE RETREATING NAZIS

Advance In Italy Of Allied Forces Still Uncheckec   Fifth Army Approaching Grosetta, 110 Miles Northwest Of Rome   SLIGHT CONTACT MADE WITH ENEMY

FIFTH ARMY IS NEAR FLORENCE   Leading Elements Are 11¢ Miles North Of Rome

UNITS OF FIFTH _NEARGROSSETA   Allied Advance Unchecked Toward Key City of Florence

SUSPECT IN GIRLS MURDER 1S SOUGHT   Police and Military Police Believe Arrest Will Be Mada Snonan_

Draft Boards. Will Defer Older Texans   Induction of Men Over 26 to Stop in This State Today

Draft Eligibles Of 26 and Over Side-Tracked   Draft Boards To Hustle Younger Men into Service At Plea of Armv and Naw

BEGIN RUSH TO CALL MEN UNDER 26   Seek To Build Up  Reserve For Needed Replacements

Much Confusion Marks Change in Draft Deferments   Boards To Speed Taking Young Men

Call BO OLDER GROUF   Men Under 26 Getting Preference For Induction

‘Nation’s Youth Be Inducted By Draft Boards   MEN OVER 26 SAFE FOR TIME BEING WHILE YOUNG MEN WILL BE CLASSIFIED FOR EARLY INDUCTION

Hustle to Get Men Under 26  Into Uniform   Status of Registrants Over 26 Changed by Selective Service So  Younger Can Be Take

Draft Boards In New Rush  All Men Under 26   All Men Under 26 Listed for Call Into Combat Training

Draft Boards in a Rush To Get Men Under Age of 26 Into Combat Training

YOUNGER MEN TO BE RUSHED INTO UNIFORM   Youths Into Combat Training   DRAFTING OF OLDER GROUP SIDETRACKED   Hershey Order Confusing to Men Over 26 Sched~ -uled to Report.

Will intensify processing of younger men  Service needs combat troops

Boards Must Act At Once to Draft More Under 26   Confusion on Induction Orders for Older Men Is Reported

AIR FLEETS FROM ITALY BOMB MUNICH      First ItalianBased Raid on  So. German Area

Bombers Strike Tn Munich Area From Italy Bases   Great: Aerial Fleet Slashes Through Nazi Fighter Opposition

Italy-Based U. S. Bombers Blast Munich   Planes Strike 500 Miles Across Alps To Smash Cradle Of Nazis

British Bombers Disorganize Nazi Troop Movements   Fly Thru Cloud Layers at Give Airmen  Respite Today

Fly From Italy To Blast Munich   American Planes. Pound. Nazi.City.

WEATHER CUTS AIR POWER AT FRENCH FRON   Night Bombers Smash At Five Large German Transport Hubs

FROM ITALY HIT MUNICH   American Fleet Fights Off Heavy Nazi Opposition

October 31 Is  Income Tax Date   Deadline For Third Quarter Payment Nearing. Is Warning

Allies Hold — 55,000 Huns, Repel Attack   Americans Launch Attack Along Western Coast of Peninsula, Advance in Italy

Germans Cut. Off At Minsk. By Russians            U.S. Troops Open Drive: Northwest of La Haye Du Puits

Allied Power Grows In Russia, Normandy, Italy   Soviet Trap Closing On Quarter Million Enemy Troops At Minsk

Germans Cut Off At Minsk By Russians   LU. S. Troops Open Drive Northwest of La Haye Du Puits

U. 8. SUBMARINE POMPANO 15 LOS!   RAIDER HAD SUNK TWO WAR. SHIPS AND MERCBANT SHIFPING IN JAP WATERS,

USS. Pompano Lost In Pacific   Brave Sub That Faced Japan’s Home Waters Has Fired Its Last Shot.

NAVY REPORTS L055 OF SUB   Pompano Had Two Jap  Warships and Many Cargo Boats to Its Credit :

1,330tonsuh Pompano is reported lost   Valiant raider was Nip menace

Big ‘Sky Battles Fought In Southwest Pacific; Japs Resisting At Biak

DOWN 30 JAP PLANES; START NEW BIAK DRIVE   MacArthur Changes Strategy in Schoutens; Hit Truk With 41-Ton Bomb Load

ALLIES BAG 30 ATTACKING JAP PLANES      Probably Down Seven Others, With Loss of Only One of Their Own, in Southwest Pacific Skv Battles. 

 With Our ™“, Fighting Men ea      VALLEY SPRING MAN IN PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL

Great Goins Scored Despite German Counterattacks  MANY NAZIS SLAIN = / IN CONTINUED PUSH Station of Podvolochisk  Falls to the Red Troops

SOVIET ARMY DRIVES CLOSE TO TARNOPO!   Reds Take 200 More Places in Sweep Toward Rumania

REDS SMASH RAIL POINTS; MENACE NAZIS   Offensive Toward Poland And Rumania Overruns 200 More Localities; Enemy Dead Counted.   beaten Off

200Places OverrunBy  Red Forces   ‘German Counter Attack: Pounded Back Along aco Russian. Salient =

GERMANS ARE WORRIED OVER UARAINE PUSE   DISASTER NEAR AS COUNTER ATTACK IS SMASHED

Russian Steamroller Crashes Onward Toward Rumania. Southern Poland

Soviet Drive in South Overruns 100 Communities  Dade Daanrk LJ aemiak   Reds Reach Hamlet 11 Miles North of Tarnopol Moscow Says

200 Hamlets Are Overrun By Russians   Reds Also Drive Ahead In Southern Poland Despite Resistance  NAZLATTACKS FAIL

Reds Beat Back Nazi Blows  In Drive Menacing Rumania   200 More Lovilities Seized as Soviets Get 11 Miles From Tarnopol; Germans Bring Big Air Reinforcements to North

Soviet Juggernaut Continues To Roll   Forces Driving For Rumania Now [n 11] Miles Of Tarnopol; Nazi Losses Heavy

Russians Advance In South Poland   200 Localities Freed of Nazis

RED OFFENSIVE ROLLS DESPITE STIFF DEFENSE   1,200 German Dead Counted And Smashed Equip ment Abandoned   200 COMMUNITIES REPORTED RELEASED

DRIVES CLOSE TO TARNOPOL   Reds Take 200 More Places in Sweep Toward Rumania

TROLLEY, - BUS TRAFFIC HALTED   @hiladelphia Operators Report- ing “Off Sick”

~ THOUSANDS OF CAR OPERATORS "REPORT “SICK”   Training Program _—‘ For Negroes Angers White Union Members   30,000 HAULED BY NAVY   Government Buses Used To Carry Workers To Ship Yards

TROLLEYS AND BUSES AT STANDSTILL IN PHILADELPHIA WHEN OPERATORS ALL REPORT “OFF SICK”; DECLARE “NO STRIKE’

TROLLEY, BUS. AND. ELEVATED  SERVICE” STOPPED’ BY. THE.  .. SUDDEN “ILLNESB”. OF °° HE EMPLOYES ..

IRATE BLACK MARKETER’S COMPLAINT: SUPER CEILING PRICES FOR SHOE STAMPS

Battle For Rome Now Is Near The Crisis  Bour For Russian, Allied Aifacks Is Near

Communist And Cantrel Governments In China Are Nearing Acvcreement

Big Carrier  Is Launched   "Bon Homme Richard” Is One of Laraest of Type :

A DE GAULLE COUP   He Installed Coulet As Commissioner for.  Rouen.

DeGaulle Set: Up Coulet As  Rouen Ruler   Brings Workers Into Beachhead

lowa Lags in Sale of War Bonds   $7,000,000 Behind Quota During First Two Days of Drive

SURFACE SHIPS “AND B-29S HIT é1WO JIMA BASE   Record Bomb Load Droppec ® and Planes Escape in Daylight Raid

‘Three Cities In Japan Hit By U.S. Bombs   Two Other Locations Also Bombed

IN JAPAN HIT BY B-245   Two Others in JapOccupied China Covered in Raid

THREE CITIES IN JAPAN HIT BY B-29§   Two Others in JapOccupied China Cov: ered in Raid

FIFTH ARMY MAKES THREE-MILE GAIN ALONG ROAD TO PO:   Advance Over Hilly, Rain Bogger Terrain—Take Roa Junction, of Leiano. Less Than 14 Miles From Be

Road Junction Taken In Italy   Fifth Army Troops Hammer Out Gains

3 MILES GAINED IN ITALIAN PUSH   Road Junction Captured Ir Drive Toward Bologna

Fifth Makes 3-Mile Gain   Hammer Out Advances Over Rain-Bogged and  Mountainous Terrain

FIFTH ARMY GAINS UP TO THREE MILES   Doughboys Fight Ovex Rain-Bogged, Mountainous Terrain on the Approaches to the Po River Vallev.

OTH ADVANCES SMILES IN MUL   Seize Road Junction on Way to Bologna

Fifth Army Troops. Gain Three Miles  - Road Junction of Loiano Captured

US. Fifth Army Hammers Out New Mountain Gains   Germans Continue Fierce Resistance At Every  Yard.

Improve Ability of Fighter Plane   P-38 Lightning Is Now Ruler of Combat Skies

Rains Fail To Halt 7th Army Drive On Lyon   Flank Thrust From Grenoble Sector New Threat  To Fleeing Germans.

CLOSE IN ON LYON   Americans and French Continue to Push Back  the Nazis

Dead Navigator Thrown Overboard;  Crew Follows His Course and Lands

Hurling Body Of Dead Navigator From Crippled Plane Enables It And Crew To Get Back Home Safe

Navigator’s Body Is Sacrificed to. Save Nine Airmen   Crew Drops Dead Buddy Into Channel to Lighten Load of Falling Liberator.

DEAD NAVIGATOR'S BODY DROPPED INTO CHANNEL TO SAVE CRIPPLED PLANE

Bricker Asserts He and Dewey to  Cover Country  "There Will Be No Half Way Campaign,’ GOP Nominee for  Tn Benet dent Sacre

DEWEY-BRICKER JAUNT PLANNED   Whole Country Will Be Covered By Top Men Of GOP Ticket

DEWEY AND BRICKER TO COVER COUNTRY   [eee eee  Nationwide Campaign Plans Outlined for GOP

WAR LABOR BOARD BACKED BY A. F.L. IN WARD DISPUTE   Union Organization’s Executive Council Says Authority of Agencies Must Be Maintained.   GROUP’S STATEMENT COMES AS SURPRISE   Members Previously Had Indicated They Would Take No Part in Row Involving Only a C. I. O. Local

AFL Couneil Backs WLB In Ward Case   One Member, However.  Registers Dissent  And Upholds Company FORMAL STATEMENT MADE BY COUNCIL  Says Power of WLB  Basic Issue Involved In Coantraverecy

NEW BRUTALITY PILED ON LIST WE'LL AVENGE'   Murder of Aviators Taken in Japan Seems Plain

Japs Broadcast Captured U. S$. Flyers Executed   Singapore Radio Declares Official Nip Policy Will Be to Put All Allied Flyers Bailing Out Over Japan to Death

Jap Death Edict Stirs Wrath of America   Nippottese Execute ‘Fort’ Crews; Vow to Kill All Raiders Captured.

YANKS WHO BAILED OUT MURDERED   ‘One Way Ticket To Hell’ Promised To All Others

Going Back   U. S. Third Fleet Continues Heavy Philippine Blows   Carrier Planes Smash Without [.etup Amid Report That Allied Land Invasion Has Be. gun.

U. S. Third Fleet Continues Heavy  Philippine Blows.             Cartier nes ~-Simash - Without- Letup Amid Report. That Alhed Land Invasion Has Begun. .

Great Assault To Take City Appears Near   Three Fierce Nazi Counterattacks Are Repulsed; Gains are Made In Bitter Battle for Metz

Last Main Road Out of City Reported Cut   Similar Fate Is Shaping Up for Metz in Northern France Where Third Army Cuts Deeper Into Enemy’s Defense

DRIVE OF U.S. FIRST ARMY CUTS LAST MAIN ROAD OUT OF ENEMY INDUSTRIAL CITY

Great Drive of U.S. Firs Army Rolling Towar: the Heart of Hitler’ Ruhr Valley Severs Las Main Road Out  o: Aachen.

Main Assault On Aachen Seems About To Open Up   First Army Threatens New Break-Through  Toward Rhine River, 26 to 30 Miles Away  RT ATAT DNATN COULCRON

Escape Route Of Nazis Cut   Hodges Circles Stoutly Derenged City and Presses On   Red Army Forces Near Memel, Big Seaport in East Prussia

ty Virtually t Off; Main ult Pends   similar Fate Appears in Store for Metz;  ‘French 8 Miles From Belfort in the South

YANKS SMASH INTO GATEWAY OF RHINELAND   GAINS ALSO MADE AT BELFORT AND METZ

Assurances of  No Territorial Designs Strengthens Russia’s Position

OPEN HEARINGS (I PIPELINE REQUESTED   Ickes Tells Grou He Wants To Go ‘Strictly on the Record.

w——BuUyY Yrar vones~  STANDARD OIL’S LOSING A PART OF SECURITIES

Order Stock Of I. G. Farben  Surrendered   Alien Property Custodian To Take Over Securities Of Foreign Trust

Robot Rains Glass In U. S. Headquarters  -—- armeneocrwrmar sce seit’ ow

Marines win bitter battle for Hill 660   Jap planes and ships damaged

Hill 660 Taken Front Jaganese In Bilter Fight   Sio on Huon Peninsula Also Captured by _. Allied Forezs

HILL 660 TAKEN FROM JAPANESE BY AMERICANS   Capture Of Elevation Give: Marines Domination  Of Borgen Bay   AUSTRALIANS DRIVE INTO BASE AT SIO

At Least 29 Nig Planes Are Shot Dowr   Hill 680 and Sio Fall to U.S. Marines, Aussies

YANKS CAPTURE STRATEGIC HILL AT BORGEN BAY   Victory Gives Americans Domination in Area; Ships, Planes Hit At Rabaul

HILL 660 I5 TAKEN FROM JAPANESE      Also Sio On Huon Peninsula And Air Raid Smash At Planes And Ships At Rahaul.   124 Planes

Marines Seize Hill At Cape Gloucester   Leathernecks Dominate Borgen Bay by Victory; Sio on Huon Peninsula Also Taken; 29 Jap Planes Bagaed at Rabouls»

Americans Win Hill 600 from Determined Japs   Fighting As Hard As on Guadalcanal

PAASIKIVI APPOINTED FINN PRIME MINISTER   Named In Cabinet Shakeup; Communist Gets Post

FINNS SHAKEUP CABINET TODAY   Appoint Paasikivi as Nev Prime Minister

PAASIKIVI TO HEAD CABINET   Ten New Ministers Named In Finnish Shakeup

Name Paasikivi ‘Prime Minister  ‘In Finn Shakeuy      Took Part'In ‘Negotiations ~On-Peace-Pact Between “Moacow --And Helsinki

New Leader Named ln FinnishShakeup   Paasikivi Made Prime Minister Of New Cabinet

SHAKEUP MADE IN FINN CABINET   Paasikivi, Peace Envoy Named Prime Minister

WAR CHEST CHAIRMEN TO MEET HERE SEPT. 25   Guest Speaker Will Be Miss Flavel Barnes, Traveler Through Twenty-six Countries

Food Bill Will Be Hashed Over   Anti-Subsidy Bloc To Fight FR’s Ruling

Food Subsidies Fight Continues   Veto Victory } Not Final, Foes Assert

DEWEY BLAMES - STRIKES ON FOR   GOP Candidate Will Assail ‘Indispensable Man’ Tonight

Dewey Enroute  To Portland, Ore   To Speak Tonight On Theme: ‘‘Is There An InDispensable Man?’’   BLAMES PRESIDENT’S POLICY FOR STRIKES

DEWEY SLAMS LABOR POLICY OF NEW DEAL   Class Division, Insecurity And Hate Fostered, Says GOP Candidate   ROOSEVELT DRAWS FIRE   Portland Speech Tuesday Night To Deal With “Indispensable Man”

Dewey Puts Strike Blame On Roosevelt  Labor Policy Has “Fos. tered Class Division, Hate and Insecurity”  WLB IS ATTACKED Candidate Will Talk in  Portland Tonight on efudicnaneshia Wan”   WLB IS ATTACKED   Candidate Will Talk in Portland Tonight on “Indispensable Man”

DEWEY BLAMES WAR STRIKES ON PRESIDENT   Talks Before 8,000 in Seattle; in Portland Tonight

INDISPENSABLE MAN’ WILL BE DEWEY TARGET   SPEECH AT PORTLAND, ORE., TONIGHT WILL BLAST ROOSEVELT.   Will Be Broadcast      Tells Seattle Audience Chief Blame for Wartime Strikes Belong to President.

DEWEY FLAYB ‘NEW peat, LABOR POLICIES IN SPEECH AT. SEATTLE Lasr © ~ NIGHT.

DEWEY CHARGES F.D. R. EXPLOITS LABOR WITH POLICY  Republican Candidate Says Policy of President Fosters “Class Division”  ENCOURAGES HATE  Puts Blame Directly Upon The War Labor Board  of Administration   Republican Candidate Says Policy of President Fosters “Claes Division’   ENCOURAGES HATE

Feuding And Quarreling New Deal Can’t Unite Nation For Peace, He Tells Portland, Ore., Audience— Lasting Peace Can Not Be Based On Friendship Of Two Or Three Men—Nation Requires Unity In Government And Full Employment

HUNGARY GOW TnUL SIEZEL BY NAZIS   Romania, Bulgaria Firmly Under Heel of German Troors.

HUNGARY HAS: ~~ GESTAPO RAID   OUTSPOKEN OPPONENTS. OF PUPPET GOVERNMENT AND NAZE, OCCUPATION ARE ROUNDED UP.

Nazis Control Roma nia, Bulgaria Kextend Occupation to : linn Islands

Say Nazis Quit Fighting Finns   Hostilities Ended  On Suursaari Island

FARLEY OUT AS STATE CHAIRMAN   Keeps To Himself Future Roll In American Politics

FARLEY BOWS OT AGA DEMO LEADER   Gives Up Position as Democratic State Chairman.

Big Jim Bows Out Of State  Democrat Job   Last Of Many Party Positions Held In 35 Years; Is Honored At Dinner

Farley Quits as State Chairman   Testimonial Dinner Brings Forth Chorus Of Praises of Farley

FDR Thanks Dewey for Unity Speech   Dispatches Message 15 Minutes After Concession Address

Housewives Advised To Take Good Care Of War Ration Book 4   All Buying Of Ration Food Now Done From One Book—Book Four

9  PARATROOPERS RETURN FROM ARNHEM’S HELL   One Last Relief Effort Is Failure

OW! Says War News Of Allied Invasion To Move More Directly To American Public

Invasion News Will Be Direct   Elaborate Plans Made to Furnish Americans With Facts

MOVIE ACTRESS TAKES OWN LIFE   Lupe Velez, U nwed Expectant Mother, Takes Overdose

 Actress Was Expectant Mother  Lupe Velez Ends Life With Broken Hear

Broken Heart Behind Death Of Film Star   Lupe Velez’s Notes Reveal Love Affair, Expectancy of Baby

Nazis Mass for New Attacks   Tempo of Beachhead Fighting Increases

Germans Set Big Drive On Beachhead   Violent Patrol Clashes And Thunderous Artillery Duels Step Up Tempo Of Fighting As Nazis Bringing Up Troop Reinforcements

THIRD DRIVE ON BEACHHEAD IS IMMINENT   7 Inches of Snow, Mud Slow Action At Cassino

City Youth Cause  Dameare to Flowers Waeetoy wy 2 20 WOLD,  Vevretahle Gardansc

NAZIS’ FLIGHTS MAY BE BALKED   Britain Determined Close All Refuges To War Criminals

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   To Do Utmost to Prevent War Criminals From Finding Ref noe

CHURCHILL TO. REVIEW. WAR   PRIME MINISTER RETURNS  “FROM QUEBEC CONFERENCE’ \y TO. MARE SPRECH  ls WEEK;

BABY KIDNAPED FROM HOSPITAL: CLUES SOUGHT   ‘Babe Taken From Crib In New York Foundling Asylum Yesterday

British Support  Position On Fire  Restrictions May Be Put On Travel

British Apply Pressure On  Neutral Eire   DeValera Turns Down Britains Request To Close Axis Listening Posts.   PREDICT RESTRICTIONS

BRITAIN PRESSES "IRISH TO CLOSE AXIS EMBASSIES   De Valera Replies by Handing England Copy of Rejection Sent Washington

BRITAIN GIVEN COPY OF NOTE SENT 10 U. §   FDR's Warning to Eire ‘Not to Stand Alone’ Is Revealed

British Press Dublin to Accept UU. S. Request   De Valera Replies With Copy of Eire Rejection to Hull

Britain Joins Demand that Eire Clese Its Axis Listening Posts   Einstein Theory Simple: Tax lent   Pope Will Speak To World Tadav

England Brings Pressure on Eire   May Restrict Travel From United Kingdom

PRESSURE PUT ON DE VALERA TO BAN SPIES   TRAVEL TO ENGLAND FACES STRINGENT RESTRICTIONS

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Americans Blast  Path Across  Vital Peninsula   25,000 to 30,000 Germans Are Trapped in and Around Prize Port of Cherboura as UJ. S. Troone Reach Caceat

Stranglehold Placed On Up. wards Of 30,000 Nazis; 77th Division Riddled   CAPTURE OF FRENCH PORT EXPECTED SOON

Nazis Retreat After Trying To Break Out   Foe’s 77th Division Is Slashed to Pieces In Bloody Massacre   WIDE PATH IS CUT ACROSS PENINSULA. .  No New Development: Reported Elsewhere On Normandy Front

Americans Blast Path Across:  Vital Peninsula   25,000 to 30,000 Germans Are Trapped  in and Around Prize Port of Tiberias wo TT. @ fens Beek cos

Swift thrust . catches foe —  in tight, trap. Blast 7- «mile path  ’ Bnprnce nanaunenla’

Trap Thousands of Germans in 350-Square Mile Atéa; Slash Nazi Tith Division.

Fresh Division Slaughtered by American Forces   Yanks Widening Normandy Salient

Enemy Objectives In China Are Still Not Clear  Propagandists Claim —s They Will Take

RUSSIAN DESERTERS MUST LEAVE COUNTRY   Men Who Filed Freighter Quoted As Saying “We Did Not Desert Our Ship; We Deserted Russia”

Principles Before Men, Says Warren   Cheers Greet Mention OF ‘Indispensability’ In Keynote Address

WARREN ISSUES F. R. CHALLENGE   ASKS INDISPENSABLE PRINCIPLES BE FIRST

Put Indispensable Principles Before . Indispensable Men, Is Warren’s Plee

Nazis in Italy Near Exhaustion  - Some Divisions Lose  Up to 50 Per Cent

ALLIES DRIVE GERMANS BACK NEAR POTONA   Worst Storms In  Years Confront Allied Forces

Canadians, Nazis In Stiff Battle  Allied Force Nine Miles From Pescara

Canadians Punch  Close to Ortona Within Nine Miles Of Strategic Port;  Weather Limits Other Operations

Canadians Fight To Within Nine. Miles of Pescara   Rain, Snow, High. Winds Limit Ground War Through Italy.

HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES IN WTALY NO°TH OF ORTONA   Canadians Fight Their Way ' To Within Nine Miles Of Important Adriatic Port City OF Pescara 

British Fight  In Snow, Rain   Make Gains On Adriatic _ As Medium Bombers — - Go After Riviera _

Canadians Gain Near Pescara  Push Within Nine - Miles of Strateaic

CANADIAN TROOPS NEARING ADRIATIC PORT OF PESCARA   Snow, Wind and Sleet Storm Slows Down Activtte in Maly

HEAVY FIGHTING IS  REPORTED ON EAST  END ITALIAN LINE PATROL ACTIONS ELSE WHERE, WHILE AIR FORCE WAS RISY

Canadians *~ Slash Ahead For Pescara   Within Artillery Range of Porl: Nazis Show Signs of Exhaustion

Pescara Now Under Range Of Canadian Ar tillery   Heavy Fighting Rages In Rain, Snow And High Winds; 38 Nazi Tencks Shot Up

HEAVY FIGHTING ~ RAGES IN ITALY   Canadians Smash To Withir Nine Miles Of Pescara

PESCARA PORT UNDER FIRE OF BRITISH GUNS   Germans Show Signs Of Weakening

Canadians Now Just 9 Miles  From Pescara   Within Range Of Big Artillery Guns

CANADIANS GAIN IN ADRIATIC AREA   Bad Weather Checks Forces on Other Sectors

Drive Toward Adriatic Port Of Peseara   Heavy Fighting Rages North Of Ortona As Canadians Continue To Push Along Coast

Pescara Within Range OF Allied Artillery   Canadian Troops Have Fought Way To Within Nine Miles Of Strategic Adriatic Port; Fifth Army Plans Drive On Cassino

Heavy Fighting North Of Ortona   CANADIAN TROOPS IN - ADVANCE OF NINE MILES

CANADIANS PUSH TOWARD PESCARA   HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES IN SECTOR NORTH OF ORTONA

Allies Engaged  gu inet Battle      Ganadians- --Fight-Way—To, ' Within Nine Miles -Of _ Strategic Pescara Port.

ALLIES DRAW NEAR TO CITY OF PESCARA   Heavy Fighting Rages as Canadians Battle Within Nine Miles and Artillery Range of the Vital Adriatic Port.

HEAVY FIGHTING IS REPORTED IN ORTONA SECTOR   Fierce Battle Raging North Of Ortona Between Canadian And German Troops; Weather Slows Up Operations.

Pescara Now In Range Of Heavy Guns   Nazi-Held Adriatic Port Pounded; Heavy Fighting I North of Ortona

Canadians Can Shell Pescara   Nine Miles Away; Rain, Snow, Winds Hamper Troops

Weavy Fighting North of Ortona  Camedmae Within _ Nine Miles of Pescars

EIGHTH ARMY NEAR PESCARA   Heavy Fighting Rages North  of Ortona as Canadians Orive Up Coast.

Hard Battle  In Progress Near Ortone   Pescara Is Brought  Within Range Of Artillery Fire

38 SNOWBOUND TRUCKS BOMBED   Rain, Snow And Wind Limit Ground Operations Elsewhere  IRON WORKS RAIDED

HARD FIGHTING AS CANADIANS MAKE ADVANCE   Bad Weather Curtails Engagements Elsewhere in Italian War Sector.   AIR FORCES ACTIVE IN - -BATTERING NAZI AREAS

ALLIES DRIVE FOR PESCARA   Fierce Battle Rages For _ Strategic Adriatic ! Port

CANADIANS 9 MILES OUT OF ITALIAN PORT   ‘Fighting on North of Ortona While Elsewhere Winter Weather Puts Halt to Battles.

FIERCE ITALY BATTLE RAGES   CANADIANS NINE MILES FROM PORT OF PESCARA

HARD FIGHTING RAGING NEAR ADRIATICPORT   Canadian Troops Battle Their Way to Within Nine Miles of and Artillery Range of Pescara   RAIL YARDS ATTACKED

Heavy Fighting Around Ortona   Canadians Fight Way Within Nine Miles and Artillery Range of Pescara, Strategic Adriatic Port.

Allies Press On in Italy   Heavy Fighting Rages North of Ortona; Vital Port Menaced

CANADIANS NEAR STRATEGIC PORT   Troops Engaged in Heavy Fighting North of Ortona, Allies Report

BRITISH SHELL PESCARA, NAZI ~BASEINITALI   Cc anadian Troops Fight : Way to Within 9 Miles  Of Port; Ww eather

Fierce Fighting Raging In Italy   Canadian Army Nearing wo Mital -Adriatie Port -

Big Guns of British Shell  Pescara Port   Heavy Fighting Rages North of Ortona; Bombers Blast Nazis   Heavy Aerial Attacke

White Collar Strikers Aim To Tieup City      Tighten Picket Lines In Montreal

oy Resignatior 0 Polish Premier On U.S. Rejection   U. S. Refused To Agree To Guarantee Of Polish Border

MIROLAJICZYK RESIGNS AS HEAL OF POLISH GOVT   DAILY MAIL SAYS U. S REFUSAL CLIMAXED CRISIS

PREMIER OF POLAND HAS RESIGNED   Ends Hope of Early End to Russ-Pole Trouble

Rep. Luce Proposes Special Army Corps To Meet Urgent Labor Needs

LUG  E DEMANDS:      CONGRESSWOMAN TELLS CON‘GRESS IT SHOULD STOP  TALKING AND. ACT ON:  MANPOWER PROBLEMS

ASKS FOR DRAFT OF AP'S TO WORK   Congresswoman Would Give Army Pay to Corps, Up to 202,339

FIRES DAMAGE LUNA PARK, PIER   Thousands Flee Coney Island Amusement Park

FEW RETURN T0 JOBS; STRIKERS THREATENING   White House Order Stands; ‘Will Be Carried Out’ —

Biddle Orders Probe As Strike Is Continued  Philadelphia Workers Defy Government To Onarate Ratileasde

Threaten Few Who Return —   New Violence Reported In Transportation Tieup.

Transportation Tie-Up Continues   Army Fails To Restore Service As New Race Clashes Reported

Philadelphia Transit Strike Probe Is Ordered By Atty. Gen. Biddle; Subway Operators Face Violence

U.S. Defied ‘By Strikers; Probe Called   > Probable Violations Of War Act Sought On Order of Biddle

Fr. Orlemanski Bows; Enters Monastery   Bishop’s Aid Confers With  Periepciie Pariehtonnrs

Orlemanski To Accept Punishment   Priest In or On Way to  Monastery, Says Chancellor

Priest Accepts Punishment   Father Orlemanski Either in or on Way To Monastery

Polish-American Priest Suspended   Father Orlemanski  Sent to Monastery For Moscow Trip

REV ORLEMANSKI BELIEVED ON WAY TO MONASTERY   Suspended Polish-American Priest Believed Ready To Accept Diocesan Punishment

PRIEST WHO WENT  TO MOSCOW GOES  INTO SECLUSION FATHER ORLEMANSKI  DECIDES TO. ACCEPT SLISPENSION ORDER

Fr. Orlemanski in Seclusion: Bishop Orders Suspension   Priest Who Saw _ Stalin Seemingly Reconciled  to Church Law

Priest Leaves For Monastery   Rev. Orlemanski To Stay There Until Suspension Is  Finished.

Attacks on Formosa  Said Landing Prelude   Superfortresses Join Fleet-Based Planes in Island Bombardment; Jap Reinforcements Disrupted by Blows

Super-Forts Blast Formosa... In Third Day of 2-Way Raids  Jap Admiral Fears Invasion of isidad; Enemy Supply Line to Philippines Cut Off

Capture Mt. Castellaccio, Five And One-Half Miles North Of Velletri, Germans Small Arms Fire Appears Diminishing   ‘ONE ARMY NOW 13 MILES FROM ROME

RPFEK POLITICAL PRISONERS LOST   In Rritain Churchill Postpones Statement to Commons

To Represent State In  Flood Control Meet At New Orleans July 27-28

Smash Through Old Mannerheim Line Third and Last Main Defense System of Finnish Armies

N. Pacific Bases Are  Blasted   Catalinas From Alaska Pound Maramushiro And Shimushu  Island Bases.

Great Fleets Of Air Carriers Ata  New Invasion   Jeeps, Guns, Supplies, All Being Landed From Air In Southern France  a ewe arraanee ERSL.L KA

OHIO-MIDLAND DEAL DELAYED   Columbus and Southern De mands Further Testimony

Columbus Corporation Asks Further Testimony Before ‘Commisson OKs ft.

> FLASHES.   Leased Wire Bullelins on Latest Warld News Today,   Chantnin is ¥rved,

HIMMLER FOLLOWS HITLER AS FUEHER   Believed By Authorities That Gestapo Chief Is In Full Power

British Believe Hitler Ill or Mad and Himmler Is Now Germany's Fuehrer

Belief Rampant Himmler Is Now Fuehrer   Whereabouts, Health Of Hitler Causes Much Press Conjecture

SENATE APPROVES STATE APPOINTEES   Path Is Cleared for — Therovgh Reorganization 0; S.ate Department

PSS FINALLY FD)  A   crew Gets Largest ote; MacLeish Given Most Opposition

GO TO WORK ON SIMPLIFYING TAX LAW   House Committee Ex pects First Report Early Next Week

LAHAYEIS BYPASSED BY AMERICANS   Bitter Fighting Rages Near Key Nazi Defense Point

Nazis Resisting Strongly Along American Front In Normandy  SLOW BUT SURE PROGRESS REPORTED  Allies Have Liberated 1,313 Square Miles Of France

\Germans Resisting Strongly On American Front In Normandy With Heaviest Fighting In La  ‘ Fave Sector   AMERICANS DRIVEN  OUT OF VILLAGE

COFFEE AGAIN. OPA HEADACHE   EFFORTS BEING MADE TO IRON  OF PRICE LEVELS FOR — “COFFEE FROM BRAZIL

14 Groups To Receive Deferments   All Men Under  26 in Other Industries Subject To Immediate Drafs

Deferments for Younger Men Held to 14 Industries   Others Under 26 Due for Immediate Draft; Farm Deferred Not Affected

IMMEDIATE DRAFT FOR ALL MEN UNDER 26 NOW IN INDUSTRY   Deferments for Fourteen Vital Industrial Categories

M4 Vital Industrial Categories Are ‘Announced. By Selective Service Director

Under 26 26 Men   Fixes 14 ‘ “Critical”. ‘Work Categories; All Others in Draft

HERSHEY PUTS DUT RULES FOR MEN UNDER 2   Names 14 Vital Industries ir Which Younger Worker May Be Kept.

Selective Service Director Hershey Named Classes Who Can Escape Army Service Under New Plan.

DRAFT BOARDS WILL GET NEW DEFERRED LIST   Prospects Dim Fer Foreing 4-F’: Into War Work Is Report

FORCE BRAVES BAD WEATHER OVER TARGETS   Berlin, Acknowledging Attack, Says Raiders Met Powerful Opposition.   BULLETIN

Munich And Toulon Smashed From Air   American Warplanes Defy Bad Weather To Make Widespread Raids On Nazis

U. S. Warplanes From Britain Raid Munich; Others From Italy Bomb Toulon on Southern French Coast

CONFERS IN NEW YORK   Dewey Will Rest at His Farm Before Starting Western Trip

TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL BIDS FOR AID OTHER STATES   TEXAS SEEKING REHEAR. ING OF U. S. SUPREME COURT DECISION

. LOSS HEAVY   ONE FIREMAN KILLED AND SIX OTHERS INJURED IN. BUSI. NESS BLOCK FIRE

FIREMAN KILLED IN TOLEDO BLAZE   Colony Block is Destroyed With Loss Estimated Near Million

President Declares Nazi Defeat Is Approaching  FDR Says Atrocities Against Jewish People Are Growing

Nazis Determined To Wipe Out Jews   Roosevelt Tells Congress of Acts

Europe's Jews Face Doom: FR.   Extinction by Nazis Feared, Congress Told; Christians Slain, Too

German Effort to Wipe Out Jews Is  Continuing Apace Fury Mounts as Defeat  Looms, FR Says Ip Refugee Report

GERMANS PERSIST IN MURDER OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN MINORITIES   Mass Extermination Still Is Being Practiced in Spite of Imminence of Nazi Defeat, Says FDR.

Nazis Still Persecute Jewish Race   President Tells Congress of “Insane Desire’— Refugees Coming Here

Roosevelt Asserts Germans Making Last Effort To Kill Out Jewish Race In Europe

NAZIS TRYING TO KILL ALL JEWS   President Tells Congress Germens Would Thus Achieve Nazi Goal

FOR SAYS NAZ SLAUGHTER OF JEWS COES ON   Outlines Arrangements to House 1,000 Refugees in New York.

German Effort to Wipe Out Jews Is Continuing Apace  Fury Mounts as Defeat ¥ rin Ter  te Fe hee CO raarcr

4. Babies Dead Of Wrong Dose   Woman Employe'’s Error Causes Tragedy

Mistake Costs 4 Babies’ Lives   Seventeen Others Made Ili When Boric Acid Powder Substituted,

Boric Acidin Mistake Kills Four Babies   YOUNG WOMAN PHARMACY. GRADUATE MADE SUBSTITUTION FOR DEXTROSE; IS IN NERVOUS COLLAPSE.   Inquest Wednesday

‘ Pharmacist’s Error  ‘Hospital Finds Boric Acid in F ormula After Four Babies Die

Four Babies Die; 17 Ill   Given Boric Acid Powder Instead of Dextrose Through Error

FOOD MISTAKE KILLS 4 BABIES   Six Others in New London Hospital Are Il] From Boric Acid Powder

DRIVE DEEPER INTO LITHUANIA AND LATVIA   Strike Powerful Blows in Offensive Aimed to Clear Nazis From Baltic Area.

MAPIAS ISLANDS INVADED; MOVE FOR PROTECTION   Light Resistance Met By Yanks In Two Day Raid

Yankees Invade Mapia Island:      Protective Move to Knock Out Jap Coast Watchers and Warning Siations

YANKS GRAB JAP OUTPOST ISLAND FOR PROTECTION   Invade Mapia Island, 150 Miles’ North of Northwestern New Guinea to Knock Out Jap Watchers and Listening Posts

Yanks Seize  Jap Spy Post   Troops Invacte Mapias, Used to Scaut U. §. Planes

ANKS INVADE MAPIA ISLANDS      Protective Move Made. to Knock Out Jap Coast Watchina Stations. _

Mapias Are Invaded By  Small Force   Islands To Be Converted Into Protective Outpost And Warning Statior ‘To Guard Biak Air Base

YANKS INVADE JAP OUTPOS!   [Mapia Isles Far South  Of. Philippines Taken

Mapia Islands Taken By Light U.S. Force   Japs Had Been Using Mba Ta Warn OF

MAPIA ISLANDS AREINVADED BY AMERICAN FORCE   Action Taken To Protect Biak Air Base

Wheeler Says Roosevelt to Be Re-Elected   Senator Plans Swine Around Montana After Election Day

RECORD CORN CROP   Preliminary Estimate of Yield 3,258,378,000 Bushels

FDR Asks Puerto Rico Be Freed   Calls On House To Pass Bill Approved By Senate

PRESIDENT WOULD GIVE PUERTO RICO SELF-GOVERNMENT   Asks House to Give Them Right to Elect Their Own Chief Executive

NAGOYA IS BOMBED BY SUPERFORTS B-24’s Are Fyidently Active Over Other Cities   Japs Reported Leaving Capital in Great Numbere After Raids

B29 BOMG NAGOYA, OTHE JAP GENTERS   Mounting Aerial Offensive Forcing Evecuation Of Major Industries From Tokyo, Key Cities   RAIDS MADE ON TOKYO DISTRICT

100 B-29’s  Bomb _  Nagoya Great Aircraft  Center on Jap Hanshu Island .   Great Aircraft Center on Jap Hanshu Island Raided Today

»Enemy Moves Industries *In Key Cities   Declare Mission Best Yet Against Honshu Objectives

ON TOKYO REPORTED   Industry Evacuation From Key Cities Is ® Continuing, Claim

B-295 STRIKE NEW BLOWS IN AIR OFFENSIVE   Enemy Admits SuperForts Also Appear Over Tokyo-Yokohama District.

B-29S BOMB HONSHU, MAIN JAP ISLAND      100 of Huge Bombers Raid Aircraft Center

100 B-29’s Bomb Aircraft Center Of Nagoya And Other Targets  ENEMY BROADCASTS ADMIT EVACUATION  Superfortress Attacks Against Japan Steadily Increased

NAGOYA ON HONSHU   Big Jap Aircraft Center Blasted By Superforts

Other Nuisance Raids Reported  In Several Areas   Mounting Offensive Forcing Evacuation of Major Industries

Superforts Hit Targets Elsewhere   Nuisance Raids Made At Same Time As Main Attack

BIG SUPERFORT FLEET RAIDS NIP AIRCRAFT PLANTS AT NAGOYA   Hit Other Targets On Main Jap Island

Hit Other Targets On Honshu, Main Jap Island; Key Industries Being Removed From Large Cities; Tokyo Reveals

Japanese Report More Nuisance  Raids On Tokyo   Foe Admits Air Blows Force Industries To Decentralize

Bomb Jap Industries On Honshu   Major Industries Bei  Evacuated from Tokyo and Other Cities

NAGOYA BOMBED BY SUPERFORTS   BIG AIRCRAFT CENTER 1S LATEST 8-29 TARGET

Small Fleets Continue To Jolt Tokyo District   Daily Raids Forcing Japs lo Buc thadew Factories: Lo House Plants

NAVY PIERCES INNER TOKYO DEFENSE RING   SURPRISE ASSAULT ONLY 200 MILES FROM JAPAN

Islands Blasted By Third Fleet Carrier Plane:   Scene Of Daring Raid : 500 Miles East Of China Coast

58 Ships Sunk or Damaged in Raid   More Than 89 Jap Planes Are Destroyed As Surprise Raid [s Staged Near Home tslands

 British. Take Burma Base  From Japs —   “Tiddim “Falls After Weeks Of Fighting

SECRETARY ICKES TAKES UP CUDGELS FOR INTERNED JAPS  (> HARD-BOILMD~CéshNET   - HARD-EOILSD : CASHNET OFFICER DEFENDS HANDLING OF RELOCATION

SECRETARY ICKES  TAKES UP CUDGELS  FOR iNTERNED JAPS HARD-BOILED CABINET  OFFICER DEFENDS HAND LINC OF RELOCATION

Governor Races Top Interest In Primary Voting   Odds Favor Cincinnati And Cleveland Mayors On GOP And Demo Tickets; 600,000 Ohio Vote Forecast

Observers Say P. Herbert Trails Tom And Stewart   Lausche Believed On Inside Track In  Dem. Race

600,000 VOTE PREDICTED IN OHIO PRIMARY   Main Interest Centers In 10: Man Fight For Gubernatorial Nomination

Aim to Put All Fit Mer Under 26 In   Replacement Schedules to Be Reviewed Promptly

TO RECLASSIFY INDUSTRIAL D EFERMENTS   Director Explains Change is Designed To Put Into Service All Physically Qualified Men   OBJECTIVES OUTLINED

Nazis Going All-Out To Hold Warsavs   Devastating Blows Dealt By Patriots In France Serving As Link Between Allies

ALLIED DRIVES IN SOUTH AND) WEST ALREADY. LINKED BY FRENGLT PAIRIQ 1 FORCES

FRENCH FORCES IN ~ INTERIOR AT WORK   French Partisans - Aiding . Allies in the War Effort

FRENCH F.F.I. LINK LINES OVER FRANCE   Assist Allied Drives From Alps to Atlantic; From Channel to Mediter ranean.   Kill 23 Dutchmen

Devastating Blows Dealt By Patriots In France Servina As Link Between Allies

FRENCH FORCES IN INTERIOR AT WORK   French Partisans - Aiding _ Alliesinthe War  FE ffart¢

Many Germans Killed by Former Ally   Bessarabaia Is Taken As Soviets Rush Deep Into Rumania

SWIFT SOVIET ATTACK ROLLS OVER DANUBE   ALL OF BESSARABIA RECONQUERED IN GREAT VICTORY

RUSSIANS AGAIN TAKE BESSARABIA   Area Reconquered As Other Soviet Forces Advance On All Fronts

Bessarabia Is Reconquered By Russians  Five Romanian Divisions Taken

RUSSIANS MAKE 15-MILE GAINS IN RUTHENIA   German Forces Putting Up Fanatical Resistance In East Prussia Battle Front

Reds Swarm Ahead In 2 Big Drives   Marines Join Land Troops at Mouth of Danube

TAKE UNGUAR OPEN WAY FOR BIG DRIVE   ‘Into Slovakia by Russian   Alpine Troops Who Complete Conquest of Ruthenia.   French Fliers

Five Romanian Divisions of Nearly 30,000 In. cluded in Soviet Haul — Virtually All of  Bessarabia Reconquered by Mighty Russian Forces.

1,000 TAKEN PRISONERS IN SINIET DRIVE   One Day Bag Includes 30,000 Romanians Who Will Fight Germans.

REDS COMPLETE RUTHENIA DRIVE; ENTER SLOVAKI!   Russians Kill 3,000 More Ger-mans in East Prussia in One of Fiercest Battles of War.   NAZI COUNTER-BLOWS ARE BEATEN BACK   Yugosiavia’s Seventh City Captured by Other Soviet Forces, Aided by Tito’s Partisans.

Soviets Move Six Miles In Slovak Area   Nazis Put Up Stiff Defense in Prussia

, BESSARABIA IS FREED AS REDS AID ROMANIANS   Forces Enter Galati Gap; 350 Towns Oceupied

Soviets Clear Nazi Army Out Of Bessarabia   Hurl Germans Across Lower Danube on Broad Front Between the Prut And the Black Sea

ADVANCES SCORED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Conquest of Ruthenia Reported as Virtually ~ Completed

Reds: Exploit the Fall of Romania   61,000 Prisoners Are Reported Taken in One Day's Fiahtina

Soviets Push Into Carpathians, Big Sea Port Seized   Nazis Flee Toward Hungary, Thousands Of Prisoners Taken

Reds Virtually Reconquer All Bessarabia Sector   Hurl Enemy Across Danube, Overrun 350 Villages, Towns

Red Forces Reconquer Bessarabia   Say 61,000 Prisoners Taken During Day, Romanians Quit

BESSARABIA RECONQUERED BY RED FORCES   Romanians And Germans Surrender By Thousands

RED ARMY WINS BACK BESSARABIA IN SWIFT DRIVE   Thirty Thousand Romanians and Equal Number of Nazis Captured in 24 Hour Period.   GERMANS PURSUED INTO CARPATHIANS   Hitler’s Troops, Headed Toward Hungary, Leave Behind Great Quantities of War Material.

Russians Lift Hitler’s Yoke  From Ruthenia   Sovieis Capture Ungvar: Tité’s Partisans Help To Seize Novi Sad

“Soviets Drive ” Nazis Across  Danube River   (Virtually All Bessarabia Reconquered hy Reds In Michev Puch

Russians Capture Ungva And Penetrate 6 Miles Into Slovakia   25 OIL REFINERIES RESUME PRODUCTION

Russians Reconquer Bessarabian Area   Reach Prut River, Also Pursue Enemy Into Carpathians

Entrapping Nazi Armies In Balkans   Virtually All Bessarabia Taken

Reds Complete Reconquest Of Bessarabia   61,000 Prisoners Are Reported Taken in One Day

Sale of Sixth War Loan Bonds Are Still Lagging   Citizens*‘Are Urged to Make Purchases Now to Reach Quota by Dec. 16th

Only 35 Percent. Bonds Purchased   Waits Gives Plea for Prompt Purchase of Bonds

FULBRIGHT LEADS. IN SENATE RAGE   ADKINS.IS SECOND. AND CARA. WAY FOURTH ~— LANEY AHEAD FOR GOVERNOR,

SENATORS NIP GOP ‘REVOLT   Freshmen Demand More Opposition to Administration Policies.

REVOLT THREAT HEADED OFF BY GOP SENATORS   OFFER COMPROMISE SLATE TO PACIFY FRESHMEN MEMBERS

Older Republicans in Senate Prevent Freshmen’s Revolt   Compromise Slate of Officers Expected to be Chosen

Czecho-Slovak Border Said To Be Crossed   Romanian Rail Center Half Encircled by Advancing Russians

Russ troops hammer into Odessa fort  Bastion at Iasi is half-encircled

Black Sea Port Half Surrounded By Red Armies   Soviet Cavalry Units in Action

RUSSIANS IN NEW SWEEP NEAR ODESSA   Begin Siege Of City And Also Within Five Miles Of Last Nazi Escape Railway For Retreat.   Big Red Losses

SOVIETS NEAR KEY RUMANIAN RAIL JUNCTION   Begin Siege of Odessa And Si:ike Across Czech Border

ian Rail of last Encireled   Reports Heavy gks on Bridges : Peninsula  {Villages Taken

Rail Supply Line Northeast Af Bucharest Slashed By Soviet Forces; Army In Suburbs Of Black Sea Port

Russians Half Encircle Town of Iasi   Black Sea Port of Odessa Is Nearly Encircled

Siege of Black Sea Port Reported Under Way   FORCES HAMMER AT  Soviets Fight Way Across Czecho-Sltovakian Border

Russ Capture 200 Villages  In Rumania   Close In on Rail Center of Iasi, Begin Odessa Siege

200 Villages Gobbled Up  Tn Romania   Front Dispatches Tell Of Russian Forces Entering Czechoslovaki:  CUCUTENIL CAPTURED

U.S. FOREIGN POLICIES TOLD   Stettinius Outlines Five Main Objectives For Senate Committee

Steftinius Gives 5 Objectives Of Foreign Policy  a Ces, Ae Baw   Praises Grew As Foe Of Fascism As Senate Starte Hearinas

Postwar Trade Expansion Key OfU. §. Policy   Secretary of State Stettinius Outlines Objectives of Foreign Policy of America

Secretarv Of State Pledges Trade Inerease   Outlines To Legislators Five Objectives Of American Foreign Poliey.   APPEARS AT MEET

Stettinius Outlines 5 Goals of U. S. Foreign Policy For Senators

STETTINIUS 18 QUESTIONED BY SENATE GROUP   Foreign Relations Committee  Investigates FDR's Nominees To State Department.

Objectives Of Foreign Plans  Are Outlined   Steltinius Pledges Postwar Foreign Trade Expansion In Urging Confirmation of Aides

Objectives Of U.S. Foreign Policy Stated   Stettinius Asks That Staff Assignments Be Approved

Stettinius Gives Five Objectives US Foreign Policy   Asserts That State Department Must Effect Reorganization Quickly.

EDW. STETTINIUS OUTLINES PLANS FOR STATE DEPT.   POSTWAR FOREIGN TRADE EXPANSION PLEDGED BY SEC’Y

Pledges Fez": Trade Expense:   Stettinius Outiines 5-Point Prograin in ‘Urging Appecirtees OK

Five Objectives Of American Foreign Policy Are Outlined   Stettmius Urges Senate Committee That Approval Be Given To Six Sta! Members

Stettinius Lists Five Objectives OL U.S. Polie   Postwar _Trade_ Expansion Pledge Keynotes Talk Heard By Legislators

‘Stettinius Outlines Five Objectives of U. S. Foreign Policy of State Department

FOREIGN POLICY TIPS EXPECTED FROM HEARINGS   Allied Troop Distribution and Plans for Germany Among Capital Topics

i? oreign Policies  Outlined   Stettinius Gives Pledge for Post War Foreign Trade Expansion

JAP SUPPLIES ARE TAKEN IN ORMOC. SECTOR   Segment of Yamashita Line in West Is Eliminated

ll Thousand Tons Of Bombs Fall On Nazis   Allies Soften Up Invasion Areas In Eight Hours Of Heavy Bombings

1 Pilots Describe Germans’ New ‘Mystery’ let-Propelled Plane; See ‘Fastest’ Div

INEW GERMAN JET. PLANE FASTEST EVER FLOWN, SAY ALLIED PILOTS AFTER ENCOUNTERING ME-162-

NEW GAINS ACHIEVED BY JAP TROOPS   At Expense of Heavy Casualties as Fighting Continues; U. S. Planes Harass Enemy.     ‘Data af Natinn”’

AMERICAN VESSELS ATTACKED BY JAPS      Unspecified ‘Damage Is ": Caused.in Leyte Gulf : ° Agsaule:. -

‘orms Retard Ground Action In Philippines   -S. Destroyers Penetrate Inland Sea To Shell Ormoc

WARSHIPS HIT ORMOC, GROUND ACTION SLOWED   Unspecified Damage To American Warships » Is Admitted By MacArthur

Japs Bomb U.S. Ships In Leyte Gulf   MacArthur Admits Unnamed Damage From Dive Bombers

HEAVIEST RAID © SINGE INVASION   Warships and Transport Under Attack From Air   U. §. DESTROYERS   Negotiate Treacherous WaD ters to Shell Ormoc; Weather Bogs Land Forces

U, $. WARSHIPS IN LEYTE GULF ARE ATTACKEL   Seme Damage To American Craft Acknowledged By MacArthur   DESTROYERS BLAST ORMOC INSTALLATIONS

Battleship Is Damaged in Enemy Action   Ground Operations in Philippines Slowed by Storms

AMERICAN VESSELS ATTACKED BY JAPS   Unspecified  ‘Damage Is  Caused i in Leyte Gulf — OAecault 

NIPS CARRY OUT HEAVIES! RAID ON AREA   Torpedo and Dive-Bombers Swarm Down On Vessels and Inflict Un“disclosed Damage.   380 PLANES ATTACK, 15 ARE. SHOT DOWN   American Destroyers Shell Ormoc in First Penetration of Philippines Inland Sea.

CLARK SEES END OF REICH ARMY   Yank General Figures Germany’s 14th Units No Longer Tough Foe

Rearguards Ousted From Eternal City   General Clark Doubts If 14th German Army Ils Capable Of Fighting Longer

NAZIS ARMIES BADLY MAULED SAYS CLARK   Fifth Army Commander Says He Doubts If 14th German Army Any Longer Capable of Fighting

Clark Doubts If Nazi 14th Army Can Now Fight   _ Thanks All Allied Armies That Made Capture Possible; Cheers Greet Army.

Clark Says Germat 14th Army Has Been Destroyed  Allied Commander Says Unit Can No Longer Fight

JAPS FACING CRITICAL PHASE OF WAR   Loss of Fifth Aircrft Carrier Is Announced

Submarine Sends Three Torpedoes Into Jap Vessel   Attack Brings To 15  Number of Enemy Ship Losses In Recent Clash

UMW Rebels Plot To Oust Lewis   Insurgents Seek Own Rule in 21 Districts

‘Tempest Brews at Mine Session  UMW Autonomists Sit To Break Lewis’ Grip

STARVING JAPS. SEF ESCAPE      Attempt te Make Break Through  American Lines in Northorn New — Thrown Back with “nds of Casualties.

Jap Breakthru in. New Guinea Fails   Artillery Fire Kills. Thousands of Foe

Japs Attempt Break Through   Starving Enemy Hits Line In Driniumor Area

Isolationist Move Denied By Soviet  Autonomy Plan Is - Co-operation Step,

SOVIETS DESIRE FRIENDLINESS   Magazine Denounces Asser tions On Autonomy Action

US. WILL STAND UP FOR POLAND.   :: Our Government Will Uphold Polish Territory Rights, Says Hull

Hull Says U.S. to Stand By Poland   Territorial Settlement Rights To Be Defended, Congressmen Told

SEEK AGREEMENT ON RECONVERSIGN   ™xpect Sentiment — for Financial Aid .to Stranded Workers

SEEN AGCENEN  ON RECONVERSON   “xpect Sentiment for Financial Aid to Stranded Workers

SENTIMENT FOR HELPING WAR WORKERS RISE   Federal Funds Expected To Aid “Hardship Cases” In Return Home   CONFEREES IN SESSION   Early Agreement Expected On Disputed Points In Demobilization Bill

WAR WORKERS © “BENEFIT PLAN   SENTIMENT -REPORTED. GROW:  : ING. FOR PROGRAM TO. GET  . STRANDED. WORKERS  HOME”

Lack Only Small Amount E Bonds   County Chairman Hopes to See Total for County Over Top By End of February

September Sales Exceed the Quota   All Sales Up to Saturday Will Count on the Quota For Month of September

$80,000 Over the Quota Sold Here   Sale of E Bonds Goes Over Top; With Few More Days Counting on Drive Quota

Shipping Losses Low In September   Brazil Navy To Resume South. Atlantic Patrol

24 Killed In Liner Crash   Mishap Occurs During California Rainstorm

SOVIETS LAUNCH HEAVY ATTACK AGAINST WILNO   Russian Forces Within Sight of Gateway to East Prussia Today

3 RED ARMIES MOVE ON WILNO   Baranowicze Falls; Opens Way For Drive On  Warsaw

Triple Russian Spearheads At Wilno’s Gates   Germans Brace For Defense Of Gateway To East Prussia.

TANKS, CAVALRY PUSH TOWARD HEART OF WILNO   Nazi Garrison Gathers For Defense of Key City

Three Spearheads Aimed at Wilno In Russian Drive   Golden Domes of City’s Cathedrals Seen From Front

Break Occurs or Security Pact  Russians Balk on Important Clauce

Russ Sound Sour Nofe At Meeting   Disagree With Britain, U.S. On Security Plan

PEACE TALK CHECK   Russia Disagrees With U. S. and Britain on One Point

including iz Cargo boats, Transport and  Tanker.  189 JAP SHIPS) SUNK IN FEBRUARY  American Fleet Only 1300 Miles From Tokyo Itself.

Dillingen’s Pillboxes Equipped With Lights,  Food Running Weatar

Floed Of Soviet Forces Threatens To Take Ploesti Oil Fields From Germans

NAZIS REPORT REDS PUSHING + INTO HUNGARY   Ploesti Oil Fields Nearly ® in Grasp of Soviet Forces

RUSS INCREASE THREAT TO RICH OIL. FIELDS   To Wrest Ploesti Production From Nazi Control

Job Budget ‘Suggested  For Nation   Senate _Committe _Says   Government Should   Plan for Full ‘Employment

‘Job Budget’ for American Industry Proposed to Prevent Depressions   Senate Committee Suggests Scientific Way  Of Determining Amount of Federal Aid Needed

Exes Say A.&M. Needlessly Hurt   Walton’s Services Are Said Valuahle

UNIONISTS GO T0 UNIVERSITY   Worker - Students Enroll For Special Course _

Union Men To School   Labor Experiment Is Hailed By Industry As Signaling New Hope for Cooperation

NAZI MANPOWER BEING SHIFTEL   ‘Hitler Uneasily  Moving Sold. ters to Meet Three-Way Armed Squeeze

RAF Night Thrust Hits Brunswick, Dortmund In Ruhr   Allied Aircraft Have Dropped 22,000 Tons Of Explosive On Hitler’s Fortress During Last Five Days Of Nearly Continual Raids

DORTMUND AND BRUNSWICK HIT   Renewed Allied Aerial Of. tensive Goes Into Fifth Day

FLIERS DROP 3.360 TONS   Rail Yards And Air Fields Pounded By Daylight   Again Bombed By Germans; 2 Enemy Aircraft Downed By Yanks

3500 Planes Batter at Continent   More Than 5,000  Tons of Bombs Are Dumped on Targets In Day- Long Smash

BIG AIR ARMADA RIPS TARGETS IN FRANCE, REICH   1,000 RAF Night Bombers Hit Four Objectives, Including Brunswick, Dortmund

Airports, Rails Are Targets of Allied Raiders   Armada of 750 Planes Blasts Pre-Invasion Path in Europe

Rail Centers Of Germany Bombarded   Allies Send Over 3,500 Planes; 35 Missing

IFTH DAY OF IR OFFENSIVE \N CONTINENT   rmada of Up to 750 Fortresses and Liberators Smash Airfields and Rail Yards   FOLLOWS NIGHT RAIDS

3,500 Allied Planes Blast Europe in Day-Long Raids   Heavy Forces of U. S. Bombers  Fighters Hit Targets, RAF Blacis Derbaund, Breaswick   Brewster Aero Loses War Contracts; Federal Agencies Seek to Bar Shutdown

ALLIED RAIDING FORGES ATTACK AXIS AIRFIELDS   750 ‘Forts’ And Liberators Pound Objectives in France And West Germany

AERIAL RAIDS DAMAGE RAIL CENTER TODAY   Western Germany Receives Blow;  Plants Bombed

U. 5. Heavies Renew Drive Hitler Europe   Flying Fortresses And Liberators Are Escorted by More Than 1000 Fighters

Fertresses, Liberators Make Sweep  Over Enemy   Dortmund, Brunswick Pounded Last Night

YANK BOMBS HIT FRENCH TARGET   Airfields, Rail Yards Blasted By Hundreds Of Fiying Fortresses   GERMANY LASHED   Dortmund And Bruiswick Are Battered By RAF Armada

35 RAF PLANES FAIL TO RETURN   CONTINUOUS RAIN OF BOMBS SHOWER GERMAN DEFENSES

3,900 Planes Used in Day Attacks   German Airdromes, Other Targets In France Raided

3ombs Burst on Nazi Airdromes   Three Fighters, Three Bombers Fail to Return From Daylight Raid

U.S. Forees Follow Night Raid By RAF   British Batter France. _ Germany; Dortmund. Brunswick Bear Brunt  Of Heavy Blow

1,750U.S PLANES ATTACK   AIRFIELDS AND RAIL YARDS IN FRANCE ARE BATTERED

3,500 Planes In Day Long Attack   5,000- Tons of Bombs Dropped On Hitler's Europe

ALLIES POUND GERMANS WITH 3,000 PLANES   750 Yank Bombers Attack Continent In Dawn Raid

3.000 PLANES BATTER HITLER'S EUROPE IN DAY-LONG BLAST AS 5.000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED   NEW INVASION TENSENESS GRIPS BRITAIN; MORE DRASTIC ‘CUTS IN MAIN TRAIN SCHEDULES

More Than 5,000 Tons of Explosives Loosed on German Targets.   15TH DAY OF OFFENSIVE

5,000 TONS BOMBS RAIN ON EUROPE   Targets In France And Germany Blasted In Great Strength

Air Fields And Rail Yards in Europe Bombed   Day Raids Follow Night Attacks By British Planes

DAY-LONG AIR RAIDS PLASTER NAZIS’ EUROPE   Some 3,500 Planes Take Part In Latest Assault On France And Germany; Only One American  Bomber Lost.

8,500 Planes Batter Nazi Airdromes; Freipht-Yards; Other Militarv Obiectives:

1,750 American Planes Assault France, Germany   British Rain Bombs On Dortmund, Brunswick In  Heavy Night Attack.

1750 Allied Craft Assault France, Western Reich   Articks Follow Raid On  Dortmund, Brunswick  By 1000 British Planes

Hitler’s Europe is Under Steady Rain of Bombs From Ski   Airdromes, Rail Yards, Dortmund, Brunswick ~ Heavily Attacked

3,900 Planes Batter Reich   9.000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On German Airdromes, Rails.

MORE THAN 5000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES HIT AIRDROMES, RAIL YARDS, OTHER TARGETS   Incessant- Attack Against: All Parts of Germany And Occupied France by American and British Planes, With Heavy Fighter Escort for Bombers

Strike Airfields And Rail Yards   Premier Stalin's Power Is Stressed by Kennedy

‘3,500 Allied Planes Pound Nazi Europe   5,000 Tons of Bombs Hurled on Airdromes And Freight Yards

Rail Yards, Air Fields In Franee Are  U.S. Targets   1,000 British Bombers Strike Dortmund And Brunswick Again; RAI Loses 35 Planes

Yank Air Armada Smashes At Nazi Defense System   Heavy Assault Follows Crushing Blows By RAF Forces

1,750 PLANES PUSH ALLIED AERIAL ATTACK   Daylight Blows Aimed At Objectives In France And Western Reich

YANKS BOMB IN GERMANY AND FRANCE   More Than 750 “Heavies” Attack Airfields and Rail Yards in France and Undisclosed Targets in the Reich.

Europe Ripped By 3500 Allied Planes; British Lose 35 Craft   U.S. Loses Only 4 Out of! Daytime Armada of 1700

U.S. Airmen Blast French Rail System   Second Phase of Air Invasion on Fifth Straight Day

10,000 PLANES SENT TO SOVIET VIA ALASKA   Strict Secrecy Of Mass Movement Lifted

10,000 PLANES 10 RUSSIA SINCE “41   Half This Number Flown By Way of Canada and , Fairbanks, Alaska.

10,000 U. S. Planes Sent To Russia  Use Of Canadian And Alaskan Rout Fe Vhierlnead

U.S. Sends Reds 10,000 Planes Within 3 Years   Lift Secrecy On Movements Over Wilderness Route Ahove Canada, Alaska

Lifts Secrecy Of Plane Deal With Russia  Gets 2,200 In Four Months

Russian Planes Use Montana Field As Starting Place  Falls Port Is Base Of Craft Bound For Soviet Airmen

Fly Planes Over Canada   About 5,000 U. S.-Built Fighters to Soviet On Lend-Lease Since 1941

Tax Conferees  Hit New Snags   Differ On War Contract  Laws, General Tax. Rules

TAX CONFEREES FAIL TO AGREE   Schedule Night Meeting tc  Secure Compromise

Commons House May Look Into Wodehouse Case   French Detain  British Author

Pour Across Saar River   Battle Goes on. For Julich; Westher Grows Steadily Worse Aleng Front

HEART OF NAZI WAR INDUSTRY NOW MENACED   Allied Pressure on Hitler's European Fortress Grows As Reds Near Austria

Patton's Troops Breach Nazi Defenses In Saa   Battle For Siegfried Line Looms As Yank: Bridge Saar River, Smash Industrial City Of Saarlautern

_WESOTEPN FRONT —   Advance Across Bridge Under Heavy Fire Of © ~ German Artillery   Third Army Troops And Tanks Clear Foe From City West Of River And Then Drive Ahead Te > Tipenen Wedee Fast Of Stream

TROOPS FIGHT NAZIS INSIDE SAARLAUTERN   Storm Across Bridge in City and Fight the Last Spotty Resistance, With German Guns Turned on the Structure.

Worst Kind Weather Disques Americans   ...-Germans Open Dikes On Lower Rhine River

Poured Across the Captured Kridge Under Sereaming Shell Fire 1o Deepen Their  Wedge Into the City.   PROGRESS CONTINUED, DETAILS WITHHELD   The Germans Reflected Their Rising Alarm at Menace to the Reich-Saar Arsenal.

Capture 16-Mile Wedge   Patton Drives Into Siegfried Line As Ninth Enters Julich

Patton's Men At River on 16-Mile Front   Troops Cress’ Captured Bridge Under Heavy Fire

Saarlautern Taken; edge Deepened   Forces Cross Captured Bridge in Face of Screaming Shellfire from German Siegfried Fortifj-ar...

Patton’s Armor Sweeps Across Captured Bridge To Establish 16-Mile Front Near Saarlauterr

STORM ACROSS RIVER SPAN 10 WIN BEACHHEAD   BRITISH 2ND ARMY MOVES FORWARD ON NORTH END OF LINE

3d Army Sweeps Across Saar River Into Heart of Rich Industrial Basin

POUR TROOPS AND. TANKS OVER CAPTURED BRIDGE AS GERMANS TURN BIG GUNS ON GATEWAY

Patton Expands. Bridgehead Across Saar; British Advance   U.S. Ninth Army Battles for Julich; First Army Moves on Bergstein; French Move Up

Fighting Continues in Saarlauten   ‘Speed of Push  May Mark Opening Of Battle for Siegfried Line

TROOPS POUR ACROSS SPAN TO TAKE CITY   Americans Hold West Bank of River on  6-Mile Front

Nazis Alarmed At Menace Jo Saar Arsenal   Counterattacks By Germans Fail To Win Back An Inch

YANKS POURING TANKS AND MEN ACROSS BRIDGE   Nazis Expected to Lash Out to Try to Plug Saarlautern Gap

German Salvos Thrown At Saar River Bridge   Montgomery's Men Encounter Foot-Deer Floods At Arnhem =

Nazis Show Alarm Over Saar Threat   Launch Succession of Counterattacks; Ninth Battles for Julich

Nazis Alarmed as Saar Is Crossed   Americans Stand in Unbroken Line 16 Miles Long on River Bank   A CENTER OF INDUSTRY   Sear Basin Produces Much of Germany's Needed  Coal and Iron

U.S. TAKES PART OF SAARLAUTERN WEST OF RIVER   Battle Still Rages on Julich Outskirts For Gateway To Cologne

Counterblows Fierce Though AvailingLittle   Other U.S. Armies Make Gains on Nazis On Broad Battlefront

ADVANCE INTO NAZIS LINE AT SAARLAUTERN   Third Army Troops Deepen Wedge: Establish 16Mile Biver Front

16-Mile Front — Held by Yanks (On West Bank   ‘Smash Into Eastern Part Of Saarlautern Under Hail of Fire

U. S. Soldiers  Take Key Bridge Intact   Big Guns of Siegfried Line Open Up on Yank Troops Clearing Saarlautern on East Bank; Ninth Army Battles for Julich Base

Yanks Pour Across River on Captured Bridge at Saarlautern; Frightened (Germans Expected to Counter-Attack

EVERY GERMA COUNTERMOVE REPULSED   All Saarlautern West 01 River Is Cleared   Still Fighting For Julich; Brandenberg, 3 Other Cities Captured

Saar River Defenses Being Penetrated by Third Army in Spite of German Counterattacks.   OTHER NAZI DEFENSES ARE BEING BATTERED

Germans Show Rising Alarm At Situation   Allies Fighting Under Severe Weather Conditions All  Along Front

Temperatures   U. S. Breakthrough Menaces Nazis’ Rich Saar Arsenal

REDS ADVANCE 23 MILES IN DNIEPER BEND   KIROVOGRAD’S FATE SEALED; CAPTURE 120 TOWNS

TWO RED ARMIES MAF NEARING LINK   Central Ukraine Army Breaks @ Through on Long Front   NAZIS IN RETREAT   @irovograd Expected to Fall Soon; Garrison Now Cut Off From All Aid

Kirovograd’s Fall Is Seen Imminent   Central And Northern Ukraine Drives Near Link: Battle Raaes Inside Old Poland Now

75,000 Nazis Abandon War Equipment   More Than 120 Cities  Bre Captured   in Break-Through

RED OFFENSIVE BREAKS THROUGH FIVE DIVISIONS   Dnieper Bend Stronghold Of Kirovograd Has Been  Surrounded,   MEN AND EQUIPMENT LOST BY GERMANS

FIVE GERMAN DIVISIONS ARE PUT TO FLIGHT   Kirovograd Surrounded by Russians in New Offensive

Five German Divisions  Are Routed   300.000 Nazis Menaced By Russian Advances In Churning Ukraine  KIROVOGRAD CIRCTED

Sudden Push Surrounds Kirovograd Central Ukraine Troops Near Link With Rampant Northern Army

Nazi Lines Crack Under  Twin Drive   Germans Announce Dnieper, Ukraine Armies Close Link

Attack on 62- Mile Front Encireles Kriovograd Base   Berlin Reports Vatutin’s Left Wing Already Has Contacted Units of Konev’s Second Army Near Belaya Tserkov

New-Red Off Offensive Breaks Nazi Lines   Mnieper Bend Stronghold Surrounded And Junction Of Two Big Forces Is Said’ Near  Rw TAMECO wr awe

Germans’ River Bend Stron ghold Of Kirovograd Surrounded In  Unchecked Advance

SOVIET ARMY ~ SLASHES FIVE NAZI DIVISIONS   Link With Northern Drive Near; Unchecked Force 22 Miles Inside Poland   FULL ROUTE OF GERMANS PRESSED BY RUSSIANS

Dnieper Bend Stronghold of Kirovograd Surrounded  LINK IS NEAR WITH -THE NORTHERN DRIVE More Than 120 Towns  Captured in New — Break-through

UKRAINE ARMY BREAKS INTC NAZI DEFENSE   Five German Divisions On 62-Mile Front; Surrounds Dnieper Bend Stronghold Of Kirovograd.   Wreck Supplies

Farmers Need More Ammunitior   OCR Makes Surveys lo Plan Production

2-Way Raid Hits Capital Of Britain   Attack Is Heavier Than Others; Great Barrage Thrown Up

Nazis Stage 2-Way Assault on London   Other Areas Also Hit; Defenders Throw Up Massive Barrages

London Has New Attack   German Air Raiders Attack Fourth Time; Some Dimage Caused

London Pelted By Nazi Raiders   Raiders Break Through Defenses Despite Fierce Barrages.

10 Killed In London Raid   Germans Drop Number Of Incendiary Bombs

Nazi Raiders Attack London   Shower Fire Bombs Over Wide Area in British Capital

London Feels U.S. Troops Pair Of Nazi Throw Back Night Attacks Nazi Attacks

GERMAN RAIDERS OVER LONDON LAST NIGHT   Two Directional Assault With High Explosives and Incendiaries. 10 Killed

Germans Raid London Area   Heavy Anti-Aircraft Brings Down Ten Planes: Assault From Two Directions.

TANK-LED JAPS PICK UP GROUND » AROUND LOYANG   Chinese Hopes To Holc Citadel Fading

Japs Closing Upon Loyang   Gen. Hata Said Personally Directine Onerati

NIPPONESE NEAR CITY OF LOYANG   Chinese Hopes Of Saving Ancient Citadel Fade; Escape Route Cut

Nips Using 200 Tanks In Drive On Honan Citadel; Chinese  Troops Hemmed In

Japs Drive Within 2 Miles Of Loyang As Chinese Hopes Of Defending Citadel Fade .

Chinese Hopes Of Retaining LoyangF ading   Japanese Drive To Within Two Miles of Honan Province Citadel; Tanks  Spearhead Advance

E-D.R, OUTLINES PLANS FOR LEAGUE   SETS FORTH U. S. AIMS ON POST-WAR ORGANIZATION TO MAINTAIN PEACE.

PLANS FOR LEAGUE ANNOUNCED BY FDR   Program to Keep Post war Peace Outlined by President

Roosevelt Plan For World Peace Meets Approval  Maps Council. Court   Maps Council, Court To Settle Disputes ; Backed by Force

Mighty Air Attack Smashes Enemy Attempt To Drive Allies Into Sea   Gen. Mark Clark Has Narrow scape   Fifth Army In Hand-ToHand, Artillery Fighting Regain All Lost Ground

POSITIONS OF ALLIES INTACT   Third Attempt of Germans to Drive Troops Into Sea Collapses.   LOST GROUND REGAINED

Beachhead Battlefield Littered With Bodies Of Slaughtered Germans   Russians Slog Ahead Toward Baltic States But Experts Point } Out Hitler Has Poured Forces Into Italy To Make Major : War Front of Attempt To Drive Allies Into Sea

Americans Wipe Out  Nazi Gains   Enemy Dead Cover Battlefield After Record Pounding

Third Naz Offensive Collapses   Allied Positions on Beachhead Firmly Held; Americans Bomb Rome Railroads Avain

DRIVE UPON ANZIO UNITS “COLLAPSED’   Two Final Thrusts Made by Enemy Late Wednesday Repulsed by Allies and No New Blows Have Been Attempted.

Strong Attack On Center Of Allied Holdings Below Rome Collapses, With Defense Positions Intact And All Lost Ground Regained—Brunt Of Assault Borne : By U. S. Third Infantry—Gen. Clark Terms Out come Of Action Serious Setback For Nazis

Allies Firm In All Positions; Nazi Loss High   Thaw Delaying Reds; Finns Study Peace; French Factories  Attacked

Attack Cost ProvesHigh For Nazis   Third Big Attempt To Put Allies In Sea Fails

NazisGive Up Third Drive on Ally Beachheac   Foe Whipped Back With Aid of Heaviest Air Attack

Yanks Regain Lost Ground   Germans Have Only Casualties to Show For Tremendous Anzio Effort

GREAT AERIAL BARRAGE STOPS GERMAN THREAT   Veteran American Troops Fight Of Pourieenth Army

Nazi Assault On Beachhead Costly ‘Flop   Lost Ground Retaken By Sth Army; Brunt Of Blow Borne By U. S. 3rd Division

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED UPON GERMAN FORCE   Allied Positions Are Intact as Offensive of Enemy Collapses

AMERICANS LIQUIDATE SALIENT   Acrial Barrage Is Heaviest on Any Battlefield

Nazis’ Third Drive On Beachhead ls ‘Costly Failure’   All Ground Lost By Allies Has Been Recaptured

Allies ‘Regained All Ground In Brilliant Defensive: Success: —. No Indication Yet. of Another Attack, But Blis terimg Allied Air Attack: Administered As Deterrent.

Fails fo Break Allied Lines ©   Nazis’ Offensive  On Anzio Beachhead Branded as Costly Failure by Allies

Nazi Drive Near Rome Collapses   Third Major... Offensive. Against: Beachhead Now Declared ‘Costly. Failure’: :   GERMANS REPORTED’. USING 22 DIVISIONS:   Italy Now Major Front, But. Clark Is ‘Confident; Cas-."' sino Still the-Key

Nazi Campaign At Beachhead Costly Failure  pe a. er ee   Anzio Region Takes Place As Major Front

3rd Infantry Bears Brunt Of Offensive   All Lost Ground Is Re gained By American Forces On Beachhea

REAL SETBACK HANDED NAZIS AT BEACHHEAD   Germans Abandon Drive Under Record Air Pounding

German Attack Called Failure   Allied Headquarters Declares Defenses on Beachhead South of Rome Remain Intact Following Third Strong Assault by German Troops.   PLANES ACTIVE AGAIN

Strong German Drive In Italy Has Collapsed   Third Offensive Described \s “Costly Failure”; Reds Drive On.   NO WEW ATTACKS

U.S. Forces Recover All Ground Lost          Americans Credited With ‘Comi plete Defersive Success’ in With. standing Attacks      CLARK VISITS MEN   ‘Nazis Continue Shelling Beachhead, Are Straled by Forts and Liberators

LOST GROUND ALL REGAINED BY AMERICANS   Complete Defensive Victory Attained by Pacific Coast Troops, Clark Announces

Nazi 14th Army Fought To Standstill By Land Troops, Air Barrage   Flying Fortresses, Liberators Drop 40,000 Fragmentation Bombs On Enemy Lines

/GERMAN BEACHHEAD  DRIVE THIS WEEK  IS COSTLY FAILURE THIRD LARGE SCALE ATTEMPT DRIVE ! ALLIES INTO   ers. rn

UJ, . REGAINS ALL LOST SOIL FROM GERMANS   Nazi Dvive Costiv In Men And War Eauinment

‘CONCENTRATED ARTILLERY FIRE FROM ALLIES LITTERS GROUND WITH DEAD AND TANK DEBRIS   Fifth Army Has -Repulsed All Attacks, and Regained All Lost Ground in Desperate Fight. Nazis Expected to Attack Soon. Fortresses Bic Aid to Allies

LOST GROUND IS RETAKEN BY ALLIES   Third All-Out Attack B Germans Is Failure   1,600 PLANES   Bomb Positions Of Enemy At Beachhead; No New Drives Reported

ARTILLERY THWARTS ASSAULT   Lost Ground Retaken, Fifth Positions Intact

YANKEE PLANES AND INFANTRY REPEL ATTACKS   Record Aerial Assault Rips Enemy Front Lines And Reinforcements

Nazis Receive Heavy Setback in Anzio Drive   Americans Regain Lost Ground, Positions Intact

Germans Give Up Attempt to Smash Allies at Anzio   U. 8. 5th Army Regains All Lost Ground   Beachhead Is Firmly Established Says Gen. Mark Clark

Nazi Attack At Anzio A Costly Flop   Third ‘Big-Scale Assault Collapses; Allied Posi tions Intact.

‘Costly Failure’ Marks Assault On Beachhead   Fifth Army Wins Back All Ground, Repulses Final Enemy Blows

GEN. CLARK SAYS ENEMY SUFFERED SERIOUS SETBACK   AMERICANS INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES ON 3 GERMAN DIVISIONS

VENTURE IS COSTLY TO FOE, CLAIM   Allied Forces Regain All Grounds Lost In 2-Day Assaults

Yank Bombers Attack Railroads In Rome Today _ GERMANY IS HIT Russia To Get Third  Of Italian War Fleet

YANK BEATING DISCOURAGES ENEMY DRIVE   Americans Retake All Lost Ground, Says General Clark

Powerful Nazi Drive Is Termed “Costly Failure”   American Defense Intact And Lost Ground Recovered

SRD EFFORT 10 QUST INVADERS COLLAPSES   Heavy Losses Inflicted on 3 Divisions Which Were Spearhead of Assault

 Germans Abandon Beach Push   Bedly Beaten in Hand-to-Hand Fight. Nazis Break Under Allied Onstaughts

Allied Guns Take Heavy Toll of Foe   RAF Attacks Fre French Aircraft Factories, Western -Germany without Loss

Nazi Drive At Anzio Collapses   Strong Offensive Proves ‘’a Costly Failure;’’ All Lost Ground Reaained

Allies Have ° Regained All. Lost Ground   Blistering Air Attacks Deter German Plans for’ Regrouping'

GERMANS ARE BADLY BEATEN BELOW ROME   Hitler’s Divisions Are Stunned by Frightful Cannonading and Air Attacks.

‘Nazis’ Third  Anzio Effort Costly Failure   “Complete Defensive Success’ Scored by Americans  in Regaining Contro!

ALL FIFTH ARMY  POSITIONS INTACT  AFTER NEW THRUST HUNDREDS OF GERMAN  _ DEAD LAY ON FIELDS LIT TroDEn WITH TANS

Nazis Sustain Heavy Losses After Beachhead Drive   Early Thaw In North Russia Hampers Reds’ Smashing Drive

Third German Anzio Drive Said Failure   Allied Lines Hold At Original Beach Positions

Foe Pouring More Troops Into Region   Estimate German Forces In Italy  At 22 Divisions

Allies Take Back All Of Ground They Once Held   Serious Setback For Enemy, Clark Says;  Heavy Attacks Made B American Planes

GERMANS REPULSED ON ANZIO FRONT   Heavy Losses Are inflicted By U. S. Third Division

Nazis Abandon Latest Attack On Beachhead   Take Savage 36 Hour Beating From Americans

Clark Says It Is Firmly Established   Nazis Take Savage Beating, Leaving Large Numbers of Dead

GERMAN ATTEMPT TO DRIVE  INTO BEACHHEAD AT ANZIO IS MOSTLY FAILURE: LINES HOLD

CRACK GERMAN. FORCES SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   U. S. Third Infantry. Throws Back Nazis From Hard- . won Salient,

OSITION OF LLIED FORCE TILL INTACT   ird Large-Scale Attempt  f Enemy to Drive Ameri cans Into Sea Now Has Collapsed   NAL RAIDS REPULSED

40,000 Bombs Hurled At Foe During Third. Anzio Attack   Large Scale Losses Inflicted On Nazis

GERMANS FAIL TO DISLODGE YANK TROOPS   Allied Headquarters Says Anzio Positions Intact Despite Assaults

Thied Large . Scale OMensive “against Beachhead Force Collapses.

WPB Head Advocates  Labor Army   Endorses Limited National Service Bill of Rep. Luce

Red Barrage Pulverizes  Enemy Lines   ‘Worst in History, Says Moscow; Big Break Reported

Germans Can't Repair Damage Says Stimson   Enemy Now Relying on Anti-Aireraft Guns for Defense Against Allies

Ack‘Ack Now Backing Nazis   Stimson Says Enemy Fighter Plane Force Crippled Beyond Repair.

German Fighter Planes Depleted   Whittled Down, Says Stimson   American Losses Decline

NAZIS RELY ON ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS FOR DEFENSE   Coffon Shippers Cite Competition

NAZI AIR POWER WHITTLED DOW!   Stimson Says Enemy Relying On Ack-ack: Says Rail Lines Are Damaged Beyond Ability to Repair

BOMB - WRECKED LINES BEYOND NAZIS REPAIR   Stimson Says Germans Conserving Planes; Damage Inflicted Soars Upward

Nazi Air Might Whittled Down   Stimson Says Enemy Relies  Chiefly on Ack-Ack

EMPORIA FLOOD THREAT      eosho River Is Running Bankful in Lyon County

Admiral Urges American People to Refuse Any Peace Until Troops Reach Tokyo, and Promises It Will Be Occupied.

JAPS’ FLEET DAMAGED BY ALLIED NAVY   U. S. Continue: Relentless Sea Hunts

Japanese Fleet Seriously Damaged  Admiral Halsey Asserts America   Admiral Halsey Asserts America Superior to Foe on Land and Sea

Halsey Says Jap Fleet Crippled      Naval Chief Hopes We Won’t Stop Until Tokyo Occupied.

TOKYO IS GOAL OF U.S. NAVY, HALSEY SAYS   Enemy Fleet Seriously Crip: pled; Americans Superior Everywhere

AYO [o GOAL OF AMERICANS   Halsey Says They Will Keer Fighting Japs Until City Is Occupied.

Jap Fleet Is In Bad Shape  Says Halsey      Urges No Peace Till Tokyo Falls

HALSEY SAYS JAP HEET CRIPPLE   No, Peace Until American Troops Reach Tokyo. Savs Admiral

“Refuse To Accept Any Peace Until U. S. Troops Reach Tokyo,” Halsey Warns American People

Negotiated Peace Is Out, Say Adm. Halsey As He Promises More Blows

For Occupation   Halsey Recommends No Peace Until Jap Capital Taken

Japanese Fleet Badly Crippled, Halsey Declares   Admiral Hopes America Won't Accept Nippon Offer Of Peace

Says Jap Fleet Badly Crippled   Admiral Halsey Says U. S. to Keep Pressing Japs Until Tokyo Reached.

Admiral Says “We Will Keep On Pressing Him”  Until Tokyo Is Oc- —   "= cupied    WARNS AGAINST ANY.  PEACE BEFORE THAT   Urges Americans to Refuse to Accept Surrender ~. Until Troops.Are.  In Capital

TOKYO, DEFINITE PLAGE THAT HAS TC BE TAKEN - HALSEY   61-Year-Old Commander of Naval Forces in South Pacific Made Statement.   KEEP ENEMY GUESSING   Urged Americans to Refuse to Accept Peace Until the Troops Reach Tokyo.

Yanks fo Take Tokyo — Halsey   American Admiral “Says Americans to Occupy Jap Capital

Tokyols Goal OtBigDrive, Says Halsey   Admiral Says Japanese Fleet Seriously Crippled

Halsey, Reporting Jap Fleet Crippled, Says War To Keep On Until Tokyo Is Captured   Admiral Reveals Strategy In Pacific Is To Keep Japanese Leaders Guessing

Tokyo Is Goal, States Halsey   Admiral States Japanese Fleet Is Crippled Due _ To UU. 8. Blows 

U. S. Presses  Japanese Navy  ou tT ATSE   Admiral Reports Japanese Fleet ts Seriously Crippled: Way To Tokyo.

HALSEY AVOWS TOKYO DEFEAT      South Pacific Naval Commander Against Early Peace Settlement

Jap Fleet Seriously Cr ‘ippled, Says Halsey   Tokyo Is One Place That U.S. Must Take. Commander In South Pacific Emphasizes

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Brave Medics Carry On Under Heavy Nazi Shelling  While Hundreds Are Hit, Ernie   While Hundreds Are Hit, Ernie Has Charmed Life and Escapes

With Ernie Pyle at the Front 7 Brave Medics Carry On 3, Under Heavy Nazi Shelling  While Hundreds Are Hit, Ernie ‘ Has Charmed Life and Escapes,

Russia Demands Romania Help To ~ Wipe Out Nazis   Hungary Clamps Down Heavy Hard In Effort To Prevent Breakup As Romania Joins March Against Transylvania.

Romanian Fall Panics Other Nations   Hungary Clamps Or Dictatorship to Prevent Bust-Up

GERMANS ORDER PARIS CLEARED   Puppet Governments At Both Paris And Vichy To Leave

Report German Forces Speeding Paris Evacuation   All Command Posts — But Destruction Units, Rear Guards Leaving

Invasion Drive ~ Halts Wave of Strikes in U. S.   War Industries Operate Normally Today For Biret Time Since 1942

Allies Pound  Cape Hoskins. In Heavy Rhid      Sink Two Merchant Ships, Bag. Sevgn -Planes-On’ Rabaul

JAP FIELD ON NEW BRITAIN IS BOMBED   Two Ships Are Sunk In Raid On Rabaul

Jap Barge Point In New Britain Bombed Heavily   New Blows Also Are Delivered At Rabaul

Peace Date Guess Dodged by Churchill   PRIME MINISTER DECLINES OPINION ON WAR’S ENDING

BOMBARDINGOF GERMANY IS RESUMED   Weather Caused Lull of Only A Single Day

Third Woman Missed Death   Police Will Question Woman Found Chatting With Confessed Killer

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   RAF Hits Italian Liner “Rex”; Ship Ablaze

RECORD AIR BLOW  AT THE GERMANS   2250 BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS POUND OIL SUPPLY AND ROBOT ROCKET BASES.  ‘

JAPS TF Tat FOR ISLANDS   MACARTHUR LANDS MORE TROOPS. IN INVASION . OF STRATEGICALLY IMPOR " TANT ADMIRALTYS

BEAT OFF JAPS ON LOS NEGROS   Heavy Counter Attacks Fail Yank “Look - See” Turns Into Invasion

Allies Drive On Toward Madang   Jungle Fighters Press Northward Along Coast Of New Guinea   AIRMEN CONTINUE TO BLAST AT BASES

Army Board Reports on Jap Attack   Pearl Harbor Findings Classified As Secret; Stimson to Review  Records

OND REPORT MADE ON PEARL HARBOR   ARMY BOARD PUTS SECRECY CLASSIFICATION ON STORY OF JAP RAID.

Strikers at War Plants Shout Defiance of WLB   Back-to-Work Order Rejected; Union Chief Pleads in Vain

LEGION URGES WORLD LEAGUE   Educator, Industrialist Ask Top Consideration For Returning Vets

Legion Advocates Forceful Peace To Prevent War   Universal Military Training Urged as Convention Closes

Seeks Year’s Training For  U. S. Youth   Wants Program to Start Following Expiration Of Selective Service

Reds Reported Again On Move   Berlin Tells Of New Action In Romania By Tanks, Infantry

Russian fank And Infantry Forces Attack On Shores Of Siret River; Reds Reinforce

LEGION ASKING - TRAINING PLAN   EFFORT WILL. BE MADE TO HAVE CONGRESS FINALLY PASS MILITARY TRAIN ING LAW

Urges Training In Peace Time   American Legion To Inten. sify Campaign For Compulsory Military  Troining

George Bill Now Before House.   Count Noses Before Deciding to Abandon Or Fight for Proposal

Renew Fight for Higher Payments   House to Start Debate Thursday

FIGHT CONTINUES ON JOBLESS HELP   House Group Calls Meetinc To Determine Strategy

May Give Up Kilgore Bill   Count Noses to See How Vote Would Come Out in House . ;

COMPENS ATION BIG QUESTION POR CONGRESS   Ohioan Springs Surprise and WPB Chief Tells About Reconversion

DISCHARGE DELAY DENIED BY STIMSON   ‘Absolutely’ Untrue He Says of Current Reports

Stimson Spikes Army Rumors:   Says ‘Demobilization ~ Will Not Be Delayed

GOVERNOR DEWEY CALLS FOR TAX CUTS AFTER WAR   Declares Individual and Business Levies Should Be Re‘duced to Help Nation “Get Ahead.”   SEES HIGH IMPOSTS AS “BARRIER TO JOBS”   Candidate Says People Are Paying Not Only for War, but for New Deal Waste and Extravagance.

Dewey Urges. Taxes Be Cut, Simplified — After War.   ‘Waste, Extravagance’ Of New Deal Keeps War Taxes Up, He Says  CIVES COP *. PLAN

Dewey Promises tc " Lower Income Tax » On Small Incomes   Assails New Deal For 15 Changes In Taxes Inf 12 Years: Offers Proposed Reductions

DEWEY CALLS FOR REVISION, CUT IN TAXES   Favors Simplification After War, Hits New Deal Waste

Dewey Proposes Revision Of Federal Tax Structure   Reduction of Individual and Corporation Income Lev. ies Necessary, He Says, to Remove “RoadBlock in the Way of Progress”

.Dewey Pledges Curtailment Of Income Levies   Proposes Lowering of Individual anc Corporation Taxes; Blames Waste, ® Extravagance for High Imposts

ACCIDENTS TOOK TOLL OF 94,900 LIVES LAST YEAR   Traffic Deaths Slumped but Fatalities in Home Increncad

TRUMAN GROUP RAPS SERVICE DRAFT MEASURE   Sees Need For Removing Strike Threats, Boost ing Output

ARMY SAVES © $97 BILLION   INew “Kickback” of Ovei $14 Billion to Go to Budget Bureau Reserve

House Announces 14 Billion Additional ‘Kickback’ in War Department Funds

FREDERICK SOLDIER SLIGHTLY WOUNDED   Tech. Sgt. Jonathan F. Covell Hurt In Germany On December 7, Parents Advised

FBI WILL SEE JOB APPLICANTS   Girls To Be Interviewed At Pos Office On Friday

FDR DENIES COMMUNISTS   Says He Has Not Sought, Nor Does He Welcome Their Support.

FREAK ACCIDENTS CAUSE 7 CRASHES   Navy Planes Crash Yester. day in Vicinity of Na- tional Capital.

Legislation Ended; Congress Will Adjourn   All Major Peace Laws Polished Off In  Four Major Pieces.

Reconversion Bill Set For  House Action   Congress Plans  To Take Recess

Congress Rushes Legislation Preparatory To Collapse Of Germany, Four Major Acta.

Air War Mounts In Fury   More Than 5,000 Allied Planes Have Pounded  Enemy Targets in Past 24 Hours: Reds Roar On

U.S. Planes Hollow up Big RAF Pounding   Western German Aircraft Factories Target of Yanks— RAF Hits France

Record Load Hits French Railroads   Russian Marines Capture Balaklava: Press Close Teo Burning Sevastopol

Yanks, R.A.F. Hit Railway Junction  AndPlaneCenters   More Than 7,000 Tons Of Explosives Showered On Foe In Last 24 Hours; Vichy Radio Reports Rouen Badly Damaged; British Mine Danube

BRITISH DROP 4,480 TONS OF BOMBS, FRANCE   Railways, Vital for Nazis, Targets for R.A.F.;: Other Allied Blows From the Air

AMERICAN BOMBERS BLASTED AT GERMAN AIRCRAFT FACTORIES   THOUSAND BRITISH BOMBERS SMASHED AT FRENCH RAILROADS

2,000 American Planes Over Reich For Second Day   8,500 Tons of Bombs on Europe In Past 24 Hours

Activities of Coming Big Political — Conventions to Be Fully Covered

Business Section Elizabeth City Has Serious Fire   Flames Rage For Hours, Doing Damage Estimated At $125,000; Started In Photographic Studio.

TEN JAP SHIPS SUNK, DAMAGED BASE WRECKED   Devastating Blows Are Dealt To Japan's Stolen Pacific Empire

TEN JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK YESTERDAY  a a112..3] Cnn and   Allied Sea and Air Forces Deal Coordinated Blow

Seven Jap-Held Islands Bombed  Daily Attacks Are  Made by Pilots

oge 2——— THE INDE PENDENT————-——TUESOAY, APRIL 2!  e MERRY-GO-ROUND

Hoover Slated To Replace Cordell Hull   Pearson Says Two Members of Dewey Cabinet Certain — Stassen and MacArthur Likely

(German Escape Roads Now  Are threatened   Spearhead Smashes Six Miles South From Fallen City: Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Stopped in Fierce Battle of Armor

Americans Drive Ahead On 40-Mile  ‘Front In France   Enemy Is Taking Heavy Punishment All Along Normandy Fighting Line; Many Hopelessly Trapped In Numerous By-Passed Areas.

POCKETS OF TRAPPED FOE LIQUIDATEL   Rommel Hurls More Reserves Into Normandy

Spearhead Smashes Six Miles Beyond Caen While U. S. Troops Hurl Back Counterattacks, Approach 3 Junctions

Red Army Columns Battle Elite. Force in Hungary  Siege of Budapest Continues; Way To Vienna Onenina

Reds Battle Elite Force Along Ipoly   Savage Battle Raging on River North of Danube Bend

Savage Battle Rages On Ipoly   Flying Column Strikes Toward Slovakian Capital.

SOVIETS BATTLE ELITE SS FORCE “ALONG. RIVER   Savage Fight Waged North Of ‘Danube Rata

TANKS BATTLE IN SLOVAKIA   Reds Press Forward Toward Austrian Plain; Budapest Totters

NAZI ELITE SS FIGHTS SOVIETS   Russian Army Meets Germany’s Best North Of Danube Valley On Ipoly River.

Soviets Meet SS Forces in Savage Battle  — = ree,   Moscow Report Makes no Mention of Budapest Action

Coordinated With Fourth Army Operations To Cut Off German Escape.

REDS 85 MILES FROM SLOVAK CAPITAL CITY   Next Attack Expected To Be Aimed At Vienna

REDS BATTLE SS NORTH OF DANUBE BEND   Russian Flying Columns, Tanks, Motorized !nfantry Engaged In Heavy Fighting Along Ipoly River   ON ROUTE TO VIENNA

Soviets Meet Elite Forces.   Fight For Budapest ‘Omitted: From Report

BIG BATTLE © BEING FOUGHT IN SLOVAKIA   Reds Engage Nazi SS Force in Move to Cut Off Germans in Eastern Part of Country From  OChaoanera ta Weeanoa.

New Invasion Drives Closer  To Philippines   Task Force Sinks Five Jap Vessels Only 600  Miles From Japan

FIVE MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK   New Island Invasion Made Only 800 Miles From Philippines

AMERICANS TAKI MANIM ISLE; 5 Jap Ships Sunk   New Operation Places U. S. Base 800 Miles From Philippines

Postoffices —  Show Profit   - 24 Year Old Record Of Deficits Closed

POSTAL PROFIT TOPS MILLION   Department Shows Surplus First Time In 24 Years

United States Postal Department Shows But Of Profit For First Time In 24-Year Period

Tobacco Market Is To Close Friday After Last Sale   More Than . 32,500,000  Pounds of Leaf Has  Been Sold- in Lumber ton This Season.      By Jasper C. Hutto, Supervisor Tumherton Toharcn Market

Tobaceo Market : To Close Friday After Last Sale   More Than 32,500,000 Pounds of Leaf Has Been Sold: in Lumberton This Season.

Yankee Barbarity Unmasked By Jags        Gruesome Details Barq: U. S. Screen Actresées Even Sell Kisses for Wor Ronds.

Cites Wrestling Matches Black Faced Comedians, ‘Tobacco Road’ Examples.

American Subs Sink 14 More Japanese Ships   Another Allied Step Toward Tokyo Likely; Report Unconfirmed

JAP REPORTS — CLAIM INVASION HAS STARTED IN MARSHALLS   Allies Make No Comment On Japanese Statement About New Fighting

Naval board  checking on blast at depot  Inquire into methods used

Official U.S. Guide Book For  Vets Shows Aids, Benefits   Book Soon Ready In Charleroi At U.S. Employment And Draft Offices

Here Is the Procedure Which Had Your Income Tax Form As Its Result

MOVE T0 ACQUIT PHILLIPS FAILS   Defense Attempt To Free ExGovernor Turned Down By Court

Soviet Organ Hits Pope and Franco  Calls Fascists There Threat to Secunty

Russians Hammer Last Nazi Forces In Estonia, Organize Assault on Riga, Continue Battle for Warsaw

Reds Organize Assault on Two Key Isles   Resistance in Estonia About to End; Fleet Ready to Fight

Reds Hammering Wall of  ‘Estonia Defense       Begin Organizing For Assault On 2 Key Islands Guarding Approaches   To Riga.

MEAZIRESISTANCE. INCESTONIA WAS  HAMMERED TODAY   Russia’s Powerful Northern - Armies Strike Heavy Blow.   FINAL SMALL POCKETS   Organizing an Assault on Two Key Islands Guarding Baltic Sea. _

Reds Capture More Harbors   Hammer Germans Left In Estonia; Baltic Fleet Ready To Fight for Supremacy

Russians Batter Final Small Pocket of Nazis In Estonia; Fleet Aids

REDS BEGIN FINAL BLOWS IN ESTONIA   Hammer at Last Pocket of Resistance and Prepare to Assault Islands  Guarding Riga  Apnroaches.

Reds Pound Nazi Pocket In Estonia   Organizing for Assault on Two Key Isles Near Riga

NEXT   russia Begins Elimination of Ristna and Osel at Gulf Entrance

Reds Mass For Assault On Key Estonian Isles   Move To Reduce Nazi Strongholds Protecting Gulf Of Riga.

Russian Armies Hammer Germans   FINAL RESISTANCE 0 ESTONIA BEING OVERCOME

Nearly All Estonio Free Of Germans   Russian Baltic Fleet Again Free to Enter Sea; Battle for Warsaw Continues; Nazi Reserves Move South

SUVIELS FLAN ASSAULT ON TWO KEY ISLANDS  Guard Baltic Sea Approaches To City Of Rige      PORT CAPTURED   Smash At Pocket Of Nazi Resistance In EFetonia

Russians Squeeze Germans Against Estonian Coast   Organize Assault. On Isles Guarding Baltic Annroaches to Rian

Reds Squeezing Nazis Against Estonian Coast   Organizing Assault On Key Islands Guarding _ Approaches To Riga.

Reds Pounding Last Nazis in Estonia   Assault on Two Key Iclandc Oraanivzed

Soviets Take Baltic Ports : In:Big Sweep   Assault On Key. Islands ‘Organized.

Russians Believed Attacking Islands Guarding Riga   Latvian Capital Besieged as Reds Mop Ug Last Resistance in Eston

Soviet Northern Armies Pound Last Pocket Of ©  Nazi Resistance, Estonia

Russ to Open Riga Smash   Organize Forces While Putting Squeeze on Germans in Estonia

RUSSIANS MASS FOR NEW PUSH   Baltic Isles Guarding Lotvion Capital Are Red Army  Pit. iaabivae

Hammer Smal Pocket Nazi Resistance   Germans Being  Shoved Back in Battle of Warsaw

SOVIETS OPE PUSH ON RIGA   Rip Two Isles Guarding Baltic Approaches To Besieged Capital

REDS PREPARE FOR PUSH ON BALTIC ISLES   Battle Of Warsaw Enters 56th Day; Nazis Withdraw

RUSSIANS DRIVE TO RID ESTONIA OF NAZI POCKET   Reds Also Organize Smash On Key Islands Guarding Sea Paths To Riga

IRussia’s Northern Armies Ending Last Nazi Resistance in Estonia.

REDS MASS FOR FINAL BLOW AT BESIEGED RIGA   INDICATE SOVIET FLEET JOINING IN BATTLE FOR HARBOI.

REDS MAKING ASSAULT ON BALTIC LINES   Powerful Northern Armies Pound Final Small Pocket of German Resistance In Estonia   FLEET 1S HELD READY

Soviet Fleet Joins Battle Against Riga   Key Islands Guarding City Sea Approaches Under Bombardment

CLEARANCE OF SEA FOR RED FLEET APPARENT   Riga Besieged As Russians Carry Out Clean-Up Campaign In North

POWERFUL RUSSIAN. ARMIES IN NORTH HAMMER AT NAZIS  BATTLE FOR WARSAW CONTINUES WITH CER.

Organization Of Assault On Islands Guarding Strategic Baltic Started

REDS SQUEEZE NAZIS AGAINST ESTONIAN COAST   Soviets Prepare Attack on Isles Guarding Capital of Latvia

Reds Squeeze Nazis Against - Estonia Coast   Seize Escape Port of Haapsalu; Battle of Warsaw Continues With Huns mo er ae Meg VOHYeYeU BUCK

(German Baltic. ‘Strength Dims ‘Under Red Blows   Only Small Pocket Of Resistance Left In Estonia; More Pressure on Rica

SQUEEZE NAZIS AGAINST COAST   Reds Organize Assault on Two Islands Guarding Approaches to Riga. _   ‘HAVE NUISANCE VALUE

Russians Ready To Hit Islands In Gulf of Riga   Northern Armies Hammer Last Pocket Of Nazi Resistance

Plan Attack On Baltic ‘Islands.   Red Fleet Believed  ‘Ready to Aid in Blow Against Bases Guarding Riga Sea Approach

Soviets Pound Nazi Resistance   Only Few Pockets in Estonia Remain As  Reds Hit Baltic Islands

Seek To Oust Small Pocket In Estonia   Begin Organizing Assault On Two Key Islands

Russian Forces: Organize  Drive      May. Reduce Ristna; Orel; ungarian Pugh Halteds' Tent’ On Polish: Battle

Russian Force Turned Toward  Riga Island:   Battle Looms For Sea Approaches To Riga; Red Fleet To Act      ‘NO WARSAW REPORT   Germans Parry Thrust To Hungary: Drive In Poland Gains

TS-MILE FRONT IS SEIZED BY 250,000 MEN   Jap Resistance Stiffens Ag Threat Of MacArthur Assult Increases

250,000 Men Land On Islands   Take Most of Leyte Island Against Slight Opposition, Reported

“00,000 Men From Great. est Invasion Armada In World History  AIDED BY LARGEST AIR BOMBARDMENT  Ground Troops Rapidly Extending Positions And Supplies

Americans Storm East  Coast of Leyte Island: Jap Opposition Growing

SAY NAZIS PUTTING PRESSURE ON FINNS      London Reports Germany Applying Threats in Effort to Block Peace With Russia.

Robot Damages. London Hospital   Explosion Kills at Least Two Patients

ROBOT BOMBS BLAST LONDON   Intense Antiaircraft Barrage Downs Many

TWO KILLED AS BOMB CRASHES INTO HOSPITAL      Ton Robot Bomb Hits Hospita In London — Patients  Trapped

FLYING BOMB WRECKS HOSPITAL IN LONDON   TWO KILLED, MANY TRAPPED IN DEBRIS FROM PROJECTILE; ROBOTS CONTINUE ENGLAND RAIDS

HEAVY ROBOT ATTACK ON SO. ENGLAND   Anti-Aircraft Fire Shoots Them Out of the Sky

Southern England Rocked By Violent Robot Attack   British Anti-Aireraft Batteries And Fighters Shoot Down Power Bombs At Rate Of One Every Two Minutes; Two Killed When Buzzer Hits Hospital

Nazis Launch Most Violent Robot Attack   Gunners Shoot One Every Two Minutes Oui of Skies

Robot Bomb Crashes Into London Hospital At Dawn, Two Patients Are Killed

Yanks Capture CuineaAirfield  Menace Three   93 Dutch Officers Carre Flae Achare

DUTCH RETURN TO HOLLANDIA   Netherlands Flag Planted On Soil Regained By Yanks

Ward’s Seizure Probe Wins  House Hearing   Coalition Demands Force Promise Of Early Debate

To Debate Seizure  Of Wards   House Coalition  Forces Sabath To Report Resolution For Investigation.

Convention Of  ‘Plymouth County  Federated Clubs Held Annual Sessior  row Litntan lack

‘Convention Of © ‘Plymouth County Federated: Clubs  Held Annual Sessior   Held Annual Session In Hinton Last -_ Thursday ty

Fight Rages For China Air Base   Lishui, Goal of Japs Since Doolittle Raid Two Years Ago.

JAPS AT GATES OF LISHUT   Has Been Nip Goal Ever Sines Bombing of Tokyo

ITALIAN PRISONERS ON DIFFERENT BASIS   Italy Accepted by Allies as Co-belligerent

Army Denies Coddling Ttaliar  War Prisoners   Italian Service. Units ~Have Special Status, War Department Asser

NoCoddling Army State:   [Prisoners in Service Units ~ Have Special Status, _ Declares. War — Nepa:tment

. ’ . : > .] ‘Service Units’ Have Own Status  Army Denies Coddling Italian  War Prisoners in This Nation

GERMANS REFUSED TO BELIEVE INVASION  SCOPE, SAYS STIMSON   Jeemed It Impossible for Allied Troops to Land Sufficent Troops to Effect Serious Threat.

500 VISITORS ATTEND PILOT SCHOOL EVENT   Brigadier Gen. Kincaid Is Principal Speaker at 12th Graduation

CLOSE. SENATE VOTE FORESEEN RECONVERSICN   Feel_ng Intensified Both Sides; Compromise May Be Effected

Leaders Seek To Decide On Murray-Rilgore Benefits Bill Before End Of Week

CLOSE SENATE VOTE LOOMS ON RECONVER SION   Major Provisions Offered in Murray-Kilgore Bill Face Early Test   GEORGE HITS PROPOSAL   Georgia Senator Opposes Theory Of Spending Way Into Prosperity

Baby Kidnapping   6-Months Old Child Left in Foundling Home Was Stolen

Job-Holding Peak In U. S. Due In July   What Of 21,200,000 Men In Service When War Ends?

ALLIES GAIN VICTORY IN BURMA   Chinese Trained by U. S. Whip Japs in Mawning River Area

FOR CALLSFOR MORE BONDS T BLAST ENEMIES   Says Success of Fourth Drive Sign of American Determination.

WEA FACED WITH DECISION ON FOOD PRODUCTION CUT   POSSIBILITY OF EARLY END OF WAR HAS DIVIDED LEADERSHIP

WFA Puzzling Over Problem Of Production  Qui ick En ll ial ants Ouestio

ADMINISTRATION T0 DECIDE ABOUT FOOD PRODUCTION   Decision Should Be Made Soon So Farmers Can Plan Accordingly

Food Men Study Nazi Decline   WEA Dividend On Policy Of Production

Don’t Know Whether to Hold Down Farm Production or Open Throttle

ALLIES TAKE STRONG POINT OF CARPIQUET   Canadians Seize City by, Storm Under Hail of Mortar Fire and Pres  on to Airdrome Soutli at the Ractinn

Carpiquet Is Captured By Canadians   Caen Area Gain Matches U. S. Push Closing In On La Have du Puits.

More Goods For Civilians Now Possible   Restrictions Lifted On Vitel Materials

Restrictions  vased B v WPB   Nelson Takes First Of Moves To Protect U. S, Post-War Economy

Junkers Fighting Dictator   Gestapo Tries To Strengthen Hold On Army As Rebels Organize

US BombsRip Vital German Oil Centers   21 Hit in *Round-Clock Attacks to Drain Fuel From Panzer Forces

ZURICH~An American atmored patrol reached’ the Franco-Swiss border at Perly last night.

BRICKER TO SPEAK IN NEW YORK SOON   To Follow Swing Through South and West

BRICKER GOES ~ ONAIR APR. 25   Will State Views on Foreign Policy

KELLY SEEKING LABOR’S OTE   Demo Fry Urges New Re creational Areas In Upper Peninsula

MUSKEGON VOTE It ‘SOUGHT BY KELLY   Fry in Marquette Outlines Wide Program for UP De valonment

Allied Planes Sink 3 Jap Merchant Ships;  5 Others Damaged   Eighteen Enemy Planes: Are Knocked Down’ In Bat> -tle Which Results From Air Raid On Shipping  *-Tn Simpson Harbor At Rabaul

THREE BIG JAP VESSELS SUNK   Five More Damaged By Allied Planes In Rabaul Harbor  a ee eee ee ee

FLIERS BLAST B JAP SHIPS IN RABAUL BLOW   18 To 33 Nipponese Planes Shot Down During Fight; 12 Allied Craft Lost

Allies Push Thru Nippon Air Defense   Three Large Ship: Are Sunk, Five More Damaged

Japs Lose Three Merchant Ships At New Britain  Heavy Air Raid Made At Rahaul

Bombers Sink 3 M erchantships and Damage :   Blast Ships In Simpson Harbor At Rabaul, Pilots Say Most Devastating Air Blow Made By Land Based Planes.

3 JAP SHIPS SENT DOWN IN RABAUL RAID   18 Japanese Planes Knocked From Sky

Allied Airmen Sink More Jap Ships AtRabaul   Three Merchantmen Are Sent t6 Bottom and Five Others Damaged, Despite Hot Resistance

Devastating Aerial Blow Struck At Rabaul   Three Big Jap Merchantmen Sunk, Five Hit As Hundred Allied Planes Blast Every . Ship At Big Jap Base On New Britain.

Three Jap Merchant Vessels" Sunk, 5 Others Are Damaged In Blast Of Simpson Harbor

New B-4 Gas Coupons To Be Issued By Local Board; Other GPA Changes Announced

Ring Peleliu foe; 686 U.S. troops killed  No new details on B-29 attacks

686 AMERICANS HAVE DIED IN THE PALAUS   406 Others Are Missing And 4.408 Have Been Wounded Since ' Invasion Of Islands

686 U. S. TROOPS KILLED IN PALAUS   Nimitz Announces 406 Missing and 4,408 Wounded in Inwvasion af Telands.

SUP ERFORTS RAID ANSHAN — WAR PLANTS   Third Attack is Made On Manchurian Industrial Area

Scattered Blows Batter Japanese   Vore Aerial Atta: ks  On Paramushivo Isle

Regulations On Draft Changed By New Orders   Military Wants More Younger Men In Armed Services 

Regulations On Draft Changed By New Orders  ‘Military Wants More  Younger Men In Aweemarl OS nwevi aman

Donnell Calls for Improvements  in Soldier Voting Laws, Requests Funds for Several Agencies

Gov. Donnell Asks Another $4,000,00C   Request of Legislative Session, Opened at Noon, Largely for Social Security—-New Service Vote Bill Sought.

EDWIN KEATH LEAVES TODAY FOR SERVICE   Is Nineteenth Man From NEWS Called “ . Ty, Arms

EDWIN KEATH LEAVES TODAY ~ FOR. SERVICE   Is Nineteenth Man From NEWS Called To Arms

LANDINGS. ON . GRERK ISLES   ONE INVASION .FGRCE’ IS ON ‘ISLAND ONLY SEX MILES FROM THE GREEK MAINLAND  -

Flood Control Bill Snagged  Over Seaway   Congress Talks About Waterwavs

Vast Strides Made By Army Air Arm   Arnold's Report Shows Fate Of Vauinted ‘Nazi:Luftwaffe Soon To Be-Determined

Bombers to Make  Invasion Easier   Near Future to Decide Nazi Air Power's Fate

Arnold reports aims of ‘world’s largest air force’   Invasion blow will be cushioned by devastating reduction of Germanv

Last German Balkan State s Toffering   Hungary on Verge vf Abandoning the Axis

Hungary Near Split With Hitler   Russian Drive Toward Budapest Spurs Decision.

Drive 75 Miles In One Day   New Adyance Toward Paris Gains 27 Miles Since Yesterday

Nazis Fall Back As Second Thrust ls Aimed at Paris   Brittany's Fourth Greatest Port Falls in Allied Offensive

Rampagi ng U.S. Forces Seal  Off Peninsula   Other Armored Units, in Wheeling Move Toward Paris, Smash Eastward 27 Miles From Their Previous Positions

Temperatures   Lightning Drive Rolls 75 Miles In Single Day  Hard-Driving Armor   Hard-Driving Armor Seals Off Entire Brittany Peninsula

U. §. Armored Troops Drive Into Port of Brest, Other Units Wheel Toward Paris   British Bombers Blast U-boat Pens at the French Port City; Advances Continue So Fast Allied Headquarters Lose Track of Some Units

Armored Forces of US. Headed  Toward Paris   Other Units of Doughboys Reach Loire River Entire: ly Sealing Off Whole Briltany Peninsula   German Defenses  Are Crumbling   Brest Still Sineking From Blasting by RAF aa Americans Enter Streets of City

Capture Brest And Seal Off All Brittany   British Send Nazis Scurrying Across Orne River Below Caen

PARIS-BOUND COLUMNS IN 27-MILE GAIN   French Ports of St. Nas zaire and Nantes Menaced by Lightning Push of U. S. Armor.   LAST NAZI DEFENSES IN NORMANDY FALL   German Account Asserts Yanks Have Thrown “Third Army” Into the Spreading Battles. ~—

Yanks Advance 75 Mile In Single Day to Reach. Big Seaport in Brittany   Another Offensive Moving Eastward a oak Toward Paris as Demoralized:German _ ‘Army Folds Up in Many Sectors of Front

AACE  I) MILES IN SINGLE OA}   Other Yank Forces Reach The Loire River   SEAL OFF PENINSULA   Invaders Eastern in Move Move Aimed at Paris; Sub Pens Blasted

Other Units Reach Loire, Sealing Off Peninsula At Its Base   Third Foree Aims At Road To Paris   Germans Retreat Before British Advance South Of Caen

Make 75 Mile Sweep In One Day While Another Force.’ Drives 2.7 Milec Toward Parie

U.S. Wheeling Movement on Paris Started  Yank Tanks Plunge Into Brest a3 British Bombers Hit U-Boat Pens  NAZIS BREAKING UP British Mop Up te River  Orne, in East, Against BTR Ge ey eens         AZIS BREAKING UP   British Mop Up to River Orne, in East, Against Little Opposition

Loire River Is Attained  To Seal Off Large Areas   U. s. Armor Push ‘Starting. ‘On Paris

HIT GOAST BY SWEEP OF 71 MILES IN OM   Other Columns Reach Loire "River to Seal Base of Peninsula.

Other Yankee Forces Reach Loire River   Seal Off Brittany Peninsula at Base; Other Americans Swing East in Drive for Paris

American Troops Gain 75 Miles in Sensational 1-Day Advance to Vital Port City

Third Speedy Drive Reaches Loire. River To Seal Off Breton Peninsula; Sudden Nazi Withdrawal Gives British Many Strongpoints

SECOND FORCE HITS LOIRE 10 CUT PENINSUL   Other Armored Troops Gain 27 Miles in  Drive at Paris

Nelson Resigns As WPB Leader   Will Remain In Capitol For Important Work

MANY HOMES OF NEW TYPE ARE DUE FOLLOWING WAR   Defense Area Peak Probably Has Been Reached and Some Places May Have An OverSupply, Conveniences Change.   (By ROGER W. BABSON).

BETTER HOMES AFTER THE WAR   Babson Predicts An Era Of Building More And Better Homes After the Nazis and Japs Are Licked.

Better Homes Urged For All   BABSON VIEWS NEWER TYPES OF HOUSES AFTER WAR

NEW TYPE HOUSE SURE AFTER WAR   Babson Says Not All Areas ~ Will Have Boom; City Planning Needed

{North Idaho Considers Divorce From Southern Part of State to Join Up With Montana or Washineton

North Idaho Considers Divorce Krom Southern Par of State to Join Up With Montana or Washington   Dewey Outlines His Plan for Free American Economy  Republican Presidential Candidate Calls   Republican Presidential Candidate Calls for Drastic Revision of ‘Our - Repressive Tax Laws’ in Coast Address

German Assaults on Center of Front Defense Lines Thrown Back Thousand Yards   500 NAZIS CAPTURED

American Bombers Add to Fury of Renewed Struggle   Yanks Lose Ground But Regain 1,000 Yards in Fierce Counter Attack

Yanks Beat Back 3 Anzio NaziDivisions   ‘Stiffest Fight Yet.” Doughboys Report: Ger‘ man Losses Heavy

NAZIS THROWN BACK BY U.S. ON BEACHHEAD   Germans Resisting Strongly Against Great Odds

Attacking Forces Hurl German Units Back 1,000 Yards   U.S. Fliers Renew Air Assaults on Nazis at Anzio; Allied Troops Capture 500 Prisoners

Allies Regain Part Of Ground   Three German Divisicns In Narrow Space Unable To Force Breakthrough

J00 PRISONER ARE TAKEN BY YANKS   Allies Gain 1,000 Yards. Continue To Advance   ARTILLERY FIRE   Of Enemy Strongest Since Landing: Germans Get Minor Air Support

Bombers Come to The Aid Of Fifth Army and Blast —  Nazi Troons Around Anzio

Yankees Drive Foe Back After Yielding Before  Three Divisions   Regain 1000-Yard Loss and Smash on 1500 Yards More

Thousands Of Bombs Hurled On Beachhead   Bitter Fighting Continued (ground: Repulse New Counterattack.,   INTENSE STRUGGLE

Americans Halt Stiff Offensive, Regain Ground  Airnlanse Attack   Airplanes Attack Enemy Troops at Italian Beachhead

REPULSE THREE NAZI DIVISIONS ON ANZIO FRONT   U.S. Bombers Hit Nazi Concentrations to Aid Infantry

Doughboys Get Back Most Of  Ground Lost   Nazis Resisting Strongly. _ At Road Junctions But Rains Help Allies © 

U.S. Smashes Fiercest Nazi Attack   Allies Push Germans Back, Continue To Advance in Italy

Nazis Thrown Back In Fight For Anzio  Beachhead   Americans Regain 1,000 Yards Of Lost Ground; 500 Prisoners Are Captured _

PLANES LENDING HAND IN ANZIO DRIVE ON NAZIS   Enemy Troop Concentrations Raked with Thousands of Bullets and Rambhe

Reported Still Making Progress; Germans Have Lost Two-Thirds Ground Gained Tuesday; 500 Nazi Prisoners Taken.

Reclaim 1,000 Yards: of 1,500 Yielded To . Germans :   ARTILLERY FIRE WORST YET FACED

2-3RDS OF AREA LOST TO NAZIS I$ RECAPTURED   Americans Continuing to Gain in Spite of Fierce Resistance

Heavy Bombe Plunge Into Fierce Fight   Stiffest Battle OF Conflict, American: Doughboys Declare

Allied Heavy Bombers Blast 'At German Lines   Germans. Using . Three Divisions, Resisting Fiercely After. Being Pushed Back — Mark IV ‘And. Tiger’ Tanks Rammed. At - Allies — Avtillery, Fit ire Heaviest  et. r

Violent Nazi Blow Beaten By Americans  Foe Admits Break In Advanced Positions;

Nazi Troop Formations  Are Blasted   Battle On Ground Is Stepped Up To New Fury

BITTER GROUND FIGHTING, ALSO      Fierce Doughboy Counterattack Regains 1,000 Yards Lost Yesterday.   STRUGGLE INTENSIFIED

Resistance By Germans Suff  On Beachhead   Driven Back Over TwoThirds of Territory Gained In Third All-Out Offensive   Huns Acknowledge Lines Are Pierced   More Than 500 Germans Taken Prisoners; Doughboys Say Battle Stiff.  est Encountered

1,000 Yard Gain Made By Yanks   Nazis Said to Be Resisting Strongly Near Road Junction

Big Bombers Again Smash Nazi Troops        1,890 Yards  3 American De  fenses 1599 '   YANKS STILL GAIN   Take 500 Prisoners in Stiffes!  ing Vet Experienced on  Anzio Beackhead

CRUCIAL FIGHT FOR BEACHHEAD GROWS IN FURY   Doughboys Inch Ahead Under Heavy Eenemy Barrage Along Wide Front

3RD_ NAZI. BEACHHEAD DRIVE HALTED: U.S. ARMY REGAINS GROUND   Kessalring Directs Attacks at Point Midway Between Carroceto and Cisterna   RAIN HALTS NAZI TANKS 

NAZI ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD IS REPULSED   American Troops Fight Fiercely Against a ThreeDivision Assault.   Battle Is Stiffest Yanks Encounter

Americans Hurl Back Nazi Attack On Center Of Line; Artillery Duels Continue

 AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST AT NAZI FORMATIONS  THREE DIVISIONS OF CER. MANS THROWN AT ANZIC  BEACHHEAD ARFA

US. Bombers Join Anzio — Beach Fight .   Yank Infantry Holts German Thrust, Takes Back Lost Terrain

Americans Gain 1000 Yards im Counter-attack os Germans Try  . Té Push Them to Sea

Germans Fail to Hold Gains Made at Anzio   Three Division Attack Against Center Driven Back by Americans

Nazis Throw Three Divisions Against  Yankees; Repelled   Intensity of Struggle Intensified by Big American Planes

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST AT NAZI FORMATIONS THREE DIVISIONS OF GER MANS THROWN AT ANZIO PEACHUUCAN ADCA

AMERICANS IN CENTER GO UP   Germans Declared Still Resisting Strongly At Road Junction  rrr. *;, 4. mm Ate wratiitge

Germans Fail In Third All-Out: Attempt Io Crush American Fifth Army At Halian Beachhead, Are Being Forced Backward

3-DIVISION ATTACK IS REPULSED   Foe Thrown Back 1000 Yards By Yanks In Bitter Fighting

Nazis Thrown Back In Raids Upon Anzio’s  Defense Lines   Heavy Tanks Massed  Against Americans

ANZIO FORCES REPULSE NAZIS   Regain Lost Ground; Third German Attack Breaking Up

Robinson Gets. Army Contrac   Begins Work On Large, - Fast Rescue Boats

News From The — Homeroy Churches   (MMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH P. E. Ross, Pastor.

bUMMA, Fae ¢  PETAIN AND LAVAL  VERY UNFRIENDLY  SAYS TAYLOR HENRY FRANCE’S MARSHAL DOE  NOT ATTEMPT CONCEAL Ie CONTEMPT

Petain’s Contempt Extends To Dicussions Of Official Business Only With Laval

‘But He Keeps Him— It’s Open Secret That Petain Holds Great Contempt For ‘Black Peter’ Laval

EXTORTION CASE AT NASHVILLE BRINGS ARREST   Bold Attempt to Get $10,000 from Aviation Official Under Threat of Harm to Daughter

22 Men Killed When Two Forts ‘Crash To Earth   13 Lose Lives In California Mishap;  Nine Die In Iowa

18FlyersDie In 3 Crashes   Falling Plane Kills: Man in Automobile

13 KILLED IN BOMBER CRASH   “Fort” Falls in Flaming Wreckage On Runway

OHIOAN AMONG 13 VICTIMS OF BOMBER CRASH   Only One Survivor As Fort Disintegrates Over Airfield

ARMY BOARD SERS REASON FOR GRASH   Flying Fortress Disintegrates in Mid Air; Crew Killed.

Western Union Official Backs Acceptance of F. R. Congratulatory Wire

FDR an Exception:  ines enantio ARN RNR Senet Oe tte NNN NRO LEN Aare teat  He Can Send Congratulatory Wires ‘In Violation of Drastic Orders

CONGRATULATORY WIRE ROW FLARES   FOR Telegram to Truman Handling Upheld By Western Union

FUNDS FAVORED FOR 2 AGENCIES   Lend-Lease, UNRRA Grant: Backed By House Group

UNRRA AND AID FUNDS OKAYED   $450 Million Is Approved For Relief Plan

GROUP BASKS LEASE FUNDS   Committee Also Votes  UNRRA Appropriation

LEND-LEASE UNRRA FUNDS   Appropriations Commit_ tee Approves $3,450,570 - for War Aid and $450,000,000 for the Reliet  Proiect —

Full Approval Is Given UNRRA And Lend-Lease   House Committee Makes No Slash In  Agencies’ Rudcet.

Croup Passes  On Lend-Lease   Appropriates $3.450.570.000 For Group: UNRRA Gets = 450.000.000,

\HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 'OK’S LEND-LEASE AND UNRRA BUDGETS

Approval Given To Lend-Lease And Relief Uni   HonseAppropriation Body Recommends Budget Sought’ By Agencies

Lend-Lease Gets Funds   ”'Unrra Also OBiains  Requested Finances

Lend-Lease, UNRRA Win Approval   Full Budget Asked by Two Agencies Given  Committee Okeh

TWO WAR AGENCIES GET FULL BUDGET   Lend-Lease and UNRRA Given Approval

Blanket Approval  Of UNRRA   House Committee Recommends  1945 Budget as Agencies Request

APPROVE LEND LEASE BUDGET   ‘House Also Gives Approval For UNRRA Appropriation for 1945.

House Committee Gives Lend-Lease, UNRRA Approval  Foll 1945 Budgets of Agencies Recommended, Foreign Econor Se Baminictration Fande fri

"Mogaung ~Mopped Up  Other Alli ed Un its  Wt 224 Wee, Wen ta dawe ce

SEVEN AMER. SHIPS SUNK IN INVASION   Three Destroyers Included; British Lost Eight Ships

Destroyers Top Toll: Blow Costs U. S. 7 Vessels   8 British Ships Lost; Only 1 Yank Skipper Killed in Sinkings

ALLIES LOST 15 WARSHIPS IN INVASION   7 U. S. and 8 British Ships Sunk In Action

U.S. Loss of 7 Warships in Invasion Told   3 Destroyers, 1 Transport Included; Only One Skinner Losi

AKRON SOLDIER IS AGAIN WOUNDED   Cpl. Jay Robertson Is War Casualty For Third Time In European Area

Cpl. Jay Robertson Is War Casualty For Third Time  In European Area

Group Approves Soldier Vote   States Will Control Absentee Balloting

House Committee Okays Soldier Vote Bill Leaving Control to States

Other Air Forces Bomb Five Railway Yards in Hungary, Transylvania

TRANSYLVANIA, HUNGARY ALSO ARE ASSAULTED   Mediterranean Strikes Support Reds Massing on Carpathian Slopes

FACNGH COAST BETO MAULING BY AMERICAN   750 Bombers Hammer Calais Area; Allied Airmen Active Elsewhere.

French Coast Bombarded B 2,250 Planes   3,000 Tons Of Explosives Fall On Fortified Europe

Calais Area Battered by Large Force   Romanian Points Hit In Support Of Russians

Aim Heaviest Blow At Invasion Coast   1,500 U, S. Planes in Attacking Force; Balkans Also Hit

No Opposition in Great Bombardment of Pasde-Calais Area; Other Planes Strike From Italy in Support of Red Armies Massing in Carpathians. Hit Railvards.

Heaviest Yank Blow Yet Given  French Sector   More Than 1,000 Planes  Blast German Installations Set Up to Meet Allied Invasion   Night Attacks On Foe Are Extended   Bombers Strike From Scandinayia to France _ and From Hungary . to Creie

Bombers Hit Nazis in Twin Blow   Invasion Coast Get: Heaviest Attack; Hungary Is Target

AIRMEN BASED IN ITALY BLAST 5 RAIL TARGETS   American Fliers Meet No Nazi Opposition in Attack on French Shore

Pas-De-Calais Gets Greatest Blow Yet By American Planes   1,500 Bombers Hit French Invasion Coast; Raids Also Made On Five Railway Yards In Hungary, Transylvania. Bv Italy-Based Airme

Heaviest Single Blow Yet At Hitler’s French Coast Defense Struck Today. By 1,500 American Heavy Bombers And Fighters.

2 Big Air ~ Armadas ~ Sent Oul   1,500 U. S. Planes Make At tack on French Coast, Carrying. Peak Loads °   EXPLOSIVES. ECHO BACK TO ENGLAND   Reports Show the German _ Transportation System Is Greatly Damaged

15900 PLANES BOMB CALAIS INSTALLATIONS   Separate Air Armada Hits Rail Yards In Hungary And Transylvania

Heaviest Single Blow IsDealt To Pas-De-Calais   750 Fortresses And Liberators Hurled Against West Wall Installations

FRANCE IS Hil BY 790 U. . > BOMBERS   Many Other Targets Feel Great Bomb Weight   RAIL YARDS   Plastered By R. A. F. Units; Hungary And Denmark Also On List

UpTo1,500 U.S. Planes HitInvasion Coast Hard   Great Italy -Based Armada Strikes In Hungary

Invasion Coast Hit Heavily   _Armada of 1,500 U. S. Planes Strikes Pas_de-Calais Area Greatest Single Blow Yet

1500 BIG BOMBERS GIVE FULL ATTENTION TO WEST WALL AND EXPLOSIONS ECHO IN BRITAIN   Hundred of Fighters Support Giant Raid on Pasde-Calais Section. RAF Heavy Bombers Workec On French Rail Yards ‘and Other Targets Last Nitaht ‘

Heaviest Blow At ‘Invasion’ Coast Sector   Up to 1500 U. S. Planes Blast Area; Hungary, Transylvania Also Hit

Heaviest Blow Given Coast   French Invasion Area Battered; Mighty Armadas Hit Hungary, Transylvania

Record Bomb Blow Rocks French Coast   U. S. Airmen From Italy Blast Five Rail .Yards In  Hungary. Transylvania.

Another Great Armada from Italy _Bombs Five Rail Yards in Transylvania and Hungary in Support of Russians   Raids Direct Aid to Rusasians

Heaviest Blow Yet Hits Invasion Coast   1,500 American Planes Pound French Area While Another Armada From Italy Bombs Railway Yards in Balkans.

U. S. AIR FORCE STEPS UP ATTACK ON PAS-DE-CALAIS   CARRY PRE-INVASION AERIAL OFFENSIVE INTO FIFTEENTH DAY

1,500 Planes Stage Attack Around Calais   Hungary, Transylvania Pounded By Heavies; Other Assaults From Scandinavia To Crete

STRIKE HEAVY AIR BLOWS AT FRANCE, ITALY   American Bombers Deliver Crushing Attacks; Report No Opposition.   Rail Yards in Balkans Targets For Yankees

Invasion Coast is Given Its Hardest Single Blow Today   1,500 American Planes Concentrate Attacks on  French Shores

HEAVY STRIKES FROM 2 WAYS   1,500 Heavy Bombers and Fighters Strike Heaviest, Single Blow.   SOUTHERN DRIVE ‘GOOD’

1500 HITS AT TARGET   Italy - Based Planes - Rake Five Hungary Railway Yards

MOTIGKS Fh NOTHIAL FILED  SCHITIIN GAGE   F fth Week of Washington Case Ends in Tumvelt

Marine Home From Pacific   Pfc. Jack Williams, Recovered From Wound, Is Here

Times Herald Will Publish Miles’ Stories   War Front Dispatches About Iowans to bs  Featured

MILES 7 TOUR OF WORLD FIGHTING LINES   Will Send Dispatches on Iowa Servicemen, Women to Globe-Gazett

‘Frank Miles, Fort Madison Native, Evening Democrat War Correspondent

U.S. Strikes Bonin, Voleano Islands Destroys 25 Planes, Shore Installations in Crushing Blow

U. S. Warships, Planes Smash Six Jap Vessels, Wreck Installations in Bold Blows at Volcano, Bonin Islands

TRAVEL OUT OF BRITAIN IS HALTED  _.Move Des ribed   “4a WE SRS INRA  ..Move Described As ' Pre-Invasion Regulation

a p Pe Brit tish: Ban  fats apc TW rd tiki}  Tr ave) Prior  at  To Invasion      Prohibit Trips Out of ; Country; Nazis Boast   Troops Await D-Day

Ban On Travel Step To Prevent Invasion Leaks   Virtually All Passage Overseas Prohibited By British Government

Travel Overseas From Britain  Is Prohibited   German Radios Are Still Speculating On Invasion Date

Invasion Eve Regulations Limit Travel   Movement From Britain Overseas Is Restricted

Overseas Travel from Britain is Halted as invasion Eve Precaution

ALL OVERSEAS TRAVEL UNDER BAN IN BRITAIN   ‘Tight Little Isle’ Gets Tighter, Pending Invasion

Act Again to Screen Plans For Invasion   Bnitish Virtually Halt Travel; Nazis Believe Blow Near

am bil — =  England Cu! "bs All Overseas  “Trips for Assault Secreey

Halt Or DestroyWord To Italians   Gen. Alexander Calls On North Italy Partisans to Attack Fleeing Germans

Chiyang Taken By Jap Troops   Chinese Regain Edge On Salween Front .

Survey Shows President With Only Slight Advantage Now  FDR And Dewey In Home Stretch Running Neck-And-Neck, Latest Gallup Poll Shows

Soviets Cross Border   Red Army Troops Enter East Prussia, Paris Radio Reports

Reds Into Belgrade and Rig   Hungary Being Overrun and Soviets Slug Out Gain in Prussia   GERMANS TELL OF RED BALTIC GAINS   Russians Racing Through Hungary Are Heading for Austrian Frontiers

Soviet Army Races Onward Toward the Austrian Frontier   Vienna Digs In; Reds Close In. on _ Tilsit, Meniel Garrisons

Youth Confesses Fatal Stabbing   Baffling Philly Mystery Murder Of Aged Man Is Solved.

ROBBERS HOLD UP TWO COPS   Two Men in Auto Take Guns From State Policemen Near Huntingdon

Bricker Calls For Immediate Trial Of Kimmel, Short   Attacks Closed Door Policy Of New Deal On Vital News

Bricker Concludes Eastern Campaign   Urges Cooperation With Other Nations

NZI ATTACKS THROWN BACK   Germans Put Up Same Kind of Fight They Displayed jin - Battle of Aachen

Fierce Battle Is Waged for  German Town   Enomy Counter- Attacks Repulsed by First, Army jn Strugale Described as “Save _ age Bs That for Aachen

YANKS REPEL NAZI ATTACKS NEAR SCHMIDT   Battle as ‘Savage as Aachen Struggle’ on Much Larger Scope

COUNTERATTACKS BY NAZIS NEAR SCHMIDT REPULSED BY YANKS  TORRENTIAL RAINS SLOWED RISSIAN NRIVE

OPA Ceiling On Vegetables   Carrots, Peas, Beans And Spinach Listed

VEGETABLE PRICE MARK-UPS CHANGE   Ceilings Now Térmed Likely to Mean Savings for Consumers .

Paul Lukas, Jennifer Jones Win Highest Screen Award For 1943   “Casablanca” Voted Best Film Of Years; Oklahoma-Born Actress Wins Oscar For Performance In “The Song of Bernadette.”

Honored For Best Acting Performances; ‘Casa -blanca” Acclaimed Best Film

‘Casablanca’ Best Film  Jennifer Jones and Paul Lucas Honored By Movie Industry

OSCAR GIVEN 10 HUNGARIAN. BORN   Paul Lukas Gets Award, “Casablanca” Is Acclaimed as Best Picture.

C hurchill Stands Firm On Greek. Italy Policy   By JAMES F. KING

US.-Britain OK Italian Cabinet   Both SPleased’ With Nev — Roneami Cavernment:

0. WAROHIPO HT GUAM. TINIAN   Y.ota and Pavan Islands Shelled From the Air

YANK WARSHIPS SHELLING GUAM; SAIPAN DOOMED   Tinian, Rota and Pagan Isles @ Also Hit; U. S. Captures Two Airdromes

Veleran Troops Leading Attack On Marshalls   Largest Naval Armadé Ever Assembled Moves In on Japanese

FOREIGN POLICY GOES ON TRIAL   Senate Gets Opportunity To Quiz Stettinius And His Aides

FOREIGN POLICY T0 GO ON PARADE   Senators to Question Stettinius and Nominated Aides About Diplomatic and Economic Plans

U. S. Foreign Policy Goes On Parade This Week; Senators Ready To Probe

Six Stettinius  Aides Face Quiz   Senate Wants To Exaniie Their Lives. Oninions

mS mae A ee  US. Policy. To Be Aired      As: Paraded - Before  ‘Senate Committee

Senate to Examine Foreign Policy   Committee to Question Stettinius, Nominees

U.S. Foreign Policy To Be  Given Review   State Department Officials to Appear  Before Senators

STAND OF FDR ON  WALLACE AWAITED   Endorsement of Vice 3 President’ ‘by Roosevelt --Expected

Roosevelf Seen Backing Wallace   Other Candidates Holding Up Plans

CAPITAL AWAITS WALLACE STAND   Democratic Political Cards Covered Until FDR Indication

AWAIT ROOSEVELT WORD ON WALLACE   SUPPORTERS OF OTHER POSSIBLE CANDIDATES KEEP CARDS COVERED.

WHITE HOUSE ADMITS SHIP. ‘GIVEN SOVIET      EARLY SAYS CRUISER TRANS _ FER MADE IN CONNECTION ‘WITH AGREEMENT ON  *  PTALIAN NAVY

Reported Warship Gift To- Reds -Sends- Vinson On Fact Finding Hunt

White House Admits U. S. Cruiser  Transferred To Soviet Government

ADMITS CRUISER GIVEN TO RUSSIA      Early Charges Congressmar Divulges Secret War Information

 Gov. Bricker Of Ohio Agrees To  Accept Second Place On Ticket  With Former Gang Buster—Big  Demonstration For Dewey   'BRICKER TO MAKE = SECONDING SPEECH

Ohioan Drops Out of Race For Presidency   Dewey to Go by Plane to Accept Nomination

Bricker To Second  Nomination   Complete Harmony Rules Convention On Nomination Day

Resume Fight Over Ward's   Biddle Says It’s President's Duty .To Prevent Labor Trouble.

BIDDLE DEFENDS SEIZURE ORDER IN WARD BATTLE  DOCCINCAT’Cc NHiiTVv   PRESIDENT’S DUTY TO PREVENT LABOR TROUBLE, HE SAYS

Legal Fight Reopens in Ward Seizure   Biddle Defends Action Of F. R. as Wartime Emergency Measure

LEGAL FIGHT ON WARD'S GOES ON   Biddle: F. R. Must Halt Labor Trouble Spread

PRESIDENT ORDERS WARD SEIZURE STOP SPREAD OF STRIKES  THAT IS ARGUMENT BIDDLE, U, §, ATTORNEY GEN FERAL. MADE MONDAY

Judge Hears Ward Case   Expected to Give Ruling Tomorrow on Company’s Injunction

Legal Battle Over Seizure of Ward's Is Resumed Today   Government Seeks’ to Show Company Is In War Production

Biddle Defends Seizure Of Wards  Duty Of President To Act, He Declares

Biddle Declares Ward Seizure Was Necessity of War Points Gu! Firm Handled Much Agricultural Equipment “All  a oe ee

Biddle Argues Ward Case   Hearing Continued ae, ‘t Late This  An ternae” ‘

SEIZURE ORDER WAS FR'S DUTY      Biddle Says Action Necessary to Prevent Spread of “Labor Trouble.   IS WARTIME EMERGENCY

Hollandia Bombed By  Americans   Weak Anti-Aircratt Fire Greets Planes Over Jap Bases

Japanese Base on Dutch New Guinea Attacked   Storms Fail to Halt Daily Bombing Visit to Rabaul

Liberators Ih Raid on ~ Hollandia   Japanese Base on Dutch  New Guinea Attacked _  Ry Bombarsof-— = Fifth Force ;

HOLLANDIA BOMBED BY LIBERATORS   Fifth Airforce Group Flies Hundreds Of Miles To Jap Base On Dutch New Guinea: Bad Weather.   Sink Barges

JAPANESE BASE IS BOMBED BY FLIERS   Bombing of Hollandia on Dutch New Guinea Reported

AUGSEVELT Is ~ BACK ON JOB   P RESE D ENT. PLUNGES INTO SERIES OF CQNFERENCES AFTER RETURN FROM THE SOUTH

BUTTER SUPPLY AT 25-YEAR LOW   Only 12 Million Pounds ir Storage for Civilians

Senator Asks U.S. to State Foreign Views   Accent Placed On New Meeting Of Three Heads

DEMANDS U9. CPEAK CLEARLY   Vandenberg Says Nation Should Be As Outspoken As Our Allies.   OFFICIALS CONCERNED

CHAPLIN: TRIAL HURY SELECTED   Film Comedian Is Slated - To Be Early Witness In Paternity Case

BLIMP CRASH KILLED TEN      BLIMP_.STRIKES _ HANGER. [FIRST FATAL .LAKEBURS "* ACCIDENT SINCE DIRIGI0° SUE EXPLODED. —

Woman Trapped Berlin Plotter  ~ Goerdler Arrested In West Prussia, Germans Reveal!

RITISH 3 MILES FROM: NAZI BORDER   Open Offensive in Hol — Jand as U.S. Transports Take Aid to Trapped Sky Troops.   SUPPLIES, WEAPONS AND MEN LANDED   Fate of Parachutists Remains Uncertain—Germans Assert Band Has Been Wiped Out.

Attack First Since Raid By Doolittle   4-Motor Planes Driven Off, Nip Radio Claims

—wy BREA be weer  Allies Need More Than One Good Port In France  Nazi Garrison May Be Trapped In Cherbourg

SUPERFORTS HIT TARGETS IN MANCHURIA   Up to Sixty B-29's of 20th Bomber Command Stage Daylight Strike in Puppet State  AIR OPPOSITION WEAK

60 B-29'S HIT AT JAP PUPPET ARSENAL TARGET   Chungking Reports Yank Aerial Smash To Be Launched

SUPERFORTS IN MUKDEN ATTACK   Daylight Strike Is Made Against Jap-Dominated Puppet State.

Up to Sixty B-29s Partici pate In Daylight Strike “Against Industries Of Japanese

anks Near onquest Of eyte Island   Battle Rapidly Draws To An End, MacArthur States

‘Superforts In Substantial ‘Force Plaster Industrial Targets In Mukden, Manchuric   Up To 60 B-29s Strike Jap-Dominated Puppet State

60 SUPERFORTS PUMMEL MUKDES   BOMB JAPANESE WAR PLANTS IN MANCHURIAN CITY

Superfortresses Start Fires in Tokyo Area  J Japs / Admit ‘Blazes   Japs Admit Blazes but Claim No Damage Resulted

Mukden Hit In Attack By Superforts   Industrial Target In Manchuria Bombed By U.S. Planes

MANCHURIA HIT BY SUPERFORTS   About 60 B-29’'s in Attack On Jap Targets, War Dept. Reports

GLOBAL PRESS SAD SECURITY KEY TO PEACE   Exchange of News Theme of Talk by Berle

Soldier Ballots Are Mailed Out .  Near 600 Application: Received By Auditor

Soldier Ballots Are Mailed Chea  600 Application ~ Received ‘By Auditor

MINERS DEBATE POLITICAL STAND   Delegates Challenge Lewis’ Attack On Roosevelt

"NAVAL BOMBARDMENT  HELPS FLING BACK  GERMAN ASSAULTS STORMS HAMPER MOVEMENT OF SEA-BORNE —  ‘PDINGCCUCAR CIIpDPTICG

Huns Forced into Retreat at Cassino   Red Army Takes 10 More Towns in Eastward  Push after ‘(aking ‘Shepetovka: ~

BRIDGEHEAD BELOW ROME STILL HOLDS AS STORMS HAMPER AIR FORCE AND SEABORNE SUPPLIES   Allied Front Lines Remain Virtually Unchanged, While Fifth Army Seeking to Break Through and Effect Junction Makes Some Gains at Cassino

Throw Back German Attack On bridgehead   Fifth Army Makes Slight Advances— Reds Continue Annihilation Blows

Eisenhower Plans (Operations for Earliest Victory  Bad Weather Failed To Stop Allies In Normandy Drive

Allied Forces Still Striving For Quick Knockout (*r Nazis preregien s  ¢ meme, we, oe ee Oe

Ff nterpreting The War News— (Arnheim Retreat Not Likely T 0. \Delay Early Decisive Battles

\MERICANS PUSH TO WITHIN FOUR MILES OF ROER RIVER AS STRUGGLE NEARS CLIMAX

WHITE RUSSIAN ATTACK GAINS MOMENTUM IN ama FOR PINSK   : Landan, Jan. 14 (?}—Tho Red army bas captared Mesyr sid Koalinkevichi, Moscow radio announced tealight.’

Russian Seige Guns Blast Nazis   NEW GAINS ARE MADE AS SOVIETS TAKE , RAIL CENTER

W..: Russian Army Blasts af Rail Centers   Gains Momentum in Drive on Pinsk as Vatutin’s Ukrainian Army Sweeps Forward

Germans Face New Disaster on Red Front   White Russian Army Menaces Rail Centers of Pripet Marshes

Rail Lines Are Raided Constantly  White Army Picks Up Momentum For Pins

Troops Capture Link To Warsaw   Key City Of Lwow May Be Isolated By Deep Penetration; White Russian Army Gains

SOMET GUNS HAMMER IML CENTERS NAZI COUNTER BLOWS FAIL      Rokossovsky’s Armies Gain In Drive on Pinsk; Lwow Isolation Is Goal   VATUTIN NEAR BUG RIVER

“Tke’ To Have Comferis Ot Home When H e Starts Touring Western Front

Battleships Shell Ponape, Satawan, Planes Hit Truk   Task Forces That Paved Way » for Hollandia Invasion Leisorely Carry War to Jap Bases

Smash At Truk Proves Fleet's Striking Power   800 Tons Of Bombs Rip Jap Base; 126 Enemy Planes Destroyed.

800 Tons Of Bombs Rained Upon Truk   MacArthur Reports 1,727 Japanese Vessels Are Sunk

U, S. FORCES HIT NIP BASES AGAIN   Truk Staggers Under Mighty Blows While Wake Isle  ° Takes Hard Pasting

Blows 1000 — Miles ,Apart Unchallenged   Hollandia and Truk Are ‘Pounded by Battleships, Cruisers, Planes

Staggering Blow Dealt at Jap Base   Battleships, Cruisers, Carriers Smash at Truk in Devastating Raid

Powerful Blow Dealt By Navy : On Jap Bastion   Fleet Demonstrates Great  Punching Power In Two Attacks 1,000 Miles Apart In Pacific   Pianes Drop 800 Bombs On Island   No Ships Damaged, Plane Losses Light In Yank Assaults; 126 Jap Craft Destroved

Truk Is Bombed By U. S. Forces   Huge Fleet Deals Blow 1,000 Miles Dis  _tant From Point Where It Was Las'  Reported, Assisting. Blow at Jar Base of Hollandia.   FCE LOSES 126 PLANES   U. 8. Bombers in Attack On Harbor of La Spezia

HOLLANDIA AND TRUK BLASTED FROM SEA & AIR   Many Jap Planes Destroyed As Navy Reveals Sustained Striking Power Far From Home Base; 20 Laden Jap Barges Sunk Or Damaged.

Heavy Damage In U.S. Naval Raid   STAGGERING BLOWS ARE DEALT JAPS IN THE PACIFIC.

Truk Attack  Shows Power   American. Task Unit Challenged Nippons

Blast Truk Again   After Aiding Landing At Hollandia Fleet  Goes On to Deal Blow To Big Jap Naval Base

U. 5. Warships Strike at Japs   American Task Force Attacks Truk After Hollandia Invasion

Light Opposition Found By Nimitz; 106 Planes Lost By Japanese Force

PACIFIC FLEET STRIKES JAP BASTIONS   Hollandia and Truk, 1,000 Miles Apart Are Dealt Staggering Blow:

Pacific Fleet Proves Power  Moves Against Foe in Leisurely Manner

Yank Fleet Batters Foe In Vast Area   Simultaneous Major Blows Are Delivered 1.000 Miles Apart

Carrier-Based Bombers Rain Destruction On  Jap Stronghold   Three-Day Assault Overwhelms Pacific Island With 800 Tons Of Bombs And Brings Destruction Of 196 Nin Aijreraft

Sustained Striking Power of Fleet Is  Displayed at Truk   U.S. Task Force  Follows Hollandia Blow with Second Great Sea Assault

SUPPORT FORCE ATHOLLANDIA DEALS NEW BLOW   126 Enemy Planes Downed; Carrier  Aircraft Drop 800 Tons Of Bombs

OPPORTUNITY FOR VICTORY AHEAD—PATCH   Allied Spearheads Advance to Points 60 Miles Inland

Germans Suffer Heavy Losses   300,000 Casualties; Material Losses Heavy Also

REPORT FRENCH ALREADY SEIZE NAVAL —  Allies 8 Miles Fr *M arsei ille

Costly Wreck At Sheffield   14 Cars, 12 Carrying Locomotives, Leave Rails

Patrol Fighting Fierce On Anzio   Allied Bombers Blast Enemy Supply Ports

Skirmishes Below Rome Are Fierce   Allied Bombers Continue Attack On Supply Lines

FIERCE FIGHTING BELOW ROME   Allied Bombers Maintain Day And Night Assault Against Enemy Ports

Patrol Fighting South of Rome Reported Heavy   Enemy Ports and Rail Lines Are Attacked Again-

PATROLS CLASH ON ITALIAN LINE   Allied Planes Maintam Drive on Supply Routes

ITALIAN FRONT GROWS ACTIVE   Patrol Fighting Breaks Out; Bombers Push Drive

Nazi Patrols Gain Ground at Anzio   Allies Improve  Southern Positions ~

Interest High As Political Climax Nears   Results of Tuesday : Vote May Be in Doub Kar Davs or Weeks

Badoglio No! Recoynized  By U.S.A.   Soviet Government Plays Lone Hand ‘In Italian Regime

U.S. Not to Follow Soviet Italian Move   Recognition Granted Badoglio Was Action by Russia Alone

ITALY POLICY   Badoglio Regime Will Not Be Given Recognition, Hull Declares

Attack by Patton On Flank Checks Drive, foe Reports   Nazis Sweep Farther Into Belgium, Luxembourg; Berlin Claims 28th One of U.S. Divisions Smashed

Late German Broadecasis State that Third Army Had“Succeeded inSiowing Advance and That Brunt of Fighting Had Shifted to Flanks.”

Patton’s Army Strikes From South to Slow Advance, Say German:   Belgian Road Center of Bastogne By-Passed by Foe; Battie Reported Near Arlon, West of Big City Of Luxembourg; Both Flanks ‘Stabilized’

Approach border of France near Arlon; advancing on Sedan   Main roads cut around Bastogne; Yanks are stahilized in one sector

Nazi Forees Only 10 Miles From Border  Of France   Bastogne Is Bypassed With ‘Main Highways Leading North, South And Pact Severed   NEWS AS OF DEC. 20

WAR AGENCIES TOLD TO PLAN ON QUITTING   Economy ' Advocates Urge Cuts at Once

Going Out of Business  FDR Orders War Agencies To Get Ready to Fold Up

Action Is Demanded. ‘After. F.D.R. Cites’ Plans SD Dae Wan Qlachpa-::

FDR Planning Prompt Paring Of War Rolls   President Asks for Plans To Liquidate Agencies Aa Snan ac. Ware Fade

SENATOR SEES pqSTWAR 93°   George Predicts Ample Employment During Peacectime

FIGHT T OPENS: ON BENEFITS   COMMITTEES IN MIDST OF HOT CONTROVERSY OVER BAND. . LING OF POSTWAR PROBLEM ©

SENATOR SEES: pysTwan. jas   George Predicts ‘Ample. Employment During Peacetime -

Supply Problem May Delay War   Shorfage of Ammunition Delayed Capture of Fortress of Aachen

Fifth Army Cracks Formidable Barriers   Yanks Succeed Against Gothic Line Fortifi cations in One of Fiercest Battles of the Entire Italian Campaign.

Success Scored In Some Of Severest Fighting Of Entire Italian Camnaign.

Yanks Score Gothic Gains   Nazi Fortifications Pierced, 3 Vital Defense Points Fall

OTH ARMY SCORES A GREAT SUCCESS   American Troops Capture Three Important Heights In Gothic Line,

VITAL ITALIAN HEIGHTS FAL!      Yanks Push Through Gothic Line In Fiercest Fight Of Campaign

Bth Army Break: Into Gothic Line  Captures Three Hills in Desperate Fighting

Fifth Army Yanks Crack  Nazi Defense   Capture Three Heights In Gothic Line After Heavy Battle

Americans Smash Nazi Lines In Italian Battle  Formidable German Line Cracked In Heavy Fighting

YanksScore Big Success InAdvances Acrossltaly   Nazis Are Are Clearec Out Of Heights By Americans

wY ANKS CAPTURE 3 MOUNTAINS IN GOTHIC LINE   New Success Places Troops 27 Miles From Bologna In Po Valley

Yanks Capture Three German Strona Points   Break Through Nazi Fortifications in Gothic Line to Score “A Great Success”

Fifth Army Takes Three Mountain Heights in Italy   British Drive Into Republic of San Marino Near Adriatic

FIFTH CAPTURES THREE HEIGHTS   Clark’s Troops Score Vita Gains in Gothic Line

VITAL HEIGHTS ARE TAKEN IN NORTH ITALY   Fifth Army Captures Monte Partone, Monte Altuzzo, Monte Celli 20 Miles Northeast of Florence   AFTER BITTER FIGHTING

Fifth Breaks German Line   Key halian Peaks Fall in Heavy Altack

Gothic Line Peaks Taken By 5th Army   Important Gains Made After Day Of Most Bitter Fighting

U.S. 5TH ARMY CLAIMS PEAKS IN GOTHIC. LINE   Spectacular Gains Above Florence Called ‘Great Success’ by Leaders

Succéss: Scored ; In. Some Of Severest Fighting Of Entire - ‘Italian. Campaign. ~~

Clark's Men Break Through Nazi Fortifications, Seize Three Gothic Line Positions   Drive Enemy From Vital Heights In Gains Called “Great Succece”

Fifth Captures Peaks in Line   Foe Driven From Heights After Fierce Fighting

ALLIES CAPTURE ITALIAN HEIGHTS   ‘Great Success’ Chalked Up After Fierce Fighting

Yanks Take 3 Heights in Gothic Line   British and Indian Troops Aid Americans with Flanking Movements; British Forces Enter San Marino

Fifth Takes Three Heights in Gothic Line   Eighth Enters San Marino to Cnoane Nazic

FIFTH ARMY TROOPS  SCORED BIG SUCCESS I FLORENCE AREA   ‘THREE IMPORTANT ‘HEIGHTS NAZIS ITALIAN GOTHIC LINE CAPTURED

CAPTURE HEIGHTS IN GOTHIC LINE   5TH ARMY TROOPS SCORE IMPORTANT SUCCESS IN ITALY

‘Yanks Seize Key Heights In Italy   Fifth Army Advances In Pace With Attack To Within 27 Miles of Bolorna in Po Valley

Key Gothic Line Hills Captured   American Fifth Army Troops Take Heights After Bitter Battle.

TWO-PRONGED 3RD ARMY DRIVE TOWARD SAAR VALLEY MAKING GOOD PROGRESS

ALLIES DRIVE INTO SAAR INDUSTRIAL VALLEY; BRITISH AT WAAL-RHINE LINE

Yanks and French Advance on Saar   Armored Spearheads Push From Moselle

Undeclared War Between Nazis And Finns Rages   Germans Refuse To Remove Northern Troops

‘War’ Rages in Finland   Declaration Expected; Nazi Sabotage Grows

War Between Finland, Germany Rages   Nazis Sabotage Harbors, Shipping Lanes

Finn-German War Rages   Nazis Sabotage Finn Harbors, Lay Mines, In Undeclared Fight

Undeclared War Rages Between Finns, Germans; Reds Encircling Warsaw

JURY DloAGREED IN MILLER-BASEY DAMAGE GAGE   New Trial Expected After Jury Disagrees Followin,s LCeliberat.on

JURY DISAGREES IN MILLER-BAGEY DAMAGE CASE   New Trial Expected ‘After Jury Disagrees. Followin,y Deliberation

Vincent. Buss —  New REA ang  F orsberg To Open * ' Appliance Shon 

Vincent Buss © New REA Manager  Forsberg To Open  Appliance Shop

Minnesota Senator to Ask That Public Be Given Data on Statler Hotel Fight

WAR TODAY   Allied Situation Better Than Satisfactory; the Weather Alanoat Brought Disaster to Invasion

Cleaning That Basement?   The War Today   Sun Gives Assistance’ “To Allies

Invasion Which Came So Near Meeting Disaster In Early Stages Now Is Well Established Along 80-Mile Front and 18 Miles Deep, Thanks to Ai  Cantera]

 The War Today—  Continued Favorable Weather Now Needed To Make Invasion Success

IN AMARILLO HOSPITALS   Mrs. B. F. Machen, medical. Mrs. Joe B. Cox, medical.

Evidence Of American Victory Flung In Face Of Japs; Great Fleet Rides In Lagoon;  Marines Continue Mop-up

Japan's Rule In Area Suspended   Military Regime Set Up In Isfande

U.S. military government proclaimed   ‘Suspend powers of Nip emperor’

Japan's Rule In Area Suspended   Military Regime Set Up_ In Islands  “one: a

Swirling Snow, Driving Rains Usher in Spring   Middle West, New England Hit By Stormy Weather

Snow and Cold Sweep U.S. as Spring Bows in Killing Many, Sending Out Plow:

SPRING ADVENT FINDS WINTER’S RULE EXTENDED   Snow, Rain and Sub-Freezing Cold Sweep Nation, Seven Deaths Include One from Exposure

Spring Arrives Upon Wings Of Severe Storm:   Snow, Sleet And Rain Lash Most Sections Of Nation Today

WINTER BLASTS STRIKE AGAIN   Snow, Rain And _  SubFreezing Temperatures Claim Seven Lives

Old Man Winter Strikes Furiously At Most Of U. S. As Spring Arrives

WINTER BLASTS GREET SPRING   Snow, Rain, Sleet And Cold Claim Seven  Lives In U. 8S.

Winter Land Savage Blow In Season’s  Last Round   Seven Deaths In Wake Of Snow And Sleet And Low Temperatures; Today First Of Spring

Out. in Stole   7 Persons Die in Raging Blizzards Throughout U:S.      Snow, Sleet and High Winds Lash Nation on Final Day of Winter; Spring, a Day Earlier This Leap Year, Arrived at 12:49 P M Todav

WINTER GETS IN ONE FINAL BLOW   Old Man Winter, Officially Replaced. By Spring At 1:49 P. M., Gives Nation Something To Remember Him By.

Imminent Balkan Development Seen With ‘King Peter Said Headed For Secret Meet

Yugoslavian King Leaves OnSecretTrip   My ‘stery ~ Departure Be‘lieved: to F oreshadow: “New ‘Balkan: Moves

YUGOSLAV KING ON SECRET TRIP   LONDON BELIEVES SOME NEW DEVELOPMENT IN BALKANS 1S IMMINENT,

Yugoslav King Is Reported On ‘Secret’ Trip   Important Balkan  Developments Seen As Possible Result

Exiled King Leaves Cairo   King Peter Leaves For ‘Secret Destination’; Feel  Balkan.

INDICATE OPA REFORMS NEAR   Bowles Asks Continued Price Control Present Law [Expires June 30th

BOWLES HINTS OF OPA REFORMS   Promises Determined Battie To Hald Living Costs

Roundabout Swede Story Claims Several Divisions  Land, Join Slav Marshal -

Several Divisions Cross Adriatic, Enter Yugoslavia   Germans And Croats Put Up Strong Resistance

Yanks Move Against Key Saipan Field   Warships Smash Guam Defenses, Repulse Aireratt

Airdrome ls Major Oiiective   Marines, Soldiers Fighting Side By Side in Invasion

STRONG JAP FLEET UNITS —  “MAY BE AT PHILIPPINES   AMERICAN NAVAL AUTHORITIES SURPRISED ENEMY DID NOT FIGHT DURING ~ RECENT RAID

BRITISH 8TH ARMY CAPTURES CERVIA   General Clark’s Forces Consolidate Newly-Won Position in Bitter Fiohtinge.

ALLIES PUSH ON IN DRIVE FOR BOLOGNA   Fifth Army Faces Strong German Reinforcements

Americans Hold  Gains in Italy   More Reinforcements For Nazis Reported

ITALIAN FRONT ADVANCE SLOW   Americ ans Strengthen Positions South Of Bologna

Fighting Eases, Talks Continue In Greek Crisis   Scobie, Papandreen Believed Pinning Hopes on Regency; ELAS Seek Military Amnesty

Greek.EAM Offers Terms.t to British for: Halting: Fight;Report Brits Reject. Truce :

BRITISH HOPING FOR REGENCY TO APPEASE GREEKS   NEGOTIATE WITH EAM IN EFFORT TO FIND A SOLUTION

Greek Rebels Seek Formation of New Government  Gen. Scobie Studies Peace Proposal Submitted by EAM

PLAN FOR REGENCY   May Patch Up Peace With  Leftist Forces Fighting  ~ in Greece

LEFTIST EAN TO END FIGHT   Inform British of Willing. ness To Have New Government Formed

GREEK PEACE PLAN OFFERED   Leftist Offer To Quit If New Government Is Formed

EAM May Stop Its Fighting  In Greece   But Sets Forth Two Conditions lt Asks British To Meet

—GREECE—  LEFT MOTO READY TOEND FIGHTING   Ask New Government Be Formed To. Deal With Guerrilla Issue-:.   ‘PLAN REGENCY   Archbishop Of Athens Willing To Assist In Restoring Order —

EAM Detivers Its Terms To British   Asks Formation of New Government

GREEK REBELS CALL FOR A ~ NEW REGIME   Eam Forces Fighting the British Ask Action on Question of Guerrilla Disarmament and Trial of Collaborationists.

New Governmen ls Demanded By Left Wing EAM   Offer To End Battle if Terms Are Met By British; Fighting In Athens Dying Down

GREEK TRUCE TERMS JURNED DOWN, REPOR)    Disarmament Of Guerrillas One of Main Points at Issue With  British Commander

ELAS PRESENTS QUITTING TERMS   Greek Left Wing Will Cease Fight On Terms Offered To Lt. Gen. Scobie Of Rritish.

Eam Submits Peace Plans To British   ‘Seek Withdrawal Of Regular Anny In Athens Area

Greek Leftists Truce Rejected   Fighting in Streets Of Athens Continues

EAM PROPOSES END TO BATTLE   Greeks Want Government Ts Disarm Guerrihes, Prosecute Axis Elements

Act a Slap At Allies   De Gaulle Order Keeps French Officers Out Of Invasion Forces

FRENCHMEN FAIL 10 ASSIST D-DAY   De Gaulle Reported To Have Cancelled Orders For Men To Go on Invasion.

De Gaulle Holds French Officers Out Of Invasion   Cancels Orders At Final Momen}

'DeGaulle Would Not Permit French To Go With Allies   Cancelled Arrangements For Helping Liberate Own Country In Final Hours Before Invasion

UFFIGERG TOLD BY OE GAULLE TO STAY BAGH   General Cancels Orders Given Several Hundred to Go with Invasion.

DDay Plans Hindered By Gen. De Gaulle      Stops French Officers  Scheduled To Go With Allies   rritates White House By Pressure At . ‘This Time   - LONDON, June 14. (P)— The British Press. association said that Gen. Charles De Gaulle landed in Normanny tadayv.

Allies At Odds With De Gaulle   French Officers Not Permitted To Land with Invasion Forces

De Gaulle Refused To Permit  French To Accompany Invaders   French Underground Disrupts Nazi Plans To Hold Invasion   Sabotaging Wherever Possible, But Avoiding Open Battle With Germans Until Striking Force Organized In Mountains.

DeGaulle’s Actions Thorn in Sides of  Allied Governments   Cooperation” of French People. With. Armies is Impaired

French Leader Refused to Permit Troops to Land with Allied Forces

De Gaulle Stopped French D-Day Aid   Ejisenhower’s Headquarters Says in Final .Hours He Suddenly Canceled Orders of h Officers Due to Land With Allies. _

DE GAULLE HELD OFFICERS BACK   Changed Mind O: On Invasion Plans At Last Minute, Washington Learns

DEGAULLE LOST INVASION NERVE PRIOR 10 0-DA)   French General Permitted Only 20 Officers to Go; Action Is Condemned

De Gaulle Kept French Officers  Out of Invasion   Action of French Committee Leader Hindered Al lied Armies.   Strains Relations For  Conference With FDR

Reveal De Gaulle Canceled Landing of French Officers in First Waves of Invasion

Eisenhower Reveals De Gaulle Cancelled French Invasion Aid   Liaison Officers Withdrawn From Allied Armies in Move to Force Recognition of Committee's Rule

Gen. De Gaulle Spurns Request By Eisenhower   Refuses To Send Troops to France

Orders Were Cancelled for  French Troops   Men Were to Have Landed With First Waves of Allies

PRESTIGE LOST BY DE GAULLE   Free French Leader Fails To Do Part in Invasion

DeGaulle Action Causes Concern   French General Refuses To Permit French to Invade

De Gaulle Wrecking His Chance   Recent Acts Have. Dimmed Hopes. of. Winning Recognition’ from U. &   HELD FRENCH OUT OF INVASION MOVE   Criticism.-of Eisenhower and Work ‘Among Exiled Gov“‘ernments. Disapproved

DE GAULLE UPSET: INVASION PLANS   Suddenly Cancells Orders for Several Hundred French Of-ficers to Land in Normandy With Invasion Waves

INVASION HELP REPORTED CUT BY DEGAULLE   Orders of French Officers Going In On Assault Said To Have Been Cancelled

De Gaulle Puts Crimp In Invasion   Civilian Cooperation Impaired As Result Of Cancellation of Landing Orders

ABSENCE HURT COOPERATION IN NORMANDY   French Leader Reportediy Finally Relented So As to Permit Few French Officers Landing

Gen. DeGaulle Hampered Plans Before Invasion   Gen. Eisenhower’ Reports French Chief Suddenly Cancelled Orders of Many of His Officers.

ERATION 5 (MPAIRE   DeGaulle Said to Have Cancelled Orders Concerning French.

Hopes Dim For FDR-Freneh Leader Talks   General De Gaulle Canceled Orders Of Officers To Go With Invasion.   LETS 20 OFFICERS GO

French Chiefs ‘Are Held Back   DeGaulle Permits Only 20 Officers to Invade With Allies

DE GAULLE SAID TO HAVE HELD BACK INVADERS   French Leader Tried To Force Recognition Of Committee

FRENCH CHIEF'S ORDERS SCORED   Eisenhower Raps Action Preventing Landing Of Top Officers

Badoglio Will Stay In Until He Is Replaced   Says When King Finds a  Better Government He'll Get Out

Badoglio To  Stay In Power   Says Firmly That Until King Finds Better Premier, He Will Stay.

ADOGLIO HOPES 0 HOLD POWER   sserts He Will Hold Jwn Until King Finds Better Government

Badoglio Seeks Full Partnership Against Germany   Declares Mussolini, Fascism Are Enemies, Not Italian People

Badoglio Says His Government Will Carry On Until King Finds A Better One

Hengyang Fall  Draws Nearer   Indicate Japs Will Encirele Rail Junction Similar Te Changsha.

City Two- Thirds Destroyed; More Raids Under Way   Large Forces Of Allied Bombers Heading For Reich Key Centers To Carry On Most Destructive Bombing Program In History Of World.

GREAT SHEETS OF FIRE ROAR ACROSS BERET   Capital ‘Two « Thirds Knocked Out Of War

Berlin Battles Firesin Wake  Of Giant Raid   Bombers Heading For Continent In New Assaults _

Former Resident Passed Away Sunday   Services for Claude P. Lawler held Sunday in Atlantic where he has lived since 1930. Head of Farm Security Administration.

Armored Battles Are Now Raging In Old Poland   Report Germans Are Attack ing Repeatedly With Tank Forces   SEVASTOPOL NAZIS ARE BLOCKADED  “RIIT Y wmrar:

Russians Inch Forward In Sevastopol; Nazis Launch Counter-Stroke In Poland   British Halifax Bombers Blast Nazi Supply Lines At Blovdiv On Russian Front

REDS BLOCKADE SEVASTOPOL BY LAND, SEA, AIR   Violent See-Saw Armored Baltle Rages Deep in Old Poland

OPA MAKES PAINT REDUCTION:   Cheese ‘Products and Evaporated Milk. . Lowered in Value

SOME: FRUIT JUICES . POINT: FRRE’VAND* CHEESE Ponts, CUT—FEW CHANGES  * FOR MEATS.” feng

UPA WANES PONT REDUCTION   Cheese Products and Evaporated Milk Lowered in Value

The Weather   New U’ Regents Are Appointed  By Stevensor   Doctor, Lawyer Anc Publisher A gre To Fill In Or  Vacancies

STEVENSON NAMES THREE NEW MEMBERS UNIVERSITY BOARD  DOCTOR, LAWYER AND PUBLISHER ACCEPT POSI. TIONS AS REGENTS

WALLACE COMES UP SMILING   “I'M HAPPY ABOUT IT—REALLY,” IOWAN TELLS HIS SYMPATHIZERS

Price Fixing  Held Valid   Supreme Court Also Allows tron Miners Travel Pay

Reds, Poles Lay Siege To Warsaw   Hurricane Batters Eastern Seaboard

SIEGE OF WARSAW OPENED; SUBURB OF PRAGA FALLS   Big Guns Firing Across Vistula River at German Positions on 180 Foot Bluffs.   PRAGA IS CAPTURED IN STREET BATTLE   Nazi Garrison Reduced in AllNight Fight, Much of It Hand-to-Hand, Moscow Announces.

Russians Take Suburb  of Warsaw Immediately Lay   Immediately Lay Seige to Great Capital of Poland

Russians Take Suburban Part Of Warsaw   Poles Fighting in €apital Proper Can See Red Forces

Russian and Polish Troops Capture City of Praga  GERMAN GARRISON. IN CITY CRUSHED  —$<—  Nowogrod, 15 Miles From East Prussia, Also  Taken

REDS CAPTURE PRAGA, SHELL WARSAW CITY   BIG GUNS HAMMER POLISH CAPITAL ACROSS RIVER

Every German Attack South Of Rome Halted   Nazi Positions Above Cassino Assaulted

Allied Guns in Barrage At Cassino   Germans Keep Up Heavy Attacks Below Rome—aAl.  lies Use Planes

Allies Shatter Nazi Assaults AtBeach-heac   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples (AP)—Allied troops began an attack om the town of Cassino and the slopes of Mt. Cassino Friday.

Nazis’ Anzio Assaults Are Repulsed   Artillery Barrage Opens New Allied Drive for Cassino

NAZI ASSAULTS ON BEACHHEAD ARE REPULSED   Troops, Supported By Pianes, Hammer Enemy in Hills Above Cassino

SECOND ‘BATTLE 0! BEACH’ NEAR CLIMAX: NAZI LOSSES MOUNT   Germans Show No Signs Of Breaking Off Attacks In Third Day But Allies Smashing Every Assault   Ry RORERT V VERMITITLIION

F utile German ‘Thrust Leaves —  Thousands Dead   Fifth Army Rescues Offensive At Cassino In Breakthrough Drive

Massed Guns — Blast Germans Around Cassine   20 Shells a Second Hurled Into Enemy Lines on Mointsainside

Knox Hints U.S. Plans Invasion  Of Marshalls  Says Fliers Softening Up

CHAPLIN IS FINGERPRINTED   “Will Be Arraigned in a Week at ‘Hollywood:

Chaplin Shows  Upin L.A. for  Fingerprinting   Comextiant Objects in Vair  to News Photog ranhers

Charlie Chaplin Surrenders Self   screen Comedian Faces Mann Act Charges

Chaplin Shies “At Cameras In Surrender   Comedian, 3 Others Aceused, Fingerprinted _At Marshal's Office 

Chaplin Is Fingerprinted At Hollywood   Indicted Film Comedian Appears At Office Of U. -S. Marshal For Pre-Trial Ceremony

Allied Patrols Forced Back in Battle For City   Fierce Resistance Reported Against American Thrust

Germans Flee Under Drives Of Allies All Along Front   American Forces Are Only 24 Miles From Anzio  Beachhead; Eighth Army Topples Bastion On ] Apvroach To Rome

Nazis Hurl All Their Reserves South of Rome Into Struggle   Poles Capture Piedimonte, Sth Army Besieges  Pontecorvo

‘Yanks Who Entered Town Driven Out by New Troops   Poles Battle Way Into Piedimonte to Topple Liri Valley Bastion; Pontecorvo Brought Under Siege, Pico Road Cut

Huns Throw In Fr esh Troops To Halt Yanks   ‘Enemy Resisting Fiercely  In Wake of U.S. Advance  To Within 24 Miles Of Anzio   Fifth Advances On  Pico, Pivot Town   Allied Forces Headed For Pontine Marshes: Germans Hid Retreat With Smoke Screens

Reach Pontine Marshes Kdege On West Coast   Americans Are  Only Twenty-Four Miles From Anzio In Nine-Mile Gain   Bulletin

NAZIS REGAIN ANCHOR POMNT ON WEST COAST   Yanks Halted 24 Miles From Anzie After 9-Mile Gain

Allies Crack Hitler Line on Entire Front   Capture Bastion Guarding Approach To Liri Valley; Fifth Army Nears Pico

But U. S. Patrols Entering Coastal Anchor City Forced To Withdraw.

Yanks Driven Back In Bitter Fighting   Patrols Give Way After Moving into Nazi Defense Key   But American Troops Seize 3 Mountains In Terracina Area; Ahead on Wide Fron?

Mountainous Hitler Line Is Cracking Under Drive   Anzio’s Bedchhead Is Brought Nearer

SOUTHERN END OF HITLER LINE PUNCTURED BY AMERICANS WHO ALSO CAPTURE OTHER TOWNS   German Efforts to Stem Disorderly Retreat Toward Rome Fails and Battle for Eternal City Looms As Early Possibility. More Prisoners Captured

Yanks Ta::¢ 3 Mountains On Italian t° ant But Withdraw From Terracina

MOUNTAINS N. E. OF CITY TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Germans Use Alt Men in Area in Effort to Halt Drive Toward Rome

U.S. Fighters Take Terracine From Germans   Poles Mop Up Nazis In Piedimonte As Drive Continues

Hitler Line Cracks Under Allied Drive; Approaches To Rome Toppled By Poles

ut 24 Miles From nzio Beachhead  ; S. Troops Enter   stion Guarding Liri Valley Approach to Rome Topples And Another Put vader iege While Fifth Army Hammers Pico   ARGUARD ACTION AT ANCHOR OF TERRACINA

PATROLS WhO) ENTERED CITY THROWN BAGK   Germans Strengthen Sagging Coastal Line With More Troops. -

Yank Troops Advance At Terracina   Violent Opposition Is Reported All Along Nazi Line

United States Armored Forces Capture Monte Croce, Team With French to Take Pico, Lenola; Canadians Blast Shattered Hitler Line; 7500 Prisoners Taken in Italian Campaign

ARE REPULSED AT TERRACINA   Nazis Throw Reserves Into Battle to Halt Drive Toward Rome

Allies In Setback Around Terracina   Germans Throw in Troops to Halt\Substantial Coastal Advance.   FIGHTING IS HEAVIER   Last German, Reserves South of Rome Now Engaged in Battle

Nazi Reserves Sent to Front   Poles in Piedimonte And 8th Army  Attacks Pontecorvo

Drive Within ~ 24 Miles of Anzio Beach   Vaunted ‘Hitler Line’ Cracks Under Allied Advances '

Americans Rip  Southern Tip Of Hitler Defense   Advance Nine Miles Up Western Italian Coast

Nazis Throw In Reserves, Use {7 Divisions   Defenses Penetrated By Eighth Army In Liri Valley

MOUNTAINOUS HITLER LINE CRACKS UNDER ALLIED ADVANCES  UNITED STATES TROOPS   UNITED STATES TROOPS NOW WITHIN 24 MILES OF ANZIO BEACHHEAD

American Forces Cut Appian Way on Both Sides of Cisterna on Italian Battle Front

ALLIED TROOPS STRIKE DEEPER INTO MOUNTAIN   Only 22 Miles From Anzio  Beachhead

All Fronts In Italy See Allie Smashing Forward To Put: Pincers On Germans.

Smash Puts Allies 51 Miles From Rome   Tank-Led Assault by Americans Brings Line Wi thin 23 Miles Of Forces in Anzio Area

Fallen Nazi Anchor 24 Miles Distant From Anzio Front   Livi Approach To Rome Toppled As 5th Army Sweeps On Pico; Smoke Hides German ‘Activities

Allies Score Successes All Along Front As Hitler Line Is Pierced Anew; Germans Putting Up Stiff Fight Against Eighth Army In Italy.

Germans Rush Reinforcements   _. “Second Hitler Line’ Punctured By Allies

‘Nazis Rush Fresh Troops Into Sector   Resist New American Thrust Near Pico; Using All Reserves

Forced to Give Up Line in Terracina by Enemy Reserves   Losses of Allies in Italian Campaign “Considerable”

YANKS NEAR  3RD DEFENSE LINE ANCHOR   Advance Patrols Enter City Itself—Terracina— but Later Are Withdrawn — Nazis Using All Their Recarved

Americans Are 24 Miles From Lines At Anzio   Poles Capture Piedimonte And Allies Drive On Pontecorvo And Pico; Smokescreen  Is Used To Hide Hasty Nazi Retreat   Terracina Captured

Enemy ‘Now Has 17 Divisions on Main Italian Front and at Anzio.   CASUALTIES ARE LARGE

GERMANS SPEED REINFORCEMENTS FROM THE NORTH   DRIVE AMERICANS OUT OF TERRACINA IN FIERCE BATTLE

NAZI REINFORCEMENTS SENT TO COASTAL AREA   17 German Divisions Now Are Reported Committed in Italian Fighting

Mountain Line Cracks Under Blows   Yanks Reach Coastal Anchor— Flooded Pontine Marshes Lie Ahead

ENTER COAST TOWNS TODAY   Hitler’s Forces Cracking Under Allied Attack

ADVANCE UNITS ONLY 22 MILES OUTSIDE ANZIO   Nazis Reported Throwing Full Reserve Strength Into Conilicet

First Setback Of New Allied Attack In Southern Italy   Report Germans Also Fiercely Resisting American Push in Center of Line Southwest of Pico

NAZIS THROW FRESH MEN IN FIGHT   City Is Located 24 Miles From Beachhead   17 DIVISIONS   Form Defense Of Germans; Monte Leucio Retaken By French Units

Yanks Push Way Into Coastal Anchor Of Terracina, Only 24 Miles From Anzio

THE HITLER LINE NOW CRACKED ALL ALONG THE FRONT   Allied Forces Reach The Appian Way To Rome   WITHIN 24 MILES OF BEACHHEAD

Yankee Troops Enter Anchor Town And Are Driven Back   Reinforcements Rushed to Sagging Southern Sector of Line

Terracina Is Taken AsNazi Hitler Line  is Battered   Swiss Hear British Take Pontecorvo, Enemy Stronghold: Douehbovs Gain 9 Mis

Announced Officially That Allies Have Begun Attacks  HITLER LINE IS CRUMBLING

TERRACINA, PICO ENTERED BY U. S. TROOPS IN ITALY   Anchors Of Defense System Hit; Anzio Lines Are 24 Miles Distant

Patrols Quit City But Big Push Goes On   Opposition Intense As Allies Smash Ahead; Forces On Beachhead Strike Out 5 Miles

Vaunted Hitler Line Fails to Hold; Germans Make No Show of Attempting to Make Stand   Swiftly Advancing Americans Take Terracina, Keypoint on the Appian Way and Only 24 Miles From Forces on Anzio Beachhead

Helgrade Liberated: Debrecen, Hungary's Third City. Falls: Reds In East Prussia

Red-Yugoslay Forces Launch Zagreb Drive   Tito’s Troops and Soviet Units. Seize’ Belgrade, Wrecked In Assaults, Street Fighting

BELGRADE WON BY REDS, TITO   New Russian,  Partisan _—- Brive Shaping Up

Acting Commander Revealed at Head of Bastogne Force   Fresh Details of Epic Siege Disclosed by Army Officials

Spoiling for Action and They Found it   Parachute Troopers Best Morale ‘Bucker-L ppers’

Details Of Bastogne Siege Are Disclosed   ferman Demand for Surrender Is Answered by U. S. Commander With Famous Slang Word, “Nuts.”

Gen. M’Auliffe Commander Of Gallant Yanks   Said ‘Nuts’ To Germans At Bastogne; Held Out Until Help Arrived

Bastogne Is Shambles But Still in U.S. Hands After Dramatic Stand, Rescue

McAULIFFE - LED HEROES OF BASTOGNE   He Was the One Who Answered ‘Nuts’ to Nazi Surrender Demand

BRIG. GEN. ANTHONY MCAULIFFE WAS LEADER GALLANT BASTOGNE GARRISON WHICH DEFIED NAZIS

Taylor Flies To Join 101st At Bastogne   Brig. Gen. McAuliffe Commander During 7-Day Siege

TIME LIMIT IS EXTENDED   ‘Legislation in Pearl Harbor Case Sent to President

BOMBER OUTPUT IS STEPPED UP   Willow Run Returns To Faster Schedule On Liberators

Jap Survivors Are Herded Into Ormoc Pocket   Death Trap Is Being Tightened by Americans

Jap Garrison On Leyte Now ‘in Death Trap   Thousands Enemy ) Troops at Southern End of Line Killed

NIPS NOW IN DEATH TRAP ON LEYTE   Bulk of Garrison In Single Pocket North of Ormoc

TRAP CLOSING; YANK SUCCESS ON LEYTE NEAR   Reduce Jap Garrison By Erasing Large Force; One Pocket Left

AMERICAN 77TH DIVISION HERDS JAPS ON LEYTE INTO DEATH TRAP   Enemy Loses Crack Troops By Thousands

LAST JAPS ON LEYTE ENTRAPPED NORTH OF FALLEN ORMOC, ENEMY ARMS AND SUPPLIES. CAPTURED

American Troops Battle Survivors On Leyte Island   Savage Yank Assault’ Wipes Out Strong Force of Japanese

Doughboys Are Wiping Out Leyte Garrison   77th Division Springs Trap When Junction is Effected with 7th Div.

Americans Close Trap On Leyte Survivors   Jap Pocket Below Ormoc Is Wiped Out; Domei Reports Yank Landing On Biliran

THOUSANDS OF JAPS KILLED NEAR ORMOC   Remainder On Leyte Herded Into Single Pocket

Japs on Leyte Are Battered   Death Trap Is Being Tightened By Yank Troops

REDS 40 MILES INSIDE HUNGARY; TAKE 300 TOWNS   Country’s Second City of Szeged Outflanked—Large Railroad Junctions Occupied.   MANY AXIS TROOPS BY-PASSED IN DRIVE   Armored Units and Cossack Cavalry Pace Advance— Enemy Offers Little Resistance.

Soviet Tanks Drive Deep  Into Hungary   Another Offensive Aimed At East Prussia, Germans Say

Soviet Tanks Unchecked In Hungary   Overrun 300 Localities 40 Miles Inside Old Border

Reds Overrun 300 Cities in Budapest Drive   Big Rail Junctions Captured; Begin Pincers on Prussia

Russian Tanks Continue Sweep Across Hungary   Armies Advance Within 75 Miles Of Capital City

Russian Tank Troops Drive Forty Miles   Pincers Movement Begun By Soviet

300 Towns ir Hungary Fall to Red Army   New Pinchers Attack Launched in German East Prussia Area

Reds Seek To Remove Hungarians From. War —   , Big Rail Junction Cities ‘Captired .

‘Overrun 300 Localities and - Qutflank Second Largest _ City; Roll Through Crushed —- Resistance

Russ only 83 miles from  Budapest; take 300 towns   Troops near Koros river; great battles said ragine in Lithuania

Szeged, Second Hungarian City, Now Outflanked  Reds Within 75 Miles Of Budapest; Soviets Seek Quick Knockouw Of Axis Satellite

Soviet Tanks Overrun 300  Localities   Are 40 Miles In Pre-War Hungary In Advance

Russians Now Near Budapest   Tanks Roll Through German And Hungarian Resistance, Take Rail Junctions

Russians Extend Sweep Inside Hungary; Nation Tottering Under Blows

Soviet Troops Rush 40 Miles Info Hungary   Outflank Country's  Second City, Szeged; Push Within 75 Miles Of Budapest, Capital

SOVIETS STRIKE 40 MILES INTO PUPPET STATE   Great Battles Said Going On In Western Lithuania Push

Russians Push 40 Miles Into Hungary   Outflank Nation's Second Largest City of Szeged

Bond Sales For Capt. Tudor’s Plane Total $164,093; Near $436,000 To Go

PLANES REPORT FIRES BURNING THRUOUT CITY   Fleet Of 100 Or More SuperForts Carries Attack From Saipan Bases

Huge Fires Still Burning in Tokyo   Photos Show Heavy Damage by Bombing

American Bombers Hit Industries In Daylight Assault; Japan Now Gripped In Huge Aerial Pincers

Blo ANGHAFT PLANT HIT BY H-19 ATTACK   First Group of Armada Sees Explosives Hit Targets in Jap Capital.

B-29's Hit Plane Plant, Other Factory Targets; Two Superforts Missing

Americans Gain In Thrust at Cassino Sector   .Germans Announce Loss of Fortress Village of Cervaro

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NAZIS LOSE CERVARA IN HARD FIGHT   To American Fifth Army, Now Probably Pushing On Toward Key City Of Cassino, Four Miles Away.   Big Offensive

Nazis Evacuate Cervare; Yanks Attaek Greece   U. S. Forces Believed Pushing Beyond Base Toward Cassino

KEY POSITION IN ITALY WON BY AMERICANS   FIFTH ARMY BLASTS PATH LEADING TO CASSINO

Nazi Garrison * Flees Cervaro   Clark’s Sth Army Slugs Way Nearer Cassing

NAZIS ADMIT LOSS OF TOWN NEARCASSINO   Cervaro Evacuated as Am:  e@rican Forces Press  Onward   PIRAEUS ATTACKED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Tons of Bombs Rained o: Port Which Serves Athens:

Nazis Admit Loss Of Fortress Of *Cervaro To Hard-Fighting American:

NALD AUMII LOSS OFTOWN NEAR CASSINO  erican rorces rress   PIRAEUS ATTACKED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Tons of Bombs Rained on Port Which Serves Athens

NAZIS REPORT TOWN LOST IN CASSINO AREA   Yanks May Be Pushing Beyond Cervaro After Hard Battle

Germany Admits Loss of Cervaro   Americans Now Ten Miles from Cassino

GERMANS REPORT LOSS OF VILLAGE BEFORE CASSING   Declare Americans Seized Formidable Stronghold of Cervano After Hard Fighting.   TOWN FOUR MILES ” FROM ENEMY BASTION   Sudden Thaw That Brings Deep Mud on Battle Front Slows Advance of Fifth Army,

City's Fall Aids March On Rome   Allies Shift Air Attack To Big Port Of Piraeus

CERVARO FORT 1S EVACUATED: GERMANS SAY   Americans May Be Past Nazi Stronghold in Drive Toward Cassino

Yankees Push On Toward Key City of Cassino   Americans Now Within 4 Miles of Town; Hit at Piraeus

Nazis Report Village Near Cassino Lost   Balkaris ‘Bombers Lash Greek. Port

Nazis Report Village Near Cassino Losi  RalLbLance Rambkarc   Balkans Bombers Lash Greek Port

FIRE IN HOTEL COST 24-LIVES   FLAMES~ THAT SWEPT : SMALL SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL. WAS " OF INCENDIARY \:.- ” ORTON

22 PERISH IN §, FRANCISCO HOTEL BLAZE   29 Others on Injured List   FIRE BUG SOUGHT  eel

FIREBUG HUNTED AFTER 22 KILLED BY FRISCO FIRE   Five Rooming Houses Burn Prior to Tragic Hotel @ Blaze

SOVIETS SCORE GAINS ON WIDE EASTERN FRON]   Norway Invaded, Northern @ Transylvania Cleared of Germans

MAKE GAINS ON ALL FRONTS   Soviets Invade Norway, Free Transylvania, Advance in Reich

SOVIETS SMASH ON INSTERBURG, INVADE NORWAY   German Resistance Is Reported Crushed In Northern Transylvania

ANTI- INVASION PREPARATIONS ARE DISRUPTED   Thunderbolt Attack Made: on Le Mans While Western Gers many Also Is Hit.

BONBERS HIT FRENCH TARGET   Hundreds of HAF Heavy Planes Dis. rupt Anti-Invasion Preparations —Muake Attack on Railway Targets at Le Mans.

RAIL TARGETS BLASTED BY RAF   Mosquitos Raid Frankfurt And Western Germany

Le Mans Blasted By RAF Bomber:   Mosquito Raiders Stnke in Germany

German Aircraft Center Bombed 32 Nazi Fighters   32 Nazi Fighters Knocked Down

“Expect Arrival of American Priest in Rome fo Report on Talks with Stalin

Massachusetts Priest Expected to Make Renort on Stalin Confab to Pope Soon

Orlemanski Expected By Vatican   Polish Priest Will See Pope, Rome Reports

POLISH PRIEST, PONTIFE CONFER   ORLEMANSKI TO REPORT ON VISIT WITH STALIN

POLISH PRIEST 10 REPORT 10 POPE ON STALIN VISII   Falher Orlemanski May Be ~ Key Man in New Soviet Papal Relations.

Berlin Admits Russians Drive 15 Miles Into East Prussia   Red Troops Drive Nazis From Finnish Nickel Mines, Smash to Norway Border

CITIZENS FLEEING NORTH FINLAND   POUR INTO SWEDEN AS COUNTRY WAGES UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST NAZIS.

FINLAND FACES WAR ON REICH   Open Declaration Due This Week End; Some Nazis Trapped

Finns Waging War On Nazis  Many Attempt Escape Across Swedish Line

Finns, Germans In Undeclared War   Finns Defending Islands; Many Civilians Try To Escape To Sweden

FINLAND NEARS OPEN WARFARE AGAINST NAZIS   Rumor Flitler Bids For Peace With Soviets

U.S. WILL BLOCK PRO-NAZI PLOTS IN SO. AMERICA   Will Refuse to Recognize Military Regime in Bolivia

U:S. Will Seek To Block Plot  In Argentine   Believe Axis-Inspired Plot In South America Is Being Pushed

U. §. MOVES T0 BLOCK AXIS IN §. AMERICA ©   Convinced Foreign Influences Aided Bolivian Revolt

STEPS TAKEN 10 BLOCK AXIS MOV   Refused to Recognize New Bolivian Government {s_  An Initial Move.

REVOLT PLOTS ARE CHARGED »  IN ARGENTINA   RICAN REFUBLICS EXAt PECTED TO TAKE ve ACTION ROON ...)  “ion STATES AND SOUTH

NEW INVASION EXPECTED FROM ATLANTIC SOON   French West Coast Is Softened-Up By Cruisers

Warships Shell Region Near Bayonne  Germans Pull Out   Germans Pull Out Of Area; Some Guns Resist

CRUISERS HIT BAYONNE AREA   Shell Coast in Possible  Invasion Preliminary

Allies Shell Bayonne Area; NaziFleeing   Weak Reply Returfted to Shelling of Area By Three Allied Cruisers Off Shore

Bayonne Area Is Blasted By Allied Ship:   Remaining Defenses Or Southern Atlantic Coas! Brought Under Fire O! Three Light Cruisers

Allied Cruisers Hit Bayonne On Coast Of Southwest France   American Forces Reported 130 Miles South Of Nantes In Drive Down French Atlantic Coast; Troops Said Passing Angouleme  friar awrTeawte weet ct wae rrew

New Entry On Atlantic Coast Seen   3 Light Cruisers Open Fire Against Weak Nazi Defenders

Allied Ships ShellBayonne Chase Nazis   Germans Continue to Destroy Fortifications on South Atlantic Coast Near Spain

Atlantic Coast Of France Is  Shelled   Spain Reports Bombardment  By Three Cruisers OW Bayonne

Allied Ships in Aitack on Bayonne Area   Germans Reported Pulling Out of Defenses Near  Snanish Border

FIRE ON BAYONNE   Alled Cruisers Shell Ger-man Defenses; Column  Speeds South

RUSSIAN GIRL GUERRILLA WHOSE FAMILY WIPED OUT KILLS 150 NAZI ENEMIES

REPORT DROP IN SHIP LOSSES   U. S., Britain Say '43 Tonnage Sunk 40 P. C. of 42 Toll of Subs

Toll of Nazi Subs Cut 60 Per Cent   Joint Anglo-American Loss Report Given

REPORT DROP IN: SHIP. LOSSES   LI. S., Britain Say 743 Ton* nage Sunk 40 P, C, of 242 Toll of Subs

LOSS REDUCED IN U-BOAT WAR   Tonnage Of Cargo Ship Sinkings Only 40 Percent Of 1942

SORONG HARBOR BLASTED AGAIN   More Than 50 Japanese Vessels Wrecked In Aerial Forays

US. Planes Sink Another Jap Ship In South Pacific   itn Pos uJ, Sunk Within Past Week By. Yank Bambharc

Nearby Rota Island Hit During Attack by. Navy; Trak ‘Also Is Bombed -

Carrier Planes, Surface Units Hit Guam, Rota   One-Two Punch Is Taken at Island Once Owned by America

GUAM BOMBARDED FROM SEA AND AIK   CARRIER AIRCRAFT ATTACK AFTER ISLAND IS SHELLED BY WARSHIPS.

Orders Study Of Farm Lands  _ Many Servicemen To Go Into Aariculture

GOVERNMENT oTUDY IS URGED BY FOR   Servicemen Must Be Assured Good Land, Needed Credit, Training.

BIG BATTLE IN NORMANDY SEEMS — BOILING UP AT LAST: MUST BE FOUGHT AND WON IN THREE MONTHS   When Montgomery Maneuvers Forces into Favorable Position Big Offensive Will Begin to Break Out Of Peninsula Towards Paris and Finally Berlin

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE  SBecamelatand Peeax War Analwat

HEAVY INTENSIFICATION OF WAR JN EUROPE MAY BE EXPECTED IN ORDER TO BEAT AUTUMNAL RAINS

HALF-WAY PASSED IN SALE OF BONDS   Total Subscriptions Amounting To $1,349,851 Reported Up To Close Of Business Last Evenine

BOND SALES NEAR HALF-WAY POIN'   Total Of $1,012,219.75 Reported Up To Close Of Business Last Evening — Show Chart Open

BOND DRIVE PASSES TWO MILLION MARK   Total Subscribed Up To Today Is $2,063,368.75 — Show At State Theater Next Monday

Truman Will  Become Liaison   When He Becomes VicePresident He Will Become Direct Pipeline.

Truman Declines To Accept Any. Sideline Duties   Links White  House. Senate

HARRY TRUMAN'S COURSE IS SET   Incoming Vice President Will Accept No Extra-Official Jobs After Installation.

Truman Plans To Accept no Sideline Jobs   However he is Toying With Idea of W eekly ‘Broadeasts

TRUMAN PLANS NO EXTRA J06   New Vice-President Will Not Head Any Special Setups, He Says

Rain Explosives On Nazi France As German Fighters Fail to Rise to the Attack. Heavy Blow Struck At German Inwocion Defense Points

BLAST NAZIS? ~ FRENCHBASES   ‘Medium’ Force Loses 5 Craft in 22nd Major Sortie This Month   12 KEY GERMAN FIELDS BOMBED DURING 2 DAYS

FOUR GERMAN AIRPORTS HIT IN DAY RAIDS   Explosives Are Rained on Bases in Northern France      ASSAULTS FOLLOW FORAY INTO RUHR   Many Enemy Planes Reported Destroyed on Ground ~

BOMBS DROPPED ON4 AIRFIELDS IN NORTH FRANCE   Raid Carried Out by 250 to 500 U. S. Bombers—Five . Planes Lost, 30 ' Destroyed.   GERMAN AIR FORCE REMAINS ON GROUND   Defense Left to Anti-Aircraft . Guns—Lack of Opposition Near Paris Causes Surprise.

Yank Heavies Rain Bombs on  Nazi Airfields   U. S. Fliers Unable To Bring Luftwaffe To Battle Over France

30 German Aireraft Hit On Ground   Dozen Key Airdromes Smashed in Two Days Without Opposition  FIVE PLANES LOST

Air Assaults on Europe Stepped Up   Four Airfields in Northern France Heavily Battered

RAIN BOMBS ON AIRFIELDS IN NO. FRANCE   Heavily Escorted Fortresses Slap At Chartres, Chateaudun, Reims And Dijon; No Interception By Nazis.   Night Raid on Ruhr

4 AIRFIELDS IN NORTH FRANCE   Luftwaffe Puts Up No Fight; Many German Planes Destroyed

CO CANDIDATE LEADS EARLY VOTI   Features Primaries Held in Half Dozen States Yesterday

Stiff Tokyo Edicts Mirror Fading Hope   Adnrirals Acquaint Hirohito With Weakening Situation in Pacific

STILLWELL ‘ARMY 100 MI. INTO BURMA   Over One Third Of Way Across With New Road

Yanks Stage New Raids In Marshalls   Two ‘Airfields at Rabaul Knocked Out Temporanly

(Chinese Troops Push 100 Miles (On Burma Road   Stilwell Commands ‘Army In Drive Against Heavy Jap Resistance

U.S. Heavies Make Smash At Brunswick In Germany   Force Of ‘Medium’ Strength Sent Against Nazi Aircraft Production Center

Nazi Fighters Refuse to  Attack Yanks   Over 1,000 U. S. Planes Continue Offensive Against Fortress Europe; Nazi Airfields in France Come in for Assaults

Raiders Unopposed Over Plant Targets  Americans Drop Bombs Without Losing Sinele Bomber in Foray

Nazi Plane Production Center Raided In Pre-Invasion Aetia Offensive Now In -12th Dar

S. BOMBERS CHASH AGAIN AT BRUNSWICK       equiest Air Attack in History carried Into Vath Day hy Altes.

Brunswick Raided By U. S. Bombers   Air Attack Today Follows Suceessful Raid: Yesterday on Cologne

U. S. Heavies Lash Brunswick Without ‘Losing a Bomber   Other Nazi Targets Hit As Great Air Offensive Sweeps Through 12th Day

Production Of Hitler. Is Smashed In Attack   Pre-Invasion War  In Air Is Pushed

Over 1,000 U. S. Planes In  Raids Deep Inside Germany  No Losses Are Suffered In Large-Scale Raid On Important Industrial Center Of Brunswick

Carry Pre-Invasion Aerial Offensive Through Twelfth Consecutive Day

Big Pre-Invasion Aerial Offensive Now In 12th Day   Fierce Battles Raging In Skies Over Europe

Yankee Bombers In Heavy Air Battles In Central Germany   WAR BULLETINS

U. S. Fortresses And Liberators Fail To Meet Any Opposition Over Western Germany

BOMBS GLAST BRUNSWIGK’S FACTORY AREE   Airfleet of Medium Strength Carries Offensive Into 12th Day.

Aircraft Centers In Reich Raided By Large Bombers   Strong Escort Accompanies Bombers But No Opposition Encountered.   Rocket Defenses Are Found in French Raid

Marks Twelffh Consecutive. Day Of Heavy Bombing      Non-Stop Aerial © Offensive Knock:

Nazis Refuse To Put Single Fighter in Air To Resist Invaders   Over 1,000 Planes Raid Brunswick, Other German Targets; Anti-Aircraft Downs 6 U.S. Fighters

AAF Raids Brunswick © Without Losing A Bomber   Germans Report  New Red Drive.

Fighter Planes Accompany Big Planes, Carry Out Separate Missions

AMERICAN HEAVIES OMASHED. TARGETS IN BRUNSWICK AREA  PRE-INVASION AIR OFFENSIVE HEAVIEST WORLD  HAS EVER SEEN

YANK BOMBERS ROAR BACK OVER HITLER'S EUROPE   Brunswick Blasted Without Fighter Opposition—War Flares Again in Italy

 BRUNSWICK IS HIT HARD AGAIN  BY THE AMERICANS   Bombers and Liberators Attacked the Aircraft Pro-;— duction Center.   ALL BOMBERS RETURNED   Strong Escort of Fighters Made Up a Total Raiding Party of 1000 Planes.

MIGHTY AERIAL OFFENSIVE GOES INTO 12TH DAY,   Force Of 1,000 American Planes Indicated Over Europe During Day; Flak Is Heavy; Nazi Rail Traffic Snarled Throughout The Balkans.

U. S. Bombers Again Smash Nazi Plants   Aircraft Centers Hit in 12th Day Of Drive

Fail To Sight A Single Nazi: Fighter Plan      Six Allied Fighters Are’ Lost in Strafing Runs: Over French Airfields:

U. §. BOMBERS ROCK TARGETS AT BRUNSWICK   Pre-Invasion Assault By Air Continues In 12th Day

AERIAL DRIVES AGAINST NAZIS ARE CONTINUED   Most Lost Airmen Believed To Be  War Prisoners

NAZIS REPORT FIERCE DUELS IN YANK BLOW   British Raid Cologne Again; Allies Lose 2,300 Men In 11-Day Period

Offensive Enters 12th Straight Day   Day Raiders Follow Mosquito Attack on Cologne

No Bombers Lost in Raid By Yankees   No Enemy Fighters Met Over Vital Plane Factories of Brunswick

AIRMEN FAIL TO SIGHT ANY “NAZI PLANES   “Heavies,” In Mediun Force, Accompanied by Strong Escort of Fight ers—Offensive Now it Its Twelfth Day.

1,000 U. S. Ships Attack Plane Genter   Thunderous Preinvasior Air Offensive Sweep: Through 12th Day.

Big U.S. Bombers. Smash At Nazis For Twelfth Day   Pre-Invasion Blasting Is Aimed At Brunswick: 450 Fighters In Escort

Fighters Raid France, Reper' Heavy Anti-Aircralt Fire— Mosauiies Blasi Cologne

No Bombers Lost on Raid   Daylight Raiders Set Out After R.A.F Mosquitos : Hit Cologne in Night   Brunswick Hit Often

Relentless Air Attack Still On In Nazi Europe   Pre-Invasion Bombings OF Vital Points  Continues

All Bombers Return From Nazi Assaul:   No Enemy Fighters Are Encountered In Blast At Brunswick; Yanks Lose Half Dozen

10 LET-UP IN IR INVASION IF CONTINENT   erman Radio Declares  American Forces Over  Reich Engaged By Nazi Fighters   IOLOGNE HIT AGAIN

Air Offensive Roars Into Its Twelfth Day.   No Nazi Planes Take Air As Brunswick Hit

No Bombers Lost on Raid   Daylight Raiders Set Out After R.A.F Mosquitos Hit Cologne in Night

AERIAL DRIVE GOES INTO 12TH DAY   No German Fighters Seen By Attacking Force   90,000 TONS   Dropped During Offensives Cost Is 2,300 Airmen, 389 Planes

Yanks Again Blast Germany in Air Attacks   Pre-Invasion Assaults Carried Into Tweifth Consecutive Day

STRONG ESCORT WITH BOMBERS   Planes Flying in Medium Strength Attack Without Losing One.   THIRD ASSAULT ON CITY

Aerial Blasting ~” Of Nazi Plants   YANKEE PLANES BOMBED - MANY GERMAN TARGETS.”

Air Offensive Swings Into: Twelfth Day: Nazi Aircraft Production Ceriter Target

Offensive Is Carried Out With No Loss   Bombers Return After Engaging In Fierce Fighting

U5. DOMNETS In Smash at Brunswick Raiders Follow Heavy Mosquito Attack on Cologne  gq90Trr Twat AW YyreNHe   OTH DAY OF RAIDS   Berlin Reports Intense Fights With Nazi  Defenders

American Raiders  Suffer No Loses   Invasion Coast Pummeled By Allied Air Micht

FIGHTERS RAID FRENCH FIELDS ON RETURN TRIP   Channel Coast Ripped By Explosions In 12-Day Offensive

‘Candidates Finish Hot  Campaigns   Contest Between Bennett Clark and McKittrick May Be Very Close

Absentees May Decide Contest:   Primary Races Roaring In to Name-Calling Finish; Several Believed Close   NATIONAL INTEREST IN SENATE RACE   Hot Campaigns Feature Gubernatorial Contests in Both Parties

CLOSE COUNT SEEN IN SOME STATE RACES      So Near Will Be Rivals for Major Offices, in Fact, That Absentee Ballots May Determine Winners.

Powerful US. ! Fleet Strikes A Tarvets In Reic            Oi Plants Aro _Leipzig; Rails "Other Targets In M  ich. Area. Sinashed:  2,000: Plane Blow Fs Britain and Italy:

2,000 PLANES HAMMER REICH   Bombers Strike Again in Two-Base Attacks

U.S. PLANES HIT NAZI TARCETS   2.000 American Planes Center on Factories. Oil Plants Around Leipzig.

2,000 U. S. Planes” Blast Leipzig Area   American Heavy Bombers and Fighters Strike ata Great Array of Airplane Factories and Synthetic Oil Plants in Reich.

OIL AND AIRPLANE PLANTS HIT TODAY   Targets Around Leipzig, Munich and Friedrichshafen.

ess Reich Badly Pounded By Yank Planes  Plone Factories _   Plone Factories Experience Wrath Of U.S. Armadas

American Bomber: Rake German Oil, Plane Plants  Fleet of 2,000 Hits Numerous Targets At Leipzig, Munich

Reich Hammered By L. S. Bombers   Leipzig, Munich And Fried. richshafen Are Raided

2,000 Planes  Blacken Skies Over Leipzig   American Bombers and Fighters Battier Oit Plants. -Factovies

2,000 U.S. PlanesBlacken _ Skies In Raid On Germany   and SynheLliner ics Around Leipzig, Tyrol and Bavaria Bombed

J. 5. Bombers Blast Leipzia   Another Fleet From Italy Pounds Other German. Taraets

ALLIED PLANES AGAIN BLACKEN GERMAN SKIES   Plane Factories, Oil Plants in Leipzig Area Again Targets For Allied Airmen.

2,000 Planes Out Again Today  ~ Germans Under 2-Way ! Attack For Third Day

2000 Planes Blacken Sky Over Reich   Factories and Oil Plants Smashed; Robot Launchers Hit

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT REICH AGAIN   2,000 Planes Blast Foe Tar. gets From French Coast To Leipzig

AIR BLOWS ON REICH CONTINUE   2,000 - Plane Armada Hits German Targets Third Straight Day

OIL AND PLANE PLANTS BLASTED   Another Fleet Hits Airdromes At Munich And Friedrichshafen

Yankee Bombers Smash Leipzig  _ Plane Factories and Oil Plants Blasted

2,000 AMERICAN PLANES BOMBING GERMANY TODAY   Airplane Factories and Synthetic Oil Plants Are Allied Targets

GERMANY GE FIERCEST BLITZ   AIRCRAFT FACTORIES, OIL PLANTS BOMBED

Allied Air Attack Into Third Day   Two Thousand U. §. Pianes Bomb Nazi Industrial Plants

2,000 BOMBERS LASH OIL, PLANE FACTORIES   Other Fliers From Italy Hit Munich, Friedrichshafen

US Planes Blacken German Sky  2000-Plane Attack   2000-Plane Attack On Factories and Oil Plants Near Leipzig

REICH SKIES AGAIN DARK WIETH PLANES   Armada Pounds Great Array Of War Factories

Reich Again Gets ),000-Plane Raid  Yanks Concentrate On Leipzia Today

Keep up Raids On Oil Fields   U. S. Aircraft Blackens Skies In Bombings

Allied Airmen Co-ordinate Raids On Nazi Industry Oil and Airplane Plants Arean  7 Munich, Friedrichshafen Bit bw Planes from Brifain. Waly

(OIL AND AIRPLANE PLANTS TARGETS OF 2.000 BOMBERS.   American Heavies From England Strike at Prime ' Nazi Plants. Around Leipzig: as Italy-Based Craft Hit Mirmieh

RIP REICH HARD IN 2-PLY RAID      Blast Nazis in Dual Attempt Third Straight Day

Allies Tie Up Japan’s Supply Lines To South   Bombs Rained On Enemy Bares From Bonins To Halmahera

NIPPON SUPPLY LINES HAMMERED   New Air Blows Rained On Widely-Scattered Bases

Aerial Blows Snarl Japan’s Supply Lines   MacArthur Says Damage Severe

Japs Supply Lines Being Tied in Knots   New Air Blows Rained on Widely-Scattered Nip Bases from the Bonins to Halmahera

SUPPLY ROUTES OF JAPS TIED UP   New Air, Blows Made From Bonins To Halmahera

Blockade Spreads Paralysis Over Japan's Sea Lanes to East Indies

Supply Lines Of Japs Tied Up ‘In Knots   Enemy’s Position in South Pacific Rapidly Deteriorating

JAP’S SUPPLY LINES BEING TIED IN KNOTS   Enemy Can No Longer Risk Heavy Shipping to Philippines, MacArthur  Save

AIRMEN TIEUP JAPAN'S PACIFIC SUPPLY LINES   Pound Halmahera Airdrome Sink Freighter Off Philippines

Te ELLE LLL EA LD ANT  Jap Supply Lines Are Being Tied up   Nips, Unable To Risk Shipping, See Rich Stolen East Indies Deteriorating in lsolation—Main Battle in China Still Rages Around Hengyang

Jap Supply Lines “Tied In Knots,” Says MacArthur   Reveals New Blows Rained On Enemy Bases From Bonins To Halmahera

Yanks Ty in g Japs’ Supp I y Lines In Knot:   Gen. MacArthur Appraise: Enemy's Deteriorating Position In Rich Indies Empire

General Says EnemySupply Lines Knotted   MacArthur Reports Jap Position in Pacific . Deteriorating

ALLIES TANGLE JAPS PACIFIC SUPPLY LINES   Air Blows Rain’ on Widel: __ Scattered Enemy Bases

Nazis Apply Torch To East Prussian Towns      Jap Supply Lines Hard Hit By U. S. Air Bloape

Japanese Supply Line: Are Tied In Knots   By The Time The Leaves Are Falling—  Japan May Get Taste Of “Powerhouse Tactics’

The Weather   Jap Supply Lines Hard lit in Philippines Area   Enemy Resoris to Small Craft to Supply Isle Bases

Gen. Eddy Heads 12th Army Corps   By Wes Gallagher and Edward D.

‘Allied Eighth In Italy Wearing Down Opposition In Fighting At Florence

ALLIES PUSH ACROSS ARNO   ALND) ANNU  Nazis Still Hold City  of Florence  Positions Virtually Unchanged

RUSSIA SEES FINLAND OUT OF WAR SOON   Delivers Armistice Program  erence ae  TERMS GENEROUS  Must Sever All Ties With Germany

Axis Diplomatic Officials Nabbed at Buenos Aires as Spy Ring Leaders

Hurricane Will Not Reach N. E., Says Forecaster  Winds Deflect Storm To Sea

1 +  [¥: 5. SUBS ADD 11 MORE [JAP SHIPS TO LONG ILIST OF SUNK. VESSELS

U.S. Subs Sink 3 Japanese  Warships, 8 Other Vessels   Blsws Announced On Heels Of Report By MacArthur Of 11 Enemy Ships Hit

1] JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U.S   Three War Craft Included In Latest Bag By Submarines

Subs, Planes Each Account For Half Toll   War Vessels Included tn Sea Raiders’ Bag; Tokyo Admits Crisis

 ww sae vee  U. S. ag hinarines Destroy Another Eleven Jap Shins

ll More Jap Ships Suuk In Pacifie   Destroyer Among Craft Destroyed By Subs

Yank Planes, Subs Smash 73 Jap Ships   3 Warcraft Sunk; Kuriles-to-Indies Area Feels Bombs

SUBMARINES SINK {1 MORE NIPPON SHIP   Second Massed Bombe: Attack Made On Big Oil Supply Center

U.S. SUBS SINK 11 JAP VESSELS   Three War Craft Included ir Toll, Says Report

U. 5. SUBS SINK 11 JAP VESSELS   Three War Craft Included In Latest Bag

Report By Navy Says 3 Wareralt Included In Toll   Newly - Reported Sinkings ~---Raises-To-924..Number Of Ships Sunk, Damaged

Supply Lines Of Japanese  Struck Again   Three Wareraft Included in Latest Bag of American Undersea Vessels as Reported by Navy Department

U. S. Submarines Get 11 Jap Ships   Bombers Hit Oil Centers Again; Enemy Drive Near Port of Foochow

Submarines Sink  11 More Jap  Ships in Pacific Destroyer, Seaplane  Tender Included On Latest Listing

U.S, SUBS BAG THREE MORE JAP WARSHIPS   Eight Other Vessels Sunk Ir Latest Paoific Attacks

RIP JAP SUPPLY LINES   American Submarines Have Destroyed Another 11 Vessels

House Coalition Passes Bill To Freeze Social Security's Tax At Present 1 Per Cent

Sedition Trial In New Uproar   U. S. Marshals Called In To Quiet Clamor So Prosecutor Can Make Statement

FEDERAL COURT IS UPSET BY TURMOIL IN SEDITION CASE   U.S. Marshals are Needed Before Uproar is Quieted; Lawyers Demand Hearing

COURT IN UPROAR   Interruptions by Defense Attorneys and Spectators Occur

Sedition Trial Gets Under Way Amid Turmoil  Ch. te [ntarriin®   Shouts Interrupt Statements by Head Prosecutor

Sedition Trial Off  To A Noisy Start  U. S. Marshals Called To Keep Order

Fresh Verbal Uproar Breaks  Out At Trial   Chief Prosecutor Seeks To Begin Case On Conspiracy Trial.   ORDER MARSHALS

CONSPIRACY TRIAL-—   MARSHALS ARE CALLED TO QUIET SHOUTING LAWYERS, DEFENDANTS

Verbal Uproar Gyeels Prosecutor ‘Stating U. $. Sedition Trial Case

UPROAR DELAYS SEDITION TRIAL   DEFENSE ATTORNEY ATTEMPTS TO SHOUT PROSECUTOR DOWN

Nips Disregard Pleas For Prisoner Aid Red Cross Recalls Futile Eiferts To Deal With Jans

TOKYO BLOCKS RED CROSS AlD   Offers To Send Supplies To American Prisoners Are Ignored

American Red Cross Offered Reliet To Japs   All Aid Permitted To Go Through Were Two Small Shipments.   SUPPLIES IN SIBERIA

gap Disdain Of Red Cross Plea Revealec   Takyo Even Failed to Answer Suggestion of Supplies, Workers Say

Efforts To Aid   Prisoners Futile  Tokyo Ignores Plans Of Red Cross

JAPS SPURNED ~ RED CROSS AID   Ienored Red Cross Offer to Hand Over Ships

Japs Spurned Prisoner Aid, Red Cross Reveals   Americans Even Offered to Turn Ship Over to Foe

26 Governors Hit ‘Restraints’ On Agriculture   National Disaster: Courted In Reconversion Laxi Republicans. oCharbe”

GOP. TRA SEEN IN FALL BY GOVERNORS   14-Point’ Declaration of Principles Due Today

GOP Governors Also Assai Agriculture Restraints; Predict Victory

Governors Indict New Deal for Ills   SHARGE ROOSEVELT ADMIN. ISTRATION WITH COURTING “NATIONAL DISASTER” IN RECONVERSION OF INDUSTRIES.   Say It Lacks Leadership

Governors See GOP Victory: Election of Dewey-Bricker Ticket Promised af Sf. Louis Conference

O.0.P. GOVERNORS SCORE NEW DEAL MAP PRINCIPLES   Conferees, Nearing End of Politically Significant Parley, Predict Many State Victories,   DEWEY SAYS PROGRAM IS NEAR COMPLETION   Three More Items of 14-point   Declaration, One Attacking Roosevelt Farm Policy, Completed.

NEW DEAL HIT AT PARLEY OF STATE HEADS   26 Governors Charge “Na tional Disaster” Has Been Courted

Republican chiefs take new  swings at demo leadership  ‘Make bold election predictions as -14 point declaration nears finish

FARM PROGRAM OF NEW DEAL-IS UNDER ATTACK   Abundant Production Under A Free Agriculture Promised By GOP   GOVERNORS’ PARLEY TO BE ENDED TODAY

Troops Advance On Iron Center By Three Routes   Soviets Surging Forward After Nikopol Victory

TAKEN PRISONER   Russian Troops Closed in o the Iron Center From Three Sides.   BREAK NAZI DEFENSES   Soviets Advanced in the Bi reetion of Kherson and Nikolaev. :

Enemy Reels Under Pincer Move   Reds Are Rushing  Naw Taward   Reds Are Rushing Now Toward Port of Kherson

UKRAINE ARMY PROCEEDS AFTER FALL OF NIKOPOL   Nazis Say Russians Will Bypass Narva Or Leningrad Front

Krivoi Rog New Objective   Russians Turn Toward Iron Center After Nikopol.

Three Sides Krivoi Rog Threatened   Advance Is Carried Toward Black Sea Ports

Oot IN ON KAWAI ACE   Surround Iron Center From Three Sides; Advance Toward Black Sea.   BREAK DNIEPER DEFENSE

Enemy Reels Under Pincer Move  : Red<« Are Rushing   Reds Are Rushing Now Toward Port of Kherson

GERMAN DEFENSE LINES COLLAPSE IN DNIEPER BEN   Soviets Report 15,000 Nazis Slain; Other Thousands Mav Be Trapped

Attack Ukraine Iron Center; Surge Toward Black Sea ©      At Beachhead

RED ARMIES DRIVE UPON KRIVO! ROG IN DNIEPER BEND   LOSS OF IRON ORE CITY WOULD BE HEAVY BLOW INDUSTRIAL GERMANY

15,000 Nazis Killed; 2,000 Are Captured   Enormous Stores of Booty Taken in the Fall of Nikopol

PUSH ALSO T0 2 BLACK SEA PORTS   Tenacious German Stand In Dnieper Bend Is Broken

Red Forces Moving on Krivoi Rog   Hitler. Again Apparently Has Waited Too Long to Betreat   BIG FORCE FACES RED ENCIRCLEMENT   Ten Nazi Divisions Near Cherkasy Being Exterminated: Mud a Factor

RED FORCES      Press Iron Center From Three Sides — Nazis, Though Faced With Encirclement, Show No Sions of Withdrawing.

Black Sea Ports “Also Threatened  By Soviet Armies   No Sign Of Withdrawal By Nazis In Iron Center Despite Encirclement 

Reds Closing In On Krivoi Rog From Three Sides Now   Hitler May Have Waited Too Long At Iron Center To Get Men Out  NIKOPOL LOSS HEAVY  Russians Move Toward Black Sea Ports After Breaking Dnieper Defense

Three Soviet Columns Move  On Krivoi Roe   15,000 Germans Slain At Nikopol; 10 Nazi Divisions In Trap Being Exterminated

GERMANS LOSE 19,000 MEN IN NIKOPOL STAND   Believe Nazi Troops To Make Suicide Stand at lron Center

Russian Troops Drive Against Black Sea Port   Hitler Waits Too Long Before Ordering Retreat

RedArmy  Closes on Nazis   RUSS TROOPS ADVANCE ON _ KRIVOIL ROG FROM THREE SIDES IN CONTINUED PUSH

Closing In On Krivoi Rog   Russians Hammering City From Three Sides

Soviet Forces Gain In Drive  On Krivoi Rog   Nikopol Captured, Germanus Lose Vital Source Of Manganese As Reds  - Roll Northward   Thousands Slain In Savage Battle   Four-day Fight Ended - As Huns Flee City; Seven Divisions Routed By Russian Forces

Russians Close in Around Krivoi Rog, Vital Mining Area   Direction of Two  Black Sea Ports

Capture of Nikopol Breaks Long German Defense in Dnieper Bend, Rob Nazis of Manganese   15,000 NAZIS SLAIN   Ten Encircled Nazi Divisions Near Cherkasy Are Being Exterminated—Spring Mires Roads

NAL UEFENd AT NIKOPOL - BROKEN   Germans Lose 15,000 Dead, 2,000 Captured   In Advances On Nikolaev, Kherson On Black-Sea: Invaders Lose Hope

Russians Drive On Toward Iron  City Krivoi Rog   Fifteen Thousand Germans Die In Battle For Manganese City.

Russian Tentacles Stretch Out for ’ Dnieper Bastion   fron Center of Krivoi Rog Is Menaced on Three Sides; Drive Toward Black Sea.

The War Today   Unofficial Reports Indicate First Army Is Holding Flanks.

ee aS Ol SE”tC  ‘The War Today  @ Censorship Blacks Out Progress of  bieaew, Casmtarkiaaw

MacKenzie Says—  Nazi Drive Big Threat To Aachen   Surprise Attack Seeks To Cut Lines Supplying Allied Armies Before Roer

WAR. TODAY      Hun Offensive Is Na Occasion For Panic, Although News From  Area Still Meagre As! To Details

U. W. School Of Commerce  Dean Choser   Prof. Fayette Elwell Is Selected By Regents To Become Head Of Newly Created School

HELSINKI IS RAIDED TWICE  BY OVER 100 SOVIET BOMBERS   Residents Of Finnish Capital Kept Under Cover For  Three Hours; 15 Persons Killed And 30 Injured; May Signal Aerial Offensive

Soviet Planes Make Big Raid On Helsinki   More Than 100 Bomber: Take Part in Attack, Swedish Reports Say

Big Force of Red Bombers Hits Helsinki   Two Airraids During Single Night May Be Prelude of Offensive

Russian Bombs Set Fires In Helsinki Raid   Flames Damage Finnish Capital

innish Capital amaged in Grea oonlight Attack   May Be the Start (Of New Offensive

Helsinki Bombec By Big Force Of Red Planes   See Russian Drive To Force Finns To Get Out of War

HELSINKI IS BLASTED BY RED AIRMEN   Raid Keeps Residents of - Finnish Capital Under Cover   AMERICAN LEGATION WINDOWS SHATTERED   Move Seen as Attempt to Drive Finland Out af War

Revised Hatch Act to Be Requested   Limited Campaign Expenses Slated

Baby Doll Ruled -Qutas Evidence ~[n Noxon. Tria   Demonstration ‘of Tray Position Also High Snot of Dav

MARINES WIPE OUT 3000 JAPS   Aussie Jungle Fighters Continue Squeeze Play In New Guinea

Can’t Make Martyrs Of Children   ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Lose Case Before U. S. Supreme Court

Cultist Loses In Appeal to - High Cour   Ban on Literature Sale 7 by Minors Upheld in.  Decision “~

A Close Decision By Supreme Court   Prohibits Parent From Giving Literature For Child to Distribute.

COURT UPHOLDS STATE BAN ON CHILD SELLING OF RELIGIOUS LITERATURE

FOSTERED PLOT TO CURB TAX, STATE CHARGES   Slush Fund Used Te Aid Wealthy Taxpayers, _ Sigler Savs

BRIGE-TAKERS, BRIBERS NAMED   14 Charged With Conspiracy to Corrupt 1939 Legisiature.   INFLUENCE LAW MAKING

Maine Republicans Defeat Democrats  Supported By CIO   Make Clean Sweep In Initial State Election

PAC Receives Sharp Defeat  In Maine   GOP Sweeps State in First of Nation’s Elections

Republicans Score Clean Maine Sweep   Thumping Setback Given to Siate Affiliate of P.A.C.

Maine GOP Sweep Vote   State Affiliate of PAC Handed Thumping By Two-to-One Margin

Republicans Hand ClO Another Defeat in Maine  Clean Sweep Scored By GOP Over

Republicans Hand ClO Another Defeat in Maine  Clean Sweep Scored By GOP Over PAC-Backed Group

Republicans Sweep Maine Election In Setback For Candidates Of C10

G.0.P. Cleans Up In Maine Voting   C.1.0. Is Handed Thumping ‘Setback i in State  Election .   Hildreth Carries All. But ‘Two of State’s 21  ithes

GOP NOMINEES SWEEP MAINE BY LANDSLIDE   Score Lopsided Victories Over All C1O-Backed Demo Candidates

Storm Nears Jacksonville   Central and Northern Florida in Path As Gale Leaves Destruction in St. Petersburg-Tampa Area.

RAF BATTERS — GERMANY IN NEW ASSAULTS   64 American Bombers I: Yesterday's Mission Fai) to Return

Aachen Blasted By RAF Bombers   American Daylight Raiders Continue Unrelenting  Drive Today; Nazi Broadeast Indicates Planes Flying From Bases In England And Italy

HANNOVER HiT BY RAF; OTHER CITIES BOMBED   Planes Approach Germany From Two Bases

Large-Scale Pilfering And Black Market Operations {n Military Supplies Reported   Congressional Investigation Likely Into Alleged Thefts. * O° Gasoline And Food From Supply Lines Of American Armies In Europe

Congress Eye: War Supply Theft Probes   Plans North Africa Tour to Clear Hijacking Reports

Congress to Probe War Supply Thefts   Reports Indicate Thefts.Of Gasoline Ande Food Haye Hampered Front Line Movement:

Reported Thefts Of Front Line Supplies _ Brinas Demands For Conaressional Probe

MayProbe _ Pilfering-~ An Europe   Congress Considering Investigation of Army Supplies  —- Fhefis” -

PAY OF OUPPLIEa PILFERING LOOMS   Congress May Probe Reports Of Thefts of Gasoline and Food From Overseas Supply Lines

Dispatches Telling of Theft of Gasoline and Food Lead to Talk in Washington of a Congressional Investigation— Pilfering Said to Have Reached Such Proportions at One Time as to Menace Military Operations.

Theft of Supplies Brings Talk of Congress Probe  In Europe Reported Going to Black Market

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13 Killed in Accidental Shelling of U.S. Landing - Craft by Destroyer [ire

13 Killed, 46 Wounded When Destroye Shells Landing Craft by Mistake

13 YANKS KILLED WHEN U.S. SINKS LANDING BARGES   45 Men Wounded, Crew on Destroyer Makes Mistake When Three Craft Plan Eniwetok Raid.   BARGES GET OFF OF SCHEDULED COURSES   Heavy Smoke and Dust Reported as Reducing Visibility, “Tragic Episode” Occurs February 22.

RECORD VOTE IN ILLINOIS LIKELY   POLITICAL LEADERS ESTIMATE TURNOUT OF FOUR MILLION

New Ballot Record. Expected Today by Officials of State   More Than Four and One Half Million Voters . Set to Mark Ballots

REDS CAPTURE FINLAND NICKEL MINES, 400 EAST PRUSSIA TOWNS   MOSCOW ANNOUNCES SEIZURE OF SOMOR IN YUGOSLAVIA, NYIREGYHAZA, HUNGARY CITY

Japs Rush Troops to Admiralties   ‘Reinforced American Troops Inch Forward On Les Negros Against Increasing Resistance

American Invasion «Forces Inch Ahead In the Admiralties   Gain 1 3-4 Miles” Against Stiff Jap Resistance on Los Negros Island

JAPS OFFERING BITTER FIGHT   Americans Inch Forward Against Enemy Positions In Admiralties

Americans Are Inching Ahead In Admizaltie   Facing: -Bitterly, Resisting Japanese From Ridge Positions ‘On —  . Los Negros: -

Yanks Fight Off Attacks By Japanese   Enemy in Determined Counterdrive Against Admiralty Invaders

Americans Inch Ahead on Neros   Japs Resist Grimly From Ridgehead Post Despite Bomber Hits

'U. S. Forces Inch Forward.  From Admiralty Beachhead; Jap Air Assault Is Foilec

Yanks Inch Forward In  Admiralties  Resistance Of Japs Is Bitter

RESIST BITTERLY AS YANKS FORGE SLOWLY FORWARD   NIPS UNDERGOING TERRIFIC BOMBING FROM U. S. PLANES

JAPS PUT UP BUTTER FIGHT   Reinforced American Invaders of Los Negros Move Ahead Slowly.   NIPS ARE REINFORCED

JapsSlowly Pushed Back  By Americans   Both Sides Reinforced: Enemy Outmaneuvered By MacArthur’s Move On Los Negros

Japs Undergo Terrific Pounding From U. S. Planes: Reinforcements Arrive For Both Sides As Battle For Island Grows In Intensity  / :

Admiralty Invaders  Press Ahead   Forces on Los Negros Gain Over Mile Under Stuff Jan Fire

ALLIES INCH FORWARD ON JAP ISLAND   Several Thousand Japanese Unite  To Hold Lines

Japanese Resist Los Negros Drive   American Invaders of Admiralty Islands Inch Ahead During Day

Jap Holdouts Battered in Admiralties   Japs Dug In on Ridges of Los Negros Waging Bitter Resistance

Jap Defenses Take Aerial Blows From Kuriles to Caroline   U. S. Invaders of Los Negros Meet Reinforced Opposition

ALLIES CONTROL ALL OF FLORENCE   Occupation Of Italian Ain Center Completed, Says Alexander

lies Complete cupation Of  ity of Florence   Skill and Patience Of Allies Saved City From Ruin.

FLORENCE FREE OF HUN HORDES   Eighth Army Patrols Driving Beyond Northern Outskirts of City

Allies Occupy Florence   Delay Explained « Effort to Prevent Damage to City

Florence Is Now  In Allied Hands   Eighth Army Patrols Are Now Rushing Beyond Northern Outskirts; Have Taken 13,171 Prisoners.

GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF FLORENCE   EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS COMPLETELY OCCUPY ITALIAN ART CENTER

Florenc  Is Spar   Delay in Allied Ad‘vance Result) of Desire to Keep Ruin of Battle from the City

Eighth Seizes All Florence, ‘Pushes North   Ousts Last of Foe Without Street Fighting or ‘Ruin of Landmarks

Florence Entirely Occupied by Allies  Eighth Army Reports Total of 13,171

Ousting. of Last German Opposition Delayed Purposely to Keep Art Center Intact

Total of Holiday Deaths Reaches 112  79 Are Reported Caused by Traffic

Holiday Fatalities Mount Over Nation  Paris Observes Quiet   Paris Observes Quiet New Year's Day as Bad Weather Prevails

Holiday Deaths Tofal Only ade  Lralifa   California Leads In Traffic Deaths

Holiday Deaths Total Only 68   California Leads In Traffic Deaths

RED TROOPS TEAR GAPS IN NAZI LINES   Russ Slay 40,000 Enemy Soldiers in Six Days

Russian Troops Storming Ahead Below Leningrac   ‘‘Complete Defeat And Collapse’’ Believed Facing Nazi Force Of 250.000   NOVGOROD CAPTURE DOOMS MANY NAZIS

GENERAL ASSIGN- ~ MEN FOR W. A. C. RECRUITS AFTER OCT. 31   Recruits Will Still Be Able to Choos¢ Either Air, Ground or Army Service Forces.

U. S. FLIER DANCES TO DROP BOMB LOAL   Jumps Up and Down on Door Until They Jar Open and Explosives Fall.

U.S. Forces Land On 11th Island Of Palau Group   MacArthur Reports Heavy Four-Hour Raid On Balikpapan Area

YANK FORCES SWEEP ONTO BAIRAKASERI   Garakayo Is Secured In 24 Hours By _Americans

'NEW LANDING IN PALAUS ISLANDS ‘BY YANK TROOPS   Americans Sweep Unopposed Onto Bairakaseru;  Balkikpapan Raided   ATTACK ON HOMELAND FEARED BY JAPANESE

Second Landing in Three Days in Palaus — Reported  JAP OIL SOURCES AGAIN ARE RAIDE:        Refineries and Airdrome. on Balkikpapan ~ Bombed

Americans Make New Landing on Palaus Island   Extend Control Of Major Bases   Use New Air Base

TRUCK STRIKE SPREADS 10 2 MORE STATES   Colorado, Oklahoma Out in Sympathy With Eight Original States

FORT THOMAS NURSE CITED   First American Woman to Be Decorated ‘in War

Dewey Endorsed By Maryland GOF State Convention   “Roosevelt Gang’ Flayed by Sloan   Delegation Unpledged   Support Randall

State Republicans Endorse Thomas Dewey For President   Maryland Convention Also Asks Support of Dirksen . for Vice-President—Randall’s Candidacy Certified 

Hitler Going To Rumania   Nazis Stand to Lose Primary Oi] Source

Lively Time : ‘at  Nat'l Convention   Big Contest Will Be. _ Over Nat'l Committeeman   Bricker

Gov. Bricker To Conduct Active Campaign in Iowa     State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s

Nazis zis Told Allies Plan   Religious, Racial Freedom: Promised

Russian Vanguards Cut Distance to Austria to  $5 Miles   Allies to Restore Religious, Racial Freedom in Reich

TO RESTORE RELIGIOUS, RACE FREEDOM TO HUNS  ._, ae. ok ee md eaten a ae Bs ak ee eke eee ed

NORMANDY BATTLE GIVEN UP BY NAZIS   Military Correspondent of DNB News Agency Says Front Has Been Liquidated,

Tank Offensive Rapidly Nearing the French Capital             BY FLEEING Nazis  Forces Mass E Barges in an Attempt to ‘Escape

Tank Offensive Rapidly’ Nearing the French Capital — TE BY FLEEING NAZIS. Forces Mass E Barges in’  an Attempt to - -Escape

AMERICANS WITHIN 23 MILES  OF PARIS, GERMANS DECLARE   Spire Of Eiffel Tower Visible To Yank Spearheads From Aunay River; Enemy Masses Barges And Ferries  To Transport Troops Across Seine   Bi JAMES M. LONG

Republican Chairman Scoffs at Democratic Skepticism Toward Polls

Lauer Positive Ot Claims Made By State GOP   Republican State Chairman Ridicules Democratic Attitude Concerning Polls in Two States.

JAP BARGE BASE IN MARINE HANDS   atamo Taken in Advance from Cape Gloucester; Down 27 Planes

Marines Gain Control Of Jap Base At Natama   Barge Base In Borgen Bay Sector Is Taken By U. §. Fighters   BOMBING RAIDS ON JAP POSITIONS

Congress Rests, 8,000 Workers Co on Strike   Union Leader Contends “Men Can Take Vacations If: Lecislators Can-.”

Japs Gained Vital Technical And Economig ic DataHereLong  : “Beiore rear tiarbor,. Ciaim   Army and Navy Depart ment Approved Plans of Gil . Firm's Aid to  Tokyo Government

Japs Gained Techniques  From U.S.   American Firms Also Told How Much Gas Shipped to Hawaii

Witness Says Japs Got Data On U. 5. Gasoline Before American Firms

Business Bonds  With US Aided  Jap War Machine Obtained Vital  Supplies Data

Pre-War Japanese Commercial Deals Cave Information To Tokyo War Lords

Says Firms Gave Japan U.S. Secrets   Martin Charges Valuable Data Flowed to Japs For Many Years

3 TOTS PERISH IN HOME BLAZE   Mother Critically Burned In Morning Fire At Carrollton

SCOUTS PLANNING AN OUTDOOR CAMP IN STATESVILLE   Public Invited To Visit Scout Camp On First A. R. P. Church Lawn  Reginning Saturday.

SCOUTS 10 ‘CAMP ON CHURCH LAWN   Tents Will Be Pitched At First A. R. P. Church

WAGE DEMANDS OF RAIL WORKERS GIVEN BOARD   Leaders Of Three Operating Unicens Study Next Mave

Germans Bring News of New Major Offensive Launched by Russian Forces in far North   Other Soviet Forces Drive Columns Deeper Into Pripet Marshes With German Forces Backing Toward Pinsk

Balkan Invasion Surmises Revived: Yugoslay Military .   Yugoslav Military — Mission Arrives. In London Monday

Ohio Marine ‘Only Yardbird’ Gives Life To Save Companions After Slaying Japs

Maurice Chevalier  Reported Killed   Former Movie Actor Victim of Maquis

FRENCH MOVIE STAR KILLED BY PATRIOTS      Maurice Chevalier Accused of Aiding Nazis

Japan claims naval aciion under way around Formos:  American headquarters silent on report; aerial sirikes widespread

STORMY SERVICE VOTE BILL IN HANDS OF E.D.R.   Cengressional Action Completed Today After House Votes Gn the Compromise Measure and Appreves [tk 273 to 1lt

SERVICE VOTE BILL 10 F.D.R.   COMPROMISE MEASURE PASSES BOTH BRANCHES

House Passes Service Vote   States’ Rights Ballot Adopted 273 to 111; Goes to White House

FE VOT Em  House Passage Nearing   Measure Likely Ga To White House By Night

Compromise Service Vote BillGoesto FDR   House Passes States Rights-Dominated Measure; Issue In Hands of President Who’s Called That Idea ‘Fraud’

DEBATE VOTE BILL IN HOUSE   Rep Worley Describes Measure As ‘Half a Loaf, Better Than None.’

Radio Blackout Suggests Big  RAF Force Out   Germans Describe Attack on Capital as “Terror Raid’; London  Has Brief Air Alert

Russians Report Great Successes In Northern Drive   Nazis Pull Back in Italy: Radio Says Outskirts Of Rome Bombed

Nazis Report 21 Bombers Down: Rome Is Target   105th Raid of War Against Capital; Nazis Tell of Attack

Germau Radio Claims 21 Bombers Shot Down in ‘Terror Raid’; Waves of Planes Smash Italy Rails

Russians Smash On In Two Offensives To Entrap Germans   Russ Army Captures Ancient Novgorod, Former Powerful Nazi Fortress; Allies Are Driving Northward In Bate Below Rome

REICH CAPITAL AGAIN TARGET FOR RAF RAID   ELEVENTH MASSIVE ATTACK MADE ON BERLIN

Nazi Capital Again Is R.A.F. Tarcet   Continental Radio Blackout Hints at Major - Attacks

RAF stages big raid on  nazi capital   llth hig blow of  ‘extermination’

Berlin Hammered By RAF in Massive Raic   Continental Radio Blackout Suggests Strong Force Was Out; Rome Reports Attack On Outskirts of City

London Reports Massive Attack On Nazi Capital   21 Bombers Shot Down, Reich Says

RAF SMASHES BERLIN AGAIN IN HEAVY RAID   Rome Radio Annouric es Attack on Outskirts OF Italian -Capital

BRITISH PLANES HAMMER BERLIN; ROME ATTACKED   German Radio Claims 21 Bombers Shot Down; Believed Massive Raid   CASUALTIES REPORTED IN ITALIAN CAPITAL

BOMB BERLIN 11TH TIME WN TWO MONTHS   RAF Showers German Capital With 14,000 Tons Of Bombs; Rome Also Bombed At Same Time.   Blast Airdromes

Blackout Heralds Other Air Blows   Conditions Indicated Ideal For Sky Onsluaght

21 Bombers Shot Down,  Nazis Claim   RAF Raid on Capital  Of Germany Believed  Made in Heavy Force ROME AT SO POTIINNEN

» RAF Canadian Bombers Hit Berlin In Heavy Air Attack   German Radio Indicates Bombers Have !deal ‘Weather For Attack And Ack-Ack Is Heavy

GERMANS CLAIM 21 PLANES SHOT DOWNED IN REICH   First Time During War That Two Axis Capitals Have ~ Been Blasted on Same — Davy. .   RAILROAD YARDS _ A TARGET IN ITALY   Assault Made During Daylight Hours — Pisa and . Perugia Also Are’ Pounded.

Berlin Bombed Again By RAF In Night Raid   Eleventh Mass Attack Blasts Reich Capital—Twenty. one Bombers Shot Down Nazis Say— Many Bombs Are Dropped

Yanks Unopposed -At Schweinfurt  And Frankfurt   Germans Claim Many RAF Bombers In “Heav Nuisance Raid’ Over Berlin After Americans  Smash Other Industrial Cities.

Nazis Indicate Capital Is Hard Hit   U.S.Bombers Drop Explosives on Important Targets

SUBSIDY PLAN REJECTED BY. ~ SENATE VOTE   SENATORS FOLLOW LEAD OF  MOUSE IN. REFUSING’ APPRO PRIATION FOR ADMINIS-. * TRATION'S PROGRAM

Senate Expected To Pass CCC Bill With Anti-Subsidy Rider: FDR Veto Is Certain

ANTI-SUBSIDY RIDER ON CCC BILL DECIDEL   Measure is Headed for Certain Veto by President

Soviet Embassy Ready To Leave   Russian Break With  Bulgaria Imminent

Charlie Chapin Faces U.S. Court   Comic Indicted by Federal Jury

NAZIS LEAVE REAR GUARD IN BUDAPEST   Fall of Hungarian Capital Appears Imminent

‘Rear Guard Left To Cover Flight Under Heavy Fire   Fleeing Nazis Said Abandoned Wounded In Escape Attempt

REDS HAMMER AT CITY GATES FROM 3 SIDES   Soviet Front Line Reports Say Fall Of Hungary’s Capital Near

Nazis Abandon Wounded In Flight From Budapest As Soviets Nearly Circle City

Rear Guard ls Doomed To Suicide   Red Armies Converge On Hungarian City From Three Sides

SEIZURE OF CAPITAL Is IMMINENT   Russians Bomb, Shell Doomed Reiedard In Burning City

CLAIM GERMANS ARE EVACUATING BUDAPEST CITY   Leave Doomed Rear Guard To Cover Flight From Capitai

Germans Fleeing Budapest   Doomed Near Guard Reported Covering Flight   Fall of Hungarian Capital Imminent; Nazis Are Desperate

"Panicky Nazis Flee -Burning Budapest: ‘Escape Gap Mauled   Huge Piles of Stores, Wounded Men Abandoned; Doomed Garrisox Left to Cover Flight From Capital

GERMANS FLEEING BUDAPEST UNDER HAIL OF SOVIET BOMBS AND SHELLS   Enemy Abandoning Much. Equipment

REAR GUARD [S LEFT IN BURNING CITY   Fall of Citidel of Hitler’s Last Major Satellite Appears Imminent.

Germans Hurl  All Power Into Battle   Fierce Struggle for Budapest Reported by Reds

NAZIS FLEEING BUDAPEST UNDER RAIN OF SOVIET SHELLS. BOMBS   REAR GUARD LEFT TO COVER FLIGHT FROM CAPITAL OF HITLER’S LAST MAJOR SATELLITE

GERMANS EVACUATING BUDAPEST   Reds Near Gates Of City from Three Sides

German Troops Leave Budapest, Russians Report   Evacuating Hungarian Capital as Red Armies Crash Into City on Three Sides

Germans Fleeing Budapest  Under .  Fire from: Soviets   Monessen. Airman: Is:  Decorated With DF C

ENEMY FLEES — HUN CAPITAL” ANID FLAMES   Suicide Garrison  Left Behind to  Cover Rear

Russians Storming Budapest   Final Battle For Hungarian Capital Now on

GEN. DEGAULLE COMMANDS FRENCE FORCES DRIVING NAZIS FROM CITY   Complete Liberation of Capital Expected In Matter of Hours.

FULL FREEDOM FOR CAPITAL MAY COME TODAY   Yanks Storm In To Aid French After  Cormans Trick Coeneral

Yanks Join Paris Fight  : Liberation Of City  Is Matter Of Hours

American Tanks Pour Info Paris To Aid French   Nazis Still Fight Army of Patriots In City Streets

French And American Troops Join Patriots In Battling iThe Germans Inside Paris

FIREMAN IS KILLED IN TOLEDO BLAZE   Fourteen Retail Stores Are Wiped Out by Flames

BELIEVES JAPS “PLAY POSSUM’   Vandegrift Sees Effort to Lull United States

Japan Is Playing Possum” General Says, in Urging Full Support for the Red Cross

Two Convicts Drive Away   Steal Car of Engineer Of Penitentiary to Make Their Escape

ine War £ oday—  \Hitler Makes Good On Boast Of New  Secret Weapon With Robot Bombers

Menace Not to Be Taken Ligh tiy  (WingedDeath’Bombs  Strain Civilian Morale

neo valgus Area sah  HITLER’S ROBOT BOMBS CAUSE TERROR FOR LONDON BUT THAT IS CHIFF OBIECT OF WEAPON

CHURCHILL PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE OF FLYING BOMBS. WHICH HAVE TAKEN HEAVY TOLL DURING PAST 3 WEEKS   Chief Value of Robot Bombs Lies in Creation of Terror and Breaking of Morale. Winged Death Designed to Aid in Bolstering German Morale

F.D. R. Hopes Finns Will Quit the War   Says Nazi Partnership Seems Odd to Him and People of U. S.— B. B. C. Warns Peace Rejection Will Be National Suicide.

CHURCHILL IN GOOD HEALTH AFTER ILLNESS   Visits Commons; . Resumes Direction of War Effort

THE BAYS je ITALY CET CLEANED AND SHAVED AND KEW UNIFORMS AT “BEAUTY SHOPS” BEHIND LINES 

MANDALAY I BOMB-BLASTED BY ALLIES   Drive to Cripple Jap Lines in Northern Burma Pressed

Furore Rises As Churchill Fails to Talk   20,000 Jam Square In Protest Meeting; Prestice Fall Seen

TOM T. MOORE AGAIN HEADS COLES FAIR   All Other Officers Re-Elected at Annual Meeting

1) BEACHHEADS ESTABLISHED ON THE MARSHALLS      Commanders of Our Mighty Forces Confident of Eventual Victory in Jap Outpost   GETTING OUT

MURKY SITUATION NOW CLEARED UP   Service Publication Finds Conditions Better After Differences Are Aired

Tokyo Reports Bonins Hit By Naval Assault   Bases 600 Miles From Nippon Under Attack; Enemy Also Tells Of Air Raid On Karea

Community Producing 20 Per Cent of Nippon’s Steel Was Among Objectives in Raid Yesterday.   MARIANAS INVASION HAS MADE PROGRESS

Japan’s Steel Industry Gets Blow In Raid   American Invaders In  Hard Fight On Saipan

Modified Food Subsidy Asked   Senators Would Limit Plan To Lew Income Group

Hal Billion Subsidy Urged   Senators Map Program Which Would Apply to Lower Income Groups

FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN FAVORED   Senators Ask 500 Million A Year for Program

OFFER SUBSIDY OF 500 MILLION   Plan Would Provide Aid To Low Income Group

NEW FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN PUT FORWARD   Senate Group Would Limit Aid t Fanilies With Incomes Under $1,600 a Year.

Limited Subsidy ls Suggested  F.D.R. Opposition  Puts Forth Plan

Group Offers $50,000,000 Subsidy Plan   Designs To Restrict Consumer Subsidy Aid To Low Income Families.   OPPOSE GENERAL PLAN

B-29's Raid Tokyo; Bonir Isles Shelled   Americans Keep Pressure On Jap Bases

B-29s Give Tokyo Red  Christmas.   U. S. Warships Shell Bonin Isles; Levte Nips Routed

SHIRLEY TEMPLE IS SWEET SIXTEEN NOW   Former Child-star Now Cast With Ginger Rogers

British Shipbuilding Industry Is Urged fo Refuse American Vessels

Campaign Expense Not Deductible   Income Tax Ruling Blow to Candidates

Campaign Expenses Not Deductible for Income Taxes, Court Decides

Victory In Air!   Planes Protecting Our Mindoro Bridgeheads Reap Mighty Toll of Nip Craft

Town of San Jose Cantured   375 Jap Planes Wrecked in Three Days of Battle

San Jose Falls As U.S. Troops Gain Nine Miles   American Forces Are Smashing Inland From Three Bridgeheads Against ‘Negligible’ Opposition; Nip Airmen Attack Convoy

Jap Resistance Is Still Negligible   Tokyo Radio Claims Violent Sea And Air Battles Are Raging in The Sulu Seo Area

Invaders Push Seven To Nine  Miles Inland   Negligible Japanese Opposition ‘neountered On Mindoro Island.

Uncle Sam Gets 70 Cents in Taxes on Stalk of Tobacco Worth 15 Cents

ORIOLE PARK IS. ~ WRECKED BY FIRE   Home of Baltimore Base: ball Club Destroyed hy Blaze

Lonergan Tried Suicide; Confession. Is Admitted — As New: Witness Appears

LONERGAN DEATH STORY ADMITTED   Prosecution Nears End 0! Presentation Of Evidence

Confession In Lonergan Case  Read To Jury   Prosecution Closes Its Eviderice Today

— —  Americans Over Hitlerland Again; RAF Fliers Batter Peete Stuttgart, Munich  1 i {

Congressmen Go To Chicago   Conventions Are Lure After Lona Session

CONGRESS QUITS FOR CONVENTIONS   LEGISLATIVE MILL RECESSES TODAY UNTIL AUGUST 1

2ND SESSION OF CONGRESS ENDS   Many Senators, Congress: men Head for National Political Conventions.

CONGRESS ADJOURNS FOR MONTH RECESS   Streamlined Procedure Planned on Return

Politicos Join in Observance of Columbus Day  Speakers Disagree On Which Group Can Best Lead U. S.

BRICKER URGES JOBS WITH GOP   Says Demos Unable to Aid ____Industrial.Recovery._

Political Quarrel About Future Holds _ Hection Spotlight   Bricker and Hillman Ex.  change ‘Assertions on  -Labor Outlook.

Recovery Hope Not in Roosevel  Bricker Blasts New Deal Industry Policy

POLITICS MARK COLUMBUS DAY   NEW DEAL CAN'T BE TRUSTED TO PROVIDE JOBS, SAYS BRICKER

Large Postwar Air Force Asked By Army and Navy   Giant Production Plants Suggested   Offers Four Plans«

Army, Navy Ask Big Postwar U.§. Air Force   Urge MammothPlane Production Plants Also Be Maintained

Germans Step Up Robot Bomb Raid   Record Number Hit England in Night

Yanks Near One Of Main Routes. ‘In Gothic Line      North. . Italy; Fighting Rages.

ath Army Drives Inte Gothie Line   Troops Reported Within Mile Of Futa Pass

Yanks Near One Of Main Routes ‘In Gothic Line   Sth Army Within Mile Of Futa Pass Avenue Through LineGuarding North Italy; Fterce Fighting Rages.

5TH ARMY FACING STRONG SECTOR. IN-GOTHIC LINE   Near Futa Pass Northeast of Florence — Pass Described as Being More Strongly Defended Than Cassino

Italian Drive Gains Slowly   Fifth Army Troops Near: Futa Pass’: ~

Fifth Army Forces Near Futa Pass   Fierce Fighting Continues in Adriatic Sector; Germans Apparently Ready to Meet Any Attack on Gothic Line

FIFTH ARMY FORCES AT GATES FUTA PASS, STRONGLY DEFENDED  FIERCE FIGHTING CON TINUED TODAY ALONG ANDIATIC CDANT

Yanks Near Mair Nazi Defenses   Fifth Army Approaches Italian Stronghold

Fifth Drives At Futa Pass. In Gothic Line   Only a Mile From StrongIvy Held Gap: Florence Force Punches North

ATTACK IN ITALY NEARS KEY PASS   Yanks Reach Bar To North: Fierce Fighting Goes On

Robot Raids End Three-Day Lull   Attacks Renewed on London, South England

Gallagher Beats Out Gale In Third District Street Sweeper Is Congressman.

AUTOIST FORFEITS — $401 COLLATERAL   Martinsburg Driver Fail: to Appear for Hearing

AUTOIST FORFEITS: $104 COLLATERAL      Martinsburg Driver Fails to Appear for  Hearing

RUSSIANS FIGHTING THROUGH LITHUANIA   Crossing Inte East Prussia Appears Imminent; Pert Of Meme! Being Menaced

Davis Leads Louisiana 'Poll; Old Long Faction Ahead in Rest of State

Independent Congressional Probe of Pearl Harbor Attack Demanded Today

Republican Solon Requests In. dependent Inquiry Into  Facts of Attack

F inns Lxpect U.S. To Breal Off Relations   Note Rejecting Russian Demands Now in Moscow

Nine Killed at George Field   Two Airplanes Crash Over Air Field Near Vincennes

TEMPERATURES  YVESTERDAY   “LONG-TERM CREDITS FOR RUSSIA .~ AFTER WAR URGED BY JOHNSTON

JAPANESE’ RESISTANCE TOUGHEST   But Guadalcanal Vets Battle Forward On Peleliu

NEOSHO RECEDES AT SNAIL’S PACE   River Here Drops Foot Since Early Sunday—Flood Danger Considered Past

‘ADVISES SMALL G GROWERS ‘TO GET AWAY FROM ‘HARMFU) ‘ONE. ‘CROP SYSTEM. .HERE 

Chariton Girl Member- Naval Base Warning Network   --To Protect Ottumwa Cadets:

Storm Warning Service for Air Base at Ottumwa   Observers Are Stationed in Towns All Around The Station

62 Jap Planes Blasted in Raid on Rabau.   546 Enemy Aircraft Have Been Downed This Month

LEGION PATTERN DRAWN: ELECTS   Adopt Resolutions to Shape Postwar United States; Convention Ends

Legionnaires Draw Their Pattern For Post-War United States   Scheiberling Elected National Commander ; War Veterans Warn Against Soft Peace

Patternfor US.Drawn By Legion   Adopt. Resolution tor Post War Period And — Elect Natioval  Commudadar

BLOOD TRANSFUSION HELPS SICK CHILD   Anonymous Donor Comes To Springfield

BLOOD DISEASE VICTIM SERIOUS   Springfield Boy Given 7th Transfusion, Penicillin

Quit Murder Farm Search For Youth   Springfield Boy Is Given Penicillin, Transfusions

State Schools May Be Closed   Murray State and Two Other Colleges On Doubtful List

St. Louis Man May Succeed Walker As Chairman   Democrats to ‘Meet In Washington’). To Place Convention

Hannegan Expected To Replace  Democrat Chief  Frank Walker to Step Down When  Pary Holds Meetina

NEW DEM, CHIEFTAIN MAY BE HANNEGAN   Committee To Pick Site for Convention January 22

Hannegan May Succeed Walker   Expected to Become Chairman of Democratic National Committee

WALKER PLANS TO RESIGN AS DEMOS’ CHIEF   Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis Reported Likely Successor as National Chairman

See Hannegan as New Demo Group Chief   INTERNAL REVENUE HEAD EXPECTED TO BE CHOICE AS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN

Hannegan May Replace Walker  Postmaster General To  Quit Chairmanship  Re BIAR OLY O,rryvre

Hannegan May Head  Democrats   Young St.“Louisan Has the Inside Track on National Comittee Fost   WALKER EXPECTED : TO RESIGN SOON   Democrats Are Expected to Hold National Convention in Chicago in July

Hannegan To  Follow Walker   Tax Official Succeeds Poastmaster General As Chairman Democratic Party.

Hannegan to  Be Dem Head   U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue to Replace Frank Walker

Walker Is Expected Ouit Post   ..- Hannegan Likely To Be Demo Chairman

Hannegan Is . Slated To Be Rarty Chief   Present Commissioner Of internal Revenue May Succeed Walker As Democrats’ Head

Jos. Nunan Jr. Is Appointed   Named Commissioner Of Internal Revenue by Denerdant Rancavalt

‘NIPS WORRIED OVER MENACE 10 PHILIPPINES   Tokyo Warns Manila To Prepare Air Raid Shelters

Kill Over 1400 Japs On Palau   Marines Capture Fine Airport  In Paving Way  To Philippines

Marines Kill 1,400 Enemy On Peleliu   Capture Finest Airport In Palau Group; Gain In Halmaheras

1,400 Japs killed as  Peleliu airport falls   Marines advance steadily on Palau against strong enemy resistance

Marines, Japs In Hard Fight   Yanks Struggle More Than Halfway Across Key Island of Palau Chain

Marines Capture Peleliu Airport  Opens Entry Way to the Philippines

MARINES CAPTURE PELELIU AIRPORT, KILL 1400 JAPS   Americans Advance Steadily Against Nipponese Who Are Putting Up Furious Fight.   WARSHIPS AND PLANES ASSIST GROUND FORCES   Help Smash Strong CounterAttacks—Enemy Troops in Battle Number  8,000. —

1400 Japs Killed As Marines Seize Palau Island Base   Peleliu Airport in‘ American Hands and Leathernecks Move Forward Against Nip Defenders

Heroes of Guadueanal Will More Than 1.100 Nipponese on Peleliu in Sutff Batile

PATH BLASTED FOR INVASION IN PHILIPPINES   U. S. MARINES CLASH WITH 8,000 JAPS ON KEY ISLAND

Marines Take  Palau Airport Kill 1,400 Japanese In Steady Advance

Marines Kill 1,400 Japs in Capturing Airport on Palau   Field Is One of Best In Carolines; Fliers Back up Leathernecks

=~ ow  bee bl 8, — shee  Terug 85 a3   “ges Uasua_les sfeaces Veo Vie Gain Scorec 

Another Wartime Christmas Observed As Boys At Front Say: ‘ Wish  Were Home

Civ MLLCD, 26 HURT IN MISHAF   Bus En Route to Camp Crowder Hits Bridge — 26 Victims Soldiers

_ Soldier Killed 28 Injured In e Bus Accident   Vehicle Filled With Service Men Struck Bridge Abutment

One Killed, 28 Hurt in Wreck   Bus From Joplin to Comp Crowder Hits Bridge Abutment

Japs Come Out to Fight U.S. Task Force in Battle Which Is Continuing

Domei Agency Reports 23: U. S. Warships Hit   Nimitz Says Fight Still Continuing Without Commenting Upon ._ Claims of Enemy

Jap » Planes  Strike Hard At American Task Force   Extravagant ‘Claims Made by Japanese, . But Nimitz Reports Plane Losses Light —

BIG NAVAL- AIR BATTLE UNDER WAY IN PACIFIC   Action Occurs in New Attacks on Luzon And Formosa

GET BALLOTS NOW FOR MEN OVERSEAS   Relatives Can Get Bailots from County Auditor and Mail to Soldiers and Sailors.

FIRST BALLOTS GO TO MEN OVERSEAS   Work of Mailing Ballots to Men Overseas Will Start in State This Wednesday.

Grew Warns Jap Peace Offers Bat For Future Wars   Says U. S. May Expect Compromise Peace Feelers Soon.

Russians Throw New Power Into Budapest Battle   But Germans Indicate They Will Carry Out Desperate Defense

Advance Units Reported Inside City; Nazis May Take Last Ditch Stand

REDS BATTLE IN BUDAPEST   Building by Building Defense Expected From Nazis.

RETURNED VETS SAY TREATMENT UNFAIR: HAND)   Adjutant General of Veterans of Foreign Wars Demand Investigation by Services

Men In Service List Complaints About Treatment  A  Sen.) ieee       Army, Navy Silent On VFW Inquiries

SOLONS PROBE ‘SLUSH FUNDS   Hillman Of CIO-PAC First To Give Testimony

"SLUSH FUND’ DRIVE OPENED   Inquiry Is Begun By House Campaign Expenses Committee

Political Donations Questioned   House Committe Making Prive to Know Who Gives And How Much

! aunch Probe T ° Uncover Slush Funds   Hillman Denies  Communism Charae

HILLMAN LISTS PAC EXPENSES   Explains cIo Politics: Industry To Testify At Next Hearing

House Campaign Expenses Group Launches Probe  Sidney Hillman, Head Of Political Action

—CIO PAC—  CAMPAIGN FUNG. PROBE LAUNGHEL   Hillman Denies Charge PAC Is Controlled By Communists

Hawarden Woman Well Known Here Commits Suicide “Witnesses Say She Jumped In Front  Of Train

Hawarden Woman  cal Dept. of Iuwa  Well Known Here Commits Suicide Witnesses Say She  ‘Jumped In Front Of Train

Philippine Sea Battle Ends Draw   Japanese, Yanks, Each Lose Destroyer; U. S. Commanders Somber

AMERICANS ADMIT NAVAL BATTLE WITH ENEMY FORGES DRAW  ALSO SUPERFORTS FAIL TO KNOCK OUT: TOKYO AIRCRAFT FACTORY

B-29 Raids Fail to Knock Out Factory   Qrmoc Gulf Battle Costs: Each Side a Destroyer; Planes Rip Rap Targets

U. §. Admits First Inland Sea Battle Ends In A Draw   Superforts Unable To Knock Out Main Tokyo Target

Each Side Loses Destroyer; Super-Forts Still Have Bie Job Ahead in Tokvo

Jap Factory Still Running   Superforts Unable to Give Knockout to Tokvo Plane Plant

PHILIPPINES BATTLE ENDS WITH A DRAW   Jap, American Destroyers Sunk. U. U, S. Vessels Torn Apart By Air Torpedo Or Mine

JAP AIRGRAFT PLANTS STILL IN OPERATION   Superforts Unable To Halt Output Of Warplanes

Gains In War-On Japs Questioned   Tokyo Aircraft “Plant Not Knocked Out

Americans, Japs Fight To Draw inSea Battle  UJ. $. Destroyer Lost; Plane Does A Heroic Rescue Job; Chinese

AMERICAN COMMANDERS REPORT BOTH SIDES LOST EESTROYER; JAP AIRCRAFT PLANTS INTACT

PACLEIC—  CATHLINES IVE MANY AMER   Flying Boats Drag Sail. ors From Water In Full View Of Enemy   HIT BY TORPEDO   B-29 Raids Fail To Knock Out Aircraft Factory In Tokyo

DESTROYER LOST IN NIGHT FIGHT IN PHILIPPINES   Superforts Failed To Destroy Plane Factory in Tokyo; Leyte Battle Bogged

BAD WEATHER 1S HANDICAP   Inland Philippine Sea Battle Ends in Draw  gE ee ae EEG oR Oe Le aeRO ae

SEA FIGHT OFF LEYTE 1S DRAW   Both Sides Lose One Ship; B-29’s Fail to Wipe  Out Tokyo Plants

Japs, Yanks Kaci Lose Destroyer In Ormoc Battle  B-29s Fail to Knock Out Nip Factory ‘Im Faur Takvoa Raids

NAVAL BATTLE IN ORMOC GULF ENDS IN DRAW   Each Side Loses Destroyer; B-29’s Fail To Knock Out Tokyo Air Plant

Naval Battle Ends in Draw  U.S. Destroyer Lost In Clash Off Ormoc

German Homeland is Invaded By First Army; Whole Strength, Fury of Allies to Hit Soon

First Phase Of Siegfried Line Battle Is Opened   Mystery Fort  Of Eben Emael In Outflanking Siegfried Outpos

IST ARMY SWEEPS MORE THAN 6 MILES ONTO REICH SOIL   Early Reports Say _Nazis Offering Feeble Resistance—Allied Line From North Sea To  Mediterranean

First Phase of Siegfried Line Battle Opens   American Troops Outflank Its Outpost of Trier

Marauders, Havoc Bombers Hea"   ily Plaster Lorg -Stretch ¢ Siegfried Line; First Arm Pumps Shells Into Germany   ANCIENT CITY OF TRIER IS PLANKE

American Troops Push Six Miles In Germany   Mystery Fort Eben Emaul On Northern Approaches Captured By Yank Troops

Mystery Fort is Captured   First Phase of Attack on Famed Defense Starts

Capture “Mystery Fort” Eben Emael On Its Approaches .   PORT OF LE HAVRE © HAS SURRENDERED   Giving Allies Control Of Most Valuable Gatewavs To France

By-Pass Trier, Outpost Of Siegfried Line, And Put Aachen Under Fire   3rd And 7th Join At Sombernon; Battle Of Moselle Still Secret; LeHavre Reported Seized

CHINESE SEIZE VITAL RAIL CITY   Firmer Hold Clamped or Peiping-Hankow Line

Chinese Take Railroad City  Kioshan Falls; Army At Loyang Struggles Tr Brack Jan Ring

Gov. Dewey Firm on Soldier Ballot  Federal Ballot Friends Refusea an Interview

Dewey Unable To Speak Here   Candidate's Itinerary Does Not Permit Stop

 Would Like Minimum of Attention _ Fame Disconcerts General “The?

“Propaganda Not News’   Talk Hinting at Exe cution of U. S. Fliers Made by “Known Irresponsible Commentator’

Airmen May Not Be Dead   Know Irresponsible Commentator Made Broadcast From Singapore

Reported Execution Of Captured Airmen Called Jap Propaganda Talk.

MEAT GROWERS GIVEN WARNING   Steady Flow of Animals To Market Demanded By OPA And .WFA

SIUGKMEN TOLD TU CONTINUE FLOW OF MEAT   Stoppage Wou'd Bring Out. Price Collapse, A Officials Warn

NAZI THOUSANDS KILLED BY REQS   GERMAN FORCES BEATEN BACK IN FIGHTING NORTH OF IASI IN. ROMANIA,

SOVIETS REPULaE GERMAN ATTAGKS   Nazis Continue Fierce Assaults on Russian l.ines North of lasi in Romania; Leave Thousands Dead

Reds say thousands are slain   Claim huge. toll  on Lasi defense

NAZI ATTACKS IN ROMANIA CONTINUING   Throw ‘Large Forces of Tanks and Infantry into Fray Attacks RePulsed.   No Changes

Reds Repulse Fierce Attack In Romania   Russians Assert That Germans Suffered Great Casualties

BRUNSWICK HIT BY BIG ALLIED BOMBER FORCE   Few Germans Are Able To Puncture Escort; 36 Fighters Shot  Down

GERMAN AIRCRAFT CENTER BOMBED   ALLIES DOWN 86 NAZI PLANES AND LOSE EIGHT IN RAID ON BRUNSWICK.  -

Yank Fighters Down 36 Nazis   Bombers Smash Brunswick Theaueh Heavy Clouds

WLB Member Says Ward Promoting Bad Feeling Between Capital, Labor

ACQUIT BOY IN TORCH SLAYING   David Filgas, 16, Greenville, Freed By Court Jury .

ACQUIT YOUTH IN DEATH OF GIRL   Sweetheart, 17, Died.  in Blazing Automobile

FIERCE FIGHTING ON WEST FRONT   Germans Are Yielding Slowly As Allies Press in For Knockout Blow

All-Winter Battle Seen   Nazis Yield Slowly, Fight Fierecly, Spill Much American Blood

Germans Are Making Savage Stand on Western Front and Indications Are Fighting Throughout Winter Will See Same Bitter Slaughter—Defenses in Depth Likely to Prevent Break-Through Such as That at St. Lo.

Conducting Series Of Christian Education  Schools For Methodists

Conducting Series Of . Christian. Education Be  Schools. For Methodists

Battle Of Armor Grows In Intensity; Canadians And British Unite For Assault On Caen.

General Bradley Lands In France To Direct Fighting; British Forces Continue To Edge Ahead In Caen; Nazis Admit Lo«s Of St Mere Eglise

MORE SAVAGE RESISTANCE BY GERMAN FORGE   But Allies Maintain Satisfactor) Progress With Caen Still Pivot City for Attack.

Allies Advance On Both Coasts  - tn Italian Area   ‘Nazis Escap- Catrupmand As Allies Straighten - Evont-Lings— --

AMERICANS CHASE GERMANS IN ITAL’   U.S. Troops overcome re sistance and Capture Towns

Yanks Overcome Nazis in Italy   Capture Paganico On Way fo Florence

FIFTHARMY IN HEAVY SWEEP TAKE PAGANICO   British Forces On Adriatic Coast Race Into Ferno 32 Miles From Important Port Of Ancona, Approximately 85 Miles From Rimini

GLARK’S FORCES - SEIZE PAGANICE   YANKS LESS THAN 60 MILES FROM NAZIS’ PISA-FLOR-ENCE-RIMINI LINE.

Yanks In Italy Lunge Forward   Now In 60 Miles Of Next Nazi Line  BY LYNN HEINZERLING Associated Press Staff Writer

Yanks in Italy Overcome Harc  Nazi Fighting   Paganico, 14 Miles From Gvosseto, * sized ; Eighth Reaches Fermo

Yanks In It aly Lunge Forward   Now In-60 Miles Of Next Nazi Line  BY LYNN HEINZERLING

RESISTANCE OF GERMANS IS OVERCOME   By Americans Driving up West Coast of Italy to Capture Paganico; Fermo Taken by Eighth.   Without Loss

BISHOP HARTLEY IS DEAD OF INFLUENZE   Columbus Diocese Head Since 1903

‘F. R. Raps Propaganda by Nippos   PEOPLE OF JAP-HELD AREAS ASSURED U. S. SEEKS ONLY LIBERATION

Sneak Attack Jap Admiral Dead At Saipan   Japanese Leader In Pearl Harbor Attack Meets Fate In Saipan Battle  BRP ATV TERT TIC TOA TE   MARINES TAKE ANOTHER ISLANL

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK ADMIRAL KILLED DURING SAIPAN BATTLE      COMMANDER OF JAP FORCES _ IN SNEAK ATTACK AMONG \NHE ENEMY PEAD ON IBLAND

TOP JAP NAVY CHIEF KILLED   Meets Death on Saipan July 7th  Directed Attack on ry Pearl Harbor

Avery Support Voted by Ward   Sharcholder Ballot: Avows Sigh) dant tla?

Avery To Fight Company Battle Through Courts   Congress Is Moving Tc Probe Chicago Plant Seizure

STOCKHOLDERS BACK AVERY IN SEIZURE FIGHT   Relect Ward Head Director; Probe Demand Made

Do Net Need To Be Union Man To Work For Ward’s, Official Says   CONGRESS IS STIRRED BY PRESIDENT’S MOVE

Ward Company Confidence In Sewell Avery   Gegin Legal Battle Against Control by Government

‘Board Chairman Receives Vote of Full Confidence From Company ©   AVERY GREETED BY PROLONGED OVATION   Widely Watched Legal Battle Against Government Control Beains

STOCKHOLDERS BACK AVERY IN WARD CASE   Prolonged Ovation Given Chairman of the Board at Shareholders’ Meet ing.   Few Opposed Him

Stockholders Back Avery In His Stand  Company Execulive Begins Legal Battle Against Government  HE AND PRESIDENT BARRED FROM PLAN’ Shareholders Vote  ‘Full Confidence’  Tle Avery JT eaderchin

AVERY RECEIVES CONFIDENCE VOTE   Reelected With 12 Other Directors at Jam-packed Session of Stockholders; Counsel Opens Counter-attack

Count Ciano Given Death  Others Are Convicted Of Treason To Italy

DI BONO, CIANO ARE CONDEMNED BY NAZI COURT   Ex - Italian Leaders Must Die for Tipping Duce.

Brest, Lorient Capture Near   Nazi Troops Attempt to Evacuate Breton Port Cities by Sea; Americans Smash to 30 Miles Beyond LeMans in Paris Drive

JAPS CLAIM SINKING OF U.S. SHIPS   Special Suicide Attack Units Reputed to Have Hit Vessels In Leyte Gulf.   BULLETIN

Japan Rushes Air Reinforcements Te Threatened Luzon      U. S. Ground Forces On Leyte Tighten Arc Around Carigara

NIPS BOAST 14 AMERICA? SHIPS SUNK   Japs Claim Units Of Suicide Force Raid Yankee Fleet

Report Unconfirmed — Said Ships Attacked In Leyte Gulf Yesterday

Tokyo Claims -Blash 1g Of Fourteen Americar Battleships, Cruisers:

SILVER SUBSIDY FIGHT RENEWED.IN WASHINGTON   Cellar Seeks to Prohibit Funds For Purchase of Domestic Metal

Siiver Fight Onens Again; Celler Against Money Lav  Congressman Moves To Prevent Endearnal Subcidies

Farm Income Tax Due ‘for Sure’ On March 15th   Single Person With Minimum Gross of $500, Married Person With $1200 Must File

Restricts Use Of ‘R’ Coupons   Curb Designed To Seal Off Big Leakage To Rlack Market.

Off-Highway Gas Clamp   “R” Coupons Made Invalid for Use ~~ In Filling Stations -

New Off-l lighway  Gas Restrictions   Five Gallon “R” Coupons Become Invalid April 1, OPA Says

Foreign Policy Of U.S. Is Big  Campaign Issue  Republican Leaders Fa   Republican Leaders Fan Flames Under Boiling Political Kettle.

ADMINISTRATION'S  FOREIGN POLICY IS  CAUSING INTEREST PROGRAM, OR LACK OF  ONE, BEGINNING BE HOT POLITICAL ISSUE. _.

FOREIGN POLICY ~ POLITICAL ISSUE   Dewey Declares. Americaiis Know Too” Little . About Commitments

U.S. Foreign Policy Under ~ GOP Attack   Dewey Claims Americans Know Nothing Covering Foreign Commitments

GOP Applies Bellows as U. S. Foreign Policy Becomes Major Political Issue

Foreign Policy Boiling Up As Political Issue Today — With GOP Using Bellows

Foreign Policy a Political Issue   Republicans Refuse To Accept Program Of Hull and F. DD. RB.

Foreign Policy Flares Anew as Political Issue   Dewey Reports U.S. Knows Little About Our Program

ADMINISTRATION FOREIGN POLICY POLITICAL ISSUE   Republicans Assail the Policy, Gr Lack of One As Some Critics Put’ It, In Firm Denunciations—Sure To Be Issee

Bench Bedecked With Flowers as Impressive Ceremony is Held; Succeeds:  Late Judee Howard A. Wilson _ -

Bench Bedecked With Flowers as pressive Ceremony is Held: Succe Late Judge Howard A. Wilson

_ —RUSSIA—.   SOVIETS MENACT — KEY RAIL LINES   Reds Reported Within 10 Miles Of CGhudovo In Leningrad Sweep   NAZIS RETREATING   Swedish . Dispatches Re. port New Russian -. Drive On Finnish Front

Steel Net Around Duren Tightens In Relentless Battle   Germans Facing First Army Blast Two Bridges Over Inde River; Over 6,000 Prisoners Bagged In Bitterest Fighting of War   PATTQON’S FORCES MEET DESPERATE RES!ST..NCE

Gather Strong Assault Lines  On Roer, Saar   Nazis Pour Final Strength  Into Conflict ; Lose 3,000  Men Daily

King Peter Confers With  Partisans   Yugoslav Monarch Tries To End Civil War

‘Huns Appear to Be Quitting All Of NorthRussia   Surrender of Mightiest Base Between Lening-ad and Smolensk. An. nounced by Berlin    (Trapped Nazis Are iquidated by Reds   Stalin Announces 52,000 * Are Killed, 11,000 Tak_ en Prisoners; Enemy’s -Worst Disaster

REDS LIQUIDATE ARMY TRAPPED NEAR KORSUN   Berlin Reports Of Retreat Hint German Defenses Are Cracking Up

22,000 Enemy Troops Slain In Death Tray   Reds Liquidate German 8th Army In Korsun Coffin Of Dnieper’s Rend: Faw Snrwviva

TRAPPED NAZIS DIE LIKE RATS   Reds Take Mighty German Base — Reich Loses 52,000 Dead

Nazis Lose Huge Base  In Russia   Admit Evacuation Of Staraya Russa, One Of Strongest Points On Northern Front

Nazis Flee Great Base in Russia   Announce Evacuation of Staraya Russa as Big Crackup Grows Wider   FOLLOWS DISASTER IN DNIEPER BEND   52,000 Germans Killed and 11,000 Captured in Suicide Stand Hitler Ordered

EVACUATION OF STARAYA-RUSSA IS ANNOUNGED TODAY   Is the German’s Mighties! Base Between Leningrad and Smolensk.   DEFENSE IN CRACK-UP   It Seemed to Foretell Complete German Abandonment of Northern Russia.

MAY PRESAGE NAZILOSS OF NORTH RUSSIA   Flight From Mighty Base May Indicate Huge Withdrawal

Complete Abandonment Of Northern Russia Seen; 8th. Army Remnant Liquidated

Entire Line Cracking In North Russia   84,900 Nazis Liquidated In Dnieper Bend Pocket

NAZIS ABANCON STARAYA RUSSH    Base Between Leningrad And Smolensk.

North Russia Defense Line  Cracking Up   Germans Admit Giving Up Staraya Re

Reds Capture  Mighty Base, Nazis Admit   Staraya Russa’s Fall May Precede Crackup In Northern Sector

NAZIS GIVE UP STARAYARUSSO   Reds Liquidate 52,000 Germans In Cher-  kasy Trap

Nazi Forces Quit Staraye Russa Base   Crackup May Presage Nazi Abandonment of North Russia

NAZIS EVACUATE STARAYA RUSSA   Quit Strong Base Between Leningrad and Smolensk

Reds Claim Nazi Force Near Korsun Fully Liquidated With 52,000 Slain

NAZIS ANNOUNCE EVACUATION OF STARAYA RUSSA   Claim 52,000 Germans Killed, 11,000 Captured in Korsun Coffin

GERMANS ABANDAN STARAYA RUSSA, LEAVING RUSSIANS IN CONROL OF LAKE TLMEN

GREAT BASE IN NEW CRACKUP   Staraya Russa Abandoned; Russians Claim Slaying Of 74,000 In Drives

Nazis Announce Army: Abandons - Staraya Russi   Complete: Evacuation . Of All Northern Russia’ By --Germans Is: Anticipated

Nazis Abandon Staraya Russa  To Red Armies   Russians In South Wipe Out 52,000 Germans I:  Koareun Tran.

; —RUSSIA—  He UIDKTE -TAAPEED ENE AY   Stalin Reports 84,900" Germans Either Killed Or Captured .   MANPOWER CRISIS.      ewest, Retreat ‘Reflects : _ Hitler’s Growing ‘Loss “OE Troops::-:

Staraya Russia Evacuated; lew ~ Nazis Flee Tran   52,000 Killed During Red Attack; Sector Was Among Nazis Strongest Bases

GERMANS LEAVE STARAYE RUSSA BASE IN HASTE   Enemy Equipment And Materials Are Captured

REDS COMPLETE LIQUIDATION OF NAZI 8TH ARMY   STALIN SAYS 52,000 HAVE BEEN KILLED AND 11,000 CAPTURED

Germans Flee Staraya Russa As Russians Outflank City   [erin Announces Withdrawal from Strongest Base Betweer Leningrad and Smotensk.

STARAYA RUSSA FALLS AS REDS CLEAN UP TRAP    Moscow Reports 52,000 Nazis Slain  in Trap, 21,900 Trying to Break Tt, 11,000 Captured   OFFICERS DESERT   Capture of Great Nazi Base in North Marks Broadening Crackup of German Defenses

AllNorthert Russie May Be Cleared  Of Germans   Nazis Lose 84,900 Caught In Trap By Russians

Nazi Army Abandons Key Base   Complete Evacuation Of Northern Russia Indicated; 84,900 Germans ‘Liguidnened/

\NAZIS ABANDON STARAYA RUSSA;   MAY GIVE UP ALL OF NORTHERN SOVIET   By JAMES M. LONG.

Nazis Abandon Staraya Russa   Evacuation Reflects ~ German Manpower Shortage, Reported

Germans Announce Evacuation of Staraya Russa Base  Entire Abandonment Of North Soviet  ince le Pracaned

STARAYA RUSSA ABANDONED BY GERMAN ARMIES   Prize Base Between Leningrad And Smolensk Given Up; Crackup May Presage German Flight From All Northern  Russia.

Complete German Aban. donment of Northerr Russia Seems Presaged By Withdrawal.’

Need To Gain Reserves Is Admitted By Enemy Radio   Remnants Of 10 German Divisions Liquidated  In Upper Dnieper Bend; 74,000 Of Foe Killed

GERMANS ANNOUNCE STARRAYA RUSSA HAS BEEN EVACUATED  TARR Few FETE BEET Ter   LOSS OF THIS MIGHTY BASE MAY MEAN ABANDONMENT NORTH RUSSIA

Crackup Seen For Hitler’s North Russia .  Armed Forces   Manpower Shortage Reflected In. Move

Germans Announce Staraya Russa Is Evacuated  Complete Crackup Of Nazi Defenses

Staraya Russa, Mighty German Base, Evacuatec   Berlin’s Announcement Presages Complete Abandonment Of Northern Russia By Invading Germans.   Thousand U. S. Soldiers Lost In Allied Troopship Disaster   Transport Struck At Night, Probably By U-Boat Torpedo, And Went Down Rapidly In A Heavy Sea.

REDS COMPLETE LIQUIDATION OF TRAPPED FORCES   German Losses At ‘Death Circle’ Estimated At 84,900

Germans Flee Staraya Russa in New Move   Flight Closely Follows Liquidation of Troops in Cherkasy Trap

92,000 HUNS KILLED NEAR DNIEPER BEND   Soviets Announce Complete Liquidation of German Eighth Army Trapped Around Korsun   RITLER ALIBIS RETREAT

Evacuation of Staraya Russia Told   Liquidation of Trapped Germans Completed by Red Forces

KILLED AS AUTO STRIKES TRAIN   Fire Destroys Tank Car, Dunkerton Station

45,000 Trapped Japs Open Battle To Fight Way Out  pest BE cote Ganknw

40,000 JAPS TRY TO BREAK OUT OF NEW GUINEA TRAP   American Veterans of Buna and Saidor Campaign Dig in as Enemy Launches Attacks.   FIRST THRUSTS FAIL » TO MAKE HEADWAY   Nips in Pocket Since Last April—Faced Privations and Threat of Starvation.

45,000 Jap Troops Try to Break Out of  New Guinea Pocket   Americans Repulse First Attack, But Nips Resume Assaults Next Day; Enemy Trapped in W ewak Area Since Last April

Opposite Siegfried Line Bastion In Bitter Fighting   SEIZE TWO VILLAGES ON COLOGNE PLAINS   Germans Digging In For Last-Ditch Stand On Roer And Saar Rivers

Patton Army Hurls Nazis Across Saat   Ninth Units Face Massed Artillery Across Roer River

Yanks Hold Eight Miles Along Banks   Expand Bridgehead Under the Hail of Artillery Shells

AIR ARMADAS POUND ENEMY OIL STORAGES   Make No Mention of Battles Such as Fights of "Last Ditch" in Which  175 Were Destroyed  USE RUSSIAN BASES  

ARMADAS POUND NAZI OIL STORES   ALLIES CONTINUE AIR ATTACKS ON GERMAN INDUSTRY

MORE THAN THOUSANI  AMERICAN HEAVIES  ATTACKED GERMANY OTHER PLANES PUM ‘MELED ENEMY CLOSE TO TUP RATT! EERONTC

Reich Bombed For Fifth Day By Yankees   Great Air Armadas Batter Away at Nazi Oil Supplies

Germans Lose /0 More Fighter Strips   Nazi Oil Production Cut 61 Per Cent; Many Targets Raided

Nazis Oil Stores. Blasted From Air  Great Armadas Over Germany for Fifth Day

U. S. Air Power Speeds Advance Into Germany   Fifth Day of Battle Sees More Than 2,500 Bombers in Action; Shuttle to Russia

Air Smash. Goes Into Fifth Day   At Least 70 More. German Planes Destroyed; Total of 398 in Two Days   Ls S. FORCES LOST 77 YESTERDAY   Some Yankees Fly On to Russia; Pilots Report Nazis in Retreat

1,000 Heavy Bombers Hit Oil Sectors   Production Cut 61 Per Cent Since May 

NAZIS BITTERLY TRY TO DEFEND CENTERS OF OIL   U, S. Planes From West Destroy 398 ‘Craft in 3 Davs

REICH’S PLANTS RAIDED BY U.S, BOMBER FORCE   Over 1,000 Yank Planes Lash Enemy's Dwindling Oil Stores Today

Heavy Bombers Pound German Oil Tarnets   Giant Air Armadas Support Allied Drive On Western Front

BOMBERS RAID ENEMIES’ OIL SUPPLY TODAY   More Than 1000 Fortresses In Great Attack

REICH OIL BASES BATTERED AGAIN   Germany Hit For Fifth Day In Row By Yank Planes

Airmen Take Destruction To Germany   Mighty Armadas Over Germany Fifth Consecutive Day; Some Go on to Russia.

More Than 1000  U. S. Heavy Bombers Attack Germany on Fifth Consecutive Da

U.S. Planes Swarm Over  Reich Areas   Attack Oil Centers, Other Prime Targets; Aid Invasion Forces

398 German Planes’ Bagged In 3 Days; Oil Fac-  tories And Other Vital. Targets Hit Today. 

1,000 BOMBERS HIT OIL WORKS   Yank Aerial Armadas Rip German Troops, Air Factories

1,000 BOMBERS HAMMER REICH   70 More German Fighters Downed by Raiders

~ ged In3. Days: ‘Oil: - tories And Other Vital Targets Hit-Today. -

1,000 Heavies In Assault On Germany Again   Enemy Mentioning Ne Great Aerial Battles Like Monday’s When 175 Nazis Were Lost

Nazis, In Desperation, Try to Shield Plants With Pall of Smoke From Smudge Pots

NAZIS FAIL TO RESIST YANK BOMBER ATTACK   Fliers Hit Enemy’s Westerr Defenses, Oil Targets 5th Straight Day

1, ,000 F Planes Hit Germany   Others - Pommel.. Foe’ ‘Near: Front:

NAZIS USE TANK GUNS   Turn Them on Vivilians in Section of Florance

Nazis Fire On Italian People  ‘Civilians, Police Are Shot In Florence Arec

6 Jap Vessels Hit in Allied Air Assaults   Big Fires Set by Nav: Liberators alt Davao in Philippines

HIT JAP SHIPPING   MacArthur and Nimitz Announce Raids Directed at Supplies

RAID JAPANESE SUPPLY LINES   Yit Ships Near Philippines; 600 Miles From Tokyo

Pound Jap Shipping   In Drive to Isolate -Nip Isle Bases; Planes ‘Into Tengchung Battle

SOVIETS POISED FOR DRIVE INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Chernyakhovsky’s Army Reported Already on Nazi Soil

SOVIET DRIVE              PAILS TO CONFIRM  ELLgFOUNDED ‘REPORT RED “TROOPS CROSSED  BORDER ‘

SOVIET GUNS POUND FIRST GERMAN CITY  Reds Several Miles   Reds Several Miles Inside Reich

BATTLE OF FRANCE CONTINUES TO PRODUCE GOOD NEWS WITH DAILY . RETREATING OF NAZIS GROWING

MACKENZIE SAYS— Nazis Stall For Time in French Rout   Allies Ahead of Schedule; Troops to Benefit This Winter

Campai aign Five Days Ahe ad Of Schedule In Frrance—  Allies Cutting Off Robot Bomb Sites

WAR TODAY   Germans Must Abandon English Channel Positions Or Be Caught In Another Disastrous Tray

A FOW FR eee KA OOD     New British Thrust to Force Nazis Ont af Rnhot Romb Coast

ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING FROM ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, FRANCE, HAVE VAST. HAPPY SIGNIFICANCE

Destroy 2 convoys in race to shores; enemy forces split   Seven desiroyers among 19 Nippon vessels sunk: 62 planes shot down

POSITION WON IN REAR OF FOE DEFENSE LINE   Nippon Convoy is Des troyed; U. S. Des troyer Lost

2 Jap Convoys Of 19 Vessels Are Destroyed   Enemy Paratroopers Atterapt To Smash Airport at Tacloban  U. S. DESTROYER LOST

Reds Advance As Struggle  Grows Fiereer   [Push Within 25 Miles Of Viipuri Despite Stiff Opposition From) Reinforced Finns; Germans Expeet New Red Blow Elsewhere.

REDS 25 MILES FROM VIIPUR'   Russians Are ‘Inflicting Heavy Casualties Upon Finne   THREATEN HELSINKI

Heavy Casualties Suffered by Finns on Karelian Front; Russians Within 25 Miles of Viinuri

Red Air Force Attacks Airports Behind German Lines. ... . Driving Soviets Inflict Heavy Losses On Finns

Donnell Keeps Missouri Lead  For U.S. Senate   Indicated Republican Might Emerge Victorious " Over. McKittrick In “ Democratie Tide

Mic UNUCH 26 10 PAGE TMARICDIATE INGUSTION EXAMS   Hold Up Induction of Older Men to Review Lower Ages,

ALL UNDER 26 FACING DRAFT EXAM ORDERS   Includes Those on De ferred Status  SPEED REVIEWS Few Deferments To Be Allowed

TO SPEED UP DRAFT OF MEN UNDER 26   ‘All to Be Ordered Up for Exams, But Few May Be Deferred

MEN UNDER 26 . “TO TAKE EXAM FOR SERVICES   ALL MEN UNDER 20 WITH OC. GCUPATIONAL DEFERMENTS TO REPORT FOR PRE- © INDUCTION PHYSICAL’ TES ‘

LUMBER STRIKE END FORESEER   IWA Reconunends Return of 18,000 Idle Workere

Notes Presented By Envoys Contain Wo Threats of Alternative Action.

News Day And Night   Cologne Crow d Machine-Gunned  By Nazi Chiefs

Report Disorder Inside Cologne   Swiss Say Nagi Authoritics Kill. ed 220 VPetsons Demonstrat ing for Peace

SHOOT COLOGNE PEACE RIOTERS   Report 220 Killed by Nazi  Machinegun Crews

REPORT DISORDERS INSIDE GERMANY   Machine-Gunned Crowds In Cologne Demonstrating For Peace

220 Said Killed When Nazis Fire At Colonge Group   Peace Demonstrators Machine-Gunned, Swiss Newspaper Reports

Gov. Dewey In Des Moines   Will Meet Leaders of Farm, ‘Negro, Labor and Veterans Today

Allies Closing in on Florence  German Resistance  Graduatly Dwirdliinc

YANKS WITHIN TEN MILES OF FLORENCE   Troops Steadily Push Ger. mans From One Defensive Position to Another  as Enemy Gradually Withdraws.

‘Allied Armies Driving Nazis On Italy Front   *ush Within 10 Miles Of Florence and Make Limited Gains In Other Sectors

Allied Troops Push Closer To Florence   uimited Gains Also Made Elsewhere on Tialian Battlefront

Allies In Italy ¥ Now Ten Miles From Florence    Germans Stabilize ‘Adriatic  Front; Shell Ancona;  Pisa Also Nazi Target

FLORENCE NOW NEAR GAPTURE   Allied Troops Within 10 Miles of Italian City; Other Gains Posfed

POUND THE NAZIS   Allies Gain on _ Italian Front; Only 10 Miles  From Florence

ALLIES DRIVING — (ERMAN TROOPS TOWARD FLORENCE   Fighting Seems to Be Dwindling As Nazis Re treat to New Positions

ath 10 Miles  From Florence   Germans Gradually Give Ground While Preparing” Defenses At Arno.

Allies Withir Ten Miles  Of Florence   Make Limited Gains Elsewhere Along Italian Front;  . Nazi Guns on Monte Pisano Shell Pisa

ALLIES 10 MILES FROM FLORENCE   Tempo Of Fighting Dwindles As Germans Give Ground

ARMORED UNITS NEAR FLORENCE   Limited Gains Made By Yanks On Italian Front

Allies Push.  To Florence   ‘Naiiis Give Ground In’ ‘Steady Retreat.

Allies’ Gain “on Italian _ \Front; Only 10 Miles   From Florence

DRIVING NAZIS BACKWARD ON ITALIAN FRONT   United Nations Forces Now Within 10 Miles Of Florence, Next Goal For Drive

Allies Drive Nazis From Defenses  Before Florence  Tempo of Fighting Dwindles But Germans Eall Back

ALLIED ARMIES ONLY 10 MILES FROM FLORENCE   Germans Prepare Defenses Along Arno River

Small Gains Made in Italy   Allies Steadily Drive Germans Back; Adriatic Front Somewhat Stabilized

ALLIES TEN MILES FROM FLORENCE   Steadily Driving Germans Back On Italian Front

. AITALY—  FLORENCE NEXT POL (ITALY   Allied Forces 10 Miles From City; Other Gains Recorded

Allied Armies Only 10 Miles  From Florence   fempo Of Fighting Dwin dles; Nazis Gradually Retreat While Making Defenses

Florence Neared As Allies Push Drive In Italy   Hun Counterattack Repulsed By Yanks

Allies Drive Nazis From Defenses Before Florence  Tempo of Fighting Dwindles But Pee ew Cc TT Baele

ALLIES 10 MILES FROM FLORENCE   Report Steady Allied Gains in Italy

NAZIS RETREAT AS ALLIES PUSH NEAR FLORENCE   Germans Shell Pisa After Yanks Occupy Famous City

Allies Press Near Florence   Germans Gradually Give Ground as Allied Forces Advance

10 Miles From Historic Cif   Italian Front Moves Steadily Northward

RUSSIANS POISED ON FRONTIER   East Prussian Towns Are Blazing From German Torches

HURLS ALL HE HAS ON RED ARMIES   But Russian  Juggernaut Rolls On

30,000 NAZIS FACE RED TRAP BEYOND VISTULA   Germans Penetrate Soviet Lines Along Border of East Prussia

Three German Units In East Held Trapped   Fighting On Border Of East Prussia Extended

REPORT 3 NAZI DIVISIONS ARE CAUGHT IN TRAP   Reds Take Sandomierz; Germans Launch Heavy Counter Assaults

Russians Trap 3 German Divisions   30,000 Nazis Face Wiping Out on Bank of Vistula

Overs Votes I. P. Ss. Co., 25 7 .. Year Franchise By 40.to 1   Town Is Wondering Whe ‘Cast ‘Solitary Vote

WOMAN'S NUDE BODY FOUND IN BATHROOM   New Orleans Coroner Hints Murder by Drowning

Woman’s. Nude \Body Found In (Hotel Bathtub   New Orleans Police Seel Cause of Death and the . Whereabouts of Man Who Shared Room

Japanese Step Up Drives in Race to Beat Wet Monsoons   Open Strong Offensives in China, India; Convoy Attacked

LOYANG'S FALI IS BELIEVED IMMINENT   Nipponese Convoy Caught In Dutch East Indies   ENEMY LOSSES   Heavy. Mountbatten Says; Allied Planes Carry Out Many Raids

Japs Step Pace In India, China; Convoy Suffers   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Prasa War Editar

YANK BOMBERS HIT JAP CONVOY IN EAST INDIES   Enemy Steps Up Attacks In China and Burma To Beat Monsoons   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

Japs Step up Offensives in India, China   Monsoon Season Near—Allies Bomb Nip Convoy in Southwest Pacific

Pace Stepped Up By Jap Forces In India, Chine   Open Strong Offensive In Imphal-Kohima Sector; - Joyane’s Fall Seen Near

Japs Intensify Their Assaults In India, China   Enemy Capture Of Loyang In China’s Honan Province Looms.

Japs Launeli New. Drives In Far East   Pressure Increased Agains' Imphal-Kohima; EightShip Enemy Convoy Hit

JAPAN'S LAND ARMIES STEP UP OFFENSIVE   Allied Air Might Felt By Japs; Convoy Hit

ENEMY RENEWS BID FOR INDIA   Japanese Forces Striving to Knock Out Defenders Of Imphal Area

Make Gains in India, China; In Dutch Bast (ndies Convoy Is Attacked,   MONSOONS START SOON

Japanese Open Drive in India   Also Step Up Pace of Assault In China

Loyang Due. to Fall Soon to Nipponese   Allied Bombers Assault Numerous' Jap Bases from Kurile Islands to New Quinéa’.

Enemy’s Land Armies Open Strong Assault In ImphalKohima Sector And Threaten To Take Loyang In Northern Honan Province—Eight-Ship Nipponese Convoy Sunk By Allied Airmen In Dutch East Indies  —Attacks Continue From Kuriles To New Guinea

Japan Mounts Big Offensives In Burma, China   Enemy Suffering Large  Losses But Menaces Allied Lines

JAPS RACE TO BEAT MONSOON RAINS IN BURMA   Allied Fliers Blast Enemy) Convoy Off Dutch East Indies

Japs Press Offensives in India, China   Hope to Win Victories Before Monsoon Stops War

NIPS HOPING TO WIN COVETED OBJECTIVES BEFORE MONSOON SEASON IN INDIA SECTOR   Meantime Eight-Ship Japan Convoy Is Unable To Dodge Allied Aerial Might. Jap Bases in South Pacific and at Paramushiro Are Bombed by Allies

FASTER TEMPO FOR JAP DRIVE IN INDIA, CHINE   Nipponese Convoy Bombed Frgm Air in Dutch East Indies Waters. Loyang Fall Imminent

Japanese Launch Strong Northeast Indian Offensive   Allied Bombers Sink 8 Ships In Enemy Convoy

Imphal and Kohima Area; Ablaze Again   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Press Wat Editor

Foe Steps Up Drives In india and China   Sut in the Dutch East Indies Allied Planes Give Jap Convoy a Plastering

Japs Open Up Strong Drive   Offensives Stepped Up In India, China; Allies Stop Convoy.

Japanese Step Up Offensives   Strike Hard in Imphal Sector, Increase Pressure in China; Allies Paste Enemy Convoy

GONVOY OF SEVEN. CHIPS BATTE RET   Nips Seek Gains In India Before Arrival Of Mon  eonons   LOYANG MAY FALL   History City In. China’s Northern Honan Province Threatened

Japs Launch Offensive In  India Battle   New Gains Are Made In China; Allied Planes Assault Convoy Off Dutch East Indies

ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES   AIRMEN PLASTER NIP CONVOY IN DUTCH EAST INDIES

Japs Increase Their Pressure on Bases in India   China Offensive Also Gains; Convoy Blasted in India

Crack Dixie Flyer Smacks Mail Trait Head-On In Ind.   Car Tops Sheared Off By Impact; Victims Largely Soldiers

5  64 HURT IN RAIL WRECK   Crack Flier of Chicago and Eastern Illinois Crashes Into Mail Train.

TRAIN WRECK TOLL: 29 DEAD, SCORES INJURED   War Veterans Among Killed

29 Killed in Railroad Wreck   Scores Hurt Near Terre Haute, tnd. Fa

Soldiers Victims  of Crash   Toll May Soar In Collision of Crack Flyer at Terre Haute

CHARGE “LAXITY" IN COLLISION OF BOATS      Coast Guard Lax in Enforeing Regulations in Manpower . Situation?

New Muster-Out Plan Suggested   Would Guarantee Minimum Pay For 12 Months After

Yanks Prepare For Leyte Clash   Closing in on Strategic Coastal Island of Carigara

Carigara’s Fall Nears’ . With Yanks, Foe Massed.   T wo Ferees- Moving. On Coastal Region

YANKS CLOSE IN ON VITAL LEYTE VILLAGE   Two American Forces Mass for Climactic Battle and Brace for Possible Counter-Attack

Americans Extend  Drive on Leghorn   Nazi Defense Lines Stiffen, Allies Report

Senate Split Over Jobless Benefits Bill   Congress in Full Battle Over First Conversion Aleasnre Introduced

BILLS FACED BY CONGRESS   Limes of Debate Drawn As Legislators Get Back to Work

Conpress Returns To Consider Laws Far Past-WarFra   Run Into Controversy Over Unemployment Ceiaatiemhedr :

States’ Rights’ Unemployment Bill Prepared   Congress Runs into Con. troversy over Postwar Compensation

Attendance Thin But Pressure Already Placed on Postwar Bills as Congress Reconvenes

Congress battle On Reconversion Gets Early Start  State vs. Federal nr sa Se OE AS   State vs. Federal Control of Jobless Pay Will Be Issue

BATTLE IN NORTH      New Russian Operations Toward Baltic States

JAPANESE LOSE 18 AIRPLANES IN RAID ON SAIDOR   Allied Patrol Bombers Sint Nip Vessel Off New lreland

Japanese Losses  In Ships, Planes Mounting Steadily In New Guinea Area

JAPS LOSE IN AERIAL BLOWS WITH ALLIES   20 Planes Destroyed, Defense Bases Pounded, Six-Ship Convoy Routed

Jans Lose More Planes and Ships   Americans at Saidor Get Heaviest Raid

Jap Aerial Losses High   Attempt’ to Bonib . U.S. Base Cost} Enemy 20 Planes °

it) LOGE ARE MOUNTING      Hard - Pressed Nipponese Trade Sharp Aerial Plunges With Allies.   18 TO 20 PLANES LOST

More Planes Lost by Japs   Yank Fighters Down 18 in Battle; Big Jan Vessel Sunk

YANKS BREAK UP HEAVY JAP AIR RAID ON SAIDOR  SHOOT DOWN 18 OR 20 ENEMY PLANES;

Japs Attempt Saidor Attaek   P-10 Fighters Shoot Down 18 Raiders In Heavy Attack On Kev Base.

10,000-Ton Jap Ship Is Sunk By Allied Bombers   Nips Lose Other Planes And Ships In Aerial Punches

Japs the Losers In Air Bow Swap  as e@ pret, ~*~, i  .   U. $. Fighters Down 18 Planes and Sink Enemy Ships; Rabaul  fe Given a Poctina

Nipponese Losses in Warplanes and Ships Increasing   Fare Badly in Trading Aerial Plunges in Southwest Pacific

Allies and Japs Trade Sharp Aerial Punches  In Southwest Pacific

ALLIES CHAL UP NEW LOSSES FOR JAPANESE   ‘Nipponese Come Out Sec. ond Best In Southwest Pacific Attacks

(Jap Losses in Planes, Ships Are Mounting   P40 Fighters Down 18 Enemy Planes Attacking Saidor; 10,000-Ton Nip Vessel Sunk, Two Merchantmen Set Afire

Jap Plane, Ship Losses Mount In Swapping Punches   Effort to Attack Saidor Brings Loss to 18 Jap Planes

P-40 Fighters Down 18 Planes   Two Others Listed As Probable Victims Of American Fliers

Pacific Fighting  Costly For Japs   American P-40 Planes Down Eighteen Planes In Saidor Attack

Allies And Nips —  Trade Air Blows  Break Up Jap Attempt To Hit Saidor Area

18 Jap Planes Are Shot Dowr   Two Cargo Ships Are Sunk, 5 Crippled

US Planes Knock Out 22-30 Zeros   Heavy Raid On Admuralties Raises Total lo 1,291 Since Bougainville.

Question by Prosecutor Held Improper   Defense Objection To Questions in Leon Phillips Trial Upheld

Pro-Axis Group Ousts Ramirez  In Palace Coun   Vice-President Takes Over; Significance Of Move Is Not  Yet Known

Mosquitos Blast at Enemy Targets  Transport and Industry Hit Wednesday Night

Bombers Again Hit Monastery   Alexander Says Beachhead Areca Is Now Secure

“No Dunkirk Here, Says Gen. Alexander Following Inspection of Beachhead   Allied Planes and Artillery Continue  Battering Nazis in Monastery Ruins; Infantrymen Set for Final Assault

Announce Allies Are Gaining On Anzio Beachhead   Massed Bombers Attack Enemy In Western Area; Hit Rome Heavily

NO DUNKIRK AT ANZIO, ALLIED CHIEF DECLARES   Beachhead Is Termed ‘Solid’

U.S. WARPLANES BAG 2 U-BOATS   Ascension Island Base Plays Part In Kill Of Submarines

TWO U-BOATS SUNK IN SOUTH ATLANTIC   AMERICAN VLANES DESTROY RAIDERS, ONE ARTER FIVEHOUR BATTLE,

Navy Reports Two  Nazi Subs Downed  Both U-Boats Sunk By American Planes

EYES OF NATION FIXED TODAY ON * MUSKOGEE AREA   Second District Voting in Spotlight — Clark, Stigler . In Late Pleas

WORLD LEAGUE IS SUGGESTED   Postwar Peace Plan Of Russia Arouses Keen Interest

Question Pair  In Fatal Blaze   Beven Persons Killed In. Chicago Fire

Governor Cites Lack of Paper   PUBLIC IS URGED TO CO: OPERATE IN NEW DRIVE FOR PAPER

GOVERNOR CITES. PAPER SHORTAGE   Public Urged To Cooperate In New Drive For Paper

Soviet Offensive In Lithuania to Block Nazi Flight  Drive Employes 100,000 Reds, Capture Of Belgrade Appears Near As Slavs Guide Troon:

Reds Reported To Be F ighting Near Capital  Of Yugoslavia   “Rome Radio Says : Soviets In Suburbs

All-Out Red Drive Mountel! In Lithuania   Russians Attack West Of Siauhair Above East Prussia.

Soviets Open Big Push In Lithuania   Germans Say Dozen Divisions Smash At Their Defenses

New Pusit Begun As Belgrade Totters   Reds Mount an All-Out Assault in Lithuania, Threatening Prussia   MAY CUT OFF THE ENEMY IN RIGA   Belgrade Expected to Fall Anytime Under Combined Assaults

Russian Push May Have A - Dual Purpose   Might Cut Off Riga Gar.  rison or Pave Way Fo. Prussian Assault

REDS 9 MILES FROMBELGRADE   Fall of Yugoslav Capital Imminent, Twin Drives  Close On City

LAUNCHED IN LITHUANIA   Fall Of Belgrade Looms With Reds Within Nine Miles

RUSSIANS MOUNTING ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE IN NORTHERN SECTOR  GERMANS SAY BIG DRIVE LAUNCHED NORTHEAST  AL LACT DDIICCIA

all Of City xpected In Few Hours   Big Encircling Maneuver Faces German Forces

Fall Of Belgrade To Soviets Near   Red Troops Are Ready To Deal Final Blow

NAZIS REPORT RED ASSAULT IN LITHUANIA   German Commentator Says Soviets Open. AllOut Offensive With. 12 to 14 Divisions in the Siaulai Sector.

Russians Score 10-Mile Advance In Fresh Drive   20- Mile Gap Torn In  German Defenses In . Pripet Marshes

SOVIET FORCES PRESS ATTACK IN NEW SECTOR   ‘Reds Drive For Mozyr In White Russia; Surge  Past Sarny

FDR Disowns Communistic Support; Appeals For Big Turnout-at Polls

"=D. R. REPLIES 10 CHARGES OF REPUBLICANS   Repudiates Aid of Commies, Denies De: mobilization Delay

REDS’ BACKING DENIED BY FDR   President Asserts Plans Are Made to Demobilize Soon as Safe

FOR REPUDIATES COMMUNST. ALD   President Also Denies Delaying Armed Forces Demobilization .

FOR. REPUDIATES COMMUNIST. AID.   President Also’. » Denies Delaying Armed: ! Forces Demobilization -

ROOSEVELT REPUDIATES REDS IN SECOND POLITICAL SPEECH   PRESIDENT ALSO REFIARS TO DEWEY CHARGE IN REGARD TO DEMOBILIZATION PROGRAM

June Twelve Is Opening Date Of Bond Drive   ? PLANS SET FOR BIG RALLY TO BE HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS COLISEUM

CALL PROPOSAL UNDEMOCRATIC, QUACK MEDICINE   Senators Hear Austin on Bill

AFL Join ¢ . In Oppo: ~ To Labor Draft   Austin Claims Plan Would Provide Pool To Relieve Young Men

‘ Bitter Battle on President's Proposal Seen in Both Houses: Labor Union Chiefe Object.

Reception In Congress Chilly, Labor Leaders Re. sentful; Roosevelt Calls Union Chiefs For Conference On National Service   (RITTLLETIN)

UNION CHIEFS OPPOSED T0 DRAFT PLAN   Green, Murray To Meet Today With President

AFL Joins in Protest Over Labor Draft   Green and Murray to See President Today On  Tessie.

American Unions to Oppose Roosevelt Draft of Labor   Both AFL and CIO Brand Suggestion As Unnecessary

F. D. R.s Labor Plan Blasted   A. F. L. JOINS C, 1. O. IN OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED NATIONAL SERVICE LEGISLATION; GREEN ATTACKS PROGRAM AS LACKING SOLUTION

Labor Unites In Opposition To Draft Plan   Proposal Denounced By Green As Threat To Democratic Ideals

Fight Plan For Draft Ot Labor   National Service Bill/ Is Unlikely To Be Pushed Unless Public Feeling Becomes Strong

Murray and Green Attack President’s Plan Before Going to White House  TAX ALSO OPPOSED  Entite Roosevelt Pro: gram Apparenily Due for Hard Sleddine

‘Murray, Green See  FDR Today   Union Leaders Quick to Oppose Roosevelt on Draft Proposal 

Treasury To Make Another Demanc Added Revenues   Tax Simplification May Be Peg On Which Demand Will Be Made; Sugges. tions Heard for Stepping Up Tax Rates.

Simpler Tax Forms may ay Boost Lev   Simplification May Be Peg for Hanging New Demands

Move Is Seen For Big New Tax Demands   Treasury May Seel Whopping Levies In Simpler System

REVENUE DEMANDS MAY BE PEGGED ON TAX SIMPLICITY   Treasury’s Expected Large Demand for More Money in Spring May Be Sugared With Talk of Tax Simplifi cation

Fresh Demand for Big Taxes Seen Looming   Treasury Expected to Renew Battle for Larger Sums

German Air Bases Are Hit Again   American Airmen Raid Northeastern France; U. S. Troops Gain In Italy

American Troops On Italian Front At Anzio Beachhead Have Won  Lecal Gains.

Yankees Cling To Positions In Area Of St. Lo   Nazi Artillery Fire Mounting; Americans Closing On Lessay; Score Other Gains

Americans At Standstill In St. Lo Area   Germans Increase Artillery Fire: No Change At Caen  Rattle Tine.   LESSAY UNDER FIRE

YANKS SLOWED IN ATTACK ON ST. LO BASTION      Troops Sweep On German Anchor Position At Lessay

Allied Drive Slowed   Americans at St. Lo And British at Caen Held to a Standstill; Steady Gain Elsewhere

Nazi Artillery Fire Rakes U. S. Army at St. Lo   Doughboys Dig in to Hold Their Positions Near Highway Center.   But Americans Are on  Move South of St. Lo   Iron Ont Salient

American Invasion Army on Move From  St. Lo West to Sea   Yankees, Slowed in Attack on City Itself, Digging, Selves in

Advance of Yanks On St. Lo Slowed   Lines Push Closer to Germans Western Anchor at Lessay ‘   NO CHANGE AT CAEN   Enemy Troops on West Side  of Peninsula Are Withdrawing .

Other Units Advancing To the West   Germans Making Orderly Withdrawal, Headquarters Believes

U.S. Troops Drive Steadily Ahead On All Other Fronts   Yanks Capture Four More Towns; British, Canadian Forces at Standstill Around Caen

Yanks Hold Advances Near St. Lo   Nazis Withdrawing At Lessay, West Anchor of Defense

‘Advance On West Of St. Lo   Germans Apparently Withdrawing From Lessay Now Under Yank Fire

Mold Resoluiely Se Positions Twe Miles from Town in Face of Meavy Artillery Fire

Nazis Pull BackSlowly At Lessay; Salient Set   Yankees Pushing Steadily Ahead Along West

Nazi Weapons Slow Attack on St. Lo Junction   American Army Continues Gains West of Sector

U.S. Infantrymen Dig In Arouna:St. Lo As Germans Step Up Ix:7ir Resistance

“AMERICANS NEAR TOWN OF LESSAY   "Push On St. Lo Helc Up By Heavy Nazi Artillery Fire

Burrow Into Ground < Miles Outside City Anc Hold On In Face O Mounting German Ar. tellery Fire; Advance On Lessay; Caen Stale mate Contimies,

Yank Drive *On St. Lo At -A Standstill   Germans Around Lessa) Apparently Making Or derly Withdrawal.

YANKS OCCUPY MORE FRENCH TOWNS TODAY   Germans In Orderly With. drawal As Whole U. S. Army Moves Ahead

Yanks Slowed At St. Lo; Dig In For Battle   Face Increasingly Heavy Artillery Fire From Fiercely Fighting Foe

YANKS SLOWED IN ST. LO DRIVE BUT HOLD LINES   Germans Are Reported Makinc ‘Orderly Withdrawal’ on Broad Invasion Front

Nazi Artillery Fire Is Heavy In Normandy   Yanks Advancing Short Distance Out Of Lessay

YANKo oLOWED TNATTACK ON OT. LO FRON   Hold Positions Despite Nazi Barrages; Sweep Nearer Western Anchor. .

Our Troops Burrow into the Ground and Hold on to Their Positions While   Nazis Fire Away.   ADVANCES MADE ON OTHER BATTLE LINES

PUSH TOWARD LESSAY MOVES GERMANS BACK   Situation at Caen I:  Ignored by Reports From Allies

Nazi Artillery Pounding Yanks   DRIVE ON ST. LO SLOW " AS GERMANS FIGHT BITTERLY

Artillery Used. To Check Yank Drive on City   _But Americans Are “Reported on Move West of the Bastion; British Alen Heald

Heavy Guns ’ Slow Yanks Near St. Lo   But t Doughboys Dig in and ~ Hold; New Gains. — : Near Lessay”.   GERMANS’ MAKING . “ORDERLY RETREAT   ‘ British: Forces Practically at Standstill; Flying Curtailed; * Yerrain-Favors Enemy : 

Murray Demands  Special Session ‘Would Reconsider Bill  On Vets’ Affairs

May Day Raid Hits New High   Huge Fleet Begins Third Week of Nonstop Smash

3,000 PLANES IN DAY SMASH AT WEST EUROPE   Greater Air Drive Forecast

Engine Roar Drowns Traffic Noises on Coast   Britons Rush Out, Expecting to See Sea Armadas On Wav to France 

Hopes for Polish Unity Shattered   Soviet-Backed Group Calls Rivals ‘Traitors’

Hope for Early Compromise of Poles Fades   Soviet Sponsored Committee Hits Emigre Group

Believe Reds Mass for Drive   Many Signs of Coming Attack —Bombers Hit Brest-Litovsk

SOVIET ARMY MASSING FOR SUMMER PUSH   Spring-Lull Is Reported About To Come To End

Soviets Mass For Assault   Big Summer Drive Will Surpass Others On Eastern Front

Spring Lull Continues As Gigantic Offensive Tekes Shape. °. .. Reds Apparently Massing For Their Greatest Push

THINK REDS’ BIGGEST BLOW IS IMMINENT   Although Spring Lull Stil! Prevails, There Are Multiplying Signs of the Coming Push, Writer Says.

Russians Believed Massing For Offensive Surpassing Anything Yet Seen In East   Multiplying Signs Reds Regrouping For Major Drive Timed With Invasion

BELIEVE RUSSIAN AFMIES MASSING FOR AN OFFENSIVE   Spring Lull in Fighting Con “tinues But Many Signs Poin! “to Coming Summer Drive—  Soviet Bombers Active

Greatest Russian Summer Offensive Is Seen in Making   Bomber Blows Against Brest Lifovsk, Polctsk and Narva Seen as Signs

RED ARMY BELIEVED REGROUPING FOR BiG ASSAULT ON GERMANS  RUSSIAN AIRMEN ACTIVE ON VARIOUS FRONTS

SOVIET ARMIES AWAIT SIGNAL   Red Forces Are Reported Massing for Great Drive Against Germans

Russ Army Masses For Heaviest Spring Offensive  _ Signs Are Multiplying  For Coming Push; Bombings Are Begun

Russ Army Masses For Heaviest Spring Offensive  _ Signs Are Multiplying For bf Coming. Push;  Fe - pe me

Summer Attack Seen Kelipsing Previous Blow:   Soviet Fliers Hit Bases At Brest Litovsk, Poland And At Narva, Polotsk

‘Soviet Armies Are Massing for Great Summer Offensive   Budding Assault Is Expected to Surpass Any Blow Yet Struck On Eastern Front

Great Russian Offensive Seen As Comina   Signs Of Future Push Evident; May Join With Invasion

SDA Report Biased egarding Problem of veight Equalization an AEDUDAREH TW AAAI

WAR TODAY   Allies Facing Danger Of Chinese Getting Knocked Out of War Before Nazis Fall

CHINA’S LOSS WOULD BE SEVERE BLOW BLOW TO ALLIES IN PACIFIC AND DANGER IS REAL IN THREAT TO NEEDED RESOURCES

fhe War foday— Chinese Can't Retreat Much Longer Without Losing Military Advantage

Japs Threaten to Knoek Out China   Germans Hastily Tighten Western Defenses on Fourih Anniversary Of Nazi Ivasion of Low Countries

The War loday  Allies Face Great Danger If China Is Knocked Out Of War.

The War Today   Ry DEWITT MACKENZIF Associated Press Var Anaivat

ALLIES FACE GREAT DANGER IN WAR WITH JAPAN WITH POSSIBILITY OF CHINA BEING KNOCKED OUT OF WAR   Greatly Protracted War May Result If Japs Should Succeed in Taking Last Remaining Useful Territory ftom Chiang Kai-Shek. Situation Critical _

The War Today        Kido $e Gallant China , Wartld ‘Re Hard Blow to Allies

Guerrillas Are Reported. Continuing Fight Against Japs on Borneo

10,000 Soldiers — Help Repair Dams   Wisdasipp? Levees. Being Strengthened

FLOGD CREST SWEEPS PAST ST. LOUIS   Over 10,000 Soldiers Aid In  Repairing Levees

THOUSANDS  OF SOLDIERS  IN FLOOD CONTROL WORK   MississippiRiver 39.3-Foot Crest Highest Reading

39.3 FT. GREST OF MISSISSIPPI IS NEW RECORE   10,000 Soldiers Pressed Inte Service, Work On Levees

Flood Reaches Peak at St. Louis   Waters Fall After 39-.Foot Crest

SOLDIERS AID IN FLOOD FIGHT   Levees Strengthened As Crest Passes St. Louis

MURRAY ASSERTS COST OF LIVING UP 50 PERCENT   APPEARS ON BEHALF OF WHITE COLLAR GROUP AT INQUIRY

CHARGES LIVING COSTS UP 50 PC,   Philip Murray Tells Senate Committee His Figures Will Show White Collar Workers Need More Pay.

Murray Asks Adjustment Of Wage Police   living Costs Increased 50 Per Cent Since January, 1941, Asserts President Of CIO

Murray Says White Collar Worker’s Living Costs Up 50 Per Cent Since Jan. ’41

Living Costs 50 P. C. Higher Than [n 194]   Murray Advocates Pay Increases-For — White Collar Class

MURRAY DECLARES LIVING COSTS ARE UP 50 PER GENT   C. 1. O. Chief Hits Bureau of Labor Statistics for Deceit

50 Per Cent Hike In Living Costs   Murray Tells Committee That Labor Bureau Figures Are Wrong; Will Is sue Proof.

Belgians Put on Invasion Alert      Little Time Left to Prepare, Radio Warns

LIFE TN GERMANY OPSY TURW’.AS WAR STRIKE HOME   Average German Feels Weight of War First Time Since Napo‘eon.

Lt IN GERMANY ‘OPSY TURVY’AS WAR STRIKE HOME   Average German Feels  Weight-of War First” Time Since Napo‘eon.

Dangerous Stage Still in Future  Real Str uggle Yet to Whitehe  eme. savs

29th Crashed  Headon Into  Nazi Division It And First Had  Bitter Fighting On Beaches Of France

Biggest Task Still Ahead   Invasion Troops Fear People At Home Feel War Already All Over

18 ARE INJURED IN DERAILMENT   Atlantic Coast Line's Fast Train Wrecked In Georgia

Pr ess Is Called ‘Fighting Arm’ lin Modern War by Eisenhower rer

Draft Tightens On 18-25 Men   Local Boards Told T Restrict Deferments

WILL DECIDE HITLER'S FATE   Fighting in Hills and Siegfried Line of Western Germany May Determ  ine War for Winter.      No Food-No Oil   Natural Screen   Bombing Fury

‘September Fighting May Throw Light 1On Hitler's Ability to Continue War

Finland's — Government Denounced   U. S. Charges Leaders Are Pro-German

‘Post-War Planners Urge Soldiers’ Home Addition ‘And Fight On Lake Erosior

Says Channel Invasion Too  Risky, Costly   Senator Chandler Wants Pacific Stressed, As Rumors Increase

Cardinal's Body Placed in Crypt —   Committal Brings to End Tribute to  Lowell-Born Prelate

Judge Will Get a Vest for His New Suit, Moths Will Have To Go Hungry

U. S. SUBMARINES MAY DELIVER KILLING BLOW IN PACIFIC, ADMIRAL NIMITZ SAYS

Work Of U.S, Submarines May  Settle Outcome In Pucific Area   Admiral Nimitz, In Washington, Says American Fleet Seeks Action: Our Position Favorable

Nippon Shipping Whittled Down   Yankees Occupy Majuro In Marshalls: America’s Position Improves Steadily   Word Of Caution.

New Marshall Atoll Seized, Nimitz Says   Fleet Commander Tells of Blows By U. 8. Subs

Nimitz Says Subs May Deliver Top Pacific Blow   American Forces Hav   American Forces Have Captured Former German Supply Base

Destruction Of Japanese Shipping May Determine Results In Pacific

Yanks Occupy Majuro Atoll in Marshalls.   Nimitz Also Says “U. $. Subs Killing Off Nippon Power

fanks Take Majuro Atoll In Marshalls   Encounter No Opposition.  Subs May Deliver Killing Blow

Nimitz Says Subs May Deliver Top Pacific Blow   American Forces Have Captured Former German Supply Base

U.S. Subs May Swing Conflict   Inroads On Jap Shipping Increase; Yanks Occupy Major Atoll in Marshalls

Nimitz Reports New Atoll Taken  Admiral! In Capital Tells Of Sub Success

DESTRUCTION JAP ‘SHIPPING SHOWING HEAVY INCREASE  MAY HAVE DETERMININ  EFFECT ON PACIFIC WAR SAYS NIMITZ

Reports Subs Maj Give Death Blow  Nimitz Happy Over Their Operations

NIP SHIP LOSSES MAY BE TURNING POINT IN PACIFIC   Nimitz Reveals U. S. Forces Take Majuro Atoll in Marshall Islands

Says Subs May Deliver Killing Blow In Pacific; Admiral Now In Capital.

Yanks Oceupy Majuro Atoll In Marshalls:   Base May Serve As Gooc Supply Anchorage Ir Mid-Pacific — U. § Subs May Deal De cisive Blow.

Back in the U. S., Nimitz Discloses. Pacific Activities .   ‘Fleet Commander Tells _ Of New Invasion and Adds That Subs May Deliver Final Blow —

SUBMARINES MAY DELIVER THE KNOCK-OU1    Adm. Nimitz Reported   Today on His Return to   Capital for Gonferences

NIMITZ LAUDS U.S. SUBS FOR PACIFIC WORK   Commander-In-Chief, Now In Washington, Discloses New Landing

SUBS TO PLAY GREATER ROLE, NIMITZ CLAIMS   Reports U. S. Forces Have Taken Another Atoll in Marshalls

NO OPPOSITION MET ON ATOLL, ADMIRAL AVERS   Navol Officer Declares U. S. Submersibles Might Put Nips Out of War

NIMITZ BACK FOR SERIES OF CONFERENCES   Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Fleet Reports Americans Have Occupied Majuro Afoll   PRAISE FOR U-BOATS

U.S. Submarines May Deliver Death Blow  To Japs in Pacific, Admiral Nimitz Savs

ee re EN LEE ILLS LO AE: SEI SEP OLED LED  LL OEE  Mayuro, Marshall Atoll, Is Occupied By Yank Forces

American Subs Taking Heavy Toll Jap Ship:   Sinkings May Determine Results of War In Pacific, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Says

Yanks Take Another Atoll in Marshalls   Former German Majoro Base Occupied Without Opposition—Nimitz Says U. S. Subs May Deliver Killing Blow in Pacific.

Americans Have Seized Another Marshalls Atoll   U. S. Subs May Deliver Death Blow In Pacific, Saves Adm. Nimitz.

Nimitz Tells of Attacks by U.S. Subs   Widen '\Los. Negros Island ‘Holdings, Red Arrow Units Land North of Saidor -

Majuro Atoll Occupied by US Forces   Admiral Nimitz Says American Submarines May Deliver Killing Blow in Pacific

U.S. Troops Now Occupy Majuro Atoll   German Naval Base in World War  Taken; U. S. Subs Hold Key

New Bishop Takes Over      Chas. W. Brashares D.D.., Replaces Bishop Ralph Magee In This Area

Gains At Saipan Continue   Americans In Advance Mile Further Along The Shoreline

Mile Advance Made Up Mount Tapotchau and Similar Gair Is Scored Along Shoreline of Magicienne Bay—Jap Resistance at Nafutan Point Reduced by Half — Enemy Troops Bombarded by Planes, Ships and Artillery. .

FURTHER GAINS ON SAIPAN BY YANK TROOPS   Heavy Pressure Maintain ed Against Enemy By   Planes And Artillery   RAID ON TRANSPORTS CAUSES NO DAMAGE

Draft Calls Are  To Grow Larger  Next Few Months Many Being Called  a

Draft Calls Are To Grow Larger  Next Few Months  Many Being Called For Physical Exam In Near Future

‘Great Day for Irish’ As St. Patrick Parade  Hanore Saint of Frin

BIG BOMBERS ~ BLASTED JAPS -OVER WEEKENE   ALLIED AIRMEN CONTINUE: NON-STOP ASSAULTS ON ENEMY BASES IN ALL  AR SECTORS

5 MORE NAZI DIVISIONS IN RUSSIAN TRAP   175,000 of Hitler's Best Troops Sealed for Destruction Near Dnieper River

Capital City Women Lead Field in State Golf Tourney  Mrs. George R. Miller   Mrs. George R. Miller Shoots 166, Edean Anderson, 168

Capital City Women Lead Field in State Golf Tourney  Mrs. George R. Miller Shoots 166, Edean Anderson, 168

War Reporter Killed by Nazi Bomb   THREE OTHERS DEAD, 26 INJURED IN BLAST AT BELGIAN HOTEL

Holds Needs: Chan @ An’. ‘Adwiiitatcaion: pe “To Preserve'Freedom

No World State  In Republican  Foreign Policy Plattorm Pledve      New Deal Copies European Revolutions, Hoover Says

U.S. freedom endangered,  Hoover avers  ELD.R.’s ‘power diplomacy’ is hit

Hoover Appeals For Freedom for Returning Vets   Says FDR Plays Power Politics

Only Administration Change Will Give. Returning Soldiers  F reedom, Hoover Declares 

Cologne And  Coblentz Hit   Germans Report Allied Formations Swinging Across Austria.

They Are-Key Supply: Points Close Behind the West     USED HEAVY BOMBERS       German Radio Reperted For. mations of Aled Swinging Across: Austria. -

YANKS CONTINUE WEWAK ATTACK   Naval Bombers Also Batter Oroluk in Carolines First Time

ALLIED ARMIES TAKE UP BATTLE POSTS IN ITALY      New All-Out Drive Coincident With Invasion Of West Europe Seen

NEW DRIVE IN ITALY SEEN ON ALLIED D-DAY   Axis Claims 5th and &th Armies Poised For Big Offensive

NAZIS EXPECT DRIVE IN ITALY   Allied Armies. Preparing For Thrust, Germans Claim

Italy Moves Held Prelude To Joint Blow   Nazis Report Fleets Mass in Britain; Electric Mines Face Allies

CHURCHILL WILLING TO MEDIATE DISPUTE   Prime Minister And United States  Desireus Of Settling PotishServiet Territorial Dispute

Churchill Enters Border Dispute   He and Eden Confer With Polish Leaders

CHURCHILL TALKS ON POLISH DISPUTE   Prime Minister Confers With Polish Leaders in London

Long-Range Rocket Bont Is Used To Hit England   Missiles Go 70 Miles ‘Into Stratosphere Before Landing, Says Charchill In Commons

Churchill Says V-2's Ineffective   Claims Germans Need Encouragement On Home Front.

Churchill Belittles New Rockets   Flying Telegraph Poles Not as Good As Robot Bombs

Rocket Bombs Blast England London Reveals   Churchill Lifts Secrecy Cloaking Details of Robots

British Announce Scattered Attacks by V-2 Nazis Rocket Bombs For Last Few Weeks

FRENCH OFFICER GOT HIS WISH - - GERMANS WERE OCCUPYING ELB!  / WAR CORRESPONDENT GIVES STORY OF ATTACK ON ISLAND OFF ITALY

‘French Commandant Wasn’‘t Disappointed-There Were Germans to Kill on Elba

‘Loss Heaviest Ever Inflicted On Allied Armada   Unescorted Bombers Attacked By Strong Nazi Fighter Force

TOLL HEAVIEST OF WAR: ARMS CENTER TARGET   First Moonlight Attack In Several Months Most Costly

PLANE LOSS BY RAF HEAVY IN NURNBERG RAID      Ninety-Six Planes Shot Down By By German Fighters, AntiAircraft Guns

96 Planes Lost By RAF Over Reick   German Fighters and Flak Swarm Into Nurnberg Raid.

Nurnberg Shattered Despite Huge Loss   German Fighters Pounce On Lightly Armed Planes—  Americans Batter at Sofia

MOONLIGHT RAID RESULTS IN LOSS OF 96 AIRPLANES   Command Apparently Gambled on Waning German Power to Encounter Largest Fighter Array.   ALLIES NOW HOLD ONLY ONE HILL AT CASSINO   German Patrols Make Strong Attacks at That Point and On Anzio Beachhead to North.

Toll Biggest Suffered by Air Armada   Bombers in Moonlight Run into Big Flock of Night Fighters

NURNBURG IS BLASTED BY BRITISH   RAF Sustains Its Heaviest Loss, 96 Planes

British Lose 96 Planes; New Record   Nurnberg Attack Made Costly by Fierce Luftwaffe Fighter Opposition

ROYAL AIR FORCE SUFFERSLOSS OF 96 BOMBERS IN ASSAULT ON NURNBERG AND WESTERN REICH

NAZI FIGHTERS MAKE GOOD USE OF MOONLICHT   Bombers From Mediterranean Bases Stage Heaviest Raid On Sofia

96 PLANES SHOT DOWN BY NAZI NIGHT FICHTERS   2240 Tons of Explosives and Fire Bom bs Dropped on Nurnberg in Moonlight 7 Attack

RAF LOSES  96 PLANES, BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   Losses Exceed by 17 Previous Record Toll af 79 Rambers

GERMAN GUNS, PLANES FIND EASY PICKING   Unprotected British Bomber For mation Cut by 10% During Moonlight Raid Over Reich

Air Fleet Without Fighters   Raid Is Made In Moonlight in Daring Gamble

Laurel crash  takes 17 lives Co-pilot of F ort  is only survivor

Double Plane Crash Kills 17 Army Airmen   One -Flier Parachutes To Safety in New Air Accident

17 Die as Planes Tangle in Air   Nebraska Transport  Mishap Kills 28 Others

(7 KILLED AS TWO BOMBERS COLLIDE   CRASH BRINGS TO 45 NUMBER OF FLIERS TO DIE IN NEBRASKA THIS WEEK.

Devastating Night And Day Blows Dealt Germans As Air Offensive Aqain Hits Stride   Americans Strike By Day Following Tremendous Night Attacks By RAF

U.S. Planes Hit Airfields, Bombing Nest:   Holland, Belgium, Pas-DeCalais Raided; Weather Is P Sa Eee Fle   LITTLE OPPOSITION

ROCKET ‘NESTS’, AIR BASES TORN   Allied Planes Also Strike At Fuel And Supply Dumps

Bomber Fleets Again Hit Europe   Belgium, France, Holland and Rocket Nests Hard Hit

U, 5. PLANES RIP NAZI TARGETS WITHOUT LOSS   Yanks Pound Holland, France, Belgium; British Raid Robot Ramps

Airfields And Rocket Bomb Nests Pounded In Daylight Raids; RAF Attacks Ruhr

AERIAL ATTACK AGAINST NAZIS IN MANY AREAS   Blast Railway Centers And War Plants

‘Alied-Aireraft~Strikes In France And Other Areas   U. S. Bombers Hit Airfields In Holland And Belguim, Attack Rock: et Bomb Nests & Other  Targets In France.

Americans Hit Rocket Nests   Also Bomb Air Fields In Holland, Belgium, Targets in France

Allies Press Devastating Air Attacks   Airfields in Holland and Belgium, Rocket Bomb " Nests Blasted

BOMB ROCKET NESTS    Fortresses and Liberators Hit [ ' Targets in Holland

PRE-INVASION AIR RAIDS ON OVER GERMANY   Fighters Take Over Job; New Blows Dealt

Nazis Drive British Back In Fighting East Of Caen   British Still Hold Railroad Station; Americans Shoved  Giaccone DBione

FIGHT FOR TOWN SEE-SAWS: U. 5. FORCES RETREAT   Allies, Germans Maneuvering For Position In Expected Attack

Troarn Station Held By British  Despite Setback   Successful Raid Stage On German Held Village Northwest Of Esquay

Russian Writer Charges Vatican As Pro-Fascist   Catholic Leader Replys Russia. W Make Separate :

Reds Accused of Peace Move After Blast   CATHOLIC LEADER DEFENDS VATICAN POLICY, SAYS RUSS ALIENATING SELVES

Answers Russ Vatican Charge  Msgr. Sheen Says Reds  Race Ces) hdd

Soviet Writer's Charge Against Vatican Brings ‘Counter. Agcusations

Catholic Alleges Russia Plans Separate Peace   Monsignor Answers  Charges Made  Against Vatican

ARQUSE CATHOLICS   Claim Soviet Laying Groundwork, For. Bem ‘arate German Peace’:

CHARGES RUSSIA LAYING PLANS FOR PEACE WITH REICH   Monsignor Sheen Defends Pope; Says Stalin Hates Hitlar, Nat Nazicm

CHRISTMAS POSES SPECIAL WORRIES   Riflemen Receive First Hot Food For Almost Two Weeks

Isolate One Nazi Garrison   Other A’lied Successes Are Announced

WARVA CUT OFF AS REDS REACH SHORE OF GULI   g-atest Red Drive Imperils ~ Nazis’ Main Anchors in North

GERMAN, FORCES IN NARVA _ARE CUT OFF FROM ESCAPE _ AS RUSSIANS INVADE “ESTONIA

§ POURING INTO ESTONIA; NARVA DOOMED   Reach Shores of Gulf of Finland  etme mm  PSKOV TOTTERING  Whole Nazi Defense Line Threatened

NATIONAL LEAGUE   U. S. TROOPS AIM SAIPAN SMASH AT ENCIRCLED GARAPAN HARBOR

AMERICANS ADVANCING ON SAIPAN   1,500 Japs Killed Or Captured At Nafutan Point

TCKES AIDE 1S f “GO-BETWEEN?   Pictured As Helping in Pub: lication of Hopkins Letter.

Langer Names Aide to Icke As Willkie Letter Go-Betweer   Biddle Assistant Expresses Belief Letter Was Forged, Says He Wouldn't Be Surprised If Person Responsible Found

reep Toward Bucharest, Ploesti;  ,  ant Trap in Carpathians Reported

Russians Crack Defenses of Galati Gap By 49-Mile Advance Into Romania

Bucharest Threatenec  By Advance   War's Greatest Rout Smashes Any Hope Hitler Has Of  Holding Romania

Poles Hope For Accord   Churchill and Stalin Believed Able to Bring About Compromise

LONDON POLISH CHIEF HOPEFUL   BELIEF PREVAILS THAT COMPROMISE WILL BE REACHED

Mikolajczyk Hopeful of Agreement   Head of London Group Confers With U. S. Envoy  To Russia

Leader of Poles Is Hopeful of = Russian Accord  Compromise May Be Reached Before  Churchill Leaves

B-29'S BLAST JAP FACTORIES IN MANCHURIA   Important Steel Center of Anshan Is Probable Target

NIP INDUSTRY FEELS MIGHT -OF AIR GIANTS   Tokyo Admits Raid, But Details Of Bombing Are Withheld   BLOWS STAGGER ENEMY   iLand And Carrier Based Planes Paving Way For New Yankee Thrusts

NIPS INDICATE STEEL CENTER AGAIN TARGET   Widespread U. S. Attacks Keep Tokyo Guessing

Argentine Policy In Doubt Again   Pro-Democratic President Ousted

Fear Argentine Regime May No! Favor Allies   Coup of Reactionary ‘Colonels’ Lodge’ Causes U. S. Concern

ARGENTINE COUP IS CAUSING CONCERR      President Overthrown and Pro-Axis Official Inctallead

ARGENTINE COUP MAY HELP AXIS   Nation’s Foreign Policy Left In Doubt By Army Revolt

Argentina's New Anti-Nazi Policy ~May Be Scrapped   Serious. Concern Over Latest Coup Shown In Washinaton

ARGENTINA MOVE AROUSING DOUBT   Anti-Axis Policy Thrown Into Spotlicht By Overthrow

Norman Davis Dies inVirginia   Cerebral Hemorrhage Fatal To Red Crass Ch

Norman Davis Dies; Headed Red Cross   Had Summer Home im Stockbridve

Norman Davis, Red Cross Head Dies, Aged 66.   Ex-Banker Had Served In Diplomatic Posts Under Three Presidents

NORMAN H. DAVIS DIES IN VIRGINIA   Red Cross Head_and For. mer Diplomat Expires,  Aaed 66 :

Death Summons Norman H. Davis,  Red Cross Head      Former Banker  Ili Some Time

Former Diplomat Is Victim __ of Cerebral Hemorrhage-in Hot Springs

Here. Is the 1945 Tax Withholding — ‘Schedule Approved by" House Today

STRONGHOLD OF ENEMY I KNOCKED OUT   German Counter-attacks Fail to Ease Pressure on Crumbling Lines.

-Meijel Yielded 4~F5 Counterattack In Eastern Clash   Thrust Fails To Ease Pressure Against Crumbling Enemy

BRIT: TAKE © ANOTHER DUTCH TOWN   Tighten Trap On 50,000  German Troops

Germans Trapped By Thousands Tn Holland War   Russians Hit -NazisIn East Prussia;  Bulgaria War Ends

GERMAN LINES SAG AS ALLIES WIN KEY TOWN   Pressure Increased On 50,000 Troops Of Foe In Holland

Canadians Tighter Trap On Germans With New Seizure   Bergen Up Zoom, Foe’s Dutch Stronghold Falls To Allies

DNITISH, NAZI  EXCHANGE TOWNS IN FIGHTING ON WESTERN FRONT   Tommies Tighten Trap On 50,000

BRITISH TAKE CITY, TIGHTEN TRAP ONNAZIS   German Lines In Holland Reported Rapidly Crumbling

Bergen Op Zoom Falls To British   Empire Forces Tighten Trap on 50,000 Germans in Southwest Holland

Fast Bombers Are Reported  [Over Berlin _   Raid on City Follows £,000-Ton Night Raid On Duesseldorf in Rubr

Dusseldorf Blasted By 1,000 RAF Heavy Bombers Dropping 4,000 Tons of Explosives.   Wreck Air Force

ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACK BERLI   Assault Continues Despite Bad Weather; American Airmen’ Jubilant Over Results of Monday’s Battle

Raid by Superforts Believed to Have Damaged Badly Jap Aircraft Factory

B-29 Fliers Tell Of Raid ‘On Nagoya   Big Hatsudoki Aircraft Factory Heavily Damaged

EYE VOTE IN ~ A HAMPSHIRE   May Test Strength of Republican Presidential Candidates

GOP Candidates Get First Test   Political Eyes Are Or New Hamoshire

GOP CANDIDATES GET FIRST TEST   NEW HAMPSHIRE HOLDS PRIMARY ELECTION TODAY

British Fleet Masters Arctic Sea As Prelude to Invasion of Norway   U-Boat Attacks Smashed in North; Surface Navy Subdued; Plane Assaults Apparently Ended

ALLIES WIN ARCTIC FIGHI AGAINST SUBS   For More than 100 days Have Been Sweeping, Free from Attack, into Norway’s Coast.   Reprisal Never Came

British Fleet Masters Aretie   Navy Sweeps to Very Shadows of Norway; Sub Attacks Smashed

BATTLE OF ARCTIC — TS WON BY ALLIES   BRITISH FLEET ENDS U-BOAT MENACE TO SUPPLY ROUTES TO:RUSSIA.

Battle of Arctic Has Been Won as Conclusively as the Battle of the Atlantic, Scribe Reno ris

CITY OF VIIPURI BEING EVACUATED   Amminent Capture by Reds Causes Citizens to Flee; Soviets Break Thru Second Finnish Defense  e.

MeFarland Objects   Procedure Criticized   FDR Again Evades 4th Term Question

ROOSEVELT HINTS - ABOUT ATH TERM   Tells Newsmen That Only Time Will Reveal His Decision About Candidaev

ime Will Tell ys Roosevelt Fourth Term  Home-Stretch Drive   Home-Stretch Drive Launched by Group Backing Bricker

REPORT WARREN WILL ACCEPT SECOND PLACE NOMINATION   CALIFORNIA DELEGATION, HIGH ON ROLL-CALL, TO - START DEWEY BAND WAGON ROLLING

“DRAFT DEWEY AND WARREN” DRIVE NOW ON   California Delegates Back of This Newest G. O. P. Maneuver

Republican Parley Opening Monday To Name Dewey And Warren, Belief

New Red Offensive Batters Siege Line At Baltic Approach   German Attacks Fail as Soviets “Converge « on: Odessa: Warsaw Line; Men Strike Hard Fronxv Leninorad

New Soviet Offensive Is Reported   Berlin. Announces Powerful Thrust Near Leningrad

Russians sweeping Westward   Berlin Says Reds Open Long Dormant Leningrad Front

St Joe Man Dies Of Car Injuries   Fred Burgess, 58, Walks Into Side Of Auto

New Cabinet Sworn In  AT THE SEAT OF THE TTrAT Pa CIOVERNATITCN TT.

WLB Facing Severe Test In Pay Issue   Keystone Of Its Policy At Stake As It Begins Third Year

Little Steel’ Formula, Under Heaviest Attack, Has Had Stormy History   ing (Oct. 3, 1942), and in the meantime some employers had voluntarily dished out raises.

WLB IS FACING ROUGH FUTURE   Wage Formula Under Fire As Agency Begins 3rd Year of Control

COMMISSIONERS WILL BE ASKED TO PARLEY     Geverner Is Endeavering Te Learn if Couniies Can Con inue Bo pus Pavements Te Teachers 

TEACHER “BONUS” ~ MEETING PLANNED   Governor to Call Confer. ence to Discuss Education Situation

lowa Storm Toll Raised to Nine   Rivers Are Rising In Southern Area

‘Germans Flee 1,100 Mired Tanks, Guns   Soviets Rip 109-Mile Gap, Win Uman. Kill 22.000 -

Nazis Retreat On3 Fr onts, Losses High   20.000 Enemy Killed, 1,100 Mired Trucks And Big Guns Captured  UMAN FALLS TO REDS

3RD RUSSIAN PUSH SENDS NAZIS REELING   Fourteen Divisons In_ Retreat; Tanks Mired, 20,000 Killed; Pivotal Stronghold Of Uman Taken.   Huge Losses

Hitler’s Troops Abandon All Equipment, Includs. ing 1,100 Tanks, as They, Flee in Ukraine. —        REDS RIP THROUGH  ‘A 109-MILE LIN         Seize 300 Towns, Inclut ing Stronghold. ‘of Uman, in Sweep Toward; Rumania and Poland. .

Germans Lose 20,000 Men To Attackers   Reds Get 1100 Mired Tanks and Guns Left by Retreating Force

120,000 Killed as Germans in Hasty Retreat Abandon Tanks, Big Guns; ' -Uman. 200 Other Places Taken

20,000 Nazis Die in New ‘Red Offensive   Enemy Abandons Its Equipment, Soviets Declare

SOVIETS TEAR 109-MILE GAP IN NAZI LINES   ENEMY RETREATING ON THREE FRONTS, 20,000 KILLED

10 NAZI UNITS PUT TO FLIGHT IN THE UKRAINE   Over 1,000 Mired Tanks And Big Guns Left Behind With Over 20,000 Dead

Fleeing Enemy Loses 1100 Tanks ‘And Big Guns Mired in Mud; Leave 29.000 Dead. 2500 Prisoners

More Than 20,000 Nazis Killed by Soviet Thrust  GREAT GAINS ARE MADE IN 5 DAYS   Enemy Reported Retreat. ing on Each of Three Bia Fronts

‘Reds Rout 14 Nazi Divisions   20,000 Said Slain And Vast Stores Of Material Taken

Soviets open  third drive  in Ukraine Nazis abandon all equipment

Moscow Reports Nazis in Flight in Ukraine Area   Reds Advancing On Three Fronts

ALLIES INCREASE PRESSURE OH NAZIS WW ITALY   Troops of Fifth and Eighth Seize Strategic Hill Positions

ALLIES NEAR GOTHIC LINE   Increase Pressure on Nazis In Italy   Advance on Leghorn Defenses

ALLIES INCREASE PRESSURE ON  NATIS. WW ITALY .   ‘Troops. of Fifth and  Eighth Seize Strategic . Bill Positions:

Allied Armies Neize Strategic Hills In Italy   Increased Pressure Is Brought To Bear On German Defenses Is Report   TERRICIOLA MAY BE OUTFLANKEL

Labor Members Of WLB Plan To Visit F. D. R.   To Urge lnnmediate Upward Revision Of Little Steel Formula

Chandler Proposes New Presidential Inquiry . Of Pearl Harbor Tragedy

DOW CHEMICAL CO. GIVEN MAJOR CREDIT FOR NATION’S SUCCESS IN MEETING WAR NEEDS FOR MAC   Action Will Be Taken Soon By WPB to Reduce Production of Magnesium Used For Such Things As Incendiary Bombs, Aircraft Parts

More Headaches—Get Set for Change In Your Paycheck After January Ist

15,000 More Farm Workers Needed To Harvest Maryland Crops in ‘44

FULLTIME AND SEASONAL FARM LABOR NEEDED   25,000 Will Be Required In Maryland To Meet Production Goals   PRISONERS OF WAR MAY BE UTILIZED

Barkley's Pants Theme of Spirited Exchange in Session of U. S. Senate

Russia Ready for Assault From West on Nazis; Only the Weather ‘Remains as a Doubtful Factor

Russia Ready to Go on Eastern End of Invasion   Northern Sector Needs Three Weeks of Good Weather

HUGE ARMY READY FOR FINAL BIW   Foll of Crimea Rase Frees Two Big Red Armies

RUSSIA IS READY!  Soviets Clear Last Obstacle To Full Participation In Invasion

URGE CONGRESS TO SPEED UP RECONVERSION   Party Leaders Favor Quick Action on Post-War Plans

Post-War Legislation Is Given Main Attention As Congress Resumed Interrupted Session

GOP. Urges Reconversion On Condress   Lowmokgtrs Await Comnhittees’ Action on & PosifWar Problems

CONGRESS SEOSION CPARSELY-ATTENDED   GOP Make Demands for Completion of Economic Stability Program.

To Perfect Program In Committee   Democrats Resist G.O.P. Demands for Early Debate on Reconversion   PREFER TO OFFER SOUND PROPOSALS   Speed Urged in in Work of Committees, But Not on the. Floor

SOLONS HURRY PEACE PLANS   Vandenberg Leads Fight to Force Action On PostWar Program

Congressmen End Leave Reluctantly   Small Number Meets On Opening Day; Plans Postwar Work

Texas Republicans Get Victory Plan  Talk to Voters Till November, State Chotrman Save

K.C. Meeting Here May 14   Held Under Auspices of Fourth Degree of Indiana Area

Says Authorities Were Notified of Sneak Attack Several Hours Before

1,100 British Bombers Lash Atlantic Wall   Allied Planes Hammer. German Communications, “Attack Venice, Trieste -

Allied Bombers  Concentrate On Nazi Railroads   Continue Air Offensive As Prelude To Invasion

AERIAL ATTACK ON EUROPE KEPT AT FIERCE: PACE   Reds Intensify Fire on Nazis Seeking To Escape Crimea; War in Italy Slows Up

Aerial Offensive in War Against Hitler Intensified Daily   RAF Breaks Records for Bomb Tonnage Twice in 4 Days

PRE-INVASION BOMBING KEPT UP BY YANKS   They Strike at Balkans After RAF Bombs German Railway System.   Nazis Try to Thow Russians Off Balance

RAILROADS LEADING 10 COAST HIT      RAF’ And Yankee Flyers From Britain And Italy Continue Attacks Nighi And Davy.

LARGEST FORCE OF RAF BOMBERS BLAST COLOGNE OBJECTIVES ' PRE-INVASI©"! AIR OFFEN.  SIVE CONTINUED BY AMER. CANS BY DAY

Allied Bombers Attack  Hubs-In-Germany: Fran ‘and: Belgium.   ‘SIMILAR: ‘RAIDS... “MADE SIN ITAT:          Big: Invasion

Cologne Hit so  Heavily Fires Could Be Seen 200 Miles; Mosquitos Hit Berlin

Bombs Rip Cologne And Major Targets In France, Belgium   Mosquitos Hammer At Berlin Again In First Phase Of Allied Invasion; 1,000 Flying Fortresses Tear Calais Area In Heavy Attack On Thursday

Railroads Over 3 Nations Hard Hit By Allies   Nerve-Frayed Nazis’ Resistance Slight; Reds Defeat Hard  Counterattacks   Cologne Hard Hit   Escape From Crimea

FINLAND NOT SEEN NEARER END OF WAR   Paasikivi Leaves Stockholm, No Sign Peace Any Closer

Passikivi Returns  To Helsinki   Envoy Extended Peace Feelers To Russians

Finns Unlikely To Get Out Of War Yet   Paasikivi Returns Home—Bombs  Fall on Stockholm

Finnish Diplomat Leaves Stockholm  Biss Ped tess, Bes   No Indications Seen Of Negotiations With Russia Soon

INDICATION THAT FINLAND IS NO NEARER QUT OF WAF   Juhu Paasikivi Returned to Helsinki Following Visit at Stockholm.   DECLINED TO COMMENT   Would Not Discuss the Subjeet of Finnish Peace Negotiations.

PATTERSON STATES  TOTAL PRODUCTION  FOR WAR INCREASING UNDERSECRETARY OF  WAR, HOWEVER, SAYS RECONVERSION STUDIED

‘War Is Not Nearly Over’ But Plans Are Made Now For Peacetime Industry

PRODUCTION OF WAR GOODS UP   Patterson Says Plans Must Be Made Now For  Reconversion

WAR R OUTPUT IS ‘ON INCREASE   Reconversion To Peacetime Program To Be Difficult

SUB TANG HAS 22 RESCUES TO (TS GREDIT      Skipper Tells Pressmen  Dramatic Story after  Hight Months of Silence  ohy Nawy.   Turns Eastward

ONE OF DECISIVE BATTLES OF WAR NOW BEING FOUGHT IN UKRAINE; MAY HAVE BEARING ON INVASION ©   When The War Will End Is Anybody’s Guess, And When Invasion Comes Depends on Allied Decision, But Battles Today Will Affect Plans  Tomorrow

Today’s Wat Moves   Cannot Predict Date of Allied Victory Until In vasion is Underway By DEWITT MacKENZIE

WAR — TODAY   Invasion of Western Europe Held Key to Answer, “When Will War in Europe Ey.) 37?

ENEMY LOSES 4000 MORE TROOPS   Convoy Attacked on Way to Ormoce With Reinforcements

13 SHIPS SUNK, 4,000 JAPS DIE   U.S. Planes Wreck Convoy Trying to Reinforce Levte ©

13 Ships in Jap Convoy Sunk by American Planes   Estimated 4,000 Troops Bound for Leyte Are Lost

ENEMY LOSES — "LARGE FORCE OF SOLDIERS   THREE DESTROYERS AND SEVEN TRANSPORTS AMONG VESSELS SUNK BY AMEEi _. CAN AIRMEN 

Senate Picks Conferees on Voting Bill   Hatch Assigned To Parleys With  Heuce Crann

Service Vote To Conterees   States’ Righters, Federal Ballot Advocates Fight One More Round.

Service Vote Sent To Conference  States Righters Federal Ballot Men Einht Mua hdnen Daun,

COMPROMISE ON CONFEREES SOLDIER VOTE   ‘Senate After Hour’s Battle Names   Three Favoring Federal Ballot,  Two States’ Righters

Russians Already Take Vital Rail Junction of Sarny.   ONLY LINK BETWEEN TWO GERMAN ARMIES   Soviets Try to Make Landings on Black Sea Coast.

Reds Drive Forward.In  Old Poland   Capture of Sarny Would Give Them Controi of Important Railway

GERMANS HIN! RUSSIAN DRIVE IN OLD POLAND PASSED SARNY   Capture Of Town Would Give Soviets Control Of Only Railroad Between North and South Nazi  Armies.

HALSEY-MITSCHNER NAVAL AND AIR TEAM RETURNS 10 FORMOS!  LAST TRIP ACCOUNTED FOR 175 MORE PLANES AND NUMEROUS SHIPS

Fliers Sink 27 Ships, Damage 39   Halsey-Mitscher Naval and Air Team Also Sinks or Damages 37 Smaller Craft In Heavy Blows at Foe’s Inner Defenses

396 Jap Planes Destroyed in Raid   Heavy Toll Taken of Enemy Ships In 1000-Bomber Attack on Formosa

Crippling Blow Dealt to Jap Base Near Chinc   Raids on Formosa, Philippines, Ryuku, . Marcus Islands Costs Nips 310 Aircraft, 93 Surface Vessels; Jap Fleet Absent

Second Raid by Pacific Fleet Planes Announced   Two-Day Score of Navy Fliers Is 396 ‘Planes, 66 Ships

Second Big Air Attack on Formosa   175 More Jap Planes: Destroyed; Total of 396 for the Two Days   63 SHIPS EITHER SUNK OR DAMAGED   American Losses for the Two-Day Assaults Are 45 Planes

Fleet Strikes — For Two Days   Naval and Air Team Gives Foe Bad Mauling, Nimitz Reports

Mighty Stroke, 575 Miles South of Japan Proper. Climaxed Series of Attacks

Adm. Don Moon, Task Force Commander Off Normandy, Suicide from Battle Fatigue

Infantry Gets First Choice   Under New System Groundforces Are Given. Not Only. Most But Best of Manpower

‘Profile Plan’ Aids Infantry   Getting Most, . Best AMannowee Available

SSL ETE I  ALLIED PRESS HUB 1S IN PARIS NOW   45 Correspondents There: Dash from Britain

Correspondents Move To Paris   Change Offices From London Closer To The Actual War Scenes.

PRESD SECTION To (NEARER 10 FRONT      Supreme Allied Headquarters Are Now Located  In Paris.

Rommel Leads Fierce New Italian Fight   Germans Start Drive Against Allies, Are Hurled to Rear

Rommel Directs Battle   Enemy Has Launched Expected Big Offensive.

Germans Open Big Offensive On Beachhead   Support Attacks With Terrific Firepower And Tank Charges With Rommel in Command

Gen. Rommel Is Reported © Strategist _  Behind Plan.   Fifth Army Fights In Cassino Suburb

Nazis Launch Big Italian Offensive   Rommel at Helm As Enemy Lashes ‘Out Below Rome   Germans Claim Allies Have Been Encircled But Latter Reports Blows Hurled Back

CLAIM CIRCLE AROUND ALLIED ARMY, NETTUNO   Terrific German Attacks Are Launched Against Bridgehead. Bloody Fighting In Cassino

NAZIS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE IN ROME BATTLE   Rommel Reported Back In Italy Directing Latest German Strategy

Rommel, the Fox, Directing Nazi Counter Blows   So Far Allies Have Been Able to Withstand All Attacks

HEAVY ATTACK IN ROME AREA   But Fifth Army Repele Four Thrusts With Heavy Losses;- Rommel Now Leads Foe In Italy.

US Tank Corps Clears Cassino  Of Nazi Troops   Enemy Fails To Reduce Allied Rome Bridgehead

Hun Offensive Being Staged In Anzio Area   German High Command Save British and Ameriean Armies Encircled In Nettuno Bridgehead   Furious Battle For Cassino Waged   Americans Fighting With Tanks to Drive Nazis _ From Rubble-Cushioned Dugouts

Fierce Fight Under Way At Cassino   Berlin Claim Bridgehead Forces Are  Encircled

Allies Make as Gain. ~ Near "Anzio   canes “Rommel ‘Returns:.to: Scene for. Offensive .° <>. “Ales Expected              ENEMY: SEEKING TO. : AVOID ENTRAPMENT.   Fierce Action Continues * ai Cassino as Germans *Hold:on. Grimly.-

Fierce Thrust For Anzio Is Rommel’sAim   Expected“Big Offensive + Against Beachhead  Sector Begun

CLAIM ROMMEL HEADS NAZIS ON ROME DEFENSE   Americans Move Tanks Into Outskirts of Cassino, Fierce Battle On

Rommel Reported Directing Tactics   Cassino Bitterly Held To Stall Allies

ROMMEL BACK INITALY 70 DIRECT NAZIS   Germans Have Launched Expected Big Offensive in Effort to Wipe Out Anzio Landings

Allied Force Reported to Be Encircled   German High Comman: Makes Claim; Fierce Fighting in Cassino

TTLING FOR ANDING POINT ELOW ROME   ‘ough House-to-House Resistance Offered Against American Fifth   Army

‘Supported Their  Assaul  Against the Anzio Landing Head Below Rome With  Terrific Tank Charges. —   MARSHAL ROMMEL IS DIRECTING STRATEGY   On the Main 5th Army Front Americans Were Fighting Fiercely in the Outskirts of Cassino.

CLAIM ALLIED LANDING AREA IS ENCIRCLED   Offensive Designed to Remove [Threat of Alhed Trap

GermansHammer  AlliedBridgehead   Rommel Directs Heavy Offensive Against Anzio Sector; Other U.S. Troops Battle On Outskirts Of Cassino

Our Attacks Repulsed, Command Broadcasts   Allied Headquarters Announces Enemy Has Launched Expected Big Offensive

Rommel Directs Offensive Aimed At Pushing Allies  From Beachhead Into Sea

CLAIM oT RONG *ALUED FORGE AS ENGIRGLED   Rommel Reported Directing Nazi Strategy in Italian Sector.

Germans Slash Back At Allies To Escape Trap   Fierce Fighting Reported Today On Two Fronts

NAZIS SAY NETTUNO FORCES ENCIRCLED   Resistance at Cassino Fierce As Germans Fight FromRuins of Village   FINAL ASSAULT NEARS

NAZIS LAUNCH LONG AWAITED HEAVY THRUST   ‘Savage Tank Battle Rages  In Outskirts Of  Cascing

ALLIES HURL BACK NAZI ASSAULT ON ANZIO BEACHHEAD   ‘Heavy Fighting Reported on Fifth Army Front at  Caccna

Nazis Launch Awaited Drive   Furious Fighting Raging At Beachhead and For Possession of Cassino

Report Rommel Again Leading Navis In Italy   Germans Are Repulsed In 4 Big Assaults On Allied Beachhead.

Rommel in Fierce Drive On Beachheac   Nazis Seck to Wipe Out Allied Toehold; Battle for Cassino

Rommel Reported Back in Italy to Direct Resistance   Germans Claim Allies Encircled in Nettuno Bridgehead

No Let Up In. Russian Drive on Long Front   Germans Say Allied Beachhead. Near Rome Encircled; No Confirmation From British-American Sources

4 Big Attacks Fail; Rommel  Is Back On Job   Four Terrific German Attacks Beaten Back Below Rome: Cassino Battle Scene

Fifth Army Troops Battling Fiercely At Cassino; Nazis Hit At Beachhead

BLOODY BATTLE RAGES AS NAZIS OPEN OFFENSIVE   ALLIES BEAT BACK — FOUR THRUSTS AND TAKE 140 PRISONERS

Rommel Leads Counterattack As Cassino Line Totters   Yanks And British Hold Positions In Face Of Heavy Fire

NAZIS LAUNG DRIVE AGAINST ANZIO LANDIN   Rommel Directing Stra tegy in Italy, Report; New Red Gains

Rommel Sent fo Italy to Stop Allies   Famous Marshal Said to Be Directing Nazi Strategy in Campaign

Nazi Assaults At Bridgehead Repulsed With  Heavy Losses   Allied Reports Discount Berlin Claims—Rommel Reported in Command

Nazis Launch Cassino Drive   REPORT ROMMEL DIRECTING ENEMY STRATEGY IN ITALY; AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY BATTLES FIERCELY IN OUTSKIRTS OF CASSINO

STATE NETTUNO GROUP HEMMED   Germans — Launched Expected Offensive Against Anzio Landing  rifuPriue 1c WEAVY

GERMANS LAUNCH BIG OFFENSIVE AGAINST ANZIO BEACHHEAD  _ FIFTH ARMY FORCES _ BATTLE FIERCELY IN  CASSINO OUTSKIRTS

Yank Tanks In Cassino As Nazis Claim Victory   Say Bridgehead At Nettuno Is Circled; 10,000 Nazis Die In Red Trap

OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED IN ITALY   Rommel Is Leading German Forces Near Rome

Jap Airplane Factory Is Hit by B-29’s   Targets in China Also Given Share of Pasting

Superforts Hif Jap Homeland. Shanchai Area   Big Aircraft Plant Blasted; Nanking Sector Also Bombed

BIGBOMBERS AGAIN POUND JAP PLANTS   Aircraft Factory on Island s of Kyushu Hit Hard

SUPERFORTS RAID JAP PLANE PLANT   HIT FACTORY ON HOME ISLAND, AND SHANGHAI AND NANKING TARGETS.

[99s Blast at Omura  Airevaft Tuctoiy ««  Othars Ruid China  i - Mainland

8.000 BACK AT WORK      Work Stoppage age Ends At Big Bomber Plant in Kansas City

Workers Return To Plane Plant   Stoppage Began In North American Firm’s Bomber Works: Thursday

Suspect Oxygen Supply Failed   Only Reason To Account For Loss Of Superfort In Tokvo Raid

Lack of Oxygen On B-29 May Have Spelled Doom of Flyers On Tokyo Raid

Tasty! Even Arabs Make Use  of American Conveniences, if Improperly

Eisenhower Sees Enemy Drive as  ‘Great Gamble’   Main Force of German Offensive Blunted; New Battle Raging 20 Miles South of Luxembourg Capital

Americans Blunt Westward Drive Of German Army   Last Great Gamble Of Nazis, Commander Savs

COUNTY SOLDIER LOST IN ACTION IN TANK BATTLE   Pfc. Austin Chestnut Missing in France Since July  9; Tank Corpsman

WORD RECEIVED BOMBER GUNNER LOST OVERSEAS   Sgt. Kelly Grooms, Jr., Reported Missing Over Germany Since February 25

War Production Causes Concern   Special Manpower Priorities Likely

Hitler Plans Flight: German Radio Station Says Plane ls Held Ready at Secret Airbase

Hitler May. Try Escape By Plane   Clandestine - German Radio ~ Says Transport Stands. Ready for Long Hop.   MANY GERMAN GENERALS: MISSING   Headquarters: »Stormed: by. SS Elite Guards, Says the Radio:-Revort ;

?  TS STANDING BY   Underground Station Narrate: Events in Germany

Poles’ Underground May Join Russians   Exile Government Has Order Ready

TIE-UP STRANDS THOUSANDS ON STREET CORNERS   WAR PLANTS OPERATE WITH SMALL STAFFS; TRAFFIC SCRAMBLED

EARLY HANCOCK RESIDENT DIES   Andy Bingham Was Son of Township Settler

LJ. wv  VILGa Gaining In Cassino   Beachhead Situation Remains Unchanged Despite Heavy Enemy Counterdrives; Bad Weather Again Hampers Air Attacks

Nazi Force: Are Held Us At Critical Bridgehead   Americans Making New Gains Over Cassino Area

Weather Cancels Allied Air Blows Against Foe: Yanks Gain At Cassino

WARSHIPS AID YANKS REPULSE NAZI ASSAULTS   Fifth Army Scores Fresh Gains On Cassing_ Front

NEW GERMAN ASSAULT  ON ROME BEACHHEAD  HAS BEEN REPULSED AMERICAN FORCES  MADE NEW GAINS ON CASSINO BATTLEFRONT

New Assault on Storm-Swept Allied Bridgehead Halted   Americans Seeking To Cut Enemy’s Corridor to Cassino

Helped Beat Off German Assault  Below Rome   Rain, Snow, Sleet And Gales Keep Air Force Grounded; Gains In Cassino

WARGHIPS HELP AEPULSE DRIVE   Thunder Into Action on Storm-Swept Bridgehead Below Rome.   INEW GAINS AT CASSINO

Allied Front Holds; Cassino. Advance Made   Rain, Snow And Sleet Keep Air Forces On The Ground

Shells Hurled Into Foe Below Rome; Cassino  Gains by Yanks   Core of Anzio Grip Is Still Secure: Weather Remains Bad

Sea Bombardment Helps Turn Back New German Blow   Allied Bridgehead Is _  Relatively Unchanged; Americans Gain in Cassino Fiahting

TITLE CHANGE IN SITUATION BELOW ROME   Americans Make New Gains On Cassino Front   Continues To Aid Enemy; Core Of Beachhead Remains Secure

Hit Nazis From Sea, Aid Ground Troops To Repel Assault   Front Lines of Allies Hold Firm in Positions Below Rome, Americans Advance in Battle for Cassino

Thundered Into Action 1c Help Repulse Nazi Assault Yesterday.   iTHE LINES UNCHANGED   On the Cassino Front to the - East, American Forces Made New Gains.

Britain’s Warships Shell Enemy Lines; Gales Stop Airmen   American Forces Make New Gains Along Cassino Fronts. Allied Headquarters Officer Says Position Little Changed Despite Heavy German Pressure

Little Dent In Lines Made   Slight Gains On Cassino Front  Made by Allies.

Land lroops Receive Aid Allied Shins   Help Repulse Attack on Bridgehead; Lines Remain About Same

Help Repulse Heavy Attack By Germans   Front Lines Remain Little Changed Despite Pressure of Enemy

NEW GERMAN ATTACK IS STALEMATED   American Forces Make New Gains  Below Rome

Thunderous  WN ay Pa WutTare Aids  5th Troops  New German Assault on Tnvacian Baarhhbred  Thrown Back GALES SWEEP AREA Americans Lunge Ahead  in Fierce Fighting for Cassino   ‘GALES SWEEP AREA

ALLIED WARSHIPS HELP BEAT OFF GERMAN ASSAULT   BRIDGEHEAD STILL SECURE DESPITE ENEMY PRESSURE

Temperatures   Warships Thunder Into Action As Storms Ground Bombers; Bodies of Nazi Dead Piling Up

Front Lines Remain Relatively Unchanged’   Clearing Weather After Rain, Sleet, Gales Brings Hopes Allied Airpower Can Be Thrown Into Battle Again      AMERICANS GAIN IN CASSINO   Snowfall in Mountains Impedes Fighting but U. S. Troops Drive Nazis Out of Old Jail, Advance on Supply Route

Allied Front Lines Holding Beachhead Remain Unchanged   {Warships Thunder Into-Ae etion TS” es Repulse German Assaults;, Americans’ Gain At Cassino

Allies Lines Appear Secure Observer Says   Two British Crnisers Move  Close Inshore to Shell  Left Flank of Hit  Jer’s Hordes   YanksGainGround In Cassino Battle   Drive Within Mile of Germany’s Only Corridor Into City: Nazi Forts  Being Slowly Erased

Allied Position on Storm-Swept Beach Remains in Danger   Rain, Snow, Sleet anc Gales Cancel Allied Blows From Air

CHIANG DEFINES NATION'S AIMS   No Territorial Ambitions Are Sought by China — Wallace Honored at Dinner

State Dinner For Wallace   Chiangs Honor VicePresident in Brilliant Function at Chungking

Chiang Cites China’s Post War Desires   Wants Collective Security Backed By Arms; Good Neighborliness

System Of Collective Security To Keep Peace   Chiang Kai-Shek, At Brilliant Dinner For Wallace, Praises  American Friendship

Chinese Door -Will Be Open, ~ Chiang Says   Gratitude: to: U.S; Express. ‘ed. at State. Banquet: for Vice-President."

TELLS WALLACE OF PEACE AIMS AT BIG BANQUE   Vice President Joins Yanks At Play On China’s Tennis Courts

Chiang Urges a System Of Collective Security At Banquet For Wallace

Kai-Shek Entertains V.P. Wallace   Collective Security By Force If Necessary Is -Advocated

Chiang Urges Security Plan   Deeply Appreciate U. S. Aid, Wallace Told at Dinner

WORLD PEACE PLAN OFFERED BY CHIANG   Brilliant State Banquet Is Given for Wallace

CHIANG OUTLINES HIS PEAGE AINIS   Collective Security With 4 Ailies Assuming Temporary Responsibility.

Chiang Kai-Shek Seeks Sectrity   Tells Wallace China Appreciates Help .., Given by America

Chiang Kai-Shek Urges A Collective Security   China’s Aims Outlined At Brilliant Dinner for Vice President Wallace

Chiang Urges Co-Operation   Chinese Generalissimo Proposes General System Of Collective Security.

A Killed When  Trains Collide   Chicago, Burlington, Quiney Freight Train Bumps Into Passenger Train.

ALLIES WITHIN 2) MILES OF RHINE RIVER   Fighting Rages in Streets of Aachen, Germans Admit

EDITORIAL   Morals In National Finance   The American Precedents

Unconfirmed Nipponese Announcement Indicates That Powerful Task Group Has Boldly Steamed Amphibious Units Into Leyte Gulf   AREA ESTIMATED TO BE 400 MILES FROM MANILA

Landings at Suluan And Leyte Islands Reported by Tokyo   Powerful American Fleet Shelling Enemy In stallations, Broadcast Asserts. No Confirmation by Allies.

Tokyo Reports Landing Op erations in the Gulf  of Leyte TO SOUTH OF LUZON      Reported Landing Would Be Between Davao and  Manila

Japs Claim Destruction Of 51 Grounded Planes In Raid on U. S. Base

Landing Made On Leyte Isle Enemy Claims   American Forces Silent Concerning Action in Pacific

Tokyo Report Hints Landing Effected; Americans Ashore On Suluan Isle, Ntp Radio Indicate:   Leyte Gulf Invaded Two Days Ago; Enemy There Taken By Surprise; Great U.S, Fleet Is Shielding Assault

LC TTI LONE IL NO CL A I A TL DL ITD  WARNS EDITORS OF PRESS AGENTS

CONCEDE DAVIS VAGTOR AT POLLS   Louisiana Gubernatorial Nomination Slips From Moaroan

SALISBURY COVE BOY WRITES OF __ INVASION DAY   Dana Coombs Member Of LCI Crew Carrying Troops To Shore   J. D. Coombs QM 8/ USS LCI (L) 564 e/o Fleet PO  Naw VYVarke NWN

J. D. Coombs QM 8/<¢ USS LCI (L) 654 e/o Fleet PO  New York, N. Y.

F.R.CALLS FOR DRIVEON TOKYO   MARSHALLS FIGHT GOING WELL, PRESIDENT SAYS

OPERATIONS GOING WELL, FDR STATES      Complete Defeat of En- emy Called American Obiectives

STRIKERS FAIL JO HEED ORDEF   ARMY’S PRESENCE AND ROOBEVELT’S ORDER FAM TO BREAK STRIKE IN TRANSPOR_TATION SYSTEM —

PHILA. TRANSPORTATION AGAIN AT STANDSTILL  Disastrous Wildcat Stoppage oves Into Its  Fifth Day U. S. ORDER IS DEFIED

Shuttle Bombers Return to Italy From Red Bases   Raid Balkan Air Fields in Big Way

ALLIED ADVANCE IN ITALY SLOWED BY NAZI ATTACKS   Push Along 150-Mile Front Virtually Halted by Counter-Blows and Fierce Resistance.   PORT OF LIVORNO REPORTED IN FLAMES   General Clark’s Forces in One Sector Penetrate Toward Outposts of Enemy’s Gothie Line

Heart Attack Fatal To Well Known Taos Woman   Mrs. Schnieders Was Lifelong Resident of Cole County

Japan Losing, Soviet Asserts   Have Lost Initiative, Russian Paper Says

ASSOCIATED PRESS  ASKS DISMISSAL OF  GOVERNMENT'S SUIT ARGUMENT SAY CASE BOT  TOMED ON THEORY NO’  -EMRRACED IN OTIR TAW

Regaining Initiative In Belgium   Germans Held Without Gains in 24 Hours Ending Tuesday   Western Front

CHARGE VATICAN IS PRO-FASCIST   Official. Red Newspaper Publishes Attack

CATHOLICS REPLY TO RUSSIA  REDS AND NAZIS MAY MAKE SEPARATE PEACE

SOVIET HITS: ~ -ATVATICAN  ae         ATTACK MADE: ‘IN  OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER, CHARGING ‘. «SERVILITY” TOWARDS FASCISM .

Allies Drive To Approaches Of Hitler Line   Move Up After Wiping Out Southern End  Of Gustav Line; Gains Continue

Allies Mass For Big Attack On  Last Rome Line   Smash Southern End Of  German Gustav Defense

ALLIES REA HITLER LINE IN KEY SPOTS   British Eighth at Same Time Deep. ens Bridgehead Across Rapido, Gustav Line Passed

Allies Take Strategic Pignataro   Germans in Italy Routed From all Positions South Of Lire River

13 Miles of Gustav Line Wiped Out as Big Drive  Moves Ahead of Schedule

13MILE GAP TORN IN GUSTAV LINE OPENS WAY FOR DRIVE. ON NAZIS STRONGEST LINE   Adolph Hitler Line Now Last Remaining Major Fortification Before Rome. Battle of AnnihilaAton in Italy Proceeding Favorably to Allied Cause

Bitferly Defended ltalian Town Has Been Outflanked   13 Miles of Gustav Line Shattered by Yanks and French

Nazi Position Southwest of Town Turned   Troops Near Hitler Line, Last Barrier On Way to Rome.

WRIGHT WORKERS END STRIKE   Employes Back to Work Benches Following WLB Order to Take Up Dispute

yery Carried ul of Office y Soldiers   Ward Atforneys Seek Court Order

Avery Ejected From Office By Soldiers   Chief Executive Officer of Montgomery Ward Will Carry Fight to Courts—Protests Goyernment Seizvure .

Montgomery Ward U.S. Take Fight To Federal Courts   Government Granted Injunction; Firm’s Plea Pending; Avery Ejected

Judge issues Order to Restrair Ward Company   Head of Firm Is Ejected Bodily; Firm to Fight

Avery Ousted Bodily, Plans Cour { Battle  action Acked   Injunction Asked By tS. Attorney

CARRIED BODILY * FROM BUILDING   g rotesting Ward’s Officer Deposited on Sidewalk   FAST DEVELOPMENTS   Wongressman Brands Seisure ‘Highhanded and un-Amer.ican’; Probe Threatened

Avery Ejected From Office By Soldiers      Chief Executive Officer of Montgomery Ward Will Carry Fight to Courts—Protests Gov Atimewmnawt Gatwiwa

Troops Eject Montgomery Ward Leader   Avery Refuses to Co-operate With Government

Avery Ousted Bodily, Plans Court Battle   Injunction Asked By U.S. Attorney

Ward’s to Fight Federal Seizure Of Chicago Plant   Chief Executive Officer Carried From Building By Soldiers

Injunction Is Granted Against Ward AndAvery    Comes After Leader Of Huge Retail Firm Is Foreibly Ejected From Chicago Offices  CARRIED OUT BODIL) BY HUSKY SOLDIERS  Company Plans Fight That May Wind Up  Tey Syrayvenre Caurt

Both Sides in Dispute Take Legal Action   ‘You New Dealer,’ Sewell Avery Says to Attorney General

Troops Carry Avery From Ward’s Offices   First of Legal Moves Which May Put Issue Before Supreme Court Taken; Other Ranking Officials May Walk Out; Soldiers on Patrol

Mail Order Heac Forcibly Ejected By U. $. Troops   President Avery of Montgomery Ward Plans Court Action

U.S. SOLDIERS CARRY AVERY FROM OFFICE   Chief Executive of Montgomery Ward's Ejected Bodily,Borne to Elevator. Then to Sidewalk.   Attorneys Keep Vigil

Ball Bearing Plants at Gotha Also Hit Today.  FIFTH ASSAULT IN FIVE DAYS  Nazis Preparing for Another Counter-drive in Italy.

[AMERICAN BOMBERS CARRY OUT FIFTH HEAVY RAID ON NAZI AVIATION CENTERS

SERGEANT WILLIAM BAIR MISSING OVER HUNGARY   Bristol Soldier Took Part In Forty-One Missions   AWARDED THE AIR MEDAL

STAFF SGT. WM. BAIR MISSING IN ACTION   Had Completed 41 Missions and Is Recipient of Air Medal

MILLER WILL HEAD COLLECTION DRIVE      County Agent Put” _ Charge of Milkweed ~Campaian. -:

MILLER WILL HEAD COLLECTION DRIVE   County Agent Put ir Charge of Milkweed. Camoaian -

PLANES RENEW ASSAULTS ON ROBOT STANDS   500 Forts And Liberators Hit French Military Targets

Patton Army Nea Siegfried Line; Opposition Light   Large British Force Heads Off Enemy Units On Robot Coast; Londoners Feel Worst of Bomb Attack May Be Over

MANCHURIA RAID BY U.S, PLANES HITS INDUSTRIES   Japs Admit Anchan, Darien and Kwantung Areas Blasted

Report B-24's In Another Attack In Manchuria   Tokyo Report Says Super Fortresses Smash At Targets In Manchuria   CITY OF ANSHAN CENTER OF RAID

Manchuria Hit By Superforts   Industrial Targets Bombed, Tokyo Admits

ANSHAN, GREAT STEEL MAKING CENTER, BOMBED   B-29 Fleet Roars Out Of China Bases In Third Assault On Area   TOKYO ADMITS RAID   Airforce Fails To Announce Details—Believed Waiting Return Of Airmen

Steel Center {n Manchuria Gets Pasting   U. S. Superforts Heap Destruction On Anshan Center

SUPERFORTS RAID JAP INDUSTRIAL TARGET, ANSHAN, IN MANCHURIA   U. S. Air Force Having Busy Day

STEEL PLANTS: fe MANCHURIA’ ~ ARE BLASTED   INDUSTRIAL CENTERS AGAIN . VISITED BY RUGE BOMB." : . ERS—FEW DETAILS -~ REVEALED ©

Final Hour Approaches For All-Out Soviet Push  On East Prussian Border   Russian Troops Race Across Southern Estonia Toward Gulf Of Riga And Capture Over One Hundred Localities

SOVIET ARMY TAKES FORT AT OSOWIEC   OTHER TROOPS RACE ACROSS ESTONIA TOWARD RIGA

Russians Capture Biebrza Fortress   Soviets Smash Halfway Across Pocket in Baltic, Poise for Major Assault on Reich Soil

Reds Capture Osowiec, Near Prussian Line   Berlin Warns ‘Very Great Trial’ at Hand

CAPTURE OF OSOWIEC 1S MADE BY REDS   Fortress Town Only 17 Miles From German E. Prussian Border; Berlin Warns of Hazards.   Near Gulf Of Riga

LUNGE ACROSS BORDER AT TWO POINTS, SAYS GERMAN RADIO REPORT   SECRET ANTI-NAZI RADIO SAYS MOSCOW HAS CONFIRMED REPORT; EAST PRUSSIA BEING RIPPED BY SOVIET ARTILLERY SHELLS.

Troop Carrier Base Reports Mass Landing at Arnhem Airfield;  Bombing of Rhineland Continues

British Sweep 20 Miles Eastward  From Dutch Base   Approach Ruhr Valley On 40 Mile Front As “Lost” Force Hangs On. Dakota Transports Lanc Much Needed Supplies On New Airfield.

‘Red Devil’ Air Forces Holding Out Against Huge Odds; Waves Tp Transports Land Near Arnhem Area

TWO EX-LEGISLATORS GRANTED NEW TRIALS   Appeals Court Reverses -Convicfions of Byrnes and Ivanhoe on Bribe Solicitation Charges.

RATION POINTS HIGHER TODA)   Tomatoes and Fruits To New Values As Vegetables Go Off List

Point Values Up On Rationed Food   Hikes Accompany Removals From List

TOMATOES NOW 20 POINTS FOR ONE NO. 2 CAN   Many Items Removed From Ration List By New Order

BOOST POINT COST OF CANNED FRUITS   VALUE OF TOMATOES, CATSUF AND OTHER FOODS INCREASED SHARPLY.

Sharp Increase In Point Values   Applicable To Many Processed Foods Rationed

OPA Boosts Point Values   Canned, Bottled Fruits, Juices Sharnly Hiked

Foods Removed From Rafioned List By OPA On Sunday   Point Value Of Some  Boosted, Blue Tokens Cane TL rN

Point Values Up on Process Foods  Many Items Go Off Ration List Sunday

STATE GUARD AT ZALESKI CAMP   Columbus Regiment Enters Week’s Summer Training

MOISTURE IS NEEDED   Flora Says Most of Kansas Could Use‘a Good Rain

FOR REITERATED HIS STATEMENT   Says Allies Will Want Italian Peope to Choose Government.

‘PEOPLE MUST .CHOOSE   Roosevelt Says We Want Italians to Decide on Gevernment - -

Italy To Name  Its Leadership Allies Not Satisfied Until People Decide

Congress Passes @l'wo Big Public Works Veasures   Third Job-Making , Bill Is Sull Under Consideration

CONGRESS TO ACT ON PUBLIC WORKS   Legislative Machinery Tc Start $4,673,000,000 Postwar Program

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   AMERICANS SLASH HIGHWAY LINKING NANCY AND SAARBRUCKEN

ONLY SIX MILES FROM GERMAN   Yanks Slash Highway Linking Nancy and’ Saarbrucken

BANKHEAD PRICE PLAN CRITICIZED    WAGNER PREDICTS VETO OF EXTENSION BILL IF TEXTILE PROPOSAL WINS.

FDR May Veto Extension Bill  Backers Believe Amendment Ohtactinnahla

to Aid th Freeing ~ Of Austria   American and __ British - Troops Will Help ~~  Reds Rid lund > : - OFf Nezi Yoke

Jesuits Name New President Of Marquette   The Rev, Peter A. Brooks Will Succeed Father } cCarthy In Keeping With Rotation System

Bedtime Tale  The Burglar Was  Asleep, Too, But He Awoke In Time .

GRANGERS OF RICHLAND INFORMED ABOUT CHINA   History of the Country Given by W. 8. Oberholtzer   NEW MEMBER WELCOMED

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWN'   Activities ak : Interest To All In The Various  Communities  GLEANED BY SCRIBES

JAP AIRFIELD NEAR TRUK IS KNOCKED OUT   Yank Liberators Make 2000-Mile Round Trip

EY ip Airfield   te Bitess  In: Carolines Knocked Out   U. Si, Liberators “Shatter Satawan “Atoll, 150 Miles From Truk

STEADY BLOWS AT JAP BASES ARE CONTINUED   Hawaii - To - Philippines Allied Air Control By Christmas Seen

Satawan Airfield Knocked Out By U.S. Liberators   2,000-Mile Round: Trip Made By Yank Planes To Bomb Jap Outpost

Labor Maps Attack on WLB Policy   Leaders Plan to Broaden Issues When Hearings Resume Tomorrow

LABOR TO DEMAND MORE CONCESSIONS AT WLB HEARINGS   Leaders Plan To Extend Attack On Wage Policies

Spokesman for French Fighting Forces Says Reich Can Strengthen Battle Fronts Only at Expense of Vital War Production—Manpower Shortage Jeopardizing Enemy’s Budget of 70 Good Divisions in West.

10 Russian Divisions Are Thrown Into Offensive, Nazis Assert; Budapest Fighting Continues

RUSS DRIVE IS RESUMED IN HUNGARY   Nazis Admit Lines Near Lake Balaton Are Breached

German Line Is Breached Above Lake   Berlin Reports Stiff Resistance; New Drive Hinted.

NAZIS ADMIT REDS LAUNCH HEAVY ACTION   i:ngagement Mounting In Fury Along Lake Balaton

Soviets Resume Offensive in Western Hungar   More Than 100,000 Men Are Thrown Into Fight by Russians

RUSSIANS REOPEN HUNGARIAN DRIVE, HURL 10 DIVISIONS AGAINST NAZI LINE   German Defense Is  Breached By Attack

Reds Resume Hungarian Offensive:  ss «2   New Russ Drive Centered On Szekesfehervar

Centered In The Area Of Szekesfehervar Southwest Of Budapest  NAZIS PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS PUSH  250,000 German Reserves To Be Thrown In New Offensive

SAY GERMANS PLOT COUNTER BLOW IN EAS)   Fighting Fiercest Along Slovak Border In Mountains

GERMANS 10 ATTACK ON EAST FRONT   Stockholm Says German Offensive Against Reds Due

REDS RESUME OFFENSIVE IN HUNGARY   Drive Centers at Point 32 Miles From Budapest

Reds Resume ‘Balaton Drive   106,000 Men Hit  Nazis’? Hungary Line

Fifth Army Loss Tofals 23,407   3384 Americans Have Been Killed, 14,879 Wounded, 5144 Missing

Permanence of PAC Major Proposal Up For Action af Meet   Resolution Advocated By Hillman Lists Immediate CIO Tasks

Third Party Is Not Aim Of CIO-PAC   Union May Vote Permanence Of Political Action Group Today

HEIGL MACHINE   Laborites : Take“Pa Pats on Back For. Successes in Political Setups

CIO Pl: Planning To Keep PAC   ‘Labor Is Praised : For Election: Aid:

CIO to Preserve PAC in Proposals At Annual Meet   Political Action Committee Lauded for Successes in Recent Political Election

Permanence To  PAC Wanted   Appreciative Of Its Win In Election, Union Looks For Back-Slapping.

C10 Seeks Chance To Permanently Establish PAC As Part Of Workers

Chinese Forces Capture Chihshan, Japs Enter Ouiskirts OF; l cyang

BIPARTORN PEACE To DEWEY GOAL   Dulles to Meet Secretary Stettinius, Senators Vandenberg, Austin

AP, CALLAGHAN DIES AT HOME   ‘Pleaded Guilty of Graft; Was Key Witness in State’s Grand Jury tnvestigation

STROKE FATAL TO CALLAGHAN   Former State Solon Dies At His Home In Reed City

MILES CALLAGHAN (5 DEAD OF STROKE   Former Legislator, 78, Was Key Figure in State Graft Case.

RAF Bombers Carry On Sky Offensives; 53 U.S. Planes Los!   Yank Air Force’s Losses Over Reich Largést Since Spring

CELERY, LIMA BEANS AND CAULIFLOWER PUT UNDER OPA PRICE CEILINGS FIRST TIME

Drive for Airfield  on Guam   Marines, Infantrymen Ending Jap Dominion in Mariana Islands

Tinian Is Invaded by US. Forces   Apra Harbor and Airfield Cut Off on Guam by Americans; Chinese Still Hold Hengvang

New Yankee Assault In Marianas   Tinian Invaded Sunday Four Days After Landings On Cuam   PROGRESS. MADE ON BOTH ISLANDS   Keystones of Jap Defenses Being Cracked, Opening Wary For Fleet Action -

US. Marines Meet Light Opposition   Other Troops isolate Big Guam Harbor

Yanks Rapidly Ending Japan's Marianas Hold   Tinian, South Of Saipan, ~~ Invaded;-- Two. -Ferces Approach Afra Harbor

Marines Land Under Cover of Saipan Ariillery   Close In On Guam Airport and Harbor; Opposition Light

BEACHHEADS ON GUAM SECURED   Tinian Landings Disclosed Only Few Hours After They Started.   BLASTED FROM SAIPAN:

ISOLATE GUAM'S HARBOR OF APRA   NEW INVASION IN MARIANAS MEETS LIGHT RESISTANCE

U. S. Troops Invade Tinian   Yanks Close in From Two Beachheads On Guam

Americans Near End Of Struggle For Marianas  Another Island Hit Sunday With Light Opposition Reported

Yanks Invade Tinian   Marines Faced By Light Opposition; Cut Off Guam Harbor

Marines Land  On Tinian Isle   Apra Harbor Isolated By Javaders of Cuan

(Guam Airfield, Harbor Fall in Marianas Drive   Yanks Continue  Fight To Wreck Jap Domination of Key Homeland Defenses

New Invasion To Drive Japs From Marianas   Yankee Casualties On Guam Include 348  Dead, 1,500 Hurt And 119 Are Miccina

lap Domination of Marianas Islands Approaching an End   “inian Invaded, Yanks Close. in On Guam’s  Harbor, Airfield

YANKS PRESS CONQUEST OF MARIANA ISLES   77th Division Is Tak ing Part In Guam Invasion

Nip Marianas’ Grip Severed   Allied Airmen  Pound Yap,  Palau, Woleai; Jap Forces: on Mainland Pushed Around 

Troops  Land On  Tinian   Yanks Rapidly Ending Japan's Twenty-five Year Domination

SHOWDOWN BELIEVED NEAR IN NORMANDY   Yanks Invade Another Island As Japs On Guam in Squeeze

Yanks Land on Third Mariana   Tinian Invaded as Guam Battle Grows

Yankees Invade. Tinian Island, South of Saipan   Guam Airfield, Main Harbor Cut Off  By American Forces

AMERICAN MARINES AND INFANTRYMEN MOPPING UP MARIANAS   KEYSTONES OF JAPAN’S OCEAN DEFENSES BEING WIPED OUT

10 Other Ships  DamagedIn Big Pacific Battle   Results of Engagement Announced by Admiral Ni “mitz—American Losses 49 Planes—Imperial Fleet Not Involved

44 mericans Destroy Between 15 and 20. Planes and Lose 49 in Engage ~ ment Off Philippines.   CARRIER AMONG CRAFT SENT DOWN   Combat Vessels Fail to Come Together and All Nip: Losses Are Caused - by Nimitz’s Airmen.

10 Vessels Blasted Near Philippines   Enemy Breaks Off Engagement After Nichtiall. Flees

Nimitz Reveals Havoc Wrought OnEnemy Fleet   Nipponese Sea Units Broke Off Engagement in Dark,  ei otnent Mian awe

Battle Which Took Place between the Philippines and the Marianas Did not Unite Combat Ships

Jap Carrier Among Four  Known Sunk   Three Other Carriers And One Battleship Damacved in Attack   ENEMY FLEET TURNS AND FLEES WESTWARD Japs Lose 19 Vessels And 626 Aircraft Tn Defending Marianas

JAPS’ AERIAL LOSSES GROW   32 More Planes, live Ships Blasted   a ae  Tokyo Admits Rabaul Pressed

FIVE JAP SHIPS AND 32 PLANES HIT DURING OFFENSIVE  ‘SWEEPS’ IN NEW  GUINEA-AREA: :°        By FRANK ROBERTSON Initernatienal News Service.

Alhed Airmen InNew Smashes In Pacitic Area   Thirty-Two Jap Planes Are Shot Down Or Damaged In Attacks   SHIPPING IS ALSO HIT BY BOMBERS

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST FIVE: JAP VESSELS   Also Destroy or Damage Thirty-Two Enemy Planes

STATE TO COOL OFF   Heavy Frost Forecast for Northwest Kansas Tonight

COOLER AIR ON WAY   54 gay, Was Re; Registered This orning at Goodland

Top Court States Draftee Must Report for Duty  Appeal May Follow But Not Precede Induction to Army

COURT RULES ON OBJECTORS   Must Enter Service Before Appealing Status, High Tribunal Rules

HERES COURT DRAFT RULING   CLASSIFICATION PROTEST TEST AFTER INDUCTION

Objector Must Report   Can’t File Court Test Of Draft Call Until Reports

PRAISE GIVEN COP ON BEAI   Chiefs’ Chief Tells Hov Juvenile ‘Delinquency Being Checked

Cop On Beat Praised For Part In Checking Of   Juvenile Delinquency

Four Allies Will Conduct Conferences   Meeting Expected To Be Held in Semmer

U.S. Is Offering Blueprint for World Peace   Great Britain, Russia and China Will Be Asked to Discuss Outline for Svecitic Security Oracanization

Jap Positions In Burma Hit; Front Is Quiet   Patrol Inflicts Casualties Upon — One Enemy Group

Multiple Beachheads Reported Secured by Invaders   MORE TROOPS ARE “LANDED ON ISLAND   Admiral Nimitz Reports American Casualties Moderate 

Predicts U. S., British Conflict   Economic Head Thinks Nations Must Talk Terms

WARREN PLEDGES JAP PROTECTION   SAYS STATE POWERLESS TO PREVENT RETURN

7 Passengers. 2 Crewmen  Meet Death   Ship Plunges Into Mud as Tt Nears Airport at Burbank

Seven Dead in Airliner Crash   Falls When Nearing Burbank Airport

Seven Persons Dead in TWA Airliner Crash   Plane Plunges to Earth at Burbank Calif... Airnort

PLANE DIVES TO EARTH IN LANDING TRY   16 Persons Are Saved as Plane Skids into Mud

SEVEN KILLE IN CRASH OF AIRLINER   TWA Plane Hits Trees Near Burbank Airport

CALIFORNIA PLANE CRASH KILLS SEVEN   Western Airlines Plane Bound For New York. Indiana Man Killed

Seven Killed In Airlines Crash   San Diego Mayor Among Passengers Injured

ATLANTIC CHARTER NOW THREE YEARS OLD EXPECTED TO HELP IN WINNING PEACE   Entering Most Critical Period of Its Existance May Become Strong Base for Whatever Peace Organization Ie Possible _

ODT Head Warn On 4th Travel  Holiday Trips May   Holiday Trips May Lead to Discomforts, He Says in Broadcast

Kramer Whiffs Ten Browns Lead Series   Five Straight Hits Off Ted Wilks Bring 6-2 Victory Over Cards

Kramer Is Winner By 6-2 Score   Victory Swings American Leaguers Into Favorite Posttion.

Browns Blast ‘Wilks to Win  ‘Series Game   Hitless Wonders Finally Come To Life To Connect For Five Consecutive Hits In Third To take Crucial Third Game From Cards 6-3

Over-All Bond Quota Near. I:  Goal Far Away   Formation oof “Grand. mothers Clubs" Urged.

Robot Planes Sull Dropping On England   Damage In Some Localities And  Number Killed

Mi ohty Air Fleet Bombs  Ber lin Area   Other Planes Direct Attack Against Launching Zone Of Flying Bombs

British Fliers Strike Back af Nazi Germany   R. A. F. Takes to Air In Retaliation for Nazis Sending Robot Planes ot Britain

ALLIED BOMBER PLANES LAGH AT BASES IN FRANGE   Follow up Daylight Blows at Bases From Which Rocket Planes Launched   WINGED BOMBS CAUSE DAMAGE IN ENGLAND   Bombers and Fighters Range Over. Length and Breadth Of Normandy; Tempo ot Aerial Assaults Grows as Weather Clears

CALAIS   Relentless Blows Dealt Tc Area Where Robot Planes Launched   OTHER PLANES ASSIST ON WAR FRONT IN NORMANDY

German Winged Bombs Hurtle Across Channel {Into Southern England During Night; Nazis Claiming Great Destruction And Consternatior

2 DEAD, 60 HURT ~INBALTIMORE FIRE    BLAZE SWEEPS PARISH HALL OF CATHOLIC CHURCH DURING CARD PARTY.

TWO ARE KILLED IN PARISH BLAZE   Disastrous Fire Breaks Out During Card and Bingo Party

CHURCH HALL IS SWEPT BY FIRE IN BALTIMORE   At Least Two Persons Dead And Approximately 80 Injured   CROWD TRIED ESCAPE THROUGH FRONT DOOR

2 Persons Die, 60 Others Hurt In Church Fire  More Feared Dead In Blaze During Party in Baltimore

Reds Prepare Major Attack   Germans. Are: Faced With. Severe Tests’

BELIEVE REDS READY TO START ALL-OUT DRIVE   Russian Artillery Shells Suwalki Triangle in East Prussia

RED. ARMY - BELIEVED READY TO OPEN WAR'S GREATEST OF FENSWE   Drive Against Rail Center of - Lwow Hinted; Germans in Desperate Straits   TO INVOLVE WHOLE FRONT

Mightier Stroke By The Reds   Big Advance to Border of East Prussia; Nazis Put In Great Peril

Reds Ready To Throw Punch   Blows Already Staggefing, Huge New Offensive May Be Greatest Yet

Soviets Set fo Open Up Major Raid Of The War   Staggering Nazi Army Will Feel Full Weight

RUSSIANS SET FOR BIG SMASH   —— ee ee  ’ Reds Believed Striking Out At Lwow, Galati Gap in Romania

Greatest Russian Offensive Hinted   Sledgehammer Blow To Staggering Nazis

Reds Ready to Set Off Even  Greater Drive   Whole Front Expected To Be Thrown Into Violent Activity

Red Army Ready To Stage War's _ Mightiest Drive   ‘Whole Eastern Front May Break Out Into Violent Action; Lwow New Goal

Reds Ready fo Throw Mighty Force af Nazis:   Whole Front From Fat North to South to Flame With Battle,  It Is Believed

RED ARMY READY TO HURL GREATEST OFFENSIVE IN RUSSIA'S 3. YEARS OF WAR AGAINST STAGGERING GERMANS   Borders of East Prussia Are Just Ahead of Advancing Russians Who May Drive Straight Ahead Towards Warsaw and Bug River Only 40 Miles Away

Reds Believed Set to Hurl War’s Great Drive on Nazis  New Offensive Expected in Moscow to Fire Entire Front from Raltic to Galati Gap

Russians Ready To Hit Germans   FIERCE OFFENSIVE IS SHAPING UP IN BAST

Entire Red Front Is on Offensive   Most Desperate Situation of War Is Confronting the Forces of Hitler

SOVIETS SAID 16 MILES FROM BREST-LITOVSK   Russians Near Bug River, War Border; Entire Front Expected Ton Flame

POISED FOR VAST KAYO OFFENSIVE   Germans In Most Desperate Plight Since War Began

Nazis Tell of Battles Near Lwow   Other Drives Uj Under Way Place Germans-in Most Desperate Situation   PUSH ON ENTIRE FRONT EXPECTED   Unmistakeble Signs in Mos. cow of a Great New Russian Undertaking.

‘A Mighty Red Drive In Making?   Signs Indicate Russia Is Ready to Launch Greatest Offensive of War Against Germans

Greatest Red Attack Nears  Russian Army Nears Vital Brest Litovsk

Reds Poised For K. 0.; Big Offensive Looms   Moscow Hints Confirmation Of Berlin Dis patches That Drive Against Staggering Germans Already Under Way.

MAY STRIKE ALL ALONG THE FRONT   Wording of Moscow Dispatch Indicates Offensive in Southern Poland and Perhaps Toward Romania’s Galati Gan.

SOVIETS HEADY FOR BIG DRIVE?   Dispatch Suggests . Offensives in Pripyat Marshes, ‘Galati Gap Areas.   ENEMY GIVES GROUND

Ready For Gr eatest  Offensive In3 Years   Red Army Teo Set Entire East. Front In Action;  Nazis In Most Desperate Situation Of Entire War

Soviets Ready For Knockout Punch At Nazis   Germans Said To Be In Most Desperate Plight Of War

Thrust at Lwow is Indicated and Forces Are Now But 35 Miles From East  Devecin.

Red Army Prepares To Launch Biggest Drive   Sulwalki Area Shelled.

Russians Pierce Defenses of Lwow In Smashing Offensive on Germans

RUSSIA READY TO HURL EVERY FORCE IN WAR   Germans Stagger Under Impulses  Of Big Drive

Reds Ready For All-Out Against Foe   Signs Indicate Soviel Avalanche Prepares For Great Drive   Ports of Ancona and Livorno and Art Center, Florence, Menaced by Allies

Russ Forees On Verge Of All-Out Drive   Soviet Troops’ Push Toward Rail Center Of Lwow Hinted In Dispatch,   GERMANS DESPERATE

Greatest Red Offensive Is: In Prospect   May Throw Whole Front into Violent Activity; Nazis in Most Serious Situation of the War

Massive Red Drive Pierces Vital Lwow   33 More Allied Fliers Meet Death At German Hands

Biggest Drive Against Nazis Now Forming   New Russian Offensive May Be Already Started

Russians Hint Great New Drives Near   Brest-Litovsk, Lwow, Threatened By Reds

NO-STRIKE UAW ~ PLEDGE PASSED   Final Decision Left To 1,200,000 Members Of Organization

Referendum For  No-Strie Pledge   Union Convention Can't Reach Agreemen

American Victories In Pacific Cause Anxiety In Japan, Soviet Press Dispatches Have Relayed

Monty Cheerful  Over Nazi Losses   British Commander  BEsti. mates 156,000 Germans Put Out Of Action

Houston Man Kills Bride, Then Suicides   Shooting Occurs As She Helped Him Pack  Following Separation Decision

Yanks Slugging it Out For Hard Fought Gains; Capture Fortitied Towns

Counter. Attacks By ‘Enemy. Slow Down Allies Along Roer River   SEVENTH ARMY, ~ IN ALSACE, HAS MADE NEW GAIN   In Italy, Canadian Troops ' ‘Have Enlarged-. Bridge- -head Northeast .Of Faenza

FIREMAN DIES AT: FIRE   Smoke Kills One and Overcomes 10 Others in Kansas City

Eight Nazi Plane F actories, Two Airports Targets   Hundreds of Bombers Shuttle Against Defense In Europe

Germany Gets Yank Pounding   Nazi Reports Indicate Luftwaffe Battles; Baltic Coast Hit

Yanks in Sight of Capital   Germany, Poland And Austria Are Hit By Americans

Allies Blasting Heart Of Reich Air Strength   2 Airdromes in Eastern Germany Lashed by Twin Force of 3,700

2 Big U.S. Air Fleets Hits Reich   3,700 ‘Heavies’ Strike Aircraft Factories, Airdrome: In Austria, Poland

Wide Arc Cut About Berlin; Rails Pounded   Thousand of Planes Keep Up All Dav Assault

3/00 American Planes Strike ‘10 Nazi Points   Onc Fleet of 2200 Covers 1300 Miles

3700-TW0-WAY PLANE BLOW HITS NAZI PLANT ARG   Targets In Reich, Poland, Austria Rapped From Britain. Ttaly

PRE-INVASION BOMBARDMENT IS HEAVIES!   Nazi Radio Warnings Indicate U. S. Engaged In One of Biggest Sweeps.   BULLETIN

3,700 U. S. PLANES RAID NAZI PLANTS   Eight Nazi Aircraft Factories In Austria, Germany, Poland Hit

3,700 Heavy Bombers Strike Synchronized Blows   strike Syncnronizea Blows  NAZIS CLAIM 60 U.S. PLANES LOST  Poland And Austria Also Targets In Heavy Raid

TWO AIRDROMES IN LUST OF PLACES HEAVILY BOMBED   Bombers From: Britain, . Italy “Synchronized. Blows -In. Near’ Record Fleet Flying 1300 Miles. ~   RECONNAISSANCE SHOWS VERY GREAT DAMAGE   ‘MacArthur’s Forces May Invade Philippines Within Few Months Australian Minister Reveals,

Churchill Calls for Postwar World Control Councils of Great Victor Nations to Preserve Peace   Berlin Orders German Editors to Stand By for Possible Special Announcement Early Sunday

SPECIAL NEWS SLATED SUNDAY BY NAZI RADIO   Guerrilla Activities Spread Across Europe

Sunday Is Mystery For Nazis   All Nazis Warned  To Listen For Radio Announcement; Under. ground Instructed,

Su rp lus Nominees Attacked   SENATOR AUSTIN SAYS HELLER AND HURLEY LACK ‘EXPERIENCE’

FIGHT OPENED ON NOMINEES   Senator Austin Says Appointees Lack Experience And Standina.

SIDETRACKS NAMES   Congress Turns From State Department Nominees to Consider Appointees ©

Sen. Austin Opens Fight to Block Nominee Approval  Vermont Senator Says Hurley, Heller Are Not Qualified

Move Against Tojo Started   Handbill Opposing Premier Circulated Secretly in Japan.

War Chiefs Rushing Homeland Reserves Into Philippine Fight   U. S. Fighters, Torpedo boats Take Heavy Toll on Shipping; Net Tichtened on Escape Pat

Japs Send Air Reinforcements to Philippines   Fast Dwindling Homeland Reserves Being Tapped

FOURTH SUCCESSIVE ROOSEVELT REGIME TAKES OFFICE JAN. 20   ADMINISTRATION PLEDGED MOST COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM OF HISTORY

‘Four-Year Plan’ Gets Underway   President And Congress Ready For Action

Democrats Are Pledged To Fullest Program In Any Nation's History

FDR To Begin 4th Term With More Support   Big Program of War Ending and Peace Confronts President; Jobs for Returning Soldiers

Roosevelt Administration Is Pledged To History’s Most Comprehensive Plan

ROOSEVELT FACES FOURTH TERM WITH STRONGER CONGRESS READY TO BACK COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM

Program of Five Goals Outlined   Foreign Policies Await Meeting of Big Three Le: aders

Looking Ahead  With FDR   Administration Pledges Point to Most Comprehensive Program In Nation’s History

4-ALARM SIGNAL IS GIVEN CITY FARLY TODAY   Fourth in Series of Blazes in Same Area Since Yesterday

U.S. Air Ace To Hear Piqua’s Cheers Today   Entire Population Of Home Town Ready To Honor Capt. Don Gentile, Credited With Destroy-' ins 30 German Planes

Japanese Suffer Heavy Losses _  ' Chinese Still Hold Grimly to Loyang

Michigan School Boy Acquitted of Charge of Murdering His ‘Dance Date’

Filgas Acquitted Of Torch Death   Crowd Cheers Verdict Of Not Guilty

FILGAS ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE   Resumes Life of Any 16 Year Old Boy After 5 Tense Trial Days.

CHEER YOUTHS ACQUITTAL IN TORCH DEATH   Dramatic Scene Ensues When Jury Returns Verdict

YOUTH IS ACQUITTED OF ‘PETTING MURDER   Girl’s Charred Body Found ir Car Last December

Before Jury’s Verdict   Jury Fie Filgas of Murder Count   Youthful Schoolmates Mob Young Defend ant After Jury Brings in ‘Not Guilty’ Verdict

Acquittal In Torch Murder Charge Friday   16- Year-Old Youth Freed Of Blame in Death of Girl Friend

With Bases Neutralized, Enemy Subs Are Said "Relatively Ineffectual’

lowa Returning To a Peacetime Rate of Births   For Second Straight Year New Baby Crop Drops In This State

j  Infantry Forces Mov.ng Into Cherbourg, With Germans Making LastDitch Battle  i   Severe Fighting Rages In Suburbs   Trapped Garrison Given Chance to Surrender By Allied Leaders; ~ 50,000 Doomed

American Troops Engaged In Heavy Fighting In Suburban Section Of Great French Port   Inner Fortresses Assaulted; House-To-House Battles Reported; Military Area Being Blown In By Nazis Making Last-Ditch Stand

Yanks Attack Inner Forts Of Normandy Port   House-To-House Battle Rages; Germans Fight To Last Ditch

Fall of Port Appears Only Matter of Hours   Americans Battle Germans’ Last Ditch Defense in House to House Fighting in Suburbs, Tighten Land Trap

POWER DRIVE HAMMERS AT INNER DEFENSE   German Forces Given Last Chance To Give Up In Port City

Port’s Inner Fort Defenses Assaulted By Air Bombardment   U. S. Doughboys Fight From House-To-House In Outlying Portion Of City Less Than One Mile From Commercial Dock Sectors

Battling House To House In Suburbs Less Than A Mile From The Docks

AMERICAN BOYS NOW FIGHTING IN CITY’S SUBURBS   Pall of Smoke Hangs Over Big Port Where Demolition Adds To Shell Havoc

Yanks Capture Two More Cities on Western Tip of Normandy Peninsula; Destroy 80 Nazi Tanks Since D-Day

THOUSANDS OF NAZIS TRAPPED INSIDE LINES   Aliies Entering City On Three Sides Today

AMERICANS STORMING BIG PORT   Ground Forces Moving Into City, Front Report Claims

Key Inner Fortress Of Cherbourg Stormed, Fall Due   Plunging American Troops Batter Within Mile Of -Port’s Commercial Docks While House-to-House Fiaht Rages in Suburbs

Radio Broadcast Says Americans Are Already Moving Into City, But Report Is Unconfirmed—Two Key Inner Fortresses Guarding Port Stormed by Biggio Who Battle                              urbs of City.   ONE MILE FROM DOCKS

ANTICIPATE FALL OF. CHERBOURG.   : House-To-House Fighting In Suburbs Of City

American Troops Now Fighting In  Port's Suburbs      Capture Two Towns On Western Tip Of Peninsula; Attack Key Fortresses

Fall of French Port Expected In Short Time   Yankees Fight Through Suburbs In Fierce Clash

Inner Fortresses Guarding Port City Heavily Assaulted   Doughboys Supported By Strong Artillery, Air Bombardment In Staging House-To-House Battles

Bitter House-to-House Battle Raging in Streets of Big Port: Fall Seems Matter of Hours   Americans Assault’ Two Key Inner Fortresses, One Less Than Mile From Commercial Docks; _ Activity Elsewhere Confined to Patrol Work

TWO MORE CITIES TAKEN BY YANKS   Heavy Fighting Rages In Tilly Sector;   Nazis Continue Demolition Work

Drive Carries Invaders Within Mile OF Docks.   SUPREME HDQS. ALLIED EXPEDITIONAR: FORCE, June 21 (AP).—The fall of  Cherbourg appeared today to toa matter af hours.

Doughboys Reach Less Than Mile From Commercic! Docks as Other American Ground Forces Move into Great Port

Air Attacks on Jap Bases Are Stepped Un   Enemy Fighters Fail to Enter Battle

Sam Rayburn Gets Variety of Mail  Complaint Made Of “Hlegal’ Search Of

Speaker's Mail Contains Many, Varied Appeals  Rayburn Hears From Taxpavers

WAS CLOSE TO FROST   Western Kansas and Rest of State Now Warming Up

REMSEN RESIDENT BURIED SATURDAY   Mrs. Elizabeth Wilberding Dies At Age of

REMISEN RESIDENT BURIED SATURDAY   Mrs. Elizabeth Wilberding Dies At Age of 77 Veare

German Swimmers Wreck  Harbor of Antwerp With Explosives, Berlin Says

Allied Planes Smash At  Nazi Armor   Spread Death And Destruction On Fleeing Enemy

PLANES STRAFE FLEEING ENEMY   10,000 Tanks, Vehicles Smashed By Aerial Rockets

HITLER'S UNITS GIVEN POUNDING   Enemy Divisions Dealt Hard Blows from Air in Dash For the Seine

Yank Rockets Wreck Nazi Army Traffic   10.000 Tanks and Vehicles 3-Day Toll: Troop Traffic in Chaos

War Planes Spread Destruction on Fleeing Wehrmacht  Ten Thousand Nazi War Vehicles  Blasted in France

‘Take terrific  transport toll  U.S. Thunderbolt is firing rockets

Planes Take Heavy Toll of  Nazi Armor Airmen Scourge Fleeina Troops

Congress Hopes,  And Works Hard   Major Bills Between It and June 24 Recess

SOVIET FLEET DESTROYS 34 NAZI VESSELS   2-Dav Attacks Made ’ By Northern Sea Unit

Third Raid on Tokyo Accomplished Without Losses from Enemy Action

125 German Fighters Destroyed By Berlin Raiders; Americans Lost 37 Bombers. 16 Fighters; Fires Burn In Berlin   AIR OFFENSIVE IS KEPT ALIVE

Student Nurses are In Great Demand   Several Classes Open in Fall in Spite of Some Contrary Reports

British Press Condemns Censorship, Criticizes Conduct of War in India   Charge That ‘Soothing Messages, Bearing Marks  Of Emasculation,’ Cover Distressing Reverses

NEWS BAN STIRS WRITERS’ STRIKE   British Correspondents Hit At Burma Censorship

War Front News Group Protests British Censors   Correspondents Are Ril ed Over Restrictions In Burma

THYE, ALLEN WIN IN MINNESOTA   GOP Vote Twice That  of Demo-Farm-Laborite:

 Battle For Rome May End In Sacco Valley— wm EY ERIN dee Eon   Aitied Tanks Pouring Thru Gap Af Cisterna

Casualties {st, New Rail Rule  ODT Arms Lines With Aurhaeily to Cancel  eS CR. SL CEN Hien ar

TIGHTEN U. 8. RAIL TRAVEL      Broaden Cancellation Powers to Make Room fer Armed Casualties

Rail Travel Will Be Cut   Roads Given Powers For Moving Injured,

Neder Rhine Offensive  IsBroken Up   Allied Spokesman Tells Austria To Prepare For Arrival of. Troops  CAT ATS TS CADTIIRIN =.

Some German Infantry and Tanks Cross the Neder Rhine, but Had Been Spotted by British Who Sent Typhoons to Rin Nazi Forces

Canadians Take 9.J00 Enemy  War Prisoners   American Troops Rout Enemy From Key Stronghold 30 Miles Southeast of Nancy in Move Headed Toward Austria

BRITISH CHECK COUNTER ATTACK NEAR HEISSEN   Nazi Tanks And Infantry Are Ripped By RocketFiring Typhoons   BAD WEATHER STILL HANDICAPS ALLIES

UJ. $. (st and British 2d Massing Tanks for Offensive. Nazis Say

‘Counter-Thrust. of Nazi Forces Definitely - Broken BATTLE SOON WILL.  '. SPREAD TO AUSTRIA. Enemy Is Routed From Stronghold in Nancy . . Area,

Counter-Thrust of Néxi Forces Definitely Broken  BATTLE SOON WILL ‘SPREAD TO AUSTRIA  Enemy Is Routed  From ' Stronghold in Nancy: Area...

German blow haphazardly  co-ordinated Calais taken by  Canadian nite

BARUCH PLAN FOLLOWED IN “MOVES BY FDR   Two Key Appointcments Made for De* ahilizatiod Task

Post-War Plan Leaders Named   Baruch Proposal Given FDR Okeh  By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

Baruch's Postwar Plan Is Accepted   Clayton and Hines Will Head New Unit

Gets Ready To Decree Baruch Plan      PRESIDENT ACCEPTS ALMOST INTACT PROPOSALS FOR POSTWAR “ADVENTURE IN PROSPERITY” AND ASSIGNS CLAYTON.   Hines’ also in Key Job

BARUCH POST-WAR PLAN 15 ACCEPTED   TWO KEY POSTS IN DEMOBILIZATION TASK FILLED BY ADMINISTRATION.

Government Moves To Put Baruch Plan Into Effect   Brig. Gen. F. T, Hines And Will L. Clayton ‘Given Key Jobs in Theamanhilivatan Tack   PRESIDENTIAL ORDER SIGNED SATURDAY

President Fills Key Jobsin Postwar Setup   Administration Gives Acceptance to Baruch Peace Pian

KEY MEN SELECTED TO DIRECT PROGRAM   Baruch Post-war Plan Ac. cepted by Administration

Baruch Program  Accepted By FDR   Clayton And Hines Named As Key Men To Man Plans.

Administration Accepts Baruch Plan Intact   ‘American Victories Cause Jap Shakeup

Clayton, Hines Named To Start Plan of Baruch   Duties of Selling Excess War Goods, Resettling

U8, SUBS SINK 18 JAP VESSELS   BAG INCLUDES DESTROYER, A LARGE TRANSPORT AND A MEDIUM TANKER,

DanuletHian Ltt #   City Of 25,000 Population Hit Near Nazi Border

Southwest Germany Is Raided  In Force   Schaffhausen Attack Blamed On Weather

Swiss City Ts Bombed by U.S. Mistake   Accident Occurs as American Planes Strike at Germany

Southwestern Germany  Is U.S. Target   Swiss City Near Reich Border Also Is Blasted

Swiss City: Bom bed B y Mistake as Yanks. ‘Blast South Germany   At Least 36 Reported Killed and 150 ‘Inj jured as. ‘Schaffhausen: Ts Hit; “Airfields in Bremen and Hannover Wrecked

incendiaries Accidentally Dropped On German Border City of Schaffhausen by Yanks   Up To 50 Killed;  Damage Is Heavy   Navigational Difficulties Blamed as Bombers Soar Toward Targels in Gerniany

MAUL TARGETS DEEP IN REICt   Border City in Neutral Switzerland Suffers Accidental Damage

AMERICAN BOMBS HIT SWISS CITY; 30 TO a0 HILLEL   ‘Explosives Accidentally Dropped on Town Near German Border — Heavy Damage Caused,   ATTACK IS BLAMED ON NAVIGATION TROUBLE   Americans Smash Targets in Southwest Germany—-Thirteen Bombers, Four Fighters Lost.

U.S. Army Blames Weather for Accident Which Waunded 150, Caused Heavy Loss

Schaffhausen, On German Border, Is Heavily Damaged   Liberators Bombing Through Overcast Hit Wrong Side of Boundary  REPORT 36 KILLED  Incendiaries Burn Out Are: Of Five Blocks, 1,000 Left

Switzerland City Accidentally Hit With Few Bombs   Heavy Damage, Many Deaths Result Of Poor Weather For  Navigation

Better Use of U. S. Manpower for Army Advocated  House Committeemer Oppose Draft Ear 17.Yaanr-Olde

Reject Proposal That Draft Age Be Cut To 17   House. Military Committee Asks Better Utilization Of Existing Manpower

REJECTS DROP IN DRAFT AGE   “Sommittee Asks Better Use Of Present Manpower

DRAFT AGE NOT TO BE LOWERED   House Committee Refuses to Open Induction to Youths at 17

LOWER DRAFT AGE HAS OPPOSITION   Suggestion ls Made to Change Law to Get Nonfathers Up to 45 Years.

Reject Plan to Lower Draft Age   Better to Raise Age to 45 Years, May Feels

Rejects. Move fo Lower Draft: Age  _ House Body. Opposes Taking Boys:of 17. -.-

Opposition To Lowering Of Induction Age   Better Utilization of Existing Manpower Resources Is Suggested   ALTERNATIVE OUTLINED

Group Favors Drafting of ‘Over-Aged’ '   Committee Opposes Plan to Take 17-Vear-Olide

Lowering Draft Age Is Rejected   Better Utilization Of Existing Manpower Called for by House

Mest Of Armor Removed: 20.000 Men Stull At Merey Of Americans   Nazis Report Drive 40 Miles Of Paris   Allied Forees. However. Si lent On New Thrust Against Capital

NAZI ATTEMP’ TO ESCAPE TRAD REATEN   Allies Preparing Huge New Trap in West France Area

Yank Advance Perils Orleans, Tours; Nazis Fight Death Trap   Tank Spearhead Plunges 60 Miles Beyond Alencon on Argentan Highway

Allied Forces Within 29 Miles Paris Today   Germans Still Unable To Escape From Trap In Falaise Area

TAINTED SALAD MAKES 47 ILL   Lansing Emergency Hospita Facilities Are Taxed to Capacity

47 Stricken With Food Poisoning   Victims Become Ill After Lunch

B-6, C-6 GASOLINE COUPONS GOOD NOW   Normally Would Have Been Valid Friday

New Ship Joins American Navy Every Two Hour:   Knex Says National Service Act Needed To Muster Crews for Vessels

12 SHIPS JOIN NAVY EACH DAY   Knox Reveals Rate of Expansion, Thousands of Men Still Needed

12 SHIPS DAILY ADDED 10 FLEET   Rate of U. S. Commissioning Disclosed By Knox at News Chat

“Father” of Aviation Flies Constellation   ORVILLE WRIGHT TAKES CONTROLS OF HUGE PLANE FOR FEW MiNUTES

101 JAP-PLANES ARE KNOCKED. OT         “CRAFT IN’ UPFORTING  ~ MacARTHUR’S INVASION. ~

Navy Announces Details of Big Drive in Pacific   U. §. Ground Forces Continue To Advance

Yanks Close Pincers On  Jap Airtield   Nips Offer Scant Opposition To  83 Yonk Landings

J aps Lose 101 At Hollandia   Two Cargo Ships, Several. Smaller Craft Sent Down

CHINESE SUFFER “SEVERE REVERSES   Jap. Menace Is Worse Than at Any Time Since 1938

ENEMY CROSSES YELLOW RIVER TC . POSE MENACE   Emphasis Seen On Possible Drive Toward Sian, Provisional Capital

N ippon Push In Honan Biggest In Four Years “   ‘Chinese Acknowledge En emy Forces Have Crossed  Yellow River From  : Shansi Provinee

Japs Stage Greatest Assault In China Since ’38 Campaign   ‘Chungking Admits Nipponese Have Crossed Yellow River And Appear To Hold Entire Peiping-Hankow Line

Japanese Cross Yellow River to Capture Railway  Move Guiflanks Loyang. Give  ae” oe   Meve Gatflanks Leyang, Gives Japs Base for Mew Westward Brive Threafening Chungking

} Us we —PACIFIC— .  ANCIENT CITY OF LOYANG IN PERIL   Crossing Of Yellow River Threatens To Outflank Defenders   MAJOR CAMPAIGN   Nip Offensive Assumes Scope Unequalled Since  Hankew Drive

Japs Drive ls Growing   Honan Offensive Largest in China Since 1938; Japs Cross Yellow River

JAPS PRESSING STRONG DRIVE AGAINST CHINA   Enemy Crosses Yellow Rive! and Gains’ Control of © Entire Rall Line,

Major Offensive Launched in China   Japanese Drive in Honan Province Biaaest Push Since 1938 Campaign

Japanese Stage Powerful Drive In North Honan   Greatest Push Since 1938; Cross Yellow To Control Peiping-Hankow Rails

Japs Threaten Key China City   Offensive In Honan Province Biggest Push Since 1938.

Japanese Army Smashes Ahead -In China Thrus   Nips Span Yellow River; Conditions Worst Since 19328

Jap Drive in China Reaches  Railway Goal   Offensive Assumes Scope Unequalled Sinve 1938, As Chinese Cut Off

Large Force Gets Across Yellow River   Danger Greatest Since 1938—Japs  Rattered in Burma

Hap Forces Cross. The Yellow River   Apparently. Have ‘Won. Control of PeipingHankow. Rail Line to Isolate Chinese East. of Route—Nip Drive Biggest Since. 1938.

U. S. Troops Drive Within 30 Miles of Anzio Beachhead; Blockade Thrown Across Road Connecting Nazi Fronts

Crack third foe defense line in Italy  Troops 8 miles  from Terracina

Allied Warships Said Bombarding Port Of Le Harve   Parachute and Sea-Borne Forces Said Landing Near Le Havre; Naval Forces Battle Landing Craft

No Confirmation Given by Allies   Nazis Soy Allied Parctroops Landing in France and Naval Battle Raging

"Wore 7.as.iec. 0- ~anc ings Nn wer avre’ Area anc - “or nancy Jeninsu_a: S:orv  ncon-irmec

HALF A MILLION JAPS CONVERGE ON KWEILIN   60 Per Cent of Four Armies Is Conglomeration of Cut-Throats From Other Countries.

Wallace Suggests Another Bureau   Jobs Authority’ Needed, He Says

Providing Employment Will Be First Big Task At Close Of War. Asserts Vice President

Wallace Favors Establishment Of Jobs Counci   Proposes Authority to Get Full Employment Following War

Jobs Authority to Aid Economic Reconversion, IIs Wallace's Proposal

Mower Sheriff. To Retain Office   Governor Refuses To Act On Ouster Petition

BOY SLAYER FACES ‘LIFE’   Youth Who Killed Mother And Sister May Hear Sentence Today

LIFE TN PRtoON FACES FARM BUY   Officers Continue to Question Youth for Motive After  Mother, Sister Are Shot

Canadians Join With Americans  In Advance Push   German Counterthrust Is Knocked Out; Planes Demolish  Enemy Tanks

ALLIES WITHIN 100 MILES OF PARIS, FRANCE   Canadian-American Front Spreads to 100-Mile Width; Air Forces Boosting Drive

PINCERS ABOUT NAZI DEFENSES ARE TIGHTENED   Armored Forces Reported tn Le Mans; Canadians Gain Below Caen

IN MIDDLE HEA OF FRENCH LINE   Planes Knock Out 163 German Tanks; Pincers Aimed at Paris Defense

Canadians Lash Out Behind Air Barrage   Counter-Attack Costs Germans 1354 Tanks in Avranches Salient

Washington Roundup  Absence of Quorum Delays Senate Showdown on Soldier Ballot Issue

Showdown Must Wait   Lack of Quorum in Senate Put Off Vote On Service Ballot Bill

Yankees Smash Great German Counterattack   Third Army Knocks Out  Tanks, Takes Prisoners

YANK BOMBERS CRIPPLE JAPAN'S FUEL SUPPLY IN  RAID ON BORNEO  One.Siwth OF Nin

Eden Indicates Patience Running Out Over Aid To Germany by Spain

WARNING GIVEN SPAIN BY BRITAIN   EDEN INDICATES FRANCO‘ AID TO NAZ MAY LEAD TO SERIOUS TURN.

Future of Spain:  lt Won't Be Bright, Says Eden ‘If Franco Continues Aiding Nazis

Franco Given Blunt Warning By British   Displeasure Expresse at Use of Spanish Troops in Russia

EDEN WARNS FRANCO IN STRONG TERMS   Of “Serious Effect’ Which Presence Of Spanish Troops Fighting With Germans May Have.   Bombs in Oranges

RUSSIA REJECTS JAP PLAN TO PICK UP RELIEF SUPPLIES FOR U. S. PRISONERS

SOVIET FORCES SWARM ACROSS DNESTER RIVER   Germans Erect Barricades for Last Ditch Fight in Crimea

GERMANS RUSH DEFENSES AT SEVASTOPOL   Hurriedly Erect Barriers in Streets for Final Stand

Nazi Defense In Final Stand At Sevastopol   Barricades Being Erected In City Streets In Frantic Defense Effort   HEAVY CASUALTIES BEING SUFFERED

SEE CCRRELATICN SH, US. PECORVERSIORS.   Churehi!l and FDR to Discuss These Important Questions

See GURAELATON UF BRITOH, uss. RECON YERSIONS   Churchi!l and FDR to Discuss These Important Questions

CHANNEL ROBOT ATTACKS EASED   Rockets Cause Shocking - Damage To Property, Heavy Casualties

Bureaucracy Lashed By Speaker areuienncnaanaies Aantaheichniint-dailied saber  Pennsy Officer Gives Warning Of Dangers Facing Country

Bureaucracy Lashed By Speaker \Pennsy Officer Gives Warning /Of Dangers Facing Country

Senate Votes Extension of  Lend Lease   Discussion of Need For Fixed Policy on Repayment Conducted

Three-Way Assault on Siegfried’ Line Launched; Enemy Hurled From Route To Armhem Sky Army for Third Time

COFFEE QUOTA HIKED   Step Is Taken to Prevent Return to Rationing.

COMMITTEE TO ASK SMITH WHERE HE GETS. HIS FUND!   INVESTIGATING “GROUP TO BEER CONGRESSIONAL CONTEMPT ACTION UF INFOR '. (MATION REFUSED: .

Attorney Found Guilty Of Contempt of Court At Mass Sedition Trial

OURT CONTEMPT IE IS LEVELLED AINST ATTORNEY            ashinglon Lawyer, in Sedi“tion Trial.” Fotind “Guilty” By Trial Court:

New Britain Fas: Being Reduced  Allies Increase Preaccure an Island

PRESSURE STEPPEL UPON JAPS ON NEW BRITAIN   U. S. Marines Route Enemy ; Remnants in In Borgen Bay Area

ALLIED FORCES PUT PRESSURE ONNEW BRITAIN   Japs Have Lost 160 Planes in 2 Weeks of Defending Rabaul

Allied Forces Step Up South Pacific Blow:   Complete Conquest Of New Britain, Rabaul Reported Near

APPLY PRESSURE AGAINOT JAPS ON NEW BRITAIN   Rout Enemy in Borgen Bay Area, Raid Rabaul Again

PRESSURE IS INCREASED IN NEW GUINEA   Campaign to Remove 300Mile Long Island as Key Japanese Base Is Stepped Up

Pacific Pressure Being Stepped Up   ALLIED OFFENSIVES ARE LASHING OUT AT JAPS

Step Up Pressure In Jap Warfare   By Land and Air Allied Forces Start Offensive on New Britain.

Allies Step Up Blows af Japs   ‘Seek to Eliminate New Britain as Key Enemy Base

Pressure on New Britain. Stepped Up   Japanese Warships Damaged by Bombs

Step Up Raids On Jap Base   Increase Pressure In Campaign To Wipe Out Enemy On New Britain.

American Airmen’s Raids On Jap BasesIn Pacifie— Only Started; New Gains

STEPPING UP NEW BRITAIN CAMPAIGN   ' Pressure On To Remove Island As Key Jap Base

ALLIES STEP UP DRIVE TO WIPE OUT N. BRITAIN   Seek To Remove Island As Key Japanese Base In Southwest Pacific

Allied Might s Stepped Up For SW Pacific Zone   Campaign To Remove New Britain As Key Jap Base Is Goal

New Britain Doomed as Jap Base _   Allies Extend Land  Holdings As Warplanes Continue Sweeps Aimed At Neutralizing Rabaul

ALLIED FORCES ON  NEW BRITAIN STEP  UP JAP PRESSURE START CAMPAIGN TO  TAKE ISLAND STRONGHOLD FROM ENEMY

Allies Intensify  Weight of  Fury Upon Japs Sea, Air Forces Hur  Fierce Blows at Foe on New Britain

Allied Pressure Intensified With Air, Land Drives   New Britain Soon Tc Be Cleared As Jar Major Base In The South Pacific

Tank Divisions ‘Thrown Into bitter Battle   Ste Mile Drive Made by Third Army as New Assault cleainst Reich ts Launched

Pushed Forward On 60-Mile Front During Sunday   Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s American Army Grouy Launches An All-Out Frontal Attack Against German Fortifications.

Bradley Moves Against Main System As Nazis Mass at End of Wall; Patton Smashes Out Moselle Gains

Krug Takes Over as WPB Chief While Nelson is on Mission to China

Cmdr. Krug Takes Over WPB Post   Wilson Resigns After Bitter Denunciation of Donald Nelson

HOUSE PASSES REVISED FARM BENEFITS BILL   INSURANCE COVERS ALL KINDS OF CROP LOSSES

INSURANCE ON CROPS VOTED   Measure Promised in Both Party Platforms Put Through House

Santa Unloads Nation’s Presents for“‘Nubbins” at Party Yesterday

‘Real Santa Claus’ Visits Nubbins As He Enjoys Early ‘Christmas’

Army’s Newest Award . to Sgt. John White   The. Combat Infantryman '- Badge Presented to the ‘Chillicothean.

Martin Pledges Party To Build Enduring Peace   Makes Plea To Save Constitutional Gevi. At Home: Raps New Deal

‘Day. Of Reckoning At Hand’ For  Democratic Party, Chairman Martir Tells Republican Convention —

PEACE AIMS ALSO CITED BY CHAIRMAN   Tells Convention Delegates Day of Reckoning at Hand for New Deal

Bungling, Arregance Are Charged By Martin   G.O.P. Chairman At Chicago Denounces New Deal; ‘Day Of Reckoning’ At Hand

Convention Chairman Declares U. Ss. Tired of Bunoline and Fxtravacance

MARTIN STIRS CONCLAVE WITH AIMS OF PARTY   Pledges Republicans Te Building Of ‘Endur ing Peace’

Martin Pledges GOP Will Save Constitutional Government and Build Enduring Peace   Declares Party Will Restore to Congress Its Responsibilities and Promises Genuine Economy With a Simplified Tax System

GOP Will Save  Constitutional Govt. At Home   —RKEP. JOR MARTIN  Reckoning Day At Hand For New Deal, Says Con vention Chairman.

Republicans Will Free Country From New Deal, Chairman Martin Says

BUNGLING CHARGED IN MARTIN SPEECH      Congressman Denounces New Deal in Stir- . ting Talk

Joseph W. Martin Says Republicans Are to Take, Hobbles Off Business. Industry

GOP FIGHT SAID ALSO FOR DEMO EMANCIPATION   Martin Declares Opposing Party Is Prisoner Of New Dea!

Reckoning at Hand, Martin Tells GOP   Says Party Will Save Constitutional Government

Hoover to Work For GOP Victory   GOP to Save Constitutional Government at Home--Martin

Light Vote Expected In Tuesday's Primary   Estimated Total Vote About OneThird Of Party Revristrations

Wreckage of Plane Lost Jan. 26 Found With Bodies of Six   REPORT 500 NAZIS KILLED

A SEARCHING PROBE   Churchill te Investigate Assassin. tion of Lord Moyne

Weird Battle of Fort Driant Hits New Peak as Yanks, Nazis Shoot at One Another Around Corners

U.S. Heavy Cannon, Aircraft Begins Destruction of City: Battle for Fort Driant Rages

ANOTHER VICTIM OF NEW YEAR BUS MISHAP IS DEAD   Raises to Three Number of Victims of Early Morning Accident

Bitter Row Over Ward Seizure  Looms in House   Democrat Determined To-Hold Up Move For Congress Probe

Sabath Blocks Ward Inquiry   Jarge i in Chicago Will Hear  waka Phan ads

ALLIED PROCLAMATION ISSUED TO GERMANS   Elsenhower Tells People of Reich Nazi Party and Militarism Are to Be Wipned Out.

Eisenhower Speaks To Reich   Makes First Address Tc German People; Says Allies Not Oppressors.

Gain Full Control of Leyte Coast As All Units Expand Positions; Drive to Capture Burauen Road Hul

Yanks Expand Positions on All Sectors as Enemy Faces Supply Crisis; Work Starts on 2 Airfields

Supply Problem  Difficult   Capture Of San Pablo Probable. Tacloban Airfield Being Readied For Allied Use.

OLDER MEN MUST WORK OR FIGHT   Purpose of f New Ruling On — Men from 26 to 37

Draft Ordered For Men 18-37 Who Quit Jobs   Drastic Move Made to Keep Workers in War Time Production

i? Chief's Order      Hershey Decrees Reclassification To Put Men Who Quit Jobs Without Permits in Fighting Forces

26-37 Age Men Face Induction   "Work or Fight’  Mondate Swiftly Implemented by Selective Service

Apply Stricter Draft Rules on Men of 26 to 37   Urgent Need for Men in Military Service and in War Production Plants, Is Reason

BYRNES TIGHTENS DRAFT POLICY   MEN LEAVING WAR JOBS TO BE RECLASSIFIED

HEAT RELIEF IS FORECAST   Lower Temperatures Pre. ' -vailing In Dakotas, Due To Move In

AFL WILL DRAFT POLITICAL AIMS   Labor’s Suggestions to Be Offered As Planks in Party Platforms

LEWIS QUESTION BEFORE THE AFL   Executive Council Of Federation Meets In Philadelnhia.

Governor Addresses Legislators   Hickenlooper Tells Them Soldiers Must Be Given Right to Vote

Roosevelt and ~ DeRauile May Have Meeting   French Gaceral Invit_d To Washington For Important Talk

With Ernie Pyle at the Front te RS a  ay Doolittle Meets Doolittle; Son Drops In on Father ~   Tokyo Bombing Hero Has Still Another Namesake to Greet in Same 8th Air Force

Wun Lrnie Pyle at the lront  Doolittle Meets Doolittle Son Drops In on Father  pd one Or EF CRE Ass nthe   _ Tokyo Bombing Hero Has Still Another _ Namesake to Greet in Same 8th Air Force

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Doolittle Meets Doolittle: Son Drops In on Father   Tokyo Bombing Hero Has Still Another  ~ Namesake to Greet in Same 8th Air Force

Nazis Attack Finnish Isle  9 Ships Sunk, Burned As Germons Obtain "Weak Bridaehead’

Nazis Attack Finn Island ©   Nine German ‘Ships: Sunk:Or Set Afire

Enter Warsaw   Probable Offense In _ North Finland Is Re ported By German Agencies

Nazis Invade Finnish Isle. Causing War   Helsinki Says Nine German Ships Sunk in Attack

NAZIS ATTACK FINNISH ISLAND   Finns Hold Invaders in Check of Hogland Isle

Thousands Of Enemy Slain As Top Of Pocket Is Cut    Germans Suffering Enormous Losses In Men And Equipment As They Try To Break Lines

Jap Ships Sunk In Manila Area Stands At 151   U. S. Planes Drop Tons of Bombs On Cebu, Negros and Davao.

JAP SHIP TOLL RAISED TO 151   Revised Figures On Enemy Damage Given By Nimitz

November Toil Of Nip Shipping Placed At (5   Admiral Nimitz Make: Upward Revision Of  Elgures

Toll of Jap Ships Mounts   151 Sunk or Damaged In Manila Area in Past Month

Hard: Rains Cause Halt :  In Fighting Upon Leyte   “More Deadly Attacks -Planned-By Bombers

Toll Jap Ships Ar ound Manila  Stands At15]      core for Month licreased In Latest Communique: Issued by Admiral Niniitz

U0. FLIERS BAG — TRY IAP VESSEL!   Mud And Rain Brings Standstill In Battle For Levte

Toll of Jap Ships at 15]   U. S. Carrier-Plane Raids During Month  Inerenca I nesoc

Planes, Bag 151 Jap Ships At Manii:.tn November; Rains Halt 1:-yte Fighting

Wage Relentless War Against Jap Shipping   November Toll in Manila Area Is  151 Vessels Sunk  Or Damaged, Repor’

2.5 More Ship: Added to U.S Luzon Strike   Drenching Rainfall Brings Stalemate In Leyte Fighting

Japanese Lose 151 Vessels In Manila Raids   Layte Action At Standstill ln Heavy Rain

Toll of Jap Ships Sunk Reaches 151   Losses Inflicted By Carrier-Plane Raids On Manila Area This Month: Lull On Leyte

LEYTE FIGHTING AT STANDSTILL DUE TO RAINS   U. S. Fliers Based on Airfields In Philippines Blast Cebu, Negros Islands

Terrific Rains Fall On Leyte   Ground Operations Stopped; Nimitz Raises Score on Jap Shipping Sunk

ARGENTINA ENDS AXIS RELATIONS TO HIT SPY NEST   Shandons Shaky Neutrality and Backs ‘Hemisphere Solidarity

ABANDONS HER LONG-EXISTING NEUTRALITY   Ends Enemy’s Last — Diplomatic Hold in . Western Hemisphere

Chase Brownie  Ace In Fourth’   Third Inning   CARDINALS   Seventh Inning  ‘Tee? SUE ty ao   Ninth Inning  Re rma ag

Cardinals Capture World Series On 3-1 Victory   New Record for Strike-Outs in Big Classic Is Set as National Leaguers Win, Four Games to Two. by Heavy Hittina

Cards Win Title  From Browns 3-1   World Championship Captured By National Leaquers in St. Louis

Cardinals Series Champs   Temperature 60 In St. Louis: Crowd of 30.000  In Grandstands

Card Hurlers Hold Browns To 3 Hits   New Strikeout Record Set; Crowd Monday Numbers 31,360

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POTTER FAILS IN FINAL GAME   LANIER OUSTED IN 6TH INNING; WILKS HURLS TIGHT GAME

Engagement at Sea May Be Under Way   Nazi Radio Quotes Japanese Saying Pitched Battle Rages

Cancer Deaths Linked With Rural Residents   State Health Physician Deptores ‘The Faihice Of Ruri Residents Po Go To Hospitals

Farm Census Soon Will Start Survey Made Every Five Years To Revise Farm Statistics

Farm Census Soon Will Start  Farm Census Soon Will Start   Survey Made Every Five Years To Revise Farm Statistic:

Second Assault Is Executed By Carrier Planes   Halsey-Mitscher Fleet Again Chalks Up Big Score

Japs Demand Filipinos Rise,  Crush Yankees   Several Central Cities In Islands Damaged Says Domei Broadcast: No Allied Confirmation

Wm. Darland Killed in Action With 3rd Army   Donald -Cokain Bettondl Injured;

Smug Secrecy Marks World Money Parley  No Decisions Daerah Duhkise

Money Parley Delegates Confident   Convinced U. S. ls Seeking Way to

President Assures War Dads U. S. Will Not Fail Them On Home Front

ALLIED HEAVY BOMBERS HIT STRONG BLOWS   Raid Bases In Romania And Yugoslavia Capital And Nis Rail  Junction

Planes Blast Ploesti Field   Belgrade, Nis Rail Keys Alen Indergn. Attacke

PLOESTI OIL CENTER UNDER BOMB RAID   Fortresses and Liberators Fly 600 Miles to Reach Target; Run into Nazi Opposition.   Expect New Strike

PLOESTI GETS PASTING FROM UI. §. BOMBERS   ITALIAN BASES USED TO HIT RAILWAYS AND OIL CENTER

Allies Resume Bombing Raids On Nazi Europe   Americans Blast Big Oil Center

Objectives In Balkans Under Fire   Le ott itis? AAuck on  , Europe Resumed With  Ploesti Suffering Another Blow

B.H.S. BAND IN FREE CONCERT   “Musical At Auditoriam — Sunday P.M. At 4 O’clock

NAZIS ABANDON ATLANTIC. WALL   Full Scale Evacuation Of Southern France Reported Under Way

ATLANTIC WALL ABANDONED BY ALL BUT AGED   Nazi Fortifications Outflanked te North by Swift Progress of Americans Through Brittany

Southwestern France Being Evacuated  By Germans   Over 100 Miles Of Vaunted Atlantic  Wall Manned Only By-Few Old Nazis

‘Nazi Troops Evacuate Outflanked Wall. Defenses Spain to Bordeaux

German Atlantic Wall In’ Southwest France Being — Abandoned,Reports Claim

Nazis Said To Be Quitting France At Spanish Border   Troops Withdrawn Toward Bordeaux, Rhone Valley

Spain Says Nazis Quitting South France   Only Token Force Holds Coast, Is Report

Nazis Fleeing Coast Forts, French Aver   U.S. Drive Toward Paris Rapidly Outflanking Atlanlic Wall

ONCE-VAUNTED WALL ABANDONED BY NAZIS   Germans Believed Giving Ur Southwestern France

Once-Vaunted Atlantic Wall Is Crumbling   Large Section Running Through Bordeaux Is Manned Only By Low Grade Troops

VAUNTED HITLER WALL DESERTED   Virtually Abandoned For More Than 100 Miles From Spain

REDS 37 MILES FROM KRAKOW, VITAL BASTION   Russian Forces Reach Points 30 Miles West of Vistula River Line   Report Nazis Abandoning Southwestern France

NAZIS ABANDON ATLANTIC WALL      Leave Only Light Guard Uni to Watch Frontier

NEW VICTORY ‘REVEALED IN PALAU GROUR   f MARINES CAPTURE NEW BASES ON ISLES NEAR PHILIP.’ PINES DURING TWO-. DAY CAMPAIGN

Americans Take Three More Isles In Palau Group; Japs On Peleliu Fight Bitterly

‘Labor Draft Proposal Hit By Green —   AFL Chief Urges Stabilization Of Living Costs

Japan Admits Bridgehead On Saipan Being Widened, ‘Claims U. S. Vessels Sunk

Soviet Charges Spain Aids Nazis   Soviet Information Bulletin Charges Spanish Forces Still Fighting

MERCURY HITS 100 AT CHICAGE   Cooler Stretch ‘Ahead For Republicans At Stewing Stadium

Rumors Of New Nazi Program   May Indicate That Hitler Sees ‘‘Handwriting On Wall’’ For Germany

Hitler May Need Schacht to  Secure Easier Peace Term:   BY PIERRE J. HU SS.  So 5. eee

Reds Advance Within Forty Miles Odess:   Capture Black Sea Port of Ochakov; Drive Toward Hungarian Border Pressed

96-Plane Loss Is Heaviest of  War For Allies   Reds Move Within Fifteen Miles of Czechoslovakia— Kill 2.000 Nazis

Openings for Litigation in Future Closed   Decision Regarding Democratic Electors Is Unanimous One

NEW DEAL LABOR POLICIES UNJUST, SAYS GOV. GREEN ASSERTS WORKING MEN AND WOMEN HAVE BEEN  11QACR TA RAIN VATCS

De Gaulle Asserts French Loyalty to Allied Commands  Expresses ‘Complete Confidenc: in Fiseshewer. Wiser. Savs

DE GAULLE STATEMENT   Complete Confidence, in Inter-Allied Commands Expressed

Trusts Allied War Leaders   But DeGaulle Declares French Needed to Help Maintain Future Peace

WESTERN GERMANY RAIDED BY AIRMEN   ‘Many Tons of Explosives  Dropped During  Day

Soviets Lavish in Praise  Of Churchill-Stalin Talks   Mikolaiezyk to Return.

Agreement on Pole, Balkan — Question Nearer As Stalin,   Churchill End Conference

British-Russian Parley Ends   Accord Reached In Settling Polish and Military Situations.

Moscow Parley Ends   Soviet Press Lavish In Praise of Good Resulting from Meetings: U. S. in! Accord -

Russian PressLauds Meetings Held At Moscow   Reds Assert Road Appears Clear Toward Framing Of Firm, Hard Peace

CHURCHILL TALKS WITH STALIN IN MOSCOW FINISHED   REPORT PROGRESS IN IRONING OUT POLISH AND BALKAN PROBLEMS

Soviet Press  Lauds Parley   Much Good Derived From Churchill and Stalin Discussions

Moscow Sees — Way Clear to a Firm Peace   Russian Press Praises Nego. tiations Carried On py Stalin, Churchill   ALL DIFFERENCES ARE NOT SOLVED   But ‘a Common Language’ Is Found for Difficult Polish Problem

ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN ROAD MUCH CLEARER   Churchill-Stalin Meetings Prove Successful

Churchill, Stalin Making Progress   Harriman Home to Confer with F. D. R.

Moscow Press Lauds Churchill Stalin Meeting  Sees Road Clearer Toward Peace And  Diuwenciww (0b Lecce wee

WAR AGAINST JAPS LEADING QUEBEC TOPI   Allied Super - Command Headed By American Due In Pacific

Roosevelt and Churchill Map War in Pacific   American Will Lead New Alliec Joint Campaign

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL MAT PACIFIC WAR   Leaders Getting Down To Business

American To Head Super-Command In War Against Japs   Quebec Talks Consider Asiatic Strategy, Lend-Lease Aid

DIFFER SHARPLY N VIEWPOINTS A FACE CONCLAVE   Question Retaining NonPolitical Functions of League of Nations

RUSSIANS WANT ALL EFFORTS > CENTERED ON POSTWAR: PEACE   SOVIET REPRESENTATIVES OP‘POSED TO NON-POLITICAL ACTIVITIES BY INTERNATIONAL ORGANI .¢. 1 ZATION

14 BILLION ARMY OAVING REPORTED   HOUSE TOLD WAR OFFICE WILL RETURN MONEY TO BUDGET BUREAU RESERVE,

New 14 Billion ‘Kickback’ Announced  By War Dept.   Raises to 27 Billion Amount Department Expects To Return To Budget Bureau  PRICE REDUCTIONS MAKE MOST SAVINGS

ARMY SAVES $27 BILLION   New “Kickback” of Over $14 Billion to Go to Budget Bureau Reserve

Large Superfort Formation Rains Bombs on Vast Plane Plants of Japs at Nagoya

Super-Forts Hit Third Largest City in Japan   Atiack, Is Centered — On: ‘Airplane: Factory; Mission Called Success

Of Japan, Centering Attack on Largest Airplane Factory; Fires Explosions.   Move Underground

B-29 RAIDERS SET FIRES IN NAGOYA RAID   Plane Factory is Main Target; Gains Made North of Ormoc

Strong Force Of B-29’s Hit Nagoya Plant   Attack Centered on Big Aircraft Factory; ‘Forts’ May Have Numbered 100

IMPORTANT WAR CENTER BLASTED   Attack Centers on. Nagoya’s Large Plane Factory   NUMEROUS FIRES   Interception, Ack-ack Fire Prove Ineffective; No Forts Reported Lost

NAGOYA BOMBED BY SUPERFORTS; FIRES STARTED   Attack Centers on Huge Hatsudoki Aircraft Plant and Many Explosives Smash Target.   DAMAGE EXTENSIVE, AMERICANS REPORT   About 80 Sky Giants Take Part in Raid on Japan’s Third Largest City— None ‘Lost,

Japanese City Is — Blasted By Airmer   Nagoya, Important Industrial Center, Hit by Large Numbers of Superfartresses—Large Fires Started by Airmen

19 DIE AS TWO PLANES COLLIDE   BOMBERS CRASH AND Ex:  PLODE SHORTLY AFTER TAKING OFF FROM BASE,

Tucson Bomber Collision Kills 19  Lives of All Aboa rd   Lives of All Aboard  Two Liberators Lost

Quick Victory Seen by Jones   Secretary Urges Business Prepare Immediately

Sec. Jones Sees Postwar Dangers   Fears Concentration Of Wealth and Power

Sec. Jones Urges Preparation for Reconversion   Suggests That Victory May Come Suddenly With Plans Incomplete

Secretary Jones Voices Concern   Urges Preparations for Reconversion

Reported Officially to Be Increasing; Hitler and Gestapo Leaders Won't Give Up without Fight.   Massacre Jews

Nazi Terror Raids Spread  Entire Towns Wiped   Entire Towns Wiped Out in Reprisal Move

cn ;  ° “st a tomer Rage OF ide om. bon, J—  ryewe * we se ~~ > o ye ve ae TA ow 338)   ~Ont on .771cla_ 3e. leves “agis -g “Nrecx suroje

/German Reign of Terror’ Throughout Occupied . . y ~ Europe Reported to Be Increasine in Savaecry

Reign of Terror Reported from Occupied Europe   Germans Threaten Bloody Reprisals

Nazis Feared Loosing Reign Of Blood, Ruin   Hitlerite Savagery Swells Mad Frenzy of Failure  ESS cecal Mine: SW creinerces:

GERMANS BEGIN REIGN OF TERROR IN SEIZED AREAL   Increase Savagery as_ Reverses in War Pile Up— Hull Promises Punishment of Perpetrators.   JEWS IN HUNGARY BEING MASSACRED   Authorities in Washington Suggest Enemy Is Moving Into Period of Blood Lust and Ruin,

Nazis Mix Terror Threats With Plea For Softer Peace  Massacre of Greeks, Jews Accompanies

German Reign of Terror’ 1 hroughout Occupied Europe Reccsted to Be fam in’ Savagery

NEW TERROR REIGN BY NAZIS REPORTED   Savagery Grows in Occupied Areas as Day of Defeat Nears

Nazi Reign Of Terror  Increases In Savagery  As Enemy Sees Defeat

Nazis !n Mad Frenzy Of Failure Start New Savagery ... Europe Faces Darkest Hour

Savagery Of Nazis Increases   Liberation of Europe May Prove Its Darkest Hour.

“Ickes Denounces “Race Mongers”   Claims Jap-Americans  Entitled To Release

ee. Gee, ey oe Me ae Oe ieee Sa Rete  INCREASE. IN OHIO DEATHS ~ BLAMED ON WAR: CONDITIONS   “WAR NERVES” AND ‘FASTER : TEMPO OF LIVING. HELD RESPONSIBLE, FOR HIGHER - 'MORTAUITY RATE.‘ -

New U. S. Blows Batter Enemy Bases in Pacific   Army, Navy Bombers Blast Jap-Held Atolls Flanking Truk

DEWEY IS NOW AT DES MOINES   OPENS - ‘CONFERENCES. WITH PARTY LEADERS REGARDANG “CORN BELT™ ~~ CAMPAIGN

DEWEY GREETED IN CORN BELT   Candidate Seeking T Pave Way For Clean Sweep Of Mid-West

G. E. Rhoads Is Bound Over To Grand Jury   Suspended Saturday When - Charged With Intimidating Witnesses

Rhoades Held for Grand Jury Action  Another Chapter in Ottumwa Payoff Case

ogg On seg the Attach!  - WITH WAR BONDS  .- 6° -&: & 6. 2 6:2 6-83" 6 8-5   HELD TO JURY

O’LearySays UMW Backs Gov. Dewey   INTERNATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT DECLARES FOR CANDIDATE WHO PROMISES TO BE FAIR TO LABOR.   Roosevelt Against Labor

ip s.Grip nChinaSea 5 Loosen ed   hattering Blow Strack By U. S. Navy Speeds Day of Doom For Jap Forces In  ook. Fane me

Deweys Go To Church. Then Rest   WORSHIP AT ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN ALBANY A VESTRYMAN.   Resume Work Today

Glowing Masses Of Stee Mill Wreckage Are Left Ir Wake Of Raid On Japar

Heavy Antiairerait Gunnery And Night Fighters Failed To Stop Super-Fortresses

Neporter's Eyewitness Account OnThird Bomber Graphically Tells Of Destruction To Pittsburoh Of Tanan

Great Masses Of Wreckage Left In Japan By B-29’s  Eyewitness Says Raid Executed To Nips’ Amazement

American Sky Behemoths Showered Devastation on Yawata Steel Mills; Previous Raid by B-29’s Disclosed

SUPER-FORTS LEFT COKE OVENS AND FURNACES OF STEEL MILLS IN RUINS. EYEWITNESS TELLS

Huge B-29’s Met Heavy A-A Fire and Night Fighters But Poured Tons of Bombs On Vital Steel Millsof, Japan's ‘Pittsburgh’

Tons of Bombs Smash Target  Eyewitness Describe: Blow at Heart of . jJananese Industry

JAPS RECEIVE SURPRISE FROM B-29’S ATTACK   Heavy Damages Wrought; Tokyo Main Target

Yawata Mills Left, In Ruins By Fortresses   Roy Porter Says Japs Were Completely Amazed By B.29 Smash-Raid

WITNESS DESCRIBES NIGHT RAID   ‘Enemy Is Caught By Surprise’ In Blow At Steel Center

SUPER-BOMBERS  WRECK YAWATA  STEEL FURNACES GREAT BOMB LOADS  FALL ON JAPAN’S MAIN WAR INDUSTRY

‘Super-Fortress Raid on Japan Left Mass Wreckage   Imper? ‘ Sieei and Iron Works at Yawata Cy: island of Kyushu {s Bomt. 4

RUSSIAN-POLISH DIFFICULTIES MAY SMOOTH OUT   Small, But Hopeful, Start Toward Patching Up Troubles Appears Today—Diplomatic Quarters Optimistic

Russia and  ~ Poles Head  For Peace   Hopeful Start at Solving OF Differences Made in London

Pole Move Stirs Hope   Change Voted in Exile Government Setup Seen As Overture to Russia

IMPROVEMENT IN SOVIET-POLISH RELATIONS SEEN   Two Nations Believed Nearer Agreement

Reds. Poles  At Agreement   Diplomatic Quarters More Optimistic About Closing Breach.

Border Dispute Accord Brightens  Russia and Poland Mav Get Teaether

RUSSTAN-POLISH ACCORD NEARER   Breach Between Governments May Be Closed by New Negotiations

Reds, Poles Seek Accord   Make Small But Hopeful Start on Patching Up Quarrel

RUSSO-POLISH DISPUTE NEAR ADJUSTMENT   Diplomatic Quarters In Washington Optimistic About Closing Breach  In United Nations   RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED

New Approach Made By Poles  Toward Russia   Ask Position of Successor To President Be Separated From Command. er of Armed Forces

SMALL STEP TAKEN IN TRY TO ADJUST POLES, REDS. RIFT   Diplomatic Quarters in Wash ington More Optimistic About Settlement

Purchase of E Bonds Urged   Individuals Asked To Achieve Quota As Soon as Possible

Buyers of E Bonds Get Free  Seat to “Thousands Cheer”  _ Corter County Has $1,000,000 to Go to Reach Ouota in Fourth War Loon Drive

Guam’s Defenses Vanishing Under U.S. Naval Blows   Jap Air Power On island Fails To Lend a Hand; -Truk Neutralized

JAP GUAM. DEFENSES CRUMBLE UNDER U. 8, TASK FORCE ATTACKS      Mitscher’s Carrier Planes Hit Former,U. S. Base Ten . Straight Days   YAP. WOLEAI. ARE BOMBED!

Japs on Guam Reel “Under 10-Day Rain «Of Navy Explosives   Destroyer Sinks Transport Ship; Enemy Position Seems Hopeless; Bypassed Truk Takes New Blaws

Senators Lash Farm Group Aim   ASSOCIATED FARMERS SCORED BY COMMITTEE ON LABOR PRACTICES

DEWEY URGES LONGER HOURS ATN. Y, POLLS   State Legislature In Special Session To Consider Voting Hours

Netice to All Transport Gas Ration Holders and Commercial Vehicles

NOTICE TO ALL TRANSPORT GAS RATION HOLDERS—TRUCKS AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLES

Wilhelmshaven Blasted By RAF   Hit Targets From Ruhr Valley To North Sea

BOMBERS MAUL WILHELMSHAVEN   22,000 Tons of Explosives Hit Reich in 48 Hours

Wilhelmshaven Fired In Great RAF Attack   Assault Carries Forward 48-Hour Raids In Which 22,000 Tons Of Bombs Fall

AFL Brings Out 1942 Statement By MacArthur   General Is Quoted As Praising Labor

Bomb-Blinded Briton Had Muc! To Do With Sinking of Tirpitz   RAF Armament Director and His Experts Figured Out New Type of Explosive and Bomb for Just Such Purpose

Indicate Displeasure at Being Left Out of U. S.British Decisions

Paper Gives Red Stand on Italy   Sought Equal Basis With U. S.. Britain

Navy Subs Sink 12 More Jap Shins in Pacific   Seek to Outflank Enemy Bases by Starvation Blockade

Sinkings Ate Disclosed by Navy Secretary Knox   TALKS ON BATTLES IN THE MARSHALLS   Official Tells With Enthusiasm of Pacific - Proaress

NAVY DESTROYS 12 JAP VESSELS   Secretary Knox Reveals New Submarine Blows In Pacific War

U5. SUBS SINK 12 JAP VESSELS   SUBMERSIBLES HAVE SENT DOWN OR DAMAGED 584 NIP SHIPS TO DATE.

More Forward   Knox Announces 12 Jap Ships Sent To Bottom Ev Submarines

Teamwork Pleases Knox: 12 Jap Ships Sunk by Submarines Many Nips Doomed to Starvation

U.S. U-Boats Sink 12 Jap Vessels   Knox Enthusiastic About Progress of War in Pacific

Germans Seen Destroying Installations   Enemy Defenses Are Being Wrecked by Invasion Troops

Nazi Attempt To Leave Cherbourg By Sea Smashed   City Covered By Pall Of Smoke As Germans Destroy Installations And Americans Continue Bombing Attacks

Yanks Close In For Kill Today;  Nazis Evacuate   Key Nazi Techniciana Seek To Flee, But Ships Sunk; Smoka Covers City

[ROOPS REACH OUTSKIRTS OF DOOMED CITY   GERMAN ATTEMPT TO FLEE BY SEA SMASHED

Yanks Troops Close In For Final Assault   Cherbourg Almost Blotted From View By Black Smoke Pall Says Bulletin.  STOP NAZIS ESCAPE

DRIVE 10 o0UTH FRINGE OF GIT)   Germans Destroy Installations Inside Cherbourg   SMOKE COVERS CITY   British Naval Forces Thwart German Attempt to Escape by Sea

One Column Less Than 1,000 Yards From Port — Germans Lay Down Murderous Crossfire From Their Entrenchments— Five Nazi Ships Sunk by British Naval Forces While Trying to Escape.

CITY BLOTTED OUT BY SMOKE FROMBIGFIRES   Germans Destroying Installations as Attackers Advance

Nazis Blowing Uy Installations As Troops Close In   Nazis Slay Many Frenchmen In Bloody War On Sabolage

Nazi Bastion Within Grasp  Of Americans   Deep Wedge in Cracked German Lines Being Steadily Expanded by Yanks   Infantry Fights Through Ravines   Four Bomb-Dazed Germans Found Alive in Pile of Dead on Oat skirts of City

Black Smoke Pall Covers Port Center; Bombs Used   ~ Germans Destroying; City’s Limits Neared

Drive Close to City Limits of Cherbourg In New Penetrations   Fight Through Well-Defended Ravines, Plateaus And Break Concrete Barrier; Black Smoke Pall Covers City as Germans Destroy Installations There

Yanks Less Than Mile From City as Nazis Try To Destroy Installations      British Torpedo Boats Sink Five Nazi Ships Allempting to Evacuate, Sroans From Beleasuered Seaport

American Shock Troops 1000 Yards From City Limits See  Nlavie Dyectraving Inctallatiane

Black Pall Hangs Over Port: U.S. Troops Advance   Yanks Within 1,000 Yards of Southern Limits of Vital City

Drive Within 1,000 Yards Of Boundary   City’s Residents Hiding In Cellars  As Germans Destroy Installations

Temperatures   Nazis Destroy Installations  In Cherbourg   American Shock Troops Drive 1000 Yard: From City’s Southern Limits; _ Pall of Black Smoke Blankets Target

American Shock Troops At Edge Of Prize Port   Germans Destroy Installations, Blow Up Ammunition Dumps

Americans Steadily Expand Their Deep Wedge in Cracked German Lines; Doughboys Fight Through Nazi Defenses

Troops Thought Already Within  Port Boundaries   French Inside City Hide Wines, Champaign While Awaiting Allies Triumphant Entry

FIGHT TO DEATH ORDER OBEYED BY NAZI FORCES   Black Smoke Pall Hangs Over Doomed City

Shock Troops Less Than Two Miles From Heart Of City   French Save Wine To Cheer Y Victory   German Defenses Being Toppled One By One In Savage Battle

Yanks 1,000 Yards From Port City  Observers See Nazis P.s..... 8. B82 Be se

Troops Close For Kill In Cherbourg  Observers See Nazis Attempting to

Troops Close For Kill In Cherbourg   Observers See Nazis Attempting to Destroy Installations

AMERICANS 1000 YARDS FROM CITY   Heavy Pall Of Smoke @ Hangs Over Big French Port

OOK TROOPS Hon} TOWARD HEART OF GIT   Can See Germans Destroying Installations, Blowing Up Ammunition,

NAZIS BLOW UP INSTALLATIONS ; VICTORY NEARER   Yanks Slash Through Defenses For Final Kill—Germans Fight on

QUARANTINES CHANGED BY ‘AN IOWA LAW   Revise Isolation Time in 3 Cases.

Ask Flag Display In City Monday For Bond Drive  Carroll Workers Requestia , aR A AA ee 2 Py, Se ee

Ask Flag Display In City Monday For Bond Drive   Carroll Workers Requested to Attend County Bond Meeting at Elks

Allies Link 60-Mile Front   Liberating Armies Capture Isigny, Ste. Croix, Battle Fiercely for Carentan, Germans Admit Caen-Bayeux Setbacks, Report Tank Battles

FINNS WOULD LEARN SOVIET PEACE TERMS   Parliamentary Group Action Indi cates Helsinki Has Not Contacted Moscow.

Finns Willing To learn Soviet Terms of Peace  ome Ug   Extensive Diplomatic Activity Reported In Helsinki

Finns agitate for Russian peace terms   War discussion sweeps country

Finns Study Peace Action   May Request Russia Terms For Armistice

 Murder Trial of Prominent Lawyer Opens; Charge He Eletrocuted Son

Trial of Prominent Lawyer Accused Of Slaying Infant Son Begins Today

PROGRESS BEING MADE IN RED BORDER DISPUTE  Soviet Papers Review Boundary  Controversy and Print New Map

CRASH OCCURS NEAR GATE OF KINGMAN BASE   Victims Were Returning From Night Gunnery Practice When Struck 

27 Killed As Train Hits Cadets’ Bus   Eight Others Hurt in Accident at Gates of Kingman Camp

1 Air Cadets Die in Crash   Freight Train Plunges Into Loaded Bus at Air Base Entrance ©

TRAIN-BUS  CRASH KILLS ZICADETS   Air Students “Victims of Arizona Accident. 

25 AIR CADETS KILLED, 8 INJURED   Tragedy Occurs At Entrance To Kingman Air Base

Freight Hits Big Army Bus   Tragedy Occurs Near Main Gate of Arizona Air Base

26 Men Die In Collision On Crossing   Airy Cadets Victims 01 Crash in Arizona—Several  Others Are Injured

26 Men Die In Bus-Train Crash   Freight Ploughs Into Army Bus In Arizona

BIGGEST AIR BLOW OF WAR   British-Based Craft Strike Reich Capital and Airfields Around Paris— Planes From Italy Ge  Intn Aneotria

Berlin, Vienna, Paris Blasted   Bombers From Britain and Italy Pound Axis Targets From Channel to Alps; Nazis Admit Heavy Damage: U.S. Losses Light

HOUSANDS OF PLANES ATTACK ERLIN, VIENNA, OTHER TARGETS N EUROPE IN AIR OFFENSIVE

NAZIDOM ROCKS UNDER AWESOME AERIAL ATTACKS  FORCE OF AROUND 6000 PLANES FILL

Drop Bombs On Military’ Targets   French ‘Coast Hit  a: Vienna, Paris and by Allies   GREAT AERIAL ASSAULT   American Bombers from Italy Soar Across Alps To Front

The War Today   Hitler Playing for Psychological Victory at ‘Anzio Beachhead

WAR TODAY   Hitler Seeks Victory Over Allies South Of Rome For Moral Effect Ou Satellites

BEACHHEAD Bai TLE BELOW ROME IS IMPORTANT, BUT IN NO WAY CAN BE CONSIDERED DECISIVE

The War Today  Beachhead Struggle May Be One Of Sensational Ones Of War.

Major Blow For Luzon is Indicated   Being Softened Up By Air Attacks for Ultimate  Invasion

ANILA RAID OLL 14 SHIPS 68 PLANES   Pincers Drive Aimed at Ormoc

Germans Driven Back Toward Own Borders   First French Army Joins In Assault Against Nazis

U. S. Offensive Smashes Forward   EISENHOWER’S FORCES IN NEW DRIVES ON GERMANS

ALLIES SWIASH FORWARD ALONG MOST FRONTS   Winter Offensive Opened With  Great Success

First French Army Smashes Forward On 25-Mile Front Within 11 Miles Of Belfort in Historic Gap to Rhine

EISENHOWER BACK; INSPECTS. TROOPS   Pre-Invasion Tempo Quickens in Great Britain

GEN. EISENHOWER INSPECTS TROOPS   INVASION COMMANDER MAKES QUICK SWING THROUGH . ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

Speculation On Invasion Mounts   _ Eisenhower Ends Quick Inspection

NAZI INVASION JITTERS GROW   Axis Radio Declares Alliec Attack Near; Eisenhower Ends Inspection

Foul Weather Over Straits For Past Six Days Breaks; Eisenhower Returns to Supreme Headquarters

Extend Polio  Quarantine All Milwaukee County Under Restrictions

MILWAUKEE COUNTY UNDER QUARANTINE   Restrictions on Youngsters Decreed in Other Communities.

ALLIES DEAL NEW BLOWS TO JAPANESE ON TWO WAR FRONTS   Americans Steadily Closing Pincers Attack On Hollandia Air Base On  New Guinea.

Hungarian Capital Hit By British Last Nicht   Steel. Works,’ Plants And Lines Battered

AIK ATTACKS ON HUNGARY CONTINUING   RAF Takes Up Task Where  U. S. Planes Left Off and  Raids City of Budapest at Wight.

Saheneneenneenenmentiel SL LT  SS Capital Dealt Biouic] Blow.  British Bomb Budapest Few Hours After Heavy U. S. Raid On The City

Budapest Hit By British  Assault Follows Up   Assault Follows Up Day Raid By U. S.

ROMANIAN CAPITAL'S FIRST RAID   Follows Budapest Raid And RAF Night Assault

Russian Drive Fast Engulfing Balkan State:   Red Troops At Gateway To Hungary; 183,310 » Germans Killed

New Ally  Blow at Budapest   Blows Aimed at Rail Lines Where Nazis Try Fuel Transport

Night Attack On Budapest Follows U.S. Day Assault   Steel Works, Armament Factories, Railroads Objectives Of British Heavy Bombers

Budapest Blasted In Support Of Red Drive   Steel, Arms Factories, And Railroads In Hungarian Capital Battered By R.A.F. As Russians Surge Into Balkans.

Bombers Turn On Bucharest   Rumanian Capital Hit Following Smashing Attacks on Budapest

RAIN BOMBS ON BUDAPEST AGAIN   SMASH AT STEEL WORKS, FACTORIES AND RAILROAD YARDS

R. A. F. HITS BUDAPEST   Follows Up Daylight Attack by Yank Bombers  BW Re eR

Hits ; Cai ar   Raid Pelton pilots Sasha : Double Attack on Budapest .  M ANY F IRES - SEEN  Steel’ W “orks, s,_ Atmmaihent   Steel’ Works, ° Armament Factories and Rail Yards Blasted

Budapest Blasted in Two Air Raids   Night Aftack Follows Monday's Smash

Allies 50 Mi. in S. France; Nazis Flee Toward Rhone   Mritish on High Ground See  Nazi Troops Wiped Out

NAZIS NOW FEAR SOVIET OFFENSIVE WILL DECIDE WA   Germans May Abandon PoJand, Rumania, Finland ond Bulaaria

Foe May Flee Seized Lands   Nazis Consider Giving Up Conquered Areas; Russians Hold Fate

Russ Offensive  Can Turn War   Germans May Abandon Much of Territory

Yanks Sweep Into Germany On 85 Mi. Front, Ist Army Repelling Attacks At Aachen

American Ist Army ‘Tank and I nfantry Divisions Advance  On An 85-Mile Front

Bombs Wreck  Headquarters Nazis Were Located Near Pope's Residence

HiddenGerman Air Field Hit By U.S. Fliers   Dive-Bombers Destroy Nazi  Headquarters Located  ‘ Near Pope’s Suntmer Home

Battered Warsaw Viewed Outflanked In New Red Drive   Allies Landing On Dutch Island Guarding Antwerp Approaches; British 37 Mis. From Bologna

New Soviet Drive Menaces Warsaw,  Holland Landings   Canadians Close In On Nazis Holding Antwerp

TIRPITZ HIT BY WARPLANES   British Carrier- Based Batracudas Strike

2 INDICTED IN BATION PROGES   Federal Grand Jury Acts  In Cleveland Investiga Hon

TWO ARE INDICTED FOR ‘GAS’ THEFTS   Cleveland OPA Men Accused of Taking 12,050 Coupons

Bishop Sam Hay Dies At Houston   Rites Not Set For Retired Churchman

BISHOP SAM R. HAY DIED IN HOUSTON; LEADING CHURCHMA  . ANE TIME PACTOR or   ONE-TIME PASTOR OF FIRST METHODIST CHURCH HERE PASSES

3rd Army Guns Ruin Big Nazi Steel Plants   Patton's Men Push Nearly Half-Way Across Saar Basin; 7th Army Close to German Frontier

GOAL IS SAAR AND GERMANS’ STEEL SOURGES   Third Army Smashing Big Saarbrucken War Factories With Barrage of Artillery

Great Battle Raging for  Saar Basin   3rd Army Encounters Maze of Pillboxes, But Makes Advances  CEUDALTAATC TITT BaCw

POLITICIANS LOOK TO VICE PRESIDENCY TO CREATE INTEREST  GENERALLY CONCEDED THAT ROOSEVELT WILL _ SEEK--FOURTH-TERM

Big Explosion Rocks French Rocket Coast   BRITISH BELIEVE BLAST ABORTIVE ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH NEW V-2 BOMB

Truman Called Choice of AFL  Defeat Of Wallace One Of Objectives  QE lakar Fadarntian

Ultimatum Gives Cherbourg Nazis Drastic Warning   Deadline Set For Surrender

Expect Capture of Prize Port by Noon   Main German Garrison Is Reported to Be Withdrawing From City to Cap de la Hague for Final, Hoveless, Stand

Germans Told via Radio That Their Situation Is Desperate; Given until 9 a. m. to Surrender.

GERMANS GIVEN UNTIL TODAY TO LAY DOWN ARMS   Allied Spokesman Tells En emy Troops They Face  Destruction   PATROLS WITHIN MILE OF CITY WATERFRONT

TRAPPED NAZIS” GIVEN ULTIMATUY   ALLIES SET TIME LIMIT FOR SURRENDER OF GARRISON AT CHERBOURG.

Ring of Steel Drawn Closer Around Enemy   Yank Infantry Spearhead Within Mile of Harbor die Annes Dinteue Dual:

Enemy Given Few Hours For Deeision   Have No Recourse But To Capitulate, Trapped Men Are Told   AMERICANS READY FOR FINAL DRIVE   Advancing Doughboys Now Less Than Mile From Port’s Waterfront

AMERICAN FLYERS oH IP SHIPS IN ‘SMASH AT RABAU   Naval Planes Bomb Enemy, Installations on Kusaie Island

Caroline Islands Base Attacked By U.S. Bombers   Raid Is First on Jap-Held Island Chain; More Than 100 Planes From Solomons Strike at Rabaul

No Going Back in War—As in Peace ‘AP War Correspondent Discovers   HAL BOYLE

Meat Shortage ls Forecast by Two Witnesses   Present Price and Ration: ing Policies Criticized at Hearing

400 NAZI TROOPS DIE IN GREEK TRAP   TRAIN BEARING SOLDIERS HURLED INTO RIVER BY EXPLOSION OF MINES.

Pro-Nazi Turk  Leaders Seized   Neutral Turkey, Probing Plot Imposes Martial Law In Instanbul.

ATTACKS MADE BY B-29 FORCE WITHOUT LOSS   Manchurian And Chinese Bases Hit: Marines Are Clearing Peleliu

NO PLANES LOST IN ANCHAN BLOW   Third Attack in Manchuria Reduces Japs’ Steel Production

And Now They Won’t Have To Turn Down an Empty Glass At Freddwy’s Birthday Party

Wage policy subjected to  a new attack      WLB members  ask new figure

New Attack on "Little Steel’’ Plan Launched by Four Members of WLB

Labor Claims Pay Yardstick Now Outmodec   New Assault Is Prepared On ‘Little Steel’ Plan By WLB Menthers

Wage Formula Is Attacked Within WLB   AFL Members Assert ‘Little Steel’ Plan Should Be Junked

"LITTLE STEEL PLAN ASSAILED   AFL Members of War Labor Board Open Drive To Junk Formula

PAY FORMULA !S HIT BY AFL MEN   Members of Labor Board Urge “Little Steel” Plan Scrappina

JAPANESE ANSWER   Disclosures Part of “a Cloak for Cruelties Committed by Allies.”   BROADCAST FROM TOKYO   Says Allied Enthusiasm for Prosecution of War ‘Considerably Fading.”?

Fearful Figures, Dismal Decimals  House Expected To Pass On Simplified Tax By Tonight

SIMPLIFIED TAX BILL NEAR OKAY   Taxpayers’ Dream Comes Nearer Realization,

Millions May Forget Worry Of Income Tax   Withholding Levy Expected To Be Actual Tax In Lower Brackets

Unanimous Vote For Simple Tax Given In House   Measure Designed To Simplify Procedures In Tax Returts

House Approves Legislation Tax Simplification   Expect Leaders To Pass Bill Before Night; Headaches Now Over.

House Approves ‘Painless Tax’ Bill  Simplified Program To Pass In Senate

NEW TAX RATE FOR WORKERS NOW ANNOUNCED   Will Effect Fifty Million People Now Employed

Simplified Income Tax  Bill Passed   House Gives Final Approval and Sends Measure to Senate

Tax Simplification Measure Gets  Approval of House  No Opposition Seen As Measure Goes Quickly to Senate

‘Painless’ Tax Bill ~ to Senale   Approval Is Expected. by Neha ’ Houses Fasses : “Measure: -358-to 0   WOULD DO: AWAY. : * WITH. RETURNS   Withholding System: Would Apply.’ to. Al: Incomes: "pe to: $5,000 é

New Tax Bill Before House   Expected to Be Passed Before Nichtfall

Teday In Washington  Simple Tax Bill Voted By House   FDR Propeses Central Lend-Lease Account; Find Catches In 4-F Draft Plan

Tax Statutes To Be Approved By House Today   Simpler Method Of Collecting Levy Proposed

OTE ON LAW 5 UNANIMOUS   Legislation Moves Over to Senate Where Speedy Approval Is Expected.   ISIMPLIFIES PROCEDURES

The Taxpayers’ Dreams Nearing Realization; 50,000,000 Are Helped 

House To Act On Simplified Tax  Exact Withholding Planned In 1945

Taxpayer's Dream Is Nearer Reality as House Votes on Simplification

Simplified Tax Returns For Most Americans  Large Majority Will Have To Pav More

TAXPAYERS NOT TO WORRY NEXT YEAR IN MARCH   Withholding Will Take Care Of Income Taxes—New Bill to Pass

Swift Action On Tax Bill      House Passes Simplified Measure 358 to 0; Goes to Senate Now

Taxpayers’ Dream Nears Reality   HOUSE PASSES BILL TO SIMPLIFY COMPUTING DEBT TO GOVERNMENT

Overwhelming Approval Seen For Simplified Tax Statute As House Ballot Approaches

House OK’:  Tax Plan   Bill Would Relieve Millions of Taxpayers From Making Returns

House Approval Of Tax Simplification System Appears Certain Today   30,000,000 Will Escaps  Filing Income Returns

Simplified Tax Bil Passed by House; Vote Is 385 to0   Measure Now Goes To Senate Where Speedy Approval Also Is Predicted

Passage of New Tax Bill is Near   House Expected to Give Overwheiming Approval of Measure Which Simplifies Statutes For 50,000,000 Citizens in the Country.   GOES TO SENATE NEXT

House Backs Streamlined Tax Measure      Adoption of Bill Ending Most Returns Due for Approval

Legislation To Simplify Payment of  Taxes Expected To Pass House Today

Allies Grill Ex-American   Virginia Family Kin, Turned Italian, Held * In Enemy Aid Quiz

Sixty- Three ~ Planes Downed   Record Number Of German Planes Knocked Out In Combat Over Italy

UILTIRY Puan   Discontinuance: Of ‘Black= out: Trials. Evidence Of - No ‘Alert Need

Army Coastal Units to Be Cut Sharply   Two Defense Command: Consolidated to Free Combat Forces

Army Reduces Coastal Posts  Move Reflects Greate Security, Expansion

U.S. Reduces its Defense Installations   Move Desiqned To Strengthen Forces Abroad

Areas O Defense  Mersed   -.-To Free Fighters For Combat Assignments

Reduce Number  Of Army Camps   *  Consolidate Eastern. Central Commands To Send More Overseas

DEFENSES ARE BEING REDUCED   Commands Also Consolidated To Free More For Combat Service

Nation Reduces  Coastal Defense Aim To Boost Power Of  Owerseas Forces

SLASH COASTAL DEFENSE UNITS   Troops Go Overseas To Augment Invasion Forces

Defense Areas Along Coast Being Reduced   Troops in East Slated for Combat Overseas

Cut Coastal Army Defense   Eastern Central Defense (Commands Are To Be Consolidated.

Coast Defenses Being Reduced To Free Units For Overseas   Blackouts Abandpned as Threat to U, S. Wanes

Largest Appropriation in History Asked for U.S. Navy by Roosevelt

BIGGEST FU NAVY IN CSTOR?   Over 30 Billion Dollars Sought For 1945 Fiseal Year   MEANS NAVY WILL CONTINUE TO GROW

$27,435,037,198 Was Appropriated in 1944, $23,808,852,547 in 1943 It Was Announced

30 BILLIONS IN NAVAL REQUEST FILED BY FOR   Appropriation Would Be Largest in History for the U. S. Navy

RECORD NAVY FUNDS ASKED   Nearly 31 Billions Sought _ By FDR for 1945   Fiseal Year

FDR Asks Largest Navy Fund for “45   Outlay Subject To Congressional Approval; To Supplement Previously Approved Fund.

REDS WILL FIGHT JAPS   Several Factors Indicate They Will Enter Jap War

EXPECTED 10 FOLLOW NAZI CAPITULATION   Early Defeat of Oriental Nation to Advantage of Russians for Numbers of Reasons

3 of 4 WLB Members Wan Off of Board   All, However, Will Complete Present Studies

ree WLB Members Agree lWithhold Resignations   Trio, at Request of President Roosevelt, Agree to Remain Until Fall of Germany; yrnes to Stay on Until Europe War Over

War Labor Board Members Agree To Stay on Job   Davis, Taylor, Graham, Who Wished to Retire, Heed Roosevelt’s Plea

DAVIS RESIGNS AS WLB CHIEF   Two Other Public Members of Board Hand In  Resignations

IChairman Davis Asked By President to “Hang On By: Ryelids’*; Early Spikes Speculation

WLB MEMBERS TO REMAIN AT POSTS   Davis, Taylor and Graham Agree to Withhold Resignations Until Germany. Is Defeated

Three WPB  Members To Resign Posts   Ask To Be Relieved a " Conclusion of Wage De liberations

Ask to Be Relieved of Duties at End of Present Negotiations.   3 ARE PUBLIC MEMBERS

DAVIS, TWO OTHER WLB MEMBERS, ASK 10 BE RELIEVED OF DUTIES   CHAIRMAN SUBMITS RESIGNATION, TO BECOME EFFECTIVE JANUAY 1; WANTS TO SLOW DOWN

Three WLB Members To. - Leave Posts   Chairman Davis, Taylor And Graham, Public Members Of Board, To Resume Private Work

Chairman and 2 Others, Who Had Submitted Resignations, Bow to F. D. R.’s Request to Remain.

} WLB Members Anxious To Quit   Want To Be Relieved of Duties When Possible

40,000 IDLE IN LABOR STRIKES   Walkouts Cut Nation’s Lumber Supply—Drivers Cause Detroit Bread Shortage

Strikes Keep 40,000 Off Jobs   Pacific Northwest Ecene of Major Trouble

rosposal Made to Give War Material Priority To Schools and Farms

Surplus War Material Gift To Farms Urged   Property Disposal Plan Meets Snag In House Action

TOM H. CULLEN, CONGRESSMAN, DIES, AGED 76   Brooklyn Democrat Important Fig ure in House, Father Bill Legal izing 3.2 P& Beer

, U.S. Planes Hil *“Oroluk Atoll  Army, Navy Officers Return To Hawaii

Hitler Sends Gestapo Heac To Budapest.   Himmler in Capital As Martial Control Nins Armistice Step

ARMY RALLIED TO TAKE STAND AGAINST REDS   Horthy Reported to Have Resigned, Repudiating Allied Armistice

Smoulderinge Formosa.   Budapest Under Martial Law as Nazis Take Over

BUDAPEST NOW UNDER MARTIAL LAW   New Nazi Regime ‘Seeks to Tighten Grip on Hungary

Budapest Is Reported Under Martial Law   Nazi Regime Tightens Its Grip on City

PRO-NAZI GRIP OVER HUNGARY DRAWN TIGHT   Budapest Under Martial Law As Russians Come Nearer

“udapest Under Martial Law As Nazis Clinch Hold   German Radio Asserts Admiral. Horthy Has Repudiated Armistice

BREECHEN AND JAKUCK! PITCH FOURTH GAMI   Browns In Front Again In Series, Kramer Winning 6-2

Browns Hold 2-1 Edge — Over Cards By Winning 3rd World Series Game

ALLIED FORCES CONFIRM LOSS OF CARROCETC   J. S. Guns Open Heavy Fire on Monastery Hill, Dent German Lines

American Siege Guns Rip Monastery Hill: German Forces Occupy Carrocete

AMERICANS BOMBARD MONASTERY POSITION   Breaches Reported in Nazi  Line; Carroceto, Anzio Rieke ROK OE wee

VIOLENT BATTLE STILL RAGES ON ITALIAN FRONT   American Siege Guns Make Opening In German Line Overlooking Cassino; Loss Of Carroceto In Anzio Beachhead Acknowledged.

ALLIES LOSE CARROCETO 10 GERMAN ARMY   Bitter Fighting Enters 15th Day At Cassino

Heavy Bombers Pound At Enemy On Both Fronts   Warships Shell Germans Ringing Beachhead. — Fighting: Grows In In - ‘tensity In. Cassino Streets.

Monastery Hill Under Heavy Blow   Abbey Now Destroyed; Carroceto Captured By  Foe In Beachhead Struggle

Siege Guns Rip Holes in Cassino Line   U. $. Bombardment of Monastery Hill fs Opened; Beachhead Kev is Taken bv Foe

Siege Guns Shell Monastery Hill; Nazis Capture Town South of Rome

Massed Yankee Siege Guns Rip Monastery Hill   German Line Above Cassino Breached After Destruction Of Abbey.

Monastery Hill is Under Concentrated Bombardment Today   Historic Benedictine’s Destruction Shown in Aerial Pictures

U. S. Artillery ls Turned (On Monastery   Allies Make Openings In Nazi Lines; Carroceto Is Lost

Carroceto Is In Nazi Hands   Warships, Bombers Help Defenders; Fighting In Cassino to New Intensity

American Artillery Opens Concentrated Bombardment On Monastery Hill, Blasting Gaps In Main Section Of German Line Overlooking Key Town—Loss Of Carroceto, In Invasion Beachhead Area, Acknowledged By Allies—Rome Rail Yards Bombed

Yank Big Guns Shelling ‘Nazis Above Cassino   ‘Monastery Hill Blasted and : German Lines Are Re ' ported Breached In  i Main Sector   Ground Given Up  To Huns At Anzio   Violent Battling Enters  15th Day At Cassino;   Infantry Fighting House to House

Germans Recapture Carroceto in Counter-attack on Italian Beachhend

U. §. Guns Oper On Hill; Nazis Win Carroceto   Allied Warships Blast Germans in Area Surrounding Anzio Beachhead

WARSHIP GUNS HIT ATTACKERS AT BEACHHEAD   Reds Drive Ahead and Slash At 50,000 Surviving Nazis In Dnieper Bend Pocket

MONASTERY HILL BOMBARDED BY U.S. ARTILLERY   ALLIES ACKNOWLEDGE LOSS OF CARROCETO, IN BEACHHEAD AREA

Destruction of ' Cassino Still  Is Carried Or   German Infantry ‘Still Possession of Ke} Above Monastery.

CONCENTRATED SHELLING HITS GERMAN LINES   Nazis Take Carroceto In Drive to Clear  Anzio Beachhead

SIEGE GUNS TRAINED ON STRONG POINT   Mt. Cassino, Where Blasted Monastery Perched, Is Main Sector of En. emy Defenses — Allies Lose Carroceto.

Nazis Still In Possession of of Key Hill Above Cassino; Allies Pushed To Within 16 Miles of Rome But Were Pushed Back.

Carroceto Captured By Germans   Fighting at Cassino Increases in Intensity

German Lines Rioped Asunde!   Yanks Battle Way Farther Into City Of Cassino; Anzio Sector Still in Lull; Warships Blast Enemy Positions

LOSS OF CARROCETO  ON ROME BEACHHEAD  ADMITTED BY ALLIES AMERICAN SIEGE GUNS  BLAST AT REMAINS OF ROMPREN MONASTERY

NAZI CASSINO LINE PIERCED BY U.S. GUNS   Germans Ringing Beachhead, However, Recapture Carroceto

Yankee Guns Open Holes in  Cassino Line   Bridgehead Setback Admitted-hy Allies; Rome fs Raided

Hidden German Madhine Gun Nests Make Progress Slow at Cassirlo, But Some Gains Made i Defenses. Germans, Seek to Hold Beachhead  CGatne

ABBEY ATTACK BREACHES LINE   Allied Warships, Bombers Support Advancing Troops

Nazis Presumably in Possession of Hill Swept by Artillery Alier Benedictine Abbey Razed   RAIL YARDS RAIDED      Traffic Rovies Through Rome Suburbs Strefed, Bridges, Moto: Transpert Bombed

Allies Continue to Hit Cassino Abbey   ~ Monastery, Used As Nazi Fortress, Reported Hard Hit; Allies Active Throughout Italian War Theater.

WOLENT FIGHT “VER cASsIND      Ameriéan Siege Guns in Concentrated Bombardment of Hill.   LOSE BEACHHEAD SPOT

METHODICAL DESTRUCTION CONTINUES   Allied Headquarters Acknowledges Loss of Carroceto, Ten Miles North of Anzio   BREACHES ARE OPENED

YANKS BREACH MAIN NAZI LINE NEAR CASSINO   Historic Monastery Destroyed; Allies Reveal Loss Of Corroceto Area —

AMERICAN SIEGE GUNS BOMBARDING MONASTERY HiILI   “Breaches” Have Been Opened in That Main Sector of the German Line.   OVERLOOKING CASSINO   Warships Again Battered the Germans Ranging. the: Beachhead.

Carroceto Is pack A Ba itt  In Nazi li Hands   U. S. Big Guns Take Quick Advantage of De- etruction of Abbey   HOLD 3D OF TOWN   Fighting on Bridgehead - Dies Down Except for Lively Patrol Action

Heavy Guns Turned on Nazi Lines   7  aches’ Opened in Main « tor Overlooking Cassino, But Nazis Hold Key Hill   VIOLENT BATTLE: . INTO THE 15TH DAY   Allies .-Lose: - Carroceto in Bridgehead Area; Bombers. and Warships.Into Action

Yanks Shelling Monastery Hill After Wrecking Ancient Abbey   Beaches Opened in Line; Loss of Beachhead Town Admitted

Anzio Beaches Battered By Warship Guns   Artillery Opens Up Or Monastery Hill As Allies Press Action

Monastery Hill Heavily Blasted By. Siege Gun:   Allied Heads Acknowledge Loss Of Carroceto, 10 Miles North Of Anzio

Destruction of Cassino Still Is Carried On   German Infantry Still In Possession of Key Hill Above Monastery

GUATEMALA COUP TOLD; DEMOCRATIC REGIME IN SADDLE   Tanks Used In Brief But Bloody Revolt To - Oust Ponce

Allied Infantry Troops Smash Back Four German Attacks Against Beachhead

STOP FOUR NAZI ANZIO ATTACKS   Allied Planes Mine Danube, Cause Axis to Abandon River Traffic

Four Attacks By Nazis Repulsed   Assaults Are Made Against Western Flank Of Anzio Beachhead

ALLIES BATTLE ENEMY THRUST INTO INDIA.   Unofficial Sources Indicate Fighting Is Intense -

JAPS PUSHIN PUSHING — INDIA DRIVE   ENEMY OFFENSIVE TO OFFSET - BURMA CAMPAIGN AIMED -7+ AT ADVANCED BUP-' PLY BASE

H. J, LEFKOVITS RITES SUNDAY   Heart Attack I? Fata T Former Stere-Man Here

Solons Predict Compromise In Extension Bill   Amended Measure Sent Into Conference May Meet With Approval

Congress Drafts Compromise Bil On Price Contro   - Items Opposed By Administration Are Eliminated

COMPROMISE OPA BILL PREDICTED   Goes Befroe Senate-Huse Conferees

Compromise Price Control Extension Bill May Be Worked Out Satisfactorilyv

LANDING BACKED BY 800 WARSHIPS; CASUALTIES LIGHT   Thousands of American and French Troops Go Ashore . Between Marseille’ and Nice.   SEIZE BEACHHEADS —— AND MOVE INLAND   Heavy Aerial Bombardment  Precedes Thrust—Prison-  _ ers Taken in Fighting . Are Demoralized. ,

Americans, British Canadians Land, Fi tierce Battle Rages   Troop Carrier Comm and With Airborne Forces Led Assault Before Daylight This Morning

Nazi Defeat "Near, Stalin Writes FDR   Red Chief Implies Time Is Ripe for . Allied

HITLER'S FINISH SEEN BY STALIN   Note To Roosevelt Hints Time Is Near For Allied Invasion

HOUSE VOTE PUTS STATES IN CHARGE   Postwar Jobless Coipensa tion Bill Passes; Block  iheralization. -

Soviets Rip Sagging Lines of Panicky Foe: Border 24 Miles Off   300 Inhabited Junctions Overrun Tn “Advance Covering’ 200-Mile Are; Rail City of Belokorovieh; Falle

Reds Race Through Nazi Lines Near Kiev at Will   Advance Along 200-mile Front to Within 27 Miles of Polish Border

DR. CLIFFORD JONES RESIGNS PRESIDENCY TEXAS TECH COLLEGE   HEALTH WILL NOT PERMIT HIM TO CONTINUE BOARD WAS TOLD

TERRIFIC RAID UPON JAP BASES   Bonins, Volcanos Hit (587 Miles From Tokyo)

21 Jap Ships Are Blasted in Three-Day Raid   U.S. Naval and Air Forces Destroy 85 Enemy Planes in Attacks on Bonin and Volcano Island Outpost:

EAPCHTO BEbli WORKING OR PLA WITH MMEXIGD   Task Inciudes the Keleasing of Materials for Sh.ipmen: to Mexico

EXPERTS BEGIN WOBKING CH PLA WiTH MEXICO    Task Inciudes the Keleasing ‘of Materials ‘for Shinmen: to Mexico

ZEPPELIN BASE. ULM BOMBED IN ALLIED ATTACKS   British Make Night Stabs At Occupied France And Western Germany

Planes From Italy Down 36 Germans   Alties Lose 19 Ships In Day Of Widespread Raids

36 NAZI PLANES DOWNED BY FLIERS BASED IN ITALY   Sixteen Heavy Bombers Lost in Attacks on Airfields.and War Factories. in Hungary.   BRITISH .MOSQUITOS _ -  > BOMBARD BERLIN   Spectacular Raid Made on Airfield in. Northeastern ‘Franco—Planes Over  Budapest.

Allies Down 36 Planes Thursday  Make Raid at Cost ~ Of 19 Ships, 16 of Them Heavy Bomber

129 NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN BY AMERICANS   Bombers Account for 48, While Fighters Bag 77 Others

Six Planes —  Are Bagged   Mediterranean, Area Scene Of Au Fight

 A-12 Coupons to Be Voided; : Applications for New Books Now Available at  Wee ee:

Plain Man’s  Scientist Dies   Sir Arthur Eddington Foresaw End of World In Mass of Radio Waves

Demacrats Seek To Pacify South   Southerners Get Committee Posts

JAFS W TO FLEE DEATH TRAP FOILED   Hurled Back With Heavy Casualties by M’Arthur’s Men

Americans On New Guinea Defeat Japanese Attempts To Escape From Jungle Trap

ENEMY AGAIN. FAILS To BREAK OUT OF DEATH TRAP--NEW, : “ADVANCE ON GUAM

Major Task  Continues In North Burmz   Japanese Thrust Toward Imphal Has Failed To Impede Delivery Of Supplies In Burma

FARMERS FAR BEHIND IN WORK   Progress Is Poorest for Quarter of Century

RUJSSO-FINNISH PEACE WILTS; REDS REPORTED ADAMANT ON FIRST TERMS

DEADLOCK IN PEACE MOVES   PROSPECTS FOR EARLY PEACE -BETWEEN RUSSIA AND .. FENLAND HAVE. PRACTIC -- ALLY VANISHED.

Finnish Hopes ~ For Peace Fade   Press Despatches Assert Russia Has Made No Substantial Concessions

Finn Peace Prospects Fade Again   Stiffer Soviet Attitude Reported Contrary to Earlier Stories

HEAVY SHELLING HIT JAP ISLAND   200 Tons of Explosives Rained on Base

200 Tons of Shells Ripped Paramushiro      Report on Attack Shows Tap Merchant: Ship ‘Blew Up in Flames

VESSEL IS BLOWN UP   Surprise Attack Damages Japanese  '; ee © =e ee

200 TONS OF SHELLS DROP ON JAP ISLE   Paramushiro Attack First Naval Bombardment of Oriental Enemy in Past 80 Years

U.S. FLEET HURLED TONS OF SHELLS INTO PARIMUSHIRO   Only Enemy Ship Sightec  Exploded After One  Direct Mit

COURT MARTIAL CLEARS NURSE IN VET’S DEATH   Weeps As Verdict Returning Her to Duty Is Delivered

BORDER GUARDS KILL FLYERS IN ESCAPE TRY   34 Allied Flyers Being Guided to Spanish Border by French Patriots Ambushed by Nazis

Newsman Describes Massacre Scene In Estonian Concentration Camp; 2,800 Killed, Burned by Nazis

Wakde Airstrip Used By Allies  Dutch East Indies  le BDamkinn Dae

Americans Use Jap Air Field  Accurate Enemy Mortar Fire Pine   Accurate Enemy Mortar Fire Pins Down Sixth Army

Deeper Aerial Inroads On Dutch East Indies Presaged  Philippines In Range Of Planes Based On Wakde

All New Guinea Within Range Of Allied Aircraff   Jungle-Wise Japanese Block Advance Of Sixth Army

RETURNS FROM. 15,000-MILE TRIP TO PACIFIC AREA   Visiled Twenty- One States, Hawaii and Aleutians; Denies the Trip Had Political Motives

PRESIDENT RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE   Says: Allies Will: Completely Occupy . Enemy: Homelands

PRESIDENT RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE      Says Allies Must Completely Occupy Germany, Japan

,F. D. R. Back At White House Is More Firmly Convinced Than Ever Before that Allies Must Occupy Japan, Germany

FDR SAYS AXIS NATIONS MUST BE OCCUPIED   B Holds Allies Must Not Stop At Borders When Japan, Germany Quit

FDR. Returns to White House Atter 5 Weeks   Insists Homelands of Enemies Must Re Occupied

GERMANY SAYS BRITISH “OLTIMATUM” BACKED BY U. 8. AND. RUSSIA HAVING .  . AN EFFECT

GUERILLAS IN LEYTE HELPED YANKS LAND   4,000 Armed and Organized Are Led by Filipino

JAPS ‘RESISTANCE AND MUDDY TERRAIN HANDICAP ADVANCES.OF U. S. FORCES   RUSSIANS BREAK THROUGH ON 87-MILE FRONT-AND ARE AT GATES OF MEMEL

MacArthur’s Forces Liberate 11 Towns, Push Through Mud,  Bitter Jap Resistance

ES  YANKEE INGENUITY BRINGS DISABLED PLANE IN SAFELY      Sergeant Does Trapeze Act To Make Repairs

INDIVIDUAL QUOTAS FOR THE WAR CHEST   Most Families in the County Wil! Re. celve a Letter Naming the Sum Expected for the Drive

FDR, In 12th Year. Pleads  God’s Guidance   President Prays For Help In Attacking The War, Political Problems

Carbondale Man Named President Of Illinois Restaurant Association

FOE’S EFFORTS 10 CHECK PUSH PROVE FUTILE   U. S. First Army Nears Cologne; Third And Seventh Gain

Strike 16 Miles South Of Aachen   Third Army Wins Solid Hold on Parts Of Fort Driant

Expand Aachen Front   Punch Into Siegfried Line 16 Miles South; Seventh Army Scores Big Gain Near Belfort

Yanks Hammer Out New Gains In Aachen Sector   Bypass Beggendorf And Advance Over Mile Near Ubach; Proaress at Drigont

Solid Hold On Fort Driant In South Seized   Seventh Army Menaces Pass Through Vosges Mountains; Allies Close In On Tilburg; Canadians Threaten Nazi Escape Road

Smashing Into Forest South Of Monshau   Batter Against Outer Strongpoints cf Rows Of German Defenses

One Of Three Defense Areas Captured; Stubborn Stand’ Being Made By Germans

Garrison Holds On In Spite 01 Smashing Blows   Enemy Withdraws From Eastern Tip Of Peninsula

FOR CHERBORG NEARS CLIMAX   Nazi Defenders Stand Fast In Face of Mighty Yank Assault

U.S. Troops Battering Way Into Cherbourg   Artillery Crashes, Machine Guns Rattle Through Night; Nazi TDefenses Racked

‘Two Remaining Strong ‘Points Being Stormed   Prolonged Siege Said Unlikely As Americans Press Frontal Accaulte

Allied Leaders See No Prospect Of Lengthy Siege   Americans Now Storming Remaining 2 Fortified Sites Dominating City

German Garrison, Stands Stubbornly Under Air Assault   Forces In Italy Continue Drive

AND RAILS TO SECTOR   Nazis Make Bid To Hold Port As Long As Possible

Yanks Capture One Of Three Defense Peaks   Germens Offer Stiff Resistance At All Points

POLL TAX ISSUE UP AT ATLANTA   Southern Editors And Authors Consider Means Of Ending Tax In Eight Sigatad

Claude Burrill Appointed To To West Point   Congressman Hoeven Names Akron Man To Military Academy

Claude Burrill Appointed To To West Point   a2 Neer OO eee  Congressman Hoeven ~ Names Akron Man To Military Academy

Nazi Attacks Elsewhere Are  Turned Back   Germans Making Great Attempt to Stem Allied Advance

Yanks repel enemy blast at Carentan  . Foe throws in reserve troops

Germans Press Heavy Counter Blows in France   Yankees Lose Hold on Montebourg But British Hold Firm

‘Ferocious Battles Rage In Normandy   4. Armored Divisions Thrown into Struggle By German Command  AMERICAN FORCES LOSE MONTEBOURG  ' British and Canadians Maintain Positions In Tillv-Caen Area

Americans Repulse Nazi Attack on Carentum and the Allies Generally Advance Southward.

Americans Repulse German Attack at Center;  __New Enemy Divisions in Action

Important Towns Changing Hands Almost Hourly   Montebourg, Troarn Taken by Germans

Americans Bring Up Tanks To Fire PointBlank On German Paratroopers At Carentan, Key Rail And Highway,  At Base Of Cherbourg  Peninciula

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Ferocious Battles Raging At Both Ends Of Allied  Lines In Normandy   CRACK PANZER UNITS EMPLOYED BY NAZIS

Allies Lose Montebourg To Germans   Two Fresh Divisions Brought Up By Enemy

Yanks Unable To Keep Hold On Montebours   U. S. Troops Repulse Attack on Carentan; British and Canadians Hold in Caen Area

GERMANS PREG COUNTER-ATTAGKS   British and Canadians Stand Firm in Caen Area   ARMORED UNITS CLASH   Americans Repulse Attack on Carentan; Hand-to-hand Street Fighting Rages

Bradley's Men Hold Carentan Line Unbroken   Altied Headquarters: Says Yank Grip Still Firm Qn Cherbourg Front

British Indignant Over Pravda Story About Peace Talks   Press Minces No Words in Referring to _ its Publication

PATTON'S THIRD ARMY CONTINUES TO ROLL FAST IN NORTHERN FRANCE   American Troops Cross Marne River 80 Miles Northeast of Paris.

American ‘Tank Colunms Break into French Railway Town of ‘Troyes —Another Armored Force Reports to Have Forced Marne River,

REIMS, FAMED CATHEDRAL CITY, IS 80 MILES NORTHEAS OF PARIS; FORCED MARNE RIV.

MARNE RIVER IS FORCED BY ARMORED UNIT   Yanks Cut Squarely Across Path of Gers man Retreat In North France.

ADVANCE UNITS 130 MILES FROM NAZI FRONTIER   Armored Force Crosses Marne, Cutting Path Of Retreating Germans

ARMORED TANK « FORCE CROSSES MARNE RIVER    Cathedral City of Reims Entered ag Americans.Cul Through Path of Germans Retreating From Northern France

NAZIS IN NORTH FRANCE ARE IN PERIL BY MOVE   Patton’s Force Dashes Ahead at Speed of Peace Time Maneuvers

RELIEF LOAD CUT URGED BY GRANGE   Junior Police slice Clubs En_ dorsed and Bonus Con‘@tinuance Favored

RELIEF LOAD CUT URGED BY GRANGE   Junior Police Clubs Endorsed and Bonus Con' ' " ¢inuance Favored

RAF Returns To Berlin, Aids Invasion   Air Power Sweeps Into Action to Aid Land Forces

RUSSIAN GIRL HERO IS MACHINE GUNNEE   Fought On Despite Wounds To Stop Germans

Northeast Is Struck By Heavy  Snowstorm   Temperature 42 Below In North Dakota; New York kT. Cat Weavy-Fall

WIDE AREA OF COUNTRY BLANKETED BY STORM  Heavy Snowfall Continuec Today   Heavy Snowfall Continues Today In East; Sub-zero Weather Spreads

STORM MOVES FASTWARD  po ETS gk PO “Geminpmonnpluanete. (emie Manvninn Stare ona

NORTHEAST HIT BY SNOW STORM TODAY   Temperature Dips to 42 Betow in Midwest Storm, Cold Wave.

Snow And Cold Weather Grip Midwest, Kast   Temperature Drops In Mid. west; Heavy Snow.Predicted. For ‘East ern States’

DEWEY CALLS FOR ‘3 SQUARE MEALS DAILY’      Roosevelt Speaks Tonight From Soldier Field at 8 O’clock (CWT)

Dewey Offers a Farm Solution  “Three Square Meals A Day” for All Is  Nominees Program

DEWEY APPEALS FOR ‘3 SQUARES’   G.0.P. Nominee Calls Table Answer To Farm Needs

Dewey Assert: More Food Fox U. S. Is, Needed   “Threé Square. ‘Meals? ae Americans Urged, ° Farm/.sProb Would bé Solve

Sufficient Food Needed to Solve Farmers Problem  Planned Scarcity Handicappe Recovery, Gov. Dewey States In Agricultural Address

Farm Scarcity Theories Are Criticized By Dewey; FDR Defends War Plan

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IS NEAR CLIMA}   Roosevelt In Chicago; Dewey Assails New Deal Farm Policy

Took War To Get Decent  Price For Farm Products   So Says Gov. Dewey Who Declares U. S. Must Not Go Back To Low Prices Farmers Received Under New Deal Policies

GOP Farm Program Offered by Dewey   , Three Square Meals aDay Solves Question He Tells New York Crowd

Three Meals Daily For All America is Farm Surplus Reply   Dewey Delivers Talk on Agriculture and Low Farm Prices

Dewey: We Must Not Returr to Demo Scarcity Theories   By JACK BELL

Dewey Calls For “Three Square Meals A Day’; Roosevelt In Illinois And Indiana For Votes

DEWEY OFFERS SOLUTION 10 FARM PROBLEM   Roosevelt Is En Route To Chicago for Talk Tonight

F DR Charges GOP to Block Peace Pacts   Tells Philadelphians Republicans Will Not Help Peace if. Unable to Win Election

Dewey Hits Scarcity Theory in Dealing With Farm Problen as FDR Defends War Policy   GOP Nominee Declares Three Square Meals a Day Will Solve Farm Problem; FDR Pledges to Bring Soldiers Home as Soon as Possbile

MAJOR FARM POLICY  ADDRESS BY DEWEY  SYRACUSE SATURDAY ROOSEVELT SPOKE PHIL ADELPHIA LAST NIGHT; COFS TO cHICACO

Dewey Hits Scarcity Theory * in Address On Farm Policies   Roosevelt Refutes Republican Charges Of Unpreparedness For War

ON WESTPLAN   83-Year-Old Lawmaker Dies Saturday; Simple Rites Are Held 7

War Bonds Sale Rises   Large ‘Thermometer’ To Register Daily Gains

MASS FORCES FOR ASSAULT BELOW ROME   Preliminary Attacks Hurled Back at Beachhead

Yankees Break Up Attacks   Five Divisions Gathering Force fi Effort To Drive Allies Into Sea.

Japs at Ormoc Bombarded  By Destroyers   MacArthur Also Tells Of Jap Plane Raids On American. Warships

Nips Swoop Downon Vessels Guarding Americans on Leyte; Tokyo Claims Heavy U.S. Loss

Jap Flyers Strike U.S. Battle Fleet In Gulf of Levte   Battleship Among Units Under Attack; Rains Still Hamper Armies

In Bold Sweep Into Camotes Sea West of Leyte: U. S. Battleships Attacked By Japs.   Report Losses

DESTROYERS IN BOLD RAID SHELL ORMOC   Heavy Jap Aerial At. tack Made Against U. S. Warships  $

FDR Disavows Red Support   Bricker Assails ‘Sale’ of Demo Party to Radicals; Other Political Comments Heated

ROOSEVELT LEAVES AMERICAN COMMUNISTS OUT ON A LIMB; SPURNS FOREIGN IDEOLOGIES

Ctremonies For Fourth Term Be At White House  7] —_   FDR Decides To Skip Elaborate Ceremony

TOWNSHIPS GO OVER TOP   E Bond Quota of $90,00C is Short of Goal

COUNTY GOES OVER TOP IN BOND DRIVE   Quota Exceeded By $516,727, But E-Bond Sale Still Deficient

1943, to make continued fationing unnecessary.   SHOE RATIONING STILL WITH US

Massive Drive Rolls Germans Back In Baltics   3,000 Towns Are Taken In Smashing Offensive

First Phase Of Big Push Is Launched By Russians   Riga Is Mpnaced In Giant Attack

BLS Living Cost Index Pros, Cons   Whether It’s Right Or Wrong Is Still A Question

Jap Convoy Is Shattered   Nine Vessels, 23 Barges Sunk As Allied Bombers Attack

9 Jap Ships 23 Barges Sent Down   Bombers Wipe Out Convoy Trying Desper ately No Get Supplies To Garrisons.

MILLION ASKED FOR PORCUPINES   Vote Scheduled Monday On Bill To Purchase Timber Tract

BILL IS SCHEDULED FOR VOTE MONDA   Qntonagon County Representative Against Mountain Purchase.

U.S. Casualty Total 552,018   Includes 121,363 U. S. Service People Killed

Miss Graham Denies  — Murder Accusations  Refutes Testimony By Boy Friend

ONLY ONE MAN VOTES AGAINST N.Y. GOVERNOR   Gov. Bricker Accepts Second Place on  GOP Ticket

DEWEY FLYING TO CHICAGO   To Accept G.0.P. Nomination At Stadium Tonight

Ohio Governor Chosen at Chicago as New Yorker’s Running Mate   DEWEY TO CONVENTION   Speech of Acceptance to Be - Delivered at 9 o’Clock Tonight   Bulletin

All Votes But One Go To New  York Governor   Governor Bricker Is Nominated by Republicans For Vice-Presidency   Bulletin

snake dance which followed nomination of the Michigan-born attorney by Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska.

MACARTHUR 3 © GIVEN 1 VOTE   Whirlwind Session of GOP Meet Gives Dewey All But One Vote.   UNANIMOUS FOR BRICKER

Dewey Poised For Airplane Hop To Convention   4 Associated Tress }

‘Dewey Leaves   For Chieago   No Immediate Comment From Dewey On Nomination; Goes By Plane.

Gov. Dewey to Fly To GOP Meeting   Presidential Nominee Will Address Chicago Con vention at 9 p. m.

Two Life Terms for Murders   Raymond Patrick Sentenced at Paris in’ Slaying ‘of Albert. Foltz and Son’   TAKEN TO PRISON ::*AFTER HEARING   Still Faces Charge of Slay ing Mrs. Foltz in _ Clark County

SGT. ROBERT L. BELDING AWARDED - ° FFOR- HIS SERVICES   Member of Bombardment SquadReport Made From Heat: quarters With Honors.

HERBERT HALTS BALLOT RECOUNT   ‘Action Taken at Cincinnati in  Primary Aftermath

Republican Committee Receives Views Of National Groups on Farm Plank

City of Rennes Taken by Yanks In Speedy Drive   Communication Center Is Taken After Spectacular Two-Day Offense.   Allies Push Germans  On 120-Mile Front

Allies. Push Swiftly Into” St. Nazaire   And St. Malo   “Enemy: Bewildered By: Great Thrusts

Yanks Drive 30-Mile Wedge Into Briffany   Americans By-Pass  St. Malo; Canadian Forces Open New Thrus At Tilly-Le-Campagne

SWISH BEYOND RENNES AFTER QUICK CAPTURE   Americans Half Way To Nazi Sub Works At St. Nazaire

RENNES CAPTURED BY AMERICAN TANKS, MOTOR INFANTRY   This Is Considered the Greatest Victory Since  Cherbourg.   THROUGH BRITTANY   Rennes Lies Almost Half Way Across Peninsula to St. Nazaire.

TROOPS MOVE AT FAST PAGE      Fall of Key City May Be Greatest Victory Since Cherbourg.   REACH DINAN OUTSKIRTS

Bradley's Men Capture Rennes   45-Mile Gain Made in Two Days—-Drivin; Swiftly to Old World I Base at St. Nazaire, 80 Miles Away—Canadians Strike Out in New Attack

Drive Aimed at Brest Harbor   Victory Hailed as Greatest Since Fall Of Cherbourg; Entire Peninsula May Be in Allied Hands by End of Week

Allies Attack On Two Fronts In Normandy   Bradley’s Troops Push Wedge Into Brittany

ANADIAN TROOPS NEAR CAEN  i ATTACKS LAUNCHED BY THE DIRECTION OF PARIS   ‘ontline Reports Say Bradley's Armor Has Reached Rennes and Outskirts of Dinan After Drives of 45 and 35 Miles   ORCES PRESS TOWARD BREST AND ST. NAZAIRE

Gen. Bradley's Men Drive 45 Miles From Avranches in 2 Days   U.S. Troops Push Toward St. Nazaire; Canadian Forces Launch New Attack Below Caen

GAIN 49 MILES SINCE TAKING AVRANCHES   Canadians Launch New Offensive Below Caen   VIRE, ESTRY   Captured By Allied Forces Prisoner Total Mounts To 100,000

SMASHING GAINS ARE REPORTED   ‘Americans Are Racing Across Brittany At Breakneck Speed

‘Seizure of City, Key to Brittany Peninsula, Heralded as Greatest \Victory Since Fall of Cherbourg

Peninsula Halfway Cut  Off In Greatest Victory [+ a Oh, al. meme

Americans Press Rapidly Into Brittany's Core   Armored Columns Take Rennes, Push for Go At St. Nazaire; Other Units Advance; British Forces Gain Also on 120-Mile Front

ARMORED UNITS CRASH ON FROM FALLEN RENNES   Allied Columns Gain In All Sectors Against Bewildered Nazis

Conquest of All Brittany Looms   Fall of Rennes Greatest U. S. Victory Since Cherbourg, Places Americans Half Way to St. Nazaire, Severs Nazi Communication:

American Armor Advances 10 Miles In 24 Hours, Almost Unopposed   Victory Greatest Since Cherbourg   British Panch Holes In German Defenses South Of Caen

‘Hitting the Hun A Good Crack,” According to Gen. Sir Montgomery

Troops Surge Forward In Greatest Victory Since Cherbourg: Rennes Falls

GREATEST PRIZE SINCE INVASION BEGAN CLAIMED   Driving Through Brittany, Yanks Gain Up to 40 Miles in Single Day

Plunge Half Way Across Brittany   United States Troops Pushing Swiftly Toward Old World War Base Of St. Nazaire; Broad Wedge Opened

Bradley’s Forces Capture Rennes After TwoDay Advance Which Carries Them 45 Miles From Avranches -- Allies Stab At  Rewildered Fnemv

RACE THROUGH BRITANNY FOR 40-MILE GAIN   CANADIAN FORCES OPEN NEW ATTACK IN CAEN SECTOR

Entire Peninsula May Fall into Allied Hands Before Week Is Over, Many Observers Believe.   GERMAN U-BOAT BASE IS NEXT OBJECTIVE

QT RIE NAZI ON ~—PO-MILE FRONT   U.S. Troops Pushing Swiftly Toward Base Of St. Nazaire   IWEDGE IN BRITTANY   Bag Of German Prisoners Since D-Day Approach es 106,000

Advance 40 Miles Ina Day   Tank Columns Roll Forward, Meeting Little Opposition From Fleeing Enem

Road to Paris Drive Opened By Canadians  Ameuicans Press Toward Ports of Brest and St. Nazaire in Brittany  100,000 CAPTURED  Sixty-Mile Pincers Closing on Battered German Forces in Fiance      100.000 CAPTURED

One American Column Reaches Dinan in Thrust Toward Brest, Third Moves Into Combourg—Canadians Attack   At Outskirts of Dinan

Americans Have Plunged Half Way Across Brittany   Gains of 40 Miles In Single Day Are ~ Part of Big Victory

Yanks Advance 45 Miles At Top Speed In 2 Days   Wedge 30 Miles Deep and 35 Miles Broad Is Opened In Brittany As Allies Continue to Rout Nazis .

Yanks Push Swiftly Toward St. Nazaire   Armor Overruns Nazi Anchor Post; Submarine Base Target of Drive

GREATEST VICTORY SINCE CHERBOURG 15 GAINED ON THURSDAY   RENNES IS HUB OF ELEVEN HIGHWAYS AND FOUR RAILROADS

Rennes Captured By 45-Mile Drive In Last Two Days   Americans Speed Swiftly Toward St. Nazaire Base And Reach Outskirts Of Dinan; Allied Forces Hit Hard At Bewildered Nazis Along 120-Mile Front

GREATEST VICTORY SINCE FALL OF CHERBOURG ACHIEVED ASU.S FORCES TAKE PENINSULA KEY   Three Spearheads of Armor Forces Fanning Out From Avranches Makes Gains 45 Miles in Two: Days to Take Vital City. Meet But Little Opposi tinn

rity of 98,000 Is Halfway Across Land Neck to St. Nazaire, German UBeat Base—Second Column Reaches Outskirts of Dinan in Thrust to West Toward Great Port of Brest and Third Moves Into Point Between Rennes and Dinan.

Bradley's Forces Open Wedge 30 Miles Deep, 35 Miles Broad In Series of Open-Field Dashes   Push Toward World War  Base of St. Nazaire; Canadians In New Attack Below Caen Threaten Entire Nazi Defense Line

Called Key Point  of Brittan Peninsula   Americans Advancing With Great Speed Toward St. Nazaire and Brest; Meet With Little Opposition: German Prisoners Reach 100,000

Americans In  Speedy Push For St. Nazaire   Bewildered Germans Unable To Check Big Allied Assaults; Yanks  Runaccina St Mala

Deep Wedge Driven Into Peninsula ~  British Also Gain in Drive .

Doughboys Heading for St. Nazaire      Menifold. Thrusts. Continue  Along 120-Mile Front; New  Canadian Assault   BRADLEY’S FORCES “OPEN. BIG WEDGE    Enemy Apparently” Bewild-ered by Fast Drives; Re norts Lag Behind Advances

Tanks and Motorized Infantry Take Key to Breton Peninsula   PLUNGE TO EAST, TOO   Allied Drives in Several Directions Endanger Nazi Armies

Push Ahead After Taking Road Center   Germans’ Main Communications In Brittany Severed

NAZI DEFENSES COLLAPSE UNDER POWER OF DRIVE   British Launch Assault from Caen as Bewilderment Of Germans Grows

Bradley Pushes Toward Old Base Of St. Nazaire   Great Wedge Opening in Heart Of Brittany Today

Two Day Advance Carries 45. Miles From Avranches; St. Nazaire Nevt Obhiective 

AINOIS HAS NEW VOTING PROGRAM   To Facilitate Balloting by Members of Armed Forces

Highway Secretly Built   Allied Tank Forces Sweep Over New Road And Give Germans  Big Surprise.

Allied Tank Forces Capture Mt. Albaneta, Threaten to Cut Via Casilina Escape Route

After Troops Landed: Death and Destruction on Beach Described by A. P. Correspondent

GERMAN AIRFIELDS — ON CRETE BLASTED   Island Blockaded by Allied Air and Naval Forces to Prevent Escape of Nazi Garrison.

Allies Altack Foe in Eastern Mediterranean  Assault Airfields Ane Transport on Crete, Ranann lelandc _

CRETE BOMBED AND BLOCK ADEL   Island Captured From British In 1941 Under Attack

Violence of Nazi Artillery: Fire Reported In- 3 creasing  ENEMY IS BATTERED ~ ’ BY ALLIED AIRMEN  German Airmen Toughest Yet Seen in the Theater

Hitler Launches All-Out Assault South Of Rome In Hope Of Nazi Victory

Superior German forces slash at  allied beachhead   Allied air power using new. landing strip pounds enemy

Weak Point Sought In Allied Defense   Violence Of Nozi Artillery Fire Increasing As Allies Supplied Only At Greatest Risks

SUPERIOR HUN FORCE STAGES ALL-OUT PUSK   ENEMY NEEDS BIG VICTORY TO AID HOME MORALE

Foe Probes for Weak Point to Hurl All-Out Assault; Village Held By Nazis Smashed By Shells

Superior Nazi Forces Slash at AlliedBeachhead   Probe for Weak Point in All Out Against U.S.-British

Nazis Probing For Weak Spo'  In Defenses *   Little Progress Made by Fifth Army in Region of Cassino

ALLIES SUPPLY — ADVANCED FORCES AT GREAT RISK   Enemy Continues to Mass Re: inforcements of Men and ~ :  Tanks Despite Blows at Communications. —-:   5TH ARMY AT CASSINO CAN GIVE NO RELIEF   Tank Duels Fought _ Inside City With Doughboys Us- = ing Knives and Grenades ~  in Close Combat.

WHILE ALLIED AIRMEN BATTER ENEMY; VIOLENCE OF NAZI ARTILLERY FIRE INCREASING; NEED VICTORY TO ROOST MORALE OF GERMANS.

Nazis Step Up Vv iolence  Of Gunfire   Allied Troops Fight Almost Continuously  For Qver Two Weeks NO RELIEF IN SIGHT

Climax Nears In Fight for Rome   Americans Still Stymied in Attacks Against Cassino Fortress; Best German Pilots Fighting to Save Italian Capital

Foe Probes for. Weak Point to Hutt - All-Out Assaults: Village Held By Mazis Smastied By Shells:

\Unconfirmed Enemy Broadcast: Say American Attack Is Aimec ‘At Cutting Off Luzon Island

REPORTED INVASION IS ON ISLAND OF SULUAN MIDWAY BETWEEN TWO MAIN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS IN GULF OF LEYTE; NO CONFIRMATION FROM ALLIED SOURCES.

Tiny Island Of Suluan Is  Said To’ Be Scene Of  Invasion   ADMIRAL NIMITZ MAY HAVE BEGUN EFFORT TO CUT OFF LUZON   There’s No No Confirmation Of The Japanese Report From Americans

SPANISH BORDER TENSION GROWS   Dispatches Report More “Incidents” Arising

Bureau Due For Changes   Miss Perkins Plans Postwar Revitalizing

Blind Couple Wed for 56 Years  ‘Mates, Who Have Never Seen  Each Other, Observe Event

Reds Trap 15 Nazi Divisions   Big New Offensive Cuts Off Enemy Forces North of Memel Port

cl0 ORGANIZER “FATALLY SHOT   JACKSON MAN. HELD AFTER QUARREL DURING UNION ‘MEETING RESULTS: -  IN DEATH

LOAN DRIVE READY   Division Heads Organizing Workers for Local Push Starting Nov. 20   QUOTA IS $1,750,000

PLAN FOR 6TH WAR LOAN DRIVE READY   Division Heads Organizing Workers for Local Push Starting Nov. 20

Women Are Expected to Reach Quickly for Jobs To Avoid ‘Labor Draft’

SERIOUSLY INJURED INA TRUCK CRASH   Ed Schriner in Hospital as a Result of Accident Near Wheeling Today.

M~OViIeLt Berlin Admits Loss Of  Great Russian Base: Reds 19 Miles Of Pskor

BERLIN ADMITS FALL OF GREAT BASE AT VITEBSK   New Disasters Face Nazis In Russia. Soviet Troops Break Through Dnieper  Line. 

INDICATE NEW YEARS TO BE MILD   Sunday Liquor Bans In. Most States Handicap Celebrants

RAIDERS BLAST BERLIN, COLOGNE   NIGHT ATTACKS MADE ON TWO CITIES—PLANES SINK 6 SHIPS OFF NORWAY.

COLOGNE HIT BY 1,000 BOMBERS   American Planes Blast Industrial Centers; Shipping Sunk

German City Of Cologne   Nearly 20,000 Tons O Bombs Have Fallen On Town During Octok-r

IS 87 MILES FROM PARIS   Nazi Seventh Army Trapped; Canucks Shell Falaise

Battle for Paris Already On, Allied Spokesman Declares as Two Mighty Forces Converge on Reeling Enemy

Allies Sweep on In Race to Paris   British-Canadian Advance At Falaise May Form Junction With Onrushing Americans

Greatest One Day Victory Starts Battle Of Paris   Armies Racing Toward French Capital Only 87 Miles Away; Canadians Crash Through Last Fixed Defenses Below Caen.

Nip Fleet Caught Off Base   Events Indicate Enemy Had No Intention of Seeking Battle; Blow Great, Not Crippling

Defeat Off Saipan Still Leaves Japs Strong Fleet  American Navy Still Must Reckon With Enemy Force

Sink 4 Jap Ships, Damage 10 In Battle Near Philippines      U.S.Naval Victory West Of Saipan Great but Neat Ceinnliine Blow To Fleet Of Japanese

Blow On Japs Not Crippling   U.S. Victory West Of Saipan Not Too Hard On Japanese Fleet,

Allies Answer Papal Plea To Spare City   Capital Will Not Be Harmed Unless Enemy : Resists Occupation, Vatican Informed; German Position There Hanelecc

Germans Deélare Rome Free of Armed Forces   ' Answer Pope's Plea—Allies Say Fate © Of Eternal City Solely Up to the Nazis

Statement Made Over Reich Radio   Allies Will Act Only Insofar As Germans  Use City

ROME I$ FREE FROM ANY NAZI FORCES TODAY   Claim Made By Spokesman In Broadcast

A Berlin ‘Broadcast Quoted ‘a Foreign “Office: Spokes*-' man to That Effect.   RECORDED BY REUTERS.   perrsee Made ‘in. sConnee. sgn: With the Plea of  Pope Piux XIL

NAZIS REPORT ROME CLEARED   Berlin Radio Claims City Free From Troops

Montgomery Ware To Continue Court  Fight on Seizure Legality of WLB 2   Legality of WLB Orders Undetermined, Sewell Avery Asserts

Ward Row Up To Court Avery Says   Firm’s Head Raps WLB Because Basi: Issue Still Stands

Wards To Seek Court Decision  On WLB Order   Avery Returns to Office, Promises Full Fight

Avery Insists On Ruling By Courts   Holds Basic Issues In Ward Case Require Judicial Determination   [SAYS FIRM DEPRIVED, ‘OF LEGAL RIGHTS   Statement Is Issued After Case Dismissed By Federal Jurist

AVERY T0 DEMAND COURT DECISION IN WARD DISPUTE   Declares Issues in Controversy That Led to Seizure of Plant Are Still Unsettled.   WILL NOT SUBMIT TO A CLOSED SHOI   New Struggle Develops Between Firm and C. I. 0, Over Maintenance of Union Membership.

Basic Issues Undecided Says Avery   GOVERNMENT HAS DENIED THE COURTS TO MONTGOMERY WARD, SO THERE’S NO JUDICIAL DETERMINATION   Back in His Office

BASIC ISSUES NOT DECIDED, AVERY HOLDS   Issues Statement After Return to Ward Co. Office

Ward Co. Head Asks Courts  Pass On Legality Of Seizure      Sewell Avery, in Statement, Says Basic Issues Must be Determined in Courts—Board Chair- . man Returns to Office

WARD DISPUTE. UP TO COURT   Avery issues Statement; Sub_ sidiary Facing New Trouble

BASIC ISSUES ARE UNSETTLED IN CONTROVERSY   Avery Says Causes Of Ward Seizure Must Be Determined By Courts   UNION MEMBERSHIP CLAUSE IS OPPOSED

Nazi Soldiers Spring Strong Counter Attack   Florence Nearly All In Allied Hands

GERMANS GET NO CHANGE TO FORM COUNTER ATTACK   Yanks Tighten Brittany Grip and Prepare for Siege of Brest

BREATH TAKING ADVANGE SWEEPS GERMANS ASIDE   Important City of Vire Occupied — Heavy Fighting For Brest and St. Malo   KNEMY’S SEVENTH ARMY IN DANGER   BAAN BAATR BRB FF RF RAY BAA YT BR BRR AR BDAVER EB BAN BFABANVNALALY  etree AT  Pendis Cross Mayenne River Five Times— Nazi Ship Convoy Destroyed

U.S. Forces In France Sweep Toward Paris   Move Ahead On 53-Mile Front—Chief Nazi Re. sistance At Vire   NO COUNTER ATTACKS OF NAZIS APPEAR

DEWEY TO STOP IN ADDITIONAL WESTERN STATES   Wyoming, Montana Are Added To GOP Nominee’s Itinerary In West

HOSPITAL NOTES      News of the Sick at Sacred Heart Hospital,’ LeMars --:

HOSPITAL NOTES   ‘News of the Sick at at Sacred Heart Hospital, LeMars

HOSPITAL NOTES      News of the Sick at Sacred Heart Hospital. LeoMare

HOSPITAL NOTES          News “Of ‘the ‘Sick at Sacred. Heart Ef egnital: LeMars © =~)

HOSPITAL NOTES   News of the Sick at Sacred Heart ' * Hospital, LeMars ’

HOSPITAL NOTES      News of the Sick at Sacred Heart 3 Hosplital,"LoeMare ~~

OF JAPS NOT YET IN SIGHT   OWI Says Minimum of 18 Months to Be Required

WARN OF LONG WAR WITH THE ENEMY IN PACIFIC AREA   OWI Believe It Will Take 114 to 2 Years to Defeat Japan After Germany   RAID POSSIBILITIES   West Coast May Expect Raids in Spite of Enemy’s Battered Fleet

ESTIMATE 7,000 NAZI PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN   U. S. 7TH ARMY SPREADS OUT 50 MILES ON COAST

U. S. Casualties In So. France L ess Than 300   Enemy Resistance Offi cially Reported Crumb line

THE RETREATING GERMANS BURNING THEIR OWN TOWNS   To Prevent Their Being o! Use to the Advancing Russi ;   EAST PRUSSIAN BORDER   An NBC Broadcast Said the  Red Army Reported Crossing Into Germany.

BOMB FRENCH SHIP   Germans Were Using the Strasbourg in Harbor  at Toulon

Rout Nazis  West Of Paris In Big Drive   French Ready To Rise When Capital Entered

FALL OF PARIS IMMINENT AS YANKS SLUG ON   Invasion Forces Close in on Big Ports in Southern France Offensive

President Gets Close View Of  War’ s Realities   Pays Visit To Wounded Yanks

Wounded Jungle Fighters Shake Hands with FDR  President Praises Fighters in  Talks on Hawaii, Visits Base Inctaliatians. Hernitals

Guffey Lashes Appointments By Roosevelt   Says Stettinius’ Proposed Setup Is Conservative

Major Boyington, Flying Ace, Is Reported Missing   News Of Ace Being Missing Comes After Report He Shot Down 26th Plane

Struggle for Heavily Fortified Approaches to Reich Is Renewed   \Pation’s Forces Make Progress as Yanks Charge [nto Conecnvaed Enemy  Anite: and Machine Cun Fire at Riner

All Dutch Guinea  Fall Near   New Air Base Readied for New Offensives in Palau, Philippines

LANDINGS ON ADRIATIC   ‘Allied Forces Attacked Garrisons on Two Islands

AQ Political Grow ‘aces Test Today n Maine Primary  Republicans Busy   Republicans Busy At Chicago Preparing Planks for Convention

Maine Primary Provides Test Of ClO Power   Labor Committee Offers Candidate For Senate

Truk Is Symbol Of International Treachery— — By Kirke L. Sim  Attacks On Islands Stir American Spirits

HITLER HAS CRUSHED ALL OPPOSITION   Official Reports to U. S. Show Fuehrer Has Firm Grip on Reich — No Rioting Followed Attempt on His Life.

Hitler’s Control Firm in Germany   People Apathetic Reports Indicate; Only Allied Power Will Crush Naric

BELIEVE NAZIS CRUSH REVOLT      Reports From Reich Reveal Hitler Has Control

Russians Say Rope For Hitler Best Remedy   Official Reports Say Fuehrer Has Firm Control Of All Germany

Plot Leaves Nazis Cold   Apathy Is Only Reaction Noted in Reich; Hitler Control Firm

Nazi Revolt Reportec Entirely Snuffed Oui With Hitler In Control

Hitler Bomb--Plot. Reported Completely Quelled by Nazis   Offioal Reports Indicate German People Show Little Interes 7 Either Way.

Hitler Holds Firm Control   Reports Reach Washington From Inside Germony

German Rebels Broken, Belief  Hitler In Control, Reports Indicate

WASHINGTON TOLD HITLER HAS FIRM CONTROL IN REICH   Inside Information, Disclose: Nazis Appear to Have Crushed. All Factions Ir Bomb Plot. ,   IMMEDIATE MEASURES QUELLED RIOT DANGE}   Goebbels * Spends Hour on Radio Telling German Cabinet, About New Mobilization Measure.

German People Generally Were Apathetic About It All; Effort To Kill Hitler Was Genuine; Reds Say War Not To Be Affected

Firm Control Again Held By  Nazi Leaders   ‘Reaction In Germany To   Bomb Plot Was Apathy, Reports From Inside Of Country Indicate

STORM DEATHS NOW NEAR 100   More Snow, Strong Winds _. Predicted for Northern Part of Ohio

Normal Weather After Snow Storm   Death Toll Approaches 100 Mark ’ €

Tito To Get Supporters.   ‘Military, Financial _ Aid Of London Seen

Assert British To Back Tito   Predict Britain To Give Yugoslav Marshal Military, Diplomatie Aid.

Allies May Drop King Peter For Tito, Who Has Backing Of Russian Regime

Allies Move To Heal Yugoslav Factional Split   London Parley Will Try To Bring King Peter And Tito Together.

BRITS MAY GIVE TITO DIPLOMATIC [AND MILITARY AID   Signs Seen in Washington That -Britain Will Support Yugoslavia’s Fighting Marshal Josip Broz (Tits)

More Backing For Tito Seen   British About To Give Diplomatic As Well As Military Aid To Tito.

British Expected To Back Tito  Diplomatic Suppor!   Diplomatic Support Seen; King Peter To Go to London

Nine Members Of Congress From Texas Appear To Be Renominated In Primary

Rommel Predicted Sector Where Allies invaded  German Leader Tried To Get Defenses  Built Before Attack

Rommel Feared Allies Would Land Where They Did; French Welcoming Our Troop:

FLYING BOMB ORDEAL ENDS   British Are Told Battle of London Now Virtually Thing of Past

Robot Menace To Britain Said at End   Official Statement Confirms Hopes of  English People

ROBOT THREAT TO ENGLAND HAS ENDED   After 80 Days of Punishment for War-Torn Country; 8,000 Launched Against London.   Commends Yanks

~‘dvance Slowly In Bologna Drive   Enemy Blows Up Uniti's Banks To Flood Areas

Nazis Blast  River Banks   Halt Allied Advance: In Adriatic Sector

Nazi Sub Fires On New England Fishing Ve Vessel  Part abes 4 a)   Barely Misses Mass. Scallover

LEGION OFFICERS  MEET IN CAPITAL   Map Veteran Legislation and Postwar Plans

Body Of Slain Albion Woman Found In Roac   Murder And Suicide At Coldwater; Three Die At Almont

Byres OK’d for New War Office   Senate Also Receives Nomination for FCC

Foreign Policy Debate Forecast  In Campaign Dewey to Lead Off   Dewey to Lead Off On World Peace Topic Roosevelt Talks Today

Election Gacts of Interest   175 Political Posts Were Filled Tuesday

175 Political Posts Were At Stake In Tuesday’s Election   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed. by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

ELECTION, WINDS UP. BUSY POLITICAL SEASON      Both Parties Aimed to Get Out Large Vote

Br LL ACTION TODAY   SENATE EXPECTED TO PA8S MEASURE PRGVIDING FOR A MODIFIED FEDERAL  BALLOT SYSTEM —

SENATE MAY VOTE MODIFIED U. §. BALLOT   Bitter Fight Then Would Be Shifted to Conference —

OIL PRICE BOOST URGED BY LUCAS   DECLARES INCREASE OF 35 CTS, BARREL WILL SPUR ACTIVITY

Ex-Congressman Gastonian’s Manager  Umstead Of Durham Will Serve As State Manager for Cherry’s Campaign

RAIL ESCAPE LINE ~ (UT BY RUSSIANS      ‘Strategic Junction Is Seized by the Red Armies

Nazi Escape Route From  Hungary Cut   Russians Occupy Strategic Junction Point on Tisza River

CZECHOSLOVAK RAIL JUNCTION   Russians Cut German Escape From Northeast Hungary

Red Army Cuts German Escape; ~ More Advance:   Big Hungarian City Is Threatened By Latest Russ Move

YANKS SUFFER LIGHT LOSS IN NEW INVASION   Only 300 Casualties Listed; 7,000 Germans Seized In Fast Allied Drive

Resistance In South France Being Broken   Allied Casualties In Action Light; Troops 10 Miles From Toulon, Six From Cannes

ALLIES 20 MI. NORTH OF JOULON; NAZIS CRUMBLE   Americans Suffer Only 300 Casualties While Enemy Losses Estimated at 7000

Nazi Resistance In South France Is Crumbling Fas!   U.S. Seventh Army Solidly Consolidated in Mighty Striking Force.   Allies Are Within 10  Miles of Toulon Base

New Invasion From South Reports Little Opposition From Germans  As U.S. Seventh Army Makes Gains

Allied Troops Near Toulon  And Cannes   Drive Ahead Swiftly In Southern France; Nazi Resistance Weakens

7th Army Crushes  Enemy Resistance   Allied Advance in Southern France Continues with Liqht Casualties

Nazi Resistance Crumbles As Yanks Advance in South  * 300 American Casualties Reported Against  7,000 Germans Captured, Including General Amd Gt. Warlen A Jose. Tl DL...

Less Resistance To Seventh Army   Officials Report Nazis Are Crumbling Before Allied Attack   FORCES ARE COMBINED   Patch’s Forces Have Spread Out 50 Miles Along Coast

Enemy Resistance on South Front in France Crumbling   Known Yankee Assault Casualties Total Below 300 Thus Far

American Casualties Are Less Than 300, More Than 7,000 Germans Become Prisoners

Resistance Of Enemy Is Crumbling  Union Of All US . Elements Effected

NEW INVAS ARMY GROUPS FOR ATTACK   Resistance Crumbles As Troops Consolidate Latest French Gains

Nazis in South France Weaker In Resistance   Mighty Allied Striking Force Has Few Casualties—  Many Germans Caught

Allies Strike Inland Routes   German Resistance Crumbles Against Mighty Power of Invaders

Seventh Army Consolidates Its Advances   Mighty Striking Force Of Americans Loses Less Than 300

300 REPORTED CASUALTIES IN ALLIED THRUST   German Radio Reports Fresh Landings in Toulon Sector

Invasion Forces. Advance   Now Welded Together Into a Mighty Army; Assault Casualties ‘Reported Under 300

Yank 7th Army Advances From Riviera Areas   Consolidated Into Mighty Striking: Force By Union Of All:  Elements   German General  Aud Staff Seized   Last Official Report Places Pateh’s. Armies With. _ in Ten Miles Of  OP a baey 

YANK ASSA CASUALTIES UNDER 300   /7,000 Germans, Including. ) General, Captured   Spreads Out Over 50 Miles; Enemy Hints Cannes Already Penetrated

seventh Army Pushes o Within 10 Miles of Great French Naval Base of Toulon

TROOPS WEAR DOWN NAZIS IN THE SOUTH   Casualties of New Invasion Only 300, but 7,000 Germans, Including a General and Staff, Are Captured.

ALLIES GAINING METHODICALLY IN ALL SECTORS   7,000 Prisoners, Including General and His Staff, Taken

Resistance In  ‘South Crumbles      nvaders Strike 30 Miles Inland From Beaches; Known U. S. Assault Casualties Total Only 300

Landing Groups. Merge Into Vast Striking Force   U.S. Casualties Less Than 300; 7,000 Germans Are Captured

Less Than 300 Lost In Invasion   Enemy Resistance In Southern France Crumbling.

INVADING YANK FORCES SMASH NAZI DEFENSES   Move Deeper Inland In Powerhouse Drive;  Casuals At 300

BEFORE YANKS   Seventh Army Has Had Less Than 300 Casualties in Invasion.   CAPTURE A LARGE AREA

NAZIS CRUMBLE BEFORE ALLIES INRIVIERA AREA   Invaders Drive 25 Mile: Inland in Methodical Advance

Nazi Forces Crumbling in South France  a) Le i Pee ee ee   Allied Invasion Units Move Forward With Little Opposition

Enemy Resistance In South Crumbles Before U.S. 7th Army   Troops March 25 Miles Inland; Report American Invasion Casualties Total Less Than 300; Prisoners Number 7,000

American Casualties In South France Less Than 300, Nazi Prisoners 7,000

All American Beachhead Forces Unite   Enemy Resistance Crumbles in Southern France

Allies Merge Forces In South France   Fewer Than 300 Of Americans Battle Casualties

NAZIS REPORT MORE LANDINGS AROUND TOULON   Known U. S. Casualties Tota’ Less Than 300 in New Invasion

Enemy Resistance In South France Said Crumbling  Last Reports: List: Yanks 10 Miles: Of:  De gee mi

Southern France — Sees Yanks Gain   ENEMY RESISTANCE NOW _ GROWING WEAKER IN AREA

SEVENTH ARMY PACING AHEAD FROM RIVIERE   Known U. S. Casualties Less Than 300; Patch Strikes Through Valleys.

Patch’s Mer Strike Into Valleys   Yank Casualtie: Less Than 300 7,000 Germans  Taken Prisoner

Resistance ‘In S. France Is Crumbling   Consolidated U. S. 7th Army Drives On From Extended Beachhead.

Nazis Are Crumbling in South   U. S. Casualties Less Than 300 While 7,000 Germans Have Been Captured ©   ALLIED FORCES DRIVING INLAND   Going So Well in Southern France That Air Force Aid Is Diverted   RYT Ee Vine

FOE WEAKENING BEFORE MIGHTY INVASION UNITS   7,000 Nazi Troops Prisoners In Southern France——New Gains Reported

Resistance Crumbling In South   Powerful United Striking Force Is Assembling; Report Prisoner Toll 7,000

Allies Driving Swiftly Inland In South France   Cannes, Toulon In Path Of Smashing Seventh Army Forces

Enemy Resistance In South France Crumbling Today   Known Casualties Thus Far Under 300; 7,000 Nazis Taken

Alhed Invaders Drive Ahead In  Southern France   German Resistance On French Riviera Front Reported As Crumbling   ALLIES AT LEAST 25 MILES INLANI

RESISTANCE IN SOUTH FRANCE IS CRUMBLING   U. S. Casualties Less Than 300  In Invasion

PATCH ARMIES MENACE GREAT NAVAL BASE   Last Official Reports Place Invading Forces Within Ten Miles of Important  Port of Toulon   7,000 NAZIES CAPTURED   By EDWARD KENNEDY

U.S. Advane Continuing With Little Opposition  Only 300 Casualties In Southern France

First Casualties, Prisoners Landed   Germans Captured by Invaders Questioned

PAUL V, MONUTT BEEN THREATENED   Man Held Today For Threatening McNutt And Morgenthau, Jr.

Hull Invites Conference  With Dewey   Secretary of State Says Small Nations Will be Considered

HULL REPLIES TO GOV. DEWEY   Would “Welcome” Talking With GOP Nominee to Talk Peace Terms

HULL PROPOSES TALK WITH DEWE)   DECLARES LATTER'S FEARS 4 POWERS TO DOMINATE THE WORLD ARE UNFOUNDED.

UNITED NATIONS TO PLAN PEACE   Conference May Be Held This Fall Declares Secretary Hull

HULL STATES DEWEY FEARS UNFOUNDED’   Conference -e of All United  Nations Planned, Sec’y Says

Hull May Ask Peace Meeting For All Allies   New Conclave to Establish World Security May Re Held in Fall

Hull ‘Welcomes Talk With Dewey On World Peace   Assures GOP Leader Small Nations’ Rights Will Be Defended

Dewey] Fears Groundless,  Hull Asserts.   Would Welcome ._ Talk with Governor Free from Political Particanshin. He Sav   CONNALLY ASSAILS DEWEY STATEMENT

DEWEY INVITED FOR HULL TALK   Secretary Says He’s Ready To Discuss Peace Plans

39 WOMEN ARE SELECTED FOR DUTY ON FEBRUARY JURY   Grand Jury Scheduled To Convene On Monday To Hear Cass   TRIALS START FEB. 21   Several of The Jarors Deawn Are Residents of ‘Uhis Area

96 JURORS PICKED FOR DUTY AT APRIL TERM OF COURT   Forty-Three of The Group Drawn Are Women, It is Stated   COURT OPENS APRIL 7   April Term Will Hear Civil Cases Which Are Listed

THIRTY-NINE WOMEN AS JANUARY JURORS   Civil and Equity Term Begins Monday, Jan. 8th

No Reply to U.S. Plan of Arbitration   Secretary Hull Says Offer Draws No Response from  Russians

ANSWER NOT GIVEN ON HULL'S OFFER   Secretary of State Woulc Assist-In Polish-Russian Boundry Dispute.

CANNING COMPANY TO OPEN DELPHI FACTORY; ACREAGE TS SOUGHT   LUTZ CANNING COMPANY PLANS TO SPEND $50,000 ON REMODELING BUILDING

Soldiers Now Laugh With Buck Privates   Steel From German Armored Car Saved American In Foxhole; War Truth Stranger: = Than Fiction

Allies Begin Landing On Walcheren, Berlin Says   Cembined Naval And Aim Action At Mouth Of Schelde Estuary Js Reported

Canadians Clearing Way Into Antwerp   Last Big Guns Along Estuary Iinder Attack

Canadian Soldiers Are Closing In  On Antwerp Nazis  Landings Are Begun On Sea Approach  Qaarerdinea fvrant Dart

NEW LANDINGS ON WALCHEREN ISLAND TODAY   Nazi Resistance Being Broken On East Front

Canadian Soldiers Are Closing In On Antwerp Nazis  Landings Are Begur On Sea Approach Guarding Great Port

Canadian Army Hems in Nazis   NEW LANDING OPERATION REPORTED ON NORTH SEA COAST

Reds Drive 13 Miles Into Romania; Battle To Trap 225,000 German Troops   JAPS RETREAT FROM TOROKINA AREA OF ROUGAINVILLE: MASS GRAVES BEHIND

EIGHT JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED IN WEWAK AREA      Ground Forces Move Nearer T Madang In New Guinea Operations

Democratic State Committee Meets Here March 20th   May Elect R. R. Nacy to Succeed — Stillwell

Crack In Nazi Morale Sealed Allies Believe   Not Believed,, However, Ii Can Be Maintained In. definitely; Press Adnuis New Burden

PLANE BUILDING PROGRAM LAGGING   Attack Transports And Attack Cargo Ships Needed

PHILADELPHIA STILL STRIKE BOUND TODA   Army Operates Transit System   oe neem  Service, Resumed Today, Halted

Philadelphia Trolley Strike Not.Ended Yet   Army Takes Over Situation And Seeks To Operate Buses And Trolleys

DEWEY URGES SURPLUS GO TO POSTWAR WORK   Governor Predicts $140,009.00 State Surplus This Year — Weighs Postwar Employment   AID FOR VETERANS   Proposes Maximum Benefits of Job Insurance, Educational Needs Returning Soldiers

Urges State. To ‘Lock up’ Big Surplus   Dewey Says Funds Will be Needed for Returning Soldiers

Toast Quaffed . To Vandegrift   Lieutenant General Gains Marine Command; Band Assists In Rites .

Break Through South Of Caen; Paced By Huge Aerial Offensive   Montgomery Estimates 165,000 « Germans “Wiped. Off” In France

Nazi Salient Near St. Lo  Wiped Out   Montgomery Says 156,000 of Enemy Are ‘Written Off in France’  60,000 ARE CAPTURED  British Attack Preceded by Mighty Air and Artillery Bombardment   60,000 ARE CAPTURED

Weather is Big Factor   Pennsy Detective Killed By Shell Which He Found

Americans Smash 40   Russians Throw Back Continued Kazi Attacks In Dnestr--Lwow Areas

YANK FLIERS SINK 40 ENEMY BARGES ~ WITH ROCKET GUNS   Used For First Time In Pacific, Guns Mounted Under Wings of Planes.

Russia, China In Border Rov   Mongolian Frontie: Violated, Claim

RUSSIANS IN. DISPUTE WITH GHINA TODAY   Claim Chinese Bombed Towns On Border

wen CHINESE VIOLATE BORDER   TASS SAYS PEOPLE OF MONGOLIAN REPUBLIC BOMBED AND STRAFED

Violation By Chinese Reported   Soviet Dispatch Say Kozakhs Forced to Leave Altai and ~~ Mongolia

Inner-Asian  Border Row  Irks Russia Moscow Charges   Moscow Charges Chinese Troops Violate Sinkiang

REPORT TROOPS VIOLATE. RULE   Chinese Bomb Towns and Villages on Mongolian Republic Border.

REDS CHARGE SING TROOPS RED BORDERS   Report Chinese Planes Have Bombed Towns And Villages Within Mongolian Pecples Republic.   Red Policy Harder

German Radio Says Country’s Main Defense Lines Are Being Hammered Ceaselessly: From Ground and Air—Fighter Bombers and Tanks Take Part in Attack—Conflict Described as “Greatest Battle of Materials” of War.

Sees Federalization  Of State Functions  tn Fund Grants Hamilton Convention  Member Points Out Dangers

COMMANDO KILLS NAZI COMMANDANT   British Officer, Disquised As Shepherd, Gets Into Quarters

"GET LEAN BLL   OPA Asserts Manufacturers Have Nothing to Do With Shortage

England and U. S. Agree Air Plan   Decide Course For Post War Civil Aviation After Four-Day Discussion.

AERIAL CONTROL’ ACCORD CLAIMED   Britain- U. §. Agreement Reached in London; Reds Are Included

GREGG CHERRY 10 ADDRESS. 1.4   Will Be Heard at The Senior High School Next Week

C10 Committee Opposes Dewey   Mississippi Picks Democratic Delegates

CIO Against Dewey For President   SIDNEY HILLMAN PREJUDGES NEW YORK GOVERNOR ON His RECORD HE TELLS PRESS CONFERENCE.   GOP Crows Over Gain

DEWEY OPPOSED BY ClO GROUPS   New Yorker Ignorant Of U.S. Major Problems, Says Chairman

HILLMAN ARGUES AGAINST DEWE'   Puts CIO Political Action Committee on Line Against Governor of New York in  ~ Presidential Race

AMERICANS DRIVEN FROM TWO HEIGHTS   Germans Recapture Peaks Overlooking Their Defense PosiPositions in rtalv.

Japs Pushing Drive In India   Suffer Heavy Casualties In Making Some _ Gains Against British Forces   ALLIES CONTINUE BURMA ATTACKS

One Nip Column Continues Drive Towards Vital Allied Supply: Route :

JAPO CONTINUE BURMA ADVANGE   Four of Five Enemy Columns Cress Border.

JAPS’ INDIA ~ DRIVE GAINS   Doggedly Push Manipur Invasion  ap ce etn ante  Mountbatten Admits Advances

JAPS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE IN INDIA   4 Units Have Pushed Over Burma Border; 5th Takes Tiddim

ENEMY BPEARREADS DRIVING DOGGEDLY ‘AHEAD TOWARD IMPORTANT ROAD DE...  - “SPITE BIITER ‘ALLIED. »RESISTANCE .

Yankee Lieutenant's Laugh Touches Off Winning Charge; Fifth Attempt

Amusing Incident Credited for ‘Success of American Unit's Charge

Yanks Laugh As They Face Death--‘Then Charge And Crack Nazi Line

FIFTH CHARGE, AIDED BY LAUGH, "PUTS YANKS THROUGH NAZI BARBED. WIRE

LAUGHING YANKS ROUTED GERMANS   Humorous Situation Savec  the Day in italy RY REYNOLDS PACKARD.

LAST NAZI LINE FROM SOUTHERN RUSSIA IS CUT   Viain German Supply Artery Threatened; 12 Nazi Divisions Routed And 500 Communities Liberated, Reds Report.

yerman Line Menaced By  Soviet Forces   krainian Army Appears To Cut Last Nazi Communication Line In South.   rTACKERS REPULSED

Russians Near Vital Rail Line   New Western Ukraine Offensive Frees 500 Communities

Strong Red Offensive Routs Nazis   Russians Almost Sever Railway LifeLine for Nazi Troops in Ukraine

Soviets Drive for Odessa-Lwow Read in New Maneuvers   12 Nazi Divisions Reported Routed; 200,000 Reds in Fight

12 NAZI DIVISIONS HAVE BEEN ROUTED - BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Troops In Dnieper Bend Are In Perilous’ Plight .   6,000 NAZIS SLAIN IN NEW ADVANCE   Russians Blast 120-Mile Hole In German Line In New Ukrainian Drive

GERMANS’ GRIP ON VITAL RAIL LINE SMASHEL   Reds Cut Odessa-Lwow Railroad, Menacing Forces In South Russia

Marshal Gregory Zhukov Leads the Lafest Drive  ORDER OF DAY IS ___ISSUED BY STALIN  Gap in the German Defense Line Reported Cracked  

Soviets Near Big Rail Center After Opening New Drive — _[n Western Ukraine

TO TRAP NAZIS IN UKRAINE   Russians Slash 112-Mile Gap In German Line

Ho LUNGING TOWARD NAZI ESCAPE AUAL   Enemy Routed Over 112-Mile Line Faces Entrapment of 500,000 Men.

Vital Rail Line Menaced As Red Army Crushes Foe   Russians Break Through On Wide Front To Rout Enemy Divisions

Soviets Open New Ukraine Offensive  Odessa-Lwow Railway I: Target Of Advance

REDS CLOSING IN ON 500,000 NAZI   Americans Make Move For Complete Occupation of Los Negros Island.

Russians Launch New Ukraine Drive   12 Nazi Divisions Are Routed As Powerful Red Army Rolis On

SOVIETS CUT THROUGH NAZI UKRAINE LINE   Drive Within Six Miles of Odessa-Warsaw Railroad Main Escape Route for 590.000 Nazis.

Russians Near Odessa-Lwow hailway,, Main Line of Eseape from Southeast

Reds Advance Near Railway. Suppling Foe Upon Dnieper   New Drive Launched Upon Ukraine Front

Russ Sever. Nazi Rail Link   Odessa-Lwow Line, Last Communicetion Artery, Reported Cut

New Soviet Drive Opens in Ukraine   Escape of Nazis in Dnieper Bend May Be Prevented

REDS APPEAR TO HAVE CUT LWOW RAIL   Surprise Ukranian Drive, Routing 21 Nazi Divisions, Liberates 500 Communities   6,000 NAZIS SLAIN   ‘Capture of Volochisk Would Leave Germans Only Rumanian Lines to Odessa

RUSSIANS ROUT 12 DIVISIONS IN NEW ADVANCES   Sweep Near Important Odessa-Lwow Railway;  500 Places Liberated

Nazis Facing New Disaster in Ukraines   Vital Odessa-Lwow Raiiway Threatened by Red Victories

Reds Within Six Miles of Odessa  Junction In Drive   Report 500,000 Nazis Caught In Ukraine In Converging Attacks

Soviets Tear 120 Mile Hole in German Front   Dozen Enemy Divisions Routed By Stalin’s New Attack; Over 500 Towns Wrestled  From Nazis By Russians

TWELVE GERMAN DIVISIONS ARE ROUTED BY REDS   More Than 500 Towns Freed In Drives

12 Divisions Put to Rout In Two Days   Red Army Closing in on Vital Odessa-Lwow Reathway   1500 TOWNS FREED   Soviets Gain Up to 2 Miles Along 112-Mife Front in Ukraine

Reds Approach vit al tal Railway   Threaten Escape Of 500,000 Nazis

SOVIETS DRIVE TOWARD VITAL RAIL JUNCTION   Russians Are Battling Close To Approaches to Important Odessa-Lwow Line In Dnieper Bend   500 TOWNS LIBERATED

Soviet Army Closes on Key Railway Line   Main Artery to Nazis in Dnieper Bend Threatened at Volochisk

New Soviet Power Drive Cuts Vital: German Rail Line   Odesse- Lwow Artery Is Last Important: Communication Line Out af Sauth Derecin

Reds Near _ Vital Odessa Railway Line   Route 12 Nazi Divisions In Powerful New Push Toward Rumania.

REDS CLOSE TO VITAL RAILWAY   Odessa-Lwow Line Main Artery Supplying Germans In Dnieper Bend.   12 DIVISIONS ARE ROUTED

RUSSIANS WITHIN 60 MILES OF RUMANIA   Stalin: Announces Successes At Dnieper in @rder of thea Dav

(dessa-Lwow Rail Line Cut by Reds   New Offensive Rolls Southwest in Sustained Assault

BELIEVE REDS REACH VITAL ODESSA RAILS   Rout 12 Nazi Divisions in New Soviet Attack in Western Ukraine

RedsMoving On Vital Rai Feeder Line   German Legions Face New Crisis On Rumania Front

ODESSA-LWOW RAIL LINE CUT BY RED ARMY   First Ukrainian Army Rolling Southwest in New Offensive Drive Makes Gains

Reds Break German Line In Ukraine   New Offensive Routs 164, OOO Nazis, Threatens Escape Corridor

Two Divisions Are Routed, 500 Towns Taken In Advance   Moscow Celebrates New Victory Announced By Premier Stalin

RUSSIANS ROUT NAZI DIVISIONS   Twelve Enemy Units Are  Forced Back as Reds Near Vital Railway

RAILROAD LINE VITAL LINK FOR 500,000 NAZIS   Russian Forces Sweep Westward In Decisive Drive Along Entire Front

2 Nazi Divisions Routed And 500 Towns Regained In Two Days; Russians Near Border Of Rumania

German Defenses Cracked Along 112 Mile Front   ‘12 Nazi Divisions. Kouted In New Offensive.

Reds Appear To Have Severed Vital Rail Link   Last Important Line Of Communication Has Been Soviet Goal

Reds Sweep Rear Vital Rail Line   Advance in Powerful New Offensive in  Ukraine

Germans’ Main Railway Line In West Imperilled   Soviets Liberate Many Towns; Rout 12 Nazi Divisions

Russians Are Now Only Six : Miles From Vital Escape  Link; New Offensive Opens   Marshall Zhukov, Savior Of Moscow Takes Over—Ber lin Admits Soviets Are Plunging Pia Reanidle

Rout 12 Divisions   Thunder At Approaches of Volochisk Station; Russians Now 60 Miles North of Rumanian Frontier; Marshall Zhukov Replaces Vatutin Now Ill.

Americans Seize Important Road Junction 15 Mi. South (Of Cherbourg, Shell Highway

PREMIER SAYS ARMISTICE IS ‘VERY HARSH’   Country Must Pay Heavily For War

Russian Troops Enter Finland To Take Control   Finnish People Said Evacuating Porkkala Area

Soviets Take  Over Finland - In Armistice   Two-Month Isolation Decreed, Cede Karelia, Pet  gamo and Naryy Base

Soviet Army Takes Over In Finland   Harsh Armistice Imposed: Ceding Of Territory, Damages Included

, American Naval Victory Dooms sJaps On Saipan   Yankee Invaders Score Smashing Gains; Outnumber Foe On Island.   Naval Support Lost.

Saipan’s Japs Leff To Fate   Fleet Flees, Leaves 20,000 To Face Yanks Who Now Outnumber Nipponese

20,000 Japs Face Defeat On Saipan   Abandoned by Nipponese Navy, Treeps Driven Back by Yanks Now Heavily Eeinforced

[Defeat of Japengse Fleet Makes  'For Success of Drive on Saipan

Saipan Japs Abandoned by Routed Fleet   Reinforced Americans Cleaning Up Enemy Remaining on Key Island of Marianas

Yanks Hit Japs Hard On Saipan   Rout of Enemy Fleet By Powerful “Task Force 58” Tips Scales In Favor of Americans

20,000 Nipponese Abandoned by Enemy s Flight   Operations of Powerful New Task Force Are Revealed

Saipan Defenders Abandoned by Japs 20,000 Nip Troops  Are Hit High and Low by Yanke

AIDED BY NEW AIRSTRIP, YANK’ DRIVE ON BASE   Entire Enemy Garrison Apears Trapped Aftre Naval Defeat —

20,000 Japs Left To Die   Apparently Abandoned By Fleet, Japs On Saipan Hit By Yanks.

YANKS DRIVE ON JAPANESE IN MARIANAS   Hit Enemy Hard On Saipan After U.S. Disrupts Reinforcement Plan

20,000 Nippon Troops Isolated   Defeat of Jap Fleet Leaves Enemy’s Garrison on Saipan Abandoned to Its Fate and American Forces Push Steadly Forward to Occupy Island,   SHIP LOSSES ADMITTED

Yanks, Aided By Fleet’s Success, Hit  Saipan Japs   20,000 Face Death In Island Attacks

REINFORCED YANKS GAIN ON SAIPAN   20,000 Enemy Troops Hit High And Low; Victory. Certain

Jap Forces Left To Die On Saipan  Are Blasted   American Invasion Army Is Greater Than Defenders

Saipan Yanks Push Ahead   20,000 Japs Face -Death as Fleet Abandons Them

20,000 ENEMY TROOPS LEFT BY FLEET   Invasion Of Island Going Well, Says Nimitz   Support Action On Ground; Nip Merchantman Sunk . Palau

FLEET LEAVES 20,000 JAPS T0 DIE ON SAIPAN   Outnumbered Nips Hit Hard by Yanks in Marianas, Victory Certain

20,000 CNEMY THOOPS Flan WITHOUT HOPE   One-Sided Sea Battle Dooms Garrison as U. S. Rushes Reinforcements.

Victory Now Certan With Jap Fleet An Planes Driven Off B: Powerful U. S. Tasl Force.

Yanks Pounc Jap Troops On Saipan   Scale Heights And Probe Flatlands  Of Island

Japs Abandoned To Their Fates By Routed Fleet   Nips on Saipan Hit Hard by Outnumbered American Army.   Victory Is Tipped by New U. S. Task Force

Navy Abandons 20,000 Japanese   Troops on Saipan Island Left To Their Fate by Fleeing Warshins

AR a,  10,000 NPS FACE DEATH ON SAIPAN  Abandoned By Fleet, J ap: anese Are Targets Fo U.S. Forces  FOE OUTNUMBERED           Tweet One ctng Almne   FOE OUTNUMBERED   Yanks, Sensing Almost Certain Victory, Batter Island Defenders

20,000 Abandoned Japanese On Saipan New Facing Doom   Certain Victory In Marianas Now Seen As U. S. Special Pacific Fleet Now Nears Japan’s Gates.

20,000 Japs Abandoned On Saipan   Island Defenders Are Abandoned by Fleet After Beating

20,000 NIPS ON SAIPAN FIGHTING LOSING BATTLE   Yanks Close in for Final Kill After Routed Fleet Runs Away

Yanks Pound. ‘Trapped Japs Tn Marianas   Invasion Force “Seales Heights on Saipan; Has Fine ‘Air Support 

20,000 Japs Face Saipan Death Stand   Bolstered Yanks Step Up Assault Across Isle Base

LT. N. J. WEBER IS REPORTED AS “MISSING   : Altoona Young Man. Bombardier In Air Corps, Unreported Since Aug. 16.

DUBUQUE FLIER "LISTED MISSING   Lieut. Frank Whittington Is Lost Over Germany

Churchill Hints Another Meeting Between Three Chiefs Is Due On Atlantic Charter

ATLANTIC CHARTER “TO BE REVIEWED   CHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS DOCTRINE MUST BE EX_PANDED BY ALLIES.

pane ‘artirms Aflantic Charter Principles—  ChurchllPredicts New 3-Power Parley

PRIME MINISTER IS PUT ON SPOT   Atlantic Charter May Be Adapted And Expanded, Churchill Admits

COUNTY MUST: RECRUIT WORKERS   Farm Situation Demands Your Help’

B-29's Hit Formosa Again   No Aircraft Loss This Time. Installations at Okayama And Heito Bombed

Counter-Attacks In Formosa Area Began Friday   Nips Claim Home Fleet Has Joined Battle and Sunk U.S. Task Force

Big Planes Are Almost Unopposed   Second Mission to Jap Base Accomplished. Without Loss of Aircratt   ONLY ONE LOST IN BOTH RAIDS   Results of Bombing Are Good; Photographs Slow Buildings Damaged

TOKYO SAYS JAP FLEET IS BATTLING AMERICAN FORCE   BROADCASTS CLAIM 16 U. S. WARSHIPS SUNK, 19 DAMAGED

Second Blow At Jap Base In 48 Hours   Furious Air-Naval Battle Enters Third Day; Tokio  Says Jap Fleet In Action Ate I aet

Japan Reports Imperial Fleet Pursues Yanks   Two-Day Air-Nava!l Duel Continues, Says Tokyo; Approaches To Philippines Blasted

Says Senators Against FDR   Republican Senator Says Dozen Senators Will  Not Vote For FDR.

Simpler Tax Bill Moves Toward Vote   House May Jay Get Revised Withholding Plan by Next Week

HOUSE GROUP . FINISHES WORK ON NEW TAX BIL!   Fre ees ‘Some me 30.Million ‘Taxpayers’ ‘Fyom Making Return 

Bill To Simplify Payment Of Taxes Now Nearly Finished By Committee

House Committee Writes Tax Bill  Exempts s 30 Milli on  Rw... kg ML ke

World Currency Plan Announced   U.S. Would Put Up Gold  For Stabilization

New income Tax Bill Is All Ready   Taxpayers Won’t Have to File Returns but Cut in Pay Checks Wilk Be Greater

About Ready On Tax Plan   New. Bill Will Relieve Many of Filing Returns And Simplify Procedure

CAPT. HAROLD. OGDEN GETS DFC;  HEADQUARTERS TELLS STORY OF 'IBAGGING HIS FLRST NAZI PLANE

Young Lowell Flier Gets — Distinguished Flying Cross.   First Lieut. Vincent Hockmeyer in 50 Fighter Combat Missions Over Enemy-Occupied Are:

‘GIVE UP,’ CAPTURED JAP TELLS COMRADES   Prisoner Broadcasts on Bougainville

Captured Nippon Addresses Buddies   _ Expresses Surprise At Kind Treatment Given by Allies

lan Drivate Anoeals To His Di vision To Surrender To Superior American Army rorces

Jap Prisoner Broadcasts   Appeals to Former Comrades to Give Up Fight

CHEST DRIVE’S GOAL $110,866   Reduced From $120,000 By Taking $10,000 From Surplus

FAVORS MAKING OF NEW WHISKY   Senator McCarran Thinks 20,000 Gallons Of Alcohol Can Be Diverted Without Injuring War Program.

REPORTS SOUGHT ON EXCESSIVE CHARGES   ODT Officials Act to Curb Price Ceiling Violations

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   High School Boy Killed in Freak Accident

Eden Dissuaded From Resigning PostOn Cabinet   Imminent Developments Preclude Possibility Of Foreign Minister’s Relinquishing Post

ANTHONY EDEN STAYS ON JOB   Foreign Secretary Faced With War Conferences, Can't Resign Now

Nazis Bombard  Florence Despite  Open City Pledge   Allies Battle Through City; Nazis Open Fire With Largest Guns

Yanks Continue Advance Toward French Capital   Canadian, British Troops Crash Deep . Into German Lines

MIGHTY AIR FORCE AIDING   Allles Plunge Nearly Four Milles: into Heart of German Line—Ger. man Lines Hit by 6,000 Tons of Bombs Within Few Hours, —

YANK’S ARE CON/ERGING OM LE MANS   Boche Defenses Ar Being Ripped to Shreds by ‘Allies

U. S. Columns Press Le Mans In Fast Drive   Two Canadian And British Armies Crash German Lines Below Caen

Enemy’s Left Flank Disintegrating Under Lightning Thrusts Of Gen. Bradley’s Tanks And Mechanized Infantry   CONCENTRATE POWER ON CAEN DISTRICT

Full-Scale Drive On Paris ls Being Pushed by Allies   Yanks Converge on Le Mans, 100 Miles From Capital

AMERICAN COLUMNS ARE CONVERGING ON LE MANS, 100 MILES FROM PARIS

Yanks Smash On for Le Mans   Secret Armored Troop Carriers Aid in Smash Following History's Mightiest Air Blasting; 154 Enemy Tanks Bagged in U. S. Offensive

U. $. Tanks, Armored Infantry Disintegrates Enemy's Left Flank 112 Miles From Capital

All Initial Objectives Are Taken   Bombers and Artillery Pound Nazis in Advance  of Armored Forces

OPEN DRIVE ON PARIS AS YANKS FORGE AHEAD   Hundred-Mile Front Blazes

ALLIED ARMORED FORCES RIP OPEN NAZI DEFENSES   Enemy’s Left Fiank Disinte grating Under Infantry Thrusts, While Right Flank Is Menaced.   MAIN ALLIED POWER ON THE CAEN SECTOR   500 Heavy Allied Bombers Fly Through Channel Fog to Attack German Targets  .. In Southern Franee.

British And Canadians Cut Deep Into Nazi Line Below Caen   American Forces Close On Le Mans   German Defenses Being Ripped Apart At Both Ends Of Front

ALLIED ARMIES CRASH BATTLE LINES NEAR CAEN   Converge From Brittany On LeMans, 100  Miles Fram Cannibal

Main Allied Powe Crashes On Nazi Lines Below Caen   Terrific Bombardment Demoralizes Foe As  Allies Gain 4 Mi.

British Begin New Drive Below Caen   German Defenses Crumble Before. Fasf-Moving Armored Onslaught

QUR MILES IN THE GERMAN LINES   Southeast Of Caen In Full Scale Offensive On Paris Today   SHORTEST ROAD TO FRENCH CAPITAL   Striking Behind Tremendous Rolling Barrage Of Aerial Bombs

British, Canadians Strike Out in Caen Area After Barrage   Entire French Front Ablaze With New Allied Gains Made

DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING FOUR PERSON   Receives Sentence Without Display Of Emotion

Danaher Pens  Ballot Plan   Senator To Offer Servic Vote Compromise

New Soldiers’ Vote Measure Given Senate   Compromise Bill Would , Use Federal . Procedure To Speed State Ballots . to All in Uniform

ARMED SERVICE BALLOT REVISED   Compromise Offered To Bring Elections To Uniformed Forces

BOMBERS BATTER PERMANY AGAIN   Massive Daylight. Offensive Continues Friday.

: —AIR WAR— me  NAZIS BLASTED BY AMERICAN AIRMEN   Heavy U. S. Bombers In Seventh German Raid “In Eight-Days’

Big Force « of Bombers Out Again   Nazi. Europe Is © Blasted Hard for Seventh Time in Eight Days   RAIDS ON. GERMANY AND PRENCH COAST   Only Four. Bombers Lost on Previous Big Raid on Withelmshaven

Heavy Bombers Strike Again At Nazi Europe   German Objectives In The West Are Goal: Of American Planes

BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS AGAIN LASH GERMANY             en Strafed Yesterday, t, Brunswick, Hannover   FRANCE ALSO HIT   Caly Four Heavy Bombers, Two Fighter Bombers, Nine Fighters Lost Thursday

GREAT FORCES U. 8.  HEAVY BOMBERS HIT  WESTERN GERMANY TWO WAVES OF GERMAN  BOMBERS STRIKE AT LONDON DIUIRING NICHT

Great Forces OfU.S. Heavy Planes Hit At Nazi Targets  Long-Range Fighters   Long-Range Fighters Escort Bombers On Foray Into Enemy Territory Again

SEVENTH BLITZ IN EIGHT DAYS STRIKES NAZIS   Another German City Caught In One-Two Allied Attack

U.S. Bombers Rip  Western Germany    i   Nazi Europe Pounded For Seventh Time In Eight Days; Enemy Planes Stage ‘Pocket Blitz’ On London

‘Strong Forces  Of U.S. Bombers  Lash At Europe   Seventh Attack: In 8. ‘Days. ‘Batters’ Objectives: In “Western Area Of Reich

U.S. Bomber: Blast Nazis In Big Raid   Hit Targets In Western Reich

Yank Bombers Strike Again   Heavy Force Batters Western Germany After RAF Mosquitoes Attack

U. 5. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Heavy Forces Lash Out For Seventh Time In Eight Days

HUGE U.S. AIR FORGE ATTACKS WESTERN REICH   Airmen Follow Up British Night Assault on Same Sector

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK GERMAN TARGETS   ‘Luftwaffe Strikes Back with “Pocket Blitz” on landan Aren

Allied Heavies Out Again Today  ‘Pocket Blitz’ Carriec Out On London

GERMANY GETS AIR BATTERING   AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS FOLLOW MOSQUITO SALLY

American Heavie  Lash at Nazi  Europe Ith Time. Gétitons Seid: hit.  Battle to. London In Night Attack: :

Americans Hit West Germany   Heavy Bombers Blast At Objective in Nazi Europe

NAZI EUROPE AGAIN LASHED BY BIG BOMBERS   Objectives in Western Germany Under Attack Today After RAF Raids Last Night

Great Force Of U. S. Bombers Lashes Out At Germany In 7th ‘Saturation Attack In 8 Days   Another Cog In Nazi War Machine Hit Though Specific Target Ils Not Named

AMERICAN BOMBERS RESUME OFFENSIV   Great Force Lashes Qu Against Western Europe; Target Is Not Named

Aerial Armada Today Batters West Germany   Follow Up Blow Struck Last Night By Speedy  Masanrtons.

NAZI EUROPE HEAVILY RIT BY BOMBERS   Americans Bomb Germany’s War Factories

ALLIES STEP UP AERIAL BLOWS   U. S. Bombers Follow RAF Ir Hits At Western Europe

YANKS BLAST WAZ! FUROPE   Batter Western Germany  Seventh Time In  Eight Days

Situation Grave As Japs Gaining In Chinese Push  Wedemeyer Mokes

JAPANESE CAIN 13 MORE MILES IN SOUTH CHINA   General Hata’s Troops Threat. ening To Cut Off Vital Burma Road

250,000 Japs Drive To Cut China Supply   Nips Trying To Snap Land Supply Route In New Campaign

Japs Advance 13 Miles in China  Drive Designed to Snap Burma Road

SUPPORT FOR BOND DRIVE   BOND BALES OFF TO. GOOD ‘START IN ALL STATES, NATIONAL DIRECTOR SAYS

SOVIETS REACH DNIESTER RIVER   Allies Make Gains Thru Cassino Wreckage

SUPREME COURT SESSION COMES TO A CLOSE TODAY   Congress May Not Recess Due to Imminence of D-Day.

Germans Leave Port Of Valos   British Patrols Enter Greek Town Of Dhomokos.

$1,466,250 Is Found in Safety Boxes Rented by Late ‘Big Bill’ Thompson

Jap Island Bases Bombed   Allied Planes Attack Wewak and Other South Pacific Points

Navy Takes-Over: Machine Shops   Order Comes After Trouble on West Coas!

ORDERS NAVY TAKE OVER FIVE SHOPS   Employees Had Refused to Work Overtime

Ward Co. Officials Told Not To Discharge Its Employes Without O.K.

WARD WORKERS NOW UNDER NEW REGULATIONS   Companv Cannot Dismiss Worker  Without O. K.

U.S, T0 GOVERN WARD ‘FIRINGS   Federal Approval Requirec For Any Dismissals

BLACKOUT LIFTED ON NAZI DO-OR-DIE PUSH   GERMANS GAINED 18 TO 20 MILES, CUT OFF LARGE AMERICAN GROUP IN FIRST 48 HOURS

Gains of 18 To 20 Miles Attained (In Early Assault   Several Large Yank Groups Cut Off, Say Allied Dispatches

Eligibility For — New Autos Tighter  Pool of New 1942 Cars Dwindling Fast, Fewer Persons Can Get Them

OPA Tightens Eligibility For New Automobiles  New Requirements      New Requirement: Effective Friday

4.000 Warplanes Pulverize Nazis   Score of Targets in Germany, France Hit

LOCAL SOLDIER IS INJURED IN ITAL’   Pvt. Gebhart Writes, “Yer ries Nearly Got Me But 1’ll Get Even With Them.”

ROY H. BASTIS SERIOUSLY HUKI   Local Soldier Fighting With Armored Infantry In Italian Campaign.

Air Blows On Nips Mount   Bombers Cover 3,700-Mile Course; Jap 5-Ship Convoy Smashed In Southwest

JAP VESSELS ARE ~ SUNK BY. BOMBERS      Air. Attacks: Continue: on » Wide Pacific’ : Front “tes

FIVE ENEMY VESSELS DAMAGED BY AIRMEN   Slashing Armetican Air Attack Staged Along 3.700-Mile Pacific Front

Nazi Battleship “Tirpitz Bombed   British Planes Attack German Mystery Ship

Giant Vessel Caught In Norwegian Fjord   British Planes Carry Qut Raid, Interrupting Vital Repair Work

‘British Planes Pounce On ‘German Battleship Tirpitz, ‘Attack Is Very Successful

Churchill Backs Red Demands for West Border  Dumps Overboard Present Polish Government-in-Exile

Churchill Dumps Overboard Polish Government in Exile; Backs Russia

SOVIET FRONTIE! POLICY BACKED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister, in Historic Speech to Commons, Dumps Polish Regime Overboard

Backes Reds On Frronticr   Draws ‘Mapp of. Central  : Europe “in. Which... Nazis. Would Loses Much

Churchill Backs Russian Stand In Polish Dispute   Also Suggests U. S, Make ‘Practical! Approach to Matter

Churchill Says Reds Must Get Part of Poland   Prime Minister Would Give  Poles German Territory Tie Bitsivndake: Shattta

BACKS SUVIET DEMANDS   Dumps Overboard Present Polish Exile Government; Poland Free to Expand to The West Under Plan

Churchill Upholds Claims of Russia  To Part of Poland   Would Give Poles East Prussia, Including Danzig; Asks U. S. to Accept ‘Practical’ Action in Europe; Conservatives in Commons Charge Charter Junked

(Churchill Draws New Map, Dumps Polish Exiles While Backing Soviet Border Plan

Churchill Casts Off Polish  Government; Backs’ Russians   Prime Minister Draws Map for Central Europe, Tak ing Tracts From Germany—Soviet Demand. ~*~" “for New Boundary Supported

Polish Exile Government Repudiated  By Churchill   Favors Adjustment Of European Frontiers With. Germans Losing Vast Tracts of Land  WSR WOULD GAIN

Churchill To Demand New Pole Regime   ‘New Frontiers For Germany Are Outlined

Plunge Almost Through Monschan Forest; Ninth Army Joins In Battle Of Roer Capturing Village Of Vichoven   DOUGHBOYS CONTROL 18 MILES ON ROER

LAST FORTIFIED: TOWNS ON ROER ARE CAPTURED   Third Army Repulses Four German CounterAttacks as Saar Valley Battle Rages BRuriously

Last Two Foris On River Bank Are Captured   Americans Set For Frontal Assault On Duren. Kev To Cologne Plain.

2 FORTIFIED TOWNS ALONG ROER CAPTURED   Allied Armies Getting Set For Frontal Assault On Cologne Plain

ALLIES GAIN FROI OF 18 MILES ALON BANKS OF ROER; SEIZE TWO TOWNS   Prisoner Bag Now Stands At 212,864

First Army Troops Set for Front Attack On Roer River Pivot   18-Mile Front Cleared on Slreany Bitter Fight Rages on Third Front; Allied Flank Dented West of Rhine

REACH RIM OF FORTRESS CITY ON ROER RIVEF   Seize Last 2 Fortified Towns To North In 2-Mile Gain

AFL’S GREEN SAYS RAILROAD STRIKE BARELY AVERTEL   Only. Taking Over of Systems By Army Prevented. a ‘Complete Walkout.

Army Observes 26th Birthday Triumphantly   Vast Area Liberated From German Hands, Stalin Points Out

REDS DRIVE FOR BALTICS   Close in On Pskov From Four Directions; Mop Up at Krivoi Rog.

WAR TODAY   injand’s Refusal to Quit War On Soviet Terms May Result In Tragie Manhandling

REJECTION BY FINLAND TERMS FOR ARMISTICE. BY RUSSIA TO HAVE CRAVEST CONSFQUENCES

The War Today—._ Finnish Rejection Of Ruisian Peace Terms Would-Be Victory.For Hitler

Finland Believed Preparing To Continue War As Pawn Of Hitler; Time For Answer To Soviet Armistice Terms Has Arrived

ine War Loday  Finns Court Complete Disaster But Stand Is Diplomatic Blow to Allies

PACIFIC LEADER  REFUTES TOKYO  VICTORY BOASTS DECLARES PART OF  ENEMY FLEET CAME AT DIIT CAN AWAY

B-29 Bombers In Third Raid  On Formosa   Japanese Airfield And Supply Depot Blasted By Super-Fortresses In Last Attack

TURKEY SHAKEN BY HEAVY QUAKE: FEAR MANY DEAD   Town of Gerede, Northwest  @f Ankara, Reported Destraved

MANY REPORTED DEAD AS QUAKE ROCKS TURKEY   Gerede, North Of Ankara Destroyed; Shock Lasts 50 Seconds

SEVERE QUAKE ROCKS TURKEY   Claim City of 25,000 Destroyed Trembior Lasts For four Hours

Philadelphia Transit Operators Go Back to'Work Monday — Federal Government Continues Action to Bring ‘Leaders to Trial.

Transit Strike Comes To End In Philadelphia   Federal Government Plans Prosecution  of Walkout Leaders

CAR STRIKE ENDED WHEN ARMY RULES   ‘Men Return To Work And Grand Jury Will Probe Conspiracy Angle Meetina Wednesday.

CAR STRIKE IS ENDED; JURY PROBE LOOMS   U. S. Ready To Prosecute Leaders Of Philly Work: Stoppage

TRANSIT MEN BACK TO WORK INPHILLY .   Government to Prosecute Leaders Of Work Stoppage

Army Restores Transit Service At Philadelphia   Four Leaders. Under Arrest As Strike Ends

Philly Transit Workers Strike Ends Today   Government Plans To Prosecute Walkout Leaders

Service In Philly 100 Pct. Normal; Arrest Leaders   Expect Army To Step Out When Normalcy Is Assured

End Transit Strike in Philadelphia   U.S. Goes Ahead With Plans to Prosecute  Walkout Leaders

STRIKE OF TROLLEYMEN iS FNDED   Transportation In Philadelphia Back to Normal

Downstate Puts Governor Into Victory Column   Edw. Barrett Running Ahead: Other State Races in Doubt

SECOND FINE FOR STATE SENATOR   George Faul, Des Moines, Violated Game Laws

ESTIMATE JAPS TURN OUT 1200 PLANES MONTHL'   PRODUCTION IS CONCENTRATED ON DEFENSIVE TYPES

Japanese Plane Plants Turn Out 1,200 Each Month Now With Accent On Defensives

APS MAKING 1,200 AIRCRAFT A-MONT   ‘Report Says They Are Con: / centrating on Defensive Tynes.

PLACE NIP PLANE PRODUCTION AT 1,200 MONTHLY   Japanese Hope for Expansion is Over; Now Building Fighter Airplanes

Japs Step Up Plane Output   Believed Now To Be About 1.200 Monthly

TVA MUST HAVE FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE   Jennings Says Saboteurs Ordered to Wreck Power Plants, Others Dynamite Transmission Lines

Committee Cuts Interior Dept. Appropriations   Several of Dept.’s Operations Are Heavily Criticized

Committee Cuts  Budget, Lashes Dept. Of Interior   Report Recommends 9 Million Less Than Ickes Wants

Secretary Ickes’ Budget Requests Cut And Some Departments Criticised

Lt. James W. Elder Killed In Action, Telegram States   Word Received This Morning States That Lecal Officer. Previously Reported Wounded, Is Dead

CHINESE BITTER   “Only Pitiful Token Assistance” Given Nation by U. S. and Britain, Says Spokesman.

COURT MARTIAL .POSTPONEMENT NEARS: SHOWDOWN   Leaders Think Extension Will Be Granted for ~ ‘Fearl Harbor Leadérs 

NAZIS DIG IN FOR DEFENSE OF FORTRESS   Americans Meet Fierce Resistance as They. Approach City—Seize Hill Mile and Half to East.   SEVEN TOWNS FALL TO BRADLEY’S MEN   Doughboys ‘Slug Way Forward on Flaming 30-Mile Front—Advance Threatens Lessav.

Fall of St. Lo To Americans Is Imminent   Escape Routes Out of Base Dominated by Doughboys; Nazis Left Stunned in Foxholes

Americans Storm Heights in Position to Fire Point-blank ‘On Escape Routes, Into City

Fall of Ancient Normandy  City Believed Imminent  HEIGHTS STOR STORMED. / IN DAY‘S ADVANCE  Community Badly Batter. ed in the Line of a Battle

Fall of St. Lo ‘to Yankees Is Imminent   Doughboys Sweep Up 7 Towns in Slugging Advance

American Forces Win Seven Towns In Normandy   Munich Bombed Third Day in Row; American:  Take Laijalico, Italy   SUPREME HY ADQUAR:. TERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Friday,

Yanks Make More Gains"  Toward City   Break-Through ‘Looms Despite Robot Bombs Falling on Positions  PRESS ON LESSAY

Mountbatten Expected to Step Down as — Supreme Commander in Southeast Asia

MOUNTBATTEN MAY LOSE RANK   Stilwell. In Farewell. Hints Of New Offensive

Stilwell Hints Large-Scale Offensive  Lord Mountbatten May Quit Post

MOUNTBATTEN WAY STEP DOWN   Stilwell Hints Large Offensive Pends in BRagt

Le Havrels Captured By British   German Garrison’s Surrender Reported A 11:30 This Morning  ee i OF eee ie ee

Commander of Nazi Garrison of 5,000 Had Been   Wounded; Deputies  Finally Give Up

YANK SQUEEZE ON ORMOC IS TIGHTENING   Watching for Breakout Attempt; First Cavalry Consolidating Positions On Heights.   Meet Patrols

CONSOLIDATION OF POSITIONS BY AMERICANS   First Cavalry Takes Another Key Ridge Position On Levte Island   BITTER RESISTANCE OFFERED BY ENEMY

LEYTE ISLAND PEAK IS HELD BY AMERICANS   CAVALRY DIVISION SLOWLY CLOSING IN ON ORMOC

YANKS TAKE NEW KEY RIDGE POST ON ORMOC FRONT   MacArthur Forces Consolidate Positions on Heights Dominating Important Road.   JAP COUNTER-ATTACK PLAN IS BROKEN UP   U. S. Division Closing Slowly Along Ormoc Road in Face of Increasing Opposition.

YANKS TIGHTEN GRASP ON VITAL LEYTE HEIGHTS   Japanese Reported Using Five Divisions in Attempt Ta Smach Enrirriamant

SQUEEZE TIGHTENED IN LEYTE FIGHTING      Elements of American Di vision Consolidate Positions

REDS SLASH ANCHORS OF ENEMY LINE   Soviets Tear Apart Northern Flank and Pursue the Fleeing Nazi Units.   BULLETIN

290,000 GROGGY ENEMY TROOPS —~ AGHT FOR LIFE   Soviets Closing Trap Betweer Leningrad and Lake flman_

Americans, French Fight Way Into Heart of Paris, Receive Wild Acclaim of Happy Throngs

CAPITAL WILD WITH JOY AS TROOPS ENTER   PEOPLE DELIRIOUS; 4 YEARS OF NAZI RULE ENDED

When Nazi Resistance Crumbles at Gates of Parts Ponulace Crowds Streets in Ecstasy of Welcome

NAZI FRONTLINE CITIES BLASTED   1200-Plane Allied Armadas Hit Rail Yards

U. §. Planes Smash Three Nazi Targets   Heavy Bombers in Force Blast Front Line Defenses

1,200 Planes Hit Frankfort And Coblenz   Bombers Hammer German Defenses

1,200 Heavies Batter Reich  Objectives Obscured By Clouds Durina Day

LUDWIGSHAFEN, FRANKFURT AND COBLENZ FIRED      1.200 U. S. Heavies Smash Railway Yards And Other Targets At Centers

BOMB TARGETS IN GERMAN FRONT LINE   1,200 Heavy Bombers At tack Rail Yards, Other Objectives.

1,200 Plane: Hit Targets In Germany   Loud Blasts Heard Across Channel From Calais

Yanks Hammer Railway Yards \Of Nazi Fronts   Frankfurt, Coblenz and Ludwigshafen Target Areas of More Than 1200 Bombers

1,200 Bombers Attack German Border Towns.   RAF Continues Pounding Calais; German Transport Planes Destroyed In Greece

Frankfurt, Coblenz Targets Bombed  Chemical Center at Ludwigshafen Area Also Attacked Monday

Governors Seek Quick  Conversion   .. Ve Peace Production When War Is Ended

Governors Seek U. S. Action on Post-War Plans   Want Program of Public Works and_ Reconver: sion War Plants

Ask U.S. Aci On Postwar  Work Plans   Governors Seek  To Aid Industry

ROLFES FUNERAL SATURDAY A. W.   Pioneer Remsen Woman Died Yesterday—Aged 76 Years

ALLIES GAIN NEAR KOHIMA   Meet Jap Opposition & Miles S. E. of Town

BREACHES ALONG JAP DEFENSES IN PACIFIC WIDENED   Nimitz-MacArthur Team Making New and Broader Gaps at Saipan and Other Vital Spots

Blows Weaken Japan Defenses   Wider Gaps Are Torn In Inner Bastions

SAIPAN ISLAND   Fight ta Within 3 Miles on Bay on East Coast, Near Aslito Airfield.   GUAM HEAVILY SHELLED

Holds Enlarged By Strong Nmifiz M Arthur Team   _Beachhead Enlarged After Counterattacks Are Repulsed By US

Yanks Enlarge  Beachhead on Saipan Island   Push to Within  3 Miles of Main Naval Base After Repulsing Jap Attack

Nippon Inner Defense Line Fading Away   Breaches Made All Way From New Guinea to the Kuriles

Allied Breaches of Inner Jap Defense  Line Are Enlarged   MacArthur-Nimitz Team Continue Their Deadly Coordination

MacArthur-Nimilz Team Enlaraiina Beachheads In 4.000 Mile Jan Inner Defense Line

Americans Hit Japanese Inner Defense Line   Soldiers, Marines Within Three Miles Of Saipan Bay After Enlarging Beachhead

Americans Are Nearing Naval Base On Saipan   Enlarge Beachhead After Repulsing Two Japanese Counterthrusts.

Breaches in Jap Defense Are Widencee   Soldiers and Marines on Spi pan Battle to Within Three  Miles of [sland’s Main Enemy Naval Base

Yanks Enlarge  Beachhead Hold On Saipan Isle   Heavy Shelling Of Guam Seen As Preparation For Invading Island

Yanks Near Aslito Field On Saipan ©   On Edge of Airstrip And Within 3 Miles Of Naval Base; Guam Shelled By Warships

YANKS EXTE PACIFIC LINES   Bitter Battle Raging For  Control of Saipan;  Guam Shelled

U.S. Extends Gains In Jap  Defense Ring   Breaches Made From New Guinea To Kuriles: Japs Suffer Saipan Setbaek

Yanks Repel Enemy Tanks, Landing Craft   Soldiers, Marines Fight Within 3 Miles Of Magic  ienne Bay On Saipan.   IAPS REGAIN TOWN

AMERICANS ENLARGE SAIPAN BEACHHEAD IN HEAVY FIGHTING   BREACHES IN 4,000-MILE INNER JAP DEFENSE LINE WIDENED

WIDEN BREACHES ALONG 4,000 MILE JAP INNER LINE  INVADERS ENLARGE   INVADERS ENLARGE THEIR BEACHHEAD ON SAIPAN ISLAND

JAP DEFENSIVE LINE BATTERED BY THE ALLIES   MecArthur - Nimitz Combination Is Hacking Away ot Nips in Pacific

Inner-Defenses Of Japan Suffer New Allied Biows   Landing Force Is Near Enemy Naval Base on Saipan

HOUSANDS MARK BIRTHDAYS TODAY   Scotch Responsible for Leap Year Proposal Custom.

Rabaul Now Suicide Post For Japanese   Allies Bag 13  More Airplanes

MORE PLANES RE DOWNED VER RABAUL   ipponese South Pacific astion Is High On List of Suicide Assignments for   Mikado's Pilots   IRDROME BLOWN UP

JAPANESE LOSE 13 MORE PLANES   Allies Bag Enemy Aircraft Over Rabaul—Lakunai Field Is Bombed

Japs Lose 13 Planes at Rabau  Total Aircraft Toll Taken by Yanks This

13 Jap Planes Are Bagged By Yank Fighters   Nip Craft Shot Down In Rabaul Sector. Boosts Losses to 111 Since First of Month

Japs Try to Belittle Superforts’ Raids But Reveal Growing Anxiety

Ralston Cuf Off by Flood; No Lives Lost   Hundreds Evacuate Hames in Time to Escape; Situation  At Tulsa Improved

Arkansas Is Near Record At Ralston   Town Isolated; Cimarron Got Rise Out of Way Ahead of Arkansas Crest

South Carolina Cool to F.D.R.   Democrats Refuse To Pledge Support

Delegate Seatine Contests Seen In Party Conclaves  ,  wble Tt. a. ns   Fourth-Term Scrap in South Carolina Enlivens Primaries

South Carolina Demos Defeat Anti4th Termer   Both Parties Face Fights Over the Seating of Delegates At National Meet

Fourth term  revolt beaten  in Carolina Party platform concerns group

ANTI-FOURTH TERM ~ MOVE IS DEFEATED   South Carolina Derriocrats Beat Back Convention Attempt _

So. Carolina Democrats In Tumult   PROSPECT OF DELEGATE SEATING IN CHICAGO WITH NEGRO VOTE ANGLE ALL THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.   GOP Contests, Too

Two South States Omit Instructions   S. Carolina Democrats Wait National Action

ANTI-FOURTH TERM MOVE IS DEFEATED      [South Carolina Democrats Beat Back Conven tion Attempt

Delegate Seating Contests Seen In Party Conclaves   Fourth: Teri. Scrap in: ‘South® ‘Carolina Enlivens: Primaries

NAME DELEGATES   South Carolina Democrats Split on Fourth Term   ARKANSAS CHOOSES   Vermont GOP Names Nine Delegates; Much Sentiment for Dewey Shown

WALLACE PRAISES SPIRIT OF CHINE   ‘Bound For Home After 12Nay Visit, Extolls China’s Strong Resistance.

Marshalls Again Heavily Pounded   At Least 20 More Jap Planes And Five Jap Vessels Are Bomb Victims   JAP OPPOSITION SHOWS INCREASE

Two Quakes Jar South California   LOS ANGELES, PASADENA, LAGUNA BEACH ROCKED BRIEFLY BY TREMBLORS

TWO EARTHQUAKES JAR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   Dishes Rattled, Sleepers Awakened But no Damaaes Reported to Police

"Sole Ambition" is to Help Win War, MacArthur States In Reply to Public Queries

MacArthur’s Availability Is Stressed Ry Lawmaker   Miller Says Draft OF General: Likely

He Doesn’t Say “No”   Backers Believe Mac_Arthur Is Available For Republican Draft

M’ARTHUR STILL GOP CANDIDATE?   Solon Avers Pacific General Leaves Draft Door Open in Latest Statement

Sees MacArthur Still Available   Rep. Miller Says He Can Be Drafted for Nomination Despite Fact That General’s Statement Disavows He Is Seeking Office of Presidency.   OTHER LEADERS AGREE

AGARTHUR STILL MAY BE DRAFTED   General Says He Is Not A Candidate And Is Not  Seeking Nomination

THINKS GENERAL CAN BE DRAFTEL   Miller Still: Talking After Rebuke By MacArthur

MacArthur in Race, Belief   *Disavowal’ Discounted By G.O.P. Leaders in Washington, Chicago

WArthur’s Announcement He Is Not Seeking Presidency Interpreted ‘As Leaving Door Open

17 Jap Zeros Are Downed i in  Raid  T 4 RAN eree eget   Liberators Attack Marshall Islands

17 ZEROS LOST BY NIPPONESE   Heavy U. § J. 8. Raid On Mar ehalll Isles

U.S. Naval Guns Wrecked 8 Jap Warships In Less Than 15 Minutes In Surigao Gulf

Reveal Japs Lost 8 Ships In 15 Minutes   Enemy Force in Surigao Battle Crossed U. S. ‘T’

Admiral Tells Quick Defeat Of Jap Fleet   2 Battleships, 2 Cruiser: 4 Destroyers Sunk in 15 Minutes

Conference Slated On Southeastern  Polio Outbreak   Health “Officers” Of *   States To Meet; 206 Cases Now In North Carolina.

Drives Nazis From Roer Valley Towns   Moves Ahead On 10-Mile Front in 6 Inches of Snow

Germans Driven From Two Towns; Foe Thrusts Near Saarlautern Beaten Back

U. 8. Doughboys Gain Over Mile Despite Snowfall   Tanks Have Vital Part In By Thrust Near Duren; . Patton In Heavy Battle

General Hodges Through Six Inches Of Snow on 10-Mile Front West, Northwest and Southwest of Duren

NAZI RETREAT FROM 2 TOWNS IN ROER VALLEY   Hodges Pushes Ahead Through 6 Inches.of Snow West of Duren

U.S. TROOPS MAKE ADVANCE IN BOER AREA   Heavy Snowfall Reported Near Cologne Today

Two Roer Villages Cantured   Third Army Fighting Inside Siegfried Line.

YANKS BATTER AHEAD TOWARD COLOGNE GATE   Nazi Counterblows Repulsed at Saarlautern; Take Haguenau

First Army Advances In Snowfall Of Six Inches   Gains Mile And A Quarter In Duren Sector; Third Stops Nazi Counter-Attacks

Hodges Gains On 10 Mile Front As Patton Beats OLE CaunterAttacks

THE FIRST ARMY INFANTRY, TANKS ADVANCED TODAY   Drove Weakening But Still Determined Germans From Two Roer Valley Towns.   MOVE AHEAD 1 1-4 MILES      Main Force of the Drive Was Along a Ten-Mile Front,

Infantry and Tanks Drive Near Duren   Thitd Army Fights Within Westwall—26th Division Captures Undersround Factory

DHORN AND ECHTZ CAPTURED BY FIRST ARMY IN ADVANCE THROUGH FRESH SNOW FALL   Lt. Gen. Patton's Third Unit Beats Down Counteratiacks In Steel City of Dillingen and Near Aarlautern   FIGHTING INSIDE THE SIEGFRIED LINE IS SLOW

Yanks Foree Weakened Nazi  Lines in Roer   First Army Infantry And Tanks Advance in Snow to Take Valley Towns Dhorn, Echtz

American Attacks Kill 62 Priests, Brothers and Nuns Aboard Jap Ship

MUSTERING OUT BOOST FAVORED   MeCarran Favors Scale From $150 To S600 For Servicemen

Muster-Out Pay Scale Proposed   McCarran Suggests $150 to $600 Payment

Nimitz Hints at Possible Action  U.S. May Drive to the China Coast

Allies Reach Outskirts of Marseilles   Germans Say Troops Fichting in Toulon

Germans Stunned  By Yank Advance   Patch Exhorts His Troops To Deliver Death Blaw

Marseille Being Bottled Up In South As Patch’s Men Smash Toward Rhone Valley

Nazis Reported In Full Retreat Everywhere In Southern ance Except ‘Towon Where Smal} Force SGI Holds  thecgd

YANKS-FRENCE G0 TOWARD MARSEILLE   Race Beyond Encircled Toulon; General Patch Says Enemy Is “Perplexed and Stunned.”   Flank Unchanged

Nozis Are “Perplexed and . Stunned,” General - Patch Says:  ENEMY-IN RETREAT,  DISPATCHES ‘STATE Grip of Seventh Army on  Southern France Extended

Nazis Are “Perplexed and _ Stunned,” General 2 ‘Patch Says °   ENEMY-IN N RETREAT, DISPATCHES \STATE   Grip of Seventh Army on Southern France  Extended

ALLIED TROOPS ARE CLOSING IN ON MARSEILLE   Germans Are Putting Up Fierce Resistance In side Toulon   NAZIS ARE IN FULL RETREAT IN FRANCE

ALLIES BATTLE GERMANS 3 MILES FROM MARSEILLE   City Expected to Be Sealed Off Within a Few Hours— Fighting Rages Inside Toulon.   AIX-EN-PROVENCE FALLS TO AMERICANS   Nazis in Full Retreat in Southern France Except in Areas Near Two Great Ports.

Dr. Kung, Gen. Ho Are Ousted By Gen. Chiang   Shakeup In Chinese Cabinet Drops Man Who Has Been Ministe Of War For 14 Years

China Acts. On Cabinet   Yi ng-Chin. Replaced ‘As. Minister Of War

WELCOME GIVEN RESHUFFLE OF CHINA CABINET   Many Think Move Not Far Reaching Enough to Promote War Etfort

Chen Replaces Ho As Wa Leader In Shakeup Of 8 China Cabinet Posts

Chiang Shuffle: Cabinet, Ousts War Minister    Follows Public: Clamor And Pressure by.U- ‘s After: Stilw ell Recall’

SHAKE-UP IN CABINET FOR THE CHINESE   Minister of War Main Change with General Chen Cheng Taking That Important Role

SHAKEUP IN CHINESE CABINET GIVES NEW MINISTER OF WAR   GEN. CHEN CHENG REPLACES OFFICIAL IN OFFICE SINCE 1930

WAR MINISTER INCLUDED IN 0 GOV'T CHANGES   Ho Ying Chin Replaced by Gen. Chen Cheng But Stays  ae Chief of Staff.

China Cabinet Is Juggled By General Chianx   8 Changes Are Welcomed In Chungking

Chen Appointed’ To Chinese Post. Of War Minister   Gen : Ho ‘Ying: Chin ‘Out . As- Government Shakeup Affects 8 Cabinet Offices

Chinese Minister Of War, 8 Other Posts Involved In ‘Chungking Cabinet Shake-Up   War Leadership Job Given Former Salween Commander; Move Welcomed

Chiang Makes Changes in His Cabinet   Eight Top Officials Get New Jobs; Chungking Pleased

NEW CABINET SHAKEUP IN CHINA TODAY   OQ. K. Yui Is New Minister Of  Finance

CHINESE WAR ‘MINISTER HAS BEEN REPLACED   Shakeup » Of. Government Involves Bight “Cabinet Posts   CEN. CHEN NAMED   Dr. H. H. Kung is Ousted As Minister Of Finance

Chiang Housecleans  Chungking Cabinet   INDICATES YIELDING TO ALLIED PRESSURE

CHANGE CHINA'S CABINET POSTS   Kai-Shek Reshuffles His Military Leadership As Japs Gain

Chungking Has Cabinet Shake Uj Involving 8 Posts   Former Commander of Chinese Forces Made Minister of Finance.

Eight Positions Refilled in China Cabinet Shakeup.   Gen. Chen Cheng’ Takes Over Post of ‘Minister of War

Chinese Minister  Of War Removed   Eight More Cabinet Members Replaced In General Shakeup

REVISE CHINA WAR CABINET   Military, Finance Minis. ters Are Replaced By Chiang

Chiang Makes Cabinet Chanve   New War: Minister Named. Seven Others Affected

Reshuffle Chinese Cabinet   Change, While Not  _ Extensive, Is :Hailed As Healthy Sign; New  War Minister Popular

One of Eight Cabinet Members Involved in Shakeup Today.   RESHUFFLE IS WELCOME

Fight Cabinet Posts Changed By Gen. Chiang   Shakeup Is Carried Out Under Allied Pressure In Effort To Prevent Further Setbacks

Gen. Chen Named To Command All Military Forces   Ex-Mayor Of Shanghai Takes Over Runway 4\inflation Problem

AMERICANS CLOSE TRAP ON CASSINO   German Base Is Encircled After Break-Through

New Triumph Won By Reds ‘From Nazis   RUSSIAN DRIVE TW. _ESTONA REPORTED BROADE, NING: SPEEDILY...

pets Cross eccia River   ~ Yankees Fight Through Strong Opposition To Capture Peak

FIFTH ARMY FORCES  BITE DEEPER INTO  NAZI DEFENSE BELT PEAK AND BRIDGEHEAD CAPTURED IN RELENTLES  re ac, eh att tae ta hae al

Doughhoys Battering Out Gains   Two-Mile Advance Takes Them Third of Way to Cassino; 3 Peaks Taken   BRITISH CLING TO THEIR POSITIONS   Strong” Opposition Along Entire Front; FighterBombers Aid Americans

YANKS MOVE T0 WITHIN 4 MILES ITALIAN CITY   Advance Two Miles Northeast of Stronghold While. ' British Hold Bridge-. ‘head Near Objective ©   EIGHTH HOLDS ITS © POINT UNDER FIRE   Both American and British  Armies In Position For —  Direct Assault On -..  . Cassino -

Fifth Claws Into Cassino 1 Defense Line   Yanks Plunge Througt Machine Guns, Mines and Dugouts

PECCIA RIVER IS CROSSED _ BY BRITISH   Important Hill Of Chiaia Falls To Americans   HEAVY BOMBERS   Pound Naval Base Of Pola In Support Of Partisan Forces Of Gen. Tito

FIFTH ARMY FORCES BITE DEEPER INTO NAZI DEFENSE BELT   PEAK AND BRIDGEHEAD CAPTURED IN RELENTLESS BUT SLOW) DRIVE

5th Army Pressing Cassino   Yanks Batter Way Up 3500-Foot Ca  tena Vecchio

YANKS SCORE 2 MILE ADVANCE CAPTURE HILL   British Cross River, Form Beachhead Near Nazi Stronghold

New Gains By Fifth Army In Italy   High Points Taken By Allies In Fierce Fights In Hills

CATENA VECCHIO PEAK CAPTURED   BRITISH CLING TO BRIDGEHEAD WEST OF MT, MAGGIORE

British Win Way Across River And Hold Bridgeheads   Clark’s Troops Capture Peaks; Fortresses Batter Naval Base At Pola

YANKS 4 MILES FROM CASINO   Vecchio Ridge And Mount Porchia Captured By 5th Army

U. S.Fifth Moves Up Two Miles In Bitterly Contested Advance: Now Nearing Cassino

Fifth Bites baie Catsine Defense Belt  Yanks Plunge Forward on   Yanks Plunge Forward on Two Mile  ” Advance

Fifth Army Bites Deep Into Nazis   Americans Plunge rough German Strongholds

Clark's Army in New Gains Near Cassino   Troops Batter WayThrough to Mountain Peak Overlooking Road

‘Occupy Heights Against Strong Enemy Opposition   Doughboys. Advance. 2 Miles © Northeast . O! Stronghold: Britist Grasp Bridgehead Tc Southwest. —. Capture of Heights Pave - Way For Direct Assault.

Fifth Army Fights Way Slowly Ahead   Bitter Fighting Gains New Peaks On Road to Rome

—ITALY—  FIFTH ARV IN ~PANILE ADVANGE   British Cross Peccia. Riv. er And Hold Gain Un“der Heavy Fire .   CAPTURE HEIGHTS   Gen, Clark’s Forces: Pre_ pare For Direct Assault On Gity - _

YANKS ADVANCE TWO MILES ON CASSINO BASE   British Gain Toward GermanHeld Bastion

Fitth Bites Into Cassino Defense Belt   Yanks Plunge Forward on Two Mile  Advance

J. S. Forces Take Peak of Catena Vecchio; British Establish Bridge Head Across the Peccia; Troops Also Take Mount Chiaia and Porchia.

Fifth Advances 2 Miles Into Cassino Belt   Yanks Batter Way Through Strong Opposition To € apture Vecchio.   IEIGHTH. ARMY GAINS

U. S. FORCES ADVANCE TWO MILES IN ITALY   British Cross Peccia River, Firmly Hold Bridgehead Southwest of Town   ‘HEIGHTS CAPTURED   Americans Seize 1500-Ft. Moun: tain, Hold Heighis on Both Sides of Ceryaro

FIFTH ARMY DEEPER INTO THE DEFENSE BELT OF GASSIN(   Americans Plunged Forward in a Two-Mile Advance Northeast of City.   BRITISH ALSO ACTIVE   Crossed Peccia River Holding a Bridgehead to the Southwest of Town.

American Forces Get Set for Big Smash at Cassino   Two-Mile Advance Is Chalked Up As Eighth Army Troops Forge Peccia River

FIGHTING ON ITALIAN SOIL GROWS FIERGE   Allies Continue Advance; New  Heights Taken

ALLIES REPORT NEW SUCCESSES ON ITALIAN SOIL   Yanks Batter Path Through Tough Opposition; Deep Snows Restrict Fighting In Mountainous Sections.

BEL OF CAS   American Forces Make Two Mile Advance Tos ward Stronghold   BRITISH CROSS > PECCIA RIVER

Yankees Batter  Ahead In Italy  Gain In Defenses Of ~ Vital Cassino

Two- Mile Advances Scored By © U.S. Troops   Americans Edging Way Toward Cassino; British Cross River, Maintain Bridgehead

oth Bites Deeper Into Defense Belt Around Cassine   Yanks Batter Way Throngh  Heavy Opposition To BE OIEF COT Pente

Yankee Troops Plunge 2 Miles Nearer Cassino   Fifth Army Poises On Heights For Assault On Citv Itself.

Fifth Army Bites Deeper Into Cassino Defenses  Americans Plunge Forward in Twoa-Mile Advance

Orlemanski Home Silent on Trip   Promises Stafement On Visit fo Russia

DUE BACK AUGUST 14      No Legislative Business Will Come  id   Up Before That Date

KNOX GIVES OK TO LEND-LEASE   ‘Allies Are Still Long Way From Berlin, Tokyo’

ANUK GALLO FOR rUATHCH LEAGE: LEND 10 ALLIES   Says Stream of Aid  Must Continue to Back Military Action,

ANOX GALLS: FOR FURTHER LEASE(END TO ALLIES   Says Stream of Aid . . Must. Continue to . ‘Back Military Action,

LEND-LEASE IS - GIVEN PRAISE -aBY SEGRETARY   KNOR TELLS CONGRESS EVERY BATTLE WON BY. ALLIES HELPS NATION’S ‘FIGHT.’ ‘4NG STRENGTH -

SKY GIANTS HIT FRENGH TARGETS   BOMB PAS-DE-CALAIS AREA ON 21ST DAY OF AERIAL INVASION

Yank Fliers Hit Before Breakfast   Bomb German Military Targets  In France; Italian, Russian Fronts Quiet

Rail Largets In No. France  ‘Also Strafed   BAF Mesquites Raid Wesiern Germany, Italy-Based Bombers Strafe Budapest Acain

Few Germans Rise to Battle Yanks   Liberators Make Before-Breakfast Assault On French Coast, Followed by Other Raids on Nazi Rail Lines Along Atlantic

Nazi Invasion Coast And Rail Lines Battered By U. S. Aerial Forces Today

Early Morn Raiders Pass  Night Shift   Rail Lines Feeding Hit-. ler’s Coastal Defenses Are Chief Targets ~~

Early-Morning Raid Blasts French Coast   Allied Aerial Assault Enters Twenty-First Day

YANKEES P INVASION COAST AND R. R. LINES   No Allied Planes Lost in Several Hundred Sorties Over Sector

Allies Renew Violent Raids On Reichland   Russian, Italian Fronts Relatively Calm As Goebbels Shouts Propaganda

PLANES BOMB NAZI COASTAL AREAS AGAIN   Liberators Blast Invasion Territory After Night Raid On Hungary

RAIL LINES HIT AS U, S, PLANES ATTACK FRANCE   No Aircraft Lost in Continuation of Heavy Raids on German Defenses

BOMBING GOES INTO 21ST DAY   Allies Continue Relentless Pre-Invasion Attack on Europe.   RAILWAYS ARE. TARGETS

Berlin Reports Craft Based on Mediterranean Over Romania   Foe Has Bagged No Big Ships Across Channel in Three Days

No Planes Lost in Day   Few Enemy Planes Challenge Invaders; Crete Region Visited By Bombers

‘Big Bombers Without Loss For Third Day   21st Consecutive Day Of Aerial Assaults Against Europe Underway

IBERATORS TAGE RAIDS VER FRANCE   merican Warplanes Bomb Military Installations in the Pas-de-Calais Area

U.S. Bombs French Invasion Coast Again   Resistance Light as Fighter-Bombers Blast Railroad Communications Areas; German Shipping Hit in Mediterranean

No Plane Loss Reported From Many Sorties   Allied Bombers Said To Be Over Romania, Crete Also Hit

BUDAPEST ON TARGET LIST, FRANCE, T00   Rocket Gun Coast, Rail Hubs In Axis-Controled French Territory Blasted Anew.   EXTRA

PAS-DE-CALAIS TARGET IN 2151 DAY OF ATTACK   Planes From Italy Hi Budapest During Night Assault

BOMBERS RENCW BLOWS AT COAST   Follow Up Night Attack on Budapest,

Other Fliers Rip Hitler’s Feeder Lines   Not An Allied Plane Lost; Budapest Raided In Nicht Foray.

CEASELESS BOMBINGS  BIG DAM IN ITALY BLASTED   WALL OF WATER RUSHES DOWN TOWARD PESCARA

Yanks Strike Coast, British Hit Budapest   Liberators, Escorted By Mosquitos In Blow In Calais Area; Balkan Rail Yards Twisted  WwITyy F Lever

Hammer Rail Lines Feeding Atlantic Wall   Blow by U. S. Bombers Follows Early Assault On "Invasion Coast”

AIR OFFENSIVE MOVES INTO 21ST DAY   Attack Carried Out Third Day Without Loss   ROMANIA   Struck By Yanks, Berlin Announces: Budapest Raided By Night

All Invaders Back Safely; 4 Rivals Fall   Rail, Anti-Invasion Installations Are Targets of Attack

NOT A PLANE LOST IN SEVERAL HUNDRED SORTIES ON 21ST DAY OF RELENTLESS BOMBLASTING —   Starting Before Breakfast American Liberator Bombers Begin Work on Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, Followed by Lighter Planes. Allied Bombers  Oowar Dacnawia

Bombs Free Wall Of Water; Raiders Also Lash Romania   2ist DAY: OF RRITAIN-BASED RAINS

FIRST BALLOT   Wisconsin Primary Stunning Blow to 1940 Candidate

WILLKIE NOW IS HEADING EAST AFTER ENDING HIS CAMPAIGN   G.0.P, CANDIDATE OF LAST ELECTION DROPS ALL NOMINATION EFFORTS AFTER “CRUSHING DEFEAT

WENDEL WILLKIE WITHDRAWS FROM NOMINATION RACE   Makes His Decision to Quit About Midnight Tuesday; Hopes America Will Unite With Next President.   PREPARES SPEECH BEFORE FINAL DECISION   Has New Role of Political Advisor With Self-Designated Miss.on; Did Nol Pledge Support.

Willkie Quits As Candidate   Withdraws After Result Of Wisconsin Primary Is Announced   CANCELS FURTHER CAMPAIGN PLANS

DEWEY MAY BE NOMINATED ON FIRST BALLOT   Wisconsin Primary Stunning Blow to 1940 Candidate

Willkie Removes Hat From Ring With Pledge To Continue Fight For His Policies

Of Course It's Pure Coincidence But Look What's Happeed on Friday. 13th

Even Though It’s Just Superstition About Friday the 13th, Just To Be On Safe Side--

‘A BLESSING ATTEND . We Don't Believe i in Friday 13th’s Being Bad--But--Well

History Proves Friday The 13th An Unlucky Date   Many Untoward Events Occur

Japs to Accept Prisoner Helief   FRIDAY, 13TH, HAS LONG RECORD OF BAD LUCK

Just Superstition, Eh!   Friday, the Thirteenth, Unlucky by Mere Coincidence, Maybe

HITLER CONFERS SWEEPING POWERS ON 2 HIGH NAZIS   Goering and Goebbels As. signed Task of Mobilizing 7 Reich for Death Struggle.   QUADRUMVIRATE NOW IS IN THE SADDLE   Two, With Hitler and Himmler, to Direct Crumbling Battle Against Allies’ Armed Forces.

HITLER NAMES GOERING, GOEBBELS T0 ‘EXTRACT LAST OUNCE OF STRENGTH’ FOR GERMAN WAR PLAN

Hitler Invests Vast Powers in  Two Top Nazis   Goering and Goebbels Get Control of Public. Private Life in Reich

Goering, Goebbels   Given Wide Powers   Hitler Invests Lieutenants With Sweeping Authority Over German People—Blueprint For Fanatical Struaqale Given

Powers Giver Nazi Leaders  All Civilians To Be Under Stricter. Laws.

Hitler Places Reich Under Three Henchmen   Goering, Goebbels, Himmier Ordered To Take Control

Goering Named Dictator of Public, Private Life Inside Germany   Hitler Acts to Tighten Grip on Home Front Following Blood Purge in Army Ranks

Private and Puublic Life Of German Citizeup aa of Germans and Citizens to Be Sttreamlined.

‘Hitler Seeks — Home Front’s  Full Control   - Produces Blueprint For Death Struggle’   .By Crumbling German:  FOUR MEN WILL RULE

Hitler Invests Three Men with Sweeping Powers   Goering, Goebbels, Himmler Elevated

Fish Ahead In Returns ‘From 29th   OPPOSED BY BOTH DEWEY AND WILLKIE, VETERAN CONGRESSMAN IS_ VICTOR IN’ BITTER CONFLICT   Home Folks for Him

REP. FISH IS RENOMINATED   New York Congressman is Winner in Contest in  29th District

‘FISH-IS WINNER   Bennet ‘Defeated in ‘New York ‘Congressional Race.

Fiery Congressman Wins Despite Opposition By Dewey, Willkie   SENATOR CLARK TRAILS IN MISSOURI VOTING

FISH IS WINNER IN CONGRESS PRIMARY   Overcomes s Dewey and Willkie Opposition to Win Race _

CONGRESSMAN FISH WINS IN NEW YORK   Overcomes Opposition of Dewey and Willkie to Defeat Augustus Bennet,

U.S. ATTACKS KASSEL RAL PLANE CENTER.   R. A. F. Concentrates on Lines Serving Invasion Coast

SOLDIER VOTE MEASURE MAY MEFT VETO   Congressional Ap-; proval Believed . Certain, However -

MARINES GAIN "IN TINIAN AND GUAM FIGHTING   Capture, Isolate Airports ’With Slight Loss: Japs Make Suicide Attack in New Guinea.

THIRD OF LEADING AIRPORT ON TINIAN IN HANDS OF YANKS   Storm Inland Nearly a Mile, Intent on Quick Seizure of Isle—Another Airstrip on Guam Isolated i

Yanks on Tinian  Are Mile Inland   Nimitz Reports First Day _ Casualties Light and Sit uation in Hand   MARINES LED LANDING   Bombers From New Guinea Continue Assaults on Carolines

Fighting Yankees  Storm Almost Mile  Inland on Tinian Capture Third of Main Airstrip   Capinre Third of Main Rirstriy Isolate Ancther Airstrip, ' Approach Capital of Guam

U.S. Forces Mile Inland  On Tinian   At Guam U. §S, Casualties Through July 22 348 Killed

Yanks Capture Part Of Tinian Island Airport   Meanwhile, Another Major Airstrip On Guam Has Been Isolated By American Forces

Americans Gain. _On.Pacific Front  Part of Main Tinian Airdrome Captured: Guam Advance Continue:

Tinian Yanks Drive Ahead   Americans on Guam Slug Way Along Road In Capital Seizure Bid

GUAM, TINIAN OFFENSIVES GOING WELL   Americans Hammer At Approaches To  Capita! Of Guam

Yanks Storm Mile Inland  On Tinian   Take Western Third-Of Island's Main Air drome; Hammer Toward Guam Capital. 3

Yanks on Tinian Are Mile Inland   Nimitz Reports First Day “Casualties Light and Sit “gation'in' Hand .~   ‘Bombers From New Guinea Continue Assaults on , Carolines’

YANKS GAIN ON AGANA, FORMER GUAM CAPITAL   Second Drome Isolated On Guam; Tinian Casualties Light

Americans Take Part Of Major Tinian Airfield   Isolate Another Guam Airstrip And Close In On Capital City.

Another Jap Stronghold Invaded By Yank Force:   Marines Advance Nearly & Mile On Tinian Island

Yanks Push Mile Inland On Tinian   Heaviest. Bombardment Of Pacific War Precedes Landings There; Casualties Are Light

Americans Capture Western Third Of Tinian Airport  Other Troops Continue Their Advances On Capital of Guam

Yanks Push Mile Inland On Tinian   Marianas Conquest Approaching End; Guam Fight Rages

YANKS GAIN MILE IN TINIAN SMASH   Isolate Another Airport And Near Capital Of Guam

YANKS GAIN ON TINIAN, CAPTURE PART OF AIRPORT   American Troops Advance On Guam, Isolate Second Jap Airstrip

Yankees Push Mile Inland  On Tinian   Bent on Complete Conquest of Marianas; Guam Casualties Licht

Fanatical — _ SS Troops To France   ~ No Change in Battle Line, Locked in Deep Mud and Heavy. Rains   : GERMAN SOLDIERS BEING DISPLACED   Nazis More, . Amateurish Than the Professionals, oe U.S. Officer Comments. 

MUNICH RAL YARDS RAIDED   Bombers Also Hit Brenner Pass and U-Boat Pens At Bergen, Norway

Heavies Hit Munich Yards.  Brenner Pass   RAF Raids U-Boat Pens in Norway and Blasts Tirpitz Again

GERMANY IS TARGET FOR MANY RAIDS   Munich, Brenner Pass, U-Boat Pens, Other Points Blasted By Fortresses and RAF.

Counter-Blows Beaten Back By Russians   Germans Apparently Not Going To Flee As Trap Closes

NAZI COUNTERATTACKS DO NOT HALT RUSSIAN UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE   Red Army Cuts Vital Rail Line at Two Places Near Sarny; By-Pass Village   GERMANS HOLD CORRIDOR

Nazi Attacks Fail to Halt Red Advance   Soviets Confirm Sarny Capture; Many Other Gains

RUSSIANS CONTINUE ADVANCES   Ukraine Battles Assuming More Violent Character

GREAT RUSSIAN DRIVE GAINS MOMENTUM   Strong German Counter Attacks Fail to Halt Offensive Over Wide  Front

GERMANS FAIL TO STEM REDS’ NEW ADVANCES   Overcome Nazi CounterAttacks In Western Ukraine

RESISTANCE 10 RED ADVANGE (S SEEN STIFFENING   LONDON, Jan. 12—UPL— The Red Army has captured Sarny in pre-war Poland, Moscow Radio announced tanioht

Reds Advancing Toward West .   Soviets May Be By-Passing Sarny In Swift Gains

Russians Smash Counterattacks, By-Pass Sarny   Reds Now 75 Miles From Kiev-Warsaw Halfway  3 q

RUSSIANS KEPT UP THEIR ADVANCES IN WESTERN UKRAINE   Cut the North-South Railroac at Points 7 Miles North and South of Sarny.   BY-PASSING THAT CITY   On Many Sectors Offensive Battles Assumed a More Violent Character.

SovietArmy Is Moving On Ukraine   Sarny Itself Falls With Other Major Defense Areas

Armed Force Get Advice On Politics   Servicemen Told Not to Get Idea of Running Country

Guide For Soldiers Counsels Against Trying To Run Country Savs No Good Comes Of Telling Troops About   Says No Good Comes Of Telling Treops About High Wages And Extraordinary Profits At Hom

Wife Says Miller Killed Dr. Lind When He Saw Him Reach for Gun   Defense Claims Washington Attorney Was Crazed Over Relationship Between Spouse and Other Man

American Guns Hit  Cassino   600 Germans Takeri Prisoners As  Allies Apply Pressure In Italy.

BRITISH FORCE CROSSES RIVER   Yank Infantry Ready To Storm Cassino

Pockets Of Resistance Are \Cleared Out In Allied Drive   _ German Counter Attack Is Thrown Back When  British Hold ASI Positions Along The River

NCAVY BLANKET UF SNOW FALLS   Commisison Issues Warning To Motorists; Driving Con. ditions Declared Extremely Hazardous

bee cn lie idwayTwo Years Ago Was Stratesy That Broke Japan’s Naval Strength

JAPAN’S DOWNFALL  STARTED AT MIDWAY   U. S. Naval Strategy, Admittedly a Gamble in 1942, Proved Sound.

E OF MILE MADE BY DATTON   Americans Now Fighting Inside Siegfried Line

Temperatures   Americans Pierce Nazi Westwall  Across Saar River

Smash From West And Southwest, Advance Into Pcrbach Carries Americans Three And Half Riles Overpicht   PATTON SWINGS In TOWARD SAARBRUCKE}D

Ready To ; Attack City’   REACHES OUTER DEFENSES OF SAAR INDUSTRIAL CITY IN STRONG ADVANCES"

City’s Outer Defenses Are Under Attack   Industrial Capital Assaulted From Two Directions; Frontal Smash Imminent; First Army Gains At Two Points

Iwo Pronged Drive Breaks Irito Westwal   4th Armor Units Enter Montbronn On Third’s Wing

Break Into West Wail, Nazis Admit   Frontal Assault on Stronghold Imminent, Was Believed Today

FRONT ASSAULT ON SAAR BASTION ‘SEEN IMMINENT   Capital Stormed From Two Directions; 4 Miles From City

Yankee Troops Break Into Saarbrucken   Nazi Pocket in Vosges Melts; Foe Quitting Alsace

Farther South, Germans Retreat Across Rhine, Apparently Giving Up Alsace Area

U.S. Advance ‘IsTurning “Into Triumph   Lower Wing Of Hitler Line Is Pierced By Fall Of San Olivio

ALLIED ARMIES HURL NAZIS TO LAST DEFENSES   Spearheads Approach Beachhead .On West Coast

Germans Lose Heavily in Men, Material   American, French Forces Drive Toward Terracina

German Retreat Is Rout   Huns Putting Torch to Anchor Of Third Line

Nazis Set Fire To Terracina   Germans Put Torch to Coastal Anchor Of New Defense Line as They Prepare To Retreat Into Flooded Pontine Marsh

BRITISH OUTFLANK CITY IN PO VALLEY      Fifth Army Units Repulse Several German Counterattacks.

British Reach Lamone River  Outflank Po Valley  Town of Faenza; New German Defense Seen

BRITISH FLANK ITALIAN TOWN   Press Against New German Delaying Position

BRITISH PRESSING NEW GERMAN HOLE   House-to-house Fight Looms In North Italy

Beat New Deal, Party Urged By Ohio Governor   Bricker, Willkie Make Addresses Before Republicans

Ohio’s Governor Made Favorable Impression in Capital, Supporters Believe, When He Scored ‘Confused’ Program And ‘Coddling’ of Labor Leaders in Opening Speech of Presidential Campaign

Bricker'’s Friends Contident   CHIO GOVERNOR'S SPEECH CHIDES DEMOCRATIC PARTY WITH ONLY “ONE CANDIDATE”

PLAN WEST COAST TRIP FOR BRICKER   OHIO GOVERNOR LEAVES NO DOUBT WHERE HE STANDS

GOV. RICKER PLANS SECOND CAPITAL TALK   To Address Press Club; Re. publicans Cheer Lincoln Day Address

Bricker Takes Campaign To Capital Critics  Tells. Washington. "Folks Reasons For

BRICKER STUDIED AS GOP NOMINEE   His Supporters Confident Ohio Governor Is Passing Muster.

Bricker in “Washington Appearance   Ohio Governor Apears at National Press Club Lunch

BRICKER TAKES POSITIVE STAND   Proposes Anti-Strike Law Hits Labor Draft Move

Superforts Join Formosa Attack  Blast installations in Great Force

Record B-29 Bloy Blasts Jap Plane Base at Okayama   Four of Big Planes Missing; Tokyo Says 100 Made Assault

Vlanes In Mightiest Attack Blast Airplane Repair Works In Okuyama   Four Supers Fail To Make Return   lokvo Fears Offensive Is Prelude To Philippine Invasion

AIM BOMBS AT PLANE REPAIR, SUPPLY. CENTER   Four Reported Missing; Kweiping Falls To Japs

NAZIS APPEAR UNABLE TO HALT SOVIET MACIHNE   May Have to Withdraw Fyom All Russia, Says  Spokesman

Deeper Into Old Poland      But Red Drive to the South Greater Menace To Germans; 5th Army Makes Little Advance

Nazis Say They May Have To Pull Out Of Russia   Americans Capture Monte Maio In Italy; Jay Madang Base Is Menaced

NAZIS UNABLE TO HALT RED TROOPS   Russian Troops Ripping Germans to Pieces and Capturing Huge Stores of RBRaoty

Withdrawal From All Russia Hinted  In German Report   Latest Plunges of Reds Increase Menace to the Warsaw-Odessa Railway on Way Toward Rumania From Kiev Bulge   MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED IN POLISH 7O°.VNS

Soviets Strike Deeper Into  Old Poland —   German Military Spokesman Says Nazis May Have to Withdraw from: All Russia; US Troops Capture Monte Maio in Central Italy

Nazis Reveal Plan to Leave All of Russia   RAF Bombers Attack France, Western Germany, Mine Enemy Waters without Loss

INCREASING MENACE TO WARSAW-ODESSA RAIL CONNECTIONS  GERMAN MILITARY

Germans Reported Declaring Martial Law in Cities   Headquarters Deny Allied Troops Have Landed in Balkans

GERMANS INVOKE. MARTIAL LAW IN WARSAW, LUBLIN   Russian Forces Plunging Toward Rumania from Kiev Secrtear

Red Army Fanning  Out Into Poland   Nazi Spokesman Says All of Russia May Have To Be Abandoned To Stop Soviet Drive

Russian Troops Smashing Deeper Into Old Poland as They Continue From Rakitno   Allied Headquarters at Aigiers Denies Reports From Zagreb That Allied Forces Had Made Landing in Yugoslavia

Reds Capture Rakitno, In  Old Poland   Allies Make Minor Progress In Italy As RAF  Bombs Germany

NAZIS TALK OF ~ LEAVING RUSSIA   Enemy Appears Unable  To Halt Mighty Red   War Machine  HUGE BOOTY SEIZED

JAPANESE CLAIM GAINS IN INDIA   Tokyo Reports Japs Closing In On Imphal, With Allied Defenders Isolated Save For Air Transport.

Invaders Driven From Positions Outside Imphal   Kohima Garrison Repulses Enemy

British Crack Jap Siege Lines at Kohima and Hur! Foe Back in Imphal Aree   2nd Case of Allied Guns Downing Yanks is Bared

Relief Column Cuts Japanese Kohima Trap   Tanks Climb Imphal Hill: To Blast Nip Invaders - From 3 Positions

_ Japanese Also Blasted Oui of Three Positions Northeast of Invphal

RELIEF REACHES BRITISH TROOPS “HOLDING KOHIM:   Slege Lines Cracked by Ex: pedition From Dimapur — _—Plans for Attack on  ‘ Japs Begun...   ENEMY DRIVEN BACK . NORTHWEST OF IMPHAL      Three Positions Captured’ by Allied Tank Units That “Climb 1,000-foot :  . © = Bones.

High Tax Program Proposed ssi aaah iach shinier  GOP Considers Plank Calling For Taxes To Balance Budget

High Tax Program Proposed er  GOP Considers Plank Calling For Taxes To Balance Budeet

DICE GIRL HELD FOR QUESTIONING IN GANG SLAYING   Police Seek to Establish Motive In Death of Night Club Owner.

WAGE INCREASE IS SOUGHT FOR TEXTILE MILLS   Emil Rieve Asks War Board To Correct Wage - Cost - Of-Living Scale; Says Workers Leaving Cotton And Rayon Mills By Thousands.

Voters’ Sign-Up Deadline Nears   Registrations To Close On Wednesday

CONFERENCE IN AGREEMENT ON TAX MEASURE   Bill Being Redrafted for Final Action on. Wednesday

ADJUSTED TAX BILL EXPECTED TO PASS SOON   Final Action on Plan Predicted Wednesday In Both Houses

NEW TAX BILL ACCORD GAINED   Measure Being Redrafted for Final Action Wednesday

Redraflt New Tax Bill Agreed Upon by Joint House-Senate Conference Group

Fulton Lewis, Jr., Given Plaque eaaaitaaanetbichen erie Mibminieaisiale sits iid  Commentator Hits Theorists In Addressing Kiwanis Club

Fulton Lewis, Jr., Given Plaque $e  Commentator Hits Theorists In Addressing Kiwanis Club

CLARK PREDICTS NAZIS’ DEFEAT   General Tells Fifth Army ‘We Can and Will Destroy’ German Troops

Raft’s Chauffeur Denies Actor Cheated at Crap Game   Ry VIRGINIA MacPHERSON

POLL TAX ENEMY “APPEALS T0 DEWEY   GOVERNOR ASKED TO HELP BREAK THREATENED FILL BUSTER IN SENATE,

Senafors Appeal To Gov. Dewey   Asks Him To Help Break Filibuster

————————EeEeEeEeEEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeE  STORM POSES THREAT TO ISLE OF JAMAICA

AEAVY FIGHTING ADVANCES FIRST TO LANGERWEHE   seport Allied Paratroopers Dropped Forty Miles Deep in Reich

Nazis Claim . Convoy. Raid   “Say HH Ships Attacked OF Algiers Taday

MVA Threatens States Rights Says Stone   Sloan Asks Reclamation Men to Cooperate With B. of R. and Army

Coloradoan Hits Federal Rule  Over Waterways   Montana Reclamation Association Hears Challenge to Scheme

MINOR DISPUTES RAGE AS GOP GETS SET-IN CHICAGO   Clare Booth Luce Not Satisfied With Her Place on Oratorical Program.

Spangler Thinks GOP Will Pick Man By June 28   Big Wigs s Gather For Convention; Clare  Gets Stubborn

.0.P. PRELIMINARIES   WORK PROGRESSES TODAY ON 1944 PLATFORM; CONVENTION NEXT WEEK.

HOOVER-LUCE OR VICE VERSA?   GOP Pin-Up Girl Will Speak First Or Not At All

G. 0. P. Conclave Is Marred By Luce-Hoover Tiff   Committee Meets To Draft 1944 Partv Platform

Marva Still Seems To Hanker For Joe   Wants to Be Good At Her Singing Career

Willkie Favors Roosevelt Delay   Republican Reveals Conference Invitation

Willkie Date With F.D.R. Post-Nov. 7   PRESIDENT HAS INVITED GOP  CANDIDATE OF 1940 TO A CONFERENCE ON WoRiy PEACE.   At Least Preferably

Roosevelt, Willkie May Confer Soon   1940 Nomines Prefers Conference After ~ Presidantial Election

Willkie prefers to delay conference with Roosevelt until after the election

FDR VS, DEWEY BALLOTING MAY SET NEW MARK   Not Since 1916 Has Silent Vote Left Dopesters So Much at Sea

WEATHER FAVORABLE OVER MOST OF NATION   Rival Candidates for President Make Final Pleas in Radio Talks

VOTERS TURN OUT EARLY IN HUGE NUMBERS   Observers Believe Balloting in Five States Will Determine Results

‘NO CHANGE IN RED TOKENS   Will Continue As Valid Currency for. Hatlonine

Tighter Rationing Effective Today   Declining Stocks Given as Reason For Restrictions

OPA Clamps Revised Food Edict on U. S.   Sugar, Blue Stamps Cancelled; Vegetable: Again Costing Points

SWEEPING FOOD CONTROL BEGINS   Stringent Regulations Govern ing Mects, Canred Vegetables Effective

TIGHTEN FOOD RATION RULES   Butter Jumps Four ~ Points, Cancel Old Red and Blue Stamps

Nation Under New Ration   Vegetables Returned to List; New Restrictions For Butter and Sugar

New Tighter Food Ration Program Effective Today   Canned Vegetables Back On List, New Butter-Sugar Rules

Nation Under New Ration  ‘Vegetables Returned to List; New Restrictions

FOOD RATION PLAN TIGHTENED   Only Red And Blue Stamps Volidated Since Bec. 1 Are Good

Canned Vegetables Rationed Again; Butter Is 24 Points   ar Stamps are idated With  Exception of No, 34

Tighter, Broader Rationing Of Food Is: Effective Today   RATION ROUNDUP

Canned Vegetables Rationed Again; Butter Is 24 "Points   Sugar Stamps are invalidated With Exception of No. 34

FOOD RATIONING IS TIGHTENED UP     Some Stamps Cancelled and More Items on List

Stiffen Food Ration Sefup   Rationing Program Effeetive Today Provides Tighter And Brocdor Controls

New Rationing Rules In Effect   Practically All Foods Back On Point. List

Urgent Need for Honesty, Competence In Government Is Dewey Theme Monday

Dewey to Stress Need for Honesty  Speaks at St. Louis Monday Niaht

Honesty Is Needed In Government   Will Be Topic of Gov. Dewey’s Speech At St Louis Monday Night. Amnounced Today

Dewey Plans Sharp Blast at New Deal in St. Louis Talk   Need for Honesty To Be Stressed; G.O.P. Launches Registration Drive

HONESTY NEXT DEWEY TOPIC   GOP Candidate To Speak In St. Louis Monday Evening

EATHA MIEN TU BE EMPLOYED FOR GLEAN-P   City Will Hire Additional Help . for Special Work.

EXTRA MEN: 10 BE EMPLOYED. FOR CLEAN-UP   *-City Will. Hire  -:Additional Help: ~ for Srenial Work

Oppie Hedrick Is Police Judge, Robert Ashworth Is City Attorney: See, Street Commissioner

Bill Trail Named City Police Chief   Oppie Hedrick-Is Police Judge, Robert Ashworth Is City Attorney: See, Street Commissioner

Amboina Blasted in Record Raid  188 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Base

2-Gun Patton Reports for Europe Duty   Arriva] in England Eads Mystery Over Whereabouts

Gen. Patton’s Arrival in European Theater Revealec   British Link Announcement on Tank Expert With Invasion Preparations

Hoover Lashes FDR’s Travel   Speaker Says Hull Is Man To Confer With Allies

HOLD TRYOUTS FOR OPERETTA   Competition Is Open For Seven Main Roles

U. S. Breaks Off Relations With Finland   secretary Of State Hands Ncte To Representative Of Finnish Government

RELATIONS ARE BROKEN KARLY TODAY   Action Taken As Finns Continue  War On Russia

ENEMY MAKES WITHDRAWAL   Patton Plans Furious Artillery Barrage in Event of Resistance

Battered Nip forces are in ‘full retreat’   Enemy deserts strongholds along 700-mile coastline on New GCuimea

JAPS IN FLIGHT ON NEW GUINE!   ENEMY DESERTING STRONGHOLDS ALONG 1700-MILE SWEEP OF COASTLINE.

Says FDR Charlie M’Carthy - For Sidney Hillman’s Bergen   Rep. Clare Luce Terms Dewey “The Inevitable Man’? Who Will Lead Way To ‘People’s Peace”

Tanks Smashing Out From Fallen Bayeux, Report  ‘Encircling’ Movemen Told By Foe; Berlin   ‘Encircling’ Movemen: Told By Foe; Berlin Tells Of Heavy Fight Southeast Of City

DISTRICT GOV, SPEAKS TO QUAKERTOWN CLUB   Geo. Derry Advises Rotarians To Aid in Reconversion   TWO MEMBERS LEAVE

AGRICULTURE BILL SLASHED BY $03.90 Np:   House Committee Kills School Lunch Program

BILL SLASHED BY $43.520 000   House Committee Kills School Lunch Program

HOUSE COMMITTEE SLASHES — - AGRIGULTURE SUPPLY BILL   REIECTS REQUEST FOR. FUNDS FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES, CROP. INSURANCE AND FSA

HOLLAND TAKEN TO OZARKS LAKE   HIGHWAY PATROL FRESSES INVESTIGATION OF DUAL KILLINGS IN SILENCE.

GIVEN 10- NEWTON   South Pacific Fleet Admiral Clears Way for New — Assianment

DE GAULLE’S DECLARATION OF WHAT FRANCE INTENDS TO DO INDICATES MARKED LFFT SWINC

FRENCH SWING TOWARD ‘THE LEFT AND COMMUNISM GIVES HINT OF DEFINITE TRENDS IN WAR: NATIONS

Quick. Action PLANNED  “ON . BILL: TO CONTINUE: PRICE” \ CONTROL FOR AN-" . OTHER YEAR:

PRICE CONTROL IN TOP SPOT IN HOUSE   To Come Up Tuesday Republicans Satisfied With Bill

Army Officer Faces Trial In Death Of Four   Accused of Killing Girl, Civilian, His Company Commander and Policeman; Four Wounded

Soldier Facing 4 Murder Charges   Sensational California  Case Is Opened

Officer On Trial Ford Killings  ‘Lieutenant Swancutt ‘Faces Court Martial:

TRY OFFICER IN HOSPITAL   Sensational _ Army Courtmartial Opens At Camp Anza

Powder Mill Blast Damages Area  70 Miles Wide  Panic Is Reported Following Explosion

‘ALLIES GAIN TWO TO THREE MILES AT SOME POINTS IN ITALY FRONT OFFENSIVE

ITALIAN PUSH IS. PROGRESSING ON of MILF FRONT   Fighting is Heavy—CounterAttacks by Germans Are Renuleed.

Gustav Line’s Main Defenses Challenged  Thre ee Towns and Four Hills Are “Wr

Three Othe: Towns Are Captured      BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ALSO  ACTIVE, SEIZES RUINS OF > SAN ANGELO, BELOW CASSINO.

NAZIS RETREAT FROM SOUTHERN BANK OF ARNO   Only Patrols Are Left To Haras: British Eighth Army Troops

N azis Withdraw Main Forces On  South Arno Bank   _ Retreat Leaves Enemy With One Bridgehead West of Florence

NAZIS DRAW BACK ACROSS ARNO RIVER”   Main Forces Are Withdrawn’ East Of Florence --

Nazi Forces Retreat Across Arno River   Eighth Army Controls All High Ground In Area East Of Florence In Italy

Main Force of Germans Retires on Arno River   Only Patrols Are Left to Harass British

Germans Refreat East of Florence   Leave Bridgehead on South Bank. of Arno

Foreign Policy Truman's Theme   Accuses Republicans Of ‘Rule Or Ruin’ Policy On Peace

Peace Plans  Of Dewey Hit  By Truman   Dem Candidate Names GOP Isolationists Seeking Office.

Truman Accuses  GOP of “Rule Or Ruin” Policy   Says Dewey Smoked Out Half Way On Foreign Policies

‘Rule Or Ruiw Policy Is Laid  To Gov. Dewey   * “i Truman Calls On Him Te Repudiate lIsolationist Nominees

House Probers Are Told  Pressure Used By U. 5.  Agencies To Compel Program Accord   Deferments Asked For Young Experts   Letters From AAA Sent To _ Farniers, Pointing To Induction Status, Indiana Man Savs

Harness Charges AAA Uses Draft Threat With Farmers   Two House Committees Move to Investigate Re. ports — Roosevelt Considers Special Deferment of Young Scientists

Charge AAA, Draft Tie-Up  On Farmers   House Probes Ordered After Claims Sign-Ups Forced Under Induction Threat

HOUSE TO PROBE AAA COERCION   Farmers Charge Program Used As Draft Threat

Farmer Dralt Charges Airec   Threats Investigated In Connection With AAA Signup Program

lwo Separate House Investigations Of Farm-Draft Dispute Under Way; HighHanded Pressure Alleged; F. D. R. Studies Occupational Deferment Policy

HIGH PRESSURE PUTON FARMERS, SOLONS CHARGE   Investigations Are Projected As Many Other Questions Undef Discussion

Congress Probes Charges Farmers Threatened With Draft, Loss Of Gasoline

House Starts Inquiry Into Charge Farmers Being Goerced Into Signing Up With AAA

CLAIM FARMERS THREATENED BY GOVERNMENT  Being Coerced Into Signing For AAA Program PLAN “NOUIRIES  Face « ‘Threat Of In-

SAY FARMERS COERCED INTO “JOINING AAA      Two Solons Charge Those Who Do Not Sign Up Threatened With Induction and Loss of “Gas” and Machinerya

PROBES PLANNED IN HOUSE ON CHARGES FARMERS COERCED   THREATENED. WITH IN  _. THREATENED. WITH IN ~~ DUCTION: AND LOSS GAS RATIONS IS CHARGED

PROBE CHARGE OF FARMER COERCION   CLAIM PRESSURE BROUGHT TO FORCE AAA SIGNATURES

Churchill Hints Big Conference   House Committees Probe Charges That Farmers Are Forced Into Federal Agriculture Programs

‘Probe Charges Farmers  Are Coerced Into Signing Up For AAA Programs

House Probes Are Directed At Farm Draft Policies   Induction Threat Thought Used To Coerce Agriculture

Hurricane Death Toll. Listed As 39   $53,000,000 “Dp amage Listed; Move 1,000 Wounded Soldiers From Atlantie City

HURRICANE CLAIMS 39 LIVES ON COAST   Damage Nears $53,000,000 In Northeastern States

39 LOSE LIVES IN HURRICANE   Storm Hits Canada After Devastating Northeast States

9 Lives Lost . In Hurricane  Millions Of Dollar: Damanane Reoorted

Hurricane lakes  39 Lives Along Atlantic Coast   Causes Damage  Of 50 Million

Storm Damage Said $30,000,000   39 Persons Killed As More Hurricane Deaths Are Revealed.

39 NOW KNOWN DEAD IN EAST’S HURRICANE   Storm Damage Expected To Reach $53,000,000

SOLONS CHARGE PLAN TO WRECK DAIRY INDUSTRY   Oleomargarine Becomes Political Target Of GOP Congressmen   CliO DRAWS CRITICISM   Promotion Of Substitute For Butter Alleged At Union Bidding

REDS ADVANCE UPON LATVIA IN NEW DRIVE   Germans Make Frantic Efforts to Halt Ukrainian Army Push Westward.

Soviet Baltic Army Advances Beyond Nazi Counter-Attack   Germans Make Frantic Attempt To Save Odessa-Warsaw Railway

Fewer. Packs: Are Promised   Smokers ‘May Get. Even Less Cigarets..

Senatorial Body Fails to Uncover ‘Skullduggery’ in Cigarette Probe

TOBACCO HEED STALLS SMBKES   Senators Undismayed By Maze Of Dismal Statistics

See Fewer Smokes for Next Year   Senate Committee Busy Digging Up Facts; Have Proposals to Ease Shortage

Cherbourg’s Fall Costly To Germans   British Sweep Ahead in Drive Toward Caen

Cherbourg Captured By Yanks   Nazis Lose 4 Infantry Divisions In Port—-British Take 3 Towns

COMPLE VICTORY TUESDAY   Salvage Experts Rush To Clear Docks And Harbor

Defeat German Tactical Reserves, Obtain Harbor for  Larger Operations

British Drive tastward as Key City Falls   Dock Repairs Begar At Cherbourg For Supply Stream

Germans Lose Greater Part Of 4 Divisions   British Force Punches Within 3 Miles of Caen

GERMAN LOSSES INCLUDE ABOUT FOUR DIVISIONS   Meanwhile British Grab Three More Towns, Near Enemy Bastion of Caen

Americans Control] Key Cherbourg Port After Hard Battles.   Rush Salvage Experts To France To Re: pair Docks, English Within 3 Miles of Caen

Powerful British Units Roll Back 7 Nazi Divisions   Capture Of Port Opens Way For Use Of Harbor; British Nearing Caen

Complete Conquest Tuesday As Britons Pounding Caen   4 Nazi Divisions Smashed; Warships Aid Newest Push As Three Towns Taken   THIRD INVASION PHASE HAS BEGUN   General Schlieben, German Hero Of Orel, Is Captured: Repair Of Cherbourg Starts

British Strike AsYanks Mop Up in Harbor  Germans Sacrifice Thousands of Men in Last, Futile Resistance  THIRD PHASE OPENS  Montgomery Lays Guns Almost Hub to Hub in Great New Assault      THIRD PHASE OPENS

CHERBOURG IS UNDER ALLIED CONTROL NOW   30,000 Prisoners Taken Since Invasion

British Take Three Towns In Campaign In Normandy   Cherbourg Conquest Completed By U.S.; Warships’ Guns Back Drive By Tommies

WITH FALL OF PORT GnITlon DRIVE ON GAEN   Germans Lose Greater Part of Four Divisions in City’s Capture.

British Driving  Eastward   Engineers Rush Work Of Putting Great Harhor in Order

German General And Admiral Nabbed;Montgomery TurnsOn: Power From Caen Front

DEWEY REJECTS SUPPORT OF FISH   RAPS SOLON FOR REPORTED INJECTION OF RACIAL ISSUE INTO CAMPAIGN,

Dewey Declines Fish’s Support   Says Solon Guilty of Un-American Acts

Dewey Lambast: Hamilton Fish For Racial View   Publicly Rejects Support of New York Republican Congressman; County Leaders Regret Statement

DEWEY FLAYS RED. FISH FOR ~ RACIAL TALK   Governor Publicly Rejects Support of Congressman

CONTROL OF SAMAR ISLAND IS ATTAINED BY AMERICAN UNITS   14,045 Of Japan’s Hated 16th Division—The Torturers Of Bataan—Have Been Killed Or Captured On Fast-Falling Leyte Island

$¢™ -. aecry a wey ces a ip ~ 900. Meron” Vacs 207 avy ne 3s; 4g 5 SEIS 2. UE  n  - C7 “VES 6 738 2 ot

HEAVY DAMAGE T0 CORN CROP   Ohio Pastures Also Hit by Heat and Drought: Some Get Relief

WESTERN OHIO SUFFERS FROM SEVERE DROUTH   Corn Crop Damage May Hit 50 Per Cent In Some Areas; Pastures Dry Up

Believes Eden Thinking of More Than Polish Question  Statement Concerns Other Nations

Many: Ave  Urnriead    The ¥,’  i ah Toda’ a i   Statement of British. Policy’ ls Sianificant

‘MUCH INTEREST ATTACHES TO STATEMENT OF ANTHONY EDEN'S STATEMENT ON BORDER CHANGES

EDEN AFFIRMS BASIC PRINCIPLES ATLANTIC CHARTES   Restatement of British Policy Seen in Address to House of Commons on Polish-Soviet Matter

oe Jhe War loday <= Eden’s Stand on Land Brings  New Interest  a a ee eo” ee ee aS Cee Cl

JAPS DRIVINC AHEAD IN CHINA   Communique Discloses Foe Makes Startling Gains Inside Kweichow

JAPANESE MAKE RAPID STRIKES INSIDE CHINA   Kweiyang, Important Burma Road Junction Point, Is Menaced   50,000 DEFENDERS ARE REPORTED IN FLIGHT

JAPS MAKE HUGE GAINS IN CHINA      Startling Advances Made Toward Burma Road Capital

Yanks Tell Of Serious Jap Gains   Eaemy Mukes Startling ' Advances in Drive Toward Kweiyang, Vital Town

VANGUARDS Of JAPANESE IN ADVANCE   On Burma Road Capital of Kweiyang; Japs Claim 50,000 Chinese Fleeing; Trving to Agree   Fortified Hill

Jajce, Bosnian Town Used For Yugoslavian Partisans As Headquarters, Retaken By Guernilas

PARTISANS SEIZE BOSNIAN TOWN   Nazis Driven Out Of Former Headquarters City

‘Do You Favor 2 Sexes’ Army Aske  Burlesque Ballot Satirizes Soldier Vote: Mailed By ‘Bundles For Congress’ Gre

ARNOLD WARNS STRIKES MAY SLOW INVASION   Army Chief Indignant At Hearing Before War Labor Board

Strike Is Called Off by Foremen  Action Comes After Warning by Arnold

FOREMEN END OLD STRIKE IN DETROIT AREA   ARMY AIR FORCES CHIEF BRISTLES OVER DELAY

FOREMEN’S STRIKE IN [3 WAR PLANTS ENDED BY LEADERS   ‘Detroit Walkout Called Off After Air Chief Arnold Warns It Endangers Lives of Fliers,   TURNS DOWN EFFORT TO QUESTION HIM   General Glares at Counsel for Union and Latter’s Associates as He Leaves Hearineg.

Foremen Cancel Strike, Heeding Arnold's Apnea   Supervisors Return as Air Chief Warns of Effect Upon War

Strike Of Foremen At 13 Plants Ended   Leaders of Strikers Act After General Arnold Warns Them That Lives of American Airmen Are Endangered by the Walkout

Foremen Call Off Strike In 13 Plants   Most Serious Setback Army Airforce Has Had Yet, Says Gen. Arnold

Army Air Chief Rips Foremen;  Strike Ended   Gen. Arnold Says Walk Out Cost Nation 250 Fichter Planec

- Where Is 9th Army?  Secrecy SuneesuTEng Its Movements Is Matter Of Con. jecture.   Ry HOWARD COWAN

WHEREABOUTS U. S. NINTH ARMY SUBJEC MUCH SPECULATION  ITS DISPOSITION MAY BE KEY TO FINAL ALTIEN CTRATECYV

Where Is 9th Army?   Secrecy-Shrouded Force May Be Key To Allied Strategy In Europe

SECRECY SURROUNDS WHEREABOUTS OF AMERICAN NINTTH ARMY MAY PROVE KEY IN ALLIED STRATEGY

a nn EO  Where Is U. S. Ninth Army Is The Question of the West Front

‘Whereabouts Of U.S. Ninth Army Is Prime Mystery; May Be Key To Allied Strateaqy   it May Be Simpson’s Force That Is Relied On To Deliver Final Blow

Where Is Ninth Army?   — ae ae "VT wT + Position May Be Key To Master Plan For Dealing Final Knockout Blow To Germany

WHERE'S NINTH? EXPERTS INQUIRE   Its Whereabouts Looms As Key To Allied Strategy

Whereabouts Of Ninth Army May Be Key To Plan For Final Knockout Of Germany

‘Big Mystery:  Where Is 9th U.S. Army?   Answer May Be Key to Allied Strategy in Final Blow Against Germany

WHEREABOUTS OF U. S. NINTH ARMY LATEST MYSTERY   Answer May Be Key to Allied Strategy in Plan to. Knock Germany Out—Ninth Has Been in News Twice’ in France .

Speakers For Farm Bureau’s  P nual Meeting      Which Will Be “Held Friday. ‘Evening Of This Week

Speakers For  Far arm m Bureau’ s     “Which Will Be . , Held Friday. Evening OF This Week 

FARLEY OUT AS CHAIRMAN _INNEW YORK   Action Interpreted as Op. position to Fourth Term

Farley Resignation Is Seen Result of His /Fourth Term Opposition

Farley Bolt Seen as Bid For Honors   Opposition to FDR Presidential Choice Possthle Outeameo

Farley Move Shows: Belief FDR. Will Run   Friends’ Fear: No Bolt, Think He Will Assume: Attitude . . Of Neutrality.

FARLEY ACTION 5 INEVITABLI   Consequence of His Known - Opposition to Fourth  Term for FR.

Farley’s Resignation From N.Y. Demo  Post Seen As Consequence Of His Opposition To Fourth Term For FDR

FARLEY RESIGNS HIS PARTY POST   New York Chairman Not Helping In Fourth Term Campaign

Farley Will Lead FDR Opposition   Eyes Nomination For Presidency

FARLEY RESIGNS NEW YORK POST   Believe Fourth Term Cause of Resignation

Farley Resigns As New York  Demo Chairmar   Role in Democratic National Convention Remains Question

THINK FARLEY MAY ACCEPT ANTI-STH TERM LEADERSHIP   Resigns As New York State Democratic Chairman

FARLEY WORRIES FDR SUPPORTERS   HINT RESIGNATION IS REBUKE AT 4TH TERM INTENTIONS

Farley's Action Stirs Speculation   Resignation May Mean He Doesn't Favor Roosevelt

Farley’s Resignation Gives Weight To Belief Roosevelt To Run To Succeed Himself

Tie Farley Move To Fourth Term   Believe Farley Thinks President Will Be Candidate

FARLEY RESIGNS AS STATE LEADER   Name Will Probably Be Entered As Presidential Nominee.

Move Seen As Protes Against Roosevelt’s Fourth Term Bid   GRISWOLD SUPPORTS DEWEY CANDIDACY

Farley Quits As N. Y. Demo Head   Believed Result Of Opposition Po 4th Term

Action Seen as Slap at Roosevell  Farley Resignation Causes Big Furore

Fourth Term Ts Expected    “Farley Quits State Post In Opposition

Farley Quits AsN.Y. Top Democrat   ANNOUNCES His RESIGNATION AS CHAIRMAN OF STATE CO™MMIITTEE AFTER 14 YEARS IN POST.   “No Comment”

Yank, British Forces Are Near Junction At Falaise: Reds Push Toward Prussia   Yank Column Threatens Positions In Southern France As Germans Are Evacuating; Movements  Are Cloaked In Secrecy

NIRS. BROWDER OFF DEPORTATION LIST   Immigration Boar ‘Board Removes Order to Permit Leaal Entry :

Neutrals Warned Tc Cease Aid   Allies Ready To Do Something About Turkey And Sweden Giving Essentials.

Showdown With Sweden Said  Be A pproaching   Note Is Sent To Nation By U. 5., Great Britain

DAVIS UPHOLDS WAGE INCREASES   WLB Chairman Says Limitation Of Earnings Would Be Disasterous

WLB Head Terms Further Limitation Of Worker Earnings As “Disastrous To The War Effort”

‘i  Washington Squirrel Cage”: Author's References to New Deal  Leaders Taken into Federal Court

Allies Down 193 Planes To Break Record   Action Occurs In Mediterranean

Allies Get 78 German Planes   Air Victory Occurs In Southern Europe; Shuttle Planes Return.

NAZI WAR PRISONERS IN NEBRASKA STRIKE   Won't Work in Beet Fields Under New Pay Scale

FARM PRODUCTS GET SUBSIDIES   Compromise - Negotiated By Administration And Congress

Finns’ Defense ~ Line Smashed by Red Army   Russians Near ‘Viipwi After Rushing Past Mannerheim . Portifications .

U.S. Bombers Strike Near   Liberators, Range Into  ~ Carolines To Attack  Ponape — Meet No Air nposition.

U.S. Bombers Strike Near Mighty Truk   Liberators Range Into Carolines To Attack Ponape -— Mect No .Air  pposition.

Libetators Blast Jaii’s Gibraltar Of The Pacific   Attack Ponape; Range Into Caroline’ Islands To Within 400 Miles of Truk; Deepest Westward Penetration,

GAMBLER KILLS MRS. POPHAM AND HIMSELF   Murder and Suicide, Say Authorities; Inguest Tonight

Fifth Army Front Quieter As Germans Attempt to (Slow Advance to North   Cassino Reported Evacuated; Russian Forces Threaten to Split Nazi Army, Driving Into Outskirts of Chudovo

CAIRO REPORTS ALLIED TROOPS HOLD VELLETRI   Soviet Armies Burst Thru Tottering Enemy Lines West Of Novgorod

eds Attacking irbales With Planes, Tanks   Within Three Miles Of East Prussia, Nazi Cammuniane Save   MOVING AFTER HALT   Imperil Wild Masurian Lake Country; Knife — Through Lvyck Belt

EGG HITS SINATRA, SHOW 1S STOPPEI   SINGER LEAVES STAGE AS POLICE STRUGGLE TO QUELL DISTURBANCE.

ADDITIONAL NAZI FORTS IN HANDS OF THIRD ARMY   Greatest Number of Enemy Counter Assaults Thrown Back

TOKYO WILL BE WIPED OFF MAP   So Says Admiral Halsey, Commander Of All Forces In The South 2, cific.

Halsey Returns For War Council   Admiral Says Tokyo Will Be Wiped Out

Little Celebration “Where Tokyo Was” Planned by Yankees   Admiral Halsey Talks of Pacific Warfare; News From Fronts

DEWEY BLASTS FARM POLICIES OF ROOSEVELT   Candidate Says Ag Plans Of Nation Exploited For Political Profit   FARMERS ARE PRAISED   Republican States Job Well Done Despite Control And Lack Of Tools

Dewey Lashes New Deal Farm Program in Speech   Says Administration Failed to Get Fair Prices for Eight Years

DEWEY SCORES FARM POLICIES   New Deal Exploited Farmers, GOP Nominee Says

@,'0. F. NOMINEE DECLARES IN SPEECH NEW DEALERS CAUSED AGRICULTURAL  . CONFUSION

Liberators Strike Jap’s Balikpapan Oil Center Second Blow   Seven Big Bombers Lost in Pacific Raid; Submarines Sink 11 More Enemy Vessels Navy Reports; Allies Gain in Burma

Japan’s Borneo Oil Sources Blasted Heavily   American Subs Sink 11 More Jap Ships; Jap Armies in China Score New Victory

Second Heavy Air Strike Made at Balikpapan  ELEVEN MORE JAP VESSELS ARE. SUNK  Ten Nipponese onese Killed for Every American in Palaus

10- 1 DEATH RATIO REPORTED BY U. S.   American Invading Troops Capture Nine Islands in Establishing Killinoe Record

Japanese Oil Supply Again Heavily Hit   Eleven More Japanese Ships Are Destroyed  Sa ey et   OIL CENTER BOMEED

Heavy Blow Dealt Bornec   Big Jap Refinery Is Battered Again; Subs Send Down 11 More Nip Ships

RAID BORNEO OIL PLANTS   Yanks Strike Again at Balikpapan; Subs Sink 11 More Jap Ships

Big Jap Refinery Is Battered Again; Subs Send Down 11 Mare Nip Ships

Jap Oil Source On Borneo Hit In Second Raid   Also Revealed Subs Have Sunk I] More Enemy Ships in Pacific

British And Indians Mop Up Japanese On Arakan Front   Bitter Battle Rages In Burma Jungle

U Students Bid For Shifting Of Medical College   Petitioners Deplore Conditions, Cite Reasons Backing  Their Demand

319 Medic Students Vote School Moved   List ‘Conditions Which Doom Our School to Mediocrity’

STUDENTS OF TEXAS MEDICAL COLLEGE IN FAVOR MOVING SCHOOL  EAN OF COLLEGE CLAIM: IGNORANCE OF ALLEGED RESOLUTION ADOPTED

“TRNE. EVITA   (Captured General’s Order : of: Day Says Offensive Might Even. End War— 1 ‘Allies - Confident of Suf senieAnabeica ce fem nee

Allies Confident ~ InIndia Struggle  War’ s Outcome Hinges ~ On Fight. Japs Say

JAP OFFENSIVE 5 IMPORTANT   Troops Near Imphal and Kohima Told It Might Even Win War.

Last-Gasp — - Assault hy ~~ Japanese   Desperate. Gamble Being Made to Smash Allied Bases in India   ALLIES RETAIN. . > UPPER HAND   » With Help of Monsoon, En-emy Force May Be En: ‘tirely Wiped Out:

JAPS WARNED OF IMPENDING ALLIED DRIVE   Allies Claim To Hold Upper Hand In East India

Japs Say Drive In India Is of Utmost Import   Allies Hold Upper Hand in Vital Nip Offensive—Chinese Fight Desperately

JAPS TOLD INDIA INVASION VITAL; MIGHT END WAR   ALLIES APPARENTLY HOLD ADVANTAGE IN WEIGHT OF FIREPOWER

Japs Told India Campaign “Of Great Importance” Allies Hold. Upper Hand.

PEC. JAMES COOPER HOME FROM EUROPEAN SECTOR   Soldier Fighting at Aacher Spent Months in Trenches   ARRIVES IN “ONE PIECE”

High School PTA to Hear Two Talks Tuesday Night   Face Liquor Charaes

Britain Tightens Censorship on Neutral Diplomats   impending Military Operations Make Move Necessary Savs London

Britain Clamps Tight Lid On All Neutrals   Diplomats Now Forbidden To Send Censor-Free Messares

rN  6S * Sees FF ACAOOLL NZ APT UIC OVV iF  Jap Suicide Attack Fails In Solomons; Many Slain

37th Division Leaves Hundreds ‘of Japs Dead in Bitter Battle   Enemy Suicide Assault Thrown Back with Foe's Casualties. Piled High Against Barbedwire Defenses. 

TRAPPED JAPS FIGHTING WITH DESPERATION IN SOLOMONS AS AMERICANS MOW THEM DOWN   Bougainville Island Scene of Bloody Four-Day Battle in Which Over 1,000 Nips Slain. Enemy Reported Regrouping for New Assault

U.S. Forces On Bougainville Massacre Japs   Five Hundred Bodies Are Counted Matted On Barbed Wire Defense Aftec Suicidal Attack

SUICIDAL JAP ATTACKS LOSE   Hundreds Of Enemy Dead Left On Defenders’ Barbed Wire  U. §. LOSSES LIGHT

Jap Assaults.  ‘On Beachhead ‘Thrown Back By Americans   Heavy Losses Are Inflicted On Foe

Yankees Stop Japanese At Bougainville   Suicide Assaults Are Unsuccessful

37TH DIVISION HURLS BACK JAP ATTACKS ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND   Massed Charges. Are Made Without Hope, Writer. Reports   U. S. ARTILLERY PRAISED.

Massed Japanese Assaults Smashed: 1,000 Japs Die   Hopelessly Trapped En“emy At Bougainville Makes Suicidal Attacks.

__ pp ACUEIC—   Empress Augusta — Bay Clash Costs “Nips 1,000 Dead

Japanese Suicide Assaults Hurled Back by Yanks   Hundreds of Enemy Dead Left on the American Beachhead On Bougainville

Dead Japs Left Hanging In Barbed Wire Affer Massed Assaults Gn Americans At Bougainville Beachhead: Atfack Suicidal

37th Division Helps Throw Back Japs With Great Losses On Bougainville

JAPANESE LOSE HUNDREDS ON BOUGAINVILLE   Enemy Garrisons Pust Forth In Suicidal Attacks On Yanks

Yanks Aiding Jap Suicides   Massed Suicidal Assaults By Trapped Nips Leave Hundreds of Enemy Dead

THOUSAND JAPS DIE IN SUICIDE MASS ATTACK   Bougainville Beachhead Held by American Forces Against Wild Reesntte of Ninnonace   ALLIED LOSS LIGHT   Few Japs Got Through Barricades, Only to be Wiped Out Later by Allies

OULK-BOEVER WEDDING FRIDAY   Groom Recently Returned From the Aleutian Islands

QULK-BOLVER WEDDING FRIDAY   Groom Recently ‘Returned From the Aleutian Telande ©

Ceremony Performed at St. _ James Church—To.Make  Llama in I eMare

PRETTY WEDDING HELD WEDNESBA\   Theresa Harms and J. H. Engel Exchange Nup_ tial Vows

WEDDING UNITES: POPULAR COUPLE   Dommer-Trieber. - Nuptials Held At Craig Last Saturday °

U. 5. BOMBERS SINK 4 JAP DESTROYERS   Enemy Task Force Attempting to Aid Troops on Biak - fe Rairted

Airmen Take Toll of Jap Naval Force   Fonr Destroyers Sunk, Fifth Damaged, Cruiser Driven otf by Mitchells off Biak

Japs Lose 4 Destroyers   Biak Aid Task Force Led by Cruiserin Dutch Guinea Rout

Smash A Jap Convoy   American Bombers Sink Four Enemy Destroyers Off Biak; Land Forces Mop Up

U. S. Planes Sink 4 Jap Destroyers  A Fifth Damaged  In Furious Action

BIG JAP SHIP TOLL   American Fliers Smash An  Attempt to Bring © Aid to Biak

Bombers Sink Jap Warships   Destroyers Believed on Way to Biak Island Smashed by Attack

Smash Apparent Jap Attempt To Reinforce Biak   U. S. Airmen Sink Fou Nipponese _ Destroyers.  Damage A Fifth.

Biggest Toll Of Jap Sea Power In Months  Four Jap Destroyers On Wavy To Biak Sent Down

Quiet Scribe Likes Job, But He Is Angry When Comings, Goings to Beachhead Are Heralded by Bombs

Greeting Appreciated But Not Enjoyed Beachhead Welcome Proves Boisterous And Prolonnaed

AROUND PRUSSIA   One Salient Within Fifteen Miles Of German Soil   DEEPEN WEDGE INTO SOUTHEAST ESTONIA   Forces Battle Through Numerous Water Barriers

SOVIETS CROSS VISTULA RIVER   Two Armies Forging Arc Around East Prussia

REDS FORM ARC AROUND EAST PRUSSIA      Two Russ Armies Take Part in  . Latest Movement

TWO POWERFUL RED ARMIES FORGE HUGE ARC AROUND EAST PRUSSIA   Russian Troops Rapidly Moving [Forward In Drive Against Ger-

Soviets Close in On East Prussia   Oné Army Within 15 Miles of German Soil

Soviet Forces Forging Huge Arc Around Nazis   AMERICAN BOMBERS ON ANOTHER FORAY

Soviets Forge Arc Around East Prussia   2nd Army Drives In Move to By-Pass Mansurian Lokes

REDS READY T0 SMASH OVER BORDER   Soviets Pushing Past Lake Region Of Historic Fame

RED ARMIES FORGE ARC ABOUT NAZIS   One Salient Less Than 15 Miles From East Prussian Soil

RUSSIANS FORM BIG ARC AROUND EAST PRUSSIA      One Salient Now Only Fifteer Miles From Soil Of Germany

Soviet Salient Within 15 Miles  of German Soil   Two Powerful Red Armies Forge Arc Around East Prussia

One Salient Is 15 Miles  From Border   Osovets Fortress Falls To Russians Driving From Sout

Wedge into Esthonia Deepened   Thrust Toward German Soi in a Widening Semi Circle

Two Powerful Soviet Armies Forge Huge Arc Around East Prussia, Nearing German Soil

RUSSIAN ARMY ONLY 15 MILES AWAY IN SOUT   Nearing German Soil After Capture Of Osovets City

3rd Russian Army Battles Strong Nazi Force 35 Miles Northeast of Tilsit

Reds Close “Steel Jaws On Prussia   South Wing Almost On Soil of Reich; Qsovets Fort Falls

Forcing Huge Are Around East Prussia — One Salient Within Less ‘Than 15 Miles of German Soil,

Regents To Reorganize At Meeting   Naming of President Is Expected To Be On Board’s Calendar

Beat Canada To Slash in Meat Points   OPA HEARS OF GREATER GENEROSITY OF CANUCKS AND STAGES HASTY BID FOR APPROVAl...   Canned Meat Points Down

Meat Rationing In Canada Suspended U. S. Sets ‘Bonus’   Point Values Of Pork And Many Cuts Of ‘Beef Lowered Alona With Grant Of Parke

MEAT RATIONING ENDS IN CANADE   Heavy Marketing Lead: To Lifting Of Bans On Consumption

CANADA SUSPENDS RATIONING OF MEAT   Heavy Marketing and = Shipping Shortages Cause Dominion to Lift Bars on Consumption,

PORK RATION CUTS ANNOUNCED BY OPA   Many Cuts of. E Beef Also : Will Require Fewer Points

Point Value  Of Pork Cut, Some on Beef  Also Reduced   Announced by OPA After Hearing Canada Planned To Allow Civillans More Meat   NAR AR ROR ER AT ANANY SIAN  LAMB; VEAL, MUTTOD TO REMAIN SAME Butter, Cheese, Lard  Other Dairy Product Points Not Affected

New Pork Bonus Granted as Meat Points Reduced   OPA Action Precedes Announcement Canada To Halt Rationing

Point Costs Of Pork, Beef Cuts Slashed   Fourth Pork ‘Bonus’ Given by OPA After Tip Canada Plans Cut

Fourth Pork Ration Bonus Is Declared And Many Meat Point Values Are Cut

Canada Suspends Meat Rationing   No Ration Coupons Needed; Salmon Also Off List

Meat Rationing In Canada Is Susnended   Surplus Brings About  Temporary Move; U.S. Cannat Fallaw T aad Naw

ANOTHER PORK BONUS IS GIVEN   OPA Also Lowers Ration Values of Many Cuts Of Meat

U.S, MUST KEEP MEAT RATIONING   Bowles Asserts Canada’s Suspension Example Impossible Here

MEAT RATIONING-IS SUSPENDED BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT   TEMPORARY SUSPENSION I8 ATTRIBUTED TO STORAGE  - AND.TRANSPORTATION ¢@ PROBLEMS .

SUSPEND MEAT RATIONING IN CANADA TODAY   Move To Relieve Surplus Market Given As Reason For Suspension

MEAT RATIONING IN CANADA ENDS   Suspended Temporarily to Ease Surplus Supplies

MEAT RATIONING ~ ENDS IN CANADA   Temporary Suspension On at Midnight; Allied Exports Limited -

Canada Now Lifts Meat Rationing   TEMPORARY MOVE MADE TO RELIEVE MARKET OF SURPLUS

Gen. Barfon Heads Fourth Division   One Of Those. That Had Part in Taking Cherbourg

Tokyo. Enireats: :, Chiang. To: Figh?:U.: J Peair             Chinese “Assert. ‘Stilwell: + .. Recall Solely: Wilitaco

RECALL IS TERMED. MILITARY MATTER   Chinese Official Refuses to Talk on Stilwell’s Removal

‘Stilwell recall is a military affair’  Assertedly not connected with Gauss resignation

Fierce Nazi Defense Slows  Russian Drive   Weather Also Aids Desperately Resisting Budapest

Doctor Extols “Mind Over Matter” Says Tt Extends. ‘Even to ‘Canees

Power Of Mind Can Cure Cancer,  Gurostalies Yikaiene Wiadinnt Wen

ar SETBACK 18 REVEALED   FIGHTER COMMAND IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC DESTROYS  1503 ENEMY PLANES~—  LOST 134 FLIERS, 

Shops Close. As:Protest..   New York ‘Butchers Flay. OPA. Rulings

GOTHAM MARKET TAKE “HOLIDAY   35 Percent of City’s Stores Protest OPA Regulations by Cinsing Doors

Hope So!  Jeweler Sells Service Pins At Half Price; Thinks War Will Be Over Soon!

ONLY MEN UNDER DATO BE CALLEL   Boards Get Instructions From Selective Service Head

ORDER OHIO BOARDS TO FILL ALL CALLS FROM 18-25 GROUF   Direct Review of 26-29 Age Class In Survey Of Deferments

Calk-for-Men-of 18- 15 Age Age Group   Draft Boards Get New Instructions

COUPLE nis As      Helen L. Moran ’ is Married To Gharles F. Flannery, West Concord   FRIENDS PAY TRIBUTE   Parties Held in Her Honor;  Friend Draws ‘Up Testimonial’:

COUPLE WED AT ST. AGNES IN ARLINGTON        Helen L. Moran is Married To Charles F. Flannery, West Concord   FRIENDS PAY TRIBUTE   Parties Held in Her Honor; ' Friend Draws Up Testimonial ~~ -

Determines To Fight on __WithNazis   Hungary Worried Bu Nevertheless Wilt Remain German  Pa: hier

ALLIED LOSSES MEAN LONGER WAR   PREDICTION MADE FIGHTING IN EUROPE WILL EXTEND FAR INTO 1945. -

fanutacture if Civilian ‘oods OK’   oday on Wide ariety of Items  ae Effective

, ooeenenenietiiinaetatenemnnenemiamneaanmmemmmenmmmnaiantae  Nazis Using Robot Tanks

Stilwell Case Reverberates Through Asia   General’s Recalf Explained Only by Theories on Future

Recall of Stilwell Climaxes U.S., China Argument   Far-Reaching Disagreement Shakes Kast Asia Cooperative Structure; Ramifications of Move Undisclosed

DAVIS MAY BE GOP CANDIDATE FOR SENATE SEAT   Final Decision Is Due At Philadelphia Meeting Tomorrow

BRITISH RAID ESSEN, NAZI RAIL CENTER   RAF Mosquitos Bomb Targets At Osnabruck

NIGHT AND DAY AIR RAIDS ON GERMANY   British And Italian Based Planes Give Nazis No Rest

RAF Bombers Hit Essen Rail Yards   Targets At Osnabruck ; Pounded By Mosquitoes

DEAD’ SON AND FATHER UNITED   Two Former Wisconsin Professors Meet After 14 Years

DAD RECOGNIZES SON MISSING 14 YEARS   John A. Commons Had Been Declared Legally Dead. Six Years Ago.

FATHER, SON MEET AFTER MANY YEARS   Retired Educator, 82 and Son, 53, Reunited — at Depot. _—

APPLY PRESSURE FOR FINN ACTION   Officials Reported Pondering Over Three Concessions Given By Reds.

ROOSEVELT URGES FINNS TO QUIT WAR   Asks That They Dissolve Nazi Partnership, -

NEW PUT W HHS TO QUIT WAR   Soviets Reported Offering Three Concessions From Original Demands

Fr. R. Urges Finns to Withdraw From Hateful Partnership With Nazis

Huge Force Of U.S. Bombers In Berlin Attack   Terrific Daylight Raids Are Made On German Capital In Daylight   NIGHT BOMBERS HAMMERED OSLO

Reds Seize _ Baranowicze Upon Route  Into. Warsaw   - Battle. ‘Tn Wilno’s: ‘Streets; Cut. Line.

Reds Storming Info Wilno On Way To Warsav   Vital Rail Line Cut, 28,000 Nazis Slain In Minsk Sector

Nazis Lose Last Important Rail Outlet in South   Soviets Make 11 Mile Gain in Poland; Push North of Rumania

SUPPLY LINE CUT OFF FOR EAST PRUSSIA   REDS BREAK INTO WILNO; UKRAINE FRONT ACTIVE

REDS CAPTURE FORTRESS ON WARSAW ROUTE   Enter Streets Of Wilno, Cut Vital Rail  ine

Russ Cut Nazi Supply Rails In South Area   , Onrushing Soviet Gutflank Enemy In Dnieper Salient

Volochisk Is Captured by Advancing Soviet Forces   MANY NAZIS SLAIN DURING OFFENSIVE   _—_ sa eaeeewee Ss a fF 2 Sec Nae ek FY le  Double - tracked Odessa  Lwow Railroad System Cavarad

Russians Capture Volocisk, Cut Railway Line   Nazis Lose Last Outlet to Safety

Volochisk. Is Captured by Advancing Soviet : Forces   MANY NAZIS SLAIN DURING. OFFENSIVE   Double - tracked Odessa. Lwow Railroad System Severed

RED ARMY SEVERS. GERMAN RETREAT ROUTE IN UKRAINE      Russians ‘Cut Odessa-Lwoy Railway Along 18-Mile Stretch and Smash “Into Volochisk.   MORE THAN 15,000. - GERMANS ARE KILLED   Soviets Plunge Forward 11 ‘Miles in Old Southern PoJatid—Crash Into Forts   Near Narva.

Reds Battle Into Wilno   Capture Baranowicze, Cut Vital Railway, Slaughter Trapped Germans

Nazis’ Ukrainian Supply Route Cut   Main Line To German Forces In Dnieper Bend Slashed On Third Day Of Drive; Eleven Mile Gain Made

REDS WITHIN 60 MILES OF FAST PRUSSIA   Relentless Drive on 350. — Mile Front with Nazis ~ Falling Back in Great Disorder.   Take 700 Towns

Severance Of Important Double Tracked Line Cost Nazis Last Important Rail Outlet In Southern Russia.   Heavy Fighting

URRAINE ARMY SMASHES NAZE DEFENSE LINE   LAST SUPPLY ROUTE FOR GERMANS IS SEVERED

TROOPS FIGHT IN STREETS FOR BASTION   Russians Capture Bara a nowicze, German. For- tress: on. Invasion Route te Warsaw.   NEW SOVIET DRIVE "-QPENED IN POLAND   Moscow Announces' - Slaughter of 28,000 Germans and Capture of 115.102 Near Minsk.

RUSSIANS CUT KEY UKRAINIAN RAILROAD LINE   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses as Retreat Route is Periled   fvutiine OFF Nasi Treat

Reds Capture Volochisk, Sever Odessa-Lwow Line Along 18-Mile Stretch

RUSSIANS POUR THROUGH BREAK IN NAZI LINES   Volochisk Is Captured And Double-Tracked Rail way Severed   CONSIDERABLE BOOTY IS TAKEN BY SOVIETS

Reds Fight To Streets of Wilno   Soviet Reports 28.000 Germans Trapped East Of Minsk Killed

Russ Enter Wilno; Take Baranowicze   East Prussia, Baltie Defenses Crack; Main Supply Railway Cut

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Nazis trapped as Russ take vital rail line   Volochisk key to  German’s escape

Soviets Capture Strong Point On Route to Warsaw   New Red Offensive Launcheon on Wide Front Below Kowel

Moscow Reports Red Troops Enter Wilno   Other Successes Menace German Hold on Poland

Soviet Claims Slaughter Of 13 000 Nazis   Baranowicze Falls Before Big Drive On Way To Warsew

Reds Capture Fortress of Baranowicze   Russian Forces Fight Into Streets of Wilno

Russian Army Seizes Fort:  Fight In Wilmo   Cut Railway Of German Supply Backbone; Slaughter 28.000 Nazis.   EXTEND RED FRON’

Dnieper Line Buckles Under Drive   Moscow Claims German Manpower Losses Heavy

28,000 Germans Slaughtered In Trap Near Minsk  Huge New Strides By Soviets Revealed In Communique; Zhukov

EDS OEVER Lfal NAZI RAIL OUTLET WW SOUTH RUSSIA   Soviets Batter Way Through Northwestern Hinge of Dnieper Bend Salient   MARKS THIRD DAY OF NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE   Moscow Declares Germans Are Suffering Heavy Losses In Manpower and Equipment; Reds Push Closer ta Rumanian Frontier

Russians Now Only 60 Miles  From Rumania   Nazis Lose Last Major Rail Outlet to South Russia: Volochisk Seized by Red Troops

  Russians Go Ahead, Wilno ls Invaded   Capture Baranowicze, Cut Railway Bearing Supplies to Nazis

Nazi Outlet To Ukraine Is Cut   Reds Sever Last Moaior Rail Line

BARANOWICZE FALLS; OPENS WARSAW PATE   28,000 Nazis Caught East of Minsk Are Slaughtered

Forces of Red Army Capture Baranowicze   Fight Into Streets Of Wilno and Cut Key Wilno-Daugavpils Railroad Line

Nazi Defenses Broken by  Russian Troop:   Important Railway Line Severed by Advancing Reds

Soviets Take Baranowicze, Cut Railway   Tremendous Amoun! of Loot and Thousands of Prisoners Captured

Nazi Supply Line, Vital To East Prussia Defense, Cut} by Advancing Soviets   Moscow: Reports Many Nazi Soldiers. Slaughtered in Mop-Up With 275,000 Killed or Captured Since June 23

BARANOWICZE'S TAKEN; BALTIC 165 MILES AWAY   Berlin Reports Great Fighting In Kowel Sector—Unconfirmed

Wilno Entered By Surging Soviet Army   Reeling Nazis Suffer Large Losses On Eastern Front

Gov. Stevenson Fails to Get  Demo Accord  Voters Declared Entitled to Chance to Express Selves

ANOTHER JAP UNIT IN INDIA   4th Column Crosses From Burma  Allies Admit Pressure Mounts

BATTLE FOR INDIA CITY (5 INTENSE   JAP COLUMN HURLS ITSELF WITH FURY AGAINST ALLIES.   Hot Attacks   Lord Mountbatten Reports Nips Are Waging Determined Fioht Daily.

JAPS PRESS 4Th PENETRATION INTO INDIA   Steadily Increasing Pressure, Mountbatten Reveals

ATH JAP FORCE PUSHES TO INDIA   Allied Jungle Units Face Steadily Mounting Fury of Enemy

JAPS LAUNCH .. NEWASSAULT: ~~ INFAR EAST         FOURTH IN VASLON COLUM ‘CROSSES FRONTIER FROM BURMA INTO. INDIA. IN“. STEADILY GROWING OFFENSIVE

Hitler Orders Ruthless Purge   Attempt Made In Order To Restore Army Honor

U. 5. Recognizes Polish Home Army as Combat Force; Germany Is Warned

Islands Far Beyorid Truk Are. Pounded  Blow In 300.  : Or oY ae ee De

PACIFIC FORCE STRIKES BLOW AT MARIANAS   MANDATED ISLANDS OF JAPANESE ARE RAID TARGETS

New Thrust Hits Within 1300 Miles of Tokyo   Eniwetok Atoll Conquest Completed ; Other Bases Bombed

Major Naval Base Bombed   Other Pacific Areas Active In Offensive

Late Bulletins   Russians Inch Closer to Hunaarian Strona Points

HOLIDAY TOLL HITS 109 LIVES   Only Report 31 Deaths From Highway Accidents

Sugar Bowl Draws Day’s Bivcest Gate   New Mexies,Lobos Hold Yaunted South. western to 7 to O

BRICKER ADVOCATES  pes setohs boty Getic niggas p mdhnath eke         Collier Says House Group Visit Moane Better Deal for Indians

Nine Fighting Nations Suffer Most Kurope’s War Casualties (;reatest In 825 Years  ep Oe SS OR

MERICANS AND BRITISH ARE FLENTLESSLY INCREASING RESSURE ON ENTIRE FRONT   anks on Northern Arm of Pincers Capture Wurselen, Two Miles Northeast of City to Link Up With Comrades   ELIEF COLUMNS ARE SHATTERED BY ARTILLERY

British Slug Way Into Venray   Situation Held Similar to That Before Break-Through

Situation Similar To Normandy Is -Created   MOVING * “AHEAD  American And British Troops Increase Pressure

LUTHERANS TO CONVENE AT SAGINAW   39th National  Convention There  June 21 to 30

, REDS NEARING BESSARABIAN * NAZI BASTION   » Drive Deep To Close In on Balti   NAZIS CRACKING   Soviets Extend Romania Holdings

Flood Waters Continuing to Spread Over Thousands of Acres of [owa’s Crovland

Flood Waters  Ravage lows   Five Lives Claimed By Tornadoes Striking Northwestern Area.

No Reason to Lecture on Liberly   Secretary Hull Points. to U. S. Tradition in) Comment  -on Small Nations   REFERS TO SPEECH BY VON. KLEFFENS   US. Always. Has Given Rec ognition to Struggles tor Freedom

Hull Says Small Nations Need Not Fear Big Four’  Asserts U. S. Will Recognize  Straggle ef Any Peoples

FULL CO-OPERATION SMALL COUNTRIES: APPROVED BY HULL  SECRETARY OF STATE ANSWERS QUESTIONS BY NETHERLANDS OFFICIAL

Hull Assures _ Small Nations Part In Peace      Replies to Speech By Netherlands Foreigr ‘Minister

Churchill Says Surrender Term: Still Hold True   Will Make Report On Moscow Trip On Friday.

Churchill Says ‘No Bargaining’ Still Allied Plan   British Prime Minister To Give Report Friday Ou Moscow Conferences

Churchill Repeats  Surrendér. Ternis   Still “Unconditional” In the. Sense of No Bargaining With Enemy

‘British Policy On Surrender: ‘ls Unchanged   Churchill Refuses o Participate In Foreign Affairs Debate;  q His Moscow Report Coming Friday.

Congressmen Reaching For ‘raveling Bags   Senators, Congressmen Finishing Off Work to Take Recess Until August 1

OUST GERMANS FROM VALLEY DEFENSES   Offensive Continues to Run Ahead of Schedule

Dumbarton Oaks Delegates Lean Toward Body of Unprecedented Power

Delegates Favor Powerful Court   Some Differences In Opinion of Duties of World Peace Court.

Envoys lean to powerful world court  Views differ on status of sroup

World Court Plan Favored   Dumbarton Delegates Want Wide Powers for Tribunal

WORK BEGINS FOR AIR FIELD IN MANSFIELD   CAA Gives Go-ahead Sign Over Other Cities

American Planes Blast Jap Bases In Pacific On Wednesday, Thursday

PACIFIC BASES OF JAPS TAKE HEAVY BLOWS   Kuriles And Garrisons In Marshalls Are Blasted

ENCOUNTER NO OPPOSITION      Numerous Fires and Hits Recorded on Anti-Alrefaft Batteries and Bulldings — Marshalls Cut Off from Effective Help.

INDUSTRIAL DEFERMENTS FOR YOUNGER MEN WILL BE ENDED   Gen. Hershey Says Minimum Age May Be Placed Ai 26 Years; More Than Half Draft Registrants Now Called Are Flunking Physical Tests

MEN UNDER 26 MAY NOTGET DEFERMENTS   Drastic Steps Are Planned . to Meet Army Ouctac   CONGRESS IS GIVEN STORY BY HERSHEY   Screening of Farm Labo: Proposed by Draft . Officiale”

F Drastic Steps Seen As Over Half of Draft Registrants Flunking Army Physical Tests

Half Draft Registrants AreFlunking   CONGRESS IS ADVISED ARMED FORCES MUST HAVE _ 1,200,000 MEN TO REACH 11,300,000 BY WLY 1.   Physically Defective

Halt of Draft Registrants Failing Tests Worker Deferments May Be. Denied To Men Under 26  DRASTIC MEASURES HINTED BY HERSHEY  Farm Labor, 4.F’s To Be Sereened Again Many Fathers ToGo   Worker Deferments May Be. Denied To Men Under 26   DRASTIC MEASURES HINTED BY HERSHEY

MANY FLUNKING IN DRAFT TESTS   Over Half Of Men Now Coming Up Fail To Pass Physicals

More Than Half Draft Registrants Now Being Called Up Are Flunking Physical Tests, Hershey Reports

Vads riunse Vue  Boom Crop of 4-Fs May Force ‘Army to Curtail Job Deferments

Tighten Draft  Deferment Rules   Many Registrants Fail Physical Tests

DRASTIC DRAFT STEPS IN STORE   FARM LABOR: TO BE SCREENED—JOB DEFERMENTS FOR MEN OVER 22 MAY END. .

‘Hershey Says More Than Bell Dralt  Hevisiranis Row Called Munk Tesis

Invasion of Los Negros Island North of  Rabaul.   50,000 JAPS TRAPPED  IN BISMARCK AREA  ¢ reneral MacArthur Views Landings From Warship.  

Island Ot Los Negros Captured Opening Path To Philippines; Japs Trapped In Bismark Area

YANK ASSAULT TROOPS SUBDUE JAP RESISTANCE ADMIRALTY ISLE!   General MacArthur Reports Penetration Of Islands Virtually Completes Stranglehold On Enemy In _ Southwest Pacific.

SOVIETS DRIVE NEARER RAIL CITY OF PSKOV   Russians Strike Hard at German Troops in -Dniepér Bend

SOVIETS STRIKE VIGOROUSLY IN DNIEPER BEND   Russians Blast Von Mannstein’s Troops As Another Force Draws Hourly Nearer Pskov Following Capture Of Staraya  ussa.

Reds Push Move in Dnieper Bend  Shattered Ranks of Van WMannctain Mia

REDS MENACE PSKOV FROM THREE SIDES   Battle Draws Hourly Nearer Key Rail City Following Staraya Russa’s Fall — Krivoi Rog and Kherson Threatened.

Shattered Nazi Armies Pressed  Ever Backward   Russian Forces in North And South Draw Nearer Current Objectives

SOVIET TROOPS NEARING PSKOV KEY TO BALTIC   NEXT OBJECTIVES OF REDS KHERSON AND KRIVOI ROG

SOVIET ARMIES FORCING NAZIS ALONG DNIEPER   Three Way Drive By Russians On Key Rail City

Reds Strike Into Broken fvazi Ranks   Battle Draws Nearer Pskov On Northern  Front

Soviet Army Strikes Hare In Bend Are   Battle Is Drawing - Nearer To Pskov  By The Hour

REDS QUTFLANK KRIVO! ROG IN UKRAINE DRIVE   Kherson Also Goal of Russians Soviet Army Pushes Near Pskov

KRIVOI ROG AND KHERSON NEXT GOALS   ‘Northern Armies Meanwhile Continue Drive On Pskov

STRIKE VIGORDUSLY ~INTODNEPER BEND   Reds Battle Shattered Ranks Of Von Mannstein’s Troans.

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON 3 KEY BASES   Pskov, Krivoi Rog, Kherson Face Great Soviet Blows

METS GAINING IN PSKOV DRIVE   Krivor Rog And Kherson -Tinmediate Objectives Of Reds" :

BATTERED NAZI ARMY REELING BEFORE REDS   In North and South Russians Continue Unrelenting Pressure on Shattered Ranke

Next ‘Objectives of ‘Red Ukrainian Armies Is: Kri voi Rog, Great Iron  - Ore Center

Two More Cities Are Menaced By  Russ Armies   Krivoi Rog, Kherson Believed To Be Next Objectives; Reds Also Nearing Pskov

RUSSIANS DRIVE AGAINST PSKOV AND KRIVOI ROG   Reported Massing on Banks of Dnieper Waiting Command to Altack Tron Center   ATTACK IN ESTONIA   Staraya Russa and Shimsk Taken in Fierce Fighting. Moscow Reports Say

Red Army Hits Hard Blow At Nazi Lines   Dnieper Bend Battle Grows; Two Big Cities Threatened

Reds Exploiting   Staraya Capture  Menace Enemy Salient To Baltic Front

Red Forces Lunge Toward Rail Key  Pskov and tron Ore Center of Krivoi Roa

RED ARMY FORCES  OTRIKE HEAVILY IN  DIFFERENT SECTORS DNIEPER BEND AND NOR.  THERN FRONTS SCENES KFIERCE FICHTING

AAZIS SUFFERING HUGE LOSSES ON ROME BEACHHEAL   Grectest Tank Battle of En tire Italian Campaign Undar Wav

All-Out Nazi Anzio Drive Hurled Baek      4 Nazi Divisions Repulsec on, Beachhead; Fiftt Takes Cassino Heights

COUNTER-AIiACK OF ALLIED ARM. CAUSES PROGRESS   Greatest Tank Battle of Italian Campaign !s Raging, Rains Prevent Support From Air Forces.   LONDON IS BOMBED BY GERMAN AIRMEN   Move to Be Made By Finland Is Still Uncertain, Reds Massing Men, Equipment to Strike Blow. *‘

RAINS DEPRIVE DEFENDERS OF AIR UMBRELLA   Four New Nazi Divisions Brought Up; Allies Gain At Cassino

PINNED TO GROUND   FOUR CRACK NAZI DIVISIONS DRIVE DOWN ANZIO ROAD   However, Situation Not Hopeless, and Yanks Are Counter - Attacking at Some Points.

Allied Line Yields to Nazi Push   New Zealand and Indian Units Are Brought Up to Cassino Sector

NEW RAID MADE ON PHILIPPINES   WHARF AREA OF DAVAO ~ BOMBED—11 JAP PLANES DESTROYED AT HALMAHERA.

U.S. Bombers Hit 3 Jap Cruisers   Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged Total Sixty

War Billions Win Okeh of House Group   Roosevelt Gets Bill Cutting Nicht Club Tax

House Group Backs War Fund   Passes Request For Forty Nine Billion To Finance Army.

FILIPINO. GUERILLAS WACS AND PLAIN CITIZENS GUARD ISOLATED AMERICAN GROUPS ON ISLANDS —

N_ Y.  Stocks      Curb Stocks   OPA Sets Markuns For Vevetahles

SEVEN FOOD TYPES UNDER NEW CEILING   OPA Acts To Help Set Retail Prices

CHANNEL COAST ROCKED BY YANK ‘BOMBER ATTACK   Gadio Silence Indicates Air Action by Allies Qver Scandinavia

ALLIES AGAIN ~ HITTING HARD BY AR POWEE   FLEETS OF PLANES MAMMERING TARGETS ALONG CHAN. NEL AND INLAND IN MAJOR ATTACKS :

Bombers Blast Channel Coast   Martin Marauders Attack Nazi Military Objectiyes In France

BOMBS POUND FRENCH COASI   Great Aerial Drive Continues Targets In Italy Also Ripped

BOTH SIDES LAY CLAIM TO TREND IN BORDER SOUTH   ELECTION OUTCOME MAY HINGE ON THE FIVE BORDER STATES

Rival Congressmen Claim Tritimphs in Border-State Race   Base Convictions on Past . Performances, New Developments

G. O. P., Democrat Leaders Both Claim Edge in Race to Capture Border States

BORDER STATES SAID ABLE T0 SWING ELECTION   As West Virginia— And 4 Other States—Go. So Goes Presidency

Both Parties Now Claiming Border States   Opinion Expressed Five States Will Determine Election

Border States Key to Victory   Both Sides Claim Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and West Virginia

LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES CLAIMING. BORDER STATES  FIVE STATES LOOKED TO TO SWING ELECTION IN  FIT NAmMrenrirnanl

BOTH PARTIES CLAIM BORDER STATES TODAY   Candidates Will Speak This Week  In Broadcasts

Border States Being Watched  Both Parties Expect Victory In Election

FDR to Tour  Boroughs of New York   Both Parties Expect Win in Important Border States

Both Parties Lay Claims To Border States   Republican and Democrat Campaign Leaders’ Are Figuring on Carrving Several Uncertain States.

2 SIDES CLAIM BORDER STATES   Both Republicans And Democrats Seek Areas Usually Doubtful

Border States Claimed For  Both Parties   (Maryland, West Virginis and Three Others Are Barometers of U, 8. Political Trend

Valley View Opening Annual Funds Drive.   Responsibility of Community to Hospital Outlined By Tulsan; Workers Canvass Downtown Ada Today

SPY CHARGES FACE PASTOR   FORMER CLERGYMAN ACCUSED OF BEING “CONTACT. MAN" FOR SABOTAGE GANG, .

NAZIS’ CONTACT MAN ARRESTED   Former Minister Indicted As Aide Of Saboteurs

Argentina Seeks Relations Refurn With 16 Republics   Buenos Aires Asks Inter-American Foreign Ministers Conference

ARGENTINE BID BEING PONDERED   Washington Hopes That Fascist Nation Wijl Be Unable to Get Maiority

JOB INSURANCE CHANGES URGED   Extension Of Plan For All Favored By « Board

Extension Of Unemployment  Aid Proposed   Social Security Board Would Include Establishments Having as Few as One Employe

Take 500 Towns On Riga Route   Fourth Great Army Ready To Pounce Upon Stronghold In Land-Sea Attack.

Russian Armies  Drive on Riga  Battle for the Baltic Capital Nears End

CHARM, BUT NOT T00 MUCH:  Happy Medium Desired By C apite il Firm In Lady  (= —— eo a

PATROLMAN RESCUES DOG ~ -FROMPOND   Animal Succumbed to Immersion and Shock as Respiration Methods Fail

RESCUES D DOG FROM PONE   Animal Succumbed to Imthersion and Shock as Respiration Methods Fail

Grecian Fort Is Attacked   Allies Driven Out Of Greece in 1941 Return for Revenge

SEEK TO HALT GERMAN RULE OVER BALKANS   Greeks Joyously Greet Britishers Landed by Sea, Air; Contact Made With Axis Troops

Says Wartime Strikes Few, Far Between   Green _ Tells Legionnaires Strikes Have Not Material-. ly Affected War Program;  Arnold, Nimitz Heard 

Patterson Says Victory Not Far   Acting Secretary Describes Trép Into  Combat Zones.

GREEK REBELS OCCUPY PRISON   Quisling Premier Flees: Relief Mission Forced To Quit Athens

Greek, British Garrison Flee Prison  Mortar, Grenade   Mortar, Grenade Attack by Elas a Success

GREEKS FORTIFY AVEROFE PRISON   Attack by Leftists Forces British Garrison and Greek Gendarmes to Evacuate Institution

Yanks Bomb Nazi Aircraft Carrier In Genoa Harbor; British Occupy Perugia

U.S. Fliers Hit Enemy Carrier In Genoa Harbor   Thunderbolts Attack Former Italian Ship, Scoring Direct Hits

STATE TUBERCULOSIS DEPARTMENT ASKED   Wholesale Combat of Disease Would Be Goal

BROADCASTER DIES SUDDENLY; INQUEST MAY BE ORDERED   Commentator Carter Dies Pew Hours After Comnleting Racho Broadcast

BOAKE CARTER DIES SUDDENLY   RADIO COMMENTATOR AND COLUMNIST IS — VICTIM OF STROKE

BOAKE CARTER DIES SUDDENLY   Famed Radio Commentator Succumbs After Daily Talk

BOAKE GARTER DIES OF STROKE   Radio Commentator Succumbs Shortly After Broadcast

Boake Carfer of ‘Radio Fame Dead   Brain Hemorrhage Fatal to Commentator

Boake Carfer  Dies Sudden   Radio Commentator {s Victim Of Stroke

BOAKE CARTER DIES OF SUDDEN STROKE      Prominent Radio Commentator Stricken in Doctor’s Office

Boake Carter Dies Suddenly At Hollywood   Radio Commentator On Mutual System Suffers Stroke Shortly After  Giving His Program

BOAKE CARTER, 46, DIES SUDDENLY   Noted News Commentator .-Expires, in Hollywood . Hospital :

BOAKE CARTER DIED SUDDENLY   NOTED RADIO COMMENTATOR ‘SUCCUMBED TO CEREBRAL  HEMORRHAGE DURING NIGHT

BUAKE CANTER DIES SUSDENLY   Suffers Stroke in Doctor’s Office, Dies Shortly After Entering Hospital

LEY- CHANGES ~~ BOMB STORY   HEAD OF NAZI LABOR SAYS GERMAN. "BLUE-BLOODED : “SWINE” PLANNED AS  SASSINATION 

ERVOECHICUE LVUSES     Dr. Ley Blames Jews For the Conspiracy Against Hitler

College Heads Urge Training Of Boys 17   “Year In College. “Would Help Schools And: Would Aid Army

‘Proposal Made ‘By Educators   Would ‘School Boys “At Army’s Expense

Education Chiefs Make Suggestion   War Department Urged to Send 17 Year Olds to Colleqe

Colleges Seek Continuance Of Education Plar   100,000 High School Graduates 17 Years Old May Go To College This Summer If Army Accepts Proposal.

New Plan  For Training   Educators. Suggest Army Send 17-YearOlds ‘to College

Wilhelmshaven Bit by 1000 Tons of U.S. Bombs   Powerful Assault Hits One of Nazis. Large Naval Bases

RAID MADE BY YANKS   Wilhelmshaven Is Hit By 600 Planes With 1,000 Tons

U. S. Bombers Attack Nazi Naval Base   More Than 1,100 Aircraf: Take Part in Raid on Wilhelmshaven

Ainerican Militarists Expecting — Nazis To Use Gas Upon Invaders

TE Nazis Choose To Use Gas Warfare, American   Military Men Think Invasion Will Be Siqnal.

Military Authorities Relieve Germany, if She Resorts to Out _lawed Weapon,. Will Employ It in: Attempt to Repel In  - vasion of Western Europe—U, S.-British War. Offices Take View Allies Could Beat Enemy at: His Own.Game.

2,800 Tons Of Bombs Dropped In 20 Minutes   Monastery Destroyed In Italy, Railways To Rome Snarled By Air Attacks

OVER 800 RAF BOMBERS CARRY OUT HEAVIEST AND GREATEST ATR ATTACK IN ALL HISTORY   Attackers Lost 43 Planes, Mostly to Ground Guns, in Latest Obliteration Attack on Dying City. First Attack in Two Weeks

NEARLY THOUSAND BRITISH, CANADIAN BOMBERS HIT CAPITAI   IN ITALY ROME RAIL YARDS WRECKED, MONASTERY DESTROYED

Capital Reels Under Deluge  Of 2800 Tons   Warships Shell  Nazi Lines Around Beachhead As Grim Fighting Continues

British Bombs  Bury Berlin In Greatest Raid   Most Concentrated Air Attack In All History

Attack Is Heaviest In History   Between 800 and 900 RAF Bombers Drop Over 2,800 Tons of Explosives on City

1,800 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped In Twenty Minutes   Other Air Blows Dominate War News From Europe

City Blasted By Heaviest Raid In All  History   HUGE ATTACK   a ae ; Oyen Dlawac Ara   Forty-Five Planes Are Lost By The Allies :

Railroad Yards in Rome Are Tangled;. Allied  Warships Back Up Troops on Beachhead; 42 British, Canadian Planes Lost in   Bie Raid on Capital

Badoglio’s Reproachful   ~ At Not Being ‘In On’ Russian Deal for Part of Italian Fleet

ITALY TO BALK AT FLEET MOVE   Badoglio Wants to Know More About Plan to Assist Russians

GALLONS OF MILK GOES INTO SEWER      Denied Sunday Delivery by ODT; Milk Is Dumped

NAZI TROOPS ARE POUNDED BY U. 5. FLIERS   Waves of. Planes Lay  Down Wall of Bombs _in France

LANES BLAST ESCAPE ROUTE OF NAZI ARMY   Road Junctions, Ene my Troops in France Are Pounded

Allied Bombers Plaster Nazis  On French Line   Spring Trap on Kluge’s Backtracking Armor And Troops; Bridges, Road Junctions Hit

SEALING GFF NAZI ESCAPE   In France; Midnight Pounding of Air War Under Way As _ Germans Withdraw.  nna   1,300 Planes

Fleeing Enemy Sunday Target Of Allied Plane:   Waves of Varied Craft, Ancluding: Big.Qnes, Hit Nazis Throuch Day

U. 5. PLANES BLAST NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE   Heavy Fighterbombers Shatter Gun And Radio Emplacements Along French Riviera

State  Returns  Incomplete Allegheny County, Philadelphia Give  Mr. Roosevelt land Plauralitu

MYERS, DAVIS RACE CLOSE FOR SENATE   Contests for Statewide Pennsylvania Offices Run on Narrow Margin.

“Trail of the Lonesome Pine.” in technicolor, Ritz, Sun.-Mon.   Ritz Theatre  Nocona. Texas

A NEW USE FOR A CAT   ‘Feline Pulls String Which Threads Cable Through Drain.

Costly Tree Grows in. Solomons  Yanks and Japs Have Died for I   By CHARLES H. McMURTRY.

FDR Knew In 1939 U. S. Would Have - To Enter War, Borah Notes Allege

BORA NOTES ~ MADE PUBLIC      WIDOW OF SENATOR RELEASES NOTES MADE BY HUSBAND. DURING CONFERENCE:  ' BEFORE WAR

Polish Troops Advance Swittly   Brazilian Forces Join  Allied Fight In Italy

Brazilian Troops Fighting in Italy   Poles Gain Ground Along Adriatic

Poles Take Towns On Italian Front   Brazilians and Greeks Now Seeing Action With American Fifth Army

150,000 Nazis Face Baltic Trap   Soviet Troops Menace Prussia; British, Greek Troops Occupy Corinth

MAJOR DRIVE ON RHINELAND IS. THREATENED   Patton’s Army Wipes Out Bulge, Strikes Out On 20-Mile Front

Soviets Encircle Two Strongholds: No Change in Italy  _ U. §. Planes Deliver Major Smash at Invasion Coast

300 Planes Hit Jap Base At Hollandia   Supply Port Gets Knockout Blow in  Heavy Allied Raid

Big Jap Supply Port Of Hollandia Rocked By 300-Bomber Raic   Allied Air Attack Completes Destruction of 288 Enemy Planes; Two Islands Blasted in 12th Truk Assault

300 Allied Planes Hit Hollandia   Jap Main Supply Port Neutralized as Bombers Destroy 288 Planes Based There

Allied Bombers Hit Supply Port in New Guinea   Major Blow Is Delivered at Hollandia

HOLLANDIA ON NEW GUINEA 1S LEFT A SHAMBLES   300 Heavy and Medium Bombers Sweep Over In Endless Waves of Destruc Sian

Allies Neutralize Jap Supply Port Hollandia Destroying 288 Planes   U. S. Ground Forces Tighten Hold On Strategic Admiralties By Seizing 10th Island

BOMBER FLEET RAIDS SUPPLY BASE QF SAPS   Hollandia In New Guinea Hit; Campaign Is Continued Against Trok

Japs Chased Over Pacitic As Yank Airmen Bag Recora Number of Planes in Raid

Destruction of . 288 Jap Planes Said Completed   Liberators Continue Campaign Against Truk, Carolines Stronghold

‘ALLIED BOMBERS NEUTRALIZE HOLLANODIA   300 Planes Deal. One of Major Blows in New Guinea Area

400-TON RAID AT HOLLANDIA WRECKS BASE   All 288 Jap Planes Are Destroyed By 300 Allied Fliers

Neutralize Japanese Supply Port   Allied Bombers Continue Attacks on Enemy Bases  in Pacific

JAP BASE ON NEW GUINEA NEUTRALIZED   300 Bombers Biast Hollandia, Smash 288 Nip Planes

Christmas Program At High School Auditorium Wednesday Afternoon   Appropriate Music And Play, ‘‘Why The Chimes Rine’”

JOINT CHRISTMAS PROGRAM. L. 4. S.   Annual Event For Junior and Senior High Students

Rul Suggests General Revision Of Nation's Fiscal Policy After War

Nominee Says Rival’s Record ‘Bad’   Text of Governor Dewey's Address on Page 6.

DEWEY PLEADS FOR ‘INTEGRITY   Gives Hard-Hitting Reply Ta Roosevelt’s Address

A Caustic Reply To the President   Dewey Calls for “Restoration of White House Integrity”

Restore Integrity is New Battlecry For Republicans   Dewey Delivers Bitter Reply to —

Dewey Scores Wise Cracking By President   Declares That “Indispensable’ Man Resorts to Mud Slinging Instead of Serious War Thoughts.

Dewey Replies To Roosevelt   Says People Will Vote To Restore Integrity In White House

Unity Of Nation In Peace Or War His. Air, If Chosen  President, Dewe>.Declares

Dewey Assails Roosevelt For Falsifications   4 Quotes Aides On Fear Of Depression, Unpreparedness In Punching Comeback to ‘Mud-Slingine’

Gov. Dewey, After Caustic Speech In Oklahoma City, Starts Trip Back To Albany

FDR INTEGRITY HIT BY DEWEY   GOP Nominee Retaliates Without Gloves

Dewey Moves On To Tulsa’ And Sapulpa   Made Caustic Answer To Roosevelt’s Saturdoy Speech any

Mr. Dewey Pours It On   GOP Nominee Makes Biting Reply to FDR Falsification’ Charge

Dewey Pleads For Integrity  In White ‘Seen   Punching Comeback At Roosevelt Talk Hits Theory of “Indispensability”

Tulse . isit Closes Dewey’: Western Tour   Republican Nominee Believes He Sounded New Battle Cry in Oklahoma City Speect

Winning Of War, Achievement Of Peac Must Be Held Sacred, Dewey States   70,000 Entering Service Monthly

URGES RET OF INTEGRITY IN GOVERNMENT   Says Roosevelt _ ‘Indispensable’ Only to Party Machines

DEWEY RAISES A NEW BATTLE CRY FOR REPUBLICANS  CALLS ON VOTERS TO RECTORE INTEGRITY   CALLS ON VOTERS TO RESTORE INTEGRITY IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Dewey Bitterly Attacks New Deal, Asserts FDR Is Indispensable To Hillman, Browder

DEWEY CALLS FOR RESTORATION OF “INTEGRITY” IN THE WHITE HOUSE AS CAMPAIGNS WARM UP

Our Unpreparedness For War.Laid At White House ‘) Doorstep, Quotes General Marshall’s Statement .——-Hits New Deal Leaders

Dewey Travels” Over Oklahoma   For Fiat Talks      ‘Plea ‘To Return’ tniegrity To White House Viewed =A Rallying Cev OL COP

Dewey Deals Bitfer Reply To President   Restore ‘Integrity’  To White House, Plea Heods For Tulsa To Confer With Leaders

DEWEY CLAIMS FDR NEGLECTED U.S. DEFENSES   GOP Nominee Asks ‘Integrity in the White House’

GOP Nominee Calls for Restoration of ‘Integrity’ in White House; Bitterly Attacks Phrase’The Indispensable Man’

Dewey Caustic in His Reply to Roosevelt   Says Winning of Wer Too Sacred to Resort to Frivolous Lanquage

‘Dewey Assails FDR on State of 194] Preparedness  ' Guotes Ermy Chiets, Democra:   Guotes Rrmy Chiefs, Democrats te Show Nation Noi Ready for War When Attacked

Dewey Calls For Integrity In Government   Quotes Official Statements On Unreadiness of U. S. For War When It Came

Dewey Hurls Stiff Blows At Roosevelt   Claims People Will “Restore Integrity in White House” in November

DEWEY IN CAUSTIC  ANSWER ROOSEVELT  CAMPAIGN SPEECH REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE  RIPS INTO DEMOCRATIC STANDARD REFARER

Dewey Hits Back ‘At. FDR Charges   Restore White House Integrity He Urges in Oklahoma Address

DEWEY SQUARES OrF IN SPEECH MONDAY NIGHT   - Thousands Greet GOP Nominee At Oklahoma City

Truth, Virtue Republicans’ Battle Theme   Governor Dewey Urges Restoration Of Capitol Integrity

Dewey Flays FDR's Record. In Peace, Wat   10,000 Okiahoma City Hearers Applaud Fighting Talk

DEWEY ASSAILS RECORD OF FOR   GOP Presidential Nominee in Bitter Reply to President's Talk

May Raise Deferment Ace to 26   Situation on Draft Becoming Tight, Hershey Says

DEFERMENT WILL BELOWERED   Selective Service Head Say Industrial Workers May Have to. Be Denied Defer ment Under 26 Years of Aaa

Draft May Revise Minimum Age For Deferments   Hershey Says Service Might Soon Call Men Up to 26 Years

Tight Draft Situation Is Told By Hershey   Selective Service Director Asserts Age Minimum For Deferments May Be Raised To 26 Years — Predicts Induction Of Comparatively Few Farm Hands This Summer <

Draft Situation Tightening, Claim  May Raise Age Limit For Deferments

MILITARY DRAFT SITUATION BECOMES EXCEEDINGLY TIGHT   MAY SOON HAVE TO RAISE AGE MINIMUM FOR INDUSTRY DEFERMENTS

HOLD HEARING ON FARM DRAFT RULE   FARM ORGANIZATIONS FEAR EFFECT ON CROP PRODUCTION IN 1944

Tight Draft Situation May Result In Higher Industrial Deferment Age

Troops Forge Ahead to Aid Of Trapped Men   Intense Fighting Recorded Today Alona Wide Front

No Reports Of A Linkup Ai Arnhem   ‘Lost Division’? Holding On Grimly; Nazi Surrender Demands Reiected   RELIEF COLUMN PULLS UP CLOSE   Mobile Guns Give Support to Encircled Unit; Heavy Battles All Along Front

Demand For Surrender Is Greeted With Scorn   Strength Being Sapped And Nazis Bolstering Defenses

BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS ‘MEETING STERN RESISTANCE IN EFFORTS TO RELIEVE SKY MEN

INTENSE FIGHT ONLONGFRONT      A‘lies Meet Stern Resistance In Effort to Relieve ‘Lost" Division.’   BUILDING NEW DEFENSES

U. 5. PARA TROOPS AND BRITISH ARMOR REACH RHINE  GRIM BATTLE UNDER WAY TO JOIN BELEACIIREN CKY FaRCE

POWER AGAINST SUPPLY ROUTE   Trapped Allied Sky Troops Assert Their Morale Is Still Hich

British Armor And Yank Parachute Troops Fight To Join “Lost Division”  Sternest Nazi Resistance Being Met As Allies Attempt To Fashion Spearhead For Northern Invacion

Allies Have No Report of a Contact With British  Division  FIGHTING IS INTENSE      The British and American Troops Are Meeting Tough Resistance

‘Mobile Guns And Tanks Fnter Battle   British Armored Units and U. S. Paratroops Drive Through Six-Mile Wall of Steel As Nazis Hurry Defenses Deeper in Germany

NO WORD OF CONTACT FOR RELIEF UNITS   But Situation Involving Airborne Forces Believed to be Somewhat Easier Today.

British Armor, U.S. Parachute Troops Fight to Link With Air Division in Arnhem Area

Contact Made with One Airborne Unit While Other Fights Grimly to Hold Strategic Position on Upper Rhine

Japs Sight U. S. Fleet Off Luzon  Claim Attacks on Yanks at Leyte

Watkins Company Officials Fined   Falsified In Purchase of Family Automobiles

Uroe Congress To Take Action On Reconversion   Cochran Wants. Early Legislation For Peace Needs

Re ¢ onversion Fight Shapes For Congress   Sentiment Grows For Quick Consideration Of Program For Country

Fiery Mt. Vesuvius  ls Sweeping Towns   “nother series OF Terrific Eruptions Taking Toll; American Soldiers Evacuate Vietme

Streams of Lava From Vesuvius Engulf Villages  Violent Eruption Shoots Molten Mass Into the Air

LAVA THREATENS ~ 3 MORE TOWNS   ITALIAN VILLAGERS ‘FLEE AS ‘ FIERY STREAMS FLOW FROM MT. VESUVIUS.

Americans Help Italians fo Evacuate As Vesuvius Stages Violent Eruption

Lava Avalanche From Vesuvius Buries 2 Towns   Thousands Homeless; Allied Armies Aid in Evacuating People

[Benedictine Abbey. \Made Nazi ‘Fort’   Americans Try to Spare Old Church Landmark

Italians Are Reassured as  To Their Ships   Badoglio Government Is Pleased by  Clarification

Win Important Italian Base   ~ Yatiks Set for Thrust Up West Coast

‘Seized ByAllies On Italian Front   Town Is Vital Supply Base; French Units Converge Of Inland City Of Siena

Fifth Army Men Seize Port In Italian Drive   American And French Troops Converge On Siena, Inland Town

Italian Port Of Piombino Seized By Allies Sunday   Yanks, French Nearing Town Of Siena .

Fifth Seizes Port of Piombio   Yanks and French Converge on Inland Town of Siena

BIG ITALIAN PORT IS IN ALLIED HANDS   Yanks March Into Piombi no and There Gain Im _ portant Advance Supply  - Base for March up West Coast.

Rilth Gains Supply Base   Seize Port Of  Piombino Without Opposition; Move Up West Coast.

PORT IN ITALY TAKEN BY YANKS   Troops and Weapons Rushed From France Captured

WREST BASE FOR SUPPLY FROM NAZIS   Piombino Port in Allied Hands as United Nations Forge Farther Across Italy.

AMERICAN TROOPS CAPTURE PIOMBINO WITHOUT OPPOSITION  ALLIED FORCES CONTINU]   ALLIED FORCES CONTINUE NORTHWARD DRIVE IN ITALY AGAINST NAZIS

Yanks Capture Vital PortIn Drive On Pisa   Gertaans- Evacuate Sectors To’ Ayoid: Encirclement On Weat Coast:‘French  -Aleo Make Gain

NAZIS REFUSE TO DEFEND PORT   5th Takes Piombino Without  German Resistance

American Troops Seize Piombino Without Fight   Nazis Abandon Advance Supply Base In Northern  Italy To Prevent Encirclement; Troops Press  Enemy: Eighth Army Also Drives Ahead

Gain Valuable Advanced Supply Base; Americans Within 35 Miles of Leghorn in Italian Campaign

FIFTH ARMY YANKS OCCUPY IMPORTANT PORT CITY, ITALY.   Americans Take Blam ine Without Opposition — Will Serve as Valuable Advanced Base For Western Forces ji

Piombino’s West Coast  Port Taken By Yankees   Italian Campaign Making Progress

PIOMBINO PORT IS CAPTURED BY AMERICAN UNITS   Germen Troops in Full Flight As Allies Score Again In Italy

PIOMBINO FALLS TO ADVANCE ON WESTERN COAST   Americans, French Converging On Siena Below Florence

Americans Take Port in Italy   Gain Valuable Supply Base. As Other Troops Converge Upon Siena

Capture Italian Port   Piombino Seized By  Fifth Army Without Opposition; Germans Rolled Back in Center

ADVANCE. IN ITALY   Port of. Pionbino, Supply ' Base, to. Allies: Close ’ in on Siena

ITALIAN PORT OF PIOMBINO SEIZED   5TH ARMY GAINS ADVANCED BASE ON WEST COAST

Fifth Army Plunges Within 38 Miles Of Leghorn, Takes Valuable Port Of Piombino   Germans Evacuate Base To Avoid Being Trapped; Gains Scored On Other Fronts

Allies Seize Italian Port Of Piombina   Is Valuable Supply Base For Continued Thrust Northward

Gain Valuable Advanced Supply Base for Continued Italian Thrust.

Yanks In Italy Push Within 38 Mi. Of Leghorn   Take Port Of Piombino: French Help Put Squeeze On Siena.

Jap Premier Blames Reverses  On Shortage Of War Material   Tells Jap People Their Nation Facing An Unfavorable Situation

91 Jap Planes Knocked Out Of Philippine Skies   Yank Carriers Put Ir New Tactics Tc Blast All Nipponese Shipping

Two Destroyers Fired by Yank Carrier Forces   B29s Drop Incendiary Bombs on Tokyo; Jap Losses: Heavy

CARRIER PLANES EMPLOYING KEW TACTICS DESTROY $1 JAP PLANES AND DAMAGE TWO ENEMY DESTROYERS

Earlvw Conquest Predicted   Robots Make London Blackout End Flop   Germans Release Bombs Timed With Lights-On

Several Leads Reported in Ration Theft   District Director Absolved Local Board Of Negligence

Several Leads Reported in Ration Theft   District Director Finds No Indication Board Delinquent in Efforts To Safeguard Coupon:

WIDENS OVER PEACE BILLS   Conflict Looms Over Compensation for  War Workers

Postwar Labor Measure Brings Senate Debate   Conflict Arises over Unem ployment Payments fo War Workers

SENATORS. SPLIT ON POSTWAR PROGRAM      Sharp Conflict Rages Over Unemployment Paymente

RECONVERSION LEGISLATION IS BEING DEBATED   Senate Sharply Divided Regarding Compensation Payments To Jobless   DEMOCRATS WOULD PROMOTE IDLENESS

Conflict Breales Over Measure  Senate Gets Down to Worlr on Bill

Sharp Conflict OnReconversiot Rages in Senate   Republicans: Contend ” Bill: Would. Hold: ‘Labor Under Government Yoke

SENATE CLASHES OVER POST-WAR JOB PAYMENTS   Opponents of Murray - Kilgore Bill Contend It Would Put Labor Under Government Domination.   GEORGE DECLARES IT WOULD COST 10 BILLION   Measure Sets Up Agency ‘That Could Require $35 Weekly Payments to Discharged War Workers.

Senators Stage Sharp Debate on Jobless Benefits  Move to Find Cushior   Move to Find Cushion For Post-War Period Gets Under Way

[More Enemy Strongholds  . Fall in Poland   Red Forces Continue. .Momentous Sweeps: Toward East Prussia  NEAR-CZECH BORDER

RUSSIANS ARE NEAR WARSAW  NAZISRETREAI   Many Cities and Fortresses Captured As Reds Pursue Germans Staggering: Westward.   Severe Defeats

Soviets Get Three More  Nazi Bases   Brest Litovsk Falls  As Germans Retreat Across Poland, Baltic States; Near Czech Line

Red Forces Race To Within 20 Miles of Warsaw   Capture Brest Litovsk And Encircle Three More Nazi Divisions

Soviet Horde Races Within 20 Miles Of Polish Capital City   NAZIS SHOW NO INTENT OF MAKING NEW STAND

(GKES TO RELEASE HARD COAL MINES TO THEIR OWNERS   War Labor Soard. Must Stil Take Action on Bituminous Contract.

Ickes To Return Mines To Owner   Private Concerns To Resume Coal Operation

Terms to Finland   Finnish Delegates In Moscow Said to  Have Better Offer

Gliders Drop Thousands New Forces   Nazis Build New Defenses  Behind Rhine

Building Line East Of Rhine   Germans Feverishly Working on New Defenses As They Battle Yankees   FORESEE END OF  SIFGFRIED LINE   Defeat Is Inevitable, the Only Question Is When It Will Come

Democrats Win Election Primary   - Renomination of Solons Assured In Two States

“Terror Grips Hearts of Many’ Germans Broadcast Says, Proclaims ‘Holy War’ "Maelstrom of Destruction’ in Europe

DEIllilL NGACLO CALS fOr Nazi Troops in Conquered Europe Called to Combat Duty for Reich

Nazis Declare Terror Is Gripping Land   German Broadcast Says Battle For Life Is On

Enemy Admits Outlook Grim   Nazis Declare ‘Terror Grips Hearts) Of Many Germans: Fight For Life On,

FIGHT FOR LIFE—~  Terror Gripping Germans   Vilitary Broadcasts: ‘Will Destroy Germany’

Nazis Facing  Fight to Death   Radio Calls on People All to Fight Against Advancing Russians

Million Line Streets as Philadelphia Stages Its Famous New Year’s Parade

Votes.to "Pay Vets   Bill Calls for Amounts Ranging From $100 to $300 for Persons. _

MUSTERING OUT CASH APPROVED   Discharged Veterans Of World War II Get $100 To $300

MUSTERING OUT PAY (S VOTED   Those Under Rank Of Cap. tain Eligible For Pay ment Upon Discharge

Pot of Gold for Veterans pa erateccsses«~»-eesu  ngress Approves Compromise Musterins-Out Pay Legislation

MUSTERING-OUT PAY BILL TO ROOSEVELT   Congress Approves Measure tc Give War Veterans $100 to $300 Upon Discharee.

Congress Votes Veteran Fund   Passes Mustering Out Pay; Measure To Be Sent To White House.

MUSTERING-OUT BILT. IS PASSED   Senate Votes Pot of Gold to War  Veterans

Temperatures   Norway and Holland Soon To Be Free, Eisenhower Reports

British Armor Presses Drive  Near Holland   Little Resistance Is Encountered In Offensive Aimed At Antwerp.

Allied Forces Plunge Through Boom, 10 Miles South of Big Belgium City.

AMERICANS MAKE 155-MILE ADVANCE IN NEW GUINE!   Leap-Frog Up the Northerr Coast to Within 55 Miles of Madang

AMERICAN TROOPS MAKE SURPRISE LANDING AGAINST JAPS AT SAIDOR   Tough, Experienced Sixth Army Men Catch Japanese Napping.

RESISTANCE OF ENEMY FORCES , IS STILL WEAK   Allies Seize All Initial Objectives in Great Southern France Drive

Seventh Army, Under General Patch, Scores     CASUALTIES LIGHT, _ COMMUNIQUE SAYS  Landing of Reinforce_ ments Is Being Con-  tinued 

Victors of Sicilian Campaign, Led by General Patch, Have Smashed Mediterranean Coastal Defenses, Established Firm Beachheads and Are as Much as Eight Miles Inland —Enemy Resistance Continues to Prove Relatively Weak.

Seventh Army, Under General Patch, Scores  nces  CASUALTIES LIGHT, COMMUNIQUE SAYS Landing . of Reinforce_ ments Is Being Con-    tinued aon

OBJECTIVES OF ASSAULT TAKEN      American and British Alrbrone Troops Vault Behind Lines.   RESISTANCE STILL WEAK

U.S. Troop Carriers Shuttle In Supplies, Reinforcements   Germans Only Hold Off Invaders at One Point; Report Yanks Take Nice, Cannes

Allies Begin Inland Moves From Beaches  Report Nice, Cann fPantausad Aad (th   Report Nice, Canne: Captured And City Of Marseille Under Immediate Threat

Cannes And Nice Reported Taken; Forces Pour In   Marseille Said About To Fall; All Initial Objectives In Allied Hands

CASUALTIES IN NEWEST PUSH REMAIN LIGHT   Maj. Gen. Patch Has Command of Drive, Reports Say

Correspondent Says Paratroopers Have Captured Large Coastal Town Of St. Tropez Between Nice And Marseille; Gen. Patch Commands Seventh Army

ALLIED ARMY "FIGHTS EIGHT MILES INLAND   MEN AND EQUIPMENT NOW POURING ASHORE

Smash Germany's Coastal Defense, Take Objectives   70-Mile Stretch Of Coast Is Held

Establish Firm Hold And Start On Inland   Airborne Troops Block Enemy Reinforcements and Nazi Resistance Continues Weak; Bombers Raid Rail Bridges

Win All Initial Objectives In ~ First 2 Days   German Resistance Continues Relatively Weak, Allies Assert

REINFORCEMENTS LANDED AGAINST WEAK OPPOSITION   ENCOUNTER TROUBLE AT ONLY ONE POINT; OBJECTIVES TAKEN

Invaders Push 6 Mi. From Beach   Southern France Drive Proceeding According to Pian

Airborne Troops-In Big Role   Casualties Very Light As Allied Invaders Push Inland Against Weak Nazi Resistance

MEN, SUPPLIES WINGED IN BY GREAT FLEETS   Troops Still Streaming Ashore; All Initial Objectives Taken

Allied Troops Have Struck Eight Miles Inland in Some Parts   KEPT OFF ONE BEACH   Axis Fire Prevented Landing; All Initial.Objec tives Laken

Gen. Patch Heads U.S. Seventh Army In Southern France   Casualties Are Officially Called Extremely Light

Bloek. Enemy Advances As_ Troops: Land Behind Lines   Both. ‘Nice; ‘Cannes. Reported. Captured

Troops Are Eight Miles Inland; All Positions Secure   Opposition Reported Light; Airborne Units Of Invasion Lauded; Nice, Cannes Held By Americans, Swiss Report States

SOUTHERN FRANCE—   Allies .Advance_ Inland. From Bridgeheads On  Mediterranean Coast   Reports From Geneva Say Nice And Cannes, Major Seaside Cities At Foothills Of Alps. Captured: Fall Of Marseille Seen Near

New Landings Lengthen Front To 120 Miles   Swiss Reports Say Allies Have Occupied Cannes and Nice, and Are Storming Marseille

Front In South France Spreads Over 120 Miles   Tank Battle Rages Between Toulon And Cannes

Supplies Shuttled Into France By Troop Carriers And Gliders   Air Troops Block  Off Nazi Reserves   Heavy German Fire Blocks Off American Landings At One Point

iSouth France Invaders Are Eight Miles Inland; Airborne Troops Have Blocked Off Enemy Reinforcements

Successful Landings Are Made At All But One Point In Invasion Of Southern France

South France Invasion Is  On Schedule   German Resistance Continues to Be Slight; Reinforcements Are Landed by Sea And Air: All Initial Objectives Are Taken

Beacheads Firm, Light Opposition   At One Point, Nazis Prevent Landing Craft Reaching Beach

REPORT CANNES, NICE OCCUPIED   Only Negligible Opposition Is Met As Convoys Pour More Troops Ashore;  All Initial Objectives Taken

Cannes, Nice Reported in  Allied Hands   Reinforcements Flown In to South France Without Opposition

Allies Pour More Troops Ashore in Mediterranean   German Opposition Continues Generally Weak, but Nazis Prevent Landing Craft Beaching at One Point

US. 7th Army Established Firmly After Smashing German Coastal Defenses

Were Eight Miles Inland at Some Points After Taking All Initial Objectives, Headquarters Said.      TROOPS LANDING BEHIND THE LINES   Great Fleets of U. S. “Troop Carriers Took Supplies and Reinforcements by Glider and Parachute.

RESISTANCE INSIDE POCKET IS CRUMBLING   British Staff Officer In Field Acknowledges Von Kluge Has Extricated Most of His Armor   TEMPO IS STEPPED UP

Berlin Broadcast Claim Nazi Planes Sunk Fully Laden Tank Landing Craft

7th Army Operating On Coas!   Patch of Pacific Fame Leading Americans Into Southern France   OPPOSITION STILL REPORTED LIGHT   Allies Drive Eight Miles Inland; Some Big Points Reported Taken

Nice-Cannes Said To Have Been Capturec   Operations Are Proceeding As They Were Planned

Allies Drive Fight Miles Tate Franee   __70-Mile Beachhead Firmly Established, Casualties Are Light’

After Establishing Firm Foothold Between Cannes and Toulon; Patch and de Tassigny in Command.

Set Front Firmly In So. France   Casualties Exceptionally Light: Little Opposition Met

Gen. Patch Is Invasion  Commander; Casualties Becantianatle 1 taht

Nazi Resistance Reported Light   Advances of Eight Miles Reported Since Eirct Landinas Were Made on South Coast

GERMANS STREAMING THROUGH ESCAPE HATCH OF NORMANDY TRAP BELOW FALAISE TODAY   Failure of Allies to Close Falaise-Argentan Escap Gap Was That Two Armies Driving Toward Eac Other Had to Exercise Caution to Avoid Their Own Artillery Firs

Troops Push as Much As Eight Miles Inland, Taking First Objectives

WAVE TAWEAI HATL IARLIN  ALL INITIAL OBJECTIVES   German Fire Stopped Landing At One Point

American And British Airborne Troops Land On New Invasion Coast To Prevent Nazis From Rushing In Reinforcements

Invasion Army Reinforced By  More Landings   Allies Make Steady Gains Into Southern France, Convoys Pour Huge Forces Ashore   Op position Sull ‘Amazingly Light’   Landings Made Near Nice And Toulon, But Site OF Third Invasion Point Is Not Disclosed

Chindits Again Attack Japs  Strike At Lines To BRase At Mvitkvina

JAP COMMUNICATIONS AT MYITKYINA RAIDED   Chindits Strike New Blow At Northern Burma Base

Even Fate Goes Wacky These Days   This List of Strange Accidents Just Goes to Show What Can Happen If You Don’t Watch Out.

FORCED ENTRY’ OF AMERICA IN WAR IS DENIED   Japan Provoked Into Attack, Leader In Britain Says

We Provoked Japs to War Briton Says   U. S. Sympathies Known to All, Lvttelton Says

Briton Says U.S. “Provoked’’ Japs   Denies We Were Forced Into War

Fall of Town on the. River Announced b Moscow :  MORE TOWNS HELD. ON NORTHERN FR  Red Forces Continue T Drive Toward © Pskov

Small Dent Made i in Ring By Germans   Enemy Loses Heavily In Desperate Effort To Rescue Doomed Mer  REDS GAIN IN NORTH

SOVIETS TAKE KORSUN, CENTER OF RESISTANCE _ (OR TRAPPED GERMANS   Powerful Relief Forces Attack Outside Annihilation Ring, Make Some Gains: Fighting Is Extremely Fierce, Declared

REDS CAPTURE KORSUM;NAZIS ENTER WEDGE   Slight Gain Very Costly For Enemy; Russians Rout Germans In Death Trap “Fighting Fierce.”   Inside Poland.

Korsun Falls To Slashing Soviet   Annihilation Ring  Steadily Contracts - _ By TOM YARBROUGH

Railway Cente: Captured by Red Forces   Nazi Relief Units Make Dent in Russian Front Line

Advance Dooms [rapped Nazis lo Annihilation   2,000 Germans Killed In a Counterattack

RUSSIANS OPEN DUAL DRIVE ON PSKOV BASTION   Nazis Pay Heavily For Gains Around Big Red Trap

Russ Victory Guns Will Boom Again  Red Army Cuts German Holdings

German Relief Forces Dent Red Ring of Death   Nation Awaits News of Annihilation of 10 Trapped Divisions

KEY UKRAINE RAIL VILLAGE HELD BY REDS   FORCE OF 100,000 GERMANS TRYING TO ESCAPE

TOWN IN CENTER OF UKRAINE TRAP — FALLS 10 REDS   Russians Capture Korsun as Germans Outside Ring ‘Fight Desperately to Reach Comrades.   MOVE TOWARD PSKOV, GATEWAY TO LATVIA   Soviet Forces in North Overrun Several Villages as They Advance on 70 - Mile Front.

Russ troops seize Korsun: rout garrison   Nazis try rescue of doomed force

KORSUN TAKEN AS REDS POUND TRAPPED NAZI   Geriiana. Drive Wedge In. Soviet Lines in Rescue Effort

Reds Capture Korsun, Trap Nazi Garrison  Germans Dent Linea  In Striving to

Russians Close Trap on: 10 Nazi Divisions   German Drive to Aid Encircled Troops Has Little Success

Pilot from Poplar, Wis.. Shoots Down 271b Plane Aud ‘Takes No Chances’

Southwest Pacific’s Leading Ace Doesn’t Take Unnecessary Chances: Gentile In Crash Landing

FLIER DOWNS 27 PLANES 10 SET RECORD   Capt. Richard Bong Be. comes the Ace of All Acec   TWO PLANES SHOT DOWN ON APRIL 12   ‘Wants to Get Back,” Heroic-Wisconsin Airman Says

American Captair Bags 27 Planes For New Record   Richard . Bong Is Ace of Aces

Nazi Prisoner:  ‘Still At Large   Nineteen -F uzitives ! Believed: In. Desert

Escaped German War Prisoners  Still At t_Large  , , VE eae —' we Be   Prien Not At  Arizona Camp

Pensive Wins Richest of Derby Races   Favorite Stir Up Is Third to Broadcloth; Race Roughly Ridden

Third U. §. Air Ace  _s Missing In Actior  Hoosier Had 21 Plane To Credit

Frozen Wages Not At Stake   Carriers. ‘Assure  Unions Of Their’ Eagerness. To * End: Disnute

REVIVE HOPES FOR AGREEMENT IN RAIL DISPUTE   Carriers Do Not Conside: - Basic Wages Frozen for Duration

Assure Operating Rail Unions That Carriers Not To Leave Wages Frozen

UNIONS TOLD BASIC WAGES NOT ‘FROZEN’   _Settlement Hopes Revive In Rail Row

Basic RR Wage: Not Frozen  _ Manpower Shortage  Threatens Overation

Operating Unions Assured Carriers Do Not Consider Wages As Frozen

Hopes for Early Settlement to End oe Army Control of Railroads Revived

Un HOLD ALOOF FROM ARBITRATION   Assured Carriers Do Nol Consider Basic Wages ’ Frozen for Duration,

New Widespread Blows Against Jap Defenses   No Further Easy Victories Are Expected, Wadke Island Attacked

ALLIES SINK JAP VESSELS      Thirty-Four Jap Barges and One Coastal Vessel — Four Ships Left in Flames.

34 Jap Barges Sunk In Raids   Aussies Drive Forward On Huon Peninsula

FLIERS ATTACK WEWAK, HANSA, HIT JAP SHIPS   Aussies On Huon Within 16 Miles Of Junction With Yanks

34 JAP BARGES . ARE SUNK BY U.S, PLANES   Four Ships in Flames at Wewak and Hansa Bay

Jap Shipping in New Guinea Hit In Air Blows   Aussie Troops Within 16 Miles Of Americans

SINK 34 JAP. OASTAL BARCES   Aussies Within 16 Miles  of Yanks on Peninsula

34 BARGES ARE SUNK OF NEW GUINEA   Australians Near Junction With U. S. Troops On Peninsula

WHITE RUSSIA STRONGHOLD IS CAPTURED   Reds Make Strike in Renewed Activity on End of Front; Nazis Renew Polish Assaults.   Step Up Bombing

REDS ATTACK NEAR VITEBSK   Claim Capture of Fortified Place in Area in Two Hour Battle

Russia Resumes Atfacks on Nazis: Red Air Fleet Shells Polish Port

Reds Attack Nazi Forces in  Vitebsk Area   Enemy Stronghold in Area Captured as Activity Is Renewed

SOVIETS POISED FOR BIG THRUST   Red Army Attacks Ir Vitebsk Area Of White Russia

JAP POCKET ON LEYTE ATTACKED BY U, $. FORCES   $24 Divsion Wedges Into Limon; Another Mapia Isle Taken

LAST JAPS — TRAPPED IN N. W.LEYTE   32nd Division Wedges Deeply Into Jap Pocket

Yanks Tighten Grip on Japs In Leyte Trap   MacArthur Forces Finish Mopup of Two Indies Islands

PHILIPPINE AIRFIELDS BATTERED   Mopup Of Lower Half Of Bras Island Is Completed

Yanks Drive Deep Wedge Into Limon   Three Jap Mindanao Airfields Rendered Useless by Airmen

Close Trap on Enemy Force On Leyte Isle   Sink or Damage Five Coastal. Ships; Airfields Pounded

Complete Annihilation of Remnanta of Jap Force on Leyte Appears Imminent — Invasion of Mapia Island Group Being Completed.

SEEK TO CLEAN DUT TRAPPED FOE ON LIMAN   Other American Forces Finish Mopup On Southern Half Of Bras

YANKS WEDGE DEEPLY INTO JAP POCKET   Annihilation of Nips At Limon Seems Imminent

32nd Division Wedges Deepl. Into Jap Pocke   Annihilation of Nip Remnants At Limon. Appears Imminent

NO BLUE PRINT FOR PEACE NOW, _ MRS. ROOSEVELT   First Lady Is In Pittsburgh Addressing the “America’s Friends Service Committee’ — Must Win War First   ARRIVED BY PLANE

RETREATING GERMANS BURNING TOWNS AND VILLAGES AS THEY RETREAT BEFORE RED ARMY   Russians Are Mopping Up An Estimated.200,000 Germans Trapped in Baltic States; Soviet Fliers © Spotted Fires Along Whole East Prussian Front <

Lindbergh said to have flown on combat missions on trip to Pacific

JAP DOWNED BY COL. LINDBERGH   Noted Flier, Now Civilian Plane Expert, Awes Pacific Airmen

YANKS HIT JAP BASES ON WAY TO PHILIPPINES   Patrols Search For Isolated Enemy Troop: On New Guinea

J aps On Dutch New Guinea  Being Pressed   American Foot Soldiers and Allied Airmen Neutralizing Stronghold Of Enemy

*ATTON'S ARMY ENGAGED IN [AND TO HAND FIGHTING ON RONT NEAR FORTRESS CITY   in Southern End of Line Seventh Unit and French Forces Make Substantial Gains Over Rugged Country   WARMS OF FIGHTER PLANES BLAST SIEGE AREA   RIVET ETIN

Nazis Speed Reserves To  Doomed City   Famous U. S. Infantry Division Captures Factory Area of Town

Ancient Capital Of Charlemagne Smoking Ruins  Weak Opposition   Weak Opposition Reported By Men First into City

Narrow Escape Hatch   Yanks Rout Out Nazis In House-By-Ho  Mop Up of City; Smash German Counterattacks

Resistance Weak In Street Fighting After Bombing   German Armor Counterattacked In Suburbs Today

85 PERCENT OF CITY IN SMOKING RUINS, SAY AMERICAN PILOTS   BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Germans Send Up Crack Tank Division   Nazis Attempt To Save Frontier City From Doom

Nazis Roll Up Armored Division While Americans Dig Enemies Out of Blasted Buildings

End For Besieged And Battered City Seems Inevitable, But Length Of Battle Remains Uncertain—Fresh German Armored Division Appears, Indicating Major Tank Clash May Develop—Nazis Mount Heavy Counter-Attack In Bardenburg Area To Northeast

Heavy Air And Artillery Support As Troops Enter Smoking Ruins Of Aachen

Big Tank Battle ls, Mounting   More Troops Join In Fight Fer Ancient City

GERMANS SEND TANK UNIT INTO FIGHT FOR CITY   American Drive Takes Suburban Factory Area From Foe

Aachen.Flaming From Bursts Of Yank Ariillery  Hun s Mou nt Heavy Nee.

Yanks Engaged In Bitter Hand-to-Hand Fighting Through Streets And Houses With Germans Who Refuse To Surrender; Fighting Intensifies On Outskirts.

Yanks ‘Really Laying !t On’ Burning City   Whitehead Tells Eye-Witness Story Of Fierce Attack

Nazis Speed °: _ Reserves To. Doomed City   Famous U. S. Infantry Division Captures Fac: tory Area of Town. 

Yankees Inching Forward   NAZIS STILL STRIVING TO REINFORCE SMOKING HULK OF ONCE-PROUD REICH CITY   Eseape Gap Closing   Yanks Enter City.

Yank Infantry Gains Slowly. Against Huns. Within City ~    Major Tank Battle seen In Making ©

Nazis Roll Up Heavy Armored Reinforcements   Doughboys Fighting Way Inside City Find Opposition Surprisingly Weak

‘DISTRICT CAPTURED   Escape Corridor For » Nazi Garrison Cut  To Half Mile   OUTSIDE AACHEN, a 13 (5:30 p. m.) (#).— The German escape gap leading east from Aachen was cut to half a mile tonight and was being closed.

INFANTRY PAST SUBURBS, INTC MAIN DISTRICT   weak as the doughboys entered Tanks, Last Minute Attempt to Save Frontier City

Suburban Area Seizell In Drive By Doughboys   Germans Wheel Up Strong “. Tank Forces In Effort ’ "To. Save. Frontier City

ALL OF FACTORY DISTRICT TAKEN   Major Tank Battle Looms As Germans Rush In Armored Reinforcements

STREET BATTLE UNDERWAY AMID BURNING AACHEN   Doomed City Now Almost Wholly Held By U. S.

City’s ‘Death Is Described   “Aachen ‘Lay Like A’ Festerins Sore”

Americans Cut  Off Relief To Blasted Aachen   All-Out Assault Upon Nazis Defending City

News Day And Night   Germans Bring Up Reinforcements In Attempt To Stem Attack   Escape Gap Cut  To Half A Mile   British Improve Positions In Holland; Patton’s Men Fight Bitterly

Foe Moving Up Heavy Armor Force   Street Fighting Under Way in Battered City — British Gain

Heavy Armor Force Rushed to Defense Of Tottering Bastion   Besieged City Dissolving Under Fiest Acmy’s Steamroller Attack: Nazis Reinforce Holland Sector

Doughboys Fighting In Streets of Aachen   Germans Bringing In Armored Reinforcements; City Reported F lattened; Position In Holland Improved.

Yanks Fighting Block By Block In German City   Municipality Dissolving  Under Weight of Amer‘ican Shells and   Bombs   Major Tank Battle In Making, Belief   Allies Improve Position in  Holland While Germans  ‘Give Sigus of Resistance in Southwest Sector

Battle For City Street By Street   Major Tank Clash Expected Soon As Germans Send In Fresh Armored Division In Effort To Save Town

Enter City Proper Today A Frenzied Nazis Put Up Desnerate Tank Bartle -

Famous American Division Fights Way Into Principal Part of Aachen

TEMPERATURES:   City Is Disappearing Under Shells, Bombs;  Germans Reinforced

City Is A Smoking Hulk Of Old Ruins   Opposition To Entry Ils Weak

Yanks Battling Street-to-Street Inside Aachen   Eseape Hatch Slashed te Half - Mile, Being Sealed

ENEMY ROLLS UP ANOTHER RESCUE FORCE OF ARMOR   MAJOR TANK BATTLE APPEARS IMMINENT IN FIGHT FOR CITY

Both Sides Mass Armored Divisions For Major Battle   U. S. Reduces German Bastion Into Smoking Hulk of Ruins; Nazis Draw Reinforcements From Holland

The Germans Wheeled Up Reinforcements, Inclading One of Their Finest Tank Divisions.   AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE FRONTIER CITY   Opposition Was Surprisingly Weak as Doughboys Entered City Which Had Been Bombed for Two Days.

Factory Area Captured By U.S. Troops   Path Followed Into City Blasted Out By Artillery

U. S. Doughboys Smash Desperate German Attempt to Reinforce and Relieve Battered Nazi Garrison in City

YANK INFANTRY FIGHTS WAY T0 FACTORY AREA   German Armor Is Shifted From Arnhem In New Relief Attempt

POSSIBLE EXECUTION ‘OF HIMMLER RUMORED   Gestapo Chieftain Said to Have Been Ambitious to Replace Adolnoh Hitler.

NEW DEAL DEAD, ‘LABOR’ CLAIMS   Weekly Paper of Rail Brother. hoods Assails FDR in Its Headlines

Railway Brotherhood Organ ~ Assails FDR on Labor Draft   ‘Now We Know New Deal is Dead,’ Says ‘Labor, ‘FD Asks Congress Conscript Workers For Private Profit’

HEAVY ATTACK COSTS ENEMY HUNDRED DEAD   101 Bombs Poured on Rabaul Without Opposition

Workmen Repair Levees. Evacuate Families, Livestock In Flood Area

Eight German Divisions  Are Routed   Transportation Hub Was Chief Center of Nazi Resistance in Dnieper Bend; Soviet Steamroller Has Reached Peak of Its Power

Big Industrial City in Dnieper Bend Captured In 4-Day Fight   Soviets Widen Breach in Foe’s Southern Line

POUR THROUGH GREAT GAPS IN GERMAN. LINES   Report Nazi Position in Russia Shaping Up for New Disasters

ORDER OF DAY ANNOUNCED BY STALIN   Advance Units Of Ukraine Army Takes Klesow   NAZI POSITION   Described As Most Disastrous Since Start Of Russian Invasion

New Red Offensive Battering Germans   Drives Wedge Deep Into Upper Dnieper  Bend; Soviets West Of Kiev Knife Into Old ' Poland, Capture Klesow   By HENRY C. CASSIDY

DNIEPER BEND CITY 1S TAKEN   Kirovograd, Industrial and Rail Center, Occupied By Soviet Troops.   /BITTER FIGHTING 4 DAYS

INDUSTRIAL, RAIL CENTER OF DNIEPER BEND 15 OCCUPIED  _ NEW RED ARMY VICTORY ANNOUNCED IN ORDER OF DAY RV MARSHALL STALIN

Two Armies Squeeze Foe Within Bend   Retreat to Bug Line Or Entrapment, Only German Alternative

DISPATCH TELLS FEAR OF SOVIET ADVANCE MOUNTS   FACTORIES BEING DISMANTLED BY GOVERNMENT ORDER

Plunge Deeper Into Old Poland; Foe Routed In Dnieper Bend Drive.

ARE DRIVEN FROM CITY OF KIROVOGRAD   Red Success Scored in Four-Day Battle, in Which Troops Widen Breach in German Lines to 75 Miles.

man a a Lan  Rumania ist mantles rici Frontier Factories as Reds Within 50 Miles of Border   Situation Grows Desperate for Nazis As Russian Troops Break Through Defense Lines in Stepped-Up Offensive

Nazis Crushed in Big Victory   MOBILE COLUMNS RACE WESTWARD OVER PLAINS, APPROACHES TO RUMANIA; FRANTIC ENEMY SQUEEZED BACK AGAINST BUG RIVER

German Position Shaping Up as One of Most Disastrous in Hitler’s Russian Campaign   RED ARMIES UNITE   Five Nazi Divisions Rouied in Bend as Russians Break Through on 62-Mile Front

‘Industrial And Rail City Lost by Nazis   Strong Defenses Smashed At Strongpoint; 100,000 German Troops Routed

Great Industrial And Kail Center In Dnieper Bend Occunied By Russian Army

TROOPS POUR THROUGH GAPS IN NAZI LINE   Swift Advances Made by Reds With Units Sur rounding Kirovograd.   Russian Tanks Create Panic in Nazi Ranks

NORWAY INVASION BY ALLIES URGED   Country's Premier Calls on People To Help

RGES ALLIES 10 . INVADE NORWAY   Prime Minister Called Upon Norwegians to Hamper the Nazis Every Way Possible.

Record Quota Of $4,200 Was Equalled Here Last Year.   SET COMMUNITY QUOTAS

ALMOST ALL OF CITY IS ENCIRCLED   British Flank On Rome Beaches Is Forced Back

GERMAN DRIVE IN ROME AREA GAINS GROUND   Veteran Nazi Troops Hurled Into Fight  At Beachhead

t ° ° Cassino Garrison :AlmostSurrounded   British Flank On Rome Beachhead {fs Forced To Give Ground In Face Of German Attacks

29 JAPS FOR EVERY AMERICAN KILLED AT WAKDE      U. ‘S.. Trangports Land on a aed 48 Hours . After Seizure -

20 Jans Are Killed in Wakde Battle For Every American Soldier Lost

‘20 Japs Killed For Each Yankee ‘On Wakde Isles.   American Transports Land On Airstrip Shortly After Seizure

ONLY 41 YANKS LOST IN WAKDE ISLE CONQUEST   )} Jap Casualties Were 20 Times Greater, Is Report

Soviets Drive Near To Vital Rail Junction  780,000 Nazis Killed Or Captured

Russian Offensive Costs. Nazis 780,000 Troops   Huge Loss Revealéd as Reds Drive To Split Trapped German Armies

French. Moves On Euroue Are Decided Upor   Cen. DeGaulle and Prime ‘Minister Agree On: Participation of Troops - In New: Assaults

Freneh Take Part in Drive   Churchill, DeGaulle Agree On Partietpa tion Of Troops In New Assaults.

French Will Play Part In Invasion  Churchill, De  , = 9 ™/ ) p= A - . vT.v.*

Hull Denies  Recognition   U.S, Not To Follow Badoglio’s Program

U.S. Not to Recognize ~— Badoglio   Not. Considering Diplomatic - Relations, Hull Tells ~ WNewsmen      RUSSIA DID NOT  CONSULT ALLIES   American Policy Calls foi Removal of Both King and Badoglic

Won't Recognize Badoglio Regime  Hull Discloses U. S. Not Informed of  Mnecnaw'ece Dianne

Not Consulted By Soviet On _ Act, Says Hull  See pe REELS —_ ss   Gather Circumstances, Facts In Which Moscow Agreed To Diplomatic  Fxchange

Hull Diseloses Russ Did Not Consult U.S. on OK of Badoglio   Washington Does Not Plan Recognition, He Asserts

U.S. Won't Recognize Badoalio   Hull Says Mescow Acted Without Advising U. S.

Russia Did Not Consult Allies On Italian Issue   Subject Expected To Arise At Next Council On Italy

United States _ Won't Recognize Badoglio Regime   Hull Says U.S. Not Consulted by Russia on Its Rec ognition.   U.S. Policy Calls For  Removal of Emanuele

Washington Not Consulted By Russians   Diplomatic Relationship Will Come Up Before Council

Hull Savs Washington No’ Considering Extending Diplomatic Recognition Of Italy

U.S. Not to Approve Badoglio’s Regime   Will Not Extend Diplomatic Recognition a: Reds Did, Hull Says, Admitting Washington Not Informed of Soviet Step.

BADOGLIO LOSES U.S, RECOGNITION   Hull Says Washington Not Consulted When Russia Okayed Italian Regime

NEW INCOME TAX BILL PASSED BY HOUSE. 358-0   Quick Senate Action Next Week Predicted By Senator Georre

ALLIES DOWN JAP PLANES IN PACIFIC BATTLES   five Enemy Cargo . Ships Blasted; Marshall Isles Heavily Bombed

Stimson Sees New Threat to Nazis in Russia   Red Offensive Grows Stronger

SAVIOR OF FARMING   Democrats Willing To Try New Program, However

Ardmore Flier And ‘Companion Escape   But They Live on 12 Drop: Of Water Each Daily Until Rescued

Ardmore Flier Leaps Into Sea And Is Rescued   Lieut. Burnett and Companion Rest in English Hospital

Strength of German Offensive Rapidly Being Whittled, Observer Says

GERMAN WINTER OFFENSVE AGAINST FIRST ARMY IS SURPRISE ONLY INSOFAR AS ITS STRENGTH I$ CONCERNED; TIDE TURNING

Nazis Hope to See Paris Bu New Years Seen Doomed   Ry PIFERE J. HUSS

Germany's Offensive Surprise Only in Its Strength, Writer Direct From Front Says!

New Manila Air Raid Boosts Total Nip Naval Losses to  66 in Battle of Philippines

Six Japanese Warships Damaged By Yankee Planes  Nipponese Ship Toll Raised Ti 66 By Third Fleet Strikes;

Nip Warships Are Sunk Or Damaged  : By Planes BLASTED SUNDAY  ZT y Team —T   BLADICD SUNDAT Nearly 200 Enemy  Aircraft Also Are  WinedH Ont

AMERICANS SUNK OR DAMAGED SIX JAP WARSHIPS; WRECKED 192 PLANES IN MANILA AREA

PLANES BATTER 6 JAP SHIPS IN MANILA HARBOR   Toll Of 200 Enemy Aircraft Taken In Philippine Air Battles

Six Japanese Warships Hit In Air Blows   Enemy Fields Struck By Carrier Planes Of U. S. Fleet

Knock Out 6 More Jap Warships   U. §. Third Fleet Also Downs 158 Enemy Planes in Luzon Area   CARRIER PLANES SPRING ATTACK   Tokyo Reports Still Other Air Actions Not Contirmed in. U.S. Bulletins

Yanks Blast 6 Jap Ships, 200 Aircraft   Carrier Armada Lashes Air, Sea  anes at Manila

Planes Sink 6 Jap Ships   “Raises Total To 66 Since Leyte Landing

YANKS BATTER SIX JAP SHIPS   Planes Sink, Damage Warships Off Manila, Rip Nippon Air Bases

Six Jap Warships Sunk or Damager Near Manila Bay   Navy Raises Total Enemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged To 66.

New Disasters For Jap Fleet   SIX NIPPON WARSHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED BY U. S.

Strike New Air Blow at Jap Fleet   Six More Warships Sunk or Damaged  In Sunday Raid Off Philippines Capita!

Bag Six » Japanese Warships   Devastate Five Major Airfields, Destroying Nearly 200 Enemy Air‘eraft in Sunday Raid

SUBSIDIES FOES PUT OFF ACTION   Committee Votes 9 to 8 fo: Some Restrictions as Veto Holds

—EX PLOSE ON—  ANE ARE HURT WN AKRON EXPLOSION   Synthetic‘ Rubber. Plant, Surrounding Area ‘Rocked By Blast

PUSH FORWARD ACROSS LOIRE IN NEW DRIVE   Italy Based Bombers Rip Nazi Defenses On  Riviera

Caen Trap Is Closing as Nazis Pour in Troops; Thrusts to South Add Mystery to Allied Strategy

Steady Rain Of Explosives Falls on Reich   Raid on Germany Followed by Channel Coast Attack

TOKYOREPORT: MANILA RAIDED TWICE SUNDAY   ‘Other Sectors of Philippines in Night Attacks, Jap  Broadcast Says.

Planes Make Second Raid Within Day   First Attack Takes Toll Of 27 Ships Sunk Or Damaged.

300 PLANES RAKE AREA, NIPS CLAIM   27 Enemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged During Widespread Blows

Six Ships Sunk, © 21 Damaged, Says Weekend Story   Philippines Capital Undergoes Second Raid. In 24-Hour Period

CARRIER PLANES ATTACK MANILA, OTHER SECTORS.   American Night Raiders Blast Various Places In Philippines

New Raids Are Made On Manil:   Carrier-Based American Planes Continue Their Attacks On Shipping And Shore Positions

CANADIANS IN SUBURBS OF LE HAVRE   Paris Liberation Will Rank With Bastille Day

Preston Couple Were Married Fifty Years Ago  Mr. and Mrs. Siebens Celebrate Anniversary  On December 18

CELEBRATE THEIR. GOLDEN WEDDING ON DECEMBER 18   Mr. and Mrs. E. Siebens Have Lived On Same Farm Over Half Gentury

WARN CITIZENS SUPPLY OF FOOD MAY BE SMALLER   Food Producticn Is Expected To Pass Last Year Yield, However

FOOD SUPPLY FOR 1944 EXPECTED AS SOMEWHAT LOWER   Food Production Will Exceed Previous Year, Increase Will Go to Armed Forces, Lend-Lease.   MBAT ALLOWANCE Tu BE AT SAME LEVEL   Depariment of Agriculture Issues Report on Milk, Butter, Fruits, Vegetables and Other Needs. ©

FOOD SUPPLY CUT FOR PUBLIC LOOMS   Group Warns Of,, Beef, Pork ‘Famine’

FOOD... SUPPLIES TO HOLD STEADY   Production Increases Probably Will Go For Export

Kohima - Dimapur Road Is Reopened   Mountbatten Headquarters Announces Kohima Gar. rison Is Relieved   SUPPLY LINE IS STILL THREATENED

Valuable Service Is Being _ Rendered By Those Who  - Have, Completed iy od . gin With. Sufficient  Number of Regitrants.

FOURT CLASS __ .. ‘J RSE AIDE "WANTED NOW   Registration Can Be Made at; Rec , Cross, Headquarters on Second and defferson Streets.

Legisla tion Pledging U. S. To Clean Out Philippines And Restore Power Signed

EDR SIGNS BILL TO FREE ISLANDS   Legislation Pledges Driving Japs From Philippines, Advance Freedom.

40 GERMAN SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED   British Fliers Score Hits On All Ships In Convoy

RAF Attacks  German Convoy   All 40 Ships Sunk of Badly Damaged.

Bayonet Germans Out of Trenches In Sight of St. Lo   Ferocious Nazi Counterattacks Near Caen Ebb as Tanks Knocked Out.   Yankees Push Ahead Along 48-Mile Front

Smash Over 20 Tanks in St. Lo Sector   Germans Have Lost 14+ In Last Four Days; British Forced Back

Germans Atfack in Effort fo Halt Offensive   Violent Fighting Rages in France; Yankees Advance

Allies Hammer Out New Gains On Both Wings   Yanks Less Than 2 Miles From St. Lo A: Advance Is Made In Bayonet Assault,

Rommel Now Has Lost 144 Tanks: in Last Few Days as Battles Rage in Normandy.   GERMAN RESISTANCE STILL IS FURIOUS

Yefeat Counterattacks and  e Gains on Normandy Front   ARE CLOSE TO ST. LO   British Front Forced Back Slightly in Heavy Attacks

20 Tanks Of Nazis Are Destroyed   Slug to Within Two Miles of Lessay and St. Lo

Yanks Take Heavy Toll of Nazi Tanks   Closer to St. Lo After Smashing Counter-Attacks   Americans Gain On Both Wings of 48-Mile Front; British Set Rack

Yanks Slug Less Than Two Miles From St. Lo Today   German CounterAttack to West Covered Withdrawal

TOLL OF NAZI TANKS 144 IN FIFRCE FICHTING   Allied Troops Shug Forward to Lessay and St. Lo Along Front

SWEEP WITHIN TWO MILES OF ST. LO   Sermans Fight Desperately To Protect Bastion   GREAT LOSSES   Suffered By Foe As U. § Forces Destroy 144 Enemy Tanks

New Attacks Launched;  British Stop Foe At Caen   Counter-Attacks Have Spent Force; Heavy Tank Losses Inflicted  On Rammekc« Armv

SMASH BACK ENEMY DANE   Yanks Destroy 1 More Than . 20 German Tanks in __, Today’s Fight.  _{   NAZIS’ ARMOR STRONG

Yanks Stop Germans, Advance Own Lines   Smash Fierce Attacks of German Armor, Closing in On St. Lo; British Forced Back Some By Fury of Enemy Blows

Advance to Withia Two Miles of: West Anchor of Germans   Smash 144 Enemy Tanks in Last Few Days of Normandy Battle

Gains Made. ‘in Violent F ighting      Headiong Counter: ‘Attaol: by: Rommel’s: ‘Tanks: Fails "to Stop Pask          GERMANS DUG OUT... ° WITH BAYONET,                Yanks Closing In:on St. and: British: Continue ‘to: Whittle Down Fo:

Yanks Drive Forward in  Hard Fighting   Germans Lose 20 Tanks in Assault On Center

Nazi Armored Raids Are  Beaten Back   More Than 20 German Tanks Are Destroyed; U. S. Troops Drive Closer to Lessay And St. Lo- Enemy Is Being Worn Down

Americans Sweep Forward On Both Wings . Of 48-Mile Front After Smashing Heavy German Counter Attacks At Center Of Line Push Closer To  St Ta

YANKS SWEEP AHEAD IN TWO HEAVY DRIVES   a a Nazis Advance Against British-Canadian Unit Near Caen

More Than 20 German Tanks K.0.’d   Americans Slug To Within Two Miles Of Lessay And St. Lo.

Within Sight — Of St. Lo   More Than 20 Enemy Tanks Destroyed In  Fierce Armor Battle; ‘British Lose a Villave

YANKS DESTROY 20 NAZI TANKS, REPULSE SMASH   Sweep Forward on Both Wings of 48-Mile Front; Near St. Lo

DOUGHBOYS GAIN “NORTH OF ST. LO   MONTGOMERY LOSES SOME GROUND IN THE CAEN SECTOR

Peninsula Withdrawal Of Germans Continues —   Offensive “At Caen, Again Slows: Down

20 TAN DESTROY IN BATT   Yanks Smash F Nazi Assaults Normandy Fra

Close on St. Lo In Fierce Fight; British Forced To Give Ground   West American Wing Advances, Within 2 Mi, Of Lessay

Nazis Retreat ” After Losing Many Tanks   American Onslaught Pushes to Within Two: Miles of Coastal Anchor

AMERICANS NEAR ST.LO USE BAYONETS TO DIG NAZIS OUT: BRITISH HOLD LINE AT CAEN   124 German Tanks Knocked Out on Two Front. In Peninsula by British and Americans. Nazis Attempts to Split Allies Meets Complete Defeat

Americans Smash 20 Tanks, Repel Attack in Center and Sweep Ahead on Both Wings

SHIPS POUR MEN, ARMS IN FRANCE      Beach Far Busier Port Than Cherbourg Has Fver Been

IS MARRIED ~ AT ANNAPOLIS   Ensign Robert: Merrick, Jr. -Weds Miss Martha J. Bar ker, Rosemont, Pa.

Ida Tarbell Leaves Books To Allegheny   Dean of American Women Writers Bequeaths Most Of Estate to Sister   TRUSTEES ARE NAMED

Allegheny Gets Tarbell Papers   Leaves Larger Part Of Her Estate to Her Sister

1,000-AGRE TRACT WANTED FOR FAIR   Committee Is Appointed Tc Consider State Site

HIGHER COFFEE PRICE CEILING IS VETOED   Action of Agencies Raises Ques tion Whether a New Supply Crisis Will Develop.

Localite Has A Long War Record   Private Rocco Triano With 168th In Italy That Has Been In Combat 300 Days

Ceiling On Oats  Down Five Cents   Authorized Mark-Up On Retail Sale of. Grains

Lower Quality Beef . Steaks, Roasts To Be Removed From Rationing

End Rationing of Low-Quality Steaks, Roasts, Put Ham. Loins Back on List

DEATH CLAIMS BISHOP LONGLEY   Retired Episcopal Church  Leader in lowa Dies

GERMANS FACE BALKAN CRISIS   Roosevelt Says Nazis Must Choose Where They’ll Make Stand

Russ Tank Forces Drive Six Miles   Reds Smash Through  Finn Fortifications

Taxi Plunges Into River; Five Of Nine  ‘Are Drowned   Four Who Escaped With Lives In Grundy, Va., Are Taken To Hospital

Five Drowned. When Taxicab Falls In River   Four Bodies Recovered At Grundy, Va.; Cab Driver Is Jailed Ou. Charge Of Manslaughter

AMERICAN AIR POWER STRIKES JAP OUTPOSTS   Empire Calls On Fuller War Effort As Bombers Blast Islands

U. S. Naval Chiets Picture War Fury in Store for Japs   Heavy Attacks on Nippon’s Island Bases Continue Along 4000-Mile Pacific Front

Jap Overlords Ask for Increased Production as U. S. Air Blows Fall

Plight BecomesGrave — For Nazis Below Kiet   Cassino Fall In Italy Likely Hourly; Flying Fortresses Attack the —~ Rail Yards at Sofia

Vast Superiority of Allied Manpower, Weapons Set to Crush Foes in Franc<

NO MILITARY SECRET: Reporier Has View of What Is In Store for Supermen

Allies Wind Up Sunday Punch Now   Nazis Can’t Do Anything About Massing Hordes of Men, Vast Equipment

HUGE MASSING OF MATERIALS IS DESCRIBED   ¥anks; British Winding Up For Punch Toward Germany

Germany Lacks Strength to Prevent Blow   Avalanche of Supplies Landed in France Without Opposition

iBerlin Asserts Drive Compels “Yank Retreats   Manpower Being ‘Drained? From All Allied Fronts, Rerlin Ruadie Claims

New Ruling — On Induction: Is Effective 7 Tomor row   Postpones Drafting ‘Men of 26 and-Over To Essential. Work *Until: Further: Notice”   DEFERRED YOUNG MED TO:BE:RECLASSIFIED   ue Bd ets eed eee ee  ‘Boards Are Ordered To-Speed Up. Drafting OF Men Tinder 26 -

GERMANS HAVE TAKEN THOROUGH SHELLACKING: UNABLE TO MAKE COORDINATED STAND AT SEINE   Tightening Their Hold On Seine Line American Patrols Are Active Along South Banks Between Paris and Mantes-Gassicourt Area

HARASSED HUNS UNABLE TO MAKE STAND IN FIGHT   Have Taken Thorough Beating Said One American Officer-— Germans Fording  Seine In Old Boats I

German Line Cracked East Of Budapest  ns Threate   Russians Threaten Two Key Railroad Centers In Pivot To Northwest

Budapest Defense Posts Breached by Soviet Army Force   Powerful Red Drive Wins Rail Station; Perils Key Junctions

Russians Pierce German Defenses East of Budapest   Strike Within Five Miles of Miskolc, Hungary

Reds Rip Nazi Defense Kast Of Budapest   Key Railway Junctions Menaced by Russian Assault Forces

MAIN GERMAN LINE PIERCED oS5Y RED FORCE   Capture Gyomro, Rail Center, In Swift Advance

Rail Station Near Budapest ls Captured   Puncture Defense 10 Miles East Of Capital

TRAPPED NAZI FLEET HUNTED BY RED AIRMEN   Main German Defenses of Budapest Pierced in Offensive

Reds Pierce Defense Line At Budapest   Important Rail Junctions Taken In Bitter Fight

GYOMRO IS CAPTURED IN ADVANCE   2 Key Rail Junctions Threatened By Red Army’s Offensive

[Reds Pierce Main Nazi Line At Budapest; Capture Rail Junction 100 Miles From City   _ Russians Moying Rapidly [n Campaign Aimed At Early Invasion Of Austria

RUSMANS CUT MAIN GERMAN DEFENSE LINE   Threaten Rail Junctions North of Budapest; Red Air Force Batters Nazi Fleet in Baltic.

Reds Pierce Main Nazi  efense Line  ake Rail Station East of Budapest

NAZI LINES PIERCED EAST OF BUDAPEST   Reds Crack Main Defenses 10 Miles From Capital, Capturing the Rail Station of Gyomro—Miskolc Is Exposed.

Reds Cut At Nazi © Rail Lines   Capture Station Ten Miles ‘East of Budapest, Threaten ‘Key Junctions to North

Reds Piercing Germans Main Budapest Line   Take Key Rail Station; Pivot Northeast Of City Threatens Others.

Red Troops Crack German Defense Line Near Budapest  Two Key Rail Junctions. Threatened Ac Saviet< Smash Closer te Capital

Rail Junctions Threatened By Red Forces   German Fleet In The Baltic Hunted By Russian Planes

REDS SHATTER DEFENSE. LINE ~ATBUDAPEST   Capture Rail Station Near Besieged Capital, Stage Pivot to Northeast.

Soviets Pierce Main Defenses  Near Budapest   Russian Treops Drive Through Defense Line 10 Miles East Of City And Capture Cvomro

Russ Troops Crack Main  Nazi Lines   Capture Rail Station Of Gyomro Northeast Of Besieged Budapest

Russians Pierce Main Nazi Defense Line of Budapest  Rail Station of Gyomro Taken; Miskolc Menaced hy Unils of

Reds Pierce Nazi Lines  Toward East OF Budapest   “Godollo. And Hatvan Are’Now Threatened:

Main Defense Line Piereed Near Budapes'   Reds Capture Rail Station Of Gyomro; Threaten Key Railway Junctions.   STRIKE NEA R MISKOLC

Russians Score  12-Mile Advance   Main German Defense Line Ten Miles East Of Budapest Pierced

Swing on Pivot To Hem in, City   Russians (Close in on Buda. pest, Threaten Key  Junctions   ON ROADS TO AUSTRIA   Soviet Airmen Seek Rest of German Fleet in  the Baltic

Red Forces Pierce Main Nazi Lines AtBudapest   Rail Station Gets Into Red Hands _ During Fight

RED ARMY TROOPS PIERCE MAIN NAZ BUDAPEST DEFENSES  RUSSIANS CROSSED IMPORTANT RAIL LINE IN  TMUELVE.MILE ADVANCE

Reds Closer To Budapest   Battle Along Roads Leading Around Budapest to Austria, Reds Cut Railroad

HEOSTHRERTEN CEY AIL ABER   Main Ger man, Defense Lines East Of Budapest Are Pierced ,   GYOMRO: CAPTURED   Russian ‘Air Force Track. ing Down cme Fleet _ In Baltic «

CUT MAIN DEFENSE OF BUDAPEST   Reds Take Gyomro Kail Station, 10 Miles From Capital

REDS PIERCE MAIN GERMAN DEFENSE LINI   Threatening Key Rail Junctions Around Budapest.—Entrapment Threat for Nazis.

REDS CUT MAIN NAZI LINE EAST OF BUDAPEST   Capture Rail Center 10 Miles From Hungarian Capital

Soviet Forces Pierce German  Budapest Line   Reds Capture Rail Station Of Gyomro and Threaten Key Junctions Gf Godollo and Hatvan

German Defense Line Is Pierced  Soviets Gain in Hungarian Campoign

Russians Capture Rail Junction At Gyomro After Furious Battle   AmmunitionStores Seized In Advance   Tank And Infantry Pusk Threatens Entrapment Of German Army

Russians Crack Main Nazi Defense: East of Budapest   Second Ukraine Army Strikes Near Miskole, Hunaarv’s Fifth City

REDS PIERCE MAIN GERMAN DEFENSE LINE   In Pivot Northeast of Budapest Russians Threaten Key Junction of Godollo and Hatvan

SOVIETS BREAK ‘MAIN GERMANS’ DEFENSE LINE   Two Key Rail Rail Centers Threatened By Red Drive

Reds Pierce Nazi Defense ' At Budapest   Threaten Key Railway Junctions of Godollo And Hatvan

SOVIETS PIERCE MAIN NAZI LINE   Take Rail Station, Threaten Junctions Near Budapest

RUSSIAN FORCE PIERCES MAIN DEFENSE FRONT   Battle Ahead Along Roads Around Budapest Leading to Austria

Soviets Pierce  Main Defenses Before Budapest   Rail Junctions Nea Capital Threatened By New Advances; Attack Nazi Fleet

3 Key Cities Fall to Reds   Main Defense Line  In Hungary Pierced

Soviet Troops Break Main German Line   Rail Station of Gyomro Falls as Russians Advance on Budapest

Main Budapest Lines Pierced  Threaten Key Rail Junctions of Godollo

PLEDGES LOWER 44 COST IF WAR ENDS IN EUROPE   Urges Congress to Set Up Orderly Demobilization Machinery Now

WOULD LIFT WAR EXPENDITURE TO 397 BILLION   F.R. Repeats High Tax Plea

90 BILLIONS FOR WAR PURPOSES   Will Bring U.S. War Spending Program To 397 Billions

Hundred Billion Budget Offered By President   Public Debt to Reach 258 Billions June 30, 1945

Bulk Of Spending To Be For War, FR Declares   Figures Would Swell Expenditures To 397 Billion During Three Years

Would Swell War Cost to 397 Billions   Demands Congress Increasé Taxes — Public Debt to $258 ,000,000,000

Victory Budget Sent To Congress Asks 108 Billions   Gigantic Appropriations Sought In Message From President Roosevelt   EUROPEAN CONFLICT EARLY END HINTED

F .R, Quhmit.  K/ OMB RRR ESD  $100 Billion War Budeet   Demands Congress Pro vide at Least 10 Billion Tax Bill

Hints At Earlv End of Europe2zn War   Possible Abruot Ending  Forecast Cautiously

Budget is Given for New Year   Roosevelt Hands Congress Huge New Budget Today

VICTORY PLANS   Budget Will Swell Nation's Total War Spending Program Sincp ‘une 1940. to More Than Third of Trillion Dollars,

Budget Calls For Another 100 Billions   Public Debt to Total 258 Billions By June of 1945

Nation's War Spending Since 1940 Will Reach 397 Billions   Public Debt by June, 1945, Will Increase To 258 Billions —Roosevelt Warns Against Thought Ot Barly Victory

 Non-WarSpending Jumped Billion in ‘Proposed Budget   FDR Says Present Bil Inadequate for War Program

Budget Deals In Some Respects With Post-War Problems To Be Faced

VICTORY WAR BUDGET GIVEN TO CONGRESS   Chief Executive Makes No Promise of Early Victory In Message. —

CHIEF EXECUTIVE RENEWS DEMAND FOR HIGHER TAXES   ‘Promises No Early Victory  but Refers to Some Postwar Prahlame

F.0D. R. RENEWS DEMANDS FOR TAX INCREASE   Proposed Outlay Would Hike War Spending To 397 Billion

“VICTORY” BUDGET CALLING FOR FEDERAL APPROPRIA.TIONS OF 108 BILLION BOL LARS PREBENTED TODAY .

Huns Admit It’s Finished   Only One in Ten Says Nazis Will Not Be Beaten

WS WEN Fr eet FC eae FOr  New York Republicans Have High Hopes for Victory in Fall

@ ON POLITICAL FRONT  New York Republicans Have High Hopes for Victory in Fall

GOVERNMENT OUT OF COAL MINES   Al But Two Back 4n-Hande of Owners After Federal: Control for Year —

Report Says Many Killed in Air Raid on Castel Gandolfo   Vatican Concerned Over Attack on Pope’s Summer Home

Simpler Tax Plan Gets Rightof Way House Leader Puts  Levy. Revision at Hasd af Calendar

PATTON PUSHES ATTACK ALONG 45-MILE FRONT   Furious Fighting Mounts In Bastogne Corridor Area

LAUNCHING OF V-2 ROCKET  SEEN BY BRITISH PATROL   ‘ERRIFIC FORCE UNLEASHED WHEN MISSILE SHOT INTO AR FROM MIDST OF WOODS

NEW THEORY ON DISAPPEARANCE OF A. HITLER   May Be Kept Out Of Public Life! : In Germany  Now 

Risks His Life and Liberty but Proves He's A ‘Gentleman’ in Love

Small Income Taxpayers To Be Retained   House Committee Acts On Revenue

SIMPLER TAX. SSOUGHT BY HOUSE GROUP      ‘Committee Balks at Drop---ping 9,000,000 From ~ + Bay Rolls   CONSOLIDATION OF “TAXES 18 SOUGHT   Some Opposition to Inte“gration Program Is Expected”

SIMPLIFIED TAX RETURN IS SOUGHT   Committee Balks, However, At Dropping 9,000,000 From Rolls; FDR Warned Against Vetoing Tax Bill

Group Rejects 9 Million Cut On Tax Roll:   Means Committee Agrees To Consolidate Victory, Normal, Surtaxes

PROPOSAL T0 CUT TAX ROLLS FAILS   HOUSE COMMITTEE BALKS AT SCHEME TO DROP 9,000,000 SMALL PAYERS.

House Group Seeks Ways To Simplify  Tax Returns   But Decides Quickly Against Move To Drop About Nine Million Small Taxpayers   F.D.R. COUNSELED NOT TO VETO BILL   Committee Decides To Try Consolidation Of Several Levies

Lid Clamped On Civilian Goods   _ Heavy. Artillery Is. Given Ton Ratina

TRAIN HITS ROAD GRADER   One Coach of ‘Passenger Train Was Filled With Soldiers

German Salient Narrowed, Panzer Division Smashed; Allied Air Fleets Wreck Huge Amount of Enemy Armo)

Experts Confident Jap Ships Caught in Raid   Navy Men Predici Caroline Hub Tay Be Neutralived. Byv-Passed

New Panels Of Jurors Being  Called For Case   Entire Panel Of Original Jury men In Sedition Trial Is Disqualified by Court

Italians Revert To Prisoner Status   Service Battalion Group Fights Boston Police

ACCUSE OFFICIALS OF BIG SWINDLE   Representative Accuses Vin: son, OPA in Rationing * Order.

HOUSEWIVES OF U.S. ‘SWINDLED   Andresen Raps Cancellation Of Unused Ration Stamps

OPA and Vinson Accused of Swindling Millions of “Thrifty Housewives”

SOLON ATTACKS NEW RATIONING   Rep. Andreson Accuses OPA of Swindling Mil lions of Housewives

Millions of Housewives ‘'Swindled' by. OPA and Vinson Says Andreser

14 WACS, Three  Soldiers Hurt  At Fort Devens Trucks Crash On  Wav From Dance

Allied Nations Moving Toward Multi-Billion Dollar Gold-Based Stabilization Fund Plan

WORLD MONEY PLAN OUTLINED   United States and Russia Favor Similar Policy

Allies in Rimuni, Gothic Anchor   Americans Hold Wedge North of Florence

GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF RIMINI   x  GREEKS CRACK ADRIATIC AN. CHOR OF STRONG GOTHIC LINE IN ITALY.

DEWEY LEAVES FOR SAN FRANCISCO AFTER ROUSING PORTLAND RECEPTION.

Dewey Resume: Trip Unruffled By Close Calls   Heads For Frisco After Challenging ‘Indispensable Man’ Claim.

NAZI KIEL BASE GETS POUNDING IN AIR ATTACKS   Berlin And Lubeck Also Hit In Heavy Raids By RAF And Canadian Fliers

Tons of Bombs  Fall on Kiel As Raids Resume   Resistance Negligible As Planes Swarm Over Reich; Aid in Rhine Battle Zone

Night Bombs Start Fires In Berlin, Kiel   Tons of Explosives and Incendiaries Unloaded on Reich Cities

KIEL IS BLASTED   Heavy Bombers Unload Ex. plosives on Nazi Naval ses

el, Lubeck, clin Hit In  AF Ar Blows   Naval Rase of Kiel Stull Burning; U. S. Planes Attack Near Cologne.

RAF, CANADIAN PLANES HIT KIEL   Berlin And Lubeck Als¢ Smashed tn Fierce Attacks

KIEL NAVAL BASE TS. PLASTERED: BY RAF DURING NICHT   Berlin and ‘Lubeck’ Also. are Attacked; Weather Im proves Over Europe —

RAF. Blasts Reich Cities   800 Bombers Rip Targets in Kiel, Berlin and Lubeck

BRITISH RAID 3. GERMAN CITIES   Over 800 Bombers Blast Berlin, Kiel, Lubeck

800 Planes Blast Kiel, Other Cities   Better Weather Gives Promise  Of Resumption Of Big Attacks

Berlin, Lubeck, Kiel Attacked By 800 Planes   German Naval Buse Set Aflanies New Fires Spring Up in Nazi Capital Dar. ing Night Raids

SHORTAGES   James F. Byrnes Concentrating on Task of Moving Special Scarce War Items

Shortages In Several Items Get Attention   Director of War Mobilization and His Staff Prepare To Expand Necessary Things That Are Lagging.

WAR SHORTAGES GET ATTENTION OF CONGRESS   Truman Wants T<¢ Be Inaugurated  With President

Jap Push In China Turns To Chungkins   Nipponese Below Yellow River For First Time Since 1938; Foe Sees Kurile Blow Coming

Yanks Put Squeeze On Leyte   Defy Elements To Advance Within  9.5 Miles Of Ormoc Stronghold.

HWART “RISO DRIVE TO LIMON JAPS   7th Division Reaches . Point 9% Miles From Ormoc

Yanks Within Nine Miles OF dap Stronghold  Counter-Attacks  ¥ mm Q LrATKrTY ] ee 

Daniels Urges ‘One Command   Army and Navy Chiefs At Pearl Harbor Asleep Dec. 7, 1941, He Says

Josephus Daniels Says Pearl Harbor Best Example Of Necessity Of Consolidating Fighting Forces

KNEES BARE BUT SEDATE   .No High-Stepping by Majorette: In Memorial Day Parade

Germans Try To Wipe Out Red Bridgehead   Enemy Suffers Great Losses in Region Nlnetdhewvract af Meacnn!l

RUSSIANS KILL 3,000 GERMANS   Reds’ Dnestr Bridgehead Under Attack

Germans Attack In Dnester Area   Seek To Wipe Out Soviet Bridgehead

3000 Enemy Troops Killed As Soviets Stand Firm, Report   Attack Believed Designed to Destroy Russian Springboard to Chisinau, Bessarabia’s i Largest City

GERMANS POUND RED BRIDGEHEAD   Attempt to Wipe Out Foe On Bank of Dnestr

YANKS HOLD AIRFIELD OFF GUINEA   Noemfoor Field Seized To Wind Up 5-Day Invasion

Col. Roosevelt Will Marry Movie Actress   PRESIDENT’S SON, FAYE EMERSON WILL WED WITHIN WEEK

Elliott Koosevelt, Faye Emerson To  Be Married Soon  President’s Son.      President’s Son, Movie Actress

ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT TO TAKE 3RD WIFE   Son of President Will Marry Actress Faye Emercon

GOL. ROOSEVELT MARRIES AGAIN   Son Of President Takes Third Wife, Actress Faye Emerson

ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT TO WED 3RD TIME   ACTRESS FAYE EMERSON, 27, TO BECOME BRIDE OF PRESIDENT’S SON.

Actress Says She Will Marry Elliott Roosevelt   COUPLE EXPECTED TO  Qyyocire WE AWD ATA

Tank Units Crack German Lines, Capture Brecey to Pave Wav for New Thriuet

Jestroy ! Nazi ivisions   + Brecy, Transport City, Captured by Yanks; .Canadians Attack

Allies Open New Attack. So. of Caen   ‘Americans Count 10,500  Prisoners During 7-Day  ' -Drive.

Yanks Race Toward Heart of France, Gaining More  Than Four Miles

American Forces Advance Across 'Heart of France   Entire German West Wing Sags Back After Allied Onslaught

TURN WHOLE NAZI LINE   Americans Strike East Toward Paris In New Offensive

ENTIRE NAZI LEFT WING HURLED BACK BY YANKS; CANADIANS OPEN ATTACK

CAPTURE BIG ROAD HUB IN TEN-MILE DASH   Prisoner Toll Now 69,000

Americans Strike Eastward Toward City of Paris   Big Transport Center of Berecy Is Captured

Cross Ri ver Just Below Avranches               MOVE TOWARD HEART OF FRANCE AS NAZI LINE SAGS;: CANADIANS GAIN SOUTH OF €,

Doughboys Drive Germans Back Without Pause, Taking Many Prisoner   Canadians Attack Points At Paris   Nazi Trans-Normandy Line Is Shattered In Dozen Places

AMERICAN PUSH SAGS NAZI LINE; BRITISH GAIN   Hradley’s Armored Uniis Cross Selune Below Avranehes

Churchill Again Visits Normandy Front to Get Data on Allied Gains

Bad Weather Cuts Air Cover Over Invaders   British Night Bombers Smash Hubs For Nazi Transport To Battle Area

BAD WEATHER CUTS DOWN AIR ACTIVITY   Keeps Amer. Planes Based; British Active Last Night 

BAD WEATHER RETARDS HELP BY AIR FORCE   Armada Over French Coast Is Re. duced to Isolated Task Forces

Storms Cut Air Umbrella  Over France   British, However, Smash Transport Hubs In Night Attacks

Bad Weather Lowers Allied Air Umbrella   Night Bombers Smash At Five Big Nazi Transport Hubs

STORMY WEATHER SLOWS ALLIED AERIAL SUPPORT   But Medium, Heavy Somber: and Fighters are Still Much In Evidence.

15,000 NAZIS LIQUIDATED BY AMERICAN ARMY      French Start Drive Southwest Toward  Spain Border

Rhone Valley Cleanup Seals Victory in South   French Forces Open Drive Directed At Spanish Frontier

No Offers Ars  Made For County  Farm Quarter Supervisors Asked ‘For Bids To Be

No Offers Ars  Made For County  Farm Quarter Siipervisors Asked  ‘For Bids To Be  Qa eee  RA nwel oer

Asks Congress For 15 Billion For the Army   Budget Provides For Treble Number Of WACs in Service

TAKE AIRDRUME AT MAFFIN BAY   Yanks Within 21-2 Miles of Next Objective, Sawar Field

Chinese Offensive Cuts Burma Road   Japs Driven Back At All Key Points

ANTHONY EDEN IN QUEBEC FOR ALLIED PARLEY   British Foreign Secretary _ Flies To Canada De-  & spite Bad Weather      HULL SAYS HE DOES NOT PLAN TO ATTEND

ANTHONY EDEN NOW IN QUEBEC   Foreign Secretary Flies From Britain In 4J7', Hours

Eden Flys To Quebec For Parley   Conference_Turned From Pacific to European Political Issues Yesterday

Joins Churchill For Immediate’ Secret Meetinc   British Foreign Secretary Eden In 17-Hour Flight

EDEN REACHES QUEBEC BY PLANE   FLIES FROM ENGLAND TO JOIN IN ROOSEVELTCHURCHILL ‘CONFERENCES,

Eden Dashes From England by Air  To Take Part in Quebec Sessions   Hull's Attendance at Roosevelt-Churchill Conference, as Previously, Still Uncertain

Eden Joins Conference At Quebec   Not To Be Advisor On Any Gne Subject

EDEN ARRIVES FOR - STRATEGY PARLEY   Russian-Polish Issue Re ported Ready for Discussion

Eden Arrives in Quebec As Conference Turns To Europe Political Issues

Eden Makes : Non-Stop Hop ToQuebec   - Arrives Dramatically As Conference. Turns To European [ssues   BELIEVED CALLED BY PRIME MINISTER  Ghigtetritly: President Still Expected To End Talk« This Week-Fnd

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Chinese Have Begu Large-Scale Southern Offense  Diversionary Push Started to Keep Enemy Off Balance

Chinese Open  Oo. LargeScale — Hupeh Drive   Making Considerable Progress, But Japs Take 2 Cities In Other Sectors; Resistance Ends At Jap India Base.

CHINESE LAUNCH NEW DIVERTING ATTACK ON JAPS   Near Junction With Stilwell In Burma, Less Than 26 Miles Away

OFFENSIVE iS LAUNCHED BY CHINESE.   Capture Of Island Provides Base To Strike At Japan

France To Become 36th Member of Uniied N; ations  { eo. te , Ss . _   Ceremony Is Slated For January 

France Will Join United Nations By Signing Declaration New Year's Day

Government Of Hungary Reshuffled   Berlin) Also Announces ‘Measures’ Taken in Countrv

Brady Dies Calmly; Knox Execution Scheduled Today   Arkansas City Slayer Completely Resigned As He Goes to Death On Lansing Gallows

GREEN HITS BACK AT LABOR ATTACK   Leader Denies Charges  Unions Delay the War Eéfanre

GREEN BLASTS LABOR CRITICS   Challenges Gen. Marshall To Prove War Time Table Is Upset

Union Chiefs Lay Blame on Marshal For Criticism   Green Defies General To Prove Allied War Effort Has Been Hurt

GREEN SAYS MARSHALL HIT AT STRIKING   AFL President Challenges Chief of Staff To Prove Strikes Are Prolonging The War.   White House Backs Marshal

GREEN INVITES SOURCE TO PROVE STRIKE CHARGES   Says General Marshall Reported Author of Claim War Plans Upset   WHITE HOUSE BACKS UP AUTHOR’S STAND   Green’s Challenge Contains Vigorous Blast at Government Officials for Handling Of Labor Situation; Inves‘tigation Demanded

GEN, MARSHALL CREDITED WITH UNION ATTACK   AFL Head Denies That Labor Troubles Have Upset War Time-Table   MURRAY AND THOMAS ALSO JOIN TIRADE

Gen. Marshall Is dinked With U.S. Strike Statement   ~ Labor Head Challenges Him to Prove Thesis on Labor Troubles

Declaration Labor Troubles Hurt Allies Challenged   A. F. L. President Green Says Marshall Made Statement and Demands That General ‘Prove’ His Thesis

Green Lays To Marshall Warning On Strikes   Challenges General  To Prove Record  Of Workers Is Material For Enemy Propagand  OTHER UNION MEN HIT STATEMENT  President Revealed Inclined To Uphold  Ananvmanse Warning

William Green Bilterly Denies Labor Delayed Viclory over Axis by Series of Troubles

STIR OVER CHARGE OF VICTORY DELAY   MARSHALE LINKED WITH STATEMENT BLAMING LABOR —GREEN ASKS PROOF.

Green Asserts Gen. Marshall Decried Strikes   Laborite Says Army Chief Blamed Strike Threats Ae Dieten Tosi Racca

Strike Claim Brings Challenge   A. F. L. Head Says Marshall Named

Green-Connects Marshall.  To Talk Labor Troubles  Have Hurt Allied Cause

GREEN HITS BACK “AT LABOR ATTACK      Leader Denies Charges Unions Delay the War Eefort

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UNIONS RESENT RAP AT STRIKES   Story About Aiding Axis Propaganda Blamed To Gen. Marshall

Negroes Resist Military Police  Army Investigating Midnight Gun Battle At Brookley Field

Concrete Defenses. of Siegfried Line Now in Battle Zone   Americans Are Surging Ahead Powerfully on 40-Mile Front While Others Are Driving Toward Junction Within Germany

— VISIT at   Concord Hero, Wounded: Twice, Has Silver Star, Legion of Merit: -

2 LOCAL SOLDIERS MISSING IN YTALY      $-Sgt. Warren Canfield, Pfc. Herbert Swanbeck Are Listed.

Seek Lifting — of Pork Ration   Ag Official Wants Ceiling Prices Raised

SLAYER GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE   WALTER LAW, 39, FOUND’GUILTY OF FURNACE MURDER

MAIL FOR WAR PRISONERS MAY BE HELD UP BY NAZS   U. & Post Office Department Iannes Instructions for Addressing Mail to Prisoners

NAZIS. PUT BAN ON ALL SLOGANS ON MAIL TO PRISONERS   Postoffice Department Gives Instructions On Methods Of Mailing

Say Papal Farm Full of Nazis   Allies Issue Report Castel Will Be Bombed

American Battering Ram, 135 Miles Away Fron French Capital, Sweeps Ahead While Britisl Cut Wedge Across Orne River

U. 5. troops Move Toward City of Paris   Launch Drive on 50 Mile Front; British Drive Wedae in Line

To Within 135 Miles OF City   Shrine City of Auray Captured by Rotling Ameri: can Army; Patrols Reach Domfront   13,300 Germans In Brittany Seized   Nearly 3.500 Others Found Dead; British Cut Great Wedge Across the Orne River

MUST PROVIDE 56 MILLION JOBS FOR POSTWAR SECURITY   Special House Planning Group Offers Blueprint

Solons Put Confidence In Business   House Committee Presents Blueprint Of Plans For Reconversion

Post-War Plan To Offer Jobs To All Workers   Colmer Committee Says High Levels Must Be Maintained To Meet Taxes.

Need 54,000,000 Jobs For Post War Period   Special House Committee Ha: Offered Blueprint For After War

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Blames Dewey For GOP Defeat   Fish Makes Farewell Speech To Climax 24 Years In Congress.:

FISH BLASTS GOV. DEWEY IN FAREWELL   New Deal Also Hit _ By Lame Duck  Politician

Patrols Cross Nazi Border: Await Reserves   German Rout in Lowlands Still In Full Swing

Crossed Moselle River Against Stiff German Resistance, Is Report

ARMY CROSSES MOSELLE: HEADS FOR RHINELAND   Germans Stiffen Resistance Until Opposition More Fierce Than at Any Time Since Marne Crossine

Yank Patrols Cross Frontier Into Reich          Gen. Patton’s Arnry Runs Against Maitor OQonosilion at Moselle River

DECIDE AGAINST COAL RATIONING   WPB Members Say Action This Year Needless

Charles Chaplin Is Acquitted On Both Counts   Jury at Los Angeles Deliberates Seven Hours: Crowd Cheers Verdict

Free Chapiim OnMannAct Violations   JURY OF SEVEN WOMEN AND FIVE MEN TAKE SEVEN HOURS TO ARRIVE AT A VERDICT OF war GUILTY.   Demonstration in Court

Chaplin Freed On Mann Act Charges   Jury Returns Acquittal Verdict After Over Five Hours And Crowd Applauds

Chaplain Is Freed By Jury of Mann Act Violation   Verdict Reached affer Five Hours Deliberation; Four Ballots Taken

Charlie Chaplin Found Innocent By Federal Jury  Comedian Acquitted On Both Counts In Mann Act Case

Charles Chaplin Freed Of Mann Act Charges By Jury   Jury Acquits Film Comedian After Deliberating Over Five Hours on Both Counts—Applause Greets the Verdict

CHARLIE CHAPLIN. ACQUITTED; CROWD APPLAUDS VERDICT   Famed Comedian Freed of Both Counts of Indictment Charging Violation of  Mann Act. :   JURY OUT 5 HOURS; SIX BALLOTS TAKEN   Scores Congratulate EmotionChoked Actor After Courtroom Demonstration Subsides.

BOARD RESIGNS TN DRAFT 1651   Order To Postpone Induc. - tion Of Bank Teller  Given-As-Gause

Shaw on Hitler: lrish Playwright Believes Fuehrer Will End Up in a Lodge in Dublin

Strong, United France Is Aim  Of Churchill   Nazis May Fal In Six Months

War May End In 6 Months    ‘Brench Are Assured OF Britain’s Help -.

Line Up for Fight  On Postwar Payments   Republicans Afraid Of $35 a Week Basis im Democrats’. Plan

GOP Opposing New Bureau For Postwar Work   Super-Reconversion Agency Under Federal Control Is Planned To Direct Business After War.

OPPOSITION 10 UNEMPLOYMENT BILL STARTED   Would Continue Two Years After Close Of War

Conversion Bill Fight Is  In Prospect   ‘Senate Republicans Seek Support From States Rights Demos

SUPER-AGENCY BILL OPPOSED   SENATE REPUBLICANS SEEK SOUTHERN AID TO WRECK MEASURE

GOP Against Plan For Reconversion   Seek Support From , Southern State’s Rights Backers.

Tighten Steel Noose on 84th German Corps   Seven Divisions Partially Trapped In Coutances Arca

American Army Ready To Drive Upon Coutances   Seven Nazi Divisions Would Be Entrapped If Town Is Captured

PINCERS PLAY IS HINTED BY "JAP BOMBINGS   Chinere Predict Foe to Change Naval Encounter

\Allied Land And Naval Forces Are ‘Applying Massive Pincers On Japs

Pictures Reveal Berlin Ruins   RAF Commentator Says “Berlin Is In A Dickens Of A Mess.”

Raids Spread. Nazi Jitters   Berlin In ‘Dickens Of Mess And All Of Europe Confused

BOMBS RAZE 026 ~ BERLIN FACTORIES   TANK PRODUCTION cur BY ' BRAIDS—ADMINISTRATIVE CONFUSION CREATED.

Raids Spread Nazi Jitters   -Berith In Dickens Of Mess’ — And All Of Europe Confused

Ninth Army Captures Two Towns   Score Gains Along 25-Mile Cologne . Front, Backed By Air And Artillery Fire

Ninth Army ‘Captures Lindern   Flamethrowers and Tanks Pace Gains On. Western Front.

U.S. NINTH ARMY STORMED IMPORTANT GERMAN POSITIONS   WELL OVER THOUSAND HEAVY AMERICAN BOMBERS IN ACTION THURSDAY

Yanks Storm Through Two Vital Towns   Lindetn and Beeck Captured as Marshal Stalin Announces Reds Have Taken Vital City of Eger in Hungary

Allies Mow Down Germans in Bitter Cologne Fight   Nazi Counterattack in Italy Drives Allies Back at Three Points

LINDERN, BEECK TAKEN AS ROER LINE CRUMBLES   J. S$. Forces Slash Through Hurtgen Forest, Nearing Vital Duren

Jap Premier Warns That Allies May Soon Attempt Landings On Jap Shores

Take 2nd Drome  on Noeemfoor Isle   Open Twin Bases Nearer Philippines

AMERICANS TAKE ‘OND AIRDROME ON NOEMFOOR   U. S. Casualties” Continue “Negligible” According to Re-.

Germans say First army shifting south for grand scale blow   Schelde flank is nearly cleared as  allied unite recnme drive in Holland

Aim Grand Assault on  The Saar   ‘Allied Armies Drawn Up for Holland Assault

Berlin Says » Armies Shift _ For Assault   Flying Fortresses Raid Saarbruecken, Rail And Road Hub.

Rotterdam Drive Making Headway   Enemy's Rear Guard Line in Western Holland Shattered as Allied Bridaeheads are Fused

Ist Army Loses City To Nazis   American Armics Massing for Super Drive on Germans

DRIVE BY 9TH ARMY PREDICTED   British And American Forces In 17 Miles Of Rotterdam

Polifical Action ls Cenfered In Chicago   Dewey Spoke There Last Night—Roosevelt Due Satutdoy

DEWEY SAYS FOE SELLS PRIVILEGE   Claims That Roosevelt Lent Name To $1,000 ‘Grab’

Windy City Is Watched for Trend   Dewey Fires Broadsides a FDR on ‘Morai Issues,’ Draws Boas

CHICAGO VIEWED FOR VOTE HINTS   Demonstrations for Dewey FDR May Give Trends On Balloting

Dewey Given Big Ovation   Great Chicago Crowd Heats GOP: Nominee Tear Into  Roosevelt on Moral Issues 

SPECIAL PRIVILEGE KEYNOTE OF DEWEY TALK IN CHICAGO   Thousand Dollar Club Backing FDR Subjectéd to Heated. Political Attack . ee pa aM a.

President's Speech In Chicago To Give Comparison Basis   Dewey Gets Most Enthusiastic Reception There; Demo Lull to End Soon

Political’ Roundup. . Chicago, After Hearing” Dewey, Awaits Roosevelt

BAISE FLAG OW CAPTURED SHIPAN   Mopp ng Up Remains; Major Camraign Is Over

Japs Engaged In Senseless Dying In Last Days On Saipan   Finale Yesterday Was Ugly Spectacle; Casualties Of Enemy 95 Per Cent: Civilians Surrendering

Saipan Is Ours: Tokyo Now Only 1,450 Miles Away   Island Bastion Seized After Hardest Battle OF Pacific War

Organized Jap Resistance On  Saipan At End   Americans Capture Vital Jap Defense Island After Long Battle   HOLE IS BATTERED IN JAPAN’S DEFENSE

HOPKINS ‘NOTE’ FORGERY, AVERS AIDE T0 BIDDLE   Assistant to Attorney General Says Person Responsible May Be Named

“Hopkins Letter” Is Branded a Forgery   Spotlight on Ickes in Storm Over Willkie’s Prospective Candidacy

16 Japanese Ships Damaged In Leyte Gull   Entire Foe Task Forces That Came Through Surigao  Wiped Out.   Shige SURVIVORS

CLAIMS NO JAP SHIPS ESCAPED IN LEYTE GULF   Two Battleships Were  Among Vessels Sunk, MacArthur Says

Leyte Gulf Battle Sent 16 of Enemy's Warships to Bottom   Six That Fled Hunted Down and Sunk By Air Attacks To Complete Destruction Begun Oct. 25; Jap 16th Division Demoralized By Swift Advance of Vengeance-Bent Yanks

20 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down On Leyte Island   March of Death Enemy Unit Flees Pursuing Yanks

MacArthur Reveals Ene my Lost 2 Battleships, Cruisers and 10 De stroyers in Fight.             MANY SURVIVORS. TAKEN PRISON             Bataan Torturers Abas don Equipment in Fiig] Before U. S. Groun Troops on Island. °°

M’Arthur Says 16 Ships Sunk In Leyte Gulf   U. S. Planes and Warships Took Heavy Toll OfJap Force; Bombs Sink Grinpples

Entire Task Force Now Listed Among Losses; Campaign Inland Stepped Ur

ORDERS BALLOTS [MP OUNDED IN SCIOTO COUNTY   Expect Recount in Red Hot Gubernatorial Race in Ohio

American Troops Near Marne, Scene  Of Two Decisive World War I Battles

REVEAL HEAVY LOSSES ENEMY HAS SUFFEREL   U. S. Forces Wheeling Down Seine While Other Armies Tear in From West to Trap Nazis.   HISTORY REPEATS Rw Accociated Press

WLB Chairman Defends Seizure Montgomery Ward   Asserts Board Had fo Act or Admit 15,500,000 in Various Industries Free te Strike’

COMMITTEE TOLD OF WARD SEIZURE   WLB To Continue “Wherever There Is a Stoppaye” ‘Til Congress Acts.

DAVIS DECLARES WLB HAD TO ACT IN WARD DISPUTE  EITHER THAT OR ADMIT RIGHT TO

WLB Head Tells House Group Of Cause For Action On Ward Case   Asserts Action Was Needed Under Smith-Conally Bill To Prevent Strikes By 15,500,000 People

Labor Board Head Explains Action at Ward’   Move Necessary To Keep Workers From Strikina

WLB CHAIRMAN  DEFENDS ACTION IN WARD CASE   House Committee Told WLB Had to Act or Ad mit 15,500,000 Other Workers Had Right to_ Strike

"Had to Act” “In Ward Case, Davis Says   WLB. Chaifman: Ts “First : - Witness in House. Probe -  of Seizure by. U. 8: }   EXPLAINS POLICY ; OF: LABOR BOARD   Intends to’ Step in Wherever There Is-a.Stoppage Until Congress Says No °°

WARD SEIZURE PROBE OPENS   Had to Take Over Plant To Uphold Law, WLB Head Savs

W.LB. Had to Act In Ward Case Is  Davis’ Contention   Faijare to Step In Would ‘Admit Right of Those fn Various Plants  to Call Strikes

PERIL GROWS   Military Reporters Give Pessimistic Picture to  German People

SOMBRE ACCOUNTS GIVEN TO GERMANS   Military Reporters Paint Gloomy Pictures of -War’s Proaress

Action Puts U, S. Forees Much Closer  To Japanese   American Task Unit  Kelieved In) Region

SAITAN ISLAND S WITHIN 1500 ~ MILESOF TOKYO   A Base There Would Mean Tokyo is the Next U. S. Ston   ALSO ON ROUTE TO PHILIPPINES

APS TELL UF U0. LANDINGS IN MARIANAS   Declare Attack on Saipan Island Repulsed But “Battle Cantinupes?

U. S. Landings on  Saipan, Tinian!   Jap Radio Says Yanks Attacking Bases in Force   No Confirmation; Isles Are Only 1,500 Miles From Tokyo

Reports Yanks Try Landing On Mariana Isles   Tokio Reports Daring Operations On Saipan And Tinian.

ap Reports That Landing Force Beaten Off With Heavy Loss Not Confirmed—Assault, If Jap Report True, Follows Daring Naval Attack Over Broad Area of Pacific

REPORT LANDINGS ON SAIPAN, TINIAN; U. 5. NAVY SILENT   Daring Operation Would Give America Ocean Base 1,500 Miles From Tokyo

Jap Radio Says Yanks Attacking  Bases in Force   No ‘Confirmation; Isles Are Only 1,500 Miles From Tokyo

JAPS DESCRIBE INVASION TRIES ON SAIPAN ISLE   Say Landings Also Attempted, Repulsed At Tinian Base

Tokyo Says U.S. Is Trying To Put Troops Ashore On Saipan And Tinian Islands   Successful Operation Would Give Us Ocean Base 1,500 Miles From Jap Capital; Heavy Fighting Reported To Be In Progress

SEEK 10 LAND ON MARIANAS   Americans Try To Put Troops Ashore On Saipan And Tinian  Rim CPALE ACCASIII ®&

4-H Girls To Conserve Repair, Plan Family's Duration Wardrobe . --

Yankees Down Many Jap Planes   Comparison of Losses In China Is Apparently Painful to Tokyo

GEN. CHENNAULT’S AIRMEN CONTINUE BLAST JAPS DOWN  FIRST PART OF ROAD  TO TOKYO PAVED WITH DESTROVED ENEMY

On $20-a-Gallon Gas, China Yanks  Pave Tokyo Road With Jap Planes

Chennault’s. Men Pave Tokyo Road With Jap Planes  Cisse Pynnaaies AsialL   Fliers Operate With Precious Supplies, Under Many Hazards

Chennault’s Men Paving Way to Tokyo With Japs  Destroyed Aircraft Sad Comparison For Enemy Leaders

U, S, AIRMEN ARE OPENING TOKYO ROUTE   Japanese Planes Fail To Halt Steady Ra‘d

Chennault’s Men Paving Way to Tokyo With Japs  Destroyed Aircraft Sad Comparison Pn  ete Lesa

JACKIE COOPER FOUND INNOCENT   REFEREE RULES FOUR DEFENDANTS INNOCENT

Jackie Cooper Cleared by Court   Three Others Also Acaquitted Charge

JACKIE COOPER ULEARED TODAY   Cooper And Associates Are Cleared Of Charges Today

Finds Cooper Innocent of Charges   Not Contribute to Delinquency  Judge ‘Rules He Did

NAZI TARGETS IN FRANCE BOMBED   Allies Downed 21 German Planes Yesterday

Allies Bomb French Coast   Large Number of Allied Planes in Shuttling Raids

BOMBERS HIT FRANCE AGAIN   Third Successive Day of Raids Across Channel

Allied Bombers Hit Twice Today   Struck at Enemy Strongholds Across the Channel in Daylight.

BUMBERS ROCK FRENCH COAST   INVASION AREA SHAKES IN NEW HAMMERING

Continue Bombing Of Invasion Coast   strong Formations of Bombers Lash at French Coastal Area for 3d Day.

Bombers Hit Twice At Nazis   Cross Channel in Afternoon After Morning Forays.

French Coast Again Raided   Strong Formations of Allied Bombers Thunder Across English Channel

Bombers Raid French Coast   Hammer From Dunkerque To Boulogne In Fine Weather; 21 Ships Down.

leq TA TT JAD PLANES BLASTED FROM SKY BY ALLIED CRAFT: GROUND TROGPS FORWARD ON TWO FRONTS   Allied Bombers HammerFrench Coast Today

HIT FRENCH * COAST TWICE   Strong Formations Are Seen Crossing Channel

Allies Again Raid France   Bombers Roar Across Channel to Pound Dunkerque Coast

French Coast Poundedin New Attack  Alliad Rambhavc. Ranma   Allied Bombers: Range From Dunkerque to Boulogne   FOLLOW NIGHT RAID      Nazis Lose 21 Planes During Battles Over Western Germany

French Coast A gain Tar get Allied Airmen   ‘Strong Formations Bomb. , ers Hammer Area From  Dunkerque to Bou logne

‘Large Formations Of ‘Allied Bombers Hammer Coastline In [France Third Successive Day   Area From Dunkerque To Boulogne Blasted: Night Raiders Hit Reich

ALLIED AIRMEN  BLAST FRENCH INVASION COAST   Germans Claim Capital o Buigaria Raided at Noon Monday

21 Nazi Planes Bagged In Foray Over France   From Dunkerque To Boulogne Is Blasted By Allied Bombers

INVASION REGION BATTERED ANEW   Heavy Formations Of Allied Planes Cross Channel” %

Allies Maintain _ Bombing Slate . - Of French Coast   ‘Hammer Invasion ‘Shores From. Dunkerque To - Boulogne’ In. Daylight

Shuttle Raid Going On Today  Allies Destroy 21   Allies Destroy 21 German Planes In Air Battles

BATTLE RAGES NEAR IMPHAL   Japs Edging Way on Plain North of Indian City, Repelled at Kohima

Jans Prevented From Launching Counter Offensive   Second Mountain Peak Overlooking Enemy Is Captured

CONQUEST OF GUAM - TINIAN In PROSPECI   As American Assault Forces Take Full Advantage of Gains on Two Strategic Islands.   Hammer Bases

March 15 Isn’t  Far Off Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer   Tax Officials Warn That It’s Wise to Get Busy Now to Avoid Penalty

RUSSIAN FRONT EXPLOSION DUE   Berlin Describes Lull As “Calm Before The Storm”

SOVIETS DRIVE TO WITHIN 14 MILES OF RIGA   Big Gains Are Made by Three-Day-Old Push In Baltics

100,000 Germans May Be Trapped By Red Offensive   Russians 14 Miles From Latvian Goal   Hard Fighting Reported

Red Assault Clamps Exit From Baltic  BerlinReports Russians 14 Miles From Riga

RUSSIANS ADVANCE 14 MILES FROM RIGA   Polish Patriots Inside Imperilled Warsaw Are Being Given Supplies

Russian Forces Battle To  Within 14 Miles Of Riga   Offensive Aims at Crushing Two German Armies in Latvia and Estonia—Supplies Dropped to Warsaw Underground

FOREIGN POLICY SECRECY RAPPED   Republicans Demand Facts Be Given To Public

VERBAL BARRAGE IN SENATE. AIMED AT FOREIGN POLICY   SERIES OF SPEECHES SCHEDULED BY REPUBLICANS AGAINST BECRECY IN DIPLOMATIC FIELD

French Coast Raided Again   Fifth Attack Is Made By Liberator Bomhere

keke kek Ke ee KE EK  Germany Punished by Allies (One-Two Punch Air Strategy

Gen. Vandegrift Scores Critics  Of island Hopping Strategy; Urges Realistic Facing of the Facts

Marine Chief Says There’s No Short Cut   Island Hopping Called Costly But Necessary

Giant Flying Boat Reaches Pearl Harbor   Makes First Flight From ‘San Francisco With Passengers And Cargo

Nazi Transports Land Cargoes in Northern Finland   Germans Strengthening Military Positions Around Hanaoe

Nazis Strengthen Forces in Finland   Warn Ryukan, Norway, Of ‘Allied Invasion’

ON OF COLES OATS, WHEAT HARVESTED   Wheat Esfimated at 23-25 Bu. Per Acre, Oats at 40 Bu.

German Opposition Light In Forays Against French Coast. f rwdis in Reich

Drive To Crush Nazi Airforce Is Continuing   Hundreds Of Allied Planes Strike At European Continent Today.

Japs Say Allies Attack Marcus   Task. Force Reported1,000 Miles From Japan

Tokyo Bares 2 Day Attack By U.S. Navy   Enemy ~Ciaims 62% an Planes; Nimitz Weng =

ATTACK MADE ON MARCUS ISLAND BY TASK FORCE      Attack Launched From BoninsJaps Claim 32 U. 8. Planes Downed

WPB Orders More Low Cost Clothes   50 Million Yards of Cotton Earmarked

POSSIBILITY OF WORKERS DRAFT HINTED BY MAY   Congressman Suggests Complainers Get Free Trips To Front

Suggests Free Trip to Battlefronts For Those Who Defend Labor Strife

MAY HOLDS WORKER DRAFT LEGISLATION CLUB OVER LABOR   Threatens Bill’s Revival By Committee If Strife Grows

Senate Votes To Lift Soldier Reading Ban .   Amendments io Veting Law Wil Permit Any Paper, Magazine Boek in General Circulation _

Vote To Give Full Access To Political New:   Senate Adopts Changes In Soldier Voting Law Under Which Certain Books Were Banned

Senate Modifies Rigid Ban Upon Political Matter   Armed Forces Will Have Access To Current Works

CAVALRYRIEN aTUnM PLYILU AFTER ATTACK   Liberators Hammer Fuel Stcrazve Ar-as3 in Truk Lavoon.

Another Island Taken By Yanks   U. 8. Forces Storm Ashore On Pitvilu Island Of Admiralty Group   TRUK IS AGAIN HIT BY BOMBERS

Dr. E. 0. Melby  Resigns  Chancellorship Is Immediately  Named  TInivarcituy Maan

Phone Workers th Washington Join Strikers  41 Affiliated Unions Asked To Join in

Nation-Wide Phone. Strike Threatened   Washington: Workers Quit Poata With Resultant 

Telephone Strike Threatens Nation WLB Ready   Ohio Workers Ask Sympathy

Phone Operator Strike Spreads to Washington in Sympathy With Ohic

U. §. Threatenec By Nation-Wide Phone Walkout   Washington Workers Defy WLB and Start Sympathy Strike

Spread of Phone Strike Feared   Labor Board Turns To White House To Halt Walkout

Nation- Wide Phone Strike Threatened   OHIO STRIKERS SPURN WAR LABOR BOARD DEMAND THAT THEY RETURN; SEEK SYMPATHY STRIKES.   Walk Out In Washington

Congressmen Agree Upon Reconversion   Final Approval Of Postwar Bill

Senate Expected To Accept House Deletions From Reconversion Bill

Reconversion  Bill Approved   Baek: Home ‘Travel. “Pay Is:Killed. 2

Back Home Trave Pay Eliminated  Conferees Agree on Reconversion Bill

Reconversion Bill Approved  By Conferees   Jobless Pay For Federal Workers, Back Home  Payments Denied

Reconversion Bill Sent to House  For Final Action  Modified Proposal Has Travel Pay Section Eliminated

Dewey for Backing Peace With Force   New York Governor Moves Into Michigan On Campaign Tour

Dewey Swinging  Campaign Tour  To Native State   Criticizes Secrecy Veiling  : Security Conferences : At Dumbarten Oaks

Dewey Raps Secrecy of  Peace-Makers   Declares for Preserya tion of World Penwe by Force if Necesanry

Dewey Back In Home State For Political Talk   Continues Blast  Against FDR Rule

Sgt. Rickabaugh — Arrives Home  On Brief Furlough Served In Italy And North Africa. Past Two Years

Sgt. Rickabaugh Arrives Home — On Brief Furlough  Served In Italy — wel Fel oth OA CPP   Served In Italy And North Africa. Past Two Years

ALSACE-LORRAINE CAPITAL REACHED BY DASHING FRENCHMEN  ANOTHER ‘ALLIED ARMY HEADING TOWARD CITY AGAINST FLEEING NAZIS

Rule South Philippine Air Lanes   Allied Planes Hammer Mindanao at Will, and Warships Prowl Seas  In Support of Attacks

Yanks Control P hilippines’ Southern Skies   Warships Prowl Prowl Approaches From East Against : West Carolines

U.S. CONTROLS SKIES LEADING TO PHILIPPINES   American Task Force Roves Seas on Eastern Side of Islands

AMERICAN PLANES CONTROL SOUTHERN PHILIPPINE SKIES   J. S. Battleships, in Support of Air Assaults on the Carolines, Roam East Approaches to Philippines Unchallenged

 American Air Force Now Dominates All South Philippines   MeoreIn Rlevele Recavered

Huns Resume ‘Rocket Bomb Attack Today   English Scoff at German Of fer to Stop Campaign if Ai War Is Ended

NAZIS RENEW ROBOT ATTACKS   British Admit Damage to Buildings, Casualties

Rockets Kall  General Scott   Maj. Gen. Sir Arthur Scott Had Lectured In U. S. On Labor Problems.

Germans Renew Rocket Bombing  Scattered Aircraft Also Make Raids

ROCKET BOMBS KILL SEVERAL      Retired General, His Wife And Slum Worker Among ~ The Dead.

American Bombers Strike At Targets In Budapest   Retired British General And Wife Killed By Bombs

 Radio Shows Concern For Fate Of Troops— —By Kirke L. Simpson (7)  Germans Gloomy Over Losses In The Ukraine

2 SUPERFORT:  LOST WN RAIL   First Time Japs Have Bagged B-29 Since Start Of Attacks

RAID ON JAPAN COSTS TWO B-29S   THIRD SUPERFORT MISSING AND MAY HAVE BEEN DOWNED

ISUPERFORTS mn IN TUESDAY ATTACK   is First Time Jap Fighter Pilots Have Succeeded: i . Bagging a Big Plan on Omira Plant. Greatest Battle Over Nip Honieland

Lose Three Bombers In  B-29 Raid   Superfortresses Shoo! Down Twenty Japanese Planes During Raid Or Aircraft Plant

Japanese Bag 2 Supertorts   In Greatest Air Battle Over Jap Homeland, B-29s Lost To Fichters.

SUPERFORTS IN JAPANESE RAID ARE SHOT DOWN   First Of Forts To Actually Fight In Air

TWO B-29°S © DOWNED BY NIP AIRMEN   A Third Possibly a Vic‘tim of Enemy Fighters  - in Tuesday Raid. Over Japan—20 Enemy Craft Shot Down. 

NIPPON PILOTS DOWN 3 B-29'5   Superforts Survive Greatest Air Battle Over Jap Homeland

Third Giant Bomber Now Missing After Great Air Battle—Nip Losses Soar

Qmura Raid Costs 2 B-29s, Wrecks 22 Jap Aireraft   Fignt B-29’s Lost To Enemy Fire In Heavy   Acrial Battle.

TWO SUPERFORTS LOST OVER JAPAN   First Time Enemy Airmen Have Bagged a B-29; 20 Japs Shot Down.

Two Superforts Shot Down, ‘Another Missing In Aerial Battles Over Jap Homeland   First Time Japs Have Succeeded In Baaqging B-29: Down 19 Nips

TRIO OF AMERICAN OUPERFORTRESSES LOST OVER OMURA   BIGGEST AIR BATTLE YET PARTICIPATED IN BY — . GREAT U. §. BOMBERS

LOSS OF TWO 5 U PERFORTS IS REPORTED   First Time Japanese Airmen Succeed in Bagging a B29 Since Inauguration of 20th Command  20 NIPS ARE SHOT DOWN

First B-29 Loss From Fighters   Two, and Possibly Three, Shot Down Yesterday hy Jan Airmen   20 JAP FIGHTER PLANES DESTROYED   Superforts Engaged in Their Greatest Air Battle Since Entering Service

‘© Definitely Lost and Third Gverdue and Presumed to Have Gone Down   TWENTY ENEMY FIGHTER “PLANES WERE SHOT DOWN

Possibly Three Superfortresses Lost Over Japan   Jap Airmen Down Their First B-29s ‘Since Raids Began; Nips Lost 90 Planec

FIERCE AIR BATTLE   Two Superfortresses Lost in Fight Over Jap  Homeland

Jap Fighters Bay 2 B-29’s   Forts Shoot Down 20 Enemy Planes Over Japan

Three Superforts Lost in Greatest Jap Air Battle  Bombers Which Raided ‘Nip   Bombers Which Raided Nippon Homeland Down Twenty Enemy; First B-29 Lest to Jananese

Only Three Superforts Lost in Raid   Army Reveals Losses In Greatest Aerial Rattle Over Janan

Jap Fliers Bag First   Superforts   Two B.298 Lost to Enemy Fighters and Third Remaing Unreported

Jap Airmen Shoot Down ‘First ‘B-29s’   Meanwhile, Yanks Knock -~ Out Enemy Defenses in North Leyte

Toll of Foe Men, Planes  Ships Climb   Japs Reshuffle High Ranking Officers; Philippine Campaign Progress Is Slow

THIRD GRAFT PRESUMED 10 BE LOST, 100   Meanwhile, In Philippines, Americans Continue to Run up “Score” Against Japan.

Jap Fighters Down 3 Superforts   First Huge Warplanes Are Lost to Nips In Heaviest Battle

Two B-29s Lost Over Japan —   Third Probably Lost In Air Battle. Yesterday; First of Superforts Bagged By Japs

ARMY DENIES JAP CLAIM Ut BOU.S FORTS   Greatest Air Batile Over Japan Enemy Bags First B-29’s.

2, Perhaps 3 Superforts Lost To Japs  Yesterday   First Time Any Nip Airmen Have Bagged American Big Planes, Washington Says

2 SUPERFORTS DOWNED BY IAP FIGHTER CRAFT   Marks First Time Nipponese ‘Airmen Bagged B-29 Planes

First B-29s Shot Down By Japanese Fighters; U.S. Says 2 To 3 Lost

AMID SMOKE, TOKYOSCOFFS AT B-29 RAID   ‘Not Much Happened; ‘Just Hospitals, Schools Hit’

JAP RABIO SAYS DAMAGE LIGHT   CLAIMS SUPERFORT RAID CAUSED NO CONFUSION OF DISORDER

JAPS MAKE BOLD SHOW OF CALM, IGNORING HEAVY DAMAGE AT TOKYO   Broadcasters Say  :‘Nothing Much’ Done

SUPERFORT SMASH ~BELITTLED BY JAP RADIO BROADGASTEL   People Told Tokyo Bombs Hit No Targets Of Importance

MORE THAN 26 FOE WARSHIPS PUT OUT      39 Jap Planes Lost in Attack od Allied hipping in y  Off Levte Island

Add ground success to. smashing victory over Japanese fleet   Navy to exploit advantage-Forrestal; licht eruiser is hit in: Mindanao sea

GERMANS MAY LEAVE PARIS — A MASS OF SMOKING RUINS   REFUGEES FROM FRANCE SAY FORTIFICATIONS ERECTED AND MAIN BUILDINGS HAVE  BEEN MINED

FRENCH REFUGEES OPINE PARIS WILL SMOKE IN RUINS AS TOKEN OF HITLER'S REVENGE AGAINST ANTI-NAZI EUROPE

Stouder Will Conduct Vaccination School—   Nine Persons Applv To Soil District Commission For Farm Plans

Bradley's Men Moving Forward In Rain and Mud  wo VAs acobanecen Mnmet Sr   New Offensive Breaks On Western Coast Of Cherbourg Peninsula

Social Security For Self-Employed Is Urged In Renort   Farmers, Professional: Men To Share Benet Same As Laborer

AMERICANS ‘DRIVING INLAND   Well Supplied Force One Of Pacifie’s Greatest

Ground Losses In Invasion Are Reported Light   Capture Expected Soon of Important Enemy Airfields

Crippled Nip Airforce In 2 Weak Raids   Fall Of Airfield Is Believed Imminent; One Vessel In Convoy Hit By Aerial Torpedo

Japan’s 16th Division, Noted for Its Bataan Tortures, Fails To Halt Yanks.   AMERICANS LOSE FEW SMALL SHIPS

FALL OF TWO JAP AIRFIELDS AT LEYTE APPEARS IMMINENT AS U.S, BROADENS ATTACK

FALL OF TWIN JAP AIRBASES IS IMMINENT      Carrier Planes Hammer Japs; Rush Supplies Ashore

Yanks Drive Inland At Terrific Speed   MacArthur’s Overwhelming Naval, Air Might Pushes Japs Back From All Sectors: Suffer Two Nicht Air Raids

JAP AIRFIELDS SEEN IMMINENT   Well Supplied Troops Are Backed By Naval And Air Might

Well Supplied Troops Are _ Backed By Overwhelming Naval, Air Forces.   1600 SHIPS IN CONVOY

Force Great As On D-Day Takes Part in Attack   U. S. Fighters Push Inland in Assault On Philippines

Americans Drive On Two Airfields   MacArthur's Forces Hasten ~ Consolidation of Leyte  Island   HIT WITH ALL ARMS   Naval Surface and Air Forces Pound Japanese Defense Points

Yanks Push  Inland in Philippines    U. S. Carrier Planes Provide Strong Support: For Ground Forces; No Large-Scale Jap Counterattacks Have Reen Launched Yet

Americans Smash Ahead On Leyte, Backed By Powerful Naval and Air Forces——  Fall of Two Airfields Appears Imminent Today.

TWO JAPANESE AIRPORTS ARE ABOUT TO FALL   American Troops Continue Drive  Inland Today

FALL OF TWO ENEMY AIRFIELDS IMMINENT TO MACARTHUR’S MEN  WELL SUPPLIED TROOPS  ARE BACKED BY GREAT

Yank Forces Drive Inland On All Sectors   Naval And Air Might Felt In Philippines

INVASION TROOPS DRIVE INLAND ON ISLAND OF LEYTE   JAPANESE FAIL TO HALT ADVANCE; HIT 2 SMALL AIR BLOWS

2 Airfields Objectives of Invaders   MacArthur’s Men Press inland from Leyte Gulf Beachhead

Jap Airfields Are Objectives Of Americans   Ground Forces Commanded By Gen. Krueger Encounter Their Stiffest Opposition At Palo Below Cancabato Bay — Consolidate Beachhead Positicns On Leyte Island

Fall of Strips At Tacloban  And Dulag Imminent As U.S. Troops Press Further Inland

MacArthar’s Men Moving Inland On All Leyte Sectors   Fall Of Plane Bases At Tacloban And Dulag Due Soon; 87 Nipponese Planes, 57 Ships Blasted In New Raids By Carrier Aircraft Aiding Invasion

Air Cavalry Continues to Blast Enemy   No Large Scale Counter Action Reported; Weak stack on Convoy   TORPEDO HITON . ONE U.S. VESSEL   American Forces Said to Be as Large as D-Day Units in France

Inland > On All Sectors   Meet ‘No Large Scale Jap Counterattacks;  Invaders May Exceed Number Used ‘D-Day

Fall of Two Airfields Seems Near   Japs Unable To Muster Large Scale Counter Blow

Well-Supplied American Troops Drive Inland On All Leyte Island Sectors

Invasion Force Driving Inland OnLeyte Island   Fall of Two Airfields to  Yank Units Is Reported   baminent; Advaneing At Rapid Rate   Flying Artillery Blasts Japanese   Enemy Air Foree Makes Two Night Raids On U. S. Ships; Adinit One Vessel Hit

Yanks Drive Inland on All  Leyte Sectors   American Troops Are Well-Supplied —~Naval and Air Might Add Backing

Bond Buyers of County to Select Contest Queen   All Purchasers May Vote; Winner WIL Compete for Qyata Metta

State Winner Gets Hollywood Trip   Contest Open to Girls Willing to Promote Bond Sales

America Sends World's Mightiest Battleship and Biaaest Airplane Into Action Against Her Enemie:

Mightiest Battleship To  Slide Down The Ways At Brooklyn Yard Saturday

Blow First By Fleet At Japs’ ‘Home   Surprised Enemy Fires Wildly, Fails To Hit Any Ships; Thought  Invasion Under Way

Plunge 35 Miles Along River;  Metz, Belfort Fall   Reich Totters on 400-Mile Front As Yanks Drive for Cologne, Penetrate 6 Miles Into Saar Area

Wehrmacht Is Faltering Along 400-Mile Front   Six Allied Armies Swarm Over 50 Towns On Allies “Greatest Day On Western Front;” Patton Overruns 6 Miles Of Pure German Soil.

U.S. First and Ninth Armies Plunge Almost Half-Way to Cologne From: Aachen; Patton 6Miles Into Reich

Progress. mn Pacific given heavy praise  Paints optimistic over-all picture

Britain’s Leader Hails Red Might   Prime Minister Reiterates Pledge to Best Iavan

See Signs of Jap Weakness   Churchill Also Has Praise For Russians

HAVE PLAYED BIGGEST ROLE   Says Allies Far Superior in Air, Sub Men ace Overcome

Confidence Is Expressed by Churchill  Sees Victory Over Japs Sooner ‘Than Expected’

Says Russians Tear Guts Out Of Nazi Army   Now Believes Triumph Over Japs May Come - Sooner Than Expected  SEES VICTORY. SURF

Confidence Is Expressed by Churchill  Gea VYirtarny Over   Sees Victory Over Japs Sooner "Than Expected’

Premier Sees Speed-Up in Pacifie War   Nazis Reel Under Aerial Blows,  Russian Drives

ime Minister  ays Japs Show igns of Defeat   Gives Red Armies Greatest Credit   icentration of British Ships Pacific May Mean Sea Battle

Prime Minister Says Britain and America May  _ Win. Sooner’ than Ex: pected Over Japs.

Briton Praises Russians, Grea Aerial Attacks   Far East Initiative Has Passed to Allies, Prime Minister Says; Sub Danger Overcome

Undersecretary Since 1940 EL. Slated to Sueceed Late Frank Knvx; Svaubemeki to Post Urged by Democrats, Republicans

FORRESTAL 10 SUCCEED KNOX AS NAVY HEAD   PRESIDENT NAMES HIS NEIGHBOR FOR TOP JOB

F.D:R. asks navy job go to Forrestal  Congress lauds his appointment

FDR Chooses Forrestal as  Chief of Navy   Second in Command to Knox Selected as New Cabinet Member

Forrestal Nominated  As Navy Chief By President   Ex-Investment Banker And F.D.R. Neighbor Has Served Four Years As Navy Undersecretar}  ACTING SECRETARY —   ACTING SECRETARY — SINCE KNOX’S DEATH

Forrestal Heads Navy: ‘Undersecretary Named To Succeed Knox as Chief of Sea Operations

FORRESTALIS NAMED BY FDR AS NAVY SEC'Y   Undersecretary Since 1940 ~ Picked to Succeed Knox =      MANY HAVE URGED HiS ADVANCEMENT   Nominee, 54, Is Former New York Investment Banker

James Forrestal Nominated For Navy Secretary   Ex-Undersecretary to Succeed Late Col. Frank Knox

Naval Head Is Nominated   James V. Forrestal Picked As Secretary

Walter To Run For U. 5. Senate   Scores New Deal in Announcement

EDR Orders firm Control  Of Germany   kinds Directed To Preclude Country Again Becoming Menace To World

FEA To Study Post War Policy   President Tells Administrator Crowley Lend-Lease Must Be Continued

KEEP GERMAN WAR POTENTIAL DOWN, FEA TOLD   FDR Statement Clue to Poliey

PRESIDENT CALLS FOR FEA STUDY   Cabinet Split Denied; Naziism In Argentina Strongly Denounced

PRESIDENT IN STATEMENT ON POSTWAR POLICY   Asks FEA Undertake the End That Germany Will Not Be Menace

President Denies Cabinet Split Over Postwar Treatment of Germany

DENIES SPLIT AMONG AIDES ABOUT POLICY   Denounces Argentina For Attempt to Divide Allies

ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCES PLANS NOW   Argentina Given Rap By President For Axis Leanina

Roosevelt Aims fo Prevent Germany From Gaining Future Military Power

STATEMENT — OF POLICY TOWARD NAZIS   President Gives Instructions to  FEA Head

Forbach Is Taken As Shells Pound Saarbrucken  Russians Reach Danube  Only Thirteen Miles   Russians Reach Danube Only Thirteen Miles From Hungary Capital

TAKE FORBACH IN SAARLAND   Penetrate e. Siegfried Line Beyond   Dillingen

SOLON ATTACKS BIDDLE REPORT   Ferguson Hits ‘Clearing’ Of Political Action Group

Congress May Learn Where  3 garets Go   Plans Shaping Up In Washington For Full-Dress Probe On Shortage

Big Cut in’ War Spending Slated   Plans for Sharp Stash In Budget Disclosed

ALLIES LEAVE ° CENTRAL CHINE   Ordered to Evacuate Two Provinces in Face of Jap Advances.   ‘RAINS HALT LAND FIGHT

Evacuation of Kweichow and Hunan Ordered   Nipponese Fighter Planes Strike at Saipan B-29 Bases

MENACING ADVANCES BY JAPS IN KWEICHOW AND HUNAN WITH “JAP PLANE ATTACK ON SAIPAN

Manila Ship Toll Set at 48   Allies Ordered Out of China Provinces as Japs Drive Forward

Yanks, British Told To Leave Central China   Report More U. S. Air - Victories; Rains Wash  Out Ground Battles

EVACUATION BY ALLIES ORDERED   13 ZEROS SHOT DOWN OVER SAIPAN, 2 MORE JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK

AMERICANS AND BRITISH LEAVE HUNAN SECTOR   _ Japanese Drive Deeper Wedge In China

Americans, British, Ready To Evacuate Central China As Japs Press Big Offensive   Americans Step Up Air Assaults Against Tokyo and 13 Jap Planes Shet Down During Attacks on Saipan

Enemy Drives Deeper Into Central China   Americans And British Ordered To Leave Area

13 Zeros Are Shot Down  over Saipan   Toll of Jap Ships Sunk by Yank Raids on Manila  Reaches 151

Americans, British Ordered to Vacate Chinese Provinces   Menacing Jap Columns Drive Deeper Into Central China

Allies Asked To Evacuate Middle China Provinces   Japs Attack Saipan On Marianas Island In Revenge Raids

AMERICANS, BRITISH ORDERED EVACUATE PROVINCE IN CHINA   FURTHER U. S. AIR VICTORIES IN PACIFIC, RAINS STOP GROUND ACTION

Yanks Pound Jap Air Bases In Heavy Rain   Thirteen Zeros Shot Down as Nips Seek Revenge in Counter Attack on Saipan

Ameriean And British To Leave Central China   Forces Ordered To Evacuate Kweichow And Hunan Provinces In Face Of Menacing Japanese Columns;  Americans Score New Air-Sea Victories

Allies Give Up 2 Provinces In Central China   Japanese Drive Forces  Evacuation Of Hunan A.J} WY.{._._*._ asa

YANKS, BRITISH WILL LEAVE 2 CENTRAL AREAS   Revenge Seeking Jap Planes Are Shot Down ov Marianas Islands

Nipponese Army Driving Deeper Into Territory   48 Enemy Vessels Bagged In Manila Bay Area; Ground Fighting Halted

JAPS HIT B-23 ISLAND BASES   151 Nin Ships Knocked Out In Manila Area Dur ing November

Americans, British Told To Flee Central China Bibere Onrushing Japs   More U. S. Air Victories, Rain Halts Ground War

Saipan Raided By Jap Planes: 13 Shot Down   Damage to Superfortress Base Is Not Dis-

ALLIED TROOPS ORDERED FROM CENTRALCHINA   Further American Air  Victories Reported On Pacific Front

VICTORY OVER REICH IN 1944 NOW ASSURED   EISENHOWER, ALLIED CHIEF, CONFIDENT OF OUTCOME

Eisenhower Sure Of Victory In 1944, Names Bradley Army Head In France

Predicted  y Eisenhower  re in 1944   Battle 5 Days Ahead Of Schedule; Bradley Is Raised to Rank of Full Field Commande

VICTORY THIS. YEAR SEEN BY EISENHOWER   General Says Everyone _ Must Do Full Duty to. «= . Speed End ae

1944 VICTORY POSSIBLE SAYS EISENHOWER   As He Announces That Gen. Bradley is Now Full Field Commander: “All Must Do Duty.”   “Direct Manly”

Eisenhower Still Expects 1944 Victory Over Hitler's Hordes   General Discusses Outlook, Explains Move Elevating General Bradley to New Position

Lisenhower Is Optimistic In His War Views   Confident Victory Over Germany Is Possible This Year

Ike Says Victory Possible In 44   General Sticking By Statement Made In Algiers.

VETERAN DETECTIVE DIES   Eisenhower Sees 1944: Victor ys Bradley Made Field Commander

REDS EXPANDING BUDAPEST RING   Three Fourths of Hungarian Capital Surrounded as Fight Rages

Soviet Forces Smashing Deep Into Lithuania   Clamp Strangle Hold On Nazi Baltic Front; Big Drive On Warsaw.

RUSSIANS SEIZE STRANGLE GRIP ON BALTIC LINE   Fate of Lwow Sealed by Red Forces; Massive Blow Struck in Poland

REDS CUT OFF BALTIC FRONT   Open Drive On Martyred Warsaw: Seal Fate Of Lwow

aw KUSSIG — Soviets Ring Lwow; Press For Warsaw   Nazis Believed Demolish. ing Lwow Before Start: ing New Retreat

Russians Seize Deadly, Strangleheld On Germans’ Baltic Front Deep In Lithuania   Hurl Massive Blow  Toward Warsaw   Fate of Hun Stronghold Of Lwow Sealed; Reds Ouly Five Miles Away

Reds Hurl Great Blow In Direction  ‘Of Warsaw   Russians Get Deadly Strangle Hold On Nazis’ Baltic Front; Fate OF Lwaw. Sealed

Believe Nazis In Retreat At City Of Lwoy   Red Army Seizes Deadly Strangle - Hold On Germans Baltie Front.   CAPTURE SKOPISHA!

Lwow’s Fate Sealed, Warsaw Periled As Red Army Drives -Or   Deadly Strangle-hold Gained in Fighting For Lithuania

Foes Try To Regain * e al Ae ies        Small Force Makes Futile Bid -Feé On Los Negros Island

Japs Effort to Regain Momote Base Thwarted   Americans Smash Back Foe; Wake ls. Target of Raiders

JAP ASSAULT IN ADMIRALTY ~ ISLES BEATEN   U. S. Forces Beat Off Enemy Attempt to Regain Airfield

Sharp Fighting for Vita Air Field Reported; Wake Bombed Again   American Losses Negligible in Taking Strategic Pacific Islands; Jap Navy Believed Hiding Out In Hope of Delivering Sudden Powerful Blow

War’s End To Signal Start Of Prosperity   Green Stipulates Management And Labor, Government Cooperation Necessarv

REPORT NAZIS WITHDRAW FROM FLORENCE AREA   Officers Enter  City To Aid ; Pe ok Se ei

The Curse Of Germany   The Curse Of German  A Former F ollower Of Hitler Tells Why He Deserted Party      Ex-Assistant Military Attache At Istanbul Denounces National Socialism As Country’s Worst Enemy

CONFIRMED NAZI REVEALS WHY HE CHANGED HEART   Erich Vermehren, F ormer German Military Attache At Istanbul, Now Volunteer With Allies, Tells His Story.

JAP SHIPS SUNK OFF CHINA COAST   25 Grounded Jap Planes Damaged by American Liberator Pilots.

JAP SHIPPING TAKES SEVERE HAMMERING   Three More Enemy Ships Sunk Off China’s East Coast By American and Chinese Flvers.

A Big Job For Solons   Dying 78th Congress Faces Tough Schedule In Next Two Months

Congress To Face Tough Underfakings   Before Christmas Must Dea With War Powers, Social Security, Other Problems

PLAN HARD SCHEDULE FOR 18TH CONGRESS   Will Convene For Last Session On Tuesday

Re RI SEEN NR  FLOOR MANAGERS OF RETIRING CONGRESS PLAN HARD SCHEDULE  DYING 78TH .CONGRESS CONVENES FOR FINAL SESSIONS TUESDAY

FLOOR MANAGERS OF  RETIRING CONGRESS  PLAN HARD SCHEDULE DYING 78TH CONGRESS  CONVENES FOR FINAL CECCINNG TITRCHAY

Congress Facing Stiff, Schedule Before Retiring  Many Matters Need Attention

Robot Attacks Tapering Off   Britain Has First AllClear Night; Some Looting Reported.

London Has Calm. Night   Decrease In ‘Number  Of ‘Robots -Is Noted

Robot Raids Tapering Off   Britain Has First All-Clear Night In A Month; De scend In France.

THIRD RAIO-FREE MGHT IN BRITAIN   Indications That Flying Bomb Attacks Are Tanerina Off.

Rabaul Siege By Air Begins   Tokyo Admits New Smash by 150 Planes; New Ireland Blasted

ae  RAF ROCKET SHELLS SINK NAZI SHIPPING   Eleven Ship Convoy Attacked Successfully

Uisorganized Jap Resistance Offered Allies  Invaders Close In From Two Sides On Three Airfields   ENEMY LACKS GUNS   Yank Bombers Shoot Down 14 Nips In One Raid

Lives First, Allied Policy About Rome   Bombers Avoid Cultural, Religious Property—Unless Used By Enemy Forces

Rome's Safety Up to Germans   Allies to Spare Parts of City Not Used by Nazis

Allies Spare Non-Military Area Of Rome   Stimson Declares Monuments Protected Unless Americans Endangered,   HIT RAIL YARDS, LINES

U.S. To Spare Part Of Rome Not Used By Nazi Army   But Secretary Stimson Says Safeguarding American Troops Is Of First Inpertance

Allies Will Spare Rome If Nazis  Keep Troops Out   Stimson Says American  Lives Will Be ' Saved at Any Cost

NAZIS IN ITALY HIT IRON WALL   Hurl 90th Panzer. Division in Futile Counter Blow Against British

Every Train Leaves Evansville Late, Hoosier City Feeds All Men In Uniform

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR. MRS. JAMES VAN DYNE   '42-’44 License Numbers Must Be On Coupons

BUTH CLD AND NEW NUMBERS WANTED   Motorists Urged to Make Endorsements to Avoid Delay.

3,900 Planes Lash Baltic Coast Plants. Atlantic Wall. Area   ‘Forts, Liberators Blast Aircraft Factory, Synthetic Oil Refinery; 63 German Fiehters Shot Down

Allied Planes Blast Targets ‘On Continent   , Airplane And Synthetic Oil Plants Bombed * in Another Furious Assualt Against Nazi's Tender Defense Nerve in Baltic Sea Area

BALTIC COAST OF GERMANY IS POUNDED      Vital Plane Plants,  Oil Refineries  Blasted

WEDGE DRIVEN TOWARD PARIS BY AMERICANS   WHOLE OF BRETON PENINSULA MAY BE CUT OFF

Fall of City Of Rennes Imminent   American Stab Toward Brest, Threaten to Slice Off Peninsula: British Also Advance

TANKS SPEAR AACE TO TAKE COAST TOWNS   Only Strong Nazi Resistance ; Develops in Area Ahout Rennes.

Yanks Peril City of Rennes In Brittany   Threaten To Slice Off All Breton Peninsula In Dazzling Advance.  PRITICH TAKE ETRY

Germans Reeling in Broken Retreat On Entire French Front as Yank Juggernaut Surges Forward

HAVE REACHED POINTS 20: MILES BELOW THE CITY-: “AND” 31 MILES FROM SOUTH COAST.

British Forces Engaged In Fierce Battle In Drive Te Take Town Of Odenfontaine

Only 31 Air Miles From The South Coast Of Brittany  NAZI SUBMARINE BASES THREATENED  190,000 Germans Killed, Wounded Or Captured Since D-Day

FIFTH ARMY MEN CLOSE PINGERS ON NAZIS IN CASSING   Allied Advance in Italy “Reaches Outskirts of fCarvara

PINCERS OF 5TH ARMY CLOSING IN ON CASSINO  YANKS THREATEN GERMAN DEFENSE

Fifth Army Closing Pincers Upon Nazi-Held City   Night Bombers Return To Sofia; Three German Ships Sunk

Fifth Army’s _Pincer Closes In on Cassino   Air, Sea, and Land Action Iiares on AIL Italian And Balkan Fronts

Yank-British Pincer 's Shuts Upen Cassiiid   U. S. Infantry: Threatens Mt, Roechio, Midway to Goal

Fifth Army In Pincer Campaign   YANKS CLOSING TRAL ON NAZIS IN ITALY

Fifth Closes Pincers Abou! Nazi Bastion   Germans Fighting Stubbornly to Hold City of Cassino

FIFTH ARMY ISCLOSING ON CASSINO   Italian And Balkan Fronts Ave Scene  Of Action

oth Applying Pincers To Take Cassino  Clark’s Army Closing In On German Bastion On Tkalian Front

Fifth Army  Near Cassino   One Arm of Pincers At Outskirts of Village of Cervaro

Fifth Army Reaches Cervaro Suburbs; Activity Flares All Over ltalian, Balkan Fronts   Fifth Army Columns Steadily Closing Pincers On Vitai Bastion Of Cassino

oth Army In Cervaro As  Push Gains   Wins Hill Overlooking Road To Cassino And Garigliano River In March Toward Rome

AIR, LAND AND SEA ASSAULTS STAGGER NAZIS   Yanks, British Are Menacing Cassino, Only 75 Miles From Rome

Fifth Closes Pincers in On Cassino   Night Bombers Batter Sofia— British Destroyers Sink 3 Schooners

Fifth Closing Pincers On Cassino   Sofia Pounded Again By Night Bombers; Other Points Hit

ALLIED PINCERS CLOSING ON NAZI HELD CASSINO   Air, Land. and Sea Acti. vity Flares All Over Italy And Balkan Area

ALLIED PINCER CLOSING IN ON CASSINO BASE   Nazi Bastion 70 Miles From Rome In Peril

One: ‘Arm. of: ‘American “Forte “In: taly:. ‘Reaches: _ Outskirts of. Cervaro:

American Pincers Closing on Nazi Bastion in Italy   Tentacles Reach Out Toward Cassino; Air, Land and Sea Action Flares in Wide Area

CLOSING IN ON BASTION   American Troops Advancing Up Road to Rome Threaten Mt. Rocchio.   3 MILES FROM CASSINO

FIFTH ARMY PINCERS  CLOSED IN ON NAZI  BASTION OF CASSINO AIR, LAND AND SEA AC.  TIVITY FLARED ALL OVE ITALIAN, BALKAN FRONT:

Fifth Pincers Closing In On Key Cassino   German Bastion On Road To Rome Totters; Sofia Pounded Again.

Fifth Army Pincers Are Being Used   Point At Cassinc Being Squeezed  By. Americans

FIFTH ARMY AT CASSINO GATES; RAID SOFIA AGAIN   Nazi Bastion 70 Miles From Rome, British Complete Capture of Hill

STH ARMY HITS NEAR CASSINO   Allies. Drive “Close: to Town: Bombers Hammer Sofia in Bulgaria.

FIFTH ARMY IS SEVENTY MILES FROM ROME NOW   American Army Advances To New Heicht

One Arm Reaches Out: skirts Cervaro, 4 Miles tu Southeast — Uther borces 3 and 5 Mules Away — Lerman Le-Jense Kemaws SwoNg.

Drive Within Three Miles  of Nazi Stronghold in Italy That Guards Approaches to Rome.

Destroyers Pound German Supply Routes In Italy; Planes Are Active

Air, Land And Sea Acivity Flares In Area   American Infantry Gets Foothold on Mountain Defense of Town

ALLIED STH ARMY PINGERS GLOSED IN ON CASSINO TODAY   One Arm Reached Cervaro, a Fortified Village*“our Miles Southea®t.   ACTION OVER THE FRONT   Night Bombers Returned to Sofia to Pound the Bulgarian Capital.

FFTHIGCLOBING ‘PASSING PINE   German Bastion, 70 Miles -:From Rome, Goal Of American Drive   “FIGHTING FLARES   Night Bombers Batter Sofia Following - Daylight Attack

U. S. FORCES "GRIP CASSINO WITH PINCERS    Nighi Bombers Follow Up With  New Raid on Sofia, Other Planes Blas! Skoplje   NAZI SHIPS SUNK   British Destroyers Attack Blockade Runners, Bombard Ancona Rail Yards, Trains

US. 5th Army Pinches Nazis   Yanks Close In on Cassino; Planes Raid Balkan Enemy Area

INDICT CHAPLIN FOR MANN ACT   If Convicted, Comedian Faces 23 Years in Pen and Fine of $25,000

_ANDIGTS ACTOR   CHAPLIN: NAMED IN ‘FOUR. INDICTMENTS As: .OUT-" ) GRO OF JOAN’ BARRY CHARGES

“APLIN FACES FOUR FEDERAL INDICTMENTS   “White Slave” Violation Among Charges Against Comedian

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BELGIAN MOBS HELD IN CHECK   15,000 in Brussels Demand Premier Quit, Display Red Banners

MARCHERS PROTEST - ORDERS OF GOV'T   Resignation of Belgian Cabinet: Demanded — by Crowds 

15,000 Brussels Marchers Stage Demonstration   Demand Resignation Of Premier Pierlot

All B-29s Return From Dual Attack   Opposition Reported Virtually Non-Existent

German Fails To Identify Defendants   (Additional story of trial on back page.) e

Robot Looked Like Fire Ball   Nurse Describes Pilotless Plane That Hits And Wrecks Home.

Hollywood-Gl Feud Comes to an End When USO Troupe Stages Hit in China

For 1942 It Was Alse Near Bottom In Regard To Per Capita Spending.

Airborne Troops Prevented Germans Fram Throwing Strong Forces Against Beachhead

SURVEY TO SHOW WHERE CHILDREN CAN AID PARENTS   Bureau County Department Of Public Welfare To Shift Part Of Support Load To Members Of Families.

Air Raiders Give Nazis No Chance For Any Recovery   Record Air Smashes Are Continuing To Devastate Nazi Military Installations   GERMANS IN WEAK RAID UPON LONDON   Deadiv Attacks Yesterday

FEDERAL BUREAU FOR AVIATION   Office To Coordinate Ac. tivities Is Quietly Be“ing Fostered

CIANO TRIAL INTIMIDATION MOVE. BELIEF   Considered a Warning by Nazis to Those Who May Consider Coups ‘Against Hitler and His Puppet Dictators.

CIANO EXECUTION SEEN WARNING 10 HITLER PUPPETS   Nazis Seek to Instill Fear in  Satellites Planning Caune

Seventy-five Dickinson County People To Be _ X-Rayed at Hospital

Company— (Continued on page 6)   ALLIES DRIVE AHEAD ON TWO FRONTS TODAY   Germans Putting Up Stiff Fight Along Italian Lines,

REDS MAINTAIN FAST TEMP OF OFFENSIVE   Smash Counter-Attacks of Reinforced Nazi Divisions

HUGE POST-WA HARBORS WORK PROGRAM TOLD   ‘St. Joe Turning Basin Is Part of 21/-Million Program

STEVENSON STILL REFUSES COMMENT MATTER ELECTORS   HOPES SEPTEMBER CONVENTION TO BE HELPFUL AND HARMONIOUS

REPUBLICANS WIN MOST OF STATE SEATS   Barrett, Douglas And Lucas Take  Democrat Jobs

EDW. J. BARRETT WINS SECRETARY OF STATE OFFICE   EARL MERRITT OF SALEM TRAILS IN TREASURER RACE

Set. Barrett Only Democrat te Crash  GOP State Office:   Nearly Complete Returns Show Republicans All Other Positions

Massive Soviel Army Enters East Prussia   Reds Smash Several Miles Into German Fortress

EAST PRUSSIA IS INVADED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Red Veterans, Supported By Planes And Tanks, On Gerntan Soil   BORDER TOWN FALLS INTO RUSSIAN HANDS

German Border Town Falls To Soviet Troops   Russians Invade Germany First Time In 30  : Years

MASSIVE RED ARMY DRIVES INTO PRUSSIA   Berlin. Officially Announces Large Scale Invasion

Soviet Army Drives Into tast Prussia   Gerlin Says Offense Still Gains Ground

NAZIS RUSK RESERVES. 10 BATTLE FRONT   Soviet Columns Supported by Waves of Tanks and Planes — Include Veterans of Stalingrad.   FRONTIER TOWN FALLS TO SOVIETS   Berlin Broadcast Says Forces of Stalin Possess “an Unheard-of Numerical Superiority.”

BORDER TOWN CAPTURED IN EAST PRUSSIA   OFFENSIVE BACKED BY 500 TANKS ROLLS AHEAD

EAST PRUSSIA IS INVADED BY RUSSIANS   First Time in 30 Years: Backed by 500 Tanks, Hundreds of Guns Lay Down Barrage.   Big Breakthrough

REICH BORDER TOWN IS TAKEN BY RED TROOPS   500 Tanks and Hundreds of Big Guns Used in Drive

Huge Red Army Smashe:  Into Prewar Germany   Drives Several Miles Into East Prussia; Seizes Border Town in Surge Toward Capital on Baltic Coast

Reds Smash Several Miles Into Reich, Capture Town   Using 500 Tanks In First Invasion Of Pre-War Germany  Berlin. Announces

Tanks and Guns Baffer Germans On Home Soil   Berlin Reports Serious Losses

Berlin Says Reds Invade Prewar Reich   Tanks, Planes, Hundreds Big Guns Back Soviet Drive

Red Army Open: Fast Prussian Invasion Drive   Smashes Several Miles Into Reich, Takes Border Town

WPB’S TOP LEVEL BLOWS UP AS WILSON RESIGNS   poe ey i ls aE laa ‘Charles E. Wilson, Executive  Viee Chairman Charges Unfair Attacks: and Criticism By Nelson's Aides in Letter tn FDR

Wilson Quits As WPB Chief   Vice-Chairman Charges Unfair Tactics to Aides of Nelson

Wilson Resigns In WPB Blowur   Vice- Chairman Quits Over Reconversion

SAYS ATTACKS WERE INSPIRED BY UNDERLINGS   Differences Bet ween Heads of Agency Long-Standing

RESIGNATION OF CHARLES E. WILSON FROM WPB TODAY   His Unexpected Resignation Shook Top Structure of the Organization.   RESIGNATION ACCEPTED   The Executive Vice-President Charged Unfair Attacks Against Him.

WILSON RESIGNS JOB WITH WPB   VICE-CHAIRMAN CHARGES UNFAIR ATTACKS MADE

Korovograd Encircled; Push Toward Rumania  Border And Into Poland

Race Across Polish Plains Is Unimpeded      Russ Troops Streaming Through 60-Mile Gap in Axis. Lines   CIRCLE KIROVOGRAD   German Forces Are Facing Greatest Disaster Since Stalingrad

SINGING SOVIET TROOPS MARCH ON, UNIMPEDED   Russian Units Break Into Key Stronghold Of Dnieper Bend

City Hall Auditorium Dance Nights Being Planned — For Boys And Girls 13 To 20 Only Under Proper Supervision   AFTERNOON DANCING HOURS FOR COMMUTERS

Angaur Island Being Overrun By Americans: Tn New Drive’   Yanks: Destroying Airfield In China

: By Yanks Pro cee le   Allies Suffering Reverses in China, However, Where Major Air Base Destroyed as Japs Close in—But Nips Admit Americans Dominate Both Flanks of Stolen Empire

VETERANS MARINES REPORTED MAKING SPLENDID PROGRESS  _ AMERICANS TAKING OVE! - INVANER ISLANDS CLOSER

TOUGHEST BATTLE OF RECENT PHILIPPINE AREA UNDER WAY: CHINESE REVERSES SERIGUS —   SHOCKING REPORTS OF BULGARIAN CRUELTY TO CAPTURED AMERICAN AIRMEN TOLD AT ROME. TODAY

MARINES GAIN IN PALAU PUSh   Allies Continue to Meet Reverses in China

MARINES MAKE PROGRESS WITH PELFLI DRIVE   Yanks Destroy Own Air Base as Japs Advance in China

MARINES MAKE PROGRESS ON PELELIU ISLE  Cleaning Japs   Cleaning Japs Out Will Be Slow Work

Yanks Wage Tough Battle For Peleliu   Marines Are Reported Making Completely Satisfactory Progress Against Japs; Lungling Retaken

MARINES MAKE GOOD PROGRESS   Peleliu Battle Is Toughest Of Three Recent Island Invasions.   TROOPS LAND ON ANGAUR

MARINES PUSH OCCUPATION OF PELELIW BASE   Army ands On Angaur; Causes Of Chinese Reverses Are Told

MARINES PUSH AHEAD ON TWO PACIFIC ISLES      Battle On Peleliu, Overrun Angaur; Planes Use Morotai

VETERANS MARINES REPORTED MAKING SPLENDID PROGRESS   AMERICANS TAKING OVER INVADED ISLANDS CLOSER TO PHILIPPINES

‘Satisfactory’ Gain: Made in Yanks Palau Invasion   Another U. S. Air Base in China Is Lost to Jap Drive

Capture of Airstrip Believed Near; Chinese Suffer  Severe Reverses   AMERICANS FORCED TO GIVE UP AIR FIELDS

Americans in China Destroy Own Airfields   Nipponese Offensive Is Rolling toward City of Kweilin

Yanks Make Progress On Peleliu Islanc   Marines in Toughest Battle of 3 Invasions; Latest Is Anguar  

Yanks Advance On Pelelin In Tough Fight   _ Angaur Isle Invaded By U. S.; Morotai Airfield Put in Use

PELELIU ACTION TOUGHEST SINCE ISLAND INVASION   Wildcat Division, Invading Sunday Overruns Angaur, Another in Palau Group

Marines Extend Gains In highting On Peleliu      Army's 81st Division Joins Battle Six Miles To South; Planes Begin Using Airstrip: U. S. Destrovs Base In China; Mismanagement Blamed For China Losses

Progress Satisfactory In Peleliu Isle Battle. See Confusion In China

S. Troops ghten Grip ni Jap Isles   Seachheads dn Angaur lypanded

American Units Forced To Quit China Airbase:   Chungking Blamed For Jap Successes; Palau Fighting Heavy

WAR_ TODAY   hoe Temper ToFinns Increases  With Time; Stilwell  Approves Nimitz  Strategy. )

The War Today   & DEWITT MACKENZIF  Shes, inated BPeraae Qh ac Aca ot

“RUSSIAN REPORTS OF HAVING NO TERRITORIAL DESIGNS ON IEINT AND RACK TEHERAN TALKS

75-Year-Old Field Marshall Baron Mannerheim Seen _ As Possible Impediment to Russo-Finnish Peace. Vital China-Based Air Operations and Naval Battle  . With Japs Depends on/ Supplies

Answers To Queries on Automobiles Still Depend on Many Intangibles

Can Deliver New  Cars in 4 Months   After the War Automobiles Will Sell About 25 Pex Cent Higher.

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Russians and Romanians Cut Nazi Lines   Aim Massive Drive at Knocking Hungary From War

RUSSIANS GAIN IN 3-WAY DRIVE AGAINST HUNGARY   Rip Holes in Axis Lines on Czech-Polish Border—Demonstrations Reported in Budapest.   NAZIS ADMIT RETREATS IN TRANSYLVANIA   Moscow Says Estonia Has Been Freed and That 30,000 Germans Were Killed in Campaign.   RILLETIN.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN MAY TAKE STAND   TRIAL OF MOVIE COMEDIAN WILL BE RESUMED TOMORROW

Chaplin May Take Stand During Week   Denies Charge Of Joan Berry

CHAPLIN TRIAL WILL RESUME   Comedian May Take Stand In Own Behalf Sometime This Week

CHAPLIN WAITS CALL TO STAND DURING WEEK   Counsel Expected to Ask Dismissal of Joan’s Charges

Premier of lran Draws Anger Of Soviet Agency   Accused of Blocking Oil Concessions In ‘Unfriendly’ Move

Cotton Crop Of 11,022,000 Bales Is 1944 Forecast   IN FIRST CONDITION REPORT OF SEAS ON DEPARTMENT SEES SMALLER CROP. ACREAGE BELOW LAST YEAR

Failure to Make Quick Drive on Rome Put Allies on Defense   Decision to Follow Cautious Role at Anzic Lost Offensive for U. S. and British; Beachhead Not to Be Lost Due to Airpower

Offensive at Beachhead Below Rome Turns Into Unsuccessful Defensive

Manila Airfields Hit Again   Jap Undersea Craft Said Striking; B-29s Join in Bombings

FORT CUSTER NOW SUBPOST   Once Mighty Army Base Made Adjunct To Hospital

Morse Hoorneman Given Leave To Serve In Army  ee  Cann owen Cla.   George Sturges To Be County Attorney During His Absence

Morse Hoorneman Given Leave To Serve In Army  George Sturges To B.   George Sturges To Be County Attorney During His Absence

AMERICANS JUIN FRENCH TAOUPS IN BESIEGED GIT   Tighten Encirclement of German Armies In Seine River Sector   ALLIES BOMB TROOPS FLEEING EAST

Russ Army Rips Hole in Line on Dnieper Bend   Northern Forces Hammer Remnants Of First 100,000 Germans Caught In Smela Pocket: Gain in Estonia

Soviets Rip 37 Miles Into Nazi Defenses   12,000 Axis Troops Die in New Ukraine Offensive

Germans Are Reeling Back ~ . Under Assault Of Russians   Russians Claim 12,000 Axis Troops Killed in Four _Days—Rail E Escape. of. 100,000 Germans . "Cut by Soviet Armies :

REDS 30 MILES WEST OF ROVNO IN OLD POLAND   Muscovites Have Potential Bag of 175,000 Nazi Soldiers

Russians Bag 175,000 Men Within Week   Moscow Announces New Offensive Action At Nikopol

Liberation of South Russia Foreshadowed   Soviet Army Drives Across River Narova in Northern Advance

75,000 More Men Virtually Doomed         This In Addition to The 100,000 Nazis Caught In Smela Pocket   SOUTHERN RUSSIA SOON FREE OF HUNS

LS, RESENTS FIRES REFUSAL TO EXPEL NAZIS   De Valera Appeals To Roosevelt:'To Spare Holy Cily

RAF BY NIGHT, YANKS BY DAY WORRY GERMANY   Airmen Notice Slow But Ap preciabte Decline In Oefenders’ Planes-

Britain Has Respite From Robot Bomb:      Reds Find New  Secret Weapon

500 Allied Planes Blast Bucharest ©   Communications, Rail  Centers Heavily Bombed

U.S. Bombers Blast Cities In Romania   Bucharest and  Ploesti Attacked; Nazi Fighters in Action

Ploesti Aliso Attacked by Americans   Lightning Advance Enter: Final Phase—Nazi Vessels Are Sunk

BUCHAREST BLASTED BY U.S. FLIERS   Over 500 Bombers Attack Oil Fields Of Rumania

Hungarians Marching on Budapest   Drive to Liberate City After Nation’s Army Deserts Nazis

DRIVE TO FREE CAPITAL FROM NAZIS MADE   Germans Send 5 Divisions From Reich to Stoo Soviets

PETRILLO ASSAILED BEFORE CONGRESS   Head Of Musicians’ Union Stopped Radio Broadcasts By Hizsh  Srhantl <iedente

Sour Note Sounded:  Petrillo's Ban on Broadcasting Of School Music Angers Congress

11,042 GERMAN PLANES DESTROYED IN YEAR   Only 2,805 American Planes Lost ir Same Period.

NAZIS DENOUNCE LEAFLET ON WAR   German Chiefs In Rage Af. ter Distribution From Air Gives True Facts.

YANKS SEIZE AIRDROME ON BIAK ISLAND   Repuleed Earlier in Frontal Stab, Amer feans Attack Japa ~-nese From, Rear. —

Airdrome On Biak Island Captured By Allied Forces   Base Is Within 880 Miles of the Philippines and Is Within Good Fighter Range of Palau, Caroline Naval Base

Allies Capture Jap Airdrome On Biak Island   Now within Range Of Philippines

Allies Seize Airdrome on  Biak Island   Field Gives U. S. Base Within Bombing Range Of Philippine Islands

Allies Capture Biak Airdrome   M’Arthur Strikes From Behind Enemy Posi: tions On Biak; Provides Base Within Bombing Range Of Philippines

MacArthur Force Takes Airfield   Puts U.S. Planes Within 880 Miles of Philippines

BIAK AIRFIELD IS CAPTURED BY FULL ASSAULT   Airdrome Now Puts Americans Within 880 Miles OL Philinninec   CASUALTIES LIGHT, COMMUNIQUE SAYS

Truman Calls Dewey a Faker   Roosevelt Works on Speech for Tonight

Plane Cutback Order Probed   Brewster Contract Cancellation Prompts Truman Committee Investigation of Army-Navy Production; Flight Cost Told

TRUMAN GROUP 10 PROBE ARMY, NAVY CUTBACK PROGRAW   Inquiry Prompted By} * Brewster Contract Cancellation

Navy Cancellation Of Planes Brings Truman Inquiry   Abrupt Order Prompts Questioning Of Army, Navy

START INQUIRY INTO ARMY, NAVY CUTBACK PLANS   Cartcellation Of Corsair Fighter Plans Is Cause Of Probe

EXPECT ACTION NEXT WEEK ON PROPERTY BILL      Several Amendments Awaitin? Action, Work On Bill Bogs Down

Flying Forts Hit Airfields Between  Paris - Normandy   Blockbusters Hurled On Foe’s Oil Plants, Rail Centers

Fair Weather Sends Planes Over Europe   Gil, Plants, Rail Lines and  Troons Assailed

UJ. $. PLANES BOMB ENEMY   American Flying Fortresses Attack Airficld in France — Clearing Weather Permits Increased Allied Aerial Assaults,

SUPER -BOMBS DUMPED UPON AXIS TARGETS   Clearing Weather Permits Increased Use of Allied Air Power on Nazis.

t  Resume Big Air Attacks On Europe   Clearing Weather Brings Renewal of Raids — Munich Bombed

FORTS HIT THREE NAZI AIRFIELDS   TARGETS BETWEEN PARIS, NORMANDY BLASTED

Heavy Bombers Blast Oil Center   Hit Synthetic Plant In Daylight Raids

SAIPAN HARBOR PONTS FALL 10. ~ AMERICAN UNITS   Seizure of Peak ‘ Overlook: ing Tanapag Came.as. Jap ‘ Were Reeling, Under: At. ” tacks:of Planes.         ANOTHER JAP CARRI ie ~1§ REPORTED.’ DAMAGEL   Russian Troops Battle: Thru Streets of Vitebsk, Wine Out of Thousands of Nazi . Defenders. =

AMERICANS HOLD POSITIONS   Japoneso Counter-Attachs Being Fought O@ — U. 8S. Troops Guin One of Prize Targets on Saipan,

AMERICANS TAKE SAIPAN MOUNTAIN   Confident All of Marianas Will Be Seized

YANKS SEIZE MOUNTIAN ON SAIPAN   Peak Towers Over Tanapag Harbor

SUCCESS OF CAMPAIGN IS NOW ASSUDED   Entire Marianas To Be Captured, Officers State

PRIZE PEAK ON SAIPAN SEIZED BY AMERICANS   Early Conquest Seen of Entire Marianas Isle Group

FILIPINOS FEEL EXTREMITY OF JAP CRUELTIES   President Quezon. Horrified by Atrocities; Says People Will Never Forget.

TWELVE FILIPINO OFFICERS FORCED TO DIG THEIR OWN GRAVES IN WHICH THEY WERE BURIED ALIVE—OTHER CRUELTIE'

Paris Factor Yo Rome Targets Of Allied Bombs   Paris Radio off Again As RAF Night Bombers Apparently Renew Raids

NIGHT BOMBERS OVER NAZILANL   Swedish Travelers Say Berlin Is Smoking Mass Of Ruins

RAF Believed Out Over Conitnent   U.S. Crews Rest But Berlin Quakes  Reap CAT BATSUULIRT ETTT TT.

RAF Believed Oui Over Conitnent   U.S. Crews Rest But Berlin Quakes

New RAF Raid Over Kurope  Is Indicated  Fires Still Burning in Berlin After Bio American Attackc

NEW R. A. F. NIGHT “ATTACK INDIGATED   PARIS RADIO OFF AIR—ALERT SOUNDED IN BERLIN BUT NO BOMBS FALL.

FEDERAL GIFTS ARE EXPENSIVE TO STATE   Head Of Expenditure Council Says Maryland Taxpayers Pay 71 Cents  Premium On Each Dollar

French Seaport Nearly Freed of Nazi Defenders   British Advance In Caen Section

Germans Staging “Death Struggles’   General Montgomery Starts Barrage Near Caen Before Infantry Makes New Advances

WINCHELL TO: CHARGE LIBEL   RADIO GOMMENTATOR TO SUE  REP, HOFFMAN’ FOR MIL- .-. LION AS RESULT OF : LETTER

NAZIS ‘PLANT’ ALLEGED PLAN OF DEFENSE AGAINST ATTACK   DETAILS OF ALLEGED TRIPLE . PHASE BATTLE STRATEGY ARE PERMITTED TO “LEAK” IN - SWEDEN

ASK SENATE HEARING IN STATLER CASE   Perjury Trials for Members of Teamsters Union May Result

1,200,000 Men Needed by July, Hershey Asserts   General Reveals New Draft Plans

ARMED FORCES NEED 1,200,000   Hershey Reveals Heavy Call Between Now And July 1

CIVIL SERVICE—  STATE ENPLOYES ASSAIL BRIGKER   Charge’ Governor Broke Promise To Call Pay Increase Session:

“Double-Cross «Charge Hurled At Gov. Bricker   Ohio Civil Service Workers Say Wage Hike Promise Broken

U.S. Will Withdraw Burma Troops When Road Opens  Southeast Asia Said To Be British Sphere of Fighting

Yankee Troops May Leave Indie  Withdrawal Expected as Burma Road Opens

Nazis Attack Savagely On Main Battle Line: Americans Pushed Back

Allied Forces Expand Beach-heads on Plains Now 31 Mile from Rome   No Effective Counter Action Against Our Beach-heads.  NAZIS ATTACKING IN SOUTH ITALY  Allied Bombing Fleets Are Raging Behind The Lines.

Nazis Are. Hitting Hard On Wide Front   Americans Forced To Give Up Bridgehead In Liri Valley Sector

Germans Trying Io Cover Possible Withdrawal of Forces North To Defend Rome. No Enemy Action On Plains To Italian Capital.

Two Teachers Resign And One More Is Elected  M. O. Cowan Of Manual Arts School  - Offers Resignation

RESIGNATIONS IN SCHOOL FACULT   Nevertheless; Turnover I - Lowest In Several Years

Churchill Says War May Last Into Summer   Asserts It May Take 18 Months After Nazi Defeat Ta Beat Japs.

Prime Minister Warns War In Europe May Last Until Spring Or The Early Summer

CHURCHILL STATES INDICATIONS POINT TO LONGER FIGHTING  DEFEAT OF GERMANY MAY NOT COME UNTIL SUMMER, JAPAN 18 MONTHS AFTER

Churchill Asks For Extension Of Parliament’s Term: Cites Danaers

Then May Take  At Least 18 Months To Whip Japan   Urges Extension Of Britain’s Parliament For Another Year

Churchill Says   European War May Last Into Summer   far. May "Require 2 More Years.

British Chief Admits War's End Not Near   Charchill Believes Spring or Summer Needed for Conuuest

MacArthur And Nimitz Plot Drive   Pacifie Being Readied For New Offensives By  Americans

PREPARING FOR ATTACK AGAINST JAP HELD ISLES   Air Forces Busy Softening:Up Many Bases

LITTLE ACTION IS REPORTED IN PACIFIC AREA   Japs Await New Blows at Island Fortresses

Quiet Reigns Over Pacific War Front      More Air Blows Against Japan

JAPAN'S ISLAND SCREEN BOMBED AT BOTH ENDS   Fliers Strike From Kuriles to Halmahera; Other Forces Quiet

Jap Bases Hit By U.S. Airmen On Wide Front   Barrier Islands Pounded As Prelude to Jump-O£f By Ground Forces In ~ ’ Pacifie Sectors

NEW ASSAULTS AGAINST JAPS BEING SET UP   Island Defense Chain Hit At Both Ends by Yank Bombers as ‘Softener’

CRUMPLE LAST DEFENSE LINE INTO RUMANIA   Rush Over Border Opens Broad Plains  Refnre Hifjlor Carman

Russian Units Surge Across Pre-War Border On 50Mile Line; Flying Forts Bombard Turin Area

German Generals Not Able to Rally Troops for Stand   Tremendous Quautities of Arms Captured by Advancing Russians:  6.000 Nazis Are Reported Slain

Penetration Of Former Polish Soil By Russians Indicated, Last Enemy Defense West Of Kiev Is Wiped Out   (HALF OF GERMANY’S CAPITAL IN RUBBLE

FOR PUBLIC WORKS   Federal Ageney Announces: Allotments for 277_Projects

Ragged Nazis Take Jolt in South France   Tattered Remnants Fight Frantically To Effect an Escape

HALF OF HUNS IN LOWER FRANCE OUT OF ACTION   Yanks Reach Rhone Valley ir 200-Mile Advance in Two Days

Tattered Huns Facing Trap In Rhone Valley   Americans Beyond Montel. imar After March Of 200 Miles In Two TDave   50,000 Foes Are Put Out of Fight   More Than Half of Enenry Foree In South France Killed, Wounded Or Captured

Yank Troops Reach Rhone   Cut Off Line of Retreat of 11th Nazi Armored Division

Americans Cut German Line in Rhone Valley   More Than Half of Germans in Southern France on D-Day Have Been Liauidated

More Than Half of German Soldiers Believed Casualties.   RHONE VALLEY: REACHED

Halt Of Nazis  Knocked Out By Patch’s Army   American Drive 200 Miles In 2 Days To Reach Rhone Valley, Press Trag

[Destroy Half of 'Nazi Forces in South France   Allies Have Wiped Out 50,000 Enemy Troops; Retreat of Remnants Cut OFF

Tatfered Nazi Remnants Battle In Rhone Valley   Enemy Making. Fierce ‘Effort: to Cut.Way ‘Through to Valence

Nazis Are Cut Off in the South   At Least 50,000 Already Knocked Out; Americans Reach Rhone Valley   Frantic Battle Is Being Waged,But Enemy Chances Are Fast Diminishing

NAZIS’ SOUTH FRANCE LOSS 50,000 MEN   Casualties Represent More Than Half the Enemy Forces Garrisoning Sector—Allies Astride Escape Route.

Southern France Score Is 50,900   Half of Garrison Believed Casualties

Troops Hit Rhone Valley 100 Miles Above Marseille   Over Half Of All Nazis In Southern France Before Allied Invasion Said Eliminated As Fighting Force; Germans In Escape Attempt

‘Vise On Germans  In South   Tattered Remnants of Enemy Garrison. There  Attempting to Escape;  50.000 Are Casualties

50,000 Nazis Knocked Out In S. France   Patch Strikes Retreating Foe on Rhone Near Montelimar

Over Half of Nazi Force In South France Believed To Have Been Eliminated   U.S. Troops Reach Rhone Valley After 2-Day March of 200 Miles

50,000 OF NAZIS ERASED IN SOUTH   Others Try To Flee Trap As Yanks Hit Rhone Valley

Yanks Sever Rhone Hatch  For Germans   ‘March 200 Miles in Two ~ Days; 50,000 Nazis Are  Knocked Out  '

NAZIS BATTLE TO FLEE FROM SOUTH FRANCE   Report Half of Force Knocked Out Since  Allied Invasion

March 200 Miles In Two Days; Nazis Fight Desperately To Escape Trap

HALF OF ARM\ OF RIVIERA WIPED OUT   Remnants Fight To Escape Rhone Valley Trap   WHEREABOUTS   Of American Force Remains Secret; Aerial Support Of Allies Good

Armored Division Of Nazis Cut Off By Americans   U. S. Forces Reach North Of Montelimar 50,000 Of Enemy Knocked Out Of War

More Than Half Of Germans In Southern France Wiped Out   RETREAT LINE CUT   Americans Advance 200 Miles In 2 Days; Nazis In Headilong Flight

Tattered Nazis Fight Frantically In Rhone Valley   Enemy Attempts To Withdraw Northward Along East Bank

Nazi Trying © To Flee North; Toulon Taken   Rapid American Advances Northward Into Rhone Valley Doom Germans; 50,000 Nazis ‘Knocked Out’

Lose Half of Men in Southern France, Battered Remnants Being Cut Off

90,000 Nazis Fall Southern France Drive   Tattered German Troops Fight Frantic Battle In Rhone Valley.   Pax 10 ESCAPE TRAP

Germans  Seek. To Escape Trap fn  . - Rhone Valley   YANKS . ADVANCE  March 200 Miles In  ' Two Days In South-

YANKS CUT OFF ENEMY DIVISION IN RHONE VALLEY  ECTIMATE BO NNN   ESTIMATE 50,000 GERMANS KNOCKED OUT IN S. FRANCE

Half Of German Force In South France K. 0.'d   Remnants Fight Frantic Battle To Escape Rhone Valley Trap.

FLEEING NAZIS   Half of German Army In Southern France Is Eliminated

TRAP CLOSING UPON GERMAN 11TH DIVISION   YJ. S. Forces Reach Rhone North of Montelimar Afte~  March of 200 Miles In Two Days   RETREAT LINE IS CUT

Germans Cut Off, Battle to Escape   Tattered Remnants Fight Desperately in Rhone  Valley   TRYING TO CUT THRU   Half of Occupation Forces _ in Southwest France  Wiped Out

Battered Remaining Halt Of Nazi Forces In South France Trying To Escape

Germans Hard Hit In South of France   : More Than Half of Total Enemy Forces , Guarding That Section Prior to Al"lied Landings Believed Lost During Past Two Weeks.   RETREAT IS CUT OFF

200-Mile March in Two Days by Yanks Blocks Nazi Route   Over Half of Germans in  Southern France Are Knocked Out

ENEMY TOLL SOUTH FRANCE RUNNING HIGH   Casualties Over 50 Per. cent; Americans Reach Rhone Valley

Battle Fought To Escape Trap Threat   Americans In Rhone Valley After March Of 200 Miles

Yankee Troops Reach Rhone, Press Forward   Half Of Germans In South France Only 2 Weeks Ago Now Dead Wounded, Captured

WLB MAY REVIEW NORTHWEST STRIKE   End May Come Soon to Par. alyzing Three-Day Wa Plant Strike.

HIGHWAY PATROL INTO OZARKS LAKE MURDER CASES   Maimed Bodies of Two Women Only Clues to Double Slaying.

300,000 Germans Facing Extermination in Baltic   Russian Drives Threaten to Outflank Both Warsaw and East Prussia While Whole Baltic Front Seethes

Two Russ Armies Move on Masurian, Lake Countrv  SEVERE PRESSURE Nazis Begin Feverish Shifting to Meet New Threat

GERMANS’ ENTIRE LEFT FLANK ENDANGERED BY ADVANCES IN MASURIAN LAKE TERRITORY   Germans Caught Off-Guard by Latest Russian Maneuver and Nazis Now Shifting Armor to Meet New Danger to Frontiers

Two Soviet Armies May Outflank Defenders   Germans Shifting Men To Meet New Prussia Threat; Reds Advance On 100-Mile Front

Russian Moves Endanger Nazi Prussia Flank   Soviets Advance Upon Ma: snriun Lake Country and Northward From Northeast Warsaw   Sinash By Reds One Of Best Maneuvers   Massed German Reserves In Prussia-Lithuania Begin Frantic Shifting To Meet Danger

Russians Push Forward On 100 Mile Front   Germans Feverishly Shift To Meet New Left Flank Danger

Entire Nazi Left Flank In Danger   New Red Thrust In-Lake Country Brings Threat of German Disaster

Reds Advance Upon Masuriar Lake Country   Germans Shift Troops Feverishly To Meet New Threat To East Prussia   Rivers Scene of Battles.

Russians Strike Through Estonia; Trap 300,000 Nazis   Germans’ Entire Left Flank on Front in Russia in Danger

SOVIET ARMIES SWEEP TOWARD EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Feverishly Shift Reserves To Meet New Oanger

Soviets Endanger Flank of Germans   Two Russian Armies Capture Settlements on a  100-Mile Front.   Two Swift Flowing Rivers Are Scenes of Stiff  ttles

Red Armies Advance On Lake Sector   Germans’ Entire Left  Flank Is Endangered In Beet Dersease

Advance Of Reds Threafens Leff Flank Of Nazis   2 Soviet Armies Sweep Ahead In E. Prussia On 100 Mile Front

TWO ARMIES DRIVE UPON EAST PRUSSIA   Advance-on 100-Mile Front Upon Masurian Lake Region Considered  One of Best Red Campaigens of War. -

Red Armies Gain on 100 Mile Front   Advance Upon Lake Masurian Country Seriously Endangers Entire German Left Flank in East Prussia

Maneuver in East Prussia Seriously Endangers Enemy Left Flank.   NAZIS BEGIN SHIFTING

Entire German Left Flank in Grave Danger   Soviet Armies Advance Upon Masurian Lake Country, East Prussia

Soviets Open Drive to Trap 300,000 Nazis   Enemy Pocketed in Estonia and Latvia; . Warsaw Maneuver Starts

Reds Threaten Left Flank Of German Armies  Maneuver Is Viewed As One Of Best So Far In War; Soviets

ENDANGERS NAZI FLANK   Germans Shifting Feverishly. To Meet Soviet. Maneuver.

RUSSIAN FRONT   Two Red Armies Converge On Nazis In East Prussia

NAZIS’ ENTIRE LEFT FLANK IS NOW IN DANGER   Germans Retreat From Freshened Soviet Troops

SOVIETS PERIL NAZI DEFENSES   Crash Through Masurian Lake Area To Threat en Prussian Flank

Reds Score In Cralty Maneuver   Drive Is Opened Through Estonia After Nazis Mass: Forces in Lithuania   GERMANS TRYING TO SHIFT TROOPS   Nazis’ Entire Left Flank In Danger; Russians Apply Severe Pressure

New Danger To Germans   Red Advance Toward Prussia Endangers Nazi Left Flank

Reds Capture 250 Villages  In Fast Surge   Two Russian Armies Move on 150-Mile Front as  Nazi Counterblows Fail.   Soviet Units Are  Surrounding Huns

Red Army Sweeps Over Vast  New Territory   Germans’ Entire Left Flank Is Imperiled By Latest Thrust in Mansurian Lake Country of East Prussia; Nazis Shift Line

Storm [hrough Town and Hit Siegfried Line  Defense Points   Third Army Tanks Gain 8 _ Milesjn 2 Hours on Moselle Front   nmreeirTiIw

DA CHARGES SLAYING WITH GANDLESTICK   State Opens Case in Lonergan Trial

Stone Wall Defense Is Maintained   Six Massive Enemy Thrusts Turned Back by British,  Americans

CASINO SECTOR   Six Nazi Smashes Against Bridgehead Line Are Thrown Back

ALLIES STOP SIX ATTACKS BELOW ROME   American Troops . Increase Pressure On Cassino Front

BOMB COLUMNS OF NAZI FORCES   Every Sector of Narrow Allied Holdings Ripped by Gerinans’ Shells  On Baonrkhhond.

Nazi Attacks Break Against Stone Wall   Allies Battle to Death t Hold Positions Along Coastal Strip

Allies Hold Against Nazi Heavy Blows   German Armored Attacks Fail on Planes Below Rome.

ALLIES HOLDING: AIST HEA TANK ASSAULTS   Germans Throw Main Weight of Beachhead Push at. British Flank.

Cassino Troops Battle  To Break Through and Save Beachhead Force

German Armored Attacks Broken By Allied Units   Yank Troops Battle With Increasing Fury. To Relieve Comrades.

GERMANS APPLY MORE PRESSURE BUT LINES HOLD   Meanwhile Americans Step Up Attacks on Cassino Front.

Turn Back Thrusts At Beachhead   Americans. On Cassino Front Attack With Increasing Fury To Relieve Anzio Front

STH AT CASSINO AIMING 10 AID FORCE ON BEACH   Nazi Attacks Meet “Stone Walt” From Allied Treops

Six Attacks on Allied Beachheac Are Thrown Back   American Forces Increase Pressure At Cassino

AMERICANS NEAR CASSING ATTEMPT TO AID COMRADES   Spitfires and Bombers Help ing Ground Forces At _tacks Made on Rear Forces and Supply Roads.   WAR UNDERSECRETARY REVEALS SERIOUSNESS  Berlin Reports Violent Air Battle When Fortresses Make Day Raid on Outer Berlin Defense.

Trial Of Dachel-Carter Suit Against Clark To ‘Be Resumed Tomorrow

IS RESUMED   Repair of Two Ships In New York Touches Off Arguments

RESUME TRIAL OF DC SUIT   Firm’s Former Personne - Manager Today’s Main  Witness

D-C Accounting Trial Resumec   Director Of Company Recalled To Stand

MAY SEE NEW CABINET FACES      Expect at Least Six Major Appointments

Changes Will Follow FDR’s Re-Election   Many New Faces In Washington

Major Jobs May Change   New Faces. Expected thi Roosevelt. Setup

Meadows’ Home Gave Him 8,000 Vole Majority   4th Term May See Many New Faces In Washington

NEW FACES DUE ‘IN WASHINGTON   Expect Half Dozen Major Appointments In New Official Family

Expect Some New Faces On Capital Scene   At Least Half Dozen Majdr Appointments May Fol. low Roosevelt’s Suceess At Polls

AMERICAN HEAVIES  SEEK T0 BLAST OUT  ROCKET PLANE BASES OTHER ALLIED BOMBING  PLANES ATTACK GERMAI! ATID DACEC IN BRANSE

Heavy Bombers Attack Pas-de-Calais Sector And Other Targets In Europe; Hitler Sends More Rockets Over Channel Into LE-ngland.

Pound Rocket Areas   ALLIED BOMBERS HAMMER NAZI LAUNCHING ZONES AS MORE MISSILES ARE HURLED

@ Aitacks  "on Robot ~ Launchers   Air:Forces Also. Back Uy ‘Invasion, Pound Germans in Trap   NAZI HORSE DRAWN. : CARAVAN ROUTED   » Shortage of “Motor Vehicles Indicated; Enemy Communications: Hit

Allies Land Behind Japs   Air-Borne Troops In  Landings In Burma

Behind Jap Lines   ~Aiz-Bome Forces © Join Indian Units, Peril Wide Nip Front

Allied Army Goes Ahead Of Schedule   Expects Enemy to Pull Forces from Norway, Den mark and Holland

Reiterates That Nazis Can Be Defeated This Year If Duty Performed

Gen. Eisenhower Asserts Nazis Can Be Beaten This Year If Every Person Does His Duty

Allies More Than Five Days Ahead Of Schedule Says Gen. Ficenhower

Eisenhower Sees V-Day This Year   General Says Armie: Five Days Ahead Of Timetable.

ALLIES CONTROL JAP SHIP LANES   New Ireland Bases Are Shelled; Warship And Freighters Sunk

Jap Defenses Falline Apart   Three More Jap Ships, One. - Loaded With Troops, Sunk »

Three More Japanese Ships Sunk By American Destroyers   Japan's Entire Southwest Pacific Defense  Line Js Crumbling Apart In Latest Attacks

Germany Has High Losses  Casualties In Two Months Top 2? Million

GEAMANY'S LOSSES OVER TWO MILLION   Official. Allied Figures or Enemy Casuatties in Six Months Listed.

CONGRESS PROVIDES SPECIAL EMERGENCY FUN   Critical Shortage of Legume and Grass Seeds— Domestic Hay and Pasture Supply Cannot Be  Maintained Unless More Seed Is Harvested.

Heavy Losses Sufferedby US. Troops i in Fight For River Hold   Patton's Forces Reach Nancy, Drive Into   Metz Outskirts

Patton’s Men Reach Nancy, Driving Wedge Into Metz; First Army Moves Forward

Dispute Halts Production On Invasion Ships   17,000 Workers on Strike at Cramps Demand That Navy Take Over   CALLED A "LOCKOUT"

WANT NAVY TO RUN SHIPYARDS   Some 17,000 Striking Ship Workers Indicate They Will Return To Jobs If Navy Takes Over.

STRIKE HALTS. PHILADELPHIA SHIPBUILDIN(   Approximately: ‘1%, 000 Workers Idle; Ready to . Return lf Navy Takes Over Yards

Invasion Ship Plant Closed   Workers Say Locked Out, Company Calls It Strike

Work Stoppage Has Halted Output Of Invasion Shins  About 17,000 Workers Want Navy To Take Over Plant

WORK STOPPAGE AT SHIPBUILDING PLANT CONTINUES   Production of Invasion. Craft For the Navy Halted by Work Stoppage at Philadelphia Yard—17,000 Men Out

Cramp Shipyard Workers Strike   Stoppage Halts Work On In. vasion Ships; Workers Say They Will Return If Navy Takes Over.

Strike Halls Ship Building   17,000 Stop Work. On Construction of Invasion Ships

STOPPAGE, OF 17,000 HITS INVASION SHIPS   Dispute Halts Production At Philadelphia Shipyards *

17,000 STRIKING SHIPYARD WORKERS . OFFER TO RETURN IF NAVY TAKES OVER

:  Philadelphia Strike Halts Ship Building   Will Be Resumed If Navy Takes Over, Union Says

Output Of Invasion Ships For The Navy Is Stopped By Philadelphia Strikers

Legislators Arriving in . State Capital   House Speaker To Be Elected On First Day of Session; Message Written by Johnson To Be Read -

GOP Labor Plank, Praised hy UMW, Disappointing, Says AFL Chieftain

2ND ANNIVERSARY OF TOKYO RAID IS OBSERVED TODAY   Japanese Are Being Pounded By Air From One End Of Pacific To the Other.

Two Years Ago Today That Americans Raided Tokyo   RAID 4 JAP BASES IN THE MARSHALLS   British Inflict Very Heavy Casualties on Japs In India

Kurile And Rabaul Pounded By American Bombers Now Striking Japs All Over Pacific

Wallace Lands r Chungking   Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Receives Vice President

Wallace Urges China-Siberia Ties   Vice President Is Now in Chungking

WALLACE IN CHINA: MET BY GEN, CHIANG   Closer Relations With Siberia Urged by American

Wallace Now In Chungking,  FDR Deputy   Urges Closer Relations Between China. Siberia; Met By Generalissmo.   INAZIS DOUBT VISIT

WALLACE NOW AT CHUNGKING   U. S. Vice President Urges Closer Relations Between China, Siberia

Wallace Is in Chungking   “Honored By Personal Welcome By Chiang; Nazis Say “Wallace © On Way to Moscow”

WALLACE IN —— CHUNGKING   Urges Closer Relations Between China and Siberia

WALLACE LANDS IN CHUNGKING   Vice President Is Greeted by Chiang

Friendship With Siberia Urged on Chinz  Vice-President Wallace Arrives ee ns

V.P. Wallace Arrives In Chungking   Will Discuss Matters of Mutual Interest with the Generalissimo

WALLACE ASKS UNITY IN ASIA   Welcomed to Chungking by  Generalissimo Chiang

Wallace Guest In Chungking.  War Capital   Met at Airdrome by Mr. Chiang Kai-Shek And Mrs. Chiang

WALLACE NOW IN CHUNGKING ON CHINA VISIT   Amevicon Vice-President Greeied by Chiang KaiShek on Arrival from

Wallace Now In Chungking   Urges Closer Relations Between China and

Allied Gains Slow In Heavy Fighting   Progress Costly i in Ferocious Battle on Cologne Plain   BLGW RHINE BRIDGES   Yanks Have Taken 33,000 Prisoners Since October 16

WHITTLE DOWN GERMAN NIGHT IN BIG BATTIES   Americans Fight House to House in Bastions  of Linnich and Inden

Third Army “Goes Into. 3 Cities   Burning Saarlautern Ts Entered, Doughboys~ Battling Way Through City.   OTHER UNITS INTO... SAARE UNION   Spectacular Battle in Apartment Houses) of" >' Strasbourg:

Passengers Stay In Buses Over Night  Marooned Eight Miles West of Pawhuska On

Passengers Stay In Buses Over Night   Marooned Eight Miles  West of Pawhuska On lew Baad

Carrier Force Destroys 10 Jap Ships   Marines Control Northern Third of Marianas

ULITHI, YAP, PALAU HIT BY TASK FORCE   10 Vessels, 26 Planes Destroyed; 5 U.S. Planes Lost

U.S. Strikes Heavy Blow  In Carolines  Airmen Destroy 10 Ships, 26 Planes in Raids

CITY MEN ARE CALLED TO G0 INTO TRAINING   Altoona Boards En ‘ roll Men to Enter Navy Monday and Army Tuesday.

Twenty-eight City Registrants Depart This Week for Military Forces.

Bulgaria Appeals For Truce   Russian Troops Are Reported Marching Into Country.

HOUSE SEATS TURNED OVER   Democrats Anticipate Control, Gain Eight Of Needed 15

Dewey Concedes Election; FDR: Leads 30 States   Eight 0£13 Senate Seats Needed For Demo Control Won; Rep. Fish Loses

Democrats Keep Control of Senate   Fish Beaten for  House in New York

Demo Gains Are Indicated  For Congress   Hamilton Fish Among Republican Losers to Demo Candidates

Uninformed Gunners Turn Error Into Nazi Haul at Anvio   Machine Gun Crew Fails to Get Withdrawal Qider at Night; Morning Brings Slew-Footing German Platoon in Range

Field Marshal Alexander In Athens To Arrange To End Bloody Conflict

SWIM, MEADOR, DUNKLEY ALSO ARE NOMINATED   President Of County Board Leads For Renomination By 544 Votes

Russ Isolate Memel Port,  Take 2 Hungarian Cities   Marshal Tito Announces Joint Forces Encircle Belgrade, Capital of Yugoslavia, But Soviet Remains Quiet

LAST RAIL LINK CUT; GUNS LASH COASTAL ROAD   Americans Punch Ahead in Drive to Choke Ott Entire Peninsula

‘Troops Take St. Sauveur Le Vicomte   Yankee Drive Designed To Choke Off Peninsula; Artillery Pounds Road

American Troops Are Driving  Up To Pinch Off Last Es cape Route from Famous Coastal City.   U. S. PILOT SEES GERMANS ON RUN

ENEMY'S LAST ESCAPE ROUTE IS UNDER FIRE   Qur Troops Moving In Fast, Trying To Bottle Up Defenders

Sevastopol May Be Repeated At Port Cherbourg   U. S. Forces Punch Forward And Set Astride Nazi Last Escape Line From Big City

Nazi Forces Fleeing from Cherbourg?   Pilot Reports Signs Of Evacuation; Last Nazi Escape Route Under Artillery Fire

American Troops Straddle Douve River, Hammer Last Escape Route From Port

Yanks Bring Nazis’ Last Escape Route Under Heavy Fire   Pilot Reports Sign of German Flight From Cape and Port

[ARTILLERY HITS LAST ESCAPE ROAD   French Patriots Inside France Stop Rhone Traffic

Allies in Further Move to Choke Off Cherbourg  ‘Peninsula’   CAEN BATTLE GOES ON   Allies Punch Out Advances Near Center of Invasion Front

Americans Gain 1 to 3 Miles Behind Port City   Pilot Observes Signs of Enemy’s Flight from Trap

U.S. Troops Are Driving Nazi Forces  Out Of Port   American Soldiers  Are Astride Big River Bend

Artillery Now Pounding Last Escape Highway   Only Remaining Rail Route Cut; American: Punch Out Gains Of From 2 To 3 Miles

{AMERICAN TROOPS CLOSING IN WAND FIGHTER PILOT REPORTS SIGNS OF ENEMY IN FLIGHT   US. Artillery Haininiers ‘Nazis Last Escape Road  ~=And Both British and Americans Reports Gains in Fighting Which Has See-Sawed Back and Forth

U. 5. Troops  Punch Forward On Peninsula   French Patriots Start Full-Fledged Sabotage Campaian

Germans Iry ToHlee Doomed Port   French Undergroune Has Swung Into Full-Fledged Effort

ROAD JUNCTION (5 THREATENED      Yanks Plunge Forward In Drive to Cut Off Pen- insula.   RECAPTURE MONTEBOURG

YANK ADVANCE IS THREATENING TO SEAL DOOM   Fighting Continues in Caen Sector But Fliers Say German Supplies Halted

Pound Escape Road:   Capture of St. Sauveur Cuts Last Rail Link To Port City; May Be. A Second Sevastopol

YANK PILOT SEES SIGNS OF DEPARTURE   Gen. Bradley, However Is Inclined to Discount Idea—Americans, Mean while, Near Last Escape Route. _

Pilot Reports Signs Of Evacuation, British Strike Back Near Caen

Cherbourg’s Last Rail Route Is Cut   Allies Push Forward in Developing Drive to Choke Off  Normandy Peninsula as Escape Route Is Hammered.   French Underground Swings Into Sabotage Methods to Stop Traffic

U.S Pilot Says Germans Trying to Escape Seaport; Allies Slash Enemy Lines   American Dead in First 11 Days Of Invasion Officially Put at 3,263: 12.600 Weunded. Gen. Bradley Reports

Last Escape Road Under Bombardment   U. S. Fighter Pilot Reports Signs of German Flight From Cape and Port; May Be Another “Sevastopol”.

ARTILLERY BLASTS AT LAST ROAD   3283 Americans Lost In Battle; 12,600 Injured, Report

NAZIS ATTACKED SOUTH OF ARNO   BRITISH WIPE OUT POCKETS PREPARATORY TO ASSAULT ON GOTHIC LINE..

ALLIES MASS FOR DRIVE ON “GOTHIC LINE”   British Troops Wipe Out Remaining Enemy Resistance South Of Arno River

WAR POWER FAR BELOW EXPECTANCY   Even Mussolini Fooled Through Graft. Germans Turn to Fight Allies North Rome

Corruption In Fascism Now Known   Even Mussolini Was Victim, Says Ex-Fascist

2,200 Warplanes Batter Germans  Strategic Targets  Bre Under Fire

10 Nazi Divisions Trapped, Crowded  Into Small Area   33 Junkers Carrying Supplies Are Shot Down; Krivoi Rog Encircled

Soviets Slash Trapped Nazis   Northern Army Cuts Way Jnto Luga Suburhs

Reds Now In Luga Suburbs   Fight for Rail Junction; Russian Ring Blocks German Rescue Efforts

Russian Armies Continue Gains In All Sectors   Battle in Suburbs Of Luga, 80 Miles South of Leningrad

Soviets Storm Rail Hub Town of Luga  Ukraine Forces Sealing Fate

Russians Reach Luga’s Suburbs   ‘troops Far: South Tighten On'Nazis

RUSSIANS BATTLE GERMAN TROOPSIN SUBURBS OF LUGA   City. a Junction Point on Leningrad-Pskov-Warsaw Rail-. way and Its Fall Seems  - ". eaminent.   NAZIS IN KORSUN TRAP © LOSE 7 MORE TOWNS   Reds Shoot Down 33. Transport Planes Trying to CarTy Supplies to Besieged.  Forces. ;

Germans Flood Low Countries To Stop British and Americans Already at Their Gates

Berlin Says Yanks But 11 Miles Away From German Soil   Other Columns Fan Out On Wide Front Before Belgium Plunge To Rim Of Luxembourg; Flood Gates Are Thrown Open In Low Countries By Germans   See map on Page 6

Yanks Few. Hours . From Nazi Frontier; Pierce Maginot Line   Enemy Floods _ Low Countries, Abandons Robot Emplacements, Retires In Rout To Fatherland

Dewey Begins Big Speaking Tour Tonight      First Such Wartime Cam paign by Any Candidate  Since Days of Lincoln

DEWEY BEGINS SWING ACROSS CONTINENT =   To Make First Speech of Campaign Tonight in Philadelphia

DEWEY STARTS TREK ACROSS ‘THE NATION   Gives Opening Talk Tonight In Philadelphia

Dewey Launches Campaign   Launches Bid for Pennsylvania's 32 Electoral Votes With Big Parade

Dewey Launches 6,/00 Mile Tour  Opens Campaign With Talk at Philadeiphia

‘DEWEY TO GIVE IFIRST TALK IN PHILADELPHIA   Opens Campaign Tonight As He Starts Swing Around Nation

OPENING SPEECH BY DEWEY. AT PHILAD ELPHIA TONIGHT   REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE BTARTS COASY-TO-COAST CAMPAIGN TOUR—SEVEN ' BROADCABTS  ‘ SCOREDULED

DEWEY STARTS CAMPAIGN TRIP   To Make First Speech at Philadelphia Tonight.

Dewey Is Off.  On Campaign   “Takes 97. Persons:  On ‘11-Car Train

Assessment Is County Goal   Recommendations Made To Officialg”*at' Tax School Held: Here

Uniformity in Assessment Is County Goal   Recommendations M a d ¢ To Officials’ at Tax School Held Here

RAF Jolts Dusseldorf In Wake of U.S.Attack   Americans Lose 41 Big Bombers, 9° Fishters in Great Air Epic

GERMAN PLANES LOST IN BIG FIGHT   Set New Records While Bombers Rain Explosives On Dusseldorf

YANKS BAG 208 GERMAN PLANES   Record Smashing Victory  Scored In Air Battle

RAF Bombers Follow Great Air Conflict   Hit Dusseldorf After 208 Gerinan Planes Were Lost Thursday

‘Allies Will Be Able to Win War in Balkans, Churchill ‘Declares in Opening Debate

BALKANS SEEN VICTORY AREA BY CHURCHILL   World Council To Preserve Peace By Armed Might Is Proposed

A Balkans Victory Seen By Churchill   Prime Minister Also Says Reich’s Future Not Bound by the Atlentic Charter

Confident Review by Churchill   Sees Victory in ‘ Balkans Without Turks; World Council to Preserve Peace   POLITICAL ISSUES: , SECONDARY NOW   Hopes Rome Can be Preserved;Speaks Kindly of Spain; Invasion Only Mentioned

No Guarantees Seen for Germany; Force to Back Up New World Order

Churchill Tells Commons of Allied Plans for Prevention of Wars in Years to Come

Churchill Looks To Balkans For Coming Victory   Prime Minister Tells Commens New Order Is On Horizon

Churchill Predicts Balkans to Be Theater of Victory   Prime Minister Says Atlantic Charter Does Not Bind Allies on Possible Territorial Chanaes for Germany After War

Churchill Makes Foreign Policy Speech To Commons   Prime Minister Spoke Kindly of Spain Adding Enemy Should Be Beaten soon as Possible

PEACE OF POWER IS ALLIES’ AIM CHURCHILL SAYS   House of Commons Told That Nations Will Decide Any Changes In Boundries of Germany.   TITO GIVEN PLEDGE OF FUTURE SUPPORT   Premier Plans to Confer With De Gaulle on Delay In Recognition of Libera tion Group.

Charchill Says—  BALKANS KEY TO VICTORY   Warns Germany Allies Te Decide On Territorial Changes

Sees Coming Victory in Balkan Area   Turkey’s ‘Aid Not Necessary, Churchill Tells House of Commons in Foreign Policy Speech

Churchill Addreses Commons   Looks Toward Balkans for Coming Victory— Would Save Rome _

CHURCHILL SEES BALKANS AS THE VIGTORY ARENA   Prime Minister Says Allies Can Win War Without Turkey's Help; Talks Of Insured Peace; Hopes  Rome May Be Pre served.

CHURCHILL LOOKS AT BALKAN AREA AS VICTORY SCENE   Prime Minister Says Allies Will Decide About ° Territerial Changes of Germany In Talk Before Commons Today

Churchill Looks Towards Balkans For Victory; Rome To Be Preserved   Mentions Foreign Policy and League Structure In Address.

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER SEES VICTORY NEAR   Outlines Plans And Future Of World Order

Balkan Victory Without Turkey   Allies Have Ceased Wooing Ankara

Allies Will Decide on Reich’s Borders  Churchill Declares   Says Atlantic Charter Does Not Insure Unchanged Germany

Churchill Looks, Toward Early * Balkans Victory  Proclaims Unity Of =: British Commonwealt For World Peace

Atlantic Charter Is Not for Germany   Churchill Tells Commons Principles Will Not Bind Allies in Dealing with Reich—Sees Balkans as Theater of Coming Victory.   By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE.

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY DEFINED   Churchill Tells Commons AIllies Will Decide on Boundaries of Germany

World Council Is Advocated By Churchill   Looks Toward Balkans Confidently As Theater Of Coming Victory.

CHURCHILL LOOKS TOWARD BALKANS FOR WAR VICTORY   Prime Minister Sa Says Charter Not Binding en Territory Held By Germans

SEES VICTOR) ~IN BALKANS CAMPAIGN   Expresses Hope That Rome Will Be Preserved   TURKEY   Not Needed For Victory, He Adds; Says Friendly Word For Spain

DEPLORES FAILURE OF TURKISH AID BUT SAYS IT SEEMS ALLIES CAN NOW WIN WITHOUT HER HELP   Speaking Bluntly, British Prime Minister Reviews War and in Restrospect Says Allies Will Set Up World Order Equipped with All Necessary Power  Ta Maintain Peace

Allies to Fix German's Fale   ~ Churchill Looks. To Balkans for Victory, He Says

Britain to Press On to Vietory and Then Determine Future of Germany

Churchill Sees Allied Victory n The Balkan   Efforts To Get Aid Of Turks Suspended; Hopes To Save Rome

CHURCHILL SEES COMING VICTORY IN SATELLITES   Allies to Set Up Plans to Prevent Future Wars; Hopes to Save Rome

Allies Suspend Effort To Enlist Aid Of Turkey   Churchill Tells House He Sees Balkans As War Theater   APPEARS CONFIDENT   Warns Neutrals Victory rtain With Or ~ Without Help

Churchill Views Coming Victory In Balkan Areé   Allies To Say If Reich Has  Changes In Territory, Premier Tells Commons

Proposes Structure Of Old ‘League’   But This Time It Must Bristle With Military Power

Churchill's Confidence In Balkans  Area Shown   Sees Allied Victory ‘Without Turkey Aid

World Council Of Great States Proposed; Sees. Balkans As Victory Site ©

POSTWAR PLAN IS EXPLAINED BY CHURCHILL   Says Allies Will Decide Any Territorial Changes For Germanv

Churchill has Hope Rome  Can be Saved   Looks to Balkans As Theatre of Coming Victory

Speaks Kindly Of Gen. Franco  Changes In Germany Not Covered By Charter

Churchill Says Allies To Decide Nazi Fate   Prime Minister Teli Commons Victory Will Come in Balkans Without Aid from Turkey.

OPEEGH ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY   Churchill Is Confident of Coming Victory in Balkan Theater.   HOPES TO SAVE ROME

Churchill Says Atlantic Charter Ignores Germany   Nation May Be Spli Up After Victory Confident Speech : Made Today

Soviet Victory Climaxed ‘By Merging Of Two Red Armies In Gulf Of Riga’

ESTONIA NOW LIBERATED   Final Red Blow Traps  Thousands of Germans.

U. 5. BOMBERS POUND FRENCH ROCKET COAST   Defense Forces Learn “Trick’ on Knocking Down ‘Robots’

Girl Calls on Polar BearsLoses an Arm   Tops Gay Evening To Visit Zoo with Three Companions

HEAVY DAYLIGHT ASSAULT IS MADE ON PAS-DE-CALAIS   Hundreds of American Bombers and Nearly All Types of R, A. F. Craft Take Part in Raid.   FIGHTER OPPOSITION DESCRIBED AS WEAK   Onslaught Follows Blow That Damaged War Factories and Started’ Huge Fires in Berlin.

French Coast   Is Blasted By Allied Fliers   Hundreds of Planes Bomb Invasion Coast Following Heavy Raid on Berlin—Mysterious Nazi Earward Defenses Are Struck

0U. S. Bombers Among 11 Ships Missing in Raid   London Is Target Of German Airmen; 8 Craft Downed

AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT “MYSTERIOUS “ROCKET GUN COAST” AFTER 2,300 LONG TONS BOMBS DROP ON NAZI CAPITAL.

INVASION COAST IAGAIN POUNDED BY BIG BOMBERS   19 German Planes Are Bag: ged At A Cost Of 11 Allied Aircraft   AERIAL OPPOSITION BY NAZIS IS LIGHT

m4  RADIOS INDICATE NEW NIGHT RAIDS   Nazis Hit London in Heaviest Attack Since October   BIG BOMB LOADS   Orash Down on Rocket-Gun Targets; Berlin Writhes from Thrusday Blows

Nazi Mystery Targets Hit In Huge Raid   Allies Lose Eleven Planes, Shoot Dowr 19 German Ships

Blames FCC For Bungling   Solon Says One U. S. Task Force Trapped By Japs Because of Wrong Information

Congressman Charges U. S. Ships Trapped by Japs Recause of FCC Bungling

Says FCC Bungling Trapped U. S. Ships   Rep. Miller Declares Two Sailors Will Prove Japs Attacked Task Force in Alaskan Waters Because of Wrong Information.

SAYS BUNGLING KILLED SAILORS   Rep. Miller Accuses FCC  ‘Amateurs’ of Error

Says “Bungling” Trapped Force  Congressman Accuses  FCC of “Bungling” in

Charges U. S. Task Force Was Trapped Because of Bungling of FCC Amateurs

SOLONS ATTACK FCC ‘BUNGLING   U. S. Task Force Trappec By Misinformation, Claim

WHOLE ALLIED WORLD SPECULATING (QUESTION WHEN WILL RUSSIA STRIKE ‘AGAIN AGAINST NAZI VISTULA LINE

WAR ANALYST GIVES OPINION AS TO WHY EXPECTED RUSSIAN ‘DRIVE ON GERMANY. DELAYED

MacKenzie Says—  New Soviet Drive Will  Be Decisive   Reds Wait For Colder Weather, Neutralized Flanks Before Launching New Push

WAR TODAY   New Red Offensive Against Germany’s Vistula Line Seen Awaiting Decisive Outcome of Baltic Campaien

The War Today  Coordinated Drive Of Soviet Armies  S eee eee ee Se As

AERIAL BLOWS AIMED AT NAZI HOLLAND BASES   British Night Raiders Smash Railroad Yards In Paris - District

ONLY DOGS LIVED WORSE THAN NATIVES ON GUAM    American-Held Island Fell Within Few Hours After "Attack By Japanese; Food Supplies Were Confiscated  And Churches Turned Into Propaganda Halls

Chemists Find New Super Gas   Will Enable More  and Harder Hitting Raids On Japan.

/ SUPER-GASOLINE ‘1S DEVELOPED "FOR BIG PLANES   New Fuel Will Permit Superfortresses To Perform At Top Efficiency   DIL INDUSTRY AWAITS WORD FROM MILITARY

Super-Gasoline  Soon To Be Made   Signal For Production Will Be Given When Military Plans Permit

ATTACK ALONG SCHIMLE STIR FRAN BEACHES   Headquarters Says Progress ls Made; Now One-Third Acrass ‘Peninsula.

Reds Cut Last Road Of Escape   Thousands Of Germans Isolated In Volkhov Area By Advance Toward Esthomia.

REDS 42 MILES FROM ESTONIA      Soviet Army Takes Krasnoevardeisk

Powerful Armies Tr ‘avel 40 ~~ Miles In 24- Hours For —~ : Swiftest Dash

U.S. Armor Rolls Unchecked Across Breton Peninsula; Other Forces Sweep Ahead on Paris Road

Troops and Tanks Sweep Up Rennes  In 40-Mile Smash   Other Forces Smash 20 Miles East of Avranches to Mortain on Road to Paris: Nazis Drive French Civilians Out Into Roads in Attempt to Stall American Drive

TWO PRIZE PORTS  ARE OBJECTIVES  OF YANK TROOPS   Rennes, Capital Of Brittany And Important Rail Center Captured   NAZI DEFENDERS ARE IN COMPLETE RETREAT

TROOPS ROLL ON UNCHECKED, ROADS STREWN WITH WRECKS _OF GERMAN TANKS, VEHICLES

(Yanks Drive Toward Brest St. Nazaire —   ' Six Enemy Divisions ~ Coutinue_To: Retreat, Abandon Equipment  BRITISH TAKE VIRE

Doughboys Push To Within One Mile Of St. Sever Calvados, Midway Between Vire And Villedieu-Les-Poeles

Capture Rennes, Drive Ahead for Big French Ports   Nazis on the Run In All of Brittany

Mighty Yank Tide kong OF   Rennes Swept Up While Other Colurin: Start Flanking Trap For Six Division:

Powerful Armies Travel 40  -. ~Miles In 24 Hours For —— Swiftest Dash 

Necis P-w:zass °° ("-:97 Wwe JD g - iy   Aennes, 4 Ti-any vada. Ane Xai. ) tas; toe ries ™o 24¢0ct% 2oaes WI) IViians

Powerful Force of Americans Brushes Aside Nazis at Brittany Capital; Pounds South On St, Nazaire, U-Boaf Base 60 Miles Away

With Its Prize Ports of Brest and St. Nazarie Through Which Hordes of Allies Can Pour.

Mighty Yank Tide Rolling On Unchecked Toward Brest And U-Boat Base Af St. Nazaire   Rennes Swept Up While Other Columns Start Flanking Trap For Six Divisions

Roll Unchecked Toward Brest and St. Nazaire      Other Troops Methodically Widen the Corridor From Normandy, Pushing 20 Miles East of Avranches to Mortain

U.S. Troops Plunge On Toward St. Nazaire - Nantes   Another Force Striking Toward Port of Brest

BROKEN NAZE TANKS LITTER ARMY'S PATH   One Column Racing Toward St. Nazaire, Enemy U-boat Base, and Another Toward Brest,   BAG OF PRISONERS . JUMPS TO 100,000   Germans Drive French Civilians Into Highways in Attempt to Slow Lightning Push. -

Eisenhower Smiles Over New Success   Americans Roll Ahead Almost Unmolested, Rot Reieich Troane Moot Stiff Resistance

Allies expected to consult France on plans fer militray control of reich

France to Be Consulted on Control and Occupation of Beaten Germany

France Will Have Place InProgram   Will Be Consulted Or Plans for Military Occupation Of _  .Germany.____

Popular Remsen Girl Weds Floyd Lux Of Cherokee  Pretty Wedding  Is Celebrated At Qe RAdawerla

Popular Remsen Girl Weds Floyd Lux Of Cherokee  _ Pretty Wedding Is Celebrated At St. Mary’s

Children Pay Tribute To O’Connell   2,000 Youngsters Attend Special Requiem High Mass Just for Them

11,151 Japs Killed On Two Islands   Military Government Established on Angaur

Marines, Army Mopping Up on  Peleliu. Aneaw   [1,151 Japs Slain in Assaul On Pacific Stronghold, Ty & Penarte

Chinese Losses Blamedon Allie:   Only “Token” Assistance Given, Spokesmen Says as Fourth U. S. Air Base Falls to Japs; Yanks Tighten Offensive Arc on Philippines

WAR. TODAY   Pressure Put On Tur. key and Spain; Fer.  iit ~s Beey  trally; Latter Teo  p33

The War Today  ove  Relations of Spain Turkey to Allies In Lime-

RELATIONS OF TURKEY AND SPAIN TO ALLIES AGAIN IN SPOTLIGHT 'AS THEIR STATUS IS MUDDLED   Turkey Has Caused Allies Disappointments by Being Too Good While Spain Has Been Too Bad, Leaning Toward Hitler. Issues Now Being: Drawn

Vic Donahey Comes To Aid Of Huffman After —  Lausche Wins Endorsement

Donahey Quits Retirement to Take Active Role in Huffman Campaign

Patton Launches A New Drive Along Seine to Cut Off Nazi Survivors.   British Officer Says Great ~ Battles in France Are Ended

MPPHERSON BODY TO LIE IN STATE   Angelus Temple to Honor Her Memory on Sun    ra

STH TAKES PORT NORTH OF ROME   Civitavecchia Occupied a Forward Units Reach Bracchiano

MAIN PORT FOR ROME CAP. TURED APTER BREAK  " THROUGH AT WEEE:  BECTOR OF. FRONT ;  ay

STEEL WORKS, RAIL JUNCTION TARGETS OF SUPERFORT RAID   Japs Report 106 Huge Bombers Took Part In Assault

Bulgars Free All Prisoners   ‘Nation Seeks To Set Its. House In Order

Bulgars Putting House In Order   Ban Nazi Groups, Free Allied War Prisoners In Bid For Peace.

Bulgaria: To Release All Allied Captives   Dissolve National Assembly and Ban All Nazi,  Facist Organizations.

BULGARS BAN NAZI GROUPS, RELEASE ALLIES   Assembly Dissolved Due To Opposition Of ‘Bulgarian People’

BULGARIANS IN MOVE TO MEET PED ARMISTICE   Report National Assembly Out; Ban Ail Nazis

FIELD. TACTICS   Troops Hit Beach Under Cover of Naval, Air and Artillery Fire.

500 Italians Asphyxiated _   Stowaways Caught In Train Stall In Tunnel

RAIN STALLS N TUNNEL; 500 TALIANS DIE   Stowaways in Freight Cars

Exchange Ship Leaves for N. Y.   900 Italians ee When Train Jams in funnel

WLB Orders Greyhound Strike’s End   OR SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO PHILADELPHIA TODAY TO SHOW CAUSE WHY STRIKE SHOULD NOT END.   Teche Lines Strike Yet On

ORDERS MEN BACK TO BUSES   Regional War Labor Board Acts in Pennsylvania  Greyhound Strike

May-Free Balkans  In Week   With Timed Drives By  Rssians and Marsha Tito’s Partisans

FD. Warned No! To Veto Tay Act  No New Levies in aon SALA. ..E4 pb... da

REVENUE BILL . ON DESK OF FOR TODAY      May Allow $2,315,200,000 Appropriation to Be Law Without Sicnature

Committee Hopes  To Simplify Plan   Knutson Warns FR Not To Kill New Tax Bill

IOWA WEATHER OUTLOOK BRIGHT   Farmers Gardene ¥S  Hope to Work Soil Soon

U.S. FORCES JUMP NEARER PHILIPPINES   Leap - Frog: rog Landings ings Miles Closer’. *

Yanks Make New Landing:   Japanese Strongholds Are Being By-Passed

FIFTH BATTLES THRU RESISTANG OF GERMANS   Straddies Main Flor. ence-Bologna Highway in North Italy

Yanks Nearing Po Valley Area   Battle Through Strong German Resistance

Gen. O'Donnell Breaks Radio Silence, Reports Superforts Have Successfully Bombed Selected Targets in Tokyo

Union Stands Firm in Threat To Call Strikes in 64 War Plants   Walkouts Loom in Michigan, Qhio, New Jersey if Demands Not Met

MESA FIRM ON STRIKE THREAT   Action Due Thursday May Tie Up 64 Plants

UNION THREAT OF BIG STRIKE 1S UNCHANGED   64 War Plants May Be Tied Up In Walkout Thursday

Union Threatens to Tie Up 64 War Plants Until Panel Hears Dispute

MESA Officials Ready to Call Strike Called “Stab in Back of U.S. Soldiers’

Officials of MESA Stand Firm on Threat; Strike _ Set for Tomorrow.

UNIONISTS STICK TO STRIKE ORDER   MESA Aid Denies Receiving Wire From Washington

rmean ist owt ) i. 4  MESA FIRM IN STRIKE THREAT   Sixty-Four War Plants Face Tieup In Cleveland Dispute

Labor Shies From Staud OnFrontier   Hedges on Question o Reich Dismemberment But Demands People Share War Blame. ..

Nazi Robot Bombs Hit England   Secret Weapon Drops Jet-Propelled Rocket Bombs Over  Large Area.

Terrific Blasts Again Jolt Southern « England; U. S. Planes Renew Blows Against German Rocket Bomb Area

ROCKET BOMBS OPEN ATTACKS UPON ENGLANE   Pilotless Jet - Craft Explodes With Great Roar

20 oTATES TO GIVE WILLKIE TEST IN APRIL   Minnesota Primary First on List Including About 700 Delegates. ~

Willkie Faces Test as 20 States Pick Delegates   April’s Elections May Give Indication On Fourth Term

GOP Selects. Tn Minnesota   State Heads Parade Picking “(0 Delegates in April

Pir st Major : Willies? est In Wisconsin      omination’ Goes Badger: State Voters. Tuesday       00° Delegates to National Conv ‘entions- Will Be Chosen This Month

Ohio And Michigan Still TossUp; Senators Nye And  Danaher Beaten ©

DEMOCRATS GAIN SEATS IN CONGRESS   Popular Vote Shows Less Than 3,060,600 Votes Between Roosevelt and Dewey.   13 States For Dewey

DEMOCRATS GET MAJORITIES IN CONGRESS RACE   President Given Slightly Over Two Million Of Popular Vote In Returns

BELATED COUNTS ROLL UP FOR VICTORY MARGIN   Foreign Observers See Result as Victory for ‘Internationalism’ in U. S.   DEMOCRATS MAKE GAINS IN HOUSE AND SENATE   Republicans Win Two Gubernational Seats, Indiana and North Dakota; Sentor Nye, And Representative Hamilton Fish Defeated

Later Returns Add to Lead Of Roosevelt   Late Figures Show Electoral Votes as  FDR 413, Dewey 118

BLYGE ANTON MONDAY OCT., 23   BP Es EE CR Nt  a gg, LTO COAL AND WOOD STOVES OFF RATIONING

FRE PATRION INU. S. THURSDAY   De Gaulle Welcome Planned: Will Confer With FDR Immediately.

EXPECT DE GAULLE TQ SEE FOR SOON   Leader of Free French to Confer with President; Woos US on July 4

DEGAULLE’S ARRIVAL EXPECTED THURSDAY   America’s Idealism Lauded By Leader Of French

De Gaulle To  See Roosevelt   Scheduled To Arrive In Washington Thursday For  First Visit.

PLAN WELCOME FOR DE GAULLE   French Leader To Seek Formal Recognition By U. S. Government; May Stay Four Daves.

Prepare Big ~ Welcome for  — French Chief   De Gaulle Scheduled to Arrive Thursday For Talks With FR

FRENCH LEADER DUE THURSDAY   DeGaulle To Arrive In U. S To Talk With President

Warm Welcome Awaits De Gaulle   French Leader Is ‘Expected Thursday; To Visit Canada Teo

De Gaulle To U.S. A.   Washington Plans Elaborate Welcome For French Leader

Ramirez To Talk ‘With Co-Leader      Argentine Official Will Discuss Reshuffle of Mer

Watchful Waiting Attitude Toward Turkey By Nazis  Aerial Attack on Turkish Cities Feared After

GERMANY ADOPTS WATCHFUL ATTITUDE   Nazi Government Watchine Turkish Developments With Interest.

Hitler Threatens Turks With War   Nazi Prestige Slumps Throughout Balkans

NAZIS AWAITING TURKISH ACTION   Watch for Developments i in New Situation

Watchful Waiting Attitude Toward Turkey By Nazis  Aawial Attack an Markich   Aerial Attack on Turkish Cities Feared After Diplomatic Break

Administration, Communists and  FBI Feel Sting of Hoffman Tirade

Yanks Batter Plane Factories   BOMBERS IN FIFTH CONSECUTIVE DAY STRIKE AT GERMAN AIR INDUSTRIES, HITTING GOTHA AND SCHWEINFURT IN GREATEST AERIAL OFFENSIVE

Schweinfurt, Gotha Works Hit By U.S.   Renew War's Greatest Aerial Offensive; In Central Ger Fee PEL”   HIT DUTCH AIRFIELDS

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS BATTERED WAR INDUSTRIES   GOTHA AND SCHWEIN. FURT BLASTED IN FIFTH CONSECUTIVE DAY RAID

ANOTHER RAID IS STAGED AT SCHWEINFURT   Aircraft Factories in Gotha and Other Reich Targets Hit by U. S. Bombers in Addition to Ball-Bearing Plant.

Price Control, Lend-Lease “GI Bill of Rights” on Congress “Must” List

Russians Mass Forces For A New Offensive   Lull Is Expected To Be Short-Lived; Nazis Hang On At Sevastopol.

Reds Mass For New Campaign   Relative Calm Prevails For Second Day; Pause To Be Short.

EDS BELIEVE AASSING FOR EW DRIVE   elative Calm Prevails Along Russian Front For The Second Straight  Dav   UD IS RAPIDLY DRYING

Soviets Are Massing For New Campaign   London and Berlin Expect Blow Soon on Polish-Romanian Fronts, Perhaps Timed With Allied Drive From West.

Soviefs Massing For New Attacks Against German:   Temporary Lull Reported As Reds Re-equip Armies

Reds Mass For New Offensive;  Lull Prevails   Believed Preparing To Coordinate Drive With European Invasion.

Russians Prepare For New Offensive  Observers Believe  May Strike Co-Ordinated Blow Through Poland with Invasien ~—Sevastepol Isolated

sermans Look For Rus. sion Offensive On Mammoth Seale: Soviet Armiies Score New Gains

RUSSIANS ON WAY TO NAZI CAPITAL NOW   Have Traveled Half-Way; To Smash Hitler

Soviet TEOOpS      Reine mile ia Ser vices s Being Moved: Forward {o Front Bases  EARLY DRIVE SEEN Relative “Calm Prevails

Reds Poised For Another  New Thrust   Relative Calm Prevails on Long Front For the Second Day

Soviets Massing for New Assault  Will Probably Come With Western Invasion

NEW RED DRIVE NOW SHAPING UP   Front Line Dispatches Indicate New Russian Campaign May Be Expected; Lull Will Probably Be Short-Lived.

Reds Massing For New Smash  Toward Berlin   New Campaign In Preparation as Calm Prevails On Long Front—Pause Expected To Be Short: dived.

Reds Massing For New Push  Against Nazis   German Counterattacks Subside; Sevastopol Garrison Being Left To Expire Slowly

Russians Mass For New Drive   They Are Expected To Coordinate Attack With Invasion

Reds Massing For Fresh Offensive   Relative Calm Prevails Over Long Front as Soviets Pause

RUSSIAN LULL SEEN AS SIGN NEW OFFENSIVE   Relative Calm Over Wide Front Believed to Presage Attack Timed with In vasion in West

REDS MASS FOR NEW CAMPAIGK   Relative Calm Prevails Along Front for Second Straight Day.

Red Front Quiet As They Prepare New Offensive   Dispatches State Red Rearguards Are Being Moved Ahead

Red Troops Massing for New Drive   Russian Forces Now Halfway to Berlin Goal

RUSSIANS MASSING FOR NEW CAMPAIGN REPORTS INDICATE.   RELATIVE CALM HAS PRE VAILED ON EASTERN FRONT FOR TWO DAYS

Soviet Seen Regrouping Front Lines For Battle   Calm Continuing Over Nazi Front

e Russians Mass  For New Dri ive  f   Mighty Soviet Smash Js Expected Shortly

NAZIS FAIL 10 GAIN ATLWOW OR IN ESTONIA   Sevastopol Battle Becomes Siege At Low Cost To Soviets

Russians, Massing For New ‘Campaign, Expected To Be  ‘Coordinated With Invasion   Pause Expected To Be Short-Lived As Reds Consolidate For Biq Push

BRICKER MAKING GREAT BID TO WIN 6:0,P, NOMINATION   GOVERNOR'S HEADQUARTER: CONSISTS OF 1: ROOMS— TWO GLEE CLUBS INCLUDED IN CONVENTION SETUP

‘Bricker Blitz at GOP Convention  Is Planned by Backers of Ohioan

PROPERTY BILL BEFORE HOUSE   Congress Debates Disposal Of Surplus War Goods

States Urged to Liberalize Laws On Aid to Jobless   Disposal - of Sui Surplus _ War. Property Debated ‘in House

35 PLANES DOWNED INFRANKFURT RAID   AMERICANS LOSE 5 BOMBERS AND 15 FIGHTERS IN DAYLIGHT ATTACK.

SIGNS INDICATE NAZIS TRYING TO FLEE FROM CAPE   AMERICAN TROOPS ARE MOVING FAST; RETAKE MONTEBUORG

QUAKE IN TURKEY ~~ TAKES HEAVY. TOLL   Town of ‘Gerede, With Populatior of 25,000, Reported 80 Per Cent Destroved.

OPA Warns That Tire Situation Will Remain Critica   Tire Applications Here Far Exceed County’s Quota; No More Obsolete Tires

Singapore Is Struck: By Planes Of Allies:   ‘Superfort- Bombers “Attack: Vital’ Spot.

SINGAPORE HIT BY SUPERFORTS   Giant Bombers Rip Vital Jap Navy Installations, Warships

GREAT NAVAI BASE TARGET SUPERFORTS   Results Described ‘Good To Excelent’ In Communique

LONGEST 8-29 FLIGHT OF WAR HITS SINGAPORE   Super-Fortresses Based In India Blast Tip Of Malay Peninsula— No Planes Lost.

Finland Makes ~ Preliminary Peace Move   Hitler’s Satellites, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, May Be Squeezed Out of War

TURKS BREAK RELATIONS WITH GERMANY   Move May Squeeze All Balkans  Out of the War

Break With Hitler Made By Turkey   Probably Means Entry Inte the War on Side of United Nations

NAZIS’ POLITICAL MASTERY OF EUROPE CRACKS: MAY SOON LOSE SATELLITES

Balkan Satellite Countries May Be Squeezed Out   Mannerheim Appointed Finnish President In  Another Hard Blow

Finns’ Move May End War With Soviet   Bulgaria, Romania And Hungary May Seek To Make Peace Too. ~~

Turkey Breaks Off Relations  With Germany   New President Is Appointed  in Finland

Rupture Effective Today   German Prestige Totters as Finns Name Mannerheim New President 

Rupture Threatens Crackup of Nazi Satellites in Balkans   BRITISH VICTORY   Severance Hailed by London as "Defeat of First Oxder’ for Nazis

Nazi’s Political Mastery Of Enrope Cracks, Finland Appoins Mannerheim As President To Syeread Ryso Rrvyti   BULGARIA MAY TRY  TO OUIT AXIS CAMP

Bulgaria, Finns Expected to Make Attempt To Get Out of Axis Camp

Turkey Brushes Aside German Threats Of “Crave Consequences” BRITAIN TO PROVIDE TURKEY ASSISTANCE Force German Evacuation Of Grecce And Aegean Islands

STEP IS TAKEN AT REQUEST OF GREAT BRITAIN   Action May Squeeze 3 Balkan Puppets Out. Of Axis Camp

Turks Break Relations  With Nazis   Hitler’s Mastery Of European Politics Cracks Under Strain.

Belief Is That Turks Will Soon Join Allies   Finland Apparently Desires to Make Peace as Seen by  ee =

TURKEY CUTS TIE TO REICH; WAITS HITLER'S MOVE   Finland Steps Toward Peace; Mannerheim Named President

DEWEY SAVS FOR OFFERS PPRIV ON AUCTION BLOCK   Candidate Asserts Communist Forces Are Capturing Demo Party

DEWEY SAYS. FDR OFFERS PARTY ON wUerinN BLORK   Candidate Asserts Communist Forces Are Capturing Demo Party

DECLARES ROOSEVELT HAS 50  WEAKENED DEMOCRATIC  PARTY COMMUNISTS ARE.  “CAPTURING IT” :

s2AMUNISTS ‘SEIZING DEMO PARTY—DEWEY   Republican Nominee Lashes Hillman and Browder

President Thanks Threng For Welcome   Triumphal Procession To The White House

Roosevelt Met By Huge Crowd At Washington   President Jovial, Weather Dismal in Triumphal Parade

ROOSEVELT RETURNS 10 WASHINGTON   Met by Large Crowd; Makes Joke About Returning “Home”

Dewey And Bricker Fight On   Ohioan’s Forces Challenge New Yorker Claims Of First  Ballot Victory.

BRICKERITES FIGHT DEWEY FIRST BALLOT   New Yorker Offers To Make Views Public

U. S. Planes Hammer Kiel.  Robot Coast   Bremen Coastal Area Hit, Following  RAF Attacks

Good Story Anyway Stalin Puts Marshal Timoshenko in Place With Rap on Noggin

Destroyer Grant Should Be at the Bottom of Pacific, But She’s Ready for Action

NEW PLANE WILL PROBABLY TRAVEL AT RECORD SPEED   Jet-Propelled Allied Fighter Developing 600-M. P. H. to Be In Production at An Early Date.   PROPELLERLESS PLANES HAVE RECEIVED TESTS   Several Hundred Flights Are Made, Data on Speed, Range, Altitude Remain Secret.

NEW HIGH-SPEED PLANE PROSPECI OF NEAR FUTURE   Planes Capable Of Traveling 500600 Miles Per Hour Gaan

NEW SUPER . PLANE NEAR PRODUCTION   Will Be JetPropelled and Built for Speed

New, Jet-Propelled Allied Super-Plane Capable of 600 M.P.H. Soon in Production

Jet-Propelled Airplane Soon fo Be Used by Allies Against Axis; Capable of Tremendous Speed: Passes Numerous Tests

Allies Develop New Type of Jet Propelled Plane   May Develop Speed of 600 Miles an Hour

Secret Jet Type Plane Is Perfected   New Aircraft Has No Propeller; To Be in Produc tion Soon.

Allies Develop 600-M.P.H. Plane   New Jet-Propelled Fighter Craft Will Soon Be In Production

Jet-Propelled Allied Fighters to Be Made in Large Numbers Soon   Joint Announcement Foreshadows New Blow to Avis

New Allied Super Plane Likely to Have Big Effect on Progress of War

JET PROPELLED ALLIED FIGHTER PLANE REVEALEL   Super Craft to be in Production Soon Believed Cable of 500 to 600 Miles an Hour.

MOVE IS LAUNCHED TO DEPOSE. FARLEY      Albany _ Democrats Will ‘Try to. Btrly _ Fourth, Term Foe of ‘State. >. -Ohairmanship, . ..;

British Forces Smash All Resistance Below Gateway To Antwerp   Germans Rush In Reserves To Stem Ist Army Only 28 Miles From Cologne; Flushing Liberated

DEWEY PLEDGES BIG. PEACETIME CUT IN TAXES   Sets Sights On 140 Billion Dollar National Income

DEWEY PLEDGES POSTWAR TAX SLASH IN TALK   Nominee Trains Sights On $150 _ Billion National Income

DEWEY PLEDGES LOWER TAXES IN POST-WAR ERA   GOP Nominee Outlines Plan to Cut Peacetime Tax Rate

Revision of Taxes Urged By Dewey   Sights U. S. Postwar Income of 150 Billions; Tax Changes Necessary

Dewey Urges Lower Taxes In Peacetime   G.O.P. Presidential Nominee Asks For Simplification of Tax  Laws in Radio Talk

Present Rates. Held Ruinous   GOP Nominee Calls For ‘More Econoniy

Greater Income,  Lower Taxation  Urged by Dewey Public Paying Levy No! Only  For War But On Sprawling Boreaucracy. Candidate Savc

Lower Taxes Are Necessary, Dewey Asserts   GOP Candidate Says Nation Cannot Continue To Exist by Maintaining Higher Taxes.

DEWEY ASKS CUT IN PEAGE TAXES   Sées 150 Billion Dollar: U.S. ~ -Indome “Annually:

TAX REDUCTION URGED BY DEWEY   Bricker in St. Louis for Series, Talks Finance Too

TAX REDUCTION IN POST WAR ERA IS DEWEY’S PROPOSAL   Increasing National Income Would Be First Step Toward Tax Cut

Peacetime Tax Cut Imperative, Dewey Declares   Calls For Postwar An nual National Income O 150 Rillions.

DEWEY PLEDGES SLASHIN TAXES   Declares Present Confused Laws Menace Progress

Dewey Pledged To Cutting Of  Postwar T TL a. xes   GOP Nominee Trains Sights On Annual Peacetime : Income of 150 Billions

DEWEY FAVORS SLASH IN TAXES   Peacetime Reduction For Individuals And Busi ness Proposed

DEWEY PLEDGES TAX REDUGTION   DECLARES THERE S NO EXCUSE FOR HIGH TAXES IN PEACETIME

Dewey Favors Cut in Taxes in Peace Time   Calls for Pelicy for Full Employment ond Rising Income

Dewey Pledges Slash in Taxes  G.O.P, Leader Asserts Huge Levies Are Block To Peacetime Progress

DEWEY TRAINS SIGHTS ON POSTWAR  NATIONAL INCOME OF $150 BILLION; PROMISES LOWER PEACETIME TAXES

Peacetime Tax Cut:  Promised by Dewey With November: Win   Pledges Simplification’ ‘of Present-Day Huge: In- .

DEWEY FAVORS TAX GUTTING IN PEAGETIME   Overhauling Of Tax System Is Needed Soon

Withdraws From Raec Conceding He Has No Chance to Win Party's Nomination

Willkie Won't Comment Further   Stops in Chicago En Route From West To New York

Refuses to Amplify Dramatic Statement Of Withdrawal He Made at Omaha

Finn Parliament ls in Secret Sessions to Debate Question Of Peace or Continued War

COAST-TO-COAST SPEAKING TOUR PLAN FOR DEWEY      Conferees Moving To Agreement On 14 Point Domestic Front Agenda

PETER D. RUPPERT DIES IN SIOUX CITY      Former LeMars Resident ‘Is Taken At Home of Dauchter

Peter D. Ruppert Taken By Death   Former Rural Mail Carrier In Le Mare

Bond Drive Is Short E” Bonds   Total Quota In Sight, But “E’ Bonds Lag; Official End of Drive on Feb. 15

All Citizens Are Uraed Buy Bonds   Quota For County Less Than Former Call; Bonds Sold Now Are Counted

British Second Army Jumps Into the Battle   French First Army Smashes Deep Into the Belfort Gap While the U. S. Seventh Launches Attacks on a Front of 30 Miles

Patton’s Third Army Armor Storm Into Metz   French Smash Deep Into Belfort  Gap on Reich Road

Allied Offensive  Gains Momentum   Numerous Towns Overrun as Allies Advance All Along Long Front Facine Nazi Borders

-POINT  PROGRAM 79 (OULADSE   Reds May Resume Full-Scale War Against Finland

FINNS TURN DOWN RUSS PEACE OFFER   Parliament /s Reported to Have Backed Gov't. Stand

Say Finn Parliament  Rejected Peace Offer   Further Negotiation on  6-Point Program Is Reported ‘Dead’

Finland Rejects Russ Proposal   Premier Says No Chance For Six-Point Peace Plan

WLB Panel Hits Petrillo ~ Reeord Ban   Recommends Board “Exercise Tis Power to Terminate Strike”

W.L.B. Directs Musicians To Start Recording  Companies Not Re  Companies Not Required To Pay Fee For Union Fund

Campaign At Rabaul Said On Schedule      But Air Chief Says He Can’t Predict Knockout As Yet

Allied Drive On Rabaul Is On Time, Fiteh Says _   ‘We're On Schedule,’ South Pacific Air Commander Announces Many Flyers Saved

Rabaul Drive On Schedule   _Fitch Unable To Give Day Knockout Is Due’

ACCUSES MANY ALKALI FIRMS   concerns Are Charged With Acting In Restraint Of Trade

ALKALI FIRMS ARE ACCUSED IN CARTEL SUI   fwo American Export Associa fions, 13 American Manufacturers and British Corporation Named

Democratic Group Favors Bricker   American Democratic National Committee Opposes Roosevelt

Throw Support to Gov. Bricker  Anti-fourth Termers Issue Statemen?

DEM GROUP MAY JOIN BRICKER   Would Support Ohio Governor If He Runs Against FDR

RULE CHANGE — BEING URGED   DELEGATIONS  FROM SMALL . STATES ‘TO ASK “Two" ‘TRIRDS MAJORITY aT ~ CONVENTION

4-F's Must Seek Essential Jobs Or Face Draft  House Abandons Recess ree i Ty   House Abandons Recess To Prepare Law  On Proposal      Those: fot Tn War Work ; "Would Be Used As  Jf ¥ alhnwpoawe

STIMSON HOLDING BACK ON THE 4-F.   Army Does Not Want Men Not Qualified To Ficht

Draft of 4-F's Ok'd Despite Secy. Stimsor   House Committee to Proceed Despite Wor Chief's Wish for Delay

QUICK ACTION IS ASKED ON 4-FS   House Subcommittee  Disregards Stimson’s Views, Recommends War Department Begin Immediately Taking 4-Fs.

OPPOSES 4-f ~ MEN IN ARMY   Stimson Says, However,  They Must Be Put In War Effo

Million in 4-F Will Face Labor Draft   House Military Group Drops Easter Holidays To Rush Measure

Use Of 4-F’s For Special Labor Duty Recommended By House Military Group

Proposed Army Labor Corps Is Hit By Stimsor   War Secretary Would Conscript 4-Fs As A Last Resort

Asks Army to Accept. AF Class   FAVORS. USING MEN: -. “SOON AS: POSSIBLE      Urges: Services Not to Wait on Legislation; Shift to: War Jobs Sought

nycaaes Labor Battalion   Induction Would Be Last Resort For Rejected Men

Stimson Deelares 4-F Labor Corps Last Resort   Secretary Thinks National Service Law Best Way of Getting Men To Aid the War Effort

STIMSON VIEW IS IGNORED BY SUBCOMMITTEE   Patterson's Testimony Wednesday Reflected In Suggested Move

UPWARDS OF MILLION  4-F REGISTRANTS TO  FACE STATUS CHANGE MUST TAKE ESSENTIAL WAR JOBS OR BE IN RAlifrTem Alt. ~anpmw

Draft Of Aul's Bill Readied   STIMSON OPPOSED TO @AMY LABOR CORPS

Stimson Opposed To 4-F Induction   Committee Urges Labor Selection

Stimson Cool Toward 4-Fs As Army nif   War Secretary Would Accept Labor Corps As Last Resort

Stimson Rejects Labor Corps Idea For 4-F's   Secretary Favors Use In War Plants; House Group Supports Plan

QUICK ACTION   House Committee Disregards Expressed View of Stimson on Issue.   LEGISLATION TO COME

Army to Accept AF Labor Corps As Last Resort   Secretary Stimson. Agree: . War Effort Suffering By Failure to Use  : This Group

Give No Heed to Stimson’s Views  House Committee Overrides Secretary

Solons Urge Prompt War Work for 4-Fs   Suggest War Department Begin Taking Them for Special Labor Duty and Selective Service Send Them to Essential Jobs.

To Accept 4-Fs As Last Resort   Secretary of War Stimson Reluctant tc Induct Them Into Army as Labor Corps Although They Are Needed by Country in War Effort.   BACKS NATIONAL SERVICE

Army Resents Labor Battalion Plan for 4-F's   National Service Legislation Called Need By Stimson

Washington Rou undup  House Sub- Committee Recommend: ‘Draft of 4F’s for Labor Duties —

Stimson Views 4-F Inductions As Last Resor’   Bat War Secretary Says Men So Classified Must ~ Be Used In War Effort

4-F INDUCTION LAST RESORT, STIMSON SAYS   National Service Legislation Backer Admits Need In War Effort

Sec. Stimson *(Qpposes Labor Corps Of 4-F’s   Will Accept Their Induction Into The Army ‘Only As Last Resort.’

Prepare Law For Use Of Those 4-F’s   Congress Working on Legis. lation For Vital Job Placements, Labor Battalions

House Group Favors Labor Duty for 4-Fs   Committee Suggesta Army Act at Once Tee SMannnwsw Rintiecs;

MILLIONS OF 4-F’S MAY HAVE TO DECIDE BETWEEN ESSENTIAL JOBS OR ARMY WORK BATTALIONS

Stimson Does Not Want 4-F Wing to Army   WPB Releases List of Urgent War Production ograms in Which Draft Deferments Will Be Sought

ONE MILLION A-F’S FACING INDUCTION   Men in Age Groups 18 To 37 Facing Essential Work or Army Labor  Battalions

4-F’s into Army As “Last Resort”   Buf Rejectees Must Be Drewn into War Effort, Stimson Says

WAR SECRETARY OPPOSITION 10 PLAN OF DRAFI   Meanwhile House Sub-committee At Work on Plan for Those Under Military Standard.

ARMY AND NAVY REQUEST SPURS REJECTEE BILL   HOUSE COMMITTEE ABANDONS PLANS FOR EASTER RECESS

A-Fs Essential Te War Effort Stimson Says   Will Accept Them In Army Only As Labor Corps; Men Must Be Utilized

U. ., BRITAIN RUSSIA JOIN IN WARNING   Satellites Are Told Peace Terms To Become Severe

Nazis Report Air Battle   Big U.S. Bomber Fleets Attack  German Centers

U.S. Armada Hits Gotha and Schweinfurt   Nazi Plane Plants Targets For New Raid by Yank Aircraft

TWO HUGE NAZI PLANTS ARE BOMBED   Aircraft, Ball Bearing Plants Hit By Bombers

German Aircraft And Ball Bearing Plants At Schweinfurt And Gotha Are Bombed

FLIERS BOMB GOTHA AND — SCHWEINFURT   it's 5th Raid On Nazi Aviation Centers In 5 Days

NAZI INDUSTRIAL CENTERS BLASTED BY U. §. BOMBERS   Ball Bearing Plants at Gotha and Schweinfurt Attacked Taday

J. §. BOMBERS POUND GERMAN BEARING PLANT   Gotha, Schweinfurt Works Hammered by American Raiders

American Bombers Again Raid Nazi Aircraft Plants in Central Germany

German Plane, Bearing Plants Bomb Targets   Gotha, Schweinfurt Blasted In Fifth  Destructive Assault

SOVIET OFFENSIVE SPLITS NAZI LINE INTO TWO FRONTS   Fast-moving Russians May Trap 500,000 Nazis in iev Bulae

West Russia Is Split Into Two Big Active Fronts   Soviet Forces Cutting South Toward Rumania

Eastern End Of Berdichev Won  By Penetration   Deep Red Advance Sets Up Two Long Fronts

Reds Tighten Trap On 500,000 Nazis   Soviet Troops Invade Berdichev, Former Fortress Headquarters Of Enemy In Ukraine; Russ Penetration Deep

Say Berdichev, Vital Area, Lost And Army Cracks   Express Doubt Army Can Restore Its Position By New Offensive

Eastern Half Of Important Junction Is Lost to Russians   German Military Spokesman Tells Swedish Newspaper Correspondents It is Doubtful Army Can Restore Positions By Counter-Attacks   DEEP PENETRATION IN GREAT KIEV BULGE THRUST

Halli A Million Beins Isolated   .. Von Mannstein’s Sharp Counter Attack Broken

TWO FRONTS FOR HITLER TO DEFEND!   Berdichek, Important Rail Junetion, Lost to Soviets. Was Anchor for German Line

GERMANS’ WINTER DEFENSE LINE SPLIT BY SOVIET ADVANCE  ADMISSION MADE THAT HALF OF GERMAN HEAD. QUARTERS TOWN TAKEN

Reds Pour Into Vital Rail City   Enemy's Fortress Headquarters Ja Ukraine Menaced

New Red Thrust from Kiev Bulge Threatens to Entrap More than 500,000 Germans in Dnieper Bend   Nazis Admit Dire Threat

Germans Admit Reverses On      Eastern Half of Berdichev, Once German Fortress Headquarters of Nazi Armies in Ukraine Lost As _ Reds Chalk Up “Very Deep Penetration”

Nazi Army Pulling Out Of Berdichev   Report East Half of Key Rail Junction — Lost to Russians; ¢ Counterattacks Fail

Russians Take Kastern Half Ot Berdichev   Advance Continues On All Fronts As Allies Gain In Italian Sector

Rail Junction Evacuated As  Reds Push On   German Military Spokesman Savs Nazi Winter Line  A oo OR    ‘ALLIES IN ITALY GAIN

SOVIETS SPLIT DEFENSE. LINE INTO 2 FRONTS   ‘Allies Seize Commanding Positions On Italian Front

U. S. Bombers Pound Kiel Shipyards and Rail Lines at Muenster; Allies Lose 25 Planes—Invasions Put Japs Definitely on Defensive in S. W. Pacific

Nazi Winter Line _ aa By Russians" Into Two Fronts      25. Miles. pate Of ‘Thitomir: - Soviets Effect Deep Penetration

Enemy Armor Drives Deeper Into Belgium   Germans Make Bold Bid to Cut Behind American First Army's Supply Dumps on Western Front

‘Germans Extend Gains In Belgium In Mighty Stab At Yanks’ Supply Dumps

First Army Lines Broken in 4 Places; Von Rundstedt Using Crack Troopsin Efforts To Break Allied Line in Belgium

LOSS OF LIFE ON DESTROYER MAY BE HEAVY   Navy Says Over 160 Survivors Saved, But Gives No Details

FIND WOMAN'S BODY IN TRUNK   Had Been Shipped From Chicaco to Los Anpeles

Balkan Invasion Forces Reported Making Progress   Allied Forces In Albania Are Driving Ahead Says Meagre Report   FEW DETAILS ON SITUATION GIVEN  YTOV Irv memral \

Proposal To Lengthen Tenure ‘For Sheriffs Loses   41 AMENDMENTS PASSED BY VOTERS IN STATE

Proposal To Lengthen Tenure For Sheriffs .._ Loses By 1,369 Votes.

AMERICANS PUSH GERMANS OFF  THREE STRATEGIC MOUNTAIN PEAKS   New March By Canadian _ Troops Brings Them -\4 Within Eight Miles Of  } / « Dacrara

IGains Registered All ‘Along Italian Front; Yanks Take New Peaks

Drawing Net ‘Tighter On - Nazi Defense   Tanks and Troops Gain 6 Miles in Drive For Saarbrucken.

SCORES EARLY GAIN IN DRIVE ON VITAL CITY   Most of Thionville Is Also Captured by Attack Forces

DEFENSE ANCHOR TAKEN AS THIRD ARMY CLOSES IN   Suceesses Made On ‘Toughest Nut’ Since St. Lo Break

New bridgehead carved across Moselle river  Patton scores impressive aains in all main sectors

Resistance 3 Of Ge rmang Stiffens      NEVERTHELESS, GERMANS ARE WITHDRAWING AT POINT EAST OF NANCY .

PATTON'S ARMY WIDENING HOLD ON WEST FRON]   American Troops Busy Expanding Bridgehead Across Moselle River to North of Metz.

YANKS TAKE FIRST OF METZ FORTS   Assault Arc Is Clamped About Ring of Forts

Capture Fort Verny, One Of Ring Of 22 Which Have Blocked Advance Of Americans

‘Patton Army © Straneling Naz Stronghold   American Pincers Behind Anchor City Only 12 Miles Anart

First of Forts Taken In Drive ‘To Snip Anchor   German Resistance Reported Stiffening; New Bridgehead Won

3RD ARMY OPENS FRONTAL DRIVE ON KEY BASTION   First of 22 Forts Falls

Initial Successes Made In Toughest Job Yet For Third Army     . . * PGi aie year (SE a evap eanipenente A wa   Germans Admit American Gains   Nazi Resistance Stiffens But Doughboys Battle Wav Through Fort

Yanks Storm Ring of Metz Fortifications   Capture of Fort Verny Is Reported

Yanks Break Into Nazi Ring Around City   Nazis Say U. S. Troops Drive Into Thionville; Germans Fleeing Along 30-Mile Front; Patton’s Men Meet Fierce Resistance

Conflicting Stories Told By Enemy in Broadcasts: War Dept. Comment Cited

CONTRADICTIONS RECALL RAID BY DOOLITTLE MEN   Tokyo Broadcasters Don’t Seem To Know What Happened There

Tokyo Gives Mixed Story Of Bombing   Attack Is First Since Doolittle Bombed Capital.

Confused Broadcasts Hint Fire, Panic; Yokohama Also Named; U.S. Has ‘No Information’

Superforts i in. Raid, Reports. From Radio Say   Japanese Send Out Mass. of Conflicting Stories Regarding  Reported Attacks

Ships Driven Off, Radio Report Says   'No Confirmation Is Made By Allies On Reported Attack.

Japan Reports Blasting, Nip Peleliu Landing   Yanks Begin Closing Vise on Enemy Forces Massed on Northern Leyte; Carrier Planes Destroy 2594 Enemy Aircraft in Two Months

Workers Throw  Into Confusion )      Tokyo Claims Counter-invasion Launched in Palau Islands; Enemy Masses in Northern Leyte

Japs Say Assaults Harass Workers, Start Fires In City   ‘Report Follows Nipponese Claim Of Counter Invasion Of Peleliu; Filipino Guerrillas Form Army

Japs Suspect Raiders Came From Newly  Developed Base In Marianas; Confused Reports Of Raid From Tokyo.

U, 8. SUPERFORTS BOMBED INDUSTRIAL SECTION OF TOKYO  THIS IS TOKYO RADIO RE. PORT, ALSO REPORT JAPS INVADING PELELIL

Tokyo’s Report Recalls First Attack On City   Confused Statements Made By Nips Indicate Big Bombers Duplicated Douolittle’s Feat   People Told How  To Combat Fires   Factory District ‘Target Of Yank Planes; Radia Broadcasts Difier On Size of Force

Nip Radio Splutters for Two Hours About Superforts’ Assault   Washington Has No In. formation on Such Aerial Activity

There is No Immediate Allied Confirmation Of Enemy Announcement  DOOLITTLE ATTACK OVER 2, YEARS AGO  Superfortresses Believed To Have Come From 1,500 Miles Away

BROADCAST OF TOKYO RAID UNCONFIRMED   B-29 Apparently from Newly Developed Base In the Marianas Admitted Over Nip Metropolis  CONFUSION ADMITTED

SUPER-FORTS BOMB TOKYO EARLY TODAY   First Raid In Two Years On Japanese City

FIRST RAID ON JAPCAPITAL — JN TWO YEARS REPORTED BUT WASHINGTON HAS NO STATEMENT

Nipponese Officials Show Signs of Con— fusion in Wide Range of Reports on U.S. Assault; No Word of Raid In Washington

Confirmation by Allies Is Not Yet Made   Accounts of Japanese Are Confusing

First Enemy Aircraft To Appea Over Japanese Capital Since  ~~ Doolittte’s’ Raid, Is Claim 0 Telkev0   JAPS SAY FORTS WERE DRIVEN OF

VagueReports (dicate City Hi By B-29's   Enemy Tells of Counter-Invasion On Peleliu Isle

iit—_  sINFUSED ED AND. STORY 1S HEARD   Attack On Factory District Is Reported In One Broadcast   TELLS OF FIRES   Another Says Only One B-29 is Sighted Over Jap Capital

Number of Supertortresses on Tokyo Raid Undisclosed; Planes Hit City First Time in 2!4 Years

Details Are Not Given   Japanese Report ls Not Confirmed By U.S. Officials

Statements By Radio Contusing   No Confirmation  Of Announcements} Japs Land on Peleliu, They Say

Superforts Raid Tokyo, Report   Japs Believe U.S. Planes Are Based In the Marianas

Yokohama Also Hit By Raiders, Enemy Reports   First Assault On Nips’ Capital Since Blow By Doolittle Is Unconfirmed; Americans Report Gains In Leyte Isle Fighting

Pounding Of Jap Capital Indicated   Attack On Factory District Claimed; Nips In Confusion

Confusing Keports - jJabbered By Excited Broadcasters: Washinotan Denieec Action

Jap Radio Reports Are.  Unconfirmed  Confused Reports Issued By Nins

Japs Sputier for Hours on Air Altacks   Confused Reports Similar to Those When Doolittle's Pianes Attacked   NO INFORMATION AT WASHINGTON   Tokyo Radio Tells of Raid, Then Says That No Attack: Was Made

“REPORT OF A TOKYO. RAID      Although Radio Tells Confusing Stories of  _ Planes Over Capital,  Washington Says It Knows of No Attack.

FACTORY AREA BATTERED, JAP RADIO REPORTS   Capital City Residents Instructed On Fire Fight-  ins Methods

Tokyo Radio Blares About. Attack on. That City But War Department Uninformed

Scale Of Raid. Unknown As Accounts Broadcast By Japs Are Confused

Cities Of Tokyo and Yokohama Hit By Superforts, Japs Say; Enemy Gives Confused Reports

CONFUSED AIR REPORTS HINT JAP CITY HIT   One Report Says Factory Section Bombed; Fire Precautions Issued

Japs Say B29s Attack Tokyo, Also Claim Nips Sink Yankee Cruiser and Invade Peleliu    Japan Leases 2,600 Planes, About Two Months Output of Nation, In 2 Months to U. S. Attackers

Washington Is Silent With Radio  Sputtering    Information Given On Fire, Fighting.

SUPERFORT APPEARS OVER FACTORY AREA OF CAPITAL, REPORT   Nips Think Huge Plane Came From U. 5, Base In Marianas; May Have Been On Reconnaissance Mission

FACTORY AREA RAIDED, SAYS ENEMY CLAIM   Stories Agree Only on Presence of Planes  Over Capital

U.S. Superforts  Bomb Tokyo’s Factory District   Japs Claim They Land  Forces Upon Peleliu

Scale of Air Blow Confused by.Claims ‘Of Japanese Radio   Enemy First Reported Several Raiders Over Sprawling City, ‘Later Claim One Plane Sighted

REPORTS GIVEN BY NIPPONESE ARE CONFUSED   Contradictions in Broadcasts Recall Those of Doolittle Raid

Japanese Radia Cives Warning About Fires   Marianas May Have Been Used as Base For New Attack— Reports Confusing

Enemy Reports Superfort Raid on Tokyo   Confused Stories Are Coming From Jap Capital

Tokyo Announces Superfort Attack  Conflicting ‘Stori es Lack Confirmation

American Planes From Marianas: Claimed Ol aid  - Nip Radio Tells’ How: to” ‘Fight® a Spread~ of Fires” - *:

Fires, Raids, Fear Among Nips Told  And Belittled   Kanto Industrial Area Reported Hit; Jap Broadcasts Reflect Confusion

Tokyo Radio Hollers ‘Raid’   Splutters With Confused Report of Single B-29 Being Over Jap Capital

Invaders 2 Miles From Goal   Japanese Ponr in Supplies for Expected Decisive Battle

NIPS’ VERSION OF ATTACK GARBLED   Claim B-29 Came From New Base In Marianas   BOMBING   First Reported On Capital Since Doolittle’s Men Hit City In 1942

Japs Claim Troops Land on Peleliu   Chiang Imposes Strict Censorship on Correspondents After Stilwell Recall

Distinguished Service Cross Awarded  Set. L. E. French   Decoration Presented By Commanding General

Award Athenian Second Highest Military Medal   Sgt. Lifford French’s Feat In Big Bomber Wins Him That Honor

TESTS FOR AIR CORPS WILL BE GIVEN IN BOONE   Scheduled for Tomorrow at 10 a.m. At V.F.W. Hall for Youths Who Are 17 Years of Age.

. Final Fight For Liberation In "Full. Swing   Gen. De Gaulle Reported At Bagneux, 6 Miles From Capital; Parisian Populace Celebrating In Streets

Street Fig hti WwW Still Continues      Seine Trap Snapping Shut; Seventh Army Widens Shoreline Hold In Southern France

Liberation Of City A Fact,” Broadcast Says   People Reported To Be Celebrating As Battle Nears End

CAPITAL BELLS — RING AS DEATH STALKS STREETS   De Gaulle In Suburbs Awaiting Triumphant March Into City

 Greatest Allied Offensive Step in Italian , Campaign.  NO GERMAN AIR DEFENSE APPEARS  Germans Retaliated Today by Bombing Naples.

SEE CONTINUED OIL SHORTAGE   No Increase in Civilian Supplies Available

Madrid Dispatch Says Nazis Made 6 Efforts for Negotiated Peace -

Nazis Seek Negotiated Peace Six Times Since  Febraary. Madrid Says

PAC Linked With Communists By Investigator  Pn a i ae   Dies Committee Opens Hearings Into CIO Group

Dempsey to Face ‘Major’ Candidate   Governor Announces  For Re-Flection

German Counter-Attack Stops Yank Third Army; Patton’s Forces Advance

But Gen. Patton’s Men Are . Still. Clinging To Nearby Fort Jussy . :   GERMANS RECAPTURE PELTRE, SOUTH OF THE CITY OF METZ .   ‘British Advance In ThreePronged Drive In Northern Italy

Navy, Aerial FleetReving Pacific Arc   Atolls of Marshall, Caroline Fertresses Borbarded ‘Ar Will

Yanks Seize  Nip Air Base   Engebi Field on Eniwetok Atoll 759 Miles From Truk

Other Islets Taken In Eniwetok Battle   Details On Truk Raid Still Lacking; Heads Indicate Decisive Blow Handed Japan Fleet

LEAGUE PLAYOFF DECIDED BY COIN   PLACES FOR GAMES IN EVENT OF TIE SET

Reed Charges 50 Billion War Waste   Senator Assaila Price Subsidies, ADb.Haur Beek

RED CROSS SENDS OUT INFORMATION OF MUCH VALUE   Explains to Local Chapters Matter of Dressings

Women Urged To’ Give More Time: To Red Cross Work   Letter From National Headquarters Praises fact Wear’e Wark

Nikolaev’s Fall Seen as Imminent, Blast French City  U. S. Flyers Meet Hot Nazi Opposition on ~ Hirson Assault

President Signs Bill. Give Aid To Wives And Children Of Servicemen

FOUR VEARS AGO TODAY   INDICATIONS POINT TO DOUBLE CONCERTED DRIVE ON GERMANS FROM BOTH EAST AND WEST

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Two Drives Into Reich are Pending   Both U, S. and Russia Developing Great Attacks In Europe

War At A Glance   INDICATIONS POINT TO DOUBLE CONCERTED DRIVE ON GERMANS FROM BOTH EAST AND WEST

SQUEEZE ATTACK ON GERMANY BY ALLIED ARMIES FROM ALL SIDES NOW BELIEVED T0 BE IMPENDING

Fuel Oil Rations Remain Unchanged Here, Announces the County Rationing Board

NAZIS FLEE RIGA UNDER RED FIRE   RUSSIANS NAB ALL MAIN RAILS, ROADS IN AREA

NAZIS SEEK TO ESCAPE FROM RIGA   3 Soviet Armies Closing Trap On Latvian Capital

MAKE DELAYED ATTEMPT 10 ESCAPE TRAP   Soviets Capture 300 Villages, Vital Highways In Swift Advance

Germans Withdrawing From City Of Riga Under Soviet Shellfire  PANICKY CONFUSION IN GERMAN RANKS  Russian Planes Dominate Skies Over The Battle Front

Nazis Seek To Escape From Riga   Panic Reported in Latvia as Reds Bomb and Shell City

German Troops Pull Hurriedly Out of Riga   Attempt Being Made To Escape Death At Hands of Red Troops

Panicky Nazi Troops Hasten Riga Retreat   Postponed Evacuation Attempted As Red  Armies Converge

Plymouth County  Realtors Form .  New Association Elect Board of  wewwvre.¥   Elect Board of Directors With . Geo. V. Pavlik.Pres

Rural Schools to be Depots in Sunday ~ Co. Paper Drive   Fach Mills County Town Ales Have Depots

Creation Of State Debt To Pay Soldier Bonus Given Two-Party Okay

SOLDIER BONUS BILL OFFERED BY DEMOCRATS   Creation of $100,000,000 State Debt Requiring Constitutional Amend ment, Proposed   HELD NOT ENOUGH   Republicans Indicate Plan to Increase Total Job Insurance for Veterans

Soviets Now Within 80 Miles of R 4      Fifth Army Reaches Concrete Pill Defenses of Nazi, New I tne in aly

Soviets Only 80 Miles From Rumania; Allies Battle Forward in Ital;   Bitter Fighting Reported in Ruins of San Vittore; Swiss Report Allied Armies Poised for Invasion Of Balkans; Sweden Reports Nazis Hard Hit

Hungarian Aireraft Plants Hit  Blows Follow New Attack on Hungary Capital by RAF

War Production To Drop 35%   Defeat of Germany Will See War Goods Slump, More For Civilians.

WAR PRODUCTION DECLINE OF 35 PERGENT SEEN   Drop Due After Fall 0 Germany; 30-Hour PostWar Week Likely _

NONEW AUTOS IN 1944, WLB TELLS LABOR   Fall ‘of ‘Nazis Will Mean 35 Percent Drop in’ Wear: Production   PLANS .IN. MOTION FOR RECONVERSION   Only Limited Civilian _. Production Now, Wilson Declares ‘

Nazi Defeat Would Stash War Output   Civilian Goods To Absorb Difference

Civilian Goods Promised:  35 Per Cent Cul in War Production Promised After Defeat of Germany

35 Per Cent Drop in War Production Will Follow Defeat of Germany, WPB Official Declares

ALLIES IN ITALY ARE MOVING NORTH   Are Now Only 34 Miles from Bologna, Key City

U.S. 5th Army Only 34 Miles From Bologna   Penetrates Outer Positions of Gothic Line

Fifth Army Drives Into Gothic Line   Americans Enter Town Of Barberino; Other Forces Push Toward West Anchor.

U.S, FFT ; BREACHES GOTHIC LINE POSITIONS   Enter Town Of Barberino, Pus) Well Beyond Upper Qieve River

YANKS ENTER GOTHIC LINE POSITIONS   Take Town Only 34 Miles From Bologna

 Americans Enter Barberino, North Point In Line   Fifth Army Units Push Well Beyonc Upper Sieve River

: : “nor door "es 76 $2 3e2 2.007188 U9 =e:  —~ «© ' e ‘> ° ae - “eet em Fe *

SPEEDY REDS NEAR BORDER INTO HUNGARY   MILE-AN-HOUR GAIN REGISTERED IN ESTONIA

Reds Driving Fast Toward  Riga, Tallinn   During Past 5 Days Russians Capture  Some 2.100 Towns

Dne Russian Army Races For Tallinn as Another Reaches Hungarian Plain

Russians Head For Budapest   Ukraine Army Is Expectec To Cross Hungarian Border

Russians Near Flungarian  Pre-War Borde   Soviet Troops, Racing Across Top of Estonia at Mile-an-Hour Clip, Drive to Within 45 Miles of Tcllinn

Fourth War Loan Over Top Says State Chairman’s  Wire To Local Committee  Exact Figures Not Available Till Last Day's Subscriptions Are Totaled, But the County Well Over $299,000 Quota, Says Childs

RedsT ake Dubno  Junction   SOVIET ARMIES NEAR BESSARABIAN BORDER, SEVER NAZI RAILROAD

Revelation of Ship Transfer Is Criticised   Congressmen Parties to Evading Censor Early Implies

GREATEST RAID SINGE D-DAY. .   ‘FOUR THOUSAND “PLANES ATTACK > REICH

Racine, State to Go To Polls Tomorrow   WRIN’s Broadcast of Election Returns Will Begin at 8:30 Tomorrow Nicht

State Picks Delegates to National Conventions in Tuesday's Elections

Delegates To Be Chosen By State Voter:   Republicans Have Four Slates And Democrats Two In First Test Of Presidential Sentiment

AMERICANS IN STEADY MARCH ON RIVER ROER   Doughboys Geuge Out Advance Through Heavilymined Woodland   PHYSICALLY UNFIT PRISONERS CAPTURED

Fighting Gets Fiercer in  Other Regions   South Schelde Nazi Pocket Wiped Out; Flushing Captured

Reich Village Is Overrun By U. S. Soldiers   Americans Fight Through Mines Put In Woodland; Fierce Battle for Walcheren Island Waged

NAZIS FIGHT U.S. DRIVE   Aerial Support Blocked by Low-Lying Clouds But 3 Nazi Tanks Are Felled

FIGHTING Ik HEAVY WOODS NEAR GERMANY   U.S. First Army Sweeps South of Vossenack, Taking German Village of Schmidt.   Take Baccarat

GAINS GOUGED OUT IN DRIVE FOR COLOGNE   TEMPO OF BATTLE SPEEDED UP ON WEST FRONT

Chinese Forces Cut Burma Road, Squeeze Japs  Navy Silent on Tokye  Report of Task Forc Rilaw Aaainet Marcuse

Chinese Block Enemy Supply  ~ InBurmaPush   Main Line Cut at Chefang To Close Supply Source Of Foe in Sonthwest

Chinese Cut Burma Road   Major Offensive Opened In ~ Honan Against Jap Hordes

Chinese Forces Cut Nippon-Held Old Burma Road   Open Major Counter Drive Against Japs In-Honan Province

CHINESE CUTOLD BURMA ROAD, LAUNCH COUNTER - OFFENSIVE IN FAR NORTH

CHINESE CUT BURMA ROUTE IN BIG DRIVE   AMERICANS KEEP UP MARSHALL ISLAND BOMBINGS

CHINESE CUT BURMA. ROAD AT CHEFANG   Blocking Jap Source of Supplies; Heavy Rains Stall Allies at Myitkyma; Continued Attacks.   “Critically Low”

,Chinese Close Jap Route To Southwest China; Stop Main Source Of Supplies   Heavy Monsoon Rains Slow Allied Drive For Myitkyina; Jap Prepare to Die in Their Dugouts and Entrenchments

CHINESE-FORCES — — (UTBURMA ROAD   Principal Source of Supplies for Japanese Blocked

wed BUREAU POR iAT ON SURVEY       Claude S. Tattle, Manager,  . States That 98 Per Cent  -of Local People Have Good Credit. Record.

EXPECT:CRISIS PIN ARGENTINA   MORE REVOLTS IN THE MAKING _AS. RESULT OF. TENSE - POLITICAL ‘SITUATION  a ep

HEAVY DECLINES IN TEXAS WHEAT STOCKS REPORTED FRIDAY   LESS WHEAT AT MILLS, ELEVATORS, WAREHOUSES AND ON FARMS ALSO

Not Guilty of Wrongdoing, States Miller   Former Secretary Declares She Gave Back Part of Pay

Taylor Demands Probe of Charge ‘Against Miller   Opponent Says Milles Should Resign If Accusation !s True

Bill to Freeze Social Security Tax Is Proposed   Sen. Vandenberg Says Present Revenue More  Than Was Expected

PAYROLL LEVY RAISE OPPOSED   Vandenberg Leads Move Against Increase In Security Taxes

a REPRESENTS ONE INFANTRY DIVISION   Security Tax Bill Waits  ‘For Congress

pandenberg Asks Law to Block Payroll Tax Jum   Increase Effective Jap. 1 Unless  Congress Intervenes

Less Than 5,000 Aut Aute Owners ix ' Lawretce Have Made Purchsses

Five Jap Ships Blasted in Nine Marshall Raids  Great Wewak Aerial Fight Costs Attackers Five Airplanes

TEMPO OF AR TRIS OVER PAGFIC   Southwest Theater Offensive Is Stenned  Us

Planes Strike Japs in Two  Pacifie Areas   Intensity of Blows to Marshalls Grows; Wewak Sees Dogfight

HOUSE VOTES CCC LIFE EXTENSION   Resolution Assured- FOR Signature Following His Request

Few Maine Folks  Quit Home State,  Census Reveals 72.8 P. C. Native  Rorn Decedents

GERMANY NOW FACES CIVIL WAR THREAT   Dissatisfaction Over Hitler’s Authority

Civil War In Reich May Be On: Communications Cut As Hane man Himmler Hunts Hun:      Highest Military Quarters Involved In Plot Against Hitler; Underground Radio Reports Army Deserting: Trouble Spreads

Gestapo Rules In Reich Now   What Is Going On In Reich Cloaked In. Secrecy.

10 to 20 Per Cent Hike in Number  Called for Service, Director Says

PREDICTS HIKE IN INDUCTIONS   Hershey's Guees is That 10 to 20 Pct. More Men to Be Called

Sharp Boost  In Inductions Indicated 7 By Hershey   _ Reasons Are Listed ° As Selective Service. Acts To Carry Out - Work or Fight Edict

ARMY INDUCTIONS TO BE INCREASED, HERSHEY BELIEVES   Selective Service Chief Pre: dicts 10 to 20 Per Cent Boost Within Next Few Months.   CASUALTIES HIGHER, REPLACEMENTS NEEDED   Draft Boards in Future to Put More Emphasis on Kind of Work Regis - trant Performs.

Harder, Faster Is Rule of U. S. Against Japanese  Americans Are Taking Battle Nearer  iO iii Di cen el ell

US Naval Force: Preparing For Harder Strikes   Japan Strengthening Air Arm by More Planes Every Month

U. S. Submarines, Bombers Strike New Blows at Jap:  Marines Advance Two Miles in Battle Of Cape Gloucester

Subs Take Toll of 50 In 6 Weeks   Invade Enemy’s Home Waters to Score Victories

Harder, Faster Is Rule of U.S. Against Japanese  Americans Are Taking Battle Nearer muc pe... 9

‘One Male Patient Ward Completely Destroyed: 2.000 Were in Building

Hospital Hit in Raid by Nazi Planes   2,000 Patients in « Building When Bomb Strikes

London Hospital Blasted by Bomb   Some of 2000 Patents Believed Casualties

Building Housing Nearly 2,000 Patients Set, Afire During German. Air Raid and Number of Casualties Are Feared— All Available Police Are Ordered to: Scene and Rescue  -. Work Continues. Throughout Night.

News Behind The News  Copyright MeCiste Nowspaper      WASHINGTON Ey Ray Tucker

Property Bill Vote Delayed   House Force Split Open On Proposed Changes

SURPLUS PROPERTY DEBATE IS HEATED   House Tied in a Knot and Vote. Is DeJaved

Surplus Property  Priority Plan Ties  House in Knot Debate May Delay  Vote on Measure Until Tuesday

Stalin- Assures Priest Soviets Do Not Intend to Persecute Catholic Church

Ralph Heinzen. War Writer. To Speak Here   Correspondent Will Out. Line Conditions In France, Germany

Willkie Cites  (6-PointAgenda To Aid Farmers  ; 1   Favors: Protection Through Government’ Loans . and _ Plans Against Destruct- ive Price Spirals

Willkie Calls For   Farm Protection ‘Opens 12-Day Swing In State With Address

Pleas Made By Willkie   “GOP C andidatée. Asks Support, Of Farmers

2: TOWNS CAPTURED   Eighth Army Forces Cut the Ravenna-Bologna Railway’

CHEST DRIVE TEAMS FORMED   Organization ion Of Profes: sional Division Is Completed

Leaders Named For War Ches   Six Divisions Listed lr Local Campaian

Many Killed And Injured By Tornado   Storm Left Trail Of Destruction In West Virginia And Pennsylvania

LOSE LIVES IN HUGE TORNADO   Strikes Seven Counties in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

GERMANS SHIFT TROOPS IN WESI   THOUSANDS ENTER DENMARK AND NORWAY IN ANTIINVASION MOYES,

NAZIS RUSHING IN NEW TROOPS   50,000 Reinforcements Sent To Denmark And Norway =

D-Day Still “imminent”: Germany Rushing Reinforcements Info Restive Denmark and Norway

MacArthur Announces Casualties   New Britain Campaigr Losses Light in _. Comparison to

Jap Losses High in South Pacific  Exceed Allies by Over 814 to 1]

1,514 AMERICAN CASUALTIES ON NEW BRITAIN   442 Killed, 1,062 Wounded And 10 Missing, Mac Arthur Reports      10,000 JAP TROOPS LOST IN FIGHTING

SIX JAPS LOST FOR EVERY YANK ON NEW BRITAIN   American Casualties Put at 1,514 With Enemy Dead and Wounded Estimated  at 10.000.   MOST OF ISLAND HELD BY M’ARTHUR’S FORCES   New Phase of Campaign Develops as 40,000 Nipponese Fall Back on Rabaul for Final Stand.

Americans. Now Control Bulk of the Island      LOSSES OF ENEMY PLACED AT 10.000   Nipponese in Full Retreat for Last Stand at Rabaul!

BULK OF NEW BRITAIN HELD BY AMERICANS   JAPS RETREAT INTO RABAUL BASE FOR LAST STAND

U.S. Casualties On New Britain 1,514 And Japs Losses Estimated 10,000   Americaris Now Control Bulk Of Large icland With Ninos Fleeing To Rabaul

Japanese On New Britain Said Fleeing   MacArthur Reports Casualties In Campaign 1,514

lire Raged ina Big Circus Tent   An Undetermined Number of Persons Keported Killed at Hartford, Conn.

Many Believed Killed - Crushed In Circus Fire   FLAMES ‘ENTOMB 64 OHIO MINERS

FIRE BREAKS QUT IN CIRCUS   NUMBER OF PERSONS REPORTED TRAPPED UNDER THE CANVAS

FEAR MANY DIE IN ‘BIG TENT’   Ringling Circus Blaze May Have Cost Many Lives

BLAZE STARTS ‘av MATINEE IN HARTFORD   Officials Do Not Attempt Estimate of Number of Persons Hurt When Trapped Under Canvas After Its Collapse.

Flames Start Near Entrance of Ringling Brothers, Barnum And Bailey Circus

Fire Hits Ringling Big Top   UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF PERSONS REPORTED CAUGHT UNDER BLAZING CANVAS

Ringling Big. Top Is. sme ‘by Fire   Estimates Place. Death Toll ° in es Blaze From:  50 to 100 ;   Scenes of Terror andj Con"fusion Fill the. Cir. -! cus Lot =

Ringling Big Top Is Swent by Fire   Estimates Place Death Toll in Circus Blaze From _ 50 to 100   AT AFTERNOON SHOW   Scenes of Terror and’ Confusion Fill the Cir- .  cus Lot

Disaster Hits Big Topin Eastern City   Blazing Canvas Traps Spectators and Performers in Tent

Ringling Bros. Show Scene of Horror, Panic  Fire Breaks Out After First Act OF Darkarmance

Ringling’s Great Tent Collapses   Undetermined Number o Persons Reported Dead; Wildest Confusion

Reds Think German Plot A Vast One   See A General  Dissatisfaction With Hitler

Food Goal Is Based On High Employment  So catenin een   Increased Production Of Farm Machinery. Asked By Roosevelt To Help Meet Nation’s Needs

Food Pro’ ~~ on 'MustP “9 At High Level: FR   President Calls For Increased Manufacture of Farm Machinery

Yanks Crush Nazi Push on Beachhead   _ General Clark Says Control Is Firmly Established

Anzio Line Dent Flattened In Hand To Hand Fighting   Third Big German Effort Blows Out. Leaves Gen Clark’s Men In Control Of Firmly Established Beachhead, With 500 Prisoners.

Jron Out 1500-Yard Dent in Lines After 3-Day Push by ‘Nazis; Clark Declares Positions Secure

Heavy Air Support Turns Battle Tide   Slashing Hand-To-Hand Battle Results In Yanks Ironing Out 1500-Yard Dent In Linec

YANKS REGAIN LOST GROUND AT BEACHHEAD   Hand-to-Hand Fight, Big Bombers Halt German Push

AUSSIES SEIZE BOGADJIM BASE   Madang Defense Outpost Falls: Rabaul And Wewak Pounded

Astralians Vin Strong inemy Base   ‘Bougjim, Outpost for : Md ang, Surrendered cefige$ oaks Sttiking x: AHied Farcreac

Knock- Out Of Rabaul In Sight:   Occupation of Admir. altys Means Early Finis for Former Jap Strong. Point

Tokyo Could Not Be Destroyed Easily and Other Attacks Essential, Too

Heiress’ Reno Divorce Granted   Judge Rules That Cromwell’s New Jersey Decree Obtained By Fraud.

Court Upholds Doris’ Divorce From Cromwell   Reno Jurist Rules Tobacco Heiress’ Husband Obtained New Jersey Deeree By “Fraud”

Montana’s Liquoi Rations to Be Doubled Monda:  Purchasers to Be Able To Get Fifth Each Week, or Equivalent

Montana’s Liquor Rations to Be Doubled Monday  Purchasers to Be Able To Get Fifth Each  VAs le ee Biscekdsccctaed

POLL TAX BILL BELIEVED DEAD   Senate Votes Overwhelmingly Against Cloture Rule

Air Power Said Sure to Defeat Nazis on Beach   Patterson Awaits “Bret In Weather, Predicts DRaam oat fnsecinn

YANKS EXPECTED TO HOLD ANZIO   ACTING WAR SECRETARY PATTERSON BELIEVES NAZI THRUST WILL FAIL.

Patterson Explains: Sees Italian Campaign as Tough, But Is Certain Allies Will Win

Patterson Says Beachhead Firm   Official Confident In Grave Situation  Re TAR DEOKHY

Patterson Says Beachhead Firm   Official Confident ‘In Grave Situation

But Patterson Stresses He Does Not Minimize Gravity of Situation

SAYS ALLIES HOLD AT ANZIO   Patterson, Confident, Say: Full Weight of Nazi Attack Yet to Come

Hull Defends US. Foreign Policy Again   Critics Charge He Still Evades Stand On Manv Issues

HULL REVIEWS PRINCIPLES OF FOREIGN POLICY      Critics Charge Anew That U. S Is Sidestepping Many Ouestions

HULL SEEKS UNITY AS PREVENTATIVE OF 3RO WORLD WAR   Varied Reaction Greets Longawaited Foreign Policy Exolanation.

Hull Defends Foreign Policy   Sidestepping Is Alleged by Critics

Hull's Defense of U. S. Foreign Policy Hailed Enthusiastically By Some, Called Sidestepping By Others

HULL APPEALS FOR UNITY TO AVERT WAR 3   Reviews Foreign Policy, Declares No Secret Pacts Made

TEXAS INDEPENDENCI ANNIVERSARY FINDS FIGHT FOR LIBERTY,  ae a ate: An. nremwinh sine   MANY. OF DESCENDANTS OF SIGNERS OF TEXAS DECLARATION IN SERVIC]

Texans Again Celebrate State’s Independence Day Fighting For Freedom

TEXAS INDEPENDENCE  ANNIVERSARY FINDS  FIGHT-FOR- LIBERTY MANY OF DESCENDANTS  OF SIGNERS OF TEXAS DECLARATION IN SERVICE

KILL EFFORTS TO WORK 4F'S   Recommends Rejected Men Be Put in Non-Combat Service

HOLD ANNUAL INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL TEACHERS   Have Prominent Speakers At Institute November 17 At T. T. H. 8.

TEACHERS PLAN INSTITUTE FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 17   Annual Event For All County Teachers Will Be At T.T. H.S.

CRASH KILLS SOLDIER; ONE BADLY HURT   echnical Corporal Adelbert Tompkins of Camp Crowder Dies Instantly as Car Strikes Bridge Abhntment. .

Job Will Require About 20 Years  34.000-Mile Network of Roads  Proposed as Postwar Project

MODERN IGHWAY NETWORK PROPOSED   Slack in Unemployment Hit By President’s Sugcestion

Nazi Thrust at Anzio s Hurled Back   American Trocps Back to Old Line in Fierce Fighting

*<ussians Trying To Storm Across Vistula River   Germans Say Only Minor Units Gain Successful Span

President Writes Victory Prayer During Invasion   Asks Nation To Join Him On Radio Tonight

PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS NATION   Chief Executive Spends Morning Writing Prayer for Allied Success

ROOSEVELT T0 GO ON AIR AT ~ NINE TONIGHT   Spends Morning Hours Writing Prayer For Victory.

President To Make Another Talk Tonight   Will Follow Up His Message Last Night on Rome, by Appearing Again Tonight at 9 o’Clock.

President Will Talk To Nation.   Roosevelt To Make Radic Address At 10 (EWT) Tonight; To Give Prayer.

President To Lead Prayer ~~ With Nation   Writes Orie For Success Of Invasion and Will Talk On Radio This Evening

F. D.R. WILL ‘LEAD NATION IN PRAYER   President Spends Early - Invasion Hours Documenting Supplication,  Which He Will  Read ' Over Radio Tonight.

FDR TO READ OVER RADIO TONIGHT AN INVASION: PRAYER      “(Phe <full “text of  President Rousevel’s - prayer appears . on Pave 6.) . 3

President to Lead America in Prayer for Invasion Army   Will Go on Air Over All Networks at 9 O'clock Tonight

President Writes A Victory Prayer   ‘He Will Go on Air Tonight  With Hope That Nation  Will Join Him.

FOR GOES ON AIR AT 9 TONIGHT TO PRAY FOR BOY:   Drafts Petition to Almpighty as News of Invasion Comes in

ROOSEVELT WILL LEAD IN PRAYER   Writes One For Victory, Listeners Asked To Follow on Radio Tonight.

ASKS RECORD SUM FOR NAVY   FDR Submits Budget, Indicating Next. Year to Be Decisive Period

Navy Requests 30 Billions   Indicates Stepped-Up War on Japanese

Navy Chiefs Ask For 30 Billions   Decision Sought in 744-45 With Jans. Budget Hints

Planés Pounding  apanese Ships   Air Strikes Against ’ Ponape and Nauru Also Reported

POUND WAKE, OTHER POINTS: SINK SHIPS   in Truk Harbor; Same Plane Bombs Air Strip at Paluwat, Pilot and  Co-Pilot Wounded:   Curtain Of Flak

Ul. 8, WARPLANES BOMB WAKE ISLAND   AIRMEN ALSO PROBABLY SINK TWO SIZEABLE JAP SHIPS IN TRUK HARBOR.

Damage Great As Farmlands, City Flooded   Rampaging Missouri: Breaks Levees To Inundate South Fnd Of Hamburg. la.   FEAR MORE BREAKS   Allied Soldiers Given Refuge In Vatiean City

Secret Spanish Paper Issues New  Civil War Call   Republicans Urge Army Men to Turn Against Gen. Franco

Anti-Franeo Maquis Call For Civil War   General Uprising Against  Falangist. Party Said T.. PD. Tt. J.

Call for Civil War Issued by Spanish Paper   Underground Sheet Urges Army Leaders To Oppose Franco

JUNTA DEMANDS SPANISH REVOLT   Underground Newspaper Comes Out Openly For Revolution

NEWSPAPER URGES REVOLT IN SPAIN   CALLS UPON ARMY OFFICERS TO TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST GENERAL FRANCO.

Montana HighCourtAsked To Declare Soldier Vote Law Valid, Constitutional

New Zealanders Spearhead Attack Through Heaped Ruins of City; Bloodiest Battle of Italy Nears End

Allies Drive German Forces Back   Nazis Virtually Trapped in Cassino Corner

Allies Are Forcing Decision   Smash Clear Through Ruined City: Drive Nazi Defenders  Into Dead End.

Important Jap Oil Center ‘Hit by Bombs  Raging Flames Envelope * Huge Refinery

4th Big Raid On Balikpapen Cuts Jap Oil   Borneo Petroleum Unit Produced 15 Percent Of Enemy’s Aviation  Oil and Gas, Is Report

German Retreat Is Widespread In  Southern France   American Troops Are Ex tending Their Hold and Drive Closer to Italian Border to East.

Goodland Signs $7 Million Bill Improvement Program  Called Inadequate

Fund Of $7,000,000 Ie Less Than Half Of Total Needed, Says State Executive

PLAN TO DROP ~~ BEEF POINTS   DISPUTE OVER FAKING MOST “STEAKS AND ROASTS OFF . RATION LIST AU.  ‘ GUST 1st

Pointless Beef Brings Argument   OPA Disapproves Of Order Taking Most Beef From Ration List August 1

NEW “ROCKET” PLANE DEVELOPED BY ALLIES   New Aircraft Is Capable Of Extreme Speeds Ai High Altitudes Witheut Using Propellers

“Rocket” Plane Capable Of [Ext ine. Speeds Completed... ritish Engineers

JET ENGINES ELIMINATE USE OF PROPELLERS   Major Gains in Speed Possible With New Ships, Is Claim

J. S., Britain Have Rocket Plane Capable of Great Speed at High Altitudes

“Rocket” Plane Capable ( Of Extreme Speeds Completed By U. S.-British Engineers

Revolutionary Craft, Capable of High Speeds at Great Alltitudes, Is Hurled Forward by Jet Propulsion, a Series of Short Explosions—-Hundreds of Flights Made Without Mishap and Mass Production Is Near at Hand.

U.S., Britain Create New ‘Rocket’ Plane   Ship, Capable of Extreme Speeds at High Altitudes, Powered With Jet Propulsion Engines; Test Flights Made Without Misha;

Secret Rocket Planes Powered With Jet  Propulsion Engines Latest Allied Threat

Allies Announce ‘Rocket’ Fighter Plane  Jet-Propelled Craft. Invented hy Enslichman Tane Sneed Altitede Parfarmanree of Pact Tones

Plane Declared Capable Of Extreme Speeds; Near Quantity Production

U. S., Britain Announce Perfecting Of New ‘Rocket’ Propulsion Plane

EAST INDIA JAP LOSSES “VERY HEAVY”   Allied Tanks and Infantry Clear Japanese Road Blocks North of Kohima in Fierce Fight.   Report Corrected

Allied Forces Counter-Attack In East India   Japanese Thrown Back From Supply Road Hold And Dealt Heavy Losses

Invasion Forces Thrown From Important Positions   ROAD BLOCKS ARE ~- CLEARED-IN-BRIVE      Other Blows Against Enemy Announced by Mountbatten

Jap Invasion Force in India ls Thrown Back   Hard Blows Struck By British Troops

JAPANESE ARE THROWN BACK NEAR KOHIMA   SUPPLY LINE ROAD BLOCKS CLEARED BY ALLIES

Japanese Thrown From Positions  On Dimapur Road   ‘Very Heavy’ Losses Inflicted, Allied Com. mand Reports; Blows Struck At Enemy At Imphal Plain

Allies Throw Japs For Loss Near Imphal   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses From Counterattack

Soldier Vote Maj Decide Election  Ballots Rolling in a a bieemkare

Soldier Vote May Decide Election In It States   GI Joes Cast Ballots That May Determine 206 Electoral Votes

Soldier Vote Might Decide  1944: Election   It May. be Margin “6£. Victory in at-Least:11. States With Total of 206~Electoral. Votes *

SOLDIER VOTE MAY DECIDE ELECTION IN FLEVEN STATES   FIVE OF THE STATES HAV. ING MOST ELECTORAL VOTES ARE INCLUDED

Soldier Vote May Decide Hection  Pe   Survey Shows It _May Be Deciding Factor in 11 States

Soldier Vote May Decide   Margin of Victory May Be Determined By The “G. I. Joes’’.

GI Joe Holds Big Su ck.  Soldiers May. Decide Election In n States

Soldier Vote Vital Factor In Election   May Decide Who Wins Presidency

Soldier Vote May Decide Fall Election   President Race In 11 States Hangs On Gi Attitude

SOLDIER VOTE. fa VITAL IN 11 STATES      Officials in These States Say Vote May Be De mela.

G.L VOTE MAY DECIDE ELECTION IN'1], STATES~-INCLUDING FIVE “STRONGEST”

Soldier Vote May Decide _ the Election   Tt Well May Be Decisive in 11 States Having 206 Electoral Votes

Soldier Vote May Decide Election in I! States Having 160 Electoral Votes

SOLDIERS MAY DECIDE BA      Hold Key to Outcomes In +21 States With 206  Electoral Votes

Soldiér Vote May Decide Who Will Be Our Next President   AP Survey Indicates That Results In Eleven Key States With 206 Electoral Votes May Depend On How Soldiers Vote.

The Gls Are Haying: Their Sa Soldier Vote May Decide Election, AP Survey Shows      Five States With Largest Electoral Vote Deeply Involved; Heavy Balloting By. Men In Service Reported

BACK TO COAL FIELDS      Good Friday Sees Many StrikeBound Pits Reopened

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I: EE Ree ree emer eee camer, mee eet Ses Rime Saeet ee ee leMeycioeere eet Sees wr, Mere  Mother Is G. Ik Joe’s No. 1 Valentine

Strikers’ Ranks Exceed 36,00(   Transportation Tieup Hits Montreal

STRIKES INCREASING IN NUMBER 4S 36,000 WORKERS NOW OUT  TRANSPORTATION TIEUPS PLAGUED TWO MAJOR  CIUTIC? TLITIDCHRAYV

STRIKES TIE-UP TRAFFIC TODAY IN TWO CITIES  Draft Boards Are   Draft Boards Are Reclassifying Idle Workers

Soviet Forces Driving Nazies Out of Big Sea Port of Nikolaev.  R.A.F. BOMBERS ATACK FRANKFURT  Hand-to-Hand — Fighting Continues in Italy at Cassino.

SLAYER ADMITS KILLING OF TWO   Michigan Lad Held At Van Wert Following Arrest

 Murray Wants No Compromise  On His Bill   State’s Rights Bourbons Urged to Quit GOP Alliance

Charge Girl ‘With Murders   Janice Graham  Charged With Slaying Two

‘BUSHMASTER TROOPS BREAK ENEMY DEFENSE LINE IN ARAWE AREA   American Bombers Daze Japs With 87-Ton Bombardment; 41.000 Yards Gained   RABAUL. KAVIENG GOALS

American Indians Fight in Jungles   Break Through Dense Growths. Backed By Tanks. Bombers

U.S. Indians Stalk Japs In New Guinea   Arizona and New Mexico Tribesmen Break Through Enemy Defenses and Capture Field Guns.

KNIFE-WIELDING  AMERICAN INDIANS  ARE STALKING JAPS SKILLED JUNGLE FIGHT ERS BACKED BY MODERN WAR IMPLEMENTS

KNIFE-ARMED INDIANS STALK - JAPS IN JUNGLE   Representatives of 20 American Tribes, First U.S. Troops Trained as Jungle Fighters   ROUT ARAWE FOE   ‘Bushmasters’ Penetrate Jap Lines ic Such Depth Field Guns Are Captured 

‘Bushmasters’ Hack Way To  New Positions   1000-Yard Gain Reported ~~ On New Guinea By U. S. Tribesmen

Indians Wield Knives Against Nins In bnatas   Arizona Tribesmen Use Ancient Tactics In Stalking Enemy

INDIAN SOLDIERS STALK JAPANESE ON NEW BRITAIN  RREAK THROUGH   BREAK THROUGH ENEMY DEFENSE LINES AT ARAWA

U.S. Indians. Stalk Japs in New Britain   Bushmasters. Use Knives: to Pierce Enemy Lines ©  Around Arawe

American Red Men Stalk Japs   Knife Wielding Indians Show Enemy How It Is Done

‘‘Bushmasters’’ Gain In New Britain  American Indians With Knives Tracking Down Japanese In The Jungle

PLANS 10 USE 4-F’S VIEWED   Relaxed Physical Requirements May Be Sought

Thousands of 4-F Men Face Induction Soor to Release Younger Men for Combat Duty

Churchill Asserts German Frontiers  May Be Reduced   Post-War “’World Organization” With UOvyarwhelming Military Power” Uraed

Churchill Urges World Setup  To Force Peace   Declares Revision of Germany’s Frontiers Likely After War; Reaffirms Total Surrender Stand

Churchill Asserts German Frontiers  May Be Reduced   Post-War ‘World Organization” With “Overwhelming Military Power’ Urged  Te .. erPeerT FTF TR RSF BAT EU «ue re

URRARY BOARD NAMES SUCCESSOR 10 MRS. LEGG   Tiss Clive Weaver, ‘Vennessce Co:lege Librarian, Chosen —

LIBRARY BOARD NAES SUCCESSOR 10 RS. LEG   Iliss Olve Weaver, ‘‘ennessée Co lege Librarian, Chosen

Battle In Poland And Lithuania Erupts As Russian Forces Open Ninety Mile Front

20-MILE PUSH SENDS TROOPS NEAR FRONTIER   New Holes Punched in German Defenses by Driving Enemy

19-Mile Gap Torn In Line   Important Rail Town Of Sarny Captured

May Reach Nazi Soil This Week   Reds Maintaining Fast Pace in Drive. Toward East Prussia   “STATE OF ALARM’ REPORTED THERE   Germans in Retreat and Big Red Air Force Pounds Nari Cohwnns

REDS BEGIN BATTLE FOR EAST PRUSSIA   Less Than 50 Miles from Border of Germany; Travel 15 Miles per Day Taking over Places.   Near Pskov

East Prussia In State of Alarm   Frontiers Closed and Approaches Are Mined; Fear 'Chutists —   If Pace Continues Russians Will Be on German Soil This Week

Russians Advance 30 Miles on 90 Mile Froni In New Baltic Offensive

1,000 GERMANS TAKEN AT LIEGE   PRISONERS INCLUDE A GENERAL—~ALLIES SUFFER FEW CASUALTIES.

Races in 2 States Hinge On. Soldiers   Service Vote May Change Results in Missouri,  ~Rannevieania *

Five States Gave F D.R. Majority Bigger Than 1940   President's Electoral Vote Now 432 to  99 fer Gov. Dewey; Many Votes Uncounted

[Dewey Vote In 5 States Below 1940   SOLDIER VOTE NEEDED TO SETTLE TWO SENATORIAL AND A NUMBER ON CONGRESSIONAIL CONTESTS,   8211 Precincts Unreported

Stalin Denounces Jap Acts, Demands World PeaceForce   Final Victory Near, Soviet Premier Declares in Blast at Aggressors

Former Lt. Gov. Murphy Is Dead   Under Indictment For Bribe Conspiracy

Czech Forces Unite in Fight Against Nazis   Southeastern Europe Falling Apart: Turks, Bulgarians Warned

PREPARE 10 “INVADE SOIL (F GERMANY   ENTRY OF SOVIETS INTO NAZI HOMELAND SEEMS IMMINENT.   Repel Attacks   Russian Troops Sweep Toward  East Prussia, Taking  Scores of Towns. 

WELL, IT’LL BE HOT   That's What.the Weather Buread. -  Communique Adds Up to

HOLY NAME: ~ SOCIETIES IN MEETING JAN. :   200 Men From N Neighboring Towns Attend Service Here —

Cardinals and Browns 2-2 1th Inning   Crowd of 35.076 Sees Second Game  Of World Series

Lanier. Potter In Pitchers’ Box   Cardinals Seek To Avenge Wednesday's Defeat by Browns

FORCES SMASH SOUTHWARD   Three To Four Miles In North Burma In Past 24 Hours; First Advance South of Walawbum.   Start Fires

Stassen Assured of Six Delegates   Nebraska Primary Gives Ex-Governor 2-] Lead

STASSEN GETS 6 DELEGATES   MacARTHUR’S ILLINOIS VOTES PASS 500,000

PUERTO RICAN REVOLT FEARED   Commissioner Demands Tugwell Resien

Puerto Ricans Almost on Verge of Revolution Says Island's Delegate

Resignation Of Governor Of Island Demanded By  Colivar Pagan, Resi-  dent Commissioner.

PUERTO RICO IS SAID VERGING ON REVOLUTION   Resident Commissioner Demands Resignation of Gov. Tugwell

Tugwell Regime In Puerto Rico Under Attack   ‘Commissioner Claim: Island on Verge of Revolution

islanders Declared Near Revolt     Tugwell in ‘Luxury Castle Called Puerto Rico Hitler

Puerto Rico Said to Be Near Revolt   Commissioner Seek: Resignation Of Gov. Tugwell

SAY PUERTO RICO ANGERED OVER TUGWELL’S REGIME   Island’s Commissioner Declares Natives Almost On Verge of Revolution-——Ask Tugwell’s Removal

FLAG IS SAVING ANOTHER REVOLT   Puerto Rico, Seeking Change in Government, on Verge of An Uprising.

Another Wedge Driven ir  the Japanese Supply  Line.  NO OPPOSITION WAS ENCOUNTERED  Eniwetek Atoll Softened Up for Invasion After Bombing.

Allies Drive New Wedge In Jap Supply Lines; Capture Rooke Island

BILL TO PROTECT CITIZENS OFFERED FOR HOUSE STUDY      Measure Would Insure Fait Treatment of Citizens From Power of Bureaus

REVIEW OF AGENCY DECISIONS SOUGHT   Legislation Would Assure Fair Treatment of Citizens.

AGENCY: CURB UP IN HOUSE   Legislation Introduced for Fair Treatment of Citizens By Bureaus

National War Fund Quotas Announced For South Cook Co:   Goal for Region V is Set ai $127,500: Campaign Begins October 2

GERMANS CLAIM ALLIES FOILED   Berlin Radio Says Yank-Brit. ish Winter Offensive Plan Disrupted

NAZIS THREATEN ~NEW OFFENSIVE   BERLIN BROADCASTS REPORT ALLIED PLANS FOR WINTER OFFENSIVE FOILED.

Port of Cherbourg Is So Completely Wrecked It Is Practically Useless

CHERBOURG PORT STILL IN RUINS   MEN AND SUPPLIES SENT TO NORMANDY STILL FORCED TO LAND ON BEACHES.

Cherbourg Por Still Useless,  Says Stimson   Harbor Completely © Wrecked by Germans, Secretary Reports

CHERBOURG NOT USABLE AS YET   Stimson Explains Delay In Starting Normandy sig Offensive

Giraud Formally Relieved of Post   French General Put On “Reserve List”

SOVIET TELLS OF ITS. HATE   EMBASSY ISSUES STATEMENT: DECLARING MOSCOW. WILL INSIST ON PUNISHMENT FOR WAR CRIMES:

REDS REVEAL EYE EQR-EYE ELIE   ‘Russians Demand Punishment of the Nazis for Atroci

AEDS REVEAL EVE FOR-LYE BELIE   Russians Demand Punishment of the Nazis. for Atrocities

‘Army, Navy Personnel  On Plane   Airliner Burns ‘After Crashing In California

AIRLINE CRASK IS FATAL 10 20   Bodies In California Tragedy Scattered Over Mile Area

120 Perish When Airliner [Crashes In California; (Service Personnel ‘Aboard

20 DEAD IN AIR : CRASH, REPORT   ARMY AND NAVY PERSONNEL VICTIMS—BODIES STREWN OVER MILE AREA.

WILL REGISTER BLOOD DONORS FOR APRIL 24   Members Of Local Committee Are Sitting At Hotel Richard McAllister Each Afternoon This Week

BLOOD BANK UNIT COMING APRIL 24   Registrations For 18th Visit To Start Next Monday—29 Donors Have Given Six Pints Each

AMERICANS RUN JAPANESE INTO CORNER OF GUAM   Drive Three Miles in One Day; Nip Cemetery Found

YANKSON ~°* GUAMGAIN THREE MILES °   Last Japs: ‘On Island Driven Into Tiny Area

AMERICANS ADVANCE 3 MI. ON GUAM   Japs Hold Only Tiny Area At Northern End

YANKS MAKE GAINS ON GUAM ISLAND   Drive Last Jap Defenders Into Tiny Area At North End

JAP DEFENDERS ON GUAM DRIVEN INTO TINY AREA   Undetermined Number Of Troops Trapped In Less Than Tenth Of Island

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT Both Ends Should Meet

INVASION AREA TORN AGAIN BY U.S. BOMBERS   British-Based Fliers Renew Drive After 3-Day Lull; Bucharest Digs Out

Liberators Hit Coast Of France   Russians Mop Up Survivors  Of 15 Trapped Nazi Divisions

Girl Victim Of Zoo Bear Is Improved   Arm Is Chewed Off At Elbow

8TH ARMY NEARS OUTER FRINGES OF FLORENCE   Gains Achieved Despite Fanatical Nazi Defense

Eighth Army Takes Back Lost Ground   British Troops Closing Slowly on Outer Fringes of Florence: Fifth Army. Breaks Up Patrols

ALLIES REGAIN GROUND AROUND CITY FLORENCE   British Army Slowly But Surely Tightening Grip. On Fanatical Germans

LOST GROUND REGAINED BY FIGHTH ARMY   British Troops Slowly Closing In on Outer Fringes of Florence Despite Fanatical Defense   RIVALS CASSINO STAND

Ei ghth Army Makes Gain In  Florence Area      Have Regained Ground Lost to Germans bn Coun terallack Ou Outer  Frir

Fscape Road Of Germans Threatened  By 2 Drives   Armored. Spearheads wing Around Metz

TIGHTEN GRIP ON PART OF THIONVILLE   Bridgehead Over Moselle River Is Expanded   REAL EVACUATION   Of City Believed Unlikely; Villages Near Vosges Pass Are Captured

Bridgehead North Of Bitterly-Held City Is Expanded   Saar Border Near As Patton Gains On 20-Mile Front

Patton Bridgehead Threatens Railway Between Metz, Saat   Pincers Grip Tightened on Nazi-Held Port of Thionville

Snow, Mud And Fog  Ground Air Forces   ..- Ring Tightens Around Germans’ Anchor City

Doughboys Are In Thionville  Berlin Claims   Pation’s Forces Expand New. Bridgelread Across .. Méselle,. Threatening Nazi-Hold Railway   Huns Pulling Guns From City Of Metz   Allied Headquarters Doubt ‘It Is-Full Evacuation; Seventh Army 33 Miles From Rhine

Allies Gain In Flank Drives: Around City   Bad Weather Grounds Air Forces as the Germans Counter-attack Fiercely

Patton's Third Army Driving Northward   Third Army Expands New Bridgehead Over Moselle River, Threatening Foe’s Only — Communication With The Saar

New Bridgehead Across Moselle Expanded Today   Important German Railway Caught In Allied Pincers

Retreat Lane Is Cut To 11 Miles By U.S. Advance   Koenigsmacher Loss  Admitted By Berlin

—WEST FRONT.   Patton’s Forces Gain New Bridgehead In Battle For Metz   JF ancers Grip Also Develops On Enemy Held Part  Of Thionville; First Metz Fort Captured Today ; By Americans

Patton’s Infantry Pushes Within Five Miles of Fort City   American Third Army Seeks to Close Eleven-Mile Gap Separating Two Arms of Arc Encircling Bastion   LINE RESTORED AFTER HARD COUNTER-ATTACK

‘Rocket Coast Area Blasted Again Today   American Liberators Cross Channel To Lay Eggs On Nazi Center

HAMMERED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Explosive Works In France Battered During Night Assault By British

Rocket Coast Area Bombed By Americans   Second Heavy Attack In Pas-de-Calais Area Is Staged by Liberators   RESISTANCE NEGLIGIBLE

U. S. Heavy Bombers Raid Invasion Coast   RAF Night Bombers Smash At Angouleme In France And_ Unidentified Targets In Western Germany 

"Rocket Coast” Of France Hit   American Liberators Roar in From Britain For Heavy Attack

TWENTY-FGUR HOUR BOMBING SERVICE IS FURNISHED GERMANY  U. S. LIBERATORS TUES. DAY FOLLOWED NIGHT RAIDS BY RAF HEAVIES

LIBERATORS IN RAID ON COAST   Pas-De-Calais Rocket Coast Is Heavily Hit

Rocket Coast Bombarded by U. S. Planes  Second Heavy Assault On Mystery Sector

Yankee Bombers Heavily Attack “Rocket Coast”   British Blast  Southern France

Yank Bombers Blast Pas-De-Calais ‘Area of Invasion Coast For Today

PLANES ATTACK “ROCKET COAST’   U.S. Bombers Make  Assault in Overcast

INVASION COAST HIT HARD BY U.S.   British Blast Ammunitions Plant in France

‘ROCKET COAST’ OF FRANCE HIT   U. S$. Liberators Aim Second Heavy Blow at Sector In Three Days

French Targets Battered Again   Rocket Coast and Explosives Works Under Aerial Attack.

Germany-Held ‘Rocket Coast’ Again Bombed   American Liberators At tack, Pas-De-Calais;. RAF.  In France.

LIBERATORS HIT “ROCKET COAST”   RAF Bombers Blast Explosive Works In France

‘Rocket? Area Blasted by U.S. Bombers   ttack Follows British Blow at Explosive Plant in France

Roosevelt And Actress Bride Honeymooning   Elliott and Faye Emerson Married Sunday Morning In. Observation Station In Grand Canyon

Col, Roosevelt Weds Actress  Couple to Honeymoon At Grand Canyon, 7 ,. Rae tar. Po

Col. Roosevelt and Bride on Honeymoon   ONLY FEW FRIENDS WITNESS MARRIAGE AT GRAND CANYON

Board of Review.  Closes Sessions _ Ron esal Use of  ~ Electroliers 

Board of Review  Closes Sessions  Ron Illegal Use of Electroliers

Fighting Rages Along  40-Mile Front   Drive Is Seen as Opener for General Assault

YANKS SURGE THROUGH MUD ON WEST SIDE   Believed First Blow Of General Allied Onslaught

La Haye Du Puits Objective   Powerful Offensive Over Rain Soaked West France  Gains Momentum.

Bradley’s First Army Plows Through Mud in Big Smash at Enemy’s Main Defenses on Allied Route to Paris

Riussians Make 25-Mile Lunge  Across Danube   350 Communities Toppled By Red -Break-Through

SOVIETS DRIVE 25 MILES PAST DANUBE RIVER   Russians Outflank Budapest And Pose Mounting Threat To Austria   IMPORTANT CENTER CAPTURED BY REDS

Russian Advances Threaten Austria   Red Army Thrusts 25 Miles Westward Beyond Danube in Hungary—Great Offensive [s Confirmed by Stalin

Break-Througl Is Extended By Russians   Budapest Outflanked; Threat to Austria From Red Army Grows

REDS ADVANCE BEYOND DANUBE   Westward Thrust Of 25 Miles Is Mounting Threat To Austria

Russians Admit Offensive in South Hungary  Mounting Threat to Austria Is Being Posed

REDS OUTFLANK HUNGARY CAPITAL   THREAT TO AUSTRIA GROWS AS RUSSIANS PUSH 2 MILES BEYOND DANUBE.

Red Armies Roll Across Lithuania   More Officials to Be Arrest ed at Hartford — Death Toll Reaches 153 Today

Russians Slash Across Lithuania to Trap Germans   Nazi Retreat Is Reported by Swedish Paper

Soviets Continue Advance   Move Made to Trap Germans in Latvia, Estonia

Russians Race Toward Baltic   Reds Move to Trap German Divisions

Nazi Forces On Baltic Face Soviet Trap   Russian Forces Joined at Wilno, Turn to Reach the Baltic

British Big Guns Fire Al Enemy Ships Trying ‘Dover Straits ‘Sneak’

DEWEY GIVES PEACE VIEWS   Says U S., Britain, China, Russia Must Maintain “Solid Relations”

‘Solid Relations Among Big Four Essential, Dewey Says   New York Governor Addresses Newspaper Publishers in New York—Says Powers Must Co onerate During Panacea

Dewey Urges  Solid’  Foreign Policy Says International  Co- operation  WA wie Lf ry ow Linise.

Dewey Urges ‘Solid’ Foreign Policy   Says International Co-operation Main Objective

Dewey urges solid unity by allied powers  Must maintain a durahle eshesion

Solidarity Of Allies Is Dewey Plea   GOVERNOR OF NEW YORE AND POTENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ADVOCATES DURBAREF CONMESION.   Mutual Respect

COOPERATION OF FOUR POWERS IS POST-WAR NEED   Dewey Says People Wonder About Nation’s F oreign Policy   RUSSIA DIRECTED BY REALISTIC LEADERS

‘Solid Relations’ Among Big Four Urged by Dewey   Regarded as Necessary If Allies Are To Solve Post-War Problems

Dewey for Allied Unity After War   ‘Co )peration, borce To Preserve Peace’

Converted Ships To Carry Troops  Some Are Delivered For Coming Invasion

Jap Aircraft Plant, Naval Base Blasted   B-29s Destroy Or Damage 55  Defense Planes

Superforts Blast  Jap Industries  Strong Opposition Battered Down

Terrific Tank Battle Rages On French Front   Progress Made AH Along Line Says Night Report

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Builetins on Lates' ‘ World News Today,   Teqaans Contaeted.

He Wasn't Crazy: Army Flier Steals Bomber, Blasts Great Japanese Air Base at Rabaul

Pride, Scorn Greet Lone  Yank Raider   Army Chiefs Cite Courage Shown In Raid on Rabaul

Bulgaria Cuts Her Last Ties With Germany   Seeks Armistice With U. S. and Great Britain

BREAKS TIES WITH NAZIS   New Premier Repudiates Two Pacts With Axis

BULGARIA ASKS PEACE; WANTS TO BE NEUTRAL   Breaks With Nazis But Reds To Demand Active Aid

Bulgaria Breaks With Germany; Wants Armistice With Allies   Bowing To Powerful Red _ Armies Massed Along Frontier

BULGARIA HAS  CUT LAST TIES WITH PERMANY  BOLGss Gh   Orders Peace Emissaries In Cairo To Conclude Armistice With Allies

‘Neutrality in Soviet-German War Proclaimec   New Premier's Bid Doesn't Satisfy Moscow

BULGARIA QUITS AXIS COALITION   Peace Emissaries In Caire Told To Sign Armistice

Bulgars Quit Germany, Ask Neutral Status   Premier Orders Quick Armistice Action With Alli           Batkan Rift Grows

 YANKS CHANGE VERDUN SLOGAN   Not A Shot Fired From War I Fortress City, Symbol Of 4-Year Bloody Defense

YERDUN! ~ - 1917: “They Shall Not. Pass” 1944; “Fhey Shall Not Halt”

WHAT WAR BONDS MEAN _ Sacrifices? Ask the Boys In lialy What They Really Are!

fal VEE EOMINES OD WEL SAIN——  ‘Who Can Describe The Sacrifice In Italy?’

 . steaces: Air Smas1 Since >- as Jens rive n-o = ear 0: +0e’s “Anes _\e-encine touce -0 2 aris

Americans Take~Stronghold Of St. Lo In Normandy Peninsula  MONTGOMERY DRIVES HARD AT GATEWAY  New Offensive Catches The Germans By  _ Surprise

General Montgomery’s Forces Are Smashing Al Gateway To Interior France, Protecting Route Eastward To Paris 120 Miles Away

American and British Forces Leunch Huge Offensive to Roll Back German Defenses

YANKS WIN ST.LO AFTER BDAY FIGHT   Montgomery’s Armored ~ Forces Cross Orne River as Full-Scale Offensive Gets Under Way.    BIG AERIAL SMASH OPENS ONSLAUGHT   Push of Americans Imperils Coutances, 17 Miles East of Coastal Anchor of German Line.

Mf Battling by General Bradley’s Men Forcing German Withdrawal of Mile and Half.  Imperils Coutances

British Crush Caen Defense   Full-Scale Assault Recalls Historic El Alamein Blow

Allies Roll Across Plain Below Caen   Yanks Capture St. Lo And Germans Retreat At Other End of Line  AIRPOWER DECISIVE

British and Canadians Open Drive in Caen Area Under Cover of Great Aerial Force; Yanks Take St. Lo After Struggle

Cc anton Raided by U.S. Liberators   Started Fires Which Were Visible One Hundred Miles Away.

Doughboys Win Dramatic: Clash ~ Near Cherbourc   Don Whitehead Tells 0: Sealing Off Escape Corridor

SEE GERMANS IN CONFUSION ON PENINSULA   As Americans Advance Enemy Units Literrally Run in Circles; Cut Road Twice

Eye-Witness Tells of French Battle ee  Fanatical Nazi Attempt To Break Out Of Trap Defeated

“ALL IS CONFUSION AMONG NAZIS AS AMERICAN TROOPS CLIT CHERBOLIRG NECK   Tokyo Reports—

Germans in Confusion And Running in Circles, - Correspondent Asserts

Don Whitehead Tells Story of Peninsular Drive   Reports Massacre Of Nazi Troops

‘Dead Germans Litter Hedgerows and Meadows as Americans Rip Nast Division Apart lin One of Bloodtest Battles of Western Invasion

Jap Counterattack on Saipan Smashed      Ninth Division Yanks Put Stopper in Nazi Bottle

Kseape. bid — of Germans is frustrated  Thousands die it - hloodv massacre

Eye-Witness Tells of French Battle ay SERED OTE:  Fanatical Nazi Attempt To Break Out Of Trap Defeated

TRAP IS SET TO — ANNIHILATE JAPS   24th Infantrymen Drive a Spearhead Through ‘Mountain Country .

Nip Forces on North End of Leyte Island’s Bloody Corridor Confronted With Annihilation.   STRATEGY OF YANKS . IS WELL EXECUTED   Men of 24th Maintain Pressure Along Ormoc Road as Other Elements Swing . Through Mountains.

AMERICAN TRAP IS THREATENING JAPS AT ORMOC   Enemy Is Placed In Position Of Retiring Or - Being Annihilated   CLEVER STRATEGY J MAPPED BY M’ARTHUR

New Trap Is Fashioned by Americans   Enemy Must Retire or Be Wiped Out, MacArthur Reports

De re en ER numer te  ew Yank [rap on Leyte Big Threat ‘lo Enemy Forces

Jap Leyte Forces Face Annihilation   24th Infan try Division Pushes Line Through Mountains To Menace Nipponese Troops

Two Jap Destroyers, 11 Cargo Ships Sunk In Manila Bay Region   American Moves in Difficult Leyte Hills Upset Japanese Efforts to Take Initiative; Foe’s Effort to Reinforce Troops Nipped

MOVE THREATEN ANNTHILATE. FOE   @nfantrymen Drive Spearhead Through Hills   STRATEGY PERFECT   — Places Japs in Position of Having to Retire or Face Being Wiped Out

inst Cavalry nd Infantry rap Big Force   Strategy Outwits Enemy near Ormoc

YANKS FASHION NEW LEYTE TRAP   Move Is Directed to Wipe Out Japs on North End

Infantry Drives Spearhead Through Rugged Mountain Country to Threaten Yamashita Line in Well Executed Strategy, MacArthur  DRanarte

Jap Ormoc Forces Face Annihilation   New Enveloping Move By American Vets Poses Trap

Japs on Leyte Faced by New American Trap   Annihilation of Foe At Northern End Of Ormoc Threatened

Russian Forces Sweep Through Whole Series Of Hedgehog Outposts, Converge On Pskov From Three Directions Today   BOMBERS POUND INVADING COAST

Fliers Have Field Day.    RCPS War et ss  Railroads Planning Monopoly

ATTACK RESULTS STILL UNCERTAN, ~ EXPECT TRIUMPH   Japanese Radio Says Ameri: can “Mechanized Units’ Landed and Fighting h Now Going On.   KILL, CAPTURE MANY GERMANS IN UKRAINE   Berlin Radio Reports Stara ya Russa, Fortifications Have Been Evacuated in Major Retreat.

POWERFUL JAP FLEET BELIEVED CAUGHT AT TRU   Great Triumph, Admiral Hints

Hard Blow to Nippon Fleet  ‘ Battleships Believed ‘Caught in Air Attack On Pacific Base

Report American  Raid On Manila   Japs Claim Attack On Shipping “Ineffective”

Reds Battle Deeper Into Pskov Area   GERMAN 14TH ARMY GIVES UP ITS 8D MAJOR EFFORT ‘tO DISLODGK BEACHHEAR.

GUAM AND ROTA  ARE APPARENTLY OUT OF THE WAR   Knocked Out by the Same Type of Fighting That . Was Used at Saipan

Jap Air Force On Guam, Rota Is Knocked Out   Sec. Forrestal Reveals 15,053 American Casualties On Saipan.

JAP AIR FORCES ON GUAM, ROTA ABOUT FINISHED   Enemy-Held Guam, Bet+een Daily Bombings That ““iave Lasted Nearly a Week, Shelled Spasmodically. By Warshins

Guam Airforce Is Knocked Out   Steady Daily Pounding Eliminates Threat; Saipan Casualties Total 15,053

GUAM DRAWING U.S. ATTENTION   Enemy Air Force Appears To  Have Been Knocked Out hy Americans. -

Saipan Fight Casualties Set at 15,053   2,359 Americans Killed in Action: Navy and Air Blows Hit Guam

Next Allied Landings — On Guam?   Move Indicated By. Heavy Sea and Air Bombardment; Trapped Japs Strike at Aitape

Guam Airforce Knocked Out By Steady Attacks   Jap-Held Island Subjected To Same Type Of Pounding As Saipan.

i Vedi aa . . 15,053 American Casualties Price ‘Of Saipan Victory   Japs Lost More Thar  22,000; Naval -Chie: - Warns Saipan Is Ex  ample Of Tough Goin;  That Can Be Expectec  Henceforth.

U.S. Normandy Losses 16,434   76,535 Wounded and 19,704 Missing Since  Invasion Beran.

Lists 16,434 Deac in French Drive   Report Made on Normandy Casualties

U.S. Normandy Losses 16,434   76,535 Wounded and 19,704 Missing Since  Daou enti as

Joseph Eastman  Dies of Illness .   ODT Head Started Work As Official Under Wilson

J, B. Eastman Dies Suddenly   Director Defense Transportation Dies in Washinaton

HEAD, DIES: WAS WL ONE MONTH   Was Considered One of Leading Authorities in Transport Field

WARTIME RAIL BOSS STRICKEN   Two Federal Offices Are Left Vacant By Death Of Joseph Eastman

High Official Taken by Death  Joseph Eastman ni Powe  Sa ek: Cosel

J.B. EASTMAN STRICKEN AT WASHINGTON   Director of Defense Transportation Dies in Hospital After 25 Years on ICC and Other Jobs.

ODT DIRECTOR EASTMAN DIES   Veteran Federal Official Ii For Several Weeks

Joseph Eastman  Is Dead   DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION CHIEF DIES AT AGE OF 61

HEART AILMENT GIVEN AS CAUSE 0F SUDDEN DEATE   NAMED DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION BY ROOSEVELT IN 1942

JOSEPH B, EASTMAN CALLED BY DEATH   Transportation Director Had Been Ill Several Weeks

Eastman, ODT  Director, Dies      Deceased Was ICC Member: Kor OQuvarter Century

JOSEPH B, EASTMAN, ODT HEAD, DIES AT 61   Passes Suddenly At Capital: Was Member Of ICC

Transportation . Director Dead   Joseph B. Eastman, Long Member Of LC.C., Passes Away.

PASSES TODA   Eastman Was One of Foremost Authorities in Transport Field.

EASTMAN, ODT CHIEF, IS DEAD   Heart Ailment Closes Long Career in Public Service

JOSEPH EASTMAN SUCCUMBED TO HEART ATTACK—HIGHLY REGARDED PUBLIC  “OFFICIAL

J.B. Eastman, ICC Veteran, Passes At 61   Former Resident  Of New England

Tilness Fatal  To Eastman   U.S. Railway Chief Expires At Capital

J.B. EASTMAN, HEAD OF ODT, ON ICC, DIES   Co-Ordinator of Railroads During Depression Succumbs After Several Weeks IlIness   ILL PAST MONTH   Death Leaves Gen. Charles D. Young as Deputy in Temporary Charge of ODT

ODT DIRECTOR DIES IN CAPITAL   Joseph Eastman Succumbs From Coronary Occlusion

Director Of Transportation Passes Away   Walter Eastman Dies ir Washington After Extended Illness

EASTMAN, UDT DIRECTOR, DIES   DEATH LEAVES VACANT TRANSPORTATION POST

State Convention To Last Two Days   Pro-Roosevelt Forces Win,Test Votes In State's Most Hectic Party Convention

Pro-Roosevelt Democrats Win Test in Texas   Beat Anti-Fourth Term Men on Delegate Issue; Delay Elector Fight

RESULTS SOON NOT EXPECTED IN PEACE DEAL   Think Russians Will Not Demand Complete Finn Surrender

Debate Leniency of Russ Action   Soviets May Not Demand Surrender of Poles

Tanker and Two Liberty Ships Reported Sunk   44 Officers and Men Lost When Oil Vessel Is Torpedoed

SETTLE LABOR DISPUTE   But Other Controversies Kept About 8,600 Workers Idle

20,000 Still Idle in War  Dlants anf VT, ,  EGIILD UL UYU   Labor Picture Brighter As Foremen Go Back in Detroit

LABOR TIRED OF P.A.C.   Brownell Says Hillman’s Activl« ties Irk the Ranks

CIO Seeking Strangle Hold on New Deal, GOP Leader Asserts   Growing Revulsion in Labor Ranks Is Noted By Committee Chief; Governors Speak in Interest of Dewey Candidacy

Tojo Is Bounced From Premiership   Jap War Overlord Replaced By An Unknown, Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu

PREMIER QUITS AS STAFF CHIEF   Admits in Broadcast Japan Faces Unprecedented National Crisis

Tojo Ousted As Chief of General Staff   Tokyo Broadcast Fails To Mention Status. Of Other Posts

Soviets Outflank Lwow Fortress, Cross Bug River Gen. Konev Aims For Puppet State

REDS FORCE BUG RIVER DEFENSES AT KRISTINOPOL   Lwow Fortress Outflanked In 31-Mile Advance

RUSS TROOPS ARE CROSSING BUG RIVER   Fortress of Lwow Outflanked From the North

REDS READY TO STRIKE PUPPET GEN’L OF POLAND   Konev’s Troops Are Pouring Thru 124-Mile Hole

RED ARMY DRIVE TOWARD BERLIN GAINS OVER 30 MILES IN ONE DAY   Lwow, Poland’s_ Third Largest City, Gravely Imperiled By New Of feneive.

SOVIET ARMIES POUR THROUGH GAPS IN LINES   Ukrainian Army Ontflanks Naz  Fortress Of Lwow In Reich Drive

LWOW FORT OUTFLANKED BY RUSSIANS   Konev Army Pours Thru 124 Mile Hole In Nazi Defenses

Reds Qutflank Lwow in Drive Aimed at Reich   Prepare to Smash Across Bug; SovictGerman Border in ‘39

SOVIETS READY FOR PUSH INTO POLISH AREA:   First Army Pours Thru 124Mile Hole in Nazi Southeast Defenses

Prepare To Cross Bug River Border Into Poland   OFFENSIVE AIMED SQUARELY AT REICH   More Than 600 Towns And Villages Have Been Liberated

BUG RIVER REACHED BY RED ARMY   New Offensive Aimed Direct at Heart of Germany

Reds Get Set F or Plunge Into Poland   New Soviet Drive Aimed Directly At Reich.

TEXAS A. AND M. HAS BEEN HARMED CLAIM FORMER STUDENTS  SEVERAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH WALTON CONTROVERSY

FIVE MORE JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK   Yank Bombers Win In Aerial Battle Over Rabaul

Three Enemy Ships in Rantoul Harbor  Sunk by Bombers   Three Other Probable Sinkings Reported by Americans

 Navy Bombers Strike At ‘Kusaie In Caroline Group; Bitter Battle Indicates Nips’ Airforce Not  Deteriorating As Previously Reported

Planes Sink Three Jap Vessels   Probably Five More Sent to Bottom At Rabaul Harbor

U. 8. Fliers Sink Five Jap Ships In Rabaul Harbor  Nips Down 12 U.S. Planes’ Tn Air Rantle

Bombers Sink Jap Vessels   Add to Rabaul Graveyard; Airforce Not Deteriorating

Yank Bombers — Sink 3 More. Jan Vessels   Eight of Twelve’ “Merchant Ships in Rabaul Harbor » Are Blasted. -. :   200. PLANES ARE LOCKED IN BATTLE   Japs Lose: Between 18: and 33 Planes and 12 UV. S....Planes Are Missing

Yanks Bag 3 Ships   ..« 2 Other Jap Vessels Are ‘Probably Downed’

Allied Navy Planes Sink  3 Jap Ships   Five More Probables .Destroyved Off Rabaul Harbor: Serious Raids.   RAID CAROLINE BASE

SINK 3 SHIPS IN RABAUL HARBOR   Damage Others in Huge Air Battle Over Nip Target -

JAP AIRFORCE NOT WEAKENEL      Evidenced in Hard Fought Battle Monday Over Rabaul.   IBOMBERS SINK 3 SHIPS)

U. S. BOMBERS SINK JAP SHIPS, BATTLE ZEROS   Eight Oui of 12 Vessels Hit in Rabaul Harbor, Three Sunk Cerfainly, Two More Probably   JAPS GIVE BATTLE   Shoot Down 12 American Plane: to Loss of 18, Possibly 33, 0 Own—Japs Improving

Three More Jap Shins Are Sunk  Air Battle Shows Nip Air Force Still Strong

AMERICANS WIN RABAUL HARBOR AERIAL BATTLE   SINK 3, POSSIBLY 5 JAPANESE SHIPS; LOSE 12 AIRCRAFT

AMERICAN BOMBERS SINK 3 JAP SHIPS   Rabaul Shipping Is Hit Hard; 42 Aircraft Lost

Three, Maybe Five More Ships Sunk In Rabaul Harbor   American Spokesman Says Japs Still Have Good Planes, Pilots

American Bombers Sink Enemy Ships at Rabaul  Two Rival Air Forces Stage Battle in - Skies Over Jap Base

Yanks Win Air Battle Over Rabaul   Bombs Sink 3 To 5 Jap Ships; Enemy Loses 18 To 33 Planes.

3 to 5 More Jap Vessels Sunk, Rabaul   Aerial Battle Indicates Nipponese Are Not Yet Deteriorating

Furious Air Battle At Rabaul   Allied Flyers See No Deterioration in Jap Airforce; Five Enemy Ships Probably Sunk

Yankees Sink Three Vessels   Probably Send Five More Jap Ships to Bottom of Pacific

AMERICAN PRECISION  BOMBERS SEND ENEMY  SHIPS TO SEA BOTTON HEAVY AIR OPPOSITION  MET BY UNITED STATES . RAIDING FORCES

NAVY BOMBERS IN FIRST RAID ON CAROLINES   Carry War 700 Miles Closer to Tokyo: Jap Air Resistance Strong as Yanks Hit Rabaul.

YANKS BATTER IAP. SHIPPING   Three, Possibly Five Ves- sels Sunk In Rabaul  Harbor

Yanks Sink 3 Jap Ships In Air Blow   200 Planes In Battle Over New Britain; Americans Lose 12,  Down At Least 18

Jap Ships “Are Sunk in ‘Rabaul Raid   Eight “Probables” Listed in Furious. Attack; Nipponese Resistance Strand

Bombers Sink 3 Nippon Ships in Damaging Raid Upon Harbor at Rabaul

U. S. Bombers Sink Three Perhaps Eight, Japanese Ships In Rabaul Harbor

EXTENT OF DAMAGE DONE BY GERMAN COUNTERDRIVE WILL BE KNOWN ONLY WHEN TEST COMES

Great and Decisive Battle May Be Expected In ‘Area Overrun by German Drive Into Belgium

MacKenzie Says—  Major Test Of German  Power Near   Titanic Battle Looms On West Front In Near Future; U. S. Hurts Not Known

Great Battle Expected For West Europe   Still Oppertunity for Eisenhowet Forces to Unleash K.O. Drive Against Germans   By DEWITT MACKENZIE ,A BP War Analwet)

Great, Decisive  The War Today  ‘ On Western Front  SS SO  —L—EE

WPB Official Urges 10 Billion Road System   To be composed of nine -super-highways running both diree i eS a a ae ae ee

38 Jap Planes Destroyed In Heavy Attack On Davao   Bombers Drop 110 Tons In Heaviest Assault Yet Made In Philippines; Mighty Attack Also Carried Out On Installations On Palau Island

PHILIPPINES BOMBED ANEW   110-Ton Raid Launched On Davao; Downing 38 Planes

U.S. Raiders Blas 38 Jap Planes in  Attack on Davao Heaviest Philiopine   Heaviest Philippine Blow Announced;  Other Areas Hit

1] States Delay Soldiers Count  National Result May Come Weeks Late

G1, MAY HOLD KEY TO ELECTION   Result May Not Be Known Until Soldier Vote Is Counted, even Weeks After Election Day

* Close Election Looms: ‘Soldier Votes May Decide Race; : Delayed Count in Eleven States

SOLDIER VOTES COULD DECIDE   : Winner May Not Be Known For Weeks If National Election Is Close

SOLDIER VOTE MAY HOLD UP RESULTS   Possibility Grows That the Outcome May Long be _ Delaved

Soldier Vote May Swing  Election If  JtIsClose —   Many Soldier Ballots Will Not Be Counted For. Days or: Weeks After Election. Day  PENNA. “DOUBTFUL:

BALLOT COUNTS TO BE DELAYED   Presidential Winner May Hinge On Late Soldier Vote

U.S. SUBS BAG 16 MORE SHIPS   American Vessels on Patrol Increase Toll of Jap Boats to 477

U.S. Subs Step Up Jap Damage  16 More Ships Go ’ Down Over Pacific

U.S. Subs Sink 16 More Ships In Jap Waters   Large Tanker Tops List of New Bag; 10 Cargo Ships Included

HOUSE PROVIDES FOR LEGAL TESTS OF PRICE CONTROL  1eRIicL_ aTina GTi i   LEGISLATION STILL FACES THREAT OF VETO BY PRESIDENT

Price Controls Extended  Year   Facing Threat of Veto by Presiden?

House Passes Bill Extending Control of Prices One Year   Senator Hints Veto i Measure Goes to the White House

Price Confrol May Still Face Danger Of Vetc   Congress Clears Way For Recess By Passing Bill

FDR May Ye Veto Price Control Bill   Opposes Court's Test OPA Rules

Passage Of Bill Extending Price. Control May Pave Way For Recess

GREECE CLEARED OF NAZI TROOPS   ENEMY FLEES INTO SERBIA, ALBANIA TO ESCAPE TRAP   BULLL.TIN

Polar Bear Chews Off Girls Arm   MISS CATHERINE SEARLES, MEMBER OF MIDNIGHT CLUB PARTY; VICTIM OF CENTRAL PARK ANIMAL,   Has Chance to Live

900 Pound Bear Chews Girl's Arm   Unusual Tragedy In Central Park

Girl Loses Arm W aving ‘Hankie’ ‘at. Polar Bear In Central Park Zoo

Robert McCau McCauley  Married i in Erie   Former Resident Of Smethport

DRAFTS TERMS ~ FOR ARMISTICE   Hull Reveals U. S. Engaged in Preparing for Defeat of Germany

- Service Matrimony Can Pro duce Some Tangles, But This One Isn’‘t  Bad, Really!

Denies Raised Corn Ceiling   OPA Administrator Bowles Savs No Increase Contem plated This Year.

US, FLYERS HIT JAPS FROM AIR OVER WIDE ARE!   Paramushiru and Shimushu in Home Chain, Marshalls, i Ponape Blasted

REDS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE IN THE FAR NORTE   Sprung From Point 70 Miles East of Riga Gulf.

Authorities Discredit  “Confession”  Don’t Want Man As Girl Killer

Russians Mass For New Drive  ‘Quiet Before Storm’ Reigns Along Front; Crimea Crisis Neor

Axis Afraid That Russia Will Strike With Allies   Lull Over Eastern Front. Is Reported

Soviets Report Lack Of Notable Action   Russians Said Gathering Tremendous Force For Big New Offensive; ‘Quiet Before Storm’   Manpower Biggest Problem Facing Leaders Of Germany

Soviets Regrouping In Poland; Attack May Coincide With Allied Assaults

Germans See Attack Timed With Invasion   Russians Prepare For Offensive at Time Allies Strike, Berlin Declares

Nazis Say Reds Forming Poland Offensive Lines   Aim to Coincide With Allied Invasion From Western Sector

Reds Report Eastern Front Is Quiet  Nazis Say Soviets Preparing for

LULL OMINOUS ON RED FRONT   Russians ~ Are Believed Preparing For Great New Offensive

Reds Report Eastern Front Is Quiet   Nazis Say Soviets Preparing for Great Offensivas

Declare Russians Are Re forming Lines to Strike ts: Poland When Allies. Cross Channel. :         SOVIET FLEET MOVES. _ TOWARD SEVASTOPOL   Dispatches From Crimes Say Warships Will Join Land: Forces for Final As-. aguit on City.

Dependents of Captives to Be Paid   LAW WILL BENEFIT 1206 FAMILY MEMBERS OF MISSING WORKERS

Junior Red Cross Members Active  In War Work   Have Raised Money And Donated Work ‘For Many Causes

ALLIES CAPTURE TOWN IN BURMA   Maungdaw Is Coastal City, 60 Miles Northwest of Akyab

Concerted Blow Against German Cities Ils Made   British Ban Travel To Overseas Points From West Front Areas; Permits End Thursday Night: Reich Aqain Bled By Bombers

OIL PACT SIGNED BY U.S. BRITAIN   To Serve As Pattern for Other Agreements

US. and Britain Sign ‘Model’ Oil Agreement  Other Nations  Invited to Join. tn the? &, Dawn

Oil Pact Hailed as  Pattern   British, U. S. Sign Agreement to End Strife for Product

Anglo-U. S. Oil Pact May Serve, As Pattern For Future Agreements

INTENSIVE WAC DRIVE TO OPEN HERE TOMORROW   Day-Long Drive To Begin at Breakfast Friday Morning

MAIN ESCAPE ROUTE FOR GERMANS MAY BE CUT NEAR ROME   Cairo Radio Reports Vital Highway Already Severed; Allied Spearheads Smash 12 Miles Inland From Beachhead   rn. C¢ R CUNNINGHAM

hth Army Within Striking Distance Of Appian Way   Germans Rush Troops in Effort To Halt Advance

Germans Rushing Reinforcements To Rome Front   Americans Push Back Counter-Attacks In Rapido River Vicinity

Invasion Forces. Have Progressed  12 Miles Inland.   Nazis Rush Several “Battle Groups’ From Southern Italy Front

EXPANSION LOOMS FOR MURRAY'S UNION   Aluminum Workers May Be Admitted as Members

ClO UNIOKS JOIN ~ AT CONVENTION   Steelworkers Merge WitI Aluminum Workers

0-Mile Hole Made Into Gothic Line  Fifth Lashes Out  Across Arno Setting ltelinm Evawnt ALIWW

MORE THAN 10,000 JAP TROOPS KILLED IN PALAU ISLANDS   Yanks Now Control Peleliu, Anguar and Other Areas 515 Miles East of the Philippines.   NIMITZ SEES NEED OF MORE SUPPLIES   Admiral Calls for Stepped-Up Production on Home Front to Provide Weapons for Impending Drives.

Nimitz Spurs U.S. Industry   Production Help Is Asked Pe Pane  Winwcmeeesmen:

NIMITZ URGES MORE OUTPUT BY HOME FRONT   MaterialsNeeded Ta Carry Out Conquest In Pacific

NIMITZ = ASKS PRODUCTION SPEEDED UP   To Facilitate Movement Toward Philippines; Strong Fooothold — in Palau Islands Gained.

DRIVE TOWARD PHILIPPINES 18 GOING STRONG   HOME FRONT MUST SPEED SUPPLIES TO HAWAII

Adm. Nimitz Asks More Production For Pacitfie   Heard as Japanese Take Steps To Boost Nippon’s Production Of Synthetic Oil  TAP LOSSES HICH

Health Director To Take New Job   Markwith Hits Delay In Naming Successor

NEW REGULATIONS ALSO CALL FOR REVIEW OF CASES OF MEN IN 26-29 .AGE : GROUP -

MEN OVER 29 GET INDEFINITE DEFERMENTS   New Rules Designed To Fill Draft Calls From Group Under 26

DRAFT CALLS OF NEXT HALF YEAR BECKON YOUTHS   New Program Designed To Fill Service Needs From Draftees Under 26   UNESSENTIALS SLATED   Men More Than 26 Helping War Effort May Remain in Civilian Life

AECESSARY MEN ABOVE 26 YEARS GET NEW DELAY   Hershey Cites Reduced Need; b Policy to Stand at Least Six Months

THOSE 26 10 23 DEFERRED “FOR TIME BEING’   Draft to Take Young: er Men or Non-Essential Workers

Presidential Action In Montgomery Ward Strike Is Believed Imminent

New Weapon Used Against England   Detachable Aircraft Used Friday Night

GOP Seeks Farm Aid In Shaping Party Platform  Agricultural Heads Invited To Sit

GOP GALLS MEET OF FARM LEADERS   Group to Meet at Chicago to Work Out Agricultural Platform for Submission to  — GOP National Convention

GOP Calls Meeting Of Farm Leaders To Map Out A ‘Comprehensive Agriculture Platform’

Admits Germany Might Surrender But No Peace Terms  Within Seven Weeks

CHURCHILL, EDEN PREDICT VICTORY ~ MAY COME SOON   Prime -Minister Says  That German Arimes on Every Battle Front Are Recoiling From Allied Assautts.   ASSERTS NAZIS REAP. RESULTS OF PLANNINC   eee Secretary Eden Indi:  cates Surrender of Enem ls Possibility Within Nex’  Seven Weeks.

Blockade Agains! Nazis Tightened   Halt Shipment of Goods to Enemy

National Cotton Week Serig Observed In Collin County; Governor Issues Proclamation

Senate Due for Big Face-Lifting In New Session  10 Changes Made In Primaries With Elections to Come

Yank Paratroops Land Behind Foe In North Burma   Daring Move Catches Enemy By Surprise, Threatens Jap Lines

Soviets Storm Polish Fortress   Airdrome Captured; Hitler Reported Evacuating Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia; Russians Speed Drive on Bialystok

‘Several U.S. Ships Damaged By Land-Based Jap Planes  But U. S. Air Forces Continue to Take  " Heavy Toll of Enemy Ships in Philippines

4? Mills Closed By Wage Dispute   13,000 Quit Jobs in Protest Against WLB

Army of Wasps and Flies from New Jersey to Descend on Prairie State

Yanks Seize Mokmer Base   Biak Airdrome Is Stormed From Rear And Nips Routed

RENCH PATRION OUPS TIE UP AZI DIVISIONS   Occupy Several Border Areas

FRENCH HARASS GERMAN FORCES   Eisenhower Pays Tribute To Aid From Patriots

TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY   French Patriots Striking Behind German Lines Draw ‘Praise From Gen. Eisenhower

French Patriots Strike Behind  German Lines ~   Several Localities Near Swiss Border Reported Captured

French Patriots ~ Aid Allied Armies   Slow. up German Reinforcements

French Tie Up Nazi Divisions In East France   Great Behind-The-Line Actions Play Havoe With Enemy Forces

Yankees Sweep By Avranches  In Steady Push   British Troops Smashing Ahead Around Caumont

Yanks Break Info Brittany Across Selune   Push From Avranches, While British Start Brives Toward Paris

cross Selune as Whole 80 Mile Front Finds Germans.  Camnlarale Tiaranealiead °

Yank Tanks Sweep Into Brittany   British Drive 11 Miles South of  Caumont

Huns Giving Up InNormandyTc U. Soin Drove:   - . Ls Tank Colunins of Ameri eau Forées Storm ‘Acrass Selune River From Captured Avranches   Carry Invasion Into Brittany   British, On Allied Eas Flank, Poinied .Taward Paris, Drive 11° Miles South of Cammoant

Selune River Is Crossed by U.S. Invaders   'Nazis? Front Appears to  Be Shattered as Yanks ] Pass Avyranches   iBRITISH MOVING UP   Tommies Head for Paris in Pusk to 11 Miles South of Caumont

British And Canadian Troops Join Up With Yanks In Big Push As Disorganized German Forces Surrender

Gain 4 Miles  la  Caumont Sector      Americans In Position To Cut Off Bit tany Peninsula Or Move Directly Toward Paris a e

LINE APPEARS TO BE BROKEN   American Tank Forces Rol Over Selune River Past Captured Avranches

Thousands View Cardinal’s Body AtHub Cathedral   Over 2000 School Children Pay Final Tribute At Solemn Requiem Mass

INVESTIGATING HOSPITAL CASE   St. Louis Doctor Makes Charges that City Hospitals are Refusing to Admit Maternity Cases of Wives of Servicemen.

Cribs Sought For Babies  Born In Doctor’s Office   Twins Of South Pacifie Veteran and Mechanic's Baby Now Sleeping In Dresser Drawers; Hospitals Refuse Admission To Mothers, Says Doctor

Japs Flee as U. S. Troops Take Stronghold on Guam   Town of Yigo Captured in Attack

Churchill, FR Session May  Be Held Soon   Would Plan Peace; Map War Against Japs in Pacific Area

Big American Force Closes In For Battle   Halmahera  And Celebes Are Bombed   MacArthur Says Our Air: Force Now Dominates the Southern Philippines; No Air Resistance at Mindanao   Important Developments Impending in War on Japan

London Believes  FDR, Churchill  Meet Again Soon Quebec Believed Likely Site  of Parleys io Plan European Pasre Parific Warlare

Expect Creation Of Master Plan ~"Fo Crush Japan   May Be Formulated By  Churchill-And Roosevelt At Anticipated Parley

Churchill, FDR Meet Nearing   May Discuss Plan To Throw Might Of Allies Against Japs

Quebec Meet Near, Belief  F. R., Churchill To Map Pacific Campaig:

GENERAL SIGNS OF IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS CLOSE AT HAND IN ALLIES’ WAR UPON TAPAN

Believe FDR Churchill To  Confer Soon   May Map Peace Plans At Quebec

FA. CHURCHILL TO MEET AT QUEBEC?      To Plan for Unleashing of Allied’ Might Against Janan.

"Important Events Coming Soon In War On Japan— —By De Witt Mackenzic (/t  ‘Halmahera, Palau Gateway To Philippines

Florence Being Taken Over By ritish Troops   Eighth Army Units Enter Ancient City As Germans Retreat

ALLIES TAKING FLORENCE TODAY   Germans Admit They Have Retreated Northward in Italy.

Jap Resistance  Said Weakening   Three Loaded Enemy Transports Are Sunk

Jap Resistance At Ormoc Is Losing Punch   Three More Small Enemy Transports Sunk bv Americans

RESISTANCE ON LEYTE LIGHTER   Jap Blows Weaken; Yanks Sink Three More Ships

VETERANS BILL 1S PASSED BY SENATE   Major Item of Business Remaining Before Badger Legislature.

Department Of Vets Affairs Created By Measure; Provide Aid  For Children

Department Of Veterans’ Affairs Created Under Terms Of Bill Passed By 27 to 2 Vote

STETTINIUS 1S SWORN IN AS SEC'Y STATE   Brief Ceremony Held ir Office at State Department

Stettinius Takes Oath, Begins Term   FORTY-SEVENTH SECRETARY OF STATE PROMISES TO CONTINUE POLICIES OF SECRETARY CORDELL HULL   ‘Hopes For Hull’s Recovery

First Task of New Secretary is Completion of Dumbarton Oaks Plan

New Secretary of State Sworn in, Faces Bie Task:   Must Coisplete Security Plans and Arrange for United Nations Meet

BIG JOB FACED BY STETTINIUS   Industrialist - Diplomat Sworn In As New U.S. Secretary Of State

GREEN FLINGS CHALLENGE T0 GEN, MARSHALI   Blames Labor Unrest On F. D. Regime In Reply To Strike Warning

GREEN SCORES ADM’N FOR LABOR UNREST  CIO Chief Murray  A a (o = cee

Blame Roosevelt  For Labor War   Claim Marshall Made  Critical Statements

GOVT. BLAMED IN UNREST OF LABOR UNION‘   Some Senators Join A.F.L. Chief Green in Denouncing Administration of Roosevelt.

Labor Unrest Is Blamed On  Administration   Government Officials Are Incompetent In Dealing With Labor Matters,   ‘Asserts William Green

MARY PICKFORD IN MEXICO   Is Vacationing With Husband Who Has Short Leave

Mighty Air Fleets Raid Nazi Lines   Suport Given Ground Fighting In France

Aerial Raids on Nazis Stepped Up   3,500 Warplanes Take Part in Newest Assaults

George Norris, TVA Founder, Dies At Home   Former Senator Also Au. thor Of ‘Lame Duck’ Amendment

NORRIS AT ad SUCCUMBS 10 HEART STROKE   Death Comes Four Days After Suffering a Cerebral Hemorrhage.

George W. Norris Dies at Home  In Nebraska   Former Senator One of Nation’s Foremost Liberals

George W. Norris, Former Senator,  Dies at Age of 83  Tribute Paid by Both Demo and GOP Solon: to Nebraska Liberal

FORMER SENATOR NORRIS SUCCUMBS   Veteran of 40 Years in Congress, Father of Tennessee Valley Authority Passes at Home in Nebraska

GEORGE NORRIS IS DEAD AT 83   Former Nebraska Senator, ‘Father of TVA Succumbs to Cerebral Hemorrhage

G. W. Norris, Former U. S. Senator, Dies   TVA Father’ Sponsored Anti-Lame Duck Rider to Constitution

Death Claims Late Senator  George Norris   Qne of Natiou’s Foremost Liberals and Veteran in “Congress Dies at Age 83

Ex-Senator Norris Dies   End Comes at 83 to Noted Liberal, 40 Years in Congress

Former Senator Norris of Nebraska, Independent Leader. Dies at Ace of 83

Former Senator George W. Norris Die: At Nebraska Home; Lawmaker Was Father of TVA, Lameduck Bill

SENATOR NORRIS DIES AT HOME   Death Claims Veteran Solon, 83; Leading Liberal

George W. Norris, veteran statesman, dies in McCook   _ 9,  _ Former senator was 83; ‘lame duck’  bill, TVA among top achievements

i ot Reed. ea ee! CUI cane ey tt eee ee eee  George W. Norris Of Senate Fame Dies   Famous Liberal Spent 40 Years in Congress

George W. Norris Dies at McCook  Veteran Liberal Succumbec ta Attach

Ex-Sen. Norris Dies at Home   Cerebral Hemorrhage Fatal 7 Be Bless es

SEN, NORRIS OF NEBRASKA DIES   Former Solon Was 40-Year Veteran Of Congress

Former U. S. Senator Norris  Dies At Home   Independent Of Nebraska Was In Congress 40 Years

Death Takes  Sen. Norris   Famed U.'$.‘Liberal. Passes’ In. Nebraska

DEATH CLOSES NORRIS’ CAREEF   Former Senator, Famed as Insurgent, Dies at 83

Germans Are Making Orderly Withdrawal Along Western Half Of Front   ONLY PATROL AND ARTILLERY ACTION ON BRITISH SECTOR   Allied Air Force Is Carrying Out Large-Scale Raids Throughout Europe

YANK DRIVE SWEEPS THRU COUTANCES TO WEST NORMANDY COAST EIGHT MILES — BELOW CITY; TAKE 8.000 PRISONERS   TEN TO 12 DIVISIONS WITH 2500 TANKS SMASH GERMANS BACK IN OFFENSIVE DESIGNED TO CARRY INTO HEART OF FRANCE.

RUSSIANS SEIZE TRANSPORT CITY   Valga Captured, Special  Communique Reports

Says German Reserves Sent to Front   Goebbels Says Hitler Escape in Bombing Is a Miracle

--GOEBBELS—  German Reserves To Front   Himmler Orders All Troops To Combat; Plotters At Large   Complete Overhaul.

GOEBBELS BROADCASTS   Tells Germans Situation Soon Will Change in Their Favor

Said the: Situation, Especially ‘in ‘the: East, . Will: Soon: a : Favor Germany...      RESULT OF ““MEASURES’:   Claimed Washington, London ‘and Moscow Had-Hand.in Hitler: Bombing.

Hitler Blast Laid fo Allies   Goebbels Rails   Goebbels Rails At United Nations

Himmler Calls All Reserves   Goebbels, on Radio, Says Miracle Saved Hitler From Bomb; ‘Thought My Head Was Gone’ ; Admits Some Plotters Escaped

EPO TOAD RELGH DARED ~ BY GDEBBEL   Himmler to Move Alf Home Front Reserves to Battle Lines.

Three Motorists —  Lose Gas Rations   > Treble Damages For Overceiling Charge

Reds Beat Off Strong German Counterattacks   Crack Nazi Panzer Divisions Fail To  Stop Russ Formations

COUNTER-BLOWS BY NAZIS FAIL TO HALT SOVIET INVADER TROOPS   Reds Deepen Thrust Into Germany’s Soil

RUSSIANS SMASH 20 MILES INTO PRUSSIA   Reds Beat Off Counterblows By Four Panzer Divisions And Close On Insterburg, Imnortant, Junction   Rv HENRY SHAPIRO

Russians Drive Forward On Both Sides Of Railroad With Numerically Superior Forces Of Men   ATTACK LAUNCHED TO CAPTURE MEMEL

Reds Beat Off Counterblows In E. Prussia   Force Nazis Back To Outer Defenses Guarding Insterburg

SOVIETS DEEPEN SPEARHEAD IK EAST PRUSSIA   Nazi Counterattacks Beaten Off In Drive Toward Gumbinnen Sector

Reds Force Nazis Back  In Prussia  3rd White Russian Army Reported Destroying 100 Naz: Tanke a Dav

Nazi Panzer Troops Fail To Halt Pus   Germans Are Forced To Outer Defenses Of Insterburg.

REDS DEEPEN SPRARHEAD-IN EAST PRUSSIA   Beat Off Heavy Counter-Attacks Of Germans

inth Isle In alaus Group  vin Occupy      Moving Inland On Garakayo, North Of Peleliu; No Word From Halsey

STRIKE SERIOUSLY CRIPPLES WAR WORK  AT PHLADELPHIA   Another Similar Strike Halts Street Car and Bus Service in Montreal.

PRODUCTION ARMY EQUIPMENT, WEAPONS ARE RUNNING BEHIND ACTING SECRETARY OF  __ WAR PATTERSON SAYS  HOTrporr ecrnpree Ta rTrporre

Output of Army Equipment Lags  Field Guns, Tanks,  Rulldozvere Trucke

WAR PRODUCTION BEHIND SCHEDULI   Acting Secretary of War Says Schedules Not Met Second Quarter

Patterson Reports War Output Is Behind Schedule  Tank Destroyers, Big Guns, Other Items Do Not Meet Quotas

Output for Army Behind Schedule   Patterson Opposes Reconversion Plan

Army Production Behind Schedule  Lag Is 400 Millions   Lag Is 400 Millions For Second Quarter Patterson Reports

BIG BATTLE STILL RAGES FOR CASSING   Furious Assaults Are Made In South te Relieve Imperiled Beachhead.   BULLETIN

DEFENDERS BLOCK 6 POWERFUL THRUSTS   Nazi Tanks And Infantry Hit Stone Wall; Battle Equally Fierce In South Sector At Cassino

American And British Troops Smash Back 6 Powerful Nazi Drives   Germans Take Advantage Of Poor Weather Conditions Hampering Allied Shipping, Air Action

Danger To Allied Troops In Italy Great: Patterson   Undersecretary of War Reveals Some Ground  Yielded To Germans

Nazi Threat Is Not To Be  Minimized   Secretary Patterson Says Germans Below Rome Have Strong Force

Attacks Batter ‘Stone Wall’ Allied Line   Our Troops in Danger But Holding Fast, Patterson Announces

UNDER SECRETARY PATTERSON SAYS NAZIS ATTACKING IN GREAT FORCE   Bad Weather Has Favored German Attack Against Our Beachhead Below  Rome.

ALLIES 15 ADMITTED   Patterson Says Danger Is Not to Be Minimized

Allies’ Position _ Grave Neat + Rome   Patterson Admits Loss.of Ground:..

Patterson Says Germans Are Now Attacking Allied Beachhead Below Rome With Formidable Force

No B-29's Lost In Latest Raid   Fighter Opposition Weak, Anti-Aircraft Fire Ineffective

ELM TREE DISEASE HAS STARTED HERE   ise Expert , sil Specimens owing Signs  of Ailment

FLM TREE DISEASE HAS STARTED HERE   Forestry Expert Finds Specimens Showing Signs , : of Ailment   HAS SPREAD RAPIDLY

Advance Along Three Mile Front Toward Germans’ Orne River Line  GERMANS ARE STILU FIGHTING FIERCELY  Obliged To Throw In Reserves They Had Been Holding For Showdown 

Overrun Height, 3 Fortified Sites: Yanks Also Gain   Caen Mop-Up Starts; Sainteny Captured; Bridgehead Expanded

Orne River Line Neared  Below City   Three Fortified Villages Captured In Rapid Advance

BRITISH TA 3 VILLAGES NEAR CAEN   Americans Gain In Mid-Normandy Highway Drive

Caen Now In Hands Of Allies   Yanks Capture Carentan, Push Across Vire

Allies Smash on Past Caen   Amies Capture Eterville, Point 112 in New Offensive From Odon Bridgehead; Yanks Take Le Desert, Cavigny, Push to 5 Miles of Periers

STRIKE PAST NEWLY-WON CIT! TO ORNE RIVER   Yanks Expand Vire Footing

Allies Approach Orne River Defense Line   American Forces Capture Sainteny in Normandy

British, Canadian Troops Drive Through Three Fortified Villages; Germans Still Fighting FPiercely   BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS VIRE IS EXPANDED

Three Fortified Villages Taken © In New Advances   Scattered Nazi Units Still Holding Out In Suburbs of Caen

Yank Troops Capture ° Sainteny; Bridgehead ‘Across Vire Expanded

U.S. Expands Bridgeheac Across Vire   Montgomery’s Men Overruns High Point Orne-Odon Rivers

Mopping Up Nazis After Taking City   Drive Deeper into Lithu. ania, Latvia—Fighting in  Streets of Wilno

British Force Odon In Southeast Caen As Paris Drive Shapes Up   Liberation Of Caen Gives Allies First Class Port And Clears Obstacles From Railway

Try Circling Move Around Enemy Force   German Road Convoys Harassed by RAF Bomb er Fleets.

DOG IS COMING HOME FROM PACIFIC FRONT   Spaniel With 48 Missions Has A Broken Heart

Wil ‘vell Part Of County Farm To Best Bidder —  Te Retain Quarter With Buildings For The Present

pt. o  WW ‘el Part Of County Farm To Best Bidder  _ Te Retain Quarter With Buildings For The Present

REASONS CITED FOR ~STILWELL'S RECALL      Correspondent Says Roosevelt Agreed to Chiang’s Demand

CHIANG DEMANDE STILWELL RECALL F. DR. ACCEDED   General and Generalissimo Split Over Former’s Insistence on Fighting Japs at Once.   LATTER USING ARMY ‘TO RETAIN AUTHORITY   U. S. Now Committed to Supporting. Anti - Democratic Regime That Is Distrust ° ed in China.

French Girl Is Wounded   Ambulance Driver Surprises Those in Evacuation Hospital

it’s a Girll  Surprising Battle Casualty Comes To Army Hospital.

French Wac Among Wounded   Ambulance Driver Struck in Back— “On Wrong Road”

'MY GOD, IT'S A GIRL   Ejaculation Caused When Casualty in Italy

French WAC Wounded In Italy Drive      Hospital Surprised When Stretcher Case Turns Out To Be Girl

DADS MAY GET EARLY GALLS FOR’ SERVICE      Occupational Appeals Jam State Boards, Headquarters Disclose:

LEGAL ROTICOR   No, 897, Pub. Dec. 27, 1943; Jon. 10, 17, 1944 antinn inn ‘ceenternona

Smash Ahead With Double Drives To Outflank Budapest   In Order of Day Stalin Announces 22 Mile Advance

BERLIN SAYS RUSSIANS OUT 1). ENVELOP ALL WESTERN HUNGARY AND BUDAPEST ON GRAND SCALE

RUSSIANS RIPPING GERMAN DEFENSES IN HUNGARY WIDE OPEN  STALIN ANNOUNCES 22 MILE ADVANCE: NORTHWARD TOWARD BUDAPEST

We Have Very Serious Work  Ahead, Harry Seay Tells New State Executive Committee ©

STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE MEETS IN DALLAS MONDAY  ACCEPTS INVITATION OF MAYOR CALHOUN HOLD NEYT MEETING CORSIC AN:

STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE MEETS IN DALLAS MONDAY  ACCEPTS INVITATION OF MAVOR CATHOIIN HATD

HOUSE PASSES 5 -STAR BILL FOR MILITARY   Leaders Of Army And Navy May Get Fancy Titles,

House Creates Five-Star Ranks   Forerunner To Move To ' Designate Naval Officer with Rank Equal Pershing.

BILL INCHEANLS OFFICERS’ RANK   Creates Eight Wartime FiveStar Army and Navy Commanders; Meets Rank of Other Major Powers

House Votes  5.Star Ranks   Eight Army and Naval Commanders Placed in Class

REVOLUTIONISTS TAKE OVER ECUADOR NOW   Military Control To Stay Until President Is Back

JAP REMNANTS CORNERED ON PELELIV'S TIE   Strong Points Along Coral Hills Bypassed

Relief Seen  Year’s Worst Snow Storm   Vast Section of Nation Re. sunes Task of Clearing Blanketed Streets and Hichwavs

Some Relief From Severe Snowstorm  Is Predicted   Randolph Co., W. Va., Sets Record With 36-In Fall; 66 Killed In  Tl. S. And Canada

STORM ELIE IS PREDICTEL   Heavy Snow Falls in Most Of Nation; 36 Inches in West Virginia.

Nation Gets Relief From  3 Severe Storm   Mercury Drops After Snowfall

Relief From Season’s Most Severe Snow Storm Forecast   Lower Temperatures Over Eastern Area Predicted

\Nation Digging Way Out As End Of Storm Seen      Death Toll Of Blizzard Put At 58; Colder Weather Forecast.

WEATHER MAN SEES MEASURE RELIEF COMING   West Virginia Has Heaviest Snowfall Of 36 Inches

Much Of Nation Buried Under Heavy Snows Some Relief Promised Today From ~ Severest Weather Of The Winter

SEN. DEMOCRATS SEEKING PEACE WITH ° PRESIDENT   Would Rather Compromise on Barkley Issue Than Jeopar dige Party

Democrats In Senate Want Peace   ‘Will Compromise Their Differences If FDR Meets Them Halfway

DULLES TO SEE WILLKIE ABOUT FOREIGN VIEWS   Dewey Arranges Confer ence Which Will Supplement Parley  With Hull

FD, CHURCHILL EXPECTED 10 MEET IN FALL   President Returns To White House   ENDS LONG TRIP

PRESIDENT RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE AFTER.TRIP TO BASES . IN WHE PACIFIO®

President Back At White House Atter Long Trin   Declares Allied Forces Will Enter Both Berlin And Tokyo To End War   FORESEE MEETING WITH CHURCHILL

PRESIDENT RETURNS 10 CAPITAL   Expected to Meet With Churchill Before Late Fall

AIR PLANTS, FIELDS HIT BY BOMBERS   Turn to Invasion Coast for Latest Attack. Germans Claim Rome Bombed by Allies   Ry ASSOCTATEFD PRESS

Gen. Patton Wagers 51,000 He'll Beat Bradley And Montgomery To Paris, But Gets No Takers

GEN. PATTON BETS THOUSAND HE WILL. BE FIRST IN PARIS   When He Meets Stubborn Resistance He Sends His ‘Men Around the Enemy

If Gen. Patton Can’t Go Through "Em, He Goes Around ’Em—Pronto!’

FORECAST FINAL ACTION ON UNRRA FUND IN CONGRESS   Expect Approval Sometime This Week on measure Authorizing U. S. Funds Up to $1,350,000,000 to Support Nove

Forecast Congressional Approval Of U.N.R.R.A. Expenditures By U.S.

Germans Iry All-or-Nothing Counter-Attack   Von Rundstedt Troops Push Back Into Belgium

NAZIS THROW d OPEARHEALD OVER BORDER   Military Blackout Conceafs Counter Thrusts by First Army.

Nazis Punch Thru Into Belgium, Luxembourg In Strong Counter Blow   As Ist Army Prepares To Stem Big Push, 3rd and 7th Continue : Battering Siegfried Line

Hodges Moves To Seal Off Breaks  In U. S. Positions   Security Blackout

News Blackout Shrouds First Army Area, Target Of Fierce Nazi Attacks

Troops Back   HODGES RALLIES MEN FOR  ATTACK AFTER DESPERATE NAZI BID NETTED RESULTS

AIR BATTLES BeINa FOUGHT OVER FRONT   Germans Penetrate U. S. Lines At Several Points

Temperatures   Doughboys. Seek to Trap Hitlerites  Penetrating Lines

Heaviest German Counter Offensive Of The Western Campaign  3 NAZI SPEARHEADS CROSS INTO BELGIUM  German Pressure Strong Along Fifty Mile Front

Great Air Battles Are Rep orted   Germans Penetrate Amer. ican Lines — Nazis Use Hundreds of Planes

Penetrations By Nazis Now Being Sealed Off, [Air Battles In. Progress

GREAT AERIAL BATTLES OVER SWAYING FRONT   Blackout Hides American Moves

Americans Riding German Blo Fut Up Stiffening Resistance Gravity Of German Push & mitted By Spokesman   SKETCHY DETAILS OF ADVANCE GIVI

be Fight to Thrust Nazis Across Belgian and Luxembours Frontiers; For Second Straight  Day Air Battles Rage Over Lines

Open Drive Jo Cut Off Spearheads   Great Air Battles Rage as Enemy Airpower Increases

Biggest German Offensive Since  D-Day Launched   First Impact Carries Several Miles Into Belgium, Luxembourg

Counter Measures Started   Germans Going All Out to Gain Breathing Spell

GERMANS MAKE ALL-OUT DRIVE ‘ON WEST FRONT   Heaviest Enemy Counter - offensive Covers 70-Mile Battle Front.   BULLETIN

Yanks Riding Foe Offensive, Halting Gains   Large Number of Hoarded Nazi Planes Are Shot Down

Fourth War Loan Quota Is Announced   Kleberg Co. Asked To Subscribe $299,000 In  Bond Purchases

Fourth War Loan Goal For Texas Set at $395,000,000   National Quota Of $1,000,000,000 Is $1,000,000,000 Less Than Third Loan

Texans Must Ratse Huge Sum In 4th War Loan Drive   Individual Bonds Will Form Larger Portion Of Quota In Drive During January

CHLORINE GAS HITS HUNDREDS   Leaking Cylinder on Truck Spreads Deadly Fluid Over . Brooklyn Streets — Most of 824 Victims Require Hospital Treatment,

1,000 AFFECTED BY CHLORINE GAS   Truck Owner, Driver Held In Brooklyn Incident

Invasion Area Struck Heavily By U. S. Planes      Yank Bombers Hammer Pas-de-Calais Department   RAF HITS RAIL YARDS   Nazis: Report Saboteurs Aiding In Wrecking ©  - Communications

Record Single Blow Dealt Pas-de-Calais   Approximately 750 American Fortresses and Liberators Blast. Nazi Anti-Invasion Defenses in French Coastal Area.

French Coast Smashed by U. §. Fliers   ' Heaviest Single Blow Struck Friday, Raid Starting at Dawn

American Force Blasts West Wall In Major Attack   Handreds Of Fighters Aid 750 U. S. Bombers In Heaviest Raid To Date

PAS - DE - CALAIS AREA HAMMERED   Aerial Blows Concentrated On Nazi West Wall

Invasion Coast Again Battered   Allied -Air Offensive Goes Into 15th Day

FRENCH COAST HIT HEAVILY   German West Wall Struck Hardest Single Blow Yet Hurled

GERMAN’S WEST WALL DAMAGED BY AIR BLOWS   U. &. Air Force Blasts French Installations

NO COUNTY IN THE STATE OVER THE TOP   Sale of Serles E War Bonds Reached Only About lini of the Queta Which Has Been Set

Iowa May Fail On E Bond Quota      Only About Half Way Mark On E Bond Goal .

Comedian Denies Barry Intimacy   Chaplin Chokes With Tears In Testifying; Sell cce Cascio’ Gam.

Chaplin Chokes With Emotion As He Tells of Intimacies With Jean Berry   But He Denies Girl's Versions of Pistol And New York Episodes, in Testimony

STATE MINERS MAY RESUME WORK MONDAY   17 More Operations Seiz: ed By Government;  Total Is 64

Polish Factions Suspend Negotiations To Create Provisional Government

SOVIET-POLISH TALKS HALTED   Pole to Return to London For Conferences

POLISH FACTIONS TALK COALITION   MIKOLAJCZYK TO CONFER WITH CABINET ON PLANS

Rival Polish Regimes Break Off Negotiations   Premier Of London Group Prepares To Return To England To Confer With Cabinet On Proposed Creation Of Provisional Coalition Government   Will Canfer

Polish Premier To Leave Moscow   Will Confer With Staff On Proposed Coalition

7 State Grange Convention Closes   :  ; ‘ ®   Problems Of Cooperatives   Stressed At Final Session

State Grange Convention Closes ; \Problems Of Cooperatives  : Stressed At Final Session

PREDICT MEACURY 70 DROP LOWER   Temperature to Drop Tonight to 15 Degrees; Reports Range from 7 to 24

IRONWOOD COLDEST PLAGE IN MICHIGAN   Temperature Here Drops to 11 Below Zero During The Nioht.

The War Today   iy J. M. ROBERTS, Jr. Substituting for Dewitt Mackenzie)

 MacArthur To Get Major Job In Philippines— -~=DBy J. Ni. Mmoberis, J6-p   Idmiral Nimitz May Lead Drive On Nippon

SPECULATION ABOUT SUPREME. COMMANDER FOR WAR AGAINST TAPAN ATTRACTS ATTENTION

WAR TODAY   speculation About Supreme Commander in Pacifie Mounts. Eisenhower and Nimitz Hold Edge, Some Believe

SOVIETS CROSS BULGARIA, MOVE TOWARD COASTS   Biggest Drive Of Balkan War

Drive Aims At Adriatic And Aesear   Balkan Offensive Starts Uprising” Against Germans

¥ { Russ Advance: Stirs Revolt. - By Serbians      APPROACHING SOFIA

Soviets Reported Sweeping Bulgaria In Adriatic Drive   New Balkan Push Timed To Anglo-American  Western Attacks

Allies Make Landings in Yugoslavia   Commandos Join Tito’s Par tisans—Reds Are Approaching Sofia

dard-Driving Reds Gobble All Bulgaria   Encirclement Fate Threatens 375,000 Germans in Balkans

General Uprising Against Nazi Occupation Forces In Serbia   BNOURCLEMENET OF 375,000 GERMANS Greatest Combined Oper ation Of Balkan War Now In Full Swing

Allied Units  Join Partisans h Yugoslavia   Combined Offensive Threatens Destruction 375,000 Nazi Troops

RUSSIAN TANKS, TROOPS RUN ALL OVER BULGARIA   Strike Out For Adnatic And Aegean Coasts, Start Uprisine

OPEN BALKAN OFFENSIVE   Combined Drives Threaten to Trap 375,000 Germans

Reds Claimed Overrunning All Bulgaria      Uprising Also Touched off In Serbia

RUSSIAN DRIVE INTO BULGARIA REPORTED   Strike For Adriatic And Aegean Coasts; Allied > Commando Units Join Tito, Move East To Meet Red Army

REDS OVERRUN ALL BULGARIA   Russian Tanks and Troops Reported Striking Out for Adriatic and Aegean Coasts.

Germans Slaughter Frenchmen to Stem Sabotage  Southern Battles Rage As Nazis Slay Hostages in Groups

NAZIS EXECUTE -FRENGH HOSTAGES   NUMBER REPORTED SHOT BY FIRING SQUADS IN EFFORT TO HALT SABOTAGE.

GERMANS SHOOT 100 FRENCHMEN   Seek To Halt Sabotage Rife In Southern France

Knox Claims More Than 200 Nazi Subs Were Sunk by Allies During Last Year

Nazis’ Faith in Subs Destroyed  Knox Says Over 200 Sunk Lest Yeor

NAZI DEFENSE LINE AT PRUT RIVER BROKEN   FLEEING GERMANS TRAPPED ABOVE DNIESTER

Nazi Regiment Wiped Out by Soviet Troops   Moscow Reports )3-Mile Advance

Soviets Wipe Out Regiment Of Hungarians   Crossing of Prut River Into Rumania Appears Imminent;  Rail Hub Threatenec

BY SWIFT SMASH OF FIRST UKRAINE ARMY EAST OF CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS; SEVERAL BLOWS STRENGTHEN RUSSIAN CHANCES TO TRAP NAZIS.

Reds in Swift Drive to Split Nazi Front East of Carpathian. And Trap Forces Above River   Zastavan Captured as Enemy Fans Out to West; Reds Preparing to Leap Prut; Russians Prepare to Take Over Czernowitz; in Poland

Reds Lunge Across Dniester And Split Nazi Defense Line   Troops Near Edge Of Bucovina Capital; Columns In Other Areas Also Smash On

Soviets Cross Dniester to Threaten Capital of Bucovina; Thrust Over Prut Into Rumania Imminent

Hungarian Regiment  Is Wiped Out   ~ Reds Capture Sadagura Just Across Prut River From Bucoviua Capital  GAIN IN BESSARABIA

Eitectively split German  defense line Reds only 2 miles from Czernowitz

Soviets Push Onto Rumanian Ground  As Defense Cracks   Smash To Within Four Miles Of Capital At Czernowitz In Swift Move; Large Force Trapped

GATEWAY CITY TO BALKANS UNDER SIEGE   Nazis At Tarnopol In Poland Face Liquidation

Red Army Crosses Dniester Into Province of Bucovina  SADAGURA . SEIZED IN LATEST ADVANCE  Troops Within 28 Miles of Northern Rumania Proper

Vital Railway Line in ‘Russian Hands   Main Nazi Escape Route Is Closed Through Operations

REDS BREACH -PRE-WAR LINE TO BUCOVINA   First Ukraine Army Splits German Defenses East of Carpathians   1000 NAZIS SLAIN IN BESSARABIAN VILLAGE

TRUK BOMBARDMENT ENDS JAP BASE’S VALUE, IS BELIEF   Americans Now in Position to Bombard Bastion at Will.

Cotton Forecast Revised Upward   ‘44 Crop Will Total Almost 12 Million Bales, Report Says

Forecast of Rain Adds to Eastern Kansas Flood Woes   Precipitation May  Be Heavy Remainder Of Week, Flora Says Streams Still Choked

Floods Sweep On To the Southeast   Lower Neosho and Verdigris Rivers Kansas Danger Spots   IMORE RAIN FORECAST   Heavy Downpours Predicted for Eastern Sections of the State

Blinding Snow Blurs Target   Third Operation In Three Days For Yanks; 14 Bomb ers, 26 Fighters Missing.

U.S. Heavies Pound Berlin   First Blow By Americans Dealt Capital Of Naziland

Fly in 58 Below Weather To Send Bombs Crashing Into Buildings of Capital

600. Mile Hoy Deep In Reich Ist Described      . 40 Planes Missing Following Mission

U.S. FLIERS IN 1ST RAID ON BERLIN   Bombers In Raid On Nazi Capital And East Germany

G0-BELOW-ZERD, PLANES 5 MILES UP DURING TRIP      German Radio Reports Bombing at Once, Admits Some of Planes Crashed Near City.   ALLIES BEAT BACK - THREE NAZI ATTACKS   Rome Radio, Under Control of Germans, Reveals Most Violent {talian Fight 4s In   Progress.

CAPITAL GETS FIRST TASTE OF U.S. BOMBS   LOSSES LIGHT FOR 600-MILE THRUST INTO NAZILAND

Pound Berlin   First Blow By Americans Dealt Capital Of Naziland

Forts Plaster Berlin In First Daylight Raid   U. S. Planes Cover Hundreds of Miles In Attacks On Germany

Hit Germany  3rd Straight Time By Day   ‘Heavies’ Continue Blows At Naziland While Lighter Planes Sweep Over Northern France; Coast Area Also Attacked   (RULLETIN)

“Forts” Make First American Attack on German Capital   Nazis Admit Some Planes Got Through; Claim Several Crashed in Flames

‘Flying Forts Blast Berlin For First Time; Eastern Germany Also Raided

YANKEE  FLIERS BATTER BERLIN   14 Bombers. 26 Fighters Lost In Daylight Stab

Mustangs Go Full Route  On Assault   Fourteen, Bombers, 26 Fighters Missing After Extensive Attack

FLY THROUGH HEAVY FLAK TO BLAST CAPITAL   First Yank Bomber Attack

FIAOT AMERICAN RAID ON GAPITAL   Fighter Escort Goes All the Way to Berlin   40 PLANES MISSING   Flier Battle Snowstorms 58 Below Zero; Meet Little Aerial Opposition

FIRST ASSAULT ON RUINED CITY BY FORTRESSES   Fourteen Bombers and 26 Fighters Lost in Saturday Flights

Yanks Push Within 20 Mi. Of Saar   Broad Wedge Southeast Of Metz Deepened By U. S. Third Army.

ELP INMETZ DRIVE   Bertin Reports. 600 Tanks Engaged in American Offensive.   RESISTANCE STUBBORN

Patton’s Men Push Advances Within 20 Miles  of Saar Border  COVER A RATT LINE      COVER A RAIL LINE      Rain, Minefields and Stiff Resistance Hamper Advance

JAPS ANNOUNCE NEW WAR PART\   Cabinet Decides To ‘Arm En tire People’ For Total War Effort.

New Council To Deal With Allied Drive   Cabinet Moves to Combat Conquest of Marianas and Asia

TO ARM ALL JAPS   News Agency Says Cabinet Is Planning for. a  Total War

Missouri Waters Continue Rise ©   Red Cross Chapters Send Aid To Victims

Allies Break Through On Several Wile Front: Smash Inland To Rome

We Also Are Widening  Qur Beachhead Below Rome.   BAD WEATHER PINS DOWN OUR BOMBERS

ALLIES DEAL CRUSHING BLOW TO GERMANS’ GUSTAV LINE   No New Progress Reported From _ Enlarged Beachhead Below  Rome.

WARREN SELECTED G. 0. P. KEYNOTER   California Governor’s Choice Starts Second Piace Tall in Parity

Warren Named  GOP Keynoter   Name Frequently  Linked With Dewey's

National Income at $159 Billion For This Year Breaks All Records

Senator Blocks Circulation of Nomination Papers   Reiterates 1938 Announcement of Intention to Retire

MOPPING UP ON SAIPAN   Nimitz Expects Nips To Fight Until Most Are Dead,

Yankees Mop Up Jap Defenders On Saipan Island   Nimitz to Exert   Nimitz to Exert More Pressure  On Nippon Empire

U.S. TROOPS MOPPING UP ON SAIPAN   Nimitz Expects Nips To Fight Until Most Are Dead

AMERICAN FLIERS ARE ATTACKING SOUTHEASTERN GERMANY TODAY   Violent Artillery Battles Taking Place On the  Cassino Front.

3a ABOARD SHIPS LOST IN DISASTER   Red C ross Feeding 1500 Homeless People

Argentina Calls Its Envoy Home From Washingtor  Reank Cawmntlatad   Break Completed Between U.S. and Latin Country

BUENOS AIRES RECALLS ENVOY   Escabar Ordered Home from Diplomatic Post in U. S. Capital.

Argentina Calls Envoy   Summons Ambassador Home From Washington, Buenos Aires Announces

ARGENTINE GOV'T RECALLS ENVOY   ANNOUNCE DECISION IN VIEW OF SEC'Y HULL'S STATEMENT

Argentina Recalls Adrian Escobar, Its Ambassador to U.S      Decision is Taken in View of Secretary Hull’s Position

Argentina Recalls [Envoy to Washington ‘After New Hull Charge   Secretary of State’s Note to Other South American Nations Charges Failure to Implement Break With Axis

Argentina Breaks Relations With U. S.   Ambassador to Washington Recalled and Attempt To Split Pan-American Unity Seen as Possible

ARGENTINA RECALLS AMBASSADOR FINISHES U. S. DIPLOMATIC BREAK   COMMUNIQUE SAYS DECISION MADE BECAUSE OF CORDELL HULL’S STATEMENTS ON POLICY

Argentine Envoy To. Washington  Receives Recall   Buenos Aires Sees Dignity  Hit By Talk Attributed To Secretary Of State

Argentina Is Miffed At United States   Withdraws Ambassador After Hull’s Statement On Relations

Argentina and Break  Off Relations   South American Country Recalls Ambassador Af. ter Hull Remarks

Argentina Recalls U.S. Envoy   Expresees Indignation Over Secretary Hull's Stalemeni

Argentina Calls Her Ambassador From Washingtor  Gesture Comes a bd

—ARGENTINA—  ENVOY RECALLED BY BUENOS AIRES   Statements Attributed To Secretary Hull Given As Reason   COMPLETE BREAK   Rift Has Been Developing Since Farrell Regime Took Office

JAPS REPORT NEW ATTACK ON BORNEO   As Usual Tokyo Says Damage To Oil Center Slight

Soviets 62 Miles Into Old Poland   Germans Report Reds Attacking Sarny, Vital Rail Junction

Heavy Bombers Fly Against European Continent In Resumption Of Allied Air Offensive; Americans Close To Cassino   22 JAP BARGES _ SUNK BY ALLIES

TO PILE UP FOR DEWEY AND FDR   More Than Enough to Assure Nomination of Both Believed ‘In the Bag.”

WILLKIE POINTS T0 NEED OF LEADER   New Deal Hit .in Speech Delivered ;at Tacosma, Wash. -

WILLKIE POINTS TO: ~ NEED OF LEADER   New. Deol Hit. in. Speech : Délivered:at Taco-. "oma; Wash. :

Leaders of Both Parties in Kansas Are Confident   G.O.P. Especially Is Claiming Victory By Big Majorities; Rallies an Taninhk¢

Elizabeth City And Manteo Cut Off By Hurricane   Most Damage By Storm Reported In That Area.

Vichy Leader Condemned For Treason   Pucheu Found Guilty, Faces Death On Military Charge

Ex-Vichy Minister Condemned To Die   Pierre Pucheu Convicted - of Treason by Special Military Tribunal

Court Condemns Pucheu To Die As  Traitor To France   Defendant Declares His Innocence, Alleges Coup)

PUCHEU GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE   Former Vichy Ministe: -Convicted of Treason

Former Vichy Minister Puchea Condemned To Die For Treason ...Fellowing Tribunal-Gonviction

Former Vichy Minister Charged With Treason   Condemned To Die By Special Military Court; Defendant Proves Bitter.

PUCHEW IS GUILTY OF TREASON UNDER ~ INDRES’ VERDICT   Former Vichy Interior Minis ter to Pay With Life Un: der Verdict Returned By Algerian Court.   DEFENDANT NOT PRESENT FOR DECISION   Charges “Political Coup,” Has Only 24 Hours to File Appeal, Judges Deliberate For Hour.

PUCHEU GUILTY, COURT DECIDES   Vichy Official Convicted 01 Treason, Faces Death

Pucheu Given  Death Penalty  TS Bccweuy Ecce naed “Eien   Military Court Finds Him Guilty Of Treason

FOUR JAP SHIPS ARE — STRUCK BY, ALLIES   Transport, Merchaniman And Tw: Freighters Hit During Recent Pacifie Raids

4 JAP SHIPS SUNK OFF PHILIPPINES   CONVOY OF 12 FREIGHTERS IS SCATTERED BY CATALINA PATROL BOMBERS.

Planes Destroy lout Jap Ships Near Mindanaa  Neutralizing Assaults

Four Japanese Ships Blasted In Air Attacks   New Blows Run Total Of Nip Ships Hit in  Two Days to Nine

Dewey Addresses Nation Tonight   ‘Get Out and Vote’ Appeal Scheduled

Word And Honor Of Japan Cannot Be Trusted,  He Tells World   Trip To Aleutians. Hawaii Reviewed   President Avoids Politics And Makes No Guess Qn End Of War

Cannot Trust Japan, Warns The President   Deelares War in Pacific Is “Well in Hand* but Refuses to Guess Its Lengih   REPORTS TO NATION   Speaks From Deck of Destroyer at Navy Yard in Bremerton

FR. Blames Jar People for War   Permanent Pacific Defenses Needed Against Nation Without Honor, Say: President in Report of 15-Day Tour

Japs Cannot Be Trusted, He Asserts   President Makes Address Over Air From West Coast

Word of Honor of Japan Cannot Be Trusted, He Says  In Address to Natio:

Tells Nation Japs Cant Be Trusted   Declares United States Should Keep Prepared For. Outside Aggres-sion, Home From Tour Of Pacific

Roosevelt Says Allies Must Build Permanent  Defenses Against Japan

United Nations Urged to Enclose Japs.   FDR Asks Permanent Defenses to Hold Aggressors

President Declares United Nations Must Prepure   Permanent Defenses   Against Aggression   Calls For Bases Nearer Nippons   War Is Well in Hand, He Says; Cannot Tell, If He Knew, When It Will Come To End

FDR Cites Prot For  rotection   Must Not Let Japs Renew Aggression, President Declares

Roosevelt, Back In U.S., Cautions We Cannot Trust Nips   President Addresses Nation From Destroyer Docked In Pudget Sound; Says Alaska And Aleutians May Be Developed For Vets

WORLD UNABLE TO TRUST JAPS, PRESIDENT SAYS   Roosevelt Gives Nation Report On 15-Day  our

ROOSEVELT SEES DANGER OF FUTURE JAP AGGRESSIONS   Says in Radio Speech Permanent Pacific Defenses Must Be Qbtained From Alas ka to Chile.   CALLS FOR BASES NEARER TO NIPPON   y President, Arriving on West Coast, Asserts War Will Be Carried Into Mikado’s Homelands.

QUOTAS FOR THE RED CROSS ~——ANNOUNCEI   Expect Every Family To Average Nearly $5  In Contributions

RED CROSS LISTS QUOTAS ASKED OF LOCAL BRANCHES   Chairman States That Bureau County Will Have To Raise $38,500, Which Amounts To About $5 Per Family.

Both Parties Seek To Avert  Postwar Chaos   Put Heat On _ Senate Committee To Get Reconversion Bill Ready.

Congress Will Meet At Times   Sessions Every 3 Days Ts Program Uniil Lahor Day

GONGRESS ANS  FOR PROSPERITY   Insistence Sounded For «Protection. Against: “Post-War Chaos

RAF RANGES FROM FRANCE TO BULGARIA   While U. 8S. Flying Forts, Liberators Cross Alos for Whack at Old Austrian Capital.

YUGOSLAVS DRIVING TO ALBANIA CENTER   Montenegran City Captured as Operation Expands

ME ED Se: SO NE ee nae Se Se a oe ME ee easy fuirke 1. Simpson  ‘Reds May By-Pass Odessa To Hit Rumania

AMERIGANG 1 MILES INGIDE REICH BORDER   British Empire Troops Rout Germans from Schelde Estuary Section.

Yanks Gain Two and Half Miles on Aachen Front   Highway Town of Schmidt Is Captured

Capture Highway Town Inside Siegfried Line And Only 27 Miles From Cologne

FIGHT TO NEW 2-MILE GAINS NEAR AACHEN   British Take Flushing In Struggle to Clear Path to Antwerp »

Nazi Resistance Said Stiffening In Fortifications   First Army Spearhead * Probing Past Vossenack. Advancing Steadily

‘Temperatures   Antwerp To Be Used As Nazis Crushed On Walcheren Isle

BRITISH SMASH ALi RESISTANCE AROUND SCHELDE   Gateway to Antwerp Clear

BRITISH TA DUTCH PORT OF FLUSHING   Walcheren Battle Nears End: Will Free Atwerp

British Take Flushing and Nazi General   Gen. Hodges Men Meet Stiff Resistance in  New rive

Amer. Troops   GEN. HODGES’ NEW FIRST ARMY OFFENSIVE IS DEVELOPING STEADILY

Resistance Of Germans Stiffening   Deepest Penetration Ingide Frontier Reported— British Take Flushing

New Drive Of U.S. 1st Army Is Developing   Schmidt, 10 Miles Inside Siegfried Line, Captured; Flushing Falls To Commandos; Estuary Battle Is Over, Nazis Say

Battle Of Schelde Estuary Cc cluded; German Reserves Rus ed Into Line In Attempt ‘ Stem U. 8. Troops Advance   WIDEN WALCHEREN ISLAND BRIDGEHEs

BRICKER WARNS OF DANGER IN NEW DEAL TREND      Ohio Governor Calls for Change in Philosophy And Administration

FDR’s Finance Plan Reflects Hope For Sudden End Of War   Asks Congress For $10,500,000,000 More Taxes Than Present Laws Provide; Reiterates Former Program   Gov. Bricker Cites Need In Change of Government

ONE AIRDROM IS CAPTURED « BY ARMY   Action Under Supervision Of Gen. MacArthur   On New Guinea And Rabaul Inclosed As End Of Bismarck Campaign Nears

M’ARTHUR NOTES ENCIRCLEMENT OF 50,000 JAPANESE      New Bases Taken Are Only 1,300 Miles From Philippines

MacArthur Personally Supervises Landing On Island Which Has Good Airfield; Kavieng, Rabaul Cut Off And Wewak Closer to Air Strength of Allies Now

Admiralty Isles Invaded By U. S. bth Army Forces   Gen. MacArthur Directs Landings Despite Snipers

Japs Texen Unaware, Landing Uncpposed by Either Planes or Warships   M’ARTHUR LANDS   General Inspects Area Twenty Minutes Aifer Snipers Killed—Huge dap Forces Trapped

Americans Trap 50,000 Japanese  Successful Landing _ Made on Admiralty

Japs Caught By Surprise   . Momote Airdrome Quickly Seized By Yanks

Penetrate Deeply Into Jap Defenses In South Pacific   Daring Landing On Islands Supervised Personally By General MacArthur

Yanks Land On Admiralty Islands   Troops Quickly Take Momote Airdrome In  Coordinated Move

Score New ~ Victories Over Japs   Gen, MacArthur and Lord Mountbatten Both Report Important Gains ..   AMERICANS INTO ADMIRALTY ISLANDS   Airfield Taken in Bold Manetver; Nipponese. Force’ in Burma Smashed

Americans Take _ Admiralty Isles   MacArthur’s Forces Strike Another Blow in Southwest Pacific With Bold Landing Which Severs Connections With Foe in New Britain.   AIRDROME IS CAPTURED

AROROME IS TAKEN IN LIGHT FIGHTING   Philippines 1,300 Miles Away, Truk Only 750 Miles From > New Base

U. S. Troops Surprise ‘Japs, Take Airdrome, Trap 50,000 at Rabaul And on New Britain

MacArthur In Command Of  New Offensive   Perfectly Co-Ordinated — This Drive Catches. Japs Unaware

(MacArthur in Direct Charge Of New Move   Quickly Capture Two Principal Airdromes Against Light Opposition

MacArthur Directs New. Unopposed Push Inte Jap Defenses Closing Ring Around 50,000 Jap Troops In New Britain and Rabaul. Strategic Airdrome Secured.

M’ARTHUR I5 WITH MEN ON NEW LANDING   Admiralty Island Operation Outflanks Base At Rabaul

Important Airfield Seized As Bold U.S. Move Catches Jap Defenders By Surprise

Cavalry Division Lands on Beach on Los Negros Isle   Perfectly Co - Ordinated Army-Navy-Air Thrusts Made Against Japs.   Valuable Airdrome Is Captured by Yankees

Yanks Pushing Deep In Japs’ Isle Defenses  With Landing   Admiralty Invasion Caucht Foe Asleep

Bold Expedition Under Gen. MacArthur's: Personal Supervision Hits Japanese By Surprise; Splendid Airdrome Taken By U.S.

U.S.LandingsMade Far Into Nippons Pacific Defenses   MacArthur Directs Army-Navy-Air Thrust; Invasion Makes End of Bismarck Campaign Near.

Yanks Seize "Airfield On .Admiraltys   Bold New Island Invasion Catches Japs Completely By Surprise.

Admiralty Isles Scene of Attack By Allied Force   Gen. MacArthur Takes Charge of Daring Invasion

U.S. 6TH ARMY DRIVES FAR INTO NIPS* DEFENSES   Japs Caught Off Guard as Invaders Take Airdrome on Admiralty Islands

Important Airport Seized Quickly By MacArthur’s Men   General Goes Ashore To Commend Troops After Seeing Operations From Warship; New Drive Carried Out Without Opposition From Jap Planes, Ships

Strike Bold Blow . Under Supervision Of Gen. MacArthut   Invasion Troops Swarm on Los Negros Island and Capture Airdrome

Admiralty Island Landing s Bold Advance In Jap Defenses; Traps 50,000 More Nipponese   MacArthur Personally Supervises Landing On Island Which Has Good Airfield; Kavieng, Rabaul Cut Off And Wewak Closer to Air Strength of Allies Now

Bold Move Takes Japs By Surprise   - Americans Seize Airdrome on Los Negros In Thrust Directed  m.. St...) OUP

School Code Group Urges Many Change:   19 Bills Included in Report Filed With the Governor

Prosecute-War  To Final Victory   Saltonstall Announces His Qwn Candidacy For Senate In November

DETROT'S LABOR ~ SCENE IS MIXED   Foremen of Ford Firm Sign Contract; 13 Others Ignore Union -

100 Billions Asked For 18 Months’ Plan   War Activities Alone. The New Program Projects S90 OOO O00 000,   TAY GROUND WORK

Requested Budget Points to American Preparation for 18-Months of War and Includes Plans for Impact of Sudden Peace

DEWEY ACCEPTS DEFEAT BY FDR WITH A SMILE  :  TENDERS MESSAGE   TENDERS MESSAGE OF HOPE AND GOOD WILL TO PRESIDENT

Divine Providence To Aid President, Hoped by Dewey   Defeat Conceded at 3:15 am; Failed To Send Congratulatory Wire: Believed FDR Asleep

Governor Thos. E. Dewey Concedes Defeat At Early Hour This Morning

DEWEY TAKES IT ON THE CHIN — WITH A SMILE   Concedes Roosevelt Victory At 3:15. ~ IARI Moanrnine   EXTENDS THANKS   Wishes President Roosevelt Hearty Congratulations

Dewey Takes Loss With Smile   Extends Congratulation: To FDR—Hopes for Speedy Victory

Dewey Concedes His Defeat After President Compiles Commanding Lead   DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE CAPTURES BIG STATES

DEWEY “TAKES. T° SMILINGLY   Hopes ‘Divine Providence Will Guide and Protect’ President.   IMAY TRY AGAIN IN ’48

Dewey Concedes At 2:15 A. M. With Hope That Providence Will Guide, Protect President

‘Dewey Able ‘To Smile In Face Of Loss   ‘No Illusions’ About 1948, He Says After Congratulating FDR

DEWEY SMILINGLY CONCEDES VICTORY TO THE PRESIDENT   New York Governor Takes His * Loss “On the Chin” and Expresses His Hope “That Divine Providence Will Guide and Protect the President”

President Ahead In 30States, Dewey Paces 18   FDR Has Edge in Six of Ten Pivotal Ones and Four of Five Border’ Areas Over Country

Dewey Admits Defeat in Radio Speech   Extends President Congratulations; Asks National Unity

Dewey Urges All To Accept Will Of People   ott D Expresses Hope  That Divine Providence ‘Will Guide And Protect  Nation’s President

HIMMLER IN COMMAND OF NAZI FORCE:   Reports by Nazi Prisoners Indicate No, 2 Nazi Running Rag-Tag Army of 35,000

S. O. S. For Surgical Dressings   Call For Many Volunteers To Help Meet Doubled Quota  For Summer Months.

Big American Airlines Ship Plunges Into Mississippi River at Memphis

Bodies of 24 Victims of Plane Crash Sought in Mississioni Near Memphis

24 Perish as Big Airliner Crashes   Plane Drops Into \lississippt River

24 DIE AS PLANE FALLS INTO RIVER BELOW MEMPHIS   Ship Torn Apart When It Hits _ Water and Hope Is Abandoned of Finding Many of Bodies.   CAUSE OF ACCIDENT REMAINS A MYSTERY   Watchman Says Craft Sank After Explosion—Toll but One Short of Worst Civilian Air Accident.

24 Persons Die In River Plane Crash   Wreck Rated Wor: Civilian Aviation  Blow Since 1940

AIRLINER CRASH IS FATAL TA 24   Giant Plane Falls Into Mississippi; Bodies Not All Found

24 Dead in Plane Crash At Memphis   SECOND WORST CIVILIAN PLANE ACCIDENT WHEN SHIP DROPS INTO MISSISSIPPI RIVER; FEW BODIES RECOVERED.   Enroute to N.Y.

Recover Pieces  Of Air Transport  From Mississippi But 24 Passengers  in Dead Plane Are Still Missing

Bodies In Plane Crash Are Lost   24 Die When Liner Plunges nto River

24 PERSONS KILLED ~ IN AIRLINER CRASH   American Airlines Plane Fails into Mississippi River

Airliner Falls, 24DieinRiver   Blows Up Like Firecracker Over Mississinpi

Armada Of More Than 800 Ships, Including Warships Of All Types, Lands Troops And Backs Them Up With Intense Fire.   French Told To Play Their Part

Thousands of Airborne Men Drop Ashore   American, British And French Troops Take Objectives Within One Hour

RAF Pounds Calais Region   Seeking Bases Used For Launching Rocket  Planes to Britain

ROBOT'S NEST BOMBED BY RAF   Oi! Plant and Berlin Are Other Targets

Secret Bases Of Pilotless Planes Believed Targets Of Night Attack; German Oil Plant Ils Hammered

OHIO’S VOTERS TAKE OVER AS ORATORY ENDS   State Contests Shape Uy As Among Closest In History

GOP URGES: VOTE HOUR EXTENTION   Some of the Bural  Legislators Are Hostile to\Move

‘PHOTOS SHOW DAM EMPTIED OF STORAGE   French Crews Flying American-Built Marauders

All Hfalian Railways In Area Bomber   Waters From Bombed Dam Soon Will Flood Enemy-Held Position

Early Attack in Italy Expected  Report Rail Yards Are Knocked Out

Early Allied Offensive In Italy Implied By Blasting Of Rail Y ards

MESSAGE FROM “ROOSEVELT TOUCHES OFF FLAREUPS— SOUTH DETERMINED TO DECIDE ‘VOTE  QUALIFICATIONS -

Oppestiion to Federal Ballot Stiffens in Congress Despite Plea by Pres. Roosevelt

BATTLE OVER SERVICE VOTE INTENSIFIED   President’s Fiery Speech Fails to Halt Opposition

F. D. R. FIGHT AGAINST STATES’ RIGHTS HAS COUNTER EFFECT.   Delivery Hurdle   New Deal Says Army Can’t Deliver State Ballots, Only Federal Votes.

BiG PLANES . Go: ‘THROUGH  SNOWSTORMS.TO REACH   “GERMAN WAR INDUS. ERY CENTER

RUSSIANS 10 MILES FROM CITY   Baltic Dunkirk F aces Germans As Soviets Smash Forward

REDS AIM GIANT PINCER MOVE AT BREST LITOVSK   Americans Outflank Livofno, Advance Toward Pisa; Enemy Destroys Bridges While Retreating.   YANKS STOP JAPANESE PUSH IN NEW GUINEA   Battleships Join Other Units For First Time to Make Heavy Assault on Enemy at Guam and Rota.

Brest Litovsk New Objective Of Red Army   Germans Are Facing A Raltic Dungqueraque

Thrust From Kowel Starts, Nazis Report   Possible Dunkerque in Baltic Area Faces German Forces

Berlin Announces New Pincer Push On Brest Litovsk   Red Army Lunges Pose “Baltic Dunkerque’”’ To Trapped Foe

2 RED ARMIES DRIVE TOWARD POLISH PLAIN:   ‘Pincers Closing on Keystone of German Defense on Road to Berlin.

GIANT RUSSIAN PINCERS MOVES AGAINST GERMANS AT BREST LITOVSK   Sscow Dispatch Says ~ Red Army Lunges To‘Baltic From Lat Ce

Reds Open New Drive  From Kowel   Offensive Aimed At Brest Litovsk, Gateway To  Road To Berlin

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE IN KOWEL AREA   Aimed Toward Brest Litovsk German Gateway To The Polish Plains

TIMED FOR ANVASIONS   United Nations About @ To Strike Mightier  Blows—Roosevelt

FOR SAYS REDS ~ POISED IN EAST   Cross-Channel Zero Hour Preview Presented by President

PREDICTS FINAL QVERPOWERING ONSLAUGHT   President Reveals Allies Poised to Strike in Unison

BLUEPRINT FOR INVASION GIVEN BY ROOSEVELT   United Nations Prepared To Move From West, East, South, FDR Says   NAZIS TO BE DESTROYED      President Gives Idea Of Staggering Blows Aimed At Hitler

FD. ANNOUNCES ALLIES READY FOR INVASION   Gives Congress and   Nation Pre-view   THREE-WAY BLOW

PRESIDENT IN INVASION. PREVIEW BAYS RUSSIA TO STRIKE IN CONNECTION WITH OTHER BLOWS

U), §. WARPLANES ARE NOW USING OROTE AIRFIELD   American Warships Are Also Anchored In Apra Harbor   STIFF RESISTANCE IS MET ON TINIAN

FLAMES SWEEP OIL REFINERY   U.S. Bombers Shatter Jap Fuel Center

ERST PATIENT . - SHOOTS DOCTOR   Seamstress, 38, Kills President of City Medical Forum

PHYSICIAN KILLED BY FORMER PATIENT   RE REE IE  Tells Police He Is To Blame For Her Troubles

Woman Slays Head Of Forum   Woman Surrenders, Saying She Blames Victim For Troubles.

Physician In Pittsburgh Is Shot and Killed   Former Woman Patient Calmly Admits to Police She Committed Murder   WAS UNDER TREATMENT

WAC WINS ADMIRATION OF BRAZILIAN FLIERS WITH FLIGHT AT 25,000 FEET -

SLIGHTLY LESS MEAT ALLOCATED CIVILIANS   Store Batter And Cheese Wil Be Available During Next Three Months WEA Declares

BUTTER SUPPLY TAKES UPSWINE   Civilians To Have Less Meat During April, May And June

MEAT SUPPLY T0 - BE LESS, CHEESE ALLOWANCE MORI   Outlook For Coming Quarter Indicates Slight Lowering of Meat Consumption For Civilians.   LESS MILK 1S BEING PURCHASED FOR FORCES   WFA Reveals That Number of Articles Will Be Improved as Rationing Plans Are Simplified.

rage LAND JEEPS AND TANKS ON GUERRILLA AIRFIELDS DEEP IN FRANCE  Nazis Expect New Blows on Atlantic Co

Co. D Practices  Mobilization  On Quick Call Given Surprise Dril  Thursday Night  To Test Force

Makes Three U.S. Armies  Over Border   FIRST AND NINTH SLUG AHEAD TOWARD RHINE ON  BROAD AACHEN BATTLEFRONT

[Nazi Resistance  Show Definite Sign of Cracking   Heaviest Sustained _ Artillery Bombardment of War Hits Front .

Report Light Opposition East Aachen   Patton’s Forces Open Climactic Assault on Metz

Hodaes Stabs At Heart of Rhineland   “Victory Now’ Drive Picks Up Momentum As BEF Hits Maas

NAZI ARTILLERY UNDER ASSAULT THOUGHT FAILING   British Begin Maastricht Drive

German Resistance Shows Signs- Of Weakening As. Americans Continue - Drive

German Resistance On Aachen Front Lighter As Gunfire Rips Lines   “Victory Now” Offensive Picks Up Speed With British And French Units Swinging Into Attack

Allies Gain At Myitkyina   Fight Way Into Outskirts of City; Capture Jap Supplies

Dewey Plans To Review  E.D.R. Record With Candor   Contends President Now Has Dropped Mask - Of ‘Non-Political   TO SPEAK TONIGHT ‘4T OKLAHOMA CITY   Assails Resorting To Charges of Fraud  ‘And Falsehood

Dewey Declares Roosevelt Has “Dropped Mask”   GOP Nominee Says Ad dress Indicates Opponent Has No Program   O'Conor Warns against Leniency For Germany when Conflict Ends

No Holds Bar  DIGNITY OUT WINDOW AS CAMPAIGN WAXES HOT   Rabble-Rousing and Mudlinging Likely to Feature Remainder of Campaign by Both Sides. .

Dewey, Angered by FDR Speech, Vows Hot Election Drive   Opens ‘No-Hold-Barred” Struggle This Eve at Oklahoma City

Roosevelt Drops Mask, Dewey Say: In Stop at Belen  Non-Political Ban Lifted, GOP Leader ean melOlUhhMmtéCOMD#C.! CNN J

DEWEY MAKES A CHARGE OF MUD SLINGING   Deplores F. D. R.’s Charge of “Fraud” and Promises in Speech Tonight to Ascertain Where  . Tenth Ties. “4 gf

Dewey to Reply To Roosevelt At Eight Tonight  arges  ouses Ir  oreo? Ke omine

Dewey Charges Roosevelt with “Mud Slinging’   Assails President's Charge  of ‘Frand’ and ‘Falsehood,’

Roosevelt Accusations Arouse Dewey's Ange   Republican Presidential Nominee Will Answer Opponent's Charges Of Falsehoods In Radio Speech

DEWEY TO REPLY TO FOR SPEECH POINT BY POINT   GOP Standard Bearer Says He Won’t Sink to Mud Slinging As He Says President Did

Gov. Dewey Will Reply To Blasts By President Roosevelt Tonight —

Dewey Scores Roosevelt For Mud - Slinging  Sa ys ‘Tragedy’ That      Says ‘Tragedy’ That President Sank To Name-Calling   O ANSWER   Talk Tonight To Open ‘Unpleasant’ Job Of Looking For Truth

Dewey Lashes Out at ‘Mein Kampf’ Speech   Roosevelt Record Faces Blasting in  G.O.P. Nominee’s Address Tonight

NEW FERVOR IN FALL CAMPAIGN NOW EXPECTED   Dewey To Answe: Roosevelt Over  Radio Tonight

DEWEY IS READY FOR FIGHT WITH NO HOLDS BARRED   Will Tear Into Roosevelt's Record In Oklahoma City Speech

Dewey Says FDR Opens Door For Real Criticism   Will Examine President's Record In Speech Tonight

Dewey Charges Roosevelt With ‘Mud Slinging’   Says He Will Tell ‘Where Truth Lies’ In Speech Tonight

F.R. Raps  Dewey's Charges   Bitter Campaign Looms as Candidates Start Political Attacks

DEWEY PROMISES NO-HOLDS-BARRED ANSWER TO F.D.R.   FIGHTING SPEECH BY GOP NOMINEE EXPECTED TONIGHT

Dewey Says FDR Quotes From Hitler   Will Review President's Record in Speech at 9 P.M. Today

Dewey to Reply To Roosevelt Speech Tonight   G.O.P. Aspirant  To Hit Harder After Executive’s Charges Of Fraud, Falsehood

Dewey Discards Cloves To Blast FDR Recor   Candidate Accuses White rome Neg

Dewey Charges Roosevelt With Mud Slinging  GOP Nominee   GOP Nominee To Discuss Issue In Speech Tonight

Dewey Charges President With Mud Slinging; Plans Answer In Speech T onight

 Dewey Says Roosevelt Is Attempting ‘To Bolster Waning Cause by Mud Slinging: to Answer Tonight

DEWEY FORESEES ‘ROUGH, TUMBLE’ FIGHT FOLLOWING FDR'S ADDRESS   Nominee To Speak In Charlotte Soon

ANGRY DEWEY PLANS ANSWER TO ROOSEVELT   Most Fiery Speech of Governor s Career  Is Expected

REPUBLICAN: NOMINEE BE “WRITING  ADDRESS . TO “. MAKE FIERY REPLY TO ROOSEVELT'S BLASTS ©   By INTERNATIONAL EIT SERVICE

GOP CANDIDATE WILL ANSWER FOR TONIGHT   To Ascertain Where Truth Lies In Point by Point Rebuttal

DEWEY CHARGES PRESIDENT WITH ‘MUD SLINGING’   sOP Nominee Asserts He'll Answer FDR Point By Point at O. C.

Dewey Plans Attack Upon FDR Record   Oklahoma City Talk Expected to Bristle With Red Hot Words

Dewey Accuses Roosevelt Of Mud Slinging   Republican Nominee Says He Will Answer President in Speech In Oklahoma City

Dewey To Uncover Record Of FDR'S 12 Yrs. In Office   Promises “Unvarnished Candor’’ In Speech Tonight At 9

DEWEY PLANNING ANSWERTONIGHT   GOP Candidate Says He Will Reply To Roose velt’s Statements

DEWEY CLAIMS ‘MUD SLINGING   Promises To Hit Back Hard In Oklahoma Talk Tonight

Dewey Aroused By Assertions  Of President   Roosevelt's Address Will Bring Fiery Response From G.O.P. Candidate

Red Hot Campaign Looms As Dewey “Takes Off Gloves’ To Blast Roosevelt

Dewey Says President Has No Program Foi Future; Plans ‘No-Holds-Barred’ Campajan.

CAMPAIGN TO B BITTEREST IN RECENT YEARS   FDR Speech Stings Dewey

A BITTER CAMPAIGN 1S INDICATED   Dewey To Resume Tonizht; Roosevelt Spoke Saturday

Dewey Pledges Hot Reply to F.R. Tonight   To Answer President Point by Point, He Declares

Dewey Ready To Dig In On FDR   Says President Has Dropped Mask On Non. Political Campaign.

«Dewey Charges Roosevelt With ¢‘Mud-Slinging’   Point-By-Point Answer Without Epithets, Prom ised Tonight.

Dewey to Bare F.D.R. Failures   G.O.P. Nominee to Answer ‘Mud Stinging’ Of Rival With ‘Unpleasant Truth’ Tonight; Deplores Methed of ‘Bolstering Lost Cause’

Dewey Avers President Is ‘Stinging Mud   Says Tonight He'll Deal With Where the Truth Lies, Point by Point

Dewey Charges ‘Mud Slinging’ By President   GOP Nominee to “Undertake Unpleasant Duty of Ascertaining Where Truth Lies”

  1944 Presidential Campaign  Promises To Be Marked By Extremely Bitter Ill Feeling

DEWEY REPLIES 10 ROOSEVELT SPEECH   Will Examine -FDR’s Record With Candor in the Future

GERMANS LOSE SUPPLIES IN AIR ATTACKS   Allied Troops Make 25 Mile  Sea Advance

American Forces Streak Along Seine in Lightning Advance Toward the Sea   Germans Are Denied Ferry  Crossings in Rouen Area

Armored Force Drives Along Seine To Sea   Lightning Advance Reported Today By American Army

Yank Tanks Take Elbeuf, Crowd Rouen  ‘Tega.   Flying . Columns Drive t Foe Away From Princi' pal Ferry Point   NAZI AIRMEN OUT   Ger man Aviators Los sc ‘Heavily in Effort to Pro‘tect Fleeing Land Forces:

Yanks Drive Germans From Positions They Had Taken in Last Few Days of Retreat

YANKS ADVANCE 25 MILES ALONG BANKS OF SEINE   Americans Capture Elbeu Only 30 Miles From Mouth of River

Noose Pulled ‘On More Nazis   Yanks Streak Along The Seine In Drive Toward Sea: Capture Elbeuf.

Throw Noose Around Nazis   Cut off Ferry Fleeing Germans Using, While Airmen Destroy Vehicles   Nazi Planes Downed   American Armored Column Somewhere East of Sens. Going Toward German Border

Americans Push Towards Sea In Western France   Y. S. Troops Within ~ Nine Miles Of Rouen, Normandy Capital

Throw Noose Around More Nazi Troops   6 Yanks Streak Along Seine % In Drive to Sea, Trapping Enemy

American Troops Streak For Coast In New Foe Trap   U. S. Units Enter Paris----Allied Effort Is To Isolate All Germans In Northern France

—WEST FRANCE   U5, ARMOR IN SWIFT ROVANCE:   ‘Americans Capture EL beuf. In New English ‘Channel- Thrust   “MARCH ON ROUEN   No Late Information From Americans Headed.For German Border

West France Sees New Yank Gains   AMERICAN FORCES NOW ADVANCING ALONG SEINE

Lightning Advance Drives Nazis From Ferrying Position:   Capture of Elbeuf Places American Forces Within Nine Airmiles of Rouen, Old Capital of Normandy to North   CANADIANS AND BRITISH DRIVE DEEP WEDGES

ARMORED COLUMNS OF AMERICANS RACE ALONG SEINE TO SEA  ARE RAPIDLY THROWING NOOSE AROUND ANOTHER RIG GERMAN FORCE

YANKS STREAK ALONG SEINE   Make Lightning Advance From Elbeuf; Germans Scurry Homeward

Yankees Driving North on Seine Capture Elbeuf   Advance Rapidly Throwing Another Neose Arennd German Secking to Escape

TROOPS NINE MILES FROM SEINE CITY   Now 30 Miles From River’s Mouth on Channel, Doughboys Are Rapidly Bottling Up Nazis in North France.

U. S. Forces Sweep on Seine Line   Nazis Rapidly Yield Ground, Hurry in Search of Escape

STORM RAGES OVER HILLMAN   GOP Calls Unionist Communist; Demos Refute Charge

Hillman Declared Dictator by GOP. Members in Hous  Job of Administering Reconversion

Republicans Call Hillman Dictator   Political Campaign Dragged Into Reconversion Measure.

Republicans Call Hillman : Dictator,  Communist”  ; ‘Say! He Might. Be Give Job of Administering:   ‘Say! He Might Be Given Job of Administering Post-War: Reconversion Bek Fee Wee eee mak Sor meter pte   DEMOCRAT, TOO, HITS PAC CHIEFTAIN.

HILLMAN TARGET UF HOUSE ATTACK   GOP Members Say PAC Head Might Get Job of Administering Post-war Reconversion; Democrats Retaliate

Republicans in House Unleash New Atfack on Hillman in Hot Debate

HILLMAN HIT IN CONGRESS   Republicans in House See PAC Boss as Recon version Dictator

Hillman Assailed And Defended in Hot House Debate  Republicans Call   Republicans Call CIO Chief Dictator  And Communist

BUDAPEST ROA SHELLED BY REDS   GERMAN USE OF VITAL COMMUNICATION LINKS TO FRONT. HAMPERED.

Heavier Raids On Tokyo Planned   Heart of Japanese Capital Smoulders

Heart of Tokyo Still Burns After  100-Plane Raid      By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

PLAN HEAVIER RAIDS ON JAP CAPITAL   Bombs Dropped Friday Totaled Well Over One Million Pounds

TOK "s STL MEIN, PHOTOS SHOW   WAR DEPARTMENT HINTS THAT SUPERFORTS MAY SWEEP DOWN FROM ALEUTIANS —TWO B-25's LOST

BLOWS ARE DUE SOON   Fires Still Burning In Nip Capital After Record Assault

No Strike Plea MadeToMiners   Ickes Goes Over Head Of Lewis In Making Appeal To Men

Fierce Marianas Battle Still Raging... ..  American Troops Trying To Isolate Key Defense Point On Saipan Island

Bucharest Raided Again As Romania Wavers; Hungary Speeds Evacuation Budapest

Another Allied Hospital In Italy Shelled By Nazis   German Retaliation For Allied Artillery Fire Is Attack On Hospital   LARGE-SCALE MOVE MAY BE IMPENDING

ARGENTINA BREAKS WITH AXIS PUPPETS   Severs Diplomatic Relations Witt Vichy France, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary.

Roosevelt Aids Gillette, Iowa Purge Target   Harmony Move Made By President In Mess age Praising Senator For Race Eutry

Gillette Gets -Felicitation, _ Of Rodsevel:   Towan’ Who. Beat ‘Purge’ in 38 Congratulated onRunning Again

KDR Attempts To Unite Party For 1944. Races   President Congratulates Gillett On Decision To Ask Re-Election

President Roosevelt Personally Takes Hand In Efforts To Unite Democrats In Elections .

Roosevelt Moves To Heal Breach  {n Party Ranks Congretaneten Giistte  nro PFurdgoa ! araga   Congratulates Gillette Once Purge Target, On Decision to Run

ROOSEVELT AIDS IN PARTY UNITY   Target Of Unsuccessful 1928 Puree Praised By White House

Favor Seen  By Gillette    FDR Has ‘Personally -Backed-Up Campaign

Roosevelt Makes Personal Effort For Unity In Democratic Party With Letter To Sen. Gillette

F. D. RIN MOVE TO UNITE PARTY   CONGRATULATES GILLETTE, 1988 PURGE TARGET, ON DECISION TO RUN.

NazisRound up) 114 Parachutists   Other Airmen Still Sought, Scandinavian Telegraph * Bureau Said.

Bricker Criticizes Bureaucratic System in U. S.   Says This Patchwork of Bureaus Must Be Taken Apart

Nazis “Calm and Prepared’  For Invasion, Says Radio Report From Amsterdam

Tub Thumpers For Goebbels Renewing Act   Germans Are Told High Command Anticipated ‘Everything

‘PROS’ TAKE CONTROL OF CONVENTION   Demo Sweep In State » Is Predicted By Gov. Stevenson

Roosevelt Forces Win At State Convention; Study Legal Aspects OF Plan

NEW INDUCTION PLAN EXPLAINED BY STATE BOARD   Will Go In Effect January 30; Exams  Still In Chicago

ARE REVISEL   State Director Armstrong Gives Information On Subject.

FR Orders Army to Take Over Strike-Crippled Los Angeles Department.

Striking Ufilities Workers Return to Job—For Army   FDR Orders Stimson To Take Over System In Los Anaeles

Army Seizure Ends Strike in Los Angeles   - FDR Order Quickly Halts Walkout at Public Utility Plants

POWER STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK   ARMY TAKES OVER TO END WALKOUT AT LOS ANGELES

Army Seizes ‘Los Angeles Power Works   President. Acts To Prevent Strike From Im peding War Effort.

ARMY SEIZURE STOPS STRIKE   Los Angeles Power Plant Workers Resume Tasks

Army Ready tc Take Over in Los Angeles   Military Would Run Struck Power System, Says City’s Mayor

Employes Of Municipal Department Return To Work After Hearing Colonel's Order

FOR INSTRUCTS TROOPS TO END POWER SHUTOFF   160 War Plants In Lo: Angeles Area Shut Down

WORKERS RETURN To PLANT NOW IN ARMY’S HANDS   Operation Resumed at Los Angeles Municipal Power and Light Plant After 10-day Strike——Workmen Pleased

Allies, Japs Swap Blows In Pacific   Enemy Encirecles Hengyang; U. 8. Closes In For Kill At Saipan

JAPS CLINCH STRANGLEHOLD ON HENGYANG IN CHIN* AS ALLIED TROOPS NEAR VICTORY AT SAIPAN   - Fall of Vital Southeast Chinese City Will Be Hardest Blow Suffered by China Since 1938. Americans See Early Complete Victory. on Saipa

Enemy Rings Vital Chinese ~ Railway. City   Meanwhile, Yanks Nea) Vittory in Saipan Is. land Battle

VICTORY ON SAIPAN NEAR FOR YANKEES   Has Been Hardest Land Battle in Central Pacific. Japs Grasp Vital Sino City

Complete Allied Victory in Sight on Saipan: Japanese Attack Henavana

Complete American Victory at Saipan in Sight; Guam and Rota Islands Raided Avain

Japanese Forces Put Str anglehold On Hengyang; Hard Saipan Fisht Racing

Trade Hard Blows In Pacific War   Japs Strangle Hengyang in China as Yanks Win on  Saipan Island.

American Troops Within Sight Of Saipan Victory   Hengyang’s Loss Would Be Severe Blow to Chinese

Den Galehouse Whips Cards in  Openine Game   Browns Score Twice in 4th - Frame; Cards Put Over Run in Ninth

BROWNS WIN ON McQUINN'S BLOW   GALEHOUSE PITCHES BRILLIANT CONTEST

DEPUTY COLLECTORS WILL BE HERE TO ASSIST THE TAAPAYERS, FEB, 8-10

DHPUTY COLLDOCYORS WILL BH HERE TO Assist? THE TABRPAYVERS, PEE. 5-10

Senate Studies Food Subsidies   Farm Block Fights To Elimiate CCC

3 BLIMPS DESTROYED, FOURTH 1S DAMAGED   Ten-Man Crew of One Missing After Craft Crashes Into Gulf of Mexico.

BLALOCK 13 SEEKING  BRING TEXAS DEMO  FACTIONS TOGETHER NATIONAL COMMITTEE MAN FROM TEXAS WORK: ING TOWARD HARMONY

ARMED FORCES MERGER MOVE   UNIFICATION OF ARMY AND _ NAVY COMMAND IN ONE - DEPARTMENT I8 POSTWAR PROJECT

TITO’S FORCES CHECK GERMANS? OFFENSIVE   Re-Occupy Several Places In Montenegro Sector

SLAVS CHECK GERMANS IN MONTENEGRO   Partisans Reoccupy Number Of Towns

Bard Says Brewster Corp. Aitempted to Stir Labor Trouble  Says Company Held Pablic   Says Company Held Public Fands To Pay $1,500,000 Pay Award, Paid Bia Salaries Instead

CAPITAL RUMORS ROSENMAN WROTE VETO MESSAGES   President's Friend May “Take Rap” to Divert G.O.P. Attack

VETO MESSAGE BLAME TURNED TO ROSENMAN   White House Legal Aide May Become “Whipping Boy’

FIND SECRET YOUTH GROUP IN JACKSON   Ritual Required Wiping Feet On American Flag

Germans Forced Back on Gustav Defenses in Italy;  Allies Ford the Rapido   Russian News Agency Publishes British Denial Of Peace Talk Without Comment; Sweden Orders Reich’s ‘Scientists’ Out; Slav Partisans Gain

HEAVY DRAFT. QUOTAS LOOW   LARGE NUMBER or MEN IN 2637 AGE GROUP TO BE CALLED DURING NEXT SPRING

More Men of 26-37 Age Group To Get Draft Calls After Feb. 1, 1945

6-31 DEFERMIEN  RULES TIGHTENED   More Inductions May Come From This Group After February

REJECT THREE SOLDIER VOTE AMENDMENTS   All Were Designed To Give States Control

Sen. Taft Leads Coalition Against Soldier-Vote Bill   His Suggestion Would Give States Right Of Amendment

States Soldier Vote Amendment Defeated   Senate. Vote Seen as Victor y for Preponents of Federal Ballot Rill

Senate Bans Changes in  Vote Bill   Amendments to Federal Plan Defeated; Dewey For State Ballots

SENATE BEATS STATE CONTROL OF ARMY VOTE   Throws Out 3 Amendments

Senate Rejects State-Maneaed Soldier Vote   Gov. Dewey Opposes Purely-Federal Service Ballot

Senate Rejects Amendment To Voting Measure   Law Provided For Qualification Rules  of Soldier Ballots

AIRMEN BATTLE OVER GERMANY   U. S. Eighth Air Force Loses 49 Bombers And 12 Fighters

FIERCE AERIAL BATTLES RAGE   Luftwaffe Tries to Check Allies’ Mass Air As sault on Germany

NAZI TARGETS HIT BY ALLIED PLANES   Raids Cost U. S. Airforce 49 Bombers and 12  Fighfers -

Battle in Skies Over ~ Nazi Reict   Luftwaffe Attempts te Stem Mass Aerial . Assaulis

49 0, SHEAVY BOMBERS DOWNED IN SKY BATTLES   Germans Fight Viciously to Stem Mass Air Assault— Bag 12 Fighters, Lose 86 of Own.   WIDESPREAD ATTACKS ARE MADE BY RAIDERS   Principal Blows Dealt Magdeburg, Kassel and Merseburg in Central Part of Reich.

British Minimize First Jap Penetration Of India: Tojo Says Nip Situation ‘Grave’.   Marines. Tighten Hold In: Southwest And Three Jap Ships’ Are Sent Dowh

As Diversion Move   Premier Tojo Warns Diet. Heavied Blows By U. S. ecteds Marshall Atolls

JAPS ADVANCE IN INDIA  TADC DACICIC AAD MAE lOPS.P AGI WAR IIUOY rC

Jap Destroyer,  Two Cargo Ships  Sent to Bottom British Minimize  Enemy Thrusts Aevnes Indee i ine

J. R. Gill to Help in Plan Cotton Event   WELI-KNOWN WAXAHACHIAN TO ASSIST IN ARRANGING ‘44RESAERCH CONGRESS.

Airdrome on Leyte Taken by U.S. Troops   Third Jap-Held Airfield Falls to Invaders

DRIVE JAPANESE INTO FOOTHILLS IN LEYTE FIGHT      5  sTmmediate Objectives Were On Island Of Kyushu   To South

Jap Attacks Beaten Off By WArthur   Americans Expand Philippine Beachhead Despite Bitter Resistance

YANKS BEAT OFF ATTACKS BY JAPANESE   Three Air Bases On Leyte Fall to American Troops

eee eEeEeeeES ee EE  Yanks Repulse Japs, Hold 3 Airfields, 28 Towns, Villages

Jap Defenders Launch First Counterblows   MacArthur’s Army Tarns Back Foe; Widens Island Front

YANKS DRIVE DEEPER INTO LEYTE ISLE   Capture Third Airfield, 28 Towns And Villages

Also Have Captured 3 Airdromes   BEAT OFF FIRST ORGANIZED JAP RESISTANCE; BEACHHEAD 10 MILES DEEP, 35 MILES WIDE ©

ONE LIGHT AMERICAN  CARRIER LOST; B-298 STRIKE JAPAN AGAIN   Sarrier, 2 Cruisers, Destroyer Join Nip Undersee Fleet Off Philippines; Action Continued Against 3 Jap Naval Units

Sweep Now Into Forest Near$t. Lo   NAZI TRANSOCKAN AGENCY ADMITS WITHDRAWALS OF BATTERED GERMANS,

PARKERSBURG CORNING PLANT GETS NEW AWARD   Eighth “E” By Corning Glass Plants Given Yesterday By Army-Navy

Says Mate, Now Dead, Murderer   Woman Admits Burying Body After Slaying By Enraged Husband.

Press Freedom Endangered, Bricker Warns   Federal Government Seeks to Discredit Newspapers, Claim

WENTIGAL FLAN PLAN APPEARS TO BE SCRAPPED:   Each. Party Wil Go Own Way on™ _ Foreion Policy.

WDENTIGAL PLANK PLAN APPEARS 10 BE SCRAPPED   Each Party Wi Go Own Way on Foreign Policy

ALLIES PLAN FOR SEALING EIDEWINDOW   ‘Closing of the 200-Mile Irish Frontier Is Indicated  1TRFARERC PEADY TH      LEADERS READY TO ~ MOVE WITH SPEED   Travel Restrictions Put Into Effect on Monday

“Seen as uM //ay be OSIng ral inc OW, on’. nvasic 1 ans; J. S., ’“or-1 “ris1 So Cciers Zeacv

ALLIES PLAN FOR SEALING EIREWINDOW   ‘Closing of the 200-Mile Irish Frontier Is Indicated   LEADERS READY TO - MOVE WITH SPEED   Travel Restrictions Put Into Effect on Mondav

Stimson Sees End Of Any Hope For Nazi Stand  Events of Week Are Too Staggering  Paw Baw te Daren

Stimson Sees End Of Any Hope For Nazi Stand  Events of Week Are Too Staggering For Foe to Recoup

German Hopes of Making Long Stand in France Shattered Says Sec. Stimson

GERMAN HOPES OF STAND SHATTEREC   Secretary of War Remind: Many Nazi Divisions + Still Remain.

GERMANS CAN'T MAKE STAND IN NORTH FRANCE   Stimson Declares Nazis Are ‘Weakening on Every Side’; Progress Aired

\Germany’s Hopes Shattered  Tn France. Stimson Declares   Hitler War Machine Weak, ening On Every Side, War Seeretary Sava

Rain, Wind Slow U. S. Offensive   New Jap Commander Boasts He'll Force MacArthur's Surrender

BATTLE AGAINST  REINFOCED JAPS  ON LEYTE ISLAND AMERICAN ADVANCE  HALTED BY TYPHOON IN THE PHILIPPINES

Yanks. Fight in Blinding Storm   Japanese on Leyte Reinforced; _ To Demand MacArthur Surrender

YANKS BATTLE DURING STORN   Weary Doughtoys Fight Fresh Jap Soldiers in Raging Typhoon.   /TEMPORARILY STOPPED

Yanks Battle Fresh Japs In Typhoon   Americans Stopped on Leyte, Blame Storm  More Than Enemy

Typhoon Halts Drive On Leyte   New Jap Commander In Philippines Is Boasting That He Will Beat MacArthur

Jap Leader On Philippines Boasts He’ll Demand Unconditional Surrender Of General MacArthut

UJ. 5. INFANTRYMEN BATTLE STORM AND REINFORCED ENEMY  ARROGANT NEW JAP COM   ARROGANT NEW JAP COMMANDER TO DEMAND UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

YANKS FIGHT RAGING TYPHOON, FRESH JAP SOLDIERS ON LEYTE   NIPS USING POISON GAS AT KWEILIN, CHINESE SAY; ALLIES CAPTURE FORT WHITE IN BURMA

TYPHOON SLOWS DOWN AMERICAN ADVANCE TODAY   Jap Commanders Say Americans  Have No Chance

Cocky Little Jap Commander Brags He Will Demand American Surrender

NEW JAP COMMANDER, ARROGANT, SAYS HE WILL DEMAND MACARTHUR MAKE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

Yank Drive Is Held Up  By Typhoon   Americans Battle  Reinforced Japs On Leyte Despite LOO-Mile Hour Gale

Infantry Battles in 100-Mile-Hour Wind-Kain Storms   Cocky Jap Commander Demands Surrender From MacArthur

Allies Seize India Fort, TyphoonHaltsleytePush, NipsReported UsingGas

Typhoon Slows Yank Advance On Leyte Isle   Arroqant Jap Leader Boasts 4Of Full Victory

Si imc a acm ei  TYPHOON HALTS YANKS ON LEVTE   Bloody Battle. on Leyte for Road: to Ormoc Continues Despite Weather

U. 5. INFANTRYMEN BATTLE STORM AND REINFORCED ENEMY  ARROGANT NEW JAP COM. MANDER TO DEMAND UN — CONDITIONAL SURRENDEF

Yanks Fight In Raging Typhoon On North Leyte   Drive Against Reinforced Japs Temporarily Dulled By Blinding Storm.

YANKS FIGHT IN ‘TOO-MILE GALE ON LEYTE ISLE   ‘Battle Reinforced Enemy  ‘ As Jap Commander Boasts He Will Demand “Uncon‘Atatanal Surrender’.

Weary Yanks Battling as Storm Rages   Move on Ormoc in 100-Mile Typhoon in Battle for Leyte

PROSPECTS FOR RECESS VAGUE   “tavasion Jitters” Fill Con. gressmen With Uncertainty

American Air Hawks Ravage Japanese  Bases All Over Central Pacific Area

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE AMONG JAP ISLAND AIRFIELDS REPORTED  GEN. WILLIS HALE, COM. MANDER OF SEVENTH AAF TELIS OF RAIDS

The Fifth Column  ONE STRIKE ENDS BUT OTHERS SPREAD   Wright Workers Back After. Four Days Idleness; Midwest Truck Strike Spreads.

LAWYER FREED IN LIND DEATH   Mrs. Miller Bares Relations With Slain Psychiatrist

Fifth Approaches Hub of Bologna   Nazi Resistance In East End of Po Valley Ends.

NEW KEY GAINS MADE IN ITALY   Fifth Army Troops Drive Nearer Bologna

Mrs. Ruth Forbes, . Rothwell N.: MacRae Again . Head Eastern Star

CONCORD O.E.S. ~ INSTALLATION? OF OFFICERS      Mrs. Ruth Forbes, Rothwell N.. MacRae Again -. Head Eastern Star

SPEGIAL MEET OPENS TUESDAY   Teachers’ Salaries. Ballot Marking On Schedule

CATHOLICS PLEASED WITH ROME’S FALI   Archbishop Curley Sars People Can Really “Thank God” For Gity’        ‘s Liberation

LAUSCHE'S CAMPAIGN SLOWED UP BY FIRE   Sen. Taft and Rep. Brown To Speak at London

SUGGESTS SON REPLACE HIM UNTIL BALLOT   Would Abdicate if Rome Falls to Allies

Yanks Land Large Force Qn Sansapor   WArthur Moves 200 Miles Closer To Philippines; British Plan Aid

Yanks Land on New Guinea North Coast; British Will Help in Pacific   Britain's Navy, Under Fraser Command, to Have Share in Kastern War

‘Dewey Aroused: Governor Holds Up Farm Speech To “Fill in Gaps” Leff by FDR

Dewey Pigeon Holes Farm Talk Planned for Tonight to Reply To Roosevelt’s Saturday Speech

DEWEY CHANGES TEXT OF TALK IN MINNEAPOLIS   Postpones Farm Speech To “Fill In Gaps” In President’s Address   SAYS DEMOCRATS ALSO BOAST ISOLATIONISTS

DEWEY PLANS REPLY 10 FDR   Pigeon-Holes Farm Address To “Fill the Gaps” in President's Speech

DEWEY TO REPLY TOF. DLR. TONIGHT   PROMISES TO TELL WHAT PRESIDENT “FORGOT” IN FOREIGN POLICY TALK, °

DEWEY TO ANSWER ~ ROOSEVELT SPEECH   To “Fill in the Gaps” of Foreign Policy Address

DEWEY CHANGES OPEECH SUBJECT   Discards Farm Speech Pre: pared for Minneapolis   SPEAKS TONIGHT   Will ‘Fill in Gaps’ in Roose. velt's Recent Foreign Policy Talk

CIO Choice Poor Second In Maine   EARLY RETURNS GIVE HALE 2,173 VOTES TO PETTIIs 158 FOR 1ST DIST. CONGRESS.   Hildreth For Governor

Dewey Speaks Up: 6 : * . Governor Offers Soldier's  Vote Plan To Legislature

Dewey Assails Pending Ballot For Soldiers   Says National Administra. tion Cultivates Concept Local Governments Of No Consequence

Dewey Offers New Plan for Soldier Ballots   Federa! System Is Assailed By N. Y. Governor

Dewey Offers — Ballot Plan For Soldiers   Would Be Sent to Members of Armed Services Requesting Vote

Russians Mass Troops At Estonia, Poise Men For Smash Into Poland

Estonian Front Drive Indicated   ~Renewal of Push On  ~Narva, Tallinn Seen

SEE RUSSIANS AS PREPARING FOR OFFENSIVE   Germans Attempt To Bomb Troop Formations On Estonian Front: Fail

Army Achieves Goal; Navy Stil Short of Mark   Will Continue Draft Calls at Present Tempo, OW! Reports

INDUCTION CALLa * MUST CONTINUE   Navy to Expand to Peak @ Strength of 3,600,000   REPLACEMENTS NEEDED   @Army Will Need 75,000 to 100,000 Men a Month Throughout 1944

Army Reaches Ful! Strength   Now Has Total of 7,700, 000; Present Draft Tempc Ty Continue.

ARMY STRENGTH “AT MARK PLANNED   FIGHTING FORCE) NUMBERS 7,700,000—NO DRAFT SLOWDOWN IN SIGHT.

Army Reaches Full Strength, But Dratting  To Continue   Needs Replacements, More Men To Be Called To Boost Navy Ranks To 3,600,000 Peak   7,700,000 MEN ° NOW ON ARMY LISTS

7,700,000 GOAL OF ~ ARMY IS REACHED   Fact Will Not Change the Present Rapid Tempo of Draft.

300,000 Needed For Navy; Draft To Be Continued   Replacements Will Take Thousands

ARMY REACHES FULL STRENGTH OF 7,700,000   Will Not Change Present Tempo Of Draft, Govern mant Annannces   NAVY NEEDS 300,000 MEN BY NEXT JULY 1

Army Reaches Full Strength -Of 7.700.000   Draft Tempo To Continue Meeting Replacements,  Ninwes Diesnect sc:

ARMY AT FULL STRENGTH OF 7,700,000 NOW   Rapid Draft Pace to Continue for Navy, Replacements

Army Reaches Full Strength But Draft Tempo Not Checked   Navy And Coast Guard Need More Men;  Rarnlacamaonte Kinane Of Sarvicac Cited

Draft Calls Will Continue At Same Pace   Navy Is Expected to Attain Its Peak by Sept. 1; No Induction Cut Seen Before July

Army Reaches Full Strength, But Hershey Savs Rapid Tempo Of Draft To Be Unchanged

CALL REMAINS AS ARMY HITS PEAK IN MEN      Induction Required To Maintain  Strength

75,000 to 100,000 Men Needed Each Month to Baintain, Strength of 7,700,000 By = Army: Nave Narde 200.000

NO LETUP YET IN DRAFT CALL   Army Reaches 7,700,000, But Induction Tempo Must Be kept Up

THE WEATHER   OWI Says Draft At Rapid Pace Held Necessary   Induction Is Needed To Maintain Present Size Of Forces

U.S. army attains its full strength  Draft tempo will not be chanced

Army Reaches Full Strength But Draft Tempo Not Checked      Navy And Coast Guard Need More Men; Ranlacemente Need<e Of Services Cited

FEDERAL TAXES DOUBLED IN 1943   Total of $31,924,500,000 Collected

U.S. Marines Win New Foothold in Their Drive Toward Rahant      HEAVIEST INCENDIARY  RAID MADE ON LONDON   Tighten Encirclement On Masses of Germans

Marines Capture New Britam Base   Japs Driven From  Two Admiralty Isles

MARINES WIN NEW TOEHOLD ON N. BRITAIN   Japs Cleared From Two More Islands Off Los Negros

MARINES ARE IN NEW LOCATION 10 ~ BLAST JAP BASE   ‘New Landings Are Made on   New Britain, 33 Straglers Found and Are Easily Wipned Out.   10,000 NAZIS KILLED IN TRAP BY RUSSIANS   Early Soviet Victory Predicted Over Encircled Divi + sions Caught North of Kherson.

Yanks Driving for Rabaul Seize Linga Linga: Hard Air Smash at Wewak

NEW LANDING IS MADE ON NEW BRITAIN   U.S. Marines Win New Foothold In Drive On Rabaul

Marines Gain New Foothold In Rabaul Drive   Allied Airmen Attack Wewak On North Coast:  Repulse Japs In Solomons

MARINES HAVE NEW FOOTHOLD IN NEW BRIT.   Also Repulse More Jap Attacks on Bougainville

Americans Make Gains on New Britair Lorengau Within Artillery Range   Marines Make Important Landing At Linea Linga

Win Foothold on Northern Coast Of New Britain   U. S. Marines Continue Drive Towards Rabaul

2 More Islands In Admiralty Group Taken   Marines Make New Landing on New Britain WNaarar Rahanl

Yanks Dont Give ‘Hitler Any Extra. ‘Time for Repairs   Almost Continuous Bombardment of Target: ; In Europe Keeps Germans Busy — Plane Output Suffers As Americans Hamme  Realentleccly at Factories.

Air Raids Hit  German Travel!   Cuts Heavily Nazi Fighter Strength, Production Says Stimson,

Air Attacks Cut German Supply Lines   Beyond Repairing, Stimson Reports

Rail Lines Broken Too Fast For Nazi Repairing   Stimson Says Air Raids Have Also Cut Into German Fighter Strength

Stimson Says Lines Damaged Beyond Repair   Forts Blast Holland Field; Bucharest Targets Hit; Military Depot Raided

Air Blows Cut German Output   Destroy Nazi Lines Of Communication To Meet -Invasion

Stimson Says Enemy  Can’t Make Repairs  Hitler Chifte Darnanhatse KRenante   Hitler Shifts Parachute Experts From Italy to West Wall  As Invasion Jitters Graw

Farm Equipment Shortage Eased, WFA Announces   Higher Production To Aid Farm Program In Coming Months

White Collar Worker Will Be Considered   Senate Labor Group To Take Up Plight Of Those ‘Caught?’ By Higher Living Costs

MEN ACCEPTED FOR. ~ MILITARY SERVICE   Countians Inducted July 12, Local Board No. 2  —_—....’ Announces _

MEN ACCEPTED FOR MILITARY SERVICE   Board No. 2 Registrants Report for Duty on June 2?

MEN ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE IN ARMY      Registrants From Board No. 2 Inducted April 27

MEN ACCEPTED FOR. MILITARY. SERVICE      Local. Board 2 Registrants inducted on Aug: ust 25.

COUNTIANS GO IN MILITARY SERVICE   Group Accepted for Army _ Navy and Marine Corps

MEN ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE IN NAVY   Countians to _ to Go Into Training, Board No, 2 Announces

MEN. ACCEPTED FOR... MILITARY SERVICE   Local Board Names Those to Serve in Army and Navv

MEN ACCEPTED FOR MILITARY SERVICE   Countians Inducted July 12, Local Board No. 2 — Announces

LOCAL MEN ENTER SERVICE OF NAVY   Inductees From Board No. 2 Are Accepted Mav 371

RUSSIANS CAPTURE TOWN EAST OF BUDAPEST IN ALL-OUT ATTACK   SECOND ARMY OF UKRAINE SWINGS NORTHWARD IN MOVEMENT TO ENVELOP HUNGARY CAPITAL

Mississippi Senator Opposed to Federal War Vote Plan, Terming It Threat to ‘White Supremacy’

Occupied Nations Face Starvation   Face Winter With Lowest Food Supplies Ever Known.

FDR CHOICE OF WALLACE MADE PUBLIC   Race Issue Placed Before Platform Writers

‘OLE MISS GROUF BOLTS FOR BYRD   Byrnes and Barkley Have Support for Vice President   CONTEST IN TEXAS   FDR Favors Wallace But Says ‘Convention Must Do Own Deciding’

ROOSEVELT WRITES HE'D VOTE WALLACE   But President Says Convention Must Choose Candidate for V-President; Wouldn’t Dictate.   Jackson Reveals Letter

Roosevelt Letter Indorses Wallace  As Personal Choice   Opposition to Vice-President Continues Strong

Says: ‘He Would. Vote For Renomination - Of Vice’President If He Were Delegate.  VIEW MADE PUBLIC IN JACKSON LETTER  He’s Not Dictating To Party’s Conclave, “Dresident. Assures

T0 CONCLAVE T0 PICK MAN   ‘Aong-Awaited Letter Intensifies Scrap for Second Place— Sentiment for Byrnes Grows.   BARKLEY APPEARS . TO HAVE CHANCE   ‘Signs of Southern Revolt Emphasized as. Mississippi Votes to Back Byrd to Head Ticket.

Refuses To Lash  Conventior   Byrnes Is Leading Field For Vice President Nomination.

Makes 1 Plain Ln Letter, However, He Wants Hif Vor A Running Mate. Byrnes and Barkley Backers Take Heart.

Roosevelt’ s Letter ©  Endorses: Wallace   President, However, Leaves Vice- Presidential Choice to Convention—Battle is Growing Bitter  a

Roosevelt states views but leaves  convention open ‘Likes, respects Wallace;  disnute letter’s emphasis

F. D. RB. Endorses Wallace as Running Mate   Selection, However Is Left  to the Convention

BOOSTS GIVEN FOR WALLACE BY ROOSEVEL!   DEMOCRATS LINING UP FOR BATTLE AT CHICAGO

F'D Would Vote for Wallace But Leaves Choice to Parley   Roosevelt Says He Doesn’t Want to Appear Dictating to Convention; Followers of Byrnes, Barkley Expected to Show Activity

SOVIETS TAKE SARNY DRIVE FOR KOVEL   Another Spearhead Less Than 40 Miles From Pinsk

Report Germans Are In Retreat Across Polane   Reds Are Pressing On From Sarny Toward Kovel, Savs Moscow   NEW OFFENSIVE OPENED BY REDS

RUSSIANS DRIVE GERMANS BACK ON WIDE FRONT   Pursue Foe Toward Kovel Beyond Fallen Sarny; Opens New Smash

“Reds Cut Nazi’: Last Baltic Route of Escape   Major Fortress Cities of Lwow, Bialystok and Stanislawow. Are Toppled in Powerful Surges Through Polish Area

QUTHER ENEMY BAGTIONS TAKEN   Russians Cross San River in Sweep to Germany   TIDE POURS WESTWARD   Red Armies Seize Daugavpils; Nazis Appear To Be Falling Back

300,000 Foes Cornered in Baltics As Russ Cut Last Escape Route; Cross San River, Sweep for Reich

wow, Bialystok And Stanislawow Fall fo Russians   Soviets 30 Miles Away from Warsaw

NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE FROM BALTIC CUI   Soviets Cross Vistula Southeast of Warsaw— Battle Foe in Streets of Brest Litovsk.   300,000 ENEMY . TROOPS BOXED UP   Russians Pursue 30 Divisions Fleeing- Toward Prussia From Estonia and Tatvia.

FOURTH WAR BOND DISTRICT MEETING   Six Counties Will Meet in Vincennes on January 6.

Stewart ‘Man To Keep Ohio Clean'-Bricker  Ohio Governor Takes Time Out To Boost   Ohio Governor Takes Time Out To Boost State GOP Ticket

Gen. Bradley touches off  historic salvo Nebraskans help  celehrate Fourth

SOVIET ARMY STRIKES FOR KOENIGSBERG   Red Aerial Blows Cut Heavily Into German Communications

Early Avreement Between Soviets, Poles Fxpectec Matter of Boundaries  Seems To Pe Chie Question

SOVIET - POLISH ACCORD LIKELY   Churchill and Eden Confer In Moscow With Lead ers of Poles

Americans Drive Into Pisa  Nasie Fara Thrari   Nazis Face Threat of Encirclement

Yanks Battle Way Into kdge Of Pisa Today  Gain Strategic Ground In Sectar OF City

Americans Battle Into Pisa, Drive  To Encircle Nazis   Strategic Ground on Arno River Now Controlled by Yanks

Yanks Battle In Southern Section of Pisa   Threaten to Trap German Forces Near Leaning Tower

More Walkouts Hit U. S. Plants   Union Officials Ask Government Seizure Of Wright Factory

Common Pool For Inductees   Selective Service Draftees No Longer Will Be EKarMarked.

Inductees to Go in Common Pool  Will Be Assigned According to Need

All Inducted Men To Go In One Pool And Army And Navy To Draw From!

‘POOL’ PLANNED FOR INDUCTEES   Revised Procedure Will Be Effective On July 1

SENTENCE HELD UP FOR TWO AGED MEN   Federal Judge Says Prison Might Endanger Lives

Jap Losses  At 44,956  Casualties at Guam, Saipan and Tinian 10 to 1 American

44,956 Nippon Die In Saipan, Tinian Battles   U. 8. Lost 4,470 Killed 20,345 Wounded and 721 Missing; Japanese Islands: Bombed

JAP TOLL HIGH ON 3 ISLANDS   Guam, Saipan and Tinian Operations Put Death Total at 44,956

44,956 Jap: Killed On 3 Islands   Futile Defense Of Guam, Saipan And Tinian Costly To Nips

Ten Japs Die For Every American In Defense Of Guam, Saipan, Tinian

44,956 956 Japs. Meet Deaths   Defense. Of. Talarida. “Upon. 10. To I Ratio

Japs Lose 44,956 Troops In Battle Of Mariana Isles   Score Is Ten To One Compared With Yanks.

Futile Defense - Cost Japs Heavy   OVER 44956 NIPPONESE _. KILLED IN GUAM DEFENSE

Guam, Saipan. Tinian Cost  Japs 44,956   Lose Ten to One For Americans in Bloodiest Campaign

Capture Of Rail Junction Hems In  100,000 Germans   Nazi Air Strength Cut By Allied Bombings

MONASTERY STILL UNDER SHELL FIRE   Ancient Shrine In: Ruiris for 4th Time if History

Bombarding Ruins of Old Monastery   Nazi Gunners in Rubble of Building—Fighting on Beachhead

GU-GPERATION Wilt RATIONING PROGRAM URGED   War Use Cuts Supply of Petroleum, Speaker Tells Kiwanis Members

CO-OPERATION; WIT RATIONING PROGRAM’ URCEI   War Use- Cuts Supply) of Petroleum, Speaker :  Tells Kiwanis Members

Cards ee ading Browns. 2 To 0  in 4th Inning   Americans’ Defense Crumbles To Permit Nationals To Dent Plate

British Air Force Hits Nazi Plant   Plane Factory In Southern France Smashed; Little Land Fighting In Italy

Allied Aircraft Return for Third Straight Night Without Loss.   RAID NAZI LINES NORTH OF ROME   Land Fighting Is Limited Only to Sharp Patrol Activity.

PO TO BALANCE CONSUMER SUPPLY   Equitable Distribution of Many Commodities Will Be Clarified Soon

Sheets, Clothing Ban Is Lifted   —  Civilians Will Get Better Supply

Civilian Goods Now Problem   WPB Seeks Fair Distribution Of Essential, Scarce Items

MORE CONSUMER GOODS PLANNED   To Come Through More Equitable Distribution

WPB MOVES TO EVEN FLOW OF SCARCE GOODS   More Equitable Distribution Aimed at In New Directive

Allied Bombers Step Up Attacks On Jap Bases   Another Enemy Destroyer Struck, MacArthur Reports

Allies Hit. ‘Southwest _ Fortresses   Bombers Operating With  Increased. Frequency;. - - Eighth - Warship   - Under Fire >> >>>

ACCIDENT VICTIM ~ DIES IN HOSPITAL   Frank H. Webber Expires + Following Auto Crash 

ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES IN HOSPITAL   Frank H. Webber Expires Following. Auto ~-  YNSerach .

Deloris M. Crow Becomes Bride  Of Elmer Meske  Pretty Wedding At   Pretty Wedding At Trinity Church, Akron Thursday Afternoon

Deloris M. Crow Becomes Bride  Of Elmer Meske  Pretty Wedding At Trinity Church, Akro  Ls ot CEU: eS ar

“The Robe” At St. Paul Church Saturday Evening   A Three Act Dramatic Reading

German Ruhr Factories Going At Full Blast, in Spite Of Heavy Raids

SENATE REFUSES T0  SCRAP FEDERAL VOTE  NEASURE 46 TO 42 ADMINISTRATION PULLS  ’ BIL OUT OF FIRE AGAIN FRIDAY

Senate Kills *State’s Right’ Soldier Vote   Administration Rallies From House Defeat; Stalemate Is Imminent

House Defeats Administration War Ballot Bill   Fight Continues In Senate Over Disputed Plan

STATE'S. RIGHT VOTE REJECTED   Senate Defeats Proposa To Scrap Green-Lucas   Ballot Bill

‘SOLDIER BALLOT—  Federal Soldier Ballot Is Turned Down By House

SENATE TO GET SOLDIER VOTE BALLOTS TODAY   House Defeats Bil! Yesterday; May Pass Senate

House Rejects Federal Bill For Soldier Vote; Passes ‘State’s Rights’ Measure

House Defeats  Administration State’s Rights On Soldier Vote Unheld

Administration Gets Set-Back On Service Vote  Only Hope To Pass   Only Hope To Pass Federal Ballot Rests In Senate

House Defeats Roosevelt On Soldier Vote   Pie State, ‘Rights, Bill;     Waning Hope On - Senate

Senate Action ~~ May Result - . in Stalemate   * Administration Forces Are Rallied in Senate After House Votes for Plan   «, DECISIVE TEST IN THE SENATE   But It Means Little Unless House Reverses Stand On ~*. Soldier Voting

‘BOB-TAIL' VOTE PLAN DEFEATED   House Approves Bill To Let States Poll Servicemen

ADMINISTRATION ~~ WON CRUCIAL TES}   Victory in Senate for Its Federal War Ballot Plan.

Federal Vote Bloc Giving Ground Today   Last Hopes Pinned Upov _ Senate After Thumping House Defeat.

HOUSE REJECTS FEDERAL BALLOT PLAN, 2240 168   PASS STATE BALLOT BILL ON ROLL CALL VOTE.BY 382 TO 69

House Defeats Soldier Vote Plan Of FDR   Senate Starts Debate Today on Amendment Offered by Sen. Taft, Putting Vote  Back to States.

SOLDIER VOTING ‘BEATEN IN FIOUSE BY VOTE 224-168   Members Stand to Be Counted, Vote 328 to 69 to Leave Election Machinery In Hands of State.   \AST HOPES FOR BILL IN HANDS OF SENATE   Fears Expressed That “Bobtailed’ Ballot Limited te Soldiers May Be Held Unconstitutional.

Senate Rejects Substitute For Federal Ballot   Administration Forces Rally After Staggering Defeat In House.

Supporters of Soldier Vote Issue Reeling   Administration Forces Pin Last Hopes on Senate  To Adopt Bill   RESULTS ENDANGERED   By ERNEST B. VACCARO and A. SYDNEY ROBERTS

Soldier Vote Up to Senate   House Passes Plan For State Ballots; Administration Beaten

“State's Rights” War Ballot Loses In Senate Test   Stalemate Possible Since House Rejectec Federal Ballot in Vote Last Night

HOUSE ACTION PUTS BALLOTS FOR SOLDIERS IN HANDS OF STATES   Michener Approves Measure Leaving States Control. Over Soldier Vote   FEDERAL PLAN DEFEATED

HOUSE REFUSES SERVICEMEN FEDERAL BALLOT 224 TO 168   Adopts ‘States’ Rights’  Measure 328 to 69 After Rejecting Worley Bill — Battle Now  Rests With Senate

ADMINISTRATION REELS UNDER HOUSE SOLDIER VOTE BILL DEFEAT; SENATE ICORCES BELIEVED GIVING GROUND

‘Administration Is ‘Winner in ‘Senate on Voting  States’ Rights Bill Meets Defeat In Decisive Test

House Passes States’ Bill —   inflicts Smashing Defeat on Leaders Of Federal Plan

Senate, House Split Over Soldier Vote   Administration Wins Senate Vote, House Stays With “States’ Rights” Bill

Soldier Vote Pian Now Up To Senate   House Badly Defeats Administration Moaaaupe

State Rights Sub Defeated   Administration Wins Cruetal Senate Test For Federal  Vole Ballot,

HOUSE BACKS STATE SOLDIER VOTE PLAN   Administration Sustains Smashing Defeat In House

Senate Test   Stalemate Visioned Because of Crushing Defeat in the House

JAPS SET BASES FOR BIG BLOWS   Powerful Fortresses Fixed Along 1,200-Mile Coast

30 Called By Board One For Early  Induction   Men Will Leave Here Unassigned To Any Branch Of Service; First July Call

47 Called By Board 1 For  Preinduction Examination   Number Of Fathers Included In Group Under 30; First Snmmons For June

25 Called For Early  Induetion   Represent August Induction Quotas; Two Dates Set

17 Called By Board 1] For Induction  Composed Mostly Of Those Recently

Navy Induction Orders Sent To 18 By Board 1  Men In Only One More   Men In Only One More Call Will Have Choice Of Branch Of Service

25 Are Ordered To Report For  Induction   Last July Quota Is Called Out By Board One

34 Called  By Board 1 For Exams In January   Fourteen Others Leave Same Day For Induction In Aypmoes. Einrcesc

Board1 Sends Out Calls To  03 ToReport AtEarly Date   23 Are Summoned For Induction And 30 More Notified To Appear For Examinations

Tnduction Notices Are Sent To 24   Men To Repert Soon To Navy Recruiting Station In Baltimore

WINTER'S WORST SNOW TIES UP SOUTHWEST  Blizzard Sweeps Wide Area, Causing Heavy Livestock Damage

OKLAHOMA, TEXAS AREAS SNOWBOUND   Worst Winter Storm in Years Reported

Blizzard  In Texas   .- Worst Snow In Years Hits Lone Star State

Snow and Cold Hit Southwest   Heaviest Snow in Years Falls in Panhandle; Live stock Loss Feared.

SOUTHWEST IN WINTER STORM   Snow Falls oft 2 Inches Reported From Texas, Temperatures Below Zero.   BADGER WAVE TO LET UP

FIVE BASES IN TRUK AREA ARE BOMBED AGAIN   Allied Aerial Campaign Keeps Growing In Pacific Ocean

HOUSE PASSES OPA EXTENSION WITH CHANGES   Riders Blamed as Body Biow toPrice Control

Do You Think the War's Nearly Over? OWI Warns Our Opponents Still Tough

Allied Planes Resume Daylight Raids On Reich   Hannover Attacked Last Night; Cologne Goes Off Air Today.

TEMPERATURES:   Allies Seek To Knock Out Nazi Oil Refineries   British Precede Yank Attack With Night Raids

Air Attack © Ts Resumed   Allied: Planes: ‘Head’ For. Nazi. ‘Territory’

ALLIED AIRMEN BATTER REICH   Creer  Homberg, Munich, ‘Saarbrucken, Belgrade Hit In. Widespread Attacks

Argonne Forest Also Seized As Allies Push On   Yankee Troops Draw Nearer To Nazis Homeland; Enemy  In Full Rout

Allied Forces © Reach Belgium   American Troops Believed to Have Taken Sedan, Bastion on Through Highway to Hitler’s Capital

Foreign Workmen Get — ~ Supplies for Resistance      L Million Toilers in Reich Told Hour _____For Action at Hand As Nazis.  Hit Hard at Kieve

Raid Declared  Heaviest in  War's History  Soldiers View Scene From Hills and  Cheer Airmen

Tanks, Infantry Move Into Area Hit By 2,500 Tons of Bombs, Blasted By Terrific Artillery Attack

Greatest Concentrated Air Assault In History Razes Nazi Bastion, Enables Advance After Two Months

Allies Open Final Drive Toward Rome   Greatest Air Attack Of War Hurled Down "On Stubborn Defense

2,500 Tons Ot Bombs Hit  Cassino Area   Allied Forces Open All-Out Offensive Toward Anzio, Rome  RAID SETS RECORD

Tanks, Troops Storm Town in  New Rome Pus!   No Buildings Left Standing After Raid By All Type Planes; Pounding Lasts Hours

Lgry v7 Ass ‘au OE: "era-es 2 ps7ac_e coe -a. iat, /Sammaign; "o- a Quicing e-7 S-ancine

U.S. Tanks, Allied Infantrymen Move Into Ruins  No Buildinas Left in   No Buildings Left in Strategic Fortress City After Bombing

Bombers Destroy © Cassino Obstacle   Tanks, Infantrymen Enter Afiar 2.500-Ton Blow .

Italian City Hit in Great Concentrated Aerial © Assault  ALLIES MOVEINTO  RUINS OF CASSINO German Positions Ringing  Anzio Beachhead Are  Bombed

WELFARE ISSUE TO. ~ REACH ASSEMBLY   Bills Providing R Revision. of State Laws Expected... to be Offered

BOMBS DROPPED WITHIN VATICAN   Unidentified Plane Kills Workman, Injuries One Priest

four Bonihs Tall On Colaze-Near Vatican in Rome   Two Othes Dropped by . -Unidactiied Plank >» Neartely Gity=~

BOMBS FALL NEAR VATICAN   Unidentified Single Plane In Attack; Workman is Killed, Priest Hurt

WAR TODAY   De Gaulle’s Decree to Disarm Communist Partisans Considered First Step Toward Building Healthier France

FRANCE’S NEW CRISIS, CAUSED BY DISARMAMENT ORDER, IS ONE OF MANY TRIALS SHE MUST FACE

Governor Dewey Bids For Harmony With Willkie, Mans Plan To Unseat FDR

Dewey Urges All Republicans “To Take Active Part in GOP Campaign Against Roosevelt

—  awa ys AL VV) Tans flewee! > tw Okey     Coe   Zncorses 2.a7 orm, — e=mes anecion 2aicv SUM on oaine.

Dewey Endorses G.0.P. Platform  Invites Republicans to Share Campaign

Dewey Announces Tentative Plans For His Campaign   Will Soon Confer With 25 Governors

Plans For Campaign Discussed By Dewey   Republican Nominee Welcomes Support of Every Good American—Series of Conferences Mald in Chiceaan

Sa, G.O.P. Platform  Represents His Views, * Welcomes Any Advice  From Wendell Willkie  PLEDGES FOR BRICKER PART IN DECISIONS  Plans Conference ' With 25 Governors Aft- Bival Convention

a Pledges Joint Decisions  With Bricker   Nominee Endorses GOP Foreign Policy And Other Planks

Nominee Urges All GOP Chiefs Jo Join Efforts   Bricker Will’ Play Major Part In Campaign Issues

GOVERNOR DEWEY HOLDS CAMPAIGN TALKS IN CHICAGC   Sees Hoover, State Chairmen and Others — Says Willkie’s Advice Would Be Welcome.   PROMISES BRICKER — VOICE IN DECISIONS   Declares Platform Represents His Views — Declines to Discuss Cabinet Possibilities.

DEWEY CALLS FOR HELP OF GOP LEADERS   REPUBLICANS ASKED TO SHARE PARTY DRIVER’S SEAT

GOP Nominee Will ‘Welcome’ Willkie Advice   Gov. Dewey Pledges ‘Joint’ ‘Decisions With Ohio  Dhasecantune: Abn.

Republican Nominee Maps Whirlwind Campaign To Unseat Roosevelt   OLIVE BRANCH GIVEN TO WENDELL WILLKIE

Crable Could Not Tell Story   Was Not Permitted To Explain Records To Grand Jury, He Says

Crable Says Had No Chance   Tells Committee Tulsa Grand Jury Didn’t Let Him Explain His Records

GRABLE SNUBBED BY TULSA GRAND . JURY, HE SAYS   Defendant in Book Probe Contends His Records Were Ignored

Battle Becomes Rout for Battered Nazis As They Seek Another Escape Gap

Board of Contro Asking Approved  Inter rim Commi ttee Acts Favorably

BUILDING PLAN FIGURED GLUOt TO 1d MILLGK   Interim Committee Outlines Program for Action by General Assembly.

WOULD SPEND 7 MILLION ON INSTITUTIONS   Assembly Committee Points to Need of Improvements

Millions Urged For Improvements At State Institutions And Schools

6 Armies Push Forward Along Western Front   Patton’s Men within 2 Miles of Saar Basin; Grip on Metz is Tightened; Ninth Army Repulses Attack

Slash in sh in Clothing Prices Slated; 1 ow-Priced Garments to Be Made

Clothes Price Cut Promised   OPA Savs More Low-Pric ed Garments Will Go On Shelves

Cut Promised. In Price of "Clothing   ‘Bowles Predicts’ Action Will  / Stop Increase in Cost of  Living: No Wage Increase Expected

OPA DECIDES 10 CLAMP DOWN ON CLOTHING COSTS   ANNOUNCE OPENING MOVES IN PLAN TO CUT RISING PRICES

Inflated Clothing Values Slashed in OPA Price Shakeuy   Entire Hopes of Price Control Board Pinned on Textile Industry

‘Promises Made By OPA To Cut Clothing Prices  Increase In Costs Of Living To Stop, Bowles Declares

More Cuts In Clothes Price   OPA In Carrying Out Vinson's Injunction Promises Low-Priced Garments,

CLOTHING PRICES WILL, BE - REDUCED BY ORDERS OF OPA   First Move Made’ to Curtail Rising Cost of Living: Customers to Save

OPA to Cut Clothing Prices; Orders More Low-Priced Garments Made

OPA Promises Cut in Price  Of Clothing   More Low Priced Garments; Clamp Down On Makers’ Ceilings

OPA PROMISES CUTS IN PRICE OF CLOTHING  Latest Order Construed as Hint That Wage Formula Will Continue

CLOTHING GOES ON OPA LISTS STARTING JAN, 3   Ceiling Price Will Be Labeled In Each Garment; Fancy Finishing Out, Profit Cut For Economy,

OPA Promises More Cuts In  Clothing Cost   Additional Low-Priced Gar ments Also Planned; . Price Rules to Be Rightened

OPA Promises Added Cuts In Clothing Prices   To Clamp Down On Manufacturers’ Ceilings  In War On Inflation.

Price Slash.  Is Promised   “Clothing. Price: Guits Are Planned’ BycOPA.

OPA Moves to End Price Raise  Low Price Garments Affected by Order

Clothing Price Cuts Ordered By Government  More Low-Cost } OY an, a

OPA Clamp On Clothing   Action Expected to Result in Price Cut And in Larger Supply Of Low-Cost Garments

Promises to Cut Prices Of Clothing   More Low-Price Wear In Dealers’ Stocks Also Pledged

Draft Exams Will Precede Induction   Acceptance to Be 21 Days in Advance

Plan Revision For Induction ‘xam System   Announce Abolition Screening By Local Board, PostInduction Furloughs.   ALLOW THREE WEEKS

To Do Away With  Screening Exams   Selective Service Adopts New Plan For Examining Men For Service.

‘PLAN FOR ELIMINATING UNCERTAINTIES AMONG DRAFT ELIGIBLES IS ANNOUNCED

CHANGES IN DRAFT PLAN ANNOUNCED   Designed To End Uncertainties Among Eligibles As To Whether They Are Physically Acceptable

Completely Revise Induction System   Pre-Induction Examination Will Be Given At Least 21 Days Before Time Of Going Into Service — Present System Of Screening Examinations Is Abolished Under New Program

DRAFT GANCELS LOCAL EXAMS FOR INDUCTION   Will Give Final Examinations, Then Await Call for Each Branch of Service

New Rules To Eliminate Draft ‘Uncertainties   Local Sercening Exams Ingtions and Postednduction Furloughs To Be Abandoned — Draf. tees Will Get 3-Week: Notice.

Cut Draft Uncertainty   New Plan Gives Physical Exams 3 Weeks Prior to Induction

3 Weeks Notice For Inductee:   Post- Draft Furlougis Are Abolished —

DRAFT CHANGES WILL BE MAGE   Plan for Eliminating Uncertainties Among Eligibles ls Announced.   ‘SCREENING’ ABOLISHED

Draft-eligibles To Know Status   Plan to Eliminate Uncertainties of: Induction Proposed

New Rule Is Made For Induction  Into Army, Navy  : Screen Test Is Haltec   In EFavar af Final   Screen Test Is Halted In Favor of Final Exam Before Drafting

Physicals ’ to Precede . _ Induction   New Draft System Will Elminate Uncertainties; Will Build Up Pool   SCREENINGS TO BE ABANDONEL   _ Men Will Be Classified For Various Services At Time Of Examinations

CHANGE MADE IN METHOD OF INDUCTION   Registrants to Get a Least 21-Day Notice t Begin Serving — Loca Examinations Will . Be A hnhchod

xamination nds ‘Screen’ ndFurlougt  e-Induction Physicals  Be at Least Three Weeks Before Call  GROUPS, SEY UF  etors Will Classify Men for Services at Time of Tests      GROUPS. SET tI

New System Ordered for Draft Boards   Plan Provides for at Least Three Weeks’ Nolice of Induction

Dratt Office Has New Plan  For Selectees   Measures Will Aid Draftees Te Have Physical Exams Sooner

SCREEN TESTS ABOLISHED BY NEW DRAFT PLAN   New Set-up To Eliminate Uncertainty Among Draft Eligibles

New Draft Plan Will ‘Eliminate Uneertainty   ‘Screening’ Exams Dropped, Furloughs Ended, Pre-Induction Insnection Required

iNew Rules To 'Elimmate Draft  Uncertainties   Local Screening Exam inations and Post-In duction Furloughs Te Be Abandoned — Draf tees Will Get 3-Weeks  . Notice.

New Induction Plans Announced   Is Expected to Eliminate Un.certainties Among Draft Eligibles.

LOCAL SCREENING TESTSAROLISHED   Draft Registrants Will Be Given Pre-Induction Examinations

‘SCREEN’ TESTS BY DRAFT BOARD TO BE DROPPEL   Pre-induction Exams 21 Days Before Induction Coming

NEW PLAN FOR ARMY PHYSICAL   Men Called After February 1 Not to Take ‘Screening’ Exoms

New Rule Is Made For Induction Into Army, Navy  Screen Test Is Haltec In Enver af Fino!

Change Made in Draft Procedure   Physical Exam at Least Three Weeks Before Induction

CHANGE DRAFT EXAM PROCESS   New Setup Will Eliminate Uncertainties Among Eligible Men

Jap Drive Perils Hengyang Junction   British Clear Enemy From Kohima-Imphal Road

PDR. Asks Law On Peacetime — Training of Boys   Hopes Congress Will Take Action on Proposal This Year

FDR Believes Every Young Man Should Give One Year Of Service To His Govt.

FDR HAS MORE IN MIND THAN YEAR MILITARY   President Says Solons Must Decide Degree Of Peace Program’s Training

TRAINING URGED ~~ BY ROOSEVELT   Year’s Service To Nation Proposed By President

ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR COMPULSORY YOUTH TRAINING   Expresses Hope Congress Will Enact Legislation This Winter to Require   -Year’s Service.   FIGHT ON PROPOSAL REGARDED AS CERTAIN   President Indicates His Plan Will Embrace Something More Than Military Service.

YEAR TRAINING FOR YOUTHS 1S URGED BY FDR   Long Controversy is Seen as President Asks for Actior

FDR Wants Training Foi Young Men   President Hopes New Congress Will Pass Service Bill

F.D.R. Urges Legislation ° For Training  Of Youth   Hints He Has in Mind More General Program Than Merely Year  Of Military Training

Compulsory Training: ‘Roosevelt Favors More General Program for Both Boys and Girls

FR Favors U.S.  Peacetime Service   Hopes Congress Will Act On Bill This Winter

FD. R. ‘Hopes’ for Legislation Soon For Compulsory Training of Youth

COMPULSORY YOUTH’ TRAINING IS URGED   Roosevelt Hopes Congress Will Act During _ -Winter

Army Training Issue to Face New Congress   FDR Hopes Enactment Possible This Winter: He Indicates Broader  Program Now in Mind

BELIEVE PEOPLE OF JAPAN MAY NOT KNOW FACTS   Atrocity Charges Still Unanswered by Tokyo.

basins May Have Been Surprised at Story of Atrocities   Laxity of Jap Armies May Prevent Nippon From Learning of Bestiality Afield; Populace Is Customarily Held in Dark

Tokyo May Be Surprised by Jap Atrocities   Domei Dispatch Gives No News of Charges To lts Own People

“Dewey Attacks , 12-Year Record Of Roosevelt   Answers Point by Point Subjects of President's Address

Dewey Asks To Restore Integrity To White House   Full Housecleaning In National Capital Is Candidate's Pledge

DEWEY WINDS UP SPEECHES   Claims FDR Opened MudSlinging Tactics With Saturday Night Attack.

Dewey Calls Upon People To “Restore Integrity To The White House’

FDR’s Frivolous Wisecracks ‘Torn Apart By Dewey Who ‘Seeks To Restore Integrity

DEWEY MAKES FINAL SPEECH OF HIS TOUR   Replied to Roosevelt In  Talk Last Night

WRITE HOUSE INTEGRITY ABSENT, DEWEY SAYS IN FIGHTING TALK   G. 0. P. CANDIDATE DEVOTES OKLAHOMA CITY ADDRESS TO ANSWERING PRESIDENT’S SPEECH

Dewey Jabs Hard At FR’s Wise Cracks   Charges New Deal Failec To Prepare for War; ' Cites Facts.

"DEWEY BLASTS FD, RECORD IN LAST 12 YEARS   GOP Nominee Charges ® Integrityy Needed In White House

Dewey Says Integrity Lacking  Renews Charges  t 2 BP... ea   Renews Charges That Present Regime Can’‘t Find Post War Jobs

DEWEY MAKES FIERY SPEECH IN OKLAHOMA   Ask People “Restore Integrity’ To White House In November

“Restore Integrity To White House” Is Plea Of Dewey, Answers Roosevelt’s Sneech

German Stand In the Vosges Falling Apart   Patton’s Foree 18 Mile: From Saarbrucken;  Belfort Falls   Allies Aim at Wrecking Whole Front Nazie Sav

PEN BOARDS   Applies to Men Even lf They Have Been Ordered to Report for Induction.   YOUNGER MEN NEEDED

New Order Applies' Ever For Those Men Whe Have Been Ordered Tc Report For Induction

Special Order Calls Halt To Inductions   Armed Forces Want Young Men; Directive  Applies to Those Already Ordered

Moratorium on, -Vear-Olds And Older Voted  . Order Applies to. Men That Are

HOUSE REVIVED THE GROP PLAN   Efforts Being Made to Pump New Life Inte the Crop Insurance Plan.

ELITE GUARDS MACHINE GUN U.S, PRISONERS   More Evidence of German Brutality Is Uncovered

Bloomington Girl Winner of Bond Contest   Two Negro Youths Perish in Flames   Revenuc Office to Close for Holidays   Christmas Spirit --- German Style  Huns Massacre Unarmed Yanks

Deliberate Massacre of Unarmed Ani un Caplives Being Told — Some of Evidence Comes  iured German Films.

U.S. Troops Crush Nazi Defense Line  Open Broad Exit Through Cotentin  Panincnia

Victorious Yanks Drive South Along Road To Lessay   sritish Second Army Strikes Hard Blow at Enemy Left Flank; Mont- ~ gomery’s Troops Enter Caen

RossElection Would Raise NewProbler   GOVERNOR MARTIN MAY PUNISH PHILADELPHIA LEADERS WHO FAILED TO DELIVER ON ELECTION DAY.   Vacancy For 5 Months

Last Nataral Defenses Crossed — Last Attempt Under Way in Clearing Port of Antwerp to Allied Ships.

Yanks Seize New Enemy Base at Hollandia; 2, 500 Planes Strike at Eurove

More Than 1,000 Planes Of U. S. Air Force Sent Over France And Southwestern Germany

RAF Strings Incendiaries ‘Over Germany   Biggest, Fire Raid i History; Yanks Hit Airdromes

U.S. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY, FRENCH COAST   RAF Fire Raid War’s Greatest

00 U.S. Heavy Bombers Smash at Nazi Points   Ninth Straight Day of Bombing ls Reported

U.S. FLIERS. BLAST THREE NAZI FIELDS   Air Offensive Continues On 9th Straight Day

Jap Bases Get Bombed   Americans Attack From Kuriles to Ceram; ; Guam Shelled Again

Allied planes hammer five reich cities  German airmen refuse combat

Allies Broaden’ Their Foothold ~ In French Ares   Yankees Recopture Key Town In Drive Across «Peninsula; Now Nine Miles From West Coast; Costly Blows To Nazis

Entry Into St. Sauveur Developed Into A Crisis For the Germans Trying To Keep The Yanks From Cutting The Peninsula In Two

 Three-Mile Gain Southwest Of Carentan Made By Another U. S. Column Fighting Way Across Cherbourg  iPeninsula; Battleships In Action; King Visits Front:

Seize Highway Hub 9 Miles From West Coast of Peninsula   Montebourg Recaptured in Drive on Cherbourg  Warships Support Ground Forces as Air Aetvity Halted he Rad Weath..

Finnish Government Favors Early Peace   Setup Opens Way for Negotiations With Russia

PRO-PEACE GROUP IN NEW FINN C ABINET   ‘Seem Likely to . Favor Early Peace With Russia

Dewey Ready To Challenge Issue Of War Leadership   Will Offer Regime Better Prepared To Deal With Problems Of Peace At Home As Answer To New Deal Plea

GOP PREPARED FOR PEACE ERA   Dewey Answers Demo _ Plea to Retain FDR  As War Chief

THREATEN TO-KILL VANK PRISONERS   Nazis Say They Will Retaliate 1: Reports of Murder of German Cantives Are True.

Reich Hears Hun Prisoners Are “Murdered” In Normandy   Threatens That If True. “Ten U. S. Prisoners of War Will Die for Every  Gerrnian”

JAPS HOLDING BACK MAJOR NAVAL UNITS   Rear Admiral ;Hardison Says Nips Will Strike When They Think Time Is Opportune.

Russian Army Attacks Near Kirovograd   German Dispatch Tells Of Offensive While Russian Army Reports Gains In North

Russian Armies Advance Steadily In All Sectors   Pravda Paper Predicts German Front Line Will Soon Run Along Berlin

Twin Thrust Gains 2 Key Rail Centers   Other Red Forces Slice Into Heart of Pripet Marshes Is Report.

Red Armies Still Are Driving On   Claims Germans Face Catastrophe

Russians Seize  Two Key Nazi  Railway Cities Twin Push Oust  LD neemanc Veam

Russians Drive Nearly 15 Miles [Beyond Volkhov      Advancing Soviets Closing. In On Gateway To Estonia

CREAMERY BUTTER WILL JUMP TO 20 POINTS NEXT WEEK   Shortage of Supply Like. ly to Last For at Least Three Months.

Butter Points lo Jump Higher   Stricter Rationing Of Creamery Butter Scheduled Next Week

$391,425 Loaned On New Superfort   Mrs. Holmes Becomes Bond-Sale General

LADIES TO TALK TO DEMOS, T00   National Convention to Hear Wife of Actor And A Committee Worker

Railway Mishaps Arouse Concern  Carriers Are Urged To Exercise Vigilance

RAILS URGED TOBE VIGILANT TN OPERATIONS   Carriers-Also: Called Upon to: Provide Safet;": Installations Without Await ' ” jr Accidents

Tr ain Wrecks Show Increase,  Icc Announces   Carriers Requested To Install Proper Safety Precautions

INCREASED RAIL ACCIDENTS GIVE ICC CONCERN   Carriers Urged to Exercise Vigi lence in Enforcing Rules, Making Safety Installations

ICC ALARMED BY RAIL ACCIDENTS   Carriers Urged To Use Utmost Vigilance To Reduce Accidents, Now On Increase; Decision Near On Freight Rates.

Asks Railroads To Exercise Caution To Cut Accidents   Interstate Commerce Commission Report

L.C.C. Is Deeply Concerned Over Increase In Number  Of Train Accidents In U.S.

Rail Accident Totals Raised   ICC Is Concerned As War Time Conditions Cause Deaths, .Damaces

British Open Drive To Clean Up  Capital of Greece  Full-Scale Offensive Expected to Free All of City Shortly

Athens Siege  Lifting Near Full-Scale Drive Is Launched By British

BRITISH OPE FULL DRIVE AGAINST ELAS   All-Out Attack Designed to Lift Siege of Athens, Following Rejection of the Left-Wing Group’s Armistice Terms.

British Gain Ground in Greek Battle   Hope Soon to Lift Siege of Athens By Leftists

FIGHTING NEARS END IN GREECE   British Close in on ELAS Forces, While Resistance Grows Weaker

British Launch Full Scale Push On ELAS Forces   Expect Siege Of Capital To Be Lifted In Few Hours; Vital Airpert Cleared

Move To Lift Siege Of Athens   British Open All-Out Drive; ELAS Stronghold Captured.

ATHENS’ SIEGE LIKELY 10 BE LIFTED TODAY   Full-Scale Drive Launched On Insurgents By British

Open Drive Against ELAS   Stege of Athens Expected to Be Lifted in ‘Matter of Hours’

LAUNCH ATTACK ON GREEK ELAS   Leftist Stronghold Falls;  British Battle to End  Siege of Athens

British Launch Drive in Greece   Siege of Capital May Be Lifted in Matter of Hours

British Launch Attack To Lift Siege Of Athens   Tanks And Infantry In A Full-Scale Cleanup Drive Against ELAS.

ATHENS SIEGE MAY BE LIFTED IN SHORT TIME   Full Seale Offensive Against ELAS ' Launched by British With Airport Being Cleared

¥  ie Drive To Clear Athens  Scobie Rejects Terms Advanced By EAM

British Open Big Drives on  Greek Rebels   Assault Expected To Lift Athens  Siege in Few Hours

British Launch  Big ELAS Drive   Lifting of Athens Siege Appears Only Matter of Few Hours

May Soon Lift Siege of Athens  Britich Enrrec   British Forces Launch Full Scale. Drivé on Rebel<«

FULL SCALE DRIVE OPENED IN GREECE   British Expect to Lift Siege Of Athens in Matter Of Hours.

British Drive Against E.L.A‘S.   Lifting of Siege of Capital Appears Likely At Any Time.

~“sased Fighting Comes  iri-y Weekend After n, Scobie Rejects EAM: ‘e Proposals 

SPUD PRICE SAME   Identical With 1943 Except Tn Five States in July

Muster Out Paychecks Endorsed By Veterans   Beiong Exciusively To The Men And Women To Whom Issued

Jap Columns Now Nearing Kweilin   Enemy Troops Prepare To Storm. Liuchow

Cold Wave Is Moving  Eastward   North Dakota Village Reports Temperature Of 42 Below Zero For Nation’s Record

AMERICANS SEVER JAP SUPPLY LINE.   Lines Cut in Effort to Root Trapped Japs ‘in North New Guinea..

Oklahoma Pilot Boosts Score to 22, Scoring Triple Kill in Europe

Six Adults Sentenced in ‘Wolf Pack’  Sex and Liquor Orgies of Juveniles   Officers Estimate 75 Youths Face Arrest as Investigation Is Pushed

British Troops Start New Offensive Along Appian Wav Gross Garialiano

RAILWAY SUPPLY LINES INTO ROME CUT BY YANK BOMBERS    Only One Of Three Major Transportation Routes Down ‘Italian Peninsula Open At Present, Photographs Show;  — Capital’s Waterworks Reported “Destroyed”

ALL OF RAIL LINES SOUTH TO ROME CUT      Only Line Open To South fs That On Eastern Coast

BOMBS SEVER RAILROADS 10 ETERNAL CITY   FORTRESSES WRECK BRIDGES, HOLD UP HUN SUPPLIES

Americans Cut All Railways Supplying Rome   Waterworks Also Reported Raided

Dewey Elated Over Reports   Midwest Looks Good daine Goes G.O.P.

Double Victery Toppies Nazi Strongpoints at Both Ends of Front.   HEAVY LOSSES AVOIDED

CASSINO, FORMIA FALL AS ALLIES STORM FORWARD   Polish Corps Aiding in Campaign in Which Gustay Line Has Now “Ceased to Exist”

CONGRESS CONS GOOD NEIGHBGR POLICY QF U.S.   Roosevelt, Proposes Making U. 8. Policy World Wids In Seope

1 Draft-Eva ding Brothers Jailed   Fled to Timber Land and Slept In Caves For Four MonthsdIn New Mexico

War Bond Score   American Troops Clean Up Tip Of  Cherbours Area

12 Tank Blows Hurled Back   British Knock Out 25 More Nazi Armored Units in Series of Attacks Near Caen; Yanks Clean Up Cherbourg Peninsula

YANKS CAPTURE ANOTHER 2,000 ENEMY TROOPS   End Enemy Resistance On Cap De La Hague, Writer Claims

) :r 25 Nazi Tanks Are Knocked  Out Near Caen   Both Allies and Germans Rush Men and Materic! Into Line for Impending Battles on Invasion Route to Paris

on To Paris At Stake In Impending Crifical Struggle   Rommel at Caen Front; Americans Break Last Resistance on Cap de ia Hague

Yanks Clean Out 1000 Nazis On Cherbourg Tip   12 Enemy Attacks Repulsed by British in Armored Fighting

Hurl Back Nazi Counterjabs,  Blast 25 Tanks   U.S.Mops Up Last Axis Resistance On Cherbourg Tip, Boosts Toll of Enemy Dead, Prisoners to 50,000

Allies Repulse Knemy Push  South Of Caen   Americans Take Thousands Of Germans On Cherbourg  Dawsnet ls.   ROMMEL TAKES OVER

25 NAZI TANKS DESTROYED BY INVASION UNITS   Axis Dead, Prisoners to Nearly 50,000 — Rommel Arrives at Front

British Destroy 25 German Tanks and Bea Back Counter-Attacks On Caen Sector

British throw back dozen nazi attacks: 25 tanks destroyed   Critical battle looms in Caen area; 50.000 foe casualties at Cherboure

AMERICANS CLEAN UP PENINSULA   25 German-Tanks Are Blasted By British In Armored Fight

U.S. Mopping up Cherbourg Sector   Elements of Seven Tank, Divisions Trying To Find Soft Spots in British Positions

Second Army Repels Nazi Thrusts   Axis Dead, Captured Totals 50,000 On American Front

Rommel Arrives At Front   German Losses Reach 50,000 Since D-Day

Cherbourg’s S Peninsula: : Being Freed OF Germans.   Major Tank Battle Is Seen -Neéar Caén

Yanks Capture 2,000 Germans On Peninsula   Both Sides Speeding Reinforcements Into Flaming Caen Battle; Rammel In Cammand

NAZI V-BOMBS TAKE MAIL TO ENGLAND   Letters From British Prisoners of War Are Carried by Vengeance Weanons.

Reds Advance Along Wide Front   Drive Designed to Knock Hungary Out of the War

Russ troops pouring thru  Transylvania  Cluj endangered;  move on Hungar,

SOVIETS DRIVE 18 MILES INTO TRANSYLVANIA   Reported  Closing In On Cluj, Capital  Of Province

Russ Advance 18 Miles Into Transylvania   Drive for Border Of Hungary  Gains Momentum

Reds Penetrate 18 Miles Into  Transylvania   Bern Radio Says Cluj Captured; Soviets Aim At Hungary’s Border Only 100 Miles Away

Russian Troops 100 Miles From Hungary Border   Say 250,000 Axis Soldiers Are Cut Off In The Balkans 

Soviet Armies Close Steadily  On Hungarians   Mountain Passes Forced. Berlin Says Russians Rap  afar Aeoran

Russians Drive 18 Miles In Transylvania Territory   Churchill Arrives in Canada For Roosevelt Conference

RUSSIA DRIVES INTO HUNGARY FOR 18 MILES   Units Fast Closing On Cluj, Transylvanian Capital City

Smashing New Aerial - Offensive   U.S. and British Hit: at _ Prime German Targets Third Day in Row   MORE FIGHTERS ARE ENCOUNTERED   Germans, May Be Beaten To A Point Where All Air Defense Is Being Risked

Allies Intensify Western Front Aerial Blows   Night and Day Raids Strike at Scattered Targets; Resistance Growing

AMERICAN AIRMEN CONTINUE ATTACKS AGAINST NAZILAND   Most of Today’s Aeria] Armada Drops Bombs on German Oil Installations — Others Turn Their Fire on Enemy Reaeved in Brest

An OFFENGWE IN THIRD OA)   Most of Planes Batter TarGets in Germany, Others Bomb Brast.

THIRD STRAIGHT DAY OF AERIAL WAR IN EUROPE   Nearly 1,000 U. S. Warplanes Batter Oil Targets. Ships Based in Italy Help in Romania

Allied Forces Drive Toward Germany on 200-Mile Front; Planes Hit Nazi Oil Targets   Seine Crossed at Half a Dozen Places in Western France; American Columns to South Move on Rhone Valley and Italian Border

_ —ABRIAL— :  U9. AIR ARMADA LASHES GERMANS   Thousand Bombers In Third Straight Day Of Smashing Attacks

OIL TARGETS IN REICH BLASTED BY AIR FLEETS   Allies Lose 78, Craft While Destroying 144 German Airplanes -

Powerful Allied Air Forces Hit West Front   Germans Pounded From Brest To Baltic; Relentless Rav Nieht Attack

1,000 Planes Batter Europe   Many Hit Oil Targets  In Europe—-Others Attack Brest

RAIDS HIT NAZIS ALL ALONG LINE   1,000 RAF Bombers Batter Germany During Night

STEP UP SKY WAR   Allied Armadas Intensify Operations in Clear Weather

JS. Planes Satter Nazi dil Targets   Brittany Fort — Of Brest Also Pounded Aaain

1000 U.S. Heavies  At Nazi Oil Bases   Port Of Brest Gets Third Pounding In 36 Hours;  Robot Coast Battered

Blast German Oil Targets   Third Straight Day Thal Bombers Have Hammered Reich.

Europe Again Plastered By Big Bomber:   Nearly Thousand Flyin Fortresses Smash A German Oil Target 3rd Straight Day

ALLIED AIR FORCES BLAST NAZIS TODAY   6,450 Offensive Fuights Flown Yesterday from _ British. and French Bases

American Planes Attack Japs In Carolines   Also Blast Seven Unidentified Atolls In Marshall Islands

New Bombings In Marshalls  Japs Mass Again On Los Negros to Fight for Airfield

Yanks Mop Up in Los Negros   AMERICANS MOVE TO COMPLETE OCCUPATION AS GROUND REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE; ALLIED AIRMEN HAMMER BASES IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

PRO-ROOSEVELTITES PLAN ORGANIZATION TO TAKE OVER PARTY   WOULD LINE UP ELEC TORAL VOTES AND TAKE

GERMANS RUSH REINFORCEMENT INTO UKRAINE   Sti iffen Resistance “For Sarny ‘Area’ to ‘Rumanian © Approaches

Nazis Slow Red Thrust Into Poland   Reserves Join Fray, Stiffening Defenses Of Streisk. Sarny

Blizzard Abates In Western Area   Snow Drifts Block  Communications

SIX ARE INJURED INGAR COLLISION   Holgate Doctor and Wife anc Four From Michigan Victims

Britain Has Right To Shape RuleFor Liherated Countries, Eden Says In Policy Quarrel With U.S.

Wide-open Split Grips U. S., Britain On Policy In Ttaly      British Insistent Upon Right To Intervene When Necessar U. S., Firm On Hands-Of Policy

Eden Opposes American Plan Before Commons   Backs Intervention In Italy Affairs

U.S. and Britain Split on Policy  Political Strife on Continent Mounts

Great Britain Rejects U. S. ‘“Hands Off’’ Policy in Italy   Eden Insists Upon His Government’s Right to Intervene When Necessary in Political Quarrels of Liberated Countries—Outlines Position 24 Hours After Stettinius Calls for Solution of Problems Without Outside Influence,

England And U.S. Differ On Policies   Hands - Off Attitude : insisted Upon by Yanks for Freed  Nations

Britain And U.S. Split On Liberated Europe Quarrels   British Insistent on Right to Intervene When Neces sary——Eden Tells Commons Nation Will Stick to Her Position

BRITISH INSIST ON THEIR RIGHT TO INTERVENE   Split With U. S. Over Policy in Quarrels  In Freed Lands

WITHDRAWAL S. - MADE BY FIFTH   German Patrols Are Active Along Entire Anzio Beachhead

Japs Say Fighting Going On   Action Follows Close on Heels Of Bomb Raids

HINT U.S. FORCES MEET WITH SOME INITIAL SUCCESS   Follows Bombing Of Atolls From The Air And Naval Fleet

HEAVY NAVAL FORCES STILL ROCK ISLANDS   Thousands of Rounds Of Shells Hammer Jap Defenses

Report May Be Feeler’ on Aims of U.S. Vessels   Huge Task Force Hits Group Guarding Japan Invasion Route

 Land and Sea # Battle Under f Way, Belief    Jap Radio Describes Furious Fighting   On Islands -

Hint of Landings on Atolls Made in Enemy Radio Broadcast As U. S. Navy Strikes Twice

ENEMY CLAIMS TROOPS LANDED ‘AFTER SEA ATTACK   'No Confirmation from Washington As Yet—Details Lacking.

Jap Radio Says Fierce Battle isOn   Hint That Ground Troops Have Landed — Navy Ships Shell Islands

FURIOUS FIGHT NOW RAGES IS ENEMY CLAIN   Suggest Jap Fleet May Have Been Lured ) Out Of Hiding

ATTACKING MARSHALLS   Japs Say Army Units Being Used, Indicating Invasion

Furious Fighting Is In Progress On Islands Protecting Route To Japan, Tokyo Reports — Attack By Ships And Planes Announced At Headquarters

NAVY REPORTS. ONLY SHELLING BY TASK FORCE   Keeps Mum on Landing Rumor

Broadcast Says Enemy Troops: Staging Raids   Allies Hint Success of Forces In Invasion  Raids On Jap Atolls -

REPORT ALLIED TROOPS LAND ON JUGOSLAY COAST      No Confirmation Of Report Is Made From Any Allied Source

Landing Made On  Jugoslav Coast   German, Satellite Forces Resisting

‘Get Along, You Supermen, Yow’re Couple Krauts ‘To Me.’ Yank Tells Nazts

Casualties Are High As Americans Take Cervaro Village, Near Cassino

American Forces Push Into Fortress-Like Cervaro, Then Hold Hill Town, Against Fierce German Artillery Barrage

Doughboys Pause to Cover Faces - Of Pals Slain at Bloody Cervarc

Superfortress Crew Lost in Tokyo Raid Rescued From Rafts North of Saipan

Crew of B-29 Is Rescued North. of Saipan   12 Raiders of Tokyo Rescued by Destroyer” After Spotted by Planes

SUPERFORTRESS CREW RESCUED   Bomber Went Down Of Japan When Tail Was Torn Away

CREW. OF BOMBER “TSRESCUED AT SEA   Destroyer Picks -Up*.12 . Airmen-From Rafts Near Saipan

Crew cf Missing B-29 Found Safe On Two Rafts   12 Airmen Rescued By U. 5. Destroyer

Crucial Naval Struggle Expected Soon   Germans Reported Massing Their Submarine Strength

CHANNEL NAVAL CLASH BREWING   Germans Concentrate On Submarines To Curb Water Lifeline

President Asks Record Output Of Food In °44   Budget Eliminates Big Crop Benefit Payment: To Farmers.

FARM PRICES ABOVE PARITY, FDR DECLARES   President Recommends Over 30 PC Cut in Ag Department Funds. Says Goal Achieved   ASKS RECORD CROP   Predicts Increased Production Barting Unfavorable Weather — Need to Adjust Prices

CROP BENEFIT PAYMENTS OUT   Eliminated In President's Appeal for Record Production In 1944

Drops Crop Benefit Payments   Off Budget Estimate For First Time Since 1934; Farm Spending For 45 Reduced 33%

Calls for Record  Food Production A Critical Year, FDR Says; Major Benefit

RECORD FOOD PRODUCTION IS ASKED BY FDR   Budget Message Eliminates Major Crop Benefit Pay ments to Farmers   Asks Big Reduction In Ag Dept. Spending

FOOD OUTPUT FOR ’44 SET AT RECORD MARK   Eliminate Major Crop Benefit Payments To Farmers in New Budget

Major Crop Benefits Under AAA Eliminated Fo First Time Since 1933 In Budget Presentation

FOR Sets 1944 Food Production Over ‘83 Record   Major Crop Cash Benefits Ruled Out Of Budget

‘Roosevelt Seeks Greatest Food Production In 1944 America Has Ever Known

GREATEST FOOD OUTPUT IN U.S, HISTORY ASKEL   Expanding War Demands Are Stressed by FDR in Budget Message

FOOD FRONT TO BE CRITICAL AND NEW RECORD NECESSARY   President Calls For. Greater Production on Farms in Next Fiscal Year

Washington Goes on New Year's Eve Fling To Welcome 1944—‘Year of Invasion’

CAPITAL TAKES FLING FOR 1944   Servicemen And Civilians Have One Big Night To Gireet Invasion Year

‘APITAL CELEBRATES - NEW YEAR’S EVE    odsands Turn Out for a Big ., Night—Entertainment Prices ae Skw High:

War Tempers Festivity As Hectic Year Ends   Capital Celebrants Greet ‘Invasion Year’

RATION PROBE IS BROADENED      Food Rationing Irregularities At Cleveland Are Investigated

OILMEN CLAIM ICKES ANGLING FOR OIL CONTRO!   \vabian Pipe Line Contract Is of No Value to Furtherance of War. Says President Zook of Producers   FIGHT TO FINISH

Fight Launched On Arabian Pipeline   Oil Man Says Government Could Get Everything

Yugoslavs Oust U.S. Woman War Correspondent  Broke Censor  Rules, Claimed

WAR CORRESPONDENT OUT OF BELGRADE   Eleanor Packard of United Press Is Expelled

Pianés, Ships ‘Block Nazi Escape Path  Axis Troops: ‘oops Take Desperate Gamble on Escape by Sea.  21,000 CAPTURED Almost as -Many. More Slain by Two Red Armies

NAZI ARMY REAR GUARDS CRASHED AT SEVASTOPOL   Rowed Survivors, Corraled, Meet Merei¥ Obese lida

CLAIM 60,000 OF FOE SLAIN OR CAPTURED   Soviet Tanks Ten Miles From Outskirts Of Sevastopol

LONDON (UP) — Capture of Tarnopol, long-besieged rail junction in pre-war Poland, Was announced Saturday by Josef Stalin in an order of the dav.

Reds Drive To Edge Of Sevastopol   Battle of Crimea Nears An End As Hordes of Nazis Flee.

RUSSIAN RING CLOSING ON SEVASTOPOL   Armies in Outskirts of Great Black Sea Naval Base: Stop Nazi Evacuation Craft.

31,000 TATTERED PRISONERS GWE UP TO RUSSIANS   500 American Planes Based In Italy Blast Romanian Centers In Support to Red Soaldiars.   NEARLY 300 DIE IN BUCHAREST BOMBING   Bombers Blast, Set Many   Fires in the Japanese-Held Kurile Islands For Heaviest Blow In Weeks.

Vital Targets in Reich Blasted by Aerial Forces  Over 4,000 Planes Participate in Huge Assault

Germany Hit Heaviest Air Blow Of War   Five Towns Boinbed Without Opposition

HOME FRONT OUR MAJOR BATTLEFIELD   94,000 Killed, Ten Million Injured Last Year.

‘Communists Join CIO To Seek Control  ‘Of American Votes   National Demecratic Convention Example Of Methods Used by Alien Group For Infiuence in National Elections

Hillman’s Communistic Background Said Source of Political Embarrassment

Nazis Come Out of Underground to Surrender Selves .   American Doughboys Also Capture Great Stores of Ammunition and Supplies in French Port of Cherboure

Nazis Filling Prison Cages   About 9,000 Gave Up Monday, Including Cherbourg Commander, Admiral

German Prisoners Stream Into U.S. Cages in France  Huge Amount of Booty— As Yet UWnassessed —

THOUSANDS OF NAZIS TAKEN IN CHERBOURG   it General an d Admira Among Yanks’ Captives

Many Prisoners  Taken by Allies   Also, Great Stores of Ammunition and Supplies  Taken at Cherbourg.

Prisoners Stream To Allied Cages, Big Materiel Haul  Surrender of 9,000 Accepted by American Troops

Thousands Of Prisoners, Vast Supplies Captured By Allies At Cherbourg

Frenchmen Show Hate of Germans   Emerging From Tunnel in Cherbourg  Nazi General, Rear Admiral Give Up

German Prisoners Stream Into U. S. Cages in France   Huge Amount of Booty— As Yet Unassessed — Falls to Doughboys

Huge Amount Of Equipment Is Captured   Surrender Of Nazi General And His Men Described

Commander Of Cherbour o  Surrenders   kKight Hundred Men and Officers Follow Example

House Votes ‘G. I. Bill, Boosts Loans   Age Limit Lifted on Educational Benefits

Expect Million and Half to Vote i State Tuesday   Few in Service Likely Will Cast Ballots

U.S. DEBT CROSSES 200 BILLIONS AS. FISCAL YEAR ENDS   Government Spends °$52,677,000,000 More Than _ He Income.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Schweinturt “Pia ctovad” Twice During Night

FIETH ARMY POSITIONS ON ANZIO AND CASSINO FRONTS IN ITALY ARE IMPROVED   Large Force RAF Planes Over Europe

SCHWEINFURT PLASTERED BY RAF AIR FLEET   2,240 Tons Of Bombs Loosed On City Already Afire From U. §. Attack

SCHWEINFURT RAIDED TWICE DURING NIGHT   R. A. F. Follows Up U.S. Attacks; Yanks Bag 156 Nazi Planes

Reed Calls For Kellem Mail Probe   Senator Wants Full Inquiry Into Case Involving German

Wants Kellems Case Probed By  Senate Group   Reed Of Kansas Calls For Inquiry Into Charges Of Each Side

ASKS KELLEMS INVESTIGATION   Senator Reed Calls For Inquiry Into Charges Against Miss Kellems And Her Counter-Charges Of Mail Tampering.

Kellems Case Investigation  To Be Opened   Senator Will Institute Probe Into Counter a Charonsc *

Would Cover “Allegations Of Unpatriotic Conduct” and Counter-Claims Of Mail Tampering

Would Examine  Vivian Kellems   Sen. Reed Also Demands Senate Investigation Of Counter - Charges

Reed Demands Senate Investigation of Charge: Against Miss Vivian Kellems, War Plant Owner

PAY JUMP GAINS MADE BY LABOR   Wins Two Points In Fight To Scrap Little Steel Order

MUST TAKE MORE MEN FROM 26-37   Hershey Orders Review of Men’s Classifications

DRAFT BOARDS PLAN INDUCTION OF OLDER MEN   Action Terminates The Period Of “Accent On Youth” In Nation

BOARDS TO LOOK OVER OLDER MEN   SELECTIVE SERVICE DIPS INTO 26.37 CROLIP

Nation Prepares Induction Step-ur For Men Over 26   _Phie-Ten't-Man"y 2 ~ War, Says Draft Director Hershey

HERSHEY ENDS YOUTH ACCENT DRAFT POLICY   Orders Local Boards To  Speed Inductions Of 26-37 Group

DRAFT BOARDS SET TO INDUCT MEN OVER 26   Orders Given By Hershey To Review “AI Classifications

‘Accent Off Youth As Selective Service Steps ‘Up Inductions Of Men 26 Years Of Age And Over

Boards Set To Induct 26-37 Men   No Longer a ‘Young Man's, War’, Hershey Now Declares

DRAFT OF OLDER MEN STEPPED UP   NEW POLICY TO INSURE FULL WAR CONTRIBUTION

my Controls Philadelphia Transit Stem; Partial Service-Resumed —

CHRISTMAS IN TEXAS FOR SOLDIERS WILL BE MADE ENJOYABLE  MANY SERVICE MEN ON HOME LEAVE, BUT THOS! IN CAMPS REMEMRERED

War Workers On Strike Out West   10,000 Foundrymen Protest Wages

Foundrymen Go-On Strike   Fear Vitally-Needed Sea Craft May Be Curtailed As Result.

Foundry Group Out On Strike   10,000 Coastal Workers _ Quit; Shipbuilding — Delav Is Seen: . —

YaTres1oO TEPER ATIORES   Hunt Bobby Soxers — on Sinatra’s Trail

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES WITHIN SAN VITTORE   Russians Continue To Maul German Forces On Eastern Front

Anamosa Cons Take Monti Car   Schlimmer Car > Left At Dyersville

IST DEGREE MURDER WARRANT IS ASKEL   Against Gas Station Man who Kills Gir!

Confesses To Slaying Girl   Gas Station Attendant Admits To Brutal Detroit Crime.

YOUNG MAN (S HELD IN KILLING OF GIRL   Prosecutor Says He Wil Ask for First Degree Murder Warrant.

YOUTH CONFESSES HE KILLED YOUNC GIRL IN DETROIT   Admits Beating and Stalling 14.Yoar-Gld Girl ta Death  After Argument

Admits Slaying of 14-Year-Old   Station Attendant Held For Murder

Third Army Battles Into Siegfried Line Positions Beyond Saarlautern Today

Dr. E. J. Wilcox Is Summoned   Drummond Surgeon Dies in Missoula

Dr. E. J. Wilcox Is Summoned  Drummond Surgeo! Thiiece in Miceaulea

JAPS RALLY FORCES FOR STRONG ATTACKS ON ALLIES AT RECENT INVASION POINTS NEW BRITAIN   Stronger Resistance from Nipponese Also Encoun tered in New Guinea by Australians, -Japs Throw In Heavy Aerial Interception Forces

‘STRENGTHENED JAP FORCES ARE MET INS. W. PACIFIC   Japs Apparently Don’t Intend   to Give Up Valued Bases in Pacific Witheut a Bitter Struggle—Aussies Slowed  By MORRIE LANDSRERr .-

Japs Stiffen Fight Against - Allied Forees   Resistance _—Increasing Both On New Britain And New Guinea; Air  Tempo Mounts

SAPS RALLY SLOWS ALLIES IN FAR EAST   Men of Nippon Battle Savagely on Land and in the Air to Halt March of Aussies   TOJO'S FORCE STRONG

Japs Rally  Forces   Stiffen Defenses in Southwest Pacific; Recapture Village and Airfield at Arawe

JAPS RALLY FORGES FOR FIGHT JO HOLD ISLANDS IN PACIFIC   Americans Encountering Stiffer Opposition at Invasion Points        Allied Assaults

JAPS TO PUT UP BIG FIGHT IN SW. PACIFIC   Their Forces Rallied for Strong Defense of Strategic Territory In Faraway Theatre.

NIPS TRYING 10 HOLD POSITIONS   Yonk Troops Meet Stiffened Resistance at Two Invasion Points

Japanese Are Stiffening In Islands Area   Not Going to Give Up on Strategic Territory Without Fight

Upsurge Of Jap Resistance Met   ENEMY LINES ARE STIFFENED IN PACIFIC

Japs Infensily Resistance To Allied Drives   Heavy Aerial Forces Used By Enemy to Meet Allies

Japs Putting Up Stronger Opposition   Allies Meeting Stubborn Enemy; Japs Recapture Arawe Airfield in Drive

SLOW UP ALLIES ON NEW BRITAIN AND NEW GUINEA   REPORTS INDICATE STUBBORN FIGHT IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

Japanese Rally Pacific Forces  Putting Up Stiff Fight Acainst Allies

JAPS INCREASE OPPOSITION AND TAKE AIRSTRIP   Enemy Forces Apparently Rallied Both on New Britain and in New Guinea   RABAUL BLASTED   Bombers from Bougainville Make First Incursian Into New Ireland Area

Japs Rally Forces in  Pacific Area   Troops Encounter Stiffened Enemy Lines at Both Invasion Points on New Britain :

Japs Slow Yanks  In Stitt Fight  On New Britain Nips Recapture Arawe Airstrip FromU.S. Troops

tnemy Rallies Forces Against Yanks, Aussies   Stubborn Fighting Is Reported On Land And In The Air

REPORT JAP RALLY TROQPS      Allies Believe They Will Not Give Up Territory Without Struggle.   ENEMY LINES STIFFEN

Americans Encounter Stiff Opposition  On Land, In Air Around New Britain

Apparently Do Not Intend Surrender of Important Posts   Give Timely Emphasis to Warning Issued by Staff Officer

Japs Stitfen Lines on Isles   Aussies Also Meet Upeurge of Resistance In New Guinea

Japs Not Giving Up Bases Easily   Invasion Resistance Is Strengthened

New Upsurge of Resistance By Japanese   Enemy Forces Rallied fou Stubborn Fight at. New Britain and New Guinea   ATTEMPT TO WARD OFF AIR ATTACKS   But American Airmen Hold Their Own; New Heavy Raids on Rabaul

INDICATIONS ARE JAPANESE T0 FIGHT ALLIES BITTERLY   HAVE NO INTENTION OF GIVING UP STRATEGIC AREA UNLESS OUSTED

Bitter Japanese Resistance Slows American Drive   Foe Stiffens Lines At Invasion Peints On New Britain; Fierce Sky Battles

JAPANESE RALLY TOKEEP HOLDS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Leathernecks Renew Attack From Borgen Bay on New Britain Isle

Tougher Policy is Adopted by Allies Toward 2 Neutrals   Protest Aid Going to Ger. many From Spain and  Turkey Today

Allies Starting To Get Tough With Neutrals   Eire Blockade Tightens, Representations to Tur« key and Spain

Clamp Down On Neutrals   Allies Tighten Irish Blockade; Warn Others On Trade With Enemy

Allies Tighten: Neutral Policy   Reduce Irish Ship Service,  Protest Mineral Shipments “To Nazis, and Oil Seizure.

New Pressure on. Europe s Neutrals From U. 5., Britain   Eire’s Blockade to Be Tightened; Spain, ‘Turkey Gets Protests

Allies Tighten Irish Blockade   Great Britain. United States Toughen Policy Toward Neutrals.

ALLIES TOUGHEN NEUTRAL POLICY   REDUCED STEAMSHIP SERVICE TO EIRE TIGHTENS BLOCKADE

Allies Tougher Policy Toward Spain And Eire   Turkey Also Warned About Shipments Chrome To - GermanyIn New Dip‘ " Toxmatie Moves

Allies Tighten Irish Blockade   Also Get Tougher _ With Spain and Turkey London Reports

Tougher Allied Policy Started   U. S., Britain Act And Also Protest

Blockade On Eire Tighter   U. S., Britain Also Take Sharper Tone in Messages To Turkey, Spain

Allies Push 3 Neutrals   Turk, Trish, Spanish Policy Is Stiffened

U.S., Britain Toughen Stand Toward Neutral Countries   Tighten Irish Blockade, Protest Turk ‘Aid To Nazis, Spanish Oil Seizures

U5, BRITAIN GETS TOUGHER GN NEWVTRALS   Tighten Blockade To Ireland In New Protest

Blockade Of Neutral Eire Is Tightenec   U. S. Stiffening Policy Toward Nations Not In War; Protest Turk, Spanish Actions

ALLIES TIGHTEN UIP ON NEUTRALS   Stands. Being Made In Cases Against Ireland, Turkey and Spain.

U.3., BRITAIN TIGHTEN POLIGY   Reduction of Steamship Service to Eire in Action Against Neutrals.

Clamp Down On Neutrals   Britain and VU, §. Tighten Policy Against Nations Aiding Germany

TAKE FIAM STAND TOWARD NEUTRALS   Isolate Erie, Protest Chrome Shipments, Condemn Spanish Oil Seizure

Germans Map Plan To Dratt  Last Reserves   Goebbels To Speak To Nation; May Disclose Plans For Struggle.   GOERING IS DICTATOR

BRITAIN WILL SUPPORT RUSSIA IN TERRITORIAL DISPUTE WITH POLANL   INFERS THAT U. S. ALSO STANDS WITH STALIN IN PROPOSAL THAT RUSSO-POLISH BORDER BE EXTENDED TO CURSON LINE.

Recommends Polish Govern. ment In Exile Agree To Revision Of Polish Border   WANTS MEETING: WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND PREMIER STALIN   Names. London As Suitable Meeting Place. For Three World Leaders - ‘

Stevenson Is Striving for Demo Harmony   Governor Says Will Of Voters Should Be Allowed Expression

—LIQUOR—  GOOD NEWS FOR — DHID'S THIRST]   Two Bottles: OF Whiskey A Person During Next Ration Period

EXTEND LIQUOR RATION PERIOD   Permit Unit Buying; More Whiskey on ‘Free’ List

GIRL 1S SLAIN “IN CATHEDRAL   Police Baffled by Bizarre Murder Mystery In  Washington

BODY IS FOUND BURIED IN CHURCH     Capital Police Confronted by Bizarre Mystery

Woman Is Killed In Capital Church   Body of Librarian Found Scantily Clad in a Steam  Pipe.

Librarian's Body — Found in Basement  Cathedral Scene Of Mysterious Murder 1. wWAv.ite oo,

Young Woman Found Slain in  U.S. Capital   Battered and Scantily Clad Body Found in Cathedral Library Basement

YOUNG WOMAN IN WASHINGTON IS IMURDER VICTIM    Bludgeoned Body of Young Librarian Found in Basement Pit of Washington Cathedral

BIZARRE MYSTERY CONFRONTS POLICE   Basement Pit in Cathedra Yields Body of Woman Librarian.

Mystery in Murder at Cathedral   Body of Washington Librar. jan Found in SteamPipe Pit   POLICE SEEK MAN SHE COMPLAINED OF   Gruesome Crime Takes Place Near. Burial Places of Famous Men

DEWEY SEEMS SET FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION   Willkie’s Retirement From the Campaign Indi  cates Dark Days for Any Other Candidates

Difficult Road Pictured For A GOP Dark Horse   Dewey Bandwagon Appears Strongest; New England Vote Big Issue.

POSSIBILITY UF DARKHORSE NOW UNLIKELY   Willkie Forces Likely To Aid Thomas E. Dewey

Possibility Of. Darkhorse Entries in GOP Race Ruled Out By Move Of Willkie’s

WILLKIE MOVE ELIMINATES GOP DARKHORSE ROLE   Indicates Dewey to Receive Major Share of Willkie’s Delegates

Brisk Swing To Dewey’s Camp Noted   Bricker’s Chances Of Dark Horse Coup Definitely Slimmer

Darkhorses’ Hopes All But Ruled Out by Willkie’s Move   Deadlock in Republican Convention Now Held Most Improbable

Hard Road Sighted For Dark Horse GOP Candidate  Dewey Will Receive Major Share  OF Willkie Votee

WILLKIE ACT HELPS DEWEY   Darkhorse Possibilities Are Ruled Out; Convention Deadlock Unlikely

WILLKIE ERASES DARKHORSE HOPE   Swing To Dewey Launched As Result Of Retirement

Dewey Will Collect Willkie Strength  Tough Road Lies Ahead For Darkhorses After Republican Nomination  se = 2s

GOP Deadlock Held Unlikely At Convention   Darkhorses Ruled Out.as Result of Willkie Withdrawal

Dewey Trend Is Hard Blow To Darkhorse:   Possibility Of Stalemate ‘At National Convention Has Been Reduced By Willkie’s Withdrawal

Rocky Road - Facing GOP  ~ Darkhorses   Willkie Withdrawal Ends Likely Chances of An Early Deadlock

Convention Deadlock Is Now Held Unlikely; Swing Now Underway For Thomas Dewey

Willkie Move Kills Chances Of ‘Dark Horse   Deadlock In Republicar Convention Now Is Helc  Very Unlikely.

Darkhorse Hopes Dwindling Fast  Upsurge for Dewey Seen Stanificant

WILLKIE STEP DIMS “DARK HORSE” HOPES   Trend Swings to Dewey Now That 1940 Nominee Has Withdrawn. - and Deadlock in G. O. P. Convention Unlikely.

Dewey Gaining Groun Now That Willkie Is Out Of Race   Definite Indications Are That New York Governor “Will Collect A Major Share Of Support Which Wilikie Renounced

WITHDRAWAL BY WILLKIE SPEEDS SWING TO DEWEY   POSSIBILITY OF GOP DARKHORSE NOMINEE NOW APPEARS REMOTE

6 YANKS ENTER NAZI LINES: CAPTURE 32   Set Up Headquarters During 3¢ Hours tn Enemy Territory— Return Without Casualties.

Allied Counter-Offensive Mopping Up On Japanese Strongpoints Around Kohima

Red Cross Fund Drive Extended   Will Continue Through March Because Of Slow Response

173 Nippon vessels sunk  or damaged  Down 501 planes in four day blow

a0! JAP PLANES BAGGED IN 4 DAYS   NIPPONESE KNOCKED OUT OF SKIES IN AMERICAN RAIDS ON PHILIPPINES.

Japan Loses 50] Planes and 173 Ships In Four-Day U.S. Smash at Philippines

Third Fleet Blasts 227 Nip Vessels, 529 Airplanes in Four-Day Series Of Blows, Including Luzon, Formosa

8 Nazi  Officers Hanged   High-Ranking Men Die After Confessing Part in Hitler Plot

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Date When Nazis Break  ls Question   Pending Blows On Reich From Three Sides To Speed Victory Date

WAR TODAY   ‘Time of Hitler’s Col. lapse Hingés: On Al} Hes All.Out Drive and  Russia Breaking Vis tula Line

STALIN PREDICTIGN OF DISASTER — FOR GERMANY WILL BE HASTENED BY CONTINUED FOUR FRONT PRESSURE

THE WAR TODAY  Catastrophe For Nazis May Not Be Soon  we Kees ey

STALIN'S STATEMENT GERMANY ON VERGE OF CATASTROPHE WAS ‘(GOOD TO HEAR BUT WHEN BETTER

CropsSearec By Drouth    Corn and Soybeans Are Badly Damaged In Continuing Heat

JAP POSITIONS ON NEW BRITAIN ARE ATTACKED   104 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped On Enemy Base At Alexishafen   RABAUL AIRDROMES POUNDED EACH DAY

YANKS PUSHING INLAND BEYOND ARAWE LANDING   Three Barges Sent Down As Enemy Attempts To Make Gateway  From Guinea

Jap Positions on Arawe Are Aifacked   Nips Learn Main Yank Force Still on the Job

JAP POSITIONS — ON ARAWE RAIDED   U. S. SIATH ARMY UNITS PUSH FORWARD AFTER BIG GUNS BLAST PATH.

Axsk« Grand Judy Probe   Jap Positions on Arawe Island Atfacked by American Patrols

INLAND POSITIONS ‘ON ARAWE RAIDED   Americans of Sixth Army Push Into Enemy Territory

SUPREME COURT CHARGED  WITH EMBARKING UPON  REFORM AS SGUTHERN SENATORS ASSAIL NEGRO VOTE RULING

SOUTHERN SENATORS AROUSED -. BY DECISION ON NEGRO VOTE   SUPREME COURT CHARGEL WITH BASING ITS DECISION ON REFORM PROGRAM TENDENCY

Community Chest Still Needs Sizable Amount  Chairman Announces  Work to Continue; ¢1 DEN le Precio

Community Chest Still Needs Sizable Amount  Chairman Announces ~ Work to Continue; C1 QEN te Neciecel

Senate Seeks Letters In Kellems Case   Price Refuses Rodv’s Reauest

Labor Bill Would Stop  Any Turnover   Ferguson Hits Distillery Monopolies, GOP Attacks Raising Debt Limit, Bank Plan

New Work-or-Be Drafted Law for: 4-F’s Advocated   Also Covers Men. Up to 45 Refusing Essential Industry:

Urges New Law Covering 4F Mer   Brewster Would Halt  Labor Turn-over

BILL PROVIDES LABOR FREEZE, WAR JOB DRAFT   PLAN SPONSORED BY SENATOR BREWSTER AND SENATOR BAILEY

Work-Or-Be-Drafied Law Would Cover 4-F’s and Men Up to 45.   QUICK ACTION NEEDED

‘FREEZE’ OF MEN IN ESSENTIAL JOBS PROPOSED!   Steel Opposes Union Wage Demands; Navy Fund Bill Nears Approval

auwauyprpenm FF eoeao"oo  W ork-Fight Law Urged By Senator      Would Freeze 18-45 Men In Present Essential Jobs, With Changes Uno To Draft Boards

DRAFT OF 44°5, MEN 1045 YEARS LOOMS IN SENATE   Two Sponsor Bill to Freeze Workers on Essential Jobs With Changes on Orders of Draft Board.   CONSCRIPTION OF DEFERRED S POSSIBLE   Plan Is Proposed as Means of Halting Labor Hoarding and Force Men Into War Production.

MONEY WORRIES FACE CONGRESS   Labor Turnover and Liquor Under Discussion, Too

URGES BILL TO FORCE 4-F MEN INTO WAR WORK   Would Also Place Men Up To 45 Under Call

Yank Troops Outflank, Blast St. Lo   Full German Tank Division Crushed In 4 Days’ Battle

Americans Ruin 160 ‘Tanks; Bear Down Upon St. Lo   Germans In Full Retreat Below La Haye Du Puits; Defense Is Wilting Rapidly In Caen; Allies Gain All Along Line.

Enemy Resistance Weakens on Entir 120-Mile Front as Americans Drive to Within Mile of French City

TROOPS DRIVE WITHIN MILE OF NAZI BASE   More Than 160 Nazi Tanks Destroyed in 4 Days

KELLY - KEYES FEUD RENEWED   Governor Challenged To Test of Strength On Sales Tax Returns

Governor Defied By Eugene Keyes   Urges Supervisors To lanore Kelly

Taft Introduces — Resolution About Freedom of News   Would Place Congress On Record in Favor - Of Agreements

LAST MARSEILLE RESISTANGE ENDS   GERMAN GARRISON THAT HAD HELD OUT ON SEA FRONT SURRENDERS.

Marseille is ripped  wide open   Vengeful people war on traitors

THIRD ARMY BATTLES INTO SAAR   Planes Support Ground Troops In Advances

Yanks Tighten 9 Mile Pincers On  Duren Outskirts   3rd Army Drives 114 Mi. Deeper Into Saar Inside Germany

Germans Fight Bitterly te Halt Slowly Advancing Allies at Florence

Five’ German Divisions Lash Back Bitterly As Eighth Army Punches Toward Air Port.  ee   32 Planes Downed

» Nazi Units Lash Back at Kighth Army   British, However, Continue on Towards Florence; DNB Says Pisa Evacuated to U.S.

Nazis Lash Back At Allied Force Before Florence   Counterattacks, Led bi Huge Tanks, Slow Drive on Art Capital

NAZIS LASH BITTERLY AT EIGHTH ARMY   Yank Airmen In Ital Continue Relentless Pounding Of German Industrial Centers

“TS ALL OVER, SAYS LEADER OF DEWEY CAMP   Just “Naming the States” All That's Left, He Says

DEWEY AND BRICKER GROUPS ~~ STILL ARGUE ON STRENGTH   DEWEY, BACKERS DECLARE “[P8. ALL OVER,"—BEICKER GROUP DOESN'T AGREE

Driving Toward Black Sea Ports of Kherson and Nikolaev.   FINLAND WANTS TO TALK PEACE   America Has Warned Finland to Get Out of the War.

GERMANS ADMIT FIGHTING HEAVY DEFENSIVE WAR NEAR NIKOPOL   Nazi Communique Says Russians Have Launched Strong Attacks In This Area.

UNION DENOUNCES ACTION OF NLRB   .   Order To Hold Election At Ward’s Is Termed  ‘Dirty Deal’

Union Leaders Disapprove Of Ward Electior   Time Limit Of Seven Days ‘Teo Short, Contrary To NLRB Custom of 21Davy Period

VOTE ORDER HIT BY WARD UNION   ClO Aid Assails Seven-Day Deadline As ‘Dirty Deal’

Ballot Date Unfavorable   . CIO Wants Election At Wards Postponed

NLRB Ruling on Ward Case _ “Dirty Deal’   Yesterday the Board Ruled Bargaining Election By Employes

ClO Heads Denounce Ward Election Rule   Asserts Time To Prepare Is Not Adequate   Publicity Director Says There’s a ‘Reign of Terror at Plant’

Ward Union Flays Vote Date   Objects to Short Notice for Vote By Employes

CIO DISAPROVES TIME LIMIT FOR WARD ELECTION  CONTENDS 7 DAYS -« NOT ENOUGH TO  - MeecpaCe BALI NTC

CIO Objects to Early Election ai Montgomery Ward   Seven Days Too Short, Leaders Assert—Couri to Decide Legal Fight Over Seizure Monday

C10 Protests /-Day Limit >On Ward Vote   NLRB Action * Angers Union; * Wants More Time

NAZI FLANKS WEAKENED BY LOSS OF TOWNS   Americans Effect Crossing Of Vire River On Western Pivot

Drive South Of Caen By British Forces Puts Them: Near C)rne Rivar

Americans Capture Sainteny While British And Canadians Capture Two Important Towns

League Talk May Reverse U.S. Policies   Nation Must Assist In Policing World If It Joins Association

Foreign Policy Change Looms   Force for Keeping Peace Gains Favor

smeeranstnes eaten ————————_ ert ts—~SSC‘  Historic change in polieyv ‘nail

Wissembourg, Lauferbourg in American Hands      First Army Hit By Heavy German Counter-Attacks

Bus-Truck Tires to Be Re-studied  New Order Into Effect at Midnight

Recheck Needs For Big Tires  Cancel Outstanding Ration Certificates

OPA Cancels Alt Truck and Bus Tires Tonight .   Cancels All Outstanding Certificates For Such Tires Midnight Tonight.

BUS, TRUCK TIRE RATION CANCELED   COUPONS INVALIDATED, RE-EXAMINATIONS DUE

OPA Cancels Truck Tire Certificates   Reexamination in Face Of Acute Shortage Is Scheduled

DISTRICT MEET AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY HERE THIS THURSDAY   All Reservations Must Be In For Banquet By; Noon Tomorrow. Ora torical Contest A Nicht.

GROUPS WILL HAVE ~ JOINT BANQUET   Legion and Auxiliary roups To Convene Here Thursdav

Allied Subs  Sink 26 More Jap Vessels  Yanks Account for 17   ss  Yanks Account for 17 And British for Nine ‘In Accelerated Raids  INCTIIDE TANKERS

26 MORE JAPANESE SHIPS SENT DOWN   Allied Submersibles Ac. cept Attacks in the Pacific

SEA WAR GOES BAD FOR JAPAN   U.S. Submarines Sink 26 Nipponese Vessels In Pacific

16 More Japanese Vessels Are Sunk By Submarines   -orrestal Says Undersee Warfare against Japan Is Successful

Cling To Heights Controlling Last Means Of Escape      Cut Off Cologne Road With Smashing Thrust

YANKS BATTER AHEAD ALONG 20-MiLE FRONT      Doughboys Crashing Into Aachen; Narrow Nazi Escape Road

Reds Advance to Within 72 Miles of Budapest —   Hint German Withdrawal from Athens in Face of British Invasion   By ALTON L. BLAKESLER

SIEGFRIED LINE THREATENED ON OTHER SECTORS   Weather Handicaps Aerial Support - - Americans Advance in Italy

Americans Narrow Hun Escape Corridor In Aachen Sector   U.S. Troops Oust Enemy From Houses In German Bastion; Reds Take 2.000 Towns In Lithuania

‘Chinese — Capture ‘Tengchung   Fall of City Marks High Point in Effort To Reopen Burma Road Supply Route to China

Chinese Again Take Tangchung   Recaptured From the Japan: ene, Chinese High Command Announced,

Chinese Recapture Tengchunc To Remove Another Obstacle In Reopening Of Burma Road   Victory Is Significant Gain In First Real Chinese Offensive

Tengchung Recaptures From Japs      More Air Raids Are Reported By Task Forces On Central Philippines

Tengchung Falls To Chinese Forces   Victory Important Hurdle.on Way to Opening Burma Road

Chinese Refake Tengchung In Drive On Burma   Junction Of Allies To Reopen Road Approaches

England’s Lights To Blaze Again   Order All But Ends Restrictions Sept. 17

JAPS CHANGE TACTICS   Enemy Based Bombers and Fighters in Daylight Attack

FORRESTAL SAYS U. S. HAS BUILT 65 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OF ALL TYPES

165 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ‘CONSTRUCTED IN 1943   13,517 Cembatant Naval Planes Were Alse Built Last Year, Official Anneunces

U.S. Carrier “Fleet Grows   9 380 Striking Power ® Greatest In World

'65 CARRIERS BUILT BY U.S. LAST YEAR   Total of 43,617 Combat Naval Planes Also Constructed, James Forrestal Reveals.

America Doubles Her Navy in Yea  65 Aircraft Carriers  Constructed in Year

OCTOBER TRAFFIC DEATH TOLL DIPS   Extra Care Receives Credi for Better Showing fuer Country

RUBBER WORKER STRIKE IS ENDED   Employes Return Under Threat Of Disciplinary Action

GOODYEAR WORKERS ARE BACK ON JOBS   Cs eeehanetiiaeaiaeeimeaaeenetiameeitend  Three-day Stoppage Ended By ClO Orders

Mystery ‘Targets Blasted   American Bombers Pow More Explosives And Fire Bombs On  Invasion Coast.

Planes Blast French Coast  Berlin Rocked Again Bu Macanita Rambere

FIRST TOTAL’ VICTORY SINCE 1932 ELECTION   Hickenlooper Defeats Gillette in Close Senate Race   3ee page 9 for Dubuqueland county election results.

WIN ALL STATE AND CONGRESS POSTS. IN RACE   Hickenlooper Elected Senator After Gillette Received Early Lead

GOP aWEEP IOWA; ELELTS ENTIRE TIGKET   First Complete Victory for Congress, Statehouse Since 1932.

lowa Elects Complete Slate Of Republicans   Strength of FDR Was Surprise to State’s Observers

GERMANY LOSES 106 PLANES T0 YANK FIGHTERS   Great Air Victory Scored as U. S. Airmen Batter Enemy Lines

Further Economies in Soft Coal Consumption Necessary, Says Ickes

ENEMY STRIVING FRANTICALLY TO CROSS THE SEINE   U. S. THIRD ARMY DRIVING WESTWARD, NORTH FROM MANTES

REICH LOSSES 300,000 MEN SINCE D-DAY   During Same Period, Invaders Have Knocked Out 1,200 Tanks—Heavy, Fighting. Reported in Paris Area.

New Pincers Closing On Confused Foe   Three Other Allied Armies Swing From: West To Shut Pocket.

1,200 Nazi Tanks Lost Since D-Day   300,000 Germans Put Out Of Action in Western France, Says Headquarters

‘Really Neutral’ ~ Spain Necessary British Envoy Gives  Allied Views  ~. repre Dernea a Creer PS

Admiral Byrd Breaks Long Silence To Appeal for Help in War Effort

Admiral Byrd Asks Help On Home Front for Gls Fighting in War Zones

Allies Swing Into Action   Pouring Through Breach In Siegfried Line

SIGNS POINT TO A BIG OFFENSIVE ON WEST FRONT   Allied Forces . Swing Into Action on WidelySeparated Sectors   In Holland the 2nd Army Strengthens Its Positions

1944 Brings Bright Hopes in the Pacific   Believed Japs Will Be Pushed Back Closer to Tokyo During Year

ALLIED FORCES IN PACIFIC CONFIDENT OF 1944 PROGRAM  ADMIRAL HALSEY. PREDICTS MANY DECISIVE BLOWS AGAINST JAPS

1944 TO SPEED JAP RETREAT   New Bases and New Fighting Strength Brighten Altied Gutiook.

Jap Doom Nearer In °44.   Enemy Faces New Year With Growing Uneasiness, As Allied Offensives Gain Momentum

Allies Sure Of Continued Pacific Gains   Japanese Say Americans Massing In Aleutians

ALLIES CONFIDENT, JAPS UNEASY WITH TURN OF NEW YEAR   New Bases and New Fighting Strength Give Encouragement to Unitec Nations

Allies Confident 1944 Will Hasten Retreat of Japs   Establish New Bases and Fighting Strength to Combat Nippons.   Staggering Blows Are Promised This Year

CONFIDENCE IS BYWORD IN THE PACIFIC IN 1944   Allied Forces Fighting In The Pacific Enter The New Year With Feeling That Surrender Is Ahead For The Enemy; RoundUp Of War News.

Allies Enter 1944 with  Confidence   Halsey Says 1944 Will Be Year of Great, Decisive Victories : for Cause. of Pacific Freedom

japanese Retreat To Be Speeded During New Year  Tokyo Reports Masse: Of U. 5. Planes Assembled in North

NAZI WORKERS TOLD BY SHAEF HOUR HAS COME   Another Broadcast On Behalf Of Eisenhower Sent German £ People

FINANCIAL SET-UP NAVARRO COUNTY IN RECENT TAX SURVEY   GIVEN 2-STAR RATING; ROOM FOR IMPROVEMEN) IS INDICATED

FINANCIAL SET-UP NAVARRO COUNTY IN RECENT TAX SURVEY  GIVEN 2-STAR RATING; ROOM FOR IMPROVEMEN

RED CROSS SOAL $10,000,000   New Budget Shows In. crease in Services at. Home and Abroad

National Red Cross Headquarters Plan Work Fer 7945   Sachs and H. Smith  Will Handle Drive Tob tee ete Rete

DE GAULLE TO MOSCOW   Other Allied Heads May Form a United Nations Conference

MAKE PLANS FOR PRODUCTION JIN RED CROSS WORK   Mrs. Rebecca Jensen County Chairman; Need Volunteer Leaders, Groups.

Red. Cross . 7 In War- ‘Aid : - Productior   County War Fund Drive to ' Open on March 1, ‘With Quota of: $4,200 

Roosevelt And Dewey Vote Ea rly In The Day   President Ballots As **Tree Grower” and Then Chats With Hyde Park Townspeople: Governor Votes As “Lawyer” And Is Given Ovation By Gathering

F.R. Ends Campaign by Voting   President Casts Ballot in Hyde Park Hall; to Await Returns

De Gaulle Will Have Grand Arm)   French Leader Gives Account of Progress Since Liberation.

NIMITZ SAYS CONQUEST OF PELELIU NEAR   On Angaur, Smaller Palau Isle, Nips Hold Out

U. S. Subs Sink 29 More Nip Ships, And Conauest Of Palau Chain Moves Steadilvy   THREE WARSHIPS AMONG

Japs on Peleliu Island Putting Up Grim Defense   Struggle Is Reaching Cli max; Doughboys Speed Conquest of Angaur

U.S. Subs Sink 29 More Nip Ships, And Conquest OF Palau Chain Moves Steadily

SOUTHERN HALF OF PELELIU OCCUPIED   American Marines Have Conquer! ed Most Of The Eastern Coastal Area

‘PRINCELY TIPPERS DISRUPT GERMAN ECONOMIC SETUP   Nasi Economists Warn That High Tips Could Cause  Loss of War

NAZIS FACE ~NEW CRISIS   National Economy Periled By Wave of Princely Tipping

TIPS FOR ALLIED VICTORY Excessive Tipping Used In Germany May Unset Econom:

MANY PLACES   Attempt to Stave Off Ninth Army Drive Toward Rhine

ALLIED ARMY MAY BY-PASS CHINA COAST   Direct Japan Blow Preferred by Strategists

 Cabinet Shakeup Unlikely: Fred M. Vinson Expected To Be ‘Named “Assistant President’

Roosevelt's Old Cabinet Appears Set   Fred Vinson Leads Field for Assistant President; Would Follow James Byrne:

FDR TO KEEP QLD CABINET   Vinson Slated to Succeed Byrnes in Mobilization,  Reconversion Jobs

Vinson Expected To Succeed Byrne: As Roosevelt Aide  No Cabinet Changes Seen Except in Le -r Secretary Post

Vinson Likely to Succeed James Byrnes   F. R. Apparently to Continue With His Old Cabinet

Old Cabinet Like To Stay For4th Term   TALK AS USUAL, ABOUT MADAME PERKINS. BUT NO SIGN SHE IS TO BE SHOVED OUT ANY TIME SOON.   Hull Expected Back Soon

VINSON SCHEDULED TO GET NEW POST      Director of OES May be Named “Assistant President”

FDR toRetair Old Cabinet, Observers Say   Vinson Mentioned For Post of Aid to President

F.D.R.’s Cabinet Appears Set ForFourthTerm   Roosevelt Is Expected To Name Fred Vinson As ‘Assistant President’ -

CONTINUE AERIAL WAR ON REICH, LEVERKUSEN HIT   500 RAF Bombers Also Raid Invasion Coast in Night Operation

‘HEAVIES’ LASH OUT AT NAZIS   Fog Lifts, U. S. Bombers Go Into Action

Vital Transport Centers Blasted   Yanks Hit Behind — Von Rundstedt’s Line

eo RA HONS ARE STUDIEL   WEB CONSIDERING WHETHER TO PUT FUEL RATION 8YS8TEM IN OPERATION  w& THIS YEAR

JAP PATROL STABS NEAR IMPHAL   Operating Eight To Ten Miles Ahead Of Force

HAMMER BERLIN AND HELGOLAND   RAF Bombs Kindle Fires Visible 200 Miles; 34 Planes Lost

EINDHOVEN, IN HOLLAND, TAKEN BY BRITISH 2NI   Allied Airborne Troops Threatening to Break Into North Reich Around Seigfried Line.

ANKARA REPORTS:  Germans Occupy Hungary   REFUSAL OF _ HITLER'S DEMAND TO RESIST RUSS ADVANCE SAID REASON

Eindhoven In British Hands   Air-Borne Troops Join Ground Forces, Cross River in Central Holland to Threaten Nazi Flank; Cologne Periled

British Take Eindhoven; Lower Rhine Knocked Out As German Defense.

Reinforcements Pouring In For Airborne Army  Eindhoven Captured; Americans Ripping Deeper Into Enemy Datence Pacitinne

Eindhoven Is Captured By British Units   Berlin Reports New Troop _ Landings Above Delta Near Rotterdam

Lower Rhine Defense Line  Knocked Out   British Second Army Links With Paratroop Army And Seizes Eindhoven; Maneuver Threatens To Turn Khine Line; Germans Put Up Bitter Defense

Break Through on Flank ef Seofried Line is Threatened   Battle Front Now in Heart of Holland; Lower Rhine Out

WFA FREEZES SALES OF CORN   Government Will Be Sole Purchaser of Product for A 60 Day Period.

Sale Of Corn Is Frozen In  Midwest Area   U. S. Takes All Grain 60 Days

Sale Of Corn 5 Is Halted In * " "425 Counties   Government Will Act As Sole Purchaser In Move To Provide Adequate Supply For Processors

WEA Orders Freezing of ‘Sales of Corn   Government Will Be Sole Purchaser of Corn for 60 Days

U.S. 1S SOLE PURCHASER IN LIMITED AREA   Supplies for Essential Processors Sought  Under New Order

Corn on Midwes Farms Is Frozen  Sales for 60 Days Only to Government

Corn Sales ‘Are ‘Frozen’ For 60 Days   Government To Be Sole Purchaser From Farms  And Elevators.

SALE OF C FROZEN BY U.   Stocks in 125 Counties in Five  States Affected by WFA   Order,

FREEZE SALE OF CORN EXCEPT T0 THE GOVERNMENT  ORDER TAKES EFFECT   ORDER TAKES EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT FOR A PERIOD OF 60 DAYS

Sales of Corn To Be Frozen   Sales to Be Made Only To Government in Five States for 60 Days

U: S: Freezes Sales o Ot i Cor Rn  ee   ‘puichae to -Be Sole Purchaser for 60 Days,  WFA Announces

60-Day Freeze  In Corn   Government Only May Purchase in  Midwest 

Corn Sales Frozen in 125 Counties in Midwestern States   Government Alone Can Buy; Lee, Bureau Counties Named

Many Captured In Attempt To Escape   Nikolayev Being Threatened As Red Advance Is Continuing: Much War Eauipment Seized

Banking Group To Revive CCC   Legislation Would Extend Corporation Until 1945

OFFICIAL COUNT ~ OF MISSOURI VOTE   Will Not Wait on Sultivan County, the Secretary of State Announced.   START AT NINE O’CLOCK   County Clerk Rhodes. Has Certified Sullivan County's Vote Except Absentees.

$95 More Raises Good Fellow Fund Up To $778. Total   Fast Milwaukee Train Derailed; Passengers Safe

BURIAL AREAS FOR SERVICE DEAD TO EXPAND IN NATION   At Least-One National Cemetery Fer Every. State Under Pro"nosed Proasan

New National Cemeteries, With One For Fach State, Planned by War. Department

Plan Now For Vel Cemeteries   Each State May Have National Cemetery For Vets

‘Very Considerable’ Additional Burial Area Plan of Army   National Cemetery in Each State Aim of War Department

Each State to Get New National Soldier Cemetery  Corps of Engineers To Get Most Money in New Bill

Plan National Burial Areas   House Commiitee Submits Civil Funetions Bill Of War Department.

EP a OC ee NT eS TNE nr, Se  China Troops Gain In Hukawne Valley

CHINESE TROOPS GAIN. ~ SIX MILES IN BURMA   Japs Rushed Into Foothills on Edge of Hukawng  Valley — Planes Blast Foe’s Supnly Dumps.

TOTAL STRIKE’   Civie Emmloyes Decite ¢ “Bear Down” Starting Thie Mornina

French Maquis Said To Hold Rhone Center   Fall Would Cut Off All Enemy Torces In Southwest

Last Enemy Strongpoints Subjected To Mighty Assault; Nazi General And 500 Prisoners Are Taken

Units Enter Capital As >  Nazis Fight Stubbornly   Partisins: Celebrate Partial Liberation,

Von Kluge Pulling His Forces Back Toward. Somme And Marne      American Seventh Army Seizes French Riviera Resort While Savage Fighting Rages In Marseille; No News From Patton’s Forces

CANNES TAKEN AS AMERICANS EXTEND HOLD   Noted Resort on French Riviera and Nearby Town of Grasse Seized in East ward Drive   FIGHTING IN MARSEILLE

ARMY TO SEIZE NICKEL CO. PLANT   ROOSEVELT ORDERS TROOPS TO TAKE OVER STRIKE-_ _ BOUND WAR FACTORY.

WAR PLANT IS TAKEN BY ARMY   Action Follows Strike 0! Union Steelworkers At Huntington, W. Va.

Roosevel Lt Tells Pes ace  Plans In N.Y. }   ADDRESS TO FOREIGN Poi} ASSOCIATION TO BE FOL LOWED IN BOSTON, CHICAGC AND CLEVELAND   Drench In 50 Mile Drive

(,S. Security Group Envoy Must Have Power To Act. Declares FDR   Presdent Retires Behind Curtain of Censorship After Tour of New York and Address of Foreign Policy in Which He Asserts U. 5.  Will Aid Peace; To Talk in Philadelphia

Roosevelt Gives Foreign Policy Views In Speech   Roundly Cheered During : Four-Hour Tour Of  New York

Lenke Committed Jo-Sing Sing to: Re. Electroruted   Leader of Murder, Inc, “+ Transferred From Federal Custody

Lepke Housed In Sing Sing  Death Cell Row   Chief of Murder, Ine. Slated for Electrocution Feb. 10 for Murder  Committed 8 Years Ago

RECORD AIR BLOW AGAINST SOUTH REICH   Americans Follow Up British Attack of Stuttgart During the Night.   Industrial Nazi City Is Ground to Pieces

Wage Controls Continue Until After Election   Glass Industry Argues For Maintenance Of Present Pay Ceilings.   VAST SPENDING POWER

“One Of Greatest’ Earthquakes On Record Hits Japan Proper, Report

Japan Jolted By Violent Earthquake   Heavy Casualty List Expected

Japan Is Believed Rocked by Bad Earthquake Today  Whole Earth Shudder: Under Tremor Cantearina in Narth

~HEAVY EARTH SHOCKS   Violent Earthquake Reported in Vicinity of Japan =

TOKYO AFIRE AGAIN TODAY AFTER RAIDS   Incendiary Bombs Dropped On City By Superforts

Earthquake Rocks Earth For Six Hours   British Seismologist Reports Disturbance May Have Centered in  Viasat af Tannen

VIOLENT QUAKES REPORTED; MAY HAVEHIT JAPAN   Seismologists In Europe, U.S, Pearl Harbor Anniversary Tremors

BELIEVE QUAKE STRIKES JAPAN   Heavy Earth Shocks Are Recorded in New York and London

Japan s Believed Rocked by Bad Earthquake Today  Whole Earth Shudder: Under Tremor  Pinwinsetaw ta bkihacals

VIOLENT QUAKE 1S REGISTERED   May Have Centered in Vicinity of Japan

Earthquake Shakes Earth Six Hours, Center Near Janan   dJap< Advance

Remnants of 19th Army Caught in Military Traps   SEVENTH ARMY IS MAKING PROGRESS   Transfer of Seventh Army Command Appears Imminent

TRAPPED GERMANS BEING DESTROYED   TWENTY THOUSAND CAUGHT BETWEEN U. 8. THIRD AND SEVENTH ARMIES.

NAZI REMNANTS GROUND 10 BITS   Seventh And Third U. S. Armies Trap 20,000 On French Soil

Nazi Remnants Are Being Ground to Bits   20,000 Germans Said Trapped in South France

Trapped Nazi Army Facing Annihilation   19th Army Is Being Ground To Pleree

Yanks Mop Up 20.000 Nazis  In S. France   Remnants of German 19th  _ Army Being Destroyed p.m fc st

JAPS FEAR SHUTTLE BOMBING   Report Saipan May Be Base For U. 8. Superfortresses

Yanks Destroy 300 Jap Planes In Saipan Battle   Tokyo Says Great Air Fight Continues As U, 8. Fleet Masses Off Marinas

BOMBING BASE   Sompetent Jap Sources Are Conscious of Importance Of island.   PLANE LOSSES HEAVY

Japan Admits Bombing Peril   Sees U. S. Capture Of Saipan as Threat At Home Islands

Every German Target Is Now in Range   Fortresses Carry Out History Making Flight

Plaster Targets Enroute   Epochal Maneuver Of! Italian Based Planes Makes Target Of  All Naziland.

Enemy's bastions imperiled  Loan lack Willow   Can lash Hitler from every side

m4 ATTACK ON PALAU «=~   Sank or r Dyshaged Every Jap Ship Anchored There ©

Nipponese Ships Heavily Damaged Knox Announces   All Craft Anchored At Island Bases Said Hit By Raids -

ALL SHIPS AT ANCHOR HIT IN ATTACK-KNOX   First Official Report On Mareh 30 Raid Is Received

Knox Reports on Successful Raid   Allied Planes Hit Japs on India Front; Yanks Seize 10 More Marshall Atolls

'U. S. Naval Task Force Sank or [Damaged All Jap Ships at Anchor At Palau, Woleai and Yap Islands

‘Knox Reveals 2 Other Bases Hit by Warship:   Navy Secretary Withholds Details, Voices Skepticism of Jap Claims

ALL JAP SHIPS SUNK AT THREE ISLAND PLACES   27 Warplanes Was Cost to U.S. in Attack on West Carolines, Sec. Knox Reveals

County Goes Over Top on Last Day Of Bond Campaigr   Total is $15,000 in Excess of Quota, Chairman Reveals

County Over TopIn 5th Loan Drive   Individual, E Bond Quotas Not Met

Adams Township City Over Top in War Loan Drive   County Still Far Short of E Bond  Quota, However

Goal Reached Two Days Before Campaign Ends   E Bond Quota Still to Be Attained; Two More Townships Go Over Top

W ay Is Sought To Replenish Liquor Stocks   Government Concerned With Black Market And. Huge Tax Stake

LIQUOR PROBLEM IS DISCUSSED   Government And Distiller: Seeking Way To Ease Present Shortage

Plan To Smash Liquor Racket   Aim of Drive Against Whiskey Black Market To Prevent Prohibition.

Officials Seek Way to Build Liquor Stocks   Aim Is to Prevent Any Possible Return  To Prohibition

Moral Pri     ciple   Arnold Says Huge Air Battle Hardest Blow Yet Ai Nazis

Amold Says Air Loss 5 Per Cent   Believe 1,200 Planes Blasted Nazi Targets

Hard Blow Dealt  Nazis by Air Raid  Gen. Arnold Says Details Delayed as  Bad Weather Slowed Allied Check-up

Arnold Says Losses Light For Results   Terrific Blow Is Said Dealt Nazis

Arnold Says Aerial Blow One of the Hardest Ever Struck   Three Vital Nazi Aircraft Factories Are Destroyed at a Loss of 64 Planes, or Only 5 Per Cent of Attacking Force

‘mold Says Aerial Blow One of the Hardest Ever Struck   Three Vital Nazi Aircraft Factories Are  Destroyed. at a Loss of 64 Planes, or Onlv

Arnold Says: Losses. Light For Results   Terrific Blow. is... Said Dealt Neaie

100 RETAILERS AT SPRING BANQUET   Hear Joe Meek Outline Developments in Washington

100 RETAILERS AT SPRING   Hear Joe Meek Outline Developments . in Washineton

James Wins Top Position On 2 Tickets   FORMER GOVERNOR'S NAME FIRST ON REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY LISTS; RHODES THIRD.   Bresln Tops Wagner

James Wins First Place or Both Ballots   Rhodes, Also On 2 Tickets, Draws Last Place on Each

Russ Slaughter 1500 Germans,  Smash 68 Tanks   Nazis Thrown Back Fourth Straight Day on Pole Front

1500 GERMANS “DIE AS POLISH ~~ DRIVE HALTED   Hurl Heavy Attacks As Reds Mass for New March

15 HOURS OF VOTING HERE NEXT TUESDAY   16 Candidates Confident As Usual

EXPLOSION AT PLANT   One Man Received Minor Injuries in S.O.W. Morning Blast

SALZBURG HIT BY AMERICAN BOMBS   City Near Hitler’s Berch. tesgaden Mountain. Retreat Air Target

Allies Pound Nazi Targets In Strongest  Blow Of War      ‘Offensive. Sweeps - Over Vital Ports.

AERIAL ATTACKS AGAINST GERMANY CONTINUING TODAY   Salzburg Near Hitler Berchtesgarden Retreat Pounded by Yanks ‘Following RAF Raid on Withelmshaven and Kp mbhurg

AMERICAN PLANES BOMBED SALZBURG, NEAR HITLER HOME  BRITISH HEAVY BOMB. ERS BLASTED WILHELM. GHAVEN AND HAMRITIRGC

Pour Bombs on German Cities   Western Area Took 40,000 Tons Over Weekend, Allies Say

HITLER'S HOME MAY G0 NEXT   Bombers Strike in Salzburg Area, Not Far From Berchtesgaden

NAZIS REPORT SALZBURG RAID   Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg Also Bombed by Allies -

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT REICH HARD   Yanks Blast Salzburg Near Hitler’s Mountain Retreat

eeeeeeeEeEeEeyeEyE>E—EeEe>e>=>eeee  Two District Men Killed, Three Wounded In Action

Lionel’ Barrymore, 66, Semi-Invalid Is Winning Recognition as Composer

Gloom Spreads in Chinese Capital   Opinion Prevails War ‘Has Been Lengthened By Jap Victories :

Atmosphere Of Gloom Plunges into Chungking   Chinese Defeats, Possibility Of Air Base Losses Bring Sadness.   NO SUPERIOR LEADERS

Reverses In China Causing Deep Concern   Possibility Looms That American 14th Air Force May Lose Additional Bases in China.

Chungking Is Gloomy Over New Setbacks   Recent Reverses to Prolong War, Central Government's Prestige Suffers

Chinese Defeats, Likely Loss Of More U.S. Air Bases, Saddens Chunking

Loss Of Plane Bases Bringing Gloom To Yanks  More Fields May Fall To Japs In China As Military Picture In  ’ Darkanc  Niatian

HINA GLOOMY OVER OUTLOOK   eling Lower Than Any Time Since Allies Entered War

Three Remaining. Advanced U. S. Air Bases Expected to Fall Shortty Under ‘Jap: Drives,

CHINA'S CAPITAL GLOOMY OVER RECENT REVERSES  Experts Believe War with Japs Has Been Prolonged as Result

Agreement In Security Conference   Recent Defeats And Possible Loss O! U.S. Air Bases Cast Gloom In China

Atmosphere Of Gloom In China Capital   Defeats, Threatened Loss Of U. S. Air Bases  \  Despairing Picture

Chungking Sees War Prolonged by Loss of Air Bases  Defeats Plunge China Into Gloom

Chungking Is Gloomy   Chinese Defeats and Loss of Air Bases a Bitter Pill to Swallow

CHINESE MORALE HITS LOW LEVEL   Recent Defeats Produce Gloom in Capital

U.S. Air Force May Lose More of lis Chinese Bases  Atmosphere of Gloom Covers Chungking After Jap Victories

Chinese. American Leaders Gloomy Over Threatened Loss of More Bases

Parliament Backs Government View   Official Word to Moscow '. Re Disnatehed Soon

Finnish Parliament Votes To Reject Moscow Proposal   Armistice Terms Unanimously Turned Down, It Is Reported-—Finns Grimly Dig in for a Continuation of War With Soviets

Finns Grimly Dig In For War's Continuation Stockholm Sources Hear

Finland Digs In For Continuation  Of Russian War  Parliament Rejects Peace Terms Offered By Red Government

FINNS DIG IN FOR MORE WAR   Rejection Of Moscow’: Offer Approved By  Parliament

Music Meet Opens   Ray Schrum, Manning, Is First County Entry to Receive Award

1943 Inceme Tax Returns Must Be Filed By March 15   Following Tax rorm ‘On Line-By-Line  Ractce Ciwinlifiae It

Don’t Forget ~ March 15 Income ‘Tax Deadline   Make Qut Blanks to Best of ability—-But do not fail to file te best of your ability.

1943 INCOME TAK DUE MARCH 16   Law Requires These Forms to Be Filed on Time.

Occupy Country To Block Soviet  Forces Advance   Nation’s Leaders Are Victims Of Hitler Ruse

Lausche To Have Job Plums Worth $100,000 When He Takes Office   Nine Cabinet Posts Carry Salaries of $6,500, Annually; Other Spots Are Open

CHINA THREATENS WAR TIMETABLE   Censorship Modified; Truth of Conditions Comes to Light SK

BOTH MILITARY AND POLITICAL SITUATIONS BAD   Economic Picture Also »  ODiscouraging Due To Jap Advances   GOVERNMENT UNPOPULAR   Corruption Rises And Chiang Now Surrounded By Foes Of America

American Officials Speak Freely Of China’s Military And Political Situation

Noami Dahmes Elvin Lippke Wedding Tuesday  Local Young People Were Married In Kansas City

Elvin Lippke Wedding Tuesday Local Young People  - Were Married In Kansas City 

Army Bombs Rake Marshall ’“Dromes   Stimson Warns Attack Due On Nazis in Rome Shrines

POLES STUDYING PLAN TO SETTLE BORDER DISPUTE   May Avoid Conflict with Russia by Accepting “Curzon Line”

British Tanks Drive 23 Miles Inland To Outtlank Caen   Montebourg And Troan Change Hands As Battle Tide Swinas

British Tanks Hurl 23 Miles  Into Normandy   Germans Counter-Attack With Great Vigor, Skill On Front.   RUSSIANS ADVANCING

Violent Tank Battle Fought With German:   British Drive 23 Miles Into Normandy and Curl Around Caen After Capfuring Caumont and Yillersbocage

ATH DIES AFTER ‘SHOOTING ORGY   Swancutt, Assatlant, Is Somewhat Improved

Flash Bulbs Pop Like Chain Lightning As Charlie Chaplin Gives Fingerprints

U.S. Records Chaplin’s  F ingerprints   Reluctant Comedian Surrenders on White Slavery Count

WAR TODAY   Franco Facing Pow sible. Rebellion. by  Strong “Spanish ‘Re publican’. Organiza. _jion to Overthrow Regime ~ --—i: -

 % fe anco Without Protection of Axis  Flames of Revolt Burn Brightly Inside Spain

REBELLION IN SPAIN NOW LOOMS. WITH REPUBLICANS SEEKING TO OUST FRANCO AND HIS CLIQUE 

WAR ANALYST SEES NEW CRISIS IN SPANISH REPUBLICAN MOVE TO START RERET TION IN SPAIN

REMOVE POINTS ON SHORTENING   Salad and Cooking Oil: Also Point-Free

Shortening, Cooking Oil Removed From Ration List Effective Apr. 16

Shortening. (ils Off Ration List   Plenty for Civihans, Bowles Announces

FIERY OBJECT STIRS ALARM   Meteor is Believed to Have Hurtled Across Mid western Skies

METEOR CAUSES CONSTERNATION   Many Thought It Robot Bomb Or Flaming Plane

Midwest Meteor Reported as Falling Plane, T. N. T. Explosion, and Even Robot Bomk

TYPHOON HITS LEYTE ISLAND   DOUGHBOYS ON  RAINSWEPT JUNGLE BATTLE GROUND BEAT OFF ENEMY. COUNTER ATTACKS

British Tell Plans for New Campaign Pay   British Soldier to Get Extra for Part In War on Japanese

BRITISH READY TO FIGHT JAPS   Special Campaign Pay To Be Given Men In Asiatic Theater

GALE VEERS TO NORTH   Onetet sae Swept by Winds Exeeding 60 Miles an Hour

Most Dangerous Atlantic Hurricane in Years Veers Away from Carolina

BRERETON HEADS “HEU AR GAOL   Allied Airborne Personnel In France Consolidated Into New Unit

Airborne Personne Is Consolidated   Approximating Size Of Full Army, Under Brereton Command

Allies Merge  Aerial Forces   Eisenhower's New Group Expected Soon To Strike Some of War’s Hardest Blows

HULL'S NOTE TO FINN LEGATION SHOWS REGRETS   Points To Recent Full Alliance With Nazi Germany

RELATIONS ARE IMPOSSIBLE, SAYS HULL   Action Taken as Result of Nazi Control of Finland

STEP TAKEN BECAUSE OF GERMAN TIES      Hull’s Note to Charge d’Affaires in Washington Says Finns’ War Effort Has Ditect Bearing on Allied Cause.

U.S. RELATIONS WITH FINLAND BROKEN TODAY   Secretary Hull Explains Cause  Of Break

American Note Delivered To Legation Cites Helsinkt’s Close Alliance With Nazis   Action In Virtually Surrendering To Berlin Not In Line With So-Called Democratic Polic In Finland, Secretary Hull States

U. S. Formally Ends-Relatiens Wi th Finland   Hull Announces Break as Finland Becomes Puppet State Of Germany.

Ends Long Attempt by United States to Make Peace Between Russia, Finland

U.S. Breaks With Finland: Note Is Sent  New Alliance With Germany Brings Action  Ry Serrataryu Mall

HULL BREAKS U. 5- FINLAND RELATIONSHIF   Finns’ Close Alliance With Germany Blamed For American Action

Hull Declares Action Necessary Because Of New Close Alliance  Between Nation And Germany

CLOSE DEALING WITH NAZIS IS REASON   Note Is Sent Finnish Diplomat By Sec. Hull   ALL EFFORTS   To Negotiate Peace Fail; Letter Says People Held In High Esteem

U.S. Break: Relations   With Finns   Hull Says Nazi  Alliance Reason

ACTION DUE TO GERMAN “ALLIANCE”   Two Years’ Effort Tc Get Nation Out Of War Is Ended

United States Has Broken With Finland   Relations Are Severed Because of New Alliance With Nazis

J, S, CUTS OFF ‘ALL RELATIONS WITH FINLAND   Action Follows Granting of Control to Nazis

American Action  Results from New Finnish-Nazi Pact   Break Marks End of Many Efforts During Past Two Years by U. S. to Make Peace Between Finland and Soviet Russia

eHULL DISCLOSES ACTION AS NOTE » GOES TO ENVO)   Finland’s Close Friendship With Nazis Brings Offii‘ cial Break at Last

Close Alliance With Germany Brings Decision   Many Efforts Were Made by America To Bring Peace

U.S. Breaks Relations With Finn Regime  Sev verance Marks  2 Years Patience  m Part Mb A marie

Reds Cross Berezina River On Road To Minsk   Peace Effort. Fails, U. S. Breaks With Finland

‘DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH FINLAND ARE SEVERED BYU. §   Sec. of State Hull Releases Text of Note Penned to Finnish Legation Head In Washington.   GERMAN ALLIANCE REASON: FOR BREAK   Official Note Quotes Helsink Statement That Finland, Nazis Had Reached Unity (n Partnership.

U.S. Breaks Off All Relations With Finland   Note From Hull De. livered To Finnish Charge d’ Affaires.

New Pact With Germany Termed The Last Straw   2- Year Efforts To Bring Peace With Russia Ends; Hull Sends Note

Alliance With: Nazis Leads ToNew Action   Hull Sets Out U. S. Stand In Note to Envayv

RECENT PACT  Sages SPLIT TN RELATIONS   FINNISH MILITARY AGREE ‘MENT WITH GERMANY LEADS TO SEVERING OF DIPLOMATIC RE LATIONS ‘

Friendship At An End, Hull Informs Finland   ‘Al-Out Alliance With Hitler Destroys Last  Efforts To Remain At Peace, Secretary  Of State Declares

U.S. Breaks With Finland   Country Part of German Military Machine

NEW DRIVE FORECAST AGAINST JAPANESE   Vandegrift Says Invasion of Eu rope Will Not Delay Campalgn Againat Ninpponese,

URGES LAWS TO PROTECT UNION MEN   A New York Grand Jury Proposes Legal Redress for Victims of Wrong Conduct Within Their Own Ranks.

LABOR UNION LEGISLATION URGED BY JURY   Orange County Probers Urge Labor Board Panel to Hear Complainis Against Unions   SUBPOENA POWER   Would Confer Right to Supervise Eleciions-and-to Institute Legal Proceedings

GRAND JURY ASKS LAWS 10 PROTECT UNION MEMBERS   Orange County Board  Charges Some Elected Lleaderc Ara Carrunt

Conference Is Held At Stockholm   Soviet Russia Has Ne  Drastic Designs On Finnish Territory, Report At London

RUSSO-FINNISH: PEACE PARLEY: DEVELOPING —   Unofficial Reports Say Russians Have Outlined Terms Which Provide  Unconditional Surrender

No Big Grab Of  Finn Territory, Reds Indicate   But Unconditional Sur render Held To Be Onl; Basis For Peace.

Finn Leader Confers With Red Diplomat   Paasikivi Meets Soviet Minister To Sweden: Exchange Of Peace Proposals Hinted

Paasikivi, Soviet Woman Diplomat Confer; Helsinki May Receive Tertms

SOVIET BASES ASKED   “UNOFFICIAL” RUSSIAN TERMS MAKE NO DRASTIC TERRITORY CLAIMS AGAINST THE FINNS

‘Report Reds Issue Finns [Peace Terms   .ondon Newspaper Men See End of Hostilities in Matter of Weeks, Maybe Days

Rumored Finland Has Soviet Terms  No Drastic Designs on Finnich Territory

REPORT SOVIET PEACE TERMS GiYEN FINLAND   ‘5 Demand Surrende use of Gases: Make - Drastic Claims.

Outlook for Finns Getting Out of War Soon More Hopeful   Russia is Said to Have Announced No Large Territory Desire

Hear Finns Get Russian Terms   Has No Drastic Designs on Territory,  Is Report

Unconditional  . Surrender Of  Finns Sought   Russia Has No Drastic De ' signs Upon Territory   Other Than Use poe Of Bases

Rumor Implies Armistice Terms Sent To Helsink'   Claim Russia Tells Finland Soviet Has No Drastic Desiens On ‘Territory

FINNISH LEADER ~PAASIKIV! MEETS MME. KOLLONTA)   Second Meeting Expected, : Finnish Legation Source Said Today.   SEEKING SOVIET PEACE   Rumors That Russian Terms for an Armistice Were Being Sent to Helsinki.

FINNISH LEADER CONFERS WITH RED MINISTER   Armistice Terms May Be Sent To Helsinki Today

PEACE TERMS 10 FINLAND SAID 10 HAVE BEEN GIVEN   Unconditional Surrender 1s Necessary, Russians Tt Use Air and Sea Bases Ir War Purposes. .   WRITER THINKS FINS WILL BE OUT OF WAR   Majority Party Is Putting Strong Power on Government to Act, Cabinet Shakeup Is Also Possible.

Russia Reported Advising Finland Of No Designs   Unconditional: -. Surrender Said Bade’ Only Terme

Reds, Finns Dicker Over  Peace Term:   Russia Claims No Drastie Designs Upon Finnish Territory,   GIVE. PEACE. PICTURE

RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS ARE REPORTED GIVEN TO FINNISH LEADERS   Unconditional Surrender With Few Territorial Demands Are Rumored   QUICK ACTION POSSIBLE

SOVIETS SAY FINNS COULD HAVE PEACE   Delegation Told No Designs On Finnish Soil

More Signs Point To Finland Getting Out Of War  Indicated Reds Want All Finn Sea And Air Bases

RED TERMS TO FINNS PLANNED   Russia Has No Drastic Designs on Territory

Finns, Reds Dicker Over Peace Terms   Nation Expected To Be Out of War Within Few Weeks

AUSOD-FINNIo LEADERS MEET   Paasikivi Is Leader of Faction Seeking Peace With Soviet Russia.   RUMORS OF ARMISTICE

FINNS GET RED PEACE TERMS   No Designs On Finnish Territory, Moscow Ascerts

Finn Leader Confers With Soviet Envoy   Unconfirmed Rumors State Russian Terms For Armistice Being Sent to Helsinki

Finnish, Russian Diplomats Meet   Rumor Says Peace Terms Sent Helsinki

Finns Must Grant Russia  Use of Base:   Surrender Believed To Be Only Way Russia Will Allow Finns’ Peace

Assurance Given by Russia Th at Soviet Has No Drastic Designs on Finnish Territory But That Red Forces Want To Use All Sea and Air Bases and Communication Facilities—Negotiations on in Stockholm

RUSSIA REPORTED  TO HAVE MADE PEACE  TERMS KNOWN FINNS NO DRASTIC TERRITORIAL ~ DESIGNS, BUT FINLAND  Baile ® ClIDDENALCD

Reds Claim No Desire For Any of Finnish Territory   HINT PEACE TERMS SENT

Finns Told * They Must  _ Surrender   Russia’s. Armistice Terms Said to Have Been Sent to Helsinki Today   NO GREAT DESIGNS Woe. ON “TERRITORY   _ But:All- Sea and Air Bases * Must Be Yielded to Reds “- for Duration

Reds Offer Easy Terms To Finland   Ceding of Petsamo, Use of Bases Made Peace Requisites

Reds Ask Finland For Unconditional Surrender and Use of Air-Sea Bases

RED-FINNISH PEACE TALKS ARE- REPORTED   Helsinki Leader Said to Have Conferred With  ! Soviet Minister to Sweden—Moscow Terms Reported Presented.

FINLAND TOLD REDS MAKE NO HARSH TERMS   Unofficial Reports $ Say Russia Demands Petsamo, Occupation of Rail, Air and Sea Bases   EARLY TRUCE SEEN   Unconditional Surrender Would Include Pledge German Troops in Finland Not Escape

SOVIETS SAID TO HAVE GIVEN FINNS TERMS   Moscow Reported to Have Insisted She Has No Drastic Designs Upon Territory   SURRENDER DEMANDED

Finns Dicker With Russia; Peace Terms  Are Outlined   Hopes ‘For ‘Accord Believed Possible

MOSCOW DEMANDS AR, SEA BASES AS ARMISTICE PRICE   Unconditional Surrender and Disarmament Part of Saviet Terme

REPORT SOVIETS ADVISE FINLAND ‘OF PEACE TERMS   UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER AND BASES DEMANDED

Only Unconditional Surrender To Be Acceptable If Finland Wants Peace, Soviet Reports Hint

Unconditional Surrender, Russian Terms   Soviets Have No Designs on Finnish Territory

PEACE TERMS SENT TO REDS, RUMORS CLAIN   Quick End to Finland's Part in War Seen in }uropean Quarters

Hopes Of Finn, Russ Pact Grow   Washington Official: More Optimistic

600-Mile Jump Puts Americans Within 150 Miles Of: — City Of Manila

LONDON, (U.P)—Radio Cairo reported today that Red Army troops had crossed the Bulgarian frontier.

SMITH, GARAWAY ARE LOSERS   Rival Political Spokesmen Debate Significance Of Primary Results

Senators Smith And Caraway Suffer Defeats.   Washington Politicians Differ :as to Effect On Southern ‘Revolt’

Southern Poll Results Stir Capital Seers   Cotton Ed Smith, Hattie W. Caraway Fail, Complete Returns Indicate; Defeats Cut Into Democratic Roster

Char ‘oe Y oung  Deis With Killing Niece   Parents Find Child’s Body, Cut And Bruised

Youth Admits Killing Sister's Small Daughter   ing Knife  Ski 7 Used by Bo  With Police  ‘ecord

GIRL, 9, KNIFED BOY, 15, IS HELD   Note Found Near Body Says ‘1 Am Kill Crazy’

YOUTH CONFESSES KNIFE SLAYING OF 5-YEAR OLD GIRL   15-YEAR OLD BOY WAS IN CHARGE OF SISTER’S CHILDREN

KILL CRAZY, MURDER NOTE BY BODY SAYS   Killer Delinquency Case on Probation Left in Care of 4 Children.

BOY CONFESSES KILLING GIRL, 5   Had Been Released on Probation to Sister

MAY HAVE SPECIAL CARS   Presidential  and Vice-Presidentiat Candidates Given Privilezve !

Three Superforts Bomb Tokyo in  Before-Dawn Raid  All of Main Island Blacked Out; No Opposition Seen

TOKYO WAS BOMBED BEFORE DAWN TODAY   Three Saipan-Based Super. fortresses Made the Attack Today.

U.S. Doughboys Clamp Pincers On Leyte Enemy   B29°s Again Over Tokyo: Mindoro Yanks Gain; Chinese Attack Hochih

Yanks Drive Forward On West Leyte   Town Of Valencia ls Reported To Have Been Taken

SUPERFORTS RIP TOKYO TARGETS   Three B-29’s in Attack—Fires Started — Anti-aircraft Fire Light

Three Saipan-Based Superforts Observe Fires After Dropping Bombs.   JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK

TOKYO BOMBED EARLY TODAY BY SUPERFORTS   Fires Seen After Planes Drop Ten Bombs On City

3 B:29 BOMBERS LASH AT TOKYO   SUPERFORT CREWS FIND BLACKOUT ON ISLAND OF HONSHU

PRE-DAWN BOMBING   All of Honshu Blacked Out as B-29s Strike Again at Tokyo

P. c. A. MEETING AT - ’ LUTHERAN HALL ON  NOVEMBER THE 18TH   Talks, Luncheon And Other . En: tertainment Arranged For Meetine.

p. C. A, MEETING AT LUTHERAN: HALL ON NOVEMBER THE 18T!   Talks, Luncheon And Other: En tertainment Arranged For WMoaatinge. —

Reds Plug Nazi Escape Route Trapping 250,000   Germans Make Token Resistance Against Plunging Army

Louis D. Myers  Made Defendant  In Divorce Case. Suits Entered F or  Estate Partition — And Pacaeaeinan  

Louis D. Myers. Made Defendant In Divorce Case.  Suits Entered For - Estate: Partition - And Possession

ROBOT BOMBS STILL RAINING.ON ENGLANC   Sky Over Channel Dotted With Speeding Weapons—Londoners by Thousands Leave Cliv_

Destruction Of Luftwaffe Declared Near   Official Statement of Allies Tells of  Results Achieved

Allied Campaign To Smash Germar Airforce Hits Top   Luftwaffe Daily Growing Weaker

Allies Say Air Assault Successful   German Plan To Resist By More Output Smashed

CAMPAIGN 10 KILL AIRFORCE SUCCESSFUL   Joint British - American Statement Details Strategy and Progress of Campaign.  el   Costly Fight

U.S. Bombers . Hit 7 Targets ‘In Day Assault   RAF Blasts Dusseldorf,  Brunswick, Mannheim; 2 ee: Bin eee

BATTLE ON GERMAN AIR FORCE SUCCESS      British - American  Statement Says Air Campaign  Fruition.

DRIVE SUCCESS   Allied Leaders Say Effort To Destroy Luftwaffe  Nearing Fruition

British, U. S. Warships Go To Russia In Deal   Present Plan Calls For Transfer Of Units To Russian Operation For Duration; Italian  “Fleet Remains In Mediterranean.

DISPERSAL OF FLEET CLEARED   Will Transfer British, U. $ Ships to Russia, Leave - ftalian Intact.

Italian Fleet To Stay In Mediterranean Sea; Move To Strengthen Route To Murmansk

RUSSIA MAY GET SHIPS FROM HS.   Allies May Keep ltalian Fleet In Mediterranean

British-U.S. Naval Units To Russia?   Pending Deal May Transfer Vessels to Reds for Duration, As Share of Italian Fleet

Russia May Get Allied Warships   More Than a Dozen British and American Vessels, Plus a Score of Other Naval Craft to Be Assigned Moscow For Duration Under Present Plan.   ITALIAN FLEET INTACT

British-American Warships Will Go  to Russia in Deal   Real Story Shows Italian Navy to Remain in Mediterranean

Russia To Get _ Many Warships   U. S. AND BRITISH TO "HELP, SOVIET NAVY

British, U.S. Ships Go To Reds In Fleet Deal: Healy’ s Fleet May Stay In Mediterranean

AMERICAN, BRITISH SURFACE. WARSHIPS MAY BE SENT RUSSIA  ITALIAN FLEET MAY BE LEFT RELATIVELY INTAC] IN MEDITERRANEAN

AConun tinued On Rage Four) BRITISH AND U. S. SHIPS WILL BE  GIVEN RUSSIA      Naval Experts Assert Jap Fleet Retains Great Power

Cause Of Confusion Over Italian Fleet Exp  DOZEN ALLIED WARSHIPS MAY BE ASSIGNED TO THE SOVIET

U. S., BRITISH SHIPS MAY GO TO RUSSIANS   ‘Apparent Unlikelibood of Geiting Dalian Ships Into Black Sea  Bears on Transfer of Vessels   DEAL UNDER STUDY   Ships Going io Russia Likely to he Used on Murmansk Route, Perhaps Later Against Japs

Part Of New Plan To Avoid. Italian” Fleet Dispersal —      ern: Supply Route. Te Murmansk—-QverDoz: en War Ships and Other Nav “il Cralt: Considered:

British and American Warships May Be Assigned to Russians   Deal Now Pending for Disposal of Italian Fleet Would Leave It Virtually Intact In Mediterranean, Transferring Other Ships

Italian Fleet Need In Home Waters Seen;  Deal On Fire   FDR Aired Plan As Initial News Break

Russia May Get British, ~ USS. Vessels   Italian Fleet May Be Left  In. Mediterranean For ~The Duration

Russia May Get British AndU.S. Warships   Italian Fleet Is Likely To Be Kept Intact For Duty In Mediterranean

Transfer of Over Dozen British, U.S. Warships To Russia May Be Made

DEAL PENDING 10 TRANSFER NAVAL UNITS TO RUSSIA  BRITAIN, U. S. MAY ASSIGN SHIPS BUT

American, British Warships May Be Assigned To Reds   Duration Plan Leaves Italian Fleet Intact

Reds May Get Allied Ships  May Be Assigned British-U. S. Ships In Pending Deal   Don’t Talk Post-War Talk To Men On Fighting Front

RUSSIA TO GET ALLIED WARSHIPS FORUSEIN WAR   Assignment of Units From British and Ameri: can Navy Now Planned

Russia Will Get American And British Ships In  Lieu Of Part Of Italian Fleet. It Is Believed

And British Ships   Pending Deal Contemplates Assigning tc Russia, for Duration, a Dozen Warships and Score of Other Naval Craft.

Accused Soldier Claims Insanity   Relatives Tell Of Hic Mental 1 ancec

Reds Resume .Big Drive on Budapest   Attacks From the Southeast Seek to Encircle City

Russians 11 Miles Of Miskole City   Report Fighting Nea Cegled, 35 Miles Of Hungary Capital

All-Out Russ Offensive On  Budapest—F oe   Strike To Within 11 Miles Of Miskole; Hungary) Fifth City.   SEIZE JASZLADANY

Russian Troops Resume Powertu Southeast Drive   Soviets Within Forty-Three Miles Of Bloody Budapest

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON BUDAPEST   Ankara Reports Streef Fighting In Part Of Hungarian Capital

Attack On Budapest IsRenewed   Rail Junction Captured Above City In New Threat

Reds Resume Strong Drive   Set Out to Encircle Budapest, Fighting Through Knee-Deep Mud

FIGHTING HEAVY “BELOW BUDAPEST   GERMAN MANS. AND RUSSIANS “-XOCKED IN. BATTLE FIVE “MILES FROM CAPITAL.

' Berlin Terms Russian Push All-Out Offensive “Aimed. ot! ‘Eneircling ‘Mungeorian. Capital

RUSSIAN TROOPS IN FRESH GAINS   Secret Device Enables B-29's To Locate Targets in Omura and Shanghai

Soviet Army Again Drives to Budapest   Expand Division Between Large Cities: See Winter Campaign

SOVIETS RESUME BUDAPEST DRIVE   Powerful Thrust South of City Moves Closer

Soviet Threat To Budapest Gets Greater   Another Hungarian City Menaced by Advancing Russians

Soviets Take Rail Junction In Southeast   Germans Admit Budapest Defenders Face Defeat — Tito’s Partisans Are Active

RUSSIAN TROOPS POUND AT NAZIS IN BALTIC TRA   .  Swift Soviet Advance In ’ Latvia and Estonia to - Baltic Sea Cuts O* Es* cape Route.   REDS ONLY 10 MILES FROM PREWAR BORDER   U. $. 8th Army Gains Below Florence; Tokyo Reports Landings on Rota, Guam Jans Under Attack.

TROOPS FORM 20-MILE ARC BEFORE CITY   Northeast of Polish Capital, Soviets Reopen Drive Toward East Prussia, and Are Neat Pre-war Frontier.

300,000 NAZIS CUT OFF BY RED RIGA GULF PUSH   Soviets Push From Jelgava; Clear Kaunas, Battle in Warsaw Suburb

Russia Begins Big Drive On  East Prussia   Thousands of Germans Are Trapped in Baltic Iron Ring

JAPS THROWN BACK IN TWO SECTORS   Forced to Retreat Im Asia and in Dutch New Guinea

Allies Report Gains On Asia Mainland And Biak Island; Two Nip Ships Sunk

WASHINGTON, March 4. (AP) — The Supreme Court rejected today a last-minute legal maneuver by counsel for Louis (Lepke) Buchalter to save the one-. time chief of Murder, Ine.. from execution tonight.

*Larger House For Missouri ls Turned Down   ¢: Con Con Rejects Plan Fostered By the Cities

Gen.Giraud  Is Retired   The 65-Year-Old Leader Refused to Accept An “Honorary Post”

General Giraud Bows To Action  Of De Ganiiter:   Believed: Ready To Leave North Africa To Take Up Quarters In Britain

AFL LEADER HITS: _ BASE WAGE RATE   Woll Contends Increase Needed to Remedy Joblees Outinok

100 JAPANESE PLANES HIT IN AIRFIELD RAID   Land-Based Bombers Strike in Manila Area, Catch Nips Napping.

100 ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   First Major Assault By Land Planes In Three Years Made

Jap Planes Are Bombed On Ground   Only Nine Fighters Rise To Protect Jap Air Base.

LAND-BASED PLANES RAID MANILA AREA   Smash 100 Japanese Planes Grounded On Clark Field

KNOX WARNS OF FIGHT TO COME   SECRETARY OF NAVY SAYS HARDEST PART OF WAR LIES AHEAD

~—-KNOX SEES GRIM DAYS—  Favors Dratting Worker   NAVY SECRETARY BELIEVES SERVICE LAW INSURANCE AGAINST INDUSTRIAL SLUMP

Knox Warns Agair  Of Hardest  Fighting to Come Navy Secretary Says  National Service Bill Very Desirable

Navy Chief Urges Labor Draft to Avert Production Slump, Speed Pacific Victory

KNOX WARNS OF _ HEAVY LOSSES   Hardest Fighting In History of Nation Lies Just Ahead, He Says

Enactment Of Service Law I:  Urged by Kno»   Says Law ‘Would Provide Tnsorance Against ‘Slump In Production To Imperil Pacific Warfare’

Hardest Battles Lie Ahead Says Secretary Knox   Cabinet Member Urges Approval Of Labor Draft

‘Nation’s Most Bitter Fighting Lies Ahead   Casualty Lists Pouring Into Every State, Knox Says

KNOX ADVISES LABOR DRAFT   Warns Hardest Fighting U.S. Has Ever Seen Yet To Come

Labor Draft Is Urged by Secy. Knox      Hardest Fighting Is Ahead, Lawmakers Told

GOP Sweep Seen As Overwhelminc In Early Report   Two (lO Candidates Concede They Lost

Maine Republicans Beat Cl0-Backed  Democratic Rivals  Concede Governorship; Three Congressional Aspirants Far Ahead

Aerial Attack Goes Into 26th Straight Day   Fierce Struggles Waged Over Alps; RAF Loses 7 Planes

2,000 PLANES ESTIMATED IN LATEST RAIDS   Air Force ‘Heavies’ of Mediterranean Units  Help in Attacks

Temperatures   U. S. Planes From Italy Follow ‘Heavies’ of R.A.F.

Aerial Assaults From Two Sides Again Hit Hitler   Sky Armadas by Thous ands Blast Germany and France Today

Pre-Invasion Aerial Offensive Goes Into 26th Day Planes Based In Mediterranean Land Blows In Balkans And Southern Europe   Over Channel

Yank Airmen Again Smash Nazi Targets   Raids Follow Night Attacks by the RAF on Berlin ond Paris

Both Berlin, Paris Hit in Night Attacks   Reports Bucharest Bembed, Ai Battles Over Alps Indicate Beal Blews Again Teday

NAZI DEFENSES POUNDED AGAIN   More Than 3,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Targets in Europe.   'AERIAL BATTLE VIOLENT

Planes from Britain Carry Offensive Into 28th Day; Weather Clear

Ten-Point Program Offered To Shift Industries Back To Produce For Civilians

RECONVERSION CZAR ADVANCED AS PLAN POSTWAR INDUSTRY  CALIFORNIA CONGRESSMAN HAS TEN-POINT PROCRAM IN MIND

Reconversion Czar Proposed To Guide Chanae-Over From War To Peace Productio.

Czar Sought for Change-Over to Peace From War   10-Point Program Proposed to Avert Confusion

Thailand Is Target For U.S. Bombers   Drop Big Load Upon Lampang

China Presents Major Problem At Quebec Talks   President, Churchill Call Military Chiefs After Opening Parley

FDR, Churchill Confer With Military Chiefs   Statesmen Map Crushing Defeat For Axis, With Emphasis on War With Tanan. Orient Problems

Roosevelt, Churchill Also Face Difficult Political International Questions

Daily Temperature:   U. S. Accuses Japan of Delaying Repatriation of Captured Americans

Jap Exchange Delays Hit   U.S. Accuses Tokyo OF Violating Geneva Pact Agreements -

Japan Accused of Delaying Return of U. S. Prisoners   Fail te Expedite Shipment of Relief Supplies to Japan

Japan Accused Of Delaying Repatriation   State Dept. Points Out Violation of Geneva  Convention Treatv

F.D.R. 10 SAVE ON INAUGURATION   TO TAKE OATH OF OFFICE ON WHITE HOUSE PORCH

Back Porch Pledge to Cost Taxpayers  $2,000, FDR Figures   Switch From Capitol Building Expected to Save $20,000 Expense

INAUGURATION TO BE SIMPLE   Cost to Be $2,500, Presi: dent Figures on Saving Of $20,000.

F_D.R.TO TAKE 4TH TERM OATH AT WHITE HOUSE  PRESIDENT FIGURES HE HAS BIG JOKE

Inaugural Of Roosevelt Will Be Simplified   President to Step Out On Back Porch Of White House io Take Oath To Save Money

F ull Quebec Story Later      Will Unfold in War Bulletins From Pacific: Churchill Leaves

ENN hSbhedke Soke dD Y baa? Vere  Pacific War Decisions Are Awaited   FDR SAYS COMMUNIQUES OF VICTORIES TO COME FROM FAR EAST LEADERS

Churchill] Leaves Conference City      Prime Minister Entrains A Quebee For Undisclosed Destination

COMMUNIQUES OF PACIFIC WAR ARE TO UNFOLD STORY   Churchill Leaves Quebec and ----Complete_Unamimity. of ~... Action Expected

» Churchill Quits. Canada Scene  ad Quebec Meeting End:  I eepwiax tee 2 bey.

RATIONING OF FARM MACHINERY ENDED   Distribution Control Ends for All Equipment Except Corn Pickers.

BUTTER RATION VALUE HOISTED TO 20 POINTS   OPA Says Increase Made Necessary Because Of Drop In Production   OTHER FOOD UNCHANGED   Hope Voiced That Order May Produce Increased Civilian Supplies

arm Machines Now Removed  Irom Rationing   WEA Suddenly Takes All Equipment Except Corn Pickers From List. OPA Learns

End Rationing of Farm Machinery  ‘Amnle Maree nteblewe   ‘Only Cornpickers Are Left on List By WEA Order

End Rationing Of All Farm Machinery  Controls Over Corn Pickers Beins Retained

Farm Machinery Rationing Ends   Only Corn Pickers To Be Rationed As Controls hin Envaead.

Farm Machinery Rationing tnded   Only Corn Pickers Still Contro!led

Rationing Of Farm Machinery Ended By WFA   Corn Pickers Still Under Distribution Control By Agency

FARM MACHINE RATIONING ENDS   Only Corn Pickers Remain Subject to Distribution Control

FARM MACHINE RATIONING ENDS   Continue Controls Only on  Corn Pickers

Felon Candidate--a Good Chiseler--Urges 5-Cent Parole and Demobilization of FBI

TWENTY-FOUR BOYS ESCAPE FROM SCHOOL   - All But Three Captured Soon After Break

24 Youths in Mass Escape From State  ~ School Last Night   Only Three Remain at ' Large Eight Hours - ‘After Break

STEWART PREDICTS GOP LEGISLATURE   Democr ati ae Candidate Shortage Cited

Paper Collection Begins Today  County United in Vital War Effort

Yankee Forces Jeopardize All  Nazi Positions   Fight Unequalled Since DDay On Outskirts Of Big River Port,  EIT CR INT COMAAANTHD

Parts of German Garrison Fleeing Defense Anchor   British Turn Loose Biggest Offense; Aim at Heart of France

Temperatures   British Launch Fiery Drive  Against Caen   Parts of Enemy Garrison Flee Doomed City Before Earth-Shaking Blasts -Of Artillery, Naval Guns and Planes

Force Nazi Units to Begin Retreat 15 Hours After New Offensive; Yanks Jeopardize Enemy Positions

Nazis Ready To Retreat From Caen   Hitler Reported Taking Command On West Front

Violent Battle Rages for Road to Paris   German Troops Flee Caen Before British Assault

BERLIN APPEARS PREPARING FOR "LOSS OF PORT’   U. S. Troops Seize St. Jean de Daye, Battle In Streets Of La — Haye du Puits

BiggestBattle Since D-Day Around  Caen  Yanks Take St. Jean de Daye and Sweep Seuth in Three Spearheads  § TOWNS CAPTURED  Rommel’s Tanks Kept Too Scattered to Mount Real Counterattack

DOOMED PORT HAMMERED BY BRITISH GUNS   GERMAN POSITIONS ALL MENACED BY YANK ADVANCE

NAZIS PREPARE TO RETREAT 10 SHORTEN FRONT   Americans Jeopardize Enemy Positions at West of Front

Americans Launch Three Blows Southward From Cherbourg Peninsula Which Endanger All German Positions

Violent Battle For ‘Town Follows After Heavy Bombardment   Allied Drive Aimed At Heart of France, Rommel Outgeneraled And Begins Pulling Units From City

Drive Aimed At France’s Heart Begun By English   Heavy Weapons Used; ‘Some Nazis . Fleeing”  .

British Force Issue in Caen Offensive   Report German Troops Flee Before Artillery Blasts on the City

Tommies Clash With Enemy In Caen Outskirts   Report Germans Now Moving Back, Planning To Shorten Line; U. S. Forces Striking Hard

Armies Join in Great Line Across France   200-Mile Assault Lashes at Hilter’s Famed “West Wall” as Allies Liberate Luxembourg and Run Into Increasing German Opposition

MMERRICITE AMG NEWLY ORD  MONG AINED   Rev. Fr. Hoffmann Will Read First Mass Tues; av. April 29

Edward Hoffman  Ordained Priest. To Celebrate First  - Mass At Home Church

Edward Hoffman  Enters Priesthood  Will Celebrate First Mass At Ellendale

Congress Ur o coed To Retain Verchant Marin e Control   Colorado Senator Opposes Delegating Disposal Authority To Any Executive Ageney; Same Treatment Urged For Vast Aircraft

Johnsen Demands Congress Hold Postwar Control  Delegating Agencies Authority Gets Blast From Solon

URGE CONGRESS BE FINAL JUDGE ON DISPOSAL MATTERS   Sen. Johnsen Would Give Congress FPestwar Coatrol of U. 5S. Merchant Marine and Air Ferce Instead of An Agrency

‘Democrats Win For Fifth Time Without South   Could Not Have Maintain. ed Congress Majorities . Without Below Mason Dixon Line Aid

DEMOCRATS COULD HAVE WON THE PRESIDENCY WITHOUT THE SOLID SOUTH LATEST TABULATIONS SHOW

Fifth Victory Without the  Solid South   Some Polticians Surprised F.D.R. Would Have Won Four Times Without South

‘Democrats Win Election Without ‘Help of South   Fifth Time Since Civil War: Fourth Time for FDR That Vote in North Tops Electoral Couni

3 Jap. Warships Sunk in Attack   Knox Says Subs" Also Goi 14 Enem

Arnhem Sky Troops Rank With Great   REPORTER TELLS STORY OF SHELLING ENDURED BY LITTLE STRONGHOLD

MUNCH TARGET FOR THIRD DAY   1,000 Bombers in Hard Blow; North Italy Oil, Rail Centers Hit.   SSAARBRUCKEN BOMBED

OFFICER FACES DEATH PENALTY   LaCrosse, Wis., Lieut. To Stand Court Martial In Triple Killing

OFFICER FACES COURT-MARTIAL   Death Before Firing Squad Penalty If Defendant Convicted of Shootings

Lieut. Swancutt On Trial Monday  Faces Firing Squad If Convicted Of Murders

AMERICANS CAPTURE BUZZ BOMB FACTORY   Plant 350 Feet Below Surface of Small-Sized Mountain in French Town of Thil,

Final Assault On Warsaw ls Imminent   Russians Warn Germans Will Put up Last Ditch Battle

Final Soviet Assault On Warsaw Imminent As  Suburbs Are Penetrated

DRIVE ON ROMANIA BY SOVIET ARMIES   Nazis Report Offensive As Final Assault On Warsaw Seems Near

New Assault Launched With Strong Support From Stormovik Attack Planes, Ploesti Oil Fields Goal   LAST QUIET SECTOR PLUNGED IN BATTLE

Reds Launch he Against Romanian Oi!   Believe Ploesti Fields Goal of New Move By Russians

QUVET OPEN DELAYED Puan FOR ROMAN!   Stormviks Precede Drive to Take Bucharest and Oilfields.

BUCHARES! ALSO TARGE} OF SOVIFTS   Russians May Outtlank Warsaw In New Battle

THINK SOVIETS’ FINAL WARSAW ASSAULT NEAR   One Red Army Slashe: Into Suburbs, Another Flanking City

Reds Drive On Balkans   New Offensive Believed To Be Aimed At Bucharest And Ploesti Fields

D-Day Prayer Issued: Bishop Tucker Asks All Americans To Appeal fo God in Darkest Hour

Capture Sari and 100 Other Localities; Berlin Admits Situation Critical.   Heavy Losses

Critical Situation in Hungary Acknowledged by Germans —   Axis Positions Smashed Only Seven Miles Outside Of Budapest, Reds Say

‘SOVIET TROOPS ONLY 7 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   Civil Warfare And Wide. spread Looting Reported Ik Hungarian Capital   PANICKY CIVILIANS ARE EVACUATING CITY

Reds Within Seven Miles Of Budapest   Civilians Fleeing From City in Panic

Soviet troops crush axis positions seven miles from Budapest   Terming situation ‘critical,’ nazis take to trenches at edve of canital

Soviets Crush Resistance Nei ear ir Budapest  ~. PF.   » Russians Are Only Seven Miles From That Capital

SOVIETS PUSH WITHIN SIGHT OF BUDAPEST   Revolution Started in Hungarian Capital, Reports Say

Soviets Crush Resistance Near Budapest   » Russians Are Only Seven Miles From Thet Capital

Struggle for Budapest Is  Commencing  Axis Armies Are Forced Back to Edge of Big City

REDS SMASH AXIS DEFENSES 7 MILES OUTSIDE BUDAPEST   Germans and Hungarians Take Positions in HastilyDug Trenches on Edge of Capital.   PANICKY CIVILIANS ’ REPORTED IN FLIGHT   Unverified Reports Spread That Looting and Civil Warfare Have Broken Out . in Citv.

Warehousemen, in Historic Vote. Urge Other West Coast Labor Organizations To Do Likewise

LONGSHOREMEN NOT TO STRIKE FOR DURATION   Strike Weapon Is Overboard  For Present

Crisis Mounts With General Strike, Battles   Martial Law and Curfew Placed in Effect

OPEN BATTLES GRIP. ATHENS; ULTIMATUMS   Served on Armed Men of Leftist EAM as Crisis Mounts in Greek Capital.   “long Live Roosevelt”

Ultimatum To Quit ‘Area Served on Men of EAM By Military..Governor

STRIKE, OPEN BATILE MARKS GRECIAN DAY   State Of Civil War Grips New Liberated Nation As Bullets Punctuate Disarm Order

LEFTISTS GET ULTIMATUM T0 LEAVE ATHENS   General Strike Called And Violence Grows In Greek Crisis

ARMED EAM BANDS GIVEN ULTIMATUM   Leftist Groups Are Ordered to Leave Athens   CRISIS MOUNTS   Violence Spreads After Demonstrations; Strike Adds To Uproar in Greece

OPEN FIGHTS GRIP ATHENS; MANY STRIKI   Armed Leftist. Bands Or. dered to Quit Greek Capital

ULTIMATUM GIVEN ~ GREEK LEFTISTS   ARMED GROUP IS ORDERED 79 LEAVE ATHENS AS CRISIS MOUNTS.

Greek Leftists Banned in Athens  As Troubles Grow  Fighting Breaks Out Again; Strike Cuts Utility Services

Greek Leftist: Ordered From Athens   Violence Spreads After Slayings In Sunday Rioling

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Prime Minister Brings Britain Into line With U.S. on French Matter

Stettinius  Takes Oath  Only Langer’s Vote P= URN SS Site renege .. ARR ASe tema” Tiirgseneenligm

Albert B. Fall Dead   CENTRAL FIGURE IN TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL SUCCUMBS AT 83; ILL FOR MANY YEARS

DEATH RECALLS GREAT SCANDAL      ALBERT 8 FALL “WAS THE STORM CENTER

Albert Fall, Former Interio Chief, Dies   Convicted in ‘29 For Taking Bribe in Teapot Dome Scandal

Fall, Figure In Bribe, Dies   Former Secretary of Interior Linked With Famous Teapot Dome Case

Albert Fall Passes Away AtEl Paso   Insisted History Would Cleer Name

ALBERT B, FALL  DIES IN EL PASO   Ex-Seoretary Central. Figure in Teapot Dome Scandal

Fall Dies At Age Of 83   Former Secretary In Hospital Two Years.

Albert B. Fall Dies in El Paso At Age of 83   Former Cabinet Member Convicted In Teapot Dome Case

ALBERT B, FALL DIES IN. TEXAS   Former Interior Secretary Figured In Oil Scandal

Leading Figure In Teapot Dome Scandal Dies   Ex-Secretary of Interior Maintains Innocence to End

ALBERT B. FALL DIED YESTERDAY   Death Recalls Teapot Dome Oil Scandal

DEATH TAKES ALBERT FALL   Central Figure in the Teapot Dome Affair

Albert Fall.  Passes Away   Was Leading Figure “In Harding Scandal

DEATH CLOSES TRAGIC CAREER OF ALBERT FALL   Teapot Dome Scandal Ruined Ex - Official

DEATH TAKES — __ ALBERT FALL   KEY FIGURE IN-TEAPOT DOME CASE DIED LATE YESTERDAY » IN TEXAS HOSPITAL»

Death Claims Albert B. Fall   Harding's Secretary Of Interior Succumbs

FORMER L. C. CABINET MEMBER, CENTER OF TEAPOT DOME ROW, LONG INVALID, DIES IN EL P4SO

TEAPOT DOME PPINT'IPAT DIES   WAS’ PROSPECTOR, RANCH HAND, TEACHEK, LAWYER

Long Illness — Brings Death ' To Fall, 83   Central Figure In Teapot Dome. ‘Séandal Sue. ‘cumbs In Texas

Albert R. Fall, Central Figure i in Teapot Dome Oil Scandal, Dead

Pernts Fuost Peau  Neer of faterior Al. —- Served Time in Peotient for Part Ue Played in Notorious ‘Teapot Dome and YH Mill OF Seandal

Sen. Truman Has It All Figured Out  If Elected To  Vine Vaneid an gear

A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA   Bite of Snake Proves Fatal to Bellevue Girl

Nation Pledges 19 Billions To Press The War      Sixth Drive Is Hailec As Great Succes: As All Quotas Are Surpassed

PREDIGTS Th DRIVE TOTALS OF 19 BILLION   Morgenthau Says E Bond Sale May Reach Quota of Five Billion.

Nation Shows Solidarity in Bond Report   Morgenthau Predicts Sixth War Loan To Pass 19 Billion

END MYSTERY OF STH ARMY   Guessing Game Provide Headache for Germans

ROOSEVELT TO MAKE ONE MORE TALK   Boston Speech Only Major Address Left

FDR Enters Final Week Of Campaign   Bids For Business Support ‘In Address At Soldier Field.

PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK IN NEW ENGLAND STATES      Journey Ended Included Twe Night Speeches In Raw Weather

F. D. R. Expected to Wind Up Campaign With Boston Talk   Ry LYLE C. WILSON

ROOSEVELT’S TOUR INTENDED 10 SHOW ‘STATE OF HEALTH   Visits New England, May Speak This Week At Cleveland

CHANCES FADE FOR O10 TALK BY ROOSEVELT   Presidential Secretary Early Indicates Boston Speech Will End Cam ’ waian Saturday.

FDR Boston Speech Sole  Appearance   Campoign Train Returns to Capital After Speeches in Six Key States

Plain of Imphal Held by Allies   Mountbalien Moves His Headquarters

Dewey Backers See Nomination On Early Ballot   Jubilant Over Willkie Withdrawal; Await His Plans

Dewey Backers Encouraged by Wisconsin Vote   Hope for Willkie's Support of Ticket

Dewey Victory Claim Is Made   Backers Set New Yorker Chetan atc Chinn

ey Supporters ict Victory Early Ballott   Question in Washington Now Is Whether fikie Will Support GOP Choice; Dewey Yin Lion’s Share of Wisconsin Delegates

DEWEY’S STOCK IS GREATLY BOOSTED   Supporters Predict Nomi- nation of New York Governor

Dewey aides see easy win at convention  Stassen groups expect support

Rumors Scored By Roosevelt   Refuses to Admit Nelson, Bowles Reassignmenis

Roosevelt Hits At Talk Nelson To Succeed Byrnes   President Refuses To Discuss Future  Of WPB Chief

Red Armies Pour into Estonia and  Drive on to Latvia   2h Milo Front Set up belween Gulf of Finland and Peipus

REDS POURING INTO ESTONIA      Assault Developing on Historie: Narva — Powerful Offensive ig Launched Toward Latvia, _

RED FORCES POUR INTO ESTONIA IN ENVELOPING MOVE   While Armies Sweep Along Qld Invasion Route te Warsaw, Germans Admif Additional Losses.   YANKEES HAVE ABOUT ENCIRCLED CASSINO   Wilhelmshaven Naval Bas¢ Is’ Bombed By 110€ Planes In Third Assault Unon Reich In Week.

RUSSO- POLISH CRISIS SEEN AS RED ARMY DRIVES AHEAD   AMERICAN AND BRITISH GOVERNMENTS ATTEMPTING TO * BRING ABOUT AN AGREEMENT

Byrnes Urges More Idle Aid   Would Help Ease Unemployment When Peace Returns

Byrnes Says Government Must Help Ease Unemployment in Peace Time

PLANES DAMAGE CRUISER IN PACIFIC   Indications Appear Nipponese Warships Will Battle Rather Than Yield More Territory

TOKYO FLEET MAY HAVE 10 VENTURE OUT   CHINESE CAPTURE FOOTHOLD ON BURMA ROAD

WHY HITLERITE CHANGED HIS MIND  Loves Fatherland, So He'll Fight Nazis

Confirmed Follower of Hitler Changes His Ideas   Re FRICH VERMERREN

HEAVY BATTLE FLARES ALONG DUTCH “LANE   Find Newly-Constructed Defenses From Which Germans Waging Determined Resistance

STATE “BACCY” ~ GROP WIHTHELE   Eastern Raisers Holding 37 Million Pounds for Better Prices

Russians Hurl Nazis Across Norwegian Frontier 17 Miles From Key Naval Base

Other Russian Forces Reach the Niemen ) . River  GAINS SCORED IN  EASTERN HUNGARY  Seizure of Nation's 12th  City Is) An  nounced {

Russians Advance On 40-Mile Front In East Prussia   Within 17 Miles Of City of Tilsif

SOVIETS PUSH INTO NORWAY, SEIZE MINES   Other Red Forces Report Shelling City Of Tilsit

Nazi troops sent reeling  into Norway  Arctic.units drive foe from England

Reds Drive To Frontier Of Norway,  Seize Mines   Berlin Announces Sovicts Now 21 Miles Inside East Prussia: And Shelling Tilsit  GAIN IN HUNGARY

‘Three New Allied Drives Jolt Nazis         Reds at Norwegian Border After Sweep Through Finland”   British at Gate To Dardanelles

Reds Hurl Enemy Over Wide Front   Near Nazi Neval Base --As Other Soviet Crews Shell  mek og

Ho Ying-Chin Put ‘on Spot’   U, §. Wants Chiang’s Minister of War Out

Russians Score Advances In Lake Region Despite German Resistance

Soviets Face Stiff Going   Geramns Increase Their Resistance as Russians Adavnce Toward Pskov

NAZIS STIFFEN AGAINST REDS IN PSKOV DRIVE   Soviets Develop New Threat on City in Push from Northwest

NAZIS BOLSTER STAND IN RED DRIVE ON PSKOV   Germans Stitfen Resistance to Soviet Drive on City from Two Directions.

Reds Meeting Resistance About Pskov; Take Samolva   New Threat Looming To Trunk Railways

D ARMY MET RESISTANCE IN ITS DRIVE ON PSKOV   Northwest of City, However, Soviet Troops Developed a New Threat.   IS A DANGEROUS ONE   rhe City Is an Anchor of the German Defense System in That Area.

Russians Meet Ever Growing Nazi! Resistance On Unfolding Pskov Path 

Russian Advance Slowed   Resistance Grows Near Pskov; New Threat Develops.

Reds Launch Fresh Threat Against Pskov   New Force Moving Along Railroad and Hiahway Toward Riga

RED ARMY MEETING STIFF RESISTANCE IN PSKOV SECTOR    RUSSIANS IN TWO-WAY DRIVE UPON GREAT COM. MUNICATIONS CENTER

NAZIS RETARD RUSSIAN PUSH ON RAIL CITY   Soviet Troops Meeting More Resistance as  Pskov Is Neared

NAZIS INCREASE RESISTANCE TO SOVIET ARMY   Germans Trying Too Des. perately to Stave Off De. feat in Vicinity of Pskov

Russians Putting Squeeze On Pskov, Communications Hub Used By Nazis

NAZIS STIFFEN BEFORE PSKOV   Reds Push Ahead Thru ‘Desperate German Forces

NAZIS SHOW MORE FIGHT NEAR PSKOV   Increase Resistance as Red Columns Move From Two Directions Toward That Anchor of German Defenses.

Russian Troops Have Captured Town Of  Gamoalva    ON EASTERN SHORE  OF LAKE PEIPUS

Nazi Defenses More Stubborn   Reds Work Out New Threat To Important Base Of — Pskov, However

Russians Meet Increasing Nazi Strength   Communications Hub Of Pskov Next On Red Army List

Red Army Meels More Resistance Nearing Pskov   Soviet Troops: Develop New Threat To Trunk Railway

SOVIET ARMY MEETS GREAT NAZI FORCES   Germans Attempt New Offensive  In Border Drive

REDS DEVELOP  ANEW THREAT   Threaten Pskov-Riga Railway in Capture of Town Of Samolva.

Russians Press Drive on Pskov   Soviet Conquerors Of Town of Samolva Threaten Railroad

North Army Takes Town  Of Samolva In Fighting   Threat Developing To Major Trunk  Railway Line

MUVE UN Ul FROM TWO SIDES   By Advancing Reds  — TANK THRUSTS      Of Germans Thrown Back: Thousands Of Prisoners Are Taken

[Reds Meeting Resistance  Near Pskov   Germans Blowing -Up Communications, But “Reds. Develop. New Threat to City By Capturing Samolva To Imperil Pskov-Riga’ Rail  Way.

Soviets Forge New Threat to Nazis   Vitai Rail Line Is Menaced in Face of Stiffening Resistance

Reds Push ~ Closer to Rail Hub   Only 12; Miles From Pskov in Drive From Two Sides; Resistance. Increases   NAZIS BLOWING UP BRIDGES. HIGHWAYS   But Russians.Are Dodging Around Barriers to Attack Enemy.in Rear

Reds Meet Increasing Resistance   Russians Develop New Threat fo Pskov—-Nazis Say Attemp! fo Cross Lake Frustrated   SAMOLVA SEIZED      Yon Mannstein, Defeated in One Aitempt to Break Dnieper Trap, Launches New Thrusts

NAZI RESISTANCE. ~ ATP HON  erman Velenses      SAMOLVA CAPTURED   Sov iets Marching On  Communications Hub . From Two Directions. -

Police Rounding Up Many Persons, Including Some High in Argentine Society; Argentina Belatedly Lines Up With Rest of Hemisphere

Long Awaited Break With Germany, Japan Is Announced Today   Argentina Says Axis Fostered Network of Spices in Country

POLICE BUSY ROUNDING UP ESPIONAGE RING SUSPECTS   All Of 21 Republics In Western Hemisphere United Against Germany, Japan; President Ramirez Announces Change Of Policy

Rounds Up Leaders Of Big Spy Ring   Action Completes Solid Stand By Western Hemisphere Against Axis.

LAST 10 SEVER OF 21 REPUBLICS   President Ramirez Signs Decree Ending Diplomatic Relations  MANY ARE ARRESTED

DESIGNED AS MOVE TO END GERMAN ESPIONAGE IN _ WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND TO SAVE ARGENTINA’S “PRESTIGE AND HONOR”.

Argentina Breaks With Ayis Nations   Espionage Ring in Latin Country Uncovered

—ARGENTINA—  ESPIONAGE RING. ROUNDUP STARTS   Last Of 21 Republics In Americas To Sever ReTatinne   RAMIREZ TO SPEAK   German And Jap Ambassadors To Be Handed Passports At Once

Americas in Solid Stand Against Foe   Extensive Espionage Ring In Country Made Public at Same Time

Yankees Cross Rapido And Enter Cassino; Hospital Ship Is Sunk   250,000 Nazis Trapped; 54 Jap Planes Downed; Argentina - Axis Break

Argentina Breaks With  Axis Powers   Official Announcement Is Made By Foreign Minister Colonel Gilbert

ARGENTINE FINALLY SEVERED RELATIONS WITH AXIS NATIONS   ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWS LONG CONFERENCE; ROUNDING UP SPY RING

Argentina Breaks  With Axis Powers   Diplomatic Relations Severed With Germany and Japan by Nation

Final American Nation Ready   BELATED SOLID STAND COMPLETED IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ACTION ENDS LONG NIGHT OF GOVERNMENT LEADER CONFERENCES

REPORT POLICE HOLD MANY IN EXTENSIVE RING   , Solid Stand in West Hemisphere Against Axis Now Provided

ARGENTINA BREAKS OFF WITH AXIS, SEIZES SPIES   Scores of Nazi and Jap Agents Jailed; Society Members Caught in Police Net; Ambassadors to Get Passports Today

Police Investigate Big Espionage Ring, Round Up Suspects   President Ramirez Signs Decree; Issue Passports Immediately to German, Japanese Ambassadors

Argentina Breaks Relations With Axis Powers and Starts Rounding Up Big Spy Ring   Action Announced Wednesday Morning After Long Night of Conferences Among Leaders of President Ramirez’ Government

CHARGES SPY NETWORK IS OPERATED   Action Closes This Hemisphere To Axis Agents

Germany, Japan Lose ‘Last Friend In South America   After Connections Are Severed, President Ramirez Reveals Many Argentine Citizens Arrested in Espionage Ring Operating in Country.

Argentina Makes Decision To Break With Axis Because Of Abuse Of Privileges Being Used To Espionage United  Nations.

Buenos Aires Belatedly Joins Other Republics   Round-Up of Large Spy Ring Accompanies Action

AASENTIRA BREAKS RELATIONS WITH “GERMANY, JAPAR   Severad Diplomatic Relations With the Two Countries Today.   THE LAST ONE TO BREAK   Completes a Solid Stand by Western Hemisphere __ Against Axis.

Both Nazis And Japs Affected   ACTS OF AGGRESSION ARE ~ CHARGED; AMERICAS ARE NOW IN SOLID ANTI-AXIS BLOC -

Last Of 21 Republics In The Americas To Sever Relations; Diplomats Given Passports

German And Jap  Envoys To Receive ‘Their Passports   After Two Years.

Latin Nation Breaks With Axis —   Argentine Spy Ring Said Working Against Government

Move Is Seen As Effort To  ~ Regain Favor      Extensive Axis Spy Ring  Broken and Roundup Is In Progress

German and Japanese Ambassadors to Be Handed Their Passports Immediately; Break Follows Long Conference

LAST AMERICAN NATION SEVERS AXIS RELATIONS   German And Japanese Ambassadors Get Passports Today In Buenos Aires; Many Arrests Are Being Made Today.

Argentina Officially Breaks ~ Diplomatic Relations With Axis   Network of Spies in Ar. gentina Is Cause for Break With Axis.

ESPIONAGE RING MEMBERS ARE BEING SEIZED    Action Completes Solidarity Of Western Powers Against  Germany, Japan

All Of Westem Hemisphere Now In Solid Stand  Move Is Desioned   Move Is Designed To Smash Great age Ring

SOLID FRONT OF REPUBLICS WITH BELATED ACTION   Ramirez Signs Decree Ending Relations With Germany and Japan, Decision to Be Broadcasted.   POLICE ARRESTS OPEN DURING DISCUSSIONS   Action Occurs After Arrest of Consul Helmuth on Way to Spain, Held on Charge of Spvyina.

Latin-America Is Now United Against Axi   Enemy Sympathizers Are Being Rounded Up In Buenos Atres

Argentina Ends Diplomatic Ties with Germany, Japan   Spy Hunt Opened as Action Solidifies Western Hemisphere Against Axis — Washington Maintains Wait and See Attitude

ARGENTINA BREAKS DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH AXIS POWERS   Government Arrests Many Socialites Said to Be Spying For Nazis   LAST LISTENING POST

0S AIRES “ANNOUNCES THE ~~ FORMAL BREAK   Last Axis “Listening Post” fn Hemisphere Has Been Wined Out.

Ruthless Housecleaning of All Subversive Elements on The Two Continents May Be Next Step and Gaps Created by Axis Chiefs Will Be  . Mneoad

Argentina Breaks Off Relationships With Axis Powers   Round Up Suspects In Great Espionage Ring

Action Completes Pan-American Unity With 21 Countries —_Now-Lined-Up Against Common Foe - - Uncle Sam Silent With ‘Wait and See’ Attitude Toward Argentina

ACTION TAKE AGAINST AXIS   Severing of Relations Completes Solid Stand By Western Hemisphere,   INVESTIGATE SPY RING

‘Argentina Breaks With Axis   Belated Action Completes Solid Stand by Western Hemicnheroe Noatian<

SOUTH AMERICAN ‘NATION CHARGES : GIANT SPY EXPOSE   German and Japanese Ambassaders Will Be Hand- — ed Passvorts

Argentina Ends Relations With Germany, Japan   Takes Dramatic Move to End Espionage

GERMAN AND JAP AMBASSADORS 10 GET PASSPORTS   DECREE BY RAMIREZ DECLARE IMMENSE SPY RING DISCOVERED

JAP AND NAZI ENVOYS T0 BE SENT HOME   Police Are Busy Rounding Up Many Persons, Some in Nation’s Society, ir an Extensive Espionage Rinse.

Claim Germany, Japan Fostered Huge Spy Ring   Move Said Necessary In Interest of National Security

Severance Dictated By Allied Pressure  cn rn i ances, Bouse   Nation Last of Latins to Quit Axis and Join United Nations

ROUND UP ALL PERSONS. WITH AXIS LEANINGS   Last of 21 Latin American Nations to Split With  Germans. Japs -

POLICE ROUND UP SPIES AT BUENOS AIRES   Argentina Last of 21 Republics of Americas To : Sever Axis Ties:

Argentina kinally Breaks With Axis; Last to Join Solid Hemisphere Front

Western Solidarity Completed   Police At Buenos Aires Begin Rounding Up Members Of Extensive Esrvionage Ring

Against The Axis   Report Police Rounding Up Spies; Stariling Disclosures Expected; Ambassadors To Get Passports

Official Move Follows Conference With U.S. ‘British-Nazi Officials

Joins Other Nations Of South America To Close Off Last Nazi Spy Center

Argentina Cuts Ties With Axis   Last of American Nations to Take Step; Claim Discovery of Huge Axis Spy Ring

SAYS EMBASSIES WERE CENTER OF HUGE SPY RING   Allied Warning Action After

NAZI AND JAP AMBASSADORS ORDERED OUT   Act of Aggression in Spy Ring Charged by  Foreign Minister

Former Friends Alleged To Have Committed Act of Aggression— American Bloc Now Solid

Ohio State Secretary Refuses. Incorporation Of Name, Santa Claus

HEAT MAY LET UP   But Relief Seen by Forecaster Is Only a “Little”

TALK BRANSON FOR KEY POST   CENTRALIAN LOOMS AS CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKER OF HOUSE

First and Ninth Armies Gain Ground and Take  Prisoners  28 MILES FROM RHINE      Drive Aimed at Industrial Rhineland; Whole  Front Active

First and Ninth Armies Advance Twe Miles in Rain, Bagging Long Lines Of Prisoners; Smash Counter-Attack

Yanks Smash Toward Rhine   U.S. First Army Advances Two Miles; Roads Lined With German Prisoners

VAUNTED GERMAN MILITARY TACTICS FOUND WANTING   WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWD BRITISH OUTSMART THEM.

ORDER OF OPA 1S IN EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT   ONLY. ROASTS AND STEAKS NOT AFFECTED BY AN: " NOUNCEMENT—FEWER RED POINTS AFTER. SUNDAY

ONLY STEAKS, ROASTS STILL TAKE POINTS   OPA Order Effective At Midnight, Chief  Tells Newsmen

BEEF STEAKS: ROASTS STILL TAKE POINTS   All Other Kinds to Be Dropped at Midnight Tonight

Commander’ Flies From Washington to Lead Trapped Troops in Bastoane!

seneral in Washington Christmas Eve Bastogne Commander 48 Hours Later

Youths Arrested F or Camp Thefts   Arrests Made By Detective Dickinson

YANKEE FORCE ALSO ADVANCE ONHUN ARMIES   Assault On Natural and  Artificial Defenses of  — Cassino Is An Encir  cling Action   AIRFIELDS BEHIND GERMAN SET ABLAZE   Americans Repulse Heavy - German Counter-Attacks  On Cervaro to Make  Progress More Rapid

Cassino’s Fall Looms As Allies Carve Out Gains   French, American Forces Continue Steady Advance

— — ~~ ry Ww Swe  Fall Of Cassino Imminent; German Resistance Fierce

French Forces Make Gain on Road to Rome   Americans Make Slight Encircling Gain Against Heavy Cassino Defenses

FRENCH FORCES PUSH FORWARD IN APENNINES   Americans Advance Slightly from South in Encircling Assault on Cassino Defenses   AIRFIELDS BOMBED   Violent Fighting Expected Before Germans’ ‘Gustav Line’ Through - Cassino Broken

U.S. FLIERS RIP AIRFIELDS NEAR ITALIAN CAPITAL   Attack Airport Where Je’ Propulsion Airplane Was Developed

ALLIES PUSH ON “GUSTAV LINE’ NEAR CASSINO   3 German Airfields Near Rome Turned Into Blazing Destruction

NAZIS EXPECT NEW MOVES BY ALLIES SOON      More Than 8,000 Germans Taken As Prisoners

Yankees and French Near “Gustav Line   Gains in Fierce Fighting “Will. Bring Even Tougher Battle at Cassino   NATURAL DEFENSES ARE AUGMENTED   Eighth Army Offensive Believed Imminent on Adriatic Side

Yank-French Fighters Rip Nazi Flanks   Hold Cervaro as Patrols Drive Deep; Tighten Cassino Ring

French and U. S. Troops Advance On Italian Front   Begin Encirclement of Germaris on “Gustav Line”; Forts Flay Enemy Fields.   Nazis Offer Stubborn  Resistance But Retreat

Expect Stiff Battle Before Cassino Falls   Encireling Assault on Objective Gains in Fierce Fighting

French Troops ‘Gain Two Miles   Americans Repulse Zounter-Attacks of Ge:mon Forces

Frenchmen Plunge Through Nazi Defense in Italy  U. S. Fliers Assist With Vicious  ) -_ ww Be. fe. 8 8

FrenchPust Over Rough Italian Land   Americans Move Slightly From South Line

Rome Airfields Flaming Ruins.  After Air Raid   Ground Forces Slowly Grinding Down Defense OF Cassino.

Wreck German Bases As Allies Make Slight Gains Headlined By Four Mile French Advance.

French And American Troops Encircling City; U. S. Fliers Blast Nazi Airfields Near Rome

French Stage 2-Mile Gain  In Apennines   Americans Begin to Circle ‘German ‘Gustav Line’ In Cassino Sector

ARMIES MAKE SMALL GRINS   French, “American, Britist Troops Report Slow Advances in Italy.

FRENCH FORCES GAIN TWO MILES IN DRIVE   Yanks Help In Assault On Cassino

Allied Forces in Encircling Drive Toward Cassino   French and Americans Hit from Two Sides; Bombers Leave Rome Airfields in Ruins

FRENCH GAIN 2 MILES IN ITALY   YANKS REPULSE A HEAVY GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK

FRENCH, AMERICANS START ENCIRCLING ATTACK ON CASSINO  AMERICAN HEAVY AND MEDIUM BOMBERS FAN OUT AIRFIELD ATTACKS

American Planes Attack Rome Airfields; Ground Forces Repel Nazi Drive

Blast German Airfields Near Rome... .  French Gain Two Miles In Italy As Americans Close Toward Cassino

FRENCH TROOPS » GAIN 2 MILES IN NEW DRIVE   Qmericans Advance From South As Allies Close In on Cassino

French Forces Push 2 Miles In Apennines   Heavy Bombers Fan Out In Increasing Strength

Encircling Assault On “Gustav Line” Advanees-— Allies Have Only One Mt. To:Go, But Resistance Fierce — Forts Wreck 3 Air fields. Near  :- Rome.

FRENCH SCORE GAIN IN RUGGED MOUNTAIN AREA   Yanks Also Advance in Encircling Assault on Cassino’s Defenses

Frenchmen Plunge Through Nazi  Defense in Italy  U. S. Fliers Assist With Vicious Blows on Airfields

French Gain In Advance On Cassino .   Germans Continue Fierce and Able Resistance

French Make 2 Mile Gain In Italy   Yanks Advance Slightly in Encircling Move On Cassino

ALLIED DRIVE NEARS CASSINO   French And Yank Forces Closing In From East, West

FRENCH FORCES IN ITALY PUSH FORWARD 2 MILE‘   Natural and Artificial Defenses of Cassino No  Coming Under Heavy Attarl

FRENCH TROOPS GAIN AS offi ARMY ATTACKS DEFENSES OF CASSING   ‘Americans Repulse German Counter Strcke Against Cervaro   ROME AREA IS BOMBEL

FRENCH UNITS OF FIFTH ARMY GAIN GROUND IN ITALY   Americans Push Forward in  Encircling Move Aimed  at Caceina

ALLIED UNITS DRAW NEARER TO CASSING   French Advance 2 Miles From East and Yanks Gain Slightly From South —- Strong Nazi Defense. Expected.

Ball Starts Off  — Stassen Drive   Minnesota Senator Declares Five Fundamental Issues Face Voters,

Sen.Ball Opens ‘Campaign For Gov. Stassen   ‘Begins Speaking Tour ' In Nebraska This Week —Willkie Follows

ALLIED SMASH ON ROME FRONT THOUGHT NEAR   Poised on Both Ends of Line   TAKE PRISONERS  ee  a

Hurricane Is Drifting Inland   Warnings Issued From Mi.  ami To Cape Hatteras.

RECORD ASSAULI FROM AIR HITS GERMAN LINES   Swarms of Planes Exceed 13,000 Aloft on D-Day,  Channel Oheervere Accart

FDR To Speak Friday Night  Bricker Says New Dea Will Extend Controls

FOR TO SPEAK ON ‘BUSINESS   President to Address Nation Tonight; to Correct GOP Statements

FDR to Talk On New Deal And Business   Bricker to Speak Tonight to Give Republican Side

Business F. R. Topic Tonight   Partisans on Both Sides Air Views in Warm-up Period

PLEDGES BROKEN UNDER NEW DEAL BRIGKER SAYS   President To Give Views on ‘New Deal and Business’ in Philadelphia Speech

Roosevelt Will Talk Tonight About New Deal   Dewey Working on  Farm Speech . Set for Saturday

BRICKER PLANS OHIO SPEECHES   Visits Youngstown. Akron, Cleveland Nov. 4; Wickard Rallies Dems

F R Puts On Own Party On Birthday   Raises $240;000 For Infantile Paralysis Fund

Witness Says Dorsey Hit Hall With a Bottle   Icaza Describes Heavy Drinking

Terrific Blow Is Dealt Nazis   102 Germans Blasted From: ‘Sky;44 U.S. Planes Lost —

Record Armada Loses 44 Planes In Day Blow; Widen Rome Beachhead   Air of Mystery Maintained Over Italian Battlefields: Russians Clear All Germans From Main Leningrad-Moscow Railroad

YanksBag102 Nazi Planes And Lose 44  More Than 1,800 Tons of Bombs Dropped on German City BERLIN FIRED ANEW Crippling Blows Aimed at Industry in Nazis’ Wnmeland

1.800 Tons Of Bombs Hurled On Frankfurt   Bombers Shoot Down 102 German Fighters; 31 U.S,  Plonac Pek:   13 FIGHTERS DOWN

Yankee Flyers  Down 102 Nazi Fighters   44 American Planes Are Lost in Raid on Frankfurt

VITAL GERMAN FACTORY CITY LAID IN RUINS   BERLIN IS POUNDEI BY HUNDREDS OF RAF PLANES

102 Fighters Of Hun Force Are Shot Down   Americans Lose Thirty. One Bombers and Thirteen Fighters in Attack On Industrial Center   Explosions Occur Long Afier Assault   High Explosives, Incendi aries and Propaganda Leaflets Drepped: Ber lin Left Reeling

Daylight Blow Follows Second Giant RAF Blasting of Berlin in 36 Hours; Templehof Airport at German Capital Is Knocked  Out; AAF Loses 31 Bombers, RAF Loses 47

BERLIN ROCKED : IN THIRTEENTH ATTACK BY R.A.F   1500 American Planes Down 102 Fighters, Drops 1800 Tons

Yankee Airmen Destroy 102 Nazifichters.   Thirty-One Bombers And 13 Fighters Fail To Return; U. S. Fliers Try Out New Svstem

Greatest Armada Of U.S. Forts Rakes Frankfurt   Attack Follows Mighty New RAF Blow by Night at Berlin; Atlantic Charter Copies Dropped

Mighty U.S. Air Fleet Smothers Frankfurt   800 Heavy Bombers Rock Industrial Cenver Under 1,800 Tons of Explosives

1,800 Tons Unloaded On Vital Center   Record Armada O' 1,500 American Planes Take Part In Assault

DROPS DELUGE OF EXPLOSIVES ON FRANKFURT   300 Heavy Bombers in Record Assault on Transport Center

M4. §, PLANES DUT OF 2,000 LOST IN FIGHT   More Than 1,800 Tons of High Explosives: and Fire Bombs. Dropped.’ .

BIG INDUSTRIAL CITY 1S SMASHED: IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Eight Hundred Bombers, Eé:  corted by as Many Fight ers, Drop Explosives © and Leaflets.          FLEET GREATEST EVER USED BY U. S. FORCES   Onslaught Comes on Heels:of New Assault on Berlin That Costs British 47 Planes.

Leave Frankfurt Bathed In Bombs   102 Nazi Fighters Shot Down; 1,500 Planes In Armada

Frankfurt Hit by Giant American Fleet of Bombers  More Than 1800 Ton: of Missiles Dropped  by 800 U. S. Planes

FRANKFURT HIT BY MORE THAN 800 AIRCRAFI   Yanks Lose 31 Bombers ir Greatest U. S. Air Attack in History

Largest U. §. Bomber Flee Ever Sent Into Action Hits Nazi Manufacturing Center   Frankfurt Feels Sting of 800 Yank Planes; Berlin Transmitters Again Off the Air; Friday Night's Raid Blisters German Capital

44 YANK PLANES FAIL TO RETURN   1,800 Tons of Bombs Drop On Big German City   GREATEST ARMADA   Of Heavy American Bombers Ever Sent Into Action Blasts Nazi Center

31 BOMBERS, 13 FIGHTERS LOST IN RECORD RAID   102 German Defending Planes Shot Down; RAF Jolts Berlin Again. .°

Serious Floods Strike Midwest   Thousands Homeless In Kansas, Missouri;  War Plant Isolated.

Thousands Homeless In Flood Areas      HEAVY RAINS IN MIDDLE WEST PUT RIVERS OVER BANKS; 100 MAROONED IN WAR PLANT IN KANSAS CITY.

Thousands Homeless in Midwest Missouri and Kansas Areas  Hard Hit; Witehita Isolated

Floodwaters Rout Thousands Tn Two States   Red Cross Helps Many In Missouri and Kansas Heavy Rains Continue

Anericans Raid . ~ Four Islands on Northern Route   Kuriles Attacked in Most Extensive Mission Yet

Recent Months Show — 26,000 Japs Killed   Attackers At Hollandia Shoot Dow? Enemy Interceptors and Sink ~ Cargo Ship, Fire$ Others ~

Jap Shipping At Hollandia Lashed.  By LEONARD -MILLIMAN  eee Gee TT 324.

 VETERANS FLOWN HOME Pacilic Fighters, Wounded, Come in Singing Texas Song

RAIL YARDS IN FRANCE HAMMERED   Heavy American Raids Follow RAF Night Blows On Reich

LARGEST AIR FLEETS ROAR OVER EUROPE   Predict History May Be Made Today   REICH TREMBLES

Union Vote At Ward’s Today   Orderliness Marks Balloting on Disputed Question; Results to Be Given Tonight

Ward Workers Vote On Issue   5,000 Employes Eligible To  Vote: Continue Until 7 Tonight.  ;

YANKS ADVANCE AGAINST TOUGH JAP RESISTANCE   Reconquerors Of Guam Are Well Up Into Upper Third Of Island   SUICIDAL ATTACKS ARE BEING REPULSED

AMERICANS GAIN MILES ON GUA   WIN CONTROL OF IMPORTANT ROAD JUNCTION — JAPS STIFFEN RESISTANCE,

GAIN 2 MILES IN GUAM PUSH   Important Road Junction is Taken by Yanks Against Stiff Resistance

GUAM YANKS MAKE ADVANCE OF 2 MILES   RETREAT FROM GU FLO RENCEMA HAS BEGUN OF   Against Increasing Resistance From Japanese Over Rough Wooded Terrain.   Losing Heavily

45-CENT TON BOOST IN ANTHRACITE PRICE   OPA Permits Increase During February; Rise Can Be Passed Or To Censumer

POLITICAL PROPAGANDA CONTROL TO BE RELAXED  Agead ECasews Adm Caca Baératuad   Armed Forces May Soon Receive Newspapers. Magazines, Pictures

LAW EXPECTED      Would Relax Controls on What Armed Forces May See, Read, Hear.   POLITICS ARE INVOLVED

Amendment Of Soldier Voting Law Planned   Present Restrictions On Circulation Of Papers, Magazines And Books To Be Relaxed

MAY GUT BARS ON NEWo SENT ARMED FORGES   Agreement on Amendment to Allow Soldiers to Read Papers.

Congress To Lift Strict Rules On Soldier Reading  Censorship Of   Censorship Of Political Matter To Be Relaxed

Men Who Fight May Again Be Told to Read   Congressmen Plan To Relax Bans— Air Guide Latest

U.S, Sc ‘Soldiers. . Die In Crash   Several ‘Killed. And Hort ‘When 2 English. Trains -Meet In’ Country: -.-

Jurist Criticizes Lonergan Counsel  Dismisses Jury Panel,  Forces New Trial

Judge Dismisses Lonergan Jurors   Slaying Trial Must Start Again

DRAMATIC ENDING TO LORERGAN TRIAI   Judge Freschi Dismisses Special Jury Panel, Forcing a New Trial.

FEAR AMPHIBIOUS ATTACK    Evacuation of Northern Italian : Coastal Areas Oredered

Gen. Arnold Doesn't Know   German Defenses Crombling? He'd Like fo Know Where, Hasn't Seen Any

BALL APPROVES FDR’S STAND ON FOREIGN POLICY   Declares Dewey Hazy About Prompt Action Against Aggressor

BRITISH BOMBARD BENGALESE ISLANDS   Tokyo Confirms British Repor Of Attack

Both Candidates Intensify ‘Their Campaign Drives   Leaders of Roth Major Parties Booking  Speeches in Key States; F. D. R. Spurns Bid to Speak Before Forum

Political Roundup. .  FDR Tentatively Schedules Last-Minute Speaking Tour

LANDING ON: GUAM ISLAND > EXPECTED AT ANY: MOMEN   ISLAND UNDERGOING TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT IN PREPARA. . SION FOR LAUNCHING INVASION ¢

Yank’s Picture in Nazi Magazine Doughboy Not Happy About Winning War Bossing Belgian Girls - - But Job Essential

ARGENTINE PLAN FOR PARLEY 10 GET BRUSH-OFF   Pan-American Board Considers Four Views Insufficient for Action

FERGUSON ASKS HUMMEL PROBE   Secretary Of State's Office Payroll To Be Checked =~

AUDITOR OPENS: PAYROLL: PROBE   FERGUSON STARTS INVESTIGA TION OF OFFICE PAYROLL   OF SECRETARY OF  STATE HUMMEL ~

PROBE HUMMEL OFFICE PAYROLL   Ferguson Holds Up Check of Secretary of State’s ‘Confidential Aide’

YANK ADVANCE NEARS BOLOGNA   Heavy Fighting Rages Along Read To Po Valley

Keep Up Slow Gains in Italy   Americans 14 Miles From City of Bologna

AMERICANS WIN NEW POSTS NEAR BOLOGNA   Battle Way Through Strong Ger man Defenses to Within 14 Miles of Citv.

AT ATLANTA TODAY   Four Weary Guards Held As Hostages Aré So Far Unharmed   FELONS ARMED WITH KNIVES AND RAZORS   Armed Soldiers From Ft. McPherson Reinforce Sentries

Japs Report Rabaul Clash   Claim Australian Troop: Fled Before Surprise Landing by Units

Japs Report Mass Attack On Formosa Isle   Say 1,000 Allied Planes In Raid; Report Is Unconfirmed.

Japan Claims U. S. Warships Sauk, Damaged   Victims Of Subs Of Halmahera

Yanks Now Control 1}! Isles In Palaus Affer New Landing;. Blows At Borneo il Center.

Palau Landings Continue, Says Admiral Nimitz      Japanese Claim  Yanks Repulsed

Japanese-Claim.. 2500 Yanks Die In U.S. Landing:   American Hold On Palaus, Morotai Seen Deciding Fate Of Nippon Empire

Inflation Is Babson Topic   MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS GET TIPS FROM WRITER

“SCIENCE AND ELECTRONICS’ HAVE NOT REPLACED OLD TIME HOME AS PLACE FOR REARING OF CHILDREN —

Plane es: ‘Tash. ‘Jap Lines on ‘India Border          rae ‘in: ‘Ground’. ‘Fighting : in Chin’ ‘Hills: Enemy  Menacing Kohima _

Allies Pound Jap Invasion Army Moving Across Burma   Blazing Air Attack Intended To Smash Enemy Rail Lines and Disrupt Flow Of Tanks And Reinforcements Into India

Allied Planes — Blast Jap Troops   Attempt To Smash Enemy Rear Lines

ALLIED PLANES RAKE JAPANESE INVADING INDIA   Blast Supply Lines And Tanks; Land Fighting Tapers Off

PLANES BLAST JAP INVADERS AT FRONTIER   Attack Over Wide Area in Effort To Halt Columns Which Are Forging Into India.

WARPLANES BLAST JAPS IN INDIA   Blazing Aerial Attack Covers Wide Area

Reds Nat Valga in Advance   Russians Grind Down Nazi Division Per Day in Gigantic Fight

Red Offensive In Baltic Area Sweeps Ahead      63 Divisions Hammer Nazi Escape Roads; ‘Critical:’ DNB   DRIVE ON WARSAW   Soviet Troops Cross Vistula; Germans Expect Attack

Red Troops Make “Great Breakthrough” South Of Riga: Take 2.000 Towns

PLANES BLAST JAP SHIPPING   AIRMEN. OF - MacARTHUE. com.  / MAND BINK OR DAMAGE 23  io MORE ENEMY, SUPPLY ee LS RARB Oe

DORSEY’S ATTACK ON HALL IS DESCRIBED   Actor Says Band Leader Hit Him “with A Big Black Thing” Between The Eyes

Chinese Admit ‘Honan Gateway Taken By Japs   Major Battle Shaping } Up In North Burma, - -_Dispatches Say

Japs Capture Hulao Pass   Historic Passage Guards Way to Loyang In Honan Province

Japs Seize _ AndF ortify Hulao Pass Near Loyang   Distinct Blow Now Admitted By China

Japs Seize Vital Pass  From Chinese   In Burma Stilwell’s Men Revenge Their  Qld Defeat

Jap Invaders Take Historic Pass  In Central China  Eight-Day Fight Ends In Distinct Loss To Defending Forces

CHINESE LOSE LOSE HISTORIC PASS   a ap. Victory. A- Distinct Blow; May Bring ‘Drive On Loyang

Hulao Pass Is Taken By Japs   Its Loss Is Distinct Blow To Chinese Army

Jap Invaders Take Historic Pass in Central China  Eight-Day Fight Ends In Distinct Loss  a a a Ce, aera eeS

CHINESE SUFFER HEAVY BLOW IN LOSS OF HULAO      Chungking Report Admits Loss Of Historic Pass Guarding Way To Loyang; Jap Advance Continues.

China Admits Fall Of Hulao Pass To Ja ps   Ancient Battleground Guards Way to Lovang In Honan Province; Blow to Chinese

Japs Take Hulao Pass   Chinese Defeated On Ancient Battle Ground, They Admit

Chinese Admit Fall Of Ancient Historic Pass   Old Battleground Guarding Province Is Lost To Japs

James Byrnes  To Stay On Job   Will Remain Head of OWM Until Nazis’ Fall

BYRNES CONTINUES AS OWN DIRECTOR   President Announces He Will Keep Post Until Germany Is Beaten.

Byrnes Will Continue in Present Post   Will Remain Until Germany,  Is Defeated, White House Says

Byrnes. To Stay On Job   War Mobilization  Chief Will Continue In Position Until  Germany Surrenders

Byrnes to Stick Until Germany Quits the War   Will Continue as  ' War Mobilization Director at Reques! Of the Presidents

Byrnes to Stay At Federal Job Says President   No Change Seen In Director of War Mobilization

J ames Byrnes Will Remain At  Present Post   Mobilization Directo: Agrees To Continue Ir Office Until End Of! War With Germany

BYRNES REMAINS AS HEAD OF OWN   F.D.R. Says He Will Keep War Post Until Germany Is Defeated -

BYRNES DECIDES TO STAY ON JOB   Plan to Keep Post Until Nazis Quit, Says FDR

BYRNES 10 KEEP POST WITH OWM   WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE UNTIL GERMANY DEFEATED

James Byrnes  Keeping Post Mobilization Chief Continues In Office

Byrnes To Stay As Mobilization "Director  Congress Resumes; * But Little On

Byrnes To Stay At His War Post   Accedes To Personal Request Of FDR

WEA, OPA AT 00DS OVER MEAT RATION   War Food Administration Or ders Beef Taken Off Lists OPA Protests

Rotion-Free: Beefsteaks Will Not Be Available For At Least Two Weeks

Points Still Remain On Steaks and Roasts      — Dry-Cléaners “Won't Close; Await OPA Action

PRESENT POINT COST ON MEATS CONTINUED   Plans To Free Beef Steaks And Roasts Delayed

Meat Stays on Rationed List   OPA Wins Fight To Keep Present System Until August 13

NO CHANGES SEEN (N MEAT RATIONING   Ration-Free Beefsteaks 01 Roasts Not Expected for Counle Weeks,

No Ration-Free Beefsteaks, Roasts in Sight Until Aug. 15 at Earliest

Rumor [hat U.S. Plans To Abandon China Refuted By Gen. Wedemeyer

Raiders Down 76 Germans   22 Bombers, 13 Fighters  oct In Spectacular Scrap   ‘ Nazi Trick Blamed For U.S. Warships - Shooting Down 23 American Transports

Halders Down 6 Germans.   22 Bombers, 13 Fighters: Lost In Spectacular Scrap      Shooting- Dow. 23 “American Drancharte

Drive Nets 500 Aides To Nazis   Consort of Himmler Rounded Up In Paris Hunt.

‘Hot Race > for V. P. is Expecied   President Apparently Read) for Delegation to Write ’ Second Half of Ticket   HANNEGAN HAS LETTER FROM F.D.B.   But He Is Not Ready to ) . Talk; List of Candidates Stil] Crowns

LOOK TO HANNEGAN   Democrats Have Numerous Candidates for Second Spot on Ticket

PREDICT FROST MAY HIT CENTRAL OHIO TONIGHT  DW. WUE eaSle“traTrryy PRESS

Promotion Approved   Germans Tradge Backward—Always Backward, on All Roads to Berlin  Steel Bones of Dying Army Litter France

British Bombs Reach Tirpitz   Hitler’s Last Big Battleship Hit in Hiding Place

BRITISH BOMBS BLAST TIRPITZ   Naval Planes Make -Attack On Battleship. in Alten Fjord, Norway

Elton C. Fay Says: Stimson's Opinion War Has Long  Way To Go Is Shared by Leaders

COLOGNE RAIDED AGAIN BY ALLIES   Airmen Drop 4,000 Ton Bomb Load on City in Last Raid

Cologne Hard Hit By Great Bomb Loads   Two Raids Made On Berlin By Speedy Mosquito Planes

Cologne Heavily ~ Bombed Last Night   “Mosquitoes Make Two Raids on City of Berlin

COLOGNE MADE ‘MOST BOMBED   4,000 Tons Rained On Cit In New Night Assault

BRITISH HEAVILY BOMB COLOGNE   4,000 ‘Tons Dropped; Mosquitos Hit Berlin

ee ces  YANKS WILL OBSERVE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY aT ANCESTAAL HOME

Reveal Villegas Disappeared from Calexico The Day Trunk Murder ‘Was Discovered at Los Angeles

Methodists Launch World Crusade At Meeting Here  Many Delegates Are In Helena for Initial Gathering

Methodists Launch World Crusade At Meeting Here  Many Delegates Are In Helena for

Dewey, Apparently Certain He'll Get G. 0. P. Nomination, Starts Work on Acceptance Speech

Gentile League Aimed to Suppress Jews, Officer Admits at Hearing

ARMY SEIZES NICKEL PLANT IN HUNTINGTON   Swift Action Taken To Resume Work After Presidental Orders

20.000 Americans  Prisoners in Big Push   Germans Pour in Best Infantry Behind Tank  Spearheads, Pointed at Highway to France

Flanks Of Advancing Nazis Are Now Being Attacked By Large American Forces

Knock 25 Mile Wide Hole  In American Lines, Cut Main Liege-Arlon Road

Front Dispatches Indicate More Enemy Gains Despite  Stiffening Of Yank Line

Yanks Retake Stavelot, Hold Nazis Outside St. Vith; Battle For  Malmedy; Patton Moves Up :

NATO CLAIM 20,000 GAT GH UF PRISONERS   Germans Pouring Best Units Through Gaps Punched by  Rushing Tanks.

25-Mile Ga ap Driven In. Amer. Lines   LATEST DISPATCHES 48 HOURS. . OLD, BUT NO INDICATION THAT: SITUATION HAS CHANGED

Northern Portion of First Army — Flank Stiffened   Liege-Arlon Highway Reported Severed By . German Counterattack

Germans Drive Thirty Miles Into Belgium   Progress Reported As Of Tuesday:  Hole Of 25 Miles Knocked In Lines.

Northern Shoulder Of First Army Stiffens, Three Towns Back In American Hands; Nazis Head For Ardennes   NO LESSENING IN GRAVITY OF FIGHT

‘AMERICAN LINES IIOLD ON NORTH SIDE   Reds Continue Gains In  Balkan Area

Both First Army Flanks More Stable   Center of American Line Still “Most Fluid,’’ Says Today’s Report

Outlook Is Still Gloomy   German Drive Has Not Reached its Peak, Allies Admit

y American. Headquarters Admits Disastrous 4 _ Reverses i in One of Bloodiest Battles in U.S. — -Blistorv: Beleium Peak Not Yet Reachad

Ist Army Plunges 4 Miles   Breakthrough of Scale Comparable  To St. Lo Drive

First Army Breaks Siegfried Line   oF" Mile Gain Reported Today ae North of Aachen in Big Smash

SMASH DRIVE ROLLS UP GAIN OF FOUR MILES   Opens Way for Push to Rhine

Yanks Break — Siegfried Line North of Aachen   Nazi Defenses West of Cologne Also Penetrated

LIGHTNING BLOW LIKE BREAK-TRRU ATST LO   Ubach Area is Scene of Heaviest Rattle With Foe

Reach Village of Ubach, 10 Miles North of Aachen and Near Approaches to Rhine

Shock Troops Rip Thru Defenses To Ubach, 10 Miles North Of Aachen   Hedges’ Forces Drive Halfway Thru Pillbox Belt Against Terrific Fire, Hand-To-Hand Combat

Temperatures   Four-Mile Advance Made By Latest Of ‘Break-Throughs’

Break-thru Is North Of Aachen   FIRST ARMY HAS REGISTEREP ‘: TOTAL GAINS OF FOUR MILES. IN LAST 24 HOURS’ OF FIGHTING

Bayonet Wielding and Flame Throwing First Army Plunges Four Miles on Road to Rhine

Many Nazi Pillboxes Wiped Out   Americans Make Gain of Four Miles—Germans Counter-attack

American Ist Army Breaks Through In Smashing Offensive That Gains 4 Miles

KNOGK GAP IK BERMAN WALL AROVE AACHEN   Roll Up Four-Mile Gain in Furious Battle Thirty Miles from Coloagne.

U .S. First Army Captures Ubach, Gains 4 Miles   Troops Cross Aachen-Geilenkirchen Railroad; Assault Forces Reduce Nazi Pillboxes in Bitter, Close Battle

MEAT DEALERS OVERCHARGING   Excess Estimated at $8,000 A Week in Columbus

RUSSIANS IN. PUSH TOWARI BUDAPEST   Cross North Border _ OF. Czechoslovakia On.170 Mile Front

Reds Cross Czech  Frontiers  German Reports Insist Russian Land Forces  Se Enet Drurceian

RED ARMIES IN SMASH ACROSS CZECHO BORDER      Link-up With Second Army For Drive Toward Capital At Budapest

Soviets Break Across Border Czechoslovakia   Link with Second Army for Drive on Hungarian Capital

[Northern Czech Border Crossed:  By Red Troops :   Red Army Boml Lash Out Agair Against East P

FORMER PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY TEXAS MAKES STATEMENT  DR. RAINEY SAYS WILL NOT COMPROMISE OR SACRIFICE HIS STAND:

Thirty German Tanks Are  Knocked Out   British Patrols Cross Neder Rhine to Probe Nazi Territory Where “Red Devils” Failed to Hold Bridaehead Near Arnhem

Americans Withdraw — From Ft: Driant: Edge Forward Inside Aachen  Allies es Glamp Grip On The  eeeeuecwpevn:, geo Wi emieeuc ee

Rabaul Attacked Friday by U.S. Army Air Force   Rounds Out 12 Consecutive Weeks of Air Assaults

Isolated Base of Rabaul Hit — By U. S. Bombers   12 Consecutive Weeks ‘of Offensive Against  Key Base Rounded Out

Dutch New Guinea Landings 60 Miles From Jap Fortress  Of Sorong Made On Sunday   Gen. MacArthur Announces That Americans Have j Szized Coastal Area At Sansapor And Also Captured  Nearby Islands Of Amsterdam And Middleburg

Landing Splits Nippon Forces   Sansapor, 2 Isles Seized. 15,000 Japs Cut Off

137 Speeders Pay $2,500 in Fines   Baltimore Traffic Violators Nabbed

Martin Tears Into FDR For New Deal Blunders, War 'Unpreparedness

ONLY 30 MILES TO BORDER OF NAZI PROVINCE   Newest Disaster Hits Nazis in Russian Push on Latvia

Red Army Forward © 19 Miles      Reported Within 12 Miles of East Prussia At One Point; Drive In Latvia Gains Speed

Russians Nearing Suwalki Triangle ‘After 19-Mile Gain In But 24 Hours

Soviets Gain 19 Miles In Big Drive   Armies Near Boundary Of Nazi Domain; Trap Threatens Foe

Other Russian Forces ‘Strike Within 38 Miles Of Kaunas, Old Capital Of Lithuania, Reported

Soviets Only 30 Miles From East Prussia   Germans Apparently Preparing for Large Scale Withdrawal

Cannonfire ls Probably BeingHeard In Germany      Nineteen Miles Are Gained In Period Of 24 Hours

SOVIETS GAIN 19 MILES IN WHITE RUSSIA   Germans Withdraw Before Advance Of Huge Force

MIGHTY SOVIET OFFENSIVE RIPS NAZI DEFENSES   Reds Are Within 30 Miles of Suwalki Triangle of East Prussia

AUSS MAKE 19 MILE DRIVE 10 sUWALKT AREA   New Baltic Campaign Aimed at Trapping. Two. Nazi Armies...

Red Amy In 19- Mile Gain  Over Germans   Troops Have Driven to Point Within 30 Miles of East Prussia in Area of Western White Russia.

9-MILE GAIN IN 24 HOURS RECORDED   Echoes Of Battle Heard Within Germany   OTHER COLUMNS   Of Russian Troops Strike Close To Kaunas, Old Lithuanian Capital

7,000 Enemy Soldiers Die  In New Drive   Baltic Offensive Now in High Gear Threatens Disaster For Nazis

Swedish Report Patc Reds 12 Miles from Border—Sovieis Threaten Kaunas, Gredue

Soviet Troops Push To Within 30 Miles Of Suwalki Triangle   Russian Forces Free 1,000 Towns in Two Days in Drive Against Latvian Republic

Suwalki Triangle Is Between East Prussia and Lithuania.   OTHER TROOPS ADVANCE

Fighting Nears Wedge of Poland After 19-Mile Gain   Russian Thrust In Latvia Newest Disaster to Nazis

Battle Echoes May Be Heard  In Germany  Russians Within 15(¢  RAcian iE VAs awomws   Russians Within 150 Miles Of Warsaw As Drives Gain

RUSSIAN ARIMIES THRUST 19 MILES NEARER GERMANY   Soviet Push Rolls to Within 12 Miles of East Prussia Thru the Suwalki Area South of Lithuania.   JAP FORCES SPLITTING UP IN INDIA DEBACLE   Latajico, Town in Italy, Falls to U.S. Troops After Sharpest Clash In Weeks; 150 Nazis Taken.

SWEDES REPORT REDS 12 MILES FROM PRUSSIA   Soviets Launch New Push Against Latvia; Nazi  Line Tottering

RUSSIANS ONLY 30 MILES FROM ~ EAST PRUSSIA   Reds Smash Ahead In  Nineteen-Mile Advance   One heport Places ‘Reds .12 Miles From Germany

New Advances Threaten to Trap Two Nazi Armies   One Report Places Soviets Only 12 Miles From Prussian Border Closer to Kaunas

TROOPS LESS THAN THIRTY MILES AWAY   An N. B. C. Report From Sweden Declares Soviet  . Forces Are 12 Miles From Border in Drive - Ravand Grodno.

Soviet Troops Rolling Ahead In Baltic Area   One Report Puts Reds 12 Miles Fram FE. Peuccia

{9-Mile Gain Recorded in White Russia   Guns of Battle May Be Heard in Germany Today

Massive Blows Spreading Out On Big Front   France, Germany Hit By Big Air Attacks From All Sides

Red Forces Push Nearer  East Prussia   Reported Within 30 Miles of Suwalki Triangle; Make 19 Mile Plunge

SPEED ADVANCE THRU WESTERN WHITE. RUSSIA   Drive Toward Baltic Threat. ens Trap For Two Ger« man Armies

RUSSIAN PUSH BIGGEST EVER AGAINST REICH   Drive to Point Within 30 Miles of East Prussia; Threaten Entrapment of Two Armies

Russ 12 To 30 Mis.  From East Prussia  19 Mile Advance In Suwalki Area, Reds Gain 27 Miles In 24 Hours

Russ Advance 19 Miles in One Day and Night   Battle May Now Be Within Hearing Range of Germany Itself

REDS DRIVE TO 30 MILES OF PRUSSIA   Nineteev-Mile Advance Made in Suwalki Area of White Russia.   Rush to Baltic May Trap 2 Nazi Armies

Reds Advance  Nineteen Miles In West Russia   Reports Place Soviets From Twelve To Thirty Miles  Outside Prussia

SOUND OF BATTLE MAY NOW BE HEARD IN PRUSSIA AS HARD FIGHTING RUSSIANS MOVE UP   7  Possible Entrapment of Two German Armies Seen in Baltic Area As Russians Make Great Sweep Forward on Long Front. Berlin Hints At New Withdrawals

Armies Achieve 19-MileAdvance In White Russis   Other Troops Hit Within 33 Miles Of Kaunas; Finnish Port Is Bombed

RED ARMY TROOPS DRIVE TO WITHIN 30 MILES GERMANY  CONTINUED ADVANCES

Red Armies Driving on Unchecked   “Multiple Advances Continue - Day and Night.and » Nazi “Losses - Are: Mounting   PELL -MELL RETREAT IN SOME AREAS   March Toward. East Prussia ® Nears Suwalki Triangle; Battle. Echoes in Germany

Reds Reported 12 Miles From East Prussia   Drive To Baltic May Trap Two German Armies

Reds’ Drive Expanding; 2 Frontiers Are Neared   Latvian - Offensive’ Has: Noted Success

TO-MIILE ADVANGE TN SIWALKT ARE!   Warsaw Now Less Than 150 Miles Away. From Russian Guns   GERMANS ROUTED   Germany Itself May Now Be Hearing Echoes Of Soviet Attack

Within 3 Miles of East Prussia   One Column Now 38 Miles From Kaunas,  Old Capital

1,000 PLACES GOBBLED UP IN LATVIAN PUSH   Nazi Troops Reported To Be Falling Back Pell-Mell As Russians Smash On

Drive To Baltic May Trap 2 Nazi Armies In North   Stab at Latvia Gobbles up 1,000 Villages; Other Columns Near Lithuanian Capital

RUSSMANS UNLY 30 MILES FROM. EAST PRUSSIA  Reds Smash  Ahead In      Reds Smash Ahead Ir Nineteen-Mile Advance:   PRESS FORWARD      One Report Places Reds 12 Miles From Germany

Swedish Report Says Soviets Are 12 Miles From German Borders   New Attacks Drive Into Latvia Farther North; Warsaw Is 150 Miles From Advancing Red Arm

Big Cities Gave FDR Bigger Vote   Received Over Half Million More Votes In 13 Cities Than In 1940.

FDR MAKES CLEAN ‘SWEEP OF CITIES   Piles Up Larger Total {1 Them Than Before In Last Vote

Roosevelt Vote In Large Cities Tops 40 Total   Carried All but Ohio Of States.in Which Metropolises. Located

Main Cities. Go To F DR.   Metropolitan Vote. ‘Larger Than. 1940

Roosevell Had All Of Big Cities In His Voting Lineup   Also Carried all of States Where Cities Located, Except Ohio, Wisconsin

Re culations  Really Have Teeth i in Them   Industrial Workers Same Footing With ‘Boards as Farmers

NEW MANPOWER ~ AND DRAFT RULES ARE STRINGENT   Will Cause a Lot of People to Stay in Their Essential Jobs.   WAR JOB LOSS IS HEAVY   Col. Earp Estimated 21,000 Men Each Month Left Their Work.

Soviets Sweeping Across Plains: In Kast Hungary  All-Out Attack . Against Budapest

Soviet Armor Sweeps Ahead Unimpeded   German Bolt Position Of Hatvan May Soon Be Under Attack

RED COLUMNS CLOSING IN (ON BUDAPES!   Russians Sweep Across Open Plains In Eastern Hungary at Fast Pace.

Russians Sweep. Across Plains In Eastern Hungary   Jaszbereny Captured To Clear Path To Strife-Torn Budapest

Fifty Towns  Are Overrun  By Red Army   Three Main Forces Speed Offensive Against Capital.

Gaston Lags 35 P.C. On Sale Of E Bonds; Victory Week Brings Extra Effort

American Bombers Return To Assault German War Industry Stuttgart Smashed by British; Russians Drive Into Estonia While Fighting Rages in Pskov

3 Nazi Divisions Pushed Back Over Thousand Yards   ‘Stuttgart Hit Hard; Munich Is Raided; Reds Pushing Into Estonia

Americans Drive Germans Back In Bridgehead  Yanks Goin 1,000 ‘Yards And. Still. . Continue Advance

RUSSIANS STORM DNO AND BATTLE NAZIS IN STREETS   Fall of Railway Center on Road to Pskov Believed  gg.  *#,..

REDS CAPTURE VITAL JUNCTION   Take Dno in Fast-Breaking Drive Toward Pskov

POLIO FIGHT   More Than Half Given in 4: and ‘44, in 1]-Year Fight On Disease.

American People Give $30,000,000 in Polio Fight   Funds Raised During Eleven Years Work Wisely Used

Filipino Cheers and Tears Greet Americans As MacArthur's Soldiers Take Tacloban

TRAVEL RIOT AT CHICAGO   FIVE HUNDRED PERSONS LEFT . BEHIND AFTER NEW OR LEANS TRAIN WAS . FILLED +

SENECA MARSHAL - ACQUITTED OF A MURDER CHARGE   Marshal Alva Morgan Freed From Charges Growing Out of Killing of Picher Man.

GREEK REBELS BATTLE BRITISH   Armed Leftists Bringing On Civil War; Athens Rocks To Gunfire

WAROHIPO BLAGT LEFTIST CENTERS   Ancient Athens Rocks Again To Roar of Artillery; Elas Officers and Troops Taken Priconoer

British Warships, Planes Blast at Greek Leftists  Athens Rocks to Roar of Artillery As Fighting Grows

BRITISH POUND STRONGHOLDS OF GREEK LEFTISTS   Strife-Torn Athens Rocks tc Roar of Battle as Warships, Planes and Tanks Fire on Elas.   REBELS SPURN ORDER TO LEAVE CAPITAL   House-to-House Fighting Takes Place Around Acropolis—Struggle Spreads te Thrace.

British Ships. ‘Shell Leftists In Athens Riot   Tanks, Planes, Artiller:  Also Used Aguinst Rww:

British and Leftists in Bitter Fray   Premier Charges. El a:  _ Are Plunging Greece”   Into Civil War As Fiahts Continue

British Blast at Greek Leftist Resistance Areas Destroyer and Two  Motor Launches Tate, ten Shae Lb eeeee

British Attack Greek Leftists By Air, Land, See   Warships, Airplanes, Tanks and Riflemen Blast Athens Areas

GERMANS FAIL IN ATTEMPT T0 CRUSH SOVIETS   Tremendous Losses In Men, Materials Are Reported

Reds Hurl Back New German Attacks With Heavy Losses   Nazis Continue To Strike: Back At lasi But Meet With Disaster

RAF Blows up Munition_Depots  . 800 Plaries Wreck  Dumo in France -

‘Allies Hit — Germanys — Strong Wall   Carry Offensive Into 18th Straight Day; Attack Bucharest; Action In Italy

ON WING IN. REICH ATTACK   British Night Fighters Met  Strong Opposition But Blasted Nazi Munitions Qisnnlies

FRENCH COAST BLASTED. ANEW   Allies Also Continue Raids On Eneniy. Airfields in Western Europe

Allied Bombers Continue Raids On French Coast   ampaign To Flatten En. emy Installations Sweeps On Steadily

Allied aerial  raicscontinue   Bombers in ‘dawn to dusk’ offense

ALLIES SLASH ROCKET COAST   German Airfields Ir Holland Given Bomb Dose

DAWN T0 DUSK RAIDS CONTINUE   Channel Criss - Crossed As Alles Hammer Rocket Gun Coast

MILITARY TARGETS ~ INFRANCE BOMBED   Dawn - to - Dusk Attacks Carried Out by Allied  Fliers

Chinese Admit Japs Crossing Into Kweichow  Burma Road Town Taken from Enemy By Chicena’s Men

ENEMY TROOPS  WN KWEICHO   American Troops, Planes Aid Chinese Take Burma Road Town.

JAPS PENETRATE KWEICHOW AREA CHINESE STATE   14th Air Force Aids In Fight For Chefang

aia na eae athe tea ee  Funeral Services For FPR’s Private Secretaryu Wednesdau

AMERKANS SECURE ~SEAND OF PELELIU   “Bloody Nose Ridge’ Still Holds Out, Nimitz  Save .

Peleliu Island Practically All Taken by Yanks   10,000 Japs Killed In Southern Palaus

AMERICANS SECURE. ~ASEAND-OF PELELIU   “Bloody Nose Ridge” Still _ Holds Out, Nimitz. _ ' Save oO

VIRTUALLY ALL OF PELELIU Is SAFELY SECURED   10,000 Japs Have Been Killed In Southern Palau Islands, Nimitz Says   SHUMUSHU ATTACKED BY HEAVY BOMBERS

Yanks Control Large Portion Of South Palau:   Nimitz Says 10,000 Japs Killed During Invasion of Islands

GEORGE WINS RENOMINATION IN PRIMARY   Returns from Over State Show Senator Had Wide Margin. Congressmen Renamed

German Lines Threatened in New Offensive   Nazi Remnants Now Face Fight For Survival

German Armored Counter-Atfack ls Thrown Back   U.S. Troops Are Driving Southwest In Swift Advance

TANKS OF U.S, HURL GERMAN ATTACK BACK   Entire Western German Wing Withdrawn in Face of Fierce Attacks By U. 8S. Armor

American Troops Gain in Face of Mighty German Armored Counter-attack

Report Nazis To Pull Back Western Wing   Enemy Counterattack Smashed; Say Several Enemy Divisions Are In Precarious Spots

Germans’ First Strong Counter Attack Repulsed   . Nazis’ Interior France Defense Imperilec

Rommel Unleashes Tanks  ToStemAmerican Advance   Nazi Broadcasts Concede Withdrawal of ‘Entire Western Wing’ as ‘Fox’ Tries To Block Advance on Road to Paris

U.S. Tanks Brea Up Firs! Strong German Counter Attack East of Coutances

Counteract Of German Army Fails From First      Fierce Encounter To Save German Troops Lost

YANKS ADVANGE TOWARD BREHAL   Germans Concede Withdrawal of Their ‘Entire  Western Wing’, _: !   DEPLETE ARMOR SUPPLY

U. S. Tank Groups Score Heavily In French Battle  Furious Fight Puts Americans to Strong Advantage

Slash Down Normandy Coast   Rommel Frantic In His Effort To Stem Tide

JAPS’ PORT ON LEYTE SHELLED   Palompon, Last Stronghold Of Enemy, Is Menaced

Palompon, Last Jap-Held Leyte Port, Is Neared   Advance Carries Four Miles West  of Ormoc Corridor

AMERICANS MOPPING UP ON LEYTE   Jap Airfields In Philippines Get Thorough Pasting

Hillman Sees _ ‘Catastr rophe’ TfDewey Wins   PAC Head Tells Probers No Purge List Exists Against Politiejan<«

Hillman Says PAC Spent $67,320 On Elections   Tells House Committee It Has No Purge List, Not Bossing Parties

ROUTING JAPS FROM BASTION OF MYITKYINA   American and Chinese Forces Are Closing In on the Enemy Garrison in North Burma From Three Directions.

Driving Japs From Myitkyina   Yanks and Chinese Closing in From Three  Sides on Base

Japs Fleeing 3-Way Trap At Myitkyina   Key to Burma Rood Occupied by Allies Without Opposition

U.S.. Chinese Are Closing In On Myvitikyina   Japanese Garrison Being Driven Out; Other Forces Nearby

Yanks, Chinese Driving Japanese From Myitkyina   Alies Close In from Three Sides as Merrill's Marauders Cross Irrawaddy River

Foe Beine Routed From Burma Base Yanks and Chinese  Snapping Trap on --., Besieaed Mvitkving-

Chinese Driving Japs From Base Of Myitkyina   Yanks and Chinese Closing Burma Trap From Three Sides.

FLEET AND: ATR ACTION. IN CENTRAL OHIO: AND BSOUTH"WESTERN ‘AREAS COST EN: EMY MUCH SHIPPING .

PACIFIG FLEET ON LOOSE AGAIN   ‘Bonin And Volcano Island Attacks May Foreshadow Important Blows

Pacific Fleet: On The Move   May Prelude Another Series of Attacks

PRODUCTION HITS VICTORY VOLUME   Nelson Reports No Over-All Boost Planned This Year

US War Effort Reaches Goal, Nelson Says   568 Vessels Added to Navy from Battleships to Submarines; To Increase Produc tion in 1944 50-Per Cent

ATH WAR ‘SAN DRIVE OPENS   Morgenthau And Eisenhower Ask Public Support

Yankees Move In After Heavy Air And Naval Blows   General MacArthur Says Eastern Coast Of Leyte Island Is Seized In Major Amphibious Operation

CONGRESS TOLD NATION NEEDS USE OF 4-F'S   Manpower Shortage Constitutes Actual Danger, Patterson Says

FARM WORKER DEFERMENT ON LOCAL BOARDS   Unit Basis be Scrapped, Decide With Hershey, Marvin Jones, Russell Agreeing.

Farm Deferment: Up to Boards  Says Hershey Agrees   Says Hershey Agrees To Scrap Unit System Long in Use

Farm Deferments  Put Up To Boards  Unit System Scrapped By Gen. Hershey

Deferment of Farm Workers  To be Left to Draft Boards   Hershey Yields to Pressure of Farm State Senators. Agrees to Scrap Unit System of Deferments, Senator Russell Says

To Scrap Farm Unit System ©.   Hershey Agrees to Leave Deferment- of Farm Workers Up to Local Draft. Boards

Unit Deferment System Dropped: Board To Rule   2 Limestone Boards Stop Reclassifying, Await Official Word

Change Farm Draft Basis   Unit System Scrapped; Up To Local Boards to Decide Farm Worker Deferment

LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS TOBE "GIVEN SAY-SO   House Committee Hears ' Patterson Urge Forced Use of 4-F’s

EASES FARM DRAFT STAND   Hershey Yields to Demands Of Farm State Senators

Senators Declare Hershey Agrees {¢ Their Demands   Deferment Authority For Agriculture Left in Local Boards

Unit System For Farm Deferment  To Be Scrapped   Local Boards Mav. Defer Any Workers Regularly. Engaged In Farming And Who Can’t Be Replaced’ “On Present Barm : ee

‘MeLean ( The Man Whe Gives Away Cash ) Tries New ‘Happiness’ Stunt   Granted Full Responsibility

4-F’s Face Labor Call Unless In Essential Work   Army Says Time To Call Millions

HIGH-RANKING AIDES INJURED IN ‘EXPLOSION’   Believed Work Of Underground

BELIEVE ATTEMPT TO KILL NAZI CHIEF WAS ‘INSIDE JOB’: 1S BRUISED, BURNED

Four Ranking Officers Se riously Injured; Nine Others Hurt   Attempt Believed An “Inside Job”   Hitler Resumes “Work” After Explosion, Receiving Mussolini, Goering

The Weather   12 High Aides Are Injuried   Attempt Made on Life of Hitler  Germans Claim

DER FUKHRER IS INJURED BY EXPLOSION   German News Agency Says Thirteen of Nazi Leader’s Staff Also Wounded.   BULLETIN

Nazi Leader is Injured In Bomb Blast   Explosion At  Fuehrer’s Healquarters Catches High Army, Navy Offi cers.

Twelve Top Rank Party Leaders Injured; BlastLaid to “Underground”

12 Others Wounded in Bomb Blast   Explosion at Conference With Generals and Admir~ als, Is Reported

Fuehrer Injured_  By Bomb Blast At Headquarters   13 Top Military, Naval Collaborators’ Hurt, Says Nazi Agency

Burns, Bruises Suffered by. . . Der Fuehrer '  Attack Thought Made a War Parley in Famed   we ~1.... az

BLAST GOMES AT PARLEY OF HIGH OFFICERS   Adolf. Suffers Concussion of Brain and Bruises; Allies Blamed.

hg NEAR POINT 14 MILES SOUTH OF ROME   Eighth Army Forging Ring Around Frosinone; Are 4 Miles South

Other Fifth Army Units Meet Unyielding Nazi Resistance; Enemy Intends To Hold Line ‘At All Costs’

Germans Fight Fifth Army In All Out Effort   Americans Forced Toe Battle For Every Yard Gained

British Meving Up To Within 14 Miles of Rome As Fifth Hits An Unyielding Line; Eighth Army Closing In On Nazi Exit.

Savage Battle © Rages In Sight Of Famed City   Huns Use All Available Troops In Defense Of — Rome; German Tenth  Army Ketreating   Losses Are Heavy For Allies, Nazis   Fifth Army Ramming At Stubborn Enemy Force: Believed Covering 10th Withdrawal

DIN OF BATTLE GROWING LOUDER IN ROME DAILY   American Bombers Return To Europe as People Told How They Can Help Invasion

Nazi Defense Stiffens All Along Front   Both Sides Have Heavy Casualties In Conflict

Germans Fight Desperately to Hold Last Defense Line Below the City of Rome —   Fierce Fighting Raging From Valmontone to the Sea As Defenders Throw in Last of Reserves to Resist Advance of Allied Troops

BRITISH ADVANCE NEAR ROME   Travel Through Dense Mine Fields 14 Miles From City

Resistance By Enemy Very Strong   25,000 Plane Attacks On Europe In Last Ten  Days

Fifth Army On Last 25 Miles: . Germans Stiffen   Last Ditch Defense Is Nazi Objective; Germans Attack In Russia Today

Push Steadily Ahead Despite Opposition          Britons Crawl Through’ Minefields To ‘Poin Near Pescarella Nuova As Fifth. ‘Arm “Rams At Strong Enemy Resistance:

Enemy Holds Off Fifth’s Assault On Strong Wall   Americans Fight Yard By Yard For Small Gains; Nazis Worked Months To Build Line

British Crawl lourteen Miles From Capital   Nazis Intend to Hold Line “At Any Cost” As Allies Inch Forward

German Defense © Stubborn      Allies Edge Forward In Italy Against Grim Resistance; Nazis Dent Soviet Line Near [asi

ALLIED TROOPS ONLY 14 MILES FROM ROME   British Fifth Army Routing Nazi Forces

U. S. Supertorts  Bombard Three  Targets In Japan Hit Two Enemy  6 ee ee

All B-29’s Make It Back to Base   rfortresses Strike, Five "panes Nayal Instal- . _ dations   ATTACK SUPPLY -BASES   Important Jap Targets ir China Are Blasted.  With Bombs

FIVE TARGETS HAMMERED IN RAID   Weak Fighter Opposition, Light Ack-Ack Met   BASES IN CHINA   n Addition To 3 In Japan Raided By Superforts; Tokyo Reports

Raid on Japan ls Carried Out Without Loss   Important Military Tergets Blasted by Superfortress Fleet

No Super-Forts Lost In Second Attack On Japan   Five Targets Hammered, Three In Japan And Two Others In China.

All Bombers Return From Raidon Japan   Two Jap Bases In Ching Also Bombed by B-29's

All B-29’s Make It Back to Base   Superfortresses Strike, Five Japanese Naval Installations   ATTACK SUPPLY BASES   Important Jap Targets in China Are Blasted With Bombs

Five Targets Hit By B-29s   ... Nip Supply Bages In China Also Attacked

NIP INDUSTRIAL AREAS BLASTED   Huge Super- Forts Return From Raid Over Japan Without Loss

Supers Smack Five Major Jap Bases   Three Cities in Japan and Two In China Hit

All Bombers Reported Safe   Naval Base and War Plants Targets in Wide Foray; Blow Dealt to Supply Lines; Only Weck Resistance Met by Maurauders

No B-29s Lost on Last Raid   All Return Safely After Attack On Five Key War Centers in Japan and in China

Raid on Japan Made Without Less   Big Planes Return to Bases Safely After Daring Foray on Foe

Jap Raid  Is Without Loss Single U.S. Plane   Supply Bases Ir China Are Hit On Trip

No Superforts Lost in Latest Raid   Jap Bases in China Were Pounded In Sasebo Attack

3 CITIES IN JAPAN, 2 IN CHINA BLASTED   Giant U.S. Bombers Return To Their Base Without Loss

Great Bombers Struck at Japs In China as Well as at Enemy Homeland Naval Yard

, SUPER-BOMBERS HIT 5 TARGETS ON2ND MISSION   THREE BLOWS FALL ON JAP HOMELAND AND TWO IN CHINA

NO SUPERFORTS LOST: BASES IN CHINA ALSO HIT   5 Major Jap Centers Blasted in Raid by Huge U. S. Bombers

Superforts Strike Five Jap Bases   No Ships Lost in Raids on Homeland And China Supply Lines

Sasebo, Yawata and Omura Targets of 2d Super-Plane Attack   HANKOW IS BLASTED   Yank Fliers Also Pound Port of Laoyao; All . U. S. Craft Safe

B-29’s Hit 2 Targets; No Losses   Encounter Weak Fighter Opposition; Chinese Port Is “Included in Raid

Enemy Industry, Navy Bases Hif By Big Bombers  2 Targets In China; Nipponese Ack-Ack, Fighter Opposition To Assaults Light

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, YAWATA WAR PLANTS AND OTHERS HIT BY AMERICAN SKY FLEETS =   Super Forts Encountered Only Weak Fighter Opposition and Light Anti-Aircraft Fire. None Lost Sav Americans: Japs Say Four Downed

B-29s’ Raid on Jap ' Targets Fulfilled + Without Any Loss   Vital Naval, Industrial and Steel Centers Hit by Superfortresses

Naval Base And War Plants Pounded   Raid Announced As Bombs Fall On Enemy Targets

3 Targets Hiti in Big B29 Raid   Jap Industrial and Military “Nerve Centers Pounded; No U: 8: Losses

TWO CITIES IN CHINA ATTACKED   None Of Big Bombers Lost In Blows At  Sasebo, Yawata

3 Vital Targets In Japan, 2 In China Pounded   Enemy Nerve Centers Are Heavily Hit With All Of Raiders Returning

lowa Solons Vote to Turn Down Tax Veta   Roll Call of Senate on Tax Measure Is Listed Showing Division

. Hope Japan _May Iry To “Save Face’   VU. S. Report On Foe’s Cruelty Released In Belief Japs May Seek To Improve Treatment Of American Captives

American Troops Within Three Quarters Of A Mile Of Outskirts  SIX MILE ADVANCE ON GAP EAST OF METZ  Allies Advance Five Miles On 300 Mile Front North — And South Of Metz

FIGHT RAID 0 SCHOOL FUNDS   Senate Finance Committee Seeks Relief For Taxing Units

REDS NEAR HOME SOIL QF GERMAN)   Soviet Troops Smash Through Suwalki Triangle In Rapid Advance.   RIULELETIN

Prussia Triangle Entered   Russian Trap on 300,000 Germans Is Drawn Tighter

SOVIETS SEIZE STRONGPOINTS NEAR WARSAW   Bad News for Germar Forces Continues  To Pour In

ASSED SOVIETS TTAGK PRAGA, ARSAW SUBURB   Germans Admit Loss of Kaunas

KAUNAS FALLS WHILE SOVIETS STORM AHEAD   Former Lithuanian Capital Left Behind As Reds Push Their East Prussia Conquest

‘ Churchill Reveals Britain Will Pay U. S. in Cash :For All Materials After Germany Is Defeated

Britain and U. § Form New Pact  British Looking to Postwar Export Trade

British-U. S. Trade Arrangement, Churchill Says, Provides for Cash

Far-Reaching Trade Pact Is Revealed By Prime Minister   Rv JOHN F. CHESTER

REVEALS TRADE PACT WITH. §.   Churchill Disoloses far Reaching Agreement Regarding Materials. «   SEEK TO REGAIN TRADE

Lend-Lease Halved After Nazi Defeat,  Premier Says   Churchill Reveals Far-Reaching Accord With Washington; England To Pay Cash

NEW U.S.-BRITISH TRADE AGREEMENT IS FAR REACHING   Churchill Reveals Plan Where After Nazi Conflict Ends  _ Lend-Lease Will Be Cut by Half—Britain to Buy Export, Materials 

LEND-LEASE TO BE HALVED ON V-E DAY   Britain, However, to Buy Goods From U. S. for Re-export on Cash Basis, Churchill Discloses to  Waneon af Cammoanea

Churchill Reveals Far-Reaching U. S.Empire Trade Plan   Lend-Lease Material To Be Re-Exported by United Kingdom

Lend-Lease To Britain Will Be Cut   Pay US In Cash When Nazis Fall

To Reduce Lend -Lease To Britain   Agreement Provides That British Pay Cash For Any Goods Intended For Re-Export

Churchill Gives New Trade Angle   Britain to Pay Cash, Halve Lend-Lease After German Defeat

LEND-LEASE T0 BRITAIN WILL BE CUT IN HALF   On Germany’s Defeat, English Will Pay Cast For Re-Exports

CHURCHILL STATES  LEND-LEASE BE CUT  AFTER NAZI DEFEAT PRIME MINISTER MAKES  STATEMENT TO COMMONS ON MATTER

England To Cut Lend-Lease Inflow From America In Half After Defeat Of Germany   Churchill Announces New Trade Arrangement With U. S.

FAR REACHING TRADE TREATY NOW REVEALED   Churchill Says British To Pay For Suppiies

U. 5. and Britain Agree Upon New Trade Compact   London Will Pay For Goods Used For Final Export

Lend-Lease Will Be Cut in Half as  Nazis Are Beaten  Britain Is Making Plans To Rebuild Her Vaet Exnort Trade

Trade Compact Of U. S., Britain Has Wide Range   Churchill Reveals Plans; Americans To Cut Iron,  Steel Shipments Jan. 1

Lend-Lease to Be Cut In Half After Germany's Defeat, Churchill Tells Commons   To Pay For Goods For Re-Exporting   U. S. Aet Not Intended to Provide General Relief Or Postwar Recon:  alriretion

British-U. S. Postwar lrade Plan Revealed   Churchill Yells Commons There Is Agreement Beiveen Two Nations Relatine to Lend-Lease.

CHURCHILL TELLS OF U. S-BRITISH LEND-LEASE DEAL   DECLARES WAR AID PROGRAM TO BE CUT AFTER NAZI DEFEAT

Philippines Again Raided By Yank Bombers; Jap Losses Heavy; Ceram Is Attacked By Airmen

AMERICANS ON BIAK ISLAND TO CLEAR ENEMY   New Air Attack Made on Jap Shipping in Philippines

YANKS LAND ON W. COAST OF BIAK 1D.   Also Stage New Air Attack On Jap Shipping

New Landing . Made on Biak   Foothold Will Aid in © Clearing Jap Remnants

Yanks Land On Biak West Coast   Accelerate Mopping Up Japanese In Area

San Vittor. Taken ByAmericanForce   Fortress Village Falls to Clark’s 5th Army After Three Days of Hard Fighting; Weather Slows British

Bitter House - to- House Battle Won By Yanks; Nearly All of German Force in Village Captured

Nazi Garrison  Of San Vittore Falls to Fifth   Clark’s Army Capture: Town 6 Miles from Cassino on Road to Rome: .~ ¢vhting Bitter

NAZI RESISTANCE CRUMBLES WHEN TWO  ~ AMERICAN INFANTRY UNITS MEET AFTER FIGHTING THEIR WAY INTO WRECKED TOWN.

SAN VITTORE FALLS TO CLARK’S TROOPS   ‘Foriress Village * Captured From  Germans After Three Desperaie Davs’ Fichtinrg

San Vittore Falls To Drive Of Fifth Army   Nazi Defense Bastion Captured After Allies Threaten To Outflank It

Fortress Of San Vittore Is Taken By Fifth Army Force  Towering Mount Maio Is Captured To Slice

YANKS CRACK NAZI LINE AT SAN VITTORE   SUPPLY ROAD CUT IN ADVANCE ON CASSINO

San Vittore Captured by Americans   Allied Forces Fight Toward Vital Center of Cassino

d DAYS O STREET FIGHTING   Strong Point in German Winter Line Overwhelmed   PRISONERS TAKEN   Americans Hack Way Fors ward to Storm Mt. Maio, . Cutting Supply Road

Clark's Fifth Army Captures San Vittore   Nazis Are Defeated After Three-Day No-Quarter Battle

Bailey Proposes Byrd and Farley Head Democrats   Expresses Doubt FDR. Will Run

Byrd-Farley State Asked For Demos   Doubt Expressed FDR Will Seek 4th Term

[BYRD AND FARLEY. WOULD MAKE GOOD DEMOCRATIC TEAM:   NORTH: CAROLINA: ‘SENATOR... DOESN'T BELIEVE ROOSEVELT WILL. SEEK FOURTH. TERM

Will Continue  Turkey Season   However, Hancock Meet ing Votes For Lower Bac Limit.

LOWER BAG LIMIT ON TURKEYS VOTED      Group at Hancock Meeting Wants Open Season Continued

Farmers Swamp Missouri Jail   50 Men Surrender On Charges Brought After Race Trouble

Strike of Dock Workers Mars Unloading of Food Carco-for Hungry Greeks

Dewey Announces Conference of GOP Governors   Parley Next Month Designed to Fix Responsibility As Between States, Federal Government

Dewey to Meet With GOP Governors to Work Out State and Federal Rights

Gov. Dewey Declines Comment On President's Announcement; News No Surprise At Capital

COP GOVERNORS TO MEET AUG, 2   Dewey Says St. Louis Session To Determine State, Federal Powers

Republican Governors Called In   Dewey Arranges Two-Day Conference at St, Louis: on August 2-3   ALL 25 RESPOND, HE ANNOUNCES   Unity Will Be Sought.:in Talks on Area of-State aud Federal Responsibility

DEWEY TO ATTEND   Republican Governors Will Hold Conference at  St. Louis

GOP Governors Called by Dewey   Republican Executives to Meet At St. Louis Early in August

26 Governors to Gather Aug. 2 and 3 to Discuss Area of Responsibility Between States and Federal Govern-

Governors fo Hold Meeting   Dewey Calls G. O. P. Conference in St. Louis Auq. 2 and 3

Dewey Is Reported Calling G. O. P. Governors To Kansas City Aug. 2-3

Governors Meet Dewey   Conference Will Be Held in St. Louis To Discuss Campaign

Dewey Calls Meeting (Of Governors   Republican Executives Plan to Attend Session in St. Louis

Dewey Names Meeting Date   GOP Candidate Sets Aug. 2 And 3 For Conference Ot Governors,

CONFERENCE ALL SET FOR GOP GOVERNORS   Dewey Says Meeting Will Be In St Louis August 2-3

Girl, , Blinded in Trying to Save Dog. Finds Her Vision Returning

Surplus Of Meat Held Temporary   Talk Of ‘Famine’ Ahead Traced To Shortage Of Feed

CLEAR AND COLDER   Dripping Clouds Will Leave State Tonight, Says Forecaster

Biggest Aerial Battle in Six Weeks Reported   114 German Planes Bagged to 42 U. §.

Raiders Down 114 Germans   U.S. Loses 36 Bombers, Six Fighters In Mighty Assault

U.5. BigBomber: Blast Central German Targets   114 Enemy Planes, 36 Yank Heavies, Six Fighters Downed

Americans Lose 36 Bombers and Six Fighters in Bitter Struggle Over Leipzig Area—Another Big Fight takes Place Over German Silesia as 500 Heavies Blast Oi! Plants,  - Keavine Them Enveloned in Flames.

IMPORTANT NAZI TARGETS BOMBED   High-priority Plants in Central Reich Drenched With 3,000 Tons of Bombs; Foe Puts up Big Aerial Battle

U.S. Planes Bag 114 Nazi Craft In Aerial Battle   Plane and Oil Plants Blasted in Germany; Italy Bombers Active

CENTRAL REICH CITIES BLASTED   Creat Air — Battle Rages Over Leipzig; Hitler Loses 114 Planes

ligh-Priority Targets. Given Severe Battering; 36 U.S. Bombers Lost

1,100 He av. es Hit: Oil and Plane Plants RAB Nisht Reide-~ fej.) zg

YANK PLANES BLAST TARGETS IN GERMANY   3,000 Tons Of High Explosives Drench Oil Plants At Litzendoff And Bohlen In Leipzig Area

SOVIETS AT DNO DRIVE FOR PSKOV   Steady Progress Made Toward the Baltics.

BOARD AT NEWTOWN SENDS 14 TO SERVE   4 Men Enter Navy and 10 The Army During Past Few Days

MEN FROM BOARD TWO ENTER THE SERVICE   One Becomes A Marine; and Five Enter the Navy Recently   MAKE LIST PUBLIC

New Jap Drive Penetrates India   Attacks On Southern Burma Front Repulsed

Jap Patrols Enter India   Penetrate Manipur Stats But Repulsed In Southern Burma.

J apanese Push Into India At Manipur State   Major. Offensive  ‘Opened In North Burma:: “Allies , ‘Repulse Attacks On Southern Sector

Japs Launch Burma Drive   Raiders Cross Into India; Heavy Attack in Maungdaw Area Repulsed

KAVIENG IS ‘BLASTED IN NAVAL RAID   Battleships Bombarc Nip Base With 1000 + Tons Of Shells

Japs Penetrate State In India   Heavy Attack In Another Area Beaten

JAPANESE CROSS BORDER OF INDIA   Manipur State Penetrated Allies Crush Other Blow

Small Jap Patrols Over India Border   Allies Repulse Heavy Jap Attack in Burma

BULGARS CRY FOR WAR ON THE GERMANS   Rioters Battling Police in Streets of Sofia Shout Demands as Reds Face Frontier of the Balkan  Nation.

Hundreds Of Planes Strafe Foe   Bombers Attack Rail Lines a and Bridges on Retreat Routes   FIGHTERS ATTACK NAZI TRANSPORTS   Tighways Jammed as Enemy Apparently Starts Mass Retreat

FLYING FORTRESSES  BLAST TWO GERMAN  AIRFIELDS AT ROME LIBERATORS AND MEDIUM  BOMBERS ALSO IN ON CENERDAT ATTArY

Two Airfields Near Rome Are Targets   Other Planes Attack Third Drome in Bia American Raid

U.S. 15th Air Force Strikes Telling Blows   Nazi Airports Left -In Smoking Ruin

Billings Man Bags Fifth German Plane In Bombing of Centocelle Airdrome

TAX COMMITTEE SHUNS REQUES!   President’s Bid for More Taxes Ignored

Flew 40 Missions in Europe in Year   Sgt. Nova G. Frasher Recen! ly Returned From Service Outside United States.

Capt. H. L. Campbell Awaiting Assignment 'In Miami Beach, Fla.   } All AAF Personn-t , Assigned To Re “ Camp On Return To US

Lt. Schrecengost Reported at Miami Beach Station   Young Pilot Credited with 71 Missions in 14 Months Overseas

Maj. John Simonton At Redistribution Station In Florida   Returnees Examined At Station And Given New Assianments

LT. W. F. EWALT RETURNS AFTER EUROPEAN DUTY   Ohio Man Completes 54 Missions On B-25 Bomber In Mediter-. ranean Theatre Of Operation,

RED BALTIC DRIVE ALMOST WON; LENINGRAD ARMY JOINS IN SMASH   RUSSIAN PRESS ACCUSES FINLAND OF VIOLATING ARMISTICE TERMS BY AIDING NAZIS TO ESCAPE

REDS LIQUIDATE 10 NAZI UNITS   EXTERMINATION WELL UNDER WAY, RUSS SAY

Enemy on Alert  For Deeper Thrust Into- Philippines  Superforts Hit Nagoya Again; er 873 ope Di ff...  awe om 19 Th

Action Deeper In ‘Philippines Hinted   China Coast Also In For Blow; B-29s Lash Naqova and Leyte Finale Nears

LAST ESCAPE PORT OF JAPS ON LEYTE HIT   Yank Shells “Hammer Palompon; Enemy Raids Mindoro

YOUNGER SCIENTISTS SHOULD BE DEFERRED   President Says Taking Of Such Men Would “Deter The Condact Of The War’

F. D. R. Agrees To Defer Young Scienlific Employees   But President Makes Plain That Many Farmers Under 26 Go T Battlefields

President Agrees Draft Of Scientific Men Under 76 Would Hurt War Effort

1,200 Bombers Blast Deep Info Germany  Liberators Drop  Supplies to Poles in Warsaw

BOMBS SCOURGE CENTRAL REICH   Industrial Cities Are Targets For 1,200 U.S. Planes

BLAST KASSEL. MUNICH AREAS   Yank Bombers Hit Reich Targets, Fighters Aid Along Battlefronts

KASSEL AND OTHERTARGETS ARE BLASTED   By 1,200 Heavy Bombers Deep Into Central Germany With No Interference From Nuzis.   Attack Calais

Bombers Hit Kassel and Munich Area   Also Continue Assault Along Buillefrout Despite Bad Wedther

GOP Senators  Favor Warren As Vice-President  Rusalene J. ¢ .... 3   Bricker Is Second Choice in Poll By Associated Press

GOP Favors Gov. Warren As Vice President  Press Poll Civac   Press Poll Gives California Solon Comfortable Lead

 Warren, 2-I vice presidential choice, jissues flat disavowal of aspirations

FAVOR WARREN AS GOP ENTRY   Better Than Two'to-One Choice of Senators

Governor Warren Leads Vice Presidentia: Poll Of Renublican Members Of Senate

WARREN FAVORED FOR SECOND PLACE   CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR LEADS 2 TO 1 IN POLL OF REPUBLICAN SENATORS.

Sub-Body Urges Pearl Harbor Probe   Immediate Inquiry  By Congress Asked Cite Many  Stories Heard

Ask Congjess Probe Attack  : Say Armed Forces   Might Be ‘Biased’

Pearl Harbor Argument: House Committee Urges Immediate Probe, but Democrats Oppose Ii

Story Of a Doctor Is Bond Premiere Feature Tuesday   Jimmy Wakely To Appear At Rally

Story Of a Doctor Is Bond Premiere Feature Tuesday.   Wild Bill Elliott, Aadele Mara, Jimmy Wakely To Appear At Rally

Reds Broadening Front ForDriveAcross Slovakia; Peace Request Imminent’

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses But  Are on Offensive  Allied Patrols Have Advanced 28  RATT. Alene Deel

JAP LOSSES RISE AS THEY LASH OUT NEAR MANIPUR   Suffer Heavy Losses As They Seck to Regain Lost Positions—Allies Advance 28 Miles North of Imphal

Japanese Resume Offensive in India   Enemy Seeks to Regain Positions But Is Paying Dearly for Attempt

Japs Go Over To Offensive   Attack in All Areas Of Manipur Hill Front in India

Japs Launch Strong Drive; Losses. Heavy  : Aim To Recanlure   Aim To Recapture Lost Positions In Northern India

Big Momentum   Seek To Regain Lost Positions; Suffer Heavy Casualties.

Jap Manipur Offense Gains Big Momentum   Seek To Regain Lost Positions; Suffer Heavy Casualties.

Japs Launch Offensives  In All Areas   Allied Reports Say Enemy Losses Heavy; Little Headway Made

Japs Trying To Regain Lost Ground. With Drive   Manipur Hill Area Scene Of Fighting

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses But Are on Offensive  Allied Patrols Have Advanced 28 Miles Near Imphal

Japanese Launch New Offensive in Northeast India   Foe Suliers Disprepertionale Leases in Pre-Mensoen Spurt,

Japs Attempt Imphal Blow   But Lose Heavily and Allied Forces Work Forward Along Road

MANY STUDENTS TO. GET SUMMER JOBS      Increase Reported in De mands for Social Se- 7 curity Cards _

MANY STUDENTS 10. GET SUMMER JOBS   Increase Reported in Demands for Social Security Cards

POPULAR COUPLE. MARRIED AT GAMP   Pfc, ‘Louis' Hartman and Helen ‘Lancaster Ex' change Vows

Outcome of Fight May Determine Pacific Control   Nimitz Says Nippon Fleet Has Emerged From Home Islands

Navy Battle Near Saipan Is Rumored  { '    No Authentic or Detailed Reports — Tokyo Radio Broadcasts Heard

CONTROL OVER PACIFIC AREA SEEN AT STAKE   Nimitz Reports Jap Fleet Out Between Marianas And Philippines

Tokyo Says Big Fleets Are Engaged   U. S. Fifth Fleet May Have Caught Uj With Jap Armada.

ALLIES IN NANCY FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES FOR METZ   Signs Point to Full-Scale Frontal Attack Against Seigfried Line

Patch’s Men Slash Across Border Near Wissembourg Plan Attack on Siegfried

GEN. PATCH’S MEN SLASH ACROSS BORDER AND DRIVE ON FOR SIEGFRIED LINE LESS THAN A MILE AWAY; TOOK SEVEN MONTHS FROM DAY FORCE LANDED.

MIRAGLE AND GUTS SAVED BRIDGEHEAD   Bologna is Approached By Force of Americans

Living Thru Hell In Wet Foxholes, Doughboys Save Vital Bridgehead

Cecil B, DeMille Ready ‘To Give Up Radio Job ‘Rather Than Pay $1 Fee

SENATE PASSES DEBT LIMIT BILL   CABARET TAX SLASH BILL GOES TO HOUSE

National Debt . ; Po Eimitis: Raised     Senate Increased. It. From » $210 Billion: to $260  oo pee

Senate Ok's US. Debt Rise   Boost of 50 Billion Voted; Cabaret Tax Reduction Approved

‘SENATE PROPOSES TO SLICE CABARET TAX 10 PER CENT   Pass Bill to Raise Debt Limit te New High After Attach Woe tee Amendment—-

BILL RAISING DEBT LIMIT 1S PASSED      Senate Approves Raise tc $260 Billion; Adopt Cabaret Tax Amendment.

Senate Passes Bill For More Money   Measure Now Goes Back To House for Action

Debt Limit Hike Voted By Senate  Cabaret Tax Reduction Added TT OF Kn ecoome

Senate Votes Cut To 20 Per Cent  In Cabaret Taxes Upper House Passes  Bill Raising   National Debt Limit

Debt Limit Shot Up to $260 Billion   Senate Reduces Cabarel Fax and Exempt  Soldiers from Levy

WEWAK FIELDS SWEPT CLEAN OF AIRPLANE:      188-Ton Bomb Attack Wipes Out Nips’ Air Strengi:

Jap Airdromes at Wewak, Sorong Blasted   Bombers of the Fifth Air Force Range Across New Guinea

Irish Are Asked to Act as: Anti-Espionage Measure to Protect Allied Troop Moves

U. S. ASKS EIRE TO CLAMP DOWN ON ENEMY SPIES   Action Is Taken To Protect Allied Troop Movements; Policy Is General

U.S. Asks Eire     To Close Nazi, Jap Leaations   Would Protect Allied Troops In Ulster From Axis Activities

ALLIES 10 PLUG POSSIBLE LEAKS OF ARMY SECRETS   Neutral Eire Asked to Close German and Japanese Of. fices to End Worries 0 Two Nations.   BRITISH APPROVE REQUEST FROM AMERICA   State Department, Irish Legation at Washington Re fuses to Make Comment: on Situation.

United States Asks Fire to Close Nazi and Jap Legations   Request Part of Allied Effort to Prevent Espionage

Oust Axis Aides, U.S. Plea to Eire   DE VALERA REPLY IMPLIES REBUFF

Ask Ireland Close Axis Consulates   United States Requests Move to Hamper Axis Spies

Ask Eire’s’ Aid in Anti-Spy Activity   U. S. Requests Closing Of German Legation  And Jap Consulate

U.S. PRESSING NEUTRAL ERE   Asks Closing of Axis Con. sulates As Anti-Spy Measure

A Promise To French   Hull Says U. S. Will Aid Committee in Governing Freed Territory

REDS SURGE ON TO ANNIHILATE CORNERED NAZIS   Fighting Flares in Italy With Allies Scoring Limited Successes   Bv RICHARD McMURRAY

More Nazi Plane Factories Targets For Allied Attacks   Russians Regain Crimea’s Kerch as Italian Front Livens

Hundreds Swarm Over Reich, Big Battles Raging   Raid Follows British Attack Upon Continent

Reds Rapidly Pushing Foe: from Russia   RAF Stages - 900-Plane  Raid; New Action Springs Up. in Italy

Great Land Armies Of Russia Knife  Deeper into Crimea After Fleeing Nazis

AN ESTIMATED 7,000 TONS OF  BOMBS DROPPED ONMORE THAN 20 RAIL AND AIRCRAFT POINTS .   60 Hours of Almost Continuous Bombing. Round-: ed Out as Part of Pre-Invasion Campaign, Which. : Aims to Cripple German Air Foree and. Aircraft:  Banrtariac

AIRCRAFT FACTORIES DEEP IN GERMANY ARE BOMBED ON TUESDAY   _ BERLIN REPORTS HOT FIGHTING IN AIR AS BIG BOMBERS ATTACK

Nazi Air Force Crippled Anew By Air Attacks   Reds Knife Deeper In  Crimea, Rumania

Northern Kuriles Islands Blasted   Island of Onekotan Hit For First Time

U. S. BOMBERS RAID NORTE: KURILES AGAIN   Foe Fails to Send Up Aerial Resistance

Two Twisters  Hit Oklahoma   At Least Four Others Are Sighted, But They Do Not Hit Ground

QUUTEERN GROUP ASK G.UP'O FUR FUSION TICKET   Want a Regular Democrat for Vice President

SOUTHERN GROUP ASK 6.0.P'S FOR FUSION TICKET   Want a Regular Democrat for .. Vice President

SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT GROUP ~~ . URGING 6.0,P, FUSION. MOVE   BLOC OF INFLUENTIAL SOUTH. ERNERS PROPOSE DEMOCRAT FROM SOUTH Ad VICE PRESIDENT

Extenision Summer . School Offers Courses In’ Edu- cational — Studies - For Teachers and Others

MOTHER, SON TELL JURY OF WIDEN KILLING   Soldier Son Of Slain Mine Foreman Didn’t See Father Shot Or Killed

RUTH LITCHEN IN PANEL   Is Attending Social Studies Conference in Cleveland

STRIKE SCANDALOUS LABOR BOARD SAYS   Workers Quit Over Size of Timekeeper Booth Door

Angry Huns Murder Ley, Report Says   Nazi Labor Front Leader Declared To Be Victim Of Irate Workers

Bond Buying On Rise Here   Interest in Television Show Causes Wide Demand for Tickets With Purchases

This Week Is Major One Of WarLoanDrive   County Has Far To Go; Several Sales Over County, Thursday Big Day

Final Report On Loan Soon   Several Days Before Pontotoc County’s Fifth Loan Showing Completed

County's War Bond Buying Still Is Slow   Saturday's Report Shows $175,000 Toward Quote Of $1,054,000

Ahloso Over Bond Quofa   Bebee Sale Tonight; Ten Corporations Notify Chairman of Bond Allocations

Luxembourg Falls, Aachen Under Fire   First Army Battles Into Barrage Zones of West Wall Near Liege   PLANES RAID METZ   All Allied Offensives Linking Into Solid Front Along Reich

U.S. First Army Fights Way Into ‘Siegfried Areas   Doighboys Reach Barrage Zones und Minefield OF German Fortification Thro Luxembourg   Aachen In Reich  Being Shelled   Beitish Exeente Mass Slaughter of Enemy As Avlied Forces Gird For Showdown

J. S. FIRST ARMY PUNCHES ESS THAN TEN MILES FROM AXIS BORDER IN TWO PLACES   adio Broadcasting From Brussels Says the British Have Crossed The Netherlands Frontier For the First Time   UXEMBOURG FALLS TO DOUGHBOY COLUMNS

Americans Bombard Nazi City   Troops In Duchy 10 Miles From Reich, 25 Miles From Saar Cities

U. S. Forces Hurl Shells Into German Soil for First Time in History

NAZIS ROUTED AS REDS PUSH »ON BUCHAREST   Final German Stand Is Ex pected In Balati Gap Area

NAZIS SHOOT ROMANIANS: REDS ADVANCE   Fire on Units That Seek to Carry Out Peace Move; Soviets Make Further Gains.

Soviet Drive On Bucharest Still Rolling   Nazis Hold Little Hope Of Stopping Before Galati Gap

Reds Herding ‘Enemies Back On Galati Gap   Disorganized Nazis 5 Racing for Barrier Qn Romanian Border

Russians Pursue Fleeing Germans  At Rapid Pace   ‘Enemy Loses All Hope of Stopping Onslaught Short of Galati Gap

Long hidden luftwaffe is again active  Nazi planes are eager for battle

CITIES WILL REVERT TO STANDARD TIME   Marysville Among Those  Who Will Change.Gct. 1

YANKS SO MILES ~ FROW: LEGHORN   HURL, NAZIS” FROM ITALIAN - COASTAL TOWN: AFTER ‘SAVAGE BATTLE.

Yanks Advancing In North Italy   Nazi Putting Up Tough Resistance

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YANKS WITHIN 30 MILES OF LIVORNO PORT   Eighth Army Forces Make  Limited Gains At Main  Point Of Attack West And Fast Of Lake  Trasimeno

Yankees Push  Nearer Livorno   Also Hurl Germans Out of San Vincenzo  After All Night Battle

YANKS PUSH CLOSER iv LIVORNG PORT   After Savage All-Night Battle; Hurl Germans Out of San Vincenzo; Ferocious Resistance.   French Advance

YANKS CONTINUE CAINS IN ITALY   Enemy Hurled From Citys On Coast; Terrain Aids Kesselring

SEE HIGH POLIO PEAK   Natonal Outbreak May Be the Largest Since 1916.

GOP Sends 7  Men To House Wisconsin Elects Two Demos, Progressive

BRITISH DRIVE NAZIS BACK Oh DUTCH FRONT   Canadians Aid Advance; Make New Landings Near Antwerp; No Change in American Sector.

NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLING IN SOUTH HOLLAND   New Landings Reported Ir Drive To Clean Enemy Out Of Antwerp

Nazis on Run In Southwest Holland Area   Defenses Crumbling As Allies Close Upor Tilhure and Bergen

WALLACE BACK IN CAPITAE AFT: R VISIT TO CHINA   Will Report Later To To President on His N gion to Far Fast

WALLACE IN CAPITAL FOR REPORT ON TRIP   Vice President Returns And Will Meet With Roosevelt

Vice-President Leff On His Own   FDR Won't Intervene To Back Wallace

Deep Mud, Heavy Rain in France   Ground Operations. Are Slowed; Canadians Make One-Mile Advance   GEN. MONTGOMERY’S DRIVE FALLS SHOR]   More Room Gained, But Attack Fails to Bring Out Main German .Forces

GERMANS TRYING TO SAVE HITLER   Field Marshal Von Kluge Orders ‘Necessity’ for Loyalty to Fuehrer

Bulletin n German Cri  Von Kluge Pleads With Soldiers To Maintain Loyalty to Hitler

CROPS BENEFIT BY : ~ RECENT SHOWERS      Total Rainfall for Twe  Days Is .81 of an — leach

CROPS BENEFIT BY RECENT SHOWERS   Total Rainfall for Two Days Is .81 of an Inch

NEW DEFENSES COMBAT ROBOT   Church and Hospital Struck as Germans Step Up Terror Raids

NEW DEFENSE USED AGAINST “BUZZ BOMBS"   Nature Kept Secret; Robots Still Falling on England

Curtin, FDR to Confer on Pacific Pact   Australian Prime Minister and 16 Aides Enroute to Washinaton. London —

Clark Assures Men of Future Nazi Smash   FIFTH ARMY TOLD OF GAINS, EQUIPMENT BEFORE BATTLE START

‘With Ernie Pyle at the Front  U.S. Army Based in Englanc Is Strict About Saluting  Proper Uniform Also Very Important;   Proper Uniform Also Very Important; These Two Things Amuse British

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  U.S. Army Based in England Is Strict About Saluting  Proper Uniform Also Very Important; These Two Things Amuse British

FINNS CONSIDER NEW RED TERMS   PARLIAMENT CALLED TO HEAR REPORT ON MODIFIED PROPOSALS

Finns Debate Russ. Terms.   ‘Helsinki Parliament Hears New Proposals; May Yote Tomorrow

Finns Study New Terms   Parliament Expected to Meet in Extraordinary GSeccian on Proposals

Finn Parliament Expected To Hea1 New Peace Offers   Paasikivi Returns From Moscow; Reds Offer Hangoe, ViipuriIn Negotiations: Final Decision Is Expected Tomorrow

DRIVE IS ADVANCING   Allies Moving Up Despite the Worst _ Monsoon Weather

Allies Gain Mile Daily On  Burma Front   Stilwell’s Men Push Back Jans

WARSAW: POLE ARMY YIELDS TO GERMANS   Patriots’ Struggle Hopeless, Bor Ends Fight

Pole Patriots Quit Fight  For Warsaw   Underground Units Capitulate After 63 Days of Battling

Germans Attempt "War of Nerves”’   Burlesque Start Of the Invasion

BRICKERS TO BE DEWEYS’ GUESTS   Two Top Men Of Repub. lican Ticket To Discuss Campaign Issues

Gov. Bricker Sees G.O-P. Gain in ‘Border’ States  Predicts Rennhlican Vic-.   Predicts Republican Vic tory in November Dur ing Talk With Dewey

Bricker And Dewey Meefing In Albany   First Meeting of GOP Standardbearers Since Convention

Missouri Is Claimed By Bricker   ‘Says G.O.P. Will Carrs  State Despite Nomination of Sen. Truman   PREDICTS GAINS IN BORDER STATES      Welcomes All Votes for G. O.P. Ticket, He Says; Exsects Break in Labor Vote

Bricker Predicts Republican Cuts In Border States   Says COP Will Carry Missouri, Truman's Home State—Confers With Dewey on Campaign

Bricker Sees Republican Gain In Border  States  ee TA,   Meets Dewey Todav In Alban

Gov. Bricker Sees GOP Success in Border States  Republican Nominees Hold First Meet To. Man Their Plans

BRICKER SEES AID OF BORDER STATES   Governor Conferring With Dewey Says Missouri Will Go Republican

Says Missouri  To Go to GOP   Bricker Predicts Gains In Border States

Gov. Bricker Sees GOP. Gain in ‘Border’ States   Predicts Republican Victory in November During Talk With Dewey

Bricker Sees 6.0.P. Gainin Border States   Missouri Will Go Republican, He Says At Dewey Conference

BRICKER PREDICTS BORDER STATES GUE   Says Republicans Will Carry Missouri Despite Fact That Truman Is From State

atEo MlaaUU A IN GOP COLUM   Bricker Predicts Party Will Carry Border _ States In November

BRICKER CONFIDENT OF VICTORY IN FALL   Ohio Governor Discusses Plans With Dewey

BRICKER PREDICTS GOOD 6. 0. P. VOTE IN BORDER STATES   Feels Republicans Will ‘Als Carry Missouri, Home State  - of Sen. Truman,-Demo’ Vice Presidential Nomineé—Con ferring With Dewey

Tank Onslaught Threatens Complete Encirclement of Two Reich Cities; Six Enemy Counterattacks Smashed

YANKS STORM MAKE-SHIFT RHINE LINE   Encirclement of Big Border Cities Imminent

TOKYO TO BE BOMBED DOOLITTLE PROMISES   Allied Assaults Will Be Made as Soon as Hitler Finished. He Asserts

Doolittle Predicts Greater Jap Raids   '42 Raid Leader Says Hitler Must Be Finished First, Then Japan.

Doolittle Says ‘Hitler Must Be _.-alefortor Firs!   Ultimate Destination  Tokyo, Noted Flier Points Out

CAPITAL-LABOR RELATIONS BIG POST-WAR ITEM   Far Transcends Reconver‘sion Problem, Says Wolman

‘Free Enterprise’ Must Be Free If Country Is To Prosper, Wolman Says   Collective Bargaining Has Become Colossus Without Necessary Flexibility, Famous Authority Tells Economic Club

Threat To Orne River  Line Posed   Advance Spearhead Two And Half Miles Southeast Of Tourville Which Was Captured EarVier Today   BRITISH ARMOR : BATTERS AHEAD

Tommies Forging Arc Around Caen On Paris Highway   Cherbourg Fall Likely To Convince Nazis  Cause Is Lost

Caen Sector Is Flanked By Advances   British Armor Nears Orne River Bases Of Nazi Legions.

Win Ground In Tank Battles South of Caen   Enemy May Be Near Cracking Point, Report

BRITISH DEEPEN BREACH IN NAZI LINE NEAR CAEN   Orne River Defense; Pose Direct Threat To Are About City

Allies Hit Japs At Manchuria And Shanshai   U. S. Units Reported Ready to Enter Battle for China

Shells Burst At Him   Allied Planes Unleash Heavy Blow On Jap Production Sites

BOMBERS FLAY JAP FACTORIES ON WIDE FRONT   U. S. Infantrymen May See Action In China Soon, Berlin Predicts

Nipponese Production Centers Hit  Berlin Forecasts US Action in China

Berlin Declares Yank Units Set #or China Fight   Jap War Production Sites  Over 3000-Mile Area

UN Bombers Slash Japs on ‘Long Front   Production Centers from Manchuria to Sumatra Attacked By Air Fleet; Road to Philippines Also Hit

Bombers Raid Manchuria, Hit Sumatra Ports  Berlin Claims Yanks Will Fiaht To Save   Berlin Claims Yanks Will Fight To Save China Airbases

Industrial Sections Of Japanese Are Raided   “Broadcasts “Report Major. Air Strikes

U.S.Soldiers Soon To Battle In China, Claim   Meanwhile, Iniportant Japanese War Industry Cen-  ters Listed Allied Targels Over Weekend

U.S. Bombers Slash at Japanese Wa: Production Centers Stretching 3,00C Miles from Manchuria to Sumairc

Ailies Hit Jap War Industry   Yanks To See China Action  y TEFONARTD MITTIMAN

JAPANESE WAR CENTERS HIT BY AIR FORCE   Paving Way For Invasion Of Philippines

War Production on Long Front Bombed   Allied Forces Intensify Steady Pounding of Nips’ Defenses

British Fleet Swings Into Action in Pacific as Allied Bombers Smash Jap War Industries in 3,000-mile Long Area And Blast Invasion Routes to Tokyo, Philippines

Nippos Scourged Over Vast Area   Allied Warplanes Range Hundreds Of Miles

Bombers Fly in from East,  West Fields   British Navy Planes Lash In- daroeng, Sumatra; Yanks Wipe Out 12 Ships 

NEW ANSHAN AND SHANGHAI RAIDS TOLD BY TOYKO   BRITISH CARRIER PLANES HIT WAR PLANT IN SUMATRA

JAP INDUSTRY CENTERS I]   Allied Bombers Hit Targets From Manchuria to Sumatra.

SUMATRA AREAS, MANGHURIA TORN   Shanghai Also Raided Agair In Sweeping Air Blows

Reds Only 10Mi. From Boundary   Open New Drive Upon Lwow And Clos In Upon City  Of Pomoshnava.

NEAR DNIESTER ATTWO POINTS   Last Nazi East-West Rail Threatened

Japanese Naval Force Turns Tail, Flees   Foe Refuses to Risk Engagement With Americans

Sights Yanks, Flees   Over 800 Japanese Planes Destroyed In Past Seven Days

Admiral Turns Air Power On ‘Philippine Bases After Blasting 870 Planes ~

In Week-Long Pacific Battle Yanks Bag 870885 Planes, 73 Ships   With Formosa KO-ed By 3rd B-29 Raid, Japs In Flight, Nimitz Turns Attack On Luzon

Nip Unit Flees Without Firing On U.S.Force   B-29’s Raid Formosa Third Time In Four _ Days; Yank Bombers Sink Two Warships In _ China Sea; Other Planes Hit Hong Kong

Sallies Forth Into Western Philippine Sea To Challenge Third Fleet But Retires Very Suddenly   PLANES CATCH FOE CONVOY, SINE SHIP

Enemy Flees After Seeing U.S. Might   Japanese Retire Without Firing A Shot After Coming Out For Battle:   B-2%s Continue Raids On Formosa   Halsey’s Fleet Turns Its Full Strength Against Philippine Islands

Enemy Cruiser Sunhk.Destroyer Probably Sunk   China-Based Planes Cateh Convoy West Of Philippines To Score Hits

Jap Fleet Runs From Yank : ‘Task Force Near Formosa; 885 Nip Planes Destroyed

SALLIES FORTH, THEN GOES BACK IN HIDING WITHOUT SHOT FIRED   Superforts Make Third Attack On Formosa; ChinaBased Planes Catch Enemy Convoy, Sinkine Cruiser

 Two Warships Sunk As Nips Shun Battle   Power-Laded American Armada Throws Scare Into Enemy Navy

Temperatures   73 Jap Ships Sunk ‘And 885 Planes Destroved in Week

Sedition Attorney Appeals Ninetv-Dav lail Sentence   dJadicial Courtesy

New Jersey Looms As Battleground . . .  President Given 51 Per Cent In Gallup Poll In New Jersey

New Jersey Looms As Battleground -. .  President Given 5] Per Cent  wesc  In Gallun Poll In New Jerset     }

Yanks Destroy Jap Convoy Of 12 Cargo Ships   Eseorting Destroyer and  Two Corvettes Bound  From Truk to Rabaul  - and Kavieng Also Sunk

SUPPLY SHIPS TO JAP BASES G0 TO BOTTOM   I3 Warships Among Those Discovered and Sunk by Far-Ranging American Rambere

JAP CONVOY ALL  BUT WIPED OUT IN 3-DAY ATTACK   36,600 Tens cf Shipping Confined in 15 Vessels Destroyed by Airmen in Running Attack

ALLIED BOMBERS SINK CONVOY OF 15 JAP VESSELS   iJ JT VRE  TWO MERCHANTMEN ESCAPE IN BATTLE Oce NEW IRELAND

15 Japanese Ships Sent To Bottom   Convoy Brings Supplics South Wined Gut hy Planes

15 Out Of 17 Enemy Ships Sent Down   Allies Break Up Cargoes Of Supplies To Hard Hit Bases

Allied Planes Sink 15 Jap Ships Rushing Aid To Hard-Pressed Base:

Jap Convoy Wiped Out   12 Merchant Ships And Three Wareraft Blasted by Airmen

Bombers Sink 15 Jap Ships   Vessels Rushing Supplies to Rabaul  Destroyers

Wipe Out Jap Convoy   At Least 15 Enemy Vessels Sunk By Allied Bombers in Three-Day Attack

Bombers Destroy Japanese Convoy  15 Ships Sunk, Only Two Escape Assaults

12 Merchantmen Rushing Supplies to Rabaul, Kavieng Destroyed.   THREE OTHER SHIPS SUNK

Japanese Convoy of Seventeen Vessels  All But Wiped Ou!   Only Two Ships Escape Fury of American Bombers’ Attack

Jap-Aid Convoy Of 15 Ships Sunk  urther Drives Made a ‘Marshall Islands

Jap Convoy Is Smashed By Bombers   Twelve Merchant Ships, Destroyer And Two Corvettes Sunk During Three-Day Attack

Jap Convoy Wiped Out By Allied Bombers   12 Merchantmen, Destroyer And Twe Corvettes Sunk During Three-Day Attack

FINNS PUSH NAZIS BACK IN LAPLAND   Germans Destroy Bridge, Throwing Arms Into Sea

Americans Capture Robot Plane Bases   Supreme Headquarters Communique Says American Advance Up Peninsula Rapid

FALL OF PORT fi MATTER OF HOURD   Patrols Reach Points Withir Mile of Waterfront   RAPID ADVANCE   Street - by-street Battle in City Predicted; Demolition Squad Active

Infantry Reaches Fringes of Big French Seaport   Only 1,500 Yards From Waterfront

YANKS MASS: OR ADVANCE INTO PORT   Patrols Reach Southern Edges of City as Main Forces Gather on Sur-. rounding Ridges, :   GERMANS ARE BACK TO LAST DEFENSES   Street-by-Street Battle Is Predicted by. Refugees —Enemy Blowing Up Harbor Facilities.

Allies Shower Port With Leaflets Advising Germans To Surrender And Stop Destroying Harhor Installations

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES PART OF FLORENCE   Indicate Nazis To Defend City Declared "Open"

‘Nazis Prepare Io Defend City Despite ‘Previous Reports Declaring it “Open”

ALLIES CAPTURE PART FLORENCE   NAZIS MASS FOR BATTLE NORTH OF ARNO RIVER

FLORENCE IN. BRIT. HANDS   Germans Expected To Defend North Part of City

BRITISH 8TH TAKES QUARTER OF FLORENCE   Faces German Paratroops North of Arno River

Urge U.S. To Gain Perpetual Title To Leased Islands   Extreme ‘Cooperation With Brazil Also  Recommended

"STIMSON FEARS , COUNTER-STABS TO BE VIOLENT   But Beachheads Are Established, Some United, War Secretary Says

AAITS MAJOR GERMAN ATTACKS   Says Full Weight Of Nazi Counterattack Still To Come

Full Weight Of Resistance Yet:To Come   Stimson Looks For Germans To Attack In Violent Fury

Big Nazi Blows  Soon—Stimson Stiff Counterattacks Forecast By Official

Stimson Warns Full Weight of  Nazis to Come   ‘To Our Own Good to Avoid Excesses Optimism or Pessimism’

Stimson Warns Full Weight of  Nazis to Come ‘To Our _Own Good , bo  ra

Full Nazi Blows Coming, Stimson   Just Begihning to Move Mobile Reserves. Secretary Thinks

STIMSON VIEWS BIG FIGHT AHEAD   Urges Public Avoid Optimism Or Pessimism Exceésses

SEES STRONGER COUNTER-BLOWS   Stimson Says Full Weight Of Attacks to Come

HARDCOUNTER ATTACKS ARE ANTICIPATED   Full Weight of German Resistance Still To Come Secretary Stimson Says

IN ATASON CITY   Full Weight of Nazi Counter-Attack Still to Come, Stimson Says

Allies kixpect Counter Drive  At Beachhead   Full Weight Of Attack Still ‘To Come, Stimson Says At Washington

Stimson Warns Of Hun Fury Yet To Come   Tactical Surprise Meted To Germans, Secretary States

Big Artillery Barrage Aids Infantrymen   Spearhead Hammers Close to Lessay; U. S. Forces Continue to  Drive Germans Back

Capture Points near MidNormandy Citadel of St. Lo and Hammer Closer to Lessay.

ENEMY FLANK CRUMBLES IN ST. LO SECTOR   DEADLY ARTILLERY AIDS ADVANCE OF U. S. TROOPS

Tank Battles Rage Following Barrage   Allied Airmen Join Three-Pronged Battle By Blasting German Supply Lines in Rear

Nazis Driven Back by Fire Of Big Guns   Germans Send Their Elite Parachutists Against U. 8S. Troops

Americans Gain In Spite of Hof Artillery Fire   Yank Barrage Too Much for Germans

Allied Airmen Rake German Transport And Supply : Facilities From Brussels In Belgium To  Bordeaux In Southern France

FIERCE BLOW     BY ARTILLERY   Enemy Concentrations at  _ Rear Smashed and  _ Front - Line Troops Killed by Barrage.   U.S. TROOPS USE ~ BAYONETS IN DRIVE   Reach Points Near St. Le and Lessay—Effort to Cut Roads Into Former Town Indicated. 

Americans Attack Under Deadly Artillery Barrage   STEADY PRESSURE ON NAZIS REPORTED   Enemy Being Forced Back Slowly, Eisenhower - Reports

nce Closer to Lessay,  estern Coust Anchor of ‘ollapsiny German Flank

Yankees Drive Nearer to  St. Lo Citadel   Nazis Say Allied Strategy Is ‘Utterly New in History of Warfare’ and Indicate They Are Unable to Cope With It

SENATE DEBATES SURPLUS SALES   Flood Of Amendments To Delay Speedy Passage

Fort Wades Into Hun Air Horde   Crippled Plane Battles 75 Nazis At A Time After Berlin Raid

ONE GROUP OF FORTRESSES . MET SWARMS. OF FIGHTERS   TEAMS OF GERMAN PLANES MADE ATTACKS DURING YESTERDAY’'S RAID ON BERLIN AREA

JUNIOR HOSPITAL LEAGUE TO HELP OLD TYME FAIRE      Plans Made for the Annual New Year’s Ball at Armory

JUNIOR LEAGUERS ARRANGE DETAILS FOR THEIR PARTY   Annual New Year’s Ball December 29  at Armory

Air Assault Is Greatest Of Historv   British Heavies’ Loose 5,000 Tons Of Bombs On Coast

BRIT. BOMBERS BLASTED WAY FOR INVASION   Greatest Air _ Bombardment In History

RUSSIANS ENTER - NORTH SLOVAKL   ADVANCE SIX MILES BEYOND BORDER—TWO MNEMY STRONGHOLDS IMPERILED.

Reds Make New Push Into Slovakia   Additional Hungary Advances Reported

ANOTHER PUSH INTO SLOVAKIA   New Strike in North Perils Nazis at  Presov, Kassa

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO SLOVAKiA   Carpathian Mountain: Crossed Along The Polish Frontier

Russ cross Carpathians  in Slovakia New blow peril fao ctranaghaldc«

Russians Cross Carpathians in Slovakia Drive   Reds Sweep Through 50 More Hamlets in Hungary; Fighting  Near Budapest Eases

RUSS FORCES GAIN 6 MILES IN SLOVAKIA   Carpathian Mountains Along Polish Frontier Crossed

SOVIETS POUND OUT NEW GAINS ON TWO FRONTS   Red Troops Sweep Acros: Carpathian Mountains Along Polish  Frontier

DIOORDERS BREAK UUT IN BUDAPEST   Workers Said Fighting Germans in Capital City   RUSSIANS CROSS   Carpathian Mountains Along Polish Frontier; Threaten Big Rail Center

Soviets Close  On Rail Center   Cross Carpathians Along Frontier of Poland

Russians Gain Dozen Miles In Warsaw Drive   Violent Battle Within 55 Miles Of Rumania

Marines Press Against Enemy Forces   Enemy Bases Swept by Allied Airmen on Big Area

GEN, LEAR HAS NEW COMMAND   Relieves McNair for Vital  Overseas Position

Gen. Ben Lear HeadsGround Forces of U.S.      Succeeds McNair Whe Gets ‘Important Overseas Assignment’

Gen. Lear Heads Ground Forces   Gen. MeNair Given Important Overseas Post

Lear Is Elevated fo Important Pos  Made Commander of Army Ground Troops

NEW CHIEF IS NAMED FOR GROUND FORCES   Lt. Gen. Ben Lear Succeeds Lt. Gen. McNair

Lear In Command of Ground Forces   Will Replace McNair — Who Reports Overseas

Gen. Ben Lear, Criticized ‘In ‘Yoo-Hoo Incident of '41, Heads Ground Forces

GENERAL LEAR COMMANDER OF CROUND FORCES   Lesley McNair, Former Command. er, Given “Important Overseas Assignment”.

Lear fo Lead Ground Troops   Named to Succeed Lieut. Gen. McNair in Command, Announced

LHe Relieves General Lesley J. McNair Who Will Be Sent  To Overseas Assign mmant

Gen. Ben Lear Given Command  Of Ground Unite   Will Succeed Gen. McNair As Latter Takes Over — _Iminortant Assiennient

General Lear Named To Command All Army GroundForces  General McNair Given important Job With Overseas Unit

Lear to Command US Ground Army Relieving McNair   Lt. Gen. McNair Given Important Overseas Assignment.

Gen. Lear Is Named Head OfU.S. Army  Ground Foree   Replaces Gen. McNair, Who Has Been Given ‘Important Overseas Assionment’

Older Men Face Early Summons To Fill Quofa   More Than 262,000 In State Affected By New War Orders

CANADIAN RECORD   Prime Minister Says Largest Number Enlist for Overseas Duty

School Budget Asks Salary  Boost For Local Teachers   County and School Officials Discuss Problems at a , _ Joint Conference—Salary Here Is Low

School Budget Asks Salary y  Boost F or Local Teachers   County and School Officials Discu Discuss Problems at a _ Joint Conference—Salary Here ‘Te Law

ERAL FOR ‘EDV N CROSBY IN WORCESTER   Retired Concord Man Died At Home of Son, Harvey. D. Crosby

au cS ‘IN WORC      Retired Concord Man. Died At Home of Son, Har- — vey.D. Crosby _

SAIPAN RAIDED BY JAP FORCE ON WO JIMA   CLEANUP OF LEYTE PROCEEDS; ENEMY LOSSES 115,875

MINOR DAMAGE DONE BY JAPS IN SAIPAN RAID   Mindoro Free From Attacks After Defeat Of Foe Fleet

Jap Bombers Raid Superfort Bases   } General MacArthur Reports Resistence Has Ceased on Mindoro as Leyte Mop-Up Continues

Jap Planes Raid  Marianas Island  B-29 Nests Again Leyte Mop-Up Yields 912 More Dead Japs;  Quiet on Mindoro

British Subs Sink 11 Ships   Enemy Vessels Go to Bottom Of Mediterranean

WLB CONSIDERS WAGE DISPUTES      6,000 War Workers Walk Out In Protest Over Decision

Two Major Labor Disputes Before National WLB   Tin Can and Glass Jar Employes Demanc Wage Increases;  Can Workers Strike

Workers Stop Over Decision Of WLB Today   Two Major Labor Disputes Over Wages Cause New Labor Troubles

WLB Decision Brings Walkout  6,600 War Workers Quit Work in Protest

War Labor Board Is Center Of Attention As Two Wage Strikes Remain In Progress

BUDGET GROUP IS CHASTISED BY CONGRESS   Lop 25 Million off Appropriation  —  POWERS USURPED     Action Is Slap at Executive Branch

CIVIL FUNCTIONS FUND OPPOSED   Congress Irked at Budget Bureau's‘Action —_-

CONGAceD SLAP BUG:  BURCAU: GUTS ARMY BILL   Appropriations Group Hits ‘‘Usurpation Of Authority”

Maine To Get $4,013,000 For Highways   Federal Aid In Post-War Period

Hurricane  Winds Blow Northward. Tn Atlantie    _ Norfolk. Already ‘Hit ‘ By Strong Gusts

SAY YEARLY COST OF WAR WITH JAPS TO BE 71 BILLION»   Lt. Gen. Somervell Predicts Huge Sum as Cost Per Year te Crush Japan Even After Germany. 1s . Defeated — Urges Production

War Against Japs Alone Will Cost 11 Billion a Year   300,000 War Workers Needed to Produce New Secret Weapons

Says War On Japs Will Cost Us $71 Billion A Year      Somervell Warns ft Will Ke Biggest War World Has Kver Fought; Secret Weapons Being RRoadied.

Conquest Of Japanese Will Cost U. S. $71-Billion Yearly After Nazi Defeat

Jap Conquest To Cost 71 Billions A Year  11 OT. Bight Welds Biodost War: Secret Weapbons 1s Ready

War Against Japs Alone To Cost 71 Billion A Year, Says General   "Somervell Also Reported Vast Number Of Secret Weapons Are Fast Being Readied; More Workers Needed.

War In Pacific Area To! Cost 71 Bidions a Year Alter Nazi. Defeat,  Somervell Says

Jap Conquest To Cost 71 Billions A Year U. S. To Fisht World’s Biggest War; Secret Weapons Ready

WILL COST 71 BILLION A YEAR TO BEAT JAPS   Somervell: 300,000 More Workers Needed in Critical Programs

War With Japs Will Cost U.S. Heavily   Gen. Somervell Says More Weapons And Workers Needed

$71,000,000,000 Per Year Is Cost Of Jap Conquest   Somervell Says War Against Japan Will Be Biggest War Ever Fought.

War Against Japan To Be Biggest Yet, He Believes   Somervell Asks For  300,000 War Workers; Heavy Drain In Shells, Much Equipment Lost

71-Billion-a-Year War With Nips Seen   Somervell Says Fight Will Be Biggest World Has Ever Known Prior to Present Conflict -—Estimate of Arms Needs Up 25 Pct.

Subduing Japan To Be America’s Biggest War Job   Costs Will Run To 71 Billion A Year, Gen.. Somervell Says

Jap War to Cost S71 Billion Per Year Says Leadet   WU. S. Faces Biggest Battle Ever, , , es Drodict.

WAR WILL COST BILLIONS EVEN AS NAZIS FALL   General Somervell Estimates Fight on Japs To Require Vast Sum

Must Produce New Weapons, More Supplies   War Against the Japs Alone to Cost 71 Billions 4 Year

T1 BILLION YEARLY COST OF JAP WAR   Somervill Cites Costs After Germony Is Defented

Terrific Cost of Wor Disclosed in Army’s Appea! for More Supplies

JAP CONQUEST TO BE COSTLY   Supplies Worth 71 Billion A Year Needed, Somer vell Indicates

71 Billions Yearly Needed ‘To Whip Japs   General Somervell Sees Biggest War Ahead; Many Secret Weapons

War Against Japan Alone Will Be Biggest In History, General Says

A LOOK AT THE FUTURE: OFFICER SAYS BEATING \JAPS IS BIGGEST TASK

DEWEY IS WINNER IN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, OREGON   New Yerk Governor Captures State’s 15 Delegates to GOP Convention — Backers Say ‘He’s Beyond Sicpping Now’

Dewey Gains 15  More Delegates ‘Can't Be Stopped Now,’ Supporters Claim

Dewey Assured Of 15 Delegates At Oregon Polls   Suporters’ Of” Governor eclare New Yorker [ “Beyond Stoping Now’

Lead of Dewey Is Overwhelming   New York Governor Picks Up Fifteen Oregon Delegates

Dewey Move Adds Momentum   Silent Governor Gains 15 More Delegates In Northwest Campaign.

Dewey Easy Winner In Oregon Race   Stassen And Bricke: Are Overwhelmed; Sen. Holman Trails

Dewey Winner In Oregon By Big Majority   15 Delegates Captared in Primary as N. ¥. Chief Execative Appears “einbeatable??

Dewey Picks Up 15 More ‘Delegates   ‘Swamps. Stassen, Bricker In Oregon—Ball To Ask Stassen Vote

Dewey Captures Oregon Primary   Backers Claim New York Governor Can’t Be Stanned Now.

Dewey Captures Oregon Delegates   Republicans in Northwest State Express Preference for New Yorker

’ DEWEY PICKS UP 15 DELEGATES IN ‘OREGON PRIMAR\   HiS SUPPORTERS CLAIM HE CAN’T BE STOPPED NOW

U.S. Servicemen Near and Far Will Note Date  Easter Rites Slated In Overseas Camps for Everyone

American Armed Forces Abroad to Worship in Series of Easter _ Services; Broadcast Planned

Armed Forces to Worship Sunday   Series of Sunrise Easter Services Are to Be Held, It Is Announced.

Worldwide Services For  'U.S. Forces   Easter Rites To Be Held Tomorrow Even On Battlefronts

To Worship On Easter   American Troops from Africa to England Will Attend Services

Sunrise Services In War Theaters  U.S. Invasion Troops Te Observe Faster

U.S. Servicemen Near and Far Will Note Date  Easter Rites Slated In Overseas  Fg SORE on eer

Easter Will Be Observed By U. S. Armed Forces Worshipping At Sunrise Services

U. §. Armed Forces Hold Sunrise Easter Services From Italy to London’s Hyde Park

MEN ON WAR FRONTS PLAN EASTER SERVICES  Armed Forces of United States   Armed Forces of United States Worship Tomorrow in Series of Rite:

Pay Raise May Up Steel Cost  OPA Estimates Total - At60to 150 Millions;  ast. Lasrttt B.laA

Massive Assault — On Berlin   About 2,000 American Planes Strike at Reich Capital Today Following Heavy Raid Sunday

Red Bombers Hit Sevastopol : © In New Attack   Berlin Condemned To Death, Cry Nazis; Jap Offensive In India Rushed

Red Bombers Battering Sevastopol   Yank Attack Follows Big RAF Blows in  France, Romania

Raids Follow RAF Attacks  on Hun Cities   Signs of Impending Allie Offensive Seen in Increase of Artillery Action

Romania Bombings Deplete Nazis’ Oil   .- Axis Nervously Predicts Invasion In Few Days

2,000 AMERICAN PLANES BLACKER EUROPEAN SKIES   Invasion Nerve Centers in France. Romania Also Hit. Ploesti Oil Output Hard Hit

Brunswick Also Tar vel of Huge Aestal Attack   Russian Planes Sear Sevastopol  As Air Battles Reach New Heights

Three Fourths of Romanian Oil Cut by Bombings   Russians Increase Their Pressure in Sevastopol Siege

2000 U. S. Planes Hit  4  ‘Nazi Targets   Day Armada Follows British Smash at Romanian, French Centers

NAZI, CAPITALS LEFT SEAS OF FLAME   Germans Pick Mid-May fer Invasion; Ban Railway Travel In France

2,000 U. S. Planes Land Blows Upon  Berlin, Brunswick   British Bomb Romania And Points In France

2.000-U. S. PLANES JOIN IN ATTACK ON BERLIN-BRUNSWICK TODAY; OTHER CITIES BURNING   Aircraft Centers and Other Strategic Military Centers Under Constant Attack. Russians Pound Sevastopol Area from The Air

BERLIN'S RUINS HIT AGAIN BY YANK BOMBERS   Gestapo Clamping Down on Occupied Countries as Big Rush Nears

YUGOSLAVS AND NAZIS IN PITCHED BATTLE   Fight Rages on Upper Adriatic Coast Opposite Strategic Island cf Pug.

PARTISANS IN PITCHED FIGHT   Battle In Progress on Upper Adriatic Near Fiume Approach

RUSS TROOPS 30 MI. FROM BELGRADE   Have Linked With Marshal Tito’s  Men in Yuposlavia

Reds Link Uy With Patriots   Belgrade Defenders Pacing Dual Attack

Jap Landing NearFoocho   New Military Move Aims to Seize Port, Block U.S: Invasion

Japs. Attempt To Take Last Chinese Port   Landing Made— Americans Sink More Enemy Ships

Japanese Landing Force is Reported  Moving on Foochov  Tokyo Radio Says Offensive  Aimed to Block American   Plant to Invade fram Pacific

Planes Sink Nine Jap Ships   Airfields in Moluccas, Celebes Blasted With 134 Tons of Explosives

Jans Land ot China Coast, Tokyo Says   Move Made to Block U. S. Plans To Invade  China from Sea

Jap Landings On China Coast. Near Foochow In Move To Foil U.S. Invasion Are Reported   Tokyo Announces Speedy Drive Toward Last Major Port In Chinese Hands

Japanese Claim  For orces s Landed   In East China   Action North Of Foochow _ Said Aimed At Halting  ~ Yank Plan To” Tieaile

Japs Driving Toward Kewilin   Only 350 Miles To Go To Cut China In Half

Floods on Kansas, Missouri Streams Mount; Five Dead   Thousands Homeless and Fear Spreads Missouri River, Now At Flood. Can Handle Volume

Clear Weather Promised After Flood Damages   Kansas and Missouri Rivers Swollen by Torrential Rains in 2 Days.   5 Deaths Attributed To Flood Conditions

Flood Damage In 2 States Mounts  Thousands Homeless In Kansas And Missouri

DAMAGE MOUNTING FROM THE SWOLLEN STREAMS IN STATE   Rains,- Measuring as Much + as Five Inches, Fell in . Some Parts.   ‘THREE KNOWN DEAD   1  Missouri, Already at Flood ‘Stage, May Handle the ' Water Surplus.

KANSAS AND MISSOURI STREAMS DO DAMAGE; MANY ARE HOMELESS  AT LEAST THREE PERSONS LEFT DEAD AFTER

SWELL RIVERS OVER NATION   Mounting Damage from Flood Waters in Various Sectors Reported. Many Are Homeless

Heavy Rains Leave Five  Known Dead   Thousands Are Homeless, Property Damage Great

Flood Tide Rolls Into Big Muddy   Handling the Missonri Will Be a Fight Al the Wavy Down   THOUSANDS ARE — MADE HOMELESS   At Least’ Five Persons. Killed; Farms. Flooded, Transportation Upset

Flood Damage Mounts   Three Dead and Thousands Homeless as Torrents Sweep Across Kansas and Missouri

MOUNTS TODA   Kansas, Missouri Streams Are Swollen By Torrential Raine,

3 Lives Lost in WidespreadFlood   Mounting Damage Repotted From Missouri and Kansas Overflows   IS SERIOUS AT OTTAWA   Estimated 5,000 Driven From Homes by Water at Wichita

FLOODS DAMAGE EXTENSIVE AREA   Kansas and Missouri Count Increasing Losses—Thousands Are Homeless

KANSAS FLOOD PERIL GROWS   Swollen Rivers Sweep On To Mounting Damage; Three Dead

Kloods Batter Re sp unease   THOUSANDS HOMELESS AS WICHITA SUFFERS WORST INUNDATION SINCE 1904

KANSAS AND MISSOUR  STREAMS DO DAMAGES  MANY ARE HOMELESS AT LEAST THREE PER SONS LEFT DEAD AFTER TORPENTIAT RAING

Five Known Dead in Midwestern Floods: Hundreds Homeless   Hhnois Militiamen On Guard Aided by U. S. Soldiers Today

Seven Injured, One Critically, In Two-Car Collision On Napier Road Saturday Evenina

SEVEN INJURED IN AUTO CRASH   Fred Piedt In a Critical Condition; Driver  Jailed

BRICKER HITS GOV'T WASTE   Says New Deal Uusurpassed for Ingenuity In Spending

Yanks Land At Russian Bases After Bomb Raid   Jungle Troopers Take Important Biak Height

Paris’ Mad Butcher No Myth Of Germans; Reporter Learns Bluebeard’s Multiple Crimes

Allied Troops —  Smash Nazi Lines   German Attacks On Anzio Beach Repylsed

Minor Action Only Along the  Italian Front   Artillery Duels, Patrol Clashes Reported In Several Sectors

Attack at Anzio  Smashed   Nazi Losses Heavy in Hand-to-Hand Beachhead Battle

Italian Troops Atop Marrone Repel Germans   Heavy Artillery Duels And Shore Patrol Clashes Rage At Many Points

Allies Sinash 3 Beachhead RaidsbyNazis   Germans Reported Flood. ing Pontine Marshes to Prevent Rome Push

BEACHHEAD ATTACK BY FLAME-THROWERS REPORTED REPULSED  "ITALIAN TROOPS FIGHTIN  WITH ALLIES OCCUPY

ITALIAN TROOPS ON MT. MARRONE HAVE REPULSED GERMANS  HEAVY ARTILLERY DUELS AND SHARP PATROL CDACUEC PDEPORTEN

Italians Hold To Newly Won Peaks   Nazi Attack Thrust Back With Losses

Allies Blast Beachhead ~ Attack Upon Left Flank       Flame-Thrower Used By German Infantry

REPEL GERMANS ON BEACHHEAD   Italian Troo,s Fighting With Allies Take Hill

ITALIANS SEIZE CASSINO HEIGHT   Enemy Gives Up Hope Of Ousting Allies From Anzio

Mt. Marrone Attack Halted   Italian Troops Fighting With Allies Repulse Nazi Counter-Drive.

Third Peak Taken From Nazi Force   Hill Rome Says All .Cassino. Regained : By Ger, nans 

Re NNO re oe New Nazi Jab Rep ised: on Mt. Marrone      [ali n Units" Di ‘Drive: “Foe Back; Anzio. Yanks Blast Shell Dump

ITALIANS BEAT THE NAZIS BACK   German Counterattack Repulsed Northeast Of Cassino; Heavy Artillery Duels Along Italian Front.

Nazi Attack on Left Flank at Anzio Smashed   Enemy Beaten Off With Losses Reported Heavy

ALLIES STOF FLAME GUNS   German ‘Attack’ at “Anzio Re pulsed: Atalians: Occupy. Anzio Positions. ;

Allies Stop Anzio Attack   German Flame-Throwers On Left Flank Thrown Back; Artillery Roars

Italians Beat Off Germans   Italians With Allied Fifth Army Inflict Heavy Casualties

Allies Smash Attack By Nazi 'Flame-Throwers on Beachhead Gain Anew On Central Front   Anzio Forces Repulse Sharp Assault; Italians Seize Peak On Central Area

Italian Troops With 5th Army Seize New Hill   Germans Claim They Have Regained All of  Cassino, Suburbs

Repel Nazi Attack at Anzio Front   Allies Stop Dnve On Beachhead, Wu Hill Near Cassino

GERMAN FLAME THROWERS FAIL TO MAKE DENT   Allied Troops Smash Aifack on Left Flank of Anzio Beachhead —Nazi Attinde Defensive   -ITALIANS SCORE   Native Troops Fighting With Al lies Occupy Third Peak in Center of Fifth Army Front

Italians Hurl Back Germans   Heavy Artillery Duels Reported at Many Points  aap: ‘abigail ig ae Spite a Sac pe earaa

Stop German Anzio Attack   Italian Troops With Allies Occupy Third Peak in Center of Front

Italian Allies Capture Peak   Nazis Say Cassino Theirs; Anzio Attack Revpaleed

MINOR GERMAN ASSAULTS FAIL IN ANZIO AREA   Allied Air Forces Again Blast At Enemy Supply Lines

NAZIS ARE REPULSED AT ANZIO   ttalians Occupy Third Point _ North of Cassino

Nazi Counterattack Is Repulsed By Italian Troops  Heavy Patrol Action And Artillery Fire Stirs Front

Nazi Flame Thrower Attack Against Anzio Hurled Back   . ° * ,. . Germans Unable To Penetrate Allied Lines: Attackers Beaten Off In Hand-To-Hand Fighting; Italians Take Cassino Hill

Flame-Thrower  ~ Attack Smashed  Allied Beachhead Army Throws Nazis Back

‘TALIANS TAKE THIRD PEAK NEAR CASSING   While Nazi Attack On Allied Defenses On Anzio Beachhead Is Thrown Back With Losses.   Wipe out Convoy

NAZISTAB FAILS ON BEACH-HEAD   Allies Hurl Back ‘Assault Bi Enemy Flame-Throwers

Beachhead Attack Repulsed By Allies   Italian Troops Occupy Meuntain In Canter af MAnin Sth Armu Feant

Italian Troops Repulse Germans   Artillery Active On Cassino Front

Smash Attack On Beachhead South OF Rome   Allied Troops Repulse German Flame-Thrower Raid  On Left Flank.   ITALIANS TAKE PEAK

100 Enemy Planes Are Downed In Raid On Austrian Plants   - Flame-Thrower Attack Repulsed on Beachhead ‘As Italian Troops Capture Third Mountain Peak

Italian Troops Take Peak  Near Cassino   German Attack on Anzio Thrown Back by Allies

Allies Win. New Battle At Cassino   Italian Troops, Joining Sth Army, Capture Third Hill

GERMANS HURLED BACK AT ANZIO   ATTACKS LED ‘BY FL i METHRO: WERS FATE-{NAZIS LOSE. RAK: NEAR CASSIN' a

Enemy Troops ‘Assault Flank Of Beachhead.   Jtalian Troops: ‘Occupy Third Pea kOn Main Sth Army Front—Ene my Flame Throwers Killed or Routed.

Allies Hurl Back German FlameThrowers Attack   Thrust Below Rome Is Smashed; 100 Nazi Planes Downed In Raid on Austria

Anzio Beachhead Attack Smashed By Infantrymen   Italian Units Occupy Third, Strongpoint Northeast of Cassino

ALLIES TAKE THIRD PEAK IN CASSINO AREA   German Radio Claims Nazis Regained All Of Ruined Town

Italian Troops Repulse Germans On Mi. Marrone   Heavy Artillery Duels Waged Along Cassino Front, Sharp Paircl Clashes Reporied

{nfantrymen Smash Attack onAnzio —   Italian Units  Occupy Third German Strongpoint  By Revnoaldce Packard

5th Smashes New German Anzio Thrus’   Flame Thrower Attacks Near Aprilia Beaten in Bitter Fighting

Smash German Attack at Anzio   Italian Troops Occupy Third Peak On Central Front

NEW ATTACK AT ANZIO SMASHED BY INFANTRYMEN   Italian Units Occupy Third Nazi Stronghold In Hills Of Gassino

German Attack Repulsed By Htalian Troons   Victorious Troops Do Good Job With Fifth Army Allies

Allies Smash Nazi Attack   German Flame Thrower Assault Repulsed On Anzio Beachhead

German Flame-Throwers Are: Turned Back At Beachhead;  Ytalians Canture New Peal

BROMFIELD READY TO SUPPORT 6.0,P   Author Says He Will Back Republican Against 4th Term.

BROMFIELD 10 SUPPORT GOP   Noted Author Cites Nation's Need Of Strong Man

BUSINESS HOUSES WRECKED BY BLAZE   Fire Loss at Huntington, W. Va., Placed at $500.000

5900,000 Loss Caused by Fire At Huntington   Miller-Riter Building Destroyed, 10 Shops, 535 Offfers Raval

Investigation of Camp Slot Machines Sought   Nelson Gives Warning.

Senator Requests Investigation Of Army Gambling  Bridges Says Soldiers Lose (Much Pay in Post Slot Machines

Candidates Running Close With Pennsylvania Probably Deciding Factor, Late Survey Indicates

PRESIDENT ON AIR TONIGHT   Expected to Answer Dewey’s Charges Made in Speech Last Night.

PEARL HARBOR PROBE;SOUGHT IN CONGRESS   DROPPING OF COURT MARTIAL  CHARGES HAS AROUSED-. BITTER CONTROVERSY AMONG CONGRESSMEN -

Army, Navy Pearl Harbor Whitewash Brings Angry Congress Inquiry Demand

SHORT-KIMMEL CASE DECISION ARGUSES IRE   Demands Voiced for Full-Scale Inquiry by Congress

Army and Navy Refuse fo Make Reports Public   Demands Voiced In Congress for Further Inquiry

Texas Factions Of Democrats Resume Battle   Party Members Meet Today To Set Up State Organization Ror Next Two Years

Yanks Register Gains In Burma   AMERICANS ACTIVE ON _ THREE. FRONTS IN ORIENT

MARINES SWARM ASHORE; DRIVE TOWARD GASMATA   RIFLE FIRE WAS ONLY OPPOSITION TO THE LANDING

Start Cleaning Up In Bismarck Isle Campaign   Sixth Army Troops Gain Control Of Los Negros, Land On New Britain.   BOMBARD CAROLINES

Allies Leapfrog Closer to Nippon Airbase at Rabaul   End of Campaign in the Bismarck Area Now Clearly  in Sight.   Sixth Army Gets Full Control of Los Negros

HIT JAPS ON THREE. FRONTS   Marines Land Closer Tc Rabaul; Mop Up On Los Negros

gISMARCK FIGHT “SWEARING END   Sixth Army Units In Full Control Of Los Negros Island   MARCH ON RABAUL   Americans Reported 170 Airline Miles From Big Jap Base —

BISMARCK SEA CAMPAIGN NOW NEAR FINISH   Sixth Army Troops Pressing for Windup; U. S. Controls Los Negros.

Bismarck Drive Near Completion  Says MacArth   Sixth Army Now Ir Full Control O Los Negros, Mov Up Coast

Control Of Los Negros Islang Won   Marines in Quick Thrust East of Cape Gloucester

Rabaul Only. 170 Airline? - Miles Distatit   Coastal Drive Brings. U; fi S. Troops Only °50- ‘Miles:  From Gasmata ©: *:

M’Arthur Sa vs Island Seized, Rabaul Raided   Los Negros In Control Of American Forces. Mom-  ate Airfield Repaired By Navv Sea8ees   No Jap Warplanes Appear To Battle   U. S. Destroyers Continue Shelling Islands Held By Japs; Marines Get 2 Aerial Support

WHIP JAPS GN THREE FRONTS   Sixth Army On Move In Bismarck Sea Area; Hold Los Negros

U. S. Troops Whip Enemy On Three Fronts, Control Los Negros Isle

Marines Land on Noith Side of New Britain   American Infantrymen, U. S Trained Chinese - Closing: on Enemy in Burma —

Americans Win Control Of Los Negros Island In Admiralty Group; Bury 479 Jap Dead

SIXTH ARMY TROOPS HAVE GAINED CONTROI LOS NEGROS ISLAND TWO OTHER IMPORTANT  _ ACTIONS BY UNITS OF  §6SCIYTH ALSO REPORTED

Sixth American Army Whipping Japs in Pacific   Activity Mounts On Three Fronts On Bismarck Sea

Rabaul Only 170 Airline Miles Distant   Coastal Drive Brings U.S. Troops Only 50 Miles From Gasmata

Yanks Control Los Negros   Sixth Army Units Within 170 Airline Miles of Rabaul

Navy Raids Paramushiro   Admiralty Atol! Taken Marines Land Near Talaseo, Madang Hit

U; S. Forces Are ;Whipping the Jap On Three Fronts:  Wit Paracel 8 imc .   Win Control of Los  ' Negros and Advance On New Britain .  - And New Guinea

Yank Sixth Army Whips Japanese On Bismarck Sea   Advances Around Edge Upon All Three Fronts

Bismarek Sea Under Tighter Allied Control   New Landing Made On New Guinea— Los Negros Secure

SIXTH AMERICAN ARMY DEFEATS APS ON 3 BISMARCK SEA FRONTS   Control of Los Negros Won: Navy Seabees Make Repairs on Momote Airdrome   RABAUL ACK-ACK HEAVY

AMERICANS IN CONTROL LOS NEGROS ISLAND   Rabaul Again Under Heavy Bombing Attack And Other Jap Positions Menaced

SIATH ARMY Id WHIPPING JAPS ON 3 FRONTS  Progress Is ; Is Reported In Southwest Pacific Today:  CONTROL  OL ISLANE   Score Successes Around Borders Of Bismarck Sez

Landing Effected South Of Rabaul   Twenty-Four Mile Advance Is Made From Arawe

U, 5. UNIT GAINS CONTROL OF LOS NEGROS ISLAND   Allied Troops Within 170 Air Miles of Rabaul in New Britain   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Editor

Bismarck Drive Nearing End As Troops Advance   Army, Marine Forces Threaten Rabaul And Gasmata

U.S. GAINS CONTROL OF TWO ISLANDS   End Of Bismarck Campaign Is In Sight

Full Control Of Los Negros Won by Yanks   U. S. Forces Whip Japs ~ On Three Fronts In .  Bismarck Area

Sixth Army in Total Control Ot Los Negros   Advance To Within 170 Airline Miles Of Rabaul, Fifty  Miles From Gasmata

Allied Force But 10 Miles From Rabau!   Marines Leap-Frog Up New Britain Coast: Los Negros Isle In 6th Armv Hands

Cleaning Up In Bismarck Area   Yanks Whipping Japs On Three Sides; Airdrome On Los Negros Repaired

U. S. FORCES LEAP-FROG UP NEW BRITAIN   New Landing Oppesed Only by Rifle Fire, MacArthur Reporis— Rabaul Bombed Again   CLEAR LOS NEGROS   Americans Control Admiralty Island, Put Momote Airdrome in Repair Ready for Use -

Yankee Sixth Army Whipping Japanese Along Three Fronts   Filling in Details _ of General MacArthur's Recent Prophecy

YANKS SCORE NEW GAINS IN PACIFIC WAR   Control Los Negros, Ad. vance in New Britain anc Are Springing Trap on Burma Japs.

CAMPAIGN END IN SIGHT   Today’s MacArthur Statement Implied As U. S. 6th Army Gained Control of Los Negros

Japs Are Beaten On Three Fronts   American Sixth Army in Southwest  ‘Pacific Wins Control of Los Negros  _ Island And Makes Leap Frog Advance of 10 Miles on New Britain.   GAINS ON NEW GUINEA

END OF DRIVE IN BISMARCK NOW IN SIGHT   Control of Los Negros Is Wrested From Enemy, With Yanks Landing On N. Britain Coast   AIRDROME IS REPAIRED

U.S. 6th Army Widens Gains In The Pacific   Gain Control Of Los Ne gros, Leap Frog On New Britain

GAINGONTROL OF LOS NEGROS   Troops Also Leap-Frog to Within 170 Airline Miles Of Rabaul.

Bismarck Campaign Near End   American Troops Surge Closer to Rabaul and. Gasmata on New Britain; Hold Los Negros

MAKE LANDIN IN VICINITY ~— OF RABAUL   Drive Within 50 Miles Of Base At Gasmata   MOMOTE AIRFIELD   Repaired For Allied Use; Ponape And KusaieAgain Raided

6th Army Drives Up New Britain Coast   Control of Los Negros Is Achieved

Win Control Of Los Negros Island. ....  Americans Beat Japs On Three Fronts In Bismarck Sea Sector

U.S. 6TH ARMY WHIPS JAPS ON THREE FRONTS   Southwest Pacific Advance Continues; Trap Closes On Enemy In Burma

Paramushiro Northernmost Jap Island   Nearly S00 Miles Southwest Of U.S. Base On Attu

Paramushiro Is Far North   Island Chain to South Would Make Landing Difficult

PARAMUSHIRO IS NEAR ATTU ISLE   Target of Yanks’ Bombs Northernmost of Home Islands of Japan

Soviets Open 3rd Front In Hungary  Near Tatar Pass   Poised To Cross Into Territory Stolen From Slovaks

THIRD FRONT ON HUNGARY   Also Make New Gains on Riga, Latvian Capital

‘Reds Strike Balkan Foe On Two Sides   Move Over Carpathians 30,000 Nazis Killed  , J et.

Russians Open Third Front Into Hungary   Army Within 3 Miles Of Tatar Pass Into Hungarian Plains

RUSSIANS IN THIRD DRIVE ON HUNGARY   Troops Thrust to Within 3 Miles Of Tatar Pass   Hundreds Killed

THIRD FRONT IN RED DRIVE UPON HUNGARY   Russian Forces Breach Main German Defenses and Threaten Frontier.

Russians Breach ‘Main Defenses In Strong Thrust   New Gains Announced In- Attack On Riga, Capital of ‘Latvia -

REDS OPE FRONT AGAINST: HUNGARY TODAY   Thrust Into Carpatho-Ukraine Carries Near Historic Tartar Pass

Russians Begin Third Assault Against Hungary   Drive Carries Forces Toward Historic Pass

Powerful Yank Columns Squeeze German Keystone   British Fight Off Five Hun Divisions At East End Of Line, Crash Evrecy And  Noyers; Americans Clear Lessay.

YANKS BATTLE WAY INTO CITY FROM 3 SIDES   Street Fighting Said Already Underway, Attack Growing

Jap Sea Forces Hunt New Bases In Philippines   Yank Raids Also Have ‘Broken’ Island Aerial  I ¢.. 7 RI? Se

Harvard Dean New WashingtonBishop   Dr. Angus Dun, 5]. First Bishop Consecraled In National Cathedral

Idle Trucks to Be Rolling Monday Mort  Unions and Operators Co-operating Fully to End Serious Tieup

FREIGHT SERVICE IN MIDWEST WILL RESUME AUG, 14   Trucks Ready to. Roll After Unions and Operators Reach Agreement

LONG - MISSING MAN IS LOCATED   Wisconsin U. Professor Disappeared In 1930

19 REGISTRANTS TO TAKE EXAMS   Group to Leave Today For Philadelphia; List Of Men Is Announced

THREE AND A 1-4 MILLION BUSHELS CORN   Upward Revision on Estimated Yield for U.S. With Bumper Crop Being in Prosject

OVER 6,000 PLANES HIT AT GERMANS   3,100 Big Bombers Blast At Targets In Naziland

BOMBERS SMASt REICH IN WAR'S HEAVIEST RAIDS   7,000 Allied Planes in Air

3,100 BOMBERS HIT NAZIS FOR HEAVIEST RAIDS   3 Great Fleets Make Assaults From British and Italian Bases

Yanks and RAF Make Greatest Atfacks of War   8,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Targets

4000 PLANES DROP   New Peak Is Reached By U. S.. British  Reiders

British Have At Least Million Troops in That Theatre with Plenty Equipment Although Jap Infiltration Through Jungle Area Has Reached  Penvince af Manmur

High Command's Assurances Should Dispel Concern   Mackenzie States No Reason to Doubt Allies Have Plans in Hand

FAVORABLE ALLIED ASSURANCE REGARDING JAPANESE INVASION ‘OF INDIA SHOULD DISPEL FEAR

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE axccaciated Press War Analyst

20 Billions Is Lend-Lease — 3-Year Total   Reverse Goods Received by U. S. Two Billions in Same Period

LEND-LEASE AID ~1523 BILLIONS IN THREE YEARS   14 Per Cent of Money Spent By Americans For War Goes . For Assistance of Needy Allied Nations.   UNITED STATES GIVEN 2 BILLIONS IN RETURN   Report Made: on Third Anni niversary States Allies Contribute to Full Ability  of Resources.

LEND-LEASE PROGRAM THREE YEARS OLD, HAS BEEN AID TO ALLIES  HAS USED 14 CENTS OF  Wit MrEPFéim Fr

Lend-Lease Used 14 Per Cent  Of War Finances  Report Says Nations Are Sharing in Correct Proportion

Lend-Lease Takes Up 14 Cents Of Each American War Dollar, Report Says

U. S. Lend-Lease Aid Is Now 20 Billion   ‘Program, Three Years Old Today, Requires 14 Cents Out of Every Dollar of American War Expenditures, Report :Shows.

Crowley Tells About the Cos! of Lend Lease   Takes 14 Cents of Each Dollar Raised for War Purposes

Lend-Lease Used 14 Per Cent Of War Finances  Report Says Nation Are Sharing in

Lend-Lease 3 Years Old   Program Has Piled Up More Than 20 Billions Of Aid to the Allies

U.S, LEND-LEASE AID RUNS INTO BILLIONS   Americans Get Variety or Reverse Operation

14 PER CENT OF WAR TAXES GO TO LEND-LEASE   \Not Too Much, Crowley Says In Report to Congress

War Burden Is Shared Equally By United Nations   Crowley Estimates U.S. Has Received Two Billions Under Lend-Lease Praaram

Lend-Lease To Allied Nations Tops $20 Billion In Three-Year Period

20-Billion Aid To Our Allies   Fourteen Cents of Every Dollar of War Expendh tures to Lend-Lease.

PLANES BLAST ie L FORCES "IN GREEK WAR   POLL WEIGHT OF BRITISH MIL‘TARY POWER IN ATHENS THROWN AGAINST REVOLT ARMY

BRITISH PLANES BOMBING GREEK ' MILITIA FORCES   4000 Partisans Reportec "Massing for Attack on Athens

RAF FIGHTERS RESUME ASSAULT ON GREEK CAPITAL   Attacks at Dusk Last Night Failed to Dislodge Rebellious Forces

British Planes In Fight to Quell Greek Rebellion   Partisan Troops Massing for All-Out Assault

SH P SWING INTO ACTION   7,000 Partisan Troops Mass for All-Out Assault on Athens

DEPUE STORE OF GUY JENSEN TO BE CLOSE   One Of The Oldes' Business Houses In This Vicinity

DEPUE STORE OF GUY JENSON IS TO BE CLOSED   One Of The Oldest Of Busines: Houses In This Vicinity Wil Quit After Stock Is Sold Ou At Private Sale.

DAVIS CHOSEN IN LOUISIANA   WINS GOVERNORSHIP NOMINATION FROM FOLLOWER OF LONG

Long Regime Loses Election In Louisiana   Democrat Wins Congress Seat From New York

Long Forces Go to Defeat   Louisiana Elects Jimmie H. Davis, Song Composer

LOUISIANA FINALLY  LAYS LONGISM GHOST  IN STATE PRIMARY JIMMY DAVIS NOMINATED  FOR GOVERNOR OVER MORCAN IN RIINOEte

Newsman Says Japan's Defensive Perimeter Is So Weak That Navy Is Kept Under Wraps, Sees an Early—and Easy— Invasion of Philippines

Americans Control All Roads To Paris _OnWest.Southwest   7th Army 10 Miles From Toulon; 10 South Coastal Towns Seized; French Capital ‘Front Line City’

Patton’s Men Take 4 Key Approaches To French Capital   Yanks Drive Within 20 Miles Of Seine As Their Attack Engulfs Chartres, Dreux, Chateaudun, Orleans; Germans Offer Only Slight Resistance

Patton Forces Nearing Capital   Allied Troops Hold 500-mile Bridgeheac In Southern France; Canadians Seize Falaise, Close Normandy Trap.

4 Key Cities  Seized: Yanks 35 Miles Off  Chartres. Dreux. Chateau  dun, Orleans Give Pos- session of Main Roads  NORTH GAP IS CUT  Capture “of Falaise by Canadians Reduces Loon bate x. Slavenee APTTow   -NORTH GAP IS CUT   Capture of Falaise by Canadians Reduces Loonhole ta Seven Miles

Fighting Along ltalian Battle Fronts Subsides   Artillery and Patrol Action Only Reported

Fighting Breaks Out in Streets Of Cassino   Battle Over Beachhead Has Subsided

Renort No Ma‘or Ground Fighting   Artillery Exchanges Violent In Anzio Area

HARD NIGHT FIGHTING IN CASSINO   Nazis Prepare For 4th Offensive On Beachhead

FIGHTING AT CASSINO IN NEW FLAREUP   Nazis Mass Troops For 4th Offensive On Anzio Front

FIGHTING IN STREETS OF CASSINO   Weather Halts _ Battling On Anzio Beachhcac

Germans sing Rome Fase ists A vainst Anzio   Italians Reinforce HardPressed Nazis: Big Guns In Sharp Duel

SAVAGE NIGHT BATTLE BREAKS QUT IN CASSINO      German High Command Begins Movirlg Troops For Offensive

Sharp Fighting Breaks Out In  Cassino Streets   Yanks, Germans Bogged _In Anzio Beachhead; — British Battle Patrols

Germans Mass Troops, Guns For Fourth Attack On Anzio   Savage Night Fighting Breaks Out In Streets Of Cassino: Nazis, Americans Fight HouseTo-Houses Artillery Rocks Bastion

Cassino Fighting Bitter NAZIS MAY  BE PREPARING  TO ASSAULT ANZIO AGAIN

Thunderous Gunfire Opens New Assault; Beach Front Quiet   Germans Throw Grenades Wildly In Effort to Hold Street Lines; Warvlanes Rance Italy, Adriatic

Germans Prepar: For New Attack On Beachhead   More Troops And Armor Are Being Moved Up

CASSINO FIGHT FLARES: ANZIO BEACH IS BOGGY   Germans Still Hold Two-Thirds of Rumed Town, Report Savs

Heavy Yank Guns Turn On Cassino      Germans Massing Armored Fore Alone Beachhead

CANNON DUELS MARK FIGHTING AT BEACHHEAD   Italian Fascists Move Up To Bolster German Army There

New Fighting In Cassino's Streets Flare:   Anzio Beachhead Bat. tle Subsides to Series Of Patrol Clashes

Reinforce Nazi Troops Near Rome   Artillery Fighting and Pa trol Actions at Anzio Beachhead Today

NAZIS GATHE FOR 4TH TRY AT BEACHHEAD   German Generals Mas: Ten Divisions Near An zio; Night Battling Flare: Aaain in Cassino.

ALLIES ARE ATTACKING IN CASSINO   Fighting Dwindles On Anzio Front Due to Rains

Germans Answer Attacks With Mortar, Machine Guns And Grenades   Battle For Anzio Beachhead Slows   Allied Planes Dominate Entire Fighting Zone; Nazis Pinned Down

ARTILLERY DUEL HAS OPENED ON ITALIAN FRONT   Fighting Subsides; Italian Fascis Paratroops Move To Anzio

Savage Night Fighting! Breaks  Out In Cassino   Nazis Reported Massing Troops For Another - Offensive

Yanks, Holding Of Ruined Cassino, Fight To Dislodge Germans   At Anzio British Repulse Enemy Attacks; Nazis Regrouping For 4th Offensive

Americans, Nazis Fight In Streets   Enemy Also Massing Again  Around Beachhead

BIG GUNS DUEL ON 2 ITALY FRONTS   Italian Fascists In Nazi Uniforms On Anzio Front

Artillery Active On Anzio Front   Italian Partroops Reinforce Germans

Tells G. 0. P. “Reckoning” Sure To Come   Permanent Chairman Of  Republican Convention Says Democrats Are Also Rebelling   Hoover Arrives To  Deliver Night Talk   Dewey Nomination Regarded So Certain That All Interest Centers On Vice Presidency

REDS DRIVE 10 KRAKOW IN POLAND   South Units Are 80 Miles From Germany  wnt” rs yrnrnrernrm were ene

Considerable Confusion and Excitement Created In Moscow. Red Army Trodps Continue To Gain.

AUS. MAKING  GAINS ON 120 MILE SECTOR   Red Clamp on Vitebsk Leaves Nazis with One Road of Escape.

‘Reds Advance 25 Miles ‘in Two Days   Vitebsk Fortress Virtually Has Been Encircled

PRIMARY RETURNS AT A GLANCE.   PA..GOP VOTE FOR FDR CUT ALMOST IN HALE

DRIVE LAUNCHED ON FAST DRIVERS BY STATE POLICE   Troopers In Plain Clothes Will Operate On Highways, Ober Says

I SE  State Police to War on Speeders ee  [:mergency Drive In State  Will Be Launched Friday

State Police to War on Speeders  Emergency Drive In State  Will Be Launched Friday

POLICE BEGIN WAR ON SPEED   State Campaign Open: To Reduce Accidents

Canners Reduce  Vegetable Pack   Blame Washington toy Price Ceilings Delay

—————eeaee—e—e—eeeeeeeeeeeesr Finns Will End   War At Once If   Terms Agreeable

JAPS IN FULL RETREAT FROM      American Air Strikes Causing Enemy To Flee

Jap Garrisons Abandon Strong  New Guinea Bases  MacArthur Reports on Retreat; Further Guam Advance Announced

Winged Robots Take Growing Tol   Allies Make Heavy Raid.  On Launching Ramps

German Rocket Centers Bombed   Southern England ls Badly Damaged

CROWDED ENGLISH RESTAURANT. HIT BY FLYING BOMB   Number Killed and Trapped, Damage Is Widespread — ‘Workers Still Digging  for Bodies.   SHOPPERS IN STREET CUT BY FLYING GLASS   Iwo Busses Blasted, Clothes of Passengers Set, Afire— Many Robots Are Shot Down.

Ohio Democrats Chart Campaign  Hold ‘Jackson Dav’      Hold ‘Jackson Day’ Dinner Tonight

Americans Now Within A Mile Of City Limits   Hundreds Of Nazis Giving Up Struggle To Hold Big Port

Germans Surrendering By Hundreds As_ Allies Push Closer To Im portant Base.

Russians Battle Through Budapest Streets; Pursue Foe Fleeing Toward Vienn:

Battle For Hungarian Capital Roars Into Second Day   AXIS CASUALTIES 27,000 IN SIX DAYS   Hitler Issues “Stand And Die” Order From Berlin

Russians Strike For Vienna, With Budapest Falling   Reds Annihilating Nazi Forces Trapped in Hungarian Capital

Red Armor Units  Drive For Vienna   Russians Strike West of Burning Budapest

RUSSIANS HEAD FOR VIENNA ON BROAD FRONT   Battle For Hungarian Capita! Roars Into Second Day

Nazis Flee From Stand In Budapest   Hungarian Capital Still Is Scene Of Hard Fighting

Soviets Lunge For Vienna, Kill 6 000   1,700 Allied Bombers Give West Reich Tough Pounding

RUSSIANS IN NEW DRIVE ON AUSTRIA   Bulk of Axis Forces Fall Back From Budapest .

RED ARMY IS MAKING DRIVE UPON VIENNE   Great Conflict for Hungarian Capital Roars Into Its Second Day.

RUSS TROOPS STRIKE OUT FOR VIENNA   Action Starts On Broad Front West of Budapest

Russian Forces Head For Vienna On Broad Front   Battle For Budapest Roars Into Second Day ‘In Barricaded Streets

BATTLE ROARS IN BUDAPEST   Russian Tanks and Riflemen Hac. ing Through Barricaded Street: te Root Out and Destroy meanyee Axis Garrison,

REDS FORCE BULK OF GERMANS BACK TOWARD AUSTRIA  Budapest Battle Rages EURseaL LE maeccee f*earmisiag

*Red Army Moves Toward Vienna On Broad Front “West Of Budapest Today

YANKS STALK ENEMY THROUGH BURNING AACHEN   Armies Prepare For Big Drive

Half of  Aachen Captured   Yanks Advance Mile on Metz Road; Battle Flares in Holland

Nazi Garrison © At Aachen Being Stalked By Yanks   Massive Allied Armies. _ Wheel Into Position For Fall Offensive

Americans Racing to Beat Storms Of Winter; Hitlerites Hiding In Cellars and Ancient Catacombs

Americans Fight Nazis In Aachen   Hands — Hack Out Limited Gains  pe een vk, eee, i Pee  pire tf sri Aa

Most of Eastern Halt of Aachen Held by Yanks   Allies Shove Slowly Into Nazi West Wall

Consumers Told Te Use Green Stamps In ‘Book 4 Affer Feb. 1   Tokens Given In  Change For Blue Chamame Aftny D7th

Gabreski's — Kin Hopes For Safety   ‘Ace With 31 Nazi Planes  To Credit Unreported .  “—~ Since Flight of —July 20

Parents Cling To Hopes for Ace’s Safety   Oil City Shocked By Report Gabreski Missing in Action

Living Costs Hike Set at 29.30 Pet.   White House 10 Get Commitiee’s Report On Friday

Groebl Issues Thanks To Workers In Bond Drive, County Congratulated   Sure, And Her Will Riles The Irish

The Irish “Get Their Irish Up" Over Bequest of $400,000 to Teach Them Niceties of Speech, Etc.

‘We Could Have Shook Their Hands’ Bearded Yanks ‘Come Home’ A fter15DaysBehindNaziLines

GENERAL SAYS AREA ALREADY A REAR ZONE   Commander Also Declares Battle of France Is Decided and Nazi Survivors Must Retreat Into Germany. -

Allied Supreme Commander Says Alsace-Lorraine May Soon Become War Theater

GERMANS BACK UP   Indian Troops of 8th Army ' Have Seized Village of Albereto

INDIAN TROOPS SEIZE VILLAGE IN NORTH ITALY   Monte Giornetto Captured Today By 5th Army

Slug Ahead In Italy   Indian Troops Seize  A Village, and Other Forces Repel Counter. Attacks at Bombiano

ALBERETO FALLS TO EIGHTH ARMY   Overcome Heavy Resistance To Seize Italian Town

LIBERATORS DESTROY 13 JAP PLANES   206-Ton Raid Is Carried Out Against Wewak

WIDESPREAD ALLIED RAIDS IN PACIFIC.   13 Enemy Planes Destroyed in Attack on Wewak

Liberators Get 13 Enemy Planes      Complete Wewak Raid Without Opposition

Liberators in Another Wewak Bomb Attack   13 Enemy Planes in New Guinea Are Destroyed

BOMBERS RAID WEWAK IN NEW GUINEA RROUP   Thirteen Enemy Planes Are Destroyed; Aussie Troops Advance

DESTROY MORE JAP PLANES   Americans Attack Battered Base of Wewak — Thirteen Enemy Planes Destroyed in Latest Attack,

13 Jap Planes Destroyed in Wewak Raid   Aussie Veterans Drive Toward Bogadjim; 17th Assault on Wake

Wewak Raid Costs Japs 13 Airplanes   206 Tons of Bombs Batter Guinea Base; Wake, Ponape Jolied

205 TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON WEWAK   Liberators Are Unopposed In Raid ‘On Japanese Base

OTALIN TAKES GURTAING OFF WAR ARSENAI   Correspondents at Farms and Forges That Backed Red Army Victories.

Navy Plane Sinks 3 Jap War Vessels   An Old Catalina Flying Boat Pilot Performs 2 Miraculous Mission — Now Recorded

THREE JAP WARSHIPS BAGGED BY CATALINA   Twe Destroyer Escoris And Seaplane Tender Destroyed In Single Bombing Run

Catalina Sinks  3 Jap Warships   Singular Feat Performed By Lone Bombine Plan.

SINGLE YANK PLANE SINKS 3 JAP BOATS   Naval Aircraft Makes Attack on Warships Off Davao

Ships Sunk Off Davao   Seaplane Tender, Two Deshhoyer Escorts Sunk on Single Rombina Run

JAP VESSELS ARE SUNK BY FLYING BOAT   Three “Warships Hit Off Davao, Dispatches State

FLYING BOAT SINKS THREE JAP WARSHIPS   Seaplane Tender And Two Destroyer Escorts Sunk In Single Bombing Run; Japs Back Away From Air Blitz

Repalriated American Says Evidence of War Strain Evident in Japan

Men Inducted Into Service For Rest Of Year Will Consist Largely Of Those Under 26

INDUCTION. OF MEN UNDER 26 IS -FORECAS)   Older Men In Non. Essential Jobs May Be Taken Say  Caoncressmen

Men Under 26 To Be Principal “Bait” In Draft   Committee's Forecast Includes Only Those In Essential Work

MEN GVER 26 YES. MAY NOT BE CALLED   Applies Only To Those In Essential Industry, However

BATAAN CLUB HITS” ATROCITY STORIES   Relief Group Criticizes Delay and Methods of Officers

Miss Kellem Pays First Ineome Tax Installment   Senator Says FBI Tried — To Stlence Bataan Critic

Spensley Heads Merger of 34  Bataan Groups  Chavez Says FBI Wanted to ‘Quiet’ BRO President

Relief Chairman Charges War, Navy Departments Brutal In Revealing Jap Atrocities On Prisoners

DULLES CONFERS AGAIN WITH HUL   INDICATES PROGRESS MADE TOWARD BIPARTISAN SECURITY AGREEMENT.

Dewey's Aide and Secretary  - To Continue Conferences; Writers Protest Security Parley Secrecy

SLIGHT REDUCTION IN CIVILIAN SUPPLY OF MEAT FORECAST   STATISTICS ANNOUNCED FOR PROBABLE FOOD PRO DUCTION THIS YEAR

Report Civilians Face Reduction In Meat Supply   Bureau Of Agriculture Sees Cut Of 10 Pounds In Last Half Of 1944

YOU'LL HAVE LESS MEAT IN LAST 6 MONTHS   Bureau of Ag Economics Predict Civilian Consumption Wi'! Fall Off in Last Half of ‘44

Meat Likely to Be Scarce Last of Year   Less Available During Last Half » Being Predicted

Expect Cut In Meat Supplies For Civilians   Per-Capita Reduction Of 10 Pounds Forecast Fo. Last Half Of Year.

REDUCTION IN CIVILIAN MEAT SUPPLIES SEEN   Decline in Last Half Of Year Predicted By Economists

Meat Expected To Be Reduced 10 Lbs. Per Person During Next Six Months

10 Pounds Less Meat for Civilians   Smaller Supply Forecast by BAE

Per Capita Cut of 10 Pounds in Meat Supply Predicted   Farm Economics Bureau Survey Food Outlook for Next 6 Months

Civilian Meat Supply Slash Last Half Year   Washington, May 18.—(4)—A 10-pound reduction in civilian supplies of meat during the last half of 1944 was forecast today by Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

Doomed Germans Leaving Cherbourg   First Defense Line of Enemy Is Shattered

Germans Start Evacuation Of Prize Port   Vanguards Of Bradley's Army Crash Through First Defense Line Of City.

French Port Pounded Hard By. Allied Guns   Trapped: -Nazis Reject Allied Bid ‘For Surrender

BIG NAZI GAMBLE   General Eisenhower Calls on His Army to Destroy Germans

Nazi Drive Is Gigantic Gamble: May End in Worst Defeat: Ike   Eisenhower Tells Allied Troops Germany Faces Disaster If Attack Fails, Calls on Men to Destroy Foe Everywhere

‘We Will, With God’s Help, Go Forward To Greatest Victory’--Eisenhower

Eisenhower In Army Call To  Crush Germans   Says Nazis Are Taking Last Great Gamble: Rushing From Fixed Defenses.   WITH GOD’S HELP

German Offensive Blunted, But Still Lunges Forward; Eisenhower Issues Order   Allied Commander Calls on Every Member to Turn Yon Rundstedt's Great Gamble Into Complete Destruction of His Armies

NAZIS MAKING LAST GAMBLE, PENERAL ‘SAYS   Urges Troops to Turn German Drive Into ‘Werst Defeat’

Gen. Eisenhower Calls Upon Troops To Destroy Enemy   Germans Give Allies Chance to Turn Great Gamble Into His Worst Defeat, Supreme Commonder Declares

Orders Allied Armies to Destroy Foe   Sees Chance to Inflict Worst Defeat on Nazi Forces

GEN. IKE SAYS GERMANS MAKING  LAST GREAT GAMBLE; WITH GOD'S HELP WE WILL WIN GREAT VICTORY

Destroy ‘Em, Orders ‘Ike’   Rushing Out From Fixed Defenses Gives Allies Chance te Crush Enemy

TEMPERATURES:   Germany's Last Great Gamble Gives Allies Chance Of Victory

Congress Demand: Protection For Small Business   Hails Lifting  Production Ban

Fred C. Krauss,  Pioneer Citizen  Here, Succumbs  ~ Owned Bakery Here Over 50 Year: Before Retiring

Former Night Officer Here Buried Sunday  E. T. Westbrook Funeral Held at Morrow’s Chape

Funeral Rites Conducted For Mrs. Hillburn   Pioneer Judge’s Daughter Lived in County 79 Years

Quick Knockout Blow of Germans In Western France by Americans Seen

PARTY LEADERS HOPE TO AVOID BITTER DEBATE   Endeavoring by Cooperation to Keep From Repetition of  1919 Failure

Hull And Dulles Are In Accord On  Many Points For Postwar Security

FOREIGN POLICY PARLEY AGREES ON MANY POINTS   Complete Amity Depends On Future; First Phase Talk ends

GOP and Demo: Hope fo Avoid leaque Debate   Forcign Policy ‘Experts Agree on World Security

BOMBS PLASTER NEW GUINEA BASE   Liberators Hit Alexishafen, One of Few Remaining Jap Strongholds; Leave Huge Fires Burning

Jap Stronghold Heavily Bombed  Huge Fires Started at Alexishafen

Jap Stronghold Heavily Bombed  Huge Fires Started   Huge Fires Started at Alexishafen

JAP SUPPLY BASE BOMBED BY ALLIES   HUGE FIRES STARTED oN NEW GUINEA COAST TOWN OF ALEXISHAFEN.

TOWN WON BY SOVIET ARMY   Russians Also Score Victory Near Brody In Old Poland

Fortified Railway Junction of Pervomaisk Is Captured  NIKOLAEV NEARED IN LATEST PLUNGE  Fall of Strongpoint Announced by Marshal Stalin

Reds Hurl Nazis Back In Ukraine   Soviets Capture Germans’ Deepes' Base In Russia

Russians Capture Nazi Rail Center   German Reserves Severely Mauled

Russians Slash Forward On Three Fronts, Reach Point Eight Miles From Nikolaev   Nazi Reserves Thrown In For Blow In North Are Reported Annihilated

Rout German defenders in  Ukraine area Liquidate two  enemy divisions

Russians Siash Forward Qn Three Fronts; Reach Point bight Miles From Nikolaev  Ths sth Pe o Bee Binu,   Nazi Reserves’ Thrown’ In For Blow “In North Are Reocited Annikilated

Reds Capture Important Rail Junction   Russians Drive to Within Eight Miles of Nikolaey

Many Nazis Pushed into Bug River   Fierce Battle Rages At Northwestern End Of 500-Mile Front  PERVOMAISK FALLS

Reds Grab Nazi Bug River Base  Of Pervomaisk   Germans 8 Miles From Nikolaev; Two Enemy Divisions Liquidated In Old Poland Battle

Pervomaisk Has Been Protecting Nazi Withdrawal From Southern Ukraine      HUNDREDS OF GERMANS DROWNED IN RIVER

Reds Laplure Important Rail Junction  Russians Drive to Within Eicht   Russians Drive to Within Eight Miles of Nikolaev

Nazis’ Output Crippled At Cost of 64 Aircraft; Foe Loses 100 Fighters   Russians Launch New Drive West of Gomel After Taking Sarny; Germans Admit Abandoning Cervaro, Italian Key; Yugoslav Patriots Retreat

Three Nazi Cities Are Pulverized In War's Record Raid   ‘anks Lose 59 Bombers And Five Fighters To More Than 100 For Eneniy tn Smashing German  Plane Factories In Daylight Assault

WAR CONTRACTORS PAYMENT BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE   Measure Guaranteeing Payment      = To Contractors is Given To House

Contractors  Bill Passes   Senate Rejects Plan for Unemplovment Benefits

Man Threatening Policeman Shot on Bus Here  Joe Jegloski, 26, Wounded by Officer O' Raafa

Man Threatening Policeman  Shot on Bus Here  Joe Jegloski, 26, Wounded by  Fase... Farry... ff _

Community Chest Is Over Top With $403 Extra   Campaign Chairman Thanks Helena Residents for Help

Community Chest Is Over Top With $403 Extra  Campaign Chairman Thanks Helena  Dae’ awte Fone LIK

-China’s Future Role in War Is ’ Subject of Increasing Concern   Can American Drive across Pacific  Help Chinese People in Time?

CHINA'S FUTURE IN WAR AGAINST JAPAN SUBJECT OF CONCERN  BIG QUESTION WHETHER AMEDICAN NDIVE ACRNOS!

Racing Against Time To Keep China In War   Officials In Washington Gravely Concerned Over Outlook.

ROLE OF CHINA   Her Future ‘in War ‘Against Japan Is Subject of Growing Concern.

ONCERNED—  China's Future Is Grave   Role In War Against Japan Studved By Wilitarist, Diplomats

 Officials Gravely Concerned Over Race  Against Time To Keep Chinese In Fiaht

Crisis In The Orient China's Plight Causes Increasing U. S. Anxiety   Quick Victory In Europe Necessary To Prevent Major Setback In Asia; Allied Command Setup Confusing

War In China Great Concern   Progress of European  Drive May Seal China’s Fate.

China’s Future In War Subject  Grave Concern   Long-Delayed Europe Vic tery Coujd Gravely Jeopardize Existence As One of ‘Big Four’

China’s War Future. Gives  U.S. Concern   Much Depends On Yank Drive

Big Problem Is To Keep Oper Supply Lines To Heart Of Free Sections

Increasing Concern Felt or China;Quick Win in urope Needed to Save Her

CHINA’S FUTURE IN WAR AGAINST JAPAN. SUBJECT OF CONCERN  “BIG QUESTION WHETHER  AMERICAN DRIVE ACROS:  PACIFIC RE IN TIME

CHINA’S ROLE IN WAR GAUSE OF NEW ALARM   European Delay Could Gravely Hurt Chinese

China’s Future Role in Jap War Causes Concern   Can Americans Open Supply Route to ‘Free China in Time

Allies Racing Against Time. To Keep China Tn. War In Asia   ‘Future Role Subject. Of Grave. Concern

Race Against Time To Keep China In War Finds U. S. Officials Gravely Concerned Over Outlook

‘hina’s Future Role In War Is A Problem   ig Question Is Whether Allied Drive Can Open Suppiv Route.   EVEN YEARS OF WAR

Military And ‘Diplomatic Officials Reported Showing Great Concern ‘Over China’s Role In War With Japs

CHINA'S ROLE IN WAR CAUSES NEW CONCERN  Fear Expressed That Allied Aid Cannot Reach Country in Time

China's Future Role In War Against Japs Causes Concern   Rr JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

Race Against  Time to Keep China in Wat   Washington Officials Express Grave Concern Over Outlook

CHINA'S FUTURE CAUSES WORRY.   Early Relief Needed To Keep Nation In War

Germans Making Every Effort to Hold to Aachen But Are Being Pried Loose

Sen. Murray In  Governor Race Republican _Legislator Announces Candidacy

Sen. Murray Js Candidate  For Governo:   Milwaukee Senator Wil Seek Nomination As Republican — Supports  in: inane

PINCERS CLOSING ON NIKOLAEY, BI ACK SEA PORT   German: Radio Whines About ‘Suffering of Nazi Troops In Field.”

Retreat To Border Is Seen   Hammer Blow Hit Panicky Germans On Long Front

Prien, Decorated for Sinking. British Battleship, Is Prisoner in Arizona

NAZ PRISONERS REBEL IN CAMP   Celebrate Christmas, Western Front Victories; Famed U-boat Commander in U. S.

Morganton Auto Crash Kills Nine, Injures Five More   Occurred When Two Car: Met Head On Between  Morganton and Marion.

Shirley Ann Boever Aloysius Harpenau Wed Tuesday  “Young Couple Will Live On Farm  In America

Double Ring Ceremony © In Wedding At Remsen   Shirley Ann Boever and Aloysius Harpenau Take Vows At St. Marv’s

GERMAN PRISONERS HELP OHIO FARMERS   ED  Reluctance To Hire Them Is Overcome by Good Job

WRI ORLEANS COTTON   U. S. Air Force, World’s Largest Operating From Bases In Europe

Tons of Bombs Rip ‘Into Sieged Bastion   Scores of Villages Fall as Yanks Tighten Steel Rinse Around Nazis

Yank Foree  Isolates Vital Port   Siege Armies Drive Nearly To The Sea On Sides Of City.

AMERICANS CLOSE IN FOR ‘KILL; NAZIS AT CHERBOURG DOOMED   Siege Troops Drive Almost To Sea On Both Sides Of Prized Port; Showdown Battle . At Hand

American Siege Units Isolate Nazi Garrison In Flaming Cherbourg   Yanks Drive To Sea On Both Sides Of Port, Preparing Land, Air Trip-Hammer Assault

STIFF BATTLE EXPECTED FROM DOOMED NAZIS   Aerial Forces Joining In Final Assault As Weather Clears

American Siege Forces Close in On Cherbourg   Doomed German Garrison Defies Surrender: Order

Legion To Act on Plan To Enroll Servicemen Now in Active Service

‘CEASE FIRING’: SOUNDED AT 8 A, M. TODAY   Peace Mission Is Be lieved Enroute to Mescow

Weary Finns Quit Fighting As Nazi Ally        Surrender Mis: Sent to Russia After OQrder to Cease 

New Upheaval In Argentina   Report President Ramirez Is Out Of Office By New Move   MANY REPORTS ON SITUATION CIRCULATE

Railroad Yards Are Targets,  Not Oil Fields   Two Freight Yards Are Loaded With Long String of Cars Filled With Supplies; Oil-Filled Tank Cars Are Set Aflame

PLOESTI RAIDED BY U.S, AIRMEN, RAIL YARDS HI   Heavy Opposition Met in Attack on Rumanian Oil Cen’ ter From Which Nazis Draw Supply.   PETROLEUM-FILLED TANK CARS BLASTED   While Assault Is Under Way Other Planes Bomb Rail: way Junction of Nis in Yugoslavia.

Russians Seize Razdelnaya, Vital  Rail Junction  200,000 Nazis See Chance af Fiicht Inta   200,000 Nazis See Chance of Flight Into Rumania Cut Off

U.S. BOMBERS HELP SOVIETS WHIP RUMANIA   GREAT OTL CENTER OF PLOESTI HIT IN RAIL YARDS

PLOESTI FIELD POUNDED AGAIN BY U.S. FLIERS   Town’s Railways Lashed In Face Of Heavy Opposition; Big Fires Started

American Planes Blast Rail Yards at Ploesti Oil Center in Rumania

PLOESTI IS AGAIN: RAIDED BY AMERICANS   Rail Yards Rather Than Oil Fields Target For Fleet Of Fortresses And Liberators Aiding Red Armies.   Hospital Bombed

Americans Aid Red Spearhead In Ploesti Raid  3 Hea ed Asti Sent up as Yanks

Smoke Rises. Three Miles Above Ploesti   Fourth Major Attack On Balkans Designed To Aid Red Advance  TANK CARS ARE HIT

Yankee Bomber: Blast Rail Yards at Ploesti   Oil-Filled Tank Cars Blaze, Tracks Ripped In Freight Section

U. S. Planes Blast Vital Freight Areas   Strings of Loaded Cars Are Fired  in Rumanian Raid

Well-planned joint action aids soviets  Gorged rail lines severely mauled

Stronger Red Policy Toward Tokyo Is Seen   Diplomatic Experts Take Sneh View in Weighing   Sepa ten  Surrender of Shakha-   — lin Oil Leases 

Oil, Coal Pact © Seen Beneficial To Soviet Union      OE. ‘Stronger. ‘Russian eliey” ‘Toward © Tokyo

See Stronger Red Policy Toward Japs   New Agreement Is Indication

United Nations Leaders Cite Approaching Crisis   Churchill Visits Yanks In England; ‘Montgomery Says Peace Not Far Of

Leaders Promise Action   FOR, Churchill, Montgomery Make Joint Statements

F.D.R., Churchill And Montgomery Make Statements   Roosevelt Promises Revenge For Victims Of Jap, Nazi Cruelty

Wickard Advocates Big Electrification Program in Texas   Electricity Needed For. Decent Standard Of Rural Living 

U.S. Planes Make 21st Straight Daily  Blow at Iwo Jima  Japs Report Big U. S. Troop Convoy Under Attack in Philippines

YANK PLANES AGAIN POUND AT IWO JIMA   Japs Report Big U.S. Convoy Traveling in  Mindanao Sea

Bombers Hit Iwo Jima for 2ist Time   Nips Report Huge U. S. Convoy in Mindanao Area

Japs Report. Sighting Big U.S. Convoy   Traveling Westward Through Mindanao Sea Jap Broadcasts Say

Japs Say U.S. Convoy Is in Mindanao Sea  Iwo Jima Bombed by American Flyers for O1-+ Suarnaccitwa liav

U. 5. BOMBERS ATTACK AGAIN AT WO JIMA   AMERICAN CONVOY HEADING WEST, TOKYO SAYS

Tot Living On Borrowed Blood May Die As Hospital ‘Runs Out Of Plasma, Warns Transfusions To Stop

Great Problems Faced by Stalin And Churchill.   Question of What To. Do With Germany, Balkans Hish on:Moscow: Agenda

Stalin Confers  With Churchill   Talks Expected to Lead To Peace Gnaranipec

BALKAN ISSUE ON AGENDA OF WAR LEADERS   Churchill and Stalin Are Guests at Gala Mos-” cow Banquet.

In Discussion at Kremlin. Which Should Lead to Guarantees of Peace: Staff Banqueted.   Harriman Not Present

‘Churchill, Stalin Discussing Subjects Which Should ‘Lead to Guarantees of Peace Following Victory

Peace After Victory, Aim Of Parley   Russian-L..glish Talks  Should Iron Out. Many Prob!e.s [/-cing The _ Hatted Natiess_

BRITISH ENVOYS ARE ACCORDED STATE BANQUET   Guarantees For Post-War Peace Subject Of Churchil-Stalin Talks   FUTURE OF GERMANY IS KNOTTY PROBLEM

FOREMOST AS LEADERS MEE]   Churchill, Stalin Con sider Problems to  Come After War

Great Britain, Soviet Leader: Hold Meeting   Balkan Situation High On Agenda; Important On List of Topics Are Talks Involving Oil

Everlasting Eggs: New Process May Be Used To Give  Soldiers Fresh, Hard-Boiled Ones

ROAD FRONT. ESTABLISHED IN GERMAN}   Hitlerites Alarmed; Rush Strategic Reserves

Yanks Invade Saar At Four More Points   Germans Rush Crack Troops To  Coloone Sectnr

Gains 7 Miles In Saar; Threat To Cologne Growing   Nazis Rush Dwindling Reserves To Protect Plain: As North Army Captures Four Towns; Patton Only Eicht Miles From Saarbrucken.

Four Fortress Towns Fall to Yanks On Cologne Plain; Nazis Reported Using Entire Reserves in Final Stand

U. S. Stops Oil Supply To Spain   lron Fist Replaces Sik Glove As Uncle Sam Cracks Down On Francisco.

U.S. Suspend: Shipping of Oil to Spain Madrid Government  Accused of Giving Active Aid to Nazis

FLEEING NAZIS   Aerial Strafing Resumed As Skies Clear; Oil Refineries Raided

RENEWED ON WEST FRONT!   As 48-Hour Blanket of Clouds Roll Away; Italian-Based Planes Strike At Nazi Oil Supplies.   Planes Downed

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Chungking Is  Faced With  Grave Threats Next 60 Days May  Determine Fate of China

KILL OR WOUND OVER 45,000 NIPS ON LEYTE   Asia Islands’ ands Off New ‘Guinea Invaded By  Amarirang   WIT 2 JAP SHIPS   Yanks Throw Back Vicious Japanese Counterdrives

Jap Counterattacks Thrown Back In Leyte Battle  U. S. Casualties Are 5,691 So Fer in Philippine Campaign

—PACIFIC— ,  1.5, BOMBS kIT 2 JAP WARSHIPS   Battleship And Heavy , Cruiser Battered In Borneo Raid   BOMB IWO ISLAND   Invasion Of Asia Islands * Off New Guinea Announced By MacArthur 

Americans Check Thrusts of Japs   Vicious Counterattacks Are Thrown Back in a Bitter  Campaign   OCCUPY THREE ISLANDS   Heavy Bombers Score Direct Hit on Enemy Ships at Borneo

Jap Thrusts Against Yanks  On Leyte Fail   Nip Casualties In Slow and Bitter Campaign Reach 45,000; U. S. Invades Asia Islands

iViore ihan 40,UUU Japs KRillied Vn Leyte io late  Storm-Drenched Troops Repulse Vicious Attacks

Japanese Attacks Repulsed on Leyte   45,000 Enemy Troops Are Killed Or Wounded During Vicious Fighting

LEYTE YANKS TAKE TOLL OF 45,000. JAPS   Have Killed or Wounded That Number Since Octobex 20 Invasion, While Losing 5,691 of Their Own—Blows Continue.

Americans Hurl Back Jap Attack   About Eight. Japs Are . Killed: On Leyte to One American; Yanks Land On Asia Isle Group

MORE ISLANDS INVADED - - MORE SHIPS BLASTED   Rain Slows Tough Campaigr On Leyte But Successes Marked Up in China

Japs’ Losses AtLeyte 8 to!   Asia Isles Invaded; Battleship Bombed

JAP LEYTELOSS REACHES 45,000   U.S. Troops Invade Islands Off New Guinea; Airmen Blast Two Warships

Japs Repelled; MacArthur Tells Ratio of Losses   Nippenese Have 8 Casualties fe One American; Asia Greup Invaded: Three Manias Held

Yanks Repulse: More Jap Counter Attacks In Hard Battle For Stormy Leyte

‘Americans Repulse Counter-Blows and Inflict Casualties at Ratio of Eight to One.

Attacking Japs Are Thrown Back On Leyte Island   Enemy Losses in Campaign Reported At 45,000; Bomb More Nip Warshios

‘Jap Casualties On Leyte Now Exceed 45,000   Vicious Enemy Attacks Repulsed; Jap Battleship Bombed.

Yanks Throw Back Vicious Jap Counterattacks; Enemy’s Losses at Leyte Over 45,000

COUNTERATTACKS BY JAPS THROWN BACK ON LEYTE   Asia Islands Invaded By Yanks Above New Guinea

VICIOUS NIP ATTACKS ARE THROWN BACK   Americans Invade Island Off New Guinea and Complete Occupa tion of 3 Others

Vicious Jap Attacks On Leyte Repulsed      Storms Drench Troops, Slow Battle; More Than 45,000 Japs Killed or Wounded on Leyte; ‘Saipan Cleaned Up

SCORE HIT O} BATTLESHIP AT BORNEO   \ Jap Casualties On Leyte Number Over 45,000   Go 750 Miles From Tokyo To Blast Iwo; Saipan Finally Cleaned Up

YANKS REPULSE COUNTER BLOWS IN PHILIPPINES   More Than 45,000 Japs Killed Or Wounded In Fighting On Leyte

Secret Weapon  Used on Tinian   U. S. Device Spreads Death Over 100-Foot Radius

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FORMER MINISTER IN VICHY REGIME SENTENCED TO DIE   Pierre Pucheu Found Guilty of Treason by French Military Tribunal in Alviers.   CROWDED COURTROOM STUNNED BY VERDICT   Defendant Brands Action a Political Coup and Warns It May Pave Way for Civil War.

*DEATH PENALTY ~ HANDED PUCHEU   Former Vichy Minister Breaks Down As Tribunal Orders His Execution

Court Convicts  Vichy Official   French Tribunal Decrees Death For Ex-Minister On Treason Charge.

French Military Court Finds Pucheu Guilty Of Treason  Death Penalty Decreed For Former Petain   Death Penalty Decreed For Former Petain Government Man: Warning Is Handed Court

French Tribunal Conviets Pucheu in Treason Trial   Decrees Death for Ex-Petain Minister ~ Cited as. Personification of Policy Which ‘Raped France’s Soul’ With Strife

FRENCH CONVICT PIERRE PUCHEU   Former Petain Minister Condemned To Death For Treason

Pierre Pucheu Is Given Death Penalty By French Military Tribunal In Aloiers

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The War Today   auu weal sUMday European War Is Moving Mighty Fast, Gaining Mamentitm.

ICLOSE CONNECTION APPARENT [BETWEEN HITLER’S MOUNTING ITROUBLES AND BIG THREE PLAN

REDS NARROW RETREAT LANE FOR GERMANS   ROADS CHOKED AS SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON PSKOV

Retreat Lines of the Enemy Are Bombed and Shelled   SOVIETS PRESSING —~—hr ON UOIN 6 SECTORS   Nazis May be Thrown Out of Russia in Next Five aake

Germans Fall Back Under Russian Blows   Enemy Is Under Pressure on Five Points

Russians Gain  In Pskov Drive   Soviet Armies Tighten Trap On Germans In Korsun Area, Smash Ahead On Five Other Fronts In Fast

Reds Speed Up Their Offensive. Against Pskov   Are Also Pressing German Forces In Five Other Areas

Reds Close In For Kill  In Ukraine   Russians Hammer Germans Farther Back Toward Psko

RUSSIANS PUT NAZIS BACK NEAR PSKOV   Bombing And Shelling Retreat Lines; Also Pressing Enemy In Five Other Sectors of Eastern Front.   Tighten Trap

Soviet Armies Shell German Retreat Lines   Defenders Press Enemy in Five Other East Sectors

Hammer Nazis Back To Pskov; Seal Korsun Trap   AP Correspondent Says Chances Excellent For Russians to ‘Throw Germans Out of Russia In the Remaining Five Winter Weeks

Reds hammet Choked Nazi Retreat Lines      Germans’ Pressed In Many Sectors

Russian Forces Drive Steadily Toward Pskov   Keds Bomb and Shell German Retreat Lines Choked with Trucks. Men

SOVIETS DRIVE AHEAD INSIX BATTLE AREAS   Bomb, ‘Shell Germatt Retreat Liries on Way To Pskov

NAZI RETREAT LINES CHOKED WITH VEHICLES   Russians Hope To Capture Communications Center  Of Pskov Soon   SOVIETS CLOSING IN ‘ON TRAPPED GERMANS

Soviet force drives nazis toward Pskov   Bomb and shell  retreating lines

Russians Hammer Germans Farther Toward Important Center of Pskov   Press Nazis in Five Other Sectors of Eastern Front and Are Making Consistent Gains

Randall Heads  Historical Grouy   Planning “Style Show,’ Historical Exhibit In June

MORGENTHAU PLAN DISPLEASES NAZIS   Allied Occupation And Introduction Of English Language Too Much For FPropagandists

‘LOAFERS’ RECRUITED FOR WAR PLANT JOBS   Wives Turn ‘informers’ Tec WMC Campaign

BEGGENDORF FALLS TO YANK SOLDIERS   Young Nazis Still Hold Fort Driant; British Forces Invade Greece; . Russians Gain

ALL JAP CENTERS PUT UNDER ICKES   SECRETARY GIVEN SUPERVISION OVER WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY AGENCY.

Ickes Now Heads WRA Department   President Makes Change To Bring Authority Under Supervision of Cabinet Officer,

Navy Carriers Make Attack On Marshalls   Maloelap, Wotje And Kwajalein Atolls Are Goals

CARRIER FORCES RIP MARSHALLS      Heavy Major Assault Is Launched On Atolls In Pacitie

Mighty U. S. Task Force In Offensive   Details Lacking On Carrier-Backed Naval Onslaught

Parachutists Get Welcome From Dutch   Sky-Borne Soldiers Drop [or Hours to Seize Key Targets

Sky Cavalcades Thunder In From West 400 At A Clip   MOST ARE NORMAN INVASION VETERANS   Allied Bomhers Soften Up German Airfields Prior To Attack

Thousands Of Allied Troops Float Down From Sky To Drive Nazi Hordes Out Of Holland

Dutchmen Greet Sky Cavalcades During Landings   First Parachutists Strike Enemy Rear Behind German Lines

Sky Troops Strike Deep In Holland, Liberate Towns, Nazis In Panic

Skymen Liberators This Time  >» Holland Is Happy About Second Air Invasion Of War

OK ANE LEAVES BILL   Y¥.iM. Secretary Will Report NoVember 1 at Houston, Texas

FIRST TWO NOMINEES ARE GIVEN APPROVAL   Senate Is Expected To Confirm Appointment Of Hurley And Heller To Board

Resigns Post As Protest Of  Russian Policy   Member Of Purchasing Commission Accuses Russian Government Of Two-Faced Maneuvers

HurlsCharge At Soviets   Russian Declares His Gov't “Two-Faced” In Deals With Allies

UOolAN HITS REDS’ POLICY   Purchasing Agent Calls Soviet Political Maneuvers Double-Facecd.

GOP HEADQUARTERS TO BE KEPT ACTIVE   Party Leaders Lay Plans at New York Meeting

DEWEY RECOGNIZED AGS TITULAR CHIEF   GOP to Operate National Headquarters on a Full Time Basis.

NEPUBLIGANS NAP OPPOSITION PLAN   Dewey Recognized as Titular Head of GOP; to Coordinate Party Views

4] PARKED JAP PLANES BOMBED - AT HALMAHERA   Another Air Attack on Philippines Also Reported

NEW RAID MADE ON PHILIPPINES   FORTY-ONE JAP PLANES ARE KNOCKED OUT IN ATTACK  ON HALMAHERA ISLAND.

Philippines Heavily Hit By Bomber:   11 Jap Planes Destroyed In Strong Sweep Against Halmahera

A Jap Planes A Ships Hit in Philippines   Halmahera and Bayao Ripped by Yanks in Isle Drive Step-up

‘Bombers Hit Philippines In New Raid   Smash 4] Jap Planes ~ In Second Assault On Halmahera

Jap Shipping Blasted  at Halmahera   41 Nipponese Planes Are Destroyed in Smashing Attack

TITO IS IN FULL COMMARD   King Peter Will Suspend Political Activity Until War is Over

Reds Roll Ahead Unchecked Along 500-Mile Front   Record U. S. Air Raid Batters Sofia Yards; Dutch Airdromes Hit

U. 5. Heavies Hit Targets in North Germany   Other U. S. Bombers Attack Besieged Port Of Brest for Almost Solid Hour. Announced

BATTER THE NAZIS   Fourteen Targets in Ger. many and Czecho-Slo ~ vakia Are Hit

ba Industries Crumble Under Rain of Bombs   Force of 1100 U. S. Heavies Carry Ruin To Variety of Taraets

Air Force Hits Nazi Objectives  Strike Rocket Bomb Statien Near Berlin

AMERICANS RAIN BOMBS ON NAZI TARGETS TODAY   Over 1,600 Heavies in Assaults On Aircraft, Other Vital Plants

1,600 BOMBERS BLAST TARGETS ACROSS EUROPE   Hit Peenemunde Where Nazis Are Developing Larcer Rocket Bombs

American Bombers Blast 14 Targets  Ta Nazi Domains  Brest's Forts Bombed, Bail Traffic in France Hil, Recket  Bp... 8 We at... Oa. 5.3 &H.*.

AERIAL FLEETS SLAM TARGETS ACROSS REICH   Czecho - Slovak, Germany Proper and French Spots Rained With Steel by U. S. Heavies.

Big Bombers Into Action   Brest Battered, 14 Targets In Germany, CzechoSlovakia Attacked

ee 2 Se 8 aaa 7 ot   JOOPLANES IN ANID ONNAZIS   North Germait: Obier: ees ‘Are Targets’ ‘For U.S. Bombers .

1,600 BOMBERS, ESCORTS HAMMER AT NAZI TARGETS   Strike 14 Objectives in Ger many and Czecho-Slovakia  As Other Forces Bomb Port  of Brest—Most of Planes  From Britain

Brest Forts, Robot Station Are Included   Occupied Europe Shud‘ders Under Impact of Tremendous Assault

Churchill Radio Speech Radiates  War Confidence  Talk Throws Little Light On Allies’ Diplomatic Issues

British Press Is Restrained in Its Comment on Speech   Churchill Disappoints Some Who Expected Fervid Call

Confident War Review Voiced By Church   Prime Minister Says Little on Allied Diplomacy

MANY FEINTS TO PRECEDE THE INVASION   Churchill Says Steps Are Necessary to Deceive and Baffle Enemy — Talk Received With Restrained Approval.

CHURCHILL PREDICTS VICTORY AND PRAISES RUSSIAN WAR EFFORT   NEWSPAPERS GIVE APPROVAL, BUT PUBLIC EXPECTED SOMETHING ELSE

Churchill's "Talk Fails To _Arouse Sunday Radio. Listeners.   Restrained. Approval Is Expressed: By Most London Newspapers On Prirhe , Minister’s First Broadcast In A: Year

Restrained Approval Gr eets Speech by Prime Minister Churchill Sunday

Churchill Address Is Received with Guarded Approval   Some Disappointment Expressed; British Leader Confidently Predicts Victory

WAR REVIEW BY CHURCHILL 1S RESTRAINED   Prime Minister Predicts Victory, Lauds Russians, Says Japs Made Mistake Attacking U.S.   INVASION WARNING   Avoids Diplomatic — Problems but States Posiwar Plans, Defends Administration

Restrained Approval Given Churchill Talk Predic ‘ting  Victory. Praisine Russians

INVASION FEINTS TO BE EXPECTED, SAYS CHURCHILL  TELLS PROGRESS OF WAR ON ALL FRONTS:  HoerninTe wintry

Churchill Speech Quietly Received   Many Persons Seem Disappointed

Churchill Says Victory Sure-Lauds Russians   London Expresses Restrained Approval Of Speech. Which  Gives War's Progress

APPROVAL Of HIS ADDRESS RESTRAINED   Some Disappointment Noted; No Reference To Diplomatic Issues

Churchill Talk Fails to Satisfy  British Disappointed With Sunday's Addres:

VICTORY NOW OURS, PRIME MINISTER SAYS   Avenging Nation To Strike Nazi  Rulers Soon

Confident Victory .—   Churchill Has High Praise for Russians; British Press Comment Not, Too Enthusiastic

Restrained Approval Is Given Churchill’s War Review by London Press

CHURCHILL PAYS TRIBUTE TO REDS FOR WAR GAINS   Prime Minister Sees Shorter Conflict in Pacific Than Originally Expected

Enthusiasm Lacking Over Churchill Talk   Many Listeners Disappointed by Tone of Speech

Confidence Radiated By Churchill’s Speech:  No Hints On Invasion

Praise Limited For Churchill   Ultimate Victory Predicted by British  Prime Minister

‘Restrained Approval Expressed By Londo 'Newspapers For Statements By Churchill

Kight U.S. Soldiers Accused Of Helping Two Nazis Flee   Charges Similar to Treason Brought Against Another American; Five Wacs Exchanged Notes With Prisoners of War

Eight Involved In Treason Case   Three WACs Charged With Exchanging Notes With Nazi Prisoners.

SOLDIERS ACCUSED ‘OF AIDING ESCAPE   Eight Face Charges Result of Flight of Germans; WAGS Punished _.;

Friendship of U. S. Soldiers With German War Prisoners Told in Camp Escape Case

EIGHT SOLDIERS HELPED NAZIS TO ESCAPE CAMP   Three WACs Have Alsc Been Sentenced For Aid ing German Prisoners   FUGITIVES CAPTURED IN MEXICO RECENTLY

SOLDIERS. WAC'S: IN TROUBL VER NAZI ESCAPE SE   Eight U. S. Soldiers’ clped Two Prisoners Flee “.om Camp Hale, Colorado—Five WAC’s Exchanged Notes With Germans

Nine Soldiers Facing Charge Of Aiding Nazis   Held in Escape Of 2 Prisoners

Charge Eight Soldiers Aided  Nazis’ Escape  Army Discloses Five Wacs Linked With Writing Notes, But Nat Aidinge Fliche

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ARMY ACCUSES NINE SOLDIERS AT CAMP HALE   5 WACS EXCHANGED NOTES WITH NAZIS, THREE SENTENCED

WACs Accused Of Notes to  Nazi Captives   Army Also Discloses 8 Soldiers Involved Tn Maple Affair

SOLDIERS 10 BE TRIED IN PRISON BSEAK   Aided Germans Ir Escape; WACS Sent Notes

WACs Wrote Notes To Nazi  War Prisoners   Inquiry Reveals That 8 Soldiers Aided Two Nazis in Escape

Erie Soldier Is Involved  In Nazi Escape   Seven Others Also Named: Five Camp Hale Wacs Sent Notes to Prisoners

WAGS PASS NOTES TO NAZI PRISONERS   Eight Soldiers Help Two Hostages Escape

Aid German Prisoners To Escape   PFC. DALE MAPLE, FACING TRIAL ON~ CHARGES SIMILIAR TO TREASON, ACCUSES EIGHT OTHERS   Five WAC’s Involved

SOLDIERS HELD IN NAZI ESCAPE   Camp Hale Germans Are Captured; 9 Privates Involved

W. acs Wrote   To Germans   -Camp Hale, Inquiry Results In Charges

INVOLVE SOLDIERS: IN NAZIS’ ESCAPE   ;  EIGHT IMPLICATED IN FLIGHT OF TWO GERMANS FROM COLORADO CAMP.

FIVE. WAGS WROTE NAZI PRISONERS   Eight American Soldiers Are Held For Assisting Two Make Escapes.

Eight More Soldiers and _ WACS Involved in Escape Of German War Prisoners

British Driven From Hoven By German Thrust  Yank 9th And 3rd Slowed To Sticky Crawl! Near Roer

Germans Drive British From Two Villages   Von Rundstedt Commit Ten, Twelve Divisions To Co. logne Batile.   SEIZE 40,000 NAZIS

Attack Stull Resisted at Bridgehead   Nazis Drive British Back With Drumfire Artillery Barrage And Flame Throwers   Ficht House to House.

Advances Made Near Strasbourg Taken By Allies   Progress On Other Points ls Difficult

Allies Cross Rhine River. In New Push   Von Rundstedt Musters Best Before Cologne as Allies Charge Ahead

Allies Cross Rhine East Of Strasbourg   Americans And french Join In Capturing City

dvance Made ast Of City f Strasbourg   British 2nd Army Driven From Towns Near Geilenkirchen

Von Rundstedt Hurls 10 to 12 Divisions Into  Cologne Plain   British Driven from Vil Tages of Beeck and Hoven

‘Strasbourg in Allied Hands Except A Bridgehead; British Lose 2.Towns

STRASBOURG ALMOST WHOLLY IN HANDS OF AMERICANS, FRENCH   GERMANS DEFENDING WAY TO COLOGNE WITH LARGE FORCE OF CRACK TROOPS

Allied Units Cross Flooded Rhine Out of Strasbourg   Germans Now Have Only Slight Holding West Of Main Bridge; Nazi Counterattack Drives British Second Army Out of Hoven

PR aI aad fs  Bridge Flooded  River East Of Strasbourg; British Lose Towns —      U.S. Ninth Army Fighting For Roer River City In Drive Toward Cologne; 40,000 Germans Reported Captured

French Fight in Strasbourg — As German Tanks Recapture Two Villages From British   American Ninth Army, la Battle 25 Miles From Cologne, Knocks Out Many of Nazis New Monster Tonks

GREAT BATTLE ROARS ON COLOGNE PLAIN   Savage Action . Along Entire Rain-Soaked Fronts Advance Allied Units Into Germany ~ From Strasbourg

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ENEMY ATTACK DRIVES BRITISH OUT OF HOVEN   U. S. Armies Crawl forward in Thrusts Toward Cologne

Advance Allied Units Reported Today As Having Crossed Rhine Near Strasbourg

BRITISH ARMY SHOVED BACK ACROSS PLAIN   Supreme Headquarters in Estimate That Offensive Has Cost Germans 160,000 Men   Ry WILLIAM FRYE

BRITISH LOGE TWO VILLAGES   Ninth Army Knocks Out 110th Tank in Battle on Coicane Plain. i   40.000 GERMANS TAKEN

ALLIED FORCES CONTROL MOST OF STRASBOURE   Fierce Nazi Counterblows Throw British Out  Hoven

Americans And French Control City   Germans Oust British From Beeck And Hoven On Cologne Plain.

Allies ‘Cross : Rhine Rive : In New Push              Best Before Cologn Allies Charge Aheat

British 2nd Army Driven From Two Towns By Enemy   Nazis Hold Small Part Of Alsace-Lorraine Cap ital; Advanced Units Spear Across Water  Barrier; Germans Open Attack

French, U. S., Seize Strasbourg Except Bridge Entrance   Simpson’s Forces Destroy 110th Nazi Tank in Week; First Army Enters Weisweiler; British Retreat

Heavy Fighting Rages Along Entire Front Despite. Ri \ Flood Conditions; Germans are Putting Up Desperate.. Fight Against Huge Allied Forces i .

Account Says Move Made East Of Strasbourg   Germans Throw 10 To 12 Divisions Against Troops On Plain Of Coloane: Fiaht Fierce

PATROL UNITS FORD SWOLLEN RIVER TODAY   eeu  Enemy Resisting Bitterly In Most Sectors As Doughboys Gain

Crossing Takes Place At Strasbourg Which French Americans All But Hold

Reports Of Crossing Of River Not Regarded As Indicating Major Drive Is Under Way

Fighting in Center of Strasbourg   American Ninth And First Armies Offensive Slows To Sticky Crawl

BRITISH FORCE THROWN FROM TWO CITIES   Nazis Claim Bridge Taken In Counter-Attack   MARCH UP VALLEY   Of Roer River Is Checked; Bad Weather Slows Down Drive In Vosges

French, Yanks Hold Most of Strasbourg   Von Rundstedt Commits Many Troops to Great Battle On Cologne Plain, Rewins Hoven, Beeck From British

Gen. Von Runstedt Commits Twelve Divisions to Battle of Attrition In Defending Cologne Stronchold

Allies Ford Rhine; Small Fozce Holds (ut in Strasbourg   Von Rundstedt Forces British Withdrawal in Cologne Plain Battle —

Allied Patrols Cross Rhine River  Advance Units Report Progress In Maneuver East of Stracboura

Americans Four Miles from Formia; British Push Cassino Isolation;  Withdrawing Nazis Flood Liri Valley

Troops Are Fleeing Before New Attack   Retreat Js So Rapid Americans Fail To Keep Contact With Enemy In Some Sectors Of Front

FORMIA FACES ONSLAUGHT BY YANK FORCES   Eighth Army Drives Past Cassino; Near Via Casilina

U.S. Naval Guns Support Coastal Advance Of Miles   Allies Plunge Ahead “Some Miles” Back Of Cassino Toward Beachhead As Nazis Retire Too Fast To Maintain Contact.

Americans Drive Within 4 Miles of Formia While British Threaten to Cut Off Cassino in Furious Fighting

RAIL CURTAILMENT  PROGRAM OPPOSED   Keedysville Obje Objections to B. & O. Program Voiced ~ - at Hearing

RAIL CURTAILMENT PROGRAM OPPOSED   Keedysville Objections fo B. & O. Program Voiced et Hearing

RAILROAD SEEKS TO CLOSE TWO STATIONS   Shortage Of Telegraphers Reason For Curtailing Service At Keedys ville And Brentwood

Explosion and Fire In Chicago Hits Grain Pit Building  Skyscraper Is Filled . - With Smoke as Workers Leave Jahe

Yanks Advance on 2 Biak Airfields   U. S. Forces Attacking From Mokmer ’Drome

Americans Gain on Biak Island  Jap Resistance in Fight Is Bitter

Final Homage Paid McNary   Rites to Be Held In Statehouse in Oreaon’s Capital

R.A. F. Reports 18,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on European Targets in January

Japs Cease To. Defend Wewak From Yank Raids   Planes Drop 206 Tons Of Bombs On Base Unopposed

GERMANS MAULED BEFORE CASINO BY FIFTH ARMY   Crack Enemy Troops Thrown Back Almost to City by Furious Attacks of Clark’s Forces.   DRIVE THREE MILES INITIO DEFENSE ZONE   Doughboys, Strongly Supported by Fighter - Bombers, Wrest Three Peaks From Nazis.

Crack Germans Sag Under Yank Lunges   Forts Leave Bulgarian Capital Blazing As Rumor of Blow at Turkey Heard

Clark’s Army Hurls Two Crack German Divisions Almost Back to Cassino

‘Defense Lines of Enemy \Are Broken   Tank Battle Rages Near Stronghold on Road to Rome

Jap Army Opens Drive to Break New Guinea Trap   MacArthur Discloses First Attacks East Of Captured Aitape

15,000 Japs, Isolated in New Guinea, Mass for Suicide Break-Through Drive

Coordinated Allied Drives Blast Open Southern Sector Of German Defense Line   Patton's First Army Wipes Out Last Nest Of Resistance In Historic City; Maginot Line Bastion Occupied By French

Hines Appointed  Department Head  Seek Clue As To U. S. Re-Employment Plans

A Postwar Job Clue from FDR   Order Setting Un New Post May Give Reemployment Plans

Seek Clue To  Postwar Jebs   Expect FDR Yo Name New Director Of Retraining. Re-Emplovment.

Work Director To Head Task Of Job Finding   Gen. Hines Selected; Is To Aid Workers Left Jobless As War Plants Close

HINES IS NAMED WORK DIRECTOR OF BARUCH PLAN   CHOSEN BY BYRNES TO HEAD PROGRAM FOR RE-EMPLOYMENT

Await Order on Job Handling   Clue to Plans on Re-employing Jobless War Workers Expected

WARD COMPANY RELEASED FROM GOV'T CONTROL   ClO UNION WINS ELECTION; DEMAND CONTRACT EXTENSION

Ward Plant Turned Back to Owners as  CIO Wins Election   Judge Holly Says No Decision Will Be Made  on Law Suit

WARD GIVEN RELEASE BY GOVERNMENT  CIO Union Wi:   CIO Union Wins In Election  By Workers

Ward Control Relinquished By Government  CIO Wins Election; WLB Is Asked For Contract Extension

Extension of Old Contract Asked by ClO   Ward Employes Moke Demands on War Labor Beard

FF FOR LEAVENWOR   Seventeen White Men From This Ceunty Will Be Inducted

THIRTEEN MEN LEAVE   Off This Morning for Leavenworth for Induction

Stab Ahead 60 Miles to Take Amiens   Nazi Forces Are Giving Up Coast In Wild Flight  To German Borde

Unable to Try Stand on Somme   Four Allied Armies in Dashing Drive Overrim - Old Battlefields   ROCKET CENTERS “ APPEAR DOOMED   Fast American Push Toward Belgium Sweeps Up 3 Trainloads: Enemy Trying ‘Escape

U.S. 3rd Army at Argonne in Stab for Reich   British Plunge Toward Boulogne, Calais and Dunkerque Beaches; Entire Robot Bomb Coast May Fall Soon, as Nazi Fight Vanishes

Not Trying To Block Allies   Disorganized Rush Back To Homeland Marks Crumbling of Defenses   No Rest For Enemy   BNw Wet EVE REE wee  Canadians Take Rouen, British Drive 60 Miles to Amiens, Le Havre Doomed

CROSS SOMME INADVANCE UP ROCKET COAST   Race Speeding Yanks Now 30 Miles From Belgian Frontier

Enemy Yields Robot Bomb Sites To Get Back Home By Way of Belgium

BRITISH TANKS IN LIGHTNING SMASH ACROSS THE SOMME  SPEED OF ADVANCE INDI CATES GERMANS MAKING NO PRETENSE OF STAND

Nazi Hopes of Somme Stand   Arve Wrecked   Sixty-Mile Dash Carries Allied Troops Halfway from Seine to Belgium and Flanks Part of Robot Bomb Coast   WITH ALLIED TOOMPS IN FRANCE.

British Smash Across Somme   Amiens Captured in Lightning 60-Mile 48-Hour Drive; Yanks Pound Forward Along Last 30 Miles to Belgian Boundary

Sixty-Mile Drive in 48 Hours Sends Nazi Forces Reeling   YANKS IN THE ARGONNE   Enter Old Battlefield as British Threaten Rocket  st

14 More Jap Ships Sunk ana Over 150 Planes Destroyed   Nip Losses Include Two Destroyers   American Pincers Threatens Many Jan Troons on Levte

‘Appin Manila Area  Bieccotaan Minera Tan Shinc 152 Planac   Fourteen More Jap Ships, 158 Planes Knocked Out In Invasion Preliminary.

PLANE ATTACK ON MANILA BAY GETS 14 SHIPS   Assault Another Preparatory Step to Luzon Landines

YANK AIRCRAFT STRIKE HARD IN MANILA AREA   Ground Forces Threaten 35,000 Nips In N. W. Leyte

Wreck 14 Jap Ships In ‘Manila Bay      Carrier Planes Destroy 168 Enemy Aircraft in Major Attack,

MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK SUNDAY IN MANILA BATTLE   i4 Enemy Ships Destroyed 031 Wrecked; Leyte Japs In Pincers

U.S. Planes Wreck 14 Jap Ships  2 Destr royers Blown  a. Se, oe   2 Destroyers Blown Up, Cruiser Is Damaged, 11 Cargo Vessels Sunk

Carrier Task Force Again Hits Manila Area; Bags 14 Jap Ships, 158-168 Planes

158 To 168 Planes Also Hit By Carrier Craft, Admiral Nimitz Reports

WRECK 14 JAP SHIPS IN RAIDS IN MANILA BAY   Carrier Plane Blows Also Destroy 158 To 168 Aircraft

YANK PLANES SINK 14 MORE NIPDON SHID§   Two Destroyers Are Included in Latest Victory

‘Seen as Step For Invasion "Luzon Island   35,000 Jap Troops On Leyte Face Trap By Pincers Drive

CAPITAL ISLAND OF PHILIPPINES  Attacks Will Increase In Scale And Violence As Invacion Near«

14 ENe MY SHIPS HIT IN ATTACK   158 To 168 Japanese a Planes Destroyed By Yank Airmen

14 JAP SHIPS BLASTED IN MANILA BAY   Hailed As Step Preliminary to Luzon Invasion

U. S. Aircraft — Wrecks 14 Ships In Manila Bay   168 Planes Also Downed; Invasion of Luzon, Philippine Gapital, Looms; Ground ~ Forces Threaten Leyte

U. §. Continues to Take Jap Toll at Manila   More Enemy Ships and Planes Are Wracked

Allies pound installations on continent  Historic week lane hlaw ends

R.A-F. Planes Smash at Nazi Capital   American Bombers Attack Enemy Airfield in France

BERLIN BOMBED BY RAF FORCE   Thunderbolts Destroy 20 Nazi Planes In France

Air War Taper: Off With Nazi Airfield Raid   Berlin Also Hit in Week-Long Two-Way Allied Aerial Blast At Vital Axis Targets

Allied Air Blows Cut Deeply into German Strength   Week-Long Raids Do Great Damage

Allied Bombing Drive on Europe ls Tapering Off   Mosquitos Raid Nazi Capital, Thunderbolts Blast Enemy Airfield

BRITISH BLAST BERLIN AGAIN   Americans in Spectacular Attack on Airfield in  Northeastern France

BLOCK BUSTER BOMBS RAINED UPON BERLIN   ALLIES PUT CRIMP IN NAZI FIGHTER PLANE STRENGTH

Fighters Destroy - 20 Enemy Planes   Thunderbolts Catch Nazi Aircraft on Ground

13 GERMAN FACTORIES ARE DESTROYED   Seventeen Airfield and 14 Railroad. Centers Figure in Nazi Resistance to Invasion   905 U.S. Bombers

Airtield in France Target  Of Day Raid   Two-Ton Blockbusters Believed Used Against Reich’s Capital me

Thunderbolts Attack Airbase In NE France   15,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped, 700 Enemey Planes Lost in 6 Days

RAF Mosquitos Hit Capital With Blockbusters  GERMAN AIRFIELD IN FRANCE RAIDED  Crippling Blows Dealt to Aircraft Factories During Week

German. Airfield In France Hit ByThunderbolts   » Mosquites Hit Berlin... And: Budapest Reports Raiders Over Hungary

Aerial Blows On Nazis Taper Off   Ssectacular Raid lAchee Nazi Race

Big Bombers Hit Behind  German Line   Oil and Munition Dumps Blasted— Railroads Shattered

New Blow  “From Air; * Russians . Speed Or   Berlin “Radio Also Tells of ‘Major Drive.on Rome’ ® .°.. by-Fifth Army   HEAVY BOMBERS: : RETURN TO REICH   Russia Offers fers’ Poland~ the Curzon Line as Boundary; -Wanks: ‘Near Cassino

ALLIES CLOSE A PINCERS ON CASSING   One Arm Reaches Outskirts of Cervaro, Four Miles Away — Destroyers Sink Three, Damage Bonrv Nazi Schooners.

Pincers Close On Nazi Bastion   American Troops Drive on Cassino

Believe Soviets Poised for New Huge Offensive   Final Great Thrust Expected to Fit in With Invasion Drive

SEN. TRUMAN PRAISES WORK OF PRESIDENT   Warns Against Selection of “Inex- © perienced Man”

TRUMAN SOUNDS THE KEYNOTE ~ OF THE ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN   VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN ACCEPTANCE . _ SPEECH STRESSES EXPERIENCE OF PRESI& DENT eget

TRUMAN ASKS U, $. TO CLING TO ROOSEVELT   President Seen As Only Man Measuring Up To Demand Of Times   NOMINATION ACCEPTED   Peace Of World Declared Dependent On Vote Of Americans

NAZI PLANES HIT LONDON EARLY TODAY      50 to 60 Planes Managed to Cross Channel

NAZI AIR ATTACK CAUSES FIRES IN LONDON DISTRICI   Heaviest Casualties and Damage Since First Blitz Banorted

London Hit by New Blitz   CASUALTIES GREATER THAN ON ANY NIGHT SINCE BRITAIN BATTLE

Long Lull Broken by London Raid   Nazi Bombs Start Number of Fires; Casualties Heavy

LONDON HIT BY HEAVIEST RAID SINCE ‘BLITZ’   New Raiding Tacties By German Fliers Indicated

Get Beachheads On 10 Islets   War Vessels Help Clear Way for  Landing Forces.

U. §. Offensive Is In Strong Central Area of Islands   Victory Assured But Not Quick Like Gilberts Action

Troops Land After 3 Days Bombardment  on at Least 10 of 30 Odd Islets

Americans Form Beachheads on Ten Islets in Marshalls   Meet Light Nip Resistance at Some In vasion Points; Largest Sea Armada Assists Invaders

Ten Beachheads Established On Kwajalein, Most- bengal iat Of Japanese Bases

4  ALLIES SPRING NEW ATTACKS IN SO. PACIFIC   ‘MacArthur Reveals Troops on South Shore of New Guinea as Marcshalle Invaded   Tanks Brought Into Play in Battle to Caplure Akyab, Burma — Waungdaw Atlacked

By-Pass Outlying Islets For Blow At Fortified Core OF Jan Position.

Yank Invaders Establish Beachheads On Ten Of 30 Isles In Central Chain

Invasion Going Well: Quick Win Is Not Expected   Terrific Three - Day Navy Bombardment Paved Way For US Army Troops

Yanks Face Hard Fisht   .. Initial Success Meets Kwajalein Thrust

Reds Gain 93 Miles in Smash   Armies Massed Along East Prussia Border on 100-Mile Front

Berlin Reports Break-thru. af Frontier Town  , oo wo   Other Gains to South Threaten City of Krakow

q@.. ata Deak mae. OUVICLS bP Can  Lines Before   East Prussia   Poles Fighting Brilliant Battle in Warsaw, Winning City

NAZIS ADMIT RED ARMY BREAKTHROUGH AT POINT NEAR BORDER IN LITHUANIA

Nazis Hint Reds Have Reached _  Germany Proper   Say Lines Breached North of Virbalis, .  On Prussian Frontier

Soviets Reported Fighting On “Holy Soil’’ Of Germany; _ Tanks Roll Toward Krakow

REDS ATTACK DEEP BEHIND GERMAN LINES   Soviet Armies Smash On With Increasing Momentum After Breakthru

Russians Nearing  Krakow   Tanks Rolling Westward Within Striking Distance Of Big Bastion

Russian Wedge Reported in Prussia   Spearhead Thought To Have Pierced “Holy Soil?’

SUVIETS MAY HAVE CARRIED BATTLE ¢ ACROSS BORDER  ONTO “HOLY SOIL”:   Russians Massed On 100Mile Front In Easy Striking Distance Of Prussia.

Four-F’s May Be Placed In Needed Jobs   House Awaits Official Action On Legislation.

Six Million 4-F’s Between 18 and 45 Years Seen As  Manpower Problem Answer

HOUSE STUDIES 4-F PROGRAM   Manpower Woes Of Industry To Be Heard

House Group Hears Manpower Woes Of Industrialists  Legislation to Appear Shortly After  Bactar Racace Ende

Army, Navy Can Use ‘Em   Ready to Put 4-F’s to Work Who Decline to Get Into Essential Industries

6,000,000 4:F’s RECOMMENDED FOR JOBS OR INDUCTION   House Committee Suggests Answer to Manpower Shortage in Rejected Men

May Call Six Million 4-F’s For War Duty   Congress Hears From Industry

Legisiation Promised Immediately After Laster  Believe 6 Million 4-Fs Solve Manpower Need

House Military Group Favors 4-F Labor Draft  “Congress Expected -. To Act On Proposal  Following Recess

Heard By House In 4-F Measures   6,000,000 May Be Forced Into Egsential Jobs

WAIT OFFICIAL — AF REACTION   Expect Military Approval Despite Stimson’s Objection

HOUSE GROUP AWAITS REPORT ON 4-F DRAFT   Solons To Act on Measure at Once After Easter Holidays '

Germans End All Leaves In Holland   - ‘Fear. Blow at’ Low ‘SCouutrics and * South of 7 ce

CORSICA REPORTS. ~ GIVE NAZIS NEW CASE OF JITTERS   Germans Learn of Activity on That tsland—Tenslon innrassinn.

‘Moscow Accuses Pole Underground   Pravda Paper Claims Government Anti-Russ

Allies Take Over Attack From Nazis   British Troops Get Bottleneck Bridge During Fighting

Fight Below Rome Eases Off A Little   British Retake Bottleneck Bridge; Yanks Inch Ahead In Cassino.

200 YARD GAIN AT CASSINO 18 MADE BY YANKS   Allies Say Monastery Atop Mountain Is Used by Germans

Bottleneck Bridge West Of Carroceto Retaken By British   Report_5th_Army..Lashes_Back-At-. Nazis From Anzio Beachhead; _ Battle Surging Nearer Abbey

Weekend Crisis in Italy Is Weathered   Fury of See-Saw Battle for Anzio Beachhead Dims   British Troops Regain Initiative in Part And Recapture  Some Lost Ground

BESIEGED FORCE SHIFTING BACK TO OFFENSIVE   Another Allied Hospital in Italy Bombed - - Red Army Surge Gains Momentum

Nazi Attacks Around Anzic Less Furious  Initiative Regained by Allies in Fierce   Initiative Regained by Allies in Fierce See-saw Batting

Troops Drive Forward With Tank Support  Near Cassino    German Strongholds Are Battered Down

Allies Regaining Italy Initiative   -mphasize Indeterminate Nature of Battle; British Recapture A _ Bottleneck Bridge; Nazis Occupy Factory; Patrols Active.

Initiative Is Partly Regained At Bridgehead   Bottleneck Bridge Taken By British; Americans Advance 20 Yards In Cassino

U.S. Blood and Sweat Win 200 Yard Advance  Inside Cassino   Air Cover Resumed But Weather Grounds Big Bombers

INTENSITY OF BEACH BATTLE TAPERING OFF   Yanks Weather Week-End Crisis And Regam  Initiative

See-Saw Fighting Continues, But Allies Hold Firm   Initiative Is Regained; 200-Yard Advance Made By Yanks In Cassino Area

Rome Claims Old Monastery Shelled   Clearing Weather Aids Doughboys—Ameri icans Fight Wavy Slowly Into Cassino

Allies Gain as Fieht Slackens   800 Air Sorties Help Slow Up Enemy Counter-Offensive; Yanks Make New Advances Inside Town of Cassino

British Take Bridge At Beach: Americans Advance 200 Yards Into Cassino

NEITHER ARMY ABLE 70 SCORE FINAL VICTORY   Allies Say Monastery On Mt. Cassino  Faces Assault

SEE-SAW FIGHTING OF LESSENED DEGREE IN BEACHHEAD AREA  ALLIES RETURN TO INITIATIVE WITH RE-

British Units Retake Bridge Near Aprilia   Germans Reoccupy Fac. tory East of Carroceto, Emphasizing Indeterminate Nature Battle   YanksPay InBlood  For Cassino Gains   Germany Claims Allied Penetration to Center of City Eliminated; Huns Bonib Hospital

200 YARDS IN CASSINO BATIL          Germans Bomb Plainly Marked Base Hospital

British Gain In Bridgehead See-Saw Battle   Allies Retake Initiative Through Air Superioriiy

BRITISH MAKE LOCAL GAINS ATBEACHHEAD   Anzio Fighting of Seesaw Nature, but Less Fierce, in Last 24 Hours—Cassino Advance Totals 200 Yards.

Allies Regain Inifiative on Italian Front   Americon Troops Gain 200 Yards In Cassino Clash

ALLIED FORCES =— HAVE WEATHERED WEEK-END CRIS   British Troops Regain The Initiative In Part   ALLIED AIR FORCES STRIKE WITH FURY

Fight Wavers But Fliers Give Support   Weather Improves; British Take Bottleneck Bridge

ALLIES REGAIN INITIATIVE IN PART AT ANZIO   BRITISH RECAPTURE BOTTLENECK BRIDGE WEST OF CARROCETO

AIR SUPPORT ENABLES ALLIES 10 RECAPTURE INITIATIVE AT ANZIQ   Fighting Is of See-Saw Nature But Battle's Intensity Is Lessened   GAINS MADE AT CASSINO

Solt Ground a Big aa         BLOODY BATTLE.’ oer VIN CASSINO: AREA             Germans. Bomb: ‘Anot i -Hospital;- -Enemy Also: Us ing: Monastery: ai

British With Tank Support Regain Bridge   Americans Pay With Blood, Sweat For 200-Yard Gain In Cassino.   HOSPITAL BOMBED

Allies On Attack In Several Sectors; British Take Bridge   Farm Buildings Have Changed Hands ag High as Four Times; Americans Advance 200 Yards in Cassino

Germans Reoccupy Factory East of Carroceto After Fierce Battle,   SMALL GAIN AT CASSING

British Again Seize Bridge On Beachhead   Allied Forces Appear To Have Weathered Crisis and Regained Offensive in Part

SEE-SAW FIGHTING OF LESSENED DEGREE IN BEACHHEAD AREA  ALLIES RETURN TO INITIATIVE WITH REGAINED AIR SUPPORT

Planes Help To Drive Nazi Forces Back   Fifth Army Advances in Fierce Cassino Battle; Near Famous Abbey

VITAL IS CAPTURED BY BRITISH   Yanks Make 200-Yard Gain Fighting In Cassino   2,000 CAPTIVES   Taken Since First Landing; Mark Clark Confident Of Reaching Rome

Yanks Make INew Gain in Cassino Fight   Nazi Dispatches Report’ Strong Resumption of  Offensive by Allies   FLIERS IN- ACTION   Better Weather Enables Clark’s Air Support to Hammer at Enemy

Allies Take Offensive On Limited Scale   Germans Believed Waiting For Cloudy Weather Before Attacking Again

British Recapture Bottleneck Bridge But Germans Retake Factory Near Carroceto; Yanks Grind Slowly Ahead in Cassino Now

ALLIES MAKE GAINS TODAY AT CASSINO   New Offensive Now Pushing All  German Fronts

- Allies Shift From Defensive. At Beachhead: Gain At Cassino   New Offensive Aimed At Japs

Tempo of Fighting At Beachhead Slows       Forces See-saw in strugele south Of Rome; British F' orces  lake Gain West of Carroceto.

Allies Now Have Taken  Initiative   Armored Units of Enemy In Serious Straits Due To the Weather

Allies Seize initiative But Nazis Hold Or   Another Hospital Bombed; Fighting Fierce in Cassino

British Capture Vital Bridge With Aid Of Tanks; Intensity Of See-Saw Struggle Lessens

Planes Swing Into Action Against Foe   Americans Advance 200 Yards In Reduction Of Cassino; Germans’ Impact Blunted

Battle of Lessened Intensity   British Units Recapture Bridge West of  Carroceto

GREAT GAINS MADE IN GUAM CONQUEST      American. Troops Sweer Completely Across — Icland

GREAT GAINS MADE INGUAM CONQUEST   American - Troops Sweep _ Completely Across * Island

U. S. INDICTS BERRIEN MEN      True Bills Include One for Accused Draft Violator

16 Indictments Are Returned By U. 5. Grand Jury   Benton Harbor Persons, And Firms Named In True Bills

The War Today  see Badoglio Ready To Do Everything Necessary For Alliance.

 Phe War Today—  P rench Not Likely To Permit Italy Full Partnership In Allied Camp

The War Today   Badoglio Demand for Allied AlWance Is Knotty Problem *

BADOGLIO’S INSISTENCE THAT ITALY BE NAMED MEMBER UNITED NATIONS IS PROBLEM FOR ALLIES

HIGH SALARIES PAID 10 STEEL HEADS RAPPEL   CIO Union, Clamoring For Pay Jump, Cites Executives’ Pay

ALLIES MAP WEST WALL FOR INVASION   Reconnaissance _Photographs Gives General Eisenhower Details on Potential Battlefields.   Norway On Spot

Maps Show Nazi West Wall  Fortress Buried In Concrete   Area Mapped For Invasion Gun-By-Gun, Mile By-Mile; Nazis Depend On Camouflage To Hide Strong Installations

Allied Flyers Map Nazi West Wall?  Find It Fortress Buried in Concrete

ALLIES MAP WEST WALL FOR ATTACK; FORTRESS BURIEL   Seeret Chart Shows Defenses  Mile By Mile Screened By Minefield and Barbed Wire.   ‘CONSISTS OF PHOTOS TAKEN BY AIRMEN   (Germans Relying Heavily On Camouflage—Marshal Rommel Predicts Early , Invasion.

Allies Have Completed Large Detail Map Of Entire Germandefense Sysem

Nazis’ West Wall Minutely Mapped For Allied Blow   Area Found To Be Buried Fortress Sunk In Concrete Wire And Mine Screened ~

Buried Fortress Sunk In Concrete Screened By Mines, Barbed Wire   Pictures Taken by Allied Photographers Reveal Exfent of Nazi Fortifications and Show Whail Eisenhower Will Have To Overcome in Final Round of Battle with Germany

Found Buried Fortress, Sunk Deep in Concrete, Screened. by Minefields

Map of German Wall Shows It to Be Buried Fortress Screened by Minefields

GERMAN WEST WALL MAPPED FOR INVASION   Eisenhower and Staff Have Details of Foe Defenses

Air Maps Reveal _ Tough Job Ahead   Nazis Employ Elaborate Camouflage Efforis

Germany's Wes! Wall Mapped For Invasion   Eisenhower Provided With Air Pictures Of Defense System

Homecoming Majo Finds ‘Mom’ Gone   Wanted to Surprise Family but Neighbors Telephone Ahead

“Commando” Kelly Declines $55-a-Day Hotel Suite to “Go Along Home With Mom”

One-ManArmy Back Home   COMMANDO KELLY TOUCHES OFF TENEMENT CELEBRATION

ONE-MAN ARMY RETURNS HOME   Pittsburgh Forgets Election - To Welcome Sgt. Kelly

Invasion of Western Europe Rated First Among News Stories of 1944

FORTRESS EUROPE’ INVASION IS RATED TOP NEWS OF 1944   GERMAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE CHOSEN AS SECOND 8TORY AND ELECTION RATED THIRD

“Crust” of Resistance Said Smashed  Nazis Abandon Deadly Weapons

Dewey Asks For Revision  Of Tax Laws   Also Proposes Other Government Assistanc: To Bolster Post-War  Economic Structure

DEWEY CALLS FOR REVISION OF TAX LAWS   REPRESSIVE LEVIES CONDEMNED BY GOP NOMINEE

Gov. Dewey Urges Drastic Revision Of Country's Repressive Tax Laws

Tax Revision Dewey Pledge   Urges Rates Which Will ‘Encourage Business’

DEWEY CALLS FOR REVISION OF TAX LAWS   Nominee Presents His Program for Free U. S. Economy

DEWEY FAVORS FULL REVISION OF TAX SETUF   GOP Candidate Outlines Program For Free Ameri can Ereanomy   NEW DEAL HAS FAILED TO SOLVE PROBLEM

DEWEY FOR TAX REVISION 10 AID BUSINESS   Need Laws To Encourage Not Discourage, New Enterprises

Dewey Outlines His Plan for Free   , American Economy   Republican Presidential Candidate Calls for Drastic Revision of ‘Our  Repressive Tax Laws’ in Coast Address

Governor Urges Opportunity for Business, Labor   Raps Bureaucratic Control of Nation

MUoT ENCOURAGE NEW BUSINESSES   Nominee Outlines Program For Free American Economy in Campaign Address  @ At San Francisco

‘Repressive’ Tax Laws Hit By Dewey at  San. Francisco   ‘Governor. Outlines  - Program for Free’ _. American: Economy, Cavepam cnt liided   ‘SAYS PRESENT TAXES -PENALIZE- INCENTIVE   “ Contends: Hostility Toward: Tudustry™ > Must Be Replaced

Candidate Dewey Advances Philosophy For Achieving _ Freedom And Security Goa   Depicts An Economy In Which Government Func: tions Only To Stimulate Free Enterprise

‘Tax Law Revisions Needed,  Dewey Tells Big Audience   Program for Free American Economy Outlined by : _ Governor in Stirring Address in San Francicco

ACOIOTANGE OWINDLING   General MacArthur At Work On Plans Designed To Exploit Fully Initial Assanlt On Leyte, Equipment, Food Pours Ashore   NEW TYPE PLANES AIDING LIGHTNINGS

WARN OF PHONE _ STRIKE SPREAD   Service in Half of Ohio’s Exchanges Already . Curtailed

Phone Strike May Spread fo Other States   5000 Join Ohio Walkout; Service Still Continues

J.S. CONTINUES TO POUR HAVOC ON PHILIPPINES   200 Jap Planes Destroyed in New Raids on Invasion Areas

(By International News Service)   REPORT FRESH RAIDS ON PHILIPPINES

Twisters, Downpours And Floods Hit State   At Least One Person Killed, Heavy Property Damage Reported from Winds; Floods May Be Seriot

YANKS IN TOR AREA ADVANCE   Bridgehead Expanded as Reinforcements Reach Dutch New Guinea

WIDEN BEACHHEAD OPPOSITE WAKDE   M'’ARTHUR'S FORCES MOVING ON AIRFIELDS REIN. FORCED BY PLANES.

BRIDGEHEAD IS EXPANDED IN SOUTHWEST   Sixth Army Presses toward New Guinea Airfields at Mouth of Tor River Opposite Wakde.   Knock Out Japs

House Votes Today Upon Price Control   Risks Another FDR Veto Fight

WEATHER REPORT FOR FAYETTI   SERVICE MEN DON'T NEED LICENSE TO FISH OR HUN’

BERLIN HIT AGAIN IN ALLIES DRIVE TO WIPE OUT CITY   Stockholm ~ Reports Nazis Plan Total Evacuation of Capital

Troops Land on Beaches   Fierce Japanese Opposition Is Met By Americans  Teaitii wean’

MADE NEAR KWAJALEIN   Conquest of JapMandated Isles Is Under Way

Real Issue of University Debate Still Its Freedom   Despite Injections Of ‘Red Herrings’ Rainey Tells Student:

DISCHARGED TEXAS UNIVERSITY HEAD DELIVERS ADDRESS  DECLARES FREEDOM OF SCHOOL MAIN QUESTIO

DISCHARGED TEXAS UNIVERSITY HEAD DELIVERS ADDRESS  DECLARES FREEDOM .OF - SCHOOL MAIN QUESTION  JN CONTROVERSY

 Conivitions Over, ‘State Politics Start to Boil   Democrats Name Delegates to National Convention

FCC Division Ridding Air Of Spy Messages   ‘Transmissions: Cut Almost  To Zero: Que Radio Set Traced To  Grave

T RESIGN JOBS IN ARGENTINA   Rawson Quits as Ambassador To Brazil

ee ee  PRO-ALLIED ENVOY FROM ARGENTINA TO BRAZIL QUITS POST      Resignation Follows Tiff With New President

Officials Quit Argentine Pos!   Move Made After Break With Axis; Security of Country at Stake

THREE CABINET OFFICERS QUIT IN ARGENTINA   Lesser Officials Also Resign in Protesting Break with Axis— Ramizez Warns Germany, Japan

Argentine Axis Break Causes Split   PRO-ALLIED GENERAL RESIGNS AS UPHEAVAL IN GOVERNMENT RAGES

RAWSON RESIGNS ARGENTINE POST   QUITS AS AMBASSADOR TO BRAZIL IN SPLIT WITH PRES, RAMIREZ

Rawson Quits As Argentine Brazil Envoy   Pro-Allied Leader’s - Action Follows Rebuke by Ramirez

Argentine Cabinet Members Resign  - Ambhnceador to Brow!   ~ Ambassador to Brazil Other Officials Quit Protesting Axis Break

Pro-Axis Trio In Argentine  Cabinet Quits   Major Nazi Mouthpiece Suspended, Commerce With Axis Banned.

IN ARGENTINA   Ambassador to Brazil, Three Cabinet Members Quit Since Axig Break.

Flash Fire Takes  Lives of Dozen ©   Nearly 100 Injured In : Los Angeles Blast

URGES POLAND GUT TERRITORY FROM CERMANY   Reaffirms Desire for  Strong, Independent Polish Nation

Reds Plan To Keep Former Polish Area   “Curzon Line’ Offerec As Possible Basis For New Border

RUSSIA OFFERS POLAND SLICE OF GERMANY   Soviets Demand Ukrainian, White Russian Areas East of ‘Curzer Line’ of 1919   OUTLET TO BALTIC       Official Moscow Broadcast Sharply Critical of Polish Government in Exile

Russ to Keep Area Taken  From Poles   Propose Free Polish State With Curzon Line as Border

Reds Affirm Plan To Keep Polish Area   German Territory To Be Given Poles As Compensation

Russians Issue Warning. They Won't Yield Areas’ In Ukraine; White Russia

Proposal Submitted To Poland   Russia Suggests “Curzor Line’ Of 1919 As Basis For Determination Of Poland’s Boundary

Leds Affirm Intention Of Keeping Lanc   Soviet Government Has No Intentions Of Giving Poles Back Territory.   ‘OFFER CURZON LINE

SOVIETS WON'T YIELD GROUND   Affirm Intention of Keep: ing Territory Taken From Poles

Soviets Affirm Intentions Of Keeping Ukrainian, White Russian Territories

Russia Warns She Will Hold Pole Territory   New Poland Can Take Part Of Germany

Russia To Refuse To Yield Ground Gained In Poland  Bat To Give Help   Outlet To Balti Sea Is Assured By Russians

SOVIETS INTEND TO KEEP LAND TAKEN IN 1939   To Give Poland Part of Reich, Assure Poles of Baltic Sea Outlet

Surge Nearer Rumania; Advance _-Deeper Into Poland In Center.   x KK OK Russians Define Border with Poland

RUSSIA WAN: TS: STRONG, IN. DEPENDEN T: POLAND © Y  FeenvOn Territorial Sfane

MOSCOW FIXES . RUSSO-POLAND POST-WAR LINE   Warns ‘of Her Intention of . Keeping Territory. Incor_ porated Into Soviet . _ Union in 1939:

Soviets Announce Border Position  Will Demand Portions af Former Poland

Moscow To Keep Territory Taken From Poles, Wants Independe nt Polish State

RUSSIA WONT YIELD UKRAINIAN TERRITORY TAKEN OVER IN 1939   Wants Strong Poland and Suggests “Curzon Line” Border of 1919 =   POLE SEAPORT APPROVED

Russia Offers “Curzon Line, ’’ Proposed In 1919, as New Boundary With Poland

Soviet Offer To Poles   Suggest “Curson Line’ As Basis for Border Agreement; Declares Exile Gov’t Incapable

Soviets Announce Hat Refusal To Yield Ground  Reds Insist Ukraine White Russia  All milnw we ak Yow

Proposes Poles Rebuilc With Territories To Be Sliced From Germany.

1919 Line Offered As Russo-Polish Border... Russia Will Not Yield ‘Territories Added ‘To  Soviet Union In 1939

Russians Affirm Intention Of Keeping Territory Taken From Poles; Want Free State

Russia Will Keep Polish Territory But Proposes German Land For Poles

CLEAR WARNING IS ISSUED THAT RUSSIA WILL HOLD LANDS  SOVIET GOVERNMENT AT SAME TIME DESIRES

Soviets Announce Flat Refusal To Yield Ground  Reds Insist Ukraine White Russia All Relana ta Tham

POLES OFFERED 1919 LINE AS NEW BOUNDARY   German Lands To Be In cluded In New State, Russia Promises

‘Reds Won't Yield _ Territory Taken In Union in 739   Includes All But 3,800 Square Miles of Poland Red Army Took Over.   Strives For Friendly Relation With Poland

Russians Will Not Yield White Russia, Ukraine After War   Clear Warning Broadcast to Poland by Moscow © Radio

Russia Won’t Yield Areas East Of ‘Curzon Line’ Taken From Poles By Soviet Armies   Proposes Reconstitution Of Free Polish State, Assures Sea Outlet

POLISH BORDER ISSUE DEBATED BY RED LEADERS   Many Suggestions Offered; Border May Be Changed

Russia Won't Give Up Territories Acquired in 1939   But This Warning Is Tempered with Expressed Desire fo: A Strona Poland

Japanese Base on Truk Again Blasted   51 Tons of Bombs Dropped by MacArthur's Flyers

Liberators Drop 51-Ton Load On Base at Truk   Medium Bombers Blast Ponape For Seventh Day

BOMBS START NEWFIRES IN NICHT ATTACK   Continued Raids impairing Japan's Defenses of Inner Empire. -

AEDS OMAGH AHEAD IN FIGHT FOR WARSAW   . Troops Reported at City’s Outer Portificationg

EDD oftAoh ANCAU IN Fibhl FOR WARSAW   Troops Reported at City’s Outer Fortifications

Soviets State Position on Boundaries   Willkie Told by Official Paper To Miud Business

MOSCOW REGARDS EASTERN POLAND PART OF RUSSIA   Willkie Denounced for Urging Negotiations Over Territory

RECORD SMASH AT NAZI AIR MIGHT ROARS ON   Enemy Planes Fire London

2,000 PLANES “MAUL REICH IN NEW ASSAULI   Second Terrific Attack  By Yank Air Forces In Two Days  .

Enemy’s Air Power Is Hit By Bombing   Raids Follow Attacks of Unprecedented Strength  on Germany Sunday

Germans Attack London at Night   2000 Yank Planes Take Part in Blow at Enemy Plane Centers

126 GERMAN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   British Night Fliers Follow Up With Heavy Attack Upon Stuttgart.   BULLETIN

Huge U. S. Fleet Plasters Nazi Plane Centers   Record Raid Part of Systematic Destruction  of Reich Defenses

STUTTGART RAID PAID DIVIDENDS, LONDON ATTACKED   U.S. Day Assault Nets 126 Wazi Planes—Leipzig ls glen Visited.

ALLIES SPEED TEMPO OF AIR WAR ON REICH   RAF Blasts Stuttgart After Greatest American Bombing Force in History Hits Nazi Plane Planis.

Congress Faces  Busiest Battle   Senate. May Settle Subsidy Battle

Legislative Pile-Up ‘May Make This Busiest [Week Of 78th Congress

A BUSY WEEK FOR SENATORS   Congress to Consider Soldier Votre, Subsidies; Taxes, Other Problems

SEVERAL IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE ACTS FACING CONGRESS  SOLDIER VOTE, SUBSIDIES TAXES, MUSTER-OUT PAY AMONG THEM

Congress To Be Dined Tonight By Ohio Firm   Places Will Be Set For 250 Senk. tors, Representatives At Mayflower

JACK AND HEINTZ DINNER HOSTS   Over 200 Congressmen To Attend Firm’s Lobbying Party

NAZI U-BOAT SUNK. IN FURIOUS BATTLE   Three Destroyer Escorts Bag Submarine as It Tries to Attack Atlantic Convoy.

GANG UP._ON U-BOAT   Craff Sunk After Hour and 2 Half Battle by Destroyer Escorts.

NAZIS REPORTED FLEEING ATHENS   British Troops Race Almost Unopposed Across Greece

NAZIS FLEEING FROM ATHENS LAND, SEA, AIR   Hurrying to Reach Fatherland Before Russian and Balkan Doors Are Slammed.   Strafe Airports

NAZI TROOPS FLEE ATHENS   Germans Quit : Corinth as British Forces Take Port of Navplion

CLAIM NAZIS T0 LEAVE ATHENS   British Units Race Unopposec Across Peloponnesus

Germans Prepare To Quit Athens   British Troops Approaching Outskirts Of Corinth

CLAIM GERMANS LEAVING ATHENS   Report British Approaching Outskirts of Corinth

Nazis Reported FleeingFrom Athens As British Hammer Gate at Corinth

(Germans Said To Have Fled  From Corinth   Light British Forces Virtually Unopposed In Peloponnesus Push  NAVPLION CAPTURED

Nazis Fleeing From Greece   Enemy Preparing to Evacuate Athens; British Virtually Unopposed

Nazis to Quit Athens, Report   British Race Toward Corinth Isthmus, Gate To Northern Greece

RY DANIFT, NE TLhcr   Germans Reported Ready To Evacuate Greek City

British Units Near Corinth   Only Greek Puppet Force Reported in Port

German Forces Said Preparing ~~ To Quit Athens   British Advance On Corinth In Attempt To Seal: Off Only Nazi Escape Road

-~GREECE—  WAZ TOLENIE ATHENS, REPORT   British Troops Advance “Rapidly On Isthmus Of Corinth

Germans Flee From Athens As British Forces Hammer At Corinth Gate to Mainland

Nazis Appear Planning To Leave Athens   British Approaching Corinth In Effort To Trap Germans

Germans Preparing To Leave Athens   Pelopponesus About Clear Of Them; Want to  Escape Russian Trap

GERMANS REPORTED PLANNING EVACUATE CAPITAL OF GREECE   BRITISH TROOPS RACING VIRTUALLY UNOPPOSED TOWARD CORINTH

Nazi Troops Inside Athens Ready to Flee   Britons Advancing Virtually Unoppesed Across Peloponnesus

GERMANS EVACUATING CAPITAL OF GREECE   British Forces Are Hammering At The Gate To Mainland At Corinth: Shipping Attacked

German Troops Said Preparing To Evacuate Athens      British Near South Entrance to Corinth, North Greece Gateway

Allied  Bombers Hit Rome   OUTSKIRTS OF ITALIAN CAPITAL BLASTED IN RAID BY U. S., BRITISH

BOMBERS BLAST ROME OUTSKIRTS   NAZIS SAY 90 ALLIED PLANES IN RAIDING FORCE—8 REPORTED DOWNED.

NOMINATION™” OF NEW YORKER BY GRISWOLD   “People Want Victory, in November,” G.-0. P. Delegates Told

OF NEW YORKER BY GRISWOLD   “People Want Victory in November,” G. O. P. Delegates Told

SO. PACIFIC FORCES BUSY: SUCCESSFUL   Liberators Pound Noemfoor West of Biak in Stepped-up Assault; Merchantmen Sunk.   Truk, Woleai Hit

Jaly Calendar      RARE Trans German Convoy Off Helgoland, Blasting 45 Vessels Into Flaming Wreckage .-

SLOW ON E BONDS   Sixth War Loan i in County Now $1,221,005 and 10 Days to Gol

DRIVE NEARS END   Douglas County Is Stil Short of Its E Bond  Quota

Huns Wait to Observe War Favor   Germans Withhold Ultimate Strength to See if CounterOffensive Pays Off

CLAIM GERMANY WITHHOLDING ‘TOTAL’. STRENGTH FROM WESTERN BREAKTHROUGH

Germans Withholding Ultimate Total Strength To Try For Major Victory

GERMAN RESERVES HELD BACK FOR USE WHEN AND IF MAJOR VICTORY POSSIBLE, !S BELIEF

Nazis Hold Back Part of Strength   Will Be Thrown  In If a Major Victory Is Possible, U.S. Experts Believe

SAY GERMANS HOLDING BACK   Militarists Claim Enemy Is Withholding Ultimate Te+xN Strength

SAY HUNS STILL HAVE RESERVES   Germany Withholding Full Strength From Drive

Reserves Are Being Held Back   Military Experts See Germans Trying To Trap Yank Armies,

GERMAN POWER RECKONED HIGH   Allied Military Gives Belief That Germany Is Withholding Ultimate Total Strength.

GERMANS HOLE BACK STRENGTH      Probably Hope to Trap and Destroy Two Or Three Allied Armies.   SITUATION STILL GRAVE

Foe Reserves Main Strength   Fall Attack Hinges On Victory Prospect

Nazis Withhold Total Strength   Awaiting Chance for Another Blow to Attain Major Victory

Ultimate Nazi Strength Held Back For Victory   High Command to Determine When To Put Final Reinforcements Into Battle

NAZI RESERVES FRE WITHHELD   Full Strength of German Army Not Yet Committed To Battle

FullStrength of German Force  Not Unleashed   Commanders Holding Back To Weigh Chances of Full Victory

Military Men Declare.Germany Not ~ Using Full Power in New Offensive

NAZIS HOPE FOR MAJOR VICTORY   WITHHOLD STRENGTH FOR DETERMINATION

NAZIS. WITHHOLD TOTAL STRENGTH   High Command Expected To Wait For Best Opportunity

Yank Drives Now Nearing Faenza   Within Four Miles of City At Two Points

8TH ARMY EDGES TOWARD FAENZA   ‘Ailied Troops Move Across Heavily Mined Areas  '

URGE SPEEDY AGREEMENT ON PEACE AGENCY   Delegates See Victory Not Far Off As Parley Opens

Hull Launches Conference On Peace ‘Machinery  : Big Three Seek to  Assure Small Nations

Lonference Optimistic   Predict Agreement On Outline of A World Organization For Security

3-POWER LEADERS CALL FOR STRONG POST-WAR ARMIES   Declare Allies Should Main. tain Fighting Strength to Put Down Aggression  Should It Arise.   MEETING IS OPENED BY SECRETARY HULL   Heads of British and Russian Groups Predict Agreement on Outline of World Peace Agency.

PEACE PLAN MEET GARBED IN OPTIMISN   Common Bases. Seen By Delegates of Rie Powers

American, British and Russian Delegates Get Down to Building Machinery for Peaceful World After Present Conflict Ends; Early Victory for Allies Seen

Three Powers Open Sessions On Peace Plans   U.S., Russia, Britain Agree Allies Must Maintain Strength

Delegates of Three Powers  Open Talks   Optimism Prevails as U. S. British and Russian Meet Opens

Leaders Ask Enough Foree To Prevent © Future Wars   -Hull and Delegates :  From Britain, Russia: Open Dumbarton. Oaks Cgcupie Conterenck:.   EARLY AGREEMENT PREDICTED, BY. ALL   ey ae Sup Ce nas EAGER ae Gls  " Vietory Not Far Off, “Russian Envoy Says; Hails Allied Unity

WORLD PEACE TALKS START; HULL SPEAKS   Leaders of Three Nations Meet to Build Force to - Prevent Wars

OBSERVERS CANNOT FORECAST WHEN JAPS WILL SURRENDER   UNUSUAL CHARACTER OF ENEMY CAUSES SOME TO PREDICT THREE MORE YEARS OF WAR

Tanks Roam Closer to Duren; Hits Made on Nagoya Industries      Fourth Year of Japanese War May Find U. S. Flag on ‘Parts of Main Islands: Three Years More of War Seen

CHASED OUT BY BRITISH, AIDED BY PATRIOTS   Fighting Reported Raging in Center of Athens

Greek Peninsula Mostly Cleared Of German Troops In Balkan Liberation Move

Expect Tax Bill's Completion Today   May (40 to White House Ere Night, Say Leaders

INEAR TAX BILL FINALE   Measure May Go te the White House by Tonight.

Tax Bill Vote Set for Teday   Leaders in Congress See Completion Possible

SPAIN VIOLATES WH (EUTRAL POLICY GE   ES WHITE HOUSE TI CY GET BILL TODA)   Question Is Whether Roosevelt Will Sign Or Veto  Revenue Measure

ACTION IS NEAR   Doughton, George Say Measure Can Be Sent to Roosevelt Today

Tax Bill Heads To White House And FDR Actior   Two-Billion Measure Provides For Bigger Fees On Items

ASSIGNMENT IN C.B.1. AREA ALMOST OVER   Only Awaits Final Opening of Burma Road; Allies Steadily Approaching Final Phase   Britis hWill Remain

U.S. Reportec Set To Halt Sale Of. Corn   War Needs Said  Becoming Acute

TO HALT CORN SALES EXCEPT IN WAR WORK   Gov't Order Expected Monday Will Tie Up Commercial Corn in Midwest.

May Tie Up Sale of All Midwest Corn   Expect Order Monday: Government Says Need Is 80 Million Bushels

PILOT SCHOOL GRADS HEAR PACIFIC VET   Cadets From 47 States Ge Wings at Ceremonies Last Friday

Piloting Right Give en + Young  Men at Pilot School   California Officer Here To See Son Receive Wings As Air Forces Pilot

HINT RUSSIA TO JOIN WAR UPON JAPAN   White House Seems To Think Reds May Strike

TRUMAN GETS SUPPORT FOR NOMINATION   Shift Is Reported As Wal. lace Heads_ For Convention .

Dewey Expected To Answer FDR In Charleston Speech Tonight At 8:45

DEWEY TO SPEAK FROM W. VIRGINIA   GOP Candidate Will Challenge Roosevelt In Speech To Be Broadcast At 8:45 P. M. 

DEWEY. SPEECH THIS EVENING      MEMBERS. oF. CAMPAIGN “PARTY. BAY. CAND’  ‘MAKE ANOTHER ,SLASH-:“ING ATTACK.” .

Congressman Asks Navy To Explain Old Destroyer Deal With British

Ballot Issue Not Settled    “Senate Will Make: -2q Attempt ‘Today

U. S. Opposes Meeting Plan  Of Argentina  Latin American Republics Informe:  Of Our Attitude

U.S. Opposes Request by Argentina   Foreign Ministers’ Conference Not Likely to Be Held

ARGENTINA REBUFFED BY UNITED STATES   Latin American Republics Are Told That This Nation Does Not Approve Of Conference

PPOSED BY U.S   Informs Other Hemisphere Nations Proposed Meetino Unwanted

Plan Relief For People Of Greece   United States Agency Pre pares Aid for Nation  Being Liberated

British Invaders of Greece Take Important Port; Report Germans Evacuating Athens

British Gain on Peloponnesus   Germans Are Reported Evacuating Athens

SOUTH GREECE [S INVADED BY BRITISH FORCE   Drive Forward After Landings Made by Air and Sea

British Take Greek Port OfPatrai_.   Land by Sea and Air In Peloponnesus;. Announced Belatedly  PATRIOTS HIT NAZIS

Forces Landed By Air and Sea Capture Patrai  0 oie Dame   Germans Reported Evacuating Athens, Give Little Resistance

BRITISH FORCES IN GREECE MOVE FORWARD SWIFTLY   Nazis Reported Evacuating Athens and Peloponnesus— Bridges in Path Destroyed  by Patriots.   LANDINGS ARE MADE BY BOTH SEA AND AIR   Tommies Enter Patria, Third Greek Port—Greeted With Wild Enthusiasm by Natives.

INVADED BY BRITISH   Enter Country's Third Port, Resuming Balkan Battle Against Germans At Scene of Defeat.   Food - Medicine

Greece Is‘ Invaded . By British Forces   Troops, Landing by Sea and Air, Push Forward to Port of Patrai—-German Garrison Reported: to Have Quickly Surrendered

Report Nazis Are Hastily Leaving Athens   Amphibious Assault Forces Find Mail Awaiting Them

TOMMIES GET REVENGE FOR 1941 DISASTER   PEOPLE WILD WITH JOY; BIG PORT OF PATRAI TAKEN

British Advance in Bold Attempt To Occupy Greece   Enter Important Seaport of Patrai

Brifish Land In Greece By Sea and Air   Troop Returf to Port OF Patrai, Scene of 1941 Defeat by Nazis

FINNS PREPARING TO MOVE CAPITAL   Statements From Traveler: Indicate Helsinki Giving Up Hopes For Peace.

Finn Cap ital . May Be Moved Farther North   7 ae ‘Government Prepares To  Abandon Helsinki As Chances For Peace  »Slip-Away ... _-:

Finns Prepare  To Quit Capital   Virtually All Helsinki Children Evacuated To Country.

Swedes: ‘Report: Finnish ‘Officials - Leave: Helsinki   Think Government Plans ‘’ Temporary. ‘Capital’. In ‘Community To North

Fi inns nns Plan Fo or Action   / Report Capital. May Be Moved To North

Americans Accused of Cowardice   We ‘‘Can’t Take It’’, Says on Radio—Says Charges ‘‘Propaganda”’

Yanks, British “Can't Take It,” 'Nippons Charge   Japanese Spokesman Says Atrocity Stories Propaganda .Measure.

Germans Admit Withdrawals on Two: Sectors; Third Army’s 4-day Drive Wins Pivot Town, Saves Loxembours

Advanced Spear Heads Destroyed By Yank Forces   Germany Admits Withdrawal Of Spearheads South And West Sectors Before Formidable Power Of 24 Allied Tank Divisions.

LUXEMBOURG SAVED FROM ENEMY BLOW   Nazis Withdrawing Spearheads on Two Sectors

CHECK PRINTS IN TRUNK MURDER   SEEK TO IDENTIFY BODY OF DEAD WOMAN

TRUNK MURDER PRINTS CHECKED   Police Seek Identity o Victim in Mystery

5, 000 Idle From Strikes In West Pa.   BOSSES’ WALKOUTS AT TWO MINES AFFECT 850 WORKERS; ISABEL#A MINERS GO OUT AGAIN.   350 Out At Clairton

NO STRIKING ADVANCES ON FRENCH FRONT   Heavy Resistance Admitted   — SURE GROWS  eee  Quick Breakthrough   Expected

ALL FOOD STAMPS ISSUED BEFORE DEC ARE INVALIDATED   Only One Sugar Stamp Now Good; Point Values Are Increased

MANY FOODS 60 BACK ON POINT RATION LIST   Points Increased On Some Already Rationed

Hundreds of Carrier Planes Accompany Powerful Task Forces; Believe Stroke Made in Hopes Of Trapping Sizable Enemy Naval Force in Harbor

Powerful Task Forces, Carrier Planes Make First Strike at Japs’ Mighty Naval Air Base in Carolines   Attack on Enemy Super Bastion Still Under Bombardment Reports Indicate; Americans Seek to Destroy Jap Ships in Harbor at Truk

TROK FORGES HT STRONG JAP BASE   Hundreds Of Carrier Planes Assault Stronghold   RADIOS SILENT   Reports Fail To Make Clear Whether Warships Joined In Bombardment

Daring Assault Is Launched Against Powerful Jap anese Naval Bastion   RADIO SILENCE. BARS PROGRESS OF BATTLE

Terse Announcement Merely _ Says That Great Assault ;  Has Commenced ©

Tae   Uncertain Whether _ Warships Are Paiticipating — Assault First of War on Naval Base. — ch

ADMIRAL NIMITZ MAKES TERSE ANNOUNCEMENT; DETAILS ARE LACKING; MIGHTY BASE IN CAROLINES 3,495 MILES FROM PEARL HARBOR.

U. S. naval force launches assault   Crushing air bombardment may have caught Jap fleet

Hundreds of Carrier Bombers Blast Islands   Americans Hurl New Threat At Japanese Navy; Harbor Of Nippon’s “Gibraltar” Said To Be Overflowing With Ships

Hundreds Of Planes Used       Lack Of Details Indicates. Mighty Blow-Is. Continuing

Hundreds of Carrier Planes Hit Jap Base; May Be Continuing   Radio Silence Conceals Details of Attack On Nipponese Bastion in Carolines But Admiral Says Day ‘Memorable’ for U. S.

First Attack Of War Made On Jap Base  In Carolines   Communique Says Only Action Has Commenced With No Indication Assault Is Terminated  DETAILS DELAYED BY RADIO SILENCE  Two Marine Planes Had Spotted 25 Ships In Harbor on Feb. 4

Officials Say Audacious Operation May Still Be in Progress; Ajme at Heart of Pacifie Defense

Captured German Generals Ask Troops To Renounce Hitler   Sixteen Sign Plea To Bring War To Close; Messages Distributed By Russian Planes

Captured Nazis Ask War’s End   Officers Sign Statement Requesting End of “Senseless Bloodshed”’,

16 Captured Nazi Generals Appeal Sar End Of War   Call On German Officers And Soldiers To Remounce Adolf Hitler

Quit, Captured Generals Say   Sixteen of ‘Em Held By Russians Call for Refusal To Fight for Hitler

END BLOODSHED, PLEA 10 BERLIN   Message From 16 High Nazis Broadcast Over Reich

16 Captured Nazi Generals Appeal To Reich To Quif   Ask Army To Renounce Hitler, Seek Peace

Nazi Generals Urging Revolt  16 Captured Officers Sian Statement —

Captured Nazi Generals Ask Fellow Countrymen To Cease Fighting, Renounce Fuehrer -

Seized German Generals Ur ge  Nazis To Quit   Cali On Huns to Renonnee Hitler and Bring War To Close By- Refusing To Fight

TOUGH CASE FOR ARMY OFFICERS   Youth Who Went AWOL, Then Became Marine Hero, Is Held

Deserter from Army Joins Marines To Win Navy Cross in Pacific Battle

A Soldier AWOL Wins Navy Cross   President Asked to Intervene For Tennesse Youth  Who Deserted Army.

Army Deserter Is Marine Hero   Unusual Case of William M. Murphree Being Considered

DESERTED ARMY, JOINED MARINES   Strange Case Of Tennessee Youth Who Deserted Army And Later Became Hero In Pacific Under Study By President.

REDS CLOSE ON PORT OF RIGA   German Retreat To Lat vian Capital Is Stamnede

TWO HOSPITALS GET PENICILLIN   Mercy and Finley Chosen as Depots for Drug

WARN AGAINST FARMER DRAFT   Wilson Outlines Tough Policy on Deferments; Nelson Hits Service Law

PARAL OERATCRS WARN Dkr T hia} POET PROGRAM   Claim Young Men Must Be Deferred for Farm Labor.

SENATORS OF FARM STATES. PROTEST INDUCTION POLICY   DECLARE FURTHER INDUCTIONS WILL SERIOUSLY HAMPER THE FOOD PRODUCTION PROGRAM

PREPARE FOR ~ SUDDEN PEACE   : : Hitler Calls Leaders  To Berchtesgaden

Major Air Offensive Blasts Ph ilippines   American Carrier Planes Hit Center Of Archipelago In Continuing Attack.

HUGE AIR BATTLE RAGES IN CENTRAL PHILIPPINES   200 Jap Planes, Many Enemy Cargo Ships Destroyed; Admiral Halsey Leads Offensive

Jap Air Fleet In Philippme: Fights Madly   Halsey Admits For Being Met in Force Os Central Islands

MAYOR LA GUARDIA IS ASSIGNED TO A POST IN ITALY   To Become Moderator of Lib erated Italy, Rome Radio Announced.   IN THAT CITY SOON   Broadcast Did Not Give the Source of Its Information.

Rome Reports La Guardia To  Arrive ‘Soon’      No Confirmation That New York Mayor Will Be Administrator

ee eer teen SR es  Mayor La Guardia Hinted Head of Liberated Italy

SAY LA GUARDIA TO 60 TO ITALY   Rome Radio Reports New York Mayor to Head Liberation

ROME RADIO CLAIMS L'GUARDIA DUE SOON   Described As Choice To Run Liberated Territory

Cash Reparations Imposed By Russia In Armistice Terms; Allies Will Get Finns’ Merchant Fleet

HeavyCast Penalty For Finns   The “Must Disarm” Ger man Troops May  Prove to Be a Bloody — Task

Finns Stripped Of Their Rich Industrial Territory And ‘Must Pay Heavy Cash Reparations

Finland Cedes Vital Territory. To Soviets; Allies To Use Air Dromes, Merchant Fleet

FINLAND PAYS HEAVILY FOR PEAGE TERMS   Airfields To Be Used By Allied  Air Forces

Peace Costly To Finland In Russian Terms  Cedes Soviet Vital Territories, Grants Allies Use Of Plane Fields, Merchant Flee

GERMANS BEING REMOVED FROM EX-PUPPET LAND   Main Industrial Territory Is Lost To Russia In Peace Terms   STOCKHOLM — Finland broke relations today with German puppet states Hungary, Croatia, and Slovakia.

Finland Pays Heavy Price For Peace  Cedes Russia Vital Territory  ~

FINLAND FACES BLOODY TASK IN PURGE OF NAZIS   Helsinki Government Splits With German Puppets; Must Yield Bases

Finland to Pay Heavy for Peace  Cedes Valuable Territory to Reds

inland Faces eavy Cash eparations   Peace Terms Not As Hea y As In March; Must Remove Rest Nazi Troops.

  i inland Pays A Heavy Price For Peace   Cedes Russia Vital Territories, Grants Allie:  Airfields And Fleet.

Tough Job Ahead To Oust Nazis   Russia Gets Tmportant Ports ‘And Mining. Areas

FINLAND MUST PAY HIGH PRICE FOR ITS MISTAKE IN WAR  REMOVAL OF GERMAN TROOPS FROM COUNTRY MAY BE BLOODY TASK

FINLAND YIELDS MONEY, MINES   Little Nation Must Pay Heavy Peace Price — Soviets Claim Industries

Peace al High Price  for Finns   The Probable Bloody Task of Ousting of Germans of Immediate Concern   MUST GIVE UP RICHEST AREA   Also Must Pay Russia $300,060,000 in Cash and Meet Other Terms   RIILLETIN

Peace Terms For Finland Costly   Finns Lose Richest Territory to Russia. To Pay $300,000.000

High Price For Peace   Finns Lose Rich Industrial Areas; Must Pay Heavy Reparations

New National Existence Is Being Started   Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia Included In Break-Up; Re move Nazi Troops.   HAS SERIOUS PROBLEM

ARMISTICE TERMS STRIP FINLAND OF RICHEST INDUSTRIAL SECTION; IMPOSE HEAVY CASH REPARATIONS

Finland Pays Heavy Price for Peace As 23-Point Agreement.Is Outlined

Finland Loses  Karelia, Petsamo  In Russian Peace Must Disarm German Troop:  Remaining, Lease Porkkals, Give Allies Uee of Shins

Finnish Minister Promises to Make ~ Best Use of Terms   German Expulsion From Country Begun States Nation’s New Leader

Beaten Finland Begins Anew to Rebuild Nation   Country Must Now Reckon Without Industrial Area; More War Ahead

Farm Produce Setup Review Is Proposed      Dull Report On Food Plantings

Farm Production Outlook Gloomy; _ Survey Shows Plans Short of Needs

FARM PROGRAM REVIEW LIKELY   Main Crop Plantings Expected To Miss Goals

U.S. Farm Policy Review Is Likely   Direct Food Crops Fall Below Needs

Crop Prespects Causing Gloom  Serious Doubts About Reaching Goals

Review of Farm Production Set-Up Planned; Report on Plantings Sour

ALLIED TROOPS CONVERGING ON JAPS IN BURMA   Growing Ferocity Along Battlefront Indicate As Allies Attack Enemy

Jap Resistance Stiffens Along  Burmese Front   Allied Troops Are Converging Upon Advancing Forces Threatening Impha

JAP DEFENSE BOLSTERED ON BURMA FRONT   Enemy Activity Seen On South  Coastal Area

Jap Resistance Is Stiffening   Allied Troops Moving To Meet Enemy Invaders OF India.

Jap Resistance Stiffening As Allied Troops Hit Troops Who Crossed India Border

JAPS STIFFEN RESISTANCE BURMA FRONT   Allies Hit Enemy Forces Near Imphal Island Within. India

Allied Nations Won Two Great Victories Over Enemy Seapower In 1943

U. §. Loses 49 Bombers; Reds Take Rogachev,  Dno in Major Victories   Stalin Proclaims Successes With Two Orders of the Day; Ground Fighting in Italy Remains at Record Low for Beachhead

G.O.P.TICKET WINS IN MAINE   REPUBLICANS _ELECT CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR AND ' THREE.SEATS IN HOUSE,

REPUBLICANS SWEEP ELECTION IN MAINE   Governor and Three Congressmen Elected —  by GOP

SHAFT IS NEAR. MINERS” TOME   Bag Oe t ‘get RECOVERY OF BODIES OF, 66 MEN TRAPP ED IN EASTERN,  » OHIO MINE 'TO COME SOON

Lives After Fall Of 19,000 Feet   Kentucky Airman Relates Amazing Story of Falling in Lail of Plane.

ne Fell 19,000 Feet in the Tail of A Fortress---and Thought He Was Dead

19,000 Feet—Plop Into Tree!   {Air Gunner Survives  Fall in Severed Tail

KENTUCKY FLIER SAVEDBY MIRACLE   Falls 19,000 Feet And Lives To Tell About It

Falls 19,000 Feet In Severed Tail Of Fortress, And Lives!   Flier Tells Amazing Story Of Landing In Treetop And Thinking He Was Deod

American Airman Falls 19,000 Feet In Dismembered Tail Of Flying Fortress, Lands In Tree And Lives To Tell Tale

Kentucky Flier Falls 19,000 Feet In Dismembered Tail Of Fortress. Escapes With Small Cut On Chin

Farm Bov Falls 19,000 Feet in Tail of B-17, Lands in Tree, and Lives

Falls 19,000 Feet i in Plane’ s Tail Lands Safely i in Top of a Tree

Fell 19,000 Feet In Tail OF a Flying Fortress; Lives To Tell The Story

Falls 19,000 Feet In Tail Of  Dismembered Plane And Lives   American, Landing In Tree-Top, Thought He Wa: Dead: Hurtled Through 19,500 Feet Of Space

AND HE LIVED TO TELL TALE Kentucky Boy Plunges 19,000 Feet In Cut Off Tail Of Flying Fortress

COOL WEATHER AND HIGH WINDS CHECK GROWTH OF CROPS  DRYING OF SURFACE MOIS TURE, HOWEVER, PERMIT TED CON PREPARATION

House Group Would Limit Agency Rule   Committee Report Cites ‘Urgent Need’ For Restrictions

Nazis Admit Siegfried Line Outmoded To Ease Home Shock   Nazis Order Civilians To Leave Homes and Resist U. S. Troops

Stepped-up Jungle Fighting Threugheut Pacific Hands Japs Heavy Lesses.

BOMBERS RIP JAP AIRDROME   460 Miles West of Sase at Truk  ee em  Rabaul Submitted To Naw Attack

DEWEY OPENS UP MICHIGAN GOP CAMPAIGH   BOISTEROUS THRONG GREETS NOMINEE IN OWOSSO

Dew ev Goes Home,  Talks To 12.000   Issues Greater Than Individual Or Party, He Says

DEWEY WELCOMED BY HOME TOWN   GOVERNOR TELLS THRONG ISSUE RISES ABOVE ANY INDIVIDUAL OB PARTY.

Tells Former Townspeople Campaign Issues Greater Than Individual or Party; Gets Boisterous Welcome

DEWEY RETURNS TO HOME TOWN   Greatest Reception of Campaign Given Nominee oat Owosso, Mich.

Dewey Given Big Welcome At Owosso   Calls for Release Of “Main Springs From Main Streets”

Ploesti Ablaze After U.S. Raid   1,500. Tons of: Bombs Hit. Oil Refineries

Mississippi Near Its 100-Year High   Crest is Expected Today in St. Louis

Million Acres Flooded by Mississippi   5700 FAMILIES LEFT HOMELESS AS RIVER NEARS 100-YEAR HIGH

CENTURY RECORD OF RIVER 1S DUE   5700 Families in Two States Homeless, Over Million Acres Are Flooded.

Nazis Claim Penetration Of Allies’  Bridgehead   Americans And British Throw Every Available Combat Plane Into  Actinn Awaincet Fname

Heavy Fighting In Progress For Beachhead   Germans Battle Furiously Today In Cassino Area

OFFICER, GIRL “AGTO UPSE      Richard (Mahoney, W. Concord; Frances Dinery, Maynaed Taken to Hospitals -

Richard Mahoney, W. Concord; Frances Dinery, Maynard Taken to Hospitals —

Recapture Town Of Celles And Drive Back Into Western Tip  SITUATION STILL REGARDED AS GRAVE  No Immediate Danger Of Nazi Break-through Across Meuse

Republican Grou; Agrees on Foreign Policy  Details Will Not Be Revealed  SS ee a ee

Republican Grour Agrees on Foreign Policy  Details Will Not Be Revealed Until Meet Monday

Republicans Draft Foreign Policy Planl   (G.O.P. convention roundup on page 1, section 4.)

ANNOUNCE WFA FARM SUPPORT PRICES FOR ‘{!   Soy Beans Boosted to $1.94 Per Bushel From $1.80 of Last Year

FARM SUPPORT PRICES FOR ‘44   Soy Beans Boosted to $1.94 Per Bushel From $1.80 of Last Year

Four More of Forts Guarding City Captured   Steady Gains Hammered Out By Third Army

11th Anniversary Of Nazi’s Coming To Power Observed   Brunswick And Hanover Blasted, And Berlin Gets Another Levelling Process. 14th Annilhilation On Berlin Reported.

91 Craft Shot Down in Raids On Nazi Industrial Cities; Berlin Pounded Again by RAF

Amerteans Capture 3 More   British Gain 3 Miles in New Halland Posh

TROOPS PRESS HARD AGAINST METZ TODAY  FORTRESS CITY BEING ATTACKED FROM THREE SIDES BY AMERICANS

3 MORE FORTS ARE TAKEN BY PATTON ARMY   Yanks Less Than Two Miles From City —— Enemy Admits Losses to Reds

Within 2 Miles Of Metz   Yanks Topple Three More Key Forts, and British Advance Three Miles in Holland Push

Americans Take liverpsiana, Nes City of Bolopna  Fiftl, Anny Within 10 Miles of Im important

YANKS GAIN IN BOLOGNA AREA   American Infantry, Aided By Armor, Pushes Within 10 Miles of City

NEW GAIN MADE NEAR BOLOGNA   Tank Destroyers And Tanks Back Advance Of Fifth Army

Allies Gain All Along Italian Line   Fifth Army Is Within 10 Miles of Bologna

Troop Transport Ship Splits Open At Alaskan Dock   10 Other Liberty Craft Reported Unsafe By Army, Navy

TROOP-LADEN VESSEL SPLITS OPEN IN ALASKA Jen Ships Held it Seattle Area  Raral Aemu Dafiene te Ilen Tham

Army and Navy Refuse Use Troop Carriers In Seattle Ten Others Converted for Area.

Scandal Seen In Failures Of Liberty Ships   Troop-Laden Vessel Declared To Have Split Open At Dock.

Liberty Ship Split In Half While Tied Up   Ten Others Converted As Troop Carriers Are Held In Seattle Area

Liberty Ship Splits Open   Paper Says Use Of Ten Of Vessels Refused By Army And Navy.

SOVIET GUNS HURL SHELLS INTO WARSAW   Mighty Assault Tc Liberate City Opens

Soviet Guns Pour Shells  Into Warsaw   Reds Begin Big Bombardment, Score New Gains

F. B. I. Jails Polygamy Sect Leaders   MANN ACT CHARGES AGAINST RELIGIOUS “FUNDAMENTALISTS”

Federal Group To Investigate Cigaret Shortage   Trade Commission Plans Inquiry At Sources. Seek Law Violations

RESULTS ARE EXPECTED   Germany Issues New Decrees to Help Man Power Situation ,.

Many Arrests Are Reported In Germany  Shooting Between SS, Army Breaks Out In Prussia

Nazis Glean—  All Workers   “Blusiness’ Is Meant By ‘Latest Decrees

All Three Armies Making Big Gains   Moscow Communique Reveals Dniester Crossing Is Completed And Many German Troops Killed

Ukraine Army Win: 324 Towns   Stalin Announces Series Of Notable Triumphs In East; Man Towns Captured.

Western Ukrainian Army Crosses Dniester Near Old Czech Line; Other Forces Set New Nazi Trap

~ HIGHER THAN  FIRST REPORT   TOLL OF ‘DAMAGED. ENEMY SHIPS ALSO REVISED UP_ WARD IN NEW com. MUNIQUE FROM WMT 7

Sgt. H. L. Jones Missing Over France, Apr. 23   Young Father Serving as First. Engineer Aboard Flving Fortress   IN EUROPEAN AREA ONLY SIX WEEKS   Parents, as ‘s Well as Wite and Baby, Are Moberly Besidents

REDS SWEEP NEAR BORDER OF HUNGARY   Armies Only 15 Miles From Frontier, and  Other .Forces Are 40 Miles From Tallinn at Other End of Front.

Partisan Head Says Contact  Is Established Inside Capital   Armies Brush Aside: German / Resistance -

Report Soviets Cross Vistula, Establish Contact With Poles In Warsaw

Reds Within AQ Miles Ot Tallinn City   Less Than 15 Miles From Hungarian Frontier At Opposite Ends,   ATTACK KEY TOWNS

RUSSIANS BRUSHED ASIDE RESISTANCE BOTH ENDS OF LINE  NEARING TALLINN IN NORTH AND HUNGARIAN FRONTIER IN SOUTH

Reds Nearing Capital Estonia In Fierce Drive   Russian Troops Cross Vistula; 15 Miles of Hungary.

Russians Report Gains on Both Ends of Front   Red Smashes Toward Tallinn Continue; Only 15 Miles from  Hunaary in Sauth

RUSSIAN ARMIES SWEEP WITHIN 40 MILES OF TALLINN  ADVANCE WITHIN 15   ADVANCE WITHIN 15 MILES OF HUNGARY ON OTHER FI-)NTS

RUSSIANS DRIVE AHEAD IN PUSH FOR TALLINN   Gen. Bor Claims Poles, Reds Join in Battle Inside Polish Capital

Junction. In Warsaw   Soviet Units Cross Vistula to Join Patriots in City; Gain Along Whole Front

SOVIETS SMASH NAZI CITADELS   Reds 40 Miles From Estonian Capital, 15°From  Hungarian Border

RUSSIANS ROLL ON LONG FRONT   Hit 40 Miles From Tallinn, 15 From Hungarian Line

—AUSSLA—  RUSSIANS SCORE cwiEEPING INS   Red Armies Drive To Within 40 Miles Of Tallinn In Estonia   ADVANCE IN SOUTH   Soviets Reported Less Than 15 Miles From  Wungarian Frontier

SOVIETT INTO WARSAW MEETS REBELS   Estonian Attack Near  Capital as Enemy Defense Fades

Soviets Brish Aside Nazi Resistance As They Push Toward Estonian Capital

Reds Near Hungarian Frontier   Make Contact With Besieged Poles In Warsaw.

Advance on Both Ends of ‘Long Front    Russians Continue Sweep Toward Estonian Capital and Are Within 15 Miles of Hungarian Frontier

Soviet Juggernaut Sweeps Over Wide Estonia Area  Fast Armies Draw To Within 40 Miles of Capital

RESISTANCE OF NAZIS STOPPED      Red Armies Make Long Sweep to Within 40 Miles Of Estonia Capital.   KEY TOWNS UNDER FIRE

RED BALTIC ARMY SWEEPS DOWN ON PORT AT TALLINN   Moscow Silent On Warsaw; Gen. Bor Say: His Poles Rescued

REDS 40 MILES FROM TALLINN   Russians Less Than 15 Miles From Hungarian Frontier   WARSAW GIVEN HELP

Reds Pushing Near Tallinn   Besiege Riga, Launch Vast Enveloping Maneuver From Budapest

Soviets Drive  For Tallinn   Making Swift Advances Into Estonia; Move Closer to Hungary

SOVIETS ENTER RAIL JUNCTION NEAR TALLINN   Russian Shock Troops, Ripping to Shreds Nazi Baltic Army, Reach Outskirts of Tapa   OVERRUN 300 VILLAGES

Russ Armies Near Tallinn, - Baltic Capital   ‘City 40 Miles Away; In South Reds Within 15 Miles of Hungary

Soviets Clamp Both Ends Of  Eastern Front   Sweep On Tallinn; 6 Miles From Riga; Contact Warsaw   DRIVE ON HUNGARY '   Encircling Maneuver From Romania To  Cut Off Foe

Powerful Soviet Drives Sweep AQ Miles Of Tallinn And 15 Miles Of Hungarian Frontier   4Nazis Prepare Retreat From Port; Trap Being Forged At. Hungarian Frontier; Reds Cross Vistula:And Link Up With’ Polish Partisans  Th Warsav:,

REDS 40 MILES FROM TALLIN IN SWIFT SWEEF   Only 15 Miles From Hun-garian Frontier at Op-'  posite End of Front

Reds Brush Aside Nazi Resistance; AQ Miles of Tallinn   6 Miles of Riga; ,Key Towns of Tapa, Arad Under Attack

Two Great Sweeps hy. Red Forces   Drive in Estonia Matched by Move to Trap Enemy in Transylvania   \HUNGARY AGAIN PLACED IN PERIL   Key Towns Under Attack at Opposite Ends of the Long Eastern Front

ESTABLISHED CONTACT   Russian Units Have Crossed Vistula to Join Polish Patriots

SOVIETS SWEEP ASIDE NAZIS ON ESTONIAN ROAD   Only 40 Miles From Capital And 15 From Frontier Of Hungary

REDS SWEEP TO HUNGARY   Soviets Within 40 Miles Of Estonian Capital; German Resistance Faltering

MAJOR ATTACKS IN BALKANS AND BALTIC SECTOR   Obscure Reports Indicate Liberation of Warsaw Not Far Distant

REBS PUSH NAZIS ON LONG LINE   Threaten Tallinn And Hungarian Frontier As Well

Nazi Armies Crumbling on Eastern Front   Soviets Brush Aside German Resistance on Baltic, Balkan Areas

Nazis Prepare Retreat. From Port; Trap Being  Forged At Hungarian’ Frontier; Reds Cross Vistula And Link Up With Polish Partisans In Warsaw.

ALBANIAN PORT 1S CAPTURED   Partisans Clear Nazis  Out of Giashdie

PARTISANS PUSH GERMANS BACK   Patriots Oust Germans From Gjashdie in Albania

ALLIES DRIVE INTO ALBANIA   Headquarters Fails to Give Report on Greece

GERMANS QUSTED FROM GUASHOLE   Albanian City Cleared By Partisans; Britisl Ships Aid : .

Gjashdle Clear Of Nazi Troops   Partisans Take More Than 600 Prisoners In Cleaning Up Adriatic City.

ALBANIANS GAIN CLEARING AREA OPPOSITE CORFU   600 Prisoners Taken As Gjashdle Falls

ALBANIANS CLEAR PORT OF NAZIS   GUNS, STORES CAPTURED BY ALLIES IN SARANDE

Enemy Reports Night Raid On Tokyo, Claims Japs Land On Morotai   Tokyo Broadcasts Account Of 4th Alleged Air Attack On U. S. B-29 Base In Saipan

Japs Will Execute  Fliers From B6B-29s   Broadcast Says Woe Be To Those Who Land

ELECTRIC EYE “TRAPS YOUTH   Boy, 15, Is Charged With Robbing Wisconsin Avenue Home

ALLIES HURL BACK JAPS IN NORTH BURMA   Enemy Also Repelled With Losses in Kohima Area

Japs Rolled Back In North Burma And Near Kohima   Nipponese Attacks Broken Up By Allied Forces; Highway Still Blocked

Attacking Japanese Troops Thrown Back In Imphal Area  x ee, ee ee, ee ee ee    Pispatches From Indian Front Indicate The Fiahting Is Going Favorably For The Allies

Burma Drive Costs Japs Heavy Losses   Imphal Battles Go In Favor Of Allied Counter-Attacks

Japs Thrown Back on Burma. Kohima Fronts   No Important Change Jn Fighting Around , fmphal in ndia

JAP TROOPS AT KOHIMA THROWN BACK   No Important Change in Fighting around Imphal Reported; Palel Sector Not Mentioned.   Repel Raids

JAPS ROUTED IN INDIA WIT HEAVY LOSSES   STILWELL’S CHINESE CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCE

Attacking Jap Troops Are Thrown Back   Allied Successes in Burma, India Announced

JAPS HURLED BACK IN BURMA FIGHTING   Heavy Casualties Suffered by Enemy, Reports - Saye.

[Allied Armies Beat Off Japs Tn Burma. India   Stilwell Force Drubs Foe In North Burma, British Repel Kohima Thrnsts

TWO JAP ATTACKS INBURMA THROWN BACK BY STILWELL   Enemy Forces Also Repulsed in Fighting Near Allied Base of Kohima _ in India. .   HIGHWAY TO IMPHAL IS STILL BLOCKED   Mandalay Reported Under Intensive Air Attack—‘“UBoat” Is Sunk in Indian Ocean.

Authorities Laying Siege to Jail To Prevent Escape of 100 Inmates

FLORIDA JAIL IS UNDER SIEGE   Officials Seek Army Tank To Aid In Ousting Convicts

BARRICADE JAIL IN JACKSONVILL   130 Florida Prisoners _ Seize Jail Arsenal, Fight Officials

PNEUMONIA CASES (UT BY ANTIGEN   Hagerstown Physician Speaks at State Medi-  cal Meeting

Reds Take Baranowicze in Mighty Drive   Victories Collapse German Line Before Poland

SWARM OVER BORDERS OF LITHUANIA   Russians 95 Miles From East Prussia

Wilno is Reached On Friday   Baranowicze Is Captured After Terrific Battle

CITY’S FALL EXPECTED IN 24 HOURS   Reds Drive 27 Miles Past Borders Of  Lithuania

Brest Litvosk " Next Objective «Of Soviet Push   Mighty Three-Pronged Red Assault Takes Shape Through Victories

Russian Army Sweep Carries Into Lithuania   Wilno, Capital City, Is Scene of Street Fighting

Reds Break Info Wilno   Street Battles Being Fought in Border Cty

Soviet Tanks Batter Way Into Streets of Wilno   Capture of Baranowicze Means Collapse Of Intermediate Nazi Defense Line On Central Route to Warsaw and Berlin

Soviet Vice Seals Doom Of Key City   Troops Overrun More Than 800 Villages in Drive

Germans Fight For Every Foot In French Por   Desperate Struggle In Last Phase; Defenders Doomed To Die

Americans Battle  In Sight Of Docks;  Resistance Strong   Spearhead Punctures Pillboxes Southeast Of Octeville Fortress; Report Enemy Lines Crumbling

YANKS GAIN IN BATTLE FOR PORT   German Defenses Buckle, Fierce Fghting Rages

HIS: OPPOSITION TO IMMIGRATION MADE        This Statenient ‘Was Made by Chairman’ ‘Dies at: His ; ‘edge Today.‘ ° - *   4S A FRIEND TO LABOR   People Wanted to Open’ Gates , tto Relatives, Friends and” "Own: Nationals, . +

Claims Utica 1Man Confesses Killing Marie Lacombe   Later... ‘Repudiates.. Story “Told Police At Putnam, - Asserts Commissioner

SIXTH DAY OF PRE-INVASION RAIDS BY U.S.   First Phase of Western Front?

Easton Hotel Is Gutted By Fire   Three Top Floo Floors Of 75Room -Avon Hotel Destroved Todav.

U. 5. Delegation To Education Meeting   Hull Names Five to Allied Conference in London

Rejeet Argentine Labor Delegate  ILO Refuses To Permit Him To Participate

BAR ARGENTINE DELEGATE   International -Labor Conference Has Heated Debate

Labor Brands Argentina As Fascist   Workers’ Delegate  Refused a Place At Conference

Argentine Delegate Refused Seat At Labor Meeting  Mexican Leads Fight, Says Girola

ARMY NAMES COMMITTERS   Will Decide Postwar Status of National Guard and: Reserves

Finland Preparing For Peace With Russia— ae Dy ME vVIlt Wacken.  Turkey Decision Upsets Hitler In Balkans

WAR TODAY   Turkey’s Severance Is ! Seen As Evidence Of Quickening Collapse  Of Hitler’s Power Th  Ralkan Sector

The War Today   By DEWPT MACKENZIE Leanciated Peewee Ware Analwat

RUSSIANS NOW LESS THAN TWO MILES OF KORSUN, NAZI STRONGHOLD   Below Kiev Germans Are Putting Up Last Stand Before Powerful Soviet Bombardment.

Action Sunday To Begin U. S. Truck Control   Operators From Eight States To Confer With ODT Officials.

Pilotless German Planes Described As Deadly Overgrown Sky Rocket

Ciano Allowed To Face Killers   Given ‘‘Courtesy”’ By Executioners

CIANO’S EYES OPEN AS HE WAS SHOT   Execution of Former Foreign Min ister and $ Others Causes Sengation in Rome. 

Allies Fling Planes Against Siege Lines   Make Minor Gains At Cassino As Aerial Assaults Support Troops

Italian Invasion Bogs As Planes Rush To Rescue   Berlin Says 4,500 Allies Surrender; Reds Now Encircla Nazis &th   FRANKFURT HIT   Finnish Town Raided; Badoglio Is Given Civil Control Of South Italy

Germans Claim Part  hold Taken.   BY CHAS. H. MCMURTRY AD War Wattiar

Naval Losses Do Not Disrupt Pacific Plans   Forrestal Says All Damage to American Ships Made Public

Forrestal Says Naval Forces Have Sustained Damage in Philippines But It Has Not Disrupted Plans

Admit Damage To U. S. Ships    ‘Say Plans For Future Action Not Disrupted

Naval Plans Not Changed By Damage   Navy Withholds Detailed Report For Security Reason

ND-BASED , ANES DAMAGE §, STFTPS   ‘  tent of mage Is + Revealed

LLL TT A  Hits Publishers-Of Large Papers For Dishonest. Stories

79>  “S. “Sig aing Firs,” rics 5-1 Soearieacec —1e _nvasion   A. tec. Siaé’ . ow Knows. azt Arm, “eo “ixec. ‘or-s..'s .(cinm ~e7ense

Fighting First Leads Invaders   Tough Britishers Also In Spearhead

Fighting First’ First To Land   British Fifteenth Division Also Cracking Down On Nazis.

SWEDEN URGED TO RECONSIDER   Shipments To Germany May Bring Trouble From Allies

U.S. Demands Greeks Be Giver  Free Hand   Stettinius Speaks Out As Britain Prepares Debate-in Conmmons

U. S.-BRITISH NAVAL FORCES RULE CHANNEL   Keep Way Open Tro  or iroo

Fleet Carries Invasion Load   Great American, British Naval Power Succeeds in Tremendous Convoy Job

Invasion Route Dominated by Combined Fleef   Staunch Nevada Helps to Protect American Troops

CARRY OUT GREAT CONVOY JOB WITH ONLY FEW LOSSES  SUCCESSFUL BEYOND   SUCCESSFUL BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS, SAYS NAVAL CHIEF

London Sees Role Of Navy Successful Far Beyond All Expectations Of Optimists

Combined Fleet of American, British  Ships Prove Might   Successful Beyond Expectations in First Round of Invasion

Invasion Losses Of Yank-British Sea Forces Light In Coast Offense

J. 5. WARSHIPS PLAY MAJOR D-DAY ROLE   Nevada, Veteran Of Pear! Harbor, : Participates   INVASION ROUTE   Completely Dominated Bi British, Americans; Casualties Light

Major Role For U. S. Warships In D-Day Push   Nevada, Pearl Harbor Veteran, in Action Covering Allied Troops .

Sea Lanes in Full Control of the Allies   Allied Commander Sees Complete Victory in First Invasion Round

“WE HAV® WON THE FIRST ROUND" SAYS BRITISH NAVAL COMMANDER OF GREAT NAVAL SUPPORT FLEET   Successful Beyond All! Expectations in Initial Efforts Against Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, Great Nava Forces Ready for Second Round of Big Battle

American, British  Warships Dominate  Channel to France Losses, Including Twe U. s.

Combined Fleet Dominates Channe   Supply Lines Are Adequately Guarded

Warships Play Major Role In  Kscorting Men   Nevada, Pearl Harbor Veteran, In Action; Really Allied Naval Show.   IWIN FIRST ROUND

Naval Action Called Success Beyond Hopes  U.S. Losses Are Pui  At Two Destroyers, LST; Convoy Job 100 Per Cent

U. S. Warships Play A Major Role  In Escorting Invasion Forces   Nevada, Pearl Harbor Veteran, Texas And Arkansas, Among U. S. Battleships In Action As Channel Is Crossed.

First Invasion Round Won By Naval Forces   Routes Across The Channel Protected By Great Fleet ‘

“A Major Role for U. S. Warships   Great Combined Fleet Dominates Channel Invacinn. Datee

D- D-Day Convoy Task 100 Per Cent Successful 10 Per Cent Troop Loss Had Been Expected

U.S. WARSHIPS IN VITAL ROLE   : Even Nevada, Pearl Harbor  Veteran, In Action In   Invasion Landings

INVASION ROUTE DOMINATED BY " ALLIED NAVIES   Famous U. S. Battleships Included in- Vast Armada

“LONDON PAPER Save      Money ‘Said: ‘to ‘Have. Dissppesrei o, While in: Transit: in.

Spare Undamaged Cities, Pope Asks   Pontiff Direets Sunday Appeal To Belligerents

MESA Threatens To Tighten Strike At Bearing Plant   Union Officials Plan To Call Out 64,000 War Workers

General Strike Threatened By Mechanics   Union Told Not To Obey WLB Back to Work Order

KNOCK ANOTHER HOLE IN NAZIS SOUTHERN LINE   ‘Islands Of Yugoslavia Also hivaded; Germans at Himra Destroved

Army Lands In Albania, Drives Inland   Paratroopers Head Opening of New Front in War an Nazi«

Albania, Islands Off Yugoslavia Invaded By Allies   Announcement Of Pullback Of British Re Devils Gives Lie To Nazi Report; Powerful Allied Forces Land On Adriatic Coast

Strong Forces Sweep Ashore On Wide Front      Coast And On Yugoslav Isles; Drive Aims At Juncture With Partisans, Soviets

Blow in Balkans Is Made   New Air, Naval Invasion Is Made By Huge Forces

Air, Seaborne Land Troops Cross Adriatic   Move to Close Gap Between Sovicts, Partisans and Sea

Sea And Air Troops Rip Into Balkans   Invaders Strike On Broad Front Of Albanian Coast

Allied invasion Forces Strike Across Adriatic   Albania, Islands Off Jugoslavia Are Invaded

German Garrison Destroyed   Allied Landings Climax Softening Raids by Fartisans, British Commando:

Allies Land Large lorce In Albania   Islands Off Yugoslavia Al. so Invaded By Air And  Seaborne Troops

Other Invasion Forces Hit Isles  Off Yugoslavia   Seaborne, Airborne Troops Carry Out Assault On Balkans

Allied Invasion Forces Strike Across Adriatic by Air and Sea Into Albania and Drive Inlanc   Knocking Another Hole In Southern Rim Of Hitler’s Fortress

Allied Soldiers  Driving Inland on Broad Front   Move Aims at Closing Gap Between Adriatic, Tito’s Men, and Reds

British Lunge to Banks of Maas In New Thrust at Nazi Defenses; — Albania Invaded by Allied Army

Powerful Force Smashes Inland on Balkan Front   Troops Strike Into Islands Off Yugoslavia in Drive to Close Gap Between Tito’s Men, Red Army; Nazi Garrison of Himra Destroyed

LUSHIH IS CAPTURED BY JAPANESE TROOPS   Enemy Is Rushing In Reserves In Attempt Toe Take Command Of Vits] Rail Line

Strong Mosquito Bombing Force Hits Nurnberg   German Industrial Center Plastered With Block-Busters

Nazis Driven Back To Roer   U. S. Ninth And First Deal Hammer Blows And German Losses Are Heavy

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CLIMAX NEAR IN BATTLE OF ROER VALLEY   GERMANS THROWS BACKWARD WITH HEAVY LOSSES

AMERICAN NINTH ARMY DEALS OUT SAVAGE ATTACK   First Army Is Deep Inside  Two Enemy Strongholds Te Gaath   INDUSTRIAL AREAS OF REICH MENACED

Frontiers Of Saar Crossed by Patton   Retreat Pushes Germans Back to West Bank Of Roer River, Last Barrier Before City

Peril to Ruhr Mounts Under Yank Assaults   Ninth Army Drives Foe to Bank of Roer River, First Gains More Than Mile: Third Advances

N azis Throw New Troops Into. Defense  Of Homeland   American Third Army Gains Up to Six Miles  And Threateus Reich Along 60-Mile Front  BOMBERS AID 7TH

NAZI OHOVED TO BANK OF THE ROER   Yanks Hit Hard in Fateful Battle of the Reich   NAZIS REINFORCE   Third Army Invades Saar Basin Anew; Bombers Give Seventh Close Support

FURIOUS BATTLE RAGING BEFORE COLOGNE PLAIN   Americans Are Now Only 2) Miles From Last Rarriere Short of Rhine

Germans fal! back south of  Julich center Ninth hammers at reeline nazis

Troops Smash to Within Four Miles of Roer : River     RHINELAND BATTLE” IS NEARING CLIMAX  Third Army Deepens Its Punch Into the Saar . Basin ,

U.S. Heavy Bombers Give Close Support To Troops; Battle Mounts In Fury

Ohio Gardens and Farms Suffering Serious Damage From June Drough

Rain Needed To Save Ohio Garden Crop:   Drouth Threatens Normal Vegetable Crop Yields, Experts Declare

Fourteen Hundred Pounds of Bombs Dropped On Cassino By Al lied Bombers.

SENATE IN SHOWDOWN ON SOLDIER VOTE   Trial Vote Shows Senaters Favor  Federal Ballot

NEW DEAL ChiCTS IN SENATE SEEK VOTE SHOWDOWN   G.0-P. - Southern Democrat Coalition Preters Requiar State Voting System.

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS   PEARL HARBOR ANNIVERSARY FINDS JAPANESE UNEASY

28 Men Killed in Plane Crash  Fig Tre nsport Down Nebraska Hills

28 Killed In Plane Crash In Nebraska   Transport Plane Believed To Have Gone Down in Thunderstorm

President Says Understanding Has Been Reached On Germany Occupation

America Reaches General Understanding With Allies On Occupation Of Germany

OCCUPATION OF GERMANY DISCUSSED   U. S., Britain And Russia Have General Understanding

Occupation of  Germany Planned   General Understanding On Issues Completed

‘ROOSEVELT TO . SEE CHURCHILL FOR NEW PLANS   » Allies In Agreement On Occupation Of Germany, He Says

Front from Capital to Coast Collapsing; Siege of City Nears   U. S., Britain, Russia Agree on Occupation of Germany

Big Three Set ° To Occupy Reich       ‘Nation: to Patrol Section of Germany  Each:

JAPS ON GUAM, TINIAN WIPED OUT BY YANKS   Three More Islands Are Taken In American Offensive

JAPS ADMIT TINIAN: AND GUAM LOST   Tokyo Broadcast Says Garrison Destroyed and Civilians Seem to Have Shared the Fate of the Troops. —

Japs Admit Islands Lost   Garrisons on Guam And Tinian Destroyed; Civilians End Lives

TOKYO ADMITS GUAM LOSSES   Destruction of Japanese Garrison On Tinian Also Confirmed

FDR Comments On Russian Push  Silent On Europe’s Political Questions

Huns Battling Desperately To (Keep Reds Out   Meanwhile, Russian Air.  force Is Pounding Me tropolis’ Defenses and  Escape Routes   Counter Blows By Enemy Repulsed   Russians Engaged In Stiff Battles For Tarnopel; Troops Battling  In Streets

Russ Drive Going Well. Roosevelt ‘Comments   Germans Placed In  Increasingly Difficult Position; Who Knows Thoughts In France?

COAST BETWEEN LE HAVRE, CHERBOURG INITIAL OBJECTIVE   Indications Point to Success In Early Stages   as Eisenhower Announces Only Full   Victory Is Acceptable  i   BULLETIN

ALLIES EXPA HOLDINGS IN AREA   Americans Check Fur ious German Counter-Attacks

Wage Agreement: With Unions End Controversy  Operators Resume Charge After 22 Days of Army Control; Action Follows Roosevelt Order

RAILWAYS BACK TO OWNERSHIP OF COMPANIES   Wage Agreement Ends Federal Operation

. Non-Operating Employees Given 9-11 Cent Boost   Systems Restored After 22 Days Of Government Ownership Without Disruption Of Finances; Workers Get Back Pay To December 27.

Railroads Are Returned To  Private Ownership Tuesday Secretary Of War Takes Action After Wage  Anvoomente Are Announced By President

REMOVE BLOCK TO RAIL RETURN   Non - Operating Agreement Will Be Announced Soon

 Walsh, Lee And Lane Will Vote  For Roosevelt   President To Get Their Votes On First Ballot  At Oanvention.

LEADERS SPEAK AS O'CONOR IS SILENT   Democrats, After Waiting  lic Views

Three Leaders To Cast Votes F or Roosevelt   Walsh, Lane and Lee Say They Will Come Out For Renomination On the First Ballo

4 RED ARMIES STAGE ALL-OUT BALTIC DRIVE   New Offensive by Forces From Leningrad Front Revealed

Four Soviet Armies Drive Ahead To Wipe Out Nazis In Baltics; Take 1,500 Towns

Russian Armies Smash At Nazis In Baltic State:   (Drive Furiously In Effort To Wipe Out Nazi Forces In Baltics   RESISTANCE BY NAZIS DESPERATE

U. §8. MORE HOPEFUL OVER FINNISH SITUATION  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

Russo-Finnish Peace Accord  Held Possible   U. 8. Hopes Rise For Withdrawal From War; Doubt Demands. Will Be  Severe -~

HOPES RISE FINLAND T0 QUIT WAR   Russo-Finnish Accord Believed Highly Possible

A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA   Believe Conesville Raid Rroke Gambling Ring

SOUTH FRANCE DRIVE SLOWED BUT NOT LONE   German 19th Army Rea Guard Stand Fails To Halt Allies

ALLIED FORCES PUSH TOWARD BELFORT GAP,   Seventh Army Slashes Stuf. fening Defenses Put Up By Germans

7TH ARMY MEETS NAZI RESISTANCE   19th Army Rear Guard Stands Fail To Halt Americans

\Nazi-Rear Guard Making Stand In  Southern France   Battered Units Fail To Halt Onrushing Yank, French Troops

GERMANS MAKE INTENSE REAR GUARD STANDS   Resistance Stiffens In Southern France

RESISTANCE OF AXIS STIFFENS IN SO, FRANGE   Battered German 19th Making Intense Rear Guard Stands

Enemy Fights Fiercely” To’ Stem. Patch   ‘Southern Army Gaining Steadily Toward Belfort Gap

Germans Make Intense Rear Guard Stands   Enemy, However, Unable To Halt Fast-Driving Americans. French

Nazis Attempt Stand in South   Allied Advance Toward Gap Still Rapid

Nazi Guard Fights Back At Invaders   Fierce Resistance Fails To Halt Push On Belfort Gap

CLOTHING WILL BE * LOADED OCT. 11TH      Garments Must be Deliv_ered:to Pennsy Freight Station

CLOTHING WILL BE ~ LOADED OCT. 11TH   Garments Must be Deliv. . ered. to Pennsy Freight Station

BUCKS COUNTY MAN HAS BAD EXPERIENCE   Robert R. Diehl, 18, [s Shipwrecked in The  Pacific Area

PERKASIE LAD, 18, HOME, WAS ON THE PRINGETON   Robert R. Diehl Was Rescued After Several Hours   16 WHEN HE ENLISTED

MARINES STOP COUNTER-DRIVE      Japs Fail in Effort to Regain Cape Gloucester

Japs Repulsed By Marines af Cape Gloucester   Navy Fighters Down 15 Enemy Planes In Sweep at Rabaul

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   BRITISH FAN OUT AGAINST DISORGANIZED NAZIS

YANKS MOVING MEN, TANKST0 NFEENCE INES   ‘British Radio Says Battle to  Stop Germans Now  t  i in Full Swing.

Massed ‘Tanks. Heavy Guns And Men Absorb Shock Of Belgian Offensive.

Bring Nazis Near Halt In belgium   LUXEMBOURG END OF FRON’ STILL FLUID; MAY BE LAST: BIG EFFORT OF GERMANS

ENEMY DRIVE NOW 20 MILES INSIDE BELGIUM   War's Biggest Battle Shaping

Tanks, Guns andMen Moving Up to Meet Armor ad Columns of hnemy Striking 20 Miles Into Belgium

Indications Are iiiat Nazis Are Fighting Harder Against U. S. 3rd and 7th Armies

FIRST ARMY LINES NOW ‘APPEAR TO BE STABILIZING”   Enemy’s Drive Carries More Than 20 Miles Into Belgium; 1st Army Back Of Nazi Border "At Many Points

Allied Forces Solidify Lines in New Attack   Nazi Offensive Carries More Than 20 Miles Inside Belgium; Poses Threat to American Drive; Bitterest Battle of War Being Waged

FIRS? ARMY REGROUPS 10 STEM TIDE   Seventh Army Edges Deeper Into Nazi Palatinate

Troops and Tanks Speed Into Front   Germans Reported Fighting Harder On Other  Fronts.

Wehrmacht Staking its Best Divisions to Effect a Breach, Americans’ Counter-Attack Due

Yanks Mass to Stem Offensive of German Army   Americans Stabilizing Along North Half of 70-Mile Front

Yanks Rally After Most Serious Setback Since Kasserine Pass. Tunisia

Yank Tanks Guns, Men Meet Nazis   Lines Being Stabilized, After Worst Setback Since  Kasserine Pass

Yanks Rally From Shock Of Stunning Nazi Attack   First Army Lines Stabilizing, Says Dispatch From Allied Defensive Front

Yanks Stabilizing German Offensive On 70-Mile Front   Reports State German Drive Now Moving at Snail’s Pace

Six Armies of Allies Attack on 40) Mile Front   Whereabouts of Ninth Finally Is Revealed

Mighty Aerial Attacks Support Assaults On Dutch, German Fronts   Six Allied Armies Now Hammering Nazis, With 3rd Nearing End Of Battle For Metz

MAY BE LONG AWAITED ALL OUT CAMPAIGN   First and Ninth Armies in Attack After Aerial Bombardment of German Positions.

“Laur ens dam WViarch 23, qu LOUIE LUECK PASSE AWAY AT STORM LAKE (MONDAY MORNING

Nips Losing “Die-for-Hirohito” Spirit, Quit Cold; Attack  on Carolines Is Seen As Near   Seebees Putting Airiields In Shape; Enemy Claims U.S. _ Cruiser Sunk; American Casualties Those Far Licht

ROUND UP JAP PRISONERS IN MARSHALL ISLES   Victorious Marines And Army Troops Complete Occupation Of Kwajalein

U.S. CONQUEST OF KWAJALEIN IS COMPLETED   Record Number Of Jap Prisoners Being Rounded Up

Americans Round Up Prisoners   er eel  Reluctant To Die For Emperor, Japs Give Up In Marshalls

TAKE JAP PRISONERS IN MARSHALLS   Largest Number Yet Captured In Present War

Number of Prisoners Largest in Pacific Drive   More Than 2,000 Nipponese Believed Ty Have Reen Killed

Jap Lroops Fall Captives In Marshalls  Come Over to U. 5, Line: After Loud Speakers Demand Surrender   2000 OTHERS SLAIN   Yanks Level Plane Bases for Powerful Aerial Smash at Truk

J.S. Forces Finish {wajalein Assault: \ir Strips Repaired   More Jap Prisoners Taken ou Atoll Than at Any Other Place in Pacific War: Carolines May Be Next Goal

Many Prisoners Being Taken on Marshalls Atoll   Number Highest Reported in Any Pacific Action

YANKS TAKING JAP CAPTIVES ON MARSHALLS   Dying for Hirohito Loses  Its Attraction for Little Brown Men; Conquest of ‘Wwaialein Completed.

7,000 JAPS OIE IN BATTLE FOR PACIFIC ISLE:   Large Number of Prisoners Taken; Engineers Begin — Airfield Repairs.

MARINES OCCUPY ALL MAJOR ISLES AT KWAJALEIN   Mopping Up Atoll And Capture Large Noumbar Of Tanc

Maines Mop Up Marshalls, Take Many Prisoners  Forty Japs Killed  cee Phevnucer:   Forty Japs Killed For Every Yank Casualty

Final Rites For . Treton Woman.  Mrs. ‘Lizzie Eilts © Life Time Reaiden!

Final Rites For Ireton Woman  Mrs. Lizzie Eilts Life Time Readen:

3 BRANDS OF WHISKY WILL BE RATION FREE   Ohio Also Slashes Price Or 10 Imported Brandies

TEE  3 Brands Of Whisky Are  ~ Ration. F ree      Restrictions On Sales To Be Lifted In Ohio Monday

Roosevell Names Haskell. Defeated Candidate, Job As Defense Director

Military Prize On The Dnieper Won By Soviets   Nazis Planning Supreme Attack On Allies  * Below Rome

Russians Reach ikopol, Vital ity for Nazis   Critical Battles Roaring fo Climax

MANGANESE IS SOUGHT IN ” DNIEPER PUSH      75,000 Nazis Being Annihilated in  Area

British Capture Fortress OF Chiusi, Push North On 25-Mile Italy Front

BRITISH TAKE FORTRESS IN ITALY   Advance 3 Miles in Face of Stiff Nazi Resistance

BRITISH TAKE ITALIAN FORT, PUSH TO NORTH   American Tanks, Infantry Ad vance Six Miles Up Coastal Road

Brit. 8th Army Takes Fortress  Of Chinsi   American Armor Within 30 Miles Of Port of Leghorn

BRITISH CAPTURE CHIUS! FORTRESS   AMERICANS ADVANCE TO 30 MILES OF LIVORNO

FORTRESS IN ITALY TAKEN BY BRITISH      Yanks Also Pushing to The North

Allies Push On In Central Italy   Germans Falling Back After Capture of Chiusi

NAZI FORTRESS IN ITALY FALLS   Chiusi Taken By British in Bloody Fight

8TH CAPTURES CHIUS!, PUSHES ON NORTHWARE   Italian Drive Slowed By Fighting Retreat Of Germans

BRITISH EIGHTH WITHIN 30 MILES OF LEGHORN   Push Through Strong Enemy Resistance in Central Italy

Armies Hit Strong Nazi Resistance   American Tanks Advance on Coastal Road—Enemy Retreat Orderly

GERMANS SPOTTING FRANCE WITH MANY SMALL ARMY UNITS   Prepare to Cope with Expected Onslaught by Thousands of Allied Air.  Borne Troops

Report Small Units Dotted Over France Ready To Block Allied Attack

Germans Place Small Forces In Large Area  Nazis Make Plans For Coping With

Hitler Reported Stationing Small Units Over Wide Area To Combat Airborne Landings   Nazis Claim Flying Repair Squads Keeping Bombed Rail Lines Restored

Nazis Spot Troop Units Over Europe  For D-Day   Hoping To Prevent Airborne Landings

Reich Fear Of Airborne Blow Grows   Thousands of Small Army Units Spotted To Meet Onslaught

Yank Warptanes~ Bomb Jap Isles Over Wide Front   Siir U Pp interception At Three Points, Losses Slicht

MAJOR BATTLE ~ [S DEVELOPING      Righth Army Nears Nazi Stronghold

SIXTY-FIVE IN DISTRICT WILL GO INTO NAVY   Six Selective Service Boards Call Men to Depart as June Quotas.

Yanks in Possession Large German City; Canadians Advance to Clear Way to Port

Canadian Men Gain in Push fc Clear Antwerp   Advance Nine Miles In Dutch-Belgian  Border Area; Other . U. S. Forces Advance

German Colonel Sobs His Grief Over Surrender   Canadian, British Troops Advance On West Front

NAZIS GIVE UP STRUGGLE COR AACHEN   Eight Hundred Surrender to Americans in Violation of “Fight-to-Death” Order.   YANKS FREED FOR DRIVE ON COLOGNE   Dominion Troops Plunge Through Wooded Country in Thrust to Clear Schelde Estuary.

Aachen Nazis Failed Hitler   Last 800 Balk at Fighting Ta Death; Canadians, British In Important Advance

Nazis Formally Give Up Aachen As Chief Weeps.  Badly Sodden Front He ndicaps Allies In lan Boe ce te ks

Nazis Violate Hitler's ‘Fight-To-Death’ Orders After Being Hammered Into Traps; Canadians Make Gains

TWENTY-EIGHT CITY BOYS TO TAKE UP ARMS   Selectees of Local Boards Nos. 3 and 4 to Entrain for Army Center.

WO WAVES OF AMERICAN PLANES BLAST ENEMY AIR STRENGTH AT NEW ° “" GUINEA. BABE.”

Donnell Bills  Criticized, But Win Approval   Five of the Governor’s Fund Measures Pass Test ~ in House   WRIGHT OF CHARITON * RAPS PRISON BEAD   Wants Assurance Wage In- creases Will Not Go Int Campaien Fund

Special Donnell Funds Approved   House of Representatives Acts on Increasing State S a lapame

U.S. 1ST ARMY IN NEW ATTACK ABOVE AACHEN   Allies Storm Belfort Gap

Temperatures”   Patton Tanks Win Armored Victory, Kavo 82 Vehicles

Allied Forces Reported Pushing lnto Belfort Gap   Battles of Growing Intensity Flaring On 300-Mile Front

Allies Storm Belfort Gap, Gate to Reich   Other Units Wreck 82 German Tanks in Ambush at Nancy   Generals Agree on Truce

GERMANS ADMIT BAYEUX FORCES GAIN FIVE MILES   All Rail Bridges on Seine From Paris to Coast Destroyed

brik Halts Production Of Engines for B-29's   Strikers Vote to Stay Out Until the Armv Takes Over

B-29 ENGINE PRODUCTION HALTED BY WRIGHT STRIKE. FORCING 35.000 OUT

B-29 Strikers Defy WLB Order   Idleness Voted Until ‘The Army Takes Over

Strike Halts Plane Engine Production   Supervisors Quit Work at Wright Airplane Plant

B PLANE PLANTS IDLE IN STRIKE   Production Of Engines For B-29 Superfortresses Halted

Strikers Vote To Remain Out   Supervisors Of Wright Aeronautical Plant Out “Until Army Takes Over.’

Strikers Vote To Remain Out   In Meantime Engines For Superforts Held Up By Walkout.

Strike Halts Production Of B-29 Engines   Action of 1,900 Supervisor: Makes Over 30,000 Employes Idle

‘OPA CEILINGS 'ON MACHINERY   Following Information From Local Office

Pskov Controls Gateway fo Baltic  Threatened N azi Base   Threatened Nazi Base Is Key To Defense

Two Soviet Armies Raid Big Gateway   Latvia, Lithuania Gates Are Made War Targets

Soviet Army Driving For  Vital Pskov   Gateway To Southern Estonia And Latvia Target Of Soviets; Force 40 Miles Away

Soviets Push Toward Latvia Goal   Russian Armies Are About to Smash Nazis on New Zone

Russians Apply Pressure To Pskov, Gateway City To Latvia And Lithuania

Reds Advance On Pskov, Last Escape Route   Russians Only 40 Miles From Vital Highway And Rail Center

Red Armies Near Pskov, Baltic ‘Gate   Nazis Evacuating Northern Cities as Russians Drive On

OF RED ARMIES   Six Trunk Railways, Four Main Highways Run in And Out of City.   EXPECT ALL-OUT BATTLE

NAZIS MINING HIGHWAYS AT PSKOV FRONT   Russians Creating New Hazards For German Troops

Russian Armies At Baltic Gateway  important Railway Junction City OF Pskov Taraet of New Camoaian

Russians Drive On Pskov From Captured Luga   Two Red Armies Close In On Gateway To Lat. via And Lithuania.

TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES PRESS ON PSKOV       Gateway to Latvia and Lithuania Under Attack. 12,000 Square Miles Retak en by Reds

PSKOV FELT THE PRESSURE OF TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES   One Was Driving Southward Fro mthe Lower End of Lake Peipus.   TOWARD PSKOV LAKE   Other Southwest Down the Leningrad Highway and Railway.

Reds Seize Luga, Drive On to Pskov   Guerrillas Credited With Large Share in Capture of Luga, Cul Railway and Highway   RED TRAP HOLDS   Russian Planes, Tanks Prevent Germans Escaping as Troops Bore In Near Korsun

Russ Army Driving On Pskov, Great Rail Center   Great Numbers Of Germans Will Be Cu Off If Red Army Can Reach Citv

SOVIET DRIVE NEARS PSKOV   Reds Only 40 Miles Fron Gateway to Southern  Estonia

REDS DRIVE NAZIS ACROSS NORWAY TIP   German Remnants Face Disaster  fn Far North

NAZI TROOPS FACING DISASTER IN NORWAY   Reds Press Arctic Offensive; Germans In Frozen Retreat Across Barren Land After Losing Supply Base

NAZI FORCES FACE DISASTER IN FAR NORTH   Soviet Arctic Offen. sive Is Driving Germans Over Nor. way’s Barrens.

Reds Drive Nazis Into Arctic Wastes   Freezing Alternative of Surrender—Violent F ighting Rages Within East Prussia

NAZIS IN NORTH FACING DISASTER AS WINTER COMES   Gales Battering Hapless Forces

Soviets Chase Nazis Across Frigid North   German Lapland Army Faces Disaster After Loss Of Supplies At Kirkenes.

‘erate n US. Airme  Blast Port i in New Guinea   Jap Vessel Sunk in New  Raid on Truk: Kuriles Outpost Rocked

No Confirmation Of Tokyo Radio Report From Adm. Nimitz   Daring Operation Against Japs’ ‘Pearl Harbor’ Challenges Enemy’s Approaches To Philippines, Mainland

Giant Naval Fleet Seen in Lagoon >   Allied Bombers ers Sink or Damage Six Ships Off Bismark Archipelago; Rabaul Hit -

FIERCE BATTLE FOR MAJOR JAP NAVAL BASTION   Heavy U. S. Fleet Units, Dive Bombers Soften - Up Xey Jap Base

Allied Silence Shrouds Attack On Jap Bastion   Indicates Heavy Assault On Mighty Enemy Nava! Base fs Continuina

Powerful Mechanized Units Are Used As Well as Air Power, Say Nips In Bold Assault on Powerful Base

TOKYO RADIO REPORT HINTS LAND FIGHTING MAY BE ON: MANY U, S. PLANES ATTACK   Sensational Attack on Jap Naval Bastion May Make This A “Pearl Harbor” Defeat for the Enemy. Powerful American Task Force Launched Attack:

JITTERY JAPS HINT INVASION MADE BY TROOPS   American Commander Says However, Assault Was by Plane and Naval Force

TOKYO CLAIMS FIGHTING IN PROGRESS ON ISLAND   first Action Against “Impregnable” Jap Naval il Is Carried Out By Several Hundred Aircraft

TOKYO RADIO REPORT OF A FIERCE FIGHT   U.S. Task Forces Maintain Strict  Silence Beyond Slightest Revelation of New Attack   Re ASSOCTATED PRESS   Fighting Reported Rv UNITED PRESS

J ap ‘Radio ImpliesGround Units Bate  il taan tnt   Fierce F ight Reported By. Tokyo; ~ Claims Mechanized Units Used; _ U.S. Task Force Leaders Silent

Health Program To o Wipe Out Causes of 4-F Cases Is Urged   President of Colombia Seized by Army Officers

Panel of Jurors Drawn To Report Monday, April 24   Extra Number Required Owing .

Panel of Jurors Drawn To Report Monday, April 24  Extra Number ' Required Owing . To Farm Needs

All Food Stores To Be Checked   OPA Agents To List All Prices And Compare With Leval Ceilings.

HOLD COSINA BRIDGEHEADS   British Seeking to Expand Gains Made in Drive  Toward Faenza

SERIES E SALES EXCEED 70 PCT   Total Individual Only 61 Pct Corporations Here Over Their Quota

Germans Fight North of Rome   But Fifth Army Smashes Through At Lake Bolsena; New Defenses Encountered

Allied Forces Smash Through And Occupy Nearly All Of Lake Bolsena’s Western Shore And Hammer Strong Point Near Orbetello, 71 Miles From Rome— Germans Display Increased Resistance—Advance  On Adriatic Proceeds

Germans North of Rome Stage Bitter but Futile Defense   Fifth Army Smashes Through; 8th Army Advauce Quickens

Allies Smash New Nazi Line  North Of Rome   Fifth Army Takes Valentano, Highway Junction: Drive Unchecked.

Clark’s Men Smash 71 Miles 'N'west Of Rome   South African Forces Moving Toward Orvieto In Difficult Battle

NAZIS STIFFEN RESISTANCE ON ITALIAN FRONT   Allies Seize Valentano, Highway Junction 55 Miles North Of Rome

NAZIS STIFFEN ~-TTALY DEFENSE   ‘Allied Forces Score New  Gains Against Sharp Resistance

Nazi Line Novtk Of Rome Broker   Allies Take Both Sides Of Lake Bolsena

NAZI LINE IN ITALY PIERCED   Yanks Smash German Stron( Point in New Defenses North of Rome.

NEW LINE OF DEFENSE IS SET UP   Strong Resistance Is Met 71 Miles North Of Rome, Report

ALLIED FORCES ARE 70 MILES ABOVE ROME   Gain Steadily Along Adriatic Sector   NAVY UNIT   Established At Civitavechhia: Hungary Refineries Bombed

5TH SMASHES THRU STIFF RESISTANCE   Eighth Crosses Saline River Five Miles From Pescara

5TH ARMY RIPS NAZI DEFENSES NORTH OF ROME   BITTER FIGHTING IS REPORTED AT POINT EAST OF ORBETELLO

Nazis Unable To Halt Push By Fifth Army   Allies Engaged In Bitter Fight North Of Rome, But Crack Defenses

~ Army Wipes Out  erman Lake Defenses   Occupy Nearly All of Lake Bolsena Terri. ritory, Smash Strong Point; German Resis. tance Grows; Adriatic Advance Rapid.

Sector Around Lake Bolsano Is Scene Of Battle   Valentano, Bagno Regio, Popoli Seized

Dug-In Defenses Encountered By  Yank Doughboys East of Orbetello

Germans Attempt A Stand in Italy   Alhes Sw Thru Line From Lake Belsena To the Sea   FIND NEW DEFENSES   United Nations Forces Make Progress Against Opposition

ALLIES CONTINUE MARCH TO NORT   Germans Fighting Bitter.  dy But Fail To Check  Advance   LAKE IS. TAKEN   American Doughboys Battling Foe 71 Miles North Of Rome

Yanks Hold West Shore Lake Bolsena   Smash New Line of Nazi Defenses in Bloody Engagement, Other Allied Troops Take Popeli

NAZIS FIGHT ON NEW LINE ABOVE ROME   Make Stand From Lake Bolsena to Sea, but Fifth ‘Army Troops Smash Through and Occupy Lake’s Western Shore.

Nazis Form Line North of Rome   Fifth and Eighth Continue Advance

Huns Take Up Stand On New Lines In Italy   Fifth Smaehes Through  Defense toe Occupy Nearly All of Lake Bolsena Shore

5th Smashe: New Line In Italy   Occupies Nearly All of West Shore of Lake  Bolsena

TT TTT a a a ert ean ee nee  New Nazi Line Smashed As Yanks Chase Enemy North Through Italy

Be,  Fifth Army Troops Smash Through Nazi Line from Lake Bolsena to the Sea

Resistance Of Nazis In Italy Has Stiffened   Enemy North Of Rome Fights Bitterly Along New Defense Line.

Allied Army Encounters Hard Fight North Rome   Allies Push Ahead Despite Position  Of Nazi Force

Nazi Points Along Lake Are Stormed By 5th Army   Bolsena Area Scene Of Severe Fighting

NEW DEFENSES — IN ITALY FAIL TO STOP YANKS   Troops Occupy Nearly all of Western Shore of Lake Bolsena

GERMANS FIGHT BITTERLY ALONG LAKE BOLSENA   Popoli Taken By Americans, Gain 20 Prisoners

Allies 90 Miles North Of Rome _In Meady Push   Fascist Regime Corrupt With Graft; Even Duce Duped By Racketeers

Allies Seize Road Junction Of Valentano   Fifth Army’ Smashes Through to Occupy Western Shore of Lake Bolsena

‘Disrupt New ‘German Line in ‘Northern Italy      Clark’s Army 90 Miles North of Rome And Still Going

Germans In Italy Reach New Line Of  Defenses   Fifth Army Troops Smash Through On West Shore Of Lake; Sth Moves Rapidly

DRIVE THROUGH NEW GERMAN LINES IN ITALY   Allies Occupy Most of West ern Shore of Lake Bolsena

But. ithe 5th Army Smashed fo Se 8 “Through to:-Lake ~ Bolsena.      OCCUPIED WEST SHORE   Alt. But Wiped Out a Strong ‘Point East-of Or, ° betello.

Nazis Reel Back North of Rome   Fifth Army Smashes Bitter Resistance to Occupy Lake Area

NEW NAZI LINE IN ITALY WEAK   Germans Fighting Bitterly, But Fifth Army Breaks Through Defenses.   RY SID FEDER.

GERMANS FIGHT ON NEW DEFENSE LINES IN ITALY   Fifth Army Smashes Through, However, At ‘Point 70.to 9@ Miles North of Rome

House Defeats $1,120 Pay Bill   Consider Allotments For Honorably Discharged Servicemen.

King George Watches Allied Troops Training for Invasion of Europe

AIR AND NAVAL * UNITS HIT TaLe   Conquest of Eniwetok Atoll ® Is Nearing Completion.   RABAUL ATTACKED   @iirmen Find Lowest Number Ships and Planes Ever Reported at Stronghold

U.S. Mops Up Parry Island   Remnanis of Japs There Being Hunted Down

Parry Isle Japs Being Wiped Out   Conquest Of Eniwetok Atoll, Within Bombing Rang: Of Truk, Near Completion; U. S. Casualties Reported Low

Americans Engaged in — Clearing Enemy From Parry Island   CASUALTIES OF U. S. REPORTED AS LIGHT      Positions Still Held by the Japs in Marshalls Un' der Attack

Americans © Engaged in lena. Enemy From Parry. Island:   CASUALTIES OF U. S.REPORTED AS LIGHT   Positions Still Held by the Jops in Marshalls Un-. . ‘dear Attack

YANKS MOPPING ‘UPON ENIWETOK   OTHER AMERICAN FORCES ARE CLEARING JAPANESE © FROM PARRY ISLAND. 

Mediterranean Armada Strike:  South France   Air Fleets in Britain Re ‘pew Attacks After  Loy sAetAS  Lull

German ‘Spy’ Planes Seek Invasion Clue   Nazi Claims 3,500,000 Allied Troops Ready To Strike Blow

Spy Planes Hunt Invasion Secrets  Nazi Craft Scouts Reitich Caacte

Spy Planes Seen On Coast Again   Bombs Drop On Ports In East Anclia Area

NAZI ‘SPY PLANES OVER BRIT. COAST   Seeking to Learn Allied  Invasion Secrets

GERMAN “SPY’ PLANES ABOVE ENGLAND AGAIN   Nazis Claim 3,500,000 Allied Troops Are in South Part of Britain

GERMAN PLANES SEEK INVASION FRONT SECRETS   Search British Coast In Effort To Pry Out News Of Coming Attack

Reich's Planes Looking for Invasion Secrets   English Coastal Areas Are Raided

BRITISH COAST IS SEARCHED BY NAZI SPY PLANES   livasion ‘Secrets Sought by Enemy Who Cruise Area _

New York Stocks   Nlew York Cotton   Chicaao Wheat   Chicago Rye   N. O. Cotton   Simple Rites For Cobb—Negroes Will Sing

BALLOT PLAN [S APPROVED   State Republican and Demo. cratic Leaders Agree on Service Vote Program   Cooperation After War Is Essential, Dewey Says

NAZI FORCES IN FLIGHT UP RHONE VALLEY   Toulon win Complete;  Italy Frontier Neared

Germans Flee South France Before Yanks   American Mobile Forces Roll Up Historic Rhone Invasion Route

WLB Seeks Showdown In Detroit . Area Strikes   Calls on Foremen  To Show Cause Why  Penalties, Sanctions  Should Not Be Invoked SERIOUS SITUATION, WAR DEPT. AIDE SAY?  Threatens Production  Of Combat Aircraft,  Dattiproean Declares

SHOWDOWN CALLED IN PLANT STRIKES      Union Leaders Summoned to Public Hearing Today

SHOWDOWN IN STRIKE SOUGHT   War Labor Board Sets Hearing in Detroit Foremen’s Dispute

Foremen At Hearing Of WLB Today      STRIKERS IN DETROIT AREA MUST SHOW CAUSE WHY SANCTIONS MAY NOT BE _ INVOKED. as   Time For Showdown

FORRESTAL, EISENHOWER DISCUSS WAR   Navy Secretary Also Watches Invasion

uc AFIRMATION OF FORRESTAL I$ ASSURED   Appointment to Succeed Knox Meets General Approval

SEE APPROVAL OF FORRESTAL   Nominated By Roosevelt Foi Navy Secretary Post

CONFIRMATION OF FORRESTAL BELIEVED SURE   Democrats And Republicans Both Favor Promotion Of Under-Secretary   SOLONS SOUND PRAISE   Proposed Knox Successor Has Played Only Minor Role In Politics

PUT FORRESTAL IN KNOX’S POST   Confirmation by Senate  Virtually Assured by Canvass

FORRESTAL T0  REPLACE KNO}   S&PPORT. OF. BOTH. DEMO. ‘CRATS AND REPUBLICANS "ASSURED IN, CONFIR ” MATION -VOTE

;0LOGNA - RIMINI ROAD SHELLED BY “HEAVY ARTILLERY   sround Forces of 5th Army : Smash Closer to Bologna   ‘ifth Army Consolidates — Newly-Won Frontline Positions

Se @ @& @& eo @& eee 2 68 @ fe @ @¢ ee oe @ @ @ <  DEATH RECORD 

2,975 CASUALTIES IN LATE INVASION      Stimson Gives Figures on ‘Losses in Southern France .

SOUTH FRANCE LOSSES LISTED   2,975 Casualties to Army in Ist 5 Days

ANNOUNCE CASUALTIES   Invasion of Southern France Raised Overall Figure by 2,975

1A76 CASUALTIES IN SOUTH FRANCE   Latest Overall Report fo Armed Forces Is 317,246 Casualties.

Most Popular American The British Have Known, Says Correspondent

The W ar Stops, Then Starts Again:  Rome Was Not End of the Road

STRASBOURG 1S GLEANED OUT BY FRENCH ARMOR   Allies Slowly Gain Ground From Nazis

Jap Air Formations Counter-Attack An ean Ships; 227 Ships and 621 Plsnes Enemy Destroved:.. .

Airdrome Falls Into Hands of American Units   Japanese Troops Break and Retreat Before Advance of Liberators; Tanks, Flame-Throwers Aid Push

Chamorros Beaten for Aiding Tweed   JAPS FLOGGED, KILLED GUAM NATIVES FOR HELP TO HIDING AMERICANS

FEAR OF IMMEDIATE INVASION FORMOSA BACK OF BATTLE   THAT OR CLEVER AMERI. CAN RUSE BROUGHT JAPANESE FLEET INTO FIGHT

Fear May Have Lured Out Fleet   U. S. Navy Has Tried For Year To Goad Japs Into Action.

Fear of Formosa Invasion May Have Brought Out the Japanese Fleet

AMERIGAN RUSE SEEN IN BATTLE OF FORMOSA   War Writer Believes U.S. Admiral Has Goaded Japs Into Coming Out

HOARDED JAP FLEET FORCED OUT OF HIDING   American Sea Strategy Gives Nip Admirals No Alternative

FEAR OF INVASION OR CLEVER RUSE BY AMERICANS MAY LAY BEHIND LATEST JAP MOVES —

Air-Sea Duel  Goes Into 3rd Furious Day   U.S. Commander Has Not Confirmed Presence of Enemy’s Fleet

Fall Of German + Seaport Today   MOSCOW REPORTS RED _ CAPTURE OF BIG  BASE .

eee @ Superforts Attach For Sccond Time In 48) Hours; Tokyo Says Jap: Kiect Plas Joined In; Fight. 

B-29's Again Rip Formosa   Second Raid in 48 Hours Hits Okayama, Heito Installations

U.. S..Commander Has: Not - Confirmed. Presonce, o Enemvy’s. Fleet : fi

TOKYOREPORT OF CONFLICT UNCONFIRMED   Jap Radio Officially Announces That Imperial Fleet Has Joined Duel  Entering Third Day  COMMUNIQUE EXPECTED

Fierce Fighting  Off Formosa; Im” perial Fleet Finally Makes its Appearance

Jap Island Hit Twice In 48 Hours   Japs Report Naval-Air Battle But Statement Is Unconfirmed

Raid Okayama, Heito; Sea- Air Battle Rages 7 Days In Jap Waters   Japanese Fleet Believed In Action Against Halsey’s Force; Tokyo Makes Fantastic Claims

16 AMERICAN VESSELS SUNK, ENEMY CLAIMS   Report of Naval Fight Not Confirmed by Americans; New Raids Staged on Formosa and Canton.

B-29’s Attack Key Jap Island Second Time In Two Days   Tokyo Claims Nip Fleet Appears, Scores Big Naval Victory Over Americans Off Formosa

Japs Counter-Attack Task Forces and Furious Battle Rages; Tokyo Claims Imperial Navy Has Joined in Battle

American fleet thought slugging it with Japanese  Okayama and Heite field Yank Superforts targets

B-29s Make Wnd Attack  On Formosa No Aircraft Lost In The 2nd Raid

Second Blow Is Delivered Without Loss   No Confirmation Ye Of Japanese Claim That Jap Navy  Is Engaged .

Struck, Installations - at Oka.-yama ‘and. Héito, In . 48° Hours. ~   NO LESS.ON SECOND RAID   Of Four B-29's Previously: Re- : " ported Three ‘Have’ Been ” Accounted For. _

Superforts Hit Okayama Base And Heito Area   Battle Of Western Pacific Rages Into Seventh Dav With New Attack

Superforts Attack For Second. Time In 48 Hours; Tokyo Says Jap Fleet “Has Juined In Fight.

Property Bill Gets Added Sale Proviso   Committeemen Break Deadlock in Postwar Argument

4-Man Surplus Board Agreed on   Conferees Break Disposal Deadlock

MARINES SEIZE COAST STRIP IN HARD FIGHTING   Report Thick Woods Shielded Japs From Preinvasion Shelling

De Gaulle Visif To Bring Close Scrutiny of Acts   Cooperation With Allies to Be Chief Issue

White House Preparing For De Gaulle Visit   Keeping View On French Committee’s Cooperation With Allied Command.

Many Notables From State To Be Present Ai C. Of C. Annual Dinner   By Jack Moyer, Sec’y. C. Of C.

Griswold Named G.0.P. Keynoter  State Convention Q£Q7T"11 DO. BRL...

WILL DESTROY VICHY REGIME   U. S. Government Says Talk Of Collaboration False, “Evidently Inspired”

FBI Holds Meet Here On April 5   Conference Of Police Agencies Of This Area lo Be Held In D. H. S. School.

Court Prevents Questions  Concerning Romance With Another Man   PART OF LETTER TO CHAPLIN ADMITTED

STORY OF ROMANCE BARRED BY JURIST   Joan Berry Furnishes Test imony in Trial of  Chaplin

Other Romances Of Joan Barred   Chaplin’s Defense - Fffort Ruled Out -

Questioning of Joan Berry  On Another Affair Halted   Attorney Brings Testimony of Actress Protege of Chaplin to Close; Letter Offered at Trial Causes Girl to Sob

Giesler Barred from Questioning Joan Berry Regarding Past Affair

300 NAZIS KILLED IN CLASSIC TANK TRAP IN FRANCE   Ten Yanks Hold Up Enemy Column Until Allied Armored Unit Gets Set for Ambush.   116 GERMAN VEHICLES ARE KNOCKED OUT   U. S. Major General Joins in Shooting — Not a Single American Soldier Lost.

10 Yanks Set Deadly Trap for 500 Foes  Entire Column Falls Prev to Tank Ambush as Mator General. Nine Othere Hold Freme fox K:1]

Dr. Schacht Is Reported Slain   German Minister Killed by Gestapo, Stocknoim Hears

HOOVER,‘ CLARE LUCE - TO'ADDRESS.G.'0. P.   Both Have Accepted Invitations tc Speak at Party's. ‘National . Claanvantion. a

BURGESS JACOB C. SCHMIDT AND CHIEF OF POLICE LINFORD J. JONES APPEAL TO PEOPLE TO PREVENT ALL ACCIDENTS HERE

Barn On Municipal  Farm Is Destroved   Fourth General Alarm in October Brings All Fire Equipment Into Action—Loss Estimated « oat $10,000

PETIT JURORS NAMED ~ FOR JANUARY TERM   SEVENTY-FIVE WILL SERVE IN CARROLL COURT DURING JANUARY TERM 

Dewey Appoints Sub-Committee Of Governors Who Will Attempt To Draft GOP Policy Statement

 eerr , . Weather Over Channel Improves. Nearly Caused Invasion Disaster

After Nearly Causing Invasion Disaster; Easing Allied Operation; Explain Launching Time.   Later Improvement

Weather Begin: Clearing Over Channel Seetor   Wind and Choppy Sea Almost Caused Allied Disaster on D-Day

HUNDREDS OF ALLIED PLANES ATTACKING REICH   Round - the-- clock Bombing Goes on Relentlessly. Tonnage Is 22,500 tn.  City Aave.

DEFENDING FORTRESSES   Allies Continue Bombing of Reich and Important  Places in France From Rritain and Italy.

Russian-Polish Rift Unbroken   Efforts To Settle Controversy Fail

News From Che Homeroy Churches   ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC GHURCH Father N. J. Boes, Pastor,

News From Che Homeroy Churches   ‘8ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH Father James A. Kane. Pastor

8ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH .. Rather. James .A..Kane,..Pastor -~

Yugoslavs Say Nazis Massing Forces For New Offensive Against Partisans

CHURCHILL AND STALIN ARE CLOSER   Talks Between Two Leaders and Aides Move Forward on New Note of Harmony Sounded at State Banauet.

STALIN TOASTS POSTWAR PLANS   Praises British and + U. S. Contributions

Reds Leader In Praise Of Two Nations   Premier Stalin Extols Britain And United States

remicr Stalin Praises American and British Aid in  War on Germany   POSTWAR COOPERATION ‘OF NATIONS STRESSED

Stalin Lauds Aid By Allies in War Effort   New Note of Harmony Sounded at Banquet Beard in Moscow

STALIN LAUDS AID OF ALLIES   Kremlin Talks Move Forward On New Note Of Harmony

Harmony Prevails At Moscow Parley   Stalin Expresses Gratitude for Aid Given by Britain And United States

Russians Well Pleased By Aid From The Allies   Premier Stalin Twice Rises at Banquet To Express Satisfaction to British and Americans.

SOUND HARMONY NOTE IN MEET AT RUSS CAPITAL   Stalin Assures His Allies of Cooperation for Lasting Peace

Stalin Lauds “Allied Plans To End War:   Red Dictator Toasts Collaboration, Gives Britain. U. S&S. Credit

Stalin Praises American.  British Efforts In War   Premier Rises Twice During Three-Hour Luncheon 1 Emphasize The Ties Binding Russia With Her Western Allies In Toast To Collaboration

New Harmony  Note Found At Moscow   Marshal Stalin Lauds Allied Help During State Banquet

NEW HARMONY NOTE PREVAILS IN MOSCOW CONFERENCE TODAY  ‘ STALIN TOASTS TIES BINDING RUSSIA AND HER  WIOCCTOCDN ATEIRG

Stalin Praises Aid Received From U. S. and Great Britain   Taiks:. With  Churchill Move Forward Today on Harmony Note

SOVIET MARSHAL EMPHASIZES TIES BINDING RUSSIA AND HER WESTERN ALLIES IN WAR-PEACE

HARMONY FOR MOSCOW TALK BY “BIG TWO”   Stalin Teasts Cooperation Which His Country Has Had in Waging War Against Germans

STALIN HONORS PRIME MINISTER      New Harmony Is Noted In Lavish State Banquet

STALIN CREDITS ALLIED NATIONS WITH WAR HEL   Premier Lauds America, Brit ain For Assistance in Fight on Nazis

STALIN HAILS AID OF U,S., ENGLAND   New Note Of Allied Harmony Struck At Moscow Talks

New Note Of Harmony In Conference At Moscow Lxiled Poland Invited

Stalin Loud In Praise. For Allies   Premier Lauds U. S$ And Britain for Their War Efforts

Close Harmony Noted in Stalin, Churchill Talks   Russian Premier Emphasizes Ties Between Allies

Stalin Toasts Co-Operation U. S., Britain   Russian Leader Lauds War Effort of Allied Nations in Banquet

Stalin Praises Britain. U.S.   Toasts Allied Postwar Collaboration During Anglo-Russian Meeting

STALIN LAUDS ASSISTANCE FROM ALLIES   New Note of Harmony Is Sounded at State Banquet Attended by Prime Minister and Staff   ‘COMPLIMENT FOR HULL

Stalin Praises U. S. And British Aid; Toasts Postwar Allied Collaboration

NEW HARMONY NOTE STRUCK IN CONFERENCE   Churchill-Stalin Talks Continue In Moscow

S talin’s Praise of Allies Strikes New Note of Harmony at Parley   War Bulletins

Soviet Leader Praises American, British Contributions To Victory

STALIN STRESSES TIES WITH ALLIES   EMPHASIZES NEED FOR POSTWAR UNITY AND PRAISES U, S.

Stalin Toasts UN Postwar Collaboration   Warmly Praises British and US Contributions to Vietory: Emphasizes Ties Binding Russia to Allies

Stalin Lauds British-U.S. Part in War  Urges Postwar Cooperation

“Russia Couldn’t Have Done What She Has Done Without Aid Of Allies” _   POLES INVITED.

Stalin Praises Aid Of Allies  Harmony Prevails At Moscow Conferences

Allied Contributions To . Reds Lauded By Stalir   New Note Of Harmony Prevails At State Banque In Moscow Attended By Churchill, American Ambassador Harriman And Aides

Allied Aid. -[s Praised hy Stalin   New Note of Harmouy Sounded at Banquet; Churchill Visibly Moved   AMERICA’S HELP IS EMPHASIZED

Stalin Praises ‘Cooperation Of Allied Partners   Postwar Unity To Achiev: Peace Keynote Of State Banquet.

Allies Are Praised By Soviet Head   Post-War Collaboration Is Subject Of Toast During Banquet Lasting Three And Half Hours

Stalin Toasts Allied Combine   Soviet Leader Praises British, American Contribution to Victory at Dinner With Churchill; Urges Postwar Co-operation

Harmony In Talks At Moscow   Stalin Is Generous In Praise of AngloAmerican Aid; Toasts Postwar Collaboration

Parley Talks 7 Fuel Savings   Kentuckian Ts Chairman ofr       awe IF

ORDER SUSPENDS PRESS ACTIVITIES   News Gathering, Distribution Of UP in Argentina -- Shut Bown.

PLAN TO LIST ~ WAR PROFITS   TRUMAN COMMITTEE TO MAKE PUBLIC PROFITS OF 100  LARGEST WAE CONTRACTORS

Smash Pins Nazi Troops Along Coast   Some 100.000 Nazis Now Face Battle OF Annihilation.

RUSSIANS OPEN DRIVE ON LATVIA   Move In to Smash 400,000 Germans @n Baltic Coast

GERMANS PINNED AGAINST COAST OF BALTIC SEA   Soviets to South, Northeast of Burlapest, Cut Off Outpoats

REDS RESUME OFFENSIVE IN BALTIC, CLAIN   Drive To Wipe Out Thirty Nazi Divisions Pinned Along Coast

Soviets Swarming In For Annihilation Battle Against 400,000 Nazis

Annihilation Drive Perils Baltic Nazis   Muscovites Launch Major Offensive to Eliminate 400.000

400,000 German Troops Pinned At Baltic Coast   Other Soviet Forces _ Roll Up Enemy Flank Northeast of Budapest

NEW OFFENSE BY RED TROOPS      Treops, Tanis and Dive Bombers Swarming in Battle of Annihilation Against Germans Trapped in Western Latvia.

REDS SWARMINC AGAINST NAZIS IN BALTIC AREA      Other . Soviet_Forces. RoH Uy] Nazi Flank Near Budapest

Russians Open Drive For ‘Kall’ In West Latvia   Hope To Trap Nazis Along Coast; Budapest Outposts Are Isolated

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN FOR KILL ON 400,000 NAZIS TRAPPED IN BALTIC   OTHER SOVIET FORCES DRIVE TO ISOLATE BUDAPEST OUTPOSTS; NEW ATTACK REPORTED

REDS SWARM IN AGAINST NAZIS IN LATVIA ARFA   Nazis Report First of Great Winter Drives Expected on East Line

REBS PRESSING IN ON 400,000 TRAPPED NAZIS      Germans Pinned Against Baltic Coast in Latvia

Reds Begin To Annihilate Trapped Foe   Launch Drive to Erase German Forces in  Baltic Area

Last Chance Fades  United States May Break Relations with Finland

British Gain West Half Of Troarn   Enemy Armor Is Knocked Out In Counter-Blows.

British Second Army Drives Into Troarn in France   War in Normandy Is Slowed by Bad Weather Saturday

Al.ies Drive On Through  NormandyM ud   British Gain Control Of Troarn; Maltot And Etavaux Also Fall

MORE REACH BONDS QUOTA   Town of Ogden and Peoples Township Added To List of Those Which Go Over Top

New Fight Looms On War Ballot   Factions Maneuver To Control Conference

4 lo Take Pre- -Induction Examination      LOCAL BOARD ORDERED YO EXAMINE ALL YOUTHS UNDER 26

Allied Invasion Forces On Beachheads Below Rome Make Stab _ Inland.

Strongly Reinforced Al. lied Forces Push Deeper Inland.  NAZIS ORDERED TO HOLD AT ALL COST  62 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down in Northern Italy.

Allies Bomb  Rome Targets   Bombers Hit Key Nazi Rail Centers In Raids

HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST ROME IN THIRD BIG RAID   Nazis Give Up Anzio Attacks

BANDMAN SUED BY FILM ACTOR   Tommy Dorsey Hit Him With Bottle; Damages Of $40,000 Asked

LAW SUIT AFTERMATH OF HOLLYWOOD FIGHT   Actor Seeks $40,000 From Tommy Dorsey As Result Of Fisticufts Early Sunday Morning

Year 1943 First Summer In Fifteen Years Mercury Failed To Reach.100   Driest December Ever Chronicled At Weather Station

Christmas Travel Taxes F acilities   Civilians, Soldiers  Compete for Seats

U.S. Navy Now Largest In World And Still Growing   Has 1,167 Men of War To Carry Battle To Enemy; 61,045 Ships of ali Kinds.

American Navy’s 61,045 Ships Makes It Largest In The World; Now Boasts 1167 Men-Of-War

Largest Navy in World Numbers 61,045 Varied Ships   Includes 1,167 Men-of-War Ships, Said Still Growing

‘American Navy, Largest In World, ‘Has 1,167 Men-Of-War In The Battle

American Naval Review Reveals 1,167 Warships   Vessels Of All Types To: tal 61,045; Record Fleet  Still Growing.

United States Navy Now Has 1,167 Men-Of-War Ready  ALiohty Giriking Farce Shawn In Compilation   Mighty Striking Force Shown In Compilation Of Construction Since 1941; Is Still Growing

U.S. Has 1,167 Fighting Ships  420 Added During  Past Year, Navy Renort Reveals

UNITED STATES NAVY LARGEST IN THE WORLD   102 Carriers On High Seas; 309  Destroyers

Largest Navy In World Has 61,045 Ship:   Is Still Growing: 39 97] New Vessels Joined Ametr jon'e Fleet.   ay794 LITTLE SHIPS

U.S. Navy Largest In World   Has Over-All Total Of 61,045 Vessels, 1,167 of Them Menof-War: Still Growing

Greatest U. S. Fleet Now Numbers 61,045 Vessels Of All Types; 1,167 Men-of-War

WORLD'S GREATEST NAVY STILL GROWS   U. S. Has 1,167 Men-of-War with 420 of Them Built Just Last Year

1,167 Warships Make U. 5. Navy World's Largest  1 062 Fighting Ships’ Buile Since 1941

61,045 SHIPS IN U. §. FLEET   38,971 New Vessels Are  Added In Last   Year

U. S. Navy Now Ha: 1,167 Warships, Is Still Growing  Overall Fleet Total Now Has Risen To 61,045 Vessels

Mightie st Navy Expands Magic ally  [American Fleet Grows Ravana 61,000 Units

39,971 New Ships Join. Fleet During-Last: Year; Is Now World’s Largest

J. S. Navy, World’s Largest, Now Has 1,045 Ships--1,167 Are Men-Of-War

UNITED STATES NAVY  LARGEST IN WORLD  READY BATTLE ENEM} AMERICAN FLEET NOW CONSISTS OF 1167 FIG FIGHT  Wwe CuIbe

Stockholm Sotiree Says Germans May Quit Norway, Denmark Without Fight

YANKS WIPE OUT JAP RESISTANCE ON TINIAN ISL   Two Thousand Nips In Cave  And Beach Area of Marpo Point Being Cut to  Pieces.   WAY FOR CONQUEST OF GUAM IS PAVED   Ten Thousand Enemy Troops In Northern Part of Istand Heavily Bombed By Airmen.

MARINES END TINIAN ISLAND RESISTANCE   Mopping ‘Up Operations Continue, Communi-  aue Says

Fine Pacific Air Base : Secured By-Marines In 8-Day Offensive   INTENSE BOMBING OF GUAM UNDERWAY

STOLEN TOKYO OCEAN EMPIRE FALLS APART   TINIAN OPPOSITION WIPED OUT; GUAM CONQUEST NEAR

Marines Erase All Resistance On Tinian Island   Fast Moving Troops Wind Up Nine-day Operation, Nimitz Reports

Marines Smash Jap Resistance On Tinian Islanc   Carrier Planes Bomb — Estimated 10.000 Japs Facing Death on Guam

10,000 Japs on Guam Undergo Intense Bombing  MacArthur Expands Latest Beachhead On Dutch New Guinea

Krase All Organized Japanese Opposiiion; Only 600 Miles From the Philippines,   Marianas Crumble

Mone Se hecapture “uling A Fliers RB  yy Jap Hunan Suopiy 1 Line

Chinese Recapture Town; Yank Planes  Rip Japanese Lines  Nips May Withdraw From Positions at Hengyang, in Hunan

CHINESE TROOPS ~ CAPTURE LILING   AMERICAN AIRMEN BIVAST JAP SUPPLY LINES IN HUNAN. PROVINCE.

Chinese Win Back Liling  U. S. Airmen Pounding Japs’ Supply Lines

CHINESE RETAKE LILANG IN NEW ATTACK ON JAPS   Nipponese Reported Planning To Withdraw

Jap Supply Lines Blasted   Chinese Seize Liling Key to Railroad in Fierce Counter-Thrust

Filibuster a Possibility In Senate Against Rivers and Harbors Bill

May Never Give Up   Belief Is Growing That Formal Nazi Surrender ‘May Not Follow Victory Over Army

Nazis See Defeat But Fight on for Chance to Prepare for World War Ill

~ GOST UNCHANGED   September Cost Will Remain “at 16 Red Points . Per Pound

Butter To Stay At 16 Points   Increase Will Not Go Into Effect As Planned

Invasion Plans Advance As Spain Agrees to Cut Wolfram Shipments »To Nazis Down to Token Supplies

Spain To Cut Wolfram For Use Of Nazis   Allied-Designated Axis Agents Also To Be Expelled

U.8.AEaUM CS SHIPMENT Ot OIL TO SPAN   Franco in Return Will Cut Wolfram Exports to Germans.

Embargo on Oil To Spain Lifted   State Department Announces Compromise Agreement Whereby the Madrid Government Reduces Wolfram Shipments To Nazi Germany.   AXIS AGENTS MUST GO

SHIPMENTS OF WOLFRAM GU]   Germany to Get Virtual Token Supplies According To Compromise.

Shipments Of Wolfram For  Nazis Severed   United States Accepts Compromise At Insistence Of Deriich.   MAY SOON BE BLOCKED

Spain Slashing Wolfram Exports In Compromise   U. S. Agrees On Plan To Cut Nazi Shipments To Virtual Token Supplies

PLEDGES ONLY TOKEN FLOW OF MATERIALS   Nation Also Agrees to Expel Allied-Named Spies, Close a German Consulate and Free Five Italion Battleships.

SPAIN WILL CUT GOODS TO NAZIS   Wolfra m Shipments To Germany To Be Reduced To Token

Spain’ s Shipments ~ of Vital Wolfram  Into Germany Cut   United States, Great Britain Victorious in Economic Move

Agreement Is Reached With Spain   Pact Limits Sharply Exports of Wolfram To Reich; Interned  Italian Ships Freed

Madrid Signs Compromise Agreement With U.S., Britain; Consulates Closed

U. S., Spain Have Agreed   Compromise To: Cut Germany Assistance

Spain Cuts Nazi Drain On Ores   Agrees To Expel Axis Agents, Close German @Consulate In Tangiers

Spain Agrees To Slash  Shipments To Germans   " Compromise ‘Agreement Brings About:-Reduction Of Spanish Wolfram Shipnients. “AS - Well As  Other Concessions. --

Neutral Will Cut Wolfram Export, Free Italian Ships And Close Axis Consulate

Compromise Agreement ‘With Spair   Our State Dept. Accept ed Token Supply Program to Reich

SPAIN AGREES TO CUT EXPORTS OF ORE TO GERMANY   U. S. STATE DEPT. COMPROMISES ON WOLFRAM SHIPMENTS

Spain Yields To U. S. Terms   Cuts Shipments of Wolfram to Germany To Token Amount

WOLFRAM WILL BE REDUCED TO TOKEN SUPPLY   English-American Oil Ban to Spain Lifted; Old Quotas Allowed

onan peemneeerneeeeeeeneernRennEEEneieenemiieeniaeemennentiieminetmenememnennemeenenmeetieentnnatnanEiaeeannnnetiatettetaee  Spain To Cut Wolfram Shipments To Nazis; Lift Spanish Oil Embargo

Spain And U.S. In Compromise Trade Aqreemen  Export To Germany   Export To Germany Of Vital Wolfram Will Be Limited

SPANISH AGREE TO COMPROMISE   Spain Will Cut Wolfram Shipments To Germany To Practically Nothing; Other Points Agreed On.

in Cuts Shipment Of Aid To Foe   Compromise Agreement With Allies Trims Wolfram Being Sent To Germany

SPAIN YIELDS TO PRESSURE OF U.S., ENGLAND   Agrees to Reduce Supplies Sent to Nazis; Allies Lift Oil Embargo

U. S. Compromises With Spain  Over Nazi Traffic  Only Token Supplies Of Wolfram Are Ta Go to Germany

Snain Reduces & Nazi Shipments  To Token Total   Compromise Reachec  In Order To Get U. S. Oil; To Aijid  Invasion

SPAIN TO CUT NAZI SUPPLIES   Reduces Wolfram Shipments to 10‘: ; To Oust Nazi Spies

U. S. and Britain Reach Compromise Pact With Spain  Lift Oil Embargo in Exchange Reduced Exports fo Nazis, Fynelling Avic Agenic

Spanish Wolfram Shipments To Germany Cut To Token Quantity   Apparently Sensing Inevitable German Defeat, Spain Agrees To Clean Out Nazi Spies, Close Consulates And Release Italian Ships.

Spain Limits Wolfram Shipping To Nazis; london Interprets It.A Economic Blow To Axis

Shipments Of Wolfram ToBeReduced   Axis Agents to Be Ousted From Spain, Morrocco, Tangier

Ruling Given On Service Ballot.   All But Regulars Are Held Eliajhta

RAF Kneeks Down 15 Jap Planes dn  Fieht Qyer Burma   FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK

' Dunkerque In Reverse? (British Yacht Fleet Alerted .For Six Month Tour of Duty

BRITISH CALLING YACHTMEN’S NAVY   Fourth of Series of Quick Preparatory Moves By Enaland

Recalcitrant Canadian Draftees Are Moved Safely to Their Training Camr

British Flank Rocket Coast In Swift Dash   7th Drives Near Lyon  With Forces Narrowing Can tn 150 Milas

AMIENS, PUSH TOWARD COAST   Lyon in South France Near Capture by Patch’s Men

erlin Reports igantic Allied rive Imminent   Antwerp Is Being Cleared for Ships

Allies Make General Gains Against Nazis   German Broadcasts }   Continue To Predict   German Broadcasts Continue To Predict Grand U. S. Offensive  FLUSHING CAPTURED

Americans Advance In Reich as Nazis  Predict Major Push   Two-Mile Gain Reported Southeast of Aachen; Final Shots Being Fired in Clearing of Antwerp; Pressure Reported All Along 500-Mile Western Front

BERLIN PREDICTS. BIG ALLIED DRIVE WILL START SOOK   Germans Fall Back in West ern and Eastern Holland—:  —British and Canadians . Overrun Walcheren, —   AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY PUSHES 5 MILES   First Drives Through Pillbox:  es and Barbed Wire Entane : glements to Seize Village at Sehmint.

Germans Predict Grand American Offensive Soon  ENEMY [§ FALLING BACK IN HOLLAND Hundreds of Prisoners Taken by Allied Forces

TWO-MILE GAIN SCORED IN PUSH   Nazi Forces Falling Back Before Americans And British In East Holland

Germany waits new offensive   Pressure applied  alongs wholefront

Pressure On Nazis Mounts   Germans Fear Giant Offensive May Explode Any Time On Aachen Front

FOE FALLS BACK IN EAST HOLLANA   Nazis Say Yank Offensive Expected on Entire Front   PRESSURE GROWS   Final Shots Are Being Fired  _ To Clear Antwerp Port;  Vlissingen Falls

Final Shots Being Fired At Antwerp   United States Seventh And French Armies Also Grind Out New Goins in Offensives

Paramushiro in Northern Kuriles Is. Bomvbed for the Third Straight Day; ‘Nothing Left That Is Worth Defending’ Officials Re-. port After Admiralty Campaign

Americans Now  Control islands   ENTIRE ADMIRALTY AREA CAPTURED BY U. S. FORCES

Conquest Of Admiralty Islands Now Is Complete —  JAPS CUT OFF  Allies Edge Closer To Heart Of Nip  rf a), 2 wb as >

ALLIES CAPTURE ADMIRALTIES IN 21-DAY BATTLE   MacArthur’s Forces Now Hold Base 1,300 Miles from Philippine Islands

Allies Now Hold Two More Airdromes and Massive Harbor For Stab at Truk—Enemy Troops Face Starvation   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

TWO AIRFIELDS AND PORT ON ISLAND TAKEN   Vanquished Enemy Troops Now Fecing Starvation Or Ultimate Destruction by Americans

Admiralty Island Conquest At End, MacArthur Avers   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ (Associated Press Editor)

ADMIRALTY AREA HELD BY YANKS   Gain Two Airdromes, Massive Harbor In 21-Day Fight

Allied Forces Take Lorenqau   MacArthur Announces Principal Base in Admiraltys Falls

Allies Complete Conquest Of Admiralty Islands; New Harbor, Airdromes Gained

Fall of Lorengau Ends Conquest of The Admiralties   Allies Now Hold Two New Airdromes and ‘Harbor 1,300 Miles - From the Philippines

ALLIES FINISH CONQUEST OF ADMIRALTIES   Now Hold Two Airdromes 800 Miles From Truk, and Massive Harbor Believed Adequate for Entire TJ. S. Fleet.

ADMIRALTY ISLANDS NOW HELD BY U.S.   Battle Which Began 21 Days Ago Is Over and Allies Now Have Big Harbor and Two Big Air fields

ADMIRALTIES AIRDROMES, HARBOR SECURE   Conquest Leaves Few Japs With Nothing 10 Defend — Truk, 800 Miles Away, Menaced   PARAMUSHIRO HIT   Major Balile Apparently Shaping Up in Burma as Japs Cross Chin. dwin in Flanking Maneuver

ADMIRALTY ISLANDS CONQUEST COMPLETE IN TWENTY-ONE DAYS  TWO NEW AIRDROMES AND MASSIVE HARBOR CLOSER TO PHILIPPINES

Admiralty Island Conquest Finished Within 21 Days   Biggest Battle in Two Years Coming Soon’ in Burma

U.S. REPORTS CONQUEST OF ADMIRALTIES   Main Jap Base At Lorengan Captured; Foes Still On Island Face Death

ALLIES FINISH CONQUEST OF AOMIRALTIES   u 3. Now Has: Bases 800 antes trom Truk and  300 Miles from Philippines.

Admiralty Isles An Allied Hands   Airdromes And Harbor Taken From Japs

ALLIES COMPLETE  CONQUEST OF ADMIRALTY GROUP   Attained Just 21 Days After lt Was Begun—Yanks Hold Big Harbor and Lorenau Airstrip and Town

C onquest of Admiralties C ompleted; i os at Truk, Wewak Are Menaced

Yanks on Top In Admiralty Isles   Contest for Key Group Is Over After 21 Days, _ MacArthur States   PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS   U. S. Conquest Nets Two New Airdromes and a _ Massive Harbor

FINISH CAPTURE OF ADMIRALTIES   Allies Hold Two New Aijrdromes And Big Harbor Nearer Truk

END CONQUEST OF ADMIRALTIES   ‘Allies Hold Two New Air dromes and Massive  Harbor

State Labor ‘Head Denied Session Seat   Sioux City was awarded the 1945 convention of the lowa federation of labor.

If You Have Been Married Seventy-Five Years You Will Get A Pres ant.

Cherbourg Trap West of Carentan  Is Nearly Closed  Russians Take 17 More Finnish Points; Italy Drive Goes On

CAPTURE WOULD SEVER PENINSULA   American Invaders Push Inland 1: Miles in 10 Days of Fighting With Cherbourg As Goal

HERBERT IS UNCERTAIN GN RE-COUNT   Official Returns From Primary Show Mayor Stewart Nominated: Several Counties Questioned.

HERBERT SCANS FRANKLIN VOTE   Official Returns Give Stewart Margin Of 2,372

Tremendous Aerial  Blows Lash Nazis   1,500 'U. S. Heavies Spearheaded Daylight Aceqults And RAE Tales Over At Night   Qver 1,200 Warshins Tuke  pea  PartIn Western Invasion

Tremendous Aerial  Blows Lash Nazis   1,500 U.S. Heavies Spearheaded Daylight Assaults And RAF Takes Over At Night   Over 1,300 Warships Take Part In Western Invaston

Three Thousand Planes in Raids   Variety of Targets Over Europe Struck By Allied Bombs

U. S. Heavies  Out In Force Freidrichshafen Hard Hit: Bavaria Raided

3,000 Allied Planes Attack   Smash at German Military Points From Britain and Italy

AERIAL ASSAULTS  COORDINATED TO HIT MANY TARGETS   Militecy Targets in Germary, “France; JNorth: Ftaly Pound: ed by 3,000 U. 5S. and British Planes Based in England and ltalv

INDUS Nas a ies a tae  Many Places Raided By Heavy Forces of Allied Warplanes

AMERICAN HEAVIES STRIKE FROM BASES IN ITALY, ENGLAND   BERLIN REPORTS ATTACKS BOTH IN SOUTH AND WEST ON THURSDAY

Yanks Corne Saipan Japs   Garapan Fiery Wreck; Marines, Troops ‘Put Squeeze’ on 10,000

NIPPONESE GET SAIPAN SQUEEZE   Capital City Of Garapan Razed; Marines Hold Ridge Positions

Final Battle for Strategic Island of Marianas Seems Near at Hand—Enemy Force Estimated to Number, 10,000 Men —Capital of Garapan Reported in Ruins With Yanks Probing Rubble for Isolated Nipponese Units.

TRIBUTE PAID PATTON FOR FLANK ATTACK   London Paper Says It Takes Quicl _Thruster Like General to Show ; Way to Berlin.

RARE OLD BOOKS AND PAPERS, _ KEPT AT DENISON UNIVERSITY TWO YEARS, BACK IN CAPITAL

WALES STRIKE NOT SETTLED   WALKOUT OF 100,000 COAL NIN ERS.PRESENTS PRODUC:  TION PROBLEM

Carrier Planes Blast At Japs In Philippines   Manila Radio Reports Air Assaults On Capital And Nearby Airdromes.

Raids Are Announced  By Nimitz. Unoposed Landing Meade Te Parnliccnn

Jap Victory Claim Meets Bomb Shower   Americans Have No Intention of Ending Acecanlt an Iclands

Japan’s Anti-Invasion Defenses In Philippines Weakening, -Great Air-Sea Offensive In 10th Day

U.S. Atfacks Confinue on Philippines   Americans Answer Japanese Boasts With Bombs; Troops Land ir Western Carolines

KEEP UP UP RAIDS ON PHILIFPINES   American Troops Overrun New Atoll Between Guam. Palaus

Capital Hit By Three Waves Today, Other Aircraft Raid Nearby Clark Field And Legaspi In  ™ Southam Luzon   SIXTEEN PLANES ARE DOWN, THREE DAMAGET

Tokyo Claims Answered By More Raids   Fighter Planes Hit Japanese Convoy Of Trucks And Cars

CARRIER FORCE STILL POUNDING INVASION ROUTE   Tokyo Reports Growing Menace of Philippines Invasion

Planes Still Attacking. Philippines   Nimitz Also Reveals Landings On Ulithi Atoll in Western Caroline Islands

Carrier Planes Continue To Hit Philippines Unhampered By Japan's Frightened Navy   Relentless Air Blows Is Nimitz’ Answer To Nip Boasts Of Maior Victories

Biggest U.S. Drive Of Pacific War Goes Into Its Tenth Straight Day

Airmen Still Hit Philippines   Tokyo Tones Down Reports Of Action Off Formosa And Invasion Delay

GREAT AIR-SEA PACIFIC BATTLE IN TENTH DAY   Manila Hit, Tokyo Says

U. S. Planes Continue Steady Raids   Most of Philippines Being Covered By American Fliers

Jap Naval Base On Ulithi Atoll Taken By U.S.   Admiral Nimitz Reveals Western Carolines Invaded Without Any . Jap Opposition   MANILA AREA HARD HIT BY AIR FORCE   Americans Have No Lutention of Breaking Off Pre-Invasion Drive On Jap Areus

Yanks Again Rain Bombs  Upon Japs   Carrier Aircraft Keep Up Attacks On Philippines

TOKYO IS ON GUARD AGAINST U.S. LANDING   Greatest American Air and Sea Offensive of Pacific In Its Tenth Day:

THREE WAVES OF PLANES HIT CAPITAL, CLAIM   Great Sea-Air Offensive In Philippines Area Enters 10th Day

NAVY FLIERS BLAST NIPS IN PHILIPPINES   Record American Air-Sea Offensive Enters 10th Day

Pacific Fleet Busy Near Japan   U. S. TASK FORCE IS TOO STRONG FOR NIPPON

VIOLENT BATTLE CONTINUING FOR THE PHILIPPINES   Carricr Planes Batter Objective As Japs Tone Down ‘Victory’ Claims

Troops of 81st Division Landed Unopposed in the Western Carolines

Greatest Pacific Sea-Air Battle Moves Into Tenth Day   NOT ONE AMERICAN SHIP HAS BEEN LOST  Japanese Guarding a e ‘Z i FP ARS Men. PGSeneine Sinema

Others In Raids On  So. Luzon   GREATEST AIR-SEA OFFENSIVE OF PACIFIC WAR ENTERS TENTH DAY

Carrier-Based Yank Planes ¥ At Philipp...   Jap Radio Asserts 80 Aircraft Have Struck At Manila

U. 5. Offensive in Pacific War in Tenth Day   Japan's Weakening Defenses in Philippines Hit

Big Pacific Offensive In 10th Day   Halsey’s Fleet Continues At. tack on Objectives in  Philippines

Luzon Raided, Tos. Jap Radio Reveals   Nimitz Announces 10th Day Of Sea-Air Blows

Carrier Planes Continue Attack On Philippines   Nimitz Indicates No Intention Of Ending Fleet Raids, Tells Of Landina On Ulithi Aioll

Three Waves ‘Of Bombers Blast Manila   i, S. Carries Air-Sea Offensive Of Pacifie War Into LOth Day

Japs Say Manila Bombed   American Landing In Philippines Soon Is Forecast

AMERICAN UNITS. ATTACKING VITAL OBJECTIVES: ANOTHER — GOOD NAVAL BASE CAPTURED

Soviet Troops Hit New Nazi Defense: South of Prussia   Grajewo and Lyck Communication Hubs Threatened

SOVIETS HURL BiG SMASH AT EAST PRUSSIA   Reds Win Bridgehead Over Biebrza River, Hit Two Miles From Border

RUSSIANS DRIVE.” TO FRONTIERS OF EASTERN PRUSSI   Attack Nazi Entrenchments - In Front of Grajewox, Two - Miles. From Border. Néar ’ Masurian Lekes, °°   MOSCOW ANNOUNCES © _ CAPTURE OF OSOWIEC   Allied Bombers Have Neutralized Jap Base at Haimahera — Enemy Retreats  - Along: Tiddim Road

Reds Clearing A Pathway To  East Prussia   Win Bridgehead Across Biebrza River; Menace  Graiewo And Lvck.

Soviets Penetrate Within . Two Miles of Prussian Land   Win Bridgehead  Across Bierbrza River After Furious Fighting

Russ Span Biebrza, Hanmer At Enemy Line   Report Red Army Within Two Miles Of Prussian Border: Near Graiewo, Lyek

Reds Are 2 Miles From E. Prussia   Bridgehead Across Biebrza River Expands Toward Border

SOVIETS WIN BRIDGEHEAD OVER BIEBRZA   Freshly Dug German Entrenchments in Front of Grajewo Attacked By Reds

Reds Seize. __ Strategic Rail Center _   Thrust Bridgehead  Over Biebrza_ River

Russians Crack German Forts Around Osoweic   New Menace to the German  Province of East Prussia

"RUSSIANS WIN BRIDGEHEAD ON PRUSSIAN LINE   Only Two Miles From Border; Cross River

RUSSIANS SHELL GRAJEWO, LYCK GATEWAYS FOR EAST PRUSSIA PUSH   GERMAN OSOWIEC FORTS CRACKED AS SOVIET FORCES WIN BIEBRZA RIVER BRIDGEHEAD

Russians Clear Path Leading To  East Prussia   Bridgehead Across Biebrza River, Last Natural Obctacle.” Won.

Reds Attack With New Fury Against Nazis   German Entrenchments to South of East Prussian Border Are Being Hit by Russian Armies.

Russ Attack 2 Miles From East Prussia   Thundering Bombard. ment From Air Supports New Assault   BRIDGEHEAD IS WON   Soviets Cross  Biebraa, Smother Series of Nazi Counterattacks

Russians Win Bridgehead Across Biebrza   Attack Freshly Dug Trenches Near East Prussia

Soviets Attack Grajewo After Taking Osowiec, Crossing Biebrza- River

Second Whife Russian Army Hits Graiewo   General Zakharov Throws Full Might Against Nazis Below Masusrian Lakes

Soviets Attack New Defenses   Full Might Thrown Against East Prussian Frontier Line

NAZIS GET NO AEST ON AUSS “BATTLE FRONT   Red Forces Attacking Freshly Dug Trenches 2 Miles ‘from Prussia.

REDS ASSAULT PRUSSIAN LINE   2nd White Russian Army Throws Might Against  Crumpling Nazis

Soviet Forces Smash Forward  Attack Grajewo, Two Miles of East Prussia

“SOVIETS BATTER _ GERMANS’ EAST PRUSSIAN LINES   Enemy Defenses Struck by @ Mighty Forces Two Miles Below Border

REDS: SMASH AT SAMA HEN FRONTIER LINE   Attack I,aunched 2 Miles South lof East Prussian Border

—RUSSIA—  RUSSIANS CROSS. BIEBRZA RIVE   Reds Surmount Last Major Natural Obstacle To East Prussia   TWO'MILES AWAY   German Defenses Near . Frontier Are Hammered By Soviets

Soviets Win Bridgehead On Biebrza   River Was Last Majer Obstacle or Road to Lyck  In East Prussia

Drive Launched On East Prussia   Bridgehead Won by Russian Army Across Biebrza River Says Report

Russians in Two Miles of East Prussia   Reds Win Bridgehead Across Biebrza River. After Cracking German Steel and Con crete Forts Near Osowiec

Reds Open Offensive After Securing Bridgehead Across Diebrza   Air Bombardment Supports Drive   SovietsContinue ToSqueeze Defenses Of Warsaw, West Of Vistula

SOVIETS ATTACK 2 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Blast Nazi Lines in Front o Grajewo; Reds Cross Biebrza River

Reds Take © Osoweic and Hit Grajewo   Zakharov Cuts In Behind Germans Tied Up In Suwalki Triangle by Cherniakovsky

Attacking Freshly Dug Nazi Entrenchiments In Front Of Grajewo, Beyond Biebrza’ River   BridgeheadGained  In Bitter Battle   Waters Running Dark Red With Germans’ Blood; Air Bombardment Supporting Drive

Reds Win Beachhead Across Biebrza River, Smash Ahead Through Nazi Fortified Zone   Moving Toward East Prussia Over Land Littered With Wrecked Army Equipment

Russians Cross Biebrza River Near East Prussia   Moscow’s Victory Guns Boom First Time In Nearly a Week For Capture of Osowiec

SOVIETS BEGIN DRIVE 2 MILES FROM PRUSSIA   Crack Strong Forts in Osowiec Area, Cross Biebrza River

Russians Assaulting New German  Prussian Defenses  River Bridgehead Won Across Biebrza; Heavy Blow Sprung

WATERS OF BIEBRZA RAN DARK WITH ENEMY BLOOD AS RED ARMY PLUNGES ON   Not Only Grajewo But Lyck in East Prussia Was Menaced by Two Russian Army Groups; This May Force Germans to Withdraw from East  Dauseanitn

RUSSIANS. PUSH TOWARD KRACGW   _Two-Pronged Advaiice ‘Crosses Vistula River” -South of Warsaw -°~

SILESIA PUSH. S UNLEASHED BY RED ARMY   GERMAN. BALTIO COMMANDER ' GOES OVER TO RUSSIANS— _ EAST PRUSSIA IN . PANIC

RUSSIANS PLS TOWARD RPECOW   Two-Pronged Advance ‘Crosses Vistula River South of Warsaw

Russian Forces Drive Forward Toward Kracoy   Assault Developing On City Guarding Approaches To German Silesia   REPORT RUSSIANS NEAR EAST PRUSSIA

SOVIETS CROSS” VISTULA, PRESS eKRACOW DRIVE   Former Capital of Poland @ Objective in Thrust Toward Silesia

Heaviest Assault Ye! Delivered Against Single Point In Thie Arag

MITI DROME RAIDED BY LARGE FORCE   In Most Concentrated Assault Yet Delivered Against Any Single; Planes Destroyed.   Sink Freighter

DEWEY CHARGE ON WORLD RULE . DENIED BY HULI   Says No Military Alliance to Coerce Small Powers Contempiated

DEWEY ASSAILS DOMINATION BY FOUR POWERS   Statement Praised by G. O. P., Ridiculed by Democrats

DEWEY HITS. , FO POWER, ~ PEACE SETUF   HULL MAKES REPLY TO CANDIDATE’S STATEMENT ON, INTERNATIONAL POSTWAR PEACE PROGRAM’

TO ASK LANDS BACK   Vice-Premier Says Japan Must Return All of Cenquests.

lasi, Romanian Industrial City, Falls fo Reds   Russians Advance 38 Miles, Take 200 Towns in New Drive

Advance 38 Miles On 75: Mile Front In New Offensive In Northern Romania

[ASI CAPTURED FROM GERMANS BY RED TROOPS   Unofficial Reports State Russians Have Entered  East Prussia   'COUNTER- ATTACKS BY NAZIS CONTINUING

MOSCOW SILENT ON GERMAN REPORT OF FULL-SCALE DRIVE-IN THE BALTIC REGION

BRITISH GET 38 U.S, CARRIERS   Knox Reveals Delivery 01 Escort Vessels

38 U.S.-Built Escort Ships Are Delivered   Sent Into British Service Under Terms Of Lend-Lease

Britain Given Escort Carriers   Knox Discloses 38 Will Become Part Of Antiih Fleet.

Britain Gets 38 Escort Carriers Thru Lend-Lease   Escort Carriers Most Potent Weapon Against The German U-Boats.

BABY FLAT-TOPS SENT TO BRITAIN TO FIGHT SUBS   Political Activity Shares Capital Interest With Many Other Questions

Bombers Test War Strength Of Germans   Entire German Front in South Russia Crumbling Under Red Thrusts

GERMAN LINES CRUMBLING IN SOUTH RUSSIA   Lull Continues in Italy; May Act to Protect Invasion Movements in Eire

Red Drives Matcher With Terrible Blows From Air   Yugoslavia Grows In Importance for Defeat of Hitler

BOARD ORDERS PHONE STRIKE TERMINATED   Declares Tieup in 27 ohid Cities Is “Threat to Effective Pros- — _ ecution of War.”

END OF TELEPHONE STRIKE IS ORDEREL   War Labor Board Demands Tha‘ Walkout Terminate Today Or Officials To Explain Why

Russians Ring Budapest, Spring Trap   Fight to City Limits To Cut Off Last  Rail Escape Route

RUSS FINISH ~ENCIRCLEMENT ~ OF BUDAPEST   Surrender or Death Decision Faces  Hun Garrison

Battle for Budapest Nears Climax   Reds Threaten Nazis With Death, Surrender

Nazi Forces Facing Trap In Budapest   Encirclement About Achieved by Soviets

Climax Nears In Struggle For Budapest   Gerrnan Escape Corridor Cut To Less Than 9 Miles

PLANE IS INCREASED   8.800 Turned Out In Decem ber; Other Production Good

MORE THAN 8800 PLANES IN DEC.   Production Exceeds That of November

More Than ayn Planes Procuuced During December   Country Falls Slightly Short OF ONND Goal

Encirclement Of La Haye-Du Puits Almost Completed; British Find Caen Dock Area Deserted— Withdraws] Saen   TROOPS MAKING GOOD PROGRESS

Seize Widening Bridgehead On West Bank Of Vire River  TWO AND HALF MILES NARROWING GAP TO  Complete Encirclement Of La Haye-DuPuits Has Been Accomplished

AMERICANS OPEN DRIVE IN FRANCE   New Offensive Is Launched North of St. Lo

New Offensive _ Launched Along Normandy-Front   Storm Across Viro  River For Advances of More Than Mile

Troops Storm Across Vire, Capture Aire!   Yanks Aim New Smash at St. Jean-De Daye, Forces Close Pincers on La Haye-Du Puits; British Forces Smash Into Caen Dock Area

More Than Half of Wisconsin ls Covered; Transportation Disrupted.

Half Of State Is Covered By Pall Of Fee   ‘Series OF Accidente In Milwaukee County Is Attributed To Lack Of   Visibility

World Day Of  Prayer Friday  Women Of Various Churches In Charge

COLORFUL PARADE MARKS OPENING OF LEGION CONVENTION   Overseas Vet Revives Issue Of Military Training

JAPS PULLING OUT OF BURMA   Using Troops Withdrawn to Strengthen Armies Fighting in China.

Calif. Voters Give Downey Strong Support   Republican Leader Edge Of New Jersey Shows  Leadership Strength iy PE NITED Pritwe

TELLING BLOW IS DELIVERED CLOSE TO TOKYO   Cruiser And Five Other Craft Left In Flames; 30 More Vessels Damaged   AMERICANS ADVANCE TWO MILES ON GUAM

AMERICANS RAID BONIN, KAZAN ISLES   UN. §. Carrier Forces  Sweep Within Six Hun dred Miles Of Tokyo In Daring Attack

Jap Convoy Is ‘Wiped Out By  Carrier Forces   ‘Naval Guns and. Bombs Sweep to Within 600 Miles of Tokyo—Eleven Warships and Merchant. Vessels Sent to Bottom

SALE OF BONDS FOR DAY TOPS HALF-MILLION   Blair County Subscribes $4,446,911, or 68 Per Cent of Its Quota.

COUNTY MAKES SLIGHT GAIN IN BOND SALES   Chairman Appeals for Attendance at Bond Rally Wednesday Evening.

ULL FOLLOWS RECORD DAY OF BOND CAMPAIGN   Individual Sales In County, However, Reported Highest In State.

ALSTATE SELECT BS MAN TO COME .6 FOR DEDICATION   COUNTY'S TOTAL‘ OF BOND SALES } IS $3,749,546

COUNTY PASSES MILLION MARK IN BOND SALES   Employes of Sylvania Plant Subscribe $18,907 of Their Quota.

The War Today  Forecasting Outcome Like. Counting Chickens Before Hatched,

The War Today   W eakening of Nazi Resistance a a, ne: . se ar. a.

GENERAL WEAKENING OF RESISTANCE BY NAZIS SEEN IN EASY LANDING ON NEWEST ALLIED SEABORNE FORCES   ~ Smartness and Luck Also Played Big Part in Latest Move to Outflank Germans. Fall of ’ Rome Will Greatly Enhance Allied Prestige

21 Will Enter Training Oct. 2]   From Board 1 Area: Register Seventeen 18-Year- Olds

Five Million Dollar Quota Set Here for Fifth War Loan   Goal for Individual Investors Placed ° at $2,650,000; Retailers, Labor, Blockleaders Onen Camopugicn on June 12

Five Million Dollar Quota Set Here for Fifth War Loan  _ Goal for Individual Investors Placed °   Goal for Individual Investors Placed * at $2,650,000; Retailers, Labor, Blockleaders Open Campaign on June 12

KIRK COMMANDS NAVY. IN FRANCE   D-Day Task Force Chiet Gets New Assignment

Admiral Kurk Leading F lect   Commands U.S. Naval  Forces Off France

Attempt of Japs to Land Reinforcements on Leyte Island Smashed by Yanks

Apparently Attempting To Land Reinforcements; Ten Barzes Also Bombed

DEATH STAND FOR JAPANESE NEAR LIMA   Heavy Pressure ¢ ‘ontinues Against Nip First Division at Northern End of Ormoc Corridor.   Supplied By Air

Reinforcement Ships Sunk By  Ameriean Navy   Four Jap Troop-Laden Freighters, Others Damaged in Attack in Vicinity of Ormoc

The War Today Splitting Germany Into Small Parts May Stop Post-War Crisis

Many Would Like To See Germany Split Up After Wat Poland Wants Part of Territory

The War Today ———  Russia Won’t Return Land to Poland  eets wueiasiewPr 0acaArwoeraivic

POST-WAR EXPANSION POLAND WESTWARD AT GERMAN EXPENSE URGED BY POLISH NEWSPAPER

The War Today  Poles Warned That Russia Will Not Give Up Thisnuted Territory.

The War Today   Moscow Paper Proposes Poland Expand Westward Into Reich

Poles May Get Part Of Germany   Nazis May Have To Pay For Starting War

UNITY PLEDGE OF STALIN IS ENCOURAGING      Diplomats in Moscow Consider It Most Healthy Declaration Since Teheran—Premier Rules Out Separate Peace.

YANKS LUNGE DEEPER INTO LEYTE ISLAND   Fall Of Two Japanese Airfields Imminent; ' Greatest Armada   Japs In Panic

Japs Fled in One Sector   Ran From Positions As First Cavalry Division Went in

Yank Troops Gain North Of Grenoble   Race Forward on. Rood: Already Cleared Of ‘ Foe By French ‘Patriots

Resistance. In. S, France Still Licht —   Yank Surge Northward - Carries Past Grenoble, French Clear Roads  CLOSER TO-RHINE

ALLIES WITHIN 120 MILES OF GERMAN RHINE   ADVANCES ACROSS FRANCE TO BE LINKED SOON

SWIFT YANK ADVANCE REACHES SWISS LINE   Americans Little More Than 12 Miles From Rhine Border  Of Germany   Bec JAVFS UI FON

DRIVE NORTH OF GRENOBLE   Seventh Army Forces Said To Have Advanced 70 Miles Beyond City

Troops Move Beyond Grenoble Over Cleared» Roads  :  SWISS” BORDER Is REPORTED REACHED  Work of Repairing MarseillesHarbor Is Started»

7th Reported 120 — Miles from Rhine   Marseille Being Cleared Tanlan’a Fall Nesr

Bury Nav 'y Secretary  With Nation’s Heroes   Frank Knox Is Buried on Cedar-Bordered Slope in Arlington Overlooking National Capital—Churchill Expresses Condolences

TRIBUTE PAID TO SECRETARY OF NAVY KNOX   MILITARY BURIAL TAKES PLACE AT ARLINGTON

KNOX’ FUNERAL HELD IN CAPITAL   BARE-HEADED THRONG LINES TWO MILES OF STREETS AS CORTEGE PASSES.

Sec. Knox Buried In  Arlington Cemeter  Great Throng At Rites   Capital

FUNERAL RITES ARE CONDUCTED FOR SECRETAR’   Late Head Of Navy Depart ment Is Laid To Rest In Arlington   AMERICAN, BRITISH NAVIES PAY TRIBUTE

Yanks Lash Reich, France, After RAF Drops 4480 Tons On Dortmund, Brunswick

States Split Widely on Soldier Vote  Poil Draws Two Assurances of U.S. Ballot Use

South To Back Party Ticket, SaysSpa rks   Governor Predicts Insur gent Movement Will Collapse

DEWEY TO GET ~ FULL.SUPPORT   REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS OF 2% STATES WORKING WITH CAN-: - . DIDATE TOWARD BOLID FRONT.

(. 0. P. Governors Work Out Plans To Elect Dewey   Governors Of 26 States In Conference On Campaign At St. Louis, Mo.   MANY GOVERNORS WILL GIVE VIEWS

GOVERNORS 10 TAKE STUMP IN AID OF DEWEY   Chiefs of 26 States Asked to Do Their Bit in Battle

Japs Report New Front in Drive To Sever China   Saipan Island Has Settled Into Slow, Bitter Struggle

Near Climax AtHengyang   Flaming Battle Rages For Control of City; Japs Capture Lishui

Tokyo Reports Lishui Seized In New Assault  Hengyang Struggle At Climax; Yankee: Moving Cautiously

‘Japan Claims Lishui Overpowered; Saipan Campaign  Ts Slow, Bitter Struggle

REPORT BATTLE NEARS GLINAX   China Campaign Moves to Showdown; Saipan Battie A Bitter One.   THREAT TO ALLIED PLANS

Tokyo Claims Another Chinese City   Americans Dig Out Enemy Troops On Saipan Island

Tokyo Reports Battle For Hengyang at Climax Claims New City Taken

Hengyang Battle ee hes ( limax   Tokyo Claims Capture Of Another Important City on China Coast

Flaming Battle For Hengyang _-Reaches Climax   Tokyo Also Claims Lishui Is Taken From Allies; Bitter’ Fight At Saipan

FLAMING BATTLE FOR HENGYANG NEARS CLIMAX AND ANOTHER VITAL CHINA COAST CITY OVERPOWERED   Japs Claim New Gains Which If True May Serv To Hamper American Air Attacks on Nips. Ba‘ tle for Saipan Being Bitterly Fought —

Jans Claim Chuchow Reduced   Important U. ‘ And Chinese Base Taken, Tokyo Says

Japs Claim 2nd U.S. Air  Base In China   Enemy Says Field 60 Miles From Coast Is Taken; Saipan War Rages

Chinese Campaign Nears Climax With  Japanese Success   Americans Struggle To Gain Control Of Saipan

—_—— —— cement . enna  China Campaign With Threat fo Air ‘Plan Near Showdown

JAPS ATTEMPT TO KEEP ALLIES FROM AIRFIELD  Pagan Airport K nocked-_Onit   Pagan Airport Knocked-Out  By Americans

Japanese Claim Vital Gains In China Fighting   Tokyo Says Important City And Air Base Captured

HENGYANG FIGHT NEARS CLIMAX   Chinese Campaign Moves tc Showdown as Japs Claim Coastal City

JAPS REPORT DRIVE NEAR CHINA COAST   Claim Battle For Hengyang At Climax; Claim Victories

U.S. GOVERNEMENT ‘WILL WAIT AND SEE      Not Prepared Y Yet To Ex: pect: Too Much Of. Argentina <.-

“Wait And See’ Policy Of U. S.   ARGENTINA DECISION ON AXIS TO BE WATCHED

Argentina Severs Axis Relations   Last of American Republics to Denounce Nazi- Japan Aggressions.

U.S. Awaits Argentina’s Next Moves   Wants To See What Orders Will Come With Rupture

Wait And See Attitude Is Taken By U.S.   Government Officials Are Silent; Await Comnlete Orders.

THREE NATIONS GIVE ULTIMATUM TO AXIS GROUP   Must Decide Now About Quitting Present Fight ~

U. S., Britain and Russia Issue Virtual Ultimatum To Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland   No Promise Of  Easy Treatment   Told Every Day They Re  main Partners of Hitler  Brings “More Disas. © trous” Cousequenees

Abandon Nazis Now or Suffer Penalty, Allies Warn Satellites   Ultimatum to Finland. ~ Bulgaria, Hungary and  ) Romania   Text of Declaration

Decide Now On Course, Allies Say   Warning Goes To Peoples of Romania, Bulgaria Finland, Hungary

THEIR WORDS AR VIRTUAL » ULTIMATUN   Joint U. 8. -British-Soviet  Appeal Made Directly to People of Hungary, . Romania, Bulgaria: and ' ‘WMnland.

Britain, U. S. and Russia Promise No Easy Terms; Warn of Penalty of Continuing

Allied Ultimatum To Axis Satellites   Help Now or Go Down to Defeat Is Three-Power Demand

Ultimatum Given Axis Satellites  Rie Three Tell   Big Three Tell Nations to Quit or Fall With Germany

Axis Satellites Given Ultimatum   Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland Warned to Break Loose from Berlin

‘Warned To Leave Nazi Camp   Addressed to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland; “Yet Time” to Aid in Allied Victory

FOUR NATIONS TOLD 10 QUIT WAR, OR ELSE   Edict Sent To Hungary Romania, Bulgaria  And Finland

Must Decide Now If They WillGo Dow: To Defeat   Given Hint Of Easier Peace Terms If They Turn On Nazis Now; Pointed Declaration

Ally Ultimatum Is Handed Four Axis Satellites   Hungary, Romania Finns And Bulgariz Told To Get Out O: War Or Else

Satellites of Axis Told to Get Out Now   U,S., Britain and Russia Issue ‘Virtual U)unisiuin’?

Axis Satellites Told By Allies: Make Peace Now   U. S., Britain And Russia Join In Edict To Hitler Allies

THREE-POWER NOTE DEMANDS DECISION NOW   Still Time to Help ir Nazi Defeat, Says Declaration

Issued to Four Axis Satellites      Told They Must Decide Now Whether They Intend to Go Down to Utter Defeat With Germany

THREE POWERS DEMAND GREAK WITH GERMANY   U. S., Britain, Russia Join in Ultimatum to Helpers of Adolf Hitler.

Ultimatum To 4 Axis Satellites   People Must Decide Now Whether to’ Stick With Hitler, ‘Big 3’ Warns.

Ultimatum To Satellites   Big Three Tell Four Small Nations To Decide Now to Quit Germans, or Else

“NATIONS TOLD _ BY ‘BIG THREE TO QUIT HITLEI   Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland Named by U. S., Allies in Ultimatum

NAZI SATELLITES WARNED TO GET OUT OF WAR NOW   Balkan Countries Are Told To Desert Axis or Suffer Consequences

Allies Issue Virtual Ultimatum To Hunearv. Romania. Bulearia. Finland

Four Nations Are Told To Quit War   Main Axis Satellites Get Ultimatum From Allied Powers

CISION PUT TO SATELLITES   es Address Hungary, ymania, Bulgaria And Finland

‘Big Three Says Time is Short   Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria And Finland Warned.

ULTIMATUNIS DELIVERED 10 FOUR NATIONS   Axis Satellites Asked if They Intend To Go Down in Utter Defeat   STILL IS TIME TO AID IN ALLIED VICTORIES

Allies Give Final Chance to Satellites   Ultimatum Served on Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland

Further Resistance Will Bring Forth  Rigorous Penalties   U.S., Britain and Russia Give Ultimatum to Nazi Helpers

AXIS SATELLITES TOLD ‘GET OFF NAZI WAGON”   U. S.,RUSSIA, BRITAIN ISSUE ULTIMATUM WARNING NATIONS TO CEASE COLLABORATION

Big Three Deliver Virtual Ultimatum To Axis Satellites  Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria an Finland Advised There Is Yc

ASK FOUR NATIONS TOFIGHT GERMANS   Radio Message Informs ' Them They Are Able to Help Shorten War.

Allies Tell Four Axis Followers  There Is Yet Time To Avoid Defeat

FOUR NATIONS WARNED THEY FACE DEFEAT   Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland Invited to Throw Whole Weight Against Nazis   ‘TEXT OF DECLARATION

ALLIED WARNING SOESTO FOUR   Must Decide Now Whether They Will Face De feat Or Quit Nazis   JOINT STATEMENT   U.S., Britain And Russia  Join In Announcing Their Decision

Must Decide At Once On War Stand   Allies Make No Promise of Easy Treatment to Fow Nations ;

Four Nations Told Longer Wait Will Mean Hard Terms   U.S., Great Britain, Russia Present Four-Point Ultimatum To Finland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria As Enemy’s Cohorts

A SATELLITES GIVEN WARNING   Must Decide Now If They Intend to Go to Defeat With Germany.

AXIS NATIONS GET WARNING   Allies Tell Hungary. Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland To Quit Hitler

Allies Send Ultimatum To Four Axis Satellites To Get Out of War Now

AXIS SATELLITES ARE GIVEN LAST CHANCE TQ ARANDON THE AWNIS   Aerial Blasting Continues

“Big 3° Urge Four Nations To Take Stand   Must Decide About Meeting Defeat With German War Machine

Last Opportunity Given Countries To Quit Axis ‘Or Face Ultimate Perils

Axis Nations Given Choice To Quif War   Ultimatum Issued To 4 Satellites To Come Out Now

4 Axis Satellites Given Ultimatum By “Big Three’   Warning Issued Bulgaria, Hungary, Remania And Finland To Decide Now

LOCAL BOY IS WOUNDED NOV. 17 ACTION, FRANCE   Cpl.- Philip M. Hackwith, 21 Overseas Two Months, Is Wounded.

Set. Cleon Bommer Reported Seriously Wounded In Action   Overseas About One Month; Recents Promoted.

SUPERFORTS WRECK JAP WAR PLANTS   Have Dropped Three Million Pounds Of Bombs On Targets

(F BOMBINGS   B-29s Knocked Out Jap’s Largest Twin-Engine Bomber Plant.

Japan Is Bleeding Infernally—Hansell   Cause of Critical Ailnent Diagnosed —B29’s—But _ faps Can't. Find Cure

B-29'5 PROVEN AS MAGNIFICENT WAR WEAPON VS. JAPS  THREE MILLION POUNDS OF BOMBS CRIPPLED NIP:  mop Arr tAPICrwp

American Superfortresses Destroy Japan’s Largest Twin-Engine Plant

Blast Japan With 100,000 Pounds of Bombs Daily By Superforts In First Month

Boh Hope. Gets  * Special Citation  Honored For Touring The  Service Camos

Jap-Americans  Sad Over Ban   Want To Work, But Neighbors Of Employer Vigorously Protest.

Allied Planes Sink or Damage Five Jap Vessels   Report Troop-Laden Transport Among Enemy Ships Blasted

Soldier Vote Bills Offered   State Solons Meeting To Erase Red Tape - Backed by Both Parties

State Soldier Vote  Bill Is Introducec  Special Assembly Sessior Speeds Action

Japs Retreat As Yanks Push Across Leyte   Encirclement Threat For Japanese Thrown Up as Tank-Paced Yanks Enlarge Gains

Naval Guns Help Yanks Dri ive Japs From Hill   Encirclement Threat Is Being Built Up  As Enemy Retreats Up Wide Valley :  TANKS ARF ACTIVE

Bond Sales Now Total $750,000   City Banks Make First Report To Boost Drive To 25 Percent Mark.

BOND SALES HERE REPORTED LAGGING   Grand Total to Date Is ‘Placed Slightly Over $1,500,000 

Yanks Vow Annihilation of  Nazis for Two Massacres    Mass Murder of Unarmed Doughboy Prisoners Confirmed by Gen. Hodges

DEWEY HONORED BY FOLKS AT PAWLINC   Farmer Gives Way to Presidential Candidate in - Celebration.

Allies Battle Along 60-Mile Unbroken Front   But Nazi Resistance Grows Ever stronger; Weather Favors Foe

American Troops Cap ture Coastal Stronghold  f Isigny, Six Miles East Of Carentan.

Targets as Far Away as  Poland Raided   Fighters Destroy 20 German Planes in Aerial Battles

Key German air factories  are pounded British night  planes active

RAF Bombers Go Out After  American Raid  Big Force of Planes Reported Passing

Bombs Sink Jap Warship Off China   Large Transport Also Is Damaged In South China Sea

U. S. Bombers. Sink Jap Vessel   Send Destroyer To Bottom of China Sea

Japs Body To Body In Caves On Saipan   Massed In Corner Of Island To Battle To Death With U. S.

Japs Preparing For Final Stand On Saipan Islane   Reported Massing By Thous. ands In Northern Tip Mountain Passes   STAND TO DEATH BEING PLANNED

TRAPPED FOE NOW MAKING DEATH STAND   ENEMY MASSED IN CAVES AND PILLEOXES IN MOUNTAIN ‘PASSES AWAITING BAT . TLE TO DEATH

Lhousands-of-Enenijy Re signed To Death, Are Massed Jn Caves, Pill‘boxes, Blockhouses and Trenches For Fight To Death Against Advanc ing Americans.

JAPS. STAGE FINAL DEFENSE OF SAIPAN ISLA   Advancing Yanks Move Into Position for Last Battle at North End

Japs Massed For Last Saipan Fight   Frenzied Body Block Is Facing U. S. Soldiers and Marines

END DRAWS NEAR FOR MASSED JAPS ON SAIPAN ISLAND   Nips’ Final Defense of the Strategic Island Becomes 2 Frenzied Block of Bodies— Are Resigned to Death

ROCKETS GIVE. SMALL SHIPS: ~ GREAT POWER   NAVY REPORT REVEALS TANK LANDING CRAFT CAN PACK FIREPOWER OF BATTLESHIP.

increased Use Of Rockets Likely   Rockets Successful In Landing Operations

Impregnable Fortress Collapsing  Three-Front Pressure. Wipes Out Nazi Manpower Reserves

Stimson Sees Chance to Link Roads to China   Secretary Warns Next Steps in Italian Drive to Be Difficult

Stimson Reviews Progress of War   Pleased with Gains Of Allied Forces

SEES CHANCE OF OPENING BURMA ROAD   Secretary of War Confident of Successes; Public Warned of Nazi Propaganda.   Winding Road

Says Romance With Comediar  Was a ‘Dream’   Thanks for Letting Me Know You, Says Goodbye Note

Political Battle Close In Pivofal Sates Having 295 Eééforal Votes  Group Comprises Nearly All Of The Great   Group Comprises Nearly All Of The Great Industrial States Of East And Middle West

[CROSSLEY POLITICAL POLL.   Over Haif Of Electoral Votes In Close States!  wahthald M. Crocclow

Japs Claim Leyte Airborne Attack   Report That Nips Have Caused Considerable Damage At Vital Points.

: ME ow. in NO-CONFIMATION GIVEN TO JAP REPORTS OF  ‘AIR LANDINGS ON’ LEYTE

DRAWING NET AROUND ENEMY FORCES, LEYTE   Planes From U. 8. Carriers Blast 14 Japanese Vessels in Attacks From Over Manila.

May Force Filipinos to Fight Yanks   Puppet President Orders Manila Residents to  Defend Area

Politics   Wallace Says Dewey + Would Be a Tool OF ‘Bie Business’

37 DIE IN OHIO’S MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BLAZE   Blast in Liquid Gas Storage Plant Holocaust in 50Block Area

42 Dead In Explosion-fire; 83 Missing   3600 Families Homeless In $5,000,000 Blast

Thunderous Explosions Start Fire   3,600 Made Homeless; Property Damage to Be Enormous

3,600 PERSONS FLEE HOMES IN GAS EXPLOSION   Flames Rip 50-Block Area After Three Tanks Blow To Bits On East Side

70 Perish in 50-Block Fire At Cleveland   168 Missing, 3600 Home. less: Blaze Started by Gas Blast

Blaze Follows Explosions; Huae Damaqe   Thousands Homeless As Flames Threaten Extended Area

Gas Blast Wreaks Havoc   Fifty-Block Area in Cleveland An-Inferno After Explosions; Toll Of Known Dead to 37

TEMPERATURES:   3,000 HOMELESS AS RESULT OF GAS EXPLOSION   20 Persons Missing; Loss Will Total Millions; 50-Block Area Hit

EXPLOSION AT GAS STORAGE SPREADS RUIN   Costly Blaze Covers 50Block Area; 3,600 Persons Homeless

SCORES DEAD IN CLEVELAND FIRE   GAS PLANT BLAST LEAVES THOUS IN AREA HOMELESS -

Death Toll — In Cleveland  Fire Grows   Worst Fire Rages Into Second Day; Liquid Gas Explodes

Death Toll Is Undetermined   rT wree<‘t+$t$e#stet =. 4 3,600 Persons Left Homeless; een Covers 50-block Area

Fire Still Burns in 50 Block Area   20 Missing — Great Blasts Precede Blaze in  Liquid Gas Plant

42 Dead, 83 Missing In Holocaust At Cleveland; Fires Still Raging   Fifty-Block Area Devastated After Explosions Wreck Liquid Gas Storage Plant; Thousands Made Homeless.

Cleveland Blast-Fire Toll Mounts As Flames Rage Into Second Day      At Least 36 Dead and 20 Missing and Damage Estimated Up To $5,000,000 in Disaster That Spreads Greatest Devastation in City’s History

37 KILLED AS J0-BLOCK AREA IS DESTROYED   Explosion of Liquid Gas Sends Flames Raging  Through Homes

SERBS AID” GERMANS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Unit Arrives At Port Of Sibenik To Relieve Nazis

Drive Starts On Marshalls   Islands Hit Daily For Nearly A Month

NAVAL PLANE HIT MARSHALLS IN NEW ATTACK   Army Craft Pile Up Total of 400 Zeros at Rabaul in Month.

Yankee Forces Launch Major Attack on Japs   Strike Out at Enemy on Atolls of Marshalls

Tokyo Concedes Major Base of Rabaul Doomed   Between 23 and 29 More Enemy Planes Bagged in Attack

Tokyo Admits Rabaul Is About to Fall   U. S$. Deals Marshalls Most Concentrated Attack Yet Delivered

a $338,000,000 Worth Of Lend-Lease Goods Sent To Russia ln November

2 Transportation Strikes Continiie . as Three Dissolve   Philadelphia Transit Co Employes Return to Duties Today

Strike Ends, Philly Quiet   “Troops Are. Riding _ Trolleys, Subways =

POLITICAL FRONT ACTIVITY MOUNTS   Approach of Nominating Conventions Builds Pressure In Every Camp; Marks Day Of Give and Take

PRESIDENTIAL RACES’ FEVER GRIPS NATION   Political Crescendo Booms; Pressure Appears On

Pre-Invasion Air Assault On Nazis Is Continuing RAF I its Axis   3 600.000 Men teen teiected For Armed Forees

Denver Victory Aids GOP   Republicans Interpre First Win In 12 Years To Portent November Victory.

STORM TIES UP PLAINS COUNTRY   Oklahoma and Panhandle Of Texas Under Drifts  Eight Feet Deep

Southwest Area Still Shivers   Cold Wave Extends East to Kentucky

Report Sabotage By Frenchmen   Germans Threaten To  Shoot All Patriots __

Uprisings in Southern France Reported   German Radios Still Say That Toulon Has Been Bombarded

French Riot In Support  Of Invasion   German Radios Warn Patriots To Be Shot In Reprisal Moves

French Patriots Fight Germans      Widespread Urisings Reported in Spain

Famed Groundhog of Gobbler’s Knob  Emeroes Tomorrow for Weather Look

Insurance Comnanies Buy   Watch Groundhog Closely Tomorrow For Weather Hint

SLY OLD GROUNDHOG READY FOR PREDICTION  _ Gobbler’s Knob Weather Expert _ To Be Asked About End of War

Mothers Urged  To Evacuate Robot Zones   Morrison Says Flying Bombs Not Beaten Yet

NAZI ROBOTS HIT LONDON   Morrison Sternly Urges Mothers To Evacuate Cities

FLYING BOMBS STRIKE LONDON   Mothers Urged by British Official to Leave Capital, Other Danger Zones

(INDISCRIMINATE? IS TERM FOR BUZZERS   Will Harden Mood in Dealing With Nazis, Minister Says

Evacuation of Children Urged  England Still Unable to Combat Fiving Bom

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FRENCH CHEER ALLIED HEADS   Paris Gives Eisenhower Ovation: Snipers Spoil De Gaulle Parade

New Rule Set Up In Paris  Eisenhower Greeted; de Gaulle Fired Upo:

French Set Up New Government In Freed Paris   Eisenhower Given Bis Ovation; DeGaulle Es

PARIS. GIVES WILD RECEPTION TO EISENHOWER   New Fr ench: Govern ment Being Set Up In City

New French Regime Is _Eéstablished . In Paris   Liberated” Capital: Has. Frenzied: Weekend In Which Gen: Dwight D. ‘Eisenhower Receives Tumul. “+ticus Welcome: Nazis Bomb City -

French Are Forming A New Government   Step Follows Frenzied Week-End in Which - “Ske” Visited Paris, Nazis Bombed Capital and Snipers Attack de Gaulle.

Paris Cheers Wildly For Gen. Eisenhower   New French Government  Being Set Up in Capital

FRANCE SETS UP  GOVERNMENT IN  LIBERATED PARIS CITY QUIET AGAIN AS  AXIS. RESISTERS ARE PUT OUT-OF WAY

New French Government Being Set up in Paris   DeGaulle Escapes Assassination; American Allied Staffs Tour Liberated Capital

1 French Government Set Up In Liberated Paris ¢ After Wild Week-End: De Gaulle Eludes Death   Future Role Of France Looms Larger At Dumbarton Parleys

New French Government Set Up: Paris Greets Eisenhower   Germans  in Paris Charged With ‘Attempt to Assassinate De Gaulle

Eisenhower Wildly Welcomed To Paris; Snipers Spoil De Gaulle Victory Parade   Hich Officers

New Goyernmen Takes Over Paris  Movement Climaxes   Movement Climaxes Tumultuous Week-end

Restore Order to Liberated Paris   Frenzied Weekend Included Attempts On De Gaulle‘s Life

FRENCH SET UP RULE IN PARIS   Eisenhower Given Big Welcome During Frenzied Week-End  DE GAULLE ESCAPES

French Set Up  New Government  Victory Address by Gen. DeGaulle Postponed Because of Sniper’s Guns

‘Ike’ Receives Huge Welcome By Parisians   New French Government Is Being Set Up In Liberated Capital,   ‘(GERMANS BOMB. CITY

New Government For France To Be Set Up In Paris   ‘Tumult Reigns As Parisians Celebrate, Are Bombed By Nazis

New French Government i in Paris in Making   De Gaulle Escapes Snipers’ Bullets; Eisenhower Wel

Paris Quiet. After Clash:   ‘New Government Is Set Up By DeGaulle

EVENTS HAPPEN AT FAST RATE IN LIBERATED PARIS   Give ‘Ike’ Big Welcome; Start Work on New Government; Nazis Raid City

Paris Has New Government After Frenzied Weekend  We Gaulle Escapes Assassins, Eisenhower Given Tamaltuous Welcome in French Capilal

Paris Gets A New Government   Cerat Appointed Minister At Large Under DeGaullc.

NEW GOVERNMENT ° ~ BEING SET UP IN  LIBERATED FRANCE   Followed  a Frenzied Week. End in Which Gen. Eisen- .. hower “Was Welcomed. * ‘   GERMANS BOMBED CITY   Gen: DeGaulle Escaped Death or Injury From Sniper’s Bullets.

Paris Quiet After Wild Week-End   French Government Being Set Up As City Mops Up Tag-Ends of German Resistance

Paris Quiet  Again   EISENHOWER GIVEN GREAT WELCOME; GERMANS BOMB LIBERATED FRENCH CAPITAL

A New Regime Is Set Up in Paris   Eisenhower Given Tumultous Welcome as He Enters the City.

TO TAKE OVER INFREE PARIS   De Gaulle Escapes Bullets Eisenhower Cheered, Nazis Raid Capital

New French Rule Being Set Up In liberated Paris   De Gaulle Escanes Injury From Snipers’ Bullets In Parade

‘New French” Government Forms In Paris   Gen, Eisenhower Hailed By Populace

Liberated Paris Will Be Subject  To New Power   Eisenhower Visits Capital;  From Snipers’ Bullets

ESTABLISH NEW FRENCH GOVT   Crowds Cheer Eisenhower; .  Snipers Break Up De Gaulle’s Parade

Sobered Paris Sets Up New Government   Eisenhower Gets Tumultuous Welcome at Arc de Triomphe

Paris Cheers General ‘ike   Germans Bomb Capital DeGaulle Fired On

AEE FAENGH LEADERS ot] UP NEW GOVT   Head of Resistance Movement Made Minister-at-Large Under De Gaulle.

Chaotic Period Ends; Parisians Start Forming New Regime   Weekend Sees Tumultuous Welcome Accorded Eisenhower, Bombing of City by Nazis, Attempt on Gen. De Gaulle’s Life

Snipers Spoil Victory March For De Gaulle      tisenhower Given Frenzied  Weleome In Paris; City  Quiet Today: New Gov. ernment Forming

House Begins Debate on Demobilization   Expected to Refuse Liberal Federal Unemployment Pay

House Debates emobilization Bill   Favors Narrowed Jobless Soldier Aid

CHINESE FACING CRITICAL TIMES   Last American Airbase Abandoned; Kweiyang Seems Doomed

JAPS MAKING PROGRESS IN CHINA   Capture Kweichow, Burma Road Town; Force Destruction of Manning U.S. Air Base.   Four Major Bases

Foe Drives Westward In China   Military Situation In Nation Worsens As Japanese Adyance  NANNING BASE TOST

Chinese Report Most Critical Outlook of War   Japanese Cut Off Eastern Provinces

Allies Batter Ahead Through Hurtgen Forest   Deepen Ubach Salient In Face of Heavy German Counterattacks

GAINS 2 MILES IN NEW DRIVE NEAR AACHEN   British Deepen Hold on Island

Nazis Contest — Every Foot and  Retake Town    U. 8. Tanks, Infantry  Drive Three Miles in '  hach Battle Area

Yanks Smash Forward on Aachen Front   Hodges’ Troops Open Major Action in Deepest Penetration

Hodges Army Breaks Out on Cologne Plain   Walcheren Cleared by British; Antwerp Saan Onen

Break Out Onto Plain Of Cologne          OFFENSIVE IS IN ALLIES’ DEEPEST PENETRATION OF . GERMANY, 28 MI. FROM COL

AMERIGANS BREAK INTO COLOGNE PLAIN   Ist Army Advances In Section of Deepest Penetration Below Aachen.   On Cologne Plain.

Troops Only 27 Miles From Great German Indus trial, War Center  senna rime nr ey   Advance Of Half Mile Is Reported   Other Elements Deepen Ubach Salient By Another Mile

ist Army in New  Attack   German Guns Barring Allies From Antwerp, Smashed, Captured

. ° Americans Gain Cologne Plain   Attack Aims At Vulnerable Siegfried Line Sector; Conquest Of Flushing Near

Smash forward to Vossenack; 28 miles to Cologne  Drive coincides with last phase of Walcheren’s fall

Thrust Forward Under Artillery Cover Nearly 2 Miles To Vossenack   British Capture Or Neutralize Guns On Walcheren That Have Barred Allied Ships From Antwerp

Temperatures   Thunderous Artillery Bombardment Heralds Deepest Penetration of Germany; British Storm Through Walcheren Island

BATTERS AHEA THROUGH WOODS TO NEAR DUREN   See-Saw Battle In Ubach Area

Yankees 28 Miles S. W. Of Cologne   Hodges’ Troops Break Out Into Plain From Huritcen Forest

FIRST ARMY . GAINS NEARLY TWO MILES   Battle of Southwest Holland. Enters ©: Final Phase

Hodges’ Troops Break Out Onto Cologne Plains   British Forces Storm Through Walcheren To Expand Beachhead

HITS THROUGH DENSE FOREST "HALF A MILE   Renew Push Near Stolberg as Counterattacks Slow _  Other Push.

Gen. Hodges Army Opens New Attack   Last Phase of Battle of Scuthwest Holland Also   Underway

BIG GUNG AlD DML PUSH NEAR AACHEN   Surge Onto Cologne Plain as British Storm Through City of Flushing.

Big Push Begun By Ist Army   First American Offensive in Two Weeks is Started

U.S. Ist Army Opens New Drive Into Germany   Advance Nearly Two Miles to Vosenack

Advanice 2 Miles Beyond Aachen   "British Finishing . Flushing Conquest

Most German Guns On Walcher Island Captured Or Neutral ed; Beachhead Widened British By Four Miles  STIFF RESISTANCE

Yanks in New Attack East of Stolberg   Drive Within 27 Miles of Coloane

Back From The Dead  138 More British Tommies of Arnhem Pocket Too Exhausted To Talk Much After Their Rescue

In Second Article Iowse Legionnaire Editor Describes the “Shots’’ He Received; Eats on Train With Group of Army Privates

No Answer To U. S’s Offer   Secretary Hull Says That Soviets Have Not Answered Offer

—- OU ee eee  aD C9 he  666 TABLETS, SALVE. NOSE DROPS   FOUR PERSGNS INJURED IN AUTO CRASH

J. H. Carmichael Was Honored State Stockman  Augusta Pioneer Won Wide Acclaim

J. H. Carmichael Was Honored State Stockman  Augusta Pioneer Wo Wide Acclaim With Prize Flocks

Rayburn or Byrnes  Southerner Demand Second Place on Democratic Ticket

South May Get Man On Ticket   Roosevelt Running ‘Mate May Come From Below Mason-Dixon Line

Southern Democrats Seek A Dixie Son As Running Mate Of Roosevelt   Speaker Rayburn Of Texas Generally Conceded To Be Favorite For Vice-Presidential Candidate: Byrnes Also Mentioned.

South to Seek Place on Ticket  Want Candidate  For Vice President

ROME’S RAILWAY ~~ YARDS BLASTED   HITS MADE ON FREIGHT CARS, TRACKS, WAREHOUSES AND REPAIR SHOPS,

Rome Railway Yards Raided   = Fresh Nazi Assaults On Beachhead Houlted

Rome Lashed 8th Time by Bombers; Rail Yards Target   American Marauders Fly Over Eternal City In Three Waves For Stab At Crowded Lines Of Rolline Stock

Material-Choked Tracks Destroved   Ground Fighting ia Italy Rawse Dhawan in Mal

Bombers Hit Rome For 8th Time Of War   Marauder Bombers Blast Rail Yards Despite Opposition

Railway Yard: Near Rome Are Bombed  Three Waves of Warplanes Attack Objective

Rail System in the Eastern Part of the City Is Bombed   NUMEROUS HITS ON CARS. SHOPS MADE   Communications North of the City Also Attacked

MARAUDERS BOMB ROME R.R. YARDS   Fly Over Eternal City In Three Waves Escorted By Spitfires To Destroy Large Concentrations of Freight.   Six Allied Craft

Marauders Batter Rome Rail Yards:   ‘Virginio Gayda, Former Mouthpiece Of Mussolini. Is-Renorted Xjlled In Raid

Fate of City 'Is Warning» to Germans   Canadians Advance in Drive on Foe in Schelde aaa ary Pocket .

MASSED AMERICAN ARTILLERY, PLANES. ATTACKING IN FORCE   BERLIN ANNOUNCES. GREAT PORT OF MEMEL SURROUNDED BY RUSSIANS

DIVEBOMBERS POUND NAZIS; HELP RUSHED   Hitler Sends Reinforcements In Attempt To Prevent Fall of City

—a es  there’s Trickery Afoot In The Lake Country —  Reds Provide Mystery In Battle Of Vistula

With Russians Battling Forward to Germany’s “Sacred Soil” One Wonders If Paris and Warsaw Will Fall at the Same Time—What A Blow to Der DP »wehrar

The War Today    Another Battle of Masurian Lakes May  Re Gatherine in East Prussia

The Weather   THE)  WAR. rfODAY   th American and ussian Strategists ire Providing Mys teriesy In Battles Of Dis nud Warsaw

Nazi Prisoners Werking At Waval Academy   About 70 Prisoners Work In Laundry And Maintenance 

PAUL QUITS U. 8. TAX COUNSEL JOB   Letter Informs President He Doubts Further Aid in Field

“We Won't Be Back Until It’s Over" — Officer Confident ‘On Invasion Eve

MARSHALLS ATTACK LEADER CONFIDENT   Admiral Turner Tells Correspondents “We Won't Come Back Until We Finish the Job.”

Zeitzler Involved In Nazi Bomb Plot   Weakening Of Military Machine Is Seen; Suspected Officers Escape From Germany.

Hitler Plot WeakensNazi War Machine   4,000 Officers Reportec to Hare Fled Disguised as Privates

Say 4000 Officers Fleeing Germany   Reports=Claiin Nazi Leader Aided Plot

CZECH REVOLT AGAINST NAZIS MAY BE NEXT   Plea Is Possible Signal Allied Invasion At Hand

Rugged General Opposes Germans   ‘It's a Defensive-Offensive. We Aren't Just Sitting Here Waiting for Them.”

YANKS TAKE KEY TOWNS IN ITALY   SEIZE ROSIGNANO AND CASTELLINA IN BITTER FIGHT

Yanks Crash Outer ‘Defenses of Leghorn      After Threé-Day Fight to-Last House, Amer! can Troops Take Two Towns Which Were  . Key Points in Line Before the Big Port.

U. S. Infantrymen Take Two Key Towns in Italy  Doughboys Continue Their Advance On Leghorn, Pisa

Yanks Take  Two Towns   Italian Towns Fall After Bitter Street Battles for Three Days

Two Towns Captured by ‘Doughboys    Rosignano and =~=s- Castellina  Taken After Three Days of  Bitter Street Fighting; ' French Troops Advance

Gothie Line’s Outer Defense Towns Taken   Americans Capture Villages After \ Bitter Warfare

GOING WAS TOUGH   Two Towns Taken by Allies in Italy Despite Strong Nazi Resistance »

Doughboys In Italy Capture Two Key Towns In Nazi Outer Defense Line Below Leghorn   Drive Foe From Rosignano And Castellina After Overcoming Desperate Opposition

2 WELL DEFENDED TOWNS ARE TAKEN   Yanks Take Rosignano.and Castellina After Bitter Fioht.

Two Towns In Italy Taken By Americans   Enemy Puts Up Stiff Battle For Strong Points

AMERICANS SEIZE TWO IMPORTANT TOWNS IN ITALY   Rosignano and Castellina on the Highway. to Livorno Captured By U.S. . Troops After Bitter Three-Day Bat rs

Fifth Batters Nazis F From 2  Lalian Town:          Rosignano and Castellin: Fali After Three Bitter Days ef Fighting

US. Jakes 2 aly Forts   Yankees Slug It Out With Grenades, Guns In Savage Battles

Yankees Win Bitter Fight  Capture Rosignano, Castellina In Italy

Two Key Places in Italy Captured by American Infantry   Vicious Defense is Broken After Three Days of Fighting -

5th Captures 2 Key Points  from German:  Viciously Defended Towns Below Leghorn Fall to Americans

German Key Points Fall   Americans Take Two Towns in Italy After Three Days of Battle

FINNS AWAITING NOTE ON PEACE   Government Expected To Refuse Moscow Terms Politely

Finns, Reds’ Soon To Act   Official Statements Likely On Weekend

Russo-Finnish Sfafements Are Expected Soon  Pannlea Of Halecinki   People Of Helsinki Await Word Of Negotiation Results

MacArthur Urges War Bond Buying   Home Front Asked To Continue Support

WOUNDED WAR VET BEATEN BY POLICE   Head Of Baltimor= Department Orders “Thorough And Exhanustive” Investiralion

Policemen Beat Discharged Vet, Interne Asserts   Holder of Purple Heart Is Injured

MOVE SWIFTLY TO TAKE OVER GREEN ISLES   Solomons Campaign Ends With 22,000 Nips Facing Starvation

OCCUPATION OF GREEN I5LANDS SEALS DOOM OF 22,000" JAPANESE IN SOLOMONS GROUP

Briton Says 40 Per Cent Of Nazi Fighter Plane Production Knocked Out

STASSEN WOULD ACCEPT IF GOP OFFERED TOGA   But Neval Officer, Former Governor of Minnesota, Not To Seek Nomination

STASSEN WILL RUN IF GRAFTED   Not To Seek Nomination But Will Accept If Offered

Stassen Not To Make Race   He Would Accept Nomination If ‘Offered, He Soys

STASSEN SAYS HE WILL NOT CAMPAIGN BUT WILL ACCEPT G.0.P, NOMINATION

STASSEN WOULD TAKE NOMINATION   NAVY MAN DENIES SEEKING PRESIDENCY

Stassen Says He’s Willing.  Not Anxious   Not Seeking Nomination, but  Will Accept It

Stassen Would Accept, He Says  Won't Seck Nomination. Ward Ta See. K mae

Issues Statement From South Pacific  Stassen To Accept If Nominated

‘Stassen Would Run  He Informs Knox   Ex-Governor of Minnesota, Now in Navy, Wnites About Presidential Nomination

STASSEN TO ACCEPT IF NOMINATED   Not A Candidate But Will Not Turn Down Nomination

Stassen Won't Seek Nomination  But Will Accept lf Nominated, He Writes Knox

ssessen Will Not Seek G. O. P. Nomination But Will Accept [# Chosen

Stassen Not ‘Trying for : Nomination   ‘But He Says He Will Accept -.. If It-Is Offered by, “Republicans

STASSEN RECEPTIVE TO GOP NOMINATION; NOT TO SEEK OFFICE   Ex - Governor Makes His Position Clear; Now In South Pacific

STASSEN WOUL NOT SAY “NO,” INFORMS KNOX   !  But On Other Hand He Plans to _ Do No bing to Further Nomi nation for Presidency

Stassen Will Not Seek GOP Presidential Nomination,  ‘But Will Accept If Offered

TO MAKE NO RACE   But Stassen Would Accept Republican Nomination  If Offered

Stassen Does Not Want, But Would Take, Nomination   Ex-Governor Leaves Question To GOP

STIMSON SAYS NAZIS LOSING AIR STRENGTI   SECRETARY DECLARES GER.  MANY HAS LOST FIFTH HER!  FIGHTER PLANES i SINCE JANUARY

County Lagging In ‘E’ Bond Sale, Offer Announces   ‘44 Dove Season Comes to an End   — THE ADVOCATE —  CONGRATULATES

Season's Firs! Winter Grip Is Stubborn One   — TWE ADVOCATE CONGRATULATES

NEARLY 17,000 TONS DROPPED IN FOUR DAYS   Nazi-controlled Radio Moans ’ As People Grow More Imoatient far Push.

5,040-TON LOAL OF BOMBS HITS WEST EUROPE   Yanks Hammer France Today

RECORD AIR ATTACK MADE BY BRITISH   Over 5,040 Tons  Of Bombs Dropped On Europe Last Night

Huge Air Armada  in Smash   5040 Tons Bombs Hit Targets, Berlin Nipped by Mosquitoes

11,100 RAF Ships Join In Assault On Nazi Centers   American Planes Hit Bucharest, Serbia, Northern French Bases

Dropped _ 5040 Tons Last Night   COLOGNE MAIN TARGET OF FLIERS AS INCREASED PRE-INVASION TEMPO OF BOMBING CONTIN!

Big British Heavies Drop 5,040 Tons for New One-Trip Record   Berlin Radio Says Americans Hit Balkans in New Assault

LUROPE DEALT GREATEST okt BLOW OF WAR   Strong RAF Air Force Dumps 5,040 Tons, Pasting Cologne. Raitrnads 

RAF Sends Strongest Fleet Of War Against Europe, Dropping 5,040 Tons   Cologne, Berlin And Paris Raided   American Bombers Renew Attack With Daylight Smash At France

Attack Tops Any Raid by The British   Berlin, Cologne, Paris and Rail Centers Near Coast  Are Bombed

BALLOT VICTORY SEEN BY DEWEY   Republicans Will Win Regardless Of War News, Is Forecast

Dewey Back Tracks From Saint Louis   GOVERNORS FINISH THEIR 14 POINTS FOR RETURN OF GOYERNMENT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLES,   Sees Missouri Groups

DEWEY SEES GOP VICTORY IN NOVEMBER   Nominee Heads Home * After Policy Meet With Governors

Dewey Predicts His Election   Says Republicans Will Win Regardless of War News.

CHINESE GIVEN BLOW BY JAPS   Fall Of Hulao Pass In Honan Province  Admitted

FRANGO-BRITISH TREATY 1S NEXT   REOS AND FRENCH JOIN HANDS IN NEW PACT

FRENCH-RUSS PACT TERMS DISCLOSED   Two Countries Bound by 20 Year Alliance

FRANCE, SOVIET TREATY SIGNED   British - Franco Alliance Kixpected Next

BRITISH PACT WITH FRENCH IS IN MAKING   Terms Of Franco - Russian Agreement Are Revealed By De Gaulle

Franco-British Treaty Expected   Would Complete Security Ring Around Germany

Two Women, 4 Children Die in Flames   Father Returns From Work to Find Family Wiped Out

FIRE NEAR LIMA CLAIMS 6 LIVES   Mother And Four Child. ren Among Victims Of Blaze

SIX PERISH IN FIRE AT LIMA   Mother, Four Children and Sister Die When Flames Destroy Residence

RAF Forces Raid Plants  Of Germans At Toulouse   U.S, Airforce Hits Berlin And Ploesti

RAF STRIKES AT NAZI PLANTS IN SOUTH FRANCE   Effective Raid On Toulouse Reported; Bombs Fall Within 50 Miles Of The Spanish Frontier.

British Take To Ai First ‘Time in Week   Repair Plant City Less Than 50 Miles From Spanish Border

DOLL STORE OWNER ARRESTED BY F.B.I. FOR VIOLATION OF. CENSORSHIP LAWS

Col. Gabreski Gets 28th Plane to Lead U. S. Pilots  American Ace Tops Johnson, Bong

THUNDERBOLT PILOT DOWNS 20TH PLANE   Lt. Col. Gabreski of Pennsylvania Top Scoring AAF Pilot.

(10 Seeks To Raise Wages   Senate Subcommittee Told 65 Cents An Hour Minimum Essential

Nazis Kill Entire Families of Eight Executed Officers   Even Friends of Men Convicted in Bomb Plot Reported Slain

Japs Nearing Imphal, Claim Fall Is Near   Latest Report Suggest: Enemy Attempting To Sweep Past Defense: From Southwest

INFILTRATION OF JAPANESE IN INDIA BEING CONTINUED  EFFORT OF INVADERS T ‘SWEEP’ AROUND IMPHAL

JAPS FORCES NOW WEST OF TIDDIM ROAD   Invasion Places Vital Plain Under Virtual Siege

Japs Send Patrols Forward to Cut Vital indian Road  Small Parties Meet Allied Forces, Suffer Casualties

British ‘Check Foe InKohima Fighting   Japanese Forces Reported West Of Tiddim-Imphal Road For First Time; Hope To Cut Allied Supnly Line To China Before Monsoon

Japs Continue Imphal Pressure  Tokyo Insists Fall of Indian City Is Matter Only of Days

Japs Race Against Monsoons Season in India Invasior   Imphal Plain is Under Siege; Pacific War News Summarized   Allies and Germans, Less Than 400 Yards Apart, Join in Easter Rites

Japanese in Contact With Allied Forces On Tiddim Road and Suffer Casualties

JAP BESIEGERS _ ON PLAIN OF IMPHAL ~ "SUFFER LOSSES   The First Time Japanese Had Been Reported West of * Tiddim-Imphal Road.   IN AT ATTEMPTED SWEEP   British _ Forces Wiped Out Japanese Groups Enter-  ing Kohimi.

Jap Invaders “Suffer Losses  On Burma Front   Imphal Plain Besiegers Clash With Allies In Tiddam Road Sector

INFILTRATION OF JAPANESE IN INDIA BEING CONTINUED   - EFFORT OF INVADERS TO SWEEP AROUND IMPHA* IS NOW INDICATED

JAPANE WEST SIDE OF IMPHAL FRONT   Americans Spoil Enemy Hopes At Hollandia

British Report Wiping Out 01 Enemy Units That Broke Into Kohima’s Lines

JAP INVADERS PUSHING AHEAD   Small Parties Are Sent West Of Imphal-Tiddim Road First Time.   BRITISH DEFEND KOHIMA

Jap Invaders  Widen Offense   In Contact With Allied Forces West Of TiddimImphal Road.

Japs Trying To Flank Imphal Defenses   Undeterred By Losses, Japs Continue Fierce  Pressure For Imphal Diaia

Japs Continue Gains In Indic   Bengal-Assam Supply _ Route Threatene

Japs Besieging Plain of Imphal Cross Vital Read   Allied Command Eeports Small Groups Penetrating Outer Kohima Defenses Wiged Oui

Allies Intlict Casualties On Jan Soldiers   Small Parties Of  Nips Contact Allies On Tiddim Band

One Armored Thrust ByPasses. Morhange, Site of World War I Battle.

ALLIES ONLY 17 MILES FROM SAAR BORDER   Pincers Grip Is Threatened To  German Troops

Americans Penetrate Thionville, Nazis Say   Armored Spearheads Make Advances Toware Saar Border; Germans Reported Leaving

NAZIS’ USABLE RAILWAY INTO METZ MENACED   “ Patton’s Forces Said Penetrating Thionville By Germans

Berlin Admits I[hird Army Troops Now In Thionville; Moselle Bridgehead Exnanded

Railway Usable For Germans Threatened  Pincers On City Of Thionville Clamped Re :. Bs eee,

Americans Pushing Close to Metz Under Artillery Fire From  Fortress City, Dispatches Assert

Menace Only Usable Rail, Metz To Saar   Ameriean Troops Sueceed In “Penetrating Into Thionville.’   PUT OUT MATERIEL

Patton Moves fo Close Metz Escape Route   Germans Reported Moving Troops to Escape Encirclement

Americans Swing Around Fortress Of Metz In South   U. S. Third Army Lunges Forward On 20Mile Front Within 17 Miles Of Saar Bor der As Pincers Move Menaces Thionville

Patton Forces Make Moselle Bridgehead   Only Usable Railway Connecting Metz with Saar Basin Threatened By Pincers By-passing Fortress

New Moselle Bridgehead Is Expanded  Within 5 Miles Of City on South

— Front - Sees New Gains   GEN. PATTON’S FORCES DRIVE ACROSS METZ RIVER

PARTISANS SEIZE ROADS IN RHONE; CASUALTIES 'OW BEACHHEADS 15.883

ORDER FIRM TO GIVE 7 MILLION   U.S. Invokes Price  Adjustment Regulation

Order Firm to Reduce Costs  Jack & Heintz Told To Cut Government Coste bw 7 Million

JACK & HEINTZ MUST REFUND SEVEN MILLION   War Dept. Invokes Price Adjust ment Law to Recover Part No Taken by Treasury in Taxe:

U.S. Asks Firm's T Million ‘Profit War Dept. Invokes Adjuitmast Law to  Deemean Dia A mesm

Air Firm Refund Ordered   ..U. S. Overcharged By 7 Millions, War Dept. Says

Firm Penalized Seven Million  Ordered to Return Amount ta Governmens

JAPAN POUNDED BY SUPERFORTS   General Arnold Promises Detailed Report Later; Japs Claim Giant Bombers Were Shot Down.

70 TO 80 B-29 “PLANES BLAST - SQUTH JAPAN   Nagasaki, Amura Hit, Tokyo Radio Reports; U. S. Confirms

Labor-Management’s Committee Plans ~  Gala War Bond Shov   Gore Field Band and Premiere of Great Motion Picture to Be Featured: Fifth War Loan Drive Hits $1,215,479

Labor-Management's Committee Plans  Gala War Bond Show  Gore Field Band and Premiere of Great Matian Dietura in Ra Fartirad:   Gore Field Band and Premiere of Great Motion Picture to Be Featured; Fifth War Loan Drive Hits $1,215,479

U.S. Fifth Army Within Three Miles Of Cassino; Sofia Blasted Second Time

Reds Offer To Give Up Polish Area   Would Surrender to Poles a Small Part of Land They Seized in 1939

~ TROOPS ON RUSS FRONT   'Soviet Government Offers  to Compromise Boundary Difficulties With   Poles.   RESUME AIR BATTLE   Fifth Army Troops Advance Within Three Miles of Cassino

Sales of Bonds. Fall Short of Daily Average   Purchases Must Be Speeded Up in Remaining 7 Days of Drive

Bond Sales Finally Pass 50 Per Cent   But Moberly Lags Behind Rest of County in War Loan Drive   TWO COMMUNITIES  FULFILL QUOTAS   Roanoke aud . Urbandale Over Top; Bond Show at Theatre February 9

Republican Candidate For President Lauds ‘Oaks’ Security Plan, Calls It Fine penal

Dewey Praises Security Plan As ‘Beginning’  _. OF Momentous Task

American Army Breaks Through Nazi Defense Lines in Four Mile Gain   Storm Into Marigny in ; Paralyzing Blow at German Defenses

all   GAIN FOUR MILES AS NEW OFFENSIVE IN NORMANDY PICKS UP MOMENTUM

Break Thr Nazi LineIn Norman   ADVANCE FOUR MILES IN FIRST ARMY’S NEW GENERAL  OFFENSIVE; TERMED HEAVY B

Nazi Lines In Normandy  Are Broken   Heavy Armor Is Leading General Offensive,

Yanks Ride Tanks Into Battle, Storm Marigny In Advance Of 4 Miles   Greatest Tank Charge In American History With Artillery, Air  Cover Paralyzes Enemy

Supported by Artillery and Dive Bombers   Sherman Tanks are Clustered with Troops Riding Cossack Fashion

U.S. TANKS, TROOPS UPSET GERMAN STAND   Smashing of Fortified Ring Opens Up Way to Heart of Normandy.

FOUR MILE WIDE BREAK COMES AS PARALYZING BLOW   Greatest Tank Charge In the History of American Warfare Had Support of Dive Bombers.   FIRST ARMY TROOPS ADVANCE NINE MILES   U. § Planes Bomb Military Installations In Vienna; German Robots Bomb Hospital In England, 4

Greatest Tank Charge In American History Gets Thunderous Support Of Guns, Dive Bombers, Breach Four Miles Wide   WHOLE UNITS OF NAZIS WIPED OUT

Americans Reach Marigny, Seven Miles Southwest Of St. Lo; German Resistance Said To Be “Weakening.”

Penetrate Nazi Line At St. Lo   Armored Assault Carries Four Miles

HOUSE PASSES DISPOSAL BILL   Surplus Property Measure Expected to Stir Senate Controversy

House Passes War Property Disposal. Bil   Ways-Means Unit Discards lajor Items in Senate Demahilieannn Pl.

House Plan For Surplus Sales OK’d   BILL CREATES MACHINERY FOR DISPOS.«. OF $100,000,000,000 WORTH OF EXCESS WAR PROPERTY.   Varies From Senate’s

Surplus Propet ly. Bill Passed by louse Yeslerday   First of Big Postwar Measures to Clear Representatives

Soviet Advance In Ukraine Develops   German Broadcasts Say Still Another Soviet Offensive Has Started in Dnieper Bend Area

Germans Retreat From Ukraine In  Great Disorder   Abandon Munitions and Materials As 14 Day: Of Crushing Winter Offensive Shove Battle Lines 148 Miles West Of Kiev.

Chaplin’s High Life Revealed   Joan Barry Testifies To Bedroom Activities Stretched Across Continent.

JOAN BARRY TELLS COURT OF AFFAIRS   Reveals Rendezvous In Bedrooms of Chaplin

Helsinki Again  ~ Bombed By Reds Estimate 100 To 200  Planes Participated

Russian Air Force Atfacks Helsinki Saturday.  30 Fires Blazing  In Finnish Capital  oa a cs

RUSSIAN PLANES RAID HELSINKI   Report at Least 30 Fires Started in Capital

Soviet Forces Estimated At 100 to 200 Planes Make Raid on Helsinki

New Secret Weapon: Frenchman Tried If on 63 People, And They All Died, He Testifies

Major Air Raid Made By British Upon Madgeburs   Thousand British Bombers yr In Gigantic Raid On German Industrial City   GERMANS ATTEMPT RAID ON LONDON

$000 BOMBERS RENEW ATTACK ; ON MAGDEBURG   byrious Offensive Launched on Field in Southern France and Italy

32 RAF RAIDERS ARE LOST IN NIGHT REICH ASSAULT   2,240 Tons of Bombs Fal On Vital Enemy War Industries At Magdeburg.

Their Platforns    Much Similarity’ i in... Proposals Submitted to Voter:   An Issue

Republican Governor Candidates Announce Platforms Same Day     Etatn Oanitnal RYawa TFT atéan   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

G. 6. p.  A. uncunced  Platforms   Burma and Blue Releases On Same Day

DEMOS HUNT CANDIDATES      Dearth of Gubernatorial Aspirants Worries Chieftains

A MOREC SOLDIERS ARE WARGASUALTIES   Pfc. Preston Younkins And Pvt. C. A. Rhodes Killed In- Action

Hughes ‘Out As Keynoter   Ex-Juslice Declines Role at Convention

Patriots Meet At Cherbourg   Underground Workers Honored For Fight

30 Enemy Ships, Including 10 Battleships, Three Carriers, Sunk Or Damaged   Fleets Pursuing  Japs For “Iall”   U. S. Loses Two Carriers, Suffers Damage To Destroyers, P-T Bouts

U. S. Navy Wins Great Sea Battle   Pursuing Ships Attack Fis ing Remnants of Japanem  Fleet rie

Final Toll Certain To Be Greater   AMER. SURFACE SHIPS STILL ATTACKING FLEEING REMNA OF JAP FLEET IN PHILIPPINES

30 knemy Warships Sunk or Damaged In Most Decisive Naval  Engagement of War

Jap Toll in Great Battle at Sea Mounts   At Least 30 Enemy Ships Sunk, Damaged

1 Battleship, 2 Big Carriers Are Sunk By American Forces   Many Other Capital Ships Hit By Yanks in Big Naval Battle

10 Battleships, Three  Plane Carriers In Toll   American Fleet Wins One of Greatest, Most Decisive Battles of Pacific War

Warships And Planes  Pursue Rest  Of Jap Ficet   Ten Battleships  And Three Carriers Among Nip Vessels Sunk Or Damaged.

ENEMY FLEET BADLY BEATEN, NIMITZ SAYS   Battered Remnants Being Pursued, With Toll Expected To Be Higher

9 WARSHIPS SUNK, 18 DAMAGED   U. S. Losses One Carrier, One Carrier Escort

Decisive Sea Battle Won By U.S. Forces   American Surface Craft Pursuing Remnants Of Nip Fleet After Three-Way Philippines Engagement

All-Out Jap Bid To Wreck Philippines Invasion Smashed; Enemy Loses 9 Vessels For Sure ; Expect Greater Final Toll

NIPS MAY NEVER RECOVER FROM BLOW: NIMITZ   Pearl Harbor Damage Exceeds

U, S. 24th Division Locked in Fight With Four Japanese Divisions Including Torturers of Bataar   Closing Trap

YANKS FIGHT HARD ~ IN ORMOC VALLEY   24th Division ision Locked in Critical Battle on Levte

Yankees Locked in Critical Fight With Japs   Three Strong Enemy Counterattacks Reported Repulsed

Yankees Locked in Critical Fight With Japs  Three Strong Enem; Counterattacks

U. S. Forces . In Crucial Ormoc Baitle   24th Division Locked In Fight With 4 Divisions

YANKS FIGHT HARD IN ORMOC VALLE   24th Division Locked in Critical Battle on Leyte

BATTLE RAGING IN ORMOC AREA   AMERICANS LOCKED IN FIGHT _ WITH .ELEMENTS OF FOUR JAP DIVISIONS.

CRUCIAL FIGHT UNDER WAY Ih ORMOC REGION   ENEMY FIGHTS FOR LAST TOEHOLD ON LEYTE ISLAND

Armored Columns Move On Tallinn At Speedy Pace   Other Troops Spill Out Into Broad Plains On Hungarian Border

SOVIET ARMORED COLUMN CLOSING IN ON TALLINN      Germans’ Grip On Balkans Grows Weaker Hourly As Mighty Red Wave Moves On

Lines Supplying Enemy In’ Southern Ltaly Heavily  Bombed   Patrols Battling li Mur At Anzio   Action Is Bitter But Main Lines Remain Virtually Same

Bombers Renew Assaults On Nazi Railways   Allies Beat Off German Thrusts On Front Below Rome

FLIERS RAID RAIL LINES IN ITALY   Allied Troops Beat Off Nazi Patrol Thrusts

‘Nazi Patrol Thrusts Are Reaten (ff   Allied Fighters And Bombers Range  Ower Anvzin Reachhead

Resume Air Raids on Nazi Supply Lines   Enemy Patrol Thrusts Below Rome Beaten  By Allied Units

BOMB, STRAFE GERMAN LINES IN ROME AREA   Heavy Day, Night Raids M  ade On Supply Links Of Foe

BOMBERS TRY 10 BEAT OFF NAZIS   RAF Aviators Visit Le Mans and Frankfurt to Disrupt Nazi Plans.

PATROL ACTION SOUTH OF ROME; RAILWAY STRUCK   ‘Lull in Snows and Freezing Rains Taken Advantage of to Spread Fire on ied Coast

RAIL NETWORK SERVING NAZIS DEALT BLOWS   Allied Fliers Resume Supply Line Raids In Italy

Patrol Clashes And Artillery Duels Continue  NUMBER OF NAZI PRISGNERS TAKEN  Allies Strike Damaging Blows At Railway Bridge

Batter Railroad Lines Near Rome   Allies Take Advantage of Lalli in Snow and Cold Rain — Little Ground Action

German-Held Roads in Italy Given. Bombing   Sporadic Patrol and Artillery Action Reported

German Supply Lines to Italy Are Attacked   New Nazi Patrol Assaults South Of Rome Repulsed

ALLIES MAKE DAY AND NIGHT AIR ASSAULTS   Troop Concentrations. Bridges Caught In Furious Tempo In Italy.   Over Jugoslav Coast.

Allies Hit Rail Lines  Near Rome  U. S. Fighters Range Over Rome Area In Daylight, Bomb  * Troop Centers

OHIO GUARD Is TO BE DOUBLED   New Regiments Planned In Cleveland, Northwest Areas

British Batter Berlin, Soviets Smash Germans   Nazis Strengthen Hold Upon Ruins Of Cassino

Big Red Drive Smashes Closer To Rumania   Germans Strengthen Hold on Cassino— Retaliate Raids  By Hitting London

GERMAN FORCES TIGHTEN GRIP IN CASSINO RUINS   Secret Tunnels Believed Used By Nazis To Get Troops Into City

REICH CAPITAL WAS OBJECT HEAVY NIGHT RAID BY BRITISHERS  NAZIS RETALIATE WITH LONG, DESTRUCTIVE RAID ON LONDON

RAF Hits Berlin As Russians Push Rapidly Westward   Germans Strengther Their Hold Upon Ruins of Cassino

British Lose 73 Planes. — in Sky Fight   Air Offensive. “in Harmony with Red’ Offensive; . Nazis Firm in lTtaly . ;

2,800 TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON NAZI CAPITAL   Allies Fail To Dislodge Strengthened Germans At Cassino

Democrats Hold State Political SpotLight as Leaders Gather in Capital

All Estonia Liberated, Reds Report   45,000 Germans Killed Or Captured, Says Moscow Radio

Hungary May Be Set to Talk Peace   Red Army’s Three-Way Offensive Is Developing Swiftly

Three-Way Drive On Hungary Now Develops Rapidly   And Hungary, Hitler’s Last Satellite, May Be About To Desert Him

Peace Feeler Is Put Out By Hungary   Terms Sought While Rus. sian Offensive Developed Against Satellite

Russia Pushes Drive Against Balkan Nation   Reds Battle Way Into Pass Leading To Slovakia

Rumors of Peace Feelers by Budapes Government Hinted   Russian 3-Way Offensive Against Hungary Gains Speed

Rumor. Hungary Seeks Peace As Russians Invade  Deaet 9 Ulan Poctcca      Reds’ 3-Way Drive Using 30 Divisions Is Gaining Speed;  Vien Mlmenc an Oe

Russians Go Forward In 100-Mile Arc   Defensive Position Of Opposition s Regarded Critical

THREE-WAY RED PINCERS MENACE NAZI SATELLITE   Russians Near Nation On North In Slovakia, East, South In Yugoslavia

Reds Press Toward Hungary   Hitler’s Last Satellite Nation Reported Sending Out Peace Feelers ians Close in

Russians’ Three-Way Push Against Hu: “sary Reported Developing Re ‘dly Today

2 Armies Near Main Gateways Into Germany   Doughboys Fight Off Counterattacks, Gain 3 to 5 Miles

HUNGARIAN MOVE FOR PEACE SEEN   Soviet Army Intensifies Its ‘Three-Way Offensive

PEACE FEELE BY HUNGARY ~ 1S REPORTED   Request for Allied Terms Said to Have Been Made as Three-Way Offensive Toward Country Develong.

Reds Press 3-Way Drive On Hungary   Bedapest Remored Paiting Out Poace-Foelers as Armies Drive fe trem Poland. Yageslavia

n North, Russians Surge Toward Riga To Cut Off Germans in Baltic

Peace Feelers Reported Fron Capital There   Position of Last Nazi Satellite Desperate As Reds Strike from Border

Hungary Is Hard Hit By Russians   Budapest Government May Be Trying to Find Way so hast War   FEDS ARE ON THE MOVE   Soviet Forces Are Pressing Forward on a 100ile Arc

Report Budapes Seeking Allied Peace Terms   Russian Forces Press Forward on Hungarian Frontier

Nazis Battle To Halt Reds   Soviet Army Makes Gains On Czechoslovak Front:  Riga Fall Near.

SOVIET TROOPS ENTER LUPKOW PASS, POLAND   May Strike Nazis From South In Three-Way Move

Russians Press On Hungary In 3-Way Squeeze   Peace Feelers By The Budapest Government Are Rumored.

Strong Forces. Push Forward In 100-Mile Arc Along Frontier   - Pesce Feelers Are. - Reported in “Furkey

Calais Germans Given Truce; 82 Tanks Smashed   German Defenses Crack Under Twin Pushes; British Widen Salient in Rhine Corridor, Strengthen Lines for Push Into Reichland

Hitler’s Last Important Satellite, Hungary, May Be On Verge Folding Up

Red Drive On Hungary Moves Fast   Rumors of Peace Feelers by Budapest Govt. Reported

Reds Converge Swiltly Upon Axis Hungary   Hitler's Tast Important Satellite Reported Seeking Allied Peace  Terms.

Rumor Hungary For Peace Terms   Reds! Three-Way Offensive Against Magyars Said Developing With Speed

RED OFFENSIVE IS DEVELOPING   Three-Way Drive Against Hungary, From Romania And Yugoslavia.   PEACE TALK RUMORED

RUSSIAN THREE-WAY OFFENSIVE AGAINST HUNGARY PRESSED  RUMORED THAT HITLER’: LAST IMPORTANT SATEL

[RAPIDLY DEVELOPING RED ARMY OFFENSIVES BRINGING CHANGE OF HEART TO NAZI SATELLITE

REDS AIMING TRIPLE DRIVE ON HUNGARY   Russian Forces Press Forward In 100-Mile Arc On Frontier of Hitler Satellite Nation  erm cee 8h LT EERE ARRAS RBA Ce

Report Hungary About To Sue For Peace As Russian Drive On Nation Develops Swiftly   Three-Way Offensive Gains Momentum; Rail Town Inside Czechoslovakia Token

Soviets Open 3-Way Push   Hungary Reported to Be Making Peace Feelers As Offensive Starts

HINT HUNGARY READY TO BREAK WITH GERMANS   Reds’ Three-Prong Offensive Against Hungarians Gains Momentum

Hungary Seeks Allied Peace  Terms Is Claim   Rumored On Verge Of Deserting Hitler As Red Three-Way Offensive—— Gathers Speed

Hungary Is Hard Hit By, Russians      Be Trying to Find Way  Budapest Government May to Quit War   REDS ARE ON THE MOVE   Soviet Forces Are Pressing Forward on a 100Mile Arc

HITLER'S LAST ALLY PREPARES TO DESERT WAR   300,000 Russians And Romanians Swarming Over Country’

Only Escape Route Is Mile And Half Wide   Third Arm Advancing In Area Between Metz And Nancy.

IST ARMY BLOWS THREATEN 20 MILE WIDE BREAK-THRU   7THYARMY MOVES TO WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF BELFORT

Yanks Threaten To Trap German City’s Garrison   Nazi Counter-Blows Fail to Stop U.S. Advance; Entire Wes! Front is Aflame

Yanks Cut Last Major Road Out Of Aachen, and Begin Mop -Up   Seventh Army 8 Miles From Belfort; City Under Artillery Fire   RIVIFTIn

TEMPERATURES:   Americans Closing: Pincers On Aachen; ; Escape Route Is Cut

Breakthrough To Dusseldorf, Cologne Seen  German Escape Ga   German Escape Gap Cut To 1'2 Miles; 7th Army Eight Miles From Belfort Gap

LEND-LEASE T0 BE CONTINUEL   British Empire Will Receive Goods From U. S. Through 1945

LEND-LEASE Ald TO BRITAIN IN “40   PLANS CALL FOR CUT IN ASSISTANCE TO FIVE OR SIX BILLION DOLLARS,

Less Lend-Lease Help to Britain   1945 Total Will Be Cut By 50 Per Cent

Cut Lend-Lease Aid To Britain   Plans for 1945 Lend Lease To Be Continued On Reduced Scale.

YOUTHS HELD FOR. ROBBERY ATTEMPI      Two Seized at Standard Oil Filling Stotion

YOUTHS HELD FOR ROBBERY ATTEMPT   Two Seized at red at Standard Oil Filling Sta > sien

“TNDISPENGABLE” MAN VG. “INEVITABLE” MAN   Coined by Clare Luce Voicing Admiration of Dewey   POST-WAR IS DISCUSSED

OPA Probes Big Theft of GasCoupons   TWENTY MILLION GALLONS OF GAS AND FUEL OIL INVOLVED IN BLACK MARKET OPERATION.   Gotten in Waste Paper

Biggest Black Market Operation  OPA Attempts to Fix Blame For Theft of ‘Gas’ Coupons

Germans Report Heavy Fighting In Paris Sector   Reinforcements Pour Ashore in Southern France; Many Nazis Escape Allied Pincers at Falaise

Marseille Also Claimed Being Stormed As More Allies Land On Beachheads

Heavy German Fire Halts Landing Craft At One Coastal Point   ‘Most Of Enemy Armor Reported Pulled From Normandy Front; Bitter Fight On 20-Mile Stretch

Paratroopers, French Patriots Storm Marseille      Germans Report Heavy Fichting Near Paris

PROGRAM FOR TH OF JULY COMPLETED   Contests in Afternoon, Star Musical Program in Evening

GEN. EISENHOWER SPEAKS T0 OPEN WAR BOND DRIVE   Head of Invasion Army Talks From England, Reminds World of Nearing All-Out Battle.   MIMITZ, MORGENTHAU TWO OTHER SPEAKERS   Army Head Says Final Tes ts Nearing When Demo cracy Will Determine Suc cess of Battle.

pnderous Pincers Wiove Ofaried Crom MMLIOm™  Wari Troops May Be Trapped South Of Rome

Today Is Anniversary Of Hitler’s Invasion Of  Holland and Belgium.

Blasting Of Nazi Europe Continues   Another American Force Of Airmen Strikes Into The Balkans

AMERICANS CARRY ON TWO-WAY AIR WARFARE TODAY   Over 3,000 Tons of Bombs On French Coast in 12  Hours.

Hitler Rushing Reinforcement:  Into Balkans    Nazi Trying to Save Oil Fields Out of Possible Debacle

Hitler Rushing. — Forces Through Rumania, Hungary  Nazis in Frantic Race  To Save. at least  os Bhaeet] Fielde

Hitler Making His Last Desperate Gamble To Save Ploesti Oil Fields

NAZIS IN RUSH INTO BALKANS   Hitler Speeds Troops in Ef. fort to Save at Least Oil Field at Ploesti

Nazis Rush To Save Oil Fields   Armored Forces Pour Thru Hungary and Ruma. nia To Salvage Fields.

HITLER 1S RUSHING ADDITIONAL FORCES   Desperate Effort Planned to Save Oil Fields of Ploesti

DISASTER IS FACING HITLER IN BALKANS   Troops Rushed in Effort to Head Off Reds, But Qdds Are Aqainst Nazis

 Hitler Rushes Armored Units Into Hungary,  Rumania In Altempt To Save Balkan Oil

Court Denies Application For 1.$.U. Receiver   Bechtel Interests Are Removed-From Corpora: tion By Ruling.

Receivership of  © U. Is Denied  Bec htel Stock Is   Bechtel Stock Is Invalid. However

Reds Hurl Huns 4O More Miles   Germans Retreat to Bug River As Russians Step Up Campaign

SLASH INTO OLD POLAND   Nazis Admit Major Reverses On Eastern Front

RUSSIANS CHECK NAZIS AS GREAT BAPE CONTINUES   Germans Admit. Setbacks While Enemy Makes Stand Inv Italy, Allies ‘Slowed as Battle Rages.   TRAPPED CIVILIANS AT “SAIPAN MAY GO FREE   Chinese Claim Siege at - Hengyang Is Broken, Japs  . Driven Back as Much as 95 Miles.

Major Drive From South Is Forecast   Nazis Acknowledge Major Reverses In Main Sectors

Russians Score Breakthrough Below Kowel   Foresee Major Offensive As Result Of Action; Widespread Fighting

Soviets  Gain Luck Wedge   Army Races Over Wilno Approaches in Lithuania Drive

Red Army Drives Foe Toward Bug River In Poland   Russians Push Past Newly-Captured Kowel; Offensive In North May Outflank Baltic  Tyafance Tine

SIMPLIFIED TAX ~ BILL UP TO FOR   “House Ok’s Senate Changes in Freeing 30 Million from Returns

Final Approval Of House Given To New Simplified Tax Returns Bill

6 Die as Plane Hits W. Va. Peak   Blizzard-Blinded Bomber Crashes in Randalnh

Nye ‘Adds fo Lead « Over Three Rivals in’ Senatorial’ Race... ‘ -

Army, Navy Planes Hit Kurile Isles   13th Aitack Made on Nip Bases Near Jav Homeland

Saipan Battle Enters Final Phase Today   Yankee Navy Task Force Attacks Bonin, Voleano Islands

?While Marines Move Into  Last Phase Of Battle  For Saipan   GARAPAN CAPTURED BY U.S. MARINES   Is First Japanese City In Pacific To Fall To The Allies

Yank Task Fleet Raids Bonin Isles   Capital of Saipan Also Wrested From Ninpen Defenders

ISLANDS NEAR TOKYO STRUCK BY AMERICANS   Powerful U. S. Naval Task Force Sinks or Damages Six Enemy Ships.

Campaign for Saipan Now in Final Stages   Six Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged in New Attack

U. S. Task Forces : Strike Nearer Tokyo   Campaign To Wrest Saipan From Japs Enters Final Phase As Garapan Falls

Fight to Take Saipan Enters Final Stage   Yanks Seize Garapan First Jap City; Fleet Attacks Bonins

Drive To Gain Saipan Control  In Final Phase    New Strikes Against Bonin, Volcano Isles Reported By Nimitz

FIGHTING ON SAIPAN IN FINAL PHASE   U. S. Task Force In New Strikes At Bonins, Volcanoes

Battle for Saipan is in Final Phase   Destroy or Damage Six Jap Ships and 104 Enemy Planes

Saipan Campaign  in Final Stage TASK FORCE SINKS 5 JAP SHIPS IN MONDAY ATTACK ON BONINS

SAIPAN DRIVE   Americans Cleaning Out Nips; Marines Take Ist Jap City

Marines Seize Garapan   New Strikes Reported on Bonin and Volcano Islands

Italy-Based Bombers ‘Raid West Hungary   Lancasters From Britain Blast Nazis In Support Of Allied Ground Forces.

ALLIED MIGHT TOLD BY ASSOCIATED PRESS MAN TOURING FRONT  WECTERN INVACION   WESTERN INVASION FORCES COMPLETELY MECHANIZED IN THIS WAR

Comparison Of This War Witl Other Is Similar In Outline   But It Ends There; Great Concentration Of Artillery. Mechanized Equipment Startling

Massed Allied Might.Reaches A Size Never Dreamed Of In 1918 In France

President of Associated Press, Ltd. _ Compares Western Front of 2 Wars

Massed Allied Might Far Greater Than In 1918   Bs LIOVYe STRATTON

‘Stupendous Proportions Of Troops, Equipment Jammed Into Normandy; Big Job Up To Infantry

Rains Hamper - Ttalian Drive   Allies Unleash Powerful Aerial Offensive

February Court Term Convenes Next Monday  Small Number of New Cases Filed

February Court Term Convenes Next Monday  Small Number of New Cases Filed For Hearing

ests Sums Up War in ee as Created Fleeting But Definite Change for Victory‘

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Alllies Have Chance F or Major Win   “This Week” May Be Fateful Era In Struggle For Victory In France

The War Today   This Week May Tell Story of Cerman Army in France

This Week Is Momentous ‘One In War   By DEWITT ‘AACKENZIE Associated Press War Analvst

Three Fateful Words, ‘Fleeting But Definite? Summarize Allied Opportunity In France

WAR TODAY   Boche In Tight Corner; Battle of France May Be Decided This Week With Allied Vietory

FLEETING OPPORTUNITY CREATED FOR MAJOR ALLIED VICTORY IN FRANCE. GEN. EISENHOWER SAYS

Registration of ‘Teen Age Negroes In Georgia May Bring Test of Law

Rhode Island Is  First In Drive   Smallest State Reaches Quota of $80,000,000

TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES JOINED   One Pushes South in Ruthenia to Link With Another From Transylvania.

Weather Slows Pace of Soviets In East Prussia   Germon Resistance Also Grows Heavier As Battle Continues

Car and Truck Collide Near Here  Injuring Six   Eldred Truck Carrying War Workers Rams Car of Bob McKendrick

 Scoring W heel Comes Off V ehicle Six Persons Receive Injuries  As Light Truck Rams Into Car

NAZIS MAKE STAND ON THE PSKOV FRONT   Russians Advance Toward Capital Of White Russia

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN AROUND PSKOV, THREATEN MINSK   Germans Hurl Reinforcements Into Battles But to No Avail As Yat.

MINSK IS THREATENED BY RUSSIANS      Nazis Rush New Troops Into Counter-Attacks

RUSSIANS SWEEP TOWARD MINSK IN GREAT OFFENSIVE   Germans Counter-Attack in Desperate Attempt To Holt Red Army

Russ Menace Poland ‘Gate   Minsk Threatened By Advancing Reds In Big Breakthrough

Nazis Rush Reinforcements West Of Bobruisk But Red Army Keeps Smashing Ahead; Take Several More Towns   REPORT 6,000 NAZI SOLDIERS ARE SLAIN

Reds Cut Thru German Lines to Threaten Minsk   By HARRISON SALISBURY United Preas Cerrespendent

Minsk Now Threatened By Russians   Nazis Rush Reinforcements, But Reds Capture More Towns, Reported

First Casualties Are Quiet, Cheerful; Men Relieved When Zero Hour Arrived

Wounded Brough! In From Fray   Think Germans Were Surprised by Allied Thrust

1000 Yank Bombers Hit Nazi Cities   GERMAN: OPPOSITION IS RISING; HEAVY TOLL EXACTED BY FIGHTERS

130 GERMAN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   1,750 American Planes Raid Points In Central Germany

Infantrymen Now 15 Miles From Bologna; 8th Army Beats Back Enemy —

oth Rips Gap In Gothie Line   New Victory .Paves Way For Po Valiev Puch

NAZIS’ GOTHIC LINE BREACHED   Fifth Army Drives Ahead On Six-Mile Front Above Florence

GOTHIC LINE IS BREACHED BY 51H ARMY   On Six-Mile Front Above Florence, Opening Way for Descent Into Po Val Lav   Aerial Support

Fifth Makes Breach in Gothic Line   Smashes Nazi Defenses On. Six-Mile front, open Way to The  ‘Poa--Valley _

EIGHT FINED —INSTAMP SALE   Plead Guilty to Illegal Possession of Gas Coupons

WARD OFFICIAL ARRESTED FOR TEARING SIGN   ‘Just a Souvenir’ Says Assistant Manager

AREA IS WON   Marine, Army Forces Join  To Control Western  Part of Island

Marines and Army Troops An-Juncture   Meeting of Two Forces Culminates Drive to Conquer Western  New Britain

JAP RESISTANCE INNEW BRITAIN “AREAS COLLAPSES   Entire Western Part of Island in American Hands—Forces Moving North and South Meet.   7,000 NIP TROOPS KILLED IN CAMPAIGN   Allied Planes Drop, Bombs on Rabaul Second Straight Day Without Meeting Aerial! Interception.

ALL WESTERN NEW BRITAIN IN U. S. HANDS   Sixth Army And Marines Join To Culminate Campaign Begun December 15 When Army Landed.   Bomb Tanimbar

Marines on North Coast And Sixth Army Troops Meet After Long Battles

Victory tor Marines: All Western New Britain Captured  By Americans, MacArthur Asserts

All Western New Britain Captured  Marines and Sixth  Army Forces Join

German Forces West of the Orne Are in Increasing  Danger  YANK DASH TO SEINE?      Objective of U. S. Thrust > Toward Paris Is Not  Revealed

German Forces West of the Ome Are in Increasing - Danger   YANK DASH TO SEINE?   wa of U. S, Thrust ‘oward Paris Is Not Revealed

4322 Captives Seized in Day By Americans   U. S. Troops 30 Miles North of Le Mans, Paris Radio Says

Yank Forces Driving for Paris Suddenly Swing North to Threaten Envelopment of 300,000 Nazis

TURN NORTH TO TRAP GERMANS SOUTH OF SEINE   COMBAT TEAMS HAVE COMPLETED CAPTURE OF NANTES, ANGERS

Chartres Capture Lacks Confirmation   - «+ Nantes And Angers Now In Allies’ Hand:

British Forces Capture Thury-Harcourt Today To Tighten Their Side  Of Pincers Movement

“GERMANS ARE IN A BAD WAY,” MONTY STATES   No Solid Opposition Encountered in Mystery Thrust Toward Paris

Yankee Troops Only 90 Miles From Versailles  Swing Northward To Threaten All Nazis South Of ony As Reitickh Seara Gain

Germans Fight Bitterly Near Orne River as Plight Grows — Acute; ‘Monty’ Is Optimistic

Paris Radio Reports U. S. Troops Have  Passed Alencon, 30 Miles North LeMans

(ank Tank Forces Reported Throwing Main Weight of Attack to North of Le Mans, and a Dash to the Seine West of Paris Might Close Circle on Enemy Below River—Paris Radio Puts Doughboys at Alencon, 42 Miles From Caen Sector,

Knifing Way To Edge Of Paris Area   All Germans South Of Seine Threatened By Circled Sweep.

Texyo Declares Allied Bombers Attack Formosé   Chinese Newspapers See Raid Opening Of Aerial Deive-Based On_Chi

ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACKED CITY OF TAKAO LAST NIGHT   This ‘Vas An Annoucement Made by the Tokyo Radio Today.   ON COAST OF FORMOSA

Commended by Lt. Gen. Spaatz   Set. Herbert Amos and Cpl. Forrest Bennett and Others Praised by British Press.

Sergeant Edward Cichowski With Air Depot That Set “ World Records.

Nazis Driven From  Alled Beachheads;  Situation Improves   Progress Made Despite  Bad Weather, Stiffer   German Resistance

Germans Claim Red Offensive Started At Iasi   Moscow Does Not Confirm Nazi Report Of Heavy Action On Broad Front

RUSSIAN THRUST EXPECTED SOON   Reds Will March Across German Land Shortly, Moscow Predicts

DNB ANNOUNCES RUSSIANS HAVE LAUNCHED DRIVE   Heavy Fighting Reported in Sector North of Tasi, Romania

Germans Report Soviet Atiacks   Russians Improve Their Positions

SOVIET DRIVE TO JOUN 2ND FRONT STARTS   Nut-Cracker Off Offensive In Romania Reported by Berlin

Nazi Reports Powerful Red Drive Opened   Moscow Silent on Claim Offensive on lasi Sector Started

SOVIETS LAUNCt NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Heavy Fighting In Progress In Romania

Germans Say Tanks Roll In Romania   Russians Remain Silent On Drive At Galati Gap

Germans Repor Offensive Is Under Way   Heavy Fighting In Progress, Romanian Communique Asserts

NAZIS REPORT NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE      No Russian Confirmation of the New Push

Report Heavy Fighting On In Romania   No Confirmation immediately From Russian  Sources

REPORT SOVIETS LAUNCH ATTACK   Nazi Announce Large Scale Push in Rumania

RUSSIANS SAID TO HAVE OPENED BIG. OFFENSIVE   Nazi Commentator Reports Reds Are Attacking on Wide Front North of Iasi in Romania.   STORY UNCONFIRMED BY SOVIET LEADERS   Moscow Makes No Mention of Battle and Asserts There Were Few Changes  on Front. .

BERLIN SAYS RUSSIANS HAVE ‘OPENED OFFENSIVE   DNB Broadcast Says Reds Opened New Offensives On Broad Front in Sector North nf Ines

Soviets Launch Strong Drive, Nazis Report   Strike on Wide Front North of Jasi, Komania, Commentator Asserts

RUSSIANS LAUNCH POWERFUL ASSAULT   Report By German Commenfator Is Not Confirmed Br Soriet Communiaue

Berlin Says Reds Launch  New Assault   ALLIES DRIVING ACROSS 20-MILE GAP T0 CUT OFF CHERBOURG PORT

SAVIETS LAUNCH *OMINIAN DRIVE   Berlin Says Offensive Op ..ens.On Broad Fron  North Of Iasi 

REDS LAUNCE OFFENSIVE   Berlin Broadcast Claims Fighting Heavy On Front

Germans Report Soviet Aitacks  Russians Improve Thair Pasitionge

NAZIS SAY RUSSIA STARTING A DRIVE   A DN B Broadcast Reports - Reds: Are Moving on Romanian: Front

Big Push Starts North Of lasi, Germans Claim  Moscow Gives Out Ne News On Account, Bu Actian Wac Fynectec

RED OFFENSIVE AIMED AT AXIS   Germans Reveal Attack on Broad Front North of lasi, Romania

Rus’: caunches Broad Offensive, Nazis Broadcast   Red Army Forces Strike in Sector North _Of fasi, Romonio, Berlin Reports, But No Confirmation Is Received From Moscow

Powerful Soviet Blows Reported   Moscow Continues  Silence On Drive  By RUSSELL LANDSTROM Associated Presa Staff Writer

RUSSIANS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE NEAR IASI, ROMANIA   This Information Was Con: tained in a DNB Berlin Broadcast.   It IS ON A BROAD FRONT   There Was No Confirmation From Moscow Regarding the Move.

BERLIN BROADCAST ANNOUNCED SOVIETS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE NO IMMEDIATE CONFIRMA TION FROM MOSCOW BUT  ee

Red Offense Launched, Germans Say   Heavy Fighting Is in Progress, Berlin Asserts

Squeeze Appears Under Way Russians Attacking   . Berlin Reports Reds Strike Near lasi, Romania

Powerful Soviet  BIOWS. Reported.   Moscow Continues “Silence On. Brive:

Flaming Battles Rage In Ar Between Sky-borne Units  ~ Both Sides

Parachute, Glider Troops Pour Down   Flaming Battles Rage In Area Between Sky-borne Units of Both Sides

Sensation in WPB:  Two Officials Resign in Tiff Over Amount of Army Supplies

WPB Men Resign When Munitions Report Banned  Bassie, Kaplan Had Found Army Ordnanct  §unnly Abundant

Army Suppr esses Data On Abundance of Supplies WPB Officials Charge -

SUPPRESS REPORT, TWO WPB EXPERTS RESIGN IN PROTES!   Aides Dispute Army’s Claim of Shortages In Materiel

OFFICIALS QUIT IN WPB DISPUTE   Report On Abundance Of Army Ordnance Items Causes Argument

WPB Specialists Quit In Protest Of Army Policy   Favorable Figures On Ordnance Production Reported Suppressed

Claim Two WPB Officials Quit At ter Army Row   Allege Suppression Of Report Showing Supplies Abundant

VPB AIDES, IN BATTLE OVER REPORT, QUIT   Say Army Suppresses Jata on Abundance . Of Ordnance

Turkey May Take Concrete Steps in Support of Uniied Nations War Effort in Few Days

Turks Appear Ready to Act To Help Allies   Spectacular Move Is Expected Within Matter of Days

Turkey Ready To Give More Aid to Allies   Break With Reich Believed Near, Perhaps Followed Ry Actual War

Allied Camp Soon May Get Turkey’ s Aid   Some Concrete Step In Support of Allies  Exneécted in Few. Dave   ALREADY HAS CUT TRADE: WITH REICH Next Move May Be Severance of. All ~ Eeonomic Relations

Turkey Is Moving Toward Allied Assistance in War   May Sever Relations With Germany and Take Steps Short of War if Not Entering the Conflict

TURKEY MAY TAKE VITAL STEP SWIFTLY  Talks With Allies Siease Peantie Resuté

2 ur irkey Believed Ready For  - Step In Support Of Allies   Nation Has’ ‘Been tnehing: Toward ( Camp oF United ; Notions for Months—Break With. Germany —— ae in Near Future Indicated

— a i  ges Hillman Says Has  Photo of Dewey at  Communist Meeting

PAPER BALLOON WITH JAPANESE MARKING FOUND   Bag With Incendiary De vice Attached, Discovered In Montana   WAS MANUFACTURED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO

‘Japanese’ Balloot Found in Montana Could Carry Man   Incendiary Bomb Fails to Destroy Paper Bag, FBI Reports

Jap Balloon Found at Kalispell   Discovery of Deflated Bag Announced by Federal Agents; Unexploded Incendiary Bomb, Paper Bag Studied

Invasion Of Isle Is Near   461 Planes Are Wrecked During First 72 Hours

Chinese Based Superfortresses  Strike At Omura   War Production Center Blasted In New Raids At Nippon Homeland :

THREE-WAY SUPERFORT SMASH HITS OMURA, SHANGHAI, NANKING   WAR PRODUCTION CENTERS HIT IN MOUNTING U. S. AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAP HOMELAND

SUPERFORTS BOMB OMURA WAR PLANTS   Damage to Plane Plant At Nagoya Termed Extensive

FACTORIES HAMMERED   Blow Follows Attack @®Vionday On Nagoya Aircraft Plant

Omura, 600 Miles From Tokyo, Hit by U.S. Planes   Shanghai and Nanking, China, Also Bombed

STIMSON THINKS ANZIO REPORTS 100 PESSIMISTIC   “Keep Your Shirt On” Good Advice for Everybody,  Serraetarvy Sove

Anzio Reports Too Gloomy;  Stimson Says   “Keep Your Shirt On” Is Seeretary’s Advice About War in Ltaly

Reports from Anzio Beachhead Have Been Unduly Gloomy, Says Stimson

Stimson Says Recent Reports From Anzio Beachhead Overly Pessimistic

Reds Surge Forward In Drive Threatening  To Reach German Soil   Fierce Fighting Rages Close To The Frontier

RUSSIAN SHELLS NOW PLOUGHING UP GERMAN SOIL   Thousands of Invaders Are Being Squeezed by Reds In Estonia and Latvia

Russians Throw ) Bridgeheads Across Vistula   Warsaw Besieged And Outflanked; Big Red Force 3 Miles From Fost Prussia Border

Nazis Report Reds Have Firmer Hold   Germans Say Soviets Establish Bridgeheads Over Vistula River as Mighty Siege Of Warsaw Tightens; Artillery Shakes Earth

“Reds Cross © Vistula”’   Two Bridgeheads Established Below Warsaw; Tighten Net On Germans Near Riga

Russ Outflank Pole Capital   Siege of Warsaw in Fourth Day; Red Artillery Hammers Prussian Soil; Great Nazi Force Squeezed in Baltic Pincers

Reds Throw Bridgeheads Over Vistula   Germans Belending Polish Capital Attacked from Within by Poles, Witheut by Reds

Reds Surge To Within 3 Miles  East Prussia   Determined Cainpaign From Captured Dydvizhe Promises to Carry War Into Germany   Reds Establish Vistula Landing:   German Radio Admits Strong One Established, One Only 37 Miles From Warsaw

Soviets Win Bridgeheads Over Vistula   Warsaw Being  Outflanked and Besieged From  Without and Within

Russians Batter At East Prussia   New Bridgeheads Established By Reds Over Broad Vistula River

Russian Armo! Attacks Near East Prussia   Approach Prussian Cities of: Tilsit and Insterbough and Capita City of Konigsberg

RUSSIANS DRAWING NEAR EAST PRUSSIA IN SUMMER CAMPAIGN  SOVIET ARMORED FORCE! SAVAGELY CHARGE GERMAN DEFENSES

REDS WITHIN THREE MILES OF EAST PRUSSIA   Battle for Warsaw Enters 4th Day, Poland Patriots Fight Nazis in City

British Take Over, Isle of Scarpantc   Greek Population “Con. tains’? German Garrison During Operation

British Capture Scarpanto Island   German Garrison Contain ed By Greek Population

DODECANESE ISLAND OCCUPIED BY BRITISH   Greek Population ‘Contains’ Nazi Force At Scarpanto

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES TWO MILES   Now Within 12 Miles of Bologna in Po Valley

Yanks Within 12 Miles of Bologna   Heavy Artillery Shells Outskirts of City ~

Sth Army Makes Two-Mile Gain   8th Advances to End Lull on Adriatic Front

Bloodstains On Mattress Murder Clue   Picture Examined In Trunk-Slaying Prohe at Chicavo

Police Check Two Hotels For Trunk Slayes   Picture of Woman, Sis Had“ Bei a : Sought Man, in Tau  . of Authorities

Base At Toulon  Now Encircled   Yanks Seek To Isolate Port of Marseille; German Forces Rolled Back in Western France

Trapped Nazis Surrender In Large Numbers   Slashing Allied Armies Drive Enemy Into Pocket

Gls Drive Toward Buzz Bomb Coast   French Patriots Fight Throughout France— ‘Germans Report Allies in Toulon; Nazi Counterattacks Create Possible Escape Corridor for Trapped Baltic Armies; Allies Occupy All of Florence.

Speedy Okeh Looms on  Price Controls   House GOP Chiefs. Plan to Drop Subsidies as Issue

House GOP Heats 4n-No Mood for Dispute Over OP!   Speedy Re-enactment of Wartime Controls Anticipated

Subsidies Will Not Become  a Party Issue Re-enactment of  Price Controls Te Naw Fareenct

G.0.P. to Let Up On Subsidy Fight   Speedy Enactment Of Controls Indicated

Price Issue May Get Quick Action   Rumored That House Republicans Wil] Not Make Issue of Price Control Bill.

Subsidies Will Not Become a Party Issue  Re-enactment of Price Controls

New Airline To Sweden To Start   Route Said Proposed Via Labrador, Iceland

Dewey Gets Enthusiastic Reception In Michigan   State Republican Leaders Urge Him To Make  Major Speech Later; Labor, Farmers Impressed By Policies :   Cheering Throng Breaks _ Police Lines At Niles

Joan Tells Story Of Chaplin Trysts   Ex-Protege Testifies, Accuses Comedian

‘Chaplin Is Father of My Child, Girl Testifies, Describing I rysts   Miss Barry Says She Had No Relations With Other Men Since Accepting Actor's Attentions ’

AUDOIANS OPEN DRIVE WN NORTH   Start Grand Winter Offensive in Western Latvia   SOVIETS PUSH   Through Hungary's Mountains to Within 20 Miles of Old Czech Border

Russians Open Winter Drive In West Latvia   30 Nazi Divisions Reported Trapped

GRAND WINTER OFFENSIVE OF REDS LAUNCHED   Large Scale Drive: Direct ed At 300,000 Germans   MISKOLC OUTSKIRTS ENTERED BY SOVIETS

Russians Fight, Way Into Hungary's Fifth City   MOSCOW IS SILENT ON LATVIAN ATTACK   Huge Soviet Force Report: ed Gathered for Mass Assault

FROZEN LATVIA SCENE OF RED WINTER DRIVE   GERMAN _ DIVISIONS PINNED AGAINST BALTIC SEA

Russian Army Opens Grand Winter Drive   Berlin Says Troops Are Twenty Miles From Czech Border

Berlin Reports New Red Drive In West Latvia   Big Winter Offensive Reported Underway; Soviets in Hungary's Fifth Largest City

RUSSIAN FORCE NOW BATTLING INSIDE MISKOLC   Red Army Troops Advance To Within Two Miles Of Eger, Major  Defense Post

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE INWEST LATVIA   Berlin Reports Assault Started Sunday Where Nazi Units Are Trapped

RED ARMY OPENS WINTER OFFENSIVE IN WEST LATVIA   Berlin thnounce’ Huge Russian Forces Have Been Hurled Against 300,000 Pocketed Nazis.   GERMAN LINES RIPPED IN VIOLENT FIGHTING   Stalin’s Troops in Hungary Smash Into Outskirts of Miskolc and Cut Escape Roads From City. a

Reds’ Big Winter Drive Reported Or   Berlin Tells of Latvia Blow: Battle in Miskolc

Grand Winter Offensive in East Opens   German Divisions Are Pinned Against Baltic

Germans Claim Reds Open Granc Latvian Drive   Russians Also Fight Way to Outskirts Of Miskolc, Hungary

New Russian Offensive Under Way, Berlin Says   Says Big Winter Push  ‘On Frozen Terrain OF Western Latvia  Moves on Wide Front  sar AST aS CVT Pram

RESTAURANTS TO POST FOOD PRICE   OPA Releases List of 40 Items to Be Displayed

Daily Capital News      Published Every Week Day Moraing Except Monday L NEWS PRINTING CO.  er ae T Pe  THE. CARY

Daily Capital News      "Published! very Week Day Morning Except Monday THE CAPITAL NEWS PRINTING CO.  tebekicad wita. Baan

Say U.S. Cannot Suspend Rations   Nation Unable To Follow Canada’s Lead

Anzio Battle Growing In Intensity   Moletta River Area Is Scene of Allied Advances

J. S. CRUISER ENDS AID TO AND FORCES   arsistent German Efforts  ‘o Infiltrate Through Ra vines Near Carroceta Are Frustrated   IEATHER UNFAVORALBE

34th Division Holds Ground  In Cassino   Artillery Dueling Has Increased; British Take Buildings From Germans

SHARP INCREASE IN  BEACHHEAD FIGHTING  IN ITALY REPORTED ARTILLERY DUELING  RISES TO NEW INTENSITY IN AN7ZIO AREA

Moletta River Becomes Scene Of Sharp Fight   British Storm Two German Strongholdes Yank Ship Shells Nazi Positions

Anzio Fight  Tempo Mounts; Big Guns Duel   Nazi Account Declares Allies Reinforced, But Claims Wiping Out Of Two Battalions

BRITISH TROOPS SCORE ADVANCE NEAR CARROCETC   Artillery Duel Increasing in Intensity Along Italian Reachhead

Battle Intensity Rises At Moletta: Blast Rome Base   British Storm and Capture Two Buildings The Germans Had Converted To Strong Points; Batter Korcula.

ANZIO FIGHTING GROWS HOTTER   Moletta Area Breaks Loose And Artillery Duels Grow

Fierce Anzio Fight Spreads Along River       oletia, Near Carroceto Sees Sharp Action: Navy  Shells Foe’s Gunposts

A SHARP INCREASE IN FIGHTING ALONG MOLETTA RIVEE   Artillery Dueling Rose in Intensity Along the Anzio Battlefront.   IS NEAR CARROCETO   British ‘Troops Have Stormed and Captured Two Build “+ ings There.

Artillery Duel. Becomes Intense  Anzio Battlefront Alive With Action

Artillery Duels Hit NewPeak   British Troops Seize Buildings; Moletta Scene Of Battles

Big Guns Duel At Bridgehead   Sharp Increase In Fighting Noted; British Sejze Stronzuoints.

ALLIES STEP UP PACE AT ANZIO   British Drive Nazis From Key Points; Cruisers  Back Action

ANZIO FIGHTING MORE INTENSE   Allied Troops Increase Attack Along Headwaters Of Moletta.   NAZI POSITIONS SHELLED

BATTLE GROWS IN INTENSITY ALONG RIVER   U. S. Cruiser Pours Shells Into Nazi Positions   ‘Made On Yugoslav Coast; Attempt To Infiltrate Allied Lines Fails

British Seize - ) Strongholds From German:   U.S. Artillery And Navy ' Guns Bredk Up Enemy Infiltrations

U. S. Cruiser Hurls Shells Into German Gun Position   British Seize Enemy Defended Buildings

SHARP INCREASE IN BEACHHEAD FIGHTING IN ITALY REPORTED  ARTILLERY DUELING RISES TO NEW. INTENS-

British Take Strongpoints   Fighting Breaks Out Southwest of Carroceto  WEATHER ADVERSE American Artillery Spoil:   American Artillery Spoils Infiltrating Efforts

U.S. CRUISER POURS SHELLS IN NAZI LINES   Increased Fighting on Moletta River Line Marks Struggle

Sharp Increase Noted In Action On Beachhead  British Capture —   British Capture Nazi Stronghold On Their Sector

Anzio Battle Mounts Along Molefta River   British Capture Two Buildings In Carroceto Fight

Sharp Increase in Fighting on Moletla River Section of Anzio Beachhead   SHIP BLASTS NAZIS   Airdromes Near Rome, Transport Hit by Airmen—Nazis Say Two Battalions Wiped Out

MOLETTA RIVER FIGHTING SHARP   British Storm And Capture Two German Strongpoints  WEATHER STILL BAD

Sharp Increase in Fighting on Anzio Beachhead Fighting   Artillery Duelling is More Intense Breaking  Recent Lull

ACTION INTENSIFIED -ON MOLETTA RIVER: NEW FORCES LANDED   British Troops Capture Two Strongpoints in Area 11 Miles Above Anzio   ROME AIRFIELDS BOMBED

British Troops Seize Two Nazi Strong points   Comparative Lull Along Headwaters of Molette Rive- Near Carroeeto Broken   U.S. Cruiser Pours Shells Into Enemy   Gun Positions Targets Of Warship Standing Close To Shore; Germans Also Bonthed

ALLIES TAKE TWO “FORTS” ON BEACHHEAD   Increase Tempo of War in Italy Despite Bad Weather: Navies and Air Fleets Also Active.

Artillery Duel On Anzio Front   Fighting Increases Along Moletta River

ALLIED BARRAGE POUNDS ENEMY ON ANZIO FRONT   British Troops Storm Nazi Strongholds As General Fighting Increases

Sharp Fighting Reported At Moletta River   British Capture Buildings Germans Had Made Into Strongpoints

American Cruiser Pours Shells Or, German . Gun Positions   AIRFIELDS IN THE ROME AREA RAIDED

J. S. CRUISER ALSO SHELLS NAZI FORCES   Sharp Fighting Reported, Meanwhile, Southwest of Carrocceto, Where British Take Two Enemy Buildings.

FIGHTING ALONG ANZIO FRONT IS. MORE ACTIVE   Artillery Duelling Rises In Intensity Along Allied Beachhead Front

British Troops Take 2 German Strong Points   Sharp Upsurge In Fighting Along Moletta River On Anzio Front.

Janice Graham Is Acquitted   Jury Deliberates 12 Hours—Girl Loses Stolid Calm

ACQUITTED IN FARM DEATHS   ‘Mercer Slaying Still Un. - golved As Janice Graham Is Freed

Third Time in 36 Hours By Hundreds of Heavy Bombers in Deliberate Aerial Offensive.   Lose 9 Planes

U. 3. AILLED IN AITAPE BATTLE LISTED AS 286   Japanese Known Dead Said To Be 8,064, New Attacks Made

NAZIS HINT AT BIGGER GOMES TOSTRIKE U.S   RAF Sends Planes Up to _ Fight Rockets Sweeping in Across Channel.

Germans Hint “Rocket” Planes May Reach U. $.   Invaders Near Two Jap Strongholds On Saipan

Peace Reigns In Distribution  Office of WFA   Rumblings of Walkout Die Down After Reshuffle

WAR POWERS ACT EXTENSION VOTED BY HOUSE ACTION   Bill Sent to Senate With. Amendment Giving Federal Courts Some -Power ry

Would Freeze Security Levy   Rebuff Is Met by President  Roosevelt in House Ways and Means Cammitioe

War Powers Act Extended -by House   AMENDMENT GIVES COURTS JURISDICTION OVER AGENCY RULINGS

Votes for Review of  ~ War Rules   House Extends . President’s Powers, But Would Allow Court Action   NO OPPOSITION IN VOICE. VOTE   But Opponents Had Made Argument the Amendment Would ‘Hamstring’ Boards

CONGRESS BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN ON DEMOBILIZATION   Coalition Seeks Defeat Of Bill Giving U_S. Pay Control

BITTER FIGHT DEVELOPING INSENATE   Demobilization t Bill Is Cause  Of Quarrel,

Call For Complete Destruction of Prussian. Built Army, Reliable  Informant Diseloses   Must Lay Down Arms At Once   Russians Insist on Point, Fearing Troops Might Meit Back Into Reich

Allies Arrange For Occupation   War Criminals Will Be Apprehended And Naziism Stamped Out

Vocational Guidance For Each Veteran Seeking Work [s Job For Community

They'd Like For Him To Refurn   ‘Hungry Spaniard’ Leaves Tips Up to $100

Air Armada Blasts Axis By Daylight   Allied Bombers Sweep Over Channel After Night Blow

L  ‘Germans Confused By Whirlwind   American Tactics As Foe Fans Out In Every Direction In Ovnicek Advance   SECRECY CLOAKS ALLIED PROGRESS

Germans in Norman Pocket 100,000 Enemy Troops Ree Back Before French Capital

‘BLACKOUT’ ON DIRECT NEWS OF YANK WHIRLWIND   2-Day Prisoner Bag 10.295

Paris Battle in Decisive Stage   100,000 Germans Sent Reeling Back on Paris, Seine, as Allied Assault Power Threatens to Chop Through Nazi Army; Tanks Smash Gains

Survivors of Deceased Servicemen To Contact  Social Security Board

G-Girls Back to Offices   Meningitis Quarantine Lifted in Washington

Allied Bombers Hit Jap Bases In New Guinea   Mokmer Airdrome Or Biak Island Is Hit Twice By Liberators

ALLIES ATTACK ENEMY’S BASES   Bombers Pound Japs on New Guinea — Nip Casualty List Is Growing

OF ENEMY ARE SLAIN   Biak Island North Of Hollandia Lashed In Heavy Raids

New Guinea Bases Heavily Bombed By Allied Planes  Massed Jap Troops Target of New MacArthur Drive

PROUD OLO SHIPS USED IN INVASION   Many That Were Damaged At Pearl Harbor in 1941 Are in Fleet.

S. PHILIPPINE RAIDS GO UNCHALLENGED   MacArthur Says Allied Air Forces Dominate Area—Bomb Key Airdrome in Mindanao.

HALSEY’S Gi MAY STILL BE BLAZING AWAY   MacArthur’s Airmen Stage Record Raid Against Celebes

HALSEY’S FLEET MAY BE RAIDING   Task Force Likely To Be Playing Preliminary Invasion Role

U.S, WARSHIPS POUND PALAUS   Action Seen as Pre-Invasion Blow; Celebes Under New Attack

Sth Air Force Sends Bombs Hurtling Dowr On Berlin’s Industries   Nazi Broadcasts Report Massed German And Yank Planes Are Locked In Battle

FOOD OUTLOOK ANALYZED FOR REST OF YEAR   RATIONING LIKELY TO STAY UNTIL WAR IS WON

Food Situation Reported Good   Shortage Noted in Canned Vegetables

ENEMY REFINERIES BLASTED “BY BOMBERS AND NIPS 4 ‘ ” ALSO LOSE MANY  PLANES,  -

U.S. And British Bombers, Sustaining Air Offensive, Go After Coastal Targets   Raiders Give Germans No Rest; 5,000 Planes Hit Reich Within Two Dovs

Air Offensive Against Reich Is Maintained   Bombers Hit Two Nazi Aircraft Plants, Six Airfields

Allies Keep Up Aerial Blows   Hit Nazi Aircraft Plants and German Airfields, Reported

BOMBERS BLAST REELING REICH   Allied Bombers Continue Unbroken Attacks On Nazi-Held Europe

C ounter-Attacks Slow — ' Allied Gains In Italy   Gen. Clark Visions Capture of Capital  Shortly; Now Fighting 16 Miles From City

Allies Point At Four Main Strongpoints   Gains ‘Satisfactory’ And Clark Sees Fall Of Rome in Few Days  FOE’S LOSSES HEAVY

Kirovograd Is Surrounded On All Sides by Reds   Ukrainian Army Drives 12 Miles More Into Old Poland

2ND UKRAINE ARMY TAKES 120 TOWNS IN NEW OFFENSIVE   Industrial Kirovograd Is Sur. rounded in Sweep and Its Fall Is Believed Imminent.   OTAKR UNITS PUSH DEEPER INTO POLAND   General Vatutin’s Forces Plunge to Within 18 Miles of Railroad Center  at Garnty.

y2iieaTORS BOMB HANKOW        nt. Area and Samah Bay stallations Were 'Hit

TWO HELD FOR AIDING NAZIS   Girls, 19 and 20, Face Federal Charges At  Owosso

Workers Return Ih Three Plants   Windsor. Employes Remain Out. On Strike

Situation Critical As Bad Weather Hampers Aerial Reinforcement   Desperation-Born Stiffening of German  Stand Reflected Along Whole, 500-Mile: Front; Patton Runs Into F resh Enemy Armored Forces. 

RELIEF FORCE IS STALLED BY STUBBORN FOE   Germans Claim Half of Original Force Has Been Erased

GERMANS SAY AIR TROOPS ARE NOW " ARNHEM   City In Flames As Enemy Pulls Back To East: British Troops Nearing  Position Of Isolated  Paratroopers.

NAZIS ATTACK ON ALL SIDES   British and Poles Fighting Desperate Baltle for .  Whi ee ee Bee soe   RELIEF ADVANCE HALTED

German Armies Counterattack  From All Sides   Determined Rush Of Foe Guns, Troops Bring Advance To Standstill.   ARNHEM IS ENTERED

British, Polish Situation Is “Critical”   German Counterattacks Strive to Preven Other Forces From Connecting With Air-Borne Army; Tank Battle Continues

Position of Sky Troops Described To Be ‘Critical’   Allies in Holland Are Beset by Desperate German Counterattack.   Gen. Dempsey’s 2nd Army to a Standstill

British Second Army Held Six Miles Away By Stubborn Nazis   Allies Struggling Into Position to Start End Run Around Siegfried Line Into Ruhr Valley; American Third Army Fighting It Out With Strong Armored Enemy

Germans Reported Closing in on All Sides Against Troops That Dropped Ahead 50 Miles.   SEEKING TO HOLD RHINE RIVER POST

British Relief Held Up Short . of Advanced Airborne  Forces   IN CFSTICAL. POSITION   Third Army in Fourth: Day of Fierce Tank Battle in Vosges

British Relief Column Stopped Six Miles Awav   Parachute Troops, Joined by Poles, ‘Seek to Hold Strategic Crossing of Rhine for Sweep Into Germany

NAZIS CLOSING IN ON TRAPPED AIRBORNE ARMY   ‘Allied Army In Critical  Situation, Relief   Drive Stalled

AIRBORNE BRITISH AND POLES BATTLE GERMAN ATTACKERS   POSITION OF BELEAGURED FORCE OFFICIALLY DECLARED SERIOUS

Germans Check British Trying To Bring Relief   Allies Now Shelling Arnhem; Tank Battle Raging In Fourth Day On 3rd Army Front

DRIVE TO SAVE TRAPPED MEN STALLED   British Forces Six Miles : From Junction   Entered By Allies, German Reports Say; Battle Of Bridge In Doubt

Hemmed in and Relief Is Stalled   ‘Dempsey’s Forces Brought  to Standstil; Dirty Weath  eY Hampers Air Aid   VARIOUS REPORTS ON THE SITUATION   Known to Be Critical, But News on Arnhem Is Conflicting

SAVAGE FIGHT CONTINUING AT RESCUE BRIDGE   Gigantic Tank Battle  Moselle Valley Goes Into Fourth Day

Policemen's Troubles the Same — Whether in Germany or the U.S.  aD (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK.)

REP. DOUGHTON CALLS FOR UNANIMOUS HOUSE APPROVAL OF TAX STREAMLINER

Tax Bill Ends Reports For 30,000,000   Forms Simplified For Remainder; Flat Ten Per Cent Deduction

Open Debate On Tax Bill   Streamlined Income Tax Laws Due to Pass _ Overwhelmingly Friday

NEW TAX PLAN BEFORE HOUSE   Measure Simplifying Laws to Benefit 50 Million Taxpayers ‘Sure to Pass’

MBM ANA ALLEL ALLL ELLA LLANE  SIMPLIFIED TAX LAW PUSHED BY DOUGHTON

ANOTHER GROUP OF JAMAICANS HERE      28 Reach Smithsburg to Augment Labor Sup. -ply Camp .

ANOTHER GROUP OF ~ JAMAICANS HERE   28° Reach Smithsburg to Augment Labor Supply Camp

ACE BUSINESS SLOW; JAPS WON'T FIGHT   Some Pilots Fly 40 Missions Without Seeing a Zero

FIFTH AIR FORCES ACES FIND GOING 15 GETTING VERY HARD  REASON IS THAT THERE IS SCARCITY OF JAP PLANES  Tr CHAT NnNOWA

FIFTH AIR FORCE’S ACES FIND GOING IS GETTING VERY HARD   REASON IS THAT THERE IS SCARCITY OF JAP PLANES TO SHOOT DOWN

War Against Japs Will Get Tougher  as Allies Move ir   Nipponese Confident in Ultimate Victory Over United States

PROVE ROAD TO TOKYO IS TOUGH   NIPS DETERMINED TO DEFEND EMPIRE, SAYS FORMER WAR PRISONER

Powerful Fleet Strikes 1050 Miles Past Truk   Jap Ships Flee as Task Unit Nears Palau Islands in West Pacific; Attacks Continue, Nimitz Reports

ONLY 460 MILES EAST OF PHILIPPINES; JAP SHIPS OBSERVED FLEEING BEFORE U.S. UNITS TAKE POSITIONS.

Assault By American Naval Units is Continuing, Admiral Nimitz Reports; Jap Warships Flee From Area

Strong Yank Task Foree Raids Palau  In Carolines   Island Is Situated 1,050 Nautical Miles . West of Truk Bastion, 906 Miles from Manils   ATTACK CONTINUES, NIMITZ REVEALS  Japanese Ships Flee Before Yanks Arrive; Spotted by Planes :

Mass Evacuation of Tokyo Under Way Preparatory for Aerial Siege   Buildings In City Are Being Torn Down To Create Fire Breaks

BUILDINGS IN JAP CAPITOL ARE. TORN DOWN   Hurried Attempt Made to Prepare Against All-Out American Bombing Offensive;  Damage Admittad

Population Is Stripped  To Minimum   Buildings Are Razed To Impede Spread Of Bomb-Set Fires

Mass Evacuation Is Under Way In Tokyo   Buildings Being Torn Down To Oreate Fire Breaks In Gity

Mass Exodus Begins From Bomb Target of Superfortresses   American Troops Tighten Jaws of Ormoc Death Trap

Temperatures   Buildings Razed as ' Nips Prepare for Heavier U. S. Raids

OTA ITY OF PEHaUNG WHO CAN T AID WAR   ‘Houses Being Torn Down for  Firebreaks as Bomb   Raids Continue.

Nippon Capital  ‘Being Stripped To ‘Essential People   Buildings Are Torn Down As “Fire Breaks,” Assert Axis Advices

Thousands Flee City Before Onrushing American Bomb  Siege: B29s Strike Aaain

City in Panic Over Air Raids   Buildings Are Being Razed to Halt Fires Caused by U.S. Bombs

BUILDINGS RAZED AS FIREBREAKS   Super -Fortress Raids On Nippon Capital Are Reported

ORDER CIVILIAN POPULATION TO LEAVE TOKYO   Full-Seale Raids Expected

JAPS FLEEING TOKYO IN FEAR OF U.S. BOMBS   Axis Radio Reports Mass Evacuation of Capital Under Way: Buildings Blasted for Fire Breaks.

20,000 Leave Today Alone, Nips Reveal   Buildings in City Torn Down to Make ‘Fire Break’ System

Mass Exodus trom Tokyo May Be Underway   Axis Broadcasts Tell Of Preparations to Withstand Bombings

Fear Aerial Siege   Only Essential Persons Are to Be Lett Behind

NEW ASSAULTS BY SUPERFORTS [ARE REPORTED   Aged, Ailing Persons  and Children Taken From Nippon Capital

CLAIM TOKYO IS BEING EVACUATED  Buildings Torn   Buildings Torn Down to Create ‘Fire Breaks’

OFFICIALS TO. STRIP CITY DOWN TO PLANT NEEDS   Buildings Leveled To Create Fire Breaks. To Impede Flames

Gen. MacArthur's Pacific Campaign Developing Speed   New Landings Bring Actual Attack On Philippines Much Nearer

“Increases; More Cases Expected   Rise Give Preview Of What Is In Store - Bor Winter

Japs’ Strength Reaches All-Time Low   Solomons Seizure by Allies Is Paying Dividends

AS VFW MEMBERS   Vets Demand Peasetime Compulsory Military Training of Youth,

Chinese Said To Be Falling Back   Reinforced Jap Troops _ Fanning Out In Kwangsi

19 Lose Lives Tn Plane Crash’   Two-Motored Transport Crashes In Arizona

Balkan Powder Keg Is Told By Simpson  German Coup In Hun. ~ gary Explained

[Russian Offensive Aimed At Weak Link— —By Kirke L. Simpson   Balkans Likely To Blow Up Under Germans

Will Rogers’ Body Is Brought Home To Rest 9 Years After Plane Crash

Capital Okay Needed For De Gaulle Plan   Framework For Political Organization After Invasion Projected

 With Invasion Plans  Discuss Government of Four — Nations Soon to Be Redeemed

AWAITS U.S. APPROVAL OF FRENGH RULE   Plans Approved For Government o! Some Countries

Plan Rule For  Invaded Land   Outline Framework Political Organization In- Invasion Of Western Europe.

F.D.R. APPROVAL OF AMG IN FRANCE IS FINAL ACTION   Plans Are Complete For Military Government in The Netherlands, Belgium and Norway.   O(WECTIONABLE PARTS OF AMG ELIMINATED   Citizens of Three Countries Will Take Over as Invasion Advances and Danger Passes.

French Political Program Mapped  Invasion Plan Offered By de Gaulle’

Western: Invasion.  Political: oe a   Agreeinents Reached With Netherlands, Belgium, Norway on Control of Territory After Occupation — Study French Case. .

U. S. Approval Is Awaited For French Regime   Governmental Structure To Follow Invasion Is Now Needed

HEADLONG ADVANCE TOWARD VIENNA STARTED A8 BUDAPEST BATILE STILL RAGES

3-Billion Road Program Tops  Coneress List   Logjam On Postwar Proposals Begins Breaking Up In Spirit Of Compromise

Congress Prepares For Coming  Revival of Cars  Highway Program Tops Work Sheet in Capitol

House Places Roads at Top Of Calendar   Early Action Promised on  - Highway Measure That Would Assure $3,375,250,000 in First Three Years

GUUNGH 10 Set ERE EQUIPMENT   Group Plans Final Truck Inspection Prior to Making Purchase

COUNCIL 10 SEE FIRE FQUIPMENT   Group Plans Final ‘Truck Inspection Prior to Makine Purchase

Doolittle fo Be Promoted   Hero of Tokyo Raid Is Nominated to Be Lieutenant General

Jimmy Doolittle Gains Promotion   Lokyo Raider Nominated For Lieut. General

DOOLITTLE MADE ~—-AUIEUT. GENERAL   Now Commanding 8th Air Force .In England

Doolittle To Be Lieut. General   President Roosevelt Nominates Famous Flier For Promotion.

{2,600 OTHERS WOUNDED, SAYS GEN. BRADLEY   8,500, German Prisoners Taken on American Beachhead

Chief Hartley Warns Against Check Thieves   Holiday Season Rush When Forgers Work

U.S. CHUTISTS “RIDE TURRETS ACROSS RHINE   Pole Reinforcements Aid Surrounded Allied Troops

Thin Life Line Into Arnheim   Polish Airborne Troops Reinforce Paratroopers In Vital Salient.

Bombings Drive Germans From Many Sectors of Invasion Coast   Reconnaissance Reports Show Huns Abandoning Forward Airfields

COASTAL STRIP 1S NO MAN'S LAND OBSERVERS SAY   Allied Bombs Have Made Il Untenable for Much of Fighting Forces.

Political Funds Probe Announced   Anderson Summons CIf Head, Party Chiefs

British Open New Drive, Advance Within 3 Miles Of Dutch-Nazi Border   At Same Time Alternate Supply Route Is Opened in Nijmegen, Arnhem Area; Troops Reinforced

Column Pulls Up on the Meuse River at Boxmeer  ‘TRA   NSPORT LANDED —  CLOSE TO AIRMEN  Word Still Lacking About Fate of Airborne Force

Nazis Claim. Sky Troops In Pocket “Wiped Our’   Troops and Supplies Ease Holland Situation, But Fate of Britons  In Trap Not Disclosed

GERMANS TRY TO PINCH OFF ALLIED WEDGE   AMERICANS ISSUED LONG UNDERWEAR FOR WINTER

 Colurnn Pulls Up on the ! Meuse River at   Boxmeer  TRAN : CLOSE E TO AIRMEN  Word Still Lack Lacking About Fate of Airborne Force

SUPPLIES DROPPED BEHIND HOLLAND FRONT   Fate Of Beleaguered British Airborne Division  Is Still Unknown   ANOTHER COLUMN IS SENT ALONG MEUSE

Planes Carry Men, Supplies To Vital Area   British Open Drive Toward Germany South of Nijmegen; Other Parts Of Front Almost Stalemated

U. 5. Transports Land in Holland Bringing Succor To Allied Forces   Open Supply Route into Nijmegen- Arnhem Area; Nazis Say Airborne Unit Liquidated

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Belgians Give Big Welcome to Liberators   ALLIED FLAGS FLY BEFORE LAST GERMANS DRIVEN FROM BRUSSELS

JAP AIR FORCE HARD HIT BY YANKS AT RABAUL   At Least 46 Planes Downed  in Two Recent Battles.

American Fliers Out-Class Japanese Fighter Pilots In New Air Batiles Over Rabaul

Major Action Looms   U.S. Naval Chiefs Welcome Encounter, Hint  Enemy Units May Have Been Damaged Already

American, Jap Fleets Line Up For Big Battle   Preliminaries May Be  Under Way In Pacific

Nimitz Reveals That Nip Fleet Has Been Gathering In Areas of Last Invasion

Invasion Of» “Saipar Lures” Out Jap = Flee eis       nouncemen Tells” :  _ Of Fiérée Fight

Yanks On Guinea Balfling «Way Toward Wewak, Where Bealen Japs Concent raf ing  a Canth Fram Canter   _ Americans Move South From Captured Aitane To Clean Out Entrapped Nips

Yanks On Guinea Battling «Way Toward Wewak, Where Beaten Japs Concentrating  Americans Move South From Captured   Americans Move South From Captured Aitape To Clean Out Entrapped Nips

Yanks Battle Japs in Aitape Sector  Nips Are Believed Concentrating Foreeas ot Waurrk

YANKS ENCOUNTER APS NEAR AITAPE   RUN INTO ENEMY WHILE ON WAY TO WEWAK-—BATTLE MAY BE IN PROGRESS.

MEET JAPS NEAR AITAPE   Moving toward Wewak, with Ensuing Battle or Patrol Clashes; Planes Attack Enemy Position.   Destroy 3 Planes

Yanks Battle Japs in Aitape Sector  Nips Are Believed  Pe non mien to gebtien se   Nips Are Believed Concentrating Forces at Wewak

Situation In Power Strike Not Changed   Nebraska Public Power District Officials Declare Operations Unimpaired.   ‘SABOTAGE’ CHARGED

Power Flow In Nebraska Is Unimpeded   ‘Sabotage’ Charge Hurled By Manager of Loup District

Both Sides in Power Strike Expect Accorc   Look Forward to Conference to Be Held at Lincoln

GREEN DECLARES STRIKES DUE 10 FEDERAL POLICIES   President of A. F. of L. Re iterates Opposition to  Labor Draft

Strikes Blamed On Administration  Green of AFL Renews Opposition re.  a pa te i

ROBOMBS SENT IN NEW WAVES   Come From Area Which Altes Are Nearing

Bricker Says Corn Freeze Unnecessary   GOP Candidate Comes  To lowa in Quest Of Support

ABOLITION OF AAA URGED BY BRICKER   Regulation of Agriculture Is Impossible, He Says

BRICKER HITS CORN FREEZE   Calls for End of AAA When War Is Ended

Bricker Hits Corn Freeze   TELLS IOWANS AAA SHOULD BE ABOLISHED AFTER WAR

RAF JOLTS BIG GERMAN PORTS   Kiel and Stettin Bombed By Nearly 1,200 British Heavies Todoy

Bombers Lash Reich Ports, Blast Berlin   Kiel and Stettin Attacks  Timed to Aid Russian ua, . Offensive -

Kiel and Stettin Are Targets For Night Raids  British Bombers Hit Supply Ports; Onnacitian Slight

1,200 RAF BOMBERS BLAST KIEL, STETTIN   Fires Left In German Ports; Berlin Struck Again

More Men Leave For Military Physical Exams.  ~ One Small Call — For Service Last   Of This Month

More Men Called For Military Duty Report Past Week  Thirteen Men Take Physical Exams And  Fourteen Inducted

SECRECY DECLARED NECESSARY IN FAR PACIFIC MANEUVERS   Admiral Nimitz Playing Guessing Game With Japs In Attacks on Island Strings. .

Yankee Fliers In Caen Fight   Hit Nazi Troop Concentrations And Robot Bomb Installations

BOMBERS JOIN FURIOUS FIGHT AGAINST GAEN   Cross British Lines To Lay Bomb: On German Batteries

U. S. Bombers Join Furious Fight for Caen   Flying Artillery Lay Barrage with Loss of One Planc

F.D.R. ORDERS STEPS 10 END WAR AGENCIES   Calls for Plans to Make Change at Earliest Possible Date

RECONVER SION TO PEACE TIME BASIS PLANNED   FDR Calls On Budget Chief For Early Report On Post-War Needs   STARTS WHEN HUNS QUIT   Most Of Program, However, Will Be Delayed Until * Victory In Pacific

ORDERS BUDGET DIRECTOR TO DRAFT PROGRAM. FOR “RE  1  CONVERSION"  OF  ' \ GOVERNMENT

Roosevelt Gives Orders Aiming At Reconversion, Dismantling War Agencies

DISMANTLING WAR AGENCIES ORDERED   “FDR Asks Harold  Smith. to Re-examine Organizations, Staffs

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  President’s Orders Nay Lead to Dismantling of War  Pe pila pepe

REDS AT EDGE OF BUDAPEST   Fierce Battle Rages With Soviets Taking Two Towns Near City

BUDAPEST BURNS AS SAVAGE BATTLE RAGES NEAR CITY   Approaches to Hungarian Capital Littered With Dead as Russians Push Forward Relentlessly.   SOVIET VANGUARDS REPORTED IN CITY   Germans Throw Fresh Armored Forces Into Struggle—Two Towns 8 Miles Away Fall to Reds.

GERMANS PUT UP STRUGGLE FOR BUDAPES!   MANPOWER HURLED INTO DEFENSE OF CAPITAL

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CITES FEAR FOR SMALL NATIONS   Latin Envoys Attack Security Plan   Must Guard Sovereign Rights of All

Lt. J.S. Hooven, Pvt. Heaps Deac  — Six Listed As Casualties Today

ALCOHOL DEAL IRKS SENATOR   Gillette Asks Why Halt U. S. Distilleries, Buy Heavily From Canadians?

APPEALS MADE FOR LABOR BILL   Two Claim Deiays Lengther War, Boost Casualties

CONGRESS CHIEFS PRESS APPEALS ON LABOR DRAFT   Sponsor Different ‘Type Measures On Manpower Shor

Two Labor Draft Bills Introduced   Laws Proposed by Mrs. Luce, Austin

Labor Draft Plan Revived In Congress  Senator Austin and Rep.   Senator Austin and Rep. Luce Fear Output Lag Mav Lenethen War   ‘SLAVERY’ IS DENIED   Woman Legislator Asks Male Registrants Aid Manpower Shortage

RECORD MAKING ON SWING TO NORMAL   27 Month Ban - Lifted on Three Platter Firms

TEMPERATURES:   Buildings Set Afire: Find Nine Bodies In Ruins   Blazing Aircraft Dives Into City Block This  Forenoon

Plane Crashes Into Buildings  Nine Bodies Found In Flaming Debris

Bomber Crashes  On City Building   Downtown Montreal Scene of Debris and Fire From Exploding Plane.

Big Liberator Crashes {nto Buildings; Several People — Reported Killed.

Others Injured; Parts of Plane Scattered Over Square Block   RAF Liberator Flattens 3 Buildings; Cause Unknown

BOMBER FALLS NINE KILLED   ‘Crashes In Downtown Commercial District  ! Of Montreal

Crash Of Bomber Kills 9 Persons  Falls Into Commercial District Of Montreal

9 Killed As Bomber Rips Into Homes   In Spectacular Montreal Crash

Rationing Looms Again For Pojnt-Free Meat   All Cuts of Beef, Veal, Lamb, Canned Vegetables Scheduled to Return To Ration List By First of New Year

Point Free Meats And ‘Canned Vegetables Head Back Toward Ration List

San Juan Wrecked, By Bad Earthquake  Andes Toll May Be In The Thousands

Argentine City Counts 1400 Dead in Quakes   San Juan Wrecked by Temblors; 500 Bodies Already Recovered; ~ Army Takes Control of Region

ANDEAN TOWN “IN ARGENTINA   Dead and Injured Said glo Number Thousands at San Juan

Aid Rushed To Quake Wrecked City San Juan   5000 Believed Dead or Jnjured — Argentine City of 30,000 Almost Destroved. :

1400 Believed Dead, 4900 Hurt By Earthquake   San Juan, Argentina, Nearby Towns Suffer Heavy Property Damage

THOUSANDS KILLED AND HURT IN ARGENTINE EARTHQUAKES   Preliminary Estimates From San Juan In Andes Indi cate Upwards Of 5,000 Casualties; 90 Percent Of City Is Leveled By Tremors

1,500 Die In tarthquakes In Argentine  Tremors Wreck  City In Andes

Quake Toll Said Nearly 1,600:   Argentine Army Controls San Juan

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Thousands Are Victims In Argentina Earthquake   5,000 Estimated Dead or Injured, Government Orders  All Possible Aid   TOWN OF SAN JUAN BELIEVED LEVELED   Co-operation Offered By Chilean President, Medicine Is Flown In

Andean ’Quake Quake Toll Numbered In Thousands   500 Bodies Recovered, 4,900 Said Injured Al San Tetan

Quakes Leave 1,600 Dead in San Juan   Argentina Orders All Possible Rescue Efforts at City of 30.000 High in Andes; Four Tremors Rock Broad Area

Berlin Admits Evacuating Minturno, Anchor of West Flank; 5th Army Forges On

5th Army Drives Toward Minturno  On 10 Mi. Front   German Prisoners Fall Behind Lines After Seeing 1st Action

U. §. BOMBERS BATTER KEY AIR BASES AT ROME   5th Army in ; Slow Advance

Three German Strong Polis In ltaly Take>   5th Army Reaches Outskirts of City of Minturno

Foe Pulls Out Of Minturno Before British   Allies Again Hurl Heavy Forces at German West Flank

Chinese Take Reds’ Place ‘In Conference   A Large Measure’ of Agreement Reached At Dumbarton Oaks

U.S. AIRMEN AGAIN SMASH FRANKFURT   Others Hit At Objectives On invasion Coast

AMERICANS ALSO RIP AT FRENCH INVASION COAST   British Mosquitoes Stab Reich During The Night

FRANKFURT HiT THIRD TIME      Hammer Mysterious “Military Ot jectives” on French Invasion Coast—Altied Aerial Drive Surges RBuek to Full Intensity.

FRANKFURT HIT BY FORTRESSES   2,500 Sorties Flown By Allied Planes From British Bases

U.S.. Bombers Again Smash At Frankfurt  “Mysterious Objectives’ on French Coast Also Attacked ALL-DAY ASSAULT  Raiders’ of All - Types Swarm From Britain to   ‘Raiders” of All - Types Swarm From Britain to Pound Axis Targets

FRENCH COAST ALSO POUNDED IN TWIN BLOW   German Arsenal City Hit For Third Time In Two Weeks

Aerial Blows on Europe Resumed  Frankfurt Blasted by Allied Micht

AMERICAN PLANES BLAST FRANKFURT NORTHERN FRANCE   ‘Military Objectives” on Invasion Coast Again Under Heavy Fire

U.S. Planes Blast Coast, Frankfurt   All Types of Raiders Hi Munitions Center and Un identified Target

Frankfurt Hit For Third Time   All-Day Assault Smashes German Rail Center

NEW LOADS OF BOMBS BLAST KT FRANKFURT   U. S. Air Forces Smash at Nazi Arsenal and Hammer Invasion Coast.

Yank Bombers Hit Frankfurt, French Coast   Liberators Lead 80 Heavies And 700 Fighter Craft

FRANKFURT HAMMERED BY U.S. BOMBERS   British Planes Concentrated on French Targets

FRANKFURT  AGAIN GIVEN HEAVY BOMB TREATMENT   Smaller Yankee Aircraft Strike At French Targets

U.S. Heavy Planes Hit Frankfurt   Marauder Medium Bombers Strike  At Invasion  Coast Again

Polish Patriot Resistance Inside Warsaw Collapses   Guerrilla Bands Escape Beleaguered City To Continue Fight against Nazis

TO PUSH PROBE OF FOOD PRICES   Quick Action Is Promised by Sabath After Year’s Delay

France fo ‘Take Pari in Decisions of German Future, De Gaulle Says

De Gaulle fo Go fo France   Says Government Can Only Be Run There

PEOPLE ARE TOLD © GERMAN RETREATS ARE UNAVOIDABLE   Spokesman Says Nazis Now Facing _ “Bitterest Period Of War’— boo Defense Of Home Soil Is  Immediate Task

Harry Hopkins Returns to Job   He Has Been Absent For Six Months on Account of HIness

CONFERENCE IS HELD AT BARIUN   More Than 25 Sunday - Schoels Represented at Meeting

Soil Conservation District Directors Hold Discussion Meet; Plan Similar Events

Hershey for Slow Demobilization   Would Keep Forces To Back Peace Moves

Knox Expects New U-Boat Attacks   Urges Slow After-War Demobilization of Men

Selective Service Director Says Army and Navy Should Demobilize Slowly After the War

Urges Deliberate Demobilization of U.S. Army, Navy  Li asehau Caue Aimbtan   Hershey Says Nation Should Be Backed by Military Power

MILITARY PEACE IDEAS OUTLINED   Armed Forces Should Demobilize Slowly. Hershey Declares

F. R. Outlines Postwar Economics   WORLDWIDE SECURITY AIM OF DELIBERATIONS, PROGRAM ENDORSED

Roosevelt Says Chief Aim of U.S. Is World-Wide ‘Economic Security’

Security Central Goal, Says FR   President Outlines Outlook To ILO

President Supports Labor Plans   Security for All Is United Nations’ Aim, He Savs   Postwar Job Outlook Good, ‘Chamber of Commerce Hears   Payrolls Here and in Dalton To Be 45 Per Cent Ahead Of 194.0. MeKenzie Reports

President Tells . L. 0. Delegates World-Wide Economic Security is Goal

SECURITY FOR ENTIRE WORLD URGED BY FDR   Backs Specific Terms Of International Labor Meeting

ILO DELEGATES TOLO POSTWAR ECONOMIC AN   Roosevelt Cites Security and Opportunity as Main Considerations.

PORTO AICO VETERAN TALKS TO KIWANIANS   Sgt. H. L. Funk Describes Living Conditions   PROTECTING THE CANAL

Real Feelings  ixpressed by  Nazi in Diary Hopes Lord Will  Protect Him so he ee a a... a5.

Dead Nazi's Diary Reveals Effects of Pulverizing Attack. on Aachen

NONESUCH’ FINDS SELF CELEBRITY   Twin Kangaroo Basking in News Srotlinht Turned On Z00

German Troops Massacred As Paratroopers Trap Panzer Units in Orchards

NAZI REGIMENT MASSACRED BY ALLIED TROOPS   Describe Fatal Attack 0: Outwitted German Force

British Paratroo pers Lure Nazis Into Tra p. Then  Mow Them Down By Hundred At Close Ranve

nLpooy TRAP NEAR BREVILLE . “1 DESCRIBED BY WITNESS   CORRESPONDENT SAW PANZER REGIMENT KNOCKED OUT OF ACTION BY CONCEALED PARATEROOPERS

PEACH CROP HERE ~OF-FINE QUALITY   Fruit: Small. But. of. Excellent Quality, Say Experts.

PEACH CROP HERE OF FINE QUALITY   Fruit Small. But of Excel‘tent Quality, Soy” Experts.

Force Germans Back to Coast Without Pause   ‘Canadians Burst Forth With New Fighting on Flank to  Pa ris,   Trans-Normandy Line  Smashed in 12 Places

Yanks Pave Way For Paris Push as Units Cross S elune River   Allied Forces Penetrate Nazis’ Lines in 12 Places; German Soldiers Surrender in Droves

TANK COLUMNS CROSS SELUNE: RIVER AND GERMAN FRONT FOR 80 MILES APPEARS SHATTERED   Disorganized Germans Reported Surrendering in Disconsolate Droves. British Drive Toward Paris On Caumont Front. Allies on Move Along While Normandy Front

“Greatest Offensive of Invasion Strikes With Augmented Power   WHOLE FRONT MOVING   Yanks Plunge Into Brittany, C-- re Two Key River Dams

DISORGANIZED ENEMY GIVES UP IN DAQVE!   Germans Driven Back Without Pause in Coast Area of Offensive.

New Offensive Plunges Ahead As Line Cracks   Key City of Vire Approached Today By Allied Troops

American Forces Plunge Ahead In French Fight   Treops Carry Invasion Into Brittany, Poin Toward Paris; Wide German Front Seems Chavtoread: Alliae Drive Forward Zleewhere

‘ALLIES HIT AT PERCY AND VIRE   Canadian Troops Open Assault On Eastern Sector Of Front

DOZEN CRACKS ARE MADE IN NAZI LINE   Yanks Within 5 Miles Of Communications Center   Enveloped By Allied Tanks; 75,000 Captives Taken in Last Week

Dams Seized: Vire Periled   Canadian Troops Pound Forward in Big Threat to Paris; British Enlarge Their Bridgehead Over Souleuvre River

ENTIRE ENEMY BO-MILE FRONT SEEMS BROKEN   Disorganized Legions Are Surrendering in Huge Numbers

 Greatest Offensive of Invasion Strikes With Augmented Power   WHOLE FRONT MOVING   _— — Into Brittany,  se — River

CARRIES WAR INTO BRITTANY   American - British Spears head Smashes Toward Key City of Vire

(Allied Spearhead Speeds Toward Key City Of Vire As Nazis Reel Backward

Enemy Driven Down Corridor Without Pause   Trans-Normandy Line Cut in Dozen Places  by Push

Yanks Speed  Toward Vire   Driving Germans Back Without Pause, Canadians Launch New Fighting

Germans Surrender In Droves   Canadians and British Crash Forward, Joining Yank Forces in Powerful Offensive

DRIVE CARRIED INTO BRITTANY   American-British Spearhead Approaches Key City Gf Vire.   TRAP ENEMY ON COAST

Allies on Move Along the Whole Normandy Front, Take Many Prisoners

All Enemy's Long Front Wavering   British Drive  1 Miles South of Caumont in Plunge.

Americans Driving Back Germans Without Pause As They Smash Ahead Into Brit_tany -- Big Offensive Enters Second Week With: Additional Power Unleashed By “Allies

Another Allied Spearhead Approaching Key City Of Vire—Canadians In Action On East Flank

Yanks Smash Foe’s Normandy Line and Surge Ahead into Neighboring Province.     GAINS ALSO MADE BY BRITISH FORCES

‘Yanks Smash Gevnsuail Back Without Rest   Canadians Break Loose In New Fighting; Smashed Nazis Surrender

Tired Nazi Troops Give Up In Droves   .. U, S.-British Spearhead Approaches Vire

Invasion Carried Beyond Avranches And Toward Vire   Germans’ Normandy Line Ils Shattered In Dozen Places

Yank Tanks Push Into Brittany   Progress Down Coastal Area  Still Unchecked; Prisoner Bag 18,587

AMERICAN TANKS SPREADING OUT FROM AVRANCHES   BRITISH TROOPS GAIN FOUR MILES IN CAUMONT SECTOR

Air Base Is Evacuated By U.S. Force   Demolitions Are Set Off As Americans Abandon  ‘ Their Valuable Base At Liuchow, China

British, Greeks Occupy Athens   Port of Piraeus, Isle  Of Corfu Also Fall

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS TONIGHT — IN HIS SIXTH MAJOR TALK      WHITE HOUSE DOES NOT INDICATE NATURE OF SPEECH~ SCHEDULED FOR 15 MINUTES

DEWEY DRAWING GREAT CROWDS   Candidate Carries Post War Conversion Program Into Farm Belt

Crowds Cheer Dewey   On His Pittsburgh Tour—Labor Heads Were In Conference

DEWEY GIVEN — ~~ BIG WELCOME   G. 0. P. NOMINEE GOES TO ILLI“NOIS CONFERENCE AFTER HOLDING MEETING IN PITTSBURGH

Dewey Enroute To Middle West Farm Belt Are:   Enthused Over Greeting Ex tended By Huge Crowds In Pittsburgh  sii li Pu ea

SEIZE 1,381 MORETOWNS; ENTER LWOW   ‘Peril of Germans. Grows Hourly as Russians Sweep Forward at Mile-an-Hour Clip.   NOW WITHIN 50 _ MILES OF WARSAW   Moscow Announces 539,000 Nazis Killed ér Captured Since, Summer Offensive. Began.

Russian Armies Smash Toward German Silesia.   Red Tide Engulfs Lublin, Lukow; Troops Battle Nazis in Lwow; Stalin Controls Half of Old Poland

REELING GERMAN FORGES ARE SPLIT   Ukraine Forces Leap San River in Drive on Silesia   NAZI CASUALTIES TOLD   Total of 539,890 Germans Killed and Captured by Four Soviet Armies

Lublin, Lukow Are Taken  by Russians   Germans Lose Total of 539,890 Men Since June 23

German Peril Rises Hourly On East Front   Lublin and Lukow Fall As Russians Advance Steadily Toward Reich  MONSTER TRAPS LOOM

LUBLIN FALLS, RUSSIANS ARE NEAR WARSAW   BREST LITOVSK CUT OFF; GERMANS FLEE IN DISORDER

Rail City of Lublin Captured and. Lukow Toppled  NAZIS LOSE 539,000 TLE Peril of Germany Increases  Hourly as Reds Move

Battered German Armies Split by Russians; Take Lublin, Lukow, Cross San River.

Soviet Army W ithin 25 Miles Of Wisla River, Last  Axis Defense Line Before Germany

TRUCKS AGAIN ROLL INOW, PITY NORMA   Over-the-Raad Drivers Going Back to Work, Ending Week's Tieun.

Allies Take Initiative On Anzio Beachhead   Smash-Supreme Effort By Densely-Packed Enemy Forces And Throw Enemy Back Two Miles; Germans Use Six Divisions.

GERMANS ARE THROWN BACK ON BEACHHEAD   Americans Force Nazi Retreat; British Help

ALLIES STRIKE BACK AT ANZIO   Fierce German Attack I Stopped; Nazis Hold At Cassino

Nazi Drive On Anzio Hurled Back   Massed Assault by 6 Divisions Smashed; Foe Retreats 2 Miles

German Attacks Hurled Back On AnzioBeachhead   Warships Help Smash Offensive Launched by Nazis

Allies Gain Slightly at Anzio ‘After Stopping Terrific Effort of Germans to Wipe Out Bridgehead

Allies Regain Initiative On Anzio Beachhead; Nazi Forces Thrown Back In Bitter Struggle

Allies Stop  Nazi Assault   Russians Continue To Roll Over Frozen Ground ‘Toward Pskov.

ALLIES BLOCK NAZIS’ EFFORT   Densely - Packed German Troops Thrown Back on Anzio Beachhead.   ENEMY SWELLS ARMIES

GERMANS FAIL TO BREAK LINES SOUTH OF ROME   Warships and Planes Pour Shells and Bombs Into Attacking Horde

Germans Thrown Back Two Miles   Navy Assist in Foiling Nazi Attempt to Drive Allies From Beachhead

Supreme Effort by German Hordes in  Italy is Checked   Enemy Thrown Back 2 Miles Toward Carroceto, Allies State

Densely-Packed German Troopa Driven Back Two Miles ‘Toward  Town Of Carroceto

British, Americans Drive Enemy Back Two Miles Toward Carreceto Lines

Allied Army Stops Supreme Effort  Nazi Steamroller   Allied Naval Units. Air Formations,. Artillery And Infantry. Unite To  2 Turn Back « Densely  = Packed German: Divis.  ~40ns And Swing 0 Over'to . Offensive.

Allies Crush Germans’ Power Drive Below Rome and Advance Two Miles

Nazis Fail To Break Allied Grip On Anzic   Enemy. Thrown Back Two Miles Toward Carroceto After Penetrating Defending Lines   Six Hun Divisions Thrown Into Fight   All Elements of Allied Power Called On to Halt Enemy; Cassino Front Unchanged

Allies. Stop Supreme Nazi Effort To Wipe Out Anzio Beachhead; AIL U.N. Elements Called Into Play

COMBINED EFFORTS OF NAVAL, AIR AND GROUND UNITS STOP NAZIS IN THEIR SUPREME BID   British and American Forces Inflict Heavy Casualties On Enemy and Then in Counter Attacks Make Gains  Uwards of Two Miles. Position Now Secure

Nazis Thrown Back in Smash Against Anzio   Sec and Air Units Assist Land Troops in Stepping Germans

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN AS NAZIS FAIL IN ATTACK   18 German Divisions Are Now Reported Fighting im Italy

Massed Attack Of Huns Thrown Back   Nazi Steam Roller Fails To Push Yanks .  Inte Sea   FINE ASSISTANCE GIVEN BY THE NAVY

Enemy Thrown Back Two Miles; Ships, Planes Join in Baile   BY KENNETH L. DIXON” RY KENNETH L. DIXON

Fifth Throws Back Nazis At Beachhead   Stop Great Attempt by Densely Packed  German Troops

Supreme Nazi Effort Fails To Budge 5th Army   Enemy Is Reeling Back From Anzio After Terrific Losses

Americans and British Throw Germans Back Two  Miles In Beachhead Fight

Supreme Nazi Push at Anzio Beach Repelled After Intense Fighting

Enemy Hurled Back; Planes, Ships Help   Anzio Beachhead Holds Firm After Desperate German At. tacks.

Allied Forces Step Nazis’ Drive On Anzio and Push Enemy Back.Two Miles

Allies Halt Nazi Drive on  Beachhead   Fail in Effort to Wipe Out Anzio Forces; Hurled Back Two Miles

Allies Stop Nazi Supreme Effort On Bridgehead   Enemy Thrown Back Two Miles From Peak Of Counteroffensive

Warships Aid In Repulse of -Anzio Attack      All-Out Panzer Drive at Beachhead Hurled Back Toward Carroceto

Supreme Effort By Nazis Stopped  Densely-Packed Germans Are Thrown Back For Two Miles   All Elements Of Allied Power Have Part In Beating Rack Fnemy At Anzio Rridochead

Nazis’ Supreme Effort At Anzio Costly Failure   Beachhead Secure As AIllied Attack Hurls Enemy Back Two Miles.

Counterattack Timed to End Of Nazi Peak   Climax Came Saturday as Germans Used Every Available Unit .

STOP MIGHTY STEAMROLLER OF GERMANS   Initiative Re-Won Americans, British Push Enemy Back

Nazi Thrust Driven Back  By Allies   Bridgehead Defenders Nullify German Efforts.

HURL GERMANS BACK 2 MILES IN CARROCETO AREA   Allied Sea, Air Units Join in All-Out Push Against Germans

NAZIS HALTED AFTERFURIOUS 48-HOUR FIGHT   Five Regiments of German Troops Reported Within One 1,000-Yard Area   ARMIES ARE SWELLING

ALLIES SMASH GREAT ATTACK BY GDIVISIONS   Naval, Air, Land Forces Join To Stop Foe And Launch Counter-Blow Of Own

ANEMY TOSSED BACK 2 MILES BY DEFENDERS   All Elements of Allied Power Called Into Smashing Battle

ENEMY DRIVEN » BACK 2 MILES BY THE ALLIES   BYanks and British Crush Ger mon Offensive in Anzio Beachhead Battle

Germans Thrown Back Two Miles At Bridgeheac   Last Supreme Drive By Nazis Halted; 18 Divisions Used  In Italy

Allies Throw Germans Back On Carroceto;  Drive Halted   Naval Units. Assist In Beachhead Fight

Russians. Reach. Pre-War German Soil For First Time At-Prussian Border

Finns Ousting Nazis Slowly —   Overcome Obstacles Left By Germans

FINNS DRIVE 10 PUSH NAZIS OUT   Troops Seize Two Towns ir Bid to Fulfill Armistice

FINNS PURSUE RETREATING NAZIS, TAKE TOWN DESPITE MINES, ROAD BLOCKS

Finnish Troops. Advance Against  Nazis in Lapland:  Hopeful of Ousting _ Enemy:in 4 Weeks . Minus Russian’ Help

Finns Push Nazis Back   Make Headway in Big Job of Driving Germans Out of Country

FINNS PUSHING GERMANS BACK   Making Slow, Steady Progress Against Nazis

FINNS ADVANGE NAZI ‘CLEANUP   Capture Two Bases In-Pus To Drive Out Germans

FINNS SLOWLY DRIVING NAZIS   Make Some. Progress In Task Once Regarded As Impossible; Overcome Ob. etarplac   —BY ROBERT N. _ STURDEV ANT-

Finns Making Progress In German Battle  Eager To Fulfill Armistice Term:

Finnish Troops: Papelling. Nazis - In North Areas   See Enemy Forced. Out Of NERY Within: Month Without’ Russia’s Help

Yanks Smash Jar Counter-Attacks   Enemy Dead Reaches 676 in Wakde Area

RABAUL ROCKED BY TWO BLOWS   Lakunai Airdrome Hip Again: Resistance Of Japs Weak

RABAULAIRDROME DEALT TWO HEAVY BLOWS FROM AIR   Allied Bombers. and Fighters Numbering More Than — 150 Take Part in the Attacks.   ELEVEN HITS SCORED  ON GUN POSITIONS   Yanks Encounter Strong Anti-Aircraft Fire, but Air Resistance is Weak— Down 7 Planes.

Allied force. rakes enemy  Rabaul base   Japanese aerial resistance weak

Hard Blows Sap Waning Jap Defense   Nip Resistance In Air Ils Weak

UNIONS WILL MAKE DEMANDS   Third Emergency Bowrd Assigned to 16-Month-Old Pay Dispute to Hear Wage Case.

Harry R. Griffith, Of DuBois, Chief Clerk, Heads List Of 18 Named

PATTON'S TROOPS CAPTURE 4 TOWNS IN FIRST HOURS OF NEW ATTACK   Outflank Metz From South: Force Seille

3RD ARMY Ih NEW ATTACK NEAR NANCY   Gain of Mile Is Made in First Hours of Drive

THIRD ARMY OPENS DRIVE NEAR METZ   Gains Mile In Few Hours Of New Offensive

Patton’s Third Army Gain: Mile In New Drive; See-Saw  Battle Raging Near Cologne

AMERICANS NEAR SCHMIDT IN. GERMAN)   Street Battle for Vos senack Carried Into Third Day

PATTON'S MEN IN NEW ONSLAUGHT   Advance Mile In Drive Between  Metz and Nandy

FOUR VILLAGES SWEPT IN NET IN FEW HOURS   Line Between Metz, Nancy Focal Point of Attack as Doughboys Cross Seille River

Patton's Army Attacks Between Nancy and Metz   Doughboys Force Seille River at Several Points

Yanks Push In Between Metz, Naney   Seize Four Villages In New Assault and Cross Seiile River

Allies Join To Pound Japs At Soerabaja: Chinese, Yanks Close Trap At Myitkyina

Airmen Score Heavily At Soerabaja   Allied Carrier-Borne Raid Followed By Liberator Attack

Joint Nimitz-MacArthur Mountbatten Assault Or Dutch Indies; Jap Flee Stave In Hiding.

Great Java Jap Harbor is Blitzed_   Heavy Damage Inflicted On Soerabaja By Air Force.

Pacific Commands Unite to Deliver “Punch at Indies   Nimitz-MacArthurMountbatten Carrie: Forces Damage Jep Base at Soerabaija

Three Commands Co-operated in Soerabaja Raids   Nimitz, MacArthur, Mountbatten Sent Airmen to Inflict Heavy Damage on East Indies Base

FORCES UNITE TL STRIKE JAP BASE   Heavy Damage Inflicted At Soerabaja By Carrier-Borne Units

CARRIER-BORNE FORCES UNITED AGAINST ENEMY   Japanese Put Up Little Fight In Air Battle

Soerabaja Base  Heavily Bombed   Nimitz - Mountbatten - MacArthu Forces Team Up For First Time in   Attack Which Centers on Heart of  Japs’ Dutch East Indies Holdings.   CARRIERS ARE USED

CARRIER FORCE RIPS JAP BASE AT SOERABAIA   Direct Hits Scored on 10 Vessels; Oil and Dock Facilities Blasted

10 Jap Ships Hit In Soerabaja Raid   Three Pacific Commanders United for Blow, Which Also Damaged Oil and Dock Installations at East Indies Base.   Rv C. VATES McDANTEI..

Craft From 3 Commands Hit Principal Jap  Base in Indies   Nimitz, MW’ Arthur, Mountbatten Forces Unite for First Time

100 Planes Flatten Japs’ Installations At Soerabaja, Java   Allied Warships and Carrier-Based Planes Co-operate in Surprise Raid; Airdromes and Oil Refinery Blasted

Yank Bombers PoundNip-held  Javanese Base   Allied Aerial Forces in First United Assault Hit Great. Harbor in Dutch East Indies

Dutch Indies Base Pounded   Carrier Forces From Three Commands Join Raid on Soerabaja

‘First Water-Borne Assault On Key Jap Base  Units From 3 Commands Joined Soerabaja Raid

Attack On Java Caused Big Damage.  Report Says s   3 Commands United To Provide Seamen, Fliers For Carrier  Strike At Seerabaja

ARRIER-BORNE FORCES LEAVE ECKED INSTALLATIGNS AND AMAGED SHIPS IN HARBOR       - Fliers and Seamen Under Nimitz-Mountbatten~ MacArthur Join in Attack on Java Base for First Time Since Allies Forced Out Two Years Ago

AMI Predicts Black Market Operations Will Accelerate Spring Meat Shortages

Better Grades of Beef to Be Short  Some Sections s Likely to Feel Shortaa

Peace- Time ‘Operation Of War Plants   Usage Felt Necessary To Avert Large-Scale Unemployment

Bodies, Twisted Wreckage Mark Remains of Armored Caravan  Bombed-OutNaziColumnGlutsHighway

Doughboy Takes 80 Germans; Racine Artillery Spotter Lauded   GERMAN GENERAL REPORTED SLAIN

CAPTURED PVT. RETURNS WITH 80 PRISONERS   Describes Obliteration Of Armored Column Under Drunken General

Hit By Nazi Fire While Observing Normandy Front   Was Former Commander Of U.S. Ground Troops; Wounded Once Before

LT. GEN. M’NAIR KILLED IN ACTION IN NORMANDY  f««F_   Former Head of Army Ground Force Meets Death in Recent Offensive

Gen. McNai1 Is Killed  In France   Meets Death By Enemy Fire While Observing  Front Line Action in  Offensive in Normandy

Enemy Fire Hits Officer Watching Attack   Ex-Commander of Ground Forces Overseas Short Time

Gen. McNair Meets Death:   mn : Regarded As Brilliant Officer OF ULS. Arniy

GEN. M°NAIR KILLED ABROAD   Former Ground Forces Commander Battle Casualty

Gen. McNair Dead In France   Highest Ranking U. S. Officer Killed In War

Gen. M’Nair Killed In Normandy Area   Had Recently Relinquished Com. mand Of All Army Ground Forces

HIGH-RANKING U.S. OFFICER DIES IN ACTION   Had Recently Acquired New Post After Years as Ground Forces Head

HIGH RANKING U. S, ———OFFIGER IS KILLED   Lieut. Gen. Lesley J. McNair Died From Enemy Fire in Normandy.

General McNair Killed in Action   High Ranking U. 5S. Officer Was at Front Lines in Normandy Battle

ONCE CALLED ‘THE BRAINS OF THE ARMY’   Is Highest Ranking Am. erican Officer to Be Kill. ed in Present War. Killed in Normandy

WAS OBSERVING !.5. SOLDIERS IN FRONT LINES   Highest Ranking U.S. Casualty in New World War

GENERAL MN ATH KILLED IN FRANGE   One of Nation’s Most Able Military Leaders Killed by Enemy Fire on Normandy Front During Offensive

Normandy Scene Of His Death   Highest Ranking U, S. Army Gasuallty in World War Ii

LT. GEN. M'NAIR “KILLED IN FRANCI   MAN CALLED “BRAINS OF AMERICAN ARMY” STRUCK DOWN BY ENEMY FIRE.

Gen. McNair Killed in Normandy   Former Chief of Ground Forces Dies Under Enemy Fire

General MeNair Is Killed in Normandy   Former Commander of Army Ground-Forces Victim of Enemy Fire While Observing  . Action of Front-Line Troops Recently.

GEN, M’NAIR IS KILLED BY NAZI FIRE IN FRANCE   Former Chief of Ground Forces Once Called ‘Brains of Army’

Lt. Gen. McNair  Killed in Action  On Normandy Front Marshall, Who Once Called Him  ‘Brains of Army,’ Says He Died im Forefront of Atiack

Gen. MeNair Killed in Normandy   Man Who Trained American Army  Called ‘Army Brains’

MeNair Killed  In Normandy _ General Dies While . Observing Action

Gen. McNair’ Dies in Action in Normandy   Death Comes While Observing Enemy. on the Front Line

Lt. Gen. MeNair Is Killed   Killed Observing Action in the Offensive in Normandy

GEN. MCNAIR KILLED WHILE INFRONT LINE   ENEMY GUNS STRIKE DOWN NOTED U.S. MILITARY CHIEF

YANKEES BREAK GERMAN LINES, CONTINUE GAINS   U.S. Armored Column Cuts Main Road from St. Lo to Periers

—Onee Called “Brains Of Army”’—  GEN. M’NAIR IS KILLED IN NORMANDY   Former Commanding General of U. 8S. Army Ground Forces Meets Death By Enemy Fire While Observing Action At Front Line

GENERAL M'NAIR IS KILLED IN NORMANDY   Dies on Front Lines: Once Termed ‘Brains ot Army’

Former Head Of American Ground Force   General Killed by Enemy Fire While On Battle Front

'U.S.Army Gains Three Miles In '6 Hours Today   Advance Patrols Reach Road Center of Periers After Fanning Out From Seized Canisy   Closing Trap On Foe In River Bend   British Lose Esquay anc Blood-Soaked Hills 112 . tid 113 to Germans . in Bitter Battles

TOP AMERICA CASUALTY OF WAR   Dies While Watching Front Line Action   “BRAINS OF ARMY”

Gen. McNair, Called “Brains of Army,” is Killed in Action  Former Ground Force Commander Dies On French Battlefield

HIGHEST RANKED OFFICER 10 DIE IN WAR ACTION   Had Been Commanding General of Army Ground Forces, Once Called “Brains of Army”

Gen. MeNair Killed By Foe   Until Recently Commanding General Of Army Ground Forces,

Highest Ranking American Officer Killed in Action in Present War, !   TRAINED GROUND FORCES

Lt. Gen. McNair Killed {n, Action At Fron Line  Headed Ground Forces; Highest  Os ee:

GEN. McNAIR TS KILLED IN NORMANDY   Lt. General Is Slain by  Enemy Fire

‘FIRST ARMY GAINS MORE THAN TWO MILES IN . SMASH AGAINST ENEMY DEFENSE OF THE ROER _ RIVER LINE AS FIRST AND SEVENTHMARMIES CONTINUE THEIR ATTACKS ON . OTHER SECTORS

Advance Slowed By Rapid Rise Of Roer River   U.S. First Army Gains Two Miles In New Campaign

Bill Weald: Boost: Clothing Prices   Cotton Textiles Would Benefit

Cheap( Jothing Cost May Rise   Administration Leaders Say Amendment Will Double Prices

Colombia to Have Martial Law If Trouble Grows  Conservative Party Leader Arrested On Contempt Charge

COLOMBIA ON EDGE OF REVOLT   Jail Leader of Conservative Political Party

Martial Law For Colombia   Government Ready to Act If Opposition Forces Try Revolt

Colombian Government Notes Unrest   Warns Subversives That Martial Law May Be Invoked

Soviet Action Aids Badoalio   Also Gives King Firmer Hold on Throne. Believed

SOVIETS ACCORD RECOGNITION TO BADOGLIO REGIME   But Italian Communists Remain Steadfast in _ . Their Opposition-to General and King Emanuele

Red Recognition Given Badoglio Regime In Italy   King Emanuele Seer As Strengthening Hold On Throne

Reds Recognize Badoglio Regime; Italiar Communists Remain Steadfast In Oppositior

Badoglio s Hold Stronger   Russian Recognition, Plus British Policy, May Help King Retain Throne

Italians. Will Continue To  ‘Oppose Badoslic   Soviet: ‘Establishe _ Dale      a “Support of Govt: To Continue.

REDS RECOGNIZE BADOGLIO’S RULE   Exchange Of Diplomats Will ~Help’King-Emanuete Too

RUSSIA ACCEPTS BADOGLIO REGIME   ITALIAN COMMUNISTS REMAIN STEADFAST IN THEIR OPPOSITION

REDS RECOGNIZE BADOGLIO RULE   Act Strengthens Premier’s Position in Italy

ITALIANS NOW RECOGNIZED BY SOVIET RECIME   Allies Approve Envoy Exchange By Two Ccuntrites

 . —BADOGLIO~ _  Recognition By Russia  [Aids Badeglio And King   Italian Communist Leaders Declare They Will Continue To Oppose Ruler And Premier Despite ‘Stalin’s Latest:European Move

Stalin Recognizes Badoglio Regime in Surprise Maneuver   United States and Britain Are Expected to Stand Pat on Status Quo

REDS RECOGNIZE BADOGLIO RULI   tussia Establishes Diplomatic Relations With His Government

KING IS GIVE HRMER HOLD ~ ON THRONE   Italian Communists Continue Opposition   U. S,, BRITAIN   Expected To Maintain Policy Of Dealings With Present Leaders

Germans Advazc: 15 Miies   But Powerful CounterBlow Fails to Relieve Allied Pressure Elsewhere Alone the Front

U. 5. FIRST ARMY TANKS AND INFANTRY STRIKE AT GERMANS  NAZI AIR FORCE CONTINUES CHALLENGE WITH HARASSING ATTACKS

U. S. PLANES LEAD ATTACK.   Pas De Calais Strip of Coast Being Heavily Bomhbed — American ant Allled Planes of All Types Par ticipate in Daylight Attacl,

AIRMEN HIT INVASION COAST HARD   Allied Planes Of All Types Blast Pas de Calais

AMERICANS FIVE MILES FROM ITALY   Avignon Is Captured In Northern Push By U. S. Armor

Avignon, Arles, Tarascon Fall  In Allied Drive   Pockets of Resistance  Sull Encountered At Toulon, Marseille .

YANKS DRIVE UP RHONE VALLEY   Large Area of Southern France Is Liberated

YANKS TAKE 3 RHONE CITIES, SWING NORTH   Drive Up Broad Valley Toward Heart Of France

TANKS SWEEP UP RHONE VALLEY   Capture Avignon, Taascon- and Arles

U.S. MAKING BIG DRIVE UP RHONE VALLEY   Great Area of Southern France Already Liberated by Allied Forces.

YANKS TAKE THREE TOWNS ON RHONE =   Drive Up Rhone Valley, Invasion Route to Germany

YANK SOLDIERS SWING NORTHWARD IN STRONG DRIVE UP RHONE VALLEY   Report American Spearhead 17 Miles North east of Avignon.

E. 0. SHULENBERGER DIES AT HIS HOME      Vice-President of M. P Moller. Co. Expires, Aaced66°.—=C««j.

E. 0. SHULENBERGER DIES AT HIS HOME   Vice-President of M. P. Moller Co. Expires, Aced 66

Boost in Pay Tax Urged to Protect Old Age Pensions  Social Security Board   Social Security Board Chairman Opposes Vandenberg Freeze Plan

Reds Say Bulgaria Aids Germans,  Demand Turnabout   Delegation Awaits Terms to Be Prine lsr Allicce

CLAIM BULGARIA DOUBLE DEALING   Sharp Rebuke Issued by  Russian Press

MOSCOW DECRIES BULGAR APATHY TO THIRD REICH   Says Sofia Regime Aiding Nazis While Seeking Allied Peace

Moscow In Stinging Rebuke Accuses Bulgaria Of Aiding ‘Nazis; Demands Active War   Allowing Hitler -to Withdraw Troops, Fail to Intern German Ships, is Claim

MOSCOW SEES ‘MOVE AS PLAN TO HELPNAZI   Issues Warning as Bulgarian Armistice Delegation Meets in Cairo:

Russians Brand Bulgar Position Sham Neutrality  Sharp Rebuke Comes as  Dialwawmane Ramaniane

Reds Say Bulgaria Aids Germans, Demand Turnabout  Delegation Awaits Terms to Be Given by Allies

BULGARIA MUST FIGHT AGAINST GERMAN ARMIES   Russia Says That Is The Only Way In Peace Talk

Reds -Aceuse Bulgaria Of  Aiding Nazis   Russian Press Says Only Hope For Bulgars Would Be Active War.   LET FOE WITHDRAW

Countries Sue For Armistice   Bulgarian Armistice Commission In Cairo; Romanian In Moscow.   Moscow Says Bulgaria Gave Nazis Aid After Neutral

‘Neutrality’ Of Bulgaria Only A Sham: Moscow  Russia Charges Sofia Regime Continues Te Aid Germany

Russians Brand  ~ Bulgar Position Sham Neutrality   Sharp Rebuke Comes as Bulgarians, Romanians Seek Peace Terms

BULGARSACCUSED BY RUSSIANS OF AIDING GERMANS   CHARGE NAZI TROOP WITHDRAWAL UNDER NEUTRALITY CLOAK

Soviet Warns Bulgaria to Fight Nazis   Active Partin War Demanded to Disprove Charge of Aid to Hitler

Storey Appointed County Chairman President’s Birthday Celebrations

GERMAN SUB HALTS PORTUGUESE SHIP: 3 LIVES ARE. LOST   U-Boat Captain Abandons Plans to Sink Vessel; Americans Taken Prisoner   LIFEBOATS ADRIFT HOURS

U-Boat Stops Neutral Ship      Three Dead, and Two Captured in Episode Off Bermuda Friday

Neutral Portuguese Vessel Stopped Off Bermuda By German Submarine

Submarine ‘Off Bermuda      Took Prisoners From Neutral Portuguese Ship—3 Lives Lost

Nazi U-Boat Stops Refugee Ship but Fails to Sink Her  - Three Lives Lost in Rush to Lifeboats When Portugese

SHIP, U-BOAT INCIDENT TOLD   2 Americans Taken Prisoner Off Refugee Vessel

GERMANS BOARD REFUGEE VESSEL   3 Perish, 2 Seized As Sut Sends 385 To Lifeboats

German Sub Halts Ship In Atlantic   Portuquese Vessel Released In 9 Hours: 2 Americans Seized

Nazi Sub Halts Neutral Ship; 2 Held Prisoners   Three Lose Lives As 385 Passengers And Crew ; Are Forced To Lifeboats After Nazis Warn  Ship would Be Sunk: Berlin Changes Plan

Nazi Sub Stops Neutral Vessel, Takes Prisoners   3 Lives Lost Off Rermuda

Refugee Ship Stopped By Nazi Sub And Two Americans Taken Prisonet

Tax Bill Given Final Approval   Long Record of Protests at Jap Treatment of Captives Revealed

Tax Increase Bill Given Approval By Conferees   Places Heavier Rates On Dozens of Articles And Services as Well As Income Taxpayers  RACE BETTING LEVY IS LEFT TO STATES  Conferees Decide . On Permanent 1 Pct. Social Security Tax

2 Billion Tax Bill Approved By Conferee:   Measure Falls Far Short Of Administration’s Wae Raniiacte

COMPROMISE ON REVENUE BILL   ‘Move To Tax Beiting Ai   Race Tracks Rejected   By Conferees

Conferees Agree On New Tax Bill   Heavier Wartime Levies Approved

BIG TAX BILL IS APPROVED ‘BY CONFEREES   Reveniie Measure Now " Headed for Final Congress Action

TAA MEASURE APPROVED BY iNT GROUP  Fin al Ac tion on on Revenue   Final Action on Revenue Bill Due This  Week   CONFEREES CLEAR THE LAST HURDLE

Revenue Bill Placing Heavier Load on Taxpayers Heads for Final Action in Congress   House and Senate Conferees Clear Last Hurdle by Agreeing to Amendments on Renegotiation of Contracts far War

Senaie-House Commitee Approves New Bill Increasing Load On Individual Income Tax Payers, Corporalions

NAZI RAIL SYSTEM BLASTED BY FLIERS   Planes Hit Eight Arteries —

NAZILAND RAIL CENTERS RAIDED   More Than 4,000 Allied  Planes Dump 12,000  Tons Of Bombs

From 4,000 Allied Planes in Most Concentrated Attack of War on Germanv.   Mist And Ice

GERMAN RAIL POINTS HIT BY 4,000 PLANES   Cologne And Industrial City Of Karlsruhe Are Principal Allied Tarvets

4,000 Planes Blast Railways  In Germany —   Part of Systematic Plan To Isolate’ Front: Lite - By: Cutting: Supply ‘Lites

Allies Hit Nazi Rail Lines Hard   System Feeding Fron! Blasted By Nearly 12,000 Tons Of Bombs

HAMMER NAZI RAIL CENTERS   3,000 Allied Planes Seek To Cut Off Supplies For Reich Troops

4,000 Warplanes Blast Germany's Railway System   Most Concentrated Attack of the War

NAZI RAIL SYSTEM  BLASTED-BY FLIERS   More Than 4,000. Allied Planes Hit Eight Arteries —

Borisov. Seized, As 506 Other Places Captured  Rail Center’s Fall Puts Red Army 46 Miles of Goal

Reds Close Trap Around Major City   Minsk Doomed As Soviets Take 500 More Towns

‘Reds Closing In On Minsk   Power-Packed Drive Moves Ahead With Unabated Fury

Capture Rail Center of Borisov. -and — More Than °500 “Other: Plases. Germans, Surrender In Dreves.  ~

SENATOR NYE TAKES — LEAD IN N. DAKOTA   Forges to Front After Trailing in Early Returns and Now Apnnears Winner.

WARD REFUSES BOOKS TO ARMY AFTER SEIZURE   Government Appeals To Court; Hearing Te Rat Ene Tiesday

The War Today   Ry DeWITT MacKENZIE (Associated Presse War Analyst)

= me ©  Political Developments In Europe More Important ‘Than War.

EXTENSION OF RUSSIAN INFLUENCE ON-EUROPEAN CONTINENT SEEN AS ~ RIVALLING MILITARY GAINS TODAY   Importance of Political Development Equal If Not Overshadow Great Gains by Red Armies During Recent. Weeks, Thinks DeWitt MacKenzie

——« The War Today ==  War Moves In Political Channels  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

POL ITICAL DEVELOPMENTS THAT [ARE FLOWING OUT FROM MOSCOW OVERSHADOW MILITARY ACTION

TODAY   coming ‘Politic Military Affair. Militarily Situation Looks Good

U. S. Force Attacking Truk Island   “Fierce Fighting’’ Fo Strong Jap Base in Pacific Is Reported

Carrier-Based Planes Raid Japan's “Pearl Harbor” In Mighty Assault, Sink Ships, Wreck Planes And Destroy Installations   ASSAULT BEGUN AT WEDNESDAY DAWN

U. S. Strikes Heavy Blows At Vast Base   No Confirmation of Jap Report ls Made By U. S. Officials.

U.S. Troops Land on Truk Tokyo Says   Jap Radio Declares Fighting Men Put Ashore Under Air’ Attack Cover

FIGHTING NOW GOING ON, I TOKYO REPORT   No Confirmation From United States of Landing Story

POUNDSNIPPONESE PACIFIC FORTRESS  AMERICAN FLEET   Tokyo Reports of Landings Unconfirmed; Planes Aid in Smash at Enemy

London Reports Nipponese Broadcasts Telling of Attack On its “Pearl Harbor”

Strike At Japs’ Big © Naval Base   HEAVY DAMAGE INFLICTED ON JAPAN’S ‘PEARL HARBOR’ IN SURPRISE MOVE; MAY PRESAGE INVASION

TOKYO REPORTS U. S. TROOPS LANDED IN FIERCE AIR-SEA BATTLE OPENED WEDNESDAY   Domei Says Nip Fleet Remains In Hiding, Awaiting  Chance For All-Out Assault; Attack Menaces  Main Jap Outpost In Pacific

REPORT BATTLE CONTINUING AT STRATEGIC ISLE   Nipponese Broadcasts Says Jap Troops Fight “Mechanized U. S. Units”

Nips Claim Our Troops Are in Battle There, U.S. War Department is Still Silent   Manse: Naval Fleet At Least Has , Bembarded the Nige’  Pearl Harbor In Surprise mach Bit

Tokyo Says Air Assault Aided By Ground Work   ““Impregnable” Enemy Base In Heart of Defense Strongholds

‘Mechanized Units’ Engaged After Air Attack From Big U.S. Fleet, Tokyo Says »

Mechanized Units Follow Bomb Blitz   Imperial Japanese Navy Waiting for ‘Golden Oppor traiby

Land Survivors, Bodies From Sunken Vessel  More Boatloads Are Looked For

SUNDAY SKIES CLEAR   No Break in Weather in Sight Before Tomorrow Night

Brifish, Yank Forces Reach Bank Of River   Germans Reported Ta Have Severed Rescue Road; Americans Are Handed Setbacks

SEES WIFE FIRST TIME IN 3 YEARS   TULSANS ARRANGE CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR WOUNDED AMERICAN SOLDIER.

Present for the Sarge: Wounded and in Tulsa Hospital, Wife Is Speeded to Him by Air

HALF OF FARMERS FACE INDUCTION   Under New Rules, Farm Credit Units Have Been Raised from Eight to 16

Farm Worker:  Facing Draft Organization Opens Move To Ease Rules

Farm Stalwarts Start ‘Move to Prevent Draft Of Half Farm Workers

Move On For M o dification Of Farm Draft   Proposal to Relax Regulations Endorsed by Many  Agricultural Interests  NEW RULES OUTLINED   NEW RULES OUTLINED

Farm Groups Ask Changes In Draft Rule   Approximately Half of Deferred Workers Face Induction

Farmers Ask Draft Rules Be Modified   Food Production Causes Concern

Seek A Revision Farm Draft Rule   Senate Farm Committee and Major Farm Organizations Begin Movement For Modification Draft Rules.

ACT TO EASE FARM DRAFT   Modification of Selective Service Regulations Sought

BERRY, CHAPLIN UPROAR BEGINS      Lawyers Meet In Battle o! Bloodtests As  Preliminary

Attorneys. Square Off In Suit ies olving Joan Berry’s Child, With Chaplin Defendarit

Soviet Forces Take Czech City Of Csop; Prepare To Make New Thrusts In Reich

SOVIETS PLAN NEW THRUSTS   Tighten Grip On Rail Junction In Slovakia

Midwest Leaders, Dewey to Confer   Republican Nominee Completes Program

COORDINATED CONTROL OF REIC APREED UPON.   Three Major Powers Make Single Policy on Occupation

BiG 3 AGREE 0 CONTROL PLAN FOR GERMANY   Each Nation Will Apply Same Policy Regardless of Zone

339 PLANES A DAY IN DECEMBER FROM AMERICAN PLANTS   Some Civilian Goods To Be Made Soon, Is Hint

339 W arplanes Leave Assembly Lines Each Working Day During December

8,802 PLANES LEFT ASSEMBLY LINES IN MONTH OF DEC.   Brought Year's Total to 85,946 of All Military  *Types. Goal for December Was 9,000 

DOUBLE OUTPUT IN PAST YEAR   May Speed Flow of Banned Materials Into Civilian Goods

Wants Exclusive Opportunity for Returning Soldier  Preactdant: Ache   President: Asks Congress for New Legislation

Favor Veterans for Employment   President Roosevelt. Urged Enactment of Legista= tion Today.

FDR ASKS U, S. JOBS FOR VETS   Will Be Given’ Exclusive Opportunity

Job Preference  For Vets Asked  F. R. Makes Request For Legislation

FR. ADVOCATES JOBS FOR VETS   BILL GIVING THEM PREFERENCE SUGGESTED

An Exclusive Opportunity -Is Proposed   Urges Legislation Be Enact ed..Now, Setting Out New: Provisions...)      WOULD. DESIGNATE =: " PLACES FOR VETS          President, - Endorses “BillNow Pending But. Would: - “Add Some Points:

FE. ‘D: R2Weuld Give’ i Veterans: Opportunity \ Bor Federal Jloh< —

Great Air Fleet Pounds Florence, Munster Centers   Allies Report Little Opposition During Heavy Raids On Nazis

FLORENCE GETS FIRST ASSAULT; MUNSTER HIT   U.S. Bombers Range Europe

Service Vote Bill Now In  Committee   Senate-House to Thrash Out Differences in Two Versions

House Agains!  Federal Vote   Expected to Reject Senate Approved Bill For Service Balloting

NAME SOLDIER VOTE CONFEREES   DISPUTED ISSUE !S PLACED IN HANDS OF JOINT COMMITTEE

Send Service Vote To Group   :  Disputed Question Goes To Senale-House Conference Committee.

Seek Service Vote Answer   Senate-House Conferees to Thrash Out Ballot Bill Differences

Service Vote Sent To Committee  Gearon ae —dareecn fn   Senate-House Group To Decide Federal State Ballat lecua

ORGANIZATION IS SET _UPFOR *44 WAR FUND DRIVE; LIST WORKERS   CITY QUOTA IS $1200; WAR MOTHERS WILL AID IN SOLICITATION

Tulsa Woman Held For Court Trial   Mysterious Mrs. Smith Faces Other Possible Charge

Rip Last Nazi Positions in Power Attack   Swift Advance Halts Demolition of Some Dock Facilities

Defenses of Vital Naval and Commercial Basins Overrun From Three Sides   Yank Power Rips Enemy Resistance to Shreds and Formal Announcement of City’s Complete Occupation Is Awaited

Some Pockets Remain In German Hands And Headquarters Decline To Make Announcement Of Citv’s Capture.

To Hang For Iowa Murder   Judge Sentences Jarrett For Killing Farmer

AIR LOSSES IN WAR REPORTED   AAF Chieftain Says 42,000 U. S. Planes Destroyed

U.S, PLANE LOSS TOTALS 42,000   Air Battle Casualties Are 72,000 Killed, Wounded and Missing

Demos Begin  Maneuvering   ‘Strength: Of. Wallace. “Tested By. Hannegan

Hannigan Talks With Roosevelt (ver Wallace   Many Influential Democrats Want Wallace Dropped From Ticket.

British and Canadian Forces Rapidly Clear Up Rocket Coast On French Channel.

JAP WARPLANE DESTRUCTION IS 100 EAGH DAY   November Is Likely To Set Record; Hurricane  Sweeps Leyte

Must Adopt a ‘Realistic’ Attitude, News Agency Reports   Nazis Withdraw From Strumica Valley In Southern Yugoslavi:

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B-29S HIT PLANE PLANTS ATOMURA   Also Attack Two Key Points In China

Big B-29 Force Bomb Jap Home Island of Kyushu   Tokyo Claims Eight Superforts Shot Down During Heavy Raid

TOKYO SAYS TARGETS WERE INDUSTRIAL CENTERS OF NAGASAK] AND OMURA

Large Fleet Blasts Jap  Homeland   B-29 Bombers Continu Sthategic Reduction O} Airplane Works Or Kyushu Island

B-29'S SMASH ATKYUSHUIN ANOTHER RAID   Second Assault This Month on Japanese  Home Island

HEAVY FIGHTING MET BY B-29S IN OMURA RAID   20 Attacking Nippon Planes Downed; Also Blast Nanking. Shanshai

China-Based B-29’s Hit Industrial Targets In Kyushu, Jap Homeland   Tokyo Reports Force Of 80 Supers Bombs Nagasaki, Omura; Claim Fighters Score Victory

Miller Freed In Capital Slaying   Jury Out Little More Than Hour

Jury Acquits Capital Lawyer Of ‘Love’ Slaying  Slain Psychiatrist Described as Sadist

AGED LAWYER ACOUITTED-IN MURDER CASE   Robert !. Miller Found Not Guilty in Capital Slaying

MILLER ACQUITTED ~ OF MURDER CHARGE   Jury Deliberates Little More Thar An Hour In Freeing Washingfen Afforney

Clarification of Atlantic Charter to Be Demanded   Soviet Criticized for Stand in Polish Dispute

E PASSES CROP INSURANCE   75 PER CENT COVERAGE OF AVERAGE YIELD SET

Lepel is taken by:  Russians, Fatherland line  tc warinalle cane

REDS WITHIN 39 MILES OF ESTONIA LINE   CITY OF LENINGRAD CELEBRATES ITS LIBERATION

ningrad Holds elebration as ussians Advance   Red Army Takes Rail Junctions

Soviets Smash Westward Toward Capital of Minsk   “FATHERLAND LINE”  - NEAR DESTRUCTION   Mogilev, Lepet and Osi: ‘povichi are ‘Cap: : tured

Red Army Smashes Close to the Estonian Border  LENINGRAD FREED AFTER LONG SIEGE  Germen and Spanish Forces Are Hammered Back

Two More Rail Points Taken By Red Army   Thousands of Axis Troops, Including Spaniards, Are Slain

Three Russian Columns  Drive Toward Minsk   Red Forces Trap Five Nazi Divisions In Bobruis] Area Seventy Miles Southwest Of Mogilev

Soviets Smash Westward Toward Capital of Minsk  “"FATHERLAND LINE” NEAR DESTRUCTION  Mogilev, Lepet and Osipovichi are Cap-

Reds Capture Rail Centers:   Victorious  roops rush Un _ After Leningrad Is Freed

Leningrad Is Liberated From German Grasp.   Reds Near Border of Estonia; 50 Towns Taken

Rail Towns Ot Volosovo,  ‘Tosno Taken   Complete Liberation Of Leningrad Brings Russian Celebration  50 TOWNS RETAKEN

REDS SEIZE THREE FORTIFIED CITIES, WRECK NAZI [INE   Germans Blasted From Mogilev, Lepel and Osopovichi —Bobruisk Completely  ’ Encirecled. :   1,000 MORE VILLAGES LIBERATED IN DRIVE   Stalin’s Fast-Moving Armies Now Only 50 Miles. From Minsk, Capital of White Russia.

Russians 39 Miles  From Estonia Line      Liberation of Leningrad Completed by Reds; More Than 700 North Towns Reorted Captured

Soviets Only 39 Miles From  Estonia Border   700 Towns Recaptured In 2-Week Campaign In North: Thousands Of Axis Troops Slain

RED ARMY DRIVES CLOSE TO ESTONIA, KILLS THOUSANDS   Germans Pushed Back 40 to 60 Miles From Leningrad Since Big Offensive Started.   COMPLETE LIBERATION OF CITY ANNOUNCED   Seven Hundred Towns Freed in Campaign—Two More Important Rail Junctions  Occupied by Soviets.

‘Destroying New Deal Is Vital, Bricker Savs   Yazi “Fatherland Line” D Virtually Destroyed Is

LIBERATION OF LENINGRAD CELEBRATED   Russia’s Second Largest City Released After Two And Half Years Of Enemy Seivce.   Retake 700 Towns

NAZI DEFENSE LINE CRUSHED BY RED ARMY   RUSSIAN ADVANCE. ONLY 50 MILES  FROM MINSK

Smash Within 39 Miles of Estonia; Capture Two Rail Junctions; Wipe Out Thousands of Axis Troops

Four Red Armies Advance on Minsk   Capture 3 Large Fortified Cities

STEEL FORMULA IS. - HIT BY MURRAY   ClO" Head Says Wages _ Must Catch Up fo Liv- "Img Costs

ClO CHALLENGES FORMULA AUTHOR   Demands Government Allow Wages to Catch up With Living Costs; Murray Reelected to Fifth Term

More Workers Needed:   CIO Head Challenges ‘Little — Steel’ Author To Quit WLB Pos.

C10 Re-elects Murray President   Labor Leader Scores Author of “Little Steel” Formula.

U.S. Troops Take Heavy Toll of Nips Seeking to Escape Near Aitape; Jap Drive Termed Suicide Effort

Japs Suffer Big Toll in New Guines   Americans Punish 45.000 Men in Trap

Arcerican Artill and Enfantrymen Faking Heavy Toll of Enemy i — Hnemy Forces Making  : Witert ta Release Trap  Below Aitape.

Take Heavy Toll of Japs At Aitape   Halt Enemy Attempt Te Break Through Trap

REICH 1S HEAVILY BOMBED IN MONTH      Record Amount of Explosives Dropped During November

Crew y Hurled from B Bomber ¢ over Alaskan Wilds, Hike to Safety

- Six Surviving Crewmen Blown By Explosion From Liberator At 20.000 Feet Tell Of Escape From Trackless Alaska Wilderness

Six Crewmen Relate Their Dramatic Escape From Wilderness of Alaska

ANOTHER FAMOUS ~ AUTHOR DIES   Hendrick William Van ‘Loon Is Third:to Pass Away inLast-24 Hours -

NON-OP RAIL UNIONS BALK AT CONFERENCE   May Not Attend Hearing Monday Called by Presideni’s Board— Want Authority Explained

Allies Regained ~ Beachhead Area   ALL GERMAN ATTACKS ARE REPULSED AT ‘ ANZIO

Attacks On Anzio Collapse   Heavy Losses Inflicted on Germans in Attack on  Allied Beachhead.   Allies Hurl Entire  Air Force in Assault

Allies Launch Third Major Drive In Five Days; Newest Battle Raging Above St. Lo

 Maj. Thos. B, McGuire Downs His 21st Japanese Plane In South Pacific

Allies Narrowing Escape C rridoe  Out Of Holland  Launch Assault Qn Calaic Taday

Renew Assault on Calais After 24-Hour Truce   Heavy Fighting Rages in Holland, Germany, Eastern France

Heavy Bombers Team In Doubl   Barreled Assault On Ruhr Cita dels; British Rip Into Expose German Flank In Holland   PATTON ADVANCING IN MOSELLE ARE:

Allies Narrow German Escape Corridor From West Holland With Twin Assault on Forts

Allied Forces Bomb Ruhr With  Powerful Units   Final Calais Assault Launched Following Civilian Evacuation

Brunswick Raid Spearheads 10th Day of Assault    500 Heavy Bombers  Participate In Raid . On Nazi Air Base 

BRUNSWICK IS RAIDED BY U.S. BOMBERS   10th Day of Allied Preinvasion Assault

Brunswick Blasted As U. S. Bombers Continue KO Raids   Madrid Dispatches Report French R. R. System In Complete Chaos

Thousand U.S. Planes Make Flight   termans Report Violent Air Battles—Big Raid on  Brunswick

Nazi Air Base Target on 10th Day of Offensive   RAF Mosquitoes Batter Cologne During Night

YANKS EXTEND AIR OFFENSIVE TO TENTH DA)   Over 1,000 U. S. Planes In Daylight Sweep Over Europe

EIGHTH AlR FORCE PLANES OUT TODAY ON NEW ATTAGKS    Continuous Pounding of Ene.  my Targets — Europe Goes Into 10th Dav.

Pre-Invasion Assault on Nazi Europe For Tenth Straight Day   Invasion Bombardment Roars Over Germany And French Coast

Willkie Raps  Dewey Silence   No Time For Emphasis On Individuals, But On Principles.

Dewey Hails Plan For World Peace   Dumbarton Proposals Held ‘Fine Beginning’

PACIFIC WAR'S GREATEST AIR PLEET ATTACKS   Huge Armada Stages Eight Hour Raid on Nip “Pearl Harbor” and Battle Cone. tinues, Tokvo Reports.

Raid Still On After 8 Hours   Great Naval Base . Reels Under Blow

Attack Beginning AtT A.M. Still On 15 Hrs. Later   KR. Principal Target On Island 225 Mi.  From Luzon

JAP ‘PEARL HARBOR ISLAND BASTION HiT, TOKYO RADIO CLAIMS   Attack By Greatest U. 8. Air Fleet Of Pacific War Directed Against Possible Base Of Japan’s Fugitive Fleet   Ry UNITED PRESS

Attack Still Raging   Opening Phase of Strategy to Crush Enemy Is Staged

Tokyo Says Heavy Blows  Continue   Greatest Air Fleet Of Pacifie War Assaults Island.

Me uty Assault Continuous kor Eight Hours, Says  Tokyo Radio   Raid Is Centered On Railroad Lines   But Enemy Says Planes Range Far. Wide Over Island Fortress

Greatest Air Fleet Ever Massed In Pacific Launches All-Out Assault ‘On Jap Island Fortress Of Formosa

BLOW NOT CONFIRMED   15-Hour Attack ‘From Both Sides’ Listed . By Tokyo Radio

Radio Tokyo Reports Fleet Of 1,000 Planes Attacking Far And Wide Over Island, Claim 100 Shot Down   ISLAND ASSAULTED FROM ROTH SIDES

Air Fleet Is Greatest Ever Massed in Pacific   Island Is Japan’s “Pearl Harbor”; Rails Evidently Targets

lay « ie  Greatest Air Fleet  Ever Assembled In Pacific Smashes at  Jap “Pearl Harbor”

1000 U.S. Planes Attack Formosa, Tokyo Radio Says   Bombers Range Far And Wide Over ~ Nip “Pearl Harbor”

1000 YANK PLANES HIT JAPS' “PEARL HARDOR, ATTACK STILL ON. CLAIM

Elusive Tokyo Fleet  Likely Caught in Raid   15-Hour Long Attack Continuing; Japs Claim 100 Planes Downed

Tokyo Says 1000 U.S. Warplanes Attack Formosa   Enemy Claims 100 Planes Shot Down

Nazi Resistance Within Cassino  Grows Stronger   German Field Guns, Mortars Rake Allied Lines. With Heavy Fire

Cassino Deadlock  Continues   Nazi Paratroopers New Zealanders, Trade Blow for Blow in Streets .

Savage Fight Rages Through  Cassino Ruins   Allied Lines Battered by Guns on Hulls

Nazi Airborne Units Hold On At Cassino   Rumors That Situatior Is Critical Denied By Headquarters

“CONTINUES *IN CASSINO   p Allies, Nazis Battle Ta Standstill In Ruins Of Town

German Guns Rake Allied  Cassino Line   Naza Paratroopers And New Zealanders Battle In Streets Of Bustion

Believe Jap Fleet Driven Into Hiding   Total Of 46 Japanese Ships, 214 Planes Destroyed Or Damaged By Huge U. S. Task Force In farolines,   NOT ONE AMERICAN SHIP IS DAMAGED

46 Jap Ships,: , 214 Planes Toll In Mass Attack   Most Powerful Naval» Force Ever Assembled Blasts Nip Forces ~

46 Jap Ships  Destr oyed or HitNearTruk  tan Naral Task Force Drives T'ojo’s Fleet to Lh Inner Citadel  PALAU HAMMERED  Isles of Yap, Ulithi and : Woleai Blasted: 214 . Tar Planac PB ——-

214 Jap Planes, 46 Ships Destroyed Or Damaged In Attack   Not One American Ship Damaged In Raid, Only 25 Planes Lost With Most Crews Safe

ct ae ee Ships Out. Of Action         BATTLE TOLL ALSO INCLUDES 214 PLANES; TOOK PLACE IN. CAROLINES; NEUTRALIZES TRt

Planes and Ships Rake Palau Islands   Truk Neutralized as Offensive Base; Armada Goes Close to Philippines

28 JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U.S TASK FORCE   Navy Reveals 18 More Damaged, 160 Planes Destroyed

46 Japanese Ships  Sunk or Damaged   More Than 206 Enemy Planes Destroyed in Mighty Attack. On Inner Nipponese Defenses

JAPS AT PALAU LOST 28 VESSELS POSSIBLY MORE   Most Powerful Naval Force Ever Assembled Slaps Nios Hardest.

©, /vaval victory  ENEMY FLEET DRIVEN TO INNER SASES; TRUK CLAIMED NEUTRALIZED

46 Japanese Vessels, 214 Planes Destroyed in Greatest U.S. Naval Victory In Pacific

214 Aircraft Razed As Americans Heap Destruction on Foe   25 Yank Planes, 18 F Jyers Lost; No U.S. Vessels Damaged i in Raid Hit Scored on Tokyo Battle shin

Sky Troops Of British Force Hit Jap Lines   Air-Borne Commandos hr ~Burma~-Cxipple Enemy Railway and Assist  Stilwell’s Men 

Jury Convicts McCormick In Fatality at Limestone   Former Local Resident to Be Sentenced  August 1 at Little Valley; Found Guilty” Of Negligence and Leaving Mishap Scene

Jury at Little Valley Convicts H. McCormick      Guilty of Negligence and Leaving Mishap Scene at Limestone

Thin Trickle of Nazi Prisoners Rolling in ‘as Fighting Increases

Nazi Veterans, Youths In Fight  Enemy Strengthening Formidable Defenses

Trickle of German  Prisoners Is  Crossing Rapido Dour Veterans, Surly  Youngsters Aro Captured in Italy

—PRISONERS— Young Nazi Prisoners  Are Surly   First Germans Captured In New Allied Push  Brought In

TRICKLE OF NAZI PRISONERS POURS BACK FROM RIVER   Surly Youngsters and Dour Veterans Captured Across  Rapide by Eighth

Nazi Prisoners  A Motley Lot   Thin Trickle of Surly Ill-Dressed Captives In from Italian Front

German Prisoners Are Sent Back Across Rapido   Enemy Re-Grouping After First Heavy Blow of Offensive

TEMPERATURES:   Mighty Battle Raging. Along 15-Mile Front   Savage Counter-Attacks Beaten Off: Gustay Line Weakened

Barely Able To Get On Ballot  Progressives    Percentage Requirements   Of Election Law May Bar Some From Using Party Designation

PROGRESSIVE PARTY POSITION IN DOUBT   Only Governor,  Attorney General Candidate May Be Listed.

ALLIED DRIVE IN LOW COUNTRIES SWEEPS AHEAD   Berlin Reports Yanks Have Brought Up “Vast’ Tank Reinforcements

Allies Sweep Ahead In Assault To Clear Antwerp’s Key Port   British Drive Three Miles From Communications Hub, Canadians Tighten Hold Around Schelde Pocket; Berlin Says First Army Set For New Blow

First Army Tightening. Noose Upon Big Pocket   “General: Offensive Appears In Making

CANADIANS AND BRITISH GAIN IN HOLLAND DRIVE   Yanks Score Advances In Assault East of Nancy

Seize Part Of Fortress Before Metz    Shower Flaming Oil Into Fort in Effort to Oust Enemy.

Take Bastion Guarding Saar As Aachen Front Units Push To Cologne   Thru Siegfried Line, Ist Army Rolls Forward Against German Fire  To Industrial Rhineland

Fighting Is Heavy At Fort Driant   20,000 Civilians Being Evacuated From Dunkerque

‘Temperatures   Yankees Gain Metz Toehold  On Fort Driant   U. S. Doughboys Pump Blazing Oil Into Fortress; ‘Burn Out Nazis; 99.000 Evacuated. From Dunkerque

PRE-INVASION RAIDS  ON PHILIPPINES WERE  VERY COSTLY JAPAN JAP-CONTROLLED PHILIP PINES REPUBLIC DECLARES WARONT ©

Manila Raids Confusing And Scaring Tokyo   Navy Headquarters Is Satisfied To Leave Japs Panicky

TWO U-BOATS SENT DOWN NEAR AZORES   Both Destroyed Within 8 Hours By Patrol Craft

Depth Bombs Get 2 U-Boats  Near Azores   Underwater Explosions and Floating Debris Tell Fate of Crews

Sinking of Two German U-Boats in Eight Hrs. Announced by British

(Royal Navy Craft Gets Two U-Boats Off The Azores   Depth Charge Attacks Are Followed By Breaking Up Noises, Wreckage

ADVANCE UNITS 7 MILES FROM CAPITAL CITY   Hitler Line Shattered As Strongholds Of Cisterna  And Littoria Fall

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Yanks From Aleutians Span 720 Miles of North Pacific To Batter Kurile Chain Objective

BOMB BIG JAP NAVAL BASE   Paramushiro Hit In Two Separate Attacks, Navy Says

Two Raids on Paramushiro   Navy Announces Air Attacks on Japs North Pacific Naval Base

Jap Base hit By Two Raid:   ' American Bombers Fly From Aleutians; All Return Safely

Jap Base At Paramushiro Attacked By U.S. Planes   Americans From Aleutians Cross North Pacific To Damave Installations

Paramushiro Is Raided Twice By U.S. Fliers   Enemy Base Battered By Two Waves Of Planes During Friday Night

Northern Jap Bases Bombed  Planes From Aleutians  Strike Peramushiro

ALLIES STAGE TWO RAIDS ON PARAMUSHIRO   Aleutians Over 720 Miles of Ocean to Blast Majo1 Jap Naval Base in North Pacific.

Paramushiro Hit  In2 U.S. Raids  Planes From Aleutians Attack Naval Rase

600 More Japs Are Slain at Cape Gloucester   Enemy Losses Since December 26Landing Are Well Over 2,000

Closing in on Toulon;  Wide Gains   Seventh Army Extends  Southern French Beachhead  to 1,000 Sq. Miles   INLAND HIGHWAY JUNCTION TAKEN   Push Toward Marseille Flanks Toulon and Makes Wavy for Drive Up Rhone

1,000 SQUARE MILES SNARED IN BEACHHEAL   31 Miles From Marseille in Drive Intended to Flank Toulon.— Petain Govt. to Move.

Allies Speeding To Rhone Valley   Patch’s Seventh Army Extends Beachhead to 1,000 Square Miles   MAY BY-PASS TOULON   Infantry Is Spreading Out ‘on Both Sides of Argens Valley

NAZIS OCCUPY ALL HUNGARY AS REDS NEAR   Ankara Says Move Follows Horthy Refusal to Form Defense Line

lJ. S. Forces Gain Control of Straits Between New Britain and New Guinea; Rooke Island Seizure Unopposed

NEW GUINEA, NEW BRITAIN GRIP HELPED   Another Jap Hold on Route to Truk and Tokyo Battered Into Uselessness From Air

Fortified Base Of Rooke Island Taken by Yanks   Lies Between New Britain and New Guinea

Americans Take Over Rooke To ‘Control Straits —   Pound Key Jap Bases . In Archipelago Area; Down 14 Enemy Planes

Rooke Island Is Seized By U. S. Troops   }Control Of Seventy-Five Mile Straights Between New Guinea And New Britain Is Assured

Rooke Base Is Taken by Yanks   AMERICAN TROOPS SWARM ASHORE WITHOUT MEETING SERIOUS OPPOSITION AND TAKE OVER GUNS DOMINATING COAST WATERS

ROOKE ISLA CAPTURED; NO JAPS AROUND   Base Controls Straits Between New Guinea And N. Britain

U. S. Forces Take Over Rooke Is.   Troops Meet No Opposition As Coast Guns Are Captured

{6 KILLED WHEN BOMBERS COLLIDE   PLANES CRASH Tv COLORADO —ONLY TWO OR THREE AIRMEN SURVIVE.

Bombers Collide Killing 16 Men   Three Flyers Escape Colorado Tragedy

POLISH POLICY OF U.S. FAVORS MORAL SUASION   Free Choice Of Government Fort Poland Soon Is Policy

F. D. R. Policy Calls for Free Greek Choice   PRESIDENT, CHURCHILL RIFT SEEN ON WAYS OF FORMING GOVERNMENTS

RECORD BAG OF JAP AIRPLANES OVER MARIANAS      300 Enemy Planes Destroyed As  Task Forces Are On Prowl

JAP AND YANK TASK FORCES NEAR CLASH   Destroy 300 Nip Planes in Baitle for Marianas; Americans Split islands By Advance.

Yankee Fliers  Destroy 300 Nip Aircraft   Advance on Saipan Made by Americans

U.S.N. Bags 300 Jap Planes; See Naval Clash Soon   Yanks Capture Aslito Airdrome - 4 Hrs. From Tokyo

MORE THAN 3RD OF ISLAND NOW IN U. S. HANDS   Powerful Nippon and Yank Task Forces May Be Clashing Soon

U.S. Navy Men Smash Nips in Huge Air Fight   American Task Force Wins in Marianas Clash

300 JAPANESE PLANES BAGGED OVER MARIANAS   Enemy Loss Is Record; U. S. Troops Capture Saipan Airfield

300 JAP PLANES DESTROYED OVER MARIANA ISLES   Powerful U. S and Nip Task Forces Prowl the Pacific

300 NIPPON © PLANES LOST (VER SAIPAN   Powerful American and Enemy Task Forces Soon May See Major Clash.

U.S, Japanese War Fleets May Meet in Pacific   Forces Prowl Within Virtual  Rattle Range

300 Jap Planes ‘Are Shot Down   Naval Battle Looms In Marianas After Furious Aerial Fight; Americans Gain On Saipan

300 Jap Planes Downed in Marianas; U.S., Nip Task Forces May Clash

Strong Task Forces Prowl Pacific Area   Destruction Of 300 Jap Planes Shows Size Of Fleets Near Battle Range.

Aerial Clash Off Saipan Indicates Fleets Within Gun Range   300 Jap Planes Are Shot Down   U. S. Air Losses Not Available: Only One Surface Ship Damaged

Americans Win Foe Airdrome On Saipan Isle   Navy Downs 300 Nip Planes in Greatest Air Battle

300 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Japanese Navy May Re Forced to Fight foe Saipan

Montgomery  Foresees An Early Victory   Path Opens for Wheeling Movement Across Flatlands North Germany .

ROGKETS EFFECTIVE AGAINST BUZZ BOMBS   Weekend Toll in Britain  Incentive for Antidote

Rocket Guns Knock Down Robot Bombs      Dozens Dead In Raids On Britain

Brussels Court-Martial Sentences Two to Death For Acts of Treason

Cold Wave Is Heading East   Winter's Coldest Weather Moving Across North Midwest

f, A. F. DRGPS BLOCKBUSTERS “ON COLOSN!   Mosquitoes Bomb Germins’ Third Largest City and Other Ttuhe Goals

AIR BATTLES ARE FEATURE OF RAIL   Italian Units Beat Off Attacks of Germans North of Cassino.

$90,000,000 TO 60 FOR ITALIAN RELIEF      ‘Extraordinary Magnanimity’ Noted by Acheson

YANKEE PLANES CLOUT JAPS IN THE CAROLINES   Admiral Nimitz Declares Atoll Near Yao Was Taken By U. S. Sunday

U. S. Planes Make New Raid On Philippines; Yanks Take Atoll Flanking Base at Yap

LUZON IS BLASTED AGAIN BY BOMBER'   Attacks:Continue as Am: ericans Occupy Another Atoll

Halsey Fleet Boring In ~   Air and Sea Raids Continue as Troops Occupy Island Flanking. Yap

ANOTHER ATOLL IS OCCUPIED BY AMERICAN UNITS   Seizure Of Neulu Com: pletes Outflanking Of Yap,  Nimitz Announces   JAPANESE ARE LOSING AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS

U.S' Steps Up Smashing Of Philippines   Takes Base Near Yap, Sinks 32 Ships In Blast at Convoy’

U.S. Invaders Capture Atoll Flanking Yap   Toll of Japanese Aireraft Mounts While Americans oe Ate Apt     Cag

SEVEN JAP SHIPS ARE KNOCKED OUT IN PHILIPPINE!   Eighteen Enemy Planes Destroyed on Ground and One Blasted From Skies in Latest Raids.   YAP NOW OUTFLANKED BY AMERICAN FORCES   Nimitz Reports Destruction of 915 Aircraft in the Ry-   ukyu-Formosa-Luzon Area. :

NEW STRIKES IN PACIFIC SAYS NIMITZ   Philippines Raided; Occupy New Atoll Near Yap; Destroy Planes, Fire Seven Ships.   905 Ships Gone

Allies occupy Ngulu atoll in move to flank Yap isle;  hurl new blows at Luzon

Nimitz Reports Smashing Attack In Formosa Area   Japanese Base At Yap Flanked   Yap Now Outflanked

NORTH LUZON HIT, ANOTHER ATOLL TAKEN   YAP OUTFLANKED; 7 JAP VESSELS DESTROYED

RUSSIANS GAIN 150 TOWNS IN NEW BERLIN OFFENSIVE   PRACTICALLY SURROUND GERMANS IN VITEBSK, ONLY 730 MILES FROM GERMAN CAPITAL; STALIN CHOOSES SAME ROUTE OVER WHICH CZAR’S FORCES CONQUERED BERLIN IN 1760.

New Landing On Eniwetok Atoll On Truk’s Flank   Marines And Infantrymen Set Up Beachheads In Northwestern Corner Of Marshalls Under Protection Of Heavy Guns Of Navy.

Knox Hails Truk as  ‘Big Victory   Report of Landing Attempt Called Enemy Propaganda

PREMIER IS GIVEN BACKING      Ralston Returns to Government Fold

Byrnes Warns Of Hard Year In “44   Tags Prevention of Inflation The Number One Home Problem.

DEWEY BACKERS NEED 138 VOTES   Governor's Total Pledges t 391—But 529 Required To Nominate

DEWEY’S TOTAL ONLY 138 SHORT   Bricker Backers Claim He Will Get Heaviest Secondary Support

Dewey 138 Short Of GOP Majority   Nebraska Finishes Delegate Roster

Dewey Run: 138 Short  Of Majority Nevada Fills In  GOP Roster; Pledges Listed

Dewey Short Of Majority   Nevada Names Six-Vote Delegation To Complete arty s Roster.

DELEGATES FROM SSTATES WOULD NOMINATE DEWE’   391 Votes From 24 States and Three Territories Now Undisputed, 139 Needed at Chicaqo.   BACKERS SAY PROMISES INDICATE SUFFICIENT   Support From Hlinois, California and Pennsylvania Will Make Him Easy Chicago Victor.

Bricker of Ohio Is Second High ~ In Pledged Votes; 478 G. O. P. Representatives Go Uninstructed

DEWEY BACKERS ARE CONFIDENT   DELEGATE TOTAL ONLY 139 SHORT OF 530 NEEDED

Preparations For Transition  To Peace Listed   Byrnes Proposes System Of Federal Unemploymen Benefits for Workers

Byrnes Offers New ‘Blueprint Of Changeover   Federal Jobless Benefits Proposed To Ease Way To Peace Praductinn

BROADENED PLAN OF PAYMENTS TO UNEMPLOYED   Byrnes Urges System Tc Ease Transition From  War To Peace   PROTECTION BEING PROMISED FARMERS

Byrnes Proposes U. S. Jobless Pay For War Workers  Would Supplement   Would Supplement State Payments, Official Declares

Byrnes Asks Aid For Workers   Proposes Unemployment Benefits For Post War Period In Speech.

Byrnes Offers Plan for Aid of Unemployed   Proposal Would Meet Situation Caused by War Boom Slackening

Byrnes Proposes Benefits to Men Deprived of Jobs   Urges Payments"to. Ease Transition From War To Peace Times

Poproses U.S. Set Up Federal Job Benefits   Byrnes Sees System as ~ Safeguard for Industrial Slack

War Mobilization Head Offers System 0: Unemployment Benefits For Those Losing Jobs As Industry Slows

Black Sea Port Falls ‘Before 3-Way Assault   Troops Push Through Tatar Pass In Rapid Advance Toward Romania

Nazi Defenders Of Great Black Sea Port Had No Place To Go; Reds Push Teward Ploesti Oil Fields

BERLIN ADMITS LOSS OF VITAL BLACK SEAPORT   Soviet And Czech Formae tions Drive Into Old Czecho-Slovakia

Bombers Return Safely   German Air Force Fails to Challenge American Might

Huge Fires Are Kindled By Bombs Dropped Through Clouds   Only Six Fighters Lost On Mission   Germans Report Fierce Battles But Yanks Say Only Few Nazis Seen

AP RESTRAINED BY DECISION OF COURT   News Organization Enjoined From Restrict- _ ina News Reporte

STRONG ASSAULT BY NAZIS IS DRIVEN BACK BY SOVIETS   Drive on Red Amy Bridgeheac Repulsed with Losses, Moscow Reports

Nazis Attack "Dnestra River :Bridgeheads   Germons Claim Hold On Sevastopol Area te Being Maintained

RUSSIANS REPULSE ASSAULT BY NAZIS   Heavy Enemy Losses Reported in Soviet Communique

Nazis Lash Out In Dnestr Area   Attack Halted And  -Loasses Said Heavy

Russians Repulse Atfack by Nazis   Heavy Fighting in Tirasol Area

GERMANS ATTACK RED. BRIDGEHEAD   CLAIM SUCCESS ON LOWER DNESTR — RUSSIANS REFORT THRUST FAILED,

STRONG ASSAULT IS LAUNCHED BY NAZIS   ‘Drive By Enemy On Lower Dnestr River is Eepuised With Heavy German Losses

Enemy Strikes Russ Positions   Reds Claim Dnestr Attack  Cnenle in fares

Reds Say German Dnestr Assault Has Been Repulsed   Report Begiment Nazi Infantry Wiped Out—Berlin Claimed Red Beachhead Cleared

Germans Launch Attacks on Dnestr Front Both Nazis, Reds Claim 1 Victory  / ee a ee

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACK — AT DNESTR RIVER   Large Tank and Infantry Assault Aimed to Restore Dnestr River Line Repulsed by Russians

Reds Say German Assault Wrecked   Nazis Striving to Restore Dnestr River Line

Russians Halt German Attack On River Bank  Braeavy Plaw Nanalt   Heavy Blow Dealt Assaulting Nazis On Lower Dnester

Germans Launck Attacks on Dnestr Front   Both Nazis, Reds Claim Victory in Stiff Fichting

GERMAN FORCES POUTED BY REDS   Enemy Attack on Bridgehead Along Lower Dnestr Is Turned Back

Nazis Lash Out In Dnestr Area   Attack Halted And  Il accac Said Haenuy

Allies Moving ’ Fast to Clear Antwerp Path   Big Supply Port « Vital to Armies; Rahats Hit Aachen

British Armor Gains Two Miles In Holland   Powerful Impetus Given To Al lied Campaign At Schelde Estuary

British Push Far Forward in Holland   Enemy Expected to Do Little But Slow Advance

Assault Are Is Clamped  Qn Germans   Capture Of City Would Imperil Stand In Holland Sector

Attack Nazi  Stronghold In Holland   British Forces Advance Against Weakening Re sistance Today

ALLIES SMASH EVERY ENEMY NEST BUT ONE   Canadians Are Rapidly Cleaning Schelde Estuary

Allies Clamp Pincers on Key Transport City   British Armies 3 Miles From S’ Hertogenbosch; Canadians Advance in Campaign to Open Sea Lanes to Antwerp; Yanks Iron Out Metz Bulge

BRITISH GAIN 2 MILES IN SOUTH HOLLAND; NAZIS USE ROBOTS AT AACHEN

British Troops  Close Circle On Hertogenbosch   Drive Gives Impetus ~ To Campaign To Clear Sea Lanes To Antwerp

German Forces Falter   Gain of 2 Miles Against Germans Made in Holland

RESISTANCE BY GERMANS WEAKENING   Powerful _ Impetus Given Allied Campaign to Clear Out Schelde Estuary.

British Drive 344 Miles Of Biggest Transport Hub In Holland  DRIVE TO CLEAR PORT OF ANTWERP  Enemy Has Only Sufficient Forces To Slow Our Advances

Gain 2 Miles As Germans Grow Weaker  Dempsey’s Forces Clamp Arc Around ‘S Hertoaenbhosch

Allied Airmen Exact Heavy Toll   U. 5. Third, Seventh and Ninth Armies Capture Number of Towns

500,000 Pictures To Aid Invasion   Every Inch of Coast Region Photographed

Future Depends On Close World Co-operation, Save Col. Avers In Broadcast From England

See No Pay Raise Before Election   Action of WLB On Wage Earners’ Report Delayed.

OHIO PAC WILL BACK ROOSEVELT   Political Platform Is Adopted At State Meet

ClO COMMITTEE BACKS NEW DEAL   Ohio Labor Group Urges Family-type Farming

BLANCO SLEEPS AS PLANE MAKES CRASH LANDING   DePue Aviation Lieutenant Flie: 25 Missions Over Enemy Ter ritory—Plane Damaged In A Raid On Bucharest.

L¥. M. BLANCO COMPLETED 25 AIR MISSIONS   Went To Sleep After Tire On Aircraft Was Damaged

Soviets Near Frontier of Yugoslavia   Speed More Than 70 Miles in Day; May Soon Join Tito’s Forces

Reds Near Yugosiav Border   Another Army Cracks Tough  Narew Line.

Axis Power in the Balkans Fast Ebbing   Reds and Romanians Racing to Junction With Tito Partisans

RED ARMIES PUSH NEAR YUGOSLAVIA   Juncture With Tito’s Partisans Will Mean Invasion of Hungarian Plains Very Soon.

Russians Race Across Romania   Nazi Liné Northeast OF Warsaw Cracks

Russians Race Across Romania After Germans   Thousands Of Nazis May Be Trapped By Soviet Forces

Anti-Nazis Are Tried In U.S. Prison Camps   ..- By Fellow Prisoners, Paper ‘Aufbau’ Says

Big 3 Approved Greece Entry, Churchill Claims   Assertion Comes After Attempt, Apparently by Enemy Agents, To Bomb His Quarters in Athens

Appeals For Peace  By Greeks   Tells Nation's Leader Roosevelt And Stalin QO. K. Secret  Election Plan.

Boulder Dam Now Turning Out Over That Number of Kilowatts to Colorado Customers.

Chinese Widen Gap Between Enemy Forces   Troops Capture A Third Station Along The Line

Chinese Widen Gap Between Nip Forces   Third Important Jap Railway Station Falls Tc Kai-Shek’s Soldiers; Enemy In Danger

Chinese Widen Gap In Enemy   Third Station Along Rail Line Captured

Chinese Rout Japs And Take ‘Third Station   Counterattack In South Honan Gains Ground, Gap Widened Between ~ Jananese Forces

GOAL REACHED ON FINAL DAY OF CAMPAIGN   Citizens’ Loyal Support Praised By Chairman F. L. Johnson

Christmas Plans Are Forgotten  ‘This Can’t Be Happening to Us...

AEDUKE 1 WORST Fh ROUSE VELT   Galleries Filled By Spectators  LED BY BARKLEY,  Sen. Pepper Argues lor President

Senate Passes New lax Bill Over Veto Also   President Sustains Overwhelming Defeat In His Tax Bill Stand   SENATE VOTE IS 72-14 FOR TAX BILL

REVENUE BILL BECOMES LAW OVER PROTEST   Crushing Defeat Given President in Action By Congress

Enacts Tax Law, 72 to 14   Rides Roughshod Over The President’s Will

VOTE OF 72 TO 14 MAKES NEW TAX LAW EFFECTIVE, DESPITE ROOGEVELT OBJECTIONS

SOVIET FORCES SPREADING OUT ALONG RAILROAD   Wedge Driven Between Budapest, Eastern Slovakia as Germans Persist With Defense.

PRO-NAZI LOST © FINNISH: POST   MANNERHEIM' NAMED. PRESI DENT TO SUCCEED RYT, ‘WHO MADE. PACT WITH  : GERMANY

Blast Isles 1,300 Miles from Tokyo   American Planes Bomb Mariana Rases and May Have Destroyed More of Japanese Fleet

Woman, 90, Wear 90, Wearing Cay Bandina, Carried io Poll: Backs Dewey

JAPS DAMAGE U.S. WARSHIPS IN AIR ATTACK   DETERMINED RAID MADE MONDAY IN LEYTE GULF

U.S. WARSHIPS HIT AT LEYTE BY JAP PLANES   Some Damage Is Inflicted  On American Vessels; i] @ Ghine Riact Orman

REO, Ne me SS om MGI enS     Gen. Eisenhower Appeal: For Successful Drive In Sixth War Loan

EISENHOWER ASKS ALL-OUT SUPPORT   ‘To Make Sure of Final Victory,’ General Urges Success of Sixth War Loan

By DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Supreme Commander of  Allied Expeditions ry Forees fi an

GERMAN TROOPS IN W. HOLLAND THUS CUT OFF   Taking of Bridge Also Means Help for Air-Borne Troops Locked in Fierce Conflict

(City in Germany Wine: Out: ~   By Jack Frankish Wnited. Press Staff

ENGLAND AND WALES BOMBED BY GERMANS   Nazt Raiders Strike in StrengthTargets Not Immediately Disclosed by London,

JAP BASES HAMMERED BY AIRMEN   Nips Reported Moving Out Of Maffin Area In Dutch Guinea

Maj. Bong Is Again Top U.S. Airman   Fighter Pilot Has Record of 30 Jap Planes in Combat

More Time Given Finland to Accept. Armistice Terms   Stern Answer Sent Nation; Hint Dramatic Developments Soon

Moscow Believed insisting upon Former Demands      Big Developments Expected. Hourly

RUSSIA INSISTS ON QUICK FINNISH TRUCE DECISION   Stern Answer to _ Helsinki Said to Give Small Republie Only a Few Days to Accept.   BELIEVED HER LAST CHANCE FOR PEACE   Informed Quarters in Stockholm Declare Crisis Is “Getting Tougher” for Finns Every Hour.

COUNTER ARMISTICE TERMS UNACCEPTABLE   Russia Tells Finland Present Proposal Unsatisfactory; Negotiations Continns

Red Peace Terms For Finns Stand   Russia Gives Finland More Time To Accept

FINLAND GETS   Stern Red Reply Said to Have Rejected Counter Proposals for Peace

FINNS MUST MAKE DECISION QUICKLY   Nation Reported to Have Few. More Days to Accept Terms

DEWEY TO REPLY TO FOR TONIGHT   Defers Farm Talk to Deal With Foreign Policy; Speech on Air

DEWEY PLANS SPEECH TONIGHT: ~ ON PRE-WAR JAPANESE POLIC)   TOPYC OF. BROADCAST  . CHANGED TO REPLY. TO  “ ROOREVELTS FOREIGN . POLICY SPEECH .

JEWEY SAYS THAT D.R’S) MEMORY 'AILSIN HISTORY   SOP Presidential Candidate To “Fill in the Gap” In Speech Tonight   FLAYS FARM SPEECH   Nill Speak of Shipping Scrap Iron and Oil To Japan

PACIFIC CAMPAIGN INTO ‘A DRIVE TO NEUTRALIZE TRUK   So Believe Military Reports As Yank Blows Rained On Big Jap Base in Carolines.

U. S. Airmen Are Pounding Jap Islands   They’ve Made At Least Fight Attacks In 36-Hour Pericd

ALLIED PLANES SCORE   Récent Raid Near Croat Capital Downed 64 Nazi Aircraft

Nation Mourns  Death of Davis   National Leader In Red Cross Work Dies

DAVIS" S' DEATH ay MOURNED   CHAIRMAN OF AMERICAN RED CROSS SUCCUMBED TO  STROKE “YESTERDAY _° AFTERNOON °°

NATION MOURNS NORMAN DAVIS   Furlérai Slated Wednesda For Red Cross Chairman

Anticipation of “Great Events, ” Moscow Feeling   Madrid Paper Asserts Allied Landings Will Take Place This Month

‘Nazi Jitters Hit New High As Hour Nears   Berlin Sees Attack From Both Sides, Predicts” ~ Greatest Battles’

Hint Invasion of Western Europe Will Be Coordinated With Soviet Drive

Speculation OnInvasion Increases   Full-Scale Offensive By Russians Expected Te Be Timed With The Invasion From West

RED ATTACK ON REICH MAY MARI INVASION START   Likely To Follow Concentric Progrant At Toheran

Plan Red Punch at Invasion   Concentric Assault on Germany Hinted in Moscow Dispatches

BLOW MAY BE COMBINED WITH NEW RED DRIVE   Patton Reaches Britain Where Allies Mass _ For Final ‘Push’

INVASION. MAY BE COORDINATED BY RED SMASt   Moscow, Nazi Dispatches _ Hint Broadly At Such a “ _- Prosedure.

Russia May Join in Big Battle Plans   Spring Campaign at Same Time as Western Inva sion Is Possible

invasion May Signal New Soviet-Drive   Moscow Reported Alert for “Great Events” as D-day Nears

New Guinea, Carolines Hit For 4th Day   Heavy Bombers Give Wake Twentieth Pounding of War; Resistance Weak

MacArthur Troops Hit Halmaheras As Nimitz Units Battle For Palau   Sky And Sea Bombardment Covers Assault Forces; Resistance At  Palau May Top Saipan Fight

Japanese Weak  In Leadership   Gen. MacArthur Says High er Officers Of Jap Forces Are Of Lower Quality

MacArthur Tells of Jap Defeat   Says Positions On Morotai Are Secure

Campaign Against Japan Enters Its "Decisive Stage’: Gen. MacArthur

Gain Five Miles On Rapido River In Hard Battle   Fierce Fighting In Three Sectors

Tanks And Flame-Throwers Employed In Capture Of Six More Towns   FRENCH FORCES CUT IMPORTANT HIGHWAY

Ten Towns Captured By Attackers   French Forces Sever Cassino-Formia Road. Vital Enemy Highway  RAPINHA PRINCGCFKHYD

Castelforte captured as gains mount  Cassino-Formia rnad ic cevered

MAKING TOTAL OF 10 SINCE LAUNCHING OF GENERAL OFFENSIVE IN ITALY; FIERCE FIGHTING PREVAILS

TAKEN AFTER FIERCE FIGHT   Furious Battle Continues to Rage Along 25-Mile Front

French Cut Road Running  To Cassino   Tank-Led Troops Get Several Miles Beyond Castelforte

NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ON NAREW, CLAIN   Announcement From Berlin Hints At Invasion Across Norwegian Border by Reds.

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO NORWAY   Seaport of Kirkenes Has Fallen, Says Premier

Russian Troops Invade Norway   Kirkenes, Nazi U-Boat Base, Captured; Reds Beat Off Fierce Counterattacks by Crack Panzer Divisions, Widening Prussia Gains

BATTLESHIP MISSOURI IS LARGEST AFLOAT   Superdreadnought Has 18 Decks— Ship Enters Combat Service After Trial Cruise.

On ‘Missour’’ In Trial Cruise   Giant Combat Ship Gives Rep. Bennett Thrill

oUILDS UPHELD; WLB IS DIVIDED   Freedom Of Press Not Abridged By Unions, Opinion Says

Editorial Union Dues Held Legal  WLB Split Ruling Ranke Tahar Cida

A Master Point Tournament Playec   Nine and One-Half Tables Played Last Night in Duplicate Club.

Average Bridge : Score Was 135   A Master Point Tournament Held at Hopper Coffee Shop Last Night.

LONDON IS RAIDED: BY NAZI AIRPLANES   At Least 26 Persons Killed in Saturday Attack

16 Known Dead, 15 injured in Raid on London   Three Nazi Planes Are Brought Down

DEWEY’S STRATEGY  CONVENTION CITY  TALK INDICATES THAT   TALK INDICATES THAT GOVERNOR BRICKER HAS BEEN GAINING GROUND

Dewey Strategy Board Sets Up Pre-Convention Headauarters At Chicago

PREPARING FOR GOP MEETING   Dewey’s Strategy Board Sets Up Pre-Convention Haadnuarters.

Dewey Sets Up Headquarters as Gov. Bricker Gains Ground   Board of Strategy Said To Be Ready To Announce New Yorker Will Accept Nornination.

DEWEY’S STRATEGY BOARD IN CHICAGO TO “MAKE CAMP”.   Establishing Pre - Convention Headquarters Amid Rumors' That Bricker Is Gaining. In  5 5 eee

Dewey Force At Chicago   Some Claim Bricker Is Gaining Delegates—A “Draft Dewey”, Move

REPUBLICANS MAKING PLANS FOR “44 MEET   Pre-Convention Headquarters  Opened Today

Governor Bricker Said to Have Gained Ground in Fight for Republican Nomination for President

Dewey Backers Move  : . me Counter Bricker ) Set Up Headquarters

Bricker Gains Strength As Dewey’s Backers Hint He Is Ready To Accept

DEWEY BOARD OF STRATEGY MOVES CAMP TO CHICAGO   CLAIM SUFFICIENT STRENGTH TO WIN ON FIRST BALLOT

Supporters Of Dewey Move To Chicago Today   Press Interview Later Today Is Scheduled When Leaders May Say Dewev Is a Willing Candidate.

, Dewey Io Run; _ Announcement > Expected Today  ‘Supporters To Hold w - Press Conference;   ‘Supporters To Hold Press Conference; Bricker Gains

New Gas Ration System Adopted  Coupons to Be Mailed From Central Stations To Prevent Robberies

REPORTS HEARD OF DISORDERS   FOREIGN WORKERS IN GER. MANY SAID TO BE STAGING SERIES OF REVOLTS

BRITISH MOVE INTO CORINTH   Occupy Base for Clearing Germans Out of Athens; Resistance Slight

BRITISH HOLD CORINTH, KEY TO LIBERATION   Germans Withdrawing Without Making RearGuard Stands

LIBERATION UF GREECE IS IMMINENT   As British and Greek Forces Occupy Corinth: German Units Withdraw.   Triumphant Welcome

Corinth Is Occupied in Greek Drive   May Serve As Base For Liberation of Athens - And Rest of Greek — “Mainland

GREECE SOON TO BE FREED; CORINTH HELD   BRITISH EXPECT NO OPPOSITION IN ATHENS AREA

Dewey, F.D.R. to Pick Up Votes   Nominations to Be Settled This Week

ROOSEVELT AND DEWEY APPEAR AS CANDIDATES   Four. Primaries, 12 Conventions to Be Held This Week

French Cut Off Toulon Escape Road   Start Fighting Way Into Base; Gen. Patch Calls for Utmost Endeavor Now

Fourth Stage of Battle Has Opened   Allied Forces Set for Attacks on German Rome Line

Key Point in New Nazi Line  Under Attack  Beachhead Forces Ar  ae oes «fe es,   Beachhead Forces Are Nearing Germans’ Only Escape Route

Americans Pushing Enemy Out of Velletri, 16 Miles Below Rome; Seize Stronghold Beyond Cisterna

ALLIES REACH LAST DEFENSE LINE OF NAZIS   STRONGHOLDS FALL; VELLETRI SAID TO BE DOOMED

Clearing Enemy Out of Veltetri, Strongpoint’ of Nazi's’ Last Ditch . Defense Line. Allies Cap: -ture Mountain Bastion of Cori. Nearing Rome

MENACE NAZI STRONGPOINT OF YELLETRI   Tanks and Infantrymen Moving on City Which Is Only 16 Miles From Italian Capital.   FIRES RAGING ; IN BASTION   Cori Captured in Companion Drive After Six« Mile Plunge From New: ly-Taken Cisterna,

Italian Capital Sees Gun Flashes as Fury of Big Offensive Increases   Planes Continue Heavy Blasting of Hitler’s Roads and Rail Lines; Nazis in Italy Draw Back Rapidly Toward New Defenses

Bombs Drop ai 2 Tons Per Minute Rate   20,000 Tons Have Been Delivered in Last Five Days

COASTAL AREA   Planes From Ttaly in \ Austrian Raid; RAF . : Hits Frankfurt

GERMAN EUROPE DEALT 3 BLOWS   French Coast Klagenfurt Airport, War Plants Heavily Pounded

Three Heavy Assaults Are Made in Less Than 24 Hours      FRANKFURT IS HIT BY NIGHT RAIDERS   Targets in Austria and France Pounded During the Day

YANKS MAKE THIRD ATTACK IN 24 HOURS   On German Europe, Following 1000 Bomber Attack By RAF; French Invasion Coast Target.   Gear Plant

American Bombers Cross Alps To Raid Austria  And Yugoslavia   20,000 TONS BOMBS DROPPED IN 5 DAYS

Allied Bomhs Hit Nazis 3 Times A Day   RAF, American Marauders Rake German Bases

Bombers Fly From British. Italian Bases   Frankfurt, Bergerac, Graz, Klagenfurt, Pas-de-Calais Raided

Bombs Drop a!  2 Tons Per Minute Rate  20,000 Tons Have Been Delivered  ee ee TREE NSEC

COASTAL AREA   Planes From Italy in Austrian Raid; RAF Hits Frankfurt

BREAKS SPELL OF SILENCE IN COMMUNIOU   Claims Allied Reverses: and Says ’Chute Troops Now in Grim Battle.

OPA INSPECTION “STARTS MARCH 13   Retail Food Stores Will Be Checked on Prices

BOMBING PROTEST ENTERED BY SWISS   Border Town of Schaffhausen Attacked by Airmen

Swiss Criticize U.S. as Result Of Raid Error   Flyers Lacked Training They Feel, Report Sky Was Clear

Bonin, Volcano Isles Bombed; Japs Lose 1: Ships, 85 Airplanes   Islands Bombarded Thrree Days Nimitz Also Bares Attacks on Marianas, Kuriles, Carolines

Evangelist McPherson Laid To Rest   Thousands of Her Followers and Friends Observe Body  Being Placed In $40,000 Sarcophegus

16th Division MacArthur’s — Special Target   ‘Dirty Work’ on Bataan Done ‘by That.Group, Allied Leader Savs

MacArthur Hunts Division Which Drove Him Ouf   Wants To Meet Fifteenth

MARTHUR AND MEN BACK TO EVEN BATAAN   Japs Who Did “Dirty Work” Now Face Invading Yanks

All Texas Political Chiefs Seem Certain of Outcome For Their Respective Ticket}:

Underground Air Factory Captured Old d French Iron Mine  _ aa oe ee

NAVAL FLEET IN PAGIFIC STILL STRONG   Fourth Menth Of Heavy Fighting Now Underway

NAZI COURT TRIES AND SENTENCES 8 FOR HITLER PLOT   People’s Court of Four Hears Evidence and Orders ‘Just Punishment’ For Former Staff Generals.   DEATH PLOT HATCHING SINCE LAST SUMMER   Police Officers Conductec Fallen Military Leaders Into Berlin Supreme Court For Sentence:

Eight German Officers Face Death Penalty   All Confess Guilt in Attempt On Hitler’s Life

OFFICERS ARE TRIED, HANGED   Death Comes Two Hours After They Are Found Guilty By Court

Right Officers Hanged Sor Plot Against Hitler   Trial By Previneial Court Comes To An Abrupt Enc When Defendants “Confess” Guilt And Ask Death By A Firing Squad

NAZI COURT HANGS EIGHT TOP GERMANS   Officers Killed After Sensational Two Day Trial

15th Air Force Blasts Budapest, Vital Rail Center   Bombing Of Balkan Capital Supports Soviet Drive

Bombers Hammer Budapest; Soviets Marshal Forees On Border   Germans Say It Planes Downed   Raid Closest U. S. Has Made To Russian Lines On Eastern Front

YANKS BOMB BUDAPEST FOR FIRST TIME, SMASHING AT RAIL YARDS   BUDAPEST BLOW SEEN AS SUPPORT TO RUSSIA; 100 NAZI PLANES DOWNED IN DAY’S OPERATIONS

BUDAPEST RAIL YARDS IN FIRST U.S. BOMB BLAST   Aireraft Factories In Hungarian Capital Ades Prlyverivead

BUDAPEST I5 TARGET FOR VANK DLANES   Hungary Capital Raided Following Austrian Attack

RAIL YARBS, PL JANE PLANT ARE BOMBED   Air Power Holds Spotlight In Pacific Fighting

Attack Follows Bombardment of Steyr, Austria   Assault Provides Direct Support For Russian Army Drive

U.S. PLANES IN 1ST RAID ON BUDAPEST   Foliows Raid By 500 Bombers On Steyr, Austria -—=

Oy oi  Yanks Attack  Plane Plant, Rail Vards  RUhh dh BM TAL aS  Strong Bomber. Formation From Lialy Deliv ers Bl Blow  SU PPORTS 5 ‘S SOV] ETS  Assault Is First Big Scale Bombardment of Budanect

FIRST BLOW AT NAZI-OCCUPIED BALKAN CITY   Attack Called Aid to Reds

American Bombers In Assault On Budapest   Follcws In Wake Of Record Shattering Raid On Stervr

RAILROAD YARDS, ~ AIRPLANE PLANT HEAVILY BOMBED   ‘German Radio Claims 14  Planes On Way to Objec tive Were Downed, Raid  Sn Support of Russia.   ALLIES OPEN ATTACK ON GERMANS AT ANZIO   German Battleship Tirpitz, ! Lying Crippled In Norweg ian Fjord Bombed Again ! By Britoish.

LE HAVRE GARRISON HANDED ULTIMATUM   British Besieging Channel Port Demand Surrender of Estimated 5,000 Nazis Holding City.

Carigara, Key Spot on Coast of Leyte, Menaced by Yanks      Seventh Division Pushes Half Way Across Leyte  in Climactic March

LEYTE YANKS. NEAR AVITAL COASTAL CITY   Liberators Brace Them: selves for a Possible Climactic Battle or a Counter-Attack by the Nipponese.

Doughboys Smash Jap Rearguard Upon Leyte   Towns Are F alling As Yankees Move Up For Kill

Yanks on Leyte Braced for Jap Counter- Attack   Enemy Is Expected To Throw All He Has into Thrust; More Villaces Fall

ATH ONISION PUSHES AHEAD   Another Yank Column Is Braced for Possible Climatic Battle.   TELL JAP PLANE LOSSES

Yanks Move Against Jap Rear Guards   Break Up One Enemy Concentration; Prepare For Rie Counterattack

Tunga Taken In Philippines By U.S. Division   Forces Braced For Counter-Attack By Japanese

Yanks Set For Banza Attacks   Expect Fierce Jap Counterblows On  - Leyte: As Enemy Is Squeezed Toward Sea

Americans Smash Forward on Leyte   Climactic Battle Reported Near As Jans Face Death or Destruction

Doughboys Smash Leyte  Rear Guard Stand, Peril Coast Town Of Cariaara

Desperate Resistance On Leyte   Two-Pronged Yank Drive Nears Coastal Village and Braces New Line   RETIRING JAPS WRECK BRIDGE   Artillery Fire Overcome by Advancing Yanks; Japs Bring More Men FromCebu

DOUGHBOYS IN GREAT ADVANCE AGAINST ENEMY   Within Five Miles Of Carigara On Philippines

U. S. TROOPS READIED FOR MAJOR BATTLE   American Cavalry Division Poised For Attack On Carigara

Doughboys S are Advancing on Leyte Island   24th Division Within Two Miles Of Carigara

Yanks Near Last Enemy  Leyte Base   Fall Of Carigara Will Leave Nipponese To Jungle, Mountains Of Southern Portion Of Isle; Two Columns In On Coastal Town

Showdown Battle Is In Prospect   Americans Smosh Jap Concentration

U.S, DOUGHBOYS OF 24TH DIVISION SMASH FORWARD   Are Within Five Miles Of Strategic Coastal Village Of Carigara.

Battle Against Japs On Leyte Nearing Climax   Yanks Move From Two Directions Against Reinforced Enemy.

TEMPERATURES:   Doughboys Break Up Counter- Attacks, Extend Gains

Doughboys on Leyte Push Cle: to Strategic Town After’: “mashing Jap Force

YANKS PUSH ON LEYTE KEY   Brace Along Coast for Cli. mactic Philippines Battle —

‘Two Drives Under Way On   Msland; Japanese Rear  Cunard Group Smashed Near Cariagara

Doughboys Smash Jap Rear Guards In Philippines   Strategic Coastal Village Of Carigara Neared As Yanks Brace For Jap Counteratlack

YANKS ADVANCE IN LEYTE AREA   Doughboys Smash Jap Rear Guard Near Strategic Philippine Village

Yankees Smash Jap Rearguard Concentration   Troops of 24th. Division Drive Within Five Miles Of Strategic Coastal:  ’ Village of Coriqara

Smash Delaying Action By Japanese After Suffering Heavy Toll From Artillery Fire

Japs Reinforced On Leyte Island   Americans, Still Gaining _ Ground, Brace for Counterattacks   BARGES IN AT NIGHT   20 Enemy Troop: Carriers Sunk or Damaged by -U.S. Planes

YANKS § NORTHWARD WN SUDDEN SHIFT   ‘Montgomery Says Germans In Bad Way; Shroud  Paris Drive

30 MILES PAST LE MANS, SAYS NAZI REPORT   British Forces Carve Huge Pocket in Enemy Lines

“Bulk Of German Forces In Northwest Europe In Bad Way,” Montgomery   American Forces Reported Taking Northward Turn In Sweep Which Threatens All Nazis South Of Seine

Forces Turn Attacks North From Le Mans   Strong Air Support Given Allied Armies; All German Troops South Of Seine River Threatened By Advance

Huns In Bad-Way Says Montgomery   x RK RK Lorient, Spawning Ground of U-Boats, Dies Stubbornly ..

Exient of Gains Not Disclosed   But Doughboys Are Said to Be. Pushing North, Threatening Big Enemy Force ~   BRITISH SMASH -A STRONG POINT   Bulk of- Germans in Northwest Europe in a Bad Way, Montgomery Says

Movements Remain A Mystery   Deep Thrusts Toward Paris May Take Dramatic Turn In Anv Direction Soon

Throw Main Weight of The Assault In Direction Of Seine After Mystery Push

Report Allis Are in Re -: of  German) ses   Yanks Capture 4. $22 in 24 Hours; Estimate 30 Hun Divisions Trapped.   Now 42 Mil. 3 From Nazi-Held Capital

Exact Positions Of Yank Troops Are Not Revealed   American Forces Sweeping North Like Giant Scythe

ManyGermans Are In Danger   Americans Past Le Mans, Meet No Solid Resistance; Nantes, Angers Fall

Great Bulk of Nazi Forces Facing Trap  Gen. Sir Montgomery Says Victory Ahead;

RUSSIAN DRIVE IMPERILS THREE RAIL CENTERS   Soviet Columns Approach Slovakian Frontier And Valley Railway Towns Eger, Misko!c, Hat.  VAN.

Ground Given Up By Nazis Near Budapest   Drive Of Reds Imperils Three Rail Centers  20 Persons Injured As Train Ils Wrecked

Germans Yield Ground in Red Flanking Attack   Victory Gives Soviets Control! of Railroad Into Budapest; Air Battles Are Mounting

Reds Imperil 3 Rail Towns in Hungary   Defenders Being Pushed Toward the Slevakian Frontier:

Reds Menace 3 Hungarian Rail. Centers   Hurl Nazis: Into Mountains on the Slovakian Frontier

RUSSIANS HURL NAZIS BACK IN BUDAPEST DRIVE   PRESS THE ENEMY DEEPER INTO BUKK, MATRA MOUNTAINS

Soviets Turn  Nazis Back   Sustained Flanking Move; Imperil Three Vital Rail Towns

Russians Gain Anew in Drive   Nazis Give Ground Again on Front Near Budapest

SOVIETS PERIL 3 RAM CITIES   Push German Defenders of  ' Budapest Flank Back  Into Mountains

Nazis Pressed Back By Soviet Flanking Moves   Germans Driven Deeper Into Mountains Northeast Of Budapest.

MANS GIVE MORE GROUND TO RED DRIVE   Nazis Hurled Back Into Mountains Northeast Of Budapest

Nazis Again Give Ground Before Red ‘Army Attack   Soviet Forces Press Deeper Into Mountains Near Slovakia

RUSSIANS NEAR 3 RAIL CENTERS   Flanking Move Drives Back Germans In Hungary

SOVIETS PUSH NAZIS DEEPER IN MOUNTAINS   German Defenders Give Ground in Battie For Budapest

Russian Flanking Move. Forces Nazis: Northeast’ Of Budapest To Retreat

Reds Driving  Nazis Back Germans Hurled Into Hills Near Budapest

GERMANS FORCED TO IVE CROUNN   Sustained Russian Flanking Maneuver Gains In Hungary

Nazi Defender: Give Ground as  Reds Push On   Three Important Hungarian Rail Towns Threatened By Russian Advance   Hatvan is Attacked.

Reds Hurl Germans Back Northeast of Hungarian Capital   Press Nazis Deeper Into Mountains Along the Slovakian Border

GIVING GROUND TO SOVIETS IN BUDAPEST AREA   Germans Pushed Deeper Inte Mountains on Slovak Frontier by Russ Flanking Maneuver

Soviets Push ‘Enemy Back In Mountains   Russian Offensive Imperiling Three Hungarian Centers

MENALE INE VITAL RAIL CENTERS   q Fierce Tank Battle Rages For City Of Hatvan   Destroyed In Air Battles Over Hungary: Counterdrives Broken Up

Russians Gain in Fierce Fighting North of Budapest   Three Rail Lines Imperiled By Soviet Advance

Three Towns Threatened By Soviet Troops   Nazi Defenders Northeast Of Budapest Forced To Give Ground During Flanking Maneuver

Reds Advance Near Budapest   Russians Stage Sustained Flanking  Maneuver

Germans Give Ground to Soviet Drive   Flanking Maneuvers Press Enemy Back at Budapest

NAZIS FALL BACK IN AREA OF BUDAPEST   Give Ground Northeast of Besieged Capital in the Face of Sustained Red Flanking Move Menacing Three Towns.

GERMAN LINES GIVE GROUND TODAY TO RERS   Several Towns Captured In Fast Drive

RUSSIANS PUSH NAZIS BACK IN FLANKING MOVE   Drive Germans Deeper Into Hills on Slovakian Frontier

Soviets Bend Nazi Budapest Defense Line  Reds Threaten To Turn Flonk Near Hunaariaon Capital

NAZIS GIVE GROUND AT DULAPEST   Red Drive Imperils Three Hungarian Rail Towns

GERMAN DEFENDERS — HUNGARIAN LINE GIVE GROUND AGAIN  RUSSIAN DRIVE IMPERILS THREE IMPORTANT RAILROAD TOWNS

Reds Beat Nazis Back   Germans Give Ground Before Soviet Drive Northeast of Budapest

Japanese Admit Sea, Air Losses   Enemy News Agency Says 30,000 Yanks in Saipan Battle

Three Hundred Japanese Planes Destroyed; Americans Now Hold Airdrome Four Hours Flying Time From Tokyo.

French Invasion Coast Pounded Again By Allies   Berlin Reports Enemy Planes Over Capital Again During Night

Invasion Coast Hit for Third Straight Day   Berlin Radio Says Allied Bombers Sirike at Canital

Allied Planes Pound French Coast Again   Swarms Of Bombers And Fighters Resume The Bombardment Of Nazi -Military Bases

Coast of France Hit By Allied Bombing Fleets   Berlin Raided During Night, Germans Report

AIRMEN HiT AT INVASION COAST TODAY   Hundreds of Allied Planes Blast At Northern France

HUNDREDS OF PLANES POUND FRENCH COAST   Allied Bombers Continue Blasting Across Channel; Berlin Raided During the Nicht, Germans Claim.

Allies Hammer Invasion Coast 3 Days In Row   Heavies Strike Thru Dense Clouds With Only Slight Losses

Swarms of Allied Planes  Hammer at French Coast   Continued Assault on Doorway To Inner Europe Under Way— Berlin Attacked Avain

FRENCH COAST HIT FOR THIRD STRAIGHT DAY   Bombers Reported Over Berlin During Night In Light Raid   AMERICAN FLIERS SOFTENING UP MARSHALLS, RAIDED LAST 18 DAYS

BERLIN ADMITS NEW NIGHT RAID OVER CAPITAL   Says Planes Were Forced To Jettison Their Bombs

GENERAL VATUTIN’ DIED LAST-NIGHT AFTER. AN. OPERATION  One’ cf Russia’s Outstané ing Army Leaders Dies  Lo... fe... te Ope

Russian General Dies   Vatutin, Leader of Ukrainian Army, Aided in Liberation of Kiev

Gen. Vatutin, Red Ist Army Leader, Dies   Liberated Native ( City of Kiev, Expires After Operation, Called ‘The Hunter’

Noted Soviet Leader Dies   An Operation Fatal to Gen. Nikolai Vatutin, Hero of Many Battles

BRILLIANT GENERAL IS LOST BY RUSSIA   Commander of Forces Which Recaptured Kiev Dies

Gen. Vatutin Dies in Kiev   Death Robs Soviets Of Heraie General

Gen. Vatutin Dies In Kiev, Capital He Freed of Nazis  Talenied Yeung Commander Ha Share in Victories ai Vyazma, Stalingrad. Kharkov

General Vatutin, Liberator Of Kiev, Dies of Operation   Commander of First Ukrainian Army Had Been Ill for Some Time; He Also Was Co-Captor of Kharkov Last Year

GENERAL VATUTIN QF RUSSIA DIES   MONUMENT TO BE BUILT FOR UKRAINE LEADER

Gen. Vatutin, Soviet Army. Hero, Dies   Following An Operation  Outstanding Victory Capture of Kiev

Famous Russian General Dies   Vatutin, 45, Succumbs Following Operation -

CRACK RUSSIAN GENERAL DIES AFTER GURGERY   Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin Ex. pelled Nazi Armies From Ukraine

SOVIET LOSES ONE OF MOST LOVED CHIEFS   ‘Watutin, Who Liberated Kiev and Led Russian Forces Into Poland, Dies After Operation.

VATUTIN, RUSSIAN COMMANDER. DIES   Leader of First Ukrainian . Army Expires After Operation

(Casey to Give Up Legislative Role (Colorful Legislator Too il to Run

$7,800,098 Road Dian Is Before Federal Board  Priovity For Big Program 5

Anxious Democrats Await Word From Chairman Hannegan On White House Attitude

DEMOCRATS HAVE  MANY ASPIRANTS  FOR NO. 2 ROLE WORD IS AWAITED  BY PARTY LEADERS AC TO END CHOICE

ANXIOUS ABOUT VIGE PRESIDENT   List of Demos Who Might Be Available Is Length ening.

Vice Presidential Possibilities Pop Up as Dems. Gather   Spring Up Like Lightning Rods Over Chicago's  Downtown

Second Place Fight Grows in Intensity   Candidates Increase by Leaps and Bounds as Convention Nears

WORD AWAITED FROM EDR. ON VICE PRESIDENT   /Meanwhile Candidacies Pop Up Like Lightning Rods

Vice-Presidential Possibilities Increase As F.D.R.’ Word Awaited   National Chairman Hannegan Reputedly Has Letter From President For Convention Expressing Preference For Wallace.

Many Candidates For Second Place   But Democrats Anxiously Await Hannegan’s Word on FDR Attitude.

Many Mentioned At Chicago   Democrats Await Word On FDR's Wishes on Running Mate

IN MANY FOR 2ND PLACE IN DEMO TICKET   Report Hannegan Has F. R. Letter Voicing Wallace Preference

SECOND PLACE CANDIDATES BOBBING UP   Uncertainty Over Re-Nomination of Vice President Wallace Has Thrown Field Wide Onan.

WALLACE WORD STILL AWAITED   Roosevelt Letter. Reported To Back Vice President

A Dozen Booms For Vice President   Woods Apparently Full of Timber for Second Place Office

Democrats Await White House Wore   Anxious Delegates Seek Attitude OF Roosevelt on Vice Presidency

MANY SECOND PLACE RIVALS IN THE FIELD   Demos, Meanwhile, Await Confirmation Hannegan Has F. D. R. Letter to Convention Favoring Wallace’s Election.

DEMOCRATS IN DITHER OVER VICE-PRESIDENT   Several Names  Mentioned As Candidates

Vice-Presidential Possibilities Increase   O'Mahoney of Wyoming anc Filbert Thomas of Utah.

Heavy Winter Bombing Planned   Seek Reich Knockout By Allied Airpower

WILLIAM EUGENE ANDERSEN DIES   Was Infant Son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Andersen

ROOSEVELT OUTLINES RAPID JAPAN SMASH   PRESIDENT OPENS FIFTH WAR LOAN CAMPAIGN WITH REVIEW OF INVASION COST, OTHER FRONTS

AD. WAR REVIEW OPTIMISTIC  Reich Has Back To ‘Three’ Walls’ And Time Table

Jap War Ahead Of Timetables, Says Roosevelt   ‘Nazis’ Downfall ls Imminent, Président Adds

FDR SAYS GERMANY HAS BACK TO WALL   OPENS BOND DRIVE WITH A HEARTENING REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

PRESIDENT GIVES WAR REVIEW TO OPEN BOND SALE   Acknowledges Start Of Northern Arm Of Invasion Was Very Costly

PRESIDENT OPENS FIFTH BOND DRIVE   Says Defeat of Nazis Will Hasten End of Jap War

Roosevelt Power Now Challenged   Senator Russell Asks Action To Investigate F.D.R.’s Authority to Create SemiPermanent Agencies.   ;

Test of Congress  Revolt Up Today   Amendment Challenges Agencies Permanency

Sen. Russell To Challenge FDR’s Powei   Avowsa He Wants to Stop Executive Department From Lecislating

NAVY SEIZES 5 BAY CITY MACHINE SHOPS UNDER PRESIDENTIAL ORDER   UNION OFFICIALS’ DEFIANCE OF WLB ORDER RESCINDING OVERTIME BAN BLAMED FOR STEP

Allies Strike in Two Sectors In France Despite Mud, Rain   Americans, Canadians Improve Positions at Caen, St. Lo; German Losses Heavy; Etavaux, Eterville, Malot Are Taken

Rains Slow Up Offensive In  Normandy   Allied Forees In Capture Of Three More Villages

DELUGE OF RAIN HOLDS DRIVE ON PARIS AT START   Nazi Counterattacks To No Avail; Canadians vain Slightly ~---

Allied Forces Make ‘Gains.  In Normandy   Offensives Balked Fast Of Caen By Six-Ineh Deep Mud. Repulse Nazi Attacks

 Allies Crush Nazi Blows, Strike Out In Two Sectors For Good Gains In France

Allies Beat Counter Blows To Make Gains   American Doughboys Drive New Wedge Into German Defense and Canadians Advance

Yanks and Canadians Gain at Twe Points Despite HeavyMud in France

Allies Score  Fresh Gains Nazi Blows Checked, Mud Slows Armies   Nazis Have Maltot

Germans Slain In Sharp Fight   British -Let Tanks Go Past, Mow Down Infantry; Rains Hamper Movements

Allied Army Drives Ahead Despite Muddy Battlefields  Counterattacks Halted With Gains Made On Normandy Front

RAINY WEATHER SLOWS ASSAULT IN NORMANDY   Three Allied Columns Marching On  Florence

Enemy Blows Are Stopped; 3 Villages. ia Are Stormed   Caen, Se. [> Region Is Bogged By. Rains

TAKE HIGH oPOTS “DOMINATING AREA   ¢: S. 9th Division Teams up With Airborne 82nd   MAKE BREAK-THROUGH   @fficers Believe Nazis Will Try to Make Cherbourg ‘Another ‘Sevastopol’

Last Nazi Escape Route — Under Fire of Light Guns: Cherbourg’s Fall Looms

Yanks Drive Toward West Coast In New Attack to Divide Norman  ~ Peninsula: Nazi Lines Give Wav

U.S. Ninth Division, 84th Airborne Troops Team to Smash German Resistance

Airmen Sight Enemy Fleeing Allied Trap; British Repel Tanks   Americans Capture Hills Above Normandy’s West Shore as Germans Hurry to Elude Giant  De nnarce ‘lacing 2.x. BD....’.....].

Veteran Troops Virtually Chop Cherbourg Off   Ninth Division Sees Action and Splits Defense Line, Pushing Allied Wedge Within 18 Miles of Trapped Nazi Horde

American Forces Within Four Miles of West Coast; Thousands  Of Nazis Face Entranment

Trap Closing On Cherbourg Nazis   Yank Break-Through Drives Almost To Coast, Virtually Severing Peninsula

Last Railway Escape Cut; Only Road On West Coast Shelled   -Montebourg Recaptured As German Radio Begins Minimizing Importance Of Great French Port; Battle For Troarn Rages

ONLY OAD OF COUAPE UNDE GUNS OF ALLIES   Break Through German Lines Virtually Severs Neck of Peninsula.

Trap Closing On Cherbourg Nazis   Yank Break-Through Drives Almost To Coast, Virtually Severing Peninsula  >. Fea Been 22 $$ ET

More Than 200 Communities Taken by the Russians  SOVIETS SILENT ON HUNGARY FIGHTING  Invasion Threat Against . East Prussia Is  Increasing

Soviets Tighten Ring Around Riga   Moscow Silent on Hungary Penetration

Russian Troops Tighten Steel Ring around Riga   sermans Credit Reds wit Ten-Mile Penetration of Hungary

Nazis Report Soviet Drive  Into Hungary   Moscow Communique Mentions Only Poland _And Threat to Riga  ISLAND CAPTURED

RING DRAWN AROUND RIGA 1S TIGHTENED   Germans Fight Fiercely to Maintain Escape Corridor From Latvia as Red Army Closes in,   800 Mines Per Day

RUSSIANS TIGHTEN RING AROUND RIGA; SEIZE 200 TOWNS   Germans Throw Reserves Into Struggle as Reds Cross River Barriers to Latvian Capital.   NEW DRIVE STARTED NEAR EAST PRUSSIA   Nazis Dislodged From Front Line Trenches and Two Heights Southwest of  Mariampole.

Russians Tighten Riga Ring In Push To Clear Baltics Before Winter

More Than 200 Communi ties Taken by the Russians   SOVIETS SILENT ON __ HUNGARY FIGHTING  Invasion Threat Against East Prussia Is Increasing  rie eine,

Russian Threat Growing Daily On East Front   Steel Ring Drawn Around Riga; Fear Prussian Invasion 

REDS TIGHTEN RING AROUND PORT OF RIGA   GERMANS TO MAKE LAST STAND IN BALTIC

Urges California Tax Reduction be Extended 2 Year's   Governor Also Urges $10 Aged Pensions  i . Incrance Cantiniie

U.S. Bombers Hit Nazi Oil Refineries   93 Enemy Planes Are Downed With a Loss of 47

U.S. Bombers Hit Nazi  Oil Refineries 99 Enemy Planes   93 Enemy Planes Are Downed With a Loss of 47

Eisenhower Gives Advice fo Troops   Work with British, He Says in Order

EISENHOWER URGES ARMY CO-OPERATION   Recommends Road Courtesy as Means of Winning Respect of British   WELL-DISCIPLINED MEN HELD PARAMOUNT NEED

Eisenhower Asks Soldier Dignity   U. S. Must Earn and Keep The Respect of the British; Emphasizes Army Discipline.

8th Army Within  3 Miles of Faenza   3 Villages, Important Italian Height Seized

Alberetto Now In Allied Control   Eighth Army Within  Six Miles of Faenza

hth Army In ree Miles of nza In Italy ermans Offer  ery Heavy  e nerotanrna

HENGYANG GARRISON WIPED OUT   Japs Qccupy City Tokyo Radio  Claims

RECONNAISSANCE PLANES AGAIN OVER JAPAN   Preliminary to Raids On Jap Cities, Says Tokyo.

Higher Sales. Rent Ceilings. New Houses   NHA And WPB  Join In Move

SOVIET ARMY: ON BORDER OF ESTONIA   Govorov’s Forces May Push Across at Any Moment

BITTER STREET BATTLE MARKS GERMAN STAND   Reds, in Kirgisepp, Soon Expected to Enter Estonia

BATTLE RAGES ON ESTONIAN BORDER   Russians Press Forward ir  Ti Be, eee “ieee

Red Army In New Advance   Japs Indicate U. S. Troops In Action In Marshalls

33 Officers. Men Missing as Sub Sinks Oil Tanker   Black Market Threatens Entire Civilian Gas Program, Says Ickes

Racketeers Invade  Gasoline Prograrr Public Asked To War O1  Yenos

Commanders’ Fears for Territory Are Told in Affidavits   Glider-Borne Commandos Stave Another Slash« ing Drive in Burma

Hawaii Not Out Of Danger, They Say   Nimitz, Richardson Contend Martial Law Needed

Hawaii In Danger,   Leaders Declare  Nimitz And Richardson  Sign Affidavits

INVASION OF HAWAII IS FEARED BY NIMITZ   Statement Made at Hearing On Martial Law

News Behind The News  Car yrigkts Wea'Seae Meweraprer   WASHINGTON De Dev Yurker

a, 2 A COLUMN. ABOUT IOWA:   Gonscientious Objectors Work in Insane Hospitals

Closing Pincers On Bogadjim   Aussies and 32nd Division Troops Move in On Town

New Raids On Truk And Other Points Are Announced  Allied ‘Troops Closing Up Pincers To Take Madang

Aussies and Yanks Close’ On Boeadiim   Captitie “Ot Base’ AY. oul Speed Pincers Drive io Take Madang

ALLIES PUSH JAP FORCES   Planes Pound Japanese Transport: Supplying and Reinforcing Enemy Troops in New Guinea and Nev Britain Areas.

22 Barges of Enemy Sunk in Pacific Area   U. S. Marines Seek Remnants Of Jap Forces

ALLIES POUNDING AT JAP TRANSPORT,  SINK 2? BARGES   Americans and Australtans Closing In on Huon Peninsula Enemy.

Twenty-Two Jap Barges Are Sunk  By Allies   Marines Seek Out Enemy Remnants at Cana Clanraetar

22 Jap Barges Sunk; Marine Drive Pushed   Allied Planes and PT Boats Wreak Havoc on Enemy Transports

22 Jap Barges Sunk By Allies ‘In South Pacific   Marines Scatter Enemy Troops Near Cape Gloucester

EXPEGT Lion VOTE MONDAY FOR PRINIAR   Political Observers Believe Not More Than 240,000  Will Visit Polis.

Weather May Be Vote Regulator  Farmers May Stay in Flelds Monday

Swing on Down, Elman   a ee a  Even a Judge Gives Boogie Woogie a Break

REDS REACH THE CITY'S OUTSKIRTS, ARTILLERY OPENS   Great -Rait Hub Would Give Soviets Invaluable Reeniurces.

Reds Are Advancing Rapidly   Fall of City to Open Way for Red Push to Baltic

Red Army Opens Battle Of Pskov   Soviet Forces, Closing In From Three Directions, Smash Through Outer Defenses Of  Key Baltic Rail Center

Reds Storm Approaches To Pskov   Russians Advance Mile Every Hour On Key Stronghold

Soviets Advance One Mi. An Hour In Push To Pskov   Fall Of Rail Junction Would Hem Nazis  In Estonia

Red Army In Sight Of Pskov   Expect Street-toStreet Defense of Base; Nazis Fight Stubbornly

Allied Bombers Revisit Europe After Brief Lull   Have Flown 3,000 Sorties in First 30 Hours of May

AMERICAN FLIERS CARRY AERIAL DRIVE INTO 16TH STRAIGHT DAY   Weather Delays Raids 6 Hours; France, Belgium, Germany Hit

AIR ASSAULT ENTERS ITS 16TH DAY   U. S. Planes Range For Over Europe In Davliaht

PLANES RANGING FAR OVER EUROPE,  OPPOSITION LIGHT   Widespread Offensive Carries on Into Ail Areas of Conauered Nations.

ALL PLANE TYPES . TAKEPART, BON WITHOUT BATTL   Extensive Operations Result In Dubbing Missions as “The Aerial Invasion ol Germany.”   INVASION PLANS ARE REVEALED TO SEVERAL   Fierce Patrol Fighting Oc curs on Battle Fronts Be low Rome, Enemy Fails It Sneak Raid.

U.S. Bombers Hit Coast; Fighters Raid Paris Area   200 Planes An Hour Lash Axis In May Aerial Invasion

FLEETS OF U. §. PLANES LEAD ATTACK   3ritish Night Raiders Strike War Bases of Nazis In Reich, France, Belgium.   BULLETIN

All Types of Planes Used In Big Raids   Bad Weather Causes Delay of Few Hours in To day’s Offensive

16th Day  Record Air Offensive      COMMUNIQUE REFERS TO  ASSAULT AS ‘AERIAL INVASION OF GERMANY AND : OCCUPIED TERRITORIES’

BOMBERS PUT LAST TOUCHES ON BiG SHOW   Flights Over Europe Carried into 16th Day By U.S. Heavy Planes,

Liberators Pace 16th Day of Air Raids On Europe   Bad Weather Grounds Planes For Few Hours But Assault Renewed

G. . JOE MAKES BALCONY SPEECH   Romans Learn Just What American Doughboys Think Of Fascism

GI Joe Addresses Happy  Romans From Mussolini's  Famous Palace Balcony

Rayon Seen as Cofton Threat   It Also Menaces Wool Industry, Says Senator Bankhead

HUNT FIREBUG; FLAMES TRAP HOTEL GUESTS   Tragedy Climaxes Series Of Arson Fires In Same District

Vire pweups New Amsterdam Hotet cin San-Francisen Momlay Night— Blaze Cimaxed Series of Fires in Gheap Hotels and. Roening , Houses in One Area.

22 Persons, Mostly Shipyard Workers, Die ‘In San Francisco Hotel Fire: Arson Suspected

HOTEL FIRE IN FRISCO KILLS 22   Many Others Hurt: Believed Set by  Pyromaniac

Same Area Has Three Other Fires   Odor of Gasoline Or Kerosene Notec In All Cases

ARSON IS HINTED IN HOLOCAUST   Blaze Is Believed Set By Pyromaniac; 22 Persons Injured

St. Lo Is Target Of Heavy Attacks   Battles Rage on Curving 40-mile American Front; Weather, Strengthened Resistance Slows Caen Push

Bradley's Forces Hammer At Gates Of Nazi Bastion; English Hampered

Nazis Putting Up Battle For Normandy Bases   Enemy Claims Forces Back In La Haye, Road Center

BAD WEATHER SLOWS ALLIES IN NORMANDY   Bitter Fighting Reported Along Odon River

Long Stalemate In Italy May End Soon   . Big Allied Drive In Offing, Report   Strong British And U.S. Forces Moving Into Position For Another All-Out Assault After Weeks Of Preparation

‘Rome to Bucharest’ Path of Destruction Blazed by Bombers   Fighting T empo Gains Momentum: Nazi Patrol Activities Increase As Eoe Secks A newer ta Mawamontk

ALLIES MASS FOR NEW GREAT DRIVE IN ITALY   Battle Tempo Is Stepped Up on Main Ground Fronts Below Rome; Germans Attempt Raids to Uncover Preparations

BATTLE TEMPO QUICKENS ON. - ITALY FRON   U. S. And British Ground Forces Prepare For Battle

STRONG ALLIED FORCES MOVING INTO POSITION   Paris Radio Predicts Assault to Be Timed With West Invasion

Allies Poised For Big ush Below:-Rome   Activity Behind ‘Lines Indicates Offensive on Vast Scale

NEW ALLIED DRIVE LOOMS IN ITALY   Canadian Army Paper Says Action is Imminent

ALLIES IN ITALY TAKE POSITIONS FOR MAJOR DRIVE   Tempo of Battle Quickens Heavy Attacks @n_ Rail Centers Continuing.

Strong Allies Armies Moving Into New Positions   TO COINCIDE WITH INVASION OF EUROPE   Allied Bombers Attack Rail Communications Outskirts Of Rome

Allies Move For Major Offensive   Action Imminent On Stalemated Italian Front—. Says Army Paper

U.5., BRITISH FORCES TAKE UP POSITIONS   Tempo of Battle Is Quickened All Along Main Ground Fronts.

To Time Push With Invasion   “General Hell to Take Over,’ Says Canadian Paper

AMERICAN FORCES CRACKED DOWN UPON MARSHALL ISLANDS  AIR AND SEA UNITS

SUBS TORPEDO ? TRANSPORTS, 8 FREICHTERS   Believed Rushing Men and Supplies to Battered Marshalls

U. S. NAV: INTO MARS. JAPANESE ©:   GREAT TASK FORCE A: mai “ACKING ISLANDS IN WHAT ML: “RE NEW INVASION: SEA BATT: HINTED  on   Tokyo Also. Reports. Naval F Be Gernn Progress While U.S. Navy Depgxtiment.“"""" 15 Ships Sunk.  Criizere. Battleships. « aaee ovorovting Part

Tokyo Asserts U.S. Army Units in Fight   Warships and Planes Assault Enemy Strongholds Twice

JAPS REPORT HEAVY BATTLE IN MARSHALS   Tokyo’s Announcement Suggests That American Invasion of Mid-Pacific Islands May Be Under Wav.

U.S. U-BOATS SINK 14 MORE JAP WARSHIPS   Mid-Pacific Atolls of Enemy Pounded With Thousands of Shells by U.S. Fleet

AMERICAN FORCES  CRACKED DOWN UPON  MARSHALL ISLANDS AIR AND. SEA UNITS TEAMED UP TO BLAST  TADC WCAUVUITY

FIERCE FIGHTING ~ IS REPORTED IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS   Have Been Bombed and Shell ed by American Warships, ° Tokyo Radio Reports.   A LARGE NAVAL FORCE   Said Japanese Army - Navy Units Have Intercepted Powerful Enemy Units.

Assault Rages for  2d Day   Tokyo Admits Fierce Shelling By Powerful Unitg

Marshalls Invasion. Possible.   Pounding o ‘of M Marshall Islands Continues — With Japs Hinting Invasion May Be On

TEMPERATURES:   Strong U. S. Task Force Lashes Nipponese Strongholds

Battleships Believed Part of Heaviest Task Force Used by Allies In Pacific Warfare

>  NIP COMMUNIQUE SAYS “FIERCE FIGHTING NOW GO ING ON IN MARSHALLS” AND SUGGESTS INVASION BY  U.S. “AMPHIBIOUS FORCES MAY BE UNDER WAY—  NAVY REPORTS 14 MORE JAP SHIPS, SUNK BY SUBS

Huge Yankee Task Force in Heavy Attack   Tokyo Reports Army And Navy Units Engage Powerful Enemy Group

Whether Yanks Are Invading Islands Unclear   Tokio Reports That Fierce Fighting Is Now Going on ,

U. 5. Subs Sink 14More Jap Warships   Tokyo Broadcast ‘May Mean American Invasion of Marshalls

ALLIED TANKS SMASH THROUGH HITLER DEFENSE   Reoccupation of Terracina Puts U.S. Troops Within 30 Miles of Cisterna

Appian Way Cut by Troops  From Anzio   Canadians Achieve Success Fighting as  Separate Army Corps

Yanks Ciose Appian Way Below Rome   Heart Of Hitler Line Is Smashed

Americans Recapture City Of Terracina; Anzio Men Cut Appian Way To Rome

Surge Through Gap in Enemy Defense Posts   Yanks Fight Way Back to Terracina, Cut Appia Lifeline

About 22 Miles trom Rome; Canadians Penetrate Hitler Line at Strongest Point.

Do ughboys Drive Hard  On Cisterna   Canadians Threaten To Trap Nazi Forces At Aguina, Pontecorvo  GCOF FACES CRISIS

BETRAYED BY A DOG   Skipper Turns Up a Soldier Who Js A. W. OO. L.

US. TROOPS HAVE LANDED ON ANGAUR   Southernmost of’ Palau Group; Marines Continue to Face Fire Defending Peleliu Island.   No Airfield

Japs Open Nev Wewak Battle   ® Trapped Foe, Facing Starvation, Masses 45,000 Men for Drive on MacArthur Forces; Yanks; Australians Closing Snare

45,000 Japanese Try Desperately To Pierce Lines   Isolated Units Face Slow Starvation Or Capture By Americans

JAPS ATTACK NEW GUINEA ALLIED CIRCLE   Effort to Break Through to Avoid Starvation or Annihilation Cause for Concarted Action.

TRAPPED NIPS ATTACK ON NEW GUINEA   45,000 Open. Drive East of Aitape Seeking Escape

15,000 Japs Trapped In New Guinea Trying To Break Allied Encirclement

Desperate Japs Attack in Guinea  45,000 Attempt to Brédk Out of Trap

45,000 Trapped Japs Seek to Escape Allies   Attack Outlying U. S. Positions on New Guinea

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  How a B-26 Bombing Crew Spends lis Working “Hours  Fighting an: Air War Means Routine;   Fighting an: Air War Means Routine; Men ‘Work’? About Two Hours a Day

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  How a B-26 Bombing Crew Spends lis Working Hours  Fighting an Air War Means Routine; Men ‘Work’ About Two Hours a Day

LARGE GROUP OF CONSCRIPTS STAGE MARCH AS RESULT OF OVERSEAS POLICY

Enemy Loses . More. Fight. ers in Attempt to Defend: Rabaul: Allied Bombers: Sink Five Vessele

RABAUL RAID UPS JAP PLANE LOSS TOLL TO OVER 409   Latest Attack on Battered Rabaul Cest Nips Between 54 and 69 Aircraft—-Total  Fer January Above 400 

Jap Air Power Handed Another Staggering Blow   Between 54 and 69 Planes Destroyed in Raid on Rabaul; 5 Enemy Ships Sunk

SR Pe  Pacific Action — - Takes Jap Toll   OVER 400 NIP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN JANUARY ”

Jap January Plane Losses  Exceeds 400   Between 54 and 67 Destroyed Today and Five Ships Added to Enemy Sea Graft Deetravad

Allies Down 69 Jap Aireralts   Japanese Plane Losses Throughout January Rose Above 400 Mark.

Allied Raid On Rabaul Nets 54 Jap Aircraft   Enemy. Plane Losses For January Rise Above 400 Mark

Japs Lose Total Of 400 Planes   Latest Allied Raid On Rabaul Costs Nips 54 to 69 Aircraft

Allies Again Lash Japs; Shoot  Down 69 Planes  U. S. Fliers Sink 17 Ships in  Monthlong Fight

Allies Again Lash Japs; Shoot  Down 69 Planes  U. S. Fliers Sink  17 Shipsin ee Yee ee ee

Jap Plane Losses Soar In Latest Fight Over Rabaul   Lose 54 or More in One Battle; Allied Airmen Hit Enemy Shipping Hard

JAPS' JANUARY PLANE TOLL 400   Hard New Blows Are Delivered Against Enemy’s Shipping

Pacific.Action ~ Takes Jap Toll   OVER 400 NIP PLANES - SHQT DOWN IN - JANUARY

JAPANESE AIRPLANE   O5SE5 MOUNT AFTER  NEW RAID ON RABAUL ADDITIONAL ENEMY SHIPPING LOSSES ALSO  PCDADTCH TAY OIIDMA

400 Jap Planes Destroyed in January   Rabaul Raided Again By Allies; Enemy Loses Ships

400 Aircraft Are Smashed By Relentless American Attacks   Bomb Torn Rabaul Again Hit and Enemy Loses 69 Ships; Sixty River Boats Are Destroyed In Attacks in Southern Burma

ARMS BOUGHT BY CHILDREN’S WAR BONDS TO BE PRESENTED ROOSEVELT AT INDIANAPOLIS

13,000 NAZIS KILLED AS REDS CAPTURE WILNO   Soviets Fighting Way Into Grodno, Last Polish City Before East Prussia

Capture of Pinsk Places Reds Within 100 Miles of Key City Of Brest-Litoysk

REDS FAN OUT FROM CAPTURED WILNO BASTION   13,000 Nazis Casualties i City; Huns Claim Pinsk Evacuated

ERROL FLYNN FELLED AT BIRTHDAY PARTY   Busband Of Sonja Henie Socks Movie Here During Argument: Incident Minimized

STRONG FORCE HITS GERMANY   Targets Deep in Reich Struck; Nazis Claim Getting 123 Planes

120 U. 5. BOMBERS DOWNED IN RAID, GERMANY REPORTS   Daylight Attack on Central Reich Results in Vicious Air Battles Over Wide Area,   ROCKET GUNS USED BY DEFENDING PLANES   U.S. Army Communique Fails " to Identify Targets or Give Own or Enemy’s Losses.

BIG. BOMBERS PENETRATE 10 MID - GERMANY   Nazis Report 80 Planes Shot Down In Battle Which Raged In Bad Weather; New Type Plane In Action.   Shuttle over Channel

HITLER SAYS 120 RAIDERS QOWNED   Gaim Is Not Confirmed by Allied Sources   . AIR BATTLES RAGE   Americans Encounter Strong Opposition; Subject to Steady Attacks

STRIKES DEEP INTO GERMANY   Targets in Northwest Reich Hit; Nazis Say 123 Planes Downed

Yanks Silent on Losses, Airmen Tell of Fighting Throneh Entire Fltieht.

tierce Aesis-anee, HAC. ucing * “Tag-+_0ng” 3om 28, fe; eN “ong tange ..§$. “izrers sec

Nazis Declare 123 USS. Plane:  Brought Down   Armada of Bombers Subject to Continuous Attack Over Reich; New Fighter Used

U.S. Bombers Battle With Nazi Fighters   Germans Claim That Americans Lost 123 of Their Planes

American Heavy Bombers Pound Targets Deep  In Germany   Powerful Formations Balfle through Stormy Weather and Teriffic Nazi Fighter Opposition

Nazis Say 123. Raiders Down      Powerful U. S. Formations Pound Germany Far Inland

U. S. Airmen Battle Bad Weather and Tough — Opposition NAZIS CLAIM 123  __ PLANES SHOT. DOWN Great Air Battles Believed Fought During Dav

Airmen Battle Through Storms And Opposition   Nazis Claim of 123 Raiders Downed Is Unverified

Germans Declare 80 Of Total Were Heavy Bombers; Claim Not Confirmed   NAZI OPPOSITION WAS TERRIFIC, PILOTS SAY

Yanks, Nazis Stage Terrific Air Battle; Germany Claims 123 American Planes Downed

U.S. bombers battle strong enemy force   Nazis claim 123 raiders downed

U.S, AIR FORCE STRIKES DEEP INTO GERMANY   Targets in Northwest Reich Hit; Nazis Say  123 Planes Downed

FINN ARMISTICE MOVES DELAYED   Allied Successes Give Nation Hopes For Better Peace

Death Came To Will Lynch After Four Year Illness  Was Injured In Accident. More Tha:

Death Came To — Will Lynch After Four Year Illness  Was Injured In Accident. More Than  Four Years Ago

BiG FLEET OF BOMBERS RAID GERMAN PLANTS   Also Hit Were Air Fields, Rail Hubs And Oil ., Refinery _ si

2000 U.S. Planes Batte: German Military Targets   Communications War Plants Bombed

Vital Nazi Bases Blasted By Yanks   2,000 Plane Fleet Bombs Northern Reich

2000 PLANES HiT NAZI OBJECTIVES   HUGE DAY RAID FOLLOWS SMASHING NIGHT ATTACK

2000 PLANES BLAST NAZI TARGETS   War Piants, Air Fields and Rail Hubs Are Raided

Fire Damages Newhall Refinery, Leaves Town in Ruin   Another was critically hurt.

Fire Guts West Coast Refinery   One Man Dies of Burns, Woman Reported Missing

HIT JAP WAR ~ PRODUCTION   Expected To Level Off Soon, Then Beginto  ' Decline

Raiders Hit Hard At Nip Production   No Assurance Of Quick Collapse Of Japan Given

Focus On Jap Industry   ‘Americans Plan Is to ‘Hammer at Jap War Plants Till Day. of Invasion of Aslands

Jap Production Now at Peak   But Manufacture OF War Goods Will. “Now Start Slipping

Truk Toll 19 Ships, 201 Planes, U.S. Winning at Eniwetok Atoll   Truk Is Loss to Enemy Fleet, Navy Believes

TRUK THROUGH AS JAP NAVAL BASE   U. S. Attack Proved Harbor Unsafe for Big Fleet

SMASH AT NAZI CAPITAL   Big Success Is Scored By Huge American Armada

Nazis Claim One Of Greatest Air Battles In History Now Raging All Over Northwest And Central Germany   FIGHTERS REPORT OPPOSITION WEAK

Vast Air Battle Called One of Greatest In War   Frenzied Nazi Leaders Deny Successfulness  of Allied Assaults

FIRST MASS. ATTACK IS DRIVEN HOME   Weather Permits American Heavies to Strike With Pinpoint Precision.

‘VERY STRONG’ YANK FORGE OVER CAPITAL FOR SECOND ATTACK   Daylight Blow At Heart Of Germany Fifth By ‘Heavies’ In Six Days; Ruhr Bombed By Night Raiders

Is First Mass Daytime Bombing of War by U. S. Plines on Berlin— Nazis Report Grentest: Alr Battles in History Raging Over All North. west and Central Germany.

Germans Say Great Sky Battles Rage   Yankee Four Engined Bombers, Protected by Swarm of Fighters Smash at Nazi Capital

FIRST MASS DAY BOMBING DELUGES GERMAN CAPITAL   Nazi -Propagandists Silent Untit Allies Reveal Operation, Defense Battle Then Claimed.   GERMAN PRESSURE ON BEACHHEAD IS FADING   Many of Hitler’s Best Sol diers Are Among 24,000. "Lost In Three Unsuccessful Attacks.

TWO NEW SUITS FILED IN COURT   Two Cases For Divorce Brought; Partition Ordered: Sale Is Confirmed

PARTITION AND ‘DIVORCE SOUGHT   Two New Cases Are Filed; Two Decrees Are Granted by Judge McDowell

Urge Missouri Valley Project   FR Asks Congress To Set Up New Agency

Stuttgart Area Takes Pounding By U. §. Heavies   ‘Detroit Of Germany’ Bombed By Warplanes From Britain; Others Raid Hunaary

2.500 Plane Raids Waged On Germans. Hungarians    ‘Plants ‘Are Blasted By: American Pilots

1500 Yank Planes Attack Nazi Targets   Padustrial Stuttgart Area, Oil & Aircraft Kactories in Hungary & Yugoslav Rails Blasted In Strikes Krom Britain And Italy.

Stuttgart Bomb Target   More Than 1,500 Yankee Planes Strike Manufacturing Center

MORE THAN 2,900 AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST TARGETS IN GERMANY TODAY   About 750 Flying Fort resses and Liberators With An Equal Number of Escorts Flew Through Soupy Weather from England to Cast Explosives On Stuttgart. “The De troit of Germany”

2,000 Planes Hit Nazi Oil, Air Targets   Germany and Balkans Hammered in Two  Bomber Raids

Stuttgart Area Is Heavily Battered   Oil and Plane Facilities In Hungary Also Targets For Bombs

1,500 U. 5. PLANES RAID VITAL POINTS   Stuttgart Blasted;Hungary Attacked; Dump Js Blown Up

1500 Yankee Planes Smash At Stuttaart   Also Assault Nazi Oil and Aircraft Plants in Hungary Yuaoslav Rail Yards

Huge Air Armada Attacks Germany   More Than 2,000 Planes Blast Enemy Targets 

Stuttgart Battered   Planes From Italian Bases Lash Nazi Oil Facilities In Hungary

STUTTGART ONE OF TARGETS HIT BY U. S. FLIERS   ‘Detroit of Germany’ Is Pound. ed by Hundreds of Bombers Today

PLANES SLASH AT BRIDGES ON FRENCH FRONT   2,000 Craft Assault Targets in Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia

1,000 Planes Rain Bombs On Stuttgart   Second Air Fleet From Haly Bases Strike at Hunrary

Stuttgart, Hungarian Targets Hit By Bombers   Ammunition Dump Is Exploded In France, Setting Off Gigantic Blast. Smoke. Flames

Stuttgart Area Is Blasted By U. S. Bombers   Nazi Oil And Aircraft Facilities In Hungary Also Pounded Today By American Airmen

2,000 BOMBERS SMEAR TARGETS IN 3 DISTRICTS   Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia Attacked By American Heavies, Fighters Today

Stuttgart, Nazis’ “Detroit,” Given Heavy Bomb Blow   Over 2,000 American Heavy Bombers and Fighters Take Part

Stuttgart Area Hit by 1,500 Planes   Nazi Oil and Aircraft Points  In Hungary Battered

1,500 Heavies Hit Stuttgart   Forest Fire Follows Explosion of Duomo

Yank Bombers Hit Stuttgart, Nazi ‘Detroit   1,500 Heavies Pound oil and Plane Plants in Southwest Germany;  Hungary Attacked

‘STUTTGART AREA TAKES POUNDING   1,000 Planes Batter Zone; Others Blast Hungary

Huge Yank Air Armadas Strike Powerful Blows   More Than 2,000 Planes Smash at © German Aircraft And Oi! Facilities

BOMBS RAINED ON STUTTGART   1,500 U. S. Planes Raid Big German City, Hungarian Targets

2,000 Planes Smash Reich War Targets   Blast Stuttgart, Nazi’s ‘Detroit’; Hit Tactical Points

1,500 Planes Hit Stuttgart   Fleet From Italian Bases Raids Hungary; Engaged In Bitter Battles.

Stuttaart Detroi Of Germany” And Hungary Hammered By 1500 U. S. Bombers

‘German Detroit Bomb-Raided By Thousand Planes  Canedien Forces 7 Pa pee eee  eee Ce

GREAT AIR SWEEP   2,000 U, S. Planes Hit Tar. gets in Reich and in  Battle Zone

Yanks Press Japs on Guam Into Corner   Admiral Nimitz Reports 22,000 Civilians Came Into American lLinec

Guam Yanks =Pen-Doomed. J      Guns, Planes and GI's Pound Foe: 22.000 Natives Escape   Interpreting the War   Crises Piling Up on Nazis; Jans Also Face Sure Doom

22,000 Civilians Seek Refuge Behind Yank Lines; Japanese On New Guinea Blasted

Finn-Russian Peace  Overture Reported  Say Soviet Demands Are Reviewed

Taylor, Terrell Suggested as University Regents   Senate Investigation Turns Its Attention To Medical School

STEVENSON MAKES STATEMENT ABOUT NAMING, OF REGENTS  { BOTH TAYLOR AND TER; RELL WERE RECOMMEND ED TO'HIM, HE SAID

Japs in India Make Gains   Allies Report Stiff Batiles Under Way

Jans Make Some Progress In India Chinese Advance   Allies Say Impha Area ‘Contained; Nips Using Tank:  In Drive

Japanese Gain Inside India   Pressing Toward Imphal; Allies Threaten Base Of Foe at Myitkyina

Japs Advance Inside India   Make Progress Toward Kohima; But Allies Gain at Other Points

JAPANESE INVASION ‘OF INDIA MOVING 30 MILES WITHIN BORDER   AT LEAST ONE OF. THREE ENEMY SPEARHEADS HAS BEEN STOPPED

Japs Gain In India, Severe Fight Ragine   One Of Three Invasion Columns Is Believed Stopped; Foe’s Loss On Bougainville High

JAP’S DRIVE INTO INDIA SLOWED DOWN   Severe Fighting Reported Today Near Imphal

Japs Progress In Drive To Cut Vital Railroad   Allied Aerial Might Is Hurled At Japs Invadine India.

KURILE ISLANDS ARE HAMMERED BY U, S. FLIERS   2 Isles In Admiralty Group Are Seized  By Americans

IAPS ARE MAKING. SOME PROGRESS   Nips Are 30 Miles Inside Border of India

Jap Progress Inside India Told By Allies   Some Progress Made; One Nip Column Stopped

Japs Press on Toward Allied Supply Line   Allies Stop One Of Three Enemy Spearheads in Invasion of India   Destroy Jap Tanks.

Troops Have Made Progress In General Direction of Kohima.   FIGHTING IS VERY SEVERE

Enemy Makes Progress In New Drive   Severe Fighting Has Taken Place on One Front in Burma

Japs Pressing Into India On Way tolmphal   American-Chinese Forces Holding Back Cut-Off Mogaung Forces

Japs Try to Sever Allied Supply Line  in Indian Campaign   Nips Make Progress ir Direction of Kohima Communique Admits

Jackson Opposes FDR, Browder an Sidney Hillman   Former Baltimore Mayor Airs Views

JACKSON ASSAILS CANDIDACY OF FDR   Former Baltimore Mayor _to Vote Against OneMan Government

HANNIEGAN MEETS WITH ROOSEVELT   Demo Committee Chairman Refuses to Answer Any Questions. ©

Lt. Alton Gloor, Former Freeporter, Is Cited for Bravery In Action In Italy

Former Kerrville Youth, Lt. Alton Gloor, Cited for Bravery in Italy

COLOGNE HIT FOR 8TH TIME IN 80 HOURS   Liquidation of Indus. trial City Is Still Progressing

ADE'S CONDITION SAID VERY GRAVE   indiana Author. 78, Sutters 2 Heart Attacks Sunday

Million And Half Filipinos Set Free   ..- All Organized Resistance In Leyte Valley Ends

MacArthur Reports Nip Garrisons On Leyte, Samar Isolated   Yankee Advances In Philippines Have Liberated  1,500,000 Filipinos; Carrier Forces Believed Op. eratine Near Tauzan

FLEET WITHIN 100 MILES OF ~ CITY, REPORT   Jap Losses in Triple Sea Battle Continue To Move Upward

98 JAP SHIPS SUNK, BLASTED IN 2ND BATTLE   Enemy Nearly Cleared From Leyte And Samar: 1,500,000 Filipinos Freed

Yanks Bomb Manila   May Presage New Invasion of Philippine Islands _ .

Yank Carrier Planes Blast’ Manila Area      Americans Break Organized Resistance in Leyte. Valley; Japs Advance in China. . 

Yanks Bomb Manila   May Presage New Invasion of Philippine Islands  RY TRON ADT) ASTE YT TAC AN

ong 8: Sunk Or Damaged   MacArthur Liberates 1,500,000 ‘Philippine Natives; New Allied Offensives Begin in North Burma

FRESH FROM GREATEST NAVAL. VICTORY OF WAR U. S. FORCES NOW RENEW GREAT LAND DRIVE

HEAVY ATTACK CARRIED OUT ON MANILA   Most Of Leyte And Samar In American Hands   DEFINITELY SUNK   In Philippines Battle Are 24 Ships: Nips Reach Kweilin Outskirts

U. S. Naval Victory Grows, 98 Nip Ships Hit or Sunk in Battle   Yanks Break All Organized Jap Resistance on Leyte; MacArthur Says ‘Island is Ours’

58 JAP VESSELS KNOCKED OUTIN BIG SEA BATTLE   1,500,000 Filipinos Freed As MacArthur Gains In Leyte, Samar Drive

Tokyo Reports Heavy Attack Upon Manila   Americans Said to Be Following Up Great Naval Victory

Follow Smashing Sea Victory Over Forces Of Japan   1,500,000 Filipinos Freed By MacArthur

Report Carriers Operating North Of Leyte, Samar   Double Allied Offensive _ Counters Nip Advance ” On Kieveilia Stronghold

(Politicians See Closest Race For Governor Of  Ohio In Several Years

Red Army Broadens Front In Slovakia   Soviets Drive Wedge Into Defenses Linking Nazi Poland-Hungary Armies

Six County Men To Be Inducted   twelve Others Leave for Pre-in duction Examinations at detferson Barracks

16 County. Men to Induction Center   Six to Jetferson Baracks for tnduction and Ten for Pre induction Tests

U.S. Stand at Bastogne Is Successful   Relief Troops Hold Firm as Wounded Are Being Taken Away

Break Into Open Tank Country, Register ! Gain Of 5 Miles.   Gen. Montgomery Declares Allies Have Captured 60,000 Germans, Buried 8,000 Others And Writ_ten Off Force Of 156,000

156,000 Nazis “Written OF In Normandy   7000 Sorties Blast Hole In Orne Defense, With Paris 120 Miles Away

British Units Smash Througt To Open Area   Penetrate Five Miles, Reaching Cagny, on Main Road to Vimont; Americans Mop Up

Nazi Line Cracked Near Orme River   Montgomery Says 156,000 Germans “Written Off”

Allies Rolling Forward In Normandy   Rommel’s Orne River Defenses Breached; Yanks Occupy St. Lo.

ALLIES ADVANCE FIVE MILES IN GAEN SECTOR   Rommei’s Troops Repulsed Near Orne River

Canadians And British Reach Beyond Caen   Americans Cut Off Nazis In Salient North Of St. Lo

i, i, i, Ss i Si a Se be  ‘Both Sides Cease Firing  As Americans Return Six \German Nurses in France

Return of Six German Nurses To Own Lines  Described   Women Surprised At Amount of Fine U. S. Equipment

WAR HALTS TO RETURN NURSES   Six German Women Are Tak. en Back To Own Lines

Kent Off Balance.   War Halts as German Nurses Are Returned to Own Lines

Butte Tops Its Overall War Bond Quota   $3,947,893.25 Is County’s Grand Total; Still Short, However, in Reaching Individual Sales Goal

Grand Total in War Bond Sales Here Reaches $3.244.946   Definite Spurt of Individual Buying Needed in Next Few Days If Silver Bow County to Make Goal

ICKES ASSUMES. CHARGE OF WR   Will Relocate Jay:  Evacuated ‘From: ‘Pacific sa.

ICKES ASSUMES AUTHORITY IN JAP CENTERS      Executive Order Issned Giving Jurisdiction To Sec. Of Interior

2,000 WARPLANES BLAST GERMANY   RAIL YARDS AT FRANKFURT  AND COBLENZ HIT—TWELVE AIRCRAFT ARE LOST,

2,000 American Planes Hif Reich Targets in Month's Heaviest Raid

Bombers Hit Industries Of Germany   Frankfurt, Coblenz And Ludwigshufen Hit By 4,000 Tons OE Bombs

HEAVY AIR RAIDS MADE ON GERMANY   More Than 2,000 Planes Take Part in As- saults

BOMBERS POUND GERMAN PLANTS   Rail Yards At Coblenz And Frankfurt Ripped By Explosives

4,000 TONS OF BOMBS ON GERMANY   In Month’s Heaviest Attack Ripping Apart Two Freight Yards at Frankfurt and Coblentz   Pound Calais

REICH PLANTS ARE BLASTED   2.000 Yank Planes Hammer Home Eisenhower Warning to Workers

BOMBERS PATE. REICH TARGETS   Hammer Home Eisenhower's Warning to Foreign Workers to Leave German War Plants or Face Danger

2,000 Warplanes  Batter Germans  Two Freight Yards  Are Ripped Apart

POSTWAR INCOME STUDY RELEASED   No Appreciable Change in Genera Level of Wages and Prices Predicted for 1947

Experts Divided on How Much Money Average Person Will Make in 1947

Protocol fo Water Treaty Is Submitted   Measure to Clorify Functions of U. S. Mexico Aareement

NO PERSONAL APPEARANCE   President Will Send His Annual Message to New Congress

Going Is. Tough: On Parry Island   Japs Burrow. Under Like Prairie’ Dae.

Going Is Tough On Parry Island   Japs Burrow Under Like Prairie Dogs ©

Eight Die In . Train, Bus Crash   10 Critically Hurt In St. Louis Mishap

EIGHT KILLED, TEN HURT SERIOUSLY IN TRAIN-BUS ACCIDENT   First Day Driver Lets One Train Pass, Bus Hit By Another

First Methodist Church Plans Expansion Over Entire Black Of Downtown Location

F. D. R. NAMES ITALY AMBASSADOR BUT ALLIED CONTROL UNCHANGED   ALEXANDER KIRK IN NEW POST; MURPHY ADVISOR ON MEDITERRANEAN STAFF

Reds Sweep Huge Area In Week’s Drive; Japs’ Losses Reach New High   Force of 8000 Tokyo Troops Destroyed In Burma; Rabaul Is Blasted Again; Planes Pound French Invasion Coast

2 BARKLEY SPEECHES ~ AREIN THE MAILS   One Lauding President Roosevelt Printed ‘Before His Attack on Tay Bill Veto.

Local Oil Men are Now Getting 75¢  Barrel Premium   Government Agency Hopes Increase Will Promote Expansion

Local Oil Men Get Premium Of 75¢ Bbl. Starting Today   Higher in Price Expected by OPA to Encourage Producers to Increase U. S.  Crude Production by Number of Methods

Destroyers Brave Mines:  Shell Ormoc   Japanese Air Raid On U. S. Warships Causes Some Damage

Fight by Sea and Air Around Leyte   But Rain Stalls Land Operations Along Ormoc  Corridor   DESTROYERS IN RAID   U. S. Vessels Bombard Enemy-Held Harbor; a Jap Air Raid

Air, Sea Blows Launched by Jap,  American Forces at Levte Island

_ —PACIFIC—  BATTLESHIP Ig BOMBED BY FOE   Japanése Planes Attack Warships And Transports In Leyte Gulf   DAMAGE REPORTED   Tokyo Radio Claims Nipponese Battle Americans On Moxotai

MacArthur Acknowledges Some Casualties and,.Damage From Leyte Raid.

Fleet Shells Ormoc: Jap Raiders Attack   American Flotilla Braves Mined Waters to Bombard Jap Garrison:

U.S. Ships At Leyte Bombed, While... . . Japan Vainly Reinforces Tottering PhilippineStand

Destroyers Shell Ormoc   Move Boldly in For Blow; Jap Airforce Bombs Warships, Transports at Leyte

Sea-Air Battles Resorted to in Fight for Leyte   U.S; Fleet Pounds Ormec; Jap Planes Strike American: Warships in Gulf

YANKEES, JAPS TRADE PUNCHES   American Destroyers Hit Ormoc; Enemy Planes Attack Warships

JAPS CLAIM: TROOPS LAND ON MOROTAL   Tokyo Says Nips in Bitter Fight With Americans on Tiny Island Lying 300 Miles South of the  ‘Dhilinnmes.

U. S. Destroyers Shell Jap Base   ACTION FLARED UP AS PHILIPPINES WAR RESUMES

Japanese Bombers  Downed by Yanks   American Destroyers Shell Ormoc As Foe Stage Attack on Warships

Tokyo Radio ‘Claims Nips Have Landed On Morotai    Destroyers Shell: . _.Ormoc Installations

Yank. Destroys, In Bold Maneuver, Shell Ormoc As Jap Planes Raid Shipping

U.S. Ships Bombard Ormoc .   Japs Bomb Fleet in Leyte Gulf, Report _ Landing On Morotai And Raid On Saipan

ACTION FLARES OVER STORMBOGGED LEYTE   American Destroyers Brave Mined Inner Philippine Seas to Fire Shells On Ormoc   JAPS ATTACK SHIPPING

Dewey Warns of Power Politics   Says Monopoly By Big Four Unfair To Small Nations.

Dewey Would Give Post-War Voices  To Small Nations  Hatch Lauds G. 0. P. Leader’s Warning on Peace.F nfarcement

Dewey's Warning On Peace Plans Widely Approved   Bridges Is Critical

TEMPO INCREASES IN BOMBARDMENT QF WEST EUROPE   Heavy Fighter Escorts With American Planes Tempt German Fliers.

Dangerous I Defects Found In Engines From Wright’s, Court Martial Is Told

Air bases In Russia Used By Americans  United States Begins Shuttle Bombing Of

U. S. Air Bases Built in Russia   Secretly Prepared Fields Permit Shuttle Attacks For First Time on Eastern Held Axis Territory and Establish Joint Operations With Red Bombers.   HISTORIC OPERATION

US, PILOTS NOW LANDING AT NEW BASE   Russians Grant United Nations Air Rights

American Air Fleet  Uses Soviet Fields   First Co-operative Venture Hailed by Moscow—Yanks and Bed Crews Work Terether

Nazi Domain Is Put Under Precision Bombing Clamp  As Planes Land In Russia

American Bomber Crews Given Hearty Welcome by Russians When First Armada Comes In After Blasting Romania; Secret Preparations andAllied Solidarity Pave Wav for Shuttle Bombing

U.S. AIR FORCE OPERATES FROM BASES IN RUSSIA   ESTABLISH JOINT OFFENSIVE WITH RED AIR FORCE

Eastern Germany Faces Heavy Two-Way Air Assaults; Three Powers in Cooperation

Story Of Historic Operation Told; Secret Bases In Russia... .  U. S. Planes Operating From Soviet Bases Now

Shuttle Bombing Has Started   Secret Soviet Bases Used — Romanian Targets Hit; Opposition Light

UNITED STATES SETS UP PLANE BASES IN RUSSIA   Airmen Land in Soviet Union After Bombing Targets Selected by Reds

U.S. Air Bases 1n Russia   Three-Way Squeeze, From Italy, Russia, And Britain Put Into Play Against Nazis

~-SHUTTLE BOMBING OF REICH—   Offensive Air Punch Of Yanks Increased

FIRST SHUTTLE RAID OF WAR , COMPLETED   Strong Force Hits Romania, Then Lands In U.S.S.R.   COOPERATION   Of Two Countries Praised At Ceremony: Idea Is Credited To Arnold

US Air Forces Operate from Russian Bases   First West-East Bombing of Hitler’s Fortress Accomplished: Joint Offensive with Red Air Force

Yank, Russian Air Forces Join At Secret Base:   All Reich Now Within Range Of Powerful Allied Bombers

Joint Operations With Soviet Air ‘Force Established   American Planes Land At Secretly-Prepared  Bases After Bombing Attack an Damnn‘tn

Raiding Forts Fly On To New Soviet Bases   Most Far-Flung Of Nazi Domain Now Being Hit

First Bombers Presumably from Italy Land At Secret Bases and Historic Operation Completed Yesterday Provides British, Russian, America Air Action

Red Air Force Cooperates In Blow At Axis   Romanian Targets Pounded En Route To Soviet Bases

U.S. Occupation Of Red Air Bases Result Of Long-Range Allied Plan; joint Offensive Is Established

OBJECTIVES IN ROMANIA ARE RAIDED   Way Is Paved For Attacks On All Of  Germany

Yank Planes Land at Red Air Bases After Raiding Nazis.on ‘Shuttle’ Flight

U.S. Fliers In First Shuttle Raid To Russia   Planes From Italy Use Bases In Soviet After Bombing Rumania.

U.S. Inaugurates Shuttle Bombing With Russian Bases   Planes Hit Romania Then Continued To Soviet Soil

34 Alton Men Receive Order For Induction   First Called Under New Selective Service Regulations

27 Called For -Pre-Induction  Physical Tests   26 Are Alton Registrants One a Transfer to Local Board

Induction Call Issued For 59 More Alton Men   Recently Passed Physica Test—30 to Enter the Army

26 More Alton Registrants on Induction List   Four Called to Army, 22 Will Be Sworn Into the Navy

MODERN BATTLE OF THE MARNE      French Patriots Fight On Old Battlefield

100 U. S. Carriers Operate In Pacific   Task Force 58 Packs 1000 Planes, Car Move At Will to Japan Itself

OPA EMPLOYES ARE ACCUSED OF SALES   Filling Station Operator Says They Sell Gas Coupons

EIGHT BIG ARMIES READY T0 MOVE ON EAST FRONT   Rested And Refreshed After Summer Offensive Reds Prepare Assault On Hitler's Front.

Eight Russian Armies Ready   Prepare to Strike From Estonia to Carpathians

EIGHT RUSSIAN ARMIES WAITING   Great Forces Ready To Hit Again at Nazis Along Eastern Front

Refreshed Soviets Mass Forces For New Assault  Ukrainian Army Cut: Into Alp Region To Seek Out Nazis

Juncture With Tito Imminent   Difficult To Predict Where Big Red Army Blow Will Come

Russians Plan New Offensive   FRESH TROOPS READY TO PLUNGE INTO BALKANS

8 Red Armies Prepare For . New Attack   Question of Where Russians Will Strike Probably Worrying German Leaders; Advance in Romania

EIGHT RED ARMIES PREPARED FOR NEW ATTACK ON GERMANY   ON SOUTHERN END RUSSIAN FRONT SOVIET SUC. CESSES CONTINUE

Soviets Attacking On Wide  “Front forth of Warsaw, ls Report; 150 Miles Of Buigarian Frontier Held

Reds Prepare For Another All-Out Drive   Troops Half Way Across Romania In Drive Toward Yugoslavia.   ICAPTURE RASVADU

$ Russ Armies Ready to Open  New Offensive   Hitler's Problem: Where Will First Blow Fall?

Strong Local Drives Expected To Begin; Reds Surge Toward Yugo- slavia For Junction  With Tita.

pected To Begin; Reds Surge ‘Toward ‘Yugo- slavia For ~ Junction With Tito:

Eight Russian Armies Prepare For New Drive   Romanian Furces Push Into Alps Of Transy!vania

Reds to Lash Out  Against Germans   Eight Russian Armies‘ to - Attack Eastern a  of Nazis ~   PUSH INTO THE ALPS   Bulletin Reports Capture of City 120 Miles From  Yugoslavia

Jesuit Head Dies at 7   Very Rev. Fr. Magni Was Vicar-General By Tinited Proce

EAU GLATRE PLANT NOW MAKING TIRES   Marks Climax of Reconver sion; Synthetic Tires Manufactured.

_ —— eae eee eee ee Seeee   Fierce Nazi Attacks Being Warded Off

Allies Grimly Battle Nazis Below Rome   Rattergon Declares Beaelihead Forces 'Pirinly Established?

3 of 6 Foe Thrusts Beaten Back   Fierce Fighting Continues in Ruins of Cassino

Patterson Says Allies Firmly Established On Beachhead   HEAVY ATTACKS  Red Armies Are Closing In On Krivoi Rog

Position Less Crim Because Of Casualties   Acting Secretary Patterson Says Beachhead Firmly Wobahisehan   SEE HEAVIER RAIDS

Beat Back German Attacks   American and British Forces Hold Firmly  To Beachhead Despite Violent Enemy Blows

CHANGE FROM WAR TO PEACE PLANNED   Gutline Conversion to Get Government Out of Business After Victory:

Key City Falls in Russ Smash   RED FORCES CAPTURE VOGOGRAD VOLYNSK, LAST MAJOR OBSTACLE BETWEEN RUSSIAN ARMIES AND OLD FRONTIER IN ZHITOMIR AREA

PAYMENT OF DEBT TO BE CELEBRATED   Local Masons To Have “Burning Of Mortgage” With Special Program

INTER-AMERICAN FOREIGN MINISTER PARLEY PLANNED   Ifteci-nz Expected in Eariy Spring to Disc_ss Argent-ne Question 

4 Red Columns Stage Assaults On City Of Kassa   Report Advanced Forces Within Artillery Range Of Nazi Defense Anchor

REDS MOVE ON KEY CITY OF KASSA   Anchor Of German Defense System Is Threatened

Soviet Armies Menace Kassa, Capture Senya   Four Columns Converging On Hun Anchor City In   Czechoslovakin; 24.   Tawns Taken

SOVIETS BREAK SLOVAK LINES   [Lay Siege to Kassa I Drive To Crumple Nazi Defenses

KeD ARMY AIMS TOWARD KASSA   City Is Anchor Of The Germans’ Mountain Defenses In Czechoslovakia,

SOVIETS DRIVE ON KASSA, NAZI EAST SLOVAKIAN ANCHOR   Four Russian Army Spearheads Join in Assault on City Which Acts as Terminal to German: Defenses’ in Eastern Czech Mountains

Kassa _.   Soviet Columns Bore In On Slovakian City From Three Direction:

Four Russian Armies Near Slovak Base   Advance Forces Already In Artillery Range Of Nazi Défense Center

Soviet Forces Converge (n Key Base   Anchor of Germans’ Entire Defense Line Is in Danger

PENETRATE NAZI LINES IN SLOVAKIA   Advanced Forces Drive Within Easy Artillery Range

Soviets Converge On Kassa, Nazi Slovakian Key   German Casualties Reported Heavy; Many Hungarians Are Deserting Ranks

RUSSIAN FORCES MASS ON KASSA   Converge on Anchor in  East Czech Mountains

Kassa Nears’ As Russians Attack Nazi  Line Anchor   Old-City Ts Within  Easy Cannon: Range

German Defense In East Under Soviet Attack   Four Red Army Columns Converge On City In Czechoslovakia

FOUR RED ARMY COLUMNS DRIVE TO KASSA TODAY   Anchor Of Entire German Defense Sysiem Fired

4 Red Armies Converge At City of Kassa   Soviets Within Artillery Range - Of Naz ‘Anchor’

Red Columns  Converge On Anchor Point   Four Russian Units Attack Kassa, Hinge of Nazi East Czech Line

MOVE IN ON KASSA   Red Forces Attacking Nazi Defenses in Eastern  Czecho-Slovakia

4 Red Columns Strike at Kassa, Nazi Defense Key  System in Czechoslovakia Mountains Endangered; Escap

FOUR RED COLUMN IN STRONG ATTACKS   Converging on Kassa, Anchor City of Entire German Defense.

Reds Converge On Kassa After  Breakthrough   Lay Siege To Anchor City: Of Entire German Defense Salient in Czecho-: slovakia.

Four Russian Armies Drive  Toward Kassa   Anchor City of Entire German Defense Line in Eastern Slovak Mountains

Conver cing In Attacks on  City of Kassa   Gained as Much As Eight Miles On Tuesday

FOUR SOVIET UNITS MOVE UPON KASSA   City Is Anchor of Entire Nazi Defense System in Mountains of Czechoslovakia—One Force 9 Miles Away.

Four Columns Of Reds Move Unon Kassa   Gains As High As Eight Miles Are Reported

Reds Atlack Key City, Kassa, in Czechoslovakia   Entire Defense System of Nazis ls Endangered

Russians Lay Siege fo Kassa, Nazi Defense Post   Hungarian Troops . . Reported Steadily Deserting Nazi Units

Red Forces Converging On Kassa   Hit at Anchor Of Defense System in East Czechoslovakia

Reds ( onverge Drives on Kassa   Nazi Defense System Anchor Attacked By 4 Columns in Mountains

REDS CONVERGE ON SLOVAK CITY   ‘FOUR COLUMNS PUSH TOWARD KASSA, KEY TO GERMAN DEFENSE

Americans Lose But 17 Plane: And One Ship “Moderately Damaged” ..

Good-Neighbor Bill Shelved   Bloom Fears Jt Will Make Enemies for U. §

Sunt CRAFT “ARE BLASTEL      AIRMEN OF MACARTHUR COM -- MAND DESTROY, 32: MORE JAPANESE VESSELS IN™ WIDESPREAD SWEEPS,

JAPS LOSE 32 MORE VESSELS   ot na  Pound Rabaul Without Opposition

Problems In Washington Major Sort   PRESIDENT ROOSEV ELT RETURNS TO CAPITAL TODAY TO A SREPENDUUS RECEPTION.      10,000 Precincts Out

CAPITAL TO GIVE ROOSEVELT A BlG RECEPTION TODA’   Washington to Turn Out With Bands and Ballyhoo to Welcome President’s Triumphant Return.   TREMENDOUS TASKS AHEAD OF EXECUTIVE   Three-Power Parley, Possible Cabinet Changes and Demands for Wage Formula Change Await Action.   RULILETIN.

NAZI RESISTANCE NEAR AVRANCHES VANISHES AWAY   Lt. Gen, Bradley’s Tanks Step Up Rate of Advance; Pontorson Entered in Attempt to Cut Off Brittany Peninsula

BRITISH SUBS SINK JAPANESE PLANE CARRIER      Telling Blow Hit Harassed Jap. anese Navy Near Malava

Allies Keep Up Attacks On Japisles   U.S. Forces Hold Positions, Planes Bomb Wake, Hit  Enemy Bases

JAP CARRIER TORPEDOED BY BRITISH SUBS   Royal Navy Reveals Battle in Mallacca Straits Off Malaya.— Carrier Believed Sunk,

BRITISH SUB SINKS CARRIER IN JAP WATERS   Yanks ‘Hold On Los Negros

VOTES: 5-STAR RANK   The House Passes Bill Establishing New Grades

Governors Adopt Ambitious States Program  Western Conference at Phoenix

Governors Seek Industry Growth   Conference Plans  To Develop West

Dr. Joseph P. Traynor Leave: $75,000 Estate To Sister; Other Wills Are Probated

Probate Court For February Opened Today   Will Continue Through Friday

Small Children Get Jeep Started, Then Find They Can’t Stop Vehicle

45 Lack Seen In Meat, Eggs   Adverse Market Conditions Cuttine Production

Meat Shortages Will Be Heavy  Surveys Show Less Food Than Expected

Meat, Poultry Shortage Seen   Liquidation Trend Pushed Upon Farms

Fear Poultry, Meat Shortage   Shortage Greater Than Expected Is in Sight, Especially in 1945

63-Year-OldWoman Questioned by District Attorney   ‘Elderly Woman’s Body Found Buried in Grave “In Victim’s Yard

WOMAN HELD IN MURDER INQUIRY   Employer’ s Body Found in Shallow Grave

Find Body in Shallow Grave   Los Angeles Woman Held; Grave Found In Victim’s Backyard

Ttaly Allies Meet Counter-Attacks   British Less Than 20 Miles from Key Port

Reds Dislodging Sevastopol Nazis   Blasting Germans From Deep Holes   Attack Nazi Treops

FIVE MORE ESCAPE VESSELS ARE SUNK   Russian Air o and Fleet Units Attack Axis Ships

Russians Sink Five German, Romanian Ships  Five Barges, Patro] Launch Also Destroyed by Reds

Russians Sink Five German, Romanian Ships Five Barges, Patrol  Launch Also Timtiennent inane Dawe

Five Axis Escape Transports Sunk Off Sevastopol   Many Other Vessels Damaged By Russian Aircraft; Germans Fight From Stone Nests In Cliffs

Second Finnish Defenses Crumble Before Russians  Remnants of Nazi 14th Army Dig In For Stand in Italy

Soviets Smash Second Belt Of Finn Defenses   Predict Red Blow Will Knock Finland Out of War by July 1

Moscow Radio Reports Finnish Troops Retreating Rapidly Leaving Towns And Supplies Intact, And Predicts Fall Of Finland By July 1

Climax to Nerve-Torturing German Offensive Probably Won’t Be Long Deferred; American Position. Confused

GERMAN ‘COUNTER-OFFENSIVE IS STILL IN NERVE-TORTURING PERIOD OF UNCERTAIN FUTURE

The War Today—  Allies Hold Big Edge As Battle Develops Into One Of Resources

Nazi Counter-Fight Is in Bewildering Uncertainty Period   But U. $. Reminded Of Baron’s Opinion . Of Fighting Doughboy

GERMAN COUNTER OFFENSIVF NOW AT THAT STAGE WHICH PROVIDES TENSION FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD.

err == Cte 2o Wane  The War Today...   By DeWitt MacKenzie AP War Analyst

The War Today  Outcome of German Thrust To Rest on Battle of Materiel  pore ape a Oe ns — a _ — —

SINK TWO JAP SHIPS   Bombers Smash At Nips Off Dutch New Guinea Coast

Drive Under Way to Prevent Enemy from Reorganizing Geelvink Bay Befenses,

U.S, BRITISH CANT AGREE ON LEND-LEASE   Chief Snag in Discussions Is English Desire to Re-Export

America, Britain Fail To Reach Accord Over Renewal of Lend-Lease

Chinese Advance On Burma Town   Gen..Menzill’s. Eorces.. 3 Also Pressing Enemy

MONSOON RAIN. ISOLATES JAPS   Attack Pressed On Myitkyina Troops

Chinese Close in on Village  Strong Attacks on Myitkyina Pressed

FARM LABOR PLEAS ~ -KEED-AGENT BUSY   Benjamin: Sollyday Finds Demand Greater Than *: Sdnply

FARM LABOR PLEAS - «KEEP AGENT BUSY      Benjamin- Sollyday Finds _ Demand Greater Than  “Supply

~ INKEENE, NH.   Miss Villette Powers, Teacher, Is Bride of Sergt. : “Andre F. Bernhard  e F

— INKEENE, NA   Miss Villette Powers, Teacher, Is Bride of Sergt. _ Andre F. Bernhard

Airliner Sets New   Atlantic Record  Loaded Craft's Mark - 15% Hours

JUDGE ADAMS DIES SATURDAY, AGED 55   Jurist, Former Resident of ' Boonsboro, Dies in . Baltimore

Trusties Free For 45 Minute   Amprison Officer's Wife; Steal Car

Might Make Dream Good On Singapore To Tokyo Railroad   Chinese Counter by Capturing Burma Road Base of Lungling

Entire Military Positions U. S. In China In Danger   Yanks Abandon Bases Near Kweilin; Face Critical Situation.

Japanese Units Are  Within 110 Miles  Of Splitting China Gains Fail to Offset  Allies’ Losses In Oriental Battle

Finns Do Not Accept Peace   Riksdag Meets But Ne Action Is Reported

Interpreting the War   - Mounting Allied Pressure Brings Nazis Near Breaking Point

ressure Of Ilies Makes  azis Groan   Every Indication Is That March To Ber‘lin Will Begin Re fore First Snows of Consequence Fly

STOP GERMAN FLIGHT   Partisans Caught Troops Attempting Escape from Trap

Partisans Halt  Germans Fleeing  Trap in Greece Nazis Attempt te Fight Way

Would Probe Ruling on ClO   Senate Committee Seeks Facts Behind Biddle Ruling

Facts of ClO C ampaign Fund Sough   Senate ~ Interested In “Why” Atty. General  Sanctioned Actions

Question Biddle Aide Regarding Decision On CIC   Holds Political Activity Legal

BIG COASTAL CITY GIVEN HEAVY RAID   Superforts Based On Saipan in Onc Of Bigoest Raids

Diow IVlajor Strike rrom Oalpan-Dased Fr ianes  Nagoya Rocks Under B-29 Attack

Allied Nations, Battle Fronts Pray for Quick Victory, Return of Real World Peace

British Units‘ Approach Lamia   Pursue Fleeing Nazis Northwest of Athens

BRITISH ARMY NEARS LAMIA   Pursue Nazis uv Ath. ens-Salonica Highway in Greece

Further Peace Negotiations  Held Doubtful   ‘Moscow Already Has Declined to Modify Original Terms For Truce  i   National Security  Stumbling Block   Finnish Press Expresses:  Divergent Views As To   Whether Further   Moves Possible

Mighty Russ _ Army Closes On Budapest   Soviet ‘Troops in Position For ‘Death Strike’ he Weel fre

STAGE IS SET FOR CAPTURE OF BUDAPES!   Reds Register Gains In Preparing for “Death Strike”

STAGE IS SET FOR CAPTURE OF BUDAPEST   LINE STRAIGHTENED FOR FINAL LUNGE AT CAPITAL

REDS SET STAGE TO NAB BUDAPES!   MARSHAL MALINOVSKY IS STRAIGHTENING LINES FOR FINAL ASSAULT.

Reds Set Stage For Early Fall Of Budapest   Soviets Get Strangle Hold on Capitol of Hungary

Russian Troops Set Stage For Fall Of Besieged Capital Of Hungary

RUSSIANS SET FOR FALL OF BUDAPEST      Troops Mass for Death Strike at Hungarian Capital

As Reds Straighten Lines East of Hungarian Capital; Capture More Than 30 Towns.   Take Rail Point

Stage Sel For Fall To Reds Of Budapest   Russians Spend Day Getting Set For Final Death Strike

STAGE 15 SET FOR FALL OF BUDAPEST   Soviets Straighten Lines by Advances Northeast anc South of Capital; Semicircle Strangles City

HUNGARY IN GRIP OF CIVIL STRIFE   Pro-Nazi Elements Seize Budapest Rule; Horthy Besieged

HUNGARY 1S TORN WITH CIVIL. WAR   Pro-Nazi Elements Seize Eudapest: to Keen Tottering Nation

ARMY. CONTROL as BRE LARED      orem. WAR BREAKS OUT i . WUNGARIAN CAPITAL— " HORTHY WHEREABOUTS “NOT CLEAR

Russ Strategy Points ~ To New Nazi Collapse   Success In Reaching Poland Is Linked With Another Drive South Of The Kiev Bulge

PRESS RELEASES ERRONEOUS NEWS   Describes Naval Action Of 1592 As Current Engagement

EP hag ‘Niicerimination.   Senate Refuses, 39-21, to Kill President's FEPC  Chavez and Hatch   Chavez and Hatch Vote to Retain Fund for Committee

ngress Leaders for Action ’   War and Postwar Problems Put First

TOKYO WORRIED IN PHILIPPINES   Generals “Are Switched: Corregidor Victor To Oppose MacArthur

Yank Sailor Rejoins Mates  After Dodging Foe in Hills — Of Guam Two, Half Years

JAP FORCES THREATEN IMPHAL   Capital  of Indian State Is Supply Base For Allies

Seek to Halt Jap Column That Invades India   Drive Threatens To Nullify Other Allied Gainc

FIGHTING IS ° UNDER WAY IN INDIA      British and Indians Oppose Jap Invaders

a  Voters Desisanste Ohoice be vovers Vesignate Choice by  Numbers Under Hare System

Man Eaters Pulled Living Off Life Rafts   [Saaeetenews of Te a nonor Survivors of iT angper  Sinking Tell Scenes Of Garrar

Sharks Fat Shipwrecked U.S. Troops   Transport Torpedoed In South Pacific Area

Allies Jubilant at Victory Over Reich Army in Italy   vo ° 7+ ‘Sea Denizens Drag Men From Rafts  Sharks Attack Seamen In Transport Disaster

Senators Hit Aussie Move  To Cut Army   ‘Shocking,’ ‘Startling,’ ‘Almost Unbelievable’  ‘Are Some of Comment:   MANPOWER SITUATION CITED BY AUSTRALIA

Australia Cuts Size of Army   Slash Criticized By U. $. Senators

Australia’s Army Cut Is Disturbing’   U. S. Senators Comment Critically on Ally

HSTRALIA WILL CUT ARMY 90,000   1, §, Senators Don’t Like the Picture, and Say So,

Seek Relief Around Duren   Loose Heavy Shelling Along 200 Mite Frent; 45+h Divisias in Palatingie

Nazis Trying To Relieve  Duren Sector   Ardennes Forest Is Place of Heaviest Enemy Pressure

Germans Loose Counter - Blows Against Yanks   Strike ut Dozen Points in Reich on 70-Mile Front Between Duren and Trier   Ardennes Forest Battle Heaviest   Counter-Thrusis Apparent Effort To Draw Off American Pressure Against Duren

GEAMANG ATTACK AT DOZEN POINTS   Heaviest Fighting Occurs in “The Ardennes Forest   HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE   Nazis Believed to Have Given Up Holding Back First Army at Roer River

PATC#H'S YANKS SEIZE SEVERAL REICH VILLAGES   Karlsruhe, Saarland In Great Peril As 7th Gains

Ninth, Third And Seventh U. S, Troops Driving Deeper Into Germany

Duren-Trier  - Section. Hit: Drive Points At Ardennes   First’ Army Bears Brunt Of Assaults

Enemy Attempts To Sap Pressure Off Duren Area   Artillery Blasts At American Units On 200-Mile Front

Enemy Opens Artillery Barrages Along Front of More Than 200 Miles Where Yanks Have Invaded Germany

Entire Front Meets Fierce Enemy Attael   Germans Attempt To Stem Yank Assault on Duren

Counterattack {aunched on First's Front   Nazis Try to Take Hea’ Off Key Points With Wide Assaults

In Europe, New Gains Bring On Bitter Nazi Fire   DOUGHBOYS ON MINDORO ISLANDS CHASE JAPS FROM TOWN, BEACHES

Nazis Attempt CounterBlows  On Wide Front   Danger: of Beeak-Through Impels Enemy ‘To Move Di an Inte Breach

Counter-Blows Dealt ‘in Widely-Separated Areas —Heaviest Fighting fn Ardennes Forest.       SEVENTH DRIVES ©: DEEPER INTO REIGH   Enemy Shifts Armor From Another Front to Meet Onslaught — Patton Gains 300 Yards. *

Nazis Counterattack at Dozen Points on Ist Army Front   Heaviest Fighting Occurs in Ardennes Forest; Germans Apparently Seek to Draw Off Pressure in Duren Sector

Germans Loose Barrage Of Shell and Fire Along 200-Mile Western Front

U.S. First Army Is Chief Target Of Counter-Blows   )   Seventh Army Gains In Palatinate Push; Battle Flares in Italy

PREMIER KOSIO WORRIED ABOUT - PHILIPPINES AS U. S. PLANES HIT TOKYO MUNITION WORKS

SINKING OF SCORE JAPANESE VESSELS BY Ul. §. U-BOATS   LATEST SUPERFORTS RAID ON TOKYO ONE OF MOST SUCCESSFUL

SINKING OF SCORE JAPANESE VESSELS BY U. 8. U-BOATS   LATEST SUPERFORTS   LATEST SUPERFORTS RAID ON TOKYO ONE OF MOST SUCCESSFUL

YANKS REACH OUTSKIRTS OF LESSAY   First Army Clamps Siege Arc Halfway About Nazi Base

Navy Contirms Attack Upon Paramushiro   Reveals Another Coastal Assault

100 Prisoners Take Possession Of Florida Jail   Authorities Call for Army Tank in Effort To Reaain Control

Nine Of the Dead Were Members Of the Armec Forces, Including Several Officers and One Wac Officer.

Mystery Deepens  As Search Goes on  Valsa Matthai ,of India, Disappears Worhout Any Trace

Daughter Of India Fades From Sight, Cops Baffled   Beautiful Young Student Disappears, From New York Hotel During Snow Storm   Not Kidnapping

Indian Girl Disappears~ Is A Mystery   She Vanished March 20 Leaving No Clues the ‘Police, FBI, Private  Police Can Find

Disappearance of Girl from India In N. Y. Snowstorm Shrouded in Mystery

Mystery Deepens As Search Fails Tc Find Trace Of Girl From Indic

The Case of Valsa Matthai   Disappearance of Girl International Mystery

CLEAR OVER KANSAS   More Indian Summer Weather Forecast fer State

Veteran Leader Battled Nazis At El Alamein   New Boss Takes Over As Eighth Advances North Of Ortona

Hard Fighting British Eighth Army Has a New Boss in Italy   Lieut.-Gen. Sir Oliver Leese Will Succeed Montgomery.

pA cout LUMN ABOUT IOWA   Governor Proclaims Thanksgiving Nov. 23

Midwest States Except Nebraska List Nov. 23  ae Thankenivina Raw

TRENTON WRECK FATAL 10 TWO   Detroit-Bound Train Hits Stalled Automobile; Rescue Too Late

Nealh Wins Race. With Rescuers at ~ Railroad Wreck   Firrun =Pien td Under Wreckage Dies Just Before Freeing

SENATORS MOVE TO ABOLISH NEW FEP COMMITTEE   FDR’s Board Set Up to Prevent Racial Discrimin: ation Among War Work ers Under Fire 

CHARLES LEWIS RE-ELECTED HEAD OF TRAVELERS   Statesville Council Conducts Interesting Din ner Meeting Saturday Nicht.

DINNER MEETING “HELD BY THE UT   Annual Election Offi_cers Held by Local © Council 

Failure Proves Air Power View   Valuable Lessons  Taken At Cassino  By EDWARD KENNEDY And CEARGE TITCHWER

Failure Proves Air Power View.   ‘Valuable Lessons. Taken At Cassino

COL. ROOSEVELT TO WED AGAIN   President’s Second Son Engaged to Hollywood Actress

Play-By-Play Report From Delivery Rooms Giver Suffering Papas In This California Hospital

President Roosevelt Prepares ror Strong Foreign Policies   Most Significant Changes In State Department In 155 Years

Shakeup Is Started In State Department   Grew, Clayton And MacLeish Appointed In First Of Promised Personnel Changes

FDR Names Three To Aid Stettinius   Archibald MacLeish Is Included Among Undersecretaries; More Changes Likely

STATE DEPT. UNDERGOING A SHAKEUP   Grew Is Named Under-Secretary In Latest Move

REORGANIZATION OF STATE DEPT. NOW UNDER WAY   Undersecretary “And Three New Assistants Named By President

STATE BUREAU REVAMPED 10 WIDEN DUTIES   Department To Take ‘Strong’ Leadership Of American Foreign Policy

CHANGES MADE IN STATE DEPT,   ROOSEVELT CLEANS HOUSE FOR STETTINIUS

Department Shakeup Gives  Roosevelt Greater Powers FDR May Be Own State Secretary,  WeeL eae pee: Teen dos Tae

NAZIS PREPARING FOR STRICT RULE ON HOME FRONT!   Reich Leaders Declare Séveral New Decrees Coming Soon That Will Cut Deep Into Everyday Life.   HITLER WILL APPOINT NEW ARMY LEADERS   Lack of Organized Opposition Indicates Uprising Was Confined Strictly to Military Circles.

Americans Advancing On New Britair Against Stiff Jap Counter-Attacks

Marines Reinforced On Cape Gloucester   Forces Join in Opening New Offensive On Japs

JAMAICANS TO ARRIVE   British Subjects Will Make Powder at: Hercules Plant

New Job Control Program Studied   M‘Nutt Fishes for Congress’ Support -

Congressmen Frown on  McNutt Plan   Labor Coxirol Of All Males Called Wegal

MURDER TRIAL OF MRS, HARTLEY MAY WIND UP THURSDAY   Sister Of Slain Wright Field Soldier Is Witness

Open Fight Flares in Paris As Collaborationists Flee, Patriots Sing Marseillaise

Open Fighting Breaks Qut in French Capita!   Enemy Movements Disorganized by Underground

100,000 NAZIS KILLED IN 3 WEEKS’ DRIVE   Huge—Capture of Equipment Announced by High Red Command   WEDGE NINE MILES WIDE DRIVEN INTO OPPONENTS

New Offensive Gels under Way On North Line   Vatulin Making Important Gains

NEW ADVANCES MADE ON WHITE RUSSIAN FRONT   Breakthrough Enlarged At Novosokolniki; Supply Line Broken

100,000 NAZIS KILLED IN THREE WEEKS   On Ukraine Front Alone. While In North New Offensive Drives Big Wedge In German Lines.   Frustrate Attacks

Vatutin Destroys 2204 Tanks, 1174 Cannon on Drive Into Poland; New Northern Push Cuts Rail Line

Russians Report Staggering  War Successes   soviets Say First Ukraine Army Alone Has Killed 100,000 Nazis in Last Three Weeks, Destroying Much Equipment

Red Forees Cut Railway 'To Leningrad   New Advances Made In White Russia Arca, Stand Firm in Ukraine  7.000 CAPTURED

WHITE RUSSIA   Strong German Count: erattacks Repelled  In Ukraine

RUSSIANS GAIN INPOLAND AND WHITE RUSSIA   Strong German Count erattacks Repelled ln’ Ukraine

Ukraine Army Kills 100.000 In Three Weeks   Spearhead 55 Miles Into Old Poland Reported; Strong Nazi Attacks Are Repulsed

BIRTH RATE ON CLIMB IN U, S,   Population Increase Nearly Million and Half in ‘43, Report Shows

BELGIAN CROWDS MOVE ON GAPITAI   POLICE CLASH WITH DEMONSTRATORS — GENERAL STRIKE SET FOR TODAY.

BELGIAN STRIKE TENSION GROWS   Demonstrators March On Capital; Pierlot Regime Under Fire

STIFF. BATTLE. 1S UNDERWAY. + FOR FLORENCE   GERMANS HURLING counrres    _ ARMY 10 MILES FROM Ccrir¢”.

HEAVY BATTLE FOR FLORENCE   British Halt Nazi  Tank Attack   Allies Gain Near Important City

Feed Shortage End In Sight   Near Record Crops of Livestock Feed, Grain to Relieve Major Headache

Indications for  Big Corn Crop   Spectre of Feed Shortage is Less Serious

TEXAS FARMERS MUST FILE TAX RETURNS EARLY   Income Declaration Must Be Made By January 15, Says Report

Dwindling Hun Oil Resour "ces Hit Twin Blows   More Than 3,000 Planes Based In England and ltaly Attack Reich and Romania

U.S. Planes 3000Strong Hit Europe In Daylight   Ploesti Oil Fields And Nazi Home Are Struck

Destructive Blow at Nazi Oil Resources   Three Thousand U. S. Planes Strike Heart of Reich

3,000 Planes Poundat Nazi Targets   Great Air Battles Fought Over Rumania, Reich

AAF HURLS 3,000 PLANES AT NAZIS   BLAST SYNTHETIC FUEL PLANTS IN HEART OF REICH

ALLIED BOMBS HIT REFINERIES   3,000 American Planes Attack Reich’s Merseburg and Ploesti

REMAINING GERMAN OIL CENTERS HIT AGAIN BY AIRMEN   American Fliers From England and Italy Attack German Synthetic Plant at Merseburg -and the Romanjan Fields at Ploesti

anna Germany Is Battered By U.S. ‘Forts   More Than 3,000 Planes Smash Targets In Reich

1,000 FORTRESS  SMASHED TARGE!S CENTRAL GERMAN\   Equal Number of Fight. ers Also Took Part in Creat Aerial Batiles

HIT GERMAN OIL CENTERS   Airmen Attack Synthetic Plants at Merseburg in Heart of Reich, and the Oil Fields at Ploesti, Romania.

3,000 Planes Poundat Nazi Targets   Great Air Battles   Great Air Battles Fought Over Rumania, Reich

Flying Forts Blast Center Of Germany   Meanwhile, Mediterranean Airmen Make 12th Raid on Ploesti Fields

Dwindling German Oil Sources Under Heavy Air Attacks      Over 3,000 American Planes Strike at Nazi Refineries

3,000 Airplanes Strike Oil Plants   American Forces Hit in Heart of Reich and the  Polest} Fields.

Yankee Planes Attack Nazi Oil Centers   Leuna Synthetic Plant And Ploesti Fields Given Heavy Bombing

American Airmen Hit Oil Plants at Merseburg, Ploesti  Other Units Support Americas Advance in Normandy, Sirafe Transport in France

Two-Way Raid Blasts Enemy Oil Resources   More Than 3.000 Planes In Attack: Hit Plants At  Merseburg, Ploesti.  rte CaCO CeopnrrANe

3000 Planes Attack Nazi  Oi Reserves   Polesti Hit From — lialy and Merseburg  From Britain

Planes Slash At Nazi Oil   Hit Synthetic -Plants In Reich, and Ploesti_ . In Romania; Support Yank Drive in France

BIG ATTACK ON Ol   American Planes - Invade Center of Germany to * Cut Supply

3,000 PLANES HIT SYNTHETIC FUEL PLANTS   Paris-To-Atlanta Are Blasted To Support Normandy Action

ADVANCE MADE UP PO VALLEY   Eighth Army Occupies Coastal Town On Adriatic

ITALIAN COAST CITY CAPTURED   British Gain In Po Valley From Two Directions

Allied Tr oops Take Adriatic Coastal Town   Drive Toward Ravenna Tu East Naly; Hungary’s Regent Gets Refuge Within Germany

FILGAS GAGE To, GIVEN TO JUR)   Nine Men and Three Women To Decide Fate of High School Youth.

British Press with Grenades, Bayonets On Japs Trapped in Hills Near Kohima

Allies Close In Upon Japs   Last Remnants Of Jap {ndian Drive Crumbles

British Closing © On Trapped Japs   Last Enemy Positions Attacked Near Kohima

General MacArthur May Figure As Potential Cabinet Member, Advisor

GENERAL MACARTHUR EXPECTED TO FIGURE POLITIGAL PICTURE   REPUBLICANS BEGINNING TO ADMIT HE WILL BE CONVENTION FACTOR

MacArthur To Be A Factor At GOP Conventior   Nominee May Propose Him As Cabinet Member Or Adviser.

Top Spot Seen For MacArthur In GOP Drive   Genera! Seen As Prime Factor At Convention

MACARTHUR SEEN AS POSSIBLE MEMBER NEXT CABINET   Republicans Hope to Include Him in Cabinet If ‘They Should Win at Polls

MacArthur May Figure In Race  ‘Suggest General May Be Top Military Man

M’ARTHUR MAY FICURE ING. 0.P. 1944 CAMPAIGN   if Not Drafted as Presidential ‘Candidate He May Be PotentiaJ Cabinet Member or Military Advisor

MacArthur Likely To Figure In 1944 Presidential Race As Advisor If Not Candidate

GENERAL MACARTHUR EXPECTED TO FIGURE POLITICAL PICTURE  REPUBLICANS BEGINNING TO ADMIT HE WILL BE PARUIOCRITIOAN DCACTOD

MacArthur May Figure In GOP Presidential Campaign As Potential Member Of Cabinet

Gen. MacArthur May Figure As Cabinet Member   To Be Factor At GOP Convention

Gen. WaArthur Mav Be Factor  At GOP. Meet   Some Suggest He Will Be Drafted: Soldier Vote Still Unsettled

RESCUERS SINK SHAFT 10 MINE   Picked Workmen Hope To Find 66 Trapped Men Still Alive

Australians Are Closing AtBogadjim   South Door To Jap Base Of Madang Next In Line

Drive Japs From Hills Stronghold   Aussies Advance Toward Madang

Aussies Put Japs to Rout Near Madana   Flanked Foe Flees, Leaving 100 Dead on New Guinea Field

About To Reach Door To Madang   Jap Troops Sent Fleeing In Panic Before Aussies   FALL OF ‘MADAN G SAID TMMINENT

Japanese Flee In Panic From Aussie Troops   Allied Force Moving Victoriously Nearer Bogadjum, South Door to Base At Madang

JAPS FLEEING IN PANIC +BEFORE AUSSIES   Veterans Who Routed Rommel Near Big Jap New Guinea Base

Aussie Troops Surge Toward  Madang Door   Climatic Drive Is Within 25 Miles of Bogadjim, Whose Capture Will Open Surface Highway For Fast Trip to Big Base—Outflanked Japs Flees.

Aussies Driving Panicked Japs Toward Madang   Big Enemy Airdrome Which Guards Rabaul Ie Pulverized.

Aussies Press  For Bogadjim   South Door To Madang Is Neared After Campaign Starting At Buna

North Bay, Naval Anchorage Is Described As Graveyard Of Sunken Transports And Power Barges; 10 Planes Shot Down   EXPECT SEVASTOPOL FALL WITHIN 48 HOURS

Would Then Join Allies, Is Reported   Non-Delivery of Weapons Said to Be Keeping Turks Out of War

Turkey Sought 500 Tanks, 300 Planes, to Enter War   Failure of Britain to Deliver These Kept Nation. From Becoming Ally

Turks Account For Neutrality   Refused Materials By Allies, They Claim

Turks Claim : Tanks-Planes  Plea Ienored   Ankara S$ Says AMjed Fajlure to Deliver Them Keeps Her Neutral

REST 1S TAKEN BY ROOSEVELT   President Leaves Grind Of Washington, Shakes Off Influenza

Roosevelt To Take Rest   Upon Physicians Advice Slips Away From Wash. ington Turmoil.

FDR Taking Rest To Recuperate From Illness   Whereabouts Not Known to Public

Soviet Troops In Hungary   75-Front Drive Pushes Ahead; GermanHungarian Defense Weakens

Soviets Catapult Through Hungary's _ Defense Positions   Push Steadily _.. Toward Last Natural Barriers Before Budapest

CAPTURE 3 MAIN ROADS LEADING INTO BUDAPEST   100 COMMUNITIES INSIDE HUNGARY HAVE BEEN SEIZED

RED INFANTRY WAVES SURGING  ACROSS HUNGARY WITH BUDAPEST AND BELGRADE AS NEXT GOAL

RED ARMY INFANTRY SURGING FORWARD IN HUNGARY SATURDAY  MANY COMMUNITIES OF LAST BIG PUPPET STATE BAVE BEEN SEIZED

Red Army Infantry Waves Surge Across Frontier To Hungary; Near Budapest

Nazi - Hungarian Resistance Done   Red Army Moves Steadily Into Hungary on a 75Mile Front   COSSACKS BRING PANIC   Soviets Will Reach Budapest in Five Days at Present Rate

REDS LAUNCH AN INVASION OF HUNGARY   Infantry Waves Surge Across Romanian Frontier Into the Nation on 75-Mile Front and Ad wanee 12 Miles.

SOVIET ARMIES MOVE STEADILY TO RIVER LINES   Death And Panic Spreading In Big Retreat

REDS INVADE ‘HUNGARY ON -75-MILE FRONT   Infantry Waves Smast Into Nation From Romania

Fighting May Reach Capital In 4 or 5 Days   Russian Forces Surge Across Hungarian Borders to Magyar Citadel

Red Infanty  Advancing on 75-Mile Front   Russians Reported Only .  Miles from Budapest; More Than 100 Hungarian Communities Captured .

Red Tide Rolls Into Hungary   Advance On 90-Mile Front Meets Little Resistance; Press Conauest of Saare

Move Toward Budapest, 90 Miles Away   Backbone of Enemy Resistance Thought Broken, As Many Communities Fall

Soviet Forces Move Deep Into Hungary   Backbone of German Resistance in That Country Broken

RED ARMY INFANTRY NOW WITHIN NINETY MILES OF BUDAPEST   Moved Steadily Toward. the Pisza and Koros Rivers, Moseow Reported.   LAST BIG OBSTACLES   Indications Were That the Backbone of German-Hun- garian Resistance Broken.

Russians Surge Into Hungary on 15-Mile Front   Rapid Conquest ls Probable; Budapes Only 90 Miles Away

‘Reds Race on Through Hungary   Backbone of Resistance Reported Broken, May Reach Budapest in Few Days   INVASION OF AUSTRIA ALREADY PLANNED   Meanwhile, Germans Are Said to Be Pulling Out of Resieved Belorade

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON BUDAPEST   Soviets, Tito’s Men Besiege Capital a Of Yugoslavia

REDS MOVE ON 75-MILE FRONT   Indications Are They May Near Budapest Within 4 Or 5 Davs.   RIVERS ARE BIG BARRIER

Hungarian Capital May Fall To Russ Within Week   Red Army Driving Toward Last Natural Obstacles On 7T5o-Mile Front

Russians But 9) Miles From Capital   Hungarian-German Resistance Held To Be Weakening

Russian Army Strikes Swiffly   Info Hunaary   Invade On A 75-Mile Front From Romania; Besiege Yugoslavian Capital Of Belgrade

Reds Sux ‘ging Tnto Hungary From Romania   Move Steadily Toward Last Big River Obstacles Before Budapest, 90 Miles Away

“Red Tide Moves Toward Budapest; Resistance. Broken   “Hungarian Capital . _ Only 90 Miles Away; 4 Belgrade Besieged  “BY Gaviets Partienne

SENATE. GROUP SNUBS. HOUSE   APPROPRIATIONS. COMMITTEE REJECTS. HOUSE CLAIM IN: _ DRAFT DEFERMENT “lone S§QUABBLE

BLAST JAPS SUPPLY LINES   Record Raid Made On Nippon-Held Admiralty Islands

Seek to Cut Off Jap Base At Rabaul   Yank Fliers Pound Admualty Isles to Sever Supply Lines

Yanks Pile Up KO Blows On Supply Lines   Heavy Bombers Start Fires On Strategic Jap Islands

Planes Lash AtAdmiralty Island Chain   Yanks Increasing Efforts to Sever Rabaul Supply Line

Seek to Sever Supply Lines Feeding Rabaul   Heaviest Raid of War Made on Admiralty Islands

BOMBERS TURN TO ADMIRALTY ISLAND GROUP   No Jap Opposition Met In Blow At Rabaul Supply Link

DANIEL URLS “SMEAR CHARGE   Southern Deniocratic Re* volt Is Headed For  Court Decision

Court Test in Texas Seen   O'Daniel Brands  Senate Inquiry as “Smear Attempt”

Roundup Of Today’s Political News  Senator O’Daniel Says Senate Committee Has Opened Smear Campaign

O'Daniel Hurls ‘Smear’ Charge At Committee  Senator From Texas   Senator From Texas Faces Inquiry On Personal Newspaper

O’Daniel Emerges Central Figure In Alleged ‘Smear’ Attempt By Senate Group

Demo Revolt Takes Court  Turn Today   Sen. O’Daniel Charges ‘Smear’ By Expenditures Committee

TEXAS SENATOR CHARGES “SMEAR” ATTEMPT MADE   Senator O’Daniel of Texas, Anti-Administration Says Smear Squad . Going into Action

TEXAN CHARGES  NEW DEAL SMEAR  SQUAD IN ACTION O’DANIEL AROUSED  . BY PLAN TO PROBE PROPOSED NEWSPAPEF

(Daniel Charges “Smear” Attempt   Texas Senator’s  Proposed Newspaper To Be Investigated.

Southern Demo  Revolt Is Still Qut In Front   Senater O’Daniel of Texas Declares Newspaper Is Being Financed To “Disseminate the Truth.”

Kansans to Polls Today For Primary   Senatorial Race  A Leading State  Contest; Campaign ' Has Been Quiet

DRAFT AFFECT ON OLDER MEN   26 to 38 Age Group Still Active Although Conditions May Vary

THE ABC ON DRAFT   “Homefronters Give You “the Latest “Dope” By dames Marlow and  ee ae

Catholic Weekly Hits at’  Fr. Orlemanski’s "Mission".   “Pilot'' Declares Stalin Knew Springfield . Pastor Represented Nobody But Himself!”

Nazis Throw Back Lake liman Drive Soviets Reopen Rail  re es en ees 

LENINGRAD AND MOSCOW ARE LINKED   Germans Report Russian Landing “On Lake Hmen

Russians Land On Lake Ilmen  Germany Says   Claim Counter - Attack: Smashed Bridgehead Established By Reds: Soviets Capture Mga

Important Rail Center Of Mga ‘Taken By Red   Leningrad -Axid” Moscow ~—Aee—Linked-For—Eirst Time -In Two Years

Lake Ilmen Landing By ‘Russ, Berlin [Reports   Nazis Fell For Stalin’s Strategy In Feinting, Then Hitting Crushing Blow: Foe Desperate

Gr eat British F leet Sent To Far East Waters   Will Be Centered In Indian Ocean; Led By Fraser

Britain Sends  F leet To East   “To Join. Aineiléans: In Battling Japanese

BritishCommander Assigned To Beat Japs In Pacific   All-Out Offensive Will Be Based In Indian Ocean,  Extent Of Range Not tae ”

British Form Great New Pacific Naval Command For Action Against.

U.S. Seizure Of Seven Coal Mines  In Western Pennsylvania In View

U.§. May Seize Seven Coal Mines   Labor Refers Strike To President

All Soldier G. 1 Show Friday   Tiekets Available at All Bond Issuing Agents in Tha tomnty

oldier Show, Military Band  At Pocahontas   nye Bond Rally Friday June 23 ,

Bond Rally In _ Afternoon; Big Show In Evening   Cast of 15 Soldiers In Show; Admission to Entertainment -Is War Bond Purchase

Bretons Happy To See Yanks   Turn Out in Best Clothes, With American Flags, Deluge Soldiers With Flowers

Dewey and Hull Arrange Talk on Foreign Policy   New York Attorney To Represent Former

Dewey Delegate Confer With Hull   Will Discuss U. S. Foreign Policy In NonPolitical Meeting.

Pave way for Hull  meeting  : Secretary clad   Secretary glad to meet Dulles

‘DULLES NAMED BY GOV. DEWEY TO MEET HULL   * Nominee Accepts Secretary’s Invitation  For Peace Talks

JOBLESS PAY PLANS URGED   House Commsittes Calls on State to Broaden Programs for After War

Surplus Property Debate Started  otaies ne Urged to  ranntan Deaerre

JAPS CAUGHT NAPPING: U.S. PHOTOS HELP   2 Marine Pilots Snap Pictures There on Feb. 4

Ohio Milk Distribution — Plan Given Credit For Absence of Rationing

Anti-Fourth Termers Facing Senate Probe   Names Of Some Contributors Kept Secret, ‘Treasur-er Of. Organization Tells Senate ConamL eee Investigators  - z

Liberty Ship Dashed ‘To  Pieces On Rocks When Storm Drives it On SHore 5

All Day Entertainment Program Being Set Up _ForRural..People. .. -

Buckelew, Davis Killed In Action In European Area   Pfc. Andy Davis, Stonewall, And Pvt. Buster Buckelew, Stratford, On List

NEW GAINS MADE. BY U.S, TROOPS ~ IN-ADMIRALTIES   Warships and Planes Pound Enemy as Reinforced Cav‘alrymen Move North of Momote Airdrome.   MORE U. S. TROOPS LAND IN NEW GUINEA   Units of 32nd Division Go Ashore Behind Japanese Positions 30 Miles West  of Saidor.

INVASION FORCE PUSHES NORTH FROM MOMOTE   Amphibious Landing Is Made Behind Enemy On Guinea Coast  Near Saidor

TROOPS ON ISLAND SCORE NEW GAINS   Dismourited Cavalrymen Force Way Forward on Los Nearos

ADVANCE ON LOS NEGROS   Cross Narrow Isthmus To Peninsula; 32nd _ Division Units Make Amphibious Landing Behind Japs.   Sink Ships

GAIN IS MADE ON LOS NEGROS   Yanks Driving North of Momote Airdrome; In Face  Of Artillery Fire

Invasion Coast Is  Blasted By Fliers   Heaviest Blow of Recent Weeks Struck i in France ir Unprecedented Offensive-—Seven Nazi Planes Shot Down

ASSAULT ON HITLER LAND IS RENEWED   Waves Of Bombers In Unprecedented Offens ive Against Invasion Coast Of France Deal Heaviest Blow   237 Planes

SECRET TARGETS IN FRANCE ARE GIVEN POUNDING   Offensive Against Nazi Fortification Underway 55 Davs

Bombers Lash Invasion Wall   Fleet of Heavies Joins Attacks in France

. §, BOMBERS HIT HARD AT FRENCH COAST   Heavy Craft Join in Assault on Inva- . sion Area

Giant allied air offensive mauls coast   Heaviest blow of recent weeks

Freneh Coast Bombed on Rising Seale  Forts, Liberators   Forts, Liberators Team Up to Intensify Raids

American and RAF Flyers Hi French Coast   Invasion Area Dealt Heaviest Blow of  Recent Weeks

INVASION COAST SLUGGED AGAIN   Four - Engined Bombers » Blast At “Mystery Targets”

invasion Coast Given Terrific Blows from Air   Americans, British. Attack Wide Area

Big U.S. Bombers Join R. A. F. In Unprecedented Attack On Invasion Coast of France

French Coast Given Worst US. Bombing   Forts and Liberators Batter Targets In Defense Wal!

BATTLES RAGING WITH YANK NEAR ETERNAL CITY   German Forces Cut Off by French Drive - - Bombing Of Europe Continues

‘Must Fight if Capital Defended   Berlin Broadcast Reports Rome Free Of German Forces

Berlin Declares Eternal City Free Of Nazi Military   Responsibility Is Placed on Enemy by Allied Stalemate

Sparing Rome Up To Axis, Say Allied Leaders   Follows Pope’s Appeal To Save Eternal City

Announcements Vollow Speech By Pope Pius   Enemy Defense Positions Unbroken As U.S. Planes Strike From Russia

LANIER, POTTER DUEL IN KEY SERIES CLASH   Rivals Ready To Take Fielc In ‘Football Weather’

St. Louis Browns Depending On Nelson Potter To Keep Them In World Series Today   Cardinals Fo Pitch Either Lanier Or Donnelly In Stab At Title

DEFENSE LINE SHATTERED BY BRITISH DRIVE   GERMANS ABANDON KEY POINTS ON DUTCH FRONT

Germans reel back as advancing allies threaten destruction   Scramble to cross river barriers as entire line in Holland crumbles apar'

40,000 Nazis Fleeing From  Allies Force   Germans Making Big Effort to Get  Across Rivers

Germans Iry For Escape   Canadians and British Race Hurrying Enemy for Maas, Waal Rhine Crossings

Seek To Escape As British And Canadians Smash’ Their Defense Lins

Enemy Defense Line Shattered By Allied Push      Huns Scramble Northward ‘Toward Rhine As West Holland Barrier Falls To Pieces   Port Of Antwerp Appears Doomed   Bergen Op Zoom Is Seized  By Canadians Without Firing A Shot; Huns Fled Fortress

LAST BLOCK TO USE OF ANTWERP ISNOW DOOMED   “Bergen Op Zoom Abandoned To Allies; Ist Army Attack Thought Near

German Troops Race To Haven Across Rivers  Use Of Antwerp Port Expected Momentarily

Germans Scramble To Escape   Free Use of Port At Antwerp By Allies Nearer

British and Canadians Race North To Block Rhine Escape Route; Victory Speeds Up Use of Antwerp

Nazis Flee Threatened Allied Trap   Enemy Line Falls Apart Along Muddy Front in Holland

German Troop: Rush fo Escape Across Meuse   German Batteries  On Walcheren Island Alone Block Use of  Great Port of Antwerp

40,000 Nazis Reeling Back Toward Rhine   90-Mile-Long German Line From Sea To °S Hertogenhoech Falle.   LEAVE COASTAL KEY

Nazis Making Full-Scale Withdrawal  Way to Antwerp Nearly Cleared

“Temperatures   Nazis Make Wild Dash for Maas As Line- Crumbles   Canadian, British © Armies Racing  For Rhine Crossing

GERMAN DEFENSE LINE IN WESTERN HOLLAND SMASHEL   Forty Thousand Nazi Troops in Flight Toward Meuse and Waai Rhine to Escape Destruction.   BRITISH, CANADIAN ARMIES IN PURSUII   Free Use of Port of Antwerp Now Blocked by a Few Isolated and Doomed Enemy Batteries.

Nazis Forced Back Along. 50-Mile Front   40,000 Scramble te Escape Destruction by Cressing Meuse

Allies Crack Defense Line Of Germans   Clearing of Antwerp Is Showing Progress

ENEMY FORCES RUN 10 CROSS RIVER BARRIER   Free Use of Antwerp Port Blocked Only By Few Batteries

ENSE LINES BATTERED BY ALLIED FORCES   Bergen Op Zoom Abandoned; Schelde Op position Weakens

40,000 Germans Flee.as Allies Smash Defenses   Canadians Push Holland Gains ~ In New Advance

THOUSANDS OF NAZIS FLEEING FROM BRITISk   Germans Trying To Cross Meuse After West Holland Defenses Fold

MAIN KEY ON COAST   Germans Race To Get Across Maas River  Ahead Of Allies

SLOT COTTON   send 40,000 Huns Back  ‘Across Mass   German Flight May Mean Early Use By Allies, of the Part of Antwerp. British aud Canadians Advanced

Allied Use Of Giant Harbor Is Imminent   Forty Thousand Germans Pinned Against Meuse Anx Rhine By British And Canadians

Nazis’_ Doom On Four War  Fronts Near     Weight of Allied Air Supremacy May Collapse Enemy Defensive Dikes At Any Moment.     By KIRKE L. SIMPBON

Nazis Yield Only After. Hard Battle   Germans Plan to  . Fight Every Inch   “OF Road to. Rome Regardless of Cost   War in. Brief:

 Russian Army Races Through Old Poland And Over Approaches To Rumania Virtually Unimped ed In Some Sectors      {MOSQUITO BOMBERS HARASS WEST GERMANY

Nips’ Armada Runs to China Sea for Safety   20,000 Enemy Troop: On Saipan Island Abanconed to Fate; Three U. S. Ships Hit

Yankees Claim  “V4 Shins Sunk: Or Damaged in  F Pacific Battle   Nips Avoid Major Tussle '- With Big American ie .   JAP CARRIER BLASTED  Aircraft Score Is 49 U.S, “Planes To 353 Of :  Oe

Men on Aircraft Carrier, Bound ‘For Battle, Don’t Talk About War

Pilots Training Here To Remain Until Nov. 20th   Reservoir Of Pilots Full, Army Reveals; Production Slowed

‘EYE BANK’ IS SET UP TO TREAT BLINDNESS   Human Eyes To Be Collected From Living Donors

Soldier-Son Arrives from Overseas — to Cheer Critically-Ill Mother

Yanks Step Up Aerial Blows Against Reich   2,000 Planes Batter Hun Oil Plants, Airdromes; Nazi Troops Hit In French Areas

Great Air Armadas Smash At ‘Germany And Pound Defenses dn North And South France   2,000 Planes Hit Industries And Airdromes In Very Heart Of Reich

REICH FACTORIES HIT BY BOMBERS   Great American Force of 2,000 Planes Smash at Oi! Plants, Airdromes.

2,000 Planes Hit Aircraft, Oil Points   Hundreds of Others Attack Troops on Battlefields

Armada of 2,000 Planes Bomb Nazis   Targets In Heart Of Germany Get Big Blockbusters

ALLIED PLANES TAKE TERRIFIC TOLL OF NAZIS   Mannheim, Ludwigshafen Raided By 2,000 U. S. Bombers

BOMBERS STRIKE NAZI TARGETS IN RAIDS TODAY   Block Busters Hit Berlin In Night; Leipzig Bombed

Heart Of Reich Is Plastered   “Another Great U.S. Armada Strikes At Aircraft, Oil Plants.

BIC U. S. ARMADA RAIDS GERMANY   British Rehit Nazi Capital With 2-Ton Bombs

REICH ATTACKED BY 2,000 PLANES   Raiders Hammer Plane, Oi Plants, Key Airdromes

Huge Air Armada Is Pounding  AtReich   Over 2,000 Planes Are In Action Today: 14,000 Fliers Aided South France D-Day

AIR, OUL PLANTS BOMBING TARGET   Great American Armade Of 2,000 Planes Lashe: Nazi Area

Great American ‘Armada Lashes At Mid-Reich  Berlin Is Blasted Witsh Blok _R, saba pe

REICH’S PLANTS GIVEN POUNDING BY U. S. PLANES   Heavy Bomber Force Lashes At Targets in Heart Of Germany

U. S. 2000-Plane Armada Hits Germany   R.A.F. Bombs Berlin Airfields, Oil Lashed

Targets in Germany Invasion Defenses,  Hit by Yank Planes   14,000 Fliers Supported D- -Day Operations ‘in France Yesterday

Leipzig, Magdeburg Areas Are Bombed.  _ Big American: Armada © onnchine Anke li

ANOTHER SWEEP BY U: S! PLANES   Armada of 2,000 Smashes Many Axis Targets

Bombers Hit Aircraft and Oil Plants  Enemy Troops In France Attacked

1,000 U. S. HEAVIES HIT GERMANY 4TH STRAIGHT NIGHT  / 2000 PLANES IN ALL;   2000 PLANES IN ALL; AIRDROMES AND OIL PLANTS ARE TARGETS

2 000 U. S. Planes Smash Plants In Heart of Germany   RAF Again Hits Berlin With Big Block Busters.

Nazi Airfields, Oil Plants Hit By 2000 Plane:   Targets Are All In Leipzig And Magdeburg Area  In Heart Of Germany

U. S. Air Armada Carries Havoc ‘Into Fourth Day   Two Thousand Planes Rain Destruction on German Oil Plants, Airvorts and Factories

2,000 PLANES BLAST GERMAN AIRDROMES   While Hundreds of Other Fliers Attacked Enemy Troops and Defenses

Veto Of Tax Bill Expected   Social Security Rate Would Double Mar.

Congress Sees  Tax Bill Veto   Freeze Of Security Levy Gains Backers

CONGRESSMEN AR EXPECTING VETO   Republicans Will Confer Informally on Problems Now Anticipated.

NEW TAX FIGHT FACES CONGRESS AS VETO LOOMS   Wrangle Over Draft Renewed With Disclosure of Plans To Increase Forces

iMortally Ill Lad Showered With Gifts ‘Little ‘Nubbins’ Waits Santa’s Last Visi

Nazi Front Line Defense Zone South of: Liri River Smashed; Allies Ready To Flank Cassino

60-Square-Mile Area ~ Carved Out In 4 Days      French Lunge Forward 7 Miles From Starting Point; Allies Cross .

APPROVE REBUFF GIVEN TO F. R.   Kentuckian Re-Elected Majority Party Chief

Barkley Is Returned as Leader   BLOW AT F. R. SEEN IN UNANIMOUS RETURN OF MAJORITY CHIEF

BARKLEY If RE-ELECTED BY SENATE   Accepts Position Given Up Over Tax Veto

Barklev Gets Party Support   Senate Democrats Endors His Criticism

Kentuckian’s Re-Election Unanimous; He Accepts, Denying 4th Term Involved

Democrats Put “Confidence In  Him As Leader”   “Dear Alben”’ Still Has Affection For Roosevelt, He Says

Colleagues Roar  Unanimous Suppor Of Kentucky Solon In Break With FDR

TAX QUESTION TO SENATE FRIDAY   President Asked Kentucky Solon Not To Quit

BY UNANIMOUS VOTE  BARKLEY RETURNED  SENATE LEADERSHIP KENTUCKIAN ANNOUNCE!  HE WOULD CONTINUE IN IMPORTANT POcT

Solon Gains Presti ge By Demos’ Action   Promises To Answer President's Message Urging Him To Keep Important Office

Unanimous Action. Great}; Enhances His Prestige; H sa’ ~ Still Likes Rooseve       NO 4TH TERM. IMPLICATIONS, « KENTUCKIAN TELLS: ‘NEWSMEN

RETAIN BARKLEY AS DEMOCRATIC SENATE LEADER   Party Caucus Votes Ful Endorsement of Attack on President

Angry House Overrides F. D. Tax Bill Veto   Administration Backed by Only 95 Members

Barkley Reelected To Senate Post by ‘Unanimous Vote   Democratic Colleagues Give Majority Leader An Overwhelming Vote of Confidence

Roaring Vote Of Confidence Is Given Bark-’ ley After He Resigns As Majority Leader’ In Senate — Kentuckian Is Re-elected Unanimouralvy And Accents Position...”

Accepts Post After Vote Of Approval   Has Deepest Personal Affection for FDR, He Says

Demos Back Kentuckian  To Last Man After Break   Senator Quiet On 4th Term Question

Barkley Emerges As Potent Presidential Possibility After Snlit With ED. R.

KENTUCKY SOLON GETS UNANIMOUS CONFIDENCE VOTE   Veteran Senator Agrees te Remain in Imoortant Party Pact

Jnanimous Vote Accepts Resignation Then Immediately Reelects Him; Backed To The Man In Break With President.

COLLEAGUES HAIL FIGHTING SPEECH WITH ENTHUSIASM  : aeuatec ACMACRATS   SENATE DEMOCRATS RE-ELECT BARKLEY AS MAJORITY LEADER

BARKLEY DECIDES — “TORETAIN POSITION   Majority Leader of The Senate Accepts _ Re-Election

Senators Roar Confidence And , Barkley Accents   Emerges As Democrat Leader After Tift With FD; And His  Resignation

Kentucky Senator Resigns But ts Unanimously Reslected At Party Conference— Agrees To Accept

Barkley Is Retained By Colleagues   Democratic Senators Unanimously Back Critic of FDR

VIEW RENTUCKIAN AS POTENTIAL CANDIDATE   j ‘President Sends Telegram, Urging Majority Leader Not to Resien

Senate Chief Returned To His Post   President Rebuffed By Unanimous Democratic Votes

TAX BILL VETO REVOLT ENDS IN DEFEAT FOR FOR   Vote of Confidence Roared As Majority Leader Put Back After He Resigned

Party Unanimous Tn Re-Electing Barkeley To Post   Senate Leader Expresses “Deepest Personal Affection” For FR,. Denies Any Fourth Term  Tmplications. ,

BARKLEY LEADER INFACT AS WELL AS IN NAME   Resignation Accepted, Col, leagues Then Unanimously Re-elected Him to  Gama Inh_

COLLEAGUES ACCEPT RESIGNATION — AT PARTY CAUCUS AND AT ONCE * RE-ELECT HIMTOSAMEPOST     Unanimous Action of Senators Today Underscores Barkley’s Prestige As Front Rank Figure in Party Kentuckian Accepts Post Again As Leader

Barkley Given Unanimous Vote Of Confidence, Stays As Democratic Leader   Kentuckian Accepts Re-election As Senate Party Chief After Unanimous Ballot Backs Stinging Blow At Roosevelt

ROARING VOTE OF CONFIDENCE GIVEN BARKLEY   Emerges From Split With  FDR As Potent Presi dential Timber

BY UNANIMOUS VOTE * BARKLEY RETURNED «SENATE LEADERSHIP  KENTUCKIAN ANNOUNCEL HE WOULD CONTINUE IN

Senators Back Barkley in Row With President   Colleagues Give Him Roaring Vote Of Confidence and He Aarees to Accept

SEN. BARKLEY 10 REMAIN LEADER IN THE SENATE   Unanimously Re-Elected = te That Post by the Democrats Today.   He ACCEPTS THE HONOR   President Roosevelt Joined in  Awking the Kentuckyian to Continue.

ACCEPTS AFTER ROARING VOTE OF CONFIDENCE   Democratic Caucus Action Is Unanimous After Favoring Resignation

Returned To Post As Democrats Give  Vote Of Confidence   Denies 4th Term Implication. In Historic Break With Roosevelt Following Veto Of Tax Measure

SENATE LEADER RESUMES POST   Barkley Re-elected By Confidence Vote From Demo Colleagues.   DEEP AFFECTION FOR FR

Demos Restore Kentuckian to His Position by  UnanimousVote   President Had Urged Him by Telegram to Continue in Job

Demos Rename Sen. Barkley As Leader   Accept Resignation, Unanimously Re-elect Him Senate Majority Leader

 Barkley Back As Senate’s Demo Leader   Accepts Re-election After Roaring Vote Of Confidence By Colleagues.

Kentuckian Accepts Heim After Roaring Vote of Confidence   Front-Rank Party Leader Denies Fourth Term Implications; Says Personal Affection far EIR Peon

SEN. BARKLEY CONTINUES AS FLOOR LEADER   Dem. Sennthore Accept Resignation: Then Re-Elect Him

Kentuckian To Accept Post He Had Resigned   Senator, Who Bitterly As sailed Roosevelt For Bitter. Veto Message, Given Ovation   Denies Any Fourth Term Implications   Emerges, However, Probably Most Potent Presidential Possibility Our ' side White House

DEMO SOLONS BACK OF HIM TO THE MAN   Kentuckian, Who Broke Openly With President Over Tax Bill Veto, Agrees to Continue as Senate Leader.

KENTUCKY SENATOR ACCEPTS RE-ELECTION AS MAJORITY LEADER OF PARTY IN, ~ THE SENATE .

SOLONS INDORSE SOUTHERNER BY UNANIMOUS VOTE   After Democratic Head Re signs, Colleagues Quickly Put Him Back in Chair

Kentuckian. /Prevailed on To Keen Post   Democratic Caucus Is ‘Unanimous in Indorsement of Senator’s Stand   BIG PARTY FIGURE   Break With President Makes Barkley Potent Presidential Possibility

Unanimous Vote Cast At Caucus   Senate Democrats Adopt Resolution Expressing Their Confidence In Barkley's Leadership

Senator Barkley ()uits Leadership But Is Re-Electec   Democratic Caucus Accepts Majority Leader’s Resignation, Then Renames Him   ACTION FOLLOWS BREAK OVER VETO

KENTUCKIAN’S RESIGNATION [5 FIRST ACCEPTED   Senator Says Action Has No Bearing On Fourth Term

Reelected As Party Leader   Democratic Senators . Unanimous in Backing Barkley’s Rebuff of FDR Tax Bill Veto

RESUMES POST BY UNANIMOUS PARTY BALLOT   Deep Personal Regard For FDR Unchanged,  Leader Declares

Roaring Vote Of Confidence Given Him By His Colleagues In Senate.

Parbiay IInanimoncly Re-Flecied To Senafe Leadership, And Accepls

Confidence Vote Given Senator By Colleagues   No Fourth Term Implications in Break Says Solon

Democrats Re-elect. Barkley As Floor Leader   Accepts Majority Leadership After Insisting On His  Resjonatian

Battle for Saipan Is Regarded by Japaness As Grave Threat to East Asia Supremacy

Officials Say Germans Will Be Stopped Soon; German Lesses Mounting

Battle, Probably Greatest Of Western War, Is Growing In Fury   ‘THE MILITARY ‘BLACKOUT HAS NOT BEEN LIFTED   First Army Spokesmen Are Confident German Attack Will Be Halted *y

8,122 Japs Killed On Awajalein Against Loss Of Only 286 Americans

Kwajaleins Into Air, Navy Bases Soon  8122 JAPS MET DEATH AS AGAINST  H70C ARAT'DIC ARIC   Japs Pounded Unmercifully Over Entire Pacific Battle Area.

CEYLON COAST BOMBED   8,122 Japs Killed Against Loss © Of 286 Americans In Marshalls.

ALLIES BOMB LAST-REMAINING MEUSE BRIDGE   Holacaust May Result When Krauts Try to Cross River on Ferries, Boats.

Hitler's Men Are Headed Back For Meuse And Northern Holland   ALLIED CAMPAIGN TO OPEN ANTWERP PORT GAINING MOMENTUM   Americans Driving On Bolegna In Italy Have Been Stalled By Germans

 DIES’ TO “TELL HIS SIDE OF _CONTROVERSY—WINCHELL  “URGES DIES SUB- ’  to POENA H™ . x

George W. Driver Jr. Is Missing In Action   Former News Employe Listed As Missing In Action During Fighting In France This Month

PATROL ACTION FLARES ON THE ITALIAN FRONT      N ew Incendiary Invasion _ Plane Promised For Use _ Against Germans.

LITTLE STEEL’ CHANGE SEEN   Murray Makes That Prediction As United Auto Workers Meet

Predicts Break In Wage Ceiline   ClO Head Sees Revision OF Little Steel Rule

Murray Predicts Little Steel Pay Formula Increase   Urges Tolerance, Understanding on UMW Convention, Pleads for Unity Against Foes

C. 1. O. President Says Little Steel Formula Will Be Revised Soon

End Of Little Steel Formula Is Predictec   West Puts On Ei Cowboy Rodeo Ss For Gov. Dew ey   CIO President Murray Tell: UAW Convention It Will Be Revised Upward Within Week

Murray Predicts Steel Formula Revision Soon   John L. Lewis Accuses Edmundson’s Move Backed Bv New Dea!

Allies Press To Open Up Antwerp Port   British and Canadians Capture Three Towns In Northern Action  THIRD ARMY MOVES

PATTON ORDERS DAM WRECKED, AREA FLOODED   WCanadians Sieze Esschen, 16 Miles From Antwerp

PLAN TO REDUCE INCOME RETURNS   House Group Would Permit Withholding on $5,090, Possibly Higher

Predicts Simplified Income Tax  Measure Will Soon Be a Law 2Nn NNN ONAN Tayvnave re Affectad hy Menciure

BILL TO SIMPLIFY TAX PROGRESSING   Passage Within 60 Days Predicted by Senator Georac

SIMPLIFIED TAX FORM APPROVED   Measure Affecting 30,099, 060 Taxpayers Will Be Passed Soon

income Tax Simplification Is Promised   George Predicts Passage AS Treasury Offers  Me... Lk

Pretty Brunette, 21, Denies Bigamy In Elopement With 14-Year-Old Boy

Eloping Woman, 21, and Husband, 14, Called ‘Sonny’ Caught in Denver —

POTS-AND-PANS MAN INVESTIGATED   Group Finds Business Founded on Purchase of War Surplus Coods

POTS-AR AND-PANS. MIAN INVESTIGATE   Group Finds Business ‘Founded on Purchase : of War Surplus Goods 

GUERRILLAS ORGANIZE      British ‘Yankee Tots’ Are Jolt to Parents

TO MOBERLY POSITION   Atchison Man to Be Manager of Missouri City ©

Bricker Wants  Shackles Lifted From Industry   Says ‘Peacetime Production Possible Without Federal Interference

ENTOMB 16 MEN IN BLAZING MINE   Bulldozers Cover Entrances After Rescue Efforts Abandoned

MAY BE FIFTY DEAD IN BLAST ON DESTREYER   Number Aboard Ship Sunk In New York Harbor Wot Diselosed

Fear 50 Dead In Sinking of U.S.Destroyer   163, of Crew Rescued a: Blasts Rip Warship Off Sandy Hook

90 FEARED DEAD IN SHIP BLAST   Navy Withholds Details Of Destroyer Loss At N. Y.

DESTROYER’S DEATH TOLL MAY REACH 50   No Explanation Of Explosion Given Yet

FEAR 50 DEAD IN DESTROYER BLAST, SINKING   Cause Of Explosion Not Indicated, Navy Announces

FEAR 50 DEAD IN SHIP BLAST   Number of Persons Aboard  Destroyer Unrevealed

FEAR FIFTY DIED IN EXPLOSIONS ON LOST DESTROYER   Navy Probes Cause of Sinking in Lower New VWarb Ray

U. S. DESTROYER OFF SANDY HOOK SUNK YESTERDAY   Death Toll of at Least 50 Anticipated From ' Explosions

‘CAA Pl Plan 1 For Airports Includes $2,170,000 ‘Appropriation For New Field For Beckley

Yanks Strike Tirelessly at  ~— Paeifie Bases   Assaults Are Continued on Jap Fortresses Barring Way to  ‘ Rescue of Philippines and Hard-Beset China   By Associated Press

U. S. Force Sinks 13 Jap Ships;  Downs 141 Planes   Strong American Task Group Strikes at Foe In Marianas Only 1,500 Miles From Tokyo: 16 Nip Vessels Are Said Damaged

13 More Jap ‘Ships Sunk.   16 Damaged, 141 Nip Planes Destroved In Pacific Foray

416 Other Sea Craft Damaged  By Task Fore   Nimitz Reports Results Of Three’ Day Attack

State Hespitals Are Overcrowded   275 Too Many At State Institution Here

Battle Rages For Possession Or Vital Harbor   Prolonged Siege Unlikely Says Latest Communique

Speedy Faii Of Garrison Is Expected By Allies      Prolonged Siege Is ~ Called Unlikely From Reports

Fortification Dominating Harbor Taken   Military Experts Predict Early Fall of City

Yanks Meeting Bitter Fighting; Long Siege of Port Unlikely   1000-Plane Raid Fails to Knock Out Nazi Defenders

One of Cherbours’s Fortified Peaks is Stormed by Yanks   Prolonged Siege of City Not Thought Likely,  - Now

PORT EXPECTED TO BE IN YANK HANDS SHORTLY   ‘Prolonged Siege Unlikely,’ Allies Report — Other Heights Are Menaced

Against Vicious Defense   Allied Headquarters Says Prolonged Siege Unlikely; Partisans Strike on Many Fronts

One Peak Taken. In Hot Fight   Prolonged. “Siege. Unlikely Now, Says Report From Allied Headquarters.   VICIOUS BATTLES. : AT CLOSE RANGE:      Troops . Ate Too ‘Closely Interlocked for Planes. » To Give Aid 2:

YANKS CAPTURE FORTIFIED PEAK   Troops Storm Over One of 3 Heights Dominating Cherbourg Harbor. —~   ONE MILE FROM SEA

Peak Dominating Military Harbor Is Captured by Yanks   Planes Concentrate on “Quarantining" Battle Area, Hitting Rail and Road Communications In Semi-Circle 100 Miles Deep   NAZI DIVISIONS WITH NAVAL UNITS TRAPPED

LENGTHY SIEGE IS BELIEVED ‘UNMIKELY   Germans Withdraw To East Tip Of Peninsula —   Allied Airmen Cannot Give Close Support; No Word  Of New Landings

Bloody Hand-To-Hand Fighting Rages As Germans Fight With Stubbornness Of Stalingrad; French Patriots Said Tying Up Several German Divisions Elsewhere In France.

Yanks Take One Main Peak Fort   Speedy Fall Is Seen For Cherbourg Despite Defenses

Grim Battle for Cherbourg Goes on; City’s Fall Likely Soon   STRONG POINTS TOTTER   Attackers Fight Way Inch - by Inch: Within Pen-’  insular City . .

NAZIS CLING TO CHERBOURG DESPITE PERIL   House-To-House Fighting Is Order Of Day

Lt. Gen. Bradley’s American Assault Troops Capture One Of 3 Fortified Peaks; Speedy Fall Of City Is Expected

‘Nazi Heavy Guns Knocked Out: Speedy Fall Expected   Germans Put Up Fierce Defense With Light Artillery, Machine-Guns, Light Arms--Three Divisions Trapped   Nazi Heavy Guns Knocked Out

One of 3 Peaks Guarding Harbo Taken by Yanks   Prolonged Siege Is Unlikely Now, Headquarters Say

Smashing At Two Others   Cherbourg Defenses ‘Fairly Formidable’ But Capture Expected Quickly

Re ren enn ae MRR ne tea a ee  Seize One Of Port’s Three Vital Heights

Take Strong Point Four Miles From Sea Southwest of Cherbourg — Defenses Called Fairly Formidable But  Prolonged Siege Held Unlikely:

‘One Of Three Fortified Peaks Dominating City’s Military Harbor Stormed By U. S. Assault Troops— Speedy Fall Of Channel Port Expected—Germans Appear To Have Withdrawn From Tip Of   Peninsula To Concentrate Defenses

‘Yanks Take One of Three ‘Defense Peaks   Speedy Fall of City Expected; Forces Loched In Close Grim Battle

Expect Speedy Fall Of City; Capture Peaks   ‘Prolonged Siege Unlikely’; Nazis Reduce To Machine Oa wie we   3 DIVISIONS CAUGHT

LONG SIEGE OF CITY BELIEVED TO BE UNLIKELY   Defenses Are “Fairly Formidable” But Speedy Fall Is Exnected

Allied Headquarters Describe City’s Defense As “Fairly Formidable” But “Prolonged Seige Is Unlikely”. Germans Told to Hold Positions or  TP. GCL ia

One of Three Dominating Peaks Taken   Germans Fight Hard But Early Fall of Port Expected.

PROLONGED SIEGE OF FRENCH PORT IS NOW UNLIKELY   BRADLEY'S TROOPS BATTER FIERCELY AT NAZI DEFENSES

Fierce Battles  Rage for Control Of Strategic Port On Normandy Coast

Allied Headquarters Assert That Prolonged Siege of City Is Now Regarded as Unlikely.   VARIED EQUIPMENT IS USED BY ALLIES

'Yanks Take Fortified Hill ‘Commanding Cherbourg’s Military Harbor; Fall Near

One of Three Fortified Peaks Dominating Cherbourg Port Captured Friday by Americans   Nazis at Tourlaville Reduced to Machine Guns and Light Artillery and Unable to Withstand Attacks of Bradley's Troops

German  Defense Falters   ONE OF THREE FORTIFIED PEAKS STORMED AND FALL OF PORT CITY TO ALLIES SEEMS CLOSE AT HAND

Take Height Under Heavy. Cannon Fire   Foe Reduced to Machine Guns, Small Arms and Light Artillery

FIGHTING RAGES IN STREETS OF CITY OUTSKIRTS   Heights Dominating Big Port Captured - - Caen Reported Evacuated by Germans

Reds Exploit Breakthrough In Old Poland   Slugging Russian Troops Continue Drive To Carpathians and To Prut River Barriers

ALLIED TOLL LIGHTER THAN WAS EXPECTED   But Stiffer Fighting Ahead

Allies Driving Along Toward Hitler Line   Forms Last Defense Before Roman Plains

"G Belt of Nazis Overrun   21 Square Miles of Fortified Territory Falls to Allies

Casualties In Assault Lighter Than. Anticipated   Fifth, Eighth Armies Smashing Through Broken Gustav Line

Fifth Army Advances At Will   French Troops Are Spearheading Allied Offensive

ALLIED ARMIES SMASHING THROUGH BROKEN GUSTAV LINE FROM LIRI 10 THE SEA

Germans Reported Falling — Back to Last Defenses as Yanks Push Toward Rome

Airports on Post Office Roofs or Land Near by Are Planned Affer War

Allies Gain in Burma and india   Yanks Poise for New Biak Thrust

JAPS ADVANCE IN CHINA PUSH   Allies Gain In Myitkyina Fighting In North  Burma

Hard Fighting Eneountered  In Far East   Gains Made in Burma—Japs Take Chinese Town

Americans On Biak Island Poised For New Thrust: Chinese Forces Nearing Contact With Yanks In Myitkyina Sector

Allies Slash Jap Forces  In Burma   Americans and Chinese Attack From Three Sides—Drive Forward

Allied Forces Slash Hard at Japs On Asiatic Fronts  Americans, Chinese Making Gains In Burma, India

BIAK AND BURMA NOW SCENES OF MAJOR FIGHTING   Americans And Chinese Attacking From Three Sides Make Gains In Myitkyina Battle; Poised For Heavy Blow At Biak.

Allies Slash at Caining Japanese   Fighting Is Bitter In Burma. India. Hunan, Schoutens

Yankees Set For New Attack Upon Biak Jap Forces   Allies Make Gains In  India, Burma Campaigns

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN IN BURMA, INDIAN FRONTS   Americans on Biak Island Poised for New Thrusts at Japs

Allies In Asia Slashing Hard At Jap Forees   Advance In Burma, India; Americans At Biak Set For Thrust On Enemy

HGnT HARD IN ASIATIG SECTOR   Allied Forces Register Gains In Burma and India Battles.

Gains Seored By Allies on Two Fronts   Nipponese Pushed Back in Burma and India as Americans on Biak fuland Get Set  * for New Thrusts at Exemy

Allies Register Gains in Burma And IndiaF ighting   Fawe Bodernunrtun *. Of.   Japs Advancing in Honan, Take Two Villages—Yanks Make New Landing in Guinca

Allied Forces Slash Hard at Japs On Asiatic Fronts  Americans, Chinese Making Gains  Been Bhenweeeee feaclian

Allies Land More Troops On Biak Isle   Progress Reported In Drive For Myitkyina In Burma; Foe Gains Ground In China

Allied Forces Gain in India, Burma Sectors   Yanks on Biak Island Poise for New Thrusts At Enemy

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON MYITKYINA   STILWELL’S MEN GAIN CHIAOTOU OUTSKIRTS

ALLIED FORCES SLASHING HARD AT JAP TROOPS   American Make Gains In North  Burma Front

ALLIED GAINS REGISTERED IN ASIATIC REGION   Advances On Both Burmese, India Front. Poised For New Thrusts On Biak Island

Japs Continue To Advance in Chinese Drive   Yanks Get Set for New Thrusts at Biak , Island-Airfields

Allies Driving Hard On Burma, India and Biak Island Against the Japs

ALLIED GAINS I BURMA AND INDIA SECTORS   American Troops on Biak Island in Southwest Pacific Prepare for New Thrusts —

ALLIES SLASH HARD ATJAPS IN FAR EAST   Battle Forces’ Making Gains in Burma and In‘dia—N ips 22 Miles From : Changsha, China’s Rice * Bowl Bastion.

Fierce Fighting is Reported on Fronts ‘in Burma and Chine   Americans on Biak Get Poised for Thrusts on’ Three Airfields --

Allied Forces Score Gains’ In Burma And India   Americans On Biak Get Set For New Pacific Island Drives

Ten Go For Physical Exam   Go To Jefferson Barracks Monday Night

Men Leave For Pre-Induction Exams   Ten Go To Jefferson Barracks

SEN. VAN NUYS: OF INDIANA DIED — SUDDENLY TODA\   in Public Life 40 Years—Hat  Weathered a Roosevelt Purce.

Sen. Van Nuys Of Indiana Dies Suddenly   Democrat Entered  Congress in 1929

SENATOR FROM INDIANA DIES   Van Nuys, Democrat, Often Opposed New Deal

Van Nuys Dies Farly Today af Virginia Home   Indiana Senator Expires After Brief Ulness

SEN. VA DIES SUDDENLY   Indiana Solon Passes Away in Home in Virginia

SEN, VAN NUYS’ CAREER CLOSEL   Illness Proves Fatal to Indiana Congressman

Van Nuys, Indiana  Senator. Is Dead  Demo Was Often At Odds  With President

Sen. Van Nuys Is Dead After Brief I1Iness   Indiana Democrat Dies At Age Of 69-—Began Term In Senate During 1932 Landslide

 Prominent Legislator Democratic Senator Van Nuys Of Indiana Dies Unexpectedly

Sen. Van Nuys Found Dead In  Virginia Home   lhidiana Democrat Suceumbs During Night; Confined Yésterday ” Because of Cold   Took Active Part < In Legislation   Was Leading Democratic Opponent to Some New Deal Measures; Headed Liquor Probe

Van Nuys, y Indiana, Dies   Death of Chairman Of Judiciary Committee Follows Brief Illness

SENATOR FREDERICK VAN NUYS DIED IN VIRGINIA TODAY   69:Year-Old Chairman of Ju. diciary Committee Was II Only a Short Time.   (TO SENATE MARCH 4, 1933   Took An Active Part in LegisJative Affairs While Serv_ cing the Senate.

Death Takes U.S. Senator.  ‘From Indiana   Frederick. Van Nuys, Who. Headed. Liquor Probe, Dies Suddenly 

Van Nuys of Indiana. Dies   Democratic Senator, Chairman of Judiciary Committee, Succumbs

VAN NUYS DIES SUDDENLY OF HEART DISEAS!   Indiana Senator, Democrat, Chairman Judiciary Committee, Opposed Many New Deal Measures

SEN. VAN NUYS DIES SUDDENLY   Hoosier Democrat Succumbs at 69 in Virginia

SEN. VAN NUYS DIES TODAY AT VIRGINIA HOME   Democrat Fror Indiana Held Many Important Positions and Had Served Since £932.

Chairman of Senate Judiciary Group Is Taken by Death  Sen. Van Nuys Was Opponent of New Deal Measures

SEN, VAN NUYS OF INDIANA DIES   HAD SERVED IN SENATE SINCE MARCH 4, 1933

DEATH CLAIMS SEN, VAN NUYS   Indiana Senator Dies After Short Illness; Democrats Now Hold Only 57 Seats In The Senate.

SEN. VANNUYS ~-DIESSUDDENLY   Indiana Democrat. Chairman of Judiciary Committee Found Dead

Sen. Van Nuys Dies Suddenly   69-Year-Old- Senato1  Veteran Solon

SEN, VAN NUYS ~ DIES SUDDENLY   Heart Disease, Influenza Take 69-Year Old Legislator

INDIANA SOLON DIES SUDDENLY   Senior Senator Van Nuys Was Democrat But Not ‘New Dealer’

SEN. VAN NUYS SUCCUMBS 10 HEART ATTACK   Indiana Democrat Stricken In Sleep; Senate To Adjourn

F. Van Nuys, Senator From Indiana, Dies   Veteran Lawmaker Succumbs After Brief Hiness  In Virginia Home

Senator Van Nuys  Dies Suddenly   Passes Away At Home Near Washington This Morning; Had Not Been Ill

Sen. Van Nuys Dies Today   69-Year-Old Chairman of Judiciary Committee II] Only Short Time; Had Served in Senate Since 1933

Death Claims Sen. Van Nuys   Dies Unexpectedly After Being Stricken At Home Early Today

Senator Van Nuys Dies Suddenly   Served As Democratic  Member Since 1932

SENATOR VAN NUYS OF INDIANA DIED AT EARLY HOUR TODAY  CHAIRMAN OF SENATE  JUDICIARY COMMITTEE DIES: ILLNESS SHORT

Sen. Van Nuys Dies Suddenly   Indiana Democrat Fought New Deal And Headed Liquor Inquiry

Death Summons Sen. Van Nuys, 69, Of Indiana      Democrat, Headed Two Committees

Death Follows Brief Illness   Indiana Senator Dies in Virainia Home

Sen. Van Nuys of Indiana Found Dead in Country Home Near Washington

Arnhem an Inferno:  Batfle “Wilder Than Anything Else In Holland,” Eye-Witness Says

County Bond Drive Passes Quota Sought   Sales So Far Are Over $4,000,000 Bank Report Reveals

CONFUSION IN HRAFT ASSAILED BY SEN. CHAVEZ   Who Proposed Steps Designed to End the Uncertainty

AGE CLASSES: ~ ARE OPPOSED   NEW MEXICO SENATOR WANTS GENERAL DRAFT FROM 18 TO 38 INSTEAD OF THREE GROUPS’

CONFUSION IN DRAFT ASSAILED py ScN PHAYET   Who Proposed ‘Steps Designed to End - the Uncertainty. ~

CLAIM GILLETTE TO GET POST   To Be on Surplus War Property Disposal Board

Lt. Kelly Ritter Reported Missing Since Feb. 4 Raid   Liberator Pilot Was Reared In Lumberton.

Missing Since Bombing Raid January 5th   Resident of Aetna Street Engaged in Air War Against Germany -

Discarded Wife Kills Her Successor, Former Wubby and Then Herself

de of Former ‘shand Killed. By First Wite   ‘man Shoots Niece uuband, Then Turns Gun On Self

122.000 Germans Killed Or Captured In Falaise Trap   Red Drives Thru Romania  Near Ploesti, Bucharest

British Inflict 122,000 Casualties   Score of Falaise Trap Is Added

Seine Traps Eliminated 122,000 Nazis  92,000 Captured; 30,000 Killed

122,000 NAZI CASUALTIES IN FALAISE TRAI   Killed or Cavtured and More Thousands Will be Added to Total When Retreat Over.

Von Kluge’s Seventh Army Is Ripped To Worthless Shreds, British 2d Headquarters Savs   Nazis Fight Back Like Trapped Animals; Enemy Armored Division From Norway In Battle In France: Rouen Tattered Wreck

ALLIES CLAIM 122,000 NAZIS   Victims of Falaise Entrapment; Enemy's Losses - Mounting

Transit Strike Ties Up Boston Wartime Worker:  a a a   Melrose, Quincy Lines Affected

Americans and French Take Southern Flank; North Flank Attacked   Entire German Line Bends And Buckles As All-Out Assaults Continue.

Allies Capture Four More Towns Yesterday. 5,500 Nazi Prisoners Captured Since Start Of Drive.

Ramirez Steps Out   Resignation of Argentine President Complicates Situation

RAMIREZ RESIGNS ARGENTINA POST   Notification Of Resigna“tion Is’ Sent To'Su-preme Court

RAMIREZ QUITS POST OFFICIALL'   Sends Notification of Act To Supreme Court

Ramirez, President Of Argentina, Quits   Man Who Broke With Axis, Only to Confront Palace Coup Which Make Another Acting Chief, Hands Notification to Senate.

PRESIDENT RAMIREZ  OF ARGENTINE HAS  FORMALLY RESIGNED RESIGNATION MAY PLACE  FARRELL REGIME IN WEEICIIT POACITIAN

Ramirez Quits As Argentine Chief   Resignation Places Farrell Regime in Difficult Position

Ramirez Out As President Of Argentina      Supreme Court Meets to Consider Resignation and Manifesto

Ramirez Quits In Argentina  Sends Notice of Resignation to SC ainrame Court

President Resigns in Argentina   Action. of Pedro . Pablo - Rarmirez-Embatrasing to Ruling Regime   HAD BEEN: SHORN: OF’ HIS: POWERS       Break With Axis: Later Neutralized:: by. Palace “= Coun

ARGENTINA'S HIGH COURT AIRS ACTION   Uruguay Reports Farrell Facing Tough Position

Pres. Ramirez Resigns Office  Argentine Executive   Argentine Executive Formally Notifies The Supreme Court

QUESTION MARK ON ARGENTINA   Pro-ally President Resigns After Ousted in Coup

RAMIREZ HAS NOW RESIGNED   Argentina’s President Quits Officially

Ramirez Quits In Argentina   Formally Resigns as President; Farrell In Full Control

RAMIREZ NOW FORMALLY QUT IN ARGENTIN   Resigns as President, While _ Court -Hastily Ponders Nation’s Next Step.

RAMIREZ QUITS AS PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA   Farrell Regime Said In Difficult Position Due To Action

Move Places Farrell Gov't in Bad Light   Pro-Allied Ramirez Factions Sever Ties with Pro-Axis Farrell Grouns

Ramirez Resigns From Presidency Of the Argentine   His Administration Had Broken Relations With  the Nazi Powers.   Places Farrell Group In Difficult Position

RAMIREZ QUITS AS PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA   Resignation Reported io Put Far tell in Difficuit Position—Mani. fesio Not Revealed

Ramirez _ Formally Resigns   Official Action Fol lows Move Mad.  Earlier

Ramirez Hands Over Resignation   Formally Quits As Argentine Head

General Ramirez Resigns   ACTING PRESIDENT FARRELL PUT IN DIFFICULT POSITION

Resigns Post As President Of Argentine   Ramirex Sends Official Notification Of Resignation To Supreme Court,   INEW REGIME SHAKEN

Argentine High Court Assembles As Ramirez Resigns As President   Buenos Aires, March 10.—(4?)—Pedro Pablo Ramirez formally resigned the presidency of Arventina toadav.

Ramirez Out As President Of Argentine   BUENOS AIRES, March 10 (?)—Pedro Pablo Ramirez formally resigned the presidannayv af Arrantina tnaay

Argentina’s  Head Quits   Farrell Is Notified . Of Ramirez’s Action

RAMIREZ QUITS ARGENTINE POS}   Resignation Formally Submit. ted to Supreme Court; Moves to Private Villa

Argentine Chief Formally Resigns   Successor And Cabinet Meet To Discuss Situation

RAMIREZ HANDS ~ IN RESIGNATION   Ex-President Of Argentina Quits Post Formally

RAMIREZ RESIGNS PRESIDENCY OF ARGENTINE GOV'T.   Formal Resignation Is Filed— Ramirez Broke With Axis But. Was Removed in Palace Coup By Farrell Group

Ramirez Formally Resigns   MOVE ADDS DIFFICULTY TO ARGENTINA FARRELL REGIME’S POSITION

Russians Appear to Have Badly Flanked Krivoi Rog Center   Reds Deal Nazis Heavy Blows an All Fronts, Moscow Claims

Krivoi Rog Outflanked By Soviets   Russians Closing In On Iron Center; Reds Name Nazi Divisions Caucht In Trap

Soviet Spearhead Hits lron Center  Russian Armies Advance Close Ln ol ) A ee . ee _—S=_ i ka. «a A   Russian Armies Advance Close To Krivoi Rog, Trap Nazi Army

Nazi Line "in Russia. - Crumbling   Large German Forces. Are Being: Battered at Several » Points by 7 Red Armies   es RAINE. RETREAT. ~ BECOMING “A: ROUT               wuglehold -Tightened in Jther.-Sectors; German Dead: Litter Fields  -

Russians Near Krivoi Rog   Soviets Outflank Germans, Gain On Kherson Front

Soviet Forces iitflank lron Center   Ten German Divisions Trapped Near Cherkasy Identified

Russian Armies Have Badly Outflanked Iron Center Of Krivoi Rog.   ISTRUGGLE THROUGH MUD

BIG IRON CENTER OF KRIVO! ROG IS BEING OUTFLANKED   GERMAN EIGHTH ARMY ‘BEING CHOPPED TO BITS NEAR CHERVACYV

Russian Army Outflanks Foe At Krivoi Rog   Other Units Drive in for Kill at Cherkasy Pocket

Poised for ‘Lunge at. Krivoi Rog   Russians Outflank Vital Iron Center;  Nazi Forces Being  Chopped to Bits

Reds Eight Miles From Krivoi Rog   Great Iron Center Badly Outflanked by Swift Advancing Russians

Soviets Outflank City of Krivoi Rog   Maneuver Apparently Complete With Driv of Red Divisions Southwestward Toward Kherson and Nikolaev. +

Krivoi Rog Outflanked InDrives By  Russian Army   Nazi Force At Kherson Faces Encirclement; GermanEighth Army Is Being Cut To Pieces

ONCE POWERFUL EASTERN FRONT NOW CRUMBLING WITH RETREAT OF NAZIS APPROCHING ROUT   In Lower Ukraine Russian Pincers Closing in on Disorganized Remnants 10 to 15 Divisions. = Many Germans Killed Along Several Battlefronts

Krivoi Rog Apparently Outflanked   Russian Armies Within Eight Miles of Iron Center, Others Drive South on Kherson   Threaten Nikolaev      Red Forces Drive Toward Cente of Cherkasy Deaih Trap, Man; Nazis Surrender

NAZI RETREAT MADE DEBACLE   Sole Remaining Escape Route For Fleeing Enemy Threatened  40 TOWNS CAPTURED

Russians Outflank Krivoi Rog, Surge Toward Black Sea  Reds Only 8 Miles  From, Koesun, Point it .. hkl owt —_ €..

—RUSSIA—   MARCHING ON TWA “BEACK SEA GITIES   Soviet “Formations - Threaten’ Iron Center ‘From: Three: Directions   GERMANS PERILED   “Trapped “German Eighth Army Is Being. her: ” ped To Bits .

Ruusians Outtlank Krivoi Rog   Putting Pressure On Iron Ore Center In New Advances

Nazis Chopped To Pieces In Death Pocket   Sledge Hammer Soviet Blows Taking Tremendous Toll

Nazi Retreat From Ukraine Nearing Rout   Tentacles of. Great Soviet Army Pincers Close On Disorganized Remnants of Enemy   Nazi Dead Litter All Battlefields   Russians Outflank Great - Tron Ore Center; Imperil Kiev-Nikolaev  ! Railwav

German Retreat Reported Almos! Rout In Ukraine  Soviet Spearhead Nears Krivoj Rog; Tou p Lan

Krivoi Rog Outflanked By Russians   Trapped German Eighth Army Being Chopped to Bits

RUSSIAN ARMIES OUTFLANKED KRIVO! ROG FROM SOUTH   Are Within Eight Miles of the Iron Center, Moscow Reports.   POISED FOR BIG BLOW   Other Divisions Streamed Southwest, Toward Kherson and Nikolaev.

NAZIS CRACKING IN EAST RUSSIA   LINES CRUMBLE AT MANY POINTS UNDER RED ARMY POUNDING

OtherDivisionsCutDown “Y Nazis in Cherkasy “@ Pocket      AXIS FOOD IS LOW   Many Trapped Germans : Reported Surrendering f to Soviets

ARTHUR E. LARSEN ~ REPORTED KILLED      Mother of Ireton Boy In. formed’ Was Hit by Jap Bomb

ARTHUR E. LARSEN "UTED KILLED   Mother of Ireton Boy In. ‘formed’ Was Hit by Jap Roamb

DRIVE TOWARD ODESSA PORT   Red Armies Pushing DesperatelyResisting German Forces Back Toward Big Russian Sea Port.

Russians Driving Nazi Units Back Toward Odessa   Reds Extend Control of East Prut Bank At Least 150 Miles

d MEET VIOLENT DEATHS IN STATE   4 Pedestrians, 2 Others Die in Crashes; Gymnasium Stunt Is Fatal

Claim American Diploma Has Nofified Finland That U. 5. Plans Break

Pfe. Kenneth Rogers Is Credited With Killing 25 to 30 Germans in One Action      eee  Pembroke Soldier Saved His Cor jompa my fron Nevothe. lation and Adds Luster to Name of Rogers Among BAR Men.

Pfc. Kenneth Rogers Is Credited With Killine 25 to 30 Germansin One Action   Pembroke Soldier Saved His Company from Annihilation and Adds Luster to Name of Rogers Among BAR Men.

British Observers Believe if Hitler Had Died End of War Wouldbe Near

PLOT ESCAPE MAY PROLONG EUROPE WAR   More Decisive Allied Victory Seen As Reault

ESCAPE OF HITLER MAY EXTEND WAR   Experts Say Allied Victory, However, to be More  ' Decisive

Hitler's Escape Lengthens War   But Victory Will Be More Decisive   Only One Change

Nazi Retreat Before Reds Becomes Rout   German Leaders Apparently Have Lost Contro/

ENTIRE GERMAN DEFENSIVE LINE IN BALTICPOLISH AREA NOW CRUMBLING BEFORE RUSSIANS   Minsk By-Passed by Onrushing Soviet Tide of Tanks, Cavalry, Infantry and Air Cover. Soviets Declare German Army Falling Apart on Wide   SOVIET COLUMNS IN la RIE ESO OF ATINGEK

Russians Say Nazi Retreat Becomes Rout   No “Planned Retreat” This Time, Soviet Sources Declare

Clark Terms Defeat a Triumph for the CIO; ‘Gives Us Too Much Credit” That Organization Says

sstieinieameanomaaieed  , ALLIES STRAFE NAZI TARGETS, FRENCH AREF   Airmen Head for U-Boat Bases at Kiel During DawnDusk Drive   ROCKET-GUN POSITIONS ARE ATTACK OBJECTIVES

KIEL § ‘HEAVILY RAIDED BY FORTRESSES   Appreximately 1,500 Bombers And Fighter Escorts Hit Germany   INVASION COAST OF FRANCE ALSO BOMBED

Allies Staging Greatest Plane Attack Of War   Drop 3,000 Tons OF Bombs In Dusk-ToDawn Raids

Bombers Flail Reich Targets,  Invasion Coast   Force of 2,750 Aircraf  Said Hurled at Enemy Re Alva T....1.

Red Army Opens Drive or Broad Front, Nazis Report   New Attacks May Be Big Offensive Timed to Support Invasion by Allies

Russians Start. Big Iasi Drive, Germans Say   Promised Grand-Seale Red Onslaught May Be  Beginnince

Disclose 417,085 Combat Casualties   16,325 More Than Last Overal] List Revealed 

Spectacular Advance Made By Fifth Arars   Anzio Beachhead Linked wits Central Front in Italy—Germans Flee Into Hills ‘fo Fscape Utter Destruction   WITH AMERICAN FORCES AT CISTERNA.

Resumption Of Attacks On Lwow-Kovel, Romanian Fronts Imminent, German Radio Reports

Germans Expect New Red Attack   Moscow Reports Onls Local Action

NAZIS EXPECTING EARLY RESUMPTION QF RED ATTACKS      Report Russians are Massing Strength to Launch Fresh  “War Drives

NAZIS EXPECT RUSSIANS TO STRIKE SOON   Look for Blows on Large Scale in Lwow-Kovel Area of Old Poland and on the Northern Romanian Front.

NAZIS EXPECT EARLY ATTACK BY RED ARMIES   Germans Hurled Back; Retreat Is In Order

NAZIS EXPECT STRONG SOVIET ATTACKS SOON   German Broadcasts Indicate New Drives in Making on Polish and Romian Frontiers .

Hurricane May Hit Parts Of New England  Dangerous Storm Veers North Past  gare eS ae ee

Sitorm, Deseribed As Most Dangerous In Recent  Years, Veers North Af ler Menacing Carolina

TROPICAL HURRICANE MENACES EAST COAST   Gales Sweep Mainland but Full Force of Storm Expected To Blow Itself Out Over Atlantic

Hurricane Swirls Along East Coast   Tropical Storm May Move Inland At Connecticut Around Midnight

Great Hurricane, One Of Worst In History, Moves North Near Coast

Big Atlantic Hurricane  Moves North   Vescribed as Most Dangerous in Years; 60 Mile Wind.

Gales Exceeding 60 mph Sweeping NN. C. Coast Area   Virginia Beach In Path Of St Storm, Which Suddenly Veers Northward

GREAT HURRICANE  VEERED NORTHWARD  OFF EASTERN COAST ONE MOST DANGEROUS  STORMS IN RECENT YEAR: _ IN ATLANTIC

ATLANTIC GALE MOVES NORTE   Change Course After Hitting North Carolina Coast

Big Hurricane Skirts Carolina, Veers Northeast Toward New England Area

Dangerous Hurricane Comes North   One of Worst Storms In Recent Years, Passed Cape Hatteras, Touched North Carolina

Dangerous Gale Threatens Fas! Coast Regions   Storm Declared » Worst Tropical Disturbance In Several Years

Yanks Drive Six Miles Through Htaly:Positions .   Threaten Flank of Nazi Forces Fighting Delaying Action

TROOPS CUT NAZI LINE   American Drive Threatens German Flank In Italy

FLANK FORCES   7 K  American Armored Forces Drive: Six Miles Through Maintain Posi-. tions — Capture Roceastrada, 4

ROCCASTRADA IN ITALY CAPTURED   Threaten Nazis’ Flank .--Around Lake Trasimeno

AMERICANS TAKE ROCCASTRADA IN NORTHERN ITALY   Drive Six Miles Through Nazi Mountain Positions Tnland

American Forces Advance in Italy   Roccastrada Taken By Armored Units

Russia Declares War on Bulgaria Charging Country Harbors Germans   Quick Plunge across Ro: manian-Bulgarian Bor: der Expected; Neutrality Termed Insufficient

SOVIET UNION DECLARES WAR ON BULGARIA   Russians Lose Patience With Half-Hearted Neutrality Program

Sofia Radio Announces  Peace Bid    Russia Had Accused. ~ Bulgaria of Harboring -} German Soldjere   MANY TROOPS POISED. ALONG FRONTIER - ©

Raid Daimler Factory   Describe Vast Damage Done To Buildings and Railroad Areas; Twelfth Air Force Attacks Landing Strips 30 Miles From Rome.

RAF Attacks Steyr Aireralt Plants Again   Extensive Damage Inflicted On. Stil, Burning: Plants — 16 For tresses LE onst.

Himmler Murdered, Captive Says   Goering Wounded In New Plot, Officers Say—  8 Officers Hanged

Himler Assassinated, Goering Hurt, Nazi Intelligence Officer Reports

DEADLINE BULLETINS   REPORT HIMMLER HAS BEEN SLAIN ON THE BRITISH FRON

WAR PRISONER REPORTS NEW REICH REVOLTS   No Confirmation of More Disorders in Germany, May Have Been ‘Pep Talk’

Nazi Officer Says Himmler Assassinated   Goering Wounded in New Outbreak; Stories Lack Confirmation

GERMAN AVERS HIMMLER DEAD   Officer Captured In France Claims SS Chief Killed, Goering Wounded

Nazi Officer Says Himmler is “Dead”   Says Goering Also Wounded In New Out. break Against Nazi Regime; Nine Other Austrian Captives Confirm Story.

Himmler Is Slain, Says Nazi Captive      Soldier Reports Goerins Wounded

Prisoners Report Himmler Dead  Mictine: of Assassins Captive Germans Tell Allied Officer  

TEMPERATURES:   Captives Clain Gestapo Chief ‘Murdered, Goering Wounded

Story Credited To Nazi Officer Taken Prisone   Nine Austrian Captives Say They Can Corroborate Unconfirmed Statement

HIMMLER DEAD, GOERING HURT, CAPTIVES SAY   Berlin Announces Right More Hitler Plotters Hanged

Field Marshal Confesses Guilt   Slaying of Himmler, Wounding of Goerin In New Outbreak Reported by Captured German Officer and 9 Austrian Prisoners

HIMMLER DEATH REPORT DOUBTED   No Confirmation of  * Captured Nazi’s Claim

Say Himmler Assassinated   Goering Also Declared Wounded By Captured Intelligence Officers

Report Himmler  Is Assassinated  German Officer Says Goering Wounded

QUESTION MUST STAY REPEALED      Representative Celler Accuses Drys of Being Power Drunk.

CLAIM NATION’S “DRYS” ARE DRUNK WITH POWER   Rep. Cellar Declares Congressional Movement for Prohibition Is “Sordid” Attempt to Take Advantage of Men In Service

Solon Accuses Drys Of Sordidness In Prohibition Move  Motion Is Described As Disparagement Tn Soidierc of U.S.

Cellar Condemns Prohibition Move   Says Tragedy of 1920’s Must Not Happen Acain

Drys Accused of “Being Drunk With Power’ In New Prohibition Battle Among Congressmen

BEGIN FIGHT T0 OUTLAW LIQUOR   DRY CHIEF FAVORS ROOSEVELT DECREE TO STOP DRINKING

Prohibition By Decree Is League's Aim   Organized Forces Against Liquor Are Keeping on Sidelines in Fight   HEARINGS ARRANGED

Solon Accuses Drys Of Sordidness In Prohibition Move  Motion Is Described  As Disparagement - ££. is... ~f ts

Fighter Ace Makes Fast Crash Landing   Capt. Gentile Is Leading In Planes Destroyed Race

2 GERMAN THRUSTS. AT ANZIO REPULSED   Far-Ranging Allied Alr Attacke Hold Spotlight—Minor Patrol Clashes Renorted.

NAZI THRUSTS AT ANZIO REPULSED   Germans Unable Ta Gain Against Beachhead

NAZI THRUSTS AT ANZIO ARE REPULSED   Other Sectors in Italian Front Are Quiet Except For Far-Ranging Allied Air Attacks.   Prisoners Stunned

REPULSE NAZIS ON BEACHHEAD   Allies Turn Back CompanyStrength Thrusts of Enemy at Anzio

ENEMY ASSAULT FAILS AT ANZIO   Air Attacks By Allies Hold Spotlight On Italian Front

Yanks Burst Forth in Reich Itself   American Columns Are Reported Entering Germany From Two Points; Britain Hears Rumble of Guns on French Coast

American Armor Piercing Reich At Two Places   Security Blanket Is Thrown Over Allied Operations

STUDIO SUSPENDS ACTOR BOB HOPE   COMEDIAN DECLARES HE'S TOO BUSY IN WAR WORK TO ACT

 Bob Hope ‘Suspends’ His Studio; Says 7 to 7 Schedule Too Rigorous

2000 Japanese  Trapped by V. S.  Troops in Burma Slash Through Jungle  To Surprise Enemy ; 43 Planes Bagged

Yanks Enter Burma Drive   Air Blows In Far East Get 43, Maybe 63 Jap Planes

First American - Ground Battles InBurmese Wat   Yankee Doughboys, Vets Of Pacific Battles,  In Action

Truman ivesigns War Committee: Spurns Protest   Action Precipitate: Chief Counsel’: Resignation F rom Same Group

Truman Resigns Committee Post to Avoid Any Chance of Cry of Politics Being Raised

TRUMAN RESIGNS FROM WAR PROBERS   Wants To Avoid Suspicion of Political Influence

Complete. Encirclement Of Nazi Stronghold — Is Goal Of Allies      Two British Columns Reported Only 11 Miles From Encircling Inland Port; Bradley’s Yanks Straighten Lines At St. Lo

Nazis Using Fresh Force In Attacks  Along Front   Complete Failure Marking Assaults

RESISTANCE AT BEREZINA IS STIFFENING   First Soviet Units Battle For Last Obstacle Before  White Capital City (Vt Adsaecl   NAZI LOSSES MOUNTING

British Net ls Tightened Around Caen   Within 11 Miles Of Com pletely Encircling Inland French Port.

TWO ARMIES REDUCE GAP TO 11 MILES   Nazis Hurling Large Armored Forces But Counterblows Fail

Nazi Tank Assault s Hurled Back   British Ships Support Attack On French City

SOVIETS CLOSE ONNAZIS' LAST RAIL JUNCTION   Russians Now 28. Miles From Esthonia in Race to Trap 259,079

Fall Of Chudove To Red Troops Believed Nea   Soviet Forces Closing In On Nazi-Held Rail Junction On Leningrad Line   RUSSIANS EXTEND FRONT STEADILY

SOVIET ARMY — STEPPING UP {TS ATTACKS   ONE SPEARHEAD OF DRIVES TO TRAP GERMAN FORCES ONLY ‘28 MILES FROM ESTONIA ,

RED COLUMNS CLOSING IN ON 250,000 NAZIS   Only 28 Miles From Estonia   GERMANS ROUTED   Leningrad - Moscow Line Falls

-TO TRAP NAZI TROOPS   Red Army Closing in on Important — Rail Junction ,

BALKANS AND ITALY UNDER BOMB RAIDS   Allies Also Set to Give Hitler Birthday Gift If Weather Permits Bombers Aloft.

Total Tonnage Of Bombs Impressive   RAF Runs Total to 252,336 Unloaded On Germany

Drive by Trapped Japs Hurled Back   MacArthur’s Forces Smash Suicidal Attack

‘Vinegar Jue’ Reaches 100 Miles In Burma Aims To Clear North For Road To China

Crisis of Campaign in Burma Nears as Stilwell Advance:   Pace of U. S.-Chinese Troops Amazes Stilwell’s Critics

BURMA Chola (APPROACHING   Pace Set By Stilwell Will Make Or Break This Year’s Campaicn.   /CRITICS SHOW SURPRISE

Crisis Rapidly Nears In Burma   GEN, STILLWELL MAKES RAPID GAINS IN ORIENT

Vinegar Joe Turns Trick Against Japs   Stilwell Doing in Burma What He Was Told Was Impossible

Stilwell Drive Amazes Allies, Confuses Japs   American Commander Doing ‘Impossible’ In Burma Campaign

“Vinegar” Joe Is Forcing Crisis In Burma Campaign   Critics Amazed At Way Stilwell Has Forced His Way 100 Miles North.

ear pmsmmameemimmnetaeueucuniiuececenemutiasnnscemeuteaseceseunseaanesiaereaneuseindinasueseeesliusasasueceucsnaimaaiaaanaainaa asa Ss  North Burma Fighting Approaches Crisis   Stilwell’s Forces Advancing Faster Than Was Thought Possible by Asia Command

Burma Crisis Near   Stilwell’s Drive in North May Force Jap: To. Transfer Troops From Other Sectors

Stilwell’s Fast Pace In Burma Amazes Critics, Crisis Of Campaign Said Rapidly Approaching

STILWELL PUTS  /JAPS IN HOLE IN - NORTH BURMA   American General's Revised Pier of Campaign Aimed at Opening Ledo-Burma Road   DOING IMPOSSIBLE      Japs Musi Bring Reinforcements from Other Fronts er Give Up North Burma

Gen. Stillwell’s Fast Pace in Burma Amazes Critics; Campaign Crisis Near

CRISIS LOOMS FOR NIPS ON BURMA FRONT   Mikados Faced With Possibility of Drawing Forces From Other Fronts to Halt Drive   CLEARING SUPPLY LINK

CRISIS MAY SOON GANCEL BURMA DRIVE   Stilwell’s Forces Advancing Daily Against Japs

STILWELL IS FORCING DECISION FROM JAPS BY 100-MILE ADVANCE   New Burma Road is Goal of Americans and Chinese in India Theater   IMPOSSIBLE cEING DONE

Stilwell Is Surprising -  Critics With Speed ‘Of His Burma Drive   Crisis Fast Approaching Which Will ‘Make or Break’ This Year’s  Campaign . 

Critics Amazed By Stilwell’s Drive In Burma  Criaia In Camnaion   Crisis In Campaign To Free Area Seen By Speedy Advance

Ramirez. Resién The Presidency ~ OF Argentina   ; ves . Notification; Documents . Are: Not  Made: Pabli  Supreme  Court Repel

“Vinegar Joe” Opens New Vistas of Hope for Bringing Aid to Hard Pressed Chinese

Social Security Benefit Check Giver In Ceremony   War Worker’s Wife And Children Will  Eg: SS i) Sen ee

SUGIAL SECURITY PAYS MILLIONTH MONTHLY BENEFII   Benefits Now In Excess Of $220,000,000 Per Year   PAYABLE TO YOUNG WIDOWS--CHILDRE®™

CAA WILL PROPOSE. AIRPORT PROGRAM      Plan to Calf for Building of 3,000 New Airss norte

CAA To Ask For Building Funds   Will Recommend To Congress Billion Dollar Building Program.

TWO AMERICAN RANGER BATTALIONS, TRAPPED IN ITALY, FIGHT TO DEATH

18 MILES FROM PO RIM   British and Polish Smash Thru Nazi Parachute Troops

Crack Nazi Paratroops  Are Routed    Enemy Driven Off Last Hill  Positions Before Adriatic  End of Gothic Line; Urbino - Captured

Germans Driven From Hill Position Near Adriatic  British and Poles Advance to Threaten Pesaro, Shelled

SMASH AHEAD ON ITALY FRONT   Allies Ave [8 Miles From Po Valley Rim

Nazis in Italy Reeling Back   Full-Blown Assault Launched by Allies

LAST GERMAN HILL POINTS FALL IN EAST      British And Poles Within 18 Miles Of Po Valley Rim

Allies Open New Drive Toward Po   Poles, British Hit West Flank Of Gothic Line

Allies Open Italy Drive   British ‘And Poles -Spearheading’ Move.

Filmland’s Tenderest Deception Ends With Death of Mrs. Julia Columbo. 7§

WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE:  For 10 Years Doting Mother. Received Letters From ‘Russ’

Russ Colombo’s Mother Dies After His Death Was Concealed from Her By Letters Others Sent for Decade

Vrs. Columbo Dies. Happy in Belief That Her Dead Son, Russ, Is Alive

Well-Kept secret  Russ Columbo's Mother Never Knew of Sons Death In 1934

Two Autos Badly Damaged Here  Occupants Shaken Up Rut Otherwice Linhurt

DEWEY, BRICKER TALK TOMORROW   GOP NOMINEE MEETS WITH GOVERNORS IN ST, LOUIS AUG, 2-3

HOLD HEARING ON PORCUPINES   Connor Says Purchase Will Force Liquidation of Operations.   ‘TO HURT WAR PROGRAM?

c harge Paratrooper, British Strip Dancer With Slaying Cab Driver

Death Penalty Asked For U.S.  - Paratroopei   Acensed With Strip-Tease Daneer of Killing and Robbing Cab Driver In England

WIND AND RAIN LASHING LEYTE   Yank Lines Hold Against Trapped Jap Attacks

Limon Pocket Is Pounded By 32nd Division   Japanese Pillboxes And Other Strong Positions Methodically Reduced Despite Bad Weather

Yanks Defy Hurricane To Hit Limon Pocket   Japanese Defenders Try Desperately To Break Encirclement On Leyte.

AMERICANS MOVING IN Ob JAP POCKET   Typhoon Bogs Down Fighting Or Most of Leyte

Leyte Fighting Bogged Down By Typhoon   But Yanks Go Ahead Methodically Reducing Japanese Pillboxes

DEM MAJORITY 1S THINNED IN ROUSE   Of Six Forthcoming Elecions, Republicans Claim Four ‘Are in the Baa.’

Danish Policemen Battle Nazis At Royal Castle  Enemy Forces Attemrf To Seize Police Stations of Country

Danes Battle Nazi Troops   Police Fire on Naval Forces Attempting fo Seize Royal Castle

“DANISH POLICE _ BATTLE NAZIS   German Navel Troops Try to Seize Royal Costle at Copenhagen

JAPANESE IN’: FULL RETREAT -IN-NEW GUINEA   y FEAR-STRICKEN.JAPS FLEE. SOUTH: IN DUTCH NEW  GUINEA TO ESCAPE. .  ; U8. TROOPS

JAPS FACING DISASTER ON WESTERN DUTCH NEW GUINE!   Several Thousand Enemy Troops In Full Retreat To Escape Americans  rend  . » gee Sy, See .. Poe: Be Se ee ee Ree EL Rama CTS...   Yanks Expand Sansapor Beachhead—Nips Hope To Escape By Ship

Japanese Second Army Flees Through Vogelkop Peninsula Of New Guinea In Retreat

JAP 2ND ARMY IN FULL RETREAT   Several Thousand Enemy Troops In Frantic Flight

—" way jVyens om  Police Hold Clues To Kidnapping Of Blue-Eyed Baby

Schools Must Save. School Bus Miles As Much As Possible   Nation Appreciates School Authorities’ Elimination. of Wacte

SPANISH DICTATOR FRANCO IS GETTING IN JAMS REGULARLY BY HIS ATTITLINDE TOWARD ATTIFS

Franco In Another Tight Jam With Britain, Allies  Difficult to Maintain Dictatorship

he a oe Loday—  Franco’s Wishy-Washy: Policy Puts Him In Another Jam With Britain

The War Today   Franco’s Straddling Causes Allies To Begin to Put on Pressure

The War Today  eee Policy of Playing Both Ends Against Middle Cause Trouble.

FRANCO NOW SITS IN UNEASY CHAIR OF UNCERTAINTY   Trying to Plat Both Against the Middle in Rel ations With Hitler and Allies, His Troubles Multiply

“me BDC War  OCay «=== Franco Lands in Another Jam  With Britain

New Phase In Battle Begins   Alliad-Breakthrough Into France Means 7 Nazi Army Must Fight For Very Existence

NAB KIDNAPER AT COLUMBUS   ; Pad + ee 2B = 2 WOMAN CHARGED WITH TAK ING BABY FROM DETROIT.  BEER’ PARLOR WED NESDAY NiGRT

ECONOMIC HEAT ON THE SWEDES   Allied Representative Auth orized to Buy All of That Country’s Ball-Bearing Out  put.

PENSION PLANS UP IN 3 STATES   ISSUE ON WORKERS’ RIGHTS DRAWS !NTEREST

Results Rest With Pivotal States Topped by New York, Pennsylvania

Nazi Battalion Is Wined Out East Of Nancy   Entire German Battalion Which Had Infiltrated Into U. S. Lines Annihilated   ENEMY REPEATEDLY BEING BEATEN BACK

GI Blankets and Shelter Halves Popular in Naples Black Market  TIRAYVE®S PROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOPTEROOK )

Naples Natives Find Hiding U. S. Army Stamp Hard When Cutting Out Zoot Suit With Reat Pleat From G. . Clothina. Supplies for Black Market Customers

Italian Civilians Find That GI Shelter Halves And Blankets Are Excellent Materials For Making the Latest In Clothes

State Completes Case Against Mrs. Andrews   Jury Excused as Defenss Opens Attempt to Strike Out Testimony

Lonergan‘ Case Recessed For  Mistrial Rule   Sydge-In Murder Trial ‘To Determine. Whether. He

Adjournment in Lonergan Trial Ordered   Judge Reconsiders Ruling Denying Defense Motion For Jury Dismissal  DEFENDANT IS CALM

Asks Lonergan Case Mistrial:   Judge Adjourns Murder Trial While Checking Legal! Authority.

Lonergan Case May Be Declared Mistrial By Judge   Session Adjourned Until Tomorrow

MeNary Dies In Florida Rest Retreat   Loss Leaves Senate GOP Leadership Choice Wide Open

SEN. MCNARY IS DEATH VICTIM   Republican Leader Dies In Florida After  Operation

” Senator McNary , Of Oregon Dies While in Florida  1940 Republican Vice: Presidential Nomi LY)

SENATOR M’NARY DIES IN FLORIDA   G. 0. P. LEADER HAD GONE SOUTH LO REST FROM BRAIN TUMOR OPERATION.

Sen. McNary Dies in Florida   Republican Leader’s Death Follows Brain Operation

Sen. McNary, Republican Leader, Dies in Florida at the Age of 69   Highly Praised by Heads of Both Major Parties

Senator McNary Dies Suddenly; Was GOP Leader   Death Follows Operation to Remove Tumor on Brain

SENATOR M'NARY DIES FOLLOWING BRAIN SURGERY   Republican Minority Lead  er Succumbs In Florida

Veteran Statesman, 69, Dies After Brain Opera. tion — Was Majority  - Leader

Chas. L. MeN ary G. O. P. Leader  In Senate, Dies   Passes Away in Florida, Question of Successor Apparently Wide Open

AERIALIST ALMOST FALLS AT CIRCUS   Dangles for Several Minutes Above Startled Spectators After Losing Balance.

AERIALIST--GIVES—GIRCUS FANS 00   Loses Balance, Then Dangles Above Thousands of Snectators

Reports Soldiers Angry at French, British Attitude   House Committeeman Who Saw War Zone Say: London Prolongs War

DrAIH CLAIMS NikS. W. E. MAY   Wife of Former Local Grocer Succumbs After Lenz Il ness

DEATH CLAIMS NBS. W.F. MAY   Wife of Former Local Grocer Succumbs After Lens Iliness -

Tobacco Reduces Profit to Grower   Farmers Urged ‘to Eliminate String froth, Their Ties. :

String-ends In Tobacco Reduces  Profit to Grower   Farmers Urged to Elim: inate String ‘rom Their 128,   By Jasper C. Hutto Supervisor Lumberton Tobacco  Riaek af

Greek Port. Is Reached   “Salonika Is -Gained 7 “By ‘British Patrols.

SOVIETS START ANOTHER DRIVE ON INSTERBURE   Batter Toward Bastion Guarding Capital Of E. Prussia

East Prussia Strongholds Fall to Reds   Russians Battle Through Strong Wazi Resistance

Yanks Gain Three Miles Thru Italy   Germans Stubborn Along Gothic Line

Nazis Increase Italy Resistance   American Drive Three Miles, Near Viareggio

Bond Battalion Welcome Is Se   Committee Named Tc Greet Celebrites

Speed Arrangements For Visit of Bond Battalion Here Next Tuesday

KEEPS OUT DRAFT EVADERS   Bill Would Deprive of Citizenship Those Who Left Country 

Senate Approves Controversial Tax Bill Clauses   Provision Requires Labor Unions To File Financial Statements

Senate Votes Labor Clause in Tax Bill   Would Require Yearly Financial Reports

UNIONS OPPOSE NEW TAX BILL   Controversial Provisions Retained By Senate; Amusement Levy Up

Hoover Has No Part In GOP Ticket      FORMER PRESIDENT RESENTS ' IMPUTATIONS OF “ILL-IN- FORMED PEOPLE; WILL AD, DRESS CHICAGO CONVENTION.   CIO Beats Holman

CANTON TIMKEN STRIKE ENDING   Unionists Vote Return After  Five-Day Stoppage

Five Dead in State Storm   11-Inch Snowfall In Altoona— Traffic Stalled

 She Is Against Fourth Term .     : Mrs. Farley Expects To Vote  For Nominee Of Republicans

MRS. FARLEY OPPOSED TO A FOURTH TERM   Wie Of Former Democratic Leader Says She Wilf Support Republican Candidaie 2

NATION WATCHES WISCONSIN VOTE   G.0.P. Action Seen Chiefly As Test For Willkie

(Nation Watches Wisconsin Republican Vote With All Candidates In Running

NATION WATCHES WISCONSIN VOTE   Republican Balloting Ex: ‘pected To Provide Test  For Willkie

Wisconsin In Spotlight Now   Outcome of Republican Delegate Voting Vital To Willkie Nomination Chances

Nation Watching For Possible Surprises In Wisconsin; Test For  Wendell Willkie

VOTE WATCHED IN WISCONSIN   GOP Balloting Will Test Cam. paign For Willkie

Nation Awaits Possible Surprises As Wisconsin Elects Delegates; 4 GOP Presidential Prospects

CONSIN ta VOTING TODAY   Nation Watches .for Surprises As State Elects Delegates.

WILLKIE TEST IN WISCONSIN SEEN   Possible Surprise Awaited In Wisconsin Balloting.

NATION LOOKS FOR SURPRISE IN WISCONSIN   Politicians of Country Eye Balloting Chiefly As Test for Wendell Willkie

Wisconsin Voting Today Is Watched   Delegate Balloting I; Willkie Test

CLAIM POPE HEARS JAP PEACE FEELER      Rome Report Unconfirmed; Enem Loses Ground im Pacific -Asiatic War Theater Sectors

Japs Reported Ready To Quit OnOwn Term:   Nippon, Severely Mauled Replaces Naval Leader; Hengyang Holds Out

Sen. Barkley Described as Man Who "Goes Down the Line for F.D.R.”

Nazis’ Bosnia Push Smashed, Tito Asserts  Yugoslay Forces Have Regained Territory,

German Offensive Smashed In Bosnia   Yugoslav Forces Regain Enemy-Occupied Land

TITO'S TROOPS REPULSE NAZIS IN EAST BOSNIA   German Offensive Smashed  and Territory Regained   In Sarajevo Area, Patriots Report

NAZI OFFENSIVE IN BOSINA IS ‘SMASHED   Marshal Josif Broz An‘nounces Yugoslav Troop: Have Regained EnemyHeld Territory.

Tito Says Slavs Make New Gains   Territory Regained After Nazi Push

Russians Reported Only 11 Miles From PreWar Border      NAZI STRONGPOINTS TAKEN DURING DAY   Nearly 400 Communities Fall to Advancing Reds

RED SPEARHEADS SEIZE TWO TOWNS, ALONG DNIESTER            Threat to Odessa and Nike laev Grows With Germans “ Apparently Unable to   Stem Advance.      SOVIETS IN NEW DRIVE:  THROUGH OLD POLAND           Capture Strongpoint. Dubno, 27° Miles - ‘Fror Border, and Nearly.  400 Communities.

Reds In 11 Miles Of Rumanian Border   Two Columns Slash Forward While New Offencive Pliingqed Wectward In Poland

Nearly 400 Villages Taken by Soviet Army During Day; New Offensive Is Launched

Reds In 11' Miles 0: Rumanian Border   “Two. Columns:Slash Forwatd While New -Offensive Plunoed Wectwarcd In Dalanel 

RUMANIA ONLY 11- MILE JUMP FOR RUSSIANS   NEARLY 400 TOWNS IN OLD POLAND ARE OVER-RUN

‘Nazis Can’t Stem  Ukraine Thrusts   Dubno Falls, as Reds Push On Kev Paland Hub

Nearly 400 Pre-War Polish Towns Captured In Advance   Important Strong Point In German Defenses Is Reported Captured In Polish Campaign

LUZON ASSAULT BAGS 41 SHIPS   Carrier Force Sweeps Damage Total Of 61 Vessels

Admiral Nimitz Tells Of Destruction of 14 Jap Shing and Small Craft

RECONVERSION LEGISLATION RACE BEGINS   Prospect of Quick Action Looks Dim

N ew Landing By US Patrols In Scheutens   Allied Warships Hammer Palau, Indicating Amphibious Attack There

U.S. Extends Hold In Biak Isle Area With New Landing   Invasion, Consolidation Carried Qut With No Sign Of Opposition From Japanese Troops   VON KLUGE DEATH 1S CONFIRMED

No Opposition Reported Met By Americans On Soepiori —   Invasion Is Made. ln. Geelvink: Bay.

Amphibious Patrols (Make Landing   Consolidation of Positions in Islands Under Way

Allies Land On Another  Pacific Isle   Japs Offer No Resistance to Amphibious Move

Allies Land On Soepiori Off Biak Island   Amphibious Patrols Consolidate Position» With No Oppositions; Palaus  Shelled, Bombed

Amphibious Allied Patrols Land on Soepiori Island   Palau Attacked; May Be Opening of 3-Way Attack on Jap Bases 

London Is Given Worst Air Raid Since 1940-41   Fires Ring ‘ City And Damage Is High

Nazi Raiders Hit London Heavy Blow   Defy Strong Defensive Fire to Bomb City In Retaliation

NAZIS TAKE TOLL. IN LONDON RAID   SEVERAL DOZEN KILLED, MANY HURT — CHURCHES AND HOSPITALS HIT.

LONDON BOMBING DAMAGE 1S HEAVY   Several Dozen Persons Dead As Result of Friday Night’s Raid; American Gun Crews Battle Nazi Raiders

Heavy Damage Caused In Nazi yLondon Raid   Birongess Attack Made Qn By Huns. Since - 1940-194.) “Fire Rath«:? :

Enemy Raiders Bomb London   Strongest Bid Sinee All-Out Attacks Of 1940-41; Capital Ablazed.

Nazi Planes  Raid London   Widespread Damages Result From Attacks

Wide Damage, Dozens Killed In Raid on London   Fires Follow Assault; London Prepares for Repetition of 1940-41

Germans Blast At London Witl Tons of Bombs   Defy Anti-Aircraft In Effort to Fire British Capital With Incendiaries

London Eyes Damage by Nazi Raiders  Strong Air Attack Leaves Dozens TDiead fn Canital

Western Reich Is Raided by Mosquito Plane:   R.A.F,"Keeps Up Pace With Attack Upon Ancient Aachen Area

West reich is target of new  RAF blasting   Germany struck 8 nights running

AACHEN RAIDED BY RAF BOMBERS   Ancient Industrial City Attacked During Night;  Americans Inactive

Aachen Struck By Night Raids   British Mosquito Planes Busy Above Reich

RAF BOMBERS" BLAST AACHEN   British Planes Raid Western Reich for Eighth Consecutive Night

Mosquitos Blast Old Nazi City of Aachen   Big Bombers Idle for Second Straight Day; Light RAF Planes Roam Over W estern Germany for Eighth Consecutive Night

Mosquitos Hit  West Germany Franch Recline fir   French Radios Go Off the Air

AACHEN IS TARGET OF RAF. PLANES   Roaming Over Western Germany For Eighth Consecutive Night; No Heavy American Operations.   Ancient City

Allied Aerial Raids Made on  Smaller Seale   Mosquito Bombers Go Over Reich by Night; Day Attacks Light

Ancient City Of Aachen Is Attacked By Allied Fliers    RAF Mosquito Bombers Maintain Pace That Has Sent Warplanes Over Germany Every Night— ~ Western Reich Bombed 

STRONG AMERICAN FORMATIONS GO DEEP IN GERMANY WITH HEAVY AIR BATTLES IN BERLIN AREA   Precision Attacks Being Made on Vital Areas, “Preparatory to Invasion, by As Many As 3,000 Warplanes. Northern France and Belgium Llard Hits

Dispatches State City Completely In Allied Hands   Germans Reported As In Disorderly Retreat To The North Of Italy. Hitler Says He Ordered Retreat.

Nazis Battle Advance To City’s Gates, Then Wildly Flee Northwest

British Eighth Joins General Clark’ s      Victorious Troops Under @fders to Destroy Remnants of Enerfty’s Forces

German Force: Retreat to Northwest   Eternal City, First European Capital to Be Liberated From Nazis, ; Is Reported to Be 95 Per Cent Intac?

U.S. Subs Add To List of Foe Ship Losses   U. 8. Prepares to Hurl Big Air Fleet at  Jena

U.S. Subs Sink 16 Enemy Ships   Victims Include 11 Medium Cargo Vessels

Cargo Crait Bear Brunt Of Assaults   Naval Ausiliary, 15 Supply Ships tt by Torpedoes

U.S. Subs Destroy l6 More Jap Ships   Latest Catch Brings Mouth’ s Toll To 50 Vessels

AMERICAN SUBS SINK 16 JAP SHIPS   Navy Announces New Total Of Vessels Sent To “ar oed

BRICKER CHIEFS RAP DEWEY 1ST BALLOT CLAIM   Charge A Foul; New Yorker To Accept Nomination In Person

DEWEY LEADERS CLAIM 805 VOTES ON FIRST BALLOT   Declare New York Governor Wil Appear In Chigago to Accept In Person.

“DRAFT DEWEY” MEN IN ACTION   Open Headquarters: in Chicago Itotel . in Preparation to  Bring About. New Yerk Governor's Nomination for President.

Draft Dewey Clique Opens Chicaso Drive   Nomination of New York. er Predicted June 28; Bricker Busy

*'Main Bout With Dewey iiot Under Way, Eut..  ‘Bricker Backers Already Cry ‘Foul’

“Draft Dewey” Managers At Chicago Stir Bricker — Followers To Sift Claims

Dewey Roofers Claims Branded As ‘Fantastic’   Bricker Group Disputes Rival’s Delegate: Count

Revised Death Toll in Blast Fixed at 307   Navy Says Increase to 357 Likely; Damage Totals $2,000,000

Blast Toll 307 to 357   Number of Injured Still Estimated at 500

COMBS TO ASK PLACE OF DIES   Former Beaumont Jurist Is In Race For Congress

Republicans In State Continue  To Show Gains   Margin of Victory Ranges From 20,000 Up While Jenner May Have 150.000 To Spare.

AMERICAN GAIN OF MILE LEADS PAST 2 TOWNS   Duren 2'2 Miles Distant As Allied Units Hammer Nazi Defenses

Strike Along 10-Mile Line, Take2 Towns   Nazi Counterattacks Repulsed at Saarlautern; Reds Surround Budapest

DOUGHBOYS ROLLING FORWARD MONDAY IN ADVANCE UPON ROER  FIRST ARMY TROOPS BUTTRESSED BY TANKS ANN ARTITIERY

Yanks Rolling Germans Back Toward Roer   10-mile Battle Front Covered by Snow; More Towns Taken

Roosevelt, Churchill Reach High  Strategy Decisions at Quebec   Several More Days Will Be Devoted To Details in Preparing War Moves

FDR, Churchil Nearly Finish Plans of War  Rapid Progress Made   Rapid Progress Made at Quebec Meeting of Two Leaders 

PARLE STRATEGY NEARLY COMPLETE      Quebec Conference May Adjourn Before the Week-end

QN WAR PLANS NEARLY ENDED   Roosevelt, Churchill Believed Agreed on Main Decisions

Quebec Parley Nearly Finished   Final Victory Formula Drafted; Further Talks To Fill in Gaps in Already Plotted Plans

FINAL VICTORY PLANS DRAFTEL   Roosevelt And Churchill Cover Broad Outline At Quebec

Roosevelt, Churchill  All But Complete Pacific War Strategy  Discussions at Second Quebec Meetir Will Continue for Several Days;  I a eee

QUEBEC PLAN TO END WAR NEARLY DONE   Statement On Confer ences Expected Next Week Sometime

Believes Allies Will Not Be Out Of European Foxholes Before Xmas, Barring Collapse Inside Germany

‘We Might As Well Face It .   ‘hen ibn ® Bo Out of the Foxholes by This Christmas

Yanks Still to Be in Foxholes at Christmas   Only Collapse in Germany Can Chanae Picture

«Nazis Mobilize Guerrillas To Save Reich   Allies Face Christmas in Foxholes Barring Nazi Collapse

GERMANS LAUNCH WIDE  . mM. em poqwe & 9 a GUE, ia tw Sa aa enw ee

Germans Are Launching ‘New Offensive Along ‘Entire Yugoslav Front

ss LLL Le eee cm SE Re  PHANTOM MADMAN OF MATTOON CREATES WAVE OF HYSTERIA

eee  “Gardenia Man’ Still At Large  Hapre More Visited ‘hAad Anascthetict’

ILLINOIS’ ‘MAD PROWLER’ STRIKES 3 MORE VICTIMS   Phantom Throws City Into Panic

Near-Panic Grips Town In Illinois  With ‘Mad Anesthetist’ In Action

REPATRIATED NEWS WRITER REPORTS ON CHASGE IN GERMANY  HITLER’S HOLD HAS DE CLINED TO POINT WHER! JOKES ABOUT WIM TOLD

January 15 Is Last Day For ALA.A. Report      Farmers Urged to File Performance With Local Office

COURT STUDIES PELLEY LETTERS   Sedition Trial _ Ends! Fourtéenth  -Week of Hearings

TO POOL TAXIS IN TWIN CITIES   Follows Order by ODT Te Eliminate Wasteful Practices

Governor Asks Court Fight For treight Rates   Arnall Says Court Has Stricken Down and Up. rooted Discriminations.

Three Vets Head 'G! Jamboree’ Shov,   Will Tell Paris Audience Why More War Bonds Needed

~~ Buv War Bonds — FINE FREMONT MAN, SEIZE ILLEGAL Ww HISKY  alain iat all ie

Two-Way Air Blows Blast Nazi Plants   Oil Refineries, Rail Lines Heavily Bombed

Nine Yanks Who Escaped Jap’ Torture In Many Tight Places On Way Ou

Labor, Negroes Political Issues  — §. Carolina, Arkansas -Rerect Nearo Request:

LABOR, NEGRO VOTING ISSUES   1944 CAMPAIGN MARKED BY F. R., DEWEY LEADS

Campaign Expenditures Investigation Proposed. .  Labor And Negro Vote In The Political Limelight

ISSUE OF ORGANIZED  LABOR IN POLITICS 18  ADDING SOME SPICE NEGRO VOTING IN SOUTH  ALSO GETTING MORE THAN USUAL ATTENTION

ORGANIZED LABOR, NEGRO BALLOTING POLITICAL ISSUES   Part. Unions Play in Politics Gets Notice; South Carolina Shuns Negroes

NEGRO VOTING, LABOR DARKEN POLITICAL VIEW   Dewey, FDR Continue to Extend Leads Among Delegates

Spice Added to Scramble for Delegates   Organized Labor and Negro Voting Issues ‘Enter Campaian

Back-to- Work Plea Headed By Foremen   Issues of Labor In Politics, Negro Voting In Spotlight

Negro Angle In Politics Holds Light.   Recurring Issues Of Organized Labor Cause Headaches

Campaign Fund Of Labor Unions May Bring Quiz   House Is Asked To Investigate CIO Expenditures

Bill for Disposal Of Surplus War Property Passes   House OK Ends Fight On Sale of Goods Valued to 100 Billion

TROOPS BEGIN NEW PUSH ON SAIPAN SHORK   Carrier Fleet Attacks Pagan Isle To Break Jap Supply Line

Yanks Strike At Tanapag Harbor   American. Troops. Stage New Drives On Saipan

Americans Continue Attack On Bypassed Garapan As Isolated Jap Pocket At Nafutan Is: Wined Out

US Asked ToMediate In Greece   Delegation Asks State Department to Help In Settlement Of Bispute

U. S. Is Asked To Mediate In Greece       - Greek-U.S. ‘Delegation Supports” Stettinius,  _ . Assails‘ British Action. “

DELEGATION WAITS UPON STATE. DEPT.   Greek-Americans Ask for Mediation between British and Greek Resistance Forces.   Fight Spreads

Greek - American Delegation Urges U. 5. To Mediate in Athens Crisis   By FLORA TLPEPWIs

GREEKS WANT AMERICANS TO HELP IN CRISIS   Delegation Asks State Dept. to Mediate in British Interference

Nipponese  Hurl Steel Giants at Yanks in Bloody Battle for Biak’s Airdrome—Kight Knocked Out as Attack Is Re‘pulsed—Ground Changes Hands ene in Struggle -With Enemy Using Prepared Positions. .

Temperatures   Nazis Fleeing Maas, Leaving Only  20,000 for Defense

Fight for Holland Near End   Last Nazi Pockets On Antwerp Route Being Mopped Up

Canadians Storm Last Nazi Barrier Guarding Antwerp   Tommies Reach Maas Above Tilburg As Foe Collapses

British Advance To Maas River In Tilburg Area   Canadian Units Storm Last Pockets Athwart Sea Lane To Antwerp

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS FLEE TRAP   Rear Guard Left To Fight Delayed Action Against British Forces; South Beveland Liber —atea? Walcheren Island Cleared   BOMBERS PRECEDE ‘ADVANCING TROOPS

All But Between 10,000 and 2 of Germany in Maas Salient. Fide, Across River — Leaye Only) Guard to Fight Delaying AG

British Reach The  Maas River   MOST OF GERMANS FLEE _— ..-’: ACROSS RIVER, LEAVING ONE¥ REAR GUARDS TO OPPOSE ALLI

NAZIS FLEE ACROSS MAAS IN HOLLAND   Allied Armies Bring Battle Near to Victorious End

Near End Of Fighting In Holland   Allied Armies Close to Vic tory as British and Can adians Advance

British Drive To Maas River Above Capelle   All But 10.000 To 20.000 Germans Klee Across River To Escape Trap.

SOUTHWEST NEARS END   British Reach Maas River and Canadians Storm Sea Lane to Antwerp.

BULK OF FOE’S TROOPS FLEE ACROSS MAAS   German Line South Of River Collapsed By Rritish

British Reach The Maas While Canadian Forces Storm Athwart  ALL BUT 20,000 NAZIS FLEE ACROSS RIVER  Heavy Bombers Roar Ahead And Knock Out Gun Emplacements

British Reach Maas As Canadians Storm Last Pocket On Antwerp Route

Bombardment Of Europe Becomes Non-Stop Affair   Invasion Coast Target Of Allied Bombers And Fighters

YANK BOMBERS BLAST RAIL CITY NEAR PARIS   Hundreds Of Planes Stage All Day Attack On Invasion Const

AUDOIAN ARMIES OMAGH AEAD INSIDE LATVIA   Reach Curzon Line In Twin Drives; Take 310 Towns in 24 Hours.

RUSSIAN ARMIES SMASH ANEAD. WNSIDE LATVIA.   ‘Reach Curzon Line _ ‘In Twin Drives; Take’ 310. Towns in; D4 Hours:

SOVIETS PUS ON IN LATVIA AND POLAND   Strive to Outflank Bailystok and Brest-Litovsk .

SOVIETS SWEEP INTO LATVIA AND PREWAR POLAND   Twin Moves Seek to Outflank Bailystok, Brest-Litovsk Strongpoints

MENACE RAIL CENTER AS OTHER SPEARHEADS DRIVE.  INTO LATVIA AND TOWARD PRUSSIA

RUSSIANS AT ~~ CURZON LINE   Push Straight Ahead For Prussia   ee  Brest-Likovsk Now - Being Menaced

Soviet Army SmashesA head   Occupy Many More Towns And Villages ot

Russians Smash To Curzon Line Invade Latvia   Red Armies Aim At Out. flanking Bailystok And Brest-Litovsk   GERMAN LOSSES CONTINUE LARGE   Paratroops Dropped Behind Lines Menace German Safety From Rear

MAINE ON DEWEY LIST BY MARGIN OF ABOUT 15,00   Total Vote of State Polled More Than 294,000

HERE’S CHANCE TO HAVE BABY’S PICTURE TAKEN, PRINTED IN JOURNAL FREE   Studio To Be Here July 25 To Photograph An... Children In Marysville and County; No “Catch” To ffer

YOUR BABY’S PICTURE 0 BE PUBLISHED FREE   Photographers Give Free Sitting To Children Under 10

HARD FIGHTING IS STILL IN PROGRESS   President Says Situation Not Necessarily Hopeless

NAZIS AGREE 10 GET OUT OF COUNTRY   New Government Of Finland Makes First Peace Move

Nazi Troops To Be Moved  I'rom Nation   Military Situation Impossible, Finns Ask Red Armistice.

ARMISTICE IS SOUGHT FROM REDS   Germany Agrees to Withdraw All Troops

FIRST STEP IS TAKER TO PEACE   Germans To Withdraw @ Troops; Terms Of Peace Not Known

Soviet Union ‘Asked to Submi Peace Terms   Germans Agree To Withdraw All Troops

Finland Abandons Hitler, Asks Russians For An Armistice   Premier Savs Nazis Withdraw ‘Troops   Country Paced With An Impossible Situation, Savs Announcement

Finland abandons Germany   Nazis pledged to withdraw troops   Parliament Approves.   Russ Slow Pace.

3,000 Pianes Lead Offensive to Knock Nazis Out of Italy   Sthand 8th Armics Open Final Drive on Coast-to-Coast Front

FIRST ALL OUT BLOW PLEDGED AGAINST REICH   Wedges Blasted into Gustav Line as Early Stages of Offensive Meet with Success   RY ASSOCIATED PRESS

SERBS DRIVING AGAINST NAZIS   25,000 Partisans Try To Break Into Serbia

REPORT BIG BATTLE ON SERBIAN BORDER   Radio Says 25,000 Slavs, Trying t Cross From Bosnia, ‘Ares Engaged by Nazi«.

Red Forces Move to Within 7 Miles of Rail Junction  TROOPS IN SOUTH             Fierce German Counter: attacks Reported in  Ukraine

BERLIN REPORTS 250,000 REDS ATTACKING ALL ALONG 250 MILE FRONT BELOW LENINGRAD; COUNTERATTACKS IN UMAN REGION.

Soviet Forces Near Latvia’s Former Border   Town in Eastern Part of Poland Another Goal of Russians

Red Offensive Gains South Of Leningrad   Another Push Menaces Communications Hub  For All Eastern Poland TIICOIN CADTIREN

Northern Red  Troops Drive Toward Latvia   Nazis Say New Front Aflame With Battle: Counter-Attacks in Ukraine Are Repulsec

Great Russian Force Atfacks on D0 Mile Front.   Rovno’s Capture Imperils German Grip in South

ANOTHER COLUMN. PLUNGES TOWARD LATVIAN BORDER   German Counter-Attacks Continue in Southern Ukraine, = but All Are Reported Repulsed,   2,300 NAZI TROOPS : KILLED DURING DAY   Berlin Says 250,000 Russians  Are Attacking All Along”  250-Mile Front Below ~ Leningrad.

Soviet army is 14 miles from Rovno   Northern troops advance swiftly

NOVOSOKOLNIKI RAIL JUNCTION IS THREATENCD   Russians Within Seven Miles Of City; Rovno’s  EAN Imminent   2,300 MORE GERMANS ARE REPORTED KILLED

VITAL RAILWAY: HUBS MENACED BY NEW GAINS   Berlin Says 250,000 Men Put Into Campaign Below Leningrad;  Tuchin Falls

Demo Group Canvasses Vote, Names Sub-Committee On Credentials For Convention

Autopsy Ordered in Death of Noted Evangelist Aimee Semple M'Pherson

Aimee Semple McPherson Death Inquest Ordered After Sleeping Tablets Founc

IRON, STEEL USE BAN TO BE LIFTED   q /WPB DISCLOSES PLAN TO RELEASE METALS FOR 1,200 CIVILIAN ARTICLES,

SWANEY’S GRILL For tasty lunches and dinners.—<A:   ON THE “SWING SHIFT:

SWANEY’S GRILL For tasty lunches and dinners.—+*         ON TYEE “StlCING ere Ty's

Yanks Drive To Join British: Allies About To Achieve Greatest Victory Of War--Eisenhower

Nearer “Rat Race” Than Battle, Says  Commanding General   Canadians Launched Full Seale Offensive to Close Trap at Noon Today.

Says This Week Can Be Made Momentous One In History Of War ,   GERMANS, TRYING TO ESCAPE, TAKE _ FEARFUL BEATING   Yanks Liberate Many Villages; No Major Actions Reported In Italy

Yanks Race to Meet Tommies, Canadian Units  : Germans Are Near   Germans Are Near Rout, Annihilation

Army Emphatic As Reaction to Bill for  "WAC West Point’ Shakes Pentaaon

Pifth Army Soldiers Choose Name “Purple Heart Valley” For Cassino

Nazis Strike Back On Italian Front   Retreating Foe Braces, Counterattacks Yanks

Nazis Halt Italy Retreat, Flare Back At Fifth Army In Heavy Counter-Assault

BALTIC NATION CALLED PUPPET OF NAZI REICt   Break Announced by State Department After Long Period of Fruitless Negotiating

LACK ACCORD IN SECURITY TALKS   Hull, Dulles to Continue  Discussion of Plan

Hull and Dulle: Indicate Lack Of Agreement  Do Not Share Views Gan Non-Partisan . Discussion of Peace

Party Agreement On Security Plan Is Not Complete   Hull and Dulles Confer To Establish Truce On Foreien Poliev

Los Angeles Police Say Suspect Admits Slaying and Mutilation of Two Women

Obtain confession from mutilation slayer of two Los Angeles women

2 WOMEN SLAIN IN LOS ANGELES; SUSPECT HELD   Man Identified By Finger prints As Hotel Room Murderer   BOTH BODIES FOUND! HORRIBLY MUTILATED

Two Women Slashed, Slain; Man Confesses   Victims’ Nude Bodies, Horribly Mutilated, Found in Los Angeles

Two Women Slain In Los Angeles: Suspect Quizzed   Brutal Murders In Hotel Rooms

WOMEN SLAIN IN. HOTELS: MAN HELD   Mutilated Bodie Bodies of Two Victims Found in Los Anqeles

2,000-Ton Raid Rocks Brunswick   Allies Gain More Ground On Italian Frent

RAF. LEAVES BURNING RUINS IN BRUNSWICK   2,000 Tons Of Bombs Blast City; Berlin, Magdeburg Also Pounded Again.

‘Two Thousand Long Tons of Explosives Dumped Over Airplane Manufacturing  City, Starts Fires.   BERLIN ALSO FEELS ANOTHER AIR ATTACK

BLOCKBUSTERS HIT  BRUNSWICK AIRCRAFT PLANTS LAST NIGHT  BIG BLOW AT INDUSTRIAI   BIG BLOW AT INDUSTRIAL CITY ACCOMPANIED BY STAR AT RERLIN

BRUNSWICK, IN CENTRAL GERMANY, HIT BY THE RAF   Was Smothered by 2000 Tons of Bombs Last Night, It Was Announced.   A STAB AT BERLIN, ALSO

Vessersehmitt Factory Is British Target   Soviet Drive Aimed At Pinsk Gains VMomentum—Sweeps Across Marshes

Columns ot Flame Brighten Sky over Germany; Soviets Strike toward City of Pinsk

7,000 Long Tons Of Bombs Dropped In Only 23 Minutes   Russians Thrust Ten Miles Beyond Sarny, Old Poland

BOMBERS SINK 15 JAP VESSELS   Three Warships And 12 Freighters Bagged In Raid On Convoy

Germans Seize Railway Town In Yugoslavia Drive Toward Zagreb Lines

UNITED STATES HALTS SPAIN‘S OIL SHIPMENTS   Franco’s Collaboration With Germans  Reason

CURB ONL EXPORT. GONG TO SPAN   U. S. Suspends Shipments From Caribbean for

U.S. Suspends Shipments of Crude to Spain   Reconsideration of Spain’s Position In War Is Under Way

AMERICA STOPS OIL FOR SPAIN   Axis Leanings In War Given As Reason For Suspension

Oil. Supply For Spain Cut Off.   Position Of Nation In War In Question

Caribbean Oi! Denied Spain In U.S. Order   Move Is Reprisal For Aid to Nazis

U.S. Suspends —<OShipments ~~ For Next Month   Cargoes From Caribbean Area to Spain To Be Discontinued

CONCORD BOY SCOUTS WIL COLLECT PAPER       To Begin Collection at 9 a. ~ m.3 Cover West  Concord

Be ee eee egengenw.,  Dies From Wounds As!  Fellow Hunter Tries to! Shoot Bottle Off Head :

COLDEST WAVE MOVING EAST   Sub Zero Temperatures Forecast with Break Expected Friday with Colder Sunday

Coldest Weather In Part of Nation   Winter Makes Official Entry at 7:15 P. M. Eastern War Time Today

MERGURY WILL FALL TONIGHT   [Below-Zero Temperatures  Forecast; Mid-west  Shivers

Much Of U.S, Enveloped By Cold Weather   Sub-Zero Temperatures In Many Sections; Colder Christmas Eve

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON EAST PRUSSIA   Swing Arc of Steel Around German Soil From Three Sides.

Hul! Displeased After Parley With  Junior Republicans   His Specific Plan For Germany Was Said to Be Rejected

Hasiings Naval Depot Wrecked By Explosion   Lt. J. P. McDonnell, Former Local Man, Is Commanding Officer

Depot Explosion Kills 3, Injures 56   Blast in Nebraska Felt 125 Miles Away

GOV. DEWEY 10 OUTLINE PEACE, SECURITY PLAN   Portland Cheers Talk Or ‘No Indispensable Man’ Theme

Dewey Appears Unruffled by Narrow Escapes   GOP Candidate Tells Hearers There Is No ‘Indispensable Man’

Dewey To Trace Plan To Achieve Security For Al’   Oregonians Greet GOP. Nominee After Narrow Escape In R. R, Crash.

Peace Making Is Outlined In Dewey's Talk   GOP Presidential Candidate Declares Peace Is Above That of Any “Indispensable Man.”

Dewey Heads for San Francisco   Apparently Unruffled By Two Escapes from Serious Injury

No One Man Is Indispensable Dewey Claims   Peace Too :mportant to Be Trusted to Two or Three Men

DEWEY GOING TO CALIFORNI   Telis Crowd Last Night That There Is No Indispensable Man.

Dewey Hits Indispensable Man Idea   ~Unruffled by Train Wreck adAnta Skid.

Dewey Accepts Indispensable Man Challenge   Portland Crowd Cheers Nomine During Speech

Dewey Dents Peacemaker Role of FDR   Can't Keep Harmony In U. S., Let Alone Nations. Savs Rival

Dewey Unhurt In Train Crash   Candidate Ts Off For San Francisco

PEOPLE'S PEACE URGED BY DEWE'   GOP Candidate Scores “Endispensable Men”

FREEDOM AND SECURITY 10 BE SUBJECTS   Dewey Speaking Thursday Night at 'Frisco.—Given Enthusiastic Reception at Portland.

DEWEY PLANS “FREEDOM FOR ALL” SPEECH   Will Tell How to Achieve That Goal, and NationWide Security, in Talk at San Francisco Thursdav Nicht.

Dewey Attacks “Indispensable Man” Theory   G.O.P. Nominee Addresses Cheering Oregon Crowd After Two Narrow Escapes

DEWEY ASSAILS PEACE MAKING BY 20R3 MEN   NO MAN IN AMERICA IS INDISPENSABLE, SAYS GOP NOMINEE

Dewey Will Speak Again In San Francisco   Will Moke Broadcast Tomorrow Night

Danger Of One Man Regime Is  Cited By Dewey           Hits Roosevelt q nilispenisable’. Claina; ‘Raps 12. Years of Strife With. “ in ‘New Deal :

“No Indispensable . Men” Says Dewey at Portland Rally   GOP Candidate Unmov‘ed by Two Escapes From Death Yesterday .

DEWEY PLEDGES SECURITY PLAN   No Man Indispensable, He Says of Roosevelt

G.0.P. Candidate To Outline ‘Security’ Program At San Francisco Talk

Dewey Unruffled by Narrow Escapes Prepares for San Francisco Speech

INDISPENSABLE MAN DOESN'T EXIST - DEWEY   Republican President Can. didate Outlines Two American Goals

DRAMATIC oT ORY TOLD HOUSE   Brig.-Gen. Carols P. Romulo. With MacArthur on Invasion of Philippines; De: scribes Triumph of Yanks

GAP RIPPED IN NAZI DEFENSES NEAR BUDAPEST   Rail Fortress Of Godollo Falls To Soviets; Fighting Inside City   FULL LIBERATION OF CZECHS-SLAVS NEAR

RUSSIANS FIGHT IN BUDAPEST SUBURBS   Major Rail Fortress of Go dollo Captured by Reds ~

SOVIET AIP GAP IN ENEMY LINED   Bayonet - wielding Russian Vanguards Said Fighting Foe in Eastern Suburbs of Battered Budapest

Navy, Air Forces Hammer At Japs      41 Enemy Ships And 107 Planes Destroyed Or Damaged In Four Days Of Action —

HOME ISLANDS OF THE ENEMY ARE BATTEREL   HUGE BOMBERS BLAST KYU. _ SITU AND SAISU WHILE AN’ OTHER FORCE STRUCK AT NANKING IN CHINA

German Count  Sezied As Spy   Forced Into Espionage At Pistol Point, He Declares.

HITLER EXPECTED JO FLEE BY PLANI   Military Leaders. Fear Na_ zis May Go to Neu-   tral Country .

HITLER ESCAPE ATTEMPT FEARED   U. S. MAY ASK NEUTRALS TO REFUSE SANCTUARY TO FUEHRER AND AIDS.

Army Leaders Worried Lest Hitler Escape   Appeal May Be Made To Neutrals Again That He Be Barred  From All Havens

ALLIES AFRAID HITLER MAY ESCAPE TO NEUTRAL NATION   Nazi Heirarchy Expected To Attempt Flight From Ger many To Spain Or Argentina; Chance Fuehrer May Be Assassinated Or Take His Own Life

WILL ESCAPE   Allies May Again Ask Neutrals to Refuse Asylum To Nazi Leaders

Military Leaders Believe Hiller May Flee fo Some Neutral Country

HITLER EXPECTED      Military Leaders Fear Na. zis is May. Go to Neu- ee ..-tral: Country

Luftwaffe Toll May Exceed 100   Interception Proves Costly to Germans; Gentile Runs String to 30

Nazi Suicide Pilots Guard Brunswick   Americans Send 81 To Flaming Deaths In Mass Doefieht

NEUTRALIZING ENEMY BASES IN MARSHALLS   ‘Others Heavily Damaged With Liberator Pilots Making Longest Distance Flights of A!‘l

FIVE NIP AIR BASES BADLY DAMAGED   7th Air Force Increasing Attacks On the Marshalls

But Allies, However, Report Only Successes  On All Oriental Fronts

Jap Claims Countered By Allied View  Nips Say 80,000 Chinese Trapped

Jap Claims Countered Bi Allied View  Nips Sage 80 EO  mata § FemmAA

CHINESE TROOPS CUT OFF ENEMY   Tokyo Reports 80,000 Encircled, Ignores String Of Defeats

0,000 Chinese  Circled by Japs; ‘Allies Still Gain dn Other Sectors   Yank Troops Hit at Intermediate Defense Lines in the Pacific

Tokyo Claims Chinese Trap   All Allied Reports Tell of Jap Reverses

King Haakon Says Hour Of Liberation Soon iI'Will Strike For Norway

Italy-Based Bombers Keep Up Offensive   Liberators Rain Bombs On Railroad Yards In No. Italy

Hunter's Rifle Kills Sherif   Alger County Officer Is 17th Fatality

ALGER OHERIFE KILLED MONDAY   Falls Victim to Bullet He Loaned to Hunting Companion.   SEVEN GUNSHOT VICTIMS

SEC, ICKES’ AIDE AVCIDS PUBLIC   George H. Briggs Changes Residence in Capital

ap Fight Seer Over. G.I. Bill   Education Benefits Causing Dissension

‘G. I. Bill of Rights’ Faces Lively Battle   Completely Rewritten By House — States Rights Issue Involved

LIVELY BATTLE LOOMS IN HOUSE OVER ‘6. . BILL’   Industry Scores One With Labor Board - - OPA Studies Five-cent Cigars

2 eee tan emnaanermintine acral Si mee a a mn  Lively House Battle Foreseen Over Completely Rewritten Bill of Right:

URGE SELF-RULE IN ASIA NATIONS   Wallace, Chiang Other Chinese Officials Advance Theory For Future.

In Agreement With Chinese   United in Opinions On Basic Principles And Objectives; Wal. lace Visit to An End -

HOUSE GROUP. MAY ASK COURT ACTION   Committee Seeks  , Proceedings. Against Constitutional Group

COURT BATTLE:IS LOOMING ON CONTRIBUTIONS. REPORT   HOUSE COMMITTEE TO-ASE. LE- GAL ACTION AGAINST OR’ GANIZATION FOUNDED  By GANNETT

Officer Dies After Chase   Immigration Service Man Suffers Attack

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FOR SUBSTITUTE POSTAL CLERK TO BE HELD

French Advised To Await Word   Warned By Allied Command Not To Try Te Read Between Lines.

New Addresses Of Mes And Wemen la Service   -CWe are not permitted te publish complete address of men overseas. Please contact relatwee fer «nit identification,

New Addresses Of Men (And Women In Service   (We are net permitted te  lish complete address eof _ everseas. Please cestact§ relatives for unit identification, ete.

(We are net germitted te publish complete address of men everseas. Please contact relatives fer anit identification,  ate *

SITES ARE VIEWED   Veteran Representative Is Looking for Hospital  Location

26 OHIO TOWNS CRIPPLED BY PHONE STRIKE   Walkout Will Spread To Other War-Vital Areas Today

MORE TELEPHONE GIRLS JOIN MIDWESTERN STRIKE  Long Distance Service Continues Says Official of Ohio Company

Telephone Strike  Spread Expected  To Industry Area Union Spokesman Says Akron  Canton Operators Will iad we me

State Department Denies Statement About Japs-Navy   Say Japs Never Mention Disposition of U. S. PrePearl Harbor Navy.

DENY COUP BY JAP. PEACE CONFEREES   DISPOSITION OF U.S, FLEET NOT MENTIONED, DECLARES STATE DEP'T,:

STATE DEPT, DENIES JAP TRICK RUMOR   Solon Says Kurusu_ Talked Washington in Bottling Up Fleet: Story ts Unfounded

JAP TREACHERY REPORT HEARD   Solon Asks Confirmation  Or Denial of Pearl   Harbor Story

Denies Story By Magnuson   No Proposal About Disposition Of Fleet

Pearl Harbor Charge Denied By Hull's Aides   State Department Says Japs Did Not Ask Fleet Removal

PEARL HARBOR CHARGE DENIED   JAPS PLANNED DISPOSAL OF SHIPS—MAGNUSON

WEWAK, JAP BASE, IS POUNDED AGAIN FACES FATE OF RABAUL: DESTRUCTION

Five Army Fliers Die in Crash  Marauder Crash Is Army’s First From Kelloag Field

‘Forts’ Keep Up Attacks On Jap Plane Plants   Saipan-Based B-29s Attack Industrial Targets On the Island Of Honshu

B-29s Bomb The Island Of Kyushu  ‘Good Results From Naagova Raid Man.

SUPERFORTS HIT JAPANESE: HARD SLOW AT KYUSHE   Aircraft Factory Is Target; Hit In Three Raids

Superfort. Raids Against Japan Are Stepped Up   Nippon Mainland And Hankow Targets In New Air Blitz

Superforts rom China Hit Kyushu   All B-29s, About 200, Returned Safely to Base

Superforts  Strike Again   Bomb Plane Factory On Kyushu; Yesterday’s:- Raid a Success

B-29s Hit Industrial Kyushu Isle   Aircraft Center of Omura Believed Target of New Raid; Heavy Damage at Nagoya Aircraft Plants Yesterday.

Plane Factory At Nagoya Bombed Again   Japanese Home Island Is Target for Saipan-Based Craft

PRODUCTION CENTERS TARGETS   Up To Hundred Superforts Take Part In Attack

Japan’s Industry Blasted by Forts   B29s Raid peas Island Targets In Campaign Power Pe Nit Rionenese Wilierhts

‘Forts Strike Honshu Again   Medium Force Hits Airplane: Factories .

Forts Attack Jap Mainland Island Kyushu   Industrial Target Raid Follows Less Than 24 Hours Strike At Hankow, China

China-Based Supertorts Nit Japan   Medium Force Bombs Industrial Targets on Kyushu

CHINA -BASED FORTS ATTACK JAP MAINLAND   Latest Assault Carried Out In Medium Force Against industrial Targets on caacacta

PLANES RETURN TO WORK OVER MAIN JAP ISLE   100 Superforts Includec In Latest Strike At Nippon

NAGOYA STRIKE SAID EFFECTIVE; NO B-29'S LOST   Up To 40 Bombers Hit Kyvshu Day After Hankow Raid

FLY FROM CHINA AND HIT KYUSHU   Follows Up Big Air Strike On Hankow, China

B-295 HIT AIRCRAFT FACTORY   Omura, Target Of Previous Raids, Hit By Superforts

Pocketed Japs Being Wiped Out: in Final Battles ‘for Leyte—U. S. Planes ‘Cover Philippines From Mindoro  Tp   ‘Nagoya, Jap Plane-making ‘City, Hit Again By. B-29s

JAP MAINLAND BOMBED AGAIN BY B-25 FORGE   Industrial Plants On Kyushu Island Targets In New Raid

D-C TRIAL Is NEARING END   Week, Defense Law ver Indicates  Mi Be Concluded This

Dachel-Carter Case Nears End   Accounting Suit May ‘Close This Week

BIAK SITUATION NOT VERY CLEAR   American Invaders May  _ Have Broadened Their  _ Perimeter In Dutch New Cuinea. Indicated.

Yanks Broaden Perimeter On  Island Of Biak   Ameficans Striving to Take Two More Airdromes From Japs, Inland From Mokmer

Dewey Maps Out Governors Meet   ‘Intensive’ Conference Planned at St. Louis

MAJ. BONG AGAIN ~ LEADING U.S. ACE   Runs His String to 30 Japanese Planes He Has Shot Down.

GERMANY NOT BROKEN, SAYS SEC'Y OF WAR      Stimson Warns Against Relaxing On Home a Front

NAZIS SHAKEN BUT NOT BEATEN STIMSON STATES   Home Front Must Gear Itself To Tempo Of Fighting  Forces. He Save   REPORTS TO NATION ON WAR-FRONT TRIP

Doubts Rising In Germany, Stimson Says   ‘No Collapse in Sight, No Excuse’ for: Relaxing, War Secretary Declares

Germany Shaken, Hull Declares   But He Sees No Early Collapse   Final Assault Looms   Strong Pressure Needed

ITALIAN LAND FRONTS QUIET   Snow and Rain Hamper Allies   Thwart Nazi Attack on Supply Ships

NAZI TORPEDO BLOW FOILED   Ailied Coastal Craft Block German Moves Off Anzio Beachhead

Luce and Pyle, Pulitzer Winners   “Journey In The Dark” Receives Award For  Best Novel.

PRESS WRITERS RECEIVE PRIZES   Pulitzer Award Singles Out Ernie Pyle And Daniel De Luce

Assumes New... Pastorate Here  * Rev. Earl Dalels . Pastor Baptist Churcl

Assumes New  Pastorate Here  ~ Rev. Earl Dale Is Pastor Baptist Churcl

More Light Rains Due   Carry Little Flood Threat; Most Streams Reported Subsiding

Chartres Is Entered After 5-Hour Fight   Americans Speed Toward Paris After Capturing Nearby City Following Brisk Street Fighting

Gain inSome Areas, Lose Elsewhere   Allied Commander Predicts Victory — Aerial Offen sive Is Maintained

Allies Pursue Germans in  South France   Battered Enemy Leaves Lyon, Races for Home

LAGK OF PLAN TO AID VETS SCORED   Dawson Says if Elected Governor He Will Immediately Seek Legislation for Rehabilitation Program

High Court Takes The Roberts Case   Hearing Set May 10 On Filing Rejection

Two ClO Members Detroit Regional WLB Among Pickets at Ward Store

ARGENTINA IS. ~~ BIG PROBLEM   MILITARY GOVERNMENT  THERE ATTEMPTING TO HEAD  -  BLOC.OF LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES © - 

REPUBLICAN MEET GOES TO CHICAGO   SOVIETS PLAN TO HOLD ONTO UKRAINE AND WHITE RUSSIA

SWAP GAARSES : PLAN G POLICE  fk NE : it   Middie O7 The Road Grou» Sce-s To Get Conipromise eek

STRONG PROTES! SENT 10 NAZIS   Wanton Slaying of American Captives Official Shock to State Department —

NAZIS WILL PAY FOR SLAYING PRISONERS   Killing All But 15 of 130 Unarmed Yanks Is Cited

THE WAR TODAY - - By Dewitt MacKenzie   Gardner Sees Reconversion Act As Postwar Factor

GERMAN PEOPLE RENDERED GREAT SERVICE BY EISENHOWER'S WARNING AGAINST SCORCHED-EARTH POLICY

GEN. EISENHOWER HAS RENDERED GERMAN PEOPLE GREAT SERVICE IN WARNING THEM OF NO AID

MacKenzie Says—  Reich Told No Supplies From Allies      Gen. Eisenhower’s Pronouncement Great Service To All Ger man People

Germans Can't Expect to Be Fed by Allie:   Eisenhower Gives Fair Warning. Things Will Be Different From Last War

a Ss or fe pes See ri  The War Today  Germany Warned To Little. Aid  From eS

Germans Hear Vital Warning   Eisenhower Does Well In Telling Nation Not to Expect Aid

WAR. TODAY   Germans Given Warning Allies Can’t Furnish Food and Cloth ing if “Scorchéd  - Earth Plan Is Used  by Nazis —_

Yanks Score Small Advance On Anzio Front   Brisk Artillery Exchange Continues In Cassino Sector

Allies Recapture Enemy Positions   American Troops Drive  Forward On Anzio Beach

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE ON ANZIO FRONT   Three Positions In Cisterna, Carono Sectors Recapturec

TEXAS DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES LEAVE FOR CHICAGO MONDA ABLE TEXANS MAY CUS  TrYAhnpD

1 DELEGATIONS LEAVE TEXAS   Irreconcilable Groups Will Appear Before Convention

Two Rival Delegations From Texas Leave For National Demo Conclave

HARDIN COUNTY ENTIRE RATION BOARD RESIGNS   Members Give Personal Reasons as Cause of Leaving Respective Posts

‘Must’ Matters Delay Solons   Congress Abandons Hope (Wt Boele Addouronment

‘TOUGH TAX PROGRAM’  DURING WAR NEEDED WILLKIE DECLARES   ‘Unrealistic’ Is Reaction of Lawmakers To Demand

WILLKIE URGES HIGHER TAXES   Declares Nation Needs Tougher. Program Tq, Help Pay For War

Need Tough Tax Program   Willkie Says Failure To Raise Enough Now Is Threat to Future

Willkie Urges Taxation Bill  Of 16 Billions   Calls For Increased: Levies  “Beyond Any Limit We  Have Hitherto Imagined Possible”’

Willkie Urges 16-Billion Dollar Tax Program   Says Nation Needs Taxation to Limit; Repubicans Object

WILLKIE URGES TOUGHER TAXES IN WAR PERIOD       Says Congress, Administration  Both Follow Primrose Path,  Should Tax Now, Ease Up Later

PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT BACKS ‘PAY NOW’ PLAN   Says at Least 16 Billion Needed; Warns Debt to Wipe Out Victory

Wilkie Urges Tax Boost At  Times Forum   Assails Administration Plan Charging It Threatens Nation’s Future

: WI. LLKI. E—  WILE FA FADRS ‘BOOST IN TAXE:   ‘Tough Tax Program’ Yielding At Least. 16 Billions, Advocated ..

“TOUGH TAX PLAN’ OF 16 BILLION IS URGED BY WILLKIE   Tax Program ‘Beyond Any Limit That We Have Hitherto Imagined Possible” Proposed by Prospective Presidential] Candidate

Willkie Warns of Need For Tough Tax Program’   PROPOSAL STIRS COMMENT IN CONGRESS

Willkie Advocates “a Tough Tax Program”   Says Nation Needs at Least 16 Billion Dollars To Help Pay for the War

Soap Buys “Real Kiss”   ‘Larry Allen Rewarded For Gift to Blond Conductress, One of Nazi Army of Girl-Trainmen

Nelson Urges Service Act   War Production Boss Speaks in Favor of Limited Measure

URGES LIMITED OB DRAFT LAN   Preferable To Broad Nat’ Service Code, WPB    Boss Says

50 Liberator: rs Blast Davao. i: In Phi ippines        “Barracks, Su pp. y Depots _ And: ‘Airports: Borbed-: Without Opposition” -

50 Liberators Stage Heavy Raid On Japs at Davao  Anenar leland at   Anguar Island at South End of Palaus  Falls to Americans

RAIDS REPEATED ON PHILIPPINES   Davao Airdrome Gets Brunt Of Attack By Liberators

NAZI MANUFACTURING TOWN OF MAGDEBURG HIT BY RAF BOMBS   300,000 German Troops in Northern Russia Face Threat of Annihilation

ss of Pompano, $, Submarine, vealed by Navy   30-Ton Raider With reat Record 17th Sub to Perish.

NAVY REPORTS LOSS OF SUB      Pompano Had - Two: Jap  Warships and Many. Cargo Boats to te Credit” ’

SouthernDemocrats Taking Political Wounds Home With Truman As Comfort

Dixie Democrats Trek Homeward Today With Their City-Inflicted Wounds

South Studies Political Role   _Conyention Wounds Still Not Healed

dixie Democrats in Militant Mood Atter Having Been "Kicked Around’

Rebellious Dems To Plan Strategy   Dixie Groups To Decide On Course Of Action

Dixie Democrats Pian Organizction ‘After Rough Handling at Convention

DIXIE DEMOCRATS RETURN TO NURSE POLITICAL WOUNDS   Mollified Only by Defeat Of Wallace for Vice-Pre sidential Nomination

‘outherners To Debate Their Election Role   Some Favor Third Party For “Solid South”

Harry L. Lund Is Appointed On _ BSA Committee   + Former AAA Committeeman Named by Secretary of ‘Ag-.  riculture Wickard

Laurens Man to Serve on FSA Advisory Board   Harry Lund Appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard

News Rehind The News  ranveleh? Metlure Newspaper   WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker

—NO ONE INJURED—  ROCKET IS DERAILED   BY A FLASH FLOOD WASHOUT IN IOWA

Another Secret Weapon: Germany Ready To Tes! New Bomb Supposed To Have 70-Mile Range

Nazis may test new air bomb on east front   ‘Secret rocket is nearly ready

Germans Reported Ready to Pr New ‘Liquid Air’ Bomb to Practical Test on Eastern Fron

Swedish Press Says Germans May Test ‘Liquid Air’ Bomb on Eastern Front

LIQUID AIR BOMB HINTED BY NAZIS   Swedish Press Reports Entirely New Attack on Britain Is Possible.

Creston’s Bond Drive Nets $50,000 This Morning   Menzer Declares Response Better Than Previously

Germans Evacuate Cassino To Stiffen Resistance Below Rome   French Troops Lose Mt. Croce To Nazis In A Bitter Hand-To-Hand Struggle

ANCKOR BASTION OF CASSINO REPORTED ABANDONED BY FOE   American Tanks Driving Toward Appian Way; Reign of Terror Against Germans Started in Rome

Nazi Resistance Stiffens Around Allied Bridaeheac   Enemy Reportedly Abandons City Of Cassino

RESISTANCE STIFFENS AT NETTUNO   Nazis Reported To Have Abandonex< Base At Cassino

Invaders Roar Toward Rome   NAZIS PULL UNITS BACK FROM CASSINO FRONT TO MEET THREAT TO REAR; SEE APPIAN WAY CUT, PERIL TO CASSINO-ROME HIGHWAY

Nazis Place Rome Undet Siege State   German Resistance Stiffening Around Allied Bridgehead

Americans Push Northward From  Mussolini Canal   Italian Patriots Begin Rein of. Terror Inside City Against Enemy

UNCLE IS TOLD NEPHEW KILLED IN §, PACIFIC   W'S/Szt. George Dick, Aged 30, of Claysburg, R. D., Makes Supreme Sacrifice.

Tokyo Admits Rabaul Loss   General MacArthur Reports More Than 400 Jap Plane: Destroved.

Jans Concede Rabaul Doomed  400 Enemy Planes Destroyed This Month

Manila Pounded In Heavy Attack By Yank Arma   British Troops Capture Tiddim, Burma Fortrese

Japs Report Landing In  Leyte Gulf   Powerful Task Forces  Shell Island Defenses

Say Yanks Land at Leyte Gulf   Suluan Island also Entered; Allies Nab Tiddim in Burma

Another Braw] In Hollywood  Errol Flynn Target Again: Gets Keved

DAWGON TALKS AT PINEVILLE RALLY   Declares West Virginia University Pulled Into Politics By Governor Neely and Judge Meadows

PIQUA TO HOLD “GENTILE DAY”   Aerial Ace Will Be Honored At Thursday Event

Picturesque Port of Venice Bombed for the First Time; Nazis Raid Anzio Beachhead

Venice Has. First Affack:   Activity Increases Along Cassino Front

Babson Forecast 10 Per Cent Business Drop in U.S. in 1945   THUMBNAIL OUTLOOK FOR 1945

Roger W. Babson’s Business And Financial Outlook For 1945 Expects Employment And Pay Rolls To Prep

BABSON LOOKS AT BUSINESS AND FINANCES DURING 1945   Greatest Single Expansion Seen In Constructior And Building Group   THUMBNAIL OUTLOOK FOR 1945

Babson Foresees Another Year Of High Incomes For Farmers; Expansion Of Building Lines   THUMBNAIL OUTLOOK FOR 1945

GOING DEEP INTO EUROPE   Berlin and Other Cities Blasted in Follow-up of Memorial Day Raking That Was Heavy.

Heavy Bombers Hit Ger. /_Sanly Fifth  Sue’ sive Day —   arly 1,750 Planes Thrown Into Raids Against Rail Centers

GERMANS ARE ROUTED FROM STRONGHOLDS   Fifth Army Meeting Stiff Opposition from Entrenched Enemy Forces.   BULLETIN

Bombers Lash Ruhi  Railways   U. S. Airmen Raid Germany, France Fifth Straight Day

ONE GOOD “STRIKE” BY ALLIED BOMBERS RECEIVED AT PLOESTE OIL FIELD!

Clark Hopes Iowa Will Reach Bond ‘Mark of $300,000,000   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

— Should Exceed State Quote in Fifth Bound  Drive   Figures Reveal Yowa Has Vast Buying Power

lowang:: Expested to Go Over Top in 5th Bond- Drive   State: News and: Views ‘As Seen from Capitol

Japs Smash Into Foochow Suburbs   Invaders Attack Port, Score Hunan Victory

Japanese Drive Into Suburbs Of Foochow   Reinforcements Thrown Into Battle

Jrganized Sabotage Behind German Lines in France Spreads Across Continent, Hinders Troop Transfers

85,000 French Resisting   Underground Is Making Life Miserable For Germans  And Quislings.

Service. Ballot Choice Offerec   Each State Would Judge Validity of Vote

OFFICIALS MVE TO FNSH “WORK ORFIGYT” ORDER   WPB Report Shows October Output Is 2 Per Cent Below Par

ALI MEN BETWEEN 26 AND 37 YEARS NOT IN ESSENTIAL . WORK SUBJECT TO. DRAFT

DRAFT BOOST EXPECTED FOR 2-37 AGE GROUP   Manpower Shortage Brings Action; to Review Deferments

"Work or Fight” Order is Revived   Men 26 Thru 37 Given Ultimatum

WORK OR FIGHT ORDER IS GOVERNMENT'S PLAN   To Get Manpower to Implement Greater Production   FOR MEN 26 THROUGH 37

PARTY FOREIGN POLICY CENTER OF FIREWORKS   Floor Fight Threatened Despite Efforts Of GOP Leaders

li Respondents Called Before Lansing Court   Sensational Story Of Corruption In High Places Promised

EXAMINE 21 AT GRAFT HEARING   First Witness On Stand As Sigler Begins Prosecution 

Kingsley Soldier  Dies At Hospital  In California Earl L. Cornish, Company K Man,  Garwva,l Owratcak e

Kingsley Soldier Dies At Hospital In California  Earl L. Cornish, Company K Man, Served Overseas

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.   Fen R.*Proateyt”’   Massachusetts Primaries

NOMINATED MASSACHUSETTS  GOVERNOR BUT LOST OTHER RACES—G, 0.P. TREND  IN MICHIGAN: -

KANSAS WARMING UP   First Day of Spring Brings Easing of Flood Threat

Laval, Petain Reported To Be in Flight   Two Vichy Leaders Apparently Intend to Leave French Soil

PECLARES LAVAL HAS FLED PARIS   GERMAN NEWS AGENCY REPORTS NAZI OFFICIALS ALSO HAVE LEFT CITY.   BULLETIN.

Laval And Most  Nazi Leaders  Leave Paris   Pro-Axis Vichy Govern. ment Also Is Thinking of Fleeing French Capital

LAVAL DECIDES TO QUIT PARIS   Nozi Ambassador Also Tokes Out As Fighting Yanks Approach City

Nazi Leaders Leave Vichy   Petain Government. Reported Tn. Flicht

LAVAL AND NAZI OFFICIALS FLEE   Vichy Government Also Being Transferred To Safer Site

Laval and German Officials  Retreat From Paris   Nazi Broadcast Says Pro-Axis Vichy Government ‘May Already Be Transferring’ Itself From That City   Ry RICHARD KASINSCHEKE

No Change In  Burma Mission Strategy Unchanged By Stilwell Recall

Ninth Drives Nazis Back To Roer      Cupture Most: ‘bown , of. “Hurtgeii. Vhird >‘ Ariiy. Slashes Across the Saar Frontier. Freneh “‘Fighten Vinkd On Strashoure

The War Today   Ry DeWITT MacKENZIE (Associated Presse War Anaiyst)

WAR  TODAY   Paratroops Will Play  pair gs pee Invasion of Hitler’s  Roofless European Fortress.

 fhe War Today— Ai-Borne Troops To Be fnportant Factor In Invasion Of Europe

The War Today   Paratroops Characterized As Most Modern Expression Of War.

AIR-BORNE TROOPS EXPECTED TO BE OF GREAT VALUE WHEN ALLIES INVADE WESTERN EUROPE

british Wreck Convoy F ‘leeing     Americans Take Last of Hills; Many Nazis Surrender  ON HIGHWAY OVERLOOK.  ING CHERBOURG, June 24.— CUP) he leat haishte over.

German Escape Try Smashed   British Motor Torpedo Boats Sink Two Enemy Merchantmen, Damage Three; Americans Batter to 2000 Miles From Port on South

McCormick Asks Severe Penalties For Violators of OPA Regulations

OPA TO BEAR DOWN ON AUTO SPEEDERS   Hate Director Says There Has Been  An Upsurse In Reckless

Troops Begin Frontal Attack At Monastery   American Infantry Goes Into Action After Artillery Lays Down Heavy Barrage

More of the 1940 Roosevelt Voters Open To influence Than Willkie Voters

The Crossley Poll  Pivotal Voters Hold Balance Of Decision   Small Percentage Of Vote In 23 States Will Swing Election Of President.

FIGHTING ON NEW BRITAIN INTENSIFIED   Americans Near Hill 660 Pounding Entrenched Japs

Bulgars Ready To Seek Peace   Premier of First Country Out of Last War Seeks “Rapid” Withdrawal

‘Bulgaria To Quit War?   a  MAY REPEAT HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I CAPITULATION SOON

Bulgaria May Be First to Capitulate   PREMIER PLEDGES “RAPID WITHDRAWAL” AT PARLIAMENT SESSION

116 Naz Planes Are Downed in Raid on Berlin   Equals Half of Monthly Output Of Germany

Giant Air Fleet Blasts Berlin In Heavy Assault   Americans Lose 10 Fighters, 68 Bombers; British Hit Rail Zones

Yankees Down 176 Germans Tn Berlin Raid   Nazi Catastrophe Seen as U. S. Aces Prove Ability

690 MEN ABOARD PLANES FAILING TO REACH BASES   Craft Lost By Enemy Con: servatively Estimated as Equal to One-Half of Monthly Output.   CASSINO BATTLE IS RENEWED AFTER LULL   Allied and German Troops Are Swamped With Freez: ing Rains, Terrain Almost {mpassable. .

DOWN 176 NAZI PLANES   American Losses in Berlin Raid Set At 78 Planes

176 GERMAN PLANES DOWN (VER BERLIN   U. S. Loses 68 Bombers and 10 Fighters In Great Smash at Reich Capital.

YANK PLANES DOWN 176 GERMAN AIRCRAFT   However, U.S. Air Forces Suffer Heavy Losses

Yanks Suffer Record Loss Of 78 Planes   Terrific Air Battle Takes Heavy Toll of Both . ideas

Jap Rubber  And Ores in Warship Loot   U. S. Cruiser and 3 De stroyers Seize Nazis in South Atlantic   CREWS BLAST SHIPS   Two Navy Bombers Blast .Paramushiro. Base in 10th Raid of War

3 German Blockade Runners Sunk By U.S. Warships in South Atlantic

GERMAN BLOCKADE RUNNERS SUNK BY U. §. DESTROYERS   SHIPS WERE LADEN WITH WAR MATERIALS FROM JAPANESE PORTS

U. S. Destroyers Sink Three German Ships   Blockade Runners Were Laden with War Materie! From Jap Pacific Ports

U.S. DESTROYERS SPOT VESSELS IN SOUTH ATLANTIC   ber, Tins, Fats From .  Holds J va With RubJap Held Ports

U.S. Warships Sink 3 German Blockade Craft   Two Destroyers and Omaha Sink Craft © From Eost indies

Nazi Blockade Runners Taken  In The Pacific   Loaded With Cargoes  From Japan

NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNERS SUNK   Three Richly Laden Vessels Caught By U. S. Warships

Destroyers Sink 3 German Cargo Ships   Blockade Runners Laden With Vital War Ma: terials From Jap-Held Pacific Ports Sent Down in South Atlantic in January.

Naval Guns Sink 3 Lader Nazi Vessels   Blockade Runners Carrying War Materials From Jap Ports.

Three Nazi Blockade Runners Sunk   SHIPS DISCOVERED IN _ SOUTH ATLANTIC, SOME CARGO IS SALVAGED

Blockade Runners In South ; Atlantic Laden With War  Materials From Jap  Held Pacific Ports   Hundreds Of Tons Rubber Salvaged   ‘Many G erman Prisoners Taken: Huns Scuttle  Vessels When Trapped.  Navy Announces

Navy Sinks Nazi Blockade Runners In South Pacific   Carry War Supplies From Ports Held By Japanese

GERMANY LOSES THREE BLOCKADE RUNNERS AT SEA   U. S. Destroyers Sink Vessels Carrying Jap Materials In South Atlantic

GERMANS LOSE SSUPPLY SHIPS   Heavily - Laden Blockade Runners Sunk by United States Warships

SHIPS FILLE WITH VITAL MATERIALS   Destroyer Action Reported In South Atlantic   Salvaged, Captives Taken; Vessels Returning From Jap-Held Ports

THREE GERMAN SHIPS SUNK IN $0. ATLANTIC   American Warships  Intercep! Blockade Runners, Salvage Rubber Before Sinking. Vessels

Three Nazi Blockade Runners Laden With War Material From Japan Sunk In South Pacific   Thousands Of Tons Of Rubber In Cargo; Vessels Sent Down By U.S. Destroyers

Sink Nazi Blockade  Runners   Enemy Vessels Sunk By. U.S. Destroyers In South Atlantic; Much Cargo Salvaged

Three Nazi Blockade Runners Sunk by U. S. Pacific Fleet   German Ships Heavily Laden With Materials Of War Go Down in South Atlantic Under Fire From Cruiser and Destroyers

3 German Blockade Runners Are Sunk In South Atlantic   Many Prisoners Taken From Ships Laden With Stratezic War Materials From Japs For Nazis

Nazi Blockade Runners Caugh! By U. 5. Navy   ‘Ships Reported Laden With Jap War Materials

Three Nazi Ships Sunk   Heavily-Laden Blockade Runners Bagged by Navy In South Atlantic

Blockade Runners  Are Sunk   Three German Ships’ From Japanese Ports Run Down by Cruiser, Destroyers   CARRIED TONS OF RUBBER AND TIN   Part of Cargoes Salvaged Many Prisoners Taken in. South-Alantic Action

U.S. NAVY FORCES: SINK 3 GERMAN BLOCKADE SHIPS   Were Carrying Valuable Cargoes from Japan to the  Reich—Much of It Oenuad

Three German Blockade Runners, Laden With Geeds cram can-Held Yacifie Ports Sent le South Atlantic

U, §. NAVY SINKS 3 GERMAN SHIPS   Blockade Runners Loaded With War Goods from Nips

THREE GERMAN SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK BY NAVY   Were ‘Heavily Laden With War Materials

Kunners Sunk  ‘U. $. Destroyers Bag  Three Vessels Laden Witseh Wae hdantaciale

3 German. Blockade Runners, Laden With Jap Rubber, Tin, Ore Sunk By American Destroyers

Three Headily-Laden Nazi Blockade Runners: Are ~ Sunk By U..S: Ships.   Enemy Vessels, ‘Carrying  Rich Cargoes. From Jap{ anlese- -Held Pacific Ports, Are Sent To Bottom ‘Of South ‘Atlantic

3 SUPPLY-LADEN NAZI SHIPS SUNK   U.S. Destroyers Bag Boats Coming From Jap Ports

Nazi Blockade  Runners Sunk   Intercepted While Tryin To Slide Through From Japan.

NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNERS SUNK   Wavy Salvages Part Of Cargoes, Takes Prisoners

German Shins Laden With Japanese Tin And Rubber   Cruiser And Two Destroyers Take Ma. terials And Prisoners

Strong force penetrates in  south Poland   12 nazi divisions are swept aside

Odessa-Lwow Railway About To Be Severed   12 German Divisions Routed by Red Troops Under Marshal Zhukov

IN 12 DIVISIONS KILLING 6000 MEN AND SWEEPING UP ABOUT 500 LOCALITIES IN DRIVE INTO SOUTHERN POLAND.

Soviet Drive Threatens  Vital Railway   12 German Divisions Are Routed in Two Days And Many Nazis Killed  PUSH INTO POLAND

12 Nazi Divisions Routed, 500 Towns Freed of Germans   Thukov Replaces Nikolai Vatutin

500 Places Fall In Smash Into Southern Poland   Powerful Soviet Drive Breaks Through On 112-Mile Front and Moves Forward Up to 31 Miles; 6,000 Nazis Killed in Two Days: Odessa-Lwow Line Threatened

Reds Kill 6,000 Nazis, Capture Over 500 Places in 2 Days of Battle On. Front of 112 Miles .

Reds Battle at Approaches of Volochisk   Capture of Town Would Cut Vital Rail Line

Russians Start 2 New Drives to  End Finnish War   j * ote 4s . At Same Time Finns Are in ) Throes of a Government   Upheaval.   Red Offense Aimed At Clearing Railway

RUSSIANS HURLING MEN AND MATERIAL INTO FINNISH DRIVE  TWO NEW CAMPAIGNS OPENED TO PUT FINLAN

Soviets Mass For 2 Drives In Broad Line   Make Effort To End War Quickly With Finns; Report Upheaval.   DRIVE FOR RAILWAY

Red Army Hurls All Its Might Inte Big Drive Into Finland   Peace Terms Reported Offered Reformed Finnish Cabinet

Reds Would End War With Finns By Great Drives   Soviet Peace Plan Involves Aceeptance Of Borders  Settled Upon In 1940

Russ Open 2 New Drives   Double Smosh Aimed At Ending Finn War, Cutting Murmansk R.R

REDS LAUNCH ? NEW DRIVES   Hurl Masses of Men, Equipment on Front Narth of Lake Ladoga.   FINNS ARE FACING SRISIS

Russians Launch Double Drive To:Knock Finland Out Of The War Quickly

Soviets Open New Drives In Finnish Figh   Using Masses of Men and Eguipment In Effort To Make Quick End of War

New Drives Unde Way in Finland  Soviets Seek Quick End to Struggle

REDS LAUNCH HARD DRIVES AGAINST FINNS   Masses of Men and Equipment Hurled Into Offensive to Make Quick End of Hostilities   CABINET IN UPHEAVAL

Russians Drive ToKnock Finns OutOf The War   Masses Of Men, Equip: ment Hurled Against Foe Along Broad Front

REDS START NEW DRIVES TO SPEED DEFEAT OF FINNS   FINNISH ARMY IS STAGGERING; GOV'T CRISIS INDICATED

Russians Launch  Two New Drives  Offensive Opened by Red Armies Toa Put Ourck End tn War with Fie

‘Reds - Launch 2 New Drives Upon Finland   Advance On 3. Fronts With Masses Of Men And Equipment After New Break In Line; Finnish Gov't. in Crisis.

Reds Launch New Drives   Aimed at Capturing Key Rail Link; Advance Beyond Viipuri

Reds Smash At Finland With Peace  Moves Near   New Drives Started Across Large Front

2 SOVIET DRIVES   Russians Move: to Clear Finns From MurmanskLéningrad Line .

Finland May Be Knocked Out   ‘RUSSIA STARTS FINAL "DRIVE TO WIN VICTORY

Strive for Quick End te Finnish War   Soviets Launch Two New Drives; Upheaval In Finland May Be Prelude to Peace Bid

Finland Reels as Reds Hammer on   Soviets Hurl Troops At Government Facing Political Crisis

—RUSSIA—  BID FOR PEACE “IGSEENLIKEL'   Finland Already Reported In Throes Of Government Upheaval   Russians Launch New Drives On Front North Of Lake Ladoga

Reds Drive On Helsinki To End War   Finns Reported in Throes of Upheaval That May Be Prelude ef Bid for Peace

SOVIETS LAUNCH NEW ATTACKS   Start All-Out Offensive Against Finns

Russia Hurls Knockout at Broken Finns   “Peace Terms Reported Being Offered

DRIVE TO KNOCK FINNS FROM WAR   Russians Hurl Masses Of. Men And Equipment Into Battle; Finnish Bid For Peace Not Unexpected.

Reds Launch 2 Drives in North  Hurl Masses of Men   Hurl Masses of Men Into Effort to End War With Finns

Finland Faces Crisis as Reds Make New Lunges fo End War   REPORT PEACE OFFER RY RUSSIA ON 1940 TERMS

Russian Troops Within 180: Miles of Helsinki; Finnish  Government Facing Great Crisis

Soviets Launch New Drives Against Far Northern Finland   Red Army Nearing Border Fixed By Treaty At End Of 1939-40 Russo-Finnish War; Political Situation In Helsinki Obscure

OO  tinnish Government Reported In Upheaval As Reds Drive Nearer

German Crose-Fire Flows “Down Some Of First Asecult  ; y i ae ce Fee co fe a  YFreeps, Eye-Yyiiness Says

German Crossfire Mows Down Attackers, but Fails To Hold Up Inland Drive for Lone

Climb Over Bodies To Obtain Foothold —  French Beaches Really Hot Spots

First Assault Forces Cut By Crossfire   Invaders Climbed Over Dead Bodies to Win First Footholds

DESCRIBES LANDING ON FRENCH SHORE   Sheer Numbers Wore Down Nazi Resistance

Invaders Crawl Over Bodies.to Get at Foe   News Writer Reports Americans Floating Dead in.Choppy Waters

First Eyewitness Account of Our Invasion of the French Coast   Climb Over Bodies Until A Foothold Was Established

Drop Govt. Control?   Revelation That African Trade May Be Privately Arranged

_ Japs Like Germans Prepare for Long Defensive War. _ Haven't Ships to Bring ‘in Stolen Riches From Southern Areas. Nimitz Sees China As Vital Base

—~——~—me_- LC YYar 1;OCaYyY ===  U. S. Able to Handle Tough, Crafty Japs

VICTORY OVEi: IPPON ISLANDS STRONGHOLDS INDICATE WE ARE WEL{. ABLE TO UANDIE ENEMY

The War Today   Marshalls Mopup Clears Way For Drive on Jap Mainland

WAR TODAY   Amazingly Quick Marshalls Victory Proves U.S. Forces Can Handle Japanese—Not Easily But Well

GERMANS DECLARE RUSSIANS STARTED EAST PRUSSIA DRIVE  NAZIS ALSO CLAIM ALLIES READY FOR WEST FRONT CAMPAIGN

SMASH ENEMY EFFORT 10 CUT AACHEN RING   Doughboys Throw Nazis Back; New American Drive In Making   Big East-West Push Reported

Nazis Reveal Soviets Open New Drive   Hungarian Attempt to With draw from War Appears Crushed as Honthy Cancels Plea -

Five Women Die in Big © Eastern Fire   WAR PLANT EMPLOYES TRAPPED BY FLAMES IN CHICAGO BUILDING

Senator Bone — Appointed to Federal Bench   Senate - Votes . Immediate Confirmation; Political Washington Surprised

“DoNothing’ Accusation of UnionMan   DECLARING THREAT OF NEW STRIKE IS IN AIR If GOVERNMENT DOES NOT ACT VERY SOON.   Union Wins

Union Raps Laxity in Ward’s Case  U.S.‘Do Nothing Attitude Held Walkout Threat

HOLMES COUNTY FOX DRIVES CAUSE DELUGE OF PROTESTS   PICTURES IN LIFE MAGAZINE BRING FLOOD OF TELE.   GRAMS AND LETTERS TO COUNTY OFFICIALS

NAZI OCCUPATION BEGUN IN BULGARIA   Reported Crossing Over The Border From Serbia

NAZI DIVISIONS — INBULGARIA   75,000 Men Begin Occupation of Strategic Points

GERMANS OCCUPY BULGARIA; NEW. -PRO-NAZI GOVERNMENT FORMED; BLACK SEA COAST HELD, TURKS SAY

Revolt. German Coup Reported in Bulgaria   BULGARIAN TROOPS IN REVOLT, IS REPORT

Five Divisions Reported Active In Balkan Nation   Soviet Newspaper Warns Country “Stands On Brink of Catastrophe” .

Reports From Turkey Claim 75,000 Nazi Troops Are Occupying Nation; Reds Warn Of ‘Catastrophe’

Germans Report Allies Within 85 Miles of Capital   Nazis In Desperate Counterattack to Halt Red Surge

Canadians Crack Second Hun Line   Moscow Declares 16 German Reserve _Divisions Brought into Fighting but Fail to Check Red Advances; Stuttgart Area  of Reich Target of 1,000-Plane Raid

Murder Trial IsContinued   Case Against Negro Charged With Slaying Cadet’s Wife Set For February

Condemned Negro Wins Continuance  of Trial for Decatur Bride's Death

Believe Russia to Insist German Industry Be Spared To Rebuild War Damage

Nazis Now Beaten More Than In 18   No Signs of Internal Collapse As Was Last War’s Case Yet Showing.

NAZI TROOPS IN WEST DWINDLING   Less Than -500. 500,000 Germans Left to Defend Frontier

@yrcLer TAKES WORSE BEATING THAN KAISER  But No Sign of Collapse in Sight

Germany’s Defeat Worse Than Kaiser’s; No Sign Of Internal Collapse

NAZI TROOPS IK WEST DWINDLING   Less Than 500,000 Ger. mans Left to Defend Frontier

Avoids Fight On Learning U.S. Power   164 Jap Planes Destroyed in 3-Day Bombing  Of Formosa

Flat Failure to Meet Halsey-Mitscher Force Belies Tokyo Radio Boast of Victory   ASSAULT DRIVEN BACK

Little Hope Held Out For TH Child   Case so Hopeless Offer of Comedians to Finance Cure Deelined

Japs’ Attempt to Flee Saipan Fails   New Move Indicates  Island Considered Lost

ALMOST THIRTEEN HUNDRED AMERICAN HEAVIES IN ATTACK  CRUSHING 48-HOUR, OFFENSIVE CLIMAXED BY REFINERY BOMBINGS

Bombers Strike 7 Nazi Fuel Plants   Saarbrucken Railroad Yards Also Hit in 48-Hour Offensive

GREAT FORCE Of BOMBERS ATTACK RAILWAYS, PLANTS   Seven German Fuel Plants and Railroad Yards Targets for Huge Air Armada

‘Mold Inhibits Growth Of TB  Germs, Declared   Find Parellels Penicillin; Same Group f Fungi

TUBERCULOSIS CURE POSSIBLE   New Type Of Green Mold May Prove Effective  Against Disease

TELEPHONE RATES TO BE REDUCED APRIL 1   Maryland Subscribers Will Save Approximaicly 3$205.009 an hualir, PSC announer<

PHONE RATES CUT, EFFECTIVE APRIL 1   Intra-State Calls of More Than 42 Miles Largely Affected

Ring Tightens On Enemy's Island Bases   Military Government Set Up by Nimitz; Wewak Is Blasted

American Soldiers Battling. Japs From ‘Pillbox To Pillbox’ [To Tighten Grip On Marshalls   Military Government Set Up; Enemy Dealt New Heavy Blow In New Guinea

U. §. Forces Tighten Hold on Marshalls   Every Attempt of Japanese to Check Advance Thrown Back

New Landings Tighten Hold On Marshalls   Americans Battled Japanese From Pillbox to Pillbox as. More Atolls Are Captured;  Nips Suffer Big Plane Loss

Yanks Knocking Off Nip Pillbox After Pillbox   New Landings Are Tightening Ring Around Marshalls

AMERICANS BATTLE JAPS FROM ‘PILLBOX TO PILLBOX’ TO HIT VITAL BASES IN MID-PACIFIC   American Set Up Military Government in Occup ied Portions of Marshalls Suspending Power of  Emperor Hirohito After 23 Yeats Rule. All Jap Attacke Failad

Hard Fighting On Kwajalein Is Reported Today   Japs Being Blasted Out Of Pillboxes; Tokyo’s Fears Increase

AMERICAN TROOPS BATTLE JAPS UPON KWAJALFIN TODAY   ‘NEW LANDINGS TIGHTEN INVASION RING AROUND BIGGEST ATOLL

Japs Turn to Talk As Defensive Drives Fall Back  Nips Suffer Crushing Blow Against  Airnawer at Wawatl

BODIES OF FOE LITTER ISLETS AFTER ASSAULT   Air Attack on Jap Base on New Guinea Destroys 80 More Planes

Fleeing German Survivors Shelt  French Seaport      U.S. Forces Make Quick Mon Up Of Opposition

UNRRA Ends 10° Day Meeting   Lehman Hopes Next’ Ses sion May Be Held In” Europe - 5

Fighting Rages For Krivoi Roa   Russian Troops Push Into Inner Defenses Of Ore Center

OPA Warns Two lowa Auctioneers   Numerous Ceiling Violations Reported

NEW BADOGLIO CABINET FORMED   All Six Anti-Fascist Groups. Are Represented 

may AGAIN HAS CABINE)   SIX ANTI-FASCIST GROUPS FINALLY AGREE ON MAKEUP OF GOVERNMENT SETUP.

ITALIANS UNITE IN NEW REGIME   Badoglio Cabinet Includes All Anti-Fascist Political Elements

NEW ITALIAN GOVERNMENT FORMED   Marshal Badoglio Brings About Coalition

Badoglio Forms ~ New Government   Membership Accorded To All Six Anti-Fascist Groups Of Nation

INTI-FASCIST CROUUPS GIVEN MAJOR POSTS   Action Party Receives Two Ministries in New Set-up

Barrage Balloon Breaks New York Moorings; will Be Military Taraet

Complete Second All-Fighter Plane Shuttle Mission From Italy to Russian Bases

ON TRIAL IN FRANCE   White Russian is Charged With Working for Germans

UMW Officer Says State Employes Seek FDR Support   Says Petition Being Circulated Among Miners

U. S., , Russia’s Plans Differ.   Small Nations. ‘Are “Diffieult Problem.

Small Nations’ Part In Postwar Security Set-Up May Hit Snag Through Differences

Allies Appear To Agree On Security In Post-War Era   Russia Favors High Power For N ations Of Enforcement

Peace Role Of Small Nations Poses Problen   Differences Between Russiz and United States Over Their Inclusion In Security Setup Arise

Text of Gen. MacArthur's Special Communique on Philippines invasion

MacArthur Explains Strategic Results To Be Far Reaching   Cuts Off Half Million Men, Puts Americans on Both Flanks of Japs to North; Enemy Taken Unawares, Says ~ Commander-in-Chief, Who's in Personal Command There

CROWLEY HITS LEND-LEASE RUMOR TALK   Brands Long List of Stories As Fictitious

False Reports Pointed Out By Leo T. Crowley   Radio Tokyo Blamed For Some Charges Which Have Been Circulated By American Citizens

Crowley Blasts Rumors Against  Lend-Lease Funds   Makes Public Facts To Offset Long List Of ‘‘Fictions’’

STORIES FALSE SAYS DIRECTOR OF LEND LEASE   Denies, Charges Funds Misused

Blast Lies On Uses Of Lend-Lease   Most of Rumors Emanating from Tokyo, According To Crowley.

Crowley Says Rumors “Fictitious”  Hits Charges Against Lend- Lease

Sergeant Robert Appell On Fortress Shot Down By Germans Sept. 12: ~

PHILADELPHIA RIOTING FOLLOWS TROLLEY STRIKE   Armed Negroes Roam City Streets, Breaking Windows, Looting Stores

STRIKE BRINGS RACE TROUBLE   Martial. Law: Asked in Phila delphia. as Brigands Roam Streets.

Philadelphia Has Rioting   Citizens Ask Martial Law After Race Fighting Follows Transportation Tieup

Racial Disorders Break Out In Philadelphia Transportation 'Tie-Up; Navy Workers Idle

Riots Flare As Transportation Strike Grows   Negro Youths Roam Phil adelphia In Resentment Of Tie-Up Cause

RESUMPTION OF NEGRO-WHITE FIGHTS AND GANG LOOTING IS OUTGROWTH OF TROLLEY STRIKE   President Roosevelt Asked to Seize Paralyzed Transportation System and Restore Order.  Negro Gangs of ’Teen Age Boys Roaming About Cauee Troanble -

U. S. Aid Is Sought In Strike    Mayor Is Requested To Declare Martial Law ‘As Result Of Looting ‘And Racial Disputes

Racial Fighting In Philadelphia  Transport Strike Leads To Trouble

May Declare Martial Law   Philadelphia Seeks Ruling to Halt Race Riots in Bus Tieup

FIGHT BEATEN WV BATTLES AT PHI ADELPHI   Transport Tieup Cutting Down: War Work; Labor X soard Seeks Solution.

WOULD PREVENT AACE FIGHTING   Fights, Gang Looting Follow Tieup of City’s Transportation.   APPEAL TO PRESIDENT

ASK MARTIAL LAW IN PHILADELPHIA TO HALT TROUBLE   Citizens’ Group Wants ‘Troops To End Negro-White Fights  ' And Gang Looting . Attendant Upon Tieup of Trans: portation System

Philadelphians Ask Martial Law   Race Riots Are Result of Strike

Disorder Sequel to Strike of Employes of Transport System   Martial Law is Asked; Army May Take Over System as Result

Race Riots Flare in Philadelphia  Trouble Follows Streetcar Strike

RACIAL RIOTS FOLLOW TIE-UP   Philadelphia Transportation System Idle; Whites, Negroes Battle, Ten Injured

PHILADEPHIA $ CITIZENS ASK MARTIAL LAW   Urge Roosevelt Move To End Strike of Tram Workers

Martial Law Sought in Philadelphia   Move Asked to Prevent Resumption of Race Fights; Transportation System Remains Paralyzed .

Used Cars Put Under Price Control   BOWLES SETS CEILINGS TO CURB HOARDING, CUT COST INCREASE

NO U. S. SHIPS LOST; ONLY THREE DAMAGED   All Action Confined to Planes; Contact Not Established Between Surface Units; Attack On U. S. Fleet Cost the Jans 353 Planes.

Fighting Done Entirely By Planes From the Two Fleets; Japs Flee For Home.

Nips Lose 4 Warships; 10 Others Damaged; — U. S. Loses 49 Planes

Mayor's Contab Fails to End Bus Tieup in St. Louis   Every Private Car Pressed Into Use; Traffic Congested

‘Confusion in St. Louis: Bus and Street Car Crews Shout Down Plea of WLB To Resume Work      Conference Is Failure   Traffic Tied Up

YANK TROOPS SEIZE INTACT BRIDGE OVER MAJOR RIVER BARRIER AND SWEEP ACROSS

95th Division Seizes Bridge In Quick Move   German Defenders Taken by Surprise

POLITICIANS EYEING — OKLAHOMA ELECTION   Defeat For Democratic Cengressional Candidate Might Stall Fourth Term Morement

Oklahoma Election: Both Sides Say Result Tomorrow May Show Trend for November

Hungary Reaches Decisive Stage   Regent Horthy Reads Grim Order of Day First Warning Made

Rains Bog Down Action In Italy   Fifth, Eighth Army Drives Are Halted

Infantrymen Hear They've Retaken Town Never Lost  Seesaw Engagement Is Victorious Even if Confusing

Malmedy Never Lost, Yanks Say   Men Fighting in City Surprised at Radio News of Recapture

Infantrymen Hear They've Retaken Town Never Lost  Seesaw Engagement Is Victorious  Bisa £6 Pawkesow tee

G.OP. Opposes U.S. Part in World State   Dewey Assured of Nomination on First Ballot

Party Platform Awaits Approval of Convention —   Dewey Assured First Ballot Nomination By Substantial. Vote

13 Army Nurses, 17 Men, Spend Two Months Dodging Germans in Balkans

WAR CAPTIVES IN HARTFORD   First Of Prisoners To Be Brought To Michigan To Aid Farmers

First Nazi War Prisoners Here   Group Preparing Camp At Hartford Grounds

GUERRILLAS IN PARIS WAR AGAINST NAZIS   French Fac { or y Workers Punch at Occupiers

OPEN GUERILLA WAR FLARES IN PARIS SECTION   Nazi War Industries Are Seriously Damaged By Bombs

Yanks Surging Into Southern Normandy Area   Soviet Armies Driving Swiftly Toward Heart Of Nazi Germany   Germans Continue To Fight Backward:

ALLIES START BOMBARDMENT AT CASSINO   In Attempt To Blast German Parachutists From Ruins Of Two Hotels; No Reports Of Ground Action.   Destroy Planes

DEGAULLEIS © EXPECTED T0 VISITLONDON   French Official May Make Trip Despite Protests

De Gaulle To Visit London.   Expected To Make Trip Despite Protests From Algiers.

EXPECT DEGAULLE T0 GO 10 LONDON   Acceptance of Invitation From Churchill ls, “My, Forecast

DE GAULLE IS EXPECTED T0 VISIT LONDON   General Eisenhower Will State Views of United States in Conference  With French And English Dele gates

DeGaulle to Pay Visit to London   Will See Churchill Even if U. §. Balks

nemy Planes bsent During ea Attack   Fresh Units Sent To Kavieng; Rabaul On Verge Of Collapse

Kavieng and Rabau Continue to Be MacArthur Targets  New Britain Fortress Fails to Show Any Enemy Planes

ALLIES BLAST RABAUL FROM SEA AND AIR   Destroyers, Aided by 112Ton Bombing, Turn Guns on Jap Fortress After Record Shelling of Kavieng.

KAVIENG, RABAUL HEAVILY SHELLED iN SEA ASSAULT   U.S, Destroyers Turn Their - Guns on Rabaul Friday After Kavieng Bombardment Planes Joined in Rabaul Raid

U.S. Destroyers Shell Tottering Rabaul Fortress   After Giving Kavieng Worst Bombardment of War Task Force Blasts Rabaul From Sea and Air.

RETURN FIRE FROM RABAUL IS SPORADIC   American Destroyers After Giving Kavieng Worst Bombardment Turn Guns On Tottering Island   AIRDROMES DAMAGED

Kavieng Freshly Re-Inforced For Defense Action   Air Attacks Continue On Twin Bastions Of South Pacific

Two J ap Bases In Pacific Are Again Shelled   lottering Rabaul Shows Litde Fight, While Kavieug Returns Shell For Shell

NAVY GUNNERS  BLAST RABAUL AND KAVIENG   Ships and Planes Team Up on New Brilain Base—Sporadic Returo Fire Quickly Silenced   SEVEN SHIPS SUNK   Kavieng Recently Reinforced, Rejurmns Fire — Admiralty Island Bases Strafed

U.S. Turns Guns on Rabaul   Destroyer Attack Coordinated With 112-Ton Aerial Blow

Kavieng and Rabaul Continue to Be MacArthur Targets   New Britain Fortress  Fails to Show  Aes Dna Dinnse

Naval Guns Bombard Jap Rabaul Base   Destroyers Shell Totter: ing Base In Coordination With Great Aerial Bombing — No Jap  _ Planes Rise to Inter. cent. a

Jap Airdromes,  Munition Dumps, And Shipping Hit By American Fire

Tottering Rabaul Is Given a NavalAir Bombardment   U.S. Destroyers Also Pound Kavieng; Jap Losses in American  Rlow at Truk Mount

Only Kavieng Returns Fire   For Sixth Day No Jap Plane In Air Over Rabaul  JAP SHIPS SUNK

Destroyers Hit Kavieng   Heaviest Raid Yet On. New Ireland Port; Shell Batter Rabaul

No Enemy Planes Sent To Meet The Attack ° .  Kavieng And Rabaul Are Given Severe® Pounding By American Warships

rHEE NATIONS EQUAL UNDER NEW AIR LAY   Aviation Convention Puts End to Secret Negotiations  and Baannnnaline

TASK FORCE a HAS STRUCK ~ HARD. BLOWS   FLEET UNDER HALEY. orr MINDANAO ‘AND LANDINGS '" WAY BE ACTUALLY: ‘ UNDERWAY

AIM TO CHECK JAP FAST INDIA LOOT   Japs Try. to Get — _ Out Suppl: es Before Area Is Cut Off —

AIM 10 GHEGK JAP CAST INDIA LOOT   Japs Try to Get Out Supplies Before Area Is Cut Off

Warsaw Facing Encirclement As Russian Forces Build Up Power On East Prussian Front

4 DRAFTEES TO FURNISH BIC FORCE NEEDED   Plan to Use Men Not Fit For Combat Duty Behind the Lines is Finally Said to Be Adopted.

SEEK TO PUT (-F MEN INTO INDUSTRY   Would Provide Vast Emergency Manpower Pool

Vast Manpower Pool Emerges   Draft of Most Men Under 26 Has Intensified Problem

MEN IN 4-F CLASS WILL CONSTITUTE MANPOWER POO!   Those Untit for Military Service Must Keep Industria! Plants Going,

4  BEI FING STUDIED   Government May Use Legal Compilsion to Force 1% Dratt, Regidtrants and Diseharged Servicemeu to Take Jobs in Factories.

Vast Manpower Pool To Solve Nation's Dilemma   Problem Intensified By Plan To Draft All Under Ave 26

LOOK 10 4-FS FOR SOLUTION OF MANPOWEF   Vast New Labor Pool Of 7,000,000 May Be Tapped Soon

PLANES ATTACK LUZON ISLAND IN PHILIPPINES   Announce Wrecking Of Three Ships. 91 Planes In Island Raids

WEEE PLAN  OF PRESIDENT   ‘New: Flare-up Rises Over  Handling of the Wage we Disnute       BETTLEMENT  PLANS  FURTHER CLOUDED   Administration Is Accused . aoe Bungling by Labor Chiefs

iNew: Flare-up Rises Over , Handling of the Wage i+. Dispute   BET ELEMENT: PLANS  FURTHER CLOUDED   [Administration Is Accused C of Bungling by Labor Chief.

15RR Unions Turn Back OliveBrancn   WITHDRAW ACCEPTANCE OF PRESIDENT’S OFFER TO “MEDIATE” THEIR WAGE DIFFERENCES IN BITTERNESS FLARE.   Would Hobble President

Railway Unions Rebuff F. D. R.   Refuse to Allow Him To Arbitrate Dispute

Treland Refuses To Expel Axis Agents   U. S. Publicly Accuses Nation of Affording Base foi Axis Spies, Endangering Allied Invasion— Text of Notes Announced in Capital

Irish Reject American Appeal fo Expel German, Japanese Diplomats Endangering Invasion Plans

IRELAND SPURNS ‘APPEAL T0 OUST ENEMY AGENTS   De Valera Tells State Department Nation Will  Remain Neutral   IMMUNITY CLOAKS NAZI, JAP SPIES

IRISH REFUSE TO QUST JAPS AND GERMANS   INVASION OF EUROPE ENDANGERED, SAYS U. S. CHARGE   RY IOHN VC. HIGHTOWER

DENIES HAVEN IS BEING GIVEN GERMAN SPIES   Washington Reveals Irish Posted Army in Fear of Invasion

Ireland Rejects American Plea For Axis Ouster   De Valera Answers Note Charging That Eire Is Base of Spies

IRELAND CALLED BASE FOR SPIES BY WASHINGTON   United States Calls Upon Dublin, to Oust Axis Diplomats, But Request Is Turned Down.   HOP ACROSS CHANNEL REPORTED ENDANGERED   De Valera Says to Expel Germans and Japanese From Country Would Be a Step ’ Toward War.

Eire Refuses To Expel Nazi, Jap Diplomats   American Request Rejected By Irish As U. S. Says Base Furnished for Axis Spies to Peril Invasion

American Note Charge: Enemy Spies in Eire Peril Allied Invasion   Republic Insists It Is Taking Effective Steps Against Espionage; Rejects Request To Expel German and Japanese Diplomats

FIRE ACCUSED OF HARBORING CNEMY SPIES   United States Makes Public Accusation But Irish Government Replies Precautions Are Taken.   Anorehend Chutists

De Valera denies U.S.  accusation ‘Allied invasion plans imperilied

American Government Accuses Ireland of Affording Base for Axis Spies Endangering Approaching Allied Invasion of Europe; Irish Say Precautions Have Been Taken

Axis Spies Claimed Using Eire As Base   De Valera Reports Nation Taking Effective Anti-Espionoge Measures: Appeal Is Refused

De Valera Turns Down  U.S. Appeal   Says His Government Js Taking Effective  Anti-Espionage Moves  NOTES EXCHANGED

Irish Refuse To Oust Axis Spy Leaders   U.S. Claims That  Invasion Mennced

Plea To Expel Nazis Spurned By De Valera   American Charge Denied by Envoy

treland Base For Axis Spies 5. Declares   @ lrish Refuses Appeal by America to Expel Diplomats

Jap Hold In India Broken   Counter-Attacking Troops. Take Heavy Toll Of Enemy.

JAPS’ LOSSES HEAVY ALONG ~ KEY ROADWAY   American Planes Hit Foes’ Island Holdings

\26,000 AXIS PLANES BLASTED IN AIR BY ALLIES   Pilen te MWasmiit

MAKE PLANS NEXT TUESDAY FOR RED CROSS WAR FUNI   Rev. A. E. Cole, Chairman, And Workers Seek Tn Reach Big $4,200 Goal.

Forty Bessarabian Villages Taken and Nazis Outflanked  GAINS ARE SCORED ON POLAND FRONT  Capture of Hilltop Fort. ress of Kremenets Is ~ Announced

Reds Cross Dniester On  31-Mile Front   Ukraine Offensive May Trap Thousands . Of Foe in Odessa Area  ADVANCE IN POLAND

Enemy Leaves Bridges Intaet In Falling Back   Thousands of Germans And Rumanians Tossed Into Dniester: Fort  Near Lwow Is Toppled

Cross Dniester Alonga 31-Mile Front   40 Bessarabian Villages Reported Taken

Thousands of Germans And Rumanians Killed As Soviet Tide Rolls On

Axis Troops Fleeing From Red Advance   Red Army Also Makes Important Gain in  Old Polish Area

REDS SMASH INTO RUMANIA AFTER NAZIS   And Rumanians Cutting Them Down By Thousands; Capturing Quantilites Of Equipment.   Hopeless Situation

Russians Invade Rumania On 31-Mile Front After Pushing Across Dniester

Cross Dniester River in Great 31-Mile Drive   Kill Thousands Of Axis Troops

Dniester is bridged over 31 mile front  40 Bessarabian villaces cantured

German Retreat Into Rumania Is Such A Rout They Leave The Bridges Intact

Aggressive-minded Young Senators Likely to Grab Control of Senate Leadership

Reshuffled COP  Setup In Making  Young Senators Seek ' Fighting Leadership

TAFT SUPPORTED FOR M’NARY POST   YOUNGER. _MEMBERS FAVOR, : pedal FIGHT IN SENATE “AGAINST NEW DEAL, —

Successor For McNary Begins   Reshuffle Of Senate's Republican Organization In ‘The Making.

‘Young Turks Seek Contro! Of Senate GOP   Vandenberg, Taft Talked to Direct Groups ‘New Fight’

Vondenberg, Taft Appear Chiet Candidates To Head Senate GOP Atter McNary’s Death

“of ‘the Finest: Harbors On the: Adriatic, . ‘It: Is : Announced. to         ‘CAPITAL’ OF DALMATIA   Brief. Report. Has. Not. Been "* Contirmed in’ -'Tito’s :.  Coitimunique.’

Success Won By Yugoslavs   Lay Siege to German Garrison and Make Counter-Attacks

ITO FORCES SURROUND TOWN, BESIEGE NAZIS   Communique Tells of Many Successes As Partisans AtAttack and Counter-Attack In Yugoslavia

Yugoslav Partisan: Besieging Germans In Mrkonjicgrad  Tito’s Uniix Alen Smach Way   Tifo’s Units Also Smash Way Into Uzice, Wreck Station, Take Offensive in Slovania

: . °  Split Besieged  By Tito’s Army  Dalmatian Capital Cu Off. Report

RAF Follows With Heavy Night Attacks On Targets On French Coast.

Air Assault Is Concentrated  on Rail Lines  Great Ploesti Oil Refineries Also Are Plastered

Bus-Train Crash Kills 27 Army Men  25 Aviation Cadets Are Among Dead

27 Army Men Die  In Bus-Train Crash   hight More Cadets Critically Injured

U.S: BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN REGION AGAIN   Stuttgart ‘Believed Target In Follow Up of of RAF’s 600-Plane Assault

TART ATTACK  BEFORE DAWN   Jap Troops Bloodily Repulsed By Americans in Admiralties.

Japs Repulsed With Losses in Admiralties   Counter-Attack of Nipponese Fails— American Losses  So Far “Negligible”

Jap Counterattack for Los Negros is Beaten by Yankees   Losses of MacArthur’: Entrenched Forces  Are Negligible

Jay japs Repulsed On Los Negros * In Admiralty   American Invaders Win Bloody Encounter;: Seize Momote Airdronte; U. S.. Losses Negligible

JAP DEFENDERS ON ADMIRALTY 'ARE REPULSED   Pre-Dawn Counter Attack on Island Defender: By Americans

Japs Repulsed In Island Attack   Enemy Seeks to Dislodge Troops Entrenched in Admiralty Islands

American Losses So Far Negligible... . .  Japs Bloodily Repulsed  In Predawn Attack In The Admiralty. Islands

ENEMY FAILS TO OUST ADMIRALTY ISLAND INVADERS   100 JAPS KILLED, MAC ARTHUR SAYS U. S. LOSSES SMALL

epulse Japs In Admiralty Isles  ‘Bps Attempt Attack, But ‘re Thrown Back

Japs Routed In Admiralty  Counter-Blow   Hurled Back After Bloody Battle; Wake Bombed

Bleodily Repulsed   ae a En¢ ranrkal —   Yanks Entrenched In the Admiralties Turn Back Enemy

AMERICANS REPULSE JAP COUNTERATTACK ON ADMIRALTY ISLET      Momote Airdrome on Los Negros Is Target But Enemy ~ ls Hurled Back   LOSSES LOW—MacARTHUR

Jap Attacks — In Admiralty Are Stopped  By Americans   Early Morning Raid  ‘Fails; Losses Seen

MOMOTE FIELD DAMAGED LITTLE      Invaders Have Not Yet Been Attacked From Air

U.S. Invaders Of Los Negros Beat Off Jans   MacArthur Reports American Losses Light So Far

Roads Behind Nazi Front Clogged With Enemy Transport, Flier Says

NAZIS STREAM TOWARD FRONT   German Transport Jams Roads; Vast Numbers of Antiaircraft Guns

Swedish Imports May Be Reduced   Trade with Germany Strongly Opposed

THURS., AUG. 21         as Superintendent O! Bar Harbor Schools Many Years

GEORGE H. BEARD DIED SUDDENLY THURS., AUG. 2:   Was Superintendent Of Bar Harbor Schools Many Years

Moscow Predicts Early Invasion   Success in Italy Warning fo Germans

INVASION IMMINENT, SOVIET PAPER SAYS   Germans Are Convinced Allies Are Capable Of Breaking Any Dsfense. Pravda Relaics

ALLIES CAN BREAK ANY NAZI DEFENSE   Pravda Points to Breakthrough of the Hitler  - Lire

Westein Front — Tnnninent Says _ Moscow Pape  go Ba. , eee eo Reel   Pravda Asserts Barlin _ Realizes__Allies Ccn Overco.ne Defanses

\Moscow Paper Says Breakthrough of Hitler Line Is Beginning lof General Offensive in Eurone

Invasion at Hand, Moscow Asserts   Reds Taunt Nazis Allie Can Break Any Line

Germans Know Allies Capable of Sinashing Any Defense, Reds Assert

Hitler line break shows allied power  Pravda declares offensive beoun

Allies Climbing Heights North Of Old Art City   Communication Hub Pistoia Only 2,000 Yards From Advancing Troops

ALLIES TAKE 2 HEIGHTS NORTH OF FLORENCE   Advanee Within 2,000 Yards of Communications Center of  Pistoia

Americans Capture Two Italian Heights: Rains Slow British in East

ALLIES TAKE HILLS NORTH OF FLORENCE   Advance to Within 2,000 Yards of Pistoia

Series of Blasts  Rocks Philadelphia   Hopkins Elevator Destroyed by Fire

Quaker City Is Shaken by Blast  Ma sanesiunt Explosion {Injures Many

FIRE FOLLOWS EXPLOSIONS   Blasts In Magnesium Drums Rock Buildings for Blocks

FEWER CIGARETTES BUT MORE LIQUOR   That’s Prospect for Americ: For Coming Months

Soviet Armies Roll Forward   Spearheads 25 Miles From Prut River

FIGHTING IN EAST POLAND   Nazis Report New Red Drive To South Of Vitebsk

New Red Drive Seen Fashioning Another Trap   Russian Vanguards Reported Only 25 Miles From Prot River.

«eet Fight Inside Kovel, Nazis Reporf   Moscow Claims Red Army Troops Are in Sight of Black Sea Base of Nikolaev

G.0.P. May Halt Subsidy Battle   Move to End Fight Reported in House

Politics   GOP Derides Lift on Meat Rations; Drops Food Subsidy Fight

ERIC A. JOHNSTON WILL VISIT RUSSIA   C. of C. Head Hopes to Learn Hov Soviet's Post-War Trade Will Affect US. -

U. S. Commerce Chamber Head Will Go to Russia Bui Will Not Write Book

Your Waste Paper Is Needed For  Blood Plasma and Food Containers

School Wants Waste Paper   s Badly Needed Fo1 Plasma, Food Containers

To Streamline GOP. Conventior   Big Meeting Opens on Monday Morning

"DRAFT DEWEY” BACKERS CLAIM FIRST BALLOT   Streamlined GOP Meet Is Planned; Foreign Policy Plank Prepared

3 DAY SESSION IS MAPPED BY (CHIEFS 1N COP   Managers Counting Heavily on Harmony _ in Party for Fast Work

UP HEADS HOPE TO ANDY FIGHT   Streamlined Program Woull Stress Harmony.

Patton Threatens © : “Outflanking Move; - Bayonne Shelled   Open Path To Flying Bomb Coast; ‘Say Maquis Capture Toulouse; Report French Encircle Toulon

City Being Circled By American Tanks In Slashing Drives   In Southern France, Marseille and Toulon Being Squeezed By Second Invasion Forces as They Deepen and Widen Beachheads—Germans Caught in Normandy Trap Face Annihilation: French Capital May Be By-passed

WIDE FLANKING MOVE STARTED ABOUT CAPITAL   Allied Flags Hoisted tn City As Yanks Hammer At Gates

Trim Amounts From Deficiency Bill   Federal Works Agency and Housing Are Hit

FUND BILL CUT BY COMMITTEE   Slices 161 Million From Administration Bid

HELL ON WINGS MOVES INTO ACTION AS SUPER FORTS CET IN FIRST BLOWS AGAINST JAPS

AMERICAN FORCES MOVE ON BOLOGNA   Flanking Threat to Supply Center Has Developed

PERIL GERMAN FLANK IN ITALY   Yank Gains Pose Threat to Nazi Forces Holding City of Bologna

Yanks Take Frassineto From Nazis   Gapture-—ts--Flanking Threat to Bologna; Enemy Resistance Reported Stiff

Develop Flanking Threat to Bologna   Americans Advance  East of Italian City

BOLOGNA FLANK THREAT GROWS   American Troops Near Open Country And Good Highways

2 Italy Junctions Captured; 70,000 German Casualties   Enemy’s Reinforced Lines Stiffen; Clark Reveals Nazi Losses

MAJOR ROAD JUNCTION IN ITALY TAKEN   Clark Places German Casualties at 70,000 Men

Man Who Shot at President Held  Mexican Executive Escapes Injury

British Submarine Sinks Seven Ships   18-Minute Attack Made On Axis Held Harbor

Hull Tells Austria Time Is Running Out   Urges People To Rise if They Would Save Their Skins

Changes In South Pacific Command Loom; MacArthu Status Is Believed Secure

RAF Bomhs Baltic Port Of Stettin   Mosquitoes Draw Germans Off Guard With Berlin Feint

R.A. F. Blasts Stettin in ‘Heavy Attack   Baltic Port City Is Left With Broad Areas Aflame

BRITISH FEINT ENABLES RAF TO BLAST STETTIN   Bulk Of Nazi Fighters Go To Protect Berlin While - Bombers Shift   NORTHERN FRANCE IS POUNDED ONCE MORE

BIG FIRES SET AS STETTIN IS RAIDED BY RAF   British F eint Germans Out of Position by Jab at Berlin

Port of Stettin Smashed Hard By RAF Planes   Minor Slash at Berlin Pulls German Defenses Away from Main Target

RAF Out to  Bomb Germans Another Time  — _— Off pe y) VAY S on ae Ri, We atu   Airplanes Take Off Following Big Raid on Baltic Port

Bulgars to Break With Germany and Seek Peace Terms   Conference is Reported In Progress at Ankara; Armistice Expected

Aimed at Oil Fields and Bucharest   Brings Last Quiet Sector: of Russian Front into   Violent Action

Rumor Bulgaria  May Make Break   Expect Appeal To U.S  ‘Britain For Peace

MEAT RATIONS CHANGE AUS, 13   Dispute Of OPA, WFA Delays Revision Of Beef Chart

Continue Present Points on Meat   OPA Savs No Change Before Aug. 13

Current Point Values on Rationed Meats, Dairy Products Continued

Bishop Wroth Operated Upon, Condition Good   WFA Directive to OPA Delayed Current Point Values on Meat  To Continue Until August 13

RAF ASSAULTS FRENCH RAILS   Mosquito Bombers Blast Frankfurt, Western Reich

NAZI RAIL BASE TORN IN FRANGE   R.A.F.. Strikes At Le Mans Frankfurt Raided Again

F HITS WESTERN FRANCE   Bombards LeMans For Second Time  In Six Nights

Le Mans Rail Center Bombed   Another Explosive Punch Against German Tranenortation.

British Fliers ‘Attack Le Mans   Bomb Strategic Rail Center; Other Planes Hammer Frankfurt

RAF Stages Heavy Raid . On Le Mans   Explosive Punch Delivered in Drive on Nazi Transportation

BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST RAIL CENTERS   Mosquitos Stab Frank furt, West Germany

British Fliers Continue Raids  Targets in France and Germany Hit

Bombers Again Hit Le Mans   Seek to Cripple Transportation System of Nazis.

RAF Bombers lr Heavy Attack On Rail Center   Halifaxes Blast LeMans, France; Western Germar Targets Also Hit.

RAF BOMBERS HIT LE MANS   Frankfurt Also Threat of British Night Raiders

RAF Strikes Vital French taillway City   Le Mans In Northern France Bombed: Western  Germanv Raided.   ITALIAN ACTION SLOW

RAF BLASTS RAIL CENTER OF LE MANS   ‘Bombers Moon’ Brings Continued Blows ai Transport Nazis Coun! On to Meet Invasion

GERMAN FUEL CENTERS HIT   ae ee nalts  Ploesti Oil Fields, Fuel Dumps Near Paris Are Blasted in Raids

In Addition to Enemy Supply Routes Inside Area Around Paris Are Hit By Large Fleet.   Bomb Robot Lairs

The Gallup Poll  FR Has Commading Lead Over Governor Dewey in Eight Deep South States

Accused Man Leaps io Death   Former Official of © Draft Board Plunges From 14th Story

ORMER DRAFT BOARD OFFICIAL LEAPS 10 DEATH   John E. Wilson Had Been Indicted with Heir to  Brawary Fartuna

REMAINING GERMAN THREAT TO HOLLAND CORRIDOR WIPED OUT  NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE FROM NETHERLANDS REDUCED TO 25 MILES

German Escape Route Reduced   Berlin Reports New Airborne Landings; Arnhem, Battle Lost

Last-Minute Effort To Avoid Russian Troop Invasion   Ankara Dispatches Say War Declared Aaainst Germany Alsc

BOND, SAID TO WAR ON REICH   German Forces In Balkans Appear Trapped, With Surrender Only Out

DECLARATION OF WAR LACKS VERIFICATION   Nazi Forces in Balkans Appear to Have Been Trapped With Surrender Only Way Out

BULGARIA AND GERMANY BREAK ALL RELATIONS   Hitler’s Balkan House About To Collapse

RELATIONS WITH NAZIS ARE ENDED   Government Of Sofia Seeks To Stave Off Fight With Reds

reeks Believe Liberation Day Almost At Hand    Preparing Move Government; Germans In ' Balkans Trapped.

Bulgaria Cuts Relations With: Germany In Effort To Avert Russ Invasion

London, Paris Say Bulgars af War with Nazis  No Word Received 9 Red — oward Armistice

BULGARIA HAS BROKEN OFF RELATIONS WITH GERMANY TO AVOID INVASION BY RUSSIAN

BULGAR RELATIONS WITH GERMANY ARE DECLARED BROKEN  BALKAN NATIONS MAKES LAST-MINUTE EFFORT FORESTALL INVASION

BULGARS BREAK WITH GERMANY   Make Last Minute Effort to Avoid Invasion By Russian Troogs.

Bulgaria Breaks Axis Tie   Severs Diplomatic Relations With Germany In Effort to Escape Invasion By Russia

FLOOD THREAT FACED BY ELDORADO, KAN.   Steady Rains Turn to Ice and Snow in Parts of Missouri and Kansas.

By-Passing Subsidy Bill Fo Service Vote Fight Confuses Farmers, Claim

\How Much Resistance Does Hitler Still Have? Nazi Strength Key to Global War

 The War Today (How Much Resistance Hitler Has Up His 'Sleeve Is Still Number One Allied Questior

HITLER’S DEFENSIVE STRENGTH IS STILL GREAT, BUT ALLIES ARE. IPTT ING TP INVASION EQUIPMENT

The War Today   Slim Reserve Supplies Seen Hitler’s Main Defensive Hone

HITLER DEFENSES ARE STILL STRONG   But Full Strength Will Not Be Known Until Put to “Teast by Invasion

HOW LONG CAN NAZIS HOLD OUT?   Analyst Discusses Question As Hitler Staggers Badly

German Troops Fight Under Commanders’ Warnings Any Who Retreat Will Be Shot      If Entire Company Folls Back One Man In Every Ten Is Put To Death

Mountaineer Captain Leads Doughboys In Attack On Siegfried Fortress Town

GERMAN TROOPS HOLDING WEST © WALL TOLD THEY WILL BE SHOT IF THEY ATTEMPT TO RETREAT

Three of Buenos Aires quads are dead; INo registration of quintuplets found

QUADS ARE BOR IN BUENOS AIRES   Authenticity of Previously Reported Quints Still Questioned

Dilworth Man Chutes To Safety   Curtis Halvorson Escapes In Crash

Patton Tanks Race From By-Passed Paris, Capture Sens on Road to Berlin; Deauville Falls to Canadians

Tenseness Caused hy Confused (reek Fighting  Churchill to Send His Ace Trouble Shooter to Athens

British Ired Over Policy   Commons” Coalition: Faces Serious Sphit

British At Odds Over Churchill's Stated Policy   Prime Minister Plans To Send Envoy To Greece

Confidence Vote Fails to Allay British Tension   Hands Off Attitude Threatened by Strong Labor Party

Ward's Refuses Roosevelt Order   Denies Union Has Shown a Majority

F.D.R. Defied By Great Chain Store Company   Montgomery Ward Refuses Contract

FIRM DEFIES ORDER BY FDR   Ward Company Says Property Seizure Would Be Unconstitutional

Election Tables on Pages 2 and 7   Wards Defy tUR Order to Renew Union Relations  vefuse fo Co:noly: will   Kefuse to Comply Will Directions After Workers Return

WARD FIRM DEFIES: pot ORDER   REFUSES TO. KESUME FULL "RELATIONS WITH UNION  AT CHICAGO PLANT. .,

WARD'S DEFIES FDR MANDATE   Refuses to Recognize  Employes’ Union

President Defied By Company   Montgomery Ward Says Property Seizure Would Be Unconstitutional.

FDR'S. ORDER DEFIED BY MAIL ORDER (0.      Montgomery Ward & Co. Holds Property Seizure Unconstitutional.

MNIL ORDER FIRM DEFIES FOR ORDER   Montgomery Ward and Company Tells President Seizure of its Properties Would Be Unconstitutional

LAST NAZIS ON CORFU ISLAND SURRENDER   Await Word on Prom ised Landing on Greek Mainland

CORFU FREED OF LAST NAZI   Garrison Surrenders; Fall Of Athens Unconfirmed

(By international News Service)   LAST GERMAN TROOPS SURRENDER ON CORFU

Partisans And Reds Now In Belgrade   Fate Of Budapest Hangs On Outcome Of Battle In Magyar Plains

REDS, YUGOSLAYS ENTER BELGRADE: FIGHT IN STREETS   German Garrison Doomed, Commander and Staff Flee —Fall of City Appears Imminent.   RUSSIANS SEIZE 10 TOWNS SOUTH OF RIGA   Nazis Battle to Delay Soviet Advance as They Are Pushed Westward Into ‘Potential Trap.

YUGOSLAVS AND RUSSIANS DRIVE INTO BELGRADE   Say Hungarians Seek Armistice Terms From Russia

TITO'S FORCES IN BELGRADE   Partisans And Russians Enter Yugoslav Capital

Russians and . Yugoslavs Enter Belgrade   , 2,000-Year-Old City is Expected to Be Captured Soon

Fall of Belgrade Imminent as Russtans and Yugoslav Troops Press Into City   Athens Occupied by Allied Troops  Germans Believed to Have Fled Greece

CITY’S FALL APPEARS IMMINENT   Russians, Yugoslavs Battling Doomed ‘Nazi Garrison

FALL OF CAPITAL OF YUGOSLAVIA EXPECTED SOON   Hungary’s Fate In Balance Of 50 Miles Southeast Of Budapest

Reds And Slav  Partisans Pour  aw   Commander Of Nazi Garrison And  Staff Flee City

Battle Rages In Streets _ Of Belerade   Russians and Partisans Fight Way Inside City

Street Battle On In Capital Of Yugoslavia   Tito’s Headquarters Reports Nazi Chief, Staff Have Fled; Fall Of Citv Nearing

Battle Rages In Streets OfBelarade   Yugoslav Capital’s Fall ls Regarded As Early Certainty

Reds And Tito Forces Break Into Belgrade   Street: Battle Raging! Against Doomed German  Garrison, Deserted by  ' Commander

Fall Of Capital Of Yugoslavia. To Reds, Slavs Expected Soon   ‘Street Battle With. Germans Is. Begun

Doomed Garrison Awaits Death In Yugoslay City  Tank Battles Decidin: Fate of Hungary, Last Axis Satellite

Soviets, Yugoslavs  Push Into Belgrade   Great Tank Contest Believed Deciding Hungary’s Fate; Reds Continue Sweep From Fallen Riga

Yugoslav Exits  Being Blocked Against Nazis   Hungarian Peace Envoys  Reported En Route

Nazi Commander scapes Belgrade ‘As Reds Arrive   City Faces Doom As Allies Mopup In Balkan Area

i) AND EREAT BRITAIN   And Orders Army Ta Fight Hungarians For — Transylvania   FIRST SATELLITE TO ABANDON HITLER   Bulgaria, Hungary And Slavakia Governments In Session

Order Of WLB Disregarded By Phone Strikers   Union Officers Going To Washington; Crane Operators’ Walkout Checks Steel Output

ORDER FIVE OHIO PHONE OFFICERS TO WASHINTON   T6 Appear Before NWLB: Lausche Predicts Strike To End Today

Strikers Called Up: Tie-Up Spreading   Union Must Show Why WLB Order Ignored

Butte Organizations to Honor heir War Dead luesday   Various Groups to Hold Fitting Services at Cemeteries Following Parade, City-Wide Memorial Ceremonies

Butte Organizations to Honor Their  War Dead Tuesday  -Various-Groups to Hold Fitting Services at Cemeteries Following   -Various Groups to Hold Fitting Services at Cemeteries Following Parade, City-Wide Memorial Ceremonies

Drastic Action Planned Against War Slackers   Senate Committee And  Military Leaders  Confer Today

‘Work Or Figh?’ ill Considered At Washington   Reactions Of Hershey And Top Army, Navy Men Sought By Committee

BIG BASE IN THE UKRAINE   Stalin Reports That Reds, in New Break-Through, Have Captured 300 Occupied Places and 500  - Tanks and Gung.

Key Base in the Western Ukraine Falls to Soviets   Uman Is Captured in New Offensive Which Smashes 10  German Divisions

WEST UKRAINE RAIL HEAD FALLS AS REDS ADVANCE   ‘RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CRACKS ENEMY LINES IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE

DEATH POCKETS OF LAST NAZIS ARE WIPED OUT   UP Writer Enters Bloody Village With Troops

Enemy Troops Retreat in Italy   Fleeing Germans Battered By Bombs

British Eighth Army Battles Into Po Plains   Take Strategic Roads As Germans Retreat Toward Brenner Pass

BODY OF GIRL IS RECOVERED         be, Tragedy. When Girl Fell Through Walk

HAIN ON  AND SLE] rOAGE LULL   Allied Lines Still Intact  INEMY TO BREAK  Terrific Fighting at Cassino

Allied Lines In Italy Are Holding  Positions Intact   Repulse All Attempts Of Nazis To Crush Anzio Beachhead   WEATHER HALTS AIP ACTIVITIES

U.S, AND BRITISH FORCES IN FIGHT OVER 100 HOURS   Rain, Snow, Sleet Ground All Planes; but Allies Get Naval Aid

SURFACE FLEET AIDING HARD PRESSED ARMY   Blinding Rain And Snow Prevent Aerial Armadas Bolstering Defense   BRITISH LAUNCH DRIVE   Red Columns Move Toward Bug River—Rocket Coast Pounding Continues

Allies Hold Their Positions   Maintain Battlelines Against Strong Attacks

Sick And Wounded Soldiers Get Best Of Treatment..... Army Hospitals Get Clear Health Bill From Congres:

Army Hospital Probers Report To Congress   Declare Conditions Excellent Save in Isolated Instances

House Group Finds Army Hospitals Generally Allright  89 Hospitals Were We we OC de ar   89 Hospitals Were ‘Inspected in 20 States and D.C.

ARMY HOSPITALS GET CLEAN BILL   Only Minor Criticism Made by House Probers

Congressmen Praise Army Hospital Care   find Conditions Generally Good

Army Hospital: Generally OK   Honse Investigating Committee Finds Few Canses for Conlalint

Alfred E. Smith Expires Toda V   “Happy Warrior’, Ex. Governor of New York. Dies at Seventy

Death Claims ‘Alfred £. Smith   Noted Democrat Dies at Aae of 70

ALFRED E. SMITH, ‘HAPPY WARRIOR’, VICTIM OF DEATH   Four Times Governor of New York Succumbs, After Lengthy Hlness

Illustrious Career of Famed American  Ends at Early Hou   Lung Congestion, Heart Attack Fatal to Wearer of Brown Derby

Altred E. Smith, Former Bevasaee  Of N. Y., Is Dead   Won Renown In  Political Field

“AY E. Smith Dies Early Today in! VY      Four Times Governo1 Of New York, 1928 Democratic Candidate For President

Alfred E. Smith, ‘Happy Warrior, Succumbs At 70   Man In Brown Derby Was Candidate For President In 1928

AL SMITH DIES IN NEW YORK FARLY TODAY      ‘Happy Watrior’ Who Split Solid South Had Long Career

Illness Fatal To Al Smith   ‘Happy Warrior,’ 70, Heart Atlack Victim

Al. Smith Is Dead At New York   Democratic Candidate For President In 1928 Dies Of Heart Ailment At Rockefeller Institute

FDR’S HAPPY WARRIOR’ DIES AT AGE OF 70   End Comes for Famed Democratic Leader  Of New York

Smith’s Body To Lie in State: Rites Saturday   Former N. Y. Governor Succumbs to Heart And Lung Ailment At Age of 70 Years

AVFRED E. OMiTh Ded FOLLOWING SHORT TLLNESS   ‘‘The Eappy Warrior” Ros? From the Slums to Run for Presidency

Ex-Governor Alfred Smith Dies in New York Hospital Ending Long Political Career

Former New York Governor Dies   President Says With His Death “The Country Loses A True Patriot.”

ALFRED E, SMITH DIES IN HOSPITAL      “Happy Warrior of Politics,” Dies at the Age af 70

Alfred Smith © ‘Loser In His  Last Campaign   Former Governor Of Nev York and Presidential _ Candidate Died This Morning

A.E, SMITH, FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK DIED. TODAY   BS . Death Came at the Rockefel Jer Institute in New York City at 6:20 a. m.   HE WAS 70 YEARS OLD   Lung Congestion and Acute  “Heart Failure Given as the Causes.

DEATH TAKES AL SMITH OF NEW YORK   Ex-N. Y. Governor Dies Following Long Iliness

End Comes for “Happy Warrior”  Alfred E. Smith Who   Alfred E. Smith Who Sought Presidency in 1928. Dies in N. Y.

EX-GOVERNOR ALFRED SMITH OF N.Y. DIES   “The Happy Warrior” Succumb After Long Lllness Early Today

Death At 70 Ends Colorful Political Career Of “Happy Warrior”   Campaign Broke The Solid South   Onetime Friend Of FDR Later Bolted Party And Voted For Landon

ee ee eee  Al E. Smith Dead   FOUR TIMES N. Y. GOVERNOR AND  DEMO PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE IN  1928 SUCCUMBS AT AGE OF 70.

Alfred £. Smith Dies In New York Hospital   In Poor Health Since Death Of Wife Last May 4

ALFRED E, SMITH DIED WEDNESDAY; TLL, SEVERAL WEEKS   FOUR TIMES NEW YORK GOVERNOR AND NOMINE! FOR PRESIDENT

Alfred E. Smith, 70 Is Taken by Death in New York  Four-Time Governor Was Famed as “Happy Warrior’

DEATH COMES T0 ALFRED E. SMITH   FORMER CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF U. S, DIED TODAY

ALFRED E. SMITH DIES IN HOSPITAL   “Happy Warrior of Poli tics, Dies at the Age . of 70

Four Times Governor of New York, Demo Standard Bearer in 1928, Succumbs

AL SMITH DIES IN N.Y. AT 70 QF HEART ILLS   Demo Politico, Prominent Catholic Burial Is Planned

ee  AL SMITH DIES: 1928 CANDIDEE FOR PRESIDENT   Rose From Fulton Fish Market on New York’s East Side

Al Smith: Dies° . InN. Y. Hospital » Today, Aged: 70   Had Been Ill’ 3 “Months; ~~ Called’ Colorful. Figure In U.S... Political Seene:

ALFRED E. SMITH DIES; NATIONAL KNOWN FIGURE   Was Candidate Fo: Demo. President  In 1928 Race

Long Illness Ends in Death of Al Smith   From Humble Status to High Place in Hearts of Nation

Ex-Governor Al Smith Died Today   Had Been III for Several Weeks

Leaders of Both Parties Lament Smith’s Death   Body To Lie in State Today; High Requiem Mass Saturday at 117 A. M.

AL SMITH, 70, CANDIDATE IN 1928. PASSES   Former New York Governor Who “Took Walk” in 1936 Dies at 6:20 A. M. Today.

‘WARRIOR’ ILL SINCE AUGUST 10   Man Of F amous Brown Derby Succumbs To Heart Attack

ALFRED E. SMITH DIES EARLY TODAY   President Roosevelt Pa Tribute To Former rovernor  ys

Alfred E. Smith Dies at Ave 70   "Happy Warrior’ Succumbs In New York Hosnjral

Al Smith Dies At 70; [ll Since May   WHEN WIFE DIED; SUPPORTED LANDON AND WILLKIE IN PAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL RACFS.   1928 Presidential Candidate

Ex-Governor, Presidentia Candidate Passes After An Extended Iliness

ALFRED SMITH DEAD; ASPIRED TOPRESIDENCY      Former New York Gover. nor Had Been IIl Since Aug. 10

‘Happy Warrior  Praised   Former Candidote For President Dies in Hospital

Al Smith, 70, Succumbs in N.Y. Hospital   ‘Sidewalks’ Candidate Lauded by Roosevelt, Hoover as Life Ends

ILLNESS FATAL TO AL SMITH, HAPPY WARRIOR   Former New York Gov. Presidential Nominee Was 70

Al Smith, 70, Governor of . N. Y. 4 Times and 1928 Demo Presidential Nominee Dine

HAPPY WARRIOR AL SMITH DIES   HEART ATTACK FATAL TO FORMER DEMO LEADER

Al Smith Is Dead    “Happy Warrior” Had Long and Colorful Career in Politics

DEATH TAKES EX-GOVERNOR ALFRED SMITH      Happy Warrior With Brown Derby Nearly 71

Alfred Smith ies After Lona Illness   Had Been III Since Wife Died Last May

LONG ILLNESS FATAL TO Al ouTH AT 7A   1928 Democratic Nominee for President Dies Wednesday Morning.

NEWYORK, DIES      Native of New York City’s East Side Was Well Known Politician.

ALFRED E. SMITH DIES IN NEW YORK   Came From New York's East Side to Become  Governor of State   BROKE WITH NEW DEAL

FAMED ‘HAPPY WARRIOR’ DIES IN JOTH YEAR   Long Illness Is Fatal To One-Time Demo Presidential Candidate

RAGS TO’ RICHES". CAREER. OF ‘AL SMITH ENDED THIS MORNA CENG IN NEWYORK

A Smith “Hap Warrior” Dies; Broke “Solid South’   STUMPED FOR WILLKIE

Ex-Presidential Candidate Sought Office 21 Times  Sponsac af Reasevelt Later   Spenser sf Reesevalt Later

Over 100.000 French Guerillas Are Ready for “D” Day Behind Nazi Lines

French Partisans  Ready For D Day   More Than 100,000 Highly Trained

BIG ARMY TRAINED, ORGANIZED FRENCH PARTISANS READY  _ SABOTAGE AND RAIDS 0   SABOTAGE AND RAIDS ON NAZI KEY POINTS PLAN. NED FOR INVASION

French Partisans Will Be Ready To Work Behind Nazi Lines On "D" Day

FRENCH GUERILLAS READY BEHIND \NAZI LINES   100,000 of Them Trained to Harass Germans on “D” Day

100,000 Organized French Await D Day Behind Nazis   ———  ERMAN EOULPMENT

New Deal Subsidy Theory Flayed  Seen as Threat to Bmaricomn Mame Riilea

New Deal Subsidy Theory Flayed  Seen as Threat to Rmerican Home Rule

New Deal Subsidy Theory Held Penl   Bricker Sees Threat  To Local Government

FOUR-DAY DEMO CONVENTION IS SEEN AS INDICATION OF FDR’S NOMINATION

DEM PARLEY 10 BE SHORT, SWEET   Midweek Opening Date Seen As Certain Indication Of Fourth Term

Brief Convention Seen For Democrats   Announcement Made That National Convention Will  Open On July 19

CHICAGO PICKED BY DEMOCRATS AS CONVENTION SITE   PLANS CALL FOR A 4-DAY MEETING OPENING JULY 19

DEMO SESSION TO OPEN JULY 19   F.R. Caididacy Seen From 4 Day Convention

Nomination of Roosevelt Seen In  Democrats’ Plan to Limit Meeting

BASEBALL CZAR. DIES   Famed Judge Dies At Age of 78; Ruled Baseball 24 Years

ROW BROUGHT OUT INTO OPEN   Senate Group Defers De. cision on Probe of Biddle-Littell Quarrel

Biddle Case May Be Left To President   Decision Is Deferred By Senate Committee After Studying Issue

EAGLES SATURDAY NIGHT Orchestra ane dance —Ad._   ATICER ESC FAW

Allies Carve  New Gains on Italian Front   Sth Army Troops Drive Against Celincordia; Yanks Take New Points South of Bologna

Allies Push Ahead In Italian Rain  Germans Maintain Bitter Opposition

ALLIES SMASH AHEAD IN ITALY   British, Canadians Hack Out New Gains Against Bitter Resistances

ALLIES MAKE NEW (GAINS IN ITALY   YANKS CAPTURE NEW POSITIONS BEFORE BOLOGNA— RESISTANCE STUBBORN.

Rocket. Ships Aid Landings   ‘Shatter Defenses In Coastal’. “Areas

Rocket Ships Cleared Enemy Beaches with Coat of Fire-to Hike Output

ROCKET ATTACK AIDED INVASION   U, S. Mevy Says Landing  Forces Battered Beachheads With Rocket Arms;  Aeke More.

California Governor To - Speak For Dewey- ' Bricker Ticket Monda

HEROIC PLAN WORKS AT ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Eight Men Engulfed by Nazi Force -Duck in Foxholes While Own  Guns Shell Position. \

Enemy Preparations, Says Churchill, To, Combat Invasion, Are Going Forward, and Are Not To Be Under - Esti mated.

Raid Finland   CHURCHILL GIVES COMMONS ALL OVER REPORT ON WAR AGAINST NAZIS TODAY.  eae od

43 Jap Planes Downed In Raids   Chinese, Yanks Pound Airports In Thailand

SUPERFORTRESSES CELEBRATE PEARL HARBOR AT TOKYO   Conduct Two More Nuisance Bombings

Two More Tokyo Raids Reported   Japs Say Small Number of ; Big Bombers Appear  : $ Over City  at

Two Nuisance Raids Reported Made on Tokyo   Airmen State Seven Fires Are Started

MORE AERIAL STABS AT TOKYO   B-298 Over Capital Again, Also Attack Iwo In Volcano Islands

RESIDENT DECLARES ‘SYSTEM SHOULD NOT BE. ENDED UN.  - TL JAPS AND GERMANS” “. SURRENDER. 200.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Lend-Lease Now Totals 28 Billion. 270 Million

FDR URGES EXTENSION OF LEND-LEASE   Says It Should Be Continued Until Axis Is Beaten

ASK LEND-LEASE AFTER THE WAR   Rocsevelt Recommends Lend-Lease After Fall of the Axis Powers

Faces Loss of $90 Billion   Left-Over War Supplies To Be $103 Billion

$90 - Million Loss Is Expected In Disposal Of Surplus War Supplies

Government Will Take Loss . Of 90. Per Cent On War Goods U.S. Legislators Estimate ©

Legislators Figure U.S. To Take 90 Per Cent Loss In Giving Away Billions In War Surplus

NATION'S LOo5 WILL BE LARGE   Legislators Estimate $90 “Billion Loss on War Sunnlies.

COOLER AIR ON WAY   Weather Man Sees a Chance for Light Showers Tonight

BLASTS GAPS IN NIP RANKS   Bayonet Fighting Flares During Attack

Japs’ Main Leyte Line Threatened   Nips Face Death Trap as Yanks Tighten Pincers

SOLDIERS HELP PRISON GUARDS   25 Felons Holding  Men as Hostaces

FELONS REBEL, CAPTURE FOUR _ PRISON GUARDS   Object To Being Confined ith Convicted Nazi Spies

Supreme Council to Direct War Formed in Japan’s Empire   Battlefront Reverses Force Action by Desperate Government

JAP CONQUEST RIPPING APART ON ALL FRONTS   New Supreme War Council Set-Up To Cut Losses

Nips Lashed in Burma, India   Defeats Force Enemy to Abolish Liaison Method, Establish Policy-Making Group; 30,000 on Run in Dutch Guinea

JAPS SET UP NEW SUPREME WAR COUNCIL   Seek New Course As Stolen Empire Begins To Rip ~ “At Seams  

JAPS BLASTE ON ALL FRONTS   Hammer Trapped Nips On Guam; Flee Guinea Coastline

Japs in Full Flight  On New Guinea and Yanks Mop up Guam   Mikado’s Conquest-swollen Empire Is Falling Apart Under Many and Varied Assaults—War in Burma and China Takes Favorable Turn for the Allies

'P-38S REPORTED OVER MUKDEN INDUSTRIAL AREA: REVERSES RIT JAPAN ON ALL FRONTS   Conquest Swollen Em pire Ripping Badly at Seam: In India, Burma, The Marianas and New Guinez As Americans and British Gain New Successes

Nippon Sets Up New War Board As Power Dims   Report Mukden Area Hit; - Ny Guinea -Nips-Retreats. New Guam Hill Taken

Japs in Full Retreat, Says MaeArthur   Allies Now Hold 700 Miles. of  New Guinea Coast

Troops Move Within. Few Miles of St. Nazaire %. . And Nantes. .   BREST IMPORTANT, TOO      Southern Manchuria Raided, Bonin and Kazan Island Bombed.

Jap Empire Ripping Badly At the Seams   Japan Forced to Set Up New Supreme War Council; Nips in Full Retreat on North Coast Dutch New Guinea

Japs Set Up New War Council   Tokyo Claims Lightnings Raid Southern Manchuria on Friday

Pacific Reverses Ferce New Setup in Japan.  Bonin, Kazan Isles  And Manchuria   Bonin, Kazan Isles And Manchuria Are Bombed By U.S.

Japanese Set Up New War Council   Nip Reverses Force Action as Bombers Raid South Manchuria

REVERSES CAUSE JAPS TO SET UP NEW WAR BOARD  ESTABLISH SUPREME  BOUNCIL TO MAP OUT

JAPS PUT WAR HOPES IN SUPREME COUNCIL   New Group Will Map Plans, Press For Harmony

Nips Set Up New Supreme  War Council   Yanks Capture Guam Hill to Provide Artillery Base Blasting 7,000 of Foe

Japan Forms  New Council New Reverses Handed  To Ninnonece Forces

New Supreme War Council Is Set Up By Japs   Fresh Battle-Front Reverses Force ‘Harmony Move’ In Tokio.

Drive Japs Into Jungles   Vast Armada Blasts Foe Positions  Before Landings

NEW GUINEA ACTION  TOLD BY EYEWITNESS  ABOARD DESTROYER : _ VAST NAVAL FORCE  BACKS HEAVY AMPHIBIATIe INVACION CATIIPNAY

COMPANY BACK TO OWNER   U. 8. Had Taken Over Freight Line to Force Compliance

Islands Get Free Rule   MacArthur Announces New Government For Philippines

BACK UNDER FLAG’   MacArthur Freturns Constitutional Government to Philippines

‘ilipinos Cheer as Complete Liberation Foreseen and Gen. MacArthur Promises Revenge Against Japs for Brutal Treatment of Prisoners—Fierce Nip Counterattacks At Leyte Are Repulsed

U, S, FLAG AGAIN FLIES PROUDLY IN PHILIPPINES   -onstitutional Government Restored To Islands By General MacArthur As Fighting Goes On.

STAGE SET FOR ASSAULT ON NAZI LINE   Meeting Reported tc Have Taken Place Near Reich Border

MNUTT SEES DEMO VICTORY IN ’44 BALLOT   Declares Plain People Of U. S. Trust Party Now in Office

Public Warned Final Campaigns Are Hardest—  wnackout Blow Requires Sustained Effort

First Night Raid Starts. Glowing Fire   Japs Belittle Attack, Call it Small Formation

JAPS SAY TOKYO AGAIN HIT BY B-298   Unconfirmed By U. S.; Nips Report First Night Attack

COLD WEATHER GOES   Temperatures Tomorrow to Range Between 60 and 70

Reds 8 Miles  From Belgrade   New Russian Offensive In Lithuania Revealed

Sovieis Only Eight Miles From Belgrade   Germans Announce New Offensive ae ea le

RUSSIANS NEARING CITY OF BELGRADE   New Offensive in Lithuania by: Reds Is -Reported -

SOVIETS CONVERGING ON YUGOSLAV CAPITAL   Russians Only Eight Miles From City: East Prissian Drive Launched

REDS BATTLE IN SUBURBS OF BELGRADE   Overrunning 50 Localities  in Swift Offensive Across Plains Between Danube and Hungary.   Days Numbered

Russian Army Begins Drive In Lithuania   Southern Army Eight Miles From Belarade

Soviet Troops Go in Suburb Of Belgrade   Nazis Say Russians Opening New Drive Against East Prussia

GERMANS ROLLED BACK ON 100-MILE. YUGOSLAV FRONT   Reds and Tito’s Partisans Sweep Through 50 Towns —Peril to Belgrade Grows,   SOUTHERN HUNGARY ALSO IS THREATENED   Berlin Announces Soviet Drive Is Under Way in Lithuania Aimed at East Prussia.

NEW RUSSIAN PUSH AIMS AT EAST PRUSSIA   UKRAINE ARMY ONLY 8 MILES FROM BELGRADE

ee  “yt Re Vemerngpa cH ay a C2:8 gicreg2 ic S2.gce3,  ae Tear New cere oo

No Relief from Intense Heat Wave Likely before Friday or Saturday

ALLIES GIVEN BIG PROBLEMS BY RED GAINS   ‘Russian Moves May Affect Post-War Warld Plans

BIG PROBLEMS BY RED GAINS   Russian “Moves May Affect Post-War World Plans

Soviets Start Bombardment Of Belgrade  — Several Crack Nazi Regiments  Routed On Approaches To Danube

SOVIET ARMY BEGINS SIEGE OF BELGRADE   Big Russian Guns Are Unlimbered For Final Assault

Reds Prepare For Assault On Belgrade   Germans Ruin Bridges In Retreat Across  : Danube River

SOVIETS OPEN BELGRADE SIEGE   Tito’s Partisans Play Big Part In Capital Battle

Russian Army Across River From Belerade   Final Assault On Capital About To Commence

SOVIETS MASS ALONG DANUBE NEAR BELGRADE   Reach River Opposite Slav Capital; Tite Also Closing Yn

SOVIET TROOPS SURGE TO NORTH BANK OF DANUBE   Unlimber Siege Guns For New Assault — Route SS Resiments

RED ARMY ON DANUBE AT BELGRADE   Siege Guns Ready To Begin Assault On Yugoslav Capita

Russian Troops Surge To North Bank of Danube   Unlimber Siege Guns , For Impending Assault On Yugoslav Capital

Russians Pose For Assault On Belgrade   Reds On North Bank Of Danube, Partisans Come From South

Pact Reached On Civil Rule For France   Difficulties for Poland and Yugoslavia Still to Be Cleared

NEW POoTAL RATES BARED   Special Delivery, COD Assessments Go Up, Money Orders, Insured Fees to Be Lower

Beat Nazis Back Along 200-Mi. Are   Race Past Zhitomir To Within 35 Miles Of PreWar Polish Border.

Lhitomir Recaptured By Soviets   Red Armies Forge Ahead On Three Other Fronts

CAPTURE RAlL CENTER OF ZHITOMIR   Happiest New Year’s Eve Celebrated In Russia   KALININ   Promises Complete Liberation Of Soviet Union In Next Year

Germans Fall Back on Long Front   Important Towns on Northern and Southern Ends of 200-Mile Arc Fall to Russians: Nazis Admit Situation Grave

Soviet Units Plunge Nearer Polish Border   Germans Hammered: Back Along 200 Mile Are West cf Kiev

Russian Units Within 35 Miles Of Old Frontier   Nazis Acknowledge Gravity of Battle, Blame Larcer Force

Take 150  More Towns   Mammer Germans Back Along A 200 Mile Arc West of Kiev; German Military Circles Hint of New Large Scale Retreat.

Lt. R. D. Morrison At Controls of  Plane Which Runs Into St. Elmo's Fire

Navy Bombers Again Attack Wake Island   Airdrome Blasted, Six Jap Planes Damaged, Destroyed

Soviet Paper Charges Vatican Active in Supporting Fascism in Europe

Invasion Hour Near FDR Hints   Calls On Germans lo Disavow Insane Crimes Hitler Commits  In Their Name.

Belgians To Try Disarm Groups   Set Midnight Deadline For Surrender of Resistance Group.

Labor Troubles Grow in England  ‘hipyard Workers Leave Their Jobs

WITHHOLDING TAX CHANGES PLANNED   TOTAL MAY GO UP OR DOWN, DEPENDING ON THE INDIVIDUAL CASE.

Fierce Battle Is Under Way On Wide Front   German Air Force Supports Winter Strike On Great Scale; New Type V Weapon In Use; Allies Withhold Details

Enemy Advances  On 60-Mile Front   Americans Hold New Line, Mop Up Nazi Paratroopers to Their Rear

“CHRISITMAS PRESENT FOR HITLER” DRIVE ON WESTERN FRONT MAKES GAINS ALONG 66-MILE FRONT AS ENEMY HURLS GREAT STRENGTH INTO OFFENSIVE DESIGNED TO DRIVE ALLIES FROM GERMAN SOIL"

COAST BLACK MARKET RING IS PROBED   Five Million Food Ration Points Sold To Hollywood Cafes

CIO Hit By Dies Report   Say Action Group Packed With Sub.  versives

CIO Political Committee Hit  Communists To Seek Power Through Group, Report States

Dies Report Assails C.1.0 Unit as Red   Communists Bolster Political Committee Campaign, Is Charge

Dies Report Brands CI0 Group ‘Red’   Assails ‘Communist Cam: paign Designed-To Sub vert Concress.’

OES LFFDAT FOR CONTROL DF CONGRESS   Charges Communist, Link to Use Its Strength in Coming Flections.

ClO’S POLITICAL ACTION SETUP IS FLAYED BY DIES   Committee Probing Un-American Groups Claims Communistic Influence at Work

DIES ASSAILS CIO POLITICAL ACTION GROUE   Report Charges Commitiee is Communist. Campaign to . Subvert Congress to Totalitarianism

Dies Charges CIO Political Group With Communistic Plot to Subvert Congress

POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF C10 CLAIMED SUBVERSIVE  DIES COMMITTEE REPOR}  HEC ADEC CAMMIINICT

Dies Assails C10 Political Action Group   Committee Sees Pian to Subvert Congress to Totaliterian Program

Allied Forces Are Expected To Hold Anzic   War Correspondent Be lieves Beachhead Will be Retained Until Fifth Wins at Cassino

Allied Forces — _-Are Expected to Hold Line   ‘Situation Is: Not Good: Bu Allies Will’ Win Out Barrine Bad: Break   BATTLE. IS LINKED WITH WHOLE: WAR   May Be. a Decided Factor in Outcome. ‘of: the -Coming Western Front Operations.

Allied Forces Are Expected To Hold AtAnzio Beachead UntilFifth Army Gets There

Allied Forces Are Expected to Hold Beachhead   Troops From Cassino Driving to Break Through Very Soon

THINK BRIDGEHEAD WILL HOLD UNTIL FIFTH ARRIVES   Fighting at Cassino of Desperate Natuze and Holds Up Junction Allied Forces

Exiles Board Exchange Ship   Hamdreds? of * Repa triates Bend fare sects:

Court Edict Liberates Loyal Japs   Decision Follows Army Order Lifting Coast Ban

COURT BACKS LOYAL JAPS ~— COAST RETURK   Western Reaction Brings Hint of Violience

F.D.R. Praises U.S. Workmen   Says Production Has Proved Free Labor Winning Over Slave Labor

wea 2 sede (Ped ~ Ee # £ Bane  Pee meron EG ULUUEL prreaare Besver  Slave Labor, Roosevelt Says

Allies Rule Air Over France  Vast Fleets Deal Blows at Nazi Troops Movino to Front

Fliers Keep Close Watch Over Invaders   Make 13,000 Sorties In First 24 Hours  Of Invasion

13,000 Sorties Are Flown Over Invasion Aree   Nazis Are Subjected To Murderous Fire From Sky Fleets

Allied Fliers Soar 13,000 Sorties In 24 Hours: Pound French Invasion Peninsula

DEMONSTRATION OF AIR POWER MIGHTIEST YET   Allied Planes Flew 13,000 Sorties During First Day Of Invasion; Blasting German Reinforcements Moving Up  To The Front.

New Attacks Are Started Over Europe   All Types Fly Much Lower Than Usually Is Case

ALLIED AERIAL FORCES BLAST NAZI TARGETS   13,000 Sorties In 24 Hours Made;  Aid Invasion

—AIR WAR—   Nazi Reinforcement:  ‘Battered By RAF   World’s Mightiest Demonstration Of Air Powel Aids European Invasion Forces; More Tha 13.000 Sorties Flown Tuesday

Allied Air Forces Continue To Support, Reinforce Beachhead   13,000 Sorties Flown Over French Coast In Last 24 Hours; Parachute, Glider Support For Invasion Troops Is Continuing

Planes Pound Area Beyond Beachhead   Air Forces in 13,000 Sorties Yesterday — Out In Force Today

Airmen Pound Nazis Racing Toward Front   Allied Fliers in 13,000 Sorties Over France From Dawn to Dusk

ALLIED AIR FORCES HOLD FULL REIGN   Tremendous Fleets Keep Up Assault Beyond Beachhead

Allies Control Skyways Over France   Aerial Hordes Keep Striking But Resistance Is Weak

ver 12.000 Sorties Fly Over France   ‘most Total Lack Of Opposition Met: Anti-Aireraft Fire Gains.   OSE 14 BOMBERS

Airmen Rain Bombs Upon Nazi Troops   Allied Forces, in Supreme Command of Air, Fly 13,000 Sarties Dawn to Dawn

RAF HITS NAZI RESERVES ON WAY TO FRONT   Nearly 200 Fighter Planes Constantly Patrol! Beachhead

SOUND GERMAN UNITS GOING TO FRONT   Report Over 13,000 Sorties In Single  Day    Of Enemy Are Destroyed; Night Bombers Also Hit Ludwigshafen

Allied Air Forces. Back Assault Wave With 13,000 Sortie:   Nazis’ Air Force Puts Up Incredibly Weak Opposition Thus Far

AMERICANS LEAD WAY DURING DAY   Heavy British Bombers Hammer At German Troop Movements

World’s Mightiest Demonstration of Air Power Encounters Weak Enemy Opposition; Blast Main Rails, Roads.

Allied Forces in Full Air Control  ' 33,000 Sorties Flown tn Fire? 24 Hours

13,000 Sorties ‘Flown in Day Over Invasion;  70 Craft Lost   1000 RAF Bombers Rip Foe Moving Up to Front

Dawn Today Finds Them Off In Hard New Attack   Explosive Streams Poured Steadily On Nazi Hold

Fiery Trail In Wake of Sky Parade   Allied Air Forces Fly Over 13,000 Sarties Tuesday in Support Of Assault Troops

ALLIED AIR FORCE FLEW OVER 13,000 SORTIES ON D-DAY   53 ENEMY PLANES WERE DESTROYED; ALLIES LOST 31

GREAT AIRBORNE TRAINS CARRY TROOPS ACROSS CHANNEL TODAY 13,000 AERTAL SORTIES MADE   Greatest Demonstration Air Power in History of World As Great Troop Carrying Plane Ferry Gliders with Troops and Equipment

Slave Revolt  Scares Reich:   Germans Fear Vengeanec Of Subiu«ated Peonles

Nazis In Mortal Fear Of Foreign Labor At Home  Upris sings z Rxpectes Cc  one Conscri

Fear Of Revenge From Foreign Labor Grips Nazis WhoSense End Approaching

GERMANS FEAR -GONSCRIPT LABOR      ‘NAZIS FEEL FOREIGN WORKERS IN REICH Y7AY SOON TURN ON THEM.

‘Specter Ot Slave Labor Uprising, More  ‘Than Invasion Is Worrying The Germans

Ford Protests Sedition Story   Objects to Statement In Washington Case

Ford Says Lawyer's Statement In Trial Of Sedition Defendenis Without Fact

Ickes Announces 80-Day Season For Game Birds   Minnesota Shooting Opens September 20, Closes December 8

President of © Lithuania Dies   Smetona, In Exile,  Loses Life In Fire

Gi. B. DEALEY HAS GIVEN 70 YEARS OF WORK TO NEWSPAPER  CHAIRMAN OF BOARD OF DALLAS MORNING NEWS ACTIVE AT 85

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Ordered to Prenare Evidence.

SEEKS EVIDENCE AGAINST DANIELS   Subcommittee DemandsTest Of Congressional Power

Planes Give Army Strong - Air Support   Smesh At Garmen. Frail _” Liaw Posificns To ttehs hy Div  Tow .d Paris

AIR ARMADAS DESTROY NAZI SUPPLY BASES   ] Bridges Destroyed, Rail Centers Are Badly Damaged

U.S. HEAVIES SUPPORT ALLIED PUSH IN FRANCE   RAF Beaufighters Attack A German Convoy Off Coast Of Norway

Planes Blast Path to Paris   Armadas Numbering 3,50  Smash at Germans

Over 600 U. S. Bombers Blast Defenses Below Caen Supporting Canadians.   Strafe Trains

\Ernie Pyle’s Back Again Good Health Worries Roving Reporte: ‘but Sniffles Come Just in Time

CLEAR DAY OVER ICE   Temperature ‘Readings of 10 to 25 Forecast For Tonight

Letter From Stumpy Little Jewish Soldier in Normandy Becomes Classic of the War

George Ray Te OHers Fran Newemen, Literary Agents, Pub lishers and Promoters  seed Evades

5th Army Drives On Toward Rome   Town of Cori, 7 Miles Out_ side of Beachhead, Is Captured   NAZIS HAVE NEW LINE   Allied Air Attacks Create Chaotic Conditions for Germans

U.S. FORCES AT CHERBOURG IN SIGHT OF SEA   Battle Way Deeper Through Defenses of Besiered Port

WASHINGTON COUNTY MEN FINED $100 EACH   Charles H. Clarke, 3r., Sharpsburg Has Sentence Deferred For Time Being

LOCAL MEN FINED “IN FEDERAL COURT   Two Fined $100 for Using ~ IHegaf. Sugar Stamps 

Georgia Anti-Roosevelt Democrats and GOP Name The Same 12 Electors

ANGERED DEMS BOLT IN SOUTH   Anti-FDR Groups Set Us Coalition Ticket In Georgia

ANTI-ROOSEVELT  DEMOCRATS GIVEN CHANCE TO VOTE   The Tickets Composed of Six Democrats and Six Republicans Accepted

Von Rundstedt’s Forces Reach Arlon Area 10 Miles From French Border — Cut Major Roads Leading From Key Belgian Highway Center of Bastogne—Heavy Fighting Shifts to Ends of Battle Front.

POUND 40 MILES ACROSS BELGIUM   Nazis Roll up Only Ten Miles From French Border   40 MILES FROM SEDAN   Brunt of Fighting Shifts to Flanks; Foe Believed Massing for Blows

3rd Curbs Nazi Do or Die Push   Hitler Was Promised Antwerp As Christmas Gift From Army

LETT : 3 38  ne a “TS 0  +6 =485 4 $207 Tw f S&S  a vy  “ a i  _  wn J

Enemy Forces Burst Through  Luxembourg—Fighting Spreads To South

Foe Blunted By Patton’s Fierce Blow   German Winter Offensive Force Is Dying After Rolling 40 Miles Over American First Army

Patton's Troops Force Nazis To Shift to Flanks   Enemy Massing For New Attack

Violent Offensive Spends Much Of Its Force 40 Miles Inside Belgium   ARMOR BEING MASSED FCR RENEWED ASSAULT

Brunt of Fighting Shifts to Flanks, Enemy Radio Says   Foe Masses Armor for New Attack Say Allied Field Dispatches; Yanks Smash 200 Tanks in 5 Davs

Berlin Admits U.S. 3rd Army  Checks Race Across Belgium; Fighting Shifts to Flanks.

Patton’s Men Reported To Be Attacking  Enemy Believed To   Enemy Believed To Be Getting Ready for New Effort

DINGY RAILROAD STATION SCENE OF TRANSACTION   French Awakening to Fact That They're Now Free But That They Also Are in Need Food

“. --PARIS—  PARIS IG FREED, SAYS BROADCAST   Allied Communique; However, Fails To Confirm City’s Fall ,

Unconditional Surrender Of Paris Signed   Final Act Of Liberation Staged; Capital Com:  paratively Quiet.

Paris is Fairly Quiet, Allied Headquarters Says  De Gaulle Reported City Free: by Bands of Frenchmen’ in  e mee FU UB

Final Surrender Of Paris Signed  Baggage Masters Office Is Scene Of Capitulation of Nazi Garrison

Germans Sign Paris Pact  Capital Surrendered Unconditionally by Link Mle? Armee Chief

Surrender of Paris; Nazis Sign Papers   Unconditional; Takes Place at 6 P. M., Friday in Rail Station

Nazi Resistance In Paris Ceases   French Broadcasts Declare French Capital Is Free o} Nazi Yoke.

CEN. DIETRICH VON CHOLTITZ SIGNS TERMS AND ORDERS HIS TRO&PS TO CEASE RESISTANCE   Brig. Gea, Jacques LeClerc of France, and Lt.-Col. Robert Low, U. S. Army, Personally Receive Nazi General an] Transmit Orders to German Troops

Paris ‘Fairly’ Quiet As Sharp Struggles End   Liberation Claimed By de Gaulle, Allied Headquarters Fails To Confirm Report

Unconditional Surrender of Paris Is Signed  'Dingy Office ; in Railroad Station Is Scene

PAPER FREEING CITY SIGNED IN DEPOT OFFICE   Le Clerc Gets Unconditional Agreement From Nazis As Campaign Ends

German Leader Orders Stop Of Paris Fight  Nazi Chief Offers Full Surrender To French General

Tanks of British Slug It Out With German Armor In Batite South of Caen

Allies Punch nland on Way to Paris   Large Quantities _ German Equipment 2 Destroyed in Battle

Battle Rages Southeast of Caen in New All-Out Push to Smash Hun Defense Ring

BRITISH TANKS SMASH FORWARD ON CAEN PLAINS   Yanks Sever Key Highway Between Cities of St. Lo and Perviers — Terrific Battle Raging.   1200 U. S. BOMBERS BLAST NAZI TARGETS   Armada ‘£scorted By Some 750 Fighters Smash at German Targets in the Munich Area.

Allies Punch Deeper Inland Along Road To Paris; Marshal Rommel Throws All Armor Possible Into Battle   AMERICANS MOPPING UP ST. LO FRONT

OUTCOME MAY SHORTEN WA IN NORMANDY   Romme} Rushes Panzers to Block Advance Into Heart of France.

Armor Goes Into Battle Around Caen   Rommel Makes Strong Stand In Flatlands.

Tanks Clash in Giant Test-on.  Plains at Caetr   Montgomery Pours Forces Through Break in Rammell Line

Fight on Roads  to Paris   Montgomery’s Men Progress in Showdown Drive, Take Villages

British Smash Beyond Caen Inflicting Heavy Casualties On Enemy   Americans Clear “Suicide Squads” From Ruins Of St. Lo, Cut Highway To Periers

Germans Mount Gigantic Counter-Attack In Attempt To Halt English   Allies Absorb Attack. Advance   Montgomery Pumps Massive New Strength Into Drive From Beachhead

Monty, Rommel in Duel   British Engaged In One of War's Greatest Battles

ROAD TO PARIS SCENE OF HUGE ARMORED TILT   Allies Punch Ahead Through Gap After German Counter-Blow

Nazis’ First Big Counter-Assault Fails Below Caen   All-Out Push Cracks German Ring, Drives Deeper on Paris Road

GERMANS DRIVE NEARER MEUSE: LOSS IS HEAVY   American Force Under Bitter  Enemy Fire

Within 4 Miles Of Meuse Sunday   Twin Drives Unite, Pinching Out Yank Stand West of St. Vith—-Several Thousand Yanks Fight Doggedly for Bastogne, Important Belgian Road Hub

Hitler Created — Nazi Offensive, U.S. Chiefs Admit  But Sudden Victory   But Sudden Victory Aim Goes Wrong,  Germans Declare

U.S. Salient At St. Vith Is Wiped Out As Nazis Join Two Arms Thrusting Into Belgium

Nazis' Panzers Are 4 Miles From Meuse In New Gain Of ll Miles Since LastReport

Germans Wipe. Out American St. Vith Salient   Advance Carries Within Four Miles Of Meuse River

Nazis 50 Miles . Inside Belgium; Use 2-3 Armies   Pinch Out Doughboys Who Were Splitting Offensive Prongs Of Advancina Columns

GERMANS TE OUT SALIENT AT ST. VITH   Two Or Three Armies Are Thrown Into Attack   Believed Planned By Hitler: Drive Carried 50 Miles Into Belgium

GERMAN OFFENSIVE PLUNGES TO WITHIN FOUR MILES MEUSE  TWIN PRONGS JOINED FORCES TO CLOSE OFF ST. VITH SECTOR ©

Gls Cling to Bastogne Despite Foe Assaults   Planes Blast Nazi Lines, .Take Heavy Tank Toll; Reds Are at Budapest Gates

Panzer Columns Neat Franco-Belgian Line   Airborne Units Land 6 Miles From Border: U. S. Planes Pound Enemy

Germans Squeeze Out Yank Wedge, From Meuse River  Advance 4 Miles

Germans Build Solid Front Of 35-Mile Width  To Penetration Of 50 Miles In Belgium; Yank: Leave St. Vith

Enemy Columns Are Merged, Forming Solid 35-Mile Front   Yanks’ St. Vith Salient Wiped Out and Our Forces At Bastogne Are Surrounded

German Armored Columns Within 4 Miles of Meuse   Enemy Wipes Out St. Vith Salient, 2 Armies in Fight

4 Miles From Meuse; Enemy  Gets St. Vitk   Form Solid Front Of 35 Miles Wide: Offensive Planned By Hitler.   COLUMN NEARS CELLES

ARMORED COLUMNS OF GERMAN DRIVE REACH FAR INTO BELGIUM  ENEMY HAD FORMED,   ENEMY HAD FORMED SOLID FRONT 35 MILES WIDE BY SUNDAY NIGHT

Yank Salient At St. Vith  ls Wiped Out   Twin German Tank Assaults Have Gained Eleven More Miles in Surging Offensive; Enemy Now Holds Solid 35-Mile Front, Nears Muese

Twin. Prongs Join Forces At St. Vith   Offensive Slowed, Allies Say, With News Ban Holding

St. Vith Salient Held By Yanks Is Wiped Out By Foe   Enemy Tank Columns Plunge 50 Miles Into Belgium; Two Or Three German Armies Flung Into Battering Offensive

Terrific Squeeze Exerted On Yanks In St. Vith Trap   German Bulge Extended to Forty Miles Has Enveloped Rochefort For Closest Approach To Vital River Barrier   SURROUNDED DOUGHBOYS FIGHTING VALIANTLY

YANK SALIENT > SWIPED OUT   Supreme Headquarters Says Enemy 50 Miles Into  ‘e. . Rolnium. «-. *   IN TWIN TANK DRIVES

YANK SALIENT NEAR ST. VITH IS WIPED OUT   [Latest Reports Put Germans 50 Miles In side Belsium

Enemy Cuts Off U.S. Salient To Establish Unbroken Front Yanks Still Battle Doggedly   Enemy Holding Bulge 35 Miles Wide, Reaching to Within 15 Miles of Meuse; Namur New Goal of Von Rundstedt's Drive

TWIN DRIVES TRAP. YANKEES IN BASTOGNE   German Bulge 35 Miles Wide Wipes Out Allied Wedge Near St. Vith j

AT LEAST TWO NAZI ARMIES THROWN INTO GERMAN OFFENSIVE.   STILL UNSTOPPED COUN. TERDRIVE BELIEVED PLAN OF HITLER HIMSELF.

To Within Two Miles Of Meuse   Two or :iiree German Armies Take Part in Huge Offensive Now Bulging Irto Belgium

Germans Squeeze U.S.Forces from St. Vith Trap Creating Salient  50 Miles Deep and 35 Miles Wide; Believe Hitler Planned Offensive

Two Reich Armies Lead Assault 50  Miles in Belgium   American St. Vith Salient Eliminated As Enemy Front Widens — Third Nazi Army May Have Been Thrown Into Battle by Hitler To Hammer at Allied Forces—Within 4 Miles of Meuse River.

Nazis Are Only 4 Miles From Maas River in Offensive _ Aimed at Shattering Al. lied Forces in West.   AMERICAN ST. VITH SALIENT WIPED OUT   Germans Have Merged Into a Single Bulge 50 Miles Deep and 35 Miles Wide Near the Maas.

General Eisenhower's Counter-Attack. In Attempt to Relieve Yanks, Drives Within Five Miles of Besieged City

Enemy Drives Forward In Single Bulge; Surrounded Yanks Fight In Bastogne

Push 50 Miles Inside Belgium   Wipe Out American Stand at St. Vith, Supreme Headquarters Reports; Drive Said Planned By Fuehrer

GERMANS HAVE PUSHED 50 MILES INTO BELGIUM   Enemy Has Wiped Out US St. Vith Salient and Formed a Solid Front:

TWO AND THREE ARMIES — PLUNGE ON IN RENEWAL BIG DRIVE TO SMASH THE ALLIES

Two Nazi Divisions Have Reached 50 Miles Inside Belgium, Four Miles from Meuse.   ONE AMERICAN STAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT

Eisenhower Wurls Doughboys Against Sides of Giant Bulge In Allied Line

‘Nazis Two Armies Were Within 4 Miles ‘Of Meuse On Sunday.  Relief Column Near Bastogne _ Where Americans Hold Out

Twin German Drives Unite  To Eliminate  Allied Wedge   Merge Into. Bulge’ ln’ American Line

Yank Salient Pinched Out   German Forces Drive 50 Miles Inside Belgium in Campaign Planned by Adolf Hitler; ‘Ike’s’ Push Advances

Twin Drives Squeeze Yanks  At St. Vith   Surrounded Americans Spurn Order to Give Up As Dogged Fight At Bastogne Continues

St. Vith Salient Reduced by Enemy   Eisenhower Unleashes Counterblow Near Bastogne to Relieve Units; Three Nazi Armies Added to Ficht

Yanks Suffer Setback In St. Vith Sector   Nazis Syuceze Ont Wedge and Drive Within Four Mites of Meuse, Up To Sunday Night   Hope to Shatter Allies In West   Twin German Tank Pushes Careen 11 More Miles to oU Miles Inte Bol PeraT eer}

‘Have Solid Front 35 Miles Wide: Only 4 Miles From Meuse River Last Night; Offensive Believed Planned By Hitler

Germans Less Than Four Miles From Meuse River in Push   Huns Wipe Out U.S. Force at St. Vith; Americans Refuse To Surrender at Bastogne

Yank Salient At St. Vith Wiped Out   Enemy Four Miles From Meuse River; Form Solid 25.Mile Wide Front

TEMPERATURES:   Germans Form Solid Front In. Big New Drive   Thousands Of American Troops Surrounded; Refuse Surrender

Foe Wipes Out U. S. Salient at St. Vith, Forms Solid Wedge   Bulge Into Allied Lines Now 35 Miles Wide, 50 Deep

At Least Two German Armies Hurled Into Offensive Planned By Hitler

Enemy Wipes Out U. S. St. Vith Salient to Form j 35-Mile Front   MORE MEN THROWN IN

ENEMY FORCES 14 MILES FROM MEUSE RIVER   Allies Fight Fiercely To Halt Advancing Nazi Troops

Yanks Bite At Southern Flank   Gains Reported by Eisenhower's Forces Seeking To Cut Off And Destroy Foe.

Pinch Out Yankee St. Vith Stand   Form Single Bulge 35 Miles Wide and Over - 50 Miles Deep   Weiternc rent:

Launched Attack  With Two or Three Armies; Four Miles From Meuse Sunday

Avery Still Defiant: Says Montgomery Ward Cannot Take Advice” of the War Labor Board

NAVY NOW HAS 1167 SHIPS LISTED   Also Had 37,000 Planes At Start Of 4th Yr. of War

Ship Tonnage Triples Navy At War’s Start   Operaticrial Plans For Year 1945 Threatened By Shortage Of Manpower

Navy Requires Heavy Output Again In *45   Fleet So Big It Exceeds Present Capacity Of Suppliers

Suspends Draft of All Over 26   NYC Director Waits fer Clarification

Expansion of Oil Oudvut Fron Ek Hills Advocatec   Military Heads 7 Infor, Congress of Need to Increase Supplies

JAP THREAT  TO INDIA IS BEING MET   Allies Force Back One Col. umn But Other End of Pincers is .Making Progress Toward Imphal.

ONE JAP COLUMN IN INDIA DRIVEN FROM THREE POSITIONS  ADDITIONAL JAPANESE LOSSES AT SEA REPORT- ED BY BRITISH

JAPS SET BACK IN INDIA PUSH   Nipponese, However, Continue to Menace  Imphal

English Sink Dozen Ships: Sirice Jan. 1   Japanese ‘Drive into India ‘from Burma is Attacked, Iniphal ‘Menaced. =" *

Imphal Base In Peril From Jap Columns   Allies Drive Them From Three Positions, But Pressure Remains

Japs Closing in On Imphalin India Campaign   American Cubs Bag Eleven Ships; Nip Bases Bombed

At Sea, However, Allies Take Heavy Toll of Enemy, Sinking Cruiser and Aircraft Carrier—Island Bases Blasted by Bombs—Artillery Turned On Nips Crowding Yanks on Bougainville   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

JAPS MENACE ‘IMPHAL, INDIA IN TWIN DRIVE   One Columa Driven from Positions Overlooking Supply Road, Mountbatten Reporis   JAP CRUISER SUNK   British Report Eight Supply Ships of Enemy Also Scored on by Subs—Wewak Strafed

Japs Raid Saipan © For Second Time In Three Bays   Attacks Made From lwo Jima Base; Damage _ Of Minor Nuture

New Air Force Has Yugoslav Bases To Aid Partisans  Balkan Landing Strip’ Will Provide Tito With Support

Meat Cut Predicted by OWI   Less Poultry, Butter, Canned Goods, More Fresh Vegetables Due

FOOD OUTLOOK FOR LAST HALE OF “44 GLOOMY   Fair Amounts Of Meat. Less Canned Vegetables And Butter Seen

Poultry, Butter, 7 Canned Vegetable Decrease Seen    Meat Outlook Appears Fairly Good, OWI ' Declares In Report .

0.W.1. Predicts Less Poultry in Last Half of 1944; Also Less Butter, Lard and Canned Vegetables

a aa  Grocery Baskets to be Reasonably Plentifal Amounts of Meat — Will Be Less Poultry, Canned Vegetables, Butter and Lard.

Yanks Cave in Whole Front Across France  Troops Slowly Gouge Deeper Into

Allied Army Threatening Strasbourg   Gains Reported on All Fronts in Battles Along —  German Border

ALLIES CATCH H0,000 FOts IN HUGE VIot   U. S., French Pose Threat to Strasbourg; German Radio Gloomy Over War.

Allied Pincers Are Tightened On Strashbours   Americans And Freneh Close In (0n 50.000 Nazis In Small Pocket.

ALLIED PINCER POSES THREAT TO STRASBOURG   Entire Nazi Front Across France Collapsed By 6th, 3rd

HOLIDAY DEATHS UNDER ESTIMATE    Toll, However, Greater Than That of Year Ago

Holiday Toll Placed at 447   Less Than Half of Deaths Expected by

 ‘Safe Fourih*  Only 4A7 Die  In Accidents  Far Below Guess. Of Safety Council

447 DIE OVER LONG HOLIDAY   California Leads States In Number of Fatalities With 37

U.S. HOLIDAY ~ TOLL 1S LOW   Nearly 450 Fatalities Record: ed In Nation; Less Than Anticipated

FATAL HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS LOW   447 Deaths Less Than Hail Predicted by Officials

Jap Forces Split On Bougainville   Yank Troops Cut  Island in Two

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE ON BOUGAINVILLE   Swift Flanking Move Cuts Jap Force In Two

JAP FORCE ON BOUGAINVILLE SPLIT IN TWO   U.S. Patrols Cross Island To Flank Enemy, Reach Coast

Bougainville Japs Divided By Yank Patrol   U. S. Fighters Destroy 80 Enemy Planes In Wewak Raid

Amrican Forces Cut Jap Defense On Bougainville   U. S. Planes Destroy 80 Enemy Aircraft In Raid On Wewak

GROUND PATROLS CROSS ISLAND OF BOUCAINVILLE   Defending’ Jap Forces Cat Tuto Two Parts by Americans

Governor Sparks Wi Visit Cullman For Formal Opening or December 7th 

GIGANTIC RED DRIVE *REPORTED   guess On Black Sea ® Captured; Push In Bucovina Resumed

‘New Offensive Opened hy. -Russian Troops   Spearheads Drive Toward Invasion Route

Berlin Says Drive Opens Into Poland   Soviet Troops Push Within 226 Miles Of Rudanect

Soviet Armies Launch Drive Toward Hungar   Rumanians Join Campaign Across Transylvania

Russians Race for Budanest   Berlin Says Big Red Drive Opened In South Poland

wEX  SEIN VEWC BM (FTE   Suralars Get $275,000 in Cash and Jewelry

Joe Williams Commits Suicide   Former Police Officer Found Dead At  Pinecrest

ARGUMENTS CLOSED AT CHAPLIN TRIAL   Opposing Attorneys Thun. der Five Hours of Final Pleas

NAZIS IGNORE ULTIMATUM T0 SURRENDER   Gigantic Frontal and Flank Attack to Be Made on City

GNORE ULTIMATUM T0 SURRENDER   Gigantic Frontal] and Flank Attack to Be Made on Citv

Famous Dies Committee To  Be Dissolved   Rep. Dies Retires from Congress in January and Three Other Members Lost Out in Election.

DIES COMMITTEE ON THE WAY OUT   MAJORITY PARTY NOT EXPECTED TO VOTE CONTINUANCE

Dies Committee Heads for Grave   Congress Institution Few Members Ever Opposed Lasts 6 Years

Doubt Keeping Up Dies Group   Lacks Influential Capitol Hill Friends; Severely Crilicized,

Dies Group Headed For Extinction For Lack Of Influential Friends

Dies Committee Is Facing Extinction in 79th Congress   Investigating Group Without Influential Friends on “Hill’

DIES COMMITTEE, FAMED PROBE GROUP. TO PERISH   Lack of Influential Friends on Capitol Hill to Champion it Promises Extinction for. SixYear-Old Congressional Committee

OW! Says Food Outlook ls Good And Will Remain ood For Some Months

Czechs Accord With Russia Is Giv en Approyal   Plan For Administering  Territory Taken In Red Advance Is Reached, London Reveals

CZECHS READY TO TAKE OVER REINS AGAIN   Government Agrees With “Big Three” on Plan for Administering Territory as Soon as Military Operations Permit. -

War On Germans   Government Agrees On Administration Plans For Country

Czechs Accept Plan Of ‘Big 3’   Government Delegation To Enter Country When Conavuered.

Czechs Agree To Administration Of Area Regained   National Brigade To Be First To Re-Enter Former Borders

CZECHS, ALLIES PLAN RULE IN FREED AREAS   Program Differs From Tha’ Which Was Used In Italy

Plan Agreed Upon for Administration of Czechoslovakia When Conditions Permit

Caech Govt. Agrees With Allies On  Governing Plans        By Reds, Who are Now  at BRorder. 2

Big Three Agree To Czech Return   Exiled Government To Follow Russians

Czechs, Allies Have Plan for Land  When Enemies Fall  Officials Will Enter Country as Soon As Military Allows

PLANS MADE FOR HANDLING CZECHS   General Agreement Made For Administering When Military Moves Permit.

Czechs Make Post-War Plans   Agree on Plan to Administer Territory When Freed

Czechs Ready To Move In   Agree With Russia, Britain, U. S. on Plan for Rule of : Freed Territory

EBRIGHT SEEKS FOURTH TERW   Eliminates State Treasurer as Gubernatorial Candidate

Nips Take Beating On Pacific Fronts  18 Jap Divisions Routed In Honan Area’

PACIFIC FOE ADVANCE NiL EVERYWHERE   Japs Halted or Routed As Allied Gains Consolidated

PACIFIC FRONT WAR IS GOING BAD FOR JAPS   NIPPONESE ROUTED, HALTED AND BOMBED

242 PERSONS DIE VIOLENT DEATHS OVER WEEK END   One Hundred Fifty Were Reported Killed in Automobile Accidents.   92 DIED OTHER DEATHS

Nation Counts 1) Fatalities Over Week-Enc   California Tops List With 39; Michigan Lists 13 Dead

LONG CAMPAIGN THROUGH WINTER BEING PLANNED   Rains And Mud Have Rob~ bed Allies Of Full Air And Tank Power   TROOPS BEING ISSUED HEAVIER UNIFORMS

Auction Sale News Of Interest To Local Buyers  Full Particulars In Display Ads

Selective Service Classifications   Fifty-three Classifications Made ai Thursdavy’s Mectine

State Department Reveals That More Than 22,200 American and Filipino War Prisoners Died : af Japanese Mistreatment at One Prison Camp Alone

22,200 PERISH ~ ATONEPRISON INFEW MONTHS   Nipponese Bestiality Charged By War Department

State Dep. Reveals In Protests   Died In War Prisons In First Few Months Of  Detention.

Rome Reported on Verge of Famine   LONDON, March 10—~ —The Rome radio said Rome was raided heavily today. _

Rome Without Water, Gas —   London Reports City Is On Verge of Famine

City Without Gas, Electricity Or Water   Plight Reveaiea  LONDON, March 10 (U.P.)—A Swiss report pubIiched bv the London Daily

ALLIES NARROW JUNCTION NEAR CHERBOURG ARER   Germans Fighting Desperately To Retain Port

Anshan Blasted Again By U.S. B-29 Superforts   Dairen, Manchuria, Loyang, Kaifeng In Occupied China Hit

Anshan Hit Again by B-29s   Nip Radio Tells of New Peleliu Landing on Eastern Shore

1,000 JAPANESE TRAPPED IN BURMA   CHINESE FORCES TIGHTENING NOOSE AROUND ENEMY SOUTH OF SHADUZUP.

Chamberlain Enjoys Sioht-Seeing Trips   Visits Ancient Charch, Catacombs im His Travels

Chamberlain Enjoys Sicht-Seeing Trips  Visits Ancient Church, Catacomh< in Hic Teaval-

Besancon Captured By Yanks   Report Junction Of Patch , And Patton Armies On Border

BATTLE FOR BELFORT GAP   Besancon Taken; Opposition Increases In Doub  Valley

BENSANCON IS CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Meeting Stiff German Opposition in Opening of Battle for Belfort Gap, Near Rhine.   Navy Shells Coast

Taking of Besancon Opens Struggle for Belfort Gap   FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN ITALY   Nazis Battle Desperately to Keep Allied Troops Out Of Po Valley

Battle Of Belfort Gap Is Beginning   Last Retreat Route For Fleeting Germans May Be Closed In Matter Of Few Hours

True Picture Of China Now Reaching Us   Chiang’s Main Concern is Own Coming Civil War; Stliwell Took a Lot   Pure Dictatorship Exists

True Picture Of China Now Reaching Us   Chiang’s Main Concern is Own Coming Civil War; Stliwell Took a Lot

Von Kluge: Is. ‘Unhappy Over Allied Methods   Says Enemy Softening-Up Process Hard on German Infantrymen..° -

States Plan To Enable Service Forces To Vote   Governors Assure Senate Members

President Acts After Ken: tuckian Bitterly Assails Tax Veto Before Cheering Colleagues.   REVOLT AGAINST EXECUTIVE SPREADS   Roosevelt’s _Control. on Congress ‘Threatened Talk Stirred of Effect on 1944 Campaign. 

Appeal Follows Surprising Revol By Party Stalwart as Result Of Veto of Tax Measure

Roosevelt's Plea, “Dear Alben,’ Don't   PRESIDENT SAYS BARKLEY’S DIFFERING WITH HIM DOESN T AFFECT HIS CONFIDENCE IN SENATOR BARKLEY.   Barkley In Seclusion

BARKLEY URGED NOT TO RESIGN ‘BY ROOSEVELT      President, Out of City, Sends Tele. gram, Expressing ‘Confidence’ in  Party Leader

Tighten Grip on Arawe   Americans Extend Beachhead in Fierce Foray; Build Up Campaign Against Rabaul

JAPS DRIVEN BACK NARAWE ATTACK  U.S. Sixth Army Infan     U_S. Sixth Army Infan try Gains 1,000 Yards  In Fierce Drive   BOMBERS ASSIST   Tanks And Artilléry: Also Have Hand In Latest U.  §. Thrust

Grip Tightened on Arawe Peninsula   ‘Bushmasters’ Make 1000-Yard Gain

Tighten Grip Around Arawe   Pioneers In Deadly Jungle Warfare Spring Sudden Fierce Attack.

US. Tribesmen Stalk Japs On New Britain Indians Pierce  Nip Lines To Great Depth

Americans Tighter  Grip on Jungle  Line Against Japs Bushmasters Pound  Installations Of Foe on Arawe

Yanks Tighten Invasion Grip   Veteran Jungle Fighters Hold Arawe Peninsula

BUSHMASTER TROOPS  TIGHTEN INVASION  GRIP ABOUT ARAWE ALLIED AIRFORCE CON TINUE POUNDING AT ENEMV INSTALLATIONS

JUNGLE TROOPS TIGHTEN GRIP ON ARAWE AREA   ‘Attacks Build Up Campaigr Against Rabaul And Kavieng Bases

U. S. Bushmaster Troops Spring Fierce Attack    Jungle War. Veterans, In cluding Indians From 20.0. §. Tribes; Cut Down Japs   TIGHTEN GRIP ON: : ‘ARAWE PENINSULA   Part of General Drive: . to Knock Out the: Rabaul, “: Kavieng: Bases.

Yanks Tighten Grip  On Arawe Peninsula   Pilot Who Tackled 30 Nazis Hailed As First Pacific-Euronean Hera

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON ARAWE   Continue Drive to Knock Out Keystones  Se TEKS Stree

TIGHTEN ARAWE INVASION GRIP   Allied Planes Engage Jap anese In Other Sections

U.S. UNITS GAIN ON NEW BRITAIN   Allied Fliers: Pond Japanese  Positions in New Guinea

Japs Caught Off Guard by Yank Attack  erican Troops   American Troops Tighten Hold On Arawe Sector

HOLD ON ARAWE PENINSULA IS BEING TIGHTENED   American “Bushmaster” Troops Wrecking Jap Defense System in New Britain Area

AMERICAN VETS BLASTING JAPS   ‘Bushmaster’ Troops in Drive To Extend Positions on Arawe Peninsula

U3, INDIAN TROOPS PUSHING JAPS BACK   Americans  Are ‘Tightening Grip On Arawe Peninsula

Yank Jungle Fighters Beating Japs Back In Hand-to-Hand Attack   Bombardier from Ohio Plants Bombs on Another Nip Supply Ship While on Patrol in Liberator

U.S. STRIKES 600 MILES FROM TOKIO   Low Flying Land-Based  ~ American Bombers Hit Bonin Islands; Closest Approach to Tokio.

U.S. Land-Based Bombers Hit 600 Miles From Tokyo  Jap Cabinet Shakeup _ Continues; 19,793 Nig  ' Ruried an Sainan

 and Based Yank ~Bohbers Strike At Bonin Islands   Prograss Repoited by Allies on Other --Paucific Fronts -

Polish Cabinet Drafts Answer   Expected to Spar For Better Terms

Cabinet Still Discusses Offer Poles Spar for More Favorable Terms With Reds Over ? order

Polish Cabinel Spars for More Favorable Terms  Reply Leaves Way Oper ‘tor Settlaunent of rontier Issue

Louisiana Farmers Plowing Up Fish and Have Been, It Seems, for Years

CLIMAX NEAR INBATTLE OF SAIPAN   Americans Reach Garapan, Jap Capital City

Crisis Near In Battle For Saipan   Yanks Take Ridges Above Garapan as Prelude to New Drive

Hardest Battle Of Pacific Moves On As American Invaders Near Garapan

Americans Seize New Positions ‘On Saipan Island   Capture of Ridge Gives U. S. Invaders Big Advantage; Losses Are Heavy

Important Island, Loss Of Which Would Open Philippines And Japanese Homeland To U. S. Attack, Strongly Defended

Hit Shipping  Facilities At Major Port   Island Must Be Reduced In United States Drive “To China —

Japs Use Natural Caves In Limestone Rock In Defending Saipan; Most Of Americans In Front Lines For 17 Days Without Relief   Amazing Defense

Battle For Saipan Is Toughest Of Pacifie War   Japs In Limestone Caves; Tropical Heat And Dust Add To Discomforits

Saipan Battle Nears Climax: Jans Fight On   Entrenched in Natural Caves Conquest of the Island Proving Costly

YANKS ADVANCE TO NEW POINTS OVER JAP LINE   -ighting Is Described As Bloodiest Of Pacific War; Americans And Japanese Suffer Heavy Loss 4

Nazi War Industries Feel Effect Of Raids— —By Kirke L. Simpson  Two Wav Air Attacks Pave Invasion Road

Bradford Hospital Purchases $140.000 in War Loan Bonds: Million Dollar Mark Reached

Large Subscriptions te Fourth War  Loan Pass Million Dollar Mark

British Take Jap Position   East Hinge Of Main  Burma Line Contured

Long Wait is Over; Common Impulse to Prayer Sweeps America on Fateful Day

America Prays as Allied Invasion _ Troops Open Long-Awaited Assault

Greece Cleared of Nazi Troops  Blow Up Roads and Bridges in Flight

All of Greece Has Been Cleared  (Of German Troops  British Land Men On Mainland In Salonika Area

Greece Clear Of Germans   ‘Reconnaissance Pilots Unable To Find Trace Of Nazis In Country.

NAZIS CLEARED FROM GREECE   RAF Unable to Find Any Traces of Nazis

All Nazis Driven Oui  Of Greece   British Troops Land On Mainland Near Salonika; Allies Closing Trap   GERMANS FLEEING INTO SERBIA   Tito Reports Patriots Are Attacking Concentrations Bevond Greek Border

Greece F ully Cleared: of  Nazi Invaders   Last of Germans Flee Into Serbia And Albania

Germans AllOut  Of Greece   Allied Pilots Report No Traces of Enemy Forces Which Held  Country Since 1941

Nazi Troops Are Cleared From All Of  Greece   Complete Liberation Announced By Allied Headquarters As Enemy Flees

Last Of Nazis Out Of Greece      Seeking To Escape Allied Trap,-They Fled Into Serbia. Albania.

Former Rolfe Boy Killed In Action on Burma Fron   F/O Vanden Mecham Previously Reported Missing, Was Killed in Crash Aug. 7

Physic: ul handicaps need not bar useful work, an international eroup reports.   Per Sale or Trade.

Nimitz Says _ Japan Can't. Stand Losses   Americans Destroy 100.Planes A Day

U.S. Air Blows Hurting Japan   Enemy’s Front Yard Losses Cannot Be Afforded, Nimitz Says

AIMMITZ RECOUNTS HEAW JAP LOSSES   Hundred Planes, Ten Ships a Day Destroyed in Last Six Days

Japanese Can Ill Afford American Blows Near Heart Of Their Homeland, Admiral Chester Nimifz Declares

Crippling Blow Dealt Japs, Nimitz Says of Task Force Formosa Raid

Sky Giants Make Third   Manchuria Industrial. Center Knock: ed Out; Japs on Peleliu Island Hopelessly Trapped

B-29’s Make Third Attack On Ansham  In Manchuria   Steel, Chemical Plants Hitin New Effort  To Cripple Arsenal On Asiatic Continent  INTERCEPTORS SHY

MANCHURIA CENTER BLASTED BY FLIERS      American ‘Super- fortresses Made Strike at. Anshan

Superfortresses Blast War Plants  In Manchuria  Tokyo Reports More Planes Being Sent To Guard Philippines

STRIKE TIES UP 80 WAR PLANTS IN NORTHWEST      6,000 AFL Molders and Foundry Workers Quit in Protest of WLE Wage Award

LAND ASSAULT NOT EASED BY AERIAL POWER   BREAKING HITLER’: FORTRESS WON'T BE EASY TASK

Aerial War Aims at Nazi Supply  Task of Cracking Hitler Fortress . Hangs on Sea Arm

Nazi Equipment ‘Ready for Invasion   Current Bombing Make Ultimate Allied Conauest Easier

GERMANS FACING ENGLAND READY   CURRENT ALLIED BOMBING CANNOT AFFECT NAZIS — _ AWAITING INVASION,

Yanks Two Miles From Vital Route   Neither Side Gains in Third Day of Gigantic Armored Battle Near Caen

AMERICAN ARMY CUTS ESCAPE GAP FROM: CHERBOURG   Drive to Within Two “Miles of Enemy’s Last ‘Railway  ; Route : From’ Norianidy Peninsula and City.   GERMANS USE CRACK. - PANZER TROOP UNITS   Swiss, Dispatches’ Hint ; al  Pitched Battles Betweer  French and Germans {tr - Southern France.’

Yanks Take -Reigneville In Cape Tilt   Tank Units 2 Miles From Enemy’s Line Out of Cherhoure

LIFELINE OF CHERBOURG MAY SOON BE SEVERED   U. S. Advance Units Only Two Miles From Foe’s Main Escape Route; Battle Crack Panzer Division

ALLIED THREAT TO PENINSULA IS INCREASING   Nazis Throw Crack Division Into Battle In Effort To Halt Drive

Nazis Say Reds Attacking On Broad Front North Of Pripyat Marshes    Moscow Is Silent — About Operations   Three-Pronged Drive Mov: ing On In Finland, Save Communique

Ist Army Reaches Open Area Behind Outer West Wall   Patton Captures Nancy And Epinal In Crushing Drive Toward Metz; Americans Dentin;  Fabulous Wall All Along 100-Mile Front.

Dewey Talks Of Social Progress   WOULD BROADEN AND STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY ACT UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND OTHER LIKE MEANS.   Speaks From Los Angeles

Dewey Outlines Program for Social Progress   Proposes Broader and Stronger Security Act, Jobless Surety; 90,000 Persons Hear Coast Talk

DEWEY URGES BROAD SOCIAL ~ SECURITY AC‘   Calls for Extension of Benefits to More Classes    Bricker Charges Roosevelt Most Radeemnmeit President

90,000 Persons Greet Gov. Dewe In Los Angeles   Demands Equitable Social Securify

The War Today  U. S., Britain Must Make Up Minds’ About RussoPolish Dispute.

Our Ideas and Russia’s . Don't Necessarily Coincide Moscow Is Sternly Realistic

The War Teday— U. S., Britain in Must Decide How ‘Par To Go In Forcing Ideals On Russia

Wife To Receive Medal For New Buffalo Hero Now Prisoner of Nazis

‘New Threat To Nazis On South Front   Vienna-Budapest Lifeline Menaced By Soviet Drive

CHURCHILL IN PARIS FOR MEET   To Discuss France’s Future With Gen. De Gaulle

CHURCHILL IN FRENCH CAPITAL   British Prime Minister to Meet Gen. De Gaulle

CHURCHILL, DE GAULLE CONFERRING IN PARIS   May Be To Assure France Place at Peace Table

Churchill And Eden In Paris  For Conference   t Expected to Reassure Franee of Place Among Great Powers in Writing Peace

Churchill In  Paris To Confer   British Prime Minister Arrives To Meet With DeGaulle.

CHURCHILL AND DE GAULLE MEET   Prime Minister And Eden Arrive In Paris

CHURCHILL IN PARIS TALK WITH DE GAULLE ON FUTURE ROLES OF FRANCE WITH REST OF WORLD

Political, Eeonomic  Future Of ‘France Up   Churchill And Eden In Paris And Open Discussions With Con, DeGaulle

OBJECTIVE MAY PROVE TOUGHEST   Marshall Islands Have Been Under Japanese Mandate Many Years, With Plenty Of Time For Fortification.   Polynesian Type

Budapest Unde Siege by Reds  New Russ Thrust Theon wetnl   New Russ Thrust Threatens Capital With Encirclement

SOVIETS LAY SIEGE TODAY CON BUDAPEST   Red Army Tanks Battering At City Limits

GERMAN.- HUNGARIAN DEFENDERS FALL BACK TO CAPITAL ITSELF AS RED ARMIES PRESS FORWARD

Defenders Now Inside City As  ;  Confusion Reigns  - Reds Wipe Out ~ 20 Tanks In ~ Mass Slaughter

Budapest Under Fire [As Reds Reach City   Russian Arnry Tanks Battering Sahnehe af Himmoarian Capital

Budapest Under Russian Siege: Foe Falls Back  — — rted To  Fritss ra e   Reds Reported To Have Thrown Armor -Around To North In Encirclina Move

Soviet Troops Lay Siege To Budapest  Red Army Tanks Are   Red Army Tanks Are Battering Hard At Pest Outskirts

RED FORCES LAY SIEGE 10 BUDAPES   Front Dispatches Indicate German and Hungarian Defenders Have Fallen Back Into the Hun varian Canital.

RUSSIAN GUNS RAKE BUDAPEST   Reds Lay Siege To Hungarian Capital, Nazi Forces Flee

BUDAPEST UNDER SIEGE AS SOVIETS BATTER DEFENSES   DISORDER ENVELOPS CAPITAL; DEFENDERS FORCED TO RETREAT

Budapest Under Siege as Reds ‘Encircle City   Chaos Reigns in Capital as Defender: Are Driven Inside; Nozi Losses Heavy

Hungarian Capital Near Capitulation; Situation Critical   German and Hungarian Defenders Retreat Into City Itself

RUSSIANS LAY SIEGE TO BUDAPEST TODAY; TANKS BEING USED  HUNGARIAN CAPITAL RE. PORTED ENVELOPED IN  Qirenarcr Ar NIcADArbDEe

Hungarian And Hun Defenders Back Into City   ‘Red Army Tanks Are Re:  i ported to be Battering at  ; Outskirts of Pest in Capita’s Suburbs   Russians Making Encireling Move   Budapest, Ftecl{ Ie Report ed io be Enveloped in. Wild Disorders Fugi lives Jam Highways

LAY SIEGE 10 BUDAPES)   Hungarian Capital Threatened With Encirclement

Besieges  Budapest   Tanks Batter at Outskirts of Hungarian ‘Capital; Refugees Jam Roads Toward Vienna

(Nazis And Hungarians Driven Into  Budapest   Wild Disorder Is Reported In Capital As Red Army Crashes Into Capital Suburbs

Soviet Troops Lay Siege To Budapest   Red Army Tanks Ar Battering Hard At Pest Outskirts

NAZIS RETRE INTO BUDAPEST   Russians “Lay ‘Seige Te Hungarian Capital

Reds Hurl * Armor At Budapes!   Tanks Are Battering Pest On Eastern Bank of the Danube River   " WILD DISORDER INSIDE CITY

Red Troops Lay Siege To Budapest   Capital in  Wild Disorder, —Many Seek tc Leave City

Conferees Agree On New Levies   Expected to Yield Billion Annually

Parley Hikes —  Excise Taxes   Admission Levy’ Doubling Agreed bv Confereps

8th Army Storms  German Positions   Heavy Barrage Opens New Attack in Italy

NAZIS INVADE SAN MARINO   FRighth Army Barrage Aids Break-through

Yankees Smash Great Nazi Attack at Aachen  Americans Control 50 Square Blocks of the City

Yanks move step by step thrutorneity  Control about 59 industrial blocks

URGE CONGRESS TO PASS LAW SOON ON POSTWAR TRAINING   Solons Fear Public Mood May Change When Shooting Stops

URGE CONGRESS TO ACT SOON      Want Body to Outline Effective Postwar Military Establishment Rather Than Wait Until After War.

Congress Urged To Move. Now for Peacetime Army        Proponents Expect Post-War Wave of ° Anti-Militarism

Urge Postwar Military Plans   Claim Public Favors  Strong Peacetime Army

New U.S. Invasions In Philippines, Isle Chains Imminent   Navy Hints Important Battle Developments 

Red Arrow Unit Rends Jap Lines   Americans Break Up Jap CounteFattacks at Ormoc Perineter on*keyte ~ -

Yanks Prive New Wedges on Leyte Isle   New Invasions on Philippines Indicated by Recent Events

YANKS FORGE NEW WEDGES ON LEYTE ISLAND   32nd Infantry Joins 24th American Division Near Limon

EXAMINATION OF DEFENDANTS STARTS      Will Reveal Stary Behind Is. suance of Grand Jury Warrant.

Raising Men For Business   R. BABSON I DISCUSSES IMPORTANCE OF SOIL

SOIL IS MOST IMPORTANT IN PURCHASING NEW FARM  Land Boom Has Shares Ta Middle West Babson Says, Men and Strong Families Are Factors to Be Consiclered,

BABSON THINKS LAND. BOOM IS REASONABLE      Rates Land As Good Hedge Against Inflation. Discus‘ses Factors To Consider In Buying Land. :

BABSONS WEEKL Y  COLUMN   RAISING MEN FOR BUSINESS   Babson Discusses the Impovtance o Galli When Buvine Land

BERLIN IN FLAMES AGAIN BY R.ALF.   Thirty-four Planes Missing From Last Night’s Attack.

Pacific Bases Need of U.S.  In Peace Era   Security Planners Hear Army, Navy Proposal For Development

POSTWAR PEACE EACE PLANS CALL FOR THE. DEVELOPING OF EX-JAPANESE ISLANDS

TO TAKE OVER JAP MANDATE   To Use Force in Assuring Post-War Peace; Calls for Small, Professional Army

Army and Navy Want To Keep New Bases in Pacific   Would Be Part of Plan to Preserve Peace With Force

Postwar Pacitic Bases Planned   Armed Forces Urge Development of Islands Mandated to Japs After Last War; Peacetime Citizen Army Part of Security Outline

Japs Say Wotje Island Shelled by Two Destroyers   Allied Troops Make Slow Gain Toward Myitkyina Capture

Reds Seize Lida, Reach Latvia in Drive for Baltic   All Enemy Defenses On Wilno-Luninets Rail Line Collapse

Russians Surge To Latvia   Take Vital Road  Junction Of Lida, 56 Miles South Of Embattled Wilno.

6.0.P. CHARGES TRUMAN WITH UNFAIR POLITICS   Says Senator Using Chairmanship To Further 4th Term

Political Storm Engulfs Truman  Group Over FDR   Chairman Calls For Fourth Term

War Probers \Are Critical lof Chairman   FDR Backing Is Hit by Republican Members; County Growing Committees

Truman Uses Position To Further FDR Fourth Term, Republicans Charge

REPUBLICANS CLAIM SENATOR TRUMAN IS FOURTH TERM AIDE   STATEMENT OF WAR PROBE COMMITTEE BRINCS REPLY IN SENATE

NEW POLITICAL CTORNM BREWS   Trouble in Senate Over Its War Investigating Committee.

REPUBLICANS CLAIM SENATOR TRUMAN 15 FOURTH TERM AIDE  STATEMENT OF WAR   STATEMENT OF WAR PROBE COMMITTEE BRINGS REPLY IN SENATE

FDR Boost By Truman Draws Fire   Raises Political Storm; Statement Disowned By Other Members of  Hie Cammittee

TRUMAN MOVE BREWS STORM   War Probe Leader Urges 4th Term For FDR

Truman Probe Group Swept By Political Storm   Chairman Declared Using Committee To Aid F. D. R. Candidacy.

Storm Brewing After Truman  Supports FDR   GOP. Members Of Group Assail Statement “As Politics’ —

Pastor Is Named For St. Thomas   BDathoaw BaSsaly oF bees  Laurens Succéeds Father McNerney

Eisenhower Hails Great Possibilities of Victory; Reds Keep Advancing

100, 000 To 200,000 Enemy _ Troops Caught In Tr ap Of _ Steel And Artillery Fire =

Between 100,000, 200,000 Enemy Troops Turn For  Fight To The Death   GREAT TRIUMPH IS ' SEEN BY EISENHOWER

Only Corridor Of Escape Under Fire   Greetest Allied Army Of War Battering Nozi Lines So Relentlessly They Cannot Re-form

From 100,000 to 200,000 Germans Within Trap As Onslaught of Americans Travels North.

NACI TURN FOR BATTLE TO DEATH   Hail of Bombs and Artillery Shells Seal Escape Route   THOUSANDS HEMMED   Germans Check Rush From ‘Coffin Corner’ in Attempt To Plug Leaking Lines

Enemy. Troops, Escape Cut Off by Lightning Drive of Americans and Canadians, Check Retreat and Turn for Battle to Death—Destruction of Force Would Open the Road to Paris.

Greatest Victory Of Allied Arms In France Looms   Nazis in Furious Batile fo Death

Von Kluge’s Men.  Turning to Fight   Flower of Nazi Force Facing Death, Capture Weabt. ducnle Vank Nance Woet af Parie

Close Steel Trap Around Germans   With Retreat Cut Off  Some Nazi Forces ‘urn  to Fight Il Out, Bisenhower Ordars “Drive Ahead]

Giant Allied Pincers Shuts on Foe Seventh Army as Hail of Bombs, Shells Pounds Escape Route

Guns Seal Off  Narrowing ~  Escape Path  - 100,000 to 200.000   100,000 to 200.000 ‘Bottled, in Pocket — West of French Capital  FALAISE MENACED

GERMANS STEP UP ROBOT BOMB ASSAULT TODAY   Jet-Propelied Torpedoes Are Again Roaring Over Channel

Robot Bomb Attacks Stepped Up by Huns   Intensity Has Been Increased Despite Raids on Bases

Robot Raids on England Stepped Up   JET-PROPELLED BOMBS ROAR ACROSS CHANNEL AFTER 24-HOUR LULL

Kichty Injured In Train Wreck At New Orleans   Trains Collide In Fog; Only Twelve Removed. » To Hospitals

Big Majority Against State Liquor Ban   Phelps Only Definite ‘Dry County’: Gas Tax Amendment Fails

Dry Proposal Swept Unde:   Nebraskans Oppose Prohibition In Overwhelming Majority.

DOOMED FATHER DENIES KILLING   Attorney, 47, Sentenced To Electrocution In Infant Slaying

It Hits You Like A Two-Ton Block-Buster  Movie On Tarawa Battle Shows War At Its Worst

‘Military Miracle If the Germans Should Get Out Anywhere Near Whole,’ Says Allied Officer   Mysterious Gen. Le Clerc Now Fighting With U. S. in France

French In Action  SUPREME HEADQUARTERS aprrrunNn BSYWYPEHITIOWVARY

‘Relax’ From Duties by Putting on ootin’ Tootin’ Rodeo in Normandy      (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S. NOTEBOOK.)

British Halted at Ravaldino Canal   Snow Flurries Interrupt Italian Front Communications

Absence of 30th Defendant May Delay Sedition Trial   Accused of Conspiring With Nazi Agents To Undermine Loyalty of U.S. Armed Forces

Nazis Withdraw In Eastern Italy   Only Three Miles From Enemy's Gothic Line

GERMAN FORCES IN ITALY WITHDRAW   Polish Troops Advance Within 3 Miles Of Enemy Gothic Line

Germans Reeled Back in Italy   Kighth Army Patrols Find Enemy Does Not Want to Fioht

GERMANS IN ITALY MAKE WITHDRAWAL   Appear to Have Withdrawn to Gothic Line

DETROIT PLANT STRIKES ENDING   Foremen Take Action Affect. ing 55.000 Workers

SLIGHT HOPE HELD FOR MEN IN MINE   Shaft to be Sunk in Rescue Efforts at Bellaire, O..

SINKING TO AID MINERS   Faint Hope Remains For Rescuing 64 Ohicans

Sink Shaft To Rescue Miners   Drills Rushed To Powhatan Mines In Hopes Of Saving 64 Miners.

Faint Hope Held For Trapped 64   Start New Shaft To Reach Miners

FAINT HOPE. FOR MINERS   WORK STARTED TO DRILI” AIR SHAFT TO PLACE WHERE MINERS WERE ‘TRAPPED

Infantry Suffers the Most, Deserves Better Pay, Stimson Request:

Infantry Has  Most Deaths   Stimson Says In Former Campaigns, Infantrymen Lead In Casualties.

Stimson Urges. Pay Boost For -U. S. Soldiers   Emphasizes Great and Dangerous Tasks of Infantry

INFANTRY HIGH IN CASUALTIES   ‘Stimson Urges Salary Boost for Ground Troops

Infantrymen's Casualties Are Far Out of Proportion to Their Numbers

Infantry Sutfers Most, Says Stimson   Has More Casualties Than Other Groups in Service

No Peace On Anzio Beachhead When A Guy From The Air Force Drops In, Bringing His Plane With Him

Meeting Tonight  Is of Vital  Interest to City Businessmen han Ple  nom Derevo

Meeting Tonight Is of Vital Interest to City  Businessmen Will Plc Fifth Loan Drive

Bombs Hail On Germany  Raids Hit Cologne   Raids Hit Cologne And Frankfurt.

More Than 2,000 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped Through The Clouds Over Germany

Methodist Church HAWES. Pastor   United Brethren G. M. TALBOTT. Pastor

Poles F ollow Nazi Retreat   Enemy Withdraws. ‘In Central Italy”

ITALIAN FRONT MOVING NORTH   Eighth Army Feels Out Enemy Positions In Gothic Line

Nazis Retreating To Gothic Line   Slight Changes Noted On Italian Front

Twister Hits State Farms   Damages Buildings and Kills Chickens in Garfield County

Twister Hits Near Bison Late Tuesday   Wet and Chilly Over State; Warmer Weather Due

JAPS REPELLED WITH CIDE UNeE   Norway Ensign Awarded Silver Star In South Pacific

\Allies Sink 13 More Jap Barges, Hit Supply Base   Australian - Amertear Trap Moves Closer Up: on Jap Coastal Post tions In Northeast New Csuined.

More Barges Of Japs Sunk _ By PT Boats      tack on ‘Alexishafen ‘

Allies Sink 13° More Jap Barges Hit Supply Base   Australian - Am erican Trap Moves Closer Upon Jap. Coastal  Positions In Northeast New  funda

ALLIED AIR, NAVAL  UNITS TAKE HEAVY  TOLL JAP BARGES SUPPLY BASE AND TROO!  CENTER OF ALEXISHAFE! HAMMERED ALSO

13 JAPANESE BARGES SUN   Allied Attacks Undermine Enemy Position On New Guinea Further

13 MORE JAPAN BARGES SUNK ON NEW GUINEA   Supply. Base and Troop  Center At Alexishafen   Also Raided By, — Allied Forces

13 BARGES ‘SUNK BY PLANE NAVAL FORCES   Jap Base At Alexishafen Hit

Allies Take Heavy Tolls Over Pacific   Thirteen Japanese Barges Are Sent To Bottom

Several German Towns Overrun As Six Armies Batter Toward Cologne

Temperatures   13,000 Bomb Tons Stun Germans in  Five-Hour Attack

Big Push Is Paced By Yanks   Important Goins Are Registered Initial Phases

Pacemakers 11 Miles E. of Aachen   Greesenich One of Towns Now in Hands  Of Doughboys   Patton’s Third Army Forces Way Steadily Through Metz Outskirts

Hodges’ Forces Gain 2 Miles Througn Cologne Plain Line  Several Towns, Villages Fall ee a ae eee CR Oe   Several Towns, Villages Fall In Rapid Advance on Duren

TAKES COLOGNE PLAIN ROAD HUB IN 2-MILE GAIN   Advances on Other Fronts

Two American Armies Gain Near Aachen   Gressenich, Road Center On Rhineland Plain, Falls; Nazis Make First Counterattack; Offensive Nearing The Ruhr, Report

Proves Pacemaker In Offensive On West Front; Four Other Alhed Armies On March Along  400-Mile Front

HURL 1,900,000 MEN INTO NEW OFFENSIVE ON 400-MILE FRONT     First And Ninth, Spearheading Great Winter Drive To Crush Nazis, Overrun 12 Towns, Reported Nearing Ruhr  :   (ROLLETIN)

First Army Smashes East Two Miles, Takes Key Road Junction   Forces Batter Out Gains Along 400-Mile Offensive Front in Supreme Offensive; British in Holland Hurl Germans Back Across Maas River; American Patrols Enter Metz Outskirts

Pacemakers in New Offensive Gain Two Miles   Several More German Towns, Villages Taken

SIX ARMIES IN DRIVE ON GERMANY   Ist Army Captures Greesenich, 10 Miles East of Aachen

First Army Penetrates Rhineland   Occupy Greffenich, 29 Miles from Cologne—Evacuated  by Nazis

American Ist and Oh Armies Leading 1,500,000 Allies  In Supreme Drive   Reich Under Fire.

First Army Pushes East For Two-Mile Advance   Yankee Spearhead Already Threatens Vital Transport Center of Duren _

Heavy Artillery Fire And Allied Bombers Prepare Way For Advance   Counter Thrust  Quickly Defeated   L00-Mile Battle Front In Action As Squeeze Is Put On Germans

PALES ATTAGK BY alk GREAT ALLIED ARMIES   ‘Hodges’ Forces Smash Way  to Within 28 Miles of  the Rhine.

Gressenich      NINTH ARMY GIVEN MORE STERN OPPOSITION; NAZIS __. MAY WITHDRAW CLEAR TO RHINE

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  Allies Must Seize Ports In France Quickly

Pay Final Tribute To Young Soldier  Services For ‘Set. ‘ . L.: Brandenbure..

Pay Final Tribute To Young Soldier  Services For Sgt. -L. Brandenburg .

Bl il i ili i lal le de Willkie Still Silent On Reaching New York

WILLKIE DECLINES. TO MAKE COMMENT   Refuses To Comment On His Fu ture Conduct Regarding GOP Presidentia] Nominee

Willkie Silent On Future Plans  a ts Slt   Refuses To Talk Politics in N. Y.

AFTER HEART ATTACK   Kirst Stricken Last Sunday at Funeral of Publishing Partner

‘Create Jobs To Avoid Mass Unemployment’  That Is Formula Proposed By P. G. Johnson, West  Danoaat TIndlesctwralhiat

‘Create Jobs To Avoid Mass  Unemployment  That Is Formula Proposec By P. G. Johnson, Wes!

Boeing President Suggests Plan For Eliminating Post-War Unemployment

NAVY SILENCE MAY MEAN NEW PACIFIC BLOW   Indicate Important Events In Making  NAVY ACES MEET  os  Japs In New Guinea Blasted

NAVY SILENT ON MARCUS ATTACK   lf Nip Claim Is True, New Blows May Be In Making

HINT NEW BLOW BEYOND MARGUS   More Important Mission Seen as Pacific Fleet Keeps Silent

 Navy’s Silence on Marcus Raid May Mean Pacific Fleet is Advancing on Jap Strongholds

FLEET . UNITS REPORTED TO  FAVE RAIDED MARCUS 15LAND KEEPING RADIO, a . SILENCE’ -

ROOSEVELT REDUCES CIGARETTE SMOKING   President Using Less Than A Pack A Day Now Because of Bronchial Condition

Units Of American 24th Division Advance Three Miles In Drive On Ormoc      Naval Craft Sinks Four Transports And Six Destroyers In Jap Attempt To Land Reinforcements

Yanks Gain To Control Ormoc Road   24th Division Drives 3 Miles, Takes Hill Pointe

YANKS STRIKE HEAVILY AT JAP POSITIONS   Army-Navy Plane Attacks Annihilate Thousands and Sink Enemy Ships; Ormoc in Flames.   Heavy Rains

Units of 24th Drive Slash. ing Toward Ormoc Base      HEIGHTS TAKEN IN ADVANCES BY ARMY   Thirteen Enemy Fighters Shot Down During Day

Could You Improve It?   Indians in 1855 Carefully Avoided Putting the ‘ Blame on Whiskey

FLANNAGAN TAKES LEAD WN NINTH   Nip and Tuck Race Develops In Seventh Between Robertson and Earman; Literary Fund Freeze Leads

DEATH OF WORKER {$ LAID TO SUFFOGATION   Deputy Coroner Confirms Cause Of Charlerei Man's Beath At Donora

CHAPLIN CASE IS NOW IN JURY'S HANDS      “Jurors ‘Must ‘Decide Whether He Violated Mann Act

Chaplin's Fate Is Placed in Hands of Jury   Seven Women and Five Men Begin Deliberations

ANOTHER SPRING DAY   Weatherman Flora Says Mercury Will Be Near 74

British Prohibit Outside Trips For Diplomats   Fresh Invasion Rumors Follew Announcement Of Strict Safeguard

Safeguard Invasion © Secrecy   Britain Clamps Travel Ban on Neutral and Allied Diplomats; Censors Diplomatic Mail

Britain Puts  Rigid Ban on All Diplomats   Pouches To Be Opened And All Trips, or Messages in Code Forbidden

Diplomats’ Activities Curbed Sharply As Britain Fights Any Invasion Leaks

DIPLOMATS IN NET OF oAFLTY OVER ENGLANT   Bans All Trips From Country, Puts Censorship on All pe Camminications.

BRITAIN CLAMPS CENSORSHIP ON NEUTRAL ENVOYS   FORBID DIPLOMATS TO LEAVE COUNTRY TO PREVENT LEAKS

CODED MESSAGES BARRED, LETTERS WILL BE GENSORED   China and Smaller Nations Affected By Unprecedented Action, New Order Is Now In Effect.   FORMAL STATEMENT ISSUED BY FOREIGN OFFICE   Restrictions Will Be Removed at the Earliest Possible Moment Depending on the Needs For Security.

BRITAIN MOVES TO BAR LEAKS ON INVASION   Diplomats of Ail Nations Except U.S., Britain and Russia Immobilized in Unprecedented Move

BRITISH ‘FREEZE’ DIPLOMATS 10 GUARD INVASION   To Censor Communications ot Neutral Officials, Ban Telegrams in Code

Travel Bans, Censorship  Placed Over. Envoy Group   Action ‘To Tighten Plan ‘For: Invasion

Britain Restricts Diplomats of . All But ‘Big Three’   Envoys May Not Travel Gutside Britain, Communications Made Subject to Censorship

Germans Anticipate Invasion in Month and Half at Least   New British Restrictions Viewed as Sign of Impending Move

INVASION PLANS TAKE NEW FORM   Britain Clamps Restrictions on Communications

Communications Made Subject To Check Of Censors; Approved By U. S.. Russia

BRITAIN PUTS STRICT BAN ON DIPLOMATS   Action Restricting Envoys Latest in Series of Steps Taken to Safeguara Invasion Plans   STAFFS ARE INCLUDED

British Curb Diplomats to Avoid Leaks   Placed Under Travel Ban as Allies Get  Ready for Invasion

Britain Bans All Travel Outside ‘Country Except Envoys 3 Nations   Drastic Steps eps Taken To Safeguard Approaching: Invasion of Europe. 

Trips By Diplomats Restricted   Staffs Of Neutrals Are Immobilized By Britain In Order To Protect Invasion Secrets

ARE IN EFFEGT   Dinfomats of Neutral ane Most Allied Nations Under Restrictions.

Restrictions On Diplomats   Britain Takes Action To Prevent Enemy From Getting Information

Britain Puts A Close Guard On  Invasion Moves   Neutral Diplomats Cannot Leave Country; All Their Mail Censored.

Democrats Gather For Showdown   Butler Says Executive Committee’s Apt to Adopt Stevenson Plan

STRATEGIC VICTORY FOR ALLIES SEEN   Peace to Be Precarious in Its Early Stages

JAP. COLLAPSE SEEN IN YEAR   UNITY . AMONG ALLIES AFTER VICTORY. WILL’ PRESENT . MANY ‘PROBLEMS TOR DIPLOMATS

Support Asked For Community  Chest Drive   Treasurer’s Statement Submitted Giving Benefittine Agencies      Port Council to. Appeal Case

Support Asked  For Community  Chest Drive   Treasurer’s Statement Submitted Giving Benefitting Agencies   Port Council to  Appeal Case   Balks at Paying $2500 Damage Award

Sufficient Jobs Bring Security, Baruch Declares   War Mobilization Advise Says ‘Peace Can Be What U. §. Makes It”

J obs for Ever yone. Will Achieve World Security, Baruch Asserts

F. D. R. Will Give Radio Talk Tonight   NATION-WIDE PROGRAM WILL BE BROADCAST FROM 8:15 TO 9:15

U.S. Wallows In Wool But There ‘Are Still Limitations On Its Use

Security Tax Fight Ahead   Tax Will Be Raised January 1 Unless It ts Frozen Again  -

Shirley Remer Valedictorian Phyllis Kloster Salutatorian Of Glass

INDUSTRIES IN GERMANY GET HEAVY BLOWS   From 1,750 Bombers Based in Britain and Italy; Nazi Oil Production Cut 77 Per Cent.   Rusting Machines

Shuttle Bombing  Americans Battle  German Air Fleet ‘Mustangs, Aiding Russian Attack on Lwow, Surprise Junker. Bic Dewn 26 in Flamec

U. 8. Bombers Hit Lwow Area   Destroy 38 German Planes in Offensive Sweep, Moscow Says

AID RUSSIANS, BAG 38 NAZIS   Americans Fly Direct From Soviet Bases In Sweep Along Lwow Sector

Russ-Based U. S. Planes Get 38 Nazis  Strike Effectively  At Enemy In Lwow Axwna-e Wat ne. T ane

YANK FIGHTERS ASSIST SOVIETS   American Planes From Red Bases Attack Germans

Yanks Destrov 30 Foe Planes   Airmen Fly Directly From U. S. Bases In Russia To Support Reds,

Giant Bomber Crews Reveal Nippon Havoc   West Va. Wife Honored When Name of ‘Betty’ Flashed Success

‘rewmen Revea   dahoan Piloted First Superfortress ‘rom Chinese Base; Destruction Saused by. Direct Hits Described

Set. Paul Biggart Bags - 4 Nazi Planes Before He Dies On Heroic Flight

anes Shot Down in Single Com ‘by American  Bomber      How ‘Pistol Packi ‘Mama’ Went:Down Fighting After Amazing Battle Is Disclosed by Army

NEW CHIEF NAMED FOR HIGHWAY PATROL   Inspector George Mingle To Succeed Col. Lynn Black

MINGLE TO HEAD HIGHWAY PATROI   Promoted Te Fill Vacancy Created By Death Of Col. Black   WELL KNOWN HERE   Served As District B Lieutenant When Barracks Were Dedicated

MINGLE HEADS STATE PATROL   Inspector Who Started As Patrolman In 33, Named To Succeed Col. Black

Finland-Russian Negotiations End  sree   Vishinsky Announces Revised Armistice Terms Were Rejected

FINNS FINALLY REJECT LAST OF SOVIET TERMS   Reports Say Conservatives Believe Germany — May Win

Finns Spurn Russ Terms For War End   Demands of Soviet Refused Under Claim Conditions impossible

FINLAND REJECTS ARMISTICE OFFER   NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN MOSCOW AND HELSINKI _ARE BROUGHT TO CLOSE,

Soviet-Finn Peace Talks Come To End   Russian Terms Turned Down; Rejected Plans Revealed In Report

Sovi iet Peace _ Negotiations  Held Closed      loscow Advised Terms Would Impose Burden  On People: Incapable   of Carrying Other Out   Asked Reparations OF $600,000,060   Also Called On To Intern German Troops and War. ships, or Expel Before April’s End

FINLAND TURNS DOWN RUSSIA'S REVISED TERMS   No Armistice in Sight, Accord. ing to Soviet Foreign Affairs Official

Finns Reject Russian Terms   Rejection Brings Negotiations to Close, Moscow Says

Finland Rejects Red Peace Plan   Negotiations Come To  . Final Close

Heavy Attack Made on Jaluit  In Marshalls   Jap Defenses Hit by 240 Tons of Bombs; Invasion Seems Likely

SPREAD OF ‘DIXIE REVOLT? 1S REPORTED AT eHICAGD   DEMOCRATIC LEADERS IN SOUTHERN STATES ON FENCE AS RESULT OF  ' " RACIAL PLANK

U. S. Planes, P-T Boats Sink Troop Ships, Destroyers  Americane Keen [Jn   Americans Keep Up Pressure on Heart  Of Ormoc Corridor

Japs assert bombs struck on palace site  Pietures refute Ninnonese claim

B-29'S DAMAGE ROYAL PALACE, ENEMY ADMITS.      Manor House Is Struck By Bombs, Tokyo Home Broadcast Announces

TANK THRUST BROKEN UP BY BRITISH           Germans Throw All Avai able Armor. Into. Figh In Effort to Lift Thr From South: .      ENEMY RESERVES © ON WAY FROM REICH   Others Rushing. ‘Toward. Normandy From Cen tral France to Mee Impending Showdown.:

Nazis Rush New Troops To Normandy   Allies Hammer Back Nine Counter-Attacks In 24 Hours; Fliers Smash Troop Reserves

Over Thousand Aircrafts Raid Enemy In Night   Mosquitoes Siab At Berlin During Attacks to Flat. ten Pathway For In-. vasion Troops   Only 16 Bombers Lost On Missions   Fires From Cologne Attack Seen For 200 Miles: Heavy Casualties Ace. knowledged In Paris

Bold Bid Made to Lop Off Menacing British Thrust _   FIRST EFFORTS OF  ENEMY REPULSED   Local Gains in the Caen Area Scored by Allied Forces

1,100 Aircraft Hit City; Rail Centers Attacked In France   Pre-Invasion Bomb Blasting Increases In Intensity ; Pas-De-Calais Area Is Raided; 9, 9,000 Planes Attack In Last 72 Hours

Unidentified Woman Founc . Bludgeonec   Omaha Authorities Seek. ing Information’ Regarding Slaying

hitler Nol Mad. On Way To Japan   Madrid Reports Say Fuechrer, Koiso Will Frame New Action

Rumors Have Hitler Hiding In Argentina   Others Speculate That Fuehrer May Be Visiting Japan

HITLER MAY BE ON JOURNEY T0 JAPAN IS CLAIM   Independent. ‘Sources See Nazi Chief Far From Mad, QD) Or Dead

Hitler Rumored In Japan  To Confer On War Plans   Two Independent Reports Say Fuehrer, Far From Mad, Ill Or Dead. has Left By Submarine For Nippon; Another Attefupt Reported Made On His Life

HITLER MAY BE IN TOKYO FOR CONFERENCES   Reports Say Unrest Growing

FUEHRER MAY BE IN JAPAN   Spectacular Confer. ence With Lact Major Ally Hinted

PUZZLE OF THE HOUR---WHERE IS HITLER?   New Rumors In Europe Send Him To Japan By Plane Or Sub, To Refuge In Argentina

Suggest Hitler Going To Japan For Conference   Other Rumors State Fuehrer Has Sought Refuge In Argentina

NEITHER DEAD HOR MAD, SAY TWO SOURCES   Himmler to Take Over New Army Control, Rumors Claim

Hitler Said on Way to Japan by Plane or Sub; Other Reports Claim He Has Fled to Argentina

Hitler May Be On His Way To Japan   More Theories Are Advanced on Fuehrer’s Whereahonis. Health

APE ES EG FOES eee flies Saale ns  Hitler in Submarine Trip T, Janan Author Suggests

HITLER RUMORS FLY THIGK AND FAST IN EUROPE   Stories Place Fuehrer All Over The Axis Globe

DRAFT OF 17-YEAR-OLDS FNDS OPPOSITION IN HOUSE COMMITTEE   BETTER USE OF MEN IN SERVICE, INDUCTION OF OLDER NON-FATHERS SUGGESTED INSTEAD

FDR to Veto Revenue Bill Tomorrow   Rayburn Predicts Veto Will Be Sustained; House Committee Wants Better Use of Men Now in Service

FD. R. to Return Tax Bill, Says Speaker Rayburn   President Is First Contributor to Red Cross Drive

PLANS ARE MAPPED BY PARTY LEADES      Organization Plans Beil Perfected by Republicans

PLANS ARE MAPPED BY PARTY LEADERS   Organization Plans Being Perfected by Repub-  licans

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TWO MAJOR SPEECHES   PEAKS ‘AT SAN FRANCISCO AND LO8 ANGELES IN BID FOR SUPPORT

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Problems Block Congress’ Ending   Second War Powers Act and Social Security Act: Cause Headaches.

Halt » Dozen Knotty Prob. lems Threaten Adjournment by December 10

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FDR, CHURCHILL TO CONFER SOON   PART BRITAIN WILL PLAY IN JAP WAR MAY BE DECIDED

FDR. Churchill Concerned.  Over Economie Problems   These Issues Believed To Overshadow Military Questions On Agenda For Tenth Meeting Of Leaders At Forthcoming Conferences Sched-

Quebec Will Be Place of Meeting   Leaders to Plan Pacific Offensive

FDR May Meet Churchill, Discuss War   Roosevelt Confers With Military Advisers, Cabinet

Roosevelt Preparing For Conference With Churchill, Probably In Quebec

Churchill Will ‘Sit With FDR At Frontenac   Conquest of Japan, European War End Will Be Charted

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL T0 MEET VERY SOON   Quebec Chosen As Site Of Talks Among Chiefs

‘Roosevelt, ‘Churchill To Meet Soor   Quebec Will Be the Contact Point; President Meets With Leaders

\Roosevelt-Churchill Parley Expected ‘To Cover Problems of Peace and War  President Confers With British Ambassador Halifax, Murphy and Army and Navy Big Fow

Allied Chieftains Will Meet Again In Quebec City  Date Is Yet To  Re Determined

Quebec  Prepares for Visit   News Correspondents, Cameramen Arrive for F. R., Churchill Talks

olitical Side To Dominate   ' Eeonomics Sircssedl For Quebec Talks

F.D.R., Churchill Meeting Near   Leaders Summoned By Problems Of Imminent Victory Over Nazis.

ALIEDHEADSTO MEET IN QUERE   Roosevelt, Churchill To Discuss New War Plans At Parley .

“Parley At Quebec”   London Sure That Will Be Roosevelt-Churchill Meeting Place and Soon

Roosevelt Confers With Halifax And Big Four In Advance Churchill Meet

Quebec Likely Site For F.D.R.Churchill Meet   Stalin’s Absence From War Conference Said Caused By War Problem:

Night Baseball  AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 0 Washington 4  NATIONAL LEAGUYI   Quebec City Preparing for Talks Between Roosevelt and Churchill

ANOTHER HISTORIC MEETING CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT NEAR   LONDON REPORTS DECLARE QUEBEC IS LIKEL' MEETING PLACE

Churchill, FR. Quebec Parley Set   War in Pacific, Peace in Europe Probable Topics

FDR-CHURCHILL TO MEET IN QUEBEC   They'll Plan Conquest of Japan in Canada

WORK ADVANCES ON EXTENSIGN OF STATE BGAN 19.   Highway Maintenance ’ Crew. Expects to Open - Road in 30 Days

WORK ADVANCED ON EXTENGILN Ut STATE ROAU 13   Highway Maintenance Crew Expects to Open Road in J0 Days

Reds Slashing Into Suburbs On Southeast   Nazis Said Throwing In Fresh Forces In Attempt To Hold

TO BUDAPEST -LIMITS TODAY   Russian Army Advanced 56 Miles In 5 Days

Budapest In Panie As Reds  Draw Nearer      Noise Of Battle Swelled 23 Miles Away; Fierce Battle In Progress.   WEATHER 1 BAD

REDS SMASH INTO BUDAPEST DEFENSE   Russians Advance 50 Miles In Five Days on Hungarjan Plain.   BULLETIN Londen—(?)}— The Bucharest radio said tonight “a revioution is in full swing in Budapest.”

—RUSSIA—  BUDAPEST HEARS. NOISE OF BATTL!   Russian ‘Tanks, Guns And Men Rumble'Toward Hungarian Capital

Of Budapest   Advanced 50 Miles In Five Days Over  Hungarian Plain

Red Army Advances Upon Budapest As Panic Prevails  Noise of Battle Hits Hungarian City From 25 Miles Away

EDS ADVANGE IN BIG DRIVE FOR BUDAPES)   Panic Seizes Hungarians in Capital as Reds Cut Gap to 14 Miles.

Russian Tanks, Guns, Men Rushing Toward Outskirts Of Budapest; 23 Miles Away      Hungarian Capital's Outer Defense Already Smashed

Budapest In Panic As Red ‘Army Draws  Near Capital   Russians Already Smashing Into Outer Defenses Of Hunvarian City:

Budapest Can Hear Battle    London (2)—The Bucharest radio said tanight “a revolution ja in full swing in Budapest.”

Russians Are af Budapest Outskirts   50 Miles of Plain Crossed in 5 Days

Roar Of Red Artillery Is Heard Only 20 Miles From Hungarian Capital.

soviet Forces Are 23 Miles From Capital   Panic Prevails In Ancient City As Battle Nears

Aerial Assault  On German Area   MANY BOMBS, DROPPED ON INDUSTRIAL TARGETS

BUDAPEST AREA UNDER ATTACK   Soviets Are Driving Toward Hungarian Capital—Fierce Battle in Progress

Russians Race For Budapest   Red Army Smashes Into Outer Defenses

End Is Near for Monetary Conferences   Russia in Center; Want to Know How Much Gold USSR Will Contribute

NO A ON MONETARY FUND REAGHED   Very Few Points Left Fo: World Wide System

NEAR AGREEMENT ON WORLD BANK   RUSSIA EXPECTED TO ACCEDE TO AMERICAN STAND IN CONFERENCE

Congress to  End Vacation   Undecided on Whether To Take Holiday or Work on Reconversion

MEMBERS OF SENATE MILITARY COMMITTEE CALLED T0 CAPITAL  BARKLEY AND REYNOLDS PLAN ACTION AFTER RE. DIIDITICAN NRMANNH

U. S. Unprepared For Nazi Collapse   Senate and House Trying Maneuver Preparedness Measures For Country.

Senate Group Told To Hurry   Reconversion Legislation To Be Taken Up; Republicans Want Early Action

ABSENT MEMBERS OF SENATE MILITARY. GROUP URGED T0 GET BACK T0 WORK

CONGRESS WILL END VACATION   Will Reconvene Tuesday After Taking FiveWeek Lay-Off

NATIONAL  CHAIRMAN! J LEAVES ‘YNCOMMETTED ¥O KERR FOR) 'KEYNOTER

Sooners Vote For Roosevell   State Delegation of 22 Instructed to Vote for President

U.S. Break with Spain Demanded   Congress Also Hears Comment on Finland

Thousands Of Germans Die In Escape Effort   Enemy Troops Die By Boat. load In Attempt To Evacuate Sevastopol   NAZIS IN DRIVE ON NORTH FRONT  (RITT.T.E TIN)

GERMANS DIE BY THOUSANDS IN RUSSIA   2,000 Killed in Push Against Red Bridgehead in Estonia

DRIVE IN NORTH BRINGS HITLER HEAVY LOSSES      Counter Attack in Estonia Sevastopol Blockade Tightens

FRESH ASSAULT FOLLOWS BLOW OFF MINDANAO   Tokyo Radio Declares 130 Carrier Based Planes Participate In Raid   HALSEY SCORES VICTORY   Third Fleet Sinks 89 Jap Cargo Ships And Downs 68 Enemy Fighters

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   DAWN RAID ON TOKYO BY LONE SUPERFORTRESS

Swedes Say Nazis Have Strong New Rocket Bomb  Secret Weapon Has Immense Power, Newspaper States

GERMAN SECRET WEAPON REPORTED AS “LIQUID AIR” ROCKET BOMB "OF GREAT DESTRUCTIVE FORCE

Japs Set Back In India And Burma, But Make Big Gains On Chinese Front

Enemy Suffers New Setbacks ~ In India, Burm:   But Japs’ Press ‘Ahead Toward Main Objective In. Hunan Offensive

Japs Pushing On in Bloody Hunan   Allies Score On All Other Fronts

ALLIES IN BURMA MOVE ON JAP BASE FROM THREE SIDES   Gains Up to Mile Made in At‘tack on Myitkyina—Enemy Lossés Heavy in Bitter Fighting.   NIPPONESE ADVANCE . ' IN HUNAN PROVINCE   Chinese Spokesman Says Enemy Has Massed 280,000 Troops in Effort to Cut  Country in Two. 

One Report Places Americans In City   Germans Admit Battle Of Normandy Is Lost And Contemplote Evacuation Of All France

Berlin Frankly Admits Norman Battle s Lost   Also Says Germans Trying to Escape Another Allied Trap

Broken Seventh Army in Flight Joward Seine   Roar of Big Guns Heard in Paris

Tank Groups Are 20 Miles  From Seine —   Canadians Break Out South of Caen Bastion ‘hw Peedh Tran Looms

Tanks slash  thru fleeing  enemy force  Overwhelm four foe strongpoints

Seek fo Round Up Delegates to Draft MacArthur   Dewey Supporters Say ‘Too Late’; General Receptive to ‘Draft’

SAID TOO TARDY BY DEWEY’S MEN   Martin Says Quaker State Favoring New Yorker —

BREMEN TARGET OF 750 U.S. BOMBERS   Destruction Re Rained or German Plants by Allied Airmen:

Heavy Bombers Pound Bremen  5,000 Allied Planes Hit German Targets

5,000 Planes Chop at Reich   Aachen, War Factories. Gan Pasitians Rombed

ATTACK MANY NAZI TARGETS   Nearly 5,000 Allied Aircraft in Widely Scattered Assaults

LONDON HIT BY NAZI RAIDERS   Heaviest Attack on Capital Since Fire Raid

Berlin Hit Again By U. S. Bombers   1,000 Planes Shower New Destruction on German Capital For First Time Since March 9—Total of 1,500 Tons of Explosives Dropped.   ENEMY RAIDS LONDON

London Raided By German Warplanes   About 100 Bombers Cause Casualties and Damage

Nazis Stage London Raid.   100 Bombers Pierce Defenses Of Capital

Nazi Planes © Stage Heavy - London Raid   Casualties and Damage Caused in Number of Sections

100 Nazi Planes Attack London   American Anti-Aircraft Batteries Help In Defense Of City.

Set. R. Caserio Dies in Action In Europe Area   Local Soldier Was Member of Air Corps Stationed in England

H. Weaver. Jr. Dies in Action  At Algiers   Local Man, 21, With Paratroopers, Killed Last December 27

Swift Russ Drive To Baltic Sea Snares Foe   Soviet Troops Also Pouring Across River As Warsaw Attack Mounts In Fury

Reds Trap Thousands in Baltic Area   Nazis Fight Violently on Arc in Defense  Of Warsaw

Russians Trap Nazi Armies In Baltics   Reds Open Drive For East Prussia On 200-Mile Front

LAUNCH MIGHTY ASSAULT ALONG 200-MILE FRONT   VIOLENT BATTLE RAGES IN SUBURB AREAS OF WARSAW

Enemy Throng Is Held in Viselike Grip   Thousands of Nazi Troops Cringe in Trap At Latvia and Estonia; Others Battle Violently at Besieged Capital of Warsaw

Russian Plunge to Baltic Sea Closes Trap on Nazi Foes   Other Germans Battle Violently in Defense of Besieged Warsaw

Desperate Battle For Warsaw Rages   Nazis Fight Violently in De  fense of Besieged City   —Reds Take Thousands on Other Fronts.

Soviets Throw 20-Mile Are  Around Warsaw   Russians Reopen Huge Drive Toward East Prussia, Only Ten Miles Away

Drive Toward East Prussia Reopened   Russians Believed To Be Pouring Across Vistula

Russians Trap ‘)”..usands Of Germans In Esv nia, Latvia: Warsaw Besieged

Reds Repulse Nazi Efforts to Break Out of Baltic Trap; Soviets Continue Drive for East Prussia

Soviet Army, Drives to  Baltic Sea   Russians Pour  Across Vistula At Warsaw

Nazi Legions In Tightening Soviet Noose   Thousands Trapped In Latvia, Estonia; Foe Wages Violent Fight For Warsaw

Reds Drive To Sea; Hem In Thousands   Pressure Tightens On Besieged Warsaw; Big Smash At East Prussia.

Soviets Close Trap On Nazis In The North   Drive To Sea Near Riga Cuts Off Vast German Army Forces

RUSSIANS TRAP NAZI FORCES IN ESTONIA, LATVIA   Soviets Drive to Baltic Sea Launch New Push Toward East Prussia

Russians Drive To Baltic Coast And Trap Nazi   Direct Invasion By Soviet Armies Sweeping Toward German Soil Expected In Northern Zone   Huns Sull Fight In Warsaw Sector   Red Troops Pour Aeros: Vistula River, Suuth Of Polish Capital; All Rail Lines Cut

Soviet Noose Closes Around Trapped Nazis   Violent Battle Rages Before Polish Capital

NAZIS FIGHT VIOLENTLY ON WARSAW FRONT   Germans Trying To Reach East  Prussian Lines

ENEMY LUNGES AGAINST SOVIET TRAP IN LATVIA   Violent Battle Still Raging on 20-Mile  Arc at Warsaw

SOVIETS DANE TO BALTIC SEA   Thousands of Germans Are Trapped in Latvia, Estonia By Push.   WARSAW IS. BESIEGED

German Armies In Estonia And Latvia Trapped By Russian Baltic Sea Drive

Red Troops Trap Nazis In. Baltics   Soviets Smash To Sea West Of Riga; Enemy Offers Bitter Resistance At Warsaw

Swift Russ. _ Push Toward Baltie Sea Traps Nazis"   “Reds Reopen Drive “On. Prussian Front

OTHER SOVIET TROOPS FIGHT ~ FOR WARSAN   Catch Thousands Of Enem\ As Swift Russian Plunge Goes To Baltic Sea

Russian Armies ‘Split _ Hitler’s Forces In Region Near Riga’   All Railways And Highways From Baltic States To Germany Are Cut Off; Yeung General ReOuENE Fast Prussia Drive

Thousands of Nazis Caught In Baltic Trap   Russians Reach the Sea: Foe Battling Fiercely Before Warsaw

Germans Struggle to Escape Baltic Noose  And Defend Warsaw   Russians in Ten Miles of Pre-War Frontier of Junkerland; Many of Enemy Trapped in Baltic Area

RUSSIAN DRIVE TRAPS NAZIS   Thousands Caught In. Latvia and Estonia-as Russians Reach Baltic Sea.

Yanks Advancing 43 Miles © Below Avranches; Russians: Trap Foe on Baltic Fronts

Germans Thrash Against Russian Trap in Baltics   Nazis Violently Defending 20-Mile Arc Outside Warsaw

Battle Raging On Wide Front Around Warsaw   Russians Near Pre-War Border Of East Prussia

Hitler's Forces Trapped As Reds  et neem eT eet Rp hie etn tna  Reach Baltic Sea   Cherniakhovsky Reopens Drive To East Prussia Along 200-Mile Front

Germans Fighi Violently to Hold Warsaw   Swift Russian Plunge Traps Nazis  In Latvia, Estonia

Russians Reach Sea West of Riga, Panch Nearer East Prussia, Assail Warsaw Suburbs

Surging Russian Army Seals Off Nazis in Estonia and Latvia While Assaults Increase Threat To Prussia and German Fatherland; Soviet Siege Batters at Gates of Warsaw

Russian Noose Being Drawn About Polish Capital While Other Forces Strike Towar}, East Prus sia, Isolating Large Groups of Nazis in Latvia an Fetania

Nazis Battle To Stop Red Advance   Quick. Plunge Forward Traps Germans in Latvia and Estonia   Axis Reports Sinking of 28 Ferries Crammed With  Soldiers

Reds Trap Germans in Baltic Area   Thousands Caught in Swift ‘Russian Plunge to Baltic Sea; Warsaw Besieged on a 20-Mile Arc —

Russians Open New Huge Drive On East Prussia   Meanwhile Thousands of Germans Are Trapped in Latvia, k:stonia.   Reds Cross Vistula to The South of Warsaw

Nazis Battle To Stop Red Advance   Quick Plunge Forward Traps Germans in Latvia and Estonia   ON A 200 MILE FRONT      Axis Reports Sinking of 28 ~ Ferries Crammed With  Soldiers

ILLINOIS DEMOS MEET TONIGHT IN CONVENTION   To Urge Association of Nations to Keep World Peace

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ARMISTICE 1S SIGNED   Terms Are :  Referred to As ws‘Relatively Lenient’

Bulgaria’s Reparations  Not Expected To Be High   Payments Expected To Be Below The $300.000,006 Assessed Against Each Romania And Finland; Bulgars Agree To Fight On Allied Side

Isolation Menaces Aachen   Three Separate Breachs Made In First Beit Of Siegfried Fortifications

Battering Offensives Of Yanks Penetrate Westwall Defenses in Three Places

Aachen Now Threatened By Pincers   Nazis Quit Nancy During Night—French Cheer Troops

Nancy, Maastricht Taken by American:   Mammoth Assault on Siegfried Line Crumbles Two Outposts; Wedves Driven In

AACHEN DOOMED AS YANK FORCES SURROUND CITY   Germans Flee Nancy and Maastricht During Night And Americans Move In

Allied Armies Push Ahead on  180-Mile Front   Three Penetrations Carry Allies From Two to Eight Miles Inside Germany   Aachen Menaced.

NANCY TAKEN BY AMERICANS EARLY TODAY   Brest Under Fire But Germans  Fight Back

Germans Leave French Base Without Fight   Aachen Under Fire Of Allied Guns; Line Penetrated

y And Maastricht all: Before  : ffensive Of: ‘American Armies  WELL Penetrate- ‘Siegfried: ‘Line At Three , Places. ~-Aachen Is Half:Encircled

Yanks Topple ‘Nazi Anchors Along Border   Nancy. Maastricht Fall, Three Wedges Penetrate Siegfried

‘Strongholds At Opposite Ends Of 180-Mile Front Fall To Battering Offensive Of American Armies, Now In Depths Of Siegfried Line At Three Places — U. S. Troops Within Mile Of Aachen Threaten To Encircle That City — Resistance Stiffens

Two Key Cities Fall as Allies Smash Forward   Nancy and Maastrict Are In American Hands; Are At Either End of 180 Mile Rattle Erant

Siegfried Line Fenetrated At 3. Places; Naxis Admit ‘ne-Has Been ‘Dented”

DENTEDIN 3 PLACES   ®Capture Of Aachen By U. S. First Army Is Believed Near

Fallen Strongholds At Oppesite Ends Of 180-Mile Front   Americans~ Push—Inte--Depths—-Of Siegfried Line At Three Places;  “’ German Resistance Increases

frst Army 12 viles of Aachen: Head For Cobleni   Germans Admit Powerful Wedges Into Siegfried

Big Center oi Aachen Is Doomed   Germans’ Communications Base Is Surrounded by Hard-Driving Yanks   SIEGFRIED LINE PROVES OBSOLETE   It Was Not Built for the Superior Firepower Yanks Are Using

Nancy Is Taken: 3 Wedges Driven In Siegfried Line   Yanks Plunge Up To 8 Miles: Nazis Evacuate Maastricht In Holland

‘Yanks Aim Drive at Coblenz   Drive Three Deep Wedges Into Siegtried Line.   ‘encircle Aachen   Reds Cross Vistula As Eastern Front Flames Into Betinn

AMERICAN GUNS BATTER AACHEN AS VISE CLOSES   Nancy’s Residents Welcome Liberators As General Leads Way In Jeep

Greek Bundle Day Drive Here Sunday   Kiwanis Club Sponsoring War Relief Effort

Greek Bundle Day Effort Here Sunday   Seeking Clothing Not Money, Says Local Kiwanians

Plymouth County Farm Boys Attend Recent District Meeting In Spencer   Hear Live Farm Topics Discussed By Extension Workers

WILL CUT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES   WFA Orders Canners Give U. S. and Allies 70 Pet. of 42-43 Output

CANNED GOODS CUT PLANNED   REDUCTION, IN AMOUNT OP CANNED FRUITS AND + VEGETABLES FOR CIVIL-~ —  Y IANS ANNOUNCED

SUPERFORTS AGAIN VISIT SHAKY TOKYC   Fire Bombs Dropped in Several Places. Fighting on Leyte Island Still Very Bitter

EDEN PROMISES THAT JUSTICE WILL BE DONE   “Foul Criminals” To Be Tracked Down To Last Man, Commons Told   50 SHOT DOWN BY HUNS   Germans In Note To British Say Reich Endangered By Escape Plot

“DEN MAKES ‘MURDER’ CHARGE IN SHOOTING OF-RAF PILOTS   BRITICH FOREIGN MINISTER “SAXYS GESTAPO. KILLED 50 AIRMEN OF EUROPEAN ALLIED NATIONS

GERMANS TRY TO CROSS ARNG   Efforts to Send Counterattacking Forces Across Are Broken.

Nazi Attempt ToCross Arno ‘ls Repulsed   Eighth Army Makes Fresh Dents in Nazi Defense Ring Around Florence; British, Indians Capture Ginestra 

Yanks Quell Counterattacks By Germans  Stop Attempts To Cross Arno

Nazi Counter Drive Broken  Around Pisa   Kighth Army Makes Fresh Dents In Enemy Line At Florence

5TH REPELS NAZI STABS IN ITALY   Germans Fail in Attempts to Cross Arno River

Americans Balk German Efforts To Cross Arno   British Forces Take Heights Senthwesi of Florence—Nazis Slay Civilians in Reprisals

Americans Smast German Efforts  Block Attempt to Tio Inikinetiva

NAZIS FEAR NEW INVASION _ FROM SOUTH AS ALLIES KEEP SLUGGING THROUGH ITALY

Fifth, Army Hurls Back Nazis at Arno   British Storm, Capture. Heights: Above Florence

GERMAN ATTACKS AT PISA.BRUKE!   Reports Signs Of New Allied Landing In Italy Or France

FIFTH ARMY BREAKS GERMAN EFFORTS T0 REGROSS ARNO RIVER   EIGHTH ARMY UNITS MAKE SLIGHT GAINS IN THE FLORENCE AREA

GERMAN EFFORTS TO CROSS THE ARNO RIVER IS CHECKED   Counterattacking Forces Attempted to Cross Stream on Italy’s West Coast,   ON BOTH SIDE OF PISA   Enemy Appeared Attempting to Take the Initiative, It Is Reported.

BEAT OFF GERMAN ASSAULTS AT PISA   NAZIS' ATTEMPT TO COUNTERATTACK IS REPELLED BY YANKS

NAZIS MAKING STAND AT PISA   Yanks Turn Back Counter.  attacks; Dent Florence Defenses

GERMAN EFFORT TO CROSS ARNO GETS SETBACK   Fresh Dents In Nazi Defense Line Seen

[AZIS HALTE YY YANKS AT ESIEGED PISA   fth Army Breaks German fforts to Send CounterAttacking Forces Across Arno   IGHTH SCORES GAINS

NAZI ATTACKS ARE BROKEN UP   German Attempt To Take Initiative In Italy Thwarted

Germans Held In Check Alone - Arno In Italy   “Attack Forces Across River Before Pisa .. Broken Up

GERMAN EFFORTS TO CROSS ARNO RIVER REPULSED   Fifth Army Breaks Up Attacks on Both Sides of Besieged Pisa. kighth Makes Gains

Russians In Suburbs Of Sevastopol;  Citv Aflame   Fall Of Fortress Tmminent: Chaos In Big Port; Red Troops Converging

Field Reports Paint Scene Of Blazing Chaos   One Red Army Storming Baidar Gates While Another Smashes Thru Sevastopol Suburbs   Fleeing Germans Under Air Attack   ‘Harbor Strewn With Wreckage and Bodies: Enemy  Dead, Wounded May Total: Half Million”

Two Armies Set to Join Forces   Clouds of Smoke Hang Over City From Red Bombing Attacks

Big Seaport Is Scene Of Flaming Chaos   Fall Ils Expected Hour ly as Red Army Columns Converge on Besieged City

Russ Maritime Army Speeds Down Coast Route to Join Final Storming of Big Port

ASK FOR CEILING ON LIVE CATTLE   N.Y. Meat Dealers Confer With Officials to End Price Squeeze

Ceiling On Live Cattle Likely      Meat Dealers And Officials Hold Conference

Violent Air Battles Over Italy in Series of Dogfights.  AMERICAN HOSPITAL BELOW ROME IS HIT  Twenty-six Persons Were Killed, Including Army.  Nireac

Nazi Strongholds Along Coast Hit   Upward of 1200 American_Heavy Bombers Strike - Europe—Radio Installations in France. oe Are Smashed

U.S. Heavies Blast Invasion Coast Targets   Bombers From Italy Smash at Two Main Rail Lines Between France and Italy

U.S. Heavies Hit all Naz Strongholds Along Invasion Coast; Attempt  To Cut Rail Line Between France and Italy

WEST WALI ‘POUNDED. FOR THIRD DAY   Fortresses, Liberators Twice Batter Anti-Invasion Coast, while Rail Lines Are Hit.   No Interference

Planes Seek To Cut Rails Between Italy “And France   Raiders Fly from Italy, Others from England « Pound French Targets   BOULOGNE IS GIVEN SATURATION ATTACK

Big Bombers Again Hit Invasion Coas!   Rail Lines Between France, Italy Are Special Targets

Bombers Fit Rails Joining France, ltaly   Swarm Of Planes Blast Strongholds Of Invasion Coast

Americans Bomb Invasion Coast   1,200 Planes Hit Targets in France

Japs Create New Supreme War Council   Move Given Imperial Sanctior

CHICAGO'S FIRST HOUR VOTE = TOTALED CLOSE TO 300,000   ELECTION OFFICIALS THERE REPORT GHEATESY KRUSH IN HISTORY TO VOTE EARLY

BIG AMERICAN PLANES BOMB NAZI QUARTERS   Destroy Headquarters Only Five Miles From Papal Summer Residerce

Allied Bombers Wreck Primary Transport Lines   Paralyzing Attacks Made By Planes On  Nazi. Communications

Allied Bombers Seal Off Rome by Wrecting Transport Lines and Knocking Out Most of Air Bases

» Eisenhower Hurls 1,250,000 Into 400-Mile Front   French Gain Belfort Gap; 3rd Army Close To Saar

Ailied Armies Gain In Big Rhine Attack   Entire Western Front  Blazing With Action

ATLANTIC WALL BOMBER TARGET   Gaps Are Blasted In Fortifications

Ten More Vital Rail Centers Are Target For Bombs   Eight Thousand Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Axi: In Another Day Of Pre-Invasion Action Aimed At Defense Communications.

Allies Blast 10 Vital Axis Rail Centers   7500 Planes Drop 8000 Tons of Bombs in Two Days

Ten Vital Rail Centers Pulverized By 2000 Raiders Despite Poor Flying Weather; Assault Continues

FACE CRISIS TN BELGIUM   ORDER TEMPORARILY RERESTORED AFTER CLASH BETWEEN PGLICE AND BENMONSTRATORS

29 Jap Ships And 141 Planes Damaged In Week End Raids On Marianas

LATEST U.S. NAVAL CHALLENGE WENT UNHEEDED BY JAPANESE   ONLY FEEBLE EFFORTS MADE  TO PARRY BLOWS AGAINST ISLANDS GUARDING PHILIPPINES.

NAZTO PLANNING STAND IN ITAL   Eighth Army Meets Stronge Enemy Resistance.

Nazi Resistance in Italy Growing  Germans Apparently Striving for Stand

Nazi Stand in Italy Likely   Eighth Encounters Strong Resistance North of Perugia

Nazis To Make Stand North Of  Perugia   Stronger Resistance Is Being Encountered By Fichth Army

ALLIES MAKE PROGRESS ON ITALIAN FRONT   Enemy Believed Planning Determined Stand Be*ween Lakes Trasimeno  and Chiusi   ADVANCE ON ADRIATIC

BELIEVE NAZIS PLAN STAND IN CENTRAL ITALY   Allies Gain in Coast Areas Against Heavier Enemy Resistance

Resistance of Nazis Stiffens   Allies Advance on Both Coastal Areas On Italian Front

Allies Expect Axis Stand in ‘Central Italy   Strong Positions Availables in Trasimeno and. Chiusi: ‘Lake Sector's

Allies Make  Coastal Gains   Germans Expected To Make Determined Riend In North

NAZIS BOLSTER STAND IN ITALY   ‘Allies Report Some Progress In Coastal Sectors

NAZI RESISTANCE STRONG IN ITALY   ALLIES PRESS ON BUT GERMANS APPARENTLY PLAN TO MAKE STAND

Allies 55 Miles From Pisa, Anchor  Of New Nazi Line   German Resistance Growing In Battle North Of Perugia, In Lake Trasimeno Sectors  nine 2 weaeas ec ae we. @o oe @eem & wee ou

NAZIS PUSHED BACK WN ITALY   Encounter Strong Resistance North of Perugia

Say Nazis Plan Stanc Tn Italy   Allied. Forces Meeting Strong - Enemy Resistance’ in Area: South Of Lake. Trasimeno

G er : Jetermir Pla mine 6;  Stand in lin Italy          Allied Forces Advance Along Both Coastal Sectors; Fifth Army Nears Folonica

NAZIS MAY PLAN TO MAKE STAND IN NORTH ITALY   Allied Troops Continuing te Advance on Both Coastal Sectors But Signs Point to a German Stand North of Perucia

Allies Advancing In Italy Against Growing Resistance; Nazis Prepare To Make Stand   Enemy Is Counter-Attacking North Of Perugia But ts Repulsed Each Time

Allies i in Italy Progress Against Nazi Resistance  eo le   Germans Apparently Plan to Make Delermined Stand North of Perugia in Central Sector

PLANNING A STAND   Allied Forces Are Meeting with Nazi Resistance in Italy

Yanks Halt  Nazi Advance   Eighth Army Meets Strong Resistance On Italian Front

EXPECT NAZIS IN ITALY TO MAKE STAND      ‘Allied ‘Reports Indicate ' Enemy Will Resist — Along Strong Positions  Between Lake Trasi- =wmeno and Lake Chiusi.

Utility Man Is — Taken By Death  - Jesse DeWitt Well   ‘Known In County

DEATH SUMMONS JESSE A. DEWITT   Department Manager of Gas and Electric Company Expires

Eisenhower Calls For Reich Uprising   Organized Resistance In Germany Revealed

Reds Smash On Toward Pskov  Nazis Report New Push — In Dieper Bend

Soviets Strike From North At Vital Rail Hub   Hitler Orders German Army To Hold At All Costs

Nazis Told To Defend To Last Man      Russians Striking from North Within Ten Miles of Rail Junction   RIVER LINE BROKEN   Russian Advance in Old Poland Indicaied, German Defeases Stormed in Dnieper Bend

POWERFUL GERMAN LINE OF PSKOV AREA BEEN OUTELANKED   AREA OF RIVERS AND PONDS WHERE NAZIS EXPECTED TO HOLD PASSED

German Line Is Outflanked  Reds Neutralize ad. * ™&. Ff. __. £6... _

REDS WITHIN 10 MILES OF PSKOV   HITLER HAS ORDERED HIS TROOPS TO HOLD OUT TO THE LAST MAN

Soviet Forces vv strain 10 Miles of Pskov   Nazi Defense Based on Rivers and Lakes Is Neutralized by Sweeping Soviet Drive; Enemy Fiaht to Death Is Ordered

REDS WITHIN 10 MILES. OF PSKOV BASE   Soviets Neutralize Powerful Nazi Line in That Area — Hitler Orders Troops to Hold Out to Last Man.

POWERFUL NAZI LINE QUTFLANKED      Report Hitler Ordering Men To Fight To Last

Soviet Forces Are Within 10 Miles Of City   Waterline Fails To Check Victorious Advance Of Red Army

POWERFUL GERMAN INE OUTFLANKED AND NEUTRALIZED      Hitler Orders Troops To Hold Out To Last Man   NAZIS UNABLE TO - DISENGAGE REDS

RussianArmy Reported Within 10 Miles Of Great Rail Hub And Gateway To The Baltics

Reds Outflank German Line   Soviet Forces Reported Within 10 Miles of Pskov

Soviet Forces Miles of Pskov   Nazi Defense Based on Rivers and Lakes Is Neutralized by Sweeping Soviet Drive: Enemy Fight to Death Is Ordered

Russians Within 10 Miles of Rail Hub City of Pskov   Neutralize a Powerful German Line in Outflanking Maneuver

Reds Outflank Powerful Line   British Radio Says =, Russians Are Within 10 Miles of Pskov

‘Water Line’ °  Also Broken Near Loknya   Germans Seeking to Break  Off Contact and Form  Defenses Anew

POWERFUL GERMAN  LINE OF PSKOV AREA  BEEN OUTFLANKED AREA OF RIVERS AND PONDS WHERE NAZIS EX.  Rrra rT Fe. TAT Mm Mmécelt

RUSSIAN TROOPS CLOSE TO PSKOV   Neutralize Powerful German Line Based On Lakes And Streams  NAZIS TOLD TO HOLD

HITLER LINES ARE REPORTED NEUTRALIZED   Fuehrer Reported To Have Ordered Troops To Hold Out "To the Last Man"   RIVER DEFENSE BROKEN

German Radio Says Hundred Thousand Reds Attack on South   Finnish Press Prepares People for Important Announcement

\Hitler Orders German 2 Death Stand at Pskov   Fight “to the Last Man” Says Fuehrer; Russians Within 10 Miles of Bastion

Reds Are Nearing NaziBase   Drive Toward Pskov Outflanks German Defense Lines

REDS OUTFLANK NAZIS’ DEFENSE IN PSKOV AREA   Move Neutralizes Line.  Dispatches From Baltic Claim

Reds Drive on Pskov Flanks Nazt Defense   German Counter Nullified Deep In Old Poland

SOVIET TROOPS NEARING PSK OY   Outflank and Neutralize Powerful German Line In Area.   10 MILES FROM RAIL HUB

HITLER TELLS MEN TO FIGHT AT ALL COSTS   Russians Break German Lines Near Ps!-ov

Now Within 10-15 Mi. Of Big Rail Hub   Gateway To Baltics Appears Near Capture; New Soviet Push In South.

ARE WITHIN TEN MILES OF PSKC\   Have Outflanked and Neutralized a Powerful German Line.   COMING FROM NORTH   Hitler Had Ordered Troops to Hold Pskov “to the © Last Man.”

RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE WITHIN 10 MILES OF PSKOV   Reds Herass Germans Who Try to Orgonize Their Forces

SEIZE CUDAHY PLANTS   Roosevelt Orders Action to Avert “Labor Disturbance” .

5-29 RAID ONLY THE BEGINNING   LONG PROMISED AERIAL ATTACK IS UNDER WAY

Path Through Belgium To German Border Appears Wide Open; Nazis Disorganized

YANKS REPEL JAP ATTACKS   111 More of Foe Killed In Fighting on Dutch New Guinea Mainland

11] MORE JAPANESE SLAIN BY AMERICANS   Three Enemy Counfer-\tiachs On Dutch New Guinea Mainiand Are Repuised

Hold Pullman For Monopoly   Pullman Companies Ordered By Federal Court To Stop Practices.

Court Orders Pullman Firm to Quit Building Or Servicing Sleepers

PULLMAN CO. SPLIT ORDERED   SEC Tells Concern to Di. vorce Building and Servicing Interests

FLORIDA FAVORS CLOSED SHOP BAN   Arkansas Voters Also Like Action; Californians . Reject Move

GOP Governor Race Close; Tom Herbert Silent Or  Attitude: Ohio Ballot Total Of 900,311 Higher Than Expected

Mayor Stewart Leads Tom Herbert by 2,005, Complete Unofficial Count for Governor Shows.

Stewart Wins Race by. Mere 2,005 Votes   Herbert Declines. Comment on Ney Count Possibility

Pisa-Rimini Rail Line Cut by Aerial Bombs, Nazis Unable to Move a Train

JAP POSITIONS IN INDIA ARE HIT BY ALLIES      Steady Progress Made by Allies in Very Difficult Country      NIPPONESE TROOPS APPEAR STRANDED   Air Forces of Both Sides Join in Fighting About —  Kohima

JAP DEFENSES HIT BY ALLIES   Tanks And Infantry Are Making Progress On Kohima Sector

DEFENDERS OF KOHIMA TAKE JAP POSITIONS   Allied Tanks and Infantry Reported Making Steady Progress in “Difticult Country.”   Near Myitkyima

SEGRET TANKS HURLED ON ALLIED TROOPS   Remote Controlled Goliaths Lumber Along Anzio Beachhead With No Suc Cress.   Blast Rail Lines

German Secre! Weapon Again Fails   Action Flares Up Along Line on Anzio EBeachhead

Nazis’ Robots Foiled at Anzio   Allied Gunners Destroy 3 Of Enemvy’'s New Tanks

BIG NAZI TANKS FAIL AT ANZIO   Remote-Controlled ‘Secret Weapons” Achieve No Success in Battle

ZEROES DOWNED OVER CAROLINES   Japs Try To Send Help To Trapped Garrison In Marianas

 UNRRABael RRABacked By Vandenberg   World Rebuilding Plan  Fe 2 en

JAPS IN CLAIM PLANES AGAIN HIT TOKYO AREA   Raid Evidently Carried Out By Marianas Based B-29’s, Reported

Enemy Avers ‘Forts’ Draw Hot Greeting   Nipponese Report Planes Penetrate Capital Defenses

New York Village Under Shellfire   Ship s Automatic Cannon Goes Wild

Staten Island Village Under Shellfire   Automatic Anti-Aircraft Gun on Ship Goes Into Action

A. P. Directors Order Counsel To Appeal Case   Government's Civil Anti Trust Suit Will Reach Supreme Court

Associated Press Orders Appeal of Court Ruling In Anti-Trust Suit

Gestapo Holds Son of Hero of World War 1   Col. Gen. von Mackensen Now Arrested, Rumored; Nazi Envoy to Sweden Under Observation

iis mie: iilemmme: ial  Germany Hit By Formations From Southern Theatre °

Allied Bombers — Hit Stout Blows   Disruptive Bombardment of German Positions Behind the Battle Line in France Is Maintained by All Types of Aircraft Despite Bad Weather.   MUNICH AREA TARGET.

REPORT NAZIS. > KILLED: FLIER   BERLIN “RADIO ‘CONTINDES 70 STRESS LYNCHING OF U: 8. _-\' AIRMAN DOWNED IN” ‘SN REICH

Byrnes Urge: Sharp Tax Reductions   Give Business the Incentive to Grow, Investors to Venture.

Postwar Tax Reductions Asked  Added to Ideas for Building Framework

Planning Group Urges Postwar Tax Reductions   Special House Committee Offers Suggestions For Peacetime Program.

Slash In Income Taxes Advocafed   House Group Also Plans Check On Inflation

Japanese-Americans Won't Be Hastily Returned to Coast Hames Says Ickes

Ickes Asks Justice for Japs...  Loyal Japanese-Americans Moving Back to Coast Homes

Finns Balk At Interning   Nazi Tr oops   Peace Proposal Reported lo Be Ready. Otherwise Conciliatorv

FINNS REFUSE INTERNMENT OF GERMAN FORCE   Other Russian Terms Favorable to Helsinki

Finns Reject Russia Offer   Internment Of Nazi Troops Is Protested

NO ALLIANCES, SAYS BRICKEF   Dewey Ready to State Views If Asked

Claire Springer Beightler Will Present Nominee To Her Old Friends. -

Good Night Vision Part Trick of Looking to One Side of Objective

OVERALL JAP NAVAL, AERIAL POWER BROKEN   Recapitulation by U S. Shows Extent of Great American Pa. cific Victory.

ippled Jap eet To Face  itish Ships   Of English Navy reed From Europe May Hit Pacific   IERICAN VICTORY   ost Decisive Of ur Time,” Claim  i Debacle May Be

Decisively Beaten Jap Fleet Must Face British, Too   U. S. Victory Reduces Future American  Pacific Losses

Sinking of Tirpitz Frees Many British Warships for Attacks on Jap Fleet

AMERICAN BREAKTHROUGH TO BRITTANY BIG SATISFACTION TO FIGHTING MEN ON FRONT

Brittany a Fine Land for Fighting Or for a Glimpse of Sa ic Beauty

GRENADE FIGHT NETS GAINS AT THE BEACHHEAD   Allied Bombers Strike at Axis Communications, Supply Lines to Northward of Rome

Commando Kelly Will Get to Go Home   The First Enlisted Soldier in the War to Be Decorated, to See His Mother.

Round-the-Clock Tokyo Raids  Promised Enemy  Little Opposition Wa: Encountered in First Night Attack

Bombers Over Tokyo 3 Hours   Possibility of Round-the-Clock Bombing Seen

B-29 Night Blow Successful  Superforts Flew Over- Tokyo For Hours

Round-Clock Bombing Of Tokyo Held ‘Possible   Superforts Ranged Over Sprawling Jap Capital Three Hours During Night Attack

With 22 German Divisions in Action Ttaly Is Now a Major Battle Front

Hitler Pours 22 Divisions      nto: Italian-Campaign Now Becoming Full Scale’ War

YANKS REGA POSITIONS AS ATTACK STALLS   Waves Of Allied Planes * Smash Third German  Drive

ITALY 1S NOW RATED MAJOR BATTLEGROUND   Anzio Beachhead Fightine Will Be Costly

22 GERMAN DIVISIONS IN ITALY   Latest Authoritative Esti mate Show Nazis. Attact Much Importance To Italian Front

‘Italy, Like Tunisia, Is Now Major ‘Battlefront; Nazis Use 22 Divisions

ALLIED LEADERS > ARE CONFIDENT — LINE WILL HOLD   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses In Mad Effort to Drive Allies Into the Sea

Italy A Major Battle Front; Nazis Using 22 Divi  Weeks Of Bloddicat Sort Of Battle Seen In Italy

Full-Scale Blows “Converting Anzio aAnto ‘Major Front’   Officials Estimate 22 Divisions Thrown Into Allied Sea Position Hitler Seeks Victory for Morale

ENEMY MAKES IT A MAJOR      March to Be Critical, but Allies May Not Gain Ground, Pending Time to Create Overwhelin:' ine Striking Force. «. 

Italy Becomes Major Front   Germans Throw 22 Divisions Into. Beachhead Battle

ely Elevated ToP osition Of . Me Front      Latest Authoritative Esti mates. Place German  . Forces Pitted Against   Allies At 22-Divisions

inn Position s Unchanged; tory Denied   Russia Continues War of Nerves Against Finland

FINLAND NOT TO QUIT WAR, ENVOY SAYS   Helsinki Paper Denies Story From U. S.

Finns Deny Defi to Russ   Statement Laid to Washington Legation Formally Repudiated

Enemy Looks For Demands For Surrender   Germans Told Not To Heed Quebec Conference

Nazis Seek To Rally Populace   Predict New Allied Surrender Ultimatum From Quebec Meeting

Jap-War Short-Cut  Discussed   a.L’s May Eat Their ‘Thanksgiving Dinner In the Philippins; Hitler Warns of Rumors

Germans Told New Ultimatum Is in Offing   Propagandists Warn Reich That Quebec Conference Will Start New Worries for Nazis

NAZIS EXPECT ‘NEW ULTIMATUM      People Warned Against “Sneak” Victory

Nazis Predict Allied Demand   For Surrender   Berlin Radio and Press Iu. dicate German Rulers Fear Effect of Peace Chance In Reich

Warnings by Germany Not to Give in   Anticipate New Surrender. Ultimatum From Quebec

Nazis Expect -AnUltimatum ~ From Parley   Warn People Political Of. fensive in Making at Quebec .. a

NAZIS EXPECT A DEMAND TC SURRENDER   Declare Call Will Come From Quebec Conference, but Say Reich Must Fight Allies “to tha: Rittar Wnd ”

GERMANS WARN AGAINST PEACE   Tell People Terms ‘Worse Than Versailles Would Be Imposed

Nazis Expect AnUltimatum From Parley   Warn People Political Offensive in Making at Quebec

Bolster Nazi Home Front   Say Allied Victory Would Be Worse Than Versailles; Call for Fight to Bitter End

Leading GOP Possibility Is Not “Discouraging” Pledging Of -Genvention Votes, However; Roundup Of Political News.

INDICATIONS POINT TO WILLINGNESS OF DEWEY TO MAKE RACE  NEW YORK GOVERNOR   NEW YORK GOVERNOR REPORTED READY DISCUSS PLATFORM MATTERS

DEWEY APPEARS MORE WILLING INOW TO TALK   Speaking Out At Governors’ Conference He Indicates Willingness to Talk Platform Matters

Gov. Dewey May Remain Silent on Possibility of His  Qwn Selectian

Candidates May Sound Off  ‘At Conference   Conference Of Governors Being Held At Hershey

DEWEY TALKS ON PARTY PLATFORM   N. Y. GOVERNOR DENIES CONTROL OF CANDIDACY

Predict Dewey To Keep Silent On Candidacy      Political Interest Shifts To Elections To Be Held Tuesday ©

Dewey Remains Silent on Plans   Reporters Unable To Draw Him Out

Dewey Says ‘No Change  In Position’   But He Admits He’s Permitting Friendly Talk

Dewey Indicates Willingness To Express Views   Several States Add Votes to Fourth-Term List

SEE NO DEWEY ELECTION MOVE   SILENT ON CANDIDACY STATEMENT DEMANDS

REDS CRUMBLE KEY TO NAZIS LENINGRAD LINE   Observers See Likely Enemy Withdrawal To Raltic States

RED ARMY STORMS GERMAN DEFENSE BASTION IN NORTH   Russians Drive Into Outskirts of Chudovo; Nazi Lines Pulverized

Reds Smashing Ahead To Split  German Army   Leningrad Line Anchor City Entered by Russians

Six Others Are Listed AsWounded   Four Southtowners Die in France, Another Over Italy and Two Others in the Pacific.

1 Southtowner Is Killed in War; 3 Lost, 3 Wounded   Pyt. David Sykes, Jr., 25, _ Veteran of Three In* vasions, Dies in Italy.

Six Southtown - Mey Killed in.  Europe, Pacific   Nine Others Are Wounded in Action and One Is Prisoner.

Six Killed, One Missing In Battles   Southtown War Dead Tol  Raised to 340; Ensign  Phillip Mills Listed as  Lost in Action.

MeetsDea In Invasio  Of Franc   Maplewood Ave. Boy Di on D-Day; Two M Listed as Missing Now Held by Enemy. —

Six Killed, 4 Lost, 11 Hurt in War   List Includes Four Men Who Died in France; Another Is Reported a Prisoner of Germany.

Another Is Safe After Being Lost   War Department Releases Names of Two Other Southtown Men as Prisoners of Germany.

Three Southtown Men Killed in War Areas; Eight Others Wounded   324

Another Is A Prisoner Of Germany   Pvt. William Johnson, Jr., Wilfred Davis of Navy, Lt. Owen E. Payne Are Killed in Action.

Two Other Men Listed As Captives   Casualties Include Two Who Died in Invasion of France; Liste Eight Others as Wounded.

INVASION ARMY OF PHILIPPINES EXTENDS HOLD   Road Junction, Perhaps 2 Airfields Captur On Island

DoughboysSeize Dulag, Push On Leyte Capital As Resistance Stiffens   Jap Recovery Not Sufficient To Stem Tidal Wave Of Machines, Men Enveloping Island

1000 ITALTANS, ABANDONED BY NAZIS, SEIZED   Athens 90 Miles ; Report Landing Upon Corfu

Allies Drive for Athens as More Invasion Troops Land  GOR I Pe A PT,   German Garrison Threatened; Greek Patriots and Nazis Lock in Battle

GERMAN UNITS ON BALTIC ARE THREATENED   Suburbs Of Polish Capital Under Attack Of Red Artillery

Baltie Nazi Army Almost Is Eneireled   Polish Capital’s East Bank Suburbs Under Soviet Artillerv Fire.   RED BOMBERS ATTACK

Other Soviet Units Surge Across Southern Latvian Border; 200 Villages Fall in Baltic Area

Soviets Fight in Sight of Warsaw   Northern Armies Race to Bottle Up 200,000 Nazis

Threaten Nazi Baltic Armies  Russians Less Than 6 Miles From Kaunas

Other Russian Armies Drive On Gulf of Rigs   Seek to Trap 200,000 To 300,000 Germans; Red Artillery Fires On Suburbs of Warsaw

GULF OF RIGA ONLY 20 MILES FROM SOVIETS   Possibly 300,000 Germans Trapped In Baltic States

RED ANTILLERY HURLS SHELLS INTO WARSA\   British Military Men Think German Garrison Will Withdraw.

UNITSINNORTH ARE WITHIN 20 MILES OF RIGA   Flanking Move Below Warsaw Believed In Preparation

Soviet Drive Rolls Along Berlin Road   Warsaw Sighted, Reds Move Swiftly To Trap Germans

Reds Battle in Sight of Warsaw Now   East Suburbs Are Under Fire of Sovie} Artillery

WARSAW NOW WITHIN SIGHT OF RED ARMY   OTHER SOVIET UNITS SURGING TOWARD GULF OF RIGA

NAZIS IN BALTIC   Russians Surge Across South ern Latvian Border In Cwitt Drive   ENTRAPMENT OF 200,000 TO 300,000 IS PURPOSE

UNITS PUSH OVC LATVIAN BORDER   Warsaw’s East Bank Sub. urbs Under Artillery Fire   20 MILES FROM RIGA   Bombers Hammer Rail Junc. tion of Jelgava; Town of Eleja Captured

Other Soviet Units Surge Across Border Into Latvia   Russian Drive Rolls Along Road to Berlin; Over 200 Villages Seized in Push Toward Baltic Coast as Germans Flee in Wild Rout

WARSAW LOOMS AS NEXT GOAL OF RED ARMIES   Polish Capital Now Within Sight of Soviets; Trap Closing

Germans May Evacuate City. Riga Menaced   Between 200,000 Anx 300,000 Nazis Threatened With Encirclement

NAZI LEADERS ORDER FIGHT FOR CAPITAL   "Russians in North Cross Latvian Border in Drive to Trap 200,000 Germans in Baltic.   1,320 TOWNS FALL IN DAY’S FIGHTING   Soviet Broadcast Reports Quarter of All Enemy Forces Knocked Out in Summer Offensive.

Study In Prison   Yank Aviators Are Making Experiments By Using Flies

Stage Set For Another Social Security Fight   Divided House Group Report Paves Way Fo Scrap Between F. R., 78th Conaress

Conaress, F.R Sef for Tax Veto Battle   Security Levy ‘Freere’ Moy Halt Pre-Yule Adjournment of Body

Committee Splits "On Security Tax «Freeze Proposal   Battle in House Looms Over Plan To Block Increase

HOUSE FACING SECURITY TAA FREEZE FIGHT   May Be Big Closing Battle of Present Congress with White House.

FIGHT OVER PAY ROLL TAX FREEZE TO START MONDAY   Both House and Senate Expected to Vote to Retain 1 Per Cent Levy Now in Effect.   ROOSEVELT VETO PREDICTED BY SOLONS   Advocates of Present Impost Say Security Fund Will Total 6 Billion by End of Year.

Battle Looms Between Congress and Roosevelt Over Social Security Tax

House Readies: * Security Fight   Freeze Plan Is Dispatched TT. Flonar be 17.7 Vate

Security Tax Appears Basis For Conflict   Divided Committee Lays Groundwork for Political Dispute

House Group Divides on Security Bill   Promises Congress Final Fight With White House

Tax Freeze Is Favored   - Congress. May Balk’ White ‘House: Again.

BRITAIN PUTS PRESSURE BEHIND PEACE DEMANDS   Finnish we aris In Stockholm Says Finlanc , ls Planning To Send Armistice Commission To Moscow

Warning to Finland: "Peace-Now-Or-Else’”’ Is Demanded By Britain in Support of Russia

Britain Gives Approval to Russian Term:   Hopes Persist That Finns May Pull Out of War Soon

Finns Reported Going to Russia   Armistice Delegation Said Forming for Moscow

BRITAIN. PUTS WEIGHT 10 RED DEMANDS   On Finland; London Looks For Early Peace; Stockholm Pessimistic; Other Axis Satellites May Stop.   Last Chance

Schouten Invasion Nears   Allies Gain Maffin Airdrome, Islands Get Softening Blows

Prime Minister Curtin, New Costa Rica Chief  Guests of Roosevelt

U.S. Submarines ‘Hang Up Record   Twenty-nine Jap Ships Destroyed

SUBMARINES SINK 24 JAP VESSELS   THREE U. 8. SHIPS, SUBMERSI.BLE, MINESWEEPER AND. TRANSPORT, LOST.

American Subs Sink 29 More Japanese Vessels, Including Three Warships

U.S. Submarines Hang Up Record  Twenty-nine Jap Shine Dactravead

HARD FIGHTING QUICKEST WAY TO BEAT NAZIS   This Is Opinion of Huss After Interviewing Prisoners

BOPP LPDED OLD OOO TEE TET  Fatalities Reach 411 Over Four-Day Holiday

NATION COUNTS 41 HOLIDAY DEATHS   TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ACCOUNT  FOR 164 FATALITIES,  “DROWNINGS 123. _

Holiday Death Toll Reaches 411   Trafhe Accidents Claim 164 Lives

Holiday Death Total Is 367   Figures Still Far Belov Advance Predictions

Republican Candidate Cheered By 150,000 Enthusiastic  New Englanders.

Dewey Charges Reds Chart Control of U. S.   Tells Boston Rally Roosevelt Has So Weakened Democratic Party as to Make it Easy Prey

Paratrooper Son of Churchill Confers With Leader of Yucoslay Partisans

FAMOUS... INDUSTRIAL © SCIEN_ TIST SAYS’ MANY “FAN. : TASTIC" IDEAS HAVE BEEN CIRCULATED ~

CAPACITY FAIR CROWD GIVEN ADDED THRILLS   McKlyo Cash Falls; Scottish Maid Beats Edie Warren

ADDED THRILLS   McK lyo Cash Falls; Scottish Maid Beats Edie Warren

Sevastopol Entirely In Red Hands  Thousands of  Axis Troops 2.   Artillery Barrage Said to Have Been Heaviest in Histarw

VAST BOOTY RECOVERED BY RUSSIANS   Large Forces of Soviets Are Released for New Offensives Far to West.

SEVASTOPOL IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Record Artillery Assault Smashes City Into Rubbie

REDS GET VAST BOOTY IN FALL OF SEVASTOPOL   Allies Inflict Heavy Losses On Japs In New Burma Offensive

THOUSANDS OF ENEMY ARE SLAIN   Thunderous - Artillery  Barrage Paves Way For Red Forces

Crimean Base Falls After 3-Day Assault By Russian Army   Capture Gives Russian Fleet Base 240 Miles From Romanian Coast

Capture Of Sevastopol After Three Days Assault  GREAT NAVAL BASE  Thousands Of Nazi Dead And Vast Booty Taken In Capture

Russian Battle For Sevastopol Ends in Victory   Important Nayal Base Captured in Powerful Assault

GREAT NAVAL BASE NOW IN SOVIET HANTS   Thousands Of German, Romanian  ead Counted; Vast Booty In  Rubble Of Sevastopol Taken; Germans Confirm Fall   STALIN COMMENDS RED COMMANDERS

Red Armies Take Sevastopol Base   Fall Of Big Crimean Stronghold Releases Large Soviet Forces For New Offensives; Black Sea Port In Ruins   Rv HARRISON SAVISRIURY

ENEMY DEAD ARE BEING COUNTED IN THE THOUSANDS   Heaviest Artillery Barrage 'n History Literally Tore the Part to Pieces.

SUICIDE NAZIS SLAIN IN FALL OF SEVASTOPOL   Tens of Thousands of Dead Counted; Much Booty Taken by Reds.

Reds Capture Major Port   In Crimea   Great Bombardment Preceded Infantry Advance

RUSSIANS GAIN HUGE BOOTY IN SEVASTOPOL   Last Crimean Base Falls After Three Day Red Assault

Reds Get  Base for Advance   Vast Booty Captured, ‘Soviet Offensives to West Prepared

Tens of Thousands of Enemy Dead Found in Sevastonol Sector      Salient in Italy Given - Up By Nazis, Occupied

AXIS LOSSES IN THOUSANDS AT SEVASTOPOI   ‘Germans and Romanian Partners Lose Last Toehold in What Was South Russia Before War

Axis Dead Glut Fallen Sevastopol   > Red Armies Freed To Move Into West From Naval Bastion

Big Black sea Base Captured   Greatest Artillery Barrage in History Cracks Open City

Russians Clean Up Sevastopol Debris   Crimean Port Falls To Deadly Artillery

SEVASTOPOL IN HANDS OF REDS   Russians County German Dend and Vast Booty — Capture Big Cri. mean Naval Base in J*owerful Three-Day Thrust,

Artillery Assault Brings Downfall of Crimean Base   Last Enemy Toehold In Pre-War Southern. Russia Wiped Out

Yank Infantrymen Cleaning Up Jap Forces Crossing Driniumor River At Aitape

Attempt Escape, Japs Mowed Down   McArthur’s Forces Mopping Up Japanese Trapped In Wewak Region

EAM. Opens New Attack On British   Heaviest Battle Rages In Military Barracks

ELAS FORCES OPEN ATTACK IN ATHENS   Full Scale Drive Is Launched On British Pocket

WASHINGTON (4}—Heavy explosions and large fires were reported by B-29 Mlera who ralded" Nagoya today.

ELAS Rejects British Terms  Greek Rebels Loose Dynamite-Laden Streetcars on Tanks

Full Scale Attack Opened On British Troops In Athens   ate eis “eee oe  me BSE he ee Etter Left Wing ELAS Uitte Engage Tanks, Infantry . In Bloody Struggle

Drive Opens from AH Directions on Shrinking British Pocket — Violent and Bloody Struggles Going on in Heart of City.’ 

ELAS Troops Cut English Hold In City   Violent and Bloody Fights Are Reported

FIAS ATTACKS CTEPPFN HD IN  GREEK CAPITAL   Heavy Street Fighting Continues; British Pocket Shrinks

Tempo o  Athens Fight Up   Violent Battle Rages for Headquarters of British-Greek Forces

FIERCE FIGHT GOING ON----IN ATHENS      ‘Greek Rebel Forces in Heavy Attack on British

Left-Wing E.A.M. Rejects British Terms For Settling _ Greek Crisis; Gunfire Flares

ELAS REJECTS BRITISH TERMS IN GREEK FIGHT   Send Dynamite Laden : Streetcars Careening  “ Against English Tanks

NEE" ET iy  Stage Set For Easter Observance Vac’  Church Services And Annual Finery Display To Mark Day

ar—=  Stage Set For Easter Observance ae REN OICE:  Church Services And Annual Finery Display'To Mark Day

11,000 Get Pullman Pay On Saturday   $1,000,000 in Back Wages Is Christmas “Tidineos’’ al Plant

But Capital Sees Serious Hlarm In Impaired Confidence Of Small Nations and Withdrawal of Troops From Hard- Pressed Italian Front To Fight Greeks.

U.S. Backs Churchill's Move To Establish Greek Regency  Removal of King Seen as First Step Toward Peaceful Solution

ASHINGTON I! TILL AGAINST SE-OF FORCE   British Have“Taken 7.500 Prisoners In Athens Fighting

hurchill Said o Have Firm  . 5. Support   ime Minister Would Set Up Regency For Greeks

Church Gains U.S. Backing On Greek Regency  Republicans Expected Ta Criticize Handlina   Republicans Expected To Criticize Handiing OF Foretan Palicies

BACK BRITISH IN GREEK ROW   American Officials Support Plan for Regency; Hint British Lose Prestige

Regeney For Greece Backed By Washington   Capital His Known For Months People Wouldn't Take King

United States Subscribes Churchill . . . . American Support Seen  For British In Greece

Report Churchill Has U. S. Support For Greek Regent  British Open 3- Prongec  A mnteant

Report Churchill Has U.S. Support For Greek Regent   British Open 3-Pronged Drive Against ELAS Forces at Athens

Asks Removal of Ottumwa Mayor   Wapello County Attorney Files Petition

19] Japanese  planes wiped  out in raids Sink or damage  six enemy ships

Carrier Planes Sink Jap Ship, Damage Others   191 Enemy Planes Reported Destroyed

HOUSEWIVES AGAIN USING POINTS FOR CANNED VEGETABLES—MEAT SYSTEM TO CHANGE

GOP Advocates Rationing Czar To Control Food   Points Restored On Canned Goods; Butter Value Up

RAY» ING P< AROLS ~GHTENED   Butter, Meat and Canned Vegetables All Affected

KAUNAS 1S SEIZED BY SOVIET FORCES   Fe LS So A 2: Sen, ere  Pe ter anek aumsesnamerunaemad  Suburb of Polish Capital on Vistula Being Starmond

Soviets Prepare For Battle _ Of Warsaw From Siege Arc  13 Miles East Of Capital   Suburb Of Polish City Already Under Russian Attack Thousands Of Germans Trapped By Seizure Of  Jelgava; Occupation Of Prussia Near

FIGHT BEGUN FOR WARSAW: KAUNAS FALLS   SOVIET TANK UNITS NEAR BORDER OF EAST PRUSSIA

Reds Closing In On Warsaw   Siege Laid To First Allied Capital By Liberating Army

Reds engulf’ city in broad siege circle —  Brilliant gains on entire soviet line

Soviet Army Begins  Battle Of Warsaw   "Thousands of Enemy © Probably Trapped =” To North, Jelgava Falls  NEAR REICH PROPER

Drive Within 12 Miles of  Nazi Prussia   Take More Than 500 Places in  Sensational Gains.

Soviets Open Warsaw Siege, Trap Thousands of Nazis By Taking Key Latvian City

Jelgava Taken As Reds Close Door in North   Soviets Align Major Push Against East Prussia;  sree: Ta. alsin

RED ARMIES OPEN BATTLE FOR WARSAW   Jelgava, Key Railroad Junction, Taken As Drive Sweeps On

SHELL PRAGA, SUBURB EAST OF CAPITA   Scores. of. Thousands of Nazis: in North Probably Trapped by Russian Seizure of Jelgava.   SOVIETS 12 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Army. Rolling Toward Enemy Border on 143Mile Front — Sweeps Up 1,500 Towns.

Three Axis Strongholds Near Warsaw Are Captured  KAUNAS IS SEIZED  BY SOVIET FORCES Suburb of Polish Capital on Vistula Being Stormed

Tydings in Lead for Nomination   NOW IN 17TH YEAR IN UNITED STATES SENATE POPULAR MARYLAND MAN TAKES LEAD; FOURTH TERM ISSUE.

Tydings Appears Renominated In Maryland Race  Administration _   Administration Faces Test in Florida  And Alabama Today

Tydings Holds Wide Margin In Maryland   Randall Has G. O. P Edge; Three Other States Ballot Today

Tydings Leads Kasily in Maryland Poll   Unofficial Returns Give Senator 72,490, Rival 15,495

TYDINGS TOPS VOTE RETURNS IN MARYLAND   ROOSEVELT FORCES FACE REAL TEST IN FLORIDA

Maryland Backs Senator Tydings   Rolls Up High Poll Score; Once Object Of An FDR Purge.

Soviets Clear South Bank Strategic Lake  Third Ukraine Army Drives Within 67 Miles of Zagreb

Russian Armies Try to Seal Off Budapest   Also Clear Lake Arec In Drive Toward Austrian Border

Soviets Clear.  Lake Balaton   Berlin Says Another. Red > Ape Perils. Budanest 

REDS MOVE UP ALONG DANUBE   Approaches To Austria Cleared; Hungarian Capital Circled

BALATON AREA WON BY REDS   Russians Char South Bank Of Lake of Nazis, Push Closer to Budapest

BANK IS CLEARED BY SOVIET FORCES      Troops Move to Within 41 Miles of Austrian Border

Reds Clear South Bank Lake Balator   Direct Rail Routes Between Budapest, Axis Centers Cut

TWO RED ARMIES MOVE ON BUDAPEST   ONE FORCE CLEARS VITAL LAKE. BALATON. ON APPROACHES TO AUSTRIA,

Airfield In Holland Hit By 250 Forts   Bucharest In Romania, 3 Vast Stores Of Supplies Raided By RAF.   MOVE PARATROOPERS

U. S. Planes Hunt Out ‘Targets In Europe Today  RAF ALSO BUSY  Bucharest Blasted By Staggering Bomb Loads

Hit Nazi Supply Dumps .   Destroy Vast Stores Of Ammunitions in North France; Blast Bucharest Rail Yards

Military Supply Dumps in France Are Exploded   Night Fighters Take Toll of 49 Planes From RAF Raiders  Ry Accociated Preace

BUCHAREST’ HIT LAST NIGHT IN NEW ATTACK: GERMAN MUNITION STORES IN FRANCE BLASTED   Aerial Softening of Germany and Controlled Territory Enters 20th Consecutive Day. Romanian Rail Lines Destroyed. 49 British Planes Lost

Bombers Hit At Nazi Stores Of Supplies   Pre-Invasion Bombard ment Roars ito 20th Consecutive Day

Anti-Invasion Supply Dumps Razed By Allies   Japs  Repulsed Ir Kohima Area

STAGGERING BOMB LOADS HURTLED UPON NAZI MILITARY BASE   BUCHAREST, IN ROMANIA, ATTACKED AND RAIL YARDS BOMBED

Fortresses Bomb Field In Holland   RAF Sprays 3,500 Tons of Bombs at Mailly Near Reims   By RICHARD M’MURRAY Associated Press War Editor

Fortresses Bomb Field In Holland   3.500 Tons Were Sprayed on Large Military Depot South of Reims

CRACK UNITS LED ALLIED INVASION   AMERICAN FIRST DIVISION AND BRITISH 50TH SPEAR- © HEADED ATTACK.

Berlin Says Few Planes Reach City   Returning Airmen Tell of Huge Number of Ships Over Reich— Weather Extremely Cold

Nazis Blow Up Docks At Rotterdam, Leave Area; Patton’s Army Locked in Slugfest

Germans Beaten In Move To Aid Suicide Troops   Besieged And Blazing Nazi Frontier City Stiff Subjected To Terrific Pounding; Hitler Shouts ““Venaeance”

Shells, Bombs Flatten City  For Storming   U. §. Troops Held Back U ul Cannon, Planes

METROPOLITAN: AREAS OF TEXAS SHOW BIG POLL TAX INCREASES   REPORTS NOT SUFFICIENTLY COMPLETE FOR OVER-ALL ESTIMATE

New Warning  Giv en Neutr vals      Hull'Says Any Nation; Harboring Hitler Faces Loss‘of: U. -S. Friendship

Baranowicze Lost By Hitlers Forces   -+» Vanks Win Rosignano, 13 Miles From Florence

British But 1-2 Mile From Caen Center;  Yanks Hold St. Jean   Six Key Norman Towns Captured; Say Hitler Commands In West; Twin Allied Drives Gain Ground

Allies Capture Nazi Bases On  3 Major Fronts   Report Hitler Assumes Western High Command

ALLIED DRIVES IN FRANCE ARE FORGING AHEAD   Yanks Resume Advance in Italy and Reds Batter At Gate To Prussia

Sul Ross College Chosen Center For Inter-American Education Project

BRITISH BATTLE GREEK RIOTERS   Full-Scale Battle Develops As Artillery Brought Into Action.

Hundreds of Trucks Idle From Strike   HARRISBURG, LANCASTER AND YORK TRUCKS IDLE; WAR MATERIALS HELD UP; DRAFT BOARDS ACT.   70 Companies Involved

Strike Hits “Transit of _ Vital Goods   Central Pennsylvania  ‘rutk Drivers Idle  . In Dispute Over  : New Conlract

: ; '    Daughter Of Aircraft _Maker, Son Gen. Arnold  Announce Engagement

Some Car Qwners Using Naphtha Gas In Their Automobiles      State Capitol. News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s. Special Correspondent

Wilk Demeetats Put Up a Fight  in Coming Election?   That's the Question That’s Puzzling the Republicans’   BHiekenlasner

Indicate Jowa Js Definitely for G. 6. p.   Democrats Not Expected to Make Strong Campaign

BUDAPEST DRIVE PUTS OUTSKIRTS UNDER RED GUNS   Russians Prepared to Blast Path Down Streets of Capital City

‘CLIMAX NEAR: IN CAMPAIGN: "FOR BUDAPEST      SSIANS CLOSING IN FOR FI NAL PHASES OF OFFENSTVE—NEW PRUSSIA DRIVE iS FORECAST

RED ARTILLERY TO SMASH BUDAPEST   Russian Heavy Guns in Position to Bombard Streets

T 0 # sms Clubs   Lions Club Entertains  Rotarians at  Joint Meeeting. Two Concord © ‘Army Officers Present

Lions Club Entertains Rotarians at Joint Meeeting. Two Concord Army Officers Present .

Rules On Wage Act For Miners   Portal to Portal Payment I. Required

PORTAL PAY I WON BY MINERS   Supreme Court Hands Down 7 To 2 Decision

ORDER MINE PAY PORTAL-PORTAL   Supreme Court’s 7 to 2 Rule Victory for Lewis and Alabama Unions

Soviet Chief Calls Japan  ‘Ageressor  Diplomatic Circles Attach Importance To Declaration.

Leyte: wIsland Way. Station To Japan: FDR      President Lauds MacArthur, Reminds Nation Of Long Road To Jap Mainland

Long Campaign Ahead in Pacific Area, Warning   Exultation ,in Washington  le Vaimnered

7 ough Road Pity Ahead In Pacitie   Observers Expect Philippine Invasion To Be Costly, But Profitable

MacArthur Hits Japs on Land and Sea   Americans Spreading Rapidly Over Leyte to Take Control

Entire Fleet Of 16 Japanese Warships Sunk   MacArthur Confirms 2 Battleships Among Toll Taken By Naval, Air Assaults On Foe

entire Surigao Fleet Sunk   MacArthur Discloses Japs Lose All 1¢ Warships in Southernmost Philippine Fight; Two Battleships Included

Lieut. Burkhard And Patricia Ann Schnieders Wed —  ‘Ceremony Takes Place:At Remsen Saturday Morning

Lieut. Burkhard  And Patricia Ann Schnieders Wed _  F a Se rra soso   ‘Ceremony Takes ‘Place At Remsen Saturday Morning

Government To Open Ist Prosecution For Denial Of Negro Voting Rights

GERMANS USING HUGE TANK ON 2 FRONTS   Monster Weighing 65 Tons With 6-Inch Armor Thrown Against Allies in France and Russia.

STRIKING BUS DRIVERR ARE CALLED BACK   One Day Work Stoppage At New Orleans Temporarily Paralyzed Service‘ In 5 States

Methodis's Support War   General Conference Discards Stand ‘For Pacifism

Reverse  War Stand   Resolution Adopted By Methodists After Hot Debate Pledges Church To Support of Allies

Methodists Endorse Participation In War, Reversing Earlier Stand  ‘God Himself Has Stake in This War’ ‘Says Resolution Committing Church to Sunvort of Allied Cause

Methodist Church Abandons » Stand Against War; Pacifists © " Are Criticized by Educator

Methodists’ War Stand Significant  Conference Held ‘God Himself Has Stake in This War

Retreat Of Methodist Church From Anti-War Stand Viewed By Drew Dean As Defeat For “Smiling Lads”

NEW BATTLES — IN CIVIL WAR   “LEFT”. AND “RIGHT” FACTIGNS REPORTED IN FULL SCALE HOSTILITIES IN GREECE

GREEK FACTIONS IN STIFF BATTLE   ELAS Reported Penetrating Epirus Area Dominated by Loyalists

Byrnes to Quit Capital Hears  Expected to Return to Private Life

After 30 Years In Politics Believe Byrnes Will Retire From Washington Whirligig

BYRNES MAY RETIRE      Quit as Second Place Candidate at ’ ._Presiderit’s Request

Washingion Sources Say ‘Assistant President’ Will Quit White House Job This Year.

J, BYRNES TO QUIT CAPITAL?      Has Been in Center of Washington Political Whirligig 30 Years.

Byrnes Prepare: To Quit Capital, Return To Law:  War Mobilization _  Biivawtaw Deoenkankla, 7   War Mobilization Director Probably Will Soon Resign

EXPECT BYRNES WiLL QUIT JOB   Slap Given Him By Roosevelt Reportedly Caused By Hillman

BYRNES MAY RETIRE   Quit as Second Place Candidate at President’s Request

Sen. Byrnes May Retire   ‘South Carolinian’ e Was. FDR: Supporter

Byrnes Reporied  Planning to Quit  Washington Scene Qnit Supreme Court, Withdrew in Vice Presidential Nominatios Brace at Raocevell’s Rehed

Axis Desperate, Says Adm. King In War Report   Navy Chief Hails U. S. Might; Early Losses In Pacific Revealed

10,000 Nazis In Bordeaux Area Captive:   Drive to Borders of Reich Continues at Rapid Pace

Allied Troops, Sweeping." Ahead in West and South, Now Only 200 Miles Apar!   10,000 Nazi Troops Surrender Near Bordeaux, Ending Fight In Southwest. French Claim

Allied Armies Now Only 200 Miles Apart  Nazi Flight is Spreadina Ranidlv

Allied Forces Narrow Break  To 200 Miles   Berlin Asserts Americans Have Cut Rhone Eseape North of Avionan

Scared---But He Stopped Germans    Heamencters Clerk Rallies Typewriter Brigade To Battle When Enemy Force Attacks Bivouac in France - - Even Gives Orders to Offieers

Alhes To Talk World Peace In Washington   Russia, China Not To Sit Together; Two Phases Must Be Planned

Peace Talks Next Month   How to Organize World Will Then  Be Discussed

International Peace Talks Start Soon   Britain, Russia and China To Send Representatives To Washington

Will Plan  For Peace   Delegates From China, Britain, and Russia To U.S. in August

ALLIES SLATE MEET IN U. S.   Will Meet Within Three Weeks For International Talks

INTERNATION TALKS PLANNED BY BIC     Representatives of Britain Russia, China to Come To U.S.

DETAILED’ -PLAN ‘ SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC LONG BEFORE  HOSTILITIES END, REPORT SAYS _

Berlin Battered In RAF Night: Raid   Stettin, Kiel Seaports Also. Heavily Blasted

Marseille {aken By French Troops  Yanks Move North   Americans’ Lightning Drive Northward Carries Past Grenoble to the Eastern Pim af Rhana Vallaev

Marseille Captured By Frenck   Strong German Forces Quit Cold — Grenoble Also Is Captured In A Spectacular Drive

France s 9nd City Captured   Yanks Speed North in Drive to Eastern Rim of Rhone Valley

Mosquitos Follow RAF Heavies in Attacking Capita!   New Gains Scored On Russian and Italian Land Fronts

ALLIES ADVANCE IN ITALY WITH BITTER FIGHTING   Russian Armies Are Driving Beaten Nazi Forces Back Toward Baltic States

BERLIN BLASTED ON TWO OCCASIONS LAST NIGHT BY BRITISH  BERLIN ATTACK FOLLOW. ED U. S$. BLOWS AT CENTRAL CITIES

Bombs Set New Fires In Berlin   RAF Smashes Twice Tn Night; Yank Planes Raid Brunswick

BERLIN BLASTED ON TWO OCCASIONS LAST NIGHT BY BRITISH  BERLIN ATTACK FOLLOW:

Bomb Berlin Twice During Sunday Night   Heavy British Planes Followed By Swif Mosquitos; Russian Armies Battl Toward Baltic States; More Activity in Italy.

HISTORY'S BIGGEST SUSTAINED - ; AERIAL OFFENSIVE UNABATED AS THREE GREAT CITIES NOW BURN’      Four Days of Night and Day Bombing of Great ° Industrial Centers Brings Ominous Silence Over: Germany. Death and Debris Strewn Every warhen eeen

Strong Force Dumps Death On Nazi City   RAF Loses 33 Aircraft in Raids As Reds Advance Toward Balties

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Ability to Form New Italian Government Questioned

Himmler Replaces Goering as No. 2; Nazi, in Line to Succeed Hitler’

Seribe Says Himmler  Is No. 2 Nazi   Goering ‘Demoted’ For Failure to Avert Air Raids

RALPH HEINZEN OF UP REVEALS NAZI SHAKE-UP   Released Internee Says Hitler On Wane,

Himmler Up As Reverses ‘Age’ Hitler   Gestapo Chief Ready To Grab Reich Welm; Fuehrer ‘Breaking’

Tighten Noose  On Myitkyina   Americans Face Toughest Struggle Of Northern New (,uinea Campaign.

Allies Close On Myifkyina   Stilwell’s Forces — Cut Highway Between — Kamaing and Mogaung

ALLIED NOOSE [S TIGHTENED AT MYITKYINA   American and _ Chinese Troops, in Swift Maneuver, By-pass Kamaing. Japanese Strong Point to the West.

Gen. Stilwell! Forees Cut Highway   US and Chinese Troops Bypass Enemy Strongpoint of Kamaing; Major Battle Shaping Up on Biak Island

Allied Troops Pass Kamaing   Cut Kamaing-Mogaung Highway; Draw Noose Tighter on Myitkyina

Ally Trap  in Burma ‘Tightens   U S., Chinese Troops Bypass Kamaing, Close Siege on Myitkyina

Allied Planes Join North Burma Battle   Tighten Noose Around Myitkyina Enemy Stronghold

Japs Encircled At Key City Near Burma Road  Allied Fliers Hit Ponape; Tokyo

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON JAP FORCES NEAR MYITKYINA   North Burma Battle Hits High Tempo as Heroic Chinese Hang on

GERMANY, AUSTRIA, YUGOSLAVIA, FRANCE AND LOW COUNTRIES ARE OBJECTS OF 3200-PLANE ATTACK   Aircraft Plants in ‘All Parts of Germany and Even In Distant Poland Targets for Bombs by Americans. RAF Night Attack. Germans Attack Sonth Enoland

Kamaing - Mogaung Highway Is Severed; Noose Around Myitkyina Is Tightened

YANKS ASSAULT JAPS AT ORMOC; NEAR MOP PHASE   Enemy Continues In Desperate Attempt To Reinforce Troops

Prepare for Clean Up On Leyte   Long Range Guns Battering Japanese in Narrow Valley

A SHOWDOWN ON LEYTE IS IN MAKING   Yanks Turn Long-Range Artillery on Reinforced Japs in Narrow Valley at Northwestern End of the Tsland.

U.S. Artillery Blasting Japs   Americans on Leyte Plan Cleanup F

BIG GUNS HIT JAPS ON LEYTE   Artillery Brought Up For Climactic Blow

SOVIETS NEAR LWOW; AT MAIN WARSAW LINES   Rate of Advance Would Mean Berlin In Five Weeks

Committee Cuts Home Bureau Appropriations   Vets Adininistration Given Full $30,000,000  For Expansion Proeoram

AGAIN RAID BRUNSWICK   Nazis Report Bitter Air Battle is Being Fought

YANKS BATTLE ALL LUFTWAFFE TO RAID REICH   Win Through to Bomb Brunswick

U.S. Fliers Bomb Bronswick, Nazi Aircraft Center  Bitter Air Battle   Bitter Air Batile Reported Over  Northwest Germany

Hitler Hurls Fighters at U.S. Armada   Brunswick Given New Pounding Despite  Opposition

Brunswick Raided by  Fortresses   Attacks Also Made On Holland and French (‘oact

Many Allied Planes Blast Nazi Europe   Liberators Hit Dutch Air field, Light Bombers Raid French Coast

‘American Planes In Aerial Battle  Over Germany   French Invasion Coast Smashed 3rd Time By Allied Bombers

Fortresses Hammer Brunswick   Nazis Report Another Violent Battle by Opposing Airmen

4000 PLANES OF ALL KINDS MAKE ASSAULT   119 Enemy Aircraft Down; We Lose 49 Over Berlin

Explosion Sinks U.S. Destroyer   Victim of Mystery Blast in Lower New York Bay; 163 Men, Including 108 Injured, Rescued

Navy Loses Destroyers   Mysterious Blast And Torpedo Sink Vessels

US. Destroyer Blows Up, Sinks. 7 With Great Roar  Cause of ‘kxplation: Given by Navy 

U.S. Destroyer Off New York Blown Up By Mystery Blast         of si ppe:  vors of lost. yon Page 6  Picture: destroy

Coast Guard Rescues 163, 108 Injured   Explosion Blows Ship Apart Near Entrance Of Lower N. York Bay  CATICR NOT REVEALED

U. . Destroyer Explodes, Sinks Off New York   108 Injured, None Reported Killed

Destroyer _ Blows Apart At New York   Cause Of Blast -Injuring 108 Men Yet Undetermined

U. 5. DESTROYER SUNK BY BLAST   COAST GUARD CRAFT RESCUE 163 SURVIVORS, INCLUDING 108 INJURED,

Destroyer Blown Apart _ In New York Bay; Coast Guards Rescue 163 Men

BLAST BREAKS WINDOWS ASHORE AND ROUSES THOUSANDS OF NEW YORKERS SHORTLY AFTER 6 A. M.; COAST, GUARD TO RESCUE.

Terrific Blasts Wreck Destroyer  Off New York   Coast Guard Craft Saves 163; Great Area Is Shaken

BENEFIT BILL FIGHT BREWING   States’ Rights Issue To Enter Senate Discussion

Report Says  Tokyo Seeks  Peace Terms   Jap Ambassador Said to Have Given Conditions To Pope Pius

Shimada Out Affer Yanks’ Saipan Victory   Tokyo Admits That There Is No Reason For Optimism

Meat l‘amine In Few Months Is Predicted   Seen by Livestock Man, Bat Agriculture Dept. Says Supplies To Hold

SEES FAMINE IN BEEF, PORK   Prediction by Livestock Man Doesn't Jibe With U. S. Agency Report

Pork, Beef Famine Hinted By Officia  Shortage Blamed On “‘ill Advised" Agency

PORK-BEEF FAMINE © FORECAST IS MADE      Livestock Producer Sees Shortage in Sixty Davs

PORK AND BEEF - FAMINE I$ SEER   Livestock Producer Blame: Government Policies  For Shortages

Former ‘LeMars  Woman Is Dead  Mrs. Ed Pritts Was Sister Henry Gunther:

Fo ormer LeMars ; ‘ Woman Is Dead  . Mrs. ‘Ed’ Pritts Was.Sister Henry Gunther

Bulgarians And Finns Reported In Peace Talks   Répresentatives Now Meeting With Allies, Correspondent Says

Bulgaria, Finland Are Suing for Peace, Say Turkish Forces   Warsaw Confronted by Surprise Threat From South; Reds Believed Now in East  Prussia.

19 Year. Old Medical Corpsman Saves Rifieman’s Life by Performing Delicate Operation During Batile

Saves Doughboy’s Life Under Withering Fire Medic Gives Miracle Treatment

JACK-KNIFE, PEN USED IN OPERATION   Army Battalion Surgeon Amazed When Story Is Told

Youth Slain Here in Knife Scrape in Dutch Lane Cate   Jack Knife, Fountain Pen Is Used By Yank Medic in Emergency Battletield Qperation

Medical corpsman uses jackknife to pertorm delicate operation in battle

Stretcher Man Operates With Jack Knife, Pen, Besos Dvine Douchboy

REDS REACH APPROACHES TO VIIPUR!   Unofficial Intimations Are That Soviet Neighbor May Have Had Enough.

Capitulation Of Finland Predicted As Russians rive Nearer Vitour:

Russians Hint Finland  Is Ready To Quit War   ‘Soviets Drive, Within 17 Miles of Viipuri And Say Decisive Developments Expected At Anytime: Finns Reported Fleeing In Panic, Abandoning Equipment

Russian Army Pours Through Finnish Line   Reds Reach Point Only 10 Miles from Viipuri; Ships in Port Shelled

Russians Enter Viipuri Suburbs   Finland on Verge Of Final Defeat

Russians at Approaches Of Viipuri   Possibility of Early Capitu lation of Finns Suggestea  ed at Moscow

LAST OF THREE FINNS’ DEFENSE LINES PIERCE   Red Army 15 Miles From Viipuri; 100 More Towns Taken

REDS REACH APPROACHES TO VIIPURI   May Knock Finland Out Of War Soon

BROKEN FINNISH LINE WAVERING   Soviets Sweep To Less Than 10 Miles From City Of Viipuri

RED ASSAULT ON VIIPURI ABOUT READY TO START   Tanks, Infantry Pour Through Gap In Manunerheim Line

VIIPURI ATTACK NEAR, REPORTS WOULD INDICATE   Linkomies Finnish Gov’t Asks, Then Rejects Armistice

Russian Mobile Forces Reported Nearing Viipuri   Decisive Developments Forthcoming, Moscow Military Sources Hint

Finland Expected To Quit War   Soviet Spearheads Race Toward Viipuri Through Broken Line

FINNS FLEE FRANTICALLY UP ISTHMUS   indicate Collapse Of Finn Resistance is Imminent

REDS APPROACH VIIPURI; SHELL SHIPS IN HARBOR   Finns Reported in Headlong Flight With Mannerheim Line Broken on 30Mile Front.   HELSINKI CABINET CHANGE PREDICTED   Writer Says Soviet Sweep Soon Will Put Moscow in Position to Dictate Peace Terms.

Finns, Reeling Under Red ‘Blows In Viipuri Suburbs, Said About Ready To Quit

Finn Surrender Expected Soon   Reds Closing inion Viipuri As Panicky Enemy Flees Westward

HINTS FINN ABOUT READY TO QUIT WAF   Reds Pour Through Mannerheim Line into Approaches of Viipuri.

Soviets  Approach  Viipuri   Moscow Hints At ‘Decisive Developments’; Finns Flee North

EARLY CAPTURE OF VIPURI BY SOVIETS LOOMS   Mannerheim Line Broken With Seizure Of West Coast .  Anchor 

VIPURIS FALL TOSOVIETS IS HELD IMMINENT   Reports Are Current That Finland Is About Ready To Quit The War   16 SHIPS ARE SUNK BY RUSSIAN AIRMEN

Finns Flee in Disorder; Reds Near Viipuri   Mannerheim. Line Smashed By Soviet Army

Normal Election Turnout Seen  Civilian Vote To Be No Biaaer Than Usual

PEARL HARBOR PROBE GROWS HOTTER   Congressional Inquiry Seen as Means to Place Blame

DEATH NOT IN VAIN   Anita’s Huge ‘Hulk of Fat To Be Used for Explosives

463 Jap Planes Downed in Pacific Since January 1   109 Others Might Be Also Lost by Enemy This Month

Americans Win Battle in Sky  Over New Ireland  U. S. Flyers Strike Marshalls Again, Japs Hit Back

DUCO JAILED WHEN REVOLT IS THWARTED   Farrell’s Argentine Government Holds Authority.

Crisis Is Taking Or  New Face   Fleet Acts Independently After Farrell Government Puts  Down Army Revolt.

Prisoners Trying to Escape Are Shot by Guards  One Man Is Killed, Another Wounded  at Fort Missoula

Official's Wite Shot by a Woman   Mis. Frank S. Wilhams Is Seriously Wounded

NEW CANADIAN DRIVE ON MAIN  » ROAD TO PARIS   Allies Make Rapid Gains > Throughout Breton Peninsula

Nantes, St. Malo AreOccupied By U.S. Forces   British Of First Canadian Army Open New Drive On Major Road To  Paris   YANKS ADVANCE FROM LE MANS AREA

GERMAN FORGES FULD UF AS YANKS OCCUPY MANTES:   Unconfirmed Report Says U. S. Army Only 40 Miles From French Capital   YANKS IN POSSESSION OF ST. MALO   Germans Still Hold Important Atlantic Ports of Lorient and Brest

MILES INSIDE JUNKER-LAND   Fall of Highway Center Is Reported by Nazis, Who Admit Deep Penetrations Between Goldap and Siwalkd.

‘RUSSIANS CAPTURE HIGHWAY CENTER IN EASTERN PRUSSIA  GOLDAP TAKEN AND SOVIET OFFENSIVE BROADEN. ED ALONG ALL BOUNDARY

British-Yank Fliers Hit Nazi Rail Centers Fezding eteden Coast Defenses

Nazi Europe Is Bombed Again Today   Assault From ‘Air Led By American Planes; Germans Await Invasion

Bombs Dropping All Over Continent at Rate of One Every 40 Seconds.   RECORD AIR ASSAULTS ~ INTO FIFTH DAY TODAY   Troop Trains Leaving London For Invasion Ports in Steady Stream.

R. A. F. Carries Out It's Greatest Raid During — The Night   ALLIED WARSHIPS IN ENGLISH PORTS       Troop Trains Carrying Invasion Army To  Ports of Invasion -

18.000 Tons of Bombs ~ Dropped on Germans in Mediterranean Theatre

Escape Routes From Capital Are Threatened   Soviet Forces Close Gigantic Sack About German White Russia Garrison

Third Red Army Joins Forces Flanking Minsk   Smashing Advance Captures Borisov, Menaces Polotsk

Russian City Outflanked In North, South   Encirclement May Dwarf That Of Stalingrad; Two Railways Are Threatened By Soviets, Driving Ahead At Incredible Speed

GRACK JAP RING ARGUING HENEYAN   Battle For Key ‘Chinese Railroad Center Is Approaching Climax.

CHINESE CRACK HENGYANG RING   JAPS BRINGING IN REINFORCEMENTS; CLIMAX IS NEAR

Crack Jap Ring Around Hengyang  Situation Acain le   Situation Again Is Relieved, But Enemy is Being Reinforced

CHINESE FORCE IND NIP RETREAT FROM HEGYANG   Fighting Approaches New Climax As Japs Are Reinforced

O.W.1. Library In London Fills  Popular Need   Patrons range from government’ ‘big-wigs’ to everyday © English housewives, ae

TAX ISSUE MAY TEST STRENGTH OF GOVERNOR   Legislature Meets Tomorrow

British-Insist On-Continuation Of Lend-Lease Aid After Nazi Fall

‘Britain Asking Continuation  (Of Lend-Lease   Change Af - Germany,  ; iers Assa“elation Savs  Insisting. Ja N,

Want More Lend-Lease   Britain Says She Must Have It After The War Is Over

NAZI DEFEAT WON'T STOP LEND-LEASE   Britain Says It’s Necessary for Paerfie War

British Seek More U. S. Aid, Is Claim   * Assistance Against Japan Dependent on Lend-Lease Extension Says NAM Publication

BRITISH SAID TO SEEK LEASE-LEND IN PEACE   Claim More Help Needed To Play Full Part In Pacific

WANT .LEND-LEASE AID TO FIGHT JAPS   BRITISH HINT THEY CAN'T PLAY PACIFIC ROLE WITHOUT HELP

Russians Pour Explosives On Sevastopol   Traffic Of Enemy Ships Blocked By Soviet Fleet

Planes, Ships Blast Black Sea Port   Panic Mounts Among Axis Troops, Soviet Writer Says

SOVIET SHOCK TROOPS NEAR CRIMEAN PORT   Harbor Wrecked By Shelling; Sudak Taken

Japs Break Into Old Walled City   Bitter Street Fight With Chinese Garrison Is Raging

“Bandiis” Become Legal? aoe  Liz hh ‘ an hertit’ Riachine AVes., Pay Hinge  - Sums Into Uncle Sam’ sTill

72,000 Nazis Die On Soviet Front   Counter:Blows. Fail Near lasi.

2,000 Germans Killed At Iasi   Hand-To-Hand Battles  Raging In Romania

U. S. Troops Reported Within Two Miles of Port; Allies Issue Surrender Or Die Ultimatum to Trapped Foe

4 Columns Swarm Up Approaches   Surrender Or Die Ultimatum Broadcast To Trapped Garrison As Port Burns.

Tears and Solemn Faces at Cobb’s Funeral Despite Humorists Request for Cheerfulness

BARIUM IS READY FOR BIG SUPPER   Program of Entertainment To Top Off Bie Feed

Russian Armies Make Big Gains   Moscow Announces Important Advance

Reds Offer New Threat To Germans   Pskov Drive May Outflank Another Sector Of Front

RED ARMIES TAKE POINTS IN BLIZZARD   Swift Advance Facilitated By Frozen Roads And Fields; Capture 114 Towns Near Rail Junction of Dav.   Savage Strugs.r2

BLIZZARDS ADD RUSSIAN DRIVE TOWARD PSKOV   Reds Seize 114 Towns, _ Kill 2,200.’ Nazis ~ On Baltic Front

Bitter winter weather aids Russ offense   Nazi northern front crumbles

SOVIET ARMIES FIGHT BLIZZARD ON PSKOV FRONT   114 Villages Seized And 2,200 Germans Killed In Advance

Russian Armies Continue Drive Toward Pskov   ~ Soil Hardened by Cold Helps Soviets Advance Within 30 Miles of Duo

RUSH D. HOLT IS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR   Boy Senator Of 30’s, New Deal Heckler, Announces

HOLT TO ENTER GOVERNOR RACE   Former Boy Senator Will Run in Democratic Primary

Three Warships To Be Launched   First Triple Ceremony in History At Philadelphia 

OCCUPATION OF HOLLANDIA HAS BEEN COMPLETED      Aussie Troops Capture Madang One Of Best Harbors On Guinea, Const

HOUSE GROUP SEEKS POWER FOR CONGRESS   COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS EX  TENSION OF LEND-LEASE AND. FINAL, SETTLEMENT BY ‘CONGRESS

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest T« All In The Various  Communities

GODDLING (N THE HOME CAUSES POOR RESULTS   County Seat Rotarians Told By Dr. Ivor Griffith   DUTIES OF THE PARENTS

Textile Shortage WillCut Clothing For Public 25 PC   Mills Study Program To Combat WMC Ruling On Essentiality Of Labor

Shortage of Cotton Goods Is Worrying U. S. Officials   Ry STERLING F. GREEN,

COTTON TEXTILE CONTROL ASKED   Government Control Over Cotton Mills Proposed To Alleviate Predicted 25 Per Cent Shortage In Cotton Goods For Civilians.

Study Plan For Controls Over Cotton Textiles   Ease Civilian Goods Shortage

Seek Government! Control Over All Cotton Textiles   Plan Proposed To Alleviate A Predicted Shortage Of Cotton Goods.

Twenty-Five Per Cent Shortage In Cotlon Wear For Civilians This Year Predicted—May Fun to 50 Per Cent in Some  T oswpe

Civilian Cotton Goods Shortage May Be 50 Per Cent   Government Makes Move to Ward Off Clothing Rationina

FEDERAL CONTROLS OF COTTON TEXTILES IS NEWEST PROPOSAL  *“PRENICTED SHORTACES   ‘PREDICTED SHORTAGES FOR CIVILIANS CLAIMED CAUSED PROGRAM

FEDERAL CONTROLS OF COTTON TEXTILES IS NEWEST PROPOSAL   PREDICTED SHORTAGES FOR CIVILIANS CLAIMED CAUSED PROCRAM

STIMSON URGES PRICE CONTROLS BE CONTINUED FOR A PERIOD AFTER WAR

TESTIFIES ON PRIGE CONTRO   Stimson Appeals for Con~ tinuation of Plan for While After War Ends.

STIMSON URGES PRICE CONTROLS   ASKS CONTINUATION THROUGH THE WAR AND LONG AFTERWARI

Rationing May Be ContinuedAfterWat   Seiate Group Hears About Peacetime Inflation Worries

Price Rein Following War Asked   Rationing Also. Will Be Needed Until the Supply Equals Demand   STIMSON APPEALS FOR CONTINUANCE   No Thought of Scrapping Controls, Taft . Says; . Others Give Views

Price Control,  Rations After War Proposed   Stimson Would Protect Conversion  Of Industry

Will Celebrate Homecoming At Western Union ~ Crown Queen At  _ Festivities Friday Rackathall Gaturda:

Will Celebrate Homecoming At Western Union  Crown Queen At Festivities Friday Basketball Saturday

SEVEN AUTO FATALITIES IN VIRGINIA   ‘Accidents Scattered Over Old Dominion

Speculation Revived Over Whether Russia May Eventually Go to War Against the Mikado’s Militarists.

STALIN'S BRANDING OF JAPAN AS AGGRESSOR NATION BRINGS SPECULATION AS TO FUTURE

Bodies of Three Army Flyers Lost Since Jan. 17 Found in Organ Mountains

SPREPARE FOR AUDACIOUS OFFENSIVE   Patton Sends Patrols Across Moselle Onto Soil of Reich

JAPS ROLL IN CHINA   Rapid Advance Increases Menace to Kweilin, Provincial Capital

GO FOR PHYSICALS   Twenty-Three White Men From Here Reported to Ft. Leavenworth

SIXTEEN WENT TODAY   County Sent 12 Local Men and Four Transfers for Induction

Robot Bombs In Night Luil   Germans Confine *Buzz’ Attacks to Hours of Daylight

Robot Raids On  London Resumed   Night Attacks Give Way To Daylight Hits

YANKS WITHIN GUN RANGE OF BOLOGNA   Bad Weather Restricts Ground and Aerial Activity on Entire Italian Front.

Bologna in Range  Of U.S. Artillery   Weather Hampers Progress in Italy

Weather Bogs Italian Drive   U.S. Long Guns in Range Of City of Roloena

YANKS PRESS NEAR BOLOGNA   Americans, Toiling in Mud And Rain, Within Gun Range of City

nks Make ains Close oBoloana    Nazi Center fr  orth Italy Within  Range of Heavy Artillery

Germans Evacuate  Vitebsk   Reds’ Northern Armies Push Nazis Back Toward Pskov On  Narrowing Front.

Soviet Armies Gain Up to 13 Miles   Stockholm Reports Nazis Have Evacuated Vitebsk

Campaign in Pacific Isles Maintained   Satawan, 150 Miles South west of Truk, Raided Fourth Day

VURSELL BACKS OIL AMENDMENT   PILOTS MEASURE THROUGH HOUSE WITH DISNEY AID

HOPKINS LETTER CONTROVERSY ——- PUBLICIZES FEUD WITH: ICKES   SPARKS AFFAIR MAY RESULT IN EITHER OR BOTH BEING  OUSTED FROM JOBS

HOPKINS-ICKES  FEUD REVEALED   Politicos Think Letter Row May Take Both from Administration

Reds Capture 2 Vital Czech Cities   Germans Admit New Reverses in Hungary

German Armored Tanks Blast At U.S. Third Army After All Night Barrage

Artillery In Bitter Duels  Nazis Hit Hard At - Yanks At Fort Driant

Heavy Attack Made On U.S. At Fort Driant   Americans Retain  Thin Hold After Terrific Shelling

Hillsides Shudder Under Big Artillery Duel Around Metz   Germans Counter-Attack Heavily After All-Night Big Gun Barrage

Heavy German Counter Action At Ft. Driant   Follows Day of Great Artillery Action Similar To Phat Of World War 1

Big Four Issue Blueprint to Entorce Peace   Powerful Land and Sea Forces, Plus Aerial Armadas, Seen; Velo Power Decision Stull Pends

Superstate Blueprint Exhibited   WORLD OPINION SOUGHT ON UNITED NATIONS PROPOSAL TO INSURE WORLD PEACE; PLAN INCOMPLETE,   Veto Power Undecided

Tentative’ Blueprint Calls for Each Member of Proposed Agency to Pledge Quota of Air, Land and Sea Units to Be Used Against Aggression—One Big Gap Is Whether a Big Power Can Block Action Against Itself.

WORLD PEACE POLICE FORCE PLAN MAPPED   FUTURE SECURITY TO BE ENFORCED BY BIG FOUR

Public Opinion Asked to Help  Shape Program   President, Hull Call Upon People for Full Discussion; Dewey Savs. ‘Fine Beginning’

Peace Plan Of Big Four Made Public   President Invites Full Discussion On Security Program

World Peace Plan Proposes Strong  Police’ Armadas  Outline to Be ‘Polished By Public Opinion;

BLUEPRINT DRAWN FOR WORLD PEACE   Big Powers Present Plans for Post-War Agency

Big Powers  Make Public Tentative _ ‘Peace’ Plan   Provides for Backing Of Powerful Land  ‘And Naval Forces, Special Air Armadas  TALKS TO CONTINUE

it’s s 52 Per Cent Dewey; 48 For Roosevelt  Dewey Shades FDR In Poll Taken In New York State

Americans Take Village 26 Miles From Belgian Border— SO Miles From Reich

British Advance Rivals Speed Of  Patton's Forces   Extensive Bridgehead Is _ Established Over River Somme By British   PATTON 26 MILES FROM BELGIUM

12 Japs Downed On Rabaul Raid.   Submarine Sunk In Harbor, Base Fired

HOME AFTER TAKING PART IN INVASION   Gunner’s Mate Harvey J. Smith Visits Father In New Oxford—Will Never Forget English Channel Scene

6,000 SORTIES FLOWN IN DAY FROM ENGLAND   Hamburg Raid Climaxes Busy 24 Hours For Allied Fliers

Reds Grind Down Nazi Panzer Force   Russians Claim to Have Knocked Out 449 Tanks and 365 Planes in Four Days; Close In on Baltic States

Reds Tighten Grip. On Communicatior Of Nazis in Latvia   Enemy Struggles Desperately to Halt Threat to Riqa

RUSSIANS CLAIM 20 DIVISIONS IN SERIOUS STRAITS; GREAT FIVE-DAY BATTLE NEARS END

Russ Tighten Their Grip Upon Latvia   Red Army Destroying One Panzer Division Each Day

GERMAN RESERVE ~POWER-ON WANE   Losing “Nearly One Panze¥ ‘Division A Day In Russian Conflict.

Soviets Tighten  Grip on Balties   Reds Grind Down Nearly One Panzer Di vision a Day in Battle

Reds Grinding Down German Reserves In Baltics At Rate Of One Panzer Division A Day   Tighten Grip On Hard-Fighting Nazis In Continuing Gigantic Enqaaement

Reds Tighten Strangle Grip On Mid-Baltic      Gigantic Battle Holding late Of 20) Nazi Divisions Continues In Latoo 2?

Reds, Nazis In Fierce Battles  Russians Threatening Baltic Communication

Reds Fight to Cut Off: Nazi Troops Above Riga  ntic Five-Dav Battle   Gigantic Five-Day Battle Is Sull in Full Fury

REDS TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP IN MID -BALTICS   Russian Armored Reserves Grinding Down Panzer Divisions at Rate of One Each Day

Reds Grind Down Nazi Divisions   Destroy 449 Tanks, 365 Planes in Gigantic Baltic Reaitle

Soviet Grip On Hun Mid-Baltic  Areas Tightens   Russians Continuing Drive On Riga In Fulfillment Of Strategy—Surround and Destroy!

Fate Of German Northern Army Near Decision   Twenty Divisions Face Destruction; Panzers Fail In Test.

Russians Knock Out One German Division Daily   New Drive Seeks To Destroy Nazis In Baltic States

BATTLES RAGE AS GERMANS TRY TO STOP REDS   Claim 449 Nazi Tanks, 365 Planes Destroyed in Last Four Days

Russian Army Tightens Grip On Nazi Lines  Inside Latvia.   Vive- Day Battle Is Still Raging

Russ Closing Baltic Noose   20 Nexi Divisions Face Strangling at Hands of Red Army

Soviets Tighten Grip on Enemy's Latvian Forces   Grind Down Nazi Reserves at Rate of One Division Daily

FATE OF NAZI'S ZORCES SEALED   Stalin's “Surround-And-Destroy” Policy May Bring Disaster To 20 Divisions In Baltic Area Soon.

Russians Tighten Grip on Latvian Communications   Grind Down Germans in Jelgava le, Berlin Reports Greater Conflict Above Rica

Red Army Holds ‘Strangling Grip: - On. Baltic Lines          Sei iown At Rate Of Panzer’ Division: A: Dav.

Russians Strangling Latvia In Fierce War   Stalin Carrying Out Policy of Surround And Destroy In. Balkans; Units Now Outflanking Valga.

SovietArmy MowsDowr Nazi Panzer Unit Daily   Strangling Squeeze Upon Mid-Baltic  Is Increased

Reds Drive. To Spring Baltic Trap   Claim Nazis Are Losing One Division Daily in Battle  To Close Corridor

D3 TIGHTE GRIP ON NAZIS   No Pause in Ferocious Battle begun Friday West Of Jelgava.   KNOCK OUT 449 TANKS

Reds Tighten Grip on Nazis in the Baltics   eee  20 Divisions Facing Destruction if Escape Route Is Cut Off

RUSSIA CLAIMS 449 OF ENEMYS TANKS CRUSHED   Berlin Reports That Sovie' Hurls 500,000 Troops Against Positions

SOVIET ARMIES HAVE STRANGLE GRIP ON NAZIS   449 Tanks And 365 Planes Knocked Out

Stalin’s ‘Surround and Destroy’ Edict “Hits Baltic Lines   Fate of Nazi Northern Army Group Rests in Battle Near Jelgava

Reds Tighten Grip on Nazi ‘Latvia Lines   20 Mile Coastal Lane Connects German Forces In Region

Destroy Foes At Rate Of Division A Day   449 Tanks And 365 Planes Are “Knocked Out”

REDS SLASHING RIGA LIFELINE   Trap Closes On 20 Naz! Divisions; Warsaw  Hit By Shells

12,000 Jap Planes Down Since P.H.   Yanks Now Control All Southern Saipan — Planes Active

NEW AMERICAN ATTACKS ON JAP HELD ISLANDS   Guam, Tinian and Rota Bombed. Americans Move Northward in At tack on Saifan

YANKS PUSH TO NORTH SAIPAN   Tokyo Hints Of Naval Attack On Guam, Tinian

AMERICANS INCH FORWARD ON SAIPAN ISLAND   japanese Report Task Force Attacks on Guam, Rota, Tinian

Wipe Out Jap Pocket on Sainan   U.S. Position fs Improved by Seizure Of Hill 500 after Series of Attacks

SAIPAN FIGHT SLOW, TOUGH   Crush Jap Resistance In South End; New Naval Attacks Hinted

Organized Jap Fight Over In South Saipan   Bearded Yanks Battle North Step By Step  In Marianas   RESISTANCE SEVERE   Jap Plane Down Every 2 Hours Since Pearl Harbor Attack

Yankee Troops Gain on Saipan   Crush Organized Jap Resistance on South Half of island

U.S. Warships Batter Isles In Marianas   Jap Holdouts on Saipan Tip Overwhelmed; Yap Hit by Air Bombs

Third Army Forces  New Saar Crossing   House-To-House Fighting In Sarreguemines. With Yanks Within Few Miles Of Battered Capital Of Saarbrucken.

Americans Beat Otf Nazi Thrust Near Saarlautern: Advance At Saarbrucken

Bombers and Big Guns Rip  Saarbrucken   Repulse Strong German Attacks; Seize 12 More Enemy Pillboxes

Fight in Sarreguemines After New River Crossing; No Confirmation of Report Armies Reach Seared Saarbrucken:

Force New Crossing   Nazi Stand:in Alsace  Weakens and Artillery Fire Rips Saarbrucken; Luftwaffe Strikes Hard

U.S. 3rd Army Troops Enter Saarguemines   Saarbrucken Is Hammered By American Field Guns; Nazi Attack North Of Saarlautern Repulsed; Northern Flank Is Quiet

Pation’s Men Beat Roainst Eieht Towns   Field Guns Ripping Capital City—-Other Units Smash Attack

Saarbrucken Is Target of 3rd Army Shelling   Tanks Beat Against Kight Saar Valley  Towns Smouldering From Bomb Attacks

AMERICANS ARE NEARING LIMITS OF SAARBRUCKEN   Saar River Is Crossed By U. S. Troops

Patton's Men Now Are Attacking 8 Nazi Steel Towns   In South, German Alsation Front Is Reported Cracking; A Lull in Nerth

Third Army Forces Drive Across Saar River in New Areas   (en. Patton’s Troops Attacking Eight Steel Towns in Reich; Report Saarbrucken Outskirts Entered

House-to-house Fighting Reported Taking Place in Eastern Part of City of Sarrezuemines.   SAARBRUCKEN ONLY COUPLE MILES OFF

PATTON'S ARMY IN BATTLE FOR SAREGUEMINES   Artillery Rips” Saarbrucken; Nazis Yield On Al satian Front

Germans Fight Losing Battle On West Fron’   New Crossings Of Saar, Hand-To-Hand Fight In Sarreguemines

8 Saar Steel Towns od Army Targets; --Blast-Saarbrueken   - Counter. Drive Nets. Dozen -More Siegfried  Line. Pillboxes; Last Nazi Alsatian Stand Cracks

FORMER RESIDENT BURNS 10 DEATE   Floyd E. Simpkins and Wife Killed While Sleeping When Trailer Catches On  Fire.

Raiders Rake’ Dutch Fields   German Radio Warnings Indicate New Rlawa

BRITISH PLANES QVER GERMANY, RADIO REPORTS   Nuernberg Or Munich Pos. sible Targets; French Rail Yards Hit

Fortresses and Liberators Attock Capital of . _ Bulgaria  g@hmamentnh Ahi 6 64Ulc El Re Pee   HOLLAND AIRPORTS ALSO ARE POUNDED   Thunderbolts Plunge Thru  the Flak Dotted : QLiae

‘Men, Men Everywhere!’  Rescuers Unearth 50 Bodies, Hunt More In Powhatan Mine

Rescue Crews F inally Reach Bodies of Entombed Miners   Find Penciled Note Which Reads Simply: ‘We Are Trusting in God’

FIND BODIES OF MINE VICTIMS   Lifeless Forms Of Many Covered By Falling Coal

Closing Out Campaign There Will Free Russians For East Prussia Drive   Fall Offensive Plans Shape Up   Germans Counter-Attack Vigorously In Attempt To Halt Seviets .

Red Spearheads In Riga Suburbs   Bloodiest Fighting of Baltic Campaign Seen

Fall of Riga Near, Says Red Paper   Russians Drive Into Sub urbs—Germans Resist  Desperately

SOVIETS ENTER RIGA’S SUBURBS, PRAVDA REPORT   Official Red Newspaper Says Latvian Capital About To Fall

Reds Breach Riga Defense Liberty Near   Capture of Latvian Capital Would End Raltic Resistance

RUSSIANS ENTER RIGA SUBURBS   Liberation of Capital Believed imminent

Liberation Of Capital Is Imminent   Russians Deploy For Final Assault On Latvian Bastion

Russians Enter Riga Suburbs   Liberation of Capital Near, Pravda Claims

SOVIET ARMY SLICES INTO RIGA SUBURBS   Moscow Predicts End of Baltic Campaign Soon, Though Germans Counter-Attack Fiercely.

Capture of Riga Near as Russ Mass for Assault  Nazis Suffer Bloody Losses in Defense OE Tatvian Capital

Still Plan to” Defeat Germany  This Year   Eisenhower Is Confident That Statement Good.

England Again Hit By German Pilotless Planes   British Authorities Admit Casualties — Resulted From Attack

PILOTLESS BOMBERS OVER BRIT. AGAIN   Attack Is On Smaller Scale Than Previous Night

Jarrett Pleads Guilty to First Degree Murder   Waives Preliminary Hear ing in Justice Court a! Fort Dodge

secret Pleads Guilty to First Degree Murder   Waives Preliminary Hear.  ing in Justice Court at Kart Dadooa

The MARCH. OF TIME  Prepared by the « Réitors of eekly Newsmagazin ine   RIGHTS OF STRIKERS

Nowadays Sailors Swap Tall Tales Of COMET Instead of Sharks  reo rponee «4 t8274D CNR REKCRPNANNEA TP VOTER ROOK 1         (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOK.)

‘Russians Capture ‘Lomza      Fifth Atmy Pushing For ward, Announce The} Are Meeting Increasec Resistance

WHITE RUSSIAN ARMY PROBES AT NAREW RIVER   Advances To Within 15 Miles Of Southern Border Of East  Prussia.

SOVIETS SEEK NAREW BEND BRIDGEHEAD   Russian Forces Sweep Fert. ress of Lomza; Advance Within 14 Miles of East Prussia   NEAR SLOVAK PATRIOTS

Jap Resistance on  Tinian Ends as Island Is Conquered   Victory Comes to American Forces Just Eight Days After First Assault Trooos Splashed Ashore

3 JAP ATTACKS ~ ARE TURNED BAGK   AMERICAN FIRE INFLICTS HEAVY CASUALTIES ON NIES IN NEW GUINEA.

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NIPPONESE FAIL IN AITAPE COUP   Pocketed Troops Thrown Back Again With Heavy Losses

Planes Rip Flying Bomb Fuel Dump:   Also Blast Gunners on Isluid Preventing - Use of St. Malo Harbor

NAMED EXALTED RULER OF THE ORDER OF ELKS   Dr. Robert S. Barrett Elected at 80th Annual Session Of the Lodge   IS A PHILANTHROPIST

Virginia Man Named Exalted Ruler Of Elks   Dr. Robert S. Barrett Is Head Of B.P.O.E.; Has Three - Point Program For Organization

YANKS BATTLE ON 100-MILE BORDER FRONT   Allies Demolish Robot Coast

Clandestine Radio Says Yanks Pierce Belgian And Luxembourg Lines

OPA LOSES 949 MEN IN. THREE MONTHS   Service Puts Severe Dent in Regional Personnel

Dragging of the Lake. Today Failed to Disclose Any _ Clue:         ‘Her ‘Grandson’ Is

Fear Wealthy Woman Has  Been Murdered   Last Seen in Hotel In Boonville;  Grandson Held

Navy Gets Set For New Blows   Admiral King May Take Personal Charge Of New Campaign On Japs.

Admiral King May Personally Direct New Phases of War Against Japan

New Blows Against Japs Are Indicated   MacArthur’s Planes Hit Oil Supply  In Longest Mass Raid in Pacific

Browns 000 200 000--2 Cards 000 000 001--1      Admiral King May Personally Lead Navy Against Japanese

New Navy Blow: Against Japan Said Planned   Jap Troops Near Important City; U.S. Air Raids

NAVY GETS SET FOR NEW BLOW   Admiral King May Take Personal Command In Pacific

FRISCO MEETING OF COMMANDER! IN DACIFIC ENDS   Adm. Ernest King Is Given Opportunity To Visit War Zones

INazi General Gamblin » With  Br ‘itish For ce   Sending Reinforcements Into German Bulge West OF Orne In Strangest Of Moves

ARMOR INTO TRAP   Reinforcement of Endandangered Germans Puz zle the Allies

German Gamble Puzzles Allies   Leaders Amazed as Nazis Pour More Troops into Pocket

Von Kluge Is Fighting Strangely   Is Sending In Reinforcements Though Doomed

Fighters Stab at Reichland   No Indication of Major Bombing; Bombers Grounded.

Fighters Attack Nazi Air Fleets   Planes Rake 50 Grounded Enemy Craft at Field in France; 15,000 Tons Explosives Dropped by Allies in Six-Day Offensive

Fighters Out Over Targets In Germany   Many Thrusts Under Way From Bases In Britain

Fighters Used To Rake Nazi Airfields   Allies Shift" Tacties After Long Pounding By Heavy Bombers ¢

Raiders ‘Jab Info German   Heavy Fighter Forces Launch Pre-invasion Attacks on Reich

Fighters Fan Over Reich, Berlin Says   Progress Traced By Broadcast Warnings from Nazi Stations

Big Fleets Of Fighters Blast Reich   Mustangs, Thunderbolts Take Over Acrial War Alter Week of Big Bomber Raids

Fighter Planes Strafe German:   Take Up Attack Where Bombers Leave Off

U.S. Fighters  Over Germany   Taking Over Pre-Invasion Offensive From Allied Heavy Bomber Fleets

‘Allied Fighter Fleets Swarm  Over Germany   Take Over Pre-Invasion Offensive From Heavy Bomber Fleets.

Raids Climax Violent Week Of Bombing   Strong Fighter Groups Fan Over Germany; Crippling Blows Dealt To Nazi Air Industry

Rip ‘Nazi Jases      Strorig Formations Carry Out Attacks Aaainst Airfields and Supgly Lines: °

American Craft Attacking Reich In Three Areas   Deadly Formations Operate From Britain Over West, North, Central Germany

HINT FIGHTERS TAKE OFFENSIVE FROM BOMBERS   Thunderbolts Attack Naz Airfield in France Friday

Allied Planes Attacking Europe Again  Fighters Take Over Offensive From Bia Bomber Fleets

Naval Guns and Planes Big Factors in Beachhead Battle, Says Analyst

AMIATIVE 18 NOw VUre Al Deachhead—— —By Elton C. Fay (  Allied Airmen Work On Nazi Supply Lines

Nazis Withdraw to Ridges QOuiside St. Lo   Suicide Squads  Remain fo   Engage Americans

Nazis Withdraw to Ridges Outside St. Lo  Suicide Squads Remain to  Pracnca Amaricon:

MAIL RATE RISE 10 BEGIN NOV. 1   Money Crder, Insurance and C.0.D. Fees Will Be Reduced at Same Time

MALL RATE. RISE 10 BERN: NOV: 1   Money Order, Insurance and €:0:D. Fees Will Be Reduced at Same Time:

Japs Facing New Blows   Rabaul and Kavieng To Be Wiped Out Next, Says Admiral

U.S. ADMIRAL TELLS JAPS RABAUL NEXT   But Fails to Say When and How Blov Will Fall

Thousands in Norway Dying Due to Nazis   CROWN PRINCE OLAV SAYS MANY TURNED OUT OF HOMES IN ZERO WEATHER

NATION'S HOLIDAY DEATHS REACH 230   ‘Includes 93 Traffic Fatali~ ties, 88 Drownings and 109 _ Deaths From Miscellaneous — Violent Causes

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL OVER 300   Traffic Fatalities Lead List: Total Is Stil) Below Average

“DEATH TOLL 2%   Far. _ Shect of Average Count _ tr Penostime; ‘Nears Last Year's :

STIMSON REIECTS VETS’ HOME STA   3,000 Soldiers Must Returr - to-Furiher Pacific Comhat Duty

U.S. Moves fc Dismiss Ward Injunction   Government Returns Property to Owners as Union Wins Election

WARD PLANT IS RETURNED TO COMPANY   Court Indicates injunction Case is Ended

AMERICAN LEAGUE   State Has $165,000,000 for Postwar Works, Says Warren

NEW INVASION OF LEYTE SURPRISES NIP STRATEGISTS   BOLD MOVE BY U. S. CUTS YAMASHITA’S DEFENSES IN HALF

25,000 ENEMY FACE DEATH IN PHILIPPINES   Aerial Forces Hit Iwo Jima; Strong Leyte Defense Line Severed

Blasting of Convoy Forges Ring of Death For 25,000 Jap Troops on West Leyte

‘Amphibious Force als. ‘Jap Convoy 0 Ormoc Harbor               Over 25,000 Nips Face ~ Destruction: as: Result; hinese: Win. Tusham:

Yank Landing Cuts Jap Line Near Ormoc   13-Ship Enemy Convoy Smashed in Surprise Move

Extinction Faced. By 25,000 Japs In Philippine:   U. S. Bombs Hit Iwo Jima; Nips Admit Quake Logs; See Ledo Route Cleared

25,000 Japs Face Disaster In Philippines   77th Division Lands On Ormoe With “Practically No Losses.’   HnESTRO Y CONVOY

DARING ACTION THROWS TRAP AROUND JAPS   More Than 25,000 Nin Soldiers - Face Destruction as Result of  More U.S, Landings   By ELDON OTTENHEIMER (Associated Press War Editor)

LARGE FORCE JAPS FACING DESTRUCTION PHILIPPINES AREA  U. S. AMPHIBIOUS FORCE BEAT ENEMY INTO I Rewan Gon

,Leyte Japs Now Caught sin 2 Traps   Bold Yank Landing Be. hind Foe At Ormoc Cuts  VYamachita  ine.

US Amphibious  Force Destroys Relief Convoy   Enemy Loses 62 Planes in Battle Above Ormoc Harbor; Yanks Lose Destroyer, Transport

PARADE TUESDAY TO FORMALLY OPEN 1944 EDITION LOCAL FAIR   EIGHTH ANNUAL EXHIBIT PROMISES BE ONE BEST IN HISTORY EVENT

PARADE TUESDAY T0 FORMALLY OPEN 1944: EDITION LOCAL FAIR  EIGHTH ANNUAL EXHIBIT   EIGHTH ANNUAL EXHIBIT PROMISES BE ONE BEST IN HISTORY EVENT

ALLIED COMMANDERS ADMIT GRAVITY: OF ALLIED SITUATION   Germans Hitting Allied “De_ fese Perimeter’” W'th Everything They Have.

Germans Claim to Have Captured Aprilia Railroad Center,   PRESIDENT WARNS  SITUATION TENSE   Allies Control Air and Sea in This Battle Area.

Rome Battle Is Mounting In Violence   Germans Are Hurling Consistent Blows Against Allies’ Defense Line

Conflicting Reports   ‘Congress Endorses Principle of World News Freedom

TO PROPOSE PLAN TOUNITED NATIONS   Expect FR Will Invite Them To Subscribe to News * Freedom Pian.

U. 5. WARSHIPS FIND PRIZES IN 5 ATLANTIC   Victims Heavily Laden With Rubber, Tin, Fats and Ores

NAVY INTERCEPTS THREE. VESSELS CARRYING MATERYALS FROM THE FAR, Bash JAP PORTS

NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNERS SUNK IN SO, ATLANTIC   Many Prisoners, Much Baled Rubber Taken Off Three Vessels

Suicide band still holds out  Retects surrender   Rejects surrender to F.F.L. in Paris

Ultimatum — Issued By — Gen. Hodges   COMES AFTER AACHEN IS COMPLETELY ENCIRCLED BY YANK BARRIER OF STEEL

UltimatumSent Nazi Garrison In Doomed City   First Army Threatens Annihilation To First Big German City Surrounded

Hodges Troops Cut Off Escape Of 1,500 Nazis   Yanks Threaten Merciless Hail Of Shells) Bombs

Doom of City Is Sealed   Big German City Is Encircled By American Troops

Germans To Number Of 1,500 Are  Cut Off From All Hope Of Other  Aid; Artillery Fire May Be  oosed By Yankees   ESCAPE CORRIDOR IS [ CLOSED BY AMERICANS

Yankee Commander Says He'll Annihilate Nazis Within Town if Thev Choose To Ficht

SURRENDER 0 DIE CHOICE 10 NAZI GARRISON   ‘Doomed Germans Encircled    by Slowly Closing Ring of Steel.

Seal Steei Barrier Around Aachen Area Today   ADVANCE STAGED IN DRIZZLING RAIN   hlame Throwers, Machine Guns And Grenades Are Used

Attacks by Nazis Are Beaten Off   First German City to Come Within Grip of American  Forces

HODGE’S MEN  SEIZE HEIGHTS NORTH OF CITY      Canadians Land in Holland: SHEAF Reveals Allies Have Taken 600, 000 Prisoners in’ ‘ ’ France Since D.Dav :

In Netherlands, Canadians Gain 2 Miles From Schelde Beachhead; Patton Clings To Fort Driant

City’s East Suburb Falls; Yanks Swarm In For Final Assault   Hodges Warns Enemy Full Power OF Air, Land Forces to Be Turned Against Fortress Within 24 Hours

Mt. Vesuvius Becomes Active   Lava Wipes Out 100 Feet of Scenic Railway on Mountain

SENATE PASSES NEW TAX BILL   Measure Denounced by F. R. as “Unrealistic”

Compromise On Tax Bill Is Predicted   Passed by Senate Measure Heads For Conference

HOUSE SET 10 REJECT SENATE TAX MEASURE   Compromise Bill Will Be Worked Out In Conference

NEW TAX BILL HEADED TODAY FOR CONFERENCE   Passed Senate Late Yesterday “Unrealistic” ‘Says ‘President

IM4 TAX BILL PASSED . BY SENATE   Provides Less Than Quarter of New Taxes Asked

Aerial Pounding Is an Invasion Says Gen. Arnold   Not a Prelude, He Points Out

SAYS INVASION IS NOW UNDER WAY   Aerial Pounding Invasion in Deadliest Sense, Says General 

CALLS AIR ATTACKS INVASION OF EUROPE   General H. H. Arnold Says More Than 20,000 Enemy Planes Have Been Destroyed,

Arnold Claims - Aerial Assault Is An Invasior   Cites Large Numbers Of Men Used In Sky  Missions

FIND THOUSANDS RECISTER TWICE   Largest Duplications Found in Cuyahoga County

Steel Girds For Battle Over Wages   Companies To Charge A General Attack On Pay Policies

Term Churchill Talk a Summons   Expect Radio Speech To Call For Final ik ffort for Vietory

Churchill's Broadcast Is Expected to Prepare Allies For Sacrifices

Churchill Talk To Steel Allies For Sacrifices   Sunday Night Broadcast Is ected Fo Emphasize Collapse Of Nazi Plans

CHURCHILL TO ADDRESS U.S, BRITIAN SUN,   Expected To Tell Of Victory Aims Against Nazis

Churchill On  Air Tomorrow  Expect Prime Ministes To Steel Allies

CHURCHILL ON RADIO SUNDAY   Prime Minister Expected To Bolster Allies For Invasion Sacrifices

To Inspire Victory Effort _   Churchill’s: Speech Sunday Expected to Steel Nations for Invasion Sacrifices

CHURCHILL'S SPEECH TO PREPARE ALLIES   nnn  May Steel US-Britain fo Coming Sacrifices

World Awaits Churchill On War Matters   Speculation On Sundav’s Speech

‘Churchill to Keynote Invasion in Speech to England, America   climax nears. To Take Advantage

QWAIT TALK BY CHURCHIL   Expected To Gird Allies For Sacrifices In Invasion

Churchill Speech Tomorrow Expected To Steel Public for Invasion Losses

SURVEY MADE OF WEATHER      @ UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO . HAMPER VOTING EN ANY SECTION OF NATION

THREE TOWNS SWEPT UP ON AACHEN FRONT   NAZIS FLOOD RIVER, LAST BARRIER TO COLOGNE

Ninth Army Draws Up On North Bank   Other Units Slowly Slogging Ahead Under Increased Pressure From German Forces

Americans Sweep Through Burned German Villages  RESISTANCE OF NAZIS MC MOUNTING  Steel Net : of of First Army Tightened Around Duren

Ninth Army Reaches Riv er Along 20-Mile —First Tightens. Around Duren, _       Patton’s Forces Gain:] to Two Miles Desy Counter -Attacks-—§ my Shells Strasbo

NAVY IDENTIFIES LOST DESTROYER   2,100-Ton Brownsen Sunk Ai Cape Gloucester On December 27; Gunboat Also Sunk

2100-Ton Brownson Sunk December 27   Navy In Its Report Today Named Ship Sunk at Cape Gloucester.

Advance 200 Yds.; British Capture Old Stronghold   Civilian Occupants Of Sturdy Monastery Warned Of Arrival Of Time To Blast Out Germans ; Ten-Day Losses On Beachhead Are Recovered.

HERBERT HOOVER'S WIFE DIES AT 68   END COMES SUDDENLY IN NEW YORK AFTER ACUTE’ HEART ATTACK,

Wife Of Former President Dies   Heart Attack Fatal For Mre Woanvoer

Mrs. Herbert  Hoover Dies   Death Comes Suddenly From Heart Attack In New York Home

Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Wife Of 31st President, Dies Suddenly In New York ©

DEATH COMES SUDDENLY FOR MRS. HOOVER   Former First Lady and ’ Long-Time Leader of Gil Seouts -

MRS: HOOVER DIES SUDDENLY   Heart Attack Is Fatal To America’s ‘First Lady’ From 1929 to 1933

Mrs. Hoover Dies in N.Y.   Nation’s ’First Lady’ In 1929-33 Victim OF Heart Attack

MRS. HOOVER DIES OF HEART ATTACK   Wife of Former President _ Dies Suddenly in Avertment

MRS. HERBERT HOOVER DEAD IN NEW YORK OF HEART ATTACK   Was Nation’s “First Lady" From 1929 to 1933; Was 68 Years Old   DEATH WAS UNEXPECTED

MRS. H. HOOVER DIES SUDDENLY IN NEW YORK   Wife of Former President Stricken With Acute Heart Attack

Wife of Former Chief Executive Dies Suddenly   Mrs. Herbert Hoover Suffers Heart Attack In New York Anartmen

Hoover's Wife Dies   Acute Heart Attack Causes Death With out Warnirig

MRS, HERBERT HOOVER DIES UNEXPECTEDLY   Sudden Heart Attack Claims Former First Lady

MRS. HOOVER DIES SUDDENLY IN NEW YORK   Wife of Former President Suffered Hear! Aitack in New York Hom: Following Concer!

Mrs. Hoover Is Dead   Wife of Former President Dies of Sudden ) Heart Attack in N. y!

Herbert Hoovers Wite Dies   «.Meart Attack Is Fatal To Former First Lady

MRS. HOOVER PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT   F ormer First Lady Stricken By Heart Attack

Mrs. Hoover - Dies Friday, Heart Attack   Former First Lady of Nation Passes Away Unexpectedly

x = F&= & Ff Wife of Ex-President Succumbs Following Heart Attack

MAS. H. HOOVER'S DEATH UWEXPECTEL   Dies Suddenly After She Was Stricken With Acute Heart Attack.

WIFE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DIES   MRS. HOOVER WAS STRICKEN WITH AN ACUTE HEART ATTACK

Heart Attack Proves Fatal To Mrs. Hoover   Wife of Ex-President Had Been Residing in New York Apartment

HEART ATTACK ENDS LIFE OF MRS. HOOVER   Died Suddenly in Her Apartment in Washington Late Friday.

‘Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Once  Americe s First Lady”, A Tvpical American Woman

“Agreement Is Sought On Custody of Child Of Barbara Hutton Grant

NAZIS IN BUDAPEST   Admiral Horthy Said to Be Beleaguered in Castle

Germans Control Budapest   istice Move Brings ick Seizure of All ‘Official Buildings; Opposition Forming

Frerich Troops In Italy Make Substantial Gain: In Bastille Day Thrust:

French Take Outpost of Gothic Line   Poggibonsi, 21 Miles. From Florence, Opens Woy for New Drive

NEARING FLORENCE    French Troops . Capture  Poggibonsi After Hard Fight

VISE CLOSES TIGHTER ON LEYTE JAPS   Yanks Are 10 Miles From Ormoc on South, 14 on the East and About the  ' Same Distance on the   Narth.

American Troops Press To Within 10 Miles Of Last Japanese Base On Island Of Leyte

AMERICANS ON LEYTE CLOSING RING ON JAPS   ‘One U. S. Division Now  10 Miles From Ormoc On South Side

Yanks Push Japs On Leyte into Smaller Pocket   Continued Pressure Is Exerted by U.S. Troops Moving Closer To Port of Ormoe

YANKS 10 MILES FROM LAST JAP BASE AT ORMOC   Yamashita Line Constricted By U. S. Gains On All Sides

AMERICANS ARE ONLY 10 MILES FROM ORMOC   Press..Closer. To ‘Last Jap Base.On Leyte  E Taland .   PUT ON PRESSURE   Advances... By. Fow Yank Divisions Are . Gana]:

Closing Vise on Japs on Leyte   10 Miles from Ormoc On South, 14 Miles On Other Sides

Push Enemy Back Upon Ormoc Base   Americans Closing Trap on  Leyte Against Stiff  Resistance   THRU TOUGH TERRAIN   First Cavalry Division Takes _ Peak and Hilltops in  Advance

Tighten Vise on Orrnoc   Yank F orces Press in Steadily from North, East, South Against  Fierce Jap Resistance

MacArthur Closing Vise on Japanese Trapped on Leyte   Yankees Invade Mapias to Safeguard Installations Elsewhere

Yanks Closing Vise on Trapped Japs   Small Advances Made By Four Divisions In Leyte Campaign

Draw. Pincers On Leyte Nip Ever Tighter   Enemy Refuses To Retreat As Battle Rages

ARC CLOSING AROUND JAPS NEAR ORMOC   Gains By Four American Divisions Small, But They Threaten Perimeter On Island Base   2.000 NIPS ISOLATED

Yank Pincers Close Tighter On Levte Japs   Invade Mapia to Knock out Enemy Coast Watcehrs

Japs Encircled On Leyte Island   Pressure Applied by Americans On Enemy Trapped in Philippines

AMERICAN VISE CLOSING IN ON JAPANESE ARMY  2,060 Japs Cvt  ~ sg - Sector  rr mr

SMALL ADVANCES ~INSTIFF BATTLE   Americans Score Against ‘AL! Around Enemy Perimeter   MAPIA: INVADED   U..S.. Forces “Take Over Dutch-Owied Island In South Pacifie

AMERICAN VISE THREATENS FOE ON LEYTE ISLE   Yanks Press To Within 1( Miles of Ormoc Against Stiff Resistance

Yanks Tighten Encirclement Of Jap Force   4 U. S. Divisions In Slight Gains; Press  On To Within A Few Miles Of Ormoc

Yanks Tighten Vise on € fvled Japs on Leyte   Small Gains Scored on Entire Perimeter  Near Ormoc

Americans Drawing Steel Ring Tighter Around Jap Forces In Ormoc Pocket

Gains Made By Four US Divisions   /Japs Putting Up A Bitter Fiaht

Ll ! ENGIRGLED FOE   MacArthur’s Men Press Within 10 Miles of Ormoc on Leyte Island.   iPRESSURE IS APPLIED

PRESS WITHIN 10 MILES OF ORMOC FROM THE SOUTH   OTHER U. S. UNITS 14 MILES OF PORT ON EAST AND NORTH

American Vise Slowly Closes On Leyte Foe:   Doughboys Press to Within Ten Miles of Ormoe On South of Yamashita’s Encireled Jans

U.S. Forces Push Slowly Across Leyte   Advancing From Four Directions, Lines Tightened

YANKS CLOSE IN ON ENEMY INPHILIPPINES   American Divisions Inch Forward On Leyte From Four Directions

British Outlaw: Wildeat Strikes   Only Walkouts Sponsored Ry Unions Permitted

Allied Balkan Raids Point To Russ Drive   Extent of Damage Hints Red Push Through Galati Gap

Germany Boasting  Superior Defenses  Nazis Are Jittery, Just The Same   Russian Drive May ~ Lead The Invasior

 Three-Fourths Of Ploesti O)1 Destroved     fe A ESSE Al a CSUPOYCU-— —By Elton C. Fay (1)  Allied Raids Open Way For Reds In Romania

ae Seti en te BO gag taspengnilttt! A  Marriage, Divorce ‘Laws Revised by Council in Russia

SWEDES ARREST THREE WORKERS ON SPY CHARGE   SKF Ballbearing Employes Said Giving Information To  Other Powers

ARREST THREE IN SWEDE PLANT   Held for Giving Information to Foreign Power

Three SKF Employes  Charged With  Giving Out Reports Details on Orders  Said Given To Foreign Powers

SKF Employees Held.As Spies   Swedes#Accused of Giving Military Orders Of Supplies To Enemy.

Inductions Pushed In South Amid ‘Over 26° Confusion   Estimates On Number Who Will Obtain Deferments Not Available: Men Both Over And Below 26 Sent Into Armed Services

MANY DRAFTED TODAY DESPITE 96 YEAR RULE   Reports from Over State Indicate Great Number Being Placed by Draft Boards

Clocks May Be Set Back Hour   Cannon Introduces Measure to Restore Standard Time

ASKS. CONGRESS SET TIME BACK   Rep. Cannon Introduces Bil to Return Nation to Stand ard Time

Nazis Face Worse  Days---Churchill  Find More Terrible   End More Terrible Longer They Resist

Rocket Eyewitness: James M. Long Sees Comet Bombs As No More Powerful Than Others

CONGRESS NEAR RECESS STAGE   Calendars Virtually Clear Of Must Legislation Before Conventions

CONGRESS Ne RECESS RUSH   LEADERS SAY ALL “MUST” LE. GISLATION WILL BE PUSBED  THROUGH: BY NIGHTFALL

LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENTS - NOTEBOOK No. 1 13 jinx Didn’ t ‘Hold  aAaraisrane

J, $, URGED TC BOMB HIROHITO   Sparing Of Palace Flayec By Chinese Newspaper

Rebel Chiefs Ask Franco to Resign   Fresh Troops Sent Into Border Clash

RESIGNATION OF FRANCO ASKED   Exited Leaders Demand Move To Avert Civil War

PLAN 10 SEIZE WARD’S HINTED   Monday Deadline Is Set B WLB For Compliance

VESPERS TOMORROW.   Music and Tableaux Will Begin At 4 P. M. in Hoch Anditorium

‘Troops Fail to Find 18-Foot Thick Line Myth of Atlantic Wall Fades Before Infantry

NO SIGNS OF HITLER'S WALL 5 MI. INLAND   Thickest Barrier Seen By Scribe Is Crumbling Brick Wall

Half of Crimea Retaken   Soviet Armored Columns Racing Through Germans

May Engulf Big Port in Two Days   U. S. ASSAULT FORCKS ARE NOW CLOSING IN FOR ENEMY “KILL.” ae

BROWNELL CHARGES F. R. WITH MISUSE OF WARTIME POWERS FOR POLITICS

F.D.R. Accused Of Misusing Wartime Secrecy  G. O. P. Chairman Brownell Hurls  Pianwaa at President

BROWNELL, JR. LASHES FDR   President Accused Of Misusing Wartime Censorship To Confer With Party  Leaders

FDR'S SECRET VISIT SCORED   Brownell Charges Misuse Of Wartime Rule For New Deal Purposes

FDR Accused of Misuse of Power *   Brownell Tells Of Political Parley Held By FDR On Trip

ROOSEVELT CHARGED IN ‘SECRET MEETING’   Brownell Claims President Misused Wartime Power

Brownell charges Roosevelt misused censorship tn interest of politics

Censorship Rule Reported Broken By Roosevelt  Brownell Refers   Brownell Refers To Chicago Trip

Invasion of Isle Looming   Converging Forces Hit Outlying Islands as Tokyo Warns of Strike

JAPS LOSE 200 PLANES (IN PHILIPPINE BATTLE; (WAR GAINING IN FURY

— aa a bt i ia ie ad a 8 eg  GOVERNOR BALANCE TURNS DEMOCRATIC   Republicans Take Over Two New States, However

Demos Unseat 5  G.0.P. Governors   Soldier Vote Will Have To Decide Neck-AndNeck Race In Utah. +

DEMOCRATS UNSEAT  FIVE REPUBLICAN  GOVERNORS TUESDAY GOP LEADERS, HOWEVER,  ALSO HAD SOMETHING TO CURER AROTIT

DEMOCRATS ADD 3 GOVERNORS   GOP Executives Named In Six  States Favoring Roosevelt 

Parties Split On Governors   Democrats Hold Two Marain In Nation

~ IN NEEDED PAPER   It’s Vitally. Needed: To Get War Over. With And Clinch Victory:

LABOR MEET FIGHTS LOOM   War Antagonisms Expected To Crop Out at 26th ILO Convention

HOTEL FIRE TAKES NUMBER OF LIVES   23 Known Dead, at Least 22 More Persons Injured.

A FOUR-ALARM "FIRE IN FRISCO   At Least 23 Are Dead, 22 Injured in Blaze in New Amsterdam.

Be Under Siege ’By Week-End   ' Russians Proclaim ' Central Nazi Armies Virtually Destroyed

Whirlwind Advance Expected To Bring Polish Capital Under Siege Within One Week

RED FORCES MOVING IN ON WARSAW   Report German Armies On Central Front Destroyed

Assert German Units On Central Front Destroyed   Armored Columns Race Westward Less Than — 50 Miles From Warsaw

Nazi Armies on Russian Front Are Destroyed   Reds Racing On, Less Than 50 Miles From Warsaw

Nazi Defense Shattered By Red Assault   Soviets Strike Within Sight Of  Wicsla River

News Day And Night   Soviets Say Nazi Forces Along Central Front Virtually Destroyed   Troops May Storm Warsaw This Week   Germans Show Increasing Inability To Slow Down Russians

REDS ONLY 50 MILES FROM WARSAW   Within Sight of Wisla River Farther South

RUSSIANS SLASH NEARLY 60 MILES THRU ENEMY LINES   Cross Polish Plains; Now Within Sight Of Wisla River   FINAL BARRIER BEFORE GERMANY   Cossack Cavalry May Reach Warsaw This Week

Strong Soviet Forces ByPass Siedlce. No LetUp In Russian Speed Over Polish Plains. ~

German Power _ Tottering   Central Group  Of German Armies ‘Almost Destroyed “As Reds Race On

RUSSIANS SAY NAZI CENTRAL FRONT BROKE   Hope to Lay Seige to Warsaw By End Of Week

Army Is Beaten To Pulp   Warsaw, Krakaw May Be Evacuated By Nazis Soon

Reds Within Fifty Miles Of Warsaw   laim German Armies on Central Front Virtually Destroyed

MARY. RYAN  —[S- BRIDE OF MAYNARD MAN      Daughter of Concord Police Chief Weds Cadet James Tobin. USAAF

(8. BRIDE OF MAYNARD MAR   Daughter of Concord Police Chief Weds Cadet James Tobin, USAAF 

YANK BOMBERS SMASH AT TWO BALKAN CITIES   ‘Strong Force’ of Fortresses And Liberators Pound Sofia, Belgrade

Italian Bases Used By Bombers   ALLIED AIRMEN RAID RAIL CENTERS IN BALKANS

Balkan Rail Yards, Vital \Plants Hit   Raids, First of War on Belgrade, Fellew RAF Blew on Budapest Danubian ‘lren Gate’

Allied Airmen Blast Targets In Balkans   Designed To Block Supplies To Germans Facing Red Advance.

Railway Yards And Aircraft ‘(Plants Targets   Attack On Yugoslav Metro. polis First of War By Allied Bombers; Nearby Airdromes Hit   Several German   Planes Shot Down   Third Balkan Capital, Budapest In Hungary, Hammered Last Night: Ro manian Areage Pit —

Capitals of Three Balkan States Are Bombed by Yankees   Sofia, Belgrade, Budapest Targets of U. S. Heavy Attacks

BELGRADE IN YUGOSLAVIA RAIDED FIRST   Yankee Flyers From Italy  Followed by RAF Wel. lingtons Deliver Severe Blows in Balkans.

RAF Blasts Rail Center At Budapest   Hungarian Capital , Hit in Wake of U.S. Assault on Belorade

Sofia, Belgrade Given Blasting ~ By US. Bombers   Report Railroad Yards In Both Balkan Capitals  “Sergets Of Big Attacks

Balkan Capitals Hit by Bombers   Heavy U.S. Planes Attack Sofia anc Belgrade Today, Pounding Rail.  road Centers and Aircraft Factorie: in Turn Citiac   OTHER BASES ATTACKED

BELGRADE AND SOFIA TARGETS OF AIR RAIDERS   ltaly-Based Bombers Hit Budapest in Night Attack

BELGRADE, SOFIA TARGETS OF U.S. AIRCRAFT TODAY   Railroad Yards and Plane Plant At ‘the Balkan Cities Pounded By American “Heavies” —- Pas-De-Calis Area Also Hit

2 Capitals  In Balkans  Are Raided During Day   Railroad Yards Are Targets Of Yankees

SOFIA AND BELGRADE  HIT BY U. $. HEAVY  BOMBERS ON MONDAY ALLIED AIR POWER BASED  IN ITALY ACTIVE IN RALKINS SECTOR

Belgrade Is Hit By U. S.  Formations   First Attack on Yugoslav Capital By American or Allied Bombers

SOFIA TARGETS OF U. §. RAIDS  BELGRADE AND   Railroad Yards in Balkan Capitals Hit by "Strong Forces of Fortresses And Liberators   BUDAPEST ALSO VISITED

TALIAN-GASED PLANED HIT IN  STRONG FORGE   Capitals Targets for Direct Attacks After Plane Plants Biasted.

U. S. Bombers Hit Balkan Capitals   Sofia and Belgrade Are Targets of “Strong Forces”’

Bomb Sofia And Belgrade   Big U.S. Bombers Smash At Rail Yards, Aircraft Factories, to Aid Reds

BELGRADE HI FIRST TIME BY UU. $. BOMBERS   Sofia and Romanian Rail Cen: ters ‘Also Bombed . To “Check Nazi Supplies.

Rail Yards Hit" By Strone Forces   Heavy: Damage > Reported  -- On ‘Supply: Rails of Bal. kan. Front; -° Budapest Raided Last Night.

BUDAPEST HIT ALSO AS RAIDS AID RED DRIVE   Balkan Capitals’ Rail Yards Made Targets Of Heavy American Forces

ELGAADE AND SOFIA TARGETS   ‘Strong Forces’ Center Attacks on Railroad Yards In Both Cities.   IFACTORY NEAR CITY HIT.

RAIL CENTERS ARE BLASTED DURING RAIDS   Belgrade ‘Attack Is First of War: Budapest Bombed Yesterday

Planes Based In Italy Continue’ Attacks On Railroad Centers And Other Targets

Railway Targets In Belgrade, Sofia Hit By Heavy Bombers   Italian-Based Planes Rip Rumanian Rails Only 100 Miles From Red Army Front

RAIL YARDS IN BALKAN CITIES DEALT BLOWS   Attacks Also Made In Romania 100 Miles From Red Front

Big Forces Of Planes in Attack   Belgrade Raid First Assault Of War by Allied Planes

Americans Launch First Assault Of War On Yugoslav Government Seat

BALKAN CITIES BOMBARDED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   STRIKE FIRST AIR BLOW AT BELGRADE; BRASOV YARDS HIT

U.S. Bombers Attack Sofia And Belerade   Today’s Raid First Or Yugoslavian Capita After Sunday Blo v At Airnorts«

Belgrade and Sofia Bombed   U. S. Heavy Ships Blast Railroad Yards Of Balkan Capitals

BELGRADE AND SOFIA AGAIN UNDER ATTACK   Strorg Forces. of American Heavy Bombers Work on Balkan Capitals Today

Allies Bomb Belerade, Budapest And Hit Brasov   Turnu-Severin Rail Center Also Is Target Only 100 Miles From  SPireectuse VW Bee acy

Allied Planes Hit Belgrade, Budapest And Other Balkan Points In Support Of Reds   Widespread Bombardment Designed To Block Suppfies To Nazi Front

Sofia, Belgrade Feel Fury Of Heavy Bombers   Railroad Yards Are Targets In Raids On Two Balkan Capitals

BATTER ENEMY CENTERS FROM BASES IN ITALY   Capitals of Yugoslavia And Hungary, Other Axis Cities Attacked; Little Opposition Met In The Aijr.

BELGRADE HIT SUNDAY: RAIL LINES BOMBED   Enemy Planes Fail To Fight; Nazis Admit Damage

‘Allies Raid Slav Capital For First Time   Airdromes, and Plane Factories Hit; Budapest Bombed In Night Assault

NLRB Proposes fo Allow Employers [0 Question Union's Majority Status

Babson Believes Pensions Coming   NOTED WRITER EXPLAINS WHO WILL CONTROL NATION

Will Rogers’ Widow Dies Death Occurs in  California After IIInece af Manthe

EXPECT TAF TO HEAD GROUP   Senator Probable Leader ot Ohio Delegation at G.0.P. Convention.

Tokyo Reports More Raids on Jap Homeland   Superfort Raids On Shikoku and Honsu Reported

TEXAN COMMANDED BEACHHEAD TROOPS   Truscott in Charge From Mid-February Until Clark Arrived.

Texan Stopped Nazis at Beachhead Truscott Leader in “Trying Period

Anzio Hero Native Texan   Gen. Lucian Truscott Turned Tide for Yanks Of Italian Beachhead

Legal Fight Is Started By Company Against Injunction Obtained By Government

Ward Stockholders Support Avery   Judge to Rule on Injunction Tuesday

SEIZURE ASKED   Resolution Pushed Through House Committee; Up For Consideration.   GOP, DEMG SUPPORT !T

RENAME Gultt Aa DIREGTOR (OF GOMPAN   Avery, Ryan Barred Fron Ward Offices by Order of Federal Court.

SOVIET TROOPS ENTER SUBURBS OF SEVASTOPOL   40,000 Prisoners Taken In Eight Day Assault

Soviets Bathe Survivors With Steel, Flam ne   Nazis And Romanians In Frantic Effort To Escape From Burning Crimean Port

Soviet Artillery Warships And:  Planes Batter Burning Seaport As Navi Army Tries To Fscanea

BURNING CITY TO FALL SOON, RUSSIANS SAY   Troops Converging on Port From Every Side, Is Claim

RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE GRINDING LAST AXIS SURVIVORS TO BITS IN-FINAL GREAT STRUGGLE   Red Siege Guns, Bombers and Patrol Bombs Crush All Resistance While Behind the Axis Lines in Balkans Allied Planes Rake Satellites

SEVASTOPOL IN FLAMING CHAOS   Fail of City Seems Imminent Today As Reds Rush . Through Suburbs   IS LAST MAJOR BASTIAN

Soviet Guns Pound Away At Sevastopol   Fall of Great Base Imminent; Germans Suffer Heavy Losses

Siege Guns Pound Port   Planes Bomb Escape Ships; Germans Reported Moving Troops From West to East

YALTA TAKEN BY REDS IN DRIVE TO CLEAR CRIMEA   Lwow Further Threatened Following Fall Of Tarnopol

FALL OF BURNING SEVASTOPOL IS NOW IMMINENT   Russian Troops Are Reported Smashing Through Suburbs of the City.   3000 PRISONERS TAKEN   ‘Brings Total Captured in the Eight-Day Conquest to 40,000.

Chaos Prevails in      Fall Believed Imminent As Russians Press Attack; Blast Axis Soldiers Seeking to Flee Crimean Port.

Fall of Big Port Seems Imminent   Bombers and Ships Pound Foe Seeking to Leave by Sea

Reis Battling Within City As  Germans Flee   Nazis, Romanians Are Evacuating But Red Navy Cutting Off Escape

Slugging Soviet Troops Near Crimean Bastion   Flaming Chaos Reigns at Black Sea Port as Besieged Axis Troops Attempt to Flee ‘Dunkerque’ Style

Sevastopol Afire As Reds Press On   Last Major German Stronghold In Southern Russia About to Falf

GREAT PORT IS SCENE OF FIERY CHAOS   With Ground Forces Two Miles From Heart of City, Soviet Bombers and Warships Lash Nazis Seekine Escape.

Russians Cut Into Suburbs: . 2 Miles Awa              Yalta, Former Summe Home of Czars. Captured in Swift Drive 

Sevastopol Tottering: Fall Is Near   Soviets Reported Smashing Through Suburbs; a Scene Of Flaming Chaos

Soviets Lash Axis Troops in Sea Fhignt  Dispatches Paint Scene of Flaming Chaos in  Black Sea Port  YALTA IS CAPTURED  Harbor of Sevastopol Re ported Strewn With Wreckage. Bodies   VALTA IS CAPTURED

lack Sea Port Is ainted As Scene f Flaming Chaos   iet Bombers and Warships Lash at Thousands of Germans and Romanians Trying to Escape Tightening Pincers   RBOR IS STREWN WITH WRECKAGE AND BODIES

Reds Smash Ever Closer to Sevastopol   Troops Reported Two Miles From Heart of Great Naval Port

—RUSSIA—  FALL OF BLK CEA DART NEAR   Soviet Bombers And War. ships Lash Harbor Es. cape Route   CASUALTIES HIGH   Y alta, Once Summer Résidence Of Czars, Captured By Reds

ViolentFight Rages Inside Smoky City   Bodies, Wreckage Glut Harbor Area; Port Fall Imniinent

DOCKS STREW WITH BODIES, WRECKAGE   Bombers, Warships Pound Escaping Axis Units   Taken In Last Eight Days; Drive Around Tiraspol Kills 1,000 Germans

Red Troops Hit Suburbs As Germans Seek Escape   Generals Reported To Have Fled Area

SEA PORT CITY IS BURNING AS REDS DRIVE ON   Warships Also Help in Mighty Effort to Block Nazi Escape Path

tAPEGT FALL OF BURNING BLACK SEAPORT SOON   Soviets Kill or Capture 450,000 Axis Troops Between March 6, April 15

Red Planes Blast Nazi “Dunkerque”   Russian Troops Driving Toward Heart of City

IS IMMINENT, REPORTS SAY   Soviets Only ‘Two Miles From Heart of Southern Russian Metropolis

FALL OF BURNING  CRIMEAN SEAPORT  DUE ANY HOUR NOW RUSSIAN TROOPS LESS  THAN TWO MILES FROM HEART OF CITY

SOVIET BOMBERS WARSHIPS LASH FLEEING TROOPS  BLACK SEA PORT SCENE OF CHAOS;

TEMPERATURES:   Soviet Bombers, Warships Blast Beaten Enemy   Black Sea Port Turned Into Flaming Chaos; Fall Imminent

Russian Troops Two Miles From Heart of Great Port’   Red Bombers, Warships Lash at Thousands Of Germans, Romanians Trying to Escape.”

Russians Cut Into Suburbs 2 Miles Away   Yalta, Former Summer Home of Czars Captured in Swift Drive

PORT oT RE WK WITH BODIES AND WRECK   Russian Columns Converge on Town and Blast at Fleeing Nazis.

MORE BRAZILIAN TROOPS IN ITALY   First Airmen From Brazil! Land Overseas

Unconfirmed Report Says Hitler Is Seeking Sub-Rosa Peace With Russia

2800 Tons Are Showered Of Deadened City   Reawakened German Air  Force Fights All the.  Way From Coast

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN SKY DURING ATTACK   British Force of Thousand Bombers Made Drive To Obliterate Nazi Capital

Reavy and Leng Conii uing Air Battles Accomrany Aitacks, 73 British Bombers Downed             2.800 TONS BOMBS         British Say K  ! Germans Report Leiozig. Weimar Also Eombed

RAF Dumps More Bombs Into Berlin   73 Bombers ‘Lost’ In Bitterest Sky Battles of War

73 SHOT DOWN IN BITTEREST NGHT BATTLE   ‘ana Send Up Large, Force @! Fighters To Meet Armada.

Berlin, London Heavily Bombed Friday Night   1,000 Planes Attack German Capital; 73 Are Shot Down

British Air ‘Fury Rains On Berlin   Bomb Load of 2800 Tons Dropped On Reich Capital; Lose 73 Bombers

2800 TONS OF BOMBS BLAST CITY   Yanks Lose 8 Planes In Daylight Raids  Against Germany

British Lose 73 Craft   Mighty RAF Armada Battled From North Sea To Capital

F Loses 73 Planes In Nicht Battle   Thousand British Raiders Fight Through Fierce  German Defence.

Seventy Three Bombers Lost in Gigantic R. A. F. Raid on Berlin   Record Bomb Load Dumped on Nazi Capital; Kiel Also Attacked; Great Night Air Battle Marks Trip

BERL CRIPPLED BY RAF BOMBERS  t WNIisaoh+t   Bitterest Night Sky Battle Of War Fought

RAF in Bitter Fight During Berlin Attack   73 Bombers Lost in Heavy Raid On German Capital and Other Targets; Blasts Follow Daylight Blows by U. S.

73 Bombers Are Lost By British   __ Bitter Vight Battles Fought In Skies

RAF Loses 73 Bomber. In Great Night Battle Over Berlin   About 1,000 Big Warplanes Dump 2,800 Tons Of Bombs in Final Drive to Wipe Out Remainina Strateaic Taraets in Capital

73 BRITISH PLANES LOST LAST NIGHT AS NEW ASSAULTS MADE ONBERLIN AND OTHER TARGETS   2,800 Tons of Explosives Dropped by RAF on Berlin, Leipzig, Weimar and Other Important German Industrial and Military Centers

Bitter Night Battle Fought in Air Over Capital of Germany   Nazi Incendiary Bombs Cause Heavy Damage in London Area

73 British Bombers Shot Down   Kiel And Other Reich Objectives Are Plastered.

73 Planes Shot Down in Attack   Bitter Battle Fought With German Fighter Planes

British Lose (3 Bombers In One Raid  OnGermany   Berlin Is Bombed With 2,800 Tons During Night

Merrill’s Yanks Threaten Vital Japanese Rail Center   12 800 Tons Of RAF Bombs Batter Berlin

73 RAF PLANES LOST IN GREAT RAID ON BERLIN   DUMP 2,800 TONS ON NAZI CAPITAL; LONDON HARD HIT

73 RAF Craft Shot Down in Sky Battle   Night Raid on Berlin Briags One of Hardest Conflicts of the War.

Tumble 2800 Tons of Bombs On City After Bitter Battle   Sky Fight Raged from Helgoland to Berlin, Nazis Say

Revived Nazi Air Force Resists Fiercely; London Bombed in Retaliation

2,000 Tons Unloaded On Nazi Capital   RAF Loses 73 Bombers In Huge Attack Opposed by Swarms of Fighters

RAF Loses 73 Bombers In Attack On Berlin   Nazis Strike London, Burning Churches, Homes And Business Properties

Nazi Fighters Down 73 English Planes; Fliers Also Hit Kiel   Germans Raid London; American Airmen Assault Frankfurt, Schweinfurt, Airfields in France Friday

Battle Nazi Ships   2000 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped On Berlin at Cost of 73 Planes

THOUSAND BRITISH  BOMBERS GET OVER  KING OF TARGETS BITTER FIGHTER OPPO.  SITION COST SEVENTYTHREE ROMRBERS

FIGHT BITTER BATTLEIN SKY WITH GERMANS   RAF Bombers Dump 2,800 Tons of Bombs on Berlin During Night.   Germany Claims 102 Bombers Shot Down

BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN LAST NIGHT  BY RAF BOMBERS   The Major Part of 100 Planes Fought Through to German Capital. _   A BITTER SKY BATTLE   Dumped 2800 Tons of Bombs on the City; 73 British Bombers Lost.

Bitter Fight — All the Way — to Nazi Hub   British Lose 73 © Bombers Out of 1,000 Sent’ Against Berlin, Other Targets      HEAVY BOMB’ LOAD. "OW: REICH CAPITAL   Germans Indicate Intent: to Make’ Last-Ditch’ Stand’ to Save. What’s Left:

2800-Ton Load. Dropped On City.  In Latest Attack    Report 73 British Bombers Shot Down Over Capital By Nazi Night Fighters

OF BITTEREST      British Dump 2,800 Tons of Bombs on Berlin in Last Night’s Attack.   NAZI FIGHTERS ACTIVE

73 British Planes Lost ‘In Big Battle   London Also Hit By Longest Raid In 12 Months

FIERCE BATTLE REPORTEDOVER REICH AT NIGHT   Large German Fighter Force Attacks 1,000 Bis British Bombers

RAL Loses 73 Bombers In Air Battle  Fichts Rage A AL Way  From Helgoland to Reich Capital   HUGE BOMB LOAD   Other Targets in Ger. many Hit by Force of 1.000 British Planes

British Drop 2.800 Tons On Nazi Capital   Battle Enemy's Night Fighters From Coast To Berlin; Foe Puts English Loss At 102

RAF Berlin Attack Costs 73 Bombers   Obliteration Raiders Dump 2.800 Tons of Bombs

BITTER NIGHT SKY BATTLE IS WAGED   2,800 Tons Of Bombs Fall On Nazi Capital   102 Aircraft Shot Down; London Is Attacked By 100 Planes

2panese Pul Up Heavy Resistance \gainst American Invaders of Biak

U.S. Invaders Of Biak Meet  J ap Opposition   Yanks Less Than Two Miles From Airfield; Aussies Take Bunabun

Americans Invading Biak Meet Fierce Jap Opposition   Chinese Face New Grave Threat As Foe Fans Out Great Hunan Offensive

Warden Wounds Rugitive, Aids In Capturing Other:  Manhunt Produces   Manhunt Produces Convicts In Basement — On McCarty Street

WARDEN BLOCKS TRIO'S ESCAPE   Three Convicts at Missouri Prison Recaptured After Bid for Freedom

Sweep Over Frontier On 50 Mile Line   Evtimate Million Nazi Troops Pinned Down In Enieper Bend.

Reds Reported  Crossing PreI\Alan Dalich  ina   Westward Surge Of Soviet Army Is Continuing

Reds Take Belaya  Tserkov Nazi Army Said To Be  ioe Sees. _ er =—& 980 COC   Vatutin’s Soldiers Make Move to Pin Fnemv in River Rend

RUSSIAN ARMY SWEEPS ACROSS POLISH BORDER   New Gain in Dnieper Bend

soviets Sweep Uver Old Polish Border. Fan Out In Ukraine   Germans Face Worst Disaster Of War Before Racing Reds

Soviets Break  German Line  Bast of Rumania Reds Drive to  , Trap Million    Of Nazi Troops

Reds in 50-Mi. Breakthrough   6000 of Hitler's Troops Perish in One Day; 170 Villages Recaptured by Soviet Army; Von Mannstein Unable to Check Onslaught

TRAP MAY BE CLOSED WITH 2 PRONCED DRIVE   Belaya Tserkov Capture Opens Threat of Red  Advance Down Dnieper

WESTWARD SURGE OF RUSSIANS 1S. GATHERING SPEED   Germans Tumble Over Each Other {n Wild Disorderly Retreat.

RUSSIANS CROSS 1939  POLE BORDER   2 Pronged Drive By Vatutin Army Closing Trap

REDS SWEEP OVER BORDER OF POLAND   Last Major Defense Line East of Rumania Crumpled by, Russians.   BULLETIN

Powerful Units Fan Out Through Ukraine Region   Belaya Tserkov Falls To Open Floodgates For Russian Armies

U.S, CASUALTIES 5500 ON PALAU   Reinforced Marines in Fina Phases of Battle for Peleliu

HALFWAY MARK IS “REACHED IN DRIVE   Chairman Reports ‘$1, 350,000 Bonds Pur. chased to Date

PROGRESS IS MADE -INBOND CAMPAIGN   County Total to Date Be lieved in Excess of $1.750.000

Russ Seize Nazi,  Romanian Chiefs   War Criminal Group Includes Ex-Premier

ANTONESCU JAILED BY RED FORCE   Ace Nazi Economic Expert Also Bagged

American Paratroopers Are Still Fighting Germans Deep In Enemy Territory

800 Nazi Paratroops Captured By One U. S. Outfit   Bs LIONEL §, SHAPING iDistributed By A. F.»

Yank Paratroops Capture Elite  German Chutists  Unit Holds Hundreds Who Dropped Almost on Heads

Paratrooper Unit Captures  800 Nazi Elite Parachutists   Enemy Dropped Almost. On Top Of Them; Many Yanks Shot To Death Coming Down

ONE PARATROOP UNIT CAPTURED 800 GERMANS   Elite Nazi Parachutists Who Dropped Almost on Top of Americans Are Cantured

CONCORD HAD 148 GARDENS ~ LAST SEASON      Most of Them Grew The Big Six”; All But Three Had Tomatoes

Japs Say Assault Made “To Hide  Formosa Defeat”   Propaganda Asserts Landing Political Maneuver of FR

CLAIM POLITICS BEHIND INVASION   Japs Say FDR Sinkatneed By ‘Formosa Defeat’

TOKYO LABELS INVASION FACESAVING EFFORT   Ordered By F. D. To Hide U.S. Fleet ‘Defeat’ Off Formosa

 Japs claim Philippine operation is ‘ordered to hide ‘defeat’ off Formosa

ROOSEVELT TOMAKE A STRONG CLOSE   Saving Heaviest Blasts for — Saturday Speech

FOR MAPPING STRATEGY FOR CAMPAIGN END   Will Make Radio Address 0 Thursday Night From Washineton

FR Prepares For Campaign Speech   Will Make Driving Finish Against Dewey

SOVIETS GET FIRM GRIP ON COUNTRY   Seek To Forestall German Coup

Reds Slash Deep  Into Romania   Take 47.000 Prisoners In Rush Toward Rich Ploesti Oil Fields

Reds Nearing Galati Gap in Romania   Take No Chances on Nazis Regrouping for Another Stand

Reds Take 47,000 Captives In 5 Days As Southern Drive Rolls Unchecked

‘Reds Capture Romanians ‘By Thousands   Advancing Soviets Are Within 100 Miles Of Oil Fields

RUSSIANS SMASH TOWARDS DANUBE   Tottering Enemy Yields Tall of 47,000 Prisdnerss 2.

REDS 35 MILES OF GALATI GAF   Soviets Push Nearer Defenses Guarding Bucharest, Ploesti  47,000 GERMANS HELD

Russ Claim 47,000 Nazi  Prisoners   Captured During Past Five Days; Offensive Rolls On Unchecked   London, Aug. 25—(A)—Marshal Stalin announced today the capture of Tartu .(Dorpat) in Estonia.

REDS DRIVING FOR PLOESTI   Move Deeper Into Romania To Thwart Nazi  Defense Meves

Reds Race On Toward Galati Gap.   47,000 German Prisoners Taken In 5-Day Drive

Reds 35 Miles From Galati Gap Defense; Romanians Aim ‘Guns on Retreatine Germans

REDS ONLY 35 MILES OUT OF GAP AT GALAT   Trying to Get Firm Grip on Romania Before Germans Can Start Counter Measures

Reds Taking No Chances In Romania   Sweep Up 550. Cities In Lightning Drive As German Defense Apparently Totters

Red Drive In Romania Unchecked   Slashing Gains  Made Over Tottering Germans; 47,000 Prisoners Seized

Soviet Forces Slash Deep  In Romania   Within 35 Miles of Galita Gap and Danube Gateway to Bucharest and Ploesti Oil Fields.

RUSSIANS PUSH INTO ROMANIA   Take No Chances on Country’s Bid for Peace, Capture Manv Nazis.

TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES DEEP IN ROMANIA   Make Lightning Attempt To Get Firm Grip

PRESSURE IS ON TO BALK NAZI REORGANIZATION   Romanians Turn On German: As They Welcome Russians As Liberators

RUSSIANS SAY 47,000 ENEMY TROOPS TAKEN   Reds Strive To Reach Bucharest, Ploesti Before Nazis Act

Red Sweep Continues in Romania   Russians Rushing Drive to Clear Nation Before Nazis Can Hit Back   47,000 PRISONERS IN FIVE DAYS   Germans Flee in Haste and Soviets Are Nearing Galati Gao Defenses

Crushing Drive By Red Army  In Romania   Soviets Strike Swiftly To Keep Nazis From Reorganizing

47,000 Germans Taken Prisoner By Red Armies   Russians Within 35 Miles Of Defenses At Galati Gap

‘Russians Take 47,000 Prisoners in Five Davs   LONDON, Aug. 25. (AP) —Marshal Stalin announced today the capture ot Tartu (Dorpat) in Estonia:”

Two Red Armies Within 35 Miles Of Galati Gap   Russians Spear Steadily Into Eomania as "Deliverers,’ Renew Pledge of No Annexation

Russians Making Lightning Attack in Order to Get Firm Hold of Country Before Germans Can  Regroup Disorganized Romanians and Block

1 Red Armies Slash Deeper Into Romania   London, Aug. 25 (4)—Marshal Staelin announced today the capture of Tartu (Dorpat) in Estonia. -

SOVIETS CAPTURE 47,000 PRISONERS   BAG 25,000 GERMANS AND ROMANIANS IN A SINGLE DAY’S DRIVE

ake 47,000. Prisoners In Drive Toward Danube Gateway To Bucharest And Ploesti Oil Fields.

REDS CAPTURE 47,000 MENIN RUMANIAN PUSH   Russians Near Gateway to Ploesti Oil Fields, Bucharest

CAPITAL OF BESSARABIA CAPTURED   47,000 Prisoners Are Taken In Five Days Of Red Advance

Soviets Take 4] 000 Nazis   Russian Army Drives Within 100 Miles of Ploesti, Bucharest

Lottexing Hun Forces Driven  Back by Soviets      Russians Within 35 Mile: Of Galati Gap Defenses Guarding Danube Gate way to Bucharest

Galati Gap — Approached By Soviets.  In Romania   Country. Is Being. Cleared - Of Nazis

Russians Slash Deep in Romania   OVER 4 7,0 0 0 GERMAN PRISONERS REPORTED CAPTURED

Russ Armies Slash Deeper  Into Romania   Within 35 Miles of Cateway to Bucharest and Ploesti Oil Fields

Russians Cut Deeper Into Rumania   Armies Approach Defenses of Ploesti Oil Land

RUSSIANS PUSHING THROUGH ROMANIA NEAR GALATI GAP   Gap Defenses Guard the Dan ~ ube Gateway to Ploesti Oil Area and Bucharest—47,000 Nazis Captured

Red Armies Push Towar¢ Gateway to Bucharest And Ploesti Oil Fields   Seek Firm Control of Country Before Nazis Can Organize

Russian Troops Take 550 Cities In Roman Area   Soviets Pbviously Wary Of Outcome Of Peace Bid From Romanian King

BESSARABIAN CAPITAL CITY FALLS TO REDS   Forces Slash Deeper Into Romania To Beat Nazis’ Recovery

Attempt Agair fo Blast Open Reich's Gate   Canadians Capture Citadel in Heart of Calais Port

Boost Wheat, Hog Prices   Grain Price Up 4 Cents; Heavier Hogs Increases 75 Cents

Ceiling Is Raised On Few Hog Prices   Congress Puts Final Cogs in Legislative Machinery for PostWar Public Works While New Pension Plan for Congressman Claims Interest in Capital

British Help In Pacific Will Be ‘Only In Sea, Air   No British Soldicrs to be Sent to Pacific to Help Yanks.

British Troops Unlikely To Be Sent To Pacific   Aid In War On Japanese Probably Confined To Sea And Air Support.

MORE TREO ON ISLARD   Completion Occupation of Tiny But Strategic Island Announced, — Additional Ground Forees Sent in Thursday.

BOLSTER YA FORCE LANDED ON LOS NEGROS   Original U. S. Intention Was Not To Take Tiny Island

Troops Reinforce U. S. Invasion © On Los Negros —   Surprise, Attack On Japs Successful In Strategic Island

MORE TROOPS LANDED ON LOS NEGROS'S.   Original Landings Surprise Japs; Campaign For Complete Occupation Now Goinex On.   Without Scratch

U.S. Troops on Los Negros Are Reinforced   Seek to Effect Occupation of Entire Island

Help Arrives In Los Negros  For Americans   Turns Surprise Thrust Into Campaign for Complete Occupation; Warplanes Are Active

Occupation of Los Negros Is U.S. Purpose   Japanese Declared to Have Been Taken by Surprise Completely

W ARTHUR SENDS ‘REINFORCEMENTS TO LOS NEGROS   American Reconnaissance Thrust Turned Into Campaign for Complete Oc _ cupation of Island.   PREPARE TO PUSH BEYOND BEACHHEAD   Boatioads of Men and Equipment Relieve Pressure on Cavalrymen by Superior Force.

Powerful American Forces Ready to Smash Beyond Beachhead; All Jap Assaults Are Turned Back

Yanks Reinforce On Admiralties   Occupation of Tiny Island Under Way

U.S. UNITS ON LOS NEGROS REINFORCED   Fighting Continues But Beachhead is Secure

REINFORCE U, S. TROOPS ON LOS NEGROS ISLAND   Heavy Ground Forces Are T¢ Aid In Completing Occupation

INVASION FORCE IS REINFORCED   More Americans Landed on Los Negros Island

Russians Storm Nazi Garrisons; At City’s Gates   Trapped German-Roman.ian Troops In Last Ditch Stand

REDS SMASH THROUGH SEVASTOPOL. DEFENSES      Soviets Capture Heights Dominating Besteues Crimean Fortress; Start Final Drive To Crush Garrison

Important Rail Junction Two Miles Of City Taken   In Two Days of Fighting The Russians Have Advanced Four Miles Through F.-tifications

Axis Defenses Broken at Sevastopol   Fall of City to Russians Appears Near

FALL OF PORT ON BLACK SEA APPEARS. NEAR   Soviets Take Heights Dominating Besieged Crimean Fortress

Reds Break Through Sevastopol Defenses   Heights Dominating Besieged Fortress Seized in Final Drive to Crush Enemy: Masses of Planes Support Soviet Troop:

Reds Smash Main Enemy  Defense Line   Heights Are Captured And Fall of Port City Appears Imminent  Se i a er Si al a ee

SEVASTOPOL DEFENSE LINE IS SMASHED   With Fall of Fortress Imminent; Fighting on Approaches to City in Final Drive.   Sink 12 Vessels

“Fall of Besieged -Crimean For} Reported Near   Axis Force Doomed by Long-Awaited Russian Campaign

TEEN AGED GIRL IS STRANGLED, RAPED   Bobby-socked Body Found On Golf Course

POLE PREMIER STIRS CRISIS   Resignation Severe Blow To British - American Effort In Dispute

POLE PREMIER QUITS, ALLIED HOPES DASHED   Withdrawal of Mikolajezyk Seen as Hard Blow to Efforts to Placate Poles and Russians By JAMES F. KING

Resignation Severe Blow   U. S. and Britain Concerned by Action Of Mikolajczyk

Mikolajezyk Quits Post   -Anti-Red, Kwépinski Asked to Form New ‘Polish Government

Mikolajczyk; Exiled Poles’ Leader, Quits   Blow to British-U. S. Effort to Settle RussianPolish Dispute

BRTAW ADSP10. WAITING POLLY WITH ARGENTINA   Relations Between Two Nations Limited to . Routine Matters.. —

Bh Tal AUJPlo Walllivo POLICY WHT ARGENTINA   Relations Between Two Nations Limited to Rou ine Matters.

CAMPAIEN TRIP   Says He Is on Tour to Correct ‘Misrepresentation’ Made.   SPEAKING IN CHICAGO

Inducement Tax Program To Be Offered By F. R.   Accuses Republicans Of Putting Political Profit Above Effort To Guarantee Peace

Roosevelt to Outline Tax Plan   President Charges G. O. P. Political Motives Above Peace

Reds-60-Miles. » From Germany   Mop Up Last Of Enemy Inside Wilno Today

Soviet Units Capture Druja Mile of Latvis   They Also Take Braslov Only 25 Miles From Daugavpils, Moscow Communiaue Asserts

Say Reds 60 Miles From zast Pri <sia   Soviets Cut  Rail Line  From Daugavpils To Kaunas

Capture Of Wilno Seen Imminent As Reds Fight Or   Nazis Said To Be Planning Swift Withdrawal From Pskoy And Narva Area

Troops Called To Defend Prussia As Reds Bypass Vilna   Soviet Troops Continue Fight In Streets Of City As Others Threaten Lithuanian Capital City, Are 85 Miles From East Prussia

Pvt Vanderwal Okays Sgt.” co - Riediger's: Views: On. Food   In New. Guinea, Cuisine : Not the Tastiest, He  Save

Prt. Venderwal Okays Set.” .Riediger’s: Views: O, Food   In New..Guinea; Cuisine. Is Not the Tastiest, He * Gave

Orlemanski Near Total Collapse   Punished Priest Confined to His Bed in Rectory

PENALTY AGAINST REV. ORLEMANSKI HAS BEEN LIFTED   Priest Who Made Trip to Moscow Now Reported  On Ve:ze of Nervous PR.,.,...).,-]..-<....

END SUSPENSION OF ORLEMANSKI   Priest Reported on Verge of Physical Breakdown

SUSPENSION OF FATHER ORLEMANSKI LIFTED SPRINGFIELD. Mass. May tf

Fr. Orlemanski Apology Acceptec  Bishop O'Leary Lifts Suspension _.

FR. ORLEMANSKI'S SUSPENSION LIFTED; PRIFST NEAR PHYSICAL MENTAL BREAK

Orlemanski On Verge of  Breakdown   Priest Who Visited Stalin Confined to Rectory By His Physician

Orlemanski’s  Ban Lifted   Bishop O'Leary Makes Known Action Following Priest's Apology Letter

SUSPENSION ORDER — ONPRIEST LIFTED   Bishop Acts After Letter. of Apology Is. Received, Rev. Orlemanshxi: Ii‘

ASSISTANT SECEETARY PRO: POSES THAT IN EVENT OF  MERGER NAVY ABSORB: LAND FORCES ‘

City Fire Chief Resigns; Forced Out, He Charges   Clauser Will Leave Department July 3; Cites Friction

HARBOR’S FIRE CHIEF RESIGNS POST IN HUFF   Practically Forced Out of Department, Says Irving Clauser

Reds Sweep Past Dno, Rogachev   Berlin Broadcast Announces Fierce Fighting In Poland

RED ARMY SEIZES NAZI STRONGHOLD ON ROAD TO MINSK   Other’ Columns Overrun Dno ’ in Push Toward Latvia—_ 300 Villages Taken in Day’s Fighting. .   STRUGGLE RENEWED - _INSIDE OLD POLAND   Stalin’s Troops Capture Rojishche Only 46 Miles From 1941 Russo-German Frontier.

Dno Seized in ‘Swift Advance Toward Latvian Border   NEW DRIVE OPENED IN WHITE RUSSIA   German Bastion of Rogachev Is Taken During Operations —~

Dno Seized in Swift Adyance Toward Latvian ‘Border —   NEW DRIVE OPENED IN WHITE ‘RUSSIA   German Bastion. of Roga_ chev'ts Taken During Onerations

‘Red Army In Swift Advance Toware ‘Latvia Overruns 300 Localities

RAIL JUNCTION OF DNO TAKEN BY RED ARMY   FIGHTING RENEWED 90 MILES INSIDE OLD POLAND

GERMANS FIRE RED VILLAGES   Enemy Applies Torch To Communities On East Prussian Frontier

Russians Are Reported Massing to Cross the East Prussian Border       Germans Make Futile Attempt  To Check the Russian Advance

Nazis Burn Villages in. East Prussia   Red Army Group Massing to Cross German Boundary River; Other Soviet ' Offensives Score New Successes

GERMANS APPLY TORCH TO MANY BORDER TOWNS   Flames Leap High Into East Prussian Skies — Reds Set To Strike

GERMANS FIRE PRUSSIA AREA AS REDS NEAR   Frontier Villages Burned As Soviets Mass For Drive Onto Soil Of Reich

GERMANS SET FIRE TO TOWNS ALONG PRUSSIAN BORDER   RUSSIANS CROSS LAKE PEIPUS TO ESTONIAN SHORE

Soviets Mass Before Fordins Vital River   German Resistance On East Prussian Border Smashed  By Third Red Army

East Prussia Ablaze; Reds Mass at Border   Allies Jolt Come-Back Attempt Of Luftwaffe, Scourge Troops

NAZIS BURNING BORDER TOWNS   Soviets Mass Before East  Prussia. Germans Set  To Evacuate Line

Germans-Burn Own Towns in Attempt to Stop Russians   East Prussian Frontier Villages Are in Flames, Reds State

Germans Burn Villages as Reds Advance   East Prussian Skies Are Smoke Filled Above Border Towns

GERMANS BU OWN VILLAGES   Set Fire to E. Prussia Towns In Path of Russian Advance.

Red Forces Drawn Up At Border   Torch Applied to Schirwindt; Third White Russian Army Massed

SOVIETS MASS FOR CROSSING OF SZESZUPPE   Third White Russian Group Prepares to Cross River Which Forms Part of German Boundary   ASSAULT IS REPULSED

SOVIETS MASS TO CROSS INTO THIRD REICH   Tank Battles Continue » In Eastern Outskirts Of Warsaw

Huns Set Fire To Towns in Kast Prussia   Russian Army Masse: To Cross Frontier Under Tank Expert

Russian sig      Soviet Offenses In Estonia And Vistula Score Sucesses

GERMANS SET EAST PRUSSIAN TOWNS ON FIRE   Russian Forces Poised fot Attack to Drive Across Frontier

NAZIS BURN TOWNS TO HALT RUSSIANS   Have Suffered Heavy Losses of Armor in Unsuc cessful Attacks

Swift Progress Made On Main Island of Atoll After Engebi Had Been Seized

Eniwetok Atoll Being Cleaned Up   Americans Now Eliminating Last Of Defenders

Yanks Close Death Trap On Japanese At Eniwetok In Marshall Islands

HALF OF MAIN JAP STRONGHOLD IN ALLIED HANDS   Nimitz Discloses American Casualties As Very Light

Yanks Driving Japanese From Eniwetok Isle   New Landing Yesterday: Seize Half Of 6.000 Yard Long Island.   LAND IS VERY FLAT

DRIVING JAPS FROM (SLANG   Infantry, Marine Troops Move Swittly to Close Trap on Defenders.

J.S. Mops Up At Eniwetok Raid Rabau   Reports From Marshalls Indicate Resistance There Was Light

AMERICAN UNITS HURL JAPS BACK ON ENIWETOK   U. S. Forces Control Over Hall of Island; Nimitz Says Casualties Light

Yankees Have Captured Five Enemy Islands   10 To 26 Ships Sunk or Dam aged at. Truk, 201. Jap Planes Desroyed

Soldiers, Marine: Driving Japs Off ‘Yard I Island   Light Casualties Reported In Second Landing On Atoll

Yanks Drive Japanese Fron  Eniwetok   New Landing Made; Half of Island Held By Invaders

Americans Seize  Half of Eniwetok   U. S. Infantry, © Marine Troops, Close In on Marshalls Atoll

U. S. Hastens To Close Trap on Japs   Army, Marines Move Ahead on Last Jap-Held islands

Eniwetok Is Being Cleared Of Japanese; New Landings Support Infantry. Marines

Enemy Trapped On Eniwetok Isle  Half af Vital KAaechal!l Iceland   Half of Vital Marshall Island Seized in New Landings by Troops

U. S. Conquest Of Eniwetok Is Nearly Ended   Pary Island and Half of One Other All Japs Still Hold

Casualties Light   Nimitz Announces New Landing Sunday; Americans Now In Possession of Entire Atoll Group Except Half Embattled Eniwetok and Parry Island.

Nazis Push U. S. Troops Back Fron One Reich Town  Sie vs of Budapest nter kan of City

BOMB BREST TO PREPARE FOR ASSAULT   By U. S. Ground Troops on Prize Port; Planes From Italy Raid Hungary and Yugoslavia.   81 Locomotives

British, Canadians Use New Secret W eapon--Armor-Plated Lorries--- To Smash German Lines

Attack Described As FullScale Drive To Remove Nazis From Fortified Positions In France.

Specially Armored Trucks, Guided by Tracers, Carry Infantry Through Nazi Line

Excursion Boat Fire Injures 35   Ten re in Serious Condition at Miami

WILL FAMILIARIZE. PROPRIETORS WITH THE RATION RULES   Price Panel Invites Owners of Eating and Drinking Places to Meeting   AT BRISTOL TONIGHT

Price Panel Call   For a Meeting to Be Held at Bristol On Friday, Aug. 11

FEDERAL GROUP MAY BE QUIZZED ON PAC TACTICS   77 Officials And Employes In Washington Figure In Conversations   DIES DEMANDING ACTION   Committee Likely To Ask For Details On Nature Of Phone Calls

County Organized For Fifth War Loan Drive;  Committees Named   $829,000.00 Quota Set; Offices Of War Loan Committee On Ground Floor Of The Ponder Building

WARPLANES LAND BLOWS IN KORMANDY   On Troops and Armor in Support of New Breakthrough! Also Hit Budapest and Yugoslavia.   Frankfurt Hit

BOMBERS Htl.P BRITISH . ‘DRIVE, ULTHERS BLAS! -JUGOSLAVIA, BUDAPES'

1000 Bombers Cover British Caumont Drive   500 Mediterranean Yank Planes Hit Budapest, Yugoslavia

KANSAS KILLER DIES ON GALLOWS   Was First Execution in That State in 72 Years.

Soviet Tanks And Infantry Nearing Tilsit   In Hungary Race Begin: For Austrian Line 160 Miles Distant.

Russ Capture Riga; Allies In Belgrade   Stalin Reveals Fall Of Latvia Capital; Tito Tells of Victory

Senators Blast U. S. Action In Ward Case   Attorney General Assails Report, Defends Seizure

Senale Says Seizure Of Ward Illegal   Subcommittee Takes To Task All Federal Agencies Involved

FDR and Biddle Flayed for Ward Company Seizure   Action Illegal, Committee Says

No Right In WardSeizure Says Group   SUB-COMMITTEE OF SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SCORES PRESIDENT AND ALL TAKING PART IN IT.   M’Farland Dissents

Committee Raps FDR's Seizure Of Ward's Firm   Senators Take To Task All Agencies Concerned in Case

WARD SEIZURE BY PRESIDENT CALLED ILLEGAL   Senate Subcommittee Send Investigators  To Chicago

Authority Is Exceeded By F.D.R., Probers Say: Biddle Assails Report

WARD SEIZURE IS CONDEMNED   Government Lacks Right To Take Over Chicago Firm, Says Senate

Senate Committee —  Hits Ward Seizure   Group Takes Government Agencies to Task and Calls Taking of Chicago Properties Hlegal— Biddle Statements Scored

FDR Exceeded  Power in Ward  Case, Report   Senate Subcommittee Issues Rebuke to  All Government Units Involved in Seizure

Biddle Scores Senators’ Action As ‘Star Chamber’  Group Says President Lacked Power to Seize

SEIZURE OF WARD PLANT UNLAWFUL, SENATORS ASSERT   Judiciary Subcommittee Says F. D. R. Was Without Authority to Take Over Chicago Properties.   AGENCIES INVOLVED - SHARPLY CRITICIZED   Misleading and Erroneous Statements Attributed to Biddle—Latter Lashes Out at Finding.

WARD SEIZURE IS CRITIGIZED BY 2 SENATORS   ‘McCarran And Revercomb  Claim Government Had No  Right To Take Plant

Senate Group Attacks FDR  For Seizure  Wee 2 2h A me OC ee   Biddle Asserts That Commtitee Used ‘Star Chamber’ Means

7,000 Casualties Left Behind In ‘Costly Success’   Main Allied Force Opens New Drive On Reich: Fifty-Mile Front Within Sight Of Germany At Many Points On Moselle.

7,000 Casualties Left Behind, 2,000 Sky Troopers Escape Across Rhine; Patton’s Guns Batter Metz Fortress.

AIR ARMY'S SURVIVORS WITHDRAWN   7000 Casualties Left Behind By Heroic Invaders

Cape Gloucester Defense Costs Japs Thousands   MacArthur Reports on Casualties; 20 Zeroes  Downed Over Rabaul

Futile Defense Of Airdrome Costly for Japs  Foe Lost Heavily During Drive On New Britain

EN, M’ARTHUR DISCLOSES BIC ENEMY LOSSES   Defense of Cape Gloucester Costly to Nips——-20 Zeros Bagged

J ap Death Toll Heavy In N. Britain   Thousands Slain During Invasion OF Cape Gloucester

Tokyo in Flames After Superforts Blast Jap Plants   Gpening Blow of Relentless Campaign to Knock Out Nip's War Effort Costs Two Bombers

Bombs Start Big Fires  In Tokyo Factory Areé   Vital War Industries Destroyed By Superforts Only Two American Planes Fail To Return; Raid Beainning Of Great Offensive

FIRE IN TOKYO AFTER BOMBING   Superforts Flew 3,000 Miles, Round - Trip, At More Than 400 Miles Per Hour From Sainan Base.

Tokyo Raids Hailed As Opening Blow To Destroy War Plants     ape?

MIGHTY ARMADA OF B-29'S LEAVES TOKYO IN FLAMES   Two Superforts Lost; Heavy Damage Inflicted On Industrial Centers.

RAID ON TOKYO CALLED START OF FINAL DRIVE   Heavy B-29’s Paving Way To Knock-Out Japanese War Plants

HAIL SUPERFORT RAID START OF KNOCKOUT BLOW   Fliers Hit Targets With Deadly Skill; Two Bombers Lost

TokyolIndustr y Areas Left In Flames By B29s   Raid Hailed as Start of Knockout Campaign Against Nips; Enemy YVaken by Surprise

Japan’s Capital Left in Flames By U.S. Raiders   Reconnaissance Show: Aircraft Plant and Other “Chaice’’ Tarasts Smashed

Industrial Sections Of Tokyo Afire After Attack   U.S. Air Force Promises Relentless Campaign Against Javanese Homeland

TELL DETAILS OF TOKYO RAID   Jap Opposition Is Almost Nil; Great Fires Observed

Tokyo Areas ‘Afire in Wake Of Bomb Raid   Deadly Skill Lays Waste to Vital War Industries of Japs

SUPERFORTS LEFT INDUSTRIAL TOKYO IN FLAMES, SAY FLIERS WHO DROPPED BOMBS ON CITY

FIRES BURNED FOR HOURS IN CAPITAL AFTER B29 BLOW   TWO SUPERFORTS ARE ACKNOWLEDGED LOST IN RAID ON JAPAN

Tokyo Fires Still Burn —   Industrial Heart of City in Flames Following. 8-29 Attack

Central Part Of Tokyo Still Burns   Superfortress Attack Listed as First On Bomber Schedule

2 SUPER-FORTS FAIL TO RETURN FROM ASSAULT   Bombing Hailed As Opening Blow Of Air Campaign To Wipe Out War Plants

Japs Are Taken by Surprise   Attack Is Called ‘Opening Blow‘ of Relentless Campaian

Bombing Held Opening Blow In Campaign   Planes Flying More Than 400 Miles An Hour Hit Targets

Noonday Raid Costly To Japs, Reports Show   ‘Whole Of Japan Under Bombsights’, Gen. Harmon Says

FORTS LEFT CENTRAL TOKYO 'N FLAMES   Tokyo Reports U. 5. Plones Hit Manila

TOKYO LEFT iN FLAMES ®Y 8-29 BOMBER ATTACK   Black Prospect For Japan Is Predicted

‘ Tokyo Industrial Areas In Flames After B-29 Raid; Attack Is Hailed As Start Of Knockout Campaign

GERMANY HARD HIT BY BOMBS IN OCTOBER   Amer. and Brit. Planes Dropped 113,000 Tons:

113,000 Tons of Bombs Fall During October   - Dusseldorf Gets Hard Blasting As Attacks By Allies Continue

October is Banner Air Month   Winter Campaign To Burn Germany Out Is Started

Record Bomb Weight Dropped On Germany   More Than 113,000 Tons Of Explosives Blast Nazi Homeland During Last Month.

Lt. Frank Kister ° ve Nd eke ‘of Fight Or. as .Group Makes'Record  digtely

Bryan Is Held On Sugar Stamp Racket Charge   Frank Kefauver Case Held Under Advisement Ry Commissioner.

Five Persons Killed in Trolley Accident   Car Loaded With War Workers Crashes Into Rear Of Another Car

Allied Ships Rout Five Jap Destroyers   One of Nip Vessels Is Damaged in Naval Battle

Allied Ships Rout Five Jap Destroyers  rae of Nip Vessels  Namacea   One of Nip Vessels Is Damaged in Naval Battle

Disorder Grows In Nazi Retreat Before Russians   Red Army Troops Sweep Through Western Ukraine ‘“‘Like An Avalanche’’   ADVANCE APPROACHES RUMANIAN BORDER

ONE RED FORCE NOW REPORTED NEAR RUMANIA   Retreat Disorder Grows With Russians Deep in Poland

SOVIET DRIVE NOW MENACES 3 RAIL TOWNS   New Allied Landing Unconfirmed   BERLIN JITTERY   Germans Preparing For Worst

Yankees Slash At Exposed Belgium Flank Of Nazis; Tide May Be Turning

NEW PROCESS DEVELOPED IN LUMBER INDUSTRY  DT cccin bee Lhe eeereasl sot   ree rh mn an eatin wmwassos  Lumber Changed into © Cross Between Wood And Plastics by DuPont  Penrage

sAllies Are Doing Well  Below Rome   They're Holding Their Positiong In Face of Strong Nazi Counter-Attacks

AMERICAN TROOPS AROUND CASSINO TIGHTEN RING ABOUT GERMANS   Furious Air Action Takes Place Over Southern Italian Front.

‘MONTY’ NAMED FIELD MARSHAL   British General, Bradley to Have Equal Status as Commanders

Americans Enter St. Malo Battle Nazis For Town      Canadians Drive South Into Foe’s Defense Zone

Allies 100 Miles  From Paris; Yanks Close in on Brest   Americans Are Making Concentrated  Attack on Lorient, Breton Naval And Submarine Port of France

Four-Mile W edge Hammered In C aen Line; U.S. Troops Enter Le Mans, 110 Miles From Paris

ENEMY LOSES 163 TANKS IN FUTILE BLOW   Allies Clamp Great Pincers On Germans’ Defenses Protecting Capital

ALLIED PINCERS CLAMP NAZIS PARIS DEFENSES   100 Miles From Capital; Great Advances Made

Enemy Offensive Believed to Have Shot Its Bolt   High Tide Reaches Libramont Only 23 Miles From Sedan

Planes Blast Nazi Advance in Europe   U. S. Relief Column Halts Drive from the Southern Front

Enemy’s South Wedge Reaches To Libramont   Advance Places Nazis Only 23 Miles From, Historic ” Sedan, Point 6f:1918 Breakthrough * ._   Yank Units Carve Out Some Advance   Columue Strike South Through Luxembourg; Correspondent Belicves “Hon Bolt Shot”

Foe Southern Wedge Reaches To Libramont   Another German Spearhead In LO-Mile Advance Northwest Of Laroche.   DESTROY 178 PLANES

Nazi Troops 23 Miles From Sedan; News Lag Lifted   American Forces Batter Into German South Flank At Base Of Salient In First Report Up-To-Minule Revealing Battle Positions

MEN OVERSEAS TOBE HEARD ° SUNDAY P.M.      To Take Part in Round-the-World  Christmas Program

GOP Governors Open Drive For Nominee Dewey   ‘Radio Addresses Sched uled Coast-to-Coast 'Lo morrow Night

Three Governors   Will Launch the G. 0. P. Campaign Tomorrow Evening Over Radio

Russians Kill 1,500 German Soldiers In Local Fighting   Small-Scale Action Occurs In Romania ‘And Old Poland; No Changes On Front

Reds Start Fires With Aerial Raid By Heavy Bombers On Beest-Litovsk

SOVIETS REPORT 1,500 GERMANS SLAIN IN BATTLE   Russian Bombers Blast Brest-Litovsk; Fires Said Raging

1,500 AXIS TROOPS KILLED IN FIGHTING   Battle in Romania, Old Poland; No Changes on ‘Eastern Front.

Reds Mark Time In Premata ides For Great Offensive  Russians Kill 1,500 In ~~ Romania, Old Poland

N  a ‘had weed  a7;              Tirust    Nearly 1, 500; Axis Troops Slain’ During Local Fighting

Russians Report 1,500 Enemy Killed  Resulted in Local Fighting in Romania,

SOVIETS REPORT 1,500 AXIS TROOPS ‘SLAIN IN POLAND   No Essential Changes on Long Eastern Front As Reds Prepare for New Offensive

Russians Kill 1,500 Axis Troops in Day  Rad Army Moccing   Red Army Massing For Attacks On Entire Front

Russians Kill 1,500 Axis Troops in Day   Red Army Massing For Attacks On Entire Front

Russians Kill Off 1500 More - Nazi Soldier   Local Fighting Goes On Iz Romania and Old Poland; Massing For Offensive

NAZIS LIKELY PLAN TO TAKE QVER FINLAND   Helsinki Said to Predict Events of Interest to Whole World Very Shortly.

Stockholin Reports Army Moving Into Tiny Baltic Nation   Censored Helsinki Story Predicts World-Shaking Events in Making; German Troops Filling Port Cities

Finns Fear Germans May  Occupy Land   Nazi Troops Arriving at Southern Port

ITALIAN PRINCE ESCAPES SHOTS   Calls on Italian Soldiers « to Redouble Efforts  ced  * for Allied Win

18 CONCERNS ACCUSED OF "PRICE FIXING   Steel Companies and-Six Officers Indicted — by Jury ~

Clean Up Small Islands, Slaughterimg Defenders; Las Vegas Soldier Sees Eyes in Dark, Shoots ‘Em

Dewey Assails FDR Policies   Isolation’ Counter Charge Hurled at President

Scuttling Of London  Conference   Warns Of Likely Peace Failure Because Of Disunity Under Democrats.

Politics   Dewey Charges FDR Destroyed Efforts Cf Londen Conclave

DEWEY SPEAKS IN MINN. ON ~ FOREIGN POLICY   Carries Campaign Into State of Bolting Republican Sen.

Yanks  Capture St. Jean   Allies Gain in Smash to Blast Open Road Eastward to Paris

ONE OF EVERY FIVE WED ASKS FOR DIVORCE   Largest Number Which Have Been Filed in Bucks County Court   BLAME THE WAR

PREDICT 125 DIVORCES — IN COUNTY THIS YEAR   96 Have Been Started Already, Prothonotary Says   WIVES ARE IN THE LEAD

KAISER PUSHED AS CANDIDATE   Admirers Urge Shipbuilder For  ) Roosevelt Mate

REPORT SOME: NEW BEALERS ~~ SPONSORING KAISER BOON   ROOSEVELT §AID TO BE STILL . HOLDING OUT FOR WALLACE AS HI§ RUN. NING-MATE

Oth Battles  Germans For Julich   First Prepares For Frontal Drive on Duren

Armies Gain; Saarlautern Fall Imminent   German Defenses on Cologne Plain  Gets Weaker

Prepare to Open Drive For Duren   Ninth Army Troops Battle in Julich—German Re sistance Weaker

(By Internationa  News Service)   GERMANS LOST 2,400,000 MEN IN FIVE YEARS

Mi) asides a ee a eee eeeeene mm  Japs Expect Blow In Northern Nippon

TOKYO EXPECTS U.S.INVASION OF NORTH JAPAI   Enemy Broadcast Indirectly Reveals Fear

BATTLE TURESEEN ON TVA, SEAWAY   Building of New TVA and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Route Planned

LAST BASES IN NEW GUINEA ARE RAIDED   Note Strong Interception over Jefman Airdrome, but MacArthur Reports Success near Schouten.   Bad Weather

Yonai  HelpsPick Cabinet   Koiso, Yonai Named to Form Government; New Jap Setbacks

INVASION NAVAL COMMAND NAMED   Admirals Kirk, Hall, Wilkes Receive American Aseianments

Allied Beachhead On French Coast Well Established As Progress Made

SPECIAL SESSION LEGISLATURE FAIL AND SOLDIER VOTE   GOV. STEVENSON BASES DECISION ON RULING OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

NEWS NOTES FROM THE FARM BUREAU   Several Meetings Will Be Held in the County to Ald In Preparing Farm Accounts

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTER   (By County Extension Director)   Farm Accounts

Stamp of war hangs heavy on Bethlehem as the miracte of the aces is re-enacted in verv grotto where Christ was born),

OHIO SOLDIERS DIE IN BLAST AT ARMY CAMP   E. Liverpool, Steubenville Men Among 12 Killed at Camp Robinson, Ark.

12 DIE, 14 HURT IN EXPLOSION AT CAMP ROBINSON   Five Ohioans Killed in Blast Six Others from Buckeye State Injured

12 Soldiers Die In Blast   14 Others Injured In Explosion of Surface Mine

Blast Kills 12 Soldiers   Accidental Explosion Occurs During Surface

PATTON FORCES DRIVEN BACK BY ENEMY ATTACK   Only About 1,800 Of 8,000 Sky Units Escape From Pocket At Arnhem

Dracut Flier Is Missing   ‘Tech. Sgt. R. R. Decker Downed Over France

IN CAROLINES   Liberators Encounter No Jap Opposition in Attack On Truk Defenses

LIBERATORS BOMB NOMOI SECOND DAY   With No Opposition from Enemy; See Many Jap Planes Which Fail to Give Battle.   Blast Satawan

U. S. Bombers Strike ai Caroline Isles   MacArthur Reports No Opposition Is Encountered

Islands in Carolines Again Hit   Solomons - Based Planes Raid Nomoi Group, “Encountering No Opposition

Bombers Pound Caroline Group:   No Resistance Is Met-Over {slands-

ALLIES BAG 6 ENEMY PLANES   Same Number Fails Te Return From Raids  On Islands

Allied Bombers Again Hammer Caroline Bases   Islands Near Truk Hit; Six Japanese Planes Destroyed

Liberators ‘Hit Enemy __ Airfields   Aniertéan’ Heavy” rlatres _Shower_ Bombs. (on. _ Jap Bases. in  » ° Carolines:

BIG WOOL CONSIGNMENT IS SHIPPED FROM HERE   17,185 Pounds Were Graded At Railroad Station   73 BUCKS CO. SHIPPERS

17,000 LBS. OF WOOL SOLD IN BUCKS POOL   Largest Shipment Made In History of BucksMontgomery Pocl  MUCH IS HIGH GRADE

SHOOT DOWN "LARGE NUMBER OF FIGHTERS   F orts Bore Through Swarms of Nazi Defenders

Giant Bombers Also Raid Nazi Base At Toulon      Historic City Of Florence Is Attacked For First Time; Furious Air Battle Reported Over Padua, 22 Miles West Of Venice

Pay Miners Face to Face Ruled Fair   BY JUDGE BARKSDALE OF FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT IN CASE OF JEWEL RIDGE COAL CORPORATION.   Lunch Periods 

Federal Judge Rules against Union Miners   Portal-to-Portal Time Is Excluded

FACE-TO-FACE PAY BASIS 1S UPHELD   Rif \ Made in Jewel Ridge f \ ‘pany-UMW Case   JGMENT ENTERED   ,. s Company Has Com. plied With Requirements Of Fair Labor Act

Enemy Plunged Into Retreat on West Normandy  Front  GREAT BLOW STRUCK BY THE  AMERICANS  Capture of  Coutances May Trap Seven German © Divisions

AMERICAN AIRMEN  STRIKE FROM ITALIAN  AND BRITISH BASES AIRCRAFT AND OTHER  WAR PLANTS OVER WIDE AREA ARE ATTACKED

Reds Speed on to Galati Gap, Romania   Russians Advance 46 Miles Through Crimea, Take Tiraspol, on Dnester River

Heavy Forces Stream Out ‘in ~~ 2-Way Blow   Four German. Centers. Are Bombed, More Explosives Poured Into: Hungary   INVASION COAST. °° NOT-NEGLECTED   Widespread: Raids: Go: Into Sith Day, U, 5. Attacks Following R.A.F: Smash

SCHWEINFURT IS ONE OF TARGETS HIT IN ATTACKS   Three Other Reich Cities, Objectives in Hungary Are Blasted From Ajir   By RICHARD McMURRAY AD Waswe FF Aitae

Allied Air Offensive Rolls On »   Pound German. Industry Centers and Budapest; Red Troops Sweep Swiftly Across Crimea

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS FROM ITALY AND BRITAIN HIT REICH © AND ALSO TARGETS IN HUNGARY   Aerial Offensive Aimed at Wiping Out German Airforce Intensified with Many Important Indus trial Cities Objectives of Two-Ton Blockbusters

Bombers Go to Many Targets ir Hitler's Europe   Russians Rapidly Mopping Up Crimea; Italy Still Stalled

Solons Oppose Tax Increase   Chairman Altmeyer Says Raise Necessary To Sound Social Security Program.

Administration to Offer Plans for Vastly Broader Social Security Coverage

Vastly Expanded Social Security Coverage Asked by Administration

Administration Discloses Plans for Vastly Expanded Social Security Coverage for Congress Study

Expanded Social Seeurity Planned 7 Proposal Will Be Sent To Congress By Administration

EXPANSION OF - SECURITY PLAN   Social Benefits Would Be   Extended To Farmers  And Domestics

OLDER MEN ARE T0 BE CALLED SOON   Registrants in 26 Through 37 Are Group Get Produce-orFight Edict.

Job Shift May Bring Man 1-A  Classification   Local Boards To Have Most  Power In Case

MORE OLDER MEN WILL BE INDUCTED   New Instructions Sent Out by ‘Selective } a

DRAFT 10 GALL ON OLDER MEN   Produce - Or- Fight Edict Instructions Sent To Local Boards

OLDER MEN WILL BE ORDERED INDUCTED   “Much Larger” Proportion To Be Taken Into Service Under “Produce Or Fight” Edict

MORE OLDER MEN ~ WILL BE INDUCTED   New Instructions Sent Out "by. Selective. Service

MORE OLDE WILL BE DRAFTED AFTER FEBRUARY    Selective Service Says Calls After January Cannot Be Filled From Registrants 18 Through 25.   “PRODUCE OR FIGHT” ORDER SUPPLEMENTED   Boards Told to Put In 1-A Workers 26 to 3% Who Have Left Jobs Essential to War Effort.

YANKEE BOMBERS WN GEREN RAL   Strong. Uni ts Reported Attacking Targets In / Middle Germany

Air Blows At Hitler’s Fortress Continue... . Mosquito Bombers Rake  Berlin Again; American Planes Stage Day Raid

Berlin Reports Heavy Raid On Mid-Germany   Mosquitos At Night Con: tinue To Keep The Reich Jittery.

Allied Bombers. Renew Daylight - Attacks OnNazis   Blast. Central. “Germany  "Targets! After Night “Bombing. -Of .. Berlin

Heavy Planes Cross Channel   Daylight Smash Against Europe Follows Night Attack Upon Berlin

U.S. Bombers Lash Out At Mid-Germany   Mosquitos Hit Berlin: Wellingtons Assault Sofia After Heavy  Fortress Raid

¥  RAIDS MADE ON GERMANY   Strong Formations Strike In Reich After Berlin Blow

Planes Renew Day Attacks On Europe   Mosquitos Again Over Berlin— Ninth Foray  OF the Year

U.S. BOMBS RIP UP AXIS EUROPE AGAIN TODAY   Berlin Reports Air Balle Over France And Germany

Allies Renew Daylight Raids On Europe   Berlin Reports American Bombers Over Central Germany

Large Allied Planes Raid in Daylight   Night Raid Of RAF Is Followed Up In Daytime

Allied Planes:  Renew Attacks   Bombers Sweep Across Eng: lish Channel In Daylight Rai.

NAZIS REPORT BATTLES OVER FRANGE, REICH   Giant Bombers Engaged Immediately by- Germans Fighters, Says Berlin.

Allied Bomber Fleet Renews Attacks On Center of Reich   Daylight Assault Follows Ninth Mosquit: Raid on Berlin and Western Germanv: Fighter Force Also in Action

ALLIED WARPLANES * IN SWEEPS ACROSS CHANNEL TUESDAY  MOSQUITO BOMBERS ATTACKED BERLIN FOR

Berlin Raided By RAF Planes   Western Reich Also Get: Attention; Mosquites Return Safely

Post-War Taxing Plan Offered Congress By CED  Ease Burden  Me Suw.al]l Taeenaver

BELGIAN FORCES: HUNT QUISLINGS   Patriot Army Comes Out Of Hiding To Help Drive Out Axis

Youthful Patriot Group Comes Out ‘of Hiding To Help Chase Nazis Out

MODERNIZATION OF CONGRESS IS BEING DISCUSSED   Cigaret Shortage and Row Over Rationing Prime Topics for Lawmakers

WILLOW RUN IS STRIKE BOUND   15,000 Workers Out, Other Labor Dispute Hinder War Factories

Martin Orders Revocations In Liquor Cases  Cash Compromises For Violations No Longer Permitted

‘FLYING SQUADRON’ OF 50 RAIDS WARD STORE AND DESTROYS MERCHANDISE

WARD'S STORE LOSSES MOUNT   Over 50 Persons Upset Counters at Dearborn—Many Idle at K. C,

WPB TO HEAR BAY DEMAND   STEEL WORKERS TO. PRESENT '. CASE FOR HIGHER WAGES _ BUT REJECTION 18 ASSURED . -

This Thanksaiving [s on the Governor   Major Indication of Holiday in Texas Is A&M-Texas Game

DEWEY WILLING TO BE DRAFTED   New York Governor Insists, However, That He Will Not Become An Active Candidate For GOP Nomination.

Hold Dewey Wil Yield If Drafted  Sticks to Statement tia le Nat Candidats

Ssiaes Willing To Passage of Revenue Bill In Be Draft Nominee Senate Friday Is Anticipated

DEWEY MAY GE DRAET NOMINEE   Will Not Alter Determination Not to Be Active in  famnnsiann

Dewey Willing To Run If He's Drafted By GOP   But Won’t Become Active Candidate Prior To June Convention.

DEWEY TO ACCEPT IF HE IS DRAFTER   Will Not Become An Active Aspirant Before Republican Convention.

DEWEY EXPECTED TO ACCEPT DRAFT   REFUSES TO ENTER CONTEST FOR THE GOP NOMINATION

AMERICAN AERTAL REINFORCEMENTS REACH NOEMFOOR   Japanese Positions East of .Captured Airdrome Being Liquidated With Aid of Tanks.   YANKS MOVE TOWARD : 2 OTHER AIRSTRIPS   Altied Perimeter Being Enlarged on Dutch New Guinea Mainland — Jap Equipment Captured.

NOEMFOOR ISLAND . -AIRFIELD 1S SEIZED      Americans Strike Within 800: Miles of the  Philippines 

BLIND LOVE TRAVELS ALONE FOR HER GI Tiny Blonde Greets Pacific Veteran in Kansas City

Yanks Blast German Target   NAZIS SHUN AIR, BUT 35 FIGHTERS DOWNED IN RAID, SAID AT BRUNSWICK AIRCRAFT CENTER AND HANNOVER AREA TO NORTH

PLANE CENTER YANK TARGET, BERLIN CLAIM   Strong Fighter Escort Given; Challenge By Nazis Feeble

Nazi Resistance To Raid Is Feeble   Yanks Hit German Aircraft Center

“Milk Run’ Made by U.S. Bombers on Brunswick   Germans Fail to Offer Challenge

Brunswick Bombed by U. S. Fliers   Few German Fighters Break Through Escort  To Reach Bombers

Americans Bomb Brunswick Plant   Forts, Libs Find Little Nazi Enemy Opposition

Can’tEntice Nazi Pilots Into Combat   Little Opposition in Air — Nazi Reports Says Brunswick Bombed

LUFTWAFFE RESISTANCE VERY LIGHT   American Losses During Raid on Brunswick Are Represented as Low.

SOLONS AWAIT POST-WAR PLAN   Congress Facing Another Recess   gia IE Sage PS En eae ens ree oe Ne Aer  No Reconversion Program Ready

New Recess Of Congress ‘Is Forecast   See Lack of Program For Reconversion  To Cause Delay

Background of Plot Sought  L-itish Find Bombs Hidden  Jn Oranges Sent From Spain

England Finds Time  Bombs in Oranges  Believe Nazi Agents Planted Exnolosives

TIME BOMBS FOUND ON ORANGE SHIPS   CARGOES SENT FROM SPAIN TO ENGLAND—ASK MADRID TO INVETIGATE.,

Action on Absentee Vote Suit te Come After January 19   Time Bombs Hidden in Oranges From Spain Delay Distribution to British

British Reveal Loss of Famed Cruiser Penelope in Anzio Beach Landing

British Cruiser, Penelope, Sunk   Famed Ship Lost  In Anzio Operation

me Ue —_  RUSSIANS BATTLE TOWARD KHERSON   Saviet Forces Reported ‘Only 22 Miles. From  Nazi Race   HEAVY CASUALTIES   Railroad Leading Into Rumania And Hungary  Cut By Reds.

60,000 GERMANS DEAD IN 8 DAYS OF DRIVE   Railway to Rumania Severed at Point 45 Miles North of Bessarabian Frontier   BATTLE IN TARNOPOL

60,000 Germans Killed In Eight Days Of Big Push   Russians Now Threaten - Large Nazi Base Of Kherson

Ukraine Forces Only 22 Miles From Nazi Base of Kherson; EKierce Battle for Tarnopol Rages

Soviets Race Through Over 20¢ Localities in Advance of Almost Mile an Hour

210 Localities Captured by Red Forces   Russians Are Only 22 Miles From Base at Kherson

Soviets Fight Way to Only 22 Miles From _ Kherson  MANY LOCALITIES TAKEN IN ADVANVE  Mile an Hour Gains An: nounced in Moscow Dispatch ©

Reds Cut Nazi Supply Line Leading To Rumania; 210 Places Occupied In Almost Mile-an-Hour Push

KHERSON ON LOWER DNIEPER GOAL OF DRIVE: REDS RUSH THROUGH 210 LOCALITIES AT ALMOST MILE AN HOUR SPEED.   (Rw TOM VARRROTIIGH)

REDS REPORT 60, 000 NAZIS DIE IN 8 DAYS   5,000 Killed Sunday as Soviet *: “Troops “Approach Big -. Base at Kherson:

Soviet Ukraine Armies Advance info Rumania   Approach German Base af Kherson

‘Four Soviet Armies Surge  In Ukraine   Strike Near Proskurov, To East of Tarnopol, Where Big Battle Rages  PROGRESS IS RAPID

‘Russians Within 22 Miles Of Kherson ‘After Killing 5,000 More Nazi Troops

Russ Army 22 Mis. From Big Nazi Base Of Kherson   More Than 60,000 Germans Killed In Eight Days Fighting On Suuthern Front

Railway Leading To Balkans Cut   Four Big Russian Armies in Ukraine Slash Proskurov-Guspatin Road Which Connects Battle Area With Rumania and Hungary.   22? MILES FROM KHERSON

Reds Within 22 Miles Of Kherson   Many Nazis Stain in Big Ukraine Battle

Soviets Score Victory in _ Dnieper Push   Russ Claim Southern Offensive Has Taken 60,000 German Lives in Eight Days; Railway Leading Into Hungary Slashed

Russian Drive Continues at Faster Pace   Red Army Goes Ahead at Rate of Nearly One Mile Per Hour

Red Army Battles Within 22 Miles Of Kherson Base   Russians Sweep Up More Than 210 Communities, Slashing Through Important Railway Leading Into Rumania and Hungary   6,000 NAZIS SLAIN IN BATTLES SINCE SATURDAY

Russians Drive Neat Kherson   60,000 Germans Reported Killed In Eight Days

Soviets Pushing Toward Kherson  60,000 Nazis Killed in Past? Eiah? Davs

Ukraine Army Gets 22 Miles From Kherson   Bitter Street Fights Rage in Tarnopol; 210 Localities Freed  In Great Advances

RUSSIANS WITHIN: MLE GMD      More Than 60,000 Nazis Slain In Last Eicvht Days   REDS 50 MILES FROM RUMANIA

SOVIET FORCES ONLY 22 MILES FROM KHERSON   Slay 5,000 Germans In Ad. vance on Big Nazi Base In Dnieper Area

RUSSIANS IN STEADY PUSH NEAR KHERSON   60,000 Germans Killed During Past 8 Days

SOVIET FORGES ONLY 22 MILES FROM KHERSON   Russians Kill Over 60,000 German Troops in Last Eight Days

RAILWAY INTO RUMANIA IS CUT BY RED TROOPS   Soviets Are Within 20 Mites Of German Kherson Stronghold   RUSSIANS THREATEN BUG RIVER DEFENSES

RED ARMY NEAR BASE OF KHERSON   Russians Take City On « Bug River 50 Miles  From Rumania

Red Troops Drive Within22M les Of Big Kherson Base   5,000 More Germans Slain Sunday As Great Offensive Goes On; Russians Dislodge Foe House ByeHouse As Fierce Fight Continues At Tarnopol .

Germans Deny Rommel Killed   Commander Seen Shaving Self After Death Reports, Claim

DEATH OF ROMMEL DENIED   German Sources Say Marshal “Is i In Good Condition” -

AFL Elects Green for His 21st Term; Votes to Unite Labor Factions

ARKANSAS CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES BARED   Adkins Reported He Spent $90,366, Fulbright $65,190, and Colonel Barton $127,732.

FUND ‘DEFICIT NOW $13,600   One Week Remains Ir Red Cross Campaign

GOVERNORS DEPART AS UNITY REACHED   Policy Statement Issued On 14 Points Final Swing Taken at New Deal Administration

DEWEY ENDS THREE STATE GOP SURVEY   New York Candidate Predicts He Will Win Election Despite War News

Dewey Pleased With Results of Meet With 26 Governors   Declares Problem of Friction Between Local and Federal Governments Solved So Far as Republicans Concerned

Dewey Predicts Own Election, Lauds Results of St. Louts Meet   Party Solves Problem of Local and Federal Eviction He Save as Governors Start Home

Dewey Predicts He'll Win Even lf War Goes On   G.0.P. Candidate Sure of Victory

DEWEY FORECASTS VICTORY AT POLLS      Governor Winds Up Series of Political Con~ ferences.

YANKS OCCUPY NICE SEAPORT   Liberals Enter City Unopposed  nd  Aim To Join Yankees In Italy

Americans Occupy Nice As Hitler Attempts To Delay Junction Of Allied Forces

Great Seaport Of Nice Taken By U.S. Forces   ward Italian Border In  Proes Moving Steadily ToLatest Drive   ENTRY INTONICEIS” WITHOUT OPPOSITION

ENEMY THRUST HALTS IN ITALY   American Troops Driven From Two Towns In Serchio Valley

Enemy Italian. Drive Checked   Yanks Yield Ground Along  Sie Bila Wilda Santar’

NAZI ATTACKS ARE - REPORTED CHECKED   Americans Forced Back in Four Days of Heavy Fighting

Nazis Execute Revolt Leader  = };. fPmttit * £ se   Gen. Olbricht Shot by Firing Squad

G en. Olbricht Directed Plot ‘To Wall Hitle:   German Broadcast Says Army Chief Of Supply Tried And Executed

Berlin, ‘Reveals Names   Gen. Albricht Led “Assassination Plot; Gens. Hoeppner, Beck. Main Figures

Nazis Say Gen. Olbricht Led Plot ‘To Kill Hitler And He Was Executed

Nazis Say. Gen: Olbricht Led Plot. To Kill-Hitler And He Was. Executed:

OLBRICHT WAS REVOLT HEAD IS GERMAN REPORT      Executed After Court Martial, Beck Took Own Life Ts Claim

REPORT 12,000 KILLED IN RAID   Fifty Thousand Homeless After Brunswick Attack

County's Pantry Stores Program Receives Praise   Local Plan Suggested For Use In European Nations After War

RED ARMIES TRAP GREAT NAZI FORCES   Pinch Off Latvia and Es. tonia With 350,000 Germans Forced Back to Sea With No Escape.

Soviets Close Trap Around Nazi Armies   Red Forces Reach Baltic Sea Below Riga in Swift Move

Reds Reach Sea at Riga, Trap Nazis   Baltic States Cut Off in New Thrust; Warsaw Fall Near

English Girl Hopes She Can Marry. ‘Red,’ Who Has Wife in Pittsburgn

UNWED MOTHER SAYS SHE LOVES YANK SERGEANT   HOPES FOR MARRIAGE BUT MAN OF CHOICE HAS WIFE IN U. S.

War Bond Drive Nears Half-Way Mark In Houston  But Half Of Time Set For Campaign len Daacad

BABY AND NURSE STILL NOT FOUND   ‘Detectives Are Mystified After  Checking Clues

After Record Yank Br ittany Sweep,  "One More Month. Fini’ Sav Nazis

AMERICANS ADVANCING ON SAIPAN   Move Up Mountain For Climax Of Battle For Isle

41,200 Pennies Collected From Meager Pay To’Keep Men — In War Plants Satisfied

Seamen Send Money to Buy Off Strikers   Seaplane Tender Crew Asks AP To Serve As  Go-Between

Ship’s Crew Offers To Pay "Money Hungry Strikers’   Also Wants To ‘See’ Them After War; Ready To Give From Meager Pay To Prevent ‘Starvation’ 

Sea Veterans Chip in to Keep Unions’  Strikers Well Fe:   Collect Money on ‘Coos Bay’; Sent it to AP to  Dishurce

‘Naval Men Send Associated Press Money from Pacific To “Buy Off" Plant Strikers

VETERANS OF MANY SEA FIGHTS RAISE FUND TO ‘BUY OFF’ STRIKING WORKERS

USS Coos Bay Men Want “Money-Hungry" Workers to End Strife; Navy Releases Letter

“Cannot Reach Enemies At Home,” Write Sailors In War Zone, So They Send Money To “Buy Off” Wright’s And Other Strikers

U.S. S. Coos Bay Seaplane Tender Crew Takes Striker To Task In Message To AP

Battle-Hardened Veterans of Sea __ Offer Their Own Pay to Strikers

Railway and Steel Strikes Are  Declar ed to Have Delayed ‘Allied Hope of Axis Collapse

More Men Are Accepted For Military Duty  Army Takes Most Of Last Group

More Men Are Accepted For Military Duty  Army Takes Most Of Last Group To Be Examined

FIRST CLASS FIGHT IS DEWEY’S PROMISE   -Campaign Won't Interfere With War Effort

Dewey Promises Real Fight   7,000 Greet GOP Candidate on Arrival At Billings, Mont.

Dewey Outlines Future Campaigr  Promises It Will Not Interfere with War

GERMANS REELING INHUNGARY UNDER RED ARMY BLOWS   Russians Drive to Within 40 Miles of Budapest on West ‘Bank of Danube River.   ASSAULT ON CAPITAL FROM REAR LOOMS   Soviet Forces Now Stand Near Approaches to Austria—Gain 100 Miles in 24 Hours.

REDS REACH SHORES OF ‘LAKE BALAIGA   In Southwestern Hungary Within 40 Miles of Budapest; Not Yet Con. firmed by Moscow.   Nearer Frontier

Reds Advance Rapidly on Austria   Soviet Gains Are Reported in Enemy Broadcasts

Soviet Drive On Budapest Gains Ground   Reach Lost Barrier Near Austrian Border

Reds Pounc Approaches To Austria   Russians Overrun 100 Towns; Within 40 Miles Budapest

RED SPEARKEADS PUNCH FORWARL   Reach Lake Balaton, Guarding Austria Approaches   SPEEDY ADVANCE   Battalions Cover 100 Miles In 24 Hours; Nazis Face Catastrophe, Claim

Enemy Facing Catastrophe In Hungary:   Soviets Continue Gains And Two Great Armies Close to Springing Trap

REDS DRIVE TO SOUTH SHORE OF LAKEBALATON   Russian Troops Also Re. ported Within 40 Miles Of Budapest

Final Drive to Open Antwerp ls Underway   Great Belgian Port Is Nearly Freed by Allies

Final Drive to Open Antwerp Gateway Starts   Westkapelle and Most  Of Flushing Taken Re Alviad f'ammanadnc

Launch Decisive Drive To Open —  Antwerp Gateway   Amphibious Forces Successful In Attack Above Schelde Estuary

BLOW AIMED AT FLUSHING, NAZIS CLAIM   Walcheren Island Last Nazi Gun Position Blocking Sea Lane to Antwerp for Allies

War Food Agency's Report on Holding is Submitted Today   Says Losses es From Spoilage Amount to 1/50 of One Per Cent

WFA DENIES REPORTS HEAVY FOOD SPOILAGE   Puis Losses af Less Than $1 on $5,000 Purchases — Reports Stocks Held for Lend-Lease

.Kisenhower Back in Harness Again ‘After Cracking Under War Strain

Health Back; Eisenhower  ‘Rarin’ To Ga   Strain of Drive Too Much But. Allied Leader Recovers

Bricker Says EUR Foreign Policy Utler Failure  Says New Deal Wasted   Says New Deal Wasted Money and Neglected  Notional Dafence

Bricker Calls Roosevelt's Foreign Policy A Failure   Ohio Governor Says Administration Neglected De  fenses of the U. S.—Speaks to Large Audience in Kansas City

Neglect Charged At Pearl Harbor   Congress Probe Names Colonel, Contractor

Japs Continue India Retreat   Nip Columns in Full Rou Before Drivine Allies

GERMANS IN THE DARK   Americans Have Made Secret ' Thrusts Out of Le Mans

Chinese Battle Back to Hengyang   Fighting Rages Anew; Japs Lose Key Point

NORTH BURMA CAMPAIGN IS NEAR CLIMAX   One Third of Myitkyina Now in Allied Hands; Japs Attempting Retreat

Yankees Sink Boatloads of Fleeing Japs Myitkyina Already * in Allied Hands

Allied Forces Hold Third Of Myitkyina   Japs Trying To Flee  By River Attacked, .  "Several Boats Sunk RESICTANCE FATNESS

JAPS FLEEING BASE IN BURMA   Flyers Sink Boatloads of Foe Trying to Escape Encircled Myitkyina

CLIMAX IS NEAR IN FIGHTING IN BURMA   Many Japs Perish When American Airmen Sink Boats

Americans Sink Boatloads Of Japs Fleeing Mvitkyina In North Burma

BOATLOADS OF JAPANESE SUNK FLEEING BURMA   Campaign Approache: Climax With Third Of Myitkyina Captured   ENEMY RESISTANCE BEGINS TO CRUMBLE

Yankees Sink Boatloads of Fleeing Japs   Myitkying Already , One-Third in Allied Hands

YANKS SINK BOAT LOADS OF JAPANESE   Climiax Near in Burma Campaign; Jap Resistance Starting to Crumble under Allied Force.   Killing Enemy

Gillette Is Still  PP Lo Nts Teun   Head of Iowa Demo Ticket In Unique Position

 in Fall Election. :   “Hickenlooper ‘vs. Gillette: for U.S. Senator: -

H. ickenlooper-Gillette Senate Race Gets Top Billing Fall Election   State Capitol News Letter _As-Reviewed by Sentinel’s Sbecial Corresnondent -

PRISONER OF WAR RACKET ~~ IS RECEIVING A SETBACK   FEDERAL AGENCIES ELIMINATING “BLACK MARKET” INFORMATION AND HITTING AT PROPAGANDA

Rum! Works Out New Tax System   Individual Salaries Would Produce Most Of Federal Revenue

Peril For India Not Great-Knox   Does Not Regard Jay Drive There As Important

Losses in Europe  57,775 in Month   War Department Lists November Casualties

T3TH MANOR FIRE TRAGEDY LISTED   Loss of Life in Circus Blaze Places It Among Worst in U.S.

Cirens Was Thirteenth Major Fire Disaster :  oh... Spore s2CcmicrTie hen PRCccs

Americans Under Plane Cover Land on New Britain Placing Them in 170 Miles of Rabaul   ‘Light Naval Foray Against Dutch Coast Reveals Nazi Short-range Rocket Guns

Wallace Predicts Post War Development In North Pacifi   Vice-President, Back From China, Russia Gives Views in Talk at Seattle, Wash.

SAYS HILLMAN COLLABORATES WITH THE REDS   Subversive Campaigr Charged by House  Committee

REPORT CLAIM COMMUNISTS IN LEANING SEATS   Rd: Heid Tsp FI ght Pos.s in Lccil Unicns, Ccmm te: Asxr-:. —

 POLITICAL ACTION COMMIT:   YEE REPRESENTS  “SURVER:  . SIVE COMMUNIST CAM. _  ‘ PAIGN," 200-PAGE RE.  o* PORT CHARGES ;

AIR RAIDERS HIT _ JAPANESE FLANKS   Dispatches Tell of Wide spread Aerial: Poundinas

AIR RAIDERS HIT JAPANESE FLANKS   Dispatches: Tell ‘of Wide spread Aerial: Pound‘ings -.

“ATIACKS HIT JAP FLANKS   Kuriles and Formosa Latest Targets for Blasting

New Air Smashes Hit Japan's Flanks   Kuriles, Formosa U. S. Bomber Force Targets

Defenses Of Japanese Hit Aerial Blows   Japs Admit New Raids On Volcano Islands

FORMOSA, KURILE ISLANDS BLASTED   American Fliers Stage New Raids in Volcano Islands;  ® Philippine Defense Lines Seriously Threatened

Yank Airmen Smash at Two Flanks of Japan   New Volcano Island And Kurile Raids Reported; Philippine  Defense Threatened

Yanks Smash At Flanks of Jap Homeland   American Airforce Raids Kuriles  And Formosa

JAP. REPORTS OF PHILIPPINES RE-OCCUPATION INDICATE THAT THIS MAY BECOME TRUE SOON   By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. (Substituting for DeWitt  pe cere Saas

The War Today   By J. 8S. ROBERTS, JR.  (Substituting For nth its Wael ansini

RE-OCCUPATION OF PHILIPPINES AS REPORTED BY TOKYO MEANS GENERAL MACARTHUR IS KEEPING HIS PROMISE.

Battle For Philippines May Be Short But Costly   By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. (Substituting For DeWitt MacKenzie.)

JAP REPORTS OF PHILIPPINES RE-OCCUPATION INDICATE THAT THIS MAY BECOME TRUE SOON

Bond Drive Office Is A Busy Place   Campaign Headquarters for the Ath War Loan is Opened in Aiken at 1920 Park Avenue. Solicitor’s Rally Held and Much Interest Shown. :

Army and Navy Jonrnal Says Rear Admiral To Escape Courtmartial as  Result of Findings

TRIAL OF KIMMEL RULED OUT, REPORT   COURT-MARTIAL OF SHORT . HELD UNLIKELY, BY ARMY — AND NAVY JOURNAL.

Kimmel, Short Trials Unlikely  Admiral’s Exonera tion   Admiral’s Exoneration Hinted; General’s Friends Optimistic

Kimmel Case Gets Attention   Army, Navy Journal Say “No Courtmartial” As Result of Navy Findings

No Court Martial  For Kimmel  ‘Army, Navy Journal Says Friends Believe

No Court Martial Of Kimmel, ArmyNavy Journal Say:   Bases Prediction On Findings of The Navy Board

KIMMEL MIGHT NOT BE TRIED   Army And Navy Journal Re ports Naval Officer Can't Be Blamed

No Courtmartial For Officials, Paper Predicts   Novy Board Findings Said In Favor OF Kimmel And Short

Adm. H. E. Kimme! Will Not Be Court-Martialed  Army Navy Journal Gives Opinion - On Official Query

DIES UNIT PROBE OF FIGHT ASKED   Solon Urges Action: Compan: ion of Naval. Officer Identified

Yanks Make Other Gains  In Germany   Troops Shig It Out House-to-House for Major Road Center

Seize Town Ot Frenz In  ‘Duren Area   Gen. Patton’s Third Army  Extends Hold On Saar! Basin By Advancing  Through St. Avold 

In House to House Battle For Center   Farther South, Third Army in 17 Miles Now of Searbrucken, Widens Saar Basin Front to 19 Miles

HEAVY BATTLES ON WEST FRONT   infantry Slugs It Out With Nazis in House to House . Fighting. {   'TRGOPS ENTER HURTGEN

Patton’s Troops Within 17 Mi. Of Saarbrucken   First Army Drives Into Forest Battlefield Town of Hurtgen

Ist army storms into Langerwehe  3rd widens front inside Saar basin to 19 miles

PATTON'S FORCE SURGING AHEAD FOR SAAR BASIN   Allies Press Drive Slowly Into Germany Despite Handicaps by Weather

First Army Storming Road Hub   House-to-House Battle for Last Major Center Before Cologne   THIRD ARMY ALSO  SCORES ADVANCE   Now 17 Miles-From City of Saarbrucken; Saar Basin Front Widenea

First Army Moves 25 Miles from City   Gen. Hodges’ Troops at Hurtgen; Almost Cleared From Forest Fight For More Maneuverable Battling

First Army Troops Take City 14 Miles Inside Reich Border   Other U.S. Armies in Bitter Fighting on Western Front

Bloody Fighting As Yanks Storm Center Wes! of Roer River   Third Army Advance Widens Front Inside German Saar Basin

First Army Takes Frenz and, Fights Out of Hurfgen Woods   Patton Pierces Maginot Line, Takes More Forts; Seventh Army Spreads Out on Plain South of Strasbourg

INFANTRY IN HOUSE TO HOUSE FIGHTING IN TOWNS NEAR CITY: FOOTHOLD IN REICH WIDENED

‘Bitter Fighting Increases Threat to Nazi Industrial Region   ‘ROAD CENTERS TAKEN   Strasbourg Corridor I: Broadened to Width of Fifteen Miles

Advances All Along Line Are Reported Today   First Army Storms Into Langerwehe  And Hurtgen After Canture of Freny

U.S.3RD ARMY — EXTENDS FRONT 19 MILES IN REICH  GERMAN RESISTANCE  STRONG AS ALLIED  meets A® 14iALI ALI

U.S. Troops   Storm Major Road Center   Break Into Langerwene, Only 244 Miles From Cologne

ASSAULT NAZIS ONLY 24 MILES FROM COLOGNE   Langerwehe, Hurtgen and Frenz Captured in American Advance

Heavy Fighting Continues in Aacher Sector. Yanks Close  In Yard by Yard

EISENHOWER’S SIX ALLIED FORCES SCORE GAINS ALONG ENTIRE 400-MILE BATTLELINE   British Tommies All But Wipe Out German Salient West Of Maas and Stand Before Venlo, Field Dispatch Declares   NEW PATH BEING OPENED TOWARD STRASBOURG

YANKS CAPTURE VITAL TOWN IN COLOGNE PUSH   Continue to Move Up All Along 400-Mile  European Front

BATTLE RAGES FOR KEY CITY BEFORE ROER   Patton’s Army Drives Past St. Avold On Road to  Saarbrucken

Bloody Battles Mark Plunge loward Cologne  Ist Army Troops In Langerwhe, Hurtgen;   Ist Army Troops In Langerwhe, Hurtgen; Patton Is 17 Miles Eram Saarbrucken

First Army: Aims Drive At Cologne   ‘Hodges’ Troops Brave Enemy Fire To Enter Hurtgen

THIRD ARMY WIDENS SAAR BASIN FRONT   Ninth Army, Meanwhile,. Wades Deep Water to Take Fortress Located on Roer River

TEMPERATURES:   Maginot Forts Are Toppled By. Yanks, French   Decisive Battle Of War In Europe Thunders — Toward Climax

Americans Storm into Langerwehe, 24 Miles from Cologne, Which Is on Major Defense Road.   OTHER ARMIES HAVE DEEPENED MARCH

7th Army Hammers Out New Rhineland Gains Against Crack Panzers   Hodges Tightens Siege Arc Around Duren; 3rd Grinds Out Mile Advance In Saar Basin

Crack Panzers Fail To Stop. Yank Advance   ‘Germans Losing Five Men to One American Casualty

THERING FIRE AILS TO HALT ANK ADVANCE   ith Throws Off Panzer Attack

8  Seventh Army Troops: papture Lauter bout         See Tk B < oe  Pour Across Border.

Patch’s Troops Storm Siegfried Line Outposts   Nazis Reported Moving Crack Panzer Troops Into Westwall Front

Push of 7th Army Speeded   Nazi Losses Heavy ‘in North; Duren Siege Arc Tightened

GERMANS THRGY BEST RESERVES AGAINST PATCH   ' Seventh Army Advances Against Point-Blank Fire

7th Army Meets Nazi Reserves   G:rmans Sending Fresh Troops to Oppose Invasion  of Rhineland

EFFORT MADE TO HALT AMERICAN PENETRATION   Seventh Hammers Out New Gains Against Fire From Siegfried Line; Division Cross German Borders

CRACK GERMAN RESERVES FAIL TO HALT SEVENTH ARMY'S ADVANCE   Doughboys Plunge Into Pointblank Fire

TTH ARMY IN NEW GAINS ACROSS BORDER   Nazis Rush Crack Divisions Into Action

Seek To Halt Further Penetratic Of The “Holy Soil” Of TI Reich, More Trocps Approa Frontier   GERMAN CASUALTIES HEAVY IN FIGHTIN

7th Army Crosses _ Into Reich   Hammers Out  New Gains Almost Against Pointblank Germon Fire

Yanks Pound Ahead Despite Fierce Gunfire   First Army Tightens Grip on Duren; Third Pushes On   BULLETIN

Germans Act To Halt New “Allied Drive   Panzer Reserves Rushed to Front In Upper Rhine

AMERICANS BALK GERMAN PANZERS ON WEST FRONT   Make Gains On Holy Soil of Reich In linpner Rhine

FDR Denies He’s ‘Tired, Defeated’   Dewey Criticisms Get A Grin From Chief Executive

Roosevelt: Would like to go home  Refuses reply to - Dewey’s charges

President is Not Tired Nor Defeated   Admits to News Men He’d Like to Be at Hyde Park

FDR REPLIES 10 DEWEY CHARGES   Neither Tired Nor Defeated, President Declares

Hyde Park Retreat FDR Preference, He Tells Writers  Avoids Direct Answer To Dewey Charges On New Deal Policy

Not Tired Or Defeated—F. R  President Comments On Dewey's Speech

President Smiles and Says Nothing   Refuses To Be Drawr Into Controversy Over Dewey

-R Would Like To Retire To Hyde Park, But Not Because He Is ‘Tired, Defeated

ROOSEVELT HAS LITTLE COMMENT ONDEWEY'S TALK   Did Not Hear The Speech, Had Read Only Half Of It— Silent On Hershey  yo ees Cee CREO

Roosevelt Did Not Listen To  Dewey Speech   Commenis on Phases o1 Opponent’s Talk and Parries Reporter’s «Questious 

FDR Replies to  Dewey's Accusation Merely Says He Would   Merely Says He Would Like to Return to Hyde Park If Possible

 WOULD LIKE TO 60 HOME   His Wishes in Matter Not Due to Being Tired or Defeated

EIGHTH ARMY CROSSES THE GOSINA RIVER   Germans Attempt To Hold Bologna  Road Junction

Army Crossés  Cosina River   Sinall ‘Gains: Seored Upon Italian’ Front

Turks Seen As Anxious.   Want. To Do. Part In Ending’ Differences’

Turks Ready To Cooperate With British   Anxious to Patch Differences Though Still Short of Promised Aid

-Turkey Seen Ready To Revise Estimate ‘Of Combat Supplies   Foreign Minister Vows lo Leave No Stone Ur-turned to Placale Britain; Eventual Part in War Predicted

(Turn to Page Six. Column Six)  TURKEY READY TO SETTLE ALLIED BREAI

Field Marshal Gustav Mannerheim, Himself A Former Russian Army Officer and the George Washington of Finland, Must Now Be Blamed For Her Utter Destruction

WAR TODAY   Finland Has Taken Road to Utter Ruin; Must Pay Bitterly for Her Axis Association

The War Today  Finland Seen Facing Ruin   Finland Seen Facing Ruin In Following Pro-Nazi Path

Final Decision  Finland, Throwing i in With Nazis, Takes Road to Ruir

AXIS IN RAGE 10 ESCAPE TRAP SET BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Another Army Massing {n Prut Valley to Strike When Enemy Is Destroyed on Black Seq.   ALLIES OPEN ATTACKS ON JAP STRONGHOLDS   Japs Continue Burma Advance Against Bitter Resistance Offered By British Forces.

100,000 Germans ‘In Ukraine Fleeing «To Escape Trap   Last Retreat Route in South Threatened as Reds Advance; Nazis Race Toward Ressarabiz

Seek To Escape Trap Threatening To Cut Retreat .   Converging Russian Armies Closing In On Big Black Sea Port

100,000 GERMANS FLEEING RED TRAP   Russian Armies Converge On Odessa as Germans Desperately Seek Escape.

Germans Abandon Stubhora Besistance and Make Break to Get Away — German Retreat PanicStricken in Seme Sections,

ermans Scurrying to Escape 'ussian Trap West of Odessa   vISS CLAIM TOWN NORTH BOMBED

Nazis in Ukraine Flee To Escape Soviet Tran   APRIL OFFENSIVE ON GERMANY IS STARTED

GOP Senators Back Dewey For President   Bricker Runs  Second in Unofficial Pall

Most Victims Of Circus Fire Are Children   Toll Of Hartford. Conn., Circus Disaster Is Increasing —Many Injured   STAMPEDE TRAMPS MANY CHILDREN

Most Victims Are Children   Five Officials Face Charges Of Manslaughter

FIVE FACING COURT ACTION ~ AT HARTFORD   POLL IN DISASTROUS FIRE '.NOW. STANDS AT 145 AND MORE DEATHS EXPECTED _

BELGIANS AGAIN NTE NERVOUSLY AS TIDE OF BATTLLE BRINGS HATED ({ERMANS BACK: INTO" THEIR - NATION:

x Kk *k& * Belgium Gets It Again   KK -*"= KO OK Yanks Want  Rocket Support

Break Across Seine  - On 200-Mile Front   Nazi 7th Army Almost Destroyed; Luxembourg And Alsace-Lorraine Warned That Attack Is Imminent

Huns Fleeing In Direction Of Fatherland  Allies Administer apéss tl Danadinen

Battle of Southern France Enters  Its Final Phase  Allies Make Extensive Gains in All Sectors Of Western Front

Beating Of /th Army ‘Decides Battle Of France  British Forge Ahead   British Forge Ahead 40 Miles In 6 Hours To Cross Seine; More Gains Reaistered

ALLIES CROSS SEINE; REICH BORDER NEAR   LUXEMBOURG SOON TO BE THEATRE OF WAR

ALLIED UNITS DRAW NEARER REICH BORDER   lighting Is Still Brisk Southeast of Paris On Banks of Seine

Germans Face Annihilation (in Seine Line   Once-Indomitable Foe Hangs Like “Meat On Butcher's Hook”

Germans Pounded In Their Retreat Toward the Rhine   Supreme Allied Headquarters Warns Alsace and Lorraine, Luxembourg They: Become Theater of War

Allies Win Battle Of France   Nazis Capable Now Only of Fighting A DeJaying Action. Flying Bomb Nests Menaced. Convoys On PBlove

CROSS SEINE ONFRONT 200 MILES LONG   Battle Swirls Toward Luxembourg, Alsace and Lorraine With Germans in Retreat.   ENEMY ABANDONING PORT OF LE HAVRE   Other Channel Fortifications and Robot Bomb Roosts Also Are Being Given Up.

Gains Made on 200-Mi. Front   Eisenhower Warns Alsace-Lorraine War To Flare There; Robot Bomb Coast in Peril as Battered Enemy Begins to Leave

200-Mile Front Set Up As Nazi Forces Flee   Germans Pushed Nearer Their Home Frontier

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Allied force smashes into  Pisa suburbs  Lunges to Arno  on 7-mile front

FIFTH ARMY SMASHES INTO TOWN OF PISA   South African Tankmen Move Into Fertile Farmlands Southwest Of  Florence

American Fifth Army Near Pisa   Yanks In Battle For Leaning Tower

PISA, FLORENCE UNDER ASSAULI   Fifth Army Prepared 1 Hit Former; Eighth Surrounds Latter

ALLIES DASH INTOPISAIN ‘NEW DRIVE   Americans Prepare for ’ Grand Assault on Gothic Line

Historic Ctiy Astride Arno Scene of Hard Battle; Leaning Tower Is Spared.   Lose 25 Bombers

Allies Smash Into Historie Pisa District   Advance Up Arno River In Preparation for Gothic Line Assault

Sth Army Pounding Pisa Wall   Clark Crosses Lower Arno, Sth Captures Citta di Castello

JAPS LOSE 300 IN FUTILE STAB   Force Of 2,000 Attacks American Forces On Bougainville

Nippon Attack Costs Foe 300   Americans Smash Assault On Bougainville Isle

LEGALITY OF SEIZURE NOT RECOGNIZED   Chairman Avery Says Company Welcomes Opportunity to Present Its Case In Courts   NEXT MOVE UNCERTAIN

Set January 8 For Hearing Of Ward Case   Suit May Reach Supreme Court For Final Verdict

SEEK FEDERAL COURT RULE ON WARD SEIZURE   12,000 Employes Start Work for Government in Seven Cities

MontgomeryWard Prepares for Court Fight as Avery Defies FDR Authority

Avery Pleased Courts To Get Ward-WLB Case   Doubts Legality Of US Seizure

NONTGOMMERY WARD SHURE IBY ARMY HEWED FOR COURTS  SEWELL AVERY, HEAD OF FIRM, -AND PRESIDENT ARE FAR APART ‘

Speedy Ruling By Court Asked In Ward Action   Government Wants Legal: ity of Seizure of Mail Order Company’s Seven Stores Determined

Avery, Ward Chief, Refuses to Accept Army Seizure Order   Challenges FDR’s Right to Assume Control of  Mail Order Firm

Government Seeks  Immediate Court  Ruling on Ward's Assistant Solicitor Mugh Cox Te Ask ler Federal Court Mearing on Seizare Legality

SEWELL AVERY IS NOT CONVINCED   Army Seizure of Montgomery Ward Properties is Not Recognized by Exetive as Legal. :

Government Seeks Immediate Court Ruling on Legality of Ward Seizure

U. S. DEMANDS COURT RULING ON WARD CASE   Seek Decision On Legality Of Army Seizure; Avery Challenges Order

A TEST IN COURT   Government Seeks to Fix Legality of Ward Company Seizure

U. S. SEIZURE OF WARD STORES I$ ILLEGAL: AVERY  CHALLENGES F. D. R.’S  AUTHORITY TO TAKE OVER CO. FACILITIES

Government Seeks Court Determination Of Legal Aspect Of Ward Seizure

COURT DECREE   12,000 Ward Employes in 7 Cities Go to Work for Uncle Sam Today.   TAVERY REMAINS FIRM

Ward Hearing In Court Fixed For January 8   Federal Judee Will Conduct Hearing on Government's Suit, Testing Legality of Seizure.

F.D.R., Avery Clash Again   Government Seeks Court Decision On Legality of Ward Seizure By Army.

¢ Ulties Ward Stores Seized By U.S. Order  Legality Of Move Is Unrecognized By Chairman Avery  WILL GO TO COURT      Government Acts To Have WLB Query Settled

Stands Firm On Kiss Ban At Louisiana   President to Discus: Reinstatement of  Ousted Coed

Louisiana State Prexy Stands Firm On Edict iAaainst Campus Kissing

Japan Admits Position Grave   Face “Struggles That Decide Its Destiny”

6 Ousted in China Cabinet Shakeup   Veteran War Minister,  Five Others Replaced

Late News Bulletins   Hitler Intervenes In Attempt To Keen Finland From Quitting The War

Hitler Moves to Keep Finns in War   SWISS DISPATCH SAYS FUEHRER OFFERS MORE PLANES, 10 DIVISIONS

REPORT HITLER OFFER TO KEEP FINLAND IN WAR   Kleventh Hour Attempt Too Late To Stop Peace Reply

Hitler Strives To Hold Finn Contact   Stockholm Reports Reply Favoring Russ Peace

Swiss Dispatch Says Hitler Tries To Intervene and Keep Finns Fichting

CLAIM HITLER INTERVENED IN FINN DISPUTE      However Finnish Reply Had Been Sent To Armistice Terms

_~ es ~ —  WITH GRAPEVINE BOYS IN THE SERVICE   WE WANT LETTERS FROM BOYS IN SERVICE

ic.  WITH GRAPEVINE BOYS IN THE SERVICE   WE WANT LETTERS FROM BOYS IN SERVICE

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Sforza Savs Churchill Applied Strong Pressure

Sforza Claims Churchill Put Him On-S po   Former Ttalian Ministes Says Pressure Applied On Him to Accept King Emanuele

Sforza Declares Churchill Used Pressure Tactics   Count Reiterates Position Against Monarchy, Fascism

Count Sforza Says Churchill fs Backing Emanuele  Former Minister Gets No Consideration In New Italian Plan

Late Dispatches Report Situation Still Remains Serious In Arnhem Area   Third Army Armor Churns Forward Thru Sea Of Mud Beyond Nancy; Heavy Fighting Rages Along Entire 100-Mile Front

Situation Said  To Be Serious At Arnhem=—Shells Into Enemy Lines

Bitter Fighting Continues in Dutch Sector   Second Army Batters Bloody Path For Initial Contact

HELP REACHES LOST DIVISION NEAR ARNHEM   TRAPPED AIRBORNE TROOPS STILL IN BAD SITUATION

Thousands of Troops, Big Supply of Armor Flown in To Aid Trapped Air Soldiers

SHELLS NAZI LINES AROUND LOST’ UNITS   Plight of Encircled Sky, Troops Still Serious, but They Declare They Will Hold Out.   HODGES’ FORCES CAPTURE STOLBERG   Germans Show No Sign of Weakening as Tank Battle With Patton Roars Into Sixth Day.

British Forge Tenuous Link Across Rhine   Situation of “Lost Division”? Tr In Arnl ion” Troops In Arnheim Sector Sill Reniains Serions      FRESH TROOPS AND SUPPLIES DELIVERED   Second Army Pouring Ava+ lanche of Shells Into Ranks of Eneircling Eneniy

Holland Forces Reinforced In Arnhem Battle   Tommies Send Shells At Germans Around “Lost Division”

Heavy Fighting Continues In Arnhem Sector   British Unit Pushes Within Quarter Mile Of Stranded Allies

Contact Made With Some of Allied Units   To South, U. 8. Third Army Makes Slight Gain Despite Rain

Tem peratures   British Make Bid To Rescue U.S. Units at Arnhem  Second Army Gains Banks of Rhine In: Bloody Battle

REOUUE TROOPS ARE REINFORCED   Thousands of British and Americans Flown to Area   STRONG OPPOSITION   Third Army’ Churns Foward In Sea of Mud; Rain and Clouds Hamper Airmen

News Day And Night   British Forge Tenuous Link With Units And Aid Flown In   But Situation Is Stull Serious   Germans Putting Up Bit ter Fight All Along Western Front

Glider Troops Rushed In To Aid Dempsey   Allies Apparently Hold Arnhem Bridge —Yanks Battie Over Muddy Roads

Germans Hold Arnhem Bridge   Put Up Stand-or-Die Resistance; Beleaguered Sky Troopers Confident

THOUSANDS OF FRESH TROOPS LAND IN AREA   Situation at Arnhem Still Serious, Say Front Reports

U. 5. Thunderbolt Challenges Spitfire For Title of Pursuit Queen of Skies

‘Usly Duckling’ Now Thunders Over Europe; May Change Concept of War

Abbey in Ruins After Blasting By Bombs, Shells   Ugly Duckling Turns Out To Be a Real War-Bird

Allies Headed For Littoria, Berlin Claims   Advance In That Direction From Nettuno Would Be Away From Rome,  Is Claim   Yanks Thrown ‘Across Rapido   Germans, Fighting With Fury of Coruered Tigers, Go Over to Offensive In South Areas

Allies Widen New Bridgeheac South of Rome as Nazis Pu Up Harder Fight Near Cassin   Americans Driven From New Position Across Rapido River; Seaborne Forces at Nettuno Meet Little Opposition as They Move Forward

NEW ALLIED FORCE DRIVES INLAND FOUR MILES FROM BEACH  GERMAN TENTH ARMY THROWS AMERICANS BACK IN CASSINO FRONT

Allies Push Nazis Back: Big Guns Set   Yankees Put Back In Hard Battle About Rapido

Rome Said To Be In Range Of Big Guns   Americans Thrown Back In One Area By Nazi Attacks

APPAIN WAY UNDER GUNS OF ALLIES   Germans Continue Attacks Along Rapico River

FIERCE FIGHT IS STILL RAGING FOR FIFTH ARMY   Russians, Meanwhile, Cut Bigger Gaps in Germans; Kir Attack Continues   By RICHARD McMURRAY

Allies Win Domination of Appian Way and Main Coastal Line LinkingRome and Cassino   In Meantime Americans Regain Lost Position on Rapido River as German Counterthrusts Show Marked Signs of Decreasing

NAZIS TURN 10 OFFENSIVE ON CASSINO FRONT   FORCE AMERICANS TO WITHDRAW FROM RAPIDO BEACHHEAD

Germans Push Americans Back On Cassino Line   Appian Way Under Artillery Fire in Four-Mile Advance

NAZIS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE ON CASSINO LINE   Battle to Gain Time To Deal With New Threat in Rear

Rome Now In Artillery Range Of Yank And British Troops;  Advances Made Below Cassino

Appian Way Under Fire  From Long  Beachhead   Americans Forced Back On Rapido River Front By Nazi Counter-Attack

Germans Push Americans Onto Defense   Landing Reported; Allied Force Driving on Rome

New Invasion Army Meets Lattle Resistance and Pour: Men and Guns Ashore

Appian Way Under Shelifire As Invaders Gain 4 Miles; Yanks Pushed Back in South

Nazis Attacking On Cassino Front   Allies Less Than 30 Miles From Rome-——Appian Way Under Shellfire— Yanks Thrown Back Across Rapido River — Nazis Seeking to Gain Time

GERMANS OPEN OFFENSIVE ON CASSINO FRONT   Invasion Forces Take Nettuno In Push Toward Famous Appian Way

Allies Advance 4 Miles Inland From Landings  South of Rome   Yanks Hurled Back Over Rapido River on ‘Old’ Battle Line

Cornered Germans Launch  Offensive On Whole Front   Americans Pushed Back Across Rapido Nettuno Is Reported Captured

Fury of German Attacks At Cassino Mounts And Americans Lose Ground

Nazis In South > Hurl Americans Back At Cassino   New Invasion Force Said Headed For Littoria Instead Of Toward Rome

Three Divisions Rushed from Rome Help Germans at Cassino; Allied Push from Beach Brings Appian Way Under Fire

ARMY OF YANKS IS FORCED BACK ACROSS RAPIDO   Germans Hope to Upset Cassino Front to Deal  With Threat to Rear

Nazi Forces Hurl Yankee Troops Back Across Rapido River   German Broadcast Claims Fifth Army Units March Toward Littoria Instead of Italian Capital

Germans Hasten To Block Advance; New Men, Supplies Land   Nazis Reported To Have Been Ready For Landing Farther Up Italian Boot Above Rome   °°? MILES FROAL ROME

Bridgehead Is Widened By oth Army   Germans Strike Hard In Cassino Area To Force Yanks Back Across Rapido River

APPIAN WAY UNDER FIRE FROM NEW BRIDGEHEAD   Germans Launch Offensive In South, Drive Yanks Across Rapido

Yan k s, Bri tis h Slash 4 Miles   APPIAN WAY UNDER SHELLFIRE FROM LONG BEACHHEAD ABOVE PONTINE MARSHES; ROME ROAD IN RANGE OF INVASION ARTILLERY

Allies Push on Steadily   Fresh Landings Made to North, Berlin Reports

Move To Cut Off Enemy —   Germans Are Moved North To Meet Allied Threat   By RICHARD MCMURRAY AP War BRaitner

The Avpian Way Is In Sights Of Ariillery Now   Allied Guns Have Range On Rome As Trooos Drive On

Yanks Repulsed  In Cassino Area   ...» Nazis Fight With Fury Of Cornered Tiger

Anglo-Americans Gain Four Miles In Push From Sea   ‘Nazis On Offensive Near Cassino;  Appian Way Under Shellfire; Eternal City But 30 Miles Away

APPIAN WAY BROUGHT UNDER CANNON RANGE   Race Develops to Secure Highways Before Nazis Turn From Cassino

ARE 8 MILES FROM GERMAN SUPPLY ROUTE   Road Is Main Artery Between Rome and Out« flanked Nazis, Who Open Furious Attack on the Whole Cassino Front, «

Nazis Drive Back Yanks At Cassino  In Fierce Assault   Appian Way Comes Under S hellfire Of Allied Guns From Beach-Head; German 10th Army Strikes Back On © Other Front; Enemy’s Nettuno Base Seized

ALLIED INVADERS “HAVE DRIVEN FOUR MILES ERM ACT   Appian Way Is Under . Fire From Long Beachhead   xERMANS LASH OUT ON CASSINO FRONT

Americans, British Bring Appian Way Under Artillery Fire—Captured Nettuno’s Harbor Installations Intact      NAZIS ATTACK ON RAPIDO LINE   Force Americans Back Across Stream, British Regain Village as Germans Battle for Time

Angio-AmericanForces Push Inland From Newly-Gained Beach-Heads South of Rome   Germans Launch Frantic Attack . Near Cassino in Effort to Win Time to Cope With Threat to Rome

Appian Way Is Under Shelling   Bitter Struggle in South As Germans Attack Fiercely  ALLIES TAKE NETTUNO  Troops, Supplies Flowing Ashore; Attack Expected

Germans, However, Regain Offensive on Entire Cassino Front — Americans Pushed Back Across the Rapido River in Fierce Fighting.

Allies Take “Neétiune and Press Inland  Enemy Unable to Muster Effective Opposition to Landing Forces  STRIKE SOUTHEAST  Violent Counterattack on Gustay Line Regains Some Ground

[Berlin Radio Reported Tonight the Town, 30 Miles   From Rome, Had Been  Captured Earlier.   THE APPIAN WAY IS UNDER SHELLFIRE   German Broadcast Said Al lied Forces Were Advancing From Nettuno Area Toward Littoria.

Allies Gain F our Miles in Drive on Rome   Germans Launch Furious Cassino Front Attack; Drive Fifth Army Back

In Series of Day and Night Counterattacks, Germans Force Americans Back Across the Rapido River in Italy.   Hope to Disrupt F ifth Army to Gain More Time With Rear Guard

Advancing In Direction Of  Littoria Now   Nazis Hur! Yanks Back Across Rapido River on Cassino Front

Germans Go Over fo Offensive On Cassino Front as Invaders Bring Appian Way Under Fire

100,000 Nazis Reported Held In Odessa Trap   Escape for Large Force Unlikely

NAZI ESCAPE PATH ARE LESSENED   Expect Odessa’s Fall In Matter.of _ Days Now

POLES RETAKE POINT   Polish Troops Advance a’ Mile and Have Seized Monte Piano »

POLES RECAPTURE TOWN IN ADVANCE   ‘Nazis Make Strong Raids or Fifth Army Position, Are Beaten.

FDR Prepares, Annual Report   Universal . Service Plea ~ May: -Be Contained In. . Tuesday Address

FD. R. PREPARING ANNUAL REPORT   SPEECH ON “STATE OF UNION” MAY BE DELIVERED TO CONGRESS TN PERSON,

RPT HILT LONERGIN TRA   ‘Counsel For Alleged Wife  Slayer May Face Con tempt Charge

LONERGAN JURY PANEL EXCUSED   Dismissed After Counsels Row; Defense Attorney Cited for Contempt

Lonergan Jury  Is Dismissed Defense Ordered To Show Contempt Cause

Lonergan Case Ends Abruptly: Jury: Removed   At Same Time Judge Cives “ Aceused ‘Killer's Counsel ‘A Week To Defend  _Contemnt Citation - _

Lonergan Trial Comes To End   Court Gives Defense Coun<el Time Te Show Contempt Excuse.

TRIAL OF LONERGAN ENDS IN TURMOIL   Jury Dismissed - - Defense Lawyer in Jam

FRENCH ROUT NAZIS OUT OF ELBA BASES   Colonial Troops Take Strongholds as Americans Advance

Nazis Are Cleared From Central Elba  Allies Drive For Seaward  cl.-b

Germans Forced Back in Italy   French Colonials Join Allied Forces

FRENCH TROOPS CLEAR GERMANS ON ELBA ISLAND   Operation Was Combined Effort Of Anglo-American Naval Units, Air Force .      EIGHTH ARMY MOVES CLOSE TO PERUGIA

French Colonials Clear Nazis From Elba; British  Troops Drive To Perugia   Kighth Army Fights To Within 72 Miles Southeast Of Florence, Where The Next Knemy Defense Line Is Expected

French Clear Germans From  Parts of Elba   British, U. S. Naval Units Aid Invaders; Eighth Army Drives to  Perugia on Mainland

FOUR HGIRLS RALLY JUNE 8   Election of Officers Installation and Revue

LOUISA COUNTY FARM BUREAU NOTES,   LOUISA COUNTY SCHEDULES GIRLS 4-H RALLY DAY

LEADERS PICKED BY REPUBLICANS   Senate Election Called “Warm-Up For 1915” By Vandenberg

“Warm-Up for 1945”: Senate Republicans Elect Officers  In Preparation for Taking Control

Make Posthumous Award Of Purple Heart, LaFayette Sailor Killed In Action In 1942

Confusion Is Evident On Nazi Radio   Reports Fighting After Announcing Fall Of Cherbourg

AMERICAN TANKS INTO PORT CITY   Nazis Admit Yanks Now Hold Extensive Section of Cherbourg

CONTINUE 2-PLY REICH AIR RAIDS   2,500 Planes in Attack; Hit Targets Near Berlin

Heavy Bombers Stage Raids On Reich From Their Bases In Italy And Great Britain 

VY BOMB RAIDS   Targets in Heart of Germany by 2,500 Amer ican Planes

STRONG FORCE OF AMERICAN PLANES HAMMER GERMANY   Up To 2,500 Craft From England. and. Italy. Strike. -at Regensberg, . Schweinfurt and Near Berlin °

Gale Fails To Halt Raiders   Great Armadas Strike Reich From Two Sides  Again Today.

Americans Batter Heart Of Reich   Bombers. Brave Channel Storm To Deliver Attacks

A Massive Air Attack On Germany   Howling Channel . Storm -Does Not Stop Bombers, - Out for Fourth Day   GREATEST FORCE OF FIGHTERS: USED   Planes From. Britain and ltaly Keep on Pounding Major Targets

PLANES BATTLE CHANNEL WINDS   Fly Above Storm to Bomb Germany Again

12,500 American Planes Strike At Heart Of German   2,000 Strike From Britain Over Fierce Channel! Storm, Others From Italv.

2.900 Planes Bomb Heart Of  Nazi Germany   Attack Regenshberg. Schweinfur: Italy- Based Planes Hie Reny.   USE SMOKE SCREENS

2,500 Yank Planes Bomb Nazi Points   500 From Italy Penetrate 125 Miles From Berlin

Attack From 2,000 Planes   Raids From the North and South On Nazi Cities

Huge Air Fleets Hammer Reich   Strike Widespread Targets Despite Storm Over Enslish Channel

American Airmen Strike Again At Reich’s Heart  Strong Forces Hit At Nazis for Fourth Day in Row

2,000 AMERICAN PLANES STRIKE HEART OF REICH   Another 500 Craft From Italy Also Strike Into Germany in Fourth Night of Attacks

Heavy American Air Forces Hit Heart of Reich   2,000 Planes Surmonnt Channel Storm from Britain, ltaly-Based Planes Strike Near Berlin

2000 Planes Fly Above Big Storm To Attack Reich   Schweinfurt A Target In 4th Consecutive Day Assaults On Continent

Heart Of Reich Raided by 2500 Yankee Pianes   Fly Above. Howling Channel Storm For Attacks . On Regensburg and . Berlin

Attacks Were Made -on- Reg: ensburg and Schweinfurt © , by 2000 Siiips.”   500: CAME. FROM: ‘ITALY   These Planes Penetrated to Within’ 125. Miles” of ‘the ~ German: Capital. ---

About 2,500 American Planes Sweep Over Germany and Others Hit Targets Near Channel.   NORMANDY BATTLE IS BEING FOUGHT IN MUD

NOTARY PUBLIC Elizabeth M. Culler 404-408 Fallowfield Ave.   ratn vaaTey

Air Medal Award To Ed Sullivan  Is Co-Pilot Of . B-17 Flving Fortress

Air Medal Award To Ed Sullivan “Is Co-Pilot Of — — - B-17 Flying Fortress

Farm Receipts Less Next Year  Demand May Decline During Goming Month:

GERMAN ROBOT BOMBS AGAIN FALL iN LONDON  Missiles May Have Been Launched  Denw A'bumlanarce eee LS ah eae

NAZIS’ ROBOT BOMBS ROCK ENGLAND AGAIN   ‘Pick-A-Backs’ Seen Behinc First Raid In Two Weeks

NEW GERMAN ROBOT BOMBS WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED FROM AIRPLANES DROPPED ON LONDON

Robots Again Rake London  107,000 City Homes   107,000 City Homes Totally Destroyed in Long Terror Campaign

Germans Say New ‘Explosion Boats” Sinking Allied Ships in Channel

Robots Fall On Britain   Bombs Believed to Have Been Launched From German Planes

Germans Launch Robot Bombs From Airplanes  Attack Southern Enoland At Dawn

ROBOTS COME AGAIN   Those Falling in London and South England Probably From Planes

ENGLAND HIT BY ROBOTS AGAIN   Believe Nazis Launch Bombs With Airplanes

100 Japs n Palau   Flying Bombs Blast “London : Areas Again   Believed Type Launched by Pick-a-back Planes From Reich

FISTS SWING IN TEXAS SESSIONS   ‘Pro’ Groups Gain Control In 101 Counties

wee we we  Fist Fights, Rump Sessions Enliven Demo Conventions   Antis Rule Convention Here As Charge, Counter-Charge Flv In Long, Riotous Session

FDR Leading ~ InTexasFight   30 of First 50 Counties Make Chief Choice

Texas Demos In Lively Time   Fist Fights, Rump Meetings Mark Struggles for County Convention Control

REDS AACE OVER FINNISH DEFENSES   Plunge Through Ever-Widening Gap in Lines   APPROACH VIIPURI   Eight Strongpoints Captured ) In Continued Advance  Across Peninsula

RED COLUMNS PENETRATING FINNISH LINES   To Strike within 25 Miles of Viipuri; Capture Eight More Points Taken along Isthmus.   Gloomy Outlook

Finnish Communique Reported Fierce Attacks In Western And Central Parts Of Karelian Isthmus, All Repulsed

SOVIETS SWEEP ON, MORE TOWNS HELD   Advancing Russ Russians Are Within 25 Miles of . Viipuri

SOVIETS SWEEP ON, ~ MORE TOWNS HELD      Advancing Russians Are Within 25 Miles of Viipuri

Reds Widen Gap In Finns Lines  Race to Within 25 Miles of Viipuri;  Rambkave Attne

OUR DEFENDERS O'ER THE WORLD   News About Service People from Home

Powerful Armored Forces Advance 15 Miles North * West Of Saint Lo 

O-MILE GASH IN NAZI LINE   Americans Continue Gains in Normandy But British and Canadians Repulsed in C‘nan Aran.

CENTER THRUST GAINS 7 MILES; MAY TURN FLANK   Nazis Recapture Esquay From British; Yank Front 40 Miles

British Begin Smash From Beachhead; Reds Free Vitebsk   War In Briet

BRICKER ATTACKS ~ FEDERAL SPENDING   Says “Deficit Financing’ Will End Free Enter price

NEW DEAL FISCAL POLICIES SCOREL   Governor Bricker Says Con » tinuation of Deficit ‘Fi nancing’ Will Mean End of Free Enterprise in U. S,

Bricker on Taxes: "Deficit Financing’ Would End Free Enterprise, Governor Says

Young Couple To Live At Vermillion, Where Bridegroom Is Stationed

Phyllis Harms. Becomes Bride  Weds. Mak Swancutt ‘Of Sioux fF alls. S. D.

RICHARD BENNETT IS DEAD IN LOS ANGELES   Matinee Idol Was Father of Constance and Joan

FAMOUS STAGE ACTOR IS DEAD   RICHARD BENNETT DIES AFTER HEART ATTACKS; AGE 72

tO STRIP GERMAN SUPPORT   House Recommends Bill To Benefit War Agencies

More Than Billion Recommended For War Agencies  House Committee Says OW! Is Making Valuable Contribution

INCREASE FOR OWI/1   Money to Keep Home Front Agencies Going’ Is Appropriated

Recommend $1,033,358,367 For 18 War Agencies: Increases Asked For Shipping Group And O. W. I.

SOVIET DRIVES SURGE TOWARD POLISH BORDER   Smash Into Outskirts Of Novograd Volynsk In  Zhitomir Sector

Soviets Near Polish Border and Rumania   Once Victorious Yon Mannstein Army Slashed to Ribbons

Nips Declare Martial: Law In Island After Devastating Air Raid   Enemy Loses 305 Planes and 37 Ships—Americans Lose 15 Planes

Jittery Puppet Government In Manila Proclaims State Of Martial Law   DANGER, OF INVASION BY AMERICANS THERE 18 CALLED IMMINENT   In Palaus Marines Are Fighting Remnants Of Japanese Garrison

U. S. Troops Pour Onto Leyte to Dismay of Japs   Americans Make Fast Restoration of Invasion Airfields

Japanese Say «War's Taking  Serious Turn   Yank Troops Are Pauring Into  ® Leyte Gulf At Rapid Rate, Foe Radio Declares—People Told U. S. Reinforcements Arriving.

More Terror  For Japs In  Philippines Aerial Might of  U. S. Destructive On The Enemy

U.S. Troops Pour  Onto Leyte to  Dismay of Japs Americans Make Fas!  Restoration of a wa Ton pe pe

JAPAN ALARMED BY UL 5 GAINS   DECLARES AMERICA IS POURING REINFORCEMENTS INTO PHILIPPINES.

Nazis Sent To Czech  Frontier   Reds Forging Ahead; 8 Miles  Bram Rumania

MUR HED CAL ER TIEE TALD   Me Rotarians Hear Business Burean Investizater

MACK TED CEL ERECUCE TOLL   Rotariens Hear Business Brreau Investizatcr

New Nazi Weapon Fizzles   ‘Pick-a-Back’ Bomber Carried by Fighter Called ‘Sitting Duck’

HEAVY HAIL ~ AT SHELDON   $1,000,000. Damage Esti. ‘mate——A Few Stones Here Too

HEAVY HAIL AT SHELDON      $1,000,000  Damage Esti mate—A Few Stones Here Too

‘Cig’ Supply Up 50 per Cent   Senators Told 19-44 Tobacco Crop AllTine Record Breaker

CONGRESS HEARS ABOUT CIGARET SHORTAGE  Supply of Tobacco Is Greater Than Ever House Group Is Told

TOBACCO CROP NEAR RECORD   Solons Still Lack Answer To Shortage Of  Cisarettes

BiG SUPPLY Ot  ‘GIG’ TOBACEL   House Probers Fail to Learn Reason for Current Lack Of Smokes. ©

Big Tobacco Crop In U.S.  Solons Getting Fact: In Cigarette Probe

Plenty of Cigarette Tobacco   18-Month Supply of Cured Tobacco And a Record 1944 Crop   HOUSE PROBE ON [ CIGARET SHORTAGE   Reason Not Learned So Far; Growers Satisfied With AAA Program

It's Different Now: Germany Asks Allies To Make lfalian Capital an Open City

More Than 600 Nazi Motor Vehicles Wrecked Or Damaged In Drive   HYSTERICAL ROMANS   GREET LIBERATORS

LONG DORMANT END OF ALLIED — SOUTHERN LINE INITALY NOW — WITNESSING RENEWED ACTIVITY   Britons Cross Lower Garigliano River at Several: Points to Converge on Ancient Appian Way, on ‘Route to Rome. Naval Activity in Adriatic 

British Cross River Against Nazi Defenses   Reds Fight To Lift Leningrad Siege; Fifth Probes Line

British Push Over Garigliano ATs ots  To Free: Leningrad Show Good Progress

DORMANT SOUTHERN SECTOR OF ITALIAN BATTLEFRONT ACTIVE   BRITISH TROOPS CROSS GARIGLIANO RIVER AT SEVERAL POINTS

Fight Across River   Southern End of Italian Line'to Life Again; Nazis Admit Reverses In Northern Russia -

Roosevelt Receives Message From Marshal Josef Stalin.   RED ARMY CLOSING IN ON NAZI PSKOYV

GERMANS FALL BACK ON FRONT OF 400 MILES   Described as “PanicStricken;” Said to Be Discarding Food

BACK ON FRONT OF 400 MILES   Described as “PanicStricken;” Said to Be Discarding Food

Yanks Close On St. Lo, Threaten Lessay, Periers   Bradley's Men Gain in 7 Sectors, Clear LaHaye-Carentan Line

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION. ETC. REQUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS

Statement, of - Ownership, Management, Cireulation, Ete.  Required by the Acts of Congress of Aug. 24. 1992. and March 3. 1933. of  Phoenix Gazette Published Daily at Phoenix. Arizona. for

Nazi Crimes. in East Can’t Be ‘Exaggerated ‘Says U.S, Ambassador

Lindbergh Shows  How to Save Gas   Flies All Sorts of  Craft in Pacific Area

Argentina Recalls Its Ambassador   Tone of U. S. Policy To South pe Country Causes Rift

AMBASSADOR AECALLED Ao AEBUEE NG.    Dignity Bruised by Charges of Aiding Nazis Made by Secretary Huil.

Argentina Recalls Envoy  As Relations with U. S. Enter New Period of Strain

ARGENTINE RECALLS ITS AMBASSADOR   Claims Hull Has Injured Nation’s ‘Dignity’

Argentine Ambassador is Recalled   Argentina ired At Policy Set Down ky Hull

Argentina’s Envoy to U.S Is Recalled   ‘Dignity Injured’  ~ Hull’s Declarations  Are ‘Confirmed’

Argentine Ambassador Is Recalled   Action Comes After Hull’s Statement

Russia, France Sign Alliance Treaty   Congress Moves To Clear Its Decks; Pay-Raise Proposal Is “Hot Potato’

Rocket Gun Coast Heavily Pounded By U. S. Bombers   Powerful Fleets Rain Great Volume Of Bombs On ‘In. vasion Coast   DEVASTATING RAIDS ALMOST CONTINUOUS

Pacific War Nearing A Showdown   Problem of Supply Easier for Japan, Becomes More  Difficult for Allies

Pacific War Is Nearing Showdown   fnd Not in Sight, But Jap Strategy Soon Will Point Future Course   ENEMY EXPECTED . TQ FIGHT FOR DELAY   The Farther We Go the Worse Our Supply Problem Becomes, Theirs Improves

Philippines May Bring Showdown In Pacific War   All Out Defense Would Precipitate Naval Action; Japs Must Decide Soon

ring Showdown  bie May n War With Jans  ;   Early Invasion of Philippines Seen; Strategists Await Jap Course.

Pacific War Is Far Ahead Of Schedule   Fight Nearing Showdown Stage, But End Is Not In Sight

Pacific War Showdown in Invasion  of Philippines But End May Be Years

Japs Not Expected To Resist Strongly In Philippine Isles   Loss Of Over 300 Ocean-Going Supply, Warships Hurt Nipponese Effort Most Strongly Last Month

Philippines May Bring Showdown In War With Japs   Early Invasion of Philippines Seen; Strategists Await Jap Course.

PACIFIC WAR IS NEARING A SHOWDOWN   End Is Not in Sight, However, Because the Japs Have Good Army and Vast Resources for Pro ‘tracted Fight.

Showdown Of War In Pacifie Drawing Nea:   Plans Runuing Ahead O03 Schedule, With Early Invasion Philippines Likely

T NAZI FIGHTER   Fierce Air Battles Are Con ducted Over Western Front

Fiercest Air Batties Of War Rage Over Western Front Supply Lines

Aw Might Of Allies Into A Fierce Battle   Down Many Nazi Planes At Fighting Front

OHIO'S PRISONERS DO WAR WORK TOC   Two-shift Work Days Tc Fill War Contracts

Hatch Favors Raise In Limitations On Party Spending  Plugging of Loophole: Sought by Solon For Clean Politics Law

ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY REPLACEMENT PROBLEM APPROACHING SOLUTION AS 4_F DRAFT POLICY BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE

LABOK URAFT UF 79 BEGINNING TU TANE SHEPE   Fear Du l.cat‘on o: German Mcves; in Balkan Naticns.

FARRELL BECOMES  ARGENTINE PRESIDENT   Takes Over Duties of Office Upot Resignation of General Pedro Pablo Ramirez.

Farrell Takes  Arventine Rein   Acting President Assume: Post of Resigned Chief

House Republicans Throw Weight Behind Move to Freeze Social Security Tax

SUGTAL SECURIT TAXFREEZE URGED   House Republican Leadership Puts Weight Behind Move; See One Last Showdown Fight in Congress

MUD PREVENTS ITALY FIGHTING   Both Allied And German Armies Held To Patrol Operations

Patrols Clash In Italy   Main Forces Heid Mudbound — Allies Planes in 1,000 Sorties

Big Operations May Begin In A Week... ..  Weather Improves In ltaly, But Allies And Nazis Still Mudbound

Mud Bogs Down Italian Battle: Patrols Active  At Least Full Week

Mud: Holding. Up Activities Tn Italy; Patrol Clashes, Air Attacks Are Reported —

BOTH SIDES STILL  MUDBOUND IN ITALY  GROUND OPERATIONS ALLIED AIR OPERATIONS  CONTINUE ACTIVE ACAINST NA7I PROTECTS

Mud Holding Italian Front Armies Quiet   Weather !s' Clearing and Action Likely Within o Week

Fighting Still Bogged Down B ltalian Mud   Patrol Operations Stage Sharp Clashes On Main Fifth Front

Weather Halts -. ftalian Drive   BOTH ARMIES ARE HELD / DOWN BY MUDDY Solr, .

YANKS, GERMANS CLASH IN AREA — AROUND CASSINO   Opposing Armies In Italy Tied Down By Mud

Patrol Clashes, Intensive Aerial Blows Mark Warfare In Italy; Armies Mudbound   German Communications Are Pounded: Raids On Beachhead Do No Damaae

Allied Planes Bomb Germans   British, Americans, Australians, South Africans in Raids

Both Nazis And Allies In Italy Are Mudbound   ‘Action Confined to Patrol Operations: Sharp Clashes Reported On Fifth Army Front

Muddy Yanks ProbeGerman Battie Lines   Sharp Clashes Near Cassino and Cisterna: Planes Pound Rails

Mill Workers Seeking Raise   Claim Southern Cotton Mills Have Been Making Plenty of Money Lately.

ee re ee ee een ee ee ee eT ee eT  ‘Round-Up Club To Meet Tonight   Much to Be Discussed, Looking to Active Months Ahead

oe Soe  ‘Washing ston Attorney Charg ged \With Slavi ing Psy chiatrist

Allied Raiders Attack Camp of Japanese Retreating From Eastern India Area

Germans Get 68 Bombers, 10 Fighters; Four Planes Landed Safely in Sweden

ALLIED PLANES SWEEP SOUTH COAST TARGETS   Rail Yards Near Paris Hit Last Night; Down 1976 Nazi Machines

Allied Bombers Attacking Targets on European Continent Today.  68 AMERICAN BOMBERS 10 FIGHTERS LOST  Allied Shipping Losses Lower Last Year Than Ever Expected.

Eyewitnesses Report Berliners, Realizing Full Scope Of Air Power, Are Panicky

Daylight Attacks Follow American Smash At Berlin   Report Lists 176 German Fighters Downed By Yanks; 68 U. S. Bombers Lost In 2000-Ton Blow; RAF Batters France During Night

176 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN OVER BERLIN YESTERDAY   New High in American Losses Registered as 78 Planes Fail to Return From Second Rerlin Raid.

Yanks Lose 68 Bombers   176 Nazi Plane: Shot Down tn Raid on Berlin

Offensive of Allies Speeded ‘Against Foe   LARGE FORMATICNS FIGHT. ERS STREAK OUT TODAY TO BLAST KUROPEAN TARGETS

Americans Lose 68 Bom ers In Mighty Daylight Offensive   Nazi Capital Reels Luder Heavy Blow   Travelers Say Similar At tacks Willi Threaten German Morale

Brot Down  In Berlin  Bombardme:      REPRESENTS HALF GERMANY'S =: MONTHLY OUTPUT; U. S.. FORCES’ LOST 78 PLANES IN RAID .

EISENHOWER IN PERSONAL CHARGE NOW   SET—UP OF ALLIED COMMAND MADE PUBLIC

SAYS THEY WILL GET CHANCE 10 STRIKE “SOON   Invokes Constitution of U.S. as Battle Cry

FULL-DtSS ACVIEW BY DHURCHIL   Speaks as Bombers Plaster Reich   HINT DRIVE NEAR  Warning Sounded By Montgomery

Japs Hinting At Execution  Of Airmen   Promise Death to Captured Fliers; Remnants Fleeing From East Burma

RN JUNIOR HIGH BUILDINGS   One to Be Located on East Side, the Other on West Side

Changsha Falls To Jap Forces   Nips Attack Suburban Defense Under a Cover of Warplanes.

Yanks Win Air Battle in Pacific   Estimate 300 Nippon ese Planes Destroyed Off Saipan

CHANGSHA FALLS TO JAPANESE IN RAGING BATTLE   Chinese Say 50,000 Nipponese Troops Enter Citv

Changsha Falls To Jap Troops  Strategic Chinese City Is Captured

JAP CAPTURE OF CHANGSHA IS INDICATED   Chinese High Command Says Radio Contact With City Is Broken— 50,000 Nips Smash Suburban Defense Works.

Changsha Is Taken By Japs   Chinese Statement Indicates Its Fall

Uo. SEIZURE NOS HUMMCH PLANT STRIKE   Employes Return to Work at Ward Subsidiary in Springfield, Ill.

Ward Subsidiary Plant Workers Return To Jobs   ~ Government Seizes Factory; Hearing  ~ Opened In Washington

MONT. WARD SUBSIDIARY WORKERS BACK AT WORK   Hummer Mfg. Co. Plant is Seized 3v Government

U.S. Seizes 2nd Ward Co. Plant:   Hummer Company, Ward Subsidiary, Employees Return To Work Today

HITLER PLOT ~ TRIALS HELD   EIGHT ARMY OFFICERS FOUND GUILTY BY “PEOPLES COURT” AND SEN. . TENCED

Campaign Over, F.D.R. ~ Dewey Cast Ballots —   Republican Candidate And Mrs. Dewey Travel To New York City To Cast Ballots While Presi_ dent And First Lady Vote At Hyde Park

Dewey’ Asks For Change.   Last Minute. ‘Sheech Is Renewal Of Plea

Gov. Dewey Dares  Voters to Change  Administrations Desperately Needed, He Says; FDR Bald Plea For Reelection  ALS Bemuun..et fh we. A. FF...

Dewey Assails ‘Bald Plea’ By His Opponent   Calls For Change to Bring Quick Victory, In His Closing Address Last Night

SRDS SOME OEE NN BRO  Five Die, Damage High In Iowa Floods, Wind

Allies Making Every Effort To Speed German Surrender  By Attack On Oil Supplies

Oil, German ‘Life Blood’, Is Drained   Acute Shortage Already Seen In Germany

OE ee Nee ee ee he  Allied Air Might Working To Destroy Enemy's Oil Fields

Nazi Oil Is Target   Allies in Campaign To Dry Up Fuel Supply For Nazi War Machine

‘Allies Seek to Cut Off German Oil Supplies, Already Believed to Be Running Short of Defensive Needs

Aerial Attack On ~ Nazi Oil Bases   ALLIED PLANES BOMBING ' SUPPLY DEPOTS OF GERMANS

Acute Shortage Ot Oil Reported  In Nazi Germany   ies Make All-Out fort to Drain Germany's Military Lifeblood.   Production Reduced By Third, British Say

- Germans   Moscow An.ounces Lull On Eastaiti rront ~ — Carried Into Sixth, Day

Lull Pervades Eastern Front, Says Moscow   Germans Declare Soviet: Attacking in Romania, Carpathian Hills

RUSSIAN FRONT LULL UNBROKEN   Germans Say Reds Are Attacking In North Romania

BUT. (GERMANS “ASSERT RED ARMY 18 ATTACKING IN NORTHERN ROMANIA,

LULL ON EASTERN FRONT CONTINUES   Nazis Declare Russian Forces Are Attacking in Northern Romania and in the Carpathian Foothills

‘Beckley Said Key Point In State, ‘On Line’ For Transcontinental Southern Air Routes

Char etter. Seen « as s Hub...  onan inc aStn:  “OF State's Air: Wheal

O'Conor Makes:  Changes In State  Guard Officers. Wigade Saree   lea nenv

Warren Boar Urges New Prison Setup   Abolition of Parole Board Recommended . By State Probers

Southern Demos Form New Party  Victory In Few   Victory In Few States Of South Could Rile Waters

HOPE 10 SEND SURPLUS INTO VITAL PLANTS   Ceilings on Manpower Fixed in All Major Firms of State

Reds Attack Only 12 Miles From Minsk   300,000 Germans Face Entrapment Rivaling Stalingrad

Reds Open Assault to Take Minsk   Fall of City Expected Soon With 300,000 Germans Trapped There

(MINSK BATTLE OPENS AS REDS POUND FORWARD   Capital Of White Russia Isolated; Nazi Army Trapped

RED ARMIES CLOSING TRAP ON MINSK   Threaten to Trap 300,000 Nazis In Capital City

THOUSANDS OF ENEMY FACE TRAP   Disaster Second Only ®T. Stalingrad May Overtake Nazis

Huge Force Of Germans Faces Trap   Giant Red Pincers Being Closed Behind White Russia City

Germans Cut Off In Minsk Salient   300,000 Enemy Troops Estimated Anside Closing Soviet Circle

Minsk Under Siege   300,000 Germans Facing Trap As Reds Begin Final Assault

BATTLE-WEARY GERMANS FACE SOVIET TRAP   Red Artillery Wheeled Into Position and Begins Pounding Fortress.   BULLETIN   LONDON, July 3.—The Russians have captured Minsk, Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight.

REDS THREATEN TO TRAP NAZIS IN MINSK AREA   300,000 Or More Germans Now In Pocket — Soviet Opens Frontal Assault

Close Trap On 300,000  Germans Red Armies Cut .   Red Armies Cut Railroads, Roads West of Minsk; Fight for Polotsk

Believe 300,000 War-Weary Nazi  Troops In Area   Columns of Soviet Artillery Ready To Launch Offensive

About 10,000 Patients Evacuated From London Hospitals Reports Say

Harbor Closed By Swift Push Of Red Forces   ‘Odessa Only Large Vert  Along Coast: Left: To   Germans: Russians Capture £4,000   New Attack Near Kerch Reported   Soviet Units Cross Bug River In North, Leas Than 60 Miles From  Rumanian Frontier

RED ARMY TROOPS LIQUIDATING NAZI TRAPPED DIVISIONS  ANIY NNEccA TEET OPE   ONLY ODESSA LEFT OPEN FOR GERMAN ESCAPE IN RLACK SEA ARFA

SEVERAL ENEMY DIVISIONS ARE CAUGHT IN TRAP   Germans Encircled In Ukraine Being Liquidated By Soviet Army; Odessa Now Only Large Port In Southern Russia Left Open To Germans.

Enemy Northeast Of City Hemmed In By Steel Ring   Germans Suffer Huge Losses - In. Desperate  . Attempts To Break Out of Trap:-—Reds . Close In On ‘Nikolaev: After Cutting. Off Harbor Fscane Line... -

10,000 Germans Killed And 4,000 Captured Already Trying To Flee Trap

RUSSIANS KILL 10,000 TRYING TO FLEE TRAP   Harbor of Nikolaev Closed With Advance on Black Sea Coast

German Divisions Being Liquidated   Several Nazi Divisions Are  Trapped in the  Ukraine      TEN THOUSAND KILLED   Red Army Troops Have Pushed Beyond  herson

Reds Destroy Nazi Troops Cauaht in Nel   Smash Along Black Sea to Liquidate Several Divisions

Russian Army Liquidates Trapped Nazis   Odessa Is Only Black Sea Port Still Open to German Use

RED TROOPS LIQUIDATING NATIFORGES   Germans Facing Disaster On All Fronts

TRAPPED NAZIS LIQUIDATED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Fscape Port of Nikolaev On Black Sea Closed By Russians

Trapped Germans Ground to Bits   Soviet Smash Closes Harbor at Nikolaev; Only Odessa Remains

—RUSSIA— 3  URGE FORCE OF MATIC ENPIBPL ED   0 desé 8 a. Only Southern Russia Port Now “Available To Nazis   ‘10.000: ARE: SLAIN   Bug. River Crossing Puts Mi i le e s° sFi i o m

Red Soldiers Mopping Up Trapped Nazis   10,000 hilicd. 4000 Captured  In Uhratne

Gdessa Lefi as Sole Large Por! in Southern Russia Available to Rermane   ATTACK IN CRIMEA   Soviet Units Force Crossings of Bug River, Capture Gaisin and Mikhailovka, River Cilies

Reds Liquidate Trapped Nazis During Offensive   Odessa Remains Only Large Port Available to Foe

OF NIKOLAEY   Red Troops Leave Odessa As Only Port Available in S. Russia.   10,000 GERMANS KILLED

10,000 Nazis Slain As Reds  Drive Forward   Russians Mopping Up Big German Force Trapped In Ukraine Area Pocket

REDS MOPPING UP NAZI DIVISIONS IN UKRAINE TRAP  eeem attra TF   10,000 HUNS KILLED AND 4,000 CAPTURED, NIKOLAEV PORT SHUT

BLOCK NAZIS FROM HARBOR OF NIKOLAEV      Odessa Now Is the Only Large Point From Which Hard - Pressed Enemy Could Withdraw From Southern Russia.

Russian Forces op Up Trapped eNazi Divisions   Drive Along Black Sea Coast Seals Off Niko See, ee Ly..t..

REDS MOPPING UP BIG GERMAN UNIT IN UKRAINE   Soviet Black Sea Offensive Closes Harbor of Nikolaev

Liquidating Trapped Nazis   Red Guns Control Exit From Nikolaev, Leave Odessa Only Escape Port  DRIVE PAST KHERSON  Russian Grind Away At Nazi Divisions Encircled In Southern Ukraine

Nikolaev Harbor Closed By Soviets In Speedy Smash Along Black Sea

Ten Thousand Die in Nikolaev Trap —   Russians Now Mopping Up Huge Eneniy Force on Southern Front

REDS WIPE OUT NAZI DIVISIONS IN THE UKRAINI   10,000 Germans Slain in Attempt to Escape Trap, Russians Report

Soviets Seal Off Harbor Of Nikolae.   Moscow ~ Reports 10,00 Germans Stain, 1,000 Captured in Trap   BUG RIVER CROSSED   Russian Troops Within 60 Miles of Rumanian Frontier   The War Today

Russians Wipe Out Nazis in  ,  South Ukraine   Drive Along Black Sea Coast to Close Harbor of Nikolaev; 10,000 Nazis Slain

ODESSA LAST PORT IN SOUTH RUSSIA FOR GERMAN EVACUATION   Several Divisions Trapped; Nikolaev Harbor On Black Sea Closed by Red Army   REDS OPEN CRIMEAN PUSH

10,000 Nazis Slain by Russ   Trapped Divisions in Ukraine Suffer; Black Sea Port Closed

RUSSIANS NEAR ODESSA; SPRING ANOTHER TRAP   ‘Germans Expected To Attempt Evacuation Of Crimea, Ukraine

Only Odessa Is Now Open To Fleeing  Nazi Forees    10,000 Deaths Seen’. Among Enemy Army

Nikolaev Is Closed Today By Malinovsky   Bug River Crossed Near Rumanian Frontier to Create New Peril

Russians Mopping Up Large German Force in Ukraine   10,000 Nazis Killed in Trap; Advanuces of Soviets Continue

SOVIETS MOP UP IN UKRAINE   Red Army Liquidating Trapped Nazi Divisions, Is Report

NIKOLAEV ISOLATED   10,000 Germans Slain As Russians Slash At Trapped Foe

RED ARMIES LIQUIDATING TRAPPED NAZI   Odessa is Only Black Sea Port Left for Water Es. cape; Soviets Close In Or Other Fronts.

SMASH ALONG COAST CLOSES ENEMY PORT   Ten Thousand Germans Are Killed, 4,000 Captured, Soviet Communique Declares Today   PUSH BEYOND KHERSON

REDS HIT BLACK SEA COAST   Ten Thousand Nazis Killed And 4,000 Taken Prisoner

Liquidating Trapped Nazis   From Nikolaev, Leave Odessa Only Escape Port  DRIVE PAST KHERSON  Russian Grind Away At Nazi Divisions Encircled In Southern Ukraine

Reds Smash Along Black Sea Coast   Close Harbor Of Nikolaev Odessa Only Big Port Left

ARMY REVOLT om COLOMBIA OUSTS LOPEZ   PRESIDENT SEIZED’ BY GROUP OF, OFFICERS AND’ VICE PRESIDENT. NOW’  IN POWER

COLOMBIA ARMY GROUP REVOLTS   President Seized. Cabinet Ministers Under Arrest

BEACHHEAD ARMY FORCE   Battle Revorts Beginning to Indicate Cherbourg Main Goal for Beachhead Forces

Air Strips  In Normandy Now Bases For Planes   Major Battle Reported Joined  As German Forces Rush To Beachhead

Fisenhower Says Confidence — In Armed Forces Under His Command Compictely  dustified — Bayeux Captured.

Japanese Cabinet Meets For Three Hours To Consider Unspecified ‘‘Matters’’   TOLL OF JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED, INCREASED   Gen. MacArthur’s Army Is Punching Inland On Leyte, In Philippines

U. 9. Score increasing As More Nip Ships Struck: Land Forces Spreading Out

President Returns From Rest-Cure At Baruch Estate   Chief Executive ‘In Excellent Condition,’ New Checkup Slated

Spain Never Fascist, Franco Contenas, ‘o...9 Alinnre With Axis Rulers Denied

SPAIN NEVER WAS FASCIST, FRANCO SAYS   No Secret Alliance With Axis Pow. ers, Declares in Statement of National Policy

FRANCO SAYS SPAIN NOT NAZI   Appeals to Americans for Fair Play and Understanding

PACIFIC FLIERS AGAIN BATTER CAROLINES   For Three Consecutive Days Installations at Wolaei West of Truk Trembies  Under Bombs   OTHER RAIDS REPORTED

Fabia sls r Bi Uber Blows  MacArthur’s Men ES Pacific In Span Pa Chass.

Running On Schedule Just Like The Milk-Man  Batter Carolines With ~ Clock-Like Regularity

Allies Pound knemy Bases In S. Pacific   Army, Navy And Marine Aireraft) Leading Caroline Raids

J apanese-Held, Carolines Rock Under Attacks   Island Subjected to 22,  Raids Since Sunday, De livered From Two Directions

ROME THREATENED BY QUICK DRIVE      Mountain Stronghold  Falls in 6-Mile > Advance Yesterdays’ Velletri Next Obiectiv

AMERICANS IN ATTACK ON OIL AND AIR FIELDS   500 Bombers from Italy And Others from Britain Smash at German Tar a ae

U.S. Heavies Hit Air Fields   Aircraft Resume Aid Of Troops in Invasion Of Normandy Front

Rumania Oil Fields Take Lashing From U.S. Airmen  Activity Is Renewed Over Objectives In Northern France

PLANS DISCLOSED FUR SHIPMENT OF RELIEF SUPPLIES   Liberated Areas of Europe to Be Helped JAfter the Invasion

PLAND DISbLUSE PA OnIPENT OF HELIEF SUPPLIES   L:berated Areas of Europe to Be Helped After the Invasion

Japan's Bases In Kuriles Again Bombed   Enemy Is Attacked Second Consecutive Night, Nimitz Says

Finns Refuse Two Demands Of Russians   Some !mpatience Shown By Soviet 

FINLAND OPPOSES 2 SOVIET DEMANDS   ‘PAPER SAYS HELSINKI WILL   DECLINE TO INTERN NAZIS,  . RESTORE ORDER.

Reds Growing Impatient ‘Over Delays   U.S. Expresses Hope Negotiations Will Be Continued

OUSTED UNION CHIEF CALLED TO BACK CHARGE   Dock Williams Appears At Un-American Activities Committee Hearing   83 RESIGN FROM UNION   Board Hears Of Efforts Of Labor Leaders To Sway Political Opinion

PAC PROBE HITS. LABOR .SERMENT   Bleck of Chicago Union Members Revolts Against CIO Program

OUSTED UNION OFFICIALS SAY _ COMMUNISTS TAKING OVER tt   FORMER WNION MEMBERS A’ CHICAGO TESTIFY BEFORE, ' HOUSE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE

Two Cargo Ships And Tanker Hit, Nimitz Reports   Carrier Planes In Fourth Attack

118 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED BY FLIERS   Three Ships Set Afire in Manila Area As sault

118 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   CRAFT KNOCKED OUT BY AMERICAN AIRMEN IN RAID ON MANILA AREA,

118 Jap Planes Shot Down in Manila Attack   Three Vessels Are Set Afire by Carrier Forces

CARRIER PLANES DESTROY 128 JAP PLANES IN RAID ON MANILA AREA   Set Fire To Two Large Cargo Ships And Tanke: In Fourth Raid Of Month; Only Light Opposition Met

U.S. Carriers Destroy 118 Jap Planes at Manila   Two Large Cargo Ships, Oil Tanker Are Also Set Afire

2 LARGE CARGO SHIPS, TANKER ARE SET ABLAZE   Only Light Enemy Opposition Encountered; Air field Battered   921 ENEMY WARPLANES DESTROYED THUS FAR

Yanks score. fourth strike at Manila bay  Enemy transport heavilvy damaged

(Manila Raid Nets 1118 Jap Planes   Two Large Cargo Ships And Large Oil Tanker Fired; Jap Opposition Light  ma PASART Pe WV. heMIIRTRT

Two Large Cargo Vessels, Large Oil Tanker Fired, Tn Month’s Fourth: Blow

SOVIETS OPEN NEW ALL-OUT POLISH DRIVE   Eastern Front Aqain Blazes into Violent Fighting

Reds Drive. We dge —  Soviets Smash To Within 12 Miles Of Big Nazi Base Of Lomza

Reds Drive Wedge Into Nazi Lines   Germans Say Battle For Warsaw Starting

Nazi Chiefs Yield Harbor  Bia SO tec sacwe   Port Commanders Escorted to U.S. Field Headquarters

Waste Paper Collections  FRIDAY   ENGLISH CHANNEL   Support Dewey, Says Griswold to Delegates

Griswold Releases Delegates   Favors Dewey's Nomination On First Battet

Asks Roosevelt: Be Re-elected  Democratic Keynoter Gave He Stand: Alana

Only One F.R., Keynoter Tells lowa Democrats   Criticizes GOP For ‘DoNothing’ Policies Prior To 1933.

Dunn Opposed to Refurn to Way of Life Before 1933   Tells Democrats War Is Failure if That's Peace Policy

Allied Air Raids Continue Against  Nazi West Wall   British Planes Deliver - Block-Buster Assault) On City of Cologne

Cologne Feels Air Pounding   American Bombers Lash West Wall Defenses in France

U.S. FLIERS SMASH AT NAZI WALL’   British In Night Biockbuster Blow At Cologne

Bombardment of Germany's West Wall Continues   Arsenal City of Cologne Attacked During Night

U. $. BOMBERS ATTACK NAZI WEST WALL   Allied Aerial Offensive Now In Sth Straight Week

U. 5. BOMBERS BACK ON JOB IN W, EUROPE   Take Up Where RAF Left Off After Latter Had Rained Block Busters Down On Cologne

France Bombed As Allies Renew Raids on Europe   Yanks Follow Up British Assault Against Coloane

Americans Lose 64 Bombers and 16 Fighters © in Clashes   MANY PLANES TAKE PART IN ASSAULTS.   Fleet of Nearly 2,000 Bombers and Fighters in Daylight Raids

American Troops On Bougainville Await Jap Attack   Expected Final, Supreme Effort Yanks Are Ready

Japs Massing For Big Fight   General Reports Yanks Set For “Sunday Punch’

Believe Japs on Bougainville Are Massing Strength for ‘Sunday Punch’

Finn, Russian Guns Silencec As War Ends   Nazis Given Until. September 15 to Withdraw Forces; Armistice Signed

Nazis Begin Withdrawing  From Finland   Are Moving Into Norway, Sweden Reports, After Binns Onit War

Cease Firing Order Given In Finland   Russia And Finland No Longer At Wor

Guns Silent, .  Finns Start To Fall Back To 1940 Line   -Germans.To Begin. Formal. Evaciialion OF. Country. Today,   ‘ALL OUT BY SEPT. 15. OR-FACE INTERNMENT   “Streams of Germans Reported: Moving: North: Toward Norway:

War on 500-Mile Finnish Front Ends After Three Years   ‘Cease Firing’ Order Brings Quiet; German Hordes Flee Country

FINN - RUSSIAN WAR ENDS IN FINAL ORDER   To Cease Firing on 500Mile Front; Formal Evacuation By  Germans Today.   Populace Calm

Finland, Russia End Three Years of Battle   ‘Cease Firing’ Order Quiets Guns Along 500-Mile Front; Germans Will Begin Formal Evacuation of Country Tuesday

F ighting Is Halted On The - Finland And Russian Fr ont   Three, Years of War With Russia’ Ended With ¢ a Dra_matic “Cease Firing” Order—Ger- a mane to Evawudee:

FINN-SOVIET WAR  FINISHED: NAZIS FLEE INTO NORWAY   “Cease Firing”’ Order Given; German Troops Remain ing In Finland After Sept. 15 To Be Interned

uUNS SILENT, NAZIS START GETTING OUT   cinns Believed Falling Back to Their 1940 Border

Fighting Stops On Wide Front; Nazis Retreat   Finn Troops Withdraw To 1940 Border On   Armistice

ARMISTICE ENDS RUSSIAN-FINNISH THREE-YEAR WAE   Guns Cease Firing on 500 Mile Front—Sweden Hears Nazis Are Evacuating Small Republic.   SEPTEMBER 15 SET FOR THEIR WITHDRAWAL   ' Finns Presumably Falling Back to 1940 Border—Germans Said to Be Moving  - Toward Norway.

Nazis to Begin Evacuation of  Country Today   Situation in North Said Obscure But Germans Are Reported Moving  Voluntarily In Norway

~ RUNS = WEEK   Cut In Supplies, Trans: ~ : portation Difficulties * Responsible :

Churehill And Eden To Confer With Stalin   British Delegation Arrives In Moscow; Parley Sequel To Quebee Meet

SEEKS BALLOT COMPROMISE   Administration Offers New Plan in Soldier Vote Bill Battle

Watch Election In Mississippi   Democratic Leaders Anxious About Spread Of Revolt In South.

Democrats Watch Mississippi For Revolt Sign  Anti-Roosevelt Men Hold Reins on

Demos Watch Mississippl For Revolt   Anti-New Deal Force Apparently Holds State Control

POLITICAL REVOLT IN SOUTH WORRIES FD. R.S BACKERS   Eyes Turn to Mississippi, Where Democratic Leaders Are Urging Uninstructed Delegation.   TROUBLE IN GEORGIA AND VIRGINIA LOOMS   Threat to President’s ReElection Seen if Some Electors Decide to Support an Independent.

LEADERS WATCH OLD MISSISSIPP   "Solid South” Doubtful This Year; Democrats Face Revolt

Demos Waitc eFor Further. Party Rifts   Mississippi May Join Dissenters

Southern Revolt Worries Demo Party Leaders.   Mississippi May Furnish Test Of Voting Trend

emocrats Watch lississippi as ey to Revolt  Indiana Action   Indiana Action Seen as Start of ‘Stop-Dewey’ Move

FBI PROBES RAIL WRECK IN SOUTH   Crews Work to Clear Tracks in Tennessee

DEATH TOLL IS NOT SET IN TRAIN WRECK   Seventeen Soldiers Known Killed in Tennessee Smash

"Big Three’ to Meet Soor   Foreign Ministers 4, Discuss Problems

CHAMP COMES ‘HOME,’ CHEERED BY THOUSANDS   Drives Through Rain In Open Car In Latest Victory Parade

CROWD CHEERS ~ FDR'S RETURN   President Uses Open Car Despite Steady Rain

CheeringThrong Welcomes F.D.R.   Triumphal Victory Procession Acclaims President on Return to Washington Despite Driving Rain; Both Army, Navy Bands Play

RESIGNS POST AS LEADER IN U. §. SENATE   Kentuckian, In Dramatic Speech, Denounces Action Taken by President.   BULLETIN

Christmas Spirit and Customs to Be Carried to U. S. Servicemen Around The World; Ail to Get Turkey Dinner

Turkey Dinner Prepared for All Servicemen  GI Joe in Foxhole, On The Sea, and At Home To Feas

TAA ILL WILL MAKE IT ERo! ON dO MILLION   Committee Approves Measure to Let Pay Deductions Cover Everything.

Simplified Income Tax Bill Approved   Plan Goes Before House Monday

U.S. NEEDS FOR, WALLACE SAYS   Personal Ties With Allied Leaders Make Election Necessary, Is Claim

lra Bain, U. S. Treasury Dept., Here, -Recruiting Typist, Clerks, For Gov't.

Belgian and Dutch Leaders Named By Allied Chief   Prince Heads Holland’s Forces; Eisenhower Warns on Atrocities

‘Ike’ Picks Lowlands  Unit Chiefs   Appoints Dutchman, Belgian to Lead © Forces of Interior

Go North On 75 Mile  Frontage   Important Junction At Civitavecchia, Port Of Rome, Captured By Fifth.

Implies — liberation imminent   Roosevelt plans Churchill parley

Invasion to Start Soen, FDR Implies   President Vague in Replying to Query on Churchill

Roosevelt Hints Invasion Is Near   Also Discloses He Hopes to Talk With Winston Churchill

Roosevelt Hints That Invasion Of Europe Is  S,. Not Far Off <9   PLANNING CONFERENCE WITH PRIME MINISTER

Roosevelt Hints Invasion Near   Indicates Another Churchill Conference

INVASION NOT FAR OFF, HINT OF PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Says Actions Should be Called the Liberation

Atiied Drive Not Far Off, FDR indicates  OO re AEP ET   Conference With Churchill Likely

snother Talk ith Churchill { Unknown Date   May Be Next Spring, FD. R. Indicates

Uver Quarter Million Above Quota Fixed   Mounting Sales Expected to  , Send Quota Over Five Million

Bond Sales At $4,729,400   Venango Sales Now Slightly More Than Half of Quota

Lonergan ‘rial Gets Underway   Prosecutor Charges Determination to Kill Motivated Lonergan.

ETERMINATION 10 KILL WAS MOTIVE   Prosecution Charges Lonergan Rained Blow After Blow on Wife’s Head.

SAYS LONERGAN MEANT TO KILL   Prosecutor Asserts Defendant Determined To Take Wife's Life

U.S, FLIERS LAND ATOWN AIR BASES ON RUSSIAN SOI   Allies Inaugurate Shuttle Bombing of Enemy Between Britain, Italy, Africa and Soviet Union.   BRINGS WAR CLOSER TO ROMANIA, HUNGARY   Targets in Eastern Germany Now Can Be Reached— High Officials of 2 Powers Witness Arrivals.

First Forts Land at New Fields After Shuttle Bombing of East Europe

Shuttle Bombing Bases in Soviet Long Dreamed   Bombers Can Now Fly Between Italy, Britain and Russia

American Crews Meet Red Forces For First Time   Use Special Bases Prepared for Them

THIRD ARMY IS IN CONTROL OF SAARLAUTERN   Jap Positions On Leyte Overcome; Soviets Expand Offensive ‘y

YANKS IN CONTROL OF SAARLAUTERN; 8TH ARMY TAKES KEY TOWN IN ITALY

JAP FLEET ‘AT LAST’ FIGHTING, TOKYO CLAIMS   Sea-Air Battle R ages Into Seventh Day In Western Pacific

JAPS DECLARE JAP FLEET 15 NOW IN ACTION   Aerial Battle of Western Pacific Rages Ahead Into 7th Day

Tokvo Says Battle Joined Off Formosa And LU, S. Task Force Flees   Nimitz Is Silent On Sea Fighting   Americans, However, Report Continuing Air Action Against Enemy

Mighty Sea Struggle Brews Off Philippines   Halsey Raiders Lash Out at Luzon; Nins Lose 227 Shins in Five Days

TOKYO CLAM UF U3. LOSSES UNCONFIRMED   While Fleet Clash Continues  Superforts Again Raid Formosa Bases.

ray ies eae eh see gay et 4 a oe  Jap Report of. Batt Between Rival Fleets:  Remains Unconfirmed

Furious Naval Battle Raging, Is Jap Claim   No Super-Forts Lost In Second Assault On Okayama Base; Fantastic Enemy Reports Say 40 U.S. Warships Sunk Or Damaged

‘Supertorts Smashing At Formosa   Yankee Third Fleet May Be in Action Against Nip Navy

Superforts Again Strike Heavily. Against Formosa   Jap Broadcasts Say Fleet Has Gone Into Action Against Yanks

Amer. Thire Fleet Is In Action      MAY HAVE CAUGHT UP: WITH JAPANESE FLEET; B-29s oy POUNDING FORMOSA AGAIN

Ship Clash Is Unverified But Halsey Tells Of Furious Air Sea Enaaaement

Artillery, Ships, Bombers Cover Start of Drive   Infantry, Tanks Go Over Top To Break Siege of Beachhead

DRIVE SEEN AS BID TO TRAP 17 NAZI DIVISIONS NOW FIGHTING SOUTH OF ROME

NAZI FORCES ARE BETWEEN THEM  AND TERRACINA   iAllies Seek to Squeeze Enemy  tn Giant Pincers South of Rome.

Powerful Offensive Is Opened by Allies to Catch Nazi Forces In Two- Way Squeeze

Clamping 17 German Divisions Between Their Fire.   GOURS OVER THE FUT  Threatening to Cut Off 255 Nazi Troops Hurled In Struecle.

SHIPS, PLANES BIG GUNS COVER NEW OFFENSIVE    Move Pins Down 17 Divisions

Interesting People, Argumentative Issues Bring Out Western Voters

New York - Pennsylvania, With 82 Electorial Votes, ‘May Decide = Election

RIVAL CLAIMS IN NEW YORK AND PENNA   Vote-Heavy States With 82 Electoral Ballots May Decide Occupant of White House

POSTWAR AUTO BOOM EXPECTEL   Ford Plans $150,000,000 Expansion Program For 40 Million Owners

‘Slip Of Vowel Sends Wrorrg Man To Army While Richt Man Remains In The Valley

WAR. TODAY   Allies In Ttaly Proving Hitler’s Defenses Can Be Smashed; West Wall To Be Real Test

BERLIN DECLARES DECISIVE [BATTLE OF EUROPEAN WAR DUE ALONG GERMANY’S WEST WALT.

With Worried Eye on Conditions in Italy Nazis. Declare Atlantic West Wall To Be Decisive Point. Developments at. Anzio May Put Nazis in Hot Spot

America’s First Transcontinental  Railroad Marks 75th Anniversary

ALLIED ATTACK ON EUROPE NEAR, IS INDICATION   Ground Fighting in Italy And Russia Overshadowed By Aerial Assaults

Force of 1,000 American Bombers Strikes Heavy Blow at German Capital, as a Climax to the 15th Straight Day of All Out Air Offensive.   DAMAGE IS ADMITTED

British Fliers Bomb Airplane Factory In Norway Last Night   Nearly 1,000 American Bombers Carry Pre-Invasion Air Attack Into 15th Straight Day

Nazis Admit Serious Raid On Capital   Other Fleets Pound Targets Elsewhere in Germany

Large Force U. §. Bombers Blast Berlin   Climaxes Fifteenth Straight Day of Pre-invasion Battle

BERLIN HARD HIT BY U.S, BOMBER CREWS  15th Day Of Air  _ Invasion Opens  CuT*st Fee i TeW* 7

Berlin Deal Great New Air Blow   U. S. Bomber Attack May Have Been War’s Greatest Daylight Assault

Serious Damage Admitted By Nazi Radio   More Than 70,000 Tons Of Bombs In 15 Days, Record

‘Explosives Blanket Residential Section As Air Battle Rages   Attack by Yanks Follows Lancaster Raid Against Oslo Aircraft Plant; Triple Blow Staced Against France

SEVEN WOMEN ~ FOUND GUILTY      ‘Massage Parlor’ Case  Is Concluded

SENATE GROUP TO PROBE ROW   Texas Solons Meet Toda\ On Texas U. Dispute

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Entire First String of “Jan” Pilots Lost

Income Tax Payers Reminded That There’s Another Job to Do April 15

.Income Tax Headaches Aren’t Over Yet; Estimates on 1944 Due April 15

Just As One Tax Headache Is Over, Another One Is Due For Many Who Must File Again By April Fifteenth

Begin Drive On Right Flank Of  ‘Peninsula Line   Strike In Swift Reversal Campaign From Cherbourg Against Right Flank

American forces in Surprise Offensive Push Southward On  Cherbours Peninsula Today

UMW LEADERS IN ILLINOIS REVIVE HOME RULE FIGHT   44 OF EDMUNDSON AIDES TO LEAVE POSTS ON MAY 15

AUTONOMY IN ILLINOIS BY MINERS URGED  Want To Elect   Want To Elect Officers For Union Jobs

HOLLANDIA AGAIN FEELS AIR MIGHT   North New Guinea _ Bast Smashed Hard By Allied Planes, Reports Genera  - MacArthur.   Fires at Dublon

 Another Raid on Hollan . dia by Airmen Reported   IVESSEL SET AFIRE BY INVADING FORCE   Buildings Destroyed and Fuel Dumps Left in . Flames

Allied Planes Again Pound Jap Hollandia Base, Blast Two Isiands of Truk Atoll

Hollandia Raided Agair By Bombers   Pacific Airmen ; Unopposed: In New Attack On Japs

WRECKED AIR BASE POUNDED AT HOLLANDIA   ENEMY SHORE GUNS HIT AMERICAN DESTROYER

LOCAL COMMITTEES NAMED FOR ANNUAL _ FEDERATION MEETIN¢   CARROLL CLUBS TO HOLD 21S1 CONVENTION HERE THURSDAY, MARCH 30

ENGLAND RAIDED ASR. A.F. ROARS ACROSS CHANNE!   Nazi Attack On Two Coastal Cities Second Successful Night Stab in Retaliation.   BERLIN REPORTS ALLIED PLANES ARE OVER REICH   Targets of Anglo-American Bombers in Daylight Smash Include Airfield Near Paris,

RAF And Nazi Bombers Swap  Light Blows   Americans Carry Air Campaign Through 3ist Day By Attacking Coastal Defenses Withoul Loss of A Single Plane

{1 §. BOMBERS BLAST NAZIS ALONG COAST   re-Invasion Aerial Assault Continued Into 31st Day

British And Nazis Swab Air Blows   RAF Opens 32nd Day Of Barrage After {1-5 Heavies Pound Coastal Defenses.

Allies, Germans Swap Air Blows  Across Channel   British Heavies Roar Over in Continuation Of Pre-Invasion Blasts

RAF, German Bombers Trade Channel Blows   British Heavies Roar Toward Continent as Blitz Continues; Nazi Stab at Coast Towns

R.A.F., nazis exchanging  aerial blows  Hurl U.S. might at Hitler’s fort

Pre-Invasion Aerial Offensive Against Europe Is Continuing   Sprawling Coastal Defenses of Nazis Blasted by Formations of American and British: Bombers: Resistance Missing

Rockets Hammer Southern England   German Strife Fails To Lessen Attacks On Isles

MacArthur Troops Have Advanced Two-Thirds of  Way to Philippines.

British Push Inte Western Edge of Trearn but Fall Back Bader Stiff Resistance

Two Engagements Reported, Fighting ls Heavy in Both   Yanks Lose Seves Village And Salient, British Make Local Gains

New Drives Are Likely  To Enlarge Their Grip   “British, Ave ‘Forced To Give Sorie-Areas

ALLIES MASSING FORCES FOR NEW PUSH IN FRANCE   Only Two Engagements Along Front Are Revorted   SLIGHT ACTION   British And Americans Pushed Back By Nazis

Allies Mass Full Forces For Attack OverFrance   Engagements Drop To Two Along Beachheads

ALLIES PREPARE FOR NEW DRIVES TOWARD PARIS   Report Action Only on Two Sectors Along 100-Mile Front in France

Allies Prepare For New Drive   Another Effort to Smash Way Out Of Beachhead Near

Allies Massing Forces For New Normandy Drive   Only Minor Engagements Reported Today Along 100.Mile Front.

Little Action. , At Front; Only 2 Engagements   Small Local Actions Make @ No Change in Situation; Allies Building ‘Up   PRISONERS REPORT NAZIS “BLED WHITE’   "Rommel Has Lost More Than 150,000 Men; Yanks Have 50.539 Prisoners

Allies Mass Forces for New Thrust   Gather Strength for Attempt to Break From Beachhead

Allies Are Massing For New Blows  (On Normandy Front  Only 2 Engagements Are Reported During Entire Day

Allies Massing Forces For New Drive; Germans Lose 156,000 Men Since D-Day

ALLIES MANEUVER FOR MAJOR BATTLE IN NORMANDY AREA  BRITISH MAKE SLIGHT GAINS; AMERICANS RE-

Allies Mass For New Drive In Normandy  Little Activity  Reported Today

EORCES MASSED IN NORMANDY   NAZI POSITIONS ARE WIPED OUT   AERIAL OFFENSIVE CONTINUES

Allies Massing for New Attempt to Get Drive Going   Only Two Battles Reported Along 100-Mile Front

ALLIES GAIN, THEN RETREAT   Invasion Forces Reach Troarn, Fall Back. After Counter-Attack -

British Score Small Gains, U.S. Forces Suffer Minor Setback In Normandy Battle   Big Concentrations Of Allied And Nazi Power Maneuvering For Position

ALLIES MASS FORCES ALONG NORMAN FRON   Preparing to Break Out of Beachhead.—Village Lost in Counter-attack by Nazis.

ALLIES MASS: FOR: ‘NEW BLOW AGAINST 'FOE IN NORMANDY   Only Two Battles Reported Today as Invasion Forcés Gird For Assaults Intended to Carry Them Out of Normandy Beachhead Sectors

Mass Forees In Beachhead   Allies Prepare For New Drives To Break Out Of Normandy Position.

Normandy Quiet As Allies Mass  For a New Drive   Only Two Engagements Are Reported Along Entire 100-Mile Front.   British Find Stiff  Resistance at Troarn

VICTOR PRODUCTS PLANS EXPANSION   -_ << ©  Program for Post-war Period Announced by  Officials 

VICTOR PRODUCTS PLANS EXPANSION   Program for Post-war Period Announced by Officials

Victor Products Plans To Expand   Local Corporation To Step Up Activities After War.

See Black-Frankfurter Feud as Fiahit to the Finish Over Next Chief Justiceship

Treasury Unfolding War Loan Plans   Spearhead of “Civilian D-Day” to Be Ceremonies At Texarkana

WFA Official Says Meat Rationing  Restrictions To Become More "ite

INCREASED MEAT ONLY TEMPORARY   Higher Point Values Expect ed Next Month When Over supply Disapnears.

DAY OF UNLIMITED:  MEAT PURCHASING  STILL LONG WAY OFF HOWEVER, THERE IS  TEMPORARY EASING ON CIVILIAN RESTRICTIONG

MEAT PROSPECTS CONTINUE TIGHT   BOWLES SAYS HIGHER POINT VALUES SEEM CERTAIN NEXT MONTH

EASE MEAT RATION IN U.S, CANADA   Only Wemporary Relief Is Hinted by Bowles; See Tighter Restrictions Later

Meat Prospects Continue Tight  Rationing Dropped Teday in Canada

Meat Scarcity To Come Agair  Easing Of Points Due To Temporary Clut

Purchase Of Chops, Steaks In Any Quantities Wanted Must Await Bigger Supply

Food Officials See Little Prospect of Cutting Meat Values   Expects Higher Point Values Will Come Early in April

MEAT PROSPECT IS STILL TIGHT   Easing of Rationing Not Likely To Last Long

MEAT PROSPECT CONTINUES TIGHT: DESPITE SURPLUS   Canada Suspends Meat Rationing Entirely But U. 5. Food Officials Warn Against Opttmism Here

TEXAS REPUBLICANS AND TEXAS REGULARS FAIL GET TOGETHER  PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS BETWEEN ROOSEVELT AND DEWEY

TEXAS REPUBLICANS AND TEXAS REGULARS FAIL GET TOGETHER  PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS BETWEEN ROOSEVELT

BREAK WITH PRESIDENT UMPLETELY ENDORSED   IBARKLEY BECOMES PARTY’S LEADER

VOTE 299 10 99 AS DEMOCRATIC REVOLT GROWS   Senate Expected to Match Lower Branch in Rebuff to President

House Passes Tax Bill Over Veto, 299 To %   Measure Goes To Senate Where Action Is Expected To Be Duplicated   SERIOUS SPLIT IN NEW DEAL DEVELOPS

INTENSIVE BOMBING ATTACKS HAVE LEFT GERMAN CONTROLLED RAILROADS IN FRANCE.AND BEL-GIUM. IN CHAOTIC” CONDITION AS “SOFTENING” FOR INVASION CONTINUES BY AL LIED AIR FLEETS—CHEMICAL  CENTER IS BLASTED —

Republican Leads By Scant Margin   Denver Congress Race  Seesaws Back and Forth

France, Reich Are Targets For Day Raids   Nine American Ships Are Lost in Today’s Operations

PLANES LOST INLATEST RAID   American Fortresses, Liberators Attack Targets in France. Germany.   NAZI OPPOSITION SLIGHT

Heavy Aerial Assault Goes Into 11th Day   Fighter Bases: in France German Industrial Points . ~ Pounded: Again   GREAT RAF. RAID ON - MUNICH. AREA   Russians Also Hammering Nazis From Air; German. Attack Beaten Off

Mighty Air Assault into Its 1th Day   U.S. Bombers Rip Fighter Bases and Industrial Targets In France. Germany

_ Raid Airfields, Plane — Plants And Coast Defenses   Lull Spreads On Red Front

Three German Air Bases Are Targets For Americans   Yanks Downed 181 Nazi Fighters, Lost 69 of Own Craft

For Eleventh Day U. S. Bombers Hit  European Targets   Nazi Fighter Bases in France Are Objects. of American Planes.   Industrial Germany  Attacked Last Night

Heavy Bombers Rake Af Nancy, Metz And Dijon   Other U. S. Planes Reported Over Nazi Targets In Germany

RAF. Raid Sets Munich Ablaze   Nazi Airfields Raked by American Bomber Fleets Following British Night Attacks on German Centers

Big Bombers Again Blast At Airfields   1000 Planes Assault Germans’ Bases In France; RAF Assaults Munich, Karlsruhe

Opposition of Enemy Light   Daylight Attacks Follow RAF Blow On Industrial Areas

11th Day, 1000 U.S.  Bombers   Follow Destructive Night Blows By British

GERMAN FIGHTER BASES IN FRANGE  HIT BY AMERICANS   [Flying Fortresses. and Libera tors Attack Industrial Targets in Germany.   LOST SEVEN BOMBERS   Two Fighters Also Missing in Qarrying Heavy Bomber Operations.

1,000 PLANES  LEAD OFF RAID ON CONTINENT   Enemy's Airdromes in France Pounded by Early Assault

DAYLIGHT BOMBINGS FOLLOW ON HEELS OF HEAVY NIGHT BLASTS  WELL OVER THOUSAND BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS  OUT ON TUESDAY

Heavy Aerial Smash Enters  Eleventh Day   Reports Indicate Enemy Opposition Light; Aim To Wipe Out Luftwaffe

11th Day of Bomb  Smashes   Nancy, Metz, Dijon Airdromes Blasted by American Planes

Steady Air Attack on Hitler’s Europe Goes Into 11th Day   RAF Night Raiders Fol. low U.S. Air Force Daylight Raids

BIH ARMY FORCES CLUSING IN TODAY   Attempting To Trap Germans Inside laenza

hastily Ceased Situation Tmproved—Chure chill  KELAS Capitaine "British Bastion

Russians Seek fo Outflank Warsaw   Reds Near Modlin In Polish Campaian

SOVIET, POLISH FORCES MENACE RAIL JUNCTION   Open Drive To Outflank Warsaw In Push On Reich

_ Good Eating!  ene ‘Spaghetti’ Discarded Powder Charges For Artillery Shells.

Allies Advance in Bismarck Islands: Jap Attack Fails   Nips Attempt to Stop Source of Attacks on  Rabaul Base

YANKS GAPTURE ENEMY AIRFIELD   SEIZE TALASEA ON NORTH COAST OF NEW BRITAIN

Japanese Strike Back At Marines On New Britain As Yanks Seize Airstrip

Talasea Won By Yanks in Rabaul Drive   Marines Seize. . Airfield and Village: Japs Shell Piva Plane Base

‘Allied Troops Advancing All Around Bismarck Sea; Jap Attack Is Fruitless

Capture Talasea Airfield   Americans Advance All Around Bismarck Sea; Belated Jap Attacks On Air Strips Fail

Report Marines Capture Talasea ew Britain   Allies Advance In Bismarck Sea Area; Japs Shell Bougainville Airports

MARINES TAKE NIP AIRFIELD IN RABAUL DRIVE   U. S$. Troops Hurl Japs Back Over Three Miles on Los Negros

Talasea Airfield . Falls To Marines  Tokyo Admits Rabaul Cannot Be Defended

Nips Trying to Choke Off Air Attacks on Rahaul —-Marines Capture  Airfield

AIRFIELD ANG VILLAGE TAKEN   Capture By Marines of Talasea Main Allied Victory In Pacific.   170 MILES FROM RABAUL

ALLIES GAIN POSITION ON BISMARGK SEA  Airfield Taken   Airfield Taken By U. S.; Japs Lose Ground

Japs Strike - sably i At Allied: Bases.      == Seek-to, ‘Choke: -off.—. * Damaging U.S. Raids. On Port of Rabaul

NAZI FALL MAY END RATIONING   OPA Officials Forecast Surplus In Food Supplies

RATIONING MAY END SOON . AFTER DEFEAT OF GERMANY   SOME GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ‘BELIEVE RESTRICTIONS MAY BE LiFreD-WiTHOUT DELAY

Rationing Of Food May End After Nazis Fall, Federal Offictal Says

Sergeant Draws 18-Year Sentence   Deserted Unit in Italy, Falsified Checks

NOW ONLY 30 MILES FROM BELGIAN FRONT   HAVE CAPTURED LAON, AND GERMANS ADMIT _ ABANDONMENT OF ROUEN AS BRITISH DRIVE - ON ROBOT BOMB COAST GAINS MOMENTUM.

Yank Reporter In England   Private Radio Startling Hair Flak Vest  Managing BdAtinn

MAJOR ENEMY STRONGHOLD HIT FROM TWO SIDES   Roi Airbase, On Main Atoll Of Group, Is Threatened

Resistance Is Weak At  Some Points   Eye-Witness Story Discloses Fury Of Americans’ Attack

Beaten Germans Fleeing Toward Northern Italy   Allied Planes Strafe Confused Nazi Units Retreating From Rome

TAX HEADACHE STIRS CONGRESS   Members Cross Fingers ‘Against Further

SCHEDLER SAYS IT IS DIFFERENT FROM DAYS OF BATAAN  AT TACLOBAN ONE KNOWS THE PLANES OVERHEAD AMERICAN

A Different Story Now   War Correspondent Finds It Good to Be Back in Philippines ©  On the Winning Side

HILLMIAN PREDICTS WH BY ROOSEVELT   Asserts PAC Does Not Have Huge Fund for Camnaian Purnoses.

TRUMAN OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN   VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDI.  DATE IN BROADCAST BTRESSES EXPERIENCE © ‘ OF ROOSEVELT

RULING GIVES WFA SET BACK   Federal Judge Denies Power to Levy Assessments for Expenses

WFA TO APPEAL COURT SETBACK   Judge Holds Levying Of As. sessments Exceeds Power

EIGHTH VICTIM OF CRASH DIES   Four Investigations Begur Into Airliner Accident

MILITARY FUNERAL MASS IS ARRANGED   Will Take Place At Conewage Chapel Saturday For Pfc, Cyril L. Livelsberger, Killed On Saipan

MILITARY FUNERAL  MASS FOR SOLDIER   Memory Of Pfc. Cyril L, Livelsberger, Edge Grove, Honored— Killed On Saipan July 24

Italians Taking Over Own Affairs   Allied Commission Reports on Progress

Greatest Western Front Victory Is Written With 200.000 Nazis In Trap

Escape for Nazi Seventh Army — Virtually Cut; Allies Move Swiftly In Great Battle of Annihilation

Only Escape Exit For The Nazis Cut To 12 Miles; Covered By Artillery Fire

Yank Troops Gain 7 Miles   Yanks Race to Complete Encirclement of German Armies, Cut Escape Corridor; Eisenhower Predicts Major Victory of War

EXPECT GOV'T CREW TO MANAGE WARD'S   No Official C Confirmation, Store Says Move Would Be Unconstitutional

REPORT U.S. 10 TAKE OVER BIC CHICAGO FIRM   Montgomery Ward, CIO Wail for Washington to Make Next Move

FEDERAL AGENCY TAKES OVER FIRW   Chicago Mail Order House Seized, Failed to Confer on Labor Point,

Big Crowds Meet Dewey On Way East   Observers Note That Attendance Is Increasing and More Enthusiastic Since Kansas Speech

Dewey Focusing Attacks Against New Deal On Appeal To Voters To Help Gean House.

Dewey Hitting New Deal Harder In Addresses   GOP Candidate Warms Up To Crowds That Gather For Speeches

New Deal Needs Cleaning-Dewey   Tells Crowds He'd Like To Do The Job

DEWEY SCORES NEW DEALERS   Appeals To Voters For Thorough Washington Housecleaning

HEALTH CHitt IS CONFIRMED   RES  House And Senate Meet Today Fer Sine Die Adjournment

Sfash Output Of Aluminum  “Union Protests Step; “Says Supply Needed

Fire in Denver Investigated   Six Persons, Including Two Army Couples Die ir Amusement Park Blaze

Yankees Finish  Cherbourg Fall AsDawn Breaks   British Approach Caen, Russians Press Germans

Stimson Declares Major Objectives ~ Were NotAchieved   \Says Rubble; Caves Afforded Nazis Shelter And Ease Of Movement; Concedes Enemy Good Soldiers

Stimson Gives Facts On Fight  At Cassino   ‘We Were Just Stopped By  The Germans’

Cassino Defeat Admitted By Secretary Of Wa   ‘The Germans Stopped Us,’ Stimson Declare At Press Conference; Reveals Mounting Allied Aerial Might In All Theaters

Nazis Stopped Us, Secretary of War Tells Press Today   Assault on Strategic Town Has ‘Subsided Without Achieving Results for Which We Had Hoped,’ Stimson Declares.

Stimson Admits Allied Failure — At Cassino   But Was Not Real Test Of ‘Our Main Strength,’ Secretary Tells Newsmen

Nazis Stopped Allied Attacks  i 8 es   Secretary Stimson Pays Tribute to Ability of Germans

GERMAN FIRE BOMBS HIT HOSPITAL   Two Americans Killed anc Some Nazi Prisoners Whe Were Wounded in Battle Hit Again.

Admit Failure Cassino Fight   Secretary Stimson Declares ‘Simple Fact That’ Germans Stopped Us.’

OTIMGUN REVIEWS ITALIAN CAMPAIGN   Secretary Says While Germans Stopped Allies at Cas. sino Allied Forces Have Attained Major Objectives

STIMSON SAYS THE GERMANS STOPPED US   War Secretary Reviewing Italian Situation Admits Setback, But Says We  Profit from Experience

SIMPLE FACT IS NAZIS STOPPED US AT CASSINO   Stimson Makes Blunt Acknowledgement Of Situation In Italy;  owever, Last Chapter Has Not Yet Been Written, He Adds.

Stimson Admits Nazis ‘Stopped Us’ at Cassino   Secretary Adds It Was Not Real Test Of Allied Power

NAZ DEFENSE STOPS ALLIED ‘CASSINO DRIVE   Stimson oAdmits* U.S. ane “British Have Been Unable "T) Take. City

Nazis, Rains Halted Yanks At Cassino, Says Stimson   War Secretary Has Explained Cantest

GERMANS STOPPED US IN ITALY SAYS STIMSON  War Secretary Issues Report  On Situation on Cassino Front

Drive Is No fest Of Powe   War Secretary Says Objectives Have Been Gained

REPORT MADE ON CASSINO BY SEC. STIMSON   Allied Attack on Italian Fortress Town ‘'Subsided Without Achieving Results Hoped For"   TO PROFIT BY LESSON

ALLIES CONCEDE CASSINO DEFEAT   Stimson Declares Major Objectives Attained On Italian Front

Advantage On ‘Cassino Front  Heldby Enemy   War Secretary Makes Frank Declaration That Allied Action In Area Ended For Time   Profiting From Lesson Learned      Meanwhile, Three Attacks By Germans On Anzio Beachhead Are  : Repalsed

Setback At Cassino Admitted Now But Viewed As Lesson   Secretary of War Says Results Not What Had Been Hoped For and That Great Many Things Learned

Results Not Achieved at Cassino, but Much Learned; Hills Give Advantage to Enemy

CHURCHILL WINS ULL SUPPORI   British Troops Now Control One-Fifth of Fighting Athens

PEACE MOVES ‘ARE STARTEDIN CIVIL WAR   SPOKESMAN FOR GREEK GOVERNMENT AND REBEL FAC: TIONS TRY TO REACH AGREEMENT

Armored Unit Scores Gains Aaainst Nazis   Nine-Mile Advance In One Sector Is Reported

Germans Hit Hard on East, West Fronts   Soviets 100 Miles from Warsaw; British, Canadians Gain Steadily.

Col. Gen, Ludwig Beck, Former Chief of General Staff Named by Hitler As Head of Conspirators, Reported ‘No Longer Among Living’

Flames May Close Maine  Woods Tract:   Officials Act In Rain Dearth

No Definite End for War in Sight  But Moves Made for Two-way Thrus+

War Showing. No Signs Of Ending Soon aia als 4  Changing Estimate Peace Would Come

Interpreting The War News—  No Indication Of War’s End As Fighting Moves Into December

Luxurious Nazi Chancellery Was Hit By Bombs   But Hitler Not At Home; 1000 Tons Bombs Dropped In Raid Today

SECOND SEETHING ‘BATH OF FIRE FOR ‘BERLIN THIS YEAR   TWO SUCCESSIVE NIGHT BLOWS BY RAF BOMBERS LEAVE CITY IN FLAMES

RAF BOMBERS HIT ‘DOOMED’ BERLIN AGAIN  Attack Described As “Worst Yet”

LOSE 28 PLANES IN ATTACK ON BURNING CAPITAL   Swedes Claim Hitler’s Nev Chancellery Hit in Latest Raid

ret CAPITAL BLASTED SECONE TIME NEW YEAR   RAF Chooses Devastated City As Target for Its First 1944 Raid

Nazi Capital. RAF’s First 1944 Blasting   Newest Attack Came While Fires Stil Burn From Assault Sunday.   FLAK 3S VERY THICK

Second Giant Bath of Bombs Strikes Berlin   RAF Bombers Follow Up Sunday's Raid With Another Monday

RAID AMONG WORST YET MADE BY RAF   Doomed Capital Staggers Under Mighty Attack

WEARY BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN   RAF Hits Stricken Reich Capital Second Con secutive Night

CAPITAL HAS WORST PERIOD OF AIR WAR   Raid No. 2 Made Early Today as Fires Stil Burned From First 1, -000-Ton Assault Early Sunday Morning.

British Blast Charred Nazi Capital City   Newest Attack. Comes While Previous Fires Are Raging and Rescue Work Is. Progressing

German Capital Hit Sunday Today; Stiff Opposition Met By Big Bombers

RAF Blasts Capital As Fires. Still Burn.  “BromPreviousRatd   Attack Called One Of War’ 8: Worst; _ 28 Allied Craft Lost In Assaults. Over City, West. Reich, France:

CHARRED CAPITAL OF GERMANY HIT 10TH GREAT BLOW   NEW ATTACK SECOND IN LESS THAN DAY; 28 AIRCRAFT LOST

Berlin Again Blasted By Heavy Force   28 RAF Planes Lost in Raid And Other Attacks By Bombers

28 AIRCRAFT LOST IN RAID YN GERMANY   !'va Large Concentrations Of Fire Are Left Roaring in Capital of The Reich

Berlin Inferno After Bombing   Nazi Capital . Blasted Twice In 2] Hours

BERLIN HIT SECOND TIME IN NEW YEAR   Damage to German Capital Great In Week-End Raids

British Bomb Berlin, Hit Hitler Palace  28 Planes Lost By R.A.F. in Attack an Nazi:

ANEW AS RAF RESUMES RAIDS   Charred Capital Given Second Heavy Attack of New Year by British Airmen   STIFFEST RESISTANCE © ' POT UP BY GERMANS

Tenth Great BlowStruck During Dark   Fires Still Roared Skyward As New Bombs Fell

Tenth Heavy Blow Is Dealt Charred Berlin   Swedish Dispatch Says Capital Had Worst Night Since Campaign To Destroy It Began November 18.

Two Attacks Made Only 21 Hours Apart   Tortured German Capital Has Worst Night Since Nov, 18   28 AIRCRAFT LOST   Two Large Concentra. tions of Fires Left Burn. ing in City

RAF Opens 1944 By Berlin Raid   SEETHING BOMB  BATII GIVEN GERMAN CAPITAL

Tenth Blow Is Inflicted On Berlin   Hitler’s Chancellery Is One OF Buildings Hit During RAF Attack On Réich Capital

Berlin Hit Twice by Sky Fleets   Charred Capital Given Fire Bath Both Sunday  And Early Today

Berlin Is Given  A Bath of Bombs   Tenth Great Aerial Blow Delivered Against City by the RAF.

MORE TERROR IS DUMPED UPON BURNING BERLIN   Sweden Hears Invasion Bridgeheads Set Up in ‘Dalmations.

IND NEW YEAR ASSAULT MADE   British Airmen Deliver 10th Great Blow On Capital  28 BOMBERS MISSING

HEAVY BRITISH ATTACK ROCKS FLAMING CITY   Follows Sunday Raid Of 1,000 or More Tons of Bombs

Berlin Again Blasted By Heavy Force  28 RAF Planes   28 RAF Planes Lost in Raid  And Other Attacks By Bombers

NEWEST ATTACK TENTH AGAINST CHARRED CITY      Delivered by RAF While Fires’ Still Burned From  1,000-Ton Assault Sunday Morning .   DEFENSE HEAVIEST YET ENCOUNTERED   Flak So Thick Flier Could Have Ridden It; Hitler’s - New Chancellery it

Berlin, First RAF Target In 1944 Gels New Bath Of Bombs Today; IOth Great Raid Avainsi Canilal 1000 Tons Strong

Berlin  Shakes in New Raid   BRITISH FIERS DELIVER TENTH BLOW AGAINST CHARRED NAZI CAPITAL

SECOND BATH OF ~ FIRE IN NEW YEAR GIVEN TO BERLIN   Tortured German Capital Had  - Worst Night Since November 18.   FIRES LEFT ROARING   Twenty-Eight Aircraft Were Lost in the Berlin and Other Raids.

Doomed City Of Berlin Is Bombed Anew  City Staggering After   City Staggering After Another Assault By RAF; ‘Worst Night’ Since Blows Began

Second Big Berlin ‘Fire Bath’ Of ’44   Crumbling Capital Hit By Two 1,000-Ton Assaults In 24 Hours.

RAF Pounds Berlin Once More; Hits At3 A.M.   Nazi Capital Given Second Seething Bath Of Fire In New Year; Nice Also Attacked,

Berlin Given Two Seething Baths of Fire, Bombs in 44   British Airmen Deliver Tenth Deadly Blow on City

Berlin Gets 2nd Attack of Bombs In New Year   Two Concentrations Of Fire Reported By Returning Pilots

HITLER HOME HIT BY RAF. BOMBS, REPORT   More Than 1,000 Tons of Explosive, Fire Bombs Rain on Blazing. Smoking City

Berlin Burns From Tenth Great Assault   Fire Roars in Blistered Nazi Capital As Allies Raid Continent

“Oe SAR. R,WAR— .  i SECOND “AND THIS YEAR   German Capital Battered Tn. 10 Major Air Blows Of War   93 PLANES LOST       Great Fires: ‘Reported Raging in Heart Of Nazidom ’

Capital Burns  After Big Night Assault   British Airmen Pound City While Fires From Earlier Raid Still Burn; Twenty-eight Planes Lost on Forays

- 1944 TARGET   British Give Capital Second Seething Bath of Fire And Bombs.   TODAY'S ATTACK HEAVY

Fired Berlin Reels   British Bombers Give Reich Capital Second Great Blow Of 1944

COTTON GROWERS SHOULD NOW BUY CALCIUM ARSENATE  WFA Urges Purchase

REDS STILL WANT EASTERN POLAND   O-ficials Admit Churchill-Stalin Talks D-dn’t Change Affair

SHAEF Reports Hilter Planned Big Offensive   Says Operation Of Strategy Turned Over to Runstedt

Drive Conceived By Adolf Hitler, Allies Indicate   Rumors of Fuehrer's Illness Said Clever  German Propaganda

HITLER PLANNED GRAND SMASH   RUMOR-CLOUDED MONTHS USED, SAYS SHAEF

Allies Reveal Hitler, Hidden by Clever Plan, Mapped Present Drive

Allies Pouring Reinforcements Into Beachheads   Allied Invasion Troops Meet Little Enemy Opposition as They Penetrate Deeper Into Famed Riviera of Southern France

Allied Forces Make More Landings [In South France; Meet Opposition

GHAS, HOFFMAN ‘DIES AT HOME   Former Plymouth County Resident Succumbs To  Heart Attack .

CHAS. HOFFMAN DIES AT HOME   Former ‘Plymouth County - Resident Succumbs To  - =. Bjeart Attack.

Has No Quellnes About Future Young Sculptress And Dodge Heir Plan To Marry Shortly

Amarillo Paper Tied Up As Printers Still ‘Discuss Contract Terms

Woodring Out As Head of New Party   Chairman Resigns; Calls Anti-Roosevelt Leaders Too Timid

Churchill Says Summer May Brings Full Success; Other Biows Coming, He Declares   Allies Won’t Falter He Asserts In Speech Made At Mexican Embassy

Churchill Says Summer May See Allied Success   Makes Speech at Mexican Embassy; Says Allies Will Never Falter.

Success For Allies Nearing   DOWNFALL OF GERMANY MAY COME IN SUMMER MONTHS, BRITISH PREMIER DECLARES

ee eT VIET VVC UU Te Summer May Bring Success In Full, Churchill States

CHURCHILL SAYS SUMMER MAY SEI "FULL SUCCESS’   Declares Invasion Was Great Tactical Surprise In Recent Speech >

ImminentEvents MayMeanBreak ~ From Nazi Curse   Premier Says Invasion Proved Great Tactical Surprise ‘To Germans

Churchill Seys ‘Summer May Bring German Defeat   Teheran Decisions Still Being Unfolded, He Says of Invasion, Asserts Result Inevitable

Churchill Predicts Summer to Bring Success for Cause  Invasion of Normandy Was Tactical Surprise for Nazis

War's End by Fall Hinted   Churchill Foresees Possibility of Allied Victory This Summer

VISIONS NAZI DEFEAT BEFORE SUMMER'S END      Declares Normandy Invas jon Great Surprise To Germans

‘Summer May See Success’  —CHURCHILL   Says Invasion Of France Was Great Tactical Surprise To Nazis.

SaysSummer May Bring Victory For Cause Of Freedom; Says Rights Of Small Nations   - To Be Unheld

CHURCHILL SAYS FULL SUCCESS 10 COME IN SUMMER   "Speech at Mexican Embassy  Reveals That Events of ] Past Week Were Tactical 3) Surprises to Enemy.   INVASION LAUNCHED IN FULL ALLIED ACCORD   Declares Efforts Are Being Made to Achieve Lasting and Permanent Cooperation After the War.

Says Summer May See Allied Success   Churchill in Speech Predicts a Strong Union for Peace

SUMMER MAY ‘BRING PEAGE’ SAYS CHURCHILL   Time to Reveal More Plans Reached at Teheran Conference

SAYS INVASION SURPRISED ENEMY   Praises Unity Of Nations Fighting Axis   TEHERAN PLANS   Now Being Executed, Prime Minister Adds; Russia In Full Accord

‘Full Success’ For Freedom I: Possible Soon  Churchill Says Nazi Curse May Be Lifted During This Summer

CHURCHILL SAYS VICTORY NEARER   Summer Months May See End Of Nezi Curse in Europe

CHURCHILL SEES POSSIBILITY OF EARLY WAR ENDING   Activities of Summer Months May Bring Full Success To Cause of Freedom

CHURCHILL SEES EARLY VICTORY   Predicts This Summer ‘May Bring Full Success To The Cause Of Freedom.”

In Speech at Mexican Embassy, Revealed Today, Prime Minister Said Normandy Invasion Complete Tactical Surprise.

ARMY nll GURL UT Will MORE NATION fa TOLD   7,700,000 Men Already in But Calls Will Continue to Ee High.

OBJECTIVE OF 1,700,000 MEN ATTAINED      No Immediate Draft Decrease; Navy Still Below Its Goal

ARMY REAGHES OBJECTIVE OF 7,700,000 MEN  Draft, However, Can't Kase Up   MUST FILL GAPS

His “Idear” Swell Navy “Boss Of Guns” Gets  Offer From Amateur Inventor

BRITISH TAKE STEPS 10 PUT DOWN STRIKES   Probe Of Possible Subversive Elements Started By Scotland Yard As Crisis Grows; Slow Up Invasion Plans.   Walkouts Spread

Scotland Yard Probes British Wildeat Strike   Trotskyite London Offices Raided as TUC Warns CW’ War Plawonkce

EXPECT MORE THAN MILLION BUSHELS HERE   Peak of Harvest Due About Wednesday, Depending Upon Weather

British Continue Advance In Italy   Troops Within Five Mile: Of key Road Junction

Allies Nearing Faenza In Italy   Vital Junction Point On Main Bologna Road

BRITISH PUSH NEARER FAENZA   Menace Junction Point On Main Bologna Highway

FRENCH RAILROAD MANNED BY YANKS   BY WILLIAM R. HIGGINBOTHAN  UP War Carreecen ston

From Dispatchers to Machinists All-American Crew Operates Captured Railroad in France

3d Term and Ath Term Bad For the War   REPRESENTATIVE CLARE BOOTHE LUCE SAYS PRICE OF THIRD AND FOURTH TERMS HAS BEEN HIGH.   Cause Of Disunity

Yanks Advance on Biak Island   Allies Push Air  Offensive in Pacific

ALLIES RENEW OFFENSIVE ON BIAK ID.   In Fact Steady ‘Action Continues Thruout Pacific

AMERICANS ADVANCE ON BIAK ISLAND   Reach Top of Mokmer Ridge Near Airdrome

SIXTH ARMY 1S REINFORCED AT MOKMER RIDGE   Allies Continue Steady Assault On Japanese Bases In Panific

COLCORD QUITS, ~ WONT G0 BACK   Former College Man Here Resigns When “A” Grades Questioned

BOMBERS SINK FOUR JAP SHIPS OFF NEW GUINEA   Attack Enemy 1 Bases From Truk In Carolines To Marshalls

YANK BOMBERS SINK 4 JAP DESTROYERS   Fifth Damaged In Raid On Enemy Task Force

U.S. Fliers Bag Jap Destroyers   Four Warships Sunk And Another Damaged Off Dutch New Guinea

—CONGRESS—  DEMOCRATS NAY CONTROL SENATE   Republican House Is . Forecast. After Congressional Survey -

‘ CONGRESS OUTLOOK: [Next Congress May Consist Of Demo Senate and GOP House

Yanks Surge Forward on  33-Mile Front   Attack to Crush Foe at Base of Cherbourg Sector

DRIVE TO CRUSH NAZI LINE — ALONG BASE OF PENINSULA,  ‘ENEMY ANCHORS OUTFLANKED

Yanks Surge Ahead Along 332.Mile Front   Endeavor To Crush ° Whole German Line At Base of Peninsula  VIRE RIVER SPANNED

NAZI STRONGHOLD: APPEARS DOOMED: ST, JEAN MENACEL   General Bradley’s Forces  Strike on 35-Mile Front on.  Heels of Heavy Artillery. Barrage.       FORCE VIRE RIVER, oe SEIZE TOWN OF AIREL   Doughboys Bayonet: Germans From First-Line. Positions as They Move Through  Withering Fire.

Swift Moving Infantry Seize Dominating High Ground West Of St. Jean And Bridge Canal Linkine Vire And Taute Rivers

Pincers Move Threatening  German Lines  Engineers Make Drive Possible by Bridging

STAGE NEW DRIVE “IN CARENTAN AREA   Yanks Strike Under Heavy ‘ Artillery Barrage   CROSS VIRE RIVER   Dazed Germans Fail to Blow Up Bridges; Nazis Caught In Pincers Move

Heavy Barrage by Artillery Dazes Germans   Outflanked Enemy Anchors Appear Doomed

Hill Over La Haye Captured by Yanks   Bayonets, Artillery Drive Nazis on 33-Mile Front

DAZED NAZIS GIVE GROUND AT CARENTAN   AMERICANS CROSS VIRE RIVER IN SWIFT THRUST

YANKS SURGE FORWARD ON LUNG FRONT   Make Spectacular Drive Southeast of Carentan Startling Germans at Vire River.   Camadians Pushing

Allies Widen Breaches Made ‘In Gothic Line   British Clean Out Germans in Pesaro Yanks Plunge on North from Pisa

Eighth Army Widens Hole In Hun Line   Americans Push Beyond Pisa In Po Valley Drive

Allies Pouring ThroughBreak In Gothic Line   Germans Fight Desperately To Stem Advances Along Entire Ttalian Front

Allied Forces Tear Gothic line to Shreds   New Gains Reported On Both East And West Coasts

Greater Holes Torn in Nazi  Gothie Line  Allies Make Major Advances in Battle OF Thaliian Poeninanlea

NAZI GOTHIC LINE BEING PENETRATED   Germans Are Cleared From Eastern Anchor At Pesaro After Bitter Fiehtine

‘Allied Forces Continue Advance Against Japs In Indian Batlle Zone

Lexington, Biggest Burley Tobacco Market, Is Also Without Cigarette:

SEEK CAUSE OF MISFIT MILLIONS   Inquiry Scheduled Monday By Subcommittee

Fierce Battle For Capital Of Hungary Rages   Budopest Reported in Flames as Soviet Forces Pounc Against Stiff German Resistance—Two Nearby Towns Are Captured

Capital Defended Savagely by Foes   Paris, Algiers Broadcasts " Qae Gnefate tn City

Fall of Capital Of Hungary Is Held Imminent   Germans Putting Up Desperate Resistance

Statement Is Introduced In Roemig Trial   FBi Agent Reports That He Wrote Statement as Roemig Talked

Nazi Commander, Company Ready to Quit; Decision of Rest of Garrison in Doubt

50,000 Strikers Throw Sprag in War. Industries  Timberlands and Detroit Plants

Nazi Snipers Prowl Strasbourg in Night: Russ Roam Streets in Daytim:

SNIPERS PROWL IN STRASBOURG   Doughboys Ordered to Fire At Anything Suspicious

NEW DEAL LABOR MOVES ASSAILED BY GOV. DEWEY   Candidate Charges Administration With “Playing With Rights of Worker for Political Power.”   GIVEN BIG OVATION BY 9,500 IN PITTSBURGH   Throng Told Party in Control Is Bankrupt and Has No Program for the Future.

Political Power And Cash Seen As Objective   One-Man Government Scored by Candidate

LABOR POLICY OF NEW DEAL HIT BY DEWEY   Charges Workers Are Used for Political Power, Cash

“One-Man Government” Hit  In Address By Gov. Dewey   Republican Nominee Declares President Is Trying to Make Political Capital of Social Gain Initiated by Republican Administration

Comparison Is Listed.   Stevenson A. Rider Dies at Crothersville

Nelson to Tell China’s Contribution   WPB CHIEF, BACK FROM ORIENT, PREPARES REPORT FOR PRESIDENT

John Wilbur Voss Captured Again   Fled State Prison In October, Caught in California

JOHN VOSS HELD ON WEST COAST   Oklahoman Who Escaped Me* Alester Prison Is Detained in California

Wilbur Voss  ls Recaptured   Oklahoma Convict Taken in California After Sixth Escape

MONTGOMERY'S TROOPS PUSH BEYOND CAPTURED ANCHOR POINT ON WEST END OF GERMAN’ LINE. IN NORMANDY=-JAPS MAKING ONLY UNOR: GANIZED RESISTANCE ON SAIPAN ISLAND: : : AFTER FORCES OVERWHELMED “

MISS MICHAEL ~ MARRIED 10 JOHN PROSTKO   Ceremony is Performed At Spring Valley hurch

DRIVE TO SPLIT JAP FORCES IN LEYTE SECTOR   Yanks Push To Within Five Miles Of Key Road Junction

Yanks Within 5 Miles Of Key Road Junction Of Libungao   Tokyo Claims U.S. Battleship Sunk   Japs Also Report Manila And Cavite Bombed By 100 Planes

MacArthur Troops Threaten To Cut Jap Front In Two   Push Toward Key Road Junction 10 Miles North Of Ormoc

 Americans Within 5 Miles ‘Of Key Point   Nipponese Claim Many Yank Planes On Manila Raid

Yanks Plan To Cut 4 Jap — FrontIn Northwest Leyte In Tio; Big Pash Started

JAP FORCES ON LEYTE MAY ~ BE GUT IN TWO   American Invasion Spearhead Pushes Toward Key Road Junction.

75,000 JAPS HURLED !Ni0 LEYTE FIGHT   Japanese Claim U.S. Battleship Sunk in Attack

Yank Drive Threatens To Split Enemy   Japanese Claim U. S. War. ship Sunk in Plane Attack Near Luzon.

AMERICANS SEEK TO CUT OFF NIP UNITS   Capture of Road Junction Would lsolate 2 Divisions

Yanks Threaten To Slash Jap Front In Half   a Fall of Libungao, “Under Artillery Fire,  Believed Imminent 

AMERICANS ON LEYTE ADVANCING   U. S. Forces Threaten To Split Enemy In Ormoc Sector

Yanks Seek to Divide Enemy Front on Leyte   MacArthur Reveals 75,000 Jap Troops Battle U. S. Forces

ine Fai Of Lipungao, Now Under American Artillery Fire  WOULD ISOLATE TWO ENEMY DIVISIONS  Five Japanese Divisions, Possibly 75,000 Men On Leyte

Patton Punches More Gaps ° In Metz Ring of Defenses; Yanks Inch Ahead on Levte

U.S. ADVANCE MAY SLICE JAP LINE ON LEYTE   Drive on Libungao Threatens to Isolate Two Divisions of 75,000 Enemy   Troops Rushed Into Fight.

Airmen Suppert Tommies, Gurkhas Whe Catch Japs  With Dese Of Own Ble J intme

Ol, DUMPS AND POWER -iNSTALLATIONS OF ENEMY INVADING INDIA z BLASTED BY. WAR-.......  PLANES .

Telling Blows Struck At Japs In South Burm   Allied Bombers Strike In Support Of Embattled Ground Forces

BOMBERS STOP JAPS IN INDIA   » British Resisting Stubbornly  ia Set Jungles on Fire

Japanese Oil Dumps And Power Installations In Southern Burma Struck

EXPAND SENIO RIVER POSITION   Canadians Hold 6-Mile Line: U. S. Inches Ahead

ALLIES GAINING AT SENIO RIVER   Americans Attacking Mente Belmonte East Of Highwav 65. Italy.

Canadians Establish Front on Senio River   American Fifth Army Gains South of Bologna

Study Borde: Disputes   State Department  _ Compiles the Facts On Europe’s Vexing - ‘Boundarv -Questions

Data On Europe’s Boundary Disputes Prepared and-Ready For Peace Table

Boundary Disputes Data All Ready For Peace Table   State Department Ends Research Plan In Redrawing Map

U.S. Is Ready To Redraw Europe’ s Map   State Department Has About Completed Study of Boundaries

NEW EUROPEAN LINES STUDIED AT WASHINGTON   State Department Ready  With Plar to Settle j Boundaries

Foe Draws Force From Manchuria Says MacArthur   Convoy on Way To Reinforce Yanks on Mindoro

Detailsextent  of Nip losses  MacArthur tells  of raid on convoy

Convoy Running Jap Air Attack  MacArthur Silent On Nips’ Sinking Claims; 190 77 Nin me leche

Yanks Destroy Entire Army In Philippines   Japs Forced to Call Crack Troops In Battle for Leyte

Jap Losses on Leyie Isle Total 116,770   Enemy Drew Troops From as Far Away as Manchuria

4 JAP DIVISIONS LOST ON LEYTE   NEW AMERICAN CONVOY UNDER ATTACK AS IT MOVES TOWARD MINDORO.

Enemy Loses. 4 Divisions : In Defending Leyte Island ~   ; Psychological War: . Opens “Against Japs

Japs Lost Four Divisions On  Leyte Island   Gen. MacArthur Reports: Enemy Drew Forces from Manchuria for   Engagement

MacArthur Reveals Jap Losses On Leyte Total 116,770: Convoy Fights Off Nips

Mindoro Convoy Presses Ahead Despite Attack   MacArthur Says Eight Enemy Planes Downed

Geilenkirchen Captured i in Lightning Advance; Patton’s Armor Launches Mighty Drive Beyond Encircled Metz

All Allied Armies Score Advances;  Metz Encircled   Crash Ten Miles Through Belfort Gap; Captur Defense Base Of Geilenkirchen.  German Resistance Slackening.

\llies Racing Forward on  50-Mile Front   40,000 Nazis Funnel  Toward Escape Spans Over Maas in Holland: Reds Said in New Push

WUIGK SeRVist DISCHARGE SEEN   George Act Provides * Immediate Demobilizatiin After Hosiil.ties End

UGK SERVICE. DISCHARGE SEEN   -George Act Provides _ «Immediate D'emobilizatisn After Hostilities End

Phone 5 —  for Want Ads, Subscriptions,  All Advertising, Job Printing

Expect Tough Fight On Tinian Strong. hold; War Nearing Philippines As McArthur Announces Ship Sinking.

Invasion Of ~Tinian Isle  Moves Ahead   Yank Forces Isolate Key Objectives On Guam As Fighting Progresses.,   PHILIPPINE ACTION

AMERICANS ARE TWO MILES FROM     ISLAND CAPITAL   Airstrip Isolated Among Substantial Gains; U.S. Casualties Are 1,958

Yanks Moving Up On Tinian   Fifth Army Firmly Established Along Nazis’ Gothic Water Line

Yanks Rush Conquest of Strategic Marianas With New Invasion of Tinian

Extend Congues Of the Marianas   Landings Of Marines Made Against Light Opposi- .   tion on Fintan _.-   ‘MOVING FAST ON GUAM   Island's Best Airdrome and _ Harbor Isolated by American Attack

Marines Land on Tinian Isle in Marianas; Beachheads Fir   Opposition Light in Initial Stages, Begun at Dawn Sunday, but Growing Opposition  _Foreseen; Make Progress on Guam.

INVASION OF TINTAN ISLAND GOES SMOCTHLY ON AS GUAM OBJECTIVES GAINED BY YANKS   American Casualties in Guarn Placed at 1,958 With About 300 of These Dead. Tokyo Radio Watns Japs Situation Does Not Permit Optimism

Tinian Island Invaded   Yanks Move Swiftly © Inland in Newest Attack On Marianas; Close in On Guam Key:

OTHER YANKS ISOLATE KEY GUAM BASES   Latest Pacific Landing Goes Smoothly As U.S. Rushes Marianas’ Conquest

American Invasion Of Tinian Is Right on Schedule   Troops Move Inland From Secure Beachheads While Other Forces Isolate Key Objectives on Guam: Fleet Is in Action

Tinian Is Invaded; Harbor, Airfield © On Guam Isolated   1,958 U.S. Casualties On Guam; Bombers Strike Near Philippines

Yanks Invade Tinian Island   Other American Forces Isolate Key Japanese Positions on Guam

Americans Invade Tintan And Drive Inland On Guam   Nimitz Says Light Opposition Met By First Waves Going Ashore At Jap Base Three Miles From Saipan; Guam Casualties Moderate

, Yanks Land "On Tinian: »Push Inland   Guam Invaders, Meanwhile, Isolate Airfield And Anpra Harbor.

MARINES LAND ON TINIAN ISLE, GAIN FOOTHOLD   U. S. Troops Isolate Guam’s Finest Harbor, Airdrome in Advance

Yanks Make More Gains On Tinian, Guam Isles   Landings Contiaues : Opposition Lichter

Yanks Effect A Landing on Tinian Island   Operations Proceed ‘Smoothly There and On Nearby Guam; Expect Stiff Fighting

Invasion on Tinian Islanc Going Well   Yanks Also Gaining in Drive to Recapture Guam From Japs

YANKS ISOLATE BEST HARBOR ON GUAM   Landings Are Made Against 4 Light Opposition   Sunk 70 Miles From Mindanao By Allied Bombers; Officers Named

Tinian Island Invaded Sunday By U. 5. Marine:   Landings Made On Still Another Base in Marianas

Yanks Rush Conquest Of Marianas And Press  Enemy In Guam Battle   Assault Continues With Air, Sea, Land Support

Tinian Invasion Speeds Conquest of Marianas      MacArthur air foree closing in on Philipines. Story on B-B.

Yanks Land On Tinian Near Guam   Bombers Strike Shipping in Philippine Waters

DETROIT BLAST BURIES 2 MEN   Public Works Official Is Victim; Several Workers Burned

Assassin’s Shot Misses Camacho   Disgruntled Mexican Officer Arrested

Republicans Turn To Ohio Governor To Make Race With Governor Dewey

Fighter planes break transcontinental record in time of 6 hours. 31 minutes

BRITISH PONDER COAL SITUATION   Hershey Wants 4-F’s Put Into War-Import ant Jobs

(2 MORE MEN’ REGISTER IN. THE COUNTY   One Induction Into Arniy And One Nayal Commission

‘ALLIED AIR-BORNE TROOPS CLAMP ‘GRIP ON JAPANESE BURMA RAIL LINE

Air Borne Units Landed By Allies _ Near.-Mandalay   Clamp New Death Grip Around North Burmese Jap Communications

ALLIES CONTROL ENTIRE IMPHAL PLAIN IN BURMA   Reinforce Troops Fighting Near Mandalay; India Picture Brightens

Ally Air Troops Land In Burma:  Chiefs Confiden   Counter-Offensive In Bengal Area Termed Satisfactory Today By Mountbatten

ALLIED SCENE IMPROVES IN INDIA BATTLE   Counter - Offensive Makes Progress; Bombers Rake Japanese Island Bases

Southeast Asia Commander Paints Bright Picture At New Ceylon Quarters

ALLIED TROOPS LAND 60 MILES FROM MANDALAY   Imphal Battle To Reach Climax In Few Days

British Paratroops Draw Ring About Japanese In Burma   Progress Satisfactory In India, Allies Report

Imphal Still Firmly Held; Cut Foe Dowr   Navy Flyers Batter ‘Matsuwa in Kuriles for Fifth Consecutive Day

Air Borne Units Land in Burma   Down 60 Miles from Mandalay—Imphal Plain In Our Hands

Veterans Aid Bill Passed by Senate   Quick Approval by  House Forecast

Allies Halt Nazi Attack   Ground Is Regained In Cassino Fighting

Americans Pound llistoric Wake For 16th Time   - Oil Tanks; Barracks Receive Brunt  Of 115-Ton Assault

American Fighting Men Around World Pay Homage to the Dead of Two War

Fighting Men Pay Homage to Dead   Memorial Services  On Global Fronts

Three Soviet Armies Close In On Minsk   Demoralized German Army Fleeing Into Great Eastern Bastion

Relentless Reds Close In; Roar Of Battle Now Heard In Outskirts.

Outflanked City Hears Roar Of Violent Battle   Frightened Germans Reported Fleeing In Disorder; 3 Russian Armies Closina In

Reds Continue to Drive Nazis Back   Dispatch Reports Demoralized German Army Pouring Into Minsk   THRU A THICK FOREST   Many Axis. Troops Surrender Before Reaching the City

Battered Nazis Flee ~ Into-Minsk   “Gestapo - -and Storm Troops - Trying to Establish Order -" “As Reds Push On ©   3-RUSSIAN ARMIES AT GATES OF CITY   Germans Making Every: Et fort:to Hold Despite Stunning Reversal

Reds Near Minsk Gates   Battered, Frightened Germans Pour Into White Russian Capital

Child, Wins Tense Race In Airplane      Rushed by Plane to Lo: Augeles Hospital For Windnine Onerat

BELGRADE ONLY 15 MILES AWAY   Soviets, Aided by Peasants, Smash 25 Miles Last 24 Hours

6.0.P, TO BACK POLL TAX BAN   THIRTY-THREE _ REPUBLICAN SENATORS, SIGN. RESOLUTION "ASKING FOR CONSTITU  ONAL AMENDMENT

BERLIN: SA¥S RED, ARMY FORCES ARE ALSO 12: MILES INSIDE EAST PRUSSIA ©.

Russians Also Drive 12 Miles Inside East Prussia on 80-mile Front

Red- Partisan Armies Push On Budapest: While Tito’s Flag Flies Over Captured Yugoslav Capital: East Prussia Invaded

Bricker Speaks  In Milwaukee  Meets State Leaders To Discuss Chances

Gov. Bricker Speaks Tonight  At Milwaukee   Democratic Party Has Been Sold Out Te Hillmans, Browders. Asserts Republican

GOV. BRICKER IN MILWAUKEE   Reiterates Statement That The Demo Party Has Been ‘Sold Out.’

Gov. Bricker Asserts Democrats Are Sold Out to Radicals  GOP Candidate Flays Hillman, Browder, Communist Supporters

Allied Bombers Hit Rumanian, German Plants   Blast Synthetic Oil Factory, Refineries, Wells at Ploesti

Four Out Of Five Pupils X-Rayed In Lung Clinic  Eleven Of Plymouth County’s High School  In The Pracram

Four Out Of Five Pupils X-Rayed In Lung Clinic  - Eleven Of Plymouth County’s High School FY Fy #3xX2X-2

TRAP BEING CLOSED UPON NAZI FORGES   Ukrainian Army Moves Against Junction to Block Exit of Enemy.

Railway Exits Being Blocked B  Russian Troops   Pomoshnaya Junction 45 Miles Southwest of Kirovograd Threatened

4 Russ Armies Close on Nazis   Soviet Thrusts Threaten to Force Foe Back to Dniester; Red Army Reaches Sarny, Perils Rail Exits

One Army Nearing Rumania   Berlin Says East Front Battles to Decide War's End

NEXT TO LAST RAIL EXIT FOR NAZIS PERILED   Plight Of German Troops In Dnieper Pocket Now Critical

W ould Hurl Nazis Back _ To Dniester        SECOND ARMY IS CLOSING IN’ = ON IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTI 1ST ARMY 35 MILES IN OLD PG

RUSSIANS ARE CLOSING IN ON RAIL JUNCTION   Capture Will Block Last Rail Exit From Dnieper Bend

staggering Germans — May Be Hurled Back Te  Dniester River Barrjer

Roosevelt Adds  Boston to Tour   President Also May Ge Inte Middle Wrest

FDR Adds Boston To Political Tour   President May Also Swing Into Midwest

DEWEY PLEASED WITH RECEPTION   Calls for End of Government by Secret Deals; Works on Garden Speech

AGAIN ASSAILED. “ONE THOUSAND CLUB” IN TALKS—NEW YORK SPEECH TOMOREOW NIGHT

Social Security Tax Rise Asked By Vandenberg   Chief Legislative Opponent Changes View, Inclines To 3 Percent Levy

Vandenberg Sees Boost  In Social Security Levy   Believes Expansion Of Coverage Inevitable And Payroll Tax  ae aE: epee      REVERSE OF STAND HE HELD BEFORE ~ Sees Reserve Fund.  Insufficient To Carry Additional Load

Social Security Boost Advocated   Vandenberg Predicts Payroll Tax Increase

Senator Sees Expansion of Social Security   Vandenberg Predicts Hike in Tax on Employers, Enployes

Increased Taxes Looming — rs  Expanded Social Security, Higher Payroll Taxes Seen

Security Program  Expansion Seen  By Vandenberg Increased Coverage, Larger Taxes Likely  RRS EMEA Raa stona . PB ah, Wane

Churchill Asserts ‘Many False Alarms’ Will Be   Given Before Main Allied Invasion Hits Europe

EARLY DEFEAT OF JAPAN SEEN BY CHURCHILL   Expects Collapse After Nazis Licked  eee  CRISIS NEARING  Sunday Address Criticized

PLEA FOR FULL > AR EFFORT   Reveals Japs May Be Defeated Earlier Than Expected

POST-WAR PROGRAM OUTLINED BY GREEN   Social Security and Fu Employment Wanted

WILLKIE RAPS PEACE PLANKS   Says Both Parties Made Ef. forts To Conciliate

Dewey To Offer Plan To Prevent Wars In Future   WILLKIE CRITICAL OF BOTH CANDIDATES

Lightship Is Reported Lost In Hurricane   Toll Of Dead In New England 27

May Plan Evacuation Of Troops   May Foreshadow Collapse of German's Broken  Southern Flank

Battle of Poland  Rages   White Russian Army Makes Wide Sweeps Around Brest Litovsk

RUSS ARMIES WITHIN 84 MILES OF WARSAW  Chelm Captured; Soviets Cut -  foeman Foot Wal]

Navy Dept. Withholds Number of Casualties; Skippers of Both Missing

NAMES OF LOST SHIPS REVEALED   Destroyer Turner Blown Up: Torpedoes Sink U.S. S. Leary

Navy Identitie: H Destroyers Recently Lost   Turner Sunk by Blast Off Sandy Hook, Leary Torpedoed in Atlantic

Navy Identifies Sunken Destroyer As USS Turner   Lost in Explosion Off Sandy Hook; USS Leary Torpedoed

Navy Identifies Lost Destroyers   U.S.8. Turner Sunk by Ex plosion and U.S S. Leary Torpedoed

NAVY IDENTIFIES 2 WARSHIPS LOS!   DESTROYER TURNER SUNK OFF SANDY HOOK—-THE LEARY TORPEDOED,

Give Names of! Destroyers   Navy Identifies Ships Sunk by Explosion And Enemy Torpedo

NAMES 2 LOST  DESTROYER’   Navy Says Turner Blew Up  Leary Torpedocd; SkipSees Dive. Miseing

Navy Identifies Sunk Destroyers   Commanding Officers  Of Both Are Missing

Turner, 3 Leary: y e ‘Are Destroyed   Navy Reveals Names-Of 2  Destroyers Lost In . Recent: Weeks > -

Navy Reports Two Destroyers Lost, One Off Sandy Hook, Another in Atlantic

"Navy Gives Out Names of 2 Ships Lost   Destrover Turner Blew Up in Harbor; Leary Was Torpedoed

FOUR LOUISIANA ELECTORS QUIT   Give Up Positions Rather Than Cast Ballots For Roosevelt

Kenney's Airmen Credited With “Dominating” Southern Philippines Aifter Attacks

M'ARTHUR SAYS NEW YANK RAIDS BLAST ISLANDS   Mindanao Is Pounded By Liberators, Mitchells, Commander Reports   WRECK SANTA ANNA BASE   Four Jap Freighters, Five Barges Are Destroyed By Night Patrols

Equivalent of 17 German Divisions Déstroyed in Weeks   PUSH ON INTO SAAR   35th Division Carves Ou! New Crossings of the  Saar River

U. §. TROOPS MOVE FARTHER INTO NAZI MANUFACTURING ARC:  -THREE WEEKS OF FIGHTING HAVE COST GERMANS  ADNIIT 1°9 ANH MEN

SGT. ELDON MESKE — LOSTIN ACTION   Parents Hope He May Still Turn Up In German Prison Camp

Californian Will Flash Vote Tally   ELECTION RESULTS TO BE BROADCAST OVER STATION KPMC

Dewey Hits Trend  In Government   Executive Branch’s  Domination Assailed

CITY OF LOYANG FALLS TO JAPS   Chinese Admit Contact With Ancient Town Is Cut Off

CONTACT GUT WITH LOYANG SAY CHINESE   ?robably Has Fallen to Strong Japanese Forces Besieging It for Days; Tokio Tells of Capture,   Drive Halted

CHURCHILL DECLINES TO MAKE STATEMENT IN COMMONS ON CACSINO BATTLE

Churchill Declines to Make Statements About Caseina, Italian Fronts

Make 10-Mile Advance Up Marne River   Germans Offer Little Resistance; For First Time in This War Yanks Fight on World War I Battlefield

AMERICAN TROOPS ARE AGAIN FIGHTING ON BATTLEFIELD MADE FAMOUS IN FIRST WAR   Whole Allied Attack Swings North or Across Seine River Along Almost Whole 200 Miles From Source to Sea   GREAT PORT OF LE HAVRE VIRTUALLY DOOMED

Yanks Reach Historic Marne, Doom Le Havre   Drive Has Opened Way Into Germans’ Flying Bomb Belt.

American Troops Reach World War 1 Grounds   Gen. Patton’s Tank Columns Race Along Historie River As Fleeing Nazis Yield Without A Fight

Rouen, Lehavre Doomed; Troops Race Unchecked  Advance 23 Miles Beyond Paris To Join River Fronts

DESCRIBES AIR BATTLES   Pittsburg Major Says It Was Like Riding Thru Hurricane

Tito Tells Recognition as Yugoslav Aim   LIBERATION ARMY WANTS GOVERNMENT OKAYED BY ALLIES

Chinese Hit Two Jap Spearheads   Defenders Capture Strategic Towns

Make Plans Rather Than  Make Speeches   GOP Headquarters Open Wednesday In New York City

DEWEY EXPECTS TO MEET WITH GOP GOVERNORS   SUPPORTERS HOPE TO AVOID STARTING HIS CAMPAIGN TOO EARLY

Dewey's Bid For Votes Not To Open Soon   G. O. P. Presidential Nominee May Not Begin Campaign Until Early Fall; To Talk with Governors.

Dewey Hints At Conference With Governors   Doubis Making Speeches Scon But Says He May Have to Travel Some During Next Month

DEWEY MAY G0 TO CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS   be Kept Under Wraps  N bene Will  ost Part.   for

Dewey Plans Meet With 25 Other  Party Governors  Republican Candidate Plans No Speeches In Immediate Future

Dewey May Meel With Governors   Not Planning on Any Speeches Soon, He Says

Dewey Plans Meet With Governors   ~ Conference With 25 G.0.P. State Chiefs In Month, Hinted

READY TO CONFER   Thomas E. Dewey May Attend Session of Repub lican Governors

DEWEY INDICATES MAY CONFER WITH OTHER GOVERNORS  ~ REPUBLICAN NOMINEE NOT EXPECTED MAKE ANY SPEECHES SOON

Dewey Ponders Meeting with GOP Governors   Brushes Aside Questions on National Issues; Speeches to Come Later

U.S. Loses China Air Base to Japs, Gains on Saipan  Tokyo Claims Supplies Cut Off From Three Other Plane Bases

Japanese Assert Seized Hengyang Already In Use  By LEONARD MILLIMAN  i ee ST. COR: OE Ste

Yanks Smash Jap Opposition On Saipan Isle   Carrier Planes Wreck Pagan Island Field; Nips Get China Base

Hall Recites StoryOtfAug. 5 AtDorseys’   SCREEN ACTOR DAPPER, BUT HESITANT UNDER QUESTIONING BY DEFENSE COUNSEL JERRY GIESLER

Jon Hall testifies in own behalf; says ‘Dorsey's language at party insulting

ALLIES STRIKE GERMAN TARGETS IN BRUSSELS   American Bombers Also Deal Out “Terror Raid” On Budapest.

Brussels, Ghent Areas Bombarded   LU. S. Plane Attack Reported On Budapest

Nazi Civilians in Aachen Toss in Sponge  Can‘t Comprehend How Such a Thing Could Havpenr

‘Dazed, Sobbing, Crazed With Fear, Citizens Of — Aachen Throw In Sponge

4 PLANES LOST “IN MARCUS RAID   NAVY EEVEALS TASK FORCE ALSO.HIT WAKE, DESTROY-_ “ING 20 BUELDINGS.

Congress May Take Recess After Sept. 4   If German Upheaval Becomes Serious, Lawmakers Will Remain On Job

Congress May Extend its Summer Recess   Conventions Over, Lawmakers Slated to Return Next Tuesday

NAZI ATTACKS REPULSED BY BRITISH ARMOR   Allies Hold All Ground Taken  Since D-Day

Forts Smash French Airfields   Attack Vienna Area; Bomb Balkan Targets

FORTRESSES HIT 4 NAZI AIR FIELDS   Other Planes Bomb Vienna and Balkan Targets

doth Birthday Brings Hitler Nearer Defeat   Nazi Leader’s Dreams Of Conquest Changed During Past Year

Hitler Observes $5th Birthday; It’s Not So Happy   Anniversary Recalls His Proud Showing Five Years Ago—— This Could Be His Last

Hitler Observes Birthday Amid Bomb-Ruined Reich   FUEHRER, NOW 55, SEES BERLIN IN CHAOS, NAZIS IN DEFENSIVE ALL ALONG BORDERS

. _Fuehrer Misunderstood, Moan Stooges  Hitler Silent On 55th Birthday

HITLER, AT 8, SLIPPING INTO HISTORY BOOK   All Goebbels Can Say of! Once Proud Fuehrer ‘“‘He’s Not Appreciated.”

Adolf. Hitler Has Another Sad Birthday   Past Year Has Seen Disasters Piled on Reich

Sen. Thomas Due To Head Committee   Oklahoman May Become Agriculture Committee Chairman, Replacing Smith

1, 000 Club Already Has Over 100 Members i in Nation   Life-Time, Engraved Membership Cards Given Participants

Boy of Five Becomes Hero   Saves Sister and Baby Brother From - Blazing Upstairs Home

TOKYO CLAIMS DAMAGE LIGHT IN B-29 RAID   Convoy Strike Kills 4500

Airport Plans To Be Aired At Meeting Friday   Airlines Representative To Speak at Dinner in Bradford Friday

Airport Plans To Be Aired at Meeting Friday   Johnny Walker, United Airlines Representative To Speak at Dinner in Emery Hotel 6:30 p.m.

Japs Claim  Burma Gains Allied Farce ‘ ‘Wiped Out;"  bp @ ployee... 1.20) mo

Tokyo Claims Jap Wiping Out Allied  Force in Burma  Reports ‘Mopping Up’ Airborne Troops In North-Central Area

Tokyo Claims US Defeat In Burma   Report Japanese Troops Are Mopping Up Yank, -British Airborne Troops.

Dies Hits Broadcasting; Would Fire Commentators  Due To Winchell Battle

CHARGES FALSE RADIO COMMENT   Dies Peeved At Not Being Allowed To Answer Winchell

Dies Charges 60 Per Cent of Some Radio Commentators’ Remarks False

STATEMENTS RADIO COMMENTATORS ARE CLAIMED BE FALSE  - CHAIRMAN DIES SAYS   PERCENTAGE OF UNTRUI  CTATEMENTC NUED BAIL

Dies Assails Commentators  ]   ‘Technique Of Smear ' By Innuendo’ Chareed

Dies Charges Many of Statements Made on Air Are Untrue   Proposes Investigation of Some Radio Commentators

Dies Committee Hits “Experts”   RADIO COMMENTATORS ARE BLASTED BY GROUP

Dies Attacks RadioProgram  Commentators  Charges That Fully  60 Percent of Their : Statements Are False

COMMENTATOR PROBE INSIGHT   Dies Charges 69 Percent of Statements Are False, Lin&merican.

RADIO NEWS MER UNDER DIES’ FIRE   Winchell Is Singled Out hi Texan; Says Sixty Percen of Statements Are False

STATEMENTS RADIO  COMMENTATORS ARE  CLAIMED BE FALSE CHAIRMAN DIES SAYS  PERCENTAGE OF UNTRUE STATEMENTS QOURD UATr

Dies Scores  Radio Talks   Says Many Untruths Are Heard Upon Air

GERMAN THRUSTS SMASHED BY REDS   Nazi Attempts to Disrupt Soviet Preparations for Bessarabian and Polish Drives Futile.

STRATEGIC RAIL LINE   Twenty-mile Stretch of Odessa - Warsaw Railroad In Russian  - Hands.

RED ARMORED ~ TROOPS DRIVE INTO SKRAINE   20-Mile Stretch of Odessa-Warsaw Railway [s Captured

RUSSIAN ARMORED “TROOPS ADVANCE ON BROAD FRONT   Capture of 20-Mile Stretch All But Halts German Supplies and Men For Southern Ukraine.   ALLIES PUSH FORWARD IN ADMIRALTY ISLANDS   Amphibious Force Makes Landing in New Guinea to Skirt Jap Positions on Rai Coast. :

Now Within Sixty Miles Of Rumania   Russians Drive Southward on Broad Front in the  Ukrainian Sector

RUSSIANS NEAR BORDER OF RUMANIA   Capture 20 Mile Sector of OdessaWarsaw Railway

U.S, British Sink More Than 500 German U-Boats  More Submarines Than Merchant Ships  Sent   7. 2s, +, W,..

Allies Sink 500 Subs During War   Nazi U-Boats Preve To Be Ineffective During Last Month.

More Than 500 German U-boats Sunk. Since Start of War, Allies Report

Roosevelt-Churchill Report Reveals 500 Enemy Subs Sunk Since War Began

OVER 500 GERMAN U-BOATS SENT DOWN   Total Sunk Since Start of ‘War Announced by Allies

Japs Report U.S. Landing  Near Toy ko   Enemy Reports Heavy Fighting In Bonin Islands; Garapan Fall Near

JAPS DECLARE BONINS INVADED   Claim Fighting Under Way on 2 of Islands

Axis Reports Bonin Landing   Carrier-Based Planes Rake Vital Nippon Base; MacArthur's Forces Take Noemfoor In 100-Mile Leap Toward Philippine Isles

New Blow Against Hitler's Scuthern Wall Was Care. fully Planned      NAZIS CLAIM TO HAVE WIPED OUT BRITISH AIR-BORNE TROOPS   American First Army in Germany Repulses Attacks By Germans :

New Blow Against Hitler's Southern Wall Is Struck By Sea And Airborne Forces

U. §. Far Eastern Air Force Closing In On Philippines, Sinks Vessel Near Mindanao

DEMS HEAR GOV. KERR, KEYNOTER   First Mention of Roosevelt. Causes 12-Minute  Demonstration 

Gov. Kerr Says. Demo Old Men Winning War   Replies to GOP .“Accent on Youth’ As Deleqates Cheer

Kerr Lauds ‘Tired Men In Keynote   Convention Speaker Hits Dewey, Other Republican Leaders

Kerr Denounces GOP Regimes   Whooping Democrats Applaud Keynoter

Will We Discard As “Tired Old Men” Those Who Are Winning The War, Kerr Asks Nation

STRIKES MENACE POL INQUSTR   eNew Walkouts Confront West Virginia Operators; Super: visory Employes Are Tak: ing Strike Votes

Foremen’s Balloting Threatens Coal Industry With Strikes In Five Counties

BRUNSWICK AND HANNOVER BLASTED; 91 NAZI PLANES SHOT OUT OF SKY; FIRES STILL RAGING IN FRANKFURT.

American Fliers Destroy 91  German Plane:   Fire, Destruction Rained Down on Plane Factories And Railway Yards

Nazi Officers Shot In Affray   Six Killed During Recent Conference In Athens At Bretagne Hotel.

STAFF CHIEFS DISAGREE ON BATTIE PLANS   Older Commanders Losing Faith In Hitler’s Strategy

6 NAZI OFFICERS KILLED IN BRAWL WITH THEMSELVES   Hotel Room Conference Ends In Wholesale Shooting

Midwest Shivers In Sub-Zero Cold   Northern Rockies Area Getting Some Relief

EASTERN STATES FAGE GOLD WAVE   Mercury Drops as Deep as 24 Degrees Below Zero in MidWest; Cold Checks Rise of Rivers in East

COLD WAVE MOVES TO EASTERN AREAS   Below Zero Temperatures Forecast in Many Sections

POST-WAR YOUTH CAMP CHALLENGEL   Senator Chandler Says Roosevelt’s Plan Might Lead to ‘‘Militarism”’

CHANDLER H HITS YOUTH SERVICE   KENTUCKIAN OPPOSED TO SUGGESTION OF PRESIDENT ‘FOR YEAR OF FEDERAL SERVICE

ARMED FORCES FACE NEW SUPPY PROBLEM   Experts Go’ Into Huddle to Plar Distribution of Ballots to 10 Million in Service.

Ballots Join Bullets In New Army Supply Problem  Armed Forces Search For Solution in

Armed Forces Facet With New Problem  How to Get Ballots As Well as Bullets To Service Voters

Ballots Join Bullet: In New Army Supply Problem  Armed Forces Search For Solution in  SEES, Sa NO aE, NE

SOLDIER BALLOT PROVES BIG JOB   Armed Forces Faced By Task Of Transporting Mountain Of Mail

CANADIAN UNITS TAKE RAVENNA   Brilliant Encircling Movement Forces Nazis To Flee

SCHEIBERLING 5 ELECTED READ OF AMERICAN LEGION   Group Calis for Complete Subjugation of Germany, Japan

Scheiberling Is New Legion Head   Albany, N. Y. Veteran I: Elected National Commander Of American  Legion

SGHEIBERUNG. 1) ELECTED fitAD Ct ANERICAN LEGION   Croup Cal's for Complete Subjugation of Gcrmany, Japan

Miners in Six States Will Be Draft Deferred   Men from 22 to 25, Inclusive, Must Have Three Years Experience

Added at Last Minute . To List of Occupations For Key Men Under 26

Coal Mining Added To Key Industry List   Local Boards Permittec ‘To Defer Mimers 22-25 For GO Daves

COAL MINERS DEFERRED IN NEW ORDERS   3-¥ ear Exverience Key in 22-25 Age  Groun Now

COAL MINERS UNDER 26 10 BE DEFERRED   Added to List of Critical Occupations by Draft Heads

MINERS SLATED FOR DEFERMENT   List Of Key Occupations Issued For Guidance Of Draft Boards

WAR WORKERS ARE QUITTING BALTIMORE   Beimcen 15.009 And 26,000 Have Already Left City, WMC Officials Declare

WORKERS LEAVING BALTIMORE JOBS   Net Gain 600 After 109,000 Secure Employment. In 6 Months

lOccupy Virtually All Of Pontine Marshes, Push Into Hills To Northeast; Vallecorsa Also Palls To Americans   AQUINO, PIEDIMONTE SEIZED BY POLES

BY EMERGENCY AGT   Polls To Remain Open From 6 A. M.To8 P. M. Tuesday   ELECTION BOARD SALARIES DOUBLED   Prohibits Sale Of Alcoholice Drinks Until Poles Close

Marines Push Two Miles to South   Battle Strong Opposition To Expand Holdings

WORLD MONEY POOL PROPOSED   Post - War Stabilization Plan Wili Take In 44 Countries

PRISON CAMP — ~” DEATH PROBE    AUTHORITIES - HINT FRICTION BETWEEN GERMAN WAR . PRISONERS CAUSING  DEATHS LISTED AS ! ‘ _SUxYCIDES

Many Governors Stepping Out For US Senatorships   22 Democratic, 11 Republican Seats at Stake in ‘44

Seats At Stake In U.S. Senate   Number Of Governors To Be Candidates This  ‘ Ceamine November

GOVERNORS LOOM IN SENATE RACES   Half a Dozen or More May Step Out as Candidates; 22 Democratic and 11 GOP Seats at Stake

GOVERNORS EYE SENATE SEATS   Half-Dozen State Executives Wonder If Other Jobs Would Be Better

Tanks Race . Over Bridge. Toward Ruhr   - Establish Contact:  “Ti Arnhem Sector.  “With Nazi-Menaced Skv Troon Packet   GRADUALLY TURNING NAZIS” NORTH: FLANK   One River To Cross “Before Allies Reach Flat Road to Berlin

GERMANS’ RIVER © — DEFENSES TURNED   Soldiers Contact Skytroops at Gate way to nnalois Ruhr

Germans Step Up Barrage at Anzio   Enemy Also Active On Adriatic Front

Dewey Leads in Stat fe Poll   G.0.P. Trend Decided In Midwest ‘Sampling’ By Gallup Interviewers

APPLY FOR TIRE BY OCCUPATION   DPA Announces Mileage Basis Discontinued on Feb. 1

Dewey Plans Campaign Of Barnstorming      Hillman Replies To Attack On PAC

Allies Repulse German Thrust At Beachhead   Heavy Toll of Nazi Lives Taken as Strong Attack Fails

Allies Repulse German Altack   Nazis Leave Many Dead on Beachheac

Anzio Front Again Active   Artillery Duels Are Waaed With Germans

Folding Money For Draftee Dads   Those Entering Service Before July 1 Will Be Returned’ Their In ate. TPs

Father-Draft Clouds Appear Bright As ‘Folding Money’ Looms For Papas

FATHERS, IF DRAFTED, MAY BET TAX CUT   Experts Explain easons Due To  New Schedules

Father-Draftees May Receive Some Monetary Consolation From Taxes

Many Fathers Drafted Into Military Service May Get Back Part of Taxes

SILVER LINING If DAD DRAFT CLOUDS   Income Tax Experts Calculate Many Dads Would Get Refunds.

Many Father Draftees Will Receive Tax Windfall In Addition To Muster Out Pay

DRAFTEE DADS. MAY GET TAX REFUNDS   Experts Say Fathers Drafted by July 1 May Get Back Major Part of Withheld Taxes

Woman Admits Kidnaping Baby   ‘Love of Children’ Is Cause, She Says

Kidnaped New York Baby Located: Former Girl Welder Held by Police

Navy Ships and. Planes Sink Sub After Stalking Enemy for 24 Hours

Navy Has Plenty Of ... Patience Where Sinking Of U-Boat Is Concerned

HITLERS DEFEAT IN FRANCE BRINGS HIM TO FACE PROBLEM OF “WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?”   “Old Blood and Guts” Patton’s Wild Rampage ” With Armored Columns Are Now Almost at The Gates of Paris and Still Coine Strang

Allies Sealing Germans Into New Trap   Tanks On Last Lap Towards Capital Of France Writer Says

FIGHTING NOW WITHIN SIGHT EIFFEL TOWER   Tanks Cruising At Willi Near  Paris Limits

TANKS PLACED ONLY 12 MILES FROM CAPITAL   Enemy South Of Seine River Launches Full Retreat In Direction Of Rouen

NEW TRAP IS BUILT AROUND NAZI FORCES   Advance Units 12 Miles From Capital; Germans Head Toward Seine

Yanks Pushing ‘Toward Capital   British, Canadians Ready To Dea Knockout Blow To Harried German 7th Army

‘American Tanks Between Paris, Chartres; Front ‘Swings East From Caen

Troops in Normandy Tighten Trap on Foe   Germans on Gothic Line Threatened with Outflanking by New Invasion; Red Spear- : head 12 Miles from East Prussian Frontier on Southwest

ACTION PLACED NEAR TOULON   More Than 800 Vessels Participate In Invasion; Thousands Of Air-Borne   Troops Land Behind Lines   BULLETIN

Allies Swarm Several Miles Into Interior   Paratroopers, Gliders and Great Naval Force Spreads Out for Miles Along Mediterranean.   GERMAN DEFENDERS VANISH FROM SIGHT

Large Stretch Of Riviera Is Seized Around Toulon; Huge Fleet Pulverizes Defenses   Landings Made Along 125-Mile Area Between Marseille And Nice; French, American Troops Comprise Most Of Force

Allied Troops Drive Inland Quickly  From Beachhead  Spanish Say 15,000 Men Were Landed Within Five Hours

Fourth Major Front Opened Against Nazis  Landings Made On Broad Area Around Toulon

Virtually No Resistance To Landing Force   All Landings Are Successful; Objectives Quickly Seized

All Landings Reported Successful; Nazi Seventh Army Caught In Trap

INVASION COAST, ‘iii? open  ed ai fourth mator front today ie chown oan tha

DRAW NOOSE ON TRAPPED NAZI SEVENTH   Escape Gap Narrowed, Roads Under Allied Control. Germans Use “Slave” Reenforcements

Bolster Allied Forces Behind  Japs In Burma   Reinforcements Flown In; Kohima - Dimapur  Road In India Cleared.

Gliders Halt Burma Japs   Air-Borne Guerrillas Use New Tactics in Reinforcing Chindits

Allies Drop Behind vap Lines in Burma   Complete Unit of Glider-Borne Guerrillas Straddles Supply Route to Enemy’s Main Base—Nips’ Kohima Drive Stopped.

ler  Cuttin ie & Fa ap S” Burma Line:   Air Commandos Uand on . + .  Railroad; Garrison at   Kohima Relieved

Gliders Used to Land Fighters Behind Japs   Latest Thrust Is Calculated to Cut North Burman Lines

ALLIES BLOGK BURMA RAILWAY   Fantastic New Tactics o! Infiltration of Fighters By Air Used.

Glider-Borne Troops Cut Jap Lines   New Tactics Used To Establish Defense Square In Burma

GLIDER-BORNE ALLIED FORCES LAND IN BURMA   Fantastic Aerial Infiltration Tactics Firmly Establiesh Troops Behind Jap  Supply Lines

GLIDER TACTICS HIT BURMA JAPS   Defense Sector Established; Threat To India Erased

Air-Borne Forces Further Cut Lines Into Myitkyina   Dimapur Road Cleared, Meanwhile, Kohima Garrison Relieved

Jungle-Trained Cocneities Are In Enemy Lines   Troops Sent To Reinforce Allied Positions, Cut Yap Supply Lines

Guerrillas Land Behind Jap Lines   Allied Fighters Carried by Air Deep in Burma: Jap Invasion Checked

Glider-Borne Soldiers Surprise Japs With Swift, New Bid   New Allied Tactics of Infiltration by Air Places Defense Box Across Railroad Deen Behind Jap Lines in Burma Fighting

OO EEE  Glider Borne Fighters Establish Defense Block Across. Rail Line

GLIDERS LAND TROOPS BACK OF BURMALINE   New and Fantastic Tactics Are Employed by Allies To Cut Enemy Supply Lines at Myitkyina   SITUATION IMPROVING

NEW FORCES FLOWN BACK OF NIP LINE   Estalish Defense Box Across Enemy's Supply Railroad

Drop Troops Behind Japs   Establish Defense Box Across Railroad Deep in Burma

GLIDER BORNE TROOPS LAND BEHIND LINES   Japanese Supply Lines Cut Off By Air Troops

New Stroke To Cut Jap Supply Lines..... Complete Glider-Borne Unit Gets Strong Hold Behind Jap Burma Line

Glider-Borne Troops Fight   Infiltrate by Air Behind Jap Lines To Block Railroad

Allied Troops Land Behind Lines of Japs   Glider-Borne Guerrilla Fighters Place Defense Box Across Railroad

GLIDER-BORNE GUERRILLAS. CUT JAP RAIL SUPPLY LINE IN BURMA   BRITISH USE RING FORMATION TO BLUNT IMPHAL INVASION, INDIA FIGHTING HEAVY

Glider-Borne Troops Sever  Burma Line   Employ New Tactics I Obtaining Control O Section Of Railroa: Behind Jap Lines

Glider ‘Troops Infiltrate Japs, _ Set Up Defense   Employ Fantastic Tactics To Block Railroad Far Behind Burma Foe Lines

U. §.-British Policies Not Fa Apart: Halifax   Ambassador Has Conference with Secretary of State

Lord Halifax Says Understanding Exists Between U. S., Britain on Policy in Liberated Countries

UNDERSTANDING SAYS HALIFAX   AMBASSADOR HINTS U. S. BACKS GREEK SUPPRESSION

Russ Batter: East Prussia Border Town   Germans Admit Soviet Tanks Converging 3 Miles From Frontier

FIERCE BATTLE IS RAGING NEAR EAST PRUSSIA   Soviets Press Attack As Nazis Record Gains In Warsaw Area

Reds Within Three Miles East Prussia   Russians Near Prussian Capital on Move Again After Being Held Up By Germans for Two Weeks ,

Reds Within 3 Miles of  East Prussia  Germans Report Fierce Fighting

Russians Take Offensive  After Setback  Hundreds of Field   Hundreds of Field Guns Halt Nazi Push at Ossow

Reds Smash fo Three Miles of East Prussia   Russians Attack on Both Sides of Town of Virbales With Strong Tank and Air Support

SOVIETS CONTINUE LITHUANIAN DRIVE ON EAST PRUSSI   Red. Columns: Attackirig; Only Three Miles From Border; Other Troops Hammer. al Nazis East of Warsaw. :    FLORENCE CITIZENS ARE« TARGETS FOR NAZI GUNS   American Fiyers Bomb Truk, Halmahera and Davao; Allie Troops Two Miles’ In: side of Burma.

Reds Within Three Miles Of Prussia   New Moves to South Indicate Pressure Will Be Renewed  To Knock Out Warsaw

RUSSIANS SMASHED BACK THURSDAY AT NARROW NAZI WEDGE  SOVIET SETBACK AT WAR SAW BALANCED BY SUC ARRATA TY AMUSE r

Reds Attacking Within 3 Miles Of East Prussia   Germans Admit Battle Raging And Russians Now Advancing.

Russians Smash at German Wedge  Setback Was First OYE Gaawamer Drive

Russian Forces" Within 3 Miles Of East Prussia   Smash Back At Germans Following First. Setback Of Summer Offensive

REDS RENEW DRIVE UPON EAST PRUSSIE   Nazis Admit Soviets Only Three Miles Away, At tacking on Both. Sides of the Lithuanian Towr of Virbales.

Soviet Setback in Ossow Balanced by _ New Victory Gains   Bridgehead Action Threatens to Outflank Polish Capital

Virbales Is Under Strong Tank Attack; Russian Setback Suffered Near Suburbs Of Warsaw

Soviets Suffer First Set-Back   Temporary Loss at Ossow Offset by Successes Elsewhere

Red Forces Advance on East Prussia   Attack on Both Sides of Litheanian Town of Virbales, Smash Wedge in Ossow

GERMANS REPORT FIERCE FIGHTING AROUND VIRBALES  RENS CONTINUE TO   REDS CONTINUE TO DRIVE INTO LAKE MASURIAN COUNTRY

Battle Rages 3 Miles From East Prussia   Nazi Report Indicates Reds Moving After  Preparing Drive

SOVIET ‘ARMIES NEAR WARSAW AFTER SETBACK   Move Forward After Bitter Nazi Battle

SOVIET TROOPS 3 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Start Moving Forward After Reducing Strength ef German Forces Along the Frontier

Russ Smash AtNazi Tank Wedge   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses After 2-Day Counterattack

Soviets Drive on East Prussia From Two Sides  Counter-Attacks Cost Nazis 68 Tanks,   Thee nme nf Man

SOVIETS OMAGH BACK AT NAZIS   Turn Hundreds of Guns on Advance Made By Germans Into Ossow.

REDS, NAZIS IN VIOLENT BATTLE   Fight Rages Within 3 Miles of East Prussian Border, Foe Claims

SOVIETS RALLY AFTER SETBACK NEAR WARSAW   Other Gains to the South Threaten to Outflank  Polish Capital

RUSSIANS DESTROY 68 GERMAN TANKS IN COUNTERATTACK   Several Thousand Prisoners Have Been Taken in Past Two Days

Russians Smash Back German Counterattacks   Red Armies Forced To Withdraw From Ossow, Seven Miles Northeast of Warsaw

SOVIETS NEAR EAST PRUSSIA   Reds Advance Within 3 Miles Of Border After Sethack

New Activity May Mean Push * Into Fatherland   Soviets Also Report Progress to South; Smash Hard at  Nazi Warsaw Wedcae

SOVIETS PUSH WITHIN 3 MILES OF E. PRUSSIA   Advance Made In Fierce Fighting On Edge Of Lithuania

REDS REGROUP WARSAW FORCE   Soviet Spearheads Three Miles From Prussian Border

SOVIET TROOPS GIVEN SETBACK   Vazis Drive Narrow Wedge Into Reds Near Warsaw

Russians Move Within 3 Miles Of German Soil   Attacking On Both Sides Of Lithuanian Town Of Virbales, Reich Communique Says   Fierce Fighting Continues, Claim   Other Soviets hnperil Wild, Masurain Lake Country; Hammer Foes After Sethack

Russians Smash At East Prussia   Fierce Fighting Reported Today With Tanks, Planes Aiding {nfantry

Russ Within 3 Miles of East Prussia  Attacking on Both Sides of Lithuanian Town of Virbales  TWO-WEEK BATTLE  Nazis Report New Threat to Polish -Cities of  Tarnow Krakow

Reds Hil Nazis East of Warsaw   Field Guns Pour Fire On Nazis Making First Gain of Summer Campaign   NAZIS CUT DOWN WEST OF VISTULA   New Russian n Attacks Also Launched in Campaign Near Prussian Border

“DR’s Profanity Shocks Ministers; Public Apology Asked of Presiden

Demand FDR Apologize   Ministers Deplore — Vote Day Profanity Of President

“Shocking Profanity”  Ministers Ask FDR To Apologize For Language in Election Booth

Mormon Church Obligation to World Stressed  Welfare Program Progress Cited At 8. L. Conclave

Apostle Urge: LDS. War ’ On Evil Doing   Missionaries Must Regenerate Mankind, Joseph F. Smith Tells  Mormon Priesthood

Army in Control At Nickel Plant: Strikers Return   Roosevelt Issues Seizure Order Ending Production Tieup

STRIKING WORKERS RETURN AFTER U. S. SEIZES NICKEL FIRW   Army Controls Vita War Plant; No Violence

Seventh Plant Taken Over By U.S. Army At Orders Of President Today

Jealous Lover Kills Soldier's Wife, Self as Yank Appears on Furlough

Wife Slain As Soldier Returns   Sad Homecoming for Hus band at End of Two and Half Years Overseas

AIR RESISTANCE © ENDS AT RABAUL   ‘YOR FOURTH DAY JAPS FAIL TO SEND UP PLANES TO COMBAT RAIDERS, —~

Allied Bombers Again Smash At Rabaul Base   Ships and Planes Are Neutralizing Bismarck Area Bases

RABAUL AIRBASE OUT OF SERVICE   Enemy Strongpoints Are Neutralized By Daily Bombings

BombRabaul without Jap opposition   Blanket entire Bismarck area

GOP Makes A Clean Sweep; All Elected   lowa Remains True to GOP Traditions; Dewey Always Ahead

Boundary Disputes Loom   Peace Conferees to Have Tough Job Redrawing Map

BOUNDARIES TO CAUSE TROUBLE   TERRITORIAL CLAIMS SAME AS IN FIRST WAR

ABANDONED BABIES FOUND NEAR DEATH   Young Mother Later Comes to Police Station

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   To Continue Use of Force for Greek Trouble

Prime Minister Wins Lopsided Confidence Vote   British Refuse to Alter Course in Greece, Italy

Yanks Push Forward on Guam, Tinian   Two Vital Airfields Immediate Objectives Of Troops; Japs Cut Off From All Help

Americans — Drive Ahead OnBoth Guam AndTinian ~   Important Airfields’ Immediate Objectives ‘In Current Campaign   JAPANESE BATTLE WITH DESPERATION.   - Time Is Not Yet Ripe “For Fleet To Come Out, Jap Commentator-Says

BRITISH SATURATE PORT OF DUISBERE   3,000 Planes, Mostly Fighters, Spray Western Europe Sundav in Transport Attacks

Pas-De-Calais Area In France Also Is Target   ‘Double-Barreled Daylight  Blow Carries Allied In  vasion Prelude to  : New Peak   RAF Smashes Foe Areas During Night   British Bombers Saturate Major Inland Nazi Port With 2800 Tons Of  Exoplosives

Kiel, Calais Area Pounder By Bombers   750 RAF Planes Drop 2,800  Tons on Duisburg During Night

U.S. Bombers Hit Hard Blow at Kiel   British Lose Thirty Planes in Big Attack on Duisburg

KIEL AND INVASION COASTAL AREAS WERE BLASTED BY HEAVIES   U. S. FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS FOLLOW RAF DUISBURG ATTACK

Forts Bomb Enemy U-Boat Base OF Kie!   Liberators Pound German Fortifications In Pas-DeCalais Area.   RAF HITS HANNOVER

AIR ATTACKS ON EUROPE GROWING IN THEIR MIGHT   lortresses Batter Submarine Base Following Another Daylight Raid On France; Other Targets Plastered.

Air Biitz Of Reich Continues   Kiel And Ant-Invasion Coast Are  Plastered Today.

RAF BOMBERS HIT DUISBURG DURING NIGHT   Newest Allied Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Passes 80-Hour Mark

Pas de Calais Area And Kie! Hit By Raiders   Blows Follow Night Attacks By British On Duisbura Port

SOME 3000 ALLIED PLANES HIT NAZIS CRIPPLING BLOWS   Everything Used to Trane Troops Blasted   KIEL-AMONG THE PLACES POTINDEDN

ADE ON NAZI  IN ASSAULT IAR TARGETS   tresses Bomb German  ub Center at Kiel and  iberators Pound Area Of. Pas-De-Calais   ‘TER NIGHT ATTACKS

Sub Center ” Bombed by  . ~ Americans   Raids on: France Also -In eluded in: Double Air J Blow by Yanks   EIGHT HOURS OF CONTINUOUS ATTACK   Widespread. Action . Last Night ‘and Sunday; Many Raids at Low Level

Kiel, Nazi Submarine Center Hit   Eighty Hours of Continuous Bombing Over Germany and Occupied Countries

DAY AND NIGHT ASSAULT—  BOMB KIEL   Duisburg Given Shattering Blow   Great Inland Port.

Kiel Sub Bases And Pas-de-Calais Are Bombed By American Planes Following Attack On Duisburg

KIEL BOMBED BY ALLIES IN AIR INVASION   3000 Planes Make Trip To Smash  Nazi Europe

U. 5. BOMBERS HIT ENEMY IN TWIN ASSAULI   Sub Works at Kiel and Pas-de-Calais Area Targets of Raids

DUISBURG HIT BYR.A.F. IN NIGHT ATTACKS   Nazi Inland Port Saturated With 2,800 Tons Of Explosive

Yanks Aim ‘Twin Blow «At Europe   Raids on Sub Center ; And West Wall Come After Mighty RAF  Smach mt Tucks

LARGE BRITISH ARMADA RAIDS DUISBURG HARD   Fighter Pilots Strafe All Nazi Supply Routes in Europe Sunday

MANY GERMAN STRONG POINTS HIT BY BOMBS   Pas-de-Calais Area In France, Kiel, Duisburg And Others Heavily  Namaced

Nazi U-Boat Center At Kiel Bombed  By American:   Daylight Attack Follows British Assault On Inland Port Of Duisburg

Communications in Europe’s Fortress Targets of Bombers   Allied Aerial Prelude to - Invasion Goes Into Eightieth Hour

Allies Step Up Bombings Of Hitler’s Europe Fort   Thousands Of Craft Take Part In‘ Fight

Yank Bombers Pound At Kiel, U-Boat Center   Calais Area Also Ham mered Following RAF Blow At Duisburg.

UI-BOAT CENTER   3,000 Allied Planes Spray Nazi Transportation With Gunfire.

Flying Fortresse: Blast Submarine Center of Kiel  Liberaiors Pound Invasion Delenses, British Strafe Buisbure and Hannover

Nazi Sub   Center Of — : Kiel Hit   American And British Planes Pound Fortifieations OF Germans

Devastating Raids On Reich Continue   Double-barreled Daylight Blows Hit lavasion Defenses of Enemy

PAS-DE- CALAIS AND KIEL AREAS HIT BY BOMBS   Attacks Follow RAF Night Assaults Against Port Of Duisburq

Europe Rocked Under 80 Hours Of Continuous Bombing   German Submarine Cénter and Pas-decalais Targets For American Planes

GREAT AIR SWEEP   German Bases and Invaston Area Pounded by Allied Raiders

YANKS BOMB KIEL, NAZI SUB CENTER      “Heavies” Also . Pound German Fortifications in Pas-de-Calais Area Following R. A. F. Night Blow at Duisbure.

REICH’S U-BOAT “CENTER OF KIEL GIVEN POUNDING   Yank ‘Forts’ Carry Out Sweeping Roi d— Liberators Hit French Coast

Heavy Bombers Blast German U-Boat Base   Liberators Strike Blow At French Invasion Coast

YANKS STRIKE AFTER BRITISH RAID DUISBURE   Hannover, Belgian Air Field Also Hit; R.A.F. Loses 30 Planes At Night

Liberafors Hit Pas-de-Calais Area of France   200 or More Fortresses And Same Number of Liberators Protected By Fighters, in Raids

NOTES BARE TRAGEDY OF VELEZ DEATH   Film Star Was To Have Become  A Mother

Allies Express Confidence In Outcome Of India Drive   General Stilwell’s Slow-Moving Offense Is Expected To Change ‘Any Moment’ Against Japs

JAPS RIPE FOR ROUT ON BURMA FRONT   Stilwell’s Forces May Precipitate Major Disaster for Enemy at “any Moment.”   False Report

Japs in Burma Ripe for Rout, Claim Officers   Position of Enemy's Armies Is Becoming More Unfavorable in Opinion of Allies

INVASION MAY COLLAPSE AT ‘ANY MOMENT’   Enemy Said To Have Run Into ‘Hornet’s Nest’ By Attacking In India

Japs Face Defeat In Burma Battle   Major Disaster Looms for Nips

Japs In Burma Ripe For Rout, Officers Say   Allied Chiefs Optimisti Over Prospeets. De clare Jap Morale Sagene

Allied Officers Express Optimism Over the Situation   MORALE OF ENEMY REPORTED SAGGING   Operations Around I!mphal and Kohima of Great Importance

Stilwell Army Threatening Foe Position; Allied Leaders Confident

Food Subsidies Program Doomec  Hopes to Save It Near Vanishing Point

SES BSIDY BATTLE ARS LosT TO ADMINISTRATION      Senator George Among ‘Leaders Who Deriounce: Proposal As “Politics of Rawest Kind” ©

ADMINISTRATION HOPE OF SAVING SUBSIDY NEAR VANISHING POINT   Senate Turns Down Big Sub. y Fund By Convincing Vote of 49 to 26         PANKHEAD BILL IN FAVOR!

Program Is Outlined For Soil Conservation As Subsidy Bill Stalls

BANKHEAD SEES SUBSIDY PLANS’ EARLY DEFEAT   Presidential Veto Expected For ‘Slow Death’ Bill

PRICE SUBSIDIES APPEAR DOOMED   $1,500,000,000 Fund Plan Smashed By Senators

Livorno Is Shelled by Big Nazi Gun:   Fifth Army Patrols Probe . Nazi Defenses North of Arno River; Poles Reach Montemarciano

ENEMY SHELLS STRICKEN GITY   Fifth Army Patrols Probe * into Nazi Lines North Of Arno.   YESTERDAY QUIET - DAY

Fifth Patrols Probing Lines  Ri. Ceaneenm Clseme   Big German Guns Lob Shells.'wte  Livorno

PROBE ENEMY LINE   Fifth Army Tries Nazi Defenses North of — Arno River

GERMANS SHELL CITY OF LEGHORN   U. S. Patrols Probe Nazi Lines North of Arno River

WAZT GUNG ROCK CITY OF LIVORNG   Fifth Arm: Patrols Probing North of Beno.

German Guns Lob Fire Into Italian Po or t  es   Fifth Army Patrols Probe Enemy Defense Lines North of Arno River

Allied Patrols Probe Info Nazi Defense Lines   Determined Poles Drive Back Germans In Adriatic Sector

German Guns Shell Livorno   Fifth Army Patrols Probe Nazi Defenses North of Arno River

Nazis Fire  On Liverno   ‘ Patrols Pu sh ; Deep Into Defense. Line

Cini Gane Lob Fire Into  Italian Port   Fifth Army Patrols Probe Enemy Defense Lines North of Arno River

NAZIS IN HILLS SHELL LIVORNO   ’ Allies Probe Delenses North of Arno River

BIG NAZI GUNS SHELL LIVORNO   Allied Armies Batter Out New Gains In Bitter  Italian Fighting

GERMAN GUNS SHELL ALLIES AT LIVORNO   Nazis Cling To Arno River Sector

Fifth Army Experiences Its Quietest Day Since Start of Offensive in May

Nazis Shell Livorno Now   Seek to Keep Americans From Making Good Use of Port

NUISANCE RAIDS MADE LAST NITE   SmallGronps ef Spitfires Active Over French Coast

Bombers Hit at Transport in Europe   Nearly 6,000 Planes in Attacks on Railways, Road Installations

POWERFUL JAP BASES BOMBED   Lambast Rabaul and Cape St. George  Ground Activity Is Limited

Another Po Valley Town Is Captured   Gains Are Made By Eighth Army Troops

ITALIAN FRONT SHORTENED UP   Bologna Defenders Dig In Fer Last Ditch Engagement

EIGHTH ARMY GAINS 8 MILES   British Surge Ahead, Take  Town on the BolognaRimini Highway

Nazis Pull ‘Back In Italy   Bologna Threatened ~ By Encircling Move

Eighth Army Makes Gains Near Cesena   Town on Bolegna-Riminl Road [alls as Nazis Stage Coidrollad  Withdrawal __

Army’s goal to double output of B-2%s in. the next three months, Knudsen says

Japs, Boche Rocks From Allied Blows  Fall of Aachen. Yanks?   Fall of Aachen, Yanks’ Landing On Leyte And Red Drives Presage Approaching Doom For Japs, Germans -

NEW MONTANA SIL HIELD INDICATED BY 3 TEST WELLS   “Wildcat” Tests Drilled in Gage Dome Area Near Roundup—0Oil Brought in  So “Far Is High Quality Crude .

Russian Officers Visit Front in Normandy; Impressed by U. 5, Forces

New Apostle of L.D.8. Pledges Life to Church  Conference Will   Conference Will Resume Sunday For Priesthoods

New Apostle Accepts Call   Mark Petersen Pledges Self to Duties? Sessions End Sunday

VETERAN'S WIDOW BECOMES MOTHER   Notified of Hushand’s Death in- France But Few Davs Before

Stettinius Says World May be Forced to Face Rocket Bombs Unless  Dumbarton Ideals Met

Warns of New Rockef Attacks in Future Unless Have Strong World Peace Leaque

 Yanks Smash ' Japanese Counterblow   Americans Land Unopposed on Two Islands

Naval Units Sink Barges Near Bosnek   Biok Island Attack Disastrous for Japs

Report ’chutists land in Slovakia as disorder shakes entire Balkans

HITLER CALLS BIS POLITICAL AIDS TO MEET   Bulgaria Asks For Terms; Romania  OK’s Offer

Bulgarians Ask Allies for  Terms of Peace   Hungary and Slovakia Said Bolting Enemy Camp; Hitler Startled by Events Calls Conference of Leaders

Hitler, Alarmed, Calls Parley as Balkans Boil   Hungary Quells Coup by Nazis, Romania Accepts Armistice

HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA JOIN BOLT   Formal Acceptance By Romania Of Soviet Armistice Cited

Balkans Now Trouble Spot For Hifler   Hungary Halts Coup; Bulaariag Seeks Peace

ROOSEVEYT SAYS HE DOES NOT SEEK SUPPORT OF ‘REDS   President Declares “Red Herring” of Comniunism Is Being Dragged Into Campaign.   HITS SOUTH’S POLL TAX ELECTION LAWS   , Raps Dewey’s Assertion That Soldiers Wil! Not Be Brought Home Quickly After War.

President Says Opponents Are Rabble Rousers   Roosevelt Accuses Foes of Spreading Fear; Propaganda

FDR Attacks Methods of Opposition   Attempting to Weaken Morale, President Declares

F. R. Charges People Are Being Misled   Says Red Herrings Dragged Across Trail of Election

FDR DISOWNS C OMMUNISTIC VOTE SUPPORT   Roosevelt Says Opponents Spreading ‘Fear Propaganda’

Stung by Critics, President Flays Labor Baiters’’   Urges Maximum Turnout at Polls

Roosevelt Says He Wants No  Communist Aid   Accuses Opposition Of Spreading “Fear Propaganda” in  Address Over Radio

President Disowns Red Support; Assails ‘Political Propagandists’

COMMUNISTIC. AID DISOWNED _ BY ROOSEVEL’   Aceuses  Opporents ‘Of Spreading ‘Fear Pronarandsa”

REDS SUPPORT. FDR DECLARES   Urges Maximum Voter Turnout in Speech To Party Workers  a

COMMUNISM 13 TISOWNED BY FOR   President Charges Opponents’ Spread Fear Propaganda in Linking ‘Dems, Communists

Doesn't Seek Nor Want Their Aid, He Asserts   Political Propagandists Drag “Red Herring’ of Communism in Drive, He Charges in Address

BiG ELECTION VOTE DESIRED BY ROOSEVEL   COMMUNIST BACKING NOT WANTED, SAYS PRESIDENT

FDR DISOWNS COMMUNISTS IN VOTE APPEAL   Charges Opponents Are Spreading Propaganda Of Fear

F. R. Disowns Campaign Help Of Communists   President Says Republic ans Spreading ‘Propagan: da Of Fear.’

COMMUNISTS’ AID SPURNED BY PRESIDENT   Opponents Are Called ‘Rabble Rousers’ And ‘Bigots’

President Disowning Support Of Communists Blasts Those Spreading ‘Fear Propaganda’

Roosevelt Disowns Support of Communists; Charges GOP Spreading ‘Fear Pronacanda’

PARTY WORKERS ARE ADDRESSED BY ROOSEVELT   Says He Has Never Sought Nor Welcomed Communist  Support   LARGE TURNOUT OF VOTERS IS REQUESTED

Denies Seeking Communist Aid  FDR Devotes Much of Speech to Subject

F.R., Denies Supporting Communism   Neither Seeks Nor Welcomes Aid; Warns Of “Fear Propaganda”’

F.D.R. DISOWNS RED SUPPORT   ‘President Declar % Opponents Are Spreading ‘Fear Propaganda’

FDR Disown:s Support Of Communists   Flays GOP For Spreading Fear

Roosevelt Asserts His Republican Opponents Dragging Red Herrings Across Election Trail

FDR SAYS PARTY NOT SEEKING ANY COMMUNIST AID   Addressed Nation Last Night In Campaign Talk

PRESIDENT HITS AT RED CHARGE   Declares That Republicans Use ‘Fear Propaganda’

F. D. R. Disowns Communist Support in Radio Address   By D. HAROLD OLIVER

Communistic Aid Disowned by Roosevel   Never Sought and Does Not Welcome Support of Any Of the Ism Groups   FLAYS REPUBLICAN  FEAR PROPAGANDA   Points To Millions Of Cards Sent Out by GOP at Governmen; Expense

ALL CITIZEN ARE URGED TO VOTE   ’ Charges G. 0. P. Spreading Fear Propaganda   WAR CONTROLS   Will Be Lifted As Soon As Possible, President States In Address

Roosevelt Hits Again At Opposition   Charges Reckless Words Weaken Morale

F. D.R. Hits At Charges of Communism  In Campaign   Says He Does Not Seek Or Welcome: Support — Of Fascist Groups  Or Individuals

COMMUNISTS NO PALS OF MINE, FDR DECLARES   President Avers He Has Not Welcomed Them—Hits \Back at GOP

EDR Disowns Any Support By Communists   President Attacks “Rabble Rousers”’ And Political Propondists In Talk

RED IDEOLOGY DENIED BY FDR   -BrickerSays AAA Should BeAbolished - - With Exceptions —

ROOSEVELT MAKES DISCLAIMER OF COMMUNIST SUPPORT IN CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION AS PRESIDENT

‘Roosevelt Accuses GOP Of Spreading  Fear Propaganda.   President Disowns Communists And Fascists; Says Republicans Using Red Herring To  ~ Seare People.

PRESIDENT DISOWNS COMMUNIST SUPPORT IN FOURTH TERM RACE  ROOSEVELT MADE SECOND CAMPAIGN SPEECH OVER RADIO LAST NIGHT

FDR Disowns Support of Communists  Says GOP Spreading “Fear Propaaanda”

F.D.R. says attempt made to sap morale  ‘Reckless words enter campaign’

ROOSEVELT TALKS TO PARTY WORKER:   President Denies : ‘He has ‘Sought Support of  Communists 

Roosevelt Charges Political Propagandists Drag "Red Herring’Of Communism Into Election Campaian

Communist Aid IsDisavowed By Roosevelt   Their. Support Is Neithe: Sought Nor Welcomed, Declares Democratic Nominee

FEAR PROPAGANDA BEING SPREAD BY OPPOSITION: FDR  PUANRECC Neorvi cee   CHARGES RECKLESS USE BY CRITICS OF TERM ‘COMMUNISM’

FDR Disowns ‘Anti-American Political Sect:   President Avows Support From Foreign "Isms

Roosevelt Disowns Communist Help   President in Speech Charges ‘’Propagande Of Fear’ Is Spread

~—POLI  FEAR SPREADER LASHED BY FDR,   Denies Administration Plotting. To Give Communists Control

COMMUNISTIC AD DISOWNED   FR Says GOP Opponents Are Spreading ‘Fear Pronaganda.’

Roosevelt Raps Reckless Words Of Republicans   Assails Poll Tax; Urges Maximum Turnout At Polls.

Roosevelt Rejects  Communist Suppor!  For Re-election Republican Candidates Termed  "Babble Rousers,’ Compared To Hiller'e Black Shirts

ROOSEVELT TALKS TOPARTY WORKERS   Reesidpat Denies ‘He has Sought: Support of Communists

Roosevelt Says He Seeks No Red or Fascist Support  Reply to ‘Political Propagandists’ Is Made  i eee i ee eee Co ee eae  Sk ee

FDR Disowns Red Supnort   President Says Opponents Are Spreading “Fear Propaganda”

Roosevelt Raps Dewey Recklessness   Deplores Talk About . Communisra In Nation

COMMONS TOLD THREAT “BROKEN   Invasion Fleet, Troops Smashed Before Sailing

Halt Nazi “40  Invasion Try   Churchill Says Attempt Stopped Before Ships Left  Ports,

Churchill Says Nazi Invasion _ Smashed In 194{   Germans Thwarted In Attempt Before Ships Left Ports.

NAZI PLANS FOR THRUST SMASHED   Ships Were Sunk in Harbors Before They Could Cross Channel and Expedition Abandoned.

Nazis Didn’t Get Started   Really Meant to Invade In 1940, Churchill Reveals But Preparations Smashed

Churchill Reveals German Attempt to Invade Britain in 1940 as Frustrated

Nazi Invasion  Effort Foiled   Smashed By British About Four Years Ago

CHURCHILL SAYS NAZI INVASION SMASHED IN'40   Claims Sinking of German Ships in Port Forces Hitler to Change Plans

Reveals Nazi Invasion Try In °40 Failed   Churchill Says Ships And Men Smashed In French Ports

Nazis Had Ships, Men Concentrated For Invasiot Of Britain In 1940, Churchill Tells Commons

Churchill Tells Of German Attempt To Invade England in 1940 And How It Failed   Smashed Before Heavy Concentrations Of Ships And Men Able To Leave Ports

Havana In Direct Path of “Very Great Storm” Which Has Yet to Reach Peak

Sul Ross Prof To Take Position as Instructor At Fort Knox, Kentucky

64 TO GRADUATE ON JUNE 11TH AT MILITARY ACADEM)   Baccalaureate Service Scheduled for Next Sunday Evening

Nazi Garrison in Greek Town Gives Uy   British Reportedly Take Tripolis, in Peloponnesus

NEW DEAL AFRAID 10 COPE WITH ARMY REDUCTION, DEWEY CHARGES   G. O. P. CANDIDATE SAYS F. D. R. ADMINISTRATION “TIRED, BICKERING,” SET FOR NEW DEPRESSION

‘Dewey to ‘Pour {t On’ Tonight   Crowds Hail G.0.P. Presidential Nominee On Way to Louisville for Second Talk Of Campaign After Philadelphia Opening

U.S. JUNGLE TROOPS TRAP 2 000 JAPS   General Stilwell Reports Americans Hammering JaAnvil In Continued Fight.. panese Against Chinese   Successful Raid

U.S. Troops Fan Out in Burmese Jungle lo Trap Force of 2,000 Japanese Troops:

Yanks Fan Out To Trap 2,000  Japs in Burma   Enemy Caught Between American and Chinese Troops: Nip Raiders  Beaten in West Burma

PINCERS CLOSE ON 2,000 JAPS   Burma Jungle Fighters Fan Out, Block Off Escape Road

Prisoner of War Shot at Camp Here   Nazi Slightly Wounded; 50 Involved In Near Riot

Halsey Plans Big Fete in Tokyo   Finds Japs Are Good Fighters, Not Supermen

To Celebrate “Where Tokyo Was” Halsey, Bristling For Good Fiaht. Saus Jan Losses 10-1

CHRIST CHURCH (Rpiscopaly   Rev. George Weed, Vicar Laas Cruces, New Mexico

THOMAS E. DEWEY CHOSEN TO HEAD 1944 GOP TICKET   BRICKER SELECTED AS RUNNING MATE BY UNANIMOUS VOTE

CONVENTION ALL SET TO NOMINATE   Ohioan Willing To Be On Ticket With New Yorker

Bricker Gives In To Demand   Agrees to Accept Second Place, Delegates Swing Promptly To Him

[The G.0.P. National Conven: tion in Session in Chicago Selected. Him. as, Presi dential Candidate. -.   ONLY ONE VOTE CAST AGAINST NEW YORKER   Grant Ritter, a Wisconsin - Farmer, Cast His Ballot for General Douglas \ + MacArthur.

TICKET PICKED IN WrIRLWING VOTE ROUNDUE   MacArthur Gets Lone Vote to Dewey’s 1,056; Bricker Named Unanimously.

Dewey Gets All Votes But One For MacArthur, As Republicans Swing In Behind Him and Ohio Governor

Y. Y. GOVERNOR SWAMPS ALL OPPOSITION   Roll Call Mere Formality : At G. 0. P. Convention   OHIOAN WITHDRAWS   As Candidate For President When New Yorker’s Name Placed In Nomination

ALL OPPONENTS QUIT FIELD IN DEWEY’S FAVOR   Bricker Given Tremendous Ovation As He Steps  Aside

Anti-F. R. Ticket Selected   Republicans Nominate New York Governor on First Ballot

Republicans Name Dewey Candidate For Presidency   Bricker Is Picked To Be His Running Mate

GOV. BRICKER IS PICKED FOR RUNNING MATE   Roll Call Just Formality After Other Candidates Withdraw

DEWEY, NOMINATED BY GOP. WILL ACCEPT IN PERSON; TO HAVE BRICKER AS RUNNING MATE

Dewey and Bricke: Are Named to Lead Republicans   Presidential Nominee Is Slated to Give Hi: Acceptance Speech Tonight; Lone Wieconsin Deleacate Votes for MacArthur

Ovation for Gov. Dewey  Bricker Announces His Withdrawal From Presidential Race  ACCEPTS 2D POST  Minnesetans Stick to Decision to Nominate  at Mina             ACCEPTS 2D POST   Minnesctans Stick to Decision to Nominate Stassen

News Day And Night   Former “Gang Buster” Flying To Chicago To Accept Tonight   One Vote Is Cast For Gen. WArthur   Bricker Cheered Loudly As He Formally With- ..  draws From Race

Head GOP Ticket   Nominated. By Convention in Whirlwind Session; Dewey Acceptance Speech Tonicht

‘Nomination Of New York Governor Becomes Certainty As Bricker Withdraws; Stassen’s Name Aleg Taken Off List

Empire State Governor Wins Party’s Presidential Nomination by Vote of 1,056 to 1—Ohio Chief Executive Unanimously Chosen as Running Mate, Having Withdrawn as FirstPlace Contender After Dewey's Name Was Put Before Delegates...

Nomination Of Dewey Expected During The Day   Warren Turns Down Second Spot, And Bricker Hints He Will Accept

New York’s Governor is on Way to Convention to Make Formal Acceptance Speech

New York Man GOP Choice For President   Ohioan Will Be Running Mate In November

New York Governor Will Appear Before Convention Tonight   Bricker Withdraws.

Dewey Gets 1,056 Votes, WArthur 1   N. Y. Governor Flying To Chicago For Speech To. Tonight.

New Yorker Accepts In Talk Tonight   One Delegate Vote For MacArthur; Selection O!  Bricker Unanimous.

Governor Of Ohio Is Believed  Receptive   “tate After State _amises To Baci  Him For Second  Place On Ballot

Dewey and Bricker Republican Nominees; Former Will Fly To  Convention To Accept Tonight

N.Y. Governor is Given Banner With Huge Vote   Not Even One Dissenting Vote Is Cact Against Buckeye States Chief   Sweltering Convention Will Hear Address This Evening by Republican’s Champion

IDDewey Named On Ist Ballot: Ohioan For Him   Nomination By Acclamation Of New York Governor Seen

Bricker Announces Own  Withdrawal in Address   Stassen’s Backers Alse Bow to Overwhelming Dewey Sentiment After Hearing Bricker Laud Dewev Record   Rricker Slated for Second Place

Bricker Looms As GOP Choice Running Mate   Ohio Governor’s Floor Manager At Convention Says He “Believes He Will Accept’   States Are Coming Under His Banner   Would Run With New York Governor On Platform Calling For “Peace Forces” to Prevent 

BRICKER SEEMS CERTAIN 10 BE IN 2ND PLACE   Nomination Of New Yorker By Acclamation Seen As Possible

DEWEY NAMED BY GRISWOLD OF NEBRASKA   Candidate Now On Way To  Convention

Dewey and Bricker Head GOP Ticket   Dewey Gets All Votes But One For MacArthur, As Republicans Swing In Behind Him and Ohio Governor   Bricker Swings Over

BRICKER IS FAVORED FOR SECOND SLOT   Ohio's Governor Named as Running Mate for Dewey

Convention Will Hear Acceptance Speech Tonight   Ohio Governor Is Unanimous Choice; MacArthur Receives A Wisconsin Vote

Convention May Decide on Ticket Before Nightfall   Ohio Executive, In Dramatic Appearance, Receives Treinendous Applause As He Announces His Withdrawal   STASSEN FORCES ALSO ELIMINATE CANDIDATE

Warren Declines Place On Ticket—Plane Ready at Albany for Dewev.

Bricker Nominated His Running Mate; Vote for Dewey 1,056 to 1, Unanimous ol Bricker

Bricker May Be Named te 2nd Place   ‘ Ohio Governor Announces Own Withdrawal  From Race

Dewey Nominated  On First Roll Call   Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio Withdraws For Presidency and Is Named as Running Mate to the New  York Governor.   Lt.-Com. Stassen of Minnesota Also Withdraws as a Canc idate

New York Governor  1,056 to 1   Bricker Withdraws As Presidential Candidate, Agreeable To Vice-Presidency

GOVERNOR THOMAS E. DEWEY IS NOMINATED.FOR PRESIDENT   ‘Swamps All Opposition as State After State Roared Out Their Votes Amid  Band Accompaniments and Cheers

New Yorker Will Make Acceptance Address Tonight   Only One Dissenting Vote Cast In GOP  Nomination Session

Governors Of New York, Qhio Put In   Dewey Given All but One Vote for President; Bricker Gets Second Spot Unanimously.   DEWEY WILL SPEAK AT NINE TONIGHT

GOP Balloting Is Practically Acclamation   New York Governor Is Named Candidate On First Roll Call

NOMINATED ON FIRST BALLOT    John Bricker Of Ohio Slated For Vice Presidency

Republicans To Hear Their Nominee Tonight  One Lone Vote Cast by Wisconsin Man for MacArthur

NEW YORKER SWEEPS ALL BUT 1 VOTE   First Ballot ts All Necessary to Select Dewey

Bricker, Stassen  Withdraw Names   Ohioan To Be New York Governor’s Running Mate— Willkie Sends Congratulations

Bricker Will Be His Running Mate   New York Governor Nominated by 1,056 to 1 Vote; Bricker Withdraws as Candidate in Harmony Move; Dewey to Address Convention

Warren Deechnes Place On Vieket-- Plane Ready at Albany for  Dewee.

Bricker Ils Due To Get Second Spot On Ticket   Governor Of Ohio Withdraws Name From Race To Back New York Gang-Buster; Stassen’s Supporters Also Join In Landslide

(GOP Names N.Y. Governe  On First Ballot 1,056 to 1  Ohioan’ s Vote Unanimous

Empire State’s Chief’s Name  Is Presented   Referred to By Gov. Griswold As “Faced In Direction American People Want to Go”   Youth Instead Of Decadence Offered   Praises Dewey As Man Who Broke Alliance Between Corrupt Politics and Crime

New Yorker Wins On First Ballot With 1056 Votes   Wild Demonstration Precedes GOP Rollcall; Bricker Slated To Run  For Second Place On Ticket

Nominee “Flying To ~ Chicago   ‘Will ‘Deliver Acceptance » Speech to” Convention at 9:Q’Clock   HARMONY MOVE. ~ DEVELOPS LATE   “Bricker in-Most Dramatic _ Appearance Brings ‘On 4 * Landslide to New Yorker ..

GOP Nominates Thomas Dewey On fst Ballot   Bricker Accept Nomination For Vice Presidency

Allied 6th Army Captures Key  to Vosges Pass   Baccarat and 14 Other Towns Are Taken in Advance Up to Five Miles; First Army Battles Into Huertgen Forest

DOUGHBOYS OPEN DRIVE ON COLOGNE   Commandos Widen, Beachhead on Dutch Isle

Take Key To Vosges, Hit Aacher   Nazi Diehards Strike Furiously At  English In Aniwerp s Ship Canal.

LABOR WINS OK “ONPAY HEARING   WLB Directs Panel To View Steelworkers’ Case

STEEL EL UNIONS GET HEARING   WAR LABOR BOARD TO HEAR ARGUMENTS ON WAGE FORMULA—REJECTION 1S  ’ "ASSURED

Balkan Nation Accepts Terms Of Armistice   King Proclaims Hostilities Against United Nations Halted; Declares Country Will ‘Fight the Enemy’

QUITS NAZIS AS REDS PUS INTO COUNTRY   King Mihai Announces Acceptance of Armistice Terms of U. S., Britain and Russia.   2 FORMER ALLIES ALREADY FIGHTING   Nation’s Desertion of Hitler Suggests Imminent Collapse of Entire German Empire.

Hitler’s most useful satellite joins allies in battle against axis   Report troops are fighting with Russ; armistice conditions fully accepted

Nazi Europ: $         Keds Say Germans Firing On Retreating Romanian Troops

Nazi Europe Is Collapsing   Reds Say Germans Firing On Retreating Romanian Troops

Ends War With Allies and Will Fight “Against Germany”, According to Broadcast Proclamation of King Mihai.

UnitedNations Peace Terms Are Accepted  ‘By Romania   Announcement Is Made By Young King Mihai  As Russian Armies      WILL CONTINUE FIGH ACAINST ‘ENEMY?   All Ties with Axis Broken, New Cabinet To Be Established  -

Peace Terms Offered by Reds Accepted   Russia Says Fighting Between Romanians and Nazis Under Way

Stalwarts in Victory   Senators Pepper and Hill Win in South Over ‘Their Democratic Critics   NOMINATION THERE GOOD AS ELECTION   GOP Senator Wins in South Dakota Where He Was Op-. posed for Aiding New Deal

OSCAR BEDFORD DIED AT AGE QF AS YEARS   Funeral of Foundry Superintendent Held in West Concord Church

DIED AT AGE ~~ OF 48 YEARS      Funeral: of F oundry Superintendent Held in West Concord Church 

Mallard School Girl Killed By Gravel Truck  Was Riding Bicycl On The Hicghway

Japs Stab to 12 Miles of Imphal   Allied Air Forces Deliver Heavy Blows on Arc; Yanks Hit Truk Fourth Time, Radio Silence Hides Island Fighting

Jap Threat to Imphal Increases; Americans Blast Anew at Truk   Fighting Tempo Steps Up on Burma Front; Enemy Makes Heavy Life Sacrifice: Pacific Raids Continue

Half of American Soldiers  in France Now Are Getting ‘Chicken and Fresh Fruit

FLOOD THREAT {a BELIEVED PASSED   Cold Wave Abates Further Flood Dangers; State Prepares for Siege of Freezing Weather

POLICE FIND MORE GLUES TO NEW YORK HEIRESS’ MURDEREF   Establish Time Of Death As 2:30 A. M. After Report Of Neighbor

Czech President Sees Nazi Fold-Up Three Months After Allied Invasion

Czech President Sees Early Nazi Collapse   Dr. Edouard Benes Says Germans Will Never Permit Fighting to Reach the Soil of the ‘Fatherland’

Benes Sees Finale Near   Expects Nazi Crackup Within Three Months

U.S. Loses Destroyer   Destroyer Escort Leopold Sunk in Atlantic on March 10, Navy Reports

Naz Targets Unsafe From American Air  Stimson Declares Last Barrier to  Bamkina Baomavea

Nazis Find No City Safe From Air by Day, Night,  Avers Secretary Stimson

No Targets of Germans Safe   So Says War Secretary Stimson, Discussing Raids on Berlin

Reich At Mercy Of Bombers   NO GERMAN TARGET SAFE BY DAY OR NIGHT—-STIMSON

ADVANCE ONLY AT BAYONET POINT IN BITTER STRUGGLE   Nazis Murder Air Force Prisoners In Cold Blood, Says Eden.

American Troops Drive Ahead More Than Mule Into Nazi Fortifications

Struggle for Cherbourg Is Most Violent of the Whole Invasion. Yanks . Advance At Bayonet. Point.

FARM GROUPS FILE PROTEST OVER NEW DEFERMENT RULE   CHARGE DOUBLING OF  REQUIREMENTS WILL DEMORALIZE PRODUCTION . DURING THIS CROP WEAR

BRITISH BARE USE OF ‘HUMAN TORPEDO   Daring Raid That Destroyed Tw Big Italian Ships in January, 1948 Disclosed.

Britain Takes Wraps Off New — Seoret Weanor   ‘Human Torpedo’ Bags Two German Ships In Night Raid-

HUMAN TORPEDO SINKS WARSHIPS   Secret Weapon Revealed Alter Daring Raid At Palermo

ROMANIA RUSSIA SIGN ARMISTICE   Three Major Allies Formed Terms of Pact

Romania, Russ Armistice Signed   Jointly Formulated Terms Are Accepted

"HOME RULE” ISSUE FACES HARD FIGHT      tive Council Maps _ Program for General Assembly: .

HOME RULE BILL GETS SUPPORT OF LEGISLATORS   County Commissioners Would Pass On Local Legislation Under Bill   RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY COUNCIL

Admiral Ramsay, Whose Boats Rescued B.E.F. From Dunkirk, Picked to Handie Naval Portion of Invasion

SHIPS DAMAGED, NAVY REPORTS   Fails to Confirrn Tokyo's  Stories of Victories

Wily Japs Ambushed Yank Landing Party On Biak; Casualties Reported Heavy

Jap Ambush Murderous  On Biak   Yank Battalion Cut Off Near Mokmer Airdrome By Savage Enemy Fire; Casualties Very Heavy

Yanks Mowed Downi in Biak Landing Japs Literally “Ambushed Invaders

JAPS WAIT ON BIAK TO MUW YANKS OOWK   Guns Cut Path of Fire in Two Battalions: “Buffaloes” Rescue Wounded.

Eyewitness On Biak  Japs Trapped Americans In One Advanced Sector   Casualties Heavy, And ‘Buffaloes’ Called To Evacuate Wounded; Yanks Push On

Murderous Fire Loosed On Yank Battalions; SeaTractors Used For Rescues

COMMUNIQUES SHOW JAPANESE NAVY HIT HARD BY AMERICANS   U.S. Destroyers Bombard Jap Holdings Again In Southwest Pacific.

Jerseys On Exhibit At Livestock Show Tuesday Afternoon   Judging Winners Announced; Crowd Not  laceen Ac Evnraertarl

Dairy Cafile To Be Judged At Tech Farm Tuesday Afternoon   Ruston Business Men Women Urged To Visit Show, Enter Jerseys

Churchill Sees Victory Over Nazi, Jap Force:   Lauds Russian Drive And Pays Tribute © To Allied Air Blows

Churchill Lauds  Soviet Victories   Prime Minister Expresses Confidence of Victory Over All the Axis—Danger of U-Boat Attacks Overcome

EARLY DEFEAT OF JAPS SEEN BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Praises Russians’ Advance And Allied Air Power   ONLY DANGER FROM SUBMARINE ATTACKS

Japs Show Signs Of Weakness, Says Churchill   Prime Minister Again Expresses Confidence In Victory Over Axis

Charchill Views Japs as Greatly Weakened by War   Confident Of V ictory Over All The Axis Despite Slow Progress In Italy

Keds Raid Targets in Baities   Rail Junctions In Latvia and Estonia Bombed

Red Bombers Hit Latvian Rail Line   Daugavpils and Tartu Pounded 

British Bombers Subject: Invasion Coast to Most Concentrated Bombardment of War Wednesday Night.

RAF Planes Raze Coast Rail Centers   Unusually Heavy Sky Fleet Dumps 3,360 Bomb Tons

Heavyweights Strike in Concert From England and Italy; 4] Big Planes Known to Be Lost

ALLIES SMASH TARGET FROM ITALY BRITAI   300 Massed German Fighters Attack Bombers

Results May Be Turning Point In Extinction War   Regensburg, Bernberg, Aschersleben, And Halber stadt Victims Of Furious Coordinated Assaults From England And Italy; 41 Heavies Lost.

Tommies Break Counter-Attacks By Panzer Units   Feeler Blows Parried But Allies Brace For Critical Struggle

NAZIS SPAR FOR OPENING   BRITISH TAKING BRUNT OF ATTACKS   Nazi Claim That Allied Force Encircled Still Not Sub stantiated.

Latest Attacks By Nazis Have Been Repulsed. Furious Struggle Underway At Cassino.

Japs Drive on City of Loyang   Break Through Chinese Defenses to Go Within Nine Miles of City

“CHINESE REPORT _ JAPANESE GAINS IN NEW ATTACK   Enemy Forces Within Nine Miles of Loyang Before  Advance Is Slowed ’

JAPS THREATEN CITY OF LOYANG   Enemy Within Sight Of Ancient Town; Chinese Plight Serious

JAPANESE FORCES MENACE LOYANG   FALL OF CITY WOULD ENDANGER INVASION ROUTE TO INTERIOR OF CHINA,

,Jap Navy Attempts Attack on Mindorc   Three Destroyers Sunk, Battleship, Cruiser Damage by PT Boats And American Planec

Basis For Farm Deferments Set  ‘Production Of Food Ordered By Boards

2400 Hours  Raising Crops for Deferment   16 Essential Points At 150 Man Hours Is Board Requirement

Admiral fo Speak To Navy Grads   Juniors Excused From Class, Exams

POSTWAR LEND-LEASE IS TOUCHY PROBLEM   British Request for Help Meets Oppositian

British Admit Post-War Aid Big Problem   Take Unofficial Position That War Lend-Lease Should Continue

Bulgarian Peace Move Collapses   Premier’s Resignation  Halts Armistice Talks

BULGARIAN ARMISTICE TRY FAILS      Envoys Are Stranded By Collapse Of Regime

13 Persons Lose Lives  In Bad Storms   Eastern South Dakota And Western Part of Minnesota Hit Hardest

Heavy Battles Mark German Rhone Retreat   Americaug Strike While Enemy Attempts Cross-ing of Drome River In South France

French Forces Reach Bangols As Allies Spread Out On Coastal Area; Strong Fighting Reported Near Italian Border As Axis Enters

Yanks Grimly sattle Nazis Fleeing Rhone   Americans Strike As Germans Try Desperately To Cross Drome River

BATTLESNAZIS. AT DROME RIVER   Fight Rages ages 12 Miles ' North Of. Mon taltynay   HIT “AT NIGHT   Germans Inrow Fontoon Bridges Over , -Stream

—SOUTH FRANCE  HEAVY FIGHTING. ON DROME RIVER   Yanks Battling Fleeing Nazis 12 Miles North Of Montelimar

Heavy Battle In Southern France   U. S. 7th Army Engages Nazis On Drome River Near Loriol

iNazis Try to Cross Drome; 'Quffer Heavily   ‘Yanks Strike in South as ‘Enemy Throws Pontoons Across River

ALLIES 115 MILES NORTH OF MARSEILLE   Troops Forging Up Rhone Valley Are Within Six Miles of Valence, 27 Miles Up the River From Montelimar.

Drive Up Rhone Continues Rapid   Point 115 Miles From Marseille Reached

Doughboys Smash Nazis Attempting to Flee Froia Southern France Trap

SCENES OF DESTRUCTION AND CHAOS MARK RETREAT OF NAZI TROOPS FROM RHONE VALLEY

Yank, German Forces Locked In Stiff Fight   South France Battle Raging 12 Miles To North Of Montelimar; Enemy Force On Move

Yanks’ Advance Up Rhone Valley Speeds Reconques' Of All Southern France

HEAVY BATTLE REPORTED IN RHONE VALLEY   Germans Attempt To Flee Into North Italy

Heavy Battle Is Raging In Rhone Valley   Americans Strike As Germans Try “To Cross Drome

American Armored Units Sweep Through Reims and Storm Across Vesle River   Whirlwind Advance Carried Several Miles Beyond Cathedral City While Another Unit of Patton's Army Crosses Marne at Epernay

U.S. Units In South France_ Near Valence   27 Miles Upriver Front ‘Captured Montelimar; Battles Continue ,

Battle Raging In South France   American Army Clashes With Foe Attempting to Escape Across River

Seventh Army Batters at German Units   Americans Hammer At Fleeing Enemy Fighters

Fierce Battle: Raging Along Rhone Valley   Germans Bring In Troops From Italy

Americans Hit Nazis Fleeing Across River   Enemy Attempt To Escape Brings On Heavy Battle

Heavy Battle Rages Near Drome River   American Seventh Fights Fleeing Germans; Yanks Forced Back at Briancon

rmans And mericans !n  eavy Battle   Fighting Takes Place 12 Miles From Montelimar

RHONE VALLEY BATTLE HEAVY   Americans Strike While Enemy Attempting To Cross Drome   CROSS FROMITALY

YANKS STRIKE FLEEING NAZIS   Blast Germans Retreating Across Drome River In  Seuthern France

DAINE BEYOND RIVER JUNCTION   U.-S. Troops Push 27 Miles Upriver From Captured — Montelimar. “   YANKS MEET RESISTANCE

Heavy Battle Between US and German Troops Near the Drome River   Nazis Retreating Up Rhone Are Figh ting For Their Existence

Yanks Balk Nazi Flight Up Rhone   Heavy Battle Rages 2! Drome River Crossing Where Ameticans Strack Last Nigkt

Americans Forge  Up Rhone Valley   United States Troops Are Within Six Miles of  Valence   Heaviest Fighting Centers Around Loriol, South  Drome

U. S. and German Forces Locked in Heavy Battle Near The Drome River

‘Use of Ration Tokens Makes Books Last Longe   Coins for Change System Makes Fewer Coupons Necessary and Cuts Work

I ntroduction of ration tokens to alter method of point value pay

Here Is Way Ration Token Plan Works   OPA Answers Queries On What to Do and How It’s to Be Done

PHONE STRIKE LEADERS DEFY ORDER BY WLE   Decline to Call Off Walkout; Ask Other Unions to Help

City Ripped By Explosion   Nearly Every House And Store In Port Chicago Is Wrecked

 Port Chicago Residents Sweep Aside Litter, Quietly Resume Affairs

Blast Wrecks Every House In Port City   Shower of Steel From Munitions Ships Fell on Town

Port Chicago Thought Japs Had Attacked   Blast-Riddled Community Tries to Piece Together Share of Tragedy

A Hammer Blow On Little Town   Nearly Every House in Port  Chicago Feels Effects of Blast.

Hundreds Die as Ammunition Ships on West Coast Explode; Possibly Thousand Injured   Worst Disaster of War Occurs Late Monday Night With Destruction of Port Chicago Depot Dock Area, 35 Miles From San Francisco

40 Nuns: Rescued   Hollandia Allies Reveal 100 Missionaries Saved

RESULTS OF TOKYO BOMBING ARE GOOD   Substantial Damage Done Mushashina _ Aircraft Factory.

Hansell Not Satisfied With Results iOFf Bie Fortress Raid on Toykeo

SLAVS INVADE MAJOR ISLAND   Take Big ig Cities Off Dalmatian Coast

Urges Practice & . % Sane Buying  Of Cigaret:   Price Administrator Say: Those Who Pursue Hoarding Methods Hart Own Interests

CIGARETTES 10 50 UNRATIONED   Administrator Bowles Declares Smoking Public Is Master Of Its Fate In Scarcity Situation.

Don’t Hoard, Bowles’ Plea   Wild Buying Blamed In Civarette Pinch

SANE CIGARET BUYING URGEL   W ould Solve Problem, Says  Price Administrator

URGES SANE CIG’ BUYING   Current Shortage Due Te Hoarding, Bowles Asserts

‘Sane Buying’ Holds Answer to Cigarettes   Rationing impractical Leaders Observe; Public Hurts Cause by Scare Buying

Allied Army Now 71 Miles Above Eternal City   Move Forward With Almost No Opposition From Retreating Nazis

RETREAT OF 14TH ARMY NOW A ROUT   Allied Forces Chase Remnants 70 Miles North of Rome

Allied 5th Army Pushes Along Nearly Unopposer   Troops Advance as Far as 70 -Miles Beyond Rome

GERMAN 14TH ARMY CANNOT NOW RESIS]   Fifth Army Races on in Region Between 50 and 70 Miles to North of Italian Capital.

NAZI ITALY ARM} IN CHAOTIC ROUT NORTH OF ROME   Force Of 150,000 Ceases To Exist; 5th Pursues Remnants

Allied Force 70 Miles AboveRome   Germans Apparently Plan to Reorganize Army Near Florence

ALLIED ARMIES RACE UNOPPOSED NORTH OF ROME   50 To 70 Miles Above City Now Organized Resistance Wanishes

NAZI RETREAT FULL - FLEDGED ROUT IN ITALY   Battered 14th Army In Panic And 10th Also Speeds Flight

Fifth Army Chasing Nazi Army 51 To 70 Miles From  Rome; Capture Thousands

NAZI ROUT REPORTED ‘CHAOTIC’   German 14th Army Has ‘Ceased To Exist’ As Battle Force

‘Nazi Flight North Of Rome ‘Chaotic’; 14th Army Wreckec   Panicky Troops Fight Each Other For Possession of Escape Cars;  16th Army Beoins Race to North

LATHNAZIS ARMY KNOCKED OUT BY ALLIED STH ARM   150,000 Veteran Germans “Has Ceased to Exist,’ “Allies 70: Miles North ot  _ Rome, Enemy Panicky..  MARIANAS JAP ARMY ‘HIT BY TASK FORCE   Allies Get Hard Blow in China With Two Powerful  < Jap Armies In Drive, Chinpen Roesict.

Nazis Routed By Sth Army In North Italy   German Il4th Army Ceases To Exist As Fighting Unit; Allies Advance At Will

Nazi 14th Army s  Erased   Allies Race for New _ Italy Ground 70 Miles Above Rome

German 14th Army Of 150,000 Once Now  Ceases To Exist  NAZIS IN PANIC RACE TO ESCAPE  Battered German 10th Army In Headlong  Retreat

Enemy Rout In Italy Is Chaotic   Tenth German Army Appears to be Pulline Out

Nazi Resistance Vanishes Before Allies in Italy   Germans Kill Own Men in Race To Gain Freedom

Allied Armies in Italy Racing Through Defeated Germans Almost ai Will

Nazi Flight In Italy Becomes Wild Rout   German 14th Army ‘Ceases To Exist’ As Fighting Force As Allies Advance

War on Japs Top Subject, Aide Reveals   Victory Everywhere, Says Smiling Briton; Both Bring Staffs

FDR, Churchill Meet in Quebec For Conference   Wives of Leaders On Hand as New War Parley Opens

French Move On  Cassino   JUIN’S UNITS ADVANCE TWO MILES TOWARD NAZI ITALY STRONGHOLD

Yanks, French Tighten A Ring Around Cassino   German Defenses Slowly Ground Down; Rome  Airfields Bombed.

U.S. Troops Are Hit in Bombings   Casualties Near St. Lo Are Lighter, However, Than First Believed   SMOKE OBSCURED TARGET POINTS   Overall Results of Air Action Come Up to U. &. + Expectations

Yank Planes Hit Own Men   Targets for Late Wave Obscured by Smoke and Dust

Americans Bombed By Own Planes  Targets Obscured,  Linen Baeoanatae Seeea

Allies Forge Ahead On All Beachheads As D-Day  Tempo Gains Momentum   Fresh And Strong Naval Forces Reported Off Dunkerque-Calais Area, Opposite Dover And 200 Miles Northeast Of Cherbourg

ALLIES FIGHT ON NORMANDY 100 MI. FRONT   Reinforcements, Supplies Pour into France fox Expanding — Invasion   Weather Worries

Fresh Regiments Pour Into France To Aid Invaders   1,000 Troop-Carrying Aircraft Take Part In Air-Borne Phase of Gigantic Operation; Little Opposition Met by Landing Force; U. S. Cruisers. Battleship Shell Germans

Liberation Armies Fight Entrenched Nazis Along 100-Mile Coast Front —

NEW AMERICAN ATR RAIDS ON CAROLINES   -Satawan, Near Truk, Also Hit Again

U.S. Bombers Blast 2 Truk Isle Outposts   Satawan and Woleai, on Each Side of Fortress, . Feel Heayv Loads

More American Raids Made On  Caroline Isles   Satawan, Woleai Hit On Eeither Side of Jap Base At Truk

NEW AMERICAN RAIDS DISCLOSED ON GAROLINES   Liberators Hit Satawan And Woleai * Islands Near _  Trak: .

J. S. Airmen Again Raid Carolines, Others Bomb Rabaul and Yanimo

‘Churchill Says Britain Will Use Army 'To Prevent Imposition of Communist Dictatorship Upon Greece

CHURCHILL DECLARES LAW AND ORDER MUS PREVAIL IN GREECE  SAYS BRITISH ARMY NOW IN GREECE WILL BE USED IF NECESSARY

Churehill Stands:  Behind Papandreou   Prime Minister Promises People Vote in Time; He Is Warned of Rift With Russia

GREEK DECISION WILL BE BACKED SAYS CHURCHILL.   Britain Will Honor Greece's Own Peaceful Settlement Of Disputes On Interior Policy.

CHURCHILL REVIEWS “UPRISING   Prime Minister Backs Papandreou Regime  In Greek Crisis

British Ready To Use Force To Keep Peace WithinGreece   Will Oppose Communist Dictatorship, Says Churchill

Britain Is Prepared to Use Army to Maintain Law and Order in Greece

Churchill Says Britain To Keep Order In Greece  Opposes Communist   Opposes Communist Dictatorship, Pledges Use Of Armed Forces

WON'T STAND FO AUDTS BY COMMUNISTS   Churchill Says Army Will Be Used to Keep Order in Greek Capital.

Greeks Warned To Keep Peace, Or British Will   Churchill Says Army Stands Ready To Keep Communists From Violence

BRITAIN TO BACK UP GREEK GOV'T, SAYS CHURCHILL   DECLARES ARMY WILL BE USED TO ENFORCE ORDER IF NECESSARY

Churehill Tells Commons!  } Armed Forees Will Be Used to Enforce Consti tutional Government   Wants People To Express Choice   ‘Toumyguns Furnished    Greeks to Fight Germans ?  Now Used to hnpose Dictatorship we

BRITISH BACK GREEK GOV   Churchill Says His Army Will Resist Commun : ist Dictatorship

Britain Will Use Army to Maintain Order in Greece, Declares Churchill

British Troops Being Reinforced,  Says Churchill      To Resist Attempt To Impose ‘Communist Dictatorship’

BRITAIN READY TO USE. ARMIES TO KEEP PEACE   Prime Minister Stands Firm for Maintaining Present Government

Ward Injunction: Action Is Droppec   Judge Declines to Give Decision As Plant Is Turned Back to Owners

Court Drops Ward Action As Company Takes Over   Judge Not Ruling  On Seizure Count

Return of Chicago Plants to Owner Ends Court Action   No Decision Given On Legality of Government Seizure

Ward Case Dismissed, No Ruling   “Return ‘of Properties to Company Takes Case Out sof Court’s Hands =   ” c. 1.0. WINS ELECTION, 5-9 440 TO.1,593)      Unions :Ask ° Extension - of » Contract; Judge Destroys “Decision He Had Ready

Judge Not to Rule On Ward Seizure   Says Restoring of Property to Owners Takes Out of His Hands Suit to Restrain Interference With Government Operation.

Ward Injunction Suit Dropped, No Legality Ruling   Court Says U. S.-Return Of Plant Closes Case

Ward Case Is Out Of His Hands, Judge  Declares   Court Says Things Transpiring Recently Have Made Decision Bv Him Unnecessary

“Case Dismissed” Rules Judge in Ward Firm Seizure   Injunction Litigation Dropped without a Ruling on Legality; Returned ta Owner<«

Judge Refuses Legality ‘Ruling In Ward Seizure   Union Demands Contract Be Enforced By Ward; Owners Back In Plant

La iti CASE DROPPED; NO RULING Judge Holly Makes No Decision On Legality OF Seizure

To Take Action In Ward Fight   Troops Withdrawn From Chicago Plant, Juris. Says “No Question Lefi to Decide”

ClO Wins Cellective Bargaining Election, Appeals fo WLE fer Extension of Contract

No Decision ‘Handed Down -OnUS. Action   Bargaining Election Is Won By Union; Asks WLB Extend, Enforce Expired Contract

No Ruling OnSeizure Of Ward   Legality Question Unanswered After Property Returned

Federal Judge Holly Con siders the Case Dismissed, Officials Told.   AVERY RESUMES DUTIES

COURT DROPS WARD ACTION   Judge Declines To Rule After U. §. Turns Plant Back to Management.

WARD’S TO OWNERS   Plant Turned Back After Wins Bargaining Election

Judge Will Not Rule on Ward Case   Declares Events Have Taken Hand From Case; U. S. Returns Control

eA Be i Te  Ward Union  Wins; Court Drops Case      U.S. Returas Plant to Owners and Court Avoids Ruling on Legalily      INEW PLEA TO WLR   Unions Demand Old Con. tract Be Enforced Until New One Is Made

U. S. Control of Ward Property Ended By Jones   Ward Attorney Requests Ruling on Temporar y Iniunction

Federal Judge William Holly Issues Ruling   Establishment Back In Hands of Owners; Sewell Avery Head

Wards Turned Back, Judge Will Not Rule   Government's Action  In Returning Plant to Company Takes.Case Out Of His Hands, He Says

FUDGE AVOIDS MAKING: RULING ON INJUNCTION LITIGATION IN BEIZURE OF MONTCOMERY WARD

Judge Washes Hands Of Mail Order Case   Says Return of Ward Company By Government Takes Matter Out of His Jurisdiction

JUDGE DROPS. -WARD CO. CASE “WITHOUT EDIC!   Properties ies Returned To Management; TInion Wins

—WARD SEIZURE—  REFUSES TO RULE WN WARD SEIZURI   Judge Says. Recent Events HaveTaken Case Out Of His Hands

Ward's Case Dropped With No Ruling   Judge Says No Question Left After Election; Seizure Legality Not Touched On

COURT 10 ESCAPE GIVING DECISION OVER WARD CASI   Judge Says “Events That Have Transpired Apparently Have Taken Case Out of My Hands.’”   WLB ASKED TO ENFORCE OLD CONTRACT   Property Back In Hands ot Its Management, ¢ I ¢ Wins Collective Bargaining Election.

ELECTION WO)   Jesse Jones’ Order Puts Avery Back In Office   COURT DECISION   On Legality Of Seizure Ti Be Announced Today; Vote Not Close

Drop Case On  Ward Seizure   Federal Judge Says He Would Rule Friday On Way Of Dismissal.

NOTHING TO 00 "IN WARD CASE, JURIST OPINES   Government Decision Giving Plant Back to Owners Eliminates Lawsuit?

NO RULING ON LEGALITY OF WARD SEIZURE   Federal Judge Holly Announces Decision After Plant Is Turned Back and  Avery Takes Over   CiO ASKS EXTENSION

JUDGE DECLINES TO GIVE RULING IN WARD CASE   Says Government Return. Of Property “Takes Case Out Of My Hands”

Government Now Returns Wards To Its Owners   CIO Asks Immediate Contract Signing

Judge Drops Ward Case Litigation  Coneidere Canc   Considers Case Dismissed, He Tells Counsel  For Firm, U. S.

COURT DROPS WARD CASE   Company Back In Hand: Of Itz Management .

No Ruling On Ward  Seizure   Judge Says Case Out Of His Hands Follow: ing Return of Plant’ To Company Hands

FEDERAL JUDGE HOLLY DROPS INJUNCTION LITIGATION IN” GOVERNMENT WARD SEIZURE   Fails to Rule in Case Stating That Property Is Back in Hands of Owners and As Result of These Events Case Has Been Taken Out of Hands. Ward .Attorneyvs Insist on Ruling —

JUDGE OFFERS NO RULING ON WARD SEIZURE   Company Again Controls Property; C10 Union Wins Bargaining Vote

Drop Lit igation In Ward Seizure   Judge Says Case Is Out of His Hands As Ward Takes Possession

Judge Drops Injunction Litigation   ~ ‘Out Of My Hands Now’ Says Holly; ClO Wins  Union Election.

ON A LL OTD  ‘GOOD WILL GiNNERS' HELD FOR BRICKER   Affairs Designed To Get Support for Ohioan

ARMY TRAINING FOR BOYS URGED   F. D. Requests Nation Study Problem

Yank Lightning Pilots Skim Balkan Tree-Tops to Smash! Big Ploesti Refinery Today’  —-Down Several Nazis.

Ploesti Oil Refinery — Is Bombed   Last of Major Plants Left Enveloped > In  Smale

Swarm Across Balkans At Tree-Top Leve   Last Major Oil Refinery Target Of Aerial Attack

Dive-Bomb Polesti Oil Refineries   P-38s Skim Treetops To Carry Out Attack

Refinery af Ploesti Hit  Oil Production Cut Art he. mW ett. II   Oil Production Cut 90 Per Cent as U.S. * Planes Blast Plant

Last Big Refinery  ‘At Ploesti Blasted  By P-38 Lightnings Swarms ef American Planes  Sweep Across Balkans—Relin. ery sit Trincts Rlen Bacnh.Jd

Ploesti Oil Fields Hammered By Yank Planes; U. S., R. A. F. Bombers Strike At Invasion Coast   Japs Lose Five Warships In Less Than One Week

Yank Fighter Planes Make Daring Raid On Ploesti Refinery   Swarms of Lightnings Fly Longest Missior Of War in Mediterranean Theater in Effort to Knock Out Last Rumanian Plant

Lightnings Hit Ploesti Refinery   ENEMY PLANES DOWNEL IN BLAST OF LAST RUMANIA OIL WORKS

Ploesti Hit By Yankees   P.38 Lightning in Attack After Heavy Bombers Smash Fails

Imperils Nazi 10th Army   Lightnings Strike Out From Italy To Bomb, Strafe Ploesti Refinery

LeMars Man Says He Was Attacked ‘John ' Plueger Suffers  Head Injuries

LeMars Man Sz Says He Was Attacked  ' John’ Plueger Suffers  ‘Head Injuries.

BRECHEEN ON MOUND IN TRY TO EVEN SERIES   Early Crowd Lines Streets Three Hours Before Game Time

—WORLD SERIES— Jakucki And Brecheen On _ Hill Today   Browns Hope To Annex Third Victory Over National Leaguers —

CARDINALS PIN HOPE ON BRECHEEN’S ARM   Browns Seek Third Victory With Jakucki On Mound

EXISTANCE THRU PEACE   President Says ays World is EverNarrowing Circle

Roosevelt Voices  World Peace Plan   Says Universe Can Exist Only by Association for Canimon Good

FLEET POUNDS JAP BASE AT CLOSE RANGE   YANKS MOVE INLAND WITH POWERFUL SUPPORT

‘Foe Stiffens As Americans Thrust Inland   Firm Beachheads Seized, Casualties Moderate, Adm. Nimitz Renarte

Powerful Battleships And Other Units Of U. S. Fifth Fleet Continue To Hammer Enemy Defencee At Clase Rar —+

Yanks Move Inland, Meet  Resistance   Casualties Moderate, Nimitz Reports; Troop: Land Under Big Naval, Aerial Bombardment

OCD Revives  Defense Units   Preparations Made ‘Kor . Robot. Attacks

Service Journal Assails Campaign   Conduct of War In Italy Criticized

LIGHT BOMBERS HIT BERLIN   Raid Executed Without Losses To Allies

Mosquitos Blast Western Reich   Again Stab At Berlin After One Night Lull; Raid Executed Without Loss.

BRITISH AIRMEN BLAST BERLIN   All Planes Return From Raid on Nazi Capital

Thirteen States Certify Use of Federal Ballots  By Voters in Service

TEXAS’ SIXTH WAR LOAN DRIVE NETTED $060,246,400 SALES  THIS IS 136 PER CENT OF QUOTA ASSIGNED, AND MORE COMING IN

Army Man Heads  Argentine N avy  Ramirez Forced Out Of Office, U. S. Hears

Appointments Lift Tension In Argentina   President Farrell Replaced Foreign Minister and Navy Head

U.S. Recognition Of Argentina Is Being Withheld   New Chiefs Named:  Ramirez Forced?

Great Tension In Argentina  Is Indicated   Washington Hears That Ramirez Was Forced to Quit Post

Two Cabinet Members Are Named   Further CRanges Seen As New President  Takes Control 

GERMAN CITIES POUNDED ANEW   1,200 VU. 5S. Heavies Blast Reich’s Industrial and Rail Centers

Johnston Will Support Dewey  Talks To Johnston Or Recent Russian Trip

DEWEY RESTS AT COUNTRY HOME   BUSY WEEK CLIMAXED BY DISCUSSION WITH JOHNSTON ON RUSSIA

CHURUHILL LAUD INVASION TROOPS   Prime Minister Winds Up Two-Day Tour of Amercan Forces.

American Troops In England Ready For Invasion Of The Western Part Of Europe

‘rain Wreck Fata! ‘0 One, 50 Hurt   Nurses. Doctors Save  Many in Colorado

Cut Red Tape On War Ballots      Informalities Will . Not Void Bona Fide Votes of Soldiers

Integrity Shortage Inferred   Unpreparedness Costs Thousands Of Lives, Causes  Untold Misery.

U. 5. BOMBERS IN FIRST RAID ON BUCHAREST   Strike Third Blow in 24 Hours at Axis Lines  In Balkans

Yanks Assist Reds, Smash At Bucharest   U. S. Hammers Rumaniar Capital, 200 Miles  Sh, + Se en: pe meee

Yank Bombers  Raid Buchares For First Time   Planes Fly 200 Miies From Russo-German Front: Attack Follow Assault on Budapest

IN FIRST RAID ON BUCHAREST   Strike Third Blow in 24 Hours at Axis Lines. In Balkans

THIRD ATTACK ON BALKANSIN 24-HOUR SPACE   Fortresses Fly To Within 200 Miles Of Russo German Front

AMERICAN AIRMEN BOMB BUCHAREST   BLOW THIRD WITHIN 24 HOURS AT HITLER’S COMMUNICATIONS IN BALEANS.

BUCHAREST IS TARGET FOR U.S. BOMBERS   fortresses And Liberators Fly To Within 200 Miles Of Russo - German __ Battle Front To Strike Balkans.   (iffensive increases

First Allied  Attack Made On Bucharest   City Only 200 Miles From Russian. Front And Important io Axis  3RD BALKANS BLOW

NEW BLOW HIT INBALKANSBY U. §. BOMBERS   Rumanian Capital of Bucharest Hit for First  Time   600-MILE. FLIGHT  MADE FROM ITALY   Attack Carried Out in ‘Support of Red Army Troops

Fort Mess Of Holes, Ribbons But Lands Safely After Rocket Attack

A “Mess of Holes and Ribbons,” Fort Comes Limping Home from Battle’

Allied Air Chief Missing on Flight   Leigh-Mallory Lost En Route to New Post

TURK-GERMAN BREAK TONIGHT   TURKISH ASSEMBLY TOLD RELATIONS END AT MIDNIGHT

iBerlin Asserts Turk Move Prelnde to War; Finns Get New Peace Terms,  Stockholm Says

Germany Says Act ‘Prelude To War’ Predict Jap Break   Winston Churchill Warns Germany of British Action if Huns Attack Turkish Troops

Joins Allied Camp; Finns Seek Peace   Turkish Assembly Give: Quick Approval To War Decision

TURKISH BREAK WITH GERMANY IS ANNOUNCED   Effective Tonight At Midnight, Says  Announcement

Turkey Breaks Off Relations With Germany   Marshal Mannerheim Made President of Finland to Succeed Risto Rvti. Resianed

ACTION TAKE _ AS PRELUDE TO WAR   At Same Time Finns Take Steps To Quit Axis   MANNERHEIM   Elected Head Of Finland; Other Neutral Nations May Be Affected

Turks Break; Rumor Finns  To Quit War   Nazis Threaten War Or Turkey; New (Covern. ment in Finland

Break With Nazi Regime Is Effective. At Midnight   . Action Is‘ Setback To Hitler,’ Reich.

TURKS BREAK WITH BERLIN < sAT WONG   —_ z gat * * Seve.npvkpiomatic Relations  But Won’t Enter War - Unless Attacked.

Relations Broken Off By Turkey   ‘German Prestige Suffers Major Blow As Result OF Turkey’s Decision To Support Allies

Turks Break ‘With Nazis; ‘Finns Move   Berlin Says Ankara's Action Must be Regarded as Prelude te War but Welcome Mannerheim

Turkey Breaks  German Relations   Measure May Be Prelude To State of War With Axis

Turkey Breaks Relations With itler’s Govt.   Whether War Follows Depends on Action by Germany

Turkey Breaks Off Relations With Germany   Withdrawal Of Finns From War Is Expected   Assumption Of Presidency By Marshal Manner- heim Believed Preceded By Russian Assurance Of Peace Consideration :

GERMANY FEARS NATION TO JOIN ALLIED TROOPS   Finlond Also Will Be in United Nations’ Camp, Stockholm Reports

Allies See New Hope in Actions By Turks, Finns   Ankara Breaks Ties With Reich; Helsinki Dickers for Peace

War Will Resulkt, Ankara Is Warned   Mannerheim Takes Over at Helsinki—Satellites Seen Leavine Sinkine Fascist Ship

Turks Break Diplomatic  Relations With Germany; Mav Be Prelude To War

Berlin Insists War Is Certain To Follow Move   Action Comes After Governmental Shift In Helsinki Designed To Eliminate Finland As Belligerent

Turks Break Relations  With Nazis   Berlin Radio Heralds Action as “Prelude to War;” Peace Rumors Coming From Finland Again )

Turks Snap Off All Ties With Nazis   Berlin Says Act  Heralds a War; Finland Belleved Ready for Peace

Turkey Becomes Aligned With United Nations   See Finnish  Peace With Reds

TURKEY SEVERS AXIS RELATIONS   Move Means War, Germany Says in Broadcasts

CUT DIPLOMATIC, ECONOMIC LINKS WITH NAZI GOVT   Branded as “Prelude te War” by Berlin. U.S., Britain Have Hand in Balkan Action

TURKEY SEVERS ALL RELATIONS WITH GERMANY   Governmental Shift May Lead Finland To Cut Ties With Hitler

SOVIETS MAY GRANT FINNS ARMISTICE   Ankara’s Action Also Means Severance of Economic Ties With the  _ Reich — Report Nazis Teavine South Finland.

Temperatures:   Rupture Means War, Says Berlin; Finns May Seek Armistice

Break With  Nazis   Turks Sever Political And Economic Ties; Finn Peace Step Seen In Government Shift

War Threat Poised; Finn Rule Changes   Berlin Hinting at Retaliation; Mannerheim in Power at Helsinkt

Turks End Diplomatic Relations  ‘With Nazis   Hitler Setback In Balkans Follows Finns’ Shakeup; U. S.. Britain To Help -

NAZIS CALL ACTION STEP TOWARD WAR   Turkish Premier Declares Entrance Inte Wor Will Depend On “Attitude of the Other Side”

Berlin Says Action Step Toward War   United Nations to Help Nation Should Germans Open Attack

Turkey Joins Allied Camp   Severs Relations. With Germany: Soviets Consider Finnish Peace

Turk Government  Breaks With Nazis   Peace Overtures Expected Soon As Finns Select New President

Finland Prepares Peace with Reds   Turkish Premier Saracoglu Tells Grand Na tional Assembly of Cabinet’s Decision;~ Marshal Baron Mannerheim Is New Fin nish President Expected to Write Peace Treaty —

Prelude to War, Berlin Radio Says   War Depends On Attitude of Germans, Says Turk Premier

Turkey Breaks  With Hun   ‘Prelude to War,’ Berlin Says; Setback for Hitler

Turkey-Nazi Break Will Become Effective Tonight  Move Is Considered Prelude to War on Germany

TURKS BREAK WITH GERMANS AND WAR NEAR   Britain and U. S. Will Give Help; Berlin’s Attitude to Decide If She Eniers Struaadle.

SULPHUR FIRM WINS “E” AWARD FOR THIRD TIME   Second White Star Added to Flag Over Hoskins Md. Plant

Gustav Line Is  Broken   Russian Troops Are Believed Well Across Frontier Of Estonia

Crack Nazis Gustav Line   Advance of Allied Troops Draws Noose Tighter on Cassino

‘Other Fifth Army Forces Gain on New Rome Front   Russians Driving Into Estonia in Winter Offensive

AMERICAN, FRENCH SMASHED THROUGH GERMAN DEFENSES  RUSSIANS BELIEVED BE WELL ACROSS ESTONIAN FRONTIER

Allies Crack “Gustav Line’ Near Cassino   Bridgehead Near Rome Widened in Face of Stiffened Resistance

ALLIES CRACK GUSTAV LINEIN -CENTRALITALY   American, F’ rench _ Advance North’ ~ Of Cassino ~~”   5TH ARMY GAINS      Russians Move. Into Estonia After Taking 2 Towns

Allies Break Past Gustav Line in Italy   Soviets Believed Across Border Of Estonia—RAF Attacks Berlin

RUSSIAN FORGES CROSS FRONTIER   Berlin - ‘Dead City’ - Hit Again By Mosquito Bombers

Americans, French Crack Gustav Line North Of Cassino   Fifth Army Advances In Rome Bridgehead

Athes Break  ‘Gustav Line   Reds Believed Well Across Esiontan Frontier; Meet BP eciatance.

Yanks, French In North Italy  Win Advances   Reds Believed Acros: Estonian Frontier Kingisepp, Keikinc Are Taken °

AMERICANS MASS ON BANKS OF SAAR RIVER FOR NEW ATTACKS: NAZIS FIGHTING STUBBORNLY —

Bloody Fight Rages in CologneArea   Only Slight Gains Are Recorded as Germar Troops Slash Back in Savage Attacks; House-by-House Battle Goes On for Town

Temperatures   Heavy U. S. Bombers Batter Rhine Behind War-Fronts

FUND FOR FIRE VICTIMS   Donations Being Made for Injured in Circus Disaster

Carolines Attacked By  Naval Foree   Yanks Continue Conquests Of Guam, Tinian.

Ohioans Fighting War Profit Cut ~~ In Jam On Plan To Dine Lawmakers

THREE NEW VACANCIES IN SPRINGFIELD TWP.   New Supervising Principal Elected by School Board   HOLD SPECIAL — SESSION

SUPERFORTS STAGE RAID ON RANGOON   Force of B-29's Believed Part of Force Reported Earlier to Have Visited Thailand

Superforts dit Rangoon. Tokyo Says   Fires and Blasts Seen at Aircraft ' Factory at Nagoya By Flyers

Supertorts Raid Thailand and Rangoon, Burma  TT & Pinte at New :   U.S. Hints at New B-29 Blows From Bases in Aleutians

German War Prisoners Stage Sit-Down Strike in Colorado Camp; Three Stolen Guns Still Missing

Pickrel and Taft Arrange Debates  Republicans Work On State Platform:

PARTIES PLAN FALL -CAMPAIGN   GOP Prepares Platform. Democrats Schedule “Caravan”

Allies Smash At Main Defenses  Of Hitler Line   Crashing Successes Recorded In Italian Campaign With Canadian Tanks Spearheading March Toward Rome; Yanks 37 Miles From Anzio.

YANKS WITHIN 37 MILES OF — ANZIO FRONT   ‘Green Devil Chutists Are Liquidated At Cassino

Hitler Fears Slaying by His Followers   FUEHRER FORTIFIES REFUGE; BUYS MORE WHITE POLICE-DOGS

RABBI BARNET BRICKNER REPORTS Troops Bitter Over Moral Standards of Home Front

ALLIES COIL FOR BIG PUSH TO THE RHINE   British Staff Officer Says Plans for Large - Scale Jump-off Toward Reich Are Nearing End  Firart wae iit AAITVAIC OD

Brenner pass line  breached  Mc BB OSs ce OD   Yanks down 63 planes, lose 22

PUSH FIGHT FOR U.S. BALLOT AN SENATE   Some Opposition Leaders Concede. Defeat There -

Senate Leaders Still Hope To Secure Federal Vote Ballot For Men Overseas

BAs, (4s and TA Coupons Expire   Those Gasoline Coupons Were Issued in August, Out on December 31.

‘That Strange Noise. May \Be the Final Gasps of ‘Your Gasoline Coupons

OUST RAMIREZ IN BLOODLESS COUP D'ETAI   Group Opposed Break In Relations With  Axis Nations

OHIO WAR INDUSTRY NOW BEING CUT BACK   But Demand for Workers Is Continuing

STIMSON SAYS TOTAL BY DEC 23RD WAS 105,209—INCLUD-: * ING 16,831 KNOWN DEAD ©

Casualties In Army 105,224   Secretary Of War Stimson Gives Report Dn Casualties Up To December 23   ITALIAN FRONT LOSSES ARE 78,119

ARMY LOSSES NOW 105,229   Stimson Lists Casualties Including 25,415 Prisoners

Mrs. Stovall Tells Of Alleged Attack   Woman Says She Was “Pinned Down” Six Hours: ‘’Conference’’ Unveiled

Mrs. Stovall Tells Of Alleged Attack   Woman Says She Was “Pinned Down’ eS. Unuree "Cantarence” Unveiled

NIPS RUSH AIR FORCES T0 STEM LUZON ATTACKS   Ground Forces Gain On Leyte

Japs Rushing More Air Support to Philippines   Last Desperate Stand on Luzon Mav Come Soon

Japs Rush Air Support  To Luzon  Enemy Gathering All Available   Enemy Gathering All Available Aircraft for Last, Desperate Stand

Japs Rush Planes To  Philippines   High Command Appears To Be Gathering All Available Aircraft For Defense Of Luzon

AIRPLANES 10 PHILIPPINES   Indicate Final Desperate Stand to Be Made On Luzon

Stand on Luzon Believed Coming   Homeland Reserves Thrown into Action

JAPS HURL AIR RESERVES INTO LUZON BATTLE   Send All Available Planes For Finish Fight on Philippines: Yanks Gain on T avta._

DESPERATE BATTLE ON LUZON LIKELY   Enemy Attempting to Delay Capture of Stepping Stone to Nippon.

JAPS RUSH MORE AIRCRAFT TO PHILIPPINES   To Replace Crippled Navy

JAPAN RUSHING AIRBORNE MEN TO PHILIPPINES   Mustering Reserves For Last - Ditch Stand On Luzon

May Make Final Stand On Luzon   Torpedo Boats Increase Toll of Enemy Shipping In Island Area g@ .

BLOCKADE OF LEYTE TIGHTENED   Land-Based U. S. Air Power Hammers At Nip Shipping

SHUTTLE NeW MEN BY PLANT OUT OF JAPAN   U. S. Air Blockade Smashing Jap Ferries Bringing Rainforremenits.

inal Stand To Be Made  For Luzon   Her Navy Crippled, Japan Sil Planes To Back Garrison.

TAKE RESERVES FROM HOMELAND DWINDLING FORCE   Protecting Luzon From U. 8. Liberation: Foe Pilot Caurht

in Attempt To Delay U.S Liberation Or Stepping Stone To Japan  RESERVES PROT CUT   RESERVES BROUGHT FROM HOMELAND   Land Based U. S. Planes Soon To Be “e ( )peration From Leyte

Nippons Gather Available Planes For Luzon Stand   Attempt To Delay Yank Liberation of Main Island In Group

Japan Hurls Air Support Into Luzon   Final Stand_ by Enemy Is Expected To Be Made On Luzon.

ae Rush Air Reinforcements to Philiopines   JAPS DECIDE ‘RAIDERS’ MERELY RECONNOITERED

PREPARING FOR FINAL STAND   Rush Air tenforeements into Philippines — Strong Forces of Land Based Planes Will Soon be Put into Operation by Americans.

AUTOMOBILE LEADERS MEET RECONVERSION   To Perfect Plans for. * Making Cars Six Months - After Germany Falls .

AUTOMOSILLE LEADERG MEET ON RECONVERSION   To Perfect Plans for Making Cars Six Months After Germany Falls

Allied Bombers Hit Ruhr Targets   Weather Fails to Halt Mass Air Operations

MAAS CROSSED AS FOG BLOCKS MOP-UP BY AIR   Third Army Troops Occupy Stronghold Near Metz; Roosendaal Taken

Heavy Fog Aids: Nati: Grossing Of Maas River   Vast. Red ‘Army: Offensive ~ Flames OniBroad Front '.. 80 Mis; From. Budapest

British Reach Maas; Fog Hides Nazi Withdrawal   Red Offensive Imperils Budapest; Coloane Bombed

Nazi Remnants  In Full Flight   Fleeing Germans, Crossing Maas, Protected by Shroud of Fog

[Heavy Fog Covers Retreat    Bad Weather Keeps Alr Force From Attacks On Nazis.   \Reds Surge Ahead   New Russian Offensive In Balkans Only 50 Miles From Belarada.

Dutch Battle N ears an End in Southwest   New Russian Offe Offensive Opens on Broad Front 59 Miles from Budapest

Declares Increase In Bank Deposits Could Easily Menace Iowa Economy

BEALL ADDRESSES — ~ REPUBLICAN RALLY   Says Issue Is Americanism Against Com- _ ; munism

BEALL ADDRESSES REPUBLICAN RALLY   Says ‘ssue Is Americanism Against Communism

SLAVS SEIZE PORT ~ ON ADRIATIC ISLE   OPERATION APPARENTLY DESIGNED TO KEEP OPEN SUP-  . PLY ROUTE TO TITO.

Three More Forts Are Toppled by First Army Men   British, Joining in Offensive Advance Three Miles, Finding Weak Resistance

DOUGHBOYS BATTLING THROUGH SNOW AND SLEET TO ENCIRCLE ‘FORT AS BRITISH START DRIVE.

Flame Throwers and 400 Heavy Guns Pace British Attack Which oe Carried Across Two Canals in Holland

Doughboys Are Hampered By Elements   Snow And Sleet Are Battled By Third Army

Patton Sparks Lunge Against Metz Defenders   Nazis Order Civilian: To Evacuate As The Allies Continue Advances

THREE GERMA FORTS FALL 10 U. §. 3RD ARMY   Allies Advance On All Lines  Near Germany

News Day And Night   Troops Brave Snow And Sleet To Press Within Two Miles Of Bastion   British Advance Over Three Miles   Tommies Confident And Say So Far There Is Nothing To Stop Them

Third Army Within Two Miles of Metz; Fall of Bastion Near   British Forces Launch New Offensive it North, Drive Across Two Holland Canals

‘AMERICANS PUSH TO METZ OUTSKIRTS IN STRONGHOLD DRIVE   ACTIVITY RENEWED BY BRITISH SECOND ARMY INFANTRY HOLLAND FRONT

3 More Forts Guarding City Captured Today   Doughboys Fight Through Snow and Sleet for Area

YANKS LESS” THAN 2 MILES FROM CITY   Two of Strong Points Are Captured West of Bastion and Third Is Taken on South, Where Resistance Increages. ._.

AMERICANS HIT FORT DRIANT IN NEW ATTACK   British Secure Bridgehead Over Canals In Rush ‘Near Venlo

‘Two Miles From Metz on South, West   Battle Through Snow And Sleet; British Ovoen New Offensive

Metz 2 Miles From Advancing Yankees, 3 Fortresses Fall   Doughboys Battle Snow, Sleet for Advances; British Drive On

U. §. Troops Press Nearer Citadel City   Three More Forts Guarding Metz Fall to American Forces

COLD AND SNOW FAILS 10 SLOW ALLIED DRIVES   British Press New Attack In Holland - - Civilians Ordered Out of Metz

Yanks Only 3 Miles From Nazi Citadel   Two Other Forts Bypassed as Third Launches Twin Drives; British Open Offensive from Holland to Aachen

BRITISH SPEED AHEAD IN NEW NORTH ATTACK   Fort Driant Bypassed As Yanks Advance In Metz Push

Third Army By-Passes Two Bastions, Reaches Point Less Than Two Miles From Citadel

Americans By-Pass Two Other Bastions And Advance Within Less Than Two Miles Of Besieged City— Snow And Sleet Fall In Area—British Offensive To North Drives Forward—Yank Seventh Army Pushes Ahead In Vosges Mountain Sector

3RD ARMY OPENS ATTACKS  ONTWO OTHERS   Patton’s Men Are Less Than Two Miles From Nazi Base

Seize Three’ » More Forts *: In Onslaught   ‘By-pass Two Others; British Drive alread Ms Holland

Third Army Pushes Through Snow and Ice, Capture Three More Forts and Bypass Others.   ENTIRE FRONT HAS WEATHER TO BATTLE

2 OTHER FORTS ARE BYPASSED      British Offensive 37 Miles From Ruhr City. of Duisberg.   WEATHER IS HINDRANCE

YANKS REPULSE 2 ATTACKS BY GERMAN ARMY   American Troops Are 1 3-4 Miles From French Citadel City

Patton Opens Heavy Assault On Two Other:   Indications are Seen  That Enemy May Not Make Suicide Stand  At Citadel

3 MORE FORTS ARE TAKEN BY YANKS   Third Army Is Mile, Three Quarters Of City   Over Moselle Lengthened To 14 Miles: Counterdrives Repulsed

American 3d Army Less Than 2 Miles ~-From Fortress Git)   95th: Infantry Tn - Hubert, Jussy; - Reds: “Maintain ‘Surc ong. Drive; British Cross Montone In Italy

Three More Metz Forts  Fall ToU.S. Third Army   British Also Smash Ahead In New Attack Launched Yesterday In Low Countries

Doughboys Battle Snow And Sleet; Capture  Three More Forts   Patton’s Forces Now Less Than 2 Miles From German Citadel On Both South And West; British Drive Toward Ruhr City Of Duisbure

Three More Forts Fall To Americans  Doughboys Push. Through Snow Cn th nk Mlbu

Three More Forts Fall To Patton's Offensive   An Offensive Is Launched by Gen. Dempsey’s British Troops

Bastions Fall Under Heavy Allied Blows   German Resistance Stiffens On Ridge In One Sector

Boche Give Up IHange, Jussy, Hubert Points   Surrendered As Doughboys Drive to Within Mile and Two-Thirds of Citadel City   Driant and Jeanne  DAre Under Fire   Meanwhile, British Troops Smash Into German Lines In Southeustern Holland For Gains

Bridgehead Over Noord, Wessem: Canals Established   Civilian Population: Of Metz Evacuate, : Resistance Spotty: ‘

Three More Nazi Forts Captured   AMERICANS TAKE NEW GERMAN CITADELS AT METZ

Fort Driant Is By-Passed hy Doughboys   Whether. Germans. Will Make Suicide. Stand in Metz ‘Still Not Clear    CIVILIANS TOLD 3 TO LEAVE CITY.   Yanks Fight in Snow and  Sleet: and: Without ©.  Air Suvport:

Bad Weather Hampering ©  U.S. Advance   American Troops Are Within Two Miles of City On South and West; British Meet But Little Opposition in New Drive Through Holland

British Assault In North Gains Almost 3 Miles   ‘Nothing Much in Sight To Stop Us,’ Dempsey Spokesman Says

British Make Gain Of Three Miles From Junction Of Neord And   Wessem Canals

Third Army Closes To Less Than Two Miles Of  Fortress City Proner

Two Others Are Bypassed By Doughboys, Who Are 2 Miles From City; Battle In Snow

Three More Forts Fall In Advances   Dempsey’s Forces Pushing Toward Duisberg in Ruhr

Civilian Population Of Citadel City Ordered to Leave; Resistance Spotty

Seize Three More Forts In Onslaught   By-pass Two Others; British Drive Ahead in Holland

Battle for French Fortress City Fast Coming to Climax   With Escape Gap Narrowed to Eight Miles Front Dispatch Declares Fall of Bastion Appecrs Matter of Davs   CAPTURE OF THIONVILLE STILL UNCONFIRMED

British 2nd Army Advances 3 Miles In New Offensive   Dempsey’s Troops 37 Miles From Duisburg In Ruhr; Two Bastions Of Fortress City Are - Bypassed; U. S. Seventh Army Gains

YANKS LESS THAN TWO MILES FROM ANCIENT CITADEL   AMERICAN TROOPS BAG FORTS HUBERT, JUSSY AND ILLANGE

Three More Forts Fall To Third Army   Capture Of Great Nazi Bastion Within Hour Indicated As Germans Dismantle Guns; . British Mount Powerful Drive

Near Citadel On Two Sides   British Launch Drive Eastward, Dempsey Says Are ‘Pushing On Fast’

Three More Forts Guarding the City Fall to U.S.  Attack   GAIN TOWAD THE RUHR   British Drive Three Miles; Big Guns Qut of Metz Forts

Yanks Battle in Snow Nearer French Citadel   British Offensive in North Aimed Toward Ruhr City of Duisburg

Yanks Crash Nearer City © While British Gain In North   ~ Reds Chip At Budapest

'3 MORE FORTS ARE. CAPTURED BY THIRD ARMY   Within Two Miles of Cita«  del; British Compan   ion Drive Gains

Commencement Program  Sef At Tech Monday Night  ‘Class One Of Smallest In History Die Ta Natiranhle Aheancsa OF Man .

Commencement Program Is Sef At Tech Monday Night  Class One Of Smallest In History Dio Ta Naticanhla Aheancre OF Adan

TIRE SHORTAGE TIES UP TRUGKS   Situation Getting Worse Says lowa OPA

Truck Tires for lowa Nearly Gone  Many Large Carriers Already Tied Up

REDS ROLLING ALONG AFTER GRODNO FALLS   Soviets Wheeling Straight For Berl'n With Assertion to Germans—“Game Is Up”.   Stockholm, July 17 (UP)—The newspaper Aftontidningen reported today that Russian parachutists had landed in east Prussia.

REDS SCORE 6G. 0. P   Pravda Says Recent Republican Convention Was ‘Reactionary.

Government Is Not Selling Surplus War Material Directly to Public.

Surplus War Property Can Be Bought Only Through Regular Trade C ‘Win te

Shakeup In Bulgarian Government With Request To Moscow For Peace

Kilied Purpose Appears 10 ark Wearest fb ho”  Mcaonhower Still Keeps Objectives Secret

Ashburn General Hospital To Mark First Anniversary Of Dedication On Saturday

FRAT COTES TOBE TIGHTENEL   OPA PREPARES ‘TO ACT: TO HOLD DOWN COSTS OF TEXTILES: AND CLOTHING.

OPA Rushing To Put Brakes On Living Costs   Regarded as Indication Wage Formula Changes Will Await Reich’s Fall

W. D. CONNOR, 80, DIES AT PHOENIX   Head of Connor Lumber & Land Co., Other Firms Dies in Arizona.

Nine Japanese Freighters Hif In Air Attacks   Ground Resistance In Southern Palaus Nearly Wiped Out

Bag Nine  More Jap Freighters   Allied Planes Rake Pacific As Lull in Ground Fighting Precedes Next Offensive

9 JAP FREIGHTERS HIT BY THE ALLIES   American Planes Continue to Comb Pathway to Philippines

9 More Jap ‘Ships Bagged   Allied Bombers Keep Combing Sky Pathway To Philippine Islands

Nine More Jap ‘Vessels Sunk or  ‘Damaged by Plane:   Nimitz Reports 55 Japs Killed   for Every One Taken Prisoner on Pelelic and Ancaur

Nazis in Full Rout in South   FIRST UKRAINIAN ARMY SWEEP NEARS LWOW IN 50-MILE ADVANCE

PARLEYS SHAPE MIGHTY BLOWS AGAINST JAPA   Events Indicate Decisive Battle for Philippines Not Far Away

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today.   PDamagine Biows Struck.

AFL, ClO UNION ELECTION ORDER AT CORNING HERE      Labor Relations Bcard Orders Vote Within 30 Days For 1.850 Workers

16 German Targets FE By 2000 Allied Planes  INTENSE ARTILLER ACTIVITY IN ITAI  ‘Big American Na  Force Attacks Truk In Pacific

Coroner’s Jury  Blames Swancutt  Triple-Slayer Expected To Survive Wounds

EDEN OPTIMISTIC. ABOUT POLISHRUSSIAN DISPUTE   Asks Commons to Go Slowly Until Solution Can Be  Found. .

EDEN HOPEFUL OVER FRONTIER ROW SOLUTION   Moscow ‘Passes Buck’ To London Paper On Peace Report

Normandy Beach First American Cemetery Of This War In France; Second Being Prepared Nearby

Prepare Second Cemetery in France for Americans Who Fell in Struggle

PREPARE FIRST YANK GRAVES      Americans Who Died On French Soil Will. Be Buri¢d There

Hundreds Witness Panther Division's War Bond Parade   Normandy Beach Cemetery ‘Prepared For U. S.’ Fallen

Americans Killed in Battle on Beaches Of France Buried in Long Trenches Dug In Soil of Country Where Fathers Fought

‘Beachhead Cemetery Receives Bodies Of First Americans to Fall in France

Here Lie American Dead--‘They Didn’t Walk in Here-They Didu’t Even Crawl’      Non-Support Hurts Cotion Industry, Officials Assert

With Belongings Beside Th em—  Invasion Dead Await Burial In France

‘Leftist Marksmen .   Attack Via Sewers   ELAS Snipers Kill, Scatte Police. Rookie Militia

FIGHTING RENEWED IN GREEK CAPITAL AS “TRUCE” ENDS   Elas Shell Area of British Headquarters in Grande Bretagne Hotel With 75-Millimeter Guns.   KEEP UP CROSSFIRE IN THE SIDE STREETS   Six Policemen Shot Down at One Corner—Spirited Bat- . tles Continue in  Piraana

GREEK REBELS FIGHTING AGAIN   Undeclared Truce Ended In Athens; Shells Fall In Capital

TRUCE ENDED, SHELLS AGAIN ROCK ATHENS   British Positions in Greek Capital Are Pounded by ELAS

Greek Leftists Renew Fighting, Ending Truce Hops  Battles Flare Up  In Athens Streets ea ee

Elas, British Resume Their Fighting   Shells Fall Amid Rumors of Settlement Soon

ELAS Renew Fighi ‘Against British  ‘Undeclared Truce’ Ends * When Snipers Open Fire

Fighting Again Breaks Out In Athens Area   Conflict Continues Despite Rumors On Imminent Peace

Renew Fight ~ After Lull   Elas. Guns Shell Iete-el Where 6ritisi Are Stationed in Canital

DEWEY ON WAY HOME TODAY   Returns To Big Welcome i Albany with Campaign Well Under Way.

Dewey Welcomed Back To Albany   Band Leads Way To  State Capitel

Battle for Marshalls ‘Indicated   Japs Make Desperate Fight to Hold Bases, Now Being Bombed by U. 5.   HINTS OF PLANS FOR NEW DRIVES   Widening Air Raids Give Indication Allies Are Planning Assaults

Anzio Forces Stab Sharply At Germans   Thrusts Made  Against Flank .

STILL HOLD OFF NAZIS   Raiding Parties Harass German Flanks at Anzio

Interfered With Court, Parents Get Jail Terms Mr., Mrs. , Bartley Also  ne hin Alaclartinge

Interfered With Court, Parents Get Jail Terms   Mr., Mrs. Bartley Also Accused  of Neglecting 4 Children

Weather Has been 10 Advantage WT sahies*  Invasion Becoming War Of Fluid Movement

Bitter Fight Reported af Transport Hub   British-Canadian Forces Tighten Arc Around Cacn

Fighting Rages Through Streets of German Hub   Nazi Counter-Blows Nudge Allies Back Near Caen, Carentan

SHOCK TROOPS SLASH INTO FRENCH TOWN   Violent Street Fighting Reported Being In La Haye-Du Puits, Normandy.   BULLETIN

U.S. 1ST ARMY NEAR LA HAYE FROM 3 SIDES   Report General Advance Along 25 - Mile Battle Line

Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley’s Troops Closing In On Rail and Highway Town Anchoring Western End of German Line.

Shock Troops Capture Rail Station in Hand to Hand Fight for La Haye-De-Puits

Invasion Armies Capture 13 Villages in General Advance Along 25 Mile Front Today   Drive Within Mile Of Nazi Communication Center  SAVAGE BATTLE AT CLOSE QUARTERS  In Caen Sector Heavy Fighting Going On Around Esquay

Transport Center in Normandy Is Taken by Yanks   La Haye du Puits Scene of Heavy Street Fighting

La Haye Street Fighting Rages   Americans Sweep Up 19 Villages in Advance on 25-Mile Front, Meet Fierce Gunfire in Drive; British, Canadians Take Fontaine

station Captured By Yanks   Savage Street Fighting Is Now Under Way

AMERICANS DRIVE INTO NAZI BASE   Capture Railroad Station At La Haye Du Puits, Normandy

Americans Fighting In La Have-du Puits   Railroad Station Taken: British, Canadians and U. S. Troops in Bierce Normandy Battle

Violent Street Fighting Within 300 Yards Of Center Of ShellScarred Town, Take Station   CANADIAN TROOPS SEIZE AIRFIELD

Yauks Drive Into French Transport Center; Troops Fighting in Streets

Savage Fighting Rages On Streets of French City   American Right Flank Advances Two Miles Along Coastal Front

HEAVY BLOW DEALT FRENCH RAIL CENTER   British Halifaxes Bomb Strategic Base of Le Mans — Frankfurt Among Targets of the Mosquito Bombers.

U5, THUNDERBOLTS ROAR OVER FRANCE   American Aireraft Unchal. tenged Today in Low Level Offensive.

Nazi Troops Are Trapped  In Estonia   German Position In Baltic States Near Collapse.

Stalin Plans Unknown.   Russians Cross Estonia  And Seize Baltic Port

Russians Seize Parnu in Dash Across Estonia   German Position In Baltics Now Near Collapse

Soviets Span Estonia, Grip Vital Seaport   Fifty-Mile Lunge Traps Nazi Force In North Sector

Jap Headquarters At Valencia, Leyte, And Airfield Taker   Remnants of Yamashita Line Along Ormoc Corrido Being Cleaned Up; Still No Opposition Encountered by U. S. Forces Invading Mindoro

Jap Headquarters ‘On Leyte Seized   “Little Resistance Encountered on Mindoro; Superfortresses Stage New Raids on Japon

¥ Capital Circles Fear Nazi Collapse Will Be Postponed; German Morale Given ‘Lift’ By U. S. Labor Troubles

Railroad Strike Threat Lifted Morale of Crestfallen Nazis, Washington Circles Charge

YANKS STAND FIRM DESPITE HEAVY BLOWS   ‘Other U. S, Columns  Racing Unchecked Toward Paris

Vital Crossroads ‘Recaptured After Three-Mile Retreat   Other Powerful Yankee Forces Speed on Toward Paris and Are Reported to Be 110 Miles From French Capitol

Race Into Le Mans 110 Miles From French Capital   Smash German Attempt To Cut Supply Lines By Dealing Panzers Heaviest Blow Of War; British Threaten Breakthrough.

Opposition In Power Measure   Griswold’s Renewed Attempt For Arbitration Finds Difficulties.

Releases List Of Registrants   ‘elective Service Office Announces 18 - Year - Olds Signed Up In March.

SEVEN ESCAPE JACKSON PRISON   Long-Termers Slip Out Of Unused Cell-Block To Freedom

Halsey’s carrier forces rip Japanese with small loss;  20 to 30 small vessels hit

ENEMY BASES IN PHILIPPINES ARE ATTACKED   LOSSES FOR TOKYO INCLUDE ONE DESTROYER

Nimitz and MacArthur Forces Take Heavy Toll of Jap Shipping in Philippines Area

Close To 90 Vessels Lost   Destroyer, Troop Transport, Several Large Cargoes And Tankers Included

MAJOR RAID MADE ON MARSHALLS   HEAVY. AIR ASSAULT MAY _PRESAGE IMMINENT IN--VASION. OF ISLANDS."

Major Assault Presages an Invasion   Details of Heavy Attack Are Not Revealed

Marshall Atolls Hit Again By Yank Airmen   Islands’ Invasion Hinted in Latest Mid-Pacifie Raids

Planes Based On Carriers  Make Attack   Action May Be Still in Progress News of Events Seantv

U.S. Bombers Hit Marshalls   Attack Might Be Opening Stroke of Actual Invasion Of Atolls

Marshalls Hit Bv U. S. Fleet   Invasion Believed Near If Not Already In Progress

TAOK FORGE HITS MARSHALL ISLES   Swarms of Planes From U. S. Carriers Pound Atolls; Possibly Presages Imminent Invasion

Rabaul Is Doomed, Japs Admit      420 Planes Lost. . In Battles With’ Yanks This Month

Deny Higher Prices for Dairymen      CHESTER BOWLES AND FRED VINSON PREFER ROBBING UNBORN BABES WHO CAN’T VOTE YE.

Hung aria Taken ver By Nazis   OVER 100,000 GERMANS MARCH INTO ALLY NATION

NAZIS WANTED TROOPS FOR RUSSIAN FRONT   Dispatches Indicate Germans Acted to Protect Communi cations With Southern ECeart

100,000 Nazi Troops Drive Into Hungary To Save Line   Secret Radio Station Urges People To Resist; Clashes With Rumanian Forces Reported

100,000 Men Are Believed Driving Deep Into Country   Nazis’ Seek To Keep Balkan Lines Intact.

Say Germans In Control In Center   Nazis Said to Be Forming Government to Aid Germans

NAZI TROOPS POURING INTO HUNGARY TODAY   Hitler Attempting To Strengthen Balkan Line

HITLER MOVES TO STRENGTHEN BALKANS’ LINE   Heavy Occupation Forces Drive Into Hungary Against Minor Resistance

Hitler Moves To Strengthen Balkan Line   Reports of Hungarian Resistance Against Nazis Are Made

Fighting With New Invading Force Reported   Some Hungarians Take Up Arms Against Nazis in Response to Secret Radio Appeal   Germans Control Center Of Nation   Hitler’ 5 Aim Is to Place  Loyal Troops In Position : To Halt Red Advance  Inte Carpathians

Control Seized By Arms As Red Forces Approach   Some Hungarians Are Reported Resisting; Mountain Passes Ia  Be Plugged

Horthy Reported Lured to Hitler Hide-Out; Coup Planned To Offset Russian Drive

Nazis Take Strong Action to Strengthen Balkan Front by Placing Trustworthy Troops in Position To Stop Gaps in Carpathian Mountams As Reds Advance

Yankees Drive Spearhead Into Nazi Defenses   Push Threatens To Trap Flank Of German Forces

Nazis Retreat In Disordet Greater Than Rommel’s Debacle In North Africa

Thousands Of Germans May Be Trapped  Fall Of Coutance:   Fall Of Coutances, On Escape Route, Believed Near

Fall Of French City Is Expected As Germans Flee In Disorder       mawaent Of Hitler Forces In Western Half Ot 3 andy Froit r / Threatened: As American

Within Two Miles of Coutances   Spearheads Plunge More Than 11 Miles Into Heart Of Foe Defenses

Lightning Thrusts Threaten Germans  In Big Nutcracker   Nazis Fleeing Through Normandy Bottleneck In Greater Chaos Than During African Disaster

Nazis’ Debacle InNormandyOn  Massive Seale   Greater Than During Mar. shal Rommel’s Collapse In North Africa, Fliers Report   Doughboys Close Tn On Countances   Choke Point For Germans Attenipting to Escape Lessay and Periers Nose

Huge German Force Faces Encirclement Along Seacoast   American Forces Two Miles From Coutances: all Exnected Soan

MANY GERMANS FACE TRAP IN NEW U, S, MOVE   British Claim Gen. Pattor Leading Americans In Swift Advance

Americans Plunge Spearheads More  Than 11 Miles Deep Into Heart of Enemy Defenses; Germans Fall Back in Disorder

PREDICT FALL OF COUTANCES IN FEW HOURS   Germans Retreat In Disorder On Normandy Front

ENEMY IN THE WEST. “FACING ENTRAPMENT   Germans Falling Back in More Confusion Than in Africa, Sinnorine Airmen Sav

AIRMEN REPORT DISORDER GRIPS FLEEING ENEM)   Bradley’s Troops Advance To Within Two Miles Of Base At Coutances

Yank Panzers Race Unchecked Through Broken Nazi Lines   * Bradley’s Army Nearing Coutances British Forces Check Counter-Blow Patton Rumored Leading Assault

INDUCTION CENTER GOES TO FT. HAYES   Some Draftees May Get Few Days of Grace

Pincers Is Closing on Germans Retreating in Rout Along Lower Seine   40 to 50 Thousand Prisoners  Were Captured In Falaise Trap

‘Yank Troops Pushing Deep Below Paris   Patton’s Forces Near Fountainebleau Woods; 160 Miles From Germany

Nazi Retreat On Seine Becomes Rout; Yankees Stab Toward Germany.

Chaos Overtakes Germans Retreating Into Seine Pocket; Falaise Trap Yields 50,000 Prisoners for Allies

One American Column Reported Only 160 Miles from the German Frontier.      NAZIS TRYING TO FLEE ACROSS SEINE

Allied Forces Tightening Trap On Nazis Retreating Along Lower Seine River

Tighten Trap as Nazi Retreat Turns to Rout   One of Patton’s Columns Reported at Sens, Another Less than 25 Miles from Chateau-Thierry Battle Ground

Allied Columns Tighten Trap In New Drives   One U. S. Unit Reported 160 Miles From Nazi Border

Tighten Trap On Nazis on Lower River   Americans Drive Toward Sea; Others  Half Across France.

Tighten the Trap On Routed Nazis   40,000 to 50,000 Prisoners Taken in Falaise  ocket   Allied thead Below Paris Within 160 Miles  _- of Germany

Mopping Up Proceeds as Other American Spearheads Near Chateau-Thierry   GERMAN LOSSES MOUNTING HOURLY

Germans Fall Back In-’Rout” On Lower Seine   Allies 160 Miles From German Borde: In New Drive

Yanks Reach World War I Battle Areas   Last Nazi Resistance ‘South of Seine Likely to End in Davy or Two   PLANES RIP ENEMY   U.S. Tanks Plunge Half Way Across France To-   :  ward German Border 

Allied Forces Routing Nazis  Forces But 160 Miles  From German Border

ON FIRST WAR BATTLEFIELDS?   American Tanks Reported Only 25 Miles From Chateau Thierry.   NEW TRAP IS CLOSING

Gain In All Sectors; Fall Of Paris Is Unconfirmed   x * *« Y* Goose-Steppers Strutted In June 14, 1940   x *& *& * The Maquis At Work

Allies Shut Trap On Nazis Caught On Lower Seine   Canadians, British Gain 15 Miles in Chase of Ger man Forces.   Try to Escape Across Seine Under Hot Fire

SE A eM: ME ee  Nazi Retreat Is Called Rout As Americans — Lash Beaten Foe   Patton’s Armored Columns Reported Beyond Sens, 58 Miles Southeast Of Paris; No Official Confirmation Of Capital’s Liberation

Allied Columns Tighten Trap on Germans In Seine River Rout   Canadians, British Score Long Advances; Germans Shell Le Havre; Americans Head Toward Sea to Strengthen Pincers

Allies Hammer Seine Trap and Plunge Eastward   Germans Retreat Across River Is Described as Rout

Trap Tightens On GermanslIn . Seine Pocket   Germans On Seine Seen By Airmen As In Grand Rout

ALLIES PUSH NAZIS TIGHTER AGAINST SEINE   British, Canadian Armies Race Ahead 10 to 15 Miles Into Fire of U. S. Flanking Forces   TRAP APPEARS CLOSING

Falling Back Ina “Rout,” Flyers Say   Yank Column Spears South-— 160 Miles From  German Border

Retreat to Seine A Rout   YANKEE ARMORED COLUMN DRIVES HALF-WAY ACROSS FRANCE: NOW 160 MILES FROM GERMAN BORDER

Allies Hammer At Fleeing Nazis  Datrant nf Germanc in Franca   Retreat of Germans in France Has Appearance of Rout Today

Retreat Nearly A Rout   Nazi Troops in France Flee in Disorder Before Swiftly Advancing Allied Armies

DETROIT PASTOR'S SECRETARY SLAIN   Body of Church Worker Stabbed 12 Times, Is Discovered Today

WOMAN FOUND MURDERED IN CHURCH NAVE   Police Say Stab Wounds Found On Body

Secretary to Pastor Slain   Stabbed and Beaten Body Found in Nave Of Detroit Church

Detroit Woman Slain in Church  Pastor Discovers Body Of Secretary Stabbed in Head and Chest

Meet Stiffer Opposition On Marianas   Americans Lose Liberator Over Yap; Down 8 Jap Planes

Espionage Act Conviction Upset   Court Also Reverses Citizenship Revoking

TANK FORCES LEAD DRIVE TAKE 2 TOWNS   Reds Advance Nearer East  Prussian Border

No Immediate Confirmation as Yet Received, But It Is a Possibility; Deblin, Capital Defense City, Falls

Pope Thanks God, Armies,  Rome Saved   Head Of Church Greets Public

Strike of 11,000 Is Condemned by  War Department  Jurisdiction Dispute In Toledo Blamed Far Detrat Walkan}t

Rie Guns Heard   Strike Of MESA Called Treason By War Department

Red Parachutists Land Behind Nazi Held Narva Lines   Russian Vessels In Gulf of Finland Pound Ancient Estonian City; Red Narva Bridgehead Still Intact.

Report Russian Parachutists Land Behind German Lines At Narva; Reds Meet Further Resistance

PARACHUTISTS LAND BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES   Russian Vessels in the Gulf of Finland Are Pounding Defenses of Narva.   SOVIET FORCES MOVE IN   Germans Still Fighting From Positions on East Bank of Narova River.

Russ Naval Guns Pound Nazi Lines  At Narva   Red Parachutists Land Behind Enemy In Estonia; Foe Reported Encircled

Red ’Chutists Land Behind  Narva Defenses   Russian Navy Pounds Estonian City From Gull

Yank Bombers Hit Aircraft Centers As Far As Poland   Baltic Area Pounded .Austria Is Lashed By 700 Planes

POWERFUL AIR BLOWS STRUCK AT NAZIPLANTS       3,700 American Bombers, Fighters Smash At Six Nazi Factories

Southern Peach Loss Is Grea   Freeze Reduces Crop 10 Million Bushels

Threaten To Behead Any Others Taken   Victims Probably B-2! Fliers Captured Afte First Yawata Raid.

POSSIBLY FUN JUNE (5 ADD   Warn That Airmen Falling or Bailing Out Over Japan Will Die.   STORY CHANGED SOME

Broadcast Says Any Allied Airmen Shot Down Or Taken Prisoner Will Be Killed   ‘This Is The Order Of The Day, Savages Boast Over Radio; ‘Special Talk’ Made From Transmitter At Singapore

i. S. Airmen Taken By Japs Are Executed      ‘Report Beamed To American Forces In Southwest Pacific

Japs Report Executions of U. §. Airmen   Say B-29 Pilots Of June 15 Raid Victims of Revenge

Jap Broadcast Hints American Flyers Executed   War Department Has No Comment On Enemy Report

Execution Of U.S. Super Fort Crews Reported By Japs   Jap Order Of The Day, ‘Kill All Captured Allied Airmen’’

JAPAN BROADCAST THREATENS DEATH ~TOYANKEE FLIERS   Warning Beamed To American Forées' In Southwest ’ Pacific Says Raiders Get   éTicket to Hell.” -'   CALLS IT: “SPECIAL! “ORDER OF THE DAY   Several More Fliers Execut~“ed;"New Victims Believed “to ‘Be B-29 Crewmen Who Raided Yawata.

Assert Captured Superfort Crews Put To Death   Reiterate Threat To Punish Any Allied _ Airmen Who Are Seized

Tokyo’s Reports Of More Airmen Put To Death Emphasizes Barbaric Nip War Methods   U.S. Is Unable To Enforce Any Pact   International Law Has Been Flouted Before By Japs; Nothing Can Be Done About It

All Captured Fliers Will Be Slain, Foe Says   Crews Warned They Are ‘Purchasing One - Way Ticket to Hell’

Jap Broadcasts From  Singapore Asserts U. S. Fliers Who Bailed Out  Were Put to Death

Japs Say Others  Await Same Fate   Enemy Broadcast Declares Policy, Established After Doolittle Raid, To Continu

eral’ U.S. Fliers Put Death, Singapore Blares; irst B-29 Raid on Nippon’

‘Men Captured In First Raid ‘By Superforts   Radio Warns That All Other Allied Fliers Will Face Same Fate

Japs Hint Yank Fliers  Executed   Singapore Broadcast Indicates ‘Several’ Taking Part in B-29 Raid Barbarously Siain

More Yanks Executed by Japanese   Broadcast Says All U. S. Airmen’ Who Bail Out Over Japan Will Meet Death

MPS THREATEN DEATH TO ALL YANK AIIRMEN   Murdered Fliers Captured After First Raid  On Kyushu

Captured B-29 Airmen Killed, Japan Hints   WARNS ANY FLIER THAT BAILS OUT OVER COUNTRY TO GET SAME FATE

Slain After First Super-Fort Raid; ‘Order Of Day’ Promises Same Fate Awaits Fliers Caught In Japan

Japanese Say B-29  Fliers Who Landed  On Japan Executed Story May Be Only  Propaganda to Try _to Threaten Yanks

Japs Threaten To Kill Pilots  Promise Execution Fr AeEe. £FA*®* .....

FLIERS BAILING OUT IN B-29 RAID SLAIN   Japanese Radio Says Action ls “Order Of The Day”   RECALL SAME FATE   Meted To Americans Captured After Attack On Tokyo 2 Years Ago

U.S. Airmen Executed By the Japs   Those Captured After Bombing of Japan Killed,  Says Radio Report /

Special Broadcast Aimed at Southern Pacific Forces Tells of the Edict As An “Order of the Day”.

JAPS HINT B29 MEN CAPTURED AND EXECUTED   Declare Any American Flyers Who Bail Out to Get Death Sentence

Japs Murder  U.S. Airmen   B-29 Fliers Slain, Nips Warn Others   Jap Radio Expects Additional Landings in Marianas; American Task Force Raids Guam, Rota for 11th Straight Day ‘

Japs Hint U. S. Airmen  Executed   Broadcast - Beamed From Singapore Includes Threats to American Fliers   NOTHING HEARD. FROM TOKYC   No Immediate Comment From War Department on, Today’s Reports

ENEMY CLAIMS OUR FORTRESS CREWS NABBED   ‘Americans Stab Nearer Tokyo From Bomber Bases On Saipan

—Fresh Nipponese Atrocity Indicated—  Japan Hints Execution Of B-29Q Airmen   Broadcast By Enemy Warns That “Any Allied Airman Who Falls Or Bails Out Over Japan” Will Be Put To Death; Labeled “Order of Day”

Indicate Fliers Captured Following Superfortress Raid June 15—Tokyo Says Death Awaits All Caught on Homeland Soil.

STATE SAME FATE WAITS ANY OTHERS   Declare Any Allied Airmen Lending In Japan Will Be Executed

SAME FATE PROMISED TO OTHERS   ‘Abortive Raids’ On  Japan Flayed In Nip Broadcast

JAPS KILL CAPTURED U.S. FLIERS   Tokyo Announces Slayings, Warns Others Face Fate

Japs Execute American Fliers After First B-29 Raid; Threaten Death to All Others Who Bail Out Over Japan   Clark's Close Call At Anzio Reveoled

Japan Executes American Fliers  Announcement Comes in Straacore Brasndeac!

Same Fate Pledged Every Allied Flier Captured in Empire   Atrocities Revealed in “Special” Broadcast . to South Pacific

Japs Repeat Barbarity Practiced after Tokyo Kaid Tokyo Issues Warning

Japs In Threat Of Execution  OLU.S. Airmen   Nipponese, It Seems Not Stand  By War Rules

STORY TOLD 10 BOOST MORALE. SAYS GENERAL   Singapore Radio Tale Called Propaganda To Lull Nippon

Tokyo Reveals Fate Of Several Fliers From Kyushu Raid   Broadcast From Nipponese Says Death Faces Any Allied Aviator Who Falls, Bails Out Over Japan

Japs Kill B-23 Fliers Seized In Kyushu Attack   Nips Say Raiders Get ‘One-Way Ticket to Hell’

SINGAPORE RADIO CALLS ATTACK ‘ABORTIVE RAID’   B-29 Assault. On June 15

Japs Execute  B-29 Airmen   Enemy Propaganda Broadcast Believed To Have Made False Statement.

WARN ALL WHO BAIL OUT OVER JAPAN WILL DIE   DECLARE CREWS OF B-29S MET FATE OF DOOLITTLE RAIDERS

Doubt Japan Executed Any Fliers   Allied Experts Think Broadcast Only for Propcganda Purposes

All Parachutists Must Be Killed, War Lords Rule   Number Unrevealed; Murders Retaliate for Raid on Yawata

JAP BROADCAST HINTS CAPTURED -FLIERS EXECUTED   Declares Superfortress Airmen “Bailed Out to Meet Same Fate” of Tokyo Raiders.   BOMBER COMMANDER - DOUBTS NIP STORY   Brig. Gen. Kenneth Wolfe Believes. Yarn Is Propa- ganda to Boost Home . Front: Morale, ,

Tokyo Warns U.S. Like Fate Is in Store for All Taken After Raids on Nip Homeland

Japs Slay Captured US Fliers      Warn Raiders To Be Put To Death

Death Edict For Raiders Made Policy   Warlords Charge Raid on Yawata ‘Abortive Attack’

Victims, According lo! Broadeast Directed to Yanks, Seized From Superfortresses

Airmen Coming Down In Japan To Be Executed  Broadcast Says Orde Of Day Is To Kill Any Alli ies Landing  Se > ee. Qf. fe

Japs Threaten - Yank Aviators   Radio Says Airmen Caught In Japan To Be Killed

American Planes Sink, Set Afire Six Heavily-Laden Jap Ships Bound for Leyte

EVENTH JAP. LEYTE CONVOY 1S WIPED OUT   500@ More Nippon Troops Drown In Sinkings

Six Heavy Ships Sunk Or Fired   Navy Planes Foil Another Attempt To Reinforce  Ormoc Garrison.

"Another Jap Convoy Sunk   Enemy’s Sea Losses ° Set at 26.000 Men

YANKS PUSHING ON 10 CASSING   Capture Several High Places On Road From San Vittore to City.   BRITISH CROSS PECCIA

Senator Will Fight: Lodge Quits Senate To Go to War; Choice of Some for Vice President

Yanks Nearly Circle Cassino   Fifth Army Extends Beachhead Near Rome

U. S. Tanks Crash Through Center of Gustav Line   Fifth Army Extends Beachheads Despite Heavy German Fire

THREATEN CORE OF NAZI GUSTAV LINE DEFENSES   Americans Battle te Within 500 Yards of Cassino Stronghold

FIFTH ARMY BREAKS INTO ITALIAN TOWN   Fall of Cassino, Stronghold of Germans in Italy, Expected in Very Short Time

ALLIED oTH EXTENDS GRIP BELOW ROME   U. S. Tanks, Infantrymen All but Encircle Fortress Town on Gustav Line.   BULLETIN

Democratic Party Blasted Willkie Says Party Vehicle For Maintenance Of Power

IN WISCONSIN   U. S. Senator Wiley Re-elected; GOP Wins:in Other Contests.

Wisconsin Is Carried By Dewey   State Offices Retainec  By Republicans Whx  Also Hold Seven Seat:  In Congress

166th Anniversary Area “E" Bond jOf Valley Ferge Sales Now15 Pet,

JAP TERRORIST DIES AT AGE 8   Toyama, “Unofficial Emperor,”” Leader of Black Dragon Society There

Total for April Is Higher Than German Output   28 Factories Hit By Allied Bombers

Convict Sisters For Conspiracy   Charged With Aidirig  Prisoners In Escape

3 Jap-American Sisters Guilty  Accused of Helping Nazi Prisoners Escape  [ogee et Gale oR oreo eMeneE

Sisters Vin One Plea. Lose One   Jap-Americans Face Imprisonment, Fine, In Treason Charges

3 Sisters Convicted of  Conspiracy Win Acquittal On Treason Charaecs

Jap-American Trio. Guilty, Says Jury   Cleared of Treason, Convicted of Conspiracy To Commit Treason

Three Jap-American Sisters Convicted of Aiding Nazis   ..Escape Possible Death Sentence As They Are Acquitted of Treason

> 38 p Sisters Are Convicted Of Conspiracy   Trie Accused Of Aiding Two German Soldiers To Escape Prison

JAPANESE SISTERS FOUND GUILTY ON CONSPIRACY COUNT   Three Nisei Women, However, Acquitted of First Charge of Treason in Federal Court At Denver; To Be Sentenced  Later

CONVICT SISTERS OF CONSPIRACY   JAPANESE-AMERICAN WOMEN ACQUITTED ON TREASON CHARGES

Sisters Tried in Denver Are Found Guilty   Trio Accused of Aiding Es + cape of German POW’s May Get Maximum Sentence of Two Years in Prison, $10,000 Fine.

TRIO FREED OF TREASON COUNT   ‘Jap-American Sisters Con  victed Of Conspiracy

SISTER GUILTY OF ~ TREASON CONSPIRAC      But. coal hey... Are. Bequitted . <0  Actual- Charge. of»  —  Tragenn.

JAPANESE SISTERS FREED OF TREASON      Charged With Helping Nazi War Prisoners Escape

Three Girls Are Convicted Of Conspiracy   Face Maximum Term Of Two Years; Jury Fails To Find Them Guilty OF Treason Charge

3 JAP SISTERS FACETWO YEAR PRISON TERMS   Convicted of Conspiracy Tc Commit Treason In Aiding Germans’ Escape

CONVICT NIP TRIO OF CONSPIRACY   Jury Acquits Jap-American Sisters of Treason Charges

Jury Finds Jap Sisters Guilty Of Conspiracy  Win Acquittal On Treason Charges

Seek Bomber And €rew Of 8 Lost In Storm   Last Heard Of When Men Were Ordered To Bail  fee, Lig hp

Resistance On Saipan Stiffening   Large Scale Infantry Battle Shaping Up On Island

Jap Resistance  Higher on Saipan   Land Artillery Hits Jap Capital City in Marianas Islands

Yanks Mass for Crucial Battle On Saipan Island   Allies Advance in Burma, India,   Chinese Hold Nips

Yanks Speed Assault On Saipan Town   Garapan Crumbling Under Artillery Fire; Jap Defenses Stiffening Now

Japs Putting Up Fight on Saipan   Big Scale Infantry Battle Is Shaping Up as Marines Hammer Capital.

AP DEFENSES STRENGTHENED   American Press Writer Says Big-Scale Infantry Fight Expected.   ‘SET IN WORST TERRAIN

Japs Increase Resistance On Saipan Island   Big- Scale Infantry Battle Shaping Up: Marines Hammer Capital City.   IN WORST TERRAIN

Big Battle For Saipan Shaping Up   Jap Resistance Increases Sharply Along Defense Line from Garapan to Tapotchau

Big-Scale Infantry Battle Shaping Up for Saipan Island   Japs Defending Capital Increase Resistance Against Americans

Japs Gird Kor Battle On Saipan   Stiffened Resistance Hints Big-Seale Infantry Fight Shapes Up

YANKS SMASH  INTO GARAPAN,  SAIPAN CAPITAL SPEED OF ASSAULT  INDICATES CITY MAY - BEIN ALLIED HANDS

Japs Stiffen In Saipan Fight   Big-Scale Infantry Battle Shapes Up on Marianas Island

Americans Take Saipan’s Highest Mountain, Permits Domination of Isle

Marines and: Infantry In Capital City   ‘Brutally Strong’ De_ fenses of Enemy Set in ’ Worst Pacific Terrain

Japs imerease Resistance      Big-Scale Infantry Battle Shaping Up: Garapan Partly in American Hands

Japs Increase Resistance on’  Saipan Island   Big-Scate Infantry Battle Shaping Up as American Marines and Infantry Hammer at Capital City of Garapan

SMAoH EUROPE FROM 2 SIDES   Heavy Bomber Armadas Strike Simultaneously From Britain, Italy.

SIX CITIES ATTACKED DURING DAY   Four Towns In Reich And Two In France Are Battered

NAZIS BLASTED BY 5,000 CRAFT IN? WAY DRIVE   Planes From Britain and Italy Bombard  Transport Systems

RAIL AND INDUSTRIAL CITIES HAMMERED AND DANUBE-RIVER AND OTHERS HEAVILY MINED   Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Aachen and Others Under Heavy Attack Last Night and Today By Planes from Britain and Italy. Planes Sow Mines in Major Rivers in North Germany

Planes Strike From British, Italian Bases   Weather Prevents Foe From Putting Up Any Defense: Yugoslavia Tarcets Also Hit

Heavy 2-Way Bomb Attack Rips Europe   Armadas From Britain And Italy Lash Railway Yards And Airdromes.

5,000 Allied Planes Smash Europe from Britain, Italy   Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Saarbrucken, Metz, Strasbourg, Nimes Avignon. Marseille Among Targets

YANKS HIT 4 NAZI CITIES   Powerful Pre - Invasion Aerial Offensive Renewed

Rhine Citie’     Are Target   Nazis Acknowledge Pe erful Attack on Ka ruhe-Mannheim =

5,000 Planes In Twin Blow Against Nazis   Greatest Attack Ever Made on Transport System of Hitler

9,000 PLANES DEAL NAZIS 2-WAY BLOW      British-Based Craft Hit Four Reich Rail Centers, and Airmen From Italy Blast Rail Yards in France.

Air Armadas Resume Attacks Across Europe   Bombers Smash At Enemy froia Britain and !taly

Speedy Mosquitoes Raid Ludwigshafen, Aachen Rail Yards   Fresh Fleet of Daylight Bombers Sear Toward Fortress Europe as Brief Lullin Aiv Offensive Ends

RENEW ATTACKON HITLER'S EUROPE   1,000 U. S, HEAVIES SMASH TARGETS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE

RHINE RIVER CITIES HARD HIT BY U.S.   Bombers Strike Karlsruhe And  Mannheim

Nazi Transport System Is Prime Target   Co-Ordinated Attack Is Made From Britain and Italy

U. S. Bombers Strike A Double Barreled Blow   Four German Rail Centers, Four Rail Yards, Two Aircraft Production-Genters-Are—— Plastered By Two Great Armadas.

Four Nazi ~ Rail Keys . _ Assaulted   Important German Centers Bombed by Americans Who Meet: Few Fighters   FOUR FRENCH RAIL YARDS ALSO HIT   / Karlsruhe and Mannheim Among. Important -Targets in Double Blow

—AIR WAR—   Four German Centers Two French Cities Hit By Armada   Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen And Saarbrucken In Germany Arid Metz And Strasbourg: In France Pounded Ry Giant Forces

Yankee Planes Fly Over From Britain-Italy   German Raliway Centers Bombed In Heavy Attack

Thousand Fortresses, Liberators In Action   LUDWIGSHAFEN   Raided By Day And Night; Suburbs Of Paris Reported Under Fire

Rhineland Cities Pelted in Renewal ‘Of Air Offensive   1,000 U. S. Bombers Pound Railways and Aircraft Plants in  Germany and France

PRE-INVASION OFFENSIVE IS ON A MIGHTY SCALE   Unfavorable Weather Keeps Most German Interceptors On The Ground; Residential  aaa Are Hard  +e

Another Big Air Blow Hits Hitler   Nazis Transport System Attacked by 5,000 Allied Planes   FROM TWO DIRECTIONS   Planes Strike from Bases in Britain and Italy; Other  Raids, Too

Renew Aerial Attack   Huge Force of U. S. Bombers Smashes at Aircraft Plants and Railways in Europe

Hundreds of Planes Smash at Rail Lines   Probably 1,000 Aircraft Keep Up Blasting of Enemy Railroads and Plants, Following Raids by Mosquito Bombers.

OPA Gives No Sign Of Reconsidering. Tobacco Ceilings   Fiye States Determined To Keep Markets Clos. ed Until OPA Increases Price Ceiling To Figure Demanded.

Naren ee aa CLE et  OPA Officials Indicate They Will Reconsider Weed Price Ceilings .   Flat Assertion Markets Will Remain Closed Until Change.

TOBACCO MARKETS WILL STAY CLOSED FOR BETTER PRICES   Flat Assertion That Markets Will Not Oper, Un til Ceilings Increased

OPA Officials Indicate They Will Reconsider Weed Price Ceilings   Flat Assertion Markets Will Remain Closed Until Change.

NAZIS RETIRE FROM SPANISH, FRENCH BORDER   No Germans Ine Evidence Or Frontier, Installations Blown Up

GERMANS QUIT SPANISH FRONT   - Withdrawal of Troops Reported Reliably

Franco-Spanish Front Evacuated   German Troops Said Removing Garrisons

4-F's Again Free Agents   Can Go Into Work or Stay Out of It; Patriotism, Criticism Only Pressures

4-F's Again Free Agents   Can Go Into Work or Stay Out of It; Patriotism, Criticism Only Pressures  By JAMES MARLOW AND GEORGE ZIFILKE

4.F’s Are Free Agents Again   County’s 2,400 Free To Go Into War-Useful Inhe Or Stay Out.

Milton Gralapp Gralapp. Is In Hospital  Was Wounded At Anzio Beach Head

Report On Pear! Harbor Returned   Navy Completes Probe Of Jap Attack

Pear] Harbor Secret Report Given toKing   Admiral to Select Part Of Findings Which: May Be — Made Public, Says Navy Secretary

Dies’ Warning   To Attorney General Biddle Concerning PAC Prosecutions

Complete And Speedy Victory   GOVERNOR KERR KEYNOTES DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WITH WORD FOR AMERICA’S FiGHTING MEN,   banners in Evidence

Kerr Brands Dewey ‘Untested 4 Says G.O.P. Has No Program   Says Democrats Aim At Quick, Full Victory, Tnst And “Abiding. Peace

Keynote Talk Is Welcomed By Delegates   Record of Opposition in Office Cited by Keynoter

U. S. Troops Batter Toward Cherbourg, 15 Miles Away, and Ram a Column Southward; Prisoner Bag Is Growing

Gains Made In Strona Attack On Cherbourg   Isigny Seized, Forces Push On Carenten; Tank Battle Rages

Thousands of Nazi Prisoners Snatched Up as Allies Branch Out from Fallen Ste. Mere Eglise.   CARENTAN ALSO IS ALLIED OBJECTIVE

TOWN AT NECK OF PENINSULA   Drive On Cherbourg Fanning Out From Ste. Mere Eclise

Ram Southward In Carentan Squeeze   Now 15 Miles from Big Port, Germans Say —- Other Troops Seize Isigny -—— More Than 3,000 Prisoners Taken by Yanks — Weather Now Improving

Foe Says Doughboys 15 Miles from Cherbourg: Caen Tank Battle Rage:

Direct Twin Blows At Big Coastal Port   Allied Planes In Air as Weather Clears

Two American Forces Close In On French Por’   Germans Report Yank: Only 15 Miles From Major Objective.

Americans Seize Vital Rail Junction at Isigny, Drive Nearer Carentan; Progress Satsfactory Reports Bradley

NAZI PRISONERS STREAM BACK AS ALLIES MOVE IN   Allied Air Armadas Out In Force To Blast Troops And Supply Lines

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS NOW ARE PRISONERS   Nazis Claim American Armored Column Has Driven Within Ten Miles of Port City, Cherbourg

SECOND COLUMN RAMS SOUTH 10 GARENTAN   Latter City “is ‘is Stronghold Guarding Narrowest Neck of the Peninsula

U. S. Ninth Air Force Establishes Headquarters Across Channel Preliminary To Putting Advanced Bases In Operation.   Yanks Capture 3,000 Prisoners

ALLIES FIGHT WAY T0 CAEN SECTOR TODAY   Preparing For Counter-Attack By Germans

Heaviest Fighting At Carentan, Caen:  Air Post Established   Yanks Seize Veteran Cassino Paratroopers As They Land; +, -Invasion.-Atiacks-Fanning Out

Political News Stopped By Censors   AP Protest Ignored By British Chief  In Mediterranean

Censor’s Ban On Tito Interview Hit By A. P.   Charges Of Political Censorship Are Heard As Dispatch By Correspondent Joseph Morton 1: Refused Clearance At Algiers

Story Was First Interview Given Press By Yugoslav Leader, Tito.   AGAINST CENSOR RULES

Allied Command In " Mediterranean [Holds  Up Interview With. Tito

UP TITO STORY PROTEST MADE   Suppression of Political News Seen Vio lating Promises

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OPERATES VAST MONTCOMERY WARD MAIL ORDER HOUSE

SEVERE COLD SNAP ~ EXPECTED IN AREA   Below - Zero Temperatures Promised for Great Lakes Region.

COLD SNAP IS MOVING SOUTH   Mercury Drops to 18 Below at Bemidji. Minn

Jap Air Power In Philippines Said Knocke?   Two-Day Assault.” ~ Manila Area Smashes  103 Ships, 405 Planes

Fleet Smashes 103 Ships, 405 Planes; Nippon Navy Is Forced To Flee

Jap Air Power In Philippines is Knocked Out      Halsey’s Fleet Smashes 405 Planes And 103 Ships In Two-Day Assault.

Smash 103 Ships, 405 Planes In Two Day Assault   Jap Fleet.and Air Force Must Decide Whether _ to Hide or Come Out and Fight

Yanks Destroy 405 Jap Planes, 103 Vessels in Attack on Manila Area

BLAST 103 JAP SHIPS AND 405 - MORE AIRCRAFT   'Two- Day Manila Strike Challenge To Nip Home Fleet

Japan’s Air Power In Philippines Is Smashed   United States Third Fleet Knocks Out 103 Ships And 405 Airplanes

Manila Air Defense Smashed; 405 Planes Shot Down in 2 Days   Japs Lose 103 Ships in Blazing Assault by U.S. Carrier Force; Takwo Insists Invasion Imminent

Bag 103 Jap Ships, 405 Planes   Two-Day Assault Forces Japanese  To Make Decision About Their Fleet

Manila Attack By Fleet Wrecks 103 Ships, 405 Planes   Knocks Out Jap Air Power, Destroys Communications

AIRMEN HIT 103 JAP SHIPS IN TWO DAYS   Nip Air Power In Philippines Is Knocked Out

Smashing 103 Ships And 405 Planes In The Manila Area   TOKYO INSISTS INVASION SOON   Japan Faces Problem Of Whether To Risk Home Fleet And Airforce

405 PLANES OF TAPS SMASHED   Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet Reveals Results of Philippines Attack Which Lasted Two Days.

Jap Air Force In Philippines Is Knocked Out   103 Enemy Ships 405 Planes Are Smashed by U.S.

WALLACE LEAVES FOR CHINA AS SPECIAL MESSENGER FOR FDR: WILL REPORT ON CONDITIONS

WALLACE ON WAY TO CHINA   Departure on Trip Is Announced by President

Attack On Pinsk Seems Imminent; Escapes Shut Off   Other, Soviet Troops Along Embattled 350Mile Eastern Front Tighten Encirclement of Wilno

Near Panic Under Way In Prussia   Reds Surge Forward 20 Miles in Region North of Grodno

REDS WITHIN 00 MILES OF RAST PRUSSIE   Advance of Russians Threatens to Cut off Escape of Retreating Nazis.   BULLETIN

FOURTH HUGE FORCE JOINS BALTIC PUSH   Tallinn, Riga Goals; Soviets Set Foot Inside Warsaw

Soviets Drive 44 Miles Into Estonia   Long Dormant Front in Baltics Blazes Inio Action

Races 44 Miles In  Esthonia   Germans Admit Many Crossings Of  Vistula; Russians Nearing Tallin.

WAR AR PRISONERS NOT ‘CODDLED,’ ~ HOUSE INVESTIGATORS REPOR'   SCORES: OF RUMORS OF CAMP LAMITY CHECKED, COMMIT: : 14". EB COUNSEL AN. : 4 “NOUNCER -

WAR PRISONERS. ARE NOT CODDIED   Investigators - Brand Rumors of Laxity  as Unfoundéd 

Allies Winning Pre-Invasion Battle Of Brains Against Axis Spies in Britain

dict 30 for > Iryind te oct Up Nazi Rule   2e-Yeat-Plot.to_Incite..Mutiny_in med Forces, Uniseat Governnient Charaed by Federal Jury

GROUP INDICTED AS NAZI-LOVERS   Plot To Incite Mutiny In Armed Forces Of U. S. Is Bared

26 Men And I'wo Women Indicted On Charge Of Plot To Overthrow Government And Set Up Nazi Reaime Int]. &

3O INDICTED IN ALLEGED PLOT -FORNAZI RULE   Federal Jury Charges . Conspiracy to Incite U.S. Revolt

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U.S. Nazi Plot Charged to 30   Anti-American Conspiracy Satd Three Years Old

, Three-Year Conspiracy, Unearthed By FBI, » pocults In 28 Being Indicted At Washington

30 Indicted As Plotters Against U.S.   Group Schemed To Set U Nazi Regime in America, Covernment Charges

Grand Jury Holds 30 OnCharges Of Conspiracy To  Overthrow The Government

Aerial War Moves Closer To Jao Heart   Matsuwa Island in Kuriles One of Points Bombed

U. §. Bombers Hit Kuriles in Bombing Raids   Army Bomber Blasts At Motsuwa Island, Only 960 Nautical Miles From Tokyo

Yankee Planes Attack Nearer Tokyo  ae   Six Raids Staged on Kuriles Without Opposition

German Retreat  Is Virtual Rout   Molotov Announces Russia Has No Designs on Rumanian Territory

Reds Cross Prut On 165-Mile Front   German Elite Troops, Armed With Tommy. Guns, Unable T Stan Rant. Moscow Reports

Nazi Commanders Train Guns On Panicky Soldiers   Molotov Says Russia Has No Aggressive Ambitions

NO DESIGNS ON FOE'S TERRITORY MOLOTOV SAYS   Trap Tightened On Nazis Clinging To Odessa Black Sea Area

' Molotoy* Declar es Russia Has No. Designs on Hematipy   SENSATIONAL GAINS   Rail J unction Threatened Seven Miles Beyond . Prut River

Germans Turn Guns On Own — Troops; Russians Tell Balkanites The Enemy Will Be Destroyed   Soviets Whirl Into Rumania'Qn 165 Mile Front In Pursuit Of Fleeing Hitlerites—Debacle Mounts In Scope

Reds Cross Prut, Enter Rumania   Russions Sweep  Over Borders to Enter Enemy Lond For First Time

Finns Lean Further to Peace Moves   May Decide to Cut Leose From Nazi Influence Soon

Finnish Efforts To Get Out Of War Reported Gaining As Time For Deal Mating’ Runs Out

Would Include East Prussia  N ew Polish Council Asks For ‘Wide Outlet to Sea’

Polish Council Wants Border ‘On Oder River   Would Include in Poland All of East Prussia... Other German Territory

EIGHTH ARMY GAINS ON ITALIAN FRONT   Troops Move Toward Senio Rive! After Canadians Capture Hotly Contested Rosetta.

JURY TRIAL 10 obnkQULE}   Jose~h Mitler Seeks $20,000 Damages After Automobile Accident

JURY TRIAL 5 srurniie   Josezh Miller Seexs $20,000 Damages After Automobile Accident:

Jimmy Roosevelt Receives Award   Decorated With Silver Star For Action At Makin Atoll Attack.

MONASTERY: ON MONTE CASSINO BOMBED TODAY      Reluctant Decision Taken After Germans Turn Religious Shrine Into Stronghold; Air Offensive On Europe Pressed   SOVIET ARMY SEALS NAZI REMNANTS DOOM

NAZIS IN CITY ARE ISOLATED   Soviets Make Thrust At Last Backroad Escape Route .

FARM BUREAU HAS MEETING   Annual Session to be Held in Methodist Church Here

Patton’s Third Army Sweep Engulfs Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, Belleau Wood, Famous in First World War; Belgian Border Only 55 Miles Away

Troops Within 55 Miles Of Belgian Frontier; Less Than 100 Miles from Reich

Pas de Calais Area Rapidly Being Flanked   Aisne-Somme Line Ot Germans Cracked By Swift-Moving Yanks; Canucks Near Rouen

Speeding American Troops Occupy Chateau-Thierry, Soissons in Surprise Push

Germans in Headlong Retreat Past World War  Battlefields  ee a ee ee a ee ae a eee rere      BELLEAU WOOD TAKEN

Gils Of 44 Reclaim Hallowed Ground   Soissons Also Falls In Whirlwind Advance; Allies Scant Hundred Miles From Frontier Of Germany: Broken 7th Being Trapped Again   PATTON'S MEN AT REIMS’ GATES

Thrust Within 55 Miles of Belgium, Form Deadly Trap   High Speed Third Army Drives North; Americans Push Ahead in South

Advance Over Hallowed Soil Carries To Within 55 Miles Of Belgium's Border

Capture Soissons, Chateau-Thierry in Spectacular Drive   Rocket Coast Being Out-Flanked; G I's Battling Across Soil Hallowed by Fathers’ Blood in World War One

FIRE DESTROYS M. & A. SHOPS AT HARRISON   Damage’ Estimated at $300,000 In Early  Morning Blaze.

Naval action continues in Palau islands  Silence cloaks fleet operations

American Vessels ‘Challenge Japs on Road to Philippines EARGE CARRIERS iN  FORCE peronptre civ      Farthest Westward Pene tration Made Thus-> : Bes

SILENCE CLOAKS ~ ATTACK ON PALAU   TROK BY-PASSED BY U. 8, FLEET TO HIT IMPORTANT JAP NAVAL BASE...

NIPPON BASES IN PHILIPPINES AREA POUNDED   AIR FORCES PINNED DOWN BY ATTACK UPON TRUK   Detaile Held Rack

American Vessels Challenge Japs on Road  to Philippines  ECARGE-CARRIERS-IN—— _ FORCE, REPORTS SAY. Farthest Westward Pene tration Made Thus 

Radio Silence Hides Fleet's Raid on Palau   Attack Continuing On Jap Base by Great Challenging Force

PART OF ENEMY FLEET HURRIES TO SAFE WATER   Attack Continues Around Big Naval Base Far  On Way Toward Philippines

THOUSANDS OF WAR WORKERS ‘FROZEN’ IN PRESENT JOBS   QCCUPATIONALLY DEFERRED MEN MUST OBTAIN DRAFT BOARD PERMISSION TO CYWUANGE WORK

WAR WORKERS ARE FROZEN 10 JCRS   Mea Between Ages of 27-37 Warned to Get Into Vital Employment

Work Or Fight   War Workers Must Stay in War Plants Or Go Into Service

EDITOR ACCUSED — OF SEDITION DEAD   Body of E. J. Garner, On Trial With 29 Others, Found in Wash fneton Rooming House.

Sedition Suspect  Found Dead in Bee   Elmer J. Garner Was Awaiting Trial

One of 30 Facing Federal Sedition ‘Trial Found Dead   Elmer .J. Garner, 80, of ‘Witchita, Succumbs In Washinaten

COUNTY PRIMARY WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY APRIL 12TH: DATE FOR QUALIFING CLOSES FEB. 10TH   County Executive Committee Met This Morning and Adopted Rules and Regulations, Filed Fees, Dates, . Etc. Jim Keyton Elected from Thomasville District And Is New Chairman

Panic Hits Odessa As Trap Closes   Soviets Rush For Tit aspol To Cut Off Re treat; Kishinev Also / Maior Objective.

‘Rumanians Give Up As Reds ‘Advance   Wild Confusion In Odessa As Stalin's Forces Go Forward

SOVIETS HAVE —D ORJEGTIVES   Red Army Forces Sweep on Towards Odessa, Tiraspol, Kishinev.   MANY ARE GIVING UP

Soviets Move Toward Three Major Cities   Odessa, Tiraspol and Kishinev Next Major Goals of Onrushing Russian Armies

Massed Red  Army Units Drive Ahead   Odessa, Tiraspol and Kishinev Are Targets Of Russians; Wild Confusion Reported as One Line After Another Falls

Balkan States Showing Signs of Crumbling   Troops Surrendering as German Forces Flee Before Soviets

THEIR LINES — ARE BREAKING ONE BY ONE      Wild Confusion Reported in Besieged Odessa. as Reds Move Toward That Port, as Well as Tiras: pol and Kishinev,

Axis Resistance in Ukraine Crumbling Before Red Armies   Report Wild Confusion in Odessa as Soviet Force Approaches

Many Rumanians Surrendering   Wild Confusion Reported in Odessa As Soviets Close in On Black Sea Port From East and Northeast—Othe Units On Frontiers

TEMPERATURES:   Rumanian, Hungarian Troops Surrender In Great Numbers

Resistance By Nazis And Rumanians  Is Crumbling   Reds Sweep On Toward Three Major Objectives; Reported By Germans At Jablonica Pass

SOVIETS FINAL DRIVE TOWARD ODESSA BEGINS   Enemy Resistance Begins To Crumble as Russians Press Advances

SOVIETS SMASH AHEAD AS AXIS LINES CRUMBLE  nerAART AAAI IICIAAI   REPORT CONFUSION IN ODESSA AS REDS CLOSE IN ON PORT '

Reds Launch Final Smash For Odessa   German Defense Lines Guarding Black Sea Port Falling Apart

Soviet Cracks Lines   Reds Sweep On Toward Three Major Ob jectives

REDS ADVANCING ON THREE GOAL   Odessa, Titaspol And Kishinev Objectives Of Ma.  jor Drives   /CONFUSION REIGNS   Main Outposts To Big  Black Sea Port Held By ' Russians

Reds Push Toward 3 Objectives   Resistance. Begins To Crumble In Southwest

Red Army Begins Final Push Toward Black Sea Naval Base   Report Rumanians Eager To Surrender To Soviet Forces Driving Deeper Into Bessarabia

CONFUSION REPORTED IN BLACK SEA PORT      200,000. Germans Retreating in Narrowing Nazi-Held Southweet Russia Area

Nazi and Rumanian Defense  Falters in Front of Russian infantry and Armer.

‘WILD CONFUSION IS REPORTED IN ODESSA AND MANY PRISONERS BEING TAKEN BY INVADING REDS   Odessa, Tiraspol and Kishinev Are Menaced by Great Masses Red Army Tanks, Bombers and Infantry Forces. 200,000 Germans Being Herd.  ed inta Odeaaan Tran

Many Rumania Troops Givi ing  Up Their Guns   Soviet Forces Sweeping  Toward Three Major Ob jectives. Including Tir aspol and Kishiney    Wild Confusion In Odessa Reported   Main Outposts of Blacl Sea Port Captured: Nazis Throwing Up Middle Defense

Final Push — on Odessa  Under Way   Tiraspol and Kishiriov Algo Main . Objectives < of Great Soviet Push   ENEMY RESISTANCE ~ FAST CRUMBLING   Many German ” Units: Are Disorganized; Rumanians Willingly ‘Surrendering

Foe Unable To Check Red Surge   German-Rumanian Resistance Cracking; Soviets Reported  At Czech Gateway

Strong Red Forces ow On Odessa,   Ukrainians Ringing Big Sea Port; * Many Rumanians Surrender; “Russians. At -Carpathian Pass’

REPORT MANY RUMANIANS QUITTING   Odessa, Tiraspol, Kishinev Main Goals   260 LOCALITIES   Taken By Konev’s Troops In Day: Thousands Seek To Escape

SOVIETS TAKE OUTPOSTS AT ODESSA TODAY   German-Rumanian Resistance Is Crumbling

AN LINES CRACK BEFORE RUSSIAN TIDE   Reds Move Closer To Goals On Odessa, Tiraspol And Kishinev Battlefronts

NAZI, RUMANIAN  RESISTANCE SAND TOBE GRUMBLING   Masses of Red Army Infan. _try, Tanks and Bombers Swept Toward Objectives.   LINES ARE CRACKING   Many Rumanians Were Will' ingly Surrendering Reports Said.

Nazi-Rumanian ResistanceTo  Reds Weakens  Powerful Soviet Blows  Continue Toward it ee le sei

i Light Plant Shows Big Profit : ee eee  Profits Highest In History Of Utility, Report Reveals

Light Plant Shows Big Profit . $$  Profits Highest In History Ot Utility, Report Reveals

Admiral Chester Nimitz Says Possibly the Entire Jap Fleet Has Entered Area Between Philippines And Marianas and Pre liminary Blows Already   Fychanoed

60.000 Japs Now Facing Annihilation   120.000 Nipponese Are ‘Neutralized’; Navy Aides MacArthur In  = ae Se,

Confident Washington Sees U.S. Victory Should Japan Attempt To Test Her Fleet -

Believe’ U. S. And Jap Battle Fleets Are Locked In Combat   Preliminary Blows Already May Have Opened His tory-Making.Naval Engagement In Pacific Be tween Philinnines And Marianas

TAD AIRBASE IN NEW GUINEA IN U. $. HANDS   Allied Aerial Assault I: Reaching ‘Climactic  Phase’

STRONG FLEETS ARE KNOWN 10 BE IN SECTOR   Nimitz Hints History Shaking Engagemént May Already Have Begun

Tokyo Radio Reports ‘Fierce Naval Battle’ Off Marianas   Enemy Broadcast Makes Usual Jap Claims Of Sneeess: No Further Word From Admiral Nimitz

‘Classically-executed’. As sault by. Thousiinds O  a ‘Aitiericans Takes Jap: By Suprise —- Allies to Gain Air and. Nava Bases. Within Bombe: Ran#e of Philippines:

Adm. Nimitz Is Confident   Long Sought Jap Navy Appears Heading For Battle In Philippines-Marianas Area   Tokyo Undecided.   Shelled By Warships.

Japanese Say ‘Fierce Naval Battle’ Now Being Fought Off Marianas

Tokyo Claims Sinking Of U. S. Warships; Nimitz Hopes For Surface Action

U.S. AND JAP FLEETS CLASH OFF MARIANAS   Result of Battle To Have Far-reaching Effect On Pacific War

Claim One U. S. Warship Sunk, Another Damaged In Battle: Reports  Not Confirmed 

Crowds In Sofia Clamor For War Against Hitle:   Romania Free Of Last Germans, Bucharest Radio Reports

Sotia Rioters Call for War on Germany   Fuse of Balkan Powder Keg Hisses Ominously for Hitler's Regime

Plane Contract’s Cancellation Made Unfinished Housing Area Ghost Town

HOUSING PROJECT NOW “GHOST TOWN   900 to 1,290 Units Vacant When Navy Cancels Contract.

Housing Project ls Abandoned In Pennsylvania  Navy Cancellation Of Contract Given as Reason

Bricker Tells Butte House Cleaning in  Washington Needed  G. 0. P. Vice Presidential Candidate Arrives  in Rain to Be Heartily Cheered  Raa Ghenada nnd ab dh, Daw Theanlaw

Bricker Tells Butte House Cleaning in  Washington Needed  —G. 0. P. Vice Presidential Candidate Arrives _in Rain to Be Heartily Cheered

VENIUN TANKMAN VRIVED TALILEDD IEAAN IMRKUUUN  Hysterical Romans Welcome Americans Into City

Fireman Killed In Toledo Blaze   Damage Estimated At Half Million

ONE DIES IN TOLEDO BLAZE   Business Area Destroyed  Early Morning Fire

Kansas Has First Hanging Since ’70   Ernest Hoefgen Steps Briskly to Gallows For Killing a Youth.

January  Will Set Off Census Army To Get Information From Farmers

‘DESH HOME IN LINCOLN      Miss Martha F. Smith Weds Ensign Richard P. ‘Win* chell, South Lincoln

MARRIED AT. BRIDE'S HOME IN LINCOLR   Miss Martha F. Smith Weds Ensign Richard P. Win,chell, South Lincoln

German General Taken Prisoner   Snatched on Crete By British Raiders

BRITISH CAPTURE GERMAN GENERAL   OFFICER TAKEN PRISONER ON CRETE DESPITE PRESENCE OF 20,00 NAZIS

Raiders Capture German General   Daring Crete Raid Turns Up Valuable Booty For Rritich.

Yanks Lose After Gain, Nazis Claim  Enemy Says Artillery Casualties Heavy

Solemn Requiem Mass For Set.  Bernard Doerning  Memorial Service

Solemn Requiem Mass For Set.  Bernard Doerning   Memorial Service Wed., September 13

MVA Proposal Debated at Plains Meeting   Conference Ends With Discussion by Four Speakers

MVA Proposal \s Debated At Plains Parley   Speakers Defend And Oppose Tentative Agency

Istanbul Reports All Available Ships In Rumania Black Sea Ports Rushing North, To Rescue Nazis; Face Vast “Dunkerque”

Gen. Wilson Says European War Can Be Won-in 1944, Hints: His Armies May Strike at Southern France

Allies Hinting Blow Likely At South France   New ‘Commander Of Forces ' In Mediterranean Sure - OF 1944 Victory

MAKES DASH FOR INVASION GATE TO RHINELAND   Patch Hurls 12 te 15 Divisions Into All-Out Attempt to Burst Into Central Cormany

Yanks Gain 8 Miles in  New Drive   Berlin Says 225.000 Americans Used in Fierce Offensive

Fifteen Yank Divisions Rip German Lines   Patch Opens New Assault Through Southern Gateway

STATE RIGHT “VICTORY IN SOLDIER VOTE   Rankin Forces Terms Upon Federal  Advocates

Advancing Troops Within 15 Miles Of Prut; Other Red Armies Score Gains

Russian Guns Within Range  Of Rumania   Red Armies Racing To Be First Over Border

Reds Also Push Toward Vital Railroad Line   Germans Said Fleeing In Wild Confusion, and Leaving Much Materiel

‘Russo Advance In Bessarabia  Gathers Speed   Quickened Tempo Carry ing Armies Through  First Foothills of Carpathian Mountains   Rail Key to Part  :   Of Rumania Goal   Germany Reports Hard Fighting Between Tarnopol and Proskuroy After Red Breakthrough

Soviets Continue Swift Advance Through The Northeast of Bessarabia

SOVIET TROOPS WITHIN SIGHT OF PRUT RIVER   Is Boundary Of New Rumanian  Border

RUSSIANS CONTINUE ADVANCES   Konev Increases Pace Of His Push Toward  Rumanian Border

Prut River, Carpathians In Red View   German Commanders Unable to Hold Men For Stubborn Stand

Konev's Army Pushes Steadily. Across Carpathian Foothills To-i ward Rumanian Border   PUSH NEAR LWOW      Tarnopol Outilanked,  Germat Counter - Offensive Apparentl; Broken

Drive On Important Railway; Writer Reports Germans  Flee In Wild Confusion

Prut Boundary In Sight Of Konev's Army   Germans And Rumanians Reported Fleeing In Wild Disorder

Prut River Just 15 Miles Away;  Pace Stepped Up   Nazis, Rumanians Flee In Disorder Abandoning Much  Equipment

RUSSIANS PUSH OVER FOOTHILLS OF CARPATHIANS   Railway Key To Northeastern Corner Of Rumania Is One Of Goals of Red Army;  onevs Forces Making Swift Ad vance.

Soviet Troops Draw In Sight Of Prut River   Russians In 15 Miles Of Rumania River Border As Advance Continues.   NEARING CARPATHIANS

Soviet Thrusts Menace Kovel, Lwow, Czernowitz   Nazis Admit Russians Have Stormed Junction Of Kovel On Road To Warsaw, 190 Miles Distant; Rumanians Flee

Germans and Rumanians Reported Fleeing in Confusion, Throwing Away Their Weapons

RUSSIANS NOW WITHIN SIGHT OF PRUT RIVE   ‘Sweep Through Bessarabia . and Continue Advance nan All Ernnte

Nazis Withdraw In Panic As Russians Enter Bessarabia   Marshal Konev’s Second Ukrainian Army Increases Pace Toward Prut River — Axis Defenses Between Tarnopol and Proskurov Broken in Fierce Fighting.

Prut River Latest Goal Of Russian Second Army   Railway. Is Sought Near Carpathians

GERMAN LINES AT TARNOPOL CRACKED   Soviets Are Within Sight Of Prut River   Unable To Band For Stand; Continue Pressure On Port Of Nikolaev

uss Troops  n Slght of Prut River   lvance Continues wough Carpathian Mountains Foothills   IL KEY PERILED   zis Comimanders Unable to Hold Troops for Stand

‘Nazis In Wild Flight From Advancing  RussianArmy   Reds In Sight Of Prut River; Tarnopol Is Oulflanked; Enemy Abandons Equipment

ADVANCE PUTS VITAL RAILROAD LINE IN DANGER   Bombers Hit Supply Lines As Cassino Situation Remains Unchanged

' -RUSSIA— « 4%,  Prut River, Rail Line To West Are Reds’ Objectives

Russians Drive To Key Railway Thru Rumania   Red Army Troops Al. ready Within Sight Of Carpathians.

Russian Gains Push Into Carpathian Foothills; Railway To Rumania Is Goal

Russ Troops In Sight of Prut River   Report 35-Mile Break In German Lines In Western Ukraine

CONTINUE DRWE N BESSARABIA   Advance Through First Foothills of Carpathian Mountains.   PRUT IS OLD BOUNDARY

BOUNDARY OF RUMANIA IS RED OBJECTIVE   Axis Forces Reported Fleeing In Wild Confusion, Abandoning Rifles and  Machine-Guns   DRIVE TEMPO STEPS UP

Soviets Push Into Poland and Rumania   Germans, Rumaniens . Reported Fleeing in Disorder In Bessarable

VonMannstein's Army Is Facing Annihilation   Tarnapol = Outflanked , Zhukov’s Men Storm - Into Kovel

Russians In Sight Of Prut   In Foothills of Car pathians in Bes sarabia

U § Bombers Hit Near Philippines   Sink Jap Vessel om  igenen SGpeeeee

U.S. Fliers Sink Philippine Ship   Yanks Attack Only 70  Miles From Mindanao

PLAN TEST OF FRUIT PLANES   Long-Range Experiment to Be Started This Month

Air Transport Of Fruit Mappec   First Experiments Are Scheduled In June

9 MILLION FOR SCHOOL AID SOUGHT   Budget Submitted To Legislature Sets New Record

NAZI TRANSPORT ~ LINES TANGLED   U.S. Heavy Bombers Hit Railvards And Vital Factory Centers

GERMAN DEFENSE POINTS ARE BOMBED   Tons of Explosives Released Behind Siegfried Line—171 Planes Destroyed, 26 Lost.

Reds Drive Six Miles, Seize 30 Karelian Towns   Finn Reserves Fail to Check Soviet Tank, Infantry Onslaughts

Homes of Britons Are Damaged af Rate Of 700 Per Hour by Hitler's Robots

Chavez in Favor Of Rep. Anderson  For Governor   Senator Says Whole Ticket Might Lose With Dempsey at Head

HAE PILOT EO TABLIOK WAR RECORD   Smoke Rises 4 Miles Into Sky  ee aeons  IS BOMBERS LOST  No Night Raiders Encountered

Small Girls Red Heroines   Even Marshall Stalin To Shake Hands of Patriots

SHAKE HANDS OF 'A HEROIC GIRLS —   Little Russian Girls 10 to 14 Years Old Listed  Amana Ginrame Patrints

WESTERN GERMANY RAIL AND INDUSTRIAL OBJECTIVES BLASTED  MORE THAN THOUSAND HEAVY U. S. BOMBERS ID - HIRD DAY’S ATTACK

BLAST RAIL YARDS   Installations in Western Germany Are Hit by Allied Bombers

YANK BOMBERS HAMMER REICH   Kassel, Ludwigshafen Anc Other Cities Pounded

Heavy Air Battles Develop as Yanks Raid Reich  Kassel, Ludwigshafen Cologne and Mainz Are American Targets

Batter Reich Heavy Bombs   Big American Planes Strike at German Communications. War Plan’

1,100 Yank Bombers Hit Nazi Points   Railroad Yards, And Industrial Plants Targets ‘For Attack

YANK BOMBERS LASH GERMANY   Roil Yords and Industrial Plants Hit At Cologne, Other Cities

1,100 Heavies Assault Reich  Stiff Blows Continue In 3rd Straight Day

Heavy Air Battles Develop as Yanks Raid Reich  Kassel, Ludwigshafer Cologne and Mainz  A. Aeswaeteome Teaemahe

U. §. Bombers Hit Railyards   Also Go After War Plants Behind Western Front, Despite Heavy Overcast

Yankees Have Killed 277,000 Japs While Suffering 21,000 Fatalities

J apanese Lack Individual Initiative   But as a Whole Are Regarded as Good Fighting Men

GREAT BATTLE IS AT HAND IN ROME ARE!   Tank, Cannon Clashe: Rising to New Intensity

American First Army Completes Encirclement Of Aachen   ADOLF HITLER HAS TAKEN COMMAND OF BATTLE OF GERMANY   Fighting Remains Stiff Around Metz; Allies Gain On Italian Front

Bold Moves Break Yank’:  Isle Defense   Tokyo Radio Claims Fall of Liuchow and Kweitin in ' China

Japanese Throw Full Army Into Battle of Leyte   35,000 of Enemy’s Troops Have Run U.S. Blockade

JAPANESE THROW IN REINFORCEMENTS OF FULL ARMY ON LEYTE  ALLIED BLOCKADE FAILS TO STOP MORE TROOPS

Full Jap Army Used In Battle Against Yanks   Nipponese. Claim Capture OF Liuchow: Air Base And Key City Of Kweilin

Japs Rushing Fresh Troops fo Leyte Isle   35,000 Break Through Sea and Air Blockade to Bolster Defenders

NIPS GET 39,000 MORE TROOPS ON LEYTE ISLE   Air-Sea Battle Enables Jap to Reinforce Island; Expect Long Fight

Japs Pouring More Troops Into Defense Of Leyte But Americans Still Hold Edge

American Sixth Army Still Has Numerical Edge; Tokyo Claims Capture of Liuchow, Kweilin

J aps Throw Full Army in Leyte Battle   35,000 Reinforcements Sent to Island, Is MacArthur Report

JAPS THROW  FULL ARMY AT YANKEES   Reenforcements on Philippines Indicate Battle for Islands Will Be Much Longer

Hermit Whose Hug Cracked Rib Is Slain   Community Rejoices At Slaying Of Peculiar  Character

(Clean Sweep By Navy In The Carolines   Sank Or Damaged Every Jap Ship At Palau, Woleai And Yap Islands

Japan Admits That Latest American Attack Was Successful. U. S. Subs Sink 14 More Enemy Shins.

YANKS PRESS FIGHTING ON TINIAN. GUAM   Offensive To Annihilate Japanest Troops In New Guinea Continues

BARKLEY WILL + OPPOSE PLAN   Senator to Vote Against Compromise Ballot Bill for » Servicemen

DEBATE OVER SOLDIER VOTE NEARING END   Democratic Leader Barkley To Vote and Speak Against Senate Approval of Compromise   VETO IS ANTICIPATED

Most Senators Favor States’  Rights Ballo’   Champions Of Federal Method Concede Defeat; Debate Enters Its Final Stage

Allies Advance on 100-Mile Front in Italy  Germans Withdraw  Too Rapidly to

All Allies Advance In Italy, Gain Up to Nine Miles   Yanks Capture Dozen Towns, Speed Drive On Port of Leghorn

Allies Advance on 100-Mile Front in Italy  Germans Withdraw Too Rapidly to Maintain Contact

YANK STRIKING DEEP INTO GERMANY   RAF Crews Hit Railroad Junctions Serving Invasion Coast Area

U.S.Bombers Strike Deep Into Reich   Ales Assautt French, Belgium Rail Junctions   Force Largest to Hit Occupied Area

Ch THING AS FARM BLOL   Representative Is Unable te "Find Its Existence in Capital.

Robot Bomb Crashes Into Apartment Killing And Injuriny Many On Sunday

Americans Enlarge Hold on Marshalls With New Landings   Nimitz’ Proclamation Ends Powers of Japs in Occupied Areas

ulk Of Atoll  nU. S. Hands; avy Meeting 0 Opposition   Military Government Set Up For Captured Marshalls

Americans Invade Three Jap Isles   Proclaim Military Government in Coup On Marshall Islands

: ~-MARSHALLS—  NIMITZ HEAD.OF - MILITARY SETUF   New Government To Sup: ‘plant 25-Year-Long . Coiitrol] By Japs ©   LOSSES LIGHT:   Amer icans Overwhelm ~ Enemy, Resistance’ Th New Itivasions . =:

A Third 1s Near , Capture by Yanks * In New Landings   Ciher Bases. Under Warship and Mane  Attack; Proclaim a Millteru Cnavarnmani

JAP AIRMEN KEPT FROM MARSHALLS   Dominating Force of U. S. Planes Supporting Invasion Has Had Its Own Way for the Past Feur Days.

MORE ISLANDS   U. S$. Forces Overwhelm Japs on Two, Push Enemy Back on Third.   BIG BATTLEAT WEWAK

TWO MORE ISLETS OF KWAIALEIN CAPTURED; THIRD UNDER CONTROL   Nimitz Establishes Military Government, Ending 25“Year Reign of Hirchito   LOSSES STILL MODERATE

MORE ISLES   Proclamation Ends Powers of Hirohito In Mandated Group

End Jap Rule in © Marshalls   Forseeing Early Capture of Island Group Adm. Nimitz Puts U.S. A.M. G. in Control]

Resisting Enemy Is Foreed Back Near Air Bases   American Leaders Invoke  Military Government To Supplant Rule OF Japs

Naval Shells,  Dasesha MN Aws Gis 2 Car  ? ‘Seq Forts’   Japs Resist Savagely or Ebeye Island, Radio and Seaplane Base   YANK -LOSSES LIGHT.

3-More Islands In Kwajalein Atoll Invaded   Nips Completely Subdued on Two and Pushed Back ‘on Third Which Has Seaplane Bases   Capture Of All Of Islands Predicted   Dominating U. S. Air Force Keeping All Nipponese Planes Out of Marshalls Skies

AMERICANS TAKE THREE MORE ATOLLS   Proclaim Military Government On  Each Island

3 Landings Expand Hold On Kwajalein   Proclamation Ends Power of Hirohito in Marshalls

YANKS INVADE NEW JAP ISLES   Overwhelm Two More Islands In Kwajalein  Atoll

OVERWHELM TWO JAP GARRISONS   NIMITZ PROCLAIMS MILITARY GOV'T IN ALL OF MARSHALLS

New Landings Tighten Ring  On Kwajalein   Yanks Battle Japs In Pillboxes; Military Government Set Up; End Hirohito’s Rule

JAPS  WHIPP ON 2 MORE  ~  [SLANDS  tl   Military Rule Proclaimed To Control Marshalls  NN INES   Suffered By Naval Force; Jap Ships And Planes Fail To Appear

U, SANVADES 3 MORE ISLANDS IN BIG ATOLL   Leaders Set Up New Rule Replacing Power of Hirohito

MORE. ISLES IN KWAIALEIN ARE TAKEN BY U. S.   Marshall Islands Military Government Proclaimed by Chiefs

Proclamation By Nimitz Suspends ‘‘Power’’ Of Jap Emperor In Marshalls

AMERICAN TROOPS — HAVE INVADED 3 MORE ISLANDS   U: S.. Forces Have Overwhelmed the Japanese on '  'Fwo of These Points.   ENEMY IS PUSHED BACK   Have :Proclaimed a Military . Government to Supplant Hirohito’s Power.

Enemy Pushed Back on Third Marshall Isle; Others Bombed   Nippon Planes Kept Out of Skies for Four Suecessive Days

New Landings Expand Our Hold On Kwajalein   No Indication That Big Naval Armada Supporting Invasion Of Marshalls Has Been Challenged Or Suffered Losses.

TROOPS INVADE ANOTHER ISLE IN MARSHALLS   Push Japs Back on Ebeye, Close to Kwajalein; Planes and Ships Bombard Two Gihers   MEET RESISTANCE   Progress Made in Conquest o Kwajalein, Military Governmen Tnstituted for Atoll

‘LOST DIVISION? UNHEARD FROM FOR TWO DAYS   British 2nd Army Opens New Drive On DutchGerman Border

Berlin Boasts “Lost Division is Annihilated   Censorship Blankets Arnhem News As Nazis Claim Pocket Is Wiped Out.

Russians in North Drive Westward   Attacking “With Great Fierceness”, Declares Nazi  Communique

New Offensive Drives Toward Baltic Sea   Russians Pouring Men Into 10-Mile Wide Gap

Red Army Opens Gap  In Nazi Line   Push to Baltic; Deny Rumors of Soviet, German Peace Meeting

RED BALTIC ARMY MOVES UP NEARER LATVIAN BORDER   New Offensive In North Builds Up Speed—Southern Force Goes on.

[Reds Put 10-Mile Gap Defenses East of Latvia   Trunk Railway South From Leningrad Cut By Armored Forces ”

NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE 1S LAUNCHED   Knocks 10 Mile Gap In Nazi Line East of Latvia

RUSSIAN DRIVE TOWARD BALTIC SEA STARTED   Reds Knock 10-Mile Hole in Nazi Line 70 Miles from Latvia

Less Than  70 Miles From Latvia      KNOCK TEN-MILE GAP IN NAZI LINES AT THAT POINT; CUT: RAILWAY SOUTH OF LENIN CRAB :

NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE CRACKS GERMAN LINE   Attack Rushes Toward Baltic and 10-Mile Hole Is Opened

Drive Toward Baltic After  _ Smashing Through In the  North; Also Cross Bug River in South.

New Push Gathers Un Speed   10-Mile Gap Made In Nazi Lines As Reds Drive West

Capacity Crowd ls Present   Game Is Started Under Clearing Skies After Rain

FATHER’S TRUCK KILLS DAUGHTER   Child Hit as Vehicle Backs Out of Garage

‘Reds Koll Over Pole Approaches At Rapid Pace.   Push Ahead To Within 10 Miles of Latvian Border In Campaign

Fire in Atlantic City Hotel Forces 300 to Flee; Stores Destroyed

U.S. st Army  Lines fo North Beat off Blows   Following Withdrawal Of Yanks From Schmidt American Planes Level Strateaic Villaae

COUNTER - BLONS :      Doughboys to North of Fo est Town Hold Firm in Face of Infantry and -— Tank Charges.           ALLIES ‘ADVANCE TWO. MILES IN HO Dp

Allies Near  :  Escape Bridge   Clearing Western Flank In Southwest Holland For Coming Bis Offensives   Germans Hif Back

Germans Crowd American Units Out of Schmidt   Other Forces Hold Firm Under Enemy Counterattacks

PAINTER SEES BARRACKS FALL   Asserts Building ‘Shaken Like Rat’ By Mighty Explosions

Port Chicage Witness Tells ‘Explosion Tale   Naval Painter Couldn’t  Hear Sound Because It Was So Loud

REPLACEMENT OF 10J0 SEEN NOW AS POSSIBILITY   But Whatever Happens Japan Seems Determined To Fight to the Last Man In Bitter End

mame BRC War  OCayY «a= ‘Tojo Reported Having Trouble With Navy Men

The War Today  Ry J. M. ROBERTS. IR (Suhetituting for Dewitt —Machkensie)

New OPA Order Also Cancels All Red And Blue Stamps Valid Before Dec. 1

COURT GRANTS TWO DIVORCES   New Suit Filed.  Seeks Dissolut’ on of Partne-shin!

GUURT GRANTS TWO DIVORCES   New Suit Filed Secks Dissolut'on of Partne:ship

Knox Tells Of Big Navy Expansion  Nearly Dozen   Nearly Dozen Ships a Day  To Be Added to Fleet in 1944

‘DOZEN SHIPS A DAY TO JOIN U. 8. FLEET   Yanks Hold 13-1 Rate o Superiority over Jap Fliers in Air War

DOZEN SHIPS TOUONUS. FLEET DAILY   500,000 Officers And Men  ~ Will Be Needed To Man   New Sea Fighters

Dozen Ships Daily To Be Added to U. S. Fleet This Year. Knox Asserts

Navy Growth Placed at 12 Ships Daily   Knox Calls Attention to Need for Men to Man New Craft in 1944

MONTY’ PREDICTS ~ COUNTER-ATTACK   BELIEVES ROMMEL SOON ‘WILL TRY TO THROW AL_.- LIED ARMY INTO SEA.

Troops Smash Beyond Ruined Town Of Velletri   Dome of St. Peter’s Visible to Doughboys As Nazis Seek to Escape

Ruined Town Of Velletri  Surr ‘ounded   Hundreds of Yanks Filter Through Line  In Night- Maneuvers TANK BATTTES RACE

Yanks Kill 1716 Japs in Hollandia And Aifape Areas in Three Weeks

Hollandia s Still Active  -_   Total Of 1,716 Japs Killed In Camnaian

ANTONESCU WARSN HITLER    May Make Separate Peace Enless Romania Gets Reinforcements

Weather Worries Invasion Chiefs   Strong Wind, High Waves Reported

Weather Poses Headache  to Invaders  Reinforcements Will Continue

Weather Poses Headache to Invaders   Reinforcements Will Continue to Enter Conflict

FIRE LOSSES Ih CITY RECORD BIG JUMP   $82,609 Last Year as Compared With $33,091 in 1942

Probe Mystery In Chicago Murder   Possible Movements Of Kilner Prior To Shooting Are Factor In Case   SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES ALSO FEATURE

Possible Movements Of Killer Prior To Shooting Are Factor In Case   SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES ALSO FEATURE

Landon Says Hull Is Not VeryExplicit   REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARER CALLS FOR EXPLANATION OF WORDS USED BY SECRETARY’S RADIO ADDRESS.   Calls for Definiteness

COUNTY FAILS 19 MAKE BOND QUOTA   Total is $.00)0 Short of G:al in “March Campaign.

COUNTY FAILS 10 MAKE BOND QUOT!   Total is $20,030 ° ‘Short of Gral in ‘March Campaign.

World Peace Plans Agreed Upon  in lri-Power lalks   General Outlines Closely Paralleling American Ideas Are Supported; Role of Small Nations Being Discussed

3 GREAT POWERS. AGREE ON PLAN TO PREVENT WAR   U.S, Britain and Russia Take First Steps Toward Formation of. World Peace Agency.   CALLS FOR COUNCIL OF LARGER NATIONS   Piher Machinery to Settle Disputes Would Include Assembly and Inter- _ national Court.

Move Answers Red Claim on Italian Navy   President Stresses ‘Equivalent’ Phrase in Former Statement

U.S., British Warships Going to Russ   Roosevelt Denies Conflict Over Jtaly Fleet Status

ROW QUIETED OVER ITALIAN FLEET SHARES   U. S., British Craft to See Soviet Service

Reds To Get U.S. British Fleet Units  FDR Denies All Hinte OF Casffi-

Aussia%9 S2- 2S anc 3ri-isa Sains  ote eres  rm ‘4 En PAN St a en 2 2 _0O fee” 21M ON 416 1: 41.ee =

American And British Ships To Be Turned Over To Russia   Transfer of Vessels Planned Instead of Part of Italian Fleet—President Roosevelt Says no ‘Controversy Involved

U.S. and British Warships to Go To Russian Navy   To Satisfy Claims on Italian Fleet Informed Reports Disclose

Russians ToGet U. S. Warships   Change Due to Diminishing i ee ee ee 2 oe) Pe

Soviets Get Allied Ships As War Claim   FDR Says Number To Equal One-Thirc Italian Navy

Larry Allen Describes Eseape And Capture In Italy And Germany In His Second Story

SOLDIER VOTE PLAN ‘FRAUD’   Senate - Approved Bill Hit By Roosevelt

SENATE VOTE ON “ELECTION BILL IS DENOUNCED BY FR   ‘President Calls It a Fraud or  the Men Now In Trainjpn

Senate Vote Bill Is Called Fraud   Roosevelt Enters Battle To Give Soldiers and Sailors Voice jn Government at Home

F.R. CALLS STATE SOLDIER VOTE BILL, A FRAUD   Message Te Congress Condemns Measure Passed By Senate

F.D.R. Condemns Senate's Bill On Soldier Vote   Brands Measure As Fraud On Servicemen For Discrimination

President Denounces Soldier Vote Bill Passed by Senate   “Fraud on Servicemen Now Training and Fighting.”

FR. Denounces Soldier Vote Bill Passed by Senate Dec. 3 As Fraud On Soldiers, Sailors, Marines

SENDS SPECIAL MESSAGE 10 SOLONS TODAY   Declares Measure Would Not Aid Balloting By Men in Armed Forces; Compromise Plan is Debated.

ASKS ADOPTION OF COMPROMISE NOW ON FLOOR   Believes Vote Should Be Open

Soldier Vote Bill Blasted   ‘Fraud on Service Men, Claims Roosevelt in His Message

F.R. Hits Soldier Vote Bill   SAYS MEASURE PASSED BY SENATE “FRAUD ON FIGHTING SERVICEMEN”

President Sends Special Message To Congress In Endorsement Of Lucas-Green Measure

PRES. ACTS IN SOLDIER:  VOTE MATTER      Sends Special  Message to Congress Today.

FR Denounces Senate Soldier Voting Measure   Says Measure “Fraud” On Men In Service Training and Fighting

FEW BALLOTS OPENED   Errors Made by Censors Rare, Stimson Asserts

DESTROYERS BLAST THREE JAP VESSELS   Kavieng Also Heavily Bombarded by Halsey  Patrol Force

OPEN COUNTY G.0.P. DRIVE   Rally Tonight To Launch Busy Five Weeks’  Campaign

capeaneette titania  PHONE STRIKE HEARING TO BE IN DAYTON DEC. &

fall Of Simferopol Is Reported As Russians Move Steadily Down Fast And West Coasts

GERMANS ARE PINNED AGAINST CFA IN CRIMEA   Three Orders of Day Broadcast from Moscow

20,000 Yanks Captured By Nazis-Berlin   Allied Supply Columns Overtaken By Germans, Says Radio

Nazis Claim Capture Of 20,000 Yanks   Liege-Bastogne Road Reported Cut

Germans Claim 20,000 Yankees Taken Prisoner   Americans Unable To Check Offensive, Say: Berlin; 6 Supply Ships Sunk. Foe Reports

Germans Say 20,000 Captured   Enemy Asserts U.S. Supply Columns Caught By Tanks.

ClO LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR WAGE INCREASE   Move Aimed as Smashing Little Steel Formula

Steel Workers Launch Drive For More Pay   Campaign Opens To Smash Wage Formula of Plants

CIO Begins Drive For Wage Hike   Attempt Being Made to Break the Little Steel Formula.

CIO Starts Wage-Hike Campaign   Outlines Demands to WLB Six-Man Panel In Effort to Smash  Little-Steel Formula

Steel Union Opens Drive For Demands  - Murray Outlines To WLB Bases   Murray Outlines To WLB Bases Of 14 Demands Of Union

Steel Union — Begins Drive For Wage Boost   Campaign Against Little Steel Formula Opens

C10 ATTACKS PAY FORMULE   Lists 14 Demands Aimed To Break ‘Little Steel’ Yardstick

STEELWORKERS OPEN ATTACK ON PAY CODE   Murray And Aids Outline 14 Demands Before WLB 

UNITED STEEL WORKERS OPEN WAGE BATTLE   ‘Campaign to Smash Little Steel Wage Formula Started with Hearing Before WLB Panel   PRESENT FIGURES   Claim Workers Frozen Segment of Economy, Agriculture, Industry Tocome Guaranteed

START DRIVE FOR HIGHER WAGE LEVEL   WLEB In Effort To Break Steel Formula

GIO OPENS LITTLE STEEL RULE FIGHT   Want 17-Cent Wage Increase, Guaranteed Annual Wane. Other Concessions

Main Attack On Little Steel Scale Begun   Murray Voices 14-Point Union Demand of the ‘Frozen Segment’

YOUNG DEMS 10 ENDORSE FOR   Expect Decision To Highlight Ohio Convention

4TH TERM REQUEST  EXPECTED AT MEET   Young Democratic Club Opens Convention

WICK COLLAPSE BULGARIAN FATE   Small Minion Of Hitler Accused Of Harboring  German Soldiers

BORDER NOT CROSSED BUT EXPECTED SOON   Long In Axis Camp, Nation Not At War With Reds Until Now; Germans Used Land As Haven ‘After Fleeing Romania

Dien! A iyogee nes 28 Russians Lose Patience; Declare War on Bulaars

( uick Plunge Across Small Nation Looms   Red Declaration Fiatly Accuses Bulgaria of ‘Harboring German I Tréovs From Romani

Nazis Are Allowing Easier Travel in North Country  Passage {ts Permitted From Sweden to Denmark, Germany

230,000 10 BE TAKEN OFF JOBS   Big Benefit Seen Fo Armed Forces In New Draft Program

HANOVER FIGHTER PRAISED AT FRONT   Pfe, Ernest D. Barnes Personally Commended By Officer For Courage And Devotion To Duty

231 Japanese Killed In Mutiny   108 Wounded In Australia Prison Camp.

Congress To Meet Monday   Bitter Wrangling Is Foreseen For Session

Legislators Are Returning — To Capital; 78th Congress Starts Session on Monday

Congress to Meet Again On Monday   Taxes, Subsidies, Soldier Vote Are All Heated Issues

49 BILLION WAR BILL APPROVED   Cut Seen Probable If Nazi Resistance Crumbles

Mrs. J. F. Russell  Died Saturday .  Had Long Been ‘ In Poor Health

Mrs. J. F. Russe J.F. Russell  Died Saturday  Had Long Been * . In Poor. Health  -'

ANNIE RUSSELL TAKEN BY DEATH   F uneral, Today  For One of Oldest Members of St.  ‘lames ‘Parish 

Polities Fund Official Held In Contempt   Refusal to Tell Donor Names Brings Citation

RUMELY IS CITED BY SENATE GROUP   House Committee Charges Refusal to Submit .. + Names

‘Committee  Faces Charge ‘Of Contempt   ' Gannett Group Refuses To Give House Probers List of Contributors

RUMELY CITED.   House Probers -Ask-Federal Court Action to Learn ' Cantrihitore

New Dealers Cite Rumely to Grand Jury   SECRETARY OF COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO PRODUCE LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.   Communists Escaped

House broup Says Rumely InCo empt   Stalls Act{on Against Gannett fommitteeman for Refusal To Na. ad Donors

Rumely Defies House Campaign Investigators   Constitutional Government Committee Official Held “In Contempt’

HOUSE GROUP WOULD INDICT ORGANIZATION   Committee Holds Gan.nett Body Is Political In Nature

AIR INVASION OF EUROPE IN STH DAY   Heavyweights Go Out in Waves as Night Bombers Return

MUNICH AND. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AMONG TARGET: AS HUNDREDS OF FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS . SWEEP OVER EUROPE AFTER NIGHT RAIDS— “WIDESPREAD BATTLES IN AIR RE-— ‘PORTED BY BERLIN RADIO

PLAN AMENDMENTS TO FCG MEASURE   Would Ban ¢ Commerciat Sponsorship of News Broadcasts.

SWEEPING RADIO CHANGES AIRED   Measure Proposed by Wheeler Would Ben Commercial News Broadcasts

Shanti Saccth™ aecrarar arse ies  Blood Donor Freed From fury Serviean

Editions of Two Australian Papers Seized for Violating of Censorship

wspaper's ized for Violations   ice in Austrutia ke Action After  Jailies. Defy Pancarahnin >

Japs Fail In Landing Move At Gloucester   Marines Halt Attempt Of Jap Force To Land In New Britain   MANY JAP BARGES SUNK BY ALLIES

JAP LANDING — BEATEN OFF   MARINE ARTILLE RY MEN CREDITED WITH BREAKING UF ENEMY CONVOY OFF. NEW BRITAIN

New Developments In University. Struggle Brewing  49th Legislature, — Convening Next Weel.   49th Legislature, Conyvening Next Week Sure to Take a Hand:

NEW DEVELOPMENTS TEXAS UNIVERSHY pales SITUATION  OUTLOOK IS GOOD FOR SOME REVERBERATIONS FROM STATE LEGISLATUR

“Are You Crazy?” Say: Draftee in Examination  Before Psychiatrist

Reds Occupy Haapsalu Port In 32-Mile Advance: Three Armies Gain Ia Baltics

Russian Forces Advancing In Baltic States   Seek To Eliminate Nazi Gar.risons From Sector Before Winter Arrives   SOVIET TROOPS CONVERGE ON RIGA

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE 1S HELD INEVITABLE   Johns Hopkins Professor Says United States Is Far Behind Furopean Nations

Missouri River States Committee Unanimously Adopts Program for Development of Basin

Guerrillas Angry As Guns  Are Demanded   Unrest Sweeps Franee And Belgium Over Demobilization Order

AIR BLOWS CUT INTO NIP POWER   American Bombers Hit Enemy Bases Over Pacific Area

AIRMEN RENEW BLOWS AGAINST NIPPON’S POWER   Hurricane Slows  Fight On Leyte

Military Intelligence Draws Blame  Drive Catches Allies Off Guard

Allied Intelligence Caught Napping?  Nazi Success Traced To Surprise

Correspondent Attempts To Answer Pertinent Questions   BELIEVE ALLIES CAUGHT UNAWARE   Finger Of Blame Points Toward Military Intellizvence

NAZI OFFENSIVE CAUGHT ALLIES OFF BALANCE   Military Observer: Say Germans Stored Outstanding Surprise

Indicate Nazi Offensive Caught Aliies Off Balance; Intelligence Is Blamed for Lack of Warning

FACTORS BEHIND NAZI SURPRISE THRUST ANALYZED BY REPORTER   RECONNAISSANCE, INTELLIGENCE BLAMED IN FAILING TO DETERMINE GERMAN STRENGTH

GERMANS SCORED MAJOR SURPRISE BECAUSE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE WAS FAULTY SAYS CORRESPONDENT      Re TAA4T COLINGY

BYRNES FIGHTS WAR SHORTAGE   Considers Drastic Action To Assure Vital Supplies

Byrnes Orders War Agencies to Concentrate on Ending Critical Shortages of Materiel

Agencies Told To End Lags in  War Program   Lack of Materials, Weapons May Prolong War, Byrnes Says

Byrnes Acts To End Vital Shortages   WAR MATERIALS AND WEAPONS MUST BE PRODUCED TO AVERT PROLONGATION OF THE CONFLICT,   Tightens Regulations

Byrnes Says Lack Of Weapons May  Halt Reconversion U. S. Agencies Orderec  To Concentrate on Ending Vital Shortages

Byrnes Moves To End Critieal War Shortages   Delays Drastic Action; Hits Mistaken Belief War Is Virtually Over

BYRNES’ ORDER AIMS AT END OF SHORTAGES   ‘Action Taken as Senate Confirms Him  In War Job

ACTION I TAKEN BY BYRNES T0 END SHORTAGE OF ARMS   Four Agencies Ordered to Concentrate On Increasing Production to Meet Demands at Front.   RATIONING OF SHELLS BY EISENHOWER BARED   - Mobilization Chief Says 200,000 Additional. Workers Could Break Bottleneck  and Shorten War.

British Government Denies Peace Plee Made to United Nations by Germany

Reds Chop Way Towa! The Baltic        DRIVE INTO GERMAN FLANK ON 100-MILE BATTLE FRONT BELOW CITY OF LENINGRAD

SOVIETS MOVE ON BALTIC N BLOODY FIGHT   Battle Through Heavy German Defenses. After Record Barrage: . Also “Gain in Southern Area.

Nazi Nofonse  Is ‘Paralyzed By Artillery  Long Expected Offensive in Leningrad Area. Is Launched RUSS GUNS MASSED Every Firing Point in  Foe’s Advanced Area  Is Covered

SOVIETS START 2 NEW DRIVES TOWARD BALTIC   Pulverizing Gun Barrage Paces Push West Of Leningrad

Reds Smash Way Toward Baltic Sea   Great Offensive  Launched in North To Relieve Leningrac

AFL May Uatalal  2 States “Unfair   Resolutions Against Flor ida, Arkansas Pending

Third Division, Which Includes Men From - Montana, Is Cited for Distinguished Work

Rare Honor Bestowed Upon Boys Of Third Division On Anzio Beachhead

Americans Beat Off New Attack Aimed at Relieving Aachen; Germans See Big Thrust at Cologne

Strike Halts War Plant In Detroit   Second Time Five Chevrolet Plants Involved

LEND-LEASE AlD TO STRIKE NEW, MIGHTIER BLOWS      President Gives Congress General Review Of Forthcoming Offensives

LEND-LEASE AID NOW OVER 24 BILLIONS   FDR Says New Blows Imminent at Europe With All Forces]: Well Supplied With Necessary Tools of War; Use of Plu-): ral Indicates More Than One “Invasion’’ Will Be Staged. 

F.R.: BLOWS TO FALL ON NAZIS FROM 3 WAYS   Lend-Lease Report Refers to Several Invasions on Continent

NEW BLOWS TO BE STRUCK IN EUROPE SAYS ROOSEVELT   President Gives Congress Report On Lend-Lease and Offensive To  CO Renn

ALLIES ABOUT 10 STRIKE NEW BLOWS, CLAIM   Record-Breaking Help Given by JU. S. in Three Months

MIGHTY LEND LEASE BEHIND INVASION LINE   F.D.R.’s Report for Congress Says China Wilt Get Its Later.

PRES. DELIVERS. ADDRESS TO CONGRESS TODAY   Review of Forthcoming Offensive and Figures on Lend-Lease Given to’ Nation .

United Nations Set To Strike, President Says   Lend-Lease Report Shows Allies Strongly Armed For Multinie Front:

Lend-Lease Aid Totals Nearly D5 Billions   March Hits All Time High, Says President

F.R. Message Says Invasions  Readv to Strike   Lend Lease Review Gives Picture of Events Soon T, Hannon

Lend-Lease to Finance Smash   Offensives to Come From East, West, South Summarized, Aid to Britain, Russia, Other United Nations Told

Lend-Lease ls Outlined   President Says Best Equipment Available

USE OF PLURA! WORD “INVASIONS” CAUSES COMMENT AFTER PRESIDENTS’ REPORT OW LENS-LEASE TODAY

Lend-Lease Aid Hits 24 Billion, Congress Told   Drives From All Sides Against Nazi Bastion Promised In Report

LEND-LEASE REPORT HINTS INVASION DUE   Three-Way Blow To Blast Europe FDR Says

Roosevelt, in Lend-Lease Report, Says Allies Are About To Strike

President’s Report On Lend-Lease Aid Hints Blows Near   Chief Executive Declares Nazis Face Attacks From South, East Amd West When Offensives Besoin

Pledges More Lend-Lease  To Russia   Says Soviet Will Be Strengthened For Joint Drive

OPERATION UNDER LENO-LEASE TOLD   President Gives Congress Report on Program; Says Invasion Forces About to Strike Mightier Blows

Asserts Allies Will Strike On All Sides   Pictures Patriots Armed by U. S. Ready to Attack

F. R. SAYS ALLIES ABOUT 10 STRIKE NEW AND MIGHTIER BLOWS AT‘AXIS EUROPE   Reveals Lend-Lease Aid Totalled Over 24 Billions To April 1; Includes 30,000 Planes, 25,000 Tanks

ALLIES TO STRIKE FROM 3 DIRECTIONS   So Says President In Report on Lend-Lease

American Heavies Bomb Vienna For Second Day  Force Fights Way Through Many Nazi Interceptors

Local Airman: ‘Is Graduate. : Gunnery Unit   Lt. Lawrence Klass Among Group to Train Nation's . Future Gunners.

SWEDES MAY FIGHT NAZIS IN NORWAY’   Formation of Volunteer Corps Gains Inapetus With Liheration

Highway Construction Work In Ulinois Will Total About $11,500,000

NAZI WEAPON CENTERS HIT   Allied Bombers Continue Heavy Aerial Assault Throughout Reich

Heavy Bomhers Hit Nazi Laboratories Germany’s Secret  Weapons Are Shand AL Bttearnwle

PLANES BLAST FLYING BOMB LABORATORIE!   Fortresses And Liberators Strike Oil Refineries At Hamburg And Harburg

Heavy Bombers Hit Nazi Laboratories  Germany’s Secret Weapons Are Ohiect af Attack

Rouseville Man Wounded   Luther Cox Wounded In France — In  Hospital in England

Churchill Was Back Of Order   Ordered Stricter Censorship On Anzio Beachhead Struggle Reports

Churchill Says He Put On Lid   Holds Newsmen At Beachhead Blameless For “The Trouble”

Tightening Censorship Explained   New Restrictions Asked Because Of Alarmist Reports

CHURCHILL SAYS HE HAD ORDERED TIGHT CENSORSHIP   Recent Restrictions on News from Anzio Front Explained by Prime Minis  tar

MADE REQUEST ON CENSORSHIF   Churchill Discloses That He Issued Order for Restricting News.

REPORTS ISLAND GIRLS “TAI DARK AND UGLY”   Churchill Ordered Tightening Of Censorship On Anzio Front

Censorship Order Is Given By Churchill   Words Like “Desperate” Ought Not Be Used In Beachhead Battle, Says  Prime Minister

Americans Bear Western Front Fighting Brunt   Heavy Weight In Pacific is U. S.

Other Nations Have Troops Elsewhere American Troops Bear  Weight Of West Front  “eee ®

U.S. SATISFIED WITH TROOP. ALLOCATION:  STIMSON WON'T DISCUSS PROPORTION

U. S. Apparently Satisfied With Troop Allocations on Western Front, Where Americans in Majority

U.S. Apparently Satisfied With Allied Sharing of Strength On West Front, Yanks in Majority

U. 5. WAR LEADERS COMPLACENT ABOUT SHARING OF BURDEN  STIMSON DECLARES HE IS CONVINCED ALL ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN

United States Is Satisfied ©   ‘Allied Fighting: ‘Stren eth: ‘Shared

Says Troop Division Fair   Population Is Basis For Number of Troops Used By: Allied Nations

U.S. Appear: Satisfied In Division  Of Forces   Most Troops On Western Front Are American; Position Tun Italy Reversed

ADVANCES RAPIDLY   g@:arly Clearing OF Supply Route Is Predicted

KEY POSITION FOR ALLIES AT ARNHEM LOS]   Meanwhile British and Belgians  Battle to Strengthen Their Foothold an Dutch Soil

INSTALL 4-H ~ OFFICERS AT RALLY DAY      Alice Weir. Is:'Named '- President.

‘Two Incumbent Senators Certain of Renomination   Warren G. Magnuson. Holds Strong Lead In Washington Primary

Two Incumbent Senators Lead in Primaries   Elections Held in Six States on Tuesday

Japs Retreat In Vogel-Kop Area   Attempt To Evacuate West Dutch New Guinea

JAPS IN FULL RETREAT FROM DUTCH GUINEA      Attempting To Evacuate All 0! Western Dutch N. Guinea

30,000 JAPS RETREAT IN NEW GUINEA   Indicate Nips Pian to Abandon Last Positions There

CAN BUY MEAT FROM FARMER   12 Red Stamps in Ration Book 4 Are Made Valid Immediately

Twelve Red Ration Stamps Are Now Valid For Buying Meat From Farmers   New Regulation Became Effective On January 17

WARNS USED CAR SELLERS, BUYERS NOT'T0 BE RUSHED BY CEILING LAW   July 10 Simply Marks Ativent Of Maxirhum Prices, Not Raticening, But Some Dealers ‘Chiseling’ On It

Stockholm Reports Six-Week Deadline Given Tiny Nation   Soviet Drive Toward Baltic Sea May Force Decisive Action ‘Soon Wieet-Planes Poised:as Fhreat..

ULTIMATUM IS GIVEN FINLAND   Report Reds Offer Six-Week Period To Quit War

FINLAND TOLD 10 QUIT WAR WITHIN G WEEKS OR ELSE -  Helsinki Must Accept Russia’: Terms or Face Possible Annihilation.

Germans Mass Forces for Attack  On Beachhead   Montgomery Declares European War Can  Be Won This Year

 Russians Rout — German Armies     FLEEING NAZIS DRIVEN BACK INTO OLD POLAND

TEMPERATURES   Brest Lifovsk Added To List Of Red Triumphs   Beaten Germans Retreat To Polish Capital As Cossacks Charge

Cossacks, Tanks Chase Germans to  Warsaw's Suburbs  Moscow Celebrates Greatest _ Number of Victories in Nazis  Blackest Day of War

OHIOANS PLAN !WANTS GREE LESS GARDENS TO END FIG   Ohio Airmen Heroes  In Weekend Bombing

Gain Through Siegfried Line   Seize Position 32 Miles From Cologne

Truman Charges Republican Plot   Sees GOP Taking Unfair Advantage

SEN. TRUMAN URGES RE-ELECTION OF FDR   Missouri Eepresentative Admits Administration Has Made Some Mistakes, However

F.B. I. SEIZES WARD OFFICIAL   Charged With Taking  Down Gov’t Poster ) In Plant

Ward Official Seized by FBI Avents   Taken While “Taking Down’ U. S. Poster, Attorney Says

An Official Of Wards Ils Nabbed   CHARGED WITH REMOVING A GOVERNMENT POSTER

Ward Official Nabbed By FBI, Charged With U. S. Property Theft Or Injury

Assistant Manager ‘At Ward's Plant Arrested by FBI   Accused of ‘Stealing or Injuring’ Government Property in Taking Bown Poster 8 .......

ANOTHER WARD OFFICIAL SEIZED BY GOVERNMENT   Asst. Operating Manager Sowell Charged with.  “Stealing or Injuring” U. S. Government Property

WARD OFFICIAL: crue BY FA   Assistant Operating Manager Charged With Stealing U. 8. Property.

WARD OFFICIAL SEIZED. BY FBI   SOWELL ACCUSED OF STEALING, INJURING U. S. GOV'T PROPERTY

“xecutive of Wards Seized By FBI Agents   Taken in Custody While Removing  Federal Poster

FBI Arrests Ward's Ass’t Manager   Charged With ‘Removing Government Property Posters From U. §.

Ward Official Seized by FBI Agents   Sowell Is Accused Of Stealing Government Poster

Seize Ward Official    Accuse P. D. Sowell of “Stealing or Injuring Government Property”

Ward Manager Aide Arrested  By Government   FBI Agents Accuse Assist, ant Manager With “Steal-. i ing Or Injuring” Goyernment Property

HOLD ASSISTANT WARD MANAGER   FBI Seizes Sowell While Tak: ing U. S. Poster Down

WARD OFFICIAL SEIZED BY FBI FACING CHARGE   Assistant Manager of Co. Accused of ‘Stealing or Injuring’ U.S. Property

F.B.1. SEIZES OFFICIAL OF _ WARD PLAN   Assistant Operating Manager Accused of Injuring U. S. Property by  . “Taking Down” a Gov: -ernment Poster. _

NO REPORT ON MARCUS BLOW   Pear! Harbor Silent O1 Task Force Raid

BRILISH FORCES SWEEP THROUGH  ATHENS SUBURBS   25,000 ELAS Troops Hold Capital; English Reinfcrcements Arrive

British Battle Rebels in Greece   Launch Sweep in Suburbs of Athens

BRITISH FORCES START OPER‘ATIONS DESIGNED TO QUELL DISTURBANCES ‘IN GREECE

Weather Bureau Warns New Col Wave To Hit Ohio by Friday   Say: Snowfall Will Not Be Heavy but Mercury Will Fall to 10 Degrees

SEVERE COLD WAVE ON WAY   New Wintry Blasts Due To Chill Ohioans; More Snow Falls

Another Cold Wave Heading For Ohio   Forecast Is for ‘Very Cold’ as Sub-zero Temperatures Grip Illinois and More Snow Falls Over Most of the State

SEVEN ENEMY BASES HIT BY BIG BOMBERS   Fields In Germany, Belgiur Holland Feel Weight Of Bombs

Nazi Aircraft Nests Blasted   Bombers Hit Invasion Areas In Lower France

Allied Planes Blast German Aircraft Nests   Raiders Lost 18 Bombers; Bulk Fail To Find Nazi Planes

3,000 ALLIED PLANES BOMB NAZI FIELDS   Concentrate On Airdomes In Occupied Area

SCORE OF AIRFIELDS BATTERED   3000 Allied Aircraft Hammer Germans In Invasion Areas

ALLIES MAKE BIG SWEEPS IN AIR WAR   By WALTER CRONKITE, 1 PP. War Correspondent.

Air Armada Covers Twin Invasion Areas   More Than 3,000 Planes Attack Nazis In Support Of Advancing Ground Forces

SEES JAPAN AS CONTINUING WAR FROM MANCHURI!      Spy Says War Will Be Carried  On Even After Japan Proper Taken

U.S. Downs 32 Jap Planes; Attack 3 Enemy Warships   Strafe and Bomb Destroyer; Marines Enlarge Holdings

Jap Warships Are Bombed   Two Cruisers Hit In Air Raid On Kavieng

25 Japanese Planes Shot Down in Battles In Bismarck Sea Area  _—" - —wreaPranweer. Brvryrreag ett

Yank Airmen Blast Three Jape Warships  Army Bombers Hit   Army Bombers Hit Paramushiro  In Kurile Isles

Famous Goering Division Thrown Back Near Reme   Allied Men, Supplies Continue To Arrive On italian Front

German Armor Attack Crushed   MEN, SUPPLIES CONTINUE TO PILE INTO STRATEGIC WEDGE THREATENING ROME; STIMSON SEES HEAVY BATTLE BELOW CAPITAL

26 Passengers On Train Hurt Olympian Derailed At Lake City Early Today

TRAIN DERAILED NEAR QDIN. ILL   Eleven Persons Injured On Illinois Central; Flagman Badly Hurt

Train Carrying Aleutian Battle Veterans Derailed; 26 Passengers Injurec

Derailment  Injures 26 —   Number Of Soldiers “On. Minnesota Train’

2G INJURED IN TRAIN ACCIDENT   Passenger Jumps Tracks al Lake City, Minn.

SIX PASSENGERS INJURED   Santa Fe’s California Limited De. railed Near Chicago

PLANS LAID FOR GERMAN FUTURE   @ merican Policy To Control Enemy's Resources Is Nearing Agreement

Fewer New Motor Cars: Deep Cut in Ration Allowance Announced; More Tires Allowed

YANKS ENTER LEYTE TOWN OF CARIGARA   Thus Last Japanese Concentration East of the Leyte Mountains Is on Verge of Falling to the Tijahoerators.

YANK FORCE BATTLES INTO LEYTE TOWN   Last Enemy Concentration East of Mountains On Verge of Falling To Cavairy Division

VILLAGE © ON LEYTE TOTTERING   One American Force In Town, Another Nearby

Carigara Qn Leyte Island {s Tottering   Elements of MacArthur’: Forees Already In Towns Jap Concentrations East  Of Leyte Near Capture

Americans Battle Into Leyte Village   Last Japanese Concentration In Mountains Ready to Fall to Yanks

Cavalrymen Battle Japs In Village   Defenses In South Pressed By U. S. 24th Division

New Gains by Cavalry On Leyte   Americans Battle Their Way Into Carigara, Where Japs Are Concentrated   24TH DIVISi:ON ALSO CLOSE BY   Seek to Open Coastal Road and Close Off Jap Reinforcement Base

Leyte Town Entered by Yank Troops   Last Concentration of Japs About to Fall; Will Oven Coast Road

Carigara Is Goal  Of Allied Forces   First Cavalry _ Division Enters Village in the  Philippines   American 24th Division Checked by Japs Blowing Up Bridges

CARIGARA FALL NEAR; COASTAL ROAD MENACED   Invaders Have Downhill Push To Hit Japs’ Last Port At Ormoc

Yanks Drive Info Village Held By Jans   Have Almost Cleared Leyte East of Mountains, Seek to Open Coastal Road

Carigara Is Goal Of Allied Forces   First Cavalry. Division Enters Village in the Philippines   ON ISLAND OF LEYTE   American 24th Division Checked by Japs Blow ing Up Bridges

Yanks Battle For Leyte Key   Carigara’s Capture Now Near, Would Hasten Island’s Fall

U.S. Forces Threatening Carigara   One American Unit Already Is In Town

YANK FORCES ENTER VILLAGE OF CARIGARA   Town On Leyte Totters Before Ameripan A'’deanwlt   24th. Division’s Advance Slowed By Road Bloeks

Yanks Taking  Carigara   Leyte Town on Verge of Falling; Would Close Enemy’ Vehicle Route

Carigara Expected to Fall Soon   Units of 24th Corps Driving Jungled Hills In the South

Besieged Carigara Totters   Yanks Push Push Way Into  Streets of Village, . Key to Enemy Escape Road Over Mountains

2 American Armies Set.  For Taking OF Carigara   Enemy: Force East, Of Leyte Is Circled

Carigara Tottering As American Troops Push Ahead  Jap’s Last Eastern Hold on Leyte Is Near to Capture

Yankees Battle For Control of Town on Leyte   Twenty-Fourth Division Meets Series of Japanese Obstacles.   Try to Close Nippon Reinforcement Route

Americans Have Carigara Within G:~sp; Japs East Of Leyte Mc’ xtains Weak

U. $. UNITS PUSH AHEAD ON LEYTE   American Troops Fight Way Into Carigara

Yanks Battle Into Only Jap Escape Route   Carigara’s Fall Would Close Only Route Over Mountains.

YANKS STORM LAST ESCAPE FOR JAPANESE      Key Town Of Carigar: Expected To Fall To MacArthur

Strikes Halt War Output   Three War Industries Affected By Walkouts

LANDING BARGE PLATE HELD UP   Strike Closes Big Steel Plant In Ecorse; 6000 Idle

Byrnes Appeals FDR Reelection   Says Changing Pitchers In Ninth Inning Will Endanger Progress of War.

PERFCOT GIRGLE PLANS DOUBLE CELEBRATION   Events Saturday to Miark Efficiency  aud Safety Awards

PERFEGT CIRGLE PLANS. DOUBLE. PELERCATION   Events Saturday to. Mark Efficiency . ‘and Safety Awards

ANRLINER GRAS CRASHES NTO. MUSSISSIPP   24 Aboard American Airlines Transcontinental Plane as it Falls into River

Parts Of Big Plane Located After Unexplained Crash And Explosion.

24 Die When Huge Airliner Plunges Into Mississippi   Transcontinental Ship Sinks Immediately  In River Channel 15 Miles Below Memphis

BIG PLANE HITS MISSISSIPPI R, AND THEN SINKS   Terrific Explosion Follows Passenger Plane’s Plunge Below Memphis

24 Die in River Plunge Of Air Liner   Bodies Sought in Mississippi; Parts Of Craft Salvaged

Crash Into Mississippi: Seek Bodies   Luggage Door Found As Army And Coast Guard Seek Wreckage Near  Memphis

Big Plane — Into River, ~~ 24 Killed   American: Airlines «Ship - Crashes Into Mississippi. . “Near Memphis   SEVERAL-ARMY-AIR : OFFICERS ABOARD   An Executive and Two Employes of. Sperry. Co.. > -“Amone::- Those’ Lost

TWENTY FOUR DIE WHEN PLANE CRASHES IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER   Engineer Sees Transcontinental Plane Explode Into Blazing Mass Then Sink Immediately.

American Transport Is Victim   Crashes Into Missis: sippi River Afire Near Memphis

24 Killed In Crash Of Airliner   Giant Plane Plunges Into Mississippi Rive Below Memphis; No . Clue As to Cause

Airplane Takes 24 To Death In River   Mississippi Rive: Swallows Them In Darkness

TWENTY-FOUR KILLED WHEN PLANE FALLS   American Airline Transport Sinks In Mississippi

Twelve of 21 Passengers Were Members Of Armed Forces; U.S. Engineers See © Plane Hit Water and Sink in Flames

TRANSCONTINENTAL PLANE GRASHED IN. THE MISSISSIPPI   Twenty-Four Persons Were Believed Killed in Crash Last Night.   TT SANK IMMEDIATELY   Accident Occurred Fifteen Milés Below Memphis,  Tenn.

24 Persons Die in Crash Of Air Liner   Big Plane Falls in River Near Memphis; Terrific Explosion Comes Right After Craft Hits Water .

DARTS OF PLANE. aEPORTED FONE   Terrific Explosion And Fire‘'As Giant Ship Plunges Into Water   SOUTH OF MEMPHIS   Rescue Squads Begin . Raising Section Of Wrecked Liner.

14 Meet Death In Liner Crash  Passenger Plane Plunaes into Rivér

SHIP EXPLODED AFTER PLUNGE, WITNESS SAYS   Terrific Explosion and Fire Followed Dive Into Mississippi

Engineers Locate Wreckage Of Plane 15 Miles Below Memphis; Terrific Explosion, Fire Precedes Fall Into Channel

BIG TRANSPORT SINKS IN RIVER   Most Of Those Aboard Craft Members Of Armed Services

TRAGEDY 19 MILES SOUTH OF MEMPHIS   Going Into Tennessee City on Run From Dallas When it Crashed Into Swift Current.

AIRLINER CRASHED INTO MISSISSIPPI RIVER; 24 ARE DEAD  AMERICAN AIRLINES AC. CIDENT OCCURRED AS MEMPHIS APPROACHED

Airliner Falls Into River; 24 Are Killed   Explosion and Fire Sends Plane Into Mississippi

24 LOSE LIVES WHEN AIRLINER DROPS IN RIVER   Big Plane Sinks in Mississippi Be low Memphis After Hitting Wat: er with Explosion, Fire   IN 22 FEET WATER   Amy Engineers Raise Parts of Plane, Delay Lifting Main Section for Heavier Equipment

Crash of Big: Airliner Kills 24 Occupants   Transcontinental Plane Falls Into Mississippi Below Memphis

Mystery Shrouds Tragedy   ARMY ENGINEERS RAISE SECTIONS OF AIRCRAFT, AWAIT HEAVY EQUIPMEN’

24 Killed When - Airliner Crashes Into Mississipp   ‘Terrific Explosion’ I: Blam

24 Lose Lives in Crash of Big Airliner   Explosion Follows Fall Into Mississippi River Near Memphis

PLANE PLUNGES IN. MISSISSIPPI NEAR MEMPHIS   Army Engineers Locate Parts Of Ship, Continue Search For Victims

FIRE FOLLOWS BiG EXPLOSION   Engineers Start Raising Sections of Craft From Mississippi River.   PASSENGERS ARE LISTED

Plane Falls Into River   Fear 24 Persons Killed In Plunge Into Mississippi

Sinks Soon After Being Enveloped  In Flames   Terrific Explosion And Fire, Witness Says; Area Searched In Vain For Trace

U.S. Engineers Report Tha Fire Engulfed Airliner In Crash Near Memphis

14 Perish When Plane Crashes Near Memphi   Big Airliner Dives Inte Mississippi River After Explosion

24 KILLED AS BIG AIRLINER CRASHES INTO MISSISSIPPI   Sections of the Sunken Plane Being Raised by Army Engineers Today—Recovery of Bedies Uncertain

PLANE FALLS IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND SINKS   WITNESS TELLS OF EXPLOSION, FIRE; RECOVER PARTS

24 KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES IN MISSISSIPPI   American Airliner Explodes, Sinks Immediately; Find Parts of Airplane

PLANE WITH 24 ABOARD FALLS TN. MISSISSIPPI       Part of Large Craft Found in Channel 15 Miles Below Memohis

GOVERNOR DEFENDS, UNIVERSITY REGENTS AS BEING QUALIFIED  _ HAS NO COMMENT ON FA CULTY’S REQUEST FOR RE INSTATEMENT OF RAINEY

British Radic Says Yanks Wipe Out Germans in City Which Guards Rome Valley

LONDON REPORTS SEIZURE BY YANKS OF SAN VITTORE   No-Quarter Street Fighting With Germans Had Raged     in Fortress Village Three Days,   3,500-FOOT MOUNTAIN FALLS TO AMERICANS   U. S. Troops to East of Cassino Face Artillery and Mortar Fire as They Seale Peak.

DEWITT ASSIGNED T0 EUROPE FRONT   EVACUATION GENERAL TAKES McNAIR’S PLACE

J), S. Paratroopers And British Reeapture Key Bridge, Speed To Relief Of Trapped Airborne Unit At Arnhem In Holland

Yanks Break Across Rhine, Rout Germans   Hodges Troops Enter Germany At Scharpenseel

Shoot Way Through Nazi Death Battalion In Nijmegen   NAZIS HAVE LITTLE LEFT TO HALT DRIVE  Few Narrow Canals Bar

Only a._Few Narrow Canals Bar Way te 'Ge man Plains Leading to Berlin 260 Miles“ , Beyond Dutch Border

VITAL BRIDGE IS SEIZED IN RAGING BATTLE   Only Few Narrow Canals Now Bar Path To Broad German Plains

Paratroopers Join British Rescue Column   Few Barriers Stand Between Arnhem And Broad Plains Leading To Berlin.

GERMANS TRYING TO EVACUATE MEN SOUTHERN FRANCE   Less Than 1,000 Germans Remain in Points South of Bordeaux, It is Stated

Act Against Evacuation Of Nazi Troops   French Patriots Are Disrupting Efforts Of Germans To Evacuate Southwestern France

French Patriots Harass Nazis Attempting To Get Out Of Southern France

‘Nazis Become Panic Stricken  About Maquis   French Patriots Sabotaging German Communication Lines

NAZI ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE DISRUPTED   French Patriots Sahotage Communications; Spread Panic.

Maquis Harass Nazis Left In  Southern France   Patriots Stage Acts Of Sabotage

Maquis Take Larger Part   Disrupt Nazi Efforts to Evacuate Men and Equipment from Southwest France

Maquis Harass Nazi Lines in South France  Treop Movement   Treop Movement Being Disrupted By Strong Bands

FRENCH HELP OUT   Patriots Make It Tough for  Nazis toMove Menand ~ Equipment

French Patriots A Germain Worry   Nazi Efforts to Evacuate Southwest France Disrupted

NAZIS LOSE 4? FIGHTERS TC AMERICANS   U. S. Bombers Bag Four, While Escorts Account for 38.

Superforts Out Again Over Manchuria   Tokyo Says Anshan And Two Other Towns Targets

Industrial Cities Are Reported Hit   Superfortresses Damage Anshan And Other Towns

Superfortresses Bomb Manchuria Again   Results of Hour-Long Attack Not Known. But Japs Claim Negligible Damage to Sections Hit; Industrial City Target

B-29’s Blast Jap Industry  In Manchuria   Enemy Says Denuded Philippines Base Fully Reinforced With Planes

ATTACK MANCHURIA ONCE AGAIN ToDAY   [Tokyo Radio Said Anshan Big Industrial City; and 2  Towns Were Targets.   BROADCAST GARBLED   Identification of Towns Other Than Anshan Were Not Clear.

Superforts In New Assault On Manchuria   Industrial Area Hit By B-29s; Tokyo Says Philippine Air Bases Now Reinforced

ANSHAN PLANTS ARE ATTACKED BY SUPERFORTS   Japs Claim B-29s Are Engaged in Heavy Fighting on Raid

‘Superforts Hit Big Manchurian Industrial City   Anshan Among Three _Places. Bombed;— Tokyo Reports Force Big.

Pacific Action By Superforts   AMERICAN PLANES ID RAIDS ON JAP PLANTS

Military Targets Are Hit   Big Yank Bomber: Go Out Again to Batter Japanese

Third Big ~ Assault On Manchuria   _Superbombers Return to Finish Off Anything OverTooked Previously   NO DETAILS UNTIL CREWS RETURN   » Japs Report 2 to 18 B-29s Sho Down;Say Phillippines Have Been Reinforced

SUPERFORTS AGAIN BLAST MANCHURIA   Tokyo Says Cities Of Anshan, Dairen, Penhsihu Were Hit

B-29s Hit Industry in Anshan   U. S. Marines Bypass Japs on Peleliu; Advance to North

3rd Attack on Steel Works In 3 Months   Knemy Says Interceptors Lie in Wait for B-29s; Heavy Fignt Reported

THIRD ATTACK MAKES. TARGET OF MANCHURIA   Tokyo Claims Philippine Air Bases Reinforced; Marines Gain On Peleliu

Air Blows Shift To North Bordet Of Nip Empire   Tokyo Claims More Planes Sent To Aid td Philippine Defenders

Jap Steel Center  Attacked   Tokyo Boasts Of New Philippine Plane Defenses

ANSHAN IS HIT AGAIN AS WELL AS PORT DAIREN   Tokyo Claims Two . Planes Downed On Home Radio, 13  In English

Japanese Claim 70 Superforts Blast Anshan, Penhsihu   Tokyo Says 2 to 13 Superfortresses Shot Down; Report Nip Air Bases Reinforeced in Philippines

Superforts Blast Japanese Targets  * Manchuria Visited Again by Air Giants

Anshan Hit In Assault On Plants   Tokyo, Radia. Says 70 Phines In Raid

Anshen Hit Twice Before; Enemy Claims 13 Of Big Planes Shot Down After Main Assault On Wanchnris   NINTH MISSION FOR SUPER FORTRESSES

B-29'S ATTACK JAP FACTORIES   Tokyo Says P Philippines Reinforced; Gain On Peleliu

ANSHAN, STEEL CENTER, AMONG AIR TARGETS   American Forces Step Up Battle for Protective Bases of Philippines.

Japs Say Anshan,  ms 2 Other Towns Hit, By 70. Superforts   anda, Dairen~ ‘Thought —“Fargets™ “In: Raids. On War’ Factories:. --Nips Claim: 13: U, S. Planes Lost.

B-29’s Smash Steel Center Ii Manchuria   Vital Anshan Area Hit By Superforts For Third Time   TAPS ADMIT RAID      Tokyo Radio Mentions Two Other Cities Hit Bv Planes.

B-29's Again Hit Manchuria   Strike Vital Steel-Coal Area; Struggle Continues On Peleliu Island

Superforts Hit Manchuria Again Today   Steel, Chemical Plants At Anshan Are Targets of Americans

Jap Mainland Is Bombed by Superforts    Vital War Industry in Manchuria Attacked; Japs Claim Philippine Air Bases Fully Reinforced

JAPANESE REPORT ATTACK, CLAIM PLANES DOWNED  ee ee ae eee ee ee ee ee a ae

American Air Power Shifted Suddenly from Softening Up Philippines To Jap War Plants in Manchuria — Island Fighting and Battles in China and Burma Continue

Third B-29 Raid Hits Jap Arsenal   Superfortresses Smash at Enemy War Industries  in, Manchuria   PILOT HITS 3. SHIPS   In Single Bombing Run at Davao; Marines Circle  Peleliu Hill

Hapanese Chemical And Steel Installations Are Targets of Bombers

Steel Center of Anshan Hit, Tokyo Reports   War Department Gives No Details of B-29 Raid

New Smash At Japan's War Plants   Big Anshan Steel Works Blasted By Superforts For Third Time.

NEW ATTACK ON JAPS IN MANCHURIA   Tokyo Says Large Industrial City Of Ashan Raided

ANSHAN, 2 OTHER TOWNS HIT, SAYS TOKYO BROADCAST  CLAIM TWO RAIDERS   CLAIM TWO RAIDERS SHOT DOWN, FOUR OTHERS DAMAGED

U.S. B-29s Raid Manchuria For Third Time   Anshan, Dairen Hit; Marines Switch Tactics on Peleliu

Chemical and Steel Works At Anshan Hit   Huge Raiding Squadron Stabs Key City For Third Attack

MANCHURIA IS TARGET TODAY OF U. $, B29'S   Third Attack On Jap Mainland In Three Months

Object of Hit Was to Clean Up Anything Overlooked Previously.   AWAIT WORD OF DAMAGE

STH BLOW BY B-29’S REPORTED   Tokyo Claims 13 Of 70 > Huge Bombers Shot Down In Attack

B-29s Hit Anshan — Again   Tokyo Says 70 Superforts Take Part in. Raid, 3rd Since July; Flank Japs On Peleliu

GUN FOR SPOTS OVERLOOKED IN FORMER ATTACK   Anshan, Site of Steel and Chemical Plants, Blasted in Largesized Daylight Raid.

Superforts Again Hit  Manchuria   Tek o .announces 70 B-29s Reid  3 Steel Cities in Jap-Held China

Yank Super-Fortresses Blast Manchurian War-Plant City; Japs Claim 13 Downed

ANSHAN LISTED AS TARGET BY TOKYO   Operation Is Third Major Attack For B-29’s   Trying To Split Japanese Garrison On Peleliu; Philippines Raided

Manchuria Hit by Superfortresses Third Time Today   Tokio Claims Big Philippine Plane Losses Replaced

Bi g Industrial City Of Anshan One Of Target:   Two. Other Japancse-Con; trolled Steel, Coal. and . Aluminum Centers Believed Raided   Nippon. For ee On -Pelelia Bypassed   Marines Advance to Within Mile. of Northern Tip Of Island; Flying Boat Sinks 3 Jap Ships

More U. S. Bombs On Manchuria   Anshan Is Included In Latest. Foray by The Superfortresses

Americans Drive ‘Into Streets ‘of Doomed Citv   Whole British Second Army and U. S. First Army at Western Gates ot Germany Show Sions of Erunting

U.S. Guns Smash New Nazi Effort To Relieve City   Germans Expect Big Blow North of Aachen; Many Tanks Destroyed

Yanks Smash Into Aachen   Nazis Lose Heavily In Futile Effort To Relieve Men In Debris-Strewn City

Americans Enter City from South And from East   Germans Lose 84 Tanks, 30 Planes

84 GERMAN TANKS DESTROYED  IN BITTER BATTLE AT AACHEN   Doughboys With Flamethrowers, Grenades And Tommyguns Carry Fight Into Debris-Littered Streets Of Dead City; 30 Nazi Planes Are Downed

NAZIS BEING ROUTED FROM CITY'S RUINS   U. S. Tanks and Infantry. Break Into Fortress as Rescue Units to North Are Smashed.   IPATTON’S FORCES  “XN BITTER FIGHT.   Battle Enemy Hand-toHand Six Miles From Metz — British Second Army Advances Mile.

Narrow Nazi Corridor to Half Mile, Smashing Reinforcements Massed for Last Stand.

Yanks Storm City From East, South   Entry Effected After Fight Lasting 48 Hours

German Armor Badly Battered In Rescue Try   American Guns Wilt Force Harled at Steel Circle; Wass Lnse 230 Planec

Nazis Lose Heavily In Futile Effort To Relieve Men In Debris-Strewn City

Yanks Routing Enemy Out Of Debris of City   Germans Lose 84 Tanks, 30 Fighter Planes in Bitter Combat; British Army Makes Gains in Holland

WHOLE FRONT APPEARS SET FOR ERUPTION   HUN TANKS RUSHING TO AID KEY CITY ARE SMASHED

Aachen Link With Reich Is Reduced To Half Mile   Strong German Bid By First-Line Troops To Relieve Garrison Smashed by Americans  OTHER FRONTS STIR

Yanks Crush Nazis’ Hopes At Aachen Destroy Tank-lec   Relief Forces;  Push Into City

JAPS RACING AGAINST MONSOON SEASON SEEK T0 CAPTURE RICH FOOD AREA ININDIA SECTOR _   Jap Advance Has Reached Outksirts of Kohima, 35 Jungle Miles from Important Bengal-Assam Supply Route Feeding Allied Forces in China anc Northern Burma oo

Japs Place Imphal Plain Under Siege   Enemy Drive in India Nears Vital Route; Foe Claims Victory

IMPHAL PLAIN UNDER VIRTUAL SIRE BY JAPS   Enemy Attempts To Outflank: Base and Advances Despite Losses.

JAPANESE DRIVE HAS PUT INDIAN PLAIN OF IMPHAL UNDER SIEGE  INVADERS DRIVING TO  INVADERS DRIVING TOWARD IMPORTANT ALLIEI SUPPLY ROUTE

Truk Is Blasted As Jap Drive In India Increases   Enemy Pushing Down From Burma Runs Into Clash Wit! Allied Forces in Race Against Monsoons - - Meanwhile, Big Nip Island Naval Base Being Given PreInvasion ‘Softening Un’ Assaults

Jap Drive Reaches Kohima, Plain Of Imphal Besieged   Threatens Supply Lane Between Burma, China

Imphal Plain Under Siege Of Japanese   Allied Officers Admit Increasing Pressure  As Enemy Races  With Monsoon Season

Japs Put Squeeze On Imphal   Attempt Flanking Move From Southwest; Allied Fliers Blast Jap Bases At Truk and Hollandia

Imphal Plain Under Siege Of Japanese   Enemy Forces Race Against Monsoon Season In India Invasion

JAPSEXERTING NEWPRESSURE UPON IMPHAL   Nipponese Drive Into India Menaces Important Bengal-Assam Supply Route to Allies

ALLIES ADMIT ENEMY HAS NOW "REACHED KOHIME   : Nips Race Against  - Coming Of Monsoons To Endanger Railway

BRITISH ADMIT JAPANESE UNITS ENTER KOHIMA   Nip Troops Only 35 Miles from Bengal-Assam Supply Route

JAPANESE DRIVE HAS PUT INDIAN PLAIN OF IMPHAL UNDER SIEGE  . INVADERS DRIVING TO* WARD IMPORTANT ALLEL SUPPLY Ri

Singapore All Over Again? died Command Now Admits Imphal Plain Under Jap Siege

IMPHAL PLAIN UNDER HEAVY JAP PRESSURE      Enemy Pushes to Outskirts of Kohima, 35 Miles From Road Which Feeds Allies in China and Northern Burma.

Japs Besiege Imphal Plain   Strike to Outskirts o Kohima, Seek to Capture All of Rich Plain

Plain In India Under Siege By Japs   Nips Reach Outskirt: Of Kohima, Near Supply Route

IMPHAL PLAIN UNDER SIEGE BY NIPPON FORCES   Allies Report Sea And Ai Successes On Other Pacific Fronts

‘Allied Forces [Now In Contaet  With Japanese   Tokyo Claims Capture Of Kohima; Allies Say Out. skirts Penetration Beaten Off   Nips Threatening  Vital Supply Road   Revealed For First Time Enemy Attempting Quiflank Imphal Defenders From Southwest

HAMBURG HIT BY BRITISH MOSQUITOS   Other Targets Are Also Raided By RAF Fieets

Axis Reports Scattered Allied “Nuisance Railers” Struck At Germany By Daylight; Scout Out New Tarrete   LIBERATORS RAKE INVASION COAS'

DAYLIGHT STAB AT GERMANY IS NOT CONFIRMED   Allied Photo Fliers May Be Scouting Reich For New Targets

16 Bombers Forced Down   U.S. Planes Crash Or Land Sofely in Neutral Switzerland

Alles Enlarge Hold On Strong  Mariana Islands   Important Peak Taker By Americans

Allies Enlarge Hold on Marianas   Huge Jap Land Drive Threatens Chinese City Of Hengyang. Railroad

ENLARGE HOLD ON MARIANAS   Marines, Infantrymen Back Japs Into Saipan’s Northern Half.   STIFF BATTLE IN. CHINA

Trade Blows With Japs — In Pacific   Allies Enlarge Hold  On Saipan, While Enemy Forces Close in On Hengyang in China

Americans Back Japanese on Saipan  Into Northern Half; Little Resistance

SAIPAN’S CHIEF + CITY IS PROBED ~ BY THE ALLIES   “Patrols Find No Resistence at Gerapan—Japs Flee to Mountains

U. S. Forees Take Peak On Saipan   We Now Hold Half Of Island: Jap Plane Losses  Reach 747

Hold on Saipan Continues to Grow   Hengyang Is Now China Focal Point

YANKS EXPAND THEIR HOLD ON SAIPAN TODAY   Major City On Island Appears Ready To Fall   PEAK CAPTURED   J apanese ~ Threaten To Engulf Key Chinese City

Yanks Capture Mt. Tapotchau On Saipan Island   Jap Troops imperil Chinese Rail City of Hengyang

Dominating Peak on Island. Captured; Hengyang Under   _ Increasing Pressure from Jap Troops

Yanks Enlarge Hold on Saipan   Japs Staging Big Seale Offensive on Hengyang in China

U.S. Troops. Stiffen Hold ' On: Jap Isle   Make Pr ogress on Saipan hile Enemy  Moves Ahead in China

20,000 or More Jap Defenders on Island Now Backed into Mountains of the North. Japs Lost 402 Planes When Their Aerial Fleet Attacked U.S.  Carrer Farca

ALLIES STEADILY ENLARGING HOLD ON MARIANA ISLE   Japanese Being Backed Up To Northern Half

NIMITZ HINTS JAPS MAY QUIT WAR SUDDENLY   U. S. Invasion May Not Be Necessary  eeeccmtmnssscnetle  PUT ON PRESSURE  War New Experience Kor Nips

MAY NOT HAVE TD INVADE JAPAN   "Admiral Nimitz Says ° Japs May Fo'd Up Under Air and Sea Pressure.

CHIEF OF PACIFIC FLEET SEES POSSIBILITY ENEMY MAY . ; SURRENDER BEFORE “ LANDINGS MADE

INVASION OF JAPAN MAY BE UNNECESSARY   May Fold Up Under Air, Sea Attacks Says Nimitz

SENATE FOR PAY _ ROU TAX-FREEZE   PASSES BILL, 47 TO 19, MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS NEEDED TO KILL A VETO.

FREEZE IN OLD AGE TAX VOTED   House Defies Roosevelt, Passed Bill To Block Increase In Levy

House Votes To Freeze Waae Levy   Expect Senate Approval And FDR Disapproval   OF Bill Pegging Cerurity Tox

SECURITY TAX FREEZE VOTED   House Sends Bill to Senate With 262-72 Vote; Veto Is Held Certain

TAX FREEZE Is SENT TO SENATE   Roosevelt Is Expected Te Veto Measure Retain ing Present Levy

Tax freeze bill sent to president   Senators Butler and Wherry voted for passage.

HOUSE OPPOSES: { PER GENT BOOST IN PAY ROLL TAX   Passes Bill, 262 to 72, to Block Increase — Senate Expected to Approve “Freeze.”   BACKERS PREDICT PRESIDENTIAL VETO   Knutson Tells Lower Branch Current Receipts From Present Rate Are Six Times Outlays.

Senate Votes 47 fo 19 To Freeze”’ Social Security Tax for Next Year

UCIAL SECURIT} TAX FREEZE VOTEL   House Passes Bill to Block increase in Defiance of Administration Wishes; Senate Approval Seen

House Votes To Peg Social — Security Tax At 1 Per Cent   Measure Approved by Vote of 263 to 72 and Sent tc Senate—Sufficient Votes Indicated to Override Veto of President

EXILED POLISH GOVERNMENT IS - TO BE IGNORED   Russia Says Treaty Will Be Made With “New” Poland   WARNING OF ARMS I$ GIVEN FINLAND

TREATY WITH NEW POLAND FIRST MOVE   Jf New Special Foreign Office In Ukraine Which Will Probably Ignore Polish Government.   Fill Posts

TREATY PROPOSED. WITH NEW POLAND   Moscow Radio Says Peo- ple Would be Freed  Erom Fascist Yoke.

BOMBERS ROA OVER GERMANY ON NEW RAIDS   Toulouse Is Blasted Last Night   'PLOESTI BLAZES   German Losses Over Steyre Soar

PAS DE CALAIS.» AREA BLASTED BY S FLIERS   Attack on Military Targets Reported Easiest of Entire War.

GUURT MARTIAL DENTENGED OFFIGER 10 HAN   No Date Is Set tor Execution of Quadruple Slayer

Senate Committee Okays Forrestal   Former Undersecretary Given Ovation By Group

PLANE HITS HOUSE, BURNS: 4 KILLED   ARMY CREWMEN LOSE LIVES IN KANSAS CRASH—FARM WOMAN INJURED.

Four Killed When Plane Hits House   Four-Engine Army Craft Wrecks Home

U.S. Refuses To Recognize Bolivian Cour  Anti “Allied Plot  Lo me vern sl TW. 1k

UJ. §. Refuses To Accept New Bolivia Regime   Link With Plot to Undermine Allied War Effort Is Charge

U. S. Refuses To Recognize Bolivia Junta   Coup Held Linked With Plot to Undermine Allied War Effort:  Envoy Called Home

U.S. Refuses To Recognize Bolivian Coup  Anti-Allied Plot Characa ta lunta

America Rejects Bolivian Setup   Plat to Undermine War Effort Charged

U.S. Refuses to Recognize New  Bolivian Gov't  Charges It Is Linked With Anti-

BOLIVIA JUNTA NOT TO BE RECOGNIZED   State Dep’t.Charges Link With Plot to Undermine Allies

BOLIVIA DENIED U.5. RECOGNITION   REVOLUTIONARY JUNTA DECLARED LINKED WITH PLOT TO BALK WAR EFFORT.

U.S. Refuses To Recognize Government  Of Bolivia —   Says Regime Linked With Widespread Plot To Undermine Allies In This Hemisphere   AMBASSADOR BOAL iS ORDERED HOME   Coup Called One Act Committed in General Subversive Movement

Washington Says Present Government Linked With Anti-Allied Plot   ECONOMIC SANCTIONS LIKELY TO FOLLOW

U.S. Denies Recognition To Bolivia      PURPOSE OF REVOLUTION TO UNDERMINE ALLIED EFFORT; AMBASSADOR BOAL IS ORDERED TO COME HOME.   New Junta Part of Plot

Bolivia's Junta Spurned by U.S.   Ambassador Boal Told To Return

BREST-LITOVSK, KAUNAS EVAGUATED BY GERMANS   Berlin Admits Two More Staggering Blows After Six Red Victories Yesterday   ONE BASTION AFTER ANOTHER FALLS   Soviet Airmen Already Softening Up One Sector of Polish Capital 

JESSE JONES SAYS TEXAS GOVERNOR'S. PLAN 1S GOOD ONE  TWO DEMOCRATIC SLATES OF ELECTORS SUGGESTEI  BY CTEULHNCON

ATTACK HEMANS’ GRAFT TESTIMONY   Finance Operators Say They Thought That Lobbyist Was Man of Good Character

Butter Point Value Drop Is Expected   OPA Announces Fifty Per Cent Cut in Lamb Points

LAMB, MUTTON RATION POINTS WILL BE HALVED   Pork Values Will Be Cut And Point Value Of Butter To Be Reduced

Slash From {6 To {2 Points In — Prospect Soor   Lamb. Value Will Also Be Lowered 50% By Order Of OPA

Butter Point. _ Value Drop _. Is Expected   OPA Announces Fifty Per Cent Cut in Lamkt Points ‘

Ration Points To Buy More Lamb, Butter.  OPA Announces ~ Change Will Be  a? ee

Lamb Point Values to Be Cut in May   DROUGHT CAUSES CHANGE, SLASH IN BUTTER, PORK IS PREDICTED

50 Per Cent Cut Denied By OPA At Washington.   Lamb, Mutton Values To Be Slashed In Half For Month of May ~

Point Value For Butter Will Be Cut   Pork Points to Be Reducec and Those for Lamb Halved in May

Plan Lower Point Value For Butter   Lamb And Mutton Also To Be Reduced During May — Farther Cut In Pork Indicated

Butter Points. May Be Reduced   Expected to Be Cut From 16 to 12 Points, Washington Says

Butter Points May Be Lowered   Rationing Value May Be Reduced Four Points

ee tit CLUB  HELD MEETING   COMMITTEES “REPORTED MEMORIAL DAY ARRANGEMENTS WERE COMPLETED

COMMUNITY. CLUB MET TUESDAY   SEVERAL MATTERS DISCUSSED CONCERNING ‘WELFARE OF . COMMUNITY

Examination Held Here On February 25 For Hico Postmaster   Position Salary During Last Fiscal Year Totaled $577

VON KLUGE INDICATES HE MAY MAKE STAND ALON LINE BASED ‘ON HISTORIC BATTLE BARRIERS   He Is Expected to Make Battle on Somme and Marne Rivers Unless His Forces Are in Utter Rout—Hitlerite Position Along Seine No Longer Tenable   GERMANY REPORTS GEN. VON KLUGE HAS BEEN KILLED

Enemy Troop Movements Try To Save Channel Ports-— mee DY MEW A ReMel \  GCoermans May Make Next Stand On Somme

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE  Aeastdate’t Preece War Analwat

VON KLUGE KI regs REP ARTS   Nazis May Attempt Stand Along Somme

Nazi Chief ToDetend  Somme Line   Stand In Nerth France Will Pretect German Rebet Launching Site

WAR  TODAY   Germans’ Expected Stand Along Somme Will Keep Open Avenue of Escape Into Belgium and Reich

Nazis Seize Danish Government Buildings and Police Stations   Riots Follow Latest Move and New Death Penalties Are Decreed for Danes

‘Fuehrer Was Not in'Study When Bomb Exploded, Says Author Hitler’s ‘Miraculous’ Escape  Called Goebbels’ Greatest Hoax

Der Fuchrer Was Not in : Study When ‘Bomb Exploded,.Noted Authority Says

Japanese Closing  An on Shategic Cily of Kwetlin  ie ty snr prema

Holiday Death Toll Reaches 356   Highway Accidents Account for Most Of Day’s Fatalities

VIOLENT DEATH TOLL OVER 300   Survey Shows Accidents During Holiday About Same As Year Ago

306 KILLED IN XMAS MISHAPS   18 Persons Die Violent Deaths In Michigan Over Holiday

U.S. Counts 337 Holiday Deaths  Ohio Highways Icy; 13 Known Dead

At Least 332 In Nation Meet Violent Ends   Highway Accidents Claim ed Most Lives Among Christmas Holiday_ . Fatalities

356 Violent Deaths Over the Holiday:   This Was Shown by a Survey Made by the Associated Press.

Holiday Death Total Grows   332 Die ‘Over Long . Christmas. Weekend

Violent Deaths of Holidays Total 366   TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS LEAD; NUMBER NEARLY SAME AS IN 1943

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL INU, S, 356   212 Persons Killed i+. Highway Accidents in Nation

Anti-Trust Suit Is Filed Against Large Railroads   Justice Department Takes Action Throngh Court at Lincoln. Neb.

AILROADS CITED IN FEDERAL SUIT   One of Largest Anti-trust Suits in History Charges Conspiracy to Restrain and Monopolize Trade

Anti-Trust Suit Names Railroads   Group Charged With Conspiracy To Restrain Trade.

Railroads Hit In Trust Action   Sweeping Charges Made Ry Justice Denartment

20,000 Japs Die During Burma Drive   Dispatches Indicate Japs Make Chief Effort At Palel

Heavy Losses Sustained by Japs in Asia   At Least 20,000 of Enemy Killed During Three-Month Period

JAPANESE DEAD IN BURMA, INDIA PLACED AT 20,000   Estimate Covers Period of Three and a Half Months— —No Light Shed On Allied Casualties,   TOKYO REPORTS FIERCE FIGHTING NEAR IMPHAL   Two More Villages Captured By Stillwell’s. Forces as .' They Advance Against . Stiff Resistance,

ABOUT 20,000 JAPS DEAD ON BURMA FRONT   POWERFUL AERIAL SUPPORT SPEEDS ALLIED DRIVE

Enemy Casualties Heavy in Last Three and a «Half Months   ADVANCES CLAIMED BY ALLIED TROOPS   No Estimate Given of Losses Suffered by Allies

(,000 Japanese illed in Burma nd India Areas   Allies Advancing On Most Sectors

20,000 JAPS KILLED IN BURMA-INDIA   In past Several Months as Allied Ground Troops Advance under Power: ful Air Support.   No Interference

20,000 Japs Die in India, Burma   Allied Ground Units Advance Under Heavy Air Support

JAP LOSSES ON BURMA FRONT REACH 20,000   Allied Troops Advance In Most Sectors As Air Forces Lend Support

Texas Legionnaire Flays Plan To  Mix Negro And White Blood Plasma

Allies Gain Thruout Normandy   REGISTER ADVANCES ALL ALONG 111-MILE FRONT IN. HARDEST FIGHTING SINCE D-DA‘

HEAVY BATTLES RAGING AT CAEN AND LA MEAUFE   Gen. Erwin Rommel Said to Be Putting Up Fanatical Resistance to British and Canadian Attacks. ~   1000 FORTS IN RAID ON MUNICH AND RUHR   Nazi Radio Reported Bomber Formations Were Over Franconia and Bavaria in South Germany.

G.O.P. Swings to Warren for Vice-President   CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR TO MAKE CONVENTION KEYNOTE TALK TONIGHT

4.F’s May Be First Affected If Worker Draft Bill Passes   Congr ess Leans To Increased Discharge Pay

LABOR DRAFT MAY HIT 4-F'S   Senate Group Will Star Hearings on Proposal On Tuesday

4-F’S LIKELY 10 BE FIRST IN LABOR DRAFT   3,500,000 Eligible for Cal if Congress Enacts Legislation   WOMEN ALSO SUBJECT TO CALL TO WORK SHOPS

4-F’s May Top Civilian Draft   Order of Call Suggested By Selective Officers

71. ‘fav 3e firs: Tae? = Lavor hts  * rae Bs Passec. 37 Coneress

Hearings on Issue Begin Tomorrow [einem allt stelaninacenedlomntnnecellendtntnnsctntididinatnd  4-F’s May Be First Affected If Labor Draft Goes Through

STATETOCALL KEY WITNESSES UP NEXT WEEK   Expect Attorneys to Complete Testimony Against Collett Late Tuesday

CALL WITNESSES IN TRIAL MONDAY   State Scores In Collett Case When Confession Is Ruled as Evidence

Forces Clash After Hit, Run Rabaul Attack   Chinese Armies Still Falling Back Before Heavy Jap Smashes

Seaand Air Units Clash By Mistake   Two PT Beats and Two Airglunes Lost in. —: Brief Skirmish © Neor Rak.y!}

Eight Additional Towns Captured Tn Italian Drive’   French Forces Seize Ausonia After Crossing Lower Liri Valley

ADVANCES WIN 8 STRATEGIC TOWNS, 9 HILLS   Cassino May Be Flanked

Nazis Gustav Line Breached by Fifth Army   Enemy Cleared From 30 Square Miles of Territory

WALLACE SEES ROOSEVELT AS BETTER MAN   Vice- Pr esident. Makes ' FirstySpeech of “Campaien

MUST PLAN JOBS, WALLACE WARNS   INSISTS ROOSEVELT BEST EQUIPPED FOR PEACETIME PROGRAM

Wallace Charts ‘Liberal's’ Policy For Peace, Jobs   Declares Roosevelt Best Fitted By Experience to Plan Security, Provide Work for All

WALLACE GIVES LIBERAL’ VIEW   Speoks Before 20,000 In Madison Square Garden

BTH AND 15TH AIR FORCES WERE BUS)   Destroyed More Than 1,200 German Planes Last Month.

YANKS TAKE THREE HILLS IN ITALY      Bombers, However, Switch Offensive To the Balkans

First Writer Over Jap Land Relates Experience i in American Plane; ‘Explosives Blast Enemy’s Holdings

Bulk Fluid Milk Price To Be Controlled   Their Establishment To Be Effective On Feb. 16, OPA Says

OPA Sets Prices Bulk Fluid Mill   New Order To Protect Existing Wholesale-R et ail Prices Applies To All Handlers In Five States.

MORE LANDINGS HELP TRAP JAPS   New Operation Reported Ir Hollandia Coastal Area

PACIFIC FLEET ~ HUNTS ENEMY   Enemy May Be Forced Te Fight As Allies Near Japs’ Defenses

Thirty-Seven More Jap Ships Are Smashed by Yanks  Thirteen of the Vessel: Were Laden With  WD es es

Thirty-Seven More Jap Ships Are Smashed by Yanks  Thirteen of the Vessel: Were Laden With Nipponese Soldiers

Bullet-Scarred Dog Saves Cals Co, Marine, Buddies from Annihilatior

Dog Saves Leathernech Unit From Possible Annihilation In Pacific

JAPS HANDED NEW SETBACK ‘IN FAR EAST   ALLIED. COMMAND O-UNITS  NEAR ENEMW HEADQUAR’ RRs If BURMA AND ~ VITAL SUFPLY LINE

COMMANDOS ISOLATE JAPS th NORTH BURMA   Capture of Enemy’s Headquarters There Virtually Assured

NORTH BURMA   Capture of Enemy’s Headquarters There Virtually Assured

JAP UNITS IN NORTH BURMA NOW ISOLATED   Allies Slash Supply Lines   CAPTURE NEARS

UT OFF NIPPON EADQUARTERS INNORTHBURME   Allied Commando Units Hold - 12 Miles of Mandalay ¢ Railroad

Northern Burma Jap Headquarters Facing Capture   Allied Commando Units Practically Isolate Japs _ In That Area    BATTLE IN INDIA STILL IN PROGRESS

Fighting Is Over; Soldiers Now May Relax Briefly  Escape From Woods Is Difficult And Perilous Task

6 s i 3 Operation Berlin British Correspondent Describes Withdrawal Of Survivors Of Air Army.

Surviving “Red Devils” Slip Through German Lines in Groups of Twenty

... DRAMA IN TWO_SCENES  Price Inspector Finally Gets “Wise” To ActinN.Y. Butcher Emporium _   Introducing Tuerkheimer-Braunschweiger, Not-So-Funny Tragic-Comic Team 

Louisiana Picks Governor Today   Brings To End Bitter Campaign Between Long, Reform Elements.

Congressional War On New League Of  Nations Underway   Disagree On When To Establish Plan - Now Or After Peace

PRESIDENT © MAKES KNOWN HIS STAND   Wants Immediate Action on Forming United Nations

TIMING OF U.S. LEAGUE ENTRY BATTLE BASIS   Roosevelt Committed To World Group Now, Not Later

New Weapon Launched by Nazis, Report   DAILY MAIL DISPATCH FROM STOCKHOLM TELLS OF V-2 ATTACK

German V-2 Weapon Is Failure   New Secret Wenanon Traveled Faster Than Sotne

BUSINESS BRISK AT TWO TAX OFFICES      State and Federal Deadlines to be Reached \ Saturday

Deadline Near On Filme Time   State Income Taxes Must Be Paid And Estiwmatee Filed.

C. I. 0. Steel Workers Set Out to Blaze New Labor Economics Trail

CIO Drives To Eliminate Pay Formula   Demands Concessions, Including Pay Boost, Post-War Annual Wage   WLB PANEL HEARS clo PRESIDENT   Companies To Begin Their Presentation  Before Group April 1]

Steel Workers Seek Wage Boost   Demand 17 Cents An Hour Increase

STEEL WORKERS PLACE DEMANDS AT WLB PARLEY   insist on Pay Kite, 40-Hou Post War Week in Dozen Union Concessions

C10 Steel Workers Ask.  For 17-Cent Hour Wage * . Increase, 40-Hour Week

High School Band ‘Puts on Show,’ But ‘Home Fire’ Was too Realistic

TROOPS BREAK INTO PARIS 10 HELP PATRIOTS   French Led By DeGaulle, And Americans Battle Nazis

INVADERS GAIN POINT ON SEINE NEAR LE HAVRE   Some German Snipers Still Must Be Cleaned Out of French Capital

DESTROY NAZI CRAFTS   Naval Headquarters Reports or Results Since D-Day

Ship Losses Deteriorating  Jap War Effort   Enemy Forced to Dip Into Stockpile More and More

DEMOS RALLY FOR STATE CONVENTION   Lausche Is Keynoter Monday Night

STATE BENEFITS ~ FOR WAR 2 VETS   $19,000 ) Alr ready  Paid More Than 1000 Ry Carvicemen

Eisenhower’s Armies Make Unique Record  Have Almost Overrun France Since St. Lo Break-Throuch

Allied : Victories -in : France, Springing F rom “Beachhead; Equal Hitler’s Blitz of 1940.

UNIQUE RECORD OF STRATEGY SET BY FORCES IN FRANCE   Allied  Victories In © France, Springing From Mere Beachheads, Nearly Equal Hitler’s Record Blitz of 1940 ~~

Army of Invasion Has Dealt Foe Many Surprises  Unique Record Seems Achieved by Task  Relieved Imnassible

Gen. Eisenhower's Armies Set New Record in Operations   Allies Have Overrun France In Short Svan of 37 Days

Allied Liberation of France From ‘Beachhead Unique Military Feat

ALLIED DRIVES IN FRANCE SET UNIQUE RECORD   Conquest from Beachhead Nearly as Rapid as Nazi Well-set Blitzkrieg

French Liberation Master Stroke Of Alllied Engineering “And Supply

Allies Nearly Equal Hitler War Record      Liberate France  From Beachhead

Army of Invasion Has Dealt Foe Many Surprises  Unique Record Seem:  Achieved by Task WP eee Pe Ne Nie:

EISENHOWER’S. ‘ARMIES HAVE, SET: UNIQUE RECORD 'IN FREEING FRANCE

Allies Set Unique Record in France   Virtually Liberate France From Beachhead Start, Almost Equal Hitler’s Time

YANK ADVANCE RIVALS NAZI BLITZKRIEG   Allied Record Much More Impressive Since It’s Done From Beachhead

GEN, EISENHOWER’S ARMIES HAVE UNIQUE RECORD IN MILITARY  ACTOAIINGIIANC ECATIIDE Al   ASTOUNDING FEATURE OF SURGE IS THAT IT STEMS FROM BEACHHEAD

Allies In France Have Pushed 450 Miles In 37 Days: Hitler’s Blitz Is Outmoded

BANKER JAILED FOR CONTEMPT   Grand Jury at Lansing Orders Slattery to Jail For 60 Days.

Bank Executive Gets Jail Term   Michigan Graft Probe - Continues Work

RAID HEAVIEST EVER REPORTED BY SUPERFORTS   Lash Okayama, “Most Important Air Target South of Japan Proper”

Okayama the Target Of Superfortresses   Formosa Island City Described as Most Important Objective South of Japan Proper _—No B-29’s Are Reported Lost.

—~PACIFIC—~   Nips Declare American Raids Pave Way For Philippines Drive   Estimated 150,000 Japanese Troops Believed Cut  Off Froni Effective Reinforcement By Destructer TT S. Ave Atbaenka ?

JAPANESE SA\ 100 “GIANTS” TAKE PART   Carrier Planes Raid Island Third Day In Row    BOMBINGS SEEN   By Nips As Prelude To Invasion Of Philippines; Trap 150,000 Japs

Largest Number Ever Io Fly Against Foe Raids Repair Shops at Okayama

Raids Help Open Route To Manile   Continuing Air ‘Assaults On Formosa Eelxeved to Have Cut Jap Supply Line   PHILIPPINES NOW APPEAR WIDE OPEN   Japanese Radio Tells of New Attacks on Top of Heavy Losses

Raids Cut Off Enemy Troops in Philippines   Superforts Lend Hand in Attacks On Japanese Isle

Okayama, Chief Nippon Base On  F ormosa Is Hit   Mission Carried Out From Bases in China But Largest Superforct Force of War   Four U.S. Planes Are Unreported   Weather Over Target Good, and Visual Bomhing Was Accomplished, Crewa Reveal

Japs Fear Early Yank Invasion   Super-Fortresses in All-Out Offensive To Knock Out Philippine Defenses; Toll of Nip Ships 27: 276 Planes Downed

LARGE FORGE HITS OKAYAMA   Most Vital Air Target South Of Japan Proper, Is Report.   NO PLANE LOSSES SO FAR

Superforts Hit Formosa in Follow-Up Raid   Japanese Philippine Army Is Cut Off From Reinforcements

Jap Philippine Army Cut Off by Air Attacks   Yanks Bag 227 Ships, 530 Planes in 4-Day Attacks at Formosa, Ryukyus, Philippines; . Isolate Nips From Main Source of Supply

150,000 Japanese In Philippines Cut Off From Reinforcement By Formosa Raid

Few Men Over  26 Face Draft,  Official Believes Armed Forces Estimated at   Armed Forces Estimated at 11,417,000, Some Congressmen Say Too Many Dratied

SMALL POSSIBILITY OF ” MEN OVER 26 BEING: CALLED TO SERVICE   With a Larger Number of Men Nov In Armed Forces Not Much “~ Change Possihle.

MENT WILL SPEND 92 BILLION DURING 1944-1945   President Roosevelt Gives Summary Outline Of Expenditures   TOTAL WAR MOVES TAKE HUGE SUMS   More Specific Terms May Be Made After End Of Fiscal Year

Year’s War Cost Still Will Run About 92 Billion   Réal Expenditures To Be Greater Than  In Budget Estimates

LATVIAN GATEWAY DIRECTLY AHEAD OF -ONRUSHING REDS   invasion of the“ Country Like: ly After Rail Center Is Tekan.

Russians 14 Miles Away From Pskov   Germans Throw in Reinforcements and Still  Resist Stubbornly

POWERFUL NEW ASSAULT MADE BY RUSSIANS   Germans Throw In Fresh Reinforcements In Futile Effort to Halt Soviets.

Reds Within 10. Miles of Pskov  In Twin Drives   Slaughter 3,000 Nazis In Lower Dnieper; Regain Cities Taken

REDS ONLY FEW MILES FROM PSKOV   Hitler-Men Failing To Halt Advance  Of Gen. Govorov

Drive Foes Back Along 50-Mile Ares   Russian Troops Seize 220 Towns i Powerful Assault

FORCES ADVANGE ALONG 50 MILES “ING ASSAULI   Over 200 Places Captured as Victorious Army Sweeps Anead, Ukraine Columns Also Advancing.   AMERICAN DESTROYERS DAMAGE JAP VESSELS   Reconnaissance Photos Re«veal Japanese Lost 40 Ships at Truk, 14 More Than First Reported,

Powerful Russian Assault Dooming Gate- City to Latvia   German Reinforcements Rouied As Reds Drive Closer to Pskov; 200 Nazi Troons Reported Slain

FALL BACK ON FO-MILE FRONT   Powerful Red Assault Overruns Two Cities, Clears Out Lake District

PSKOV NEARLY WITHIN RANGE OF RED GUNS   Soviet Armies Approach Latvian Gateway On 50-Mile Front

Baitleships and Cruisers Join in Fight   Big Navy Guns Flare Into Blazing Action

Sea, Air Assault Continues   United Forces Drive on Islands in First Concerted Offensive

Battleships, Bombers Rip Japs’ Palau Base   - Salvoes From Halsey Fleet Spread Destruction in Western Carolines

REVEAL PLAN FOR $700,000 S$. COOK YMCA STRUCTURE   Harvey Chosen as Site: Recreation Need Is Told in Survey

GERMANS STILL TRYING TO HOLD GITY OF AACHEN   Gains Made By Allies Along  Front Lines

British Try New Wedge   Patrols Operating  Where Air-Borne Move Met Failure; Canadians Push Toward Antwerp

PATTON'S MEN AT FT. DRIANT ‘IN WITHDRAWAL   German Counter-Thrusts At Aachen Smashed — By Americans

Entrance To Antwerp Harbor Said Cleared   British Patrols Cross Neder Rhine Where Arnhe: Landing Failed; Sixth Army Group Gains Momentum Above Belfort; 2 Nazi Attacks Stopped At Aachen

BRITISH PROBE NAZIPPSITIONS ACROSS RHINE   Americans Continue to Smash Counter-Blows  Aimed at Aachen

British Probe — Enemy Across  ~ Neder Rhine   Penetrate Positions Where Air-Borne Division Failed Three Weeks Ago

ALLIED COMMANDER DECLARES HE WANTS MORE SUPPLIES THAN HE 18. NOW RECEIVING 

GIVE MAXIMUM AND WIN, PLEA ~ OF EISENHOWER   General Renews Appeal for More Supplies Till Nazi Surrender

Press Probe Circus Tent  Fire Deaths   More Arrests Are Expected

Press Probes of Circus Fire   Authorities Move To Fix Responsibilty, If Any, for Tragedy.

TOLL IS NOW 152 IN GIRCUS FIRE   Investigations Reveal Tent Coated With Paraffin

Press Probe Of Holocaust In ‘Big Top’   Authorities Determined To Fix Resvonsibility For 152 Fire-Deaths

Quiz Shows or cus Tent (as-Soaked   Negligence Charged By State Attorney; Toll Stands at 152

Death Toll in Circus Fire Mounts to 154   Authorities Seek to Fix Blame for  Tragic Loss of Life

Additional Arrests in Circus Disaster  _ Considered Likely   Death Toli Stands at 152 Men, Women and Children Today

Conn. Officials Speed Efforts to Fix Blame For Tragic Circus Fire

FATAL CIRCUS FIRE PROBE UNDER WAY   152 Known Dead As Au. thorities Seek tc Establish Blame

Circus Death Toll at 152   Officials Move to Fix Responsibility, If Any, for Loss

Press Investigation Of Circus Disaster   Scores Questioned in Effort to Find Cause, And Fix Responsibility

Circus Fire’s  Death Toll 152   Investigator Vows To Fis Responsibility; More Arrests Predicted.

COUNT 154 DEAD IN CIRCUS FIRE   AUTHORITIES PRESS INVESTIGATION TO FIX RESPONSIBILITY

START PROBE T0 PLACE BLAME OF CIRCUS FIRE   Charge 5 With Manslaughter; Place 152 Names on Death List

Press Swiftly To Fix Blame In Circus Fire   Believe Additional Arrests Will Follow Coroner’s And Marshal’s Probes

SEEK CAUSE OF CIRCUS BLAZE      Death Toll Rises to 152; New Arrests Pending, Officials Say

{52 Fire Toll; Seek To Fix. "Resi  Inadequate Protectio! ‘Paraffined Canvas

Block-Buster Raids Batter At Cologne          AMERICAN BOMBERS RE ED TO BRK RETURNING HARD ASSAULP

Rail Yards At Plovdiv Are Bombed   Can’t Leave Country 0! Communicate in Code With Governments

HUGE BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON COLOGNE   Blockbusters Used on Large German City

NEW GUINEA BASE AGAIN 18 BLASTED   One Hundred and 25 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Holilandia

Jap Airmen Decline to. Offer Fight   U.S. Bombers Drop 386 Tons of Explosives On Five Enemy Bases

JAPS ORGANIZE PLAN TO KILL U.S. OFFICERS   Chinese Discover That A Least 200 Killers Are Assembled To Get  Americans

US. Officers. : Tipped Off to-~~ New Jan Plot   Chinese. S:a y Solarisd  Gunman Hired-by. En- ~  emy to Assassinate Officers

ARMED FORCES SUPREME COMMAND IDEA GROW:   ® JAPS HIRE GUNMEN TO KILL YANKS IN CHINA

Japs Plot Death Of U. §. Officers   Hire 200 Assassins To Kill Americans

Chinese Warn That Japs Have Organized Hired Gunmen to Assassinate Yanks

IAPANESE HIRING GUNMEN TO-SHO0T AMERICAN FLYERS   Gang of 200 Reported ; Distributed at Different -Spots to Await Opportuni: ties For Murders.   OFFER $35,000 FOR ~ COLONEL OR HIGHER   Gunmen Said to Receive $20 Daily, Orientals Have Varied Assistance’ From ‘Chin: ese Spots.

REDS SEND MINISTER   Japs Put Gunmen on Salaries to Slay U.S. Officers Downed in Orient

Japs Hire Salaried Gunmen To Kill American Officers, Chinese Warn

Japs Organize Gang of Gunmen   Offer Reward for Killing U. S. Officers, Especially Fliers

Japanese Organize Bands of Salaried Gunmen at Strategic Points in China to Kill U. S. Airmen

John Miller Sale Of Household Goods August 25  Many New Electrical   Many New Electrical Items Are Listed

John Miller Sale Of Household Goods August 25  Many New Electrica  a ns a creme 

ICKES’ NAME GETS IN HOPKINS CASE   Alleged Letter ter About Willkie Monunation rr

Here's Ickes Again: Secretary, Involved in Controversy Over Hopkins Letter, Denies Guill

Bulgars To Give Full Aid Allies   Country To Release Hold On Yugoslav, Greek Territory.

Bulgaria Promises Full Aid In War Against The Nazis   Armistice Terms Published by Allied Nations—Claim: to Greek and Yugoslav Territory to be eee ~=—d RelInquished ——

Bulgars Agree To Help Allies   Armistice Terms Require Military Assislance

BULGARS GIVE PLEDGE OF AID   Allies Bare Terms of Arm istice; Territorial Claims Renounced

‘Bulgaria Will Help: ‘Defeated Enemy Promises Aid To Allies in War with Germany

MARTIN SAYS US. IN 2 WARS, ONE “NEW DEAL   G. O. P. Chairman Says “No Question How We Stand There’:

FEA REPORT SAYS THAT HITLER WILL BE IN HOPELESS POSITION BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR   The Fuehrer’s Distress, Both on the Battlefield and The Home Front, Is Plain Enough, But AllOut Effort on Allied Home-Fronts Is Essential

- WAR TODAY   Eisenhower’s Warning Against Excessive Optimism Is Timely; Allies Need Power to Finish Nazis

Niggeling High  In Low Hitters  Remsen ’Pitcher — Hangs Up Record

hn Niggeling Is: Still  Rated “Hardest To Hie   sen Pitcher. Can "t Be  is Out of. Baseball  Reckoning’

Digest of Leading Newspapers’ Views On Barkley Revolt Against Roosevelt   Philadephia Inquirer  {TnAtldamanAonmt   New York Times (Independent

Press Institute At Chapel Will January 20-21   KB. Danrel of bandon AP fecatured Speaber.

Press Institute at Chapel Hill January 20-21   Ei. ©. Daniel of London AP Featured Speaker.

BRIT ENTER. SOUTH PART OF FLORENCE   Complete Fall Of Italian City Near

CHINA SUPPORT U.5. WORLD AIR PLANS AT MEET   Reveals Intention To Participate In Air Travel Post-War

China Skies Open In Post-War Plans  Discloses Ambitions To Participate in Warld Air ‘Tenval

Outflanked Nazi Forces Face Major Blow In Nikolaev-Odessa Section; 40 Villages Are Engulfed

Reds Enter Rumania. Across Wide Front, Flank Enemy Force   Kremenets, Hilltop Fortress Near Lwow, Taken: 6th Nazi Army Remnants Flee. to. Odessa; Fall of Nikolaev Is Exnected-Soon

Gerhardt ° ‘Commander Of The 29th  Division   Made It Outstanding In Athletics And Champion Of England Fights At Front

ROBOT BARRAGE GETTING WORSE   Threatened New Secret Weapon May Not Be Mere Propaganda

ROBOT BARRAGE TAKES TOLL IN SOUTH ENGLAND   Homes and Shops Smashed in Stepped-Up Attack—Mothers and Babies Among Casualties.   ONE FAMILY TRAPPED IN BACKYARD SHELTER   Nation Wonders Whether Germany Soon Will Send Over Rockets Larger Than Ones Now Used,

Ra a “geTSS 3 IN  cc oelen we  mm ‘ TN Mea ws ana  S2 gale & rr it Gi

46,'48 Strategy Plotted by GOP   Party Chiefs Plan To Start Camuniening Now

G.0. P. Senate Leaders Advocate Party Reorganization on Four-Year Basis

Cuba Prepares For Hurricane   Storm In Caribbean Has Turned Northward May Strike Havana

Flying in Second War  Noted N. D. Stunt Flier Hopes to Bomb Berlin

NO INVESTIGATION OF STATLER BATTLE   Committee Decides Lo Take No Action, Claiming Incident Is None Of Its Business

CIGARET SHORTAGE NATION-WIDE   Extends from San Francisco  To New York 

Water Plan Made for State   Reclamation Bureau Develops $1,577,736,000 Projects; Central Valley, San Joaquin and Kern River Works Included in Postwar Needs

STIGLER WINS DEMO VICTORY IN OKLAHOMA   Expect Final Count to Show Margin of More Than 4,000 Votes

150 MM Shell Drops Four Feet From U.S. Army Officer, Lives To Tell Story

Shell Explodes Four Feet   . From Americans, House Blows  ‘Up, But They Get Out Alive

Bismarck Japs Face Death Or Surrender   American Altr. Naval Forces Tighten Blockade

‘Japs in Bismarcks Face Death or Surrender As American Air, Naval Forces Tighten Blockde of Islands   Partisans Aiding

Japs Doomed in  Bismarck Area   Blockade Around Islands Tightened

JAPANESE ARMIES NOW FACE DEATH   Vitabsk Base Falls to Reds, Germans Admit, Finland Gets Russian Terms.

Three Pacific  Island Groups Surrounded by U.S. Forces   More Jap Ships Sent to Bottom

Allies Close Trap On Japs In Island Sectors —   Sink Troop Ship, Nine Other Vessels In Smashing Blow

U.S. Warships Sink Nine Enemy Graft; New Raids on Rabaul. Kavieng

Sister / loise  . ‘Member of Sacred ‘Heart Hospital Staf  Death: ‘Claims —

Death Claims Sister Aloise  - Member of Sacred Heart Hosnital Staf:

Indiana action seen as ‘stop Dewey’ movement: Bricker still in the fight

INDIANA MOVE SPARKS DRIVE TO STOP DEWEY   Supporters Claim Confuston; Democrats Eye Mississippi

TTR  GOTHIER-B RCHERS  NUPTIALS HELD      Young Couple To Be At Home On Farm Near ..  Akron

Herman Borchers And Miss Gothier Wedded Saturday   Young Couple To Make’ Home. On Akron: Fa arm.

GOTHIER-BORCHERS NUPTIALS HEED   Young Couple To Be At Home On Fann Near 

F. D. R’s Nomination Will Come Today; Struggle for Second Place Is Bitter

Tass News Agency in Russia Denies European Advisory Commission Is Considering Dismembering Germany

SOVIETS REVEAL © OCCUPATION PLAN   TO DIVIDE GERMANY INTO THREE ZONES, SAYS TASS AGENCY

Sen. James Reid Dies In Michigan   League Of Nations Foe Il More Than Week

Tommies Fight in Streets — Of Dutch Transport Hub;  Japs in Stubborn Retreat

Invaders rind Tough Going on Leyte Isle   Japanese Contesting Bitterly But Fail to Ston American Forces

Tough Going a  Palo Fails To Halt Advanees   Japs Pull Out Toward Northwest ~Americans Control Coastal Road

LEYTE ADVANCE AGAINST JAPS   Counterattacks By Enemy Are Overcome

Praises Amphibs’ Success   Pacific Fleet Stull Pounds Enemy On Atolls As Admiral  Visits Kwajalein.

Social Security Beard Unable To iGive '43 Earnings   Complete Record Of Waaes Not: Ready LIntil Nave Ieipe 20

VISTULA’S EAST BANK IS CLEARED   Reds Are Striving Tc Cross Stream, Is Berlin Claim:

Tanks And Cavalry Drive Within 22 Miles Of East Prussia   Battle Is Raging On  000-Mile lies   Ring Is Tightened On Trapped Nazis On Bug River

Warsaw Is Being Shelled   Soviet Forces Clear Vistula River Banks

Guns Shell Outskirts Of Capital   Sixty-Mile Stretch Of Vistula River Cleared For Push.

Reds Set Up Giant Move fo Outflank City   Clear 60 Mile Stretch Along Vistula, Drive 22 Miles from Prussia

INTO TRAP AT SEVASTOPOL   Two Soviet Armies Join Forces in Central Crimea

Germans Try To Escape   Red Forces Use Ships and Aircraft In Attack

Soviet Forces Take Heavy Toll In The Crimea   Nazi Evacuation Efforts Are Blasted By Russian Planes And Warships   REDS ARE DRIVING CLOSE TO SEVASTOPOL

Patterson Sees Hard Fight OnBeachhead   Paints Picture As Grim One _ But Not Hopeless

JAP FORCE 60 . MILES IN INDIA   Second Foe Invasion From Burma Bases Disclosed; Imphal is Objective

NEW JAPANESE ARMY IN INDIE   Strong Force Appears Out Of Jungles To Menace Imphal

New Jap Force Drives 60 Miles Over Indian Line   Second Army Pushes Within 30 Miles of Key City of Imphal

BERNARD BUELTEL GRANVILLE TAKEN   Funeral Tomorrow—Sur. vived by Widow, and 19 Children

BERNARD BUELTEL GRANVILLE: TAKEN   Funeral Tomorrow—Survived by Widow, and - .. 12 Children

Marine Smilies As Japs Die on Pelelieun  Yank Bataan Hero Gets Revencae

ISOLATED CHURCHILL   Restrictions to Date Are But First Steps, Says Prime Minister

ISOLATION OF EIRE PLANNED BY CHURCHILL   Reveals Next Move of Allies   HINTS AT CRISIS

COURITY TRUOPD READY 10 GUARD IRELAND BORDER   Rumo- North Irish Gcve.nment Will Close Frontier to Eire.

CHURCHILL IN COMMONS ‘SPEECH, DECLARES ACTION NECESSARY FOR PROTEC-. TION OF INVASION FORCES «

Nelson Reveals Gun Shortages   Says Increase Must Be Made In Artillery

Nelson Blasts Production Lag   Lag in Artillery Production Can Be Solved by 12,000 More Workers, WPB Chief Tells Senate Committee; Terms Situation “Critical”

U. $. Remains In Control But Army Withdrawr   Troops Ordered Out of Chicago Area by Taylor

Army Removes Troops From Montgomery Ward Property  Government Representatives Keep Charge Of Offices But Have Na Comments On Businese

Loss of Rome to Enemy Appears Inevitable as Kesselring Pulls Dank tn Naw Paocitions

Tactical ae In Italy Haile By Allied “< eas   a i Kesselriv ? eved Likely ¢ «Up  Line . - of Rome

FIELD MARSHAL KESSELRING FACES _ GRAVE PROBLEM   Joining of Allies Puts - Nazi Commander and 100,000 Traonos In Real Jam.

Single Front Aims at Rome   ‘Anzio Troops Form Junction With Main Fifth Army as Germans Flee to Hills Below Rome to Avoid Shattering Disaster

Yank Attack Threatens Nazi Flank   British Held While Doughboys’ Front Widened

More Towns Throughout Battle Area Fall to Americans, British and Canadians Whose New Offensive Is Gaining Ground Over Wide Front Looking To ward Paris

15 TOWNS TAKEN IN TWO DAYS; 9 MILE-GAIN MADE   Forces Reach Periers; British Held By German Tanks, Shells

Patrols at Road Center Of Periers   Begin Closing Trap on Germans In Bend of  Vire River

YANKS SWEEP AHEAD 3 MILES IN LAST 6 HOURS   American Troops Gain Nin¢ Miles Since Start of Major ‘ Offensive

OFFENSIVE HAS TAKEN NINE MILES   Americans Close Trap On Enemy In Bend Of Vire River

‘Crushing American Attack, Breaks Through Middle Of German Line In Normandy And -Picks TJn 7 Miles In 2? Dave 7

Americans 9 Miles From Jumpoff Point In Rapid Smash Through Ger ~ man Defenses And Are Closing Trap = With Flanking Moves.

NAZIS BATTER BRITISH UNITS IN CAEN AREA   Advanced American Patrols Reach Periers And Begin Closing Trap On Foe

ADVANGE TWO MILES TODAY   Bombardment By Air Wrecking German Tanks

Yanks Menace  Eastern End Of Nazi Battle Line   British Encounter Tough Resistance Below Caen

Patrols Get To Periers; Traps Being Shut Tight   Le Mesnil Herman - Is ag Swift Move

“Yank Forces Advance Three Miles ‘In Last Six Hours South Of St. Lo

PIERCE NAZI DEFENSES 10 REACH PERIERS   Tanks Aid Infantrymen In Making Latest Advance In St. Lo Area

U.S. Tanks Gain 3 Miles In Six Hours   Ironclad Trap Closing on Foe In River Bend

Canisy Seized By Gaining U. 5. Troops   British Ousted From Some Positions By German Attack

INDICTMENTS ANNOUNCED BY BIDDLE   Two Firms Charged With Intent to Defraud Gov't.

‘Volunteer Workers Boost Red Cross Total to $28,267.75   Competition Among Men for Drive Leadership Growing: Four Divisions Pass 100 Per Cent Mark

Volunteer Workers Boost Red Cross Total to $28,267.75  - Competition Among Men for Drive   Competition Among Men for Drive Leadership Growing; Four Divisions Pass 100 Per Cent Mark

Former State Senator Reed Dies, Was $2   Fought League of Nations, National Prohibition and Election Frauds

NOTED MISSOURI SOLON ($ DEAD   Bronchitis. ~ Attack Fatal To James A. Reed At Alpena Ranch

FOOD OUTLOK FOR NATION TOLD IN QUARTERLY REPORT   MEAT CONSUMPTION AT HIGHEST RATE BINCE 1908—FORE"CAST MADE BY THE WFA.

J. S. Eats Meat At Record Rate   WIFA Explains Shortage at Present

CIVILIANS EATING ‘PLENTY OF MEAT   Highest Per Capita Rate Since 1908 When Civilians Ate 162 Pounds Each.

TwoKuriles Attacked By U.S. Planes   Puramushiro, . Shimushu Bombed as Warships Assault Atolls in Marshalls

NEW ATTACKS ON KURILES ANNOUNCED   By Admiral Nimitz; Ventura Search Planes Drop Five Tons Of Bombs On Northern End Of Jap Islands.   No Ships Hit .

Air Invaders Nearing Junction Wah British; Reinforcements Dropped

AIRBORNE TROOPS WITHIN FIVE MILES OF JUNCTION WITH BRITISH 2ND ARMY   THOUSANDS OF GERMANS ALONG DUTCH AND BELGIAN BORDER TRAPPED; NEAR COLOGNE ON SOUTHERN FRONT; AACHEN PARTLY TAKEN.

KURILE RAIDS “OPENING STEP. FOR INVASION   JAPANESE HOME ISLANDS IN NORTH PACIFIC ON INVASION MAP--NAVY Us ’ ING ROCKET GUNS

U.S. WILL SEIZE PART OF KURILES   But No One Knows When Blow Will Fall Says Secretary Knox

Yanks May Land In Kuriles Says Secretary Knox   Also Reveals That Some New Secret Weapons Are Being Made Ready

U.S. 10 INVADE KURILE ISLES, SAYS KNOX   But No One Knows When, Navy Secretarv Savs

Wallace Advises Leasing Plants   Says South Should Not Sell War Plants When No Longer Needed But Keep Them.

Dr. Thomas Tells Of FBI ‘Threats’   Detroit Physician Remains on Stand

PLAN CHAPEL ON THE K. U. CAMPUS   Danforth Foundation Sponsors Building Near Fraser Hall  Cer Tee! gg FF Oey ee PP we wey ste Pa ts, a 2ne @&

Thanksgiving Was Big Day in Sixth War Loan Drive   Eisenhower Asks People To Oversubscribe Loan Quickly

British Heap 1,500 Tons of — Bombs On Berlin   Reduce Factories To Rubble In Sweeping Night Bombing Assault

Knockout of Berlin is. Possible in Six Weeks   GERMAN ROUT GROWS: IN LENINGRAD AREA

BERLIN BATTERED IN HEAVY BOMBING ON 12TH ASSAULT   1500 Tons of Blockbusters  Unloaded on City, Enemy _ Target In France Bombed — During Day.   GERMAN ASSAULT ON BEACHHEAD DEFEATED   50 Axis Planes Shot Down In One of Greatest Victories In Mediterranean Theater,

1500 TONS ON BERLIN   May Be Able to Completely Knock Out City Soon

Unload 1,500 Tons Of Bombs On Germany’s Capital — Destruction. Near Two-Thirds Mark

HITLER'S V-3 SECRET WEAPON IS DESCRIBED AS JUST ANOTHER ROCKET BUT MORE DESTRUCTIVE   By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (Substituting for DeWitt

Only New Things About Hitler’s V-3 ‘Are Huge Size and Alcohol Fuel

a ence a ee  “Ecru ‘Urges Middle Ground Policy ‘On Jobs And Security

Dewey Outlines Post-War Job, Security Plan   Middle Road Between Regimentation and Reaction Promised

Gov. Warren With Dewey On_L.A. Trip      ‘United Press Staff Correspondent Brera peien maaeen ee rea nEy a TpALT

DEWEY TO AIR GOP VIEWS ON U. $. SECURIT)   Raps ‘Defeatist’ Theory Of New Dealers For America

Naval Officers And ‘Teamsters  Clash In Hotel   Battle In Lobby Follows Address By President To Labor Group

QUIET OBSERVANCE OF HOLIDAY HERE   1944. Given. We ‘Welcome: ‘in . Customary Ways at Midnight .

Langan Wins Custody of 11-Year-Old Jean   Father Wins Latest Court Tilt for Child

Senator Wins Out on Second Ballot After Wallace Leads on First   States Switch Rapidly From Favorite Sons; Defeated Candidate, Farley Pledge Support; Nominee to Resign From War Costs Committee

States swarm to Missourian on 2nd ballot - Wallace had lead  thru initial count

SENATOR WINS UPHILL FIGHT FOR 2ND SPOT   Climbs to Speaker’s Platform After Victory to Receive Convention’s Noisy Acclaim.   WALLACE LEADS ON FIRST BALLOT   Latter Says “Cause of Liberalism Has Been Advanced” — Will Supnort Ticket.

DEMOS SELECT TRUMAN FOR VICE-PRESIDEN]   Sidney Hillman Promises Full Support To Roosevelt-Truman Team

Missourian Beats Wallace On 2nd Vote   Senator Polls 1,100 Votes to Ilowan’s 66; Alabama Switch Sets Off Swing to Trumar

Senator Truman of Missouri Is Nominated by Democrats For Vice Presidential Post

TRUMAN WINNER OF NOMINATION ON 2ND BALLOT   Missouri Senator Chosen After Running Second To Wallace   CHOICE WINS FAVOR OF PARTY LEADERS

Democrats Nominate Missourian  On 2nd Ballot   Captures 1,100 Votes To 66 for Wallace After Vice President Leads First Roll Call   DELEGATES SWARM TO BACK SENATOR   -Hannegan Credited With Engineering Victory for Truman

Army, Navy Attack Planes Knock Gui 40 Jap Planes On Bomb-Shaitered Rabaul Bastion.

Nippon  ightening Loop Reds Crowding About Besieged Imphal Shattered Nazis

FDR Declares Duteh People Near Freedom   President Hails Start Of Liberation Of Enslaved People

Pressure Put on Riga After Tallinn Fall   Soviet Conquest of Baltic States Seems to Be Nearing End

Soviet Fleet ~ Clears ‘Deck ~ For Combat   Minesweepers Clear Safe Channel in Baltic Aftes Fall of Tallinn

BBC Reports Drive Througt Romania   Reds Also Said To Be Crossing Vistula Again

JAP SHIPS SUNK NOW NEAR 1606   Yankee Warplanes Range from Northern Pacific to Philippines

CARGO AND SUPPLY SMPs BENT TO HOTTOM IN PACIFIC NOW TOTAL. 1202 VESSELS

Berlin Radio Says Germans Decide To Evacuate Greece   Strong British Naval Force Arrives At Piraeus And Prepares To Disembark Troops; Field Dispatches Say Onlv Few Nazis Remain In Greece

Nazis to Quit Greece, Hints Berlin Radio   Reports Evacuation te Change Strategy on Balkan Front

Berlin Message Reveals Nazis To Quit -Greece   Strong British Naval Force Prepares To Disembark Troops At Athens Port

GREECE WILL BE EVACUATED, NAZIS INDICATE   British Naval Force Arrives to Disembark More Armed Forces At Seaport Athens.

Berlin Radio Indicates Nazis Have Decided To Quit Greece: British Naval Force At Athens   Germans Speak Of Full Evacuation; Disembark Allied Troops At Firaeus,   FLEET AT PIRARIT¢@

NAZIS BELIEVED: LEAVING GREECE   ONE SECTION OF ATHENS REPORTED BURNED BEFORE GERMAN WITHDRAWAL.

Nazis to Quit Greece, Is Indication   Strong British Naval Force At Piraeus, Athens Port

BERLIN REVEALS DECISION 10 EVACUATE GREECE   British Fleet Arrives In Piraeus, Disembarks Troops

NAZIS MAY QUIT ALL OF GREECI   Cyclades Islands Slated Tt Be Liberated Soon Also

British Forces Land in Greece as German Forces Announce Evacuation

BERLIN ADMITS ARMY FLEEING FROM GREECE   “Balkan Front Will Assume Different Aspect,” Nazis Say

GERMANS REPORTED QUITTING GREECE      Strong British Naval Force Reaches Port of Piraeus

Germans Quit Greece, Says  Berlin Radio   Strong British Naval Force Now Is Off Piraeus

Nazi Prisoners Refuse to Work   Cherry Pickers. Are Punished for Strike

Hope Fades for Jap-Held Yanks   SOLON CHAVEZ DEMANDS THAT WAR IN PACIFIC BE STEPPED UP AS STATE DEPARTMENT BARES 89 PROTESTS TO TOKYO ON NIPPO MISDEEDS

U. 8. 10 PUNISH JAP TORTURERS   ROOSEVELT SAYS F. B, I. MAY BE CALLED ON TO TRACK DOWN SLAYERS. 

ARMY LINE IN DOZEN PLACES   Furious Assault May Extend to Third and Ninth Army Fronts; Enemy Chutists Being Wiped Out; Situation Is Grave

BIG NAZI COUNTER- OFFENSIVE PENETRATES YANK FIRST ARMY LINE IN DOZEN PLACES   Furious Assault May Extend to Third and Ninth Army Fronts; Enemy Chutists Being Wiped Out: Situatian Te Crava

BRITISH-SOVIET ‘TRADE’ HINTED   Moscow Adopts ‘Hands Off Policy In Greek Crisis

MEN OVER 26 WILL STILL BE DRAFTED   Age Alone Will Not Insure Deferment—New Regulations Issued To Boards By Col. Mellon

Deferments Are Based On Occupation   Men Over 26 Years Are Now Classified In Essential Work Groups

Ban Deferment On Age Alone   Mellon Issues Instructions for  Uniform Action

SEVENTH ARMY IN ALPINE GIT)   Some American Units Drive Into Avignon on Rhone Delta.   20 MILES FROM ITALY

WEATHER AIDS CROPS   Kansas Farmers Are Given : Chance to Continue Work —

Naval Base In Pescadores Islands Hit   Takao Harbor in Southwestern Formosa Bombed; Tokyo Admits Retreat from India; Hard Fighting at Hengyang

Pescadores Islands Hit By First Bombs   Pacific Front Is Felling Calm That Precedes Storm

Po: PAGIEIG BASE ATTACKED   Pescadore Islands Blasted. Formosa Again Bomber Taraet.

JURY FINDS BOTH PARTIES @UILTY   Billingsley and Givens Each to Pay Own ‘Damaves

YANK BOMBERS OVER BRUNSWICh   Chief Target Today Was Aireraft Works of Germans.

YANK BOMBERS BATTER CENTRAL GERMANY AGAIN   Nazi Air Force Also Active, Making Worst Raid On London Since 1940 Blitz.

American Heavy Bombers Blast Brunswick: Nazis Raid London and Naples

Five Destroyers or Destroyer Escorts In. cluded in Toll of First Bombardment of Island Group 600 Miles From Tokyo.

Fleet Strikes Nearer Tokyo   Task Force Sinks, Fires Many Jap Vessels, Blasts Town on Bonin Islands

THIRTY OTHER CRAFT ARE DAMAGED DURING TWO. DAY ASSAULT BY SWIFT U. S. CARRIER TASK FORCE MANY ISLAND TOWNS ARE FLATTENED BY SHELLINGC—SAY CONVOY VIRTUALLY WIPED OUT”

JAP CONVOY IS WIPED OUT IN TWO-DAY RAID   Eleven Nipponese Vessels, Including Five Warships, Sunk and Thirty Surface  Crate Damaaed   PROGRESSING ON GUAM

Warships Pound Jap Installations 600 Miles, Tokyo   Five Nipponese Warships Sunk; Jap Town Levelled By Shelling

Navy Task Force Hits Bonin Islands   Japanese Town of Omura Levelled In Daring Raid 600 Miles From Tokyo

U. S. Strikes New Blows Against Japs   Carrier Force Shells Bonins; Enemy Loses Many Vessels

Eleven Jap Ships Are Sunk   Bonin Islands Are Shelled: for First Time and Convoy Is Wiped Out

American Task  ‘force hits japs   NAVAL ATTACK IS MADE ON BONIN ISLE GROUP

Damage  30. Craft  In Bonin, Islands Assault ,  TOWNS.  SHELLED Jap Convoy Reported  Zur

U. S. Navy Strikes Crushing Blow 600 [Miles from Tokyo   Two-Day Attack On Bonin Islands Sinks 11 Ships,  And Damacaes 30

BONIN ISLANDS GIVEN POUNDING   Pacific Fleet Reports 11 Jap Vessels Sunk in Heavy Assault

Action Reported Within ¥ 600 Miles Of Tokyo   16 CARRIER PLANES   Total Loss To Americans; Yanks Win Two Towns In Guam Fighting

Yanks Wine Out Jap Convoy Unit   Carrier Task Force Sinks Eleven Nip Vessels 600 Miles From Tokyo,

41 HIT IN U.S. RAID ON BONIN ISLE   Task Force Strikes Hard Blow At Base 600 Miles Of Takvo

9. 061, KYRAN KERVICK [5 KILLED IN FRANCE   Bristol Soldier Previously Was Listed as Missing   AWARDED PURPLE HEART

Wilmington Man Killed In Action   Pfc. Glenn H. McConnell) Of New Wilmington Killed In France July 15

HANOVER SOLDIER REPORTED KILLED   Pfc. Walter L. Crowl Previously Had Been Listed As “Missing In Action” In European Theater

Pfc. E. E. Kozol Killed In France   Mrs. Angeline Kozol Of R. D. (7 Receives Word son Killed Juilv 13

COLONEL PARCELL KILLED IN ACTION OVER FRANCE   Alumnus of Barium Springs First Reported Missing In Action.

KYRAN L. KERVICK KILLED IN ACTION; SERVED IN FRANCE   S Set. Had Been Reported Missing Late la 1oA°%   WAS LATER LOCATED   Received Purple Heart After Being Wounded Some Time Ago

PFC. PIERCE IS KILLED   Former Cornwells Heights Resident Fatally Wounded In France

PFC. THOMAS PIERCE IS KILLED IN ACTION   Native of Canada is Survived by Wife, Parents in Cornwells Heights  SERVED IN FRANCE

SOLDIER ADMITS BEING FATHER OF QUADRUPLETS   Smallest Of Children Born To English Girl Died Yesterday   PITTS BURGH WED DING MISTAKE, HE CLAIMS

Father Offers Name to Quad:  Soldier to Support Babies; Wants Them wD ow nb ee Sf i. btn

OWNS PATERNITY OF QUADRUPLETS   YANK SERGEANT SAYS HE HOPES TO MARRY MISS NORAH CARPENTER

Quads’ Father Wants To Aid Norah, Babes   Hopes .Wife In Pitts. ' burgh Will Agree To D Divorce

FATHER OF QUADS: ASKS ADIVORGE   U. 8. SOLDIER HOPES TO MARRY ENGLISH GIRL THAT ‘GAVE BIRTH TO FOUR.

To Marry Mother of Babies as Soon as. Pittsburgh ‘Wife . Will Give  . Him Divorce

SGT. THOMPSON ACKNOWLEDGES QUADS ARE HIS   Hopes Babies Will Be Registered in His Name —Wants Divoree Sc That He May Marry Mother

Says He Wants Divorce, Marriage Was Mistake; Smallest of Quads Dies

Thompson Declares His Fatherhood of Quadruplets Today   Hopes That He and Unmarried Mother Will Be Left Alone

THREATEN STRIKE IN DETROIT AREA ‘OVER PAY DISPUTE   WLB Asked to Take Immediate Action or Workers Will Leave Their Jobs

Stroke Ends LifeOfNavy HeadOnEve  Of Invasion   Death Follows One Week Of Illness   For Veteran

'Taken Ill at Funeral Of Business Partner   One-Time Republican Candidate for Vice President Called to Cabinet by  Roosevelt as Advocate of Preparedness   Stricken at Friend’s Funeral

Famous Fighter, Leader Succumbs  ACL P.M. Today   Newspaperman Was Strong Figure In Roosevelt Cabinet; Built Fleet

DIES AFTER HEART ATTACK   Seventy-Year-Old: Secretary Ailing Since Last Week

Secretary Knox Dies Of Heart Attack At Home   Stricken Week Ago While At Friend’s Funeral

70-Yr.-Old Publisher Stricken Sunday; Was GOP Candidate For Vice-President

Navy Secretary Frank Knox Dies Of Heart Attack   Fleet’s Flags Ordered at Half Staff; Political Circles Think Roosevelt May Name Another Republican to Naval Post

Heart Attack Fatal to Former Chicago Publisher at Noon   Taken Ill While Attend. ing Funeral of His Business Partner

Fleet Flags At Half Staff For Secretary  Ot Navy Knox   Heart Attack Fatal After Recurrence : Of What Had Appeared  T,, Re Indicestion   HAD PARTICIPATED IN THREE BIG WARS  Tg Mn Lhifen nt APoewlar

Navy Secretary Knox Dies from Heart Attack   Stricken Last Week With Gastro - Intestinal Upset

‘Seventy -year-old Cabinet Member Develops Heart Ailment Following a Stomach Disorder.   BECAME COLONEL IN FIRST WORLD WAR

Frank Knox Expiresfrom ‘Heart Attack   SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WAS FIRST STRICKEN SUNDAY IN NEW YORK; SECOND AT HIS HOME TUESDAY. ats

DEATH TAKES FRANK KNOX HEAD OF NAVY   Secretary, Ill for Only Short Time, Dies of Heart Attack

Heart Attack at 70 Ends Lite Of Navy Secretary Frank Knox   Veteran of Three Wars Had Been II],  Apparently of Stomach Ailment, Since Sunday

Sec. Frank Knoy Dies Following A Heart Attack   Forrestal at Helm of Navy; Congress Recesses in Respect

Former Chicago Newspaper Man Had Been in Cabinet Since July, 1940   Touch Fighting Men

SEVERE HEART ATTACK FATAL AT AGE OF 70   First Stricken Sunday While Attending Partner’s Funeral

Sudden Death Of See’y Knox Grieves U.S.   70-Year-Old Chief of Navy, GOP Cabinet Member, Had Heart Attack

Ill Only Since Sunday Following Attendance At Friend’s Funeral   Death Comes As Navy Approaches Climactic Battles Of The Pacific and Europe

SECRETARY KNOX IS HEART VICTIM   NAVY HEAD DIES AT WASHINGTON HOME

Heart Attack Fata To Secretary Knox   Flags At Half Staff On World's Biggest Navy In Honor Of Fighting Fleet Chief

10, EXPIRES i U.S. CAPITOL   Country Mourns Loses of Greatest Fleet  Cammander

Naval Executive  Ill Since Sunday   Heart Malady Causes Death at 1:08 This Afternoon in Washington

Was Civilian Chief of Huge  American Navy   Acting Secretary Forrestal Announces Death of Respected Cabinet Member

avy Leader ictim Of eart Attack   Cabinet Member Succumbs After Brief IlIness

FATAL TO KNOX   Navy Chief, A Republican, Saw Eye-to-Eye With FDR on Issues.    FORRESTAL ACTING HEAD

Heart Attack Is Fatal To Statesman   Forrestal Becomes Acting Secretary; Knox, Republican Vice Presidential Namince in 19326. Served FDR Since 1940

CABINET OFFICIAL SUCCUMBED TO HEAwt ATTACK ON FRIDAY   REPUBLICAN LEADER EN. TERED ROOSEVELT OFFICIAL FAMILY IN 1940

Navy Chief Frank Knox Is Dead   Heart Attack at His Washington Home Proves Fatal This Afternoon

Heart Malady Which Struck Him Sunday Too Much For Robust Figure   Word Of Passing Flashed To Ships   Navy Built Into Greatest Fighting Foree Afloat Under Him

Navy Secretary Fank Knox Dies SuddenlyOn Friday   First Heart Attack Was Suffered Earlier In Week While Attending Funeral Of Old Friend

KNOX BUILT UP U.S. FLEET TO RECORD POWER   Forrestal to Take Over

Knox Dies; Washington, Noon Today   Death Follows Illness Contracted While in New Hampshire

Chief of World’s Mightiest Fleet Had Been: Th Since Stricken Last Week With a “GastroIntestinal Unset.” ;

Death Comes Unexpectedly From Heart Attack After Only Week of Iliness

Fleet Hears Of Death By Radio Flash   Roles In 3 Wars Helped Knox In  Bacinece Pailitice

Secretary Knox   Is Deac   Heart Attack Fatal  To Secretary of the  Navy; First Death in Cabinet Since 1939

CHIEF OF NAVY WAS ILL ONLY FOR FEW DAYS   Saw Active Service in Army During Two Earlier Wars

NavySecretaryFrank Knox Dies of Heart Attack After 5-Day Illness at Capital

DEATH COMES AFTER HEART ATTACK   Served In Cabinet Since fn 1   Preached Preparedness !n Pre-War Years: Visited All War Theaters

TAKES LIFE OF NAVY'S LEADER   Death Announced to Naval Units and Personnel  Thruout World

Heart Atttack Fata To Secretary Knox   Death Comes After Brief Illness for Navy Head Who Had Served In Cabinet Since 1940; Built Large Sea Force

‘Secretary of Navy Knox Died Suddenly Today of Heart Attack In Washington   Was Directing Construction Of World’s Greatest Battl Fleet For Nation’s Biggest Battle— ’ " Had Been Ill Short Time

NAVY'S HIGHEST “CIVILIAN LEADER DIES IN CAPITOL   Biember of FDR's Cabinet Since 1940, Official Was 70 Years Old

Builder of World’s Largest. Navy in Cabinet Since 1940; Wife, Family at His Bedside

HEART ATTACK PAOVES FATAL TO NAVY HEAD   Secretary, 70, First Stricken While at Former Partner’s Funeral Sunday.

SECRETARY KNOX DIES   Heart Attack Proves Fatal : To Secretary Of Navy : This Afternoon

Col. Knox Secretar v  Navy Dies   Passes Away This Afternoon After Suffering Heart Attack Last Week

Heart Attack Is Fatal After Week’s [ness   70-Y ear-Old Naval: Head Became . Ll Last Week With... Gastro-Intestinal - Upset;. Death Came at 0B Pe MM: Today:

Nation Mourns Death Of Soldier, Publisher And Cabinet Officer Who Died Half Hour After  Serious Condition Became Known To Public.

DEATH COMES AFTER ILLNESS OF ONE WEEK   Chicago Publisher, Aged 70, Was Appointed To Post In 1940

STRICKEN TUESDAY AFTERNOON ‘CONDITION BECAME ACUTE AND END CAME IN WASHINGTON   Civilian Chief of World’s Mightiest Naval Force. 70 Years of Age. Was Lifelong Republican But Shared President’s Views on World Conditions

NAVY CHIEFTAIN PASSES AT HOME IN THE CAPITAL   dad Been Serving In Cabinet As_ Secretary Of Navy Since July J1, 1940; Ill For Only A Few Days Before Death; Forrestal Is Acting Secretary.

HEART ATTACK TERMINATES SHORT ILLNESS   GOP Vice-Presidential Noml nee In 1936 Entered Cabinet In 1940

NAVY CHIEF FRANK KNOX SUCCUMBS   Heart Attack Is Fatal to 70 Year Old Navy Secretary

sec. Frank Knox Dies Suddenly In Washington Home Of Heart Attack After Short Illness

Succumbs At  Residence In Washington After  Tiiness Of A Week   Death, Caused By Heart Attack, Is Announced To . Navy Throughout The World By Acting Sec ratayxyy Tamac V Parractat

Secretary of Navy Frank Knox Succumbs at /0   Heart Attack Proves Fataf at Washington Home

ILL ONLY ONE WEEK; SERVED HS A YEARS   Owned Chicage Daily News; Party Leader

Heart Attack Fatal To Cabinet Official Ill Since Last Week   Chicago Publisher Stricken With ‘Gastro-Intestinal Upset’ While Attending Funeral of Business Partner In New Hampshire

A HEART ATTACK IS FATAL TO NAVY SECRETARY KNO}   Civilian Chief of the World’s Mightiest Sea Force, Died at His Washington Home.   HE WAS 70 YEARS OLD   Had Been a Member of the Roosevelt Cabinet Since July 11, 1940.

NAVY SECRETARY  SUCCUMBS AFTER  WEEK’S ILLNESS NAMED TO CABINET  BY THE PRESIDENT ACTER FRANCE FFIIL

Veteran of Two Wars, Then Navy Secretary, He Was Ill Only Few Days

Heart Attack Fatal To Navy Cabinet Member   Becomes Ill Attending Funeral Service of Business Partner

NAVAL CHIEF PASSES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS   Death on Eve of European Thrust Rounds Out Long Official Career of Cab inet Member  VETERAN OF FIRST WAR

Heart Attack Proves Fatal To Official   Became Iil  Last Week-— Suffers Severe Attack Tuesday

Succumbs After Very Brief Illnes:   Had Served in Rooseve!l Cabinet Since Appointment in 1940

Heart Atfack Takes Cabinet Member's Life   Death Follows Brief HIIness For Secretary, 70

Navy Secretary Frank Knox Dies Suddenly Funeral Services Will Be Held  a eo ee

‘Death. Flashed. ‘Beet By Radio.’       Politicians Belleve President

Death Comes Suddenly To Navy Chief   Cabinet Member, 70, Is Stricken At His Home In Washincton.

Death Due To Heart Ailment            OCCURRED EARLY THIS ; AFTERNOON; HAD HELPED BUILE LARGEST NAVY EVER KNOWN; FORRESTAL TEMPORARY NAVY HEAD

Navy Secretary Frank Knox Dies Suddenly  Funeral Services Will Be Held

DIES AT NOON  AFTER WEEK’S ILLNESS   Forrestal] Expected To Serve In Post

Cabinet Membe: Stricken After Brief Illness   Death Prevents Rounding Out of Notable Career

Man Who Helped Build Big Fleet Succumbs At 70   Heart Malady Proves Fatal To Former .“~ _ Chicago Publisher

Heart Attack Causes Death; Ill for Week   Gastro-Intestinal Upset First Illness Sign; First Heart Attack on Tuesday

Heart Attack ls Fatal to Navy Secrefary   He Had Colorful Career as Soldier, Publisher, Politician

Republican Publisher Stricken ; on Sunday in Manchester Npw Hampshire — Acting Seeretary of Navy James V, Forrestal Makes Announcement.

Navy Head lil But One Week   Former Newsman Built U. S. Fleet To World's Best

Navy Chief, 70, First Stricken Tew Days Ago   Staunclily Adyocated U. S, Preparedueis

Cabinet Officer Ill Only Few Days   FDR Aide Was Rough Rider In Cuba And An Artillery Officer In First World War

Member Of Cabinet, 70, Succumbs At Home In Washington After Jllness Of Week

End Comes to Leader After 5-Day ness   Head of World’s Greatest FieetSuccumis—Tis—  Afternoon

Veterans May Get FSA Loans   General Eligibility Requirements Are Listed by Agency

ANNOUNCE FALL OF ANJEN   Japanese Took Town, But Chinese Have Retaken Kiangsi

Nazi Armored Forces Shift To Battle 7th   Yanks Smear Attempt By Germans To Make Stand At Frontier City Of Lautenbourg

‘More Yanks Drive Across Reich Frontier; 4 Armies ‘Now Testing Foe Troops

Germans Seek to Check /th Army Plunge   Hurls Fresh Armored Division Into Fray to Save Palatinate

GERMANS HURL TANKS AGAINST SEVENTH ARMY   Armored Force Shifted In Effort to Stop American Drive

County Draft Boards Review All Occupational Deferments   Particular Attention for Registrants Under 26, Col. Earp Orders; Cole Ha: About 800 Men In All Affected Classes

MISSOURI NOT UP TO DRAFT QUOTA   Order to Review Cases of All .Men, 18 to 37, Deferred for Occupational Reasons.

ITALY-BASED RAIDERS FLY 1,000 MILES   British Bomb France. Sofia

Forts, Libs  Bomb Vienna   Plaster German Targets  In First Attack On City

Nazis Still Holding Out At Cassino   Battered Into One Narrovy Corner of Town by New  Zealand Troops

Fortresses Hit Vienna In First Raid   No Fighter Opposition Appeared to Hamper Yank Bombers

f "LANE PL PLANT   MORE . THAN. 1500 STRIKE: A’  (WILLOW: RUN: AFTER  'OPRANSFER OF TWENTY ~ os RIVEPERB Op)

ATTEMPT MADE TO ASSASSINATE KING?   flussian Report Says Fascists Made Attempt on King Peter’s Life.

Assassination Of King Peter “Poiled, Clair in   Russian News Agéncy Re ports Attempt On Yugoslavia Ruler’s Life By Fascists

Assassination Said Attempted On Slav King   Partisans Rout Germans In Slovenia

ATTEMPT TO SLAY KING PETER TOLD   TASS SAYS FOUR OF KING'S GUARD IN YUGOSLAVIA SEIZED

Threaten Life Of King Peter Of Yugoslavia   Fascists Are Blamed By Russians Who Report The Arrest Of Four Members Of Guard

GEN. EISENHOWER RETURNS 10 CAMP   Commander Makes Quick Visit to Air, Ground Forces In England and Ireland.

TASK FLEET STEAMS INTO MARSHALLS ©   Delivers Assaults Of Pre-Invasion Proportions

U. 5. Task Fleet Attacks Atolls In Marshalls   Pre-Invasion Assaults Are Reported

FORCE BLASTS TAP ISLANDS   Possible’ Pre-Invasion Attack Hinted In Devastating Blows on Marshalls.

Declares Black Markets Are Costing Housewives Billion Dollars Annualiv

TWELFTH YEAR BEGAN BY Fu   President Is Physically Fi Despite Big Job

CELEBRATES 11TH ANNIVERSARY   Mr. Roosevelt, Who Is 62 Years Old, Faces Momentous Problems

PRESIDENT IN WHITE HOUSE 11 YEARS   Still Fit and Fine As At Age of 62 He Begins Twelfth Year As Presi dawnt

FDR Begins Twelfth Year in White House Facing Momentous-Problem<

F.D.R. STARTS HIS 12TH YEAR   President, Now 62, Feeling Fit as He Begins New Year In White House

FDR’Begins — 12th Year in White House   Beset with Greatest National and International Problems; Gives Dinner for Cabinet

Roosevelt _ Begins 12th Year Today  Wis Dact 11 Te   His Past 11 In White House Studded “With Much Action

Begins : 12th  Year   Roosevelt Faces Mo mentous Problems As He Starts Last Year  Of 3rd Term in Office

Roosevelt -- Fit And 62 -- Begins Twelfth Year In White House   President Faced With Problems, Both On roternational And Domestic Fronts; Which Are More Abundant Than Ever.

Roosevelt Begins Twelfth Year in White House Facing Momentous Work

FDR BEGINS 12TH YEAR IN CAPITOL   Political Future Depends on Solution of Problems

Roosevelt Enters Twelfth Year As U.S. President   He Feels Fit at 62 As He Faces Rebellious Congres:

Roosevelt in — Twelfth Year Of Presidency   Another Anniversary Is Reached Today — Chief Executive Feeling Well

Chief Executive Opens 12th Year In White House   President Called In Good Shape by His Physician

FDR Starts 12th Year in White House      Greater Problems Than Ever Faced a President Before Marks Anniversary

Fit And Relaxed President Is Facing Many Problems As His 12th Year -Begins

U.S. Planes Rain Blows  On Reich   Bombing Follows RAF Assault Durinc Night ‘When 3,360 Tons Are Dropped

TAFT STARTS 2ND TERM DRIVE   Estimates Annual Post-War Budget at 18 Billion

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE GETS TAFT'S SUPPORT   Ohio Senator Warns Against Post-war Taxation

Son of Mrs. Vada Bell, He Had Fine Record In Flying In Southwest Pacific

Son of Mrs. Vada Bell, He Had Fine Record In FlyingIn Southwest Pacific   Had Improved Slichtiv

Lt. Gen. L. J. McNair is Killed In Action in Normandy, Army Reveals

GENERAL McNAIR KILLED IN ACTION   ENEMY FIRE IN FRANCE HITS AMERICAN OFFICER

Key fitadels In Poland   < Minnesota-Born Man Dies In Normandy  General McNair Killed In Action

COLOMBIA ENDS SHORT REVOLT   Geer  President, Held Captive B Rebels, Released

REVOLT MOVE ~ SHORT-LIVED IN COLOMBIA   RIDNAPED PRESIDENT 18 REBCUED AND TROOPS: ARE - QUELLING ARMED RESISTANCE .

Destroyers  Are Tough      - Whip Superior Jap - Force in Sea Battle > Of Philippines Oct. 24

RUMORS HEARD THAT GOERING — ABOUT OUT OF NAZI PICTURE   IMMLER, GOEBHELS AND RIBBENTROP SAID TO BE ACTUAL KULERS OF GER MAN GOVERNME

Britons Enter Holland, Yanks  in Luxembourg   Allied Assault Drives Germans Back To Reich

BRITISH SECOND ARMY BATTERS WAY INTO NETHERLANDS  AMERICANS CAPTURED LUXUMBOURG, CAPITAL OF TINY GRAND DUCHY

Hammer ‘Germans  Back   Battle Along Whole: Western Front Grows Fiercer As Fighting Nears Siegfried Line

Yankees Move Into Luxembourg; Big Guns Hit Nazi Soil   Americans Reported Bombarding Aachen, German Bord Base; Giant Enemy Gun Emplacements Erased In Moselle Basin By Planes Aiding Patton

Wallace States Works Program May Be Needed  Says U.S. Must Never Go Back to Days Of Hoover

GRAFT TRIAL WILL RECESS FOUR DAYS   Counsel for Defendants Attack Credibility of a Key Witness.

YANKS SMASH a) ENEMY SHIPS   221 Nip Aircraft Also Destroyed in U. S”’ 1,000 Plane Raid

Budapest Steel Factory Bombed   18 German Planes Downed by Yanks

BUDAPEST STEEL WORKS BOMBET   AMERICAN FLIERS ENGAGE IN GREAT AERIAL BATTLES WITH THE GERMANS,

Russians Are 155 Miles From Capital; Height Taken In Battle Of Warsaw

BULGARIA FACES GRAVE ‘CRISIS   Shouts For War On Germany In Streets Of Sofia

Police Battle Angry Mobs in Sofia Streets   Most Critical Hour Of War Comes To Unhappy Nation

Bulgarians Demand War On Germany    Rioters Battling Police in Sofia  As Russians Near  Bulgarian Frontier

Bulgars Riot In Capital   Demand War On Germany As Reds Face Frentier

LONDON (UP)—Radie Cairo reported Saturday that RKed troops had crossed the Bvigarian frontier.

Red Army at lrontiers of Fearful Nation   Hungary To Fight For Transylvania As Balkans Near  Sudden Explosion

sofia Crowds 2iot as Reds eachBorder   Throngs Battle Police, Call for Wear Aaainst Nezis

Bulgar Premier Resigns, Peace Talks Halted   Eastern Front Quiets Down As Russians Prepare Drive

'Bulgars Shout '‘In- Streets For ‘War On Reich   Sofia Rioters Baitle Police aa Red Army Faces Frontiers of That  Balkan Country

Sofia Rioters Demand War On Germany   Red Army Massed Along Frontiers Of Balkan Nation

BULGARS CALL FOR NATION 10 WAR ON NAZIS   Crowds Battle Police In Safia Streets

RIOTERS URGE BULGARIA JOIN ALLIED ARMIES   Shout Demands That Rulers Declare War on Germany

BULGAR FRONT FACING STRONG RUSSIAN FORCE   Tense Moment Strikes for Bulgaria; Rioters Urge War on Germany

BULGARIANS DEMAND WAR AGAINST NATIS   New Government To Be Formed  Before Surrender

Rioters in Sofia  Want Declaration  War on Germany Bulgarian Armistice Talks Reported Suspended Due to Fall of Government

Riots Reported In Sofia Streets In Demand For War On Germany   Russian Army Only 155 Miles From Bulgaria Capital, With Germans In Yugoslavia, Greece In Peril If Bulgaria Capitulates.

3ulgarians Demand War Be Declared on Germany With Rioters Battling Police—Nazis in Yugoslavia and Greece Imperilled By Developments

SOFIA RIOTERS HEARD TO ASK WAR ON NAZIS   Moscow Reports Demands As Red Troops Hammtr To Nation’s Border

POPULACE DEMANDS BULGARIA DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY   RUSSIAN ARMORED COLUMNS NEAR SOFIA ANI  WrAnHer AWA CAaTIInNnKnaw

U.S. LOSER ON SHIP DEAL, SAY   CLAIM S. P. DELIBERATELY INTENDED TO MISLEAD

GERMANS SHIFT FIFTY DIVISIONS TO WEST FRONT   Shortage on Russian Front Presents Nazis in Role of Greatest Military Gamble”.

JAPAN WARNED 10 INCREASE GUARD   Prem'er Kolso Says Enemy Watching for Chance .  far Invaginn

GIVEN ANOTHER TERM   Byrnes to Serve Again as Director of War Mobilization

Appointment Of Byrnes OK'd   Senate Confirms New Nomination To Wartime Post

Byrnes Gets 2? Year Term   Senate Confirms Nomination Of Byrnes For Additional  W nore

WMR Chief Is Returned To His Post   Senate Confirms Byrnes Appointment For Another 2-Year Term

RENAME BYRNES TO WAR POST:   Mobilization Director Confirmed by Senate

James Byrnes Nominated For 2-Year Term   Director Of Mobilization And Reconversion Wins Praise Of Senators For Outstanding Ability

Jap Thrusts Peril Imphal   . Enemy Opens Attack Northwest of Base’

Enemy. Attacks British. Bases  Within Tndia.   ; Americans Cut -Beliind Enemy.’ Tn ‘North: Burma

Japs Strengther Positions Near  Imphal Base   kdge Around to Northwest of Indian City As Allies  Gain Near Kohima

Japanese Cut Road Imphal and Kohima in India Campaign   Attacking Both Towns, Sec. Stimson Says at Press Conference

Japanese Attacking * at Imphal   Also. Making Assault on Ko» hima, Having Cut Road Between Towns   BRITISH ‘HOLDING THE STRONG POINT!   “Secretary Stimson Explains the: Fighting But Will Not Make. Predictions

JAPANESE REPORTED EDGING AROUND TO NORTHWEST IMPHAL  BRITISH, HOWEVER, te ARE. CLEANING. UP SOME

2 Towns In India Attacked   Japs Cut Road to Permit Double Thrusts

ALLIED ROAD TOKOHIMA ISSEVERED   Stimson Reports Both Of Towns Being Attacked

JAPANESE REPORTED EDGING AROUND 10 NORTHWEST IMPHAL   BRITISH, HOWEVER, ARE CLEANING UP SOME THREATS

United States Troops Drive Japanese Back   Slow up Enemy Offensive in India; Bomb Hansa Bay

Imphal, Kohima Being Attacked Says Stimson   Enemy Nearly Surounds Base On Moniour Plain

NO PREDICTION ON INDIAN WAR   Stimson Says Substantial Reserves of Men and Weapons Are Ready.   JAPS HAVE CUT ROAD

JAPANESE TROOPS CHANGE POSITION IN IMPHAL AREA   Kdged Around to Northwes Supplementing Their Position to the Southwest,

Stimson Reports Kohima and Imphal Under Attack by Japanese Troops

Japs Sever Key Road, Attacking Burma Cities   Stimson Reveals Setback, But Says Reserves Auasiahlo.

Japs Maneuver New Position  Around Imphal   Secretary. Stimson Says Japs Have Cut Road Between Imphal and Kohima and Are. Attacking Both Towns— Threat To Supply Rail  Decreased.

Stimson Says. Japs Have Cut Imphal-Kohima Road And are Attacking Towns

Japs Cut Road And Launeh Attaeks On Imphal, Kohima   ‘Stimson, In Making Announcement, Says The Allies Still Holding Strong Points; Enemy Driven Back In Counter-Attack

Japs Reach New Position Near Imphal   Make Thrust Northwest Of British Base To Threaten Airdrome Three Miles Away

Hand-To-Hand Fighting Is Reported  British Take Hill Near Imphal As: Japs Bolster Position To Northwest

JAP DRIVE ON INDIAN FRONT SLOWS DOWN   Mountbatten Communique Reports General Improvement In Situation Around Kohima   HAND-TO-HAND CLASH

J aps Closer To Partly Surrounded Imphal Base   Attacking Airfield 2'4 Miles Away, Says Tokyo; Gains Made Ry American Forces

IMPHAL, KOHIMA UNDER ATTACK   Stimson Reports Two Vital Towns Menaced by Japs in India

Jap Forces Cut Road To Imphal   Attacking Both Imphal and Kohima, Stimson Announces

Nips Close On Imphal, Large U. S.  India Base   British And Indian Forces Obtain Hill

Towns Are Now Under Attacks  Stimson Says   “Not .Too Difficult’? To Penetrate In Areas Of Hills and Jungles, Secretary Declares   Japs. Supplement Imphal Position   Edge Around To North west; Tokyo Says. Troops Vithin Three Miles. Of Town’s Airfield

JAPS EDGING AROUND NEAR IMPHAI BASE   Hansa Bay Marked As Target By Air Troops

Japanese Are Attacking Imphal Stimson Reveals   26,000 Dead Nips Have Been Counted In Recent Months

Imphal, Moirang About To Fall, Tokyo Claims  =o. Saar ee A. filet atic ti

Re ee ae eee   Trask Drive            : ‘North 0 of  Town; Mill Taken’ ‘by “Allies‘in Bitter Fichting

JAPS THREATEN ENCIRCLEMENT IN IMPHAL PUSH   Allies Regain Important Hill Position; Tokyo Claims Success

Allies Take Hill in India   Beat Back Japs in Hand-to-Hand Battle; Enemy Nears Imphal

Both Imphal and [Kohima Now Under Japanese Attack   Road Between Allied indian Bases Cut By Foe, Secretary Stimson Discloses

Roofless Europe Heavily Bombed For Sixth Day   Japs Cut Road To Imphal; Stilwell Advances In Burma  War Theater

JAPS ATTACK BOTH KOHIMA AND IMPHAL   Stimson Reveals Nips Have Severed Road Connecting Two Towns, but Thus Far Allies Are Holdine the Ragec.

Japanese Edge Nearer Imphal   Move to Northwest To Tighten Ring Around Capital

AIRWAYS FIGURE NEW TIME TABLE   Flyers Paradise Will Be Available After The War

CAPTURE SO MANY PRISONERS THEY HAD TRAFFIC JAM   One Regiment of Gen. Patch’s Seventh Army Captured 1,600 Prisoner:

FEDERAL GUAYULE  RUBBER PROJECT 1S  GIVEN BLACK EVE LIQUIDATION OF GOV ERNMENT PROGRAM TS RECOMMENDED

House To Wield Ax In Ending Guayule Deal   California Project Will Not Aid In Time, Committee Reports To Nation

-2,000 Japs Die in Attack Which Pierced _ . U.S. Lines on Guam, Only to Be Repulsed

Marines Kill 2,000 Japs in Battle on Guan   Enemy Force Breaks Through U. S. Lines But Meets Disaster

Bataan Death March Colonel Tells of Jap Cruelty   By LT. COL. W. E. DYESS   As told to CHARLES LEAVELLE

FaANEWS of YA  eu MEN AND WOMEN “is /N UNIEORM “aay   Serving In France.

JURY CONVICTS ~ SHITARA SISTERS   Jap-American Women Guilty of Conspiracy to Commit. Treason

REACH 150% IN 5TH WAR LOAN   Practically All of Berrien’s : Communities Top  Quotas

CARRIER GRAFT STAB AT HEART OF PHILIPPINES   Nips Declare Martial Law With Danger of Invasion Imminent

AIR RAID SINKS “OR DAMAGES 40 ENEMY SHIPS   » Yanks Make First Major Assault Against Heart Of Philippines   p NAVAL BASE POUNDED   110 Nip Planes Destroyed In Air, 95 On Ground— U. S. Losses Light

4) SHIPS —   Martial Law Follows Raid by Powerful U. S. Task Force

2EDS LAUNCH NEW CAMPAIGN EAR WARSAW    Romania Drive * Reaches Danube

Japs Pouring More Troops Into Philippines   Chinese Spokesman Says Formosa Also Being Reinforced as  Allied Net Tightens

Japs Bracing Formosa, Too  Chinese Say  eS. ee, ee   _ Japanese Hint Yanks May Attempt Landing In Philippines Area  CHUNGKING PLEASED

1,500 Airplanes  Drop Bomb Loads  On German Front WU. 5. Eighth Air Force, RAF  Bombers Carry Out Seventh Se-ntah?t Cterbe Raatect Ravic

Heavy Bombe Attacks on Foe Continue   American and British Planes Pound at Rhineland District

Yanks, British Shower Bombs Behind Front   Thousands of Tons Dropped on Foe West of the Rhine

Allied Bombers Out in Force   Strike at German Supply Facilities In the Rhineland

GREAT FLEETS U. 8.  BOMBERS, FIGHTERS  BLAST WEST FRONT THOUSANDS OF TONS OF BOMBS RAINED BETWEE!  DA'rTE Cep ral? a8 PEt

Nazi Railways and Road Junctions Hit   Air Fleet Bombs German Rear Lines

BiG RAID MADE BY FROM BRITAIN   Were Aided by a Great Fleet of RAF Heavies In the Attack.   DROPPED MANY BOMBS   it Was Seventh Straight Day of Attack by U.S. Heavy Bombers.

13 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN INRABAUL RAIL   Other -Aerial Attacks Are : Carried Out In Carolines, Marshalls

Butchers’ Shops Shut in New Y ork   Citizens Have to Eat Christmas Leftovers

MEAT HOLIDAY HITS NEW YORK   2.135 of 6.020 Meat Shops Closed in Protest on OPA Regulations

Leftovers. Popular in Metropolis   Many N.Y. Butcher Shops: _.Closed Yesterday “in~   Protest Against  ! OPA Rulings

NEW YORK HAS MEAT HOLIDAY   Butcher Shops Protest Gevernment Price Regulations

BUTCHER onOPS TAKE “HOLIDAY   Thousands of New York City Meat Shops Close in Protest Against Government Price Regulations

JAPS CLAIM PLANES RAIDED SAIPAN BASE  G@. tha Acezthriated Presse

Civilian Goods Output Is Seen  Truman Committee Says Labor Draft Not Neadad

Manpower Draft Unnecessary Glowing Picture of U.S. War Industry By Truman Group

Truman Group Gives Glowing Output Picture   War Industry Over Hump: New Aviation Steps Revealed: Civilian Pro duction Envisaged -

South’s Demand Gets First Test   South Carolina and Texas Delegates To Be Heard First.

British Soldiers Slip Ashore on Crete, Seize Nazi General, Escape

Small British Party Lands On Crete, Seizes General; Note of ‘Thanks’ Is Left

Bombers Strike at Ponape   MOVE COMPLETES SOLOMONS CAMPAIGN, SAYS MacARTHUR

Northern Tip Of Solomons In Allied Hands   MacArthur Says Campaign Has’ Been Completed

First Army Sweeps Through Seven  Fortified Villages   German Defenses West of Roer River Virtually Collapse on 1,000-Yard Sector Under Relentless Yank Assault

Leyte Valley Becomes A Potential Jap Death Trap   Entire U. S. Land Front on Leyte Moves Ahead Through Mud and Rain

Yanks Take Firm Grip On Leyte   Southern Door of Potential Death Trap for Japs Is Slammed Shut   MAIN SUPPLY LINE IN U. S. GONTROL   Counter-Attack Is Easily Repulsed, All MacArthur’s Forces Go Forward

SHUT ESCAPE DOOR (   The Yanks Tighten Their Stranglehold on Jap mmunications

Americans Push Steadily Ahead In Philippines  Southern Door Of Leyte Valley Shut By Gaining Troops

YANKS TIGHTEN TRAP ON LEYTE   Slam Shut Southern Door 0 Valley In Latest Gains

Yanks Close Valley Door.   _Take Tighter Hold “On: Southern: ‘Levte.

Mud-Caked Yanks Slam Shut Southern Door To Strategic Leyte Valley  oe   Planes And Guns Cover Advance   MacArthur’s Men Seize Southern Coast Of Adjoing Samar Island

ESCAPE TRAP IN LEYTE IS BEING CLOSED   American Land Front Moves Forward Through Mud and Rain Under Cover of Artillery Fire

Yanks Tighten Philippines Hold   Entire American-Land Front Advances Through Mud and Rain

Yanks Slam Shut Trap on Leyte Enemy   Tighten Hold on Jap: Communications With Adjacent Isles

Yanks Closing Death Trap on Leyte Japanese   Entire Land Front Moves Ahead to Crowd Defenders; U.S. Power Grows

Trap Closed On Nip   Yanks Shut Door To Leyte Valley; Land On Samar

Yanks Advance In Philippines   Close Southern Door Of Leyte Valley— Confirm Samar Landings

LEYTE YANKS TIGHTEN THAP ON JAPANESE   Capture Road Junction and Close Off Escape from Southern Area.

Trap Japs In Leyte Valley   Capture of Road Key Shuts Off Escape Road To the South; Landing On Samar Confirmed

Yanks Close Trap In South Leyte   Landing on Samar Island Confirmed

AMERICANS PUT NEW PRESSURE ON DEFENDERS   Death Trap Set For Japanese In Leyte Volley——Advance Continues

Muddy Yanks Shut Leyte Valley Door   Potential Death Trap Made for Japanese; Supply Lines Cut

Death Trap Is Closed On Jap: In Philippines   Nip Communications Strangled As U.8. Troops Forge Ahead

DOOR SLAMMED SHUT BY YANKS ON JAPS IN SOUTHERN LEYTE; MUD-CAKED FICHTERS ADVANCE

Yanks Shut Door on Jap Forces   Nips Are Being Cut Off From Oiher Philippine Islands

YANKS CLOSE SOUTHERN TRAP HIN. PHILIPPINES   South Samar Seized By Americans; Japanese Communications Cut

Shut One Door Of Leyte Trap   Yanks Cut Nips off From Adjacent Islands; Whole Force Moving Forward

Americans Slam Shut Door Of Strategic Leyte Valley; Entire Force Moves Ahead   Yanks Tighten Stranglehold On Nip Communications With Adjacent Islands

SOUTHERN DOOR SLOSED TO JAPS   Yanks Advance Tc New Positions On Philippines

Yank Land Forces Move Forward Thru Mud and Rain. Under Cover of Aircraft

Invaders Slam Shut Death Trap On Leyte Japs   Main Jap Supply Line Fo: Supplies From North  Severed -— a

CROWDING JAPo IN DEATH TRAE   Entire American Land Front Moves Forward Through Mud, Rain.   SOUTH SAMAR IS SEIZED

MW’ Arthur Shuts Off Jap Units   Leyte Valley Drive Eatraps Enemy in Southern. Half

Yanks Capture Burauen, Key To Leyte Valley   Tighten Grip on  Jap Communications With Nearby Islands And Press Nips Back

THIRD RAID MADE IN AS MANY DAYS   Nazi Airmen Fail To Challenge Big U. S. Raiders, Report

U.S. Bombers Pound Reich And France   Returning Crewmen Say Not a Single Nazi Fighter Seen

OVER GERMANY AGAIN TODAY   First Flier Back Say No German Fighters Seen

AMERICANS BOME GERMAN PLANTS FOR THIRD DAY   Air Fields Smashed In Occupied French Torritory

New Dealism Is Issue Of Elections   Four Administration Senators Face Strong Opposition

Action Ne ear  In Politics :   Four Senate. Scraps Are Upon. Calendar

FOUR SENATORS UP HONDAY FOR ~ PLACE ON TICKE   Tydings, Pepper, Hill and Guerney Face Fight—-F,  D. R.-Byrd Delegate Race in Florida.   NEW DEAL POLICIES ARE PRINCIPAL ISSUES   Eighty More: Democratic. and 45 Republican . National Convention’ Delegates to Be Chosen.

FOUR SENATORIAL RAGES HIGHLIGHT WEEK'S CALENDAR   Roosevelt-Byrd Race for Del egates in Florida Also up Front in Interest   NEW DEAL HOME FRONT POLICIES MAIN ISSUE   80 More Democratic and 45 Republican’ Nationa] Convention Delegates Will Be Chosen During Week; Other Contests on Calendar

Four Senatorial Renomination Scraps Are Noted  Dim Out Campaign Of National  Pracideantia] Politics

POLITICS MOVES INTO SPOTLIGHT   Four Senatorial Scraps This Week Hinge On New Deal Policies

NIPS SIX MILES FROM FOOCHOW, NEAR KWEILIN   Americans Cling To Last Of Seven China Air  Bases   RY ASSOCIATED PRESS

6 Miles of Foochow   U. S. Airmen Are Evacuating Lone Remaining Base Under  Jap Pressure

Invading Japs Near Foochow: 19 co Ships Hit  Raids o n Philippine  Area Continuing

Jap Forces Near Foochow,  _ Important Chinese Seaport   Nippon Invaders Pose New Threat to Strategic Kweilin-—United States Airmen Swarm in Effort to Stem Japanese

Whole Italian Front Blazes Into Action as Eighth and Fifth Armies Launch Twin Drives That Threaten to Drive Germans Back to River Po— Enemy Defenses Appear  to Be Crumbling on Both East and West. -

PISA SEIZED; GOTHIC LINE IS CRUMBLING   WHOLE OF ITALIAN FRONT FLAMES INTO ACTION

Americans Join New Offensive On Italian Front   Take Pisa; Whole Gothic Line ' Reported Crumbling

Pisa Taken; Yanks Strike In Po Valley   5th Army Bursts Across Arno: Storms German Heights on East

Eighth Launches New Offensive On Gothic Line.  Piss Captured By British Army

Nazis’ Gothic  Line ls Pierced   Whole Italian Front Flames Into “Action; Yanks Cross Arno River; _ Nazis Evacuate Pisa

Pisa Is Taken In New Drive  Of Fifth Army   Americans Acting in Concert With British to Open Offensive

Yanks Blast Great Gap in Gothic Line   Break Through on 20 Mile Front to Take City of Pisa

AGTION FLAMES GROSS WHOL HTALIAN FRONT   Yanks Seize Evacuated Pisa and Launch Flaming Mave on Arno.

5th Wins Pisa, Sth Cuts Deep In Gothic Line   Allies Say Nazis in Italy  Headed for Destruction Ac Pace Fiohic ReanlL

Fifth Army Bursts Across Arno In Wide Battleline  British Eighth Fans Through 20-Mile Gap in Italy Fight

Fifth Army Takes Pisa In A New Drive   Storm Heights On East With British Forces

Yankee Fifth Army Captures Historic Pisa   Drive Four Miles Farther North to Serehio Rive. in Spectacular Smash Against Nazis   British Pouring Thru Gothic Line   Americans Hurdle Arna River as Germany’s Left Wing Crumbles Before British Blows

Doughboys Cross Arno, Take Pisa And Storm Gothie Line   Sth Army Smashes Into Nazi Lines   Whole Htalian Fron Flames Into Action With Offensive

New Allied Drives in Italy Cut Big Holes in Gothic Line   Germans Give Up Pisa to Avoid Trap Ae Americans Advance Toward Po Valley

BRITISH PLUNGE “ON AS ENEMY’S _ DEFENSES FAII   Main Nazi Positions in Italy Menaced from Both East and West

Sudden Offensives Crash Into German Defenses in Italy   Enemy Strives Desperately To Keep Allies Out Of Valley of Po

GOTHIC LINE (RUMBLING AS VANKS TAKE PISS   Whole Italian Front Bursts Into Flame;  Negro Troops Storm Heichts

Rationing fo Be More Rigid   More Commodities To Be Placed Under System, Bowles Says

PIERRE LAVAL, NAZI HENCHMAN, FEARS ANGLO-AMERICANS WILL PARACHUTE DOWN OVER FRANCE

ein Laval, One Time Premier Of France, Is Scared Abhont Tnvasion.

WAR TODAY   France’s Quisling, Pierre Laval, Becoming Panicky Over ‘Thought of Invasion

Five Beachheads Made Over Cosina   Fighting Said Bitter In Drive Toward Faenz:

British Force Cosina Crossings   Five Small Beachheads Are Established

BRITISH AND YANK ADVANGE IN TTALY   Five New Beachheads Are Established: British Cross Cosina River

BRITISH ADVANCE ON ITALIAN LINE   Fighting Described As “Very Bitter”

YANKS START FROM SEA IN HARD RAIN   Weather Blocks Air Support; Objective Not Identified

REP, BROWN NAMED NEW COMMITTEEMAN   Chosen Over Huntington To Succeed Ingalls

NOTED AUTHOR HEART VICTIM   GEORGE ADE DIED‘LAST NIGHT IN INDIANA—CONTEMPO. ° RARY OF FAMOUS. j - WRITERS

Governor Warren s Named GOP Keynoter   Unanimous Choice O Committee

WARREN CHOSEN ~ (.0,P, KEYNOTES   CALIFORNIA’ GOVERNOR  19 UNANIMOUS CHOICE OF GROUP TO RALLY PARTY.

Warren Keynotes GOP Convention   Chorwe For Speaker Appears Unanimous For All Republican Elements.

Governor of California !s Unanimously Selected by Republican Committee —- Other Officers Selected

Trish Repatriates On Gripsholm Say Berlin Devastated   Exchange Liner Sails For U.S. After Stop At Belfast

WORLD COURT 5 SUGGESTED   Postwar Unit Should Be Backed By Stiff Military Power.

Today In Wasnington  Asks world Court with Army ¢ tieup  F )   Michigan Solon Charges Many Americans Are Living In Luxury In Mexico: Asks Sift

YANK BOMBERS RAID NAZILAND   Heavy Assaults Made And Berlin Is Hit

RAID GERMAN GIL REFINERIES TODAY   1,000 American Heay y Bombers Attack Aircraft Factories

Strong Forces Of ELAS Troops Mass in Greece  Rightist Guerrillas Threatened by New Shift of Insurgents

GREEK FACTIONS REPORTED 10 BE IN BATTLE NOW   British Under Scobie op Up Piraeus Port Area

Large ELAS Army Moving In On Rightist Area   Albanians Among Forces Threatening Zerbas’ Territory In Greece.

LARGE LEFTIST UNIT THREATENS EDES TERRITORY   British Evacuate 3,000 ELAS Prisoners by Sea From Greece

BIG FIGHT BREWING IN GREEK CIVIL WAR   Opposing Factions Massing Forces in Epirus

ELAS MOVING ON RIGHTIST GREEK FORCES   Army 10,000 to 15,000 Strong Reported Driving Toward Territory Occupied by General Zervas’ Edes Troops.

ELAS Mass More Troops   Moving on Territory Held by Rightist Guerrillas General Zervas

ELAS Go Into  Guerrilla Area   15.000 To 20.000 Enter Gen. Zervas’ Edes Territory In Greece,

Greeks Move Against Greeks   ELAS Invade Rightist Territory; Leftist Priagnere Fvaryatrd

Elas Said Marching On Rightists’ Area  British Manning Ip   British Mopping Up Piraeus, Extending Control of Athens

‘GREEK SITUATION ‘APPEARS BECOMING REALLY THREATENING  ELAS ARMY NEAR 20,000 REPORTED MOVING ON   aRPetii.f. Yi. . to TT

Strong ELAS Army Masses For Attack   Remove Prisoners From Athens Area

ELAS Moving Big Force Upon Epirus   Guerrilla Chief Says Aibanians Are Fighting in Greece

Big ELAS Force Move On EDES -~-In-Greek Strife   Guerriila Leader Informs. British Leftist Move Is On His Territory

Elas Entering Epirus Now   Strong Forces Move in On Territory Hel¢ By Rightis? Greek. Guerrillas

ELAS ARMY IS MOVING TOWARD TERVAS’ AREA   British Troops Expend Athens Sector Today

ELAS I F orces Hit Rightists.   Strife-Torn Greece  Fichting Continues

Greek Leftists Start New War  Large Force Moving on Rightist Guerrillas

IS BRIGHTER   But 24,450 War Worker: Continue to Remain  From Jobs

Labor Problem Growing Worse   Thousands Stay Away From Jobs As WLB Attempts Settlement.

ThousandsRemain Away From Jobs  In Numerous Lines   Estimate 24,450 Workers Are Idle; Reduction — Might Come Over Week-Eud

24,480 (OLE IN STRIKES TODAY   Work Stoppages Affect 17 Industries Throughout Nation.

WORKERS STAY AWAY FROM JOBS IN MANY AREAS   War Production Suffers; U. S. May Tale Over

Seek To Settle Diverse Controversies  War Production Oa An Uneven Keel With Many Thousands On Strike

British Admiral Gives Interesting Account of Sinking of Scharnhorst

RAID ON EUROPE INCLUDES GHEN   One of Several Junctions Feeding Invasion Coasts

thent-- RAF ‘Target--A City Of Many Ancient Conflicts Over Its Canals

Canned Goods May Come Back On Ration List   Vegetables to Be inint. Commnaditiec

HULL CHOSE PSYCHOLOGICAL MO TO WARN AUSTRIANS TO SHAKE HITLER YOKE BY GENERAL REVO

WAR TODAY   Eleventh Hour For Austriato Revolt Against Hitler and Get Out of War At and .

Hull's Warning to Austrian People To Revolt Against Nazis ls Timely

The War Today   Hull’s Warning to Austria Comes At 11th Hour for Repentance

AUSPICIOUS MOMENT CHOSEN BY SECRETARY HULL TELL AUSTRIA TIME ALMOST UP FOR RFEVOIT

The War Today —  Hull’s Warning To Austria Comes at Favorable Moment

Ask Jones To Tell How Butter, Meat Can Be “Critical”   Controversy Flares Anew On Food Subsidies

Bar Argentine ILO Delegate  Called Representative OFf Fascist Regime

AMBASSADOR OAL TO HAVE GIVEN LIE   Churchill’s Charge on Mihailovich Based on Stevenson’s Word

Churchill Disputed By Ambassador   Diplomat Gives Lie To Prime Minister’s Charge Against Mihailovich

Caroline Islands Battered   Reports State That Large Numbers Of Japanese Planes Being Destroyed,

RUSSIANS ARE NEARING EAST PRUSSIAN LINE   Germans Planning Withdrawal From Pskov Sector

Fall of Wilno Near; Nazis Battling Hard   Fierce House to House Fighting Raging With Reds Paying Heavily

Terrific Fight Raging In Streets Of Bloody Wilno; Huns Are Doomed

Russians Near East Prussia In Advance  Railway is Cut Now on Both  o> 5 #3  £#f Geres

REDS LESS THAN 100 MILES FRO FAST PRUSSIA   LONDON, July 10,UP—  The British press said tonight that the Russians had advanced to a point within 60 miles of East Prussia.

New Rofaticn Plan For Soldiers Serving Overseas To Bring First Home In March

First American Troops Return  Home In March   Leave Posts In South Pacific

FIRST PACIFIC ‘VETS’ DUE HOME IN MARCH   Rotation Plan To Affect Onl Small Part Of Troops

WPB CHIDED FOR IMPORTED ALCOHOL   Could Have Been Produced in U. S., Charge

WPB CHIDED FOR ALCOHOL IMPORTS   COULD BE PRODUCED IN ABANDONED U, S, PLANTS: GILLETTE

SOISSONS FALLS TO AMERICANS’ FAST ADVANCE   British Tear Loose Left Flank of  Nazi Line

U.S. Columns Capture Soissons, Roll Into Reims and Approach Argonne; Nazis Reel in Disorganized Retreat

Belgians Cry as Yanks Dash Over Border  Scenes of 1940 Are Wisc oes SS eee

First Yanks to Enter Belgium Bedecked  And Wined as Natives Cheer, Weep

Bulgaria Accepts Armistice Terms   Agrees to Evacuate Greece, Yugoslavia

BULGARIA HA AGREED TO ACCEPT TERMS   As Result of Meeting Between Churchill and Stalin; Will Evacuate Territories.   Filch Rob

Bulgaria to Meet Terms Of Allies   Accepts Conditions Of Armistice, Agrees To } Evacuate Seized  ‘—-—-  "Tenifories — —

Bulgaria Agrees To Allied Terms For an Armistice   Final Terms Later

Bulgars Agree To Big 3 Terms      Yugoslav-Greek Territory Will Be Evacuated Within 2 Week<

Bu garia Lgrees © To Pu ut OF _areece, * Wugos ayia “rays _ncer /.rmis ice

BULGARIA TO GIVE UP AREAS SEIZED TO OBTAIN PEAGE   Accept Armistice Conditions That Call for Evacuation of Greek and Yugoslav Territories.   TWO WEEKS IS GIVEN HER TO WITHDRAW   Military Commission, Headed by Russian Representative, to Be Set Up to Check Evacuation.

BULGARIA SIGNS ARMISTICE PACT   Seized Territories Must Be Evacuated Within Two Weeks

BULGARIA ACCEPTS ARMISTICE TERMS   Preliminary Conditions Call for Evacuation _ :0f. Territories

Bulgaria Bows To Allied Term:  For Armistice”   ‘Agrees To, Evacuate Territories Seized” From Greece, Yugoslavia

Warplanes Back Allied Invasion Army   Airfields, Oil Bases and Even Nazi Armor Targets

HIT RAIL CENTERS   Allies Aim at Hampering Nazi Reinforcements in France

Bombers Strafe German Lines of Reinforcement   Bail Centers al Vierzen Hi   Bail Centers al Vierzen Mit in Fifth Meavy Bember ‘Smash in 24 Meurs

Air Attacks Slow Nazi Reinforcements   Rail Lines Almost Useless Behind the Normandy Front

Bombers Pound Rail Center   Planes Battering Germans Back of Normandy Battle Zone

Allies Continuing Big Bomber Attacks on France  Planes Hit Homberg To Keep German Defenders on Edge

lowa’s Use Tax Law Is Sustained   Supreme Court Rules 7-2  In Favor of Tax Upon Out-of-State Buying

Nine Die in Harbor Fire  Five Missing and 100 Injured; Two Naval

9 ARE DEAD IN HARBOR BLAZE   100 Injured and 200 Feet of Dock Wrecked

HARBOR FIRE FATAL TO NINE: 100 HURT   Two Landing Ships, Dock Are Wrecked

Speculation Over Knox Successor Grows In Capital   Former Minnesota Governor Stassen — Mentioned For Post

Believe Forrestal May Be Retained As Acting Navy Secretary Until After the Political Conventions —

KNOX TO BE BURIED AT ARLINGTON   : Navy Carries On Under Leadership Of Forrestal

Carter County Passes Quotas  In Bond Sales   E. Bond Sales Go Over Top and Demand Continues Brisk

$900,000 in War Bonds Are Sold   Carter County Has. $400,000 to Sell To Reach Quota

Peleliu Island Assault By Marines Is Vividly Described, Evye-Witness

Peleliu Losses Termed Light   Marines Drive Wedge 1,200 Yards Across Key Air Arsenal

Marines Secure 2-Mile Beachhead In First Day’s Battle on Peleliu

Marines Battle Toward Peleliu Island Airstrip   Stiff Jap Resistance Tc Invasion; Airfield Or Moaratai Seized.

Boy, 12, Sophomore At Yale, Plays Bi ethoven Selections And Readily Gives Opinions On This And That

Committee to Demand Lists ‘Of War Plants   Truman Group Wants Civilian Production Started Promptly. .

May Ask List Of Plant Cutbacks   Truman Committee Prob. ing Plans For War Contract Termination,

No Changes In Tax Rate Anticipated   Compulsory Training Also Believed Out: Byrnes To Remain On Job

Congress  Ends Recess   Has Full Agenda For Remaining Weeks Of Present Session

DEMO SENATORS NAME BARKLEY LEADER AGAIN   Senate Expected to Follow House Action, Making Disputed Tax Measure a U.S. La

SITES CONSIDERED FOR COAL RESEARCH   Facilities Definitely Are Available, ’Tis Said

Battle of Athens Mounts in Fury   British Armor Hits Anew at 10,000 ELAS

British Battle 16,000 Greeks Within Athens   Artillery and War Planes Are Put to Use

British Artillery Fires On Leftists   Last ELAS Resistance On Acropolis Crushed

BRITISH BATTLE LEFTISTS   RAF, Tanks, Troops Engage Elas Rebels In Street of Athens

WATERS RECEDE TO ALMOST NORMAL AT MILES CITY   Bombing “Raids” on Yellowstone River Are Successful

Elaine Tirrelll is is Bride o! Robert E. Macdonald of Brookline  a

UNITED IN. ~TRINITARIAN URCH HERE          Elaine Tirrell. is Bride of Robert E. Macdonald ; of Brookline

Evangelist’s : — Death Probed   inquest Ordered After Doctors ” Fail To Find What Kilfed Aimee Semple McPherson’.

Aimee McPherson Autopsy Conducted   Three Surgeons Say Unable to Determine Evanaelist’s Death

American Forces Penetrate Inland  Over 18 Miles   Germans Fleeing In Disorder Leaving  Dead, Wounded Behind

Billings Lieutenant 1s One of Few Men To Fscane Death in Los Negros Assault

Mikado’s Best Whipped By U.S. Marines On Los Negros   Japs Openly Commit Suicide As They Yell ‘Kill All The American Dogs. Soldier Relates

COUNTY WAR CHEST RALLY HELD HERE      Workers Wil Make Complete Canvans to Secure the County Quota of $27,500

Milk Ruling § Appeal Made I By Broughton    Significance Is Attached To Bombings

AP waa, Reds Timing  Attack With Second Front   Germans. Lose 6, 700 Men /and 108 Tanks in South : Poland Strugele   hl PLANES DOWNED   Russ Bombers Blast Oil  Plants in Estonia as  Grand Assault Nears

Quiet Hovers Over Fronts In The East   Silence Hints Russians Planning Spring Drive Timed To Invasion

Red Troops Ease Tempo Of Offensive   Germans Pushing Hordes of Troops Avainst Russians

amuse The War Today —= Eden Looms As Successor  to Churchill  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE 20 Viar Anaivet

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZEP Aaacciated Press War Analyet

QUALIF ‘ICATIONS ANTHONY EDEN AS POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL BE TESTED

The War Today  There Will Be Significance To Eden Move IfTt Eventuates.

The War Today   By DeWITT MacKENZIE (Associated Presse War Anaiyst)

WAR TODAY   ChurchiiVs Historic Task Drawing To Close; Eden’s Qualifications As Sireces sor To' Be Tested

THE WAR TODAY   “eee EECCA ANE ER  Leadership Of Commons Would Be Test For Eden

EDEN SEEN AS LOGICAL LEADER TO SUCCEED CHURCHILL AND HE 1S BEING GROOMED FOR THE JOB   Eden May Resign British Foreign Secretaryship in Order to Devote His Entire Time to Government ‘ Leadership in’ House of Commons and Be Tried Out As Churchill’s Successor

Red Tanks, Cavalry Crush Defenses In Hungary Sector  Soviets Race Onware Towards Budapest In 28-Mile Advance

Juggernaut Rolling On Across Hungar’   Reds Sweep 55 Miles Inland, Striking At Capital; Cossacks-Slash. Resistance

Soviet Forces Move To Within 83 Mi. Budapest   Tank and Cavalry Units Race Through More Than 300 Towns East of Tisza River   Reds Open Pincer  Move On Prussia   Attacking Beyond Siauliai in Western Lithuania; Cross Narew River at Poltus

Reds Cut Deep Into Hungary,  Move in North   Twin Drives on Far Fling Russian Front Tears Oe Bt Bs wie:

Juggernaut Rolling   Reds Sweep 55 Miles Inland, Striking At Capital: Cossacks Slash Resistance

viets Take ail Centers n Advance On apital City   Russiqns Also Attack ing Furiously On Other Sectors— Nazis Face Encirclement

Red Tank Troops Overrun 300 Sites An Pre-War Hunaar   -Outflank Szeged City; Strike Within 75 Miles “Important Budapest

ROMBERS HELP ‘NEW RED PUSH « NAZIS REPORT   Attacks Are Between Danube » and Lake Balaton in Hungary

WANTS STATE GUARD BAR TD BAN'T ELUTE   Hickenlooper Tells. Governors Strong Postwar Arms Policy Needed.

GOVERNORS’ CONFERENCE TOLD NATIONAL GUARD HAS _"* BEEN “BACKBONE” OF - — — ee LAND. FORCES

FATHER DRAFT BAN THREAT OF ~ HOUSE GROUP   Chairman May Reopens Investigation of Deferment Policies, Assails McNuit, Nelson   DRAFT ORDER OUT   Fxceptions to Ban on Occupational Deferments Held to Insure Drafting of More Fathers

May Presses Draft Probe   None: But ‘Physical Deferments‘ Sought:

WEW LEGISLATION ON DEFERMENT S NOW THREATENED   Representative May Discusses Means to Bar All But Physical Deferments For Men Between 18-26.   MELSON, M'NUTT REPORT IS CRITICIZED   Latest Order Prohibits Postponments of Men Under 26 Years Except Essential Worker's.

;House Military Leader Threatens Ban On All But. 4+-F’s For Men  ' Under 26   Critical List’ Will Be Given Study   MeNutt and Nelson Seek Deferment For Skilled Workers: Drafting ‘Of Fathers Costly

A A CII at  Legislation to Ban Deferments of All But Physically Unfit Is Threatened

REOPEN PROBE OF INDUCTION DEFERMENTS   Father-Draft Policy Before House Group—May Threatens Limiting Young Men’s Excuses to Physical Reasons.

Committee To Study Deferred   NEW MILITARY DRAFT PLAN IS BEING DISCUSSED   PRAVER SERVICE

N ew Act May SetDefer ment  Ban on 18-26   May Suggests Only Phys: _ ica] Reasons as Bar to Military Service

HOUSE MILITARY COMMITTEE PRORES DRAFT DEFERMENT  NEW SELECTIVE SERVICE ORDERS BANS CERWATT ALCLREeD MrasirTre

Drait Deferment Policies Hit For Men 18-26  Move Threatened  In Answer to — Tt. Poe

Ban on All 4-F's Under 26 Years of Age Threatened By House Military Committee

Reopen Investigation Of Deferment Policies  Army May Take All Men Under 26 Save For 4-Fs

HOUSE GROUP REOPENS SIFT OF DEFERMENTS   Fathers Are Hit By New Selective Service  Order

New Deferment Ban Brings Draft Issue Back In Spotlight   Sen. Taft Makes Plea for ‘Man With Capital’ and Ohio Congressman Asks President To Establish Coal Research Laboratory in Southern Part of State

JOB DEFERMENT REFUSED 18-25   Exceptions May Let Plants Hold Needed Technicians

MEN UNDER 26 FACING DRAFT   House Military Chief Threatens to Ban All But 4-F Deferments

Congress May Take Action On Deferments   Threatens to Ban All But Physical Deferments For Men 18 to 26

Token System Of  Buying Now in Use   New Food Rationing Method Given House Wives.

Token System \s Effective   Green and Brown Stamps to Be Used First, OPA Says

Token Plan of Rationing Is Started; System Is Expected to Relieve  Buyers, Traders of Many Annoyances

17 KNOWN DEAD IN L&N COLLISION NEAR JELLICO; CIRCUS OFFICERS CHARGED

oth Army Smashes Into San Vittore; Drives Head On Into Nazi Defenses

Allies Smash Head-On Into Heart Of German Defenses In Italy. Ak lied .Bombers Help  {  Derive.

Fierce Fighting in City Streets of San Vittore.  NAZIS WERE CAUGHT OFF THEIR GUAR’?  Offensive Picking Up in Force by the Hour.

AIR BRIDGE T0 JAPAN. ORIENT   Likely to Remain Under U.S. Rule After War

ISLANDS FORM AIR BRIDGE 10 JAPAN ORIENT   Likely to Remain Under U.S. Rule After War

Giant Robots Used For First Time   2,000-lb. Bomb Hits Hospital in England

RULES OF WAR MAY BE THROWN OUT BY NAZIS   Germans State Rules Broken By French

German Chiels Provoked hy Leclerc Order   Anti-Sniping. Proclamation Said to ‘Be Basis of Threat to Break War. Rules

Berlin Hints At Breaking War Rules   Considering Use of Poison Gas, Says German High Command

Nazi High Command Threatening To 1 Abandon International War Rules

GERMANY MAY ABANDON RULES   Nazis Threaten Reprisals If Hostages Are Shot

GERMANS THREATEN TO DROP WAR RULES   Frenc Wilt Shoot German Hostages in Reprisal for Sniping in Strasboura

May Drop War Laws   Nazis Make fake Threat After French Order Shootiny of Hostages

Germans Threaten to Abandon WorldAccepted Agreements on Waging War

Nazis [hreaten To Abandon All Rules Of War; Use Of Poison Gas HjnteH

REPUBLICAN WOMEN PLAN ANNUAL DINNER   Congressman Gross Will Be Among Speakers At Event Next Tuesday Evening .

GROSS ADDRESSES (.0. P. WOMEN HERE   Congressman Is Principal Speaker At Annual Dinner Of Club — Praises Dewey And Entire Ticket

Bombers From Australian Bases Batter Enemy-Held Targets On Island Of Java

1.300 Forts Blast Nazi Supply Lines   Air Armada Strikes Out In Support Of Invasion Troops On Normandy

RAIDERS BLAST FRENCH TARGETS   1000 U. S. BOMBERS HIT INVASION LAND

Egg Shortage © Becoming Acute   Midwest Senators  Appeal To WFA Head

FIGHT OF WEST AND  SOUTH FOR FREIGHT  RATES GROWS HOTTER IS CULMINATION OF  SOUTHERN GOVERNORS LicuTr Ene FAIRNECC

FREIGHT RATES TO PLAY BIG PART IN COMING ELECTIONS   Fight of South and West Over Freight Rate Differentials Reaching Boilime Pomt

To Press Charges Against Drivers   False Affidavits to Result in Perjury Counts Police Head States

Near Big Prussian Rail Hub   Hundreds of Red Planes Spearhead Russian Advance

90,000 Parisians Rise To Oust Germans In Pitched 4-Day Battle   France Celebrates Re-Conquest Of Nation’s Capital City By Their Own Citizens With Strains Of ‘La Marseillaise,’ Raising Of Tri-Color; Striking Police Sparked Revolt In Ile de la Cite

Seeks Payment Of Balance For Corn Shucking   Recess in Court  Until Wednesday

Seeks Payment —  Of Balance For  Corn Shucking  Recess i in Court   Until Wednesday  e cCrrT.

Berlin Calls It a Terror Raid. Many Fires Started. Air Attack Now In 13th Day.

Nazi Tank Forces Are Defeated   Yanks of Simpson’s Army Win Armored Battle Northeast of Aachen

Cardinal O’Connell, Church Prince, Dies of Pneumonia  Millworker’s Son Had Become Head of — Catholics in Nation

Cardinal O°  Connell Dies   TOonnell vies Dean Of Catholic  Hierarchy Passes Awav At Boaston

‘High Catholic Official Dies At Age of 84   William Cardinal O’Connell of Boston Victim of Bronchial Pneumonia—Rites Will Be Held Next Friday.

Card. O'Connell Dean of Catholic Hierarchy Dies   Noted Prelate Succumbs to Pneumonic

Archbishop of Boston Passes   William Cardinal O'Connell Succumbs To Bronchial Pneumonic

Archbishop of Boston and Dean of Roman Catholic Hierarchy in America Dies in Boston

Dean of Catholic Hierarchy  In America Dies in Boston   Cardinal, Tl With Bronchial Pneumonia, Fails to Rally From Severe Attacks; Passes on During Apostolic Benediction

Aged Catholic Prelate Dies Of Pneumonia   Cardinal O'Connell. Head Of Chureh In America, lil Only A Week

DEAN OF CATHOLIC HIERARCHY DIES   CARDINAL O'CONNELL, ARCHBISHOP OF BOSTON, SUC‘CUMBS TO PNEUMONIA,

Famed Cardina 0'Connell. Dies  Dean of Hierarchy in America Succumbs

AGED CARDINAL O'CONNELL DIES OF PNEUMONIA   Leader of Catholic  Church in America Succumbs at 84

Testimony Ended In Niewoehner Contempt Action  Attorneys to Submit Briefs Before Court Issues Ruling

10 COMPANIES NOW AFFECTED BY ROAD TIEUE   ‘Other Larger Firms Paying 7 Cent Wage Boost Hit Thru Exchange.

TO MATCH HEROISM   War Plant Workers Should Stay on Jobs, Says  Gen. Somervell

Jugoslav Troops Register Gains _   Nazi Stronghold’s  Fall Said Imminent

BUSINESS MEN'S LUNCH Full course 50c¢, Bank Grilt.—aAc   CHECKS WITH FYOTR VaME

ins Thrown rom Positions ear Kohima   Blows Struck Allies Improve ‘» Hold: Air-Borne  tions Continue

JAPS THROWN BACK IN BURMA   Allied Counterattacks i Kohima Region Deal  Foe Heavy Losses

REAMS ENTERS RACE FOR OHIO GOVERNOR   Fourth Term for Roosevelt Is Advocated

Burning Ship: Reaches Porf   Cargo Set Afire in Attack of German Glider Bombers

Cargo Afire, Ship Sails 1,000 Miles   Second Mate Brings Merchantman Into Port

Locate Body of West Fargo Boy   Jerry Haugen, Nine, Drowns In Pond

NO B-29 LOST IN ANSHAN RAID   Reduction Of Japaness Steel Output Is Aim Of U.S. Bombers

—Postwar World Security Talks Open—  Strong Armed Forces Urged To Keep Peace   Hull And Russ Envoy Stress “Sovereign Equality” Of Large And Small Nations

World Security Parley Opens   Hull, British and Russian Delegates Cite Need for Military Force to Back Peace as Preliminary Session Maps Aims

Life on Leyte Miserable   Rain, Wind and Mud Add to Troubles Of Service Men

4 Soviet Columns Drive Within 10 Miles of Viipuri   Russians Smash New Break in Finn Line, Seize 70 More Towns

War In China Most Furious In- Six Years   China’s Troops Ordered To Resist At All Cost In Changsha Defense

Battle in China Is Near Climax   Chinese Backed up Against Changsa Line By Powerful Japs

JAP CAMPAIGN TO SEAL EAST CHINA NOW ON   Furious Battle For Changsha  Continues

Chinese Battle To Crush Jap Changsha Drive  Enemy Tries To Cut East Link

RUBBER CAUSES: ‘DRAFT PROBLEM   DIRECTOR SAYS SYNTHETIC PROGRAM SUCCESS DEPENDS ON DEFERMENT  SYSTEM.‘TO BE FOLLOWED

Dewey Warns That Synthetic Industry Will Be Unable To Meet Demands lf Army Takes Key Men

-F.D. WORKS ON ~ DRAFT POLICY   Gets Rubber Director’s Warning   Need More Men Under 26 Years Old

FOE STEPS UP LONDON RAIDS   Nazi Airmen Blast British Capital for Sixth Time In Five Nights

FORLI AIRFIELD SIEGE SPEEDED   Bitter Enemy Resistance Overcome By Allied Troops In Italy

Eighth Army Advances in: North Italy   Overcomes Bitter Nazi Resistunce to Push Within One Mile Of Forli

Hull Rejects Dewey Criticism   Security Parley May Come This Fall

Dewey's Concerr Termed By Hull As Unfounded   Secretary Of State Welcomes Conference With N. Y. Governor

Dewey’s Fears Unfounded Says ‘Secretary Hull   Official Denies World Coercion by Military Alliance Is Plan of Allies

ica nai ema ea artia neainieatal  Promises Action At State Hospital

fR Approves More Liberal REA Lending   Says Spreading of Electric Power Essential to Nation’s Progress

Other British Forces Attack From North, Northwest _  BIG TANK BATTLE  Nine Nazi Counter. Attacks Are Beaten Back

DOOLITTIE TELLS OF RESULT = OF EIGHTH AIR FORCE RAIDS   AIR HERO SAYS 22,000 TONS OF BOMBS ‘DROPPED AND 1300 ‘NAZI PLANES DESTROYED

Hero Decorated   Chips Who Charged Enemy Pillbox Is Awarded Medal

[CHIPS WINS ‘ANOTHER MEDAL! Dog: Awarded DSC For  \Heroism Against Nazis

Dog Bites Man —And Earns a D. S. €. for it   Chips Is Decorated for Cleaning Out Italian Pillbox.

DSC Is Awarded to Canine Hero  Exploits of “Chips” Brilliant War Chapter

Subsidies Ordered  For Oi! Production In Penna. Fields   Highest Subsidy of 75c Barrels to Be Paid For Penna. Crude Oil

Subsid y to Be Paid On Local Oil Aug. I   Highest Payment, 75 Cents Per Barrel, To Be Paid in Pennsylvania Grade Crude Area; Program to Cost $50,000,000 Year

Yanks Seize 2 Metz Footholds   Patton’s Men Meet Fierce Resistance in Drive for Germany; Tommies Push on to Bourg-Leopold, 25 Miles From Reichland

Fall Of Fortress Cities Withi Hours Predicted As Four 4 res Drive Final Miles To man frontier   SECURITY BLACKOUT OBSCURES OPERATI

Eiseamower Is Pounding Against Siegfried Line   Rate of Advance May Continue to Be Limited by Supplies

Three Northern Armies Massed Along 200-Mile Front As Seventh Army Nears Germany From South.

End May Come By Early November, Says Eisen: hower Headauarters. 3

News Blackout Is Clamped On Allied Moves   Eisenhower Keeps Germans Guessing As Four Armies Thrust Toward Reich

News Blackout Goes On To Keep Nazis Guessing On Blows   Headquarters Says End for Germany May Come By Early November

British Over Albert Canal; Yanks Cross Moselle and Meuse Rivers After Hard Fightine

On 500 Mile Border Stretch Between Switzerland And Holland   ESTABLISHING AN UNBROKEN FRONT   1,000 Bomber Fleet Raids German War Plants In Three Cities

Four allied armies break Albert canal defense on 200-mile assault front

ALLIES ‘SECRET PUNCH’ STRIKES SIEGFRIED LINE   Four Allied Units Threaten Invasion of Germany on 200-Mile Front

British Crack Albert Canal Line in Belgium   Eisenhower Swings ‘Hid. den Punch’ at Siegfried Line

A More Divisions Thrown. Into New Offensive   Dozen Towns Are Captured as Bombers Thunder Over to Give Most Support Since Breakthrough at St. Lo in France

4-PLY ASSAULT ACCOMPANIED BY RAIN OF BOMBS   New Blackout Clamped on Developments — Fierce Fighting in Italy

YANKEES OPEN ASSAULT OVER 20-MILE FRONT   Giant Strides Recorded In Attacks Against Siegfried  lina

Nine More Nazi Towns Captured North of Metz   Seek To Oulflank German Fortress

Eisenhower Swings Hidden Punch At The Siegfried Line   Attack By Four Armies Thrusts Menacingly at Possible Invasion Spot Along Entire 200-Mile Assault Front   TIGHT NEWS BLACKOUT PUT ON DEVELOPMENTS   RULLETIN

4 Divisions Break Nazis’  Moselle Line   Gen. Patton Throws  Seven Divisions  Into New Offensive AIDED BY BOMBERS

Fortress Cities Of Metz, Nancy Soon May Fall   U.S. Tankmen Roll Toward Reich From 3 New Bridgeheads

PATTON PUTS 1 DIVISIONS INTO FIGHT   Yanks Seize Dozen Towns: - In Advance Along 55 Mile Front— Break  Across Moselle River, ~.   FIGHTING RAGES IN SLEET AND RAIN   More Than 1,300 Bombers Rip Enemy Lines— Air Attack Heaviest Since St. Lo Break-Through.

ALLIES BREAK CANAL DEFENSE   Attack Carries to Within 25 Miles of German Front - At3 Places. “et   TIGHT NEWS BLACKOUT

THRUST TOWARD GERMANY ALONG 200-MILE FRONT  ATTA Y fPADDICC TA   ATTACK CARRIES TO WIDEN 25 MILES OF BORDER IN 3 PLACES

NEWS BLACKOUT KEEPS GERMANS “ON THE GUESS’   Albert Canal Defense Broken by Four Allied Armies—25 Miles From Reich Frontier.

Tight News = Blachout Clamped On Develop. ments To Keep (icrinans (Guessing

Armies Set for Attack,  Eisenhower Bans News   Drives Carry to Within 25 Miles of German Frontier in Belgium and at Metz, Patch Moves up to Besancon

COMPLETE NAZI COLLAPSE IN MEUSE SECTOR   Metz, Nancy To Fall Soon

Four Armies Drive for the German Border   Final Offensive To be Opened Soon On 500-Mile Front

Troops Known To Be Nearing Siegfried Line   Yankees Near Liege, British Now Across Albert Canal; Pattor Begins Closing In

Mighty Assault Believed Begun  Against Reich   Gen. Dwight D. Eisen. hower’s Punch at Siegfried Line Hidden by  News Blackout   Big Albert Canal  Defense Is Broken   Yankees At Metz, British at Liege, With 25 Miles German Frontiers Nazis Being Bombed

ALBERT CANA DEFENSES CRACKED —   Forces From South Reach City Of Besancon   2,000 PLANES   Support New Allied Drive; Resistance Is Stiff Along Moselle

Moselle Crossings Are Made   U. S. First Army Hurls Nazis Back All Alona Front

Prepare for Drive Into Germany   Fall of Two French Cities Expected Soon-—-German  War Plants Biasted

Eisenhower's Forces Crack Albert Canal Line to Move Within 25 Miles of Border   Germans Fighting Desperate Battle Before Siegfried Line; Troops In South Plunge Toward Belfort Gap

Eisenhower Headquarters Writer Sees End of German War Early in November

‘Ike’ Aims Showdown Blow At Siegfried Line; Five Bridgeheads Over Moselle

Fortress Cities of Metz And Nancy Near Capture As Planes Hammer War Plants

Eisenhower Gives Signal for Allied Knockout Punch; Hints Defeat of German Forces by Early November

Nazi Army Stiffening _ In. Apparent  Desperation   Offensive ‘Closing ‘On German Border

Conservatives Give Germany  Only Two More Months Of War   By HOWARD COWAN

IF our Allied ‘Armies Mass  ‘Before Line   Break Albert Canal Defenses; Bombers Blast Siegfried Line in Rear

Troops Lash Canal, Daze Enemy   Army Is Now 25 Miles From Reich Border; Units Are Striking at Three Points Airmen Reat Heavily at Important Sites

Troops Threaten to Cutflonk Fortress of Metz  FARMORED DIVISION  GETS INTO BATTLE  Nine More Towns Fall: to the American Forces

Moselle Drive Twenty Miles FromGermany   Fall Of German Fortress Bastions Predicted Within Two More Days

British 2nd, UJ. S. Ist Surge Ahead On Belsian Front   Patton’s Army Slugs Out Vital Gains In Moselle Sector

Four Armies Punching At Siegfried Line   Attack Carries Within 25 Miles Of Nazi Frontier

Moselle is forded at two points  Patton threatens   Patton threatens to outflank Metz

Patton's Men Cross Moselle At Two Places   Seven American Divisions Engaged In Great Assault; Small Gains Made in Vossenack Fighting

Allies Plunging Toward Frontier In Strong Force   Tight News Blackout Clamped On Movements Of Troops; Canal Defenses In Belgium Broken; U. S. First Army Near Liege

FINAL DRIVE TO BURST OPEN WAY TO BERLIN IN OFFING: NEWS BLACKOUT. IS IMPOSED

Chance of Victory hy November   ‘Rate of Advance Will Depend Only on Speed of   Bringing Up Supplies   2,000 WARPLANES LAUNCH ASSAULT   Four Armies Moving ou Siegfried Line; Nazis Can't Guard All in Force

Eisenhower Aims Knockout Punch at Vaunted Nazi Defenses   OVER 5 BRIDGEHEADS   Patton’s Third Army Pours in Great Force Across  Moselle

Tight. News Blackout Clamped:. On Developments To Keep Germans Guessing

Offensive Threatens To Outflank Metz; Seven Divisions Now In Major Drive

' —  Frantic Nazis Wondering _ Where Main Assault Will  ! Come; Allies Near  Border.     AL BERT CANAL LINE  ryt wrwrrmmyrrsarcaww Verpsri.b’” VrMyY

Albert Canal Line Cracked   .. +. Nazis Put Up Desperate Defense

SMASH ACROSS ALBERT CANAL BEFORE REICH   Armies Menace German Border At Four Strategic Points

THE ALBERT CANAL ~ DEFENSE BROKEN BY ALIEN APMIES   Thrust Menacingly at Possible Invasion Spots Along Assault Front.   NEAR GERMAN FRONTIER   Two Thousand American and British Bombers Attocked Near Center of Line.

CRACK ARMOR BREAKS OPEN GERMAN LINE   DOZEN TOWNS ARE OVERRUN; MAIN HIGHWAY CUT

Heavy Bombers Soften Enemy Lines _As 55-Mile Front Goes Into Action

EISENHOWER SWINGS FOUR ALLIED ARMIES AGAINST WEST WALL  HEADQUARTERS SAYS END OF GERMANY MAY COME EARLY NOVEMBER

‘American Ist, 3rd, 7th, British ‘2nd Gathering at Borders of Germany For Crushing Attack —

SEEK TO KEEP NAZIS GUESSING ON MAIN BLOWS   ‘Allies Are Poised Menacingly on 200 Mile German Defenses

Fortress Cities of Metz, Nancy Likely To Fall Soon Unde Terrific Onslaught

Huns Fighting, To Stave Off Yank Invasion:  Patton 20 Miles Fenm Wea Wal

Attack Carries Within 25 Miles Of German Border In Three Spots   Planes Blast Path Behind The Lines   Tight News Blackout Is Clamped On Developments In West

9 More Towns Fall as Armor Enters Battle   1,300 Heavies Blast Enemy Positions in Close-Support Action: Metz May Be Flanked

Third Breaks Out In Force   Heavy Bombers Soften Enemy Lines As 55-Mile Front Goes Into Action

Enemy Line Ripped By Allies’ Bombs   Dozen Towns Overrun by General Patton's Hard-Drivina Infantry and Armored Unite

INVASION UNITS SPEED TOWARD DECISIVE FICHT   News Blackout Keeps Foe Wondering Where Knockout Punch to Strike

A Mighty Air Fleet . Paves Way   Four Allied Armies Strike at Albert Canal, Liege, Metz, ard Toward Belfort Gap

Americans Smash Across Moselle  At Three Points   Organized Resistance In Northwest Shattered By First Army Blows

ARMIES SEIZE POSITIONS FOR BORDER SMASH   Nazis Fighting Bitter Delaying Actions to Guard Frontier

Bombers Aid In Offensive  Of Third Army   Dozen Towns Overrun by Third Army Men Under L # Gen. Patton

HEIDBRINK RITES AT IRETON TODAY   Well .Known Farmer Died Tuesday In Hospital Here

French Hold Positions   Grim Story From Saipan; Japanese Soldiers, Trapped In Cave By Marines, Slay Women And Children, Then Commit Hari Kari

JAPANESE SOLDIERS MURDER THEIR  OWN PEOPLE AND COMMIT SUICIDE RATHER THAN SURRENDER TO ALLIES   Marine Combat Sergeant Writes of Horrible Scene In Cave Where Old Men, Women and Children. Were Killed by Their Own People

In A Saipan “Cave of Horrors * Jap Suicide, Slaughter Reply To Yanks’ Surrender Appeals

To Back Wallace?   Japanese Troops Kill Civilians, Themselves To Fscape Capture In ‘Cave Of Horrors’ On Saipan

BABIES CRIES AND SCREAMS AWE MARINE:   Welter of Blasted Bodies ir Pools of Blood Found in Death Pit,

Cave Of Horrors Found By Marines  Japs Killed Own Civilians Caught In Cave On Saipan   Slew Men, Women And Babies With Grenades, Rifle Fire, Then Disemboweled Themselves

“Cave of Horrors’ A Grim War Tale   Jap Civilians Are Killed by Nippon Soldiers Who Resis1 Surrender Pleas

 é  Cave of Horrors’ Yields Jap Bodies, Baby, Boy, Girls With Throats Slit

Senate Considers Social Security   Upper House Also Ponders Extraordinary War Powers of President.

Farm Deferments Sell Subject to Call, Says  Towa Selective Service

3 Women Slain, ~ Police Baffler   Ft. Wayne Authorities Post $5000 Rewards

WHETHER TURKEY GOES TO WAR OR NOT DEPENDS ON GERMANS; FINNS WANT TO MAKE PEACE   Turkey Has Million Men Ready for Arms and Allies Ready to Help Her. - New Finnish President. Baron Mannerheim, Said Seeking Peace

Turkish Cabinet Said Undecided  On Entering Wat   Military Relations Of Two Nations Depending On Attitude Of Berlin

Troops Advance Inland Toward  Island Air Field  Many Japs Starve In Hollandia Area,

HUGE ARMADA OF YANK WARPLANES HITS FRANKFURT   Other Targets Are Blasted 1 Sixth Major Aerial Attack In Seven Days   21 BOMBERS, 1 FIGHTER PLANE FAIL TO RETURN   Attacking Flying Fortresses And Liberators Escorted By Long-range Allied Fighters; Planes Continue To Pound Invasion Coast

American Heavy Bombers Atfack Western Germany   Blast Frankfort, Lose 22 Planes

21 BOMBERS LOST IN RAID ON REICH   AMERICANS STRIKE AJ FRANKFURT AND OTHER WEST GERMAN TARGETS.

YANKS SMASH AT FRANKFURT   Big American Aerial Armada Makes Sixth Major Attack in Seven Days

Yank Bombers Hit Frankfurt   21 Bombers, One Fighte Post Pa Bama

Yankee Bomber: Blast Frankfurt; Lose 21 Planes   Heavy Antiaircraft Curtain Reported By Returning Raiders

Strike May Close Ford Plane Plan  War Labor Board Asks Workers to Return

W LB Orders Ford Strikers Back to Work   ‘Detroit Plant Shutdown, ‘Now Threatened, Would Throw 50,000 Out

RAF Loses 73 Planes In Final Jab at Berlin   Job of Stamping Out All Remaining Points Believed Left to ‘Forts’

RAF Strikes Greatest Air Blow atBerlin   Heavies Drop 2800 Tons on Capital; Lose 73 Bombers

73 Big Bombers Are Lost   Raid Belheved Last RAF Night Trip to Capital

Seventeen Men Leave for Service   Group Inducted at Erie Wednesday

CONGRESS TO ACT “ON MAJOR BILLS   Legislation Dealing With  » Homefront, Aid to Allies And Veterans Affairs Are Put on ‘Must’ List

WORK CUT OUT FOR CONGRESS   Numerous Bills On Must List Before Solons Can Go Home

DEWEY START TO REORGANIZE » GOP MACHINERY   Remains in Chicago With ; Bricker and National Leaders

Dewey Plunges Into Task Of Reorganizing GOP Body For Defeat Of New Dealers

Mukden, Focal Point Of Japanese Supply System, Is The Target   YEW RAID IS VERY POWERFUL BLOW IN. SUPPORT OF CHINA   United States Marines On Tinian Have Captured ‘Second Airstrip Thero

B-29 SUPERFORTS BLAST MUKDEN IN JAP MANCHURIA   Steel, Armament and Power Plants Raided in Broad Daylight.

U. 5. Invaders Mow Down Japs At Momote Field  Desperate Attempt   Desperate Attempt To Take Los Negros Lost By Nipponese

Ni ip Attempt To Retake Momote Airfield Fails   Americans, Standing Ground, Strew Battlefield  With Dead Warriors ‘of Rising Sun   3,000 Japs Wiped ~ Out or Wounded   Turn in Tide of Battle Came Friday and Yes ‘terday; Invasion Costs  61 U. &. Lives

Enemy Loses 3,000 Men During Fight   Nipponese Charge On Momote At Great Cost

Japs Slain In Fierce Attack   Many Die But Yanks Hold Momote Airdrome, Then Score New Advances

Smash Attempt To Take Field   American Invaders Crush Japanese Drive For Momote Airdrome.

‘Japs Hit Hard - OnAdmiralties   Americans Kill Or Wound 3,000 During Fina Desperate Effort Of Nips To Win  ) Back Momote Airdrome

3,000 Nipponese Killed In Attempt To Gain Momote   Warships Bombard Enemy Harbor As Yanks Prepare To Continue Advance To Manus

One Of Bitterest Fights In Pacific Raging On Island   3000 Japanese Reported Killed Or Wounded Since Invasion Of Isle; U. S. Casualties Listed As 61 Killed And 244 Wounded

Japanese Lose  3.000 at Field   ara jel Charges Unable Vo Brenk Momnie Grin

3000 Japs Cut Down  Admiralties   Americans Lose Only 61 Killed in Fierce Los Negros Battles

Enemy Loses 3,000 Men During Fight   Nionenese Charae   Nipponese Charge On Momote At Great Cost

Yanks Retain Their Ground After Fierce Island Fight   3,000 Enemy Deaths, Injuries Are Listed

AAA PROGRAM SEEKS TO BOOST FARM WAR GOALS   Se  Local Committeemen Wil Take Production Census County Farms.

Tired, Hungry Trapped Nazis Facing Death   Russians Closing In Relentlessly After Seizing Korsun, Core of Enemy  Resistance ©

YANKS USE NEM WEAPON IN AIR ATTACK TODAY   Planes Fill Europe’s Sky

Storm Strikes. Eastern. Coast   “Wilmington” 8 Beach Resorts ‘Evacuated ©

STORM BATTERS CAROLINE COAST   Wilmington Resorts Lashed And Utilities Paralyzed

Carolina Coast Lashed By Tropical Hurricane; Many Flee From Homes

Hundreds Flee  As Hurricane Hits Resort:   High Winds Batter Area In North Carolina, But No Casualties Are Seriously Hurt

CARDIDATES IN FINAL DRIVE   Governor Thomas E. Dewey to Speak in Minneapolis — Next Roosevelt Address Scheduled for Friday at Philadelphia's Shthe Park.

Jury Will Soon Receive Case of Janice Grahan  Charge Some Time During Day

Coronados Drop Bombs On Specified Targets In High Precision Bombing; Largest Mass of Warships Ever Sent Against Japs Opens Marshall Drive.

2 Navy Plane Squadrons Hit Wake Island   ‘Believed Intended to Pre  vent Jap From Interferring With U. 8. MidPacific Offensive ©

1,490 Jap Planes Shot Vown In Fast o1x MVionths  Silence Cloaks Activity In Marshalls; Raid Wake

Heavy Bomb Loads Rained on Atolls   Tokyo Troop Landing Hint S3l] Uneanfirmed

NAVY AIR FORCE ATTAGKS WAKE SUNDAY NIGHT   Blast Nip Base To Preven Jap Assistance To Forces on Marshalls

Land-Based Plane Attacks Combined With Huge Task Force Operations Seek to Keep Japs Groggy

JAP AIR POWER HELD DOWN BY WAKE ATTACK   Former American ‘Island Receives Tenth Raid Of War

Tokyo Radio Hints. Th Ground Forces Went. As After Bombardment From Sea and: Air.        BASE AT KWAJALEIN  STRUCK THE HARDES        Attack. on Wake Apparent t:  ‘Going to Scene ¢ of ‘ , -Onslaughit.

‘Strong Raid Is Made on Wake Island   Terse Announcement Of Bombing, Shelling Only Marshalls News  FIGHTING, JAPS SAY

U. 5. Expanding Air Offensive In Pacific Area   Tokyo Radio Hints Of Army Invasion

Wake Island Hammered By Task Force Planes   U. S. Carrier Task Force Still on Prowl in Central Pacific; Japs Kept Groggy By Blows

Bombs Keep W ake Planes  Ont of Rattlo Toky oReports, orts, Indicating Actual Invasion, Not Confirmed by U. S.  MANY ISLANDS HIT  Official Communiques Indicate Almost Straight Month of Bombing   MANY ISLANDS HIT

Jap Planes At. Wake ~ Blasted To Prevent . Attack On Task Force’

Invasion Of Mid - Pacific Islands Near   Japs. Report. Action: - by U.S. Ground Forces ~ _ Following Raids On Marshalls

WAKE ISLAND BOMBED: NAV SILENT ABOUT MARSHALLS OFFENSIVE   No Word Given of Largest Mass of Warships Ever Sent Against Japs   NAVAL ACTION DOUBTED

Tokyo Hints Invasion Is In Progress    U. S. Still Withholds Detailed Account of . Pacific Events

Navy Planes Hammer At Wake Island   Prevent Air Base From Figuring In Operations

Carrier Task Forces Keep Centra! Pacific Japanese Grogay Pending Landings

Naval planes heavily boml Wake island   Mighty air-sea armada strikes

WAKE ISLAND INSTALLATIONS SUBJECTED TO HEAVY ATTACK   Bombs From Coronado Seaplanes Hit In Or Near Tar  get Area, Nimitz Reports; No Details About Carrier Force Attack On Marshalls

Land-Based Planes Coordinate With Task — Force Attacks  STRIKE BY GROUND FORCES RUMORED  Progress of Sunday's Bom_bardment Cloaked in Silence

OPERATION OF TASK FORCES NOT REVEALED   Another Day Passes Without Word of Movements Of Warships Sent Against Japs

OPEN INQUIRY OF ~JDLEWAR PLANTS   Senate Committee Contends  That Production of Some Items Is Advisable.

Senate Seeks To Raise Civilian Goods Production   Steel, Copper Control Relaxation Seen Coming Soon

Production      Truman Committee Wants Pots and Pans, Razors, Irons, Auto Parts and Pressure Cookers

TOKYO SHIPPING CRIPPLED AGAIN   Allies Sink 4 Freighters At Halmahera And Borneo

COLD SNAP PASSING   Temperatures From 15 to 20 Forecast for Tonight

Red Fleet to Be Reinforced  Churehi tt Cnankicome   Churchill Confirms F. D. R. Statement On Italian Ships

CHURCHILL HINTS DELAYING SHIFT OF ENEMY FLEET   Premier Thinks Decision May Be Postponed Till Germany and Japan Have Been Defeated.   ALLIES CONSIDERING SHIP HELP TO REDS   Tells Commons Some Consid” eration Has Been Giver to Disposition of {talian Fleet.

Britons Hear Of Italian Ship Transfer   Churchill Tells Of Allied Plans

CHURCHILL WOULD WAIT UNTIL. END OF WAR TO = DOLE OUT FOES’ FLEET

Churchill Not: For Disposing _ Of Italy Navy   Believes Division Should Await Peace: Confirms Roosevelt Statement On Discussions

DIVIDE FLEETS AFTER WAR   CHURCHILL CONFIRMS RED NAVY FORTIFICATION

U.S., Britain Considering Naval Aid  For Russians   Churchill Replies  To Questions In Commons On Earlier F.D.R. Announcement

Churchill Holds Enemy Fleet Dispositions Could Well be Left Until End of the War

Churchill Would Await End of War   Comments on Giving Italian Fleet to Russians

Britain Nervous Over Disposition Of Italian Fleet   Churchill Thinks  Such Action Had “Best Be Left Until  The End of the War”

Italians Still Operating Their Own Battleships   But Churchill Says There Has Been Talk of Turning Fleet to Russia.   Leave Disposition of  Fleet to End of War

Backs Report That Soviets May Receive Italy’s Shins   Releasing Of News In U. §. Is Scored

Italian Fleet Disposition Not Yet Determined   Churchill Says It Should be Left Until End of War

Churchill Favors Disposing of Fleets After War  Prime Minister Says  Italian Crews Cacll Pra nembr. Cline

‘Churchill Says Disposition Of Enemy Navies Had Best Be Left Until The War Is Over   Confirms President's Announcement Italian Vessels May Go To Russia

Churchill Favors Disposing of Fleets After War  Prime Minister Seys Italian Crews Still Operate Ships

ITALY RUNNING HER FLEET YET   So Declares Churchill In Confirming Plans To Aid Russien:s

WIDOW OF ERVIN P. FRIDERES ASKS SUMOFC.R.L& p.   Case Brought to Trial In Local’ Court Monday: Frideres Killed In TrainAuto Crash In 1942.

Fails To Recover From Injuries  ln Atito Accident   John Plendl Life Long Resident Of Kingsley Vicinity

Fails To Recover  From Injuries —  In Atito Accident John Plendl Life Long Resident Of  Bs Dies US votes.

DEWEY FAVORS FORCE T0 UPHOLE FUTURE PEACE   Guy. Urges Post-War American International Co-operation

DEWEY GIVES HIS VIEWS ON FOREIGN POLICY   Demands Collaboration, Using Force If Necessary

Sheriff Frank Scholer Member Ot Draft Board  Succeeds Will Sieve: Who Resiened Seve:

Sheriff Frank Scholer Member Of Draft Board   Succeeds Will Sievers Who Resigned Several Weeks Ago

BRICKER URGES JOBS ~ BY PRIVATE EFFORT   Tells Boston Political Rule Has : No Place in. Free Economy.

NEW ZEALAND TROOPS SCORE   Faenza, Po Valley Fortress City, Taken By Freyberg’s Troops

KEY PO VALLEY CITY CAPTURED   Zealanders Take Faenza In Foot-by-Foot Slugging Match on Boloana Highway

Faenza Falls To Allies, Ending Siege   New Zealand Men Take Italy Fort In Double Assault

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES FAENZA   ‘New Zealanders Occupy Italian Fortress City After Bitter Fight

New Zealanders Capture Faenza  “ Victory in Italy Ends Long Siege

New Zealanders Take Po Valley City of Faenza   Long Siege Ends; Eighth Army Nabs 550 Prisoners in 24 Hours

8th Army Zeds “Topple Faenza   Bitter Street Bautle Won [> Fitw New Zanlonders

Allies Take Faenza, Po  Valley Fort   New Zealanders Take City In Slow, Bitter Fight

NEW ZEALAND FORCES TAKE ITALIAN CITY      Faenza, in the Po Valley, Finally Falls to Allies

General Wilson, In An Indirect Reply To Pope’s Appeal That Rome Be Saved, Puts Matter Up To Germans.

GUNTRAG, BREAC SUIT IS FILED   Injunction Against Delivery of Tomatoes Issued by Court

ax BREACt SUIT IS/FILED   ; Injunctio 1. Against Delivery bt Tomatoes Issued by Court -

Freak Tornado At Collinsville   Damage Estimated at $75,000; Storm Travels Narrow Path

Two Injured as Tornado Hits Collinsville   75 Homes Demolished Or Wrecked and Santa Fe Station Is Blown Away During Storm

FREAK TORNADO HITS” COLLINSVILLE, OKLA.   Seventy-Five Homes Demolished or Partly Wrecked—Two Persons Iniured.

Bricker Tour. To Wind up in Native State.  President Expected   President Expected To, Bolster Ticket In Cleveland Talk:

Protestant leaders at Chicago meeting stress need of unity on: home and world fronts. 

FOUR SENTENCED T0 PEN FOR ROBBERY   Three Plead Guilty; One Nolle Contendere

DRIVE IN FAR NORTH REPORTED   Reds Within 40 Mile Of Town Of Viipuri ® In Karelian Push

RUSSIANS ADVANCING IN FINLAND   Report Civilians Being Evacuated From Viipuri

Fail to Stop Red Armies Advance in An Attempt to Knock Them Out of War.

Reds Step UpViipuri Advance   Soviet Armies Take 110 Finnish Towns in Three-Day Drive

FINNS HURL IN FRESH RESERVES NEAR VIIPURI   Reds Still Advance on Finns’ Second * Largest City

Reds Attack Germans in Far North   Finns’ Arctic Front Defended by Seven Nazi Divisions

North-South Raij Lines In Htaly Cut By Raids   Sardinia And Corsica Are  Used As Bases

Nazi Supply Line Broken  AH Wlaceh Careh Bail      All North-South Rail Lines In Italy Cut

Anti-Trust Case Rehearing Denied   Insurance Firms Lose Bid for New Decision

SUPREME COURT BACKS RULING ON INSURANCE   Insists Business is Subject To U.S. Anti-Trust Law

GREENE C0. READY FOR 6TH WAR LOAN   CALL FOR UNITED ACTION   Everyone in County To Get Letter Friday From County Headquarters on Details

Quota $2,300,000 In 6th War Loan   Quota For County Se! $300,000 Below Last Drive

FINLAND CONSIDERS BREAK WITH BERLIN   Reports Say Rupture of Diplomatic Relations May Come Over Week-End.

FINNISH-N AZ BREAK LOOMS   Helsinki Plans to Sever Re. lations As Armistice Preliminary

State Health Chief Is Dead   Commissioner H. Allen Mover Heart Victim

ILLNESS TAKES DR. H. A. MOYER   Health Commissioner, 6%, Was Personal Doctor Of Gov. Dickinson

STATE HEALTH CHIEFTAIN DIES   Dr. H. Alien Moyer Succumbs To Heart Ailment

Nazi Prisoner Who Fled Farm Near Eau Claire, Suicides At Ft. Custer

Don't Travel Unnecessarily This Week End, Is Appeal Issued by ODT Office

AAA Need In Postwar Period Seen   Farm Agency Has Been Whipping Boy No, 1 Of Administration

15,053 Casualties Suffered By Yanks in Taking Saipan   List Includes 2,359 Killed, 11,481 Wounded and 1,218 Miss ing, Highest of Any Ground Action in Pacific—Jap Dead,  . 11,948 of Whom Already Have Been Buried, Believed to Total 19,000—1,000 Prisoners Taken.

TAKING SAIPAN COSTS 15,000 U.S. SOLDIERS   ABOUT 95 PERCENT OF JAP DEFENSE FORCE KILLED

U. S. Casualties At Saipan Are 2.399 Killed   Wounded Given At 11,481 With 1.213 Missing

Chamber Heac Opposed To New Ceilings   Eric Johnston Fears Inflation And Then Deflation

Sees Danger In Wage Hike   Eric Johnston Believes Increase Should Come In the Pestwar Era

Wage Increases Would Be Mistake Johnston Asserts  War Labor Board Told of Dangers OF Inflation

Johnston Asks Wage Lid Remain   U.S.C. of C. Head Sees Dan ger of Inflation Followed by Deflation   ‘ALL BORROWING AGAINST FUTURE   Says He Favors High Wages and a Broader Security Program

“Yankees Recover  Bridge On Canal; Tanks In Action   Delayed Dispatches From Front Lines Tell Of Assaults Upon Bridgehead Sunday Afternoon; Late Reports Say Battle Is Still In Progress.

Montgomery Ward Begin: Legal Action Against _ Govt.’ Control Of. Plants —

PLANT SEIZURE—   Chicago Firm Asks Dismissal Injunction Granted To Biddle

Troops Clamp Tighter Grip On Ward Plant   Another Official — Barred From Firm’s Executive Building

Jurist Continues Hearing to Menday—Beth Avery and Byan Barred trem Plant

PRESIDENT RYAN BARRED FROM ENTERING FIRM   Chicago Plant Attorneys Claim Company Not in War Output

COURT TO RULE TUESDAY UPON WARD SEIZURE   FDR Over-stepped Powers, Company’s Lawyers Argue -

Ward Fight ts Restr: ainer On Officials   J udge Orders Immediate Hearing as Concern Opens Fight   SUBPOENAS TAYLOR   “Annual Stockholders’ * Meeting Today May Act on Situation

Two Heads of Company Are Barred From Chicago Offices by Soldiers

Army Bars Ward Heads _ From Office   Ward Officials Begi in _ Legal Fight Against U.S. Control.

Dismissal Of Injunction, Asked; Taylor Bans Top Officials From Plant.

Hearing Next Week On Injunction Won By Government   Order Bars Ward Head And Chairman From Offices in Chicago Plant

Ward's Starts Legal Action to Regain Store   Top Executives Of Big Concern Barred from Office

MONTGOMERY WARD ATTORNEYS START LEGAL PROCEEDINGS - ASK FEDERAL JUDGE TO  DISMISS INJUNCTION CDANTEN TACT NICHT

Ward’s Counsel Asks Court To Dismiss Injunction Given Government

Ward Co. Opens Fight Against Control By US  Army Bars Its Ton Fxecutives

-Ward’s Fights Government Seizure; House Committee Demands Probe   KK K& KUM Congressional Inquiry Sought

COURT UPHOLDS INVASION OF MAIL CONCERN   Attorneys for Ward Claim Seizure Violates Constitutional Rights o! Concern

Congressional Investigation Of Ward Seizure Is Proposed As Company Begins Legal Fight

Federal Judge To Rule on Injuction Early in Next Week   Government Gets Temporary Writ in Night; Action Attacked

Montgomery to. Fights Against Federal Control   Congress Pushes  e Resolution to Prove U. S. Seizure

WARD OPENS LEGAL FIGHT   Base Attack On Contention Seizure Unconstitutional

President of Monitgomety Ward Barred Entrance . To Seized Chicago Plant

Temporary Restraining Order Issued; Comry Begins. Legal Fight, Ask “Dismissal of lnjunction.

WARD SEIZURE— ' LEGAL FIGHT I OPENED BY FIRM   Dismissal Of Injunction -. Granted Biddle Asked By Company Counsel   ‘OFFICERS BARRED   President Clement D. Ryan Refused Permission To Enter Office

Wards Start Legal .Fight Against U. §.   Action Started After Head Executives Denied Admittance

Ward Begins Legal Fight Over Firm   Avery and Ryan Barred From Office By Troops

‘ Seeeseeeeeeeseeaeeseseeeaat  Little Rock Enforces “Anti-Petting Law”

-Brac, Dalmatian Island, Captured   Landings Made By  Yugoslav Partisans

HOPE TO GET E QUOTA   orkers Push : Sales to Rene! . $651,855 Goal

HOPE TO GET E QUOTA    Workers Push Sales to Reach $651,855 Goal

E BONDS CREEP UP   Army-Navy Buying iAids on $374,370 Total Just Over Half Quota  

Red Armies Rush Into Ploesti Oil Region   Way Also Open To Bucharest; Nazis Overwhelmed All Over Ramania

Soviets Reach Hungary, Nazi Account Says   LONDON (AP) — Russian troops have reached the Hungarian border, the German radio asserted Monday night.

Red Army Smashed Galati Gap Defenses and Bowled Over Nazi Resistance While Romanian Troops Struck Enemy Forces and Blocked Moun tain Passes Leading to Hungarv

SOVIETS ENTER PLOESTI AREA   Other Troops Reach Hungarian Border at Carpathian Pass

Knock down 88 Germans  over Berlin RAF races out  aver ecoantinent

Luftwaffe Puts Up Heavy Resistance   Raiders Forced To Blast Path Through Nozi Planec To Berlin: American Losses Are Heavy

Bombings Reach Eve of Invasion   Americans Lose 77 Planes as Luftwaffe Fights

1000 Japanese Troops Trapped In North Burma  FT i — ee T an   Huge Bougainville Force Doomed Too, General Reports

Many Japaness Facing Death  In Two Areas   Nipponese in Burma Caught in Trap by Stilwell’s Men

LOSSES HEAVY IN SOLOMONS AND IN BURMA   BOUGAINVILLE ARMY CAN’T LAST OVER TEN DAYS

‘Thousands Of Japs Trapped   Many Face Death In North Burma, Others On Islands

Russians Drive Across Estonia, Fr  Take 200 Towns   Other Units Push Westward  From Central Latvia In Meve Toward Riga

REDS SLASHING TOWARD CAGEL GERMAN TROOPS   Soviet Forces Drive Forward On 100 Mile Front East Of Warsaw in Strategic Maneuver

Court Rejects Reprieve For Murder Chief   Court’s Refusal Leaves “Lepke” Facing Sing Sing’s Death Chair at 11 o’clock Tonight.

LEPKE LOSES IN FINAL APPEAL 10 ESCAPE DEATH   Supreme Court Rejects Last Minute Legal Mane: uver to Save Murder  Leader

Lepke Appeal — ~~ Rejected by : Supreme Cour!   ‘Murder, Inc, Gh Chief to Be Executed Tonight Unless Dewey Intervenes

BROOKLYN MURDER BOSS ONCE AGAIN IS SLATED TO SIT InN FLECTRIC CHaiR

COURT REJECTS LEPKE’S APPEAL   SLATED TO DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR AT SING SING TONIGHT

LEPKE FACES CHAIR TONIGHT   SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO CONSIDER CASE

LEPKE DENIES HE “SUNG” AS DEATH: HOUR DRAWS NEAR   Louis (Lepke) Buchalter; Boss of Murder, Inc., Faces Chair Tonight Unless Respite Comes From Gov. Dewey at Eleventh Hour

Lepke Loses  His Appeal to Highest Court   Chief of Murder, Inc., Doomed to Die in Ele tr Ch . Ti . he

Supreme Court Rejects Last-Minute Attempt To Save Louis Lepke From Electric Chair

Lepke’s Last Minute Plea Rejected by Supreme Court   Court in Unusual Procedure Announces Decision Hour and Half after Petition Filed; Trio Prepares for Execution

High Court Turns Down Maneuver  To Save Buchalter  Murder, Inc., Chief Is Scheduled to Be Executed Tonight

BLACK MARKET CURTAILMENT MAY AID MOVE   ‘In-Courge-of - Work’ Driving Needs More Fuel

Holders Of B Gas Coupons  May Get Hike   Mans For Increasing Allotment Reported Making Progress

sHcr nn I HIT   Steel Center of Yawata Also Attacked in Latest.” Raid on Island.   ‘B-29°S IN NEW ACTION

Japs Get New B-2¢ Blasting   Chinese Break Siege on Hengyang, Nips Routed at Railway

Sasebo Hit In Third Raid Jap Mainland   Steel Center Alsa Bombed By U. S. 20th Airforce

Sasebo Naval Base; Yawata  Steel Mills Hit   No Details Given in Brief Announcement by Gen. Arnold

Naval Base Of Sasebo Is Hit By B-29 Fleet      Jap Steel Center of Ya~wwata. Also Attacked Again In Blow’ At Mainland.

Big Naval Base At Saseho Hit In B-29 Attack   Raid Is Made On Enemy's Home For Third Time

18 PAGES   SASEBO, YAWATA HIT BY B-29’s   Big Naval Base Attacked First Time; Raid Is Second On Steel Center

Nip Steel Center  Also Hit   Industrial Yowata Made B.29 Target for Seeontl Time in Vonth

STEEL CENTER OF YAWATAHIT   Huge American Planes Make Assaults On Island Of Kyushu  RAID JAPAN PROPER

Sasebo And Steel Center Are Targets   Superfortresses Of Yank Force Hit Mainland

Naval Base At Sasebo One Target   Yawata Steel Center Is Bombed A Second Time; Na Detarle Civen.

NAVAL BASE AT SASEBO AND STEEL CENTER OF YAWATA OBJECT OF SECOND ATTACK   Japanese Mainland Again Feels Weight of American Bombs Dropped from B-29s. Attack Comes On Seventh Aaniversary Japan’s Attack on China

U.S. Airmen Bomb Jap  Naval Base   Second Attack Made By Huge B-29’s on Sasebo-Yawata on Japanese Mainland

Japanese Naval Base and Steel Center Bombed   Superforts Strike for Second Time at Yawata on Kyushu.   High Degree of Hits Is Made on Plants

SASEBO'S NAVAL INSTALLATIONS, YAWATA RAIDED   General Arnold Announces Second Assault on Nips By VU. S. Superforts

NO DETAILS OF RAID GIVEN   Big Japanese Steel Center Hit Second Time

Sasebo Target Of Super Forts; Yawata Also Hit   Second Blow At Jep Homeland By Big Yank Bombers

SUPER - FORTS BLAST SASEBO   Big Jap Naval Base Hit by  B-29’s; Yawata Also Raided

AT SASEBO HAMMERED   Yawata Also Target Of Second Blow By Big B-29’s

blast Military Installations  In Third Raid  Naval Base And Steel  Clantovw Tangata f)-.   Naval Base And Steel Center Targets Of Superforts   SECOND ON YAWATA   Four Big Bombers Fail To Return; One Known Th Be Shot Down

Yawata Hit Also in  Night Raid   Third American Aerial Assault on Japanese Homeland During War Centers on Big Sasebo Base and Steel Production Plants

STEEL CENTER AND NAVY BASE HIT BY RAIDERS   Third Air Assault on  Japan Proper Since Start of War

Naval Base —  at Saseho Ts Target   Steel Center at Yawata Also. Is Blasted for. the Second’ Time   THIRD. ATTACK ON} JAP MAINLAND:   U.S. Employs Same ‘Strategy as” Used: in EBurope™ Against Industrial. Centers

B-29 Bombers Blast Sasebo Naval Base, Yawata Steel Firms   Second American Superfortress Air Attack on Japanese Homeland in Less Than Month

Also Pound Steel Center Of Yawata   Second Attack Of Big Bombers In Japanese  Mainland

Steel Center Of Jawata On Kyushu Island   Base Of Sasebo Hit: Gen. Arnold Announces Attack In Washington,   LITTLE INFORMATION

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, YAWATA MILLS BOMBED   Huge B-29’s Make 2nd Heavy Attack on Ninponese Mainland

Yawata, Steel Center Of Japan, Also Hit Again By  Giant American Planes   Huge Enemy Base Is Comparable To That At Norfolk, Va.; Results Of Attack Not Known; Objective Near Great Port Of Nagasaki

Big B-29s Hit Navy Base And Steel Center In 2nd Attack On Jap Mainland

Yawata Another Target   Superfortresses Strike For Second Time at Enemy Mainland; Rain Bombs On Steel Mills

Yawata Hit Second Time  By Big B-29s   Third U.S. Air Attack on Japan Proper on Seventh Anniversary of War With China

Sasebo And Yawata Hit   Naval Base and Steel Center on Jap Mainland Feel Weight of Bombs

Yawata Steel Center AlsoHit   Third Smash Since Pearl Harbor Dealt Tojo’s Homeland By B-29s   Details Awaited.   Based In China.

Sasebo, Big Naval Base, and Yawata Are the Targets   Former, Objective Comparable to U. .§. Establishment at Norfolk, Va, Is Hit for First Time, While the Steel Center Gets Second: Plastering, the B-29's Having Struck There in Their First Assault June 15,

New Allied Offensive Forms Big Arc Around Terracina; Onslaught Opens With Mighty Barrage by 1,000 Guns

REPUBLICAN. CAN DIDATE : ADe. : DRESSES. MONSTER CROWD: IN LAST. PACKFIC COREY

Crowd OF 95,000 Hears Dewey In  Speech On Coas!   Nearly 100,000 In Los An. geles Coliseum To Hear G. 0. P. Presidential Candidate

DEWEY DRAWS CROWD OF 93,000   Biggest Assembly In Al Political History Cheers Security Program

DEWEY OFFERS “SECURITY” FOR 70,000,000 MORE   Charges Roosevelt Did Not Bring Social Progress

Leap-Frog ‘Landing Made By Americans   Good Progress Made After Heavy Fighting

Troops Go Ashore in Daring Bid for New Foothold  ENEMY RESISTANCE IS REPORTED FIERCE  Bold Move Climaxed Four Days of Air Assaults

Yanks Batter Way Inland Qn Marianas  Counterblows By Japs Beaten Off

YANK TROOPS GET TOEHOLD IN MARIANAS   AMPHIBIOUS FORCES STORM ASHORE ON SAIPAN ISLAND

U.S. Troops Landing on Saipon Island   Beachhead on Base 1500 Miles From Tokyo Is Secured

Army Reveals. Some Details of Black Market   Six Soldiers Arrested, Convicted for Selling Government Material

Twin Drive Speeds Along Black Sea   Germans Trying To Evacuate Crimea—Reds Fighting Way Throuoh Streets of Tarnapel

Glidden Farmer Assessed $1,697 On OPA Charge   C. M. Farley Accused of Selling Tractor, Cornpicker Above Ceiling

Glidden Farmer On OPA Charge   C. M. Farley Accused of Selling Tractor, Cornpicker Above Ceiling

JAPANESE ARE WITHDRAWING AIR FORCES   Westward From Halmahera Island Gen. Mac. Arthur Discloses Enemy Impotent, He Says.   Sink Vessels *

Soviets Smash Across Bug on  37-Mile Front   Tanks Lead Troops in Nine-Mile Advance:  Ostrov Falls to Reds

RUSSIANS SMASH ACROSS BUG RIVER      PLUNGE 9 MILES IN DRIVE ON WARSAW — WHOLE NAZI POSITION MENACED,

Soviets Drive Toward Chelm, 65 Miles South Of Brest Litovsk On  Route To Warsaw

Reds Cross Bug For Warsaw Push In Wide Advance  Allies Edge Ahead in France, Italy; Big Raid Costs U. S. 46 Planes

Russians Open Warsaw Drive, Stagger Nazis   Reds Leap Bug, Gain Nine Miles, Deploy Tanks Oe Tahlia Plain

RUSSIANG OMAGH FORWARD 9 MILES   Push Across River on Front More Than 37 Miles Wide   AIDED BY TANKS   Advance Through Staggering German Opposition Onto Lublin Plain

Soviets lunge over Bug on.  37-mile front Tanks poised for  drive on Warsaw

Reds Cross Bug River in Great Force   Russians Advancing on Warsaw in Spite of Nazi Opposition

Russian Forces 23 Miles From Fast Prussic   Liberation Of Wilno By Red Army Troops Has Been Entirely Completed   ‘SOVIET LEGIONS SURGING AHEAD

nUDOIANS FIGHT 23 MiLto FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Savage Street Fights and Armored Battles Rage at Two Points

AUSGIANG FIGHT 9 MILES. FROM FAST pRuicets:   Savage Street Fights and Armored Battles Rage at Two Points

Marines Press  N. Britain Japs   [Planes Aid Ground Force At Cane Gloucester —

MARINES HAVE RESUMED AT BORGEN BAY   Attack Japanese East of Cape Gloucester While Bomber Raid Meets Resistance On Tip Of New Ireland.   Girl in Georgia

atines’Resune Allack n Enemy et Borgen Bay East-of Cape Gloucester

U.S. Marines Renew Attacks on Japanese   Yanks Kill 200 Nips in Reaching Hill in Severe Fighting on Cape Gloucester: Fliers Meet Stiff Opposition on Raids

MARINES RENEW THEIR ATTACKS ATBORGENBAY   Leathernecks Meet Stiff In terception Around Cape Gs Dauncwa   AIRDROMES AT RABAUL ARE HAMMERED AGAIN

PRO-ROOSEVELTS WIN TEXAS VOTE   Anti-Fourth Term Demos Plan Convention Fight

Roosevelt Faction in State Lead   Antis to Put Up Battle at State Meeting

GEN. EISENHOWER HURT IN LANDING   COMMANDER WRENCHES KNEE HELPING CREW

NO RAIN IS INDICATED   Kansas Weather Man Sees Na Moisture for Next Few Days

Allies Demolish. Harbor Works A Sabana Fortress   Doughboys Close In On Jap Garrisons At Guam And Tinian

Yanks Widen Tinian Grip, Take Airport   Japs on Guam Face Slaughter; Chinese Ooze Optimism as Foe Drive Totters

Allies Demolish  Sabang Harbor   Americans Close in hn Guam and Tinian. Bid For Airdrome

WRECK SABANG HARBOR WORKS   Raid Report Confirmed by Adm. Mountbatten

Allies Strike Japanese  Key Sabang Fortress Of Dutch East Indies   Americans Close In On Nip Garrisons At Guam

Sabang Hard Hit By Allies   Harbor Works At Key Jap Base In East Indies Demolished By Shelling.

TASK FORCE DEMOLISHES TARGET AREA   ‘Americans Make Further Progress On Guam. Tinian

Allied Fleet Wrecks Jap-Held Sabang   Japanese Have Already Paid 4.758 Lives in Effort To Hold Guam and Tinian

YANKS GLOSE IN ON DOOMED JAPS   Assaults Stepped Up on Gates To Dutch East Indies

Allied Warships and Planes Destroy Harbor Works at Key Japanese Base

HARBOR WORKS AT SABANG ARE SMASHED TODAY   Close In On Japs On Guam; Hold Airfields

39-MINUTE ATTACK TUESDAY BY SHIPS AND PLANES SUNK SHIPS AND LEFT ENTIRE AREA AFIRE   Japanese Garrisons at Guam and Tinian Being Mop ped Up and Heavy Death Loss Suffered by Nips. U.S. Airforce in China Aids Natives in Battle

ASSAULT WRECKS SABANG HARBOR; YANKS BATTLE FOR: GUAM AIRFIELD   5000 MEN HEALED OF SAIPAN WOUNDS IN TINIAN FORCE CLOSING NOOSE ON TRAPPED JAP DEFENDERS

ALLIES HIT. HARBOR AT SABANG   Jetties And Wharves Wrecked: Target Area Fired

Marines, Wounded on Saipan, Reject Rest in Hospitals   Rejoin Comrades in Tin. ian Fighting; Sabang Hit Hard

Sabang Harbor Works Wreckec   Japs’ Prize Base In Indies Knocked Out

Harbor at Sabang Is Demolished   Americans Close in on Jap Garrisons on Tinian and Guam; Nips on New Guinea Remain Trapped ~* 

Harhor at Sehang Is Destroyed   Allies Give Report On At. tack by Warships and Airplanes   CONTINUE GAINS ON GUAM. TINIAN   5,000 Marines Wounded on Saipan Join Comrades, Declining Furloughs

ALLIED WARSHIPS AND PLANES BLAST HARBOR AT SABANG  HEAVY DAMAGE DONE KE' JAP FORTRESS GUARDIN(

Sabang Harbor Demolished By Allied Raid   ‘Wounded Marines Reject Hospital To Fight on Tinian

Key Japanese Fortress Area Left In Flames   ‘Marines Bid For Another Guam Airdrome

Americans Win Tinian Airfield, Take Half Of Guam Peninsula From Doomed Jap Garrison; BreakOut Attempts On New Guinea Repulsed

On WORKS ARE DESTROYED   Sabang Key Jap Fortress Guarding Rich Dutch East-Indies.   ‘CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE

SMASH SABANG HARBOR WORKS   Overrun Quarter of Tin ian; Japs On Guam Face Slaughter

Jap Base At Sabang Demolished      More Ground Is Gained On Guam, Tinian

SABANG HARBOR WORKS WRECKED BY ALLIED BLOW   SILENCE BATTERIES, SINK FREIGHTER AND © LEAVE TARGET AFLAME

Sabang Harbor Works Wrecked In Sea-Air Raid   Mountbatten Details Attack On Key Jap Base In Indian Ocean.

Allied Ships and Planes Demolish Harbor Works at Sabang, Fortress Guarding Stolen Datch f East Indies

ATTACK RUINS “SABANG PORT, BRITISH: SAY   Deny Jap Report of Little Damage to Key Fortress; Americans Gain in Pacific Tslands.

Allied Navy Pours Shells Into Sabang   Key Jap Fortress Guarding Dutch East Indies Left In Shambles   Advances Scored On Guam. Tinian   14th Air Foree Batters Japs Trying To Take Hengvang Base

Farm Officials. Are Granted Gas   OPA Outlines Rules For Preferred Status

Farm Organization Representatives Entitled to as Much Gas As Needed

MERCURY TO DROP AGAIN ON SUNGAY   Temperature Hits 18 Below at Cadillac, One Below at Frankfort

STATE GRIPPED BY COLD WAVE   Some Relief Forecast Tonight; Snow, Cold For Christmas Weekend

2,000 Bombers Strike Germany   Rail Yards, Bridges, Other Points Blasted

Nazi Salient Shrinks on Black Sea   Enemy Abandons Stubborn Defense Arc Around Odessa

 Moscow Calls Nazi Withdrawal A Rout In Some Sectors; Reds Sever Rail, Road Escape Routes Rapidly   Rv HARRISON SALISRIRY

[DEFENSE FOLDS. AND GERMANS  TAKE TQ HEELS   Believed Possible Entire Ukraine Will Be Cleared “In Few Oavs.

\Nazis In Headlong Flight © iTrying To Escape Trap As Reds Sweep Toward Black Sez

Ukraine Troops Sweep Toward  Black Sea Port   Threaten Entrapment Of 10,000 Germans In Panicky Flight

Armies vias for New Blow   Rumania Onslaught to Follow Drive i. Black Sea Area

Soviet Army Drives Close  To Odessa   Another Prong Heads South To Cut Of Escene

Russ Race Southward in Bessarabia to Close Trap On Germans Fleeing Odessa

NAZISDROP BACK: 35 ML FROM ODESS v¢   Flight Toward . Black Sea  Becomes a Rout

SOVIET TRAP IS CLOSING ON ODESSA   Swift Advance Promises Trapping Of 100,000 Nazis

UPA ISSUES RULES ON USED CAR SALES   Individual Sellers Sub. ject To Same Rules As Dealers

County Employes Given Wage Raise  By Salary Board   “Cost-of-Living” Increases of $15 Monthly Given Most Employes

Commission Gives ‘Cost-of-Living’ Pay Boosts, Sets Payment For Auto Mileage

U-S/Subs Sink 6 Jap Vessels   Nazi’ U-Boats’> Toll - Said — At War's Lowest Ebb

a FIGURE ~ 1S INGREASEL   HERSHEX. REVEALS ARMED SERVICES WANT. MORE BY JULY THAN PREVIOUSLY ax ANNOUNCED ..

PROBE BOOST OF ARMY FIGURES   Raised One Million Since Last Fall

SENATORS SEEK DRAFT INQUIRY   Ask Why Hershey Expects Increase Beyond Totals Set Last Fall

Churchill, Eden Will Urge King of Greece to Accept Regency Until Vote Held

Regency For Greece Asked  Report W. C., Eden Ti Put Plan Up To King

Regency Plan Agreed To By  Greek Factions   Churchill Narrowly Escapes Sniper’s Bullet In Athens.

Greeks Agree to  Form a Regency   Fighting in Athens Goes on; Sniper's Bullet Misses Churchill   ‘PROBLEMS TO BIG :   Churchill Says Leaders of Three Great Powers .  Will Meet Soon

Churchill, Eden Leave Athens.   Regency Sought While Civil War Continues

Fate Of Postwar  Rivers, Harbors  Plan Uncertain Congress. Rows  , -— -—-.ttnt’.,.

Rivers, Harbor Bill May. Fail   i e Proposed Legislation May Not Surmount Controversial] Iseue

Soldier Vote Plan Conferees Meet But Fail to Agree  Compromise Prospect: Are No Brighter On Servicemen’s Bill

Soldier Vote Plan Conferees Meet But Fail to Agree  Compromise Prospec _ Are No Brighter

WAR PRODUCTION INCREASE REPORTED DURING NOVEMBER   OUTPUT OF SUFERFORTS Wag  30 PERCENT ABOVE OCTOBER LEVEL--TIRES ARE “MOST CRITICAL" 

WAR PRODUCTION GAINS REPORTED   Output of Critical Goods Up I1 Per Cent

FOR UNUSUAL HEROISM   Lt. Karnowski, K.U. Graduate, Has - Been Awarded Navy Cross

DECLARES POLICY IN CANADA IS TO PREVENT STRIKES  WA  es ARE NOT PR ITED. SAYS

TRY TO PROVE ‘PROFIT’ ANGLE IN 3 SLAYINGS   Selection Of Jury Nears Completion In Trial Of Collett

Nazis’ Flying  Bomb, Fizzle   Responsible Military Leaders Say Time For Tricks  Has Passed.

Rocket Bomb Is Called Fizzle   Time For Effective Use Of Tricks Passed, Says. Experts.

NAZIS HIGHLY TOUTED ROCKET BOMB A FIZZLE   Time for Effective Use o! Tricks by Germans Pass ed When Allies Fooled Them on Invasion Land ings

Nazi Buzz Bomb Fizzle, Say US Military Leaders  Not Likely To Do Much Harm

Nazis’ Secret Weapon Said  To be Fizzle   Such is Opinion Of Responsible Military Leaders

Nazis’ Rocket Bombs Strategically A “Fizzle”, Military Leaders Declare

Same Kind of Leadership For Post-War Era Urged By Jackson Day Speakers   Rayburn and Wallace Laud FDR; Fourth Term Implied But Not Directly Mentioned st Beatine

Rayburn, Wallace Praise FDR: See Same Kind Of Leadership Necessary if U.S. Wins Peace

Rayburn and Wallace Laud  Roosevelt  Pe A ee eee,   Both Strongly Imply That President Should Be in Race

RENEW AIR ATTACK ON FLEEING NAZIS   Allied Fliers Strike at Field Marshal Von Kluge’s Beaten Armies as Skies Clear.

ATTACKS RENEWED ~ BY ALLIED AIRMEN        Blasted"as Well as Oit— Supplies

AIRMEN BATTER TRAPPED NAZIS   Clearing Skies Speed Up Annihilation Of Fuehrer’s Army

ALLIED PLANES HARRY FLEEING GERMAN UNITS   Clear Skies Allow Air Fleet To Also Bomb Foe’s Oil Supplies

ATTACKS RENEWED © ~ BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Retreating pNazi: ‘Armies ‘Blasted'ag We Supplies

Artena, Ceprano Captured as Allies Split German Front in Liri Valley; American Tanks Drive into Velletri

FREEZING OF TAX VOTED BY SENATE   Protest From Majority Leader on Social Securitv Taxes Spurned

ACT 10 FREEZE SECURITY TAX   Senators Vote to Keep Pres: ent One Per Cent. Rate for 1944

SOCIAL SECURITY TAX RISE BARRED   Senate Votes 47 to 17 te Freeze Levy at One Per Cent For Current Year.

SECURITY LEVY FREEZE VOTED   Senate Blocks Automatic Rise In Tax: Reserve Up In Billions

Senale Would Keep Social Security Tax for 1944 af One Per Cent   Spurns Protest from Ma jority Leader Barkley in Blocking Increase

IN BOND DRIVE   Quota Exceeded by Over $250,000; Nation Reaches Goal

COUNTY GOES OVER THE TOP “IN BOND DRIVE   Quota Exceeded by c Over $250,000; NaHon Reaches Goal

Nazi Units Flee North of Rome   Enemy Divisions Still In Flatlands in Desperate Straits

eady Drive aintained gainst Foes   Allied Armored Forces Fan Out Over Wide Area

RESISTANCE IN ITALY 1S WEAK   Allied Forces Drive As Much As Five Miles Beyond Tiber River; “Battle To Destroy The Enemy” Continues Without Pause.

FIFTH PURSUES FLEEING NAZIS   Allies Continue A dvance Beyond Rome

ROUT CONTINUES IN ROME AREA   Fifth Army Advances About Five Miles Against ‘Weak Resistance’

RESISTANCE IN ITALY. WEAKENS   5th Army Drives Steadily Beyond Tiber River

Yanks 5 Miles Beyond Tiber; Nazis Trapped   Fifth Arnry Encounter: ing Ouly Weak Reais!ance in Waly

Fifth Army Close on German Heels  Little Opposition  $e Ferward March

Nazis Flee North From Rome With oth Pursuing   Trapped Foe Divisions In Desperate Straits; Resistance Weak; Wehicles Destroved

FIFTH ARMY IN STEADY DRIVE NORTH OF ROME   2,000 Nazis Trapped South Of Tiber On Coastal Area

FIFTH DRIVES STEADILY ON   Battle to Destroy Enemy Continues Without Pause In Italy.

TWO MORE RAIDS ON JAP-HELD TRUK ISLAND REPORTED   Started Friday, Japs Say Liberators Carried Raids On  Through Sunday.

RGENTINE CITY, e THOUSANDS DIE   Officials Say Fully 70 Pct ® of San Juan’s Ruins Not Yet Searched   Catastrophe Is Replica of @ 90 Pct. Destruction 50 Years Ago

ESTIMATE DEAD   City of San Juan Hit Second Time in Half Century

ESTIMATE DEA  FROM T0 4.000   City of San Juan Hit Second Time in Half Century

Search Continues For Leigh-Mallory   Air Chief Was On Way  “To New Asia Assignment

U. 5. BOMBERS OVER EUROPE: STUTTGART HI)   Nazi Plane Engine Center May Have Suffered Double Blow

Stuttgart Hit In Night Attack By RAF Bombers   Forts and Liberators Follow With Daylight Missions Over Reich

All-Out Kir War Resumed   British Cascade Aircraft Center With 1,700 Tons

British Bombers Pound Stuttgart   American Planes Follow Today in Wake of Damage by “Night Shift”

Allies Resume Air Offensive, ‘Drop 1,700 Tons on Stuttgart — Great Plane Engine Center

Hollandia Base Is  Smashed   400 Tons of Bombs Wipe Out 288 Planes on New Guinea Coast

Americans Surge Over Mountains   New Advance Tears Heart From Gothic Line

Allies Battle into Po Valley  Americans Crack Gothic Line Center

Strategic Rail Lines Captured By British 8th  Géhnan ny Scour re ed From

CENTER OF GOTHIC LINE 15 SMASHED   YANKS PLOW THROUGH DEFENSE SYSTEM AT PROBABLY DEEPEST POINT.

American Troops Go Through Cente Of Gothic Line   British Eighth Army Pushes Into Po Valley  From Captured Rimini

BRAZILIANS ARE 23 MILES FROM LA SPEZIA PORT   Americans Smash Center Of Gothic Line; Bologna, Milan  Adanapas

HEART OF NAZI LINE SMASHED   Gothic Defenses Crushed by Yanks—Hold Positions In Northern Italy

Yanks Smash Gothic Center   British Oust Nazis From Vital Positions On Italian Roads

0 Valley Now xposed To llied Armies   Terrific Artillery Bombardment Paves Way For Decisive Breakthrough

ALLIES FIGHT THEIR WAY 10 PLAINS OF PO   ARTILLERY BARRAGE RAMS HOME RUSH OF AMERICANS

Gothie Line Is Smashed  By 5th Army   Americans Gain View Of Po Valley On Which British Battling

AMERICANS SIGHT PO VALLEY ARES   British Eighth Army Fights Out Onto Plains   PUSH NAZIS BACK   American Advance Rammed Home With One of Heaviest Artillery Fire of War

Yanks Getting Glimpse Of Po River Valley   Smash Through Center of German Gothic Line On» North Italy  Front

Yankees  Now Looking Down On Po Valley  In North Italy.   British . Capture - Roads; Railways.

GERMAN SNIPERS: IN PATH OF YANKS   ENEMY RESORTS: TO GUERRILLA WARFARE IN EFFORT TO STOP : DOUGHBOYS.

Chinese Open Offensive To ~ Join Stilwell   20.000 Cross Salween River: Casualties On Both Sides Heavy:  Rosin Kar I awane

Chinese Forces Launch Burma  Road Offensive   Seek A Juncture With Stilwell’s Troops To Reopen Supply Line.

CHINESE FORCES OPEN BIG DRIVE T0 JOIN ALLIES   Thrusts Across Salween River Surprise Nips—Fighting Neor Burma Road

Chinese Force Surprises Japs   Force Enemy to Deploy Widely Over Difficult Terrain

CHINESE LAUNCHED  AN OFFENSIVE IN  YUNNAN PROVINCE CROSS SALWEEN RIVER  AT MANY POINTS IN EFFORT TO JOIN STILWELT

China's Army Offensive Opens; Cross The Salween   Japs Taken By Surprise In Chungking’s Effort To Join With Allied Forces In Burma

RUSS 40 MILES FROM CAPITAL OF ESTONIA   Second Ukrainian Army Seizes Two Rail Centers

BALTIC DRIVE BY RUSSIANS. ROARS AHEAD   CAPITAL ’ OF ‘ESTONIA: MEN, © AOED BY RED ARMIES

UNITED RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVING DEEP IN ESTONIA   Twin Columns Push Within 48 Miles of Tallinn, Canital City

Twin Assault Columns Of Red Army Smash To Within 48 Miles Estonian Capital

SA. REPUBLICS EYE ARGENTINA   DIPLOMATS DESCRIBE SITUATION THERE AS STILL UNCERTAIN

Seagraves: Woman Beaten And Robbed   Intruder Escapes With $370 After She  Is Slhuqaed LUnceonecioue And Stranaled

Seagraves -Woman  Beaten And Robbed   intruder Escapes With $370 After She Is Slugged Unconscious Aind Stranaled

Sad Note Hit By Huns As  Doom Nears   Tnipending Crisis Of War In Europe Seen As Nazi Radio Goes Into Funeral Dirge And Hysterical Warnines

WAR COST 1S 200 BILLION THUS FAR   Roosevelt Spurs New War Bond Drive In Words Over Deteat of Japanese.

Texarkana Starts  Off Bond Drive   Secretary of Treasury Speaks at Show Which Features Hollywood Movie Stars

LeMars Eagles  Initiate Class - Four Hundred Attend  . Banquet In Evening

LeMars Eagles Initiate Class  Four Hundred: ‘Attenc _ Banquet In Evening 

 One Loved Soldier, One Loved Sailor, And the Other Loved A Marine

Bulgaria Totters ‘On Verge Of Break   Balkan Nation May Follow Precedent As First World War Ally To Quit

Yank, Nazi Tanks Locked In Blazing  Vossenack Battle   Allies Capture Last 2 Enemy Strongholds On Walcheren

TINY VILLAGE IS SCENE OF HEAVY FIGHT   American and Gers man Forces Slugs ging Away In SeeSaw Preliminary.

[BATTLE SEE-SAWS ON WESTERN FRONI AS SIDES MAKE READY FOR WINTER   Tanks Battling At Close Range

Battle Sets Preliminary  To Offensive   War Below Cologne Is See-Saw Struggle For Strategic Town.

SING-YANKS REPULSE JAPS IN MOGUANG   Five Counter-Attacks Made  In Attempt To Rescue Jap - anese; Estimate Many Enemy Casualties.   Capture Tunnel

India Invaders  Held in Cheek   Stilwell Beats Back Japs Kills 400 of Fnemvy

Steffinius And Team’ Testify   State Secretary Outlines Reorganixetion Flans;. Propesed Assistants Ouestioned

Stettinius, New Aides Testify At Senate Probe   Reorganized State Department Aiming at Liberal, Forward Looking Foreign Policy

NOVOGOROD, MINTURNO EVACUATED   U. S., French Troops Close In On Cassino

SOVIET TROOPS ACCELERATE ADVANCE IN LENINGRAD AREA   Minturno, Western Anchor of German Winter Line im Italy, E:vacuated

7 Red Armies Rip 800-Mile Battle Front      Allied Troops in ftaly Forge Ahead to Within 10 Miles of Florence

Under  Crushing Air Cover   Armada of More Than 3,000 Planes Supports Attacking American And British Troops

President ‘Vetoes Tax Measure   Bill Gives Relief To Greedy, Not Needy. He Savs

 Communist Newspaper Says  Roosevelt’s Election Sure;  Claims Plot By Republicans   Izvestia, Soviet Government Publication, States GOP Interests Plotting Fake Assassination Of Dewey In Attempt To Sway American Voters

Official Russian Press Accuses Republicans Of Fake Plot To Swing Vote   Izvestia, Soviet Government Newspaper, Says ’Pro-Hitler’ Republicans Conspire To Stage ‘Dewey Assassination’ Trick

IZVESTIA SEES ROOSEVELT WIN   Soviet Paper Rumors “Fake Plot” Against Dewey

‘Fake Plot to Assassinate Dewey’ Charged by a Russtan Newspaper   Republicans, Knowing Election Is Lost Seek To Sway Voters, Blame Communists, Says Izvestia

Reds ‘Say ¢ G. O. P. May Use ‘Fake’ Death Plot to Get Dewey Votes

FDR’s Election Sure, Izvestia  Faked Plot Against Dewey Rumored, Red Paper Says

RED DEWEY PLOT TERMED “CRAZY”   Capital Newapaperwoman - Scores Article in lyvectia

Soviets See” Fake Attaek   ‘Reds Claim Flection “Of Roosevelt Assured’

Russia Puts. OK. on FR.   lxvestia, Official Newspaper, Says ‘Election Guarantecd’

No Advance In Coffee Prices,  Dearth Unlikely   Government Holds To Present Level

Coffee Price Boost Refused  By Government   ‘Rejec tion of Increase Not to Cause Shortage, People Who Ought to Know Declare

Yanks Near Vital Highway In Smash Into Gothic Line   Only 12 Miles. Of Road To Bologna; 8th Army  : Slowed By Hard Fighting In Po Valley.

Near Vital. Highway —   Fifth Army Is Within 12 Miles of Bologna In Northern Italy

ALLIES DRIVE ON BOLOGNA AFTER SMASHING LINE   Doughhboys Take Nine Days To Undo Nazis Work Of Nine Months

Po Valley Fight Rages   Bologna-Rimini Highway Only 12 Miles From Front

Yanks Exploit Opening Made In Gothic Line   Punch to Within 12: Miles Old Via Aemilia Connecting Bologna and Rimini

YANKS IN ITALY ~ NEAR KEY ROAD   Punch To Within 12 Miles 0 Bologna-Rimini Highway  =... ervretr ARIPO AABA AAD

Yanks Pouring Through Heart Of Gothie Line In North Italy:       Nearing Important Bologira Highway

Yanks Within 12 Miles of Bologna Rimini Highway   Destroy Gothic Line. ‘That Took. 9 ‘months. To Buildin 9 Days

FIFTH ARMY MOVES AHEAD   Nearing Strategic Highway it North Italy.—Stiff Opposition To Eighth at Po Valley.   By NOLAND NORGAARD

GREAT BATTLE REPORTED IN NORTH ITALY   Gothic Line Is Penetrated By Eighth Army

YANKS EXPLOITING SUCCESS IN BREAK THRU GOTHIC LINE   Drive to Within 12 Miles of Bologna-Rimini highway— Eighth Army Meets Resistance at Southeast Edge of Po Valley

YANKS DRIVE ON NORTH IN ITALY   Brazil’s Troops Battling on Leguria Coast Sector  2

WITHIN 12 MILES (F VITAL HIGHWAY   Yanks Exploit Success in Smashing Through Heart Of Gothic Line.

Allies Sweeping Into Po Valley As Germans Quit Vaunted Gothic Defenses   American Troops Punch Within 12 Miles Of Bologna-Rimini Highway

Americans Push  Within 12 Miles  Of Bologna Road Germans Desperately Hold Lin  Across Enirance io Po Valley aw Radeake Clade

Seek to Exploit Break-Through ‘On Gothic Line   While Nazis Hoid Eighth Army, Yanks Push on Toward Bologna Hichwavy -

CLARK CLAIMS NINE DAYS TO SMASH THE FAMED GOTHIC LINE IN LATEST FIFTH ARMY DRIVE

ALLIES SWEEP ON PO VALLEY il ITALIAN PUSH   Yanks Near Vital Road as Nazis Run From Smashed Gothic Line

YANKS EXPLOIT BREAKTHROUGH OF GOTHIC LINE   PUNCH TO WITHIN 12 Mi. OF ANCIENT BOLOGNA-RIMINI ROAD

5th Army Breaks Thru Gothic Line   American Troops Punch _ Within 12 Miles of Vital  Highway   15. MILES FROM IMOLA   No Indications That the German Troops Are  Withdrawing

AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVE AHEAD AFTER GOTHIC LINE BREAK  EIGHTH ARMY RUNS INTO

Yanks Clear Way fo the Po Valley  West End af Gothic Line Wined Out

 Yankees Smash Way Through Heart of Germans’ Vaunted Gothic Line Today

AMERICANS RIP FOE DEFENSES   U. S. Fifth Army Has Smashed Line Requiring 9 Months To Build

EIGHTH ARMY HITS STRONG RESISTANCE      Nazis Fight to Prevent British From Advance: ing Through Po Valley —Yanks Gain at Theit End of Front.

GothicLine Ripped Apart   Yanks Near Key Highway; In Nine Days Wrecked Nine Months Work of Foe

AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVE AHEAD AFTER GOTHIC LINE BREAK   EIGHTH ARMY RUNS INTO HEAVY FIGHTING AT EDGE OF PO VALLEY

U. S. Troops In 9 Days Undo 9 Months’ German Work.....  Gothic Line Destroyed, Advance In Italy Rapid

FIFTH ARMY PUSHES AHEAD INTO ITALY   Eighth Army Meets Resistance in Trying to Drive Up Po Valley: Germans Mav Withdraw.

EXPLOIT BREAK IN ITALY LINE   Fifth Army Punches Toward Bologna-Rimini Highway

MARINES MAKE THIRD AIRSTRIP ON BOUGAINVILLE        Ainerican - Light “and Medium Planes in Empress Augusta  Rav Arey

Third: Airstrip Completed. On  Bougainville   Air Blockade Against Rabaul Now Can Be © . “Intensified —

21 MORE NIP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Allies Intensify Aerial Attacks On Rabaul Base

Third Airfield For Yanks on Bougainville      New Base Is Intensifying  Aerial Blockade of Japs’ Rabaul Base

Third Airstrip On Bougainville Is Completed   Over 20 Japanese Planes Downed in Rabaul Forav

New Airstrip Completed On Bougainville   Facilities Are Increased For Intensification Of American Attacks On Jap Base At Rabaul

Plan to Intensify Air Blockade of Japs at Rabaul   Complete Third Airstrip on Bougainville

U. S. Forces Reveal That They Have Completed Bases for Operations on Bougainville — Intonsification of Aerial Blockade.   By DON CASWELL

COMPLETE 3RD AIRSTRIP ON BOUGAINVILLE      Will Intensify Air Attacks On Rabaul

Allies Enforce Air Blockade On  Bougainville Base   Down 21 Jap Planes In Attack Against Rabaul, Tobera Field

16th Straight Day Ane Night Bombing Of Nazi Europe   3,500 PLANES IN  MONDAY ASSAULT   Six-Eour Delay By Murky Weather First Slow Down

‘Night Raiders Bomb Seven Nazi Bases Murky Weather Causes Delay in  Alhied Fliohts

PRODUCTION Ct LIMITED CWILAN COODS 10 BEGIN   WPB.Chief Ne‘son _ .Warns Consumers Not to Expect Too Much

PRODUCTION Or LIMITED) CIVILIAN GOODS 10 BEGIN   WPB Chief Ne'son Warns Consumers Not to Expect Too Much

START OUTPUT. FOR CIVILIANS   LIMITED AMOUNT OF NON-WAR ‘ ARTICLES TO. BE. MADE UNDER RECONVERSION PLAN

Allies Rip Nazi Line  Wide Open   Soviets Break into East Prussia, Other Reds Advance on Krakow; Florence Occupied  }

Berlin Reveals Breakthrough In East Prussia   Soviets Hurdle Two Water Barriers To Land Within 30 Miles Of Krakow

Willkie Insists Upon Own Terms   Wants Presidency On His Platform

Willkie Wants Nomination   But Wants To Run On Own Terms and Beliefs; Says Issue Difficult To Define.

America Heaven’ Italian Prisoners of War Say at Gracie Fields Party

meaven ‘That Is How Italian Prisoners At Party Deseribe This Country.

stalian Prisoners Of War Entertained By Film Couple   Comedionne Gracie Field: and Her Filhn Producer Husband Provide Party for Captives

CONGRESS AIDS PRESS FREEDOM   Free And Open World News Channels Favored

Kirke L. Simpson Says: 175,000 Trapped Germans Remain  Out of Original Army of 400,000

Germans Can Ketreat Only To Kuined Land— —B8Sy Kirke L. Simpson   Nazis Are Between Reds And Allied Bombs

Armour New Diplomat Head   STERN POLICY TOWARD ARGENTINA SEEN IN MOVE

SEE STERNER POLICY TOWARDS ARGENTINE   Norman Armour, Former U. S. Ambassador, Given Key State Department Post

Yanks Bomb New Target In Kuriles   Follow Up Raid On Paramushiro With Blow At Onnekotan

Liberators Hit Kuriles   Another Large Raid Ts Staged On Islands

Pacific Air Pace Faster   Allies Finish New Airdrome Off New Guinea, Closer to-Philippines

Allies’ Far Eastern Aerial Force Hitches Bases Closer To Tokyo, Steps Up Attacks   Heaviest Sustained Assaults Yet Made Simultaneously Reported

Japanese Stagger Under Heavy New Allied Blows  Airmen Blast Isles On Philippine Path During Week

Pacific Air Power Grows Mightier   Week-End Assaults At Higher Tempo

Allied Bases Nearer Tokyo  WW: 1. Pp yd i grea se ss. . . - . a. re   o Wide Range of Bombing in Pacifie Area

U. §. Bombers Again Smash Pas-de-Calais   Pre-invasion Air Offensive Carried Into the 22ad Day

AIRMEN POUND ATLANTIC WALL   PRE-INVASION AIR ASSAULTS CONTINUE DESPITE BAD WEATHER

Flying Weather Continues Bad Over Channel  Dramatic Attack Made from Italy

Gale Fails To Stop ‘Attack on West Wall   Big American Bombers Shuttle Across Channel To Lay Explosives Avound Calais

West Coast Defenses Hit By Liberators   Attacks Across ‘Channel Made In Spite Of Weather

Allies Smash Installations Near Calais   Daylight Attack Of Heavy Bombers Follows Mine Laying

Small Force Hops Channel In Air Drive   British Planes Lay Mines in Foe Waters During the Night

22nd Day  Of Aerial.  Offensive   French Coast Is Hit  By Heavy U. 5. - Formations

COAST OF FRANCE IS HAMMERED   Channel Is Lashed By Gales! U. S. Bombers Pound Calais Area

Allied Planes Continue to Pound Europe   Assault Enters Fourth Straight Week; Forts Batter Calais Area

Offensive By Air Goes On Despite Bad Weather   Small Force Of Bombers Strikes At Pas-De-Calais Area; Gales Sweep Strait

BAD WEATHER CUTS ALLIED AIR ATTACK   Pas-de-Calais Pounded Again By Yankees In 22nd Day Of Atlantic Wall Raidina.

Coastal Area Of France Raided Again  —   Preinvasion Offense By Air Goes Into Its 22nd Day

RUMANIA ALSO ATTACKED BY U. §: BOMBERS   Pas-De-Calais Anti-Invasion Installations Are Blasted Again

Heavy Skies Protect U.S. Liberators In Pas-de-Calais Area   British Fliers Lay Mines, Bomb Airfields in France; Nazis Watch for Invasion Fleet

Heavies Dump Bombs On Pas-de-Calais Area   Pre-invasion Blows Continue Despite Bad Weather Over Channel

Coast of France Is Bombed Again   American Liberators Dump Loads of Explosives on German Installations in the Pas-de-Calais Area as Air Offensive Continues.   ATTACK IN 22nd DAY

SUPERFORTS BOMB TOKIO FOURTH TIME   Industrial Target Hit on  ~ Earlier Mission Blasted Again; Parallels Early European War.   Solves Problems

SUPERFORTS BLAST TOKYO PLANTS AGAIN   B29s from Saipan Hit Nippon Capital in Fourth Raid

Red Cross To Open Fund Drive Mar.    Churches Will Observe Feb. 57 as Red Cross Sunday — County Quota is $20,000

MARAUDERS BOMB FRENCH RAIL CENTER   Daring Attack Deepest Penetration Of War And Apparently Great Surprise To Germans.   Factory at Limoges

Marauders Bomb Interior Cities   Change in Tactics Surprises Germans

ALLIES BLAST NORTHFRANCE   200 Marauders Hammer French Railway Center

RAILROAD YARDS IN FRANCE HIT   German Air Force Offers Little Opposition To Allied Fliers

U.S. Bombers Hit German  Railroad Yards   All Return Safely From Heavy Raid on Tergnier

‘Medium Marauders Move Infand Against Nazi Positions   ASSAULT SURPRISE TO GERMAN FORCES   [Fine Job of Bombing “Atlantic Wall” in France Reported

BOMBING BLOWS CATCH ~ GERMAN FOE NAPPING   Invasion Coast Attacks sever, Shi Inlanc To Strike Railroad Yards At Tergnier; All Planes Return Safely

INVASION COAST RAIDS WIDENED   eee  U. S. Marauders Strike 100 Miles Deeper Into France

One of War’s Bloodiest Conflicts Says Berlin While British Minister of Information Says Struy gle “Is Beyond Description” and Nazis Getting  Severe Reating

The War Today— : Se German Retreat To Northern Italy Seen Likely; Corsica Also Threat

Indicating Campaign’s ‘Importance to Hitler  Battle of Italy Lashed Into Fury

Swift Progress Of War Spurs Congress After Five Week Recess To Reconvene

RECONVERGION LEGIOLATION (PPERMOS]   POSTWAR DEMOBILIZATION TO BE CONSIDERED FIRST. =   “Congress Must Act   Several Bills Ready for Introduction—Sessions to Last Till End of September.

POST-WAR PLAN TO BE STUDIED   Congress Reconvenes Tuesday After Five-Week Recess

CONGRESS MAY “RUSH PROGRAM   EXPECTED TO GET DOWN ‘TO ‘BUSINESS ON RECONVER‘SION AND, DEMOBILI-.' ZATION PLANS —

6.1. BILL SENT ~ TO WHITE HOUSE   Veterans’ Benefit Measure Passed by House

VETS’ BENEFIT BILL IS PASSED      “G. I. Bill of Rights” Goes To White House After House Approval

"G. I. Bill of Rights'’ Sent to FDR by Overwhelming House Vote Today

Capital Notes  Gl Rights Bill Approved; ‘Work On Postwar Taxes   Won Debt

House Passes “GC. 1. Bill of Rights” Today   Jackson County Veterans To Be Given Benefits Under Bill Sent to President

FINAL APPROVAL GIVEN GI BILL BY LAWMAKERS   Lend-lease, War Relief and Finland’s War Debt Are Among Capital Topics

HOUSE SENDS GI “BILL TOGAPITAL   Grant Year’s Unemployment Compensation To Veterans

G.1. Bill Sent To White House  _ Compromise Veterans’  Benefits Measure 7 nr a4 ey.

G. . Measure Passes House   Modified Bill Provides Many Benefits For Veterans.

White House Gets G.I. Bill   House Gives Overwhelming Approval of Measure To Help War Vets

Yank Airmen Baa 61 Nazis   a ‘Positional’ Struggle for Cassino  Italy Repeats 1917 Warfare

CAPITAL STRATEGIST  BELIEVES TOO MUCH  POWER AT CASINO EXPLANATION OF WHAT  HAPPENED AND DID NOT RFADDEN AT WOT CPNT

Determined Foe Yields Slowly: As Fight Rages”       Allies Hold Reserves For Coastal Landings, Germans Declare

Latest Reports Say Gere man Opposition Stiffes Than Allied Leaders  Expected.

BRICKER, SILENT ON POLITICAL FUTURE, RETURNS TO DUTIES   Spurns Vacation, Faces Decision On Special Session Call

SOLDIER HERE IS WOUNDED IN HOLLAND FIGHT   Word Is Received Of Serious In juries Received By Pvt. Mouyard

There was also a report the Allied troops had crossed the Belaian border.

TEMPERATURES:   Reports Say American Spearheads 11 To 20 Miles From Border

LEPKE INVOLVES PROMINENT MEN   Racket Murderer Scheduied to Die in Sing Sing Chair Tonight :

RACKET KILLER ‘SINGS’ ON MEN   'Lepke’ Makes Statement In Effort To Escape Chair

Deenitz Substitutes fo: _Fuehrer, Says “Pitiless Struggle Waged”

‘ dmiral Doenitz ells Nazis Grim struggle’ Ahead   Hitler Absent From Berlin Heroes Day Rites for First Time

DAY FOR HEROES A GLOOMY AFFAIR   ‘Adm. Doenitz Speaks, Hitler Fails to Appear First  Time During War.

HITLER. SILENT ON HEROES DAY   Doeniiz “Substitutes For -Furkrer, Says’ “Pitiless Struggle Wage!”

HITLER FAILS. TO GIVE TALK ON ‘HERO DAY   Doenitz, Substituting, Says ‘Existence, Annihilation,’ Are Nazi Alternatives

Adm. Karl Doenitz Substitutes for Hitler in Annual German Memorial Day Haransuc

GRIM MESSAGE 1S GIVEN TO GERMANS   Admiral Doenitz  Substi. tutes. for Hitler at Ceremonies

Hitler Absent — At Nazi Rites   Nazi Sea Lord Substitutes As Hero Day Orator

Nazi Admiral Tells Germans Grim Figh lies Ahead as Hitler Dodaes Address

HERO DAY GLOOMY; HITLER IS SILENT -~   Goebbels and Goering Also Shy on Promises As War Machine Smashed

Hitler Is Missing  On German Program  Heroes Day Event Just In  Reverse

BIG FORCE OF B-298 HIT NANKING   First Raid on Puppet Capital of Occupied China

Docks, Warehouses Of Occupied China Capital Bombarded   Nipponese Report 80 Raiders ‘ Flee After Blindly Dropping Explosives on Western Kyushu

NANKING, CHINA PUPPET CAPITAL, 1S HIT BY B-29'S   Tokyo Says O thers Bomb Southwest Japan Proper

Large Force Superforts Hit Nanking   Kyushu, Saishu Isles Also Blasted By Large Force B-29s

ASK CLARIFICATION OF SECURITY ISSUE   96 Groups Seek Revision Of Council Rules

Number of Groups Feel Power Should Not Vote on Issue Concerning Itself

Superfortresses Blast Great Naval Base of Sasebo and Targets ‘in Tobata and  . - Yawata.   SECOND RECENT BLOW * . “A, JAP MAINLAND   Raid Made at Night From Bases in China on 7th Anniversary: ‘of China’s War .  "Declaration.

Smash at Big Nipponese Naval Base, Blast Yawata Steel Center And Tobata Without Loss of Plane

Gigantic New Air Dreadnaughts, Based in China, Also Pay Second Visit to Yawata. 

BIG NIPPONESE NAVY BASE ON KYUSHU IS HIT   SURPRISING CHINESE THROW ENEMY OUT OF HENGYANG

escapees RANTES inn TNE BIRTHDAY DINNER R HELD AT SAM MILEY HOME

It Turns Out That Leader of French Underground Is Irish Gent by Name of Pat O'Neill

Service Law -Advocated By Legion Group   Drafts Demand For Year Of Training For American Youth

LEGION DRAFTS NEW TRAINING DEMAND   Predictions Are That Law For Such Service Will Be Enacted Soon.

WAHSINGTON WAS TIRED OF GREAT AFFAIRS   All He Wanted Was tc Return Home and Glide “Silently” Thru the: Remainder of His Life   HAIR WAS WHITE

34 SWALLOWS WEE BIT TARDY   O Minutes Late on Annual "stds Day vis ‘iret Te Blealagn

eeeemeetenneee name  ClO CLEARED OF BREAKING FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS

Sty States Will Discuss Water treaty   Ciamer To Represent interests Of Texas

CAR COLLIDES WITH TRUCK   Mrs. Mary Patterson Suffers Cuts On Her Nose

OOP. LEARERD 10 CELEG! archhth FUR GORVERTION   May Pick a Governcr .or United States Senator for Flace

6.0, LEADERS 10 CELEGT oPEAKER FOR CONVENTION:   May Pick a Governcr -or United States Senator for Flace

Biller fighting Reporled Along Chinese Fronts  Chinese Engage Enemy Trying to Envelop City of Kweilin

Russians Taks Port   Chinese Battle Jap Column Trying to Envelop Kweilin

RUSSIAN CRIMEAN ARMIES AND FLEET MASSED AT SEVASTOPOL FOR FINAL PHASE OF BATTLE   Hills Dominating Naval Base Captured Despite Desperate German Resistance and in Old Poland Russians Repel Masses of Charging German "Tamlre: ane Infantry

Aerial Invasion Into Fifth Day   Heavy Bombers Streak From England as_ Follow-Up to Night Blows.

Aerial Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Goes Into 5th. Day   Italy-Based Bombers Strike Axis Lines Against Russia

WESTERN EUROPE BLASTED FOR FIFTH CONSECTITIVE NAY   LIBERATORS FROM MEDITERRANEAN AREA STRIKE BALKAN POINTS

Bombers From ingland, Italy Scorch europe   Supply Lines. Rail (enters Raided As Carpathian Battle feains in Intensity

HAMMER NAZI SUPPLY LINES   Italy-Based Bombers Hit Germany's Front Against Reds

Allies Hit Nazis Severe Blows In Aerial Invasion   Russian Guns Repel Foe Upon Carpathian Front

AIR INVASION OF EUROPE IS IN FIETH DAY   Russians Aided In Raid On Rail Lines

Bombers Streak Over Chenne! This Morning  EUROPE E BLASTED Planes. Based In Italy   Tee Aawinal

Hit Supply Lines To Russian Front   Heavy Allied Bombers, Based in Italy Strike at German Bases, Feeding Hitler’s Armies in the East From the Balkans. .   BUCHAREST IS BOMBED   Russians Mass for Final Blow to Take Sevastopol

German East Front Supply Lines Struck   Soviet Army Tightens Siege of Sevastopol; Hurls Back Ena in Poland

Final Rounds In  Speech Festival  LeMars Pupils To Give Play at Akron

German Capital Among Targets Offeavy Attack   Report 750 Big Bombers Included In Formation; “Invasion Coast? Is Hit

BRITISH LOSE 13 PLANES IN HEAVY ATTACK   2,800 Pounds of Explosives Slapped At Reich Capital.—Other German. Points Blasted.

Motorized Infantry Clearing Nazis Out of Kesckemet  New Offensive Aimed At Budapest Is Opened by Russians

SOVIETS PUT ‘KESCKEMET UNDER SIEGE   Troops Clear Enemy Detachments From 3 Sides of City and Others Fight Inside in Drive Toward Budapest.

REDS 43 MILES TO BUDAPEST   Germans Flee Kecskemet, Fourth Largest Hungarian City

Nazis Declare Kecskemet Abandoned as Russians Draw Closer to Budapest

Soviets Drive For Budapest  BD ....??.. WD wnuce   Berlin Reveals Axis Troops Have Abandoned Kecskemet in Huncaryv

Nazis Get Out Of Kecskemet   Russian Tanks Now Moving Over Flat Plain Toward Hungarian Capital

Doughboys Are 7//2 Mi. Inside Italian Border      Capture Ventimiglia in Ad/ -yanee From East. of  Nice in Southern : Wenieiacs:   Allies Closing In On City Of Lyor   Germans Reported Fever. ishly Digging Rearguard Position in Hope of Checking Foes

GERMANS ABANDONED HUNGARIAN CITY OF KECSHEMET TODAY   RUSSIAN TANKS MOVING OVER FLAT PLAINS WITH. IN 40 MILES BUDAPEST

Americans, French Close in on Lyon: Rains Slow Troop:   Lengthening Lines of Supplies in South France Factor

REDS BATTLE AXIS FORCES IN KESCKEMET   Thus Far New Offensive for Budapest Has Swept Up 200 Hungarian Cities, Towns and Villages   PRISONERS TORTURED

Soviets Battle Nazis 43 Miles From Budapest  Fight In Streets Of  Keeskemet; 200 Town In Hungary Swept Up In Red Advances

Russ Forces ~ Push Closer ~ To Budapest   Russians Fight in Kesckemet, Only 43 Miles from Hungarian Capital

SOVIETS POUR THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE RIFT   Red Forces Battling Ahead in _ Campaign to Free Budapest With Tanks Aiding Push

Russians Exploit Wide Break in Enemy Defenses   Pour Armor Through 60-Mile Breach in German Lines Before Huncarian Capital

Russian Tanks © Clanking Over . Flat Plains      Climax Is Near, Berlin Says; Fourth. Largest City of: Hungary -Falls   REDS-MOVING AFTER:  A GREAT BATTLE   Offensive Launched Several ‘Days Ago;Stalin Also Says, Petsamo Is Clear

Russians Clear Germans Out Of Kecskemet Area   Other Budapest - Bound Reds Fight Their Way Inside City.

SOVIET ASSAULT NEARS BUDAPEST   Attack Started Three Days Ago, Russians Report

Manila Bombed, Tokyo Reports   Japs Also Announce B-29 Over Homeland

FDR SIGNS REVISED OPA LIFE BILL   Asks Penalties for Violations Not Be Relaxed

OPA Extension Measure Signed   President Warns He May Call for Revision

JAPANESE CARGO   ‘VESSEL: ‘SUNK: BY AIRMEN. AT » HOLLANDIA—ENEMY SUP-. - PLY: AREAS. BLASTED. :

JAP SHIP SUNK INU.S. ATTACK ON HOLLANDIA   Foe Island Bases Over Wide Area Blasted By Yanks

Liberator Sinks Jap - Cargo Ship   Medium Bombers Keep Up Bombardment of Dutch New Guinea Coastal Area

Explanation Of Clapper Death Advanced   Attempt to Give Journalist One  More Look May Have Caused Accident

OPA Takes Action To ‘Hold the Line On Clothing Costs   Plain Ceiling Price Tags Ordered; Eliminate Much ‘Fancying-Up’

DRIVE OPENED TO HALT PRICE RISE   Ora Acts to to Prevent «, Clothing Prices From Soarine

CLOTHING PRICES TO BE HELD DOWN   OPA LAUNCHES DRIVE 0 HALT RISE—CEILINGS PUT ON SOME GARMENTS. ‘\

S240 Sur) Gai cren’s : J 0” 1ng 473  rice anc “tancying- 9" 4a rics

OPA TOWIP Alot IN CLOTHING GOS]   Simple, Easy to Understand Ceiling Prices To Be Put on Low-cost Infants and Childrens’ Garments

Yanks Blast  Iwo Jima   Campaign to Knock Out Jap Island Begun; R.29% Attack Base

PLANES AND SHIPS ATTACK BONINISLANDS   Likely Takeoff Point for Ten Nippon Bombers in Raid On Saipan Blasted by U. S. Forces   A 750-MILE FLIGHT

A‘RECORD LOAD OF BOMBS’ DROPPED BY B-29 TASK FORCE   Struck Iwo Jima, 750 Miles Soath of Saipan in Japan’s Occupied Islands.   ON VOLCANO ISLANDS   Strike in Coordination With Attacks by Navy Surface Ships.

Supers Drop Record Load On Airfields   Sizeable Task Force Takes Part In Raid

Iwo Jima Is Pounded By U.S. From  Sea And Air   Superforts And Surface Ships Unload Bombs And Shells On Japs

B-29’S ASSAULT WO JIMA BASE   Record Load of Bombs’ Dropped on Aijrficids in Volcano Isles

Superforis Bomb Jananese Airbase  In Bonin Islands  Retaliation Raid Effected  fo Neutralize Bomber Field Which Riectad Go... Do...

Record Bomk Load Falls _ On Iwo Jima  Warships Join In The Attack: . °

Iwo Jima Base, 150 Miles From Tokyo, Blastec       New Landing g Traps 25,000" Enemy Troops Today

SUPERFORTS DROP RECORD LOAD OF BOMBS ON IWO JIMA, SUPPORTED BY U. S. WARSHIPS

Japanese-American Soldier on His Brother’s Death in. Action Writes Father His Strong Faith in America

Pep Talk Given Battered Nazis .  Goebbels Says New Secret Weapon Will Soon Be Usec

Goebbels Asks Reich to Rally Around Hitler   Seeks to Step-Up German War Effort — Orders  TD ee

Goebbels Urges Nation To Aid Adolf Hilter   Nazi Minister Threatens Allies With New And Powerful Secret Wea pons Soon To Be Launched

Goebbels Pledges More Power For Front, More Secret Weapons In Pep Talk to German People

o— Urged To Support Hitler   ‘Propaganda Minister In Pep Talk To Battered Nation Declares Army Reserves To Be Moved To Battlefront

Goebbels Promises  ‘Total War’   Propaganda Chief , Urges Nation to Rally Round Hitler

GOEBBELS PROMISES TO MOVE RESERVES TO MAJOR FRONTS   In Pep Talk To Battered German People, Propaganda Minister Urges Them To Rally Around Hitler; Pic tures Modern Weapons As Overcoming Handicaps

HARD T0 SUPPLY LAND BASES.      Ships: and Planes: of  United States Hammer _ Away: at Hard Pressed  Supealy Lanes

Ships, Planes Hit Jap Lines  Naval Units Batter : Japs Positions South  Of Saidor

Allies Attack Supply Lines   Ships and Planes Hack At Jap Supporting Ability

ALLIED ShIPS AND WARPLANES BLAST JAP SUPPLY LINES   U. S$. Naval Units Shell Enemy Installations at Gali Point

Seven Jap . Barges Sunk By P-T Boats   US Naval Units Shell Nip Shore Installations at Gali Point; 168 Tons of Explosives Dropped at :;Madang

Planes, Ships Rip Jap Lines   U. S. GUNS HURL SHELLS INTO GALI POINT AS P-T BOATS BAG SEVEN LOADED BARGES; ALLY AIRMEN SWEEP BASES IN SOLOMONS

JAPS' SUPPLY LINE BLASTED   Attempt Made To ShortCircuit Enemy's Ability To Hit Back

Ships and Planes Blast Japanese  Allied Invasion in Pacific Moves Forward

Allies Hit Jap Supply Lines   _ U.S. Naval Units . Join in Battle for Northern New Guinea

SUPPLY LINES OF JAPS HARD HIT ONCE MORE   Seek to Cut Off Enemy Attempt To Strike Back at Island Invasion Attempt by Allies.

‘Missing Men Are Believed To Be Killed In The Blast  9 2 Ag hAan Picked [In At San After Binct

WAKE ISLAND ASSAULTED BY NAVAL PLANE!   ZERO HOUR MAY BE NEAR FOR GROUND INVASION

Bombs Thunder On Mid Pacific Enemy Outposts   U.S. Naval Command. Still Silent on Reported Invasion

Gateway City to Rhine Is Circled   Escape Route From Aachen Cut Ott by Allied Fighters

Attacks Fail To Relieve Doomed City   Americans Smash German Attacks, Clese for Kill

City Is Encircled As Yanks Check New Nazi Drive   Germans Cry ‘Heil Hitler As Doughboys Mow Them Down

Yank Soldiers Near Leghorn   Take Monte Maggiore; Dominate Port —

ALLIES HAMMER NAZI POSITIONS   Yank Troops Push Within Four Miles Of Livorno

ARE FIGHTING 4 MILES FROM PORT’S HEART   Allies Advance In’ Fierce Fighting On All Italian Fronts

FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES IN ITALY   Yanks Battering Into Prize Port City of Leghorn

CROSS ARNO RIVER   Swift Advance of Tanks and Infantry Surprises the azis 

Nazis Launch Counter Blows   Americans Capture Dominating Height On Livorno Front

YANKS CLOSING IN ON LIVORNO   CAPTURE STRATEGIC HEIGHT OF MAGIORE; ADVANCE ON COAST

U. S. Troops Push Drive On  Livorno Port   Americans Climb On City After Capture Of Monte Maggiore; At Arno River.  A GN Ce ve   STIFF FIGHTING RAGES

Swiftly- Advancing Allied Troops Surge Across Arnc River Near Arezzo, Italy

Americans Climb in Relentlessly on Leghorn; Capture Dominating ‘Height

Cross River Barrier      Allied Troops Put Arno Behind Them in Swift Advance from Arezzo; Push Close to Livorno

Americans Close On Livorno after Capturing Height   Advances Bring Yanks Up Against Strong German befenses, Fierce Fighting Rages Along Front

AMERICANS ARE NEAR LEGHORN; PUSH FORWARD   German Soldiers ‘Unable To Stop Allied Armies

YANKS CLOSING IN ON LIVCRNO   Crash Forward To Occupy Heights Overlooking Nazi-Held Port

Americans Move Nearer Leghorn  Fifth Within Shelling Range of Big Port

British Launch Offensive South Of Caen; Reds Take  Grodno; Advance In Italy

YANKS 4 MILES FROM BIG PORT  Fifth Captures Dominati ne  oe a  o Tr 2. Te fe      Fifth Captures Dominating Heighth On Outskirts Of Livorno ~   NEAR ARNO RIVER   Heaviest German Coun ter-Thrust Comes Th ‘Era Valley

avi GAINS IN ITALY ON WIDE BATTLE FRONT   “Americans Moving ip ot Leghorn and French Forces Also Advance. British Gain

Yanks Only Four Miles From The Heart Of Livorne   Gains Bring Fifth Army Up Against Strona Defenses

Allied Units Cross Arno River in Italy   In Storming Stream, Which Flows Through Florence, Troops Put Much of Barrier to the Gothic Line Behind Them.

Yanks Climb in On Big Italian  Livorno Port   Troops Only Four Miles From Heart Of Port After  Capturing Height

Heights 4 Miles  From Livorno   Fierce Fighting Rages As New Advances, Take Doughboys Up Against Strong German Defense Positions.

U. S. Forces Move Into Livorno; Goal Draws Near  Auxiliary Units Hit At Era Valley in  Heavy Flank Fiahtina

U. S. Soldiers Near Big Port   French Troops Credited With Capturing Poggibonsi Over Weekend

U.S. FOUR MILES FROM HEART OF ITALIAN PORT   Meet Strong Nazi Resistance on All Fronts as Yanks Near Leghorn

Allied Troops Storm Across Arno In Italy   Leap Barrier In Front Of Gothic Line; Yanks At Livorno’s Edge.

Allies Cross Arno River  In New Drive   Barrier To Gothie Line Now Behind Them; Americans At Leghorn

Allied Troops ‘Storm Across ‘Arno River   Americans Advance Relentlentlessly on Livorno; Capture Dominating Height of Monte Maggiore 

YANKS MENACE NAZI HOLD ON ITALIAN PORT   Injan¢ Points Fall To Fifth Army; British Capture Communications Center

N azis Strike  Back at Fifth Near Livornc   Fierce Fighting Reported as American Troops Slam Forward

AMERICAN TROOPS SMASHING FORWARD ON ITALIAN FRONT   NEARING LIVORNO GERMAN RESISTANCE CONTINUED STRONG MONDAY

Leghorn, Pisa Are Threatened Anew By Outflanking Drives   British Capture Provincial Capital At Arezzo, City of 63,000, Shattering Nazis

Yanks Closing On Livorno   Fifth Army Tokes Dominatizg Height; British Also Advance

ALLIES oTORI AGROSS RIVER   Put Considerable Barrier Behind Them in Crossing Of Arno.   400 FT WIDE IN PLACES

YANKEES MOVE IN ON LIVORNO   Americans Capture Dominating Height Of Monte Maaaiore

Losers Plan To Establish Third Party   Name “‘Democrat”’ Has Been “Stolen,” Bolters Declare

4th Term Foes Organize After Court Setback   Own Slate Of Electors To Be Filed By Group; ‘Usurping Of Democratic Party Name’ Is Scored At Closed Convention

Desire For Baby Kidnap Reason, Says NY Woman   Former Welder Admits Snatch

SUSPEND CORRESPONDENTS   Six Charged With Evading Censor ship Ordered to Leave Paris

Jet Engine for Robots Made in U. S.   FORD COMPANY PRODUCES BUZZ BOMBS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF NAZIS

700-Pound Shell of Nazi Railway Gun Lands in:8 Feet of Patton; It Is a Dud

Move Breaks Hitler’s Hold Over Balkan Puppet Natioris   Germans Face Loss Of Vital Oil Fields And Othe  Supplies; New Government Organized

Bucharest Is Under Virtual State of Siege   Romania Prepares for Possible German Blow

THREE DIVISIONS. USED.BY GERMANS   More Than 1, 000 Yards Of Lost Territory Again ‘ Held By U.S.   STIFF RESISTANCE,   Third Major Nazi Attack ’ To Smash Allied Sector _ .Js Checked .

Vermont Solon Advocates Pian O{ Food Stamps   Called Alternative To General Consumer Subsidy Program

Veterans’ Service Committee Has Been Set Up Here   Committee Will Direct Returning Veterans to Sources for * Obtaining Employment

Group to Help Service Men  To Find Work   Each Community Is Represented On Committee

VOTE MANDATE. ON PEACE PLAN   Willis Avers New Senate Will Have Open Mind on World Policy

Allies Advance Rapidly North of Rome   Enemy Retreat in All Sectors Becoming a Rout

Nazis Flee On 200 M: It. Front   German 4ith Army Wiped Out As Defeat In Italy Turns Into Rout.

ENEMY 14TH ARMY SAID LIQUIDATEI   Germans Flee Along 200'- Mile Front Across Italy

MYSTERIOUS CHECKS IN PAYMENT OF OLD DEBTS Porere mt WADERSRBORGO

LONDON, June 8 (UP).—The United Nations radio at Algiers reported today that the Allies had captured  Caen.

Infantry Broadens Foothotd Across Saar River, Merge Crossings.   DRIVE GAINING SPEED

Capital of Saar Suffering Same Fate as Aachen   Third Army Drives Mile and Half Into Siegfried Line   RILLETIN

THIRD ARMY TROOPS REACH ElGHT MILES INTO SAAR BASIN  SAARBRUCKEN BEING RIPPED TO PIECES BY I © ARTILLERY

SAAR GRIP FIRM   Patton’s Fighters Drive Well Into Siegfried Line

Heavy Guns Rip Capital Of Rich Saar Coal Area   Advance Deprives Hitler Of District Vital To Nazi War Industry

- Patton Bores Into Siegfried , Line- Defenses   New Gains Are Made As Artillery Continues Pounding Saar Capital   SEVENTH ARMY ROLLS FORWaRD   German Moves Behind The Roer Again Indicate They Mav Be Falling Back

Patton Hammers Ahead In Saar Valley Struggle  Penetrates Sieafried   Penetrates Siegfried Line 112 Miles; Three Bridgeheads Across River Merged Into Twe

Howitzers Rip Saarbrucken In Renewed Thrust   Rich Coal Supply Are: Invalidated In Month O: Heavy Drive.

WAR CORRESPONDENT DIES   John B. Terry’s Death Is Third Resulting From Explosion

Anamosa Not Regarded In ~ Proper Light   ‘Some Believe This Partly Responsible For Recent Escapes

BRITAIN IS INCLUDED IN ACTION   Parliament Approves Terms, Stockholm Dispatch Says

TERMS TO BE GIVEN LATER   Action Ends Second War Since 1989 — Finns Waging Undeclared War Against Former Nazi Al

Palau Island Group Blasted In3-Day Attack   Battleships, Cruisers And Carrier Based Bumbers Pave Way For Possible Invasion

American Ships And Planes Rip Big Jap Island   Nimitz Forces Blast 89 Ships; May Lead To  Invasion

Battleships Jom Three-Day Attack On Palau Islands   MacArthur Hurls Heavy Aerial Blow On Celebes Airdromes

Bill Passes Senate to  Extend OPA  House Consider:   House Considers Amendment On Rent Control

Make Landing: On July 20   Thrust At American Island Seized by Japs

Germans Have  Morale Hike   Growing Convietion That Hopes For Negotiated Peace Strengthened.

New ‘V’ Weapons Boost Morale of ' German Populace   Hopes For a Negotiatec Peace Now Strength ened. Source Reports .

GOV. MARTIN ADDRESSES: AMERICAN LEGION GROUP   Can’t Do All That Should Be Done for Veterans   GOVT. OUT OF BUSINESS

Says ‘Purge’ Rumely’s Aim   Anderson Questions Witness as to Texas Campaign

ELIMINATION FOR LUTHER JOHNSON HAD BEEN DECREED   THIS IS CHARGE MADE BY CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

Russians Mop Up southern Romania   Other Columns Moving On Hungarian Border

Flying Columns Race North On Hungarian Border   Soviet Grip on North Bank of Danube Ex tended as Columns Pushing From Bucharest Move to Bulgarian Frontier

Russ Expand Grip on North Danube Bank   Flying Columns Racing Toward Junction With Marshal Tito

Reds Mop Up Resistance In Romania   Flying Columns Race Northward Toward Hungarv.

Push North On Border Of Hungary   Also Move Toward Junction With Tito’s Forces in  Yugoslavia

Last German Resistance in Southern Romania  Is Mopped Up   Red Flying Columns Expect to Make  Junetion with Tite

Final Appeals  To Voters Of Country Made   Dewey and Roosevelt Close Campaigns With Radio Talks—New York Governor Declares Chanae Is Needed

‘Tree Grower’  Casts Ballot   President Roosevelt (riven Vote No. 251 In Hyde Park’s Hall.

FDR ASKS FOR WORLD PEACE   Appeals For 50.000,000 Voters To Go To Polls

DEWEY CITES WAR FAILURES QF ROOSEVELT   AVe Dare Not Make A ~ Change, GOP Can didate Declares

Roosevelt In Last Appeal   Says Task Is To Face The World With Unity

Candidate, in Election Eve Address, Criticizes Handling of War Production, of Transportation and Rubber Problem —Declares Improvement Is Needed in Washington—Assails Conflicts Among Government Officials.

DEWEY CLOSES CAMPAIGN BY CASTING BALLOT IN NEW YORK ‘CITY TODAY.’

ill End Strife  elieves Change n Home Front   Backs American High Commands

Dewey Closes His Campaign   Urges All Americans To Vote in Election

Dewey Casts Ballot No. 257 In New York   Gives Occupation as ‘Lawyer’ as He Votes Just Before Noon

ROOSEVELT PLEADS FOR A LARGE VOTE      President Speaks From Hyde Park Following Auto Tour

Ath Termer Appeals For 50,000,000   CANDIDATE ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR MORE VOTES THAN THERE ARE REGISTERED VOTERS IN NATION,   Last Words of Campaign

Nominees Cast Votes   FDR GIVES OCCUPATION AS TREE GROWER AND DEWEY DECLARES HE IS A LAWYER

VOTE APPEAL MADE BY FDR   Calls for 50,000,000 Voters Today; Tours Hudson Valley District

Roosevelt Ends Campaign With Prayer for Peace   Urges Fifty Million Voters To Show Our Government Bes! In World: Propose To Keep It

F.D.R. Calls. For Casting Of 50 Million Votes Today   ~ Wants World Respect For (Our Demo ocracy,

Gov. Dewey Goes To New York City To Cast Ballot   Ends His Campaign With Stinging Attack On Dem Rival

ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR RECORD VOTE AT POLLS TODAY   With Campaign Over, He Says Task Before Nation Is to Face Future as United Peonvle.   CLOSES HYDE PARK SPEECH WITH PRAYER   Tours His Home Neighborhood During Day, Telling Crowds He Is Confident He Will Win.

EDR Voting On Day Off   " Lrges Record Ballot In Last Minute. Talk

Dewey] Puts Final Stress. On N ecessity Fo or Change   ‘Says. New Deal Plea  Is for Re-election - Of Chief Executive ‘So Long as He Lives’  NENIro BEART CDYTOrC

Dewey Casts Ballot No. 257 At New York   Candidate Of Republicans Goes To Polling Place On East 48th Street Shortly After Noon

Ballot Is Cast At Hyde Park By Roosevelt   President Is No. 251 At Polling Place In Town Hall Short Distance From His Home

Radio Prayer By Rooseveit  Ends Campaign   President; Confident Of Re-Election, Calls For 50,000,006 Ballots Be Cast Today

FDR Ends Vote Drive In Eas!   President Casts Ballot At Hyde Park

Tree Grower ~ Casts Fourth Term Ballot   President Roosevelt and Family Register Their Choice in Old Town Hall

‘Bald Plea for Re-election... ‘... Battle Is Finished’  Dewey, Roosevelt Appeal For Votes in Radio Talks

GOP Nominee Says Nation’s Welfare Rests Upon  Government Harmony

Slugfest Is Ended   Dare To Make Change, Dewey Urges Voters; Roosevelt Prays For Lasting Peace.

Total Of $51,200,000 In War Bonds Purchased In State Through Friday

CONGRESS WILL CONVENE AFTER SUMMER RECESS   Many Problems Facing Lawmakers@s Legislators Return To-Capital

RECONVERSION BIG TOPIC FOR HOUSE, SENATI   Congress Back Tuesday From Summer Vacation

Reconversion Bill Prime Need as Solons Reconvene  Quick Nazi Collapse Would Find U. 5.  Tinnrenared at Hamme

[Congress Must Prepare For Reorganization Of U.S. Economic Resources

F. R. Says There's No Controversy Between He and Churchill Over Dividing of Italian Fleet.

Gets Kick Out of Newly Trained Bomber Crews, “Green as Wet Paint’

‘Lend-Lease Shipments To Allies In Three Years ‘Amount To 14 Per Cent Of U. S. War Outlay

Hard Fighting Underway Inside Sarreguemines, Important Coal Center   Allied Air Fleets Hit German Oil Plants, Rail Objectives; Russians, Nearer Budapest, Open New.Offensive on Hungary Capital: Gains in Ital:

Government Seeks Courts to Prevent Wards Interference With Conduct of Business   Federal Court Grants Temporary Injunction; Company Expected to Take Similar Action; May Ultimately Reach Supreme Court?

WARD OFFICERS TO TURN OVER COMPANY BOOKS   Hearings Today By U. S. Court  On Seizure

Ward Company Is. ‘ Aided By Courts   FURTHER ARMY TROUBLE "HALTED BY U.S. JUDGE.

RUSSIANS BOMB FINNISH CAPITAL   Over 100 Bombers Attack Helsinki Twice in Apparent Start of Campaign to Knock Finland Out of the War.

EXPRESSED HOPE ROOSEVELT WILL BE RENOMINATE   Midwestern Democratic Ci 1 ference Endorsed Resolu-. tion Today. -d   IF WAS UNANIMOUS   Group Also Proposed Selee tion of Robt. Hannegan — as Chairman.

Yanks Sink [wo Ships From 4-Vessel Convoy   Final Pitched Battle to Clear the Island of Enemy Units Appears Probable in Few Hours as American Forces Advance

Luzon Cebu And Negros Airbombed   Tank-Led Force Fails To Break Through Yank Ring On  West Coast.

ORMOC REGION   Fresh Enemy Troops, Tank-led, Fail in Break-through

Two Sisters Released In Hotel Murder   Convince Police They Know Nothing Of The Crime; Both Women Have Police Records

West Vir ginia Tornado Toll  ‘Reaches 102 Dead, 400 Injured   Forces at Work Rehabilitating Scores. of ‘Homeless and Digging Through the Ruins in the Effort to Locate the Missing

WATER SUPPLY IN ATHENS IS CUT OFF   Situation in Greek Capital  Is Serious

WATER SUPPLY GUT IN ATHENS   Insurgents intensifying €fforts To Force Decision

Water Mains In Downtown Athens Go Dry   Insurgents Fighting Hard to Force Decision Refore British Help Comes

Chinese Forces Fight: Desperately To Stop Thrust   Strong Jap Columns Break Into Walled — City of Loyang

ALLIES PRE THEIR BURMA OFFENSIVE   Monsoon Rains Arrive; Japs Gain In Honan Campaign

Sen. Johnson (D) Sees Roosevelt Power at End   Colorado Leader Scores President

HEAD MONTGOMERY WARD FIRM TAKEN FROM OFFICE BY  FORCE OF ARMY   Representative Dewey Of Illinois Will Demand Investigation Of Gov: ernment Over Seizure Of Property.

Von Papen to Seek Peace?   Ambossador Told To Make Separate Deal, Says Report

IN KURILES ARE RA'NDED   Army Fliers Bomb Shimshu and Paramushiru

Aleutian-Based Army Planes Hit Jap Isles   Paramushiro And Shimshu Were * Raided December 31, Is Announced Today

Jap Propoganda Directs Charge Of ‘Barbarism’ ©   None of Saipan-based Giant Raider: Lost; 4,000 Nip Soldiers Drowned As 13-Ship Enemy Convoy Is Sunk

Tokyo Radios Begin To Sing Hymn of Hate   Americans Called ‘‘Barbaric’* After Giant Superforts Re: turn Unscathed from Latest Raid on Jap Capital

Tokyo Flaming Target in 3rd  B29 Pounding   Angry Japs Promise Death to Any SuperFort Fliers Who May Parachute in Raids   Convoys Wiped Out.

No B-29 Losses In Night Raid On Jap Capital   Other Planes Wipe Out Nip Convoy; 4,000 En emv Soldiers Drown.

B29 Raid Is ‘Carried Out Without Loss      Night Strike Sows Incendiaries Among Japanese Indus:  tries in Capital!

Giant Superforts Back Unseathed FromTokyoRaid   10 Jap Transports And 3 Destroyers Wiped Out; 4000 Nipponese Drown

B ENEMY CONVOY DESTROYED  IN PHILIPPINES WATERS  — haan + eon ) =o ee eS aka A ae

GIANT SUPERFORTS RETURN UNSCATHED FROM RAID ON TOKYO  SMALL BOMB-CARRYING FIGHTER PLANES ANNI LI ATS TAD CANVUAY

Superforts Return Undamaged From Third Tokyo Raid   Bomb Carrying Fighters Strike 13 Ship Convoy

NEW RAID ON TOKYO BRINGS HOWL OF HATE   Another Foe Convoy Destroyed in Move To Aid Leyte

En a ee hl  Tokyo Fires. Rekindled   Bombers Wipe 13-Ship Jap Conroy In Philippines Waters, The Fourth Destroyed Within A Week

Fourth Japanese Convoy Destroyed By Yank Fliers in Philippine Waters

JAPS REPORT FIRES SET IN MANY PLACES   Fourth Enemy Convoy fs Wiped Out Attempting Run To Philippines

Blows Stagger Tokyo; Bombers Kill 4,000 More   10 Transports And Three Destroyers Sunk With Great Loss OF Life

ALL OF 8-29°S RETURN SAFELY FROM BIG RAID   13-Ship Jap Troop Convoy Sunk In Philippine Waters

Tokyo Blasted in 3rd Assault by Superforts   13-Ship Convoy Smashed with Loss of 4,000 Soldiers

Ath War Loan Drive Letters Are In Mai   Town and Township Chairmen Are OF Opinion Phat Houre te House Canvass

 MacArthur Sees Threat To the Home Front   Replying to Congressman, The General Hints at Danger of Dictatorship

Gen. MW Arthur N oncommittal On Presidency   Pacifie Commander Does Not Anticipate Being Named As Nominee

‘MacArthur Not Unwilling ‘Note Implies   Géueral Warns Of Internal Threat’ ln Reply to Backer

MAC ARTHUR DOES NOT ANTICIPATE GOP NOMINATION   REPLIES TO REQUEST   OF BACKERS TO HOLD HIMCELE AVAILABLE

SKIPS DIRECT REPLY AS 10 ADVISABILITY   But General Says We Should Avoid Evils We're Fighting

MaeArthur Replies to Rep. Miller   Asserts U.S. Must Not Become Like Our Foreign Foes

Gen. MacArthur Presents Reply   Says “U. S. Must Not Inadvertently Slip Into Same Condition Internally as the One Which We Fight Externally,” Answering Congressional Request.   SEEK TO HALT DEWEY

Gen. MacArthur ‘Urges Wariness On Home Front   Replies To Solon’s Plea To Hold Himself Available For GOP Nomination

MacArthur Stanc Given in Letter  Declares He Is Firm Believer in People

Political  Strategists Are Worried   Gov. Dewey’s Power of Attracting Votes By Silent Treatment Is  Muddlinge Leaders

McArthur Declares U. S. Must Guard On Internal Conditions   Southwest Pacific Commander Answers Query From House On His Policies Toward Home Fron

Must Not Let U.S. Slip Away  From Democracy   Pacific War Chief Says He Doesn’t Anticipate GOP Nomination. 

MacArthur Warns Of Internal Strife   General Replies to Requests He Be Available for Nomination

AY MACARTHUR   Expresses Views In Letter Written-To U. S: Congressman   FACTS NECESSARY   Says U.S. Must Not Face . Conditions Nation Now Fighting

WRITES HE 19 NOT EXPECTINE ~ANOMINATION   Expresses Alarm, However, at Internal Conditions in United States.

MacArthur Says U.S. Must Not  ~ Slip Into Same Condition at ~ Home as One We Are Fighting

MacArthur Makes Reply On Candidacy   Warns Nation Must Not Slip Internally Into Ways of War Floes

MACARTHUR LETTER NONCOMMITAL UPON NOMINATION MATTER  GENERAL, HOWEVER, WRITES THAT U, S, MUST

MACARTHUR ANSWERS TO NOMINATION BID   U. S. Must Not Inadvertently Slip into Same Internal Condition As One We Fight Externally ;

MacArthur Warns U. S. Against Left Wing Tendencies at Home   General Replies to Congressman’s Letter Asking Him To Be in Reaginess To Accept G.O0.P. Nomination.

“Flattering Predictions’ ‘Not To Be Fulfilled   MacArthur Replies To Congressman’s Letter; Hopes To Receive More Material To Carry On

LETTER URGING HIS CANDIDACY ELICITS REPLY   Gencral Tells Solon He Doesn't Expect ‘Flattering Predictions’ for ‘44

MacArthur Holds Self Available   Letters Exchanged With Congressman Indicate General Remains In Receptive Mood

Correspondence ~ With Nebraskan Reveals Thought  ‘Pacific Commander Hop1 §ngoe Bar Mara Power to

MacArthur Sidesteps Invitation To Run As Bandwagon Movement To Dewey Slows Others

BETS ANSWER FROM GENERAL   MacArthur Replies to Congressman’s Request About Candidacy.

M Arthur Sends Reply To Backel InCongress  General Will Be Glace When More Forces Are At His Disposal

MacArthur Isn’t Stirred Up Over GOP Nomination   General Doesn't Expect Fulfillment of ‘Flattering Predictions.’   Afraid of a Monarchy In the United States

MTARTHUR MAKES NO DIRECT REPLY ABOUT CANDIDAC\   Army General Says Idea Flattering, Doesn’t Expect to Carry All States as Friends Think.   CONTENTS OF LETTER ARE NOW MADE KNOWN   Writes Nebraska Congressman After Request to Hold Himself Available For G. GQ. P. Nomination.

n Presidential Situation  nh By Gen. MacArthur O Is Made Public Today

Mo. Legislature Winds Up 25 Day Special Session   Storm of Criticism Breaks Over Donnell’s Veto Statement

Special Session  Comes To End   Series Of Bills For Servicemen Finally Passed

COUPON GANG RAIDS OFFICE   Baton Rouge Yields Huge Gas Coupon Loot

Estate. Of Mrs. Hoover To Be Divided Between Two Sons And Husband

‘POPPY DAY’ FOUNDER SUCCUMBS IN SOUTH   Originator of Memorial Is Praised by President

Ward’s Opens Legal Fight for Property   Counsel Asks Judge to Dismiss Injunction Restraining Company Executives From — Hindering Operation by U.S. ~

Launch Legal Battle   Ward’s Fight Against Government’s Seizure Follows Order Barring Firm Heads from Plant

Veterans’ Job Barrier Lifted   Servicemen Are Exempted.  _From WMC Controla

Job Controls Lifted For Vets   Release Restrictions On Hiring and Job-Seeking.

VETERAN CONTROLS. DROPPED BY WMC   Free Reign Given to Ser_- vicemen Seeking  . Jobs:

All Manpower Controls Are Lifted As Far as Veterans Are Concerned

QUICK ACTION ON RECONVERSION MEASURES IS URGED AS CONGRESS CONVENES AFTER SUMMER RECESS

Big Guns End Lull At Anzio   Allied Barrage Picks Off Enemy Targets, May Be Prelude  To March On Rome.

Big Guns Of Allies Break Silence Along Anzio Front  German Artillery Replies On Smaller Scate Reentry, uate ree moraeee eee MOASSMO Le OM

GERMAN TARGETS BOMBED AT NIGH}   Allied Bombers ‘Oyer the  Reich After Day-of Bad Weather

SKIES CLEAR FAST BOMBERS OVERGERMANY   Extent of Damage Not Reported; U. S. Forces Prepare to Destroy Aachen if Necessary.   Shatter Bochum

BOMBS WRECK ~ BERLIN CABLES   City Without Telephone Service; Steel Works Area Hammered

AWAIT AACHEN ATTACK ORDER   Bombers Held Ready at Allied Airfields to Destroy Reich City

ALLIED BOMBERS SMASH GERMANY   ‘OTHERS: AWAIT’ ORDERS TO [RAIN EXPLOSIVES ON CITY OF AACHEN.

Urges De Valeré To Clear Eire Of Axis Agents   Dudley Field Malone Calls Attention To Irish War Heroes

Guns In Honolulu  Called To Action   Air Raid Proves False As Planes Were Friendly

Say Bombs Hit Chancellery   Goebbels’ Home, Aldon Hotel Damaged, Traveler Says

Chancellery Uf Nazis Bombed   Hitler’s Headquarters Also -Hit In Raid

FIERCE FIGHT» RENEWED ON WEST FRONT   One German Force Seizes Libramont and Drives Yanks From Rosieres 8 Miles to East.   ANOTHER THRUST — AIMED AT MEUSE   Stiffened American Ree sistance Limits Enemy. Gains — Battle Proves Costly for Both Sides.

Offer fierce new show of armed might  Doughboys slow German advance

Bombers Follow Up Mass Front Raids   Fierce Battles Cost Allies, Enemy Heavy Christmas Casualties; Nazi Units Drive for French Line

Thrusts Made Westward With Some Gains Against Infantry Lines Blocking Last 15 Miles to Belgian Water Barrier of Meuse

Enemy Gains in Lerritic  Holiday Battles   48-Hour Stalemate Definitely Broken as Toughened Yanks Offer Stiffening Resistance

Make Some Gains Towards Meuse   Gains Not as Great as They Were During First Nozi Offensive Aaainst First Army

Germans Push Toward Meuse In New Surge   Allied Air Armadas Wreak Terrific Ruin on Foe; One Enemy Column in Town Only 23 Miles from Sedan

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One Column Only 16 Miles From Border Of France   Yank Relief Forces Fight Toward Bastogne In Effort To Aid” Trapped Doughboys” .  NEWS AS OF SUNDAY

London Professor Will Try To Re-Imprison Witch Liberated After 200 Y ears By Y ank’s Bulldozer

REFUSES TO TELL OF REA WORKINGS   SENATE COMMITTEE MAY CHARGE FOR AID WITH CONTEMPT

Delays Decision Against Daniels   President's Assistant Refuses to Answer Questions in Senate.

DANIELS MAY AFFORD TEST   Senate Subcommittee Puts Off Decision on Contempt Proceedings Against Aide to FDR

China-Burma Theater Of War Gets Nearly $1,400,000,000 of Material

Rain Fails To Keep Troops From Circus   Brave Rains to See Traditional Big Top Show

Camp Maxey Turn: Out for Circus Despite Rains   Vernon Pratt ‘Opens His First'Road Tour. At Local Army: Camp

Churchill Wins — Resounding Vote OF Confidence   Vexed at Being Put. On Spot, Commons Nevertheless Voices 425 to 23 Approval

House Votes Confidence In Churchill   By Vote of 425 to  23 He Wins Eighth Vote of Confidence. In Four Years’ Service

CHURCHILL WINS COMMONS TEST Ih 425 10 23 VOTE   Is Eighth Confidence Vote Given To Him In Four Years

CHURCHILL GETS CONFIDENCE VOTE   HOUSE OF COMMONS TO BACK GOVERNMENT

Resounding Vote Given Churchill   Britain’s Prime Minister Wins Vote of Confidence in Parliament

CHURCHILL WINS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN HOUSE COMMONS  _ HOUSE VEXED AT BEING  CALLED TO MARK BUT SUPPORTS GOVERNMENT

Churchill Is Test Winner   But Many in Commons Vexed At Test Being Forced On Overall War Program

BRITONS RALLY BEHIND LEADER IN TEST VOTE   Churcill Supported, 425 to 23 Before Cheering House Of Commons

Eighth Expreszion of Confidence In Premier Resounding: Only 23 Oppose Him

CHURCHILL WINS VOTE CONFIDENCE   Commons Supports Prime.Minister By 425 To 23 Margin

Churchill Wins Test   Receives Resounding 425 to 23 Vote of Confidence in Commons

Churchill Wins Confidence OK On Teacher Pay   Vote Is 425 to 23 Greeted With Cheers in Commons

CHURCHILL  SUPPORTED B 425-23 TALL   Urgently Summoned Turn  out of Supporters Cheers  Chamber To Rafters — After Decision   HE SPEAKS BUT BRIEFLY

Lonakenc Vote Is Won By Churchill   Government Scores Easy Victory, 425-23

CHURCHILL WINS VOTE   Commons Voices Confidence In Prime Minister  By 425 to 23 Vote

Division Of 425 to 23 Is Strongest Showing Made By Prime Minister Since Early Days Of War; Cheers Greet Announcement Of Vote

SUPPORT GIVEN WAR PROGRAN BY COMMONS   425-23 Ballot End: Friction Arising Over Minor Domestic Issue

House Votes Confidence   Churchill Wins Test Of Strength By Vote of 425 to 23

Churchill Given Vote. Of Confidence   House Reverses Itself 425 to 23 To Back  Prime Minister

Churchill Is Given  Vote of Confidence   Government Wins, 425 to 23, as Prime Minister Stakes War Leadership on Domestic Issue and Deamnds Commons Verdict.

Confidence VoteWon by Churchill   UPHELD IN COMMONS BY 425-23 MARGIN

Test Won By Churchill   But Commons Openly Vexed at Challenge On Minor Issue

Churchill Wins ConfidenceVote  By 425 to 23   Commons Openly Vexed At Voting on Minor Issue

CHURCHILL WINS EIGHTH VOTE OF CONFIDENCE OVER A MINOR DOMESTIC ISSUE   Division of 425 to 23 Proves House of Commons Ready to Show Continued Support of Government’s Overall Program

Churchill Wins Vote  of Confidence   Commons Shows Continued Support of Government's Program on Eve of In varion

Churchill Wins Vote of Confidence   Vote Is 423 to 23—  Supporters Pack House

Commons Favors Churchill With 15 To B Vote   Prime Minister Geta Strongest Backing In War

Churchill Gets Vote Of  - Confidence In Commons   Eighth Time Premier Has Been Backed In The Last Four Years

Confidence Vote Given Churchill  By Commons   Decision On School Salaries Is Reserved

CHURCHILL WINS CONFIDENCE VOTE   HOUSE OF COMMONS VOTES 425 TO 23 TO SUSTAIN CHIEF

CONFIDENCE VOTE GIVEN CHURCHILL BY COMMONS TODAY   Action Is Eighth Approval Given By the House to the Prime Minister in Four Years—Some Members Are WVered

Approval  VoteGiven Churchill   Vote of 425 to 23 Supports Policies In Eighth Test

425-23 VICTORY FOR CHURCHILL   But Members Say He Made Them ‘Eat Their Words’

Prime Minister Gets Vote Of Confidence   House Members Cheer As Churchill Gets Big Majority

"Reds Start New »Drive In Latvia   Germans Claim Soviets Use 40 Divisions In Baltic Offensive Aimed At Riga; Warsaw Bombarded

Reds Launch New Attack Toward Riga   Other Armics Storming Into Wrecked Warsaw

REDS OPEN NEW BALTIC OFFENSIVE   Head for Riga, Capital Of Latvia

Reds Mass For Capture Of Warsaw   Burning Capital Expected To Fall; New Push Gains.

Soviets Open Mighty Drive For Baltics   Half-Million Thrown Into Fight; Battle Of Warsaw Joined

FORTY RUSSIAN DIVISIONS OPEN MIGHTY 'BALTIC OFFENSIVE, CLAIM OF GERMANS   Drive Aimed At Latvian Capital From Broad Are South And East

Russians Start Offensive Aimed At Riga, German Radio Announces T oday

Reds Uncork Drive on Riga   Finn Isle Attacked: Warsaw Fight Rages

POWERFUL RED OFFENSIVE IS AIMED AT RIGA   Half Million Russians Drive on Latvian Capital—Warsaw Is Blasted.

REDS MASSING FOR DRIVE 10 SEIZE WARSAW   Latvian And Polish Capitals Seen Objectives Of Broadened Attacks

Russians Declare 700,000, Including Yanks, British, Have Been Killed by Germans in Three Camps in Poland.

MORE ATROCITY ~AGTS REVEALED   Soviets Say 700,000 Persons Including Americans Killed by Germans in Concentration Camps

Germans Kill 700,000 At Three Camps  Soviet Report Of Terrible Torture To The Victims

Supreme Commander Issues Order Of Day  We Will Accept Nothing But Full Victory!” . . Eisenhower

fuaserte, Commander Issues ‘Ordér Of Day  We Will: Accept Nothing But Full Victory!” . - Eisenhower 7

We Will Accept Nothing Less Than Full Victory   Tide Has Turned, Eisenhower Tells Troops, And Free Men Of The World Are Marching Together To Victory

‘Eyes Of World On You’ Troops Admonished   Eisenhower Tells Invaders They Carry With Then: Prayers of. Liberty- — Loving People

Army Planes Open New Pacific Drive   Japan’s Inner Defense Ring Hit in Volocanos

Nazi Officials Evacuate Berlin   Departments of Government Leave

BERLIN RAIDED BY MOSQUITO PLANES   Fires Still Smouldering ir German Capital

Weather Clears An Italy, Nazis Reyew Activity  Of Allies, Lay Down  Haavy Fire

Soviet Forces Begin New Drive to Free the Ukraine.  NAZI TROOPS NOW FACE SET-BACKS Cost Nazis 1,200 Men, 29 Tanks, 1,000 Trucks — and 9 Big Guns:

Sumatra Raid  Results ‘Good’   Four Superforts Are Lost In Double Blow

RESULTS GOOD IN NIPPON RAID   Three Air Giants Lost In Attack On Japan’s Homeland Targets

3 Superfortress Planes Missing In Daring Raids   Three Planes Missing

Superfort Raid Results Good   Three Planes Missing, Fourth Forced Down In Friendly Territory

PICTURES REVEAL TERRIFIC DAMAGE   Many Direct Hits Scored In Big Raid By U. S. Superfortresses   THAILAND LASHED   Tokyo Radio Concedes Attack. By Big Bombers Becoming Serious

JAP FACTORIES IN RUINS AFTER SUPERFORT RAID   Mitsubishi's Aircraft Plant Smashed At Nagova, B-29’s Photographs Show.

upers Crack ‘own On Big ‘lane Center   . Thailand Also ‘Reported Raided; Score Direct Hits

Air Photos. Show Much Damage at ‘Nagoya; B-29s Raid Thailand; Rangoon

PICTURES REVEAL DIRECT HITS ON NAGOYA FACTORY  NEW B-29 RAIDS ON THAILAND. RANGOCN

Jap Targets In Thailand Bombed By Superforts   India-Based Planes Strike At Enemy; Huge Fires Started  Tn Wagnva Accanht

At Least 24 Direct Hits Scored On Jap Factory: Raid Rangoon Today

BOMBER PLANT AT NAGOYA IS STILL BURNING   Sap Casualty Toll Heavy On Ormoc As Yanks  Tighten Trap

Japanese Plane Plant Ripped By Superfort Blow   Thailand Hit Today; Jap Radio Also Tells Of Heavy Bomber Raid On Rangoon In Burma

Pictures ReveatBig Plane Plant Hit By 47 Bomb:   Report Thailand, Rangoon Targets Of New Attacks; Leyte Death Toll Heavy

B-29'S REGISTER HITS ON NAGOYA ~ AIRCRAFT PLANT   " Heavy Damage Dealt To Target — New Raids on Thailand, Rangoon

Thailand. Rangoon Also Hit   Direct Hits Scored On Machine Shops, Photographs Shae

Thailand New Target Of U.S. B-29 Assaults   Giant Planes Roar Across Bay of Bengal to Hit Nip Installations Tn JapDominated Arca   Enemy Reports Fort Over Tokyo   Japs Say Eleven B-29s Raided Port of Rangoon; Big Aireraft Plant In Naeova Wrecked

Photos Show Damace Done   B29's Got Mony Direct Hits, Ripped Apart Big Jos Aircraft Factary

‘SOME REPUBLICANS QUICKLY OPPOSED TO WILLKIE PLAN  PROPOSED MULTIPLE meertrmr RATT Arm PPh

Willkie’s Tax Proposal Hit   Call for Additional Tax Program Draws Swift Retarts from Capito] Hill

WILLKIE PLEA FOR HIKED TAXES DRAWS GOP FIRE   Vandenberg Challenges Him to Present Specific Program

SOME REPUBLICANS QUICKLY OPPOSED TO WILLKIE PLAN  PROPOSED MULTIPLE BILLION DOLLAR PROmmite MATT TR TIRICATING

WILLKIE CALLS FOR BILLIONS IN NEW TAXES   Republican Leader's Pro-. posal Shocks Members of Own Party As Being Unsound and Unrealistic

ill, Gaunt-Faced Jap Captives Reach Australia  Many on Stretchers After Trials in Dutch New Guinea

GAUNT CAPTIVES PATHETIC SIGHT   Ill-Treatment By Tojo’s Men Evident As Freed Prisoners Arrive

HIl, Gaunt-Faced Jap Captives Reach Australia  Many on Stretchers After Trials in

NORTHEAST GIRL DEMONSTRATION AGT. WALDO CO.   Miss Hodgkins To Have Headquarters In Belfast

LYONS AND GREEN KEYNOTE STATE GOP CONVENTION   SENATE NOMINEE SAYS U. S. SHOULD RETAIN ISLANDS WON IN WAR

Lyons Says Nation Should Keep Island Outposts Eternally   Senatorial Candidate, Gov. Green Keynote G. O. P. Convention

SENATORS GET AT CORE OF PRO BLEM  dpples Give OPA Even More Trouble Than Adam Had in the Garden of Eden

PROBLEMS OF PRICE CONTROL ARE AIRED   Committee Discusses Issues Ranging From Apples to Ladies Hats.-

Hitler Visited Western Fron  CAPTURED NAZIS SAY FUEHRER PROMISED SURPRISE DEC. ié

Scout Executive Named by Council   Howard Meyer Takes Santa Fe District Job

Top Medal To State Indian.   Broken Arrow Man Receives Congressional Medal, Highest Valer Award

Oklahoman Wins Congressional  Medal of Honor   Lieut. Ernest Childers Gets Nation's Highest Military Award

Yankee War Heroes  Now In Washington  Commande Kelly Is Or Way Home

Allies’ Plans Nipped in Bud   German Drive Beat Fisenhower to Punch

Captured U.S, pilot returns with 27 prisoners, story of nazt chaos

British Troops Push Nazis Back   Smashing Offensive Near Caen Called ‘‘Battle For France’

Nazis Driven Back At Caen   Germans Throw All Forces Into Combat

ORITISH PUSH NAZIS BACK IN CAEN AREA   U. S. Forces Clear Last Germans From St. Lo

Advanced Unite Move West Toward Junction With Tito’s Forces and Allies in Yugoslavia

ESCAPE SYSTEM OF GERMANS IN BALKAN SETA NESTRAYED)   ALLIED MEDITERRANEAN BASED AIRFORCE AIDED IN WORK BY TITO

Railways and Airdromes in Yugoslavia Smashed to Aid Tito Ground Offensive

Allies Land Commandos Tc Assist Tito   375,000 Germana South of Battle Area in the Bag

Nazi Escape Routes Cut To Pieces   Entire Yugoslavian Railway System Is Devastated

VAST TRAP IN 3 NATIONS IS AIM   Reds Hope To Cut Off Foe In Greece, Bulgaria And Albania   SINKINGS REPORTED

Russians Cut Off Nazis In - ‘Balkan Area   3-Pronged Drive Threat ens to Smash Hitler’: Hold There

All Main Nazi Balkan Eseape Routes Slashed   Allies Drive to Pocket AT In Bulgaria, Albania, Greece

healt meee teen)  MINISTER‘S. RESIGNATION CAUSED BY SERVICE FLAG

Pastor Quits In Row Over Service Flag   He Refuses To Stand Beside “Symbol Of War" In His Church

Service Flag in Church Auditorium _ Objectionable to Preacher; He's Out

Start Drive To Crack German Line   Fortresses Lay Bomb Pattern on Mount Cassino While Troops  Moaintain Praccure

Troops Battle  In Cassino to Capture City   Bitter House-to-House Fighting; Repulse Nazi Attacks Upon Beachhead

FAMOUS MONASTERY USED AS FORTRESS BY NAZIS BLASTED  ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE TO

ALLIED TROOPS SLAM AGAINST ENEMY’S LINE   Forces Push Toward Monastery As Bombers Hit Nazis Near Cassino

0 BY NAZIS AS AFORTRESS   U. S. Bombers Begin All-Out Offensive to Crack Ger man tine.   ‘GROUND TROOPS BUSY

1l-Out Offensive o Crack Nazi Line aunched by Allies   oughboy Troops Battling in Cassino Below Benedictine Abbey Said Unofficially to Have Occupied Third of the Town   AlL AND HIGHWAY “COMMUNICATIONS FIRED

ALLIED DRIVE FOR CASSINO IS “ALL-OUT”   Ground Troops Maintain Pressure on Nazis There, as Well as At Bridge‘head, as Monastery Is Attacked.

Is Beginning Of All-Out Offensive   Raid On Monastery Follows Warning To Leave Mount

ALLIES OPEN OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH ITALY   Blasting of Mt Cassino Citadel, Dominating Town, Comes as Troops Occupy Third Cily   ADRIATIC ACTION   Small German Aitack in Carroceto Area of Bridgehead Repulsed, Pressure Maintained 

All-Out Drive To Crack Line Begun   Infantry and Artillery Join in Attack On German Fortress

URGENT WARNINGS PRECEDE ATTACKS   Lull Holds Sway Around Anzio Beachhead; Air Attacks  Binder Enemy

Allies Blast Ancient Abbey To Rout Enemy   New Offensive Started to Crack Lines at Cassino

Warplanes In Heavy Blows   Strike Powerfully At Nazi Communications in Italy  ~ SNOW SLOWS BRITISH  Ground Troops Keep Pressure At Cassino and Anzio

All-Out Drive Is Launched To Crack Nazi Line In Italy   Americans Make More Gains In Cassino; Planes Wreck German Transport Systems

CASSINO: BATTLE IS NEARLY OVER   Americans Crush All German Counter-Attacks On Rome Beachhead.

1,200 Planes Hit Targets In Germany  Hammer Station   Hammer Station Where Nazis Develop Flying Bombs, Rockets

1,200 Heavies Throw Bombs At Nazi Targets   Attack Different..Places Including Robot Ship  Experiment Station

2,200 PLANES BLAST ROCKET BOMB FACTORY   Clearing Weather Sees Yanks Blanket Northern Germanv

MANY GERMAN TARGETS HIT BY AMERICANS   1200 U. S. Heavy  Bomber s Raid

1200 U. S. HEAVIES LASH AT GERMANY   TARGETS INCLUDE ROBOT AND PLANE PLANTS, REFINERY

NAZIBASES TORN BY 2,200 PLANES   Flying Bomb ‘Laboratories Raided Again By Yanks

Nazi Rocket Station Hit By Bomber:   U.S. Planes Attack Wide Variety of Targets in Germany

U, S, FLIERS RIP REICH TARGETS   Bombers Attack Robot Bomb Experimental Station

2,200 U.S. WARPLANES HIT REICH   Nazi Experimental Station For Robots Is Among Targets

Armada Blasts Rocket Station   ‘Experimental Station At Peenemunde Hit, Also Other Targets.

Bombers Hit  Experimental Robot Station   2,200 U. S. Planes Out; Attack Variety of Nazi Targets

Situation in China Still  Unfavorable   Wedemeyer States Remedial Action Now Is Being Taken

Situation In China Continues Be Unfavorable   Nips Deeper In China Than Ever Before

KIMBALL COMMISSIONED   As Second Lieutenant — Awarded Silver Wings,

Simplification . Of Taxes Urged By Rep. Disney   Would Integrate Normal, Victory, Surtax Levies, Graduate Withholdings

VICTORY TAX PAY DEDUCTICN SOUGHT   Solon Proposes Its Integration With Present Withholding Levy

Disney Urges Simpler Tax   He Declares Experts Differ On Same Set of Facts

Nazi Seventh Army Retreats Toward Paris   Withdrawing As Fast As Possible Under Orders Of High Command

Russians Take lasi Height Nazi Commentator Saic It Was A Big Offensive

SOVIETS PLAN DRIVE IN EAST TO AID ALLIES   Offensive To Be Launched On Wide Front

HEW RED OFFENSIVE ‘1S BEING PREDICTED   Signs Point to Early Opening of Drive to Match Blows From West,

“The Voice” Is Thought With Movies   PICTURES, PEOPLE IN THEM “STINK,” FRANKIE DECLARES

EAGLES SATURDAY NIGHT Orchestra and dance—Ad.   Tne cAaERr kMIEIVI

FIRST LADY SAYS ISSUE 10 PEOPLE   Mrs, Roosevelt. Tells Institute She Favors World Police Forca

‘Allied Air Force Supporting Land Troops By Bombarding  Nazis’ Positions On Normandy

Planes Clear ‘Troops’ Path In Normand)   Assault Follows Vast At tack on Targets in Germany

ALLIES HURL AIR ARMADA! AT GERMANS   Vast Fleet Back . Normandy Attacks, Reich Is Blasted

STUTTGART TORN BY BIG AIR BLOW   Berlin Also Struck Again In Raids By British Fliers

NO LETUP IN WAR OUTPUT   Big Production Job Still Remains Ahead, Says Nelson.

Full Accord As Parley at Quebec Ends   Allied Leaders Agree on All-Out Pacific Drive When Reich Falls   TASK TO BE SHARED   *remier Pledges Mighty Empire Forces to Be Hurled at Japanese

Never, He Declares, Was The Question Of A Supreme Command for Theatre Considered   DECISION ON ALL WAR ANGLES MADE   Quebee Conference Phins for Winding Up Eurepe Conflict and = Then Crushing Japs

ift End — Pacifie a Is Goal   tain to Join U. S. \ttack As Soon Germany Defeated

Charchill Alligns Britain Formally Against Japanese   ' Says Entire Resources Will Be Thrown To Pacific After Hitler’s Collapse; Friendship Of Two Allied Leaders Hailed As  Onehoe Canference Ends

“Big Two’ End Talks, ‘Pledge Destruction of “Pacific Barbarians’  * Biggest Problem How to Employ Mighty Forces for Devastating Attack on Japs . After Germany Falls. Leaders Declare

SHAPE PLANS AT QUEBEC 10 CRUSH TOKYO   \  j  ' Massive Forces to Strike as Soon as Possible After Fighting in Europe Ends.   ALL QUESTIONS QUICKLY SETTLED   Britain Promises to Throw Her Armies, Air Units and Naval Power Into the Fight.

FDR, Churchill Pledge Devastating Jap Attack   Free Germans Ask Workers To Rebel

Destroy Japan! ‘Quebec Pledge   F.R., Churchill Announce Full Agreement; Britain In Pacific War Until Victory; Distances Hold Up Supreme Command

Churchill and FDR Complete War Decisions   Prime Minister Gives Pledge of Aid in the Bottle Aaainst Japan

U,S., Britain —  In Agreement On Settlement Of: Two Wars   Quebec Conference’ ts Brouche.To Close

Decisions To Crush  Japanese   Mighty Strokes To Follow War In Europe—Full British Support

America And _ — Britain Will Stand Together In Pacific  ae 6 +. me ls Co Mg   Chieftains Plot Mighty Offensive   Allies Promise To Make Fastest Possible Job Of Ending War

F.R., Churchill Conclude  ‘Talks at Quebec   Reach Decisions on All Points of Winding Up War in Europe and Destruction of the Barbarians of the Pacific Area

French Election Soon Proposed   Yanks Get Great  Paris Reception

DE GAULLE SAYS FRANCE NEEDS NTL ELECTION   Consultative Chamber of Resistance Council to Be Called Soon

ELECTION 10 BE HELD INFRANCE.   DeGaulle Says People to Choose Own Government

Parisians Cheer U.S. Troops on Champs Elysees   De Gaulle Confirms Election Pledge; City Returnina to Normal

GENERAL ELECTIONS PLEDGE REPEATED BY GEN. DE GAULLE   Paris Almost Normal Again; Yanks Parade, Get Big Ovation

French May Have General  Election Soon   American Troops Get Big Reception As They Parade in Paris

WANTS FRENCH ELECTION SOON   De Gaulle Stresses Need of Popular Rule

Wounded Yanks, Returning with Pyle, ‘Know Why Ernie Had to Come Back

Injured G. I.’s Knut Why Pyle Is Home —   Ernie Very Tired Man; Returns on Ship With Wounded; They Understand; He’s Going to New Mexico to Rest Before Sailing for Pacific

ussians Reach serman Soil in  '1-Mile Sweep         n Enemy Territory; Reds Believed  ewish General Leads First Assault ready Plunging On From Frontiex

Reach Eas Prussian Boundary   Jewish General At Head Of First  Soviets lo Smash Into Old Germany.

BEGIN FIRST INVASION OF HITLER LAND   36-Year-Old Jewish General Leads Attackers

THOMSEN GIVES BERLIN REPORT   German Minister to. Sweden Called Home

GI's FLOCK T0 "NATIVITY SCENE   Hundreds Visit Christ's Birthplace in Bethlehem

Hundreds of Gl’s Will Gather af. Scene of Manger   Being Flown in From Scenes of Viotent Beuth For Visit te Bethlehem

U. S. Warriors To The Scene Of The Nativity   Some By Plane To Holy Land To Go To Bethlehem

New York Times, Hannegan Claim F.D.R. Re-Election   South Gives Substantial Send-Off; Governor Battles Follow Naticnal Trend

GERMANS CRASH THROUGH SOVIET RING AT SKALA   FRESH RETREATS IN CRIMEA ARE TOLD IN NAZI COMMUNIQUE

Nazis Crack Thru Red Cordons In Skala Pocket   Reds Fight into Streets of Tiraspol--Konev Drive Forces. Germans “To Shift HQ From Jasi to Bucharest.

Germans, Romanians Disengage Themselves in Hard: Fight in Crimea.   REDS TAKE 90 TOWNS

ADMIT THEY FALL BACK TO THE SOUTH   Soviet Report Says Russian Arms Victorious All Along 500-Mile Front Except in Area West of Skala. ;

Two Soviet Armies Driving Foe Deep Into the Crimea   Force New Retreats In Both East and North; Nazis Crash Through Red Cordon

GERMANS TELL OF FRESH RETREATS IN CRIMEA PENINSULA  RUSSIANS CONTINUE VIC   RUSSIANS CONTINUE VICTORIOUS AT ALL BUT ONE POINT ON LINE

Russians Fight Into Tiraspol, Rail Junction  Nazis Break Out O Tran Arnund Stlala   Nazis Break Out Of Trap Around Skala; Reds Take Kerch

CERMANS ADMIT NEW RETREATS   Russians Increase Pressure on Fleeing Columns in Campaign for Odessa

New German Retreats In  Crimea Told   Nazis Crash Through Russian Ring Arounc 15 Divisions In Skals Area Struggle

Soviets Advance FromEast, North Inside Crimea   Russian Forces Fight Way Into Tiraspel Streets; Nazis Admit Kerch Lost

Kerch Falls To Soviets In Third  Crimean Drive   Russians Push Into Carpathians On Czech Border; Nazis Transfer Headquarters In Romania Due To Threat Of Reds’ Advance

Fresh German Retreat Told   Drop Back in Crimea; Germans Rescue Men in Skala Trap, Try to Hold Tiraspol

TWO COLUMNS DRIVEDEEP © INTO CRIMEA   Nazis Crash Through Cordon Around Parts Of Trapped Divisions

ERMANS CUT ORRIDOR TO SKALA POCKET   In Middle Dnester Nazis Crash Through Soviet Corden Around 15  Trapped Divisions   KERCH [S ABANDONED

SOVIETS DRIVE NAZIS DEEPER ON HOME SOIL   Major Battles Reported In Crimea Area

Germans Claim Soviet Ring At Skala Smashed   AS Nazi Divisions Were  Trapped Before Savage   Assault Freed Them, Enemy Asserts   Russians Battling On Romanian Soil   Reds Also Fighting In Streets Of Tiraspol; Over 100 Towns Are Taken In Drives

Germans Admit New Retreats in Crimea   Move to Positions Farther South; Nazis Capture Town Near Skala Where Russians Had Troops Surrounded.

Nazis Break Through Trap In Mid-Dnestr   German Admit Setbacks On All Other Fronts, However

German Report Tells of Fresh Retreats in Crimea   Nazis Say. Enemy Attacks Repulsed At Ovidiopol Area

Berlin Admits Fresh Retreats On Wide Front   Germans Crack Through Cordon Around Skala

Germans Admit Further Red Advance In Crimez   Russians Capture Kerch, Fight Way Into Street: Of Tiraspol; Remnants Of Axis Divisions - Break Out Of Skala Trap

Nas azi i Airforce before D-Day.                 Red Army Smashes ~ conte ‘Hun: Defenses - of ‘Middle ‘Bug River

Pupils of Stark County Schools Make Large Collections of Milkweed Fibre

County Pupils Collect 250 Sacks Milk Weed Pods; Enough To Make 125 Life Preservers

Report Ally Landings in Adriatic   CLAIM ALLIES STAB SOUTHERN DALMATIA, GRAB VITAL POINTS

Allies Poised For Invasion Of Yugoslavia   ‘Already Reported Estab‘lishing Bridgeheads Toe Aletatin:

Alles Prepare to ~ Invade Yugoslavia Belgrade Reports   Increasing Numbers of U S. Soldiers Seen in London

Report Allies Establishing Bridgeheads For Invasion Of Yugoslavia; Seizing Isles   Partisans, Guerrillas Uniting; Say Allied Officers Head Many Of Units   SEIZE HALF OF VITAL CITY

Nazis Expect Allied Invasion Of Yugoslavia   Landings Have Been Made On Small Islands Off Daimatian Coast, Is Report At Belgrade

Allies Set For  invasion Blow Upon Balkans   Land Forces On Islands  Off Coast Of Dalmatia

Operations At Hummer NearNormal      MONTGOMERY-WARD AFFILIATE  ENDS 17-DAY WORK STOPPAGE;  RMY REPORTS FULL COOPERTION.   WLB Directive

ASKS U.S, PROBE ALEXANDER CURB   Congress Backs Davis Move After General Tightens Censorship

WITHHOLDING OF WAR NEWS IS PROTESTED   British General’s Policy Riles OWI  CONGRESS IRKED     London Also Swept by Resentment

DAVIS AROUSED AT GEN. ALEXANDER CENSORSHIP RULE   War Department Asked to Probe Restrictions on Uo S$. Reoarterc

Nuernberg Left Blazing Ruin After  Costly Raid by RAF, Swiss Report

FIGHT COSTS U.S. FORCES 8 AIRGRAF]   Enemy Loses 3 Destroyers and 4 Transports in New Attempt to Aid Beleaguered Troops.   THREE OTHER SHIPS ARE SET ON FIRE   Nips Trapped on Island Fight Desperately With Backs to Sea as Yanks. Close for Kill.

WARPLANES AND PI BUAIS VEFELAI JAPS  Ten Vessels From Eleven Ship Convoy Destroyed

Seven Vessels Destroyed in Action Off Leyte  50 ENEMY.-PLANES —— REPORTED DOWNED  Americans Consolidating Position at Ormoe

Three Destroyers, Four Transports Blasted by Yanks   50 Enemy Planes Downed in Battle

Leyte bound ships struck; 7 sent down  30 enemy planes riined hy Yanks

7 Are Sunk, Three Fired   Three Destroyers, Four Transports From Badly Needed Fleet Sent Down

Japs Lose 7 Ships Off Leyte Island   Three Destroyers, Four Transports Sunk By American:

WAGE DISPUTE OVER, UNIONS TELL STIMSON   -Three Holdout Unions Come To Terms

Non-op Unions Continue Battle  Negotiations to Be Resumed Monday

Halmehara Gets Record Bombing   Last Island Barrier Between MacArthur and Philippines Pounded.

Allies Bomb Halmahera Unchallenged   Destroy Eight Parked Planes, Sink Freighter

Halmahera Hit By Record — Bomb Load   Japs’ Pacific Base Under Heavy Attack By American Craft

Halmahera Raked by  Bombers   Last Island Barrier Before ‘Philippines Gets Knockout-Type Blows; Other Isles Hit

Last Isle Barrier Before  Philippines Again Bombed   Plane Hits School At Least 50 Killed

Yank Bombers “Pour lt On” ' At Halmahera   Gigantic Air Blows Struck At Last Islaud Burrier On Road to the Philippines

Halmahera Is Given Pasting ‘By U.S. Fliers S   Jap Planes Blasted and Freighter Sunk: Truk and Yap Blasied

Halmahera Kayo MacArthur's Aim   It’s Last Barrier To Philippines

Halinahera Ts Blasted By American Bombers   Last: [sland Barrier Between Gen. Douglas MacAr.thur And. The Philippines Is Target For. Record 49" M2. Rainhine

LEYTE COSTS JAPS 7 SHIPS, 90 AIRPLANES   Nipponese Transports And Destroyers Smashed In Desperate Landing Try By Enemy

3 Destroyer S, 4, Transports Sent Down —   Three Other Ships Hit: Japs Lose 50 Planes In Fight Over Convoy  VANKS TOSE FICHT

HiT CONVOY OFF LEYTE FOR EIGHTH TIME   Also 50 Enemy Planes Shot Down; Eight U.S. Planes Destroyed; Other Ships Sunk.   No Estimate

SEVEN-SHIP JAPANESE CONVOY DESTROYED OFF LEYTE ISLAND   Four Transports And Three Destroyers Smashed Try  ing To Reinforce Beleaguered Enemy Troop;   50 Nip Planes Also Shot Down In Action

AID CUT OFF FOR TRAPPED ISLAND ARMY   PLIGHT HOPELESS FOR NIPPONESE AROUND ORMOC

WPB Lifts Lid On Idle Metal   West Virginia, Put in Zone Likely Affected

EXCESS METALS TO BE RELEASED FROM WAR USE   Plans Well Advanced te Put Surpluses Into Civilian Goods  Manufacture

More women and chil‘dren forced into. industry by consistent gains of: Allies.   Allies Carried Own Coal To The Continent

POSTWAR POWER BILL PASSES   RIVER AND HARBOR BILL APPROVED BY SENATE

Marine Fliers Tell of Seeing Huge Jap Fleet in Harbor of Truk   By ist LT. PENN.T. KIMBALL, NEW BRITAIN, CONN, AND 2ad LT. WILLIAM HOLT, CLARKS RrIiw«: 6=6hohthlUlC(<“C HT CA

Marine Pilots Are First to See Truk   DARING, 2000 MILE RECONNAISSANCE MISSION REVEALED   By FIRST LIEUTENANT PENN T.  KIMBALL, New Britain, Conn., and  SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM Boat TT Clarlkehrnieveoe WW VY.

Eisenhower’s Crusaders   Invasion Shoulder Emblems Symboys Of Hope

REDS SINK TOTAL OF 88 NAZI SHIPS AT SEVASTOPOL   Germans Step Up Efforts to Stall Soviet War Machine  As Invasion Nears.

Decrease In War Spending Seen —   Reduction Possible © _ Wherr Germans Collapse

Compensation Official Says It’s Okay to Sleep on job Certain Times

FINNISH TROOPS. LOCKED IN BITTER FIGHT WITH REDS   Russians Report Enemy Is (Suffering Heavy Casualties ‘in Struggle 25 Miles From Viipuri.   TERRAIN HAMPERS SOVIET TANK UNITS   Moscow Tells of Capture of 8 Additional Strongpoints in Advances Along KareHan Isthmus.

Finns Throw Fresh Troops Against Reds  Nazis Wait For Attack In South

FRESH FINNISH TROOPS HURLED AGAINST REDS   Armies Are Locked In Mighty Struggle On Karel sam Vetere      SOVIETS CLAIM 3,000 KILLED IN FIGHTING

SOVIETS RACE THROUGH GAPS IN FINN LINES   ADVANCE REPORTED ABOUT 25 MILES FROM VIIPURI

Fresh Reserves Thrown’ Into Fight by Defenders; Reds Bomb German Fields

Fresh Finnish Troops in Action   Oppose Russians In Major Action

'Pioneer Barber. Taken By Death _J..W. Williams,  Former Resident Here

‘New Strife Hinted In Germany As ~ Telephone Connections Are Broker

INDICATE NEW STRIFE TODAY WITHIN REICH   Berlin Again Cut off From World  CONTIN U K PURGE  aan sn

Robot Bombs Beaten by Airmen and Army: Ratilo of London About Over, Capital Told

BELIEVE “BATTLE OF LONDON” OVER EXCEPT FOR POSSIBLE LAST FEW SHOTS

2900 Airmen Killed, 450 Planes Lost Battle for London Is Ended Except for’’Last Few Shots’

Allied Secrecy. Surrounding. . German Flying Bombs Lifted; Over 5,000:Killed In Britain -

Battle Of Londow Over; Robot Bomb Menace Ended  British Pay Tribute To Aid Given By U.S.; 2,900 Allied Airmen And 450 Planes Lost

Reveals London Virtually Free - - Of Robot Raids   Menace Seen ,Ended By Better Defense, Circling O£ Rocket Bomb Coast

Lights ‘to Go"  On in London   2,900 Allied Airmen Loat in Rohot Campaign

ROBOT BATTLE IS ABOUT OVER   Last Few Shots May Be Fired; Defense Measures Lessened Effectiveness

Robot Threat Almost Ended,  London Says   Peak Of Danger Well Past. Sandys Reports; Total Casualties High

Says Battle Of London Is Over    Allied Advance Along. Rocket Coast and Other Counter Measures Virtually End Robot War

ROCKET COAST VICTORY ENDS 80-DAY SIEGE   ‘Battle of London Over Except for a Few Shots’—Sandys

MENACE OF BUZZ BOMBS ENDED BRITAIN IS TOLD  Klaas Prataile af Atteacel bu Dahate   New Details of Attack by Robots Revealed Today by Defense Chief

2900 ALLIED AIRMEN DIE FIGHTING ROBOTS   BATTLE OF LONDON OVER EXCEPT FOR FEW SHOTS SANDYS SAYS, DISCLOSING CAMPAIGN ON BOMBS

LONDON BOMBING VIRTUALLY OVER   MORE THAN 5,000 BRITONS KILLED BY NAZI ROBOTS

 Briton’s Told Battle Fo: ; London Ended “Exeept Possibly for Last  Few Shots” {  1 GNA Alceesrnce Ann   2,900 Airmen Are Lost In Defenss   Five Thousand in England Killed; Air Losses Be. gan With Attacks on Launching Coasta

2,900 Allied Airmen Lost In Campaign: Blackouts To End In 10 Days

FLYING BOMB BATTLE? OVER        NINETY PER CENT ‘OF CASUAL. TIES SUFFERED IN LONDON  ARRA—BLACKOUT™ To.  BE LIFTED .”

Robot Menace To Britain Now Virtually Ended; Government Discloses Details of Attacks   Battle of London Declared Over; Heavy Toll During Campaign Listed.

NAZIS REPORT RUSSIANS IN GREECE            Elimination Of Hitler’s Robot Bomb Menace Cheers Britons

ROBOT MENACE FINALLY ENDED   Britain Will Lift Blackout Sept. 17; Toll Revealed at 10,000

Disclose How Allies Halted Robot Blows   Battle of London Now Ended Except for Last Few Shots

Robot Bombs Kill 2,900 Allied Airmen; 5,000. Britishers In 18: ‘Months -

‘Battle of London Over:’ Details of Robot Attacks   Fighters Bagged 1,900.

LONDON BOMB SIEGE ENDING   Only 2,300 of 8,000 Nazi Robots Managed to Reach England

Reveal More Than 5,000 Killed By Nazi Robot Bombs   Secrecy Surrounding Flying Bomb Ended; 14,000 Reported Injured, 2,900 Allied Airmen Lost

Battle of Robots Practically Over, Londoners Told   2,900 Airmen, 450 Planes  Tact Mare than £890 Lowdone   2,900 Airmen, 450 Planes Lost, More than 5,800 Londoner: Billed.

WHERE TO FIND [T   ' Battle Of London’ Ends With Victory Over Robot Bombs!

2,900 AIRMEN LOST FIGHTING ROBOT BOMBS   Menace Of Vengeance Weapon Virtually Ended

Credits U. S. With Leading Role In Ending German Robot Attacks   Secrecy Surrounding Flying Bomb Lifted Toda: When It Is Revealed That Over 5,000 Killed; 17,000 Homes Destroyed.

Robots Battle Is Won   LIGHTS COMING ON AGAIN IN BRITAIN SEPTEMBER 17

LONDON ROBOT BATTLE AT END   Only 2,300 Of 8,000 Bombs Reach Capital—Yanks Win British Praise

LONG BATTLE OF LONDON IS OVER   British Spokesman Warmly Thanks U.S for Assistance

SAYS BATTLE OF LONDON IS ABOUT OVER   2,900 Airmen and 450 Planes Lost and 5,000 Persons Killed ‘by Ro‘bots, British Official Reveals.

LONDON BATTLE 1S ABOUT OVER, LEADERS STATE   Last Few Shots May Be Felt By Bombings

PANEL CONVENES AT DAYTON ON DISPUTE OF PHONE WORKERS   Company Charges Union Rejected $3 Basic Weekly Boost

Jap Supply Lines Dealt Heavy Blows   173 Ships And 501 Planes Destroyed

173 Ships And 501 Planes Destroyed In Mid-Philippines By Third Fleet   COMBAT IS REFUSED — BY ENEMY AIR FORCE

Wallace Group Views Douglas As Chief Riva   Vice-President’s Backers Also Watching Byrnes, Truman And Rayburn

FAVOR DOUGLAS  FOR 2ND PLACE   JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT CHIEF RIVAL OF HENRY WALLACE

JUSTICE DOUGLAS 1S DECLARED PRINCIPAL RIVAL OF WALLACE  BARKLEY, RAYBURN, TRU MAN AND BYRNES VICE

DOUGLAS MAY BE RUNNING MATE GF PPFS ROOSEVELT   Truman, Byrnes, Barkley and  - Rayburn Also Pictured as Logical Contenders, For Vice-Presidency.   F.D.R. REMAINS SILENT. ON PERSONAL CHOICE   Followers of Wallace Have An Idea That A Definite, Open Drive In Progress Favors Judge Douglas.

DOUGLAS CONSIDERED THREAT TO WALLACE   Barkley, Truman, Rayburn. Byrnes Seen In Running

Justice Douala: Seen As Rival To Wallace  Others Mentioned In Discussion Of FDR Running-Mate

Wallace Supporters Predict Justice Douglas Is Second Choice Of FDR For Partner

WALLACE BACKERS WATCH DOUGLAS   Court Justice Expected Ta Be Chief Rival At the Convention

DOUGLAS NAMED ‘AS CHIEF RIVAL (OF MR WALLACE   No Organized Plans Are Yet in Evidence for the Vice Presidency

Wallace Eyes His Rivals for Vice President   Douglas Held Chief Opponent For Nomination

VICE PRESIDENCY -(SDEMO PROBLEM      Douglas, Barkley, Rayburn Likely Rivals of > Wallace.

DOUGLAS CALLED WALLACE RIVAL   Mild Endorsement From President Expected

CORRUPT POLITICAL MACHINES ALLIED WITH ADMINISTRATION BRICKER SAYS IN NEW JERSEY

BRICKER FLAYS C10'S ‘POLITICS   Demands Congress Acts To Stop Committee Activity

Inner Defense Line Believed German Myth   Aerial Observers Find No Indications That Germans Have Built Inland Fortifications

West Eront: Wide Open      No Fixed Nazi Fortifications Short of The German Border

Flights Show Nazi Home Defense Weak   Talk of Firm Lines Is Found to Be Sheer Propaganda

Reconnaissance Shows No Major Nazi Defenses in  France: Short:of Maginot

West Front Ripped Wide Open By U.S  Army Forces   Germans Apparently Have No Coherent System Of Fixed Fortifications

Believe France Has No Fortified Lines   But Germans Are Expected to Put Up Big Fight in Retreat

Doubt Inland  Nazi Defense Enemy Talk Believed  Ta Re Prannnnanda

GERMANS’ BIG FORTIFICATION IS BIG BLUFF   Allies Have No Trouble; New  Gains Made

GERMAN DEFENSES BELIEVED MOBILE   Yank Break in Normandy Rips Western Front Wide Open

AMERICAN SUCCESSES RIP WESTERN FRONT   Maginot and Siegfried Lines First Organized Resistance Barriers to the East

Ickes’ Move To Defer Men Draws Attack   Congress Says White Collar Men In Department Should Be tn Service

Ickes’ Deferment Policies Rapped  ‘House Committee Flays Interior Department

Departinent Faces Objections to Deferment Policy  House Says Situatior Must Be Cleared In Interior Division

RAP DEFERMENTS IN INTERIOR DEPT.   HOUSE COMMITTEE ASSERTS SITUATION MUST BE ELIMINATED

House Raps Draft Policy Of Ickes Bureau   Interior Funds Are Reduced by Committee Action

Ickes Is Hit é: For Draft Act      His Office Help Is Being Deferred

DRAFT DEFERMENT POLICIES INTERIOR DEPARTMENT TARGET  MATTER HOLDING DRAFT  AGE WEN BLASTED IN

HIT INTERIOR DRAFT POLICY   APPROPRIATION GROUP SUBMITS BILL KEPORT

Deferments Draw Fire   Interior Department Full of ‘Draftable‘ Men, Solons Charge

DRAFT DELAYS IN INTERIOR DEPT RAPPED   Immediate Elimination Is Demanded by House Group

Committee Hits Deferments For Ickes’ Workers   Many Nonessential, Says Report; Department Budget Slashed.

Interior Dept.’s Draft Deferment Rules Draw Fire   Committee Asserts Situation Must Be Eliminated At Once

Interior Dept. Flayed on Draft Deferment Policy   House Appropriation Committee Slashes Funds, Says Indian Bureau Needs Overhauling

Ickes Draft Policy Under  House Fire   Interior Department Is Criticized For Holding White Collar Men

ISSUE CALL FOR BOYS TO WORK   Detasselers Wanted In Taylor County .

COUNTY-WIDE REPUBLICAN ___ RALLY IN WELLSBORO SATURDAY   State Candidates Will Attend Dinner Meeting At Penn-Wells Hotel And Public Rally At The Arcadia Theatre.

ITY-WIDE DEWEY RALLY HERE ON SATURDAY EVENING   Candidates to Attend Dinner Meeting and Speak at Public Rally at Arcadia Theatre.

JAS. COLLENBAUGH RITES ANNOUNCED   Funeral Services Will Be Held From Residence Thursday

Americans Drive On Bologna Road   Stiff Resistance Continues in Italy

Yanks Advance Mile In Italy In Hard bieht   Germans Resist Bitterly In Contested Road Leading To Bologna

DRIVE MILE AHEAD ~ AGAINST HEAVY FIRE      Fight Bitterly to Within 14 Miles of Bologna, Vital Center.

Yanks {4 Miles - From: Bologne   Gain. Another Mile. In Northern Italy

VIOLENT BATTLE ON BOLOGNA ROAD   DOUGHBOYS ATTACK ENTRENCHED NAZIS 14 MILES FROM CITY

YANKS ADVANCE A MILE ON ITALIAN ROAD TO BOLOGNA   Fifth Army Forces Face Fierce Fire From Reinforced Nazi Defenders—Now Only 14 Miles From That City

MOVE UP A MILE   Fifth Army in Italy Meets Violent Fire From Germans

FIFTH ARMY GAINS UNDER HEAVY FIRE   Troops Push Forward a Mile Against Violent Opposition From Germans on Bitterly Contested Bologna Road.

CLARK'S TROOPS PUSH NAZISBACK   Advance Mile Against Heavy German Fire

U.S. Troops In Italy Gain Mile In Violent Fighting   Now Within Sight Of Bologna in Battle For Important Highway

oth Army Gains A Mile Against Violent Fire   ‘Reinforced & Entrench ed Germans Contest   Bitterly Qn Road To  Bologna. °

Yankees Gain  Mile In Italy   ‘Fifth Army Drives. Against Violent. Fire

Fifth Army  Fights Ahead   Advance Mile Against Violent Enemy Fire In Bologna Sector

VE UP A MILE   ILE BOMBERS ARE BUS}   Fifth Army in Italy Meets Violent Fire From Germans

Yanks Gain In Italian Drive   Battle Way Forward Against Germans Using Heavy Artillery Fire

JAP ATROCITY STORIES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES, GENERAL M‘ARTHUR SAYS

REDS CLOSING “BUDAPEST TRAP   ANOTHER RATEROAD CENTER TAKEN AS PARIS RADIO SAYS SOVIET TROOPS ARE IN CITY

‘Ancient Senate Gavel Reinforced; Wallace’s ‘Stand-Ins’ Too Rough

Session Of Congress Which Recently Came To End Must Have Been Tough; Even The Gavel Couldn't Take It

VETERANS MAY FILE IN ROSELAND FOR MUSTERING-OUT PAY   May Obtain Application Blanks at Emoloyment Office Here

LASALLE OFFICE HELPS VETERANS GET BONUS PAY   U. 8. Employment Office Prepared To Assist Men And Women To Obtain Mustering-Out Pay Authorized By Congress.

‘Must Announce U. S. ‘Farm Goals Soon  The WFA Task Is to Balance Needs Against

Farm Goals May Be Less for Next Yea   Changing Conditions May Bring Some Cut in Production

State Dept. Denies Rumor Related ‘By Magnuson That Japs Tricked U. S. ‘Into Placing Fleet In Pearl Harbor

More Than 25,000 Germans Isolated by American Drive To West Coast of Peninsula’   Nazis Hurled Back With Heavy Losses in New Attempt te Break Out of Trap;. One Enemy Division [s Cut ?e Pieces

Huge Force Of Germans   Heldin Trap   Gen. Bradley Prepares For ‘Next Step’ in Peninsula Drive

FIVE-STAR RANK GIVEN TO SEVEN   Top Field And Flee Chiefs Boosted To New Ratings

Two Million Troops Battle in Possible Last European Fight   U.S. First, Ninth Units Deepen Wedge in Siegfried Line while Driving Toward Cologne

U.S. Troops Score Gain Of Two Miles   Mighty Aerial Assault Supports Ground Forces

Gains Are Made Along 400 Miles Of Muddy Front   Wedge Deepened In Siegfried Line By Ist and 9th

2,000,000 Troops Believed In Battle On 400-Mile Line   J.S. First, Ninth Armies Fight Shoulder To Shoulder And Deepen Wedge In Siegfried Defense; Great Air Blow Paves Way For Ground Forces

Yankee W edges In Siegfr ied Line Deepened   At Least 10 German Towns Swept Up In Advances Of One to Two Miles Toward Cologne   British Capture Wessen On Maas   Two Million Men Engaged On Both Sides In What May Be Last Great Baitle for Germany

WHAT MAY BE LAST GREAT BATTLE IN WESTERN EUROPE RAGES OVER 400 MILES BY 2 MILLION MEN

British Second Army on American's Left Flank Capture Wessem on the Maas Below Roermond in Holland

Battle May Be Last— On Western Front; 2 Million In Fight   Air Unit Supports Each U. S. Army; Reds Cut Main Nazi: Defense; ~ Germans: Withdrawing: In‘ Italy:

Two Million Men Battle Alona Front   Wedge In Siegfried Line Deepened By First and Ninth

First, Ninth Armies Deepen Wedge In Siegfried Line from Cologne to Rhine with Greatest Air Support

2 Millions Are Engaged In Contest Alone F vont   ‘Battles Now Raging May: Decide Struggle

German Armies Withdrawing At Several Points   Nazis Apparently Surprised by Attack. May Be Last Battle

Gains Reported In Various Areas   First and Ninth Make Advances of From One to Two Miles—British Second Army Reaches Maas Bend-—Germans Apparently Caught Off Balance

BIG GAINS ARE REPORTED TODA’ AGAINST NAZIS   Six Armies Able To Advance On  Western Front

German Defenders Near Breaking Point; Yanks Mop-up in Saarlautern

Americrn First and — Ninth Also Dig Deeper  Into German Territory   HEAVY ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACKING ~ REICH TODAY AFTER NIGHT ATTACKS   BRITISH SECOND ARMY, STRIKING FROM EASTERN HOLLAND, IS ONE-HALF MILE OR LESS FROM GERMAN RORDER.

Third Army Is. Nearing Its Complete Conquest Of Sanarlantern .    AMERICAN NINTH ARMY IS MASSING STRENGTH ON ROER   Our Seventh Army Hits Germans On Eastern TipOf France

Expect No Change In Beet Support   Announced °45 Plan For  Sugar Program Remains

YANKS BATTLE NAZIS INPISA   Street Fighting In Progress Other Allies Close In on Florence

STREET BATTLE STARTS IN PISA   Leading Elements Of U. S Fifth Army Enter City

BATTLE NOW: UNDERWAY “FOE  _ HISTORIC ITALIAN -CITY—  STEADY ADVANCE TO.  . WARD . FLORENCE .

STORM PORT 1,500 MILES. FROM JAPAN   Troops Affect Landings on Jap Territory in Face of Heavy Opposition.   WARSHIPS, PLANES SUPPORT ATTACKERS   Nimitz Says Casualties  Are Light. Nip Positions Battered Five Days _By Fleet.

Report a Landing In the Marianas   Tokyo Radio Says Allied Task Force is at Saipan And Tinian   TROOPS PUT. ASHORE   Japanese Account Asserts First Landing Attempt Was. Defeated

Americans Surge Ahead In Vicious Fighting Near Cherbourg   Yank Infantry And Airborne Units, Supported By Tanks, Drive Withtin 6 Miles Of Last Link To Port: British Lose Troarn

Possession Of Island Places American Planes Within Striking Range Of Rising Sun Territory

Powerful Naval Task Force Operating 1,500 : a Miles from Tokyo Lands Troops in Mariana Group, Making 1,000 Mile Advance Westward :  Across Pacific

Report Marianas Landings   Tokyo Says First Landing Attempt Beaten Off And Second Is Meeting “Heavy Punishment”

t CAIPAN (SLANL   Troops Swarming Ashore As Warships Bombard Jap Positions.   CARRIERS TAKING PART

Tokyo Within 1,900 Miles (f New Base   Saipan Island Scene Of Bitter Fight After Bombardments

Yanks Repulse Nazi Attacks   New Allied Drive Threatens Last Rood Link Between Port and France; Heavy German Armored Blows Perried by U.S.

Chinese Say Japs Used Poison Gas at Kweilin  Enemy Announces New Assault Aaainst Key City

Locket Chain © Is Factor In  Bluffs Slaying   27-Year-Old Woman Is Found Dead_ Shortly After Leaving Dance

To South Bank: of River   Artillery Comes to  Support of Sky Troops  Holding On North Side; 1 Rattle Rises in Furv .

SlashThrough Nazi Barriers To Advance   Fierce Nazi Blows Present Obstacles; Berlin Road in View

SUPPORT GIVEN ISOLATED UNIT BY ARTILLERY   Swirling, See-Saw Battle Rages On Escape Route

ONE FORCE Of PARATROOPS RESCUED   Artillery Support Is Given “Lost Division”   GERMAN ATTACK   Cuts Eindhoven- Nijmegen Road: Stolberg Taken By U. S. First Army

Guns Turned Or Nazis Battering Airborne Unit   “Rescue Road” Cut By Germans During See-Saw Battle

‘Germans Cut “Rescue Road’, See-Saw Battle Rages Along Relief Route Below Arnhem

Nazis Cut “Rescue Road”; Battie - for. Germany is Fierce   Americans Suffer Reverses as Pitched Fighting Rages

Forces Strike Out To Support Isolated British Airborne Division Holding River Objective.   BRITISH TANK UNIT ADVANCES SIX MILES

GREAT BATTLE UNDERWAY NEAR ARNHEM SECTOR   British Armor Is Below City In Six Mile Push

Brifish Armor Slashes Through To Rhine Bank  Drive Eases Situation   Drive Eases Situation Described Friday Night as ‘Critical’

Germans Cut Rescue Road Behind Tanks   See:Saw Battle Roars Along Narrow Corridor—Fighting Bitter on Whole Front

Open Artillery Fire To Support Air Unit In Holland Pocket   See-Saw Battle Rages Along Eindhoven - Nijmegen Road; Yanks Inch Ahead in Germany

Yank Chutists Bolster Drive On Vital Town   Ground Troops Slash Six Miles Forward To Relieve Airborne Pocket; Germans Cut Eindhoven-Nijmegen ‘Rescue Road’

Others Still Isolated At Arnhem; American Forces Suffer Reverses

CRUCIAL BATTLE RAGES FIERCELY AT RUHR GATE   Outcome May Determine Fate Of Western Front: Nazis Fight Fanatically

Reached Southern Bank” of Rhine Branch Opposite .. Arnhem. 2   Roared Ont for Isolated British Air-Borne Division North of River.

Germans - Slash “Rescue Road’   British Armor and Yank Paratroopers Hac} Way to South Bank of River Opposite Arnhem—Guns Bring Support to Hemmex In Division -— Position Vastly Eased

Yankees Take Wide Stretch Of Roer River   Clear Weather May Bring War Crisis, Speed Ally Vietary

Patton’s Troops Hit Saarlauten   German Lines Continue to Sag Deeply as Improving Weather Prepares Americans for Bigger Attacks on Enemy Saar, Roer Posts

Field Mice Eat Rubber Off Tractor Tires; Sympathy of OPA Is Aroused

Naval Ships ‘Fo Be Triple Total of 1940   Vill Number 1,149  When Destroyer Escort Is Launched August 18  GROWTH CONTINUES IN NAVY'S AIR ARM  Indicated Strength Of All Types Planes Now at Least. 35.000

Navy Triples Fleet Strength   Completion of Destroyer Escort Sets Fast Building Record.

GAP MADE IN SIEFRIED LINE   Yanks Pouring Through Break That Threatens to Carry to Rhine.

BritishIndignant Over Pravda ‘Peace’ Story   Strongly Worded Denial Brought . To Attention of Red Government

PRAVDA PEACE STORY BRANDED LIE BY BRITAIN   » Official Denial Being Presented To Red Government

Source Of Story Still A Mystery   Dispatch On Alleged Peace Parley Did Not Go Through Cairo, Say Censors There

BRIT. SENDS ITS DENTAL TO MOSCOW   'Go’vt Disclaims Any Knowledge of Separate Peace —

TOLD STORY IS UNTRUE   Contusion Reigns In Russian Capital Over Paper Story

BRITISH DENY RUSSIAN REPOR} OF PEACE TALKS   Tell Kremlin Story False

BRITAIN SENDS NOTE T0 KREMLIN ON PEACE REPORT   London Denies Any Parley On Issue With Germany

Censors of Cairo Express Ilonorance   British Press Indignant That Moscow Paper Shonld Doubt Intentions of Ally

No Peace Move Made.  Say British   Russian Report Sharply Denied By Foreign Office; Diplomats Stirred

Separate Peace Rumors   Ked Army Closes in on Rovno: London Upset by Peace Reports

Pravda Dispatch “Ludicrous” Says  Foreign Office   Separate Peace Terms With Germany Never Discussed, Is Claim

ENGLISH PRESS SOUNDS CHORUS OF INDIGNATION   ‘Greatest Confusion’ in Moscow Follows Story by Pravda

Brifain is Sending Strongly Worded Denial to Moscow on Pravda Story

Britain Denies Russian Peace Parley Report   Pravda Story of Alleged Meeting Called Ludicrous

CONFUSION HITS MOSCOW AS THE RESULT OF REPOR]   Eden to Reiterate Britain’: Unconditionat Surrender Stand.

Japs Are Duped, Out-Maneuvered By American ‘End Run’ in Marshalls

U. S. INDUSTRIES TURNED OUT 85,000 PLANES LAST YEAR; ALSO 568 WARSHIPS, WPB CHIEF REPORTS

PARAMUSHIRO RAIDED AGAIN   Knox Says Strength Of Americans In Pacific Growing

PLANES RETURN * SAFELY 10 BASES   Other Bombers Attack Three @ Jap Bases in Marshails   AMERICANS ADVANCE   Expand Invasion Hold on Los Negros; Enemy Positions On Maus Isle Hit

British Head Says Japan Might Fall Sooner After Germany Than We Expect

JAPANESE LOS! 9,172 TROOPS IN CAMPAIGN   Situation In China Grows Increasingly Serious   RESIDENTS   Begin To Leave Manila As Result Of U. S. Carrier Raid, Tokyo Says

Take New Palau Islands   Three More of Group Seized By Invading U.S. Forces Against _Jneffective Resistance

MORE PALAU ISLETS TAKEN BY MARINES   Nine Jap-held Islands in Southern Palaus Are Now in Hands of American Forces.

Three More Palau Islands Seized By U. S. Forces   Tokyo Reports Many Evacuating Manila; Japs Gain in China

THREE ADDITIONAL PALAU ISLANDS IN HANDS OF AMERICANS  TOKYO REPORTS EXODUS OF MANILA RESIDENTS IS UNDER WAY

3 PALAU ISLETS BAGGED IN NEW YANK LANDINGS   Tokyo Says Many Residents Begin To Leave Manila As Result Of Raids

3 MORE PALAU ISLES FALL 10 YANK INVADERS   Japanese Troops Close In On Three Vital U. S. Bases In China

Yanks Seize Three More  ~ Palau Islands   Capture New Air Field ir Fight For Bases Neat Philippines

Yanks Now Hold 9 Palau Islands   Three More Are Occupied in Swiftly Executed  Landings  MANITA FEFARS RAINS      MANILA FEARS RAIDS   Japanese Forces Menace - American Air Bases ~ in China

Leathernecks Take Over Three More Nipponese Islands in Palau Group

YANKS CAPTURE 3 MORE ISLANDS OF PALAU GROUP   Marines Grab Key Air Base on Ngesebus Isle in New Attacks

Yanks Occupy Three More Palau Islands  American Bombers .Chalk Up 17

Three New Palau Islets "In US Hands   Jap Death Toll in Southern  _ Palaus Rises to 9,772; Many Residents Reported Leaving Manila

Three More Palau Islets Seized to Protect Airstrip  Japs Draw Cleser io American   Japs Draw Cleser to American Air Bases in China; Residents Flee Manila

Three Palau Islets in Yank Hands   Jap Guns Draw Closer to  Major American Bases in China

ISLANDS FALL TO AMERICANS   Jap Guns More Menacing To Bases of Yanks In China

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Germans’ Vosges Line Breached In Long Drive   Weisweiler Taken By Allied Troops

(sermans reeling on wide line   Vosges mountain wall is breached

MAKE 10-MILE DRIVE THROUGH VOSGES PASSES   Battle Of Undiminished Fury Rages All Along —  Front; Weisweiler :  Captured

Germans Are Driven from Height Near Hurt- — _ aen Forest   ARMIES OF ALLIES DRIVING STEADILY   Two Saar Towns Are Seiz: ed by. the. Third . ¢ Army _

4. U.S. Armies Smash Along   Battles. of Undiminished Fury Raging All. Alona-Line

Yanks Take Weisweiler On Highway To Cologne    Ground Forces Aided By U. S. Air Forces But Nazis Continue Desnerate Resistance   RHINE FLATS REACHED

Allies Advancing To New Positions On 60-Mile Front   Americans, French And British Gain

GREAT WEDGE BLASTED OUT NEAR CASSINO   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS SLUG AHEAD

British About To Achieve  Big Success ©   Penetration of Nazi Gustav Line Termed ‘Significant Breach’

French In Thick Of Fighting On Front   Trapped German Troops Face Choice of Being Annihilated Or Surrendering To Allied Force

Yanks and French Shred Lower Half Of Nazi Defense Line; 60 Square Miles Are Taken in Drive

British 8th Gains South Of Cassino   “Break-Through There Appears Imminent As Whole Line Totters  FRENCH TAKE GIORGIO

British Threaten Break-Through  in Cassino Sector   Fifth and Eighth Army Troops Slug Doggedly Foreward to New Positions in Bitter Pureauniare

Break-Through by British 8th Army Appears Imminent  LIRI VALLEY TOWN REPORTED SEIZED  Across Bridges of Rapido, War Machinery Moves 7 — Swiftly

Sixty Square Miles of Land Fall to Fifth, Eighth Armies Since Opening of New Push

PENETRATION OF ENEMY’S STRONGLY - HELD GUSTAV LINE DEVELOPS INTO “SIGNIFICANT BREACH”.

ALLIES RIP DEFENSES ON LEFT FLANK   French Enter San Giorgio and Yanks Press To+ ward Spigno After Break-Throuch. ~       8TH ARMY GAINS  IN CASSINO ARE;            British Deepen Bridg head.- Across Rapido’ ‘to More Than Mile Fichtine Bitter.

Allies Gain 60 Square Miles In 4-Day Battle   British Appear Ready To Break Through in Area Below Cassino;  French Capture Town

SOVIETS SMASH 25 MILES OVER CZECH BORDER   Russians Also Cross PreWar Hungarian Frontier  . In Pincers Movement   BALTIC SEAPORT OF PALDISKI CAPTURED

Russian army advances 25 miles into Czechoslovakia  Cross Hungarian border; red navy takes Paldiski in bold Baltic action

SOVIET NAVY FORCES TAKE BALTIC POR)   Red Army Forces Drive 25 Miles Inside Czechoslovakia

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Bucharest Announces Russians and Romanians Advance into. Hungary

Russian Forces Cross Hungarian Czech Frontiers   Pincers Movement Is Aim ed af Knocking Hungary Out of War

Typhoon Aids the Pacific Fleet in Raids on Formosa, Ryukvu Isles

“See Here, Private Hargrove’   Electric Theatre Saturday and Sunday

CHAPLIN'S CASE GIVEN TO JURY   Judge Charges Jurors Any One Of Four Verdicts Possible In Actor’s Mann Act Cacao

JURY CHARGED IN CHARLIE CHAPLIN MANN ACT TRIAL   TOLD TO DECIDE IF TRIP TO NEW YORK WAS FOR IMMORAL PURPOSES

Jurors in Chaplin Trial Instructed  by Federal Judge   Provision of Mann Act Explained as Case Nears Its Climax

Chaplin’s Case Goes to Jury   Four Verdicts Possible Under the Judge's Instruc tions.

Jury Given Chaplin Case   Judge Gives Jury Four Verdicts in Case Against Actor

Judge Charges Chaplin Jury  Draws Careful Lines In Mann Act Trial

Chaplin Case Is Placed In Hands Of Jury   Any Of Four Verdicts Possible Under Court’s  Instructions.

Chaplin Fate Delivered to Jury's Hands   Seven Women, Five Men Ponder Guilt of Comedian

CHAPLIN CASE GIVEN TO JURY   JUDGE INSTRUCTS ON PROVISIONS OF THE MANN ACT

Jury Retires For Verdict On Chaplin   Seven Women and Five Men Compose Federal Jury

Jury Ponders Chaplin Fate   Judge Gives Final Instructions on Mann Act Charges

Five Soldiers At One Field Receive Mother’s Dav Greetinos: No Gao

Fortresses, Liberators Hammer At Brunswick   Strong Formations Of U.S. Planes Attack Center Of German Airplane Industry

Great American Bomber Armada Thunders Back Over German Territory

AMERICAN FLIERS HIT BRUNSWICK   Germans Say Force Turned Back From Berlin in Air Battle —~Aircrolt Bests Bit

GREAT FLEETS U.S. BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   Aircraft Industries at Brunswick Attacked and  Major Air  Battle Is Can ae

{, 5. BOMBERS STRIKE BERLIN IN DAY RAID   ang Report Blow at Cap ‘and Warn People of Other Attacks.

Big American Bombers Over Reich Capital   Attack Not Confirmed Im mediately: Berlin Radios Warn Nation of Approaching Raiders

Nazis Repori Air Battles Are Fought   American Air Fleet Returns To Bombard: Reich

U. S. Bomber: Hit Again At Brunswick   Fortresses and Liberators Provoke Luftwaffe Into First Major Aerial Fight of Month; Other Planes Raid Nazi Airfields

REICH CLAIMS SMASHING OF BERLIN BLOW   Broadcast Declares Strong Formations Of Yanks Sent Against Capital

Nazis Report: Attempt to Raid Berlin   Attack No t,.. Conf irmed Immediately by U.S. Air Headquarters

GIG AIR BATTLE OF THIS MONT   Brunswick Aircraft Indus tries Are Main Targets Of Today’s Raid.   OTHER TARGETS ARE HIT

GREAT FLEETS U. §. BOMBERS BLAST n NAZI OBJECTIVES   GERMAN AIRFORCE PRDVOKED INTO FIRST MAJOR AIR FIGHT THIS MON

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS IN RAND ON BERLIN AGAIN?   German Broadcast Reported Heavy Loss to American Bombers.   RAID NOT CONFIRMED   The Capital Was Last Attacked by the Americans on : March 22.

Report Yank Bombers Over Reich Today   Beaten Back In Attempt to Raid Berlin, Nazis Claim

NAZIS REPORT BERLIN ATTACK   Germans Claim Allies Suffer Huge Air Defeat

Germans Report a PreEaster Blow at Berlin   American Attackers Suffer One of Heaviest Defeats. Nazis Claim

New Fighting: Flares In Strife-Torn Athens      Elas Launch Attacks Against Center Of Capital Even As Leaders Debate British Orders To Cease Fighting’: i

ELAS ASSAULT DEFIES BRITISH   Greek Rebel Leaders Are Pondering Order From British To Cease Firing.

NEW ELAS RAIDS FAIL IN ATHENS   British Commander Offers Peace Terms

ELAS Renews Athens Attack   Assault on British Barracks Fails—Stop Firing Order Debated

Athens-Feels Heavy Attack ELAS Troops   Unsuce essful  Aseault / Launched While Leaders Debate British Cease Firing Orders

Scobie Awaits ELAS Rep!y   Siage Strong But Unsuccessful Attacks During Night In Athens.

Greeks Keep Up Attacks   ‘Leaders. Reported Wevering But Eles Troops Continue Fighting in Athens

DEBATE ORDER TO END BATTLE   Broadcast From Athens De clares Further British Reinforcements Have   Gone Into Action  CHIFES ARE WAVERING

ELAS TROOPS STAGE STRONG ATTACKS ON CENTER OF ATHENS   BRITISh GENERAL SCOBIE’S TERMS TO GREEKS NOT YET MET

ELAS UNITS ARE PRESSING FIGHT   British Terms To Cease Fir ing in Greece Still Not Acted Upon

Greek Rebels Still Attack   Fighting In Athens Continues As Leaders Studv British Terms.

GREEKS STILL ATTACKING AT ATHENS CENTEF   Leaders of Revolt Debate Over British Uultimatum That They Cease Firing Weapons.

Night Attacks Made by Greek Rebels   British Barracks Are Subjected to Strongest Assault

Central Athens Target Of Raids _By ELAS Troops   Heavy Assaults Reported Even As Party Leaders Study British Proposal

British Await Peace Reply From ELAS   Rebel Troops in Greece Continue Strong At tacks Against Athens

GREEK REBELS ATTACK ATHENS   Leftist Lead ers Debate British Order To Stop Fighting

ELAS HITS ATHENS AS BRITAIN WARNS   Orders To Stop Bring Attack On English Barracks

GREEK PEACE — PACT STUDIED BY EAM HEADS   Firing Continues Despite British Cease-Fire Order

ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN ITALY MAKES GAINS; GERMANY MAY WITHDRAW TO ADOLPH HITLER LINE FOR FINALE   H. G. Wells, Noted British Author Sees Hitler As Lignatic and Would Oppose His Execution at End Of War As That Would Make Him A Martyr

TODAY   ilure of Allies to Go hrough to Rome ill Create Reperussions “Far-Reach-oe { onsecuences

BATTLE E TOLL ~~ I$ REVEALED      ‘U.S. FLEET. LOSSES: In” BATTLE FOR PHILIPPINES LISTED AS ONE. CARRIER, TWO ESCORT CARRIERS, TWO DESTROYERS AND DESTROYER ESCORT— , WARSHIPS 4 AND CARRIERS: STIL PURSUING é 2 BLEEING. JAP§ 2 at   BC ANTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

NIPS BLAST YANK SMALL CARRIERS AND DESTROYERS   Two-Thirds of Enemy’s Sea Forces Believed Sunk Off Philippines

Navy Announces Cost of Victory   Five More Combat Ships Are Sunk In Addition to Carrier, Princeton

iU. 8S. Loses Five : Combat Ships in .-. \ Battle of Philippines

TWO-THIRI,, OF NIP WARS diPS SUNK, DAMAGED   British, Canadians Threaten To Drive Huns From Western Holland   JAP DEFENSES STORMED   MacArthur’s Troops Drive Ahead On Both Leyte And Samar Islands

GOP Only Eight Votes Behind    Representatives [n  House Almost Tied

G.0.P. Wins Two Seats in House   Democratic Lead Cut to Eight Votes

Democratic Majority in House Cut   Republicans Make Clean Sweep in Penn. Elections

POPE REFUSES TO LEAVE ROME   GERMAN STATEMENT INDICATES NAZIS INTEND TO DEFEND THE CAPITAL..

Pope Refuses To Heed Nazi Warning That Rome Will Be Scene of Battle

POPE REFUSING TO LEAVE ROME   Germans Reported to Warn Spiritual Head of War Peril

RUSSIAN-NAZI TROOPS BATTLE IN PSKOV TODAY   Reds Have Advanced to Outskirts of Vital German Communications Base

Qutstanding World Events of Day Are Told Briefly by AP   News From Scenes of Conflict Paragraphed For Readers

Counter-Revolf In Argentina Is Reporfed Quelled   Ramirez's Friend Fails to Recover Government Control!

Military Coup In Argentina Fails, Repor   Pro-Axis Dictator Farrell Puts Down ArmyNavy Revolt

U. 5. Concernec Over Argentina  Farrell Says:Revolt _ Has Been. Sauelehed.

Argentina Is Restive After Army Revolt   Nazis Bombard Anzio Heavily— Russians Fight in Outskirts of Pskov

WAS LED BY A FRIEND OF GEN, RAMIREZ   Troops Were Involved in Latest Latest Trouble at Buenos Aires. U.S. Takes Grave View   Rw ASSOCIATED PRESS

Suppress Argentine Revolt .   Strictest Censorship : Chokes Off News of Latest Flare-Up; Report Navy Involved

NEW REVOLT IN ARGENTINE . 1S SQUELCHED   Ger mans s Exert, Heavy. ‘Pressure On Fifth Army.

FARRELL ARGENTINE  GOVERNMENT HAS PUI  DOWN NEW REVOLT ANZIO BEACHHEAD  SUBJECT TO HEAVIEST BOMBARDMENT

Opposition ds Being Formed  in Argentina   Naval Forces Reported: ‘to Be Moving Against “Pro-Axis Farrell Government

DINNER FOR “QUIG’   Community Affair to Be Held Sept. 8, Sponsored by C. of C.

DINNER FOR “QUIG”   Community Affair to Be Held iar 8, Sponsored yu. O :

Slavs Take Banja Luka  Bosnian Metropolis   Bosnian Metropolis Falls After Fight.

Banja Luka Under Partisan Control   Patriot Units Drive Toward Bosnia Capitol

’ WEST TO SEAL — OFF CHERBOURG   ' Battle Around Caen Called Climactie By Germans

Yank Airborne troops Land In Move To Cut Off Cherbourg: Nazi Counter-Attack Repulsed

Yanks Seize Limon, React  Leyte River   Jap Losses Soar, Entire Line Faces Disaster

VETERAN JAP FIRST DIVISION 1S LIQUIDATED   All Yamashita Line May Be Rolled Up Soon

HOLD LAST OF CONVICT TRIO   Report Girl, Held as Hostage, Safe  eee      Terrorize Parts of Mississippi

Capture Last ef Hscanped Convicts   Two Spread Reign of Terror In Mississippi

MISSISSIPPTS WEEK-END OF TERROR ENDS   Three Escaped Des: peradoes Trapped and Recaptured

BANDIT GANG) ROUNDED. UF   THREE DESPERAD OES.CAR“TURED: AFTER SERIES OF _GUN FIGHTS AND A \-KIDNAPING.

Romans Give Big Welcome To Sth Army   Writer Tells Of Final Battle For City; Help Given By Partisans As Yanks Advanced

Partisans Aid Rome Conquest   Thousands of Italians  Prove Selves Ready to Die “For Liberation’; Wild Welcome to Allies

ROMAN POPULACE IN WARM GREETINGS FOR FIFTH ARMY FORCES   ENTRANCE INTO ETERNAL CITY MERE SKIRMISH FOR ARMORED FORCES

Fresh Air of Freedom Fills Rome Grateful Populace Wild. With: Jov

Kisses and Roses Greet Americans Even As They Blast Germans Still in Rome; Italian Volunteers Proved Ready To Die for Liberty

Hitler Explains Oven City Fails   ROMANS GREET YANKS WITH KISSES, SNIPER WARNINGS

Flags of Freedom Wave In City, Weary Americans Almost Smothered With Roses:And Kisses:

De Luce Describes Capture of Eternal City by Fifth Arm   AP Writer Among Van guard of Troops to Enter Capital

(Jubilant Romans [Rocked by “High Wind of Freedom’   Thousands of Italian Partisans Flaunt Red Flags As They Greet Liberators Jovously

ROMAN PARTISANS FANNNING FIRES OF LIBERATION TODAY   Citizenry Deeply Stirred By Entry of the Fifth Army and  - Removal of the Greman Trcors

American Troops Are Welcomed by Italians in ‘Liberation of Rome’

Italians Greet Their Liberators  Daniel De Luce Tells Story Of Rome’s Fall

Nazis Fought Through Streets  Of Rome; Had Pledged Not To   Fifth Army Finds Enemy Treacherous To Last; People Give Frenzied Welcome To Allied Troop:

» Thousands Of Romans March With Allied Troops In Eternal City;  - Cultural Treasures Escape Damage; Mussolini’s Balcony Empty   Oust Snipers

100-FRANKFURT WAR . PLANTS ARE IN RUINS   Ph otograph hs  Taken “Alter Air Raids Show Only Two or Three Factories Undamaged. —

FORMER BUFFALO CENTER MAN KILLS SILVER FOX WHILE HUNTING PHEASANTS

Blast of Navy Ammunition Depot At Hastings-Kills Eight; Countryside Shaken

Fear 8 Dead In Munitions Plant Blast   Three Known Victims And Five Missing, Chief Reports

100,000 Pounds of High Explosives Were Touched Off   No lowans Among 3 Dead, 5 Missing And 35 Injured

Ammunition Depot Blast Kills Eight   Many Other Workers At Big Naval Plant In Ne braska Injured.

bd) Imiured As Bombs Explode At Naval Plant   Damage Reported As Far Away As Clay Center And Sutton: Windows Rattled 140 Miles Distant

100,000 Lbs. In Munitions  Are Blown Ur   Five Persons Missing and Presumed Dead—Three Killed Outright

Insurance Edict By Court Brings Business Change   Biddle Fears Action Will Invalidate State Stat ntes

DEATH TOLL STILL ‘MOUNTS   Ati Least 47° Persons Dead and Hundreds Made Homeless by Tornadoes nad Rainstor

Tornadoes Death Toll Soars to 47   Rainstorms Sweep Into Ohiv Valley, Threatenine Flaade

At Least 47 Persons Die Th Central  States Storms   Heaviest Death Tol Is Reported in  Baataeen A vwlbanuau

Death Toll of Tornadoes, Rainstorms In Central States Rises to 47

Flood Peril Moves Into Ohio Valley   Eastern Arkansas Has Heaviest ‘Toll, At Least 36 Lost '

47 KILLED BY STORMS, WIND SWEEPING EAS]   » Ohio Valley Rivers Rise, Bringing Threat Of Floods

STORM DEATH TOLL HAS REACHED 4]   Seven Killed In Indiana; Hundreds Hurt and Homeless

Expirations on Red and Blue  Coupons Delayec  Move by OPA Will Stop Last Minute Rush of Buyers

FOOD RATIONING — ~ ISSIMPLIFIED   OPA REMOVES EXPIRATION DATES FROM ALL RED AND BLUE COUPONS.

Food Rationing Is Simpler As OPA Removes Expiration Dates From Red, Blue Coupons

0.P.A. Cancels Expiration Dates (Of Food Stamps   Removed From All Blue and Red Coupons; To Cut Down Shopping Problems.

FOOD RATIONING MADE SIMPLER   Expiration Dates Are Removed From Blue And Red Coupons

French Ask Arms For Guerrillas   DeGaulle Blames Allies For Delay

DeGaulle Asks. - Guerrilla Aid   Wants More Reliance Put On French Undercrannd

Early House Action On Compulsory Military Training Bill Is Sought

Woodrum Group Lists Universal Military Service as One of New Congress’ Most ,  Important Items on Agenda for Exploratio:

Catholic High Wins 2 Games   Humble Whittemore And Ayrshire — Junior High Tourney Winner

Russ Launch Twin Drives,  Gain 16 Miles   Reds Annihilate Encircled Nazis, Advance on Riga

Chaplin Face: Indictment On Mann Act  Jury Also o Charges  MTs 4   Jury Also Charges Violation of Girl’s Civil Rights

Meets Hun Armor In Hot Tank Fight; Flanks Merzig   Nine Divisions March 12 Miles, Capture Most Of Saarguemines; Panzers Desperately Challence Advance Into Rich Industrial Basin.

Soldiers Use Fenders On Trucks As Tables For Their Turkey Dinner

Preliminary Proposal On GOP Foreign Policy Is Drafted For Committee

SILVER MEDATS awarnen   Good Morning:  A Little Chuckle To Start The Day

AERIAL FLEET BLASTS GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS   Hit Enemy Installations In Three . Countries. Make 3.000 Sorties

Great Aerial Assau On Nazis Airfields, Equipment Opened By 1,500 Bombers

Fifth Tanks Closing On Valmontone Hub   Trap Closing on 100,000 Men; Artillery Shelling Via Casilina

Allies approach last  German fort below  Rome defense line   Rush.support to defend Valmontone; final enemy escape hatch imperiled

Turn Artillery on Italy's Via Casilina   Valmontone Under Artillery Fire of Onrushing Units

Big Guns Trained On Road to Rome   U.S. Forces Close to Valmontone, Keystone of Last Defense Line

Trap Threatening 400,000 Germans   Americon Armored Forces Drive to Within Two and Half Miles of Keystone of Defense

100,000 GERMANS FACE TRAP   Enemy Denied Use Of Main Highway Which Leads To Rome

KEYSTONE OF LAST DEFENSE LINE TOTTER'   Field Guns Deluge Highway With Shells

No Direct Way Left To Escape   Via Casilina 1s Now Under Guns Of Fifth Army

ROOSEVELT ELECTORAL VOTES TOTAL 413---POPULAR VOTE MAJORITY ABOUT 2 700,000

UNITY IN WAR AND PEACE SEEN BALLOT RESULT   Roosevelt Wins 35 States With 413 Electoral Votes, Dewey Ahead In 13

UNITE 10 WN WAR AND. FACE IS FOR’S PLEA.   Congress, Senate ; and Gove.nor L.neups Are. Cutlined ~

UNITE 10 WIN WAR AND FEACE IS FOR'S PLEA   Congress, Senate and Gove.nor L-neurs Are Gutlined

JAPS THREATEN CENTRAL CHINA   Yellow River Crossing Perils Defenders  Of Loyang

Japs Cross Yellow River. Pass Loyang   8,000 Japs Killed at Imphal, Komina During Two- Month India Invasion

Menace Grows Greater   Jap Drive in North China Largest Since 1938; Enemy Holds All of Key Rail Line

Nip Forces Cross Yellow er and Converge On Historie City      CHINESE OUTLOOK DARK

JAP MENACE TO CHINA LOOMS   Strong Enemy Forces Pushing Against Loyang

Jap Menace to North-Central China Looms   Forees Have Crossed Yellow River

Japanese Threa! To China Grows As Trap Closes   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ  elt rec Tare...

JAPANESE MENACE TC ALL NORTH-CENTRAL CHINA LOOMS LARGE   INIMEDIATE OBJECTIVES ARE CITY OF LOYANG AND RICH WHEAT LANDS

NEW JAP DRIVES CREATE SERIOUS THREAT IN CHINA   But Elsewhere in Far East Nip Not Faring So Well; Island Bases Battered   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

Japanese Push Toward Loyang   Threaten Wheat Lands of Northern Honan Province

JAP ATTACK IN CHINA BIGGEST PUSH SINCE °38   Loyang, Northern Honan Province Main Goals of Nip Drive

YELLOW RIVER CROSSING IS NEW DANGER   Japs Apparently Have ‘Won Control of PeipingHankow Railway in Rich Wheatlands Sectors

COUNTY RAISES THIRD OF QUOT!   Apparent Lack of Interest in ‘E’ Bond Purchases Discouraging; Several Firms Make Allocations

TWO-THIRDS OF BOND QUOTA SOLE   Mercer Committee Members Pleased ,at Response by Firms and Corporations; Sale of ‘E’ Bonds Drags

Premier Tojo Is Booted Out As ChiefOfJapaneseArmy;  General UmezulIsSuccessor

Tojo Is Relieved Of Post As Army Chief In New Drastic Japanese Shuffle

JAPS REPORT NEW SHAKEUP   General Tojo, No. 1 Nip Mili tarist, Relieved of His Army Post

Premier Apparently Retains Other Posts As Shake-ups Multiply in National Crisis

Tojo Relieved As Chief of General Staff.   War Leader Will Be Succeeded by General Umezu in Command Shakar

Tojo is Relieved  Of Post as Chief  Army General Staf , Second Drastic Change in Jap  High Command in Two Days Leaves Toio Stil Premier

igh Army Post Taken ~ From Tojo   “He. Is: Relieved by Former “Commander of J apan’ Ss: .. Best: Army      “SECOND UPHEAVAL Js. IN. AS MANY DAYS   » Follows Jap Defeats and Re. “treats and Allies Keep 4 Pressing On -

Tojo Is Relieved  As Chief of Staff:   Second Drastic Shake-up Reported In Japanese Hiah Command Toda:

Tojo Is Removed As Japanese Army Staff Chiei  Other Shifts Are Mad As National Crisis Is Reported in Empire

Yields to Gen. Umezu, Powerful Jap Militarist   Alarm Over Saipan and Guam Losses Evident

GEN. UMEZU t3 HIS SUGCESSOT   Nippon High Command Reshuffle Comes With Fall Of Strategic Saipan.   NAVY CHANGE MADE TOO

Tojo Removed As Chief Of  Japanese Army   Premicr Is Relieved As Chief of Army General Staff But Apparently Retains 2 Other Posts.

Gen. Umezu is Chief of Staff of Jap Army   In Shakeup he Takes Over After A Navy Change

Tojo Relieved as Ch ief of Staff   Other Two Posts Not Mentioned

Tojo Is Removed As Japanese Army Staff Chiet  Other Shifts Are Made  i National Crisis i Oe eS

ru DREEFANS OTE   Trial Seeks Testimony Of Pear} Harbor Commanders

Nazis in Turkey Balk at Ouster   Many Reported  Refusing to Leave

RELUCTANT TC ~~ LEAVE TURKEY   Revolt Developing Among German Nationals

MANY GERMANS STAY IN TURKEY   Internment Better Than Return To War-Torn Homeland

\Germans prefer Turkey to conditions lin homeland; say Von Papen may stay

Allied Bombers Again: Smash At Rabaul. Area   145 Buildings Said Destroyed in Raid On Weakened Base

TURKS TO VISIT LONDON * SEEKING RESUMPTION OF MILITARY SHIPMENTS

BIGGEST JOB AHEAD IN FOOD PRODUCTION   Increase in Victory Gardens Called Imperative

Dewey Silent AsHeTakes Off For Chicago   GOP Nominee Refuses Comment On His Selection.

Nation Split On Thanksgiving   Five States Name November 30 Date

Nation Splits Again Over Thanksgiving   Five States Name Nov. 30, 41 Pick Nov. 23 «

ee a gees Seer a Nation Is Split Again On When To Celebrate National Holidav.

Nation Split Again on Which Day to Celebrate as Thanksgiving This Year

Nation Is Split On Thanksgiving   Some States To Observe lt Nov. 23, Others Nov. 30

Wallace Leaves For Chungking As Chinese Mission Arrives In U. S.

German Reinforcements From Rome and Cassino: Seek to Retard Advance   French Invasion Coast Hammered for Third Straight Day; Russians Tighten  Noose on Germans in Leningrad Area

Hunt for Crackpot Arsonist in North Dakota’s Jumping Coal Incident

Reveal Roosevelt Stopped _ At Chicago to See Hannegan On His Jaunt Across Country

TALMADGE URGES ELECTION OF GEN. MACARTHUR   Former Georgia Governor Urges Southerners to Support Fargous Commander

Talmadge Would  Back MacArthur   Ex-Governor of Georgia Calls For Democrats to Nominate Republican

ALLIED BOMBERS RAID HOLLANDIA, JAPANESE BASES      New Double-Pronged Attack On Truk—Ground Activity On New Guinea

Ciano's Widow Is Inferned By Swiss   She Hurries From Italy When Husband Executed

COUNTESS. CIANO is INTERNED   Held in Switzerland Under Police Watch

EDDA CIANO INTERNED IN SWITZERLANT      Her Children Also Held; All Under Strick Police Guard

Countess Ciano Said Interned In Switzerland   Three Children Under Secret Police’ Guard:

Ciano’s Wife Interned in — Switzerlanc   Under Police Guard With Three Children; Alfieri Aleg Is Held ©

IAPS LOSING: INDIA HOPES   NITIATIVE PASSING INTO HANDS OF. BRITISH FORCES” IN BATTLE FOR IMPHAL BASE.

British Drive Against Japs In Imphal Sector   Report Indicates Heavy At tacks Force Japanese To Give Ground

THE  WAR TODAY   L. 8. Closing In On Japan Fast; Major Operations Calculated to Win the War Ouicker-Appear Near

SITUATION IN PACIFIC AREA GOING WELL FOR ALLIES AND END MAY COME THERE SOONER

SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS IN PACIFIC CALCULATED TO WIN WAR IN ORIEN? SOONER THAN ORIGINALLY EXPECTED   Our Recent Conquests in Mariana Islands Puts Uncie Sam’s Heavy Bombers in Reach of Japan And the Philippines Only 1.500 Milez Awav

U. S. Airforce. Better Than Japs   Figures Show 13th Bagged 378 Nip Planes

War Bond Show Arranged.   U.S. Fliers Retain 8 to 1 Lead Over Jap Pilots in Solomons

-orrespondents Write of Fearful -xperience as Robot Bomb Strikes

' British Building Becomes Burning Tomb As Robot Bomb Makes It Pile of Debris

Tell of Closest Brush with Death to (Come from Nazi Robot Bomb Attacks

‘Says His Officers Planned Surrender   Orders Issued To All Military Personnel Not To Ohbev Bidding Of Any OF Plotters

BOMB EXPLODES SUK FEET AWAY   One General Killed, Others Are Seriously Injured   HIMMLER IN ACTION   Dreaded Gestapo Chief Put Into Full Command to Put Down Revolt

Ruthless plan to stem revolt  goes in effect Ringleaders shot,  fLaahwar danlawoc .

Report Says Assassinatior  Was Planned   Dictator Said to Mave Been Burned and Bruised By Explosion. Ringleadere Shel

PLOT BLAMED ON CLIQUE OF MILITARY MEN   FUEHRER SLIGHTLY HURT; OTHERS IN PARTY INJURED

Fuehrer Escapes Death From Bomb He Says Was Placed by Nazi Colonel   Charges Atfempted Assassination Was Planned by Small Group of Officers Who Have Been Killed or Who Have Commitied Suicide; Appoints Himmler Commander of Home Front

Fuehrer, Slightly Hurt, Tells Himmler To Exterminate All Opposition   VON STAUFFENBERG IS CHARGED AS ASSASSIN

SMALL BUSINESS TO NEED FINANCIAL AID   Bernard Baruch Says It Is Essen tail That Little Firms Have * Access To Credit Facilities

HOPE GETS BLOW   OPA High - Offolal Doubts Hike Anywhere in . Country .

Increase in ‘B’ Gas Card Ration  Not Warranted, OPA Official Says

Survey Blasts Hopes for More ‘B’ Gas   High OPA Official Says Increases Are Not Warranted

Hope for Hike In ‘B’ Gasoline Ration Fades   High OPA Official Says Increases Not Warranted Anywhere

Senators Would Strip Germany Of Its Industry   Recommend Plan  Of Allied Action

A MARINE TO COMMAND   Maj. Gen. Smith to I to Head Department of Pacific

Latvia Capital Overwhelmed Bv Russians   Two Red Armies Freed for Drives On East Prussia

Reds Smash Toward Austria Overrun 100 Communities   16-Mile Gain: Scored Across West Hungary; Nazis Retreat in Disorder

Reds Within 61 Miles OF Austria Border  More Than [00  Communities  

Japanese Forces Drive Nearer Port of Foochow   Chinese Are Pushed Back Despite Bitter Resistance

Japs Prepare to Fight American Landing in China   Enemy Drives Toward Foochow in Move To Strengthen Flank

CORDELL HULL OFFERS AID TO STETTINIUS   Retiring Secretary of State Thanks Successor for Loyal and Stead-. fast Support.

SCOT FUSILIERS FIGHT IN BURMA   Allies’ Line Joins Solidly In Southward Push To Remove Japs.

Allied Flyers Pound Nazis On Seine After Blasting Normandy Pocket

Monetary Meeting Convenes   “WILL TEST OUR CAPACITY TO CO-OPERATE IN PEACE,” FDR TELLS 43 NATIONS’ ENVOYS

Monetary Parley Gets Under Way  43 Nations Represented at Meet Tr Discuss Economic Cooperation

FRENCH COAST WIT AGAIN   Strong Formation of Four-Motored American Liberators Attack Mysterious German Targets. 

MYSTERY NAZI COAST TARGETS POUNDED AGAIN   Yank Day Raid Is 13th Major Operation In  16 Days 

BIG GROUPS PLANES CROSS THE CHANNEL   Four-Motor Amer. Liberators On Mystery Raids

PLANES ATTACK  FRENCH COAST   Continue to Blast at Mystertous Targets

French Coast Battered in New Attack   Liberators Lead Allied Raiding Iorce Against Mystery Targets

Liberators Strike French Coast   Complete 13 Major Raids On Secret Targets

BIG FORCE OF U. S. BOMBERS RAIDS EUROPE   Mosquitoes Slash At West Germany On Niaht Shift

PRE-INVASION AIR ASSAULTS ARE RESUMED   Big Plane Battles Over France, Germany Are Claimed

Yank Armada Hits Targets in South Germany   By United Press ~ LONDON, March 18.—The Swiss radio said Rome was bom&> ed this morning.

HUGE AMERICAN BOMBER FORCE SMASHES SQUTHERN GERMANY   LUFTWAFFE TANGLES WITH RAIDERS IN WILD AERIAL BATTLE: BERLIN BROADCASTS SAY

Air Force Pounds Enemy Airfields In South Sectors   Report Americans Draw Luftwaffe Aloft In Ranging Assaults

Commander Praises Men for Rapid Advance In Central Pacific; Lists Japan’s War Production Plants as Ultimate Goal

AT EARLY DATE '«. ARE. PREDICTEL   Major General Hale Points to Advancement of U. S. Bomber Bases 1,330 Miles Closer to Capital.   THIS HAS BEEN DONE IN LAST FIVE MONTHS   Declares Inability of Enemy -to Stop Assaults Indicates Nip Air Force Has Been  2 3 Defeated.

Japs Fail To Halt Advance Of  Bomber Bases   But Enemy Holding Grip In Imphal; Japs On Move In China Now

Before Long ith Airforee Be Over Tokyo   Major Gen. Hale So Tells Flyers In Farewell Talk

Tokyo Raids Termed Near   Gen.: Hale Predicts Swift Aerial Moves

Will Be Over Tokyo Soon   So General Tells Airmen, Reminding Japs Can’t Even Slow U. S. Bombers

U.S. Bombs To Fall on Tokyo Soon   Air Commander Tells Fliers lt Won't Be Lone

Tokyo Blows ‘Near, Hale. Telis Fliers   General Bidding Men Farewell For New: Cammand Savs “It Woan‘t Be-Lona Now”

SE BAYONET TO SLASH WAY OUT OF FOREST   Germans Reporied in Retreat Into Siegfried Line; 20 Towns Fall.

Infantrymen surge out of forest, seize  half of Weisweiler   Patch’s 7th army streaks 11 miles north of Strasbourg; nazis retreat

USE BAYONETS IN FIGHT 10 COLOGNE PLAIN   Allies Cross Rhine ‘ On Undamaged Bridges

Twin Smashes Of Americans Menace Nazis   Doughboys Hack Way Out Of Hurtgen Forest Onto Cologne Plain; Swiss Radio Claims Allies Have Crossed Water Barrier

Nazis Retreat On Mid-Section Of West Front   Swiss Radio Reports Allies Cross Rhine Just Kast Of Strasbourg

‘Yanks Break Into Open On Plains Before Cologne; Enemy Faces Double Trap

Break Out of Forest   Thousands of Men Lost on Both Sides In Forest Fighting

Battle Way Out of Huertgen Forest   After Tree-To-Tree Battle Americans ‘Get The Ball Rolling’ As Germans Pushed Back

‘Swiss Report Crossing of Rhine By Units East of Strasbourg; Nazis Flee Center of West Front

Hershey Lists Vital Jobs for Men Under 26   Some Pre-Professional Students. Coal Miners Can Get Deferments

Some Deferments For Men Under 26 Authorized  ue Three of State's  ssebeamese §£ omese   Two-Thirds of State’s Inductions Cancelled  In Older Age Group

Escaped Convict Pair Captured  [?. ...  y.   Las Vegas Police Take Two Easily

Democratic Party Flayed by Willkie   Falling to Pieces, Asserts Candidate

PATRIOT ARMY AT BUDAPEST FIGHTS NAZIS   Tungarian Patriots Barricade Streets  And Attack Nazis Within City.

Germans Using Historic Route Into Belgium    Patton Wheels Third Army To North In Attempt To Slow Enemy Offensive  —— a e pmeagréawtee, i2ATTrTEe FT 46 SP

Advance Of 27 Miles Has Been Made By Germans Since Offensive   20,000 AMERICAN PRISONERS TAKEN   Germans Have Taken In 3 Days American Gains Of 3 Months

Battle Is Confused   20,000 Prisoners Taken, Foe Claims   Ry  EDWARD MURRAY

VOLCANO ISLAND HIT BY LANDBASED. BOMBERS   Nimitz Reports Sweep Made July 13 Asainst Iwo Jima

VOLCANO ISLES ATTACKED BY LIBERATORS   Raid Launches New Phase of Warfare  in Pacific

16 Known Dead, Four Missing  In Bus Crash   ‘Police Still Checking Unconfirmed Reports Several Gthers Missing

Whereabouts Of Hitler Studiec   McKenzie Questions Fuehrer’s Absence

MYSTERY OF WHEREABOUTS OF HITLER ASSUMING PROPORTIONS OF HISTORY’S PRIME THRITT FER

The War Today. Mystery of. Hitler  Whereabouts- ‘Mey Affect War nil

MYSTERY OF WHEREABOUTS OF NAZI CHIEF FOR PAST FOUR MONTHS GIVES GOEBBELS NEW EXPLANATION TASK

“Planes Lash Carolines; - Manus Isle Invaded in — New Admiraltv Assault

TOKYO RADIO REPORTS TEN VESSELS SUNK   MacArthur Mum On Enemy Story Of Three-Day Air Attack On 50-Ship Fleet In Philippines.

U.S. Convoy Moves Through  Isles--Tokyo   Jap Radio Reports on Ship Losses Conflict

Invasion May Be Imminent   MacArthur Orders Arrest of Filipinos Aiding Japanese.

BiG AMERICAN TROOP CONVOY IN PHILIPPINES   All Filipinos Aiding Japs Arrested

Japs Say U.S. Troopships Are Mindoro - Bound   Report Big Convoy Has Negotiated Philippine Water Passages.

TOKYO REPORTS PASSAGE OF U.S. TROOP CONVOY   ’ British Forming _Two Fleets to " Aid in Pacific

NIPS REPORT 4 MORE AMERICAN VESSELS SUNK   MacArthur Orders Arrest of Filipinos Who Aided Japanese

BY MACARTHUR   Toyko Says Convoy Cut Through Inland Water Lanes of Islands.   CLAIM MORE SINKINGS

Yankee Convoy Near Manila, Tokyo Declares  Japs Say 20 Years Needed By Yanks  m ¢w i o..m_

Japs Claim 10 Transports Sunk Near Mindoro   Enemy May Hurl Remnants Of Fleet Into Action At Any Time; Nimitz Speaks Of New Invasion

Nips Say Convoy  Smashed   Nimitz Warns on Jap Fleet Action; Ship Story Unconfirmed

Allege Convoy Hit Heavily   U, S, Flotilla Continues on Way, Hawever. Tans Aitnilt

Great Yank Troop Convoy Heading Toward Mindoro  Filipinos Aiding Japs Face Arrest -- McArthur

Tokyo Declares Big U. S. Convoy Mindoro-Bound   Adm. Nimitz Hints At Early Invasion Of Nippon Mainland

JAPS POUNDING HUGE AMERICAN TROOP CONVOY   Armada Continues Move Toward Manila Despite Enemy Harassing

Japanese Claim 10 Large Transports Sunk in Philippine:   Tokyo Radio Says Huge Troop. Convoy Cuts Through Attacks

Japs Claim Heavy Damage fo Convoy   MacArthur Remains Silent on Reports

Tokyo Fears U.S. Invasion  Near Manilz   Says Transports Head North Toward Mindoro Island and Capital

American Headquarters Ignores Enemy Claims and Makes No Mention of Possible New Attacks on Road To Tokyo - - - Island Bases Are Blasted by U. S. Bombers - - - Navy Confident But Warns Nip Fleet May Attack Any Time

Tokyo Insists US Convoy Is 'Under Attack   Claim Troop Ships Moving in Philippine Waters; Admiral Nimitz Cautious About Japanese Fleet {

TOKYO SAYS MAN TRANSPORTS SUNK   No Confirmation Of Nip Reports Received From American ‘Sources.   Bombers Batter Little Island For 21st Consecutive Day

Nippons Report Battling Convoy  Tell of Task Force in Philippine Waters

Tokyo Says US. Convoy At Mindoro   Japs Claim Sinkings, Heavy Damage to Big Transport Fleet

10 TRANSPORT: KNOCKED OUT, MIPS SAY   Ememy Planes Renew Raids , OnuU. S. Positions   ‘BLACKOUT RULES   Stiffened In Tokyo After Radio Says Capital Cannot Be Wiped Out

Japs Claim Sill More Ships Sunk   Say All But 8 or 10 of U. S. 30-Ship Convoy Were Sunk

Troop Convoy  In Philippines   Inland Water Passage Made By LU. S. Despite Japanese Air Attacks

BIG: AMERICAN TROOP CONVOY HEADS FOR MANILA, SAYS TOKYO  JAP COMMUNIQUE DE. CLARES SEVERAL LARGE U. S. TRANSPORTS SUNK.

Huge Postwar Airport Program Set  Helena Is Included On CAA Plan For Construction

Huge Postwar Airport Program Set   Helena Is Included — On CAA Plan

ALUMINUM OUTPUT ~ IS AGAIN REDUCED   Cut-back Involves the Closing of Two Large  Plante

Fred Carpenter — Is Found Dead —  County Clerk In . Cherokee Many Years

Fred Carpenter Ts Found Dead  County Clerk In Cherokee Many Year:

TRUMAN SOUNDS EXPERIENCE KEY   Talk May Prove Theme For Democratic Campaign

‘NO SUBSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENCE   So Says Democrat Nominee Foft Vice President at Notification Ceremony

Truman Cites FR  Service   President's Expermence Stressed as Senator Accepts Nomination

No Substitute For Experience  Save Teaman in   Says Truman in Acceptance Speech Praisina Roosevelt

TRUMAN BEGINS VOTE CAMPAIGN   Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Calls for Re s ait atten Set. Ct ae walt

‘There Is No Substitute For Experience, Truman Says In Acceptance Talk; Lauds FDR

No Substitute For Experience  Is Truman Word i , Aeceptance canal

‘There’s No Substitute For Experience™  Truman Sounds Theme Of Democrat Campaien

Urges Extension  of Lend-Lease   Says Program Needed In Fight To Victory

PRESIDENT BACK AT DESK FACING MANY PROBLEMS   Lend-lease and Simplified Tax Program Questions Before Lawmakers

fe Renee Me Ge ee Oe ae ae  FDR Confers on Problems with Leaders   Montgomery War Ward Issue to Top List; Sees Hull on World Front.

R.A.F. HITS AT TARGETS IN AXIS EUROPE   Heavy Bombers Smash At Plane Plant In France

RAF Blasts Great Marignane Plant Near Marseille   Offensive Fleet Goes 1,200 Miles In Raid;  Germans Fleeing Berlin

Nineteen American Nations Begin Exhaustive Studies On Government Of Bolivia

Joint Study Of Bolivian Revolt is Under Way   Nineteen Nations Will Decide Future Attitude Toward New Regime   ARGENTINA IN PICTURE

BEGIN STUDY OF BOLIVIAN REVOLT   AMERICAN NARIONS« BENT ON UNCOVERING INFLUENCE OF AXIS

JAP ADVANCES STILL MENACE - SUPPLY LINES   ENEMY PUTTING FULL PRESSURE ON ALLIES IN EFFORT TO SEVER INDIABURMA ROUTE ~

Asks VFW Help  In Allowing U.S.  Form Alliances   Commander Urges Joining Other Peaceful Nations In Halting Aggression

VEW Chief Offers Foreign Policy Program   Peace Delegates Dodge Diplomatic Thorns

VF W Head Favors US Alliances To Preserve Peace  Wants Veterans At Conference

CHLORINE GAS OVERCOMES 400 IN BROOKLYN   Victims Dropped Along Streets Like Flies, Wit necses Declare   FUMES ESCAPED WHEN TANK FELL OFF TRUCK

Many Taken To Hospitals As Chlorine Gas Fumes Escape   People Drop in Brooklyn Streets When Tank Falls  From Truck—Eye-witnesses Tell of Scene

400 Overcome When Chlorine Gas Is Set Free in Brooklyn Street   German Military Moves in France Restricted by Raids

GAS FUMES FELL MOO PERSONS IN ‘BROOKLYN STREE!   Chlorine, Leaking From Tank, -. Spreads for Two Blocks and, ‘Victims Drop “Like Flies.   CONDITION OF 12% : REPORTED SERIOUS   ‘Men and Women. Cough, Vom: - it, Stagger and Fall, Creating Scene Resembling War Pictures.

Chlorine gas fells over 400 persons Jan Brooklyn: many in serious condition

300 Affected _ By Gas Fumes   Escaped Chlorine Creates ~ Ponhleam in Rrooakhn

Chlorine Gas Fells 400 'On Brooklyn Street   Confusion Reigns in Wake of Trucl Bearing Leaky Tank to Pier; 127 Persons in Serious Condition

Escaping Chlorine  Gas Overcomes 400   Gas, Leaking From Tank Being Transported In Truck, Spreads Over Two Blocks in Brooklyn; People Topple Over Like Flies

127 in Serious Condition But No Deaths Reported; Gas Escapes from Tank

50 New Yorkers umes Victims, tay in Hospitals  Gas Leaks From Tank Covers Several   Brooklyn Blocks

Pre-Invasion  Vow Is Made   Briton Sees Allied Victory;  Roaassawal Piece Bixcnt®

Land Operations To Be Second Invasion Phase   Aerial Hammering Has Already Begun Invasion, Says Britisher; Rommel Says Nazis Have New Weapons Ready

NE Congressmen Want Additional Hub Air Service   Mrs. Rogers Sees Million Lost Unless U. S.-Built Fields in Area Are Used

AGREEMENT ON OPA BILL NEAR   Bankhead Cotton Amendment Still In Dispute

LOST IN RIVER   Search for Wreckage of Plane in Mississippi Near Memphis

HUNTING PLANE AND 24 BODIES © IN MISSISSIPP   Missing Airliner Believed © in River After Crash 4 and Explosion

BIG AIRLINER PLUNGES INTO RIVER: 24 DIE   Sinks Quickly After iM xplosion

‘Tragic Mistake Cost Lives Of 410 U.S. Airmen   Paratroopers: Shot Down by Their Own Ground and Naval Forces.

23 Transports Shot Down in Sicily Tragedy   Facts Withheld Since Last July

Allies Down 23 U.S . Planes -By Mistake: 410 Men Lost   Army  Discloses Secret It Had Kept for Eight Months. After  ®t. Sergeant ‘Tells of Incident—Ground and Naval Forces Shot ‘Transports. From Skies as. Craft, ‘Carrying Paratroopers, ‘Reached Battle Aréa, in Sicily,

410 Yanks Downed By Own Troops   Sergeant Breaks Censorship In Sicilian Mistake

23.5. PLANES SHOT DOWN BY U.S. GUNFIRE   Army Discloses Loss Of 410 Paratroopers By Anti-Aircraft Fire From Its Own HParcec.   Mistake Kept Secret

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War Department Blames ‘Circumstances’ for Affair: Fails To Explain Secreey

FRIENDLY GUNNERS HIT ALLIED PLANES   Army Tells of Downing of 23 Transport Planes Last July

TellFarmers OPA Fails in Pennsylvania   PORTER R. TAYLOR TELLS VEGETABLE AND HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS IN HARRISBURG SESSIONS REASONS WHY.   Price Fixing Difficulty

Kerr Sounds Keynote: Hails Party of Roosevelt, Flays Republicans and Governor Dewey

Declares Republicans Have No Program Except to Oppose and That Their Standard Bearer Is Untested and Untried —Lauds Roosevelt Administration Amid Cheers of Delegates and Sets Forth Aims of Democratic Party.

Democratic Keynoter Eulogizes Roosevelt's Accomplishments   Kerr Declares Republicans Have No Program Except to Oppose —Answers ‘Old Men’ Criticisms

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REPUBLICANS HiT _ BY KEYNOTER KERR   Oklahoman. Hails Party ‘of Roosevelt at  Convention

Dewey Held Heir - To Hoover Robes   Gov. Kerr Declares Party Merits Confidence

American Naval Guns Silence Jap Defenses Upon Marcus Island   Thousand Planes Raid Koror, Heart Of Palau

Lincoln Was In Iowa On Three Trips  Council Bluffs One Scene of Visit; Had Property in City

Americans Within Artillery Range of Germany; British Army Rolls Up Nazi Flank Behind Robot Romh Coact

ALLIES MAY SMASH  ONTO BELGIUM, NAZI SOIL THIS WEEKEND   Americans At Or Over Belgian Border On Wide Front, British 20 Miles Away; Nazis Jam Roads To Homeland

British 2nd Army Captures Lens, Only 16 Miles From Industrial Center nf ITille.

Believed To Be Also. In Belgium   BRITISH CAPTURE LENS; BERLIN ADMITS ALLIES WILL BE INSIDE REICH

8. WITHIN BIG GUN RANGE OF GERMANY   American Armies Approach and Perhaps Have Crossed Belgian Border.

AMERICANS MAY BEIN BELGIUM   U. S. Tanks Reported Widening Drive In Alsace-Lorraine

Maginot Line Defenses Pierced   Scores of Robot Bomb Launching Platforms Fall to British

Pfc. Wood Gets an Orientation Course   Given at a Command Station Somewhere in England; Aid Newly-Arrivals,

DEWEY HOLDS "SLENDER LEAD INTHE STATE   CLOSE RACES FOR U. 8, SENATE AND STATE OFFICES ON FACE OF INCOMPLETE RETURNS

GLEVELANDER’S LEAD OF 82,805 STILL GROWING   Taft Appears Re-elected, Other State Contests in Doubt

Martial Law No Longer Needed In Hawai Area   Federal Judge Releases Man  Held By Army

Seu eeeeereaeeeeeeeeeee ae ee  Boys Play With Fire; Given Lecture

UNCHECKED RED DRIVE REACHES NEW RAIL CITY   Offensive Storms Shimsk on Western Shores of Lake Ilmen

Red Army Troops Now Reported On Shimsk Qutskirts   Continue Unchecked Of‘ fensive Against Germans In Leningrad Sector   MOSCOW REPORTS FURTHER GAINS

Master Design For Security Formally Made   Pattern Somewhat Similar +To League of Nations; Crucial Veto Issue Unsettled

BLALOCK MAKES PLEA TO TEXAS DEMOCRATS “G0-DOWN THE LINE”  FORMER CHAIRMAN, GERMANY MAKES STATEMENT  PARCCDRIAC RCSCDAra

KURILE BASES ARE BATTERED BY AMERICANS   Infantrymen Seeking To Wrest Maffin Airdrome From Japanese

Cutback And Layoffs Are Big Worries   Unions, Employers, U. Ss. Agencies Have No Solutions

Boy 8 Days in Trailer Trunk   ‘Punch in Nose’ Awaits Playmate Who Locked Him in Too! Chest

Pucheu Pays  For Treason   Former High Vichy Official Is Executed

Pierre Pucheu ~ Executed Today In North Africa   Former Minister’ of Vichy . Calls Trial Political Coup “Net Court Of Justice

Pierre Pucheu Is Executed On Treason Charges   Vichy Minister Dies In Algiers

Traitor Pucheu Executed Today By Firing Squad   Former Vichy Cabinet Member Found Guilty Of Treason.

PUCHEU ORDERS FIRING SQUAD Al HIS OWN DEATH   Executed Today By Sentence Of Special French Court

PIERRE PUCHEU PUT TO DEATH   Former Vichy Official Executed at Algiers for Collaboration With Enemy

Front Dispatches Say Germans Are Getting Set For Another Large Counter-Attack.

Allies Facing Major Test Below Rome   Nazi Fury Dispels Thoughts of Easy Invasion

Anzio Operation  May Be A Salerno  Moves Not Progressing As Expected

DOMINIGK, HARD: ACRE COMING BACK   Neither One Wounded— They’re Really Lucky G.I’. ©

SOVIET FORCES SLASH DEEPER INTO BELGRADE   Brigage In House.’ yase-To- House Fight ing — Launch Air Offensive

Planes Open New Assault On Frontier   Red Army Troops Mass Along Border: Of Czechoslovakia.

Soviets Massing on Czechoslovak Frontiers: Slashing Into Belgrade

REDS SLASH DEEPER INTO BELGRADE   Also Mass Forces On Two Eastern Czecho Frontiers

DEWEY EYES N.Y. SENATORIALRACE   EXPECTED TO TAKE HAND IN SELECTING REPUBLICAN NOMINEE

, Dewey To Pick GOP Nominee ” For Senate   : Bricker. Reports ' Candidates To Stump ~ Nation About Sept. 1.

Dewey Appears Planning Hand  In Senate Race   May Interest Himself in Selection of GOP Candidate to Oppose Wag ner, Democrat

Bloody Clashes Are Reported In All Hungary   Crisis Gathers Swiftly In Budapest

ORDER CUTBACK IN PRODUCTION OF AIR PLANES   Shift In Emphasis Seen To Gian! SSuper” Bombers Used Tn Pacific

Japs Circle Hengyang   Severe Fighting for City Taking Place; lors Big Blow for China

Japs Surround Another Vital Chinese City   Bad Defeat Faces Ally—-U. 8. Planes Punch at Islands

Eneiny Forces  Ring Hengyang. Vital Hunan City   Islands Of Guam ‘And Rota Again Targets Of Raids By American Aircraft

PAN-AMERICAN SPLIT FEARED   Argentina Jarred By U. S. Policy Toward  Government

Argentina Courts Small Neighbors   U. §. Recognition Will Be Delayed

More Neighbors  May Recognize  Argentine Regime Step by Paraguay  And Uruguay Would Snlit In Solidarity

EMPLOYMENT DROPS IN STATE FACTORIES   Nine Percent Decline Noted In October With Increase In Combined Weekly Pavrolls

Forts Deliver Sharp Raid on Dutch Airfield   Key Airdromes, Suppl Depots Hit on 20th Day of Air Offensive: Bucharest Attacked

1,750 BOMBERS HIT VARIETY OF ENEMY TARGETS   Planes Striking From Italy And Britain Drop 6,000 Tons Of Explosives

HIGHLIGHT 20TH STRAIGHT DAY OF ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE WITH 1,750 STRIKING FROM BRITAIN AND ITALY.

1,750 Planes Strikefrom Britain, Italy   Size of Raids Down, But Nature of Targets Considered Significant  6.000 TONS DROPPED

250 Flying Forts — Hit Duteh Drome   RAF Loses 49 Big Craft In Moonlight Forays

Flying Fortresses Blast Nazi Airbase in Holland — On 20th Day of Big Raids   6,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Hitler’: Europe in Day; Mediterranean Forces In First Bucharest Night Attack   RAF Hammers Bochares?

SHARP ATTACK MADE ON NAZI HOLLAND BASE   RAIDERS DROP 6000 TONS OF BOMBS IN ONE DAY

More Explosives Rain On German:   All Yanks Return; Britich Lose A9

OTH OTRAIGHT DAY OF ATTACKS   Bombers Hit Wide Variety of Military Instalations   RETURN SAFELY   ‘Vital Front Supply Depots, Foe Will Need to Meet Invasion, Destroyed

Allied Aerial In Twentieth Straight Day   All Fortresses Return From Heavy Raids On Nazi Airdromes In Eurove. While Italian

Massed Raiders Again Smashing German Targets   Anti-Invasion Fortresses In France, Germany Are Pulverized; Vital Front Supply Depots. Picked Out By Allied Bombers

1,150 Bombers Rain 6,000 Tons On Nazi Europe   Germany’s Fighter Plane Strength Is Dwindling Rapidly.

Flying Fortresses Deliver Sharp Attack on Airdrome  SUPPLY DEPOTS IN FRANCE ATTACKED  Wide Variety of Targets Pounded During» Day

Gov. Dewey Maps Plans For Second Round In Battle To Oust New Deal

DEWEY MAPS 2ND CAMPAIGN ROUND   BROWNELL SAYS MANY VOTES GAINED BY TOUR

NO PLANES ARE LOST IN BLOWS   Weather Over Channel Bad; Five Railway Yards Pounded

Enemy Opposition Light Over Europe   Italian Based Bombers Also Join In Attacks, Hitting Romanian Oil Fields and Refineries

RAF TEUNDERS OVER CHANNEL      Follow Up Daylight Blows by Yanks

French Coast Targets Also Are Hit   Axis Radios Go Off Air, Indicating New Night Assaults

[DEWEY SEEMS (ASSURED OF NOMINATION   New York Governor Has Enough Pledged Votes to Give Him First Ballot  Namimaton

A Swing ‘To Dewey Bandwagon   Nomination On First Ballot Believed Cer tain As GOP Convention Gets Under Wav

REPUBLICANS MEET IN 23RD NATIONAL CONVENTION MONDAY ' FIRST BALLOT NOMIN.  .’ ATION APPEARS CERTAII EOR N VY. COVERNOR

Dewey Far in Lead For Nomination For Presidential Republicans Open Convention Sessioi

Dewey s Backers Claim First Ballot Nomination Sure   681 Claimed Wher First Convention Session Closes

Dewey Seems Assured Of Nomination   Harvests More Than Enough Vote Pledges; Platform Planks Afternoon Business

Backers of Dewey Say Nomination Settled in Advance   Republican National Convention Holds Brief Session Today Before Recessing to Hear Gov. Warreii’s Keynote Address Tonight

Will Name Dewey On, First Ballot   Pledged Votes Exceed Majority as G.O.P, Con“vention Opens :   THE KEYNOTE TONIGHT   Governor - Warren Is Pos. sible Choice for Vice  President

DEWEY HAG ded PLEDGE VOTES      As First Session Ends Supporters Say He fs Assured 159 Others.   NEED 529 TO NOMINATE

Delegates Leaping to Gov. Dewey   First Ballot Nomination Certain . Wednesday When G.O.P. Will Vote   KEYNNOTE TALK AT 9 TONIGHT      Bricker Battles On and Platform Makers Are Busy; Hall Hotter Than Coffee

—Republicans Open 23rd National Convention—  Gov. Griswold To Place Dewey In Nomination   NEW YORKER LOOKS LIKE CINCH ON FIRST BALLOT; BRICKER AIDES STILL FIGHTING

Black Widows Break Up Attempted Jap Air Blow On Biak: Pulverizina Raids Continue.

Nips In Costly Retreat In New  (Guinea Sector   Trapped Enemy Strafed by Planes; Aussies Drive on Madang; Rabaul Heavilv Raided

Triple Blows Lash Japs In Pacific Area _ 15 Planes Downes ln Rahan! Attael

Aussies Renew: Jungle Attack   Shipping Base ( Of Madang _ Is: Goal; “Japs. Strafed: In Costly Retreat...

15 Nip Planes Are Downed in Rahaul Rai   $,000-Ton Enemy Freighter Is Reported Sunk

Aussies Drive Against Jap Base at Madang   15-6. Air Victory Over’ Rabaul ‘Reportec By. Allies in Pacific

Aussies Drive Thru Jungles To Get Japs   Nips Strafed By Planes And Aerial Fighters Nab 15

UPWARDS Of 850 PLANES BLAST RUHR   Concentrate On Area Threatened By Allied Armies

$50 Yank Planes Batter Ruhr   Other Planes Strike From South, Berlin  Declares

850 Yank Bombers Strike At Ruhr Valley Arealoday   Italy-Based Planes Also Strike Into Southern Germany

UHR VALLEY TRAFED BY . §. PLANES   wards of 850 Aircraft  isit Area Immediately Threatened by Four Advancing Armies

HIT RUHR TARGETS   Bombs Dropped on Installations at Gelsenkirchen and Munster

RUHR VALLEY LASHED BY 850 U.S, RAIDER’      Berlin Says Other Bomber Blast Southern Germany

Ttalian-Based Bombers Over Germany   Swarms of Fighters Buzzed Back and  Forth Across Channel!

U, S. BOMBERS HIT RUHR VELLEY   Berlin Reports Other Raids on Germany

Dewey Tells More About $1,000 Cluk   Another Letter Presented on ‘Special Privilege’

ARMED FORGES IN DEMAND 10 BACK INVASION LAWS   No Steps Will Be Taken. in the Near Fuiure, Says May

SERVICES’ PLEA TODRAFT LABOR REBUFFED AGAIN   Cut Physicai Test, Induc 4-F’s, Congress Group € Recommends

Today in  W ashington   A Roundup of Developments From the Nation's Capital

Russ Participation In Political Setups Assured  Permanent United Nations Pian Seen for Future

Russ Participation In Political Setups Assured  Permanent United  Nations Plan Caan fae £iihtire

Pledge Russian Aid in Europe   Collaboration For Final Drive Assured In Agreements

AGREE ON PLANS TO ADMINISTER LIBERATED AREAS   ALLIES FORM PACTS WITH NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, BELGIUM

RUSSIA WILL HELP GOVERN NAZI EUROPE   Three Powers To Collaborate In Government

Japs Launch New Threat   Other Columns In Burma Stopped: Islands Lashed

Japs Hurl New Threat at Allied India Supply Lines  Losses in Land Drives From Burma Bases

Allies Halt Indian Drive  a Mlauciua   Japanese Offensive Has Run Into Snag

Threat fo Vital Allied Supply Lines in India   Three Nippon Spearheads Out of Burma Stopped by U. N.

Three Japanese Thrusts Into India Are Stopped: New Threat Develops

Alfred E. Smith's Wife Dies, Victim Of Virus Pneumonit  Famed as Housewife, Interest Centered in Family but Made Campaign Trips With Al

MRS. AL SMITH, 65, - DIES EARLY TODAY   Wife of Former’Governor 0! N.Y. Had Been. 12 of _~ Pneumonia 5 Weeks

Mrs. Al Smith Dies Today   Wife of Democratic Candidate in 1928  Succumbs

Mrs. Al Smith Claimed by Death   Wife of Former New York Governor Dies From Pneumonia

MRS, AL SMITH DIES OF VIRUS PNEUMONIA   Wife of Former New York Governor Ili 5 Years

MRS, AL SMITH IS DEAD AT 65   Wite of Former N. Y. Governor Victim of Virus Pneumonia Today

Mrs. Al Smith Died Today   Was In Her 60th Year Married In 1900; Interest Centered On Family

Airs. Smith, a Quiet, Un ostentatious Person, Was  Deeply Religious; Reeeived By Pope

MRS. AL SMITH TAKEN BY DEATE   Wife Of Former, Gover“nor Is: Victim-Of Virus Pneumonia”

MRS, AL SMITH, 69, SUCCUMBS      Pneumonia Fatal to Wife of  Ex-New York Governor

Report Allied Landings Made On Nicobars   Istands Are Off Tip Of Sumatra Athwart Route to Singapore

SIX JAP VESSELS HIT IN AIR RAID   Units of Convoy Sunk or _. Damaged by Allied Fliers

SIK JAP VESSELS HIT IN AIR RAID      Units of Conyoy Sunk or . Damaged by. Allied

SIX SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED BY ALLIED PLANES   Jap Convoy Badly Battered Trying To Supply.  Garrisons   RABAUL SUBJECTED TO DAILY POUNDING

SIX VESSELS HIT OFF ISLAND OF MUSSAU   Japanese Convoy Taking Supplies To Distressed Garrisons In Bismark; Archipelago Air Target.   One Plane Down

PLANES ATTAGK JAPANESE CONVOY   Six Vessels Sunk Or Damaged In Attack Still In Progress; Ships Hit Northwest Of New Ireland

ALLIED PLANES SEND DOWN SIX JAPANESE SHIPS   Air, Sea Battle Still Going Off Bismarck Archipelago

Air Medal Awarded To Sgf. Harry Moss   Mother to Keep Medal for Son Now in Jap Prison

Air Medal Awarded To Sgt. Harry Moss  Mother to Keen Medal far   Mother to Keep Medal for Son Now in Jap Prison

Congress Expects A Victory Over Nazis in 1944  Fear Fight With Japan May Last  ech lA wuw!4AT

Nazi Collapse In 1944 Seen   Senator Thomas, Utah, Believes Japan May Hold Out Until 1947

MILLS ALSO RATIONED   'Solons Expect Europe Victory In 1944 Roosevelt And Stimson Predict Offensives, Warn Of Losses

Jap Destroyer, 2 Cargo Vessels Sunk By Allied Planes Off New Guinea

THREE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY BOMBERS      Destroyer and Two Mer. _ chantmen Sent Down Off Aitape

JAP DESTROYER SUNK BY PLANES ~ OFF NEW GUINE!   eile Small ‘Merchant Ships _ Also Blasted to Bottom— ~ Unopposed Raid Made on Rabaul.   MARINES STRENGTHEN HOLD ON ST. MATTHIAS   Australian Patrols Moving on Madang Reach Outpost of That Strong, Enemy  * mMacao.

Rabaul Again Hit Without Nip Opposition   Marines Strengthen Positions in St. Matthias Isles

Allied Planes Sink Three Jap Vessels   MacArthur Reports Another Une»posed Raid on Rabaul; St. Matthias Islands Cives Americans Air Base Closer to Truk

Bomber Sinks Jap Destroyer   Marines Lack Opposition Ac St Matthias Isle

JAP DESTROYER IS SENT DOWN   Two Small Merchantmen Also Sunk By Fliers In Aitape Area

Allied Planes Sink 3 More Japanese Ships   Destroyer, Two Cargo Boats Blasted; Huge Jap Force Encircled

British Forces Unable To Hold Supporting Link   Hard-Pressed Units Cling To Bridgehead Along Rhine River

KRUG TO HALT WPB SQUABBLES   ‘Naval Officer Expected To Be  Permanent Boss

NEW WPB HEAD DEMANDS UNITY   Threatens to Dismiss Any Internal Brawlers

Green Light Given New Head of WPB   Krug Warns Members On Internal Brawls

FORD TROUBLE MAKERS FIREL   President Of CLO) Looks On As Company Takes Disciplinary Action

Americans Control Admiralties   Japanese Offensive Against Bougainville Breaks Down; Eombers Raid Java

KEY AIRDROME ON ADMIRALTY ISLAND SEIZEL   Jap Offensive Agains' U. 8S. Bougainvitle Beach Fails

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE ON MANUS ISLE   Capture Airstrip, Reach Edge of Lorengau Town

Yanks Nearly In Control of Adimiralties   Seize Manus <Airdrome;   Big Jap Naval Station on Java Blasted

Drive Forecasts Complete Control of Admiralties   Jap Offensive Against Bougainville Beach  Has “Broken Down”

U. 8. TIGHTENS ITS GRIP ON ADMIR ALTIES   American Forces Near Complete Control With Capture of Big Airdrome.

Yank Forces Near Complete Control Over Admiralties   Enemy Offensive At Bougainville Is Broken Up

CAPTURE MANUS ISLAND AIRDROME   Jap Offensive Against Beachhead on Bougainville Collapses, MacArthur Savs

Poles Report Move To Start New Regime for Nation  Exiled Government Is On Guard Against Underaround Actions

NEBRASKA AND ILLINOIS VOTE IN PRIMARIES   Names Of MacArthur And Stassen Before Republi can Voters Today   ALASKAN DELEGATION SUPPORTING DEWEY

TWO STATES HOLD PRIMARIES TODAY   M’Arthur Entered Without Authorization in Illinois While Stassen Unopposec In Nebraska

 Two States Hold Primaries Today  Outcome Of Vote Not Binding  On Party’s Choice Of Nominee

Stassen-MacArthur vote appeal to te shown in primaries of two states

*T wo Republican Primaries Today Spotlight Candidates in Uniform

VOTE TRENDS WATCHED IN 2 STATES TODAY   GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S NAME ENTERED IN ILLINOIS

Two States Hold Primaries Today  mares soday  Outcome Of Vote Not Binding  On Party’s Choice Of Nominee

Vote in Illinois And Nebraska Watched Today  MacArthur Entered In One, Stassen In Other Primary

Nation Gets Look at Two Primaries   NEBRASKA AND ILLINOIS WILL ELECT NATIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATES TODAY; TOTAL POLLS COUNT MOST.   Dewey Still Gains

QUEBEC CONFERENCE DESIGNED GET BEST FROM WAR EFFORTS  - WORKING FOR COMBINE! srw AN IN CUINA BDACILCI   WORKING FOR COMBINED ACTION IN CHINA, PACIFIC AND EUROPE IS CLAIM

Conferring For All Out War Effort   U. S. and British Coordinate Plans With Allies in  Europe, Pacific

Quebec Meeting Intended To Get “The Best” Out Of Joint U:S.-British’ Effort:

China Aid Studied, FDR Says   President Explains Over-All Purposes of Quebec Conferences

Conference Designed To Get Best Out Of British, U. S. War Effort’

PRESIDENT AIRS MAIN PURPOSES OF CONFERENCE   Attempt To ‘Get Best We Can From U. S., British War Effort

Speedy Onslaught On Philippines Is Forecast At Quebec Conference

Getting Best in Combined Power Conference Goa!   Additional High Officials Arrive At Quebec Meetina

-FDR-Churchill Conference Has Global Aspect   Designed to Get Best Possible Out of Combined British and US War Effort in Europe and Pacific

Early Blows On Philippine: Seen Likely   Onslaught May Start Before Quebec Meeting Completes Plans

 President Rocsavelt Says: Best Combined British, U. 5.  War Effort Aim Of Parley

Combined U. 5., British Efforts Topic In Parley   Speedy Onslaught O1 Philippines Predicted As Commands Work On Pacific Program

TO GET BEST POSSIBLE FROM THE COMBINED WAR EFFORT OF BRITISH AND AMERICANS IS MAIN OBJECT -

-HILIPPINES ATTACK MAY COME BEFORE ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL PARLEY CLOSES

Parley Hints At Early Invasion  Of Philippines   Perhaps Before Thanks giving, Say Some Mili tary Men.

For Efficiency in Pacific Conflict   Roosevelt Discloses Purpose of Conference With Mr. Churchill

Federal Ballot Hopes Ebbing   Wild Session Ends In  Decision Against Form

Barkley Retires From Senate Leadership   Splits With President Roosevelt Over Tax Bill Veto and Other Matters.   Conferees’ Try For Soldier Vote

U.S. BOMBERS POUND FRANCE   British Planes May Be Over Nazi Capital Again

Mystery Coast Target Again of U.S. War Planes   Berlin Heavily Hit by RAF; Holland Air Field Blasted

Targets In France Hit By American Bombers   U.S. Airmen Follow Up RAF'’s 14th Winter Saturation Attack on. Berlin-——Greatest Air Offensive in History Continues

War Planes Again Bomb Calais Area   Attacks Follow-Up Raid On Berlin and Include Holland Among ~ Targets

Anti-invasion targets hit by  bomber force   No opposition is encountered

GREATEST AIR OFFENSIVE IS IN FIFTH DAY   Military Objectives In France And Holland As Well As  Germany Targets For Allied Blows.   Bad Weather

Allied Air War Refuses ‘Nazis Rest   American Planes Pound French Coast, Air Field

Northern Coast Of France Hit By Liberators   Important German Positions Raided

Anti-Invasion Targets Hit By Americans   Raids on French Coast Follow Attack Made on Berlin

FRENCH COAST AREAS ARE HIT BY U. §. PLANES   Raid on Holland Airport Also Follows Berlin Attack

. 3.900 Tons of Bombs)  Drop on German Targets  In Period of 48 Hours

Enemy Threatens Important Base in Hunan  Chinese Face Loss Of Two Vital Railway Centers

Jap Forces Menace — Strategic Lukow   Fall of Bastion to Troops By-Passing Chang- sha Would Open Way for Enemy Drive on Vitally Important Hengyang.

Japs Bypassing Vital Changsha  Threaten Lukow, Pave Way To Hengyang

7 a Yeas Ev2 Br c  o7 Ve-y 3.:w   Some  ura-~ *_v Un <0 AUssia; 52 as Zocce> Zanmms —1

U.S. Heavies Hit Berlin, Fly  On to Russia   First Shuttle Mission Between Britain and Soviet Carried Out; RAF Also Raids City

[1,000 Heavies Raid Berlin Wednesday  ae ¢ ee a om:   RAF Follows Up . Against Nazi Capital Farlv This Morning

German Silesia — Oil Plants Hit By U. S. Bombers   Airfields in Romania, Bail Bridges in Southeastern France Strafed Again

R Duster Member of Distinguished Service Unit   Mr. and Mrs."J. A ter Is Squadron _ Sgt. Major

R. Duster Member ie of Distinquished: Service Unit   Mr. and Mrs.*J. A ter Is: Squadron be Sgt. Major

Disclose Details of ‘The Goon Gun  Used Successfully in Pacific and italy

5,000 PLANES HIT NAZI INDUSTRIES AIRCRAFT CENTERS   As Nazis Pull Back Behind Greve River; British Eighth Army Within 3 Miles of City.   Lose Nine Planes

Communications: Targets, German Aircraft Plants... And Robot Depots Hit -

3,000 ALLIED PLANES BLAST ROBOT BASES   Aircraft Plants Alsc Hit in Big Aerial Bombardment  ~s 2 850 27NRF SOE TERA AS

FEAR ‘FILIBUSTER MAY CURB ACTION ON FLOOD CONTROL   Opponents May Discuss Controversial Issues Until Bill  Is Blocked..

News Day And Night   Hodges Men Burst Inte Forest Battlefield Town Of Hurtgen        Ninth Approaches Roer River Line   Patton’s Troops C ontinue Push Through Maginot  Line Defenses :

Drive Gathering Power; 3rd, 9th Score New Gains   Patton Widens Front In Saar Basin; Seventh Spreads Along Rhine Plain

U.S. 3rd Army Widens Front In Saar Area   Americans Burst Into Hurtgen; Frenz Falls To Doughboys; First Army In Four Miles Of Duren; Ninth Nears Roer River

AMERICAN UNITS DRIVE DEEPER INSIDE GERMANY   Yanks Seize Town 25 Miles From Cologne, Enter Hurtgen

NINTH, THIRD ARMIES PUSH FORWARD   Allies Close In On Duren, Advance In Saar   HEAVY BATTLES   Rage Around Julich, Barmen, Koslar, Kirchberg: Weather Bad

American Troops Drive Into Reich   Heavy Infantry Battles Pressed In Spite of Mud and Flooded Rivers

Ninth, Third Drive Deeper Into Germam   Captures Frenz: 14 Miles Inside Reich, North Of Road  Leading To Duren.   GOOD FLYING WEATHER

U. S. Armies Keery Slashing On Deep Into Reich   First Army Enters Town of Hurtgen, Captures Frenz; Ninth and Third Make Continual Gains, Utilizing Tanks, Big Guns, Infantry

IVESTERN FRONT—   Allied Armies Drive Deeper Into Nazis’ Home Territory   lYank Ninth Army Wades In Knee-Deep Flood Waters Of Roer In Battle For Julich; Saar Basin Front Widened

SMASH AT GERMANY   Aircraft And Chemical Centers Targets of Raid

German Rail. Oil Centers Are Bombed   3.000 Planes Rock Axis Europe In Powerful Davlight Attacks

AMERICAN AIRMEN ROCK AXIS EUROPE   Two Way Blow Hits Aircraft And Chemical Centers

SMASH BLOW AT NAZI CENTERS   Aircraft, Chemical Centers In Several Places Are Bombed

BOMB PLOESTI AND GERMANS WAR INDUSTRI   3,000 Bombers and Fighters Rock Fortress Europe in New Raids.

American Warplanes and PT Boats Sweep Along Nothern New Guinea Coast—Liberater Bombers Again Strike into Carolines.

Eyewitness Sees Jap Bombers Shot Down Off Formosa      Cruisers’ Guns, Yank Fighters Nail Nins

FORGE ALLIED TROOPS BACK ON ANZIO BEACHHEAL   Heavy Rain Stops Air Support; Germans Retreat In  Ruesia.

AMERICAN PARTY AMBUSHED BUT G0} AWAY FROM NAZIS   Maj. Gen. Charles W. Ryder and Four Other Members Had Thrilling  Fynerien ca

FIRE MARSHAL ORDERS BUILDING HERE MODELED   ’ Order Would, Remove Third Story From __ Gleason Structure...

FIRE MARSHAL UADERS EUILOING HERE HODELED   Order Would Remove Third Story From  Gleason Structure

HIMMLER TRAINS YOUNG GERMANS   NAZI RESISTANCE DURING ALLIED OCCUPATION PREDICTED BY EDEN.

FOURTH WAR LOAN DRIVE LAUNCHED   Five Million Volunteers Undertake Bia Job

ONAL wn HE ARE PUSHED   Fourth War Loan’s Goal Is Highest In History.

Five Million Volunters Begin Job of Raising Five and Half Billions

US Launches Fourth War  Loan Drive   Treasury Goal  Is 14 Billion

Millions Begin — ~ War Loan Drive   Volunteers Begin Task of Putting Over Uncle Sam’s Fourth War Loan Campaign.

Rimini Placed In Range Of Big Guns   Many Germans Taken Prisoner By Poles; Canadians Advance

Allies Pour Through Gap In Nazi Line   Advance 12 Miles at Some Points on Italian Front

Gothic Line” Gap Opened   British, Canadians’ : Streamine. Through.

Sth Smashes Through Gap In Gothic Line   Gains 12 Miles: Guns Set Up to Bombard City of Rimini

Final Assault on  Philippines Near   Aerial Drive Paves Way For Invasion As Japs Step up Defense

Clearing Way To Philippines   Airmen Drive Jap Planes From Approaches; Tokyo Fears Philippine Landings

Eighth Within  Rimini Range   ‘Streams Through 20 Mile Gap In Germans’ Vaunted — Gothie Line.

AERIAL DRIVE TO CLEAR WAY FOR INVASION   Japanese Forces Have Been Driven from Approaches of Philippines

ALLIES NEAR RIMINI ON THE ADRIATIC   British and Canadians Well Within Artillery Range of City in 12Mile Drive Through the Gothic Line.

BRITISH GAIN 12 MILES IN BREAK THRU   Vaunted Defense Line Breached for Distance of  20 Miles by Allied Forces

8th Army Tears A 20-Mile Gap In Gothic Line   Adriatic City Of Rimini Within Range Of BritishCanadian Artillery.

BRITISH, CANADIAN TROOPS ARE POURING THROUGH NAZI LINE   ALLIES EMERGE INTO PLAINS COUNTRY AFTER CRASHING GOTHIC LINE

Two Raids on Davao Blast 41 Nip Planes   Final Aerial Drive to Clear Pathway for Invasion of Philippines Appears Under Way —13 Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged.

Gothic Line Is Cracked By 8th Army   British. Canadians Advane 12 Miles Through 20Mile Gap

Aerial Drive To Cleai  Invasion Path Underway   Allies Advance 12 Miles Past Nazi Gothic Line

ALLIES NEARING RIMINI IN ITALY   8th Army Gains 12 Miles: Yanks North Of Pisa

Eighth Army Rolls Through Gothic Line   British and Canadians Push On Toward Rimini on the Adriatic.

FINAL AERTAL DRIVE TO CLEAR PATHWAY PHILIPPINES OPENS  TWO HEAVY RAIDS ON DAVO, MAJOR ISLANDS PORT VERY DAMAGING

Eighth Army Pours Through Gothie Line   Advance 12 Miles To Within Artillery Range Of Rimini And In-Po "sition To Cut’ German Communications: With Reich And Balkans.

Eighth Nears City OF Rimini   Fifth Army Clears Way To Highway Between Pisa and Florence.

A 20 Mile Gap In e ‘Gothic Line      British and. Canadian  Hroops Are Advancing + an Italy   Three Important Point: Ate Taken by Canadian  ers

Phil ppines Aw Attacks Stepped Uy   Final Aerial Drive Opened To Clear Invasion Path To Islands

ON THE LAST LAP   Final Drive to Clear Way for Invasion of Philippines Is On ©

Allied Soldiers Make New Gains   GOTHIC DEFENSE LINE SMASHED IN ITALY

Nips Driven Off Philippine Isles Approaches   And Temporarily Fron Southern Philippines _ Reports’ MacArthur

Allies Stream ‘Through Gap In Gothic Line   Eighth Army Within Artillery  - Range of Rimini; Fifth Army Clears Enemy from Important High Ground -

Allies Bag 41 Nip Airplanes   Heavy Allied Raids Blast Japs From Philippine Approaches

Gothic Line Fails to Stop Allied March   British and Canadians Tear 20-Mile Gap in Fortifications

eee  “Radio Atlantic Claims  ‘Paratroop Alarm Is  Given Along West Wall

LEM FRANKLIN DIES OF BLOW   Hold Boxer Who Kayoed Negro Heavyweight

Nips Land More Reserves in Try to Halt Yanks   War Department Announces Superfort Strike in China; Enemy Says Homeland Raided by 80: Planes; Philippine Fight Tempo Increases

“Superforts” Blast The City of Nanking   B-29 Blow Is Second Major Attack on Nips in a Week—Japanese Declare Heavies Also Drop Bombs on Two Home Islands.

Daylight Raiders Pound Vital Nipponese Targets; One B-29 Missing.

Nippons Land Fresh Troops on Leyte Isle   Savage Battle for Leyte Now Involving More Thar 100,000

SUPERFORTRESSES HIT THREE VITALLY IMPORTANT TARGETS  NANKING AND SHANGHAI

Superforts Hit Nanking in Daylight Raid   Shanghai and Kyusht Island Also Are Bomber Targets

LASH NANKING, SHANGHAI AND OMURA, JAPAN   One Superfort Missing on-Raids, Preliminary Dispatches Indicate

Temperatures   Nanking, Shanghai In China Also Hit By Superforts

Supers Strike Again   B29s RAID KYUSHU ISLAND, AND NANKING AND SHANGHAI IN JAPANESE-OCCUPIED CHINA

1,900-PLANE YANKEE FORCE PUSHES ATTACK   Daylight Stabs Follow RAF Night Raid Aimed Chiefly Ai Frankfurt

1,000 RAF Planes Blast Frankfurt   Heavy Fighter Escort Goes With Forts And Liberators

Nazis Resist U. S. Attack On Air Bases   Germans “Rise to Bait’’ When 1500 Planes Strike at Targets in West

Americans Bomb Nazi Air Force On Its Home Base   Nearly 1,500 Planes Strike at Brunswick District of the Reich.   Follows 1,000 Plane Raid by RAF Airmen

Day Attacks Follow Large Seale Raid Last Night   RAF Loses 33 Craft  In Major Poundings

500 FORTS AND LIBERATORS IN HEAVY ATTACK   Brunswick District, Werl, Big German Bomber Base Among Targets

BOMBER RAID LURES ENEMY INTO COMBAT   Smash at German Air Force in Home Bases After Frankfurt Blow,

1,900 Ships Raid Bases Of Luftwaffe   German Air Force Rises To Meet Bold Day Attack

Germany Hit ‘Again by U. S. Planes   Violent Air Battles Rage as Nazis Attack Day Flights

Maj. James Stewart's Commanded One Wing “Over Berlin Yesterday  For His 11th Mission

1,500 PLANES STRIKE REICH IN BOLD RAID   Follows 1,000-Plane RAF Night Attack Upon  Frankfurt

RAF STRIKES AT  FRANKFURT WITH  OVER 3,000 TONS ATTACK CARRIED OUT  BY 1,000 PLANES; 33 LISTED AS MISSING

Allies Continue  Heavy Pounding Of Nazi Fields   German Air Force I: Hard Put

Yank Raiding Force Hits Plane Stations At Werl, Oldenburg and Handorf

Frankfurt Is Battered By 1,500 Planes   ‘American Mission Follows ~ 1000-Plane RAF Night Raid on City

U. 5. Fortresses and Liberators Attack Brunswick Area and Aircraft Plant at Werl

U. S. Bomber Force Follows Britishers   Explosives Dropped on Airdromes in Effort To Destro Luftwaffe on the Ground

1,900 PLANES   Follow - Up Heavy British Attack On Frankfurt   Still Burn In Berlin From Wednesday’s Pounding; R. A. F. Loss Is 33

Aircraft Par ‘kk And Station Tare vets   Bomber Base And Brunswick Also Hit In Widespread Strong Attacks

Allied Bombers In Great Sweep Over West Germany   Airfields, Aviation Plants, Installations Hit I Latest Raid On Nazi’s Luftwaffe

BOMBERS Hil NAZI CITIES IN RIC RAIN   1000 Nicht Raider: Attack Frankfurt And Air Bases

Nazi Radio Claims Violent Air Violent Air Battles. - By Escort Planes   Allies. Blast. ‘Brunswick  District, . Air Sites At -Werl, Oldenburg 1 And Bomber Field At Handorf

PLANES HIT FRANKFURT   Yanks Strike At Nazis Second Straight Day In Heavy Assaults

Berlin Reports Violent Air Battles Between American  And German Fighter Craft

t { {  FOLLOWS BIG ASSAULT OF RAF   Bomb Brunswick District And Air Craft Plants

Huge British Force Attacks Frankfurt In Night Operation   Nearly 1,500 U. S. Planes in Today's Raid on Reich; Germans Report ‘Violent’ Air Battles

German Air Force Is Hit at Home Bases   Allies Bomb Brunswick Area, Werl Aircraft Park; Achmer Station, See Fires Burning From Previous Raids.

“Violent” Air Battles Fought, Berlin Claims   Airfield Near Brunswick, Oldenburg and Handorf Targets of U.S. Bold Assaults   Huns Suffer Heavy Casualties In Air   Meanwhile. Frankfurt Set Aflame By RAF Last Night, While Berlin Still Blazes

Nazi Air Force Home Bases Attacked by U.S. Bombers   Daylight Raid Follows Up Heavy RAF Assault on Frankfurt Last Night

U.S. BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS HIT HARD BLOW   Bombard German Air Force On Its Home Bases Following I,000 - Plane RAF Night Raid On Frankfurt; Opposition Reported.

Cerman Radio Reports Violent Air Battles Foughi as Germans Rise fo American Challenge   BERLIN BLASTED   Fires Still Burn in Capital from  American Bombing, With Mosquito Foliow-Uo

Heavy Blows Follow Up RAF Frankfurt Raid   Brunswick Plants, Luftwaffe Stations in Western Reich Hit

RAF Pounds Frankturt tn Night Attaek   Americans Assault German Air Force Installations In Western Reich.   BIG FIGHTER ESCORT

Army Nurses Tell Of Hospital Ship Sinking   Convinced That Bombing Of Hospital Ship Near Italy Was Deliberate

‘Yank Survivors of Hospital Ship  ‘Nurses Say Nazi Bombing Deliberate

OUST GERMANS FROM 3 TOWNS   British Drive Two Miles Beyond Garigliano River

NAZI TANK-LED BLOWS CHECKED BY FIFTH ARMY   American Heavy Bombers Cut Rome Rail Links, Hammer Airfields

British In Fifth Army Drive Two Miles Forward   Drive Germans Back And y Reach Outskirts Of Minturno, Says Report   GERMAN CLAIM SAYS MINTURNO ABANDONED

ADVANCE IN FACE OF NAZI TANK ATTACK   Reach Outskirts’ of Minturno in Bitter Fighting

Railway Town Near Czech 'Border Taken   German Defenses in Odessa Area Appear Collapsing

Troops Storm Across the River at Two Points  OTHER RED GAINS TOLD IN REPORTS   Many Nazis Are Reported. Dead in the Capture nf RBalta

Reds Storm  Across Prut Troops Reach Outskirts Of C zernowitz On Two Sides

Town Capturee 30 Miles From Czech Border   Soviets Push Toward Odessa and Advance In Bessarabia; Drive Close to Czernowitz

Battle Rages. In Capital  ‘Ot Bueovina   Reds Gain in Ukraine With Capture of Balta To North of Odessa  PRUT BRIDGE SAVED

Fleeing foe leaves Prut bridge intael   Balta taken in bloody assault

Rail Town in Carpathian Foothills 30 Miles From Czecho-Slovakia Also Captured By Russians

Fight Way Into Outskirts of Bucovina Capital   Prut Railway Town in Carpathian Foothills Taken

REDS STORM ACROSS PRUT AT 2 POINTS   Fighting Into Capital Of Bu- covina While Other Units  Capture Kolomea Railway Town.   Await Invitation

Allied Troops Withdraw From Monastery Hill Above Battered Cassino   Fight for Italian City Continues Amid Ruins; U. §. Bombers Raid Objectives North of Rome  Nazis Resist Air Attack on Brunswick Factories

SOVIETS PUSH ACROSS PRUT INTO RUMANIA   FIGHTING REACHES OUTSKIRTS OF CZERNOWITZ

Other Gains Are Reported  From Moscow  Soviet Armies Now Only 30 Miles From Czecho-Slovakia

Reds Storm Across Prut  - Troops Reach ‘Outskirts Of > Crarngwitz On Two Sidec

Balta,North of Odessa,Falis to Russian Onslaught; 2,000 Germans Slaughtered

High Court Holds Portal Pay Legal   Justices Also Find Rent Control Constitutional

TRAVEL PAY FER MINERS KPPROVEL   Wage Issue Is Upheld Bs United States Supreme Cgqurt

Portal Pay Is Decreed For Miner:   Supreme Cour! Rules Congress Intended fo Include Underground Travel Time as Work   COURT DIVIDES 7-2   Decision Held Not to Foreclose Reasonable Contract Provisions or Customs of Computation

Allows Portal To Portal Pay   Court Declares Miners Entitled To Pay For Underground Travel.

SUPREME COURT GRANTS PORTAL PAY TO MINERS   Alabama Iron Ore Mines Are Subject: Of Test Case

SUPREME COURT FAVORS CLAIMS OF COAL MINERS   High Tribunal Rules Workers Are Entitled to ‘Portal to Portal’ Pay

Underground Travel Pay Held Legal   Supreme Court Backs Miners’ Portal to Portal Wage

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PORTAL TO PORTAL GASE   Ruling Made in Behalf of Underground Iron Ore Miners.

Travel Time Pay Granted Miners   Supreme Court Approve: Portal-To-Portal Time

Miners Win in Supreme Court  Workers in Iron   Workers in lron Ore Mines Granted Portal-to-Portal Pay

On MINERS IN COURT RULE   Underground fron Ore Miners Entitled to ‘Portal to Portal’ Pay.

Authority of OPA Upheld   Can Limit Sales of Retail Fuel Dealer, Supreme Court Rules

Patton Again Stirs up Controversy With Speech in Rritain on Nations Destined to “Rule the World”

USSR Investigating Comm. Reports Nazis Killed 700,000 in Camn Near Lwow

Yanks Raid. Philippines Three Times   Smusl. Jap Airdrowes lanae, First  Such Action in   De Stu. ahs” 7

Tokyo Admits Heavy Attack  Big Guns Of Surface Shins Bombard Islands

2,000,000 Men, Almost’ Shoulder to Shoulder, Driving Forward  COUNTER ATTACK Is THROWN BACK  Gains Are Made Toward  Cologne; Many Prisoners Taken by 9th Army ~

Allies Making Supreme Bid   Tremendous Weight Thrown Into Attacks, Allied Forces Grinding Way Ahead

Massive Test 0! German Staying Powe   Two Million Men Engaged In Crucial Battle Of War

First, Ninth Armies Slash At Rhineland   Nazi Western Lines Rock To Thunder Of Hundreds Of Guns In Aachen Area As Gigantic Battle Gets Started

2,000,000 MEN TAKE PART IN CRITICAL TEST   Front Dispatch Says Breaks Appeared at Several Points

Infantrymen Capture Hundreds of Nazis  Stunned by Blasting From 6,000 Bombers

REPORT BREAKS MADE IN NAZI DEFENSE FRONT   Allies Sending Long Columns of Prisoners  Back From Battle Areas

First and Ninth Carry Brunt Of All-out Attack Made Across Full Length of Siegfried Line

Two. Million Men in Battle   First Gains Two Miles Toward Duren Ninth Bags Long Line of Prisoners In Push Through Sleet and Rain

TWIN DRIVES IN RHINELAND   First Army Moves Ahead 2 Miles, Ninth Takes Many Prisoners.   REPORT BREAK IS MADE

Siegfried Wedge Grows As 2,000,000 Men Clash In ‘Last Great Battle’ :

GERMAN LINES ARE  REPORTED SAGGING  UNDER TWIN DRIVES. FIRST ARMY DRIVES   AHEAD AND NINTH TAKE  MANY PRISONERS

First Is Only 6 Miles From  Duren Center   Ninth Bags Long Lines Of Prisoners; 20 Miles From Cologne.   SLEET: RAIN FAR?

SCANT RESERVES AVAILABLE TO NAZI GENERALS BELIEVED INSUFFICIENT TO HALT YANKS   U. S. First and Ninth Units, Driving From Their Five To Ten-Mile Breach, Punch Out Gains Of One to Two Miles   BRITISH SECOND REACHES MAAS RIVER BEND

Double Attack Into Rhineland Being Made by First And Ninth Armies, With  Progress Made.   MANY NAZI SOLDIERS ARE TAKEN PRISONER

6 Allied Armies Forge  Ahead In Deep Mud - On 400-Mile Front      More Than 2,000,000 Men Believed Engaged In Battle As Great Winter Offensive Is Launched In Effort To Smash Germans

Allies Advance Slowly, Many Prisoners Taken   Several German Towns Captured in Drive in Sleet and Rain; Reports Indicate Breaks in Enemy Lines.

HUGE OFFENSIVE BY ALLIES ROLLS INTO HIGH GEAR   U. S. FIRST, NINTH ARMIES PUSH DEEPER INTO SIEGFRIED.LINE

Struggie in France Mounting   U. S. Ninth and First Armies Shoulder to Shoulder in Line

Entire West Front Blazes With Gunfire   Six Allied Armies Moving Against Hard Hit German Forces

Allies Put Six Armies In Field In Giant Thrust   US Troops Hammer Out Gains Along ‘400 Muddy Miles Of War Front

‘Two Million Men Engaged In Struggle   Long Lines of German Prisoners; Ninth Army  Has Increased Pressure

Hodges Men  Advancing Upon Duren   German Military Commentator Admits Break Has Been Made in Defense Lines Near Stolberaq; Ninth Army Continues Attacks

First U.S. Army Drives Forward Toward Duren   Ninth Army Bags Long Line of German Prisoners

FIRST U. S. ARMY GAINS 2 MILES   Many Prisoners Captured By Ninth; Two Million Men In Battle

ALLIES MAKE SUPREME BID FOR VICTORY   Two Million Men May Be in Action on Western Front as Various Inited Nations Men Attack

KNOCKOUT BLOW BELIEVED 10 BE UNDER WAY NOW   Entire Western Front Aflame As Six Allied Armies Drive Toward Reich

FANTILE PARA’LYS OARD NEEDS MONE}   ss Thatt One-Half Last Year Receipts: Received.   ive to Raise More’ Money Has Been Extended to Feb. 20.

Nimitz Startles Reporters With Communique   Communique of 1592 Proves That Japan Has Been Defeated At Sea.

Admiral Nimitz startles writers with commuzviaue telling of action in 1592

Fight for Myitkyma Continues   Monsoon Rains, Japanese Resistance Prevent Expansion Of Toehold by Allies

Battle Is Bitter 'For Burma Base   e Monsoon Rains Hamper Allies At Encireled Jap Stronghold; Gaps In Siege Lines Are Closed

Japs and Yank: Fight to Death In Myitkyina   Nips Trapped; Torrential   Rains Fall; Chinese ao

Battle for Myitkyina Continues   Rain and Fierce Jap Resistance OS ohn Litmtenes OS mond

Allies Launch Big Offensive from Anzio Beachhead, Italy; Bitter Fighting for Myitkyina

House-To-House Clash Continues For Myitkyina —   Fierce Resistarices Prevents Expansion  _of City Footholds

BATTLE FOR BURMA BASE IN 5TH DAY      Allies Fail to Expand Fecothold At Myitkyina

Bitter Fighting For Myitkyina Checks Allies   Merrill’s Men Seize New Positions Near Burma Stronghold

STREETS IN TOWN ARE QUAGMIRES   Japs Offering Strong @ Resistance; Allied Planes Rule Sky

RAIN DELAYS CAPTURE OF MYITKYINA   Fierce Conflict Rages In Muddy Streets of City

MOVE MADE T0 AMEND SOLDIER VOTE PROPOSAL   Senate Seeks To Make Change Giving Forty-Pive Days Notice

JIM FARLEY PREDICTS   Believes Republican Ticket Will Be Dewey-Warren

Seven Nazi Divisions Annihilated   Triumphant Forces Pour Through Holes In Normandy Lines.

Big Enemy Tank Blast Beaten Off   American Troops Forge New Trap For France Foe

Gains Of Six Miles Made Beyond Captured Cou“td rances   Nazi Left Flank Broken By Attacks   Doughboys Racing Toward Port Of Granville To The South

Enemy Flees In Disorder Toward Britfany   U. S. Troops ‘Destroy’ Half of Germans Blocking Their Way

Japs Fall Back On Burma Front   Enemy Resistance Ends in Admiralties

Gas Rations — Not to Change   No Hope for More Motor Fue in Sight

ARMY CONTROL : OF . TRANSII SYSTEM ' ‘EXPECTED: ™MO0- MENTARILY AS STRIKE  HITS INDUSTRIES.   By INTERNATIONAL NEWS eo SERVICE

Strike-Bound Philadelphia  Awaits Action   President May Order Sei. zure Of Transportation Systems It Is Expected

GUVERNIENT NAY SeWE STRIAE-TELD RANSPURTATON   Philadelphia Subway, and E'evated Lin s Run Only Few Hours

GOVERNMENT MAY SAVE. STRIE-HELD TRANSPORTATION.   Philadelphia Subway, and E'evated Lins  Run Only Few Hours 

Chaplin Tells Story of Barry Love   COMIC DENIES NEW YORK HOTEL TRYSTS, BILLS

PRPOPPPIESPPPPADP ADAP AS  Big F.D.R. Majority — Predicted by Fallace

Great Fires Sweep Through Jap War Industry Area  Heavy Force of Superforts Hit Nagoya; Yank Liberation Forces on Leyte Advance: Nip Losses Unusually Heavy   THE PACIFIC WAR   Rr RAY CRONIN

AT LEAST 4,500 JAPS DIE WHEN TRANSPORTS HIT   14 Other Ships Sunk or Damaged; 68 More Planes Are Plummeted  From Sky.   MANILA AIR FIELDS AND BAY ATTACKEL   Tokyo Now Claims Yank Raid On Tokyo Was  Inconsequential.

U.S. Warplanes And Submarines Bag More Ships   MacArthur Says 4500 Jap Troops Destroyed Aboard Transports

Bishop Heelan —  Confirms Two  Large Classes Contiimation Service  _ At St. Joseph And St. James Churches

Bishop Heelan Confirms Two Large Classes  Confirmation Servic  _ At St. Joseph And

German Civilians Plea Successfut   First Germans To Face Trial Under Allied Rule Freed By Secret Verdict.

CARDINALS WIN SECOND BY o-2   O’Dea’s Single in Eleventh Scores Winning Run Of Game.   BIG CROWD AT CONTEST

Russians Force Upper Dnieper River, Drive Through Gap in Nazi Lines to Within Striking Distance of Bobruisk

Mrs. Peete Cleared in Two Probes   INVESTIGATION SHOWS TWO WOMEN DIED FROM NATURAL CAUSES

Mrs. Louise Peete Judson ‘Nettled’ At Being Accused of Another Murder

Collett on Trial In Triple Murder   Death Penalty Asked For McCoy Killings

JAP GOVERNMENT CHANGE PREDICTEI   m Something Is :  Cooking in Japan,” Authorities Say

Change In Japanese Government Predicted As Result of Crushing Blows Administered By Yank Fleet

Roosevelt and De Gaulle Meet   Royal Welcome Planned. U. S. Will Not Approve French Government. .

120 Tons Bombs Dropped On Nip  Admiralty Base   Airdrome Near Rabaul Is Raided Again

Japs Shipping Heavily Bombed In Luzon Waters   Vessel Loaded With Nip Troops Blasted in Raid

General German Offensive In Yugoslavia Is Smashed   Tito Triumphantly Announces Nazis Stopped But Fierce Battles Continue

TITO WIPES OUT NAZI OFFENSIVE   Reports Yugoslav Triumph: Macedonia Battle Rages

WFA Makes Appeal fo Farmers fo Meet Suaar Beet and Other 1944 Crop Goals

County’s Vote For Governor   Americans Smash  3 Leyte Attacks   U.S. Drive Threatens Last Big Jap Base

JAPS RUSHING RESERVES 10 LAST BASTION   Yanks Throw Back 3 Attacks Before Ormoc

SITUATION, SET FORTH BY GEN. J. WATT PAGE,” ssaaiiichs DIRECTOR.

Assistance For World War 2 Veterans Seeking Employment Is Offered

Kiwanis Club Discuss Post War Planning   Act Passed To Re-instate Veterans In Pre- W ar Jobs

M ARTHUR MEN GAIN ALL ALONG FRONT ONLEYTE   Link With Luzon Expected to Provide New Chain of Good Airfields

Damaging Blows Landed On Two More Jap Ships   Pre-Dawn Attack Made On Borneo Navy Base, MacArthur Announces

2 More Jap Warships Hit by Allied Planes   Liberators Score Damaging Blow In Raid on Naval Base in Borneo

BORNEO RAIDED, HIT TWO MORE JAP WARSHIPS   All Of Philippines Within Land-Based Bomber Range Now

>-U. §. Liberators  Hit Japanese Ships in Borneo   MacArthur Discloses Manila Now in Range Land-Based Bombers

Japanese Troops Pocketed On Leyte Island Near Breaking Point   ALL PHILIPPINES IN LAND BASE RANGE   Enemy Moving Heavy Reinforcements Up The Road From Ormoc

TWO MORE JAP SHIPS DAMAGED BY LIBERATORS   Manila Brought With. in Range of Mac. Arthur’s Bombers

FLIERS HIT” ZMORE JAP WARSHIPS   Bombers Refueling On Leyte Fields For tsland Raids

U.S. Bombers Hit Jap Warships At Borneo Base  Enemy Resistance Near Breaking

TWO MORE JAP WARSHIPS ARE HIT FROM AIR   Intensified Raids Are Made Possible by Refueling Bases on Levte.

TWO MORE JAP WARSHIPS HIT BY LIBERATORS   MacArthur Discloses Manila Within Range Of Land Based Planes

Brunei Bay Naval Base  Is Attacked   One Light Cruiser Damaged By Bombs From U. S. Planes.

Seore Hiis On 2 More Nip Ships   Manila Brought to Range of U.S. Land-based Botnbers

Damaging Hits aoe Seored On J ap Warships   Pre-Dawn Attack Made  On Base In Borneo —  Bombers Now Able To  Use Leyte Airfields

NEW RAID ON MANILA REPORTED   Giant Bombers Using @ Leyte As Fuel Base For Heavy Blows

CURRAN FAVORED FOR SENATE SEAT   N. Y, REPUBLICANS EYE STATE OFFICER AS PARTY CANDIDATE

New York Votes Today on Senafo.  Primaries Held I  oo Dass KRéwiwe

Curran Choice Of GOP In NY   Fulbright, Adkins In Arkansas Run-Off

CAPT. DON. GENTILE TO Bi WELCOMED WITH PUBLIC  CELEBRATION AT PIQUA NEXT WEEK

PASTOR EXTENDED CALL BY FREDERICK CHURCH   Rev. Wouter Van Garrett, Formerly Of Hanover, Now Is Minister At Norwood, Near Philadelphia

DEMANDSGRON FOR ACTION ON DRY MEASURE   House Group to Open Hearings Next Week; Bows to Demands of  100.000 Petitioners   BILL WOULD REDUCE ALCOHOL STRENGTH   One Half of-One Percent Proposed; Would Re-  -main Law Until After War

Hearings On Prohibition Are Planned   Over 100,000 Individual Petitioners Demanding Legislative Action   BITTER FIGHT FORESEEN

PLAN HEARINGS ON PROHIBITION   Petitions Pour Into Washington on Issue  Sic ia saa Sa ic is cc a a a a

HEARING (5 SET ON PROHIBITION   Bitter Fight Its Expectet Over Proposal With Many Men In Armed Forces.

, Open Hearings On Prohibition Act Next Week   House Committee Yields To Demands In Flood Of  Datitihane

Prohibition Hearings To. ‘Start Soon    Jlouse Committee To Take Up Bill Of Congressman Bryson

PROHIBITION DRIVE REACHES CONGRESS   Hearings by Committee To  Start Next Week

SPEED HEARINGS ON PROHIBITION   House Committee To Open Hearings Shortly, With Prohibition Advocates As First Witnesses.

House Will Hear Prohibition Pleas   Legislation to Outlaw Liquor Up for Committee Consideration

Nat'l. Prohibition Demands Foree House Hearings   100.000, Petitioners Want Immediate Action; As  Many More Buck Move

Order Hearing On Legislation For Prohibitior   House Sub-Committee To Hold Hearings On WNational Prohibition Legislation As Result Demands of 100,000 Petitioners.

To Consider Prohibition   Start Hearings Next Week on Bill to Outlaw Alcoholic Drinks

House. Plans Hearings On New Dry. Law   More Than 100,000. Petition Congress For: National Prohibition Edict

German Attacks Blasted   Patton’s Army Withdraws. from: Big Metz Fort

Powerful Nazi Attacks Are Repulsed   Enemy Armor Fails To Open Route Into Cit,

3 Nazi  Attacks Smashed   French, Americans Launch New Drive for Southern Germany

ANDGK OUT 13 AGOAULTS BY ENEMY TANKS   Blocking of German Escape Comes After Capture of Wurselen.

SIXTH FORCES POUND BELFORT GAP GATEWAY   New Southern Offensive {s Opened Along 60-Mile Front

Escape Corridor ‘To Northeast Closed By Allies   Three Counter Drives By German Armored Forces Are Repulsed

‘Nazi Escape Corridor Is Cut by Yanks   Garrison ls Being Supplied by Parachute

Aachen Is  Completely Isolated   Three German Counterthrusts Are Hurled Back

NAZI] ARMORED FORCE THROWN INTO ASSAULT   Franco-American 6th Army Opens Drive In South to Outflank Belfort Gap.   BULLETIN

Alter Bearing Off Three Counterattacks By Nazi Armored Forces  HEAVY FIGHTING ON WESTERN FRONTAGE  Large Part Of Aachen In American Control And Confident Of Success

Germans Attempt To Smash United States Army CG Around City, Concentrate Weight Around Verlauter   PRE-DAWN ONSLAUGAT SMASHED BY YANI

‘Germans Uncorx., 3rd Effort To x Dislodge Yanks %   6th Army Strikes On 60 Mi. Front, Gains Above Belfort

LAST ESCAPE CORRIDOR FROM AACHEN CLOSEL   New Drive in Belfort Area

Plan To Limit Assembly Work   Soldiers, Teachers To Hold Spotlight

BRIEF LEGISLATURE SESSION PROPOSED   Only Two Matters Expect. ed to be Acted Upon by Assembly

Allied Fifth Advance In Cassino Sector   Germans Succeed In Reinforcing Garrison, Now CounterAttackine

GERMANS FLOW TO CASSINO BY SECRET PASS   Allies Diseover 1200Yard Tunnel; Savage Rattle Around Hotel

Germans Fight Back Viciously AtCassno   Reinforcements Are Reaching Foe Through 1.200 Yard Tunnel

Allies Advance Slowly Through Cassinoo Section   Enemy Garrison There Strongly Reinforced

CASSINO NAZIS REINFORCED BY SECRET TUNNEL   fnemy Clings to Hotel Fortress

‘Nazis Reinforce Point  Through Secret Tunnel   FIGHT RAGES ON FOR CASSINO   1,200 Yard Cave Used to Defend Ruined Hotel

Cassino Figh Centers Around Hote   Secret Tunnel Helps Nazis Get  Reinforcements

Nazis Slip “Into Cassine Via Tunnel   Murderous Fight Raging Inside Shell of Town

Artillery Halts Nazis, British Advance Slowly   Bloody Fighting Rages At Anzic, Foe Firm At Cassino

HEAVY FIGHTING ~ STILL GOES ON INSIDE GASSINC   Yard-by-yard Advance By Allies Recorded — Nazis Brine Uo More Men.

GRIM BATTLE RAGES TODAY AT CASSINO   Reveal Nazis Use Secret Tunnel to Send Reinforcements

German Troops Lash Savagely Back At Cassino   Nazi Reinforcenients Being Dispatched Through Secret Tunnel

LONDON RAIDED FOR 5TH NIGHT   Churchill Out Inspecting ‘Baby Blitz’ Damage

BABY BLITZ’ AGAIN HITS AT LONDON   Raid on Even Smaller Scale Than Earlier in Week

High Price of Women's Hats and Early Closing of Bars Steals London News

Coming Election Viewed. Contest Of Philosophies   Baldwin Sees Republican Victory Lifting- Peace Above Partisanship

Germans Lose "To llalians   Ground Lost On One Flank Near Cassino

ITALIANS HALT GERMAN DRIVE   Throw Back Assault - On Mt. Marrone

MORE RATIONING TO BE EXPECTED   New OPA Chief Declares Trend Is Toward  Restrictions

CONGRESS APPROVAL (F PLAN 1S NEEDED   Senator Says Ickes Should Be Called to Explain Arahbian Pine Line.

PVT. GEORGE GLADSTONE IS WOUNDED   Occurred Dec. 15 In Italy; No Details Known

ae. oe a Fea sat ee  Funeral Planned for Mrs. Ogden, Former Resident

Oscar Heline To  Speak At Forum  Will Address Forum ‘Next Wednesday

General Stilwell Is Relieved of Post In Far East to Take New Assiqnment

GEN, STILLWELL ODERED HOME   Relieved Of Triple Command, Recafled To Washington

STILWELL WILL. HAVE NEW TASK   General Recalled From Far East; Assignment Is Undisclosed.

NIPS CLAIM U, S, UNITS GROUPING IN PHILIPPINES   Tokyo Also Declares Own Craft Assemble For Another Clash   MacARTHUR JUBILANT   Violent, Terrific Lacing Given Vaunted Nip Sixteenth Division

“VINEGAR JOE" WILL GET NEW FIELD OF DUT}   May Be Put in Command of Army Which Will Be Assigned to Driving Japanese From China

GEN. STILWELL HAS  BEEN ORDERED TO  REPORT WASHINGTON “VINEGAR JOE” REPORT ED SLATED FOR NEW ANI IMPORTANT pocT

General Stilwell Recalled   CHINA - INDIA - BURMA COMMAND BROKEN UP INTO SMALL THEATERS

GEN. STILWELL IS RECALLED   ‘Fighting Joe’ Is Relieved Of Triple Command In Far East Theater

Stilwell Recalled From Far East Command; Reported to Get New and Important Task

Gen. Stilwell Has Been Recalled; To Get New Post   Nature of Assignmen Not Disclosed; CBI Theater Divided

Stilwell Relieved Of Far East Post:   General Recalled by White House;, Theaire Will - Become Two Areas

Stilwell Slated for New Pos!   May Head Army That Will Invade China and Drive the Japs Out   BUT NO OFFICIAL WORD IS GIVEN      ‘Washington Says Only He Has Been Recalled, Will Go to Important New Post

Stilwell Called to New High Pos   Relieved of Tr rip - Command in Far East

Cpl. Osborne Wed: Orpha Stephenson Wedding Takes . ‘Place At Merrill

William DeRoos Weds Betty Jean Dirks Of Akron   Ceremony Takes’ . Place At Home ‘Sunday Afternoon

German ‘Carpetbaggers’ Flee From Adv vancing Russian Army Disorder Reigns in Hungary

German ‘Carpetbaggers’ Are Reported Fleeing Into Huncary Ahead of Soviets

Germans Flee Advancing Reds  Flight Causes Nazis Defense Problems

New Zealanders Attack Two Nazi Strong Points: German Casualties High

63rd Assembly "To Be Convened » Next Wednesday   GOP to Dominate In Both Houses Of New Legislature

Leol - oislature Meets Jan. 3   Threat Of Largest Budget In History Of Missouri

Nazis Intensify Activities Along Main Italian Line   Shell Area for Over Two Hours; Attempt Infiltration

Bucharest And Ploesti OilFields ‘Are Bombed   Attack ‘In Great Strength’ Is Made: Many Enemy Planes Are Shot Down

Fortresses Bomb Ploesti Oil Field   Liberators Attack Targets Bucharest, Now Nazi: War Hub   NAZIS ACTIVE IN ITALY   Ground Forces Attempt Infiltration on Upper Garigliano

Allied Fighter Swarm Fans Over Germany   Strong Fermations Tale Over Pre-Invasion Job From Heavy Bombers 

Bucharest and Ploesti Fields Bombed by U.S.   Many Enemy Fighters Downed, Early Reports Say

ATTACK MADE BY GREAT FORCE   Many Enemy Fighters Reported Shot Down   THUNDERBOLTS   in Spectacular Strike A Airfield In France; Refuse Challenge

PLOESTI OIL CENTER UNDER BOMB ATTACKS   American Liberators of the 15th Air Force Also At tack Bucharest.   Both Are Important To Nazi Supply Line

YANKS SMASH AT BUCHAREST AND OIL FIELD   Fortresses Hammer Ploesti; Many German Fighters Reported Downed

Bombers Hit Ploestt, Bucharest   Heavy Attacks Made On Two German Supply Line Bases

PLOESTIGETS. FOURTH ATTACK   Qil Center and Bucharest Important Centers on Nazi Supply Line.   FIGHTERS GO IN RELAYS

'Liberators Lash At Bucharest As Forts  Deliver Heavy Blow At Ploesti Oil Center   Ry W. W. HERCHER

MANY OF NAZIS FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN IN BATTLE      Liberators Of 15th Air Force Attack Romanian Capital And Oil Fields Vital To German War Ma chine.

Key Rumania Points Pelted   Ploesti Oil Center And Bucharest Bombed By Planes in Italy

Bucharest and Ploesti Attacked Today:by U.S. © Heavy:Bomber. Squadrons

New Raid on  Bucharest   Liberators Attack Capitol As Flying Forts Hit Ploesti Oil Center

GREAT FORCE TAKES PART ~— IN ATTACKS   Fortresses and Liberators Strike From - Italian Bases and Shoot Down Many of Nazi Planes They’ Encounter.

Big Romanian Oi Center Hit ‘By Huge Force   ‘Bombers Meet Number o  Enemy Fighters; Many of Them Are Shot Down      Bucharest Rail Lines Hit, Belief   Strong Fornfations of Deadly Allied Fighters  Fan Out Over Germany During Day .

More Aerial _ Blows in Aid of Russians      Americans Raid Bucharest and Ploesti Oil Fields; Supply Lines. Hit   RELAYS OF FIGHTER PLANES GO ALONG   18th Air Force Bombers Strike in Great Strength; Railroads Attacked ©

Germany's Supply Lines Riddled By Big Sky Fleet; — Many Enemy Planes Downed

LIBERATORS ATTACK BUCHAREST   Forts Raid Big: Romanian Oil Center Of Ploesti

LIBERATORS IN NEW RAIDS IN RUMANIA   Bucharest Again Attack“ed and Ploesti-Oil Fields Are Given Fourth Attack

US. Planes Raid Ploesti And Bucharest   Heavy, Force — . Blasts: Major. Balkan’ Centers .

Big Bombers Hit Ploesti, Bucharest   UWaly-Based U. 5. Liberaters Blast Nazi Communications in Aid of Russians

BUCHAREST, PLOESTI  WERE BLASTED BY  U, S. HEAVY BOMBERS ROMANIAN RAIL AND SUP  PLY CENTERS HIT BY LIBERATONRG FORTRESSES

Italian-Based Bombers Hit Ploesti   Bucharest Also Hit, And Many Enemy Fighters Shot Down in Two-Pronged Assault

Bucharest And Ploesti Bomber   American Air Force Attacks Romania

1,300 Heavy U.S. Bombers  Blast Germans   Enemy Transport, Air Defenses in France Hit: RAF Drops Big Bombload in Attacks

1,300 HEAVIES HIT GERMAR DEFENSES   Transport and Air _ Bases Over 300-Mile French Front Blasted By Americans.   Frisian Islands

Vital Cerisy Forest Taken   Great Normandy Port Threatened by Big New Advance; Carentan Stronghold Falls; British Noose Drawn Around Caen Hinge

(Caen Endangered As British Move In. Flanking Drives   Hole in Center of Beachhead Being Widened; Drive Opens Toward St Lo

YANK FORCES 14 MILES OUT OF CHERBOURG   Encirclement of Caen Threatens as British Drive Nears City

ANS CONTINUE (GAIN GROUND ALONG ALL OF FRENCH FRONT   ONE U. S. TROOP UNIT SMASHES INLAND A DIS. TANCE OF 18 MILES

Moscow Dispatches Report Govorov’s Troops Strike Toward Lappeenranta In Attempt To Cut Enemy’s Main Communication With Their Forces

Russian Drives Threaten Trap For Finn Army   Soviets Gain on 3 Fronts As Germana Report New Red Patral Activity

SAME TERMS AS GIVEN TO OTHER GROUPS   15 Non - Operating Unions Remain Problem

Rail Union Holdouts End Dispute  Move Opens Way To Completion Of Necotiations

‘New Deal Has Grown Old and  Quarrelsome’   Nominee Adds That It Has Failed to Solve Basic Problems

Forts Filled Sky  Over Rome Area   Planes Encounter No Enemy Opposition

U. §., Nazi Infantry Units Fight Bitter Battle in Woods on Moselle, Oblivious to Planes, Artillery

Legislators To Convene Tomorrow   Governor Bailey Calls Extraordinary Session to Consider Presidential Electors Controversy in Mississippi

ENDURING PEACE IS DESIRE OF UNITED NATIONS LEADERS BUT DIFFICULTIES MET ARE CREAT

WAR. TODAY      Enduring Peace May: Depend Largely On: Results Achieved “At Recent Moscow Con-, ference Between Churelill) and Stalin:

PEOPLE GIVE UP HOPE FOR EARLY PEACE   Swedish King Makes Appeat to Helsinki Regime to Quit War,

Meadows Wants Te Gef Out The Vote   Forecasts Victory Over Ex-Sen. Hott— .~ >

Meadows Wants To Get Out The Voie   Forecasts Victory Ove Ex:Sen. Holt . ~>

CONGRESS RETURN TO MEAN WORK   Stiff Pre-Christmas Job  Awaitina Solons on Novemher 14

KERR REQUESTS OKAY ON BONDS   GRDA Would Issue, Sell 11 Millions Worth, Part of Them to Bank

Congressmen Rap  British Move To Abrogate Pledge   Concerns Export:  Under Lend-Leas:

PLANNED RELAXING  OF BAN ON CERTAIN  EXPORTS OPPOSED CONGRESS WANTS BRITISI COMMITMENT ON LEND  Trace DETAINGCH

OPPOSE EASING BRITISH LENDLEASE LIMITS   congress Looks Askance At Discussions Pointed Toward Relaxing Britain's Agreement To Refrain From Exporting Materials Similar To Those Received From U. S.

solons Are Opposed To Allowing Great Britain To Sell Lend-Lease Products to Other Countrie:

Many Firms Black] isted   Early ‘Action Threatened Against Swedish Companies in U. S. A.

U.S. Blacklists  Swedish Firms   Investigate Number Of Corporations Prior To ‘Taking Definite Action.

Maryland Will Welcome Dewey 7 Fe Governor To Speak Today Ai Rally In Baltimore Theater

Baltimore Plans Rousing Welcome For Dewey Today   Thousands Will Hear Candidate

AMERICANS MOP UP ON LOS NEGROS   Jap Resistance Is Broken In Fight At Momote Field

YANKS MOP UP AROUND JAP AIRFIELD   Break Japanese Resistance In Admiralties

U.S. Near Full Occupation of Los Nearos Isle   Jap Resistance Around Airfield Reported Broken

Yanks Prepare To Take Over At Los Negros   Break Jap Resistance Around Momote By Killing 3.000

REACH MOP-UP STAGE IN FIGHT ON LOS NEGROS   End Near With 3,000 Of Jap Defenders Slain Or Wounded

YANKS ENROUTE:TO PARIS ~REGEIVING WARM: WELCOME   MECHANIZED . FORCES. “BEE , CHANGE FROM. THE BITTER * FIGHTING. IN NOR i) MANDY "JUNGLES"

Russian Paper  Publishes Report   Cairo Dispatch Says Two Britishers Met With Succes With van Ribbentrop

Winged Colossus, Its Engines Giving 2,200 Horsepower Each, Off on Flight

Lockheed Constellation, Giant Air Transport. Sets Trans-U S. Record

Largest Land Plane In Initial Continental Hop   Lockheed Constellation Wtih Howard Hughes Aboard Making Test; Goes To ATC

AERIAL COLOSSUS HEADS FOR CAPITAL   Largest Land Transport Flies Non-stop from California

New Airplane Sets U.S. Speed Record   Constellation Crosses Continent in Seven Hours on First Trip

TWA Testing Giant Plane:   Constellation. Makes Washington Journey

Constellation, Described Ac Largest Land Plane, Has Speed Of Over 300  Miles An Hour -

Huge New Plane Sets Sneed Mark  57-Passenger Craft Spans Nation in 6 Hours, 58 Minutes

Airplane Speed Record Is Broken   Lockheed Constellation Crosses Country in Six  Hours 58 Minutes.

Sets New Speed Record’ for  Largest Transport Plane Flight Across Continent

Finns, Aroused By Raids, May Not Seek Peace   Wait And See Attitude Indicated As Pact Sioned By Nazis.

FINNISH ARE UNDECIDED ON PEACE TERMS   Fear Of Russia Heightened By Recent Air Raids

BOMBERS BLAST JAP CONVOY. ~   One Ship Probably Sunk, Three Others: Set Afire in Attack

JAPANESE CONVOY WRECKED ~. NEAR NAVAL BASE AT TRUK   FOUR OF FIVE SHIPS HIT IN AT“TACK BY AMERICAN BOMBERS FROM NEW GUINEA

Berlin Given Terrifying Preview Of A Made -In- America Judgment Day

DEATH CLAIMS LOUIS. MEFFORD   Resident of Windfall for 66 Years Dies After Short TIness -

DrAln GLAINS LOUIS. MEFFORD   Resident of Windfall for 66 Years Dies After Short Illness

Defense System of Hitler's Fortress Europe Is Crumbling as Allies Drive on German Border

‘Frontier stand last nazi hope  Hitler rearguard strategv crushed

45th May Be Record Holder   Officer Sure Holds Mark For Sustained Action—Con. tinuous Over Four Months

‘STATE SOLDIERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED ‘WITH ENEMY FOR 4 MONTES

NAZI GARRISON AT NARVA CUT OFF, REDS SAY   Final Russian Assault On Pskov Launched In South

Reds Batter Narva, Pskov  And Vitebsk   Soviet Offensives Roll Germans Back

Nazis Reel Back Under Red Blows   Soviets Close in On Narva; Fight in Streets of Pskov

Nazis Crumple In N orth Under  Russian Blows   Narva, Pskov, Vitebsk _ Tottering Before  ‘Soviet Drive    NAZIS BURN ONE CITY   Red ' Air Force: Supports ' Drive’ Against — Germans

300-MILE FRONT IS CRACKING   Soviet Army Hammers At Narva, Pskov And Vitebsk

POUNDING AT PORLV, NARVA AND VITEBS   German Front 300 Miles Long Begins to Crack Under Red Hammering.

REDS HAMMERING AT THREE FRONTS   Narva, In Flames, fs Almost Encircled, Street Fights Occur In Pskov.

Reds Cirele Narva, Storm Into Pskov   Soviets Also Rip Into Vitebsk As Germans Crack Up On 300-Mile Front

SOVIETS CRACK GERMAN FRONT   Hammer At Three Key Points Along 300-Mile Line

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON BURNING ESTONIAN CITY   Pskov, Vitebsk Victory Near

Red Victory At Narva and Pskov Nears   Russian Forces Drive  Against Defenses Of Vitebsk

GERMAN LINES “GIVING AWAY ON SO0-MI FRONT   Russians Chop Way Through Pskov’s Streets—Fall le Imminent.

Narva In Flames, Russians Storm Streets of Pskov   German Defenses On Entire Front Giving Under Concerted Blows

Combined Attack Is Made on Jap Islands by Yanks  Surface Craft Join B-29’s Smaller Planes in Assault

Russians eatch foe off guard, threaten: to outflank. Warsaw   Harried nazi command confronted by fresh series of crushing gains.

Conquering Reds Drive to Within 50 Miles of Warsaw   ESCAPE LINE FROM —— LATVIAN CITY CUT   Nazis Blame Disaster on Conspiracy Against Hitler

Soviets Only 7 Miles From Wisla River   Other Troops Break Into Lwow, Cui Last Nazi Escape Railway In Latvia District

» Reds Smash On In 13 Miles Of Wisla, Surround Lwow, Cut Latvian Escape Roufe  Others In 50 Miles Of Warsaw, And

REDS WITHIN TENMILES OF WISLA RIVER   LWOW SURROUNDED; LAST NAZI RAIL ESCAPE CUT

RUSSIANS 7. MILES FROM WISLA RIVER   Rumble of ,Big Guns. Already Audible to . En: slaved Residents of   Former Polish Capital:         LWOW ENCIRCLED -IN SMASH FORWARD   Germans Try Unsuccessfully to Reform Shat« tered Lines as They. Fall Back on Long Front...

‘Areacen “0 Cutan /arsaw “Wr Sirec: Smasa /.: 2eic3; Score Vic-ories on 4... “ron-s

‘Warsaw Periled By Soviet Feint   Russian Attack Cuts Path To Bialvetok Limits

Reds Within Seven Miles Of Vistula.   ‘Threaten To Cross ‘Last Large Waterway » Guarding Fatherland  WAY BYPASS WARSAW

RUSSIANS G0 ON TOWARD WISLA RIVER   Last Natural Defense Line Before Germany Itself; May Sight Warsaw This Week.   Direct Threat

Totfering Nazis Trapped by New Soviel Advance   Warsaw Likely To Be Outflanked

Reds Smash On In 13.Miles "Ol Wisla, Surround Lwow, Cut Latvian Escape Route   Others In 50 Miles Of Warsaw, And Bombers Batter Staaaerina Germans

Bootlegger Not Staging Comeback, U. §. District Supervisor Asserts

Lines Reforming  In Tobaeco Fight   Pretest  Meeting With _ Governors & Congressmen Postponed to Saturday.

Head-On Collision Is Seen On Tobacco Price Question As Governors Go To Capital

TOBACCO GROWERS ARE DISSATISFIED OVER LOW CEILINGS   Plan Another Appeal tc Director Vinson to Reconsider Action

American Bombers Made  Powerful Attack On Southern Germany Today

Germans Slip Back, Resist Desperately   However, Allied Troops And Tanks Reported Making Progress.

Germans Set Up Guns In Ruins To Stem Attack   Fifth Army Advances Into Battered Town In Heavy Fighting

Violent Fighting Underway At Cassino As Germans Reinforce Positions. Allied Offense Underway At Aprilia.

City in Ruins After Rea lentless Allied Bomb-  , ing Yesterday. —   NAZIS PUTTING UP FANATICAL FIGHT   Allied Airwar Against the Reich Blazes Into — New Fury.

District ODT Ready To Act In Truck Case   Midwest Operators Still Out in Wage Payment Dispute

Crosby and Sinatra Find Script for Skit Something to Be Deviated From

Nazi High Command Expects Allies to Strike Normandy, First with other Large Invasions.   Reds Ready

Rommel Conipletes Final Inspection ‘Of Atlantic Wall   German Dispatches Say Allies Will lnvade Through Normandy

Nazis Set Areas For Main Blows   Rommel Finishes  Inspection Tours By LEWIS H. HAWKINS

*Rommel Completes a Final Survey’  Of Wall Along Normandy Coast}

Defense Wall Inspected By Rommel  Germans Expeet Main Assault  nmnimc

AT NORMANDY   Nazis Speculate on Point Of Attack; Rommel Inspects Defenses

Nazis Set Areas. For Main Blows   Rommel Finishes Inspection Tours

ROMMEL INSPECTS ATLANTIC WALL   GIVES CLOSEST ATTENTION TO NORMANDY. AND CHERBOURG PENINSULA,

Nazis Believe Normandy, Inspected By Rommel, Will Be Invasion Target

FOURTH TERM ENDORSED BY SEN. BARKLES   Challenges GOP Te Tell What Gains They’d Repeal

Where Is Barkley’s “Revolt?”   ERSTWHILE REBEL LAUDS F. D. R. TO BROOKLYNITES

Barkley Challenges New Deal Critics To Specify Charges  Senate Majority Leader, Listing   Senate Majority Leader, Listing Accomplishments, Asks What Laws Republicans Wonld Reveal

Barkley Backs F. D. R. for Another Term   Points to Party - Record in Challenge to G.O.P

Greek Statesman Talks to Club   Large Crowd Hears A. Michalopoulos

Greek Statesman Talks io Club  Large Crowd Hears BR. Michealannuling

BRITISH DOUBT STORY OF HIMMLER’S DEATH   No Facts Found To Confirm Reported Assassination

No Confirmation Of Himmler Death  British Say They Find   British Say They Find Nothing Concrete as Basis for Report

British Doubt Himmler Death  Declare Nothing Concrete To Substantiate Story

GOEBBELS TRIES TO RALLY NAZIS FOR LAST STAND   Goes Before Microphone To Out. line New Drastic Measures

Slave State . Status Due dn Germany   All Must Bend Backs To Save Reich Under Harsh Goering Rule

WILL SPEAK AT 3:15 PM CWT ON RADIO TODAY   Aged, Young, Crip. ’ pled and Skilled to Be Drafted

eee eee  Geper Children Inte an War Plants       Desperate Goebbels Also To Put Aged And Cripples To Work.

GUEBBELS SPEAKS 10 GERMAN PEOPLE   Makes Desperate Effort To Rally Revolting Nation

COEBBELS’ PEP TALK TO SEEK TOTAL EFFOR]   Goes On Radio To Rally People For All-Out Sacrifices

Desperate Nazis to Draft Old Men, Youngsters, Cripples for Army Duty

U.S: Fighters Write History   Mustangs Fly to Russia From British Bases as Escort

Pre-Dated Christmas Party Is Too  Much for Nubbins; Is in Bad Shape

Christmas Festivities Too Much for "Nubbins”, Buched to a Haspital

Italian. City  Is Occupied . North Of Pisa  By Americans   “Nazis ‘Driv en. Back:  Ty. ‘oward Gothic Line

Americans Occupy Lucca; Are Six Miles From ‘Line’  Fighting Rages On

Yankees Push Germans Back  On Italy Front   Win New Positions No#tl of Road Center of Prato and, Capture  Luceco Before Nazi Line

PRATO JS ENTERED   New Positions Are Taken by Fifth Army in North ern Italy

OCCUPY ITALIAN CITY OF LUCCA   YANKS PUSH GERMANS TO WITHIN 6 MILES OF MAIN GOTHIC LINE

NAZIS PUSHED BACK AGAINST GOTHIC LINE   Prato, Industrial City of 60,000 in Northern Italy Is Captured by American Fifth Army   BRITISH MAKE GAINS

Yanks of dth Push Foe Far Bevond Pisa   Take City of Lucca: Brit ~ ish Near San Marino, Seize Heights

Yank Troops ‘Enter Prato   Win New Positions Near Captured Lucca Before Gothic Line

CLARK'S TROOPS CAPTURE LUGCA   Decisive Battle for Northern Italy Near

American Patrols Capture New  Position in Italy British Army Makes Slight Gain  nm -«.

American 5th Army Patrols Enter Prato   British Make Slight Gains After Bitter Fighting in Adriatic Sector; Monte San Giovanni Captured.

Yanks Grab At Positions North Of Gothic Line   Road Hub Of Prato And Lucca Fall To U. S. Fifth Army

STH PATROLS IN NEW POSITIONS   Group Enters Road Center Of Prato in Northern Italy.

‘AMERICAN TROOPS MAKE GAINS WEST END ITALIAN LINE  EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCE

Prato And Luccia Captured By Yanks In Advance On ' Gothic Line; 8th Army Also Is Moving Forward

American Patrols Capture New  Position in Italy  British Army Makes Slight Gain On Adriatic Sector

Yank Troons Enter Prato   Win New Positions In Northern Italy; Capture Lucca

Final Battle for Italy Draws Nea:  Plains Beyond Rimini the Expected Scene

AMERICAN TROOPS MAKE GAINS WEST END ITALIAN LINE  _ EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCI * SLIGHT AGAINST BIT-

Red Baiter Starnes Is  Defeated   New Dealers Returned to Office By Southern States

PEPPER, HILL HOLO LEAD IN oENATE A   New Deal Supporters in Both Florida and Alabama Apnear Winners.

PEPPER AND HILL LEAD IN PRIMARIES   New Deal Solons Appear Assured Of Renomination

SOUTH PACIFIC BASES BLASTED   Liberators Strike at Yap Airdrome in Carolines; Other Nip Installations Struck by Allied Fliers

Governor Bricker Will Speak In Capital City   Five Stops in Montana Scheduled by Republican Candidate

Governor Bricker Will Speak In Capital City  Five Stops in Montane Scheduled by

FDR, Rested From Vacation, Confers With Leaders, Wades Into Work Again

oosevelt Wades to Work-After our Weeks’ Rest   Sunbathing, Fishing And Sleep Leave F. D. R. Feeling Fit

DEMAND CHANGE IN PLANE BUYING   Senate Stirred by Chaos After Orders Canceled at Brewster

SENATE TAKING HAND IN PROBLEM OF . UNEMPLOY' ‘MENT RESULTING FROM SUDDEN CANCEL"+ aONS

REFORMS AOKED AFTER NAVY ENDS CONTRAG!   Demand Unification of Army, Navy Maritime Agencies

OHIO PLANTS HIT BY GAS SHORTAGE   Thousands of War Workers Idle as Supply - Drained

FILE FOUR LIBELS IN DIVORCE COURT   Croydon Woman Seeks Separation From Her Husband  itl tail ates ite: seman, ial ee ee ae Pe aes Pre Spa ir ee

FILE SEVEN LIBELS IN COURT FOR DIVORCES   Middletown Woman Enter: Suit for Separation From   » Her Husband  CYWAIT™ £ ARISYE DSA PR ARIES SOA OC

FOUR SEEK DIVORCES IN COUNTY COURTS   Lower Makefield Man Asks For Separation From  His Wife

Sales Only Sixty Percent ol Quota—Purchases at Local  Banks $376,235

Russia ‘Recalls’ Japanese Attacks On Soviet Union In Follow-Up To Stalin Charge   Military Authority Declares War Is Developing Unfayorably For Nips

Another Red Slap at Japs   Lecturer Sees Allied Success in War, Recalls Several Jap Attacks On Soviet Union

ATTACKS ON RUSSIA BY JAPS NOW RECALLED BY SOVIET MILITARY AUTHORITY IN MOSCOW

RED MILITARY EXPERT SEES TROUBLE FOR JAPS  War Developing Unfavorably Now For Nippon Colonel Tells Group

Russian Reminds  Of Jap Attacks   Says War in Pacific Turning Unfavorable to Japs, Recalls Japs Have Attacked, Raided Soviet Union in Past

Russian Military Authority Reminds Moscow Audience of Japanese Raids   Colonel Points Out War in Pacific Developing Unfavorably for Japan

RUSSIA AGAIN BISAPPROVES JAPANESE WAR   Says Japs Have Raided Soviet Union Soil

War Correspondent Makes Escape From German Prison Camp   Amazing Episode Is Revealed In Letter Received From Lowell Bennett, I. N. S. Correspondent, Who Parachuted Into Germany—tTells Of Last Flight And Experiences—Still In Nazi Europe.

\War Correspondent, Escaped From German Prison,  Tells Of Inside Reich’ From Heart Of Nazi-lLand

@ OUT OF THE DARKNESS  I. N.S. Writer Escapes From Nazis, Hides Inside Europe

War Correspondent Escapes German Prison, Smuggles Out Story of Jump From Bomber Lost in Raid on Berlin

Correspondent Who Escaped Nazi Prison Camp rings Dramatic Picture Of ‘One-Way’ Raid On Berlin

Correspondent Now Hiding Somewhere ‘Inside Nazi Europe’ Smuggles Out Story Of Experiences Since Bombing Raid

Plan ‘Turkey For All GI's On Thanksgiving —   Estimate 480° million pounds will be used to feed men scattered around world,

Barbare Fritchey Phones John Paul Jones In Behalf Of Dan'l Boone And George Washington

Six Towns North of Budapest Taken by Reds   Only Local Fighting on Other Fronts Reported by Moscow

Reds Take More  Hungarian Towns   Berlin Confirms Part Of Nazi Losses

SOVIETS CAPTURE HUNGARY TOWNS   Furious Fighting Occurs ir  Areas Around Budapest; Only Local Engagements On Oother Sectors

Northeast of Budapest: Furious Action Reperted 40 Miles From Cap.ital.   Take Other Points

Reds Tighten - Budapest Are   Six. Hungarian Towns Fall  To Russian Armi

AUSTIN R. KILLIAN NAMED 10 OFFICE   Former Newberry Man Is Superintendent Of State Police

WAR-TIME FOOD SURVEYS. MOVE   Senate Committees Seek Flexible Rationing System, Study Farm Labor.

TRIPLE ACTION ON FOOD HINTED   Farm Labor Fund, OPA Flexibility, Stamp Plan Studied

Smith in Line To Head Party   Beckley Congressman Said  Choice of Meadows —

FIVE STRIKERS NOW 1-2   Arlington Bus Drivers Face Induction Call in May.

Pillar of state has fallen, F.D.R. says;  senators pay glowing tribute to Norris

BRITISH REACH RHINE OPPOSITE AIRBORNE FORCI   Reinforcements Continue; Complete Junction Would End Nazi Rhine Defense BULLETIN  By The Associated Press TONDON SIInNDAY — faq

Leaf Markets ToReopen Tuesday   Lumberton Warehouse: .men Expect-No Appreciable Change in Prices.

Leaf Markets To Reopen Tuesday   Lumberton Warehousemen Expect No Appreciable Change in Prices.   By Jasper C. Hutte, Supervisor Lumberton Tebacce Market

7 States Soon to Select  _ Delegates to Convention:   o Invades South in Drive to Gain Support a as Willkie .. Continues . -Campaign © ‘in: Wisconsin—Democrats at Na. tional: ‘Headquarters Adopt. ‘Hands-Oft Attitude Toward ~ Move to. Oust; Farley as New York ‘Chairman.

Bricker Campaigns In South en  Kive-State Delegate Drive Launched By Ohio Governor

Maine Democrats to Name Ten and Louisiana Republicans to Chose 13 in Conventions Today

Name S. H. Luken Head Of Eagles  Delegates Chosen For _Convéntion In June

Name S. H. Luken Head Of Eagles —  Delegates Chosen For “Convéntinn. In nme

USE OF THREATS CHARGED TO FCC   Publication Of Magazine Article Halted By Fly

Surprise Raic Is Made on Clark Field  Trapped Nips On . Leyte Wiped Out

Heavies Lash Manila Field   Close To 100 Nip Planes Wrecked; Jap Clean-Up On Leyte Completed

Clark Field Raid Bags Jap Planes   ‘Majority of 100 Lost’ MacArthur Reports

Bayonet-Swinging Yanks Send Nazis Reeling Back   First Army Troops Slash Out Onto. Cologne Plain In Surprise Move

Turns Tide Of Battle in Forest Area   Yanks Attack Without Ar tillery Support—Germans  in Panic

Enemy Reels Back Under Heavy Blow   Doughboys in Clear Headed for Cologne At Rapid Clip

Germans Reeling Back, Stalemate Believed Broken      U. S. First Army Troops Slash Way Out Onto Cologne Plain To Climax One Of Bloodiest Battles Of War; Allies Report New Gains

Nazis Waging Blood) Fight Before Cologne   Most Decisive Battle in History Beine Fought in Aachen Sector

Bayonet Charge Hurls Foe Back Toward Cologne   First Army Troops Are Successful In Desperate Effort

GERMANS FIGHTING WHAT APPEARS TO BE SHOWDOWN BATTLE WEST OF RHINE   AMERICAN INFANTRYMEN BURST OUT OF HURTGEN FOREST AND SENT GERMANS REELING BACK AND BROKE STALEMATE ON RHINELAND FRONT WEST OF COLOGNE.

Germans Sent Ree ling Back in Panic as U. S:: Troops End Stalemate:

Savage Charge Ends Stalemate   Germans Retreat in Panic From Rhineland Front West of Cologne as 10-Day Battle of Hurtgen Forest Reaches Resounding Climax

Liberation Of Strasbourg Is Com pleted As Seventh Army Unit Drive Halfway Through Vosge Mountains On 55-Mile Front   BOURHEIM HAS BEEN COMPLETELY OCCUPIE

YANKS FORCED TO FALL BAGK IN TWO AREAS   Big Drive Stalemated But Strasbourg Capture Near

Fierce Bayonet Attack Panics German Troops, Turns Battle Eastward   Hodges’ Men Beat Off Nazi Counter Blows, Slash Way Onto Rhineland Plain In Hand-To-Hand Fight

CATCHES ENEMY NAPPING AFTER 10-DAY BATTLE   Vosge Forces Tighten Trap

STALEMATE ON FRONT WEST OF COLOGNE ENDED   Report Germans Sent Reeling Back Before Attack by Doughboys

Germans Reel Back in Panic Before Yanks   Americans Close In Before Enemy Artillery Can Fire

* #8  &* 8: @ —* 9  _ BASES: AGAIN   Army and Navy Liberator: In 17th Raid Since Jan. 1.

Bombers Hit Three Jap Ships   Damage Two Nip Planes In Raid On Marshalls

LRA. Ordered To Carry Out Sabotage Against Allies In British War Industries

TRAVEL BAN bY BAITTOH oPUho REVOLT BY In   British, Americans on the Alert to Prevent Outbreaks.

Asiatic Frents te Be Cut Into Three Separate Commands   Withdrawal of “Vinegar * Joe” Prompted Action, « Say AP Reports

Withdrawal Of Stilwell Means Clean Break On  Three Separate Fronts

Shift Means. Clean Break   Stilwell Withdrawal  -Has- New Importance

CLEAN BREAKUP OF FRONT SEEN   Question Arises Over What Will Happen to N. Burma Campaign.   PACIFIC FRONT AMERICAN

Stilwell Aftair Implies Break-up of Allied Front   By JOHN M WIGHTOWER.

WITHDRAWAL OF STILWELL FROM CHINA MAY MEAN AMERICA HAS ‘DISCOUNTED CHINA AS ALLY

Jap Fronts Broken Into  Three Parts   British, Chinese and American Theaters Seen By Stillwell Withdrawal

Breakup Of Fronts In Far East Caused By Stlicell Withdrawal   How Much Help China Will Get Via India Is Question; Wedemever Now In Chungking

Three Separate Commands Loom For Eastern Theatre Aaainst Japanese

Stilwell Removal  Divides Orient .  Into 3 Theatres General Was Personal Link Between, British, American

ASIATIC FRONT IS BROKEN UP   Yanks Map Future Plans Under Single Command

Allies Pursue Separate Ways Against Japs   Breakup Caused By Withdrawal of Stilwell May Suit U.S. Leaders Better

New Footholds Established In Meiz, Toul Sector Under Stiffening Nazi Resistance

Post-War Aims Are Outlined in Acceptance Talk   State Delegation Split on Choice  For Vice President

Village Of Giusto Is Captured   Germans Blasted From Pillboxes By Troops Fighting Their Way Along Road To Rome

 Primary Vote Cast One Of Smallest  In Towa History     State Capitol News Lette: As Reviewed by Sentinel’s

Totals ou Slate Candidates   Regard Gilchist’s Defeat As Big ‘Upset

Vote i in — Since Year 1902   Unofficial ‘Total'G Given: ' in All Contested Offices

Methodist Church  Ty. BRB. RAWRS. Pastor   Church of Christ W. J, HASTIE, Pastor

DELAY ACTION ON REQUEST OF MAYOR   Sweeney Would Suspend Traffic Light Operation After Midniaht

CONGRESS 10 FACE PILE OF WORKTODAY      Solons to Reconvene After Vacation of Three eeke   MESSAGE OF FDR EXPECTED TUESDAY   Home Front issues Will Dominote Immediate Program

78th Congress F acing Home ‘Front Issues   Most of Incumbents Admit  Actions Being Guided RR. Blanttan Wane

WORK PILED UP FOR RETURN OF SOLONS TODAY   Eyes On Elections Next Fall As Congre’s Opens Its Last  Session '

TO BE FACED ~ BY CONGRESS   P olitical Considerations Will Play Big Part

Congress Faces Heavy: Schedule   Solons Will Resume Their Session Today

SOLONS RESUME ~ SESSION TODAY   Congress’ 3-Week--Vacation: Ends: Expect FDR Mes-  eane Tuesday j

Congress Returns In Fighting Mood   Polity S Will Tinge  Home Front Issues

TAX MEASURE FACING FIGHT IN CONGRESS   Mountain of Work After Recess   a  REVENUE BILL IS READY FOR FOURTH BIG TEST

MANY ISSUES - 10 BE FACED ~ BY CONGRESS   Political Considerations Will Play Big Part

Congress to Open Second Session Today   Many Problems Await Lawmakers; Politics To Be in Spotlight

New Session Of Congress  Begins Today   Work Piled Up for Returning Solons; FD To Deliver Message

Nazis Withdraw North of City To End Siege   Establish New . Line on Canal i if Outskirts _

Nazis Withdraw Most of Troops From Florence   Siege of City Ended After Two Weeks of Allied Assault

Nazis Pull Out As Eighth Army Takes Florence   Two Wecks of Siege Ends As Defenders Move Northward

FLORENCE IS CAPTURED BY ALLIED ARMY   Ancient Treasure House of Italian Art, Falls After 2 Weeks’ Siege.

Two-Week Siege Of Italian Art Center Ends; Germans Take Up New Positions North Of City

‘World Art Center  % Saved From Guns   Civilian Relief Begins With Waier Distribution First TashEnemy Fichts North

FLORENCE IS CAPTURED BY BRITISH ARMY    City Taken When German Troops  Evacuate North Half Of City

ALLIED ARMIES TAKE FLORENCE; GERMANS WITHDRAW TO NEW LINE   MILITARY AUTHORITIES BEGIN ADMINISTERING RELIEF TO POPULATION OF ITALIAN ART CENTER

FLORENCE IS CAPTURED BY 8TH ARMY   Germans Withdraw Troops Northward To New Lines

Heavy Fighting On Both Sides Of Art Center Results In Capture of Florence, Report.

Enemy Withdraws Main Forces To Line Northward   Polish Troops Forge Cesano River In Adriatic Sector

Army Seizes Ward Stores In Seven Cities   Avery Again Refuses te Yield; Court Action Asked

Red Army Hails Krivoi Rog Fall  Qn Anniversary   Russia Also Announces Three-Fourths Of Invaded Territory Now Retaken   STALIN SAYS GERMANY SEEK SEPARATE PEACE

Red Leader Hails Capture of Krivoi Rog; Claims 13,000 Russian towns liberated from Germans during past three months.

NAZIS LOSE THREE-FOURTHS OF GAINS EARNED IN RUSSIA   Reds Celebrate Krivoi Rog Capture  Stalin Says Germans Face Disaster

RRIVO! ROG FALL SPEEDS NAZI END AVERS RED CHIEF   GYalin Says Capture Clear: 3-4 of Area Seized by Germans

Germans Stall Wing of Sth   Foe’s Rearguard Holding Hallmoon of Hills

Fleeing Nazi 14th Digs in At Bolsena   German Resistance to Allied 5th Army Is Stiffening

GERMANS Dig IN AND SLOW UP OTH ARM)   STIFF RESISTANCE OFFERED BY NAZI REMNANTS

GERMANS DIG IN ‘NORTH OF ROME: BATTLE STH ARMY   Stiff Resistance Met by  Clark’s Forces for Past 48   Hours Before Road   Junction of Bolsena.   NAZIS STILL FLEEING IN ADRIATIC SECTOR   Race Through Many Towns and Villages Without Putting Up Fight—British Advance 10 Miles.

FIFTH ARMY SMASHES NAZI DEFENSE LINE   Along West Coast. of Italy Above Rome, 'Yhrowing Enemy Again Into Retraat.   Hasty Retreat

Nazi Hakan ‘Army Digs in   Stand Being Planned In Bolsena Foothills

GERMANS DIG IN AEFORE BOLSENA   Offer Stiff Resistance to Allied Fifth Army   SLOWS PURSUIT   Nazi Path of Retreat Is Littered With Transport, - Bodies of Horses

MacArthur Praised   Australian Minister Says Aussies Strongly For Him

Charges Soldiers Were Ordered to Listen to Chaplain's New Deal Talk

U.S. Airmen Hit 9 Pacific Bases   MacArthurs Fliers Rip 1000-Mile Are; Bougainville Won

MacArthur's Airmen Strike. 9 Important Jap-Targets;Bougainville. Victory Is Seev

U.S. Airmen Lash at Foe Over Wide Area   Nine Important Targets Get Pounding; Complete Victory on Boudaainvilte

U.S. FLIERS STRIKEAT9 BIG TARGETS   Fourteen -Atolls In Marshatls Now Held By Americans

NINE KEY PACIFIC TARGETS ON 1,000 MILE ARC BOMBED   MacArthur's Fliers Strike At Jap Island Defenses—-Complete Victory On Bougain ville Claimed By His Troops

Republicans Get New York House Seat In Strong Democratic District

POPULATION OF INDIANA SHOWS _§ PERCENT DROF   Result of Internal Migra tion, Both Civilian ‘and Military .

Population Shiff Great Since 1940   South, West States Gain Four Million

HUNGARTAN REGIME FALLS AS SOVIET ARMY APPROACHES   Germany Bolstering Balkan Ally’s Frontier With Troops Withdrawn From Bulgaria.   SLOVAKIA OCCUPIED BY HITLER’S FORCES   Crossing of Carpathians by Reds Brings Feverish Nazi Activity to Strengthen Defenses.

Germans Occupy Puppet Slovakia In Face of Unrest   Russians Take Over Constanta, Romania’:  Big Black Sea Port

TEXAS DEMOCRATS IN AN OVERWHELMING VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT  ALL STATE AND CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES  ON RLMN TICVET WIN

NEAR ONE HUNDRED GERMAN FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN MONDAY  = HEAVY AMERICAN BOMB. ERS GOT IN ROCKING BLOWS NEAR FRONT LINE

Yanks Move on Highway to Cologne   Heavy Bombers Pound Ger. man Oil Refineries, RAF Blasts Munich

Nearly 1,300 Planes Aid Front-Line  Troops in Germany  VU. S. Bombers Pound  Railway Yards  On Western Front

US. Heavy Bombers Jon In Battle Of  Front Line   Railway Yards Of Reich Battered ; Offenburg And Bingen Attacked

Bombers Over  Railway Yards   Into Front Line Battle for Germany Again

NEAR ONE HUNDRED GERMAN FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN MONDAY  HEAVY AMERICAN BOMB ERS GOT IN ROCKING

U. 8. Bombers Raid Cities In . Rhine Valley   Attack Railroad Yard: At Offenburg, East Of Strasbourg; Bingen West Of Mainz

94 NAZIPLANES BROUGHT DOWN   Air Battles Fought Over Reich As Planes Fly Almost to Berlin

YANKS TAKE TOLL OF 94 NAZI PLANES   Engage Fighters in Three Areas of Germany, Bringing Score for Two Days of Combat to 226 Enemy Craft.

1,300 Planes Join in Fight For Germany   Bombers, Fighters Supporting Allied Forces on Ground

94 German Warplanes Shot Down   500 American Fighters Engage: About an Equal Number of Enemy   FIRST NAZI DEFENSE IN SUCH STRENGTH      Fighters Probably Mistaken for Bombers; Enemy Loses 296° Planes in Two Days

At Least 94 Nazi Fighters Downed   American War Planes Sweep to Within 70 Miles of Berlin

BOMB RAIL HUBS IN RHINE VALLEY   YANKS SHOOT DOWN 132 GERMAN PLANES IN BIG AIR BATTLE

NAZIS LOSE 182 PLANES IN DUEL   ,300 U. S. Raiders Hit Foes At Front: Munich Lashed

Yank Planes Hit German Rail Yards   Make Strafing Sweeps Over Frontline Regions

Bombers Raid Railway Yard:   Almost 1.300 Yank Planes Hit Offenburg, Bingen In Strafing Sweeps.

Nazis Lose 226 Planes in Two Big Air Battles      Allied Air Power  Spreads Over Reich Attacking Railyards And Oil Plants

1,300 PLANES ATTACK REICH   At Least 94 Nazi Planes Downed in Air Fights

AIRCRAFT JOINS GROUND TROOPS      Nearly 2,000 Allied Airplanes In German Skies Engage Less Than 500 Nazi Interceptors.

RHINE VALLEY RAIL CENTERS ARE BLASTED   American Heavy Bombers And Fighters Assault Offenburg and Bingen in The Reich   RAF ON NIGHT ATTACKS

Down 226 Naz Planes In Two Days Of Battles  94 Bagged Today As 500 Yank Fighters Q nl  an inten An Pau

226 Nazi Planes Downed in Two Days Of Air Battles.as Far East as Berlin

Yank Planes Spray Bombs, Machinegun Fire Over Germans   1,300 Aircraft Blast Two Rail Yards; Munich is Ripped by Lancasters

1,300 PLANES STRIKE   U. §. HEAVIES BLAST GERMAN RAIL YARDS AT OFFENBURG, BINGEN

Down At Least 94 Germans In  Big Air Battle   Yank Bombing, Strafing Attacks Sweep Almost To Rerlin.

i eae a a il ae neces  Memory Mondays ‘Will Honor Men Who Died in War

WILL EXECUTE TWO   Brady and Knox: to Go to Gallows at State Pris--: on Tomorrow

Two Scheduled to Die Saturday on ansing Gallows   Brady Execution Set For 1 a. m. and That Of Clark Knox Just Before Sunset

Two Face  Gallows   Fred Brady and Clark Knox to Pay Penalty For Murder Tomorrow

Nazi Nerves Damaged By Night And Day Alert—   Bombers Playing Cat-And-Mouse Nerve War

Washington Wants To See Kelly Lac  War Hero To Be Tied U;  wes’   Nazi War Workers Feel Allies’ Power

Land-Based Planes Attack lwo Island   Allied Bombers Sink Four Jap Freighters, Other Vessels at Halahera Island: Freighter Damaged Near Talaud )

First Big Raid. On Volcano Islands   Heroic ‘Lost Battalion’ Supplied by Shell Fire

iV olcano isle Attack Made ‘By U.S. Fhers   Yanks May Have Flown From Saipan Where 7th AJA. Has Base   JAP VESSELS SUNK   fSnemy Craft Bombed in Raids on Halmahera and Talaud Isles

Yanks Hit 750 Miles of Tokyo   Allied Bombers Sink Four Jap Freighters, Destroy 50 Planes

Big U.S. Bombers Blast Isles 750 Miles From Tokyo   First Land-Based _Raid on Jap Volcano Islands

B-24s Strike 750 Miles From Tokyo   * 47 Tons of Bombs . Are Rained Upon + Voleano Islands

ISLAND BASED U.S. BOMBERS NEARER JAPAN   B-24's of Seventh Army Air Fore Spray Iwo Island, 750 Miles Southeast of Tokyo

IAPS’ ISLAND EMPIRE ABLAZE   Bombers Put Torch to Iwe Isle. Near Tokyo; Hit  Changsha, Canton

Volcano Isles Of Japan Feel New U. S. Blows   Liberators Crowding In Closer To Empire Than Fwver Refoare.

U. §. Bombers Raid Closer fo Japan   Bomb Island 750 Miles From Tokyo

Liberators Fly Close To Japan In New Attacks   Volcano Tslands Opened  To First Heavy Raids By Land-Based Planes

TIPTON LeGlON POST RANKS Hh IN. MEMBERSHIP   Unit in Position to Top. Former Loca] Reeard

PION Urtidh POST RANKS [iG IN THEMMBERSHIP   Unit in Position to Top Former L.ocal Record

TIO TROOPS TAKE HIGHWAY JUNCTION   Recapture Town of Cain on Qne of Main Cross- » Country Routes.

JAPS CLAIM U.S. TROOPS LAND ON SAIPAN. TINIAN   Amphibious Troops Storming The Marianas, Last Barrier To Philippines

Nazi Home Front Beng Prepared For Fall Of Rome   German-Controlled Vichy Radio Says Defenders Will Fall Back North

ROME WILL FALL, GERMANS ADMIT   Nazi Broadcast Reveals City Won't Be Defended

May Not Try To Hold Rome   German Propaganda Indicates Nazis Will Not Defend Holy City

Nazis Now Plan Abandon Defense Of Eternal City   Propaganda Has It Nazis Will Retire New Line North Of Rome.

Axis Reports Say Germans To Fall Back ToLine NorthOf — Rome Without Defending City   Propaganda Campaign Said Preparing German People For Fall Of Italian City

Nazis Setting — the Stage for Fall of Rome   Propaganda Campaign .Opens by Saying City Will Not Be Defended   A DOUBLE PURPOSE, LONDON BELIEVES   Berlin Hopes to Base Shock and ‘Open Way to Blame Damage on Allies

Axis Propaganda Opening Campaign in. Preparation For the Fall of Rome ©

Decide Against Defending Rome  Germans to Retire to Northern Italy

Reich Plans To Abandon Eternal City   Decision Male to Retire lo New Line rth of Capital

Nazis Prepare People For the Fall of Rome   Propaganda Campaign Spreads the Word That City Won't Be Defended

GERMANS STATE THEY WILL NOT DEFEND ROME   Troops To Retire To New Defense Line Near City

Nazi Forces to Abandon Holy City Peacefully, Germans Claim in Preparation for Rome’s Fall

PROPAGANDA CRIVE STARTED BY AAZIS   Say Forces Will Retire North Of Rome Without Detending City.

Germans Get Set For Fall ef  Rome to Allies  Vichy Says Defender: Will Fall Back To Northern Lines

Allies in Italy Near Last German Route of Escape   Germans Say They Will Retire North, Not Defend Rome

GERMANS WILL RETIRE TO NEW DEFENSE LINES   German Public Being Prepared for Fall of italian Capital, It Is Stated

MAY GIVE UP ROME   Nazi Propaganda Starts Preparing Germans for  City’s Fall

THEY WON'T DEFEND ROME   Purpose Believed to Ease _ Shock When City Falls,  and to Blame Allies for _ Any -Damage Capital i Mav Suffer.

Report Germans Will Undertake No Rome Stand   London Sees Plan To Ease Shock Of City’s Fall And Hold Allies For Damage

Propaganda Campaign In Germany Is Paving The Way For Loss Of Rome

GERMANS EXPECT 10 GIVE UP ROM   Nazi Prdépaganda s Prepar ing Nation For Fall, Guns Heard In City.

FALL OF ROME FACED BY NAZIS   Germans Start Propaganda Drive To Ease Blow in Loss of Eternal City.

Germans Get Set For Fall of  Rome to Allies  Vichy Says Defenders Will Fall Back

Nazi Propaganda: Campaign Opened Say Nature of Rome  ‘ Only Bring Prestige To Allied Forces

Won't Defend Rome, Vichy   Germans Prepare Propaganda Campaign On Fall of City

RAID KNOCKS OUT AN AIR BASE OFF JAP TRUK ISLAND   Nip Attempt to Supply Isolated Bases Frustrated When Yanks Spot and Sink  Freighter.

Admirals Seek. Bond Drive Aic   Success Of 6th Loan Vital In Pacific

Far Short Of War Bond Goa   Total Sales in County Less Than Quarter of Quota at End of First Week: Carlyle Leads

Half Way To Goal   -Workers Face Tough Job in Getting Rest Of County Bond Quota

‘County T ops Loan Quota By 14%..   Still Short. $80,000  Of “E” Bond Goal, Best Record Turned In By Humboldt -

Deer Creek Over Top   _ First. District in County to Exceed 5th War Lean Quota

POLISH LEADER QUITS POSITION   Prime Minister Resigns As Soviet Row Is Unsettled

PRIME MINISTER OF POLAND HAS RESIGNED HIS OFFICE   7 RESIGNATION IS ATTRIBUTED TO CABINET CONTROVERSY OVER BOUNDARY Dis  PUTE WITH RUSSIA

Anderson Admits Considering Race Against Dempsey  Says Cancellation  Of Plans to Leave Ga.2. ‘Tl. she RCaawey?

Hopes of Early Conquest of Rome Vanish; Superior German Force Masses for New Assault on Allies   Nazi Troops Probe Allied Positions at a Half Dozen Points; Allies Maintain Mastery at Beachhead; Nazis Hold Most of Cassino

Hopes for Early Capture of Rome Vanish Into Air   No Change In Position Of Armies Reported; Allied Planes Knock 19 Enemy Planes Out Of Sky

‘Nazi Attacks Grow Heavier   ‘Hopes For Early Junction ‘And Capture Of Rome Fade

Nazis Lose 19 Out of 70 Air Raiders   - However, Allied Hopes Of Early Conquest Of Rome Disappear  CASSINO HAS LULL

inst Landing Area South o es! Pitch since Allies Passe: ast Thursday; American Cas ly Light   German Pressure agains!  Rome Reaches Highest! P Over to Defensive Last TI ualties Comparatively Lic   Ry EDWARD RENNEDY

Battle Raging Over Control  ‘Of Beachheac   © Tank-Supported German Infantry Attacks Develop Against Allies, But No Material Changes In Position Noted tn Dispatches

TANKS SUPPORT GERMAN ATTACKS: “AGAINST ALLIES              With Enemy on Offensive  Prospect of Early Anglo American. Push on Rome Is Remote,      POSITIONS OF TWO FORCES UNCHANGED   Three-Fourths of Cassino Still. Held by Foe. After Five : Days of Fierce Street Fichtine. .

HOPES FOR EARLY CONQUEST FADING   Nazi Resistance Shows no Signs of Diminishing

QUICK VICTORY IN ROME AREA NOT PROBABLE   SUPERIOR GERMAN FORCE STEPPING UP ASSAULTS

NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN POSITION NOTED; FIGHTING FOR CASSINO CONTINUES UNABATED, GERMANS GIRDING FOR ASSAULT.

1,000 Germans Killed: American Raid on Berlin Takes Heavy Toll, Berlin Dispatch Says

TEMPERATURES:   Secrecy Cloaks Moves Of Army West Of Paris   Nazis Near Caen Face Encirclement By New Thrust

Yank Troops Push South Of Loire   Difficult to Guess Just What Objectives May Be In Mind As Secrecy Continues

PSKOV WITHIN SIGHT OF REDS   Krivoi Rog Is Base of Newest Offensive

Reds Now Six Miles  From Goal   Approaching Pskov In North; Open New Drive For Krivoi Rog In South.

Soviet Force Nears Pskov   More Than 310 Towns Haye Been Liberated

‘STEVENSON WILL BE CANDIDATE TEXAS GOVERNORSHIP AGAIN  MAKES ANNOUNCEEMNT AT PRESS CONFERENCE; WILL HAVE NO PLATFORM

Coke Stevenson to Seek Re-election As Texas Governor   No Platform, He Says; Cites Record of Administration

CANDIDATE TEXAS GOVERNORSHIP AGAIN  chur WILL BE  MAKES ANNOUNCEEMNT AT PRESS CONFERENCE;

STEVENSON T0 SEEK 2ND TERM   Governor Will File Today For Demos’ Primary

STEEL, COAL CENTERS NEAR MUKDEN RAIDED   Anshan (Steel), Penhsihu (Coal), Antung (Light Metals)  Are Targets

Tokyo Says Two Industrial Cities Targets Of Raid   Jap Radio Reports Antung And Anshan Hit By Huge Bombers On 8th Attack Mission

B-29S RAID TARGETS IN MANCHURIA   Japs Indicate Antung, Anshan Were Bombed

“Superforts” Stage Raid on Manchuria   Tokyo Radio Says More Than 100 Planes Take -. Part and Three Are Shot Down—Two . : Industrial Centers Targets.

TOKYO CLAIM 100 PLANES IN ATTACK   Anshan, Penhsihu Listed As Cities Bombed   3 RAIDERS DOWNED   According To Enemy Story; Indicate Raid Heaviest Yet Carried Out

B-29s Raid Manchuria   Tokyo Radio Indicates Targets Hit Are Cities Of Antung And Anshan

Bombers Hit Steel Plants In Manchuria   Japs Admit Damage At Anshan, Antung By 100 Superforts

Tokyo Declares US Raids Staged From China Bast   Targets ‘Include Anshan, Home Of Steel Works, Antung, Metals Center’

Superforts Agair Hit Mancha f Industrial 4   Factory Citied- * Antung, Anshan Are Latest B-29 Targets

Manchuria Attacked by Superforts   20th Bomber Command And Tokyo Radio Report New Raids

Japs Report Over 100 Superforts Hit Anshan, Penhsihu   Japan’s Second Largest Steel Works U. S. Target; Tokyo Claims Three Bombers Shot Down

Blast Industrial Cities   Tokys Radio  Says 40 Big Bombers Hit Antung and Anshan

Superforts Strike Again   Factory Cities In Manchuria Thot Targets

BIG FACTORY CITIES ARE GIVEN BLAST   Number of Planes Taking Part in Raid Not Revealed

Major Japanese Steel Center Blasted by 100 U.S. Bombers; Coal Supply Area Also Hit

Tokyo Reports 4( Planes Hit Jap Factory Cities   Gen. Arnold Promises Details On 8th Attack Soon

B-29 Raid ‘on Japs in Manchuria   ‘Big Arsenal Is Bombed by More Than 100 of the  U. §. Superfortresses   ‘SOME DAMAGE,’ TOKYO REPORTS   U. 8. Withholds Details Pending Return of the Big Planes

Vital Targets Of Japanese Objectives   American-British Bombers Attack German Sectors

Super-Forts In Raid In Force On Jap Arsenal   Tokyo Admits More Than 100 Planes Bombed Bie Steel Works.

Important Jap Industries Are  Hit By B-29s   More Than One Hundred Giant American Planes Take Part in Daylight Attack   Tokyo Says Three Bombers Bagged   Meanwhile, U. S. Airmen Attack Kuriles, Marcus and Iwo Islands, 750 Miles From Tokyo

Air Battles Over Anshan, Tokyo Says   Superfortresses Fron 20th Bomber Command in Punishing Raid   100 B-295 STRIKE   Japan Indicates Antung Light Metals Center, Also Is Bombed

Super-Fortresses Raid Jap Arsenal City in Manchuria  ‘Tokys Reports More than 188 Planes Attacked Anshan, an  Bowhbecihe Bice Cirated

BiG B-29 BOMBERS HIT JAP TARGETS   Factory Cities Of Antung And Anshan, Industrial Centers Raided

PLANES STRIKE ISLANDS EAST OF PHILIPPINES   Other U. S. Bombers Raid the Kuriles,  North of Japan

Super-Forts Attack Japs In Manchuria   Tokyo Radio Suggests Industrial Center of Anshan Was Again Mair Target of Americans

Jap-Dominated Manchuria Hit by U.S. Planes   Industrial Targets Smashed by Big B-29 Bombers

B-29 PLANES STRIKE AGAIN IN JAPAN      Targets Were Factory Cities of Antung, Anshan

JAPS TELL OF DARING RAID BY YANKEE PLANES   None Listed Shot Down J Bombers Also Strike At Palau And Yap

Jap Arsenal Of Manchuria Hit By B-29s   Industrial Targets Under Attack By Superfortresses

MANCHURIA IS RAIDED BY B-29 SUPER-FORTS   Tokyo Radio Reports More Than 100 Planes Took Part— Bomb Steel And Coal Plants.

3 Raiders Shot Down. Jans Claim   Industrial Points Hit by More Than 100 Planes, Tokyc Radio Reports

HAVE BOMBED STEEL WORKS   Army Announces Important Industrial Targets Were Prey Of B.29's

JAP-DOMINATED MANCHURIA IS HIT BY B-295   Important Industrial Targets Given Blasting by SuperForts.

Industrial Centers Attacked   100 Suverforts In Raid, Tokyo Says; Damace Tnpeting sta

‘Tokyo Indicates. Great Industrial . Center Of ‘Anshan T-arget Of   Large Fleet Of Superforts. :

MANCHURIA TARGET OF « SUPER FORTS   Tokyo Reports 100 Planes In Attack On Anshan And ‘Penhsihu

Superfortresses Raid Jap Arsenal In Manchuria   Tokyo Says Over 10¢ Planes Participated; Anshan, Penhsihu, _ Are Alleaed Taraets

100 B-29'S MAKE RAID, NIPS CLAIM   Heavy Attack By U.S. Fliers On Palau * — Also Reported

B-29 Bombers Strike Again At Manchuria   Tokyo Indicates Targets Were Antuna and Anshan

‘Tokyo — Indicates Great Industrial Center Of:  Anshan Target Of  large Fleet Of Superforts.

Japs May Go Back fo West Coast   Army Removes Ban Which Moved Many Into Interior U.S.

JAPANESE WILL BE PERMITTED ON WEST COAST   War Department Releasing Those Surviving Army Scrutiny Tests   PRO-JAPANESE WILL REMAIN IN CUSTODY

ORDER T0 EXCLUDE JAPS 1S REVOKED      Favorable Progress of War Given as Reason for Action

West Coast Ban On J apanese Is Removed   Favorable Progress Of Conflict in Pacific  Given as Reacan he Arie

West Coast Ban On Japs Liffed, Army Announces   Favorable Progress In Pacific War Given As Reason for Move

Order Barring Japs From Coast Revoked   Favorable Progress of War Given as Reason for Order

West Coast Open To Jap-American:  , a ~ Tre .   U. S. Army Rescinds Exclusion Order

Order Barring Japs from West Coast Revoked   Favorable Progress of War in Pacific Is Given as Reason

Allies Advance Nearer Rome   British Take Bridge 20 Miles from City

Yanks, British Troops Flank Vital Highway   German Resistance Mounts On Edge Of Beachhead

ALLIED GAINS CUT VITAL NAZI HIGHWAY LINK   Troops Hold 85 Square Miles

Yank Advance Has Appian Way Under Gunfire   Vital Nazi Artery to South Cut; British Make Gaing

Allies Now Within 20 ‘Miles of Rome   Yanks and British Widen Beachhead; More Troops Landed

SEN, PEPPER'S BID IN FLORIDA BEING WATCHEL   Ultra-New Dealer Secking Renomination to Face Four Opponents in Today’s Primary.   DELEGATE ELECTION ALSO IN SPOTLIGHT   Full Slate of 18 Pledged tc Senator Byrd of Virginia —Twenty-Seven Favor Roosevelt.

PILOT'S LONG FIGHT AGAINST NAZIS ENDS   American Colonel With 1,300 Hour: of Combat Forced Unwillingly , Inte Retirement.

Yanks Score Only Gains Of Past 24 Hours as Nazi  Reserves Counterattaeck

NAZIS SAY FIGHT NEAR CLIMAX   Americans Make Only Allied Gains In Last 24 Hours

NAZIS FORCING FIERCE BATTLE AT CHERBOURG   Allies 7 Miles From Port City; British Troops Lose Two Towns

Yanks Drive Within Seven Miles Of Cutting Last German Lines Leading To Cherbourg For Onlv Gain In 24 Hours.   British Driven From Troarn

CLIMAX, NAZI REPORT SAYS      U. S. Infantry Threatens Last Cherbourg Communication Lines

84-TON BOMB LOAD DUMPED ON TRUK   MacArthurmen Set Up Another Philippine Springboard,

Chinese Trap Japs In Yunnan Province; Nips Claim Loyang Occupied   ank Forces Nearing Jap Airdromes At Maffin Bay; Airmen Hit Truk And Ponape

Jap Resistance Flickers  As Yanks Mop-Up Guam   Report Enemies Fleeing for Lives _

Allied Planes Hit Nazi Rail Targets  8,000 Tons Bombs Drop on France,  TD we Taek 24 ee ff" neon LEIA USF

» G000-TON RAID ~ MADE BY 7500 _~ ALLIED PLANES   Flow Of Nazi Arms, * Troops Disrupted By Bombings

Allied Planes Hit Nazi Rail Targets   8,000 Tons Bombs Drop on France, Belaium, Germany

BUILD ROBOTS AT TOLEDO FIRM   Start Mass Output of Buzz Bombs Two Months Ago

TOLEDO PLANT MAKING “V-1”   Willys-Overiand Turning Out. Aerial “Buzz Bomb” 

“WV TRINTY ~ CHURCH HERE   Margarita S. Piel is Bride of Lieut. Alfred M. McCoy. Jr.

Margarita Ss. Piel i is. ‘Bride _ of Lieut. Alfred M. McCoy, Jr.

279,000 MEN LOST IN FRANCE BY NAZIS   One of the Greatest Disasters Was At Falaise, Where 30,000 Died and 42.000 Were Cantured.

City in Panic As Nazi Army Defense Folds   Hundreds Fleeing In Path of Racing tide of Infantry

RUSSIAN PATROL SWEEP WITHIN SIGHT OF PEST   Main Forces Thundering Toward Budapest—Panic Sweeps rs City

Panic Reported InP ~dapest As" vg és "Advance      S$ sack Patrol Ss. sac atrols  2 veep Within Sight & of Hungary Capital

Budapest Doomed With Reds Taking Heavy Toll Of Foe   Panic Spreads Thru City As Cossacks Approach Pest   Leyte-Samar Campaign Nears End With 30,000 Japs Killed

Cossacks Nearing Hungarys Capital   Soviet Patrols Reported Within Sight Of Budapest As  Panic Spreads In City; Main Forces 21 Miles Away

Red Armies In Sight of Budapest   Many Flee In Panic Fr Hungarian Capital— Withhold War News

Hard-Riding Cossacks In View of City   Merchants, Industrial Leaders Flee While Pincers Close

Cossack Patrols Sweep Within Sight of Pest; ‘Report Panic In City

COSSACK PATROL CATCHES SIGHT OF BUDAPEST   Hungarian Capital Divided Into Two Cities, Buda and Pest

BUDAPEST PANICKY AS RUSSIAN ARMY NEARS CAPITAL   Tank-Paced Red Army r fp Thunder Down Last Leg Of Road   TO WITHIN 21 MILES OF HUNGARIAN CITY   Merchants And Industrialists Fleeing Before Russian Advance

Wealthy Flee  Hungarians’  Capital City   German and Hannish Resistance Breaking Up

RED ARMY TIDE SWEEPS DOWN ON BUDAPEST   Axis Forces Unable T: Slow Pace Of 3 Way Drive

RED ARMY SWEEPS ON TOWARD PEST   Hungarian Capital Sighted By Cossacks

Yugoslavs Drive Toward Naval Base af Fiume   Tito’s Communique Acknowledges Nazi Thrust at Sarajevo

SERBS MAKE HEADWAY IN FIUME DRIVE   Germans Advance Toward Bosnian Capital

YUGOSLAV ARMY NEARING FIUME   Motorized Nazi Columns Lunge To Within 45 Miles Of Sarajevo

ITALY-BASED PLANES MAKE 9.000 TRIPS   BOMBERS STAGING HEAVY ATTACKS ON RAILROADS AND PORTS SUPPLYING GERMAN ARMY

ALLIES SMASH 4 AIRFIELDS IN ROME SUBURBS   Yank Mountain Troops Converging On Cassino

NAZI FIGHTER STRENGTH Is HIT BY ALLIE   Large Formations of Flying Fortresses Hammer Bases of Germans.

Four Airfields in Rome Suburbs Are Destroved   Americans and French Push Against Cassino

Franco, Americar Troops Batter Down Resistance   Fortresses Escape Without Loss, Three Lightnings Shot Down

U.S. Planes In Adriatic Coast Raids   Air Force Active in Italy As 5th Army Resists Nazi Attacks

Nazi Airfields In Rome Suburbs Are Wrecked   Approaches to Cassino Battered By French Troops

CHAIN OF NAZI AIRFIELDS HIT IN OFFENSIVE   Four Fields Wrecked As Rome Suburbs Aro Accanltad

U.S. AIRME WRECK ROME AIR FIELDS   Heavy Blow Is Struck At Nazi Luftwaffe

Suburbs Of Rome Attacked   American, French Battering Stiff Nazi Resistance

FOUR GERMAN AIR FIELDS WRECKED   Allied Planes Shuttle Channe! For Large Scale Attack Along Coast.

Jap Sabotage?   Free Balloon Found; Suspected It May Be Sabotage Attempt

ad MY STIFIED OTER FINDING JAPANESE “FREE BALLOON” TO TREE TOPS IN MONTANA  ‘Hint at New Secret Weapon and the Landing of Saboteurs

Fight to keep  white control  South varies in balkine Necro vote

Tighter Draft Regulations fo Aid Labor Dearth   Workers Expected to Scurry Back ie Draft Exemp! War Production but Laber Scarce

Do ft Now, Is Word Te Dratt Boards   New Manpower Directive in Effect At Once

Act Quickly On Tighter Draft Rein   SS Plans Immediate Reclassification of — . Men 26 Through 37 Whe Leave War Plant Jobs

Action On New Draft Plan To  Be Immediately   Draft Regulations Being Amended: Jobs Must Be Changed Right Away.   AID LABOR SHORTAGE

New Selective Service Regulations Will Become Effective Immediately

Immediate Action on Draft Ordey   Tighter Regulations Expected to Bolster War Labor Force Officials Believe

DRAFT BOARDS ACT ON EDICT   Manpower Directive Wil Up Supply of Needed War Workers

‘Gen. Hershey Puts Teeth in Draft Order   State Directors Told To Make Byrnes’ New Directive Effective

BYRNES MANPOWER DIRECTIVE TO BE PUT IN EFFECT   Selective Service Taking Steps te Put in Action the Byrnes Act Reclassifying Deferred Werkers Changing Job:

BYRNES ORDERS  DRAFT OF MORE  MEN, 26 THRU 21 EXPECTS NEW RULE  TO PLUG GAPS IN WAR LABOR FORCE

Selective Service Maintains Byrnes’ Manpower Decision   “Immediate Action” on Draft Directive Ordered by Hershey

Hope Draft Plan Will Bolster U.S. War Labor Force   Tighter Regulations Expected to Stop High Turnever.in Nation’s War Plants

Draft-Deferred Workers Who Leave Wartime Jobs To Be Inducted Into Army

BOARDS GIVEN BYRNES’ ORDEF   Hershey Instructs Officials To Take Prompt Action

Tighten Draft Regulations in  26 to 37 Class   Believe a Change Will ‘Go A Long Way’ Toward Bolstering Labor Force

State Draft Heads Told Immediate Action to Be Taken   When Men Leave’ Essential Jobs, Will’ Be Then Reclassified:

New Edict Sent To Draft Panels   ‘Fight -or-Produce’ Order T. Cork Lahar Shifts

Hershey Plans Speedy Action On Draft Ruling   ‘Manpower Officials See  Tighter Regulations Aid  To War Labor Force

BYRNES APPEAI BRINGS ACTION FROM HERSHEY   ‘Produce or Fight” Decree Carried Before Communit; Boards by Federal Action

Draft Machinery Geared to New War Work Order  All Under 38 Who Hol   All Under 38 Who Hold Non-Essential Jobs Will Lose Deferments

ACTION WILL BE RUSHED ON DRAFTORDER   Selective Service Sends Instructions on “Fightor-Produce”

‘Tighter Draft Regulations Expected to Bolster the Lagging War Labor Forces

REGULATIONS TO TIGHTEN DRAFT RULES   Selective Service Notifies State Directors to Take Action to Enforce Byrnes Directive  AAC ACIIDPECG OLUTIINENn

WORK Of FIGHT ACTION SPEEDED   Selective Service Moves to Put Order Into Effect; Men Under 38 May Be Drafted lf Leave Jobs

Tighter Draft  Regulations Aid Manpower   Induction Threat May Keep Men On Vital War Tobs

ACT SWIFILY TO DRAFT 26 TO 37 YEARS   Orders to Stale Directors From  Hershey as Result of Byrnes’  Manpower Directive.

G.0.P. Maps Changes in  Government   Dewey Message Urges Closer Co-operation In Washington

PEACE POLICY PLANKS TAKEN UP IN ChICAGI   REPUBLICANS DRAFT PLATFORM; DEWEY MESSAGE READ

24 000 OF 60,000 WHITE CAPTIVES VIRTUALLY WORKED TO DEATH BY JAPANESE BRITISH WAR OFFICE ANNOUNCES

Japs Worked Captives   Some 24,000 Died Under Brutal, Inhuman Conditions On Railway, Road Work

Captives Worked To Death By Japs   Died Building BurmaThailand Railway Unde  Inhumane Conditions.

24, 000 White Captives Worked to Death by Japs Built Roads Under Brutal ‘and Inhuman. Conditions

Japs Used 60,000 Whites as Slaves  British War Office Reveals Record of

Japs Worked ‘Captives   Some 24,000 Died Under Bratel, Inhumes. Cenditions On Reiley, Road Work

NRAFT NEVEILOPMENTS   24,000 Captives Die from Brutal ‘Jap Treatment

Japs Work Captives To Death   24, 000 White’ Men Die When Forced to: Work Under Brutal and Inhuman Conditions

Jap Captives Die Slaving On Railroad   Disregard Cost ln Human Life

24,000 Jap’s Captives Die of Brutality   INHUMAN WORKING CONDITIONS ‘FATAL TO WHITE PRISONERS

24,000 White Captives Of Japs Died, British Charge  Cruel And Inhuman Treatment Laid To   Cruel And Inhuman Treatment Laid To Nips: Sick Prisoners Carried To Work

Normandy Was Best Landing Bet   Historic Coast Provides Natural Pathway To France.

Ideal Pathway Into France      Normandy Long Recognized By Allied Chiefs As Best Bet.

Normandy Is Natural Path   Sea Provides Flank Along Peninsula; Sea And Airports To Aid Invaders

Washingfon Roundup....     ‘Congressmen Taking Sides On Compulsory Training

PEACE ARMY FIGHT OPENS      President Favors Compulsory’ Peacetime Training; Congress Chooses Up Sides

Quota in Sth Bond Drive Is Upped Billion   Individual Buyers Expected to Dig Deeper Into Pockets

TIGHTEN NOOSE ABOUT UKRAINE HEADQUARTERS   ‘Americans Push Into Cassine Outskirts After Crossing Rapido River

RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON ROVNO   Three Forces Drive Toward Nazi Headquarters

Yanks Fight In Outskirts Of Cassino   Shght Advances Made by French, 8th Army Troops

349 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED AT ANZIO   Anti-aircraft Outfits Also Chalk Up 242 ’Probables‘

Fires Sweep Through Forests In 3 Coast Counties; Flames Menace Laguna and Descanso Resort Areas

Barkley, Park to Run For Senate in Kentucky, As Result of Primary

Methodist Church L. B. HAWES, Pastor   Church of Christ W. J. HASTIE, Pastor

 LAA RASA RADAR AAAS Five Reporters  Get Five Answers On Tax Returns

TUGWELL RULE IS DENOUNCED   Only U. S. Flag Prevented Revolt, Says Official

PUERTO RICAN SETUP ATTACKED   TUGWELL’S GOVERNMENT TERMED “SCANDALOUS”

1NAVAL UNITS AID TROOPS NEAR SAIDOR   While PT Boats Cut Off Jap Reinforcements By Sinking Barges Pushing Up Coast; Sink 11.   Halsey Confers

Naval Guns Aid Troops on Coast  Of New Guinea  PT Boats Sink 11 Jap Barges Off Saidor Beachhead

U.S. Naval Units Aid Americans In New Guinea   PT Boats Cut Off Japanese Reinforcements

Frozen Foods Point Values Are Removed   New Values On Many Foods Go In Effect Over Notion Sunday

Points On Other Items Reduced; Butter, Meats, Processed Foods Same.

 Evacuation of Civilians From  Fortress City Began Several  Days Ago; Way Paved For   Abandonment of City.   FOUR ALLIED ARMIES SWING INTO CAMPAIGN

Press Chief Of German High Command Resigns Due To ‘Wild’ Reports

Big Fight : ‘Waged Over  Germany   BERLIN: REPORTS TRLLS oF VIOLENT CONFLICY °~ ‘OVER REICH.  e

Berlin Radio Tells Why   Says 140,000 Persons Shifted from Russia Were ‘German Settlers

Heavy Blows Mask Main Allied Attack   Cracks in German Resistance Sought for Breakthrough Try And Drive Into Reich Interjor

Six Allied Armies  Pound Nazi Lines   Assault Stage Against Germans From Holland to Switzerland

POUNDED TODAY BY AMERICANS   Allies Advance To New Positions On Entire Front

ALLIES POUND DN THINNING ENEMY LINE:   Six Armies Battering German Defenses Preparing for New Assaults.

POUND ENTIRE SIEGFRIED LINE   Ceaseless Allied Attacks Mask Coming Offensive

6 Allied Armies Pound   UNCEASING PRESSURE IS MAINTAINED FROM SWISS BORDER TO NETHERLANDS

Rain Of Blows Hides Location  Of Main Attack   Pressure Aimed At Open. ing Eventual Cracks That Will Permit Sinash to Berlin   Offensive Is Not Coordinated Yet   Assault Includes Schelde Pocket, Breda Box, Aachen, Sagv and Vosges Areas

Seek Cracks For Smash To Berlin   Assault Along Entire Line Masks Time And Place Of Main Attack

Heavy Allied Pressure On Nazis Mounts   British, Canadians Gain In Holland As Yanks Advance East Of Nancy

Allies Mask Next Blow   6 Armies Pound At Siegfried Line, Keep Enemy Guessing

Entire Western Front Pounded by Six Allied Armies   Weak Spots Sought In Line of Strong German Defenses

ALLIES BATTLE TO OPEN ROAD TO NAZI CAPITAL   British Advance in Holland; Gain Fast in Drive for Antwerp

‘German Hole On Schelde  Is Slipping 1st Army Pushes On Bevond Aachen

Big Drive On Reich Awaited.   2-Pronged Sweep Aimed to Clear _ Port at Antwerp

Pound for Smash  To Berlin   Six Allied Armies In Coordinated  Offensive Hammer Nazi Defense Line

SIX ALLIED ARMIES POUNDED AT GERMAN WEST WALL MONDAY  HEAVY PRESSURE ALL ALONG FRONT SEEKS TO

TIGHTEN 1 ON SCHELDE POCKET   Strive To Clear Antwerp Port For Allied Use   Brings Up Reinforcements For New Drive: Robombs Shot At Americans

‘Six Allied Armies Pound Germans  On Wide Front   Aimed At Opening Crack That Will Permit Smash To Berlin.

Six Allied Armies Are Striking Hard Against Defenses From Holland   To Swiss Border

Pound Teutons From Holland  To Switzerlanc   Six Allied Armies Hammer Nazi Line, Masking  Place Of Main Attack.

Pound Nazis From Vosges To Holland   Enemy Hold On Schelde Area Slipping; First, Third and Seventh Armies Make Gains

6 Allied Armies Press Assaults On West Front   General Assault Intended To Thin Defenses, Mask Plans Of Bia Push

Six Allied Armies Put On Pressure   Pound Tight-Drawn German Defenses From Holland to Switzerland

ALLIES BUILD UP STEADY PRESSURE ON SIEGFRIED LINE   HODGE’S MEN PUSH BEYOND AACHEN IN ADVANCE ON DUREN

SCHELDE POCKET REDUCED: NAZIS FEAR FOR DUREN   American Seventh Army Wedges Deeper Into Vosges Mountain Passes

BATTER NAZIS ON LONG FRONT   Allied Armies Press Forward From Holland to Switzerland

‘RUSSIAN TROOPS CAPTURE TOWN 18 MILES INSIDE NAZI BORDER: LARGE AEGEAN ISLAND @CCUPIED

Six Allied Armies Batter Nazis in West   Seek to Hammer Enemy Line Thinner and Thinner with Indications for Preparations  for Later General] Attack.

Allies Pound Nazi Line. Holland To Switzerland   Rain Of Blows Not Yet A Grand Co-ordinated Offensive But It is Intended To Hammer Enemy Line Ever Thinner For Main Attack Toward Berlin

Allies in the West Prepare Offensive   British and Canadians Drive Ahead in Holland, While Americans Keen Un Pressure

Six Armies Pound Nazis From Dutch to Swiss Borders   Unceasing Pressure is Maintained to Open Cracks to Berlin

CANADIANS “DRIVE INTO BRESKENS   American Troops Gain East Of Aachen And » In Vosges Sector

Hammer Nazis As Prelude to Main Assault   British Second Army Cap: tures Four Key Towns

NAZIS POUNDED AN LONG FRONT   Blows From 6 Allied Armies Not Yet Coordinated Offensive.

WEAK SPOTS IN REICH DEFENSE GOAL IN ACTION   Attack Has Not Yet Reached Grand Offensive Scale Which Will Open Up Road to Berlin

Six Armies Pound at Nazi Reich   Unceasing Pressure Being Exerted Upon German Front

SIX ALLIED ARMIES  POUNDED AT GERMAN  WEST WALL MONDAY HEAVY PRESSURE ALL ALONG FRONT SEEKS TO  Herel BITWaT OMmMAnMmvro

Rain of Blows on  Nazi Defense Line   Steady Pounding of Allied Armies to Mask Main Attack   FROM SEA TO VOSGES   Canadian Army Makes Gains in Campaign to . Clear Antwerp

Twin Assaults In Lowlands   British, Canadians Clearing Enemy so Antwerp Can Be Made Into Big Supply Base

Six Armies Hammer at Nazi Lines   Assaults Reported From Antwerp to  The Vosges Passes; Germans Weakening

Pressure Intended  To Open War To Berlin   Nazis Kept Guessing As To Where Main Allied Attack Will Fall: British Strike

Six Allied Armies Pound Nazi Defenses   Hodges’ Forces Push Towards Duren While Canadians Sweep  “  On From Esschen

Entire West Front Ablaze With Gunfire   Unceasing Pressure Brought by Allies on German Defense Line

Six allied armies hammer at nazis  Exert pressure from Dutc! pocket to Swiss frontier

6 Allied Armies Pound Nazi Defenses In Ef-. fort To Find Opening For Grand Smash. 

Nazis Fear. New Drive by Hodges   Rain: of Blows, Not“Yet Coordinated, Are Intended to..  Mask Allied Plans   CANADIANS AND BRITISH ADVANCE.   Weather,. However, Is Not Favorable for Immediate Major Assault

Six Allied Armies Smash at Nazis  On ‘Western Front   Allies Seek to Hammer German Line Thinner and Mask Timing and Place of Main Attack on West Wall

BERLIN GOAL OF DRIVE NOW TAKING SHAPE   Action Flares Up From Holland In North To Switzerland

BITTER FIGHTING RAGES IN AREA NEAR ANTWERP   Yanks Getting Set for Drive On Saar Basin — Big Push Awaits Crack in Defense

‘BUT DRIVES ARE NOT YET CO-ORDINATED   Rain of Blows Not a Grand Offensive, but Are Intended to Hammer Line Even Thinner and Mask Main Attack.

SEES NO DROP IN GAS RATION   Official Says Cut May Come When War Hits Peak

Husband No. 15   Seeks Annulmen   Wife Sentenced for Fraud. wlently Obtaining U. S. Allotment Checks

13TH HUSBAND ASKS DIVORCE FROM WIFE   Multi-wed Spouse Admits Marrying 16 Men

Mokmer Field Won By Yanks   Gives U. S. Biak Airdrome 900 Miles From Philippines

‘Americans Close on Jap Airfield  Forces Advancing in Two Reaions

Yanks Capturi Airfield on Biak Isle   Americans Now Have Base Within Range of Philippines

BATTLE FOR GERMANY MAY NOT REACH RHINE, AS NAZIS BEGIN PUT UP STRONG WEST WALL FICHT

The War Today  Siegfried Line Apparent Site of ’* Battle for Germany

Russians Sweep Across Estonia  Toward Tallinn. Rahika Less Thin   Rahika Less Than 65 Miles of Enemy Escane Port I¢"Taker   Battle for Germany Has Begun And Will Be Decided in the Siegfried Line. Watery Halland

WAR TODAY   Battle For Germany  May Be Decided In: Siegfried Line and Watery Holland Tne stead of Along Rhine:

Jap Pincers Are 60 Miles Apart  Chinese Admit New Threat To Loyang

U, 5, PRISONERS WELL TREATED   American Soldiers Say German Captors Were Not Unfriendly

The March of Death— Dyess Describes Battle After Japanese Land  Enjoy Last Feast en Christmas, 1941, Before Evacuating Manila City; AA Crews Knock Down Enemy Plane

MURDER AND SUICIDE ARE VERDICTS FOUND   Mother and Son Found Shot in Springfield Home

TRAIN, CAR MEET; 8 KILLED, 2 HURT   Passenger Strikes Auto 1( Miles West of Co-

Russian Flood Breaks Through Nazis East Dike   Increases Threat to Trap in S. Ukraine; Stalemate in Italy

Offensive in Poland Rolls Ahead Rapidly; RAF Batters Berlin   Night Attack on German Capital Follows Successful U. §. Day Raids on Frankfurt And Schweinfurt; Enemy Over London Again

Russ Army Sweeps Old Poland Sector  patty 15 Miles Of The  Rumanian line

400 TOWNS TO RUSSIANS   Eauipment Is Aban doned In Confused Flight

EISENHOWER’S CALL FOR ACTION BY GERMAN SLAVE LABOR SHOWS CONFIDENCE IN INVASION PT AN

WAR TODAY   General Eisenhower Gives Evidence Big Push by. Allies Into Germany Is About to Be Undertaken

The War Today  Call for Revolt Of Slave Workers   By J. M. Roberts, Jr. Substituting for DeWitt  2 a a §£f ao ola

THE WAR TODAY - By J. M. Roberts, Jr.   CLOSELY WATCHED   UNCONFIRMED REPORT

To Ask “Limit” On Free Mailing   Congress May Be Askec Put ‘‘Reasonable Limit” On Franking.

F rank Curb’ On Congress  Mail Urged   Anderson Says  3,000,000 Free . Missives Too Many

While House Corrects Error In F.D.R. Speech   Cost Of Printing Representative’s Speech Was Paid

DECISION IN WARD CASE IS UP 10 JUDGE   Holly Won’t Be Able to Rule Today as ‘Planned, However

WARD SEIZURE RULING DELAYED   Government Power Argued Before Chicago Judge

ATTORNEY ‘GENERAL AND MAIL ORDER COMPANY'S LAWYER STATE THEIR YIEWS BEFORE JUDGE

ARNIY SEIZES WARD PROPERT NY SEVEN CITIES   cecond £trk2 W.thin a Year Hits Chicago Plant Affect'ng 5,750

WAR BALLOTS OUT   First Ones Are Mailed Today to Servicemen Here and Overseas

Patton's Thrust Upsets Strategy of Nazis in North   Germans Forced to Battle With Backs io Sea While Yanks Cut Supply Rontes One by One

Nazi. Defense Crumbles Over France  All of Foe’s Plans   All of Foe’s Plans Have Gone Awry As Allies Advance

U. S. DRIVE ACROSS SEINE UPSETS GERMAN STRATEGY   Enemy’s Defense Plans in Northwest France [Messed Up by Yank Push Across Seine—-Thresten to Back Nazis Against the Sea .

MILITARY RULE ENDS IN HAWAII   Civil Government Takes Over For First Time Since Jap Attack

MartiatLaw In Hawaii Is Liffed   Civil Government Rules Territory for First Time Since Attack  On Pearl Harbor

16 MORE JAP SHIPS © SUNK BY U. §. SUBS   President Regrets Nippon. ese Fleet Fled Scene of Battle

U.S. Subs Sink More Jap Ships   16 More Vessels Added To American Record” Making Jap Losses Total 774

U.S, Submarines Down 16 More. .  Merchantman.Sent Down Off Sorong .’

Roving g Subs... Sink 16 More Japanese Ships   15. Cargo Carriers. And Naval’ Auxiliary Included in New. Toll:

BREAK NAZI REAR GUARD   Finns Continue to Advance in Central Finland

FINAL BLOW AT WARSAW IMMINENT   Red Armies Slash Deeper Into Suburbs

REDS OPEN ROMANIAN OFFENSIVE   Russian Assault On Polish Capital Appears Imminent

Namur Is Being Mopped Up After Capture of Roi   Americans Now Have Airport to Support Their Offensive

American Losses Light But Bodies Of Enemy Litter Blasted Island   Thousands of Nips Believed Pocketed by Surprise Assault; Meanwhile Allies Drive Ahead in Other Areas of Pacific War

Important Anchorage Threatened   Newly-Won Airfielc Gives U. S. Base For Operations

Japs Crumble Before Attack U. §. Forces   Conquest of Marshalls Moving Forward With Verv Small Losses

‘SUCCESSFUL FLANKING ASSAULTS NOW BEING CARRIED OUT WITH AMERICAN CASUALTIES LIGHT   Attack on Japanese Positions Continue from Land, Sea and Air, and No Losses Yet Reported Among U.S. Vessels. Japs Under Attack Else wurhkara Alen

AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN CLOSING IN ON KWAJALEIN ATOLL  MID-PACIFIC INVASION CAMPAIGN MOVING

REPORT DEBRIS LITTERS NAMUR AND ROL ISLETS   Troops Win 4-Runway Airstrip to Aim New Assaults on Other Isles

U. S. Troops Strike Heart Of Marshals   Americans Close In on Bomb: Ravaged Kwajalein Atoll jn Swift Assault That Surprises Enemy Defendcrs

RO! ISLET IS SEIZED; MOP UP ON NAMUR   New Airstrip Aids Invaders In Drive To Neutralize Marshalls

- Yanks Close In On Bomb-Ravaged Kwajalein Atoll, Mop Up On Namur

U.S. Troops Flank Marshalls Position   Close In On Bomb-ravaged Kwajalein Atoll; Roi and Namur Littered With  Debris After Intense Bombardment.

AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN CLOSING IN ON KWAJALEIN ATOLL   MID-PACIFIC INVASION — " CAMPAIGN MOVING AHEAD METHODICALLY

Rovno And Lutsk Inside Poland Are Evacuated   Yanks Closing In On Kwajalein Atoll; Italian Invasion Ils Near Climax

Tokyo Mavor Prepares For Air Attaek:   Marines Mop Up. Enemy Remnants On Adjacent Namur: Into Fourth Day.   DISPERSE POPULATION

PEACE WITH TEETH SOUGHT BY LEGION   Year Begins With Demand For Military Training

Legion Asks Armed Peace   Seheiberhing Favors Training Li. S. Youth

Legion Demands Teeth In Peace Pact With Foes   E. V. Scheiberling New Commander

NAZI COMMENT ON WAR   Situation “Hopeless For Time Being,” Says Spokesman

Oise ae bal telemetry  GERMAN ADMITS SITUATION IN NORTH FRANCE HOPELESS

Ayis and Neutral Sources Continue fo Predict Allied Invasion is Imminent

Nazis Try ‘D" Day  Guessing   German Planes Try English Coast Spying, Two Shot Down

SHIPS MASS IN BRITISH PORTS, ASSERT NAZIS;  AFPHIZANC  AVILA WCKViKne 1 AvinG MINES

Invasion Viewed Tnminent as Shipping Mounts  Germans Step Up Connter-Attacks   Germans Step Up Counter-Attacks Against Russians

ANS CONTINUES - PREDICTIONS OF ~FARLY INVASION   Germans Broadcast Reports of Great Concentrations of Allied Shins.

BAND LEADER S INDICTED   TOMMY DORSEY AND WIFK AND 1 FULM. BIRROTOR. -FAQE « : TRIAY- OVER “BALCO! , BATTLE”. :

Americans Nearly  Across Peninsula  In Push for Port Heavy Guns of U. S.  Battleships Aiding Invasion Battle

Midwest Suffers Worst Drought In Past Decade   Winter With Little Moisture ic Reported

Critical Situation in Winter Wheut, Rye and Hay Crops—Great Cracks Appearing in Soil from (Hinois to Colorado.

POSTWAR PLAN IS GIVEN 10 MAYORS   Undersecretary of War Patterson Comments of ReReturn to Industry.

Patterson Says American industry Cannot Hope to Return to Pre-War Methods, Must Keep Up With World

Perjury Indictments At Tulsa Stand   Judge Refuses to Quash Grand Jury Indictments

Japs On Saipan Hard To Crack   Americans Encounter Fiercest Resistance But Hold Initiative

American Planes  Attack Belgrade   Capital of Yugoslavia Has First Raid Of War; Romanian Centers Also Hit by Bombers; British-Based Craft Grounded

BELGRADE IS ATTACKED BY U.S. PLANES   Damage and Casualties Reported Heavy; Hitfer’s Airforce Faces Porile from U.S. Force.   2.942 Killed

Blast Belgrade For First Time; Big Death Tol!   Pre-Invasion Aerial Attacks Continue; Raiders From Italy Bombard Away At Germany; Fighter Plane Attack

Belgrade Blasted By Fliers Of U.S.   Explosives Rained on Important Railroad Town of Turnu-Severin Following Attacks on Bucharest and Ploesti Areas

Yanks Aitack Capital of Yugoslavia   Belgrade Is Bombed for First Time by the Allies

U.S. bombers hit Belgrade,  other points  Damage heavy in Yugoslav capital

Yanks Strike Belgrade In Heavy Raid   First U. 8. Sortie Uses Bases In South Europe

Reported by DNB Agency; City Major Crossroads, Europe to Middle East

AMERICAN CASUALTIES LIGHT IN CONQUEST OF MARSHALLS   $,122 Japanese Killed And 264 Captured; 286 Yanks Slain With 1,148 Wounded And 82 Missing,  Nimitz Announces; Losses Far Under Tarawa

8122 Japs, 286 Americans Killed in Capture of Atoll   1,148 Yanks Wounded, 82 Missing; Only 264 Japs Taken Prisoner, Admiral Nimitz Discloses; 7th Army Division Losses Highest

New Tactics In Marshalls Saves Lives   Kwajalein Dead Fewer Than Tarawa Marines

6,0) Japanese Killed in Yank Marshalls Drive   U. S. Losses Reported 286 in Lightning Capture of Kwajalein

8,122 Japs, 286 Americans Killed in Marshalls Fight   U. Ss. Marines, and “Army Wounded Number. 1,148 With 82 ‘Men. Missing—264. Nipponese ‘Taken Prisoner by Yanks Commanding Atoll of Islands Now Firmly Held by U. ".§. Forces-—21 Islets in-Alk Overrun, —_

Vefeat In Russia is Manpower Disaster—— —By Kirke L. Simpson  Nazis Lose 500,000 Men On Western Front

Canadians Are Near Bellaria   On Outskirts Of Adriatic Town North Of Captured Bordonchio

Youth, 17, to Die In Chair Tonight   Goes to Death for Murder of Child

Remsen Boy Dies In South:Pacific —  ‘Ray ‘Kohnke ‘Was.  Two Years Overseas

Remsen Boy Dies In South Pacific  Ray Kohnke Was  Two Years Overseas

British Free Gandhi Because Of Ill Health   Indian Leader Weakened By Malaria

GANDHI RELEASED FROM AGA KHAN   FREEDOM GRANTED ON MEDICAL GROUNDS

INDIAN LEADER GIVEN FREEDOM   Gandhi Released After 21 Months Of Internment

Gandhi Freed Because of  Ill Health   India’s Leader Granted Liberty “Uneconditionally”’

ODESSA ONLY 38 < ODESSA ONLY 38      Other Forces Take Berezovica, and Towns Fall In Bessarabfa;  Prut Uncrosesed

Kussians Squeeze Odessa Region,  Cut Vital Rail Line  British Reveal Heavy Aerial Losses, 10 Small

ILLINOIS NAMES GOP GOVERNOR   Elect Green After Giving Demos Other Top Posts

BERLIN, LONDON POUNDED AGAIN   U.S. Heavy Bombers Strike Anew At Reich Capital

PARKED AUTO: DEATH TRAP   THREE OF FOUR YOUNG PEO PLE DEAD OF MONOXIDE  GAS AND BELOW-ZEEO"  ‘: SEMPERATURES.

Survivor Tells Amazing Story   One Of Auto Party Of Four Escapes Death In New England Episode   REVEALS THREE DAY TRYST WITH DEATH

HugeArmy 10 Mi. From Capital   Soviets Liberate 2,140 Towns In Blazing ,000 Mile  East Front.

Russ Open Onslaught At Warsaw   Lithuanian City Of Kaunas Entered

NO-STRIKE APPEAL ISSUED BY GREEN   Tells Boilermakers to Overtook Most Unjust Conditions During War.

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST AT FRANCE   Powerful Attack Made In Daylight By Allied Fliers

American Planes Pace Attack On Rocket Gun Coastal Installations   Fighters Escort 8th Air Force Heavies In 18th Major Action This Month

Air Force Blasts France   Nazis Mass Rocket ‘Guns To Aid Offensive

ALLIES RAID ROCKET GUN COAST ANEW   Planes Of All Types In Concerted Attack On Northern France

AMERICANS BOMB ROCKET GUNS ON INVESION SHORE   Other Offensive Weapons of Enemy Damaged During Improved Weather After Interruption.   ANZIO-APRILIA LINE STILL-HELD BY ALLIES   Two Enemy Strongholds Are Taken But Aerial Activity ls Curtailed Over Area Due to Freezing Rain.

Yanks Hit Invasion Coast Again   U. S. ‘Heavies’ Lead Attack on Northern France Installations; Escorted by RAF

STRONG SWEEP AGAINST NORTH FRANGE SECTOI   “8th Major Air Operation by U.S. Eighth Air Force. R.A.F. Also Over French Soil

BS ROCK FRENCH COAST   U. S., BRITISH PLANES RESUME AIR OFFENSIVE

Judge John Freschi " Declares Mistrial In © Loneragan Murder Cace

PILOT, PASSENGER PARACHUTE SAFELY   Army Training Plane Crashes In Meigs County

B. H. Lobbyist Bound Over On Bribery Charge   Ex-Rep. Handy State's Chief Witness At Lonsina Hearing

CARR REFUSES 10 DROP COUNT AGAINST FITZ   Orders B. H. Lo Lobbyist »  Trial On Alleged  Bribe Offer 

COURT HOLDS PROMOTER ON BRIBE CHARGE   FITZSIMMONS $500 OFFER REJECTED, SAYS EX-SOLON

FLYING BOMB HITS. BRITISH HOSPITAI   Babies Carried to Safety as Churchill Plans ‘Statement

BABIES RESCUED IN ROCKET RAID   Dozens Are Carried To Safety As Bomb Hits London Hospital

SECOND LONDON HOSPITAL WAS RT BY ROBOT BOME   As Prime Minister Churchill Prepares to Give House of Commons a Report, Nazis Step Up Attack.   10,000 CASUALTIES IN THREE WEEKS   Germans Have Sent Ove 2750 Rockets In Pas Three Weeks—2752 Brit  ons Were Killed.

AS. HOSPITAL HIT BY ROBOT   Nurse Lone: Fatality  When Buzz-Bomb

Plans Completed for Big Hog Sale Sale Here Monday   Swine Association Will Offer Forty Boars and Eighteen Gilts to Hog Raisers

End Of Dover's Four Y ears Of War Under Guns Of Nazis 1s Announced

Dover Ends Four Years Under Fire   People Celebrate Capture of German Guns Across the Channel

CASUALTIES IN TTALY “LESS THAN EXPECTED” : ATYTTE DD BHEFADOUARTERS

U. S. Casualties In Italy “Less Than Expected”   Progress of New Allied Of fensive Expected To Become Slower

U.S. Warplanes Destroy 133 Nazt Planes Tuesday   Joint Heavy Onslaught Made Against Germany From Britain And Italy   GERMAN PLANE FACTORIES BLASTED

Yanks Hit Kiel,  Calais Region   Many Train Schedules Cancelled in London

Chiang Rejects Coalition Plan   General Chou En-Lai Says Generalissimo Offers Counter Proposals.

CHIANG REJECTS RED PROPOSALS   Offers Counter-Plan to Chinese Communists

Coalition  Plan Spurned By Chiang   Chinese Communist Envoy Takes New Propesals Home

Tax Farmers Defend New ‘Revenue Bill   Doughton and Knutson Call on Congress to Override Veto; List Advantages

Molten River From Vesuvius Destroys 2 Italian Villages   Threatens Third; Residents Evacuated; No Casualties

MOLTEN LAVA OF VESUVIUS COVERS TOWNS   ‘Three Villages Evacuated, Two Already Engulfed in Heavy Eruption of Volcano   AMERICANS AID   Foletti, Kincaid, Other Allied Military Government Leaders, Direct Rescue Work

White-Hot Lava Stream From Famed Vesuvius Threatens Third Village

Italian Towns Covered by Flow of Lava   Mt. Vesuvius Erupts; Third City Is In Path of Stream

Americans Take Care Of Those Evacuated From Homes in Mount Vesuvius Sector

Two Towns Are Destroyed And 3d Threatened   Inhabitants Near Vesuvius Evacuated, U.S. Army Aiding

, Molten Lava Pours From “Mt. Vesuvius   Blow Buries Two Villages; Cuts Wide Path of Destruction; Italians Flee Area

Two Villages Are Buried by Mt. Vesuvius   Stream of Lava Racing 40 Miles an Hour Licks at Third Town..

Two Towns Engulfed, Lava Menaces Third —   Thousands From Destroyed Italian Village: On Slope Of Mount Vesuvius Already Evacuated.

MOLTEN RIVER LICKS AT EDGE OF THIRD TOWN   MAJOR ERUPTION OF HISTORIC VOLCANO WORST SINCE 1872

Hot Lava Rolls On   Worst Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius Since 1872 Engulfs Two Villages :

Vesuvius Erupts   Hot Lava Races Down Slope 40 Miles An Hour, Wipes Out Two Towns And Threatens! Another

LAVA STILL POURS FROM MT, VESUVIUS   No Signs Of Molten River Subsiding As It Winds Way Down Mountains In Italy

TWO VILLAGES ARE DESTROYED   Great Stream of Hot Lava Pours From Mt. Vesuvius at High Sneed.

Hot Lava Pours From Vesuvius   Two Towns Destroyed, Third Menaced, As  Mount Vesuvius Erupts

MT, VESUVIUS POURS LAVA OVER TOWNS   Worst Eruption Since 1872 Is Reported

Towns Buried by Lava From Mt. Vesuvius  No Sign of Subsiding as Flow Endangeres ga Third Villace

Great Stream Lava Pouring From Vesuvius   Molten River Licks At  Third Town After De stroying Two Others  During Night

Lava Pours Out Vesuvius Again   Great Molten Stream Destroys Two Towns, Threatens Another.

Stream of Lava Pours Out of Vesuvius Crater   Two Villages Buried, Another Is Threatened

Vesuvius Destroys Two Italian Town:   Hot Lava Pouring At 40-Mile-An-Hour Rate From Volcano; American Soldiers Busy Evacuating Civilian Population

—OHIO—  HEAW LATE-DAY VOTING IS SEEN   Mahoning County Ballots Ordered Impounded By Wammel   PROBE IS PLANNED   Long Campaign Reaches End; Candidates Await Results

New Tires Seen For ‘A’ Drivers   Ration Chief Indicates Relief Late This Year

See Compromise Food Subsidies   3elief That Roosevelt Left Door Open to Compromise Expressed In Congress Even Though He Didn’t Mention “Subsidy”.

OPENS DOOR FOR COMPROMISE ON FOOD SUBSIDIES   PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CONTINUATION OF PRICE CONTROLS

‘DOOR LEFT OPEN  FOR COMPROMISE   That Comment Follows. the Roosevelt Address Regardjing Food Contracts

‘Both Sides In Food Subsidy Issue Find-Comfort-InPresident’s Words  Seen As Leaving Door Open To Compromise; Aiken, One Of Senate Foes, Agrees With  — Plan For Cost Of Food Law.

FOGD SUBSIDY PROGRAM LEFT TO CONGRESS   Precident Urzes Continuation  Of Control

May Compromise On Food Subsidies  _ Belief Expnreccad That   Belief Expressed That Roosevelt Left Door Open for Settlement

Compromise Seen On Food Subsidies   Belief Held That President Left Subsidy Door Open

00h OPEN FOR A COMPROMISE   FR Deals With Subsidy in Terms Which Finds Some Acrentance.

Way Open For Subsidy   Cost-of-Food Idea Meets Favorable Response .

TWO COLUMNS ARE MOVING ON BORDER   Novograd Volynski Taken By Russian Forces   POYASKI   Captured By Other Unit; Nazis Abandon Great Stores Of Material

Triumphant Soviet Army Nears Poland   Poyaski, Last Main Fortified Strongpoint, Ten Miles From Border, Is Captured by First Ukraine Army .   Whole German Line From Korosten South, Appears to Be Crumbling

‘STALIN REPORTS: NEW VICTORY BY RUSSIAN FORGES   Nevograd Volynski, Las Nazi Bastion Before Old Poland. Falls

Capture of Vitebsk Due Before Night   Germans Being Flung Back To Old Frontiers in Blood: Battle Alone 200-Mile Are

ONE BUT 10, THE OTHER 15 MILES AWAY   Ghoups Cepture Novograd Volynski and Poyaski, Last Major Obstacles in Zhitomir and Korosten Areas. Respectively, _

Two Columns Race Toward Old Border   Novograd Volynsk, Last Big Obstacle, Falls to Speeding Rusctan Foarces

‘Last Vital Town On Polish. Road   Ukrainian ‘Troops. Enter: Novograd: Volynsk,. 15 Miles From Border Line

Russ Smash Into Railway Center Near Polish Line   Now Are Only 15 Miles From Old Border; Nazi: Reported To Be In  Slarinne Situation’

Key Rail Junetion   First Baltic Army Is Lesé Than 45 Miles From Latvia — Exhawaggal  German Lines Bet Slashed To Ribbons . Qreith. _

TRIUMPHANT SOVIET ARMIES CONTINUING TO RACE WESTWARD  CEN VATITTIN’'SG RORCRe

Now Within — 15 Miles of Old Border   ‘Moscow View, However,  Is That Real Frontier  Lies Farther West

Drive Race Between Two Russ Columns   ; Rail Bastion 15 Miles From  Old Frontier 4 Captured

Rail Junction Falls to Reds   Two Columns Racing Now For Old Polish Border

‘RUSSIAN FORGE ~ NEARING PRE-WAR POLISH BORDER   Advance Troops Today Captured Novograd Volynsk, Stalin Announced.   RACE BETWEEN SOVIETS.   Last Major Obstacle Between Russian Armies and the Old Frontier.

SOVIET TROOPS CAPTURE VITAL RAIL TERMINAL   Seize Novograd Volynski As Russians Near Old Polish Frontier

SOVIETS CLEAR ROUTE 10 OLD POLISH BORDER   Take Novograd-Volyn. ski to Remove Final Big Barrier

Two Soviet Armies Racing for Pre-War Borders of Poland   Whole of Nazi Front in Russia Appears to be Crumbling

Reds Ready >To Drive Into Old Poland   Take Novograd Volynski And Poyaski, Last Major Obstacles In Path.

Soviet Menace To PRoumanita Mounts   . +» Retreating Nazis Leave-Vast War Supplies

Russians Batter At Poland Border   Red Forces Continue Advances, As Germans Retreat to New Lines

VITAL RAILWAY CENTER TAKER      Russian Drive to Pelantl Becomes Race Between Advance Columns. °   GERMAN LINE CRUMBLING

Drives Bring Russians Near Old Boundary   Soviets Have Retaken All Territory Lost Since The War Beaan

One Column ig y 10 Miles ‘om Frontier   azi Forces ain Ukraine Face Disaster

Troops Are Only 10 Miles From Borders   Advance Forces Hurdle Last Obstacle In Fast Advance

Reds Drive Toward Polish Border Thru Novograd Volynski   Soviets Can Be in Poland Today in Seetors if They Continue at Present Rate

Soviets Push Closer to Pole Border   One Army Attains Site Only 10 Miles From Goal

WHOLE GERMAN LINE SEEMS 10 BE GIVING AWAY   First Ukraine Army Captures Poyaski And Speeds On; Other Units Capture Novograd Volynski.

vograd Volynski pfured; Last hior Obstacle   bwn Described s Rail Junction; rive Continues

Novograd Only 15 Miles From Polish Border   Canadian Troops Fight Way To Within 9 Miles Of  Pescara Port.   [BAD WEATHER SEEN

TRIUMPHANT SOVIET ARMIES CONTINUING TO RACE WESTWARD:  GEN. VATUTIN’S FORCES  SMASH INTO IMPORTANT RAILWAY CENTER

Two Units  In Race To Frontier   One Army Rolls Into Novograd Volynski As Another Army Takes  . Control Of Poyaski

STALIN REPORTS TRIUMPH NEAR POLISH BORDER   Novograd Volynsk, Rail Junction, Within 15 Miles Of Old Frontier

Vatutin's Army May Roll Across Border Any Hou   Advances Within 10 Miles of Frontier; Other Units Within 50 Miles Of Rumania

Troops Take Last Barrier Held by Nazis   Premier Stalin Reveals Capture of Novograd Volnysk; Reds Advancing

NAZI DEFENSES OF RUSSIA GOAL - BEING SHELLED   Red Star, Red Army Newspaper. With Reporters Near Front, Terms Situation “Serious”   HUNS RESISTING IN - AREA DESPERATELY   Large Tank and Infantry Forces Unable to Hold Back Surging Rus- —

REDS CAPTURE LAST: OBSTACLE IN WAY OF DASH TO AS GERMANS ARE FORCE

LIBERATE RUSSIAN GIRLS   Had Been Sold in Slave Markets by the Germans

ivanoe bonoml Made Premier Of New Italy  Is Unanimous  Choice Of Committee Of  Liberation — LEAD UNDERGROUND  pee a ee Wh.......*; 2 ee   Was Former Premier, War Minister Of Italy

BONOM! IS NAMED PREMIER OF (TALY BY NEW MONARCH   Unanimous Choice of Group That - Directed Under- . ground Against Nazis. ©

BONOMU IS NEW PREMIER OF ITALY   Named to Succeed Badoglio As Head of Gov't

Vets Job Bill  Passage Sure   Both Parties Support F. R. Plan; Congress To Give Quick Approval

Speed Bill To Give Veterans Job Preference   Quick Passage Foreseen As Both Parties Support F_ R. Pronosal.

VETERANS’ JOB PLAN FAVORED   , Servicemen To Have First Choice At Federal Work

First Choice To Veterans   Congress Favors Plan To Give Suldiers Federal Job Preference

Back Vet Job Preference Bill   Predict Quick PassageBoth Parties Support FDR Plan

Second Armored Force Racing For Orleans, Third Believed Aiming at Tours in Swift Drives to Circle City

LONDON'S WORST TRANOPORTATION TIE-UP 15 ENDED   Drivers Quit in Protest Against Ther Summer Schedule Ruling

NEGRO CONFESSES EVANSVILLE GRIME   44 Year Old Negro And Wife Murdered Wealthy Evansville Widow

New U.S.  Decoration   Bronze Star May Be Won in Any Action Against Enemy Excep In Aerial Flight

Bronze Star Is Introduced With Specification It Can Go Anywhere Except Air

BRONZE STAR IS NEWEST MEDAL   Army To Give Decoration For Action Against Enemy .

The Bronze Star, New Medal, Can Be Won Anywhere Except in the Air

Chinese Rewin Railway Town  Kweichow Crisis Is Passing, Says General

Japs Retreat In Kweichow   ~Chinese . Offensive. -Retakes Shangshu

Chinese Claiming Shangssu Taken   Counteroffensive Has Aimost Cleared Kweichov Province

Chinese Claiming Shangssu Taken   Counteroffensive. Hoy Almost Cleared Kweichow Frovin¢a.

Chinese Railway Town Recaptured   Counter-Offensive Makes 18 Mile Advance

FOOD SUBSIDES APPEAR DOOMED   Congress Decides’ Inflation What The People Want

SENATE OK'S - COMPROMISE:  SUBSIDY BAN   FDR’s Anti-Inflation Program Totters In Congress

KEY TOWN ‘OF GRODNO CAPTURED   Reds Near Border Of East Prussia In ~~ Smashing Drive

CAPITAL OF THUAN SOO   Reds Sweep Toward Germany   Crermany     CAPTURE GRODNO  Irresistible on 500 Mile Front

PRICE =CONTROL HOLDS CONGRESS   Plans for International Meet Take Form

Anaconda Marine Dies i in Action  s. V.Salomonson  Sacrifices Life

Wounds Fatal To Pfc. Leslie Pepin, Saco Serviceman   Killed In Action  November 8&

Leading Astronomers Praise Telescope of The McDonald Observatory

82-INCH TELESCOPE OF McDONALD OBSERVATORY WINS PRAISE OF MANY LEADING ASTRONOMERS OF WESTERN HEMISPHERE THE PAST FIVE YEARS

Russian Troops InKecskemet, Nazis Announce  Berlin Says Roar Of Muscovite Guns BE... fF bBo Mm. 8..e.sey

BATTLE RAGING AT KECSKEMET, HUNGARIAN CITY   REDS PRESS THEIR DRIVE ON BUDAPEST, ONLY 50 MILES AWAY

Keeskemet Broken Into By Russians. Berlin Says   Germans Claim Attack By Force Of 22:,000; Storms Lash Eastern Front

RUSSIANS NOW 50 MILES SOUTH OF BUDAPEST   froops Between Warsaw And East Prussia Renew Attacks Along Narew River —Heavy Fighting Reported.

Russians Break Into Kecskemet   Germans Report Huge Russian Forces Attacking In Drive To Budapest.

SOVIETS ENTER CITY 50 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   Nazis Report Russians Inside Kecskemet; Weather Slows Reds Advance

Drive Aimed At Capital.  OF. Budapest By Soviets   Nazis Claim E nemy Has, Been Thwarted

Berlin Reports Big Push By Russians in Hungary   . Wintery Storms Are Slowing Down  Red Army’s Mechanized Attack

Soviets Push Their Bid For Budapest   Battle Nears Climax, Germans Report; 225,000 Men Used

FOURTH CITY OF HUNGARY NEARS RED LIBERATION   Berlin Admits Penetration, Claims Russians Repulsed

Reds Break Into Hungarian City   Dozen Divisions Attacking Kechkemet, 50 Miles From Budapest.

Soviets Repel Counter-Blow   Nazi Units Fail in Bid To Turn Red Attack

RUSSIANS CONTIN CONTINUE DRIVE ON BUDAPEST; BIG FORCE INVOLVED  RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE SILENT ON EAST PRUSSIA  Tr fare FES Terese

Reds Break Into Hungary’s 4th Largest City, Germans Claim They Are Driven Out   Berlin Says Battle Nearing Climax As Red Drive Rolls Toward Budanect

REICH REPORTS NEW RED DRIVE   Says Soviet Troops Pushed Out Of Hungarian City

Soviets Push On Budapest In New Drive      Huge Army Roars Forward in All-out Offensive on Magyar Capital

—RUSSIA—  RUSSIANS SMASH INTO KEGSKENET   Capture Of Fourth Larg. est Hungarian City Is Seen Near

RUSSIANS CAPTURE KECSKEMET   Fourttt Largest Hungarian City Falls To Soviets

Russians Push Into Hungary's 4th City   Berlin Reports New Drive Above Warsaw

Battle's Roar Brings Terror in Budapest   Hungary May Remove Government Within Borders of Germany

Hungary Battle Nears Climax  Reds Enter Town   Reds Enter Town Near Budapest

Reds Break into Large Hungarian City   Enter Keeskemet Only 5 Miles Of Budapest Vast Number of Rus sians Engaged In Large Scale Battles.

SOVIET TROOPS DETERMINED 10 ‘TAKE BUDAPEST   Germans Report ~ 225,000 Reds Attacking

Renewed Red Drive Aimed At Budapest   Fighting Severe on  Lower Tisza as “Stréggle Reaches” ~  Climax, Says Berlin

 ° oo Russians Advance Within  20 Miles Hungary Capiial   Germans Say Foes Driven Out of Kechskemet; Berlin Admits Battle Nearing Climax

Germans Say They Are Driven Out; Danube-Tisza_ River Battle Near Climax   Budapest Hears A rlitlery Fire   Russians Silent On Operations On Latvwa And East Prussia Fronts

REDS LAUNCH AN OFFENSIVE FOR BUDAPEST   Russian Troops Break Into Becskemet, Fourth Largest Hungarian City South of Capital   WINTER STORMS SET IN

Offensive Ot Soviets  Intensified   Russians Also Resume Their Attacks Alon; Narew River Fron  North Of Warsaw

Soviets Open All-Out Attack For Budapest —   Germans Say 225,000 Troops In Assault Against Their Lines; Action Neor Warsaw

Battle Befween Danube, Lower Tisza Nears Climax   Reds Strive to. Free: Every Foot of Soviet Territory by Nov. 7

STEADY SOVIET ADVANCE GOES ON IN HUNGARY   Nazis Admit Russian Forces Broke Into City of Kecskemet

Reds Driven Out, Berlin Reports Say   25 Enemy Tanks Are Disabled, Germans Claim

FBI ARRESTS ~ BANGOR MAN   Charged With Threatening Several Van Buren   Officials

Former Bangor Man Seized By Federal Agents   Menacing Notes Sent Van Buren Officers; Prisoner On Bond

MACKENZIE SAYS—  No Revenge Seen In U.S. Occupation   Control of Conquered Lands Will Prevent 3rd World Cenflict

GOP Asking Small Nation Participation   Presidential Nominee Stands Against Entire Control By Four Allies   No Skullduggery Will Let Axis Escape Just Deserts

Allies to Occupy Axis Countries   They Won't Let Gangsters Squirm Out of Their Just Deserts,

The War Today...   Small Nation Participation In Peace Draft, Dewey Stand

WAR TODAY   Roosevelt's Declared Promise Berlin and Tokyo Will Be Occupied Should Ease Voanvy Minds

; Already Nazis Have Threatened Us.With Anothe: + War If They Fail to Get “Genuine Compromise ¢ Of Interests” and Have Tagged Our Allies As  SQ eetae’?®

ey ASAE SRS Wee   Germany And Japan To Be Occupied By The Alles—  aei Ganasters Can't Escape Allied Might

ROOSEVELT STATEMENT ABOUT OCCUPATION GANGSTER NATIONS EXPECTED TO EASE MANY MINDS

The War Today  DPancavalt DPiedos Inenrance Ac   Roosevelt Pledge Insurance Against Ganesters Saquirming Out

HARDIN COUNTY LAGS IN SIGN-UP OF BEAN QUOTA      Eldora Township Only One to Exceed Goal For Badly Needed Crop

ALLOW PENSIONS TO 270,795 VETS   HINES REVIEWS AID FOR DISABLED MEN OF WORLD WAR II

General Dempsey’s “Forces Are Attacking The Germans Above Nijmegen   ALLIED OFFENSIVE TO FREE YUGOSLAVIA STARTS: ROLLING   Germans Say Russians Have Crossed The Danube River From Romania .

STRIKE AGAIN FOR NORTHERN INVASION ROUTE   Second Army Surges Toward Arnhem Gateway  Above Siegfried Line.

6 WAR LOAN DANE PENS OVER TIO ON NOVEMBER 20   ‘ALABAMA FIRST” TO BE SLOGAN IN STATE CAMPAIGN

Special House Unit Formed to Put Farmers on a ‘Businesslike’ Basis

American Civilian Population Shows Four Million Decline Since 1940

CIVILIAN CENSUS IN U.S. DECLINES   Ration Bock Regis'rations Basis for .Bureau’s Estimate

American Forces Landed On  _ Angaur In The Palau Group   First Division Marines Continue to Face Heavy Enemy Fire From Japanese on Peleliu—-Morotai - Positions Consolidated -

Yanks Make Landing on ~ Angaurlsle   First Division Marines Face Heavy Fire in Fight With Japs On Peleliu

Army Invades Angaur Island Of Palau Unit   ‘Marines Battle Desperate  Japs for Peleliu Gains; Voe on Ancnar Flees

West, South Plan Democratic Fight   Patronage Grievances To National Committee

Democrats Face Trouble:  Western and Southern Blocs Plan To Complain to National Leaders   Walker Te Resien

Democrats Said Facing Trouble  Western, Southern ‘Blocs’ Aroused

Used Parachutes For Plane Brakes   Crippled Bomber Slowed Enough for Safe Landing

TWISTER KILLS ~ JOIN DSTATE   Tornado Causes Damage —HuristoTwo Score Per-_ gone in Devious Course

Finns Urged To Quit War With Russia   Red Air Raids on Helsinki Back up Moscow Warning

FINNS ADVISED TO MAKE PEACE WITH RUSSIANS   Moscow Warns Finland’s Hour of Retribution Is At Hand. .

U. S. ‘ADVISES FINNS TO MAKE PEACE WITH REDS   Hour of Retribution Near For Nazi Partner, Warns Moscow.

PEACE WITH RUSSIA URGED ON FINNS BY U.S. SWEDEN HEARS   Two Heavy Soviet Raids On Helsinki May Speed Decision; Delay Would Result In Harsher Terms, Said

AVERY RESUMES RULE OF MAIL ORDER HOUSE   U. S. Ends Possession of Ward Plant; CIO Wins Election

WARD EMPLOYES VOTE THE CIO IN   Election Favors Union As  - Bargaining Action; Army Turns Company Back To Owners.

U.S. ENDS RULE OF WARD PLANT   Reins Given Back To Avery Election Won By CIO

WARD CONTROL RELINQUISHED   Government Releases Hold on Firm After CIO Union Wins Eleciion

Ten-Ton Rocket Bombs May Be Aimed At England— we By Mevwitt Nackenzi  Goebbels Promises Nazis Secret Weapons

War sUUe  Allies Await New Weapon  of Germany  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

BEWARE OF SECRET WEAPONS WHICH NAZIS MAY BE MAKING   By DEWITT MACKENZIE A. P. War Analyst

Goebbels Is No Doubt Trying to Bolster German Morale But There Can Be No Doubt That Hitler Will Try Everything in His Power to Slow Down His Inevitable Destruction

New Terror Wave Seen By Goebbels   Secret Weapons “Of Heinous Scope Promised Allies

TODAY   Germany Will Have To Turn New Secret Weapon Loose Soon if It Hopes to Stave Off Defeat

Advance Made in 3 Areas   Vital Center of St. Lo Is Neared By U.S. Troops

U. S. Forces in Attack on Wide Front in France   Nazi Tank Thrust at Allied Beachhead in Pont Herbert Area Smashed; Americans Clear Hill, Hit Communications in Normandy

Yanks Smash 48-MileFront In Normandy   Rommel Reported Backing Up Along Whole  Tine in France

Destroy or Damage Jap Vessels Off Leyte; Shell Kuriles Island; Japs Report a B-29 Over Honshu

Planes And P-5 Boats Shatter Japs Shipping   Eight Coastal Vessels, 54 Barges Sunk: Enemy Masses At Ormoc

BALK CONTINUING JAP ATTEMPTS T0 AID LEYTE FORCES   Sink Or Damage 654 Barges And 8 Larger Vessels Off Coast

German Planes Fall Like Leaves in Fight   Montanan Leads Fighters in Spectacular Battle

LAFOLLETTE URGES "AMERICAN PEACE’   Senator Criticizes the Brit. ish for Imperialism

Claim Lonergan  Was Disinherited   Confession Read At Trial For Slaying

Confession Of Lonergan Read   Victim Disinherited Her Playboy Husband Before Her Death

COMMANDS THE FRENCH   Gen. De Tassigny Was Imprisoned by Vichy Regime

CONSERVATIVE DEMOS, SOUTH OPPOSE HIM   Texans May Stir Up Trouble for New Deal

Conservatives Mass Against Vice - President As Convention Nears   FDR Is Reluctant  To Repudiate Him   Rebellion In South Subsides Except On This Question

Wallace Chances Sag Under  Bloe Pressure   Conservalive Group Fights lowan South Asks Nomince to Offset Administration’s Necro Policies

Japs on Offensive Only in China Area   Formerly Conducting Aggressive Warfare On Five Fronts, Japanese Have Been Pushed Back Except in Chinese Theater

Polish Premier Arrives in U. S.   Mikolajczyk to Exchange Views With Roosevelt

German Hold Loosened on Battered City   New Zealanders Push Forward In Bloody Battle

THREE-QUARTERS OF GERMAN BASE “TAKEN BY ALLIES   Rubble Hampers Armored Support, New Zealanders In One of Bloodiest Clashes of Campaign.   125 GERMAN PLANES DOWNED BY AMERICANS   RAF Heavy Bombers Blast Axis Plants Between France, Bulgaria, Tire Factory Attacked.

New Zealanders In Cassino Clash   Allied Tanks Support Troops Regaining Strongohld

Escape Route Is Cut   Three Fourths of City Is Captured By Allied Troops

Fierce Defenders  Hold End of Town   Germans Dug Out of Rubble By Bay onets—Enemy Stull Roatan. Hejiohts Above Fighting

New Zealanders Push Nazis Out of Three - Quarters of Battered Town of Cassino

New Zealanders Batter Germans In Ruined Cassino   Nazis Contest Every Yard of Allied Advance; Infantry Bombs Bridges

Enemy Driven to Small Corner of Wrecked Cassino   Nazi Garrison Is Nearly Encircled

(German Defenders Of Cassino Fall ‘Back Into Narrowing Death. Pocket   Battered Every Foot Of Way By Allied Tanks, New Zealand Soldiers

MAIN GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE CUT BY ALLIES   Three-Fourths Of Town Won In Hand-ToHand Battles

CASSINO FALL BACK   Cut Off from Main Escape Road But Put Up Resistance

Nazis Driven Into Corner Of Cassino   New Zealanders Shove Defenders Back in Drive for City

Reinforced Allies Tighten Ring On Cassion Bastion   Repel Strongest German Counter - Attack South of Rome, Enemy Throws Over 40,000 Into Fight

Four Full  - Divisions - Repulsed   German Casualties Heavy as . They Make Greatest . At“=. “tempt to Crush Allies   “RING ON CASSINO . . BEING TIGHTENED   Bitterest.- of Fighting on , Beachhead, Battle Appar r  “ ‘enthrin Crucial Stage

Cassino Grip Tightened By 5th Army   Nazis Employ 40,000 to 60,000 Soldiers In Strongest Counterattack on Allied Beachhead Positions Near Rome

Some Points AreRetaken In Fighting   Greatest Force In  Campaign Being Thrown Back

ALLIED FORGES HOLDING LINES   Regain Ground in Two Hours It Tack Germans 24 Hours to Take.   TIGHTEN CASSINO RING

Allies Hold Lines Intact  On Beachhead   Attacks By 4 Full Nazi Divisions Smashed ati Anzio

Allies HoldAnzioLine In Bitter Nazi Attack   Allies Battered, Then Renew Attack And Gain Ground Despite Fierce  Resistance and Severe Weather.

ALLIES REPEL FOUR STRONG NAZI ATTACKS   Germans Reported Strikine With Even Greater Fury Today In Grim Fight

Four Divisions Hurled By Nazi Against Anzio   Enemy Offensive Renewed with New And Greater Force

Nazis, Battling Under Hitler's Orders Setting Time Limit for Li quidation of Beachhead   PAY IN HEAVY TOLL   New Zealanders and Indians Augment Fifth Army on Cassinc Front—Rail Staticn Reached

Battle Termed Grimmest Yet  On Beachhead   ‘Nazis Knock Hole in Al lied Lines Near Carroce  to: Fifth Tanks and In  = fantry Strike Back   Heavy Casualties - Inflicted On Huns   Allies Make Some Progress: American Army Tightening Ring About Cassino ‘in Hard Fighting

Doughboys Take Back Ground Nazis Bought With Blood   Tremendous Battle Still Raging on Rome Beachhead

BIGGEST BLOW YET THROWN AT ALLIES   Fifth Army Tightens Ring Around Cassino  FIGHTING   Grimmest Of Italian War3 Germans Fight Without Regard To Cost

Beat Off Four Nazi Divisions In Anzio Area   Allies Hold Lines Intact Against Strongest German Assaults Yet.

4 Nazi Divisions Are Forced Back In Anzio Sector   New Zealanders, Indians Reinforce. Fifth Army To Tighten Cassino Ring

GERMANS MAKE GREATEST TRY AT ALLIED LINE   5th Army Strikes Back After Hitlerites Pierce Front Near Carroceto

Fighting for Anzio Beachhead Growing in Ferocity Today   Allies Holding Lines; Repel Attack by 4  Nazi Divisions

Four German Divisions Beaten Back At Anzio   " Allied Forces Hold  ’ In Face Of Heaviest Enemy Attack; Two Cassino Heights Won

s Couldn’t Get Through .  Allied Forces Knock Germans Back, Hold Beachhead At Anzio

Ring on Cassino Tightens   ARMY REACHES RAILWAY STATION NEAR TOWN; WINS TWO HEIGHTS

HOLDING LINES ON ~ ANZIO BEACHHEAD   They Smashed Back Attacks by Four Full German Divisions.   A NAZI COUNTERBLOW   The Fifth Army Tightened a Ring on Cassino From Three Points.

Germans Throw Four Divisions Against Anzio   Reinforced 5th Army Wins Heights West Of Mt. Cassino

ALLIES HALT NAZI ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Crucial Stage Of Great Battle Is Now At Hand

Smash Back Attacks By 4 Divisions   Allies on Main Front Tighten Ring About  Cassino

Powerful German Counter-Attacks Are Beaten Back   Foe Hurls Four Full Divisions into Fray; Fifth Army Tightens Ring Around Cassino

ALLIED FORCES HOLD  LINES BELOW ROME  DESPITE BIG PUSH FOUR FULL NAZI DIVI SIONS IN FURIOUS ASCATILT NEAR ANTIO

Germans Hurl 40,000 Men At Beachhead   Four Divistons Used In Thrust to Drive Allies Into Sea

‘Stand Firm Under Fury of Nazi Assault   Germans Pay Heavy Price in Smash to Wipe Out Positions

40,000 -50,  Germans Fail to Break Line on Anzio Beaches   Battle South of Rome Ap parently in Crucial Phase

GERMAN STABS REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES   Allied Forces Encircle Em - battled Cassino; Score  New Gains

Anzio Battle Fast Nearing Crucial Phase   Germans Charge Lines Regardless of Cost, But Without Success

INVADE U.S.   Head of Aircraft Corporation Learned of Scheme in 1940

Sen. McNary, Republican Leader, Dies In Florida After Brain Operation

Capital Mourns Loss of G. 0. P. Leader in Senate   Popular Statesman Dies in Florida  Fallawine Operation

Russians Back Pole Committee   Polish Committee Of National Liberation Now Set Up.

American Bombers Pound Targets Behind Nazi Line  Kassel Is Principal Objective for 700 Big Warplanes

1: ol. ABRIAL : Nazi Industrial Center  ‘Blasted By U.S. Planes   More Than 700 American Heavy Bombers Attack Objectives. In Kassel Behind Siegfried Line; Bavaria: Also Reported Attacked

Strong Forces Attack Kasse!   German Fighters Venture Out In Greater Strength; 30 Shot Down.

AIR ATTACK MADE ON NAZI RAIL CENTER   Strong Force of American Heavies Numbering at Least 700 Raid City of Kassel   CHALLENGE OFFERED

PLANES BLAST INDUSTRIES IN KASSEL SECTOR   Thirty German Fighters Shot Down By U. S.

NO CHANGE IN GOP PLATFORM IS PREDICTION   Willkie Criticism To Be Ignored, Word Of Leaders

Platform Will Be Adopted Without : Change, Republican: Leaders Claim :

NEW THRUSTS: AGAINST JAPS. ~ WORRY TOKYE   ENEMY RADIO REFLECTS Sit‘TERS OVER PENDING AT-, “PACKS ON STRONG. ¢ HOLDS IN PACIFIC

PACIFIC DRIVE   Recent Sensational Raids Considered Mere Beginners

150,000 Nazis Face Disaster, Stalin Reveals   Other Soviet Armies Drive Into Estonia And Old Poland

EYEWITNESSES HAVE THRILLING TALES TO TELL   Reporters Accompanying Various Units Of The Great Allied Invasion Force Bring  Back First Hand  Stories.

Ross Munro Takes Reader Right Into The Invasion With Eyewitness. Account

Sky Troop Fight Epic Of Warfare   200 Men Face Tiger Tanks Fiame Throwers, Mortars In Delaying Action

SMALL GROUP OF ALLIED PAR/ATROOPERS "FOUGHT . OFF . - GERatAN, ‘COLUMN / FOUR DAYS.

DEWEY HEARS FARMERS’ FEARS   Westerners Concerned Over Lack Of Ag Protection When Peace Comes

Dewey Heads For Northwest   Will Resume Active Speak ing Campaign In Battle For Presidency

DEWEY SWINGS INTO NORTHWEST   GOP Candidate Will Speak In Idaho. Washington

WLB REPORT IN WAGE CASE HIT   Expect Strong Political Repercussions

PAY INCREASE NOT. APPROVED   WAR LABOR. BOARD. SIDE.  BTEPS ON: QUESTION OF REVISING “LITTLE STEEL" . :« FORMULA .

WLB SIDESTEPS CHANGE IN LITTLE STEEL WAGE FREEZE   Decision May Bring Strong Political Repercussions 

U. S. Bombers Hit French Coast Again; Allies Gain In Italy and Russia

Aging World War  Chief of Staff Scores ‘Allies for Not Stopping Advancing Nazis

Aging General March Deplores Failure Of Allies To Hit Advancing Nazis ‘On Nose’

HIGH COMMAND IS -RAPPED BY MARCH   World War I. i Chief: of Staff Makes Criticisms on Birthday

‘Gen. March Critical:  World War One Chief, 80, Deplores Failure of Allies To Hit Germans

Retired General Who Predicted Nazis Wouldn’t Be Beaten in 1944, Deplores Failure to Hit Foe ‘on Nose’

Gen. March Criticizes Leadershit   'Deplores Failure of _ Allies ta Hit Nazi   Attacking Armies — ' “Onthe Nose” —

CITIZENS’ DAY NEXT SUNDAY   Program To Be Staged At Filstrup Field For  New Citizens

B. H. Elks Complete Plans  For Americanization Day   33° New Citizens To’ Be Feted At Ceremonies June 17. -

RUSS COMMAND PREPARING FOR PSKOV ASSAULT   Soviets Reported Or Move On White  Russia Front

REDS KILL OVER $00 IN ROMANIA   German Tanks Knocked Out By Russians In Counter-Attack

RUSSIAN FORGES SUORE ADVANCES ON THREE FRONTO   Troops Striking South of Pskov Take Town 3 Miles East of Objective   MOSCOW ALSO REPORTS GAINS IN THE UKRAINE   London Hears Russians Have Reached Highway Linking Nazi Fortresses of Pskov And Ostrov; Thaws Slacken Activity

NAZIS’ ESCAPE ROUTE OUT OF NARVA IS CUT   Moscow Reports New Advances by Soviet Army in Estonia

Reds Menace Pskov Railway   Panevo, Near Vita] Artery Balle ta Ru

RUSSIANS CUT RAILWAYS Al MANY POINTS   On Estonian Front Punch Bridgehead Across Narova River; Capture 70 Localities In South.   Battalion Routed

Narova River Inside Estonia Forced by Russians  SWEEPING ADVANCE BY REDS REPORTED  Troops Reported to be Fast   Troops Reported to be Fast Closing in on Pekayv

Reds Capture Numerous Strongpoints  Russians Report New Gains in

Red Advance Cuts Narva Escape Line  Soviets On Move fi. VWshien Dwececin

Russians Cross Narova River  In Estonia   Cut Only. Escape Railroad From Fortress of Narva; Vitebsk Fishiing Renews

Reds Capture Numerous Strongpoints   Russians Report New Gains in Ukraine Sector

Russians ~~ Halt Nazis Near Iasi   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses in Futile Attacks Against  Red Treops

Leaves Only Flight Through Gulf of Finland Open to Germans; Russian Troops Close In oh Pskov; Populated Places Taken

Narava River Inside Estonia Forced by Russians  SWEEPING ADVANCE BY REDS REPORTED  Troops Reported to be Fast Closing in on Pskov

Soviets Take Strong Points In Battle To Widen Estonian Tochold At Narva

Reds Win Several More Strongpoints   Action May Be Slackening Because of Thaws

Russian Army On Move Again Near Vitebsk   70 Localities Taken At Vital Railway  Cut in Pskov Area: Two Divisions Routed

Russians Foil Enemy at Iasi   1.100 Germans Slain, 3 Toake Knocked Out

Panevo Falls To   Russian Troops Town Is Three Miles  From Pskov

SOVIETS LAUNGH COUNTER DRIVES   800 German Soldiers Killed And 18 Tanks Knock ed Out At Iasi

Reds punch bridgehead  over Narova   Resume action on Vitebsk front

Soviets Cut Escape Route Frem Narva   German Base Is Py-Passed In New Advance

Capture’ Panevo «in: Drive “Toward © ‘Pskov Warsaw Ra ilway.: “Widening. ’ Estonian Bridgehead -

5 FALIN'S TROOPS GAIN IN UKRAINE   WIN STRONGPOINTS IN NORTH - AND CAPTURE PENEVO ' - SOUTH OF PSKOV.

RUSSIANS KILL 800 NAZIS IN ROMANIA   Eighteen Tanks Knocked Out  Successful Counter-Attacks Against Germans.

REDS 3 MILES OUT OF PSKOV   Bridgehead In Estonia Below Narva Widened; (;ains In Ukraine

Reds Cross Narova River In Estonia   Moscow Announce: Bridgehead Formed South Of Narva

Drive on Pskov Threatens Balkan Flank   Russians Capture Strong Points Near Rail Artery

Reds Lash Back Kill 800 Nazis.   18 Tanks And 15 Planes Destroyed’

TOKYO RAIDED AGAIN BY U. 8. SUPER FORTS   BANGKOK BLASTED: NOT ONE B-29 IS LOST

Supertorts Put. Gigantic Aerial Pincers On Foe   Renewed Attack On Tokyo and Blast » At Jap-held Bangkok in Thailand 4 Form Two-way Squeeze

B29's Batter Bangkok and Tokyo   Bombers Operate From East, West in Daylight Raids

COORDINATED AIR STRIKES ARE MADE   Targets in. Tokyo and "_Theitond Hit by Poe -Bambers .

LAUNCH RAIDS FROM BASES IN INDIA, SAIPAN   Is First Coordinated Superfortress Strike from  East To West

TOKYO POUNDED ~ BY SUPERFORTS   Second Attack Made on Japanese Capital in Four Days —Waterfront Center, of Onslaught.   LITTLE OPPOSITION  I$ MET BY RAIDERS   Sky Giants Based in India Blast Enemy-Dominated . Rail Center of Bang kok in Thailand.

COORDINATED AIR STRIKES ARE MADE   Targets in Tokyo and ‘ Thailand Hit by YS Bombers

FSA ABOLISHMENT RECOMMENDED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE   Claim Set-up Not Wisely Administered and Was an Experiment-Station

 ° House Committee  Recommends Abolishing FSA  Farm Agency Charged — With Being Just  Experiment Station”

Liberty Ship Lost By Mine Off Naples   James.Guthrie, Empty, Goes Down

Aussie Troo ps Crowding J aps  In New Guinea   Advancing Unopposed To. ward Last Strongholds _ On Northeast Tip Of Island

Aussies Gain In Hansa Bay! Drive   Wakde Island Hit By Liberators, B-25’s

COLLETT WILL HEAR SENTENCE T0 DEATH GIVEN WEDNESDAY   Denial Of New Trial Plea ‘Surprises’ Convicted McCoy Slayer

Red Forces Invade Hungary On Broad Front; Big Rail Junction Town Said Captured

BG HUNGARIAN RAIL JUNCTION   Soviets Take Over 10 Places on Front  Of 75 Miles

HUNGARY 13 INVADED BY RED ARMIES   Rolling Across Rich F'armlands Which Offer Little Natural Defense   I imac   Pincers Movement

Rail Junction Of Bekesesaba Is Captured   Soviets 11 Miles Insid Hungary on Wide Front; Seize Villages In Rich Farm Area

Big Axis Balkan Satellite Wavers   Soviets Push to 15 Miles Of Nation’s 2d Ciiw

Soviets Drive On Budapest And Szeged, Second City   Also Across Danube Opposite Belgrade In Yugoslav Theatre, Aided by Partisans  MATAT FAL TITVTITTANITA

Reds Break into Open Hungarian Plains. Rolls Fast toward Budapest

Russians Invade Tottering Nation on Wide Front _  RAIL JUNCTION 15 SEIZED BY SOVIETS  More Than 100 Towns and Hamlets Are Captured

Reds Invade Hungary On Broad Front   Second Largest City In Nation Threatened

REDS EXTEND BROAD FRONT INTO HUNGARY   LAST AXIS PUPPET NATION DUE TO FALL SOON

Russian Troops Invade Hungary   Capture Rail Junction Town of Bekescsaba

LENROOT OBSERVES HIS 75TH BIRTHOA   Judge Has Been in Public Service in Washington For 33 Years.

Rome Capture Creates Problems   Delivery of Food and Supplies To Be Gigantic Undertaking.

Shipbuilders In Canada To Seek Peacetime Aid   Appeal. to Dominion government to. help save workers from unemployment. .

U. S. Subs — Sink Cruiser   Two Destroyers And Nine Other Ships Included

CRUISER, TWO DESTROYERS SENT DOWN   Japs Report Another 2-Day Carrier Force Assault on Truk

LIGHT CRUISER, © 11 OTHER SHIPS   Tokyo Radio Reports Yank 8 Fleet Makes Two-Day Attack on Truk

Capture of Lyon  Appears Imminent   Survivors of German 19th Army Break Of} Unequal Fight in Rhone Valley, Resume Headlong Flight; Valence Taken by Allies

Fall of Lyon Pends as Enemy Flees   Yanks Capture Nice Without Fight; Resort Nearly Jntact

Germans Resume Headlong Flight Up Phone Valley   Allied Capture of Grea French City of Lyon Appears Imminent

Ly. yonThreatened By Swift Drive  : In South’ France        Nazis Resume Flight After: ‘Sharp Battle; Niece: Falls Without: Shot

ALLIES SEIZE GREAT FRENCH CITY OF LYON   NICE FALLS; NAZIS IN HEADLONG FLIGHT

Germans Quit Battle and  Resume Their . Cliakkd'   NICE IS CAPTURED WITHOUT A BATTLE   Famous Resort City Reported Virtually Undamaged

’ Nazis in Headlong Flight Near Lyon   Fall Of City Is Imminent As Yank Troops Continue Rapid Advance In South France

German 19th Army Able to Resume Flight   Nazi Unit, However, Loses Heavily in Men and Equipment

‘CAPTURE OF LYON APPEARS IMMINENT   As Germans Quit Struggle to Resume Flight Up Rhone Valley; Nice Falls Without Fight.   Make Contact

Charge Sailors With Attack On Doctor And Wife   Pagee secon 4 Paerer  se   Boston Couple Identifv Trio

‘Willkie To Visit ~ Gity On March 28  ‘Two Meetings Scheduled Purine Dav

Willkie To Give Two Talks Here  Arrangements For Visit , a (ee le

Leaders Plan Force t Fight as Guerrillas Even After Defeat Of Regular Arny

Berlin Orders Mazification Of Backs-To-Wall German Army To F orm ‘Never Surrender’ Band

Hangman Orders Full Nazification of  ‘Reich Army for Suicidal Guerrilla War

FANATIC ARMY IS NAZI PLAN   German Officers Ordered to Teach Party Philosophy To Soldiers

NAZI GUERRILLI BANDS MAY FORW   @lew Step to Make ‘NeverSurrender’ Force of German Army Announced: Decree Said Signed by Hitler

Nazification of German Army Sought as Guerrilla War Is Planned After Defeat

New Berlin ‘Decree = _ Adds Fuel to. Growing ‘Where's Hitler’ Mvstery

Russian Army Racing for Hungary Line   LONDON, (U.P)—Premier Josef Stalin announced today that the Red Army had captured Lomza.

Break Across Last Mountain Barrier Protecting Hungarian Plains  88 MILES FROM THE HUNGARIAN BORDER  Other Russian Units In Central Romania Advance 18 Miles

Reds Break Into Vallev Of Muresul   Cross Transylvanian Alps in 40-Mile Drive of Two Days

ADVANCING ON HUNGARY   Capture Deva, 212 Airline Miles From Budapest

‘Reds And Rumanians Push Toward Hungary   Last Mountain Barrier Broken as Soviet Vorces Sweep Inte Muresul River Valley

Soviets Drive For Hungary's Pre-War Border   Nazis Admit Loss @ OF Bastion Guarding E. Prussia Approaches

Hitler Opposed By Warlords, London Reports   Nazi Intuition Held at Odds With ‘Realism’

MILITARY LAW PROCLAIMED IN MANY SECTIONS   Russians Menace Warsaw-Odessa Rat'read; Allied Landing In Jucoslavia Is Denied

HITLER SPLITS WITH GENERALS ON RUSS PLANS      Refuses To Permit General Retreat In Dnieper

LONDON SUSPECTS DISCORD BETWEEN HITLER AND ARMY   Fuchrer’s “No Retreat” Or der Apparently Being lanored

Hitler Again i in Clash.  With High Command  Over Retreat in East

Hitler’s Orders May Have Been Fully Ignored   German Soldiers Feel Dnieper Withdrawal Still Possibility

TO ESTABLISH ‘45 FARM GOALS NOV. 27 AND 28   ‘Groups to MeetAt A. & M. To Establish Goals

Californian Asserts Dewey Is to Carry That State  New York Governor Ready to Talk Platform for GOP

Gov. Dewey Declares He Will Talk With Members Of G.O.P. Platform Committee If They Want His. Views

DEWEY WOULD CONFER   Is Ready to Give Views to Leaders If They Desire Them -

Californian Asserts Dewey Is to Carry That State  New York Governor Ready to Talk Biatfinewn far 2p

BRICKER SAYS HE WON'T WITHDRAW   AVOWS INTENTION TO KEEP HIS NAME BEFORE CONVENTION

ARGENTINIANS INPARADE SUPPORT ' SOLIDARITY VE   Huge Crowd - Mills. Througt Streets. of Buenos’. Aires to Express Approval * 01 Radio Speech.   U.S. ASSAILS FOREIGN -. POLICY AS PRO-AXIK   Loudspeaker Trucks Tour City Emitting [Slogans Such as ‘Long Live Sovereign Argentina.’

BUENOS AIRES: SEES ANTI-U. 5, PARADE   Citizens Affirm Nation’s Stand; but Students Distribute Protesting Handbill

Argentines Cheer Country's Policy   Demonstration Against United States Staged

Several Thousand Persons Voice Approval Of Foreign Policy In. Argentine. Demonstration

ARGENTINA FOREIGN POLICY 1S APPROVED   Several Thousand Persons Voice Approval in Demonstration.

Sen. Taft Rails At New Deal's Foreign Policy   Says U. S. Cannot Hope To Assure World Of 4 Freedoms

NEW DEAL’S POLICY SUSPECT, SEN. TAFT TELLS GOP WOMEN   Foreign Aims Rapped; Rep. Luce Warns On Youth Training

(Americans Crashing Out Of Beachhead Bottleneck;  Fall Of Coutances Imminent

Stalemate On British Sector Of The Normandy Front Continues ne   ALLIED PLANES, GENERALLY ACTIVE OVER ALL FRONTS   German Robot Bombs Cause More Destruction.In Lon.  ' don and South England 

Proportions of Nazi ~ Rout Mounting Hourly   Yank Forces Believed Headed For Paris After Smashing Nazi Resistance in Western Normandy.   3700 PRISONERS TAKEN IN PAST THREE DAYS   Breakthru to Interior of France May Come at Any Time.

ARTHUR EDDINGTON DIES   Astronomy Professor ‘had Pletured d of Universe 

Lieut. Warner Picked As A Bomber Pilot   Nangatuck Airman Will Command His Own FourEngine Liberator Plane 

START SIGN-UP MONDAY   Red Cross Mobile Blood Unit To Visit City June 5, 6 and 7

Reds Close In on Iron Ore Center of Krivoi Rog; Draw Ring Tighter on Trapped Foe

REDS EIGHT MILES FROM KRIVO! ROG, TRON ORE: CENTER   City Threatened With Encirclement—Position of 15 ‘Nazi Divisions in Area  Precarious.   57% VILLAGES OVERRUN IN SWIFT ADVANCE   Ring Drawn Tighter Around Large German Forces Trapped on the Lower Dnieper. —

WILL ‘MEET THURSDAY   Laymen’s League Will Hold Monthly Dinner-Meeting at ‘Church:

WILL MEET THURSDAY   Laymen’s League of First Christian Church Meets at 6:30.

Flareup On Capitol Hill Contrasts To General Acclaim Of New Secretary .

Hess DespondentHas Reason For It   Former Nazi Leader Hears, Day and Night, Roar of Bombers to Continent

Paul ClarkIs New Principal Of High Schools   Has Been. Junior High Principal Past Three Years

Paul Clark Is New Principal Of High Schools  Has Been Junior   Has Been. Junior High Principal Past Three Years

Madden Racks FDR.   Raises Yule Trees.   Cabinet Shift Is Denied By Jones

NOTHING 10 REPORT OF CABINET SHIFT   Jones Comments on Report He Might Succeed Morgenthau.

JONES DENIES ANY CABINET CHANGE NOW PLANNED   Says There Is Nothing to Report That He Will Succeed Morgenthau

AMERICANS CAPTURE COUTANCES   Thousands of Germans Trapped Against the Sea

Germans Pinned Against Sea As U.S. Tank Column Sweeps On To West Coast; Big Victory In Making

Thousands of Germans Trapped Against Sea As Americans Drive From Captured Coutances.

BIGGEST U. 5. WAR VICTORY DEVELOPING   Powerful Tank Columns Are Throwing Enemy Back In France.

Worried About 4-F Induction? This  May Help Clear Matters Up A Bit   Schricker Calls Special Assembly

Enemy Stull Holds Most Of Cassino   Allies Fight Grimly To Hold Beachhead As Nazi Power Grows  FOE CLAIMS GAINS

Ferocious Fighting Rages on Hills Qver Cassino as Americans Open New Full Strength Assault   Yanks Seek to Destroy Nazi Hornet's Nest Holding up Push th Relieve Beleaguered Allied Forces in the Anzio Bridgehead

HOPE 10 REACH FORCES IN GRIM. FIGHT NEAR ROME      Heights West of Stronghold Scene of Fierce Struggl as Doughboys Charge _Up Steep Cliffs...            GERMAN POWER GROWS. ON ANZIO BEACHHEAD         Nazis Claim Gains in Britis! Defended Sector and Re port Capture of 700 AL lied Prisoners. c

Americans Hurl Powerful Force Against German:   British Continue To Hold Beachhead

Nazis Say 30,000 Yanks in Attack Struggle on Beachhead Grim as Foe Hits Fiercely at Allies   Big Toll of Ships Taken By Carrier Nazis “Sunk’

GERMANS HOLD BIG ___ PART OF THE TOWN   Power of the Enemy Is Mounting, Communiaues Report

Fighting Rages on Crags Above Cassino   Full-Scale Assault Is Opened by American Forces.

Vichy Radio Reports 400 Tanks in Action   Americans Smashing at Town Blocking Relief for Rome Beachhead; Powerful Artillery l end«e Sunport

Yank Riflemen Charge Up Cliffs As Other Troops. Battle From House to House to Oust Defenders

‘Yanks Storm Cassino Area  -Help For Anzio Sought As “Nazis Put On Power There

K ighting in Progress on  High Ground   Men on Beachhead Are Hard Pressed by Big Enemy Forces

GENERAL CLARK’S FIFTH ARMY SLUGGING VIOLENTLY AT DEFENSES OF MOUNTAIN CITY TRYING TO RELIEVE ANZIO FORCES.

BREAK SOUGHT TO HELP PUSH TOWARD ROME   FIFTH ARMY PUTS FULL STRENGTH INTO BATTLE

SEEK TO RELIEVE ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Clark Hurls 30,000 Troops Against Nazi Hornet Nest   GRIM STRUGGLE   Unfolds on Shell - pocked Beachhead Below Rome; Nazi Strength Grows

TACTICAL AIR FORCE FORMED IN BRITIAN   Sew Organization Will Provide Arial Spearhead For Invasion Of Germany

American Aerial Force Will Spearhead Comina All-Out Battle for Germany

Says  President.  - Broke Pledges. ~ When Possible   Beumeylvan s. -Governor ~ Asserts War. Is. Being ‘Won-Rezardless O£-F-D:;

Nazis Retreating From Lyon Are Being Encircled   Bedraggled Troops May Never Reach Reich; Secret Yank Thrust Revealed

U.S., French Troops Take City of Lyon   Survivors of German 19th Army Flee as Disorganized Rabble

U. 5. and French Troops Enter City of Lyon   Farther North Other Units Threaten Nazi Escape Routes

SEVENTHARMY TAKES LYON: NAZISRETREAT   Before Onrushing American and French Forces; Disorganized As Escape Routs Are Blocked.   Advance Steadily

7th Liberates Lyon on Heels Of Flying Foe   /Remnaits of Battered 19th Punished on Wild Flight  To Escane to Germany

Bitter Toll in Nazi Lives Taken in Drive   Final Phase in South France Battle Under Way

ALLIES TAKE LYON, HARASS FLEEING FOE   Beaten Nazis Running For Reich, Escape Routes Periled

LYON CAPTURED AGAINST LIGHT ENEMY ACTION   Allied War Planes Take Heavy Toll Of Lives And Equipment

Americans Make Great Gains in Southern France   Inflict Bitter Toll on Germans

ST 22,000 JAP TROOPS - ARE CUT OFF   Navy Cruisers Cover Landings North of Bougainville

22,000 Enemy Troops Are Said Isolated   Strategic Airbase Threatening Rabaul Is Taken

700-Mile Front From Poland To Black  Sea Seethes With Bloody Action.

ANTI-POLL TAX MOVE IS MADE   Constitutional Amendment Proposed By 33 Republican Senators

33 in GOP Ask Poll Taxes Ban  In Constitution   Senators Jointly Launel Proposed Amendment After Cane Batled

GOP Senators Propose Poll Tax Abolitior   33 “Republicans Jointly Introduce Amendment To Constitution

Constitutional Amendment To Kill Poll Tax Is Proposed Bu Republican Senators

Seek Amendment  To Ban Poll Tax   33 GOP Senators  Introduce Proposal

Anti-Poll Tax Amendment Urged eee ged  Republican Senators Offer New Article To Outlaw Tay

BONG RECEIVES HIGHEST AWARD   U.S. Top Air Ace Has Rasced 28 Chemy Craft

Superfortresses Strike at Japs Island of Kyusht   Further Gains on Leyte Announced By MacArthur

Britain, U. S. Refuse  Bolivia Recognition   Both Countries Give Decision

Yank Bombers  Over Germany   Medium Forces of  Heavy Planes Batier At Military Targets

MEDIUM FORCES OF AMERICAN HEAVIES ATTACKED GERMANY  a i is   AIRCRAFT CENTER OF BRUNSWICK HIT; 36 GERMAN FIGHTERS DOWNED

U.S. Bombers Hit Targets In Brunswick   ‘Medium Sized Forces Raided City Vital to  Plane Production

YANKS BAG 36 NAZI PLANES IN AIR RAID   Take Toll of Interceptors in Bomber Mission Ove1 Brunswick, Important Aircraft Manufacturing City.

American Bombers Smash at German Aircraft Center   Brunswick ts the Target As Fighters Blast 36 Enemy Planes from Sky

Heavies Hit Nazis After London Raid   U. S. Bombers Strike At Central Germany; Foe Reports Big Battles  Around Hanover

U.S. Planes Down 36 Nazis in Brunswick Raid  Three Bombers, Five Len ee ee en   Three Bombers, Five Fighters Lost In Teday’s Attack

U. S. Planes Down 36 Nazis in Brunswick Raid  Three Bombers, Five Fighters Lost In Today’s Attack

POSTWAR IS NEAT JOB IN CONGRESS   Plans to Be Considered When Members Resume After Conventions.

With Urgent War Work Finished, 78th Congress Leaves.For Five-Weeks’ Recess

Urgent War Work Finished, Congress Recesses; Members Convention-Bound

Congress Idle Until August J   Naticn’s Lawmekers Head for Home or Republican Convention in Five-Week Recess

Berlin Radio Reports Allied Traops Have Reached Pretot, Nine Miles From Carentan: Not Confirmed by Allies

Japs Poised For Thrust Inside China   Seven Divisions Reported Ready For Honan Drive

BRITISH ESCORT SLOOPS SINK SIX GERMAN U-BOATS   Latest German Undersea Offensive Believed Nipped In Atlantie

Six Nazi U-boats Sunk By British   Escort Vessels Nip Undersea Offensive

Benton Harbor Flyer Missing   Fails To Return From * Bombing Mission

BABY FROM TRACKS   Hrakeman Runs Ahead of Locoma-~ tive to Make HKesecue,

BABY FROM TRACKS   ' Brakeman Runs Ahead of Locomotive to Make Rescue.

WLB OFFICIAL FLAYS NELSON   Rubber Director Déwey Accuses Chairman Of Capital Snipping

New Row Breaks in WPB Circles; Krug Takes Over   Believed He Will Permanently Replace Nelson, Shulfled Off -lo  Fiibetee vay:

Rubber Czar  Flays Nelson   Departing WPB Chairman : Dagmar af Se; z

Nelson, Rubber Crer-In Scrap   D vey Accuses Nelson © “Typical Washington Sniping’.

New Storm Breaks in ~ WPB Fight   Rubber Director Dewey Charges Nelson With Typical Washington Snipina

Rubber Director Dewey Charges Nelson Is Sniper   New Storm Breaks About WPB Chief

Nelson Under Attack From Rubber Chiet   Future of WBP Chief Uncertain as He Starts Trip to China

WPB CHIEF IS ‘ATTACKED BY RUBBER HEAD      Bradley Dewey Accuses Donald Nelson of “Sniping”

RUBBER DIRECT ACCUSES NELYOS   Savs WPB Head “Snipeegt't Rubber Program meee . ate Comment jOT!

NELSON CHARGED WITH “SNIPING? ~ BY RUBBER CZAR   Dewey Makes Attack on War Production Board Chief After Latter’s Departure for China.   KRUG BECOMES ACTING CHAIRMAN OF AGENCY   “He Is Said to Have Told Top ’ Officials Rumor-Mongering and Policy Disputes . Must Cease. *

New Row Breaks In WPB, Over Rubber Policy   Director Dewey Sounds Complaints as Nelson Leaves for China

Red Reaction To U. S. Mediation Offer Is Awaited   Hull's Note Covers Diplomacy Only

This Country Offered to Help Close. Moscow-Polish DipJomatic Breach.   IS ON BORDER PROBLEM   Believed a- Favorable Report Will Be Received on Sec. . . Hull's Offer.

Polish- Soviet Is sue ‘Pr oves  Allied’ ‘Problem   Russia’ 8. Reaction to Wash : ington’ 8 ‘Offer to Help  . Clos e. Diplomatic fs Breach’ Awaited °:

Hull’s Offer May Let Reds Heal Breach   Effort To Restore Friendly Relations Between Reds - And Poland Made .

Russia Answer  Being Awaited   U. S. Seeking To Assist In Soviet-Pole Rift  Over Boundry._

By CHARLES ARNOT and MAC R, JOHNSON mited Preaa War Correspondents

$23,000 Given Red Cross in Fund Campaign   Third of $68,000 Goal Shown in Early Reports

Red Cross Fund Total $58,000, One Day to Go   Leaders Think Tardy Re ports Will Put District Over Quota

Status of Men 26 Up to 30 to Be Clarified   Idaho Boards Ordered Not to Take Most Men Over 26 Years Old

YANKS. HOLD ALL VITAL AREAS 1H ADMIRALTY ISLES   Japs’ Bastion at Lorengau on Manus Falls to Invaders.

YANKEES HOL ALL OF MANUS   Control Admiralty Islands Japs Abandon Hundreds of Dead

Soldier-Vote Angle Decision Awaited As County Gets First Returned Cards

Election Officials Await Opinion From Draft Director Pertaining To Under-Age Servicemen Getting Vote

Floods Strike More Regions   12,000 Families Are Affected, Says Red Cros:

RAMPAGE OF RIVER MAY EQUAL RECORD   Acres of Mid-West Farm Lands

RAMPAGE OF RIVER MAY EQUAL RECORD   Mississippi Flo Floods New Acres of Mid-West  Farm Lande

LEVEES CRUMBLE BEFORE WATERS   Swollen Mississippi River Flooding More Iitinois, Missouri Lands

ritish Go In For Generations Of © Seafaring Because It Takes So — Long To Learn Royal Navy Slang

FORMER STATE TROOPER TO BE CHIEF OF POLICE   Harry Christ to Head Law Enforcement Agency of Morrisville Borough

HARRY CHALOT ELECTED CHIEF IN MORRISVILLE   Former State Police Member To Begin Duties Jan. 1   SERVED OVER 16 YEARS

THREE CASES SET IN CIRCUIT COURT   Gpening Day of April Term is Unusually Light.

IMRce GAoto gel IN GIRGUIT COURT   Cpening Day of April Term is Unusually Light.

2,400 AIRCRAFT WERE ENGAGED OVER GERMANY   Enemy Used Jet-Propelled Craft In Defense Of Merseburg   AMERICAN LOSSES ARE COMPARATIVELY LIGHT

Americans Down 208 Germans in Air Battles  2,400 Planes Engage in Colossal Fight

Great Aerial Battle Fought At Merseburg   2,000 U. S. Planes Fight Swarms of Luftwaffe Craft; Americans Lose 41 Bombers and 28 Fighters

09 AMERICAN ORAFT SHOT FROM SKIES      More Than 2,400 Ships Engaged: at One Time Over. Merseburg, Site of Enemy Oil Plant,   ‘ANTI-AIRCRAFT a FIRE IS INTENSE   Fortresses and Liberators Attacked From Underneath, Where They  ' Have Least. Fire Power.

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST SOURCE OF REICH Oil   FIGHTER ESCORT OF 900 SETS RECORD OF 155 KILLS

All-Time Record Sef by Yanks in Central Germany   69 U. 5. Planes Reported Lost

Americans Destroyed 208 Planes   Nazis Fight Heavy Bombers With JetPropelled Planes

LIBERTY SHIP GOES AGROUND   1,000 Passengers Remov ed From Vessel Off  California Coast

76 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down; 44 Raiders Are Lost   More Powerful Sweeps Smash Production Plants All Over Reich; Invasion Coast Hammered Heavily As Great Air War Grows In Intensity.

Bombers Swarm From Britain, Italy To Smash Aircraft Factories; Beleium, France Also Get Pounding

Giant Fleets Blast Europe   3000 U. S. Planes Hit Southerr Reich; Others Bomb Coasts

CONTINUED ADVANCE IS REPORTED ALONG GREATER PART FRONT  VILLAGE ON WEST BANK ROER, 23 MILES FROM COLOGNE. CAPTURED

Seingbousse Is Reached by 3rd Army      Russians Penetrate Six Miles in Northern Slovakia after Crossing Carpathians ° ~

Nazis Say Eleven Americans Taken   Some Who'd Been Shot Down in Snow-clad Alps

NAZIS SAY YANKEE FLIERS ARE RESCUED      11 Saved from 100 Claimed Shot Down in Alps

DROP IN MERCURY PREDICTED TODAY   Clouds and Rain Traces Keep Temperature Down Sunday

~ INMERCURY ~ PREDICTED TODAY   Clouds  and Ra Rain Traces  Keep Temperature  Down Sunday

PAGPUSED AMG 1 US. Oi CUTE Gaur By Guid,   Fcod Siamp Fl n And Gerera! Rise In Wages Urged

PAY BOOSTS AND FOOD STAMPS — ENTER DISPUTE OVER SUBSID\   SENATORS DISCUSS: WAYS OF MEETING EXPECTED RISE.IN PRICES IF SUBSIDIES  “ARE ELIMINATED

JAPS MAY TREAT CAPTIVES BETTER   Russian Intervention Causes Tokyo About-Face.

SOVIET RUSSIA TO INTERVENE FOR PRISONERS      Japs May Be Trying To Erase Some Of Record For Bad Treatment

Japan May Be Ready to Treat Prisoners Better   Intervention by Russia Would Bring About Change

Daily Temperatures   Russia Agrees to Intervene With Japs in Behalf of Allied Prisoners

SOVIET UNION TO INTERVENE WITH  JAPAN IN BEHALF OF AMERICAN  _ AND BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR

MAY SECURE AID FOR JAP PRISONERS   Americans Held May Receive Better Treatment

A. F. L. Faces Heated Discussion; Expect C.1.0. To Re-Elect Officers

TINY TORNADO DAMAGE LIGHT   Twister Sweeps Through Ohio River Valley

BULGARIANS ASK THRACE, MACEDONIA   Minister Says Nation Wants Peace, But Territories

Draganov Expresses Sentiment   Withdraws Troops From Jugoslavia; Don't Want To Fight Greece.

YANKS DESTROY KWEILIN BASE   ‘Bitter Enders’ Blast airport, Pull Out Ahead of Oncomina Jans.

Gen. Vincent Gives Order After Pilot Sees Cavalrv of Japanese Advancing on City.   Inside Cave

Yanks Destroy Own Air Base   Americans Pull Out of Kweilin To Escape Jap Cavalrymen.

Yanks Blast Hainan Isle  hn: Alene tiara   Tokyo Admits ‘Some Damage’ in Raid by 21 American Planes

Reds Crowd Nazis Into Death Pocket   Boats Jammed With Axis Troops Sunk In Black Sea; Many Germans Surrendering  ee ee ee ee ee a sD

Destroy Entire German Division; Run 6-Day Prisoner String to 31,000 in Campaien for Sevastopol

One Whole Nazi Division  Is Wiped Out   Russian Armies Join, Navy Sinks Four Boats £4 . TT . ny

Russians Corner Trapped Nazis in Crimea Fighting   Entire Division ls Annihilated

Naval Air Arm Sinks 4 Loaded  Enemy Vessels   Two Armies Join in Crimea, Wipe Out One Division; Prisoner  Toll Reaches 31,000

TROOPS IN DEATH POCKET AS RUSSIAN ARMIES RUSH THROUGH CRIMEA; BLACK SEA FLEET AND NAVAL AIR ARM SINK TRANSPORTS.

Soviets Capture Town, 18 Miles From Seyastopol  31,000 PRISONERS CAPTURED IN WEEK Some 500 Towns and Vil.  lages Overrun by the Armies

One Nazi. Division Destroyed, Total OF Prisoners Reaches 31,000; Four Troopships Are Sunk

Entire German Division Of 15,000 Men Destroyed; 31,000 Captives Taken   SWIFT ANNIHILATION OF AXIS EXPECTED

Four Boat Loads Of Retreating Foe Sunk in Black Sea   Entire German Division Destroyed; 31,000 Prisoners

Entire German Division Is Destroyed   Black Seca Fleet Sinks Four Fnemy Tenonchine

Enemy dead litter road to Sevastopol  Soviet Black sea fleet in action

Veterans Now In South France   Battle Hardened Units Make Invasion Landing

Veterans of Italy Now in France   Famous Third, 36th and 45th Divisions Are With Invasion Forces

President Roosevelt Is Expected to Meet With Churchill   SS ee nee Eh sok i   Improvement in French Situation Seen as Having Cleared Way

TRY TO GIRGLE KEY FORTRESS GUARDING SAAR   Nazis Cleared From Last Position In Holland  South Of Maas

Stage Set For Conference Of FDR, Churchill  DeGaulle Action  Prepares Parley

F. D. R. And Churchill Plan. Another Meeting   Way Is Cleared For Conference ‘By President’s Dramatic Revision Of French Policy To Permit Cooperation With De Gaulle

Way Cleared For Meeting   DeGaulle Agreement May Result in Early _FDR-ChurchillParley

Washington Predicts Early Meeting Of FDR, Charchill To Iron Out French Issues

Expect Churchill FDR Meet Soon   Practical Cooperation With De Gaulle, Question On Hand.

Churchill and Roosevelt May Confer Again   Expect French Policy Will Be Taken Up If Chiefs Get Together

FDR To Meet Churchill Soon   ANOTHER CONFERENCE OF LEADERS MAY BE " HELD

WAY CLEARED FOR F.R. CHURCHILL MEETING   PRESIDENT’S DECISION TO CO-OPERATE WITH DE GAULLE REMOVES OBSTACLE TO CONFERENCE.

Churchill, FDRMayHold Fall Meeting   President’s About Face on De Gaulle Situation Key to Plans

Three Leaders May Meet Soon   ‘High Time,’ Churchill Declares; Roosevelt May Go To Britain

PRESIDENT MAY GO TO ENGLAND   Talks With Churchill Hinted As French Tangle Eases

Allied Parley _ Is Likely Soon  Roosevelt, Churchill , May Confer In Londor

CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT MAY MEET AGAIN SOON   President Has Hinted That He Expected to Se Prime Minister This «  Qiummer

AMERICANS SMASH JAPANESE ATTACK   TRAPPED NIPPONESE ON NEW GUINEA ORGANIZE FOR NEW OFFENSIVE.

Nazis Guard Memel Fiercely; Reds Nab -. Control of Suburb   Debrecen, Third Largest Hungarian-City, Taken; Hungary. Near End

Drive On Corinth Is Continued   Peloponnesus Is Virtually Cleared Of Germans— Two Bridges Across’ Canal Demolished 

Magyar Defenses Overrun Along 120-Mile Front; Soviets Near Memel

Great Part Of eloponnesus  Freed Of Nazis   Continued Progress Reported By British Who Landed In Greece

BULGARS AGREE TO STIFF TERMS   Armistice Provides Troops to Quit Yugoslavia in 15 Days

HUNGARY NEAR COLLAPSE AS REDS PUSH ON   Three Soviet Columns Drive Toward Budapest and Axis Ally Reported Ready to Stop Fighting.

Hungary Near Knockout As Reds Advance   Other Russian Troops Battling Within Five Miles Of Memel.

U.S. TROOPS MAKE GAINS AT CASSINO   Another Allied Hospital Unit Bombed by Enemy

LAND FIGHTING EASES OFF IN ROME SECTOR   Allied Lines Holding And Airpower Blankets Battle Area

DUNN GENTER OF SENATE PROBE   Guffey Raises Question of ‘Lost Document” on Spanish

SENATE HEARING ON STATE DEPT. AIDES CENTERS ON DUNN   Swayed U. S. Policy In Spain’s War

Shock Troops Drive Into _ Defenses 10 Miles From S City in Bitter Fightine

Seizure Of Three Towns Cracks Port’s Defenses; Report Nazi Counterblow

(Yanks Crack iNazi Defenses  ‘Of Cherbourg   Seize Three Towns; Advance Patrols 10 Miles From Port

Nazis Launch Counterattack At Carentan   Airborne Landings On West Coast Reported; Situation Described As ‘Very Satisfactory’

YANKEE FORCE 10 MILES FROM CHERBOURG PORT   Advances by Allies Termed Satisfactory and More.—Halfway Across Norman Peninsula.

Yanks Speed Across ‘Peninsula: Towns Fall In Rapid Suceession   Fourth Division's Patrols Ouly 10 Miles From Strategic Ports Airhorsse Unita Reperted Landed on West Coast

Stilwell Confirmed As Full General   Vinegar Joe Commands Army In China-Burma

“Bleating Of Ewes Is Heard Above Cake Cry’ Says Standard - Times

HERE TOMORROW   Representative Secial Security Office St. Joseph, Coming.

HERE ON TUESDAY   Representative of Social Securit; Board to Be Here Tomorrow.

Welfare of Country Is Involved In G.0.P. Victory, Willkie Says   Says Change of Adminis: tration Would Be Less Disturbing in War

WELFARE OF NATION DEPENDENT ON GOP   Change Of Administration Wonld Be Less Disturbing Now Than Later, Willkie Sass

SOVIETS PUS TOWARD RIGA; CITY SHELLED   GAINS CLAIMED IN SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY

Reds Take Wide Riga Gulf Area  Extensive Advances ¥..  ates Damastasl

CAPTURE OF TOKIO PLAN OF HALSEY   Nothing Less Than Peace Dictated There Will Meet With Approval Of Admiral In U. S. For Conferences.   Show Down

Aanitral Halsey Urges Deaf Ear «-toJan Feelers   Advises Indifference > Fo Peace Talk Until Tokyo Is Taken

Peace Terms Suitable to Japanese Must Nol Be Made, Halsey Asserts   -apture of Tokyo and Dic lated Peace Advocated by Fleet Commander

Soldier Bonus Gains Momentum   Debate On GI Bill Reveals Broad Bonus Measure Coming Up.

SOLDIER BONUS BILL GAINING MOMENTUM   House in Second Round of Debate of Measure

SOLDIER BONUS DRIVE BREWING   Lemke Plans House Campaign To Push Propesal

Bank Resources Show Increase In 43 Over *42   ‘Hood Reports Increase Of $173,717,468 In Past Year.

BANKS OF STATE IN GOOD SHAPE   Hood's Report Shows Total Resources Of Banking Institutions In N. C. $1,200,H00_000.

‘Turks To Ask Compromise On Axis Trade  Policy Of Aid To Allies Ie Cited

“Turks To Ask Compromise On Axis Trade  AL ASAT.   Policy Of Aid To Allies Is Cited

QUITS WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT, NAVY REPORTS   B-29’s Bomb Formosa For Third Time In 72 Hours

Enemy Vessels Never Fired A Shot; Halsey Plunges Ahead, Blistering Formosa Again

Strength of U. S.  F orce Causes Quick Retirement   Nips Come Out From Hiding Temporarily But Leave In Hurry

Japanese Challenge U, ®, Pacific 3rd Fleet With.  out Firing A Shot ~  B29 SUPERFORTRESS SMASH FORMOSA           Japs Claim 16 American Warships Sunk And 21 Damaged

Yanks Challenge Germans Along Peaks Blocking South Route Into Rhineland

Snow Fails to Slow Advance; Nazis Lose 113 Tanks and 33 Planes in 2 Days in Assault —

First Attacks On 60 Mile Front, Third Wipes Out Tanks And British Adwance In Holland

Drive Toward Rhineland Through Snow   U. S. Ist Army Opens An Attack To The North

Temperatures   Seventh Battles Snow to Nine Miles ot Belfort   First Army Carves Eight Holes In Sieocfried Line

FIGHT THROUGH SNOW BLOWING OUT OF VOSGES   Patton’s Army Knocks Out 113 Tanks in Two-Day Battle

SIEGFRIED LINE BARRIERS GUT   Third Army Wipes Out Equivalent of Tank Division   BRITISH BEAT BACK   Nazi Counterblows on Dutch Front; Calais Garrison Finally Capitulates

Weather Hampers Operations on All Of Western Front   First Army Makes Gains Along 60-Mile Front in Prum Region; Third Army Takes Big Toll uf Enemy Strength East of Metz

VOSGES HILLS ARE STORMED BY AMERICANS   BRITISH MAKE GAINS ON NORTH END OF FRONT

BATTLES NAZIS IN TWO PASSES   First Pushes On Pron, Third Routs Enemy  anks

Yanks Batter OutNew Gains   Seventh Nears Belfort, Third Carves Out Limited Gains On 60-Mile Front

LINE RACKED   Hodges Attacks on 60+ _ Mile Front as Seventh  Fights Through Snow Toward Belfort.   NAZIS SLUG TOE. TO TOE WITH THIRD   Canadians Shell Calais After Armistice — Rain and Sleet Blanket Long Battle Front.

Allies Fight in Snow of Vosges Mts.   But Advance Teward Relfort Gap, Now Only Nine Miles From City

Allies Finish Conquest of Channel Port   Limited Gains Made by U. S. First Army on North End of Front

Siegfried Line Scene of Limited Gains   Small Bridgehead Remains to Be Seized To Pin 100,000 Nazi Soldiers Between Arnhem Corridor and Sea

Nazis Challenged On South Route Into Rhineland   Yanks In Noftth Open Attack On 60 Mile Front

Patton Wipes Out 113 Nazi Tanks; Tommies in Holiand Beat Back Counterblows on Nijmegen Front

U. S. First Army Opens Attack on 70-Mile ‘Front and Smashes Through Eight Defenses of Siegfried Line 

U.S. Seventh Army Near Belfort As Winter Moves In   Snow Sweeps Out of Vosges Mountains While Americans Reach Foothill Passes — German Resistance at Calais Is Finally Smashed With Nazis Surrendering.

NEW ATTACKS ON SIEGFRIED LINE NET SLIGHT GAIN   German Armored Division Equivalent Knocked Out By Patton’s Men

TYDINGS WILL NOT OPPOSE ROOSEVELT   Senator Says He Still Reserves Right To Criticize President's Unwise Policies

TYDINGS WILL NOT - OPPOSE ROOSEVELT      Senator States Position at Party Rally in Baltimore

GERMANY IS GIVEN VIOLENT BOMBINGS   6-Ton Earthquake Bombs Score Hits on Big Gam

HAMMER NAZI SUPPLY BASES   6,500 Allied Planes Batter Vital Centers Back of Siegfried Line

KFDR’s Veto On Subsidy Bill Hinted   Leaders Urge President To Permit New Tax Mensure To Become Law

U. 5. WARSHIPS ATTACK BONINS   Stunning Two-Day Stab Made Only 600 Miles From Tokyo

Fighting Rages in Florence Streets;  Enemy Shells City   Germans Fortify Arno ‘Defenses Against Allied Crossings

SINK THIRTEEN OR MORE SHIPS IN BONIN AREA   NIMITZ DISCLOSES STUNNING BLOW 600 MILES FROM TOKYO

Islands 600 Miles From Tokyo Shelled   American Warships Train Guns on Bonin Islands For First Time in War

Nazi Shells Falling in Florence.   British Reconnaissance Patrols Cross Arno River; 50,000 Prisoners Captured from Cassino to Florence

Germans Still ~ Shell Florence   Allies Take 50,000 Nazis In Drive

AMERICAN WARSHIPS STORM FRONT DOOR JAPANESE HOMELAND  STAB AT BONIN ISLAND, WIPE OUT TOWN AND “ DAMAGE 41 JAP SHIPS

U.S, NAVY HITS BONIN ISLANDS CLOSE TO JAPAN   Fleet Levels Town, Sinks or Damages 41 Ships of Nip Convoy

Nazis Clear Of Virtually All Florence   Machine Gun Nests Remain Along Arno: Foe Shelling City

GERMANS WERE STILL SHELLING FLORENCE SOUTHERN SECTION  LITTLE ACTIVITY ALONG -““YPALIAN FRONT DURING PAST WEEK-END

Allies In Florence; Bridges Blown Up   Italian City May Not Become Battleground; 50,000 Prisoners Taken Since Cassino

Bonin Isles Battered and Convoy Sunk   40 Ships Destroyed Or Damaged By Tash Force

Florence May Not Be Made A Battlefield   Allies Hint Historie City May Be Spared Destruetion By Belligerents

Town on Chichi Jima Wiped Qut in Two-Day Stab Into Islands.   609 MILES FROM TOKYO!

Yank Navy Guns Turn On Bonin To Blast 41 Jap Ships   Allies Push Into North Burma Area

Allied Forces Battle  Germans For Florence      Nazi Artillery Pounds Southern Portions Of His. toric Italian City, Now Held By Allies; 50,000 Prisoners Taken

50,000 PRISONERS TAKEN IN ITALY   Alexander Sees No Need For Making Florence Battlearound

Stunning 2-Day Assault 600 Miles From Tokyo  Takes Heavy Toll   Fast American Carrier Forces, Striking Into Bonin And Kazan Islands, Batters Enemy Convoy And Winas Oat Tsland (iv .

BONIN ISLES, WATER GATEWAY TO JAPAN, HIT   Forty-One Jap Ships Sunk By U. S. Warships

Smashing Blow Dealt Enemy In Bonin Island:   Cruiser Force Strikes Boldly 600 Miles From Tokyo

ENEMY CONVOY DESTROYED IN BONIN ASSAULT   Yank Carrier Force Lingers Two Days 600 Miles From Tokyo

ISLANDS NEAR TOKYO HIT BY UL $. WARSHIPS   Task Force Swamps Big Jap Convoy In TwoDay Assault

Germans Resist Crossing of Arno  Fighting in Florence May Be Avoided

Carrier Force Destroys Convoy Wrecks Town   Highlight Action Of A Quickening Pacific War—Nimitz

Al ENEMY SHIPS OF CONVOY =. SUNK OR DAMAGED IN ATTACK IN WHICH ONE TOWN WIPED OUT   For First Time in This War American Warships Have Turned Their Guns on the Bonin Islands, Known As the Lock on Japan’s Front Door

American Warships Turn Heavy Guns on Bonin Island:   Stab Only 600 Miles From Tokyo Wiping Out 41 Ship Convoy   U. S. Heavy Bombers Concentrate on Nazi Motor Fuel, Oil and Munitions

At Jap Ships Are Sunk Or Damaged In Bonins Thrust   American Warships Turn Guns on Isles For First. Time

Navy Shells Jap Islands  Near Tokyo   Sinking Or Damaging 11 Ships In Convoy Also Reported By Nimitz

Tut CITY F FLORENCE   ig German Shells Continue To Land in South Porton Of Historic Italian Art Center   10,000 ARE CAPTURED

Japs Ignore Dare 600 Miles Away   American Warships Shell Bonin Isles

41 Jap Ships  Sunk, Damaged In 2-Day Stab   Five Destroyers Or Escorts Sent Down In Daring Approach To Tokyo By Fleet

American Warship:  Sink, Damage 41  Jap Convoy Vessel: Exemy Town on Chichi Jima  in Bonin Islands Wiped Out by Maval Remhardment

2-Day Stab Costs Foe 41 Ships, City   Admiral Nimitz Takes Fleet to Japan’s Front Door and Knocks for Two Days—Nobody at Home—Bonin Islands 600 Miles from Tokyo; Convoy Caught; Marianas Cleanup Continues

FLORENCE HIT BY NAZI GUNS   Germans Shell City Now Hele by Bth Army; Few Nazis Left.in. Town.

Florence Is Hit With Nazi Shells   Allies Do Not Plan to Make Italian City a  Battlefield   BRIDGES ARE BLOWN UP   Fifty’ Thousand Prisoners Taken From Cassino to Florence

Warships Shell Bonin Islands In Bold Raid   41 Jap Vessels Sunk Or Damaged By Carrier Force

FLORENCE IS NOW IN ALLIED HANDS: SMALL RESISTANCE   More Than 50,000 Prisoners Taken by Fifth And Eighth Armies in Ttale

U.S. Warships Turn  Guns On Bonin Island   Wipe Gur Town In Attack  ants Veont

Bonins Raid Marks First: Nayy Action Fe or ‘Islands   41 Japanese ‘Craft. ‘Are Sunk, Damaged

Big German Gun Shell Florence   No Need for City to Become Battlefield, Alexander Savs

GERMAN SHELLS RAKE FLORENCE   Patrols Probe Nazi Lines: 50,000 Prisoners Taken

4] JAP SHIPS HIT AS FLEET RAIDS BONINS   Nipponese Town Wiped Out: Tokyo Reports Air Blow On Philippines City

First US Attack On Bonins Destroys 41 Jap Vessels, Village   Warships Shell Islands Guarding Gate To Tokyo

Sink, Damage A1 Jap Vessels In Bonin Attack   Wipe Out Enemy Convoy In Most Daring Approach To Tokyo By Carriers

Allied Positions In Southern Florence Shelled; City Is Not ‘Expected To Be A Battlearound   Nazis Concentrate On Preventing River Crossing; Prisoners Mount To 50000

Americans Wipe Out Jap Town   Stab Into Bonins In Pacific, 600 Miles From Tokyo

American Warships Hit Bonins, Blast Jap Convoy   4! Enemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged; Tokyo Report: U. S. Planes Appear Over Davao

Heavy Blow al Japan's - Front Door   41 Ships Sunk or Damaged, Town Wiped Out, in Naval Thrust. at Bonins   2-DAY RAID ONLY 600 MI. FROM TOKYO   No -Challenge From Jap Fleet; Other Drives Are Maintaining Progress

CITY NEEDN'T BE BATTLEFIELD   Big German Shells Continue To Land in Portions of Florence.

GERMAN SHELLS HIT FLORENCE; DAMAGE SLIGHT   No Reason For City Becoming Battleground

Warships Wipe Out Jap Town; Sink or Hit 41 Convoy Vessels   Daring 2-Day U. S. Strike Into Bonins, 600 Miles From Tokyo

American Warships Turr Guns On Bonin Islands   Allies Cross To Northern Bank Of Arno River

Navy Destroys Nippon Town   Islands 600 Miles From Tokyo Get First Fleet Blows; Americans Capture Two More Guam Villages; Hengyang Attacks Smashed

Nazis Shelling Southern Area Florence City   South African Troops Mak Contact With Enemy On North Banks Arno River

GERMAN SHELLS HIT FLORENCE   Allied Leader Believes Historic City Not To Be Battleground

50,000 PRISONERS TAKEN BY ALLIES IN ITALIAN PUSH  GERMANS RESIST  ALLIED ATTEMPT

0  NAZIS CONTINUE SHELLING ‘OPEN CITY’ IN ITALY   Allies Occupy France, Not to Make Bastion Battlefield

American Warships and Planes Smash Bonin Islands Only 600 Miles from Tokyo and Stick Around to Dare Mikado’s Naval Forces To Come Out

Heavy Blow Is Struck At Bonin:   Sustained Assaults Are Made By Ships Anc Planes At Doorway T¢ Japan Proper

German Shells Continue Land Horence Area   Alexander Says No Need For City To Become A Battlefield.

.American Warships Turn Guns On Bonin Islands, ?\600 Miles From Tokio: Enemy Fails In Comeback

MAY DETOUR AROUND CITY OF FLORENCE      Little Enemy Activity Noted in the Cultura Center and Allies See No Need for Making it a Battlefield.

NO BATTLES IN FLORENCE SAYS GEN. ALEXANDER   Little Enemy Activity There; Big German Shells Continue To Land In Southern Portions

Nazis Retreat From Most  Of Florence   Hold Minor Positions On Northern Edge Of Ancient City

NAZIS CONTINUE FLORENCE FIGHT   German Shells Pound Allies In Southern Portions

600 MILES 10 NIPPON EMPIRE FROM ISLANDS   Japanese Town, on Chichi Jima Wiped Out; 41 Ships of Enemy Convoy Sunk or Damaged

Florence Area Held By Allies Under Shellfire  Reveal 50,000 Nazis Taken Prisoner Sing

Allies Stage First 3- Way Shuttle Raid   LONDON (UP) — American bombers Wednesday .attacked targets in Romania and Bulgaria.

YANK PLANES IN THREE-WAY SHUTTLE RAID   First Triangular Raid of War On Axis Europe

June 1 Ruling On B & C Books Only Few Tires   Renewal Applications at All Loeal Gas Stations In County

YANKS NEARING BIOK AIRFIELDS   Americans With Bomber Aid Approach Cliffs Guarding Jap Bases

ALLIES ESTABLISH  GROWING BRIDGEHEAD  30 MILES FROM ROME OUTFLANKED GERMAN  DIVISION LAUNCH HEAVY ATTACK NEAR CASSION

ROAD 10 ROME DOMINATED BY SURPRISE MOVE   Germans Reported Fleeing Eternal City - - Russians Continue Advance

Allied Army © Less Than 30  Miles of Rome   UN Forces Advancing on Littoria, Germans Say; Russians Gain Neat Leningrad and in Pripet Marshes; Aerial Raids

CAUGHT IN TRAP GERMAN 10TH ARMY FIGHTS FURIOUSLY NOW IN CASSINOW FRONT OFFENSIVE   Nazis Apparently Hope to Disrupt Entire Ameri can Fifth Army Front to Gain Time to Turn Around and Deal With Newly Landed Allied  Forces.

Nazi Officials in Rome Flee, Madrid Reports Indicated   Russians Open New Front in Far North, Says Sweden

ALLIES ESTABLISH GROWING BRIDGEHEAD 30 MILES FROM ROME  OUTFLANKED GERMAN DIVISION LAUNCH HEAVY

American And British Troops Move Inland  MENACE ROME  Russians Continue To Drive Back  Cermanc

APPIAN WAY SHELLED BY ALLIED GUNS   Still Little Effective German Opposition to New Allied Hold Established in Italy

ALLIES EXTEND LANDING GAINS WITHOUT FIGHT   Nazis Force Yanks Back Across Rapido River Before Cassino

Littoria Major Objective in New Drive Toward Rome   Germans Were Caught Compietely Unprepared for Push  ‘By Associated Press

Czechs to Control Freed Areas   Referring to Germany as ‘Wounded Beast?  ‘Stalin Sees Concerted Blow on Nazi

BLAST RHINE RAIL CENTERS   American Bombers Pound At Springboards of Big Nazi Offensive

Live Bait Tricks Japanese Gun Crews  Open Up On ‘Lost’ Plane,  Give Awav Position<e

LIVE DECOY PLANES FERRET GUN NESTS   Trick Helps Knock Out Jap Installations

Pacific Attacks Spread   Navy Smashes Paramushuino; Marines And Army  Clean Up Island.

Kuriles Hit InNew Raid   Losses At Truk Said 26 Ships, 201 Planes

Navy Planes Bomb Two Kurile Isles   Eniwetok Captured By Marine And Army Forces

Yanks Capture Eniwetok Isle   Paramushiro Bombed; Jap Higl Command Shaken Up After Severe Losses at Truk

Fall of Port Expected to Trap Thousands Of Nazis; Red Pincers Within 25 Miles Of Viipuri; Elba Invaded by French Troop:

CROSSLEY POLITICAL POLL   Dewey Gaining Slightly In Close Race  Ry Arrcrhthald MM Croacclov

ee ee ee eT ee ee eee  BLUEJAYS ATTACK BABY WHEN FOOD NOT PUT OUT

FIERCE BATTLE FOR STRATEGIC HUB OF TROARK   German Resistance Stiffens  scuantnien —cemtioce  AMERICANS GAIN  Nazis Continue To Harass St. Lo

NA7.>*sTIFFEN P< sTANCE IN EN SECTOR   Allies Continue to Score Gains in Normandy, However

FORTRESSES . COVER WIDE AREA ON TRIP   Complete Shuttle Bombifg from Britain-RussiaItaly-Britain Taking in Many Targets

Shuttle-Bombing Flying Fortresses Hit French Rails   Yank Airmen Who First Flew te Rossia Return to Britain from Italy—Air War Siepped Up

Fortresses Bomb Rail Yards To End Tour   Shuttle Bombers Return; Toulon Base Attacked

Airtields in Holland, Belgium, Rocket Bomb Nests Among Objectives.

ALLIES CONTINUE AERIAL ASSAULTS   HOLLAND, BELGIUM BLASTED; RAF HITS ROCKET-BOMB BASES

Bombers Complete Three-Way Shuttle Assault  Other Heavies Attack Base at Toulon For 5th Raid There

Flying Forts End Shuttle   Return to England From Italy After Landing in Russia; Toulon Bombed

Historic 7,000 Mile Bomb Raid   Flying Forts Prove All Parts of Nazi-Held Europe Vul nerable.

PLAN CONTROL FOR INDUSTRY IN GERMANY   Punitive Measures  After War to Be  Followed by Years of Restrictions.

Ahoc T~  ohibit verien “wviation aner mer Defeat   Plan To Supervise Key _ Industries Needed For Economy

MAJOR POINTS AFTER GERMAN FALL LISTED   Treatment Of Country Is Outlined By State Department For LongRance Program.

REP. SENATORS: ADMIT. THEY ARE ON SPOT   Say President Won Ist Round « On Soldier Vote

Republicans Put On Spot by FDR’s Denunciation of Soldier State-Ballot

Yank Guns Mess Up Nazi Plan   Anzio Efficiency In Blunting Thrusts Cramps Von Machensen’s Style

Ff) 0N FARM NEAR PRESTON, OWE   Pair Covered 50 Miles Since Flight From State Farm

JAPANESE FLEET IS RESTRICTED TOHOME WATERS   Tokyo Cannot Deploy Sea Power To Defend All Points Of Attack

Attack Ties Jap Fleet Near Home   Strategic Picture Of War Is Changed

JAPANESE FLEET REPORTED NAILED TO HOME WATERS   Naval Experts Say Warshiy Assault on Paramushiro _ Restricts Movement of .. Nip Vessels.   RAISES NEW THREAT TO HEART OF EMPIRE   Nippon’s Shores Would Be Exposed to Air-Sea Attack Should Navy Venture Out.

Raid on Kuriles Nails Jap Fleet  To Home Seas   Occupation of Kwajalein Complete, Nimitz Says; Air Takgses Increase

Japanese Fleet Is Nailed To - Home Waters By U.S. Might   Naval Experts Point to Strategical Results of Attack on Paramushiro island—Picture of the _'War Has Been Chanced

TOKYO'S FLEET IS NAILED DOWN   Assault On Paramushiro Forces Jap Warships To Stay At Home

American Naval Assaull On Paramushiro Island Tilts Strategic Setup

Ruling onG. I. Pets: Soldiers May Bring Back Ocelot Or a-Kinkajou, but No Mongooses

Mongooses  Among Several Pets — Servicemen Can’t Bri ing into U.S.

Jap Morale Cracking But Defenses Grow   Enemy Fliers Suffer Terrific Losses in Facific

[Reds Crack Nazi Troops In Korsun Dea th Ring’ Trap   Main Stronghold Is Taken In Drive To Obliterate German Divisions   Dive-Bomber eurrapects  More ‘Tarawa’ Conflicts

‘ Bombing-Wise Pilot Says Jap Morale Cracked, ‘But Enemy Factories Turn Out Improved Planes

Japs Improve Their Planes   Adding Armor, Cannon, Bullet-Proof Gas Tanks

AMERICAN FLIER SAYS WE MUST “SLUG INTO" JAPS   Famous Pacific Dive Bomber Says Jap Pilots Have Declined in: Skill But Plane Quality Better

VOTE WATCHED IN FARM BELT   Election In Wisconsin Today Seen As Test  For Willkie

Willkie Faces Vital Test in Wisconsin Today  Primary Battle For Delegates Will Show His Strength

PARTIES 10 EYE MIDWEST VOTING   Wisconsin Preferential Primary Today May Prove Barometer

MID-WEST FARM BELT CASTS BALLOTS TODAY   Willkie Is Counting Heavily Tpon Outcome of Voting In Wiscon sin Primary

GERMAN CONVOY IS WIPED Oui   U. S. Thunderbolts Crush Ficeing Nazi Units Near Reich Frontier

PACKARD MENACED WITH A SHUTDOWN   Maintenance Men’s Strike Cripples Production

STRIKE MAY HIT PACKARD PLANT   Walkout of 1,000 Becomes Threat To 40,000 Men

PERMANENCY OF BASES IS URGED   Committee Asks Immediate Action With British

Urges U.S. Keep  Bases Acquired From Gt. Britain   Steps To Make Possession Permanent Asked By House Naval Group.

HOUSE COMMITTEE WANTS PERMANENT POSSESSION OF BASES   Recommends Permanent Possession of Western Hemisphere Bases Acquired from British Be Obtained

ACQUISITION OF “BASES 15 URGED   Permanent American Control In Western Hemisphere Sought

FAVOR PERMANENT, CONTROL OF BASES   Holdings in Western Hemisphere Acquired from British   BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE

Money Spent Justifies Retention.   Committee Would Also Aid South ~  American Navies

PERMANENT CONTROL OF BASES ADVOCATED   Group Would Keep Outposts in Western Hemisphere

Permanent Lease Of Bases From British May Be Asked By U.S.   Naval Subcommittee In House Recommend Action To Further Hemisphere Defense; Agreements With Latin-American  Nations [/rged For Post-War

Permanent Bases In Aflantic Urged   U.S. Now Has 99Year Lease on Sites

Permanent Use Of Ocean Bases Asked In House   Committee Seeks Full Aequisition Of Islands Leased From Britain

URGE PERMANEN’ U. §. BASES   CHANGE IN BRITISH TRADE RECOMMENDED

Permanence In Hemispheric  Bases Asked   House Committee Advises Steps. to Convert 99Year Leases

Wants Britain To Yield Bases   House Group Urges Permanent Possession  Of Those In Trade.

House Urges US Keep New Bases   SD  Former British Bases Being Sought

House Group Asks Permanent Possession By U. S. Of Bases 'Acquired From Great Britain   Naval Subcommittee Recommends Action To Retain Such Positions In Hemisphere

Committee Urges Hemisphere Bases Be Made Permanen   House Group Proposes U. S. Acquire Outright Ownership of Hemisphere Defenses

Urge U.S. to Keep Bases   Recommends Immediate Step: t6.Get Leased ‘Outposts +

PAY TRIBUTE AT LINCOLN’S TOMB   Warren Atherton Speaks At Ceremonies Honoring Civil War President At Springfield.

Airmen Down 2? Nazis At Coblenz   U. S. Fighters Tangle With 200 Enemy Planes Over Reich

TEMPERATURES:   Drives Nearing Huge Rhineland War Industries   Tighten Cologne Arc In Face Of Desperate Opposition

IHIT: RAILROAD YARDS   American Heavy Bombers Attack 50 Miles Behind Front Lines

Air Attack. in Rear of Nazi Line   ‘Three Railroad Yards in Coblenz Area Bombed ' by American Heavies  E   IN SUPPORT OF YANKEE ARMIES   Weather for First Time in Two Weeks Permits Synchronized Air Action

Smash Rhineland Railroad Yards   Coblenz Area Is One Target in Dual American Raids

Bombers Raid Coblenz Area  Report Other Heavies Striking From Italy

—AIRK RAIDS— ~~  Bomb Nazi  Rail Yards   Simultaneous Attacks Made By Bombers From Italy, England

Courage, Life Jackets And Lives  Four Chaplains Gave All Aboard Sinking Troopship To Save Men

Four Chaplains Are Decorated Posthumously   Men of God Gave Courage and Own Life Jackets To Others Aboard Sinking Troop Ship

FOUR CHAPLAINS SACRIFICE LIVES   Give Own Life Jackets to Men on Sinking Ship   POSTHUMOUS AWARDS   Men of God Link Arms and Pray Together as Ship Poises for Plunge

4 Chaplains Who Gave Lifebelts To Others and Perished Are Honoree   Army’s Distinguished Service Cross Conferred Posthumously on Heroes on Sinking Transport

CITY HALL BUSY SPOT   Fisher Reports 300 Voters Registered Last Evening

Dairy Farmers Told of Crisis   Warned of Post-War Decline of Prices

Reconversion. Surplus Bills  Become Law   Roosevelt Scores Measures as Being Inadequate

RELATIONS TURKEY AND SPAIN TO ALLIES HAVE AGAIN ASSUMED THEIR LIMELIGHT POSITIONS

iat een eainaeaieeinneeaaiamnee ened  VETERANS WILL AGE FIVE TO 10 YEARS, PREDICTION

Former Le Mars Girl Is Married Tn Sioux City   _Evelyn Eberhard Wed Ta Corporal Van Horn At Lutheran Church

Former Le Mars. Girl Is Married _ In Sioux City   peepee ee Te wei WV   Evelyn Eberhard Wed Ta Corporal Van Horn ‘At Lutheran Church .

HULL-WELLES SPLIT TRACED   Handling of Argentina Primary Cause of Breal

ARGENTINE CAUSED HULLWELLS BREAK      Made Clear in Sec. Hull’s ‘White Paper’

HULL, WELLES STILL FEUDING ON ARGENTINE   Secretary Rejects ExAide’s Arguments On U. S. Policy

Britain in Dither, Wife Irate @ver  Yank Father of English Quads

Allied Move on Norway Hinted   Russ Within Striking Distance of Border

MERCHANTS LEAGUE Monday, January 1)  Sheets available were not legible.

WARD RENEWS WLB CHALLENGE   Union Demands Board Assert Authovity

UNION MEMBERSHIP IS NOT NECESSARY   Ward Firm Says Emplore Should Not Have To Join Organization To Hold Job

U. S. Airforce Quits Airfield At Hengyang   City Reported in Flames As China — Suffers Greatest Blow Since 1938; Yank Airmer Making All-out Effort To Halt Japs.

U.S. AIR FORCE ABANDONS VITAL CHINA AIR FIELD   Japs Move Up to Force American Withdrawal From Hengyang, Strategic City

Yanks Suffer Airfield Loss At Hengyang   China Threatened With Worst Defeat Since Blow Of 1938

U, S. ABANDONS HENGYANG BASE   Vital City Surrounded By Japs; Its Fall Will Be Worst Blow To China Since 1938,

U. S. Air Force Quits Field At Hengyang   Planes Bomb Runway Before Leaving; City Surrounded by Japanese

U.S. Airforce Quits Hengyang Airfield   Strategic City In Hunan - Province Stirrounded By Jap Soldiers ;

TO PULL OUT AT HENGYANG   Abandoned Forward Base Bombed To Void Its Use By Japanese

U. S. Base Lost In China to Japs   American Air Force Abandons Airfield at Strategic Hengyang

U.S. Has Abandonec One of Main Chinese Airfields  Drome at Hengyang Is Destroyed Before Given Up

By U. S..Fliers 'To Jap Forces   p-51’s Attack Field Monday To Render It Useless TT. Knomv Planes

(Germans ‘Abandon  Two Polish Cities   General Rejreat Over Poland's Plains Indicated—Reds Burst Into Lublin and Lwow

German Radio Acknowledges Towns Abandoned and Street Fighting In Lwow: Lublin

{Allied Bombers Coordinate Atlacks— —By Kirke L. Simpson (/))  \Nazis In Rumania Caught Between Two Fires

NAZIS’ DEFEAT TO HURT JAPS   Negotiated Peace, Suicide Attack Seen Alternate Possibilities

Expect Japs to Seek Peace  SoonafterV-E   But Fanatical Yellow Men Might Try Another ‘Pearl Harbor’ to Save Face

Reds Capture Verpelet in East Hungary   Russians Edge Closer to the Strategic Rail Junctions

Russians Near Rail Junctions   THREAT TO GERMANS GROWS GREATER IN BALKANS

Reds Fight To Take Hungary Rail Network   Capture Verpelet and Edge "Points At Miskole and Hatvan

REDS IMPERIL EASTHUNGARi RAIL NETWORK   Russian Troops Capture Verpeket and Edge Closer To Strategic Junction To Southwest   NEW PUSH IN SLOVAKIA

Take Four Nazi Villages In Hungary   Six Hundred Nazis And Hungarians  Killed at Verpelet

Russian Ariny Drives to. Control Vital Rail Junctions in Hungary

Reds Piling Up Advances   Nazis Claim Soviet Push In Czechoslovakia

Reds Capture New Link In Rail Network      Berlin ANlso Reports resh Soviet Push In Cozcchoslos akia.

RUSSIANS. DRIVING OF RAILWAY "TINES      Captur r _ On Strategic Centers in : Hungary

Reds Seize Rail Key      Edge Closer to Main North’Hungary Road Junction at Miskole _

RED ARMY HITS HUNGARY RAILS   Russians Launch New Push In Czechoslovakia, Nazi, Radio Says, But Russia Is Quiet.

Soviet Drive Edges Nearer Rail Junction   Capture Verpelet: Uncork Fresh Drive in South

RUSSIANS CAPTURE VERPELET, HUNGARY   Drive for Control of Eastern Rail Network, Junc“tinns,

Red Army Driving For Control Of Rail Network   Russians Have Begun Fresh Push in Czechoslovakia Area

Red Drives Are Nearing Rail Center Of Miskole:   “Fresh Pash Started lito Czechoslovakia

Red Army Edges Closer to Road Hubs in Hungary   Germans Make 40 Counterattacks In South Latvia

SOVIET TROOPS TAKE VERPELET FROM GERMANS   Russians Uncork Fresh Push In  Czechoslovakia

Reds Edging Nearer Vital Rail Network   Verpelct Wresied From Nazi Troops In North Hungary

VERPELET FALLS TO SOVIET ARMY: EGER IMPERILED   REDS EDGE CLOSER TO RAIL JUNCTIONS OF MISKOLC, HATVAN

Russians Open New Offensive, Says Berlin   Four Strongly Defended Spots Taken By Reds

Russians Capture Verpelet Village   Edge Closer Strategic Rail Junctions of Miskole and Hatvan

Red Forces Rip  German Detenses   Strongly Defended Villages in Hungary Seized by Russians

Russians Imperil Hungarian City Of Eger In New Advance; Approach Vital Rail Junction   Germans Report New Soviet Offensive Has Been Launched In Czechoslovakia

Reds ga City Of Ege  In New Dri ive      Berlin Reports New Russian  Army Attack In Czechooe, a a bea   MAKE FOUR ATTACKS

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW CZECHOSLOVAKIA DRIVE: MOP UP KEY !SLE IN BALTIC

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REDS IMPERIL “HUNGARY CITY   Nazis Report New Blow Into Czechoslovakia

Russians Imperil Hungarian City By New Advance   Berlin Reports New Red Army Is Attacking In Czechslovakia.

RUSSIAN FORCES GAIN IN HUNGARY   Seize Veepelet in Drive To Control Rail Network

Germans Reeling In Rapid Retreat   Belleau Wood, Marne And Other World War Battlefields Are Reac hed In New Advance

Allied Armies Send Germans Reeling Back Along 200-Mile Front; Planes, Guns Pound Retreat Roads

(cermans Reel Back ‘Toward Last L916 Lines   American Forces Smash at Nazi Retreat After an Almost Unopposed 22-Mile Advance; Cross Marne at City of Meaux

New Generation Of Yanks Reaches  Chateau- Thierry   37-Mile Dash Carries Tanks To Within 94 Miles Of Reich Border; Threat To Calais Flying Bomb Coast Grows Stronger.

SMASH PAST THE HISTORIC BELLEAU WOOD   British - Canadians Chase Nazis To  Somme, Aisne

Western Union College Students Plan  ame’,  For Annual Homecoming Celeb   ‘Will Be Held Friday and Saturday December 1 and 2

Western Union College Students Plar For Annual Homecoming Celebration   ‘Will Be Held Friday and Saturday December 1 and 2

London Hospital Patients Mangled As Nazis Step Up Robot Bombings

LIMIT OFFICER CANDIDATE LIST   Further Cut in Prospect Says Under Secretary of War :

Officer Candidate Schools Reduced  Seven Discontinued. Others Winding Up

MCKAY, FITZ HEARING SET   Examination On Bribe Charges To Start December 15

Robot Report Is Postponed   Commons’ Rage Mounts; Demand Britain Ultimatum

Yanks Fighting Decisive Battle   Nazi Southern Flank Battered Back; U.S. Third Army Gains 16 Miles In Belgium And Luxembourg

GAINS UP TO 16 MILES IN 6 DAYS   Nazis Say Withdrawals Made According to Plan   THIRD ARMY STRIKES   Simultaneously in the North, Denting Northwest Corner Of German Salient

Berlin Admits Armies ‘Withdrawn’ To West Wall As Yanks Drive On   Most Ruthless Of American Field Commanders Hacks Deeply Into Germans’ Belgian Salient

Patton Called Up To Save Situation   German Radio Announces Troops Are Being Withdrawn Accordina to Plan’ From Belaium

Hard-driving Patton stems tide; German spearheads retreat   Enemy radio announces witharawal; Birst armv carvings out advances

Enemy's Southern Flank Battered Back on 35-Mile Front in What May Be War's Decisive Battle; Yanks Make Gains Up to 16 Miles in Six Days.

Nazis Announce Withdrawal of Two Spearheads   Americans Slash Off Forward Tip Of Foes’ Northwestern Thrust, Infiict Losses, Take 1000 Prisoners

Backbone Of German Winter. Offensive Believed To  Have Been Broken

Germans’ Southern Flank Being Battered Back Along 35-Mile Front   ARMORED SPEARHEADS ARE BEING WITHDRAWN

CIO Delegates  Meet In St. Joe   Michigan And Indiana Convention Opens

UE-CIO MEET HEARS GOIACK   District President Labels Political Action No 1 Task

Cherbourg Port Not Yet in Use   Stimson Reports  Cin Franch Feant

Civilians Turn On Germans In Vienna, Budapest   Many Persons Killed In Vienna As Workers Fight Police.

NAZI INVASION STORY DENIED   Garbled Broadcast Heard by Canadian Stations

INVASION RUMORS FLARE ONCE MORE OVER WORLD   Canadians Hear Latest Report Their Soldiers Head Bia Force

NAZIS BROADCAST INVASION RUMOR   ‘PROPAGANDA STORY PICKED UP LAST NIGHT IN CANADA

Berlin Broadcast of Invasion Held  Garbled Version of Nazi Challenge

German Radio Reports Of Landings On French Coast Are Doubted In The U. S.

CANADIANS HEAR INVASION 15 ON   BROADCAST REPORTS. ALLIED  LANDING -IN FRANCE—MAY BE NAZI FAKE,

French Coast Raid Reported   Story Of Calais Landing By Canadians Unconfirmed   Giant Air Armadas Lash Nazis In Three- Way Blows. Downing 134 As Raids Grow In Frey

Invasion Rumors Garbled Version of '42 Dieppe Raid   Stories Set Off Last Night by Canadian Reports of a German Broadcast

French Landings Reported  Nazi Radio Tells of Invasion  Near Calais; Is Believed False

Invasion Rumors False, London Statement Say:   Canadian Reports Touch Off Flurry © Excitment; May Have Been Put Out By Germans Or The Allies

Invasion Rumors Caused By Carhled German Broadcast  CAF UU Ue WCE TE ALLIS

French Coast Raid Reported   Story Of Calais Landing By Canadians Unconfirmed

INVASION CLAIM PROVED RUMOR   Garbled Version of ’42 Dieppe Attack Excites Canadians

Invasion Teaser: Germany Reports Canadians Making Landing in France South of Calais

Food Stamp Plan Revival Set In Motion In Senate To Ration Postwar Surplus

B-17°S SMASH AT GERMAN AIRDROMES   Artillery Duels Feature Battles In Cassino

More Nazis Flee Into Rumania              THOUSANDS SLAUGHTERED AS THEY SEEK RUMANIAN SIDE 9 RIVER; REDS GAIN TO NORTHW

WIDEN HOLD ON THE PRUT   Zhukov's Forces Gain 23 Miles in 24 Hours

Prut Crossing Seized In Drive Across Dniester   Nazi Defense Bastion Captured By Mannstein Forces

AAA Election of Officers to Be Next Weel   SCHEDULE OF DATES FOR THE VARIOUS TOWNSHIP MEETINGS

GERMANS FLUNG BACK IN POLANL   Reds Cross Bug River. Gain 25 Miles On Latvian Border

Soviets Smash Across Bug River Toward Heart of Germany  SEVEN RED ARMIES  HITTING THE NAZIS  Front of 700 Miles Marks Great Combined Attack

Seven Soviet Armies Attack:  aeennetmuneecaenae niesarawenm ener unsere datirsetneeatenean  German-Russian ‘41 Line Crossed By Reds in Drive To Take Berlin

German Radio Broadcasts Acknowledge Crossing Of Bug River But Claim Soviets Meeting Stiff Reeictance

‘Attack Nazis on Their 1941 Frontier   Enemy Is Hurled Back 25 Miles ’ Ajiona North Latvia

Smash through Frontier in Old Poland in Drive Straight at Heart of Germany.   Extend Bridgehead

SAVE FOR THE Waste Paper Pickup Sunday, July 23   Reds Surge Into Poland   Mighty Juggernaut Slashes Toward Heart Of Germany

Reds Reach Line Where War Began   Smash Across Gernan Russian Bug River Frontier in Old Pola. 1

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ARMIES NOW SHUCCINGFOE   N ew Soviet Drive Along  - North Latvian Border  ~ Hurls Back Hitler’s Troops 25 Miles.   FRONTAL ATTACK IS MADE ON LWOW   Russians Encircle 40,000 to 60,000 Germans Near Brody — Another Nazi Commander Surrenders.

Reds Open Seventh Offensive; Nazis Reel on 700-Mile Front   DEFEAT AND RETREAT Daily Menu for Nazi Soldiers

TEN ENLISTED MEN , KILLED IN EXPLOSION   Sixteen Others Injured, Six Critically, by Blast at Camp Rahingan. .

SENATE PASSES TWO MEASURES   House Approval Is Expected Later Wednesday

YANKS SMASH JAP ATTEMPT 10 LAND “ONLOS NEGROS   Barges Carrying Nipponese Beaten Back—Several Hun. dred More Enemy Dead Counted on Island.   MARINES ATTACKED IN NORTH NEW BRITAIN   Strong Force Moves Against - Them, but. Faits to Keep ‘Them From Consolidating Beachhead.

Island Defenders Die As Comrades F i          Foes’ Attempts To Seize ‘Ineffectual; Reinforcement . Tries Beaten Back %

AROUND 1,300 OF NIPPONESE FORCE KILLED   MARINE LANDINGS ON NEW BRITAIN CONSOLIDATED

Japanese Attack On Los Negros Are Repulsed  At Least 1500 Of Foe on Island

Thrown Back by Marines; New Britain. Beachhead Consolidated by Yanks

Los Negros Jap Attack Beaten Back   Marines Advance in New Guinea Sector In Attack Upon Rabaul

Human Torpedo And Robot Tank Found by Allies   New Nazi Weapons Not Successful

Germans Say Allies Plan Landinas in North Italy   Report Warships, Transports, Landing Craft And Several Divisions of Troops Poised to Hit Coast Near Genoa, La Spezia

NAZIS EXPECT A LANDING ABOVE PISA   Report Masses of Ships and Several Divisions of Men in Tyrrhenian —See Blow at La Spezia and Genoa.

Nazis Say Allied Fleet Is Massed   Believe Will Try Landing Farther North in Italy

Florence Battle Flares Fiercely  Eighth Army Within 8 Miles of City

Nazis Warn of Allied Mass Landing Imminent in Genoa-La Spezia Areas

New Landings  ~ Made In Italy  —RBERLIN   Radio Savs Masses Of Allied — Warships Concentrated In  > f naeral

Allied Fleet, Troops  Mass For New Invasion   Berlin Radio Asserts Powerful Force Off Genoa And ‘LaSpezia In North Italy; German Armies Facing Trap

Allies Raid Sabang Harbor, Jap-Held Key to Singapore, East Indies; Damage Great

Germans Claim Warships, Other Vessels Sighted   Claim Landing May Come In Vicinity Of La Spezia And Genoa In Shar? Time

8th Smashes Back Nazis  Rowtorwi3nw.   Battle for Florence Mounts in Fury

N azis Put Up Furious Fight  For Florence   British Smash Through Te Point Eight. Mites From Heart of Historic Cite

FLORENCE SEN “OFBITTER TH   Nazi Counterattacks Are ‘Smashed :8 Milés From Historie City ~~

YANKS TURN BACK ATTACK BY JAPANESE   On Roadblock Established On Ormoc Highway; Jap Destroyer, 5 Small Freighters Destroyed.   Pestroyer Lost

Yank Bazookas Halt Jap Blow Ai Road Block   Leyte-Bused : Planes : Sink  Japanese ‘Destroy ery "7.

YANKS TURN BACK JAPANESE ATTACK   Nipponese Destroyer and Five Other Vessels Sunk

DESTROYER IN BATAAN AREA SUNK FROM AIR   U. S. Airmen Also Sink Five Freighters In Manila To Borneo

Yanks Turn Back Jap Ormoc Breal   ircmy D ostroyer, ive Frei hters Destroyed In Pacific

Planes strike new blow at Jap shipping  Weather retards Ormoe advance

YANKS SMASH JAP ATTACK IN ORMOC SECTOR   MacArthur Also Says Foe Destroyer Sunk Off Bataan

JAPANESE TANK ATTACK BEATEN BY AMERICANS   Bazookas Are Brought Into Use In Defense Of Limon Roadblock   ANOTHER DESTROYER IS REPORTED SUNK

U.8. LETE-BASED "PLANES TAKE TOLL   @Bazookas Help Turn Back Japanese Counter-attack    BEAT OFF TANKS   “Enemy Makes Futile Attempt To Break Out Northward From Ormoc Area

JU INDILIED IN ALLEGED NAZI nor BA  IEEEUS 7 TS AGAIN ACCUSED  BY JURY   VIERECK 1S AGAIN ACCUSED BY JURY   Some of Defendants Previously Accused by Government .-

30 INDICTED IN ALLEGED NAZI PLOT BY JURY   Conspiracy to Set Up Nozi Government Here Is Charee   VIERECK IS AGAIN ACCUSED BY JURY   Some of Defendants Previously Accused by Government -

Plot to Form Nazi Government in U. S. Is Charged  Grand Jury Indicts 30 Persons for Assisting Germany

U.S. Indicts 30 As Nazi Plotters   Conspirac V to Set Up A . rae Sew Government

30 ARE INDICTED ON CONSPIRACY CHARGES   28 Men And Two Women Are Accased By Government Of Trring Jo Establish Naziism Here

Warn Congress of Benefit Cost   Mustering-Out Pay Said “Only Beginning’

nS ae eS  Worthless Check  Passer Admits  Five Offenses Farmer Near  Remsen Fined  . mi we, .

Worthless Check Passer Admits Five Offenses  Farmer Near Remsen Fined For Pilfering

FDR Would Tell Demos To Agree To Coke's Plan   Governor Makes His First Statement At Press Conference

GOV. STEVENSON: INTIMATES HE HAS BACKING PRESIDENT  ' DECLARES PRESIDENT  WILL TELL FOURTH.TERM: ERS TO AGREE HIS PLAN

Compromise Plan Favored by FDR  First Authoritative’ Indication Politics Discussed at Meet

DEATH CLAIMS — FORMER SENATOR TOM HARDWICK   Distinguished Georgian, Native of Thomasville, Died at Sandersville at Aaa 71

GOP Congressmen Intend to Support FDR’s War Policies   Defeat of Axis Holds Top Spot, Republicans Agree After Election

WINNING THE WAR WILL BE MAIN COAL OF THE GOP   Republican Congressmen Voice Suppert of President's Goal to. Win the War Soon and. Bring the Boys Beck Home

THROWN BACK IN HARD FIGHT   Massed English Guns Blast Enemy Troops, Tanks; Yanks Push Ahead

Massed Guns Hurl  Back Panzer Smask   Germans Throw Parts of Seven Armored Divisions Againet Enolich Around Caen

Yanks Capture Cap DeLaHague, Tip Of Normandy   Key Position Falls As British Hurl Back German Assaults

Rommel Rushing Iroops From Russia in an Effort to Crush Invasion Forces in Normandy   Seven Panzer Divisions in Fierce Assaults Fail to Budge the British Second Army; Rommel! Unable to Mount Larae Scale Counter Attack:

200 YANKS IN BLACK MARKET DEAL CONVICTEL   Stole and Sold Cigarettes at $2 Per Package.

Nazis Admit Need For “Re-adjustment”’; Plan To Leave Parts Of Front

Russian Offensive Shaping Up Into Three Great Battles   Prussia Alarmed

Aerial Might Lashes Nazis Around Caen   Allies Attempt To Seal Off Vast Nazi Effort To Reinforee Army

Blow Is One Of Mightiest Of All Time   Mile-Long Parade Of RAF Heavies Hits During Night.

nly Utmost Efforts By Nazis Preventing Major Russian Breakthrough   Hitler. Himmler Reported At Front   Red Drive Déveloping Into Threats To  Tilsit An Insterburg

RUSSIANS SWEEP ACROSS PRIISCIA   In Mounting Drive Aimed At German Seaport Of Konigsbere

Reds Plunge OM nto                See, BAS cc see hm   Hitler, Himmler Exhort Soldiers Hold at All Cost

County Bond Quota Exceeded   Report Shows County Has 50 Percent Excess of Quota

Gov. Broughton Will Join Other Governors In Protest  At Capital Over Tobacco

SOLDIER VOTE DIVIDES   That Counted Separately Is 67 Per Cent for Roosevelt

SUPREME COURT MAY DECIDE ON SOLDIER - VOTE   Federal Ballot Advocates Losing Hope For Compromise

Court May Pass On Service Vote   Supreme Court Would Determine If Federal Ballot Is Legal.

Gen. Sir Arthur Smith Named Commander Of British tn Persia, lrag

Oln ARMY DRIVES ON TWO JAP AIRFIELDS   Resistance Indicates Enemy Will Make Fight For Maffin Bav Sector

Japs Put Up Stiff Battle   Reinforced Yanks Drive For Two Airfields After Ending Stalemate

R.M. Dunn Made Captain of Co. ii   Local Man Advanced In State Guard Unit

NOTABLES WILL ATTEND HEALTH MEETING HERE   Regional Institute Will Feature Addresses by National Personages.

RUSSIAN LINES DENTED AT IAS!   Romanian Push Proves Costly For Germans, Moscow Reports

NAZIS DRIVE WEDGE INTO RUSSIAN LINES   Moscow Says German Gain fn Ro mania Was Costly to Enemy in Manpower and Material.

Senate May Get Subsidy Issue   No Progress Toward  Settlement Made.

May Put Food Subsidy Issue In Senate Lap   No Progress Toward Scttling Issue Made In Month; One Month Of Life Left

Subsidy Bill To Greet Congress   Program Appears Marked For Death; No Compromise Has So Far Been Reached.

RAF Renews Assaults as Doughboys Smash German Attempt to Strike Northward From Deenest Advance

Patton Sends Relief Tanks   Enemy Low on Gas; Hun Troops Wearing American Uniforms; RAF Bombs Supply Point

AR UNITS TN ALBANIA NOV   Operating to Block Germar Detachments Fleeing From Balkans.

Airborne Troops  Land In Albania   Plan to Block German Detachments Fleeing From the Balkans   SQUEEZE THE GERMANS   Allied Naval Craft Are Operating in Southern  Dalmatians

Allied Invaders Effect Landings In Adriatic Area   Airborne Units In Albania Said Aimed To Harass Nazis’ Balkan Retreat

ALLJED AIRBORNE TROOPS LANDED IN ALBANIA SECTORS  WILL HARASS WITHDRAWAL GERMAN TROOE

Allies Landing In Albania To Harass Nazis   Sea, Airborne Forces Aim To Block Germans Attempting To Flee From Balkans

Allies Land in ‘Albania to Cut German Retreat   Sea, Air Forces . To Block Escape Routes of Enemy in Flight from Balkans

Allied Airborne Troops Operating In Balkans Now   Albania Landings Officially Revealed At Rome Today

Allied Troops ln  Adriatic [sles   Land Forces Try To Block Germans Fleeing Balkans Toward Reich

SEEK 10 BLOCK GERMAN FLIGHT FROM BALKANS   Invasion Forces Mopping Up Coast Towns, Dalmatian Isles

Balkan Invasion  Revealed   Sea, Airborne Units Seek to Cut Off. Reireat to Reich

LOHU GH Aaa  To Harass German Withdrawal From  Raikane Panarte Sav

Allied Air-Borne Troops Land In Albania To ‘Harass Enemy Withdrawing From Balkans

Airborne Troops Land in Albania  doin Forces Landed Fram Sea in Now Mavo

Allied Airborne Troops Landed In Albania To Slow Retreating Nazis

Troops Land In Albania fo Cut Off Nazis   New Operation in Batkans Is Reported Today

ALLIED SEA AND AIR TROOPS NOW IN ALBANIA   Landed Today In New. Invasion  Of Balkans

Allied Sea and Sky Troops Invade Albania and Isles Off Yugoslavia

Albania, Yugoslav Isles Invaded By Allied Forces   Operations to Block German Detachments Fleeing From Balkans Are Started; Nazis Give Up Important Aegean Islands

AIR-BORNE UNITS FIGHT IN ALBANIA   Harass Germans Trying To Withdraw In Balkans

TROOPS OPERATE IN SLAV COASTAL ISLANDS AS WELL   _ Nazis Say Whole  _ Dalmatian Coast Is Invaded; Fight Going On

TO HARASS WITHDRAWAL OF GERMANS   Troops Landed by Air, Sea in Ba'kans to Further Complicate Position of the Axis

Troops Land To Cut Off Nazi Retreat   Islands Seized, Wide Front Established to Tighten Vise on Foe

OTHER FORCE ON ISLES OFF YUGOSLAVIA   Seek To Block German Retreat Back To Reich   NO INDICATION   Given Of Size Of Forces: Garrison At Himara Is Reported Destroyed

NEW LANDINGS e MADE TO HALT NAZIS’ FLIGH]   @Aliies Also Move Into Islands Off Yugoslavia To Trap Germans

ALLIES LAND IN BALKANS TO HALT FLICHT OF NAZIS   Sea and Airborne Units Land in Albania and on Islands   Off Yugoslav Coast—Size of Forces Not Revealed

Invade Albania By Sea And Air On Wide Front   Land On Islands Off Yugoslavia In Moves To Block Fleeing Navzic

Allied Air Troops Land In Albania   Will Harass Withdrawal of Germans from  Balkans

175 WARSHIPS LEFT TO JAPS   Foe Fleet ‘Still Seen a Factor in Operations Near Home Isles

"175 Nipponese Warships Remain In Fighting Condi tion Despite Losses _

JAPANESE NAVY STILL A FACTOR   ESTIMATES SHOW FOE STILL HAS 175 WARSHIPS IN FIGHTING CONDITION. ~

Japs Believed To Have 175 Warships Left   Imperial Navy Remains Factor Despite Loss Of 26 Capital Vessels

japs May Have 175 War Craft Yet In Action   Lose At Least 26 FirstClass Ships During Battles

Fifth Army Closing in On Pistoia   Germons Still Fight Grimly on ‘Every Front in North tally

Allies Hit Nazis from ‘All Quarters   Americans Close in On Nazis Northwest of Florence

American Troops Close in on Gothic Line Defense Northwest of Florence

Americans Close Grip on Pistoia   War in Italy Goes On Year After Surrender

[3 YANKS SWEEF IN UP VALLEY NE AFTER NAZIS   AMERICANS Y CLOSE IN ON GOTHIC LINE'A   Pistoia and Other Centers Occupied as Allies Still Fight Persistent Foe After Italy Quits.  T.Lan Neata

AMERICANS MOVE ON GOTHIC LINE   BRITISH INCH FORWARD ALONG ADRIATIC AGAINST STUBBORN RESISTANCE,

OUTPOSTS FALL IN GOTHIC LINE   Charge Into Po Valley By Allied Forces Expected Soon

Yank Troops  Near Pistoia   Dogged Fight Rages Yea After Italians Quit

YANKS CROSS WARNE AFTER TAKING MEAUX   Other Forces Menace Great Railroad City of Reims

War Prisoners Can Get Cable Service Now   Red Cross Opens Emergency Cable Service To War Prisoners Now.

BRIAN, U. 8. DIFFER WIDELY ON AVIATION.   Ccnference May . Bring Settlement on’ Post®¥ar Civil Aviation

Black Market Drive Leads To  New Arrests   ‘Four Chicagoans, One More Milwaukee Man Charged With Illegal Transfer Of Coupons

FOR Gains in Service Vote   Makes Little Chang: In Standing of Other Candidates

Will Discuss. Latin America  * Topic For Next  . Civic Forum Meeting

LENINGRAD HAS BEEN FULLY LIBERATED BY NEWEST OFFENSIVE   OTHER RUSSIAN ARMIES CONTINUE TO ADVANCE IN VARIIUS SECTORS

SOVIET ARMY REACHES BANK OF THE LUGA   More Than 50,000 Nazis Killed In  Leningrad Siege

NAZIS DRIVEN 40-60 MILES FROM CITY   Stalin Says 700 Villages Freed In Offensive   LUGA RIVER   Bank Reached By Soviets; Pincer Move Imperils German Position

Leningrad Liberated By Red Drive   Germans Driven From City; Hold on Northern Russia Comes to End

Carpatho-Ukraine  AllRetaken   By Soviet Troops Capital of Ruthenia  Is Captured by Gen. Petrov’s Men

LENINGRAD HAS BEEN  FULLY LIBERATED BY  NEWEST OFFENSIVE OTHER RUSSIAN ARMIES CONTINUE TO ADVANCE  IB VADTIEIC Coe TAbRpe

Germans Evacuate East Prussia Path For Menacing Reds   Seizure of Important Center of Gumbinnen is Imminent Today :

Nazis Quit E. Prussian Gumbinnen   Soviet Offensive Sweeps Up ‘Homeland’ In Great Battle

Fierce Nazi Resistance in East Prussia  Fall of Gumbinnen Appears Imminent

GILUNS FLEE ADVANCING RED   Fall Of. Important Eas‘ Prussian Communica: . tions Hub Near   Germans Evacuating _ Civilian Population As  Russians Drive Ahead

RED FORCES ath TOSNO      Former City Is Eastern Terminus of Railway to  - Estonia—Russians Now  . but 39 Miles From Estonian Border.

Reds Drive On Key © ~ East Prussia City   Fall Of Communications Center Of Gumbin - nen Appears Imminent; Resistance Fierce

Russians Near Gumbinnen in East Prussia  Capture of Center Appears Imminent   Capture of Center Appears Imminent As Reds Advance

NAZIS FLEE GUMBINNEN   Fall Of Vital Prussian Rail Center Is Imminent

Ungvar Falls To Advancing Red Forces   Complete Capture of Carpatho-Ukraine Area; Gumbinnen Endangered

“Completely Liberated by the “- ‘Two-Week Red Army / Drive-in North   SUDDEN THAW SLOWS: CAMPAIGN   y But - Two -, Russian. Armies ’ Are Maintaing’ Offensive -- op Baltic Salient -

Russ Reach Luga River As Germans  Fall Back   Nazi Hold On Norther: Russia Crumbling As Two Armies Deliver Smashing Atlacke

REDS PRESS ON IN EAST PRUSSIA   Fall Of Important Communications Town Expected

Freak Weather Delays Action On Red Front   Russian Troops Press Drive at Baltic Salient

Virtual Clean-Up Of The Carpatho-Ukraine Made Today By Soviet Advance

FALL OF EAST PRUSSIA CITY IS BELIEVED NEAR   Russ Troops Approach Gumbinnen, Important Communications Cente

East Prussians Fleeing Before Onrushing Reds   Already Evacuating Capital Of Konigsberg; CGumbinnen Fall Near.

Reds Reach Bank of Luga River   Two Armies Smash Into Germans’ Baltic Salient

New Gains Announced  By Stalin   Capital of Ruthenia Is Taken, Virtually Completing Carpatho-Ukraine Drive   INEW ADVANCES IN EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Reported. Fleeing Konigsberg In Panic; New Gain in Finland

EAST PRUSSIAN COMMUNICATION CENTER FALLS   Civilians Leave Gumbinnen; Reds  Pushing Ahead

Hvacuating Civilians From City In Kast Prussia   Gumbinnen’s Fall To Russians Is fetieved Near: Is Clese To Insterburg

Reds Are Slowly Tightening Trap On Huge German Army Massed Below Leninorad

LENINGRAD LIBERATED   Nazis Driven 40 Miles From City, Stalin Announces

Tosno, East-n Terminus Of Railway To Estonia, Taken By Russian Troop:   IMPORTANT RAIL TERMINAL SEIZED TODAY IS 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LENINGRAD—ADDITIONAL CAPTURE QF V@OLOSOVO BELOW KRASNOGVARDEISK PUTS REDS ONLY 39 MILES FROM ESTONIAN BORDER

AUSS LEGIONS TIKE. CAPITAL OF AUTHENIA   Clear Territory Seized by Hungary, in 15-Mile Advance.

GREAT VICTORY IS CELEBRATED BY 24 SALVOES   Task Of Historic Importance Achieved, Russian General Govorov Announces: More Than 700 Nearby Villages Also Freed.

Drive in Prussia Stil! Advancing   ‘Other Gains Scored In North and South

RED PINCER ASCLOSING “PON NAZI      Govorov’s. Army I: Racing. Toward Estonia.

E.PRUSSIAN CENTER NEAR FALL TO REDS   Civilians Being Removed: Nazis Fight Fiercely

Konigsberg’s Public Flees Path of Reds   Muscovites Threaten To Flank Gumbinnen, Cammunications Hub

PRUSSIAN BASE TOTTERS UNDER RUSSIAN BLOWS   Fall Of Gumbinnen Appears Near; Germans Reported Fleeing Konigsberg

Large Scale Battles Rage _ And Soviet Armies Roll  On Despite Tremen dous Resistance.

Fall Of East Prussian Communications Center Of Gumbinnen Appears Imminent

Squeeze Being Applied On Foe ‘By Red Armies   Threatens One of Two Remaining Railways South. From Leningrad Available for German Use.   3 Nazi Divisions .  Defeated In Clash   Big Junction Towns of ‘Tosno, Luban and Chu- dovo In Hourly Peril .  Advancing Reds.

Two Red Armies Plunge Forward To Banks Of Luga   Freakish Weather Sets In, Turns Roads Into Quaaqmires

UNGVAR TAKE BY RED TROOPS   Virtually Completes Capture Of Carpatho-Ukraine Area.   PUSH AHEAD 15 MILES

Reds Menace Vital Junker Land Center   Are Reported Fighting in Streets of Communications Hub of Gumbinnen and Its Fall Is Believed Near—Civilians Moved Out.

Gumbinnen’s Fall fo Reds Appears Near   Civilian Population - Reported Evacuating _ Key Communications City in East.Prussia

GERMAN TROOPS BEING. PUSHED BACK BY REDS      Fall Of Gumbinnen Appears Imminent Today

OUIETS SLOWED AY SUDDEN THAN   Rivers Floo oded, Roads ‘Turned. Into Quagmires By Warm Weather .   “DRIVE CONTINUES.   Capture. Of Krasnogvar. deisk Considered Of Great Importance ‘

Czech City Is Captu red By Russians   Fall Of Vital East Prussia Communications Center Is Imminent

Leningrad Freed of Nazi Yoke   Russians Announce Foe Has Been Driven 40 to 60 Miles  From the City —

Fall Of Prussian Communications Center Imminen  Evacuate Civilians In Path Onrushing Armies

FALL OF IMPORTANT COMMUNICATIONS CENTER IMMINENT  GUMBINNEN, EAST PRUS. SIA, EVACUATED OF ITS CIVITTAN PODPTIT ATION

Push From Two Sides Into Nazi Baltic Salient   - + e Seu ou hepa _ Russians Threaten One of Iwo Remaining  Railroads South of Leningrad   Freakish, Warm Thaw Is Unlocking Swamps

CITY ENTIRELY REED IN RUSS WEEK DRIVE   324 Guns Fired in Honor of Victory - Over Nazi Invaders

LENINGRAD LIBERATED BY RED OFFENSIVE AND 250,000 NAZI TROOPS NOW FACING DISASTER   Germans Driven 40 to 60 Miles From Leningrad And More Than 700 Towns and Villages Freed. 55,000 Germans Killed, 6,000 Captured, Say Reds

Enemy Retreats 40 Miles   Guns Hail Triumph Of 2Week Attack By Govoroy Army

Reds Nearing Gumbinnen, Vital Center   Germans Offer Stiff Resistance On Eastern Front

Reds Capture 700 Towns in 14 Day Drive   Germans Driven Back 40 to 60 Miles; Fifth Army Tightens Squeeze on Nazis Below Rome; Russians Reach Luaa River

Reds Liberate Leningrad As Tosno Seized   Nazis Drive 40 To 60 Miles From City; More Than 700 Freed   I4DAY OFFENSIVE

Russians at - Luga River, ~ Says Pravda   freakish Thaw Turns the Roads Into Quagmires, Hinders Movement

Civilians Quit Gumbinnen In East Prussisz   Fall of Important Commu: nications Center: to FastMoving Reds Appears Imminent

Reds Capture Capital City Of Ruthenia   Score 15-Mile Advance In Campaign Inside Czechoslovakia

German Hold Crumbling in  North Russia   Geveroy Siorms Through Kaskeva, Reaches Luga in Drive To weer aN NE die Ba   SLOWED BY THAW   Other Russian Troops Push South  to Cul Railways — Leningrad - Completely Freed

SITH WAR LOAN > DATES: LEARNE!   Armistice Day Through Pear _ Harbor Day Planned for Drive

Group Extends  Life OF AAA   Senate Committee To Send Provision To Congress Tomorrow,

Russian Troops Smash Across the Danube River  RED UNITS ENTER HUNGARY CAPITAL  Armies Reach Points 96 Miles From Vienna

SOVIETS SPLIT ENEMY FORCE — AT BUDAPEST   Numerous Penetra tions of City Made By Russians

RUSSIANS SPLIT BUDAPEST FORGE:   Part of Enemy Units Driven Into Mountainous Terrain In Danube Bend North of   Canital

NAZI BUDAPEST DEFENSES SPLIT   Soviets Cross Danube River To Capture Szentendrei island, Join Other Forces.

Soviets Drive Into Edges of Budapest   German-Hungarian Defenders Split by Bold Move

BUDAPEST DUE TO FALL SOON TO RED TROOPS   Nazi-Hungarian Defender: Of Capital Have Been Split By Soviets   RUSSIANS ARE 96 MILES FROM VIENNA

NAZI DEFENSE FORCES SPLIT AT BUDAPEST   REDS MAKE SMASH ACROSS DANUBE, TRAP ENEMY

Vet Won't Need Eye Offered   Wounded Man in Butle Hospital Would Like To Meet Co-ed

New Flare-Up On Vote Bill   President Roosevelt's Recent Passage Brings More De Rt is Pak

SERVICE VOTE BILL ASSAILED BY PRESIDEN)      Valls Senate Measure “Fraud;” and Taft Cries “Insult”

Congressional row over soldier voting flares to new peak   Senator Taft claims Roosevelt’ demands an insult to congress

FD Wants Federal Ballot for Soldiers   President Brands “*States’ Rights” Bill Approved by Senate as a Fraud: Senator Taft Says Message Insult to Congress

Roosevelt Vote Message Scored   ‘Fraud’ Reference Draws Criticism

FDR Asks U. S. Ballot For Soldiers   President Calls State Control Bill ‘Fraud’

ER VOTE BATTLE FLARES   VANDENBERG SAYS F. R. POLL CHARGES “UNJUST”

TAFT SCORES FDR ATTACKS ON VOTEBILI      Senator Calls Message an “Insult” to Senate and House   PRESIDENT DEMANDS “AN ADEQUATE LAW   Brands as “Fraud” Bill Leaving Question to States

: Garbage for Dinner: ‘New York Restaurant Serves If To Two Magistrates and Others

Nazis Claim: To Have Estab. lished Bridgeheads On Ourthe River   THEY DENY. THAT THEY HAVE BEEN .  HALTED IN BELGIUM   There’s No Good News Concerning German Drive Into Luxembourg .

4 Armies Closing On Trapped Nazis   German Seventh Army Still Struggles Toward Escape Gap   HATCH IS NARROWED   Hundreds of Prisoners Are Taken and Others Still  Pocket

Big blow struck by pianes based in Mariana isles   ‘No part of Jap homeland safe now;’ Yanks win Limon, menace whole line

SIZEABLE FORGE OF BIG BOMBERS BATTERS. TARGETS   Daylight Raid on Jap Capital Launched From Bases in Mariana Islands   NEW BOMBER COMMAND OPERATES FROM SAIPAN   High Command Says Attack Not Hit-and-run Raid, but Beginning of Systematic Attacks Against Homeland, Details Meager

B-29 Bombers Blast Capital In Daylight    Is First Raid on City by U. S. Land-Based Bombers

Argentine Status  Held In Abeyance   England May Follow U. 5 And Net Recognize Her

‘Britain to follow lead of America’   , Will wait for Argentine to throw off axis taint

SOVIET M MAKES  ~ MAJOR RAINS   AIRFIELDS, RAILYARDS. AND SUPPLY DEPOTS OF ,AXIS BLASTED AS UNPRECEDENTED AERIAL OF: . FENSIVE CONTINUES THROUGH ITS EIGHTEEN . . , DAY-RUSSIANS UNLEASH LARGE-SCALE": _ - RAIDS ON EASTERN FRONT

Hero of Tomato Patch Battle  Brawny Yank Corporal Picks Off Nazi Pillbox Crew When He: Only Wanted Fruit

Dewey Gets WarmHands At Pawlings   GOVERNOR VISITS COUNTRY HOME FOR FIRST TIME SINCE HIS G. O. P. NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENCY.   Election Without Venom

NEIGHBORS GREE GOVERNOR DEWEY   GOP Nominee for President Visits Village of Pawling; Says Election Will Be Decided Without ‘Venom’

CHINA'S MILLIONS READY WITH ALLIED OFFENSIVE AID   Ready to Go, Even With Present Equipment, Says Kai-Shek Spokesman

CHINESE READY FOR OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPS   Spokesman Says. -China Will Launch Drive With Several Million   Agen,

American Flyers Make New Damaging Raids in Chine   Several Million Chinese Are Ready for General Counter-offensive.

Chinese Reveal Army Of Several Million Men eady To Drive Out Jap:

Violence Breaks Ou t Among French Against Collaborati onists in Bayeux

Patriots Rout Quislings Out  In Bayeux Area   But French Generally Carry On as Usual, Aw Instructed bv Allies

LOYAL FRENCK HUNT TRAITORS   Citizens Carry On, Await Right Time For Uprising

FRENCH TRAITOR LASHED BY CROW   MANHUNT UNDER WAY FOR COLLABORATIONISTS IN LIBERATED BAYEUX.

TRAITOR HUNT GETS STARTED BY FRENCHMAN   Nazis Warn French Against Using Vehicles In Four Sections OF South Central France

NAZI AIRFIELDS IN HUNGARY ANU SERBIA BOMBEL   Meanwhile R.A.F. Aids Allied Ground Troops by Ranging up ° and Down Seine River.

strikers Disrupt Service Lines as  Army Takes Over   Violence Threatened to Operators of Traffic System in Philadelphia.   Strike Is Caused by Promoting Negroes

Men Returning To Philadelphia Jobs Threatened  Roving Gangs Of Strik. ers Hamper Resumption

Strikers Slow To Go Back   TRANSPORTATION LINES SEIZED BY GOVERNMENT; FRESH RACE VIOLENCE

Bands Threaten Violence T« Operators Attempting To Begin Service Again

Transportation System ir Philadelphia Is Placed Under Army Control

Strikers Threaten Transport Workers In Philadelphia  Army Takes Gver Under Order: of President bot Fails te

Strikers Threaten Violence To Workers Heeding Army’s Attempt To Restore Transit   Philadelphia Transportation Tie-up Unbroken As Radicals Prevent Oneratior

Threaten Inju   New Clashes Between Whites and N groes Reported in Stricken Philadelphia; Enemy Sympathizers Blamed

_ Bands of Strikers Threaten Violence and Quaker City’s Traffic System Still Paralyzed. Army  Officer Promises Protection for Workers on "TW KVa<crc

Army Defied; Transit Tieup InquiryOpens   Threats From Striker: Block Resumption of Philadelphia Service

Threaten Men Back On Jobs; Police Called   Philadelphia Lines Still Tied Up Despite Government Seizure Of Trolley Lines

Strikers Curb  Trolley Service   Few Cars Running in Philadelphia Despite Deadine Fixed by Army

OPERATORS. ATTEMPT TO: RESUME. SERVICE   Roosevelt Orders Military Supervision As Race Con- ~  fiine  aname

Bands Of Strikers Defy Army Control Of Transit System In Philadelphia

New Violence In Trolley Strike Seen   Policemen Assigned tc Every Trolley at Army Request

Army Promise: Protection For Workers   Violence Threatened To Operators In Philadelphia

Few Trains In Philadelphia Are Operating   Bands of Strikers Threaten Violence to Few Crews Heeding Army’s Attempt End Tiewup   Racial Clashes Are Conlinuing   Meanwhile, Investigation Ordered to Determine Whether Federal Strike  Law Has Been Violated

ARMY MOVES IN TORULECITY’S TRANSIT LINES   Strikers Ignore U, S. Order to Return to Work; Biddle Starts Probe

Roaming Bands of Strikers Threaten Violence; U.S. Seize Philadelphia Transportation

Police to Ride All Trolleys   More Violence Threatened in Philadelphia; Some Cars Running   THOUSANDS AGAIN LEFT STRANDED   New Clashes Reported in the Dispute Arising From Upgrading of Negro Workers

Race Dispute Threatens Back-to-Work Movement on Army-seized Transport Lines as New Violence Is Reported

Plan Prosecution of Philadelphia's Traction Strikers   Army Takes Over But Fails to Get City Service Resumed

New Violence Threatened In Transit Tieup  mete. 8.8.20? =. be   Army Takes Over: Philadelphia Police Protect Operators

Violence Threat To Tram Workers   Army Gets Only Few Routes Open

ARMY SIEZES PHILADELPHIA STREET GARS   Some Workers On Job; Violence Threatened

Bands Threaten Rough Treatment to Operators Trying to Restore Service

ASSIGN POLIGE AS PROTECTION   Army Requests Them to Ride All Trolleys, Buses, Subway Trains.

Biddle Acts In Philly’s" Ss 3-Day: Strike Of Carmen.   _ Elevated: Operation ‘Upow. Partial Scale

KEEP MEN OFF THE JOB BY THREATS   Little Service Provided and New Clashes Between Whites and Negroes Break Out. as ‘ Army Takes Over.

Strikers Defy Army Control In Philadelphia   Transportation Is Still Not Restored Violence, Racial Clashes Continue

RINGLEADERS CALLED AXIS SUPPORTERS   Policemen Assigned to Ride All Trolleys, Buses and Trains to Protect Operators   BIDDLE ORDERS PROBE

Wor ‘kers in Philadelphia  Thr ‘eatened   Army Takes Over System in City Transportation

Fresh Violence Looms in Strike  Army Takes Charge in Philadelphia

'FINE WINTER WEATHER   Weatherman Sees No Precipitation i: In Next 86 Hours

House Committee Rejects Soldier  Vote Proposals   Worley “Terms Action Destructive Blow At Morale Of  Armed l-orces Will “Take Fight Vo floor,

Committee Votes Down : Federal Ballot   House Group Backs State Control of Soldier Voting

SOLDIER VOTE BILL GETS ANOTHER CHANC   Shapes Up As Major Political Issue

SOLDIER VOTE PLAN DEFEATED BY COMMITTEE   Election Group Rejects Federal Proposal, Leaves Issue To States

Federal Ballot For Servicemen Meets Rejectior   House Elections Committee Favors Form Tossing Problem Over To States

UNIFORM FEDERAL .: ae BALLOT PROPOSAL ;: i C DEFEATED IN HOUSPiae    Committee Votes 7!-PAR To Reject Plan and JICINE Will Go to The Flowosta,

HOUSE ELECTION GROUP REJECTS FEDERAL PLANS   Committee Decides, 7 to 5, to Let States Handle Servicemen’s Ballots

Service Vote Rejected By House Group   Uniform Ballot Turned Down As Committee Favors State Handling

Chairman Worley Anfounces He Will Carry Uniform Law Fight to Floor

ALL FEDERAL SOLDIER VOTE PLANS KILLED      House Elections Commit: tee Concurs, Instead, in Senate-Adopted Idea of Letting States Handle Probiem.

House Group Rejects Soldier Vote Proposal   Modified Form Of Senate Bill Given Approval

Soldier Vote Gets Setback   House Committee Turns Down Uniform Federal Ballot Law

Uniform Federal Ballot Rejected   House Group Tosses Soldier Vote Issue Over to States

Service Vote Up To States   Action Marks Opening Of Bitter Contest

Federal Ballot For Soldiers Ts Rejected   House Committee Tosses Soldier Vote Problem Back To States.

pldier Vote p Be Carried 6 House Floor  ommitfee: Supports Sanate Plan OF   ommittee Supports . nate Plan Of. — tate Balloting .™:

Soldier Vote To Be Up To States   House Group Rejects Federal Ballot

Committee Rejects Proposal by Vote of 7 to'5 by Democrat-Republi  n Coalition    PROBLEM TOSSED BACK TO STATES   Modified Form of SenateApproved Measure Ap‘proved; Floor Fight  : Promised ‘

Federal Soldiers’ Voting Rejected   House Committee Chairmat Says Men Now Fighting Abroad Are Disfranchised

House Group Turns Down Voting Plans   Soldier Ballot Issue Up To States; Figh On Floor Planned By  Rep. Worlev

House Group. Backs State Service Vote   Ail Proposals for Uni. form Federal Ballot: . Are Rejected

Uniform Balloting Bill Beaten By House Group  Chairman Says Actior Means Overseas Men Will Not Vote

Ballot Law Rejected By Committee   Problem of Soldier Vote Is Passed Back to the States

Soldier Ballot  Bill Backed  By House Unit F.D.R.’s Budget  Padded, Says C.0.P. Leader

House Group Turns Down Ballot Bill   Committee Action On Uniform Federal Ballot Tosses Problem to States

Service Vote Goes To State   House Commiitee Rejects Proposals For ( niform  Federal Ballot.

~~ SOLDIER-SAILOR VOTE —~  Federal  Ballot Is Rejected   .House Group Decides Hand Problem to States

UNIFORM VOTE PLAN REJECTED   House Elections Committee Tosses Soldier Vote Over to States.

Proposals For Federal Ballot Are Rejected By House Committee —Opinions Divided

SOLDIER VOT IS PLACED IK STATES’ HANDS   House Committee Approves Modified Form Of Senate Measure

House Committee Rejeets Soldier Vote Proposals  (   ‘  Worley Terms Action   Destructive. Blow At Morale Of — Ariiied   Forces — Will Take  Fight To “loor.

Uniform Vote Bill Refused By Committee   Senate-Approved Plan Modified by House Elections Group

Uniform Federal Bill Rejected in 7-5. Count   Chairman. Worley: Scores System; Plans to Carry Battle to Floor’:

SOLDIER VOTE QUESTION PUT ~ UP TO STATES   House Election Committee Rejects Federal Balloli—Worley to Car ry Fighi fo Floor

HOUSE GROUP RETURNS ISSUE TO THE STATES   Committee Chairman Says He’ll Carry Fight  To Floor

All Ballot — * Proposals , Rejected   Bouse ‘Committee Turns Down All Plans for.a Uniform Federal Ballot  —   PROBLEM TOSSED : “OVER TO STATES   Means.Most of Soldiers Will Not Get Vote, Texan Says; ~Continues Fight

Soldiers Vote  Plan Rejected   House Committee Spurns Uniform Federal Setups’ States Must Act

REJECT UNIFORM FEDERAL BALLOT FOR SERVICE MEN   HOUSE COMMITTEE. . TURNS” SOLDIER BACK TO THE STATES

‘Turns Down Bailot for  Servicemen   Elections Committee Moves to Toss the Soldier Vote Problem Over to the States

Elections Committee Rejects Uniform Ballot Proposal? Worley Will Carry Battle To Floor.

Committee Bans Federal Soldier Ballo   House Group Backs State Plan, 7 te 5; Floor Fight Looms

Solons Reject Soldier Ballot   HOUSE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE APPROVES MEASURE TOSSING VOTE PROBLEM TO STATES; WORLEY VOWS BATTLE ON FLOOR OF HOUSE

Soldiers’ Vote Bill In Snarl  House Group Rejects Uniform Proposals

Soldier Vote Bill Blocked   House Group Kills Uniform Bill; Places Ballots Up to States

REJECT TROOP BALLOT PLAN   House Committee Votes Dowr Unitorm Ticket Proposal for Men in Service.

PLANES AGAIN BLAST BERLIN   Proeession of RAE Bombers Taps Third. Day of  Almost Non-Stop Pre-Invasion Bombings. x

British Hurl Back Greek Elas Attack   Fighting Rages As Talk of Peace Develops

GREEK REBELS FORCE ENTRY INTO BARRACKS   ELAS Forces Menace Government Staff In Athens

LONG SEIGE IS LIFTED BY RED TROOPS   Germans Driven Back Far Beyond Range of Cannon

25,000 Japs. Are Trapped; Defense Line  Cut In Half    Nip: Paratroopers. Are Hunted: Down

WEST LEYTE PENETRATION IS EXTENDED   Veteran 77th Division From Guam Rolls Rapidly North Toward Enemy's Reinforcements   19 SHIPS ARE SUNK

ATTACKING AMERICAN AMPHIBIOUS FORCE BEATS REINFORCING JAP CONVOY: INTO. NIP-HELD ORMOC

13 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN NEW ORMOC ACTION   Enemy’s Yamashita Line Severed, Yanks Gain In Leyte Campaian

Veteran 77th 3 Miles From Its Objective   Surprise Landing Thursday Cut in Half Heavily Defended Yamashita Defense Line   Bloody and Grim Reminder to Japs   Yanks On West Leyte Hunt Down and Kill Force Of Jap Sabotage Paratroopers

Jap Lines Cut, Convoy Wiped Oui   Daring Landing To Reax of 25,000 Enemy Troops On Levte Disclosed   NAVY TAKES GUAM TROOPS INTO AREA   Enemy Reinforcements Also Spotted and 19 Ships Are Sunk

Yanks Push Toward Ormoc After Daring Philippine Invasion   Sink Entire 13-Ship Enemy Reinforcement Convoy in Pacific; Down 62 Jap Planes

Enemy Taken By Surprise At Ormoc   Nip Paratroopers Cut Down By U. S. Troops As Battle Picks Up

Daring Landing Made To Rear Of TrappedJapanese   Heavily Defended Yamashita Defense Line Cut In Half

Yankees Cut Yamashita ~ Line Of Japs On Leyte   Major Richard Bong Bags Two More Planes To Run His Score Up To 38

—PACIFIC-—  NIP DEFENE LINE ON LEYTE (9 GUT   Veteran 77th Division From Guam Put Ashore Ta Rear Of Foe —   SURPRISE MOVE   Japan Loses 4,000 Troops As 13-Ship Convoy Is . - Wiped Gut

Temperatures   Nips. Surprised as Destroyers Help Cut Defense Lines

9 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN DAY OFF LEYTE   New Invasion Takes Enemy By Complete Surprise   62 Nip Planes Shot Down; Two More Are Bagged By Major Bong

Japs Trapped In Surprise  Yank Landing   Guam Divisions Roll Rapidly To Jap West Leyte Defense—Bold Thrust Cuts Defense

Veteran Division  Lands Behind Jans   Daring Maneuver Threatens to Cut Yamashita Defense line, Capture Heavily Defended Port of Ormoac

Yank Ormoc Invasion Cuts Jap Leyte Line   Veteran American Troops Strike Rear Of 25,000 Trapped Japs After 13-Ship Jap Convoy With 4,000 Troops Wiped Out.

YANKS ROLL TOWARD THE ORMOC PORT   Troops Put Ashore in Rear of 25,000 Trapped Nips Push North in Direction of the Leyte Reinforceenane Uerew,

THREAT TO ORMOC   U. S. Forces Landed; 13 Ship Enemy Troop Convoy Wiped Out ~

Pearl Harbor Day Is Bad For Leyte Japs, Defense Line Split   Navy Covers Landing of Strong Forces Rolling Now Near Ormoc From South; 19 Enemy Ships Are Sunk

Convoy of 13 Ships Caught by U.S. Planes   Surprise Landing by ArmyNavy Team Cuts Enemy Yamashita Defense Line

VETERAN 77TH YANK DIVISION ROLLING NORTH FROM ORMOC  NAVY PROTECTS LANDING AND 25,000 JAPS - DECLARED TRAPPED

VETERANS ROLL TO REINFORCED ORMOC SECTOR   25,000 Japanese Trapped Today On Leyte

77th Rolls Toward      Surprise: Landing By Yanks 314: Miles Below City Splits Enemy’s Touted :- Yamashita. Line

SUPER-FORTS WME RAIDS. ~ ON FOMOSE   HUGE ARMY. PLANES JOIN . NAVY. CARRIER-BASED . ARORAFT.IN BLOWS AT JAP BASE

JAP LOSSES CONTINUE T0 MOUNT   Army Planes Team ~ Up With Navy to Deliver Smashing Blows

CONTINUE TO MOUNT   Army Planes Team Up With Navy to Deliver Smashing Blows

Germans Resume Robot Bombings’   Attacks Increase During Bad Weather

Nazis Step Up Robot Bombings   Regular Bombers Also Attack Across Channel

Robot Bomb Aitacks Increase In Fury   Night Fighters And Anti-Aircraft Guns Take Heavy Toll Of Flying Weapons

JAPANESE CUT VITAL RAILWAY   Conton-Hankow Line Severed At Leiyang, 34 Miles From Henayana

Soviets Using Mountaineers   Prepare Ground Work For Future Battles In The Carpathians

HITLER BALKAN PLANTS RAIDED   U.S, Heavy Bombers Rip Ai ircraft Factories In Czechoslovakia

iOWI Reports Japan Has Four Million [Men Fighting Despite 850,000 Dead

277,000 Nippon  Troops Killed In Three Years   Another Two Million Can Be Mustered By Enemy, Is Belief

JAPS HAVE FOUR MILLION MEN IN FIELD   Can Muster Two Million More, It Is Believed

Four Million Japs Estimated in Field  Two Million More Jap Troeps Can Be

Senate Probers Query Members o A. and M. Board   Convinced Extension Service Political Machine for Walton

A, AND M. COLLEGE  BOARD MEMBER WAS  HEARD BY COMMITTEE NETH L, LEACHMAN SAYS EXTENSION SERVICE WAL  ST eee ee

2,800 TONS OF BOMBS CRASH DOWN ON CITY   British Aerial Assault Heaviest Of War On One Target

Heaviest Tonnage Of Bombs Rained On City of Berlin   2800 Tons Hit German Capital in 20 Minutes

NAZI CAPITAL AFLAME AGAIN AFTER RAF RAID   British Loss Not 4 Per Cent

HUGE ARMADA ALSO STRIKES AT FRANKFURT   45 Bombers Lost As 3,000 Tons Of Explosives Are Loosed On Capital

‘Some 1,200 Bombers on Bio Mission   Lancasters Feint At Rail Yards at Frankfurt-on-Oder

Returning Crews Report Huge Fires Blaze To Berlin Sky; Smoke Rises 20,000 Ft.

Giant Air Fleet Drops 3,000 Tons In Heavy Assault   Big Lancasters Smash Rail Yards 50 Miles East of Capital City

3,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES HiT BATTERED CITY   Heaviest Aerial Blow Ever Delivered on Single Target

BOMBS RELEASED AT RATE OF 140 TONS PER MINUTE   200 Other Lancasters Feinted to Frankfurt-on-Oder -to Bombard Rail Yard With 300 Tons.   45 PLANES LOST IN . WORLD-RECORD RAIO   Red Army Begins Kill of Survivors of Germans Left In Ukrainian Pocket, Encircle Others.

ATTACK MOST CONCENTRATED AND HEAVIES!   Approximately 3,000 Tons of Flaming Hell Crushes Capital City of Hitler's Reich

1,000 PLANES DROP OVER 2,800 TONS OF BOMBS ON NAZI CAPITAL IN 20 MINS.

Largest Bombing Force ever Sent Out Blasts Berlin; 45 Planes Lost   Thousand Big Bomber. Rock Nazi Capital with Block-Busters

1,000 Planes Unload Record Bomb Cascade  Only 45 Craft Lost From Armada: Fires Light Up Cloud-Flecked Sky

Mighty Air Fleet  Smashes at Berlin   3000 Tons of Explosives Fall On Devastated Reich Capital

Berlin Smashed By Record RAF. Bomb Load  43 British Air craft Pi eked OE  ep

1200 BRITISH. PLANES IN WAR'S HEAVIEST RAID   Frankfurt-on-Oder ‘Farget for Raids Fifty Miles io East; Only Forty-Five Planes Are Lost

WALLACE SAYS CAPITALISTS FOR SENATOR TAFT   Claims Labor Has Same Right As Money Men To Political Action   By JOUN FRYE AP Staff Writer

Russians Smashing Ahead In Balkans   Nazis Admit Reds Reach Lake Balaton

REDS CRACK STRONG NAZI POSITIONS   Smash Into Defenses Along Slovakian Border _as Troops in Southwestem Hungary Strike Nearer to Austria.

SOVIET FORCES TAKE MISKOLC      Red Army Advance Units 72 Miles From Aus trian Border

RED ARMIES IN NEW AQVANGES   Russians Within 72 Miles 0 “Austrian: Border” in’ Hungary.

Soviets Capture Miskolc Rail Center; 80 Villages Swept Up By Ukraine Army

Russians Smash Across Hungary Toward Austria   Also Crack Strong Nazi Defenses Along Slovak: ian Border.

Nazi Key Points Cracked by Reds   Miskole Falls to Soviet Troops After Bitter Nazi Defense

Red Troops Smash Ahead In Hungary; Take Miskole   Slovakian’ Border  Is Under “Attacks

Advancing Russfans ,Reported Within 72 Miles Of Eroantier ° ,   MISKOLC CAPTURED   Vital German M ilitary Supply Center Is Seized Ry Soviets

Russian Army Reaches Lake Balaton Area   Within 72 Miles Of Austrian Frontier. Crack Nazi Defenses

[Russians Drive Within 72 ‘Miles Of Austrian Frontier: ‘Crack Slovakian Defenses   Capture Supply Centers In Southwestern Hunqary

Nazis’ Southern [Front Crumbling Under Red Blows   Soviets Stab to Within 72 Miles Of Austria; Crack Slovakian Defense

Soviet Drive In 72 Miles Of Austria   last Northern City In Albania Liberated.

Reds Smash Forward in OW Hungary   Crack Strong Defenses Along Slovakian  Border

RUSSIANS SMASHED  ANEAD IN HUNGARY  HEADED FOR AUSTRIA GERMAN DEFENSES ALON(  SLOVAKIAN BORDER HAV! REEN CRACKEN

Reds Said In Lake Balaton Area 45 Miles Of Austria   Miskole, Vital Nazi Supply Center, Falls To Soviet Troops Slashing Forward In Slovakia

Red Army Smashes Ahead Toward Goal of Austrian Borde:   Nazi Defenses Cracked Along Slovakian Line, Austrian Entry Nears

Nazi Defenses On Slovakian Border Crack   Vital Military Supply Center For Enemy Taken By Russ Army

Red Army Captures Slav Towns As.... Hungarian Lines Of Nazis Yield To Russian Attack

SOVIETS SMASH THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE LINES   72 Miles From Austrian Frov.tier ln Drive Across Southwestern Sector of Hungary.

Soviets Expand Hungary Front  Two Cities Guarding Frontier Are Capturec

REDS MOVE AHEAD   Russian Troops Crack Nazi Defenses Along Slovakian Border

Russian Troops  Driving Nearer To Austrian Line   Push Ahead In Hungary; Crack German Defenses Along Slovakian Border

Russ Army Near Austria   Onrushing Troops 72 Miles From Border As 2 Key Towns Fall

Soviets Push Ahead In Hungary; Two German Bases Fall  Major Force Reaches Lake Balaton, 72 Miles From Austria

Russians Seize German Railway Supply Center   German Broadcast Says Reds Only 45 Miles From Austria.

NAZI DEFENSES ON SLOVAKIAN FRONT RIPPED   German Broadcast Says Major Enemy Force Has Reached Area of Lone salaton   MISKOLC IS CAPTURED

Red Menace To Austria Draws Near   Strong Nazi Defenses On Slovakian Border Also Smashed

SOVIETS CRACK NAZI DEFENSES   Reds Within 72 Miles of Aus tralian Frontier

Soviets Drive To Within 72 Miles Austria    Crack Strong Nazi Defenses  -Along Slovakian Border   With Capture Miskoic   and Satotaljaujhely

SOVIETS SMASH AHEAD AGAINST NSERMAN FORCES   Eastern Front Is Scene Of Hard Battle

Soviets Push For Austria  Crack Strong German Defenses in Slovakian Rorder in Advance

Big Jap Base in Dutch East Indies Reported Bombed   U.S.Forces Seize Big Jap Base

Allied Plan In Normandy Still Veiled   No Hint Yet As To Where and When March To Berlin From Weet Will Be  Started

Port Of Cherbourg ls Expected Soon To Be in Allied Hands  etation By  vale IRMA Ar

Two Airfields Held by U.S.   Many Small Towns, in Addition to Island Capital, Occupied

Yanks Enlarge Hold On East Leyte, Occupy Capital And Two Airfields

Doughboys Take Two Airfields In Leyte Distric'   MacArthur Reports All : Going According To Schedule

Yank troops expand Leyte island hold  Repulse two Jap  a a a ee je

HENGYANG FALLS AND JAPS CLAIM IT’S BIG VICTORY   They Seek Solace For Complete Loss of Guam

P  Reconquest Of Guam Is  Announced   Yankees Mop Uy Trapped Japs

Japanese Boast Hengyang’s Fall Allied Disaste   Nips Seen Seeking Solace For Debacle On Guam; Tokyo Claims 2 Subs

Japs Exploit Hengyang Fall   Guam Becomes First U. S. Territory to Be Reconquered; Americans Now Ready for New Marianas Expansion; Japs Still Have to Clean Chinese from Hankow . Canton Railway

Japs Boast of  Hengyang Victory   Claim Americans Directed Resistance— Nips Lose Ehowhere

Japs Boast Of  Hengyang Fall Chinese Admit Loss Of Nearly All Men

Chinese Fight Jap Ring at Hengyang   Predict Enemy Operations Southward Would Become “March of Death;” Organized Resistance Ends at Guam

Japs Boast Of} Yank ‘Disaster   Hengyang Report May Be ‘Cover-up’ fo Debacle on Re-conquered Guam

Japs Claiming Hengyang Blow To U. S. Forces   No Confirmation That Yank Officers Guided Crucial Battle.

JAPS BRAGGING OF U.S, LOSSES AT HENGYANE   Seeking Solace For Debacle  On Guam

Japs BoasOver Hengyang Capture   Guam !n American Hands Affer 19 Days Of Fighting

OF CITY'S FALL   Say American Forces Suffer Major Disaster in Hengyang Capture.   NO RESISTANCE ON GUAM

Guam is Conquered After 19-day Fight   Japs Make Big to-do for Home Consumption Over Admittedly Serious Loss to Allies of Hengyang in China To Cover Up Reverses Suffered Elsewhere by Japanese

12th Straight Day of Bombs Hurls Havoc        RET LERITES THE  SWASH OF EU ROPE. Is A’ HAND, x

Coast Folk ‘Breathless’ At Rumors   Nazis Say French Ports Spared For Landing of Troops

Allied Troops  Near Livorne   Two Mountain Bastions Fall ta Danohhave

Yank Troops. Near Livorno   Capture Two Mountain Towns in Face of Stiff German Resistance

NAZIS FALL BACK ~ BELOW LIVORNO   AMERICANS SEIZE MOUNTAIN TOWNS GUARDING GREAT  '. PORT OF ITALY.

ALLIES MENACE PORT ON EAST, WEST IN ITALY   Leghorn, Ancona Are Ten Miles From Viciously-Charging Tynons

Port Attack Is Advanced   Yanks Take ‘Towns  ‘Close To. Livorno.

GAINS TOWAR LIVORNO MADE BY AMERICANS   CHARGING U.S. UNITS WITHIN TEN MILES OF ITALIAN PORT

Yanks Seize Two Towns ir Leghorn Dast   Plan to Use Italian Port for Smash at Nazis’ Florence-Pisa Line

Two Mountain Towns Guarding Port  Of Leghorn Seized By Fifth Army

Voters To Elect Five Supervisors On November 7 :  Death Of Supervisor RBohlken Makec.

Voters To Elect  Five Supervisors  On November 7 Death Of Supervisor Bohlken Makes Vacancy On Board

NEW REGIONAL DIRECTOR      Louis E. Crandall te WPB Post in E This Area;

NEW REGIONAL DIRECTOR   Louis E. Crandall to WPB Post in This Area

GIANT BATTLESHIP MISSOURI IN SERVICE   45,000-Ton Fighter Has 418,00 Square Feet of Decks— 2,500 Men Aboard.

BREVETS FOR DRAFT BOARDS   Advocated So They Can Join Vet Doings After War

AGREEMENT ON SERVICE VOTE   Nine Accept Compromise Measure, But Rankin Still Dissents

COMPROMIBE GRANTING “TOKEN” FEDERAL BALLOT : WILL: PROBABLY BE °. * “ACCEPTED BY CONGRESS. ---—

CONFEREES AGREEMENT ON SERVICE VOTE   Nine Accept Compromise Measure, But Rankin Still Dissents

WESTERN LINE. TROOPS LISTEL   Units Listed Are All Those Announced By War Denartment.

Stiff Run- Off Primary Looms  In Louisiana   Songwriter James H. Davis; and L. L. Morgan, Huey  Long Follower, to Bat-  tle for Governorship

TOBDAY’S GAME   a: See oe eee tee     Browns ... .000 20 Cardinals . . .000 00   PLAY BY PLAY

Brownies Take ‘A 2-0 Lead in First Series Game   Homer by McQuinn In Fourth Scores Moore; Crowd of 35.000 See Game

League Champions In World Series   Cooper on Mound for Browns. As Galehouse Pitches for Cardinals

KELLY ACTS TO BUILD UNITED 6.0. FRONT   Recommends New National  Committeeman Be  Elected

Kelly Calls For Ouster Of McKay   Governor Passes Word  «To G.O.P. Leaders

Kansan First Jap Town Cop   His Marine Military Police Had Plenty of Trouble With Saipan Snipers

EIGHT AMERICANS KILL EIGHTY GERMANS IN STONE WALL FIGHT  WHEN BATTLE WAS OVER EIGHT AMERICANS WERE

Gen, Patton’s Men Hurl Back Germans At Menthe River Line   ALLIES ENFORCE LAWS ON GERMANS IN SOME PLACES   British 8th Army Drives Past Rimini Into Po Valley In Italy

ONE GROUP OF SKYTROOPS LIBERATED AS FIGHTING REMAINS GRIM; ALLIED EFFORTS MEETING WITH SUCCESS ON OTHER FRONTS.

ROMMEL THROWS IN 100 TANKS AGAINST ALLIES   Americans Capture Wifteen Towns in Advances Up to a Mile and a Half on Nornyyiede pan

Report Himmler Kills Defeatists  Claim Executions Run 100 Per Day

TEXAS [3 THAWING OUT TODAY AFTER SEVERE WEATHER   TRANSPORTATION GETTING BACK TO NORMAL; LOSS CATTLE UNKNOWN

Texas Thaws Out From Cold Wave Of Ice, Snow   Livestock Losses Estimated Not So Bad-as Excected

WRANGLE’ OVER. DELAY In TAKING ACTION FEATURES ‘START OF TODAY'S . DEBATE 

CLASHES MARK BALLOT DEBATE   GOP Claims Lines Holding Firm on States’ Rights Measure

PATRIOTIC PLAN IS SUGGESTED   Selective Service Would Appeal To 4-F’s To Do War Work

4-F ‘Publicity Plan Proposed   Would Honor Those In War Industry

WOUNDED SOLDIERS SEE WATER PLANT   Fifteen Service Men Also Visit the Art Mu-

WOUNDED SOLDIERS SEE’ WATER PLANT   Fifteen Service Men Also of Visit the Art Mu seun?

Berat In Albania Reported Seized By Allied Troops   Mystery Cloaks Drive Of Newly Landed  _ Adriatic Force

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO HUNGARY   Budapest Gov’t Rumored Seeking Allied  Peace Terms

Estonia Is Liberated By Soviets   45,745 Germans Killed or Captured and Reds Move On Toward Riga   HUNGARY ALSO ON VERGE OF QUITTING   Peace Moves Reported as Reds Charge Closer; Tito Renorted in Belerade

Rumor That _ Hungarians  Seek Peace   Russian Offensive Gdins - Swiftly on All Sectors  Of East Front

Hungary Reported Asking for Peace ~ ‘Amid Soviet Drive   Three-Way Offensive is Developing Swiftly; ' Tito Near Belgrade .

Honor This War's Heroes at Fort Fete; ‘Navy To Bring Landing Craft Boats

War Production Rally Tuesday On Fort Defiance Anniversary   THIS VICTORY ESTABLISH.

1,075,000 Men Under- 26- Available For Draft in Remainder of This Year

Marines Bypass Entrenched Japs   Death Tol! for Enemy at Palau Reaches 8, 288 in Latest Reports

Marines Bypass Strong Japanese Hill Positions   Advance Within A Mile Of North Tip Of Pele hiu.

Americans Bypass Japanese Hill Possessions To Advance Within Mile Of Island’s Northern Tip—Enemy Death Toll For Palau Campaign Rises To 8,288— Silence Cloaks Movements Of U. S. Third Fleet— Bombers Patrol Southern Philippines

Advancing Yanks Mile From North Tip of Isle After Flanking Japs on Hill

STRONG NIPPON POSITIONS HAVE BEEN: BYPASSED   Marines Near Nor thern Tip Of Peleliu sland      KILL 8,288 JAPS

U.S. Marines Outflank Japs On Peleliu   Bypass Strong Hill Positicns and Near Islands Northern Tip

MARINES BY-PASS STRONG JAPANESE AREA ON PELELIU   Drive Beyond Nip Position in Well-Defended Umorbrogol Hills and Push te Point’ a Mile From Island’s North Tip

MARINES BYPASS NIP STRONGHOLD NEAR PELELIU TIP   Japanese Dead In Palau Campaign Reach 8,288

JAP POSITION ON PELELIU IS BYPASSED   Nimitz Announces Americans Have Progressed More Than Mile Along  Island's West Coast   ENEMY TOLL IS RISING

Marines Near Tip of Peleliu   Strong Enemy Hill Positions Bypassecl

MARINES BYPASS STRONG POINTS ON JAP ISLAND   Enemy Death Toll In Palau Campaign Reaches Over 8,000: Silence Cloaks Plane  Activities.

Miners’ Travel Time  Explained. To Boarc  WLB May Reject Nev Wage Agreement

TIME AVERAGED   Found To Be 55.29 Minutes Daily Which May Lead to War Labor Board’s Rejection of Wage Agreement:

Presidential Committee Makes Report On Miner's Travel  ns, UWhick May Cause WLB To Reject Lewis’ Wage Contract

Lewis Hike For Miners Imperilled   COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT FINDS MINER’S shavicd @iME IN MINES EXCEEDS 43 MINUTES.   Pay Scale May Be Cut

Presidential Committee  Says Survey Reveals Aver age Of 55.29 Minutes   FINDINGS MAY UPSET PRESENT AGREEMENT

Miner's Travel Time Fixed by Special Group   Averages 55.29 Minutes Daily

FDR and Stalin Agreed on British Policy in Greece   British Labor Minister Reveals That Both U. S. and Russia Approved Present Action it Greece in Advance.

Bevin Says Russia And U.S. Approved British Policy Toward Greece In Advance

“Memorable Day In Our History,” Says Ad. McCain   Naval Deputy Air Chief Tells Nation That Ful Story Of Fleet’s Daring Will Be Thriller; Present Radio Silence Until Battle Is Over.

Philadelphia Workers Flock Back To Work Under Threat Of Being Drafted To Fight

THREAT OF DRAFT AND ABOL ISHING OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. BREAKS TRAN . SIT WALKOUT

GOV. KERR BUSY MAKING FRIENDS   Oklahoma's Top Executive Is Popular Among National Party Leaders

Kerr Friend Of Roosevelt   Oklahoma Governor Visits White House While in Capital

1023 U.S. Flyers Freed in Romania Are Flown to Italy in Fortresses   Dramatic ‘Rescue’ From Bucharest Witnessed  By Writer Who Sees Joyous Men Leave

U.S. Slates Oil Talks With Nations   RUSSIA, NETHERLANDS, OTHERS, WILL DISCUSS POSTWAR PETROLEUM

Allies Capture Normandy City   U. S. Troops Drive to 12 Miles of Cherbourg Push to St. Lo Approaches; Advances Pave Way for Cut-off Smash Across Peninsula

German Lines Are Shattered By Americans   Eisenhower's Headquarters Report Capture of Entire Cerisy Forest as Russians Push Deeper Into Finland

DEWEY NAMES BROWNELL AS GOP CHAIRMAN   Successor to H. E Spangler Is 40-YearOld Newcomer

Dewey Names Brownell as  GOP Chieftain   Pledges New Deal Wan’t Succeed  In Dividing Party

JAPANESE ADMIT BIG EARTHQUAKE HURTS NATION'S WAR FACTORIES   Enemy Still Is Minimizing Effect

Japan Admits — Quake Was Heavy   Reveals War Plants Damaged In Osaka Area

WAR PLANTS IN JAPAN DAMAGEL BY EARTHQUAKE      Severity Of Tremor Admitted By Japs — Osaka Area Damared

Wur Plants and Residential Areas tn Osaka, Empire’s Second City, Damaged -—- Carefully-Censored Enemy Broadcast Tells of Land. slides and Tidal Waves.

Japs Admit Industria Sectors Hit by Quake   Nipponese Bare Damage to Plants Bvy Tidal Waves and Earthslides

JAPAN-ADMITS QUAKE DAMAGE   DESTRUCTION REPORTED GREATEST AT OSAKA

in Wipes tt Family, Kills Sel!   at, Believed Upset . Reclassification,  *hoots Wilerarnd wes four Children

FARMER KILLS 5: COMMITS SUICIDE   Man, Maddened by Being Reclassified, Slays — Family —

FATHERIN 1-2 SLAYS FAMILY   Prosperous Farm Owne Takes Six Lives With Shotgun

Man, Maddenec Over His Draft Status, Kills 5   Father Takes Own Life After Slaying Wife, Four Children

Towa Farm Bureau  Plans Annual Meeting      Dates Set Are Nov. 20-21-22: Roger Corbett to Speak

NEW MAJOR ASSAULT INKOWEL AREA   Strong Thrust Drive Toward . Brest-Litovsk

Russians Open Drive on Brest Litovsk   Gains Up to 40 Miles Being Made in Push Toward Warsaw

Red Army Drives At Brest Litovsk   Moscow Reports Offensive Against Staggering Foe Is Near

Greatest Red Smash At Nazi Foe Indicated   Stalin Ready To Hurl All-Out Offensive At Groggy Germans.

NORTHERN OnIC BALLOT SURGE DECIDES FIGHT   Taft Leads Pickrels Most State Offices Are Taken By GOP

Clevelander 1 Picks Up Decisive Margin In Northern Sections.    Ohio. Race Which Saw James Garfield Stewart _ And Democratic Foe Battling Neck To Neck Throughout Night Switches To Lausche Today

LAUSCHE WINS HOT RACE FOR OHIO GOVERNOR   Lead Changes Seven Times in Count; Ends Six-Year GOP Reign

TAKES 42,868 BALLOT LEAD OVER STEWART   Rallies After Trailing in Early Returns; Other State Races About Same As Predicted.

Cleveland Mayor Leads By 85,000   FDR Cuts Dewey's Lead in Ohio; Taft's Marain is Dwindling

YANKS BATTLE FOR ISLE OF KWAJELEIN   Two Million Tons Of Navy Might In Support   Opened By Army, Marines; Fleet Most Powerful Ever Assembled

Forces Battle For Key Atoll ~ In Twin Drive   ‘Marines Land On North  And Soldiers On South Side of Strategic Island Position   Acrial Umbrella Guards Big Fleet   World’s Largest Atoll Te Scene Of Fighting As Marines Take Area Near Airfield

TN MARSHALLS   Conquest May in Due Time Topple Japs From Strategic area.   LARGE WAVAL SUPPGRT

Struggle For Key Island   Kwajalein Atoll Prime Objective of American Invasion Forces; Close In On Roi Air Field

US, TROOPS GAIN GROUND ON MARSHALLS   Marines Win New Positions Near Roi Air Base

Force Invades Northern and Southern Ends Of Kwajalein   Strike in the Fortified Center of Western  Line of Atolls

‘Two Million Tons of Naval  Might in Use   Americans Making Bold Invasion of Kwajalein; Troops Grab Beachheads

U. §. Strikes at Very Heart of Marshalls   Seusoned Veterans, Backed by Naval Units, Establish Beachheads

Americans Attack At Several Points In Effort To Control Hub Of Enemy Defenses In Pacific Island Group Barring Way To Japan’s Fleet Base Of Truk— Marine And Army Veterans Of Widespread Engagements Meet Strong Opposition

Bold Invasion Leads Fight For Kwajalein   Seek To Oust Japanese From Mid-Pacifie Area  In Isles Capture

Conquest May Topple Nips For Region   Strike in Center Of Ralik Line— By-Pass Radak  I ine

U.S. Invasion Via "Back Door” Yins Beachheads   New Battleships, Carriers, Secret Weapons In Use

YANKS SET UP 10 BEACHHEADS ON KWAJALEIN      Mighty Sea, Land and Air Attack Continues  Unabated

GROUND TROOPS GET SUPPORT FROM PLANES      Casualties Reported Moderate By Nimitz in Landings ax’ Bawnhhoade:

Batile Today For Kwajalein Atoll, Key Po‘sition In Japanese-Held. Marshall Islands —— More Than 2,000,000 Tons Of Naval Might Concentrated Against Nipponese Forces nh

Mighty Naval Force Backs Up Invasion Units On Kwajalein   Worried Japs Assert Enemy Must Be Beaten Back Even At Greatest Sacrifice

Kwajalein Victory Vital to Future Blows in Pacific   More Than 2 Million  Tons of Navai Power Involved in Landings; Win Islet Positions

CAN BE TAKEN OR LEFT 10 “CHRIVEL UP”   By Striking at Kwajalein, Yanks Have By-Passed and Neutralized Atolls to the East, North and Qanth.

Key Position In Marshalls Being Soughi   Two Million Tons Of Naval Power Support Blows; Kwajalein Atoll Main Objective

Vin—-WVould_Free —__ $00 Square Miles Of Mid-Pacific   imerican Forces Bulwarked By 2 Million Tons Of Naval Might After Initial Push On Marshalls

Naval Power Backs Forces Of Invasion   Reach For Kwajalein, Key To Island Position

Conquest May in Due Time Topple Nipponese From 800 Square Miles in Pacific   TO BAR WAY TO TRUK

AMERICANS RIP JAP DEFENSES IN MARSHALLS   Yanks Battle for Kwajalein Atoll, Key Position in Mid-Pacific

EARLY BREAK IN COLD WAVE FOR MIDWES)   Winter’s First Big Snow Storm Causes 65 Deaths In U.S.

Chinese Cabinet Gets Shaking Up;  Six Lose Posts   Kai-Shek Apparently Aims At Silencing Criticism of Recime

CHIANG GABINET IS SHAKEN UP   SIX MINISTERS ARE  KICKED OUT IN eM LICREL Ee

CHIANG REPLACES SIX IN CABINET   OBJECTION OF COUNCIL GIVEN AS REASON

Six Members AreRemoved  From Office   War And Finance Ministers Included Among Purge Victims

Chiang Ousts Six Members From Cabinet   + Shakeup Reported Aimed at Quieting Criticism of China

GENERALISSIMO DEMOTES HIGH RANKING AIDES   Move Interpreted as Reaction to Recent Criticism

CHIANG REMOVES 6 MEMBERS FROM CHINESE CABINET   Amplification of Rea. sons for Drastic Move Prohibited

KAI-SHEK CHANGES HIS CABINET   Ousts Six Members in  Big Shakeup

CHINA CABINET IS SHAKEN UP   Six High-Ranking Members Ousted By Kai-Shek

CHIANG PURGES CABINET, OUSTS SIX IN SHUFFLE   War Minister Top Victim In Move To Silence His Critics

CHIANG OUSTS SIX MEMBERS OF CABINET   Shakeup Believed Connected With Stilwell's Recall

Terrific Battles Being Waged In Pre-War Poland   Germans Hur! Panzer Divisions Into Action In At* tempt To Halt Reds   SOVIET DRIVE IS NOW NEAR SARNY

NAZIS THROW IN PANZER DIVISIONS   German Casualties in One Week Reported as High as 100,000

rive FDR Plans   ey. Seaman  Allies Continue Advance Alona Coast ef Burma

Allies Advancing Into West Burma   Akyab First Goal Of Lord Mountbatten

YOUTHFUL ITALIAN SPIES EXECUTED   Were Convicted of Giving In farmatian to Novzi«

Tiny Pocket Is All That Nips Now Hold   This Last Group Is Surrounded and , Under Heavy Attack

ALL MAJOR RESISTANCE HAS ENDED   Historic Revenge For U.S, Loss in 1941

U.S. Forces Land In Palau Group Near Philippines   Amphibious Forces Also Land In Halmahera Island Group   NEW ADVANCE IN PHILIPPINE DRIVE

War Chest Quota For County $11,000   Dennis Eldridge   - Buried Saturday

'Gangster Found Slain in Chicago   Body Discovered In Trunk of Auto

U.S. Losses on Saipan Less Than Jap Ones   About 19,000 Enemy _cidiers Believed  to Have Been Killed

Saipan Conquest Cost 15.053 U. S. Casualties   2359 Killed, Navy Secretary Reveals, Highest Total in Any Pacific Action; Jap Losses Exceed 20,000 Dead

Soviets Launch Power Drive af Latvia Capifal   Nazi Effort. to. Break Baltic — Trap Is Crushed

SOVIETS SMASH NAZI ATTEMPT TO BREAK TRAP   Reds Launch Powerlul Assault Toward Riga. Capital , Of Latvia

Frederick Merchant Convicted Of Buying Stolen  Clearatc   SENTENCE WITHHELD BY JUDGE TUCKER

FREDERICK COUNTY SOLON CONVICTED   Robert L. Grove Is Found Guilty of Receiving Stolen Cigarets

Yanks Regain Lost Heights   Also Capture Important Town on Bologna Highway _ In North Italy Drive

Gothic Line Is Breached On A 20-Mile Front.   Four-Mile Penetration By Eighth Army Opens Way To Po Valley.

CLARK'S TROOPS RECAPTURE HILL FROM GERMANS   Aliso Seize Castel Del Rio on Key Highway Below Imola

Americans Capture Castel del Rio   Regain Heights Recently Lost in Counterattack

YANKS WIN BACK HEIGHTS IN ITALY   Capture Important Town On Rimini-Bologna Highway

Yankees Occupy  Castel Del Rio,  Recapture Heights British and Canadians Also Advance on Ltalian Front, Patricts Take RBellaria

FIFTH ARMY REGAINS iTS LOST GROUND   Recovering Heights Taken by Nazis in Fierce Blows Two Days Ago, Yanks Capture Vital Castel del Rio.

Allies Advance on Italian Front  Both 5th and 8th Make Slight Gains

U.S. Troops Capture Key  Town In Italy   Regain Heights Lost in  Nazi Counter-Attack  Two Days Ago  

BRIDGEHEAD ON RUBICON STRIKES ON 10-MiLE LINE   New Gains Deepen Threat To Bologna

Yanks Retake Lost Ground   Castel Del Rio Captured; Rubicon Bridgehead Enlarged

Yanks Regain Heights Lost In North Ltaly   Americans Push Ahead To Capture Castel Del Rio, Near Imola

Yanks-Capfure: Castel Del Rio   15 Miles Below Imola, Vital Town on Rimini-Boloana Road

AMERICAN TROOPS REGAIN GROUND LOST IN NORTHERN ITALY  CASTEL DEL RIO CAPTURED AND ALSO AN. OTHER NEARBY HEIGHT

Sth Army Makes Better Progress In Italy Fight  Castel Del Rio Falls —. -idi..*. W..t..

Yanks In Italy Take Town On Bologna Road   Capture Castel Del Rio and ‘Regain Heights Mount Carnevale Lost In Counterattack

Fifth Captures Castel Del Rio; Eighth, Vellaria   Eighth Army Extends Bridgehead Across the Rubicon.

Fifth Takes Castel del Rio   Yanks Regain Heights Lost in Fierce Nazi Counterattack

2000 AMERICAN BOMBERS AGAIN _STRIKE AT REICH   Berlin and Nazi Airdromes Smashed After RAF a Night Blows

HEAVY ATTACK FOLLOWS RAF NIGHT BLOWS   Reich Admits Terrific Assault  FEW PLANES LOST  os  Aerial Fleets Great: est of War

Heavy Raids Made on Jap Airdromes   Key Island Targets West of New Guinea Pounded

AIRPORTS OF JAPS BOMBED BYULS. FLIERS   Airdromes on Islands West of New Guinea Are Smashed '

SMASHFLANES PARKED AT JAP. "DROMES   On Amboino and Ceram Islands, Also Nine Interceptors and Surfaced Seaplane.   Biak First

JAP AIRDROMES UNDER AIR ATTACK   SMASHING RAIDS IN FORCE MADE AGAINST NIP FIELDS IN BANDA SEA,

Japs’ Island Strongholds Bombed Again   Voleano Islands Hit;  MacArthur’s Bombers Are Also Active

JAP AIRDROMES BOMBED AGAIN   Shipping Hampered By American Raids On Bases

Enemy Losses Are Heavy in Pacifie Battle   New Attack by “Nips” on Allied Positions at Empress  Augusta Bay Expected After Eires Te Ranilead

Naval Task Force Continues Attacks On Guam, Saipan   MacArthur's Airmen Join With Assaults on Palau, Truk— Allies Gain in India

AMERICANS 0 WAY TO TAKE PHILIPPINES   Palau, 500 Miles From Island,  Is Attacked

American Sea, Air Ground Forces Are Active in Pacific   Hack Away at Japan’s Forces Barring Way to Philippines

Yankee Sea, Air, Ground Forces Push Japan Hard   Fortresses Barring Philippines Hit Steady Blows

Americans Hit Jap Bases Leading To China, Philippines   Allies Drive Invaders From India To Burma

—PACIFIC-—  gATTE 1 JAPS ON PACIFIC FRONTS   Islands,. China And India Scene Of Extensive Attacks:

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON BIAK   Palau and Truk Are Smashed Again by Air Attack

Yank Forces Unite To Drive. To Philippines   Powerful Carrier Forces Hack Away At Island Ramparts Of Japanese

U. S. Forces Hack At Jap Fortresses Barring Way To Philippines, China

ALLIES HACK AWAY AT JAPS IN PACIFIC   Way Being Cleared for Rescue of Philippines _And Aid for Hard-Beset  OLiwe

Nimitz-MacArthur Airmen Continue Assaults on Jap Islands; Chinese Fight Savagely at Changsha

Yanks Hack at Jap Defenses   Airmen Continue Assaults on Jap  Held Islands

Marianas Under Carrier Attack For Second Day  MacArthur's Airmen. Join In Blows At . Bases Off Philippines

Yanks Hack A way  Jap Fortresses   Atiack Levelled On Path To Philippines

Allies Blast Jap Outposts   Attack Strongholds Barring Way to China And Philippines

American Raids  Give China Aid   Carrier Task Force Hits Enemy-Held  Islands for Two Days

Press Attack On Jap Isles   U. S. Carrier Task Force’ Hits Marianas; Allies Gain in Burma

MASS TRIAL. I$ PROBLEM   DETENSE LAWYERS IN SEDITION CASE REJECT. PROPOSAL PRESENT TRIAL’  y BE CONTINUED

Survivors Tell Of Battle at Arnhem Bridge   Overwhelmed by German Attacks After Three Days

Attempts. To Blast Bridge Beaten Off  A’gzhem Survivors Tell of Battle

3 Troopers Captured, Escape  EPIC THREE-DAY BATTLE TO HOLD SPAN RELATED

Allied Bridgeheads Deepened in Violent Fighting   Belgian Ports Fall to Canadians, Giving New Landing Points Close to the Fighting Front: Nazi Flank Is Broken

FIRST ARMY IN ° DRIVE TOWARD NAZI FRONTIER   Third Army Plants Three More Bridgeheads Across  Moselle River   NEW BLACKOUT HIDES BATTLE ACTIVITIES

LIEGE FALLS; REICH BORDER 20 MILES OFF   MORE BRIDGEHEADS ACROSS MOSELLE ESTABLISHED

Patton Throws 3 More Bridgeheads Across Moselle in Violent Fighting and Wipég. Out Enemy Force of 6,000—British Cross. Albert Canal to Menace Prussia—Canadians Take Ostend.

Buckle 200-Mile German Front Defending Reich   Throw Three More Bridgeheads Across Moselle River, Last Water Barrier Before Saar Basin

German Defense: Shattered along 200-Mile Front   Third Army Opens Three Bridgeheads

Third Army Plants Three Bridqeheads   Canadian Patrols Report German Troops Hove Evacuated Important Harbor City OF Ostend

Belgian Tourist City Of Ostende Captured As Hitler’s Lines Buckle

U.S. Troops Press to Within 18 Miles of Reich  Border  MORE BRIDGEHEADS — SPAN THE MOSELLE  British and Dutch Fortes Burst Across Albert — Canal

Record U.S. Grain  Crops Forecast   Corn Heads List in Greatest Harvest

CHURCHILL SAYS TERMS TILL STAND   ‘Unconditional Surrender’ of Germany and Japan, Then Powerful League to Insure World Peace.

Allies Demand Total Nazi Surrender, Warns Churchill   PRIME MINISTER OUTLINES PEACE ORGANIZATION INCLUDING U. S., ARMED TO PREVENT AGGRESSION

Prime Minister Reviews General World Situation   Calls For Post-War World Organization To Prevent Aggression

“Full Surrender’ Principle Stands For Japan, Nazis   - Churchill Envisions Armed Peace By World Structure, Refuses To Promise Germany Not To . Undergo Territorial Changes

Only He Sa In Warning Z       THUNDERBOLT ATTACK FROM '. S. ROMBERS STRIKES BERLIN AREAS,

Complete Surrender of Axis Sole Peace Basis, Churchill Tells World

CHURCHILL URGES POSTWAR. LEAGUE OF NATIONS ARMED TO PREVENT ALL AGGRESSION

[Churchill Says Allies Will Demand Complete Surrender Of Germany, Japan; Hopes For Armed Peace

NO BARGAINING FOR PEACE WITH AXIS COUNTRIES   Churchill Reviews Situation In Speech Before Commons Today

‘AlliesDemand Unconditional Surrender, Churchill Declares in Review of Wartare

ARMED POSTWAR SETUP IS URGED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Renew: Allied Demand For Complete Surrender

Will Accept Only Unconditional Surrender from Germany and Japan   Churchill Speaks 85 Min. utes Before the House of Commons.

WORLD PEACE BY GUNG URGE — OF GHURCHIL!   Calls for U. S. Participation in Plan to Curb Future Agaression.

FAVORS UNION OF POWERS 10 OUTLAW WARS   Only Unconditional Surrender for Japs  And Germans

Churchill Proposes New League of Nations With Enforcement Powers

CHURCHILL ASKS NEW, POWERFUL WORLD LEAGUE   Hints Germany May Be- Divided

TERMS TO JAPS AND NAZIS. ARE UNCONDITIONAL   Minister Says Mighty Battle Is Now at Climax South of Rome

(POST-WAR ORGANIZATION CALLED FOR   However, Prime Minister Does Not Sneak of Invasion

Dewey Jabs FDR’s Bogus Promises   REPUBLICAN NOMINEE DECLARES HE GOESIN TO WHITE HOUSE FREE OF OBLIGATIONS GIVEN OR IMPLIED   Quotes From Roosevelt

DEWEY FDR'S PROMISES AS ‘WORTHLESS’   Fourth Term “Most Dangerous Threat To Our Freedom Ever Proposed”   POST-WAR PROSPERITY PROGRAM IS OUTLINED

iovernor Dewey harges Roosevell fakes Worthless ‘romises   eclares Record of New Deal Proves Promises Are Worthless; Outlines Program for Nation

Dewey Hits Worthless’ Promises _ By Roosevelt   ‘Assails Government  By ‘Abuse.and Smear;  Outlines His Own’  - Prosperity Program  TALKS IN BUFFALO::

Dewey Charges FDR Pledses Are Worthless   Outlines Eight-Point GOP Program to “Bring End to Government By Abuse and Smear’

Post-War Program Outlined By Dewey   Governor, in Giving Eight Point Plan, Charges Presi dent Roosevelt With Making “Bogus” Campaign Promises

FAKE PLEDGES ARE CHARGED TO ROOSEVELT   DEWEY OUTLINES AN 8-POINT PROGRAM OF REPUBLICANS

DEWEY FLAYS TDR PROMISES AS WORTHLESS   Outlines Program for Government in Buf falo Address

Dewey Raps At Roosevelt And Promises   Gives Eight Things Republicans Will Do

Dewey Outlines His Program   Says New Deal Administration Against Idea: Of Getting Ahead.

You Con Vete‘pane Ww Vou   Dewey Flays FDR Promises wis Worthless

DEWEY DECLARES F. DLR. PROMISES ARE “WORTHLESS”   G..O. P. Candidate Calls for Revivdl of “Getting Ahead” _ Spirit in Address at Buffalo.   CROWD OF 18,000 : JAMS AUDITORIUM   Great Throng. Chants “It’s Time for a Change” as ‘Nominee Makes Appearance in Hall.

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Point Increases ~ In Meat Rations   0. P. A. Announces Meat Ration Point Values Beginning On Sunday   LESS MEAT SEEN FOR FEBRUARY

BOOSTS RATION POINT VALUE OF MEAT   OPA Chief Bowles Expects Sharp Decline in Supply

MEAT RATION POINT VALUE UP   CHEESE, FATS RISE SHARPLY; BUTTER SAME

POINT VALUES OF MEAT INCREASED EFFECTIVE FEB.   OPA Announces Boost t Offset Decline in  Civilian Sfumnilu

OPA Orders Point Increase   Cheese Values Up; Butter Unchanged; Meats Higher

INCREASE IN MEAT POINTS ~——-IN-FEBRUAR}   MORE POINTS WILL BE RE  QUIRED FOR MEATS AND  CHEESE-BUTTER RE . * MAINS UNCHANGED

‘OPA BOOSTS RATION COSTS, DESPITE REPORTED MEAT GLUT.   Cheese Also Up   Pork Point Values Unchanged Except in Choice Cuts— Butter Unchanged.

General “Ike” And “Monty” Talk Things Over Abeard Ship In English Channel

200,000 Troops Have Returned From Oversea:   List Excludes Sick and Wounded Returned Since Start of War; Requirements Being Formulated for All Areas.

More Than 200,000 Physically Fit Troops Are Returned to The U. S.

200,000 TROOPS RETURNED HOME   Some Brought Back Under Rotation Leave Plan

200, 000 GI’S - BACK INU.S. FROM OVERSEAS   Number Exclusive of Sick an Wounded, Stimson Says, Ex plaining System

200;009 TROOPS BROUGHT HOME   Most Returned Under Rotation Plan For Men Overseas

IN VIENNA ARE SMASHED   By Bombers From Italy While Western Front Planes Attack Aachen and Holland.   Hit Railyards

PLANES SMASH VIENNA PLANTS   Allies Also Make Attacks On War Factories in Western Hungary

Nimitz Reports Sinking of 70 Jap Ships, Burning of 26---in June, 1592

Facetious Nimitz Almost Panics His News Writers         Marcus Pounded By Third Fleet’s Guns

NIMITZ. REPORT STARTLES SCRIBES      Jap Fieet Attack Off Korea —~Only Date Is June,

Marines Capture Peleliu Airfield, Slay 1400 Japs   Invaders Continue Advance Against Strong Counterblows

Marines Take Airdrome, Key to Palau   MacArthur’s Invaders Seize Another, Philippines in Reach

Marines Take © Airport. Slash   Steady Advances Made Against Bitter Jap Resistance: Planes Back Assault

J ap. Airfield On: Peleliu Is Captured   More Than 1,400 Of Eneiny Slain. In Fierce: Battle

Steady Advances Made Against Bitter Jap Resistance; Planes Back Assault

Gala Stage Program Raises $339,000 for War Loan Drive   Overflow Crowd of 1,850 Jams Theater to See and Hear War Heroes, Film Stars: Three Hundred Are Turned Away   Crowd Expected to Attend President Roosevelt Birthday Ball Tonight

Crowd Expected to Attend President Roosevelt Birthday Ball Tonight

BONOM APPOINTS:  VICE-PREMERS   Portfolios Evenly Distributed Among Major Parties In Italy

Bonomi Forms New Gov't  Sforza Says Churchill Wanted Kina Retainec

iC ‘onquer orsOfH indenburg Line ‘Ist To Crash Sie ofried odenins

Veteran Troops Crack Siegfried Barrier Fourth Division Penetrates Line

‘Roosevelt ‘Most Plausible Candidate’ -For President. Russian Paner Asserts   Says MacArthur ‘Incident,’ Willkie’s ‘Failure’ Increase FDR’s Chances, Asserts Republicans  Awnid Foaraicn Palhaw

The War Today   Hitler Is Walking Last Mile Ac Allies Gird for Invasion

The War loday  Problem © of Punishing War Criminals Is Gettinge Hotter.

WAR ANALYST BRINGS HAPPY THOUGHT THAT THIS PROBABLY IC HITT ER’S T AST YEAR OF [JEFF

ord Army Near City Of Metz   Gain of Three Miles Is Made in Center of Defense

Nazi Losses 15,000 in Anzio Fight   Enemy’s Situation At Beachhead Unsatisfactory

SOVIET RUSSIA BARES TERMS OF ARMISTICE   Germans Try to Keep Grip on Balkan Country

Soviets Demand Active Aid From Romanians  Only in This Way Can Reported Armistice Be Gainec

GAVE FUN SHS Waste Paper Pickup Sunday, August 27   Reds Say Active Warfare Must Be Waaed On Nazis

Romania Must Fight Nazis To Cbtain Armistice With Allies, Russians Demand   Germans, Trying To Salvage Something From Capitulation, Set Up Puppet Government; State Of Siege Pro claimed Inside Bucharest; Situation Confused

Chase Battered Nazi Remnants  North To Lyon   Other Americans Move Through Nice Toward Italian Frontier.

‘Americans Are. Pursuing  the Nazis Up the Rhone Valley 7   CITY OF NICE TAKEN   Hundreds of Vehicles and Guns Knocked Out by Allied Planes

Death Toll Heavy in Bus Accident  Diver Reporis 25 Bodies in Vehicle

SEVEN RESCUED, VEHICLE SINKS   Goes Off Bridge, Those Saved Taken From Emergency Door  SLEET STORM CAUSE

13 KNOWN DEA IN BUS PLUNGE   Rescuers Expect To. Finc Additional Victims

Bus Plunges Into River:      Skids Off Icy Bridge; Death: Toll May Run As Hizh As Thirty

BELIEVE MANY KILLED AS BUS FELL IN RIVER   Estimates Range From Eight to 30 Dead, Officials Say

Bus Skids to River; About 25 Are Dead   DIVER MAKES REPORT FROM 18. FOOT BARGE CANAL AT PASSAIC; FOUR BODIES ARE TAKEN OT.   Only Six Survive

TOLLS UNKNOWN YET   ‘Number Dead Hours Later,  Variously Estimated From  8 to 30 Persons.   7 HAVE BEEN RESCUED

13 Perish in Bus Plunge   Officials to Continue Looking for Bodies; Bus Lifted From River

Bus Plunges In River; 30 Feared Dead   Many Trapped in Icy Waters; Only Seven Are Pulled QOul

ONLY RESCUE 7 AS BUS PLUNGES INTO N. J. RIVER   Fear Over Score of Defense Workers Meet Death in Passaic Tragedy

Bus Cr. Crashes  In Channel ©   Nine Thought Dead In Passaic River

Bus Plunges Into River; Seek 9 to 30   Only 7 Known Rescued ir Accident on Outskirts of Passaic. N. J.

ESTIMATE NINE TO 30 TRAPPED IN SUNKEN BUS   Vehicle Skids And Dives Off Bridge Inte  River

Known Dead  Plunge of Into River   “le Hoisted From sot Channel to  of Barge: More ‘ne Said in River

TOLL OF DEAD "IN PASSAIC BUS CRASH NOW 13   Vehicle Hoisted .From ¢: River Yields Bodies Of Victims

Estimate Eight to 30 Persons Dead in New Jersey Tragedy   Crowded Vehicle Crashes Through Railing of Passaic Bridge

NINE TO THIRTY DROWN AS BUS SKIDS OFF SPAN   Seven Rescued by Passaic Work men Who Pushed War Life Rafts They Build Into River

Seven Pulled From Passaic By Rescuers   Heavily Loaded Vehicle Skids Through Guard Rail

nto Passaic’       Seven: Rescuéd’ Ciesubants: Estimated 1 Bight. ‘To 30

Many DieAs™ Bus Plunges Into River   Toll Estimated From Eight To 30 Persons

EARLY REPORTS INDICATE TOLL MAY REACH 30   Passaic, N. J., Scene of Disaster When Big Bus Plunges from Bridge inte - River Channel

Bus Plunges Into River: 8-30 Perish   Skids on Bridge and Goes Into Passaic River

9 To 30 Dead As Crowded Bus Skids Off Bridge Into River; — 7 Escape By Emergency Door   Many Of Passengers Trapped Inside Vehicle: Heroic Rescues Effected

HEAVY TOLL I FEARED AS BUS LEAVES BRIDGE   Estimate Between 8 and 30 Dead in New Jersey Accident

970 30 FEARE ON BUS IN RIVER   7 Saved As Vehicle Plunges From New Jersey Bridge

Bus Plunges Info River   Seven Rescued from Icy Passaic Waters, Fear Many Others Drowned

SIX SURVIVE NEW JERSEY BUS DISASTER   Crowded Vehicle Plunges Into River; Fear Death Toll May Reach 30

Bus Plunges Into River; Many Perish   Loss of Life Placed at From Eight to’ as Hiah as 15 or 30

13 Known Dead In Bus Tragedy   Vehicle Is Pulled  From New Jersey Rive:

Many Die When Bus Plunges into River   Decth Toll in Passaic, . _N. J., Tragedy Estimated - At from Eight to 30

Occupied Bus Goes Into Passaic River   Seven Passengers Rescued From Icy Water Estimate Nine to 30 Other Persons Still Are Inside the Submerged Vehicle.

Recover Bodies From Bus After Tragic Accident  13 Known Dead; Vehicle Crashed  ntn Daceine Rivar

See Possibility OF: 30° Trapped Tn. Jersey. Bu:       Vehicle Jumps. Anis: River From... Passaic - Bridge “During © Sleet.  Storm

Bus Dives into New Jersey River;  Death Toll Estimated from 8 to 30

A Bus Plunges Tolcy Stream   A Survivor Tells of Swim. ming Among Corpses In side the Vehicle.

Bus Falls Into River, 13 Dead   Tragedy Blamed On Ice-Coated Bridae

Estimates Differ OnNumberDead   Bus Plunges From Bridge Into Passaic  River Today With Reports of Death  Toll Varying Between Eight and 30, Hours After the Mishap. :   SEVEN PERSONS SAVED

ESTIMATE 15 10 30 PASSENGERS INSIDE VEHICLE   SEVEN PERSONS RESCUED FROM PASSAIC RIVER

Bus Plunges Into River   Death Toll Estimated At From 8 to 30; Only Seven Rescued

8 10 30 LISTED AS DEAD AFTER BUS HITS RIVER   Vehicle Plunges from Bridg« Into Passaic Stream; Only 7 Rescued

BUS PLUNGES FROM BRIDGE INTO PASSAIC   Death Toll in Early Morning Tragedy in Jersey Estimated From Eight To Thirty   BUT SEVEN ARE RESCUED

Nine To Thirty Feared Dead In Submerged Bus   One of Seven, Washed Free of Vehicle. Dies; Bodies of Two Women Recovered   One Swims Among Corpses In Bus   Virtually Every Seat In Bus Occupied When It Plunges Through Bridge Into River

War Plant Workers In Vehicle; Accident Comes In Midst O! Sleet Storm

UNKNOWN NUMBER PLUNGED INTO RIVER   Rescued Occupants Set Number of Persons in Bus at Time from Nine to 30

Bus Plunges Into River; Fear 30 Dead   Only 7 Rescued After Accident In New Jersey

BUS PLUNGES INTO RIVER EARLY TODAY   Nine To Thirty Persons Reported In Wreckage

13 BODIES FOUND IN BUS WRECKAGE   Others Believed Killed ir Plunge Into Passaic . River

War Workers Bus Plunges into River; 30 Are Feared Lost   Seven Are Rescued as Liferafts Being Made for War Tossed Out Factory Windows - - Bodies Floating Inside, Says Man Who Dives In To Attempt To Save Victims

Death Toll High  In Bus Accident   Bus Plunges From Bridge Into ley Waters of Passaic

Bus Skids, Plunges Into River During Sleet Storm   One Of Six Persons Rescued Reports About Nine Others Still In Submerged Vehicle

VEHICLE OFF BRIDGE, INTO RIVER TODA)   Fear as Many as 25 or 30 May Have Perished in Catastrophe at Passaic in Jersey

30 Persons Believed In Bus Which Plunged Into River At Passaic, N. J.

SLAV PARTISANS STAB INTO ITALY   Tito’s Forces Battling Nazis Neor Caporetto

SLAV PARTISANS BATTLE NAZIS IN NORTH ITALY   One Hundred Germans Killed In Train Wreck, Derailment

“THO” FORCES ENTER ITALY      Algo Report Heavy Fight ing in Croat Province

Air P Pattern Is Approved   “To Select” \Connirio®  To Carry Early Work

Plan for International Cooperation in Air Commerce Wins Approval   ' Election Today of Member Nations On Council of World Organization

Air Conferees To Name Countries To Supervise World Aviation Plan.

—AIR PARLEY—  AIR CONFERENCE NEARING. CLOSE   Select Countries To Car. ry Work Through Ear. ly Stages

Safety of Rome Up to Hitler,  Roosevelt Warns   U.S. Chief Charges Deliberate Use Of Eternal City as Nazi Bastion, In Reply to Recent Appeal by Pope

F.D.R. Replies to Plea by Pope Pius   Responsibility for Rome Is Placed on Hitler

GOOD HOT WATER BOTILES 4100 at Craic’s——Ad_ ;      NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS IN

Rules WLB Orders Not Reviéwable by Courts   U.S. Court of Appeals Decjares No Statute Authorizes a Review

Hold Courts Cannot Review WLB’s Orders   Appeals Judges Declare No Statute Approves Such Action; Rule On  Cermers Case   Oppesed Pav Hike

President are Bound _ by Board   Jnanimous ‘Decision’ Made _: by District of Columbia = “Court of Appeals      STRENGTHEN THE — ~- -BOARD’S POSITION   U.S: Attorney Declares Rul -ing Supports: Every Po-. -.-sition. of Government

[War Agency's Orders Not  Reviewable, Tribunal Holds In Motor Carriers’ Appeal

Rules WLB Orders Not Reviewable   U. S. Court of Appeals Gives Ruling in Truckers’ Appeal

Courts May Not Review Orders  Of Labor Boarc   Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Makes Ruling

RULES WLB IS ABOVE COURTS   Orders Not Reviewable by - Courts, Says High Tribunal

WLB Orders Held No Business of Courts   No Statute Authorizes J udicial Review of ‘Cases, U. S. Appellate Division for 4 District of Columbia Rules.

No WLB Orde Subject to Court Control   Likens Rulings To Advice Given By Individuals

Labor Board Orders Held Not Reviewable   Court of Appeals Decides it Cannot Change. Decisions

WLB OUTSIDE COURT REVIEW   Washington Judges Declare They Can't Intervene

U. 8. Tribunal For Distric Of Columbia Holds No Statute Authorizes Procedure   Government Sees  Victory In Ruling   Attorney of Opinion Motion to Dismiss Every Action Brought Against  ~ Board Justified

Labor Rulings Not Reviewable   Appeals Court Cites Presidential Seizures

Court Declares — Orders Of WLB Not Reviewable   Rules. On ‘Appeal By  District O£ Colambia Body. Motor Freight Firm

Court of Appeals Holds WLB Orders Are not Reviewable   WLB Attorney Says Victory Conclusive—Other Cases, Including Ward's, Wait Action

No Review Of WLB Orders   Appeals Court Holds Courts Can’t Review Orders, FDR Dealings ‘Advisory’

WLB Put Above Nation’s Court   Decigjons Cannot. Be Aovpealed. Ruling

W.LB. ORDERS NOT REVIEWABLE BY COURTS, IS RULING   Ruling Comes From Capital Ceurt On Appeal Brought By Employers Group of Trucking Concerns ©

Red Army Cuts Major Escape Line   Moscow Claims Heavy German Losses In Retreat

SOVIETS CUT OFF ESCAPE ROUTE FR P50, 000 GERMANS   Close East-West Flight Line For Nazis Pocketed Southeast of Leningrad   FOE FLEES HASTILY TO PREVENT ENCIRCLEMENT   Enemy Sustains Great Losses in Manpower and Equip. ment, Another Red Arm} Strikes West in Effort t« Close Leningrad Trap

REDS CUT GERMAN ESCAPE RAILWAY NEAR LENINGRAD   Russian Juggernaut Rolls On in Effort to Close Gigantic Trap on 250,000 Nazis.   100-MILE ENEMY LINE BELIEVED CRUMBLING   Hitler’s Forces Attack Fiercety in Lower Ukraine in Effort to Prevent Another Debacle.

Only Remaining East West Escape Line Is  Blocked    NEW GAINS SCORED UN OTHER SECTORS

Only Remaining EastWest Escape Line Is Blocked  a ee   NEW GAINS SCORED "IN OTHER SECTORS   Victories Are Announced in Special Order of   Dav

250,000 Germans Pockefed as Red: Cut E-W Escape   Race to Seal Off Railway to Trap Foe in South

ESCAPE FOR 290,000 GERMANS CUT   VICTORIOUS SOVIETS CLOSING BIG TRAP AT LENINGRAD

Reds Cut Last Escape Route Left to Nazis   Situation Grave for Perhaps 250,000 Mer of German Army

SOVIETS PUSH FORWARD FOR SEVEN MILES   Germans Report Russiar Attack Opened On Kerch

ESCAPE FOR 250,000 NAZIS   Russians Smash Ahead Seven Miles While Germans, Fearing Encirclement Are Retreating Hastily.   Near Frontier

Reds Advance 7 Miles, Cut  Rail Line Below Leningrad   Nazis Retreat Under Threat of Being Trapped; 3,000 Germans Killed in One  Area; Two Big Rail Junctions Seized

Last Nazi Escape Line Cut By Reds   250,000 Nazis Pocketed, And Reported Fleeing As Great Losses Are Inflicted

Threatened _ Nazi Troops Falling Back   Secondary Junctions Menaced by Advance Of Russian Forces  yap i ryis hn EWTRSTO? Fe ECT A WS YO eT

Nazi Escape Rail Line Cut By Russ   Germans Retreat Hastily Under Threats Of Encirclement: Manpower. Eauipment Lest

RUSSIANS CUT RAILROAD LINE   Foe Suffers Big Losses Trying to Escape Trap in North

EAST - WEST LINE OF ESCAPE FOR NAZIS BLOCKED   Upwards Of 250,000 German Troops Believed Imperilled By Advance  FIGHTING FLARES IN KERCH SECTOR AGAIN

Nazis in Terror As Reds Smash Only Escape Line   Second Russian Army Advancing

Pushkin, Paylovsh  Junctions Seized   Foe Northeast af Leningrad Faees FEntranment

WILL CELEBRATE JATHBIRTHDAY   Congregational Churct Founded 125 Years Ago

Observe 125th  Anniversary   Jf Founding Of Congregational Chureh Sunday

Soviets Tighten Net About Nazis  Fleet and Air Force Busy at Sevastepol

Five German Transports Are  Sunk By Reds   Air and Sea Blockade On Sevastopol Is Tightening

Five ‘German Transports, Fleeing Sevastopol, Sunl   Nazis Make Last, Futile Stand In Soviet Black Sea Port; Four Other Transports Sent Ta Bottom OFf Rarente Seq

Soviets Sink 5 Transports   1,000 Germans Killed During Sharp Clashes On Localized Fronts

Russians Sink Five Transports ‘At Sevastopol   Four Others, Together With Three Other Ships of Convey is Barents Sea Sent fo Bottom

Russians Tightening Their Grip On Sevastopol: Claim 1,000 Germans

Drohobycz is captured by  Russ forces ' 11 Soviet armies are striking Hun:

Red Triumph Slashes Nazi Oil Supplies   Aussions Seize Drohobyez  As II Soviet Armies Maka Now Laine

Reds Capture Poland’s Big Oil Center   Drohobycz, Fortress City, Guarding Gates te Carpathian Passes Taken by New Army

Another Severe Blow Dealt + Nazis Supplies of _ Oil   tl SOVIET ARMIES =— HITTING THE NAZIS   Line of 1200 Miles Runs From Finland to Carpathians

CENTER FALLS TO RUSSIANS   Drohobycz Taken As 11th Army Joins Soviet Drive

Reds Canture Polish : Oil Center   Other Forces Trap Nazi Units in San-Vistula Area

“New: “Red: ‘Army’ Th Action; “TL Now Pounding Enemy Along *1.200-Mile Front”

Dealing Severe Blow to Germany’s Dwindling Oil Supply Campaign in Last Stage.   Trap Tank Corps

Foe In 18 Miles OF Liege; Yanks Able To Contain Flanks   American Counter Blows Narrowed Base Of Enemy Offensive In A Nine-Mile Salient Push

VITAL ALLIED HIGHWAY CUT BELOW LIEGE   NAZIS HALTED ONLY ALONG NORTH AND SOUTH FLANKS

Vital Allied Highway 18 Miles South of Liege Reported Slashed; initiative Remains Detinitely In Hands of Enemy; See Prolongation of War

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N umerous U. S. Divisions Are  Badly Mauled  Initiative Continues   Initiative Continues Definitely in Hands of Enemy Forces

Nazis Also Push Closer fo Sedan In New Attacks   Enemy Is Halted Only on Flanks

Rolls Across Belgium And  Luxembourg      Nazi Troops aud Tanks Skish = Through Ist Army Lines to Within 18 Miles of Lieve. Fog Blinds U.S. Planes

Situation Still Considered Serious   Advance is Halted on One Flank, But Rolls Forward at Ranid Pace in Other Sections

Vital Allied Road 18 Miles South Of Liege Severed  By Germans   INITIATIVE REMAINS ; IN HANDS OF ENEMY

One Allied Lifeline Smashed, ~ H4ts-Announced—Nazis — Roll 32 Miles

DeGaulle May Go To France   Hopes French Will Show Enthusiasm to Strengthen Position of His Committee

DE GAULLE WINS RECOGNITION OF 3 GOVERNMENTS   Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Luxemburg Accord Power To Committee

(OUNTERBLOWS BY GERMANS THROWN BACK    Assault On Dunkerque Is Held Up

First Army Advances Through Siegfried Line; Patton Captures Fort

Attacks “By Germans In Ubach Area Are Thrown Back .    GENERAL PATTON'S FORCES TAKE THE MOATED: FORT DRIANT   In Holland British Broaden Tip Of Their Salient To Seven Miles

S. Sgt. Elwin B. Ritchie Awarded 2nd Oak Leaf Cluster to Atr Medal

War Stops While U. S. Officers Return Eight Nurses to Nazis   Women Captured in Cherbourg Are Returned To Enemy Lines in France Aboard Ambulance

German Nurses Freed: Firing Ceases While Americans Return Eight Women to Own Line

Captured Nurses Are Returned ‘ to Enemy Lines  Batiletield Scene   Batilefield Scene Ts Strangest af the Invasion

Captured Nurses Are Returned © to Enemy Lines   Battlefield Scene Is Strangest of the Invasion

PRE-INVASIO ASSAULT IS CONTINUED   Latest Raids Made On Friedrichshafen And Near Munich

SECOND WEEK OF AR BLITZ OPENS ON GERMAN SPOTS   Friedrichshafen, Munich Are German Targets, Ploesti  and Bucharest Blasted In Romania.   REDS REGROUP FORCES TO MAKE NEW DRIVE   German Communication Lines to Rome Are Bombed By RAF Flyers, Big Guns Used at Anzio.

Record Air Offensive on Second Week   Friedrichshafen Factories, Munich Airfields Hit

NAZI AIRCRAFT PLANTS, MUNICH AIRFIELDS HIT   ® Assaults Are Concentrated On Facilities Of German Air Force

1,000 U.S. Planes Are Used in Raid   Open Second Week of Pre Invasion Assaults, on  Munich, Fredrichshafen

FIERCE FIGHT FOR CASSINO   ARMADAS OVER EUROPE TODAY FOLLOWING BLASTING OF STUTTGART AND OTHER CITIES BY 1,000 RAF BOMBERS DURING NIGHT--GERMANS ‘MAKING DESPERATE STAND ALONG  oe) EE CASSINO FRONT

States’ Rights Advocates Lead In Ballot Fight   FDR Promises Veto If Fewer Soldiers Have Vote

Hint Renewal of Senate Fight   States Rights Emerges Victor In Soldier Vote

Army and Navy Asked to Probe Disappearance Amelia Earhart   Famous Aviatrix, Lost in Vicinity of Marshalls Six and Half Years Ago, Once Was Reported By Radio to be Prisoner of Japs

FLIER GIVEN UP FOR DEAD   Navy Task Ends Search for Amelia Earhart, Missing in 1937

Nipponese Appear to Have Abandoned Threatened Madang   Only Seven Miles Separ-. ate Aussies and Yanks on Guinea   Legislator Suggests Fate of Amelia Earhart May Be Learned in Marshalls

NEW HUNT FOR EARHART WILL BE ORDERED   Believe Japanese Soldiers May Have Shot Her

HULL OUTLINES 17 POINTS IN" FOREIGN-POLIGY   Sets Goals als For: Long “Range Cooperation And Security

Aims of U. 5. Set Forth by Cordell Hull   Secretary Issues 17-Point Foreign Policy Statement

U. §. Seen Bidding for Leadership in Post-War Politics   Sec. Hull's Statement Throws Questions Into Limelight

Hull's 17-Point Foreign Policy Bids for U. S. Post-War Leadership And Reveals Diplomatic Problems

Hull Outlines. Long-Range Foreign Policy  ‘Win War’ First, Atlantic Charter: om Prineinies Ta Fallow 

17-Point Policy Statement Is Issued By Secretary Hull  U.S. Makes Bid For Role Of Postwar World Leader

Hull Reveals 17-Point Plan for War’s End   Secretary’s Statement View: ed as Setting Goals for Post-War Peace

HULL OUTLINES U.S. AIMS IN WORLD AFFAIRS   SETS GOALS FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

HULL OUTLINES 17-POINTU.S. WORLD POLICY   America’s Bid For Politica Leadership Indicated In Secretary’s Action

Nazis Make Rome ‘Offer’   Hult 17-Point U.S. Policy Seen As Bid for Postwar Leadership

Establish Goals For Postwar Era  Policy Statement by Hull Seen Asa. S.,

U. S. Seen Bidding For Leadership After War   Questions Involved

HULL OUTLINES FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE NATION   Brings into Sharp Relief Many Questions of Immediate Diplomatic Concern

Foreign Policy Statement by Hull Rajecs Several Diplomatic Questions

17-POINT PLAN GIVEN BY HULL   Gives United States Bid For Post-War Political Leadership

HULL ISSUES STATEMENT ON ALLIED POLICY   Defeating Enemy Is First Goal For Allies

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION . STRESSED   Program Of 17 Key Points Is Presented   For All Nations On Basis Of Sovereign Equality Is Prime Goal

Secretary Hull’s Policy Statement Seen U.S. Bid For Leadershig In World Politics After The Wai

Hull Presents U.S. Foreign Policy Plan   Bid for Postwar Political Leadership; Clear Immediate Questions

Equality Of All Nations Foundation Of Post-War Policy Outlined By Hull

J aps Sending More Troops Ta  Kohima Area   Allied Forces Make Steady Progress In Clearing Road Blocks

Japanese Reinforce Kohima Army; Allies Make Gains  Monsoons Threaten To Slow Action  On Eront in India

Japs Reinforce Area’ At Kohima: Allies Have Gained 30 Miles   Chinese Continue Steady Drive To South In North Burma Against River Port At Kamaing

Preparing for Monsoon Season Only Month Away   Allies Reported Steadily Cleaning Up Roarblocks

Japs Shove New Forces Into Kohime   Legions in Iudia Poise New Drive Before Monsoons

JAPS RUSHING RESERVES 10 KOHIMA AREA      Allies, Meanwhile, Make Progress In New Offensives

Chinese Holding Out At Hengyang   American Planes Bomb  Former U.S. Air Base

GERMANS FALLING BACK ON 100-MILE FRONTIN HUNGARY   Fifty Communities Engulfed by Russians, Inciuding Strategic Railway Center of Jaszbereny.   NAZI FORCES GIVE GROUND STUBBORNLY   Reds Soon May Make Supreme Bid for Budapest— Troops South and North of City Joined.

20 HUNGARIAN TOWNS FALL TO SOVIET FORCES   Big Railway Center South Of Budapest Captured As Nazi Troops Fall Back

NAZIS FORCED BACK IN FIGHT FOR BUDAPES!   Red Troops Take Key Railway Town of  Jaszbereny

Hungarian aga Center Falls*o Soviet Troops   Germans Driven Into Retreat on 100-Mile Front: Attacks Gain

JASZBERENY IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Strategic Railway Center 35 Miles East of Budapest; Other Gains Recorded Aleng, Line.   Supreme Bid

AUSOIAN FORCES OTEP UP ATTACKS   Drive Germans Into HardFighting Retreat on Long Front From Environs of Budapest to Miskole

19 Dobermans, Training To Lead Blind, Perish In $5,000 Kennel Fire

War Must Continue, Von Ribbentrop  Tells Tri-Partite Pact Conference

VON RIBBENTROP DECLARES WAR HAS BECOME LIFE OR DEATH FIGHT AND THAT ALLIES CAN NEVER WIN

Its Life Or Death. Savs Ribbentrop   Allies Must Know They Can Never Win, He Says

Germans Told They Will Win  Ribbentrop Ignores Invasion Of Reich

Break in Finland’s Lines Widened   Soviets Drive Within 32 Miles of Viipuri

Germans Tossing Powerful Force  Against Russians   Desperate Effort Being Made To Stabilize Nazi Eastern Front

Nazis in Frantic Warsaw Stand   Germans Take Offensive in Desperate Attempt to Halt Red Army Driving for Warsaw and East Prussia; Russians Gain

Attack on Borders of E. Prussia   teds Make Gains Elsewher on Long Front, Russians  Report

Nazis Attack In Effort to Halt Soviets   Reds Concede Germans Have Plugged: Lines Temporarily

NAZI ATTACKS FORGE WEDGE IN RED LINES   Germans Making Desperate Efforts to Stabilize Eastern Front.

SEEK TO CHECK SOVIET THRUST : INTO PRUSSIA   Reds Make Smail Gains As Enemy Offers Strengthened Resistance

Reds Admit Their Lines Are Wedged   German Offensive Is Desperate Effort To Stabilize Front.

Making Desperate Effort: To Stabilize The Eastern Front.    NAZIS HAVE WEDGED LINES TEMPORARILY   However The Russians Continue To Gain New Ground

NAZIS SEIZE INITIATIVE AGAINST REDS   Make Desperate Stand Before * Warsaw, East Prussia

‘Nazis Appear Committed to Make Last Desperate Stand to Halt Russ Advance

Nazi Thrust Stops Reds At Warsaw   Desperate Offense Launched to Save ‘Holy German Soil’

Soviet High Command Admits Nazi Are Launch: ing Full Seale Attack

Reeling Nazis Hurl Big Army At Russians   Making Desperate Effort To Halt Saviet Advance

Germans Hurl Strong Forces Against Reds Before mre And E. Prussia, Wedge i

HURL ATTACKS ° IN ATTEMPT T0 SAVE WARSAW   "See Move To Stabilize East; But Russians Continue To Gain

GERMANS SEIZE INITIATIVE ON FASTERN FRONT   Hurl Largest Force Of Summer Campaign Against Red . Armies

NAZIS OPEN ATTACK ON RUSS FRONT   Desperate Effort Launched, Wedges Soviet Lines

Germans Hurl Huge Forces Against Red Army Before Warsaw And East Prussia

Odessa ‘Army of Catacombs’ Emerges In Triumph from Underground Hideout:

Odessa Cave Army Battles Nazi Hordes   TELL STORY OF CITY’S SIEGE BENEATH FEET OF INVADING GERMANS

trom GUERRILLAS RULE ODESSA BY NIGHT  =10.000 Fighting Men From Catacombs Return to Sunlight

‘Army of the Catacombs’   Guenlla Band Lives Underground Two and One-Half Y earsat

EK. C. Eicher, Justice, Dies   Heart Attack Fatal; Well  Known Here

JUDGE'S DEATH ENDS 8-MONTH SEDITION TRIAL   26 Defendants in Mass Hearing Must Face New Jurist

WMC Heads Called in Labor Probe Military Urges ‘Stay on Job’ Law

RED FLIERS SINK 11 NAZI SHIPS IN THE BLACK SEA   Were Troop Transports Bound for Crimea to Evacuate Germans Trapped There.

Plans Made For College Events   Lodwick And U. S. Smith Will Speak

Tito Forces Press Battle on Rail Line   Go to Offensive in Mountains of Croatia Report Says

BUDAPEST RAIL LINE ATTACKED   SLAVS ALSO ON OFFENSIVE IN BITTER FIGHTING IN CROATIAN MOUNTAINS.

Yugoslavs Continue Attack on Rail Line at Budapest   Partisans Are Keeping Nazis Too Busy  To Aid Other Fronts

md TO APPEAL COURT RULING   DECLARES NO PRESS CAN OPERATE UNDER RESTRAINING ORDER

AP TOAPPEAL CASE. TO SUPREME COUR   Contends Newspapers, Services Can’t Operate Under Court Order.

Associated Press Asks Supreme Court Ruling   Appeal Against Anti-Trust Decision Decidec : On As President Sarcastically Refers To i News Oraanization As ‘Country Club’

Aachen Left Isolated by Third Army   Gen. Hodge’s Troops Stage Rare Night Attack and Catch Germans by Surprise

Twin Blows By U.S. Smash Nazi Lines _   3rd Army: Makes New Thrust Between Metz and Nancy As Ist Strikes to Close In on Beleaquered City a

MANY MORE MEN IN COUNTY TO GET CALL TO SERVICE   Over 250 Men Now Placed In A-1 Classification; Heavy Draft In March

Many Fathers Now Have 1-A Draft Classification And May Be Called   Dependents Are No Longer: Ground For Deferred Classification

sky-Flooding Fleets Of Planes Will Lead Way— —By Kirke L. Simpson (/?  RAF Regrouping For Ground Troop Support

Many Homes In Area Are Still Unfit For Use;  More Rain Forecast.

New Battle Rages In Kohima Hills   British Seize Enemy Strongpoints in India

Tax Increase Call Not A Surprise   Congressmen . See Little Chance of Tax Bill Passage; Some Sympathetic.

F.D. R. Requests More Revenue  Solons See Little Hove of Acceding

Brilish Officers Take Nazi General Prisoner In Daring Raid on Crete

North Quarter Tinian Held By U.S. Marines  Air Strip Now  In Possession TT ao Yr

Allied Policy Blamed for China’s Plight   CHUNGKING NEWSPAPER ASKS COLLABORATION “QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE”

WAR COMFORTABLE FOR MANY—ICKES   Tells Fishing Leaders Bluntly They Have Not Done Their Best.

[RAYBURN WINS V ITH MARGIN 9.992 VOTES   Carries Four Of Seven Counties In District

SPEAKER HAS 6.000-VOTE LEAD TODAY   Fannin, Grayson _ Give Him Good ¥ Margin Victory

Tanks Reach Outskirts of Velletri   Infantrymen Open Major Assault on the Alban Hills

Vote Measure Sent to F. D. R. By Congress   Veto Seen Possibility In View of F.D.R. Stand On Similar Lecislation

House Adopts War Vote Bill. Sends It to FD   Congress Waits to See If Roosevelt Will Sign Act; Final Vote On Measure 273 to 11

FDR SEEKS LEGAL WAY AROUND BAN      Musicians’ Union Defiance of WLB Prompts His Action

RECORDING BAN IRKS ROOSEVELT   Something May Be Done About Petrillo And His Defiance

730,000 NAZIS FACE CAPTURE IF CITY FALLS   Soviets’ Air Superiority Thwarts Reinforcement by Plane

(a0,000 I  ANCA BEAL AGE TRAP   l‘urious Fighting Inside City   HEAVY SHELLING   Konev’s Men Sweeping Forward

SOVIETS FIGHT IN OUTSKIRTS OF CITY   Key Center Under One of Heaviest Big Gun Barrages of War

Tanks Shatter Nazi Defense   Yank Drive Against Reich From Belgium Meets Small Resistance

‘American Break-Through at Rotgen iMay Force Germans Back to Rhine

Nazis Retreat Toward Rhine  Doughboys Blasting Anti- Tank Obstacles

Navy and Army Bombers Blast: At Wadke Islanc   126 Tons of Bombs Poured on Two Airfields in Area

American Triangle © Col_ lapses After Holding Firm Lines For Two Days   NAZI SPEARHEADS MOVING TOWARD ' VITAL MEUSE RIVER   Americans Gain Three Miles Into Salients On German Southern Flank.

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT WEST FRONT   LARGE FORMATION HITS ROBOT BOMB PLATFORMS

POLICE CHIEF OF ROME TREMBLES AT TRIAL AS HE TELLS OF GIVING HOSTAGES TO NAZIS

Caruso Blames Kesselring   Former Rome Police Chief Says He Had to Furnish Italians for Executions

Caruso Testifies Nazis Demanded Italian Hostages  Police Head On

Allied Police Guard Trial Of RomeChief   Caruso Tells of Sending 80 Italian Hostages to Execution —

Former Police Chief Of Rome Fights For Life   Tells Court German General Kesselring Ordered Him to Turn Over Italian Hostages

Dewey to Pick 6.0.P. Chairmar   National Committee To Consult Nomince; Brownell ‘Favorite’

G. 0. P. Chairmanship Checked Up to Dewey   Committee Decides To Consult Nominee Before Taking Action

Soviets Capture Over 100 Towns   Continue Irresistable Drive Toward Vital Finn City of Viipuri

REDS CAPTURE 100 TOWNS IN FINLAND   SOVIETS MEET SAVAGE RESISTANCE AS THEY PUSH DEEPER INTO COUNTRY.

Soviet Forces  Forge Ahead in Finnish Drive   Six Divisions Thrown into Push for Port Of Viiouri

REDS SMASHING NEARER VIIPURI   Finnish Resistance Can Not Continue For Long, Observers Believe

SOVIET ARMIES DRIVE NEARER TO VIIPURI   Dispatches Fro mMoscow, Hesiniki and Stockholm Claim Russians Are Useing Most Modern Equitable availahle

Russians Capture 100 More Towns   Finns Putting Up Savage Resistance

Soviets Capture  100 Finnish Towns   Drive Within 25 Miles ef Key Port

RED ARMY MARCH HEADS FOR VIIPURI      More Than 100 Populated Places in Finland Captured

100 Finnish Towns Fall To Red Army  Say Defenders Putting Up Battle

Russian Armies Spearhead to Bulgaria Border   Poise for Drive Into Yugoslavia, Southern Germany, Hungary; Peril 15 Nazi Divisions in Balkans

NOW HOLD BASE FOR OFFENSIVE INTO HUNGARY   Another Soviet Army Smashes Way Nine Miles  From Warsaw   7,000 GERMANS ARE CAPTURED BY RUSS

Russians Also At Frontier Of Bulgaria   Romanians Cheer as Soviet Troops Pass, Moscow Asserts

Soviets Reach Bulgar Line: Enter Buchares!   Rumanian Capital To Provide Base For New Advances

eds Take Over Bucharest, Reach 3ulgaria Border   Russians Win Rail-Ait Base for Sweep into Hungary, Germany

CAPITAL CITY OF BUCHAREST WON BY REDS   AIR AND RAIL BASE TO AID ADVANCE INTO HUNGARY

Heat Troops hot Border or Bulgaria    ~ Soviets: Also Advance -. On: Warsaw in Poland”. In Renewed Offensive.  DrOECTT EIET DS: BURN

SOVIETS ALSO REACH BORDER OF BULGARIA   Antonescu Reported to Be Prisoner in Romanian Capital

BUCHAREST IS OVERRUN BY RUSSIANS   Dusty Lions Enter “Little Paris of the Balkans” After 30-Mile March From Ploesti.   Rail City

Russians Reach Bulgarian Border Enter Bucharest   Hungary Appears On Verge of Crack-Up  Similar to Slovakia

‘Soviets Reach  Bulgar Border, Flank Warsaw   Antonescu Is Said Captive In King Mihai’s Palace; Roark: Admite Henak

Red Army Legions  Now In Bucharest  Other Units On Bulgariar Border

8th Army Closes In on Florence  Sth Army Prepares Assault on Pisa

Way Cleared for Capture of Pisa   New Allied Landing Predicted by Nazis

OPA TRAILS MAN FOR GASOLINE FRAUDS   1,000,000 Gallons Mixed Up In Transactions

WANTS OPINIONS ON “TEEN-AGE” CANTEEN   Bristol Business Girls Eager To Help In Movement For Youths   WHAT IS YOUR IDEA?

Japs Warned State Of Affairs Urgent  Told Allied Air Raidc On   Told Allied Air Raids On Tokyo Are Inevitable

YANKS STRIKE FROM SAIPAN   Pagan Hit From Air, Surface Units Shell Targets On Guam

SAIPAN BASE NOW IN USE   FIGHTER PLANES OPERATING “-FROM NEW AIRFIELDS ARE ‘OPERATING OVER —  . FSLANDS ‘

JAP ISLAND OF PAGAN BOMBED   Yankees Also Soften Up Guam  Kuriles Also Blasted Again

Islands North Of Saipan Now Beine Bombed   U. S. Fliers Already Using Captured Saipan As Base, Pagan Islands Hit   JAP DEFENDERS TAKING LICKING

DISTRICT DELEGATES CHOSEN IN NEW YORI   Most of Those Named Expected to: Be for Roosevelt and Governor Dewey.

Teachers of City Schools Guests of Lions Club at Meetine---“Trial” Held

Letter Carriers Link Patrons With  Outside World, Wesley Tells Lions

FINLAND SIGNS PEACE TREATY WITHMOSCOW   € Tain Soviet Secured 50-Year Lease on Long Coastline

Russia, Finland Sign Armistice and Long Lease   Second War Between Nations Since 1939 Is Brought To End

Finns, Soviets Sign Armistice   Broad Wartime Privileges Given Russia, Report

FILGAS I$ NOT GUILTY, CLAIMS CAPT. MULBAR   Statement Dramatic Climax in Torch Death Trial

STATE POLICE GWES TESTIMONY TODAY   Testifies That in His Opin. ion David Filgas Is ‘Not Guilty.

Asserts Filgas Is ‘Not Guilfy   State Police Officer Says Youth Innocent

Japanese Can Return te West Coast.  Security Order  ko Be Revoked

WEST COAST BAN ‘ON JAPS LIFTED   Still Exclude Those  Considered Dangerous

Sixth War Loan Bond Box Score   West Coast Japs To Be Allowed To Return To Homes

Japanese Evacuees to Return to Homes  On West Coast After January 1, 1945

Pacific Coast.  Open To Japs   Nips. Being Allowed -To Return To: Homes

Japanese Will Be Permitted to Return to Coast   L. A. Mayor Says Nips Will Need . Troop Protection

RELOCATED JAPS TO RETURN 10 WEST COAST JAN. 1   All Japs Except Those Considered Personally Dangerous, May. Return to California, Oregon, Weshington Homes ‘After Start. of  New Year

ARMY TO PERMIT RETURN OF JAPS TO WEST COAST   ORDER, EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, MEETS WITH MINGLED REACTIONS

BAN ON JAPANESE ALONG WEST COAST WILL BE LIFTED  CALIFORNIA, WASH INGTON ART ADCTCAWN *

West Coast Ban Against Japs Lifted   Will Be Permitted To Return to Former Home After Jan. 1

PERMIT JAPS TO RETURN 10 COAST JAN. 1   West Coast States Give Varied Reaction To Army Decision

BEN LIFTED ON TIP RESIMENTS   Army To Permit Them To Return To Homes On West Const i   REACTION VARIES   Maj. Gen. Harry C. Pratt : Announces War De - partment Plan

BAN ON JAPANESE  ALONG WEST COAST  WILL BE LIFTED CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON AND OREGON  TO CRT TADC PAY

Japs Removed From Coast To Be Sent Back   War Department Decides To Revoke Security Order

Relocated Japs to Return to Pacific ~ Coast; Ban Lifted   Security Order Revoked by Western Command, Effective Jan. 1

TO SEND JAPS BACK 10 HOMES ON WEST COAST   Some Fear Disorders as Army Plans Limited Release of Nips

United States Army Wages Defensive Warfare Against Capital's Small Bovs

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   AMERICAN ARMIES BREACH GERMAN LINES

Americans Are * Striking Along 130-Mile Front   Paris Radio Says Yanks Break Through Siegfried Line Near Aachen   COUNTER-ATTACK OF NAZIS FOILED

HUN LINES IN BELFORT GAP AREA BREACHED   Siegfried Line Cracked At New Point Near Aachen, Paris Reports   PATTON HALTS ATTACK   Reds Smash Through Nazi Defense Systems Near Latvian Capital

Hot Shower Relaxes Fightin’ Men   Rest Center Set Up Only Two Miles from Where Doughboys Take Time Out from Battle   - «+ Anxious To Get Back at End of Day

GUAM IS LATEST IMERICAN TAREE   Truk, Bases In New Guinea Also Plastered By Yanks   HALTED IN CHINA   Allies Inflict Heavy Losses On Nips In Fighting In Burma

Paramushiro Given Heroic Daylight Raid; Enemy  Losses In Fighters Heavy. 

Guam Pounded By Land Based Yank Bombers   Vulnerability Of Island Outposts le More Evident

10 TIRE PLANTS   WPB Arranging Furloughs tc Step Up Heavy Tire Outout

Soldiers to Get Furloughs ToHelp Make Truck Tires   Emergency Need Brings Unusual Action For Two Months as Plant Owners Agree

Germans Granted Dunkerque Truce   Canadians Wait While Civilians Move Out

French Civilians Evacuate Dunkerque As Fantastic 48-Hour Truce Granted

Hamburg Is Again Hit by  U.S. Planes   More Than 1,100 Heavy Bombers Blast Nazi Industrial Centers

50 LIBERATORS BATTLE STORMS TO POUND DAVAO   Airdrome, Barracks Ane Supply Depots Absorb  Punishment   ANGUAR ISLAND IS TAKEN BY MARINES

DEWEY HEDGES ABOUT POSSIBLE CANDIDACY   New York Governor Does Not Rule Himself Out As Possible Republican Nominee

NAZI COMMAND HAS EMERGENCY MEET IN FRANCE   Marshal Rom nie] Warns of Impending Danger of In iat se a:

GENERAL ROMMEL SAYS INVASION READY TO BEGIN   High Command Summoned te Appear tr “Final” Instructions. In Berlin. .

Anti-Invasion Commanders Hold Council   Emergency Meeting of Nazi Officers Called  To Discuss Plans

ANTLINVASION COMMANDERS IN HUDDLE   Expect Allied Attack "Any  Moment” and Prepare For Defense of Hitler's European Fortress.

NAZI LEADERS HOLD PARLEYS   Anti-Invasion Chiefs Meet In Emergency Session

SPECIAL WAR COUNCIL HELD   Nazi Leaders Told Allied In vasion js Imminent

Top Anti-Invasion Leaders Called  Into Conference   Marshal Erwin Rommel Warns Allied Landings. Likely At Any Moment:

Nazis Hold War  Council   Allied Landing Expected Momentarily; Denmark Fortified

Nazi Military Leaders Called To Emergency Anti-Invasion Meeting   Rommel Alleges Landing May Take Place Any Moment As German Boats Patrol Channel

GERMAN’S ANTI INVASION GROUP HOLDS SESSION    Meeting Advanced, Fear Attemp: By Allies Te Seize Denmark

GERMAN HIGH COMMAND IS IN SESSION   Anti-Invasion Leaders Meeting Today in France

Anti-Invasion Command of Germany Meets   of Momentary _ Allied Landing

{4th Sank More Japanese Ships  Hong Kong Blow Was Greater Than Stated

GAS GANGRENE VACCINE READY   New Device Expected To Save Lives For Invading Army

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   ALLIES MAKE GAINS IN ITALY

Many Homes Have Guests For Christmas  Family Parties And  - Homecomings Are Haldaw Featura

Many Homes  Have Guests.  F or Christmas ©   F amily Parties And : Homecomings Are .Holiday Feature —

Soviets Open Drive to Baltic Sea   Crash Through Nazi Defenses on 93-Mile Front

Liberate Thousand  Villages   Advance 22 Miles Through German Defenses On 93Mile Latvian Front.

Japan's Attempt To Bomb Bases In Pacific Thwarted   “Bombers Forced To Drop Cargoes Of Bombs In Water When Intercepted On Attempted Raid; Japan’s Northern Islands Are Bombed Again

Marine Flyers Beat Off Jap  Raid on Base   Northern Kurile Islands Hit Again For Fifth Day

Japanese Block Supply Line on Kohima Road as ‘Marines Score Victory

MARINE PLANES PROTECT BASE AT ENWETOK   3,000 Nips Killed In Admualty In vasion

Japs Ferced To Dump . Bomb Load   Marine Interceptors Thwart Raid On Advance Atoll

600 U.S. Tanks Taking Part in Normandy Push   2000 Prisoners Captured Sunday, Trap Closes on Many More

Sensational Burst Of Speed Puts U. S.  Force In Avranches; me: _t. fino BP,

The War Today   hy DEWITT MACKENZIE Reacciatetd Presa Var Analbwet

WAR TODAY   Raw Nerves of Hitler. ites Raked Anew By Stalin’s Grim Finalitv Imparted In His Atay Dav Order

Reds Prepare for Fierce — New Assaults   By DEWIST MACKENZIE Associaled Press Wart Analyst

Stalin’s Grim Statement Rakes Anew Hitlerites’ Shaken Nerves — Mackenzie

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst

MARSHAL STALIN INDICATFS SOVIET ARMIES READY TO JOIN IN GREAT ‘DRIVE TO HEART OF NAZIDOM   May Day Address of Soviet Premier Presages ' Concerted Action to Crush Hitlerites and Bombing O€ Brest-Litovsk Adds Emphasis to His Words

State Soldier Vote   Now Seems Assured  Rival Ballot Factions Ir Agreement

New Tax Bill. Ballot Nears   Provides One-Filth Of Needed Revenue

CONGRESS SET FOR APPROVAL   War Revenues Act Probably Gets to White House Tonight

Final Action On  Tax Bill Nearing  Will Boost Levies On  March 1

FINAL VOTE TAX BILL NEAR   Curtailed Revenue Act May Go to FDR Before Night

PROPOSES HULL FOR PRESIDENT   WOODRING DECLARES DEMOCRATS TIRED OF ‘PALACE GUARD’

Anti-New Dea Move Starts to Stop FDR   Woodring Heading Faction Opposed to His Re-nomination

Hull ls Boomed For Presidency   Would Call Conventior Of ‘Loyal’ Democrats For Nomination

Woodring For Naming Man of Hull Calibre           Assails White: te House  .. Policies = 2:

Woodring Would Ask Democrats Nominate Hull!   Former Secretary of War To Call “Loyal” Party Members To Consolidate Forces; Denounces “Palace Guards’’.

Nomination Of Cordell Hull By Loyal Democratic Group Is Urged By Harry Woodring

Woodring Plans Meeting of All --Loyal Democrats   Says Party Should Get Behind Someone Like Secretary Hull

HULL HEADS SLATE WOODRING PREFERS   Calls “All Loyal Democrats” ____for Convention in Mid. Wect

Woodring Suggests Hull for President   Plans Rally of ‘Loyal Democrats’

PROPOSES HULL FOR PRESIDENT   Woodring to Call Loyal Party Members

Air Onslaught Carried Into Fifth Day   Major German Targets Raided By RAF Bombers

Great Swarms Of Allied Planes Smash At Nazis   Huge Pre-Invasion Air As. saults On German Defenses Continue   GIANT AIR ASSAULTS NOW IN FIFTH DAY

(COMMEMORATE A LINK   Observe 75th Anniversary of Completion of Railroad

LARGER BONES 0 COME-HALIEAY.   Prospect of More: Deadly ‘Bombs Keers England ‘From: Being Cptimistic.

HALIFAX SEES MORE DEADLY ROCKET BOME   Says Outlook Checks Any Over-Optimism Among Britons

HALIFAX SAYS BIGGER ROBOTS . ARE BEING MADE BY GERMANY   AMBASSADOR, ON RETURN FROM. ENGLAND, DECLARES MORE POWERFUL ROCKET BOMBS EXPECTED

LARGER BOMES 10 COME-HALIEAY.   Prospect of More Dezdly Eombs Keeps England From Being Cptimiusiic.

‘Alreraft, “Plant: Neat Vienna. Blasted By Raiders.   BUDAPEST GETS _ ~ HARD POUNDING

Raiders From Italy Strike At Budapest      2,000 Sorties Made In 24 Hours; 33 Planes Missing

33 PLANES MISSING IN ASSAULTS   Hungary Attack Comes After U. S. Blow At  Austrian Targets

BUDAPEST BATTERED  BY ITALIAN BASED  ALLIED WARPLANES NIGHT ATTACK FOLLOWEL  BLASTING OF VIENNA ADEA PV NAVIICUT

Italian Bases Bombarded By 2.000 Sorties   German Artillery Barrage at Anzio Reaches New Peak ,

Allied Planes Hit Budapest In Giant Raid   2,000 Sorties Made By Mediterranean Forces On Hungary

BOMB KRUPP WORKS   AERIAL FLEETS RESUME DAYLIGHT ATTAGE AFTER NIGHT SMASH AT ESSIEN

KRUPP WORKS “AT ESSEN ARE BLASTED AGAIN   Is One Of Tar ‘gets, Hit ‘ By vy Allie d . “Domber S.   Unchecked’ Aerial _ Drive’.On- Europe Entere-1 3th Dav

Bombers Also Hit Schweinfurt Area,  Paris Rail Yards   Air Invasion Enters 13th Day; Russians Fight In Streets Of Sevastopol

KRUPP WORKS © AT ESSEN ARE BLASTED AGAIN  Is One Of Targets Hit      Is One Of Tar gets Hit By Allied  Rambhore   Unchecked Aerial Drive On Europe ‘Enters 13th Day

WELL OVER THOUSAND BRITISH BOMBERS HIT ESSEN KRUPP WORKS  AT LEAST 25 GERMAN _ VESSELS SUNK AROUND

Pound Krupp Works      Reconstruction Work Blasted; Schweinfurt, Paris Rail Yards Hit In Last Nicht’s Raids

Air Attack Now in Its 13th Day   Battle for  Sevastopol Believed in Final Stage

Heavy Pounding Of Europe Goes Into Its 13th Day   At Least 25 Nazi Ships Are Sunk in Several Attacks

6,000 TONS OF BOMBS. RAINED UPON GERMANS   Essen, Schweinfurt And French Railroads  Blitzed

ANNIHILATION OF GERMANS IN CRIMEA STARTED   Terrific Explosions Indicates Channel Defenses Being Rushed by Nazis

WELL OVER THOUSAND BRITISH BOMBERS HIT ESSEN KRUPP WORKS  AT LEAST 25 GERMAN VESSELS SUNK AROUND TrrmaAhnriia? CVVasaeorne

2000 Allied Planes Drop 6000 Tons Of Bombs On Europe   U.S. Raiders Pound Hard At Nazi Atlantic Wall

British Attack Is Followed by  American Raid   \ir Invasion in Thirteenth Day. \= Allied Planes Sink Nazi Ships

Man To Replace Landis Not Chosen   Action May Be Delayed Until December Meeting

Hannegan Gives FDR Fourth Term   Asserts President Is Fit and Ready

Pe resident And: Dewey to Talk For eign Policy      New York Governor Listed Tonight and Roosevelt Saturday; Neither Auswers Ball

THINK DEWEY MAY OUTLINE PEACE POLICY TONIGHT   Expect GOP Candidate Will  Enlarge on Party’s Platforms Declaration For U. 5. Participation in Internationa! Peace Organization

Gov. Dewey In New York For Address   “xpected to Offer Major Interpretation of Foreign Policy Tonight

Foreign Policy Dewey Subject In N. Y. Tonight   Final Major Interpretation Of GOP Position Is

Dewey May Speak On Foreign Policy  ‘Will Address HeratdTribune Forum Tonight

WAIT T_DEWEY'S NY. SPEECH   May Make Last Interpretation of Foreign Policy Stand Tonight

Dewey To Discuss Peace Era   Broaileast Tonight To Explat GOP Foreign Policy

Dewey Makes Final Foreign Policy Talk   GOP Nominee Will Speak Tonight; Urges Rinartisan Security Study

Dewey Will Speak On Republican  Foreign Policy  New York Speech Set For Tonight by * Presidential Nominee

Dewey May Give GOP Stand On Foreign Policy   GOP Candidate To Speak On New York Herald Tribune Forum Tonight.

Dewey Gives Talk Tonight   Candidate late Expected To Give Party Policy On Foreign Affairs

IGOP Foreign Policy To Be Made Clear   Will J pias pane id On info eene Oueatian.

Dewey on Air Tonight at 9:30   Make Outline Foreign Policy Stand in New York Forum Talk

RAF BLASTS MUNITION CENTER—AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS HIT ANTI-INVASION DEFENSES

MORE GERMAN PLANTS RAZED BY AIR BOMBS   RAF and U.S. Pilots  Roam Over Kurope RUIN FRANKFORT  Worst Damaged City In Reich

Eye Witness Describes Scene Inside One-Time German Strong Point, Taken By Allied Troops

Describes Scene Inside Gustav Line After Tide of Battle Had Passed

Tide of Battle Sweeps Over Hill; Debris Left   Dead and Live Germans Litter Landscape, Torn. by Shells . And Blasted by Bombs

_News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaper   « el the 6 Hl@ R eoimentation i; 14.

WIDESPREAD AIR ATTACKS CARRIED OUT BY AMERICANS   500 U. 5. Heavies Pound Nazi Air Fields, Harbers and * Other Targets in Assaults in South France, Northern

I ighting Grim In Sey astopol big Sea Port   Nazi Apprehensive Over British Move— Allied Air Forees Pound Romania   Bulletin

BIG FLEET OF RAF BOMBERS IN DAY BLOWS   Blasts Northern France As U. S. Heavies Hit Germany

Penalties Asked For Ignoring of Labor Decrees   Krug Wants Teeth [In Rules Channeling Men To War Jobs

MANPOWER LACK IS ATTRIBUTED TO LEGISLATORS   Krug Say Present Situation Due To Lack Of Nation al Service Law   VITAL INDUSTRIES ARE MOST AFFECTED

Krug Calls For Control Over War Workers   Criticizes Congress For Failure To Vote A National Service Law.

HALSEY SMASHES IAPS DEEP A HOME. WATERS.   Enemy Shipping Losses Are Boosted to Nearly 1,900

Ward Officials May All Resign   May Be Development In Government Action Against Chicago Concern   COURT BATTLE IN CASE IS OPENED

Stalin Credits U. S., Britain With Considerable Contribution to Successes of Russian Forces

Mystery Weapon Sinks U. S. Ship   Destroyer’s Electric System Knocked Out

Jobs Issue in Campaign at New Heights   Likely to Assume New Importance in Coming Addresses

Next Political Oratory Blast To Take up Postwar Employment   President Roosevelt, Dewey, Bricker Scheduled To Air Problems in Speeches

Republicans Will Name Supervisor Friday Afternoon  To Fill Vacancy — Caused By Dick

Republicans Will Name Supervisor Friday Afternoon  To Fill Vacancy 7  ‘Caused By Dick Bohlken’s Death.

ALSO CLAIM OT ALLIED PLANE TOLL   While During February Jap Aircraft Loss Was Only 80, Radio At Tokyo Maintains.

AIRPORT BACKERS PREPARE TO ASK NEW LEGISLATION   FIND SOME COMFORT IN ADVERSE RULING OF ILLINOIS COURT

NAZI PRESSURE SLOWS RUSSIANS   Desperate Counter - Blows Launched Along Vast Eastern Front

Russians Halted By Costly Nazi Counterattacks All Along Front   yermans Throwing Everything into Battle as Soviels Continue To Mass Men for New Drive

Germans Stem Soviets Swilt Push Westward   Most of 1,000-Mile Line Weakened and Any Halt Expected To Be Only Short One

NAZI FORCES ASH OUT ALL ALONG FRONT   VReds Report 16 New En' emy Divisions Moved to East for Apparent _ Stand on Present Lines.   SOVIETS MASSING MEN AND MATERIAL   New Steamroller Drive  May Be Launched Soon  _—Poles Fighting in Warsaw Appeal for Arms.

Sermans Open Desperate Counter Attacks in Vain Effort to Stop Russians   Soviet Communique Claims Steady Advances Along 1,000 Mile Eastern Battle Line; Says Nazis Are Being “Bled White”

Great Russian Summer Of. fensive Has Begun To Slow  Down, Reports Reveal   FRESH GERMAN UNITS RUSHED INTO ACTION

Nazis ‘Bled White’ In Counter-Attacks   Russian Reserves Arrive Bisw Siawea a: Tt

Desperate Counter-attacks Launched by Germans  DRIVES REPULSED,  _ SOVIETS DECLARE Russians Mass for New Steam-rofier Com- paign

GERMAN LINES CRACK ALONG SOVIET FRONT   RED COLUMNS PUSH NORTHWARD NEAR CITY OF RIGA

NAZIS STEM RUSSIAN PUSH WESTWARD   But Most of 1,000-Mile Battlefront is Strained and Creaking Line; Little Chance of Success.   Sealed Off

Nazis Check Red Advance   Reds Say Reserves Sent In, Enemy Being “Bled White”

YANK BOMBERS HIT BALKANS, ROCKET COAST   Ploesti Field Fired Again; France Heavils Assaulted

GERMANY, PAS DE CALAIS AREA BLASTED BY 1000 YANK PLANES   U.S. HEAVYWEIGHTS LEAD ASSAULT OF THOUSANDS ALLIED PLANES ON NAZI ROBOT WORKS, RAILWAYS

Air Raiders Hit Brunswick And Northern Reich   Nazi Propaganda Asserts Attempted Raid On Berlin Is Frustrated   HUGE WAVES OF PLANES IN ATTACKS  (RITT.T FTINS

U.S. Fliers Hit Romanian Oil Installations   Attack Ploesti And Giurgiu, on The Danube River South of Bucharest

Germans Mass Around Caen Defense Ares   Allies Advance Foot By Foot, Infantry Battle Rages

AMERICAN’ MARAUDER BOMBERS SMASHED AT NORTH FRANCE AREA  ROUND-THE-CLOCK OFTrarcrerr 2amatrtcar orp ha A at   ROUND-THE-CLOCK OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMAN OBJECTIVES CONTINUED

German Spokesman Says Entire Red  Front is in Flame   Today’s News From Em. battled Europe is Briefed by AP

Strong Air Formations Range Over Continent   Targets In North Italy, Germany, France Hit

Guayule Project Rescue Sought   — ows  ‘Ethics’ Keeps House From Aiding Bill

CONTINUATION OF  GUAYULE RUBBER  PROGRAM 1S SOUGHT MEMBERS HOUSE COMMIT.  TEE FIND PLAN SHOULD De CIVEN MORE AID

Britain Honors American Fliers   Halifax Gives Highes Award To Men Killea

WALLACE, TRUMAN FORCES CANVASS DELEGATIONS FOR FIRST BALLOT VOTES

Vice Presidential Nomination Lona Drawn Out Affair   Results Are Not Clear Prior to First Bollot

Democrats Prepare for First Ballot; Wallace Now Claims 580 Votes   Field Wide Open, With Lots of Nominating Speeches  Today

Party Fight Rages Over  V. Pp esident   Wallace Backers Say Their Candidate Gaining As Balloting Nears

American Assault  Wave into Cassino   About One-Fourth Of City Occupied By U. S. Troops   Yanks Also Approach Crest of Mt. Cassino; Allied Planes Cripple Nazi Key Near Rome

Yanks Grab Fortified Buildings in Drive for Mountain Community for Which Germans Are Fighting Desperately to Hold; Fifth Army Hurls More Shells Into Battle.

AMERICANS BOMBARD CISTERNA   More Guns Support American Drive On Cassino

ALLIES, NAZIG -AGTIVEIN AREA   U.S. Planes Pour Tons of Bombs on City to Cripple Stronanoint.   GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS

ALLIES HAMMER NAZI-HELD TOW? OF CISTERNA   Clashes Continue . Between: Nazies, Allie At Beachhead Front

Yanks Hold One-Fourth Of Cassino   Advance Under Heavy German Fire; Allies Bomb Cisterna Bastion

German Artillery Bombs Beachhead of Allies and Planes  Hit Allied Shipping

Cassino Is  Still Fought For Bitterly   Cisterna Has Been Source Of Nazis’ Fiercest Attacks

SEEK TO END NAZI THREAT TOSEACHHEAD   Germans Using City As Fortress For Attacks At Allied Lines

BATTLESHIPS HELP RELIEVE BEACHHEADS   American Mitchels Pour Tons of Explosives on Cisterna, Demolishing Concealed Tanks   VILLAGE IS FLATTENED

BOMBS BLAST STRONG PONT OF NAZI LINES   Crippling Blow Deliverad on Town Where Guns and Tanks Concealed.

Seek To Cripple \Nazi Stronghold In Beachhead Area   Both Sides Have Patrols Active; Enemy Continues Shelling Beachhead  CASSINO FIGHT GOES ON  Full-Scale Attack Takes Yanks to Top of Cliffs Surrounding Monastery

U. S. Troops Gaining In Cassino   One-Fourth of Towr Captured After Desperate Fighting

Cassino Is ©            Cisterna Has Been Source Of Nazis’ Fiercest’ A tacks ee

Full-Scale Drive Staged on Cassinc   Allies Report Some Ground Lost In Patrol Action on Beachhead

Purpose Is To Relieve Beachhead  Pressure   U.S. Planes Hammer At Cisterna, Key Point Of Nazi Line Around  Alliod Traane

Hun Artillery /Pounds Allies  At Bridgehead   Yank Planes Hit German .   Strongpoint. Destroy  Great Section Of   Cisterna Bastion   U.S. Forces Gain ln Cassino Fight   Take One-fourth of City and Storm Up Mountain to Monastery; Tanks Edge Forward

Fdge Forward In Full-Scale Italian Drive   U. 5. Bombers Cripple Cisterna In Fight For Bridachead

U.S. PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON ENEMY BASE AT CISTERNA   ALLIES CONSOLIDATE THEIR POSITIONS IN SECTOR BELOW ROME

Gain Of Several Miles Made By Germans In Bridgehead Area, Says Cerman Communique

Bomber Raid _ Is-Centered ~~ on Cisterna   Large. Part- of Germaa: Strongpoint Destroyed." ‘in. Heavy. Blow.   GERMAN FORCES... : INCREASE PRESSURE   ‘But. Allies Report: Their. Po+ “sitions Have Been’: Pur- -ther Consolidated :..°

BAIN GROUND IN CASSINO   Allied Planes Are Striking German Bridgeheads

Greater Part Of Cisterna Is Crippled   Allies Further Consolidate Positions; Strong Counter:  pee waain Pad   BRITISH FORCE GAINS

UNLOAD TONS. OF MISSILES ON CISTERNA   Town Is Main Strong Point of Enemy Line Around Beachhead Bes low Rome — Cassing

ig PLANES POURED TONS OF “homes ON CISTERNA   ‘Attack Was Made to Cripple ‘ ‘That*Main Strong Point “ "of the Nazi Line.   PATROLS WERE ACTIVE   Allies Farther Consolidated ‘Their Positions, Headquarters Announced.

GERMAN STRONGPOINT FACING NEW ALLIED BEACHHEAD BLASTED  FIGHTING IN STREETS OF CASSINO CONTINUES AT HIGH PITCH

Yanks Capture Cassino Slice   AMERICAN TROOPS NEAR MOUNT CASSINO CREST AS ALLIED PLANES SMASH GERMAN BASTION TOWN OF CISTERNA IN INVASION BRIDGEHEAD

Strongpoint Of German Line Around Invasion Beachhead Crippled; Nazi Guns Active

Allied Fliers Level Large Sector Of Cisterna in Attacks   Germans Announce New Gains in bridgehead Area; All Planes Return From 1,500 Sorties

Yanks Battle Their Way Up Mt. Cassino   Furious Crag-To-Crag Drive Co-ordinated With Attack on Cassino Itself ~  BAYONET BATTLE WEST OF CISTERNA   Allies Break About Even With. Germans in Strong Patrol Activity

TONS DROPPE ON CISTERNA BELOW ROME   Allied Bridgehead Under Constant Shell Fire   AMERICANS   Occupy About One-Fourth Of Cassino; Fighting Continues Bitter

Allies Consolidate Italian Positions, Headquarters Says   Germans Bearing Down Along Full Length of Anzio Beachhead

ALLIED PLANES HELP BESIEGED INVASION ARMY   Blast Cisternia; Violent Fighting Around Cassino Continues

Mt. Cassino Crest Nears In Assaults   Nazi Bastion Town Of Cisterna Hit Terrific Blow

ROME BRIDGEHEAD HOLDS UNDER NAZI ARTILLERY BLAST   German Bastion Town of  Cisterna Pounded by Allied Bambere

Allied Planes Pour Bombs On Cisterna   Full Scale Assault Opened on Vital Mountain Position

TRY TO CRIPPLE POINT IN WHICH TANKS GATHER   Allies Consolidate Positions Further Wth Patrol Activity

¢  —ITALY—  YANKEE BOMBERS BATTER GISTEANE   Tons Of Explosives Rained On German Stronghold {n Italy ,

MEAT RATION AGAIN LOOMS   OWI SAYS BAD. DISTRIBUTION MAY ‘CAUSE RETURN OF .» MEAT RATIONING  pYSTeM

OUTLOOK IN INDUSTRY DISCUSSED BY BARSA   Economist-Statistician Finds Prospects For the Post-War Era Ranging From Good To Very Poor.

AIR TRANSPORT OUTLOOK 6000   Rail Equipment and Auto Accessories to Prosper Says Babson

INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT IS FACING TRYING SITUATION   Companies {00 Per Cent In War Production to Be Hardest Hit, Lower Dividends Dur ing Transition Period.

Industrial View Seen By Writer   ROGER BABSON RELATES POST-WAR ASPECTS tN TT &. '

Patton Forces Pound Forward  On Wide Front      One Unii Reaches Nancy While Other Drives Wedge Into Out.  skirts of Metz   Meet With Stiffer iGerman Resistance   Metz Under Attack; Rome Reports Patel’s Soldiers Have Met Up With First Army

Report Patch, Patton Men Now Joined   Fleeing Germans Continuing To Outdistance Allies

Triumphant Canadians   Take Dieppe   Yanks: Enter Lorraine, - Point Guns:at Metz, 25: Miles from, Reich  a ee ee Oe ee ee eee

Column Fighting Through Gap To Belgian Soil   Sedan, Verdun, St. Mihiel, Dieppe, Other Historic Bastions Fall; U. S. Forees Stab Nearer to Metz

AMERICANS MAY HAVE CROSSED INTO BELGIUM   Sedan, Verdun And St Mihiel Fall Before Allied Blitzkrieg

Si. Mihiel, Sedan And Verdun Fall To Lightning  U. S. Columns   Troops Racing Nazis in Alfempt To Beat Them fo Siegfried Line; Canadians Capture Dieppe

More Fortresses Fall to Allies   Hard-Riding Patrols Lance Forward To The Belgian Border in Pursuit Of German Army

Yanks Attempt To Beat Germans To Defense Line   VERDUN FALLS   ‘Battle Columns Stream Into _ Lorraine; Victorious Can_ aians Capture Dieppe

Sedan, Verdun and St, _ Mihiel Held by U.S. Forces :   METZ BROUGHT IN ' - ARTILLERY SIGHT   Patrols Believed to Have Crossed the Belgian Border

Yanks in Race With Nazis To Siegfried Line   Maginot Fortifications Breached as Sedan, Verdun Fall; British Take Arras and Canadians Dieppe

Race to halt possible nazi border stand  Troops advance an Metz hastion

Battle Area Moves Swiftly Toward Reich   Americans Racing to Reach Siegfried Line Before Germans Can

U. S. Tanks Close On Mons, 7 Miles Within Belgium   Sedan, Verdun, St. Mihiel, Other Maginot Line Strongpoints Captured as Yankee Blitz Balle Unchecked Toward Reich

HUNS SEEK REFUGE — OF SEIGFRIED LINE       Maginot Line Breached; Verdun Taken Without Loss Of Life; Rocket Coast Is Nearly Out- . ROE Belgium Border Reached e

While Canadians Capture Dieppe Without Striking a Blow to Wipe Out Memory of 1942 Landing.

OE PR  é ony Pg “tery é * fe: es  a @ 4     MAN sYSTEM   Americans Hope to Strike Before Wall Can Be Made Ready for De: fense of Reich.. we   YANKS CAPTURE. VERDUN, ST. MIHIEL   Push Close to Belgian Border — British Seize Arras, Canadians Occus py Dieppe. — :

Yanks, Germans Race Toward Siegfried Line   Sedan, Verdun, St. Mihiel Toppled By Allies, Maginot Wall Breached

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"Spuds" Offered Hogs as Food for First Time in Stockyards’ History

FRENCH FORCES CAPTURE SAN ELIA IN ITALY   Canadian Troops. Make Advances After Long Lull

French Forces In Fifth Army Take San Elia   New Allied Gains Are Made In Drive To Force Nazis Out Of Cassino   U.S. FORCES CROSS RAPIDO RIVER

American First army fights way into Weisweiler  French Second armored force clears Strasbourg

Work Halt — Stops Travel   Philadelphians Left. “Stranded On. Streets.

Philadelphians Left Stranded On All Corners   Work Stoppage In’ Traffic _ System Paralyzes City’s ‘Transportation. ‘ ¥3 wnac

U.S. Bombers Blast France In New Raids   Day Attacks Follow RAF Stab at Devastated Berlin

FRENCH INVASIO! COAST PLASTERED BY U, S, BOMBERS   \Nazi Airfields in Northern . France Also Were Hit Sunday.   SECOND STRAIGHT DAY   On Heels of RAF Mosquito Stab Against Berlin and Western Germany.

U.S BOMBERS ATTACK NORTH FRANCE AGAIN   Follow R. A. F. Raid On Berlin, Ruhr Saturday Night

U.§. ARMEN BOMB COAST AND AIRFIELDS   Mosquitos Attack Berlin Saturday Night

AIRMEN SHAKE FRENCH COAST   YANK SKY STAB FOLLOWS R. A. F. SMASH AT BERLIN

WAR TODAY   reek Situation Con tinues Gravest DanRee of Moment to Aliance of Nations iRighting Axis

Two World Threats Growing Out Of Situation— —By DeWitt Mackenzi  Political Blocs Question Must Be Settled

The War Today   Greek Situation Continues Te Be One of Gravest Dangers.

Greek Contretemps Continues to Be Gravest Danger   Constitutes One of “Moves:in Formation: . ~ Of Influence Spheres

The War TodayQuestion Of Political Blocs Is Barrier To International Unity

GREEK SITUATION CONSTITUTES GRAVEST DANGER AT MOMENT TO PLANNED SPHERES INFI UENCE

M’Arthur To Corroborate  With Nimitz   Command Spheres Seen Joining To Strike Holdings Of Nippon .

Teaming Up Of I  Leaders ship In  Pacific Hinted   Believed Object of Raasevelt Hawaii Visit Was to Bring About MacArthur Nimitz Cooperation

Close Cooperation Arranged Between MacArthur, Nimitz  Lines Of Offensives Which They Head Mav Sann Converge In Philinnines

F.D.R. Hawai Visit Welds Army, Navy   Closer Co-operation in Philippines Drive Is Seen as Parley Result 

NEW STRATEGY PLANNED FOR PACIFIC AREA   MacArthur And Nimitz Work  In Harmony

Close Co-operation Between Nimitz And MacArthur in Jap Offensive Believed Object of Hawaiian Parley

Coordinated  Drive on Jap Empire Near   MacArthur and Nimitz Offensives Approach Convergence

MacArthur Or Nimitz?   New Cooperation Between Them Must Exist in Future

Pacific War Reaches New Turning Point In Bombing Of Japan And Philippines; MacArthur, Nimitz Seen Teamed Closely

MacArthur, Nimitz Team Viewed FDR Visit Objective:   Swift Offensive: Lines Near: Convergence. Point ‘in :Philippines

Russian Troops Driving Toward Latvian Border   s Nazi Baltic Defense Line Re. ported Cracked By Soviet Forces   ACTIVITY ALONG BIG STRETCH OF RED LINE

RUSS CONTINUE NEW OFFENSIVE TOWARD LATVIA   Claim 100,000 Germans Killed in Three Weeks

RED UNITS PUSK NEW OFFENSIVE NEAR LENINGRAD   Steamroller _T: Tactics Over Frozen Ground Gain Momentum

WAGE FORMULA REVISION SEEN   Roosevelt May Permit Increase Of 15 Percent;  Some Oppesition

Believe FDR Will Revise Wage Plan   Senators Think Chief Executive Plans to “Up” Little Steel Fermula

BREAK IN STEEL FORMULA LIKELY   Revision Upward by Rooseyelt Expected by Senators

EXPECT LITTLE STEEL FORMULA TO BE REVISED   Vinson Pledges “ Special Vigilance” In Holding Cost Of Living At  Present Level

Upward Revision Of Little Steel Wage Plan Seen  Vinson Urges Curb On Increases in Cost of Living

‘Little steel’ boost is seen  Living cost jump  LPAQWwS Oe ONC earit

Denies U. S.China Rift   _ Chinese Foreign Minister - Predicts Relations Will Be Even Closer Than in Past

Stilwell Case ‘Entirely One Of Personality’   Soong Denies Pressure By U. S. For Solution Of Communist P rob Le m  Faced By China

Soong Denies J. §. Pressure China Command   Chinese Minister Says Stilweil’s Recall Matter of Personality.

SOONG DENIES U. S. PRESSURE   PREDICTS NEW DEAL IN RELATIONS’ OF U.S, AND CHINA

Stilw ell And Cc hiang Didn’t Like Eac hOthe:   Chinese Foreign Minister Sees Better Relations With U.S.

Soong Predicts Better Feeling Toward China   Denies Any Pressure for Solution of China’s Communist Problem,

SOONG DENIES U. S. PRESSURE FOR SOLVING: PROBLEM   Chinese Foreign Minister Pre. dicts New Deal in U. §.China Relations—Says Stil. well Matter Question of Darennalityv

Soong Denies U.S. Pressure Over Stilwell   China’s Foreign Minister Sees Better Relations

GERMAN RAILHEADS RAIDED BY BRITISH   RAF Attacks Coblenz And Bingen Supply Centers As Aid To Allied Ground Troops

British Heavy Bombers Attack Rhine Railheads   "R.A. F. Also Blasts Distribution Areas For Nazi Offensive

RHINE RAILHEAD CITIES BLASTED   Big Coblenz And Bingen Supply Centers Hit By RAF

RAIDERS AGAIN P BLAST NAGOYA   POUND RHINE ~ RAIL CENTERS   British Bombers in Heavy Attacks on Coblenz And Bingen

2 RHINE CITIES BOMBED BY R. A. F   SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION CEN TERS OF COBLENZ AND BINGEN UNDER ATTACK.

Seaman Braune.  Takes A Bride.  Weds Earldene Johns — Of. Merrill, Sunday

Seaman Braune   Takes A Bride  Weds Earldene Johns Of: Merrill, ‘Sunday —

2 VICTORIES SCORED ON ‘SOUTH FRONT   Reds Capture Capital of Transylvania and Szeged, Hungary; Artillery Attacks in East Prussia.   Clever Withdrawal

Reds, Romanians In Major Victories Against Hungary  Large Cities Fall; Battle for East Prussia 1. Baan Those Sidan

Many Killed, IsVersionby Nazi Agency   Allies Say Seven Air Bases Near Rome Are Bombing  Objectives

Fifth Army” Widens Hold OnGarigiiano  Dissgeak Gate, 2? Willagne      British Seize 3. Villages, Force Nazis from Minturno   Yank Guns Pound Nazi Stronghold; Bombers Plaster Supply Lines

Ruined Jap Base at Ponape Is Atfacked Aaain by American Mitchell Bombers

Senator Wants Congress to Prettify Names of Spinach, Oleo, Castor Oi

Congress Prettifies Name of Skim Milk: Solon Would Change Name of Spinach

GOVERNORS SPEAK, HONOR WAR DEAD      North and the South Meet at Gettysburg Battlefield Shrine

GOVERNORS SPEAK, HONOR WAR DEAD   North and the So the South Meet at Gettysburg Battlefield Shrine

North and South Meet, Re-Affirin ~ Vinenln’s Pledge   Govarnars Join in Paying Tribute to Heroes -of Getivsbura Buttle

North,South In Unity At Gettysburg   GOVERNORS BROUGHTON _ OF NORTH CAROLINA AND SALTONSTALL OF MASSACHUSETTS SPEAKERS AT BATTLEFIELD.   Gov. Martin Presides

Air Attacks in Pacific Continue  U.S. Forces Occupy Two More Nip Afolls

MORE ATOLLS ARE OCCUPIED IN MARSHALLS   AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT ISLANDS NEAR GUAM

Occupation of Twe Additional Nippen Atolls in Marshalls Announced  at Pearl Harbor

BOMBERS ROCK TWO JAP BASES   Two More Marshalls Atolls  Seized by Americans

Yanks Hit at Jap Bases in The Marianas   Strike Important Points Near’ Guam; Occupy Two More Atolls in Marshalls

Bombing Protests Hit At Our Defense, Says Under-Secretary Of Wai

MacArthur Bluntly  Rejects Draft Move  Does Not Covet, Woule Not Accept Nomination

MacArthur Blunt about His Refusal   OF PROPOSAL TO DRAFT HIM AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE; SENDS FLAT STATEBENT FROM HEADQUARTERS

FIELD OF GOP HOPEFULS 18 CUT TO FOUR   Gen. MacArthur Rejects Attempt to Draft Him for President   POSSIBILITY OF — DARK HORSE DIM   Dewey.Far in Front With. 228 Claimed and Pledged Deleaate Votes

FIELD NARROWS ING. 0.P. RACE   Leaders Are Silent On MacArthur’s Refusal To Be Considered

MacArthur Rejects Attempt ‘Lo Put Lim in Presidential Race, Narrowine GOP Viel

M’Arth@r Rejects Draft Possibility    Will Not Run For President; GOP Listed Twtromed To Four.

MacArthur Move Cuts Republican Possibilities   Move To Draft Him Ju Presidential Race Is Rejected Bluntly Bv Pacific General   BACKERS TO ABIDE BY HIS WISHES   Chances Reduced That Any Darkhorse Mav Storm Convention

GEN. M ARTHUR BLOCKS DRAFT   Narrows GOP Presidential Field by Taking Himself Out of Race

BO¥ DROWNS NESR ALTOONA   Pittsburgh Crowd Goes Wild,  Police Rescue Commando Kelly

Full Division Landed On Island Heads For Its Main Air Field   HALF OF LUZON’S AIR FORCE OUT   All Jap Ships in Manila Bay Sunk or Knocked Out.

New Invasion Was Carried Out As Smoothly. As ’ Clockwork   MOST HAZARDOUS FEAT UNDERTAKEN BY [OUR NAVAL FORCES   Mindoro Is Called Key To  Eventual. Conquest Of Luzon c

French Fishermen Will  Get To Keep Catch For Dieet Vieno Ia 4 Years ;

Willkie Declares Country Needs New Leader   Calls for Termination o Present Lease of Power in Washington

1,000 U.S. Heavy Bombers Strike On Heels Of Attacks In Great Strength By British   Northwest Germany, Air Fields, Rail Center, Robot Sites In France Pounded

U.S .Bomers Hit Targets Over Wide Spread Area   Northvvest Germany. Airfields In France Robot Coast, Rails and Other Targets Blasted By 1,000 Heavy Bombers; Heavy Support  - Given Ground Forces In France.

U. 5. Heavies Blast Flying Bomb Grounds   Hit Pas-de-Calais Robot Platforms and Attack Targets in Northwest Germany

Air Armada Hits Nazis   Thousand U.S. Heavy Bombers Blast Targets In Germany

Large U. S. Fleet Bombs French,  German Airfields  RAF Fighters Strike Robot Platforms In Channel Regions

HEAVY SQUADRONS OF AMERICAN BOMBERS IN ATTACKS ON GERMANY __ AIRFIELDS AND ROBOT _ "BASES IN FRANCE ALSO  Aamnr

BIG AIR FLEET BLASTS FRENCH, GERMAN POINTS   XAF Centers Heavy Attack On Winged Bomb Platforms; Rail Lines Are Hard Hit; Air Assaults Coordinated.

1000 HEAVY BOMBERS HiT NAZI TARGETS   Northwest Germany, French Air Fields and Robot Platforms Get Attentian

Nazi Railways  Allied Targets   Lines Bombed In Northwest Germany. France, Haly;  Raid Rocket Coast.

(.1. 0. Workers Uphold Veto, Score Barkley  Ohio Demo Backs” President With Utmost Confidence

Barkley Act Condemned   CIO Leaders Voice Support of President’s Tax Views

German Resistance Is Still Furious   American Troops Drive Up Coast To Capture Heavily Fortified Town OFf Cactellaonorata:

Allies Smash Into Historic’ Liri Valley, Plunge On In Attack To Isolate Cassino   Area Strewn With Nazi Equipment; Balance Of Gustav Line Shattered

AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVE UP COAST   Capture Heavily Fortified Town of Castellonorato   BRITISH WING ADVANCES   Yanks and French Drive Enemy From Last Defenses Of Smashed Gustav Line

NAZIS PUT UP FURIOUS FIGHT TO HOLD POSTS   Allied Troops Breaking Nazi Resistance In Drive Toward Cassino

PIGNATARO TAKEN BY ALLIES DETERMINED TO SEVBR CASSINO’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH ROME.

JUST PEACE URGED BY POPE PIUS XII   Pontiff Holds First Press Conference Since Capture of Rome

Nazi. Troops Are Fleeing British Push  Into Greece   Invaders Overrun Peloponnesus

British Race To Corinth   Athens New Objective After Invasion Force Captures Peloponnesus

BRITISH FORCES SET TO INVADE GREEK MAINLAND   Pilots Returning From Strafing Mission Say Germans Are In Flight From Greece; Government Is Set Up

Greek Leaders Taking Over  Government In Freed Sectors   Germans Reportedly Fleeing Country, Leaving Air Forces Unprotected

NAZIS SEEK TO ESCAPE GREECE   British Tommies Overrun Most Of Peloponnesus

British Advance Toward Athens As Nazis Retreat   Greek Government Representatives Land in Peloponnesus

Mainland Of Greece Next   Government-in-Exile Sends Promise People To » Get Government They Want

GERMAN UNITS RACINGNORTH, AIRMEN CLAIN   Tommies Preparing to Return to Scene of  1941 Defeat

BRITISH FORCES GAIN IN GREECE   OCCUPY MOST OF PELOPONNESUsS — EARLY CROSSING TO MAINLAND PREDICTED.

British Driving Ahead In Se e   Allied Aceupation Of Cor. inth Believed Imminent

British Overrun Greek Peninsula Nearing Athens   Exile Monarch’s Representative Reassures People As Germans Flee Northward After 3-Year Rule

ALLIES ADVANCE IN BALKAN PUSH   British Overrun Most of Pel. oponnesus — Nazis Abandon Corinth, Is Report

‘Nazis Abandon Corinth to British, Says Cairo Report   Invaders Overrun Most of Peloponnesus, Face Weak Opposition

New Move On  Greece Near Most Of Peloponnesus Overrun By British

British Overrun Most of Peloponneuse; Corinth Occupation mminent

Travelers Report Berlin Still Burning Third Day Affer R. A. F. Atfack

TWO-PRONGED DRIVE IN’ BubAPEST REGION CRUMBLING GERMAN DEFENSE LINES 

RAIL JUNCTION OF MGA HELD BY RED ARMY   GERMANS BURN AND PILLAGE AS THEY RETREAT

NAZI STRONGHOLD OF MGA CAPTURED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Rail Junction in Leningrad Area Falls as Reds Sweep On—Nazis Bura and Pillage in Flight.   LARGE ENEMY GROUPS CUT OFF OR ENCIRCLED   Magnitude of Foe’s Defeat Meunts Hourly—0,000 Hitlerites Killed Since Drive Beran.

Russian Forces Now Seven Mile: From Budapest   Troops May Be Battling Inside Capital’s Gates,” Front. Dispatches Say

RING AROUND THREE SIDES OF BUDAPEST   With Hard Fighting in Southern, Eastern and Northern Outskirts;; Government Flees.   Pour Across Bridge

Army in North Moves Six Miles Toward Capital   Hungarians Are, Reported Surrendering Enmasse ug  Tics ceves:

RED FORCES DRIVE NEAR TO BUDAPEST   Alsogod, Seven Miles From the Capital, Is Captured

Red Army Gains Six Miles in Drive on Danube   Fall of Budapest Seems Imminent

REDS CLOSING IN ON 3 SIDES OF BUDAPEST   Soviets Now Within 7 Miles of City in Drive at North

inrerprevarive ,475  Events Indicate Germany Must Meet the Supreme Test During the Coming Y ear

Soviets Publish British Denial   RUSSIAN PRESS REPORTS LONDON NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT FUEHRER TRIED OFFER TO ALLIES; EDEN SEES END TO POLISH CRISIS

Argentina Has — Hitler Shelter   Hull Says State Department To Deal With Such Rumors When and If U. 5S. Recognizes Bolivia.

SESE ----~-——=<C<S~SCSsi‘i‘“Csttstw™S  CURIOUS BABY DROWNS IN A RLICKET OF WATER

Hammer  Ryukyu Islands _   Planes of Third Fleet Wreak Havoc On Isles Within 200 Miles of  Japanese Homeland .

DARING U. S. RAIDS CLAIM HEAVY TOLL   89 Planes And 58 Ships Hit During Ryukvu Attacks

Navy Destroys 58 Jap Ships, 89 War Planes   Third U. S. Fleet Roams Within 200 Miles of Jap Mainland Without Ship Loss

Powerful Stroke in Pacilie   Attack Ryukyu Islands Wipe Out 89 Planes, Sink or Damage 28 Surface Craft

U. S. Third Fleet «Strikes Ryukyus South of Japan   Wipe Out 89 Planes Sink or Damage 58 Surface Craft; a Dactraver included

NIPPONESE HOME FLEET DEFIED IN DARING ACTION   U.S. 3rd Fleet Hits Ryukyus 500 Miles From China; 200 Miles South Of Japan

Bold Strike Made On the Japanese   American Third. Fleet in a - Raid on the Ryukyu Islands:   200 MILES FROM JAPAN   Eighty-Nine Enemy Planes Wiped Out and 58 Surface Craft Hit

S$ Ships—- Every Vessel In Sight-- Sunk = Or Damaged In Carrier Attack On Ryukus 200 Miles Of Japan.

U.S. Carrier Planes Blast Ryukyu Isles Near Japan   Boldest Naval Blow Of Pacific: War

38 Ships Are Sunk In Jap Territory   ‘American Third Fleet Boldly Sails Into Enemy Waters To Strike Powerful Blow

RYUKYU ISLE ARE TARGETS _ OF ATTACK   58 Jap Ships Are Sunk Or Damaged In Raid   Overwhelm Nips On Tenth Palau Island: Philippines Again Hit

ISLANDS BELOW JAPAN BLASTED   American Third Fleet Bombards Nips’ Ryukyu Isles In Heavy Force

Fleet Blasts Ryukyu Isles In Bold Raid   U. S. Carrier Planes _ Down 89 Jap Craft, Desirov SB Vessels

Fleet Strikes But 200 Miles From Japan   Ryukyu Islands Hit By Carrier Planes In Strength

ISLANDS 200 MILES FROM JAPAN RAIGED   U. S. Navy Forces Attach Ryukyu In Boldest Stab In Pacific

Carriers Hit Islands Off China Coast _   89 Planes, 58 Ships « Destroyed In Strike; 200 Milec Eram Nippor

Task Force In New Bold Raid   Strikes Heavy Blow at Jap Shipping, Islands 200 Miles South of Japan

ATTACK BY THIRD FLEET IS UNOPPOSED   Halsey's Task Force Wipes Out 89 Planes and Sinks or Damages At Least 58 Surface Craft   200 MILES OFF JAPAN

U. 8. Warships Strike Blow at Ryukyu Isles   Halsey’s Task Force Wipes Out 89 Japanese Planes, Sinks or Damage: 58 Surface Vessels

HALSEY'S FORCE TAKES BIG TOLL SHIPS, PLANES   -arrier -Based Planes And Naval Vessels Stage Terrific Assault; Destroy 58 Surface Ships, 89 Planes.

U. S. Navy Sirikes Closer to Japan   American Fleet Delivers Blow Within 200 Miles of Jap Horneland

YANKEE FLEET MAKES DARING STAB AT JAPAN   Ships. Planes Smashed In Powerful Blow At Ryukyus Istands Chain

58 Ships—Every - Vessel  “In. Sight—Sunk Or ~ Damaged. In Carrier Attack On Ryukus 200 ‘Miles OF Tanan.

Carrier Planes Hit Ryukyu Isles   Sink or Damage 58 Ships——Wipe Out 89 Planes

9 Planes Are iped Out By alsey's Men   58 Surface Craft Sunk Or Damaged; No U. S. Ship Hit

YANKS STRIKE ISLAND CHAIN NEAR JAPAN      Halsey’s Carrier Force Defies Nippon’s Home Fleet In Raid

U.S. Fleet Planes Hit At Ryukyu Attack Achieved  Without Loss of Single U. S. Ship

Bold Raid 200 Miles Off Japan   Admiral Halsey Hurls Powerful Blow Agains’ Byukvu Islands   DOWNS 89 PLANES AND 48 SHIPS   Japanese Home Fleet and Aixforce Defied; No U-S. Shins Hit

RED WARSHIPS ENTER FIORD OFF KIRKENES   Finn Gateway Town Captured; Nickel Mines Seized

YANKS DRIVING BEYOND MARNE: NAZIS FLEEING   Meaux Is Taken In Advance Within 5 Miles Of Chateau-Thierry    ‘ENEMY MAY ABANDON ROBOT COAST DEFENSE

Germans Lose Hope for Line Along Marne   One Column Drives On Chateau-Thierry, Battlefield of 1918  REIMS IS MENACED

Storm Eastward In Thirty-Mile Advance; Chase Fleeing Germans   Stab foward Sedan as Allies Pursue Nazis from Bridgeheads across the Lower Seine

World War I Battlefield entered in  30-Mile Drive; Other Third Army Troops Drive Near Reims.

45-Mile Arc of Steel Welded Near the City  ofReims BRIDGEHEADS   RAPIDLY DEEPENED  Great Wheeling Move        Great Wheeling Movement Is Now Being  Outlined -

Drive 30 Miles Toward First War's Battlefield   Third Army Forges Arc of Steel Around Reims, Vital Rail Center

CROSS MARNE IN ADVANCE OF 30 MILES   Americans’ Fast Pace Indicates Nazis Are Yielding River Barrier Without a Fight.   REIMS MENACED : BY OTHER FORCES   Trains Apparently Loaded With German Reinforcements Bombed, Some Blown Up.

45-Mile Arc of Steel Weld.  ed Near the City of Reims   sIVE-BRIDEEHEADS RAPIDLY DEEPENED  Great Wheeling Movement Is Now Being   — Qutlined »

RED POSSESSION OF POLAND MEANS DISASTER TO NAZIS   Economic Loss of First Magnitude Seen in Current Russian Drive Westward

Economic Disaster Facing ‘Germans Through Russian  Offensives In Old Poland

RUSSIAN DRIVE INTO  OLD POLAND THREAT  NAZI FOOD BASKET POLISH AREA HAS BEEN  BUILT INTO MAIN SOURCI OF SUSTENANCE 

RUSSIAN DRIVE HITS GERMAN POLISH PANTRY   Recapture of Central Core of Couniry Will Hob Nazis Of One of Principal Food Sources

Poland Loss ‘To Hurt Foe   Vast Food Supply Being Laid Waste; Country’s EFeonomie Growth Seen

GERMANS FACE ECONOMIC CRISIS IF POLAND LOST   Cond ered . Land-—- Develinté One Main © Souree of Sustenance

Economic Disaster  Confronting Nazis  Central Poland Needed By Germans

Huns Admit West Front Is j in Peril   ‘No Doubt That German Defenders Are Facing Tough Time’

STRONG FLEET OF AIRPLANES BLAST EUROPE   French Coast Is Badly Damaged; Berlin Bombed

YANK BOMBERS BEAST: HAZHLAND   Night Attacks Aimed At Invasion Coast Area

Aerial Onslaught Continues Today   NEW RECORD SET BY AMERICAN BOMBER SQUADRONS

Allies Continue Shuttle Raidings As Installations Pounded In France

Cavalry Units Pace Advance In Mountains  Two Other Soviet Armies Race Toward Ploesti and Bucharest NAZIS ADMIT GAINS  Observers Think Balkans Yill G e Liber: “ited in

REDS CROSS HUNGARIAN © BORDER LINE   Other Russian Troops Pound Toward Bucharest

SOVIET ARMIES MAKING DRIVE FOR BUCHAREST   Two Red Armies Are Pouring Through Galati Gap In Romania

RED ARMIES POUR THRU GALATI! GAP   Drive Is Expected To Free Balkans in Few Weeks

RED ARMY BREACHES GALATI GAP   German, And Romanian Troops Fighting For Bucharest

Soviet Cavalry Makes big Gain   hussians Make Drive Across Fast. Carpathians   Two Other Red Armies Pour Through  Can an Rurharact

SOVIETS DRIVE OVER BORDER OF HUNGARY   Troops Capture Braila, South

Red Forces Cross Hungary Border, Drive on Ploesti   Hitler Launches Attack on Romanian Capital

TwoRed Armies Press Ploesti And Bucharest   German And Romanian Troops Fight: Germany Claims Carpathians Held

Soviet Spearhead Pierces Outer Ploesti Defenses   Pour Thru Galati Gap In Offensive To Free Balkans

Cossacks Hack Way Across Carpathians To Peril Reich Ally   Flood-Tide of Russians Engulfs Much of Eastern Romania; Fight For Bucharest Control Imminent

Reds Cross Hungarian Border  Two Other Russian Armies   Two Other Russian Armies Pour Through Galati Gap

Germans Admit Red Crossing of Hungary Border   Russian Armies Pour Thraugh Galati Gap In Large Numbers

Reds Pouring Into Central Romania   Balkans May Be Free in Few Weeks

LIQUIDATE JAPS   Indian Campaign Now Re vealed As Miserable Fail ure,

Japs Lose 750 Men fn 3 Day Fight At Kehima: Nippons On Offensive

HOLD NUMBERS SUSPECT AFTER OFFICERS’ VISIT      ‘Lincoln Avenue Resident Gives Bond; Two Others Are Cleared Here

BERLIN’S EVACUATION ORDERED BY NAZIS   “Many Important Buildings” Smashed Br Devastating Raid On Capital Last Week

Heavy Bombers Again Attack. Western Reich   Lighter Planes Attack French Invasien Coast  23rd Time in 25 Days

GERMANY IS TARGET FOR HEAVY BOMBS   Of American Airforce While Other Groups Bomb French Invasion Coast; Heavy Escort.   Raid Sofia

Raid Supported by Strong Escort of New Far-Ranging Mustang Fighters—Localities in Normandy Bombed; Vichy Reports

U.S. heavies striking wes'  reich hard   Raiders hit most productive area

French Coast Raided hy Huge Bombers   Western Germany Also Given Heavy Pasting

Western Germany Subjected to New Atfack by American Heavy Bombers

AMERICANS BOMB WEST GERMANY, DOWN 21 PLANES   French Invasion Coast Under. goes Its Twenty-Third Attack in Twenty-Five Bays.   ALLIES LOSE 13 CRAFT IN DAW’S OPERATION   Nazis Say They Frustrated Attempt to Blast: Sofia and Bagged Number of Raiders.

Coast ‘Targets Again Blasted By US. Fliers   Raid Supported by Strong Escort of New For-Ranging ’ Mustang Fighters—Localities in Normandy Bombed; Vichy Reports

Yank Bombers  Hammer at Western Reich   Other Planes Raid French Invasion Area; 21 Aircraft Bagged

HEAVY BOMBERS BOMBARD WEST GERMANY AGAIN   21 Enemy Aircraft Are Shot Down By Allies

Yank Heavy Bombers Raid  Targets In Western Germany  Hundreds Of Medium And Fighter Bombers Attack French Invasion Coast: Loss Slight

‘BOMBER PLANES BLAST WEST GERMAN TARGETS, FRENCH INVASION COAST   Raid Into Reich’s Most Productive Indus trial Area Supported By Strong Escort; Allies Lose 13 Planes 

Heavies Smash Western Reich   Marauders Assail Targets  Tm Navetheaess Deomnn

Messages May Be Sent To U.S. Prisoners Of War Liberated In Philippines

Bricker Says New Deal Has Failed To Break a Decade of Depression

‘Is New Deal Planning to Keep Our Men in the Army and Navy to Meet Postwar Unemployment Preblem? ---Bricker

Bricker Blasts New Deal Labor, Post-War Plans   Tells Pittsburghers Bigger Debts Won't Aid Future 

Bold Move By Huge American Warship _Convoy-Unlocks—Sea—Approaches’ To  China: Prepare For Jap Reaction.   Filipmos Give Rousing Welcome

SEA APPROAG TO CHINA I UNLOCKED   300 Jap Planes Shot Down By Carrier Force   Air-Sea Battle Is Raging Off Island: Land 155 Miles From Manila

Splits Jap Forces on Philippines   Sailing 690 Miles to Northwest From Leyte Troops Swarm Ashore Practically Unopposed

Make Surprise And Bloedless Mindore Entry   Huge 20-Mile-Long Con. voy Moves 600 Miles Among Enemy Islands  for New Invasion   Boldest Stroke OF Pacific War   Tokyo Claims Violent Sea and Air Battle Is Raging Off Newly Invaded Island

A Huge 20-Mile Long American Warship Convoy Moved -600 Miles Among Enemy Islands.   JAPS LOST UPWARDS OF 300 AIRCRAFT   Landing Point Is Only 150 Miles From Manila, MacArthur’s Headquarters Disclosed Today.

LOSSES LIGHT IN MINDORO ISLE ATTACK   Friday Landing Within 155 Miles of Manila Unlocks Sea Approaches to China—Japs Report a Bio Air-Sea Battle.

Bold Stroke Aimed at Dominating Sea and Air Routes to China   300 Jap Planes Knocked Out In Preliminaries; Filipino Guerrillas Swarm Beachheails as Rockets and Bombs Chase Enemy

Little Loss-in Making Landing   Filipino Guerrillas Seize Airfields and Help Invadérs.

M’Arthur Holds Way to China   Boldest Stroke of Pacific Wor Opens Routes to Cathay and Pinches Off Bulk of Nippon’s Early Conquests

Bold Stroke Gains Foothold _ Within 155 Miles of  Manila      ISLAND GROUP. SPLIT   New Base on West Side of Archipelago Faces China Coast

Little Loss As Men Swarm Ashore; 300 Jap Planes Downed; Philippines Split

Land With Little Loss Within 155 Miles Of Manila   Termed Boldest Amphibious Stroke Of Pacific War

TEMPERATURES:   New Beachhead 135 Miles From Manila Seized   Pacific War's Baldest Stroke Finds Japs Napping

Huge Convoy Lands Mechanized Forces On Mindoro Island   Guerrillas Aid In Operations, No Loss Reported

DARING THRUST IS EFFECTED WITH STUNNING EASE  AaLsCOIPANC QOVEDROIIN   AMERICANS OVERRUN THREE BEACHHEADS, 155 MI. FROM MANILA

Sea Approaches to China Secured By Landings; Japs Report Big Sea-Air Fight

—PACI FIC—   Americans Storm Shore On Mindoro, Only 155  Miles From Manjla     Twenty-Mile-Long U.S. Warship Convoy, Moves 600 Miles To Stage Boldest Amphibious Stroke Of Pacific War: China Coast Onened

Yanks Knock Out 300 Nippon Planes   20-Mile-Long U. S. Warship Convoy Lands Troops On Philippine Island Only 155 Miles From Manila; Initial Loss Small   laps Flee Inland.

Huge Convoy Took Yanks ToMindoro   Bold Strike Unlocks Sea Approaches To Southern China

20-Mile Warship  Convoy Carries Men   Bold Effort Sails Unmolested To Beaches, Unlocks Approaches By Sea to Embattled China

AMERICAN CONVOY. TWENTY MILES LONG, LAND TROOPS FORCE  SHIPS MOVE 500 MILES THROUGH JAP-HELD ISLE! WITH LITTLE LOSS

fase Yank Force Invades Mindoro 150 Miles South of Manila; Boldest Stroke of Pacific War Meets Little Opposition; Shred Japan’s Air Force

Yanks Swarm Ashore on Mindoro   Big Convoy Puts Men on Island ,155 Miles  From Manila

Light Losses Encountered  At Mindoro   Big Plane Umbrella Down 300 Japs; Convoy Stretches 20 Miles

6th Army Men Swarm Ashore On 3 Beaches; Losses Light   U. S., Filipino Guerrillas K. O. Airfields, Ports in Convoy's Path

HUGE AMERICAN CONVOY MOVES 600 MILES ALONG PHILIPPINE COAST TO TAKE JAPS BY SURPRISE IN DARING NEW LANDINGS

Little Loss Sustained In New Landings   Twenty - mile-long Convoy srines Swarm of Yank Troops to Mindoro, Only 155 Miles from Manila.

Americans Hit Beach Virtually Unopposed   3 Strong Beachheads Established; 300 Enemy Planes Razed in Raids

Hurdle 600 Miles; -ManilaNowNearby; Hold 3 Beachheads   Sea Approaches To China Opened By Capture Of Mindoro Island; Natives Aid Amphibious Force

TANKS INVADE ~ MINDORO ISLE   Huge Convoy Takes Japs By Surprise; Filipino ’ Guerillas Help.  ra   ISLAND GROUP IS CUT

Great Air Umbrella For Troop:   Men Swarm - Ashore With Little Loss; 300 Jap Planes Destroyed   ‘VIOLENT ENEMY REACTION EXPECTED   Great Operation Slashes  Enemy Sea, Air Routes ty the China Coast

LANDINGS MADE ON MINDORO BY CONVOY FORCE   Opposition Light as Move Cuts Japs on Leyte Off; Manila 155 Miles Away

Mechanized Forces'Swarm Ashore. On Mindoro As MacArthur Opens New Invasion Thrust Into Philippines—Convoy Twenty Miles Long Moves 600 Miles.”

Mines and Ack-Ack Guns Give Beach In Italy That “Different” Touch .

 Japs Lack Sea And Air Power To Meet Attacks— —By Kirke L. Simpson   Lack Of Manpower Forces German Retreats

CIO Communist Party Of Future   Dies Says His Group Ahead Of Times

Dies Defends ‘Work of Group   Says It Will Go Down in History as Important Investigation

Dies Predicts Clo To Become US Red Party   Retiring Solon Says His Investigations “Most Important”

DIES DEFENDS HIS COMMITTEE AND ITS WORK   Declares CIO is Communist Party of America, Says History Will Vindi cate Committee Work

CONGRESSMAN DIES SAYS CIO TO BECOME COMMUNIST PARTY  TEXAN SAYS UN-AMERICAI COMMITTEE PROBES REEN IMPORTANT

The MARCH OF TIME TIME  Prepared by the Edi <a TIME The Week kivw Newsrnaca   DIES CHARGES CIO LINKED WITH RUSSIA

FOR ‘WILL LAUNCH CAMPAIGN SEPT, 23   President to Address La. bor Group i in Wash-- : ~ ington”

FOR WILL LAUNCH  CAMPAIGN SEPT. 23   President to Address Lea_ bor Group in Wash, inaton __

Russia Sets New Trap for  Nazi Armies   250,000 Are Endangered By Cutting of Leningrad Railway Escape

Russian Forces Cut Escape Line _ Near Leningrac      Jermans Reported Herded:      "Pa ward ‘Fstonia: Border

RAIL HUBS SEIZED  Telling Blows Struck at Axis Communication  Qyeetam

250,000 Germans May Be Trapped By Two Armies South Of Freed City

Nazi Escape Railway Is Cut by Reds   250,000 German Troops Facing Entrapment by 2 Soviet Armies

Russians Cut Another Nazi Escape Route   Threat of Entrapment Increases in Fight Below Leningrad

250,000 Nazis Face Russian Entrapment   Reds Advancing Around Leningrad Drive Enemy

290,000 NAZIS ARE IN DANGER OF ENTRAPMENT   Germans Being Herded West and Southwest Toward Estonian  Border By Two Rus sian Armies.

F ete —RUSSIA—. Principal Nazi Escape Railway Cut By Soviets      German Atmy Of 250,000 Facing Possible Entrap_ ment By Two Red’ Armies South Of Russia’s ’- Second City: Supply Lines Severed

Soviets Sever Vital Railway Escape Route   Quarter Of A Million Nazis Now Facing Entrapment In North.

SOVIET TROOPS CLOSING IN ON GERMAN ARMY   Reds Sever Principal Nazi Escape Railway West Of Leningrad

NAZIS FIGHTING HARD TO AVOID ENCIRCLEMENT   Estimated 250,000 German Troops in Northern Area in Danger of Entrap ment

250,000 FACING IBLE TRAP IN NORTH AREA   Principal Escape  ~ R. R. West of Leningrad Sector is Severed

RUSSIANS CUT RAIL LINE AND MANY NAZI FAGE ENTRAPMENT  RETREATING GERMANS  ARE HERDED WEST

TRAP CLOSIN( ON 290,000 GERMANS   Two Armies Are Pressing Semi-Circle Tighter   1,500 NAZIS   Killed Around Smolkovo; Pushkin, Paviovsk, Other Towns Fall

NAZI ESCAPE RAILWAY CUT BY RED FORCES   Junction Of Two Armies Tightens Ring Around 250.000 German Troops

250,000 GERMAN TROOPS FACE ENTRAPMENT   Elaborate Nazi Com: munications S¥stem Being Wrecked

Soviets Sever German Eseape  Rails In West   Nazi Army Estimates At Least 250,000 Face Possible Entrapment,   KILL 1500 NAZIS

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON GERMANS FACING TRAP   Russians Kill 2,300 Enemy Troops in New Northern Offensive

Yankees Rain Bombs on Reich  In‘ Bad: Weathe      ltalian,- Based Plaues Par licipating; Suow. Preyents Air Support On ~ : West Front

U.S. Heavy Planes Over Reich Again; RAF Also Ou   But Snow, Sleet And Clouds Interfere With Close Support Of Ground Forces

BOMBERS RAID IN DULL SKIES   Flying Fortresses And Liberators Active; Germany Reports Attacks By Italian-Based Planes.

‘Missiles Hit 10 Hospitals Southern England and his Have 14- Sa Robot Bomb Raid

(0 HOSPITALS HIT ~ BY NAZI ROBOTS   LONDON AND SOUTHERN ENGLAND ARE SUBJECTED TO A 14-HOUR ATTACK.

DETAINED AS AN ARGENTINE SPY;   Osmar Alberto Hellmuth, z Consul for South American Nation, Held by British.

Churchill to Warn of New  Nazi Terror   Secret Weapons to Be Used Against England Seen Likely

Major Carl Beckham Victim Of Flak; Plane Afire As It Was Last Seen

Daytime Blackout  In Entire Regior  Smoke And Fog Delay: Traffic

NAZI RAIL HUBS HEAVILY BOMBED   ALLIES OPEN AIR DRIVE TO CUT OFF SUPPLIES MOVING TO GERMAN FRONT.

Citrus Ceilings Set By OPA; To Sell By Pound:   All Prices ‘Prior Ti Retail’ Cut

OPA Acs To Trim Citrus Fruit Cost   New Ceiling Prices To Affect Customers in March

Tank-Supported German Infantry in Attacks; Heavy Artillery Duel Is Staged Throughout Day

BAD WEATHER HELPS NAZIS   Not a Plane Leaves Britain For Battle Areas; Raids Made From Italy

Italian-Based Planes Attack Balkan Area   Soupy Weather Keeps All Allied Planes in Britain on Ground  Aiding Nazis’ Forces

Navy Taken To Task For Officer Ads   Congressman Says Many Officer Candidates Are Being Misled

IVE MEN TO . LEAVE MONDAY   First Group To Leave For Service Under New Svatem.

CHILD HIT BY AUTO   Shirley Jean Shoemaker Injured in -_ Front of Midland Store

TextOf Message   President, In Annual Message, Urges National Service Act, Realistic Tax Law And : Cost Of Food Law

BELIEVED NELSON T0 BECOME ANOTHER AIDE TO ROOSEVELT  MAY BE FREE LANCE IN   MAY BE FREE LANCE IN HELPING RESTORE RAVAGED WORLD ECONOMICS

NELSON SLATED FOR HIGH POST   May Direct Restoration of Ravaged Nations’ Economies

Nelson May Be Special Envoy For President   May Be in Charge Of Seeing to Needs Of China and Other Nations

FAD.R. CREATING POST FOR NELSOK   Expected: To Become One Of -President’s' Person: ‘al Aides

NELSON SLATED FOR NEW POST   EXPECTED TO WORK ALONE OUTSIDE OF EXISTING AGENCIES

NELSON EXPECTED TO BE APPOINTED TO SPECIAL WORK   Former. WPB. Chief Likely -To Be Aidé to FDR in World Trade Capacity

Nelson Slated “To Join Staff. Of President   Former WPB Chairman May Help Restore Ravaged Economies Other Countries

BELIEVED NELSON TO BECOME ANOTHER AIDE T0 ROOSEVELT  MAY BE FREE LANCE IN HELPING RESTORE RAVACEND WoReIn eronowire

Slate Nelson For Foreign Rehabilitation   ‘Would Help Restore Rav aged Economies; Build Up U.S. Trade

Nelson Appears Headed for Ravagec Economies Post   To Direct Restoration Of Other Countries, Become Customers

IMPORTANT JOB TO BE GIVEN TC EX-WPB CHIEF   Donald Nelson Expected Tc Handle U. S. Interest in Rebuilding Europe

Say Nelson To Be Given Post As F.D.R. Aide  Former WPB Chief   Former WPB Chief Tipped To Aid in Ravaged Europe

Nelson ToBe Emissary of Roosevelt   Is Probable, But the Measure Faces Long, Hard Legislative Fight:

Slate Nelson For Foreign Rehabilitation   Would Help Restore Ravaged Economies; Build Up U.S. Trade   BY STERLING F. GREEN

Nelson, Out as WPB Chairman, Is Due for Adoption as FDR's Personal Aide

Overseas Trade Post Seen For Donald Nelson   Restoration Of Economies In Ravaged Lands  Dunk Ce. fe

DONALD NELSON APPEARS HEADED FOR NEW POST   May Direct Restoration of Ravaged Nations’ Economies

Nelson May Join Emissaries In Aiding Europe   New Job To Be Importan! In Paving Way For Economic Cooperation.

Applications To Be Received   Postmastership at Marietta Pays $2400 Yearly, Announced

Germans Predict Allies Will Land Near Dunkerque   Say New Divisions Are Ready To Fight

BELGIAN COAS} PUSH PREDICTEL   Berlin Says s Allies Are Poised For Additional Landings Soon

Nazis Predict That Allies to  Invade Belgium   Landing Attempt to Start in Few Days, German Radio Says

Drive Two More Wedges Into Nazi Lines Close To  To Prussian Borde

Reds Tighten Noose About Foe In Baltic   Three Soviet Armies Closing In On Riga For Biggest Kill, While Another Drive Being-Pointed At Warsaw From South.

Reds Draw Noose Around Germany's Baltic Forces   Deeper. Wedge Driver Through ‘Poland to German-Silesia

Noose Tightened By Red Soldiers   Russians Smash Deep Wedge Thru Poland Toward Naiz Silesia   FROM 3 DIRECTIONS   Soviet Troops Advancing  Against Desperate Counterattacks

Noose Around Baltic Forces Is Tightened   Deep Wedge Driven By Russian Troops Toward German Silesia West Of Vistula River

Reas Tighten Baltic Noose; Smash Westward   Drive on Riga May Net Biggest Kill Of New Campaign

Soviets Break Defenses of Kast Prussia   Tighten Noose Around 250,000 Germans in  Ralife Canntrioa

Red Armies Tighten Noose Around Nazis In Polish Zone; From Three Directions Drive On Riga For Summer's:Big ‘Killing’

Reds Tightening Trap On Nazis In Baltic Area   Russian Forces Push North From Their Vistula Bridgehead In Warsaw Threat

Russ Tighten Noose Around Baltic Forees   Three Soviet Columns Are Driving on Riga

NAZIS BATTLE DEOPERATELY TOHALT REDS   Three Russ Columns Driving on Riga Closing Trap on Germans.

TIGHTEN NOOSE ABOUT GERMAN BALTIC FORCES   Russians Press oh From Riga for Possible Biggest Kill

THREE SOVIET ARMIES. DRIVE TOWARD RIGA   Heavily Armored Enemy Units Falling Back From Latvian Capital Before  Red Advances   WEDGES INTO POLAND

20 Divisions Of Nazis in Russian Net   Reds Draw Noose On 300,000; Push Toward Silesia

‘Heavy German Counterattacks Slow Red Army   Three Soviet Columns Press Close To Riga; Many New German Officers On Eastern Front

Furious Nazi Counter Blow: ‘Hurled Back   Wedge Widened In Fighting West Of Vistula River

RIGA UNDER THREAT OF RUSSIANS   Big Encirclement Of Enemy Is In View; New Gains Cited

UP TO 300.080 GERMANS NOW ENDANGERED IN NORTH BY RED ARMIES TIGHTENING PINCERS   Russians Declare Germans Being “Bled White” All Along Front and German Defenses on East Prussian Frontier Reported Broken. New Germa Disasters Relieved Imnendinge

Russians Tig dten Noose Around Once-. ‘ywertul German Forces tn. Baltics

PRESS ON RIGE FROM THREE DIRECTIONS   Counterattacks Cost Nazis : Heavy Casualties   ENEMY FIGHTS   To Keep Soviets From East Prussia: Radviliskis Falls To Russians

OTHER TROOPS TIGHTEN TRAP ALONG BALTIC   Soviets May Make Greatest Kill Of Summer In Push Aaainst Riga Sector

Reds Tighten Noose Arounc Baltic Units   Smash Deeper Wedge Through Poland Toward  German Silesia

Nazi Atacks Slow Down  Red Advance   Counterattacking on All Sectors; Moscow Silent on Warsaw

Nazis Bring Up Reserves on East Front   Desperate Effort Being Made to Keep Reds From German Soil

Red Noose ls Drawn Tighter   Believe Twenty German Divisions Trapped in Baltic States Are Doomed

Reds Tighten Noose Around Baltic Force    Smash Deeper Through Poland, Close in on Riga From Three Sides

THREE SOVIET UNITS THRUST TOWARD RIGA   Russians Drive Deeper Into Poland From Vistula River

Russians Tighten Noose Around Foe   Thousands of Germans Are Trapped On Baltic Front by Troops of Soviet

Noose Drawn On Trapped  Baltic Armies   ‘Soviets Press on Riga For Biggest Kill of Summer Drive

Report Reds Break Into Prussian Defense Line   Three Soviet Columns Advancing On Riga; Many Nazi Reserves Are Entering Rattles

TIGHTEN NOOSE ON GERMANS IN BALTIC SECTOR   3 Russian Columns Press on Riga; Nazis Trv Counter-Attacks

Reds May Trap 20  Divisions   Noose is Tightened ' Around Baltic Area As Battle Rages .  Near Nazi Borders

SOVIETS PLUNGE THROUGH ENEMY   Reds Tighten Net Around Thousands of Germans’ Baltic Troops

°Reds Launch Drive .On Latyian Capital; Nazis Falling Back   Russian Army Tightening Noose Around German Baltic Forces . After Repulsino Counter-Blows

TIGHTEN GRIP IN BALTIC AREA   German Forces in Area Estimated at More Than 90 Divisions.   MAY BE BIGGEST KILL

Russian Army Tightens Grip In The Baltic   Deeper Wedge Smashed Through Polish Territory

Reds Tighfen Noose Around Baltic Forces   Moscow Believes More Than 20 Nazi Divisions Trapped; Germans Drive Deep Wedge Into Poland

TIGHTEN NOOSE AROUND GERMAN BALTIC FORCES   ESTIMATE TWENTY DIVISIONS MAY BE TRAPPED BY REDS

Reds’ Noose Is Tightened About Nazis’ Baltic Army   Deeper Wedye. Made Oa Polish Warfront

Russian Army Stubbornly  Goes Forward   Drive from South May be Pointed Toward Warsaw

Reds Tighten Noose Around Baltic Forces   Smash Deeper Wedge ~ Through Poland Toward German Silesia.  eToOP Col NTER ATTACKS

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Russian Forces _ Tighten Noose On Baltie Nazis   Push On Riga From West ‘or What May Be To Kill Of Summer Drive

Smash Deeper Wedge Toward  German Silesia   Soviet Columns  Press on Riga As Germans Fling in Reserve Divisions

SOVIET ARMIES TIGHTEN NOOSE AROUND NAZIS  Bigges st Kill Of x Fichtinge   Biggest Kill Of Summer Fighting Is Reported

REDS TIGHTEN TRAP ON NAZI BALTIC FORCES   Soviets Extend Polish Wedge in Drive Toward German Silesia

Big Plane Factory Knocked Out In France;  Germans Fleeing Berlin

Nip Airdromes on Celehes  Isle Blasted  Carrier Aircraft c Poe a    Carrier Aircraft Smash at Halmahera Base

Nip Airdromes on Celehes Isle Blasted   Carrier Aircraft Smash at Helmahere Base

Bombers Blast Six Jap Planes In Wake Attack   Nauru Raided While New Blows Struck at Nip-Held Marshalls

SO Fp Mars SE Fh Saree amescwame seen ee ome  Navy Liberators Hit Wake for 14th Time

AIR ATTACK MADE ON WAKE ISLAND   Raid Made by Liberator Bombers -—Six Planes on Ground Prohahliv Nostroved.

WAKE ISLAND HIT BY U. S. BOMBERS   Fourteenth Raid on- Enemy Bases Is Announced

WAKE ISLAND BOMBED AGAIN   Six Grounded Jap Planes Destroyed in Raid by Navy Planes

NELSON TO REPORT ON TRIP TO CHINA   Former WPB- Chairman’ Brings Back Kecommendations From Chiane Kai-Shek

WPB CHAIRMAN RETURNS HOME   Nelson To Make Report Tc -_ FDR On China Mission

HUT MALI  IN AREA UF MONASTERY   Smash at Bastions of Hitler Line  comer eset  MANY PRISONERS  Air Fleet Continues To Aid Doughboys

Nazi Attack at Aachen Repulsed   Effort fo Relieve Garrison Inside Besieged City Again Proves Futile

UP-T0- PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service  NAZI INFANTRY STAGES SAVAGE COUNTER-ATTACK

FIGHTING CONTINUES   Yanks Make Gruelling Progress From House to House

RAIL WORKERS HIT BYRNES IN WAGE DISPUTE   Unions Withdraw De. mands from FDR Arbitration

Non-Operating Unions Refuse Arbitration   Put Blame on Byrnes; Army Railroad Control To Continue Indefinitely

WHITE HOUSE ARBITRATION IS REPUDIATED   Non - Operating Railroad Unions Blame Byrnes For Failure To Settle Row

"Rail Union » Leaders Place Blame on Byrnes   Withdraw Wage Demands for Arbitration by Roosevelt

RAIL MEN STAND PAT IN WAGE FIGHT   BLAME BEXRNES FOR FAILURE TO OBTAIN A SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT.

t( Dsious Rap Mobilizaticn  Director Byrnes   Non-Operating Groups Withdraw from  Roosevelt Arbitration

‘ailmen Aver Byrnes Balks  Union Claim:   15 Unions Rescind Plans To Allow President he Maen Arbttnn

Rail Unions Slap Byrnes   Arbitration Plan Is Withdrawn By Chiefs

EDGAR HOLLAND TO TRIAL IN JANUARY   Alleged Killer of Wife Found Headless in Lake’ of Ozarks, At Liberty Under Bond.

BRITISH LAND BEHIND JAPS IN BURMA   Hand-Picked Yankee Glider Pilots Haul in Large Force

AMERICANS AND BRITISH SUC. CESSFULLY STAGE SPECTACULAR AIRBORNE INVASION. IN JUNGLE OF FAR EAST

Punishment For Germany Now an Issue  Results of Invasion  Will Have Bearing

Allied Fliers Seek fo Check German Drive   American Fighters And Bombers Shoot Down 106 German Planes in Combat

Air Might Of Allies: Thi own   Against Nazis   More Than 400 Bomber: and More Than 1,000 Fighters Pound Marshal Yon Rundstedt’s Lines

LAST RITES HELD FOR AL SMITH   Dewey and Lehman Among Those Paying Respects

Thousands Pay Final Two Elyrians Are Respects To Al Smith  Inducted Into Navy

‘ From East Side And West Side .. . Little People And Big Honor ‘Al’ Smith

YANKS IN BURMA BLOCKADE JAPS   Threaten Extinction of 2,000 Nips

TEHRAN PLANS NOW IN EFFECT, SAYS CHURCHILL   Claims Time Between Defeat of Germany, Japan Will Be Short

Churchill Sees World Triumphs Of Allied Arms   Predicts Shorter Pacific War

Churchill Tells of Allied Gains  Sees Japan's Defeat Earlier Than Expectec

JS. Airmen Shoot Down 125 Nazi Planes In Ulm, Friedrickshaten Raids   Cassino In  Allied Hands   '410U.S.Paratroopers Mistaken For Enemy Slair

U.S. Flyers Bag 125 Nazi Craft During Day Contest   Forays Continuing Against Enemy Area

AIR ATTACKS CONTINUING   Southern Reich, French Transport Lines Assaulted

BIG BATTLES OVER REICH   Germans Send Up Strong Force Black Painted Night Fighters To Ward Off Davlight Attacks

Nazi Defense Air Force Hit Crushing Blow   Americans Shoot Down 125 Enemy Planes In Raid GQver Germany

U.S. GUNNERS DOWN 125 NAZI FIGHTER PLANES   Huns Send Up Night Defense Planes to Battle Daylight Attackers

Down 125 Enemy Planes   Friedrickshaven, Uln And Tire Factory Battered.

125 Planes Bagged In Raid On Germany   Aerial Squeeze Applied To Nazis as Air War Stepped Up—Not One Plane Lost in Last Night Assault by British Force

U.S. AIRMEN DOWNED 125 NAZIS IN RAID   12 American Fighters Losi, 22 Bombers Fail to Return but Seven Landed in Switzerland   VIENNA BLASTED   Bombers from Italy Strike Military Objectives in Old Austria, Meet No Fighters

U.S. Airmen In Another Big Raid   48 GERMAN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN BY YANKS

Powerful Raid Yesterday Takes Heavy Nazi Toll   34 American Planes Fail To Retura From: Daylight. Onslaught On Southern _ Germany — RAF Follows Up With Blows Last Night On Nazi Transport. in Brance.

Americans Down 125 Foe Planes; Largest French Tire Factory Is Blasted

125 German Planes Shot  DownBy U.S On Thursday   Bomber Gunners Got 48 And Fighters 77; Enemy Transportation In France Hit Rv RAR

125 GERMAN PLANES DESTROYEDING. 8. RAID ON AUGSBURG   Ulm Also Attacked By ‘Heavy Force Which Loses 12 Fighters, 22 Bombers   RAF MAKES NIGHT RAIDS

125 NAZIPLANES BAGGED DURING THURSDAY RAID   Americans Chop Big Slice From Hitler's Defensive Air Power In One Day; AIllied Raids on Europe Continue.

U. 5. Airmen Bag 125 Nazi Planes In Daylight Raid   Americans Pound Targets At Ulm, Friedrickshafen

AMERICANS MOP UP IN MARSHALS   NIMITZ ANNOUNCES ORGANIZED RESISTANCE ON KWA+. JALEIN HAS CEASED.

Organized Resistance Ends On The Atoll Of Kwajalein   Capture and Occupation Completed, Admiral Ches ter Nimitz Reports—End of Operation Comes Eight Days After Attack

WITH ONE EXCEPTION ALL INCUMBENTS ARE RE-ELECTED IN GRADY COUNTY PRIMARY ELECTION HELD WEDNESDAY   23 Candidates Sought 12 Offices and Several Contests were Spirited. County Commissioner .  J. Dollar Defeated by W. E. Wamble

GRADY VOTERS RETURN ALL INCUMBENT OFFICE HOLDERS WITH A SINGLE EXCEPTION

ANGLO-AMERICAN     ALL ALONG FRONT   British Night Bombers Join'in  Assault on Foe—Use of” Armor Hampered by Rain and Mud.          YANKS ADVANCE 200 YARDS AT CASSINO:   Threat Made to Turn Guns‘on  Nearby Monastery Used  by Germans as MachineGun. Stronghold.

British Night Bombers Join Attack on Nazis   Cassino Battle Due To Break Into New Fury At Any Moment; Monks Warned To Leave German Held Monte Cassino

NIGHT BOMBERS AlD FIFTH ARMY   Join Yanks in ’Round-theClock Assaults on Nazis   GROUND ACTION LULLS   Little Activity in the Cassino Area as Germans Seek Truce to Bury Dead

Night Bombers Join Aerial . Attack On Ring Of Germans   Devastating Assaults Resumed as ‘Warning Given to Moriks.and Italians to Get Out of Abbey ~ Monte Cassino. at Once

800 Sorties Are Flown Against Nazis   Allies Reveal Plans To Shell Old Abbey  Overlooking Cassino  GERMANS BURY DEAD

Ground Fighting Slackens as Heavy Bombers Pound Foe Lines; Little ~ Activity in Cassino Sector

Return of Good Weather Helps Save Beachhead   Monks Gel Warning To Leave Monastery

‘Pressure Lets Up At Anzio   Giant Bombers Join Fright; Abbey Hill In South Warned

GROUND FIGHTING SLACKENS SOMEWHAT; DROP LEAFLETS ON MT. CASSINO ABBEY WARNING INHABITANTS TO FLEE.   (Rv JOSEPH DYNAN)

BOARDS DEMAND ~/-A MEN TESTED   Even Men Who Have Appeal ed Must Take Physical  Evaminatinne

FER. sPlans in Fluid State   Three Engagements to Speak May Later Be Extended, It Is Said

FD.R. Campaign Plans Are Fluid   Number of Talks  is Kept Secret

Hull Visions Liberty for All Nations   Staiement Seen As Portent For Colonies

HULL ASSERTS U. S.. LIBERTY CHAMPION   Reassurance Given to the Small Nations by Secretary

Hull ‘Needles’ British, Dutch   Says U. S$. Champion Of Liberty for All

TEXAS OIL FIELDS EXPECTED TO POUR MILLIONS OF BARRELS OIL INTO WAR AND DOMESTIC USES

NO FUEL OIL SURPLUS   Will Be No Early Increase in This Section of Country

TAFT SUGGESTS DRAFT PROGRAM   Ohioan Seeks Permanent Classifications

FDR Only Smiles At Gov. Dewey   President Gives Silent Reply To GOP Candidates Claim.

Roosevelt Smiles At Dewey Charge   President Admits He'd Like to Retire

Roosevelt Made Speechless By Dewey Address   Given Opportunity To Counter Accusation, FR  Could Only Smile

Nazi Airdromes Hit By Nearly 2,000 Bombers   Allied Air Campaign Gains New Pitch In 23rd Successive Day

Giant Fleet ~ Of Bombers  - Hits Europe   2000 Planes Are Used In Twenty-Fifth Day Of Raiding

Teday’s Air Blows May Be Heaviest Of Entire War   Great Fleet Of U.S. Heavies Hits Ten Separate Targets; £500 Out Vesterday

Allied Raids Enter 25th Straight Day   Shuttle Assaults Continue to Rock French Seacoast

2,000 AMERICAN PLANES BATTER NAZI LIFELINES   Railways And Airdromes In France, Belgium And Luxembourg Are Attacked; Hitler Getting Non-Stop Bomb  ervice.

AIR OFFENSIVE CARRIED INTO 25TH DAY   Hit 10 Targets In France, Belgium, Luxembourg   Blast Germany By Night; Mediterranean Planes Grounded By Weather

2,000 es any OUT Bi RAIDS   Exceptional Activity by Air Fleets Over Channel Is Observed

Yankees Smash Nazi Railroads And Airdromes   More Than 2000 Planes Hit Targets in France, Belgium, Luxembourg; Liege Rail Yards Hit

Strike at Railroads, Airdromes of Europe   Mighty Daylight Blows Follew Heavy Attacks During Night By R.A.F. Bombers; Little Flak, Fighter Oposition

10 Separate Targets Feel Air Attacks   Nearly 2,000 American Planes Used in Assault

Hit France, Belgium And  Luxembourg   Great Fleet Sticks To 10 Separate Targets In Three Countries.   SEE HEAVEEST DAY

2,000 Yank Planes Batter Airdromes in Nazi-Occupied Areas   Huge Aerial Fleets Sway Back And Forth Over Channel Today

2,000 Planes Again Smash Nazi Targets   Twenty-fifth Day of Pre-Invasion Raids May Be Greatest Yel

1,000 HEAVY BOMBERS HIT NAZI DROMES   Aerial Campaign Reaches New Pitch Today

France, belgium AndLuxembour§ ” Hit On 25th Day   10 Separate Targets In 3 Countries Bombed By Fortresses, Liberators

Air Offensive Tempo Mounts Across Channel   Americans Hurl 2000 Planes at Enemy in Europe

10 TARGETS IN EUROPE HAMMERED   2000 U. S. Planes Car. ry Non-Stop Blows Into 25th Day

mmrdk EY OPP hd  LAGSH TARGETS Ih THREE COUNTIES   ‘Railroads And Airdromes HitIn 25th Day On Non-Stop Raids   REICH ASSAILED   Today May Be Heaviest Day In Huge Allied Air  Campaign

PLANES STRIKE AGAIN AT NAZI WAR SUPPLIES   ‘American Air Force Attacks 10 Separate Targets in Three Countries.

AIRDROMES AND AALS TARGETS   Nearly 2,000 Planes Hit Objectives in France, Belgium, Luxembourg,   CHANNEL ACTION HEAVY

Airdromes, Rail Yards Are Blasted   Targets in France, Bel. gium and Holland Hit by 1,000 Heavy Bombers

Rail Points, Airdromes  Are Targets Of Big Raid   France, Luxembourg And Belgium Visited

Military Objectives In France, Beigium And Luxembourg Bombed By Nearly 2,000 American Air Force Planes From Bases In Britain As Non-Stop Pre-Invasion Offensive Extends Into 25th Day—Mighty Daylight  Blows Follow Heavy Nocturnal Operations.

AIRDROMES, RAIL CENTERS BOMBED BEFORE INVASION   Targets In Large Triangle Important to Defense of Coast, Littie Opposition Is Offered,   GERMANS FALL BACK 10 MILES IN ITALY   Bridges and Tunnels Blown Up With Retirement Under Heavy Fire Countered By Allied Guns.

2,000 Planes Hit Nazi Targets Again  Roilvards. Airfields   Railyards, Airfields In France and Germany Assaulted

Yankees Cover Three Nations In New Attacks,   Railroads and Airdromes In France, Belgium and Luxembourg Ripped Up By Explosives   Raids Carried Out Throughout Nighi   judging From Channel Ac livity, Today May Be the Heaviest Day of Huge Air Campaien

T SEVEN = AIRFIELDS, RAIL YARDS      Blows Staged by  P 006 Planes in France atid:         Belgium in What M Be Biggest Day Oper tion of the War. 

AIRFIELDS AND R.R. YARDS HIT BY AMERICANS   Targets in Belgium Luxembourg, France Are Hammered

GREATEST RAID OF WAR STAGED DURING NIGHT   Allies Enter 25th Consecutive Day  Of Air Raids

10 TARGETS HIT IN 3 NATIONS BY U. S. PLANES   2,000 Aircraft Thrown Against Railways, *Dromes In Europe

AIRDROMES, RAIL YARDS SHATTERED   1,000 Forts and Liberators Drop Destruction In France and Belgium.   BULLETIN

'Warplanes, 2,000 Strong, Rip Air and Rail Points In German Held Countries

Invasion Forces Meet Minimum Amount Of  Resistance   DeGaulle Urges French To Rise Against Germany

Allies Strike Enemy Between Nice and Marseille From Which They Plan To Plunge Northward for Junction With 3rd Army.

100 Mile Beachhead Near Marseille Stormed Wit e Feeble Enemv Resistance

N MEETING      Currier Brothers Back From Guadalcanal are Guests; Exhibit Souvenirs

News Behind The News  Copyright Xx       « Newspaper   WASHINGTON Be Ray Torker

POLIO EPIDEMIC DELAYS SCHOOL   Paralysis Keeps Schools In Four States Closed

Delay Opening of Some Schools   Four States Report Near Epidemic of Polio

Convicts Picked Up At Grinnell   Four Who Escaped from <Anamosa Captured Late Yesterday and Karly This Morning

 " 7 . Economic Ties Also Cut  ed     War Depends on Berlin’s Reaction

Turkey Breaks Relations With Nazi Germany   Tie With Reich Are Cut By Action Of Turkish National Assembly   QUESTION OF WAR UP TO GERMANY

Missouri Result Remains in Doubt   Outcome of Election Will Depend upon 75.000 Soldier Votes

Missouri Stull In Doubt as To Congress   Democrat May Take Seat in Senate— House Race Close

GI BALLOT T0 DECIDE RACES   Missouri Senate Outcome, Four Others Still In Doubt

Servicemen’s Votes In ‘Show-Me’ State Hold Up Final Talls   Absentee Ballots Wilt Donnell’s Lead for Governor’s Post

CONTESTS HINGE UN G.1, BALLOTS   Missouri's Senatori al Race Is Still Very ‘Much In Doubt

TO COUNT VOTE OF SERVICE MEN   Several House, Two Senate Seats May Hinge On Soldier Ballots—Russia Hails Result.

Democrats Gain In Count Of Servicemen Ballots To Decide Missouri Contests

MISSOURI RACE STILL IN DOUBT   SERVICE VOTE CUTS DONNELL’S LEAD IN CONTEST FOR SENATE

Some Races In Doubt   Service Vote May Cost Missouri Republican Senator

SENATOR TYDINGS WINS IN MARYLAND   RANDALL AHEAD OF ROBERTSON IN RACE FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION,

Rainey Tells Committee 0 His Policies   Senate Investigators Question Ex-President

Rainey Tells His Views to Legislators   Former President of University Queried  About New Deal

Japs Unable to Solve Bombing Threat: ‘Country Can’t Accommodate City Folb

JAPS SEEKING SAFETY ZONES   Nipponese Millions Have Little Hope Of Escaping Bombs

jar Moving p To Crisis or All Foes   tier Medicine in ver Increasing DosBeing Brewed Beind Lines for Germany and Japan

Lawrence B. Johnson Of Grampian Is’ QOne Of “Miller’s Reluctant Raiders”

ENSIGN A. BRAU- STETTER AWARDED  NAVAL AIR MEDAL   St. Charles Navigator Had Vougtit "in Pacific Zone. With Consoll- . ; dated Liberator Squadron.

Gestapo Kills 175 As Revolt Spreads   Sabotage and Clashes Increasing in France

ZANBOANGA BATTERED BY LIBERATGRS   Japanese Base in Philippines Smashed Hard

State Voting Against Amendment On Primary   Others Leading On Basis Of Incomplete Returns From Election: Alabama Gives Handsome Majorities To President Roosevelt And Senator Hill

BIG SUPERFORTS BATTER FORMS!   Carry Out Third Raid in Four Days Without Loss of Single Plane; Important Airfield Blasted

THIRD RAID MADE BY B-29 PLANES   Formosa Again Hit Without Loss of a Single : Plane

Greatest U. S. Plane  Fleet Over Continent   Factories; Oil Wells, Robot Launchers Attacked—Luftwaffe Campa Tin Toa Offer Battle

Mighty Sky Fleet Slugs Nazis From Straits To Baltic   Luftwaffe Lured Into Air For ‘Battle Of Attrition’’

Reich Oil Plants Principal Targets Of Great Armad. Of Heavy U. S. Bombers; Nazi Air Force Lured Into Battle

U.S. BOMBERS STRIKE NAZI QL SUPPLIES   Great Force of American Heavies Rip GermanGround Targets.

PLANES STRING FAOM ENGLAND INTO GERMAN   Flight of 2,250 U S. Bombers and Fighters Hits Nazis . Over Long Route,

‘How Jap Fleet Moved Out In Suicidal Desperation, Was Crushed And Routed, Is Told      Met Stinging Initial Setback When Surprised By Alert Carrier Planes

ELEMENT OF SURPRISE WORKED IN REVERSE AGAINST JAPANESE  U. S. CARRIER PLANE ATTACK JAP FLEET THREW

Japs Tried to Surprise U. S., but Were Fooled Themselves, E attle Review Shows

U.S. Carriers Got lhiwn Nn lanan JUulliy Vit saupult  To Spoil Surprise

Story of Three-Phase Battle Shows Planes Gave Enemy © Initial Setback off Philippines

Element of Surprise Works Against Japs in War’s Historic Naval Battle

Japs Caught in Attempting  Big Surprise   Halsey aud Kinkaid Turned Tables on Nips And Routed 3 Forces   TELL HOW GREAT BATTLE DEVELOPED   Subs and Planes Spotted Enemy and U. §. Forces Rushed Into Action

Japs, Planning Surprise Attack, Were In Turn Surprised By U.S.   Part Of Defeated Vast Enemy Sea Force Believed To Have Come Up From Singapore

Navy Planes ‘Turn Tables On Enemy .   Attempted Cou Coup By Jap Forces from Formosa Foiled: By Alert Car - rier Force Airmen

FINAL ARGUMENT IN PAYOFF CASE   State Asks Maximum Penalty For Robert Fitzgerald In Closing Plea

State Will Ask Maximum Term, Fine   Will Demand Two Years Sentence, $10,000 Fine; Case Nears Hands of Jury

NAZIS RETREATING ON NORTH FRONT   One Soviet Army Within 39 Miles of Estonian Border.

Eisenhower Given Top USSR Award   Twenty Four American Officers and Enlisted Men Were Also Awarded and 10 Merchant Seamen.

Unconditional Surrender Is Signed By German Garrison chief.   SOME ‘SNIPERS REMAIN

Surrender Of Paris Is Described   Negotiations With N azi General Recounted By Writer—People Singing In Paris Streets

RUSSIAN FORCES OPEN NEW DRIVE, MOSCOW 1S QUIE;   Berlin Admits Enemy Advance Despite Stubborn Resistance, Wedges Are Made at Some Positions.   HOLLANDIA CONQUEST APPARENTLY FINISHED   Coordinated Attack of Allied Land and Air Forces ls Opened Against Jans at Two India Spots.

Attacks Are Resumed at Sevastopol   Russians Active at Blacl Sea City Again*and in Dnestr Valley

Reds in Drive on Rumania   Sevastopol Army Captures Trenches! Attack in Dnestr

Berlin Reports Reds In Midst  of New Drive   Say Sevastopol Siege Army Has Captured Network of Trenches

NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN ~ N, W. ROMANIA   Sevastopol Being Raked With Artillery Fire in Final Phases of Crimean Battle

New Russian Drive Opens  In Romania   Red Army Attempts To Capture Mountain Gan

Nazis Say Russians Have Launched Another Offensive in Romania In ‘Attempt to Break Thru Galati Gap

REDS CONTINUE MINOR ATTACKS IN OLD POLANI   Moscow Still Silent On Reported New Offensives

New Offensive Tn East. Romania  Launched by Reds   Sevastopol Siege » Army Captures Trench Network

NEW OFFENSIVE IN ROMANIA [SOPENED BY REDS   Sevastopo! Siege Progresses. Soviets Alm At Galati Gap 1 North of lagi. oo.

Germans Report Attempt To Break Through Toward Galati Gap   Lines Penetrated; Moscow Is Silent   Reports From Front Hint Drive On Black Sea Port Is Increasing

Reds Open New Offensive in Romania   Sevastopol Siege Army Captures a Network of TrencHes

Investigation of CIO Group Ordered By Dies; National Labor Faction Called Political Arm of New Deal

Report Says Internal Political Situation In Finland Is Complicated

Palestine Tense As 1939 White Paper Expires   Arabs, Jews Armed Heavily, Illegally

SITUATION IN PALESTINE IS NOW CRITICAL   Major Clashes May Be Averted; Dusk  Curfew Imposed

FEAR VIOLENCE IN PALESTINE   Expiration of British White Paper Friday Expected to Touch Off Riots

Situation In Palestine Tense As Expiration Of British White Paper On Immigration Draws Near

Affairs Grave For Palestine   Situation Serious With Ex: piration Of British White Paper Tomorrow,

Palestine Tense As White Paper Control Expires   Arahs And Jews Armed; Outbreaks Reported; _- Outlook Is._Critical

Arab-Jew Situation In Palestine Tense As British “White Paper” Writ Expires

Palestine Is Tense Today   Violence Gaining on Eve Of Expiration of Old Deal Jews, Arabs Never Accepted

Brooding Calm Hints Trouble. For Palestine   British Hope To Avert Major Clashes As White  D.«.e i Riis

Fear Outbreak Tn Palestine  Ttetitakh Whe Dann   British White Paper Expires On Friday

Situation in  Palestine Has  Grown Tense British White Paper  Expires; Jews and Arabs May Clash

PROSPECT OF CLASHES STIRS NEW CONCERN   Arabs, Jews Armed On Eve Of British Paper's Expiration

TROUBLE BREWS IN PALESTINE   Stringent Laws Imposed As White Paper Nears End

Hope Major Clashes May Be Averted  Outlook In Palestine Is Tense As British White Paper Nears Expiration

New Violence In Palestine  Situation Touchy   Situation Touchy In Holy Land Now

Watchful Eye On Palestine   British Hope to Avert Flare-Up Between Jews And ‘Arabs As the 1939 ‘White Paper’ Expires

Situation In Palestine Is  ~ $tillTense   Termed Touchy On. Eve Gf Expiration of British White Paper Regulaiing Jews and Arabs

Situation Tense in Palestine   ARABS AND JEWISH GROUPS SECRETLY ARMED

Situation Inside Palestine Tense   Jewish-Arab Problem Critical As British White Paper To Expire

Palestine Faces Tense Situation As Rules Near Enc   British “White Paper” On Eve of Expiration; Hope To Avert Clash.

Situation in Palestine Tense   Expiration of British White Paper Finds Both Sides Ilegally Armed

PALESTINE PICTURE ADMITTEDLY TENSE ON EVE OF CHANGES  BRITISH WHITE PAPER  PROVISIONS WILL EXDIDE WITH TOMORROW

Palestine Powder Keg On Eve Of British White Paper Expiration   Neither Arabs Nor Jews Agreed To White Pape: Which Provided That 75,000 Jewish Immigrants Be Admitted To Palestine.

CONDITIONS IN PALESTINE BAD   Eve of Expiration of White Paper Finds Both Sides fllecaily Armed.

Palestine Situation Is Tense   Authorities on Guard Against Rioting

Situation in. Palestine Is Very Tense   British White Paper te Expire Tomorrow -- Outbreaks Feared

TROUBLE IS BREWING IN PALESTINE, CLAIM   Outbreak of Feud Between Jews and Arabs Looms

Situation Tense In Palestine On Eve Of Expiration Of White Paper

Order Affects Men Who Have Passed Exams  War, Navy Departments Ask Younger Men To R. Called: Need Not

Students Strike Against Longer Hours In School   Defy Authorities In Demonstration

Helsinkt - - Attacked _ From Air   Russians Serve Warning To Finland to Quit As War Partner of Genneny _

Soviet Army Patrols Penetrate East Prussia on Raids   Much Valuable Information Obtainec in Action Which Co-incided With German Invasion From West

OCD May Handle Soldier Census  Door-to-Door Canvass For Soldier Vote

Town Lies 97 Miles From East Prussia   Nazi Stragglers Are Mopped Up East of Minsk

Russians 10 Miles From Vital Wilno   Martial Law Imposed On City By Germans, Says Moscow

Reds Drive Within 10 Miles Wilno   Swift Advances Carry Bussians Across Virtually All of PreWar Polish Frontier

RUSSIANS TEN MILES OUT OF WILNO, REPORT   Martial Law Declared in That City by Germans as Soviets Push on to the Westward,

Nazis Admit Russians Within 10 Miles of Wilno, 97 Miles From Border of Fast Prussia

Reds Near ~ Wilno in_ ~~ Big Push   Big, City Placed Undex:Maz~ tial. Law: -by.- “Nazis; : ‘Uprisings Reported    SOVIETS MOPPING . UP. NEAR MINSK   Russians Approaching. Bug River; Super Drive May’ Be Starting

REDS STRIKE CLOSER TO EAST PRUSSIA   Russian Army Within Ten Miles of Wilno, Where  Martial Law Exists.   Reds Surge Forward On Long Nazi Front

Fall of Wilno Is Imminent As Rec Army Advances   Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses As Russian Armies Rout Enemy

SOVIET TROOPS NEAR WILNO Ik BUG RIVER AREA   Nazis Trapped By Reds; Revort 5000 Killed

REDS WITHIN 10 MILES OF WILNO   Russians Say Town Placed Under Martial Law By Germans  PUSH BEYOND BORDER

Gerfonne Declare Martial Law In Wiltto’ As Soviets Stand Only: 10 Miles Away

Russians Push Toward Wilno   China Breaks Siege of Hengyang as Japs Reel Under Blows:   WAR OUTLOOK IN CHINA WORRIES ROOSEVELT

Wilno Object Of Red Push   Russian Forces Drive Past Bastion Of Kowel In Approach On Bug River.

RUSSIAN TROOPS  PUSH WITHIN 10  MILES OF WILNO REPORT NAZIS HAVE  DECLARED MARTIAL LAW IN THE CITY

Soviets Push Ahead; Wilno Threatened  Key German Base  In Grave Danger  O¢ Reine Cantured

Reds Within 10 Miles of Wilno   Approach Bug River At Point 135 Miles Southeast of Warsaw

Wilno Is  Threatened By Surging Red Armies   Sovie ts Invading Very Heart Of  Hitler’s Lines

Red Forces Near Wilno. Nazis Say   Soviets Approach Bug River at Point 135 Miles South of Warsaw

Red Troops Near Wilno, Nazis Claim   Soviets Thrust Beyond Old Polish Bastion Of Kowel

REDS REPORTE 10 MILES FROM CITY OF WILNO   Only 97 Miles From East Prussia Border; Mar-. tial Law Declared

Reds In 10 Miles Of Wilno, Report      Russian Forces Smash Past Old Polish Bastion Of Kowel; 5000 Nazi Stragglers Killed

Nazis Say Reds Now Within 10 Miles Of Wilno   Russ Also Smash Past Kowel Toward Bug River In Warsaw Push.

Russians Speed To Reach Wilno,  10 Miles Away   Report City Placed Under Martial Law By Nazis; Bug River Red Objective

Russians Advance Closer to Wilno   Pre-War Polish Frontier Crossed By Speeding Armies Under Stalin

Reds Advance Toward Wilno  Within 10 Miles:of Cit Column Is Renorted

SOVIETS MOVE TOWARD WILNO   Moscow Reports Nazis Have Declared Martial Law In City.   APPROACHING BUG RIVER

Russians Far Beyond Kowel, Polish Bastion   Prewar Border ACrossed——Baltics Within Close Range

WILNO SAID TO BE UNDER MARTIAL LAW   Reds Report Nazi Measures as the Germans, in Turn, Announce That Soviet Forces Are 10 Miles From City.

Reds Within 10 Miles of Wilno   Moscow Reports Nazis Have Declared Martial Law As Soviets Gain

Large Part Of Pre-War Polish Border Crossed   Lithuania, Latvia Frontiers Neared By Russian Troops

Martial Law Ordered For Wilno   Russian Forces Are Within 10 Miles Of Baltic Capital

Pledges Statement Soon On Progress Of Wa:; To Confer With Eisenhower

Assures House War Statement Is Fortheomin:   Dramatic Appearance Of  heers  And Astonishes MPs!

PRIME MINISTER » CHURCHILL BACK AT LONDON DESK   @British Official Promises Report Before Commons; No Date Set

HE PROMISES EARLY WAR STATEMENT   ‘Appears Before Cheering House; Beams Happiness

CHURCHILL IN GOOD FORM ON RETURN HOME   Enthusiastically Greeted by Commons, Asks ‘Some Latitude’ in Choosing Date for Report

CHURCHILL BARK HOME   Tells Commons He Expects To Make War State ment Soon

Britain’ S War ‘LeaderCheer ed B y Par liament   Tells Members of House He Expects to Make  Statement On Con - flict In Near Future   Has No Plans to  Ease-His Burdens   Backs Montgomerv’s Prediction of Early Capture . of Rome In Reply to  . Caustic Remark

Churchill Has Returned To England   Prime Minister Will Give Report to Parliament Shortly

Churchill Returns To London   Prime Minister Pays Surprise Visit to Commons

Prime Minister Churchill Returns Unexpectedly, Speaks To Commons

PRIME MINISTER TO REPORT SOON TO PARLIAMENT   3ritish War Leade1 Returns To London After Absence Of Ten Weeks Anc  Serious Illness; Ir  Best of Health Now

Churchill Makes Dramatic Appearance In London: a War Statement Soon 

Churchill in London; Will Make Report   Prime Minister Recovers From Pneumonia; Will Continue His Routine

Churchill Back In London Today   PRIME MINISTER GIVEN OVATION BY HOUSE OF COMMONS

PRIME MINISTER BACK IN LONDON      ‘Churchill To Make Statement on War Soon

House Rings With Cheers  For Leader   Prime Minister  Recovered; War Report Coming

Prime Minister Churchill Bobs Up In London   Cheering Commons Is Promised Early Statement On War.

Churchill Is Back In London   Looks Slightly Tired, But Happy After Convalescing.

Churchill, Back on Job, s Wildly Cheered in Common:   Prime Minister, Fully Recovered From Pneumonia, Promises Report on War

CHURCHILL BACK IN TOWN   Tells Cheering House Commons War Report Coming

Churchill Back Home   In Good Sprits As He Starts to Work On Invasion Problems

Churchill, Recovered. MakesReturn To London   Prime Minister Is Greeted With Cheers In House; To Make War Statement Soon

Churchill in London; Plans Report Later   Early Discussion With Eisenhower Expected By Observers

Churchill Returns to  His War Job   Surprises House Of Commons by Sudden Appearance

ASS See At i tiaas  {lIness F ails. “To: ° D: all oo Wit As:He. Surprtes ~ Commons Session...

Received With  Great Ovation   Returns Unexpectedly After Convalescing In Middle East From A Pneumonia Attack; To Make Statement On the War Soon.

BRITISH LEADER APPEARS BEFORE THE PARLIAMENT   TELLS COMMONS HE EXPECTS TO SPEAK ON THE WAR SOON

Churchill In London Again,  Sees Commons   Returns Unexpectedly, Greets Cheering House of .Commons — Will Make Early Statement On War.

Churchill Back In Capital City   Prime Minister Tells House Of Commons Plans For Statement On War.

CHURCHILL BACK - IN LONDON HOME   Prime Minister Convalescing, Cheered In Commons, to Make War Statement.

Churchill  Returns to Londor   PRIME MINISTER WILL MAKE STATEMENT ON WAR IN NEAR FUTURE

House Cheers. As Churchill Relurns. Home   Prime Minister of Britain Promises Statement on War In Short Time

Churchill In London To Resume Work: Plans To Give Commons War Report

PRIME MINISTER - CHURCHILL IS NOW >, BACK INLONDON   Returned Unexpectedly Today After Convalescing From Attack of Pneumonia.   APPEARED IN HOUSE   Said He Expected to Make a Statement on the War in the Near Future.

Churchill In Surprise Talk   Sudden Appearance In 3 Parliament Evokes Cheers

Commons Cheers  Churchill Return   Traveller Promise:  War Report

RPRISE VISIT PAID COMMONS ‘BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Given Cheers: Says It’s “Too Early” to Drink Toast

PRIME MINISTER BACK IN LONDON, FULLY RECOVERED   Promises Cheering House Statement on War in Near Future

CHURCHILL, HEALTH REGAINED, ARRIVES BACK IN LONDON   Prime Minister Surprises Britain After Absence of Ten Weeks   APPEARS IN COMMONS

Churchill Back In London Office   Prime Minister Plans Statement

Churchill Surprises Comm’ns   Returns Today to London After Ml  ness

Commons Is Surprised by Churchill Cal   rime Minister Returns Unexpectedly to London; Plans Careful Summary of Events Before Discussing War

Maquis Knife German Rear Along Loire   IMove Up From Pvrrenees: Fleeing Nazi Troops Wreck Equipment.

French Maquis Chopping At Rear Of Nazis’ Loire Troops  gt...   German Troops From Southwest France Are Reported Demoralized: Sub Base Is Struck

Tokyo Bombing  Mars Reading  Of War Lists.   Superforts in Mass Raid Over Japan As Levte Fighting Ends In Mopping Up Enem»

TOKYO BOMBED BY SOME 50 SUPERFORTS DURING WEDNESDAY .   GROUND FIGHTING IN PHILIPPINES DWINDLES TC MOPPING UP ACTION

Superforts’ ‘Bombs Blast Tokio Again   Japs Lose 74 Planes In Fights Over China And Philippines.

Diet Report Is Upset by 'U. S. Strike      1,500 Tons of Bombs Already Sown into Jap Homeland Since Raids Began

SIZEABLE FORCE OF B-29S IN. RAID ON JAP CAPITAL DROPPING BOMBS ON INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

Superforts Hit Tokyo Again   Japanese Diet Session Interrupted by B-29s Making First Mass Raid on Capital Since December 3; Luzon Air Fields Blasted

B-29's Smash Tokyo to Hal Diet Session   Ground Fighting on Leyte Dwindling to Mere Mopping Up

90 Superforts Blast Tokvo In Davlight Raid   Interrupts Official War Reports Being Read To Jap-  anese Diet.   LULL IN PHILIPPINES

SMASH 74 NIP PLANES AS U. S RUSHES AIR WAR   Continue Raids on Luzon: Kill 899 More Japs on Leyte

Tempo of Air War in Pacific Heads to New Crescendo as Yank Fighters Down 74 Jap Planes in Philippines, China

B-29s Blast Jap Capital; Disrupt Meeting of Diet      BY LEONARD MILLIMAN

MOP - UP WORK CONTINUES ON LEYTE   4 Jap Planes Destroyed By Yanks In Day   Interrupts Meeting Of Nip Diet: Enemy Bombers In Raid On Saipan

20 SUPERFORTS BATTER TOKYO WAR FACTORIES   Yank Subs Sink Seven Jap Warships, 20 Other  Vessels

ORCES OF PATTON MASH FORWARD T0 REACH SAAR RIVER   ecure Jump - Off Points Across the Water Barriers   BRIDGEHEADS ON RER.   Nazis Say Americans East of Aachen Continue Big Offensive

ROER RIVER BRIDGEHEAD ESTABLISHED   Nazis Blow Up Bridges Trying to Slow Allied Advance

LONDON'S LAMPS GO ON SUNDAY   Five Year Blackout Tc Give Way To Subdued Artificial Twilight

“Dim-Out’ Will Replace Blackout In London Sunday With Some Children Seeing Lights For First Time

°\LONDON LIGHTS WILL GO ON AGAIN TONIGHT AFTER 5-YEAR-OLD BLACKOUT   Almost as Much Excitement as End of War

LONDON’S: FIVE-YEAR BLACKOUT ~ WILL END TOMORROW EVENING   DIMOUT Wii, REPLACE DARKMEGS IN BRITISH CAPITAL  FOR FIRST TIME IN” 144 NIGHTS ©

NAZI FREIGHT YARDS RAIDED   Allies Blast Areas Filled With Supplies Moving To German Armies

NLD to Hear Ward Case Today   To Decide Whether Union Has Majority; Judge to Decide Injunction Tuesday

Not Spearheads Of Drive, Belief   Big Push On in High Gear With Roads Into Strasbourg Area Choked With Men And Supplies — British Driven Out of Hoven by Counter Attacks

Unit Of Yanks And Frenchmen s pan River   Roads Leading From West dnio Strasbourg Cheked With Troops and Materials   Germans Are In Wildest Disorders   Elsewhere, Germans Coun ter-Attacking Strongly; British Give Up Hoven

(U.S. Ninth And First Armies ‘Wuthstand Hard Blows Dealt ‘By Enemy In Mass Assaults   All Of Westera Section Of Strasbourg Is Cleared By French; British Second Army Thrown Out Of Hoven On Muddy Plain

Americans Seize — Ruins Of Hurtgen, Take Jungersdorf   Break Nazi Resistance At Koslar;   Gains Made Inside Saar Basin; “. Enemy-Retreating AtStrasbourg

Hurtgen Taken --Nazi Defenses Fall at Cologne   Advances Made Along Saar Basin Front As  Nazis Consider North Strasbourg Withdrawal

Nazi Forces Retreat  North of Strasbourg   American Tanks and Infantry Take Reich Towns of Koslar, Jungersdorf

ADVANCES MADE BY ALLIES ON WESTERN FRONT   German Defenses Yield; Uerteen Is Captured

Nazi Defenses Near Cologne  Finally Yield   Doughhboys Break Organ. ized Resistance At Kos. lar and Seize own OL Jungersdorf   Patton Advances 10 Miles In Saar   First and Ninth Arnty Men Fight For Every House and Cellar In Co legne Plain

Nazi Lines Yieldin Cologne Area   Hurtgen Falls— Advance Made On 25 Mile  Front in Saar

CONQUEST CF} GUAM NOW POMPLETED!   Except for Small Area Near Pati Point Where Survivors Are Surrounded.  —— s

Guam Fighting Is Nearing End, Nimitz States   Americans Hold Island Except for Small Inland Area "Where Japanese Aré-Surrounded—All Escape Routes Blocked

Guam Fighting Is Nearing End. Nimitz States   Americans Hold Island Except for Small Inland Area " Where Japanese Aré Surrounded—All —--- Egeqpe Routes Blocked «ss is

GUAM ISLAND IS CONQUERED: JAPS TRAPPED   GARRISON REMNANTS HAVE NO HOPE OF ESCAPE

Remaining Pocket Of Jap Resistance Expected To Be Blotted Out Soon   ISLAND’S AIRFIELDS TO PROVIDE VITAL BASES

Inland Pocket of Resistance Remains and Yanks Exert Heavy  Pressure to Wipe It Out — With Warships Patrolling  - Coastline, Remnants of Garrison Have No Chance to Escape—More Than 10,000 Nips Killed Since Invasion.

Guam Battle © _ Nears Finale   Americans Surround Last Of Jap Defenders

YANKS FINISH JAPS ON GUAM   Conquest of Island Now Completed Except for Small Inland Area

9 NAZI SHIPS. ARE SUNK OFF ITALY COAST   No important « Changes - Reported In Battle. Lines

‘Nine Enemy Ships Sunk Off West Italian Coast   Two Enemy Destroyers Damaged in Series Of Nieht Actions

Enemy Supply _ ‘Cargo Attacked   Sink Nine German Ship Off Italian Coast.

Many Enemy Ships Sent To Bottom     Waval and Air Forces of Allies Wreck Convoss

Allied Coastal Warships Intercept Convoy Monday Night in Italian Area — Hundreds of Prisoners faken in Action,

Naval Units Hunting For Blockade Runners Meet  Up With Convoy Which  Ie Practically Destroved.

SINK NINE AXIS SHIPS OFF ITALY   Ground Fighting Limited te Patrol Activity

HEAVY BLOWS AGAINST AXIS SEA STRENGTH   25 German Boats Sunk Around Fringes of Hitler's Fortresses By Warships, Warplanes   25 Vessels Sunk Be. ASROOCTATED PRESS

Allied Air, Navy Forces Sink 9 Ships   Damage Two Warships in Night Actions Off Coast of Italy

Lesiar Ada & Ttaly Anr-Sea Attack Smks  S Nazi Craft  a WE   British Sth Army Beat: Off Double Thrusts Near Ortona

Train “Lost” in West Va.: Marooned Passengers Spend Hours In Coach, but Get Supply of Food

WISCONSIN TO TEST WILLKIE   Needs State’s Delegates in GOP Convention

An Industrial City In Manchuria Hit   American’ B-29s Strike Hard at Heait of Jap- anese Arsenal   IN A POWERFUL SMASH   Superfortresses Took Off  From a Base in West ern China

Delayed Headquarters Bulletins Reveal Enemy Has Encircled Bastogne, on Liege-Arlon Road

Simplification  Bill To Pass   Tax Problems Would Be Greatly Reduced

DOUBLE LIFE WS REVEALED   \Niles Man Nabbed by FBI On Draft Violation Charge

WALLACE GETS LIMITED OKAY OF PRESIDENT   Favors Him But Advise That Convention Must Decide

Roosevelt Letter Yanks Official Support From  Under Henry Wallace

Wallace Aids dopeful But Chances Drop   ‘resident’s Letter Throws Second Place Field Wide Open   IANY “POSSIBLES’   tange From Byrnes and Barkley Through Paul McNutt

Henry Wallace Anpears To Be On Way Out   FDR Will Leave It Up to Convention  TT... VDilews. Deeeemine the:

ROOSEVELT PREFERS MR. WALLACE   Would Like Him To Be Nominated But Won’t Dictate

Wallace Arrives in Chicago Tomorrow; Convention Buzzes  With Vice-Presidential Talk

Roosevelt Leaves Wallace Hanging, Won't “Dictate”   Mississippi Leads Anti4th Term Parade; Pick Sen. Byrd

) Wallace Called To Conclave To Woo Ballots  Many Mentioned For Job After » FE. R. Sends Letter

Roosevelt’s Letter Likely to Finish Wallace’   “ Like Him,” President Writes, But Convention is Free to Decide

Wallace Loses FDR'*s Official Aid  Chief Will Not Insist Upon His Renomination

ALLTES IN SO. PACIFIC NAB BIAK ID.   MacArthur’s Men Now Only 900 Miles From Philippines

Hitler To Be Boss In West   Report He's Taking “ersonal Charge in Normandy

Hitler Said Taking Over Command In West As Great  Council Reviews Position

Fuehrer Said Chief in West   Hitler Reported. Directing Invasian Nefanca

HITLER REPORTED DIRECTING FIGHT ON FRENCH FRONT   General Guenther Von Kluege Said to Have Been Named . to Succeed Von Runstedt -in Field.   URGENT WAR TALKS. HELD BY GERMANS   Fuehrer and‘ Top Military ‘Men Discuss General Situation—Revision of. Defense Plans Likely.

Oper ations In  West Taken Over By Hitler   Revision Of Nazi Plans Are Now Predicted

Moscow Hears Hitler Takes — Charae in Wes   Hitler Confers With  His Top Military ‘Leaders as German Outlook Darkens

Hitler Holds Prolonged Military Conference; Takes Over Command in We:

Bombs Find ManyTargets   Nearly 50,000 Tons Dumped In 11 Days on Many Points

Reserve To Take Qn ASTP Men   110,000 Students To Be Transferred To Duty

FREIGHTER HITS FERRY, 20 HURT   Mishap Occurs in Fog-Bound Baltimore Harbor

Freighter Hits Crowded Ferry 20 Are Hurt   Three Have Broken Backs; Workers Were Enroute To Yards

Yanks Would Get 55 Days fo Vole   Legislature Opens Special Session

SOLDIER VOTE STUDY BEGINS IN ASSEMBLY   Hickenlooper Favors 55-Day Period for Absent Voters

TURKEYS EXPECTED BE SCARCE ARTICLE FOR JOHN CIVILIAN  ARMED SERVICES HAVE FIRST CALL ON BIGGEST TIRKEV CROP ON RECORT

V Sign On Mt. Vesuvius   Italians Say It Means A Victory For Allies

Recommend 7 Major Changes In Price Control Program   Would Hold Hold-Line Freeze Of Wages, Prices As Of September, 1942

HOUSE GROUP (5 SEEKING CHANGES   Makes Move to Curb Authority of OPA and WLB, Easing of Rent Control.

Changes Urged In Cover ‘pment Price Controls   House Committee Suggests Seven Major Revisions In Stabilization of Economic Set-up 

Hold-The-Line Freeeze On Wages Would Be Written Into Act   Curb On Powers  Of WLB Favored   Relaxation Of Certain Rent Controls Also Is Recommended

te   Seven Major Changes In  Nation’s Price Control By “Smith” Committee

7 Changes In OPA Program Related   Smith Committee Advocates Changes In Stabilization Act

Red Troops Are 8 Miles’ From Reich   Tighten Warsaw Siege, Open New Offensive ‘Aimed Toward Krakow  . x es aeTrrmpeooe rt én FTW nic

Soviets Tighten Their Siege of Warsaw and Open New Offensive On Krakow in Poland

Soviets Thrust Within Eight Miles Of East  Prussian Pre-'39 Border      Red Forces Tighten Their Seige On Warsaw And Attempt To Annihilate 300,000 Nazis In Estonia And Latvia

GERMANS FACE DISASTER IN A SECTIONS   Of Long Eastern Front As Russians Continue Advance Westward; 300.000 Nazis Entrapped.   Far - Reaching Results

White Russian  Is .  Army Drives  -on East Prussia   Soviets Thrust to Within Eight Miles of Pre-1939 Border; Fiery Siege  Tightens Around Capital of Poland

FIGHTING RED ARMY ALMOST ON NAZI SOM   TWIN DRIVES AIMED AT HEART OF HUN HOMELAND

Other Russian Armies Tighten Siege of Warsaw   NAZI BALTIC ARMY EURTHER SQUEEZED   Crossing of Vistula River by Reds Admitted by Berlin

RUSSIAN TROOPS 8 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Other Red Armies Tighten  Their Violent Siege  Of Warsaw   300,000 NAZIS MAY BE TRAPPED BY REDS

NAZI TROOPS RUSH TO AREA THREATENED   Soviet Plunge Into Enemy Territory May Come Seon With Far-Reaching Effects on War.   WARSAW SIEGE IS TIGHTENED   New Russian Offensive Launched Toward Krakow, Poland’s Second Largest City.

SOVIETS NEAR EAST PRUSSIA 1939 BORDER   Tighten Warsaw Siege Arc; Start Drive Toward Krakow

Soviet Armies Set to Plunge On Reich Soil   Four Columne Liquidating Nazis in Baltic Trap;  ee, Raa

Pre-1939 Border Nearly Reached In Twin Drives   Siege of Warsaw Draws near End

Inside Y our  Herald-Post   Report Does Not Refiect Dewey's Campaign Trip to West   Gallup Surveys in 32 States Find F. R. Gaining in 17, Dewey in 10

Mom And Rest Of Pittsburgh Wait For Kelly To Get Home   OLD FOLKS AND YOUNG

Shawano Street Awaits Kelly   When “Commando” Will Get Home Is Still  Uncertain

GermansLeaye Big Areain South France   Baffled Enemy Face: Encirclement of Normandy Troops

WARD ANSWER HINTS CHARGE OF FASCISM  Says President Can   Says President Can  Suspend Bill  Of Rights 

ed Hits Back  uovernment   r pany Brief Blasts nrestricted Power’

American Bomber Armada, On e of Biggest of War, Roars Across Channel by Dayligh t as RAF Night Flight Is Returning - - Yank Fighters Go All Way To Berlin

RAF BOMBERS RAID BERLIN LAST NIGHT   Flying Fortresses Take Up Daylight Attacks Today

CAPITAL OPEN TODAY RAIDS   Assault Is Mounted From Scores of American Bases In England.   THIRD DAY OF THRUSTS

CREWLESS BOMBER — DOWNED BY R. A. F   Disabled Liberator Laden Wit! Bombs Circles England 90 Minutes After Crew Bails Out.

Mitchell Says War ls Voting Issue   Democrats Meet in Des Maines Today

GOP Governors Emphasize State Peacetime Role   Accuse New Deal Of Bucking National Guard System

Sweden, Germany Sign Trade Treaty  Pact Reduces Goods Exchange During ‘44

Sweden, berinary Sign Treaty to Slash Exchanges   Nazis Agree to Lift Blockade on Goods  Tae Americas

Interlocking Boards Indicate ‘Studied Plan’ To Govern Ed.  : ucation, Charge

MANHUNT BEGINS ALL OVER COUNTRY   Soylo Villegas Believed To Be Murderer Of Woman

DEWEY ASSAILS * ADMINISTRATION   New York Governor Terms It ‘A Sprowling, Overlapping Bureaucracy’

Dewey Sends GOP Platform Makers Blast at New Deal   Calls for New Regimen to Raise Federal Service to High Level Efficiency, Competence

DEWEY SCORES NEW DEAL IN MESSAGE TO CHICAGO GROUP   Tells Platform Drafters Administration Is ‘“Sprawling, Gverlapping Bureaucracy”  - —Calls For a New Regime

GOP CONVENTION—  Reforms Are Urged By Dewey   ASSAILS ADMINISTRATION AS “OVERLAPPING BUREAUCRACY”

Republicans Attempting To Clean Up Parley Details  As Democrats Turn South

GOP Preparing _ Platform For Monday's Start   Gov: Arnall, Ga., Says President Will Soon Reveal Plans

Dewey Suggests Platform Plank   Criticizes Democrats and Asks For High Level of  Federal Service.

Calls {t Sprawling, Overjapping Bureaucracy in Messade to Group.

Republicans Get Set; Roundup Of Political News  F.D.R. May Be Trying To Pacify Southern “Rebels”

Dewey Calls For New Regime At Washington   Foreign Policy Plank Prepared For Convention

Republicans Prepare For Opening Gun   Believe FDR. Pacifying Southerners In * Latest Move .   LAUDS SEN. GEORGE   Georgia Governor Says President Wil Be Renominated

Platform for GOP Campaign is Given Framing Committee   Foreign Policy Declaration Attacked by Tennesseean

Dewey Calls for Federal Efficiency   Sends Message to Platform Makers

Gov. Dewey Attacks Administration, Seeks New Regime  Presidential Candidate Sends Message To Platform Drafters

Vandenberg Urges Foreign  Policy Plank   Three-Point Program Suggested For GOP Convention

New Deal Assailed by Dewey   Republican Platform. Makers Receive Message Attack: ing the Administration: -:   NEW YORKER REPORTS CRY FOR HARMONY   Sen. Taft.-Offers Post: War Financial Program; Foreign . Policy Also Offered

Dewey Calls For Efficient New Regime   Message to Platform Drafters of G:0.P. Assails ‘Bureaucracy’

Gov. Dewey Attacks Administration, Seeks New Regime  Presidential Candidate Sends Message  T. Dilwale ee Membtnve

Planes Grounded By Bad Weather   But Airmen Are Expeetec to Resume Assaults tn France Today

U.S. Secures Control of 4 Palau Isles   Yanks Kill More Than 10,000, Nimitz Discloses

UNIONS DEFY WLB ORDER 10 WORK   PRODUCTION HALTED IN 18 WAR PLANTS

Strikes Cut Production  Of 18 Plant:   30.000 Men Idle In Packard Factory Alone

Beleaguered Japs On Palau Fight Losing Battle With Marine And Army Troops

Jans Lose 5,495 Of Garrison On Peleliu Islane   Battle For Control Of Palau Islands Is Nearing Climax Nimitz Reports

MARINES CLEAN OUT JAP FORT &h PALAU ISLAND   On Morotai Island, Carrier-Based- Flanes Neutralize Resis‘ance.

JAP LOSSES NOW 5,495   MARINES HAVE WIPED OUT MORE THAN HALF OF JAPS ‘ON . PELELIU 3.

PELELIU MAY BE TAKEN IN SIX MORE DAYS   Japs Still Fighting Desperately; 5,495 Slain in Four Days

NIARINCS GLEAN OUT JAP FORT Gi PALA ISLAND   On Morotai Islard, Carrier-Based- Flanes MWeutral-ce Resis ance

Will Give Bricker  Nominating Talk  Stewart Will Make Convention Speech

32 Summoned for Ston-Siqn Errors Here Wednesday   Willkie to Enter New Role As Free Lance Politician

Shift in Parties Qne Guess Made  ly ry in Surprise Move   Republicans Hail Step as Meaning More GOP Unity

NAPLES- ROME HIGHWAY CUT BY INVADERS   Fifth Army Troop: Fight Way Into  Monte Cassino

Nazis In Pocket At  Cassino   Survivors Coralled Into One Corner By Tanks And Infantry Men.

Rome-Naples Road Link Fallsto Yanks   Drive to Clean Up Cassino Meets  Stubborn Resistance

Naples-Rome Highway Held   Stubbornly-Resisting Nazis Are Cornered

Flames Damage Coast To Coast Store and Stock  Water and Smoke  - Causes Loss In Nearby Places :

Flames Damage  Coast To Coast  Store and Stock Water and Srnoke  Causes Loss In. . Nearby Places

lazis in Flight n Marne Valley   Yanks Near Chateau Thierry: One Unit Only 90 Miles From Germany.

Patton Troops Drive ‘On Chateau- Thierry   Berlin Reporis Yanks in Vitry; German Resistance Reported Weak

TANKS WITHIN 30 MILES OF GERMAN SOll   Token Resistance Met In Area Of War One Battle Fields

Third Battle of Marne Is On, But Everything Favors Americans This Tigi 

STEVENSON, SMITH DIFFER ON CALLING OF SPECIAL SESSION  ONE SAYS COULDN’T FOR GIVE POLL TAX OF SOLDIERS- OTHER SAYS YES

Bomb Nazi  Plane Plants In Austria.   Forts, Liberators Stnke From Bases in Italy

Alliés Pass .  : 100th Hour  InNaziRaids  Mere Than 10,000 Planes  Take Part in Four Days of “Attacks  ‘Sow PATH OF RUIN  ‘Day Raiders F Follow : Heavy RAF Night Blow at Aachen  i i   ‘SOW PATH OF RUIN

BOMBING OF AXIS LASTS 100 HOURS   King Victor Emmanuel to Quit In Favor of Son When Allies Enter Rome.

History's Greatest Air Assaul Passes 100-Hour Mark Today   Miles-Long Processions of Bombers Stream Toward Europe in Wake of RAF Night Raid

100-HOUR MARK IS PASSED IN HEAVY ATTACK   RAF Night Fliers Blast Aachen; Invasion Coast Believed New Target

EN IS Ril BY 1,680 TONS OF BOMBS   Targets for Dayligh Raiders Probably on Invasion Coast

ACHIAL ATTACK QUFTENING UP INVASION PATE   Mighty Bomber Parade Flies to Bring Assaults Past 100-Hour Mark.

HIMMLER LEAVES BERLIN IN PLANE   Chief of. Gestapo Be. lieved to Be in France

Germans Send ‘Butcher’ to ‘Watch’ France   ‘Bloody Heinrich’ Charqed With Tightening Pre-Invasion Contro.

Himmler Off  for France   To Tighten Killer  Grip on Slave France

NEW BATTLE IS SEEN BETWEEN WARD'S, UNION   Avery, Back In Office. Still Opposes Maintenance Of Membership Clause

ARMY MAY BE SENT BACK TQ WARDS —   Case Involved in New Ramifications and Far From Settled

BRITISH CRACK “TTALIAN FRONT   GEEMANS REPORTED PREPAR"ING DEFENSES ON SHORTER: {LINE FOR A WINTER : 2 CAMPAIGN: = z

British Eighth Charges Forward On Heels Fleeing Germans in Adriatic Secier

WORLD PEACE PARLEY WIL START TODAY   Soviet © Ambassador Ar. rives for Post-war Pro_gram. Talks

SEES PARLEY   Red Delegate Confident as He Arrives to Attend Security Meeting

Russian Ambassador Voices Optimism About Success of Four-Power Meetings on World Security Plans

Russian Envoy Arrives With Postwar Plans   Believes That Four Powers Can Adjust Their Differences

Delegate to Parley Here From Russia   Gromyko Arrives With Soviet Plans For Post-War Peace  Oraanization

GERMANS ARE INPERILED BY BELAYA’S FALL   Advance In Middle Ukraine In Attempt To Isolate Large Enemy Force

Dewey Challenges Administration As Old, Unsure, Futile   Plans Hard Campaign To ‘Slug It Out’’ With New Deal

Dewey Moves at Once to Map His Strategy   Campaign May Not Open Until in September

Candidate Scores FDR Administration as ‘Too Old’ in Aceentance Tatk

Dewey Takes Command Of GOP 44 Effort To Retire Roosevelt To Hyde Park

Dewey Accepts 6.0.P. Presidential Nomination, Puts Accent on: Youth

GOP Nominee, In Acceptance Talk, Calls F. D. Administration Too Old, Unsure, Futile; Plans Vigorous Campaign

(The text of Governor Dewey's speech of acceptance will be found on page 12.   (By United Press.) REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN HEADOUARTERS, CHICAGO.

Youngest Man Ever Nom. inated For President By The Republican Party

GOP Nominee Takes Charge Of Campaign   Dewey Challenges Administration As Too Old. Unsure And Futile.

N.Y. Governor Slides Into GOP Driver's Seat   Acceptance Speech Fires Enthusiasm

‘Dewey Takes Command Of G. 0. P. Effort. To “Unset The New-Deal_

Republicans Agree It Is Strong Ticket After Both Accept Nominations at Chicacao.

DEWEY IN SADDLE. AS COMMANDER OF G.0.P. CAMPAIGN   Delegates Thrilied As New Leader Takes Over In Fighting Speech.

DOUBLE ALLOTMENT FOR A CARDS ASKED   Senator Says Vast Stocks of Gasoline Accumulated

Foundries Gef Labor Priority   WMC Announces Pfants On Emergency Basis

U. S. Subs Sink Ten Jap Ships   Large Tanker, Freighter Included In Newest Prize

10 NIPPONESE VESSELS SENT DOWN BY SUB!   Japanese Fleet. Steadily Dwindling

10 Jap Ships _ ‘Sunk By Subs   Navy. Announces Group . Successes Against Foe Jn. Pacific Waters

Another 10 Jap Ships Sunk By  American Subs   Yank Subs Run Total Up To 546

10 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY YANKEE SUBS   Marines Extend Gains In Cape Gloucester Area

LISTS TANKER, ATRANSPORT, ~ BFREIGHTERS   Sinkings Take Place In Pacific and Far East Areas

First Planes To Complete Such Attack   5,000 in. Air Friday As Invasion Coast Takes Fresh Pounding  OW AYO Beater a2Tyeta

SOVIET FIGHTER PLANES ESCORT HEAVY BOMBERS   Landings From Shutile Raid Made On Previously Prepared Bases   7,000 TONS BOMBS DROPPED DURING DAY

Forge Powerful New Link in Air Strerigth of Allie:   5,000 Aircraft Hit Europe-i in-Massive Two-Way Assault

Flicrs Land In. Russi a After Air Assaults   Americans Complete First Leg of Shuttle Bombing of Eastern Europe—-Called—“Making. of History’ in Official Statement

BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS USE SOVIET BASES   NEW LINK FORGED IN ALLIED AIR SUPERIORITY

Two Haystacks!   Were Intriguing To Mustang Pilot But Not For Long

LITTELL FIRED BY PRESIDENT      Ends Justice Dep’t Feud; Ration Values Remain  Unchanged

PRESIDENT FIRES JUSTICE DEPT. AIDE   House Ways ys and Means Committee Votes to Freeze Social Security Tax

Senate Splits (On Postwar Reconyersion   Sen. George Will Give New Measure for Demobilization Work

SENATE IN A SPLIT   Democrats and Republicans Fail te gree on Reconversion «

New Draft of George Bill   Senate Split Widens On Measure Covering Demobilization Plan

Rift Widens  On Reconversion   George Bill Offered As Substitute For Murravy-hilgore Bill

Wide Split Over Peace  Era Plans   Sen. George Maps Complete Demobilization Measure ae a Substitute   THREE PROPOSALS BEING DISCUSSEL   Republicans May Throw Support to ‘State Righters’ in Growing Controversy

Senate S p lit On Postwar Bill Is Seen   Senator George Prepares Entirely New Measure On Demobilization

Senators Gird for Oratory   George's Unemploymen Compensation Bill =. Geta Right of Way

Post-War  Problems Split Senate   ‘Unemployment Benefits a Hot Potato; Whole New Measure Drafted by Sen. George

Senate Split. Threatened On Reconversion   Sen. George Is Drafting New ‘ Demobilization Bill

Senate Splif Widens Over Reconversion   Sen. George Redrafts Measure Even as Lines Forming for Bitter Fight

Stump Program For Roosevelt Is. Discussed      Says Ball’s Inquiry Re: garding U. 'S.. Comimit-ments.in ‘World Seeur “Sty Council Too Early

Wallace To Have Time To Campaign  Will Be Back In Time To Work For Own Renomination

Nazi Patrols in Italy Thrown Back   Enemy Nervous Over Allied Plans

NAZIS SLAMMED BACK AT ANZIO   CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON STRONG PATROLS TRYING INFILTRATION,

REPEL NAZIS IN ANZIO AREA   Allies Inflict Casualties or Strong Foe Patrols On Beachhead

GERMANS FLUNG BACK AT ANZIO   Jittery Axis Fearful Of New Offensive By Allies

ALLIES POUND OUT GAINS Ik NORMAN AREA   Yank Activity Beyond Le Mans Concealed By News Ban

Thrust Made South of The Loire River...  Secrecy Said To . , re Be Kev To Succeace 

GERMAN ARMY IS BEFUDDLED BY AMERICANS   NEW BLOWS ALONG MEDITERRANEAN COAST HINTED

ONE NAZI SALIENT IS WIPED OUT   Official Mystery Is >Cloaking Movement  Of U. S. Troops

American Armor Pushes Around Left Flank of German Army in Northern France as Nazis Pour in Reinforcements

Allied Forces Go Forward In France   Yanks Liberate Nantes And Stab 10 Miles Southward

Allies Hammer Ahead In Bulge  Jn Mortain Area   Meanwhile, Amertean Armor Pushes Toward Southern France Weill Below Loire   Nazis Befuddled By Battle Moves   R everse Previous With  deawal Tactics and Hurl Reinforcenrents Tito  Slowly Closing Pincer

ALLIES MASK TROOP MOVEa TO TRAP NAZIS   Germans, Puzzled by Object of “Swing” Drives Rush Up Reinforcements.

SPECIFIC GAINS BY YANK UNITS NOT DISCLOSED   Americans Drive Beyond the Loire in Fight to Win France

Germans Pour Men in Snare  For 7th Army   British, Canadians Pound Steadily Away at T. Enemy in Northwest.

GAIN SLOWLY AT 5 POINTS   Germans Hurl Reinforcements Into Normandy Bulge Under Attack From Three Sides,   ENEMY SALIENT NEAR CAEN ERASED   British Drive 4 Miles East of Thury-Harcourt — Dispatches From Front Heavily Censored.

Enemy Uses Reserves As Trap. Is Set.  Below Caen   _Alllies Are Keeping Silent On Advances’

WHEREABOUTS OF U. S, TANKS CLOSE SECRET   Strict Censorship Hides Moves of Last Four Days

Donald Nelson Due To Return To China _   Believes He Can Boost War Effort of Nation; Stake There Is Large

Nelson to. Return to ‘China Soon   Slutuad fo Go Sack fe _apeed Up Mumi.., ar P, a nr: a  That Hution .

Nelson Slated For Return to  China Soon   Stilwell Affair Believed Not to Have Prejudiced Chances for Stepping Up Munitions Output

FDR To Send Nelson To Help Reorganize China's War Effort   Chiang Kai-shek Ask: For Him To Advise On Production

Price Control Vital To Navy, ‘Knox Declares   Failure To Renew Program Will Hold Serious Results

Knox Says Failure to Continue Price Control Will Seriously Affect Navy

RENEWAL OF PRI OF PRICE CONTROL NECESSARY DECLARED BY KNOX - SECRETARY NAVY SAYS PRICE CONTROL SAVED  DITTIANNGC Ar AAT ADS

RENEWAL OF PRIGE CONTROL NECESSARY DECLARED BY KNOX  SECRETARY NAVY SAYS PRICE CONTONY cAVED   SECRETARY NAVY SAYS PRICE CONTROL SAVED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

OX WITNESS THEARINGON ICE CHECK   ure to Renew Legisla n Would Have Serious  onsequences, Naval Secretary Says

Knox Supports Price Control   Secretary Says Failure To Renew Program  Would Be Catastrophic

Dewey Gaining In Primaries In the Midwest   Stassen, MacArthur, Given Many Votes

NEW SUPPORT GIVEN DEWEY BY MISSOUR   GOVERNOR KEEPS UP WITH ROOSEVELT IN PLEDGES

Dewey Has Big Margin. In G.O.P. Race For Delegates   148 Pledged, Claimed Among 355 Selected; ' 33 Pledged to Stassen, Three to MacArthur   FARLEY RE-ELECTED IN NEW YORK STATE

Governor Dewey Far In Lead In Convention Delegate Race   Supporters of New York Executive Claim New Votes From Missouri Convention—Stassen ond MacArthur Add to Midwest Support

Dewey, Roosevelt Add to Lead  In Nebraska, [Illinois Primaries   Stassen and MacArthur in Good Showing; Two More States Select Delegates Today

Rooseveltand Dewey lead  in delegates President picks in some strencth

Pressure Put On Bulvarians   Political Tension Grows Under. New -_Demands

FAMILY BEQUEATHED R. S. BRIGHT ESTATE   $180,000 Estimate Placed On Value Of Property Of Late Resident Of Frederick

" GOP Speakers Charge Federal Ballot Plan Invasion State's Rights; Say Lincoln Would Approve Few, if Any, New Deal Policies

Men of Destiny Were U nknown 26 Years Ago  Oblivion Beckons.to German Corporal

’Unknown’ Trio Of ‘18 Now: In Driver's Seat  Hitler Heads For  Former Oblivion

Shell-Shocked Hitler In Hospital In 1918   Melancholy German Corporal Finally Releasec  From Military Hospital As Fit; Apunoashiny Oblvien Again

MENTAL-CASE CORPORAL OF 26 YEARS AGO DISRUPTS WORLD   OBSERVE OLD ARMISTICE AS NEW WAR ROARS.

Hitler Again Sinks Toward Oblivion He Knew In Armistice Day Of 1918

YANK HEAVIE: ON MISSION   16 German Air Fields, Bridges Are Yonk Targets

HUGE AIR FLEETS STRIKE NAZI BASES BEHIND INVASION COAST   HEAVIEST WARPLANE BLAST SINCE D-DAY DEALT TO END GERMAN AERIAL SUPPORT

1,400 Heavy Bombers Hit Nazi Bases   Strongest Force Ever Dispatched for One Mission

Goodland’s Veto Kills Two Bills   Proposal To Merge All Veterans’ Agencies And Te Provide Bounties On Wolves Are Rejected

»Paris Awaits Liberation!   PARISIANS SEE TABLES TURNED BUT FEAR REPRISAL

Ravaged, Hungry Paris Awaits Coming Of Americans With Feverish Expectancy   Haletd le Mainal

9 Million Dollar Surplus Built Up By Peostoffice In Hulee Seontemter Peried

Bomb-Battered Section Around. St.. Paul's To Be Rebuilt: After Wor 

YOUTH TELLS COURT DEVIL 1S 10 BLAME   Awaits Sanity Examination to Determine Type of Institution He Will Be Sent

Germans Assert Siegfried Line Hold Loosened   Nazi Propagandists Switching To Mildly  Pessimistic Tone

YANK RETREAT IN SAAR SEEN   Stand By U. S. First Army   Begins to Worry Berlin

ATEST ENEMY TATEMENTS ON RIVE GLOOMY   Hint Doubts of Final Suecess

BARKLEY I$ RE-ELECTED HOUSE OVERRIDES VETO   A Vote of Confidence   Democrats Accept Leader’s Resignation, Then Unanimously Re-Elect Him.

Barkley Gets Vote Of Confidence; Senate To Vote On Tax Bill Soon

‘Nazis Withdrawing Fron Romania And Bulgaria; Hungarians Revolting

[Romanian Troops Attack Nazi Forces At Ploesti Oil Fields; Germans Abandon Bulgaria

YANKS NOW IN UU WILES OF PHILIPPINES      Two Islands on Tip of Dutch New Guinea Have Been Occunied

SURPRISE LANDINGS MADE ON TWO JAP-HELD ISLANDS . AND COAST OF NEW’. GUINEA

NEW LANDINGS SHORTEN GAL TO PRILIPPINES   LEAPFROG OPERATION BY  AMPHIBIOUS FORCE IN NEW GUINEA.   Japs Outflanked      Conquest of Second Largest IsJand in World Virtually Completed.

New Leap Brings US. Troops Nearer To Philippines   American Forces Seize Two Islands Only 600 Miles From Philippines   JAPS FORCE TAKEN UNAWARES IN MOVE

NEW LANDINGS ON NEW GUINEA   Surprise Action Completes Envelopment, Philippines Brought Nearer

Story Related By Officers Of Jap Brutality   Official Report of Torture and Starvation of Prisoners Taken on Bataan and Corregidor Related— Facts Given by Men Who Escaped ~~

Statement Tells of Horrors Hardly Paralleled in Modern War, of Thousands of Prisoner Deaths

Nips Tortured, Starved, Murdered  Men Taken on Bataan. Corregidor

‘Americans Tortured, Beaten, Slain   Now, How About Extra War Bond?

Bataan, Corregidor Survivors Tortured, —  . Murdered .By Japs. Escaped Men Reveal

STARVATION TOLL, ‘BRUTALITY CITED   Escaped Officer Prisoners Foe Rated Them Captives Without Protection 

TORTURE TOLD BY PRISONERS FROM BATAAN   JAP BRUTALITY AND MURDER BARED IN OFFICIAL STORY

Jap Cruelty Revealed: Thousands of Americans Tortured  Or Starved to Death in Japanese Camps in Bataan and Corregidor   Official Army and Navy Reporis Prove Brutality Practiced against Thor sands of War Prisoners

Army and Navy Releas  Brutal Official Story Of Jap ‘March of Death’

Captives of Corregidor, Bataan Starved, Beaten, Tormented: Die By Thousands in Jap Prison Camps   Filipinos Share Dreadful Fate; 6 Buried Alive; Officers Who Escaped Give Sworn Statement of Humiliations; Men With Coins Beheaded

34 vaan “'£are1 0: > eat? ~e.2 Savage Punisimen-, S-arva-ion, “3gn -s. anc ive wuria. >

Horror of War In Pacifie Told By Army, Navy   Thousands of Deaths In Japanese Camps Described: Americans. Filipinos Tortured

Flyer Describes ‘March of Death’ From Bataan; Many Prisoners Starved to Death, Report Says

Nips in Philippines torture and starve American prisoners   Systematically murdering captives seized on Bataan and Corregidor

ARMY AND NAVY RELEASE STORY DOCUMENTED BY SWORN STATEMENT OF OFFICERS WHO ESCAPED PRISON CAMPS.

500 Bomber: Blast Nazi Oil Plants   500-750 Plane: Hit Targets  In Wide Area Of France

Pound Nazi Oil Supply   Two Synthetic Plants In Reich and Balkan Oil Field Battered

YANKS HIT HARD AT GERMAN AIR, FUEL TARGETS   Moscow Reports Shuttle Raid on Aircraft Plant Without Loss

Synthetic Oil Plants Hit Hard By U. S. Heavies   Meantime Others Fly Over Wide Area of Prime French Targets

Bombers Hit Oil Plants   Air Armada Strikes In Germany and On Targets in France

ANAL  SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS LAOHE   Five Hundred U.S. Bombers On Raid Deep Into "Reich   FRANCE BLASTED   American ‘Bombers Land __In Russia After. Flight Over Geftnany

Heavy Bombers Blast Synthetic Oil Plants in Germany   Liberators, Fortresses Strike Vital Areas In Wide Sweep Over France; RAF Planes Drop Loads on Rail Targets

Reich Oil, French Supply Plants Bombed   Big Forces of Planes Striking Over Wide Areas

AERIAL ATTACK: CENTERS ON OIL PLANTS IN REICH   Over 500 Heavy Bomb: ers Hit Two Synthetic Plants and Others Hit  Tarcet in France

Europe Is Hit In Wide Areas By Bomb Fleets  Excellent Weather Assistina Allias

Allied Bomber Fleets Press  Europe Attack   Roar In From West ant South to Strike Targets In Wide Area of Franee

Bombers Hit Synthetic Oil Installations   Heavy American Anc British Ships Roam Skies All Over Continent

VITAL TARGETS HIT   Five Laindred Bombers Blast Two German Synthetic Oil Plants

GERMANY AND FRANCE HEAVILY BLASTED BY AMERICAN BOMBERS  OIL PLANTS HIT IN GER.  MANY; VITAL TARGETS  IN FRANCE BOMBED

SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS BLASTED   U. S, HEAVIES STRIKE DEEP INTO GERMANY; RANGE OVER FRANCE

Field Dav for Fliers   Two Synthetic Oil  Plants Deep Within  Germany Strafed Aircralt Plant Near Gydnia   Aircraft Plant Near Gydnia Blasted hy Bussian-Bonnd Planes, Balkan Airtield Hit

U. 5. BOMBERS STRIKE HEAVY REICH BLOWS   Fly Deep Inside to Hit Oil Plants; Targets In France Blasted

U.S. Planes Bomb Nazi Oil Plants   British-Based Fliers on Shuttle Mission to Russia

PLANES ATTACK MANY SECTIONS   Reported Over Upper Silesia, Moravia and Lower Austric

WPB SHELVES ‘SPOT’ ORDERS   Limited Reconversion Of Industry Deferred

ERASE SECOND JAP CONVOY IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Bombers Hit 12 More Ships In Attack On Kavieng

IN RON-STOP © JAP OFFENSIVE   Allied Forces Making Every Effort to Neutralize Jap Holdings in Southwest Pacific.

WEEN S TOLL OF JAP SHIPS RISES TO 60   Many Vessels Sunk or Damaged by American Bombs and Shells; Rabaul Raided Again.

Allied Planes Sink, Damage 12 Japanese Ships   Two-Day Aerial Attack Made On Kavieng In New Treland   «Ry United Press}

PROGRAM ASKED FOR USE OF 4-F'S   Non-Combat Duty Advised I Men Don’t Seek War Jobs

House Committee Recommends 4-F Men For Non-Combat Duty if They ‘Fail To Seek Essential War Jobs

PROCEDURE T0 REGROUP 4-F'S IS PROPOSED   Committee Finds 'Conspicuous Absence’ of Planned Effort to Put Men In Essential Work  2500 00G ARE INVOLVED

Essential Work Urged for 4-F's   Committee Asks They Be Inducted !f They Refuse Jobs

House Committee Recommends Plan For 4-F Labor   Induct Men for Non-Combat Duty if Job Not Essential

4+ INDUCTION PLAN OUTLINED   ASK RECLASSIFICATION ON ESSENTIAL JOB LINE

SOLONS WOUL PUSH HESITANT 4-F’§ TO WORK   ‘Conspicuous Absence’ From Essential Jobs Noted—NonCombat Duty Is Urged

AF Draft in Non-Combat Jobs Urged   Rejectees Would Be Inducted on Failure To Find War Work

Committee Urges Induction of 4-Ps for Work  Rejected Men Would Take War Jobs or Noncombat in Army

House Urges Essential Jobs For All 4-F’s   Existing Law Sufficient to Handle Program

: House Military Committee Recommends That Men Rejected For Full «Military Service Be Inducted For Non-Combat Duty Or Go To Work

 Would Call 4-F’s Who Fail To Seek Essential Work   “Conspicuons Absence” Of Planned Effort In Direction Charged

Control Over 4-F’s Again  Before House   Committee Recommends Rejected Men Be Put Into Non-Combat Line If Not On War Jobs

Program Offered By Committee   Reclassification Into War Job Group And Those Not Doing Essential Work Urged

HOUSE MILITARY  COMMITTEE WANTS  INDUCTION OF 4F'S CLAIMED EXISTING LAWS  GAVE POWER TO MEET ‘ATTY EVICENCIFG

Committee Wants Action on 4-F's   Says No Effort ts Made To Force 4-F's Into Essential Work

PROPOSE TIGHTER 4-F REGULATIONS   NON-COMBAT DUTY RECOMMENDED IF NOT IN WAR WORK

WILL CONTINUE ~— TQHARASS 4-Fs   Army Told To Induct ~ Men For Non-Com‘hat Duty

HOUSE MILITARY COMMITTEE WANTS INDUCTION OF 4F°S  * CLAIMED EXISTING LAWS _ GAVE POWER TO MEET  ALL EXIGENCIES

Non-Combat Duty. Urged for 4-F Men Not in War Work   House Comintioe Becizres Existing Law Provides Power Te Bring About Changes

Into Armed Forees or  War Work   Absence of Effort To Direct 4-F’s Into Essential Work is Complaint

Over . Fs   House Committee Says Special Law Not Need. ed to Force Them Into Essential War Work

House Committee Not Giving Up On 4-F's, War Work   Wants Qualified 4-F’s In Non-Combat Duty If Stay Out of Vital War Work

URGE REJECTEES BE INDUCTED IN NON-COMBAT DUTY   House Military Group Suggest Non-Combat Status For Rejected Men Who Fail To Enter Essential Work

PROPOSE NEW AF SQUEEZE   Seek War Jobs Or Be Inducted, House Group  Recommends

MEN NOW IN 4-F MAY BE FORCED INTO WAR WORK   Military Group Recommends Men  Be Re-Classified

Committee Would: Draft 4-F’s Who Won’t Work   Plan To Get Men Rejected by Draft Into Essential Industry Or Non-Combat Duty Reported

4-F DRAFT ASKED FOR NON-COMBAT DUTY   Induction Recommended If Not In War Work

DON GENTILE IS COMING HOME  European Air Ace Views 350 Hours of Fighting

Six-Acre Plant . Razed By Fire In East Hartford   Barge * Factory’ Complete ‘Lose In. ‘General Alarm Blaze; Cause Unknown

Lively Lupe Velez Died A Suicide Despondent Over Affair With Actor

mu HIS FIRM ~ PROFITED BY POST      Suspended Navy Officer Testifies Before Com- > mittee +

DENIES HIS FIRM = ~ PROFITED BY POS)      ‘Suspended Navy Offic Testifies Before Committee

Suspended Navy Man Defends Firm   Says Service Actually Cost Company Money

New Deal Wins Vote Test in Oklahoma  Left Wing Group Winner in New York Labor Party Fight

STIGLER WINS in OXLAHOMA ELECTION   _However GOP Has Consolation in N. Y. ALP Ralloting

DEMS WIN. KEY OKLA. ELECTION   Win Congress Seat By Bigger Margin Than in 1942

STORMS OVER KANSAS   Wind, Lightning and Hail With Last Night’s Rain

Greek Rebel: Hand British  Peace Terms   Insurgent’s Proposal Expected  To Be Acrepted

ELAS Repl To British _ Proposals  Conditions Given ‘For Endina Revolt

BRITISH GIVEN REBELS TERMS   ~E. L. A. S. REPLY TO PROPOSALS FOR PEACE

cho Permission  From (Greek King to Establis!: Tempory Regen Pending Plebiscite.   Bs stephen Burber

A. P. TOLD GREEKS OFFER “PEACE TERMS   News Agency Also Learns Reliably That British Are Inclined to Accept Elas Proposal as Basis for Armistice.

ELAS Forces Pound British. Positions in Athens Struggle   Report , Archbishop of Athens May Be Asked “ To Form Cabinet

Greeks Offer Peace Terms, Rumor Says   Fresh ELAS Firing Hits British, Indians On Mainland

British Get ELAS  Terms    Greek Insurgents List 3 Demands As Armistice Basis

British Handed Terms fo End Riot  Possibility May Be  mm mekem eh Ome©@6 6D lw

Greek Rebels (Offer Terms Of Armistice   ELAS Still Pounding British Defense Positions in Athens

Greek Leftists Submit Counter Peace Proposals   Possibility Seen That  British Will Accept As Deane ae y ree

GREEKS OFFE TERMS 10 END THEIR REVOLT   But There's No Let-up in Resistance of ELAS Fighters to English Trops

BUTTER POINTS DOWN SUNDAY   Reduced to 12 Points Per Pound: Beef Increased One Point

VALUE 1S GU   Effective April 30, Ration Values Go From 16 to 12 Points Per Pound.

Ration Value Of Butter To Be Reduced To 12; Beef Cuts To Advance

Butter Cut To 12 Points; Beef Raised   Lamb and Mutton Reduced; Changes to Be Effective Sunday

Butter Cuf Four Points   Effective Sunday Ration Value Is 12 Points Inctend of 16

Butter to Cost Fewer Points  Slasked to 12 Points, Starting Sunday

‘oints On Buiter Reduced By OPA   Ym. F  « Points a Pound Begin ting Sunday: Same Seale for Margarine

Even Sunday: ' Butter Lowered Four Points; Lamb Cut In Half, Beef Jumps

RATION POINTS ON BUTTER CUT 10 12; VALUES ON CHOICE BEEF CUTS RISE

South Asserts Herself In Party Politics   Certain States Insist On Having A Say In the Na. tional Party Platform.

INEW DEMO STORM SIGNALS HOISTED BY SOUTH TODAY   Mississippi Among States Now Determined to Commit Party to a Stand for “White Supremacy” — Follows the Texas Plan

Mississippi  Joins Texas   Committed To Stand On White Supremacy

South Hoists Storm Signals In Negro Issue   Mississippi Joins Ranks Of States For White Supremacy

SOUTH HOISTED NEW DEMOCRATIC STORM SIGNALS THURSDAY   MISSISSIPPI AND GEORGIA ACT FOR WHITE SUPREMACY IN PARTY :

'Love Letters May Go to War   Illinois Clubwomen Suggest Ancient Love Letters Be Scrapped

Nazis Retreat In Face OF US. Army Approach   Resistanee Within Belgium Only Scattered; Greetings to Americans Greatest Yet   Patton Tanks In Reich, Radio Sav   Other Units So Close Ft. dle Guns Echo Along Border of Sacred Germun Soil

Beaten German Troaps Flee Toward Fatherland os General Patton’s Third U. S. Army Rushes to the Soar, Reported

Yanks Speed Toward Flanders Battlefield   Germans Flee Brussels, As Belgians Meet Americans On Highways; Patton Drives On Siegfried Line

Enemy Is Reported Fleeing Brussels; British And Canadians Mop Up Areas Along Channel Coast

Seven-Way Road Hub in Belgium in Allied Hands   Din of Battle Echocs in Reich jas Twin Columns Plunge Ahead in Sensational Drive

Other Armored Units Near German Border   Capture of Tournai Lands Yanks 46 Miles of Brussels

YANKS PLUNGE INTO BELGIUM; NAZIS ON RUN   BATTLE DIN ECHOES IN SAAR; HIGHWAY HUB CAPTURED

TOURNAI SEIZED BY YANK UNITS IN GREAT PUSH   Germans Flee from Brussels as Two Columps Approach Belgian Capital

Virtual End To Battle Of France As War Carried  To 11 Miles Of Reich

Armored Forces Penetrate Almost To German Border   Battle Of France Virtually At An End As Nazis Offer Flimsy Resistance

MORE OAD 10 HAVE GROSoEd REICH BORDER   i Radio Atlantic Reports U. S$:  Tanks Over Frontier  at Two Places.

Enemy Quitting Low Countries, Channel Coast   American Stab in Lorraine Nears R ‘ich, Results  Tr £ ‘TT: te

Report Troops But 46 Miles From Brussels   Dispatches Indicate Luxembourg, Reich Invaded; Yanks Get Bia Welcome

Tournai Taken as Allies Speed c on: Toward Fede        "May Be Echoing oe Saar Says Beal

Heinies Flee Brussels As Yanks Approach  Patton's Forces Arriva At Moselle

Battle of France Virtually Ended As Allies Sweep On   Germans Fleeing Belgium, Bomb Coast; Yank Patrols May Be in Luxembourg

OTHER FORCES DRAWING NEAR REICH BORDER   German Troops Leave Brussels; Yanks  46 Miles Out

Two American Columns Roll Across Belgian Border and Capture Seven-way Rail Hub   Push into Tournai, Five Miles Inside Little Country, Meeting Practically No Opposition from Fast Retreating Germans

War Approaches Rei ie and Broadcast Says  S. Tanks Have C DSSE Border at 2 Places.         PATTON’S. PATROLS *: : AT MOSELLE RIVE             Bag of 1,200 Prison ny Indicates Resistance: i Rising — British Se Ze Vimy Ridge. fees

YANKS APPROACH GERMAN BORDER   Din of Battle Now Believed Echoing in the Saar   NAZIS FLEE BRUSSELS   Germans Say Strong Amertcan Forces Have Knifed Through Lorraine

Tournai Taken In Drive To Within 46 Miles Of Brussels   Other Units Near German Frontier   Battle Of France Virtually Ended In Week Of  Sensational Gains

Sweden Reports Enemy Kyacuating Districts To West of Rhine River

German Frontier Near As Patton Smashes Ahead   Tournai Captured In Sweep As Nazis Retreat In Lowlands

Germans Flee From Capital Of Belgium   Reports Also Tell of Nazis Getting Out of Holland, Luxembourg

Patton's Men Advance To Reich Border   Northern Army Captures Tournai 5 Miles Inside Belgium

Japs Awaited Tokyo Bombing   Nips Took Precautions Against U. S. Air Raid

JAPS WAKE UP   Tokyo Takes Precautions for Expected U. S. Bomber Raid.

Inhabitants Convinced Attache Near   Government Chiefs Order Safeguards; Open Fires Banned

RING TIGHTENED AROUND NAZIS IN KIEV AREA   New Drives Put Soviets Or March Along 750-Mile Eastern Front

ENCIRCLEMENT RING BELOW XIEV !S SIGHTENED  JN GERMANS   Narva Isolated rrom All Hopes yf Reinforcement

Soviets Tighten Trap on 100,000   Red Armies Advance on 750-Mile Front

NAZI ARMY ENCIRCLED IN UKRAINE   10 Divisions Are Trapped By Juncture Of 2 Russ Armies

British Plan  Pacific Fight Lord Halifax Holds Conference In State

SHUTTLE FLIERS LAND IN RUSSIA   Yanks From Britain Make First Stopover On Soviet Soil

U.S. Bombers Land in Russia   Cross from Britain To Soviet Airport

Nazi Resistance Stiffens in Italy   Kesselring Stubbornly Defends Rimini

GERMANS RETREAT ON ITALIAN FRONT   On Central And Western Sectors. But Fight Stubbornly In East

GERMAN FORCES WITHDRAW FROM PART OF ITALY   Nazi Parachute Division Is Stil Fighting To Hold Rimini

NAZIS RETREAT ON SOME PARTS ~ OF IFALY FRONI   Crack Hun Parachute Division in East Tries to Hold Rimini

Cannot Plan On Nazi Collapse In 1944, Says FR   Demobilization Will Start With Defeat  of German Nation

DEMOBILIZE SOME WHEN NAZIS BEATEN   Adjustments to Be Made Before Defeat of Japs

Demobitization as Soon.as Germany  Whipped Assured   Roosevelt Warns Uy. S. Cannot Plan on Nazi Fall im ’44

F, R. Says Large Scale Demobilization Will Begin After Fall of Naziland

HOUSE MEMBERS RELUCTANT — TO FILE PAG ‘COMPLAINTS   NO - FORSIAL OHARGES YET _ MADE ..IN * CONNECTION  WITH ClO: CAMPAIGN. “  MOVIVITIES

AT FIRST  SIGH OF A oD  a 666  . med Wg 8 tae wd elt      FDR's TVA Proposa For Missouri River Has Mixed Reactior

Reaction Mixed to F.D.R.'s MVA Proposals  President Urges Agency for Missouri Vallev

Reaction Mixed to F.D.R.’s MVA Proposals  President Urges Agency for  RE cman ST acl es:

Lost Art of Drop-Kicking Proved Sue: cessful to Loc Eleven; 3000 sbespaee  Witness Turkey-Day Contest

Lost Art of Drop-Kicking Proved Successful to Local Eleven; 3000 Fans  Witness Turkey-Day Contest

Freedom From Trade Curbs Asked at Business Conclave   By ELMER CC. WALZER

Do-or-Die Stand By Japs Indicated As Troops Pour In   Superforts Blast Jap-held Nanking and Tokyo Radio Reports 80 of Them Again Raided Home Islands; Situation in China Precarious

NEW JAP COMMANDERS IN PHILIPPINES HURL IN REINFORCEMENTS  AIR-SEA BATTLE COST _ ENEMY 7 DESTROYERS  AND 3 TRANSPORTS

Japs Hurl Reinforcements Into Furious Leyte Battle   B-29's Bomb Nanking and Tokyo Reports  80 Big U. S. Raiders Attack Kyushu

Sink 10 Jap Ships: b -29’s Hit Nanking; Say Japan Raided   Nips Hurl Thousands of Fresh Troops Into Heavy Philippine Battles; Fight Similar To Gudaleanal

Lose 7 Destroyers And 3 Transports “In Air-Séa Battle   Nanking Bombed By Superforts; Nippon Home Island Hit Again; Slight U.S. Gains Made On Leyte

JAPS THROW THOUSANDS FRESH ‘TROOPS INTO LEYTE BATTLE AS USS. SINKS SEVEN DESTROYERS

80 B29s Raid Nanking; Subs Sink 6 Ships   Fresh Nip Troops Land; Americans Score Small Gains on Eastern Sector

TEACHER BONUS PAYMENTS ARE GIVEN APPROVAL   Commissioners Of 21 Coun: ties Request State To Continue Program   WELFARE BOARD LAW IS TO BE STUDIED

STATE CONTINUANCE OF "BONUS' ASKED   County Commissioners of State Adopt Resolution at Meeting

BRITISH FORGE NEW JUNCTION WITH AIR UNITS   Tommies And Airborne Troops Fighting On Banks Of Rhine   EINDHOVEN CAPTURED BY COMBINED ACTION

Texas University President Ousted, 3 Regents Quit, Students Protest

TURRE SUreneKiniIEeETR is nhugpu caer mecca TEXAS U. STUDENTS WANT RAINEY BACK AS PRESIDENT

Chicago Building Great Reputation For Kindness to Men in Service

TAX HEADACHES MAY DISAPPEAR   GROUP WOULD LET 30,000,000 ‘OMIT FILING RETURNS, STARTING IN 1945.

OMISSION SEEN ON TAX RETURNS   Plan Would Eliminate 1948 Filing on incomes Up. ‘te $5000

SMALL INCOMES MAY GET BREAK   Proposal To Eliminate Returns Under 55,000 Studied In Congress

CUT PLANNED IN NUMBER OF TAX RETURNS   30,000,000 May Escape Filing Forms Next Yeor    WITHHOLDING LEVY WILL BECOME TAX   Progress Reported on the Program of Simpli-' _ cation —

Break for Taxpayer  Looms in Congress   Committee Drafts Plan to Obviate Filing On Incomes Up to $5000; Withholding Set Up as Basis of ’44 Levy

TAX BODY WORK ON SIMPLE PLAN   Current Epidemic of Digit Fever May Be Last Severa Million Taxpayers Will Suf.  — fer, Declared

39 Buildings On Rabaul Battered By Allied Bombs   Enemy Supply Dump Areas Blasted, Huge — Fires Are Started

YANKS EXTEND LEYTE CONTROL   Beachheads Consolidated. New Areas Are Cleared Out

BIG U. S. GUNS POUNDING JAPS ON LEYTE ISLE   Yanks Now Control 40Mile Stretch Of Kast Coast

U. §. Brings Big Guns Into Play Against Leyte   Eastern Side of Island Being Rapidly Cleared

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.   Claim Against Brewster   Jans Falling Back

New Aitack Southeast  of Aachen   Drive Through Forest With Aid of Divebombers; Yanks Pull Back. North of City   2 PLACES YIELDED. ..IN HEAVY ACTION.   4Story Concrete Barracks: Bristling With’Guns Holds Against Yankees

INTENSE ENEMY PRESSURE BY HEAVY ARMOR CAUSES YANKS TO RETREAT IN UBACH AREA   Flight Upon Flight of Allied Planes Take Advantage Of Good Weather To Tear At Axis Tank Units   BREAKTHROUGH ACKNOWLEDGED NEAR NANCY

Fierce Fighting, Marked by Heavy Artillery Bombardments, Continues Around Metz and in Corner of Holland—Fog, Cold and Mud Slows Ground Forces But Allied Warplanes Back in Air To Blast Germany

YANKEES IN “BATTLE OF THE FOREST’   Doughboys Have to Fall Back in Two Places Along Siegfried Before Counterattcaks   Re DON WHITPHEAD

April 1 To Start Bar Moanings   _ New Federal Taxes Will Bring Few Cents Increase  On All Drinks.

MAKE EFFORT 10 END WALKOUT IN STEEL STRIKES      Army, Navy Officers, Federal Conciliators Planning Conferences

4.500 Still Strike in’ War Plants   Donora Workers Vote to Stay Out in Spite of Pleas  By Conciliators

MAJ. BONG IS TOPS AMONG ALLIED ACES   American Flier Is Awarded : Highest Honor

Tribute to Gallant Fighting Men to Highlight Rally   Joe Miller, Lt. Cort Harrington and Sgt. Martin Olson to Be Featured on Program: Luncheon Slated at Noon

HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK BY NAZIS DIVE BOMBERS   Near Misses Recorded on Two Others i in: What Is Termed Deliberate Attack Off Nettuno, Italy

GERMANS SINK HOSPITAL SHIP   Nazis Dive-Bomb Brightly Lighted Yank Vessels Off Italy

GERMANS SINK HOSPITAL SHIP   Make Direct Hit and Near Misses on 2 Others Out- ” side Invasion Zone.   LOSSES OF LIVES LIGHT

Enemy Scores Direct Hit and Close Misses  On Two Others   Deaths Believed Few: All Ships Were Lighted and Marked

SUNKEN HOSPITAL - SHIP TOLL LIGHT   ALLIED VESSELS OUTSIDE ITALIAN INVASION ZONE WHEN. BOMBED BY NAZIS.

GERMANS SINK HOSPITAL SHIP   Vessel, Plainly Marked, Goes Down Quickly After Dive Bombing Attack.

NAZIS BOMBARD HOSPITAL SHIPS   One Of Three Vessels Sunk In Cold-Blooded Raids

Hospital Ship Sunk By Nazis Cold-Blooded Bombing Raid Made On Vessels

James E. Timmons Is Now a Sergeant   Has Been in Mediterranean Theatre of Operations for 23 Months.

U.S. on Verge of Break with Finns   Relations May Be Severed in 24 Hours

Landing Threatens  Hollandia   Triple Assault Puts Troops 500 Miles Nearer Philippines

18 Three-Year-Olds Nominated in Derby; Rain Muddies ™ rack   Stir Up Rated as 8 to 5° 3 “avorite; Challenge Me Second «=: Bet Ticket Al Trainer 's Confide:.. in Fntyjee

Lowe Tells of Part.in Payoff   He Claims Phillips Was Cut in for $500 Of $8000 Payoff

LOWE TELLS OF ROLE HE FILLED IN $8,000 DEAL   Former Tag Agent Testifies About Pay-off in Trial Of Phillips

Three Persons Dead In Fire   Log And Frame House Near Fairview, Pa., Destroyed Today.

‘Tough’ Policy On Determents  Is Agreed Upon   WPB-Army-Navy Unit Lists Few Industries Hiring Men Under 26 Who'll Escape Draft

‘TOUGH’ POLICY ON DEFERMENTS   Men Under 26 Will Be Deferred Only For Skilled Work

Army, Navy, WPB Agree On ‘Tough’  Drait Policy   To Allow Deferments Only to Skilled Men ¢ In Highly Select Grou Of War Industries   SOW SIRBL PLAINIS ARE NOT INCLUDED Plants Making Tires,  High Test Gasoline, Ta ding Craft on List

“TOUGH POLICY WILL DECIDE DEFERMENTS   , Very Select Group of Industries to Keep Skilled Men

POPE ISSUES. NEW 1PPEAL   DECLARES THAT, WHOEVER AFT: HAND: AGAINST CITY . “2 i “GUILTY, JOF MA.     JTRICIDE” -

Paris in Allied Hands, Liberation is Now Complete   German Commander Surrenders ; Nazis Ordered to Give Up Guns.   Celebration Started By Joyous Citizenry

VON KLUGE'S SOLDIERS IN FULL RETREAT   Liberation of French Capital Called Fact by Supreme Headquarters. People Jubi‘ant

ALLIED TROOPS, 'ATRIOT ARMY TREE CAPITAL   * German Chief } Surrenders

FIGHTING FLARES AROUND CAPITAL   French Armor Enters Heart Of City;   Radio Says Yank ; Troops There, Too

PARIS APPEARED ~ TO BE IN ALLIED - HANDS TONIGHT   French 2nd. Armored Division ‘Is Reported Operating : in the City.   . FIGHTING CONTINUES   Broadcasts Said Joyous Citizenry Already Celebrating Their Freedom.

FRENCH ARMOR CLEANING OUT NAZI POCKETS   Fighting Continues Im Capital; Liberation “A Bact”

 American And French Troops Enter City; DeGaulle Waits 'To Be Conducted Into Capital   Throngs Sing ‘Marseillaise’ In Streets Gaily Bedecked With Allied Flags; Populace Joins In Celebrating Freedom Again

American and French Armor to Aid of Parisians   Control of City Is Apparently Regainec But Fighting Still Proceeds, Is Report

xsermans Yield to French — Leader as Bradley Sends Yanks Storming Into Citv

Gen. LeClere’s Armor Reaches City’s Center   Parisians Summoned to Barricades in Old Battle Cry While Citizens  Welcome Troops as Deliverers

Final Stages of Battle for French Capital Appear to Be in Full Swing, Headquarters Announces City Is Liberated of Enemy

French Armored Forces Move In Against Germans  Citizens Giving Men Big Welcome; Yanks Are Reported In And

Second French Arraored Division And U.S. Columns Drive Into Heart Of Paris To Reinforce  ‘Parisians - Fighting _From Barricades; City Said In Allied Hands.

¥ SAID T0 BE LIBERATED   ericans Find French apital In Full Swing Of Rattle   AZI FORCE STRONG

French Tanks Operating In Heart of Capital; US Forces Also Enter City   Fighting, However, Is Still Going on in and Around Pari:

U. S. Tanks, infantrymer Enter Paris   Join Partisans and Frenc} Regulars in House to  House Fighting

American And French Troops Wildly Cheered   Street Fighting Rages Throughout Heart Of City

German Commander Of Paris Has Surrendered, Firing Ordered Stopped

Liberation Is Now ‘A Fact’   Street Battles Go On But French Shout In Joy As Armored Forees Enter City

Under Terms of Surrender Weapons of Enemy Are   To Be Collected Intact  and Not Damaged.   GERMANS TOLD TO AWAIT NEW ORDERS

Heavy Fighting Continues Inside City; Nazi Tanks Near Palais Luxembourg

PARIS ENTERED BY ALLIES AS CERMANS FLEE   Enemy Is Leaving Bits Anel Pieces To Delay Troops

Paris Entered By Tank Forces Of French Army   Nozis Reinforce Beleoguered City With Fresh 3 roops

Patriot’s Insurrection Was Premature; Appeals For Aid Upset Allied Strategy

American Tanks Aid The French   Yanks Storm Through Th Orleans Gate, The: Fan Qut Swiftly 0: To Avenues   New York. — (UP) = Gen. Charles De Gaulle hae arrived in Paris, Rado Paris sald today.

French Troops Enter City to Battle Germans   Fighting Reported In and Around Cripitul of France

Gen, Eisenhower’s Headquarters Give Qut Announcement   However, Fighting is Still Raging in and Around Capital

Paris Is Liberated; But Some Fighting Is Still Going On There   French Second Armored Division Operating in City to Help Embattled Citizens Clear Up Remaining Germans

Paris Now Held by Allied Group   FIGHTING STILL GOING ON IN PARTS OF CITY

“City Goes , Mad With Happiness   ®@ motions Suppressed Four Years by Nazis Cut Loose in Wild Celebration   qf MERICANS NS AND @ FRENCH MARCH IN   Fight Their Way Toward Center of City; Wildest -Confusion

French Tank Unit Operating In City Center   Fighting, However, Still Is Going On In and Around Oceupied French Capital Today   Partisans Called To “Barricades”   Joyous Cilizenry Already Celebrating Freedom; American Tank Columns In Metropolis

LE CLERC LEADS TANKS INTO THE FRENCH CAPITAL   PUSH INTO CENTER OF CAPITAL; ARMY HAILED WITH JOY

Seizure Confirmed By Gen. Eisenhower   Crowds Wild With Joy As U. S., French Troops  Reach Center Of City; Notre Dame Bells Ring Out Tidinas Of Liberation

FIGHTING RAGES THROUGHAEART OF FRENCH CITY   Report Nazi Leader Has Surrendered to Brig. Gen. Le Clerc

Germans Fight To Last Ditch.   Allies Reported in Possession of Major Public Buildings, Most of Highways in Famed Capitol; Citizens in Celebration

PARIS APPARENTLY IN HANDS OF ALLIES, WITH FIGHTING STILL GOING ON IN AND AROUND CITY

Radio Reports  Nazi Surrender   ..». Parisians Delirious With Joy As Aid Arrives

Relief Column Reaches Paris  To Finish Job   U. S. And French Army Units Overwhelm Nazis In City

Yank, French Troops Move Into Capital   Most of City Now ‘Liberated,’ AEF Headauarters Savs

But Fighting Rages in Key French City   French Second Armored Division Operating in Area; Aided by American Troops

Fierce Battles rought   German Garrison Commander Gives Up to Allies

RADIO REPORT SAYS CAPITAL IS LIBERATED   American and French. Arm= ored Units Join Civilians in Seizing City.

French Units Enter City After Plea For Aid by Underground   Fighting Continues in Parts as DeGaulle Appears in Suburb; Parisians Start Huge Celebration

Truk Bombed For {1th Time   Ponape and Enemy Bases in Marshalls Also Hit by Airmen

SOFIA IS HEAVILY. = BOMBD BY ALLIES   Rail Yards and Other Objective .Hit—Fires Spring Up After Hure Explosions,

Moving On Japs Massed At Wewak.... . Closing Western Jaw Of New Guinea Trap On Big Japanese Military Unit

Closing Jaws On Trapped Japs   Six-Day Patrol Fighting Rages As Yanks And Avasiex Close In.

Jap Hordes On Ne ew GuineaAre About Trapped.   Yankees and Aussies Are Closing Jaw of Pincer Movement In Western Sector Of Island

Yanks and Aussies Closing in Against Japs at Wewak  Americans Fight Way Through Japanese Patrols on Coast

Allied Trap Being Closed. About Thousands Of Japs;  Patrol Continues Contest

REDS CLOSING ON BUDAPEST   MANY CIVILIANS IN HUNGARIAN CAPITAL REPORTED . FLEEING AS RUSSIANS DRAW NEAR

AI AGH TN UDAPEST; SOVIET ROOPS ADVANCING  rmored Colntens Slash To Within 20 Miles of Magyar Capital   ussian Airmen Harass The Enemy Along The Entire Route

sccemamtemic: cameceaes ppm cceres apercaget qT PANIC RRPFAKS OUT IN RIDAPEST.

RAPID APPROACH OF REDS STARTS SUDAPEST PANIC   Wealthy Persons Flee, Army Commandeering Most — Vehicies

NAZI LAWS IN REICH BEING SWEPT ASIDE   Allied Military Government Clamps Tight Control Over Occupied Germany.

OCCUPIED GERMANY HELD DOWN   Tight Control Is Placed Over Civilian Life

Eisenhower To Rule Germany With Stern Justice: ‘Nazi Party Eliminated; Laws Abrogated

Hillman Urges Liberals To  Back: 4th Term   Forces of Reaction Have: Won GOP, CIO. Leader: Says. 

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   ALL-OUT ASSAULT LAUNCHED AGAINST METZ

PATTON STARTS ALL-OUT DRIVE AGAINST FORT   American First Army Now Only 25 Miles From Rhine River   BIG GUNS CLEAR PATH   Pressure Against Nazis Increased Along Big Part Of Front

Tito s Forces Take 2 Vital Bosnia Towns   Victory Smashes German  Drive to Separate   .  Partisan Armies

Slavs Drive GermansBack   Allied Torpedo Boats Smash Nazis From Sea

Concern Over Possible Invasion of Sweden By Germans Being Evidenced.

Americans Bomb German  Defense Wall      Assault Made Against Mili. tary Installations Along Invasion Coast

34 Children Taken From London To Avoid Robombs Are Killed As Plane Crashes On Their Nursery

Bomber Fall in Town Kills 50  34 British Children Among Dead as U.S. Liberator Crashes

U.S. Bomber _ Kills 34. Tots  In Accident   Death Toll In English Country Town May Go Over 50; Three OF Crew Killed

Bomber Crashes  Into School   Scores Of Children In English Village Killed; Fire Follows.

Plaae ralls in English Town; Takes 50 Lives   Thirty-Four of Dead Are Small Children; American Soldiers  Join in Rescue Work

50 Killed in Plane Crash   Liberator Crashes Flaming Into English Village

American Bomber Ablaze Crashes into British Village; 50 Are Dead Including 34 Child Evacuees from Robot Danger

MAYER AGAIN _ EARNS MOST          (OVIE EXECUTIVE. RECEIVED NEARLY MILLION DOLLARS FOR SERVICES LAST _YEAR

lag Warships, Cargo Vessels Sunk. 36 Hit   Bonin Islands Town 600 Miles from Tokyo Destraved in ‘Attacks

Navy Guns, Flyers Strike Within 600 Miles of Tokyo   Five Destroyers or Their Escorts Among Enemy Vessels Bagged

Triplets, two boys and girl, born to Mrs. Harry Pierson of Stromsburg

ANTI-CLOSED SHOP VOTE IS PASSED IN FLORIDA   Smallest Popular Vote Since 1916 Given FDR

KANSAS CITY DELUGE    Families in Lowlands on Kansas Side Routed Out

JAPS SAY BATTLE IN PROGRESS   Tokyo Claims U. § Flect Suffering Heavy Losses

U. S. Pacific Fleet May Have Succeeded In Catching Up   JAPS CLAIM NAVY BATTLE IN PROGRESS   The Enemy Also Claimed Two American BattleShips Lost

Jap Prisoner Toll Mounting   Continued Attacks Weaken  Ninnaneco Recistanra’

JAP VESSELS DESTROYED BY CATALINAS   Destroyer and Four Merchantmen at Celebes is Target for Flying Boats; Davao Bombed.   Sink Cruiser

AIRMEN SINK 5 JAPANESE SHIPS   Destroyer And 4 Cargo Vessels Destroyed In Celebes Raid

TROOP-FILLED CRAFT ARE SUNK IN CELEBES   Eight Freighters And 123 Barges ‘Sunk Or Damaged At Halmahera In Twe Days

DUTCH CELEBES BASES BOMBED   Neutralization Raids On Enemy Airdromes Continued

MacArthur Hits Anew at Path To Philippines  Blasting of Warships  sl Strafing of Davao ve Annaunce dd

Yank Bombers Take Heavy Toll Of Jap Shipping   13 Troop-Laden Barges Are Destroyed

Yanks Sink 13 Troop-Filled Japanese Boats   Tokyo Moans About Oil Shortage As Shipping Js Blasted

STETINIUS 10 Bt SECRETARY STATE   Dynamic Under-Secretary to Succeed Ailing Cordell Hull; Senate Expected Confirm Immediately

Undersecretary Appointed After. Hull’s Resig_ nation fs Announced

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STETTINIUS GETS TOP CABINET POST SUCCEEDING HULI   Latter Steps Down on Account of Iliness and Undersecretary, 44, Is Ad‘vanced Few Hours Later.   PROMPT CONFIRMATION BY SENATE PREDICTED   New Secretary Is Relative _ Newcomer to Diplomacy and Youngest Since... George  Washington’s Time.

FDR Selects E.R. Stettinius For Hull Post   Tennesseean To Continue As Roosevelt's. Adviser When Health Perr

STETTINIUS IS SUCCESSOR T0 SECRETARY HULL   President Pays Tribute To Hull As “Father Of United Nations’’   ILL HEALTH FORCES VETERAN TO RESIGN

Secretary Hull Is Forced to Quit Cabinet   Edward Steitinius Nominated for Promotion

British Drive Along East Italian Coast   Yanks Knock Germans From Three More  Mountain Peaks

Japs Amassing Big Force For Drive In China   Army 280,000 Assembled For Assault Upon. Canton-Hankow Railway, Teangy Save

British Win In Air Talk   ‘Yanks Get Setback On -5-Freedom. Plan

Free World Air Is One U. S. Aim   ‘Five Freedoms’ for Air Traffic Lack Approval at International Conference In Chicago.

British’ Win Their Point   Outmianeuver Ameri-' can Efforts to Write Five Air Freedoms  Into World Air Pact

U.S. SET BACK AT AIR MEET   British Reject American Plan For Sky Freedom

United Kingdom Scores Triumph In Air Parley  US Setback In 5 6USky Freedoms

INVASION IS COVERED WITH NO. OPPOSITION   Few. Casualties Reported Amnog Air-borne Troops That Landed Behind German Lines:

Predicts Budapest's Fall As Russians Adv ance * In Push Toward ‘Austria

HIGHFIELD SERVICE ~ WILL BE CONTINUED      Western Maryland Ry. Co. Petition Denied by Commission

Gen. Patton In England For Invasion   Dropped From Public View After Affair Last Year

Pistol-Packin’ - Gen, Pation to the Big Show   Official“. Announcement. 9! His Arrival. for Duty. In’ European Theater- *   ‘EISENHOWER. HAS GREAT FAITH IN. HIM   Armored Force Expert’ Has Been: Out of Spotlight. “Since” Slapping” Incident

GENERAL PATTON ARRIVES ‘IN EUROPEAN THEATER.’ TAKE-OFF POINT FOR INVASION

Gen. Patton In Britain   Former Commander of Seventh Army in Sicily Will Join lnvasion

PATTON SHOWS UP   Recently in Cairo, Now in European Theater of Operations.

Gen. Patton To Britain ©   Colorful Officer Reports for Duty in European War Theater

Patton Assigned for Invasion Duty  Pistol Packing General in Enaland

PATTON (6 NOW IN EUROPEAN THEATER   Pistol-Packing General Ar: rives in New Area for Active Buty.

General Patton Reaches Kneland   Old Blood And Guts May Get Invasion Command

Gen. Patton In Kuropean  War Theatre   Eisenhower Known To Have Great Faith in Ability of Colorful Officer

EAS SN AA ENS NE we PUR Pet  General Patton on Duty In European Theater

General George Patton Arrives in England   Last Reported in Cairo, Fermer 7th Amy Boss Is Ready for Action

Pistol Packin’ Pation Moved   Sent to European Theater Of Operations ‘For Duty,’ It’s Announced

Report Invasion Troops Massing   German Radio Says Shipping Concentration in British Waters, Soldiers Leaving London; State Counter Blows Prepared

BRITISH ROUT JAPANEST ON KOHIMA ROAD   Counter-Attack May Save Imperiled Manipur State

Japs in India Are Routed on Wide Front   British Imperials Regain Initiative in Heavy Fighting

Germans and Romanians in Fierce Fight  Former Allies Battle As Germans Retreat Fror: Russian Troops

YANKS GRIND ACROSS NAZI MINE FIELDS   Rugged Going South Of Bologna to Seize Hill

Yanks Crash Through Tough Nazi Defense   Mount Grande Is aken By Dougshbovs

Americans Smash Forward in Italy   Height Seized Against  Fierce Nazi Resistance

New Russian Offensive In North Likely.  Nazis Believe   Snowstorms On Many Parts Of Front; Red Army Reaches Prut River

NAZI DIVISIONS _ ARE TRAPPED IN CIRCLE OF DEAT   Front Line Dispatches Say Russians Are at Korsun, in Dnieper Bend.   OFFENSIVE HAS BEGUN   Marshal Konev’s Troops Have Swept Up to Rumanjan Frontier.

AMERICANS 8 MILES FROM BOLOGNA   Allies Cut Last Escape Route For Nazis On Crete

ALLIES STUDY REPORT JAPAN MAY HIT RENS   Tokyo Policy Change Possible   GERMANS BOAST   Tojo Shifts Armies to Manchuria

SERVICE VOTE IN IOWA IS 40,000   Candidates to Make ORT Genre eee Cre em

LEADERS NAMED FOR WAR FUND DRIVE IN COUNTY   Campaign to-Ra’se. $12,500 Will: Open in’ ‘Lipton Monday. .

LEAJERS NANED POR WAR FUND DRIVE IN COUNTY   Campaign to Ra’se $12,500 Will Open in ‘Lipton Monday

GERMAN WOMEN URGED TO MARRY   MUST SELECT MATES TO MAINTAIN BIRTH RATE LEVELS

NAZIS SEEK TD UP MARRIAGES   Campaign For More Weddings to Increase  Birth Rate

Reich Seeks to Raise Birthrate  Marriage Bureaus Being Established

Germany Reshuffling War-Shattered Families to Keep High Birth Rate

Nazis Seek Fodder For Next War   Woo Bureau Encourages More Marriages

Nazi Papers Reveal National Campaign For New Marriages Opens in Germany

A LOOK AT THE FUTURE  Reich, Looking To World 20 Years Hence, Is ‘Managing’

Emmert Asks Exact Purpose  Of Vote Probe   Indiana Attorney Genera! Seeks To Find Gut Just What Senate Has Authorized To Be Probed.

Senate Probe Of Election Is Questioned   Emmert Demands _ Authority: For - Investigation

BRICKER’S DECISION ON VOTES NOT FINAL   Governor Leaves Door Oper In Heated Controversy

“BLACK PENCIL” RULE UP IN AIR   Bricker Says He Is Still Con sidering Matter

FRANK KNOX, NAVY SECRETARY, BURIED ARLINGTON MONDAY  U. S, NAVY MEN AROUNE WORLD HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES

Navy -Men-HoldFinal Services For Secy. Knox   High Ranking U. S. Official Being Buried Today At Arlington Natl, Cemetery

Final Tribute Paid Sec, Kno)   Head Of Navy Laid. Te Rest In Arlington

Allied Fleets Pay Homage To Knox  Servi ices Are Held For  Navy Chief

Pageantry Marks Knox  Funeral   Secretary of ‘Navy Is Buried. At Arlineton —

Final Rites Held for Frank Knox  Ceremonies Replete With Traditional Rite:

Frank Knox Laid  To Rest Today In  Arlington Cemetery High Dignitaries, Naval Uniis  Attend Services for Father of Two Ocean Navy

Allied Navies Mourn Knox   Navy Men Around World Hold Memorial Services For The “Boss”’.

SEC'Y OF NAVY LAID TO REST IN ARLINGTON   Services Are Replete With Pageantry and Traditional Rites

Pageantry Is Knox Funeral Rites Feature   U. S., British, Canadian Fleets Honor Memory Of  I ate Sacretarv.

World Pays Tribute To  Frank Knox   Seeretary Of Navy Laid To Rest Today At Arlingion Cemetery.   MILITARY FUNERAL

KNOX LAID TO REST TODAY IN ARLINGTON   Final Rites Replete with Pageantry and Traditional Ceremony in National Cemetery

Rites For Knox Are Held Today   Navy Secretary Is Buried At Arlington

ALLIED FLEETS PAY HOMAGE TC SECRETARY KNOX   Navy Men Around the World Hold Services for ‘The Boss’

NATION TO PAY HONCR TO KNOX   Funeral Rites Slated Today For Navy Secretary

Navy Mourns Loss at Funeral Rites For Secretary Frank Knox Today

KNOX TO REST AT ARLINGTON   FINAL RITES TODAY, BRITISH, AMERICAN FLAGS AT HALF MAST

els Paid fary Knox Final Rites   bined Fleets y Homage To Dead 8, Navy Chieftain

Military Rites Held for Knox  Round-World Noval Services Augment Capital Obseaquies

HOLD RITES FOR SEC.-KNOX TODAY   United States and British Fleets Pay Homage To Late Navy Head

Pageantry Marks Knox Funeral   Burial at Arlington National Cemetery; Memorial Services  By All Naval Units

KNOX BURIED TODAY; WORLD MOURNS DEATH   Built Greatest Navy World Has  Ever Known

Nation Pays Tribute To - Frank Knox   Navy. Secretary Laid Tc ‘Rest in Arlington Ceme tery. Today

Democrats Seat Hannegan As Party Chairman   Succeeds Walker As Director of Coming Campaign

Democrats Pick Chicago for ‘Convention Site   WASTINGLIUN—Wr— ine democratic national committee unanimously voted to hold the party’s 1944 nominating convention at Chicago.

Robert Hannegan Is Named Chairman Of Democratic National Committee

HANNEGAN HEADS DEM. COMMITTEE   St. Louis Man Is Named Successor To F. C. Walker

Hannegan New Dem Chairman;  Walker Quits   National Committee’s Members Feel Fourth Term Nomination I: Certain

Hannegan Elected by  Democrats   Walker Resigns— Roosevelt Likely To Run

Hannegan Named Democratic Chief   Internal Revenue Collector at St. Louis to Succeed Frank Walker.

PARTY LEADERS SAVED WL “SEEK ATHTERN   Young Internal Revenue ‘Commissioner Is Named By ‘Acclamation   BACKS ROOSEVELT   Spirited Applause: When Reference Is Made To Fourth Term:

Hannegan Named New Leader of  Democratic Party   Present Commissioner of Internal Revenue  Succeeds Frank Walker

Walker Quits Post As Demo Chief   Resignation Clears Way for Hannegan’s Expected Election

Resignation Is Offered  By Walker   Way Cleared for Election of Hannegan as Dmocratic Chairman

Hannegan Elected Democratic National Chairman: Mention Of Fourth Term Draws Lively Applause   Farley Mentioned

Hannegan Chosen By  Democrats   New Chairman Will Set Date For Convention At Chicago — Urge Roosevelt To Run

Democrats Make 4th Term Appeal   Committee Voices Plea to Roosevelt  To Run This Yea:

THE DEMOGRATS  NAME HANNEGAN   Was. Unanimously Chosen te Pead ‘tite ‘Pemotrats 3 in” 1944 Campaign.

Declare “His Liberalism Must Be Imprinted on the Peace” _   HANNEGAN CHOSEN   ALANNA GAIN UTE OTN  St. Louis Man Succeeds Walker; Chicago Gets  - Conventian

DEMOGRATS NAME ROBERT HANNEGAN PARTY CHAIRMAN   Roosevelt “Fourth Term” Talk Appleuded at eCopiel

HANNEGAN NAMED DEMO CHAIRMAN ‘AT WASHINGTON   Democratic National Committee Selects Missourian  To Conduct 1944 Campaign

HANNEGAN 15 NAMED  CHAIRMAN NATIONAL  DEMO COMMITTEE COMMITTEE PUTS EMPHA  SIS ON YOUTH IN SETECTING MICCOTIBIAN

Hannegan Will Pilot Democrat Party In 1944   St. Louisan Unanimously Elected Chairman, Sue  ceeding Walker, Resign  ed; Fourth Term Urged

Hannegan Is NewChairman Of Democrats   Fourth Term Talk Buzzes  In Meeting — Walker   =6Resiens

Hannegan - in, Urges -. Harmony   “Says He Is a Plain, Every‘Day Democrat, Not Angry at Any Democrat      =< WALKER POINTS TO GREAT TASK AHEAL   But Voices Confidence That ah Party Is Closer to People ' Than Auy Other

R. E. HANNEGAN TO BOSS 1944 DEM CAMPAIGN   St. Louisan Elected Party Chairman At National Committee Meet

HANNEGAN IS — DEMO CHAIRMAN   Chosen to “Lead Party to Victory With FR.”  BULLETIN

Hannegan ‘New Demo ‘Chairman   ... 4th Term Regarded As Virtual Certainty

Democratic Party Elects New Leader   Hannegan Elected Unanimously By Committee

FDR ‘Coaxed’ to Run By Party Chieftains      Democratic National Committee Appoints Hanneean as Chairman

Democrat Committee Lauds FDR As Great Humanitarian Leader, Wants Liberalism

Hannegan {s Named Chief By Democrats   Walker Resignation Followed by Choice Of St, Louis Official

Hannegan Namec fo Head Demos  Called the Equal of James A. Farley

Burn Stamps, OPA Advises   Muddled Situation Clarified for Publie

WARN AGAINST USE OF STAMPS NO LONGER GOOD      Red Tokens To Be Honored; New Stamps Good Next Sunday

WFA REPORTS ON FOOD DISPERSAL   69 Per Cent Goes To LendLease So Far In ‘44

Propress Toward Agreement Over Border Repoi led  hae Answer oe @ ro osal Belley

Beach Like Jigsaw From Cub’s-Eye View   Pilot Joins Jap Flight Pattern

Correspondent In Plane Views  Beachhead Fight   Impressed by Shelling And Air Bombardment Defenders Hand Germans

Russians Sever Escape Routes For 300.000 Nazis   German Troops In Baltic States Are Believed Caught In Trap   REPORT WARSAW SMOKE ENVELOPED

tussian Armies Race Across ,atvia To Cut Last Escape Lines For 300,000 Germans

INFANTRY MAN MEETS DEATH IN INVASION   . Pvt. Benjamin P. Pulcini, Aged 34, 1523 Walton Avenue, Killed on July 7.

PARATROOPER IS KILLED IN FRENCH AREA   Wife Notified of Cpl. Gerald B. Replogle’s Death In Action on July 14.

ALTOONA YOUTH IN 5TH ARMY DIES IN ITALY   Pfe. David M. Ying g ling Killed In Action on Feb. 2, Parents Told.

Smithsburg Boy Killed In Action   Samuel J. Geiser, Jr., Meets Death While Fighting With Patton.

ALTOONAN IS KILLED SEPT. 6, IN FRANCE   r ‘Pfc. Barney L. Getz. 2122 Eighteenth Street, Served In Medical Corps.

COUNTY MAN TS KILLED IN FRENCH ACTION   Pfc. Robert J. Williams of Grazierville Loses Life on Aug. 19.

ALTOONAN, IN 110TH, KILLED IN BELGIUM   Pyt. Andrew A. Tor:   natore, Aged 23, Re ported as Dead by War Department.

Put. Firman Dougherty of NCTown Vicinity Killed in Action in Italy

LT. ROBT. JONES IS KILLED IN FRENCH ACTION   Young Officer Meets Death on Aug. 14. Wife Is Informed by War Dept.

REPORT LOCAL SOLDIER DEAD IN NORMANDY   S/Set. Tony Handzerlia, Aged 32, of Pleasant Valley, Killed on Aug. 1.

District Soldiers ~ Wounded In Action  Lis ls Announced By War Department

Thanksgiving Observed In Texas Today   Traditional Air Little in Evidence

Ms.M’Quade ‘Quits State  Committee   DAUPHIN COUNTY DEMOCRAT REFUSES TO BE PARTY TO SELL OUT TO HILLMAN AND BROWDER.   Active Worker 10 Years

‘Democratic State Leader ‘Resigns   1Committeewoman — Protests Left Wing and Communistie — Principles Used By New Dealers

Nazis Terrorize_ Florence Area Tanks Kill Civilians;   Tanks Kill Civilians; Food Shortage Critica

German Vessel Loaded With [ron Sunk by Mine Outside Narvik Harbor

$400,000 Per Month, in Advance, Rental Terms in China These Days

NEW AIR BLOWS JOLT GERMANS   RAF Mosquitos Smash at Nor: mandy, Reich—Heeovies Strike Budapest

BIG BOMBERS BATTLE WAY TO TARGETS   Planes from Italy Meet Heavy Opposition, As - Britain Based Planes Rake France

AIR FLEETS HIT NAZIS 24 HOURS   Rocket Installations On Coast Bombed Again

Air Pressure Maintained Qn Enemy   Bombers From Italy Hit Budapest, Capital Of Hungary

‘Aerial Armadas Drum German Territory From Britain And Italy; Budapest Is Attacked   RAF Strikes In Normandy And In Nazi Homeland Following Heavy Sunday Raids

AMERICAN HEAVIES BATTLE WAY FROM ITALY TO VIENNA   SIX OIL REFINERIES, AIRCRAFT FACTORY AND RAILYARD BLASTED

Versatile Mosquito Raids Maintain Allied Air Offense  Five Armadas Drum Normandy Front, German Homeland

Mosquitos Hit Nazi Homeland   Also Attack in France; Bombers From Italy Attack Budapest’

Allied Airmen Hammer Reich  In Dual Attack   RAF Mosquitos Flying From Britain Batter Nazis In Normandy And In Homeland   Budapest Bombed By U.S. Heavies   3,500 Planes Take Part Ir  Mathmoth Blows On Huns In France; Hit   Rocket Nests

Heavies Batter Austria   Pound France Clock Around; Budapest Hit

Allied Planes  Batter Enemy   Budapest Also Bombed In All-Out Assault By 3.000 Raiders

Allies Keep Steady Line On Air Path  For France   Italy-Based Planes Strike Budapest During Night

Versatile Mosquito Raids Maintain Allied Air Offense  Five Armadas Drum Normandy Front, ft acai Lneectowdl

Aerial Fleets Batter Reich   Around The Clock Raids Continued By RAF, U.S.; Budapest Hit.

RAF BOMBERS HIT GERMANS IN TWO-PLY RAID   Planes From Italy Attack Budapest, Others Pound Nazi Homeland

Air Assault Maintained From Italy   Weather Curtails Opera: tions From.: Britain © But. Other. Forces: Raid. Vienna   OIL REFINERIES : BLASTED AGAIN   Five Air Armadas “Used Against. Germans in France Over Sunday.

ENEMY POUNDED ON THREE SIDES   RAF Mosquitoes Keep Up Relentless Bombing On Germany, Normandy And Rudanest.

Five Armadas Hit German Installations   3.500 Allied Planes Hit at Normandy and German Homeland

Hoyt Wants News Withholding Probe   Suppression Is Defended by Surles

Senate Probe Of War News Delay Is Urged   Oregon Publisher Asks Special Committee Tc Investigate ‘Gag.’.

Ribble New Mayor; Dickey Childress On Commisston;: Rodgers Shares In Write-In

Ribble New Mayor; Dickey ‘Childress On Commission; 'Rodaers Shares In Write-In   ‘Slaton Write-In ‘Candidate Wins Commission Post

Towering Snowdrilts Leave 10 Persons Marooned on Narrow-Gauge Railroad in Colorado Rockies

Riga Being Evacuated By Germans   Russians Closing in on City from Three Sides, Is  Reported

Russia Holds All Estonia   Germans Report Reds Complete Occupation Move

Russians Blast Isles Near Riga   Soviet Forces Complete Estonia Occupation; 80 Communities East of Latvian Capital Fall to Reds; Warsaw Nazis Shoved Back

Gov. Saltonstall Returns, Silent   Savya-He May Name. Choice. To Council Wednesday; Sinclair Weeks. Likely.

4     Nazis Attack Allied Convoy   New Radio-Controlled Glider Bombs, U-Boats Used In Action.

German Planes, U-Boats Attack Atlantic Convoy   Nazis Said Defeated As Only Two: Ships Damaaed in Battle

Germans Use New Planes In Sea Fight   Glider Bombers Hit Convoy But Expense !s Heavy

All-Out Attack  On Convoy Fails  Glider Bombs Used  By Nazis in Battle

SWARMS OF NAZI U-BOATS BEATEN IN 4-DAY BATT   Altied Planes and Warships Frustrate Sea-Air Attack on Important Atlantic Convoy.   ONE SUB SENT DOWN, TWO PROBABLY SUNK   Only Two Cargo Vessels Suffer Damage—Radio-Contrelled Glider Bombs Used by Enemy,

Glider Bombs Used in Atfack  But Allies Repulse Attack on Convoy

Allies Defeat Glider Bombs  Subs Lose In Fight   Subs Lose In Fight With Convoy

ENENNY'S LOSSES AMOUNT STEAMIL   Japan’s Island Defenders Paying Terrific Toll In  Tivac   ADVANCE ON GUAM   Marines Moving Ahead In Battle For Orote Peninsula Field

Yanks Take Jap Air Field  On Tinian   Wrest Half of Guam Peninsula From  Doomed Jap Garrison

U. S, CAPTURES VITAL AIRFIELD ON TINIAN ISLE   Yanks Gain on Guam, Contro Southern Half of Peninsula

Captu re Fourtl Of Tinian in  Marianas   2,800 Japanese Killed on Guam In Five Days

GAINS CONTINUE ON TINIAN, GUAM   Americans Kill 4,758 Japs In Drives For Islands

Great Tinian Airfield Falls To U. S. Forces   invaders New Hold North Quarter of Island; Slaughter Japs on Guam

JAPS’ TINIAN AIRFIELD FALLS   Taken by U. Ss. Marines Who Now Control Half of Guam Peninsula

VANKS SPREAD OVER MARIANAS AS JAPS FLEE   Airfields On Guam, Tinian Captured As Nips Are Slaughtered

Big Jap Airfields Menaced   Yanks Close Net On Strip On North Tip — Of Tinian; Push On Guam’s Sumarv Drome

YANKS DRIVE ON GUAM PENINSULA NAVAL. AIR BASE   Invaders On Tinian Taking Toll Of 600

Yanks Capture Ushi Airfield On Giam'Isle  1 ]   Four Hundred Japs Die In ‘Desperate Attempt to’ Break Through  Tran

Tinian Airdrome Captured by Yanks  . Banta Awa   American Troops in Pacific Area Continue Their Viaorous Advance

URGE STANDARD FOR ARMY MEN NOT BE CHANGED   Doctors Estimate 4F Review © Would Net 250 Thousand Fit for Service

NO CHANGES Baily IN. DRAFT -EXAW   : # Me  COMMISSION UPHOLDS ‘PREB ENT PHYSICAL. STANDARDS. FOR SERVICE—4-F REVIEW  RESULTS-AWAITED.

WON'T REDUCE STANDARD FOR ARMY SERVICE   Physical Requirements Stand  FEW EXCEPTIONS  Limited Service Category Filled

STANDARDS OF ARMED FORCES APPROVED   Special Commission Recommends. Review of 4-F’s, However

Review Of 4-F’s May Develop   Presidential Commission Approves Present Physical Standards With Few Changes

Physical Standards for Armed Forces Will Not Be Lowered: To Reclassiiy Men in 4-F Bracket

WJ. S. AIR FORCE LOSES FOURTH BASE IN CHINA   Nimitz Reports Battle For Palau Islands Is Nearing End

Americans Lose Ath Air Base In South China:   coe Japanese Machin

Palau Battle About Ended Says Nimitz   Declares That Island Secured Except for Few Small Pockets

Bulgaria Also Wavering: Expect Turkey Will Be Asked to Grant Allies Air and Naval Bases.   Withdraw Divisions

Germans quitting Istanbul  Lj a a a   Turks on brink of breaking ties

TURKEY NEAR BREAK: NAZIS ARE LEAVING   Nation Expected to Sever Relations With Ger many

Flight of Nazi Diplomats Is Reported   Berlin Says Turkey Plans to Break Diplomatic Relations

Nazi Diplomats Fleeing Ankara As Break Looms   Istanbul Expects Early Air Raids

Nazi Diplomats Flee Turkey As Break With Reich Near   Turkish National Assembly Might Be Asked To Approve Allied Demand for Bases on Turk Soil; Bulgaria on Way Out of War

NAZI. DIPLOMATS ARE DEPARTING FROM TURKEY   National Assembly Expected To Approve Allied Request For Bases   BULGARIA TRYING TO BREAK GERMAN GRIP

‘Report Secretary Ickes Opposed to Newly ‘Proposed Federal Bituminous Coal Act

Nips Bloodily Repulsed In Atiempt To Retake Mo mote Airfield; Rabaul Base Struck By  American Planes

Yankees Mop Up Remnants of Jap Forces   Reinforcements Are Landed on Los Negros Island

STRENGTH IS SMASHED IN MOMOTE AREA   Fierce Enemy Attacks Fail; Yanks Mogping Up Beaten Foe

Americans Mop Up Japanese On Los Negros   Nips Make Futile Attempt to Retake Airdrome: Supplies. Reinforcements Land

U.S. Pressing Japs on Biak   Schouten Isle Invaders Get Air Aid of Liherators

Britain’s W ar Casualties Now  Totai 733,030   GE Number 336,116 Arc Civilians; One Out Of Tivery Three Houses Destroyed, Damaged

LIST BRITISH BATTLE COSTS   Number 136,116 Civilian, : 563, 112 Service  Casnalites

British Reveal One Out Of Every Three Houses Either ~ Damaged or Ruined in War

4 Poll In England Is. Heavy   733,030 British Casualties, Vast Property Tasage Reported

England’s ¢ asuualties In5 Years 733.030   Oue In Every Three Houses Destroyed Or Damaged; Civilians Killed Total 57.298

Five Years of War Cost England 733,030 Casualties, Paper Reveal:   136,116 Civilians Killed or Wounded; One of Every 3 Houses Damaged

War Deaths Of British 733,03   English Losses Reach Staggering Volume

One Out of Three Houses Destroyed or Damaged; 136,115 Civilians Die

CITADEL CITY OF MULHOUSE IN FRENCH HANDS   American Third Army Still Meeting Opposition Around Metz   SARREBOURG TAKEN BY SEVENTH ARMY

Drive Puts Sixth Within 27 Miles of Rhine   Yanks, French Press Vosges Vise After Taking Sarrehourg,  Mulhouse at South of West Wall

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NAZI DEFENSE STRANGLED IN VOSGES AREA   CRUMBLING SOU TH FRONT PIERCED BY FRENCH

5 CONTINUE MARK WP GAINS   Sixth Army Units Race Inte Citadel City of Mulhouse   PUSH TOWARD RHINE   7th Army Drives Through Vosges; American Third Merges Holdings

MAYOR'S ATTITUDE ISRAPPED BY AFL   Union Leaders Pass Reso: lutions at Meeting

MAYOR'S ATTITUDE IS RAPPED BY AFL      bien Leaders Pass Resolutions at Meet ing

Group Setting Peace Terms For Germans   Allied Diplomats Prepare Against Possibility Of Surrender

Qecupation plans drafted by diplomats  - To destroy nazi arms industry

FAIRBANKS, NEWS PUBLISHER -DIES.   - Executive Was Son ‘of Charles Fairbanks, Former Vice President

VIRGINIA IS SWEPT BY FLOOD WATERS   Many Bridges in Western Part of State Wiped  Out

CHINESE STABBING . INTO NORTH BURMA      Enemy Supply Line on Yangtze Is Crippled by Air Blows

Byrnes Offers  To Arbitrate Would Aid In Fight On Civilian Output

Blaze Of. Undetermined Origin Causes Loss Of $5,000 To CharJeroi Pharmacy Grille Room And Stock   LOSS COVERED BY INSURANCE, REPORT

TOKIO SAYS ENEMY INVASION FORCE DISRUPTING PLANS FOR LANDING. ON CHINA'S  MAINLAND

CLAIM JAP ARMY NEARS FOOCHOW, LAST CHINA PORT   Tokyo Reports New Invasion to Thwart America’s s* Landing Plans

Wayne Coerced Defense Claims Only Three Witnesses Called By Broderick

Says Lonergan Was Kept Drunk In Da’s Office   Counsel In Plea For Air “Cadet Says 4 Officials -~-Should-—Be ~In-~Prison

Summations In ‘Loner gan Trial Get Underway   Defense Unlooses Surprise  When Jt Resis Case Af ter Calling Only  Three Witnesses

AFL REJECT BID 10 MEET   Says Conference Untimely, Embraces Too Many Discordant Elements.

Way is Paved For Main Push Against Rome   Seventeen Nazi Divisions Trapped By Joining Of Fifth Ariny Colunms.

SET TO TRAP 17 DIVISIONS AND DRIVE ON ROME   Gain 60 Miles In 14 Days.

Junction Gives Allies Solid Front to 20 Miles of Capital   Move Climaxes 14-Day Advance of Fifth Army of More Than 60 Miles; Allied March on Rome May Await Erasure of German Divisions to Southeast; Americans, French Join

Trap Set For 17 Nazi Divisions  On Road To Rome      Junction F oreshadows  Early Fall of City>.  Observers Declare —

ANZIO, MAIN ALLY UNITS JOIN; NAZIS FACE TRAP; THREAT SEEN TO ROME

AMERICAN TROOPS FROM 2 FRONTS MAKE CONTACT; BIG NAZI ARMY FACES TRAP

MOVE THREAT TO 17 OUTFLANKED NAZI DIVISIONS   Phila. Officer Leads One Patrol; Fifth  ee ae ee

Bl ASSAULT 0 ROME IS SEENAS ‘NEXT EARLY MOVE   London Predicts Early Fall of City With Annihilation’ or Capture of 100,000 Ger“mar Troops.   2000 AMERICANS HIT FRENCH COAST BASES   Rail Yards, Airdromes, Other Targets In France and Belgium Are Battered’ In Hard Pounding.

ruth Army Advanee More Than 60 Miles In 14 Days  TWO FRONTS NOW WELL ESTABLISHE  With Even Greate Strength Than Heretofore

5th Drives More Than 60 Mi. In 74 Days To Set Trap For Germans   Nazis Acknowledge Withdrawal From Coastal Sector To Line North Of Appian Wav

Main Army.         JOIN FORCES AT POINT ON. COASTAL HIGHWAY BETWEE ANZIO AND TERRACINA —

Highway To Rome Onened   March to Capital Moy Be Delayed As Cleanup Made

‘Kesselring’s 17 Divisions Are Qutflanked; Race to Casilina Way, Only Escape Road Left   Clark Seeks to Annihilate Germans Before They Can  Get Away; Allies Have Advanced 60 Miles : .. 14 Dawa.

Allied Columns from A\nzio and Main Front In Italy Join to Set  Trap for Nazi Forces

Early Seizure Of Rome Likely, Observers Say   Axis Admits Loss  Of Coastal, Sector Along Appian Way

KIWANIANS OBSERVE 1TH ANNIVERSARY   Annual Charter Night Party Attended by 225 Members and Guests

OBSERVE 13TH ANNIVERSARY   Annual Charter Night Party Attended by 225 Members and Guests

Price Control Conferees Fail to Agree   Hold 3-Hour Meeting Without Taking Vote On Any Question

PHILIPPINES BATTLE GOES INTO LULL   Mopping Up Continues On Leyte Island

Nazi Defenses At Aachen Are _ Cracked Open   First Army Troops Sweep Forward Against Weakening German Resistance; Onrush Is ‘Definite Breakthrough,’ Officer Says

Tanks, Infantry, Artillery and Supplies Stream Through Into Germany as Warplanes Roar Ahead of Doughboys 

Yanks Take 6 German Towns In Power Drive   Doughboys Hammer To Point Five to Six Miles Inside Reich Against Wilting Resistance   Advance Declared  Full Breakthrough   Whole 460-Mile Front Stirring Restlessly; Third Army Strikes in Luxembourg Sector

Yanks Launch High-Powered Drive That Breaks Through Nazi Lines in Aachen Area   Six Towns Reported to Have Fallen to the Doughboys; Staff Officers Sey Drive Has Cut Throuah German's Main Resistanee Line

TOWNS NORTH OF AACHEN   ‘First Army Tanks, Infane try and Artillery Pouy Through 6-Mile-Wide Gap in West Wall.  pk   PATTON STRIKES __ IN LUXEMBOURG   Forces Clear Foe of Vite tually All of Duchy— Approach Frontier City, of Wormeldange.

YANKS oMASH DEFENDED AND TAKE 6 TOWN!   Tanks, Supplies Pour Through Gap in Line; German ” Fire Lessens.

Advance 3 Miles Through Gap in Siegfried Line   Overrun Six Towns in Onrush Of Men, Artillery, Supplies;  Nazi Resistance Begins to Wilt

 Nazis Not Quitting, But Onrush Carrying On  Several Miles Inside Germany; Meeting Weakening Opposition in Drive To Ruhr

Americans Push Nazis Back on Six-Mile Front   First Army Cracks Enemy Defenses Wide Open North of Aachen

U.S. First Army Well Inside Reich on Way Toward Rhine; Cologne New Goal of Yanks.

Yanks Open Big Capi in  Nazi Lines   -6 German Towns Overrun After Break-Through

Yanks Declare Enemy Defense Grows Weaker   Six Reich Towns Captured As Assault Troops Move. Onto Rhineland Plain‘

HIGH - POWERED DRIVE MEETING WEAK ATTACKS   Staff Officer Says Ontush Is Definite Breakthru

Americans Sweep Up Six German Towns In Definite Breakthrough   Resistance Wilts Before Assaults   Third Army Also Scores  Important Gains To South Of Aachen

NAZI DEFENSE CRUMBLINGIN AACHEN AREA   American Officer Says Hole Is Definite Break- Through

Nazi Defense Above Aachen Broken Open   Americans Open New Thrust South Of City; Ist Army Success Is ‘Breakthrough’

Attack Cracks 6-Mile Area Of Nazi Lines   First Army Takes Major Play on Western Front With Breakthrough North of Aachen American Armor Pours Through Gap

‘A MESSAGE TO SOLDIERS’ WIVES   Babson D&éscusses Jobs After The War and What Service Men’s Families Can Do Now Regarding It.

Message For Soldiers’ Wives   ROGER BABSON GIVES SUGGESTIONS ON JOBS

Montanan Asks U.S.  Assistance in  Highway Program M, J. Steere Appears  Before Congress — nm - _1f JE fuwin

Montanan Asks US  Assistance in  Highway Program M. J. Steere Appears  Before Congress ~ On Behalf of State

) MILD DRY WEATHER   Temperatures  Expected to Range Near Freezing ‘Tonicht

FDR Expresses Views  In ‘Censorship Tangle   Tells Executive Director Of A.P. Consideration O Military Security Alone Should Guide Allie Censorship Operations

Nazi Beachhead Defense: Incredibly Devilish But Allies Moved Forward

Ernie Pyle’s Ist France Story  Telling About Men te Wham We Shacld ‘Beenue. Bo UL. hoe

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Nazi Channel Defenses Smashed at Great Cost  : First Assault Units Drove in Hard   First Assault Units Drove in Hard Even When Going Was Its Toughest

With Ernie Pyle at the Front .  Nazi- Channel Defenses Smashed at Great Cost  First Assault. Units Drove in Hard Even When Going Was Its Toughest

Ernie Pyle Gives Details of Big Battle on Beach   Outnumbered Allies Couldn't Be Stopped

Nazis Had All Advantages on Invasion Coast     a  Pyle Describes Scene on Beach

“Miracle We Ever Took Beach” Writes Ernie Pyle ‘After Seeing Rows Of Dead On Normandy Shores

‘Ernie Pyle Visits Beachhead Littered ‘With Smashed Equipment—and Bodies

Wounded Soldier Thanks League een enacts laaansieeaainnas. be  ve Ignatius Drury Writes -Letter With His Left Hand

Re RRR RSE ne  ‘Wounded Soldier Thanks League ne  Pie. Ignatius Drury Writes _ Letter With His Left Hand

Masses Seek To Purge Badogtio   Soviet Russia and Stalin Feature At Meeting Of Italian Leftists.

ltalian Parties Opposed lo King   Three Groups Also Score Badoaglio

‘Rumania Orders Civilians Out of Bessarabia As Red Army Approaches; ‘Peace Demonstrations Are Reported

Fleeing Area of Rumania   REPORT PEACE FLARES IN BALKAN SATELLITES; NAZIS BOLSTER DNIESTER

RUMANIA ORDERS ALL CITIZENS 10 FLEE BESSARABIE   Peace Demonstrations Re ported Spreading in Balkans

Civilians Must Quit  Bessarabia   Balkans Seethes Wit! Demonstrations For Peace

RUSS APPROACH THROWS  RUMANIA INTO PANIC; — NAZIS SPEEN DEFENCES

General Says B-29 Raids. Tolncrease   Wedemeyer Also States Chiang Has.-Arrreved Plan for Future Operations

50-Mile Beachhead is WellEstablisheds _ Bradley Yank Chief   Allied Invasion Forces Sail Past Many Poinis In Feints Leading To Nazi Claims Of New Landings

Berlin Acknowledges Kisenhower Hus Firm Footing on 50-Mile Stretelis Yanks Well in Fore of Advance Inland from Coast

All Beaches Clear Of Enemy; Allies Feint Landing Off Calais   Battle Rages To South Of Cherbourg By Air Troops

Fights, Filibuster Facing Congress   ‘G. I. Bull of Rights’  Jops House Calendar

~ HECTIC SESSIONS   Fights; Filibuster Loom on Controversial Pro-

Fight U.S. Soldiers Charged With Aiding Nazi Prisoners’ Escape, 5 wacs Accused of Writing Notes to Nazis

ACCUSE 8 SOLDIERS, 5 WACS IN ESCAPE OF NAZI PRISONERS   Sentence 8 Women For Writing Notes To Captives

WACS JAILED FOR LOVE NOTES TO NAZIS   EIGHT SOLDIERS CHARGED WITH AIDING ESCAPE AT CAMP HALE; WACS ADMIT “MASH” LETTERS

Eieht American Soldiers Charred With Aiding Nazi Prisoners to Escape

Hitler Reported Aging Rapidly as'‘Armies Are Battered Incessantly on East Front

U.S. Moves Tc Offset Coup In Argentine  Ramirez’ Ouster Causes Concern

U.S. Moves Tc  Offset Coup  In Argentine  : Ramirez’ Ouster“Cdusee Concern:

Ramirez Exit Coup Studied By Stettiniu:   U. S. Said Ready To Act If Argentine Shakeup

READY TO ACT ON ARGENTINA   ‘Washington Sees Ground For Concern in New Buenos Aires Shakeup

Small Yank Commando   Force Wiped Out Near  LaSpezia, Berlin Says

Artillery Duel Raging In Italy   Cassino Stalemate : Unbroken Today

Five Officers of Circus Held For Manslaughter As Cause Is Investigated

CIRCUS FIRE DEATH TOLL REACHES 146   Another 250 Injured in Blaze Which Swept Through. the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Big. Top. —

FIVE ARRAIGNED ON CHARGES OF MANSLAUGHTER   Relatives of Victims Enter Morgue in Steady Stream

HOLD 5 CIRCUS OFFICIALS FOR MANSLAUGHTER   Weary Kin Wander Thra Aisles of Dead Ident fving Bodies

250 Injured In Hartford Catastrophe   Five Officials of Ringlings Placed Under. ax. Arrest: "

DEATH TOLL IN BIG TOP BLAZE REACHES 146; 250 PERSONS HURT   RELATIVES SEEK TO IDENTIFY VICTIMS OF FIRE CHANGING HUGE TENT TO INFERNO IN FEW MINUTE!

Most of the Victims Were Children: Cause Of Blaze Not Known Today, May Have  Announcement Later

CLAIM CANVAS TREATED WITH GAS. PARAFFIN   _ Many Witnesses Tell of Oily, Bilowing Fire and Smoke in “Big Top”

Roosevelt Opens Campaign Sept. 26   Address to Union Will Be Broadcast

FDR TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN SEPT 23 FOR FOURTH TERM   PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ‘WILL AGAIN ADDRESS ‘TRAMSTER ‘UNION: FIRST

"Woman Check « Artist Out of Jail March 10   Mrs. Pearon Was Beneficiary of Unusual Procedure

Woman Check Artist Qut of Jail March {0   Mrs. Pearon Was Beneficiary of . ’ Unusuol Procedure

e Fifth Col  TWO STRIKES HAMPER HOME FRONT EFFOR'   FDR May Intervene in Massachusetts Truckers’ Strike, But ‘Hello’ Girls Ticklish Problem.

Roosevelt May Ask Truck Men To End Strike   Distribution of Food Through New England Seriously Affected

PATTON'S 3 ARMY REACHES NANCY, METZ      Ist Army Drives Forward From Meuse Line On 75-Mile Front

Third Army Nearing Outskirts of Metz After Winning Costly Bridgehead; Nazi Resistance Strong.

German Lines in Italy Penetrated   Americans Destroy Enemy's Ammunition Dump

Food Stamp Expiration Is Suspended   OPA MOVES TO END RUSH BUYING AND HOARDING OF TOKENS

SENTORS AGAINST MAKING S. S. TAX MEASURE A ‘RIDER’   Plan to Hitch the “Freezing” Measure on War Powers Act Bill to Get Away From a Veto Gets Chilly Ratepr  etn, ine Senate

Senafors Opposed To Tieing Two Big Measures Toaether   Payroll Tax Freeze, War Powers Measure Likely to Meet Separate Action

SENATORS COOL TO RIDER PLAN   Want Payroll Tax Freeze To Pass On Own; View New Board Members

Would Atiach Security Tax  To Powers Bill   House .Propssal ito Senate Meets Cool Reception; Vandenberg Has No Plans

MeBtering Out Pay Gets Boost. In Senate Bil   Measure Scheduled For Del-te Tuesday Sets  -Iligher Alleweances -

Discharge Pay To Bring Fight   Congress Is Divided Over Proposed Raise

Mustering Out Pay and Unemployment Fund Rais. ed In Reconversion Bill.

Red Armies About  To Enter Rumania   Enemy Retreat Into Balkans Becomes Rout With Many Units Believed Trapped in East

GERMANS BACK 10 STARTING POINT   Japs Retreat In India May Be Cut Off By Capture of Shaduzup. Burma.

RUSSIANS MASS IN 3 SECTORS   All German Positions East Of Balkans Near Collapse

Reds Mass For Smash At Rumania   62-Mile Advance Carries Russians To ‘Within 60 Miles of Hungary

TRIUMPHANT RUSSIANS PUSH GERMANS BACK T0 BORDER WHERE WAR STARTED IN ‘41

Report Fighting Continues Where  The War Started   Ukrainian Army Poised On River Bank To  Strike Bucovina

NAZIS ARE BACK” TO BORDER WHERE ~ THE WAR BEGAN   Russians are Aimost Within Sight of Prut River, Dis- . natches Say.

‘Fichting — Where We Fought in Summer of 1911.’ Sav Soviets   ilies ee  > ARMIES IN DRIVE  All Ge rma n Positions East of Balkans Appear  Tinnaenrngsl

ONE RED ARMY SET FOR DRIVE INTO RUMANIA   German Retreat Reaches Starting Point Of War On Russia

FOR INVASION OLD RUMANIA   Hold Dniester River Front 60 Miles From Hungary: Second Force Near Prat River at Balti.

ROUND-CLOCK AIR ASSAULTS   Night Attack Follows Blows at Kiel, Pas De Calais

Nazis Claim 25 Bombers Are Downed   3,000 Sorties Flown — By Americans Monday;  RAF Blasts Duisburg,

CREAT AIR BATTLE RAGING IN EUROPE, GERMANS DECLARE   Nazi Broadcast Reports Destruction of 25 Planes in First 15 Minutes of Strugele.   SOME OF RAIDERS BELIEVED OVER BERLIN   Night Onslaught Follows Day. light Attacks On Kiel, Calais and Other Widespread Targets.

Berlin Reports Shooting Down 15 Allied Planes   Round-the-Clock Aitack Continues

2000 PLANES BLAST BASES IN GERMANY   And along Invasion Coast of France; 22 Enemy Kighters Knocked Out; Allies Lose 13 Planes.   Protect Kiel

Germans Say Great Air Battle Raging   25 Bombers Reported Downed At Outset As RAF Follows Mighty Daylight Raids

Nazis Teli of Air Battle  In Progress   RAF Goes Out After 3000 Planes Engage in Daylight Raids

HEAVY BOMBERS, FIGHTERS BLAST KIEL U-BOAT BASE   22 Germans Shot Down in Follow-up of Saturation — Raid on Duisburg   FIVE BOMBERS, EIGHT FIGHTERS FAIL RETURN   About 2,700 Sorties Flow: Against Germany and Oc cupied Countries During Day; Locomotives, Trains Railroad Bridges Hit Har

Renewed Action Follows Assault On Nazi U-Boat Base At Kiel   3,000 Bombers and Fighters Blast Germany’s ‘Transportation System

5. COLUMNS DASH 18 MILES TO AVRANCHES   New Montgomery Offensive Holds Another Threat To Battered Enemy Line

Americans In Avranches, Take Other Towns In Encircling Move Aimed At Trapping Nazi:   Enemy Admits Loss Of Granville, Sixteen Miles Southwest Of Coutances; Two Of Foe’s Armored Divisions Still Fit For Battle

60,000 Germans Knocked Out In ‘New U.S. Offense  Threaten E.ntire   Threaten Entire German Defense In West France

60,000 Germans Knocked Out In New U.S. Offense   Threaten Entire German Defense In West France

ee ee Dad Vi  By IL Matter bi od   STEEL STRIKE TROUBLE STILL COMING Up

Copenhagen Strife-Torn; French Rise   Escaped Prisoners Strike at Random In Heart of Reich

Underground Is Worrying Nazis  “Civil War” Breaks In France; Danes Challenge the Foa

REPORT UNREST BREAKS OUT IN OCCUPIED AREA   South France “Civil War" Increases; Danes Barricade Streets

Underground Fights Nazis   Germans Reported to Face Civil War With French Patriots

Rising Tide Of: Unrest   Nazi-Occupied Europe A Boiling Caldron of Revolt and Terrorisni

Battling ‘Civil War’  In France   Germans Also Plagued With Uprisings Elsewhere; New Troubles a3 Home

South France IsScene Of Civil War   Germans Are Faced With Troubles In Three Countries

Unrest ln Denmark And France Besets Worried German Armies   Prisoners Loose

German Troops Drive Against French Patriots   Large Scale Attacks Made on Resistant Areas

NAZIS SEND TROOPS FROM NORWAY BASES   Unrest Flares In Copenhagen, Report 50,000 Captives Escape

Unrest Spreads in Many Lands  German Troops Kept Busy With Uprisings

UNDERGROUND IN FRANCE GIVING. INAZIS TROUBLE   Large Scale German Drive Under Way in Effort to Smash Underground Resistance

Nazis Face Growing Trouble  At Home And In Occupied Lands   Germans Making Desperate Effort To End Striking Danish Patriots Who Threaten To Fight To Death Against Measures.

Open Revolt Breaks out In Denmark   Escaped Foreign Prisoners Increasing Troubles Inside Germany

UNDERGROUND CONTINUES 10 WORRY NAZIS   Large Scale Drive ir France Reported; Danes Quiet

CIVIL WAR SAID RAGING ACROSS SOUTH FRANCE   French Partisans Reported Battline Nazi Troops In Numerous Battles

UNDERGROUND IN FRANCE TARGET OF NAZI WRATH   German Forces Open Drive Tc Stamp Out Resistance, London Heeors

WLB CONSIDERS TEXTILE WAGES   Present Minimum Of 40Cents Per Hour Has Raised To 50 Cents In Certain  DReantinra

Irs ALL VERY FUNNY   Wallace Says His Political Report Is Humorous to F. D. R.

No Relief Seen from Humidity   Showers Predicted for Tonight, Friday

COMBINED ASSAULT ON CITY OF SEVASTOPOL LOOMS AS SOVIET TROOPS CUT WAY THRU ENEMY   Coast Town of Balaklava Falls to Reds Who  Cross Tchornaya Riv er, Meeting Stiff German Fire Everywhere. All Sea Lanes of Escape _ Covered he kK

Russ Storm Hills Above Sevastopol   Germans Battle Furiously to Halt Red Army Advance

SOVIET TROOPS PUSHING AHEAD TO VITAL CITY   Axis Troops Reported Resisting Desperately As Crack Russian Forces Close In; Germans Erecting As Many Obstacles As They Can.

Hard Fighting At Sevastopol   Russians Disregard Heat, Dust And Enemy

MAKING PROGRESS ON LOCAL AIRPORT   East-West Runway Is Ready and Grading North-South

ALDERMEN ARE DETERMINED T0 GIVE CITY BEST POSSIBLE PORT   Work On Completion Of  _ Project Being Rushed By Gilbert Engineering Companv.

Break Out Of Vistula Bridgehead Into Open Country At German Rear; Scatter German Rein.  farremantc   ADVANCED UNITS OUTFLANK TARNOW

German Reinforcements Break Under Shattering First Army Vistula Bridgehead Attack

Fate of Jews Remaining in Hungary Rests with Regent; 100,000 Slain

Fate of Jews Up to Horthy   Regent Asked to Stop Giving Hungarian Jews to Germans

FATEOF500,000 JEWS IN BALANCE   Jews in Hungary & Are on Verge Of Falling to Nazis

ADVANCES REPORTED   Battleships Join In @ Heavy Assault On Japanese Base

CIO-PAC Test In Wisconsin Primary Today  Qharec Interest With Sen.   Shares Interest With Sen. Alexander’s Fight For Renomination

CIO-PAC Test In Wisconsin Primary Today   Shares Interest With Sen. Alexander’s Fight Fon Renomination

Jap Held Islands Heavily Pounded   Aerial Action Is Widely Extended

WLB Decision Upholds Little Steel Formuls   Delivers 3-Way Blow Against Organized Labor's Drive

WLB Rejects AFL. Plea For Pay Raise   Public Hearing Upon "Little Steel Formula’ Petition Is Refused:

WLB Rejects Higher Pay   AFL Demands for Change in Little Steel Ceiling Fail

WLB REJECTS AFL DEMANDS   Higher Wage Ceiling Had Been Requested

DEMANDS OF AFL ~ REJECTED BY WLE   Board Refuses to Approve Requesting Higher Wage Ceiling.

FOR PLURALITY ~— NOTKNOWN YEI   3,585.081 ‘Margin Reporter With Several States Not Certified

Tojo Tells Japs War Is in. Critical Stage  Coming Struggles .  QRQFI1 PA

Tojo Tells Japs War Is in Critical Stage  Coming Struggles - Will Decide

‘Black list for axis-dealing traders imay brine showdown with Sweden

Dewey Denounces Roosevelt Again   Says President Won‘t Answer Him

Scrapfaggot’s Witch Well Pinned Down But There’s One Doubtine Thomas Still

They Fail to See Eye to Eye—  Will Spook Stay Put, or No      He Cawn't ‘e!p Feelin’ She'll Prowl Aaain

RUSSIANS HIT SUBURB OF WARSAW   Poles Join Red Army Assault On Suburb of Praga

REDS STORMING PRAGA 10 END WARSAW SIEGE   Poles Share Final Drive On Capital; Tank Battle Rages

Russ-Pole Army, Nazis Clash In —  Warsaw Suburbs   Full-Scale Assault ‘Launched On Praga; Reach Slovak Border

GIGANTIC TANK BATTLE RAGES   Combined Polish and Russian Armies Fighting Capital’s Nazi Defenders in Suburbs of Warsaw. ,

RUSSIANS OF WARSAW   Poles Join Red Army Assault On Suburb of Praqa

Reds Driving Tank Armade Into Warsaw   Berlin Radio Admits Armored Spearheads Have Pierced Suburb

Russians And Poles In Gigantic Tank Battle In Warsaw Suburbs  MILE-AN-HOUR ADVANCE IN POLAND  Polish Underground In Warsaw Fighting In The City

Russians And Polish Battle In Warsaw   Other Soviet Forces Sweep to Slovak Border in Mile-An-Hour Advance

(Russians And Poles Locked In Gigantic Tank Battle ‘With The Nazis At Warsaw

Fighting Is Reported in City Again   Poles in Underground Groups Inside Warsaw  Renew the Battle

First Army Is Pushing Drive On Rhineland   U. S. Troops Aim At Roer River Barrier To Cologne; Stubborn Nazi Resistance Met; Allies Clearing Channel To Antwerp

YANKS WIDENING WEDGE IN NAZI WESTERN WALL   Prepare Springboard Near Cologne For Offensive At Rhineland

Ist Army Expands West Wall Wedge  For Winter Drive   Yanks Join British To Form Bridgehead On Mark River

First Army — Also Widens I t’ S Area fs      GEN. HODGES’ MEN FAN OUT ON FRONT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AACHEN

BUMBERS Hil TWIN CITIES NN RHINELAND   Along With Other Targets  in Germany; Famous I. G. Farben Factory Also  Rlacted.   Cologne - Kassel

ARE BLASTED   Mannheim and Ludwigshafen Are Pounded by 1,000 Yank Bombers

Japs Advance Toward Impha But Allies Gain Elsewhere  On Burma-India Front

POLICY OUTLINED BY GOV. BRICKER   Peace Maintenance Without World Police Advocated

BRICKER ISSUES FOREIGN POLICY   Ohio Governor Not in Favor of World Police Force

FITZ RELEASED ‘ON $2,500 BOND   Twin City Man, McKay, Rep. Green Surrender At Lansing

TEMPERATURES:   McKay, FitzsinmonsAnd Green Released On Bonds Of $2,500

KAY SURRENDERS TO WARRANT TODAY   Released Under $2,500 Bond for Appearance in Cirenit Court.

CHILD (5 RETURNED SAFELY 10 PARENTS   ‘Negro - Woman in Whose  Home Baby Was Found, Is Being Held.

Abducted To Is Returned  To Parents   Nursemaid Is  Held By Police

Police Holding Negro Woman; Husband Freed  Abducted Baby’s Complexion Altered

Abducted Baby Disouised By Dark Make-Up   Nearess Nursemaid Taok White Child in Detroit To Palm Off on Hushand as Own

STRANGE CASE DISCLOSED BY RETURN OF TOT   Negress Sought To Alter Its Complexion With Sun Tan Makeup

Colored Nursemaid, Held In Kidnaping, Used Makeup to Darken Baby's Complexion

Twin Attacks Made, With RAF Following Raid By Mosquitoes; Air Offensive Against Axis Europe Passes 75th Hour   BOMBS DROPPED ARE EQUAL TO 8,000 TONS

 SSSANNSSNASSNSANAANSANANN NANA N ANNALARA NAS AANA ANY <<n-asnanansnctiaeeansnnieteatnteeeenaanecsesiaaaenaenitiintannne  Hitler Gloomy In Address ToGermansasBerlinGets Another Staggering Blow   Score—255 to 75—In Our Favor

FRIENDS ASK REST FOR TOP YANK ACE   Piqua Officials Message Air Forces Commander

People of Europe Warned By Allied Headquarters to Be Prepared For Invasion

VETERAN BILL ACTIONIS DUE ~INTHESENATE   Measure Provides Billion Dollar Education Plan for Veterans   PROVISIONS CITED  ~~ BY UTAH SENATOR   Work on Major Parts of Measure Completed by™ Committee

Bill Projects FundofBillion For Education Of Veterans  Senate Committee Completes Work   WOULD MAKE $50 AVAILABLE MONTHLY

Plans Education Of U.S. Vets   Senator Would Spenc Billion Annually

Billion Annually To Educate War Veterans Sought  Senate Expected To Act on Huge Prooram This Month

Billion Dollar Annual Outlay Asked for Vets   Educational Fund Widely Approved

Vet Educating Fund Projected In Senate   Billion Dollar Program Bill Readied For Consideration This Month Rv Solons

U.S. Task Force Raids Islands Close to Tokyo   Marcus, Wake © Under Naval Fire Last Week-end 

See Possibility U.S. Naval Task Force Will Soon Hit Japan Proper

ATTACK ON JAP MAINLAND SEEN AS POSSIBILITY   Assault On Marcus Island Is Re ported—Only 1,160 Miles FRrom Janan

Marcus Raid Meets Weak Opposition   Vice Admiral Towers Says Task Forces To Plunge Ahead

Navy May Soon Hit At Tokyo   Possibility ts Discussed After Island Attacks

SPECULATION HEIGHTENED BY ADM. TOWERS   Feeble Opposition In Raids on Marcus Island Point to Bolder Action.

Believe U. S. Naval Task Forces May Soon Attack Japs’ Home Islands; Little Opposition met in 2 Raids

Admiral Gives Blunt Warning In Radio Talk   Navy Encouraged by Lack of Opposition in Marcus Raid

U. S. Task Force Raid:  Marcus Is.  Successful TwoDay Raid May Be   Successful Two Day Raid May Be Forerunner of Attack On Japan Itself

OPPOSITION IN MARCUS RAID LIGHT   Japs Wondering Where - We Will Hit Next,  Towers Asserts

NAVY MAY ATTACK JAP MAINLAND   Move Thought Possible After Attack on Marcus

RAID SOON ON JAPAN PROPER HELD POSSIBLE   - Only Four U. S. Planes Lost In Two-Day Marcus Blow

See Attack On Japan As Possible   Speculate on Such Actior by Navy Since Marcus  Island Offensive

Way Appears Clearing for  Japan Attack   Little Opposition at Marcus—MacArthur Moves Ahead

Japan Itself May Be Next Navy Target   Air Opposition Completely Gone In Pacifie Raids

Possibility Seen of Japan Proper Being Hit Soon   Slight Opposition . Encountered In Raid  On Marcus Islands

“VERY HEAVY” CALLS IN MARCH   Many lowans to Receive Pre-Induction Physicals

Ford Officials Are Accused of Defrauding U. S.   Crysler and Assistant, Head of Engineering Firm Accused of Coercing Suh-Contractors

A INDICTMENTS HANDED DOWN   Charged With Defrauding Government in Handling Subcontracts.

MIDWEST AREA SNOW SUBSIDES   Warm Air Mass West O! Mississippi River Moves In

O/ DEAD IN WAR OF WINTER WAVE   Clearing Weather Spreads Eastward Across Nation; Snowstorm Seems Gradually Dissipating

STORM S GRIP ON WIDE AREA IS LOOSENED   Clearing ‘Weather on Way East; Death Toll Now 87

PRPPPPPPOPEPPPPEPPIP OPS S  ‘Warmer and: Clearer’ W eather’ Moves East

Paris Police, Gestapo Agents Widen Search For “Bluebeard” Suspected Of Thirty Murders:

BOMBERS SINK MORE JAP SHIPS   MacArthur’s Airmen Take Heavy Toll

, $, SURFACE SHIPS BOMBARD PARAMUSHIRO   Unharmed in Surprise Move

FIERCE AERIAL BATTLES. RAGE OVER GERMANY   Red Armies Converge On Sevastopol; Invasion Signs Increase

Nazis Guess _ D-Day Will Be in six Weeks   RAF Mosquitos Hit Cologne; Anzio Forces Strike ai Western Hun Lines ©

Yanks Renew Air Blitz with 2.000 Planes   Germans Adinit Fight At Sevastopol ai Peak: Invasion Talk Grows

OVER 2,000 U, S. PLANES STRIKE CITIES IN REICH   Germans Report Increase of Heavy Fighting in Battle for Sevastopol

VAST FLEET PLANES ATTACKED GERMANY; HEAVY AIR BATTLES   - RENEWED OFFENSIVE FROM BRITAIN BROKE THREE-DAY LULL IN AIR

FIERCE FIGHTING IS NOW RAGING IN SEVASTOPOL   Allies Batter Siege Lines Around Anzio Beachhead In Hand-to-hand Clash

YANKS THROW 2,000 PLANES AT NAZIBASES   Calais Invasion Coast Torn Also; R.A.F. Smashes At Cologne During Night

OVER 2,000 U. S. PLANES RAID BERLIN   Violent Air Battles Occur as Great Armada Pours Bombs on Germany.   Battle of Sevastopol Continues Furiously

Violent Land, Air ~~ Battles   2,000 . American. Warplanes Roar Inte: Axis Centers,:. Renewing Great Assault.   SCENES OF HORROR: IN. CRIMEAN: PORT.   Nazis Report. the Battie.:ot Sevastopol Has Been Joined; Reds Pound Trapped: Fortes:

NIMITZ PLANS NON STOP WAR AGAINST JAPS   YANK AIRMEN HIT PHILIPPINE AREA

iNavy Ready for ‘Relentless War iOn the Japanese   Nimitz Indicates Powerhause Blows Imminent; Would Speed Pacific Victory

POWERHOUSE BLOWS PROMISED BY NIMITZ   Says Great U.S. Fleets Set To Strike Against Japs

Nimitz Pledges Nonsto p War To Crush Japanese   Admirals Spruance And Halsey Ready To Wage It, He Says On Visit To Guam; Marianas Will Be Strategic Springboard For Action Against Japan

Outlines Bad News For Japs   Nimitz Says Non-Stop War With Powerhouse Tactics Is in Store  For Luckless Nipponese

Striking Wales Miners To Hear Union Leaders And Parliament Today

BRITISH CALM AS JAP FORGES INVADE INDIA   Sharp Fighting Along Border

Allies Bomb Berlin While  Reds Drive Nazis in Poland: Japanese Invading India

Make New Gains In New Britain  And New Guinea   American And Australian Forces Consolidate Gains In South Pacific Area   JAPS ARE DRIVEN FROM VITAL HILL

IMPORTANT JAP POSITIONS FALI   American Marines Capture Hill 660 at Borgen Bay, New Britain

NAZIS REPORT 79-MILE LINE HIT BY SOVIET   Extends from North of Prinet Marshes to Vitebsk Area

NAZIS ALONG 15-MILE FRONT   Fighting Is of the Fiercest Intensity, Germans Admit

TO-MILE FRONT IS OPENED IN WHITE RUSSIA:   Germans Report Fighting Of Fierce Intensity Is In Progress

YANKS ATTACK MARCUS ISLE, ‘JAPANESE S AY   Report of Assault on Foe Outpost Not Yet Confirmed

U.S. Task Unit Smashes at Marcus Island   Japs Announce Blow Against Outpost 1,206 Miles From Tokyo; Were Caught Napping

Carrier-Based Planes Hit Saturday.and Sunday, Japs Claim 32 Downed

JAP ISLAND HIT BY U.S. TASK FORCE      Marcus Island, 1200 Miles from Tokyo, Blasted © by Airmen

‘Surprise Hinted In Tokyo Report   Berlin Message Declares Mainland Alerted

TASK FORCE GIVES MARCUS 2-DAY RAID   Defenders of Japanese Outpost, 1200 Miles from Tokio, Caught Napping by Decoys.   “Direct Hit”

TWO-DAY ATTAGK DAMAGES OUTPOST   Jap High Command Announc. es Assaults Over Week-end   U. $. RADIOS SILENT   @ Defenders Believed to Have Been Caught Napping; Japs Make Claims

AMERICAN NAVAL FORCE ATTACKS MARCUS ISLANI   Japanese Command Says 132 Carrier-Based Planes Raided Outpost 1,200 Miles From Tokyo.   FOE CAUGHT NAPPING BROADCASTS INDICATE   Allies Silent Regarding Onslaught Which Enemy Says Caused Only “Negligible Damage.”

MARCUS ISLAND BOMBED AGAIN   Jap Defenders Caught Napping by Decoy Force Striking From West

PROTESTS, BUT. HE'S MAJOR NOW   “Jimmy” Turned Down Offer, Because His Men Not Promoted

FIRESIDE CHAT ON ROME’S i;}FALL BY FDR TONIGHT   ALL NAZI RESISTANCE STOPPED IN ETERNAL CITY AS POPE STOOD ON BALCONY OF ST. PETER’S WHILE ALLIED TROOPS MARCHED BY

Pope Pius Watches From Balcony As Allies March Through City; American Forces Pursuing Nazis

Bethany Church Has Good Year   Offices” And Committees For Coming Year Are Named

Reds Drive Enemy From Strongholds   Soviet Armor Only Thirty Miles From Transylvanian Capital

Soviet Drive Is — , Tearing Enemy from Carpathians   ‘Reds Now Control Most of Mountain: Block Protecting _ Hunaarian Plains

Reds Battle to Knock Out Hungary   Drive Deeper Into Transylvania; Not 30 Miles. of Capital

RUSSIANS DRIVING GERMAN, HUNGARIAN TROOPS OUT BALKANS  ENEMY RESISTANCE IN _ TRANSYLVANIAN ALPS HAS BEEN CRUSHED

Red Troops Pushing On Hungary   Peoples Called On To Throw Off Nazi Yoke

Reds Move In Transylvania   Seizing Mountain Area Protecting Hungary; Others Approach Yugoslav Border

Red Army Drives Into Transylvania   Crossing Into. Northeast ia From Romanian   TO JOIN WITH TITO   Armies Poised for Renewa of Thrusts in Northern Sector

Red Army Drives Into Transylvania   Crossing _ Into Northeast xia From Romanian   Armies Poised for Renewal of Thrusts in Northern Sector

Russians Sweeping Into Mountains Guarding Hungary   Unconfirmed Report Says Nazi Puppet Off Croatia Taken

Reds Batter Germans and Hu: varians  Banntel anal Bianl  Frontal and Flank Attacks Made; Near Transylvania Capital

Soviets Grip Carpathians’ Vital Passes   Hungary, Austria Urged to Cast OFf  Woke of Germany

Reds Crush Nazi Troops In Alps   Germans, Hungarians Flee Carpathians

BLAST JAP BASES FROM NEW GUINEA ~ TO KURILE ISLES      Planes from Aleutians Attack 150-mile Stretch of Northern islands. ~ 

HOLCANDIA AND KURILES BOMBED   Pound Japanese Bases Over 4,000 Miles Apart:

KURILE BASES BOMBED THIRD STRAIGHT DAY   U. S. Raids Extend From N. Guinea To Northern Jap Empire

U.S. FLIERS AGAIN BLAST THE KURILES   Others Drop 322 Tons On New Guineo Port of Hollandia

Yanks Step Up Raids On Jap Kurtte Bases   Islands In Northern Part Of Empire Bombed Third Consecutive Day

KURILE ISLES AGAIN BOMBED BY AMERICANS      Hollandia Base On New Guinea Blasted — Jap Planes Shot Down

Planes Bomb Kurile Isles   Japanese Defenses In Carolines Also Hit

New Allied Raids Made On Kuriles   Hollandia; on New Guinea, Also Gets Repeat Dose

Widespread Air Raids Carried Out Against Nins   First Assaalt of War is Made on Shashikota Island

BLAST JAP .- ~ BASES OVER WIDE AREA   American Bombers Strike from New Guinea to Kuriles 

Kariles Blasted Again For Third  Successive Day.   F ifth Air F ree: Strikes At Bases On _New Guinea Coast —

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Fremv Bases Bombed.

Planes Jolt Matsuwa, Flout Nippon Airforce   Paramushivo, Shumushu Bastions Feel Mieht of Growine Air Streneth

SIX ASSAULTS ~ONKURILES BY U.S. BOMBERS      Just 500 Miles From Homeland of Janan

Kurile Islands , Raided 3rd Day   Itinst Hollandia Base on New Guinea —- Raid Naval Tase at Paramushiru) Again

fg Bre 2 54 0!  “Ku ules Ts  Bombs ran Miia 1,069 Milés'From Tokyo, ne and Shashikatan  HOLL ANDI. A R AIDED  Enemy’. ‘Ships Si Set Afire as U.S. Fliers Lash New . Guinea Coast

Yanks Hit Near Jap Homeland   No Planes Lost In Penetration Of Kurile Chain

U.S. Again Bombs Jap Home Islands   Kuriles Hit Six  Times in Two Days

Flood Contro! Bills Before Old Congress   Use Of Water  Another [scue

Flood Control And Water Use Biils Up  Both Face Heavy Going ENE ARS URS Se” a AOR ee een

200 JAPANESE TROOPS LAND ON SMALL ISLAND   Ngeregong, 8 Miles Northeast Of American-Held Peleliu, Occupied

ISLET TAKEN BY 200 NIPPONESE   Marine Patrol Gets Out Without Loss; Purpose Of Move Vague

Small Marine Patrol Quickly Evacuates Ngeregong   PURPOSE OF ENEMY REPORTED AS VAGUE   Islet Located Eight Miles From American-Held Peleliu

Japs Occupy Small Island Near Peleliu   Marines Removed In Landing Craft

, Japanese Occupy Pacific Island  American Patrol ’ Evacuates Area

Japs Occupy Small Island Near Peleliu   U. S. Marine Patrol on Isle Evacuated; Ships, Planes Strafe Nips

JAP FORGES LANL ON PAGIFIG ISLE   200 Troops Occupy Nger gong Isle in the Pala Group; Small U. S. Patro Quickly Evacuates

U.S., INCENSED, WILL AVENGE JAP SAVAGER}   Hull Pledges Justice for Nipponese Butchers Who Tortured Bataan Yanks   DELAY IN PUBLICIZING ATROCITIES DRAWS FIRE

Hull Promises Nip Butchers To Be Punished   Two Reasons Given for Making Information Public Now; Congress Rages Over Actions

Officials Say Butchers Of Nip: ~ pon Must Be Brought — To Aecount

ENRAGED NATION VOWS VENGEANCE FOR JAP CRIMES   Hull Promises Butchers of Nippon: Will Be Brought to Account for Atrocities in Philippines.   “HANG THE MIKADO,” SEN. CLARK DEMANDS   Former OWI Chief Believes Nearly 50,000 Captives Met Death From Different Forms of Torture.

An Enraged America Vows Vengeance on Japanese Who  Tortured, Murdered US Heroes   Cries to Bomb Japanese Out of Existence Roar Out of Congress; Criticism Follows Withholding of Ghastly News for 2 Years

U.S. Pledges Dire Reprisal On Jap Fiend:   Torture Killings of Bataan  Heroes Stirs Natiou kB. ur. tt”

Entire Nation Vows Vengeance for Jap Prison Atrocities   Hull Promises Butchers of Philippines Will Be Made to Pay; Little Hope of Getting  More Relief to American Prisoners

Hull Says Nip Butchers ‘Must Pay   Report Of Murder Of Bataan Heroes Stirs America

1.5. ENRAGED BY BARBARITY OF JAPANESE   Vengeance Vowed for t Torture and Murder Of Prisoners

U.S. ENRAGED VOW REVENGE ON JAP DEVILS   Cries Of “Hang The Mikado” And “Bomb Japan Out Of Existence” In Congress Are Heard.   British Will Remember

America Vows to Get Even With Japs; Rep. May Would “Blow Tokyo To Hades’”’

Whole Of America Is Enraged By Japan Atrocities; British Also Hear Report Of Savagerv

Murderers of Thousands Of Heroes of Bataan To Pay Extreme Penalties   Officials, Congressmen and National Leaders Aroused by Fiendish Treatment of Prisoners; Palmer Hoyt Estimates 50,000 May Have Mef Death; Hull Says Guilty Will Be Brought fo Account

Official Data Alone Stirs Entire Nation   Facts Presented by Men Who Escaped  Arouses Congress

“Hang The Mikado” Is Congress Reply To Nippon Murders   Senate Demands Japan Be Isolated Forever From Civilized World As OW] Reveals Atrocities: Hull Lashes Heathens: British Suffer

Outraged America Swears Vengeance On Barbaric Jabs   - War Prisoner Atrocities Stir Fighting Blood Amid Cries Of ‘Hang The Mikado’

Hull Promises Jap ‘Demons’  Will Sufter   20,000 Prisoners In Philippines Killed, Ex-OWI Official Says  CONGRESS STIRRED

America Vows Vengeance on Japanese   Atrocity Report Causes Rage in All Quarters

RENO AIR BASE FLIER GETS VIEW OF BLAST   Lt. R. A. Smith Is Nearly Overhead ~ When Two Munitions Ships Let Go

Sidelights On Coast Explosion  Blast Was Recorded As Quake 70 Miles Awav

Many Killed In Ecuador Outbreak   Say Uprising Only In Guayaquil Area

3,500 Gotham Meat Dealers. Vote ‘Holiday’   To Start Christmas Day And Remain Closed Until OPA Makes ‘Adjustments’

Red Offensive To Begin, Says Soviet Paper   Great Armies Will Meet In Berlin, Asserts Press

Reds Ready to Loose Offensive   Russians Plan New Attacks to Back -- Up Western Front

Russia Is Prepared To Join in Attack on Reich  Anglo-American, Red Armies Said Set To Meet in Berlin

RUSSIAN FORCES . PREPARING FOR BIG OFFENSIVE   MP Sovict Press Says ‘Mounting Attack’ to Come—People Hail Yank Leader

Russia Prepared To Throw Great Weight In Offensive As Allied Landing Cheered

AUSOIA READY FOR OFFENSIVE   Prepared to Throw Great Weight of Army Into Drive Against Nazis.

Reds Elated By Invasion   Soviet Press Says Allied Armies Move Toward Meeting in Berlin

REDS PREPARE T0 DRIVE ON BERLIN ARMY PAPER SAYS   Soviet Command Says . Enemy Attacks Are Slackening In Eight-Day Battle Fought at lasi, Romania.   NAZI FORCES ARE APPARENTLY MUCH WEAKER   Forces Ready to Throv Great Weight Agains Nazis, Moscow Paper: Publish Invasion.

Reds Prepared To Throw Full Weight at Foe   Red Star Says Attack of United Nations Forces Will Develop

REDS PREPARING NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Wild Night of Celebra tion Held Over Invasion of France

Russia Ready For Offensive From The East   Moscow Up Early Today To Celebrate Invasion; Plan Reunion In Berlin

Russia Ready To Jom Attack   - Soviet Press Goes All Out In Reporting Invasion Of France.

Reds Prepare For Assault   Russians Get Up Early In The Morning Despite Night Celebration,

REDS APPLAU INVASION MOVE   Soviet Prepares to Begin Own New Offensive

SOVIET ARMY IS REPORTED READY TO Gd   People, Fired With Enthusiasm Over Invasion, Look Forward:to March on Berlin From Bait and West.

TO START NEW OFFENSIVES   Moscow Reports Indicate Soviets Ready to Add Weight of New Attacks Against Na7vis

Russia Declared Prepared To Throw Great Weight Of Red Army Against Germans   Moscow Scene Of One Of its Most Wildest Nights Celebrating [nvasion

RUSSIANS TO ATTACK NAZIS FROM THE EAST   To Throw Weight Of Entire Army Against Enemy

2000 HEAVY BOMBERS ON RECORD RAID   Daylight Assault Against Nazi Oil Plants

Aerial Forces Smash at Europe Targets   Oil, Aircraft and Tank Plants Heavily Bombed

Millions Voting Today in First U. S. Wartime Election Since 1864

FIRST WARTIME ELECTION IN 80 YEARS ORDERLY   Lines Await Poll Openings

War Workers Lead Parade To Polls   Early Scattered Returns Indicate Very Close Race

Voting is Very Orderly   Biq Industrial Centers Turning Out Heavy Vote

Farm Prices  At Top Level   Highest Since September 1920 Agriculture Denartment Reveals

Japs Threaten To Split China   Enemy Troops Advance To Within 40 Miles Lingling Air Base.

Motorists Holding B and C Cards May ‘Buy New Synthetic Tires Next Monday

B, C Books Good For New Tires.   Rationing Relaxed on Synthetic Rubber

JOMBERS POUND OAST DEFENSE VITH NO LET-UP   j.S. Heavies Also Delive: Devastating New Blow ' on Ploesti Oil

Dewey To Attack 4th TermIssue   New Spe ech - writing Technique ,Has Developed Since Oklahoma City Explosion

New Technique Enters Dewey ‘Speech Writing   GOP Nominee Expected to vrepare ¢ Manuscript In’ Trip-Hanmer Style From Now Out     TF orrconiess

Dewey Points To His Future Speech Making   New York Governor, in Campaign for Presidency, Will Strike Hard at Fourth Term.

DEWEY PREPARES TO PRESS ATTACK ON FOURTH TERM  OS  =—<_ << - -<—. « . 4   NOMINEE CONSIDERS AN OLD-FASHIONED BARNSTORMING TOUR

Dewey's Bombastic _ Speech Tendencies  Sanctioned by GOP   Oklahoma City Speech Batted Out After FDR Republican Attack

Aerial Strikes Maintained On Mauled Navy   Gen. MacArthur Reports 24,000 Nips Are Casualties

LUZON IS TARGET IN LATEST PAID   Manila Bay Shipping Blasted; Yankee Ground Forces Inflict 24,000 Casualties in 10 Dave

> Jap Cruisers Hit; 90 Planes Said Destroyed   Naval Airmen Hammer Japs in Luzon Area: Leyte Mop Up Goes On; Burma Drive Opens

Iwo Days of Aerial  Sweeps i in Luzon RegionAnnounced   MacArthur Reports U. S. Troops Within 10 Miles Of Leyte’s North Coast; Japanese Casualties Set Ai 24,000 in First 10 Days of Philippine Invasion

637,544 NAZIS SEIZED IN WEST FRONT FIGHT   American First Army Takes 200,000 Of Prisoners

New Call to Underground   Eisenhower Urges Patriots to Keep Discipline, Caution

Unanimous for Flood Control   FiIQOG VONTro!   Rees Says Kansas   Delegation Supports  Cermhe F metal mht

Unanimous for Flood €ontrol   Rees Says Kansas Delegation Support: Such Leaisfation

Enemy Base in East Indies Is Neutralized   Bombers Literally Knock Out Jap Stronghold

Japanese Base At Halmahera Is Neutralized   Once Key Feeder Area Of Dutch East Indies Is Now Lost to Enemy

Marines Punch Out New Gains In Palau Isles   Three-Fourths Of Peleliu Now Held By Leathernecks

New Gains In Palau Islands   U. S. Marines In Control Of ThreeFourths Of Pelleliu

YANKS SLUG OUT GAINS ON PELELIL   DRIVE NORTHWARD THOU SAND YARDS IN FACE OF EURIOUS RESISTANCE.

Marines Pushing Peleliu Conquest  More Than 7,000 of Defenders Killed

Marines Punch Out New Gains In Palau Isles   Battle Their Way North. ward 1,000 Yards; Now Control Oue-Third Peleliy

NIPS' PHILIPPIN GOVT. DECLARES WAR ON ALLIES.   . Marines Now Hold > Three-Fourths Of Peleliu In Palaus

MARINES EXTEND GRIP ON PELELIU   Win Most of Isle Despite Tough Jap Defense

Still Battle For Peleliu   Japs Say Philippine Puppet Government Declares War  On U. S., Britain

Warren Asks U.S. To Eleet A Republican   Keynoter Calls For Change “To Get Our Boys Home Again”

Warren Urges ‘Chance for 6.0.P to Bring Peace   Keynote Talk by Californian Warmly Cheered

Desperate Counter-Thf By Germans Slow Reds In Hungary; SS ls Carrying Out Reign Of Terror

Budapest Scene of Terror   Weather, German: ‘Slow Dowa Soviet Hungarian Drive

‘Yanks Strike From Aleutians to Fire Jap Naval Fortress   Paramushiru Raked Twice in Day; Raid May Pr esage Greater Attack; Arnold Promises Blow at Mainland

PARAMUSHIRU BASE BOMBED TWICE IN DAY   New Developments In North Pacific Hinted

Bulk Of Nazi Troops Massed On Cologne Piain   French Cross Rhine; U. S. First Army Makes Gains In Hurtgen Area,

Patton Drives Close fo Great Enemy Arsenal   Floaded Roer River Reached By 9th Army Men

FRENCH CROSS  RHINE, PRESS AGENCY SAYS   Village Near Saarbrucken Is Captured By Third Army Infantry

WESTERN FRONT ADVANCE MADE BY THIRD ARMY   French Forces Are Reported To Have Crossed Rhine

Turbulent Roer Is Reached By American Ninth   First Army Faces  Stiff Opposition; ' Gains By Yards

Some French Forces Reported To Have Crossed Rhine North Of  Strasbourg: First Makes Gains   Germans Caught In Seuth On Rhone-Rhine Canal Wiped Out; Seventh Presses Through  Mud And Snow In Vosyes Mountains

French Army Ts Reported As Crossing» Rhine River   Ninth Army Reaches Flooded Reer Valley,

Other Americans of Ninth Army Reach _ Roer River, Last Natural Barrier Before Cologne, Key City on Rhine

Ninth Army at Roer, Last Bar  To Cologne   Villages Captured In Bitter Fighting West of Flooded  Streams and River:

AMERICANS TAKE FOOTHOLD ALONG FLOODED VALLEY   Roer River Is Last Natural Barrier For U. S. Ninth Army On Way To The Rhine And Cologne.

Patton’s Army Takes Village In 4 Mile Cain   Third Army Advances In Center of Western Front Yo Point Ten Miles From Saarbrnueken   French Reported  Crossing Rhine   Mave Over River North Of Strashourg, According To French Sources;  Oth Reaches Roer

3rd Army Hits Center of Line for Good Gains   Presses Closer to Saarbrucken, Vital Siegfried Line Pivot

TEMPERATURES:   Bulk Of Enemy Forces, Including Reserves Confront Yanks

French Said To Have Crossed The Rhine   Roer River Reached By Ninth Army In Heavy Fighting

F rench Radio Reports Rhine Barrier Forded   Gains Inside Hurigen Measured Ta Yards: British Probing Venlo

VILLAGE SEIZED 10 MILES FROM SIEGFRIED BASE   French Troops Reported To Cross Rhine; Yanks Also Reach Roer Barrier

YANKS REACH ROER RIVER BELOW JULICH   Saar Menaced As Third Army Applies (ireat Pressure

FEARS A FALSE VICTORY   “Axis “Nations. “May Try = Trick, ° Morgentheau Says.

Warning Given Of False Peace   Felse Capitulation Declared Possible

TAL VICTORY 8 AMERICA'S GOA   Treasury Department Secretary Warns Against Surrender That Is False.

U. S. Products Likely To Top  Soviet Imports   Before the war, Germany sold more goods to. Russia than’ any other. nation. 

Nazis Desperate In Banjaluka  Partisans Intercept   Partisans Intercept Telegram Urgently Appealina for Help

Nazis Throw Tanks Into Battle For Bosnian City  Bitter Street Battles Are Raging for  Contral af Ranialuka

GERMANS TRY FOR KNOCKOUT BLOW ON TITO   Tanks and Field Guns Brought Up with View To Crushing Yugoslav  Partieane

Serbs Advance Despite Tanks   Battle Rages For Nazi Headquarters

Tito’s Force  Holding Out   German Tanks and Field Guns Fail To Smash Partisans

Big Nazi Pust Fails To Oust  Yuvoslavs   Tito Holds Part of Key City Despite Savage Atiscke

Tito’s Forces Battle Germans  In Banjaluka  rr. 1. OEE. OV Older      Took Half Of City On Adriatic Coast In Surprise Smash

PROTEST OPENS LONERGAN CASt   Attorney Asks Judge tc Disqualify Himself

Reds Smash German Tiraspol Attacks   400 Enemy Troops Killed, War Equipment Destroyed

‘Let United States Elect Its Own. President, Is Bricker’s View   Ohio ‘Governor, G.°0.-P. Presidential Candidate, "Sharply. Criticizes British Press For Its “‘Interforces” In Blectinn :

Bricker Hits e 9 Interference  In Polities   But Gives Roosevelt Credit For Part In Helping To Win War

BRITISH PRESS OPINION IRES GOV. BRICKER   Regards as ‘Interference’ Article Suggesting FDR's Re-election— Views on Controversies

Bricker Hits British Press  ‘Interference   Ohio Governor Says Americans Capable of Electing Presideut Without Foreign Proposals

BRIT on PRESS 5 CRITICIZED   Bricker Believes U.S. Should Elect Pesident Without Interference.

GOP Presidential Candidate Bricker Declares British Election Suggestions Are Interference

Bricker Resents English Article _On FD Election   Says British Should Mind Their Own Business And New Deal Must Go

BRICKER SLAPS BRITISH PRESS   SAYS AMERICANS CAN ELECT A PRESIDENT WITHOUT THEIR HELP

Interference of British Criticized   BRICKER, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, SAYS U. S. SHOULD RUN ELECTIONS

BRICKER ASSAILS BRITISH MEDDLING INU. SELECTION   Ohio Governor Declares Win ning War Is Chief Na tionol Issue

Bricker Raps  British View On Elections   Says Americans Should Pick President Without Any Interference .

Speaks Out AtA  News Conference      Republican Charges This Interference Unseemly   THINKS ROOSEVELT DOING A GOOD JOB

Says British Interfere In  U. S. Election   Bricker Advises  Mind Own Affairs

Interference Of  British Rapped  English Press Draws  Bricker’s Criticism

Bricker Resents British Meddling  Hits Participation in U. S$. Politics

Black Sea Base Falls To Reds   Crech Troops Leae Russian Drive in Crechoslovakia

‘City First Outflanked Then Stormed   Black Sea Fleet Joins in Mighty Salute; Germans Are Ratterad

Claim Evacuation Of Garrison Despite Red Troops Hemming City   Soviets And Czechs Isolate Iasi In Swift Push Toward Rich *  Ploesti Oil Fields

Oct., 1941   THIRD ARMY OF UKRAINE —  FLANKED CITY AND THEN STORMED IT; WAS LARGEST CITY HELD BY NAZIS

VICTORS SALUTED WITH 44 CANNON - BY STALIN ORDER   Capture of Last Enemy Stronghold Announcement Delayed Until Berlin Admits Loss.   AERIAL HIGHWAY TO CAROLINES IS SOUGHT   Japs Advance at Imphal But British Garrison 60 Miles North Hurls Enemy Back Repeatedly.

CAPTURE DOOMS GERMAN ARMY OF 160,000   Ploesti Gains Drive Toward

CAPTURED BY SOVIETS   Nazis Claim Their Force Evacuated Black Sea Port

Soviet and Czech Formations. _ Cross Border; Key Rail Center : Of Iasi is Virtually Isolated.     Reds Complete Occupation of Jablonica  Pass Leading Over Carpathians Down Into Hungarian Plain.

Stalin Announces   e : Seizure of Great  Black Sea Base   Nazi Ukraine Army Doomed As Metropolis Falls With Rapidity

Reds Tighten Divorce Law   ‘Move To Strengthen Family Life Includes Aid to Large Families

Reds Bolster Family Life   Russian Decree Makes Divorces Hard to Obtain

Soviet Tightens Divorce Laws, Grants Financial Aid for Large Families

STRONG FAMILY TIES, BOOST IN BIRTHS SOUGHT   Sweeping New Decree Causes National Sensation

DIVORCES TO BE: HARD TO GET IN SOVIET RUSSIA   ‘Swee hing Decree Isqued to strengthen Family   Life.

Russia Curbs Divorces: Sweeping Regulation Strengthens Home Life, Encourages Big Families

SOVIETS TIGHTEN UP ON DIVORCES   ISSUE DECREE TO STRENGTHEN TIES AND AID FAMILIES

Soviets Tighten Divorce Laws, Offer Bonus for Large Family   Sweeping Decree Made in Effort to Strengthen Home Life Among Russian People

RIVERS HAMPER DRIVE IN ITALY   Roads Made Impassible By Rains; Eighth Army Advances

GERMANS STRIKE HARD NEAR FORI   BRITISH 8TH ENCOUNTERS MAIN NAZI DEFENSES — LEADERS FORCED BACK,

British Hit Main ltaly Defenses   Some Units Ferced Back  Across Ronco River

Brifish in Ronco River   Eiyhith Anny” Advunces Two and Onz-Half Miles in North Htaly

War Production Centerg In Southern Germany Blasted. Germans Make Raid On London.

126 Nazi Fianes Are Vestroyed in Last Night’s Raid.  WE LOST 21 BOMBERS, THREE FIGHTERS  Heaviest Raid Is Made on London, Since 1941.

German War Plants Hit Hard Again   American and British Bombers Do Much Damage; Allies Gain In Italy

CURTIS. ESTATE BOND 1S SEI AT $403.09)   Telatives to Benefit; Presbyter‘an Church FRece.ves Bequest

CURTIS. ESTATE. BOND 18 SET AT 100600.   Fresbyter‘an Church  Telatives,  har Rece:ves Be  uest

Victory to Affect U.S. Air Program   New Types Will Be Brought Out After the Defeat Of German Forces

PLANE OUTPUT WILL CONTINUE   Production of Army Aircraft To Go On After Germony's Defeat

PRODUCTION OF WARPLANES 10 BE CONTINUED   Fighter Planes Will Be Made To Hit Japs

NEW PLANES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED FOR WAR ON JAPS   Some Cut Backs in Production To Be Made When Germany—  Has Surrendered

TELL AIRPLANE OUTPUT PLANS   Production of Some Types To continue on Full Scale After VE-Dav.

See Chance Airborne Army May Take Berlin   Matter Said To Be Subject Of Much Speculation At Washington

carDorne Army Ready For Action- Occupy Berlin by Air      Lt. General Gile: Gives Report On AAF

AIRBORNE  ARMY MIGHT SEIZE BERLIN   Possibility is Discussed in Military Circles

See Possibility Allied Airborne Army May Land, Seize and Hold Berlin

Allied Airborne Army May Land In Berlin!      FLYING BOMBS “POUND LONDON   First Robot Assault In 15 Days

DEADLOCK ON © ~~ AIR POLICY   INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BREAKS UP WITHOUT AGREEMENT ON POSTWAR COMMERCIAL LINES .

Jap-Americans To Be Drafted Soor  Reclassification   Reclassification Plans Are Made

Allied Planes Stream Out Over Battered Continent Today   16 ALLIED PLANES FAIL TO RETURN   Strong Air Assault On Rail Lines In France And Belgium

Wave Upon Wave of Allied Planes Attack Europe   Force May Be Largest to Hit Hitler West Wall

FARM LEADERS IN OPPOSITION   If Selective Service Ad heres To Plan Production Will Drop

CAPTURED YANKS LINED UP, SHOT   STRONG PROTEST SENT TO GERMANY BY WASHINGTON ON ATROCITIES,

Dewey Seeks China Aid, Asks Release of Poland Decision      Projects Caimpaign Into International Sphere After Saturday Talk

ASKSFOR MORE AID TO CHINESE      Dewey Projects His Campaign Into Arena of Foreiaon Affairs.

DEWEY PROBES WORLD AFFAIRS   Asks More Aid For China.  Wants Information On Polend’s Future

DEWEY CALLS FOR GREATER DEGREE OF AID TO CHINA   WOULD LIKE TO KNOW OF SECRET PLANNING OF POLAND’S FUTURE

Gov. Dewey Urges Greater Aid To Ching   Republican Nominee Also Asks Increased Public Information In Regard To Poland’s Future

Help For Chine Urged By Dewey   Nominee Asks Greater Aid For U. S. Ally

Dewey Calls for Ever Higher Degree Of Aid to China   Projects Presidential Campaign Into Arena International Affairs

Creeks Fight on  In Soaking Rain   Artillery, Rifle Fire Mark ELAS Offensive As Buildings Topple

ELAS Hammers” British Forces In New Attacks   King’s Word ‘Awaited On ’ Naming Of Archbishop . As Temporary Regent

LEFT-WING ELAS TROOPS HAMMER BRITISH FORCES   Trying To Work Out Suitable  Government

Elas Engage In Skir Dea 4 With British   Left-Wing in Greece Laid Mines In Omonia Square

Greek Truce Ended By ELAS   Await Word From King George II On Archbishop As Temporary Regent.

FRENCH TROOPS SCORE IN BLOODY FIGHTING   Alexander and Clark Say Goal Is the Destruction of Carman Armisee

ALLIED TROOPS DRIVING NAZI ARMY BACKWARD      Germans Retreat Before Great Allied Thrust

Big Battle Rages on 29 Mile Front   Beat Off Fierce Nazi Counter Attacks at Some Points

4 DIE IN FIRE AT SHAWNEETOWN   DISASTER OCCURS AT HOST HOUSE, SMALL HOTEL IN NEW TOWN

RENEW AERIAL ATTACKS UPON NAZI CAPITA   London Suffers Casualties and Damage in Night Raid by Nazis.

Hundreds of Fight Planes Accompany Bombers on Flight   Attacking Armada Tops 1,000; 1,500- Ton Load of Missiles Hit German Capital in New Assault

Yank Bombers Over Berlin  nsw Ti... Ft...   1,000 Planes Under Heavy Escort Drop 1.500 Tons of Romb«

Invasion Coastline.  Southwest France Are Also Blasted   R. A. F. Planes Hit Western Germany Last Night; Nazi Capital Fired By Estimated 1,500 Tons Of High Explosive Power

Yankee Airmen Batter Berlin In Great Raid   Huge Force Hits German Capital, Accompanied By Fighters; Firet Blow  See March 9

THOUSAND U. S. PLANES RAID BERLIN   First Big Assault On Nazi Capital Since March 9

Berlin Blasted Again By Yanks; London Is Raided   1500 Tons Dropped On Nazi Capital; 20 Nazi Planes Are  Downed In France

1,250 10 1,750 JOIN IN RAID   Makes Fifth Heavy Amer. ican Attack On German Capital  LONDON IS ATTACKED

900 OR MORE BOMBERS IN THE ATTACK   Force, With Fighters, Believed to Have Totaled 1,250 to 1,750 Craft— Raid Was Yank’s Fitth on Capital. oe

Heavies Blast At Targets in Nazi Canital   More Than 1000 U. S. Planes Shower Bombs On City; Fighters Escort Bombers

1200. Planes . in Attack on ~ Nazi. Capital   Hundxeds.of* Fighters: Go Along: With: -Fortresses 7" amd Liberators:.   1,500. TONS: OF BOMBS: SARE HURLED DOWN   Daylight “Assault - Follows ~ Raids ont France by Other SS YU 8 Porees

Heavy Bombers Attack Berlin   Yankee Airmen In Force Blast Industrial, Military Targets.

Berlin Again Is Yank Raid Target   Over 1,000 Warplanes Make Long Trip To Hit Reich Capital

1,750 Planes Take Part in  New Attack  Mosquitos  Blast Western Bomber Assault Against Reich Capital  FOLLOW NIGHT RAID  Mosquitos os Blast. W etsern Germany Without Loss  ~~ wae   FOLLOW NIGHT RAID

Strong Forces Drop Heavy Bomb Load On Nazi City   Heavy Escort Of  Fighters Accompanies Bombers; Mosquitoes Hit Westorn Cermany

AGAIN BLAST BEPIIN TODAY   More Than 1,000 American Planes Shower Reich Capital With Estimated 1,500 Tons of Bombs   CASUALTIES IN LONDON

New WVestruction Showered On German Capital With 1,500 Tons Of Bombs: 100 German Planes Attack London, Leaving Casualties And Damage

avies In h Attack Capitol   ike at Western  t Mosquitoes r rmany During Night

CITY 1S HIT BY THOUSAND U. 5. PLANES      “Capital Attacked In Force Ist Time Since March 9

AAF Bombers Visit Berlin   More Than 1,000 Planes Shower New Destruction On German Capital

U.S. Bombers Raid Berlin   Americans Return to Nazi Capital First Time Since March 9

1,900 Tons Of Bombs  Dropped  500 to 750   500 to 750 Bombers Make 1,150 Mile  ' Round Trip

Americans Take Strategic Ormoc Port on Leyte  MacArthur Begins Destroying Thousand:

Radio Tokyo Reports New Superfort Raid   Many Thousand Nipponese Trapped By the Hard-Hitting Yankees;

U.S. Ballot for Soldiers Loses House Unit Vote   Version of Senate-Approved Measure For Control by States Okehed; Worlev Plans Ficht for Compromise

House Group Approves Soldier Vote Program For Ballot Control By States

Berlin Claims Troops Have Begun Furious Counterattacks; Invasion Casualties Called Light

Germans Predict More ‘Landings; Losses Slight   Report Railway Cut at Caen; No Major Engagements As Dazed Nazis . Reel Back at Surprise

Invaders Moving Inland, ’Chutists. Battle for Rouen   Honfleur, Near Seine Estuary, Admitted Firmly Held by Allied Attackers, While Thrust At Caen Pierces 13 Miles From Sea

Gains Up To 13 Miles Are Made.  From Shoreline      Reinforcements Pour Across Channel and Germans Tell of Landings at Dozen Points—Troops Fighting at Caen, but There Are No Reports of Major Engagements — Naval  - Squadron Off Cherbourg.  

Revolt Against OPA Is Gaining House Strensth   Tug-of-War Over Issue Menacés Plans For Congressional Recess.

Uprising Against OPA Gains Power in Congress Debate   House Considers Bill To Extend Price Control

POLES WANT ALLIES TO HALT NAZI EXTERMINATIO! OF WARSAW’S POPULATION

Poles Charge NaziSlaughtet in Warsaw   GERMAN AIM TO KILL ALL CIVILIANS CHARGED, AMBASSADOR ASKS AID

STALEMATE THREATENS AIR PARLEY   Latin Americans Threaten Adjournment.

ON GIVEN CABINET STATUS   APPOINTED PERSONAL F. D. R. REPRESENTATIVE

CABINET STATUS GIVEN NELSON   Former Production Chief To Represent President

NELSON NAMED AIDE 10 FOR   New Post Renks At Cabi  net Level, Offices In White House

NELSON: NOW “PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE” OF FE. F. R.: CABINET RANK

NELSON OBTAINS CABINET STATUS   Will Sit In On Meetings And Have White House Office

NEW NELSON TASK   Former WPB Head to Be  Roosevelt's. “Personal Representative

Yanks Advance in Los Negros   TROOPS POUND REINFORCED JAPANESE LINES; AIRMEN DUMP 200 TONS BOMBS ON BOUGAINVILLE, BLAST PARAMUSHIRO AND SHUMUSHU IN KURILES

OTHER POINTS ON CONTINENT ARE BLASTED   Targets in Holland and France Among Those Getting Attention of Alltec

Explosives Rain On Industry Supplying. Reich War Machine   Swarnis of British, U.S. Fighters : Accompany Liberators and ‘Forts’; Marauders Hammer Holland Targets

Strong Forces Hit Reich City in Waves   American Fliers Carry Out Fifth Daylight Raid of Week on Capital; Nazi Eiahiter Losses Grow With 125 Shot Down

GERMANRADIOCLAIMS GREAT DUELS FOUGHT   American Planes Carry Out Fourth Daylight Assault In 8 Days Over Area

U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS MAKE FOURTH RAID IN SIX DAYS: OPPOSITION IS WEAKER   125 First Line German Fighters Destroyed in Battle Yesterday, While U. S. Lost 38 Bombers and 15 Fighters. 301 German Planes Lost in 2 Days

BOMBS SHOWER REICH CAPITAL   10,000 Explosive, 350,000 Incendiaries Dropped  By Yank Bombers

American Bombers Hit Again   Rain Incendiary and Explosive Bombs on Shattered City; Reds Score Gain in Ukraine

THREE WAVES OF BiG  BOMBERS IN GERMAN  ATTACK THURSDAY RESULTS OF WEDNESDAY  BLASTING OF NAZI CAPITAL DECLARED coOoD

Lakes Of Fire Smother Capital: Industry 1s Hit   Italy Quiet, Russians Bogged By Mud; 2 Jap Attacks Area Repulsed

BOTH INCENDIARIES AND EXPLOSIVES HIT HEART OF NAZIDOM  GREAT SWARMS OF AMER ICAN AND BRITISH FIGHT.-

350,000 Incendiaries, 10,000 T.N.T. Bomb  _ Dropped .  HEAVY ASSAULT  Germans s Report New Russian Triumphs In Ukraine 

NEW ASSAULTS ON BEACHHEAD BELIEVED NEAR   Politica! Maneuverings in Balkans Stepped Up As Nazi Set-backs Increase

125 Nazi Fighters Destroyed In Berlin Raid . NEW AIR ATTACK Ruins Of German City Blasted Again  Tadavu

Factories in Capital Are Raid Targets   Nazi Movements Increase at Anzio— Russians Score Success in Ukraine

Thousands Die ‘in Berlin Raid   Big Bombers Sweep Again Upon Germany; Two Minor Thrusts Repulsed from Yank Beachhead—Red Army Pushes on Through Ukraine Mud

THREE WAVES OF Bit BOMBERS IN GERMAN ATTACK THURSDAY  RESULTS OF WEDNESDAY   RESULTS OF WEDNESDAY BLASTING OF NAZI CAPITAL DECLARED GOOD

Unprecedented Air Strength Shown by Quick Return Run   Yanks Have Been Over Reich Capital Five Times in Week

German Capital Is Blazing Ruins After Five Dayligh ‘Saturation Bombings’ in Week—Russians Slog Ahead In Mud But Fighting In Italy Slows Up After Heavy Losses Suffered by Nazis

Swarms of U.5., British Fighters  Accompanied Raid  Other Allied Aerial Forces on Offensive

MESA Will End Strike If WLB ‘Co-operates, Lawyer Hints; Union Heads Absent

BAND AND BOMB MUSIC:  Anzio Snails Scene ae Risky Bunce: Piqus Nurs  au Oneaan’

HEAT WAVE GRIPS MOST OF NATION   State Farm Official Says Corn Crop to Be Halved by Drought

U.S. Swelters in Record Heat    Drought Front in §. A.  Hit By Thundershowers

HEAT WAVE HITS - UNITED-STATES   GREATER PART OF UNITED STATES IS SUFFERING FROM INTENSE HEAT WAVE

Army Strives for Safety but 20 Of Each 1000 Air Cadets Are Killed   OWI Gives Figures on Air Forces Training Aceidents and Lists Causes

DONORA NAIL MILL STRIKE OVER INGREASE   Suspension Results In Vital War Production Plant As 100 Workers Protest Suspension Of Four   MEETING Is BEING HELD TO END RIF

WAR TODAY   Admiral Nimitz - Slap. ping Jap Squarely Across His Toothy. Mouth In Truk At anne

The War Today Truk Stab Daring Challenge To Japanese Naval Power

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF Anemiated Press War Analivet

FIGHTING BRISK IN ADMIRALTIES   Elaborate Jap Piilbox Defenses Slow Up Yank Advance

Air Bombardment  In Fourth Week   Fury of Pre-Invasion Raids Rises To New Heights; RAF Also Active

BRUNSWICK 1S INCLUDED IN YANK ASSAULT   12.000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Nazi Areas in 48-Hour Period

Pre-Invasion Bombardment of Western Eu rope Mounts in Fury on Entering Its Fourth Week 2

2000 American Planes Smash at Blazing Berlin   Aircraft Center at Brunswick Also Attacked

‘New Draft Directive Due Friday  May Clear Status Of Men Over 26

REVISED DRAFT RULES PLANNED   Regulations On Men Over 26 Are Due Friday

7TH CONGR CONGRESS HITS ROUGH SPOTS   House Committee Considers Freeze of Social Security Payroll Tax Rate

CONERESS 5 LINEUP   Adjournment: on December. If May Be Threatened by _ Legislative Needs *

Congress Hits Snag In Plans Fo Final Measures   Consider Bill To Freeze Social Security Tax Rate At 1 Per Cent.

COUNTIANS GOINTO ~ MILITARY SERVICE   Board No. 2 Inductees . Accepted on August 21st

COUNTIANS GOINTO. ~ MILITARY SERVICE   Board. No. 2. 2 Inductees - Accepted. on ‘Aug- ust 21st .

ARGENTINA FOCUS OF ILO WRANGLE   Mexican Representative Be. gins Debate Over Adeniesion

Check Names In Diary For Murder Clue   Georgette Bauerdorf Was Raped Before Her Killer Strangled Her, Claim Investigators

French Freedon From Hitler Seems Near   Germans Believed T: Have Few Divisions In Southern Area  —  *e"eeno aT VT A CCIW w

FRANCE ON EVE OF COMPLETE FREEDOM      Escape Hatch Slashed To 10-Mile-Wide Gap

France Near Full Release   Freedom of France From Nazi Grip Believed Matter of Weeks Now

German Position Hopeless      Only Alternative Now To Withdraw as Best They Can to Borders Of Germany Proper

France Stands on Liberation’s Eve   Freedom to Come Within Few Weeks

Invasion To Bring France  Full Freedom   French Provide Plenty Of Power

France Stands on Eve of Complete. Freedom as Allies Launch New Blov

Freedom Within Grasp of France   Next Few Weeks May See End of German Occupation

France May Be Free From Harsh Grip Of Nazi Soldiers in Matter of Weeks

ONLY MATTER OF WEEKS 10 OUST GERMANS   Undergfound Causing Extra Trou ble for Germans as Allies Forge Ahead From A!l Sides

Complete Freedom  Of France ‘May Be Near   Gallagher Believes  It Is Matter Of Weeks; French Have Great Striking Powe

LIBERATION OF FRANCE NEARS   Invasion Thrust Eases Hitler's Stranglehold On Defeated Nation

SHORTAGES IN WAR MATERIALS SEEN AS DELAY TO FINAL VICTORY   SOMERVELL REPORTS LACK IN 320 VITAL CATEGORIES WILL INCREASE TOLL OF LIVES

Rubber Crisis Solution Near, Says Dinsmore   SYNTHETIC PRODUCTION PROGRESSES UNDER WAR STRESS, MEETS NEEDS

FR Returns To Office After Rest   Spent Three Weeks At Warm Springs Resort

PRESIDENT RETURNS FROM WARM SPRINGS VACATION 3 WEEKS  ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE SUNTANNED AND HEAVIER

F.D.R. Returns To Washingfon From Vacation   President Tanned And Invigorated From Three Weeks At Warm Sorinas

President Back After 3-Weeks Rest In Georgia   Inspects Camp Lejeune Marines On Way Back  TT. UW/.-khieawtan

Roosevelt Back on Job After Vacation Sojourn in Georgie   Inspects Camp Lejeune. Enjoys Warm Waters at Foundation

Roosevelt Back From Three Weeks In The South   President Was At Warm Springs. Ga, For Rest: Gains  In Wereht

FDR Ends  Vacation  Three Weeks Spen!   Three Weeks Spent At Warm Springs.

Roosevelt Returns to White House After Three Weeks’ Rest in Georgia

President Back In Capital   Enjoys Longest Vacation He Has Had Since Taking Office  Eleven Years Ago.

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.  (Rw Telatwne)   Three Weeks Rest

FOR RETURNS FROM REST AT WARM SPRINGS   President Inspects Marines at Camp Lejeune on Trip Home

FDR FROM: TACATION AT WARM SPRINGS   President In Good Shape After Holiday

FDR Back At Desk   SPENT THREE WEEKS AT WARM SPRINGS; TANNED AND HEAVIER

FDR Returns To White House After Vacation   Must Face Serious Diplomatic, Military, Domestic Problems

F.D.R. BACK IN CAPITAL AFTER 3 WEEKS’ VACATION   PRESIDENT RETURNS FROM WARM SPRINGS; HEALTH IS IMPROVED

F.D.R. RETURNS FROM REST AT WARM SPRINGS   Chief Executive Visits Camp Lejeune At End Of 3 Weeks Trip

FD, VACATION MADE PUBLIC  Back In White House After Resting Three Weeks t Georgia Spa

FOR RETURNS FROM VAGATION   Spent Last Three Weeks at Warm Springs; Trip: Kent Secret.

FDR Returns  From Vacation   Spent Three Weeks At Warm Springs. Ga.: Back SunTanned, Heavier.

President Back In Washington After Vacation   Spends Several Weeks In South

FD. Returns  To Washingtor  After. Vacation Chief Executive  Faces Momentous Dahkew PMarieiane.

Left Washington Novemher 27; Only Side Trip Was Visit to Marine Combat Reservation

President Returns to Washington  : Than Weaalcc   Three Weeks ‘Vacation at. Warm Springs Proves-Beneficial

President Home After Vacation  Spends Three Weeks at Warm Sprinas, Ga.

FR. RETURNS FROM TRIP 10 WARM SPRINGS   President Is Tanned, a Few Pounds Heavier After 3 Weeks’ Vacatior

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSF AFTER THREE WEEKS’ VACATION IN CEORCIA

Roosevelt Back At White House   President Returns After 3 Weeks’ Stay At Warm Springs

FDR IS BACK AT HIS DESK IN CAPITAL   Returns From Three Week: Vacation in Georgia at Warm Springs   SUN-TANNED AND A FEW POUNDS HEAVIER   Regular Work Carried.On in South, But President Got Plenty of Sleep

Roosevelt Back In White House After Vacation   President Spent 3 Weeks At Warm Springs, Georgia

PRESIDENT — RETURNS 10 WASHINGTON  Vacation At Warm Springs, Ga.

FDR Returns To Washington After 3-Weeks Vacation      Visits Camp Lejeune Enroute From Warm  Springs.

ROOSEVELT AT WHITE HOUSE AFTER VACATION IN GEORGIA   PRESIDENT ENDS 21-DAY STA’ AT WARM SPRINGS AND RE. TURNS TO,DESK AT WASHINGTON

PRESIDENT HAS RETURNED FROM WARM SPRINGS      Returns To Capital To Deal With Diplomatic And Domestic Problems

Legality of Proxy Marriages Theme of Discussion at Meeting of NALAO

SUPER-FORTS BLAST TOKYO   Only Three Planes Lost   Raid, Announced by U. S. Authorities, Made From Marianas.   ONLY BEGINNING, SAYS GEN. ARNOLD   Swarms of Fighter Planes  Arose to Meet First Air Raid Since Doolittle’s Epic Flight.

The Japanese Radio Implies That ‘Important Installations’? Were Pounded   GEN. ARNOLD. SAYS AIR BLOW IS ONLY THE BEGINNING .   No Part Of Japanese Empire Is Out Of Range, He Declares

TEMPERATURES   9 O'clock Limit Illegal, Attorney General Informs City   So Maybe We Can Find Time To Vote By 8 This Evening

SOVIETS CLAIM DOOR OPEN TO FINISH PEACE   Unofficial Reports In Stockholm Announces German Landings On  Aland Islands

GERMANS EXPECTED TO CoM.  PLETE. CONQUEST BEFORE  *. UNITED STATES WAS DRAWN INTO WAR. -

‘This Drastic step Was itti« perative To Protect The Reich  GERMAN CASUALTIES ARE NEARLY 500,000 Russian Troops Driving To Within 12 Miles Of East Prussia

Food Ration Tokens Find Way in  ‘Transit Boxes. Church Collections

RATION TOKENS ARE NIGHTMARE   Transit Companies Get 12,000 Red And Blue Tokens In Fare Boxes In Few Weeks; Want Something Done.

Ration Tokens Litter Bus, Cigarette Machines; Red Points Take Preferences

Ration Tokens Jam Fare Boxes and Slug’ Cigaret, Candy and War Stamp Venders'

HEADACHES IN RATION TOKENS   Causing Transit Companies Costly Troubles Thruout Nation

Jobs for Veterans   (Apply to War Manpower Commission, 1141 North 2nd).

PARATROOPS _ SWIM RIVER UNDER FIRE  Advance on French Western Coast

Three Divisions Of Nazis Doomed As Yanks Close In      Capture St. Sauveur-Le Vicomte, Cut Last Escape Route For Garrison Of Several Division: Anclo-Canadian Forces Score Local Gains.

Nazi Supplies Moving Up To  ‘Fronts Bombed   Fifty-Foar Locauiotis es. 30 OW Tank Cars. 100 Railway Cars (ic be Allied Airmen

PLANES BLAST NAZI TRAFFIC   New Blaze Of Buzz Bémbs Hits London Area

GERMAN SIIPPLY LINES BATTERED   Engines, Tank Cars And Barges Hit; Big Fires Set At Kiel

Planes Blast N azis Behind Siegfr ied Line   Allies Fan Out to Attacl Train, Trucks and Barges

COLD SNAP IS ON WAY. HERE   To Strike Within Next 24 Hours and Continue Two Days

Avanzan Los Aliados Por  Vossenack   En Todo El Frente Occidental Se Han Anotado Triunfos Las Naciones Unida:

American Bombers — Raid Truk   Drop 46 Tons On Moen and Dublon Islands; Start Huge Fires

American Flyers.  Again Blast Truk   Jap-Held Carolines ‘Bombed By Liberators

U.S. Bombers Blast Truk in 2-Way Drive   Large Fires- on - Dublor After Raid; Airdrome . on Moen Rocked

CONTINUE TRUK RAIDS   Four Outlying Protective Ports Are Also Attacked

CAROLINE ISLE JAP BASES HIT DOUBLE BLOW   Bombers Strike Truk, 4 Other Posts From Two Directions

Truk and Four of lts Protective Posts Raided   Six Planes of Foe Destroyed on One Island

TRUK HIT ANEW IN DUAL OFFENSE BY U.$. BOMBER’   Many Other Pacific Bases Attacked As Fighting Grows In Intensity.

YANKS BOMB TRUK, FOUR NEARBY BASES   Dual Air Offensive Staged Against Caroline Islands

U. S. BOMBERS HIT JAP-HELD CAROLINE ISLES   Liberators From 7th Army Air Force Raid Truk

Maryland Delegates For Dewey  Factional Differences Are  Settled And Unity Pledged

On Eve of State Convention Republicans Battle for Votes For Bricker and Dewey   by EUGENE J. CADOU International News Service Staff Correspondent

On Eve of State  Convention Republicans \Battle far Votes For Bricker and Dewey, 

Two Destroyers, Light Cruiser — Toll In Pacific   Nine Non-Combatant Ships Destroyed By. Far-Ranging Subs

Nazis Attempting To Place Puppet Regime in Control of All Romania

Nazis Set Up Puppet Rule  In Romania   Transylvania Invaded.  By Romanian Troops,  Swiss Broadcast Says ITT ATION CTATINEN

Okay of Stettinius Appointment Delayed   Senator Objects to Consent Without Usual Day’s Layove

B-29s Obliterate Burma Targets   Record Bomb Loads Wipe Out Rail Yards

Russian Armies 25 Miles Nearer Latvian Capital Of iga; Take 14 More Towns

SVE TAS GROSS BORDER - INTO HUNGAR'      GERMANS SAY RED ARMY: i6  MILES INSIDE INVADED NA-  TION—RIGA Chimax > UNRAB. O°

Drive On Riga Is Continued  By Red Forces   Report Soviet Troops Slash 25 Miles Nearer To Their Latvian Goal  aa ls — ent. © are.

FBI Announces Arrest Of Fifteen In Flagrant Draft Evasion Conspiracy

FBI Arrests 15 yin Conspiracy   Service Men Sell Draft Rejections At Induction Center

FIGHT TO SAVE COLLETT FROM CHAIR STARTED   Local Farmer Surprise Witness For State At Trial

REDS CAPTURE LIDA: GERMANS IN DISORDER   Russians Knife through Disorganized Enemy as Germans Did in France in 1910: Wilno May Fall   215,000 Germans

Red Army Takes Lida, 50 Miles South of Wilno   Germans Fall Back in Wild Disorder

Yanks Launch Pushi At La Haye du Puits On 10-Mile Front   Report Summer Weather in Europe Worst in Last 40 Years; British Hold Firm Around Caen

Strike South On Front Of 40 Miles   Smash Forward About 2 Miles In Savage Attack

War Bond Score   Brits Hold Firm Southwest Of Caen On Eastern Flank

40-MILE WIDE ATTACK OPENS DESPITE RAIN   First Army Fights Down Cherbourg Peninsula Toward Nazi Fortress

40-MILE WIDE PUSH GAINS IN EARLY STAGES   Advance of 2!4 Miles Reported as Yanks  Press Assault

To Clear Cherbourg Peninsula   Doughboys Sweep South In Mud and Driving Rain After Mopping Un Port Citv Area

Giant Artillery Barrage Starts U. S. Offensive   Americans Gain Along 40-Mile Front; Move Putting Big Squeeze On Enemv’s Troops

ADVANCE SOUTH HF GHERROURG      American First Army Moves Along a 40-Mile Front in Savage Attack.   'MAKE 21-2 MILE* GAIN

First Army Turns About in Surprise Move on Cherbourg   Doughboys Fight in Rain and Mud-Bogged  Terrain ¢

YANKS STRIKE NAZI LINES ON AQ-MILE. FRONT   Push Along West Coast of Peninsula Toward La : Haye Du Puits

Assault Made On West Coast Of Peninsula   Heavy Barrage From American: Artillery Precedes Attack of U.S. Doughboys

STRIKE SOUTH FROM FALLEN CHERBOURG   Push Forward Along Front 40 Miles Long   GIANT SQUEEZE   Executed From All Sides: Total Of Prisoners Mounts To 55,000

Cherbourg Conquerors  Launch New Assault   Jump Off After Night-Long Artillery Bombardment, Giving Enemy Little Time To Get Set: 25th Counter-Attack Smashed

Bradley's Troops Launch New Drive Against German Lines Northwest of La Haye du Pui   Drive Starts at Dawn in Driving Rain Following Heavy Artillery Barrage; Rommel Again Fails to Smash Enalish in Caen's Great Tank Battle

YANKS OPEN A NEW DRIVE IN NORMANDY   First Army Strikes South on 40-Mile Front, Advaneing 2/4 Miles _..   Turn Army About to Surprise of Germans

Smash Forward Up to 2'2 Miles in Savage Attack Along 40-Mile Front Stretching From St. Lo D’Ourville Near Coast East to Carentan Area, Then South to St. Lo, Road Junc tion Near Center of the Allied Beachhead.

GAIN 2', MILES IN NEW DRIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Bradley’s Men Turn About Quickly, Smash Ahead in Sea of Mud

Rommel Believed Regrouping Forces For Attack On British Near Cacn; Favorable Jump-Off Positions Seized By U. S.

St. Jores Captured  In Lunge   Allies Strike Hard On Right Flank After Artillery Assault

PLUNGE SOUTH AFTER MOP UP OF CHERBOURG  JUMP OFF MADE AT DAWN PRECEDED BY

Attack Along 40 - Mile Front OnPeninsula  Of Cherbourg   Bradley's Men Gain Up to 21% Miles in Opening Hours

Infantrymen Were Supported by Heaw Artillery Including Most Powerful Com

Great Artillery Barrage Precedes Assault; 25 German Thrusts Stopped

SUDDEN ATTACK OPENS AT DAWN UNDER BARRAGE   British Hold Positions Near Caen After Stopping Nazis In Fierce Tank Battle

Allies Launch Offensive on 40-Mile Front   Savage Attack Sees Gain of Over Two Miles

Advance 21 Miles On Opening Attack Across Peninsula   American First Army Fights on Muddy Field Under Borraqge

Dawn Assault  Made Along A0-Mile Front   Initial Advance Carries U. S. Forces Ahead Two and One-Half Miles; Heavy Rains Turn Battlefields Into Soggy Quagmires

U.S. Forces Attack on Wide Front   Initial Attack Gains 2% Miles In Opening Hours; Mud a Handicap

Russians Snap Minsk Railway Escape Routes   LONDON .—()—Minsk has been taken by storm, Moscow announced _ tonight.

Yank: Troops Strike South On 40-Mile Front, Gain 23 Miles in Savage Attack

‘Speed with Which Gen. BradJey Turned His First Army About, Surprised‘ Many Leaders.   SEVERAL NEW SPOTS CAPTURED BY ALLIES

American Troops Smash Southward   U.S. First Army Strikes Along 40-Mile Front On Cherbourg Peninsula; Advance Of 2!4 Miles Made

Opens Heavy Blow On 40-Mile Front In Sudden Assault   No Rest Given Germans After Cherbourg Mop-Up, And Doughboys Crash Forward In Savage Attack Despite Unfavorable Weather; British More Than Holding Own

Savage Attack On Nazis Launched On 40-Mile Front   Lendon, July 3.—(AP)—Minsk has been taken by storm, Moscow announced tonight.

‘UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES DRIVE FROM PENINSULA SECTOR   DOUGHBOY OFFENSIVE OPENED IN SMASHING DRIVE ON 45-MILE FRONT

Yanks Face Hard Going: In Attacks On Germans   La Haye. Du Puits “Is New. Objective:

ASSAULT OPENS ON WEST COAST OF PENINSULA   ‘Activity Dwindles In Caen Area; Weather Balkg Aerial Blows

Heavy Artillery Backs Infantry During Jump-0ti   British Officer Says Allies Ready For Anticipated Counter-Drive At Caen

AMERICANS HIT GERMANS SOUTH OF CHERBOURG   Launch New Offensive on 40 Mile Front; Hampe ed by Weather.

Bradley’s Troops Push Ak-ad In Rain; Nazi sunter Thrust Seen   Americans Jump Off Toward La Hay du Puits After Heavy Artillery Barrage; Rommel Regrouping Forces For Attack At Caen

Sudden Assault Along 40Mile Front Made in Bad Weather   EARLY GAIN REPORTED   British Hold Fast, Turning Back Repeated Counter attacks

Yanks Fan Out o1 Peninula; Take More Territory  _ Over 55,000 Nazis

Strike South Inder Heavy Barrage   40-Mile Wide Thrust Toward Stronghold  Of La Haye

‘Americans Strike South On Cherbourg Peninsula   Drive Forward on 40—Mile Front Capture St. Jores, British Advance Southwest of Caen

PEACE FEELERS ARE REPORTED   Rumored Moves By Nazis, Japs Lack Confirmation

2,000 American Heavy Bombers Fighters Strike At Airdrome: And Rail Hubs In France, Bel gium And Luxembourg, In 1 Pronged Attack   LIGHT BOMBERS HIT RAIL YARDS

Warplanes Blast Nazis Along Roads   Remnants of Army Jam Highways in Efforts  to Escape

RAINS AND MUD WILL SOON BE EFFICIENT ALLY OF GERMANY ON BOTH EAST AND WEST FRONTS

ONLY FORTNIGHT REMAINS BEFORE AUTUMN RAINS MAY BOG DOWN THE OPPOSING. ARMIES ON EUROPE FRONI

WAR TODAY   Allied Tidal Wave At Crest Ready to Inmdate Hitlerite Europe Before Winter Be Fins . _

MACKENZIE SAYS—_  W eather Is Key to New U. S. Drives   Allies Speed Attacks to Beat West Front Storms, Nazis Hope To Gain Respite

DEVELOP NEW FOOD POLICY   Federal Agencies Aim al More Liberal Ration  Allowances

Government To Ease Stockpiles   More Food To Be AIllowed Civilians As WFA Relaxes Strings.

Agencies Adopt More Liberal Food Policies  Fewer Controls, Less Stockpiling tv)  re ss i eee aie Naw

Lausche Indorsement by Jones Fans Democratic Dissension       Smoidering Embers of ‘Disco Flame as Othe: Candidates Altack. Party” Chairman’ $ Action.

OHIO DEMS HIT BY DISSENSION   Quibreak -Follows Chairman Jones’ Endorsement of Lausche

Jones’ Endorsement Of - Lausche Stirs Battle   State Chairman Of Democratic Party Brings ‘LongSmoldering Dissension In. Party’s Ranks Into . Open With Statement .

FOURTEEN MEN LEFT WEDNESDAY   Two For Service In The Navy—Twelve For The v.

F.D.R. Applauds U.S. Pacific Drive   Calls Cooperation Among Armed Services At Mar shalls and Truk Amazing.

Shuttle Raid Delights Reds   Russians Much Impressed Ry Efficient Action

SHUTTLE RAIDS IMPRESS REDS   Yank Pilots Land With Clock-Like Precision At Russian Base

BUMPER FARM CROPS FORECAST   Outlook Is Optimistic Despite : Dry Weather

WLB Faces New Crisis   AFL Refuses to Act Until Decision On Little Steel Formula. Change Is Announced

AFL Brings On WLB Crisis   Won't Participate Now in Wage Demands in Excess Of Little Steel Formula

AFL Seeking Wage Starid   - Refuses: To Assist In: Old Pay Cases

NEW CRISIS “GIVEN WLB BY AFL STAND ON LITTLE STEEL   Refuse to Consider Some Wag: Cases Until Change Made  In Formula

IFLSDECISION. CREATES CLS   Refuses To Participate In ‘Certain Wage Cases Before WLB

AFL Calls For  Showdown On Pay Boost   Refuses Part In Wage Cases

BOMB JAP STRONG~ HOLDS OVER 4,000 — MILE-LONG FRONT   Important Nip Airdrome at Wakde Believed Neutral ized.

Yanks Raid Wakde-Sarm Area Without Oppositian Strike At Kuriles Again

Dogged Resistance - Bars Path To Rome   Allies Drive to Point. West of Velictri in Great Battle for City’s «= Ovter Defenses

‘Nazis Put Up Desperate Resistance   Indications Are Foe  Slipping Out of Trap;  Withdrawal Skilful SPACINONE ENTEREN

r ns   German Garrison of 1 500 Defends Ruined City Counter-Blows Beaten Back by Yanks.   PATTON'S FORCES .... SMASH FORWARD   Canadians Begin Attempt to Clear Area of Nazis. Blocking Use of Port. of Antwerp.

Capture of Nazi Industrial City Seems Imminent   German Garrison Now About 1,500

U. S. Troops Fight Into Outskirts of German. City      COUNTER-ASSAULTS BY NAZIS REPULSED   Allies Striking With Fury From East, West, South

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Smash thru south gates of fortress  Three German  blows repulsed

GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE PINCHED AROUND AACHEN   Enemy Counter - Attacks Repulsed; Fall Of City  le levecstecnk   PATTON’S TROOPS ARE MOVING AGAINST SAAR

OPA Grants 4 Point Cut in Butter And Margarine; Lamb Value Halved

Butter Points Cut Next Sunday, But Choice Beef Items Boosted   Lamb And Mutton Regulations Are Given; Pork Stands At April Levels

OPA Increases Butier Ration, Ups Beef Points   More Margarine, Lamb and Mutton Decreed

Butter Points Reduced in May   Choice Beef Cuts Roised One Point

er 4Points, Beef Up: Slightly   Lamb and ‘Mutton Cui About in Half in Values Effective Sunday

Four-Point Cut In Butter Ration Value Announced   Beef Points Raised Because Demand  Ahead of Supply

Butter Ration Value Cut To 12 Points   Choice Beef Cuts Are Raised One Point In New List

U. 5. EXTENDS HOLD ON GUAN AND TINIAN   Steady Progress Is Reported in Both Pacific Battles

AMERICAN FORCES ON GUAM AND TINIAN ENLARGING : THEIR HOLD ON: : JAP BASES ... 

YESTERDAY TEMPERATURES   DAYS LEFT TO MAIL OVERSEAS HOLIDAY GIFTS.

YESTERDAY TEMPERATURES   DAYS LEFT TO MAII  OVERSEAS HOLIDA’ niwre

ENTER CITY WITHOUT NAZI OPPOSITION   Slowed Up Beyond Re. sort Town by Extensive Mine Fields

New Draft Plan Being Drawn by Selective Service   Will Be Announced Before Supply of  18 to 26-Year-Old Group Is Exhausted

System Expected To Be Announced and Put Into Effec: Before Present Pool of 18-to 26-year-olds Is Exhausted

New Draft Plan Mapped By Selective Service Director   System To Be Announced Before Supply of Men.18 to 26 Is Exhausted in 6 Weeks to 3 Months.

PUT FLAT BAt ON DRAFTING MEN OF 26   Only Volunteers, Non-Essentials May Be Taken   PRESENT SUPPLY   Df Young Men Expected To Last From Six Weeks To Three Months

REPORT OFFICIALS WORK ON NEW PLAN   To Go Into Operation Before Supply of 18-26 Group is Exhausted

NEW SELECTIVE SERVICE PLAN BEING SHAPED      Ban On Men Over 26 Still Is In Force   NO WORD NOW   Will ‘Reveal Details Before 18-26 Supply Is’ Gone

\Draft Ban Is Still On For Essential Men 26 And Over    By James Marlow and George Zielke

DRAFT LEADERS MAP NEW PLAN   lo Be Bared Before Boards Exhaust Men 18 To 26  reas TARA me BSC APOE Mae UAC AIS

Washington Cracks Down On Draft Boards   - Halts Induction Of Men-Over 26 In Essential Industry. Aariculture

tasegawa May Have Died Ir Saipan Battle; Nipponese Still Hit At Hengyang

Another Jap AdmiralDies   HASEGAWA IS KILLED, PROBABLY AT SAIPAN

JAP VICE ADMIRAL DIES   Hasegawa May Have Been Killed in Action Around Saipan

War Hero's Mother Upset by Unkind  Roferences to Pitisbureh Dwelling

Fear Curb In Pig Produce Next Fall   Near Feed Famine, Glutted Markets, To Reduce Supply Drastically.

Belgium Has Drastic Financial Housecleaning In Effort To Cope With Damages Done By Black Market

Army’s Production Shift to Big Guns Hints Possibly Long, Fighting Ahead

Production Is _ Increased For Long Inland War   Start Big Ammunition Program For Inland Fighting.

Heavy Artillery Output Speeded   Plans Are Laid For Long Campaign

ARMY CALLS FOR HEAVY ARTILLERY   PRODUCTION SHIFT EXPECTED TO OPEN PLANTS NOW CLOSED

Long. Costly Miehting Seen   Army Emphasizes On Heavy Artillery Production; Reopen Plants.

NEW AMIIUNITION PROGRAM FLANNEL   Believe Army Laying Plans For Long, Costly Inland Fichtina.

View Army’s Shift To Heavy Artillery Production As Sien Of Hard Battles —

MORE BIG GUNS IN DEMANDS OF ARM   Closed TNT Plants Must Reopen to Help In Production of Ammunition.

Supply Plans OfU.S. Are Shitted   Increase Is Seen In Manufacture Of Heavy Artillery

Compromise Sought in Service Vote   Senator Danaher Hopes to Silence States Righters

State’s Rights Bloc Weakens ~ ‘On War Ballo   Southern Democrats Said Shifting 10 Support Adminicstrahan Plan

SERVICE VOTE COMPROMISE - SEEMS LIKEL}   Danaher Offers Plan - In Move to Silence “States Righters”

Agrees Allied [Aid Vital   Marshal Asserts Triumphs Made Possible By Woeat Invasion

30 Divisions Of Nazis Being Annihilated   Marshal Stalin  Says Red Army Has Destroyed 120 Nazi Divisions This Year

Stalin Declares Reich On Verge “OF Catastrophe   Hails. French Invasion As Move That Helped Reds Rid. Russia Of Enemv

Germany Nears ‘Catastrophe’ States Stalin   Hails Invasion Of France As Move Which Enabled Red:  To Clear Unten.,   30 DIVISIONS CUT OFF

Soviet Premier Marshal Hails Invasion of France By Allies As Move Which Enabled Reds to Qust Nazis From Ont nt Goeth

STALIN GIVES ALIES CREDIT FOR pie CAIN   ‘Declares Both Fronts Helped  by Blows at Germans : from Two Sides.

Invasion Of France ! Helped To  ‘Free Russia   Soviet Premier Pays Tribute To Alties; 120 Nazi Divisions Have Been Destroyed

Reich Near catastrophe, Stalin Says   30 Nazi Divisions Cut Off in East Prussia,  He Declares

Soviet Tanks Race Into Outskirts of Hungarian Capita!   Red Army Aims ThreeWay Assault at Gates of Hungarian Capital

STALIN CLAIMS NAZIS ON VERGE  OF DISASTER   30 Divisions Are Now Trapped In - Baltic States, He Savs

Stalin Sees Collapse Of Germany   Invasion of France Enabled Soviets To Drive Nazis Out

Stalin Sees Germany as  Nearng End  Says Invasion of France Has Been Ald to Russia

NAZIS HURLED BACK ACROSS MAAS      Germany On The Verge Of Catastrophe--Stalin

NAZI COLLAPSE NEAR— STALIN   Premier Hails Invasion of France As Great Aid  To Russia

Reds Claim. Fight Rages In Suburbs Of Budapest         Nazis “Say ..Attacks hrow Soviets Out

ALLIES ENABLED REDS 10 FREE SOVIET SOIL   Premier Says Russia Has Destroyed 120 Nazi Divisions

Stalin Tells Cheerful News   Says 30 German Divisions Cut Off From East Prussia, Being Hammered

OPEGIAL SESSION   Darden Sets December 14 For Virginia Assembly to Consider Problem of New And Valid Voters Act

CHERBOURG IN SPOTLIGHT Oificer Asserts: "We Are Well on Ton of the Boche”

‘American: Reinforcements Pour . Across: Moselle “Take-Neufchateau

N azis Offered Bribe, Larry Allen Reveals   aptors Offered To Release AP Writer if He Would Disclose Disposition of British Fleet

Small Nations Want Voice in World league  Demand More  ek ee   Demand More Guarantees from Majlor Powers

Carlson Proposes Drastic Simplification  Of Income Tax Laws, Suggests Streamlining

SIMPLER INCOME TAX IS PROPOSED   CARLSON FAVORS ONLY ONE TAX ON PERSONAL INCOMES

BIG CHANGE IN LAWS PROPOSEL      Rep. Carlson. of Kansas Offers Simplified Income Tax Laws.

Simplification Of Income Tax Laws Proposed   Rep. Carlson Of Kansa: Offers Drastic Stream lining Measure.

SIMPLIFICATION OF INCOME TAX LAWS PROPOSED   Rep. Carlson of Kansas Would Strip Present Laws of Complexities

NEW TAX PLAN IS SUGGESTED   Propose Streamlined Law To Simplify Present Svstem

BILL WOULD CUT INCOME TAX ROLLS   MEASURE WOULD MAKE IT UNNECESSARY FOR 39 MILLION TO FILE RETURNS,

Drastic Change In Income Tax Laws Proposed   Kansan Makes Number Of Proposals To Ease Worry Over Form

Carlson Proposes Simplified Income Tax Plan  - Elimination of All Victory Levies Is Main Suggestion

Carlson Offers 5-Point Program. ....  Proposes A Drastic — Tax Simplification

SIMPLIFICATION  OF INCOME LAWS NOW CONSIDERED   Drastic Revision Is Proposed In Measure Prepared For Introduction By Kansas Representative.   RIVE MAIN FACTORS MAY DETERMINE SUM   One Tax on Personal Incomes, One Base and Sin: gle Set of Rates With Ex. emptions Is Proposed.

For Simpler Tax Laws   Rep. Carlson Proposes Changes in Present Income Tax System

Drastic Simplification Of Income Tax Laws Is Proposed By Carlson

MARTIN SAYS LUFT WAFFE IS DEFEATED   Use Of Flying Bombs Indicate Nazis Fear Risk Of Planes And Flyers From Dwindling Pilot Pool

Seizure Would Be Mlegal, , Ward’s Says   Mnit-Order House Outlines Stand in hLnewer ia FOR

State Police Closing In On Four Heavily-Armed Escaped Desperadoes

“FRUIT IS DEALT , DAMAGING BLOW BY COLD WAVE   Snow, Freezing Temperatures Grip Oklahoma—Minimum Reading in Miami Is 26

Much of State Covered With Snow; Fruit Prospects Reported Gloomy

Install Orbay As Turk Chief   Brings Comment of Turkey Joining Allies

Finns Offer Peace Feeler To Russians   Finnish Foreign Ministey Returns Home; Terms Still Unknown

BELIEVE FINNS, TES ME NEM ARMISTICE NOW   Indirect Contact Reported. Third Party May Be Go-helween.

Finns Progress In Peace Talk With Russians   Soviets Want Boundaries of 1940, Reshuffle of Cabinet ‘In Helsinki

2,000 Planes Bomb Nazi Oil Plants   Raiders Hit Targets in Central Germany and Czechoslovakia

Destroyer Blast Inquiry Ordered  163 Are Rescued From Torn Warship

Americans Complete 10 Days Of Savage Fighting; Casualties Believed High

American Units Only 35 Miles From German Frontier And Five From Belgium; Leap Through Argonne Forest   Nazis Can't Escape Military Disaster

D CAPTURED IN ~ HOSPITAL BREAK   Five Inmates Of Lima In. ‘stitution Make Escape Monday

INM rel J ESCAPE FROM HOSPITAL   Two Recaptured After Gunfire By Findlay Police; Three At Larae

TRIO OF INSANE AT LARGE IN OHIO   Five Escape from Lima; Two Are Recaptured

Men  Report For  Military Service  One-Third Of ' Last Group Rejected

Men] Report For  Military Service  One- Third Of: Last ‘Grous Reiected.

Pork Purchase Rules Relaxec   Farm Butchering And Sale Encouraged

Meat Points Given Advance   120 Red Points Are Validated For Immediate tse In Pork Purchases.

OPA PERMITS - oe ADVANCE MEAT . BUYING AT FARM   Advanee ‘Purchase Will Not. Increase Individual Meat Ration ' Allowed Consumer.

SALE OF PORK PUSHED BY OPA   Advance Use Of Points Okehed For On-TheFarm Purchase

Points Can Be Used In Advance   O.P.A. Authorizes Advance Use of 120 Meat Points to  Stimulate Purchase of Pork.

Navy Bomber Sinks Two Jan Vessels   " Shipping Is Hit Off Borneo, South Mindanao

MANY SCHOOLS NOT TO REOPEN   Teacher Shortage Critical in Ohio Small Town and Rural Areas   BULLETIN

HeadOfChureh InEnglandDies  Of Heart Attack   Country Plonged Ento Mourning By Death Of Archbishop

High Churchman Dies In  England   Dr. William Temple, 96th Archbishop Of Canterbury, Victim

BRITISH CHURCH CHIEFTAIN DIES   Dr. Temple, Archbishop 01 Canterbury, Was 63

BRITIOH PRINCESS, ARCHBISHOP DEAL   Deaths of Royalty and Pri mate Piunges Country Into Mourning.

Archbishop Dies After Heart Attack   Primate Of Church Of England Succumbs Following IlIness Of Month’s Duration.

ENGLISH CHURCH PRIMATE DIES   ‘96th Archbishop Succumbs To Heart Attack

HIGH BRITISH FIGURES DIE   Archbishop of. Canterbury and Princess Beatrice Expire within Few Hours

BRITISH CHURCH HEAD SUCCUMBS   Dr. William Temple Dies of Heart Attack

Archbishop Of Canterbury Dies   Son Of Only Father And Son Ever To Hold Highest Church Office

Canterbury’s Primate Dies In Britain At 63 After Lengthy Illness

2 Noted Persons Lost To England By Death Today   Archbishop Of Canterbury Dies Of Heart Attack; Princess Beatrice Dead

Britisn Primate Is Dead   ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK; ENTHRONED APRIL 23. 1943

ENGLAND'S CHURCH ARCHBISHOP. DIES /ARTER HEART ILL   Primate. of. Church.-of England Succumbs Plunging Nation Into Mourning

Archbishop Of Canterbury Dies. Suddenly   Head of Church Of England Was A Leading Liberal

PRICE CONTROL CHANGE SOUGHT   REPUBLICANS’ WANT’ LIMITA TION OF GRANTS OF POWER— UNDECIDED.ON FOOD SUBSIDIES

TO. ASK PRICE PONTROL CHANGE   Revision Would Cut Red Tane and Limit Bozurd Power.

Demand Beyond Any Expectation Big Problem Is Getting Enough Oil to Win War, Declares Zook

FOUR MARSHALL ISLANDS RAIDED   No American Bombers Lost; One Zero Shot Down

Mongrel Pup Refurning to U. 5.  Skippy Makes Last  Mission in Fort 2, ee Cc. . at oe 4 LD ee

Skippy Makes Last Mission Over War-Torn Battlefield; His Master’s Voice Is Lost

Matthews Is Freed Of Charge Of Libel   Charges Against Crusading Princess Anne Editor Are Dropped—Action Hailed as Vindication of Freedom of the Press

Editor Freed In Libel Case   Maryland Official Asks Nolle Prosse Proceedings, Benefit of All

RAF Rocket: Set Fire To  Steamer Rex   Burning Alter Trieste Attack

“Rex,” Italian Liner, Hit By Beaufighters   Left Burning and Listing At Trieste, Adriatic Seaport, Today

BEAUFICHTERS SET LINER REX ON FIRE FRIDAY   Attack Large Ex-Itallan Ship Off Trieste fn Adriatic Sea

Liner Rex  Set on Fire  Queen of Italian Merchant Fleet Hit By Rocket Bombs

31,000-TON LINER REX IS BUBNIN(   The One Time Queen of the Italian Merchant Fleet, Is Doomed.

ITALIAN LINER LEFT BLAZING   Rex Burns In Adriatic Sea After Aitack By Rocket Planes

Allies Rockets Burn Liner Rex  Huge Ship Helpless   Huge Ship Helpless In North Adriatic Off Trieste Harbor

AIRMEN BLAST 51,000-TON REX   Italian Liner Left Ablaze After Rocket Attacks

JAPS HAVE NEW CASE OF JITTERS   Allied Successes and Steady Approach to Tokyo Have Nips Worried.

ALLIES MOP UP IN KOHIMA AREA   BRITISH SMASH JAP MANIPUR ROAD BLOCK

BUZZ BOMBS TAKE TOLL IN ENGLAND   STEPPED-UP NAZI ATTACKS CAUSE HEAVY CASUALTIES AND DESTRUCTION.

IN COMMAND OF PATROL CRAFI   Concord Man in Southwest Pacific Area With 7th: Fleet

Post-War Program For Every City In State Urged   New Mexico Chambers Of Commerce Outline Plans in Meeting Here

TEXAS ‘REVOLT HAS NOT ENDED   Demo Leader Flays Actior Of National. Convention

Hitler Holding Horthy To Block  Peace Proposal   Pours Army Into Wavering Axis Nation While Holding Regent And Military Leaders. As  “Guests.”’ Heavy Resistance Is Encountered.

ARMY SWARMS OVER BORDER OF SATELLITE      Hitler Fears Balkan Collapse As Reds Rumble On

Full Control Held By German Force   Neutral Capitals Report Enemy.Forces Met Some Resistance: Leaders Rumored Prisoners

Army, Navy Heads Assail Civilian Production Plans  Declare Resumption May Hamper Output Needed for War

Joint Chiefs of Staff] Say Reconversion Plan to Prolong War   Nelson‘s Associates Do Not Think Military Leaders’ Assertions Will Shake WPB Chairman Stand on Civilian Output

Protest Move to Produce Civilian Goods   Joint Chiefs of Staff Address Letter 40 Donald Nelson

Chiefs Oppose Nelson's Idea      Against Permitting Limited Manufacture Of Civilian (Goods.

STAFFS RESIST CONVERSION 10 CIVILIAN GOODS   Army and Navy Chiefs Say Shift Might Prolong War

[Nelson Program Of Starting Manufacture Of Civilian Goods Opposed By Army Body

ADVANCE TEN MILES ALONG . APPIAN WAY IN ITALY; 23 M FROM UNION WITH FORCES: AT ANZO

YANKS MOVE FAST ALONG APPIAN WAY   Terracina Entered, Southern Anchor of New German Defense Line After Hitler T.ine Broken.

Gain 10 Miles in Swift Advance   Yanks Meet Only Light Resistance. From Germans Along Appian Way

MOBILE FORCES HIT NEW NAZI LINE ANCHOR   Tank-Led Units Within 51 Miles Of Rome, Near Junction At Beachhead

DRIVE TO WITHIN 23 MILES OF ANZIO AS NAZI LINES CRUMBLE   Swift Advance Of 18 Miles In 48 Hours Perils Coastal Anchor Of New Defense Line; Foe’s Resistance Weak   Ry REYNOLDS PACKARD

Russ Willing  For Armistice   Stipulate 1940 Border In Dispute With Finns

Russians Hurl Nazis Across  Danube River   Red Army Reaches Bul garian Frontier on 150Mile Front Extending Froin Black Sca

Japs Continue Advance On Key India Position   One Of Two Foe Columns Is Halted But Other Perils Imphal

Carrier, Destroyer, Three Tankers Sunk; Nine Others Damaged   3 Carriers, Battleship, Cruiser, 3 Destroyers Are Among Those Severely Battered ; Nipponese Fleet Flees After Short Action Late Monday

Our Losses: No Ships, 49 Planes: Foe Flees:  No Surface Engagement

U. S. Fifth Fleet Sends Down One Enemy Carrier, Three Tankers and Possibly Destroyer; Yanks Surprise Japs

Nimitz Tells Of Monday Scrap ‘Which Staggered Jap Fleet As 13 Ships Damaged Or: Sunk; 353 Planes Are Downed

JAP’S FLEET DEFEATED BY U.S. MONDAY   Announcement Of Successful  Battle Made

Flustered Nips, Surprised At Gigantic Attack, Flee Without Counterattackina

Two Of Our Carriers, Battleship Sustain Slight Damage, While But 21 Aircraft Lost In Combat With Big Jap Armada.   Third Blow Dealt Japs In War

[FOURTEEN ENEMY SHIPS DAMAGED OR  SUNK IN PACIFIG AREA   ACTION ENDED AT NIGHT. FALL WITH ENEMY SHIPS IN FLIGHT

War Bond Score   Flustered Nips, Surprised At Gigantic Attack, Flee Without Counterattacking

14 Ships Sunk or Damaged in Monday Surprise Attack; Third Worst Blow of War   Action Ends at Nightfall With Japanese In Flight and No Indication that Battle Has Been Resumed; Our Losses Very Light

THREE POLITICAL SPEECHES TONIGHT   Wallace, Bricker and Dewey to Talk at Gatherings Over Nation.

Simplified Income Tax Forecast To Be Passed By Congress In 60 Days

CHIPS DO SLAM-BANG CAMPAIGN  WN IN   President Fights Back; Dewey Angered by Speech

President’s Charge Of ‘‘Ma licious Falsehood’’ Aimed At G.O.P. Candidate Starts Action

STRIKES TIE UP BRITISH BUSES   New Summer Schedules Too Long, Conductors And Drivers Claim

Armored Unit Praised for Halting Nazis   Scrapping Seventh Splits German And Stopped Drive

U.S. Seventh Armored Division Wins Praise for Gallant Stand at St. Vith

Seventh Does It Again   Much-Battered-About Division Holds Out  At St. Vith Five Days Against Heaviest Odds

Scrapping Seventh Applies Brakes to German Offensive   Ry KENNETH L. DIXON

EXTRA ASSEMBL\ OPENS MONDAY; BILLS ARE READY   Military Ballot Day Te Be Proclaimed By Governor

CAYIE TOO AIN 1k MILES IN SNOW BATTLE   ITALY TO SEE NEW BONOMI REGIME.

Defiant Chinese Are Still Holding Rail Junction   Throw Themselves against Japs on Approaches to Hengyang

HUGE ARMADA NOISIEST Ye SENT OUT   Extent of Attack Recalls Prophesy of R. A. F. Chief

'200 Yank Vessels Engaged in Action  Against Nipponese   Imperial Navy Is Overwhelmed by Americans As 3d, 7th Fleets Combine To Destroy  Ranney Caught ia Samiica EREAvE fs

Adm. Nimitz Adds 18 Ships  To Casualties  24. Nipponese Craft Known to Have Been Gant ta Rattam

First Details Ot Three Related Actions Are Given In  Admiral’s Report

Defeat Given Japanese Rated Greatest In Naval History; 24 Ships Sunk

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24 destroyed,  34, damaged,  Nimitz says Six American  ghthve aralac® ._

‘Recent Action In Pacific One Of History’s Most  Decisive Battles   TWO BATTLESHIPS AND F OUR CARRIERS LOST

VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED   Nimitz Reports on Details of Battle of Philippines

Nimitz Reveals Extent of Blow To Enemy Fleet   New Record Probable For Sea Engagement

Scoring One of the Most Crushing Victories of the War and What May Prove the Most Decisive in Naval History; Cost Six American Vessels,

US. Warship Is Sunk Off N ew Guinea   Destroyer Perkins Lost i in Collision; ‘Enemy: Sinks . Coastal Transport

U.S. DESTROYER LOST IN PACIFIC   Perkins Sunk in Collision Off New Guinea—Transport Is Blasted

Crasli Costly To U.S. Navy   Destroyer Perkins Sinks - Off New Guinea Coast . Fellowine Mishap —

Perkins Goes Down Off New Guinea: Coastal Vessel Is Victim Of Japanese Planes

UJ. §. DESTROYER PERKINS {§ LOST   SUNK IN COLLISION OFF NEW GUINEA—COASTAL TRANSPORT SENT DOWN.

Destroyer Is Lost At Sea   Collision is Blamed For Ship’s Sinking

PERKINS SUNK IN COLLISION   U.S. Destroyer Goes Down In South Pacific

FATHER ADMITS. DROWNING SOK   COBHOCTON MAN’ CONFESSES XHROWING BABY INTO RIVER APTER FANILY QUARBEL’

HURRICANE DAMAGE TO ATLANTIC COAST AREA VERY HEAVY  TWELVE DEATHS ATTRI_ BUTED TO STORM IN THOUSAND.MILE SWEEP

Die In Eastern Hurricane; Wide Spread Damage   Storm to Hit St. John, Gulf of St. Lawrence; $2,000,000 Loss Seen

Great Hurricane Roars Out to Sea   Widespread Damage Left in Wake Of Tropical Storm in Northeast

ELEVEN DIED AS HURRICANE HIT COAST   Damage Heaviest On Long Island, New Enaglond

Hurricane Leaves Trail Of Death and Destruction From Carolina To Massachusetts

HEAVY DAMAGE BY HURRICANE   Leaves Trail of Destruction From N. Carolina to Massachiuestts.   20 DEATHS REPORTED

Damage High  In Hurricane  20 Deaths Attributed To Coastal Storm

20 KILLED IN COASTAL STORM   Hurricane Turns To Sea After Lashing Eastern Area

1000 Miles of Eastern Coast Swept by Gale That Reached 100 Miles Per Hour

Hurricane Over; 20 Dead Along Atlantic Coast  ' Trail Of Destruction I: Left Through Northeast

Hurricane Leaves Destructive Trail Along Atlantic:  20 Reported Killed As Storm: Blows Out To Seq Erom. Maine

STORM LEAVES DEAD IN WAKE, MOVES TO SER   Attribute 20 Deaths  To Hurricane on Eastern Coast

ROARING GALES LEAVE 16 DEAD, HEAVY DAMAGE   Hurricane Blows Out To Sea After Destructive Sweep Along Eastern Coast

GALE HEADS TO SEA OFF NEW ENGLAND COAST   16 Die in Path of Hurricane, Damage Runs Into Millions

TROPICAL STORM LEAVES 12 DEAD ON EAST COAST   Hurricane Blows Itself Out After Whipping Seaboard As Far North as Maine

STORM LEAVES DEATH, DEBRIS OVER WIDE AREA   [Twelve Deaths, Millions In Property Loss Result From Sweep Of Hurricane From Caribbean To New England Coast

Hurricane Heads Toward  St. John, N. B.   Twenty Deaths And Millions of Dollars in Damage

Hurricane Leaves  14 Dead, Damage  Far in Millions $2,000,000 Damage a? Long   $2,000,060 Damage at Long Branch, Ailantic City and Long Island Hard Hii

Hurricane Leaves Death And Damage   Sixteen Lives Lost, Damage Into Millions in Northeastern States

20 Lose Lives In Hurricane   Property Damage From Wind Will Reach Far Into Millions

Hurricane Blows Out To Sea   16 Deaths Attributed to Storm Damage  In Millions

TWELVE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO BIG HURRICANE   Blows Out To Sea Off Soxuthern  Maine Coast

160 Are Killed In Hurricane On East Coast   Gigantic Storm Sweeps Out To Sea Off Southern Maine

STORM'S DEATH TOLL UP TO 20   Hurricane, Causing Heavy Damage in East, Blows Out to Sea

Gale Ravaging Eastern Coast Sweens to Sea   80 te 100 Mile Gale Sweeps 1,000 Miles of Atlantic Coast

Twenty Die in Fast Lashed By Hurricane   1.000 Miles of  Coastal Area HitToll of Damages Execeedingly High

Savage Hurricane Claims 20 Lives; . 500 Million Damage   East Coast .Ripped by Second Serious Storm’ -* an Six'Yeéars

12 Die, Much Property Ruined By Hurricane   Storm Leaves Coast At Maine; New Jersey Coast Hit Hardest.

HURRICANE HITS ATLANTIC COAST   LEAVES TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION AND DEATH TOLL OF 20

Hurricane Has Blown Itself Out Into Sea   Leaves Trail of Destrue tion, From: North Carolina to Massachuseitss Twelve Persons Dead

37-Mile Advance Scored Against. Nazi Defenses   Germans Recapture + Buczaca To Break Out of Skala Pocket‘.

Reds Split Stranded Nazi Troops in South  Communication Hub of Dzankhoi Seized to Add to Reich Perile

Russians in Advances or South Front   Capture Communicatior Centers As the Germans Make Counter-attacks

Reds Drive Into Crimea, Splitting  Nazi Garrison   Germans Re-Capture Buczaca, Break Soviet Arc

Three Russian Columns. Sweep Over Peninsula, Dividing Stranded Nazi Forces; Kerch Captured By Soviets

SOVIET COLUMN DRIVES INTO CENTRAL PLAINS   Garrison of 150,000 Nazis Was Split With Capture of  Dzankhoi

Outflank  Defenses   Another Russian  Column Captures City of Kerch

SOVIET ARMY CUTS DEEP INTO CRIMEA   Splits Stranded Garrison Estimated At 150,000 Men

Koga May Have Been Shot Down by Yankee Fighters Near Bougainvile

Young Girls Turn to Shoplifting  Wave at Portland Reaches New Heights

BOBBYSOCKERS STEAL FOR FUN   Portland, Ore., Police Working Feverishly To Control Juvenile ‘Fad’

Bobbysockers Make Shoplifting a Game   Portland Juvenile Officials Baffled By the Latest ‘Fad’

RETAILERS WALKING ON THEIR HEELS   Bokbvsock Shoplifters Stump Authorities

Bobbysockers Puzzle Police   Girls’Skip‘ Classes : To Steal For Fun.

‘Bobbysockers’ in Portland Baffle Police; Shoplift For ‘Fun, Thrill

Bobbysock Brigade Has Retailers of Portland, Ore., Walking on Their Heel.

800 Ships Land Forces Between  Nice, Marseilles   Cloud of Airborne Troops Descends to Open Fourth Front; Nazis Still Being Hammered on Western Front

A Daylight Raid Over Manchuria   Superfortresses “Bomb Mukden Industries; Down $3 Jan Planes

ATTACKS ON MANCHURIA   Two Superfortresses Are Lost, 15 Enemy Fighters Shot Down

HIT MUKDEN PLANT   Two B-29s Were Lost Today in Raid on Manchurian Factory

Industrial Targets In Mukden Hit By Substantial Force Of Sunerforts

Mukden Is B-29° Target   “Substantial” Force Of Superfortresses Makes Daylight. Raid; Two of Bombers Lost

Bombers Attack Truk Eight Times In Four Days  Glider-Borne Fighters Cut Jap Supply

Eight Bombing Raids Made on Truk Fortress   Other Pacific Areas Attacked

Marines Occupy Wotho Atoll in Marshall Islands   MacArthur Bags 26 Jap Planes in Wewak Raid; Victory in North Burma

YANKS FOOD UPON LANDING   Marshall Island Step Mede Without  Resistance

Land Lull Exists In Italy But Air Forces Are Active   Armies’ Operation Dwindles To Patrols As Planes Hit Shipping, Other Targets

Weather Halts lfaly Attack:   Activity Mainly Air  Patrol Operation

STORMS CHECK ITALIAN BATTLES   Allied Fliers Blast Nazi Ships North of Rome

BAD WEATHER CURBS ACTION ON BEACHHEAD   Allied Aircraft, However, Get Inte Air to Make 900 Sorties, Hit Ax is Shipping   PATROLS SKIRMISH   Total of Germans Captured in Italy Passes 15,000 With 3,000 Taken on Beachbead

Weather Cuts Action In Ttals   Activity On All Battle Fronts Limited To Minor Patrol Operations,

Weather Bog: Down Allied Push In Italy   Aerial Sorties, Patrol Action

15,000 Nazi Troops Taken Prisoner Since Salerno Landing; Ground Action Limited To Patrolling

Italian Battle Activity Dwindles   Severe Weather -Continues; Two Allied Planes Missing Over Battle Area.

lINORPATROL PERATION ON NZI0 -FRONT   : spite Severe Weather ledium Bombers Attack Shipping and Targets At Santo Stefano   ELL GUN POSITIONS

ONLY MINOR PATROL ACTIVITY REPORTED ON ITALIAN FRONTS.   DESPITE SEVERE WEATH ER ALLIED PLANES MADE 900 SORTIES

ITALIAN FRONT ACTION LIMITED TO PATROLING   Allied Planes Bomb Focal Points North Of Rome

Italy Quiet As Weather Holds Back  Operations   900 Sorties Flown _By Allied Aircraft.

Bloody Friday in Annals of Saipan Island Was a Day Heroes Were Made andHeroesDied   NEW OFFENSIVE ON ST_LO   «, SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 11 (RP)—American troops bursting forward in new offensive slugged today to a point within two miles of St. Lo, junction-bastion of Central Norman dy, and ripped through Nazi defenses in two sectors farther west on their oo Sey  re. ae eee ol a mca a re car Ot CU a Sau cnn LG

Yanks And Japanese Throw Grenades At 30-Foot Distance  SWAPPED RIFLE FIRE AT ONLY 10 FEET  1,500 Japs Were Killed In Attack. American Losses Not Divulged

Place Is Rejected By Warren   California Governor’ s Rejection Of Honor  Upsets Program Of Leaders.

Urgency Rating Group Is Named   3 Industrial Districts Listed By W. P. B.

TO FORM BASIS FR FLING OF PLANTS’ NEEDS   Those With Most Urgent Ratings Will Get  : Preference

Sovits Split Nazi Armies in Southwest   ‘Germans in Urkaine Suffer Loss of 250,000 in Dead and Wounded

Germans In Southwestern Russia _ -- Cut To Pieces By Soviet “Advances

Germans Are Dismembered In Southwest   Soviet Obtains Almost Complete Control of Dniester’s Bank

Control East Dniester Bank   Tarnapol, Proskurov emy Garrisons  Virtually Isolated.

RUSSIANS SEIZE KEY RUMANIAN RAIL JUNCTION   Reds Advance 62 Miles ir Four-Day Drive, Kill 20,000 Germans

REDS HIT AT GATES TO BALKANS   Gaining Control Of Eastern Bank Of Dniester

Thousands Dead As Battle Rages In Ukraine Area   Russians Break Through Lines Into Old Poland

Violinist Introduces New Popular ‘Color-Harmony’ Music To Applause

COP Senators Urged to Return to Work On Nov. 14   Important Measures Must Be Taken Care  ie ei... Bioitimtoaom

STATES TOUS: SERVICE BALLOT   Kelly Says Michigan's New Absentee Vote Law Is Perfect

GOVERNORS STUDY — ARMY VOTE BILL   THREE TELL F, D. R. THEIR STATE LAWS PERMIT USE OF U. S: BALLOTS,

Robot Platforms Seized by Yanks   Flying Bomb Supply Centers Also Blasted

Robot-Launching Platforms Are Captured  Front Dispatches Say at Least

Robot-Launching Platforms Are Captured  Front Dispatches Say at Least Eight Are Taken

TODAY   Comparative Nearness Of the War's End Must Be As Obvious To Hitler Ae to Any one.

SPEED OF RED ADVANCE THROUGH WHITE RUSSIA INDICATES NAZIS. WITHDRAWING TO SHORTER LINES   Comparative Nearness of War’s End Must Be As Obvious to Hitler As to Anyone Else. Growing Allied Streneth All Indicate Course of War

MCCORMICK WITHDRAWS   Won't Run In Illinois As A Presidential Candidate

Two Instructors Killed in Crash Of Trainer Ship   Men from Stamford Flying School Die in Accident Near Spur

Badoglio Gets  Civilian Reins   Southern lhaly Returned To Former Rulers

U. §. ARTILLERY UNIT ON LEYTE IN AN AMAZING FEAT   MOVE BIG GUNS TOP HIGH _ RIDGE THROUGH STORMS, *" MUD AND JUNGLE

Believe Finns Will  Accept Peaee Terms   It Was Expressed In London Diplomatie Circles, It Was Announced Today.

EXPECT FINNS TO QUIT WAR NEXT WEEK   London Diplomats Believe Nation Will Accept the Peace Terms Purportedly Laid Down by Soviet Government.

Finns Are Expected To Accept All Soviet Peace Terms  Russian Army Poses Threat to Push Into Karelian Area

BELIEVE FINN PEACE NEARER   May Come Next Week, London Observers Think

Early Finn Peace With  Russia Seen   Helsinki Acceptance Of Soviet Terms Predicted In Landon.

Finn-Russ Peace Early Next Week Likely Prospect    Reds” Delay Of Ground Drive Seen Due To Fact

Finnish Peace Is Nearing   LONDON EXPRESSES BELIEF RUSSIAN TERMS MAY BE ACCEPTED BY NEXT WEEK

BELIEVE: FINNS SOON TO ACCEPT ‘SOVIET TERMS ©   Early Peace Growing Out Of Present Negotiations Appeared in Prospect in london

Finland-Soviet Peace Expected  Reports indicate _Aecord Next Week

[Early Russian AndFinn Peace ‘Held Probable   London Diplomats Express  Belief Helsinki Would  Accept Terms Offered by Moscow

See Early Finn Peace   May Accept Soviet Terms Early Next Week, Says London

Early Peace: With Finland Felt Probable   Reds Holding Up Land Push and Finns Expected to Accept Terms

Finns Expected: to  Accept Peace Terms   Negotiations with Soviet ‘Union May Bear Fruit Early Next Week

‘London Sees Finnish Peace ‘Outlook Good   'Helsinki Seen Unlikely to  Refuse Six-Point Rus i  ; sian Proposal

Early Peace For Finland Now Likely   London Diplomats Expect Russia’s Terms To Be Accepted Soon

USE NAME OF HITLER   Nazis Try Old Magic { to Hold Army Men in Line

Nazis Tighten Grip On Beaten German Arm   Himmler Rules Reich London Times Says; Mystery Deepens

Nazis Tighten Hold On Army Now In Retreat   Hitler’s Name  Used As Sour

Party Clamps. ‘Tighter, Reins : OnReich Army   Nazis Demand Officers “Start Educating Men

Push Party Nazi Troops Are Ordered      London . Times Speculates That .Himmier Real Ruler in Germany Now

Yanks Reportedly in  - Germany at 2 Points; Belgium All but Free

British Take Capital, Drive Within 30 Miles © Of Holland   Nazis Are Fleeing Robot Bomb Coast

Nelson Plan ‘Up in Air’   Capital Speculates On Mission to China

FDR Puts Politics In Ballot   Sen. Taft Declares Stand On Soldier Vote Is “Fourth Term Matter.”

Taft Rebukes Roosevelt For Soldier Vote Attack   Nation’s Chief Brands Measure as Fraud; Senator Hurls Charge of ‘Politics’;  Terms Intervention ‘Insult to Canerec?

Gen. Eaker Says ‘Romanian Oil Flow ‘Cut One-Fourth   Flew of War Materials to Nazi ( Eastern Freat Disrupted by  Italy-Based Bombers

ROMANIAN: OIL OUTPUT SLASHEL   Production Only 1-4th of Normal After Raids

Romanian Oil Output Cut   Down to One-Fourth, and Bombings Make Transport Of That Oil Difficult

QUTPUT IS GUT   Gen. Eaker Announces It Is Cut to One Fourth Normal production.   DAMAGE SUPPLY ROUTES

Romanian Oil  Cut To Fourth   ‘Lt. Gen, Eaker Says American. RAF Disrupt Flow Of   Materials.

Romanian Oil  Output Being Cut  One - Fourth Reduction  Reported By Eaker

Romanian Oil Output Is Cut To One Fourth   Bombings Also Disrupt Fiew Of Nazi Supplies To Eastern Front

Romanian Oil Cut To Fourth  Eaker Reveals Heavy Damage Bv Bombings

OIL OUTPUT OF ROMANIA CUT 75 PCT   Gen. Eaker, Reporting on Bombing Results, Also Says Nazi Supply Service to Eastern Front Is Disrupted.

Rumanian Output Of Oil Has Been Cut Three-Fourths  Every Important Naz Supply Route to  roe. OB et Dea talack

Rumanian Output Of Oil Has Been Cut Three-Fourths  Every Important Naz _ Supply Route to  Eastern Front Raided

Ttaly-Based Bombers Help Soviet Army   German Supply. Routes «to Eastern Front- Disrupted. in Great Air Drive   PLOESTI AREA HEAVILY DAMAGEL   Heavy Action by Force’ in Mediterranean. Suggests Reds. May. Move. Soon

U, 5. HEAVIES SMASH GERMAN PLANE FIELDS   Daylight Assault on Holland, Belgium, France.—R.A.F. Fleets Were Out in Night.

Telephone Co. »  Receives Special War Citation Local Employees Tc  Receive Personal Copy

‘Cullman. Telephone _ ‘Men ‘ahd Women.Re ‘ceive Citation From A. S. C. ;

SOVIET, BRITISH UNITY LOOMS ON BALKANS, POLES   Bulgaria Accepts Armistice Terms, Will Leave Greek And Yugoslav Areas

Polish Leaders InMoscow   Vexing Problem Seems To Be Next On Agenda Of Churchill-Stalin  Parley: Tito There Too

Get Together On Balkans Tn  Moseow Talks   Frank Agreement Between Russia. Britain) Emerges From Conference.  eaten  ST 7 VS A Pee ny or ree we" es UCR OOS   BULGARS OK TERMS

End of Polish Problem May Be Made Soon   Believe Churchill © Making Progress with) Stalin in Moscow Conferences

Russia, Britain Said Near — Accord On Polish, Balkan  Issues; Tito Goes To Moscow

Allies Near _ Balkans and Polish Accord   Britain and Russia Understanding Likely to Be Reached

Settlement of Polish Question Sought in Moscow   Full Understanding Between Britain And Russia Expectec

STRESS UNITY AT CONFERENCE   Moscow Parley Reaches Understandings On Balkas, Poland

MARSHALLS HIT IN TRIPLE RAID   Liberators Sink 2 Jap Cargo Ships, Damage Four Others

14 Mines Closed By Strike Votes   Dispute Affects 44 Pits in Three States

New Arrest In Russell Case   B. H. Woman Accused Of MannAct Violation

MORALS CASE IS REVIVED   Bertha Russell Charged By U. S. With Mann Act Violation

Sleep Induced by Drugless Method  Found sue ssful at Mar Hus tte

SLEEP PRODUCED WITH LESS SAL   Eleven of 12 Used In Experi ment Found Relief Under Doctor’s Plan.

Yanks Enter Livorno and Go Onward   Engineers Re,cir Port As infunity Pursues Nevis; Ancona  7 Capdurad

Big Italian Port Of Livorno Fall:  To Americans   Ancona on’ West ‘Coast Taken by Polish Troops; Nazis Brace Gothic Line

Yanks Take Livorno;  Poles Seize Ancona   Capture of Two Ports in Italy Gives Allies Valuable Supply Bases; Americans Control City After Drive of 250 Miles

Allies Drive  Past Livorno   Enemy Flees Port in Face Of Flanking Attack

YANKS DRIVE GERMANS QUT GF LIVORNO   Third Port of Italy after 250-Mile Drive; Poles Capture Ancona; Widen Bridgehead.   “Blasted Wide Open’

Germans Driven Out of Livorno   Ancona Also Seized By American Forces

VITAL SUPPLY PORT IS SEIZED BY AMERICANS   VICTORY SCORED BY POLISH TROOPS ON ADRIATIC

ALLIES CAPTURE 2 ITALIAN PORTS   AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVE _ NAZIS FROM LIVORNO, POLES SEIZE ANCONA.

YANKS TAKE LARGE PORT OF LIVORNO   20,000 Prisoners And Great Quantities Of War Material Captured By Poles In Final Fight  For Ancona

TWO PORTS TAKEN BY ALLIED FORCES   Americans Seize Livorno ' While Poles Capture Ancona

Americans Get One of Italy's Chief Ports   Nazis Driven Out of Livorno; Polish Unit Captures Ancona

TRI-STATE TORNADO DAMAGE $3,000,000   Rehabilitation Efforts Are Continued Among Homeless

Thousands Given Assistance In Storm Swept Areas Where 146 Known Dead Await Rites.

146 Dead; 1,000 Injured Tornado Damages In State  Will Run Into ‘Millions’

Churchill Warns War May Continue Into Coming Year  Prime Minister Also - Tells Commons That Guerrilla Warfare   Churchill Divulges Much of British Fleet  Now Concentrated on Japanese

Jap Blow On Orote Fails   Trapped Nips Beaten Back And Yanks Plunae Forward

VICTORY SURE ON GUAM FOR U.S. INVADERS   ATTACKS ON SABANG AND PALAU ISLAND REPEATED

Increase toll of slain Japs lto 4,758 in Mariana battle   Yanks win fourth of Tinian, fight half wav out on Guam’s peninsula

BEEF AND LAMB OFF RATIONING   Utility Grades Affected: Pork Loins, Ham, Canned Fish Returned

PORK LOINS, HAM, CANNED FISH ON NEW RATION LIST   Some Beef, Lamb Cut: To Be Point Free After August 12 -

Ration Points To Be Placed On Pork, Ham   Ration Point Values To Be Removed From ‘‘Utility Grade Beef’’, Aug. 13

LOWER PRICED CUTS . POINT. FREE FOR PERIOD STARTING . BUNDAY—PORK CHANGES   . ANNOUNCED: ”

PORK RETURNED TO RATION LIST   Utility Grade Beef And Lamb To Be Point Free

Football Star Wins Top Honor  _ Maurice. Britt Given’ ' Congressional Medal-

Indict 21 Corporations   Charge Conspiracy To Violate Anti-Trust Laws

Wood Alcohol Groups Under  Indictments   County Firms Are Included In Violation Case

LABOR BOARD ASSAILED BY ClO LEADERS   Proposed Changes in Regulations Held Threat . to Labor

C10 Criticizes NLRB Decisions   Murray Sees Threat To Labor Movement

Red Soldiers Now Within 30 Miles of  Prussian Frontier   Huge New Offensive Aims at Freeing of Latvian Republic _

19-Mi. Gain By Reds In , White Russia   Plunge On Toward Eas‘ Prussia; Nazis Face Pos sible Baltic Trap.

Allies Set to Deliver Final, Crushing Blow Against Germany This Winter

ALLIES PLA GREAT BLOWS ~ THIS WINTEF   ALL-OUT EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO CRUSH GERMAN MILITARY POWER BE FORE SPRING

SFORZA RAPS CHURCHILL ON TTALY CABINET   Bonomi Lists New Cabinet; Seen As British Triumph

SFORZA SCORES NEW CABINET   SAYS CHURCHILL KEEPS ROYAL FAMILY IN POWER

COUNT SFORZA MISSING FROM ITALY CABINET   Crisis Ends In Victory For British Prestige In Dispute

SAYS BRITISH FORCING KING ON ITALIANS   Sforza Denies That He Plotted Against  Armistice Regime

Count Sforza Accuses Churchill of Forcing King Victor Emmanuel On Italian People

H. G. Wells Charaes Tha Churchill ‘Lost His Head’ in Greek Crisis

Novelist Asks Resignation  Of Churchill   Wells Terms Greek Intervention Discredit to Nation

ATTACK MADE ON CHURCHILL   Has Outlived His Usefulness As Fighting Symbol, Wells Says

U5, FIRM ON ~ POLISH POLICY   Encourages Poles And Russians To Settle Their Differences 

U8. POLICY REMAINS FIRM   Polish Representative Makes Rush Trip to State Department; Press Agreement

ON SPEECHES             eR, CANDIDATE. To DRVOTE iG. DAYS. OF ‘CAM. “PAIGN ‘TO SA STEEN ‘ ‘. STATES. ,

DEWEY AT WORK ON HARD BLOWS   Candidate : to Concentrate on New York and New England

DEWEY WORKS ON NEW BLOWS   GOP Candidate To Center Attention On Battle For Eastern States

Mapia Islands all As Yanks  Corner Enemy   Newest Vitcory Hit: Lookout Posts Clearing Path Fo. Bombers

ADVANCING ON LEYTE   Lookout Posts South @ Of Philippines In Biak Area Taken

MAIPA ISLANDS TAKEN, SERVE AS PROTECTION   Australian Invasion Threat Over, Heme Guard Will Be Put on Reserve List   By LEONARD MILLIMAN Aceenciated Press War Fditor

Yanks On Leyte Tighten 3- Way elrap On Enemy   Other American Forces Seize Mapia Islands In Protective Move.

Sixth Closes Trap On Japs In Philippine:   American Invasion Troops Seize Mapia Islands In Protective Move.  94 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK

Mapia Islands Seized By US Forces   Invasion Knocks Out Nip Lookout Posts; Triangular Trap on Cornered Japs in   Philippines Tightened  i t

U. S. Drive Pins Japs into Corner   Capture of Mapia Islands Is Protective Move; Cuts Out Listening Post

U.S. Forces Seize Mapia Islands. Off New Guinea   Leyte’s Ormoc Road Virtually Severed; China Is Fearful

YANKS TIGHTEN PINCERS ON NIPS IN PHILIPPINES   British Subs Smash 24 Jap Ships; Fear Invasion of Interior China

U.S. Troops Tighten Trap In Philippines   ‘Small Invasion Force 1 Seizes Mapia Islands it a Protective Move

Tighten Trap Around Japs On Leyte   Enemy Lookout Island Invaded by American Amphibious Forces

TRIANGULAR TRAP IS BEING ‘CLOSED ON CORNERED ENEMY INBIGENVELOPMENT MOVE

YANKS TIGHTEN TRAP ON JAPS ON LEYTE ISLE   Yanks Invade Mapia Islands North of  Western New Guinea

WAR IN PACIFIC—   U. S. SIXTH ARMY TIGHTENS TRAP ON CORNERED JAPANESE FIGHTERS IN PHILIPPINES   British Subs Get 24 More

Mapia Islands Are Captured  ‘By American:   Small U.S, Force Overwhelms Meager Jap Resistance in ‘Landings 150 Mites North of Western Dutch New Guinea

TIGHTEN TRAP ON JAPANESE IN PHILIPPINES   Yank Forces Seize Mapia Islands In Protective Move

AMERICAN INVASION FORCES HAVE SEIZED Tit MAPA ISLANDS  NHRATIAKR rAnrera   U. S. GROUND FORCES IN PHILIPPINES CONTINUE DRIVE ON JAPS

Yanks Close Trap On Japs In N. Ley Le   Enemy Overwhelmed In Landing Made On Mapia Island Group

U.S. Sixth Army Cornering Japs In Philippines   Amphibious Force Seizes Mapia In New Move

Maipas Invasion Weakens Enemy “Near Philippines   Japanese Lookout Posts North Of New Guinea Wiped Out By 6th Army

Meats Taking Ration Points Are Listed   BEEF STEAKS, ROASTS STILL. REQUIRE TOKENS, VALUES POUND NOTED

oosevelt Puts rty on Auction lock, Dewey Says   Hits at Hillman, Browder Support In Boston Speech

illman's PAC ighesi Bidder, jovernor Says   Sees Communist Plot for Power

ROOSEVELT HAS PUT PARTY ON AUCTION BLOCK   Dewey Says Democratic Organization Being Captured By Radical Elements   400,000 BOSTONIANS GREET GOP NOMINEE

Dewey Charges F. R Selling Party  on Auction Block   G.O.P. Nominee Declares the Highest Bidder Is the P. A. C. and the Communists of Earl Browder

FDR SELLING OUT PARTY 10 REDS ~ DEWEY   GOP Nominee Speaks To Huge Crowd At Boston

Dewey Says Democratic Party Puton Auction Bloel   Republican. Nominee Tells:Boston Crowd Forces of Communisr Are Taking It ‘Over  Re cece tia NN a pe tae,

NEW DEAL LASHED BY DEWEY BEFORE HOWLING THRON   G. 0. P. Candidate ‘Charges ~ Roosevelt Has Offered His Party for Sale to Highest _ Bidder.   DECLARES COMMUNISTS ARE TAKING IT OVER   Boos Greet Mention of Hillman’s Name Before Boston Crowd That Jams 13,500 * Seat Arena.

Roosevelt HasNewDeal At Auction   —_ sm  HIGHEST BIDDER IS NOT THE ONE THOUSAND CLUB. BUT EARL BROWDER’S COMMUNISE PARTY   Dewey Flays Hillman

Dewey Says Roosevelt Has _ Put Party On Auction Block   Governor Declares Political Action Committee of Hillman ond Communists of Browder Are Highest Bidders

Roosevelt Puts Party Up for Sale - Dewey   GOP Candidate Says Highest Bidder PAC Of Sidney Hillman and Browder’s Communists

STILWELL SAYS HUKAWNG AREA IS SOON ALLIES’   2,000 Japs Killed In East Sino-Ameritan Advance In Burma

Tanks Assault  Japs in Burma   American, Chinese Forces Close Tean on Knemvy

TANKS CUT DOWN JAPS IN BURMA   STILWELL PREDICTS ALLIES SOON WILL HOLD ENTIRE HUKAWNG VALLEY,

Stilwell Hails New  Burma Gains   Japs Being Driven From Important  Hukawng Valley

100 Japs in Burma Slain   Wide Swaths Cut in Ranks of Nipponese by Chinese, U.S, Tanks

Gen. Stilwell Is Cheerful   Entire Hukawng Valley ‘Soon to Be Ours’, U. S.Chinese Teams Cooperate

STILWELL SAYS SUCCESS 1S WON   General Asserts ‘Entire Hukawng Valley Will Soon Be Qurs’

BORDEAUX REPORTED CAPTURED BY ALLIES   Mayor Adrian Marquet, Official { Vichy Government, Said to Have Been Arrested.

BARDEAUX FREE, PATRIOTS CLAIM   Port Installations Being Repaired Rapidly For Use Of Allies

Rain Hampers Allied Operations in Italy   Now Only 57 Miles From Florence, However, As Moderate Gains Hammered Out.

Yanks 57 Aiirline Miles  From Florence; British Reach Fermo In Italy

E. J. Kyle Resigns As Dean of A&M Agriculture School  ‘Assumes New Title Of Dean Emeritus OF Agriculture

HARBOR RAIDER, ~ CREW SHOT DOWN   Radio Tokyo Says Flying Boat, Surprise Attack Mamher. Felled

NAMED WAR FUND CHAIRMAN   X. L. Hess To Direct Red Cross March Drive

Hess To Head Red Cross Drive   War Fund Campaign Will Be Stawed In Mareh

U. S. Officer Denies Second Story of Hitting Own Planes  Air Forces Official Says Eight or Nine, Not 21, Lost

Spikes Air Loss Story   Tale of Second Loss of Planes By Accidental Shooting Over Sicily Is Branded Untrue

Denies Story Of  Paratroop Loss  8 Or 9 Planes Lost At  Most, Says Officer

BRITISH DRIVE NAZIS BACK IN DUTCH SALIEN]    Canucks at Breskens;   Half of Aachen In Our Hands

Canadians Advance  5 Miles   U. S. Tanks Suppor’ Slash Into Collapsing German Lines.  On Schelde.

Nelson Names Group To Plan Post-War Job      Committee Is Given Tas! ' Of Checking Industry  } Fa ete te Mi: Cee

Nelson Reveals Program For Reconversion   Plans for Post-War Economic Adjustment in Hands of Civilians

Nelson Names  Group To Plan  Reconversion To Review Proposals  For Post-War Return To Civilian Production

GROUP T0 PASS ON PLANS FOR RECONVERSION   *Nelson Program Begun With Dissent; Gaylord Won't Serve

Gaylord Quits Nelson's Group   Is Not Satisfied With Postwar Seiup   Gaylord Gives Views

Reds Rip Two laps ln Wall   Two Big German Strongholds Fall To Flying Reds

FAST-ROLLING REDS CAPTURE TWO BASTIONS   Chase Broken Enemy Forces

Key Cities Are Taken By Reds  As Germans Flee   Mobilev-Podolski, Key River Stronghold, Vinnitsa, Captured

DISORGANIZED GERMANS ARE FALLING BACK   Nazi Position on Southern Front Perilous Under Rapid Thrust.   BULLETIN

Break Thni Two Holes East Wall      GERMANS ALSO RETREATING INTO: CARPATHIAN FOOTHILLS ON THE BORDER OF OLD POLAND

VINNITSA IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Soviet Forces Smash River Line into Bessarabia

Germans Admit Loss of Vinnitsa   City Captured by Russians as They Smash Over Border into Bessarabia

SOVIET TROOPS ALSO CAPTURE VINNITSA BASE   Tens of Thousands of Germans Retreating Headlong in Rumania

BRITISH ROLE AGAINST JAPS IS INDICATEL   Assignment is Seen as Drive on MalayaSumatra Flank

Pacific Area Divided Sectors   War Heads Split Asiatic and Pacific Areas Into Four Battlegrounds.

BRITISH ASSIGNED — ~ ROLE IN JAP WAR   Flanking Drive on Malaye and Sumatra Reported Tack

BRITAIN'S ROLE AGAINST JAPAN IS ESTABLISHED   Will Deliver Amphibious Flanking Assaults On Malaya And Sumatra

ASSIGNMENT OF BRITAIN IN PACIFIC   s Malaya, Sumatra Area, Understood to Be Amphibious Operations; to Have Four Sectors.   Root Japs Gut

Nation to Be U.S. Wassal          Tell Pedple re w ‘of D Deals ‘' Between Countries 

BARRAGE BEFORI ATTACK CALLED BREATH-TAKING   Flashing Sky, Ground Makes Most Awesome Display Of War

Earth Tr embles As Big Guns Unleash War's  Greatest Barrage   Most Awesome And Most Impressive Artillery Display Of War Smashes Germans Before Advance Ovens At Midnight :

Huge Barrage Exceeds That At El Alamein   Described As Most Awesome Of War; Sky Is Lighted

Earth Trembled As Big Guns Opened Up Great Allied Drive In Italy

Sky Lighted by Flashes From Hundreds of Guns Paving Way for Advance   MOST AWESOME DISPLAY OF ARTILLERY’S MIGHT

Barrage By Artillery Was i Aw esome  Most Fearsome Big Gun Fire Of Whole  Slaw Te: Wletlewahssl

Earth Shaken By Pounding Of Big Guns   Hundreds of Guns Roar Out As Allies Attack at Midnight

Military Hub Is Caniured   Americans Stab Five Miles Deeper Into Germany

Gov. F. G. Donnell _ ; Filed Saturday   Is Seeking the Republican Nomination for United States Senate.

Donnell, Miller Formally File Their Candidacies  oes Mie i   Four Republicans, Two Democrats Seek Sen. Clark’s Seat

AMERICANS REACH CASSINO SUBURBS IN FURIOUS FIGHT   Germans. Making Last-Ditch Stand—Entire Width of Their Gustav Line * Qmached.   BASTION IS STILL FILLED WITH SNIPERS   Battle Goes On as Nazis Mass Powerful. Force South of Rome Near Allied - Reachhead.

Allies Pound Into Edges Of Cassino   Germans Mass Forces For Tremendous Blow At Bridgehead in North  ICH OOO MEN POTSEnD

AMERICANS ADV ANCE! TO CASSINO SUBURBS,   Germans Are Making Bloody LastDitch Siand In Defense Of Heavily Mined City

Yankees Make Slow, but Steady Gains   Battle Through German Sacrificial Squads

American And French Troops ~ Battle To Cassino Outskirts   Progress of Americans on Front Below Rome Slow But Steady—Strong Counter-offensive by Nazis Expected

Troops drive thru-vaunted defense line   Nazis put up bloody battle

Yanks, French Break Through Gustav Line   Push Way Into Cassino Outskirts on Road to Rome

ALLIES PUSH WAY THROUGH GUSTAV LINE   Nazis Mass Big Force For Battle Below City of Rome  ] 

Triplets Join Quads InN. Y.  Three Sisters Now Nursery Mates OF OQuadruplets

NEW YORK QUADS HAVE COMPANY NOW   Triplets Join Zariefs ir Hospital Nursery

Yanks First with Bricker: Scores Those Who Praise Allies While Forgetting American Boys   Pumpkin Seeds Now Sold as Almonds, Soy Beans for Peanuts, Report Says

Russians Inflicting Some Of. War’s Worst. Defeats. On Nazis Along East Front

GREAT PRODUCTION IS BEING DENIED   WPB Stands on Decision, Prohibits Use of Steel For 646 Common Items.

Old Stone House Is In The News Again  Brownsville Man Is Linked   Brownsville Man Is Linked To Report

OKLAHOMA LAW RULED OUT   COURT INVALIDATES WAY OF FILING RETURNS

NEUROTIC LABEL BEING DROPPED ‘ROM RECORDS   “electees Rejected By Army Have Been Handicapped By Term   HENTAL CASES ARE REGAINING HEALTH

Psychoneurotic Now in Discard   No Longer Applies In Draft Law Cases

Turkey Accused Of Turning Diplomatic Break With Nazis Into Mere ‘Friendly Rupture’   _Russia’s Pravda Charges Turks Still Harboring Spies; High-Ups In Ankara

Nazi Spies in Turkey, Reds Say   Semi-Official © Newspaper Pravda Accuses Turks of Harboring Germans   MOSCOW ALSO APPEALS TO SPAIN   ‘Take It or Leave It’ Terms for Bulgaria; Finns May Reopen Talks

TURKEY ACCUSEL OF HARBORING GERMAN SPIES   Pravda Newspaper Says Nazi Break Is Friendly

Russians Hurl Blast at Turkey  Terms Recent Break “Friendly Rupture”

ACCUSE TURKEY OF AIDING SPIES   Reds Say Break With Nazis Is ‘Friendly Rupture’

Reds Talk Sharply Of Turkish Conduct   Paper Charges German. Spies Harbored by Turks

Chaplin Is Innocent,  Says Jury   Not Guilty Verdict In White Slave Trial Sends Comic Back To Young Bride.

COMEDIAN, 54, ACQUITTED IN MANN ACT CASE   Now He'll Have to Face Civil Right Trial Soon

Soldier Vote Holds Key To Extent of Setback of G.O.P. Organization In the State

Soldier Vote Holds Key To F.D.R. Margin In Pa. CARRIES STATE Military Ballots May Decide Other

Patton's Men Broaden Front To 50 Miles   Von Rundstedt Hurls Three Divisions Into Fray To Protect Flank

Boche Lunge At Americans In Bastogne Area   Three Divisions Hurled Into Offensive on Both Sides of Corridor Held by Patton   La + . Withering Fire  Confronts Enemy   Renewed Attack, Breaking Four-Day Lull, Cones as Doughboys Broaden Front On Bulge

Seek To Break Dagger Aiming At Their Lines   3rd Army Broadens Front South Of Nazi Bulge; Threatens Foe’s Armor At Libramont

Three German Divisions Hit Bastoane Are   Von Rundstedt Seeks t Stop American Troops Hammering Perimeter Of German Bulge _

Teniperatures.   Renewed Attacks End Lull on 1. S-Held Line   Enemy Bulge Shrunk , By American Troops, Artillery

Germans Lose A Third Of Ground Occupied In Their  Counter Thrust

Von Rundstedt Renews Attack On Both Sides   Patton’s Forces Broaden Front South Of German Thrust To 50 Miles.   FIRST RENEWS ATTACK

Yanks Hammer at ShrinkingNaziBulge Pour Shells Into 16- Mile Escape Gap.   .US Has Rewon Nearly One-fnird of Lost Perritory; Our Hard-Won: Bastoene Corridor Is Hit on Both Sides

Von Rundstedt Strikes New Blows at Yank Forces on Both Sides of Bastogne Salient   Progress of New Battle Is Not Revealed; American Artillery Rains Fire on 16-Mile Waist of Nazi General's Hour-Glass Front

Big American Guns Shell 16-Mile-Wide Enemy Escape Gap   Weather Again Hampers Aerial Activity; First Army Assails Germans at Rochefort; U. S. Artillery Commands Vital Nazi Retreat Lines

Yanks Po 1 7. Narrow Nazi.  Escape Gap :   One-Third of Lost Territory Won Back  : By Hard-Fighting Yanks

Yanks Regain One-Third of Ground  Lost to Enemy Counterblows; Weather Again Restricts Air Raids

BOTH SIDES OF CORRIDE   Into Fight for Passag way Held by the Ame can Third Army.                PATTON’S FORCES “* BROADEN FRO   Threaten to Cut Off ¥ emy Armor at Li ra: mont — Yanks Rewii Third of Area Lost:

Lhree New Divisions Are In Action; Heavy Artillery ‘Shells Nazi Eseape Route

ABOUT THIRD OF AREA FOE TOOK IS RECAPTURED   Yanks Strike West of Bastogne—Meanwhile, Fall Of Budapest Nears

Two Assaults Are Launched By 3 Divisions   Three Enemy Groups Hit At Americans From East And West; Third And First Armies Hammer Foe’s Shrinking Escape Gap

TO ELIMINATE YANK ‘DAGGER’   Americans Regain Third of Area Lost To Foe’s Offensive

Three Divisions: Thrown By Huns On Bastogne  Four-Day Lull’ Broken By Huns

Three Enemy Divisions Open New Drive On Corridor To © Bastogne In Attempt To Close Dangerous Gap

Guns Shelling . Enemy. Effort. “To Dent Lines   3d Army Forees- Continue ‘Advance: in: Luxembourg, Aa’ Reniatance Panes:

Yank Artillery Pours Shellfire At Escape Route   Patton Threatens To Cut Off Tanks Near Libramont

U.S. Counterblows Have Rewon Nearly One-Third Of Territory Overrun

Enemy-Held Bulge Being  Compressed   Four-Day Lull on Western Front Ends With Varied Action

Patton’ s Third Broadens Attack Front   First Army Hammers Von Rundstedt’s Western Positions

Progress of New Battle Is Not Disclosed   Patton's Hard - Driving Forces Broaden Their Front Along South of the German Bulce: Threaten io Cui Off Enemy

Four Buildings  Destroyed In Nebraska Fire   2 Men Seriously Injured And 20 to 30 Cut By ~ BPlying Glass

TANKS BREACH LINES, HIGHWAY RUNNING SOUTH   Montgomerymen —Break Through To Open Country Of  Normandy

Japan’s Terms For Peace Cause Little Surprise As They Follow Early Trend

Tokyo. Radio Warns Japs—   ‘Superforts Flight Presages: Bombings

YANKEE THRUST GAINS HARBOR AT CHERBOURG   Germans Fight Desperately Tho Defenses Are Split in’ Two

FLOOD BILL GETS SENATE VOICE OKAY   Billion Dollar Bill Goes Back To Lower House

ALLIES TAKE _ JAP BASES IN ~ NORTH BURM:   Gne of Jap Columns Advancing Toward India Engaged-by Allied Troops, Fighting Continues

Allies Capture Vital Center In Northeast Burma But Japs Menace India On Other Front   Strong Enemy Forces Continue Push Fram Crossing Of Chindwin River

‘ALLIED TROOPS IN BURMA HAVE TAKEN IMPORTANT POINT”  STRONG JAPANESE FORCE CONTINUES TO DRIVE - TOWARD INDIA: :

Allies Capture Jap Communication Post   Japanese Force Continuing Drive Toward India

NEED BILLIONS IN RELIEF    China Asks UNNRA for Part of Post War Supplies

CHINA WILL NEED EXTENSIVE RELIEF   Estimates She Will Need $3 Billion First Year After Liberation.

Reds Open Bombardment East Prussia   CHURCHILL TELIS ABOUT NAZIS ATTACK WITH COMET-ROCKETsS.

Future Flow Of Supplies To China Will Be Decided— By James D. White  Showdown Fight Cooking In Northern Burma

Curtain Drops On Third Year Of Pacific War   Another Pear) Harbor Day  Finds Nation's Armed Forces  Profiting by Lessons Learned in Battling Jans

U. S. Had To Learn To Fight   Tactics As Well As Ships Woefully Outmoded at Time of the Pear] Harbor Attack

Took 3 Years To Get “Know-How” Of Fighting Japs   Me FIGENY BERN   Summary Of War Moves On Pearl Harbor Anniversaries

Many Lessons Learned Since  Pearl Harbor   US. Forces Have Acquired ‘Know-How' and Modern Land, Sea Equipment

Three Years Of Costly Defeats, Victories _ Necessary To Learn How To Fight Japanese

War “Know-How Has Cost Blood And Many Lives  Yeors Are Being Followed

YANKS FORCED TO FIGHT WELL   Learned Hard Lessons in  Three Years of War

Pearl Harbor Pays Qt United States Has pamital ‘Know How’ Of Fighting Jap:

U.S, ENTERS FOURTH WAR YEAR TODAY   We Have Learned Much Since Pearl Harbor

We’ve Come a Longs Way Since Pearl Harbor: Now Have ‘Know How’ To Fight   BY EUGENE BURNS

U. S. Forces Have Know-How To Figh Japs As Conflict Enters Fourth Year

THREE YEARS OF FIGHTING JAPS HAVE TAUGHT US “KNOW HOW” OF FIGHTING THE ORIENTAL FANATICS

Has Taken Three Years To Learn How To Fight the Japs Sneak Attack Witness Says

UJ. §. Has Gotten Know-How In 3 Years IF War On Japan Since Dec. 7, 1941

3rd Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor; U.S. Land, Sea, Air Forces Battle -Wise

Japs Teach Us--the Hard Way  Tactics. Equipment Perfected From Reverses.

wy § oo: lf  . . / 657 __- oe 7 . . e kh 7 ‘We've Come a Longs Way Since Pearl Harbor: Now Have ‘Know How’ Io Fight    RY EUGENE BURNS

Pearl Harbor Anniversary Sees Many Weaknesses Overcome And Defense Changed to Offense Against Japs— Costly Lessons Save Lives in Future

Costly Defeats And Victories Mark Three Years Of War Since Attack Made At Pearl Harbor

AMERICANS GAINED WAR KNOWLEDGE IN PAST THREE YEARS .   BEGINNING WITH PEARL HARBOR JAPS FORCED. GOOD FIGHTING ON US

Three Years Of F ighting Japs Costly But Lessons Are Saving Lives Now

Japs Forced Good Fighting On U.S. And In Three Years We've Learned The ‘Know-How’ For It

American Forces Now Have "Know-How" to Fight Japs  Reporter Who Sent Eye-Witness Report EFeam Pearl Harbor Tells af U.S. Proaress

Japanese Forced Good Fighting on America; After Three Years U. S. Now Knows How to Meet Nipponese

Three Years Of Fighting 'Ready Yanks For Victory   RY EVGENE BURNS

Nazis Work Nights te Strenathen Defenses   THREE YEARS LATER WE NOW BATTLE-JAPS WITH ‘KNOW HOW’

YANKS NOW KNOW HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY FIGHT JAPS — AEN SFULLY FIGHT JAPS  Three Years After Pearl Harbor,.U. S. Land. Sea, Air Forces Drivine Back Far Fast Fnem-+v

A.P. Writer Tells How Americans in Last Three Years Learned How to Fight Japanes

We Have Learned--The Hard Way--How to Fight the Japs   Lessons Were Learned from Costly Battles

Pearl Harbor Day Began Lessons In Jap Manners   —RBY EUGENE BURNS-

Greatest of Air Battles Coming   Clearing Weather All That's Needed

BiG AIR BATTLES PREDICTED SOON   Allies Awaiting Good Break in Weather; New Secpei Devices

CZECH RAIL HUB FALLS TO REDS   Russians Also Drive Wedges Into Nazi Defenses in Latvia

ety TAKE SLOVAKIA   Use American Indian Tactics in Heavy Mountain Fighting

Russian Forces Driving Across  Czech Borde   Advance Is Aimed At Knocking Hungary Out Of War In Near Future

Model Airplane Gives Cargo Ship Pilot Scare ‘At New York Airport

RINGLING'’S BIG TENT COLLAPSES   Fire Breaks Out While  Performance Is Gn

Americans Pour Through Gap In The Siegfried Line East Of Tottering Aachen

Aim Fast-Breaking Drive Squarely At Cologne, Germany   Nazi Propagandists Say “West Wall” Thing Of Past, Replaced By Modern Fortification, Patton Movements Unknown

Latest Nazi Secret Weapon Freezes Everything, Makes Large Icebergs In English Channel, Berlin Claims

Nazi Secret Weapon Freezes Everything? Claim 332 Below Zero Quality, Makes Even The Cement Brittle

To Check on Taverns and Restaurants   Price Survey of All Place: in County to Be Made Next Week

Ward Stores Near Crisis   White House Drafis  DPaners for Seizure

WARD SEIZURE PAPERS DRAFTED   DISPUTE REFERRED TO STABILIZATION DIRECTOR

WLB-WARD CO. NEAR CLIMAX   Long Dispute Spreads To Avery’s Gypsum Firm

U.S. PRERARING T) SEIZE WARDS   SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE NOW IN WHITE HOUSE

(New Tax Bill Will Affeet 'Everybody’s Pocketbook   Excise Levies Strike All; Income Changes Effective With Next Year's Returns

REP. DOUGHTO AND PRESIDENT PART COMPAN)   The 8-Year-Old Democratic Leader Predicts Tax Bill Will Be Passed Over Veto By Over 38 to  Majority   NO SALES TAX

Congress Ready To Rebuke F.D.R.; 4 To 1 Over-Riding Vote Seen   Perhaps No More Than Ten Members Of House Likely To Vote To Sustain Veto Of Tax Bill, With Senate Voting Tomorrow.

DONNELL HAS LEAD   McKittrick Will Have to  Increase Pace to Win Senate Race

Missouri Still Does Not Know Next Senator  Demo McKittrick Gaining On Donnell, Mav Win Fither Wavy

TOP SALARY PEOPLE NAMED   Motion Picture Producer. Louis B; Mayer Tops List — Other Leading Big Money Earners Issued by Treasury, .

LOCAL DENTAL SURGEON DIES SUDDENLY HERE   Dr. David G. Everhart Stricken At Home Saturday Afternoon ~

LIEUT. WILSON MISINGSINCE      War Department N vi ‘Family of Maynard: In Service ‘Two Years —

War Department Notifie: Family of Maynard Man;. In Service Two Years ©

NAVY RAIDS. JAP ISLAND      BY-PASSED’ ENEMY BASE VISITED BY TASK FORCE— ) BANDING PREDICTED ;  -BAOW

Chlorine Gas Injures 150 in Brooklyn   TANK FROM TRUCK FALLS, GIVING OFF WIDESPREAD FUMES

‘Pedestrians Fall Like Soldiers As Gas  From Broken‘ Tank Sweeps Brooklyn

MANY WILL ENTER LISTS IN ELECTION   April Primary Will Find Candidates Galore From Which to Make Nomjnations   EARLE IS SUGGESTED

CLARK PLEDGES SHIPYARD JOBS   Tells Workers He'll Have New Plant and Orders For Boats

AMERICANS BLAST INVASION COAST   HUNDREDS OF FIRES BURN IN BERLIN FROM HEAVY R. A. F. ONSLAUGHT.

ALLIES BLAST NAZI TARGETS ALONG COAST   Pas-de-Calais: Pounded After New RAF Attack on Berlin

RAF GIVES BERLIN 12TH MAJOR BLOW   While American Liberators Blast Rocket-Gun Coast Of France Without Any Loss Except Candy Bars.      “One of Worst”

Raids Follow Crushing Berlin Attack   46 Planes Are Lost in Strong Day, Night Operations

RAF Heavies Roar Out For New Assault   Berlin Battered Thursday Nieht

BERLIN AFIRE: BOMBERS SLAP INVASION AREA   RAF Raid May Have Been Finishing Touch For Capital

RAF Goes Out in Big Force Again  Ov er Nazi Europe  Night Attackers Take to Air After U. S. Davlight Assault

Heavy Bombers Renew Raids on Nazi Positions   Berlin Reported Under New Attack

Yanks Attack Calais After Berlin Raided   No American Planes Lost: London Has  Brief Air Raid Alert

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Giant Raid On Berlin May Be Repeated   Invasion Coast Hit by Day After German Capital Blasted

Yankee Bombers Again Attack Invasion Coast   Raid Comes ‘on Heels Of Another Smashing ‘R.A. F. Berlin Blast

FRENCH COAST BATTERED BY ALLIED BOMBS   ROCKET GUN AREA HIT; LONDON HAS HEAVY RAID

Rocket coast hammered in aerial assault   Berlin simmers after 12th blow

NAZ! CAPITAL STILL BLAZING FROM ATTACKS   1000 Planes Hammer Mystery Targets on French Coast '   GERMANS STRIKE LONDON IN RETALIATION RAIDS

Daylight Attackers Shoot 19 Nazi Fighters From Skies Over France, Lose Only 11 in 1000-Plane Assault

NAZI TARGETS ALONG COAS]   Pas-de-Calais Pounded After New RAF Attack on Berlin

Yanks Attack Targets on French Coast   Raid Follows Heavy Bombing of Berlin by R, A. F.

Allies Lose 11 Aireraft,  Germans 19   Coast Raids Follow 2,576-Ton Assault On German Capital  LONDON NAZI TARCET

FRENCH AREA TARGETS HiT IN DAY RAIDS   American Liberators Blast Pas-de-Calais Sector   BERLIN IS ABLAZE  AFTER RAF ATTACK   Hilgoland Also Blasted by the British at Night

RAIDS STAGE ON GUN COAST BY AMERICANS   HUNDREDS OF FIRES SIMMER IN RUINS OF BERLIN

RAF Heavies Roar Out For New Assault  Berlin Battered =. .  sawed, Risak&

Americans Bomb Mystery Targets In Calais Area   Berlin Burning After Bia Raid

Yanks Bomb Nazi Lines Without Loss   Berlin Suffers Night Blow, France Hit By Day

Soviet Asks Join Review of Italy  Po‘itical Plight Sad Worsening

RUSSIA “CALLS FOR A REVIEW OF -[TALIAN SITUATION   Wants U. 8. and Great Britain to tein Soviet Union’ In Settling Unhealthy Moec:

NOMINEES GET IN THEIR LAST VOTE APPEALS   DEWEY - ROOSEVELT FEUD REACHES CLIMAX

Mass Attack Is Staged On Oil Plant   German Railways Also Subjected To Heavy Pounding By Fleets Of American Planes

SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS LASHED   1,100 Bombers and 800 Fighters Attack

GERMAN OIL, RAIL. CENTERS DRUBBED BY U.S. ‘HEAVIES’.   Over 1, 100 Bombers And 800 _. Fighters -Participate In Raids Upon Vital German Installations From Hamhure To Saarbrucken:

Bombers Smash Nazi Oil Plants  Sth Airforce Also Mits Rail Taraets

1,100 Bombers In Mass Attack   Hit German Synthetic Oil Industries And Railways

Mass Attack On German Targets   Eighth Air Force Hits Enemy Oil Plants; Refineries, and Railways.

8th Air Force Attacks German Oil Plants  1,900 Planes Used; RAF Mosquitoes Hit

Soviet Fliers Bomb Brest Litovsk; Reds Regrouping For Major Assault

Russians Bomb Brest-Litovsk   Red Troops Regrouping  Rar Madav Anesvde

U. T. Regents Testify Against Homer Rainey During Senate Hearing

Fascists, Nazis Leaving Rome   Italians Prepare  Welcome For Allies

Baby Lives After Falling 8 Stories   20 Soldiers Drown in Maneuwers

REDS MENACE KEY POINT IN NAZI FRONT   Complete Rupture Of German Front Believed Imminent

SOUTH UKRAINE GERMAN FRONT NEAR RUPTURE   Split Of Nazi Armies Ir That Area Is Red Objective

Reds Rupture German Front  In South Ukraine   Russ Capture of Starakonstantinov Breaks Nazi Salient

Would Split Nazi Armies In Ukraine   Russians Approach  ‘Second and Final Objective There

GEN. D’WITT GIVEN McNAIR’S ASSIGNMENT   Former Pacific Coast Commander Being Accorded Position Of Great Importance

Jap Attacks On Biak Repulsed   Enemy Loses 160 Men, Two Tanks  By MURLIN SPENCER

Merseburg Again Target For U. S. Bonhing Fleet   Hamburg, Stuttgart © Hit By RAF Planes During Night Raids

THIS IS BOY SCOUT WEEK N AMERICA   Seouts Are Celebrating Their Thirty-Fourth Anniversary It Is Announced,

TtIs34th Anniversary ° Of Scouting   SPECIAL WEEK GIVES AMER. ICAN PEOPLE CHANCE TO HONOR SCOUTS,

BOY SCOUT ANNIVERSARY   Will Be Celebrated Next Week Throughout The  Natinn

NATION OBSERVES BUY SCOUT WEEK   Organization Celebrates 34th Anniversary in America.

Berlin Admits — All Not Well   Germon Armored Forces Running Out OF Fuel .

Nazis Report  Tank Battle U. S. 3rd, 7th Involved In Clash, Claim

Collapse Of Jap War Effort Seer   Gen. Chennault Predicts Defeat In China

U.S. Planes Strike Into Philippines   Hit. Islands_for Tenth Times in Two Weeks, Smash At Davao). _ Sink Veccel

PHILIPPINES RAIDED FOR TENTH TIME   In Two Weeks by U. Navy Liberators; ian Fires on Davao, Sink Jap Freighter.

Barbed Wire, Tank Traps Face Allies   Costly Fighting Still In Prospect On Italian Front

Chaplin Defense Is Impaired By Ruling Of Court   Cannot Probe Joan’s Romances

JOAN'S LETTER TO CHAPLIN READ   EFFORTS TO PROBE PREVIOUS ROMANCE BLOCKED BY JUDGE

Joan in Tears as Letfers Are Read in Court   Efforts to: Prove. Romance With Another Man Are Blocked =.

Girl's Letier To Chapliti Reat  Judge. Blocks’ Defense On‘Joan-Berry’s Past

Love Letter of Joan Berry Court Record   Court Rules Against Probing Into Her Past, Resume Case Tues.

Love Letter To Chaplin Read   Becomes Part Of Court Record, But Other Romance Barred.

Barry Letters Read In Court   Chaplin Lawyer Attempts To Bring In Romance With Another Man.

JOAN'S OTHER LOVES RULED OUT BY COURT   Charlie Chaplin’s Defense Greatly Impaired by Decision

Joan Berry’s Love Letters Enter, Court   Excerpts of Notes Sent To Chaplin Read Into Records

FRENCH REVOLT SPREADS; GUNS DROPPED BY AIR   Great Fires Are Reported Seen Near Geneva

Uprising in France Is Spreading In Southern Cities  Growing Revolt Has Engulfed Many Key Nazi Bastions

500 Square Miles Of Riviera Have Been Liberated   French Patriots Supplied With Guns Dropped By:Allied Planes

Frenchmen Of ‘Savoy Region Rise In Revolt   Partisans Are Supplied With Weapons Dropped By Night-Flying Allied Planes

Armed Revol In S. France   Allies Drop Weapons By Air; Haute Savoie, Toulouse Men Rise

French Revolt Mounts Rapidly  Guns And Ammunition Supplied By Allies

Earthquake Rocks  Sections In East   Houses Shaken and Residents Roused Along North, eastern Seaboard ond.as Far Inland as sey? Indiana Early Today :  ack

EAST 15 SHAKEN _ BY EARTHQUAKE   SHOCKS SEVERE ON JERSEY BEACH FRONT — EXTEND INLAND TO OHIO.

BRICKER URGES SANE PROGRAM   Labels New Deal Thing Of “Disorder And Confusion”

BRICKER OFFERS SIX-PLY PLAN   Ohio Governor Critical of Administration Disorder

BRICKER ASKS ORDER IN U.S, GOVERNMENT   Declares Executive Branch in Shapeless Confusion. -

BRICKER TALK HITS NEW DEAL   Ohio Governor Offers Plan To Reorganize Federal Government Offices

Alexandel Says Allies Winning Bailie Df Atizi¢  Allied Chi ef Issues   Allied Chief Issues Cheering-Forecast-on Rtalian War

lax Revenge On Business ihreatened   Jobless Pay Measure Sponsor Murls Defi At Opposing Group

Reconversion Bill Target Of GOP Fire   Offers Big Political Opportunity, Says Michigan Scnator

Maj. Clark Gable Is Back In Civilians, But Still Working For Army

Grand Jury Set to Issue More Warrants Soon   20 Found Guilty Saturday by Circuit Court Jury; Draw 3 to 5-Year Terms

GRAND JURY 10 RESUME PROBE   20 Convicted On Graft Charges; Get 3 to 5  Year Terms

CONVICTED IN GRAFT CASE   All Sentenced to Serve 3 to 5 Years; All Plan to Anneal.

Full House   Lonergan Trial Ticket Pleas Swamp New York Officials

NEAR CASSINO   Nazi Counter- Attack on Beachhead Fails to Materialize

GERMANS HOLD ONTO CASSINO; FOIL YANKEES   Terrific Fighting Reported   BEACHHEAD SAGS

Solons Turn Attention to Disposal Of Surplus Property After the War

Senate Passes Conversion Bill Of Sen. George   Murray-Kilgore Plan To Set Federal Standard Of Unemployment Pay Rejected, 49 To 25

Senate Turns fo Other Phases of War Demobilization Program After Disposing of Jobless Compensation Issue

At Least 10 Dead In lowa Floods   Storm Losses Continue to Mount

FLOOD SWEEPS THROUGH IOWA   Five Days Of Tornadoes Bring 10 Deaths; End Over Week Away

Allies Seen Far On Road To Victory By Admiral   King Finds Unity,  Power, Experience

Admiral King Says German  Aid Crackine   Guerrilla Strife Is Flaming In Balkans, Jap War Goes  “SIyereasinely Well?

Admiral, in in Report to Sec. Knox, Says Encirclement of Germany Is in Sight

Encirclement Of Germany Now In Sight, King Says   Admiral Reports To Knox That Allies Are ‘Fully Entered’, On Roads To Victory; War Stages Are Outlined

Admiral King Reports Allies On Right Road   Victory Assured, Says Commander

Allied Forces ‘Fully Entered’ On Road to Victory, King Says   Determined To Travel Far and Fast, Commande: Of U. §. Navy Declares   ALLIED AIR SUPERIORITY Pays Off Again in Pacific

Admiral Sees Vietory in  Allies’ Grasp   Naval Commander Cites Gains in Europe and Pacific

Admiral King Declares Allied Forces Are Now Fully Entered on Roads to Victory and Will Travel Fast

REVEAL 44,946 JAPS KILLED DURING MARIANA CAMPAIGNS   Lose $4,067 on Guam, 25,144 on Saipan and 5,745 on Tinian   New Aerial Blows Revealed on Paramushiro, Yap and Mariana Group

R. A. F. Resumes Channel Blasting  French May Evacuat Coasta! Territory

FRENCH CONSIDER EVACUATION OF COAST   Prefects Gather in Paris to Take Up Question—Action Grows Out of Heavy Raids.

RAF hits objectives in Europe   French prefects order evacuation of channel coast

Supreme Court Backs Army In Liquor Case   Rules Whisky Can Be Shipped to Posts in Drv States

States Cannot Control Liquor To Army Posts   Supreme Court Hands Down Split Decision On Issne

TEXAS’ OFFICIAL  THANKSGIVING DAY  BEING OBSERVED GREATER PART OF NATION, HOWEVER, CELE DDATRA Facer TLUIIDCHAY

TEXAS’ OFFICIAL THANKSGIVING DAY BEING OBSERVED  GREATER PART OF NATION, HOWEVER, CELE. BRATED LAST THURSDAY

Japs 45 Miles. From Chenghsien   Spearheads Storm . Mihsien Areas

Big Force of Giant Planes  Make Assault   City, Highly Inflammable. One of Most Vulnerable In Enemy Homeland

Shuttle Bombers  Hit Nazis   Panic Seizes E. And Southwestern German As New System Is Inaugurated.

BRITISH OPEN COUNTER MOVE NEAR IMPHAL   Secure Hill Position from Japs in India

British Force Withdrawal Of Japs At Imphal      Twin Counterattacks Push Enemy Deep. Into Hills   RELIEVES PRESSURE   Mountbatten Moves His  Headquarters To 4q Cevlon

BRITISH STRIKE BACK, EASE THREAT TO IMPHAL   Twin Attacks Push Japs Back Into Hills In India

Tips Pushed nto Hills Beyond Imphal   Pressure Around Capital ef Manipur State Relieved

House Overhauls Jobless Benefits   Committee Approves Revised Amendment

AAO FORGES TANE a2 WER   Less Than Half of Men Ordered to Report Pass.

ARMED FORCES TAKE 2 HEN   Less Than Half of Men Ordered’ to Renart Pass.

Governor Ford Sneaks Here This Evening   Havre high School Band to Play Down Town BRefore Rallwv

Bricker Asks for Local Taxing of Fecleral Propet t   ‘Says Lecal Govemments ' Could Then Maintain  Indepe dence

FEDERAL PROPERTY TAXATION 1S ASKED   Bricker Recommends Step _. With. Proper Re strictions

Legal Action . Against Nazi:  Partyin U. S.   174 German Aliens Indict: ed for Concealing Paw Affiliations

174 German Aliens Are Indicted  For Being Nazis  Members Are Chargec With Concealing Their Affiliations

WAR TODAY   American Offensive In Burnia Brings Great. er Interest In Far East. Political Prob lewmian

SPECIALLY TRAINED AMERICAN TROOPS IN DRIVE TO RECLAIM BURMA HOLDING KFEN INTEREST

The War Today   Great India Famine Relieved; Vankse Snearhead Burma Drive

GAINS MADE ON SAIPAN AROUND GARAPAN, PORT   Remaining Japs Forced Back Into ‘Bataan’; Main City Near Fail

Americans On Saipan Occupy Strategic Hills   Hold Ridges Above Garapan And Tanapag;} Showdown Battle Near.

Yanks Take New Ridges On Saipan   Showdown Battle for Island Imminent; Bury 6,015 Jap Soldiers

Showdown Battle Is Seen Soon On Saipan Isle  American Forces Are Continuing to Push Jab Units Back

Yanks Close Vise Around Saipan Town   Capture “More Ridgés to Circle Japs in Garapan From Three Sides

Showdown Battle Is Likely  As Grim Yanks Take Ridge  Positions Around Garavan 

SAIPAN SIXTY PER CENT IN U. $. CONTROL   New Positions Held by Americans After Hard Fighting on Stratecic Isie in Marianas.

YANKS ON SAIPAN HOLD NEW RIDGES: AROUND GARAPAN   Advances of From 500 Yards to a Mile Made Saturday on Entire Front—Believe Show‘dawn Battle te Rrawing:

Showdown Battle Nearing on Saipar   Americans Hold New Positions Akove Garapan, Tanapag Harbor

‘Nhove the’ Town. of 5 Garapan “and. Nearby Tariapag: ‘Harbor.   GOOD GAINS: ARE MADE:   Advanced From 500 Yards te a Mile Along:the Entire: ‘Front ‘Saturday.

Farmer Kills Five and Self   Takes Lives of Four Children and Wife And Kills Self

VITAL VITEBSK BASE OVERRUN, NAZIS CONCEDE   Sensational Events’ In Baltics Feared By Berlin

Germans Admit  Loss of Vitebsk   “Sensational Events’ In Baltics Forecast

Nazis Report Reds Take Vitebsk, Northern Base   NEW RED OFFENSIVE.

Nazis Admit Vital Loss to Russ Forces           OVER 1,000 BRICSH BOMBER DEAL HAVOC ‘TO ATRCRA CENTERS OF GERMANY.

NAZIS DECLARE BIG EVENTS IN BAITIS [NOM   Entire White Russian Front Now Open to Advancing Red Forces

Roadway Te Polotsk Is — Now Open :   CITY WAS KEYSTONE BASE OF - ALL NORTHERN WHITE RUSSIA; FOLLOWS FALL OF ROGACHEV. .

VITEBSK FALLS ‘TG’ SOVIETS : BY ~ GERMAN REPORT   Rokossovsky’ 3 Troops Force (Crossing of Dniéper River

BERLIN SAYS VITEBSK NOW IN RED HANDS   ROGACHEV ALSO TAKEN; WAY TO 3ALTIC STATES IS MORE OPEN

INFANTRY TANKS SLASH AT GERMANS   U.S. Troops Open New Attack On Anzio Beachhead

Fierce Battle Taking Place On Anzio Beachhead Forty Miles To North, U. 8. Shock Troops Lash Ont   DRIVE COINCIDES WITH CASSINO PUSE

Troops Dare Fire of Reinforced 'Nazi Remnants   Divisions Mass To  Cut Off Germans Still In Sector

Withering Allied Fire Rakes Foe   FANATICAL GERMAN INFANTRYMEN BATTLE ALLIES IN RUBBLE REMAINS OF ITALIAN CITY; TANKS, ASSAULT TROOPS SLOWLY ADVANCE IN BITTER FIGHT

YANKS OPEN ATTACK AT ANZIO AS DRIVE FOR ROME RESUMES   Fresh Nazi Units, Rushed To Italian Town Razed By Bombardment, Dig In Amid Debris For Death Struggle

Fight from Ruins; Defy Allied Guns   Enemy Being Forced Slow ly Out of Town—New Attack at Anzio

Smashed Buildings, Tumbled Into Streets, Impede Tanks— Anzio Fishtine Resumes

FIGHTING IN RUINS OF CASSINO   Allies Slowly Crushing German Resistance

ALLIED TANKS DIGGING WAY INTO GASSINE   Reinforced Germans Make Determined Effort to Hold Town.

‘German Fanatics Dig In Rubble Of Bombed Cassino   Allied Tanks, Assault Troops Forcing Enemy Out

Nazis Cling ‘To Cassino Rubble Hear   Fanatical Enemy Defies Murderous Allied Shellfire

ALLIES BATTLE IN STREETS OF RUINED CASSING   German Troops Pour into Town

FIERCE FIGHT 1S RAGING IN RUINS AS NAZI RETURN   Battle Also Is Begun on Anzio Beachhead 40 Miles to North fn An Assautt By Yank Shock Army.   MANY BOMBS DROPPED IN FRANCE, GERMANY   Americans Unloaded 3360 Tons In Two Districts While RAF Bomb Stuttgart Airplane Center.

Allies Burrow Through Wreckec City of Cassino   German Troops Reenter Town During Night

GERMANS IN CITY BEING WIPED OUT   Fanatical Band Of Nazi Gunners Hide in Debris

Twisted Rubble ; All That’s Left Of Italian Cit)   Allied Tanks and Assault ‘Troops Graduall: Forcing Kneniy Out of Ruined Town

GERMAN BASE WIPED OUT BY ALLIED BOMBS   Enemy Lines on Beachhead Sway Under Fury of American Assault,

YANKS CRUSHING DEFENDERS OF — RUINED CASSING   Nazis Crept Back Inte Wreckage After Record Aerial Sombhardment.

PUSHING NAZIS OUT   U. S. Forces In Anzic Beachhead Sector Attack Germans

Battle Rages Among Ruin: Of Cassino   Germans Fight Desperately on Two Italian Fronts

TANKS SLASH AT GERMANS   U. 5..Troops Open New Attack On Anzio Beackhhead

Allies Slowly Crushing - Fanatical Nazi Gunners  _. Within Ruins Of Cassino

Report Vichy In Patriots’ Hands   Laval and Officials Said To Be Near Swiss and  German Frontiers.

SECRET WEAPON, NEW NAZI THEM      ress Prepares Homeland fo! ‘) Big Withdrawals From France :

Nip Army’s Greatest Disaster Costs U. iS. 2,623 Dead, 8,422 Wounded; . Palompon Captured to End Campaign

ah 7 ae   YANKS TAKE ~ LAST ENEMY STRONGHOLD   ‘Greatest Defeat Ever Suffered By Japan’

Governor ls Candidate For Senator   Siates His Views in An. nouncement for Post Held by Gillette

GOVERNOR DONNELL WILL SPEAK HERE NEXT WEDNESDAY   Reception to Be Held at Home of County Republican Chairman Corley Thomp son.

va cilia _cainiaaiiaaamuicacauauulal mail  State Dies War Loan  Quota by Three Million

Rankin Assails.  Vote Compromise   Says State Rights Threatened By Bill

DE VALERA LOST TRANSPORT BIL!   General Election {s Ordered and Voting May Be Set For May 30.

General Election Ordered in Eire   Government Suffers Setback in Dail Vote

Rubber Director Reports More Synthetic Rubber Being Produced Than Amount Of Crude Rubber Used Prior to “41

FINNS THOUGHT UNABLE 10. QUIT NAZIS IN WAR   Recent Peace Mission Said To © Calm Home Front

Germans Force Finns To Keep Up War On Reds   Moscow Mission Lulls Home Front

And It Really Was A Dammed Nazi!  Amariean’c Chantinn Intarriintad hy Carman WAH Wilnn Bence Ea Bie lee

JAPS AT RABAUL. HOLD CLOSETO . THEIR FOXHOLES   Most Heavily Bombed And Shelled Spot in: South Pacific Objectiof New Attacks

Damages To Japs  At Rabaul Mount   Allies Continue To Pound Base— Knox Gives Figures

Japanese Keep Near Foxhole: On Rabaul Base   Sweating Nipponeée Troops Count Up New Damages Inflicted by Allied  Airmen

Japan's Army Is Kept Near To Foxholes   New Damage Count ed On Rabaul After Hard Pounding

Battered Japanese At Rabaul Keeping Close: To Their Foxholes After Latest U. S. Attacks

Jap Forces Seek Cover On Rabau To Count Losses   Bomb Craters Pock-Mark Nips’ Pacific Bastion

New Blows Dealt Tottering: Rabaul   Terrific Punishment Is Handed Out by Planes and Warships

Japs Fail To Get Plane Up   Record Punishment Hits Base On New Britain Saturday

Rabaul Said Staggering  Under Raids      Report Japs Giving Up On New Britain And New Ireland

Rabaul Grushed By Big Shellings   MANY TONS OF BOMBS AND EXPLOSIVES HIT JAPS

Japs Keep Close To Foxholes, Add Up Rabaul Loss  Allied Bombers ae a os 3

Japs Pause At — Rabaul To Count Damage By U.S   aps Fail To Get Single  Protecting Plane In Air On Twelfth Day of Assault By Allies.

RUSSIA MAKES AN OFFER TO POLAND  Ul]. lel p gabutwer ry   Would Return a Portion of Area  Occupied in 1939

Poles Weigh  Soviet Land Ratuen Offer   Exiled Cabinet Shakeup Likely as Result of Compromise Move

Reds to Hold East Poland   Independent Warsaw Government Favored

SOVIET OFFERS COMPROMISE ON POLISH BORDER   But Lashes Exile Chiefs

POLAND EXPECTED T0 ACCEPT SOVIET BORDER PROPOSAL   Mescow Made Compromise Offer to Settle Frontier Dienuta

Poles In Huddle Over Russ Offer   Sources Suggest Poles  “Accept Or Shut Up”

Reds Offer to Return Part Of Polish Land   Would Give Back 7000 of 77,700 Sauare Miles

Poles Debate Russian Offe Of Territory   Exile Government Is Expected to Accept Boundory Line Pact

COMPROMISE OFFER MADE TO POLAND   Soviet Willing To Return 7,000 Square Miles

POLES WEIGH SOVIET OFFER   Expect Favorable Reply In Border Dispute

Army to Take Over In Phila.   Government Seizure Of Strike-Bound Transit System  Is. ‘Imminent’

RAPID TRANSIT WCRKERS STILL OUT ON STRIKE   Government May ‘Take Over Th Transport Systems In Philadelphia

FAIL TO GET ~~ VOTE ON TAX   NOT ENOUGH SIGNATURES ON FILE BY DEADLINE, YESTER-:. : DAY FOR REFERENDUM “ON SALES TAX .

SOVIET ARMY 31 MILES IN EAST PRUSSIA   Young Tank General Leads Forces to The Angerapp

Soviels Make Deep Slashes Info Germany   More Than 400 Towns Reported Captured

Invasion On 87 Mile Front Nets Over 400 Towns   Capital Of East Prussia Is Threatened By Deepest Penetration Of Any Allied Army; Second Red Army Recaptures 500 Towns,

Assails WPB For Aluminum  Shortage   CIO Chief Charges Shutdown Js Being Planned in Capital

"A’ Gas cut To 2 Gallons A Week Hinted   OPA chief admits cut is expected; to equalize allowance for all sections of country.

ss araraaeate eeneeenee enna  NAZI DEFEAT MIGHT BOOST GOP CHANCES

Early: Peace GOP's Goal.   ’ Dewey “Su porters ‘Hoping For Break

Mark Off One More   Gen. Korten Third to Die Of Hitler Explosion

Two Generals Die of Wounds   Succumb to Injuries Sustained During. Attack on Hitler

4,000 TONS ON OIL INDUSTRY; BLAST PLANES   Bombers Have Largest Escort in History on Raiding Trip Over Germanvy.   Moderate Flak

THOMAS SEES ~DEMO SWEEP   Senotor Also Predicts U. S To Keep 2 Million Men in Services

British-in. Battle For ~ ForliField   Fight Bitierly to Gain Important Airship Soullizast of

ITALIAN FRONT IS RAINED OUT   British Push Through Mud To Reach Edge Of Po Valley

SHORTAGE IN * ~ LOUNTY FUNDS   DEPUTY TREASURER OF. 6UM‘MIT COUNTY ADMITS EM“ BEZZLEMENT OF $162,000  '. LINVESTED MONEY .

State Vote Close Ou Sheriff Term   Four Of Six Amendments Apparently Passed

Optimistic Japs Say Americans Lost {1 Vessels   Tekyo Broadcasts Its Version of New Sea Battle

'E’ BOND SALES 39 PCT. OF GOAL   Total Individual Purchases Lag at Only 30 Pet. of Quota Here

E BONDS PUSHED TO 87 PER CENT   Banks, Loans Will Be Open Saturday Night for Subscriptions

NEED $37,385 — TO MEET GOAL   County Now at 89.9 Pct of Its ‘E’ Bond Quota  in 5th War Loan

INDIVIDUAL BOND SALE CONTINUES   Saturday to Close . Four Issues; Others Open to Dec. 28

WAR BOND DRIVE NOW AT 27 PCT,   E Bond Sales Monday Only $6,468; Subscribers Total 1,828

'E’ BOND SALES © NOW AT 39 PCT   $17,287 Added on Today’s Report, With Total $147,762

RECORD BLOW ON HALMAHERA   Bombers Plaster Island  Guarding Philippines; Key Bases Raided

Mighty Air Attack on  Halmahera island Is Being Steadily Reduced

Blasts Path To Philippines   185-Ton Blow Deliv  ered on Halmoheca

AIR BLOWS ON INP-HELD BASES MOUNT IN FURY   Halmahera, Stepping Stone Island To Philippines, Gets Heavy Raid

Yanks Unleash New Air Blows Asainst Japan   135 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Island 300 Miles From The Philippines

STRATEGIC JAP ISLAND BLASTED   Pacific Air Offensive Rolls On Unceasingly

HALMAHERA IS HITBY 135-TON LOADOFBOMBS   Path to Philippines leveled; Japs Feel Allied Rerial Might All Across Pacific

Bombs Pour In Halmahera   Americans Intensify Pacific Air Offense

Yanks Bomb Japs On Isle Base Near Philippines  - panes Unopposed   Planes Unopposed As Airfields, Defenses Blasted

Pacific Air War Hits New Climax In Island Raid   Halmahera, 300 Mis. South Of Philippines, Target Of Record Bombing

Halmahera Raids Set New Record   Allies Achieve New Climax With Bombing Of Strategic Island

Halmahera Is Hit In Heavy Aerial Raid   Blocks Road To The Philippines

NEW CLIMAX IN AGAINST JAPAN   135 TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON HALMAHERA, CLOSE TO PHILIPPINES

135 Tons of Bombs Hit  Halmahera I.   Airfields, Supply Dumps and Defense Plastered; Eight Parked Planes Destroyed, Freighter Sunk

AIR ACTIVITY IN PACIFIC IS BLOW TO JAPS   Halmahcra Island Bombed Tuesday By Large Fleet

Princess Marks  18th Birthday   Elizabeth Now Heiress Apparent To Throne

Elizabeth of England Is Now 18   PRINCESS OBSERVES BIRTHDAY WATCHING GRENADIER GUARDS

Railroads Face Federal Suit  Anti-Truct Action   Anti-Trust Action Against Many

Justice Department Says Railroads Have Acted In Collusion Since 1922

Anti-Trust Suit Against U.S. Railways   Collusion Charged To Detriment of Lines Serving West

Lines Are Accused Of Conspiring to Keen Rafes High   Suit Charges That Improvements Have Been Retarded

Railroads Named In Federal » Anti-Trust Suit  Rate.Fixine. Trade   _ Rate-Fixing, Trade ® Restraint Are Alleged in Action

Rail Bodies Named in Trust Suit   Association of Railroads, Others Named in Justice Dept.. Action

Rails Named by Biddle in Anti-trust Suit   Charge Collusion in Maintenance of Rates, Reterds Improvements

ANTI-TRUST SUIT. FILED AGAINST RAILWAY GROUPS   Justice Depariment Brings Suit Against Two Associations, J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and 47 Individula Railroads

Anti-Trust Suit Is Filed Against Western Rail:   Financial Interests Charged With Maintaining NonCompetitive Rates.   Would Dissolve Assn. Of Railroad System:

US. Files Suit To Dissolve  ~ Rail Groups   Anti-Trust ActionCharges Collusion to Keep Up Western Rates

JUSTICE DEPT, ACCUSES RAILS   Two Associations, Number of Others Charged with Sherman Act Violation

Government Anti- ‘Trust  Rail Suits. : : Are Opened   Callusive, Megal a Action Is: Charged

Rail and Banking Groups, Officers Face Trust Suit   Justice. Dept. Files Action Accusing Inferesis of Action fo Bar Western Competition

GOVT. BRINGS SUIT AGAINST RAIL GROUPS   Anti-Trust Litigation Filed at Lincoln, Nebr. 47 Individual Railroads Named.

Trust Suit Filed Against Railroads  Justice Department Accuses Lines OL Maintaining Hiah Freiaht Rates

Railroads And Individuals Are Named In Suit   Justice Department Files Anti-Trust Case in Nebraska Against Association and Others.

Railroads Face Suit   Violation of Anti‘Trust Law Charged Against Defendants

47 Railroads, Wall St. Firms Named In Suit   Charge Collusion On Rates, Halted Improvements In Western Part Of U. S,

ANTITRUST SUIT IS FILED AGAINST U.S. RAILROADS   JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CHARGES COLLUSION TO MAINTAIN RATES

47 Railroads Named in Suit  U, 8. Asks Dissolution Of AAR and WARE

SUIT 19 FILED AGAINST RAILS   National Groups, 47 Roads Are Named in Government Action.   CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED

ANTITRUST SUT FILED WN LINCOLN BY FRANCIS BIBDIE   is Directed Against Asan. of American Railroads and “Others.   /EXECUTIVES ARE NAMED   Court Asked to Dissolve Association of American Railroads. ~

NEW GERMAN OFFENSIVE SEEN AS. DELAYING ACTION AND DESIGNED TO THROW AMERICANS OFF BALANCE

SAVAGE NAZI COUNTERATIACKS  ALONGEIRST ARMY FRONT EFFORT TO PREVENT CROSSING OF ROFR

The War Today  Nazi Counterthrust Forged To Forestall New Allied Thrust

WAR TODAY   Germans Seize Initia. tive On the Western Front.io Postpone Dread Day of Reckoning With Allies. _,

Germans Are New Fighting In A Deoperate Meod— —By DeWitt Mackenzie (?  Von Bundstedt Seeks To Delay Allied Drive

mAwiee muen Basa stse  Germans tying To Delay Open Battle On Cologne Plains

FIGHTING IN RUTHENIA NEAR END   Soviets Pave Way For q Early Juncture With Patriot Groups

Soviets Move For Slovakia   Reds Have Virtually Completed Ruthenia Conauest: Gain in Prussia

SOVIET MOUNTAIN TROOPS CROSSING — SLOVAK THRESHOLD   Seizure of Umvgar. Nearly Completes Conquest Of Hungarian-Held Ruthenia— Ungvar Gives Reds Supply Route Terminus.

REDS RIP WAY INTO SLOVAKIA   ‘Mountain Troops Press On Nazi Positions

Soviet Troops Smash Across Slovakia Line   Ruthenia’s Chief. City I. Captured by Russians;  Three East Prussian © Towns Seized

Reds Drive Across Threshold OF Slowaltie. ..«. Russian Troops Complete Capture Ruthenian Area

SOVIETS FINISH RUTHENIA PUSH   Strike Across Threshold Of Slovakia In Campaign

Russians Drive Intc Slovakia   Strive to Reach Group Of Isolated Czech Partisans; Little Gain in  East. Prussla Struggle

Russians Across Slovakia Border   Little New Gain In East Prussia

Reds Shift Power  To Balkan Offense   Advance Slowed in Prussia as Russians Smash Path tc Czechoslovakia Through Hungary Although German Counterattacks Halt Drive Toward Budapest

REDS GAPTURE 3 STRONGHOLDS IN EAST PRUSSIA   Russian Forces Virtually Complete Conquest of Ruthenia

Red Army Runs Over Slovakia   CONQUEST OF RUTHENIA VIRTUALLY IS COMPLETED

Reds Continue To  Push Nazis Back   Soviet Mountain Troops Driving Across Thres hold of Slovakia   GAIN A SUPPLY ROUTE   Russians Making Effort: to Reach Czecho-Slovak  Patriot Forces

HELLO TO RELL WITH FDR, NEM DEAL AND REDS   Accused Seditionist Charges FBI Has Made Him Nervous Wreck,

BRING SMYTHE BACK TO TRIAL   ‘To Hell With Roosevelt, Says Accused Man

Sedition Jury Being Chosen   Smythe's Capture, Return Sets Trial Goines

FBI Brings Smythe To Sedition Trial   Cries Defince of New  Deal, President, Reds

Persecution Is Claimed By Smythe   Defiance Of President And Administration Is Voiced As Defendant Appears In Court

BRITISH CLEAN UP GERMANS IN ITALIAN ZONES   Americans Engage In Artillery Duel With Nazi Armor

Kighth Army Drives Into  Arno Loop   Poles Send Patrols 2 Miles Beyond Captured Frontone

Italian Front Quiet: Food Sent To Florence   War Dog Who Saw Service In North Africa and Sicily Now Living Here

BRITISH CLEAN UP AT EMPOL   Poles Expand Holdings In Sector On Adriatic

Nazis Driven  From Empoli   Eighth Army Sets For Drive To North.

BRITISH MOP UP NAZIS IN EMPOLE   POLES EXTEND ADRIATIC HOLDINGS IN ADVANCE

Nazis Cleaned Out of Empoli   Patrols Sent Over Two Miles West of Frontone

Large Part of Italian Front Reported Quiet   Resistance of Germans Ended in Empoli

Farm To City Shift By Young People  Viewed With Alarm At Conference:

Premier Stalin Has Objections to Polish Officials  Letter to Churchill Blactc Hana   Letter to Churchill Blasts Hope For Early Solution

Declaration of Views Follows Russian Note to Hull on Mediation for Poland

STALIN WRITES CHURCHILL NOTE   Voices Russian Objection To Some Polish Government Members

Premier Stalin Has Objections to Polish Officials  Letter to Churchill Blasts Hope For Early Solution

Reds Obiect To Polish Rulers   Premier Stalin Voices Russian Objections In Letter To Churehill.

rican Natives Yearn For Freedom From Exploitation   e Says British Not Inclined To Disgorge Power f

Native African  Forum Speaker  Tells Of Nigeria And Its Aspiration:

GONGRESS FACES EXPLOSIVE (SSUES   Grapples Today With PreChristmas Schedule . That May Blast Leadership Hope For Harmony

FIGHTS FACED BY CONGRESS   “Freezing” of ‘Security Tax Chief Issue That May Blast Harmony Hope

NO SUPER FORTS LOST IN THIRD RAID CN NAGOYA   ampaign Appears Determined to Knock Out Airplane Plan‘s

LONE SUPERFORT DUMPED BOMES ON TOKYO TODAY—  : NAGOYA RAID HIGHLY  OtiIrceeaeriiT.

Superforts Hit Aircraft Plants At Nagoya Agair   All U.S. Bombers Get Back Safely From Third Raid

FIRE LOOTING CHARGE TURNS INTO A ‘DUD’   ‘Benton Harbor Auxiliary Firemen Exonerated By Probe

Charges Of Looting Not Substantiated   Crowd Attends Public Inquiry At City Hall Friday Night; Comedy Relieves Melodrama; Dwans Withdraw Accusations Following Blaze

Queen Mary, 77, Today, Works As Usual On Estate  In Good Health.

NEW MINISTRY IN JAPAN T0 -BENAMED SOON   Army and  Navy Men Will Form New Cabinet

Jap Army, Navy Leaders Fail to  Pick New Premier   Clash Between Two Branches Indicated In Continuing Crisis

British Send Nips Reeling From Kohima   i Allied Offensive " Progresses “at Rapid Pace

British Send Nips Reeling From Kohima pallid Otensive   Allied Offensive -Progresses ‘at Rapid Pace

Japs Losing Near Imphal   British Troops Push Back Invading Army

British Crack Enemy Lines On Indian Front   Jap Divisions May Be Unable To Reach Burma

SUPREME HDQTRS. ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCFE—()    All-Out Bid For Warsaw Under Way By Smashing Soviet Force

ALL-OUT BID FOR WARSAW IS LAUNCHED   Destruction of 32 Nazi Tanks and 800 Troops In Counter-Attacks at Praga   PLANS ARE COMPLETED

RUSSIANS MAKING ALL-OUT BID FOR WARSAW AGAINST: NAZI BITTER RESISTANCE   Soviet Reports Destruction of 32 German Tanks And 800 Prisoners Captured i in Counterattack in Rattle of Praca

WARSAW UNDER SOVIET ATTACK   Reds Launch All-Out Bid For Beleaguered Pele Capital

REDS STRIKE MEET FIERCE RESISTANCE   Increase Menace To Nazi Defenses Below E. Prussia

New Pressure Is Applied In  Warsaw Ares   All-Out Bid Is Made By Russian Troops Te Drive Germans Fron Suburban District

Nazis Resist Bitterly in Praga District, Just Across the Broad and Swift Vistula River From Polish Capital.

Soviet Assault Against Bitter Resistance In Praga District Across Vistula From Besieged Polish Capital Reported — Red Army Forces Driving Toward Rail Center Of Lyck In Masurian Lake Region— Enemy Counter-Attacks Foiled

Final Attempt te Capture Warsaw is Believed Neax   East Prussian Menace Increases as Reds  Strike for Lyck

NAZI RESERVES FAIL TO CHECK SOVIET ADVANCE   - 44NM ANH RERMANS   140,000 GERMANS KILLED IN MONTH IN EAST PRUSSIA

RUSS LAUNCH ALL-OUT DRIVE TO TAKE WARSAW   Battle Across Vistula in Final Stage As Soviets Aim at Heart of Pole Capital

REDS LAUNCH ‘ALL-OUT BID FOR WARSAW   Furious Fighting Flares Ir Praga Area; Hard Nazi Assaults Smashed

RUSSIANS BATTLE FOR WARSAW CITY, NAZIS ATTACKING   Red Armies Massed In Full Force For Final Assauli on East Side of Vistula River.   U, S. TROOPS GET FOOD JO FLORENCE CITIZENS   Jap Isles Bombed From the Kuriles; lwo, Formosa Hil tn Pacific, Spice Group Near Philippines.

SOVIETS LAUNCH ALL OUT ATTACK TOTAKE WARSAW   Germans Offer Bitter Resistance in the Parago District

SOVIETS MAKING ITS REAL ALL OUT BID FOR WARSAW   Struck Bitter Resistance ir Praga District Across the Vistula River.   MOVING TOWARD. LYCK   Soviet Troops Were Driving Through 15-Mile. Defense Belt.

Reds Making All-out Bid [For Warsaw   Bitter Enemy Resistance in Praga District; Soviet Troops Drive Toward Rail Center of Lyck ~ !

Russians Begin A Large-Scale Warsaw Attack   Repulse German Counterattack In Suburban District Of Praga.

Russians Make All-Out Bid  For Warsaw   Meet Bitter Resistance In The Praga District

Reds Ready For All-Out Offensive  On Warsaw   Soviet Army Strikes Into Defense Zone Before Polish Capital; Bitter Resistance Made

All Out Battle For Capital Is “Opened by Reds   Soviets Attempt to  » Overcome Resistance In Praga District  . East of Vistula

German-Soviet Vistula Struggle Seen Near End   Reds Reported As Making Real Bid For Warsaw; Nazis Offer Resistance

Red Army Making Bid for Warsaw   Mention of Capital Returns to Notices

Russians Drive Nazis Back In  Warsaw Areas   Huns Hurl Reserves Into Cownterattacks, Seeking to Push Reds Out of  City’s Outskirts   114. German Tanks Lost In Assaults   80 Settlements Freed In North Zone by Russians Driving Across Estonia, Moscow Says

Knock Off Nazi Blow > al Warsaw   Reds Repulse Counter At‘tacks and Move Up for All-Out Smash  DIG IN STRONG AROUND PRAGA ° rascal Germans Suffer Great Losses in Futile Effort ty Halt Drive

Soviets Open Real Bid For Warsaw   Rokossovsky’s Army Smashes Across Vistula Near Praga

Battleground Is Strewn With Wrecked Tanks, Nazi Dead i   BITTER RESISTANCE:   Irreplaceable Reserves Used in Futile German Counterattacks

Soviets Drive For Lyck In East Prussia   Heavy German Losses Suffered As Reds Gain Territory

32 TANKS DESTROYED NEAR CITY   Menace Of Soviets To East Prussia Grows  As Reds Advance

REDS MAKING ALL-OUT BID pFOR WARSAW   Another Menace To Prussia Is Facing Nazis

Reds Launch All-Out Bid To Capture Warsav      Frontal Battle For Polish City Under Way While German Defenses Also Face Flanking Threats.

WARSAW  Hen 15 UNDER WAY   Another Menace to German Defense, System, Below East Prussia.

Rokossovsky Opens Battle For Warsaw   32 Nazi Tanks Desireyed, 800 of Fee Slain in Initia) Attack eon Praga, Capital Suburb

Russians Make All-Out Bid For Polish Capita   German Reserves Fail To Halt Drive On East Prussia

German Counterblow ‘In Praga Area Ends Without Notable Gain   South Of East Prussia, Russian Forces Drive Through Defense Belt Toward Rail Center At Lyck

Russians’ All-Out Bid To Take Warsaw Seems To Be in Progress Now   Other Soviet Troops Are Driving Through East Prussia Defenses 

REDS MAKING. ALL-OUT. BD. BOR WARSAW   Encounter: S ‘Stiff. -Resistance In’ Praga .  SrA Mey   COMPLETE PLANS   Russian ‘Troops Also - Are Dri iving. To- ward Lvek.-

Reds Making All-Out Bid For Warsaw   Bitter Fight on in Praga District; Reds Drive Toward E. Prussian Base

ALL-OUT RED ASSAULT FOR POLE CAPITAL   Russians Increasing Menace Foi German Forces Defending East Prussia Border Area.

Reds Move Up for Big Drive Upon Warsaw   Germans Putting Up Resistance at Praga Across Yistula River

Reconversion Compromise  Is Ruled Out   Spokesmen on Both Sides of Argument Over Uniform U.S, Pa  Standards Are Firm

JOBLESS PAY BILL DEBATED   Senators Reject Talk of Compromise on Measure  To Fix Standards

Compromise Is Ruled Out In Battle on Conmensation   Government Philosophy Foreign to America Behind ‘Federal. Bill,  W. Virsinian Savc:   RIVAL G.0.P; MEASURE CALLED REACTIONARY   Vandenberg Confident , Coalition Can Defeat ° ’ Murrav-Kileore Bill

SENATE DEBATE ON UNEMPLOYMENT PAY GROWS BITTER   Supporters of Murray - Kilgore Bill and George Measure Reject Talk of  ’ Compromise.   VOTE MAY NOT COME TODAY AS PLANNED   Administration’s Position Not Yet Disclosed — Vandenberg Criticizes Hillman’s  Statement.

senators. Jom In Hot Debate  OnConversion   “Revercomb Sharply Attacks Benefits Provision Of Kiloare Rill

COMPROMISE ISREJECTED BY SENATORS   Senators Fight Over Unemployment Pay. © + ments

Senators Reject Compromise on Pay for Jobless   Spokesman for Both Sides Continue  With Bitter Debate

COMPROMISE ISREJECTED - BY SENATORS      Senators Fight Over Unemployment Pay- ments

BITTER DEBATE IN SENATE ON POST - WAR BILL   Little Chance That Upper Chamber Will Vote On Measure Today

Rowlett Gets Two Planes   Shot Down Nazi Planes in Air During Great Aerial Battle Over Europe

Russia Is Placing Its Committee in Liberated Poland   Exile Government ls By-Passed in Territorial Deal

Russia Plans Poles Pact   Exile Government in London to Be Ignored ir Reaching Agreement

Polish Ewnile Regime Out. Say Soviets   Russians Will Conclude Accord With Committee On Liberation

Soviet Has ‘No Aims’ on Polish Soil   Trade Eastern Poland For Western Germany

Cover Facts Between Poles   Russians Have “No Aim In Acquiring Any Part Of Polish Territory.’

Soviets To Discuss Polish Problems With Liberation  Group, Not Exile Government

Russia Sets Pole  Frontier   Will Deal With National Committee, Soviet Announces

Reds Tell Policy as to Poland   Shuns Exile Government and Will Make Agreement With Liberation Group   BUG RIVER HELD TO BE BOUNDARY   Reds Already Past Line, Saying No Territory Is Desired From Poland

CENTRAL NAZI ARMY RUINED, SOVIETS SAY   Surging Russians Smash Foe in Poland, Expect to Open Warsaw Siege This Week.

Russians Disclaim Any Designs on Polish Territory  Soviets Are to Deal With National Liberation Group

A POLISH PROGRAM   Reds Will Deal With’ Own Committee, Not Government in Exile.

Reds to Recognize New Polish Council   Will Ignore Government in Exile in London. ; to Hand Over to Group in Moscow Civil Administration in Freed Poland.

Demands All East Prus:sia, Other Territory In Postwar Settlement.

Soviets Draft Polish Pact   Recognized Committee of National Liberation Instead Of Exiled Government

Would Reach An Accord in Polish Rights   Russia Will Not Make Claims to Polish Territory

Court Fights Over Bank Rule   Declare Colleagues Are Competing with Congress.

9104 OPINION OF COURT CAUSE FOR CRITICISMS   Minority of Supreme Court Declares Other Justices Are Regulating Banks, In Their Decisions.   SUIT BASED UPON STOCK ASSESSMENT   Failure of Kentucky Banks and Allied Corporation in 1930 Is Passed on By Tribunal.

BicaieeneanER i. dt ce, _ceenmneae amend CIVILIAN DEFENSE FUND USES ARE LIMITED

Social Security Votes Vanishing  Congress May Not Be Able to Override . The Expected Veto

Lessen Chance (Override Veto   Number of Departing Congressmen Worries Tax Freeze Backers.

13-SHIP CONVOY IS DESTROYED BY YANK PLANES   An Estimated 4,000 Japanese Troops Are Believed To Have Drowned   SOME ENEMY TROOPS * REACH LEYTE SHORE

13 Enemy Ships Sunk Off Ormoc   Seven Troop. Transpocts Are Sent lo Bottom

4,000 Men Dumped To Death In Sea   Other Enemy Troops Reach Shore To Aid Nivs In Ormoe Figh

When Fight Trarsports Are Bombed by Allied Air Attack; 13 Enemy Ships Destroyed.  AM leahaa Nain

Leyte-Bound Convov Sunk   Yank Dive Bombers Destroy Flotilla Of 10 Transports, Three Destroyers

,000 Jap Troops )rown in Attack n Leyte Area   Only a Few Men Arrive on Island

[3-SHIP CONVOY SUNK OFF LEYTE BY U. §, AIRMEN   Four Thousand Japanese Reinforcements Drown as 10 Transports and 3 Destroyers Go Down.   8 VESSELS ERASED FAR FROM THEIR GOAL   Some Enemy Troops Reach Shore—Yanks South of Ormoc Beat Off Counter-Attacks.

BOMBS DISRUPT REIGH DEFENSES   Flow Of Reinforcements To Normandy Blasted By U.S. Heavies

Supply Lines Of Nazis Battered   Rocket Coast Also  Severely Pounded _ By AUSTIN BEALMEAR  ee: ee ee We. ... rarer ern *ca.~.

Supply Lines Of Nazis Battered   Rocket Coast Also’ Severely Pounded

YANK HEAVIES BLAST ROCKET INSTALLATIONS   American Fortresses And Liberators Hit Airfields And Rail Bridges After Smashing Pas-DeCalais Area

Bricker, In Speech At Butte, Declares “Unscrambling”’ Is Necessary In Post-War Era

Gov. Bricker Declares Unscrambling of Government Is Needed   “Disorder and Confusion” in Federal Setup Draw Nominee’s Criticism, Ohio Governor Pays Tribute to Montana’s Beauty

‘NEW DEAL DISORDER’ IS BRICKER’S TOPIC   Ohio Governor Speaking in Montana Now

Patriotic Organizations A Are to Ai 4 ‘Church Sunday; Decorate Gan : Tuesday; Parade at 2 p.m

Patriotic Organizations Are to Attend Church Sunday; Decorate Graves _ Tuesday: Parade at 2 p.m.

1,000 Planes Hit Nazi Targets In Northern Italy   Railway Yards, Supply Ports Battered: By Strong Allied Force

1,000 HEAVY PLANES HIT NORTH ITALY   German Supply Lines, Ports Are Given Blasting

NAZI PORTS IN ITALY HIT HARD   1000 Planes Blast Supply Ports, Railroad Targets

KEY PORTS ALSO ARE HAMMERED   More Than 500 Heavy U. S. Bombers Pace Aerial Assaults

Targets in North. Italy Are Plastered   More Than 1,000 Allied Warplanes Take Active Part

FLIERS HiT ITALY RAIL, PORT TARGETS   1,000 Pianes Used In Raids; Bridges, Air Fields Bombed

SUPPLY PORTS ABOVE ROME ~ ARE POUNDEL   Flying Fortresses and Liberators Smash Hard at Nazi Targets.

Nazi Points in Northern Italy Are Attacked   More Than 1000 Allied Planes Are in Action

NAZI RAIL SPOTS POUNDED BY MORE THAN 1000 CRAFT   Day and Night . Visits Are Made By Airmen Who Encounter Very Little Resistance From Foe.   STALIN ISSUES ORDER OF DAY FOR MAY DAY   U. S. Planes Sweep Over Great Area and With Aid of Warship Bomb Two Jap Airfields.

1000 ALLIED PLANES HiT FROM ITALY   Nazi Rail Lines, Supply Ports Pounded By Day And Night

SOVIETS DRIVING “ON PSKOV REACH CITY OUTSKIRTS   Two Powerful Columns Put Great Bastion in Pincer

--NIET FORCES GAIN 15 MILES IN 24 HOURS.   Reach Outskirts of Pskov, Gateway to Estonia, Latvia

RUSSIANS IN. “SWIFT DRIVE “REACH PSKOV   FIFTEEN-MILE ADVANCE TAKES RED ARMY TO ONE OF ' MAIN GATEWAYS TO  BALTIC STATES —

RED COLUMNS REACHPSKOV   Gateway To Estonia and Latvia 150-Mile Nazi Line Shattered

Soviet Columns Now Battling In Pskov Outskirts   Red Troops Converging Strongly Of Gateway To f Estonia And Latvia   HEAVY FIGHTING IN OTHER SECTORS

RUSSIANS NEAR PSKOV, GATEWAY TO BALTIC STATES   Only 6 Miles Away From the North; Garrisons Rear Threatened

BRITISH TIGHTEN NOOSE ABOUT FAENZA   Fighting Bitter Between Tommies and Germans Near Italian High‘  wayw Coastal Point.

British Units Tighten Noose On Coast Town   Eighth Army Advances In Northern italy, Menaces Highway Point Near Lamone ‘River

NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND FAENZA   Water Barrier Crossed By British; German Flanks Pounded

Noose Closes. About Faenza   “British Ang ‘Nears Italian’ Road Center’

Tightening Noose About Faenza Now   British Battle To Cut Of Italian Highway Point

AIR ATTACK UPON GERMANY IS INVASION IM) DEADLIEST SENSE, GEN. ARNOLD SAYS

New, Heavy Blows At Japanese Fleet in Next Few Months Pledged By King

JAPAN'S WAR FLEET BADLY DAMAGEL   She Never Can Hope to Make Up Less Admrial King Said. .Teday.

JAPANESE WAR FLEET - ALREADY DAMAGED BEYOND REPLACEMENT ‘AND NEW BLOWS PROMISED SOON   So Declares Admiral. King Who Says Japan Can. not Hope to Make Up Her Losses. American  Navy Seeking Opportunities to Strike Ships or  Reeas

Adm. King Says Jap War Fleet Is Badly Shot   Heavy New Blows May Be Expected Soon, Says U. S. Navy Chief.

Navy Admiral In Address to FBI Academy   King Points’: Out Heavy Damage Suffered By Jap Fleet

Jap Fleet Damaged Irreparably, Says Adm. King; New Blows Promised

Adm. King Says Japs Will Never Make Up Losses to Fleet   Navy Commander Declares Heavy New Blow May Be Expected Shortly; U. S. Navy To Keep Striking Important Enemy Bases

Yanks Trying To Run Down Enemy for Decisive Battle, Admiral King Reveals

Adm. KingPromises New, Heavy Blows At Japan's Fleet  Says Third of Merchant Fleet Sunk, Warships So Damaged ef e-f_ fs pet. FF. TT area

NAVY PROMISES BLOWS AT JAPS   Admiral King Declares That Empire Must Be Crushed

SAYS JAPAN CANNOT MAKE UP SHIP LOSS   Admiral’ King, Making Statement, Also Says U. S. Plans to Strike Heavy New Blows in Next Few Months.

New Smashe: At Jap Navy Predicted   Heavy New Blows In Pacific Forecast By Admiral King

Admiral Says Enemy Can't Regain Losses   New Assaults Pledged Within Next Few Months

Jap Fleet ‘Crippled Beyond Recovery’ \King Sees Heavy Pacific Blows Soon

Blows Dealt Nippon Fleet Held Mortal   King Sees Enemy Unablé to Replace Heavy Shin Losses

Japs Can't Make Up Shit Losses, King   Heavy New Blows Against Nipponese Predicted

Japan Can’t Make Up Wa Fleet Losses, King States   Navy Commander Says U.S. Will Strike Hard And Often In Next Few Months: Foe Soucht

Navy Commander-in-Chief Tells FBI Grad: Japan Can Never Make Up Ship Losses

KEW BLOW AT JAD FLEET   Declares Japanese Can Never Hope To Make Up Damaeace Sustained

Japs Can't ‘Ever Make Up Losses   And New Heavy Blows May Be Expected In.a Few .: ) Months, King Says   ADMIRAL CITES > .RECENT ATTACKS   * Declares We Shall Create New. Opportunities; Must Wreck Jap Empire

Heavy New Blows At Japs Within ‘Next Few Months’   Seeking Opportunity To Hit Hard, Admiral King Says; Foe Can‘t Make Up His Losses

WEATHER               Cripy ippleds Sap: N avy Doomed Kine Aséerts      Be wath mel  Admiral Says’ ‘Sinkings in in Pacific “W ily: ‘Smash — > Risine Sun Remy:

New Blows: On Jap Fleet Due   King Oeclares Enemy's Se: Strength Already Greatly . Weakened.

HEAVY NEW BLOWS AT JAP FLEET 1S FORECAST BY KING   Navy Commander-in-Chief Says Nip Fleet Is So Damaged That She Can Never Hone to Make Up Losses

Admiral King Tells of Plans To Smash Enemy   Gains Announced In New Guinea as Kuriles Are Raided

Admiral King Seeking Opportunities To Strike.  Heavy New Blows At J ap Fleet May Be Expected

WLB Awaits Order To Seize Mines   17 Pits Closed by Wave of UMW Strikes

Ickes May Take Over 7 Mines   Unauthorized Strikes Hit Coal Mines  In Central Penna.; Lewis Presses Drive

NEW OUTBREAK OF STRIKES IN CENTRAL AREA   Come After War Labor Board Re fers Crisis To White Honse

Summer Papal Palace Faces Bombing: Unless German Army Evacuates Area

Nazis Are In Papal Palace   Allies Will Not Spare Castel Gandolfo If German Forces Remain There

Allies Keep Eyes On Glider Bombs  Explosives Kept Under Control From Plane

GLIDER BOMB WARNING GIVEN   Nazi Weapon Potent  Threat to Shipping  ee ere ener ed

Glided Bombs Big Problem “For Airfor “CES   First Description of New -- Nazi-Weanon Used at® Anzio and Salerno

ALLIED AIRFORCE  MUST TAKE CARE OF  NAZI ROCKET BOMBS ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE  NOT EFFECTIVE AGAINST NEW WEAPON

NAVAL ATTACK ON PARAMUSHIRO   NEW AERIAL WEAPON THREAT AGAINST ALLIES  Invasion of Continent to See Strange Battle of Glider Bombs

Germans Certain To Make Supreme Effort To Drive Invasion Force Back Into Sea, Experts Believe, as Nazis Mass Near Beachhead — Most Feel Allies Will Weather Storm   Rocket Glider Bombs Used by Nazis One of Big Invasion Threats

Glider Bombs Invasion Menace  May Play Impertant Part When Test Come:

INVASION FLEET MUST COMBAT NEW GLIDER BOMBERS   Potential Danger from New German Rocket Propelled Bombing Planes Stressed

Supreme Court Clamp. “Censorship” on Minority Decisions   Dissent Filed by Justice Morris in Contempt Action Is Expunged From Record by’ Three Other Members of Montana Tribunal

SIEGFRIED LINE TO CRACK, HE ASSERTS   American Officer Declares, Allies Will Break Through

Siegfried Defense Line Believed No ‘Stronger Than Vaunted Atlantic Wall

egfried Line, With No Greater Strength Than Atlantic Wall, ls Doomed, Staff Officer Asserts

Berlin Commentator Says War To Be Decided in Less Than Three Months

Italian City Of Livorno Falls To American Forces   The War Today

ALLIED TWO-FRONT VICE TIGHTENING DEATH-GRIP ON HITLER IN BIG WAY IN EASTERN THEATRE AND NORMANDY   Berlin Itself Admits This Is the Showdown and That War Will Be Decided in Three Months; Normandy Offensives Preceded by 2,000 Planes

King Warns of — New Jap Cabinet   No Aid Or Comfort To. Be Gotten From Change

Admiral King Says New Nip Cabinet Means Change In War Waging Method

Detroit’ Foremen Stil on Strike  War Plants in Area Are Beina Tied Un

CLIMAX CLOSE ~INBATTLE ON — FTALIAN RON}   Believe Beachhead Will B« Held With Superior Air Power.

Battle For © Cassino InNew Fury   ‘German Lines In Russia  Continue To Crumble  Befere Red Assault.

Allied Forees Hold Ground Along Coast   German Lines in Russia Continue To Crumble

Critics Force ‘Policy Crisis On Churchill   Vote of Confidence Demanded in Disput Over Greece. Italy

Jap Kwantung - Push Resumes   Chinese Say. Enemy Losi 74.000 at Henavans' ~~

CLAIM 14,000 JAPS SLAIN AT HENGYANG   Japanese Attacking Yingtak From South; Failure to Take Hengyang Would Be Severe Blow.   Want Rail City

14,000 Japs Die Hengyang Rails   Chinese Admit Japs Attacking Yingtak, 70 Miles From Canton.

Correspondent Learns Gestapo General Gave Order for Inhuman Mass Murder

Freach Women and Children Locked  xk * * ¥ , a. 3 In Church, Machine-Gunned and Then *. * *¥ ¥ ie * Burned By Nazis: Whole Citv Murdered

Nazis Murder All Citizens 1 in French Town Women ‘and Children Shot, Then Burned

1,200 French, Mostly Women, Children, Vassacred In Idyllic Village By Nazis

- 1.200 French Men, Women And Children, Herded ‘Into Buildines. Are Machine-Gunned And Burned   Bye THMWUARND KENNEDY

ORADOUR WAS ONCE A BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE MIDST LOVELY ROLLING COUNTRYSIDE BUT WAS DESTROYED

Germans Burn Village and 1,200 Inhabitants   BRv FODWARD KENNEDY

Nazis Wipe Out French  Town in Savage Reprisal   EFHWaRD KENNEDY

Fiendish Slaughter  Nazi Atrocity In Oradour  Described By American

EDWARD KENNEDY TELLS STORY’ OF GERMAN BARBARITY IN ALL ITS FLOWER IN FRENCH TOWN

Newsman in France Uncovers Tale Of Sickening Nazi Brutality   BY EFDWARD KENNEDY

Nazis Herded 1 200 French In School, Church, Burned Them   Shot Through Windows, Tossed In Phosphorus Bombs: Babies, Women And Men Put To Death

1,500 Villagers Butchered  French Herded Into Buildings, Shot, Burned.

Germans Massacre More Than 1,200 Men, Women And Children And Then Burn Village In France

Full Story Of How Germans Burned Town   Inhabitants of French Vil. lage Shot, Burned Alive In Revenge

‘Nazi SS “Elite Guard” Burned French Town  With Its 1500 Residents   By EDWARD KED

ae - —  Allies Strike from All Sides Today At Remnants of German Forces in Northern France: Many Are Killed

ESCAPE GAP IN NORMANDY CUT TO SIX MILES   ‘Allies Strike At Trapped German: From All Sides Of Pocket

GERMAN 7TH ARMY INNORMANDY TRAP LOSES THOUSANDS   Shaken By Incessant. Pounding of Allied Planes and ” Shelifire, 12 Divisions At“tempt Escape, ;   BERLIN REPORTS NEW TANK DRIVE ON PARIS   Fierce Fighting In Progress North of Chartres, Only 46 Miles Southwest of Capital City.

ALLIES PINGH FLIGHT ROUTE TO SMX MILES   Troops Strike From All Sides at What Remains of Seventh Army.

Yanks Battle 43 Miles From Paris, Close Gap In Nazi Escane Corridor

Berlin Reports Fierce Fighting Near Chartres      Canadians Cut Escape Corridor To Six Miles

ALLIED ARMOR STRIKING EAST FOR CHARTRES   Berlin Reports Tangent From Bloody Trap In Normandy

While Canadians Storm’ Into The Outskirts Of Falaise    SQUEEZING ENEMY INTO SIX MILE GAP   —_—_—e OO ee SAT RB ROR NAKED  Thousands Of Prisoners And Great Quantities Of Booty Taken

a a  Germans Face Capture Or Death In Normandy As Flight Gap Narrows   Thousands Of Prisoners Taken In Falaise-Argentan Area; New  Drive On Paris Is Hinted

Allied Troops Liberate Corfu   German Garrison Flees Offering No Oppositior

——~EeeePh EES he SF lode  ‘Two Officers ‘Hurt Fatally Im Air Crash

Fourth War Loan Drive Is Extended ToFebruary 26 ,   E FandG Bond — Sales Continue to Count on Quotas

British Occupy Thebes; Nazis Continue Retreat   Civilian Relief Measures Being Started To Needy Greeks.

British Occupy Thebes Near Athens as Nazis Flee Toward Yugoslavia

Weatner Wins Round in Italy   ARTILLERY DUELS FEATURE FIGHTING   Huge American Convo y Reaches England Unmo- lested By Submarines.

Florence Is Officially In Hands OF Allies   Polish Troops Advance Along Adriatic Line

Allies Complete Florence Capture   City Firmly Held, All Nazi Snipers Liquidated

T ruck Tractor Operator Held as  Drunken Driver   Lodged in County Jail Following Arrest Sunday in Kane

Girls Slate College Board Appeal As ‘Prexy’ Stands Pat on Curfew

Grand Jury Charges Group With Conspiracy to Corrypt Leaislature.   ACCUSE CHIROPRACTORS

Paroled Convict Is Arrested For Women’s Murder   Dick Brown, 28, Once  Asylum Inmate

HUGE FORCE OF BOMBERS AGAIN BLASTS EUROPE   Upwards Of 2,000 Heavies And Escorting Fighters Attack Plants, Aijrfields And Railways In  France; Hannover  Raided.

HEAVY AIR COVER    Allied Air Fortes Support Invasion With Many Attacks

U, 5. BOMBERS RIP NORMANDY BATTLEFRONT   Fliers Pound E-Boat Bases at Le Havre; Nazis Report Hannover Attack

1,000 Bombers Many Fighters  Over France   Hit Airplane Plants, Airfields Rail Facilities

Huge Armada 0! , Bombers Blasts French Targets   Aircraft Factories, Rail Centers Suffer; E-Boat Pens At LeHavre Hit.

Bomber Armada Lashes France, Reich By Day   Up To 2,000 Heavies Deliver Assault On Enemy Plants, Rails, Airtielde: RAF Active

GREAT BOMBING FORGE ATTACKS FRENCH PLANTS   Between 1,000 and 2,000 Forts and Liberators Smash ot Targets

Allies Pound  French Bases   Strong Force Strikes Plane Plants. Fields. Railroads;  RAF Active.

Huge-Swarms Of American Bombers: Lash Industrial Centérs In Europe

Airplane Plants And Railways Hit By Fortresses And Liberator Planes

Aerial Activities Over Fortress of Europe Stepped Un   About 3,000. Planes,in Air ‘in’ Day. and Night’ Bombins Attacks

U.S. Planes Blast Targets i in France, Airplane Plants:   Air Fields, Railroad Facilities in More Than 12 Places Are Allied Objectives

Up to 2,000 Yank Planes  Comb France   Forts, Liberators Hit Plants, Communications, Lancasters -Blas? Le Havre E-Boai Pens

Bombers Continue To Pound at  Nazis in France  Another Attack Made On Industrial  City of Hannover

MULTIPLE A ATTACK GIVEN GERMAN AREF   U. S. Bombers Follow Up Yesterday's Raids: RAF Busy During Night

Heavy ‘Smashes Support Ground Forces; RAF Drops “Bactory-Busters.'

pot et oes  Huge Armada’ Of.U. S$ Planes In Attack On French Areas      ‘Between 1,000 And 2,0) -Bombers.. And Escorting Fighters Support: Invading Ground Forces; RAF In First- Precision Daylight Raid

Huge Force U.S. Heavies Again Blasts Enemy Plants   British Use Six-Ton Bombs In Daylight Precision Attack On Le Havre E-Boat Pens

VAST FLEET HITS FRANCE VIOLENTLY   1,000 To 2,000 Anrerican Planes Unloose Fury

Bombers Continue Te Pound at  Nazis in France  Another Attack Made On industrial -

GREAT AERIAL FORCE SWEEPS FRANCE TONAY   Germans Suffer reat Losses  In Raids

U.S. Airmen Smash Deeper Into France   Important Targets Blasted in a Dozen Different Places

DOZEN PLACES BOMBED TODAY   Between 1,006 and 2,000 Planes Sweep” Over France Today.   HEAVY RAID LAST NIGHT

German E-Boat Pens Hit With Blockbusters      France Battered By Big U. S. Armada Today Akg Follow Un.

PLANES SWARN OVER FRANCE   Great Yank Aerial Armada Blasts Nazi Transport Facilities

BACK INVASION  WITH SMASHING  AERIAL ATTACKS BLAST BOAT.PENS.  AT LE HAVRE WITH ’ FACTORY BUSTERS

Yank Planes Pound Fields Rail Points   Berlin Reports Hannover Attack E-Boat Pens at Le Havre Blasted

Huge Fleet of U.S. Bombers  Sweep France   1,000-2,000 Liberators and For ts Stab at German Targets

ISLAND BASES — "ARE BATTERED ~ IN NEW RAIDS      JAPANESE. STRONGHOLDS  -FROM NEW GUINEA "TO  “" TRUK ARE TARGETS OF AIRMEN

GIANT JAPANESE AIR BASE AT HOLLANDIA OBLITERATED   Lies In.Smouldering Ruins After Terrific Kayo Blow By U.S. Bombers  eee om   No Enemy Resistance; Buildings Collapse; Big Base at Truk Pounded

Hollandia s  Now In Ruins   Knockout Blow Given J ap Base In New Guinea By Air Assault

More Than 900 Ships Now In Huge U.S. Fleet   Doesn't Include Any ‘Small Stuff,’ Knox States

900 Warships Now In U. S. Fleet   Knox Says No “Small Stuff” Is Included

Airborne Vets Fighting Nazis  Bradley Calls On His Old Unit To Lead Way

Court Terminates Sure of Wards   Federal Petition for Injunction Dismissed

GERMANS BESIEGED   1,000 Take Up Positions Five Miles From Geneva

BRITISH GAIN IN DRIVE ON BOLOGNA   Patrols Active Or 5th Army Front Below City

$4,000,000 Damage Done  In Big Fire   Hudson River Pier, Three Barges Burn; Save Liberty Ship

Fire Destroys Hoboken Pier   3 Barges, Derrick Burn In $4,000,000 Blaze

FIRE DESTROYS HOBOKEN PIER      Blaze Causes $4,000,000 Damage, 14 Injured, 3 Barges Burn

Blt BUMBERS SET FIRES IN YAWATA AREA  Super Fo “te al Out Twin Blow  FOUR ‘SHIP S LOST   Super Forts Deal Out Twin Blow

SUPERFORTRESS RAIDS ON JAPAN START BIG FIRES   Returning Pilots Report Fair Results Bombing Steel Center

BUPER-FORT PILOTS REPORT ¥YAWATA HARD . HIT—FOUR  399s REPORTED  ‘ev MMBBING

WORK DRAFT FOR 4-FS° LOOMS NEAR      Boards‘ May Force Rejectees Into  War Jobs

Army: Navy Heads Suggest Work Draft for Men in 4-F   Propose Civilian Pay for Labor Army In Plan Which Also Includes Class 33 to 45 to Meet Man Power Shortage

Military Pay For 4-I Draftees   Civilians In Essential Industry To Continue, Others  To Be Forced.

Yankees Sweep  Far East Skies   MacArthur Clears Acrial Doth in Philinnines

D. P. Reece Rites Friday -Afternoon   Services Will Be at.2 o’Clock at Lock Springs Presbyterian Church.

Reds By-Pass German Base t Flank Warsaw   ® Sets Stage for 2-Way Assault on The Polish Capital

German Stronghold Of Radom By-Passed In Lighting Advance   Drive Sets Stage for Coordinated Two-Way Assault on Polish Capital, Warsaw

First Ukrainian Army Pours Across Vistula River on 75-Mi. Wide Front

KONEV ARMY ADVANCING ON WARSAW   Sets Stage For 2-Way Assault On Polish Capital

Russians Flank Warsaw Forces   Bypass Strongpoint To Prepare For Attack On Capital From South And East; Nazis Bring Reserves Into Battle

SOVIET TROOPS BYPASS RADOM, CROSS VISTULA   Thunderous Barrage Is Stepped Up Over Szeszuppe River

New Drive on Warsaw. From South Started   , Konev‘s Troops Cross Vistula on 75-Mile Front

Stage Set For Two-Way Assault On Warsaw, Soviet Guns In Thunderous Barrage

Radom By-Passec By Red ‘Troops In Lightning Drive   Russian Units Push Toward Warsaw From Southern Points

‘Reds Circle Radom In Swift New Lunge   By-Passing Poses Direct Threat Of Pincers Assault Upon Warsaw

Ukrainian Army Over Vistula  By-Pass Radom In Advance to Within 50 Miles

STAGE SET FOR NEW. ASSAULT   New ‘ Drive Preparing for Coordinated Offensive Against Polish Capital — Troops Pouring Across Vistula River.

Japan Yields Concessions   Agrees To Return To Russia Oil And Coal Rights On Island.

J aps Give Back To Russ Coal,  Oil Cencessions   Return Sakhalin Island Holdings 26 Years Betore Expiration Date

Stuttgart Is ‘Hit By 1,000 RAF Bombers   Yank Heavies Follow Up With Another Hard Daylight Blow At Reich.

Jap Air Unit  Said Smashed   Liberators in Celebe: Destroy Remnant

PLANES BLAST SECRET BASE OF NIPPONESE   LIBERATORS WRECK 15 JAP MACHINES IN CELEBES RAID

TIGHTEN NOOSE AROUND JAPAN   Stimson Says Widespread Blows Fit Into Allied Pattern

YANK AND JAP INFANTRY MEET IN NEW GUINEA   Stiff Fighting in Both Hollandia and Aitape Regions

Former Flyer ‘Steals Plane.   Convicted Man Escapes From. Alabama ‘Field

Senator’s Proposal  Considered   { Allies Study Plan to Save Historic Shrines

ROME STATUS BEING STUDIED   Allied-Axis Commission Under Pope Suggested

Saving Rome Plan Studied   Cordell Hull Tells Of Military Angles Involved in Problem

Consider ~ Moves to Save Rome   Whole Question of the City’s. Military Status, Being Studied   KEPT CONSTANTLY IN MIND, HULL SAYS   Replies: to, Sen. Bridges, Who Suggests Commission Work. on Details

Us.studying Rome’sStatus Hull Reveals   Sen. Bridges’ Plan fo. Joint Demilitarization Group Gone Over

Rome Military Status Being  Fully Weighec   Hull Tells Sen. Bridges His Proposal for Commiission Headed by Pope Considered

Aviation Open Yet To 17 Year Olds   Plan to Use Young Men For Future Pilots is the Supposition

What It Means . . Jap Governmental Crisis Is Recognition Empire’s Peril

NIPPON EMPIRE FACING CRISIS   Cabinet Shift Interpreted As Realization of Peril

WAR TODAY   jupan, Recognizing Her Peril, Expected To Return Militarists To Power With New Cabinet

WAPANESE CABINET ‘CHANGES SIGNIFY FEAR OF DEFEAT   Tojo Wishes to Shift Responsibility of Final OutCome War in Pacific

VWUCIGUE EF FVEDWUES «© «  Jap Governmental Crisis Is ~ Recognition Empire’s Peril

OPA, WPB Boost Housing Project   Raise Price List On Homes Which May Be Built Now.

Eighth Romps Toward The Po   New “Secret” Bombing Freak Revealed

Reds Crack Budapest Defense Line Of Foe      Berlin Admits That Russians Have Reached Heart Of Capital And That Battle Is Greatest In Fury Since Stalingrad.

Berlin Communique Admits Grim Fight Rages in Budapest   Russians Said to Have Penetrated Into Heart of City’s Defenses

Austrian Bound Reds in Gains   RUSSIANS CRACKED NAZ! DEFENSES AROUND BUDAPEST

sud: apest Battle I’ ury Lne ‘qualed   Russians Fight in Heart of Capital As Nazi Defenses Break   Battie Races.

REDS HAMMER NAZI GARRISON AT BUDAPES   Meanwhile, Austria - Bound Soviets Score New Gains Along Danube

Reds Crack Defense Ring   Smash Deeper..Into. . a: pest; Another Army F  ing Way Up Danube

Russians Speed . Advance Toward Austrian Capital  a ‘Drive Is Proceeding   Drive Is Proceeding v, Along Both Sides  Of Danube; Bloody - Battle in Budanes+

Soviets Push into Heart of Budapest   Another Important Battle Raging on Drive Upon Vienna

REDS CRACK INNER RING AT BUDAPES}   Is One of Three Defense Ares Set Up by Nazis Inside City—-Soviets Also Gain Along the Tiannhe River:

Russians Making All-Out Bid To  Capture Capital   Red Army To North Steps Up Drive Toward Austria

fake All-Out id In Bloody ighting   Two-Pronged Offensive Also ‘Launched At Communications  ‘Center Of Komarom

Battle Door ‘To-Deor Now ‘In Budapest, Germans Say   Russians In Iteart Of Hungarian Capital; Another Army In Nortt “Headed For Austria

NAZI TENACITY RETAINS BUDA   Russian Army Aims To Gain Control Of City Within Days If Not Hours.

oviets Gain n Budapest;  ear Vienna   Nazi Defenders Of  Hungarian City  Psa Drive Back   IOVE ON KOMAROM   Outside Vienna And  fous Is Rail Center Bratislava

Reds Fighting In The ‘Heart Of Budapest’   House-To-House Battles For Hungarian Capital Reach Unequaled Fury.   DECLARED BY NAZIS

Germans State Russians Inside Budapest Today   Nazi High Command Says House - to - House Battles for Hungarian Capital Are Beine Fought.

REDS PUSH FAR INTO BUDAPEST   BATTLE FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE IN HEART OF HUNGARIAN CITY

Russians Fighting in Heart of Budapest, Germans Announce  ouse-toa-house Battle Raa

Heart of Budapest Reached by Soviets   Nazis Reveal Penetration; Russians Say Defense Ring Broken; 2 Armies Drive Ahead on Road to Austria

Russ Forces Fight in Heart — Of Budapest   Crack First of Three Inner Defense Rings of Nazi Garrison

REDS CRACK  INTO DEFENSE  :  OF BUDAPEST   House-to-House Battles for Hungarian Capital Reach Fury Unequalled Since Stalingrad   SUBURBS ARE CLEARED

Germans Assert Budapest Scene (Of Street Battles   Fury Of Fighting Reported Unequaled On East Front Since Stalincrad Siege

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE DEEPER INTO BUDAPEST   Other Russian Troops Push Within 58 Miles of Austria

Reds “Crack Budapest’ S  Inner Defense Circle      Fanatical: Nazis. Battle’ “Desperately: ‘To Stem Rus: . Sians’As. Austrian Bound Soviet. Army ees Drive-Alone Danube =~

Reds Crack Nazi Defense Ring !n Hungarian Capital   Germans Say the Russians Reach Heart of Budapest

Soviets Crack Three Nazi Defense Lines   Austria-Bound Army  Stepping Up Drive Upon Vienna

Reds Smash Nazi Forces In Budapest   Germans Hurled Out of 12 Eastern Suburbs of City; Advance Toward Bratislava and Vienna Continues 

Inner Defenses Of Hungarian Capital Yield   Fury Of Struggle Equal To Stalingrad, Front Reports State

Red Troops Reach Heart Of Budapest   inner Defense Ring Cracked: Big Battle Rages

CRACK INNER RING   Reds Drive Germans From 12 Eastern Suburbs of Budapest

Reds Fight In Heart  Of Budapest   Fanatically Resisting Nazis Give Ground Before Furious Russian . Tank aad Avmor Attack

DRIVE AUSTRIA 4NCREASED   Soviets Smash First Of Three Defense Rings In City

FIERCE BATTLE AAGING IN CITY   Budapest Struggle Reaches Fury Unequaled Since ‘Stalingrad.

SMASH DEEPER INTO BUDAPEST   Reds Crack First Inner Defense Ring Thrown  Up By Nazis

ALL - OUT DRIVE BY SOVIETS REPORTED   Heaviest Fighting Since Stalingrad Announced   12 SUBURBS   Cleared Of Enemy Troops; U. S. And British Planes Join In Bombing

Reds Crack Defense Ring   Smash Daeneysinte, Built       ing "Way ‘Up Banube

Reds Reach Center Of Budapest   Bitter Fighting Rages in City, Germans Admit

RUSSIANS ARE FIGHTING IN HEART OF BUDAPEST   This Was Announced Today by the German High Command.   HOUSE TO HOUSE BATTLE   Reached a’ Fury Unequaled on the Eastern Front Since Stalingrad.

RUSSIANS CRACKED FIRST OF TRIO INNER BUDAPEST DEFENSES  RED FORCES. MAKE ALLOUT BID TO WIN CONTROI HUNGARIAN CAPITAL

Russ Troops Reach Heart Of Budapest   Fighting Fury Unequallec Since Stalingrad Is Renorted in Progress

Russians Said Fighting in Heart Of Budapest   Battle Reaches Fury Unequaled on Eastern Area Since Stalingrad

Soviets Crack  First Inner. — Defense Ring Within City   Make. All-Out:.Bid For City’s Control,

Fight For Gity Is Repetition Of Stalingrad   Furious House-to-House Battles Raging Through’ . Hungarian Metropnlie   U. S. and British Planes Aid Reds   Nazi High Command Says Garrison Defending  Capital Against Heavy Odds

SOVIET DRIVE STEPPED-UP ON EASTERN FRONT   Danube Approach  Is Scene Of Big Battle

Man Is Killed In Trolley And Truck Crash   Fatal Accident On Jefferson Boulevard, Braddock Heizhts

BOONSBORO MAN FATALLY HURT BY STREET CAR   Elmer C. Long, 46, In Truck Hit By Trolley At Braddock Heights .   MOTORMAN UNABLE TO AVOID COLLISION

CHARGES MEASURE "INGREASES TAXES   NEW JERSEY SOLON ATTACKS SIMPLIFICATION BILL IN HOUSE DEBATE.,

STREAMLINE TAK BILL 1S ATTACKED   Rep. M’Lean Declares Measure Is Vehicle for Substantial Boost in Taxes; Dise putes Experts’ Estimates

NEW TAX BILL IS ATTACKED IN THE HOUSE   New Jersey Solon Calls Measure Vehicle for ° Boosting   DISPUTES FIGURES GIVEN BY EXPERTS   Overwhelming Passage of Bill Today !s Exnected

Simplified Bill Said Tax Boost   But House Is Seen Ready Tn Sneed Pacenur

32 Demos 15 G.0.P. Certified      Prohibitionists Also To Be On Ballot For Primaries On July 18

Nomination Goal Of 47 Candidates   32 Democrats And 15 Republicans Are In State Primaries

Germans Privately Admire Petain  \Likewise Consider Laval a Traitor

Marshall Petain Has Never Pulled Punches In Dealing With Nazi Conquerors Of France

BULLET WOUND — GAUSED DEATH   Police Baffled By Slaying Of Man And Woman  In Baltimore

MINERS VOTE DEWEY PRAISE   Approve Report Criticising Roosevelt Administration

UMW UNION 10 Bt NON POLITICAL   But Strongly Criticized F.D.R. Administration And Praised Dewey

Mount Cleveland Volcano Erupts  Army Installation Evacuated: One Los

ARMY BASE HAS TO BE MOVED FROM ISLAND OFF ALASKA BY VIOLENT VOLCANO ERUPTION

B-29’s Raid Jap Airplant  In Hurricane   Despite Conditions Forts Completed 7th Mission in 27 Days

SUPERFORTS BLAST OMURA   Big Planes. Battle Through Hurricane to Raid Jap Aircraft Center

B-29’sEncounter Severe Storm Over Omura.   Planes Tossed About. -And_ Some Turn-Away For Blows at Nanking...

‘Superforts Raiding Japanese Aircraft Cente Tossed Around Like Feathers by Hurricane

FORTRESSES RAID OMURA PLANE PLANT   In Japanese Homeland in Teeth of Violent Hurricane Which Tosses Airplanes Like Feathers.   Driven Off

Yanks Repulse Beach Thrusts   Enemy Infantry Battalion Hurled Back at Anzio

FRENCH TROOPS REPULSE NAZIS NEAR CASSINO   Artillery Duels Underway On Eighth Army  Front

Nazis Hurled Back  In Anzio Fighting   American Troops Score in Short, Fierce Battle Below Cisterna—Ground Fighting Is Limited as Result af Bad Weather

YANKS TURN BACKTHRUST OF GERMANS   In Short Fierce Battle Below Cisterna Allies Win Other Minor Clashes On Beachhaad   Score Hits

Nazi Battalion Is Thrown Back   Minor Clashes on  Beachhead Reportec

Nazi Infantry Attack Smashed By Americans   More Successes Won on Beachhead

NAZIS HURLED BACK IN SHARP ANZIO BATTLE   Allies Win Other Successes in Beach head Clashes

Yanks Repulse Nazis In Beachhead Battle   Germans Make Advance But Americans Counterattack and Regain Positions: British Cruiser Shells Enemy Lines

Britain Joins United States In Refusing To Give Bolivia Recognition Of New Rule

BRITAIN AGREES THAT BOLIVIA'S REGIME ‘SHADY   Eden Announces His Govern ment, Too, Will Not Give Recognition

U. S. and British “No” to Bolivia  Two Governments ‘Refuse Recognition _ Of New Regime

Argentine ‘Break With Axis Looms   Snubbing Of Bolivia B: U. S. “And Others Mark Joint Action Against En emy Intrigue.

GERMANS AIDED IN BOLIVIAN COUP, SAYS ANTHONY EDEN   Britain Joined United States in Refusing to Recognize New Government.   SPOKE BEFORE COMMONS      Eden Said British Government Was in Step With This Country.

BRITISH REJECT BOLIVIAN JUNTA   Eden Says Nation Is ‘In Sten With U. S. In Refusal to Give Recognition.

Britain Refuses Recognition To Bolivia Regime; Smells Of Axis   Joins With U. S. And Other American Nations After Eden Says Coup There Had Been Aided By German Agents.

Bolivian Coup Laid to Nazis By Allied Powers   New Government Not Recognized By U. S.. Britain

Britain Not To Recognize Bolivian Government   Follows Action Of U.S.; Coup Aided By German Agents, Eden Reports

Britain Joins U. S. In Refusing Recognition ~ To Bolivian Government

Bolivia Given  Cold Shoulder   Britain Joins U. 5., Other Countries In Denial Of Recoznition

BOLIVIA RULE   Eden Tells House of Commons German Agents Caused Coup and Recog-: nition is Refused.

U.S. Refuses To Recognize Bolivia   Will Not Recognize Bolivia’s Revolutionary Junta; Hostile To Allies.

Britain Joins U. 5. Refusing Bolivian Regime   Eden Tells Commons: He Believes Coup Engineered by Nazis

Bolivia Denied Recognition By Gr ‘eat Bri itain   Joins U. S. and Seven Other Western Hewisphere Nations In Such Action

BRITISH JOIN WITH UJ. 5. IN REFUSING RECOGNIZE BOLIVIA  EDEN SAYS COUP BELIEVED HAVE REEN AIDE]

Britain Joined U.S. On Bolivia   BRITISH OFFICIAL IN PROTEST AGAINST REVOLT

List 70 Dead, 168 Missing In Cleveland Fire   50-Square Block Areo Burns; Damage Runs To $8 Million; 3,600  Persons Homelecc

47 Deadin Gas Storage Plant Fire    150 Persons Reported Missing; $6,000,000 Plant Destroyed; 3,600 Left Homeless in Cleveland

Fear 200 Die In Cleveland Gas Explosion   Known Fatalities of Friday Blast Now 70 Dead, ; 168 Missing

Cleveland Blast Death Toll Grows   Worst Conflagration in History Of City Believed Under Control

CLEVELAND BLAST  AND FIRE DEATH TOLI  CONTINUES TO CLIMB EXPLOSION AND RESULT ANT FIRE TOLL MAY REACH TWO HUNDRED

FEAR FATALITIES MAY REACH 200 AS FLAMES DEVASTATED [AREA ONE-HALF MILE SQUARE

Cleveland’s Blast Death Toll Grows   Fire Sweeps  Half-MileSquare Area After Gas  Explosions   BIG TANKS BLOW UP   Hundreds of Persons Dead or Missing; Over 200  Hospitals

Death Toll Is 47, Mounting Hourly In Cleveland Explosion Holocaust

Many Dead, 3,600  Homeless By Fire  50-Block Cleveland Conflagration

ONE-HALF MILE SQUARE AREA DEVASTATED   168 Persons Are Officially Listed As Missing   Damage From Explosion In Gas Storage Plant Estimated At 6 Millions

Cleveland's Worst Fire Leaves /0 Dead, 168 Missing   Explosion in Gas Plant Touched Off 50-Block Area

_—_  7) Dead and 168 Missing In Ohio's Worst Holocaust   Explosions In Gas Com: pany’s Storage Plant p.inos Untold Losses.

70 Dead And 168 Missing In Cleveland Holocaust; Searchers. Seeking Bodies

Thousands Are Homeless; 235 to Hospitals   Area Half-Mile Sauare Devastated; Fire Starts in Gas Storage Plant   » SERIES OF BLASTS SPREAD FLAMES   Red Cross Fears Death Toll May Reach 200; Damace Into Millions

FIRE RAGES IN SOBLOCK AREA ON EAST SIDE   Thousands Made Homeless As Liquid Gas Tank Explodes

42 Persons. Die, Many: Missing In Tank Blasts   Great Fire Rages In Wake Gf Explosion; Damage In Cleveland Area Rising Hourly

70 NOW DEAD, 168 MISSING IN CLEVELAND   Officials Fear Toll May Reach 200 in Fire Which Results From Terrific Explosion of a Liquid Gas Plant. ,

Pro-FDRs Granted Motion To File Suit for Electors and Arguments Set for Wednesday

ROOSEVELT DEMOS WIN FIRST ROUND IN SUPREME COURT  MOTION TO FILE MANDAMUS GRANTED; HEAR ss ARCTIIMENTS WRNNECNAY

Pros Granted Right To File Ballot Case.   Others Must” Be “Parties To Suit

PRO-ROOSEVELTIAN TEXAS DEMOCRATS TAKE ONE INNING   High Court Grants Motion ir Mandamus Action; Hearing on Wednesday

ROOSEVELT DEMOS WIN FIRST ROUND IN SUPREME COURT ©  MOTION TO FILE MANDAMUS GRANTED; HEAR ARGUMENTS WEDNESDAY

Pros Granted Right To File Ballot Case  Others Must Be ~~ 2,¢§  . = € %yg

Feature Finder   McGlincy (Lord, How They Kissed Us!) Radios from Paris

Grew New Assistant;  Three Quit   Big Shakeup Replaces Career Diplomats With Business  Experience.

Roosevelt Names Grew Undersecretary; New Assistants for Stettinius   By RORERT J. MANNING

FDR Appoint: Grew as Stettinius Aid   Names 3 Assistanls In Overhaul of State Department

, ée State Department Officials Quit, Grew amed Undersecretary   esignation of Berle, Two Others ccepted in Sweeping Shakeup;

Chur chill, Stalin: Unable To Solve Polish Dispute   Good Working Agreement _ Reached By Big Three. a y ee renee

CHURCHILL STATES © AGREEMENT REACHED WITH SOVIET RUSSIA   PROBLEMS SOUTHEAST EUROPE SETTLED; POLISH MATTER HANGS FIRE

Churchill Cites Unity of Allies   Says “Very Good Working Agreement”  Reached With Russia

Determination Of Allies Solid, Churchill Says   Polish Question Still Unsettled, He  Tells Commons

CHURCHILL REPORTS RUSSIAN AGREEMENTS   Southeastern Europe Problems Settled But Not Polish Dispute

Churchill Admits Efforts To Solve Russ-Polish Dispute Unsuccessful

GIVES REPORT ON CONFERENCE   Churchill Says Efforts in Polish-Russian Dispute. Failed.

Churchill Says Moscow Talk Is Satisfactory But Polish Dispute Remains

Fails To Settle  Polish Question   Churchill Admits Mission to Moscow Was Not Complete Success   BUT PROGRESS IS MADE   Brita and Russia Reach Agreement on Southeast Russia

"ALL'S SOLID” AMONG ALLIES, CHURCHILL SAYS   Admits, However, No Progress  Made With Russians Relative to Polish Situation

PREMIER SAYS GAIN MADE. AT STALIN PARLEY   Hopes That Roosevelt Will Attend Meeting Before Year-end

Continuance of Alliance Of U.S., Britain, Russia Essential. Churchill Says

‘CHURCHILL FAILED TO REACH. ACCORD ON POLISH TOPIC   Rest af Moscow Conference or War Resulted in Good Work ing Agreement

Efforts To Heal Pole-Soviet Rift Are Unsuccessful, Churchill Reports

Churchill Says  Russian-Polish Dispute Unsettled   Plans Conference  With FDR. Stalin

CHURCHILL REPORTS ON CONFERENCE   Working Agreement Reached; “All Sound Among The Allies’

Decisions To Be Made By 3 Leaders—W. (,   Churchill Reports On Success Of Meet With Stalin; Allies ‘Solid, Sure, Sound’

Another “Big 3” Conference Necessary, Churchill Says   Ry ALEX H. SINGLETON

Report Made. By Churchill   Allies “Are Agreed, Declares ‘Britisher -

Churehill Says Bond With Russia  Is Now Stronger   Reports On Mission And Kmphasizes Importance Of Unity; Wants Bis 3to Meet Again Before Knd of Year.

Churchill Reports on New Parley   Says Working Agreement On Southeastern Europe Reached With Russia

Churchill Reports Failure Of His ‘Mission To Moscow   Telis Commons Efforts To End Long Russian-Polish Dispute Proved Unsuccessful

Agree On Problems Of Southeast Europe   Churchill Says Future Of World Depends Largely On U.S., Britain And Russia

Churchill Says Polish Case Not Settled on Moscow Trip   By ALEX H. SINGLETON.

A Working Agreement With Russia   But~ Churchill Admits Failure to Settle Polish. Dispute; Says “Bis Three’ Must Meet

Churchill Claims Success i in Talks Held at Moscow   Reports a Working  Agreement Effected  Regarding Bolkans; “Missed Roosevelt!

Churchill In Report Of His  Russian Trip   Prime Minister Tells Com~ mons All Is Solid, Sure and Sound Among Three Allied Nations.

Churchill Says Bond With Russia Is Now Stronger      Reports On Mission And  Emphasizes Impo          tance Of Unity; Wants  Big 3 to Meet Again Be fore End of Wear.

Churchill Reports — Workable Agreement Reached at Moscow   Problems of Southeast Europe Settled; Pole Problem Remains Acute

SOVIET-POLE ROW STANDS   Efforts To End Dispute Unsuccessful, Says  Churchill

Churchill Stymied on Polish Issue   Prime Minister Tells Commons of Outcome Of Soviet Mission

‘In the Last Lap’ of the European War, Churchill Tells House of Commons

Soviet-Pole Question Not Solved   Churchill Says Allies Are on Last Lap In War With Germany

Churchill Reports on Conference   Asserts we are in  Last Lap of European War; Believes Three Heads Should Confer

Churchill Says Russian-Polish Settlement Fails   But ‘Good Working’ Agreement Reached On Balkans Area

COOPERATION 19. ON FIRM GROUND   Churchill, in Report, Admits That Russo-Polish Boundry Parley Unsuccessful

MOSCOW TRIP BY CHURCHILL MISSES GOA   Russian - Polish Dispute Is _ Unsettled; Other Agreements Reached

CHURCHILL SAYS RUSSIAN-POLISH FUSS UNSOLVEL   Talks With Stalin ‘Satisfactory,’ But Effort To End Dispute Fails

Attempts To Settle Polish - Dispute Fail   Churchill Acknowledges Efforts To Bring About Agreement At Moscow Were Unsuccessful

Churchill Says Agreement Reached For Balkans With Russia But Not On Polana

Texas Gunner, Declared Hero by Mates, Buriec After Daring PT Boat Attack on Jap Baraes

Denies attack on integrity of congress   Legislators in flaming revolt

Tax Bill Veto Brings Resignation Of Leader Roosevelt Pleads With Senator Not  To Quits Capital Stirred Over Action

President Pleads Wit Barkley Not To Resign . After Bitter Tirade   CONGRESS STIRRED OVER VETO MESSAGE

Barkley, Doughton, Break With Roosevelt in Fight Over Tax Measure Veto   President Asks Majority Leader To Reconsider Resignation; Doughton Charges White House Seeks To Dictate fo Congress and Says ‘Here Is Where  Part Company with the President”   PRESIDENT’S TELEGRAM   DOL GHTON JOINS REVOLT

“Dear Alben,’ Doughton Break with Executive For ‘Insult’ to Congress

Faced With Congress Revolt, Pleads With Barkley Not to Quit   Senator Resigns in Protest Against ‘Inaccurate Statements’ and ‘Assault on Lawmakers’ Integrity’ In Roosevelt Message Vetoing the New Tax Bill

Kentuckian Resigns Senate  Leadership—FDR. Asks — a Him To Remain.

REAM BASES,      Legion Commander Cites Declarations of Our Allies In Talk

PRICE SEEKS CENSOR LEAK   Says Kellem Letter Reading Violated Mail Rules

Claims Rules Of Censorship Were Violatec   Byron Price, Director Of Censorship, Hopes To Discover Who Released Miss Kellem’s Letters

Claim Violation of Censorship    Byron Price Also Seeks  Senate Investiodtinn

Missouri GOP <eaders Talk With Dewey   Legislators, Farm Chiefs Approve His Views

CHAPLIN JURY ABOUT CHOSEN   First Government Witness  May Take Stand  Today

Chaplin Trial. Moving Along  At Brisk Cli   First Witness Expected Te ‘Be Heard Today: Accus‘ed of. Violating. Mann . White Slave Act

Lieut. R. Kempker Home On Leave From War F ront  Credited With Many Flights —

Lieut. R. Kempker Home On Leave From War Front   Credited With Many Flights ~ In Aerial Corps

EXPECT DEWEY TO TRY AGAIN   REPUBLICAN, LEADER LIKELY  - 1Q RUN IN ig8-WAR Ty    BLAMED FOR DEFEAT

Army To Split Time on Radio For 5 Parties   Revercomb Says Roosevel! Talks Should he Taken From Party’s Share

Roosevelt’s Speeches All P olitical   WHEN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE APPEALS ON RADIO, OTHER PARTIES SEEK EQUAL TIME FOR THEIR NOMINEES   Republicans Contend

Army Gives Equal  Radio Time for 5  Political Parties But GOP Demands President’s Talks Be  In Democrats’ Quota

Announces. Policy” for Broadcasts   Army Divides Equally Radio Time Alloted To the Five Major Parties

TAFT SAYS TREASURY MISINTERPRETS LAW   Pension Trust Law Not Social Security Sub

Judges Resent Gestapo Angle Of Murray Plan   Implied Dishonesty Angers Those Who Will Work at Polls

Gestapo Plan Scored by Judges Here   Murray’s Intimation: Shock Volunteers In Polling Places

12 Per Cent Of Nation's War Casualties In Single Month   Near 58.000 In Period

Men Now Over 26 Given Deferment   Not To Be Called, Stanwood Asserts

HALT INDUCTION OF MEN OVER 26   Stanwood Orders Loca! Boards to Review Classifications

$252.000 “LAID ON LINE” FOR A USED TRACTOR   271 Put Up Checks At Sale Which Brings $11,000.00

Over Quarter Of A Million Dollars—$252,000 Is Put Up In 271 Checks To Get $930 Tractor

Powerful U.S. Armada Blasts Frankturt, Western Germany   21 American Heavy Bombers, One Fighter Plane Lost in 3rd Attack on City; Nazi Toll Is 12 Planes: London Struck by Nazi Raiders

Frankfurt Blasted — By Powerful Force   Other Targets in Western Germany Attacked by American Bombers—Twenty-one Bombers and Ec nhear Renorted Miscinga .

U.S. Heavies Lash Hard At Nazi Taraets   21 Bombers Lost: Frankfurt Bashed

FRANKFURT IS LATEST TARGET OF BIS BOMBERS   21 Allied Planes Fail To Return From Raid; In vasion Coast Hit

RAF bombers  hit continent   Follow attacks by  American raiders

AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST REICH IS STEPPED UP   Frankfurt Pummeled by Huge Armada of Fortresses

ARMADA OF U.S. BOMBERS OVER EUROPE   Sixth Attack In Seven Days With Frankfurt And Other Western Germany Cities As Targets.   “Jimmy” Stewart

Yankee Bombers Hit Frankfurt  Other Cilies Also _ Blasted in Raids

Grover Bergdoll, Draft Dodger Of World War, Released From Prison

BERGDOLL GETS OUT OF PRISON   First War's No. 1 Draft Dodger Released at Fort Leavenworth Today

DRAFT DODGER GIVEN RELEASE   Grover Cleveland Bergdoll  Ends Prison Term

Chinese Repulse Japanese Force   Enemy Attempting To Take Loyang

JAP ATTACK IS REPULSED   Chennault’s Air Force Lends Support To Chinese Army

Chinese Hold Enemy Drive — Ten Miles South Of Loyang   Planes of General Chennault’s 14th Air Force Strike in Support of Ground Troops—Situation Described as Serious

FDR Orders More Farm Machinery   Presitont Telis WPB Bumper Crops Must Be Continued

FDR Orders Production Stepped Up   PRESIDENT WANTS BIG CROPS IN AFTER-VICTORY PERIOD

Farm Machine Boost Ordered  F. R. Directs WPB To Increase Output

Will Step up  P roduction For Farmers   More Machinery Needed to Continue Food Production

MACHINERY 10 KEEP FOOD QUTPUT HIGH AFTER WAR ASKED BY F.D.R   INCREASED PRODUCTION NEEDED FOR U.'S., HELP TO LIBERATED COUNTRIES, SAYS PRESIDENT

Eden Says Enemie: To Be Cut Apart   ‘Atlantic Charter’ Not For Germans

REIGH EMPIRE 10 BE DISMEMBEREL   Exiled Polish Cabinet 1s Expected to Bow to Wishes of Russians.

AXIS TO BE CUT UP ‘AFTER DEFEAT - EDEN      Russia : Gives Views fo Handling Germany

Enemy Nations to Be Dismembered   Eden Indicates Germany and Other Enemy Nations Can Expect To Be Dismembered After War.

88 BILLIONS 0 BE U. S$. GOAL   Assuming Wor Will End ir Europe Next Yeor, New Estimates Reached

War Budget For Year Is 88 Billions   Estimate Based On Conflict Being Ended By Next Summer

War's Cost Is F ‘igured   ~ Revised Estimates. Rin Into Trillions

War to Cost 88  Billion in Year 1944- 45 Federal  aa eae % ae ss Wee

Nubbins Anxious To Take Peek At Gifts  Before His ‘Christmas’ Party On Sunday

GIFTS ARE SENT TO AILING CHILD   BOY CAN HARDLY WAIT TO SEE PRESENTS FOR HIS EARLY “CHRISTMAS.”

SOUTH. FEARS RACIAL PLANK OF DEMOCRATS   ‘Mississippi vines Up With S. Carolina — and Teraa

FUNERAL WAS: HELD MONDAY.  IN CONCORD   Mass Was in St. Bernard’s ‘Church for Mrs. Mary . Tobin .

Yugoslavs Claiming Crushing Victory   One Axis Force Crushed, Another Battle Going On

Plan Bill For Soldier Balloting   Legislative Subcommittee Expects To Determine Policy In Regard To Servicemen Votes

U, §. PLANES HIT NAZI-EUROPEIN TWO-PLY RAID   Blast Munich Area; Smast All Rail Bridges on Seine River

Allies Clamp Air Pincers On Germans   Heavy U. S. Blow at Southern Reich fs Coordinated with Assaults In France

Aerial Support of Invasion Cut Dewn by Stormy Weather   No Mention is Made of Airborne Operations During Last Night

U.S. BOMBERS POUND GERMANY FROM SOUTH: ALLIES RIP FRANCE   AIRMEN FROM ITALY BLAST MUNICH IN BLOWS CO-ORDINATED WITH WEST, 72 PLANES DOWNED

Prime Nazi Targets In Manich Area Hammered By U.S: Heavy Bombers

Munich Area Battered by Yank Planes   Italian-Based Planes Fight Way Through Fighter Swarm:

Italian-Based Planes Strike Munich Region   American Bombers Attack South Germany In New Pineers Movement.  AY ATIT MNODMACITION Crinpvt

All Types of Planes Join in Effort to Disrupt German Position in France and Munich and Augsburg Are Scenes of Great Detonations. Air-Borne Operations from Britain Not Mentioned

HAMMER SUPPLY NETWORK BEHIND INVASION FRONT   52 NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN IN LAST 24 HOURS

BRIDGES IN FRANCE ARE DESTROYED   Nazis Lose 24 Plane: In 24 Hours; RAF Raiders Active

‘U.S. BOMBERS BLAST TARGETS AROUND MUNICE   New Pincers Attack or Nazi War Machine Launched

Heavy Yank Bombers Hit Munich Area   New Pincers Movement In Connection With Blows Across Channel

Allied Bombers Batter Minich” Region Targets   Fight Through Clouds Of German Fighters To Reach Their Destination

French Railways. Bombed Despite Limiting Weather   Allies Fly 27,000 Sorties By Noon Yesterday Since D-Day

RAID MUNICE   Nazi War Machine Given Disrupting Blows From South and West

Prime Targets Near Munich Are Bombed   Fliers Fight Through Germans To Attain Goals

ALLIES BLAST MUNICH AREA   Fight Through Clouds Of German Fighters to Reach Targets

Heavy Bombers From Italy Blast Targets in Munich   Swiss Report Attacks in Munich and Augsburg Aroas— All Bridges on Paris Line Out

Yank Planes Hit Nazis in Munich Area   Battle Through Enemy Fighter Planes to Reach Objective

U. S. Bombers Strike Into Southern German Area   Prime Targets In Munich Sector Hit; Swiss Hear Blasts Near Augsburg

NAZI LINES DISRUPTED BY AIR BLOWS   Fliers From England Strike Enemy Positions in France and Others From Italy Hit Munich Araag af Raich

Allied Aerial Pincers Blast AtMunich Area   American Planes Based in England Attack Targets of Nazis in France

Big American Bomber: Open New Aerial  Pincers on Germany   Up to 750 Planes From Italian Bases Pound Munich Area After Battling Through Clouds of Nazi Fighters; RAF Raids France

U. §. BOMBERS HIT MUNICH; AIR BATTLES RAGE   BBC Reports AIR. R. Bridges on Seine Have Been Destroyed

HIT TARGETS IN MUNICH AREA   Drive From South Coordinated With Disruptive Blows From West,   NAZI FIGHTERS PRESENT

HIGH PRAISE FOR REFUGEES AT BEACHHEAD   Hard-Boiled British Army Officers Laud Italians for Courage Under Blitz Conditions

Laud Italian Civilians   British Officers Say Anzio Folk Stood Up Under Fire

NAZI BORBEL LONDON HOSPITAL   Leath Toll Mounts as Rescuers Dig Into Vast Ruins

Hospital Hit in London Raid   2000 Patients in Peril; Capital Digs Out From Ruins

HOSPITAL FIRED AS LUFTWAFFE HITS AT LONDON   Thirteen Nazis Downed In Early Morning Attack

NAZIS BOMBED LONDON HOSPITAL   Death Toll Mounts as Rescuers Dig, Inte .Vast Ruins ©

Dig in London Hospital  Ruins for Bomb Victims   Building Set on Fire. By Direct Hit During German Raid on Capital

WORKERS SEEK CASUALTIES IN HOSPITAL DEBRIS   One of London’s Largest Institutions Bombed by Germans.   BUILDING WAS FIRED   Nearly 2000 Patients Were Being Cared for; One Ward Completely Destroyed.

2,000 PATIENTS ~INHIT HOSPITAL   German Flier Makes Direct _ Strike In London Raid

One of London's Largest Hospitals Bombed; Fear Many Buried in Debris

NAZIS MAKE HEAVY RAID ON ENGLAND   Explosives, Fire Bombs Rain Down 13 Raiders Downed

London’s Largest Hospital Wrecked In City’s First Raid In Four Nights

Germans Bomb London Hospital Sheltering 2000   Report Ward Housing Meu Completely Destroyed; Fear Many Patients Die

London Hospital  With Over 2000 Patients Is Hit   Heavy Casualties Seen After Air Raid On London Today; 13  Nazis Downed

Hit London Hospital   ‘One of City’s Largest. ‘Nearly Demolished in ‘Last Night’s Air Raid

NAZI BOMB HITS LONDON HOSPITAL   FEAR NUMBER OF 2,000 PATIENTS BURIED BY DEBRIS

GERMANS HIT HOSPITAL IN LONDON RAID  Workers Diggin Through Ruins

Nazis Wreck Hospital in London Raic   Rescue Workers Dig fo Patients Feared Buried in Debris

Senators Move To Delay Action OnAppointments   FDR’s Nominees May Wait Till Next Congress

Japs Drive for Chinese-Held Foochow Port   Seen as Attempt to Thwart U.S. Plans for Invasion Of China Coast

Farm Blaze Kills  Three Near Glasgow Mother, Daughter,   Mother, Daughter, Son Victims of Fire

ALLIES DESTROY 27 NAZI PLANES   Foe Aircraft Knocked Down Over Holland

Armada of Planes Flies To  Aid of Beleacuered Troops   Twenty-Seven German Ai Craft Bagged During Dogfights Over TTolland

Fighters Down 27 Nazi Planes   Allied Bombers Again Riy  At Tarcot< in Reich

Bankhead Will Amend Subsidy  Repeal Measure   Would Continue Present Program In Full Force Until June 30.

Near a Showdowr on Food Subsidy   Bankhead to Modify  Repeal Amendment

Subsidy s End on June 30 Proposed  Bankhead Would   Bankhead Would Amend: Repealer

Full Subsidies Until June 30   Bankhead To Amend Bill To Extend Prograw

Bankhead ToAmend Repeal Bill To Continue Present Government Subsidy Plan

Senator Bankhead Announces He Will- Amend His Repeal To Allow for C.C.C. Adjustment Period.

Food Subsidy Will Likely Be Continued   Opponents Move To Extend tt To June 30

Amendment In  Bankhead Bill   Senator To Amend Repeal Bill To Continue Present Program.

Foe of Food Subsidies Plans Move to Continue Present Program Until June 30

Bankhead Backs Slow Subsidy Cut  aes) ee eee   Will Amend His Repeal Bill For Continuance

Officials at Hospital Report Improvement In Pershing’s Condition

Hard Wheat a Parity Prices Long Sought   Action of OPA Seen As Partial Victory for Farm Bloc

CORN AND WHEAT PRICE CEILINGS ORDERED RAISED   Farm Bloc Puts One Over for Grain Growers - - - Pork Ration Holiday Rejected

Get Parity For Wheat   Partial Victory for Farm Bloc in O. P. A. Established Ceiling

Farm Bloc Wins Point On Two Crops   OPA Finally Sets Ceiling Prices On Hard Wheat At Parity Prices

FARM BLOC WINS PRICE RAISE FOR GRAIN FARMERS  OPA ESTABLISHES   OPA ESTABLISHES WHEAT CEILINGS AT PARITY LEVELS

Farm Bloc Scores. Partia: Victory in Price Control Fight   Parity -Ceiling Price on Hard Wheat Set by OPA Tuesday

U.S. Bombers Sink Ship In Amoy Harbor   Heavy Blow Falls Near Philippines

Japanese Ship Sunk in Harbor Of Chinese City   Chinese Concede. Enemy ‘Makes Further Gains In Ne Honan-Provinee

BRITISH CAPTURE PLANT IN ATHENS   ELAS CHALLENGE RIGHT TO INTERFERE

Allies ‘Bear ‘Doww’ To Back ‘Hull Policy   , Begin Strong Movement To Stop Trade Between Neutrals And Germany

PUT TEETH INTO FOREIGN POLICY   Diplomats Reported Following Up Hull’s “No Compromise’ Pronouncement To Neutrals Dealing With Hitler.   —BY JOHN ™M. HIGHTOWER—

Allies Tighten ‘No Compromise’ Policy Against Neutral Nations   Turkish-German Economic Separation First Move, With Firm Policies Toward Ireland, Spain, Portugal And Sweden.

Diplomats Press New Allied Policy  Pressure Being Brought to Neutral Nations

Allied Diplomats Now Patting Teeth Into Policy Against Nations Deal ing With Hider

ALLIED LEADERS SOLIDLY BEHIND SECRETARY HULL   “No Compromise” Policy _ Recently Announced _ With Reference to Neutrals Being’ Strengthened

Put Pressure On Neutrals   Allies Relentless in Efforts to Force Break In Trade With Germany

Getting Down To Brass Tacks; Firmer Policy Towards Neutrals Indicated.

New Policy Seen Toward Neutrals   Alllies Take Firmer Stand Which Will Continue Until Hitler Is Beaten— Progress Made to Halt Turkish Dealings With Hitler.   IRELAND AND SPAIN NEXT

Seek To Cut Nazi- lurkish Trading Ties   Allied Policy  Toward Neutrals

ee BS RECERE FPA FUSE = 6G RS  - Planes Including 4 En) gine Bombers  BLAST GERMANY, FRANCE, BELGIUM  RAF Opened The Day With Heaviest Blows In A Month

BIG ALLIED AIR FORCE OVER EUROPE   1,750 U. S. Planes Attack Following RAF Night Raids

All-Out Aerial Assault Has One Of Biggest Days; Targets In France, Belgium And Germany Smashed

PREDICTS AIR AAID HoT ORY OVER EUROPE   Greatest Fighter Fleet Ever Sent Out Accompanies Big Bombers.

1750 Yankee Planes in   Wide Sweens   British Night Smash Followed by U.S. In Daylight

Bombardment Soars To Record Heights On Fifth Straight Day; 6,500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped   AIR HISTORY TO ; BE MADE TODAY

Day Bomber Parade Rips Axis Europe   1,750-Plane Force Jolts Reich, France In Wake of RAF Raid

Sub Production To Be Reduced   Claim Declining Need For Underseas Craft

Mrs. Perkins Says Cost Of Living  Remains Stable   Some [tems Go  Up. She Admits

M.E.S.A. Union Strike Hits 30 Ohio, Michigan Plants; 65,000 To Quit Jobs Today

ClO ‘FOURTH TERM’ ACTIVITY RAPPED BY REPUBLICAN CHIEFS   Await Biddle Reply To Charge Labor Group ‘Protected’

ClO 4th Term Backers Violate Law, Is Charge  GOP ‘Chairman      GOP Chairman Cites Excessive Contributions

Spangler Asks Biddle For Opinion On Leygality Of CIO Political Committee

Break in Wage Ceilings Headed For White House   President May Be Culled to Act On Pay Increases

WAGE DECISION CONFRONTS FOR   MAY BE CALLED ON TO DECIDE ISSUE BEFORE ELECTION

WAGE QUESTION TO BE ELECTION ISSUE?   FR May Be Called on Soon To Abandon Rein on Wartime Pay.

Decision on Wage Hike May Come Before Election   Labor Pressure for New Formula Is Insistent; Matter Up to President

WLB Must Decide: Soon Whether to Recommend Raising Old Pay Limits

Upward Revision Of Wage Formula May Confront FDR Before Election

Proposed End Wage Formula  Near Decision   Expected to Go to While House For Revision Or Retention Before November 7 Election

WAGES LIKELY T0 BECOME ISSUE OF NOVEMBER VOTING   FDRito:be Called on to Decide He Workers Can Be Given  Pay Increase

PRESIDENT MAY BE CALLED ON DECIDE HIKE IN WAGE SCALE  CIO STEEL WORKERS DE MANDING BREAKING LIT TLE STEEL WACE RULE

See FDR Asked For Statement  ~ On Wage Stand   Situation Seen Involving . Administration’s Rein On Wartime Wages

WAGE ROW MAY STRIKE ELECTION   STEEL: WORKERS STILL HOWL FOR MORE MONEY

GREAT AIR UMBRELLA AIDS ALLIED ARMIES   TERO HOUR FOR NAZIS NEARING

Column Pushes Almost Completely Through Lepini Mountains In 12-Mile Advance. Troops Meet Increasing Artillery Fire   GERMANS PLANNING NEW DEFENSE LINE

Mysterious ‘Woman in Red’ Plunges $25000 To Win $2,500 on Pontes

WHERE’S THE LUFTWAFFE?   Captured Nazi Officer Didn't Know So He Surrendered

Nazis Use New Weapon: Germans Send Rocket-Propelled Fighter Planes against Yanks

Rocket-Propelled Fighter Being Used By The Nazis    Air Force Discloses Use of Weapon in Desperate Ef forts to Halt Mighty Aerial Blows on ss Taraets.cf. the Germans

 Rocket-Propelled Fighter oO4 _ Being Used By The Nazis   Air Force Discloses Use of Weapon in Desperate EF. forts to Halt Mighty Aerial Blows on hep mu vias aera Lorgets, of. the Germans

NAZIS USING ROCKET PLANES   U. S. Air Forces Announces Germans Using Rocket-Propelled Fighters

New Rocket Planes Used By Germans   Nazis Trying to Halt Mighty Allied Blows: 3,400 Bombers Blast  Targets in 3 Nations

GERMANS USE NEW ROCKET FIGHTER SHIP   In Desperate Effort to Halt Aerial Blows; Objectives in Germany Are Blasted.   27,000 in July

wwe  Berni WEWS RII CTNG        San Juan, Argentina, Aqain Shaken by Quake

Quake Again Shakes  Ruined San Juan   Workers Endangered By Toppling Walls

JAPANESE NAVAL  MINISTER RESIGNS  TOKYO ANNOUNCES TOKYO RADIO DECLARES  “WAR SITUATION DOESN’’ ALTTOW ANY OPTIMISM’

Japs Enter Hengyang   City Still Held by Encircled Defenders No Hones of Relief

Encircled Chinese at Hengyang Throw Back Heavy Jan Attacks on Their City

NEW THRUSTS rich IAPS.         U.@.. FLEET NOW HAS ‘ABOUT WARSHIPS OF ALL TYPES  . A latte: HANDICAP :  hee Joe eNEMY”

FIERCE BATTLE IN NORMANDY SEEN NEARING   Tank Forces Engage In Slugging Match With Caen As Prize

FINNS. POSTPONE ~ PEACE DECISION   ‘PARLIAMENT, NOT. EXPECTED "0 PASS ON-NEW DEMANDS  LI AFTER EASTER.

Peace Decision Is Postponed  Finn Parliament   Finn Parliament Holds Session

Finns Postpone Decision on New Red Peace Terms  Belief Prevails Terms on Armistice

Hnns Gloomy Over Red Terms   Little Hope For Quick Settlement; Say Terms Still Too Hard.

BELIEF PREVAILS ~ REDS TOO HARSE   Finland’s Peace Crisis Appears Postponed Until After Easter Now

ACTION DELAYED ON FINN TERMS   Pessimism Prevails In Helsinki: Moscow's Demands Harsh

GERMANS LOOSE V-2 ROCKETS AGAINST FIRST ARMY IN HOLLAND   No Military Targets Yet Hit, Say Reports

Nazis Direct  V- 2’s On Yanks   Claim Rocket Used On Troops In Belgium

NAZIS USING ROCKETS ON FIRST ARMY   Fire Them On Amer. Troops In Belgium

FIRST ARMY HIT BY V-2 ROCKETS   GERMANY, ALSO USING NEW, RADIO TANK

OHIO, VIRGINIA BLAZES KILL 8   Cleveland Stockyards, Richmond Hotel Are Hit

OF THE ‘RISING’ SUN Writer Has Seen Confusion In Japanese Fire-Fighting Systen

Japanese Fire-Fighting Methods Termec Medieval and Civilian Defense “Poor”

Nazi Lines Collapsing Under Drive   Other Allied Forces Move Ahead; French Troops Enter Belfort

Plan to Bury \Nazis Under  \Fire. Power   French Troops R Reach Rhine; British Drive into Outskirts of Wurm

Germans Fail Back Before Strong Blows   Six Allied Armies Increase Pressure Along Whole Front

FRENCH ARMOR IN THRUST NORTHWARD DOWN RHINE RIVER  SWIFT-MOVING FRENCH   SWIFT-MOVING FRENCH HAVE ALREADY ENTERED INDUSTRIAL MULHOUSE

City Of Mulhouse Reached; German Stand Collapsing   American Seventh, Third Armies Swarming Eastward Against Disorganized Enemy Resistance; Yanks Enter Saarebourg

Whole German Vosges Stand Collapses; U. S.  ‘Captures Sarrebourg

French Forces March Down Rhine and Storm Mulhouse; Yanks Seize Metz  And Sarrebourg and Smash on Toward ‘Saarbrucken: Germans Hold at Aachen

TEMPERATURES:   Swilt Allied Drive  - Disorganizes Enemy   German Lines Giving Way Following French Breakthrough At Belfort Gap; Cologne, Strasbourg, Saarbrucken Doomed

ALLIES ACTIVE ON WHOLE LINE   Breakthrough By French Greatest Since Normandy

Capture Belfort, Meet Scattered Nazi Resistance   Eisenhower Calls For Ever Increasing Pressure Until Victory.

To Rhine In Three Places   German Resistance Appears Centered East  Of Aachen Where Allies ’ Edge Ahead But Slowly

On Outskirts Of Industrial Mulhouse   Eisenhower Calls For Increasing Pressure

German Stand In Mountains Falling Apart   Two American Armies Aim For Saarbrucken, Strasbourg; Armored Forces Striking Hard

GERMAN STAN UNDERMINED ON WESTERN FRONT   Allied Armies Giving Nazis Hard Blow

Farther North Enemy Forces Falling Back Toward  Strasbourg And Saarbrucken As Allied Armies  Press Forward

Allied Troops © Wreck Nazis’. Vosges Stand   Whole German Line Collapsing Before Power: house Blows —

French Storm Mulhouse; U.S.  In Sarrebourg   Meet Stiff Opposition In Cologne Drive

French Drive Undermines Foe’s Stand  Other Allied ; Armies Putting Man Bemesttmn

Seventh and Third Armies Push Eastward Toward Strasbourg And Saarbrucken As French Continue Their Thrust Northward Along Rhine River

Yanks Wheel Deeper Into Saar Basin   American First and Ninth Armies Push Slowly Towards Cologne—Stop Attack

Temperatures   Nazis Flee Toward Rhine; Huge Air Fleet Blasts Reich

Belfort Taken; 6 Allied Armies Pushing Forward  Deep Advances By Patton's Third Meade Below Saar

WHOLE NAZI FRONT IN VOSGES COLLAPSING AS GERMANS BEGIN: ‘TO FALL BACK TO THE RHINE

Swiftly Exploit Break . Through   Reach Outskirts of Mulhouse, Undercutting Collapsing German Stand in Vosges — Farther North Nazis Falling Back Toward Strasbourg and Saarbrucken

Foe Weakens Steadily Under Attack   Enemy Strongholds Collapse as Allied Troops Push Ahead; Mulhouse Threatened; Vital Road, Rail Junction Falls to American Forces

Nazi Vosges Stand — Undercut By Allies. In Rhine Advance   Belfort Captured As Eisenhower Calls For Increased Pressure; Yanks, British 3 Mis. From Roer

EXPLOIT BREAK AT BELFORT IN QUICK ASSAULT   Increase Pressure on Germans All Along 400-Mile Front

ALLIED ARMIES CONTINUE GAINS ON WHOLE LINE   Troops Pound To Outskirts Of Mulhouse; Belfort Seized In Assault

Yank Drive To East Collapses Germany’s Entire Position In Vosges.

French Klanking Proc Advances And [sy hk vorted trying to Bridcc thine; Germans tne dercut In Vosges Arco: 3 Armies Meet Froree Resistance In Drisc [ >ward Cologne.

Disorganized German Troops Now Falling Back Toward Strasbouro.And Saarhrucken

Belfort Captured, Says Eisenhower: Six Allied Armies Increase Pressure   Seventh Army Breaks Through Sarrebourg: Third Deeper In Saar Basin; Northern Forces Close In On Natural Barrier

FRENCH REAC MULHOUSE IN VOSGES DRIVE   Nazi Resistance Disorganized: Allies Gain All Along West Front

SARREBOURG FALLS; MULHOUSE ENTERED   French and Americans Push On Against Weakening Rearguard Resistance as Germans Retreat Toward Rhine: Slow Allied Gains in Aachen Area

ITH ARMY IS IN SARREBOURG, 3RD INSIDE SAAR   Ninth Army Nears Julich; Nazis Retreat In South

French Storm Mulhouse in Push Expected to Clear s Alsace  i}   YANKS IN SARREBOURG

FRENCH BATTLE: FOR MULHOUSE   U. S. Troops Capture Saareburg; Push Undermines , German Positions,   iHEAD FOR STRASROURG

French Race To Mulhouse; Allies Gain Everywhere   Nazis Fall Back Under Weakening Rear Guard Resistance; Belfort Captured

French Storm Mulhouse; Yanks Seize Sarrenbourg   Third Ar my Forces Fight. Within: ie Miles at’ Saatbricken ii the. Siar.”

Farther: North Germans Are Falling Back Toward Strasbourg, Saarbrucken; Nazi Rearguard Resistance Weoker

Eisenhower Announces Fall of City as Allies ‘Advance on the Rhine

POUR THROUGH BELFORT PASS IN DRIVE NORTH   Nazis Falling Back * Toward Strasbourg; Rearguard Disorpanized

Hint Allied Troops Enter Mulhouse; Nazis Disorganized   Germans Retreat in Northern Sector; Belfort Falls; Huns in Metz Ignore Surrender Ultimatum  

FRENCH TROOPS THREATEN VITAL TOWN IN DRIVE   Forces Believed Fighting Inside Mulhouse — Reach Rhine at 3 Places

American Seventh And Third Armies Find Nazi Resistance Broken, Disorganized

SIX ARMIES HEAP PRESSURE AT QUICKENING PACE ALONG THE ENTIRE WESTERN FRONT   U. S. Seventh and Third, Swarming Eastward Into French-American Scissors, Find Nazi Resistance Disorganized   SEVENTH BREAKS THROUGH INTO SARREBOURG

Patch Troops Advance Within 32 Miles Rhine   Huns Falling Back Toward Strasbourg and Saar: brucken Behind Weakthe Resistance   Tuenry Rearguard Held Disorganized   French Reach Mulhouse Afier Belfort Break. through Which Under. evut German Stand

Nazis Routed by Blows of 3 Allied Armies   Germans in Full Flight Along 125-Mile Front; Allies Seize Wide Stretch of Rhine; U. S. Troops Near Saar Basin

OUTSKIRTS OF MULHOUSE REACHED   Move Undercuts Nazi Stand In Vosges Area   Described As Disorganized Around Saar; Americans Near Roer River

Greatest Single Air Armada Hits Hitler's Europe   More Airfields In France Seized

Great Air Armada Battles Targets In Hitler’s Europe   LO re wee   Mightiest Single Force Ever Launched Conducts Widespread Operations—Twenty-four U.S. Planes Loct

Great Air Armada Battles Targets In Hitler’s Europe   Mightiest ‘Single Force Ever Launched Conducts mee" Widespread Operations—Twenty-four U.S. Planes Loct

MIGHTY AERIAL ARMADA STRIKES   Allied Airforces Hit Hitler’s Europe With More Than 12,000 Plane Sorties in Support of Invasion

YANKS LOSE 33 PLANES IN RAID   WIDESPREAD ATTACKS MADE IN EUROPE — 4,500 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED.

Allied Air Support Hits Four Nations   Germany, France, Belgium, Holland Blasted By Bombs

AIR ARMADA BLASTS NAZI 4 COUNTRIES   Rain Explosives and Bullets on the Enemy in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany.   Over Keeskeny

Wholesale Marketing Center Planned For Cullman   Prominent Truck Growers Meet With County Agent R. M. Lawson and Specialists From Auburn, To Discuss Plans

Marketing Center Is. Planned For Cullman; State Will Finance   If Farmers Support Project State Will Furnish Buildings, Equipment: Officials Here Friday

MOTHER ADMITS POISON SLAYING   JEALOUSY CITED AS MOTIVE FOR KILLING

JAP ATTACKS HURLED BACK NEAR ORMOC   SUICIDAL ASSAULTS AGAINST AMERICAN LINES ARE BEATEN OFF ON — ‘LEYTE

AMERICANS EDGE TO”, 7 ORM’  Sea "6, S. Troops HM e Japs’ Suiciue Attacks

Jap Counter-Atfacks Broken up by Yanks i in Bloody Leyte Fighting

AMERICANS EDGE 10” 1 ORM  Sea & "t. Ss. Troop: Hu x # sek Japs’ Suidue Attacks

BREAK UP ATTACKS   Seventh Division Fighting Against Frenzied Pacific Enemies

Yanks Grab Vital Rooke ‘siand Base   Control of Sea Between Guinea, , Britain Gaited

‘Allies Occupy Rooke Island; No Opposition Met From Japs   Location In Vitiaz Strait Is Valuable

TAKE ISLE JAPS ABANDONED T0 INVASION FORCE   Base Guards Straits Between New Guinea, New Britain

Yanks Seize Key Island in Vitiaz Straii   Rooke Gives Sea Control Between New Guinea and New Britain

Rooke Island In Pacific In Yankee Hand:   Bloodless Occupation Is  Made: 326-Ton Bomb ing of Rabaul and Ka : :  vieng Carried Out

YANKS OCCUPY ROOKE ISLAND WITHOUT FIGHT   Isle Lies In _ Important  Strait Between New Guinea and Britain

Yanks Take Isle In Vitiaz Strait Without Battle   Pounded For 3 Days By Carrier - Based Planes

U. 5. Occupies Strategic Isle In Vitiaz Lane   Americans Swarm Ashore On Rooke Without Ficht

Support For Conversion Bill Looms   Unemployment Pay Is Removed From Measure

WATERFRONT IN TOKYO BELIEVED STILL BURNING   Key Objective Had Been Hit Sec ond Time Within 92 Hours

REPORT TOKYO STILL BURNING   SUPERFORTS SET THE WATERFRONT ABLAZE

Thirteen Held By Mexican Police; Assassin Dies   Seditious Group Said Also Planning To Kill Several Officials

13 HELD IN MEXICO ON SEDITION PLOT   Not Connected With Attempt On President’s Life

13 Men, Women Arrested, Cops Announce Plot   Conspiracy Is Termed Unimportant; Most Persons Involved  Are Very Old

1a PERSONS HELD BY MEXICAN POLICE   Officers Investigating What They Call a Seditious Pint.

Mexican Police Hold 13 on Sedition Count  Roundup Follows  Attack on  Nation’s Chief

NAVY STARTING STUDY OF AFTER WAR PROBLEMS   Efficient Demobilization Of U. S Naval Personnel At War's End Studied

TIRE SHORTAGE GROWS   Grounding of Planes and Stalling of Vehicles Threatened

Virtually All Resistance Is Smashed Inside Metz  wont Bexceoals &   Great French Surge Unhinges Enemy Line From Swiss Frontier, Penetrates Belfort

Mrench Push Through Belfort Gap To Rhine—Strike Into — City Of Belfort

ADVANCES TURN SOUTHERN FLANK   Nazi Line From Luxembourg To Switzerland Cracks   METZ BATTLE OVER   Only Sniper Resistance Remains; French Army Pours Through Belfort Gap

RESISTANCE AT METZ COMES TO END; FRENCH IN BELFORT “AND DRIVING THROUGH PASS

German Line, Luxembourg To Switzerland, Cracked  In Sweeping Drives   RESISTANCE INSIDE METZ NEARLY OVER

ENEMY LINES CRACK BEFORE SMASH DRIVE   RESISTANCE ALMOST ENDED AT METZ FORTRESS

Sweeping Drive Turns German Southern Flank   Patton's Troops Stab into Germany

SOVIET ARMY 11 MILES FROM WARSAW   Other Fighters Drive 20 Miles Into Southern Estonia

Soviet Forces Drive Toward Warsaw And Stab To Within 11 Miles Of Polish Capital

Soviet Forces Only 1] Miles  From Warsaw   Russian Troops Drive Ahead On 60 Mile Front North Of Polish Capital   BALTIC ARMY IS CLOSER TO RIGA

CHALKING UP ADVANCES ON ~ BROAD FRONI   SPEARHEAD OF PUSH TOWARD WARSAW, REPORTED ELEVEN ‘MILES FROM. POLISH __CAPYTAL

ihe War loday Continued Allied Success In Italy Will Have Effect On Neutrals.

REPORTS CONCERNING STILWELL AND HULL BAGK OF STATEMENT   NEW SURGE OF NAME CALLING POURED INTO CAMPAIGN ON FRIDAY

FDR Warns Of Whispers   Asks Voters To Beware of Last Minute Campaign Rumors.

Charges Fly As Campaign Nears Close   Both Presidential Candidates Speak Tomorrow Night

On The Political Front      seein About Stilwell ‘And Hull May Have Prompt ‘ed Roosevelt’s.  Remarks In Thursday Speech  ! ’ About: ‘Whisnperings And Murmurings’

FDR WARNS VOTERS AGAINST NEW WHISPERING CAMPAIGN; DEWEY — IRAPS DEMOCRATIC VOTE TACTIG

Politicians Launch Name Calling Surge   Roosevelt Predicts Accusations May Pop Up From Whispering

Nazis Report Big Tank Attack   Assert Seventy U, S. Tanks Knocked Out In Belgium Battle.

Governor Refuses Demands To Revise Election Law For Troops’ Votes

BALLOT PENCIL RULING STANDS   Bricker Refuses To Alter Ohio Election Law

Only Soldier Ballots Marked With Black Pencil Will Be Counted, Bricker Says

SOLDIER VOTING “LAW UNCHANEE   Bricker Says Ballots Must Be Marked With Black Lead Pencil

Daylight Raids Aimed At South Portion of Reich   RAF Apply Pincers Movement On F rancey  Hit Sofia In Attacks

Sofia Bombed Second Time  In 24 Hours   U. S. Raiders Down 125 German Planes On Thursday

3 PC. OF ALL *8 PLANE ASSEMBLY PLANTS ARE GONE   Americans Have Chalked Off 641 Aircraft in Last Six Dave.

BRITISH AIRMEN SMASH AUESBURG IN TWO ATTACKS   More Than 17,000 Tons of Bombs Dumped On Reich Thic Waak

Total Bag Of 641 Planes In Reeord Offensive Over Germany; Gcod Results Shown In Pictures Made Durine Raids   ' YESTERDAY'S BOMBING } CALLED BEST OF WAR

041 AIRPLANES KNOCKED OUT IN SIX DAYS   R. A. F. Carried On With Aerial Assault Last Night With Heavy Raid On Augsburg In Reich

ANIERICANS STAGE BIGGEST BOMBING AT REICH CENTERS   2000 Planes Tn Sunday Attack Are Followed By Another Comparable Raid Made on Following Day.   6700 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED IN 24 HOURS   Allied Forces Capture Half 01 Lost Salient of Anzio Germans Shoot Gunner‘ Trying Escape.

6-Day Total  Increased to 641 Fighters ‘Augsburg Pounded Twice at Night After Daylight Attack PLANE PLANTS HIT  Regensburg, Stuttgart and Furth Also Targets  af Pambhayec   PLANE PLANTS HIT   Regensburg, Stuttgart and Furth Also Targets of Bombers

AXIS EUROPE BLASTED BY BRITISH   RAF Bombers Hit Targets In France And Bulaaria

AMERICANS AND BRITISH BLAST FOE   IN CASSINO, GERMANS ARE PRIVEN BY ALLIES 9 _. “DEATH POCKED.” 

Yanks Bag 142 German Planes  In Record Raid   British Pound Nazi Aircraft Centers In Smashing Assault

ALLIES SMASH 641 PLANES IN SIX-DAY RAIDS   Double Attack Made On Augsburg By RAF Night Bombers

Round Out Week of  Offensive      AUGSBURG, AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY CENTER, LATEST TARGET; Phi PRODUCTION CUT TO ‘REMNA!

CONTINUE TO RAID GERMANY   Bombers Hit) Axis Furope . fron France to Bulgaria _ Applying New Allied Pincers Technique.

HARMONY HOPE DIMMED TODAY   FDR Request !gnored, In: vestigate Background of ? Appointments.

ONE GETS PENSION FOR WAR OF 1812   Vets Administration Prepares to Assist Biggest Number In World War Il.

Five Russian Armies March Toward Baltic   Greatest Coordinated Offensive Launched Along 450-Mile East Front

MASSIVE TANI BATTLE RAGES IN LITHUANIA   Reds 12 Miles From Border

5 Soviet  Armies on  The March   Mount Mighty Offensive for Liberation of Baltic States

New Red Offensive Knocks 93-Mile Gap in German Line; Baltic States May Be Abandoned

5 Red Armies Driving On Germany’s Border   Prussian Line Only 30 Miles Off; Frontal Assault on Riea Forming

NAZIS FLEE INTO LATVIA IN DISORDER   Five Red Armies Heading West On 450 Miles Front

LEE INTO LATVIA IN DISORDER   Five Red Armies Heading West On 456 Miles Front

Soviet Drive Aimed to Free Baltic States   Germans Fleeing in Disorder Into Latvia

GERMANS BEGIN MAJOR RETREAT IN BALTIG AREA   Massed Russian Armor Trying To Force Neimen River At Alytus

Nazis Flee in Disorder Into Latvia   Reds Now Have Five Arm: ies on March, As They Near German Soil

Russians Are Near Nazi Soil   Reds Threatening East Prussia from Two Directions

Russians Report Disorderly Nazi Flight To Latvia   Offensive Designed To Complete Liberation . of Baltic States

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Sulleting on Latest ’ World News Today.   Ganvens Berln Mnfor Retreat.

THE “ONE-MAN” INVESTIGATION   Rep. Engel Says Pentagon Building Cost $51,000,000 In Excess

Charges $51,000,000 Was Spent on War Department Building Without Sanction

Goebbels Says Hitler Has Sleepless Nights, Lives Frugal Existence

RUSSIAN ARMY DRIVING THRU STREETS PSKOV   Reports Say Soviets Already Hold Firm Grip On Important Communications Base.

RUSSIANS IN FIERCE BATTLE THROUGH STREETS OF PSKO\   German Lines Buckling Along 300-mile Front in North.

NEW SECRETARY STATES POLICY      Reorganized State Department to Be ‘Liberal,’ Says Stattinius.   TESTIFY FOR SENATORS

Sfettinius And ‘Team’ Testify   State Secretary Outlines Reorganization Plans; Proposed Assistants Questioned

Stettinius Team Has Senate Quiz   Plans of Reorganized State Department Told at Hearing.   Nominees Escape Close Go“ing Over Reported’ Planned for Them

Stettinius And Aides Are-Heard   POLICY ANNOUNCED AS QUICK END OF WAR AND PREVENTING NEW NAZI, [AP AGGRESSION

U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives Outlined   Keynoted by Pledge Of Post-War Foreign Trade Expansion

Liberal, Forward-Looking Foreign Policy Is Aim, Declares Stettinius

STETTINIUS AND HIS TEAM OF ASSISTANTS PLAN LIBERAL POLICY   NEW SECRETARY OF STATE AND AIDES TELL HOW THEY PLAN TO WORK

Stettinius Team Has Senate Quiz   Plans of Reorganized State Department Told at * Healias   Q  UESTIONS TO HOLMES   Nominees Escape Close Going Over Reported Planned for Them

Report Plan * For Liberal» State Policy   Reorganized Department To Be ‘Liberal and Forward Looking’

Liberal and Forward Looking Foreign Policy Sought, Says Stettinius Before Cammittea

K, 0, BLOW DEALT ATOLL IN EASTERN MARSHALL GROUP   Warships Join Planes In Bombarding Jap Base On Mili

BRITISH DOWN 3 DESTROYERS   Action in Adriatic Sea Is Reported by Rome

Nazi Destroyers  Sunk In Adriatic   British Engage Ships Off Croation Coast

Enemy Ships Destroyed  Br ith sh Sink Two   British Sink Two In Upper Adriatic.

WARREN HOLDS STAND ON POLL   GOVERNOR REPEATS VOW AGAINST CANDIDACY

Gov. Warren ~ Won’t Enter Preferential   Says He’s No Part of a Stop Willkie Move — Has No Agreements

Red Army Smashes Across Plains Toward Capital— Assault on East Prussia Pushed

Hungary On Verge Of Quitting Hitler   Nazis May Be Without Ally In Europe; Hungarian Delegation Rumored In Moscow.

WRECKED BY ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE   Systems in France, Belgium Unfit to Repel Invasion

Roosevelt Confronted With Poser  Running Mate On Demo Ticket Un Ta Precident

WALLACE IS ‘WHITE ELEPHANT’ FOR F, D. BEFORE CONVENTION   Whether To Keep Him As Running Mate Is Big Question

TURKS MAY GET INTO THE WAR   Conference Now Being Held With Russian and British Representatives

TURKEY MAY ENTER WORLD WAR IN 1944   Representatives Of 3 Nations In Meeting

American Leaque   Allies Confer With Turkey On War Entry This Summer

MAY JOIN ALLIES IN WAR SOON   Ankara Reported To Be Seething With Diplomatic Activity

TURKEY TO ENTER WAR BEFORE LONG?   Conversations Afoot Indicate _ Entrance Before Summer’s End.

MOVES TOWARD WAR   Turkish Participation May Come Later in Summer

War Step By Turks *Imminent   Russian, British Envoys Confer With Saracoelu

Indicate Turkey May Be In War By Summer's Enc   Talks Afoot Between Turkey, Russia and Britain.

TURKISH PARLEY MAY INVITE WAt   Britain, Russia Representec at Ankara~Nazis Say ‘Important Business’.

Talks at Ankara May Bring Turkey Into World Wor Si Before Autumn

Russia and Britain Believe Turkey Will Get Into War  Conversations Still Being Conducted By Three Countries

JAP ATTEMPT FAILS AGAIN   Thirteen Ships with at Least 4,000 Troops Sunk in Two-Day Battle in Camotes Sea -- Troops Intended for Leyte Island.

13 NIP SHIPS SUNK.OFF.- LEYTE ISLE   - Jap Attempt 6 Reinforce Garrison Is Frustrated

SMASH SIXTH JAP CONVOY BOUND FOR LEYTE; 4,000 DEAD   Planes Sink 13 Ships In Two-Day Battle; Front Quiet

JAP CONVOY OFF LEYTE   13 Ships Sunk; Were Trying to Land Troops

LEYTE-BOUND JAP CONVOY IS SUNK BY U.S   Thirteen Ships and at Least 4,000 Enemy TroopsLostIn Latest Nippon Move.

Planes Sink 13 Ships With At Least 4,000 ‘Troops In Two-Day Battle   Three Warships Also Are Sunk   Victory Boosts Enemy's Losses In Reinforcement Attempts To 21.000

AMERICAN AIRMEN STYMIE NEW NIP REINFORCEMENTS   Sink 13 Ships With 4,000 Troops Aboard

Reinforcement Effort Smashed   13 Jap Ships Sunk in Two Day Battle

4,000 Enemy Troops Lost In Two Days Battle In Camotes Sea   THREE DESTROYERS ALSO SENT DOWN

Another Attempt To Bolster Leyte Garrison Foiled   ‘13 Vessels Carrying At Least 4,000 Jap  ‘Troops Reported Sunk

Governor Speaks Memorial Service   Broughton Asks Pledge Of Unity At Gettysburg Celebration.

Pledge of Unity and Loyalty. Made _ On Field Where North, South Fought

North, South Clasp Hands   Representatives at Gettysburg Battlefield Pledge Unity, Loyalty

Governors Of North, South Declare Unity In Memorial Day Services At Gettysburg

HOWEVER, AMERICANS DRIVE ON   Yanks Advance Despite Japs, 70-Mile Winds, Heavy Rains

Mrs. D. Edward Offntt,  Oakland. Files Suit to  Have Pre-Nuptial Agreement Annulled

Gov. Dewey Will Run, New York Leaders Assert   Say He'll Accept And Be Elected

Bring Dewey Candidacy Into Open   NEW YORK LEADERS IN CHICAGO TO DRAFT DEWEY, SAY HE WILL BE NOMINATED, ELECTED.  (By D. HAROLD OLIVER)   Bricker Forces Active

DEWEY LEADERS SEE NOMINATION   New York State Group Says Governor Will Accept—And Win

NOMINATION OF DEWEY CERTAIN, LEADERS CLAIM   New York Republicans Say Governor Will Accept Presidential Bid   ANTI-NEW DEALERS HIT LABOR RACKETEERS

Brings Campaign Into Opening for First Time; Growing Stream of Delegates Arrives in Chicago for Preliminaries :

GROUP ASKS FOR CONTINUATION O ‘SYNTHETIC RUBBER   Committee Asks FDR to. Have Industrial Use of Alcohol Studied

U.S; Asks More. Steel   “Will Import ‘Supply » From. Great. Britain:

ALLIES DECLARE GERMANS HOLD FATE OF ROME   Allied Forces Will Fight in Italian Capital If Necessary

Seine Pocket Cut In Half; Le Havre, Rouen Menaced   Satellite Stampede To Quit War Is Seen As Nazis Hint Fear Of Revolt Inside Reich

Brilliant Advance Slices Nazi Army In Half: March to Reich Continuing

Canadians Push To Mouth of River   American Forces Advance Southeast Of Paris Meeting But Scattered Resistance By Nazis

Saarbrucken Is Pounded At Range Of Four Miles   Doughboys Surge Through Siegfried Fortress Of Saarlautern; Frenzied German Resistance  Slows Advances Elsewhere On 450 Mile Fron‘

Repulse Fierce Nazi Counterattacks At Roer River Defenses as British Sweep Into Venlo Outskirts

SIEGFRIED LINE FORTRESS CITY iS IN FLAMES   American Columns Are Menacing Saarbrucken

(Germans Suffer Heavy Losses In Bitter Fight   Third Army Heads for Saar Basin and Its Rich Mineral and Industrial Areas on a 30-Mile Front; Gains Rapid

Murder Trial Defendants Flee   Break Jail While  Jury Deliberates

Japs Encirele -Hengyang Hub   Tokyo Says City in Flames, Rat Chinesce Hald OM.

CHINESE CLING TO RAIL CENTER   Nipponese Using Poison Gas Against Hengyang, Spokesman Says

JAPS SURROUND VITAL HENGYANG   CHARGE MADE NIPS ARE US. ING POISON GAS. AGAINST CITY'S ,DEFENDERS. .

PLAN OLD AGE PENSION BOOST   FIRST STATE-WIDE INCREASE SLATED TO BEGIN IN MAY

HOUSE LEADER CALLS FOR END OF BUREAUCRAC'   States Rights Are. Emphasized By Goccion Chairman

CONVENTION WN SESSION SECOND DAY   MARTIN CALLS FOR FULL SUP‘PORT OF PARTY—COMMIT- TEE REPORTS BEING ' ACTED UPON

Dewey Campaign Director Hails Nominee's Tour   Governor's Next Extendec Trip May Take Him to Middle West

Dewey Campaign Director Terms Tour A Success   Brownell Hints At ‘Unrest’ Within Ranks Of The  Democrats

Constructive Dewey Way Pleases Folk   TOR INDICATES CONTINUANCE OF PROGRAM CLIMAXED BY OKLAHOMA CITY SPEECH.   Tour Briltiant Success

Reyuiblican Heal Says Dewey Tour Very Successful  Map Plans for Last Forty Days

Germans Reinforce Hungarian Army But Are Losing Battle for Budapest

Germman Battle Lines Across Hungary Buckle Under Russians  iainatiainaistthag? “aphasia saarr-esdbimieaiaeianinnsinintal eater taal   10.000 Newly Arrived Nazi Reserves Being Cut To Pieces

‘Nazi Lines: Buckling In Hungary  as   Nazis Being Slashed Tn Vain Effort to Halt Budapest Push

German Battle Line in Hungary ls Collansing   Newly-Arrived Nazi Reserves Being Cut to Pieces

REDS BUCKLE GERMAN LINES IN HUNGARY: BATTLE FURY MOUNTS   40,000 NAZI RESERVES IN VAIN COUNTERATTACK; ENEMY DEFENSES REPORTED ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE

NAZIS’ LINES IN HUNGARY BUCKLE   New Reserves Fail to Check Red Offensive.

GERMANS RUSH MEN TO AUSTRIA   TAKE DIVISIONS FROM FRANCE AND ITALY

NAZI RESERVE ARMY SLICED BY RAMPANT REDS   Enemy Seems Near Collapse On Front

FR. PLAN FOR KEEPING REICH UNDER CONTROI   Orders Sveed-Up for Action Which Will Keen Germany Harmless Nation Following War

President Orders Speed-Up In U. S. Plans For Making Reich Harmless After War

FDR REVEALS NEW PROGRAM FOR GERMANY   President Decides Cabinet Differences On Peace

ROOSEVELT HAS ORDERED SPEED ON GERMAN PLAN   Germany Will Be Harmless .Under  8-Point Plan

ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR FAST ACTION   President Puts Job of Policing Germany Under  One Head   TO STATE DEPARTMENT

PLANS CURB ON GERMANY   Outlines His Views And Says It Will Be Directed Under Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

FDR ORDERS SPEED-UP IN PLANS FOR MAKING GERMANY HARMLESS AFTER SHE HAS BEEN DEFEATED

President Urges Speed in Framing Plan for Peace      Places Job Under State Department's Guidance; Morgenthau Program Is Out

Job Put Under State Department Guidance; Stern Control Called For

Roosevelt Orders Speedup of Plans to Make Germany Harmless Followine War

State Department ~ Placed in Charge of Peace Planning   Pres. Roosevelt Moves tc End Squabble Among Cabinet Officers

SPEED-UP IN - PLAN TO CURB NAZS ORDERED   Post-War Pr ogram To Render Germany Harmlace   F.D.R’S ORDER   Job Ig Placed Under Guidance Of State Denartment

SPEED-UP Ot PLANS ASKED   Task of Rendering Germany Harmless After War Up To State Department.

HULL TO DIRECT CURB ON NAZIS AFTER WAR WON   President Orders Speed-up Of Plans To Be Handled by State Department

Roosevelt For Speed On Plans  To Govern Hun   Outlines Eight Basic Points For Controlling Postwar Germany to End Reich Menace

President Orders Speedup Of Plans To Make Germany Harmless After War Is Over

Roosevelt Orders Speeded Study of Control of Reich  President Turns Task Over te FEA, Gives Crowley Eight

FDR Has Plan for  Germany   Steps Outlined to . Keep Nazi Nation _ Harmiess After War.

Roosevelt Orders Speed in Planning Germany's Fate   Today’s Action Is Apparently State Department Victory

FDR ORDERS SPEED IN COMPLETION OF PLAN FOR GERMANY   Places Job Under State Department Guidance—Move _ Is Qutgrowth of Row in President’s Postwar Cabinet Committee

SPEED-UP LEFT TOHULLUNDER ROOSEVELT ACT      3 Points Covered In Letter Which President Sends To Crowley Of FEA

QUICK PLAN FOR HANDLING REIGH URGED   Speed-uy in Preparations for Rendering Nation Harmless, Under Hull’s Guidance, Ordered by President Roosevelt.

FDR Orders ‘Speed Up Of  Peace Plans   ‘Program For Rendering  Germany Harmless Af ter War Ends

Roosevelt Asks Speed-up In Plat For Nazi Defeat   Puts Job Under Hull’s Guidance In Letter to. Crowley

Plans Are Ordered Speeded-up   Plan Rendering Germany Helpless Set Out in  Eight Points

Speed-up of Plans for Rendering Postwar Germany Harmless Orderec

F.D.R. Orders Postwar Reich Plans Speeded   President Indicates. Secretary Hull Has Won Contention Over Secretary Morgenthau

ORDER ISSUED TO SPEED UP PFACE POLICY   Letter to Chief of Foreign Economic Administration Puts Job Under State Department  ee ae ee ee :. =k Ss ok i S- £2zc erm

Speed Up Plans for V-Day Era   Roosevelt Outlines Policy for Days. Following Germany’s Collapse   JOB ASSIGNED TO STATE DEPARTMENT   Much Confusion Regarding Post-War; F. D. R. Says There Will Be 3 Periods

Orders Speedup Of Program For Beaten Germany  State Department To Guide Setup To Make Reich Harmless When  O02 pts ni

Plans For Nazis Ordered Speeded   Job Put Under State Department Guidance In Roosevelt Letter

PRESIDENT ORDERS SPEED-UP IN PLANS POST-WAR GERMANY  JOB OF RENDERING NATION HARMLESS PUT UN. DER STATE DEPARTMENT

OUTLINES REICH CONTROL POLICY   FDR SAYS 8-POINT OUTLINE APPROVED BY CABINET HEADS

To Follow Hull Policy   FDR Puts State Dep’t In Charge of -U. S. Plans for Treatment Of Germany After War

Hull Wins Nazi Control Fight   - Morgenthau Plan to Prostrate Reich . Loses, F. D. R. Reveals in Letter Directing Crowley Co-operation With State Dept.

Plans Speeded To Control Reich   Policy of State Department Wins Over Morgenthau Proposal

Saverne Taken By Allies in Alsace Drive   Nazis Attempting To Protect Ruhr

Hurl rockets into area as  Yanks drive  Saverne falls to allied affensive

American Troops:  - Take Eschweiler   Enemy In. Last-Ditch‘Move To Save:Rhine. Rube: -*

First Overruns Eschweiler As Nazis Desperately Loose V-1, V-2 Volleys

Allied Armies inter Saverne  In Quick Sweep   Germans Making Desperate Attempt To Protect the Industrial Ruhr

Saverne, 19 Miles from Strasbourg Falls to French Troops; Germans Fire Volleys of Rocket Bombs to Stop Yank Advance into Ruhr Valley

METZ, MULHOUGE RESISTANCE ENDS   Saverne, Northwest of Strasbourg, Is Engulfed   WHOLE FRONT FLARES   French and Americans Pour Through Vosges Passes; Nazis Face Trap

Sweeping Allied Drives  Engulf Saverne; German Rocket Bombs Hit Front   Patton’s Army Slashes Forward In 10-Mile Gains To Reach  Saar Frontier

French Second Division En oull s Saverne   Threat of Entrapment Increases Hourly for an Estimated 70,000 Germans Remaining on West Bank of the Rhine

TWO CRUISERS, PLANE CARRIER, ARE LAUNCHED   Greatest Naval Mass Launching In History Sunday At Philadelphia

RATION BOARD VAULT LOOTED SECOND TIME   Authorities Think Tip Prompted Burglary; Little Stolen

RETAIN OFFICERS   3. 3.0. P. Senate Leaders Are In Until Next  January

Franco Troops Are Assaulted By Red Rebels   Spain Is ''Seething'’ O Edge Of Bloody Rebellion

UPRISING IK SPAIN ALONG FRENGH — LINE!   Gen. Franco’s Regular Army And Spanish Republican Forces Clash In Nayarra: Clean Up Guerrillas,   Recapture Villages

FIGHTING BREAKS OUT INSIDE SPAIN   GUERRILLA WARFARE TO OVERTHROW FRANCO REGIME GROWING RAPIDLY.

SPAIN SEEMS NEAR REVOLT   Clashes Break Out Between Franco's Army and Republican Forces

North Spain seething with armed battle  Republican units lash at resulars

Northern Spain Seething with Furious Revolf   Guerrillas Attack Franco's Regulars

NEW SPANISH REVOLT MADE KNOWN TODAY   Franco’s Regular Army And Republican Forces Battle

Move to Unseat Franco Said  Growing Rapid   Exact Extent of Clash Between Franco’s Army And Republican Forces In Navarra Not Clear

Northern Spain Repor ‘ted Scene  Of Conflict   Guerrilla Bands Fight Gen. Franco’s Regulars, Spanish Radio Says

OUR CHURCHES   BERGEN LUTHERAN CHURCH  Alias, TA “ATalinnk Deatae

Wallace Says Indispensable  Man No Issue   Question Is, Vice-President Claims, To Choose Man Better Able To Lead

Six Edinburg  Residents Die In Train Crash   Most of Victims Known To Local Residents— Couple, Girls Were Re. turning From Party

DRAFT POLICIES BELIEVED SET FOR 6 MONTHS   Autonomy and Power of Local Boards Reasserted

WIDER POWER ~ RIVEN BOARDS   LOCAL ‘DRAFT BOARDS NOT -HEDGED IN "BY. 80 MANY DIRECTIVES UNDER NEW “> REGULATIONS. ~

RECONVERSION PLAN ATTACKED   Republicans Protest Murray: Kilgore Legislation

Say Murray-Kilgore Reconversion Plan Is Set-Up For Fat Political Machine

Compromise Talked On Reconversion   Republicans Protest Murray. Kilgore Plan Could Build Political Machine

Protest Bill's Political Tinge   Reconversion Plan Seen a Chance for Setting Up Political: Machine.

SOLONS ARGUE PROGRAM FOR POSTWAR DOLE   Republicans Say Proposal Lays Groundwork for Political Machine

MURAAY-KILGORE ' BILL S RAPPEL   Reconversion Plan May Be Used As Political Machine, Charge

Allied “Airmen _ hit Hard al Nazi U-Boats   Drive for 24 Hours at  ‘Nests in Three Ralian Ports

HARBORS IN ITALY TARGET FOR BOMBERS   Aerial Thrusts Accompanied by Quickening Tempo in Action; Cisterna Raiders Stopped.   Follow Day Assaults

Nazis’ U-Boat Shipping Nest: Hit by Allies   Mediterranean Fleets Pound Harbors: Drives At Anzio Increase

Allied Planes Blast Three Italian Ports   Quickening Tempo Reported in Action on Ground

BRITISH CAPTURE JAPS AT KOHIMA   Enemy Counter - At tacks Are Revulsed - With Small Lose

BREAK INTO JAP LINES ON ASIATIC FRONI   Several Strong Positions Have Been Captured, Jap Counter Attacks Have Been Repulsed  :

BRITISH CUT JAP LINES AT KOHIMA   Counterattacks of Nips Are Repelled in That Area

British Columns Move Into Kohima   Break Enemy Lines, Capture Water Supply

Nazi Railroads in Invasion Area Crippled by Raids; Capture Jap Post in Asia

BOMBERS STRIKE ENEMY BEHIND NORMANDY LINE   Troop Centers, Railways, Targets Of Allied Davlicht Fleet

AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE HAMMERED   Speedy RAF Bombers Hit Nazi Capital During Night

RAIL CENTERS AND AIRPORTS ARE BLASTEL   Improving Weather Permits Aerial Cover to Strike Behind Enemy Front.

U. S. Atrmen Carry Help To Invaders   Big Fleets Hammer At Gun Positions, Rail Lines

1,000 Plane Fleet Blasts Airdromes Near Battlefront   Weather Permits 3,500 Allied Sorties By Noon Today

Thousands of Planes Aid Allied Invasion Armies   24-Hour Period of Inactivity Ends as Weather Improves

ALLIED PLANES BY THOUSANDS AIDING INVASION ARMIES   Better Weather Permits Resumption of Wide-open Support for Our Forces.

PLANE FLEETS DISRUPT REAR GERMAN LINES   Strike In Great Force Behind Normandy Battle Area

Work On Surgical. Dressings Ready...  - Service Of Volunteer: Given Recognition

ESCAPE POR]   Mopping Up Bottled Nipponese Along Ormoec Corridor

AMERICANS MOPPING UP ON LEYTE   Other Developments In Pacific Called ‘Encouraging’

871 Japs Killed In Hollandia Area   “MacArthur Announces 183 Nips Captured

TO JAPS OVER A WIDE AREA   Marshall and Hainan Islands Blasted; New Bases Hammered.

okyo Reports Hainanlsland Raided   British Report Progress In Burma Fightine

Capt. Orville C. Wendt, _ Clyde, Commanded Yankee  Forces At Kuria Mission

FRENCH RAIL LINES BOMBED BY BRITISH   Attacks Today. Follow Up Heavy Attacks on Flying Bomb Installation: In France

Lancasters Hammer Paris Area  In Dawn Assault  Robot Bomb Launching Grounds Are Hit Again During Night

PARIS RAIL YARDS HARD HIT BY RAF LANCASTERS TODAY   Heavies Rip Successfully Into Suburban Tracks Where Many Trainleads of Battie Equipment. For Normandy Were Concentrated

BLAST PLOESTI OIL REFINERIES   . Smoke Swirls 20,000 “Feet High After Raid

Paris Suburb Rails Bombed  750 Heavies Batter ~ -Ploesti Refineries

BRITISH PLANES ATTACK PARIS   Rail Yards Packed with Ger: man Supplies. Hit in RAF Raid. .

British Bombers  Hit Railroads  In Paris Sector   Blast Large Concentrations of Supplies Destined for French Area

British Bombers Smash at Rails  Suburbs of Paris Rece've Attention

BRITISH POUND FRENCH RAILS   Others Attack Robot Ramps, Targets in Normandy

RAILROADS IN PARIS SUBURBS ATTACKEL   Climax to Night Raids ir Which Other Targets Are Hit.

Lancasters Bomb Rails In Suburbs Of Capital   Paris Is Subjected To Climax Of Air Raids At Night

Climaxes Widespread Night Air Assaults Against Hun Position in Normandy and Germany

BOMBERS HAMMER PARIS RAIL YARDS      British Heavies Also Hit Robot Lairs In France, German Positions

Lancasters Hit Suburbs of Paris   Concentrate On Stocks At Important Rail Yards

Yanks Hit 5 Oil Plants   Great Clouds of Smoke Testify to Raid’s Effectiveness

Five Ploesti Oi Refineries Hit  American Bombers Return te Romania

750 American Bombers Blast Five Ploesti Refineries  British Lancasters Hammer Rail Yards Near Paris, Other Tarcel<c in France Strated

LIVORNO UNDER ALLIED ATTACK      Nazi Resistance In North - ITtaly Crumbles As Yanks Advance

PLOESTI OIL HIT   SMOKE SWIRLS 20,000 FEET INTO AIR; PARIS AREA TAKES POUNDING

BOMBERS POUND PARIS RAILY ARDS   Robot Lairs Hit During Night  Raids By British Fliers

BOMBERS HIT RAIL YARDS NEAR PARIS   Objectives In Germany Get Hard Blow

eu 1S ASKS OIL AND ORES   LOUISIANA, SENATOR -PROPOSES LEND-LEASE SETTLE: ° MENT INCLUDE REPLEN-~ ISHING NATURAL - RESOURCES 

7 Rickenbacker’s Old Squadron.  (U.S. Fighter Group on 1000 Missions

1000 Missions For Oldest Fight Group   Kddie Rickenbacker’: Old World Squadron Carries On

DRAFT ROW IN CANADA GROWS   Demonstrations In Protest Of New Policy Listed

McKittrick Seek: Requisitions In Prison Suit   Petition to Be Heard Monday; Asks For House Lease

Nazis Check British Push Below Caen   U. S. Airmen en Support Red Drive on Eastern Front; Eighth Army Nears Florence

CARRIER PLANES OF U. 5. THIRD FLEET ATTACK JAP FLEET   UNDETERMINED BUT SEVERE LOSSES INFLICTED ON ENEMY NAVY

American Carrier Princeton Lost as Japanese Attempt Sneak Blow at Philippines

Americans Withstand a Three-Pronged Attack  ' by Japanese U. S. CARRIER LOST  Jap Carrier Sunk, Other Ships Damaged, Near Philippines         Bulletin

Army Defends Its Stand On  War Prisoners   Says Captives Help War Effort

SOME CAPTIVES ON PREFERRED STATUS   Non-Fascist Italians Contributed to American War Effort.

Sot. Harrison ‘Wins Tourney   Soldier Takes $1000 War Bond Prize at Charlotte, N.C.

British Troops Battle With Marshal Tito In Montenegro   Forces in Contact With the Enemy, It Is Announced —Strong Enemy Fortifications at Risan Are Heavily Shelled

~ Weary Nipponese Surrender To Lone Private  Jeep Jockey Captures 17 Japanese

LIVESTOCK LOST IN PANHANDLE   Worst Blizzard In 52 Years Plunges Mercury to 4 Abov

REPORTS OF HEAVY LIVESTOCK DEATHS IN PANHANDLE AREA  WORST BLIZZARD IN 52 YEARS REPORTED ABAT-

Allies Smash Germans Hard on 4 Fronts   Yanks Forge Ring Around St. Lo; Reds Rush Onward, Italian, Air Fronts Busy

Military Rank Situation in Mess   Congress Hints at Too Many Stars

His: aces  In Philadelphiz      Peace Time Eeonom) Will Be Burden OF Speech. Tanioht

Dewey In First Campaign Talk  GOP Standard Bearer Says Biggest Issue le Healthy Economy

Capitol Greets Roosevelt After Victory at Polls  Rain Mars Triumphal Return of President to ‘Home’ as . SEA A Baorcane Lins Sieaal:

FDR Given Roaring Welcome On Return, He Tells Throng He’s Very Happy To Be Back   Thousands Gather To Greet President At Station And Along Parade Route

Rain-Drenched Crowd Of 250,000 Welcomes Roosevelt   FDR Confirms Plan For "Big 3" Meeting

FDR CONFIRMS CHURCHILL IDEA OF EARLY MEETING BIG THREE: 250, 000 IN LINE OF PARADE

Thousands Throng Streefs Of Washington To Welcome Return of Chief Executive

‘Wallace and Truman In Car With FDR, Who Grin: And Waves to Greeters

Many Witness Big Parade Despite Rain   President Sees Early Meeting Of "Big Three"

Roosevelt Returns In Triumph To Washington   President Thanks People For Braving Rain To Give Him Great Ovation

Roaring Welcome Greets Roosevelt   Returns to Duties In the White House Early Friday Morning

President Returns to  ‘Capital   Receives Ovation, Congratulations On His Victory

250,000 welcome Roosevelt home  Disregard rain storm to cheer triumphal parade

FDR Expects “Big Three” Meet Soon   Has No News on Possible New Appointments for Cabinet Changes

WASHINGTON WELCOMES RETURN OF ROOSEVELT   President Looks Forward, He Says, To Early Meeting of “Big Three”

FDR WELCOMED TO WASHINGTON   Hopes It Won’t Be Inferred He Hopes to Make It Permanent Home.   959.000 WATCH PARADE

ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO WASHINGTON AMID TUMULTOUS WELCOME  PRESIDENT TELLS CROWDS  BRAVING RAIN THAT HE

Thousands  Greet FDRin Washington   President Assures Crowds He ‘Is Very Happy to Be Back: Thanks People for Braving Rain to Welcome Him

F.R. Looks For Early Meeting Of Big Three   Reveals He Missed Election Forecast; Given Big Welcome By Capital Residents

Crowds Hail FDR's Return fo the Capital   Rides in Open Car in Parade Which Takes 20 Minutes

250,000 Welcome FDR!  Back To Washington   President Given Tremendous Ovation By Throng Which Braves Cold Rain To See Triumphant Return; Chief Executive Pauses For Remarks

The “Champ” Is , Welcomed Back To Washington   Despite Downpour, Huge Throng Watche: Triumphal Parade For the President

‘Heavy Rain Fails To Dampen Cheers Of Thousands  _[n Nation’s Capital As Roosevelt ‘Comes Home

PRESIDENT GETS HEARTY WELCOME IN WASHINGTON      Throngs Brave Rain To Cheer F. D. R. As He Returns to Capital

Crowd Turns Out To Welcome Roosevell Home  250,000 Stand In Rain In Washington

Washingion Crowds un Out in Droves for FDR Homecomm:   Thousands Jam Streets Despite Rain to Welcome Tuesday’s Victor

Huge Crowd Is Assured. Roosevelt '  Is Pleased .   Washington Greets President At Train

Throng Welcomes FDR to Capital Despite Bad Rain  President Greets Cheering Crowd . With Brief Speech

Cheering Crowe Gives Welcome To Roosevelt   President, Arriving In Washington, Is “Very Happy” to be Back in Capital.

Wallace and Truman Ride With ‘Champ’   ‘Very Happy’. to Be Back President Tells Crowd at Washington Station   SCHOOL CHILDREN JOIN IN WELCOME  .   Washington Arranges Big Welcome to. Show World US. Is Not Falling Apart

Happy To Be Back, He Says   Large Crowd Braves Rain  To Cheer Fourth Term  Victor .

President Gets A Rip-Roaring , Welcome Home   250,000 Brave Washing ton Rain To Cheer Tri  umnhant Return.

President Wecomed Back To Washington   Rain-Soaked Throngs in Noisy Greeting Along Route Of Triumphal Processions From Station to White House

Washington Welcomes — ‘The Champ   About 250,000 Persons Brave Rain to Line. Route of Triumphal Procession “Home”

CHEERING MOB WELCOMES FDR      President Confirms Plan For Early Meet of “Big Three

F.D.R. BACK ON JOB AT WHITE HOUSE   Rides in Parade, Tells Assembled Thousands He Is Glad to Be Back in Capital, Then Returns to Hic Duties.

SAYS LAWYER PUT GUN BESIDE BODY      Negro Porter Testifies in  se 6 oe © Hp gg

SAYS LAWYER PUT GUN BESIDE BODY      Negro Porter Testifies in  ee 6 we © Me wg  . Miller

Capital-Slain Psychiatrist Seen With Gur   Surprise Murder Trial Wimess Testifies He Saw Weapon in ‘Doctor's Possession in 1939

PIONEER COAL MAN IS TAKEN   Walter Muir Succumbs To Pneumonia After Major Operation

Pneumonia Fatal To Walter Muir   Funeral Set Tomorrow For Raleigh Store Manager

Stalin Credits Allies with Aid Against Germany   Asks for Early Combined Blow

Stalin Demands Combined Blow  Against Germany  Says Russia Will Do Her Part, in May Day Talk Full of Triumph

Blow in West Needed, Says Stalin Order   Premier’s May Day Greeling Appeals For Joint Assault

Main Allied Assault Yet ToBe Loosed  Week Ends With Tat eel Digesees we      Week Ends With TatScrambling  For Safety Within Saar and Rhine Frontiers

Largest Forum  Audience Monday  “Mrs. ‘Baker: Talks On: Pacific Victory

HEROS: COMMENTS ARE NOT LENGTH   Kelly and Childers, Home From Battlefront, Have Little to Say.

Crowd Nearly Mobs Saf. Kelly   Police Forced to Rescue Pittsburgh Army Hero From Admirers

Bishop Thomas Nicholson, 82; Died Last Night   Retired Methodist Church _ Official Had Long and Varied Career

DEWEY LEADS NN RACE WITH WIKI OU   6. 0. P. Nomination’ Hovers - Over Albany When 1940 Leader Withdraws.

Wendell - Willkie: Quits GOP Race; Dewey Boosted   Presidential Nomination Dangles Close To N. Y. Governor, Still Silent

Watch Effect on Gov. Dewey   New York Governor Maintains Silence Held Since Start of Campaign.      New. Club. Co-Ed Quarters To Be Opened at “Y” on-April 19        for, Formal: Shaw:  Four. Night: Program’ of Activities: Arrang ‘ iletion.:  a ae Rooms: Work.Mear C

DEWEY STANDS  ‘OUT AS LEADING  GOP POSSIBILITY MAINTAINS SILENCE   AS SPECULATION ON WILLKIE INCREASES

’ Decision Made ’ After Failure , In Wisconsin   Former Presidential Candidate Bows Out, Leaving Almost Clear Field to N. Y. Governo

Dewey Looms As Choice of Republicans   Willkie Quits After Losing in Wisconsin; N. Y. Governor Silent

Nomination ~ Looks Easy For Dewey   New York Governor Has Not Said He Wouldn’t Accept Bid

Dewey Is Now In Limelight   Presidential Nomination Without Strings Before Governor   BUSY IN ALBANY   Has Never Said He Would Not Accept Republican Nomination

Dewey up as Willkie » Quits Race   G.O:P,” Nomination Floats Toward Silent New Yorker, ®--But Confusion Remains.   WHAT WILL WILLKIE DO NEXT? G.O.P. ASKS   Several “Possibilities. Are _ Discussed Following His Dramatic Withdrawal

New Yorker Far In Front After ‘Dramatic Bow Out   1940 Nominee Throws In Sponge Following Wisconsin Setback; Dewey Is Silent

Dewey May Gain Nomination Without Strings As Willkie  Quits On Wisconsin Returns

With Willkie Out Of Picture Dewey Has Clear Track   Presidential = Nomination Without Strings Dangles Before New Yorker.   Willkie Announces His Exit in Omaha Speech

Politicians Left Guessing by Sudden Campaign Shift; Bricker Surprised

(Dewey Leading iField For GOP Ticket’s Head   Presidential Nomination Without Strings Float. _ ing Enticingly -  Close :

New York Governor Stands Far Out as Leading Possibility as G. O. P. Choice  t54C 199 MEL EC ATS SG   HAS 132 DELEGATES

DEWEY STAND WILL LET HIM AVOID STRINGS   Intimates Assert Governo! Wants Nomination Only On Unattached Basis:

N. ¥. GOVERNOR STILL SILENT, BUT PLEASED’   Has 132 Delegates Already Promised  For Nomination

1940 CANDIDATE QUITS AFTER PRIMARY DEFEAT   Dewey Stands Out as No. ' Republican in Race for Nomination

Nomination Without Strings Enticingly Close to Gov. Dewey   New York Executive i. Far Out in Front in Republican Race

WILLKTE QUIET ABOUT FUTURE   Withdrawal From Race Makes No Difference to Bricker’s Plans.   BRITISH ARE CONFUSED

DEWEY WELL IN FRONT AS PARTY CHOICE   Willkies Withdrawal Makes Governor Possi bility for G. O. P. Presidential Nomination Without Strings.

GOP Nomination Without Strings . Floats Near Dewey   Willkie Concedes He Has No Chance to Win, So Withdraws

GOP Nomination Moving Closer To New Yorker   1940 Republican Stondard Bearer's Action Surprises

TEMPERATURES?   Top Political Prize In Grasp OfN. Y. Governor   Dewey Is Practically Assured Of Party's : Nomination .

GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION FLOATS CLOSER TO DEWEY   WITHDRAWAL OF WILLKIE MAY GIVE NEW YORK GOVERNOR OPEN ROAD 

oe ~~ aa _ = bea baal —_ ™  Nomination for Dewey Appears Quite Likely Now   Willkie’s Withdrawal Puts New Yorker Far Out in Lead

Dewey Has Minimum Of! 132 Delegates Pledged'! Or Claimed For Him  In Nomination Race

May Get Ihe Nomination Without Any otrings  Dewey Emerges As Chief Runner With Willkie Out

AMERICANS HOLD WIDE EDGE OVER ENEMY’S FLIERS   Combat Score in Pacific, Asia Nearly 4 to 1 in Favor Of Yanks

JACKSON SEES 3-DAY SESSION FOR DEMOCRATS   Doubts if FDR Will At: tend to Make Speech of Acceptance 

THREE-DAY CONCLAVE   Jackson, Slated Chairman, Doesn’t Expect F. D. R. to Attend

New Charges In Short Case   Indianan Says Short Not Told of Australian Report Jap Fleet Seen on Way

Charges FR Hides Truth ~ Of Jap Blow   Rep. Harness Says U. S. Was Warned in Ad. vance of Pearl Harbor’

Says Warning Withheld at Pearl Harbor   Rep. Harness Claims Gen. Short Ready To Tell Story

Rep. Harness Says Washington Knew of Pearl Harbor Blow   Charges FDR Concealed Truth of Disaster of Dec. 7. 1941

CLAIMS SNEAK ATTACK WARNING   Asserts Australia Sent Word to Washington

Harness Charges  Washington Tippec  On Pearl Harbor Says Evidence Tends to Show Australia Advised Jap Aircrat  Pastas fn Wau

RESISTANCE IN ITALY GROWING   British Meet Opposition A Adriatic End Of Line

BRITISH CROSS FOGLIA RIVER   Meet Strong Resistance Near Gothic Line

‘Allied Spearheads Push BeyondNewStrongpoints; Many Prisoners Taken.

Germans Evacuate City of Minturno After Hard Fight.   NEW VICTORIES ON ROAD TO ROME   ON ROAD TO ROME  Allied Planes Swarming Over the Entire Battle Area.

Nazis Lose Minturno In Italy   British Trocps Smash Germans’ Anchor Line; Other Victories

American and _ 5British: Troops Massing For New Attack On Nazis At Cassino.

STATE TEACHERS SHORTAGE ACUTE   More Than 10,009 in Ohio Leave Positions Since Pearl Harbor

SCHOOLS FACE ~~ BIG PROBLEW   DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REVEALS 10,000 TEACHERS HAVE LEFT JOBS SINCE  '. PEARL HARBOR

British Moving Methodically  Onto F Florence   Germans Fighting Pesper  ! ately to Hold Ancient  City In Italy; Counter_Atiack on Wide Circle

6th Army Slowly Nearing Florence   Stubborn Resistance Yielding to Pressure

ALLIES FACE 9 DIVISIONS AT FLORENCE   Germans Determined ‘to Make Real Stand, Lashing Out in Fierce Counter-Attacks From City’s Approaches.

Battling — ' To End At Florence   Nazis Using Some of Best Troops to Slow 8th Army Drive  NEW BOOBY TRAP BEING EMPLOYED  >.   . Lull Continues on 5th Army Front Before Pisa; Tower Is Watched

NAZIS MAKING LAST STAND AT FLORENCE   Eighth Army Staging Methodical Progress Against Five German Divisions Before Capital   SAN MICHELE IS HELD

. +ITALY~—  EIGHTH ARMY 1 PUOHING AREAL   Germans Using Best Di. visions To Guard Flor ence Approaches

Nazis Fight Hard  To Hold Florence Grenades Set Off by   Grenades Set Off by Wire Across Roads New Nazi Booby Trar

NAZI LINES MAKE FLORENCE STAND   Eighth Army Attack Slowed By Desperate Defense

8TH ARMY RIPS NAZI DEFENSES NEAR FLORENCE   Progress Is Slow, But Steady In Drive to Rout Foe In Italy

sth Army Slowly Subduing. Enemy   Furious Battle Raging ’ Near Florence

GERMANS MAKE LAST STAND AT FLORENCE   Slow, Methodical Progress Made By Americans

Eighth Army Advance on Florence Slow   Five German Divisions Making Desperate Last Stand Battle Before City; Lull on 5th Army Front

Eighth Army Moving. Slow   Battle Five German Groups At Florence.

EIG MAKING PROGRESS AGAINST FLORENCE   Slowly But Surely Five German Divisions Are Being Forced to Give Reing Forced to Give Ut

BTW ARMY TROOPS" MAKE SLOW GAINS   Drive Against Five German Divisions Fighting Fieréely,

Eighth Making Steady Progress   Germans Fighting Desperate Last Stand Battle Before City

Yanks Making Slow Advances On Italian City  Report Is Denied Leanine Tawer His

Eighth Army Slowly Advances Toward Horence   South of City Nazi Counterattacks Increase In Intensity.

State Guard Platoon Gets Citation For Pacific Battle  Montana Guardsmen Took Heavy Toll AL Enamy Saldiare

Smash Through German Battle Screen, Tear _ Lines To Shreds i   Lines To Shreds  LESS THAN 32 MILES OF FRENCH CAPITAL  Americans Plant Battle Flags On Banks Of Eure And Annay Rivers

Roar of U.S. Heavy Ariillery Heard in Paris   One Column Only 32 Miles From. Capital

Last Important Natural Defenses Before Paris Breached By Onrushing Yanks.

5 Key Cities Fall; Capital 39 Miles Off   Orleans, Dreux, Chartres Taken In Blinding Push

Swift Yank Tanks, Infantry, Take Orleans, ‘Split France and Race On Toward Paris

Last Important Natural Barriers Have Been Breached, Americ. ans Storm, Capture Dreux, Chartres, Race Ahead   AMERICANS ASTRIDE TOURS TRUNK LINE

B-295 HIT TWO JAP TARGETS   AMERICANS COMPLETE RECONQUEST OF GUAM

Bee. Causes Wreck;  6 Persons, Injured  Auto Crashes Tree Near Sprinadale Cluk

SIX INJURED IN TWO ACCIDENTS   Five Hurt in One Wreck Taken to Hospital

Allied Airfield in China Is Goal of New Drive by Japanese Forces

Jap Drive Perils Key Chinese City   Enemy Opens Attack On Hengyang Airfield

FRENCH TROOPS OF SEVENTH U.S. ARMY RACING NORTHEAST  DRIVE FROM SOUTHERN FRANCE IS VERY LIGHTLY OPPOSED

French Drive Near Dijon   Ancient Capital of Burgundy Next Prize; Yank Troops Advance

Nazis Flee From Southern France   French Forces May Be Approaching Capital of  Bariundy   A CITY OF 90,869   Germans Report Offensive Against Last Mountain  Passes

2 KILLED, 50 HURT IN CRASH   2 Buses With Inductees Ave Smashed tn Foo

Firing of a Salvo of Bureaucrats After Victory Asked by Rep. Scott

REPORT SWEDISH VESSEL OVERDUE   Plane Reports Debris and Survivors Sighted

BATAAN GROUPS ~~ MAKE DEMAND   ORGANIZATION OF RELATIVES OF PRISONERS CALLS FOR / "MORE SUPPLIES FOR  iF : MACARTHUR.

Ro oosevelt. S ées France RisinetoFight   Turns Over ver DE. Boat {o “French and’. Visits Lincoln Shrine

U. S.-MADE VESSEL PRESENTED FRENCH   Roosevelt Tenders Escort Carrie! Under Lend-Lease Program— Another Is Launched.

President Says French Are In War   _Presents Warship.To Fighting French Fleet

Heart Attack Proves F atal  ~ M.S. Walker Was: ‘Manager: Local Store

46 Jap Ships, 214 Planes Destroyed In Palau Attack   Nimitz’s Fleet Takes Tremendous Toll In Daring Pacific Attack Without Losing A Ship; Only 25 Planes And 18 Aviators Lost.

Forty Jap Vessels Destroyed In Fight   Not An American Naval Vessel Damaged In Encounter With Japanese In Three Attacks

18 Others Are Badly Damaged; 160 Enemy Planes Destroyed and 54 Probably Damaged; Installations Blasted in Three-Day Attack Within 550 Land Miles of the Philippines

PALAU FORAY SMASHES 4 ENEMY CRAFT   Jap Battleship Hit By Torpedo; 214 Planes Blasted

Blow Destroyed Or Damaged 214 Nip Planes   Nimitz Reveals Tremendous Losses In 3-Day Palau Area Assault; 28 Vessels Sunk, Others Disabled

PREOERSCOR EMERITUS DIES    MAJOR COUNTER-ATTACK  By Germans Now Seems Likely

, Germans Can Ill Afford To Give Up Cherbourg— meDy GHON we Fay V   Mavic Expected To Put Up Fight For Port

CONTINUE 10 SACRIFICE IN PHILIPPINES   5.000 More Nips Spilled in Sea When Convoy Attacked by DiveBomber U.S. Planes

Romania Frees l, S. Airmen   1,100 Yank Airmen Given Freedom In  Capital City.

ALTIES GAIN AT MYITKYINA   Penetrate Jap Defenses In Burma City —

ALLIES GAIN IN BATTLE AGAINST MYITKYINA JAPS   Chinese, Yanks Penetrate To Southern Sector Of  Burma Base

U.S., Chinese Penetrate Into  Myitkyina   Have Advanced To Point 800 Yards From Main Station

Round - The - Clock Raids in Progress      Ground Fighting In Italy Limited to Patrol Activity; Allied Planes Bear Brunt of Offensive Work.

Allied Heavy Bombers Atiacked Vital Enemy Targets Near Paris   Last Night’s Assault Was One of the Heaviest Yet Struck.

Vital Enemy-Held Targets Near Paris Blasted By British Heavy Bombers

Former Vichy Minister Says Petain Now Believes Germany Will Lose War

Petain Aide Fights Death   Ex-Vichy Leader Talk: For Life Before Army Court in Algiers

Dewey Speaks Out, But Not on Plans   Opens Up on New Deal, Silent on Nomination

Chinese Make Contact With Gen. Stilwell   Control Vital Trail Between Myitkyina And Tengchung

GESTAPO OVER BELGIUM   nr cee 2 Grohe, of Hitler's Elite Guard, I Named Reich Commissioner

Raiding Columns Of Jap Troops Knife into India   Thrust into State Of Manipur Is Foe’ First Penetration  Of Rich Country

RAIDING GROUP CROSSES INTO MANIPUR STATE   Cross Chinwin River and Go into Rich State. Advanced Allied Patrols Mesi “Tham

Border of India Crossed by Japs   Raiding Columns Enter Manipur In Campaign Across North Burma

New Nip Drive Crosses Border   Enemy Thrist Opens New Front, but Allies View Attack as Attempt At Diversion; Reinforcements Rushed

Japanese Raiders Cross Border Of India First Time   Columns Enter Manipur State From North Burma

BURMA CROSS INTO INDIA AT MANIPUR   Spearhead Described As “Raiding Columns’”——Entered Indian State at One or Two Places From North Burma

No Opposition Yet Reported From Allies   Mountbatten’s Force Continues Advance In North Burma

Jap Raiders © Filter Over India Borde}   Stilwell Chinese Force Continues Drive Into Mogaung Vallev

Japs Drive Into India At 2 Points   Enemy Opens Offensive At Night, Advanees Almost Uninolested

Jap Raiders Drive Across  India Border   First Time Allies Have Acknowledged Actual Push Into india

Jap Troops Cross Chindwin River at Night and Advance Almost Unmolested

3 mentioned as possible  sSuCcCEeSSOrs Byrnes, Wallace  and Stettinius

‘Second Windfall’  e «e@ 9  Provis'en ‘Qui  Decide On Repeal Of Tax Issue

Windfall Tax Provision To  Be Repealed   Cumbersome Measure of Pay-as-You-Go Law Faces Change

Part Of Tax  Law Repealed   Congress Cleans Up Nearly All Disputed Matters In Tax Bill.

HORVATH, HACKETT IN AUTO ACCIDENT   Two Cars Crash Headon in Snowstorm

Frost Visits In Oklahoma   Ada Gets by With 34 Degree Minimum; Forecast Is For Continued Chilly

HEAVY FROST IN MANY SECTIONS   Other State Points, Including Miami, Escape — Low Temperature 37

Soviet Forces Compress ‘Nazis Into 36 Mile Area In Cherkassy Pocket

REDS TIGHTEN NOOSE AROUND ENCIRCLED NAZIS   Russians Make New Gains Against Germans Who Are Fighting Like Mad mer i...

Reds Whittle Trapped Enemy   Cherkassy Pocket Shrinks To Meager 36 Square Miles

Vets to Obtain Mustering Out Pay This Month   Applicants Must Submit Form To Obtain Funds

“WITHOUT DELA   Former Service Men Advised  to Make Applications  BPramniiv

YOUNG COUPLE EXCHANGED VOWS   MISS BETTE LOU SCHULTZ AND NORMAN WETZELL MARRIED FRIDAY AFTERNOON

YOUNG GOUPLE EXCHANGED VOWS   visS ELIZABETH STICKEL AND HAROLD CRANDALL JR. MARRIED

Marines Strike At Peleliu Japs   Corsiars Aid Digging Out Nips In Caves

THE WEATHER AT YUMA   3 KILLED AS B-24 CRASHES NEAR PALM SPRINGS

N HALF-MILE OF AACHEN   Meet Increasingly Stiff Nazi Resistance, However

YANKS WITHIN HALF-MILE OF AACHEN   Meet Increasingly Stiff Nazi Resistance, However

80 Jap Planes Destroyed   Bougainville Drive Carries Ou Yanks to East Coast

Ground Force: Gain on Bougainville   Enemy Freighter Is Sunk Off New Ireland Island

AMCRILAN) TAKE OVER NEW ISLES   Nimitz Suspends Mikado’s Power  hEW CASUALTIES  Japan Predicts Showdown Battle

MORE ISLANDS IN MARSHALLS © WON BY YANKS   Nimitz Proclaims American ® Rule as Forces Mop Up Jap Stronghold

TEHERAN PLAN IS UNDER TEST NOW   Allied Strategy for Nazi Defeat in Critical Phase

TEHERAN PLAN MEETING TEST   Allied Strategy For De. feat of Nazis Faces Severest Trial

ALLIED STRATEGY  UNDER SEVEREST  TEST IN FRANCE AMERICAN MILITARY  CHIEFS IN ENGLAND TO WATCH PROGRESS

‘Allied Sir alegy Mapped at Teheran Now Under Severest Test in Normandy

ALLIED STRATEGY UNDER SEVERE TES]   America’s Top Army, Navy, Air Force Commanders, To Watch Batte.

Big Allied Raids Force Nazis to  Quit 27 Airfields   5,500 Planes Assault Five More ’Dromes Near Invasion Front

BUTTER POINTS REDUCED 10 12   Many Choice Cuts of Beef Higher; Lamb, Mutton Cut 50 Pet.

Butter Points To Be Reduced   Will Be 12 Per Pound Dur. ing Mav According To O.P.A. Announcement

‘inland Vital To War Because Of Mineral Wealth—- By James I. White   Novis Take Over Finland For Home Defense

January Draft Up 20 Per Cent in California   February Inductién Increase 40 Per Cent, Officials Report

5th Army Vanguards 2 Mi. From Via Casilina, Last Nazi Escape Line   Allies Seize Cori, Mt. Arrestino, Approach Valmontone, Meeting Increased Artillery Fire

LAST ROUTE OF ESCAPE FOR NAZI TROOPSS IN VIEW   Sth Army Plunges Ahead on All Fronts—Rome May  Mot Ba Contested.

5th Army Vanguard Within 2% Miles Of Vital Casilina Way   Seizure of Importaut Highway To Close Jaws of Trap Against 17 Hitler Divisions in ltaly

Allies Advance Near Valmontone  Key Stronghold   Last Practical Escape Route To Rome Being Approached Rapidly

OTH ARMY ADVANCE UNITS GAIN 12 MILES THROUGH MOUNTAINS   Advance To Artena Presents Threat To Via Casilina, Chief Line Of Retreat For ¥7 Nazi ns

FIFTH CLOSES IN ON VALMONTONE, ‘FOE ESCAPE LANE   Slice Into Enemy’s Flank; Hitler May Out Rome Defonse

Allies Fighting To Block Escape Of 17 Divisions   Anzio Beachhead Forces Close in On Via Casilina

ALLIED TROOPS CUT THRU NAZI FLANK TO WITHIN 2 MILES OF VIA CASILINA

TFTH ARMY VANS CONTINUE MOVES TO STOP ESCAPE   17 German . Divisions Retreating From Southeast In Serious Spot, Big Guns Are In Operatoin.   REICH RAIL CENTERS, FRANCE ARE POUNDED   Three Rhineland Cities, Sev. eral French Localities Visited, Transportation : Damaged.

Inflict Heavy Casualties On Enemy Forces   Battle Stiffest Yet Encountered

Berle Says Dewey Shows Dishonesty   White House Also Refutes Candidate's Statements

Berle Says Dewey Is ‘Dishonest’   White House Lists ‘Facts’ to Refute Charges in Oklahoma Speech

BERLE ACCUSES  DEWEY OF ‘LIES IN HIS CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENCY   Secretary Says Tom “Dishonest”

JAPS THREATEN TO SPLIT CHINA   Chinese Suffering Heavy Los. ses, Which Menace Yenks’ Vital Bases

Saboteurs In Kweilin  Rounded Up   Entire Structure Of U.S. Army Effort In China Threatened

Allies Lose + Kweilin Base   Jan Gains Menace Entire American  Effort in Chinn

JAP SABOTEURS IN KWEILIN ROUNDED UP AND EXECUTED   Hundreds af taps in Plain Clothes Land in Area: Chinese Weakened

Jap Drive Threatens the Whole Structure of US. Military Effort in China   Japanese Are Making Three  Main Drives on Kwethin

Fix Blame For Debacle In China      Inefficiency of. Command Results in Reverses Threatening  Whole Allied Position

U.S. Fliers Bag Destroyer, 3 Loaded Transports and 42 Enemy Planes; Americans Score New Gains on Leyte

FORMOSA RAIDED BY ALLIED FLYERS, TOKYO RADIO SAYS   Takao and Tansui Suffered Slight Damage, Japanese Revort

NAZILAND IS AGAIN HiT BY ALLIED BOMBS   U. S. Fliers Slash At Invasion Coast

Objections to OPA in a Nutshell: ‘Tt’s All Right for the Other Guy But Please Do Me a Special Favor”

ARMY RELEASES TOLEDO PLANTS   MESA-CIO Jurisdictional Dispute Is Settled

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL CLIMBING   Over 130 Persons Lose Lives In Nation by Accidental Causes

LABOR WEEKEND TOLL IS 137   Far Above Violent Death Total. of °43

SHAEF Staff Will Operate OQut Of Paris   Orders. Given Transferring All ActiVities From  London To France

Allied Command  Moves to Paris   Headquarters Set Up Soon After Plane Hop

Headquarters of Allied  Armies Moves to Paris   Planes Carry Staff and 60 Correspondents Over Channel to French Capital

U. S., Britain May Aid Germany   Perhaps Will Ship Relief Food Into Western Area

Fone Calendar   Nazis Sought War Secrets From Allen; Liberty Offered for British Sea Data

Larry Allen, Associated Press Writer, Tells About German Prison Camps Where He Spent Months After His Capture

SNOW FALLS: IN MONTANA   Report Cold Weather . Swinging Teward Iowa

SELECT SLATE OF DELEGATES   NAMES: OF OHIO: DELEGATES AT LARGE TO NATIONAL CONVENTION ANNOUNCED * BY BRICKER

Surrenders On Forgery Charge   Marlin Ridgeway Sentenced  Twice in Henry County

REPORT 450 GERMAN PLANES DOWNED DURING PAST WEEK   FIFTEEN THOUSAND SORTIES MADE ON ENEMY TARGETS IN SEX COUNTRIES SINCE SATURRAY

Spain Will Rid Tangier Of Spies   15 German Diplomats Wil Be Swept From MovieLike Intricue Center

Spain Meets Requests Of Allies; New Steps  Planned on Irish Issue

@ NO CASUALTIES  Women Cut Loose With Red Hot Oral Battle on Politics

AGREEMENT NOT YET REACHED IN TOLEDO   Shipbuilding Walkout Enters Third Day Stoppage

U. S. Supreme Court Is Again Divided On Authority to Draw Conclusions

30 Jap Planes Shot Down In Two-Day Burma Combat   Allies Lose Three Craft in Dogfights Accompanying Nip Invasion of India; Jap Base on Dutch Guinea Is Blasted

30 Jap Planes Shot Down in Furious Battle   Americans Lose Only 3 Fighters

BLAST EUROPE IN AIR ATTACKS      Allied Bomber’ Formations Take 90 Minutes Passing Southeast Coast

‘WPB Agrees to Lift Curbs When Europe War Ends  ‘Proposes Givine Industry Free Hand   Proposes Giving Industry Free Hand To Manufacture Civilian Goods  From Materials Not Needed in Jap War

Productionto be slanted at  civilian needs 40% war output eut anticinated

Production  For - Civilians To Leap With Nazis’ Defeat   ~ WPB-Will-Retain =~ Only Control Enough © To Assure: War Goods: ~ To Finish Off Japan  WAR. PRODUCTION TO:DROP 40 PERCENT

German Defeat To Bring Fewer WPB Controls   Materials Needed To De feat Japan To Come First, However

More Civilian Production to Be Allowed   WPB Plans te Lift Controls When Germany Is Beaten

Civilian Goods To Begin To Flow After Collapse Of German War Machine . . .  WPB To Halt Most Production Controls

Civilian Output Will Jump ‘As Soon As Nazis Defeated   Virtually Unlimited Production to Follow Germany’: Defeat, Acting WPB Chairman Says— ‘War Aaencies Concur —

PLANTS TO MAKE CIVILIAN GOODS ~ WHEN NAZIS FALL   WPB Announces It Will Scrap . Virtually All Uontrols Over Production With Hitier’s Defeat.   40 PER CENT CUT IN WAR OUTPUT SEEN   Only Regulations to Get Munitions Needed to Defeat  dapan Will Remain in Force.

PRODUCTION OF CIVILIAN GOODS PROMISED SOON   WPB Decides To Scrap Virtually All Controls After Germany’s Defeat   4 MILLION WORKERS WILL BE RELEASED

Defeats May Cost the Nazis Their Last Ukraine Toe-Hold,  VICTORY RANKS WITH STALINGRAD «& KIEV  More than 200 Towns Taken on 17 Mile Front in Rumania

Win One Of Greatest Victories      Germans And Romanians Evacuate City After Destroying All Installations

Allies Make nein Gains  Kniffiing Ahan VWreslkas   Knifiing Ahead Under Supnvnori Of Ale Fareo

Of Interest to Local Dairymen   artificial Insemination Association About Ready to Complete Organi.

Plans Organizatio: For Artificial In semination Group  Total Of 300 Members Wanted

Frnemy Runs for Lives Near End OF Guam Batlle   Sor.athing New for Foe  Who Generally Makes ; Coleidel Charce

Without Last “Banzai” Charge for Emperor: Last Organized Resis. tance on Guam.  ee   Japs Disorganized

CIGARET TRADE INQUIRY BEGAN   Federal Commission To Try And Find Where Smokes Have Gone

Another Probe of Smoke Shortage ‘Trade Commission To Look Into Scarcity, Wheeler Says

POLES CAPTURE ~~ ADRIATIC PORT   Pesaro, Eastern Anchor of Gothic Line, Falls After Bitter Fight

Gothic Line Anchor In Italy Taken By Poles   Pesaro Falls In Crushing Attack; Eighth Army Quickly Crosses Foglia River

Gothic Line Anchor Taken   Polish ‘Troops Capture Port of Pesaro

Polish Troops Capture Pesaro  Eastern Anchor Taken After Stif4 Battle

Pesaro Falls To Allies In Bitter Fight   Eastern Anchor Of Gothic Line Was Vital Point

Pesaro Falls To Poles On Adriatie Side   Capitnlates After Bitte: Fight In Which Both Infantry and Armanor Participated

Poles Take " Pesaro on The Adriatic  Port Falls After . A Bitter Fight

PESARQ PORT FALLS TO POLISH TROOPS   City One of Eastern Anchors Of German’s Gothic  Lins

Polish Troops Take Pesaro  In Hard Fight   One of Eastern Anchors To Gothic Line Falls After Bitter Battle

Pesaro, Anchor Of Gothic Line, Taken by Poles   Infantry and Armor Take Par in Bitter Fighting: Other Forces Storm Across Foelia

BATTLE FLARES ‘AS ALLIES NEAR ‘GOTHIC LINE’   Nazis Are Cleared _From Stretch Of South Bank Of Foglia

Pesaro Falls to Poles After Bitter Fight   Allied Forces Storm Across   Foglia River on Broad Front; Stiff Resistance Met at Gothic Line

Baptist Radio Hour On Air Jan. 2nd Thru March 26th, Over W. B. R. C.

Wounded Hanceville Sergeant Meets Sister   Seven Of Twelve Children Are In Service In Australia, India France, South Pacific

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT  HITLER'S EUROPE IN  VULNERABLE PLACES 2,000 PLANES HIT BER LIN; ITALY BASED HEAVIE: BIACT TOTILON

London — (A. P.) — The Germans’ Calais radio declared Saturday night that 85 American planes were shot down in Saturday’s Berlin raid.

Bla THREE MEET NOW MORE URGENT   Bitter Congress Debate Predicted if Problems Remain Unsettled -

BiG 3 MEETING INCREASINGLY > AGENT   Conference Could Smooth Many Problems, Solons Believe

ARMORED FORCES DRIVE WEDGE IN AXIS POSITIONS   Caen, Toughest Nut Fer Allies In Invasion 1s Now In Peril, Pincers Slowly Be ing Closed.   1500 FORTRESSES BOMB MANY GERMAN TARGETS   Bases From Paris to Western Germany Assaulted With Supplies For Caen Army Blasted.

Capture Caumont And Villers Boccage In Sud. den Thrust :  GERMANS ARE WITHDRAWING HASTILY  Allied Sledge - Hammer Blows Break Through Norman Beachhead

“Victory Conference” In Quehec Make Headway In 2nd Day Meeting   Selection Of U. S. Navy Man To Lead Combined Offensive On Japs

QUEBEC CONFEREES TO PICK CHIEF IN PACIFIC   British Favor MacArthur, But F.R. Wants Navy Man

\ . :  : e e a a FDR Coordinating Kfforts With China And Russians   President Explains Conference With Churchill Is To Get “The Best We Can Out Of The Combined British And U. S. Efforts In Pacific, Europe”

Quebec Plans Coordinated With Allies   Establishment of Super-Command is Theme of Mecting

Russia and China Keys To Situation   Trying “to Get Best We Can” From War Effort,  Roosevelt Declares   NEW PACIFIC SETUP   American Admiral May Have Top Command in Drive on Japan

ENTER MURESUT VALLKY   QUEBEC TALKS COORDINATED WITH CHINESE AND RUSSIANS

Top Pacific Post Goes te Navy Man   Roosevelt Wants King or Nimitz  As Supreme Head In Japan Campaign

King Or Nimitz Likely To Lead War On Japan   Roosevelt, Churchill Continue Plans To  Finish Off Nipponese

FLOODS OUT. SNOW IN    Temperatures Around Freezing to  Prevail Tomorrow

COLD SNAP HAS MILDER TRENG   Temperature For Nation About Normal: Snow Hits Midwest

Jap Resistance-on iceyte Near an End   American Troops Have Completely Destroyed Yamashita Line: Mindoro Advance Continues

Americans Crush Yamashita Line In Ormoc Corridor  Tan Sunnhee Taken:   Jap Supplies Taken; Quiet on Mindoro; Hit Foe’s Airfields

Planes Still Smashing At Philippines   Nimitz Denies Damage To American Vessels

Superforts Blast. Formosa 3d Time!   Japanese Cruiser Is Stink  By China-Based Bomber By Ray Cronin

U. S. Carrier Planes Continue to Batter  North Philippines   Superfortresses Hit Formosa Third Blow; Nimitz Reveals Flight of Jap Fleet as Tokyo Talks of ‘Overwhelming Victory’ at Sea

Japs Still Put  Forth Claim Of Great ‘Victory   Nip Fleet, However, Flees At Sight Of U. S.  Power!

Assertions That Japanese Fliers Deteriorating Are Not Borne Out By Facts Of Past Two Months

ro PLANT ~~” AGAIN: OPEN   BOMBER PLANT RESUMES “WORK AFYER WEEK-END ‘OLOSING AFFECTING 32,000 EMPLOYES -

WOTJE ATOLL GETS SEVERE BLASTING   Japanese Base in Mar— shalls Hit With 230  Tons of Bombs

French Racing To Join Yanks East Of Pari:   Union Of Allies Would Encircle Germans In France

ALLIED TROOPS NEAR DIJON IN SOUTH FRANCE   Sweep Through Chalon Sur -Saone And 110 Miles From Lyon

[Pateh, Patton Closing Noose  On Hun! Hordes   U. S. 3d, Tih Armies Roll On Dijon Road Junction TT Raw Nast Besana

Pafch’s s. Troops’ Race Toward Belfort ‘Gap: to Cut Off: Fleeing Germans

Germans Flee to Escape Debacle of Southern France   UNION 1S NEARED WITH GEN. PATTON   Chalon-Sur-Saone Taken * in the Big Sweep

Great Pursuit Continues in — Southern France   Erench. Speeding North Only ‘About 60 Miles From Patton’s Third Army

RACE 10 CLOSE TRAP ON NAZIS   French Troops Near Dijon In Effort to Head Off Foe in South France

FRENCH NEAR DIJON, PUSH NAZIS AHEAD   Only 60 Miles Separate Them From Gen. Patton’s Third Army En Route From Paris.  Flop Tn Hille

AFL Motions for Higher Ceilings On Wages Beaten  Labor's Drive to Alte Little Steel Formula Suffers Setback  -

FAIL TO CRACK PAY FORMULA   Labor's Efforts to Smash “Little Steel” Plan Blocked by WLB

WLB Rejects AFL Demands   Won't Ask Modification Of ‘Little Steel’ Formula

LABOR PETITION GIVEN SETBACK   Motion To Alter Little Steel Wage Formula  Rejected By WLB

Half-Decade of Prosperity Is Seen For Ohio in Big Postwar Program

PROSPERITY ERA SO SEEN IN GHIE   Predict End Of War Will * Touch Off Industrial Synurt ~

U.S. Casualties Total 383,191  Army‘s Jump 23,249 ©  ‘From: France: Fiahting

American Casualties  Now 343,191   Jump of 23.249 In Week Due to Battle of France

U. S. Casualties [North France Up To 284,838   Totals Are Up to August  13; 53,101 Have Been  Killed, 142,686 Wounded, 44,643 Missing

Casualties In ‘Army Increase  By 23,249   Increase Due To Heavy Fighting At Break-Throuch Time

Army Casualties Jump to 284,838   Increase of 23.249 In Week; Reflects  Heavy Fighting

ARMY CASUALTIES UP WITH HEAVY FIGHTING   Overall Figure Mounts te 343,191

Battles Raise  Army’s Losses   American Casualties Jump to 284,838 as Result of Heavy Fishtine in France

Casualties of United States to 343,191   Heavy Fighting in France Brings Big increase of Losses

Army’s Casualties Mount to Total of 284,838 August 13th   Figures Reflect Period of Heaviest Fighting in Normandy

CASUALTY TOLL HITS 343,191   Deaths Totalled More Than 76.000 Three Weeks Ago

China Troops Drive Jans from Kweichow   Threat to Capital of Chungking Minimized by Action; One Enemy Column on Yuvan-Ishan Remains

Jap Forces  Hurled Back   Chinese Troops Win Back Liuchai; Danger To Kwaiyang Eased

Japs in China Driven Back   Attacking Chinese Recapture Kweichow

JAPANESE DRIVEN BACK BY CHINESE   Nips. Expelled Cc omplete ly From Kweichow “Province; Report .

CHINESE FORCES PUSH NIPS BAGK   Enemy Drive into Kweichow Province Repelled by Chiang’s Troops

Chinese Clear Kweichow of Japs   Authorities Believe That Nips Have Lost Chance To Take Kunming.

KWEICHOW JAPS SWEPT FOR LOSS   Chinese Advance Toward Antan, Push Battered Jap Army Across Kweichow Border.

Nippons Driven FromKweichow  By China Force   Japanese Forced Back Over Kwangsi Border, Chung-  king Announces; Line ehai Reeaptured

Jap Columns Swept Back —   Liuchai Recaptured As Chinese Advancé

Congress Plans To Quit Work Until August  Seccion to End   Session to End This Afternoon; Wind Up Bills

Congress Re ce Is Set Ton? iowa   Members Will Re-conve Sessions August 

Congress Pulls Traveling Bags. Off Shelf Today  House and Senate Decide To Quit Work Until

Congress Pulls Traveling Bags  Off Shelf Today   House and Senate Decide To Quit Work Until August 1

SOLONS READY TO QUIT WORK   Hope To Leave Capital Tonight; Recess Until Aug. 1

NEW b8-TON TIGER TANKS UNCOVERED :   Russians Trap Several New German Monsters, Prove Ineffective in Battle with Reds

MARINES BEAT BACK JAPS IN ISLAND BATTLE   200 Nipponese Killed In Sharp Action at Cape Gloucester

MARINES KILL. 20 JAPS IN BEATING OFF SHARP ATTACK   Nipponese Dead in Fighting at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Increased to 1,500.   YANKS AT SAIDOR DRIVE DEEP WEDGE   Troops Fan Out and Take Possession of Quantities of Supplies Abandoned by Enemv.

200 JAPS SLAIN AT GLOUCESTER BY DEVILDOGS   ‘Enemy Base At Rabaul Is Still Being Pounded .* By Allies

Cape Gloucester Marines Repulse Attack by Japs   Leathernecks Kill 200 More Nipponese, Fan Out from Bridgehead

U.S. Marines Repulse Jap Atiack   At Least 200 Nips Are Killed in Furious Fighting

JAP ATTACKS FALL ON NEW BRITAIN   Marines Repulse Sharp En/  emy Counter-blows   BEACHHEADS FAN OUT   Invaders Drive Wedge Into Japanese Coastal Supply Area at Saidor

BACK JAPS IN ISLAND BATTLE   200 Nipponese. Killed In Sharp Action at Cape Gloucester

SHARP ATTACK IS BROKEN UP IN NEW GUINEA   Wedge Approximately :° Miles Wide Driven In Jap Lines At Saidor

Japanese Counter-Attack At _ Cape Gloucester, Repulsed   At Least 200 Enemy Soldiers Killed, According to General MacArthur's Communique—  Counter-attack Repulsed 

MARINES STOP JAP ATTACK NEW BRITAIN   Killing Around 200 More Japanese Who Have Paid High Price For Opposing Leathernecks.   Damage Ships

Bombers Attack In Munich Area   Targets In Southwestern (;ermanyF Bombed For Second Time In 24 Hours

RED ARMY NOW ONLY 10 MILES FROM BELGRARE      German Garrison In Yugoslav Capital Facing Threat Of Evtcirclement

Reds Bring Belgrade Within Range of Mobile Artillery   By HENRY SHAPIRO

Japs Lose 4 Warships in U.S. Attack   Marauders Sink Nip Navy Units Off Coast of New Guinea

Effort Being Made To Relieve Cotton Storage Situation   SONFEREES AGREE THAT SOLUTION IS NEARER

CCC To Remove Cotton In Open   Limestonians Meet With Sen. Bankhead All Day Wednesday

Shortage of Feed Stocks ~ Hits New Low   Supplies To Be Smallest Since 1937 After the Drought Year

SUPPLY WILL BE LOW ON LIVESTOCK FEED   Corn, Oats and Barley Are Grains To Be Short

Remsen Soldier  Back From War  Saw Service In Africa Italv and France

Remsen: Soldier Back Fri rom War   Saw. Service In Africe Italy and France

Col. Black, State Patrol Chief, Dies   Brief Illness Fatal to Head Of Highway Police

HIGHWAY PATROL DIRECTOR DIES   Col. Lynn Black Was First And Only Superintendent

HIGHWAY PATROL CHIEF SUCCUMBS   Col. Lynn Black Dies in Columbus Hospital

REPULSE NAZIS ON BEACHHEAD   Allies Turn Back Stabs b; Enemy South of Town Of Carroceto   Allied Lo«wses Light

REPULSE NAZIS ON BEACHHEAD   Alles Turn: Back Stabs by Enemy Sauth of Town Of. Carroccto

Campaign In Italy ~— -‘Subsides   Enemy Suffers Heavily As Allies Stop nc. Them Arial . - Beachhead

GROUND FIGHT STANDS STILL AT BEACHHEAD   Allied Losses Reported Light In Caroceto Skirmishes With Gunners Silencing German Mortar.   28 Planes Lost

New Phase. In Campaign nltaly Seen.   Ground Action At Virtual Standstill

NAZIS REPULSED SOUTH OF ROME   PATROLS SUFFER HEAVY OASUALTIES IN ATTACKS ON ALLIED POSITIONS.

ROBOT ATTACKS ARE INCREASED   London And Southern England Have Bad Day With Bombs

NAZIS SHOWER BUZZ BOMBS ON ENGLAND   Houses, Stores and Busses Wrecked in One of Heaviest Daylight Attacks in Weeks.

Bomb Launching Sites Attacked   Americans Follow Raids By British

Allied Planes Hammer at  Robot Nests   Americans Lose 69 Planes in  German Aitacks

AIRMEN POUND . ROBOT RAMPS   British Raid German Targets Near Paris

Nazi Robot "Depots Hit By Raiders   Allied Air Force Lends Support to Battle at Caen; Blows Widespread

POUND FLYING BOMB ‘LAUNCHING SITES'WW FRANEE TOnAY   Up :to 500. United States Heavy Bombers ‘Participated in.the Raid.   ESCORTED BY FIGHTERS   Ai. Least Seven Sites Were +. Atacked by Big Amer- . : ican. Planes,

200 BOMBERS POUND ROBOT PLANE SITES   Seven Coastal Launching Bases Blasted: RAF Hits Railroads

N ew Election For Collector Court Rules    Term of Hazel Palmer, Appointee,  Ends March 1

Yank Bombers Hit Nip Bases Over Wide Area   Jap Fighters Fail To Offer  Opposition

Overpower Deputy. Try to Cut Throat   Prisoners Captured  After Seizing Car

38 U.S. Carriers  Lent Britain   Augment British Submarine Hunts

Knox Says 38 Deadly Escort Aircraft Carriers Lend-Leased to Great Britain

U. S. Leases  Britain   38 Carriers Deadly Escort Craft  Donen: Daw at   Deadly Escort Craft Become Part of Antisubmarine Fleet

CLOUDS ALLIED PLANES BLAST NAZI POSITIONS   Pounding Away at Fortifications in Support of Big Force of Allied Land Forces.

LARGE SCALE GERMAN COUNTERATTACK WAS SMASHED SATURDAY  THIRD ARMY KNOCKS OUT MANY NAZI TANKS AND  =e Lees MK Rim mIRE

Bloc Opposes Renegotiation Act Revisions   Senate Committee Group Charges  Excessive Profits

Soviet Forees Smash Into Bessarabia   Enemy in Retreat With Heavy Fighting In Northeast

Annual Bargain Day Saturday   Special Price of 37 A Year in Advance For Daily Tribune

Annual Bargain  Day Saturday   Only Day in Year When Tribune Subscription Is $7 by City Carrier

“oUt DE — aE — aE “a C“SHUWN— /T5K<_——aUAc  7—_ HF  Marines on New Britain Meet Strong Resistance

JAPS OFFER STIFF FIGHT TO MARINES   Enemy Rallies on New Britain; Jap Cruiser is Bombed

Marines Move Against Japs At Borgen Bay   Enemy Rallies and Is Offering Strong  Olnmnott inn

U.S. MARINES ADVANCE ON NEW BRITAIN   Japs Offering Strong Resistance On Cape Gloucester

WIARINES SMASH AGAINST JAPS AT BORGEN BAY   Enemy Rallies Strength After Yielding At Cape  Gloucester

JAPS STIFFEN ~ NEAR BORGEN   Offer Serious Opposition For First Time Since Marines Landed.

JAPS RALLYING STRENGTH ON CAPE, REPORT   Marines Meeting More Opposition But Push Ahead

YANKS WIN FIRM HOLD ON ST. LO   LAST GERMAN DRIVEN OUT OF NORMAN CITY

DOUGHBOYS PUSH WAY INTO NAZI STRONGHOLD AND GERMANSIN RETREAT UNDER PRESSURE   British Troops Also Push Forward in-Odon Salient Southwest of Caen. Allies Gain Commanding Points All Along Line in Violent Fighting ys

Opposition Is Slight Before U.S. Troops   Ste. Croix Falls in New Advance Which Follows Brief  German Resistance

GERMANS ARE FALLING BACK, DISPATCH SAYS   Breakthrough Follows Fierce Night Counterattacks

St. Lo Lines Crumble When Yanks Drive in   Germans Retreat After Defense Fatts Apart Suddenly Under American Pressure

KEY POINT iN FRANCE OCCUPIED   German Forces Are In Retreat; Battle . Rages At Caen

Allies Pouring — On Air Power in Twin Drive   Endless Procession of Planes - Support Troops; Bomb“ers Also Go Out.

Nazis Withdraw From Sector in Heavy Fighting   Break-Through Follows Fierce Night Attacks

Yanks _ BatterBack Into St. Lo   Violent Fighting — Nets U. S. Forces Suburban Town. Of St. Croix de Lo

Crack German Troops Suddenly Crumple As AEF Renews Attack   Bradley's Ariny Advances Also in Lessay Area; Fighting Rises in Violence Between British and Nazie

Last. German Defenders . Driven Out And Forced: Two Withdraw 2 Miles

St. Lo Falls After Bitter  Nazi Defense   Americans March In: Drive Cracks Enemy Ring Around Beachhead

BITTER BATTLE TURNS IN FAVOR OF FIRST ARMY; ST. LO CAPTURED TODAY

FIERCE ATTACK DRIVES GERMANS OUT OF RUBBLE   British Advance on Flank To Strengthen Position; Planes Give Support

Americans Smash Heart of German Line in Normandy   Enemy Withdraws Up to Two Miles Before Lieut. General Bradley’s Mighty Units; Last Axis Soldier Driven From Vital Town By Doughboys.

Yanks Enter Strategic Highway Hub After  Fierce Fighting.   Moscow Announcement Indicates Staggering Ger: mans About To Face Shattering New Blows On Entire Eastern Front

Nazi Lines Fold Up Suddenly; Foe Said In Retreat      Yanks Batter Way Forward Again After Yielding During Night

Yank Troops ‘Drive Into St. Lo Today   Germans Falling Back to Eastern Edge of Rubbled Town, Belief

British-Canadian Forces Smash Nazi Lines Out Of Caen In Major Assault

YANKS SURGING INTO CITY AS GERMANS FLEE   Heaviest Battle Since D.Day Is Raging In Caen Area

Withdrawal Of Germans Extends 2  Miles Deep   Doughboys Charge Into The Hub Of  Prize Bastion

German Defense Crumples   Break in Enemy Lines Comes Abruptly After Eight Days of Bloody  And Constant Fighting

Allied Headquarters Say That German Defenses Suddenly Crumble and They Leave City.  _—     aA TyYrrmTaFTO PG Trpmre’TwyTr swe   MIDDLE LINK OF NAZI LINE BROKEN

Americans Capture St. Lo Today   Germans Put Up Stiff Re. sistance to Yank, British  Forces

Enemy Forced Into Withdrawal Up to Two Miles Deen on East.   BRITISH SPAN ORNE RIVER

Germans Pull Back Abruptly  From Bastion   American Troops Meet Fire From Machine-Guns As They Enter City.   STOP COUNTERATTACKS

St. Lo Captured by U. 8S. Troops as Nazi Defense Collapses: British Gain

Nazis Retreat From Most of Wrecked Town   Yanks Meet Machine-Gun Fire As They Drive In

‘DEADLINE BULLETINS   (By The Associated Press)   OCCUPATION OF ST. LO COMPLETED

Germans Pull Back Suddenly   Allies Gain Important High Ground; Heavier Fighting Around Caen

onghold Falls te in Bloody, Nip ‘ree Day Battle   German S? U.S. Force and Tuck T

Foe Retreats. From Eastern  Line Holding  Up Americans   British Make Gain. ‘Along Rigtit Flank

Germans Make  Quick Withdrawal   Doughboys Charge Into Prize Position Against Light Opposition; Enemy Forced to Retreat; Breakthrough Follows Nazi Counterattacks

Yankees Win Control Over ~ Normandy Link   British Troops Cross Orne River in a Major BreakThrough.   Strong Armor Force Pours Into Nazi Gap

CITY FALLG TU YANKS AFTER ALLDAY FIGHT   Germans Abandon Town When Counterattacks Fail : To Halt Drive.

NAZI DEFENSE LINES CRUMBLE AT ROAD CENTER   Yanks Drive Germans From Middle Link of Front in France

"Montgomery in Major Breakthru Across Orne Toward Paris      NAZIS QUIT BASTION   Counterattacks sina Withdrawal of Enemy From  St. Lo

—German Defenses Suddenly Crumble—  St.Lo Won   Yankees And British-Canadians Smash Normandy Lines In A Twin Break-Through

Defenses Are Crumbled By Yank Attacks  Last Germans Driv   Last Germans Driven From Middle Link Of Line In France; Ste. Croix Captured

City Firmly In Hands Of  Americans         Last German Driven out as Americans Force Enemy Retreat From Prize Normandy Bas. tion And German Lines Crumble.

CITY ISOLATED FROM WEST AS HIGHWAY IS CUT   Nazis Expected To Fall Back To  Countances When Lessay Falls

Montgomery in Major Breakthru Across Orne Toward Paris  NAZIS QUIT BASTION      Counterattacks Mask With drawal of Enemy From St. Lo   RNelletin

St. Lo Falls To Strong Yank Attack   Penetration Forces Nazis to Retreat At Least Two Miles

Americans Capture St. Lo, Prize Hub Of Nazi Communications in Normandy

BRITISH SMASH NAZI DEFENSES ON ORNE RIVER   Double Break-Through Starts Allies on Road to Paris

St. Lo Falls. Caen Line Is Broken   Montgomery's Men Smash Through  In Power Drive Toward Pari«

Nazi Defenses Suddenly Crumple At Center Hinge   Two-Mile Retreat Forced on Enemy On Long Front

OPPOSITION OF NAZIS SMASHED IN VITAL TOWN   Allies Gain Commanding Ground_at All Points Along Normandy Front

Montgomery’s Drive a Major Smash, ‘Putting Tanks Into the Caen Plain, Ideal Fighting Country for HugeScale Battles With German Armor —American Push Through Suddenly-Crumpled Defenses Forces Retreat. Up to Two Miles.

$t.Lo Falls After Fierce Yank Assault  Nazis Withdraw Ale ng Wide Sector  een

British General Smashes Into Caen Plain on Road to Paris   Allies Reach Ideal Fight ing Ground for  Tanks

Front Dispatches Claim Nazi Are In Retreat   Germans Battle To Hold Roads To Periers and Lessay

Yankees Drive into Town As Germans Begin Retrea   Germans, Who Repulsed Doughboys’ Night Attack, Begin Withdrawal, and Yanks Meet Little Opposition

Yanks Surge Into St. Lo as Nazis Crack   Doughboys ‘Batter For ward After Yielding Some Ground   OTHERS MOVING UP.   Americans Within 200 Yards of St. Lo-Periers Road, Vital to

Nazi Resistance At St. Lo Crumbles   Americans Surge Into Outskirts Of Middle Anchor Of Enemy Line

Report Germans Flee From St. Lo As Yanks Enter   Long-Awaited Clear Days Arrive; U. 5. Engineera Flood Nazi Escape Path

Americans Gain at St. LoPeriers Road and British Advance From Caen But Resistance Tough.

Germans In Retreat, St. Lo Reports   Americans Drive Into City Through Crumbling Defenses .

US., British Push Through   Yanks Takes St. Lo; Monty’s Men Cross Orne Near Coen

* $t. Lo Taken By American * Infantrymen   British-Canadians Score Major Break-through In Cean Sartar

Americans Win St. Lo Again; Allies Near Caen  Russians Massing For Greatest  Of All Offensives

A Confused Retreat Is Under Way   Idea of *- House-to-House Stand Abandoned in a Dramatic. Break   CLIMAX TO BLOODY . 8-DAY. BATTLE   British Attack in Caen: Area Area Spreading; Air Aid Is Increasing

Martin Says Dewey To Sweep State In  November Balloting  Chalks Up 50 Counties For GOP

Marlin Says Dewev Will Carry State   Governor Predicts GOP Candidate Will Sweep 50 of State’s 67 Counties

Stimson Speaks For Lend-Lease   Soys Failure to Extend It Will Lenathen War

500,000 GERMANS ~ FACE DISASTER   Dnieper Bend Armies Lines Threatened

Clare Booth Luce Blames Roosevelt  For Pearl Harbor  Says F.D.R. Lacked Courage for War

REP, LUCE BLAMES F. D, FOR DISASTER OF PEARL HARBOR   Lacked Courage To Lead U. S. Into War, She Charges

Allies Facing Tough Problem To Take Rome   Floods, Mountains Great Aid to Nazis

G.’s Only Want Butts   Wondering Where ® os  Cigarets Have  Disappeared

WESTERN CUBA IS STRUCK BY BIG HURRICANE   Tropical Storm Kills 6 Persons And Injures 100—Damage Is Heavy

WV KAY ACCUSED BY GRAND JR)   Charged With Conspiring With Others to Corrupt Legislature.

Voting Precinct Conventions  To Be Held May 6 In County  Delecates Ta Be Selected Ear Canute      Delegates To Be Selected For County Convention Which Meets Here Tuesday

Voting Precinct Conventions To Be Held May 6 In County  Delegates To Be Selected For County Convention Which Meets Here Tuesday

First Patients For Convalescent Center Arrive   26 Air Force Casualties Flown Here: Facilities  Ready for 1000

Remnants of Jap  Fleet Might Fight   Enemy Losses Now Set at 36 to 38 Warships; U. 5. Pursues Rest

British Trade Rights Not In Peril: Churchill   Pact With U. S. Doesn’t Abolish Imperial Preference, Commons Told.

Churchill Tells  Commons of Pact   Says Britons Are Not Required To Abolish  Imperial Preference

CHURCHILL TELLS OF FDR PLEDGE   DECLARES ATLANTIC CHARTER ASSURES RIGHTS OF EMPIRE

Mutual Aid Pact Explained By W.C  Not Bound To Give Up Imperial Preference

Declares Charter Not Retroactive  Churchill Clarifies Aareemen? With FDR

No Strings to BritishU.S. Assistance Pact   Churchill Says Nation Not Committed to Abolition Of "Imperial Preference”

Not Pledged To Abolish Imperial Preference   Churchill Makes Clarifying Statement To Commons About Atlantic Charter

AID PACT FAILED TO ALTER TRADE   End Of Imperial Preference Denied By British Chief

Anglo-American Accord Taken Up  Araaman’s BDaww‘han   Agreement Permits Britain Freedom of Action, Churchill

No Strings — On Aid for the British   Imperial--:Preterence. Being . Maintained, . Churchill: Tells.-Commons: °   REFERS TO DUTIES: “ON EMPIRE-GOODS   Britain Free:to, Seek Greater 2) Wolume.of ‘Tracie: .. Following: War

Says No Strings - Are Attached to _U.S.-British Pac!   Roosevelt Is Not Interested in Abolition ol Imperial Preference.   Britain Not Tied on Its Flow of Trade

Churchill Assures Commons Atlantic Charter Did Not Encroach On Imperial Preference

Separate Plans to Control Waters of the Missouri River Basin Studied by Reclamation Bureau, Army

UNION 10 SEEK 30-HOUR WEEK   No-Strike Pledge Gets Cheers And Boos At UAW Convention

Warplanes ‘Batter Nazi Bases   Communications of Enemy Are Under Fire

BOMBERS BLAST ne MES RSE: BP SOCIALITE HELD NAZI TA RGETS SOCIALITE HELD

Russians Are in Sight of Riga   German Defenses Hit on Wide Front

EIGHT MILES FROM RIGA   Three Armies Crack Nazi Defenses On 170-Mile Front

Or rmac Highway Sev ered Mile  South of Limon   32nd: Division: Elements Are Thrown.into- Battle - Of Leyte in Philippines:

Japs Trapped By Roadblock On Leyte Isle   Nipponese Unable to Get Supplies Past  Americans to Limon

Yanks Tighten Ormoc Trap On Japs as Fresh American Division Is Sent Into Battle

DOUGHBOYS CUT > AANA HIGHWAY   ~ 32nd Division Enters Battle a Of Leyte   JAP SUPPLY COLUMNS   @attempting to Break Through To Limon Destroyed; Pockets Mopped up

ROAD NEAR LIMON ON LEYTE 1S CUT   Rain-Drenched Doughboys Straddle Ormoc High WwW ly

AMERICANS TRAP REMNANTS OF JAP LEYTE REGIMENT   Strong Road Block Cuts Off Unit—Supply Columns Trying ‘to Break Through Are Destroyed.   FRESH U. S. TROOPS THROWN INTO BATTLE   Fifteen of 30 Nip Planes Attacking U. S. Installations ‘in Dulag Area Are Shot Down.

S2ND DIVISION IN ACTION ON LEYTE ISLANE   Rain-Drenched Doughboys Straddle Ormoc Highway ~ With Road Block   JAP SUPPLY COLUMNS REPORTED DESTROYED

Ormoc Highway Under Control Of Americans   32nd Division Is Thrown into Battle

NEW DIVISION CUTS ENEMY ESCAPE ROUTE   Jap Supply Columns Des® troyed Trying To Break Out

INCOME TAX DUE BY MAR. 15, 1945   Deputy Collector Will Be Glad To Offer Advice

Twin Allied Air Assault on Europe Rolls Into Seventh Day Unabated

OPEN 7TH DAY OF 2-PRONGED __ AERIAL BLOW!   Strategic Targets Attacked After Night Assaults By RAF

Pre-Invasion Double Attack In Seventh Day   Fresh Daylight Attacks In Wake Of Night Stabs At Berlin   TWO PRONGED AIR ASSAULTS CONTINUE

U. S.-Trained Chinese Army Slashes Japs   New Action In Northern Burma

DENIES SMEAR ~ OF MACARTHUR   Secretary Stimson Asserts Army Avoids Partisan Material

HEART OF FRANCE NOW WIDE OPEN TO SWIFTLYMOVING ARMORED DRIVE   AMERICANS NOW ADVANCING VIRTUALLY WITHOUT OPPOSITION AS ENTIRE WESTERN FLANK OF ALLIED LINE SWINGS FORWARD AND EASTERN END HELD BY BRITISH EXPLODES INTO ACTION AGAIN.

Their Tanks Roll On Wide Open Stretch   British - Artillery  Opens “Drumfire’’ Barrage In Deadlocked Caen Area

Quiz Daughter Of Princess In Italy Probe   Allies Detain Woman In Rome

WORST YET T0 COME FROM RADIO BOMBS   That’s Inventor’s Predictior For New Nazi Weapon

INVENTOR SAYS GERMANS  NOW MAY BE ‘PRACTICING’ WITH ROPKET ARTILIECRY

Report 20 U.S. Transport Planes. Downed by Mistake by Navy-Gunners

SOVIET FORCES NOW IN SIGHT GF BESSARABIA   Only Eleven Miles From Rumanian  Border Today

Red Armies Drive Relentlessly on Toward Rumania, Poland, Baltic States

Red Forces Pouring Into Dniester Valle   Civilians Fleeing From Rumanian Frontier Area

Tomashpol And Dubno Captured By Advancing Reds; Black Sea Port Of Nikolaev Hemmed In From Three Sides As Nazi Lines Totter

Red Army Only 11 Miles From Prewar Boundary of Rumania  DUBNO IS CAPTURED   Other Russian Units Make Steady Progress Toward Odessa

Good Réad Is. Only 12 Miles From Front   Offense Unchecked Toda: fs Says Communique from Soviet Headquarters ©:

Reds Within Sight Today Of  Bessarabia   Smash: cward Pre-War Ruma: 3order, Capture. -vubno.

Reds Within Sight of Bessarabia As Troops March 11 Miles of Dniester

KONEV’S TROOPS ARE CLOSING IN ON BESSARABIA   MARSHAL. ZHUKOV CAPTURES DUBNO IN OLD POLAND

Soviets Within fl Miles Of Old Rumania Border   Reds Also Score Large Gzins In Ukrainian Fightina

Flooded Rivers, Mud Fails To Stop Soviet Advance in Ukraine   Russian Forces Push Forward in Old Poland To Within 70 Miles of Strategic Base at Lwow

Now Within Sight of Bessarabia   Reds Roll To Within 70 Miles  Of Lwow

RUSSIAN FORCE IS WITHIN SIGHT OF BESSARABIA   Troops Pour Into Dniester Valley Over Flooded Streams, Mud

Red Forces Drive To Within Sight Of Bessarabia   Unchecked Russian Steamroller Only 11 Miles from Pre-War Boundary of Rumania

Boys Injured At Farmers Elevator  While At Play  _ Fell Down Elevator - Shaft In Unoccupied

Boys Injured At Farmers Elevator  While At Play  Fell Down Elevator ' Shaft In Unoccupied Ruilding .

BRITISH ACTION ON INDIA ASKED   F. D. R., CHURCHILL MAY DISCUSS POLICY

FDR, CHURCHILL MAY DISCUSS INDIA'S FUTURE   Forthcoming Conference Between Leaders Expected to Pose Big Problem.

GOP Completes State Tickel   Harmony Prevails At G.R. Convention

1,000 GREEKS SLAUGHTERED   Nazi Massacre-in  Villace Is Disclosed

Barbaric Germans Massacre ‘Thousand Greeks, Including ‘Babies; Also Butcher French

NAZIS WIPE OUT GREEK VILLAGE   1,000 Residents Of Distomo Reported Massacred

Reports Reaching New York Tell of Massacres at Distomo in Greece and Oradour-sur-Glane in France—Men, Women and Children Shot in Reprisal—Some Cut Down by Machine Guns as They Try to Escape.

NAZI MASSACRE QF 1000 GREEK (CITIZENS TOLD   Cold-Blooded Reprisal Comparable to That of Czechslovakia Town of Lidice Reported

REPORT ANOTHER NAZI MASSAGRE   Greek Village Wiped Out, Communique Says

Massacres Of Villagers Told   Germans Reported To Have Wiped Out Populations Of Greek, French Town

Residents of Greek French Cities Slain  By German Troops  . 2,200 Persons Killed by Vengeance-Mad Nazis in Reprisals

ee nee a  NAZIS WIPE OUT WHOLE TOWNS’ POPULATIONS IN FRANCE, GREECE   1,100 Slain In Oradour-Sur-Glane,, 1,000 In Distomo By Vengeance-Mad German Troops

All Of French To Get Income.  Says DeGaulle   Covernment Committed To “Planned Economy” Program, He Explains

AIR CONFERENCE CLOSES ORATORY      Meeting Settles Down tc Real ‘Scrimmage’

AVIATION MEET DOWN TO WORK   Dozen Nations Offer Plans For Postwar Authority

DETERMINED EFFORT  TO REACH LEND-LEASE  ACCORD IN PROGRESS SEVERAL BASIC PROB _ LEMS BETWEEN U, S. AND RPRITAIN ee CtARIFIED

Seeking Accord On Lend-Lease Future   Economic Positions Of U. S., Britain Involved

Trade Problems Being Taken Up   Great Britain and The United States Study Lend-Lease.

Accord On Lend-Lease Problems Sought \For Understanding Of Economic Position

World Security Planned: American-British-Russian-Chinese  Council Hopes It Can Enforce Peace

Bond Drive Will Open January 18   County Quota Been Set at $220,000

Ward’s Labor Battle Flares On Another Front   WLB Refers Defiance Of Subsidiary Firm -To Chief Executive

TAX ON SALES SHOWED GAIN   NEARLY. $62,000,000 ‘COLLECTED IN STATE DURING PAST . YEAR FOR SECOND . _ HIGHEST TOTAL

IIPTON SOLDIER  URED i TRAIN GRASH   Pfe, Frank D. Moore in Critical Condition in Colorado Town

TIPTON SOLDIER INURE WN  TRAIW CRASH   Pic, Frank D. Moore in Critical Cond‘tion in Colorado Town,

Montreal Voting Brings Rioting   Sixteen Men And Boy In Hospitals From Bullet Wounds, 71 Arrested

LUPE'S HEAD RESTS ON GARDENIA PILLOW   Friends and Fans Pay Fina Tribute to Fiery Actress

Is BEAUTIFUL IN DEATH   Lupe Velez Lies in Chapel . as . Friends Pay Homage -

“Big Russian Offensive In Hungary”   Berlin Says Long Expected Drive Near Bal. aton Lake Launched; Battle in Slovakia

Red Army Pushes Nazis Back on 125-Mile Front  German Strongholds Are Scene of Two Stiff Battles

Soviets Launch New Oftensive States Berlin   Russian Rifle Divisions Were Thrown In Attack Says Broadcast.   NO RED CONFIRMATION

REDS STRIKE IN BALATON SECTOR, BERLIN REPORTS   BROADCAST SAYS 10 RUSSIAN DIVISIONS THROWN INTO ATTACK

SOVIETS PUSH NAZIS BACK ON 125-MILE FRONT   Encircle Rimaszombat, Kassa in Slovakia; Take 13 Towns in Area

New Red Offense Reported; Nazis In Slovakia Lose   Berlin Says ‘Russians Have Launched Long Expected Attack Between Lake Balaton, Danube

SOVIETS OF OPE -NEWCAMPAIGN   Nazis Admit Setbacks In Balaton Lake-Danube Area

Berlin Radio Says Russian: Lamich Drive   ‘Long-Expected Offensive Opens In Hungary

HELS SURE NEW VBA CIN   Germans Pushed Back On 125-Mile Front, Moscow Reports   TOWNS MENACED   Soviets Batter Strongholds Of Kassa.And Rimaszombat

Russians Push Germans Back   Battle Between Garrisons on Edge Of Strongholds

Reds Launch New Danube Attack   Long Expected Drive Aims at Completing Budapest Entrapment

Soviets Push Germans Back  Gain on 125.Mile   Gain on 125-Mile Southern Slovakian Front; Battle Nazi Strongholds

Berlin Reveals New Red Drive   Infantry and Tanks In Kirovograd Area Thrown Into Battle

SOVIETS PUSH BACK NAZIS ON CZECH FRONT   Russian Columns Are on 3 Sides of Two Heavily Defended Southeast ern Towns  CAPTIIRPE MAANY TOWNC

Reds Battle For Key Hubs In Slovakia      Gsermans Throw in More Troops .And Great Battle Rages.

SOVIETS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Ten Divisions Thrown In At Balaton Area

REDS GAIN ON BROAD FRONT IN SI OVAKIA DRIVE   Battle at Outskirts of Nazi Strongholds, Kassa and Rimaszomba

Long Expected Russian Drive  In Hungary On   Berlin Says Reds On March Between Balaton..Lake and Danube; Slovak Baitle Rages

BERLIN REPORTS RED OFFENSIVE ON IN HUNGARY   Germans Say 10 Rifle Divisions in Attack — New Advance for Reds

Reds Launch Offensive, Sermans Say   Attacking Between Balaton Lake  And Danube  In Hungary

Berlin Reports New Red Drive Meets Rebuff   Russians Forced to Regroup After Thrus: In Balaton Lake Area, ts Claim

OFFENSIVE EXPECTED, SAYS BERLIN   Strike Between Balaton Lake And Danube In Hungary

RUSSIANS LAUNCH HUNGARIAN DRIVE   Ten Soviet Rifle Divisions Are Met by Strong Tank and Artillery Units 4   BATTLE IN SLOVAKIA

Reds Launeh New Push In  ‘Balaton Area   Germans Report Drive Apparently Aimed at Joining Budapest Ring

Russians Shove oS Germans Back in Southern Slovakia   Battle Battered Nazi: “Garrisons on Outskirts Kassa, Rimaszombat”’

SOVIET FORCES AT BORDER OFYUGOSLAVIA   Threaten to Seal Off 250,000 Germans in Balkans

M acArthur, 2 Years in Australia, Renews  = Diedae to Philippines—‘I Shall Return’

PEACE TALKS 10 BEGIN AUG. 14   OFFICIALS TO PLAN INTERNATIONAL SETUP

“Ten Battleships, Three Aircraft Carriers Included, Remnants Of Jap Fleet Attacked By Pur , sung U S Ships    AMERICAN LOSSES PROVE VERY LICHT

LT, HARMON AT HOME WITH FILM ACTRESS   Marriage? - - Doesn’t Think So This Time

Lieut. Harmon Says He Will Not Marry Movie Actress On This Leave

CASSINO FIGHTER CUTS OFF OWN LEG   Alabama Captain Completes Ampu tation After Being Injured by Artillery Fire.

Ickes Warns Of Dangers At Home   Tells Baltimore Rally He Fears The Home-Bred “Foreigners.”

Senate to Give Approval of Tax Simplification   30 Millions to’ Be Relieved of Figuring Levies

Lewis Rules Out Other Candidate   Edmundson Barred From Mine Workers

UMW VOTES TO EXTEND TERMS   Edmundson Ruled Qu As Opponent To Lewis

LEWIS OUSTS EDMUNDSON AS UMW CANDIDATE   “John L.’s Opposition Barred As ‘Not... In Good Standing’

LEWIS RULES OUT CANDIDATE FOR JOB   Mine Workers Union Boss Reigns Undisputed

GOP State Ticket Up To Soldier Vote   REVISED RETURNS FROM ALLEGHENY COUNTY CUT ROOSEVELT PLURALITY TO 58,202 IN THE STATE,  Jones’ Lead Only 2020

Myers Leads Senator Davis By Margin Of Only 3,673   Victory Would Seat  2 Democratic Senators In State First Time Since Civil War  OTHER RACES CLOSE .

late Votes Cut Myers Lead ver Sen. Davis   (utcome Must Await soldier Ballot Count On November 22; (ther Contests Close

SOLDIER VOTE WILL DECIDE   Senatorship, Contests for State Posts Depend on Military Ballots

Chinese Face Grave Threat   ¥Ops Fan Uut In Campaign, Continue Steady Advance .

CHINESE FACE GRAVE THREAT FROM YOYANG   MONSOON CRIPPLES ALLIED GAINS IN NORTH BURMA

Keep Up Attacks On New. Deal  ‘ClO: PAC; Truman's ‘S.  ‘Speech. ‘Are: ‘Subjects. O¢ Rang, thiscan Asencl

Dems Charge Speakers Are Only Puppets   Dem Chairman Gathers Party Leaders; GOP Committee Called into Session

Wiping Out of New Deal Pressure Groups Demanded by G. 0. P.  ~— Pn s They Mouth Tho — of nal Cammittee Are red

GOP Governors Continue Drive To Elect Dewey   CIO Political Action Groun {s Assailed in Speech

GOP Governors §mash New Deal  Three Continue Prelude to Dewey's Opener

\Charge GOP Governors “Charley McCarthys”  Of Dewey Ghost Writers

Governors Assail PAC, Sen. Truman   Rally With V. Pres, Candidate, John Bricker, As Speaker, Sept, 26

3 GOP GOVERNORS ASK FOR CLEAN-UP OF THE NEW DEAL  ATTACK DEMOCRATS’ “PRESSURE GROUPS”

THREE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS SEEKING REAL HOUSE-CLEANIN(  CALL FOR WIPING OUT OF SO-CALLED “DRESSURE CROPS”

G. 0. P. Governors All’ Out for Dewey   At Kansas City’ Schoeppel Places Communist Labei On CiO’s PAC

FALL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS ARE NOW UNDERWAY   Three Republican Governors Make  Radio Talks

GOVERNORS RIP NEW DEALERS   Demand Thorough House Cleaning, Truman,  PAC Raked

GOP COVERNORS BLAST NEW DEAL   Schoeppel, Martin And Thye Begin Assault On ¥E.D.R.

13 Aids Injured As German  Uprising Flares   Fuchrer Denies He Was Harmed, Claims Ringleaders Executed, In Broadeast to German People

f “y a ne Ss 7 . 73 eer, Se =e oe a —_:  ~ Na “ae, 27  fs   Serious %evo_: ncicacec As. Jue ier scapes Sruisec ‘0 “a con Xadio: f.ac<ers <b. e¢

6 Million Yanks  Now Overseas   War Undersecretary Hits Easy Victory Talk

Six Million Amerieans  Fieht Abroad   Hardest Part Of Pacific War Stil] Ahead

Joan's Attorney Blasts Chaplin  Epithets Hurled in Addressing Jury

Chaplin Called Lecherous ‘Hound , ‘Reptile’, ‘Hoary-headed Buzzard   Film Comedian’s Attorney To Reply in Court Next Tuesday

JOAN'S LAWYER ASSAILS CHAPLIN   REFERS TO COMEDIAN AS MASTER MECHANIC IN ART OF SEDUCTION

French In City Plead For Allies   Sudden About-Face Is Threat to German Status in East

Allied Command Says Paris Not Fully Liberated   French Hold A Part Of City; Troops Fighting Way Into Capital.

PRINCESS ELIZABETH CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY   Heiress to Throne of Britain Becomes Eighteen Years Old Toda

Great Britain's Blonde Princess, Next In Line To Rule, Reaches  Reigning Age

Reds ‘Plunge 25 Miles In Hungary   New Offensive Engulfs Fortress City, 330 Towns

TODAY’S WAR ANALYSIA  Life-Blood Of Freedom Again Flows In Paris

Senators Will Fight  To Keep OPA  From Campaigning Wherry Says Officers  Use Position to Assist Bourbon Drive

Patriots Per French Cities   Grenoble Surrounded; Uprisings Threaten Vichy, Other Sections

Uprising in France Seen   Turbulent Conditions In Central France; Nazi Troops Acting

General Uprising Feared in Vichy Regior Spain. Reports. Turbulent Conditions There

VICHY FRANCE IS TURBULENT   General Uprising Threat: ened As Result of  Invasion

Another Red Thrust Nears Budapest   Second Drive Against  Hungarian Capital Takes Heavy Toll  

Reds Outflank Nazi Stronghold of Jaszbereny   Thrust To Within 16 Miles of Budapest In Drive From East

RUSSIAN ARMOR NEARS BUDAPEST   JASZBERENY OUTFLANKED, REPORTED CAPTURED

Jaszbereny, Stronghold On Anproaches To Budapest, Outflanked By Russians In Converging Drives

GAIN NEAR BUDAPEST   Axis Stronghold Is Outflanked By Malinovsky's Forces

RUSSIANS LAUNCH SECOND OFFENSIVE   Taking Heavy Toll Of German And Hungarian Forces

REDS CLOSE IN; BUDAPEST BUT 16 MILES AWA)   Nazi Stronghold East Of Hungary Capital QOutflanked

ANTI-FOURTH TERM DEMOCRATS DECLINE G. 0. P. COALITION   PREFER ALL-SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC TICKET, SAYS FORMER GEORGIA GOVERNOR, EUGENE TALMADGE.

Japs Announce  Yank Landings   Acknowledge Beachhead On Pelelieu Island

TOKYO ADMITS LANDINGS   Broadcast Says Jap Garrison on Tinian Fights Hard.

Fleet Losses Admitted By Jap Navy   Twenty Thousand Nips Abandoned to Yanks on Saipan

Biak Invasion Acknowledged  Usual Jap Claims Of Heavy Shin Losses Made

Better Hurry Koiso! Yanks Are Coming Japanese Bolster Defenses In Philippines;  Premier Promises ‘Great Drive’ In Making

Japanese Admit Battleship Lost   Acknowledgement Mad of Some Setbacks

TOKYO RADIO ADMITS LOSS OF BATTLESHIPS   Japanese Give Their Version Of Great Phillippines Sea Battle

COL PROGUCTS START 10 MMARKEI EARLY WN 1945.   Virwually All. WPB ‘Control Will Be Lifted, When Germany Falls

WPB CONTROLS TO END AFTER REICH FALLS   Many Civilian Products to Reappear Around Jan. 1

PRODUCT FREEZE WILL END SOON   Virtually All WPB  Contro To Be Lifted When Hun Nation Collapses

CIVILIAN PROBUCTS SIART 1 MARKET EARLY WN 1945   Viriually All WPB © Control Will Be Lifted When Germany Falls

CHEST DRIVE ENDS TONIGHT   Workers To Make Final Reports At Meeting In Whitcomb

FORMER. “HEAD OF ‘KOREAN GOVERNMENT CHOSEN TO... ‘ SUCCEED OUSTED War "' -- DRADER :

KOISO NAMED JAP PREMIER   nena  Heads Cabinet; Navy Has New Chief Crisis Temporarily Ended

Daaes Fighting Nazis in Capital   Patriots Engaged in Street Fighting in Copenhagen, Swedes Report.

Danes Battle Nazis in Copenhagen  Patriot’s Barricades A  ee   Patriot’s Barricades Are Flying Flags Of Allied Nations

Danish Patriots Battling German  Troops i in Streets   Cepembagen Scene of Fighting As Nazi Troeps Try to Break Uo General Strike

AFTERMATH OF STRIKE AMONG “SLAVE PEOPLE’   Strike Called Fully Effective With Casualties Already Having Reached Several Hundred.

Danes Battle Nazis in Copenhagen  Patriot’s Barricades Are Flying Flags

STREET BATTLE IN COPENHAGEN   Danish Patriots Reported Fighting German Troops Following Strike.

Danes Fight Nazi Troops it Copenhagen  Barricades; Germans Try To End General Strike

DANISH PATRIOTS AND GERMANS IN COPENHAGEN IN STREET FIGHTING ‘WITH OVER 700 KILCED-WOUNDED   Efforts of Nazi Troops to Break Up Two-Day General Strike Starts Trouble. Free Danes Say Strike 100 Per Cent Effective. Danish Harbor Clnead

Coffee May Go Back On Ration List   OPA Says Decision Within 24 Hours; ‘Speculative Exporters’ Blamed

Coffee Ration Order Delayed   Is Being Considered -By: OPA: Officials. °

Coffee May Go Back On List   Government Agencies Must Succeed In Getting Raise In Shipments.

Coffee May Go Back Qn Ration   OPA Says Any Decision To Be Made ‘In 24 Hours’

Admit Coffee Rationing Is Considered   OPA to Give Decision On Program Within Next 24 Hours

(Will decide on cotfee rationing today; lexperters held supply, ask price hike

OPA MAY ORDER COFFEE RATION   Decision Within 24 Hours Indicated By Agency

Coffee Rationing Again in Balance   Decision Is Promised  “Within 24 Hours’

MAA Ss. oe. SL AZ -_ =es & Ss. 57 2.5  Is Considered  Decision Within 24 Hours OPA  An NOminevres

U5, MAY PLACE COFFEE BACK ON THE RATION LISI   OPA Officials Say Step Will Be Necessary Unless Supplies Can Be Increased.     DECISION PROMISED   DECISION PROMISED WITHIN 24 HOURS   Stockpile Dwindles as South American Growers Withhéld Shipments for Higher Prices.

Coffee Rationing Returns If Stock Is Not Increased   Decision to Be Made Within 24 Hours, OPA Says, Charging Supplies Are Being Withheld in Effort to Hike Price

YEAR 10 SEE MAJOR TURN AGAINST JAPS   Adm. Mitscher Who Helped Whip Nips Decisively in Two Battles Makes Hopeful Prediction  SLi r=, sei za -_ nan 42 & 4 6 2 oe ek

ANOTHER BIG SEA GLASH EXPECTED   Twice. Directed Carrier ~Forces In Big Victories * Over Nips   SAIPAN RAIDED   MacArthur's Troops Continue Mopping Up Operations On Leyte

MAJOR TURN IN THE PACIFIC WAR 1S LOOKED FOR   Is Foreseen by Next Summer by Vice-Admiral Mare A. Mitscher.   HELPED WHIP THE JAPS   In Another Year We Should Have. Their Navy Cleaned Up, He Said.

ADM. MITSCHER FORESEES KNOCK OUT OF JAP NAVY   FIGURES CLEAN-UP CAN BE ACHIEVED IN ANOTHER YEAR

Major Turn Seen In Pacific Battle   Will Be Accomplished by  Next Summer, Mitscher redicts   Z RAIDS ON SAIPAN   Jap Force Which Attacked Mindoro Did Not At- tempt Landing

M ajor Turn in Pacific War Next Summer  Should Have Their Navy Cleaned up, Says Vice Admiral

Demoralized Jap Fleet By Next Summer Is Seen   Adm. Mitscher Predicts Clean Up Of Nippon Navy In Year

Mitscher Sees Major Pacific Turn By Summe  D.~Ainée lame W/3I!   Predicts Japs Will Sit Very Uneasily; Foe Bombs Saipan

Sees Big Turn In Pacific War   Mitscher Figures Another Yeas Witt See Jop Novy About: Cleaned Up

Major Turn In Paeific Next Summer Loom:   Fighting Admiral Foresees Possibility of Cleaning Up Jap Navy; Saipan Target of Nip

JAPS’ ‘NAVY 10 GET NEW JOLT   Vice Adm. Mitscher Sees Fleet All But Knocked Out Next Summer

Foresees Steady Deterioration of Japanese Fleet   Will Permit Major Turn in War by Next Summer Says Admiral Mitschar

“Major Turn’ [.,Pacific War By Next Sumer Is Foreseen by Adm. Ma‘-cher

Admiral Sees Japan’s Navy Beaten in ’45   One Year Needed To Liquidate Foe; Sea Battles Due

The Weather   Routirie Raids ‘Are Reported ‘Over Islands  By MacArthur   Jap Navy. Pretty “Well Cleaned Up.

CLEAN-UP BY SUMMER PREDICTED   Major Turn In Pacific War Is Seen By Mitscher

Major Turn In Pacifie War By  Summer Seen   Mitscher Sees Early  End of Jap Navy As Yank Iwo Jima Blow Follows Saipan Raid

EXPECT MAJOR TURN IN WAR INEAST FOR 1945   Japs Have Reached Criticaj Point, Admiral Says

@evevvyvyvyrvVyrVyyeyyVVvyVyVyV ye  World War I! to End November 15, Hen Eaq Predicts

HUgviAN FURGED OHASH AHEAD   Troops Cccupy Rail Junctions of Rawa Ruska

REDS TAKE KOWEL; NOW ONLY EIGHT MILES FROM PRUSSIA   Stalin Launches 8th New Offensive In 28 Days—Brest-Litovsk Menaced   40,000 Germans Trapped In Woods West of Brody—Nazi Army Demoralized

RUSSIAN FORGES SMASH AHEAD   Troops Occupy Rail Junctions of Rawa Ruska

SOVIETS OPEN 8TH Ble DRIVE   Reds Advance on 93-Mile Front West of Kowel, Polish Rail City

FREIGHT TRUCK LINES ARE IDLE   Deliverymen and Dockmen At Joplin Strike — Some Union Drivers Quit

A NON-COMMITTAL REPLY IS RECEIVED FROM MACARTHUR   Anawered Letter of Rep. Mil ler of Nebraska Regard. ing Candidacy,   Miller Vredicted Roosevelt Would Not Hun if MacAr. thur Was a Candidate.

MacArthur Reply ls Noncommiftal Answe rs Letter  pag ea ghee   Answers Letter Urging Candidacy

Many Enemy Troops Face  Entrapment   Extermination of Germans’ Tamopo Garrison Continues

LAST OF NAZIS MOPPED UP IN SKALA POCKET   More Than 3,000 Germans Slain In Last Three Days In Tarnopol Battle

Russians Launch New Attacks af Lwow, Odessa   Nazi Stronghold Scene of Bitter Struggle Today

Liquidating Garrison at Tarnopol   Mopping Up Last of 15 Trapped Divisions at Skala, Reports Reveal

Soviets Close In on German Death “Kettle’   Moscow Siays Almost All Tarnopol is Taken. As Allied  Planes Renew Drive   Bulletin

At Razdelnapa 40 Miles Away   Most of Tarnopol Now Reported *in Russian Hands.

Last Railroad fo Odessa Cut by Red Army   Russians” Charge Acros: “Marshes Upon . 200,000 Nazis and. Rumanians   GERMANS CUT OFF, “THOUSANDS SLAIN   Reds. Push Closer to Both “the Ploesti Oi Fields ‘and Odessa  ;

Reds Close Trap on Odessa   Nazis Blow Up Bridge to Stem Sovie! Onslaught; Bring Reinforcements

EXPECTED 10 SEVER LAST ESCAPE ROUTE AVAILABLE T0 NAZIS   Capture Of Rail Junction Would Doom Thousands Of Germans Pocketed In Southern Area Of Ukraine   By HARRISON SALISBURY

Threaten Exit to Rumania   Soviet Planes Bomb Fleeing Columns, Attack Shipping

Savage Battle Ra ges F or Base Th Nort h Zone   German Garrison Fighting _ Stubbornly, Thousands Slain In Ten-Day Siege of City   Moscow Says Huns  “Getling Weaker”   Soviet Columns Slicing Deeper Into Rumania, - Take 30 Towns; Moves Not Disclosed

Russians Closing In on Besieged Black Sea Port   Allied Planes Swarm Over Hitler's Europe; Italy Still in Lull

FALL GUTS OFt COUAPE ROUTE FROM ODE 5S   Traps Thousands of Germans in Southern Tip of Ukraine.

15 Divisions Of Germans Are Almost Eradicated   New Blows Launched At Lwow And Odessa

Soviet Troops Fight Germans In Streets Of Enemy Bastion; Traanad Nasi Army Wined One

Russ Battle Nazi Foe In Streets Of  'Tarnopol   Remnants Of Fifteen German Divisions In Skala Pocket Are All But Wined Out

ODESSA MENACEL BY SPEARHEADS 18 MILES AWAY   Soviet Forces Drive Within Fifty Miles Of Lwow

Red Army Wiping Out Remnants of 15 German Divisions in Skala Pocket and Launch New Blows at Lwow and Odessa at Opposite Ends of  Tango Frant

LARGE FORCE NAZIS AND RUMANIANS HELD IN BLACK SEA BASE   RAILWAY JUNCTION TOWN CAPTURED THAT LEFT ESCAPE DANGEROUS

German Radios Snap Off Air in Three Cities; Nazis Lose 49 Planes at Bucharest

RED TROOPS FIGHT NAZIS AT TARNOPOL   Germans In Trap Near Odessa  Encirclement

Soviets Drive Over Marshes Toward Odessa   Another Force Is Within 18 Miles of Polish Frontier

SOVIET TRAP IS CLOSING ON ODESSA   Threatens to Cut Last Rail Line Out of That City

SOVIET FORCES SWEEPING INTO KEY JUNCTION      Expect Mometitarily To Cut Last Major Railroad Out Of Odessa

Russians Cut Last Railway to Odessa: Besiege Thousands   Allied Planes Renew Their Aerial Offensive Against Europe

Allies Strafe Fellow Soldiers   Accidental Gunning of Canadians Revealed

FOR OUTLINES ~— AIM OF POLICY   ILO Declarations Lauded By President

wey Goes ‘New York orParleys   Meet Republicar  "ets on Eve of  Mtive Speaking Campaign

FASCIST PURGE GROUP FORMED   Italian Geunt Carlo Sforza Tipped As Leader

WVU Board Again Asks Supreme Court To End Injunction For Lawall   Body Contends University President Is Not Public Official But Is Their Employe; Early Atgument, Decision Asked If Appeal Granted

Attempt Being Made To Settle Trucking Strike   Government Seeks To End Rift Without Presidential Order

: LIGHT RAINS IN WEST       Harvest Operations Hindered it Some Parts of State

Ist U.S. Army In Breakthough North Of Aachen   Four Boche Towns  Fell To Americans

Temperatures   First Army Snaps German Stand In Breakthrough   Gap in West Wall Broadened to 6 Miles By Assault

GAP 1S WIDENED “WORTH OF AACHEN   Officers Say Advance Is De- finite Breakthrough   PLANES ROAM AHEAD   @rhird Army Strikes in Luxembourg Sector, Entire Front Stirs Restlessly

Yanks Make A ‘Definite Breakthrough’ North of Aachen, Gaining 3 Miles   Infantry and Artillery Stream Through 6-Mile Gap in West Wall

Birth Of Quintuplets To Wealthy Argentine Couple Eioht Months Ago Kept Secret Io Avoid Publicity

Hitler Lost His Pants: Fuehrer's Trousers Blown Away By Bomb Placed under His Desk

Congress Likely To Stay on Job   ‘Hopes of Lengthy Recess Are Fading

Compromise On Silver Is Seen As Near   Action Appeases Latin Americans

Three Swept Over Dam by  Swollen River   Tragedy Occurs as Scores Enjoying Day Look on in Terror

Halsey Recounts Pacific Comeback   From ‘Shoestring’ 19 Months Ago To ‘Severe Bending‘ of Jap Resistance

Halsey Says Japs Lost 4,800 Planes, 150,000 Men and Too Many Ships to Count in South Pacific

Halsey Says Jap Backbone Badly ‘Bent’   Enemy Has Lost 150,444 Troops, 4800 Planes

STILWELL’S MEN SLASH MAIN ROAD   Chinese Troops Blast @Nips From Positions In Northern Area

GLIDER-BORNE AIR  COMMANDOS DAMAGE  JAP HEADQUARTERS GEN STILWELL’S CHINESE  FORCES HAVE CUT MAIN ROAD.

Heavy Fighting Flares in Burma   Commandos Slash at Jap Lines As Enemy Gains Ground in India

DAMAGE JAP HEADQUARTERS INN. BURMA      Attack Staged by AirBorne Commandos — Mohnyin, the Objective, on Rail Line to Myitkyina.. Chief Nip Base.

AIR COMMANDOS STRIKE AT JAP BASE IN BURMA   Allied Troops Under Stilwell Kill 5,423 Nips in Area Since Oct. 26

Allied Air Commandos Attack Japs ‘At Mohnyin   Enemy Headquarters Damaged; Road Tunnél Cleared When British Bring Up Tanks

Allies Report Successes In Burma Battle   Air Commandos Damage Jap Headquarters As Communications Are Attacked

GLIDER-BORNE AIR TROOPS IN JAPANESE RAID   Jap Official Says Raids On Tokyo  Inevitable

JAP BASE AT MOHNYIN HARASSED AS ALLIED AIRMEN UNLOAD MANY IBOMBS ON STRATEGIC POINTS   Enemy Communication Lines Under Allied Attack But Little Change in General Indian Situation Is Reported. Rabaul and Other Ports Blasted

Allied Commandos Smash Jap Lines In Northern Burma   Heavy Fighting Rages Along Indian Frontier

COMMANDO RAIDS MADE ON THE JAPS   Glider - Borne Troops Strike In North  Rurma

Glider-Borne Air Commandos  Damage Jap Headquarters In Town On Railway To Mandalay      Chinese Cut Main Road, Encircling Nip Force; India Situation Same

Road Block Established Near Laban  Glider Commandos Make Slashing Attack On Jap Installations In Burma

DAMAGE BRE IN N. BURMA   Glider-Borne Air Commandos in Another Slashing Attack.   MOHNYIN THEIR TARGET

FANATICAL JAPS SLAUGHTERED IN TRAP OF DEATH   Allies, Thus, Take Island From Which Big Bombers Can Smash Japan

Saipan Falls To  American Forces   Action Clears Way For Direct Strikes Into Vitals of Japan

SAIPAN FALLS, PROVIDES U. S. VALUABLE BASE   Noemfoor Island Also Taken; Allies Win on — Chinese, Burma Fronts

pnttmal OPENS TO JAPAN; U.S, TAKES SAIPAN   Great Victory In Pacific  For Allies

BOMBERS HAVE BASES TO RAD MANILA, JAPAN   Captured Island Only 1,45€ Miles South of Tokyo

[Saipan Is onquered by S Forces   19,000 Japs Die Defending Island; Chinese Troops Tighten Clamp on Jap Troops at Hengyang

Saipan Now In Hands Of U.S. Forces   Capital Island of Mar ianas Falls After Bloody Fighting

SAIPAN GIVES YANKS BASE TO ASSAULT JAPAN   Vital Island Seized !n 25-Day Battle: Noemfoor Also Captured

Nips Hit Hard on All Fronts   Noemfoor Conquest Completed; Chinese Smash Hengyang Stab

Yanks Complete Conquest of Saipan Island  Japan, Philippines Now Within Range  mew: ._ TT c Roambher

Victory at Saipan Clears Way for Blows on Japan   Chinese Say They Have Launched Large Offensive

OPEN WAY FOR PUSH ON JAPAN   Costly Capture of Saipan Cripples Nipponese Defense Ring

Saipan Falls, Japan Faces New Threats   Land - Based Planes in Position to Raid Manila, Tokyo

New Smashes at Japan Loom   Conquest of Saipan Clears Way for Direct Strikes

Pacitfic  SAIPAN FALLS, OPENS WAY FOR DIRECT ATTACK   Battle for Marianas’ Capital Called Bloodiest of Nimitz’ Pacific Drive.

Noemfoor in MacArthur’s  Possession   Nipponese Pay Bloody Price in Last Ditch Stand of Island

TO AMERICANS   Conquest Clears Way for Direct Strikes at Japan’s Empire.

SAIPAN CONQUERED AFTER BLOODY AND COSTLY BATTLING   WAY NOW OPENED DIRECTLY TO JAP HOMELAND FROM PACIFIC

U.S. Clears Way For Direct Hits At Jap Empire   Saipan’s Fall Gives Yanks Good Bombing Bases; Chinese Open Big Push

Fall Of Saipan Paves Way For Stiff New Blows  Bloody 25-Day Clash   Bloody 25-Day Clash Ends; Bombers Able T: Batter Manila, Tokyo From Captured Base

New Air and Sea Smashes Toward Japan Possible   Americans Open Sea Lanes With Capture of Saipan and Noemfoor.   Batter Great Hole In Nippon Defenses

SAIPAN FALLS TO AMERICANS   Two New Conquests Open Hope of Air Smashes Toward Japan

Conquest Of Saipan Opens Vast Possibilities Of Sea  Air Smashes Toward Japan

Yanks Seize Saipan to:  AdvanceW ai   Conquest Following That of Noemfoor Faces Tokyo, Empire With New Aerial Threats

Paves Way For Vast New Blows   Thousands of Japs Die In Futile Last-Man  Stand on Saipan; 1,000 Miles Closer to Japan

Fall of Saipan ‘Major. Victory for American Forces   Jap Home Islands And Philippines Are Now in Range of U. §. Suner: Ramhare

Saipan’s Fall Clears Way For Vast New Blows  Provides Base For Sea: Air Smashes At Janan   Provides Base For SeaAir Smashes At Japan And Philinnines.

New Conquests — Open Way for Greater Blows   Sea and Air Smashes’ From . Saipan and Noemfoor Are-in Prospect   CAN BOMB JAPAN AND: PHILIPPINES         ‘Thowskads: Killed’ as" Japs Make. Frantic, Futile”: Defense of Isles

CONQUEST OF SAIPAN FINISHED: NEW ATTACKS AGAINST JAPS IN PHILIPPINES AND JAPAN LOOM   Organized Jap Resistance on Marianna Island Ended with Senseless Dying by Fanatical Jap Troops Who Refused to Surrender. Civilians Giving Up

2 Strasburg Youths Die In Crossing Crash   1, Noemfoor Islands Captured By Yanks

SEA SMASHES IN PROSPECT   Big Scale Attack In Hupeh Is Seen As Diversionary

New Sea-Air Smashes At Japan, Philippines Seen As Saipan Falls to Yanks

All Of Saipan Seized   VAST NEW POSSIBILITIES OPEN FOR SEA-AIR SMASHES TOWARD JAPAN AND THE PHILIPPINES   25.Davyv Battle.

Japs Facing Sea And Air Attacks As Saipan Falls   Philippine Islands Also Lined Up For Attacks

Terrified Foe Ends Resistance On Vital Island  Wav Onenad   Way Opened For New Attacks In Pacific Area

YANKS CONQUE VITAL BASES IN DRIVE ON JAPS   Saipan Victory Opens Vast New Possibilities of Sea. Air Smashes

Pacific Open To Vast Operations   Sea and Air Smashes Toward Japan and Philippines Possible   SAIPAN IN U. S. HANDS   Organized Resistance on Island Was Ended on © ~ Saturday

‘New Affacks on Japan Looms as Saipan Falls   Strategic Island Provides Air, Naval And Submarine Bases For American Forces

CAPTURE SAIPAN STRATEGIC POINT BOMBING JAPANESE HOMELAND AND PHILIPPINES   Offers Best Airfield Development of Any Island In Pacific Campaign.   Predict Nelson Override Military Objection Increase Civilian Goods

U. Ss. To Use Jap. Islands _   Saipan, Noemfoor To Offer Good Airbases 

EXPECT MORE YANK SEA-AIR DRIVES AT JAPS   Capture of Two Isles in Nips Innér Defenses Gives U. S. Vital Airfields

Fall Of Saipan Puts Tokyo Within Easy Reach Of American Bombers As Base Only 1,450 Miles From Japanese Capital

Saipan, Noemfoor Open Tokyo Doors   Caroline Island Bastion Falls After Bitterest Fighting Of Pacifie War

Loss Of Saipan To Hurt Japs   NEW BASE FOR YANKS ATTACKS ON NIP HOMELAND

Fall of Saipan Cuts Jap Line   Conquest of Inner Defense Bastion, Along With Mop-up of Noemfoor, Open Wavy for New Smashes in Pacific

Conquest Of Saipan Achieved   Air And Sea Smashes at Japan Are Now Looming Much Stronger

New Blows At Jap Holdings Seen Ahead   Conquest of Saipan And Noemfoor Isles Completed

Jap Resistance On Saipan Collapses; Japan, Philippines in Reach  Of Planes

NAZI REPRISALS: IN ROME. TAKING TOLL OF ITALIANS   GERMAN MILITARY AUTHORITIES AREA TAGIN G-ROUNDUPS AND EXECUTIONS TO’ STOP OUTBREAKS

VATICAN FEARS NAZI REPRISALS   Machine Gun All Persons Suspected of Aiding Allies

NAZI REPRISALS ALARM VATICAN   Germans Shoot All Suspected Of Aiding Allies

‘Vatican Alarmed Over ‘Reprisals By Germans In Holy City District

C-47 Pilot Goes Over Nazi Lines   Guided Wavy to Carry Supplies To Yanks Cut Off by Germans

NAZIS FICHT HARD AGAINST RED FORCES   German Fear of Rus  sian Vangeance Ac . counts for. Odd. Spectacle

PEARL HARBO PROBE BLOCKED BY DEMOCRATS   Demand For Inquiry Into Biddle And Littell Feud Also Is Stymied   PUSSY-FOOTING CHARGED   Republicans, However, Still Press For Full Scale Investigations

$49, 109,002,795 VOTE OF FAITH GIVEN TO ARMY   House Committee Recommends That Much For Year Starting July 1

Army Granted $49,110,000,000 By. House Group   Appropriations Comunittee Given Army Statistics By Department Chiefs

House Okays War Finance  Fund Today   Recommends 49 Billion — Dollar Fund For New  Fiseal Year

GROUP IN HOUSE VOTES 49 BILLION FOR USE OF ARMY   Gen. Arnold Talks on Bombing and Committee Ap ' proves Another 12 Billion For Air Forces.   LOSS OF PILOTS IS BELOW EXPECTATIONS   War Department Reveals That New Tank, More Powerful Will Be !n Operation Soon.

49 Billion More For War   Appropriations Committee, Recommended Sum For Coming Year

Congress Group Approves War Appropriation   Army Will Get $49.109,002.795

Supreme Court Upholds OPA Price Controls   Underground Pay for lron Miners Also Is Sustained

COURT BACKS OPA CONTROL OVER PRICES   IRON ORE MINERS TRAVEL PAY IS UPHELD

High Court Holds Legal Price-Fixing, Rent Controls   Regulations Upheld By Supreme Court As Valid Exercise’  OFT coiclative Pawa;:   OF IRON ORE MINERS  Rules Their Wages Should Include Pay  Tae pean See Weve

RENT CURBS, PRICE FIXING RULED VALID   Supreme Court Upholds Regulations of the OPA   TRAVEL PAY FOR MINERS AFFIRMED

RENT CURBS, PRICE FIXING. RULED VALID   Supreme Court Upholds  Regulations of the ADA   TRAVEL PAY FOR MINERS AFFIRMED   Conviction of Boston Meat Dealers Is Also Affirmed

COURT UPHOLDS TRAVEL PAY FOR IRON WORKERS   Decision May Have Bearing On UMW DeMands; Price Fixing Approved

Rent and Price Control and Porta  Pay Held Valid   Supreme Court Aue on Three ‘Contested Measures

Tribunal Upholds Price Fixing, Rent Control Regulations; Miners Allowed Traveling Pay

Bulgaria Goes To War Against  German Armies   Yields to Specific Demands of Russia: Soviets Are Hailed

Russia Will i Bulgars An Armistice   Soviet Conditions Met By Government

BULGARS DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY    MOSCOW, IN VIEW OF ACTION. WILL CONSIDER NATION'S ARMISTICE PLEA,

Military Training’ Plan For Youth Is Given Approval of Ohio Legio:

Blast Home Of School Head   - Superintendent Of Chicago Schools Hurt, But Family Escapes.

PAPANDREOU IS BACK IN GREEK CAPITAL AGAIN   Premier Says 500,000 Of Countrymen Have Been Slain Or Died Of  Privation

Greeks Wildly Acclaim Returning Chief After Grievous Suffering Under Nazis

PREMIER COMES BACK IN ATHENS   Liberated People Cheer Return Of Their Government

GREEK GOVERNMENT ~ ISBACK IN ATHENS   Officials Given Tumult ous Welcome Upon Return

MILES: ENTER LARGE CITY   Patton Steps Up Yank Drive Despite Unfavorable Weather

AMERICANS CONTINUE HITTING INDUSTRIAL SAARBRUCKEN.   French Take Town   Rusians and Germans Locked in Savage Battle in Hungary— Reds Near Austria.

GAIN TWELVE MILES: ENTER LARCE CITY   Patton Steps Up Yank Drive Despite Unfavorable Weather

GIANT THRUSTS MAY TRAP HUGE FORCE OF NAZIS   Patton Steps Up Fighting Despite. Unfavorable Weather

THREE HEAVY BOMBER RAIDS QVER EUROPE   One of Them Completion of 7,000 Mile Circuit of Britain - Russia - Italy Based Ring of Steel.   18 Destroyed

Three Heavy Bomber Fleets Blast Nazis >”   100-Mile Invasion Front in France Gets Great Air Support

Thousands of Aliied Bombers Give German Enemy Blasting   Main Weight of Massive Onslaught Directed at Factories

Over 2,000 U. S. Planes Over Europe Today; Hit Air Fields, Rail Yards

Two Great American Air Fleets Closing Over Reich .  PLANE FACTORIES _ HIT IN GERMANY  Nazi Night Raiders Hit Seaside Hotels On , English Coast

TEMPERATURES:   Agitation To Ease Meat Rationing Grows Today   Canada’s Suspension Of Restrictions Has Speedy Effect Here; Oversupply Of Livestock In United States Claimed

CHAPLIN READY 10 FINISH TESTIMONY; DENIES JOAN’S STORY   Comie Gives With Tears In Tweo-Hour Stay On Stand

Bradley  Head of Army in England   ‘ Kisenhower Discloses He Is in. Command of Forces in United Kingdom   ; MAY. HEAD TROOPS IN BIG INVASION   But There Still Is No Confirmatton Regarding That Assignment

Edward McGlone Receives Honor  Presented Medal by Colorado School

Edward McGlone Receives Honor Presented Medal by  Fo a, ee, Ee ee eT

Churchill is Pleased with — Re-Election FDR   Demos Break GOP Majority R Of Governors

CHURCHILL SAYS HIGH TIME FOR BQ THREE MEET   Prospects For Conference Have Been Improved By U. 8. Election

Churchill Forecasts Meet Of ‘Big Three’   Prime Minister Pleased By Election; Says Britain Must Keep Out Of Politics.

CHURCHILL ANXIOUS FOR CONFERENCE   Desires Big Three to  Meet Soon

PTC RETURNED TO ITS OWNERS   General Hays is Confident Workers Will Not “Let Their Country Down”

Bridgehead Over Rubicon Is Now 10 Miles In Width   Americans. Recapture Spur of’ Mount Alafine’ Ridge Lost to Nazis Tuesday ~

BRIT. 8TH ARMY MAKES MORE GAINS   Extends Bridgehead Across Rubicon In Italy

kighth Army Extends Rubicon Bridgehead   Bellaria, North Of Rimini, Captured; Fifth Army Recaptures Mt. Alafine.

Yanks ThrowBack Jap Counter-Blow   MacArthur Says Counterattack ‘Bloodily Repulsed” By American Invasion Forces; Bombers Hammer Rabaul Base

ISLAND FIELD HELD AGAINST JAP ASSAULT   NIPPONESE RECEIVE BLOODY DEFEAT ON LOS NEGROS

Ist Cavaliry Kills 100 in Encounter   Bombers Support Soldiers On Admiralty Isles

NAVAL WARPLANES PAID WAKE ISLAND   Jap Counter-blow on Admi@ falties Bloodily Repulsed   LOSSES NEGLIGIBLE   @anks Gain Foothold 1,300 Miles From Ultimate Goal —The Philippines

Landing Troops Kill Many Nips, Lose Few Men   MacArthur Sees Troops in Action

U. S. Losses Negligible In Los. Negros Fighting, Wealdingsiere: Asserts .

SHARP JAPANESE ATTAGK REPULSED ~ ON LOS NEGROS   Enemy Tries Unsuccessfully to Recover Airfield Seized in Invasion of Admira!ty Islands.   NEARLY 100 NIPPONESE DEAD ARE COUNTED   Fighting Takes Place in RainScaked Jungle — MacArthur’s Troops Consoli ‘date Position.

General MacArthur Says Positions Are Consolidated  FEW DETAILS ARE GIVEN IN DISPATCH  American Losses Through: out Operations Are Negligible

fanks Consolidate Positions Won at Momote in Admiralty Isles; Foe Loses 100 Men in Assault

MacARTHUR SEES INVASION FROM SHIP   Troops Repulse Enemy Counterattack Continuing To Hold Momote Airfield On Los Negros Island.   Bomb Enemy Bases

TRAP CLOSED ON BELGRADE BY RED ARMY   SPECTACULAR DRIVE OF 27 MILES MADE BY RUSSIANS

Helped By Sales Of Poppies in U.S. A.   Ruston. Auxiliary President-Urges “{Sreat Sales Sat.

Observe Poppy  Day Saturday Legion Auxiliary In a? 9) See ie ~ ie Se

ALLIED POSITION AT ANZIO SERIOUS   Authorities Look for Better Weath er to Assist Cause of AngloAmericans.

President Declares Anzio Front Tense;  Guns of Allied Warships May Aid Army

Situation in Italy Tense  _Rooseveli   But Allies on Whole Con trol Seas and Air Below  Rome, He Says

Germans Claim Great Railway City Captured   Stalin Announces Capture Of Rail Junction Of She. netovka.   RAIN FALLS IN YPALy

STRUGGLE IS NOT HOPELESS   Anzio Situation, However, Is Tense, President and

Allies Control Seas and Air   ‘President Roosevelt Says Tense Situation Exists on Beachhead

Situation Near Rome Is Tense   President Comments On Beachhead Battle

SEAS, AIR RULED, PRESIDENT SAYS   Allies Await Good Weather To Aid Italian Operations

eaiited 1O++O +1919" O" Orr  Beachhead ‘Situation Is Tense  . . FDR Declares

NEXT FEW DAYS WILL TELL FATE   Germans Throw In All Power, Claim Rail Hub Taken

TENSE SITUATION EXISTS BELOW ROME   Heavy Fighting Reported or the Anglo-American Beachhead.

ROOSEVELT ADMITS SITUATION SERIOUS   Executive Tells Reporters of Battle South of Rome, Weather Factor.

GREAT AERIAL OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED   Germans Claim Carroceto Fortress Penetrated   FIVE BUILDINGS   Captured By Americans In Cassino; Countless Tons Dropped

Tons of Bombs Used in Effort To Smash Nazis South of Rome   Enemy Apparently Holds Initiative, However, In Ground Fight   Situation Very Tense, President Asserte

TENSE SITUATION IN INVASION PROGRAM SAYS WHITE HOUSE.  GREAT AIR COVERAGE FOR BEACHHEAD HAS FAILED TO STOP ENEMY

Rome Beachhead Situation Tense, Roosevelt Reports   Nazis Claim Capture Of Carroceto Rail Station

Daily Temperatures   President Says Situation Tense at ‘Anzio Beachhead But Allies Still ‘Control Sea and Air There

President. Reveals. ‘Allied Forces Wait: - ForBetterWeather   Nazis Claim’ Carroceto Captured ‘And 4000. Are -Made - Captive; ~ Yanks Report. Gains In Cassino

Clark’s Troops Launch Terrific Onslaught As Germans Gather Streoth For New Attacks

Anzio Beachhead of Allies Being Seriously Threatened — Pick of German Troops and Equipment Thrown into Battie.

FIERCE ASSAULT MADE BY NAZIS ON BEACHHEAD      Yank Bombers Hit Frankfurt While Russians Mop Up Germans in Trap

Anzio Struggle Described as’ Tense by F. D.   Authorities Give No Indication They Think Battle Is Hopeless

F R Says Rome  Situation Tense   Cites Aussies, Yanks Action In New Guinea

KDR Declares Situation at Anzio Tense   Allied Position Held in Capital To Be Grave, Not Hopeless

Yankees Smash Jap Grip on_ Wakde Airfield   Engineers Start Work Immediately and Coral Runway Will Be Ready for American Bombers ‘Very Shorily’

Americans Get Airfield on Wakde Island   U. S. Planes Soon to Make Use of New  Base in Pacific

Berlin Dead Top 77,000   Gity Gruesome Sight, Says. Swedish Press

ALL OF BERLIN IS IN RUINS, SWEDE DECLARES   Fires In All Quarters Burn For Days, Numbers Are Buried .

Allied Fliers Rain Death on Every Sector of Berlin  Damage Surpasses Description,

VERY CORNER OF BERLIN NOW BOMB BLASTED   Devastation Defies Description and Many Thousands ‘Have Been Killed and Made  Homeless

EVERY QUARTER OF BERLIN HAS BEEN BUMBED   Many Homeless Following Raids Over Week-End

Allied Fliers Rain Death on Every Sector of Berlin  Damage Surpasses Description, Newspaper Says

GIGANTIC FIRES RAGE IN BERLIN, REPORTS STATE   Swedish Writer Avers Destruction Carried to Every Part of Capital

U. S. Has Acquired Flat-Top Power To Carry Planes Across Pacific

Navy’s Show of Strength Against Japs May Do As Much Harm as Actual Damage

Vichy Authority In South Reported ‘Disintegrating   Germans Threaten to Execute When Captured Frenchmen Found Aiding Allies

French Hamper German Invaders   The Underground Forces Cut Communications Between Garrisons.

Vichy Hold Is Slipping   French Partisans Are Reported to Hold Key Towns in South France

VICHY REGIME IS TOTTERING   Authority Of Nazi-Fostered French Government Is Disintegrating; French Underground Is Very Active.

FRENCH PATRIOTS START UPRISINGS   ADVICES FROM SPAIN SAY VICHY AUTHORITY IS DISINTEGRATING

AND STILL THEY COME   Income Tax Payments Continue to Pour Into Treasury

ABIG RALLY TO OPEN FOURTH WAR LOAN DRIVE   Mass Meeting To Be Held In. The Auditorium OF ‘Sieh, Sclivel Mess 

WAR LOAN DRIVE OPENING JAN. 16   Giant Rally Will be Held in Marysville H. S. Auditorium—James G. Stewart Guest Speaker

SEVERAL U. 8. WARSHIPS HIT   Casualties Are Light as Jap Planes Attack Yank  Carrier Force

SHIPS DAMAGED IN JAPANESE ATTACK   Planes Make Attack on : Group’ of U.S. Third Fleet

THIRD FLEET IS ATTACKED BY JAPANESE   Several Ships Damaged and Some _ Personnel Casualties; First Action Since Saipan.   Rocket Attack

Enemy Bombers Hit.3rd Fleet      ‘Several’ Ships” Damaged In Marianna Attack

Japs Damage Several U.S. ord Fleet Ship:   Air Attack Made Nov. ] By Fighters, Bombers: Saipan, Tinian Also Raided by Nipponese

U8. WARSHIPS: BOMBED BY JAPS; SEVERAL DAMAGE!   Nimitz Reveals Hits Were Scored by Enemy Planes on “One of Carrier Groups i in  arn Third Fleet. ..   ‘LIGHT _PERSON NEL CASUALTIES INFLICTED   Ten Nipponese Aircraft Shot Down—aAttack Apparently Took Place in Philippine ~ Waters.

HOUSE PONDERS REC ONVERSION PLAN CF SENAT!   Proposals 1D ef ining Congressional Authority Over Plant  Disposal Slated

Study Disposal of War Plants   Expect Heated Contest On Proposed Measure

ACLS KNOCK AT GATEWAY I) BALTIC   Germans Fall Back in Confusion   AL VEILUSIVULI  a ee me  REDS BOMB ROADS  : ‘ 12 ‘ Great City Is Concentration Camp

Russians Edging Toward Kaunas, Lithuania Capital   Red Units Within 21 Miles of Strategic Baltic States Railway; Advance  Nearer East Prussia Boundary

REDS CAPTURE PINSK; DRIVE ON FOR GRODNG   Soviets Storm Last Nazi Stronghold Guarding Prussian Soil

Yeremenko's _ Forces 28 Miles From Kaunas   Recs Continue Gains On Other Fronts; Score of Towns Liberated

EAST PRUSSIA IS INVADED RADIO SAYS   Wilno Captured: Germans Evacuate Pinsk   8,000 NAZIS DIE   During Desperate Fight To Hold City: Reds Take 5,000 Prisoners   Special Bulletin 2:30 P.M. Friday

Rrssians Capture Pinsk, German B stion On Warsaw Route; Push 2 st Wilno And Threaten Kaunas

BULLETIN. LONDON. (AP) - a Stalin today announced capture of Pinsk.

SOVIETS PUSH ON FROM WILNO TOWARD KAUNAS   Nazis Lose 13,000 In Recent Battle, Reds Report

Nazis Report Pinsk in Hands of Red Troops   News of Evacuation Comes in Wake of the Fall of Wilno

Soviets Now 28 Miles From Kauna   Germans Quit Pinsk in Pripyat Marshes Berlin Says

—RUSSIA—  3,000 LOST BY  NAZIS AT WILNO   Hitler’s: Forces Widen Front By Withdrawal '- To Polish Sector   ‘PUSH TOWARD RIGA   Red Army Edges Closer -To East Prussian And Latvian Border

DOOMED PINSK EVACUATED BY GERMAN ARMY   te  Hitler Loses 13, 000 Dead And Prisoners As Wilno Falls To Russians

Now 21 Miles from Direct Rails to Latvian Capital and Estonia; Baltic Armies Nearing Junction for Drive to Baltic Sea.

Wilno Falls  To Russians   Reds Drive On Toward Kaunas, Germans Evacuate Pinsk

Reds Leave 13,000 Nazi Men Dead,  Prisoners   Germans Evacuate Pinsk To Reds In Fighting

Troops Within Thirty Miles Of Ex-Capital   Germans Evacuate Pinsk. Withdraw In Old Polish Sector Near Luck

Russians Push On Following Wilno Victory   Reds Report 13.000 Nazi Dead and Prisoners in Wilno — Kaunas, 28 Miles Away. New Goal.

GrodnoTwice Penetrated By Reds, Says Nazi Radio   Soviet Troops Smash On Toward East Prussia And Closer To Baltic Qiateas

N.D SENATORS NEAR BREAK WITHF.D.R.   Opposition to His State Department Nominations Cause

NEW DEALERS IN WRANGLE   OPEN BREAK BETWEEN ROOSEVELT AND SENATE BLOC GROWING IN APPOINT MENT DISPUTE .

Fire Damages Big Ponca City Plant  Explosion Sets Blaze Damaging Aviation

TEXARKANA RALLY WILL TOUCH OFF FIFTH BOND DRIVI   Treasury Chief And Film Stars On Radio Show Monday Night

70 B-29'S AGAIN STRIKE NAGOYA   Japan Reports Raid After Assaults on Hankow in China

M. R. SEAVEY “IS PRESIDEN      Elected Head of State Elementary School Princi. pal’s Association.

Little drifting as snow falls Roads in Lincoln  area treacherons

Oklahoma: Turns In Sturdy Pro-Demo Vole On Tuesday      Hands 10 Electoral Votes To Presidential, VicePresidential Ticket

F. D. R. Wins, Oklahoma by 69,169 Votes   Democratic Victory ‘Returns Thomas to Senate in Defeat Of Wm. J. Otien

STATE BALLOTS ROUT THE GOF   With Most of Returns In FDR Has 69,169-Vote Edge Over Dewey

Urges Plan Of  Peace Counce!   Senators Hatch. Ball Proposes Outline Submitted To Congress.

OTATE DEPARTMENT  URGED LET CONGRESS  IN ON POSTWAR PLANS SENATORS WANT OUTLINE  OF WHAT IS PLANNED RY UNITED NATIONS

ASK OUTLINE OF UNITED NATIONS’ POST-WAR COUNCIL   Solons Propose State Depariment Inform Congress uf Plans of Ccuncil to Carry Qut Pledges of Moscow Confercnce i

Senators Asking Showdown Immediately On Policies To Be Pursued In Postwar

State Department Urged To Submit Outline For United Nations Council

Asks Statement on Postwar Plans  Senators Want Action by State Department?

Naval Fiiers Hand Jap Air Squadrons Huge 2-Month Loss   Third and Seventh Fleets Aiumen Destroy Over 2,500 Enemy Planes

—PHILIP. PINES—  AG DESTROYED. IN TWO MONTES   U. S. Navy Ace Downs 9 ‘Enemy Planes On Mission To Manila   GAIN ON LEYTE   Yanks 5 Miles From Strategic Coastal Village Of Carigara

More Than 2500 Jap Planes Are Lost In 60 Days   By C. YATES McDANTEL  a ee

More Than 2,500 Jap Planes Destroyed In Last Two Months By Navy Airmen   Two Groups Only

DESTROY 2,094 NIPPON PLANES   Navy Cripples Jap Air Power In Last Two Months

YANKS BAGGED NEARLY 3,000 JAP AIRCRAFT   Navy Fliers In 2 Months Of Fighting Destroy 2594 To 2.846

Disclose Waning Jap Air Power   Navy Aione Destroys Over 2,594 Planes in Past Two Months

Toll Of Jap Planes In Two Months 2.594   U. S. Third and Seventh Fleet Carrier Flyers Praised.

Navy’s Fliers Destr ‘oy 2,600 Nippon Planes   Toll Taken In Two Month, May Reach 2.850; . Japs Lose Hunireds of Veteran Pilots _

Navy Fliers Have Downed Nearly 3,000 Jap Planes In The Past Two Months

High Time for Another Three Power Conference Says Winston Churchill

‘CARS OF NATION SURVIVE CRISIS   24 Million Still Running; Ne ‘Breakdown’ Likely

Enemy Fails In Headlong Charge Against Cisterna   Dead Germans Pile Up To Form Protection  For Allies In Battle

ALLIES STANO THEIR GROUND, HURL BACK ALL BEACH ATTACKS   ‘All-Out German Offensive Bogs Down With Heavy  Losses; Rain Slows Battle; Warships Aid Defenders

TERRIFIC STORM GROUNDS BOTH ~ SIDES’ PLANES   Nazis Still Pour In Forces Make Every Effort to Take the Obiective.

Enemy Piles Its Dead in Windrows   Warships Pound Nazi Lines— Beachhead Holds Firm—  Cassino Fiohtine Inches Along

PR O-ROOSEVELT TEXANS — RIDING OVER OPPONENTS   Fist Fights, Cheers, Boos, Mark Unseating Of Anti-New Dealers   NEW WHIPPING LOOMS   All Of State’s Electors Go To President If Court Permits

Congress Approves Payment — of Motherhood Premiums to Married Women in Service   Mustering Out Pay Ranging From $100 to $300.

UNCLE SAM TO PAY FOR BABIES   Congress Inadvertently Passes Bill For Mustering Out Pay For Discharged Service Women.:

Chinese Near’  Hochih City”   _Retreating’ Japanese --Are » Closely: Persued

CHINESE PURSUING JAP (INVADERS CHASED OUT \OF KWEICHOW. PROVINCE

Chinese Press‘On   Things Moving Faster Under Improved .U. S. Chinese ‘Cooperation

Chinese Pursue Japs In Kwanasi  Advance In Burma Lc oan  oy eee ee pees

Continue to Chase Japanese Invaders   Chinese Are Now Near Hochih in Kwangsi Province, Is Renar?

eon on cememninimeeersamte ann ema  D-DAY DEFINITION   Army Jargon Refers To Bu Doesn’t Reveal Action

ClO HE HEAD A‘ ASKS WAGE ACTION:   Says Boost Would Not Raise Price Of Steel {

CIO Leader Quotes OPA’s Report  ~ In Demanding Increase In Wages

ClO STAND FOR WAGE INCREASE   Murray Declares Bureau Finds Hoist Will Not  Boost Steel Price   FORMULA UNDER ATTACK   FURTVIULA UNUER ALIAUR  Labor Leader Demands Quick Decision And “No Politics”

NO REASON SEEN TO RAISE STEEL   Murray Says Wage . Demands Won't Warrant Raising Steel Price °

ILLINOIS PARTY CHIEFS BELIEVE DEWEY WILL WIN   BROOKS PREDICTS REPUBLICAN TEAM WILL CARRY STATE

British Control Half of Dutch Port of Flushing   49 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out In Maas Drive

DUTCH PORT OF FLUSHING FALLING ©   Canadians Take 2,500 German Prisoners in Scheldt Pocket

American Units Penetrate St. Lo; Vendes Enterec   Yanks Find Norman City Is Heavily Defended; Wage Battle In Noyers   SUPREME HEADQUARTERS .TETméiekt Dp ¥XPENITIONARY

‘Ionorance’ is Bliss   OWI Warns On Lag in War Goods  Says Production Centers Need 200.600 Workers

BEHIND GOALS GOALS   Lagging Critically In . Output, Is  Charge’

Carriers Rip At Halmahera   Big Bomb Tonnage Hit: WArthor's Fnemies

TROOPSHIP SUNK BY P-T PATROL   Attempts To Reinforce Japanese Garrison On Morotai Smashed

\Real Estate Boom Is Predicted  ees  Millions To Be Poured Into _ Construction After: The War

Real Estate Boom Is. Predicted —  Millions To Be Poured into. _ Construction. ‘After The War

Interpreting the War   Nazis Sure to Break Somewhere as ressure Grows on Three Sides

Nazis Forced to Cut Lines Short  . May Drop Back From Norway, Balkans

Judge Rodman Convenes District Court Monday  Number Of Jury Trials Are Assigned

Judge Rodman Convenes District Court Monday  Number Of Jury Trials Are Assigned For Next Week

Death Sentence Upheld by Court   Stoll Kidnaper is Again Held Guilty

Notice Post-war Bargain Hunters: Here’s A List of What You May Can Buy Someday

Committee Fails to Learn Cause of Cigarette Shortage but Finds Several Reasons Why There Shouldn’t Be One

House Committee Seeks Cause of Cigaret Shortage   sig Stock of Tobacco  on Hand, Agriculture Group Told

Reason For Shortage Is Sought i . House Committee Told Big Tobacco Stock Now On Hand

TOBACCO CROP BREAKS RECORD   House Has Not Found Reason For Cigaret Shortage So Far

House Committee Digs Into Cause Of Cigaret Shortage   Hears Number Of Reasons Why Shortage Should Not Have Developed; 8-Months’ Stock Of Tobacco On Hand

Cigaret Deficii Puzzles House Group   Many Reasons Given Why Shortage Should Not Exist

House Probes Shortage of Cigarets in U.S.   Fails to Find Cause But Learns Number Of Reasons Why Ther Shouldn’t Be One

Large Stock Of Tobacco On Hand,  Probers Hear   Fail To Find Reason  For Cigarette Shortage. . But Hear Reasons Why  There Shouldn’t Be On  1944. CROP LARGEST

Collett, Doomed To Chair, Stunned By Jury Verdict   Attorneys For Convicted Triple Slayer Plan Appeal; Only One Ballot Taken To Find Farmer, 60, Guilty Of Murders

‘herbourg Port Hrecked by Nazis   But Allies Will Soon Be Using It

REDS APPROACH OLD RUMANIAN BORDER   Half Already Progressed Nearly Half Way Across Bessarabia On Way to Ger. manv.

INDUCTION PLOT EVIDENCE HEARD   Hagerstown Man Is Held Under Bond For Grand . Jury Action

MARTIN RELEASED ON BAIL OF $2500   Local Man Accused 0} Aiding Inductees to Avoid Service

 Americans, British Mow Then Down By Hundreds As  Fighting Increases.

Assault Onens on Cassino   Germans Admit Beachhead Arca Still Secure

MAJOR DRIVE IS LAUNCHED AT CASSING   American and British Forces Litter Front Below Rome With Nazi Dead.

DEPUE SOLDIER HOME AFTER LONG STAY IN LABRADOK   Pvt. Stanley Rhyne Tells Of 11 Mpnth Lonely Experience Ir Small Corps Of Weather Ob servers.

PVT. STANLEY RAYNE IS HOME FROM LABRADOR   De Pue Soldier Here After 11 Months At U. S. Base

GERMANS HOLD BACK ON FULL ARMED POWE!   Nazi Strategy to Get Two Wecéges Together But Fierce Resistance Being Offered

Vice Drive By Military, Health Authorities InUniontown To Rule Four Spots ‘Off Limits’      Soldiers Apprehended In Rooms With Suspected Women By Army Officers

MRS. DONG!AS, MRS. BARTLETT IN TOPEKA KAN   Plane Falters on Takeoff for Return Trip to This City

NINTH CLOSES IN ON STRONGHOLD   Artillery Trains on Three Main Fortress Cities   CIVILIANS EVACUATED   First Army Squeezes Closer To Duren, Another Barrier to Cologne Plain

YANKS WIDEN WEDGE DRIVEN INTO GERMANY   FIGHTING RAGES ALONG HIGHWAY TO COLOGNE

Yanks Peril Three Main Fortitied  Reich Cities   First Menaces Duren  And Ninth. Army Seizes 3 Towns on West Bank Of Roer, Inde Rivers --

Patton Forces Bring Three Fortress Cities in Range;  Ninth Closing in On Julich   Third Army Extends Hold Inside Germany To Front of 26 Miles: Yanks and French Clearing Last of Nazis From Vosges Mounts And Alsatian Plain: First Nearer Duren

NINTH ARMY. UNITS CLOSE IN ON JULICH   First Advances Toward Duren While Saarbru: cken Is Brought Within Artillery Range.   3 TOWNS SEIZED ON ROER AND INDE   Latest Gains Put Patton’s  - Forces Into Rich Saar Basin Along New 7 Mile Front.

Trio Of Fortress Cities On Siegfried Line Now Within Artillery  Range

Third Army Artillery Opens Up. On Saarbrucken as Bombers  Aid Allied Push Toward Coloone

THREE FORTRESS CITIES BROUGHT WITHIN RANGE   First And Ninth Armies Close In On Towns Along Roer River   CIVILIANS FLEEING BEFORE YANK DRIVE

3rd army breakthru brings main bastions in range of artillery   Patton opens new seven-mile front + Saar hasin: 9th takes three towns

3D ARMY DRIVES WITHIN 8 MILES OF SAARBRUCKEN   Saarlautern and Merzig Also Brought Under Fire From American Artillery

Full Scale Battle at Siegfried Line Is; Near  HOLDING EXTENDED ™ “BY PATTON'S FORCE  Third Army Is Reported Within Eight Miles of Saarbrucken

Full-Scale Battle Looming In Reich   Captured German Prisoners Report Civilian Population Evacuated From Three Cities

Americans Drive Mile into Roer River Defenses   Pattions Army Registers Gains of Seven Miles in Germany

YANKS SMASH OVER BORDER ON NEW FRONT   Three Towns on Banks Of Roer and Inde Rivers Seized

EXPECT QUICK APPROVAL OF SERVICE PAY   Compromise Plan of $300 Maximum Is Victory for House

EXPECT APPROVAL OF CFRVICE PAY  QUICK   Compromise Plan of $300 Maximum Is Victory for House

DISCHARGE PAY APPROVAL NEAR   Senate-House Agree On $100 To $300 Provisions

CONGRESSIONAL, “LEADER PREDICT SPEEDY APPROVAL .OF MUSTERING OUT PAY BUALE -

AFL Threatens State Boycott   Fight Against Ban on Closed’ Shop ‘Mapped

Newspapers Allout ¥or Bond Drive   Morgenthau Praises Press For lis Support

Stelle Hits New G. . Bill   Says It Gives Nothing To The Returning Veterans.

SENATE TAKES HAND IN WARD SEIZURE PROBE   Chairman McCarran of Judiciary: Committee: Sends tn- vestigator. to: Chicago.”

Calm Prevails ~ Jn Montgomery Ward Situation   Both Sides Are Preparing For Court Battles Tc  Came

SOLOIERSUENIE. ~CHIGKGO PLANT  Turbulent Ward’s Controie i i Ce: oe Pe © are      Turbulent Ward’s Contro versy Settles Into Hear ing Before NLRB   Request For Troop Withdrawal Is, Made By U. S. Official

Ward Shareholders Vote Confidence in Militant Chairmar   Comparative Calm Prevails Today at U. S. Seized Plant

Government Possession Holds Under Seizure! ~Order; Hearing on*tnjunction Monday —

Troops Quit Ward Plant As NLRB Act   ] Hearing Opens on ™ Labor Row Leading ' To Seizure by U.S.

Withdraw U. S. Troops From Ward Company   Fundamental Issues Laid Before NLRB Trial Examiner

Army Withdrawn From Montgomery Ward: Plan For Bitter Court Fight

Calm Prevails  At Ward Plant; . Probe Demanded   Principals Prepare For Court Battles; Congress Buzzing.

Turbulent Controversy Seftles for Day Into Hearing Before NLRB.   (TAYLOR JS IN CHARGE

Calm Prevails In Ward Case  Judge Indicates Dechy Will be  .I wear Fee

Montgomery Ward C10 Union Check Dispute to NLRB  Troons Withdrawn   Troops Withdrawn From Chicago Plant; U. S. Still in Charge

Tro Oops. Gone, War dStA oie ee To Election   Tssue of. Ballot on New Bargaining: Agency, to Be Put Up to NLRB   COURT RULING SOON   Injunction Hearing . Resumes Tomorrow With Decision Tuesday Likely

SOLDIERS ARE WITHDRAWN IN WARD DISPUTE   ELECTION ON UNION REPRESENTATION PROPOSED

SOLDIERS LEAVE -WARD PROPERTY   GOVERNMENT. POSSESSION  REMAINS IN EFFECT UNDER CIVILIAN MANAGER.

SOLDIERS LEAVE WARD'S BEFORE HEARING BEGINS   But Government Is Still is Charge of Plant——NLRB Will Act

Army Leaves Ward Plant   Soldiers Depart As Quiet Prevails; NLRB Examiner Opens Hearing

Soldiers Withdrawn From Wards; U. S. Still Runs    Government, CIO Begin Parleys To Decide If Union Retains Majority Of Workers

CALM PREVAILS IN WARD BATTLE WITH U.S. GOV'T   AVERY HOLDS FULL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE FROM SHAREHOLDERS

Calm Prevails In Montgomery Ward Situatior   Both Sides Are Preparing For Court Battles Te (‘ome  i / :

Calm Before Court Fight in Ward War   Principals Prepare for Court Battle to Start Nex? Werk

Soldier ‘s at Ward Plant W ithdrawn   Undersecretary Of Commerce, W. C. Taylor in Charge

[Troops Withdrawn ‘At Chicago Plant Montgomery Ward  NLRB Examiner Helds Hearias on Representation ty Clo     Theten feenlteas ¢.

Calm Prevails In Battle Over Chicago Store   Congress Stages Ruce Over First To Hold Inquiry

WITHDRAW ARMY FROM WARD'S   ‘No: Reason Now For Presence Of Troops’

‘Lull i in.Battle Between Ward's and Governmen:   A Vote of Confidence for Avery As Principals Get Ready for Court Skiemich

Soldiers Are Withdrawn At  Ward Concern   Government Remains {; Control With Civilian as Manager; WLB  Hearing Onens

Soldiers Withdrav From Ward’s Plant in Chicage  Store Is Operated By Federal Government Now

Calm Before Court Battle   Principles in Ward Plant Seizure Case Prepare for Hearing

Solaiers Are Taken From Ward s Plant   NLRB Examiner Takes Testimony

ALLIES HAMMER U-BOAT BASES   Oil Storage Depots Hit; Mosquitos Visit Berlin

MRS. MOODY IS CANDIDATE FOR IST FULL TERM   Now Serving By Appointment, Seek: Reelection to Job

Midwest Governors Advocate Harnessing of Missouri River   Group in Washington to Testify Before House Flood Committee on Proposed $500 Million Postwar Project; Favor ‘Overall’ Program

Ford and North Dakota Governor Call For Qver-All Missouri River Program

21,000 WORKERS IDLE IN DETROIT AREA   Strikes Affect Ford Company o Canada, Briggs, Hudson and Other Plants,

21,000 Workers Out on- Strikes .— {n Detroit Arez   Stoppeges Continue ir More Than a Dozen War Fuctories

Raging River Halts Efforts To Rescue ThreeEncamped On Grand Canyon Plateau

Raging River Balks Rescue Of ’Chutists      Searchers Make Wav Into Gorge

Rescue Effort Being Continued  It Is Hoped fo Reach  Coin At we rm   It Is Hoped to Reach Stranded Airmen In Grand Canyon

NAGOYA PLANE FACTORIES HIT BY SUPERFORTS   Japanese Admit Large Fires Were Started By  American Heavies   STORAGE FACILITIES AT HANKOW RAIDED

~ JAPS IN 2 RAIDS   POUND WAR PLANTS AT NAGOYA, ON MAINLAND, AND BOMB HANKOW IN CHINA.

Superforts Pound Jap War Plants With New Ferocitvy   Enemy Warplane Losses Are Heavy in Week’s Operations; MacArthur's Forces Pound Steadily Ahead in Leyte

Japanese War Plants Pounded By Superforts   Big Factories Badly Damaged

Superforts Hit Jap War Plants   Aircraft Factories of Nagoya Are Pounded Again; Planes Range Over Targets For 2 Hours

BIG BOMBERS POUND NAGOYA PLANE PLANTS   Possibly 200 Super. forts Take Part in Attacks

Wipe Out Nazi: East Of River   Additional Gains Made By Sth Army

Allied Army Bridgehead  Over Lamone Is Deepened_   “Monte San’ Rinaldo Height Is..Captured.

German Resistance East Of River Wiped Out; Poles Capture Town 10 Miles Southwest Of Faenza

Allies Deepen Lamone Bridgehead  All Enemy Resistance  East of River Wiped Out: Masgzann Sajizend

High Court Back at Work   500 Cases on Docket Await Action; Many Wartime Litivations

Gripsholm Gets Wounded Yanks  Soldiers Taken Aboare On Stretchers; Are All Reported Doing Well

CHILE GIVEo WARNING 1d ARGENTINA   Urges That They Join Forces With Democratic Nations

WARNING GIVEN TO ARGENTINA   Chile Tells Neighbor Te Back Allies, Predicts Favorable Action

Chaplin Asks Case BeDropped   Petitions For Directed Not-Guilty Verdict As State  Rests Prosecution.

AMERICANS MAKE NEW LANDING THREE MILES SOUTH OF ORMOC.   Bag Jap Convoy   MacArthur’s Men Annihilate Nip Paratroop Attack Near Tacloban.

REPORT NAZIS FORCED BACK. ~~ AGROSS ROEF   FIRST, THIRD AND SEVENTT  ARMIES SMASH FORWARD ~  AGAINST MAIN. ENEMY  DEFENSES

GRAIG WOMEN TO BE THEHOSTESSES   Women’s Missionary and Ladies’ Aid Meeting Tune 4th 

Lutheran Women Meet At Craig’  ‘Hold District ‘Session Next Tuesday

Reich Capital Hammered in Daylight Raid   London Clearing Away Deris After Nazi Night Raid

LeMars Man In Vosges Fighting  Sgt. Vernon Ewin Has Seen Hard Fighting

LeMars Man In: Vosges F ighting  ‘Set. Vernon. Ewin Ha: - Seen Hard Fighting

CAS HOARDERS HELD TO BLAME   Shortage In Washington Due To Idle Talk, Sena®  tor Declares

 Scared—You Wouldn't Kn ow It  Tough GI's Take The Invasion Calmly

DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED IN ARGENTINA   Buenos Aires Said Now Ready To Sever Ties With Germany

Snub Seen As Move To Wean Argentina From Axis, Break Up Spy Activities

EIGHT NATIONS SPURN REGIME IN BOLIVIA   Americans Believed Forcing Break Between Argentina And Germany

Argentina May End AxisT ie; U:S., England Reject Bolivio      Diplomats Expect Sensational Announcement Today On Buenos Aires Stand In South American Flareup

SOUTH AMERICA—  AAENTINA BREAK “WITH AYIS SEEN   Diplomats Say Iniportant News To Come From Buenos. Aires   - ALLIES ACTIVE:   Revolutionary Rulers’ Of . Bolivia Refused Recognition By U.S. © .

Argentine Break With Axis Lands Is Believed Near   Formal Announcement From Buenos Aires Awaited

Argentina May Break Off With Axis Nations   Expected to Move as Result of Allies  Refusal. to Recognize New Bolivian Reaime

Argentina Break With Axis Expected Today   “Momentous’”’ Statement Promised— U. §. and Britain Refuse To Rec enize Bolivian Junta

‘Sensational Announcement’ Predicted Sometime Today   Further Joint Action By South American Republics Against Bolivia Seen

‘Sensational’ * News Likely Late Today   @iction May Be Based on “Discovery-of Pro-Axis Espionage. Ring   MAY HAVE ADVISED Tt. § OF PLANS   Buenos Aires Expected to Act: Quickly as Follow-Up @ io Bolivian Troubles

_ 7. ae ae =  Britain Joins U. S. In Refusing  To Recognize Bolivian Regime   Announcement Expected In Argentina

U. S. Recognition Denied Bolivia Diplomatic Maneuvering Watched Closely

Change In Attitude Is Indicated   Discovery Of Spy Ring Believed To Have Led Argentine Government To Adopt New Course

AIR BLOWS CONTINUE   Day and Night Blasting of Germany Sees No Let-Up; Germans in Italy Also Pounded by Growing Allied Air and Artillery Action.

Robbery, Torture, Murde: By Nazis In Kiev Area   WRECKED, ROBBED, SLAUGHTERED

Russians Accuse Nazis of Killing 193,000 During Occupation of Kiev

GERMAN AIRMEN ~ AGAIN HIT LONDON   NAZIS RETURN AS CITY: DIGS _ FOR DEAD IN RUINS LEFT BY TUESDAY ATTACK.

Two French Cities Are Targets Of Night Bombers  Mosquito Planes Hit Kiel as Others Attack Lyon, Vaires

TARGETS NEAR PARIS BOMBED BY HALIFAXES   Railways at Vaires, and Engine Works at Lyon Attacked While Mosquitoes Visit Kiel   ENEMY OFFERS BATTLE

TARGETS NEAR PARIS ARE HIT   RAF Halifaxes Attack Railways at Vaires; Lyon Engine Works Raided.   KIEL IS ALSO BOMBED

RAF STRIKES TARGETS AT VAIRES   Engine Works At Lyon And Kiel Hit Last Night .

Rail Targets In France Are Raided by RAF   Engine Works At Lyon Also Bombed: Kiel, Germany, Also Hammered In Night Attacks

YANKS DOWN 48 GERMAN PLANES   NINE U, S, BOMBERS, AND NINE FIGHTERS FAILED TO RETURN

RAF Attacks Installations Over Franec   Railway Targets At Vaires. Lyon Engine Works Struck By Raiders.   HIT BRUNSWICK AREA

BRITISH FLIERS BLAST FRENCH RAIL TARGETS   U. S. Airmen Over Germany Today as Nazis Turn Off All Radio Stations

RAIL TARGETS, ENGINE WORKS HIT BY ALLIES   Heavy Bombers Believed Over Reich As German Radios Shut Down

German Fighters Show Opposition  To All Attacks   VU. . Fhlers Dow: 4 Nazi Planes Fo®resses Hit Ai  Brunswick

RAF Planes Hit Targets In France   Rail Points, Plants Attacked —Mosquitos Bomb Kiel

RAF Strikes South France Paris Sector   Americans ‘Pound Bruns: wick and Pas-De-Calais Area With Fortresses

RAF HALIFAXES ATTACK VAIRES RAIL TARGETS      Mosquitos Bomb Kiel in Follow- Up to American Raids on Brunswick  Region Amid Air Duels

OVER REICH © DAY AND NIGHT   Yankees Defeated Nazis in Air Battles Wednesday and Knocked Down 939 Interceptors. .

Aerial Pounding Is Continuing   Railway Targets Near Paris, Lyons Plant Among Objectives Hit.

French Rail Lines Bombec By British   RAF Continues Assault on Communications

Florida Tourists Become Stranded   Thousands Unable To Leave Miami

Pacific Sea, Air Attacks Revealed; Hit Near Mindanac  Marines Retake Their Barracks on Guam; Use Tanks on Tinian

Allied Armada Hits Halmahera In Giant Raid  Forty-Five Nip Planes Dawnead

Bombers Smash 45 Nip Planes On Halmahera  First Raid Carried Out On ‘Stepping Stone’ On Route To

Bombers Hit Philippine Approaches   Heavy Toll of Planes, Ships Taken; Orote Peninsula Falls

Allies Carry Air War Close  To Philippines   15 Jap Planes Destroved In Raid Against Halmahera Island

45 Jap Planes Are Destroyed   ‘Allies: Stage” Raid. On Halmahera Isle

WALLACE THINKS F. R, WILL RUN   “Suspects” Roosevelt  Wil Seek 4th Term

‘SUSPECT F.R. WILL RUN,’ SAYS WALLACE; "AS FOR ME-\'M IN LAP OF THE GODS’

--LONG SILENCE BROKEN-— KH ° / I  Warns Reich   “ENORMOUS COURAGE” NEEDED, FUEHRER TELLS GERMANY, BUT HE INSISTS HE WILL TRIUMPH

NERVE NEEDED   Asserts Germans Have Known Only Success  For Four Years

WE WON'T QUIT, HITLER ASSERTS   Admits, However, Germans Face Difficult Situations

"We Shall Not Capitulate,’ Says Hitler   But he Admits Strength of Nerve Is Necessary

Hitler Admits Enormous Courage Necessary Now   Warns People Face ‘Hardest Task Imaginable’ and Strength of Nerves Required to Stand Up These Times

HITLER, IN RARE TALK, TELLS OF NEEDED COURAGE   Admits in Talk Before. War Production Leaders. That “Enormous Courage and Strength of Nerves”. Neces Po ees

HITLER TELLS PEOPLE NAZIS TO WIN WAR   “Must Have Best Of Nerves To Stand Up”’

Germany Not To Capitulate   Hitler Says Courage, Strength Required Of German People

HITLER SPEAKS TO WAR AIDES   Nozis Face Hard Tosk But ‘We Will Not Capitulate,/ Adolf Says

‘Hitler Breaks Silence to Warn Germans Of ‘Difficult’ Situations to Be Faced

HITLER SAYS NAZIS NEED COURAGE NOW   In Second Speech Within Week, Strikes Same Note of “Difficult” Situations as in Talk ‘on Diet] Death.

Hitler Asserts Reich Will Win in End» But Admits Courage, Strength Needed

Hitler Says Germans Will Triumph, But Ac knowledges Need For Courage

Hitler Seeks To Rally People   ‘Enormous Courage’  Needed. Adolf Says

HITLER SAYS GERMANS SHALL NOT GAPITULATE   Acknowledges Enormous Courage and Strength of Nerves Needed

HITLER SPEAKS TWICE IN WEEK ASKING COURAGI   Most Recent Talk Addressed To War Production Workers

Confidence in Victory Expressad by Hitler   Soys German Inventors Will Restore Balance, But Task ts Hard

SITUATIONS IN GERMANY HARD   Hitler Tells Production Leaders Courage and Strength Necessary.

HITLER ATTEMPTS TO QUIET FEARS   Asserts Germany Does No’ Intend to Capitulate, Admits Courage Needed.

Hitler Breaks Silence To Admit Germans Face Test Courage, Strength, Nerves

HOME FRONT PLEA MADE BY HITLER   Addresses Meeting of German Production Chiefs; Predicts Victory

U.S. to Fight For Overseas Farm Markets   Expect Cut Prices To Other Countries Will Provide Outlet For Big Production

Alleges Tenants Disposed Of Corr Sues Elevator For  Price Of Grain.

Alleges Tenants Disposed Of Corr  Sees Elevator F or. Seen Of Grain _

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED AIRMEN RIP ENEMY OPPOSITION  FROM WEWAK TO BOU-

Segment of Japan’s Southwest Pacific Defenses Peppered   Aerial Attacks Continued Steadily on Nip Posts

FELD DAY IN OW. PACIIC   Airmen Rip 350-Mile Segment of Jap Defense With 500-Ton Smash.

RIP 350 MILES OF JAP LINES   Yank Airmen Have Field Day From Wewak to Bougainville

Air Attacks Rip Hole in Pacific Line   New Atoll Hammered in Nearer Reaches of Truk . Sphere

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED AIRMEN RIP ENEMY OPPOSITION  FROM WEWAK TO BOUGAINVILLE JAP SUPPLY BASES BLASTED

FLIERS BLAST NEW TARGET IN EAST CAROLINES   Airmen Rip 350-Mile Japanese Defense Line in South Pacific

Hammer Jap Bases From Air   Rip Enemy Positions From Wewak to Bougainville in 500-Ton Attack: Smash Oroluk

Blast Japan’s Island Bases   Wewak. Bougainville Smashed By Bombing: Oroluk Atoll Raided.

ATTACK JAPS ON LONG LINE   500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Enemy Positions; Wewak Hard Hit Again. ~

Allies Bomb Oroluk Atoll   Southwest Pacific Airmen Have Field Day At Expense of Japs

—PACTFIC—   BOMBERS BATTER SAPS IN PACIFLE   Bombs Rained On 350“Mile Segment Of Nip. pon’s Defense Line ©.

U. 5. PLANES RIP LONG JAP LINE   500-Ton Air Smash Made In Southwest Pacific  ; oes   OROLUK ATOLL HIT

BOMBERS POUND JAPANESE BASES   Oroluk, Near Truk, Blasted - For First Time In War -

ALLIES PISK NEW TARGET IN PACIFIC   Oroluk Atoll Is Newest Base To Be Atta ked

AERIAL SMASHES RIP OPEN JAP LINES IN PACIFIC   MacArthur’s Fliers Blast Apart 350-Mile Segment in Nip Defense Lines—-Wewak and Boutainville Areas Hit

JAP DEFENSES ON 350 MILE FRONT BOMBED   Gen, MacArthur’s Planes Drop 500 Tons of Explosives on Various Defense ‘Posts:

Oroluk —_      500-Ton Air Smash Rips into Southwest Japanese Pacific Defense Line

Sister Gabina _  Passes Away .  - Member Of: ‘Order. Of Christian Charity

Sister Gabina  Passes Away   Member Of Order Of Christian Charit:

» SOVIET TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS KEY RAILROAD   seen a nee en  ® Roll Toward Romanian Border  5 750,000 MENACED Red Victory Nears In Ukraine

DIVISION OF GERMANY HAS BEEN DECIDED   By “Big Three” Representatives in London; Separate Occupational Zones Agreed To.   Henderson Chief

POWERS AGREE ON - RULE OF GERMANY   Coordinated Policy Direct. ed by Council Decided Upon

Sign Pact To Control NaziReich   Three - Way Occupation Planned; Inclusion Of France To Be Arranged

‘Big 3’ Agree On Military Rule Of Germany   Actual Administration To Bevin Separate Occupation . Zones

AGREE ON PLAN FOR MILITARY RULE OF REICH   Allies to Administer Germany in Several Different Zones

PACT TO CONTROL GERMANY SIGNED   British, American and Russian Representatives Agree On Plan; Supreme Council To Direct Policy

Zone Plan Agreed On For Ruling Post-War Germany      Russia To Occupy Eastern Germany; England Wil Dominate Northwestern Part: U. S. To Control Southwestern Areas

“Big 3° Agreed On Zoning Plan To Curb Reich   Germany: Will Be Broken  Into Three Zones Each Biches] lone Ree feet

Reds Slash Into Riga Suburbs   Germans Resist Desperately From Behind Ruined Latvian Capital Buildings; Other Russian Forces Battle Down Carpathians

Nazis Aiso Reeling in Caen Area   Wide Areas Are Cleared by Americans Racing On Toward Important Ports   FULL DETAILS NOT. YET DISCLOSED   SILUSH - VabeAlan + UTES Are Hammering Enemy Into a Major Retreat

Speedy Force Is Chasing NaziRemnant   Fall of Prize Port Is Imminent; Allies Rush Gains

Foe Retreating Before British In Caen Region   6-Ton ‘Factory Busters’ Dropped on Enemy’s U-Boat Pens

Huns Stagger In Every Sector   Germans Pull Out. of Southern France

Another Spearhead Only Few Miles North Of St. Nazaire,-On South Coast Of Peninsula

Germans Reveal Americans Are Gaining Swittly  Allied Headquarters Gives Out Little On Progress To Keep Foe  Dicaraannizved

Jimmy Stewart In Great Raid  Actor Leads Squadron Over Frankfurt Day Aftare Racaminn Maing

Rome Reported Bombed Again  Fifth Army Plunges Across Garigliano Rivor at Thrae Pointe

ROME WATERWORKS REPORTED BLASTED   Broadcast Says Populace Ordered to Use Supply Sparingly After Rombing by Liberators,

Happiest Christmas! 'Nubbins, Greeted By Santa, Plunges Into 250 Package:

- NEW DISORDERS IN SICILY   Broke Out in Protest . Against Calls for Army Duty

Rioting Breaks Qut Again In Sicilian Capital   Police Fire On “Strikers”

WLB DEFERS ACTION ON SOFT COAL WAGE PACT   Will Not Consider Pending Agreement Until Presidential Commission Reports On Underground Travel Time Study

SEEK TO RECOVER PAYMENTS, ESTATE OF PENSIONERS   A Campaign, for Initiative Enactment of New Law, Is Announced.   NEW COMMITTEE NAMED   B. T. Clark of This City Was Named One of Five of the Members,

Campaign for New Old Age  Pension pi   Petitions for Needed Signatures Will be Circulated

GERMAN FIGHTER PLANES OFFERED SAVAGE OPPOSITI ON 26TH DAY OF OFFENSIVE,

Nazis Claim Raid Costly For Allies   Returning Pilots Admit th Nazi Opposition Was Unusually Tough

Bombers Rip Reich  Defenses   Huge Fleet Lashes Hitler’s West Wall; Central Germany Hit

Mightiest Air Armada Ever Hurled At Hitler’s West Wall Hits Europe   Bombings Penetrate Germany As Pre - Invasion Offensive  Reaches 26th Day

2,000 PLANES BLAST AT FIVE SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS IN SOUTH CENTRAL GERMANY

FIVE SYNTHETIC OIL INDUSTRIES ~ OF AXIS BOMBEL   2000 Arherican Planes {r  Raid After Another Equal:  ly as Strong Pound Enem Invasion Defenses.   WEST COAST BOMBING GOES INTO 26 DAYS   Yugoslav Partisans Defeat German $S Troops at Olovo, Heavy Fighting Reported at Vlasenica.

Thousands of U.S. Planes Hit Oil Plants   Central Germany Czechoslovakia Sunpplw Tarcete

THOUSAND OF PLANES AAD. EVROPE   Mighty. Parade Of Destruction Penetrates Deep Into Germany; West Wall Jarred By Heavy Attacking Force   IWESTERN FUROPE  UNDER BLACKOUT

2000 U.S. Planes Rald Oil Plants   Synthetic Oil Plants in Central Germany and Old Czechoslovakia, Hit

2,000 American Planes Attack Nazi Oil Plants   Fortresses, Liberators Fly Deep Into’ German Homeland To Hit Vital Target:

Reds Advance In Estonia   Ten Nazi Divisions Are Being Entranned

125,000 NAZIS CUT OFF; MORE FACE LIKE FATE   Whole Ukraine Front Totters as Reds Surge Through -

NEW TIRE QUOTA AIDS B, 6 UNITS   Eligibility Rules Relaxed So Certificates Obtainable

Holders of 'B’ and 'C' Ration Books Eligible To Buy New Tires Monday

B AND C MOTORISTS ©  ELIGIBLE FOR TIRES   New: Casings Made ‘Available. for “All Occupational Driving, Etfactiva Mav 1.

“A” BOOK HOLDERS CAN OBTAIN USED TIRES   Motorists With “B"™ And °C" Rations Ate Eligib': For New  ~“~Passeneer Car Casings

All ‘B’ and ‘C’ Drivers Eligible for New Tires After First of May

NEW ATTACK OPENED  ON GOVERNMENT BY  EXECUTIVE ORDER LATEST ATTACK IS DIRECTED AT PRESIDENT’S  WAD CIIDDITIC DIAN

Reinforced Russian Army Storms Eastern Suburbs Of Polish Capital; Assault Forces Penetrate Praga, On Vistula   LULL ON VISTULA FRONT HAS ENDEL

POLISH CAPITAL BATTLE ENTERS FINAL PHASE   Reds Crack Last German Defenses Before Border Of Czecho-Slovakia

Battle In Finat Phase   Praga Penctrated By Russians as Action Flares Up

Reds. Batter At Gates Of Warsaw   Suburbs Stormed; Cossacks - Driving On Czechoslovakia

Battle for Warsaw in Final Phase   Leng Lull on Vistula Front Definitely Ended; Big Battles Raginc

Soviets Oper Final Phase Of Assault   Germans Report Fierce Fighting In Praga Streets.

Massive Red Tank Force Hits Praga, Suburb Of Warsaw   Russians, Poles Engage Enemy In Climactic Fight For Capital

Soviets Open All-Out Drive  kor Warsaw   Front Dispatches Indicate Battle For Polish Capital In Final Phase

BATTLE FOR WARSAW IN LAST STAGES      Refreshed Russ Army Storms Eastern Suburbs

Americans Warned Of Over-Optimism  Sensational Allied Gains Due to Retreat

WAR ANALYST WARNS AGAINST OVER-OPTIMISM AS RESULT OF CENERAT ATTIED OFFENSIVE

SENSATIONAL ADVANCES IN EUROPE  NO CAUSE FOR SLIPPING INTO \ \OVER-OPTIMISTIC CLASS AGAIN (

Over-Optimism As Result of Allicd Suecesses On Wesiern Front Can Delay Day OF Victory

FEPC Center of Raging Fight   Southern House Members Lose Yesterday’s Fund Battle.

South Is Loser Of First Round In FEPC Debate   Dixie Opponents Admit Privately Lack Of Support

FEPC Center of Big House Bill   Racial, Sectional, Political Angles Cause Largest Fight

PAPAL PEACE MOVES DENIED BY SPELLMAN   Vatican Quarters Also Cal Reports Of Plan False

[Six More Jap Admirals, 1 GeneralDead   Either Killed In Action Or Died Of Illness, Is Announced

TITO URGES HARD BLOWS AT NAZIS   PARTISANS TOLD TO STRIKE WITH OFFENSIVES

Peter Pl eads Unified Front  In Yugoslavia   Appeal Follows Command From Tito For All-Out Drive Against Germans

Opposition Lo Allied Advance Reported Feeble   Believe Southern France Al. lied Troops Will Push Toward Junction With  Normandy Forces   COASTAL FRONT OF 125 MILES IS HELL

Farm Problem May Rise as Political Spectre Hf Victory Comes Soon

Farm Problem ‘May Rise to Plague Politicians If Victory Comes Soon

BELIEVE F. R. TO BE WPHELD   Administration Aides. Look to Ward Probe

News SA, BEHIND THES NEY ZV (Si:      PRESENT STATUS OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Detective Is Shot By Negro In S.A   Killer Suicides After Texas Shooting

Russian Baltic Fleet Shells  Finnish Points   Maze of Defenses On Road to Viipuri Beine Penetrated

Soviet Warships Pour Broadsides Into Karelian   Red Army Columns Battle To Within 37 Miles of Viipuri

Soviet Warships Pound Isthmus   ‘Support Three Red Thrusts to Viipuri

FINN DEFENSES BOMBARDED BY RUSSIAN FLEET   Warships Support Three Red Army Columns Driving North

Soviet Warships Bombard Finns   Red Columns Advance Within 37 Miles Of Viipuri

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eUVA NAYS  People Can’ t Be Proud of War. Job They Nag ‘and Complain Too Much

Governor Cox ‘Warns Against IPetty Politics.   Says Too Many Presume to Know More About Running War Than General Marshall er Admiral King.

‘We (Those at Home) Have Not Been as Faithful To Our Defenders (Fighting Force) as They Have Been To Us,’ He Says in Criticizing Complainers and Demagogues

FORMER GOVERNOR  COX OF OHIO GIVES  VIEWS ON FUTURE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AD.  VOCATE CALLS FOR PATRI OTISM AROVE POLITICS

Truman, Wallace Join for Rally   Truman Declares He’s Confident of Demo Success

BIG QUESTION IN CONNECTION WITH INVASION IS, HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO WHIP HITLER

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF Associated Press War Analyst

By DeWIlTT MackEN (FE  Beenantertensel EBenuwe Ubleawe A wentearacé

War Analyst Believes Germans Will Revolt After Successful Invasion

WAR TODAY   jtlerites Seen Accepting Inevitable and Surrendering After Allies Establish Poachheads

Naals SEEN AS MAKING SUPREME EFFORT TO WIN STALEMATE BEFORE ANY COLLAPSE INTERNALLY LIKELY   How Long Will It Take Allies to Get Foothold in West and Crash Hitler’s Fortress and With What Losses, Is Big Question. Eventual Defeat of  na ey (paren

BOMBERS RIP ~ NAZIS AT CAEN   1,750 Warplanes Aid Dourhboys  Airports, Robot Sites Also Blasted

U.S, BOMBERS — RIP NAZI LINE   Massive Weights Dropped in Front of British Near Caen

5) Presumed Lost When Ship Sinks   Liberty Ship Breaks in Tso on Third Vovage To Alaskan Waters

Hold Faint Hope for 55 Presumed to Be Lost in Breaking in Two of Ship

fen M'Arthur Rubs Shoulders With Yanks Who Sealed Doom Of 60,000 Japs In New Guinea   Faint Hope For 55 Lost When Liberty Ship Sinks

Move To Tighten Hection Laws  CIO Activity Against   CIO Activity Against Taft May Result In Tightening of Laws.

15 MEN CONVICTED ON COHABITATION CHARGES IN UTAH   Cenviction of Salt Lake City Men Ends “Paper Trial’-Is First Findings in Poly agnmoane Marriage Triale '

Plural Marriage Decision Today   Judge Convicts Fifteen Following “Paper Trial’”’ In Utah.

Fifteen Salt Lake City Men Convicted In Polygamy Case; Accused of Living With 55 Women Not Wives

First Conviction — in ‘Paper Trial’   15. Salt. Lake City. Men. Were ‘Charged With Uniawful Cohabitation.

Sabotage Suspected in British Blast   74 Listed as Killed, Injured  me hA*tecr im

AREA FOR MILES RESEMBLES RUIN OF BATTLEFIELD   Blast May Have Been Touched Off By Bomb

SCORES KILLED, MANY HURT IN LONDON BLAST   78 Bodies Are Recovered; Cause Of Explosion Seen As Mystery

GERMAN ARMY WITHDRAWING INTO NORWAY   Ultimatum Gives Nazis Until Sept. 15 to Leave Country

SURRENDERS T0 RUSSIA AGAIN; FIRING CEASES   Third Axis Puppet Te Abandon Hitler In 10 Davs

Nazi Troops Start Flight To Norway  Finnish Ultimatum Tells Germans to Leave by Sept. 15  PATRIOTS IN ACTION  Fighting Reported Along Railroad Through Narvik Area   PATRIOTS IN ACTION

CEASE FIRING ORDER GIVEN AT ALM EW   Peace Mission Believed Already En Route to Moscow for Discussions.

Finns Abandon War, German  Alliance Today  Surrender To Soviets Second Time In Less Than 5 Years  NAZIS MOVE NORTH  Finn Ultimatum Tells Axis Troops To Quit Country         Surrender To Soviets Second Time In Less Than 5 Years   NAZIS MOVE NORTH

3rd Nazi Satellite  Quits Wai   Russians Mop Up Germans in Rumania Race for Yugoslavia

‘Surrender Is Made to  Soviet Union   Thousands of Huns Reported Fleeing to Eseape Internment

‘NAZI ARMY IS FLEEING TO NORWAY   ‘Cease Fire’ Sounded At 8A. M.; Germans § Get Ultimatum

All Russia Will Celebrate Monday   Moscow Literally Wrapped In Red Colors For Great Day.

Russians Prepare For Greatest May Day of War  Flags Hail Holiday; Young and Old Arrange Festivities

Russia Ready To Celebrate Big May Day   Natives Attired in Best Clothing as Rex Colors Fly From  All Buildings

Celebrate May Day   Traditional Russian Holiday to Be Gayest Since the War Began

Gen. De Gaulle Win: Recognition From Four Allied Chiefs  French Leader Seeks Same Status With All United Nations

RECOGNIZE HIS COMMITTEE   De Gaulle Has Letter Letters From Four Governments in Exile

OVER A THOUSAND RAF BOMBERS IN RAID LAST NIGHT   Schweinfurt and Steyr Were Still Burning From American Daylight Raid Yester day.   COMBINED ALLIED AIR FLEETS OVER GERMANY IN FOLLOW-UP TODAY   156 German Planes Destroyed in One Day’s Operations.

Resist Nazi Attempts to Break Line   Disperse All Onslaughts and Improve Positions in  Some Places

Over 1,000 RAF Bombers Assault  Two Big German Aircraft Centers   Schweinfurt and Stevr Are Targets

German Plants Hit at Steyr And Schweinfurt  1,000 Planes Bomb Air Factories,  Invasion Coast

Nazi Border Town Is Lefi  to Russians   Fifth Army: Makes Gains To-' ward Bologna; Santorin Island Garrison Surrenders

Allies Coiled For Great Blow In West: Russians Well Inside East Prussia

CRUSHING RED ARMY OFFENSIVE AGAINST EAST PRUSSIA AREA  _ GERMANS REPORT GRAND _ SCALE BREAKTHROUGH 1S OBJECT

Allies Launch Big Assaults To Force A Final Decision   Germans Give Way In Holland, East Prussia

Nazis ‘Report Red Gains in  “Fast Prussic   ‘Allies Also Smash Germans Back in West in What May Be Preliminary to. Drive To Force Final Decision

Solons Ask $ 3,000,000 Questions   Senate, House Cost Of Finding What’s Wrong Comes High

Pinsk, Volkysk Taken . As Way Is Opened for Parallel Drives West 

PINSK, VOLKYSK, TWIN CITADELS ON WARSAW ROAD, FALL TO REDS   GRODNO CAPTURE WOULD PUT RUSSIANS IN 20 MILES OF GERMAN BORDER, SPEED BERLIN MARCH

MNARNEY NAMED DEVER’S SUCCESSOF   Takes Command in Mediter. ranean Area Under Gen. Wilson.

Some German Units Still Fight in Paris; Avignon, Arles Fall   Americans at Franco-Swiss Border, Zurich Says; Big Guns Hit Brest   RITT.T.2@TINW

“Yank Columns Drive Up the Rhone Valley   ‘* All South France Liberated Except Pockets of Resistance

POPE DEFENDS RIGHT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY   Condemns Capitalism Which Takes It Away

POPE PLEADS FOR CHRISTIAN. PEACE   DEFENDS RIGHT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY IN WORLD ADDRESS

Pontiff Sees Peace Danger In Capitalism   Pope Pius Holds Force May Be Necessary to Avert New Wars

Circuit Court  Session Held; Enter Orders   Judge Ingram Presides. at . Adjourned Session Held Tuesday Morning. ,

Seven Orders” Are Entered. - Court Session   February Term to Convene ‘Next ‘Monday’ Under Statute Provision.

J une Term of  - Gireuit Court: Is Convened   ‘Four : Mind? Ord \Orters Entered 2 At Seasion: Fresided Over By JudgeDaily. -

Stark Circuit. Court Orders: Jury Drawing   Four Minor 0) Orders Entered Last Wednesday; No . ” Gourt Date Set.

P’ VE BIG EEE MEETING AOSTPONED   Conference May Not Be Held Until After F. D. R.’s Inauguration

MEETING OF ‘BIG THREE’ IS REPORTED POSTPONED   NO ARRANGEMONTS YET MADE FOR CONFERENCE AMONG . CHURCHILL, STALIN AND ROOSEVELT      By LEON PEARSON Intertiatiunal News Service

FOR, CHURCHILL, STAUN MEETING NOT YET PLANNED   Officiz] Annzuncement Gives ‘Rise to Belief ~ . Three May Not Meet ©

Americans Hit German Strongpoints   British Eighth Army Improves Lines Near Adriatic

AMERICAN TROOPS BATTLE FIERCELY FOR SAN VITTORE   COLD WEATHER WITH SNOW HAMPERED EIGHTH ARMY ACTIVITIES

AMERICAN TROOPS ASSAULTED THREE STRONG POINTS   Fought Over the Drenched Stones of San Vittore, It Is Reported.   Pressed Offensive All Along 10-Miles Front Straddling Road to Rome.

San Vittore Battle Rages   Allies and Germans Battle in Streets As Offensive Reopens

5TH ARMY PUSHES OFFENSIVE ALONG ON ITALIAN FRONT  STORM STRONG NAZI

STORM THREE VITAL POINTS      Troops in Italy Fight With Small Arms, MachineGuns. Grenades.

Bitter Street Fighting In San Vittore StillRages   Fifth Army Using Grenades, Machine Guns In No-Quarter Battle With Nazis

FIGHTING IN SAN VITTORE IS BITTER   Yanks Capture Strategic Peak Of Monte Maio

FIFTH ARMY GAINS GROUND IN ITALIA MOUNTAIN SECTOR   Americans and Germans Still Battling for San Vittore

Enemy Dug Out With Bomb and Gun   Fifth Army Striving To Crack Open  Barrier to Rome

Fight Bitter Over Village   Yanks Win Part of San Vittore; British Push Aheac

Fifth Army Fights Bad - Weather, Toc   Three Bitterly-Contested Strong Points Taken on 10-Mile Front

American Troops In Bitter Fight For San Vittore   Fifth Army Presses Offensive Along A 10-Mile Front; Assail Stronapoints

Yanks Advance Against Nazis ‘In Italy in Fierce, No-Quarter ‘Fight While Blizzards Rage --

ASSAIL THREE STRONGHOLDS AT NAZI BASE   No-Quarter Fight Rages As Germans Refuse To Quit Fortified Buildings

Using Grenades, Machine Guns and Small Arms to Drive Germans From San Vittore

Bitter Fighting Kdges Across Italian Front   With Grenades, MachineGuns. Small Arms Troops Fight In San Vittore.   BAD WEATHER SETS IN

Fifth Army Drives Hard Over Italy   American Soldiers Are Battling At San Vittore

Allies Storm Three Nazi Strongholds   Americans Beat Way Slowly Ahead In Italian Battle

Short Gains Made On 10-Mile Front. .  Fifth Army Has Slow Work, But Fights Fiercely

SUPPLY ROAD FROM CEVARO IS SEVERED   Seizure of Important Peak Under Hail of German Artillery Aids Drive on  San Vittore   HALF OF TOWN TAKEN

Troops Battie Against Bitter Nazi Resistance   Battle Continues Over Bloody Stones of San Vittore And Snow Cov ered Mountains. Ahead Toward-Cassino—German Supply Road Cit.

Yanks Capture 3500-F. Peak Of Monte Maio   Seizure of Mountain Under Hail of German Artillery Fire Cuts Enemy Supply Lines

BATILEF FO oN —VITTORE RAGES   Yanks -Assail Three Bit“terly Contested German ‘Strongholds

U.S, FORGES BATTLE NAZIS HAND-TO-HAND   Gaining Ground In Winter Storms On Italian Soil

Yanks Fight Over Drenched Stones of San Vittore; Seizure of Peak Cuts German Supply Road To San Vittore.

YanksDigOut Last of Nazis In San Vittore      Fifth Army’s New Offensive Defies Snow in Italian Mountains

Bitter Battle Continues in - San Vittore   Fifth Army Pressing Its Offensive In Worst Of Weather And Conditions   NO- QUARTER FIGHT. AMONG PILLBOXES   Most Allied Planes Are! Grounded; Short Gains Are ; Made On Ground

Bitter Battle On Reawakenec Italian Front   Yanks Take Another Peak As Fifth Army Presses New Offensive.

BARRICADED NAZIS CONTEST SAN VITTORE   Americans Assail Three Strong points in Fortified Village, Mini.  atute Stalinarad   CUT SUPPLY ROAD   Cold, with Snow in Mountains, Impedes British Eighth Army, Grounds Most Planes

Yanks Press Offensive In Italy   Fight Bitterly In San Vittore Assail Three Strongholds

AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHTING FOR ISAN VITTORE   U.S. Troops Storm Strong German Defense Covering Key Road

YANKS PRESS ATTACK ALL ALONG FRONT   Troops Fight Over Drenched Stones of San Vittore and Assail 3 Bitterly Contested Positions in Village.

L.%. Troops of Fifth Army Bati'2 Foe In San Vittore   By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

Press Offensive  On Road to Rome   Americans Fight With Small Arms in Attempt to Gain San Vittore.

Yank Troops Battle For San Vittore   Seizure of Peak Slashes German Line of Suppiv

Bitter Fighting  Rages On Newly Awakened Front; San Vittore Falls

U.S. BATTERS GERMAN FORCES IN SAN VITTORE   Yanks Cut Nazi Supply Line South of Cassino in Capture of Hill

AMERICAN ARMY PRESSING DRIVE ON WIDE FRONT   Yanks Retain Offensive ir Slashing Attacks—Fighting Rages in Town

Three Soviet Armies Take Offensive   Over Million Men Pound at Enemy Positions

Reds Drive on Riga, Overrun 2,800 Towns   Soviets Within 8 Miles of Latvian Capital; Vistula Crossing Reported

RUSS FORCE = SEVEN MILES FROM RIGA   Red Army Reported Across Borders Of Hungary

RIVER CREST IS 37 FEET AT CHESTER   Expect 41 Wednesday At Girardeau, 52 At Cairo

Floods Inundate Vast Farm Area   Home, Crop Damage Runs Into Millions

KIDS GREETED SANTA   Annual Parade for the Old Fellow Drew a Big Crowd

DAEEe AOMUTAIS WOOK Up iMisaster for Japs— —By Kirke L. Simpson (/  Conference Forecasts Break In Pacific War

Each Army Has:Own Air Unit :   29th Tactical Air  Command Newest of Groups Flying Cover For Six U. S. Armies

AIR SUPPORT IS GIVEN ALL FOUR DRIVING ARMIES   American Ninth Is Receiving Help from 29th Tactical Command

29th Faetical Command New Unit With 9th Four U.S. Armies Given Air Suppor’

U.S. Combat Plane Output Hits Stride   Nazi Production Being Curtatled by Bombs

U. S. TURNING OUT MORE COMBAT PLANES   German Production of Fighter Reported Cut 43 Per Cent by Allied Bombings.

GUARD OFFICER IS SUSPENDED   Lt.Col. Potts, Three Other State Arsenal Officers  Held In Shortages

General Eisenhower’s Order Of The Day Calls On All To Help Bring Major Victory

Commander Calls Upon Men For Special Effort To Grasp Opportunity

Lisenhower Makes Appeal For Knock Out   Deciares Allies  Face Opportunity For Major Victory On Western Front

All-Out Assault By Reds On East Prussia Near   Eisenhower Calls for All Out Effort by Allied Forces, And Says Definite Opportunity for Victory af Hand

GEN. IKE HINTS MAJOR ALLIED VICTORY NEAR’   FEELS BIG CHANCE HAS ARRIVED: URGES MEN TO ‘BEAR DOWN’

THIS WEEK TO BE MOMENTOUS, GENERAL SAYS   Issues Order Of ay To Forces; Germans Flee

A Major Allied Victory at Hand   Eisenhower Says Allies Have Created Definite Opportunity.

MajorVictory In Our Grasp —Kisenhower   “Can Make Week Fateful for Ambitions of Nazi Tyrants.” He Savs

IKE’ CALLS FOR MIGHTY EFFORT TO CRUSH FOE   Time at Hand to Delive: Knockout Blow in West, General Avers

Eisenhower Issues Appeal to “Troops °  Great Allied Victory  Possible This Week,  He Telle Farcec

“IKE” SEES CHANCE FOR MAJOR BLOW      Calls Upon All Forces in France to Press Fleeting but Definite Opportunity to Win a Great Victory.

Big Victory  Within Reach  --Eisenhower Commander Makes Appeal to Troops

General Eisenhower Calls For Supreme Effort To Win Great Victory In France

Pro-Roosevelt Electors Win °   Texas Supreme Court Directs They Be Certified For Ballots.

ROOSEVELT-PLEDGED ORDERED ON BALLOT   Texas High Court Directs Names Be Certified

Roosevelt Group Winner in Texas  Supreme Court Rules Against Revolters

GO ON THE BALLOTS   Supreme Court Rules for Texas Pro-Roosevelt Electors

F. R. Electors  Win in Texas   Supreme Court Directs Secretary of State to Put Names on Rallot

LOW SALARIES SEND TEACHERS TQ OTHER JOBS   Supt. Erwin Paints Gloomy Picture Of Teacher Situation In  State; Wants High er Salaries.

KEY STRONGHOLD CAPTURED ND AMERICAN AND BRIT19H SPEARHEADS DRIVE ON NEW OBJECTIVES

THIRD ARMY HEADS EAST INTO SPAR SAARI AITERN FREE   Four of Six German Divisions on Culogne Plains Eliminated

Convict Tries To Escape, Then Kills Himself   Second Convict Recaptur ed Unhurt When He Surrenders.

Loss Runs Into Many Millions   Huge Pier Destroyed Second Burning; Numerous Persons  Burned, Missing.

Many Missing in Explosion, Fire   Huge Hoboken Pier Destroyed by Flames

ENROLLMENT OF 140   Swimming  Lessons “to Continue Thru Early Part ‘of August

Smolensk Is City Of Death — - Bat Life Still Straggles On      By HARRISON SALISBURY

DR. KREMER J. HOKE DIES IN RICHMOND   Native Of Emmitsburg Was Out standing Figure In Education In The South

$2.428.321 Fund Listed By GOP   Campaign Donations Twice That Of Democrats

FORMER KING CAROL BOUND FOR BRAZIL   Friends Certain He Hopes Ultimately to Return to. Romania.

Gains Are Made Near Landing   Units Of Herman Goering Division Are Hurled Back

Stimson Says Big Battle  Is Forming   Enemy Beginning To Resist Push  Toward Rome

THRUST SMASHED, GAINS ARE MADE   Six Jap Vessels Sunk, 2¢ Airplanes Downed, Three Other Ships Hit.

American Forces Crack Down With Terrific Sunday Attack With Shells and Bombs—Pitiless Peace Faces Japs as Atrocities Backfire   ‘Toughest Fighting Done ‘By American Rangers

Arnold Says Aerial Attack ' Inflicted Blow On Germans   'Huge Air Battle Wednesday Struck Hard Blow, Air _ Chief Says, at a Cost of Approximately 5 Per Cent of U. §. Planes

Arnold Gives Details of American Raids on Vital German Factories

Arniold Descrilies Tuesday Raid on Germany Success   Hundreds of Fighter “Planes. Will Nover Be Monvufartginw

NAZIS FAIL TO FIRE ON U. $. TROOPS   Yanks Approach Within 2,000 Yards Of Vaunted Forts

‘NINE KILLED, 75  INJURED IN A  TRAIN WRECK   Troop and Passenger Trains Crash at Depot in Texas Snow Storm.

HOLD SER” . FOR CLAY - sf MAT MLAS.   Dr. Massey’s Baccalaureate Sermon on “Utopian World”

HOLD SERV: FOR CLA'.” JF MAT NAS.   Dr. Massey’s Baccalaureate Sermon on “Utopian World”

‘Roosevelt's Trip Called ‘Holiday’ by Dewey; Silent About Campaign

DEWEY SAYS FOR TRIP A HOLIDAY   Declines Further Comment On President’s Tour of Pacific; Some Criticism in Past of Inspection Trips

Will Rogers Coming Home   Remains of Famous Humorist to Rest in His Native State

Yank Grit Slowly Breaks Up Assault _.. By WES GALLAGHER  * a yee

American Troops Exacting Heavy loll of Germans   Nazi Prisoners Say Antwerp to Be Hitler's Christmas Present

Yanks Gain Six Miles On 100 Mile Front In Italy: San Vicenzo Occupied

Allies Register Gains In Italy   Renewed Resistance By Nazis And Rugged Terrain Slows Drive

Plan Reply To Attack Against  Rail Unions   Leaders Of Operating _ Brotherhoods Consider Action After Attack By  “Informed Source”

Ban Probe  on Blast of Strikes   TRUMAN GROUP NOT TO INVESTIGATE STATEMENT LULLS DELAY VICTORY

KRAUSE-SCHULDI NUPTIALS HELD   Pretty Wedding Performed In Beverly Hills,  California

That Wild Gentile Kid Says Mother’s Prayers Saved Life In Battles

@ NAZIS COULDN'T TAME HIM  Capt. Gentile Credits Prayers of Mother for His Safe Return

. wee tet OR ek Ae ee ee ee ee ooo  Capt. Gentile Credits Prayers of Mother for His Safe Return

FAMILY WENT.TO CAREY YESTERDAY TO. KEEP VOW MADE . « WHEN DON, WAS NEAR DEATH

FOOD FORECAST FOR 1945 GIVEN   REDUCED MEAT SUPPLY TO NOTE NEW YEAR

MICHIGAN FLYER IGA LEADING AC   Traverse City Man Has Bagged 34 1-2 Planes in Europe.

Colonel Downs 5 Nazi Planes  Becomes No. 1 Ace In Europe With 3414

Germans In Western Holland Virtually Sealed Off   More Sky Troops Landed By Allies   Headquarters Lacks Late Reports From Rainsoaked West Front

Path Open for . Allied Offensive Into Germany   British Are Astride Rhine and Large Nazi Forces to North May Be Cut Off

British Second Army Throws 50-Mile= Long Cutoff Wall Around Eastern Holland, Merging Solidly With ParHolland — Siegfried Line Being Outflanked—“Monty” Sees Certain Victory Before End of the Year.

AMERICANS DRIVE ON GITY OF LYON   Yanks Capture Rhone Valley  Town of Vienne   QUICK THRUST   German Rearguards in South. ern France Lose Heart;  French Columns Mop up

Yanks 14 Mi. From Lyon   55,000 Prisoners Captured in Fast 150-Mile Advance

AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE ON LYON   NOWHERE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE ARE NAZIS MAKING DETERMINED STAND.

Seventh Drives On Lyon After Seizing Vienne   French Columns Pass Montfaucon, Torunon, Below Lyon

YANKS 14 MILES SOUTH OF LYON   Enemy Intent on Escaping From American Trap

Yanks Push Lyon Drive.   Seventh ‘Army Takes: “Rhone Valley Towns

Goldap, East Prussia Road Center, Taker   Soviets Broaden Front Along Entire Eastern Front of Province

DNB Claiins Hard Fight. For Goldap  In Prussia   ‘Reds ‘Start Attack: ‘In ‘Southeast Area

Reds Capture East Prussia  Highway Hut   Goldap, 18 Miles Inside Germany Falls; Russians Broaden Offensive

SOVIETS TAKE HIGHWAY NEAR EAST PRUSSIA   Nazis Lines Are Penetrated By Red Forces

EAST PRUSSIAN ROAD CENTER IS TAKEN BY REDS   Broaden Offensive Along Entire Eastern Boundary Of Province

Reds Seize Goldap In East Prussia  Russion Gains Are Reported by Berlin

Advance 18 Miles Into Germany; At Norway Border   Moscow Announces Victories Hungary And Yugoslavia

Russian Troops Reach Norwegian Arctic Frontier   ~Goldap, 18.Miles Inside Germany Taken in New Drive

REDS MENACE NAZI POSITION IN SOUTHWEST   Attack Through Hungary May Cut Off Lifeline Between Budapest and Vienna  AT AIADIAAY CRANTIER

Reds Take City 18 Miles Inside Of East Prussia’  Deep Penetrations Admitied In German Soil By Reich; : a a  a. ee ae 

‘Soviets Take Goldap, East Prussian Highway Center; To Open Norway Drive

REDS LIST ADVANCES IN SOUTH   Moscow Still Silent On Offensive In East Prussia

Holes Cut In German Lines, Berlin Says  Reds Reach Border re ee   Reds Reach Border Of Norway On a Wide Front

ADMIT GOLDAP, 18 MILES INSIDE GERMANY. LOST   Reds Provide Great New Threat to Nazis in Southern Europe

ANNOUNCE NEW RUSSIAN GAINS IN EAST PRUSSIA   Nazis Report Fall of Road Center 18 Miles Inside Germany

Nazis Admit Soviet Gains  Reds In Arctic Now At Norwegian Borde:

East Prussian Highway Center ‘Falls to Reds   Goldap, 18 Miles Inside Germany I: In Russian Hands; May Invade Norway

Reds Threaten Nazi Position   All Of Southeastern Europe May Fall

RUSSIANS CAPTURE GOLDAP 18 MILES INSIDE EAST PRUSSIA — REACH THE NORWEGIAN BORDER

eds Pose New hreat Also n Southeast   Berlin Admits Wide Penetrations In East Prussia, Moscow Still Silent

Red Troops ‘Take Goldap Road Center   Broaden Entire Drive Along Eastern Boundary Of East Prussia

Swiftly Developing Atiack In Hungary Threatens Nazi Budapest To Vienna Line

Soviets Take Road Hub  In E. Prussia   Germans Say Russians Broadening Offensive Along Entire Frontier

Reds Capture Prussia Base. Drive To Norwegian Border   Berlin Admits Fall Of Goldap, Highway Center, Which Lies 18 Miles Inside Germany; Tilsit Menaced

Soviets Take Prussian Road Center   Red Army Broadens Its Offensive Along Wide Front

BRITAIN CUTS ITS RAILWAY TRAVEL AGAIN   Clearing Lines For Heavy Military Traffic

PATTON UNDER FIRE FOR LATEST REMARKS   War Department Says His ~Eule The World” Statement Is Not Supported By Government

Patton Rebuked: Stimson Disowns General's Idea Of U. S., British, Red, World Rule

Officials Deny Patton Speech   Say General Expressing Personal Views In “Rule The World” Remark. -

Call Legal Talent To Defend Chaplin      British Comedian Faces Federal Prison Term

APPEALS CONVICTION   Wilson Everly Was Found Guilty of Drunken Drivine Here

POLAND DECLARE A WAR ZONE”   Evacuation of of Civil Adminis tration _ Ordered "

British Patrols Enter Germany at Nijmegen   Germans Hurl Crack Troops Into Reckless Counterattacks Slowing Allied Advance; Victory This Year Sure, Says Montgomery

Armor Locked Near Nancy British Penetrate Reich: Sky Troopers Fanning Out

Britain Offered  Social Security   Plan Proposed For Blanket Insurance

Cleveland Is First In Traffic Safety — Contest For 1943   Salem Wins Honorable Mention for Having No Traffic Fatalities

Sufficient Ammunition for British   Churchill Urges Factory Workers to Maintain Output

THOUSANDS OF TRUCKERS STRIKE   Affects Eight Midwest State  Including Missouri.

Carpenter Sells Variety Store fo Morrison of Alpine   Fort Stockton Mayor Retains Building, Will Operate Farm Property

Urges Another Big Farm Crop   WFA Chooses Possible Surplus Over Shortage

\sFood otas Be vaintained   food Administrauto  3h is Better to  ik Surpluses Than Shortuges ~~

Nazi Airport In Northern Italy Raided   Gun Positions and Communication Centers on  Italian Front Also Hit

Yank Bombers Strike Austrian Aircraft Plant   Fifth Army in Outskirts of City of Cassino

Giant Works Tn Austria Left Aflame   oth Troops Reach Cassino Outskirts; Front Attack Likely

NOBEL PRIZES ARE ANNOUNCED   Five Americans And A Dane Cited For Major Contributions In Fields Of Science,

Americans Ready To Blast Nazis Out Of Big Port   Ultimatum Submitted By Radio As Battle For First Big Prize Of Invasion Nears Climax. Port’s Fall Expected by Noon Today.

Dewey has 15 delegates and Stassen fonr in late returns from Wisconsin

Stassen May Have  4 State Delegates  Wins Close Race With Three Candidates

Report Army Revolt; Purge Is Under Way   Conspirators Executed; Indications Point To Civil War Inside Germany

Purge Of Generals Is Under Way Following Attaek On Hitler   Two Nazi Divisions In East Prussia Stage Upris: ing; Col. Gen. Lodwig Beck, Former Chief Of Staff. Reported Executed   RULLETIN

Revolt In Nazi Army - Reported   Full - Blown Purge: of German Generals Is Apparently On

FLEET POUNDS SUB ‘CAPITAL’      More Than 1,100 Bombers and Fighters Attack Wilhelmshaven, Biggest UBoat Base, Today.

Nazi Sub Base Hit By 1,100 U. S. Planes   Wilhelmshaven Struck By Heavy Daylight Bombings

Yank Bombers Raid Sub Base Wilhelmshaven   500 Fighters Escort 600 Heavies Making Daytime Assault

U. S. Planes Hit Wilhelmshaven   Raiders Smash Large. Naval Base In Germany

c G NAVAL BASE IN GERMARY IS RAIBED BY AMERICANS   More Than 1,100 Heavy Bombers Rlast Wilhelmshaven

LATVIA IS IN DANGER OF THRUST   big German Naval Base Hit in American Foray

Yank Pilot Ties Record   Lieut. Col. Gabreski, Oil City, Pa., Shoots Down 27th Plane

POLYGAMY CASE VERDICT TODAY   Fifteen Salt Lake City Men Accused Of Having 55 Wives

Dewey Asks Free Enterprise, Jobs   Vets Need More Than Dole, Montanans Told

Dewey Maps Campaign on Teamwork   STATE, LOCAL PARTY ORGANIZATION BEGINS AT GOVERNOR'S MANSION

Dewey To Stress Party Teamwork   Organization To Be Big Factor In Campaign

DEWEY’S CAMPAIGN LAID OUT AT HOME   Observers ‘Say Plans Will Hinge on GOP Organization

Dewey To Rely (On Party Forces  - Meranda Campaign ‘Apoarently Strateay.

OLDER MEN MAY NOT BE CALLED UNTIL QETOBER   Manpower Pool Of 1.699,213 Me: Was Available On April 1

Seek To Clarify  Induction Status   State, National Draft Officials Hold Parley

Drafting Of Fathers Must Be Stepped Up To Meet Quotas Now Short Of Goals

MUST STEP UP FATHERS’ DRAFT TQ MEFT NEFAS   Nation’s 6000 Draft Boards Are Faced With New Dilemma

Red Cross Campaign Collections Coming In Slowly  All Workers in 10 Men’s  Divisions  _ ff Fee " ge SO ee, 6 ORR Cy   All Workers in 10 Men’s Divisions of Gifts Section Expected to Finish Their Tasks by Thursday

Red Cross Campaign Collections Coming In Slowly  All Workers in 10 Men’s Divisions of Gifis Section, Expected   All Workers in 10 Men’s Divisions of Gifis Section, Expected to Finish Their Tasks by Thursday

Gentile homecoming boisterous affair as citizens rip clothing from war ace

ANOTHER DESPERATE EFFORT TO REACH 64 ENTOMBED MINERS  PLAN TO DRILL DIRECTL NTA CLIART WUERE MIN.

At Least 64 Miners Die  In Ohio   Powhatan Mine is Sealed to Prevent Spread of Blaze

64. Workers Trapped by  Mine Fire   Shafts to Be Sealed As Men Are Presumed Dead; Blaze Continues

64 Miners Trapped in  Mine Fire   Hope Abandoned for Rescue Alive When New Flames Appear

64 Miners Given Up in Mine Fire   Seal Entrances to Put Out Blaze

UNABLE T0 FIGHT BLAZE   Miners Trapped in Working of Powhatan Coal Co. When Fall of Slate Tore Down Wires.

4 MINERS LOSE LIVES IN OHIO   [Given Up for Dead After Being Trapped in Powhattan Mine Near Bellaire.

MINE FIRE SEALS DOOM OF 64 MEN   ENTRANCE ORDERED CLOSED, RESCUE FAILS

DRIVE RESCUE WORKERS BACK   Mine Sealed to Cut Off Oxygen and Let Fire  Burn Out

Faint Hope Held for 64 Trapped Men   High Speed Drills To Be Used in Last Frantic Rescue Effort

Hope Wane: For 64 Men In Mine Pit   Ohio Shaft Afire After Slate Fall; Crews Seal Shafta

Hope Given Up by Ohio Rescuers as Fire Blazes Anew   Every Outside Entrance to Shaft Must be Closed for Weeks

Drills Bore Toward 64 Trapped Miners   All Entrances Ordered Sealed

HOPE LOST FOR SIXTY MEN IN BURNING MINE      Fire Breaks Out Anew In Big + Powhatan Coal Mine Near Bellaire

64 MINERS ARE BELIEVED DEAD   Hope Lost For Men; Shafts Of Mine To Be Sealed

OF RESCUE AT BELLAIRE PIT   Fire Breaks Out Anew, As State Officials Order Drastic Action  ™

Abandon Hope ‘For 64 Miners ‘In Ohio Mine   Officials Begin Sealing Shafts in Burning Coal Pit

FLAMES TRAP 64 COAL MINERS IN POWHATAN MINE   MINE INSPECTOR SAYS NO CHANCE OF SAVING LIVES

Little Hope Held for Those Caught 350 Feet Below Surface in Ohio’s Largest Coal Mine.

Shafts Sealed To Put Out Roaring Blaze   Efforts of Mine Rescue Crews Are Fruitless

Last Desperate Attempt Is Made To Save 64 Coal Miners Trapped In Shaft In Ohic

DESTRUCTION {$ FASTER THAN RATE  OF REPLACEMENT   First Mission, Stimson Says, Is to Destroy Enemy . Fiahter Planes.

District Court Events Of Week   Makes Findings In Three Equity Cases

13 More Japanese Planes Are Shot Down af Rabaul   Enemy's Principal Fighter Base of Lukunai Is Target in Latest Raid

ALLIES KNOCK DOWN 13 NIPS   Forts Maul Rabaul Base Again; Air Field Is Target

13 MORE JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN   New Attack on Rabaul Is Made by Allied —Eliers -

13 MORE PLANES BAGGED AT RABAUL   AIRFIELD AND SHOPS WHERE PLANES ARE BEPAIRED BOMBED BY ALLIES.

I3 Jap Planes Downed Over Rabaul   124 Tons of Bombs Shatter Enemy's Airfield

13 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN IN RABAUL RAIL   10 More Were Probably Destroyed In Seventh Raid This Month   FIGHTER BASE AT LUKUNAI HARD HIT

Allies Down 13 Japanese Planes In Rabaul Attack   Enemy's Principal Fighter Base Hit By 121] Tons of Bomb:

13 Japanese Planes Downed As Rabaul Is Plastered Anew   Ten More Probably Destroyed And Base  Fired: January Locsec Rearh New High

Japs Renew Drive Upon Imphal; Powerful New Guinea Base Destroyed

JAPANESE INCREASE PRESSURE AGAINST CITY OF IMPHAL   OUTSIDE BURMA SECTOR NIPPONES® TROOPS NOT DOING SO WELL

Japs Press Brive In Imphal Area   Reach Road North From imphal to Kohima

Japanese Forces On Kohima Road Not Yet Dislodged   However Allies Continue Advances Along Tiddim Road

Japs Press Home Drive kor Imphat   Enemy Reaches Highway And Allies Unable To Dislodge Advancing Foe

Nips Increase Pressureln Imphal Drive   Mounthbatten’s Headquarters Announces Japs Reached Highway To North.   BOMBARD HOLLANDIA

Jap Invaders Gain in India   Reach Highway Leading Northward From Imphal Toward Kohima

Allies Unable to Disledge Invaders   Southwest Pacific ‘Bombers Set Record  Oi I i al ee Oe

ACTIVITY ALONG ASSAM FRONT RESUMED BY NIPS BUT ALLIED PLANES STRAFING ENEMY LINES   Lord Mountbatten Adinits Advanced Jap Troops Have Not Yet Been. Dislodged and That Pressure Is Increasing. Jap Plane Bases Are Bombed Out

Japanese Increase Pressure on Allies In Imphal Drive   Last of Jan Fleet of 288 Bombers, Fighters Destroyed at Hollandia, Kew Guinea

JAPS PUTTING MORE PRESSURE AGAINST IMPHAI   Mountbatten Command Admits Japs Not Dislodged Along Highway to Town in India

Japs Increase Pressure Against Allies at Imphal   Mountbatten Says That Japs Who Reach Highway Are Not Dislodged.   Hollandia Airdrome  Strafed by Bombers

JAPANESE SNAP LULL ON ASSAM FRONT IN INDIA   British Admit Nips Reach Road Leading from Imphal To Kohima

Japs Increase Pressure on Imphal Drive   Allies Destroy 288 Enemy Planes Assembled for Battle

Nip Air Fleet on Hollandia  Is Wiped Out   Allies Strafe Japs in India, Assault Oil, Power Targets in Burma

Nippon Invaders Forge Ahead In Northern India   Foe Scores Some Gains In Drive Toward Imphal

Invasion Coast Given No Rest  Liberators Return To Pas De Calais

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS AGAIN SMASH AT FRENCH INVASION COAST   U. S. Fighters Believe They Are On Threshold Of Greatest Aerial Cémbat In Historv.

STRIKES KEEPING 50,000 WORKERS AWAY FROM JOBS   Back To Work Movements, Discussions-End Some Disputes Throughout Nation

30,000 Still On Walk-Outs   Back To Work Movements. Discussions Underway In Some Sectors.

WORKERS STILL OUT ON STRIKE IN MARY AREAS   Discussions On Settlements Started

Strikes Over Nation, 50,000 Away from Job   Production of Medical Supplies Is Hampered

OVER 50,000 ARE AFFECTED BY WALKOUTS   Production of Medical Supplies and Bakery Deliveries Are Hampered In Detroit Area   BACK IN NORTHWEST

London’s Bombings Increase   German “Morale” Raid Grow In Intensity; Four Planes  Are Shot Down.

> Today's War ~ Commentary   Japan is losing the battle for Tokyo before it starts.

WARD ACTION I$ DELAYEE   UTE NOT YET REFERRED  TO PRESIDENT FOR ORDER  OF GOVERNMENT SEIZURE

More To Rough Red Talk About Japan Than Just Impulse   Neutrality Pact, Signed After Russians Whipped Japs in Mongolia, Expiring

Reds Increasingly Severe with Japs   Attitude Indicates Changed Relations May Be Brewing   Japan Expects Decision in Pacific War to Come on Asia’s Mainland

Russo-Jap Break May Be Near   Moscow’s Anti-Nippon Campaign Too Pointed To Be Ignored; Neutrality Pact Up Soon :

German Rockets Declared Not Very Accurate  Experts Say Nazis V-2 Is Not Fully Developed

GERMAN LOSSES IN RUSSIA ARE HEAVY)   Over 7,800,000 Killed o1 Captured During Campaiqns

Soviet Losses Officially Set At 5,300,000   Complete Defeat Of Nazis Looms

Senate Committee Approves Bill Setting Up Super Government Agency to Direct Reconversion

Reconversion  Bill Approved   Commiitiee Overrides GO O10 NRA’? Protests

Strong Post-War Bureau Approved   ‘New NRA,’ GOP Charg:  After Committee Acts

Committee OR’: Reconversion  Control Agency:   Disregards Protests. Measure Would Set Up “NRA? for Post. War Era

Griswold Is" Conferring on Power Strike   Nebraska Governor Is Hopeful of Dispute See tlement

Loss OF Aachen Would Be Staggering Blow To Allies   By DeWitt MacKenzie Assoctated Press War Analyst

‘WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES NAZI ‘COUNTER OFFENSIVE AND FINDS ICGREAT DANCER IN AACHEN AREA

Forrestal Warns Japs To Be Wary  Says Fast-Growing Navy Will Continue To Expand   Final Battles Are Believed Underway

Japs Warned To Expeet Hard Blows   U. S. Navy to Continue To Expand Even After Germany Falls; New  Air Attacks Reported

Expansion of Navy  Bad News for Japs   Forrestal Warns Defeat of German; Means Harder Blows Due Against Nipponese

Tanks Set Pace im Capture Of Strong Points   270 Japanese Slain As Two Counter-Attacks Are Smashed.

Yanks Smash Jap Attacks, Extend Gains   Severity Of Guam Fighting Increases; Important Heights Taken

Strength Nazi Armies Central  Italy Is Broken   Allied Fifth Army Has Driven 10 Miles North Of Rome. Report 18.000 Nazis Captured.

WLB Blasts Head Of Typos’ Union   Members.of Printers Uniow Face Possibility Of No Raises

PARIS PATRIOTS SLAY TRAITORS   Vichy Propaganda Chief Victim Of French Underground

HENRIOT 1S KILLED BY UNDERGROUND   “Executioners ‘Silence Hated Voice of “Goebbels of France’’

PHILIPPE HENRIOT IS SLAIN IN PARIS   "Goebbels of France” Reported Victim of the Underground

Casualties of Any and Navy Reach 141,000  Ne lew Figure es felts ased As Fatalities in -“Healy” Mou nt

141,000 CASUALTIES ~ AMONG U. S. FORCES   Army Has Losi Greatest Nomber; 11,976 Navy Men Have Beep Kiltege Thus Far

WAR CASUALTY TOTAL 141,000   Army Lists 16,831 <A: Killed; Navy Deaths Reach 11,976

U.S. Casualties Reported 141,000  Covers Yank Losses Since Start of War

U. §. CASUALS REACH 141,000   List Increased by 19,120 Yank Casualties In Italy

Japanese Forces lake linpot lant Port of Wuchow  Push Toword Stratagi Junction of Chinese

CAPTURED BY 10,000 JAPS   Who Push on in Direction of Linchow, Strategic Junction of Important Railroads.   Yanks Handicapped

LOAD ON REICE 10.000 TONS   British, American Bombers Continue Offensive Against Germany Today But on Smaller Scale. ~

BIG BLAZES CREATE HAVOC OVER WEEK-END   Palisades Park Is Among Resorts Rav-: aged By Fire

150 Hurt In Amusement  Park Blaze   Crowd Of 25,000  Stages Stamnede

Fa alata haan  Fir ire. re Razes*  Large Park   “Palisades Is’ Scene Of ‘Sunday's Blaze

'HUGE RESORT THRONG STAMPEDED BY FLAMES   Major Fires Continue on Weekend

PARK IN NEW JERSEY IS SWEPT BY FIRE   150 in Stampeding Crowd of 25,000 Injured

Amusement Park Burns; 150 Are Injured By Fire   Sunday Crowd of 25,000 Sent Stampeding By Blaze

Palisades Park  Victim of Fire  In Week-End Siege 150 Persons Injured  Affected by Smoke. As Flames Sween Are:

25,000 Stampede When Fire Razes New Jersey Park   150 Are Injured Ir Blaze; Damage I: Put In Excess O! Million

Rash of Big Fires Breaks Over East   Hoboken Amusement Park Leads in Damage, Sent 25,000 Stampeding

Amusement Park Burns; 150 Are Injured By Fire  Sunday Crowd of 25, 00(  he ecco NB aoe

Palisades Park  _ After Great Fire   Other. Conflagrations Hit New York, New Jersey Area During Weekend

LT. LUKOSUS COMPLETED 35 MISSIONS   Valley Flyer Has Had Many Thrilling Experiences

VALLEY FLYER COMPLETES 35 PLANE MISSIONS      ‘Lt, Felix Lukosus Home For A  — Visit After Seeing Service On - Many Fronts; Was Wounded In Pearl Harbor Attack.

Strongpoint of Nazis New “Last Ditch’ Defense Line 16 Miles from Rome; Allies Ahead.

Nazis Flee as Clark’s Fifth Army Pushes Near Velleti, 16 Miles From Eternal City

Amerieans Are Converging On South Franee   Strike From Loire As Doughhboys From La Mans Puch Ahead; Paris Threatened   Pocket Of Nazis  Jn Caen Tightens   Supreme. Headquarters Remun Conrplelely Silent On Moves; Enemy Believed Confused

 H. H. MeCord, Prominent Rew Resident, Dies   Father of Local Man Had Been Ill For Some Time

H. H. MeCord Of Rew Dies At Age of 54   President of Foster Twp. School Board lll for Some Time

Ste. ‘ere igise 7as; iver  Sav es Raging as /.1ec. ans '2o_/¢.8iore in onc ess _ines

Allies Cut Nazi Line, Advance On Peninsula   Severest Fighting On the Caen Sector

Allied Air Power Roars Back In Support Of Ground Troops In France .   COMMUNICATIONS OF GERMANS SEVERED

Infantrymen And Parachutist: Sweep Beyond Ste. Mere Eslise   Allied Planes, Released By Weather, Swarm Back to Support of Inyaders. Heavy Fighting Continues In Alb Areas

Deteriorating Weather Halts Air Operations and Hampers Beachhead Reinforcements.

Chutists Sever Rails, Road in Cherbourg Push   Americans Seize Ste. Mere Eglise; Allies Nip Nazi Naval Attack; Eliminate Numerous Strongholds

American Flying Wedge Cuts Main German Ltnes To Port of Cherboura

German Destroyer Blown Up In Naval Batthe—Air  ~ Activity Reduced

Foe Communications  Cut By Flying Wedge   Americans Capture Ste. Mere Eglise, Sweep Across Railway, ‘Parallel Highway

Weather Has Flyers Down Most of Day   United Nations Make Progress Despite Grounding of Planes

Americans Slash Port’s Main Lines;  Weather Rough   Loss of U. S. Destroyer Is Revealed; Weight of Armor on Both Sides Increases ; Allies Continue to Widen Beachhead

HEAVY BOMBERS IN ATTACKS ON SOUTH GERMANY      Strong Formations Of Bombers Also Cross Channel Today

Will counter strike threats   Universal draft is flat prediction

HEAD OF JAYCEES - SPEAKS TO BOARD   Maryland: Directors Hold ‘Meeting at the Hotel —  .. Alexander -

HEAD OF JAYCEES SPEAKS TO BOARD   Maryland: ‘Directors ‘Hold Meetit rig at the Hotel” ool A layender ;

—————<— rr  ODT . Oper ates Strike- Bound  Truck Lines   Army Officers Removed From Terminals As ODT Takes Over

ODT Takes Over Jot Returning 3,000 Strikers fo Work   Army, Officers: Leave Truck Terminals in 8-Midwestern Areas.

Crack Sixth Jap Division Which Spread Terror Across China Is Shredded by U. S. Artillery

River Yields Body Of Missing Gir!   Columbia U. Student Disappeared March 20

Body of Wealthy Girl Student, Missing Since Mar. 20, Found in Hudson River

Missing Girl's Body Recovered   Student's Remains Found in Hudson

i: Mystery Solved ‘Body of Mis ssing Indian» Student Taken from Hudson

BODY OF MISSING STUDENT FOUNL   identification of Miss Valsa Matthai of Bombay, India, Columbia University Studen,t, Is Established

BODY OF MISSING STUDENT IS FOUND      Remains of Valso Matthai Taken from Hudson River

Nine Airmen Die in Crash   Heavy Bomber Goes Down Near Wendover Air Bose in Utah

Reds Reach Galati Gap In Lightning Advances   U. S. Satisfied but Poorly informed About Romania

MOVEMENT DEVELOPING FOR APPROPRIATION OF MONEY FOR HIGHWAY AND "FLOOD CONTROL -

BERLIN BELIEVED PRINCIPAL TARGET   Foilow On Heels of American Daylight Attacks   FRANKFURT HIT   ©; -hweinfurt and French Airfields of Nancy and St. Dizier Blasted

Bombers Hit Schweinfurt  AndF rankfurt   Little Opposition Offered by Germans To Daylight Raiders  RAF FOLLOWS UP

London Reports Two Great Raids On Nazi Centers   Large Scale Attack, According to Berlin

BRITISH BOMBS BLANKET BERLIN DURING ATTACK:   American Heavies Plaster Targets In Frankfurt And Schweinfurt   LONDON SUBJECTED TO GERMAN BOMBING

Follow Day Raids By Americans On German Cities   Nazis Hit London; Frankfurt, Schweinfurt U. S. Targets

RAF Heavies Hit Battered Berlin   Night Raid Follows Heavy U.S. Sweep  Ry W WW HERCHER

Raid Follows U.S. Attaek on  Reich, France   Air War Against Nazi Europe Rages Without Pause; London Hit For 4th Night in Row

Berlin Again Target for — RAF Bombers   Germans Make Long and Determined Attack on London

‘Berlin Is Main Objective Ot Night Raid By The RAF  British Bombings Follow Closely On Heels  Wet (£62000 BES 3o ape ic. RR eee

BERLIN BOMBED; GERMAN AIRMEN “ATTACK LONDON   Nazis Inflict Casualties and Damage as Their Own Capital Is Blanketed With Explosives.   NIGHT RAIDS FOLLOW AMERICAN ONSLAUGHT   Yanks Strike at Frankfurt and Schweinfurt in. Reich and at Airfields  in France. .

Bombers hit  nazi capital  in night raid Follows daylight attacks by U.S.

RAF Heavies Hit Battered Berlin.   Night Raid Follows Heavy U.S. Sweep

Storm Moves Northward, (Danger On Coast Wanes   Passes Charleston, 8. C, With’ But Little Damage Reported In Wake

Storm Due In Piedmont  Area Today   Waves And Wind Wreck Damage At Charleston.

Hurricane Hits Charleston, S. C.; Damage Is Small   Power System Fails; Storm Turns Inland But Danger Is Over

HURRICANE APPEARS TO BE SPENT   Final Death Toll 23, Mostly Cuban People

Opposition to UNRRA Plan ‘Is Developing   Battle Joined on Blank Check Authority to Spend Money

Highway Completion To Be Urged OE TBC  Big Mass Meeting Planned At Myersville On April 29

Highway Completion To Be Urged big Mass Meeting Planned  _ At Myersville On April 29

CUMBERLAND WOMAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT   Mrs, Annie W. Gunter In Car That Plunsed Across Couniry  Club Fairways* Sunday

AGED CUMBERLAND  ~ WOMAN IS KILLED   Mrs. Annie Gunter, 76, Is Victim of Unusual ~ Auto Accident

Rommel Believed Dead as Result of Fractured Skull   Nazi Field Marshal Said to Have Died July 18 in France

ROMMEL IS BELIEVED TO BE DEAD   Said to Have Died July 18,  Following Injuries

ROMMEL DEAD, FRENCH REPORT   Say Nazi General Died Of Auto Crash Injuries

French Mayor-Druggist Describes The Death Of General, Probably Rommel

MAN WHO TREATED HIM SURE ROMMEL IS DEAD   Druggist-Mayor Of French Town Offers New Evi dence That ‘Desert Fox’ Succumbed To Injury A Month Ago   Ry FNWARD W. BEATTIE

Fractured Skull Incurred When Car is Ditched By Allied Plane, Fatal

Field Marshal Fatally Hurt In Freak Accident   Druggist Who Treated Injured German General  Convinced It Was Romme! — Report Is Romm Died Of Skull Fracture After Auto Cras During An Airplane Raid

Bombers Lash  Europe   West Europe Defenses Hammered in Huge Two-Day Offensive

John L. Vertress Dies At Waurika  Veteran Attorney And   Veteran Attorney And Friend of Cordell Hull

John L. Vertress Dies At Waurika   Veteran Attorney And Friend of Cordell Hull

Grew May Be Stettinius Aide  Mention Former Envoy) For Assistant Post

Former Ambassador 'T Japan Reported Receiving Top Consideration for Appointment

Russians Smash  60 Nazi Planes   German Attacks in  Poland Thrown Back

Field Marshal Of Britain Dies In U.S.      Sir John Dill, Head ot Joint Staff Mission Sueceumbs to Aneniia

COLUMNISTS UNNECESSAR} ROOSEVELT SAYS; ADDS ‘MY DAY’ IS DIFFERENT

President Says-Columnists Unneeded ‘ Exerescences on Civilization, Woman Reporter Says He:Has.One in Family

SWEDEN EXPELS NAZI OFFICIAL   German Tourist Bureau Head, Danish -Journalist Leave Country

U.S. Airmen Lash  Soerabaja Base   Nimitz-Mountbatten-MacArthur Force Team for Soerabaja Punch; Nips Being Driven From Myitkyina; Use Wadke Base

PARAMUSHIRO AIR FIELDS LEFT ABLAZE AS YANK BOMBERS RAID NORTH PACIFIC

NORTH PACIFIC BASE OF JAPS IS BOMBED   Large Fires Set In Airfield Installations on Paramushiro by American Airmen.

Reconversion Test Tube Program Under Consideration By Nelson   Small Plants In Several States Could Use Idle And Surplus Metals Without Restrictions : Under Plan. .

Laboratory Test Of Reconversion   Could Use Idle and Sur. plus Metals Without ! Restrictions .   NO PRIORITY AS TO PURCHASERS

RECONVERSION TESTS PLANNED   Cleveland WPB Area To 5 Included In Program

WASTE METAL TO BE USED IN TES]   Limited Items For Civilians Will Be Produced Soon In Three Areas.

Reconversion Of War Plants To Be Tested   Nelson Plans Limited Experiment In Chosen Areas

Nelsen To Make Laboratory Test Of Reeonversiotr   Would Allow Small Plants Use Of Surpins Metals ——~Withoat Restriction

RECONVERSION TEST PLANNED   NELSON TO MAKE TESTS IN THREES SELECTED AREAS

Small Plants To Go On Civilian Goods... .  Reconversion Tests Planned By Nelson

Reconversion ‘Laboratory Test’ Planned   Limited Experiment Planned By Nelson For Three Areas

Reconversion  Tests Planned By WPB Chief   Nelson Tentatively Ap. proves Move For Small Plants to Make Civiljan Goods

Nelson Plans Reconversion Test In 3 Selected Sections   Plants Can Use Surplus Metals, Goods Can Be Sold Without Regard To Priority

RECONVERSION TEST PLANNED BY WPB CHIEF   Nelson Gives Approval! To Limit Change From War Output

Nelson Planning Laboratory Test  Some Civilian Goods May Be Made

RECONVERSION TESTS MAPPED   To Be Tried Out In Three Selected Areas of Nation

‘DON’T RAISE TOO MUCH HELL,’ GEN. CLARK SAYS TO MEN WHO TOOK ROME

Today’s War Moves   Lack of Fuel for Nazis Ranks High Among Reasons of Downfall  By DEWITT MeeK Bnvia

SCARCITY OF PETROLEUM WILL RANK HIGH AMONG CAUSES FOR CERTAIN DOWNFALL OF HITLER

PETROLEUM LACK MAY BE CAUSE . OF NAZI DOWNFALL   Fatal Weakness in Hitler’s Defenses Likely to Show Up Strikingly in  Invasion

DOWNFALL Ot WITLER WILL BE COMPLETE   —~—BY DeWwllTY MACKENZIE— Associated Press War Analyst

WAR TODAY   Scarcity of Petroleum  War Lifeblood— Ranks High Among Causes for Hitler's Certain Defeat

NO CONTROVERSY ON FLEET ISSUE   Roosevelt Discusses Viewpoints Of U. 5., . British Governments

ITALIAN FLEET IW NEWS AGAIN   President Declares He and Churchill Bath Right About ' Reds” Stiare.

Ttalian Ships For Russia-To..  Be Made In U.S.   Italian Fleet To Be Kept Intact

No Controversy At All Over The Italian Fleet Question, Says F. D. R.

Carrier Planes Of 3rd Fleet Add 4-6 More Ships, 90 Planes To Toll

90 Enemy Airplanes Shot Down   Disaster to Nip Navy Grow: —Enemy Losses Estim.  ated at 35,000 Men .

Casualties Now Exceed 25.000 Men   Nine-Day Ship Toll Between 62 And 64 Jap Naval Craft.

invasion Forces Seore New Gains In All Sectors Of Central Islands  BETWEEN 62 AND 64 JAP WARSHIPS LOST  Enemy Casualties In Nine Day Naval Defeat Are 35,000 Men

6 More Jap Ships Bagged   Halsey’s Carrier Planes Hit Three Cruisers, One Oil Tanker, Cargo Ships

ESTIMATE NIP FLEET LOST 35,000 MEN   Ships Sunk or Damaged Listed At From 62 to 64

New Air Blows Boost Toll of Jap Ships   Enemy Casualties May Reach as Hich as 35.000

90 ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   Jip Casualties From 25,000 To 35,000 Men, Is Belief

INEW BLOWS FROM .AIR BY HALSEY’S FLEET INCREASES TOLL TAKEN OF ‘TAPS’ FLEET IN BIG NAVAL-BATTLE

62 OR 64 JAP VESSELS SUNK IN NINE DAYS   Rear Guards Fight Delaying Action Against  British Forces Within 1,000-Yards —__-; of River. a.

Ship Loss Score Now Set at 64   More Boats, Planes Added to Count by Navy Patrol Forces

GUAM RAIDED ELEVENTH DAY   Japs Fail In Desperate Attempt To Free Big Entrapped Force

TOKYO REPORTS NEW GUAM RAID   Say 85 U.S. Planes Batter Base 11th Day In Row

Tokyo Fears Invasion of Guam Next   Powerful Task Force Operates  Near Island

Task Force Raid of Guam Foretells 2nd Marianas Landing   Nips Attempted Landing on Northwestern New Guinea Smashed

Americans Raid Kazan Islands 750 Miles From Saipan; Guam ‘Hit Anew; Japs Show Anxiety   Guam Defenses Crumble; Japs Intensify Fight To Break New Guinea Encirclement

Japanése Anticipate Second U.S. Landing In Marianas Islands   Enemy Defense of Valuable Pacific. Harbor Crumbles on Guam -Up ~ der Terrific Pounding By Yaiiks

TOKYO REVEALS MORE RAIDS ON NIPPON. ISLANDS   Nimitz Tells of Another Assault — On Guam

Japs Anticipate Further Landing Of Americans In Marianas; Tell Of Fleet

JAPS REPORT 85 PLANE RAID ON GUAM TODAY   Carries U. S. Attack on Isle Into 11th Day; Nips Fear Invasion

AMERICAN PLANES HAVE RAIDED GUAM FOR ELEVEN DAYS   Tokyo Fears Allied Forces Will Invade Guam Following Air Attacks

Liberators  Bomb Iwo. Jima Island   Tokyo Reports 11-Day Raid on Guam; Isolated Jap Forces Attempt BreakThrough in New Guinea

U.S. Task Force Hits Guam For {1th Day In Row  Allies Hold Line In New Guinea Which  Jeane Tes Ta Beanlb

Another Attack On Guam, Tokyo Radio Reveals  Task Force Assault Told By Nimitz; Foe Says Warships Now

New JU. S. Assaults On Guam Reported   Task Force Raid On Former Yank Naval Base Listed By Nimitz; Japs Claim Air Attacks On Iwo Jima Isle

Eleventh-Day Raid on Guam Is Revealed by Tokyo   Reported Attack on lwo Jima Indicates Saipan Already Base

GUAM LANDING (5 ANTICIPATED   Tokyo Reports Eleventh-day Raid on Island in Mariana Group.   JAPS ARE PESSIMISTIC

Guam Hit Again by U.S. Fliers   Tokyo Reports Strong Fleet Unit Operating at Guam; Bomb Kazen

—PACIFIC—  AIR SMASHES AT IAM CONTINUED   Radio Tokyo Reports lith-Day Raid By 85 Planes   “ROTA ALSO HIT   Attacks Indicate Restoration Of Airfields On Saipan Island

JAPS EXPECT 2ND INVASION ON MARIANAS   Guam Raided By Carrier Force  Thursday

Japanese Look For 2nd U. S. Invasion Of Marianas Isles   Tokyo Reports Another Heavy Attack On Guam

85 U. §. PLANES HAMMER GUAM   Jap Garrisons Seek To Escape From New Guinea Trap

American Officials Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst in Crisis Developing in Iran

Allied Crisis Over Iran Oil Looms   British-Soviet Interest Clash Causes Fears

ENEMY ON RUN OUT OF GREECE   Signs Of Panic Seen In  Retreat Of Germans;  Trams Attacked

Nazi Force  Is Battled   British And Greeks _ Contact ‘Retreaters

German Resistance Reported as Cc ollapsing in Many Towns Over F rance Before Driving Patriot Forces

Laval Reaches Belfort Within Easy Distance From Swiss Border: German .Resistance Crumbles Within France

PATRIOTS PUSH INTO INTERIOR   Border Dispatches Tell Of Collapse Of Nazi Resistance

FINED $12 FOR DRIVING WHEELCHAIR IN LONDON BLACKOUT WITHOUT LIGHT

German Staff Said To Have Fled Budapest   ‘Disorders Are Reported Becoming Widespread; Like Italy in 1943   MAY SPRING TRAR ON THE. GERMANS   Fall of Riga Frees Two Russian Forces for the Battle of Prussia

Young Plymouth  County Seaman Gravely Wounded; Gave Life Directing Fire Against Japs.

Name Destroyer Escort In Honor.  Of Harold J. Mack  Mcther of Youth  Is Designated As — Sponsor of Ship

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE IN LWOW SECTOR   Seize Initiative At Least For Time Being In New Flanking Blow

Reds Take Initiative in Lwow Area; New Drive Opened in Dnestr Valley

Bucharest: Reports Fierce Battles. Raging Along Wide, Front  MANIC ATP CW RATT OC   TANK ATTACK FAILS:   Soviet Planes Continue Blockade of Besieged Sayastonol

REDS SEIZE INITIATIVE NEAR LWOW   Only Limited . _ Maneuver; Big P ush Still to Come

U. S. Invasion Troops Get Best Material   EQUIPMENT TO MATCH COURAGE, DISCIPLINE PROMISED BY NELSON

CANADIAN TROOPS ADVANCE IN ITALY   Plan To Eliminat Of Streams Has Ap;

Americans Push Rapidly Ahead Toward Capital   Nantes Entered By U. S. Troops; St. Malo Captured

Reporied 40 Miles From Gity   Break Into Nantes, Surround Other Key Perts.

ENEMY BACK TOWARD SEINE   Nazis Call American-British Drive. on 175-Mile’ Front “Battle For Paris”   U.S. ATTACKING . BREST

Sieged Fort Of St. Malo Capitulates   Nantes Hub Entered; Canadians Advanee; Along Under Assault

ALLIES ROLLING QUICKLY ALONG 175 MILE ARC   ‘Unconfirmed Reports Put Yanks 60 to 40 Miles From Paris

Battle For Paris Starts, Nazis Sav   Allies Capture St. Malo; Encircle Angers And Lorient

GERMANS SAY FIGHTING FOR CITY STARTED   Unconfirmed Reports Place Americans Within 40 Miles Of Capital.

Yank Troops Push Ahead; Enter Nantes   One Rumor Puts Americans Only 40 Miles From Capital

DROVE BATTERED GERMAN FORCES TOWARD THE SEINE   An American-British Front Extended in a Widening 175-Mile Are.   “BATTLE FOR PARIS”   American Vanguard Placed Within 8 7Miles of Paris by German Report.

New Positions of Americans Are Not Announced Officially by Supreme Allied Headquarters; Nazis Slow Up Canadians

AlliesDrive To Seine       Americans Break into Nantes; Captured; Brest Under Hee Attack 

ALLIES EXTEND FRENCH FRONT IN PARIS PUSH   Only 87 Miles From City In Big Advance

Battle for Paris On, Nazis Say   Americans Believed to Have Penetrated Last 50-Mile Defense Zone Around Capital as Germans Abandon Le Mans

Allies Driving Germans Back Toward Seine   Enemy Places American — Vanguards Within 87 Miles of French Capital   Potential Defense Line 37 Mi. Closer   One of Two Reports Place Americans Forty Miles From Paris; Yanks Brenk Into Nantes

Allies Thrusting Battered Enemy To Seine River   ‘Anticipate Next Potential German Stand Will Be 50 Miles From Capital

Nimitz, MacArthw Confer On Plans   Complete Integration Of Pacific Drive To Japan Is Aaqreed Upon By Commanders

Nimitz, MacArthur Confer On Plans   Complete Integration Of Pacific Drive Ts Lada le Aaeaed Ubon Bu Gammandar

ARMY AND NAVY WORK TOGETHEF   MacArthur And Nimitz Integrate Planning On Pacific Front

MARTHUR CONFERS WITH ADM. NIMITZ   American Commanders Discussed Future Operaiions In The Pacifie Of Their Two Commands

Attorney Tries Again To Question Miss Berry on Other Associations

Fourth War Loan Drive Rally   Bishop Charles H. LeBlond will address meeting Public is cordially invited to attend.

MACARTHUR GETS BIG VOTE IN THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY   ALTHOUGH FACING ONLY NOMINAL OFFOSITION, GEN' ERAL'S SUPPORT WAS IMPRESSIVE 

Hard Freeze Hits State _   Extent of Damage  A Question Because Of Lateness of Farm Work: to Warm Up

NAVY REPORTS ‘ATS LOSSES IN VITAL ACTION   T hree Carrier Vessels, Two Destroyers, Escort Ship Sunk

FINAL RETURNS FROM GREAT BATTLE MAY SHOW DISASTER OF DECISIVE MAGNITUDE

Navy Reveals Sinking Of 5 More Vessels   Two Escort Carriers, Two Destroyers And Escort In Addition To Carrier Princeton Sunk In Philippines Engagement

J. S. NAVAL LOSSES   Six Warships Added to List in Defeating Japanese eet

Jap Fleet Loses 27 Vessels Sunk Or Damaged   Nippon’s Defeat Followed Desperate Effort to Oppose Leyte Invasion

Three Carriers, Two Destroyers And Escort Sunk   No Details Given On Circumstances Of Loss of Ships

JAPANESE SUNK NONE OF YANK CAPITAL SHIPS   Lose Light Carrier, 2 Carrier Escorts, 2 Destroyers, 2 Escorts

Big Land Bombers Rid Navy   American Planes Still Pursuing Japanese Ships

Toll ls Now 27 Ships; Disaster May Pass Nip Defeat At Guadalcanal   MacArthur Reveals Pursuit Of Remnants Of Enemy Fleet By Land-Based Liberators, Damaging Light Cruiser In Flight Through Mindanao Sea

Escort Carriers; Two Destroyers  Included In Toll   China-Based Bombers Join In Destruction of Japanese Fleet

Nimitz Loses 3 Carriers, 2 Destroyers,  Destroyer Fceort In Philinnines

Princeton, 5 Others Listed   Names of 5 Not Revealed Details Not Available

JAPAN NAVAL DEFEAT WORSE THAN IN 1949   Far From Complete Story Told Of U. S. Victory

Enemy Losses Boosted to 2/   Disaster Threatens to Surpass Great Tragedy of 1942 Off Guadalcanal; Gamble Lands Foe Near Leyte Beach

CHINA-BASED BOMBERS BLAST 3 SHIPS FLEEING FROM PHILIPPINES BATTLE   Six U. S. Warships Sunk, Including One Aircraft Carrier, Two Escort Carriers, Two Destroyers, One Destroyer Escort

FULL DETAILS ARE NOT YET AVAILABLE   Another Jananese Cruiser Reported Hit   YANK LOSSES   Include Carrier, Two Escort Carriers, Two Destroyers, One D. E

DARING ENEMY VENTURE COST NIPS 27 SHIPS   Penetrated Leyte Gulf In Drive to Erase Invasion Forces

Victory Toll Is Mounting For U.S. In Island Baitle   Jap Gamble in the Philip. pines Was Disastrous  To Tokio

Land Based Planes Harry Fleeing Japs   American Carrier, Two Eseor! Carriers, Two Destroyers, BRecort Dectroaver Were Sunk

Name of Five U. S. Losses Not Identified; Carried . About 3,900 Men.   170. TOTAL SHIPS SUNK

Six Warships Lost by U. S. ir Naval Battle   Includes Princeton, Escort Carriers; 2 Destroyers and Escort

Probably 3,900 Men, Officers: . Were Aboard   At‘Least One Third Were: Rescued; Name of Ships Not Yet Disclosed   NEXT OF KIN TO BE NOTIFIED FIRST’   Japs Still Are Being Hunted: And Their Losses May Total 35 Shins

Carrier And Two Destroyers With 3 Escorts Sunk’   U. S. Carrier Forces Continue To Pursue, Attack Fleeing Jap Fleet

Japs Lose Biggest Gamble   Daring Strike Into Leyte Gulf Threatened Disaster to Yank In“yaders of Philippines

3,900 Men Aboard Ships Listed Lost   Over 1,300 Rescued: 27 Japanese Ships Sunk or Damaged

Six American Ships Lostin Fight Off Philippine Isles  Two Destroyers, Two Carrier Escorts Inciuded in Total

Six U. S. Warships Were Sunk   New Navy Communique Or ‘Philippine Naval Battle Is Issued .

FIVE WARSHIPS AND PRINCETON LISTED AS LOST   Navy Department Announces That Two Escort Carriers, Two Destroyers And A ‘D. - E. Lost: Not Named.

Toll Lists Carrier, 2. Escort Carrier s,  - 2 Destroyers, D. E   as Losses “May Total 40. Ships; “U.S; Land Forces Gain 60. Miles: Call, -Nipponese Cabinet Parley

Princeton, 2 Unidentified Garriers, 2 Destroyers And Destroyer Escort Are Listed

6U.S. Warships Lost In Pacific   One Carrier, 2 Escort Carriers, 2 Destroyers And Destroyer Escor

NAVY ADMITS MORE LOSSES   Jap Score at Philippines Raised to Six U. S. Ships Sunk.

U.S. Loses 6 Warships in Philippines   COST OF VICTORY TOLD IN COMMUNIQUE; 3900 MEN ABOARD

Amazing Jap Gamble Brings Them Naval Disaster Which May Top That At Guadalcanal.

NIPS MEET 10 DISCUSS NEW WAR SITUATION   Yanks Gain in Philippines; Japanese Sweep Forward in China

China-Based U. S$. Bombers Strike More Jap Ships   Toll of NavalAir Battle Now Raised to 37

Yank Fleet Loses Six Warships in Jap Navy Defeat  Light Carrier Princeton Top Vessel Sunk In Action; Two Escort Carriers Listed Lost

Three Carriers Among Yankee Fleet's Losses   Reveal Enemy Force Got Into Leyte Gulf, Attacked Transports In Landing Activity

American Losses Given As Six In Sreat Sea Fioht  Names Of Vessels,   Names Of Vessels, Except Princeton, Withheld By U. 5.

NAVY REPORTS LOGoES LIGHT IN SEA FIGHT   Carrier Princeton and Five Other Vessels Listed Officially.

U. S. Loses Six Ships In Fight With Jap Fleet   Three Carriers. Two De. stroyers And Destroyer Escort Sunk

One Carrier Is Only Big Ship Listed   Comparatively Small Pric Paid by Fleet for Big Naval Victory

Carrier Princeton Only Major Vessel Sunk Near Philippines   The Navy’s  Battle Power   x K KK Battle Review

Navy Tells . Of Sinkings. In Big Battle   Jap Losses Continue To Pile Up.

ABOUT 3,900 PERSONNEL ON OUR VESSELS   “Matters Requiring Immediate Attention” on Agenda as Japanese Cabinet Meets

2 DESTROYERS CASUALTIES IN PACIFIC BATTLE   Details Are Lacking, Navy Says, As Jap Toll Passes 30 Mark

MORE THAN 1300 MEMBERS OF THE CREWS ARE SAFE  JAPANESE LOSSES ai GIL ALIAL OATTI CC

Identity Of Warships Is Withheld By The Navy Pending Notification Of Next Of Kin

Three Carriers Among American Vessels Lost   Princeton Only Name Released by Navy Department

TWO ESCORT CARRIERS AMONG THEN   Other Losses Were a De stroyer Escort, Tw  Destroyers and Prince ton, Previously Report ed, Off Philippines.

Six US and 8 Jap Ships Listed As Definitely Sunk   Two More Jap Ships Probably Sunk; 27 Sunk or Damaged 

Remnants Of The Imperial Fleet Still Are Being Pursued By United States Warplanes

Badly Beaten Japanese Navy Has 27 Vessels Sunk Or Damaged   Aireraft Carrier Princeton Only Qne Of American Ships To Be Identified; Nippon’s Losses Ex nacted Tin Tnpepance

JAP SEA LOSS PROMISES 10 TOP 35 SHIPS   Yank Airmen Continue To Pursue Remnants of Imperial Fleet

corny Men Believed Rescued   Carrier, 3 Escorts, Two Destroyers Listed by Waebhineiay

G.0.P. Committee Members Named  Parties to Select Delegates Today

G.0.P. Rename Dan Whetstone Committeeman   Mrs. Gladys Knowles Also Relected to Party's National Body

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Reds Capture Another Sector; Trap Big Army  Fall Of Kherson At Dnieper Mouth Bespeaks More

Battle Of Southern Ukraine Is At End—   Nazi Flight Into Rumania Forces Issues

Toyo Admits Quake Hurt   Spends Day Denying Tidot Wove, Landslides, Temblors Did Much Ramage

TOKYO ADM  MIT GREAT “QUAKE   Tidal Wave Covers Build. ings; Deny Damage Is Serious.

TOKYO ADMITS QUAKE DAMAGE   Houses in Japan’s Capital Covered With Water

TOKYO HARD HIT BY EARTHQUAKE, THE RADIO REPORTS   It Caused a Tidal Wave Which Covered Houses With Water.   STARTED LANDSLIDES   Japanese News Agency Said the Nippon Capital Was Shaken.

TOKYO RADIO ADMITS EARTHQUAKE CAUSED DAMAGE IN JAPAN  TIDAL WAVES INUNDATED SOME HOUSES,

Capital Radio Asserts Little Damage Done   Tokyo Shaken; Houses Flooded, Landslide Caused by Earth Shock

Tokyo Quake, Tidal Wave, Is Admitted   J apanese Attempt To Cover Up Losse Of Property, Ships

TOKYO IS ROCKED   Earthquake Ccuses Tida Wave and Landslide  in Japan

Tokyo Admits Quake Damage   Jap Radio Broadcast Says Tremor Caused Landslide, Tidal Wave

Tokyo Minimizes Losses In Quake   Admits ‘Some’ Damage In Tremor, Tidal Wave

Tokyo Admits Quake Caused  Some Damage   Says It Started Tidal Wave Which Covered Houses and Caused Landslide

Tokyo Admits Earthquake and Tidal Wave Cause Damage in Capital, Several Cities

Tokyo Admits Quake Causes Some Damage   Earthquake Centers Island, starts Tidal Wave, Landslide in Capital Area

Landslide Siuried; Buildings Da maged; Three Distric ts Hi it On Pearl Harbor Anniversary   No Mention Made Of Loss Of Shipping, Which Could Have Been Heavy; Cottages Crumble: Centered In Jap Capital

Ea rthquake Causes Tidal Wave In Japan But 7 Tokyo Radio Says No Major Damage Done   Admits Capital Shaken, Landslide Caused By Tremor

QUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE HIT JAPAN      Inu ated, ital Shaken, Says De mei News Agency

Japs Announce Earthquake Does Damage To Isles  Tidol Wave Covers Houses With Water

Pitchers Have [hei Day as Major League Ball Starts   / Hurlers Hold Wood-Wielders to Puny .196 Average; Three Teams Fail to Score a Run in the First Games

Fleet Again Shells the Kuriles   U.S. Warships Also Strike Rota, Guam and Tinian

MacArthur Is Given Support  In Illinois   Large Vote Cast For General In Primary Election — Democratic Candidates Unopposed

MM ARTHUR SWEEPS STATEAS CHOICE IN PRIMARY VOTE   Former Chicago Boxer Is Snowed Under By Great Majority as Precinct Figures Are Listed.   GREEN’S CANDIDATES WIN WITH BIG LEADS   Republicans Are Joyous Over Success, Top Figures of Democrats For First Time Since 1932.

Illinois Voters Favor MacArthur   General Sweeps State In Primary Election

MARTHUR GETS LEAD IN ILLINOIS   GENERAL POLLS HUGE MAJORITY OVER BENDER

FDR Reconvenes~ Board To Consider Railroaders Clans   President Faces Difficult Diplomatic-Political Problem

Decision On Poland Will Be Difficult One   Boundary Question Is Brought To Forefront As Russian‘ Troops Advance Westward

Urge Good Friday Closing of Stores, Business Houses   Association Asks Reverent Observation of Anniversary of Crucifixion

HollandiaAirArm OfJaps Wiped Out BySmashing Blow   Last Of Fleet Of 288 Enemy Planes Destroyed During Concentrated New Guinea Assault By Force Of More Than 300 Fifth Air Force Planes

400 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON THREE JAP AIR FIELDS   One Terrific Scoop Hit Theit Three Fields at Hollandia.   OTHER BASES WERE HIT   Four Airfields Below the City Hit by 3000 Tons of V Rombs.

~~ Record Set For Concentrated Destruction. ... . Complete Devastation  Of Hollandia Revealed

Record South Pacific Attack   ALLIED BOMBERS RAZE » ANOTHER JAP AIR RASE: ‘

Terrific Air Blow Erases Japanese Base of Hollandia   Concentrated Smash Wipes Out Fleet of 288 Planes; Lay Waste To Other Airfields

288 Japanese Planes Destroyed; Rabaul’s Airdromes Completely Knocked Out

Yank Bombs ‘Pulverize’ Enemy Base   288 Planes Razed In Major Raid on Jans at Hollandia

RUIN JAP BASE ON HOLLANDIA   Three Airfields Destroyed in Attack By 300 American Planes

Destroy Jap Air Bases On Hollandia   Allies Wipe Out 288 Warplanes

Japs’ Strong Air Base At Holland:. In New Guinea  Knocked “ut by U.S. Fliers   IN AN HOUR AND A © UF RAID SUNDAY OVER 300 FIFTH AIR FORCE PL.  ‘S RIDDLED ENEMY’S THREE AIRPORTS AT HOLLA.”, 4 AND IN ADDITION DE.  STROVED FLEET OF 288 Je” AIRCRAFT THERE

288 Nip Planes Listed As Destteved Tj Ascanit On  Hollandia Field In  New Guinea

YANKS CONTROL AIR OVER PACIFIC   Enemy Drive from Burma Is ) Still Threat To India  :

300 Bombers Joined in Big 12 Hour Blow   Last of 288 Enemy Planes At-Staging Point Are Destroyed

Japanese Air Center Destroyed   Liberators Go Over ‘High » Mitchells and Bostons Swoop in. Low   THEN LIGHTNINGS i KO THE FIGHTERS   Thus, in One ;Great Push, Enemy. ~Installations’. at Hollandia: Are Levelied

Senators Set Value on War GoodsSurplus   Group’s Proposal “Would Aseure Small Business Of Subhstanijal Shoe

oo CLAPPER— Raymond Clapper,. Noted Columnist, Crash Victim      Well-Known Writer Loses Life In ‘Plane Accident While.Covering Invasions Of Marshalls In Cen- tral Pacific, Navy Announces pg

RAYMOND CLAPPER, COMMENTATOR AND COLUMNIST, KILLED   PLANE COLLISION OCCURRED WHILE CLAPPER COVERING INVASION

Raymond Clapper Dies In Pacific Airplane Crash  Famed Columnist  Bundt f aeeemambaton

CLAPPER DIES IN PLANE COLLISION    Noted Columnist Victim of Marshalls Invasion

wrsae  Clapper Killed In Plane Crash ‘In Marshalls   Noted ‘Columnist, Who Wrote For Daily Mail, Dies In Collision.

Raymond Clapper, Famed Columnist, Dies in Crash in Marshall Islands

Raymond Clapper, Noted As Columnist, Killed In Pacific   Loses Life In Mid-Air Collision While Covering Marshalls Invasion

Clapper Killed In Plane Crash   Death Met by Well Known Columnist While Covering Invasion of Marshails

RAYMOND CLAPPER KILLED IN CRASH   Newspaper . Man Cover. ing Marshalls Invasion Lost

Clapper Killed In Plane Crash In Marshalls   Famed Columnist. Loses Life In Covering Attack In Central Pacific

Ray Clapper Crash Victim   Washington ‘Analyst Was In ‘Marshalls

CLAPPER KILLED BY PLANE CRASH   Famed American Columnist in Mid-Air Collision Over Marshalls

Noted Cohmnist  Killed in Marshalls   Raymond Clapper Dies in a Plane Crash During the  Invasion.

Ray Clapper, Noted Newspaperman, Killed in Plane Accident i in. Marshall Islands {  a

Clapper Dies in Plane Crast in Marshalls   Well Known Columnist Killed While Covering Invasion of Islands

Raymond Clapper Killed   Political Writer Vietim of Plane Crash Over Marshalls

‘Raymond Clapper Killed j in Pacific Airplane Accident   Washington Columnist Was Covering Story Of U. S. Invasion  Of the Marshalls

Famous Reporter  Is Killed   Raymond Clapper Victim Of Air Crash Observing Marshalls Action.

NEWSPAPERMAN DIES IN CRASH   Raymond Clapper Killed in Airplane Aceident in Marshali Islands Invasions,

Raymond Clapper, Famed Newsman, Is Killed in Crash  Washington Columnis Was Covering   AA ecwele olla Be it ae

GLAPPER DIES NAIR CRASH   NOTED COLUMNIST ONE. OF THE VICTIMS OF MID-AIR _ COLLISION. DURING MARSHALLS INVASION -

COLUMNIST KILLED IN PACIFIC BATTLE   Clapner Loses Life While Covering Marshalls Invasion.

RAYMOND CLAPPER KILLED IN ACTION   Noted Newspaper and 2adio Commentator Killed in Marshalls.

Clapper Dies In Plane Crash   Widely Known Columnist, Commentator Was Covering Marshalls Invasion

RAYMOND CLAPPER, COMMENTATOR AND COLUMNIST, KILLED  PLANE COLLISION OC. CURRED WHILE CLAPPEE  PAUOSCDIATLS PAA CTOR

Raymond Clapper Killed In Plane Crash In Marshalls   Newspaper Columnist And Radio Commentator In Accident While Covering Islands’ Invasion

CLAPPER LOSES LIFE IN PACIFIC PLANE MISHAI   Noted Columnist, Covering Marshalls Action, Killed As 2 Planes Collide

Raymond Clappet Dies In Marshalls  Plane Crashes While Covering Invasion

Ray Clapper, Noted Newspaperman, Killed in Plane Accident in Marshall Islands Invasion

WAR REPORTER DIES IN CRASt   Raymond Clapper Killed in  Marshalls Invasion

Raymond Clappe Dies In Plane  We. « Coveri ing Invasion   Wes Covering Invasion Ot Marshall Islands

Washington News Writer Died In Marshall islands   Crash Of Two Planes Over Lagoon In Beleaguered Island Group Claimed Life Of Columnist   NO SURVIVORS OF DUAL . CRASH, NAVY DECLARES

Raymond Clapper Killed In Crash  Columnist Was Covering Marshall« Invasion

Raymond Clapper Dies in Crash   Noted Reporter Killed in Pacific

FAMOUS NEWS ANALYST DIES   Killed In Invasion of Marshalls  Victim of Mid-Air Collision

CLAPPER KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   COLUMNIST LOSES HIS LIFE COVERING MARSHALLS INVASION

Noted Columnist Killed In Crash Over Marshalls   Raymond Clapper Meets Death While Covering Yank Pacific Invasion

Commentator Dies in Crash In Marshalls   Raymond Clapper, Famous Columnist, Meets Death While Coverina Invasion

Raymond Clapper, Famed Newsman, Is Killed in Crash  Washington Columnis Was Covering Marshalls Invasion

NEWSPAPERMAN KILLED WHEN PLANE FALLS   Washington Columnist On Wa: To Cover Front

Raymond Clapper, Noted Washington Correspondent, Killed ‘Covering Marshalls

Clapper, Noted Writer, Killed  Commentator Perishes As Planes Collide lw lt Laka

CLAPPER, NOTED WRITER, DIES IN PLANE COLLISION   -Accident Revealed During Marshall Tsland Invasion

RAYMOND CLAPPER KILLED AS PLANES CRASH IN PACIFIC   ‘Noted Columnist Loses Life Covering Invasion of Marshall islands

Correspondent Is Killed in Crash  over Marshalls   Ray mond Clapper, Des in P'ane Crash

Noted Writer And Radio Speaker In Mid-Air Collision   Planes Crashed While Forming Up; Was Covering Story Of  , Invasion

Raymond Clapper, Noted Columnist, Dies In Air Crash In The Marshalls

RAYMOND CLAPPER NOTED COLUMNIST, LOST.IN PACIFIC   Famous Washington Commentator Lost With Others in Plane Crash Over  Marshalls

Raymond Clapper Killed in Pacific   Correspondent Loses Life While Covering Marshalls Invasion

Raymond Clapper Famed Reporter, Killed in Pacific      Political Writer Victim of Airplane Crash in Marshalls

Raymond Clapper, Noted Commentator, Killed In  Marshalls’ Plane Crash

RAYMOND CLAPPER DIES IN AIRPLANE ACCIDENT  Well-Known Washington Columnist Killed in Crash in Marshall Isles

Columnist Victim of  Air Crash   Reporter Had Been Covering Invasion  Of Islands

GROUND TROOPS IN ADVANCE ON BATTERED ISLES   Successful Flanking Movement on Kwajalein Atoll. Japanese Being Exterminated

RUSSIAN TROOPS IN SMASHING CAMPAIGN TO REACH GERMANY  SURGE ACROSS VISTULA CAPTURE BIALYSTOK, ENTER BREST LITOVSK

Russians Are Streaming Over River Barrier   Vistula River Being Crossed by Thousands of Trucks, Negotiating Last Great Natural Barrier.

Hear First Sounds Of Coming Battle   Red Advance Units Only 38 Mile From Polish Capital; Romania, Hungary Quake

Germans Have Blackest Day; 4 Bases Fall   Reds Begin Pouring Across Vistula River Before Silesia, Only 140 Miles Away

Soviets Pass Last Large Barrier To Warsaw and Silesia   Hear Sounds of Battle in Polish Capital; German Radio Announces Evacuation of Bialystok

Collapse of German Central Front Indicated; Bialystok Falls, Vistula River Crossed

Threaten To Flank  Warsaw   Bialystok Falls to Rolling Reds; Brest Litovek Entered

Brest Litovsk Is Entered Anc Lwow, Bialystok Fall On Ger mans’ Blackest Day

. Mi Dangavpils, Rosekno And) Stanislawow Fall To Soviets   Another Column  At Brest Litovsk   Drive Carries Russians Only L410 Miles From German Soil

RUSS INFANTRY SMASHING NAZI CENTRAL FRONT   Bialystok Captured; Red Troops Fight Way Inte Brest Litovek

Reds Crossing Vistula, Below Polish Capital   Thousands of Amphibious Trucks Negotiating Last: Natural Barrier Before.”  German Silesia   Endangers Whole Hun Center Area   Surge Across River South: east of Warsaw Poses Guiflanking Threat 7 -to Metropolis

THE EASTERN FRONT STIRS INTO ACTION   Soviets Report Destruction of 101 German Tanks, Supporting Nazi Statement That the Red Winter Offensive Is On.

Brest Litoysk Has Become Battleground   Fall of Fortresses Puts Red Army Near Czech Border

Russians Storm Wisla As Warsaw Hears Battle Din   Smash Nazi Defense On Entire Central Front

INTO OUTER SUBURBS   Russian Forces Make Gains South and East of Budapest

Russian Infantry Storms Across Vistula River Southeast of Warsaw in Thousands of Amphibious Trucks.   Area Is Only 355 Airline Miles  From Berlin on Invasion Route

WARSAW SAYS ARTILLERY FIRE NOW IS HEARD:   Soviet Armies Reported To Be 140 Miles From German Silesia

Great Baffle For Poland Is Nearing Climax   Main Water Barrier On Road to Berlin Spanned by Reds

TANKS DESTRUCTION  INDICATE RUSSIANS  START OFFENSIVE WINTER FREEZE HAS  BROUGHT KIND OF WEATHER RENS NEED

Reds Storm Across. Wisla To Threaten Nazi Fronts   “Warsaw ‘Hears’ First ‘Sounds Of Fighting

Warsaw Hears Battle Sounds Of Huge Drive   River Is Last Great Natural Barrier to Whole Central German Vront

Warsaw HearsGuns As Vistula Crossed: Bialystok Taken   Thousands Of Amphibious Tanks Used To Negotiate Last Great Natural Barrier To Germany

Bialystok Falls To  Russians   Reds Storm Into th Streets of Brest Litovsk

RUSSIANS CROSS VISTULA RIVER, GRAB BIALYSTOK   Nozis’ Entire Central Front Near Collapse—Soviets Into Brest Litovsk

Nazis Say Forces  Flee Bialystok As Big Front Totters   Moscow Reports Warsaw Already Hears First Sounds Of Approaching Battle; Advance Poses Threats To Romania And Hungary, German Puppets

River Only 140 Miles of Nazi Border   Four Important Bases Fall Before Onrushing Troops

OF BIALYSTOCK TAKEN BY SOVIETS   Surged Across the Vistula River, 60 Miles Southeast of Warsaw.   AN INDUSTRIAL CENTER      Moscow Radio Said Troopa Stormed Into Streets of Brest-Litovsk.

Battle Sounds Heard In Warsaw   Threat of Outflanking City Accomplished By Russians

WHOLE GERMAN CENTRAL FRONT NOW IMPERILED  ADVANCING RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE WITHIN   BULLETIN

Lwow Is Captured By Reds   Appears Grip of Hitler on the Baltics is Being Shattered   LONDON July 27.—” —Lwow has been captured, a fourth order of the day announced tonight.

SOVIETS HAVE 100 MILES T0 (0 TO GERMANY   Warsaw Citizens Hearing Sounds  Of Gun-fire

Russians Span River Capture Bialystock   Have Also Stormed Into Streets of Brest Litovsk; River Crossing Threatens Warsaw; Stanislawow, Daugavpils, Rezekne Also Captured

Germans Also Evacuste Companion Bastion of Bialystok, 110 Miles Northeast of Warsaw. Soviets Swarm Across Vistula Toward German  Cilacia .

Sweep Across Vistula   Four Major German Bases Fall As Reds Start Push Across . Last River Barrier

Last Barrier Before Nazi Silesia Breached   Warsaw, 38 Miles Away, Hears First Sounds Of Approaching Battle As-Germans Entire Central Front Defenses Appear Smashed.

RUSSIANS HIT JACKPOT   INFERNO AT FLORENCE   SABANG’S PORT RUINED

Germans Evacuate  Polish Bastions   Russian Troops Capture Bialystok and Fight in Streets of Brest Litovsk

Nazi Bastions Fall To Advancing Reds   Chain. of German Bases Engulfed In Soviet Sweep   Blackest Day for Hitler Since Start  _ Of Russian Drive; Pour Across Vistula

WARSAW HEARS APPROACHING BATTLE SOUNDS   Nazi’s Entire Central Front Defense Lines Appear Smashed

Russians Say Ba-‘le for Budapest Nears Climax;  Break Into Outer Suburb:

Warsaw Hear: Battle Noise, Paper Says   One Report Places Russian: 38 Miles from Polish Capital

Russians Enter Brest Litovsk, Key Fortress   Bialystok, Second Great German Stronghold, Abandoned By Foe

Polish Capital Hears Artillery in Distance   Russians Believed in Possession Of Bridges Across River Barrier

River Close To Warsaw Left Behine In Fighting   Bialystok Is Taken; Street Fights In Brest Litovsk

DTHER TROOPS. CAPTURE TWO NAZI BASTION   Bialystok and Stanisiawow Fall; Russ Fighting in Brest Litovsk.

Soviets Force Crossing of Wisla River   Whole German Central Front on Level Plains Put in Grave Danger

Red Armies Force Crossing Broad Vistula River —   Detonations of Artillery Can Be Heard In Warsaw

Central Front Of Nazis Collapsing   ..+« Warsaw Now Can Hear Thunder Of Battle

German Raider Destroved In South Atlantic   Brazilian. United States Naval Forees Participate  In Fieht   CARRYING WAR ARMS

Blockade Runner Is Sent to Bottom  U.S. and Brazilian Forces. Join in Actior

Race To Trap Score Of Nazi Divisions In Latvia And Estonia .   GERMANS SUFFERING ENORMOUS LOSSES   American Invasion Armies Hit Center Of Normandy Line Today

$30,000 HOLDUP AT MIDDLETOWN   Rob Bank Messengers on Way To Postoffice

$30,000 OBTAINED BY BANK ROBBER‘   Employes of Middletown Bank Held Up In Auto, Robbers Escape

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Gov. Green Explains How People of Illinois Can Help Servicemen Vote

Governor Green Explains How [Illinois  Men In Service Can Vote In April Primary

Urge Chiang to Recast Regime  London Press Seeks  Action for Chinese to

Poker Game Ends In Fatal Shooting   One Man Killed, Several Wounded

IAPS SAY US. “TROOPS ARE NOW ON MARIANAS   U.S. Silent on Reported Landings—Heavy Fight- — ‘ing Claimed By Enamy.

Nazis Throw More Panzer Into Big Battle   Yanks Make Four Crossings Into Palatinate Area

Nazis Seek to Halt Seventh DriveinReich      Stiff Counter Thrusts Used in Effort to Protect Industrial Cities; Wipe Out German Opposition West of Roer,

Yank Divisions Enéage Outposts OfNazi Westwall   Russians Push Offensives French Hold Positions; Canadians Cross Canal

GERMAN ARMORED DIVISION HURLED AGAINST SEVENTH   FOUR CROSSINGS REICH BORDER MADE BY THREE AMERICAN DIVISIONS

1st Army Clears Out Foe from Vicinity of Duren   ‘7th Sends 4 Divisions into Reich 4 Months After South France Landing and 500 Mile Trip

NAZIS HURL NEW ARMORED UNIT ATU. S. SEVENTH   Siegfried Guns Open Up o1 Sixth Allied Invasion; on Other Fronts

Nazi Armor  Strikes   Heavy Siegfried Guns Open on Advancing U.S. 7th Army

Doughboys Make Four Crossings Of Reich Border   Reds Enter Western Stovakia; Continue Budapest Pressure

Siegfried Guns Blaze Against Yank Invaders   7th Army Drives Into Reich On 17-Mi. Front

GERMANS FALL BACK IN ITALY   Assaults In Adriatic Sector Fail: Anzio In Doldrums

BRITISH ATTACK GERMANS ON WIDE FRONT NEAR CAEN   Montgomery Opens New Drive After Four-Day Lull and Reports Heavy Fighting Under Way.   AMERICAN WEDGE ERASED BY NAZIS   Yanks Give Up Village of Seves and Withdraw to ‘North Bank of River of Same Name.

British open attack along  Falaise road Break four-day lull in Normand

BATTLE HELD BACK BY MUD INNORMANDY   BRITISH PUSH INTO TROARN BUT DRAW BACK AGAIN

British, Canadian Troops Open New French Drive   Offensive Is‘Aimed Along Falaise Road In Area Near Caen

Nazis Admit Quitfing Pisa   Eighth Army Slugs Way Toward Florence Against Five Divisions

BITTER BATTLE FOR FLORENCE ALMOST OVEF   British Near Outskirts. Push Slowly Through Hill Defenses ,

MUNICIPALITIES OF STATE SEEKING All   Fiscal Officials Seek Diversion of Part of State Sales Tax. Z

LAUNCH GRAB AT SALES TAX   Cities Ask One-Third 0} Tax, With 30’: for Schools

Returns Safely With Shot-Out Motor Bong Gets 32nd, 33rd Jap Planes

BONG'S RECORD BOOSTED 10 33   Downed One Jap Without! Firing a Shot

33 for Bong!   American Ace of Aces Bags Two More; Motor Crippled

Seeseeeeaseereseeeseestesseee 10-Year-Old Boy Now Multi-Millionaire

‘YANKS FOLLOW TE Nicks  IN GREAT FORCE   Hundreds of Heavy Bombers Take Over “Day Shift” As RAF Comes Home,

Red Bombers Hit Enemy Transport  Eastern Land Front   Eastern Land Front Remains Quiet

RUSSIAN BOMBERS BLAST NAZI RAILS IN TWO SECTIONS   White Russia “ed Qld Poland dite Groom War Romatmne Calm

RUSSIANS STICK TO AIR ACTIVITY   Blast Nazi Rail Centers In White Russia And Poland; Ground Action Limited To Local Seraps.

SOVIET LONG RANGE BOMBERS BLASTING NAZI RAIL GENTERS   ACTION ON LONG RUSSIAN LAND FRONT, HOWEVER. IS LIMITED

First Group To Leave In Early Mareh   Local National Guard, Long In Southwest Pacific Area, To Be Rack Thic Year

3nd Division Is ComingHomefor First Furlough   Michigan And Wisconsin   Veterans Of Pacific   Jovous Over News

VETS OF 32ND COMING HOME   First Red Arrow Division  Troops Will Be Sent - To U. §. In March

FREE COMMITTEE PREDICTS PURGE   Attempt on Hitler’s Life Engineered in ‘Top Ranks’ of Nazi Party or Army, Free National Group Says

Fresh Nazi Troops Are Sent to Italy   Bitter Resistance to Allied Drive Now Bemg Encountered in Hills 50 to 70 Miles North of Rome; Main Nazi Armies Still in Full Flight, However.

Reinforced Nazis Take Un High Ground Positions In Rear Guard Action

Drives Catch Enemy in Noose   Column’s Believed Half Around Paris

BIG NEWS OF DAY FOR ALLIES IS THAT RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE ACTUALLY ON RUMANIAN SOIL

WAR TODAY   Claim Russians Would  . Not Pursue Enemy Bevond Borders Refuied With Rumanfan: Invasion

The War Today  Fast That Reds Are On Rumanian Soil Is Big News of Day.

Sub Recues 22 American Airmen Tn Truk Raid   Defied Guns OF Jap Defenders  To Effect Rescues

Nazi Forces In Cherbourg Area Are Forced Back   Entire American Front In ' Cherbourg Peninsula Making Advance   NAZI WITHDRAWAL NOW IN PROGRESS

ENTIRE U.S. FRONT “WELL ON MOVE”   Retreat Conceded by Berlin; Eisenhower Says It’s Orderly

Hard Fighting Rages As Reds Storm Elome Of Junkers But Russtan Tide Moves Like Scythe Through Ffunoarv.

EAST PRUSSIA iS STORMED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Reported Crossing Border At Three Ditfeyant Pointe   Russians Continue To Race Across Hungary Today

Russians Fight In East Prussia   JUNKERS HOMELAND IN PATIL OF RED ARMY

INCREASE IN WHISKY IN PROSPECT IN OHIO   Revision of Rationing Plan Likely Before Fall

Scones Enacted Daily tn Hospital Wards in U. 8. by  Soidiefs  Returning from Front.

Lost Leg Doesn’t Faze Girl He Left Behind, Tell Doc To {Give You Another. She Says

BOND SALES GONTINUE LOW   -Week Remains fcr County to Top Goal for April.

STASSEN WOULD RUN IF ASKED   Former Governor Not To Seek Nomination By Personal Effort

STASSEN SAYS HE'S RECEPTIVE   Ex-Governor Will Enter Presidential Race If He Is Nominated

Stalin Declares U. §.-Russo Unity Must Stay Intact   Reconstruction Task

STALIN DECLARED FRIENDSHIP FOR AMERICA IN INTERVIEW   Russian Premier Told Eric Johnston That Hitler Brought People Of Two Nations Together; Likes To Deal With U. S. Business; Sees Post-War Trade

Eighth Army Faces Hard Fight As Nazis Drfend_ Positions Furiously R-fore Town

New Zealand Vets Closer  To Florence  Eighth Army Still Faces Much Hard Fighting in Italy

ALLIES WITHIN FIVE MILES OF FLORENCE   Eighth Army Facing Hard Fight To Force Nazis Back Into “Gothic  Line”

ALLIES NEAR FLORENCE HARD FIGHT   New Zealand Veterans of African Campaign Capture Commanding Ridge.   Po River Valley

ALLIED UNITS GAIN IN ITALY   New Zealanders Take Ridge Less Than Five Miles From Florence

TOWER OF PISA HIT, AXIS SAYS   New Zealanders Look Down On Florence's Ancient Spires

GERMANS BATTLE. TO HOLD FLORENCE   NEW ZEALAND TROOPS SMASH WAY TO WITHIN FIVE MILES OF CITY.

Russians Claim 100,000 Germans, Romanians Held   Soviet Columns Aim To  Exterminate Fee In  i The South ©

TIRASPOL TAKEN IN RED ADVANCE   Soviets Say German Loeges Heavy in ttempt to Rescue Troops Near Skala

RECOGNIZE FRENCH   United Nations Relief Body Grants Authority of Committee

Two Top Aces In Europe Area Lost   Mahurin, Johnson Apparently Lost on Same Mission

EIGHTH TAKES NEW HEIGHT IN ITALY   Indian Troops Fight: ing With British Improve Positions

Indian Troops Capture Height On Italian Line   Improve Position Of Eighth Army By Seizure Of Important Height   FIFTH ARMY IN PATROL CLASHES

BARKLEY HOLDS HIGH NEW DEAL STANDARD HE ONCE LOWERED  SENATE LEADER CALLS FOR RENOMINATION OF ROOSEVELT THURSDAY

Barkley Places Roosevelt’s Name in Nomination for Ath Term: Demo Okay Sure

Move Up Hill   american and British Troops on Beachhead Battlefield Dig In Grimly---They Know What's Coming

Charleroi Man Is New Union Head   Joseph Neid Wins As Local USWA President; Kramer Is Vice-President

COALITION HAS VOTE EDGE IN SENATE FIGHT   Debate Is Opened On Contro-  versial Proposals For , Demobilization  *

Britons Weigh Willkie’s Move With Concern   ‘Some View Wisconsin Vote Aimed. At His Interna tional Policy Rather * ~ Than Himself i,

BRICKER FLAYS FORWARMOTTO   Criticizes President In Address Before Detroit Women’s Club Today

Bricker Calls “Win the War” Slogan of Every Real American   Ohio Gevernor Critical of Roosevelt’s Effort To Make Politica { Capital with Victory Motto.

‘WIN THE WAR’ MOTTO OF FOR HIT BY BRICKER   Ohio Presidential Aspirant Says It Is People’s War and Warns of Totalitarianism

Moon Eclipses Venus Monday   First of [ts Type Visible in Texas In Past 15 Years

MOON BLOTS VENUS. FROM SIGHT TEXANS ON MONDAY NIGHT  " “THOUSANDS Oi TEXANS WATCHED BRILLIANT PLANET CO BEHIND MOO!

Port Arthuran’s Gun Crew Blasts German Tank To Save Allied Lives

Kurile Assault Certain, Knox   Invasion of Island Chain: May Be Expected

Should Save Results Of League’s Work  Churchill Says It  Should Not Be Lost

League Work Defended “By Churchill   @ British Leader Favors Postwar Plan Based On Experiences of  — Old Peace Organization

CHURCHILL WOULD ‘PRESERVE MUCH OF OLD LEAGUE   Tells House of Commons Much of Work It Accom plished Ought to Be Gawarl

WORK OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS MAY NOW BE SALVAGEL   Churchill Says Results of Geneva Group Would Have Been Success With Proper Backing.   PLANS OF NEXT PEACE TERMS TO BE DELAYED   Lord Vansittart Declares Germany Must Not Be Permitted to Make Explosives After War.

SHOULD NOT LOSE ~ WORK ACHIEVED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS   This Statement Was. Made Today by Prime Minister Churchill.   USE IN POST-WAR PEACE   Said if. League Had- Been Properly Backed It Would Have Been Successful.

CHURCHILL AIRS PEACE PROGRAM   Prime Minister Lauds ‘League Of Nations’ Intentions Before Commons

Expect 8 P. M. Closing To Be Final Decision   “Special Session of State Legislature Today Will No Doubt Agree To Hold Polls Open Longer.

Voting Hours In State to Be Extended   Republicans Agree At Caucus to Set 8 O'clock p. m. As Closing Hour

E scaped Prisoners Beginning Guerrilla War Inside Reich  German Families Wiped Out. Homes Burned, Band Arme Ginlan In Sama Sartinne

TERRORIZE IN REICH   Escaped War Prisoners and Workers Wage Guerrilla Warfare

Prisoners of War Are Creating Havoc in Germany  Escanees Attack Nazis Relentlessly; Terror Is Increasing

NAZIS REPOR ACTIVITY: BEACHHEAD —   Fifth Army at Anzio Drives for Union With Alexander’s Troops -

Fifth Army Forces Press Northward To Shorten Gap Between Army, Fallonica

FOE RETARDS ITALIAN. DRIVE   Allies Push Northward Agains! Strong Resistance

ALLIco WM WALT Pago NORTHWARL V0 TREGHY Litt   Clirk’s Fi'th Moves Un West Coast Toward Town o. Fa lonici

NAZI TROOPS — ~ PREPARE FOR — ANEW STANE   ADVANCE FORCES OF: ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY MEET RE- ; SISTANCE NEAR. “GOTHIC LINE"

Concerted Assault Launched on Japanese Ormoc Pocket   By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

Amphibious Army Lands Near Por!   Send 13 Ship Jap Reinforcement Convoy to Bottom

eLanding South Of Ormoc Splits "Fnemy Force   13-Ship Convoy is Sunk with Loss of 4,000 Jap Troops  )

DARING ACTION DIVIDES WEST LEYTE POCKET   Another Foe Convoy ~ Wiped Out, 4,000 Troops Erased

FINAL U. S. OFFENSIVE ON IEVTE STARTS   Seven Yank Divisions Advancing on Ormoc; Nip Attempt to Send Reserves Fails Again

LIBERATION OF LEYTE IMMINENT   77th Division Lands 3 Miles From Nip Base of Ormoc

Big Jap Outpost Blasted: Leyle Line Cut, Sformed   Fleet, B-29’s Join in Record Island Raid; Landing Outflanks, Dooms Entire Nip Army

Seven American Divisions Storm Japs on Leyte   Liberation of Philippines Island in Siaht

Surprise Landing Made On West Coast Only 3 Miles Of Ormoc  GAIN BEACHHEAD WITHOUT LOSSES  Complete Liberation ©! Central Philippines Now In Sight

PHILIPPINES LIBERATION MAY BE NEAR   100-Ship American Armada Takes Japs off Balance and Enemy Force Is Split.

STORM POC rHUM BAGE OF NEW LANDINGS   Guam Veterans Roll North in Quick Move Supporting Oiher Drives.

Germans Hope To Turn Tide Of War In Their Favor With New Weapons That Will Soon Make Appearance

ONE LAST BLOW BEING PLANNED BY NAZIS, TIP   Buzz Bomb Attack on New York Reported To Be One of Hopes of Desperate Enemy

Nazis Gather Weapons For New Assaults   London Reports Mass Activity

Report Nazis Pian - Counter-Offensive   ‘Marshalling Forces for 1945 Blow in Hope of Turning Tide of War, London Hears— Bombing of New York Included in Plans.

COUNTERATTACK IN "45 BY NAZI V-WEAPONS SEEN   Reich Production Chie! Says V-3 To Hit New York In December

Nazis Planning To   Win War During 1945   Say ‘V-3’ Ready For Use Against New York Soon: Talk Abou? V.4'

Germany Gathering Forces for 1945 Counterdrive  New Submarine, Two V-Weapons Are To Go Into Action

German War Long Ways  From Ending   Nazis Reported To Have New Type Of Submarine Ready

REPORT NAZIS PLANNING HUGE ATTACK IN 1945   Say Germans Hope to Turn Tide With New Weapons

FIFTEENTH OF APRIL IS NOT FAR AWAY   Another Income Tax Hinnk Awalts Study by Taxpayers, and Also Some Digging Up

Many: Reminded Of Deadline On Tax Due Apr. 15   Fifteen Million Persons Required To File Declaration on Estimated Incomes for This Year.

Little Cheering. But Boys Ready For Invasion Job   Fleet At Sea 48 Hours Before Landings Made On European Beachhead

Writer Tells invasion Boat Experience   Tense Prebattle Scene Described in Landing Craft

Weather Cold And Many Of Boys Seasick On Ships Carrying U. S. Invaders

BLAGK MARKET PARASITES HIT   Bowles Says Chiselers Are Draining Nation’s Gas oline Supply

Gas Black Market Robs Honest Man   Millions of Gallons Being Drained From Civilian Supply; Could Increase “A” Card.

alll TENSIONS 7 pd       Building Pr rograms Will Take Much: Of Surplus

FOOTHOLD ON MINDORO IS ~ NOW SECURE      MY CLAIMS LARGE AMERI  CAN FLEET SPOTTED—YANHS  PUSH MINDORO ADVANCES *

ELEVEN DIVORCES GRANTED BY COURT   Number of Others Not  Reached Before Noon Recess

Ace Of Aces Lagged 38 Planes MacArthur Decorates Bong With Highest Military Medal

Allies Move East From Dimapur To Rid Naga Hills Road Of J aps; Hit Kurile Approaches To Tokyo

Making Effort te Clear Naga Hills Road to Kohima and Manipur Yalley of Jap Road Blocks

ALLIED FORCE IS  REPORTED PLANNING  CLEAR KOHIMA ROAD SMALL JAPANESE PARTIES STILL HOLDING FAST TO  WMDADT ANT TDA

JAPS HOLDING JUNGLE TRAIL   Allies Move Forward In _ Drive to Clear Enemy  From Naga Hills

Allies Advance On Japs In North Burma   High Scoring Jap Exterminator Has Malianant Case of Publicity Nerves

Allies Move To Clear India Road   Japs Still Hold east To: Trail Out of Imphal; Aussies Take Bo_gadjim, on New Guinea

British Cut Down Japs ir India Drive   Enemy Meets With Heavy Losses in Imphal Offensive

Another Impha in Trail Is Seized   small Units of Japs Hold Fast to Bishenpur-Suichar Road, Southwest of British Base Which Is Object of Drive in Eastern India,   NO CHANGE AT KOHIMA

AN ALLIED FORGE - MOVING EASTWARD. FROM DINAPUR   Effort Is Being Made to Clear the Maga Hills Road te Kohima.   JAPS ARE HOLDING FAST   Blocking the Dishenpur-Sil char Trail and One Southeast of Imphal.

TEMPERATURES:   DEFENSE LINE SHATTERED BY ALLIED BLOWS   40,000 Germans May Be Caught In BritishCanadian Trap

NAZIS’ DEFENSE IS COLLAPSING   British, Canadians Race Toward Enemy’s Last Two° Escane Bridges.   CAPTURE SEVERAL CITIES

Allies Hold To Sectors In Southwest   Free Use Of Antwerp By Allies Looms

German Stand In Dutch Area Falling Apart   British Within Five Miles Of Breda, Enemy Base

Allied Troops Race To Trap Germans Below Maas River   Huns Abandon Bergen Op Zoom; Canadian Forces Drive to Within Mile of Roosendall

British Race To Capture  Two Bridges   Nearly 40,000 Nazi Troops May Be Trapped Below Maas River by Allied Forces; Bergen Op Zoom Falls Without Opposition

NaziStand In Holland Crumbles   Action Becomes Race Between Foes to Reach Maas Escape Bridges First: May Trap 40,000

CanadiansTake Anchor Town In Western Sector   British Race Toward Navi Escape Bridges in New Drive, After Huus Evacuste Town   40,000 Foes Face Trap Below Maas   Tilburg Taken, Germans’ Defense Linc Reported “Fallen to Pieces’? in Meuse Section

British race to cut off escape route  Canadians take western anchor

Germans Fleeing New Trap   British, Canadians Lunge Ahead to Block Escane

British And Canadians Have Amost Freed Port Of Antwerp   Reds Open New Drive

Allied Forces ~ Race to Trap: 40,000 Nazis   Canadians Capture Western Anchor City of Bergen op Zoom ow

RACE T0 SLAM TWO ESCAPE BRIDGES   40,000 Nazis May Be Cut Off Below Maas   TILBURG FALLS   Only Enemy Coastal Guns Block Use Of Antwerp; Close On Roosendaal

IBRITSH-CANADIAN COLUMNS RACING FOR LAST ESCAPE BRIDGE  FRONT LINE DISPATCHES SAY NAZI DEFENSES HAVE FALLEN TO PIECES

Allies Battle To Shut Escape Gate   Whole German Stand in Southwest Holland Is Collapsing   ARE NEAR ROOSENDAAL   Nazi Troops Abandoning Positions From the  Schelde to Tilburg

DRIVE TO SEAL 40,000 NAZIS IN DUTCH TRAP   ‘Soviets Launch Offensive Aimed At Clearing  West Latvia

German Defense Totters   British Shattering Western Anchor Of Nazi Lines In Holland

ALLIES RACE T0 CUT OFF 40,000 HITLER TROOPS   Push Toward Enemy’s Last 2 Escape Bridges Over Maas River

TRAP CLOSES ON 40) 000 NAZIS   GERMAN STAND IN HOLLAND COLLAPSING

British and Canadian Columns Race Toward Nazis’ Last Two Escape Bridges in an Effort to Cut Off Perhaps 40,000 Nazi Troops Below the River — Canadians Seize Western Anchor of eoieen op Zoom and  Near Roosendaal.

German Stan Below Meuse in Collapse   40,000 Nazi Troops Facing Loss of Last Two Escape Bridges

GERMANS COLLAPSING IN HOLLAND   Whole Front Moves As Nazis Race For Escape—-Bridges

2 Defense Points Fall in Holland   Russians Drive into Slovakia, Capture Ungvar, Former Ruthenian Capital ae

Nazi Line in Holland Is Broken   Antwerp Nearly Free of Enemy Guns; Briticn Cuiting Defenses Into Bits   40,000 NAZIS RACE TO ESCAPE TRAP   Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague Soon May Be Yielded to Allies

British Forces Race  To Seal Off Escape   Canadians Capture Bergen Op Zoom As English Take Breda, Trapping 40.000 Germans Relow Mence River

"LLIES CLOSE IK 'N ESCAPE GAPS FOR 40,000 MEN   Anchor of German Line Is Being Smashed — Fliers Report Evacuation

Allies Race To Cut Last Escape Route - Of Of40, 000 Germans   Berlin’ ‘Repor ts New. Russian Push To Clear West Latyi ia Of. Enemy3, ~ Invade Isle--Nor ‘th Of Rhodes

ALLIES RACE TOWARD 1WO ESCAPE GAPS   Defense Line of Nazis Falling to Pieces as Thousands of Troops Face Allied Trap.   Falling Anart

Canadians Take Berger Op Zoom, West Anchor: Nazis Flee Toward Las  Feceane Rridces.

Bergen op Zoom, Western Anchor, Won by Canadians   Hitler's Forces Are Racing for Two Remaining Bridges

British-Canadian Forces Race Toward Enemy's Last Escape Routes For 40,000

British Race To Seal Off 40,000 Nazis   Enemy’s Last Two ._Escape Bridges Being Threatened

ALLIED COLUMNS RACE TOWARD TWO ESCAPE BRIDGES   THREATEN TO CUT OFF 40,000 NIZIS BELOW MASS RIVER

Entire Nazi Holland Front Falling Apart   Effort Being Made by British-Canadian Forces To Cut Off 40,000 Troops Beiow Maas River.

Two Vital Escape Bridges Menaced By Allied Troops   Whole German Defense Line In Lower Netherlands Is Reported ‘Collapsing’; Doomed Island Garrison Only Bar To Antwerp

British in Race To Cut off Nazis   German Stand in Southwest Holland Nearing Collapse Says Communique

40,000 NAZI TROOPS MAY BE CUT OFF BY BRITISH -CANADIAN DRIVE-TOWARD VITAL BRIDGES

—WEST FRONT—  HOLLAND STAN IS COLLAPSING   British-Canadian Armies Rush To Cut Off Es cape Bridges:   NEAR ROSSENDAAL   Germans Are Abandoning Positions From Schelde To Tilburg

British- Canadian Forces Race for [Bridges to Cut Off 40,000 Enemy \Troops in Southwestern Holland

GERMAN STAND IN HOLLAND IS ON LAST LEG   Fast Collapse Seen As Trap Is Being Set

British And Canadian Columns Racing To Cut Off And Trap 10,000 Fleeing Enemy Troops   Eaemy Line Below Maas River Falls To Pieces: Former Within Five Miles OF Breda: Free Use OC Antwerp Near

ALLIED TROOPS BID 10 CUT OFF 40,000 OF FOES   German Defense Line Below Maas River Reported As ‘Fallen To Pieces’

Canadians Close In On Roosendaal Stronghold After Capturing Town Of Bergen Op Zoom

DRIVE TO SEAL OFF LARGE FORCE GERMAN TROOPS UNDER WAY  GERMAN RADIO TELLS _ OF ANOTHFR OFFENSIVE BEGUN BY RUSSIANS

Bomb Named for Billings Nine Other Montana Cities Hits Wilhelmshaver

Here's Way Budget Stacks Up With } Spending Estimates; Actual Costs

NAZIS CONTINUE LIGHT ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAD   ‘Feeler’ Thrusts To Probe Allied Strength Hurled Back

GERMAN ‘FEELER? AT ANZIO THROWN BACK BY YANKS   Another of Series of Light Attacks Has Seen Repulsed By Defenders.

ENEMY FEELER ATTACKS FAIL ON BEACHHEAD   American Troops Hurl Back German Effort to Locate Soft Spot at Anzio.

AMERICANS HURL BACK NAZI ATTACK   italian Battles in Lull; Rain And Snow Fall

Yanks Push Back Feeler Attack   Germans Seek Soft Spot on All Key Points of Fifth Army’s Beachhead

10 Nazi Divisions Massing for Push   Artillery Duels Rage Along 13-Mile Perimeter of Front

Anzio Yanks Repulse New Nazi ‘Feeler   Enemy Probes for Soft Spot as 10 Divisions Mass for Major Smash _

AMERICANS PUSH BACK NEW NAZI THRUST ON ANZIO   Fail Te Find ‘Soft* Spot In Lines; Mass Kor Haeayy Atty

ENEMY PLANS MAJOR ATTACK   Batlie for Anvig . Beachhead = Still Raging — German Divislons Being Massed for What Will be De isive Battle,

Artillery Duels Mark Amzio Scrap   Another German ‘Feeler’ Attack Thrown Back   - By ROBERT V. VERMILLION United Press Correspondent

Finds Normandy HedgerowF. ighting Tougher Than in Pacific Jungles _

U.S. Flier Shoots Down Six — Enemy Planes In 15 Minutes   Bag Includes Four JU88s Which He Attacked In Fast Head-On Sweep

YOUNG KENTUCKY CAPTAIN PILOT GOT SIX ENEMY PLANES HUNTING WAS GOOD OVEF NORTHERN ITALY DURIN  CHINDAY DATTIr¢e

YOUNG KENTUCKY CAPTAIN PILOT GOT STY ENEMY PI ANES   HUNTING WAS GOOD OVER NORTHERN ITALY DURING SUNDAY BATTLES

TURKS BREAK UP PLOT OF GERMANS   Scheme to Overthrow Repub: lican Government Reported as Being Nipped.

FASCIST MOVE IN TURKEY ENDS   Leaders Arrested in Nazi Effort to Overthrow Gov't

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS NAMED   AWARDS IN MEDICINE GO TO 4 SCIENTISTS, 3 OF THEM AMERICANS

Fighter Pilot Reports Nazis Are On Run   North Carolinian Hints Cherbourg Being Evacuated

Hitler Breaks Silente, Declaring Hope Of Victory ls In National Fanaticism

DER FUEHRER SPEAKS: “National Fanaticisin” Will Win, Retiring Adolf Says

HITLER SAYS "EANATICISM” WILL WIN WAR      Speaks At Funeral Of Slain Nazi General

Hitler Breaks Silence, Praises Diet!   National Fanaticism Asked to Meet Difficult Situations

STILL BELIEVES NAZIS WILL WIN   Hitler Speaks at Funeral Of General Dietl

Hitler Admits ‘Difficult Situations’ But Predicts Ultimate Victory   Fuehrer Speaks at Funeral Rites  Of General Diet, Killed in Finland

Earl Hall Gives Forum Audience Interesting Account of English Visit   Spent One Week In Normandy And Trip To Paris

Paris Far Less Hurt By War — Than London, Hall Discovers   Grisettes, Wooden Shoes and All, Have That Cer tain Something

COASTALPAREN OF FRANCE   May Have Been Nazi Ammunition Dump  Set Off by Saboteurs

ORIGINATES 4’ COASTAL” AREA OF FRANCE   May Have Been Nazi Ammunition Dump Set Off by Saboteurs

ABANDONING OF MADANG IS REPORTED   Japan Appears to Have Evacuated Main Port On Northeast Coast of New Guinea   URPRISE DEVELOPMENT

BELIEVE JAPS EVACUATE BASE IN NEW GUINEA   Fliers Meet No Resistance it Last Air Attack on Madang

ALLIED TROOPS MOVE ON PORT FROM 2 SIDES   Rabaul Too Shaws Signs 01 Lessening Usefulness To Enemy

Rabaul Also May Be Abandoned As Raids Weaken It   New Guinea Defense: Silent; Jap Suk Is Reported Sunk By Plane

Rabaul Totters; 2 Ships Bagged   12 TO 27 ENEMY FIGHTER PLANES DOWNED IN SKY BATTLES; REVEAL UNITED STATES WARSHIP BURNS SANK FOUR NIP CARGO SHIPS AT KWAJALEIN

Jap Run-Out At Madang Is Suspected   Sneak Evacuation In New Guinea Now Held Likely

NO SIGN OF JAPS NOTED BY AIRMEN   Enemy’s Main Port In New Guinea Now Believed Deserted

BELIE WRECK, FLEE MADANG BASE   Fliers See No Life in Town  As Allied Troops Near; Enemy Shipping Avoids Hard-Hit Rabaul.

ALLIES CLOSE ~INON MADANG   ‘Reveal New Jap Shipping Losses In Marshalls  Invasion

Japs. Appear Abandoning [Madang Base   American Fliers Report Evi-. ' dence Phat Nipponese Have Left New Guinea Town for Alexishafen, 16 Miles North

NO EVIDENCE OF ACTION REMAINS   Move Compared To Sudden Evacuation Of Kiska   Credited With Sinking Of Convoy Of Four Ships; Fighting In Burma

Japs Quit Madang on NewGuinea   Alexishafen Also Is Believed To Be Abandoned

JAP DEFENDERS OF MADANG BELIEVED TO HAVE ‘SKIPPED’   Appear to Fliers to Have  + Abandoned Their Former Stronghold on Northeast Shore of New Guinea

JAPANESE BELIEVED TO HAVE ABANDONED PORT OF MADANG  ALSO BELIEVED RABAUL   ALSO BELIEVED RABAUL ALSO BEING GRADUALLY EVACUATED OF SHIPS

U.S. FLYERS SAY TOWN IS SILENT   #2 _i 4 wee" = *  REPORT EVIDENCE BUILDINGS HAVE REEN NEMOLISHED

U. S. FLIERS REPORT SEEING EVIDENCE JAPS HAVE LEFT PORT: RABAUL STILL UNDER ATTACK   Constant Air Attacks in New Guinea and Gains In Other Sectors Are Cracking Vital Blocks in’ Japan’s Pacific Defense Wall. Many Ships Lost  Rwy lane

_ MADANG BASE   U.S. Fliers Sight Evidence Build. ings Not Destroyed by Bombs Demolished by Nips   NO ANTI-AIRCRAFT   Allied Troops Moving In On Base from Two Direciions—Rabaul’s Usefulness Nearly Ended

THUNK MADANG 5 ABANDONED   Americans See Evidence That Remaining Buildings Are Demolished..   LITTLE LEFT OF TOWN

EVACUATION OF MADANG HINTED   Marshalls Victory Claims Expanded by Navy

JAP EVACUATION OF MADANG SEEN   Signs Of Abandonment Seer As Allied Units Close In

Yanks Declare Japs Abandon Madang Base   Nips Appear To Pull Forces Out From Menaced Port In Surprise Development.   FEW SHIPS AT RABAUL

Japs Suffer Another Loss in New Guines   Signs Indicate That Shipping Center of Madana ts Abandoned

jap Madang Base Probably Has Been Evacuated  American Fliers See Destroyed Houses, ids Aneta teerat Fire

Japanese May Have Given Up Madana   Allies Closing in From Two Sides

TO HAVE QUIT MADANG POR]   Low Flying American Pilots Believe Place Abandoned

Japs May Have Quit Madang   Rabaul Shows Signs Of Lessening Usefulness to Foe

THINK MADANG BASE GIVEN UP BY JAP FORCES   All Anti-Aircraft Positions Silent as Flyers Sweep Low

Report Madang Abandoned By Retreating Foe   ‘Americans Aid Aussies Forming Junction  Around Seaport

PAC.  UNION FY YANKS, - NUSSIES NEAR   Fliers: ‘Report En emy May Be Beiesating’t To . Alexishafen: ‘   ALLIES ADVANCE   Entire: Convoy Of Four is Jap Ships Sunk: By: U. 'S.. Destroyer ;

JAPS PULL OUT OF KEY BASES OF NEW GUINEA   Yank Conquest of Marshalls Brightened by Sinking of Convoy by Destroyer

Japs Appear To Have Abandoned Port Of Madang   New Guinea Base Evacuation In Face Of Allied Squeeze Indicated.

Believe Japs Have Deserted Madang Port   Allies Expect  Little Fighting  At Goal—Planes Bomb Enemy Ships

PREDICTS ALL ClO HEADS CONTINUE   Last Day Of Seventh Annual Convention. Harold ickes Will Speak Today

CARDINAL GIVEN SIMPLE BURIAL   Dean Of Roman Catholic Hierarchy In America Paid Last Tribute

BATTLESHIPS SHELL PALAU   Follow Up Pre-Invasion Blasts By Smaller Vessels

JAP ISLAND BASE DEALT HEAVY BLOWS   ¥ Attack Recalls That Dreadnoughts _ Shelled Guam Few Days Prior to Its Invasion.  i   FOLLOWS THRUST - AT PHILIPPINES   Nimitz Lists 89 Nipponese Vessels as Sunk or Damaged in Naval Assault on Mindanao.

Battleships Bombard Jap Palau Base   Recalls Similar Action  Against Guam Before  --~Invasion-of That Island

MIGHTY VESSELS JOINED IN ATTACK   Island of Palau Severely Blasted by American -— Ships 

Mighty fleet hammers Nip  base at Palau Heavy ships join in daily poundines

Japs Hammered By Three-Day Naval Attack   Battleships Move Up On Palau; Believe Invasion Is Near

PALAU POUNDED BY BATTLESHIPS OF THIRD FLEET   Dreadnaughts Pulverizing Jap Defenses In Prep aration For Invasion   DUTCH CELEBES ARE UNDER HEAVY ATTACK

ADVANCE UNITS ARE WITHIN 1 MILES OF ROME   Fifth And Eighth Armies Reach Outskirts Of Itri, Piedimonte

ALLIES WITHIN STRIKING RANGE OF PIEDIMONTE   Twin Drive Threatens Both Ends of Adolf " Witler Line.

Liberators Blast Invasion Coast   Meet Few Fighters In Daylight Raid

Forts Leave Capital Aflame   Unescorted Planes Make Bold Attacks, Escape Unharmed

71th, Fanning Out From Ormoc, Cuts  Jap Defense Line   B-29’s Bomb Tokyo 5th Straight Day, Fire Heart of City   we £2uy Vat au REPORT PAST PLANES

Jack Huffman Dies In Service   Beckley Youth Succumbs To “Moningilis

FR. BLAMED FOR DEPRESSION   GOVERNOR DEWEY CALLS FEAT “INCREDIBLE”

Roosevelt Made Hard  Times Last   So Says Dewey Who Finds a New Dealer Jn the Crowd

M. HS. AWARDS DIPLOMAS 10 145 SENIORS   Honors Presented at Streamlined Commencement Program

ie APPEARS — ~ KNOCKED OW   ROUSE COMMITTEE TO RECOMMEND FAR-REACHING ‘LEGISLATION IN“ FED‘ERAL LOANS SYSTEM.

FARM SECURITY SEEMS DOOMED   Committee Prepares to trim Authority; Veterans Get Preference

Finns Meet In Closed Session   Linkomies Explain ernment's Position.  (ov.

Parliament Of F Finland Airs  War Position   Secret. Session Held; Swe den Offers Food if She Quits Conflict

Finland Debates Quitting the War   Sweden Promised Food Should Finns Declare Peace With Russia.

Sweden Hints Aid If Finns Leave the War   Finnish Resentment Noted as Russian Air Raids On Helsinki Continue

SWEDEN WILL HELP FINNS IF THEY QUIT   Only Two Parts Of Peace Pact Not Accepted

Finn Leaders Discussing Peace Terms   Sweden Will Supply Food for Nation If Fighting Ends

Parliament of Finland Meets   Hears Premier’s Statement About Armistice Terms

SWEDEN WILL FEED FINNS IF THEY QUIT      So Says a Reliable Stockholm Informant — Way Still Believed Open fox An Armistice With the Russians.

Swedes May Help Feed Finns   Finns, Aroused by Bombings, Adopt Wait And See Attitude

Finns, Roused By Russian Bombings, Adopt “Wait-See” Attitude On Peace

Finnish Parliament, Now Tossed on 2 Horns of Dilemma, Studies Both

Finnish Parliament In Closed Session On Present Position And Future Step With Soviet

Finn Parliament Weighs Armistice ‘In Secret Session   Sweden Assures Nation Of Food If Peace With Russia Is Outcome

REPORT SAYS SWEDEN MAY AID FINLAND   Reliable Informant in Stockholm Says Aid Will be Provided if Armistice Is Arranged   ATTITUDE STIFFENING

(STATEMENT BY FINNS EXPECTED ON PEACE PLAN   Government Officials in Session and Something Of Definite Nature Penarted .

PARLIAMENT GF FINLAND MEETS   Premier Explains Position on Armistice in Closed Session.

PARLIAMENT IN FINLAND MEETS   Comniunique Expected to Be Issued Later

Finnish Attitude Seems To Be One Of “Wait And See  Sweden Will Help Finns If They Get Out Of War

ES  FINN CABINET IN PEACE MEET   Parliament Holds Hour’s Meet Behind Closed  Doors

Government’s Position Regarding Armistice With Russia Outlined At Heleinki

Finn Parliament . Meets to Discuss Soviet Armistice   Secret Sessions Are Held; Sweden To Provide Food if  Nation Quits War

Nazi Execution Of US Captives To Bring Protest   State Department Gathers Evidence

U.S. to Protest Shooting By Nazis of Captured Yanks   But Military Men Believe Germany Has Discarded Rules of Warfare and Little Will Be Accomplished by Action— Von Rundstedt’s Leading Armored Units Apparently Had Instructions Not to Bother With Captives.

Yanks Battle In Livergnano   Rain and Deep Mud Still Slows Advance

IN SLIGHT GAINS   American Troops Reach Southern Outskirts of  Livergnano

Yanks Meeting Fierce Defense In Bologna Ares   Entire Italian Front Fight ing Slowed Down B: Rain And Mud.

Pfc. Donald C. Lawson Is Wounded   Rain and Mud Slows Yanks   Reach Southern Edge Of Livergnano; Meet Fierce Nazi Attacks

U. S. Troops Fight Ahead Slowly Despite Rain, Mud  Italian Battle Grinds Steadily; German Resistance Growing

Rain, Mud Slows Up Yank Drive   Gain Only Mile Or So In ftaly Fighting

Yanks Reach South Edge of Livergnano   Pace Along Entire Italian Front Said Retarded by Weather

Italian Drive Gains Slowly.   Americans: Reach: Liveren iano. Outskirts

Fifth Slowed By Rain, Mud   British Troops in Albania Take Sarande.  Isolating Germans

Audacity Beat Bold Jap Stroke   Philippine Invasion Men. aced Until Kinkaid’s Decision.

Kinkaid’s Audacity Saved U.S. Leyte Beachhead from Shelling by Jans

Historic Victory  Adm. Kindaid’s Decision to Meet Audacity With Audacity Saves Dav.

Kinkaid’s Daring Decision To Divide His Fleet Leads To Routing Of Japanese Forces

KINKAID AUDACITY PAID OFF AND NIP FORCES BATTERED   Dédision “ta Stag “te Our’ “With Enemy ‘Was Right’ Oné to  Save Leyte Harbor

Adnm. Kinkaid's Daring Decision Results In Brilliant Sea Victory

Bold Stand Saves Leyte   Beachhead Might Have Been Wiped Out By Jap Naval Guns But for Daring Carrier Force

Assault Last Gun Position Blocking Port   Berlin Reports Allies Making Landing on Walcheren Island

ALLIED SEABORNE STRIKE AT DUTCH ISLAND REPORTED   BERLIN TELLS OF LANDING ON SOUTH SIDE OF WALCHEREN

‘Planning Meeting for Next Saturday   Annual Session of Productior Credit Association at

RECORD OF LABOR LAUDED AT PICHIC      CIO - Secretary-Treasurer Addresses Big Gath-  erina Here

RECORD OF LABOR ~ LAUDED AT PICHC   C10. Secretary- Treasurer Addresses Big Gath. i: @ping Here -

Churchill-FDOR Ready To Confer About Military  e Ministe And Roose alt mm Quaker

Allied Leaders Meet To View New Problems   Coming Nazi Defeat, Downfall of Japs To Be Major Topics

Allied Leaders, Staffs To Chart Future Course   Post-War Europe, Drive To Crush Japan Are Major Topics

NIPS CLAIM AIR TROOPS RAID ISLE   Heavy Rains Continue To Hamper Yanks’ Land Offensive

Junction of Two Yank Columns Or Leyte Said Near   Move Would Encircle Jap Troops At Tip of Ormoc Corridor

New Pust  Encircles Jap Base   Two Columns Crash Through Jungles to Trap Nippon Force

\Two Yank Columns Near Junction To Trap Part Of Jap Garrison Left In Leyte

YANKS FORGE TRAP ON JAPS IN ORMOC POCKET   Bombers Rip Jap Supply Ships, Attack Enemy Barge Centers

Japs on Tip of Ormoe Nearly  Surrounded   Nip Commandos Wiped Out in Attack on Airfield

THROUGH MUDDY LEYTE; THREATEN ENTRAPPED JAPS   Planes Hit Supply Dumos. Airdrome

AMERICANS FORGE NEW LEYTE TRAP   Seek to Encircle Northern Tip of Ormoc Corridor

TRAP FORGED IN NW, LEYTE BY AMERICANS   Drenching Rains to Drive Made in Enecircle Jap Troops

AMERICANS SEEK TO ENCIRCLE FOE ON LEYTE ISLAND       Drive Through Drenching Rains  Almost To Junction At Ormoc

AMERICANS ON LEYTE FORGING NEW JAP TRAP   Two Columns Drive For Junction To Circle Tip Of Ormoe

Germans Claim Americans Suffered “Heaviest Defeat”   Nazi Radio Says Not a Single Bomber Crossed Elbe, 50 Miles From Capital

Putti ng * UD: R esistance —           LATEST ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE: DESIGNED TO CLEAR RO; PARIS, 120 MILES TO THE E#

DRIVE AIMED AT CLEARING ROAD TO PARIS   American Troops In Center of Normans dy Front Are Making Progress.

ALL-OUT ORIVE -TOGLEA ROAD ~ DIRECT T0-PARIS   Heavy Fighting Continues:te. Center Arourid’ By-Passed: La Haye~Six Key Towns. Are Seized By Allies.   R. A. F. BOMBS BERLIN; ROBOT BASES BLASTED   China Bases Are Also. Hit By Superforts In-Raid on Big Japanese. Navy Base’ Near Hankow;

COPYRIGHT ARTICLE -DECLARES. ODT BLAMES AGENCY FOR SHORTAGE OF PERISHABLE FOODSTUFFS

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST BERLIN   Cologne and Hamburg May Have Been Hit Also

LARGE ARMADA ATTACKING REICH   British Hit Berlin for Sixtt Time in Nine Nights

RUSSIANS SEIZE NAZI-HELD HILL   WOMEN SNIPERS AID REDS IN CAPTURE OF GERMAN POSITION

Soviet Forces Seize Heights Near Vitebsl   Women Snipers Assist ix Russian Drive: Berlin Sees Offensive by Reds Abont Due

Reds Report German Height Captured   Fortified Area On North-Central Front Is Taken

CAPTURE OF VITEBSK   Women Snipers Aided Russian Infantrymen Battle Germans

Fortified Hill Seized by Reds   Two-Hour Battle Reported in Russia

SOVIET TROOPS TAKE FORTIFIED GERMAN HEIGHT  Report Death Of  aZis in

Was Southeast of Vitebsk or «. the Long: Quiet North * * Central: Front.   ‘WOMEN: SNIPERS AID   Russian: Infantry Took the Forward. Sennen Posi- .

Russian Forces Take Nazi Base South Of Vitebsk   Aiding Soviet Infantry: Reds Attack Near Nevel

Reds Seize  Stronghold Near Vitebsk   Women Snipers Aid In Capture Of Nazi Height

Soviet Announces Fortified Position Taken From Nazis   Captured German Office: Says Hitler Feared ' Turks’ Entrance, if Crimea Fell

Yanks Lose Fourth ‘Advanced Airbase In China Theater  Tanchak Abandoned in Face o! Accelerated Jap Offensive Aimed aif Splitting Chine

Qakland Tribune, Monday, Nov. 20, 1944 C 3 Japs Boast of New ‘Marvels’

Germans Claim Penetration Into  Town Of Aprillia   lons of Bombs and Shells Rain Great Destructive Blast On Enemy; Bombers Smash at Troops in 5S Key Points -- More Buildings Taken In Bit ter Cassino Strugdle.

ALLIES USE PLANES IN DETERMINED BID TO SAVE BEACHHEAD   Big German Forces Reported Massed For Attack Coming From Rome   CASSINO FIGHT RAGES

Carroceto and Seize Station   Aprilia Area Being Mopped Up, German High Command Says; Allies Fiaht Hard

Enemy Reports Troops Have - Hammered Into Aprilia,  One Of Allies’ Bases

Village Rail - Point Retaken, Berlin Says   German Command Reports Capture of Carroceto, 10 Miles North of Anzio   4,000 PRISONERS TAKEN, NAZIS SAY   Heroic Resistance Displayed by Allies. in Savage Fighting

AirPr otection ThrownAbout ; Bridgehead  Tons of Bombs Poured on Five Key Points of Nazi  Supply Nety Network   USE TIME CR CRASHES’  Bitter Fighting  Con‘tinues at Cassino With Yanks Gaining Slightly   USE ‘TIME CRASHES’

THROW PLANES INTO CONFLICT   Virtually Every Combat Aircraft Is Put Into Battle  wmariaags , a: i  , Jn a on ae

ALLIES LAUNCH GREAT ATTACKS ON BEACHHEADS   Big Bombers Try To Block Roads Held By Nazis

Americans, Still Fighting In Ruins of Cassino on Main Fifth Army Front, Take Five Buildings   TWO PRISONS LEVELED

Germans Claim Penetration Into Town Of Aprillia   Tons‘of Bombs and Shells ‘Rain Great. Destructive.  ° Blast On Enemy; Bom - bers ‘Simash: at ‘Troops in’ 5: Key Points—More Buildings'Taken In Bitter Cassino Struggle.

ALLIES THRUST GREAT AIR UNIT INTO STRUGGLE   Battle Mounts to New Climax as Decision Draws Nearer

SENATOR OPPOSED TO REPEAL OF MEASURE   Baltimore Representative Says DecTaration Of Intentions Act Should Not Be Killed Now

Existence of Breach Be tween Randolph Paul and Treasurer Open Se- :   eret At Department

Letter of Resignation to Roosevelt Praises Presi-. dent's Courage

Heavy Fighting Goes on At Cassino; Soviets Wip  Out 50,000 Germans

OFFICER TELLS HOW HE FOUND WOMAN’S BODY   Only Person He Saw . Was Marine Corps . Captain

Officer Testifies At Lonergan Trial   Marine Officer First One To Greet Investigator At Apartment.

United States Lifts Ban On French Trade   Postal Service Starts Today

LABOR DRAFT PEAN CALLED POLITICAL MOVE  LaFollette Thinks FDR Prosposal ~ Mov Be Scheme to Curry Favor

Mechanics End Strike Threat   68,000 Workers Affected By MESA Decision

TRUMAN GROUPIS ASKED TO EXTEND CONTRACT PROBE   REQUEST MADE IN WAKE OF NAVY’S CANCELLATIONS

BROADER PROBE IS SOUGHT FOR WAR CONTRACTS   Exemption from Night Clut Tax Proposed for Men And Women in Service

ADK GROUP 10 BROADEN PROBE   Member of Tru Truman Committee Requests War Contracts Inquiry,

WIDE CONTRACT INQUIRY ASKED   Termination And Cut-Back List Is Requested

Ask Data on Ending of Contracts   Want Army and Navy to Give Names of Firms  Affected

USE) 6h WT GEN Seu  Sudden war Job cutback Plan tapped      Truman Committee To Demand List of Plants Slated for Contract Terminations

Today In  W ashington   A Roundup of Developacnts From _ the Nation's Capital

Surprising Night Offensive Opened By British Second   Burst Through To Open Country On Road To Paris. Americans Score 2,000 Yard Advance In St. Lo Region.

New WACs Can Stay At Ardmore Base   All Fields of Work Open There, Along With Chance For Advancement

New WACs Can Stay At Ardmore Base  All Fields of Work Open   All Fields of Work Open There, Along With Chance For Advancement

Great New Gaps Torn In Hitler Defense Lines   Kirovograd Surrounded As Soviet Offensive Gains In Power

Kirovograd Encireled  By Russians In Advance   Dnieper Bend German Stronghold Falling With ‘Substantial’ Nazi Troovs Caught

Peur Through Big Gaps in Nazi Lines   Within 3 Miles  OF Kirvograd— Other Units Driving Into Poland

Red Forces Drive Deeper Into Old Polish Territory   Pour Through Great Gaps in German Line All Along East Front

Reds Pouring Through Gaps in Nazi Lines   Ist and 2nd Ukrainian Armies Creeping Ever Closer to Kirovograd

Soviets Push Nearer Encircled Bastion In Dnieper Sector   Russian Forces Drive Within Three Miles of Kirovograd; Plunge Deeper Into Poland

Soviets Rout Five German Divisions   “Deep Wedge Driven Into German Dnieper Defenses

Ring Around Kirovograd Tightens as Ukrainian Armies Continue Drive

Russian Forces Storm to Gates Of Nazi Bastion   Winter Offensive  _ Plunges Deeper into Old Poland; Within 12 Miles of Sarney

UKRANIAN ARMIES POURED THROUGH GERMAN LINE GAPS   Smashed to Within Three Miles of Kirovograd in One Place.   OFFENSIVE CONTINUES   Advance Units Were Plung ing Deeper Into Rovno Province.

Swift Advances Are Continued By Red Forces   Troops Pouring Through Gaps in Nazi Defense Lines

SOVIETS KNIFE 22 MILBS INTO OLD POLE AREA   Developed Spearheads Driving Southward Toward Dniester and Prewar Rumanian Frontier   5 NAZI DIVISIONS .. ROUTED IN 3 DAYS   Enemy Everywhere in. Retreat as Winter Offen-. sive of Russians Continues on Upsurge

Kirovograd Surrounded By Soviets   Dnieper Bend Area Is Scene Of Hard Fighting Today

29 Pour Through Gaps"   In German Lines  In Swift Advances   See Fate Sealed For Nazi Forces Cut Off At Dnieper Bend City;  ——erlin Says-Fieree Battle-Rages.

SECRET PACTS   Polish and Rhineland Territories Thought Chief Factors

sPOWER POLITICS STIRS DEGAULLE © PACT WITH REDS      Secret Deal on Rhineland ~ and Poland Seen Behind ~ Moscow Mission

Refail Grocers Must File Applications For Ration Tokens   Chairman Announces Deadline Extended Until January 8

Joan Cries But Wins Gruelling   Court Ruling Blocks Defense Plan In Charley Chaplin's Mann Act Trial.

JOAN WEEPS WHEN LETTER . 1S DISPLAYED   Judge Rules Other Affairs Can’t Be Told

Kanto Industrial Region Of Jap Capital Is Target Of American B-29 Plane Raid   Factory Workers Thrown Into Confusion, Nippon Broadcast Says, And Indicates Area Was Set Ablaze By Explosions

nemy Thus Warned That U. S. Power Has Pushed To Easier Range   > BARGES DAMAGED   lacArthur’s Troops Score Steady Gains in Push Toward Ormoc

Buck Up, Buck Privates, You're in the Chips,-According to Army Data

ON THE FINANCIAL SIDE: GI Joe Is Doing Better Than His Unmarried Friend 2 Home

U.S. bombers battle it out with nazt fighters over neutral Sweden

North Dakota Hit by Heavy Snow, Wind   Snow Whipped Into Drifts That Block Highways in West

Proud 6th Army Cut To Ribbons Tn Suicidal Fight   Ohic’s 37th, Americal Division Victors At Bougainville

NAZIS EXTE BALKANS GRIP, FEARING REDS   i eee ee ts  ‘Hundreds of Berlin Fires, Says Collegeville Pilot, After Big Yank Raid   ALLIES GAIN AT CASSINO; NIPPONS PENETRATE INDIA   BULLETIN

IRVIN S. COBB, HUMORIST, DIES   FORMER KENTUCKIAN WON UNDYING FAME AS AUTHOR, ACTOR

IRVIN COBB, HUMORIST, DIES TODAY   Kentuckian Dies Following ThreeMonth Illness

IRVIN S, COBB TAKEN BY DEATH   Famous Humorist Dies In New York After Illness Of Some Time.

Cobb, Humorist, Dies; Fails to Fulfill Promise “to Keep Newspapers Fully Advised”

Irvin S. Cobb Dies in New York   Fmous Humorist And Writer Passes After Long Hiness

Noted Humorist And Author Succumbs At Age Of 67 In New York Apartment;  ~~ Funeral To Be Private

Irvin S. Cobb, Humorist, Dies  Noted Writer, Actor And _ Speaker Ill 3 Months

Irvin'S. Cobb Dies After Long Illness   Death of 67-Year-Old Humorist and Writer Occurs in New York

TRVIN . COBB, 67, DIES AFTER ILLNESS   Writer, Humorist Had Been Hl for Three Months; Funeral Plans Unknown

Irvin S. Cobh. Humorist. Dies   Death Of Writer, Actor Follows Long Illness

COBB DEAD   NOTED HUMORIST AND WRITER SUCCUMBS AT 67 AFTER A LONG ILLNESS

Widely Read Writer Stricken In New York; Had Been JI] Several Months; Wife At His Bedside

IRVIN S. COBB AUTHOR, DIES   PRIVATE RITES PLANNED FOR FAMOUS HUMORIST

IRVIN S. COBB, HUMORIST, DIES   Noted Writer Ill for Past Three Months

Irvin S. Cobb, “Noted American - Humorist, Dies   Career. Which Brought Him “Fame. Started “At- 16° * -In-Paducah, Ky.   WANTS ASHES USED: . AT TREE: PLANTING   Good For .Fellow® Elks To Get: Out. In Open, Air) Letter: Says 2

Irvin §. Cobb Taken by Death  We es OP le   Famous Humorist Passes Away ot 67 After Long Ilness

IRVIN COBB, WRITER, DIES AT AGE OF 67   End Comes for Famed American Humorist at His Hotel Apartment in New York Following a Tone Tinecc.

IRVIN S. COBB, _ . NOTED HUMORIST DIED EARLY TODAY   Famous Writer, Actor And Humorist Passes After Three Months’  IlIneee

Irvin S. Gobb, Writer And: Humorist, Dies _ After Long Hiness —   - (Newspaperman “And, Atithor, Whose Wit Made Him ap Famous On. Both Sideg Of Atlantic, Succumbs ; In New York Hotel’ Apartrient

COBB DIES OF LONG ILLNESS   Noted Humorist, Writer Succumbs In New York

War Centers of Berlin and Brunswick Smashed— Nazis Send Up Swarms of Fighters.   DOGFIGHTS RAGE ALL OVER THE SKY   ‘Assault May Be Start of Greatest Aerial Offensive  Which Gen. Henry Arnold Promised.

Atlantic Wall Area Bombed by Yanks and RAF   Nazi Plane Losses 125, Allies Lose 45   Deliver Twin Biows   Many Fighters Attack

Heavies Lashing Out In New Fury   RAF Follows U. S. Daylight Smashes

Yankee Flyers ‘Down 125 Nazi Fighters   Lose 45 Planes in Attacks on Berlin, Brunswick

Follow Up Heavy Raid By Yanks   Brunswick, Berlin freas Targets After 5-Day Rest

26 American Bombers And 19 Fighters Lost In Heavy  Bembing Assault   BERLIN, BRUNSWICK MAIN OBJECTIVES

AIR ATTACK ON FOE RENEWED   1,500 Yank Bomber: Blast Brunswick And Berlin

1500 American Bombers, Fighters Raid Nazi Cities   German “Big Toms” Silenced By Attack ae Battle Resumed After Five-Dav Lull

RAF Follows Up Yank Raid on Reich   Americans Bag 125 Nazi Ships Over Berlin, Brunswick

Berlin and Brunswick Are: Pounded in Renewal of Great Aerial Offensive

125 Nazi Planes Downed At Cost of 26 Bombers And 19 American Escorts

AIR ASSAULTS ARE RENEWED BY U.S. FLEET   AMERICAN ARMADA BAGS 125 ENEMY WARPLANES

Bigger Bombers To Carry Loads To Tokyo— —By Kirke L. Simpson (4  Bomb Raids Raise Apprehension Of Japs

CHINESE CITIES FALL TO ENEMY   Japanese Claim Their Forces Have Token Kweilin and Liuchow

J aps Claim. Base Taken’   Radio Report Stites Liuchow. Is Captured

Japanese Claim Capture OF ‘Kweilin And Liuchow, Last ‘U.S. Air Base InS. E. China   Such Development, Yet Unconfirmed By Allies, Would Cut China In Half

Japs Claim Kweilit And Liuchow Have Been Taken  Complete Surrender Of Chinese Army Announced by Nips

Tokyo Claims Kweilin Capture   Declare Liuchow Also Surrendered By Chinese

Nips Claim Capture Of Liuchow   Tokyo Says Chinese Army Surrenders; Kweilin Also Taken

U. S. Forced To Flee Last China Drome   Japs Claim Capture Of Kweilin, Liuchow In New Offensive

Japs Say Kweilin And Liuchow Taken   Domei Declares Chinese Thirty-first Army Surrenders Cities, the Former Being Defense Pivot for Southeastern China.

Japanese Claim Kweilin, Liuchow   Tokyo Says Chinese 31st Army Has Surrendered.

JAPANESE CLAIM KWEILIN CAPTURE      Claim Chinese 31st Army Has Completely Surrendered.

“Key Chinese Cities Fall”    Capture of Kweilin And Liuchow, if ‘True, Cuts China in Two

Capture Of Kweilin Is Claimed By Jap Radio   Last U.S. Air Base In Southeast China; Liuchow Also Falls, Nip Report Says

Japs Claim China Victory  Capture Of Two   Capture Of Two Cities Reported

Yank Troops On Leyte Advance Through Mud   4-Day Stalemate Now Broken, Reports Headquarters

Kweilin Taken, Japs Declare  Chinese Forces   Chinese Forces Surrounded, Jap Broadcast Says

Japs Claim: Capture” Of Kweilin   Nips Also Claim to Have Taken Liuchow

DEWEY LAUNCHES GOP CAMPAIGN   To Speak Tonight From Louisville, Ky.

Congress Vows lo  Override   Leaders On Both Sides Denounce President's First  Veto Of Tax Bill

Typhoon Lashes Troops Battling For Leyte Island   Navy Reveals Loss of 10 Ships; 118 Jap Planes Downed Over Manila   Mindanao Guerrillas Deal Death to Jans Who Leave ee

Mindanao’s Filipino Patriots Make It Deathlu Dangerous For ‘Straying’ Japs

KIWANIS: SEES. TRAVEL FILMS   Carter Reports _ Plans for Second Children’s Party -

KIWANIS otto TRAVEL FILMS   Carter Reports Plans for Second Children’s Party

CASSINO STALEMATE DIMINISHES = HOPE OF EARLY END OF WAR DUE T0 “CRUMBLING” OF NAZIS’ WAR POWER   Western Europe Defenses May Pose Same Problem Met By Allies In Tunnels Of ltalian Villese

Troops In France Hit By Robots   ‘Nazis Will Need More Than Bikes  In Berlin Race’

Jap Jungle Troops Gain   Position 40 Miles From Lifeline of Stilwell’s Forces

Japs Driving Deeper Info India Today   Start Infiltrating Toward Rail Line Serving Americans; Imphal Cut Off

Japs 40 Miles from Lifeline ToBurmalk ront   Nippon Troops Threaten To Cut Supplies To Gen. Stilwell’s Army

Allies Destroy Hollandia Base   Raid on Bismarck Sea Base Impedes Enemy— Minor Gains Made   Bulletin

JAP MAKE SMALL GAINS ALONG BURMA FRONT BUT NAVAL BASE AT HOLLANDIA LIES IN RUINS —   Drive Deeper into India and Are Now Infiltrating Into_Territory Bordering Allied Supply Lines. American Bombers Wrecked Jap’s Remaining Base in Bismarck Sea Area

Enemy Strikes Into Defenses Of Rail Line   Airborne Supply Route To China Menaced By Nip Infiltration Moves In India Theater

Nearing U.S. Line  In Burma   Japs Within 40 Miles of Railway Used by Stilwell.

Japs Continue In Their Drive Toward Imphal   Second Heavy Air Raid Knocks Out Port of Hollandia

Reach Positions Some 40 Miles From Lifeline Supporting Stilwell.

BEN. PERSHING BA YEARS OLD   U. 8 ARMY  COMMANDER. IN WORLD WAR. 1 CLOSELY .FOLLOWING NEWS. "OF WAR

30 Japs at Idaho Center Prefer Refurn to Japan To U. S. Army Service

Concord High To Meet Old Rival Lexington on Emerson Field; Each Has Won Nine, Tied Four ‘Games

Concord High To Meet Old Rival Lex ington on. yn ‘; rata Won Nine,

Navy Man to Get $200,000 Bequest   ‘Faithful Policeman, Woman's Will Savs

LAPPING AT LEVEES   Missouri Rivers Carrying an Almost Record Flow After Rains

Missouri Rivers Out of Banks to Close Railroads   Trains Go in a Circuitous Route to Get Out of Kansas City.   Families on Lowlands Hurry to High Ground

Several Stale - Highways Are ~ Under Water      Full Picture: of Flood Situation Not Yet Clear, Weather Bureau Says:   MISSOURI RIVER, : - NEAR FLOOD STAGE   More Water Roaring Tn; Missisippi Also:High; Oth“er Streams. Bankful

BRITISH-U. S. FLEET SINKS NAZI WARSHI   Gunfire, Torpedoes Send Enemy Vessel to Bottom of Channel in Attack on Flotilla

SEA BATTLE FOUGHT OFF FRANCE   Nazi Destroyer k Sunk By Allied Warships

Battle Fought In Channet   German Flotilla Engaged By Allies In Furious Fight

Enemy Warship Sunk By British   Allied Naval Squadron Tangles With Nazis

ODT OPERATES OMAHA TRUCKS   F. D. Orders Seizure To Break Strike

U5. SEIZES STRIKEBOUND TRUCK LINES   Authority to Assume Control of Systems Vested in ODT

Civilian Food Supplies May Equal Those Last Y ear   : School Lunch Banned

Civilian Food Supplies To Be About Same   May Equal Those Of Most Commodities For Past Year

Civilian Food May Equal 1943 Supply   PER CENT LOWERED, BUT PRODUCTION GOALS HIGHER THIS YEAR

Civilian Food Supplies To Equal Those Of 1943   War Food Administrator Marvin Jones Says Production Goals Set Higher

No Civilian Food Cut for  , 1944 Foreseen   Some Particular Commodities, Like Milk, May Be Fewer, However.

Tennessee GOP  Endorses Dewey   Anti-Fourth Term Bloc to Back Bricker

Tennessee GOP Swings to Dewey   Democrats Ready To Support Bricker

TENNESSEE GOP BACKING DEWEY   Anti - Fourth - Termers Support Bricker If Roosevelt Runs

DEWEY PICKS UP suPPORT INSOUTH   New Yorker Adds Tennessee Strength to Lead; Congress Plans Recess by June 20 For Conventions

ANTI-EDR MEN WANT BRICKER ~£0P. CHOE   Democrats F Fight 4th Term Thuslv; New  Votes For Dewey

ANTI-FRANCO REVOLT FLARES   Activities Of Guerrilla Forces  Are Extended

REPORT. SPANISH GUERILLAS.~ ARE HOLDING 22 vi LARES   REVOLT AGAINST FRATCO REGIME I§ SPREADING RAP-. IDLY OVER NATION

HUNGARY: SUES FOR ARMISTICE   Hitler Is Fighting. : Desperately to Keep Last Remainines Ally

Hungary, Last Ally of Germany Asks Armistice   Nazis Seek to Thwart Plea of Admiral Horthy

GERMANS TRY TO STOP PEACE FOR HUNGARY   Armistice Would Deprive Nazis of Last European Ally

FOR HUNGARY   Armistice Would Deprive Nazis of Last European Ally

HUNGARY NOW f DAIER CONTROL OF NAZI GROUF   GEEMANY MAKING EFFORT 70 PReVEN; LAST ALLY FROM™ ; OBTAINING. AN “ARMIBTICE:

Allied Hold On Balkans Strengthened   Huge German Force Is Hampered By Blockade

LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR ATALY’S KING   London Newspapers Com: ment on Announcement Made Yesterday.

U. S. Foreign Economic Agency Probes Enemy Weak Points for Strategy Use

2 MORE ISLANDS IN ADMIRALTIES   Land Without Opposition ; Repel Jap Thrust On Bougainville

TWO MORE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS OCCUPIED   Foe’s Counterattack On Bougainville Ends in Failure

Two More Isles In Admiralties Taken By Allies   ‘Landings On Ndrova, Amo Are Made Friday Without Opposition

JAP ATTACK REPULSED ON BOUGAINVILLE   Two More Islands In Admiralties Are Occupied

More Islands In Admiralty Group Seized   Landings Are Made Without Opposition

BRITISH LOSE 94 PLANES IN NAZILAND RAID   MARCH IS STILI VICTORY MONTH FOR ALLIES

RAF Suffers Greatest Loss Of War   German Fighters, Rockets Claim .94 British Aircraft

Total .of 94 Planes Shot --Down During the © “Night TARGETS IN REICH... BOMBED BY FLIERS  Three-hour Pitched Battle Rages in the: Skies

BRITISH LOSE 94 ‘PLANES IN3-HOUR FIGHT OVER REICH   Cost Greatest Yet Suffered by Allies in Single Raid —Nuernberg and Other Tareets Hit:   SCARE-CROW ROCKET’ .. _USED BY GERMANS   Hitler's Fortress Blasted 28 Times in. March by Yanks, : _ Who Lost 427'Planes and Bagged 734.

NEW ROCKET IS USED BY NAZIS AGAINST PLANES   94 British Bombers Lost Ir Attack On Targets In Nuernberg   FIGHTER DEFENSE OF GERMANS SETS RECORD

Nuernberg Attack Costs 94 Planes; Record for RAF   Bombers Fight Grimly ‘Through Heaviest Nazi Force Yet Encountered

RAF LOSES 94 PLANES OER GERMANY   In Fight With Heaviest Nazi Fighter Force Ever Seen By British Pilots; Use “Scare Crow” Rocket.   23 Major Attacks

British Lose 94 Planes in Reich Attack   Cost Greatest Ever Sustained by Allies For Single Operation

Nurnberg Hit; RAF Loses 94   Big Nazi Fighter Unit Ha:  iGnunnnresct Hankate

NO STATE TAX ON REA CO-OPS   State Supreme Court Hands Down Ruling

REPORT HITLER TIGHTENS GRIP ON SATELLITES   Nazi Armies Saving Balkans From Allied Intrigue, Says Berlin

BALKANS FEAR HITLER'S WAR MENACE TODAY   Fate Of Hungary Is Example Of  German Rule

Nazis Say Area Needs Control   OCCUPATION OF BALKAN SECTION NOW COMPLETE

Hitler Tightens Grip On Balkans      Bulgarian Railways, Communications Said Being Seized By German Troops

Berlin Seeks To Justify Its ‘Occupation Of Balkan Nations   Says Germany Saving Satellites From Allied Intrigue As Puppet Regime Set Up In Hungary; Air-Borne ‘Troops Land In Bulgaria.

NAZIS TIGHTEN BALKANS’ GRIP   Puppet Regime Is Being Set Up In Hungary

Hitler Tightens Grip on Balkans   New Government Is Formed in Budapest With Quisling Premier

HITLER TIGHTENS GRIP ON SEVERAL SMALLER NATIONS      Puppet Government Reported Formed In Hungary After Antonescu Confers With Fuehrer.   [@OVES TO BUILD WALL TO SLOW UP RUSSIANS   Slovakia Probably Not Occupied But Interior Minister Warns People of Sacrifires,

-)Plancs And Subs Only Means Left To Hitler — —By Elton C, Fay (A   Nazis Building More Subs To Meet Invasion

Money Awaiting 1,100 Farmers  Triple-A Committee   Triple-A Committee Warns Payments Voic Unless Farmer Calls

Information is: That. To : bacco. Grower: Representatives have Refused To Accept Comprom: ise.

Franklin School Pupils In‘Concert  Present Picavarn For ,Parents-Relatives

Franklin School Pupils In Concert  Present Program For - Parents-Relatives

NELSON HOLDS WASTE PAPER NEED CRITICAL   Declares Lock Hos Forced Some War Mills To Close

MRPORI WILL — GET CREDITS   Ross Field To Be Class 3 Port Regardless Of Federal Aid

Information On Airport Fund Bill Received   Credit Would Be Giver For Money Spent On Development

AIR SUPPORT AIDS IN PUSH TOWARD ROME   FIFTH ARMY READY TO SHELL GERMAN ABBEY HIDEOUT

Allies Grant Enemy Three Hour Truce   800 Sorties Are Carried Out by Allies in 24 Hour Bombings

Nazis Call for Truce to Bury Dead; Fifth Army Warns Cassino Monastery to Expect Bombardment

HOUSE REFUSES T0 PASS TRAVEL PAY FOR WAR WORKERS   Vote Down, Proposal to Give Workers Pay to Travel Back te Homes

House Group To Study Post War Condition   Rayburn Indicates Chaos If Post-War Job Is Bungled

RAYBURN DISCUSSES POSTWAR SITUATION MAYORS CONFERENCE  HOUSE SPEAKER TO NAM] BI-PARTISAN COMMITTEE TO FRAME LEGISLATION

RAYBURN LAYS PEACE PLANS   House Speaker To Name Committee to Assure Prosperity

AAYBUAN LISTS “POSTWAR PLANS   Warns “Of. Prospect’ Of ; Greater, Centralized Government

RAYBURN PLANS COMMITTEE ON POSTWAR JOBS   Bi-Partisan Group fo be Named to Make Broad Inquiry as Basis for _ Needed Legislation

RAYBURN DISCUSSES POSTWAR SITUATION MAYORS CONFERENCE  HOUSE SPEAKER TO NAMI BIPARTISAN COMMITTEE

Must Not ~ Bungle in’ Peace Era   Speaker Rayburn Declares Another Depression: Would Mean Central. Covernment.   TO NAME COMMITTEE FOR POST-WAR JOB   Maximum Private’ Employment Should Be the Goal After War; He Says

RAYBURN MAPS ~ PROSPERITY BID   Will Select. House Group Tc Frame New Legislation

HOUSE NTT UNIT T0 PLAN “PEACE”      Rayburn Tells Conference  of Mayors Special Committee to Arrange for After War Economics.

PLAN CHANGES. A TAX FORM   CONGRESSMEN: MAKING MANY . SUGGESTIONS FOR SIMPLI- . ‘FYING INCOME TAX  - PEPORTS

Nation Is Near Taxation Limit George Says   °° TS SLASH 4 Att NN NAZIS * iN POCKET

v1, wal SLASH «TSM NAZIS WN DOCKET   Nation Is Near Taxation Limit George Says

USES Begins Job Channeling   Federal Agency Has Jurisdiction Over All Manpower, Referring Men to Work, Laborers for Industry; Women Included in Some Areas

Job-Hunting Right Ended By U.S. Rule   War Workers Get Warning to Stay Gn Essential Wack

WMC to Control  Hiring   U.S. Employment Service Now Has Nomina! Hiring  Power Over Males

Hiring Control Extension In U.S. Goes Into Effect   USES Has Nominal Jurisdiction Over  All Male Workers

‘War Workers Warned To Stay On Jobs As USES Takes Over U. S.-Wide Hiring Control

MANPOWER COMM. POWER INCREASED   Extension of Hiring Controls Effective Today

U. §. Employment Service Today Takes Over Employment Jurisdiction Over All Males Except Farm Workers

GREATER WMC HIRING LIMITS TAKE EFFECT   Leaders Warn Workers To Remain on Jobs  Or Delay Peace

New Hiring Controls are Now in Effect   Designed to Place Workers According To the War Effort

PLUMMER HEADS AMERICAN LEGICH      Annual Election of Officers Held Thursday  Ewaning

NAUT ATTAGKS ARE REPULSED   LASH OUT IN FREEZING WEATHER AT FIFTH ARMY

NAZIS ASSAULT U.S. 5TH ARMY   German Blows Repulsed As British Score Advances

GERMANS ATTACK IN FREEZING COLD ON FIFTH ARMY'S FRONT AT BOLOGNI   Local Actions Make Up Italian Report

Sth Army Stops German Attack   Nazis Lose Out In Freezing Weather On Adriatic Sector

JAPS REACH TRAIL-NEAR IMPHAL BASE   Only Patrol Activity on Plain around Imphal; Base Considered Safe.  - Good Communication.   Counter-Attacks

Yanks Attack New Target  in Carolines  Nomoi Atoll, 150 Miles From Truk, Is Blasted

Yanks Attack New Target  in Carolines  Nomoi Atoll, 150 Miles From

Yanks Capture Cisterna, Littoria   . Plunge Three Miles Beyond Appian Way, Within Gun Range of Nazi Supply Vein

HOLY UHIY NUBURG I HERI GOAL   Merged Armies Close In on Velletri   eect ame  Open All-Out Drive lor Holy City

LESSAY, ST. LO, PERIERS BRACE FOR ASSAULTS   Deughboys Seek To Free Cherbourg Battleneck

Make 4 Mile Advance in 24 Hours   Drive Toward Periers Is Largest Gain In One Day

Daniels Refuses . To Confirm, Deny Slattery Charge   Aide to President May Be Cited for Contempt Ry Senate-Committee

Whisky Ration Period Cut   New Period Started Monday; Last 3 Weeks

Liquor Ration Period Shortened To F our Weeks Beginning Sept. 25

Liquor Rationing ls Cut One Week Starting Sept. 25  Can Get New Supply In Cour Weeks

Dewey Expects tc Be Kept Informed on F. D. B., Churchill Conference

Dewey Demand: To Be In’ On Quebec Parley   Says He Expects To Be “Informed’ On F. D. Talks

WORK PLAN MAY FREE 1,000,000   Navy’s Two 9-Hour Shifts Produce More Than Three 8-Hour

WORK CHANGES All ~MANPOWER   Navy Program May Release Million Workers

Japanese Troops Capture Moirang   Smash Desperate Allied Defenses

FRANKFURT IS BOMBER TARGET   Over 1,600 Planes Of All Types In Air During Day

1,600 to 2,100 Allied Planes. Blast Europe   Frankfurt Area Target Of American Bombers;  Atlantic Wall Pounded

AMERICANS BOMB. FRANKFURT ARE!   FOURTEEN PLANES LOST ON RAID—EXPLOSIVES DROPPED THROUGH CLOUDS.

Installations in Frankfurt  area lashed  ' Nazi Atlantic wall plastered

FRANKFURT AREA IS SUBJECTED TO HEAVY RAID   Other Attacks Staged On Nazis’ Atlantic Wall  In France

Large Armada Makes At.  tack in Frankfurt Area  FOURTEEN PLANES LOST DURING DAY  Operations Carried Out  Despite Bad Weather Conditions

Yank Heavies Pound Target: In Frankfurt   Over 1,600 Planes Based in Britain in Air Against Germans Claim Rome Raided

Aerial Assaults Are Stepped Up  More Than 1,600 Planes Hit Nazis

LARGE FORGE OF "HLLIED BOMBERS HITS NAZI AREAD   Fighter - escorted Fortresses And Liberators Blast “ Frankfurt Plants   6 U. $. BOMBERS, 8 FIGHTERS ARE MISSING   “Radio Broadcasts Indicate RAF Night Bombers Bound For Reich, Strong Force of Allied Planes Hammer Atlantic Wall

IN FRANKFURT AREA BLASTED   Foe’s Atlantic Wall is Also, Plastered By Allied Planes

Nancy Holt LosesAppeal InHighCourt   OKLAHOMA WOMAN MUST SERVE LIFE SENTENCE FOR POISONING HER PIPELINE WORKER HUSBAND.   Justice Drew Dissents

‘Momentous’ Moves Hinted In Argentina   Gov er nment Starts Round. up. of Opposition Ele “ments to Halt Rumors

Nazi Plane -Losses Hit. ~HitiMark   644 Craft Blasted From Skies During Big Week Of Allied Attacks  —~== {jn Factories

Allied Airmen Blast 644 Nazi Planes From Ski   Week's Air Losses Costliest Germany Has Ever Suffered

Grueling air activity tells on Germans   Enemy faces dreary future

Nazis Cleared From Mont Du Roc As Yank Battle Toward  Center Of City.

CALL FOR WEST POINT, ANNAPOLIS ASPIRANTS   Congressman Chester H. Gross Has Four Vacancies To Fill From This District

Japanese Break Into Hengyang   Chinese Garrison Killed to Last Man, Leader Says

JAPS BREAK INTO HENGYANG, KILL MOST OF CHINESE ARMY GARRISON   U. S. ARMY, MARINE TROOPS SQUEEZE DOOMED NIPS IN GUAM POCKET: YAP GETS FINISHING BLOW

Japs Claim Hengyang   Report of Rail City’s Fall Lacks Chinese Confirmation

10,000 JAPS AT MERCY OF U).$. BOMBERS   froops And _ Laborers Cornered On Four Atolls Are Keeping Airfields Usable; No Planes Left To Fly.   Sink Ships

Dewey Far Ahead In Pennsylvania   124,287 Write-in Votes for Governor

Late Returns Give Dewey 16 to 1 Lead   New Yorker Forges Far to Front In Keystone State

GOV. DEWEY GIVEN BIG PENNSY VOTE      New York, Executive Is Heavy Favorite for  State’s Delegation

» American Troops Land In ‘Asia Islands, 130 Miles ‘North Sorong, Report Says

YANKS IN NEW PACIFIC INVASION   AmericanTroopsLanc in Asia Islands Near Dutch New Guinea

YANKEES OCCUPY ASIAS T0 CHECK PLANE SPOTTING   Tighten Screws on Jap Trap: Recapture Ngeregong; Bombard Iwo Jina

LEYTE CASUALTIES LISTED: TOKYO RAID REPORTED   Yank Troops Invede2 Asia Isles Off New Guinea

YANKEES LAND IN NEW PACIFIC ISLAND GROUP   Japanese Deprived Of Spotting Station On Bomber Airway   ‘ALL MAPIA OCCUPIED   MacArthur Declares Enemy Losses In Leyte Fighting Now Total 45,000

LEVTE CASUALTIES STE TOKYO RAID REPORTED)   Yank Troops ~ Invede Asia Isles _ Off New Guinea

WO oTAT NAME NOMINEES   Ohio Expected Jump Bricker Into Second Place   WEST VIRGINIA VOTES   Most Candidates Like Dewey, Some Favor Bricker; Delegate Strength Listed

Indications Point To Thomas Dewey First, With John W. Bricker In Second Place In Ohio Primary

BRICKER WILL GET 50 VOTES   Ohioans to Back Governor For Presidency; He's Far Behind Dewey

BRICKER GAINS VOTES AT HOME   Ohio Governor Is Stil Far Behind Dewey In Presidential Test

Bricker to Gain  Ohio's 50 Votes   West Virginia Also Holds Primary Today

Bricker To Jump Stassen’s Place   Ohio To Make Him Second fo Dewey

Americans Knife Way to Rear of Fleeing Nazis  Junction Reported With Forces = See aw —_

NORTH-SOUTH JUNCTION BY U.S. ARMIES   Mediterranean Units Meet Eisenhower  Soldiers

_ ‘CREWLESS’ B-17 LANDS  Huge Plane Wanders Skies For 5 Hours Before Crashing In Minnesota

Planes Blast Nazi Rail, Oil Centers   Devasating Attack Carried Out By 1,300 Raiders

Freight Yards, Oil Plants in Reich Are Heavily Blasted   - An Estimated 100,000 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Germany During Month, With .40 Major Industrial Cities Blasted

Bombs Blast Nazi Plants  Luftwaffe Refuses t Bae. 6. Wet  a~ =e Sea «

Rain and Mud Slow American Advance on Leyte   Superforts Bomb Heart of Jap Air Industry

Yank Troops Hoist American Flag Ove Four More Atolls of Marshall Islands

YANKS CAPTURE 4 MORE ATOLLS   Sovereignty Is Established Also on Large Island

JAPS NEAR END OF CHINA DRIVE   Only Localized Fighting in Liuchow Reported by Chungking

LIUCHOW GIVEN UP BY CHINESE   U.S. Air Force Abandons Last Base As Japs Push Westward

With Only Localized Street Fighting in Liuchow, Former Site of U. S. Air Base.   Throw Back Jans

Jap Drive Nears End At Liuchow   Campaign to Clear U.S. Air Power From China  Area Apparently  Successful

GIANT FLEETS OF RAF BLAST RUINED ESSEN   2,800 Tons of Bombs Dropped  a to at  HANOVER HIT TOO  Air Attacks Speeded By Allies

SMASHED WITH 100 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES   Record Fleet of Marauders Hits Nazi E-Boat Bases

Rocket Coast, Railroads, Airdromes Hit   Bombers From Italy Smash Romanian Oil Installations

Rocket Coast, Railroads, Airdromes Hit  Bombers From Italy Smash Romanian  Ce PE ee

Dewey Will Speak Tonight   Will Outline Measure To Restore Collective Bargaining

Bid for Labor Backing Neat   Bewry in Seattle For Speech Tonight

Dewey to Give Labor Views in Speech Tonight   Nominee Resumes Tour on Coast; Talks at Seattle

TONISHT DEWEY WILL BROADCAST   G.O.P. Candidate Will Make Bid for Labor Support

DEWEY 10 GIVE LABOR VIEWS   Major Address Is Scheduled in Seattle

Dewey To Give Program For  Labor Future   Speech Tonight Will Set Forth Wrongs, : Needs Of Labor

Dewey’s Labor Talk ‘Tonight   ‘Speech At Seattle, 10:3(  P, M., EWT, to Be Or  Problems Facing th   Workers

@EWEY BIDS FOR LABOR SUPPORT   Seattle Speech Monday Night Opens Coastal Drive

Dewey To Deal With Labor In ‘Seattle Talk   Will Discuss Measures Needed to “Restore Free ” Collective Bargaining,” Seerelary Says

DEWEY SPEAKS AT SEATTLE MONDAY IN LABOR SUPPORT BIL   Radio Talk In Evening First Of Four On Coast Visit

Dewey Headed For Seattle   GOP Nominee To Address Nation Tonight On American Labor

State Troops Are Ready To Move Into Philadelphia   Three Regiments Mobiliz ed As Showdown With Strikers Nears.

TROOPS POISED IN TRANSIT ROW   State Guards Mobilized As Strikers Defy U. S. Army

Pennsylvania State Guard Units Mobilized As Transit Strikers Defy Army:dyders to Return to Jobs

Army-Striker Showdown. Near At Philadelphia   ’ Transit Workers Continue Defiance Of State Guards; To Beain Arrests -

Temperatures   TATE GUARD MOBILIZED IN PHILA. STRIKE   ‘hree Regiments Fully armed As Strikers Defy Army Again

"MOBILIZED FOR “PHILA, STRIKE   Call Three ‘ee Regiments To Maintain . “Order   SHOWDOWN NEAR   ‘Threats of Arrest. Are “tage: Against “Strikers

TRANSIT STRIKE GUARD MOBILIZED   6,000 Workers Defy Army ‘Order To End 5-Day Walkout —

SHOWDOWN IN STRIKE NEAR   State Guard Mobilized As Philadelphia Workers Remain Defiant

Pennsylvania Guard Called Against Strikers   6,000 Workers Again Defy Army Orders  Of Government.

Pennsylvania Guard Called To Strike Zone   Transit Workers Continue To Defy Army Authority

STRIKERS DEFY ORDERS TO END TRAVEL TIEUP   Federal Authorities Plam Arrest Insurgent Workers

Labor Situation Reported Better Despite Tieup   Showdown Seen Imminent As Philadelphia Strike ‘Enters Its Fifth Day

‘ests Believed Near as orkers Refuse to Resume Service  0 $RRATAIN 3 otim   0 REMAIN OUT   ‘ly. Peace Foreseen in ntreal Dispute; Three New Dlinois Strikes

Philadelphia Strike Goes On   Government Moves Te Force A Showdown

GUARD UNITS ARE FULLY ARMED FOR FASTEN STRIKE   State Regiments Brought In To Keep Order While U. ' §N Troops Operate Cars and Busses.   POLICEMEN RIDE WITH  VEHICLE OPERATORS   Bars and Liquor Stores Are Closed as Precaution Against Outbreaks of Racial Violence:

Kuriles Attacked By Planes   U. S. Airmen Unload 13th Cargo Of Bombs On Paramushiro  And Shumushu.

YANKS CLOSING IN ON BIG JAP BASE HOLLANDIA   Largest ..merican Invasion Force In Southwest Pacific Encounters No Organized Opposition.

cro OF Allied Landing   Safety Deposit Boxes — Fail To Yield Clue

SEEK CLUES IN SLAYING   WILLIAMS SAFETY BOXES SEARCHED BY POLICE

“Biscuit Blast” Causes Most Tooth Casualties to Front Line Troops -

CONTINUED DRIVE  QF RUSSIAN ARMIES  REMAINS UNCHEGKEL GERMAN RAIL HOLDINGS  IN SEVERAL SECTORS ADE TURTATENER

Russians Capturé Twin Junctions of Pavlovsk,  Pushkin Near Leningrad

SOVIETS SEIZE ~~ JUNCTIONS   Pushkin and Pavlovsk In Leningrad Sector Are Railroad Centers

Russians Plunge 15 Miles   REDS DRIVE ON CENTER OF NAZI DEFENSE LINE, CLOSE ON ESTONIA GATE

Nazis Lose Bridgehead On Volkhov   Reds Sweep On In Move To Clear All Railways In Leningrad Area.

RUSSIANS WIN 2 RAIL JUNCTIONS WITH ADVANCES   Capture of Pushkin, Paclovsk Announced by Premier Stalin

CAPTURE TWIN RAIL JUNCTIONS SOUTH OF CITY   Germans °Still Moving Back in Disorder,  Soviet Claims

SovietArmy In 10 Miles (Of Chudovo   Nazi Bridgehead Is Wired Out By Soviets

Reds Advance To Chudovo And Cut Bridgehead   Another Rail Line In Leningrad Sector Is Threatened; Escape  Lines Narrow

REDS SEIZE TWO GERMAN RAIL POINTS   Capture of Pushkin and ‘Pavlovsk Junctions Gives Them Control of Most of Lines Feeding  Tntan Teninoerad.

TWO JUNCTIONS FALL TQ REDS   Russians Control Most of Intricate Rail Network ~ To Leningrad.   NAZIS HOLD LITTLE NOW

Reds Drive At Another Line   Chopping Up German Com. munications on Leningrad Front

‘Soviets Wir ‘Leningrad’s Rail Lines   q  Vital Junctions Fall to Russian. Steamroller; Other Keys Mencced 

PAVLOVSK AND PUSHKIN TAKEN BY THE SOVIETS   Red Army Wins Control Of Most Of Intricate Rail Network Feeding Into Leninorad.

Russ Capture Two Vital Rail Centers   Fall of Pushkin and Pavlovsk Heavy Blow To German Defense

Red Successes Are Piling Up Against Nazis   Russians Wipe Out German Bridgehead on East Bank of Volkhov River.   Threaten to Cut Rail Line Below Leningrad

REDS CAPTURE KEY JUNCTIONS   Pushkin, Pavlovsk Fall As Soviets Clear Moscow Railway:

CONTINUED DRIVE OF RUSSIAN ARMIES REMAINS UNCHECKED  GERMAN RAIL HOLDINGS IN SEVERAL SECTORS ARE THREATENED

Reds Cui ~ More Nazi + Rail Lines   Systematic’ Destrnction: 0! Nazi. Communications in x) Leningrad Area 7   NEW ACTION ON : OTHER-FRONTS   ‘Continued = Successes Are "Reported in White Russia, iT wo. Forces Advancing

Nazis Are Forced To Quit City   Russians Race Southward After Easily Taking Control Of Important Ploesti Oil Fields

Reds at  Bulgaria Borders   Columns Threaten to Cross Frontier in Pursuit of Germans

Russians Liberate Vast Czech Area   Reds Also Advance on  German Rail Junction

Reds Capture Czechoslovak Rail Center:   18,000 Prisoners Are Captured by Russians

Yankee Troops Beat Back New German Attack   Nazis Broke Through Allied Lines, But: . Americans Regain Oriainal Positions

YANKS RECOVER LOST GROUND AT ANZ\0 BEACHHEAT   BEAT BACK STRONG NEW NAZI ATTACK WEST OF CISTERNA

COUNTERDRIVE OF GERMANS + REPULSED   Capture Of 1,000 Troops Claimed By Nazis   BITTER FIGHTING   Continues Around Cassino: Eighth Army Moving Up Adriatic Coast

American Troops Beat Back Strong New German Blow   Yariks Restore Forme Positions Following Thrust Which Broke Through Allied Lines

Yanks Repulse Strong Attack On Beachhead   Action Occurs Near Vital Rail And Road Hub Of Cisterna

Yanks Beat Off Heavy German Attack In Italy   Anzio Beachhead Made Secure; Battle For Cassino Continues

Renulse New Attack Whict cut Lines   Yanks Make New Advances In Raging Fight For Cassino

AMERICAN TROOPS REPULSE STRONG GERMAN ATTACKS   Nazis Broke Through Allied Front Lines 3 Miles West of Cisterna.   POSITIONS RESTORED      Cisterna Is Astride Appian ; Way, About 10 Miles : East of Carioceto.

G4. Strong Nazi  Beachhead Thrust Foiled  Americans Resiore Guginal Cisterna Lines After Day of Battle  GAIN NEAR CASSINO  Sth Army Also Advances,  Taking Two Town ns in _ «= sé

Yanks Repulse Strong Nazi Attacks on Rome Bridgehead And Restore Old Positions

Yanks Beat Off Germans At Cisterna   Mend Break In Lines Below Rome, Restore Former Pasitions.

Yanks Repel New Assault   Germans Drive Forward, Then Are Forced Back

NEW ATTACKS BY ENEMY IN ITALY HALTED   Fifth Army Troops Regain Lost Ground in Beachhead Below Rome

Nazi Attacks  Are Reversed Near Cisterna, Line Restored   Yanks Gain Victory After: Ground Loss-

Americans Gain Positions After Breakthrough  Fierce Fighting Rages At Cassino

‘American Troops Restore Lines After German Breakthrough Near Cisterna; New Advance at Cassino’

REGAIN AREA LOST T0 COUNTER-BLOW   Repulse New German Attacks and Return to Previous Front Near Rome; Cassino Battle Bitter.

Yanks Close Gap in Lines At Cisterna   Germans Pushed Back After Early Gains Against Allies

SEAL THE GAP WHERE NAZIS GOT THROUGH   German Assault Begun  Saturday Had Carried Enemy Through Defenses Three Miles West of Vital Cisterna.

RESTORE BREAK IN BEACHHEAD LINES   Germans Pushed Back After Break Through Near Cisterna   WEAVY FIGHTING   Loss: Of 500 Yards Is Recovered By Yanks In Weekend Battling . -

GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED IN ITALY   Americans Hurl Back Nazi: at Anzio Bridgehead

Repulse Strong German Attack Qn Anzio Line   Americans Repel Thrust _Which Broke Through Al‘lied Perimeter; Grim Fighting At Cassino.

Restore Positions After Germans Had Broken Through Allied Perimeter Near Cisterna   GAIN AT CASSINO   U.S. Troops Advance Norii and West of Town—Germans in City “Reinforced

Beachhead _ Troops Hurl Nazis’ Back   Original Positions Again _ In Allied Hands Following Sharp Engagement

Germans Mass for Counterattack on Beachhead at Anzic   Yankees Repulse One Nazi Drive; Fierce Fight at Cassino

Yanks Recapture Lost Ground At Beachhead    Germans Reinforce Beachhead Perimeter With Division Brought From Southern _ France: Battle In Cassino Streets.

REGAIN HOLDS SOUTH OF ROME   Breaks In Allied Perimeter At Anzio Beachhead Are Repaired

AMERICAN TROOPS IN ANZIO SECTOR REPULSED GERMANS   STRONG NEW NAZI ATTACK BREAKS LINE, BUT IT IS LATER RESTORED

Americans Restore Lines After German Assaults  Nazi Reinforcements Are Poised for Beachhead Battles

Powerful Nazi Counter-Blows Are Repulsed   iEnemy Pushed Back In Bat ‘Ue That Rages Through- { . out Saturday Night i ’ And Sunday:   Yanks Advance-ba Fight For Cassino   Battle to Within Few ‘Hun. _dred Yards: of: Monastery; Gity, Virtually 8 _Encircled .

THE YANKS THRO GERMANS. C BAL Kilt 5 ORIGINAL INS            Battle Lasts All Of Saturday Night and Part of Sunday   CASSINO BATTLE _ NEARLY ENDED

AMERICANS REPULSE GERMANS AT-ANZIQ   Positions Restored After Some flenime ie Pant

Germans Pierce Line But Are Driven Back   Fierce Fighting Reported at Beachhead and Around Cassino— More Attacks Foarmine

YANKS REPAIR BROKEN LINE SOUTH OF ROME   500-Yard Enemy Gain Thrown Back in Day and Night Battle,

Strong German Attack Which Breaks Through Allied Perimeter is Repulsed

U.S. Troops Hold Positions Near Cisterna   Ground Is Recovered After German Attack Drove Them Back 500 Yards Saturday

New Nazi Drive   Is Foreed Back   Report American ‘Troops: Make Fresh Advances  North, West Of Cassino

Bitter Fighting Still Rages on Italian Fronts   Nazi Offensive Breaks Through Allied Perimeter

Newton Pilot Bags Fifth Nazi Plane Strong German Counter  Attack Is Repulsed By Allies In Anzio Sector

ALLIES REGAIN ORIGINAL LINES SOUTH OF ROME   Fierce Battle Continues ir Struggle for Cassino Bastion

Yanks Smashed Nazi Assaults   3ERMAN COUNTER BLOWS _ AT CASSINO ARE STOPPED

Strong New Nazi Attack Repulsed By U.S. Troops   Germans Thrown Rack = After Break Through In Allied Perimeter; Lost  Ground Regained

U.S, TROOPS MOVE ONWARD AT CISTERNA   Repulse New Nazi Attack; Restore All Positions

Early Recess” F or Congress Now Impossible  New Floor Fights May Delay Close

Taxes, Stellinius’ Aides, Seaway Mey Prolong Congress   Arguments Predicted Before Big Issues Are Settled

HOUSE PASSES FREEZE BIL   Other Measures to Keep Congress Busy Including Seawav Project. Appointments

HOUSE APPROVES TAX FREEZE BILL   MEASURE: DESIGNED TO KEEP PAYROLL. TAX AT 1 PER CENT

Small Child Met Death Under Wheels Of Tracto:  Baby Girl Died On Waw Ta Hacerital

BARKLEY PUSHED FOR 2ND PLACE ON DEMO TICKET   -NameTo Be Placed Before Convention By Kentuckians

RANKEIN.. ANNOUNCES - HE HAS “COMPROMISED” DISPUTE  7 OVER... VELERANS!.. UNEM-.. PLOYMENT BENEFITS        By ‘WILLIAM THEIS  Witaiiintloe ct Sn eed

BILL OF RIGHTS SET FOR HOUSE   Rankin Compromises 0 Unemployment Pay For Veterans

SECOND IN HAM TRIO ARRESTED   ARIZONA GANGSTER IS NABBED IN BURGLARY

Long, Hard Pull Ahead Tn Pacific   Military Leaders Say War Against  Japan Just Begun

STRUGGLE ASIA MERELY STARTED NOW   Allied Leaders in Far East Can See No Short Cut to Victory Over Oriental Enemy

FEARS OF FAMINE IN MEAT VANISH      WEA, However, Says Avy. erage Family Will Obtain Less

.Meat Famine Fear Out, WFA Declares  But The Average Family Is Affected

Meat Supplies Held Adequate   Average Family Will Get Less Than in Winier

WEA Says Meat Supplies for U. S. More Plentiful Than Forecasts Indicated

However, WFA Says Civil. ians Can't Have as Much As During Winter

Fears Of Meat Famine Vanish   Ceiling Prices On Poultrv Increase

30'Fo50 Jap Planes Are Destroyed By 14th Air Unit   Stilwell’s Americans And Chinese Blast Enemy Airdrome On Hainan Island

Mitchells Down 50 Jap Planes In Hainan Raid   Force In China Hits Elsewhere

30 Jap Planes Destroyed In Chinese Raids   Attacks Hit Hainan Isle, North Thailand

14TH AAF HITS HAINAN ISLAND   30 To 50 Jap  Aircraft Are Destroyed In Raid

Brighton Man Train Victim   Section Foreman Fatally Injured.at River Bridge

§ to Tackle  Problems ii  British        ce Scheduled » Washington Soon to Head Group Six Americans

U.S. To Hold Oil Problem Conference  With British   To Be Second of Series Of Conferences  On Economic Policies For Post-War Years

U.S. British Oil Conference Will Be Held   Second of Series of Talks On Post-War Problems Set far Wachinctan

LESSEN IN U.S   Mississippi! River Reoediing From Highest Crest Sines 1844

Mississippi Receding from Highest Flood in Years, Troops Withdrawn

Divers Search  For Plane Bodies   Reveal Ship Broke Apart In Fatal Dive

Reds Win New Bridgehead   Cross Dnieper 37 Miles From Kherson; Fight In Streets of Tarnopol

Four Armies Push Against Trapped Nazis      Take Berislav, Hub Of Roads Branching Into Uk raine—-Cross Bug River,   POUND FIFTY DIVISIONS

CAPTURE CITY ONLY 37 MILES FROM KHERSON   Other Russian Forces Still Advancing, Reports Say

Bridgehead Established By Soviets   New Dnieper Action Is Reported; Center But 37 Miles From Nazi BRase At Kherecan

soviels Take Highway Hut In Far South  Spectacular Drive _ Crosses Dnjenar

Bridgehead Forced Across Dnieper River   Berislav, Highway Hub, Is Captured or Flaming 500 Mile Front

Russians Capture Town of Bereslav; Battle in Streets  Of City of Tarnopol

soviels take Highway Hub In Far South  Spectacular Drive   Spectacular Drive Crosses Dnieper

Spectacular Bridgeheads Established   Russian Troops Force Difficult Dnieper Crossing

Germans Lose Last Grip On Black Sea   Highway Point Falls; Ukraine Area Meets Impelling New Threat

Berislav, Hub Into Ukraine Falls to Soviets   Fight in Tarnopol; Zhukov’‘s Forces Hurl Back Germans

Soviets Breach Last Strefch Held By Nazis   Fighting Still Raging For Town Of Tarnopol

OO0-MILE UKRAINE FRONT 15 AFLAMEs FOE HARD PRESSEI   Three Soviet Armies Overrun 280 More Towns and Villages as They Pound Ahead.   BATILE STILL RAGES IN TARNOPOL STREETS   Massive Offensive May, if No Reverses Are Suffered, Pat Russians in Rumania in Week.

SOVIET TROOPS COS DNIEPER TAKE BERISEAL   /Other Forces Still Fighting in Streets of Tarnopol I for Third Day.

RUSSIANS CROSS DNIEPER, SEIZE VITAL BERISLAV   Successes Near Black Sea Added to Victories All Along the Front

Goebbels Tells Germans War Fate To Change   New Weapons Are Promised Harassed  eece  Nazi Civilans

GERMANS PUSHED BACK STEADILY IN NORTHERN RUSSIA   Main Railway Line Linking Moscow and Leningrad Is Virtually Cleared of Nazis.   REDS TAKE 84 TOWNS IN THREE SECTORS   Soviet Attacks in South and on Central Front Are Reported by Hitler’s High  Cammand.

Troops Ramming Against Great Siegfried Line   Batter Way Into Reich 70 Miles Apart; British Forces Capture Port of Le Havre; Third Army Driving Against Thionville

Port Of LeHavre ‘Captured To Today By British Units   Ast. Army ‘Spearhead Now: oh Miles: Inside Reich; - Others Cross In North

Long March To Berlin Starts   U.S. Third Army Cracks Old Maginot Line: British Capture Great Port Of Le Havre

Two American Columns Battle On German Soil   One Unit Thrusts Five Miles Inside Reich From Luxembourg; Gther In vades From Belgiuin   German Moselle Defense Cracked   Huns in Full-Seale Wide drawal From Positions On East Bank of River

Great Atlantic Port Of LaHavre, Badly Needed By Allies For Funneling Supplies Across France, Falls Ta Canadians.

Americans Hit Sieafried Line   Ist Army Plunges Into Reich; Le Havre Captured By British

‘Temperatures   Americans First Since Napoleon To Invade Germany in Strength; Brest Fort Also Reported Fallen

Two Berlin-Bound American Columns ‘Fighting in Reich   Single Front in France Results. From Union of Two Armies

COLUMNS THRUST INTO GERMANY   Allied Front From North Sca To Mediterranean

Yanks Ram Into Germar Main Lines   First Army Across Border In Two Places; British Capture LeHavre

e Havre Falls   Two Berlin- Bound Columns, -Ramming Against West Wall

Great Battle For Germany Shaping Up   Americans Fight Way Into Siegfried Line; Two Armies Joined

Yanks Plunge Over Frontier ‘In Strength’   Spearheads Of First Army 70 Miles Apart; Le Havre Falls; Patton’s Forces Jofn Patch’s Troops; Moselle Fight Rages

i  American Units, 70 Miles ‘Apart, Ram Up Against The Siegfried Line Today

Berlin-Bound Yanks Ram Into Germany   JAP FLEET MUST BE FORCED 10 FIGHT

Ram Against Siegfried Line: Le Havre Falls   Both Border Plunges Made By U.S. First Army Forces

BERLIN - BOUND UNITS 5 MILES INSIDE REICH   Tank Units Cross Belgian Border In Strength East of Eupen

Two Columns Jam Against Siegfried Line; LeHavre Falls To British Forces

Le Havre Captured By British   One Attacking From Luxembourg,  Others Move  From Belgium

Doughboys Battle On To Thionville A Or Beyond Moselle River; 55 Miles From Rhine and City of Koblenz.

AMERICANS NOW FIGHTING NAZIS INSIDE GERMANY   Le Havre Now In Allied Control; Armies Meet

One First Army Spearhead Thrusts  Five Miles Inside Germany From Luxembourg and to the North Elements of an Armored Division Cross Frontier in Strength, Stepping Off From Belgium East of Town of Eupen—Third Army at Border.

Battle Rages On German Soil   Allies Hold Solid Front From North Sea To Meditérranean, Seal Greot Trap on ‘Enemy: Forces Seeking to Reach Home

British Capture LeHavre   Third Army Cracks Moselle Defenses, While British Speed Through Netherlands

“TWO BERLIN-BOUND ARMIES ARE BATTERING NAZI DEFENSES ON: WIDE FRONT IN WESTERN AREA

Yanks Hit Siegfried Line Inside Germany On Road To Berlin   British Forces Capture Le Havre; Gen. Patton’s Troops Crack Through Old Maginot Line

TWO BERLIN-BOUND AMERICAN COLUMNS FIGHT IN NAZILAND   INVASION POINTS SEVENTY MILES APART AND HIT AT SIEGFRIED LINE

Le Havre Fall:  To Strong Allied Force   Two Strong American Units Drive Into Reich About 70 Miles Apart; Unified Front Is Presented in France; Luxembourg Freed

British Troops Take Le Havre, Hun Supply Base  Third An Seventh Form Solid

Solid Front From North Sea to the Mediterranean Is Formed by Junction of Allied Third and Seventh Army Forces   DOUGHBOYS THRUST INTO GERMANY NEAR TRIER

France's Second Port, Le Havre, Captured byBrifons   Third Army Cracks Through Old Maginot Line to Thionville

British Capture Le Havre After Intense Battle, Patton Cracks Old Maginot Line, Makes Contact with Patch

SIEGFRIED LINE BATTERED AT? POINTS ON WEST   365,000 Nazi Prisoners Have Been Taken By Allies In France

Solid Front Formed By Union Of 3rd And 7th British Take Le Havre

Nazi Soil Invaded For First Timein  Over a Century _   Third and Seventh Armies Join to Form Solid Front from North Sea to Mediterranean; Brest Reported Faller

Ist Army Thrusts Five Miles From Luxembourg; Tanks Cross Border From Belgium   Assaults Aimed At Piercing Nazis’ Siegfried Line; Port Of LeHavre Abandoned By Germans To British Forces

The Port Was Needed to Feed Supplies Forward for the Massive Assault on the  Reich. :      AMERICANS BATTER . SIEGFRIED LINE   Two Berlin-Bound Columns Battered Into Germany Seventy Miles Apart, London Reports.

First Big Baile Is Shaping Up   Solid Front Formed as Ist, syd and 7th U.S. Armies Make Junction   FRONTIER CROSSED BY STRONG UNITS   Bag of Prisoners Now. Well in Excess . of. “300,000; More Nazis Doomed.

American Columns Are Battering Against Germany’s  Siegfried Line

REPORTED TEN MILES ACROSS NAZI FRONTIER   German Resistance in La Havre Broken by British Forces

TROOPS STRIKE ONTO NAZI SOIL AT TWO POINTS   Four Allies Armies Linked For All-Out Blow Against West Wall Defenses   See map on Page 6,

First Army  Spearheads Thrust From Luxembourg and Belgium   LE HAVRE PORT FALLS   Third Army Crashes Thru Old Maginot Line to Thionville

2 Spearheads 70-Miles Apart, _ First Army Troops. 5 Miles Inside  ~ Reich At One Point and   Axmored Forces Cross   In Strength At Other   Point; wage .Resisfance.

American Troops Now Fighting Inside Germany   British Forces Capture Le Havre, Big Atlantic Port

AIRDROMES HIT SOUTH OF PARIS   Bombers Help To Keep Enemy Off Balance Behind Lines

All South of Paris: Other Targets in France and Paris Area Are Bomboa   Hit Robot Depots

THREE ENEMY AIRFIELDS HIT   Robot Depots Also Blasted As Heavy Allied Aerial  Assault Continues

‘No More Corporals’ Officer Explodes After Canterence with Adalf

Many Farms Demolished;  Heavy Losses   Storm Fans South and Kast of Sioux City— Nearly to Carroll Co.

20 NAZI U-BOAT “CAPTIVES ESCAPE   PRISONERS BREAK FROM CAMP NEAR PHOENIX, ARIZ.—6 RECAPTURED.

liinois House Reinstates Emergency Clause in Bill Giving Soldiers Vote

GUAM ATTACK MOVING; 2,000 JAPANESE DIE   INVASION OF TINIAN TURNS TO ROUT AS GARRISON FLEES

GAN ON GUAM ‘BIGGEST YET FOR ONE DAY   2,000 Japanese Killed in Counter: Attack

Gains Reported In ~ All Guam Sectors   Total of 4,700 Japanese Killed in Stubborn Fighting, Admiral Nimitz Reports—Battleships Shell Tinian

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F, D. R, Sweeps City OF New York With Greater Plurality Than In 1940 -

Finland Decides To Continue Its  War On Russie   Vote Is 160 To 40 Aqainst Accepting Soviet Peace Terms

Finns Reject Peace lerms From Russia   Parliament Votes To Continue War At Side of Nazis

FINNS DECIDE TO CONTINUE WAR   PARLIAMENT TURNS DOWN FINAL TERMS OFFERED BY RUSSIA

Finland to ‘Remain in » The War   Reports: Indicate Rejection of Soviet Russia’s Final Armistice Terms

Parliament Backs Premier in Decision fo Coniinue Ja War  Raweniment Uneeis   VOTE FOUR TO ONE   Diplomals in Moscow Reported to  Expect ‘Terrible Bombings’ to  Follow Rejection

Parliament Votes to Keep War Going   Report Rejection Vote, 160 to 40; Action Supports Premier's Stand

Finns Reject Soviet Terms   Parliament Decides To Continue At War With Rus sian Forces.

FINNS DISCUSS PEACE TERMS; MEETING TODAY   Premier Linkomies Urges Proposal Be Turned Down

\Parliament Votes 160 to 40 To Fight on; Secret Session (Follows Soviet Ultimatum

Finland Will Continue to Fight Russia   Parliament Rejects Peace Terms By 160-to-40 Vote

Finns Vote To Continue  W ar on Reds   Russia’s Final Armistice Terms Rejected By 160-40 Vote

SOVIET TERMS FOR PEACE ARE FLATLY REJECTED   Parliament by Vote: of 160 to 40 Votes Against Moscow’s Peace CondiHane y

FINNS DECIDE TO CONTINUE RUSSIAN WAR   Parliament Rejects Russia's Final Terms of Armistice  160 to 40.   Premier Describes Terms Unacceptable

Finns to Continue War With the Reds      Parliament Votes 160 to 40 to Reiect Soviet’s Final Terms of Armistice, Stockholm Hears From Reliable Source.

Five Injured In Early Accident   John R. Eichelberger, This County, Most Seriously Hurt.

FILIPINO SOLDIERS FOUND GIRL HALF BURIED IN A SHALLOW GRAVE AFTER FORTY-SIXTH DIVISION DROVE ENEMY BACK   Ry Col Cartos PL Romuto

@ CAITAAN SOFEARe  Fiendish Jap Soldiers Ravish Girls of Fallen Countries

Sugar To Be Made Available For Home Canning Purposes   Maximum Of 20 Pounds Will Be Granted By OPA On Application

Canning Sugar Allotment Again 25 Lhs. Per Persor   Five Pounds of Allotment Can Be Obtained With Sugar Stamp 40 In Book 4

Capture Boryslav, Sambor   Descend On East Prussia With New Drive Toward Baltic On 600 Mile Front.

UTE OVER FREE MAILING   USE OF CONGRESSIQNAL  \. FRANKS FOR POLITICAL UTERATURE 18 CAUB-: ING CONTROVERSY. ~

Rain, Sleet and Snow Hit State   Traffic Conditions Reported Hazardous In Northeast Area

OF 3.000 FROM PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR   Bond Purchases, Salaries, Bonuses, Operating Costs Up

READY FOR SERVICE   Twenty Boys Have Reached Age 18 And Have Registered

EIGHTEEN REGISTERED   Douglas County Youths Had Reached Eighteenth Birthday

EIGHTEEN REGISTERED   Young Men Reached Age of 18 and Are Eligible for Service

URGES CAPITAL, LABOR SETTLE OWN DISPUTES   Minimum of Government Interference Stressed  By Davis

WLB CHAIRMAN CLUB SPEAKER   Davis Favors Minimum ot Governmental Intervention in Problems.

WLB Head Urges Less Meddling With Industry   Minimum Of Federal Interference Asked By Wm. H. Davis

MOOSE LODGE TO INITIATE 25   Membership Here Nears 400 With New Candidates

U. §. Troops Pound Julich On The Roer, Sights On Cologne   Yanks Take Total Of 125 Tanks In Eight Day Fight

Left-Wing EAM Dispersed by British Tanks   Churchill Angers Liberal Forces

Leftists Are Dispersed After Laying © Siege to Police Barracks in Athens

FIERCE FIGHTING _ RAGES IN ATHENS   ELAS Lays Siege to Various. Police Bar: racks

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Some Nazis Among Prisoners Seized   Unrest Over ELAS Coup D’etat Still Seethes As Government Crisis Continues in Capital

Greek Liberals Blame Churchill   ‘Blocked Compromise ; Fighting Continues

WORM IN APPLE FOR HITLERDOM   Symptoms Show All [ Not Well Within Axis Ranks

CHEST GROUP IN ‘STEP-OFF   Industrial Division Workers To Assemble Tonight

KURILE ISLANDS BOMBED BY YANKS   ENEMY BASES NORTHEAST OF JAPAN RAIDED FOR THIRD ‘CONSECUTIVE DAY:

AERIAL ATTACKS NEARING TOKYO   Spring Offensive Opens Against Kurile Island Defense Chain

KURILES AGAIN   Aleutians-Based Bombers in Raid on Four of Islands; Hollandia Blasted

B-29’s Return to Nip Capital Today   Japs Confirm Second Raid Since Friday; Thailand Also Attacked

SECOND BOMBING MISSION OVER JAPANESE CAPI TAL CARRIED OUT BY HUGE PESANES BASED AT SAIPAN--ENEMY RADIO REPORTS BOMBERS HIT OTHER TARGETS ON MAIN ISLAND OF THE JAPANESE HOMELAND

INDUSTRIAL TARGETS   Other Superforts in Separate Raid Blast Japs in. Thailand

‘Senate May Debate Food Subsidy Plan   Slow Work on New Revenue Bill Continues; National Service Legislation May Be ‘ come Campaign Issue

FOOD SUBSIDY DEBATE LOOMS   Democratic Cpposition To Service Proposal Seen

SUBSIDIES FACE SENATE DEBATE   Barkley Finds No Progress On Compromise Action

Pilot Remington’s Crippled Ship Repaired At Nazi Base   Lincotn Flier Lands B-17 At Field Evacuated Few Days Before By Germans   Impressed Rv Recention

REPORT 2ND RED MOVE ON FAST PRUSSIA   Germans Claim Russians 15 Mi.  Across Frontier

PREWAR REICH UNDER 2-WAY ATTACK, CLAIM   Second Drive Opened By Reds On Province, Nazis Say

Second Offensive  Opened By Reds On East Prussia   Germans Say Soviets Have. Pushed 15 Miles Toward Insterburg

Fast Sante Fe Express Wrecked  Four Dead And Thirty Hurt In Passenger Train Crash

Allies Slice Off Robot Grounds;  Laon. Reims Fall   Both Flanks of Buckling Nazi Line Collapse as Foe Abandons Rouen, Patton Forces Storm Across Vesle

Allies Drive To Clear Up Robot  Jomb Coast Area   Other Columns Smash Toward German Border

Both Flanks of German Line Collapse With U. S. Capture of Rouen; Patton Occupies Reims, Pushes Across Vesle

REIMS FALLS; ENEMY FORCE QUITS ROUEN   Allied Spearheads 30 Miles From Belgium

Laon, 30 Mi. From Belgium, Taken In Secret March   First Army Advances 70 Miles; Third Army Captures Reims, Intact, Streams On Across Vesle River Toward Reich 50 Miles Away.

‘STEEL WAGES HEADING WLB      17-Cent-an-H our Bid Would Break “Little Steel”? Formula

LABOR BOARD ACTION LOOMS ON STEEL PAY   Perkins Handed Request Tc Certify Fight To WLB

Nazis Lose 10,000 Men in Stab to Break Encirclement; Other  Gains Made

REDS REPORT 10,000 SLAIN: BUG CROSSED   ODESSA EVACUATION BY GERMANS INDICATED

Malinovsky Races Toward Nikolaev   Reds Cross Middle Bug, Foe Flees to Odessa

Ten Thousand Germans Killed Trying to Make Escape   [FORCES DRIVING ON  PORT OF NIKOLAEV   Signal Victories Scored by Third Ukrainian Front  Army

Russ Break German Line 28 Mis. From Budapest   Red Army's Armored Culainns Reported Closing In On Hungarian Capital

Breach Wedged in Budapest Defenses, Admits Nazi Radic   Swift Russian Thrust Cracks Town 28 Miles From City’s Environs

REDS CRACK NAZIS NEAR BUDAPEST   City In Turmoil As Russians At Kunszentmiklos

Red Drive Breaches  Hungarian Defense   Budapest Neared As Nazis Weaken Fall Back Upon Defenses Capital Residents Were Forced to Construct

RUSSIAN SPEARHEADS REPORTED ADVANCING AGAINST BUDAPEST   STIFF RESISTANCE MET ON ROLLING PLAIN BY RED ARMIES

SOVIETS TAKE KECSKEMET IN 24-HOUR FIGHT   Drive Beyond Fallen City To Put Breach In German Lines  vTvewryY ?imeeemwrrar

Nazis Admit Breach in South Lines   Red Army Has Cracked Main Defenses In Budapest Vicinity

Russians Crack Defenses 28 Miles South of Budapest   Nazi Radio Describes Kunszentimiklos Action ac a ‘Breach’

Hun Defenses Near Hungary  Capital Broken   Nazi Commentator Describes Russian Action At Kunszentimiklos As  : “Breach”? In Lines   Moscow Declares Germans Wavering   Falling Back Upon Defenses Hungarians Have Been Forced to Dig Before Budapest

REDS PIERCE NAZI DEFENSE NEAR BUDAPEST   Russian Spearheads Now 30 Miles From City In Rapid Drive

Red Fr Orces Are Closing About City Of Budapest   Armored Spearheads Rolling Over Plain

21-Day Furlough For Selectees  To Be Abandoned   New Induction Plan To Indicate Change In Physical Exams

“Dewey Travels »lo Depend On Course Of War   y Extent OF Public” Appearances To Follow Roosevelt Campgian

Dewey Gives Win War Pledge   Republican Candidate Praises Party Unity, Predicts Democratic Efforts for Division; Nominee, Bricker Agree on Committee Heads

Japs Fleeing From Ikhrul After Dispersal   Some Go Toward Chindwin River In Burma, Others Withdraw To South

British Sub Crew Gets Italian Ships  Also Reports Enemy  Pay Roll Vessel Sunk

Americans Battle in Cherbourg Suburb:   ~ Yanks Less Than Mile from French Port’ Commercial Docks—Trapped Germans Given Ultimatum to Surrender or Die

Black Sea Ports Eyed In Red Drive   Moscow Hails Ukraine Offensive Tarnopol Menace

NEW OFFENSIVE IS THREATENING VITAL SEAPORTS   Nikolaev And Kherson, On Black Sea, Menaced By  Russians   FALL OF TARNOPOL BELIEVED IMMINENT

Black Sea Ports Are Threatened   Hundreds Of Thousands Of German Troops In Dnieper Bend Threatened By Latest Push; Strategic Hub Entered

Soviets Pound 105-Mile Gap  In Enemy Lines   Push Forees Nazis Back Toward Poland, Rumania: Staro-Konstantinoy Falls

THREATENING BLACK SEA PORTS, WHILE 300 MILES NORTHWEST OTHER TROOPS CAPTURE “IMPORTANT STRONGPOINT.” :

Big Black Sea Ports Menacec In New Drive   Major Nazi Base in Southwest Ukraine Captured; Reds Reach Suburbs of Tarnopol

Threaten Big Black Sea Ports; Take Vital City   German Troops in Dnieper Bend Are Menaced by Victories

Rip Wide Gap in Enemy Lines in Ukraine and Capture Strongpoint of Staro Konstantinov. ©   TWO BIG BLACK SEA. PORTS THREATENEI   Germans Falling Back Toward Southern Poland and Rumania Under Reds’ Hammer Blows. «

Soviets Pound 105-Mile Gap in Nazi Lines   Black Sea Ports of Nikolaev and Kherson Threatened

New Red Drive Rips Nazi Lines   Germans Menaced In Dnieper Attack  By TOM YARBROUGH  Reancintant Drace Siaflt Weitas

Strongpoint of Staro-KonStantinoy Is Captured  PORTS THREATENED BY SWIFT ADVANCE Troops Batter Way Into  Streets of Tarnopol Junction

Leave Enemy Choice of Entrapment Or Retreat Into Rumanian Area; Capture ‘important’ Point to North

New Red Drive Rios Nazi Lines:   Germans Menaced In Dnieper Attack  temeceesmut “Silas; cpaieeaonesraeteas aos

Red offense breaks thru 105-mile gap   Threaten big nazi Black sea ports

THRUST OPENS 103-MILE GAP IN NAZI LINES   SMASH AT ODESSA MAY BE SOVIET’S NEXT MOVE

Lull Reported in Robot Bombing   Many of Launching Platforms Destroyed

Doughboys Crash Through Bitter Nazi Resistance To Within 25 Miles OF Livorno

French Cut off German Escape Out of Toulon   Americans Advance Northwest of Toulon In Offensive Aimed at Isolating Marseille

* *# &© © &  Toulon Encitcled And Marseille Is Target of Drive   Gen. Patch Says Enemy Is Stunned By Heavy Blows

Toulon Now Encireled By French Land Force   Great Naval Base Shelled From Sea By Allied Armada; TJ. & Drives North

Sea And Land Forces Shell. Port; Yanks  Report Gains   Marseille Becomes. ‘Target For Attack:

FRENCH TROOPS TRAP ENEMY IN ENCIRCLED CITY   American Advance on Marseille Continues  At Swift Pace

Nazi Force Encircled At Toulon   Encirclement of Marseille, Second City of France, Only a Matter of Hours   WIDE GAINS MADE IN SOUTHERN AREA   Enemy Perplexed and Stunned, Gen, Patch Urges Troops Sieze Opportunity

FRENCH TROOPS CLOSE PINCERS AROUND TOULON   Berlin Claims Allied Forces Enter Mediterranean Naval Base

Toulon Begirt By Land and Sea, Garrison Cut Off   Americans and Freach Advance fo Isolate Marseille, Other Forces Spread Rapidly Inland

MARSEILLE ISOLATION IMMINENT   Grip On South France Expanded To 2000 Square Miles

FRENCH FORGES “SURROUND BASE: ALLIES REPORT   Ficantime American Troops Slash Westward to Menace Foe at Marseille

LONDON — — The Allies have advanced into the fortresece of Toulon, Berlin radio eetd tonieht.

Encircle Toulon, Cutting Nazi Last Route of Escape   Germans Are Still Resisting Inside Fixed Fortification  of Naval Base.   Naval Armada, !.and Battery Shell Fort

' i  French Troop: Cut Toulon ‘On Land Side   German Garrison in Big Mediterranean Naval Base Still Resisting

COND CITY OF RANCE DOOMED   : nch Troops Mopping ‘p Germans Inside City 1 Of Toulon  SH 60 MILES INLAND

American Troops Sweep Westward, Unless Halted Will  Isolate Marseille

OTHER FORCES PUSH SWIFTLY ON MARSEILLE   American Spearheads Rol 60 Miles Inland In One Sector Of Offensive

60 Miles Inland  In South France   French Troops of Seventh Army Have Encircled oulon   MOVE ON MARSEILLE   Patch Urges Allied Forces  to Utmost Speed in Operations

Toulon Fully Surrounded by French Troop:   Allies Now Hold 2000 Sq Miles in Southern France

Report Allies In Encircled Toulon Marseille May Soon Be Isolated

Americans Push On, Leave Poilus To Capture Port   Patch Calls On Seventh Army To Make German Defeat Decisive

Toulon Is Fully Encircled By Allies; Nazi Garrison In City Still Resisting

Yanks Push Sixty Miles IntoFrance   Marseille Encircled Except For 12 Mile yap On West   By The Associated Press  LONDON—The Allies have advanced into the fortress of Toulon, Berlin radio said tonight.

Order of the Day Calls én Every Officer and Every Man for Uninterrupted Continuation of Maximum Energy and Endurance for the Decisive Result Now At Hand :

French Force Surrounds Toulon Base   Americans Sweep To Isolate Marseille Port

Nazi Escape From Toulon Now Cut Off   French Mopping Up Inside City; Yanks Sweep Steadilvy Inland.

Toulon Fortress  Entered by Allies   American Troops Continue Gains, Threaten to Isolate Marseille

Last Escape For Germans Is Severed   ~ Naval Armada Gives Support In Southern France

wa Fully Encircled y French; Isolation of Marseille Is Imminent   Allies Now Hold Over 2,000  Square Miles in South France

FRENCH FIGHT IN OUTSKIRTS OF TOULON   House to House Engagements Take Place as Allies Encircle Naval Base, Cutting Off Last Escape Route.

Cut Last To Toulon Road Link   Nazi Garrison Battles On Within City; Encirclement of Marseille  Only Matter of Hours

French Forces - Within 8 Miles ‘Of Marseille   The Allies have advanced into the fortress of Toulon, Berlin radio said tonight,

Toulon Is Encircled By French   Drive Of Yanks Threatens To Isolate Marseille.

Toulon Is Encircled By French   _ All Escape Routes From City Severed, Yanks Are Closing Marseille Pincers

FRENCH TROOPS HAVE COMPLETELY ENCIRGLED TOULON   Cut the Last Eseape Route for German Garrison Forces.   ALLIES INTO TOULON   French Infantrymen Into the Outskirts of Port in House to House Fighting.

French Troops Fighting House To House Through Outskirts Of Naval Port

Street Fighting  In Big Port As Yanks Push West   Allied Troops Within Eight Miles of Marseille; Other Columns Drive More Than 60 Miles Inland

Cut Last Escape For Germans In Toulon Bastion   Allies’ Westward Drive Will Soon Isolate Marseille

Last Escape Route From Toulon Severed   Big Naval Base Completely Encircled by Land; American Drive Threatens Soon to Isolate Marseille.

FRENCH TROOPS ENCIRCLE NAZIS NOW IN TOULON   Marseille May Fall Any Time  To Americans

Sever Final Eseape Route For Germans   American Troops Advance Steadily Westward; Isolate Marseille Soon.   TOE 8 STUNNED

Naval Armada Shells Enemy Strongpoints   French Fight Way House To House In Port City

Last Kseape Route For Garrison Cut   Infantrymen Advance Through Outskirts As Other Troops Approach Marseille

CURB PROPOSED ON CARTEL PRACTICES   Roosevelt Speaks Out Against System at ' + Conference

Cartels’ Curb Asked by FDR   World Ban Is Adyocated Tn Letier to Hnli

FDR Opposes Cartels: President Asks Curb on European System of Controlling Markets

CURB PROPOSED ON ~ CARTEL PRACTICES   Roosevelt Speaks Out Against System ate ' Conference: ="

AD OOMBERS, 1 FIGHTERS MISSING   Attacking Force Estimated at a@ Nearly 2,000 Planes   HEAVY OPPOSITION   $' Least 13 Missing Planes Reported to Have Landed — In Switzerland

R. A. F. Blasts Frankfurt in Night Raid   Attack Follows Heavy Blow by U.S. Bombers

03 PLANES LOST: BY AMERICANS IN -RAIDON GERMAN)   Fierce Opposition Encountered by Huge U. S: Air Fleet  ~ - a8 It Hits Augsburg  ° and Other Cities. . _~        FIGHTERS IN ‘ARMADA ° _SHOOT DOWN 30. NAZIS   Toll. Taken by Bombers Re -~mains in Doubt—Berlin  '- Reports Series :of Running Fights.

R.A.F. Smashes Frankfort In Follow-Up to American \2000 Plane Raid on Reich

heavy Aerial Blows Rained On Germans   RAF Fellows U.S. Davlight Forays 

RAF FOLLOWUP STABS MADE BY YANK FORCES   Americans Lose 53 Planes in Attack on Nazi Targets

Night Raid Described As Heavy   British Follow Up Smashing U. S. Attack On Southern Reich

Nearly 2000 Planes in Raid 53 Are Missine   Thirteen Reported To Have Landed Safely In Switzerland; 39 Enemy Planes Downed

British Bombers Blast Frankfurt In Night Raid   2000 American Planes Bomb Nazi Industrial Cities

FRANKFURT MAIN TARGET OF STAB BY NIGHT FORGE   Americans Lose 43 Bombers in Attack on Augsburg and Friedrichshafen

Enemy Throws Fighter Force Against Yanks   Fly 30 Abreast Into U.S. Formations; Raid Hits Friedrichshafen, Augsburg, Other Cities  o.. AT’ Tre’ BO ae ae er A oe

New Raids Thrown Against Enemy At Truk, Kuriles, Carolines, Marshalls

U.S: STEPS UP KURILE BLOWS   Jap Island Outposts Being  Bombed With Daily Regularity

Kuriles Bombed 4 Days In Row   Island Approaches To Japan Hit As Are Carolines Avain.

BLAST KURILE ISLES FOR 4TH STRAIGHT DAY   Report Four Attacks on Chain Thursday; Caroline Targets Hit

—PACIFIC— ENEMY OUTPOSTS WN PACIFIC HIT   Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Steps Up Air Blows Against Nips   BUSY IN NORTH   Thirteen Raids Made On ‘Kurile Island Chain In  «Four Days

Aerial Blows Against Nips Increasing   Island Outposts from Arctic to Tropics Blasted Daily in Stepped up Offense

Heurilee Attacked Acain   Decisive Battle With Nippon Fleet Predicted By Admiral Ernest Kins

Heavy Sea Force In Daring Blow On Antwerp Barrier   Flushing And Westkapelle Captured; Engineers Clearing Schelde Channel For Materiel To Support Knockout Drive In West.

Geo. Suarez OnTrial For ‘Life, Traitor   n Abandoning His Par ty He Said New Deal Government Met the Foreign [ssues More Squarelv

Paris Journalist Is on Trial as Collaborationist  First in Long Series o Cases Opened  RASS LL wie. mere Ne

Quislings To Trial   France Takes First Step Toward Putting Upset House in Order

Paris Plans Many Trials   10,000: Are Accused .As Collaborationists

100,000 AWAIT APPEARANCE IN SPECIAL COURT   First Step By France Te Place Its House In Order

Collaborationist Trials Started In Paris Court   Journalist Is lst Defendant

Trials Begin for Collaborationists In France Monday   First Step to Put House in Order; 100,000 Await Justice

Quisling Trials Opened in France  Nazi Collaborists Number 100.000

Paris Journalist is on Trial as Collaborationist  First in Long Series Of Cases Opened By French Tribunals

France Begins Traitor Trials   Hundred Thousand Accused Of Collaborism With Nazis Face Trial.

Divorce Libels   Five Have Been Filed In the County Court This Week

FIVE SEEK DIVORCES IN THE COUNTY COURTS   Lower Makefield Man Asks Divorce From His  Wife

Homer City Boy Kills Jap Sniper   By Sergeant Ray FVilzpatrick, of Waterbury, Conn., 2 Marine Corps Combat Corresopendent,

VINSON OKAYS PAY INCREASE   CIO Steel Workers Will Re ceive Wage Hikes Recommended by the WLB

Vinson Backs Higher Wages To Steel Men  Bases Agreement  On OPA Assurance Dei:wne VAlan’és Cace

Seventh Army Moves Over Fields Strewn With Dead  THIRD ARMY ALSO SCORES NEW GAINS  Canadians on the French Coast Grant Armistice to Nazis ©

Seventh Smashes Toward Belfort Gap And Third Carves Out Sharp Advance

Stand Firm Both Ends Of  Western Line   Germans Destroy Northern Approaches — (o Aruhem Bridge In Retreat Across Nedéi Rhine. Third Army Gains Vive Miles

Press Foe Back At Both Ends — Of Western Line   Germans Retreat Across Rhine Near Arnhem as British Strike; Third Army Makes Five-Mile Gam

U. 5. 7TH ARMY CLOSES IN ON BELFORT GAP   SITE OF NEXT BLOW KEEPS GERMANS GUESSING

BLOW BRIDGE APPROACHES, BALK PURSUIT   American Seventh Army* Plunges Forward to Within 11 Miles of Belfort Gateway.   PATTON KNOCKS OUT 82 TANKS   Advances Five Miles Between Metz and Nancy —Repulses Six German Counter-Attacks,

Blow Approaches _ to Bridge at Arnhem to Balk Pursuit and on Extreme South Are Hotly Beset by Seventh Army Near Balfort Gap.

Seventh Army Moves Over Fields Strewn With Dead  THIRD ARMY ALSO SCORES NEW GAINS  Canadians on the French   Canadians on the French Coast Grant Armis-  tice to Nazis 

Seventh Army Gains 5 Miles Near Belfort   Germans Blast Approaches to Neder Rhine Bridge; Patton’s Forces Advance, Destroy 82 Tanks

APPROACHES T0 RHINE BRIDGE ARE DESTROYED   Germans Are Hotly Beset In Extreme South Of Western Front —   FIRST SNOW FALLS IN BELFORT GAP SECTOR

Germans Blow Up Approaches To Vital Bridge   Americans Gain Five Miles in New Drive on Belfort Gap

GERMANS THREATEN TRIAL OF ALLIED FIGHTER PILOTS AS-WAR CRIMINALS

GERMAN PEOPLE TO TRY PILOTS   Allied Airmen Captured i Raids Would Go Before Civilian Courts?

Nazi Threat of Reprisal Against Fliers Attacking Trains Reported

Germans Threaten Trials for Allied  Airmen Shot Down  Charge Atiacks Made on Trains Carrying Women and Children, Many Hecnilals Attacked

Try American Pilots Down In Germany   Stockholm Paper Publishes News of  German Threat

YANKS DRIVE THROUGH FUTA PASS   5th Army Crashes Main Nazi Line Below Bologna

5th And 8th Armies Drive To Join Lines   Americans Pound Through Futa Pass, 12 Miles  From Rimini Road

PUSH THROUGH FUTA PASS   Yanks 12 Miles From. Bologna-Rimini Road

YANKS IN ITALY NEAR JUNCTURE WITH BRITISH   Destroy in Nine Diys Line That Took. ‘Nine ‘Months to Build

Americans Drive Through Futa Pass   Way Is Paved For Junction In Italy With Eighth Army Moving Up Po Valley.

Americans Drive Through Futa Pass In Center, Pres: For Junction With 8th Army In Po Valley 2

Fifth Cracks Vital Futa Pass in Italy   Head for Junction With British in Po

American Troops Drive Through Vital Futa Pass   Way For Junction With British Eighth Army Being Paved

Heavy Battle Rages   Front Line Reports Indicate Progress of Invasion Warrants  “Sober Satisfaction”

Both Allies And Nazis Drop Men   Peninsula Strewn With Colored Parachutes, Rations And Equipment

NAVY RECRUITER HERE DECEMBER 12   Chief O. J. Ostrander of St. Joseph to Be at Post Office on That Date.

HEALY  AVENNATIXEN BYEIGHTH ARM   Canadians Capture Nazi Stronghold On Adriatic: Rail Line Cut

Eighth Army Cuts Railway   ‘Ravenna-Faenza Main Highway. Ts. ‘Severed -

BRITISH CAPTURE CITY OF RAVENNA   German Stronghold on Adriatic Is Taken By Eighth Army.

Swift Allied Blow Topples Ravenna   Key Italian Coast:City Seized by Canadians

8th Army Captures Ravenna   German Stronghold On Adriatic Falls To Encircling Teaanc

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES CITY - OF RAVENNA   German Stronghold Ig on Adriatic and Its Capture Is Achieved by a Brilliant Encircling Maneuver.

EIGHTH ARMY WINS RAVENNA TO MAKE MOST NORTHERN STAB INTO ITALY   Highway Hub Falls After Long Fight

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS CAPTURED RAVENNA, GERMAN STRONGHOLD  BRILLIANT ENCIRCLING MOVEMENT ON ITALIAN ©

Ravenna In Italy Falls To British   Canadians Circle City Road, Rail Line To Bologna Cut

RAVENNA IS CAPTURED BY EIGHTH ARMY   Nazis Say Allies Have Started New Drive In Italy

ITALY RAILWAY CUT BY BRITISH   Two Towns Taken In Eighth Army Advance On Faenza

Advances Are Posted Alone Italian Front   Capture of Ravenna s Important  To Alltec

NORTH-MOST PENETRATION OF PENINSULA   Allies in Position for Heavy Blows at Fascists

Eighth Army Moves Into Ravenna   German Stronghold on Adriatic Falls in  Enecircling Movement

RAVENNA FALLS TO EIGHTH ARMY   BRITISH ANNOUNCE CAPTURE OF NAZIS’ AVIATION BASTION

Eighth Army Captures Key Italian Town   Canadian Units Drive Into Ravenna. Nazi Stronghold on Adriatic

Italian Front Flares Anew   Alexanider’s Men Take Ravenna in New Push

Ravenna, Nazi Port on Adriatic, Falls To Canadian Forces   Encircling Action Out. flanks City; Russian - + Army Regroups

Stronghold Of Nazis In Italy Is Captured   British Eighth Army Takes Ravenna In Brilliant Move

SAN VITTORE SPRINGBOARD FOR ADVANCE   Shock Troops Under Stars, Stripes Use Grenades To Blast Germans Out Of Pillboxes

CASSINO IS NEXT GOAL INJTALY.   Yanks Have Now Reached Village Of Giusto

House-To-House Battle Raging In Giusto Village   Hard-Won San Vittore ‘Used As Springboard For Allied Battalions

1000 Yards Gained After Bloody Fight   San Vittore Taken But Giusto Now Stands in Path

STILWELL 19) PUSHING JAPS FARTHER BACK   in Northern Burma and May Take Enemy Railroad City of Mogaung; Retreat Anniversary.   ).$. Tanks

Tank Forees Repel Japs   Stilwell Makes Gains In North Burma With Aid of Armored Units

AIDED BY TANK FORCE, ALLIES GAIN IN BURMA   Stilwell’s Men May Soon Capture Rail City of Mogaung

U.S. Tanks Lash Japs In Burma   ‘Vinegar Joe’ May Soon Get Mogaung

STILWELL NOW ONLY 30 MILES FROM MOGAUNG   Armored Forces Join Ir Battle Just 2 Years After Retreat Was Begun

Burma Allies Menace Jap Mogaung   All-American Unit Of Armored Troops Blasis Nip Jungles

Japanese Being Smashed Back in Northern Burma   RAILROAD CITY IS EXPECTED TO FALL   Forces of American Gen.eral Have Made Wide  “Advances

MANNERHEIM NEW FINN GOV'T HEAD   Woy Opened for “Peace Government" by-Par- — ‘liament

MANNERHEIM NEW ~ FINN GOV'T HEAD   ~~ Government” by-Per 7 ‘liament

ee NRL eg ie ment  cemeemtnnatmt  ct MRN = mme  Ryti Resigns In Finn Move T oward Peace

Manner heim:  New Pr esident Of Finland   Succeeds Risto Ryti, ° First Task: Apparently Ts Securing of: Peace

MANNERHEIM NEW -FINNISH PRESIDENT   Way for Formation of “Peace Government” Opened With His Acceantance of Post.

Mannerheim is president  of Finland   Path opened for _ peace proposals

Albuquerque Flyer Helps Blast Jap Bases in Palau Islands   Writer Aboard U. S. Carriers Flagship Tells Of Devastating Attack By Powerful Force

French Patriots To Proclaim a Fourth Republic   Dr. Alexis Carrel Is Dismissed; Actor Arrested in Purge

FOURTH FRENCH REPUBLIC + NEAR   Patriots “Purifying” Paris; Scientist Seized

Patriots Plan To Aid Allies Against Japan   Alleged French ‘ Collaborationist: Rounded up

FRANCE. TO PROCLAIM FOURTH REPUBLIC, AUGMENT FORCES ‘TO AID ALLIES IN EUROPE, ASIA

‘Arrest Alleged Collaborationists As French Seek To “Purify” Paris

Patriot Chiefs ‘Purify’ Paris Of Pro-Nazis   Alleged Collaborationists Arrested: Fourth Re ‘public To Be Proclaimed

Fren nch Set To Proclaim Ath Republic   Patriot Rapidly ‘Purify’ Paris of Alleged Nazi Aids

Paris Purged By Patriots   Fourth Republic and New Army Planned as One of First Acts

 Patriots Are “Purilying Queen of Cities   Guitry and Carrel Among Those Accused Of Collaboration

FRENCH PLAN TO PROCLAIM NEW REPUBLIC   Begin “Purifying" Paris With Apprehension Of Alleged Collaborationists

Patriot Units Ridding Paris   Famous Dr. Carrel Reported Panished

Government To Retain Mine Control   Biddle Rules Danger of Strikes Not Over

Allied Forces Strengthening Combat Lines   10 German Division: Fail To Find Break In Anzio Beachhead

Plan Four Years For Invasion   Preparations Began With British Loss At Dunkerque

PEOPLE TOLD TO QUIT WORK. HARASS NAZIS   French Urged to Join To Strike for Own Liberation

FRENCH URGED TO AID ALLIES   DeGaulle Asks Peeple To Uprise Against The Germans

DeGaulle Urges Uprising:  French Told To Strike Nazis Hard In Support of Great Allied Armies

ctions d by  ‘aulle   4 Told to Strike  {) Their Might. Enemy by Direct War

SOLDIER AND BONUS BILLS - ARE SPEEDED   Final Action by Maryland Senate Expected — Todav   REPEAL OF INTENT LAW 18 REJECTED   Much of Day Spent Wait_ing Completion of Amendments —

SOLDIER AND BONUS BILLS — ARE SPEEDED   Final Action by Maryland Senate Expected Today

Soldier Voting, Teacher Bonus Bills Advanced   Final Passage Possible Today

Wet Delays Farm Work   Two Weeks Behind With Spring Planting In Principal Areas

Japs Threaten Single Stroke   Premier Says Nips Wail Opportune Moment Ry Raw

Powerful U.S. Air Blows Hit Palau Islands   Unconfirmed Report Says Planes Also Blasted Zamboanga

Jap Premier Begs For Production in Grave Situation’  Americans Continue Palaus, Philippines Bombing Attacks

Schoolgirl Slain By Jealous Youth  Says She Went Out With Other Bovs

Tirpitz Crew Mostly Safe, ‘Nazis Report   _ Giant Battleship Sunk Quickly by Farthauake Bombs

'Tirpitz Is Wrecked by 6-Ton Bomb:   Additidna! Units of Britain’s Navy May Be Released for Pacific Duty

TIRPITZ CREW MOSTLY SAVED, GERMANY SAYS   Putting Nazi Queen of Seas Out Of Action Will Release British Fleet For Pacific.

Sinking Of Tirpitz To Free Strong Units Of British Navy For Action Against Japanese   Germans Say Battleship Destroyed In Shallow Water, Most Of Men Saved

BERLIN ADMITS TIRPITZ SUNK BY RAF BOMBERS   Victory May Release Fleet Units For Pacific Fighting

GREAT GERMAN BATTLESHIP, TIRPITZ SUNK  Crew Of 1600 - Rescued Off Norwav Cnaact

German Battleship Tirpitz ls Sunk By Bombs ‘Just Off Norwegian Coast’

OVER THE TOP AFTER FIERCE BOMBARDMEN?   Hand-to-Hand Fight Rages on City’s Outskirts

Lrapped Nazis Cut To Pieces   Bitter Hand-To-Hand Fighting Marks Approach To  Great Victory.

Resistance Slows In Encircled City   German Radio Prepares People for Evacuation News by Belittling Value of the Key Harbor

Harbor Ports Stormed from Rear in Final Assault Following Terrific Blasting by Massed Guns, 1,000 Planes

Russians Roll Forward Along 250-Mile Front   Amuzing Speed Developed By Red Army In Drive Against Four Nazi Main Bastions   Hun Withdrawal In White Russia Seen   Air Arm of Soviet Forces Pounding Nazi Reserves As Orsha Is Invested On AIl Sides

Red Goal Now Germany Itself As Nazis Crack   Vitebsk And Zhlobir Captured; 4 Vita Nazi Bastions Are Threatened

NAZIS CLAIM “RESCUE” OF BALTIC ARMY   Vhile Russians Report Resuming Offensive Against Romania; Capture 50 Localities.   in lasi Sector

Reds Slash At Romania   Nazi Broadcast Tells Of Soviet Offensive

Reds Resume Offensive on Romania Front   Section of Axis Line Northeast of Warsaw Shattered by Soviets In Broad Advance

Russians Cut 20-Mile Hole Th Reich Line   12,000 Germans Killed In Sandomierz Pocket; A Maweltcxs Baul.

Reds Shatter German Defense Line   Romanian Front Flares Into Action, Say Nazis

FAIR NOUGH   WESTBROOK PEGLER   AAY AGREE ON SOLDIER VOTE   ompromise Bill For Uni. form Balloting Is Brought Out   ANNOUNCES PLAN TO REBUILD SAN JUAN

U. S. SUBS SINK 26 JAP VESSELS   Largest Single Bag Ever _ Reported by Navy

MORE PRESSURE ON ARGENTINA   U. S$. Moves To Cut Off Trade With Pro-Nazi Country

OHIO DEMOCRATS PLAN PLATFORM   ‘Middleman’s Profit’ In Cos! Of Food Gets Attention

Shields Bearded Face From View on 500-ft. Death Walk   Convicted Murderer of Waverly, Ia., Guard Hanged at 8:44 a. m., Today at State Penitentiary; Silent to the Last   BY WALDO WIESE

Shields Bearded Face From View on 500-ft. Death Walk   Convicted Murderer of Waverly, la., Guard Hanged at 8:44 a. m., Today at State Penitentiary; Silent to the Last

Kaster Dies On Gallows At Sunrise   Hanged for Slaying of Utilities Plant Guard Sept. 25, 1943

Stanley Kaster Dies On State Prison Gallows   Hanged For Slaying Of Utilities Plant Guard At  Waverly.

EXECUTED FOR KILLING GUARD AT JOWA PLAN]   No Fanfair Marks Exacting of Justice This Forenoon. Condemned Covers His Face   Miavw Claim Body

NO COMMENT IS MADE: REFUSES TO SEE CLERGY   Trap Is Sprung by. Bremer. County- Sheriff  jn 33rd Towa Execution

American Army Plane Is Shot Down by British   Mistake Is Fatal To Six-Man Crew

MISTAKE DOWNS U.S, TRANSPORT   Civilian Crew Of 6 Lost As English Attack Plane In Error

U. 5. PLANE DOWNED IN ERROR OF WAR   British Fighter ‘Planes Shoot Down American Army Transport

British Fliers Down U.S. Plane   Mistake Proves One of War’s Tragic Errors; Six Civilians Lost.

Six-Man Civilian Crew Lost Over Convoy Route In Incident This Week

Russian Armies Advance Toward  Nazi-Held Pskor   Red Forces Continue To Drive Germans Back Gn Several Fronts   NAZI EQUIPMENT LOST IN RETREAT

REDS CLOSE IN ON PSKOV   Drive on Bastion Unchecked  Important Nazi Base of Dno Menaced

Army To Be Cut From Politics   Military Men To Accept If Duly Nominated

SPRINGBOARD IN SUPPORT OF ALLIES IN ITALY   First Amphibious Operation For French Troops Brings Determined Resistance by Nazis.

French Forces Invade Island  Of Elba Today   Valuable Because of Proximity to  Allied-Held Corsica

NEWSMEN PROTEST SECRECY SHROUDING ‘BIG 3’ CONFERENCE   Stettinius Interviewed Details Revealed Only Routine  1

Press Protests Secrecy Veiling Dumbarton Oak:   Delegates Told Peace May Come In Near Future

Aachen Surrenders To Yanks;  Allies Seize Command ‘Of 3 Gaps Leading Into Reich

Federal Employe List Shows 8,224 Increase From December to Januar

INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 18 JOINING IN FIRE PREVENTION CAMPAIGN, 3HD YEAR

Alpine Bombardier Gets Second Oak Leaf Cluster For Meritorious Service

Offers Eye To Soldier:   Hero at Deshon Hospital Thinks Co-Ed Real Hero

BEGIN’ SHELLING NIPPON BASE IN NORTH BURMA   Speedy, Secret Dash Through Rough Terrain Takes Japs by Surprise

Artillery Shells Monastery After Flying Fortress Raids   Fate Of 2,000 Men, Women And Children Refugees, In Addition To Priests, Who Had Taken Refuge In Abbey, Unknown.

Monastery Converted By Nazis Into Fort Blasted From Air And Shelled Bv Artillery

GERMANS SHOT FLEEING ABBEY   Enemy Soldiers Trying To Escape from Monastery Killed

GERMANS HAD TURNED ABBEY INTO A FORTRESS   LEAFLETS DROPPED WARNING REFUGEES AND MONKS TO FLEE

Allies Catch 300 Nazis in Artillery Fire   Germans Flee Ancient Benedictine Monastery After American Airmer Bomb Building

PRINTS: + THE NEWS  TELLS THE~ TRUTH *   Nazis Conver! Monastery ~ Into Fort   Leaflets Dropped; . Nazis Try to Flee; Shells Follow Bembs

Nazis Ask Truce On Beachhead To Bury Their Dead   Italians Warned To Leave Mount Cassino Monastery Prior To Bombardment; Rail Yards Are Blasted In North Italy

FORTS BATTER ABBEY SHIELD OF NAZI FORCE   Three Waves of Bombers Attack Positions Above Cassino

GERMANS ASK TRUGE TO BURY DEAD IN ITALY   Nazis Bury 200 During Three Hour Lull

Fag Shortage Will Continue  Bits From About The Nation’s Capital

ACTION MAKES. UMBERTO NeW ITALIAN RULEE   Badoglio Calls for Reshuffle of Ministry to Take In More Civilians.

EMMANUEL OUT AS ITALY’S KING; SON GETS CROWN   Makes Good His Tromise To Retire; Povulace Haopy

King Turns Over Crown To His Son   Umberto Takes Over as Rome Falls to Allies

Says Russia Will Recognize Poland   Lange Quotes Stalin as Saying ‘No Interference’

U. 5. Battleships Blast Germans   Texas and NevadaShell Normandy

OFFICIALS STUGY MANPOWER LACK   Airplane Production 499 Planes Behind Schedule in July

PLANE OUTPUT BELOW HOPES   NEW. CONFERENCE HELD TO DISCUSS MANPOWER PROB- ; . ‘LEMS IN VITAL, (WAR:  “INDUSTRIES: —

Government Ofiiciais Go To Work To Whip Manpower Shortage As Output Lags

OFFIGIALS STUGY WANPOWER TECK   Airplane Production  1499 Planes Behind:  Schedule in July.

STIGLER-WINS— IN OKLAHOMA   DEMOCRAT. ELECTED IN. WIDELY HERALDED TEST. THAT DREW OUT-OFSTATE CAMPAIGNERS

ALLIED BOMBERS OF THREE THEATERS OF COMBAT BLAST JAPS  ENEMY-HELD ISLANDS RINGING PHILIPPINES HEAVILY ATTACKED

Bombers Hit Triple Blows Over Pacific   Allied Planes Join in New Attacks on Islands Ringing Philippines

THREE-PLY AERIAL BLOWS DEALT JAPS, PHILIPPINE AREA   Bombers From Three Combat Theaters Pound Island Ring Surrounding the Philippines —~Davo's Wharves Bombed Sunday

Philippines and Truk Heavily Hit ~ ‘In New American Bombing. Attacks

New Blows At Jap Isles  In Pacific   Centinue Series of Raids on Wharves In Philippine Area

NEW AIR BLOWS FOR JAP ISLES   Bombers from Three Zones Attack Island Ring Near Philippines

3 War Zones Send Bombers  To Philippines   New Blows Reported At Ring Of Enemy-Held Isles From Yank Heavies

Stronghold Hif By3-Way Attack   Philippines Again Are - Hammered

‘ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST NIPS IN PHILIPPINE AREA   Davao Hit Again; Carolines, Pescadores Isles Attacked

Philippines, Nearby Isles, Bomb Targets   Tokyo Radio Quotes Japanese Spokesman Confident of Victory

LAGUARDIA 1S. GIVEN ITALY POS)   New York Mayor to Direct Civilian Affairs in Liberated Areas

»MAYOR CHOSEN FOR VITAL POST "BY PRESIDENT   New Post To Carry Rank ® Of Brigadier General And Require Senate Okeh   SITUATION IN MUDDLE   Dark Picture + Painted Of Acute Shortages In European Boot

LAGUARDIA IS TO DIRECT } } CIVIL AFFAIRS IN ITALY   NEW YORK MAYOR SELECTED BY ROOSEVELT TO FELL IM. PORTANT PORT IN LIBER- — ATED COUNTRY

President Ready To Quit for Unity, Hatch Declares   But Democrats Won't Let Him Retire, Senator Asserts

Ready To Sacrifice Says Hatch   SENATOR FROM NEW MEXICO AVERS ROOSEVELT WANTS UNITY BUT DEMOCRATS WON'T LET HIM RETIRE.

Hatch Says F. D.R. Would Sacrifice Political ‘Life for Peace Aims

GREEK POLICY ‘SUPPORTED BY BIG MAJORITY   BRITISH PREMIER WINS BACKING BY 279 TO 30 MARGIN IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

Will Continue To Use Force   Churchill Announces Policy In Greece

Lone Arab Almost Upset Invasion of North Africa by Gen. Clark's Force

JAP CONVOY OF 82 ~ SHIPS WIPED OU1   SIXTY-EIGHT ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED IN ATTACK ON PHILIPPINES.

Carrier Force Hits Mindanao Enemy Bases   5 Airfields Blasted, Barracks, Warehouses And Harbors Damaged

72 Jap Ships ‘Sunk in Blow At Mindanac  68 Planes Destfoyed: Vast Damage Done; Our Losses Light

Blow Dealt At Mindanao   32 Loaded Cargo Ships, 20 Sampans Sent Down: U.S. Subs Get Nine More

in First Shattering SeaBased Action Against Philippines, Marking Advance of 500 Miles.   Softening Up

SUGGESTS PART OF GERMANY:BE GIVEN POLAND   Spokesman for “Union of Polish Patriots” Says It Might Solve Boundary. Issue

Poland May Gef Part of Germany   Dispute Arises Over PostWar Polish Boundary

Thousands, Welcome. Bricker: Home. From GOP Convention at Chicago

British Night Raiders Drop 2,800 Tons Of Bombs On Essen, Ending Eight Month Respite On German 4rms Center   [NEW DESTRUCTION ON KRUPP WORKS

RAF PLANES BLAST GREAT KAUPP WORKS   Respite of 8 Months Ends for Arms Center of Essen

HINTS ON DRILLING AND CULTIVATING CONTOURED CROPS   Conservation Expert Gives Advice To Farmers Who Expect To Drill Corn And Beans On Contour Plan During Year,

, Hints On Drilling And Cultivating Contoured Corn, Soybeans, Given By Soil Conservationist

Deferments Down,  4-F’s Increasing  Report Is Issued By Col. Keesling

Dewey topic  to be taxes  Roosevelt reply listed Thursday   Governor Dewey’s speech will be rebroadcast over KFOR at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday.

Dewey's Radio Talk Tonight is Chance for “Give and Take      FDR Will Have Oppor. tunity to Reply Thurs- day: Other News

Dewey-Roosevelt Word Battle Loom:   GOP Candidate to Discuss Tax Problems in Tonight’s Speech

DEWEY ON R/~'0 TONIGHT; PLANS TALK ON TAXES   ROOSEVELT ADDRESS THURSDAY NIGHT MAY START WORD BATTLE

Dewey Jurns Attention to Tax Question  GOP Candidate to   GOP Candidate to Give Talk Tuesday Nigh? on Subject

Dewey to Broadcast on Taxes Tonight;  See Hard-Hitting Series Attacks on FR

TO BROADCAST DEWEY'S TALK ON TAX ISSUE   Political Fire Getting Hotter And Hotter

DEWEY WILL TALK ON TAXES   What He Says Tonight Wil Give FR Opportunity to Comment on.

Dewey Goes On Air With Tax Speech Tonight  Roosevelt Scheduled Or Thursday; Dewey’s Re ply On Saturday.

Dewey To Speak  Tonight on Taxes   Roosevelt To Address Democratic Party Workers on Thursday

New Dewey, FDR Clash Is Expected   Talks This Week Give Opportunities for Verbal Exchange

SIX UNPLED DELEGATES LEAD   New Hampshire Primary   First to Plan for  Panventian =. -

DOCTORS APPEAR BEFORE COUNCIL IN BALTIMORE   Favor Licensing Of All Institutions Giving Bed Care, To Ili Persons

Licensing of Institutions Giving Bed Care fo Ill Persons Advocated

U.S, Court Will Probe Fraudulent Gas Market   Ohio Grand Jury Te Gain Facts Shortly

Million-Gallon Gas Probe Opened   Grand Jury to Dig  Into Rationing

Russians, Poles Take Praga, Warsaw Suburb   Armies Are Now Just Across Vistula From Great Polish Capital

Reds Capture Praga, Suburb Of Warsaw   Another Russian “Army Reported: but 15. Miles From Lower: E: Prussia

Praga Seized  By Red Forces   Warsaw Suburh’s Fal  Follows Noawarrand

PRAGA TAKEN BY RED ARMY   Great Fortress Across Riv: er From Warsaw Falls  After Bitter Fight

Reds Announce Capturing of  City of Praga   Warsaw's Industrial Center Is Taken by White Russian and  First Polish Armies

END OF DEADLOCK “SOUGHT BY ALLIES   Ground Forces Trying to Drive Germans From Rubble of  Deeteane

1,400 TONS OF BOMBS DUMPED IN SQUARE MILE   Infantry Charges In Te  Drive Nazis From   Stronghold

Ground Forces Entering City   German Stronghold Barring Road to Rome Shattered With 1,400 Tons of Bombs

Long Deadlock At Enemy Bastion Is Broken By Assault   One Objective of Tremendous Raid on Beachhead Fortress Is to Pulverize Houses Concealing Countless Guns Blocking Advance of Fifth Army   EVERY UNIT OF GEN. EAKER'S FORCE IN ACTION

ATTACK AIMED TO BREAK DEADLOCK ON ITALIAN FRONT   TERM RAID GREATEST CONCENTRATED BLOW IN AERIAL HISTORY

Fifth Army Infantry Is Aided By Artillery. Bombers: Strategic Citv Devastated

Concentration On Target Greatest In Wars History   Three Thousand Sorties Flown by Planes in Hitting Area Less Tha n Square Mile; Allied Ground Forces Launch Immediate Attack

1,400 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES HIT IN SQUARE MILE   Troops Move Up After Town Levelled by Air Assault

Stage War’s Heaviest Concentrated Bombing Assault, Use All Types of Planes on Less Than Square Mile Target Area

GROUND UNITS THENDRIVE IN FOR CLEAN-UP   1,400 Tons Of Bombs Mark Greatest Concentrated Assault In History

Allies Drop 1,400 Tons Of Bombs in History's - Most Intensive Assault

Clark's Army Opens Attack Upon Cassino   “Infontry Sent in After Heavy Air and Artillery Shelling

Allies Drop Many Bombson Cassino   More. Than 14,000 Tons Hurled Into Area Less Than Square Mile   ARTILLERY INTO ACTION   Hope to Drive Germans From City with This  Tremendous Raid

AIR FORGES IN GREATEST RAID   More Than 1,400 Tons of Bombs Dropped in Area Mile Square.   GROUND FORCES gusSYy

Planes Hurl Down Record  Load of Bombs   Infantry Charge Follows Assault; Germans Report Anzio Beachhead Attacks

GROUND FORCES DRIVE IN AFTER AERIAL ATTACK   Blast Stronghold Blocking Main 5th Army Advance Since January

WAR'S HEAVIEST AIR RAID LEAVES TOWN IN RUINS   Over 1,400 Tons of Bombs Hit City—-Troops Move in For Final Kill

KEY NAZI BASE DEVASTATED BY SURPRISE BLOW   Allied Troops Back Out of City At Night and Bombardment By Planes Starts at Dawn

Ground Units  Move In to Finish Task   More Than 1,400 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped On Area Less Than Square Mile as All-Out Bid Is Started to Wipe Out Nazis

History's Greatest Massed Attack From Air, Land Unloosed   Over 1400 ‘Ton of Explosives on Target of One Square Mile

HUGE AERIAL ATTACK MADE TN PASCINA   Every Building Is Demolished Py U. S. Bombers

Allied Infantrymen Charge Into Debris To Drive Out Nazis   Altack Removes Main Obstacle Delaying Fifth Army’s Adyance Alongs Main Hishway to Rome

Troops Move In to Drive Germans Out   Concentrated Blast Wrecks Obstacle To Allied Advance.

Infantry Charges Dug: In Germans After His tory’s Greatest Concenbea tal Dacnkinag

Most Concentrated Blow In History. Hits German Fort   Entire Mediterranean Allied Air Fleet Assaults Citv From Dawn Uutil Past Noon With Every Type Plane — Artillery Opens. Barrage and Troops Move In.

1,400 Ton Raid Is All-Time Greatesi During Morning   Americans Withdraw During Raid; Return Afterward To Exert Tremendous Pressure  On German-Held Portions Of Town BY EDWARD KENNEDY

Greatest Concentration: Of Bombs in History Is. Dropped on Small Target

Every Type of Allied Plane Combined in Armada of 3,000 Sorties, Dedicated to Complete Destruction Nazi Stronghold   ’ ARTILLERY BARRAGE FOLLOWS   Allied Troops, Withdrawn from Third of City They Had Held, Follow Through to  Wipe Out Surviving Germans

City Reduced To Rubble In Record Aerial Pounding   Artillery Then Opens Up And Troops Charge Town In Major Offensive

GREATEST CONCENTRATED RAID IN HISTORY LEVELS CITY   1,400 Tons Dropped On Square Miles Every Plane Thrown Into Attack

1400 Tons of Bombs Hurled Upon City by Allied Planes   Infantry Charges in After 3000 Sorties Break Long Deadlock

Infantry Attacks Germans In Ruins   Called History’s Greatest Concentrated Bombing Attack—1,400 Tons of Bombs Dropped in Square Mile Target Area by Armada of 3,000 Sorties

1400 TONS OF BOMBS HIT TOWN   Heaviest Concentrated Bombing Made By : Allied Airmen

H ead Of Mediterranean Air F orce Uses Every Plane To Smash German Stronshold   Terrible Barrage Follows Blow From Air And Infantry Follows With Attack To Drive Enemy From Position Blocking Fifth Army

1400 Tons of *: Explosives In Square Mile   Artillery, Then Infantry Follow Up Air Blow ta Wipe Out Defenses = “*

Concentrated Aerial Attacks Level Bastion   Ground Forces Move In To Clean Up Nazi Fortress

Offensive Against Germans Launched In Italy; Infantry: Sweeps Into Enemy Region

Greatest Concentrated Air Assault  In History Levels German Bastion  In italy; Allied Troops Charge in  To Drive Foe Out and Break Deadlock      Fifth Army Boss Gets a “Kick” Out of Allied Bombing of Cassino

Infantry Charges Into Ruined Town   More Than 1,400 Tons of Bombs Hurled on Target Area of Less Than a Square Mile by Every Type of Allied   Plane.   Artillery Barrage Smashes Out After Terrific Bombing From Air

City Receives Ihe Greatest All Out Concentrated Bombing Attack From Air In History

Most Intense Bombing in History Levels Town; Then Battle Rages in the Ruins

GREATEST BOMBING ATTACK EVER LOOSED ON NAZI STRONGHOLD  ARTILLERY THEN OPENS UP AND ALLIED GROUND FORCES MOVED IN

Devastation 1 OF ( City And Death Of Defenders Aim Of Air, Artillery Blows

Ground Blow Follows Raids   Allies Seek Destruction Of Stronghold Blocking Advance to Relieve Anzio  TERRIFIC SHELLING, TOO  More Than 1,400 Tons Of Bombs Hurled on Small Area in Short Time

1400 Tons of Bombs Fall in Square Mile   Guns Take Lp Pounding of Enemy as Infantry Presses  Forward for Break-through

Most concentrated Aerial Attack in History of Warfare   Artillery Barrage Followed 1,400-Ton Pounding From Sky

CHAPLIN TOLD  TO STAND TRIAL   Actor Loses Plea to Dismiss Paternity Claim

CHAPLIN LOSES PLEA FOR DISMISSAL OF EX-PROTEGEE'S PATERNITY SUIT

GERMANS TO BE GOVERNED SOON BY ALLIED LAW   Gen. Eisenhower Issues Message  To Peonle

lke Sets Up Reich Rule   Military Government Opens Drive to Stamp Out Nazism

ALLIED MILITARY GOV'T FOR REICH HAS BEEN SET UF   EISENHOWER TELLS GERMANS OF PLANS TO DESTROY NAZISM

Allied Military Government Begins  Stamping Out Nazism in Occupied Reicl

DEMOTION INQUIRY BY GROUP PROPOSE   Senator Chandler Starts Senatorial Investigation Talk.

Chinese Recapture  Tushan Rail Head   Jap Attackers Reported “Fleeing” in Vicinity of Sanho, Kweichow.

CHINA RETAKES RAILROAD CITY   More Favorable Light Is Thrown on-Chinese Military Situation.

Radio-Controlled Tank Peing Used   New German Secret — Weapon Sees Action

New Secret Weanon Used By Germans   However, “Explosive Beetles” Are Duds in Battle

More Nazi Nurses Given Freedom  BR ee ce Siete 6 oe   Returned to German Lines After Capture

Russ press drive along  entire front  Strong industria ' center captured

Soviets Push Toward Rich Mineral City   G.ormans Indicate Reds Now [cross Slovakian Border

REDS CLOSE IN.ON ARON, COAL CENTER   Russians: A dv vance Six Miles Toward Szendro

Fear Twelve Fliers Died in Iowa Crash   Six Bodies Discovered In Plane Wreckage Near Maxwell

Army Plane Crashes in Iowa   Believe Twelve Men Killed In Accident

Jap Fleet Said To Be Out   As Usual Tokyo Propaganda Claims To Have Sunk Many  American Vessels.

Aerial Fight Rages Off Formosa; Nips Report Manila Raid; Nimitz Asserts Fighting Continues

Situation of Marshall islands Still Remains Cloaked in Mystery   Axis Reports Hint at Allied Invasion of the Marshalls.   NEW AIR RAID ON TINY WAKE ISLAND   If We Have Not Invaded All Signs Point to An Early Attack.

Our Attack On Marshalls  Continues   Japs Admit Superior Amer. ican Force Is On Offensive Against Them

Nazis Attack Allied Flank At Cassino   German Supply Line Endangered By Surprise Blow

Allies Gain Mile In Cassmo Drive   American Guns  Shell Monastery

ARMIES BOGGED DOWN IN ITALY   Week Of Dry Weather Needed: Rome Yards Blasted Again

SIXTH WAR LOAN DRIVE WILL BEGIN MONDAY   reasury Aide Asserts It Is ‘More Than Ever Necessary To Back Up Nation’s Fighting Men

DEWEY SPEECH ON LABOR eo WELL BE GIVEN: vient   BLISTERING ATTACK ON HILL_ MAN: ORGANIZATION FORE<CABT BY: POLITICAL .  "OBR ERVERB

‘Soviet Forces — Seize Valmiera, Transport Hub   Large German Units May Have Been Caught By Russ Offensive

Red Navy Joins Attack on Riga   Soviets Drive Deep Into Hungary, Slovakia

REDS CLOSING IN ON LATVIAN CAPITAL, RIGA   Evidences That Soviets Will Start Major Offensive on Frontier of Lithuania

Move on to Make McAfee a Regent   East Texas Exes Support Chemist

Captain Flake Is Recovering From Wounds   Snowflake Youth Sees ‘Action In S.: Pacific

Bill Flake Recovering From Wound   Former University Of Arizona Gridder Now Marine Captain

Used Cars Under  Price Control   Established Amounts Same As January '44

SET USED CAR PRICE LIMITS   Specific Ceilings For All Models Fixed

Superforts Blast Japs at Mukden   War Plants Are Taraets of Attack

B-29'S ASSAULT MUKDEN PLANTS   Manchuria Attack Follows Another Fortress Raid on Tokyo

Break With Axis Apparently Favored By Argentinians   Spirit Of Gaiety Is Evident In Argentine Capital After Action Is Taken

BUENOS AIRES — ’ CITIZENS GAY   FEW INCIDENTS REPORTED AS RESULT OF ‘ARGENTINA'S . BREAK WITH THE AXIS.

Makes Statement While Inspect ing Troops With Gen. Dwight _ Eiserfhower—Invasion Held To  Be Imminent   MONTGOMERY SEES PEACE NEXT YEAR

Luxembourg Capital Is Relieved By Pressure Of Allies From The South   Allied Air Forces Deal Record Blows, Exceeding D-Day Aid, As Germans Are Stopped

Nazi Offensive Virtua lly Halted by Yanks   Mighty Air Force Lashes Enemy Front Raining Destruction on Troops and Communications

Eisenhower launches his counterblow  Drives four dent: tn fae santh nes

Yank Attacks On South Flank Gaining Ground   116 Nazi Planes Bagged over Front

‘Democrats Upset GOP  ‘Governors   Trend Of 1938 Is Reversed; Missouri Control Is Lost

G. O. P. Fears 7 Governors Going Down   Democrats Score Upset in Missouri; Qhio Picks Lausche

Democrats Nip  Trend To GOP  - Governorships   Scere Upset In Missouri and Are Running Close ‘In Half-Doszen Other” «  Stato.

ADD TO GOVERNORS   Democrats Capture Three State Positions Held by Republicans

Democrats Win More  Governors  Three Notable Upsets and G.O.P, Hold on Several Others Threatened  TURNOVER REACHES ACROSS COUNTRY  Massachusetts, Missouri and Idaho-Switch Over;   Three Notable Upsets and G.O.P, Hold on Several Others Threatened   TURNOVER REACHES ACROSS COUNTRY   Massachusetts, Missouri and Idaho Switch Over; Close in Ohio

Democrats Win Governorships In Many States  Threaten GOP Hald In Otherc

Demos Cut Down G.0.P. Governors   Capture Three and Several More Upsets Are Threatened by The Roosevelt Tide

Soviets Overrun 2800 Towns in Latvia and Estonia  Deep Inroads on Nazi  Defenses Below Riga p....1}. J Le Maeraw

RUSSIAN TROOPS DRIVE TO WITHIN 6 MILES OF RIGA   Smash Enemy Defenses Below City on Broad Front —Seize 3,000 Towns in Swift Plunge.   RESISTANCE BITTER; 2 RIVERS CROSSED   Great Offensive Designed to Destroy 20 German Divisions in Latvia and Estonia.

3,000 LATVIAN TOWNS FALL T0 NEW RED PUSH   Russians Smash Through Defense Works; Riga 14 Miles Away

RUSSIANS DRIVE TO WITHIN SIX MILES OF RIGA   All-Out Offensive Aimed At Destruction Of Nazis In Baltic States   63 SOVIET DIVISIONS REPORTED IN ACTION

Reds Now Drive On Riga; Sweep Rugged Enemy   Nazis Fall To Shortened Positions In Baltic Area

Nazi Lines At   3,000 Towns Taken In Mighty Soviet Drive To Destroy Germans In Baltics

REDS ARE ONLY 6 MILES FROM RIGA IN LATVIA   Almost 3,000 Towns Taken in 3-Day All-Out Drive

Nazi Lines At Riga Smashed   -3,000 Towns Taken In Mighty Soviet Drive’ To Destroy Germans In Baltics

All-Out Drive Against the Nazis in Baltic States Opens  MANY TOWNS TAKEN, STALIN ANNOUNCES  One Army Advances 25 Miles in Vicinity of Riaa

REDS ADVANCE 23 MILES ON BALTIC FRONT   OVER 3,000 TOWNS IN ESTONIA AND LATVIA TAKEN

Russ within 68 miles of Riga bastion  3,000 towns fall in Balticadvance

Soviets Smash Within 6-Mile Reach of Riga   Russians Plunge 25 Miles  In Face of Desperate Pg Ce eee’

heds Smash Deep  Network Of] Defenses .  “Nearly 3; 000 Towne Captared i in Four Days OL All-Out Offensive:   SWEEP FORWARD. : ON::75-MILE: FRONT   VIN do" ee PRVUINL   : Dive. To Seal Off. ’ “Many Nazis in North Officially Dieclosed

Reds Drive Within Six Miles of Riga Despite Bitter Nazi Resistance:

Wheat Wil  Add Deo About  Jucome Tax?   Action Is Guidepost On Other Legislation

SLCPE. SOON WHAT 10 DO ABOUT STATE INCOME TAX      Much Agitation fof Going Back to Ful Rate

GOP Labor. Plank Praised (By Lewis, But. AFL Chief  Gave Plan Disannointins’

Republican Labo Plank Criticizes Administration   Praised by Lewis, Scored by Green

New Drive Southwest Of:Duren >   -Adyance Two Miles; 3rd, and :7th Creep ‘Closer to Rhine; Reds Poise Above Budapest

German Troops Along Five Miles Of West Bank Of Roer Driven Out By Yanks

Troops Advance South of Duren, Take 3 Villages   Seventh Army Units Slowed By Bad Roads

TROOPS HOLD: 5 MILES OF “WEST BANK         In New Drive Southwest  of Besieged Dureny.  - Doughboys Advarice Up. to Two Miles and Cam ture Three Villages.

U.S. First Army In Swift Drive Toward Rhine   Yanks Go Into Actior Before Dawn; March On City Of Bonn

GAIN 2 MILES IN DRIVE TOWARD BASE AT BONN   Nazis Pit 5th Panzer Division Against Yanks on Cologne Plain

AAO MILES OF RIVER BANK   Third Army Fights Slowly Deeper Into Siegfried Line.   METZ FORTRESS TAKEN

Rhine River City Of Bonn Objective Of Hodges’ Forces   In Less Than Three Hours Following Before Dawn Action Yank Riflemen Advance More Than Mile to Enter Village of Rollesbroich   PITTED AGAINST FIFTH PANZER TANK ARMY

Other Troops Advance on Gateway City   Third Army Makes Slow Progress in Boggy Terrain of Saarland; Nazis Blow Up Bridges to Impede American Advance

CLEAR 9-MILE AREA ONBANK OF ROER RIVER   Americans Continue to Cain on Other Areas  Of Western Front

MORE VILLAGES CAPTURED IN NEW DRIVE AT DUREN; MANY PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN

Opens New Drive Against Duren And Takes 3 Villages While Third Army Advances Slowly Into Nazi Defenses

U. S. First Army Seizes Five-Mile Strip on River   Hodges‘ Men Also Advance Two Miles Near Duren and Take Three Villages

US. First Army South Wine Drives on Bonn, Rhine City   New Push Carries Yanks Past Hurtgen Forest Southwest of Besieged Duren

Seize Three Villages in 2-Mile Gain   Germans Cleared Fron Five Miles of West Bank of Roer River

Muddy Riflemen Advance More Than Mile in Three Hours, Enter Rollesbroich

Temperatures   First, Seventh Advances Are Retarded As Hitlerites Blow Up Bridges; St. Jeanne D’ Arc Fortress - Surrenders

AMERICAN FIRST:  ARMY TROOPS CLEAR  GERMANS FROM ROER ADVANCE ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BESIEG rh RWAIDFA TAMA

MOVE SWIFTLY TOWARD RHINE CITY OF BONN   7th Army Assault Nearing Palatinate; Drive  For Karlsruhe

Slow, Painful Progress hy Patton's Army   Hodges Makes Gains De. spite Opposition of New German Panzer Force   5 MILES OF ROER CLEARED OF NAZIS   Hard Going On Al Fronts But Amerisan Forces Are Maintinine Drive

American First Army in a Drive Southwest of Besieged Duren Advanced Up to Two Miles.   . TOOK THREE VILLAGES   Blown Bridges, Boggy Roads and Difficult Terrain Slowed Down the Seventh Army.

American Armies  Go Ahead Slowly   First Clears Germans From _ Five Miles on West ‘AL = Bank of Roer   FACE PANZER OUTFITS   Roer. Front Bends Within 21 Miles of Cologne and Rhine

New Drive Heads for Bonn   Make Slow Progress Against Siegfried  Line in Saarland.

794,000 MAY LOSE JOBS IN AIRPLANE FACTORIES   Because the Loss of Bombers Is Under Estimate   TROUBLE IN PLACEMENT

AIRCRAFT WORKERS LAYOFF IS EXPECTED   Light Losses in War Reason For Production Cuts

Gradual Cut In Bomber  Production  ‘AnnaAmeand   294,000: Employes In Aircraft Industry To Lose Jobs-by July.  hee Oe finar Accorta   WILLOW. RUN-PLANT TO. DROP. 50. PERCENT   Reduction Is Planned. - Because Plane Losses ~Tece Than Exbected

300,000 To Lose Jobs In Aircraft Plants In Year   Government Gets Obsolete Planes

CUT PRODUCTION OF BIG BOMBERS   GEN. ECHOLS SAYS 294,000 AIRCRAFT WORKERS WILL LOSE JOBS BY JULY.

Claims That ILO Cannot Function ‘Without Russia   Boor To Conference Is ~ Open To Soviet Union, -Delegate Nash Says

LO "Can't Work" Without Russia Its. President Says; Welcome’ ls 6n Mat

Smith Selected Chief of Staff To Eisenhowei   Former Mediterranean Officer Named to Westem Post

Name Eisenhower's Chief of Staff  General W. B. Smith Appointed to Post

ACCUSED FARMERS DENY GUILT; TRIAL OF 8 SET SEPT. 12   Enjoin Darke Co. Group Against Rationing Violations

No More Rub-A-Dub-Dub  Washday Blues Will Be But  AMemory In Post-War Era

Mass Murder Accusation Is Raked Up Settlement Of Russian Polish Differences Is Apparently Far Away

Russians Rap Polish Answer  To Curzon Line   Soviets Name Commissions To Investigate Alleged Murders.

RUSSIA REJECTS POLISH PROPOSAL IN BORDER DISPUTE   Exile Government Charged with Ignoring Curzon Line Quectian

Reds Turn Cold Shoulder On Government In Exile  In Polish Border Dispute

SOVIET GOVERNMENT  INTERPRETS POLISH  REPLY AS REFUSAL ONLY SLIGHT RAY OF  HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT RUSSO.POLISH SPLIT

SOVIETS REBUFF POLES:IN-EXILE   REJECT MEDIATION REQUEST BECAUSE OF DIPLOMATIC BREAK

Russ Reject Pole Offer   Unable to Deal With Government on Border Due to Broken Relations

U.S, WOULD AID SOVIETS, POLES   Government Willing to Assist In Restoring Good Relations, Hull Says

Hull Reveals Moscow Told Of Decision   Russia Views Statement Of Polish Officials  As Meaning Rejection Of Proposal

REDS REJECT POLES’ OFFER   Russia Won't Negotiate While Diplomatic Relations Are Broken.

Russians Rap Polish Stand On Border   Hit Government In London — to Probe Katyn Forest Murders

REDS SHARPLY REJECT OFFER MADE BY POLES   Moscow Also Rakes ; Up Katyn Forest Mass Graves Charges

Hull Offers Russ,. Polish Mediation   Moscow Advised of Willingness to Act In Frontier Dispute

POLISH REPLY ON CURZON LINE IRES RUSSIANS   Moscow Again Shows Antagonism fo Members of Exiled Polish . Government, Renews Charges   MAY ASK CHANGES   Broadcast Reveals Russians Now Investigating Katyn - Smolensk Area Massacres

Russians Rap Pole Reply On Boundary Issue   Soviet Government -Interprets Polish Statement As Rejection-of Offer —  -to Negotiate Problem   Mass. Exécution . > Charge ‘Inje ected   Poles Reminded Their Reeognition of German Ae_ eusation’ On Killings *  Cased Break 

Hull Sends Proposal To Moscow   Reds Turn Deaf Ear on Polish Statement

Polish Plea Rejected by Soviet Union   Boundary Dispute Between Nations Remains Critical

Soviet Rejects Poland’s Reply To Border Plan   Insistence Upon Curzor Line Precipitates New Diplomatic Crisis.

US. WOULD Al POLE-RED PEACE   Ready To Bid For Harmony, Hull informs Russians

AID RUSSIA-POLAND © _- BOOD RELATIONS      American Government Has “Advised Soviet of Good Intentions.

America Offers Aid In Russia, Polish Dispute   Hull Says [tts Hopeful Friendly Relations Can  Be Resumed.   DISPATCH TO MOSCOW

U.S. Help Offered In Note  — to Reds   Washington: W Willing -t Work for Restoration of Soviet-Polish Relations   NO COMMITMENTS IN HULL’S MESSAGE   Action Comes in. in Crisis Over Settlement of Polish Boundary Dispute

Services OL U. 8. Offered   -»- Hull Expresses Hope For Early Settlement

New Polish Government Is Soviet Demand   Moscow Is Opposed To Any Negotiations With Exiled Government As Now Constituted

Russia Takes Polish Reply  As Rejection   Cannot Negotiate With Any Regime Not Recognized, Moscow Declares

Russians Rap Polish Reply to Border Proposal   Mass Executions Charge Revived In Soviet Note

Soviets Rap Polish Reply   Russians Interpret ‘Answer as Rejection

U.S. READY TO AID IN NEGOTIATIONS OF SOVIETS, POLES   Hull Says Russia Notified of U.S. Willingness to Help Adjust  Differences

EXTRAS GREET THE POPULACE State Mostly ‘Napping’ As “Greatest Story’ Is Broken

Invasion Catches Texans Off Guard and Few Knew of It Until Hours Later; Churches Open Doors

Last Natural Barrier Lost To Germans   Reds Push to Within 28 Miles Of Dniester Rives

RUSSIAN MOBILE FORCES OPENING ROUTE FOR DRIVE   Sweep Through 62 - Mile Break to Seal Vinnitsa Fate and Big Southward Push Against Odessa.   YANK FORCES SMASH JAP COUNTER-ATTACK   Orientals Charge Fanatically Into American Machine Guns, Flame Throwers to Lose 1173 Men.

Nazis’ Last Natural Defense Barrier In Ukraine Cracked Wide Open; Way Opened For Drive Against Odessa

RED ARMIES SWEEPING ON TO ODESSA   Breach 62 Miles Wide in German Defense Line on Bug River is Reported? Many Other Advances.

REDS SWEEPING THROUGH BREAK TOWARD ODESSA   Smash Across Bug River Has Shattered Nazi Hope For Stand

SOVIETS OPEN NEW DRIVE ON EAST PRUSSIA   Berlin Admits Local “Penetrations” by Powerful Red Army lorces.

DULLES AND HULL EAR AGREEMENT   Agree on Problem Being Non-Partisan, But Not fin Dieeuesion_

Hull, Dulles Tn Agreement   On Peace Unit   Consider Problems of Security Organization as ‘Non-Partisan’ Subject

Hull and Dulles  Agree on Peace   But Dewey's Agent Not in Accord on Extent of Public Discussion.

Hull and Aide OfDeweyReach Partial Aceor¢   HULL AND AIDE-—1-B By JOHN M. HIGHTOW FR

Peace Talks Not Partisan   Hull and Dulles Announce Agreement On Main Questions

Hull And Dulle:  In Agreement  Still Apart On Extent Of Public Discussion

BRITISH FLEE] HITS NAZIS IN ITALY   Bombards German Shore Positions in Two Places

British Fleet Units Bombard Nazis On Shore   Big Guns Of Naval Ships Aid Drive Against Ger: mans In Italy   FLEET ACTIVE AT NUMEROUS POINTS

AMERICANS INVADE NOEMFOOR ISLAND OFF NEW GUINEA   Capture Airdrome Two Hours After Landing Under' Coyer of Naval and Air Bombardment.   JAP RESISTANCE WEAK; U. S. LOSSES LIGHT   Leap-Frog Operation Puts General MacArthur’s Men 100 Miles Closer to the Philippines.

Jap Airdrome 800 Miles From Philippines Taken   Chinese Battle Latest Threat to Rail Line; Saipan Showdown Near

Take Kamiri  airstrip; foe  resists lightly Seals entrance  to Geelvink bay

Strike Ties Up Over-road Truck Firms   Over 2,000 Men Will Be idle in Omaha Area Monday

Fear Death Toll of 120 In Cleveland 50-Block Fire Started By Gas Exlosion

Death Toll at Least 50 In Cleveland Holocaust   Liquid Gas Exploded.

61 KILLED IN CLEVELAND BLAST. FIRE   Believe Death Toll May Reach 120; 200 Injured

60 Others Are Listed As Missing   CAUSED BY EXPLOSION AT  GAS COMPANY PLANT; PROPERTY DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT  10 MILLION

61 KNOWN “KILLED AT CLEVELAND   50-Block Area Razec By Six Explosions And Flames

Most Devastating Blaze In City’s ‘History Strikes   Toll May Exceed 120, Officials Probing Disaster Predict

71. KnownDead 69 Missing in . Cleveland Fire   Fifty Blocks Burned Over Following Six Giant Explosions

On The Political Front!   More Than 44,000,000 Expected To Vote Nov. 73 Dewey And Roosevelt Pantpalen In New EngTand

STATE OFFICIALS SAY 44 MILLION TO CAST VOTES   Both Dewey, Roosevelt Head for Massachusetts in Stretch Drive

Calls Hoffman -'Smear Expert   Foley Lashes Rival At Union Pier Rally   Associated Press Estimates Presidential  Vote Nov. 7 Will Exceed 44 Million Mark

EXPECT VOTE OF 44 MILLION NEXT TUESDAY   Campaigners Head Down Home Stretch In Final Week of Talks

44,000,000 U. S. Votes Estimated   Time Drawing Nigh As Candidates Pack Speaking Programs.

44 MILLION TO VOTE NOV. 7   ‘Associated Press Surve y from State Officials Is Drop  — from 1940

PREDICT TOTAL NATIONAL VOTE OF 44 MILLION   Campaign Moves Into Northeastern and Eastern States

Hurricane Cuts Path In Florida   Storm Batters Across Citrus Belt, Hits Jacksonville Heads Up E. Coast

600 Japs Die In Battle With Marines   Big Guns Moved Up For Fighting About “New Britain Base

600 Jap Troops Killed As Resistance Stiffens In Cape Gloucester Vicinity

Japs Stage Bitter Fight In Jungle   Marines Kill 600, But Fail To Make Much Headwav

American Marines ‘Drive East From Cape Gloucester   Bitterest Fighting Of New Britain Campaign

RESISTANCE OF JAPANESE IS STIFFENING   In Bitterest Kind of Jungle Warfare Defenders of New Britain Lose An other 600 Dead   TOTAL NUMBERS 2,000

Six Hundred Killed In Their Stiffening Resistance In Bitterest Kind ‘of Jungle Warfare

MARINES ERASE 600 MORE JAPS   Two Nipponese Destroyers Believed Sunk In Raids

600 JAPANESE ARE KILLED IN BITTER FIGHT   Yanks Gain In Cape Gloucester Area

2000 Nip  Troopson Guam Die   U. S. Planes Sink 10 Nip Ships, Advance Scored on Five Fronts

FRUIT MARKET REPORTS FOUR MILLION PACKS   This Year’s Receipts Up Slightly Over 1943 Figure

eae ee  THREE REPUBLICANS GET PAC APPROVAL   Eighteen Democrats Also Are Endorsed

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AED ARMY ATTAGK 3 ORIWING INTO HEART OF POLAND   1,500,000 Troops in Action Along 700 - mile Crumbling Front   REDS SAID TO HAVE REACHED AUGUSTOW   Uprisings, Serious Panics Re. ported Developing in North  Sector, Soviets Reach Cen. tral Bug River Line in Ma. a ill acai

Explosion af Army Training Camp Kills Six Soldiers: 15 More Injured

SIX KILLED AT FT. KNOX   Ten Pounds ‘of Nitro-Starch Exploiles During Training Maneuver Fifteen, Others Injured and in Hospital. '

Re RORERYDP WN STIRDIVANT   REICH POCKETED WITHIN AN ALMOST CONTINUOUS SERIES OF FRONTS THAT PROMISE ACTION

REICH POCKETED WITHIN AN ALMOST CONTINUOUS SERIES OF FRONTS THAT PROMISE ACTION

The War Today  Nazis Expect Early Resumption of Third Army’‘s Rhine Drive

Nazis Expect Rhine Drive Resumption   _If Hitler’s High ‘Command Is Smart, “It Expects Lot More

WAR TODAY   Continuous Series of Fronts Pocketing  ‘Reich Expected to  ’Blaze Into Climactic Action Together

Lamar Ready To Entertain  Huge Crowds   Many Distinguished Persons to Hear Truman Notified

Mtinois State Teachers College Board Will Meet Monday (n Sprinafield

Another Segment Of Berlin Raided By Allied Bombers   73 Bombers Lost In Twin Assault;   Loss Second Highest Ever Re  ported By RAF, Highest Was 79 On Feb. 19   SIX MILE TRAIL IN CAPITAT, OF BERLIN   Marshal Zhukov’s Ukrainian Army Massed On Upper Dniester for Smash Into Bucovina Province of Pre-War Rumania.   3,500 GERMANS ARE " CAPTURED BY REDS

MacLEISH GETS COMMITTEE OK. SENATE T0 ACT   Battle On State Dept. Appointees Shifts To Floor

Annual Meeting — Boy Scout Council In Storm Lake  Present Silver Beaver  Award To Harry

Annual Meeting Boy Scout Council In Storm Lake  Present Silver Beaver Award To Harry Cannon, LeMars

Warn Shippers of Perishables   Freight Companies Will Ignore Strike Threats

‘Army, Navy Spur Action   House Abandons : Holiday Plans To Pen Measure

Begin Work on  -l’ Draft Laws   Physically Unfit To Have Choice of War Work or Labor Forces

CONGRESS TO SEEK MEASURE ON MANPOWER   May Dra‘t Bill Forcing 4-F  Men To Work

Legislation Is Rushed To Draft Million 4-F's   Must Take Essential Jobs Or Join Army Labor Battalions

House Group Drops Recess To Rush 4-F Draft Bill Through; War, Navy Ask Quick Action

Million 44s Quite Certain to Be Drafted   House Committee to Work Througn Recess on New Progrom

Congress Takes — — Up 4-F Plan   NEW MEASURE TO PLACE MEN IN WAR WoRK

4-F-ers fo Get Essential Jobs   Must Take Such Jobs Or Be Inducted Into Labor Battalions

In Move To Tap 4-F Pool   Congress Responds - Swiftly to.Appeal . For Laws Controlling Group of Reiectees

SPEEDY ACTION IS PROMISED ON DRAFT OF 4-FS   House Military Commiliee to Fore go Easter Recess fo Whip Legis. Jation into Shape   TAP MILLION MEN   Principal Aim to Find Replacements for Younger, Occupationally-Deferred Men in War Work

Soviets 180 Miles From Bucharest   Reds at Riga, Berlin Says, Indicating New Trap for Nazis

aU DOL A  ROMANIA FACES KNOCKOUT BLOM  Soviet Drive Designed To Smash Hitler’s Grip On alkans        150-MILE FRONT     Ronesiang Snring New   Russians Spring New Trap For German Armies In Baltic States -

Reds Roll On From Iasi In New Advance   Offensive Is Designed to Knock Out Romania, Free Balkans

RUSSIANS BEGIN DRIVE TO CRUSH ROMANIAN ARMY   Adolf’s Grip on Balkans Also To Be Shaken by Mighty Assault

Bucharest, Sofia Jittery as Red Armies Advance   Russians Drive Info Romania from Captured [asi—Throw Rew Tran Around Nazis in Baltic

Nazis Report Reds Reach Latvian Capital Beaches   OFFENSIVE IN ROMANIA.

ON BALKANS IS DWINDLING   Red Offensive Aimed to Knock Romania Out of War Smashes Forward  On 150-Mile Front   BUCHAREST IS JITTERY

MOVE CLOSER TO CAPITAL, PLOESTI   25,000 Germans Are Slair In Last Three Days   NAZIS SPLIT   In Battle Around Warsaw; Announce Fall Of lasi In Order Of Day

Reds Making New Drive   into Romania Other Red Forces. E Reported at Riga.

Russian Troops Within 180 Miles Jittery Bucharest  155 Miles of :Ploesti:  Oil. Center,. Reporte: p..-k.d Do pk.

Offensive May Knock Romani:  Out of War   Bucharest Trembles Before Swift Red Advance—Russians Reach Riga Beaches

Red Armies Smash On Past fast   New Offensive in Romania Aimed at Bucharest and Ploesti; Gain Up to 44 Miles

NEW TRAP SET FOR GERMANS NEAR BALTICS   Russians Within 51 Miles Of The Danuke

NEW RED DRIVE HITS ROMANIA      Bucharest, Ploesti Oil Fields Are Targets; Besieve Riga

Two Armies Heading for Junction in Important Galati Gap   25,000 NAZIS SLAIN Bucharest Is Reported in  Dawtnw ac Casriats 

RUSSIANS ADVANCING ON 150 MILE FRONT OVER BODIES OF 25,000 SLAIN NAZI TROOPS   Determined Effort to Break Hitler’s Grip on Bal kans Brings Russians Near Ploesti Oil Center Aft er Three Days of Violent Fighting

Reds Roll On From lasi in New Drive   Germans Say Soviets Near Latvian Capital

Reds Turn Might Against Romania   New. Smash ‘Threatens * To Engulf Bucharest —

Russian Armies Move Past lasi In Big Romania Drive   In Northern Poland Reds Are Gradually Moving To Outflank Warsaw, Splitting German Forces

Balkan Grip Slips as Soviets Stream Through lasi Hole   New Offensive Is Aimed at Knocking Rumania From War

RUSSIAN FORCES PUSH AHEAD IN LOWER UKRAINE   Reds Drive to Oust Rumania From War, Seize Ploesti Oil Fields

BUCHAREST IN JITTERY MOOD AS REDS NEAR   Russians Plunge on From Fall Iasi; New Front 150 Miles Wide

Reds Advance In Romania; »  On Riga Shore   Within 155 Miles Ploesti Oil Fields; Germans Admit Russian Gains at Riga, Cuttinge Off Armies

RED OFFENSIVE INTO RONANIE   Drive May Be Designed tc Break Hitler’s Grip on Ralkans.

NEW RED DRIVE BLASTS AHEAD INTO. ROMANIA   Germans Report Soviet Forces Have Reached Beaches of Riga   IN MASON CITY

Russians Begin New Offensives   ATTACK OPEN AGAINST ' ROMANIAN FRONT TODAY

RUSSIAN ARMY IN A NEW OFFENSIVE   Probably Designed to Break Hitler’s Grip on the Balkans.

Soviets Seek To Cut OF Nazi Oil   Driye Beyond Captured  lasi May Elimin ate Romania as Hitler Ally

Reds in Drive to Knock Out the Balkans   25,000 Nazis Slain in Three Pay Battle; 12.600 More Prisoners

PVT. GUSTAVE WERNER MISSING IN ACTION   Bensalem Serviceman and Uncle Went to England at Same Time   BOTH PARATRCOPERS

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RECAPTURE GF CHIUS!; U.S. IN ADVANCE   In Italy against Strong German Oppostion; Bitterest Fighting since Fall of Rome.   73,122 Casualties

EIGHTH ARMY RECAPTURES CITY OF CHIUS!   Fierce Fighting Rages 31  Miles Below Rome With  Yank Forces Occupying Town Of Montieri

Rritish Overcome Stiff Resistance — ToRetake Chius'  Yanks,-French Advance   Yanks,- French Advance Along Western Coast QE ltaly

Clark’s Troops Push on Siena   British Reeapture Chiusi; Vienna Plants Raked

GERMAN TROOPS WAVER IN ITALY   Ruins Of Chiusi Taken; Line Is Pushed 8&0 Miles Above Rome

CONGRESS 15 SENT ‘LEND-LEASE DATA   Roosevelt. Urges Continu> ance Until Japs Ouit

oosevelt Urges ore Lend-Lease ntil Japs Out   Recommends Continuation Until Both Germany and Japan Are Defeated.

SOLONS STUDY FARM AGENCY   STATE SENATE PASSES POSTWAR BUILDING BILL

Violent Atr Battles Rage Qver Hungary   Incomplete Reports Indicate Monday's Raid Is Widespread

Other Yank Force Blasts Austria: Down 100 Nazis   German Strategy In Moving Industries Is Foiled By Raids From Italy

Berlin Reports Violent Plane Fights Raging Oy er Hungary   Attack Made by Italy: Based Liberators and Fortresses

GERMAN ATTACK BEATEN BAGK BY YANKS AT ANZIO   British Warplanes Smash Battleship Tirpitz; Russians Reassure Rumanians

Yanks Battle Nazis In Air O’er Hungary   Fighting Rages About Budapest

BUDAPEST BOMBED BY AMERICANS       iungarian Capital Flying from Ita  tent Afr Batiles          STEYR HEAVILY HIT   Yore Than 300 German Planes Altack British, Who Down More Than Third of Nazi Force

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS IN FIRST ATTAGK ON BUDAPEST   BRITISH NAVAL PLANES ATTACK BIG GERMAN BAT. TLESHIP TIRPITZ

American Bombers Attack Budapest Today In First — Raid “ Hungarian Capital

ALLIES SMASH AN ATTACK BY FIRE - TOSSERS   Flaming Assault by Germans on Left Flank of Beachhead Below Rome Repulsed   ITALIANS TAKE PEAK

ITALIAN BASED BOMBERS CROSS ALPS TOBLAST HUNGARIAN CITY: 100 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN   Hungarian Capital, One of Europe’s Most Beautiful Cities Feels Weight of Bombs. German Aircraft Factory in Old Austria Also Bombed. 14 Allied Planee I oat

Exeeute First U.S. Raid On ~ Hungary City   Berlin Reports Violent Bat. tles Between Attackers, German Defenders.   HIT PLANE FACTORY

TEMPERATURES:   Air Fight Rages Over Hungarian Capital City   Italian-Based Planes In Smashing Blow On Balkan Target

Air Battles Under Way Over Hungary   Report Germans Moved Factories Into That Country

avy Air Battles ye Over Hungary   mericans Shift Attack To id Advancing Russian eriince—antia Also Assailed

Berlin Tells Of Violent Air Battles   Smash Carried Out From Italian Bases; City Vital Rail Center

AADIO REPORTS HEAVY BATTLE VER HUNGARY   Bombers Fly From Bases in italy in Strong Force to Hit Capital.

Big Assault Made By Liberators, Fortresses   Fly From Bases In Italy; Berlin Radio Tells Of Violent Air Battles

Aircraft Plant, Railway Center Major Targets   Great Bomber Formations From Italy Give Battle To Nazis Over Hungary

Only Russians Had Previously Struck Hungarian Capital   Many German War Factories Had Been Moved for Refuge

Budapest Raided For First Time   Rail Yards And Aircraft Factory Are Targets Of American Planes Based In Italy

Reds Plunge  in Rumania      Odessa is Target of Russian Forces, Only 19 Miles Away   Allied Fighters Range over Hungary,. Fighting Fierce Air Battles with Axis Fliers; New Peace Ventures Séen in Finn-  Russo War

GREAT FORMATION AMERICAN HEAVIES ATTACKED BUDAPEST   MOMBERS FLEW FROM ITALIAN BASE AND BERLIN TELLS OF BATTLES

AIR BATTLES OVER HUNGARY ARE REPORTED   Budapest Bombed By Americans From Italy

Planes Based In Italy Are. ‘Used In Raid   First Time Americans Have Attacked This Capital in Balkans.

May Be Start — of Two- Way ~ Air Assaul   Only the. Russians’. Had Bombed:Hungarian Captal. Before Today::   ‘FACTORIES MOVED." >” PTO: CITY ON: DANUBE.   Plants and Railroads: Are “Targets of Heavy Force’. “=: of Bombers

U.S. BOMBERS IN ATTACK ON HUNGARIAN CAPITAL   Violent Battles Are Reported   New Hazard for Professors When They Read About War

First Attack Hungarian City   Capital Struck Hard Blow; Full Story Not Yet Known

Bombers From Italian Bases Hit Budapest   Americans Fight Violent Battles  With Germans in Hungarian Skies

BIG U. S. FORCE RAIDS BUDAPEST   First American Attack On Hungarian Capital Apparently A Very Heavy One; Fierce Air Battles Report Fi

U. S. Planes Hit Budapest; Air Battles   Bombers Also Blast Key Targets in Balkans— Drop Bombs on  Swiss Town By Accident

BIG YANK BOMBERS ATTACK BUDAPEST »   Violent Air Battles Betweén American and  German Planes Reported Over Hungary

Rail Center and Plane Plant Attacked in First U.S. Foray ‘Over Hungarian Territory ©

GREAT FORMATION FLIES FROM ITALY   100 Nazi Planes Shot Down in  Heavy Blow At Steyr Pe re

First Assaulf On Capital By U. 5. Planes   Violent Battles Over Hungary Reported By Berlin

U. $. Airmen Drop Bombs On Budapest   Formidable American Forces Launch Opening Attack on Hungarian Capital From Italy Base

INITIAL RAID   Violent Battles Between American and German Planes Reported

Great Formation Stag Attack, the America First on Budapest—Ra way Center and Aircrz Plant Targets.

Reds Advance While U. S. Bombers Hit Budapest  BIG AIR FIGHTS  Soviets Near Pass Leading To Czech  Territory

FIRSTASSAULT ON BUDAPEST IS REPORTED   Berlin Radio Claims Fourteen United States Planes Downed in Fighting Over Capital   AUSTRIA ALSO VISITED

Nazis Report Violent Air Battle Fought   Attacking Force Known To Be ‘Great’; Steyr In Austria Hard Hit Rv U. S. Bombers

U. 5. Bombers Hit Budapest   Great Formation Blasts Hungarian Capital, Tieing Up With Red Blows

U. §. Bombers Over Hungary; Budapest Gets First Attack   Americans Also Raid Ball-Bearing Works at Steyr, Austria

First U.S. Air Attack On Budapest   Big Armada From Italy Lashes Plane Factory And Rail Yards.

VIOLENT AERIAL BATTLES RAGE OVER HUNGARY   Record - Shattering Sunday Raid Hits Nazi War Factories At Steyr

OF VIOLENT AIR FIGHT   Raid Is Carried Out From Bases In Italy   Key Point Of Rail System Linking Germany With Balkan Nations

Berlin Reports Violent Battles Between Enemy Planes Over Hungary.   HIT BY REDS IN 1942

Budapest Bombed By Americans   Large Formation Said To Have Come From Italy

Is First American Attack of War on Hungarian Capital   Bombers Fly from Bases in Italy and Berlin Radio Reports Violent Air Battles

Heavy Force Hits Hard At Budapest   Other Planes Attack Several Rail Yards in Yugoslavia

Large Force Flies From Italian Bases   First U. S. or British Raid On Capital Of Hungary

NAZIS REPORT BiG AIR FIGHTS OVER HUNGARY   Railway Center, Plane Plant Made Targets Of First Yank Blow At Area

U.S, AIRMEN HIT BUDAPEST FOR FIRST TIME   Bombers Fly from Italian Bases; Nazis Report Huge Air Battles

U.S. BOMBERS HIT BUDAPEST   First American Attack on  Hungarian Capital

British Are Seeking Launching Sites Of New Nazi Robots  Heavy Bombers Will Be Called Upon  Ta Hist Inctallatiane

FIRE NEW ROCKETS   New Weapon Is Turned Against U. S. Sector on West Front

BRITISH AGENTS ARE SEEKING LAUNCHING PLACES OF ROCKETS  GERMANS CLAIM NEW WEAPON MAKE ANTWERP USELESS AS PORT

Dedt Limit Up 50 Billion   Tax Measure Signed Re - duces Night Club Ta: 10 Per Cent

Allied ca :   Japs May ‘Isolate. Both ,Manipur Plain ‘Assam Bases

TOYO CLAIMS IMPHAL ISOLATE BY JAP THRUST   Allied Command Admits Setback By Advancing Nipponese

New Japanese Thrust Perils Manipur Plain   Invading Parties Encountered South of Imphal Base

‘Penetrate . Southwest Of » Imphal — Japs Claim -Last Escape Gap For Micumntteathel a Men Cut

Jap Invaders Seen Crowding Imphal Exif   Advanced Allied Base: In Assam Threatened With Being Cut Off

Japs Driving Past Imphal   May Isolate Plain, Advanced Bases in Assam; ‘Stilwell’s Men Push Ahead

JAPANESE THREAT TO INDIA GROWS   Manipur Plain and Allied Bases in Assam May Be  Isolated   A CONFUSED SITUATION

Allies Face Isolation Atimphal   Forces Hold Ground In Other Areas Of Battle in India

Japs Threaten To Trap Allies At Imphal   Enemy Claims Escape Gap Already Closed And Troops Face Death.or Capture

Japs Threaten Isolation of  Allied Bases  Reportedly are a aa, 6 ee ee

JAPS THREATEN TO CUT BASE OFF WITH NEW MOVE   t-nemy Invasion Parties Encountered Southwest Of Imphal; Mountbatten Visits Front To Get First Hand View Of Sit uation.   Only One American Plane Lost  Hollandia Plastered Again By U.S. Planes

Japanese Threat To Assam Bases, Manipur Mounts  Bishenput-Silchar Jungiesa Of Imnhal

CLOSING ESCAPE GAP FOR ALLIES   Elsewhere Enemy Reported Making No Progress

Jap Forces In New Gain Near Imphal   Threaten to Isolate Manipur Plain; Enemy Checked on Other Fronts

Jap Invaders Encountered In IndianSector   Enemy Further Threatening Isolation of Both Manipur Plain and AlHed Assam Bases

Jap Invaders 0 India Press Advances Today   Manipur Plain Threatened with Isolation By Foe

JAPANESE INVASION PARTIES THREATEN BASES OF ALLIES   ASIDE FROM MANIPUR PLAIN ENEMY MAKING NO PROGRESS IN INDIA

A New Jap Threat In Southeast Asia   Presence of Enemy Invasion Force Reported Near Vital Rail Line

ENCOUNTER JAP. . - INVASION PARTIES IN IMPHAL AREA   Further Threatened Isolation of Both Manipur Plain Allied Bases in Assam.   JAPS MAKING PROGRESS   Last Remaining Escape Gap Out of Imphal Basin, Is Reported Cut.

Japs Tighten Imphal Ring   Invasion Forces Move Southwest of Indian City

INVASION OF INDIA ENGULE: NEW SECTOR   Further Threatens ‘Isolation Of Allied Advance Bases

Japanese Creep Nearer Imphal:  Encirclement of Garrison Threatened

Burma Reports Enemy Advances   JAP GAINS REVEALED AS ALLIED BASE JSOLATED

Joan Berry s Past Probed   Chaplin's Attorney Seeks to Reveal Her Other Associations

DELIVERY SERVICE   Joan's Tryst Story Hit By Witness   Soldier Says She Was With Him on Night of Alleged Call on Comic

Large German Force Trapped as  Nazi Lines Crumble   Russian Spearheads Reach Estuary of Bug River and Drive Enemy From 210 Towns in Overwhelming Attacks

Servicemen In Pacific Bitter At Talk OfU_S. Celebrations When Nazis Yield

Writer Says Fighters in Pacific Area Resent Complacence on Part of Public

Japanese Fear Invasion of Philippines   Tokyo Radio Tells of Second Raid on Manila Sector      ‘What the Hell Goes on? Havent Those Lugs Heard About the Jans?’°—Hardhoiled Marine

HERBERT GIVES UP: CONCEDES T0 MAYOR   ‘Attorney General Bows T  Stewart; Recount Stops

Rail Station Of Vital Hub Is Captured   Violent Fighting Rages In Streets; 19 Villages Freed

irican Ist Army Captures 13 Villages in Advances on evasion Front Right Flanl   tt Are Is Tightened Around Caer by Canadians and British Operating on Left End of Line.

Engage In . More Street Fighting —   CAPTURED RAILROAD STATIO AT LA HAYE-DU PUITS SHORT! AFTER ENTERING CITY =~

Struggle Rages In Streets; Rail Station Taken   Yanks Capture 19 Villages in - General Advance

ASSAULT STORMING INTO TRANSPORT HUB   Capture 19 Villages In Gene eral Advances Along 2S Mile Front

LABOR SEEKS HIGHER PAY   AFL ANNUAL CONVENTION TO STRESS. DEMANDS FOR INCREASE IN WAGE SCALES

TOKYO PASTED IN NEW RAID BY MOONLIGHT   Hit Waterfront Again as Japs > Report Fires from Last Attack.

Super Forts Blast Tokvo By Moonlight   Switching Of Tactics Catches bea ‘mv Off Balance: War Plants Hit

Tactics Changed In Latest Blast — At Jap Capital   Waterfront, Industrial Targets Attacked Under Light of Full Moon

DES IN MADISO   Wisconsin Professor, Author Poet Confined By Neurosis Snel!

New Deal Solons  Seek Nominations   Maryland Renominates  Millard E. Tydings

Florida, Alabama Voters at Polls   Senator Tydings Wins in Maryland

Votes Cast by Servicemen Killed ‘Before Election Can't Be Counted

MOSCOW RAIL LINE CLEARED TO LENINGRAD   RUSSIANS ROLLING WESTWARD FROM LAKE ILMEN

Russians cut main German escape line   34 miles from  Estonia frontier

Russ Sever Rails Linking Leningrad With Vitebsk   Leave Germans Only One Escape Route From North in Push for Estonia; Encircle Last Station on Moscow Line

Leningrad Rail Line fo Moscow Seized by Reds   Russians Capture Most of Railroad

One Retreat Line Is Left  For Germans   Moscow-Leningrad Line Is Cleared of Enemy Except for One Point  NAZI ATTACK FAILS

SINGLE ESCAPE ROUTE IS OPEN TO NAZI TROOPS   Russians Cut Important Leningrad-Vitebsk Railway Near Lake Ilmen   LYUBAN STATION IS CAPTURED BY REDS

Red Army Cuts Important Rail Line West of Lake   Germans Left With Only One Escape Route From North

Line V est of Lake Ilmen Cut as Troops Advance to Within 34 Miles of Estonia

Nazi Escape: Route Closed  Only One Line Remains For   Only One Line Remains For Retreat As Reds Close !n _

Nazi Position In North Gets  More Serious   Leningrad-Moscow Route Almost All in Hands of Red Army

Only One Railroad Left for Retreat From  North   COUNTER-ATTACK IS __ SMASHED BY REDS   Premier Stalin Announces Capture of Station of Lyubean

Nazi Escape Route Closed   Only One Line Remains For Retreat As Reds Close In

RED THREAT TO GERMAN RETREAT ROAD   Important Leningrad - Vitebsk Road West Of Lake Iimen Cut Leaving Only One Way Of Escape.   Move West

SOVIETS BEAT BACK FURIOUS NAZI ATTACKS   65 Tanks Knocked Out by Russo Forces On South Front

RUSSIANS CUT KEY RAILROAD LINE IN NORTH   Soviets Leave Single Line for Retreat Of Germans

Germans Have One Line for Retreat   Vatutin’s Forces Beat Back Nazi Counterattack

Russia Cuts Big Railroad   Enemy Now Has Only One Escape Line Left

SYNTHETIC RUBBER EXCEEDS DEMANDS   Firestone Official- Says More Than Million Tons Produced

Mexico Storm  Toll Rises to 100   Thousands Homeless In Three Areas

MEXICAN STORM “TOLL NEARS 100   Property Damage in Millions of Dollars Reported in Three Sections

ARMY AND NAVY MAY FALL IN WITH PLAN 4-F WORK BATTALION:  TOMORROW IS DAY FOR PRACTICAL JOKES BUT

County Treasurer Alwin Becker Will Resign January 1  Will Be Manager . ; Of Plymouth Coops: Mew Store — .

County Treasurer Alwin Becker Will Resign January 1  Will Be Manager Of Plymouth Coop. ° New Store

Republicans’ Chief Says PAC Will Insure Dewey Win  Democratic Split Is Forecast By GOP Chairman

Republicans’ Chief Says PAC Will Insure Dewey Win  Democratic Split Is Forecast aTeTnAn

SEEKS STATES VIEW ON VOTE " .FOR SOLDIER      Roosevelt Polls Governors @ Before Final Decision on Veto

SOLDIER VOTE FATE DELAYED   F. D. Waits Reply of Governors  Asked If Ballots Are Legal

Exiled Polish Government  Raked Again   Red Magazine Claims Officials Opposed To Friendship

Allied Forces Sweep Forward On Italy Front   Fall of Siena, Big Transport Center, Reported Imminent

Allies Sweep Ahead in Italy   Fifth Army Vanguard 6 Miles from Siena

REICH POUNDED BY U.S, PLANES   RAF Also in Mighty Attacks On Germans—No Losses To Allies

Big Bombers From Italy Over Targets  2,500 Allied Planes Over Germany’ Sund.

AIRMEN POUND REICH CENTERS   No Planes Lost From Force Of 2500 Sunday «

Bombers Attack Nazi Industries   Giant Allied Armada Roams German Skies Without Single Loss

Rule Skies Of Europe   2,500 Allied Planes Back Without a Loss rom German Raids

18,000 Gallons of War-Precious !00Octane Gasoline Burning in Kentucky

Ovvyv yy err reer errr rrr ere   Swiss Ack-Ack Gunners Aid Yank: Berlin Complains

By President   War Mobilization And Reconversion  Office Is Formed

2 RECONVERSION BILLS INTO LAW   ROOSEVELT SAYS MEASURES WILL NOT DEAL ADEQUATELY WITH PROBLEMS.

Roosevelt Signs Reconversion and Surplus Bills   Measures Both Need Much Tinkering Before They Work, He Believe:

2 RECONVERSION ACTIONS SIGNED   Roosevelt Terms Measures Inadequate At Present

Reconversion  Bill Is Signed   FDR. Points to Inadequacy Of Present Measure

Dewey Back At Desk In N. Y. Capita!   Helps Select Senate Nominee

Pick Senate Candidate   Dewey Will Help ‘  Choose Opponent To R. F. Wagner:

Dewey Back At Capital —   i Helping. To. Select: - Senator Candidate

SENATE CHOICE UP TO DEWEY   GOP Presidential Nominee To Make Selection In New York Race

a ei an ni silene nRnbiiinasnini  DEWEY TO ASSIST IN NAMING SENATOR   GOP Candidate for New York To Be Chosen Soon

WAR. TODAY   Imurinent - Denouement .of Battlé of Aachen: Likely. to Make. Estimate of Prospects of Vietory Fasier.

Aachen to Be Test of U.S. Might   No Cause for Anxiety Over Program Of Allied Offensive

BATTLE FOR AACHEN MAY MAKE IT EASIER FOR US TO ESTIMATE.  PROSPECTS OF OUICK KNOCKOUT

BATTLE FOR AACHEN INDICATIVE © OF HOW HITLER WILL DEFEND HiS REICH: ALSO ATTITUDE OF NAZIS

The War Today  See Aachen Battle As Yardstick of German Resistance:

ALLIES IN SOUTH DRIVE UP RHONE OVER 100 MILES   Heavy Losses Are Inflicted on Germans Trying to Withdraw

ROUT NAZIS IN ~RHONE VALLEY   Allies Drive 100 Miles Inland   [nflict Heavy Losses on Germans

MANY HOMELESS IN MID-WEST FLOODS   Lowlands From I{linois to Kansas Covered by  Water

High \ Waters Rolling over  Mid-West   WORST ON RECORD IN MANY PLACES AS MISSISSIPPI PUSHES ON LEVEES; MISSOURI ALSO BREAKS BOUNDS.   Predict 37 Feet

Six Known Dead In Record Flood   Thousands Homeless In Mid-West States

THOUSANDS ARE MADE HOMELESS   Waters Cover Area Fron Illinois to Kansas   EIGHT PERSONS DEAD   Mississippi River Struggles To Break Barriers; Mlinois Bursts Through

Eight Persons Die In Mid-West Fiood   Great Areas of Rich  Farmland Inundated

Death Total In Flood Area Reaches Eight   Waters Continue to Rise in Stricken Midwest Region

Worst Flood On Record Sweeping Mid-West From Illinois ‘fo Kansas

SIX DEAD IN FLOODS, PROPERTY LOSS HIGH   Thousands Homeless Fromm High Waters In Midwest

Life, Property Loss Great in Flood Area   Thousands Are Homeless Following Deluce

LUZON BEING BOMBED FOR FOURTH DAY   Heavy Air Assaults Are Moking Island Vulnerable for Yank Invasion

U. S. BOMBERS ATTACK LUZON FOR FOURTH DAY   Luzon Is Regarded As Vulnerable To Reinvasion By Our Forces.

Clark Field Target Again   Japs Try to Make Fight Of it, Lose 39 of 50 Interceptors Sent Up

Bombs Blast Jap Airfields  Manila Arez   Land-Based Heavies Sus tain Attack On Luzon Island Targets For Fourth Day

Plaster Manila © ‘Airfields   Reinvasion of Chief Philippine Island Appears Next On Allied Agenda: Mop Up Leyte

Yank Planes Bomb Manila   Airfields Targets of Attack; 39 Japanese Planes Brought Down

Manila Air Fields Targets Bombarded by Yank Warplanes   Clark Field Plastered For Third Time, Gen. MacArthur Reveals

‘Land- Based U. S. Bombers Blast Japanese Airfields Near. Manile

JAP AIRFIELDS BLASTED AGAIN      Manila Bases Regarded As Vulnerable to Reinvasion By Yanks.  ,   ENEMY FIGHTERS BUSY

AMERICANS BAG 72 JAP PLANES IN MANILA RAIDS   CLARK FIELD WAS PRINCIPAL TARGET; MOP UP ON LEYTE

‘Land-Based Planes Blast Airfields F Luzon Island  American Bomber Aitack on Manila Extended inte Fourth

Land-Based American Bombers Blast Japanese Airfields on Luzon Island for Fourth Consecutive Day

MANILA SECTOR POUNDED ANEW   Yank Bombers Again Raid Clark Field—Nips Lose 39 More Planes

LAND-BASED U.S. BOMBER: HIT MANILA      Japan’s Airfields On Luzon Targets Of American Planes

‘Luzon Bases  Are Blasted   Invasion-Vulnerable. : Fields Bombed Again

U.S. Bombs Again Hit Manila Field   Ground Forces Mop Up Jap Remnants On Concord, Leyte.

GREAT AERIAL RAIDS MADE BY U.S. AT MANILA   Clark Field Is Main Target; Japs Routed

Fliers Busy In So. Pacific   Jap Airport in Western New Guince Blasted; P-Ts Sink Nip Barges

Remaining Enemy Airdromes in Western New Guinea. Being Smashed — —American Tafantrymen § ight to Wrest Maflin Field fré6m Jap Defenders,

WARD'S PLANT AND UNION STILL NOT GETTING TOGETHER   Both Sides Claim Victories aud Further Negotiations To Be Necessary

Ward And Unior Controversy Still Flares   Neither In Accord On Issues Involved In New Contract

Ward Case Not Settled   Company Will Not Accept Maintenance Membership Clause

AVERYS AGAIN — DIRECTING FIRN   Further Negoti ations Seen Before Labor Dispute Is. Settled

WARD DISPUTE FLARES AGAII   Company and Union Not in Accord on Main Issues In New Contract.

WARD'S DISPUTE WITH CIO UNION FLARES UP ANEW   AVERY REASSERTS COMPANY WILL NOT SIGN NEW CONTRACT

Ward And CIO Pact Terms On Way To Courts   Head of Mail Order House Determined Not to Sign Contract With Closed Shep Provisions

Ward-ClIO ~ Union Fight Is Reopened   Maintenance of Membership Clause Fought By Avery

WARD AND CIC FIGHT FACING NEGOTIATIONS   ‘Dispute Flares Anew Ih Wake of Victories For Both Sides

ACCORD ARGUED BY WARD, UNION   Further Negotiations Loom Before Final Settlement

Montgomery Ward Case Still Boils  Over Union Rules   CIO Says Case Will be Back in WLB Lap Before Long

Expect Further Negotiations In  Ward-Cl0 Fuss   Company And _ Unior Not In Accord On Prin  cipal Contract Issues.

Ward, and CIO Apparently Widely Apart  on Issues in Writing of New Contract

New Trouble Flares Up at Ward Plant   Further Negotiations Seen Before Final Labor Settlement

Ward-Union Contest May End In Court   Issues Remain  To Be Settled

HEAVY BOMBERS STREAM ACROSS CHANNEL AGAIN   Nearly 1000 Flying: Forts, Liberators,:* Blast Lines

2,000 U.S. Planes Devas tate Ruhr Valley Railway Center Of Hamm   RAK Sweeps Back In Night Attacks   Operations Carried Out Against Communications, Defeuse Works

RAF Night Bombers Out OverGermany   German Radio Reports Heovy Air Battles In Attacks Over Eurooe

CRACK TROOPS SEVER LINES IN CAEN ARE!   Salvage Experts Now Repairing Port Of Cherbourg

Overrun Eight Villages, Reach ‘Odon River Line   Growing Power In Normandy Cuts Loose Aroun Caen After Cherbourg Phase Of Big Campaign Is Brought To Successful Close.

British Invasion Forces Open Mighty Offensive, Overrunning 8 Villages. . 80,000 German Casualties Reported *

ARGENTINA'S NAVY BACKS OUSTED CHIEF   Farrell Reported Called Upon t Reinstate Ramirez or Leave Question to Supreme Court,

New Argentine Crisis Reported   Navy Enters Dispute, Buenos Aires Hears

ARGENTINES NAVY BACKS CEN. RAMIREZ   Naval Representatives See Acting President Farrel Demanding His Reinstatement As President.   Ready to Act

Argentine Navy Insists Ramirez Be Reinstafed   Opposes Continuance Of Army Faction Government Control

FUNDS FOR UNARA LEGISLATION SEEN   IN WASHINGTON TODAY: Politicians Watch State Contests

Congress Plans  Part in UNRRA   Bill Authorizes Contribution—Ex pect Lend-Lease Approval

HOUSE ADOPTS BILL PLEDGING U. S. TO UNRAA  MOVE TO CONTINUE LEND-LEASE YEAR»

Supertortresses Damage Jap Aircraft Works   Strike From Both Saipan and China Bases

REDS WITHIN 30 MILES OF SLAY BORDER   WAR DECLARED ON BULGARIA, AXIS PUPPET

Soviet Armies Push Within 50 Miles of  Yugoslav Frontier   LONDON, Wednesday, Sept. § The Sofia radio declared Wednesday that the Bulgarian government had asked Moscow far an armistice

seenenienmenmessesnnandmenanenmmeesntaenieumenneunensninemmieetenetntineteememnienennmemninene  He Tried Hard —No Results

Senator Downey Is Renominated By Californians   Democrat Fails  To Get GOP Aic

Downey fo Face GOP's Houser In California   Primary Election Held to Select Party Nominees

Another Soviet Repart Says Kovel Is En- * circled  NIKOLAEV IS TAKEN . —{N FIERCE FIGHTING  Other Forces Drive to Within 40 Miles of  Czecho-Slovakia —

RAIL CITY OF IASI IN RUMANIA ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM BERLIN, MOSCOW SILENT.

REDS CAPTURE GERMAN BASE ON BLACK SEA   ASSAULT ON IASI INSIDE RUMANIA IS REPORTED

Berlin Says Reds Assault Rumanian Key Rail Point of Iasi in First Soviet Invasion of Axis Territory

Reds Assault Key Rail City  In Rumania   Encircling of Kovel By Reds in Old Poland Adinitted by Enemy  SUPPLIED BY AIR

Reds Cross Bug River to Strike at Odessa; Nazi Broadcast Indicates Kovel in Poland Encircled

Berlin Radio Reports Red Army Assault for First Time on Rail City of Iasi in Nazi Territory

Reds Topple Nazi Base At Nikolaev —   . Troops Farther North Plunge On Across Bua-In Surae Toward Crumbline: Odessa

Russians capture Nikolaev and span Bug by surprise;  cross Prut at two points   lasi and Czernowitz under assault; nazi forces split by cutting railway

Russian Forces Strike Swiftly  Toward Odessa 15 Miles Away   Red Army Pours Shell: info Rumania; Key Rai City of lasi Is under Attack

Huge Truckers’ Strike Spreads   Labor Trouble Keeps More Than 59,000 Idle

Mid- Continent Truck Strike Area Spreads   About 60,000 Now Idle Aud Government Action Appears. Inminent

French Town Nabbed With Lone Shot   WELL-PLACED BULLET MAKES MAYENNE CAPTURE EASY, AT LOW COST

With $1,235 in His  Pockets, Man Booked  Bar Snntechinea Danrnianc

Sen. Ball Lauds Stassen’s Record   Sure He d Make Good President

WHERE TO FIND (IT   Ammunition Shortages Endanger U.S. Army Offensives, Says Supply Chief

‘Senate Committee Hears Evidence of ‘Shortage i in Vital War Necessities

Forces Short Of Ammunition   Shortages Relates Back Largely to Manpower Problems Says General

Railroads Begin To Take Active Interest in Radio as Safety Device

Troops and Tanks Reach Outskirts of Odessa From Three Directions   U. S. Bombers From Britain Rain New Heavy Blows on French Invasion Coast; Strong Artillery Activity Continues on Anzio Beachhead

Reds Use Tanks © For Capture Of Black Sea Port   Soviets And Nazi Forces Fight In Outskirts Of Metropolis; U.S, Troops Tense As London “Says Invasion Day Has Been Set

Trapped Foes Suffer  As Skala Topples   American Bombers Hammer French Invasion Coast; Reds Quiet About

1200 Planes Hurl Blasts At Nazidom   HEAVIEST AERIAL  ASSAU Lr EVER MADE UPON 1 ; TARGET.

Chinese Score In  Kweilin Fighting   Recapture Sinning, Key Point On Right Flank.

Eisenhower Inspects  Beachhead   pbeacnnead  Spends Four, Half Hours Off Coast  T Te Pa res Inwacan

Eisenhower Cruises Along Invasion Beaches, Conters With Montgomery

REY. NEVIN SMITH WILL BE SPEAKER   Pastor Of Emmanuel Church To Deliver Sermon At Union Twilight Worshio In Wirt Park Sunday Evering

REY. R. (. SCHIEBEL TO DELIVER SERMON   Pastor Of Mt. Carmel Lutheran Charge Selected As Sunday Evening Speaker At Wirt Park Services

GRACE REFORMED PASTOR TO SPEAK   Rev. John A. Kleinginna Will Deliver Sermon At Sunday Evening Union Twilight Service In Wirt Park

CARRIER TASK FORCE ATTACKED BY JAPS   Several American Warships Damaged: Airfields On Saipan And Tinian Also Hit

JAP DAMAGE Uo, WARSHIPS   Enemy Bombers Hit Carrier Task Forces and Bases in Marianas, Airfields of Saipan and Tinian

Berlin Bombed Twiee Within Twelve Hours;  Paris Also Hit   Greatest Aerial Assault In Tlistory Wreeks Vital German installations At Widely Separated Poriuls

TWO AIR RAIDS MADE ON BERLIN WITHIN 12 HOURS   British Fliers Bomb City dust Before Midnight, Following American Armada to Capital.   YANKS SHOOT DOWN 77 PLANES AND LOSE 48   Day Sees Greatest Aerial Onslaught in History With 7,000 Craft Blasting Seattered Targets.

RAF Bombers Blast Berlin   Tremendous Daylight Offensive Spreads Across Axis to Balkans to Set Record Assault

RAF Batters Berlin Again   7,000 Planes Set New High In Daylight Raids On Nazis

7000-Plane Raid Made on Nazi Europe   Night Bombing of Daylight Assault Berlin Follows Great

Picket Line At Fords Dispersed   Police Break Auto Blockade Of Gates  TT. Entrances,

MONETARY   INDIAN’   Police Disperse Auto Picket Lines At Aircraft Plant

Police Disperse Automobile Picket Line Barring Entrance Of Workers Into Ford Plant   Majority Of Workers Back On Jobs Following Midnight Demonstrations

Picket Line ‘At Ford Plant Is Dispersed   No Reason Can Be Found For Wildcat Strike; Union Protests it

STRIKE SHORT-LIVED AT FORD WAR PLANT   Union Head Tells Workers Plane Engines Needed

RECORD IS SET BY _ HEAT WAVE HERE   Mercury Hits 98 Degrees Wednesday After noon =.

RECORD IS SET BY HEAT WAVE HERE   Mercury Hits 98 Degrees Wednesday After-

350,000 Incendiary Bombs Are Hurled On German Capital In Daylight Raid

Third Attack In A Week Is Made Against German Capital; Had Heavy Fiehter Escort   Heavy Air Battles Reported By German Radio: sighth Big Assault On Nazi Targets In Last Ten Days; Marauders Attack Continent

10,000 Heavy Bombs Drop Upon Capital Plant Region   Fort And Liberator Attack Is Combined

Industrial Targeis Blasted in Fourth Attack cn Berlin hy American Airmen   TOULON STRAFED   ortresses from 15th Air Force At fack Southern French Nava’ Base—Poinis Near Paris Hit

rortresses In 3rd Heavy Raid of Week   German Radio Reports Fierce Aerial Battles

Berlin Smashed By Huge Force Of U.S: Bombers  360,000 ‘Bombs Cascade on  German Capital  ee ee  tT

THIRD ATTACK ON CAPITAL IN WEEK   350,000 Incendiary Bombs Dropped In  Raid   Blasted By R. A. F. Force; Yanks Also Plaster Toulon Navy Yard

Great Load of Bombs Hurtle on Wounded Capital   Nazis Report Heavy Air Battles; Attack Follows American  Strike inta Hallane

Nazi Movement Of Troops Hint New Anzio Raid   Reds Near Tarnopol; Showdown Due In Pole, Slav, British Muddle

U.S. AIR FORCE ATTACKS BERLIN FOR THIRD TIME   EAI. FLEET. POUNDS NAZI CAPITAL WITH THOUSANDS OF BOMBS

Drop Over 350,000 Incendiary Bombs On German Capital   More Than 10,000 High Explosive Bombs Also Released in Third U.S, Bomber Attack on City

Allied Planes Hit Italian, Nazi Targets   Enemy Troop Movements at Anzo Beachhead Indicate Impending Fourth Offensive

U.S. BOMBERS RIT BERLIN AGAIN TODAY   Other Targets Are Destroyed By RAF Forces .

Strong Force. U. §. Bombers Smash Berlin   Liberators and Forts Attack Reich Capital Third Time in Week

London, March 8 (AP)—Strong forces of U. S. heavy bombers attacked Berlin today for the third American attack in a week against the German capital. .

Marauders In HollandToday; Hit Airfields   RAF Reports Second Night of Attacks Without Any Plane Losses

GERMAN CAPITAL IS  AGAIN BLASTED BY  U. 5. HEAVY BOMBERS LIBERATOR AND FORT RESS FORMATIONS BOMB ARDED RERIIN TODAY

350,000 INCENDIARIES, 10.000 EXPLOSIVE BOMBS BRING MORE DESTRUCTION TO CAPITAL   Industrial Plants and Other Strategic Buildings Object of Fourth Straight Daylight Attack by U.S. Planes, Numbering Over 2,000

Third U. S. Attack On City in Week   Drop 10,000 Bombs and 350,000  Incendiaries

Third Assault Made On Reich Heart In Week   350.000 Incendiary Bombs Dropped By Liberators And Fiving Fortresses  On Battered Citv   Industrial Area Is Again Blasted   RAF Pounds Airfields In Holland; Rail Yards At Lemans Also Raided  By Big Bombers

CITY FIRED BY OVER 350,000 INCENDIARIES   Holland, Northern France Raided By U. S., R.A.F. Planes

AIR BATTLES: ARE REPORTED BY NAZIS      Railroad Centers Are Hit By RAF in Night Attack; Toulon Also Hit

FORTS AND LIBERATORS IN RAID   Marauders Fly Into Holland To Hit Nazi Airfields

PLANES HiT AT FRANCE   Incendiary Bombs Are Sown On Capital By Big Bombers

YANK FLIERS MAKE THIRD RAID IN WEEK   Incendiary and Explosive Bombs Dropped In German Capital Today

U. S. BOMBERS RENEW RAIDS OVER BERLIN   Liberator and Fortress Formations Drop Half Million Incendiary Shells   THIRD TIME IN WEEK

U. §. Vessels Venture Close To Japan Te Bombard Enemy. Elsewhere In Pacific Amer: icans Do Well.

American Infantry Ane Artillery Join In Anzio Assault   13 HEAVY AMERICAN LOMBERS WERE LO$1   Numerous Grounded Ger man Planes Are Destroyed

GERMAN LINES BENT BACK BY ANZIO ASSAULT   North Italy Air Attacks Hit Plane Factory, Rail Centers

POUND GERMAN INSTALLATIONS IN NORTH ITALY   Aground, American Forces Again Push German Lines Back on Anzio Beachhead Front

Turin Plane Factory Hit.   Railways Also Raked In Northern Italy

Bombers Pound Aircraft Plant and Railway Bottlenecks in North Italy

Bombers Blast Aircraft Plant   Liberators Bomb Parma  Yards In North Italy ©

U. §. Bombers Strike Plane Plant in North. Italy   Two Rail Bottlenecks Are Also Smashed; Nazi Lines at Anzio Again Pushed Back

U.S. Bombers Hit North Italy hail Yards; Troops Push Nazis Back in Center of Anzio Front

Yanks Pound Italy Plant   Plane Factory, Railroad Bottleneck Heavily Hit

Lash Axis  From Big Fleet   50,000 Tons Bombs Hit Nazi Targets in 11-Day Blast   Bombers Rip Nazi Aircraft Plant, Two Italy Railroads

PRIZE CITY IS ALMOST ENCIRCLED   New Danube Crossings @ Listed; Three Key Railroads Cut

BITTER BATTLE UF TANKo AND PLANES RAGES   Russ Troops Within 5 Miles of Beseiged Capital on East and North.

‘Nazi Lines eAre Broken At Budapest   Almost Two-Thirds Of Hungarian Capital Is Now Encircled.

Reds Increase Size of Arc Around Budapes   Battle Is Raging For Control Of City’s Approache:

Murray Raps WLB in Talk  To Conventio!   CIO Convenes To Hear Annual Union Report

Attack On WLB Opens CIO Mee!   Murray Vigorously Assails Board for: Freezing of Wages  foo   FOR CONTINUING OF “NO STRIKE PLEDGE   NLRB: Also Js Criticised; Must. Keep Down Costs, Vinson Savs

WLB ATTACKED BY ClO’S HEAD FOR PAY CURE   Philip Murray Thinks Worker Entitled to Raise; AFL Seeks Harmony

MURRAY URGES  ~ CHANGE IN WLE   Criticizes Board in Opening Talk of CIO Convention

Murray Blasts WLB At Opening Of CIO Sessions   Assails Wage  Freezine Act

WLB Is. Target of   Philip Murray Charges Only Job Done by WLB Is Freeze Wages

WLB Scored By Murray    Pay, Responsibility » ‘Evasion [s:Claimed

Losses Lower _ Than Anticipated   Stimson Says Bulk of Nazis Out of Action

War Won't Be Over Until Allies Reach Berlin - Stimson   Says Invasion Losses Were Only One-Half Of Expectations

Nazi Losses Mean Defeat  GC éices omen. p > stn Gi fie   Stimson Recounts Crippling Blows.

WAR CANNOT BE WON TILL BERLIN TAKEN   U.S. Casualties Since D-Day  Are 42,000

Long Defense By Germany Held Unlikely   Stimson Says Armies Crippled—Casnalty Ficures Given

Nazis In West Are Destroved, Says Stimson   Armies Left Insufficient For Long Defense Of Reich, He Says

PROLONGED DEFENSE IS NOT LIKELY   Secretary of War Stimson Says Bulk of Forces Destroyed or Crippled.

BLUGMEIELD BOY RILLED IN FRANC   Pyt. Granville Frye Loses Life In France On December 3

DONALD REYNGLDS KILLED IN FRANGE   Linton Soldier Leaves Widow And Three Children

LIEUT. PERRY PARIS KILLED IN ACTION   Bloomfield Officer Loses Life In Belgium On Nov. 2

Wild Joy in Streets of Leningrad As People Celebrate Liberation —

Argentina Warns Axis. On Reprisals   Home Front Grumbling Taboo Also, And Merchant Fleet le Temporarily Tied Un

Ramirez warns aXis of reprisals   ‘Asks Argentines to remain silent

ARGENTINA WARNS AXIS: NO REPRISALS   President Ramirez _ Also Warns Argentine Citizens There Must Be No Grumbling Over Axis Break.

Cruisers, Planes Rip Guam   American Airmen Bomb Island Bases Flanking Saipan

See- Resistance Of Hungarians Near Collapse   View Red Army Planning ~~ arly-Push-On-Ausivia,. Force Tilsit Nazis Back

MELEL SIEGE GROWS FIERCI   Russians, Inside Metropolitan Area, Five Miles From Port

Reds Are Battling Near Port of Meme   Troops Five Miles Away in a Siege, of Growing 7 _Ferocity’ After Invading Plikisi, Which. Witler Considers Reich Soil.

Russians on Soil Nazis Claim Own   Soviets Gain in North and South

Russians Only 5 Miles From Port Of Meme!   Invade What Hitler Considers German Soil By Oceupving Plikisi.   GROWING FEROCITY

Fall of Port Of Memel Nears As City Isolated   Reds Invade What Hitler Calls German Soil: Take Plikiski

Hungarians in Utmost State of Confusion   Military Knockout Imminent as Russians Score Fresh Gains

Hungary Near Disaster With Reds Moving In  Early Soviet Attack On Austria Is Seen; Fall Of Memel Near,  Ps, -..* st, 2

MEMEL SIEGE 1S GROWING IN FEROCITY   Nazis Acknowledge Reverses But Say Fighting Fierce

Red Troops Break Into Debrecon,  in Hungary   German Satellite Almost Knocked Out Of War; Magyar Army Facing Debacle

HUNGARY ON VERGE TODAY OF KNOCKOUT   Early Assault Or Austria Soon By Russians

Military “Knockout” Of Hungary Appears Near; Siéoe Of Memel- Tightens

Collapse Of Hungary Seems Imminent; Violent Battle All Along East Prussia Frontier.

Reds Closing In On Prussian Port   Russians Are Battling Within Five Miles of the Port of Memel   CLUG TAKEN BY ALLIES   Germans Report Violent Battles on Frontier of East Prussia

REDS KNOCK AT MEMEL’S GATES   Soviets Make New Gains In Hungary And  ‘Yugoslavia

Collapse of Hungary Is ‘Imminent   Red Avalanche _ Approaches Budapest On 120-Mile Front; Austria Is Next

Hungary Knockout Imminent as Reds Race on Budapest   Elite Divisions Trapped im Witd New Surge of Reds in Balkans; aevar Defenses Utterly Confused

HTLER' BLK DEFENSESTOPPL   Early Assault By Russian  -Forees On Austria: Is Indicated   NEAR BUDAPEST   Break Up of Hugarian Army. Likely: People Ready*For Péace

Red Troops Five Miles  From Memel   siege Growing in Ferocity; Germans Report Big Attacks

SOVIETS WITHIN FIVE MILES OF MEMEL TODAY   Third Largest City of Hun. gary, Debrecen, Entered By Reds

Russians Near East Prussian . Port.Of Memel  In’ Giant Drive   . Other Soviets Enter Hungarian City

Siege Against Memel Grow:  ing in Ferocity Since ‘Russians. Invaded  German Soil

Hungary May Be on Verge Of Knockout   Russian Forces Overrun Magyar Defenses on  120-Mile Front '

SOVIETS WITHIN FIVE MILES OF PRUSSIAN PORT   Reds Take City in Meme Area; Enter Large Town in Hungary

GERMAN SOIL INVADED BY RED TROOPS AND OTHER RUSSIANS CAPTURE HUNGARIAN CITY

HUNGARY FALL EXPECTED SOON   Russian Forces Overrun  Magyar Defenses on 120 Mile Front.   l60 MILES FROM CAPITAL

RED COLUMNS ARE DRIVING ON BUDAPEST   Developing Debacle Emphasizes Final Distintegration of Hitler's Balkan Deferses

LONDON, Oct. 12 —(>)—~ The Algiers radio said today that Russian troops had broken into the East Prussian port of Memel and that there was fighting in its streets.

attle For ast Prussia   Hungary's Third Larg est City Entered By Russian Troops

Reds Overrun Defenses on Budapest Fron   Soviets May Assault Austria. Soon—Fight On Reich Soil Near Memel. in North

Hungary Now On Verge Of Knockout   Red Army Overruns Defenses on 120-Mile Front

Russians But Five Miles From Memel   Third Largest City In Hungary Broken Into By Reds

REDS ARE FIVE MILES FROM BIG PORT OF MEMEL   Violent Fighting Reported All Along Frontiers Of East Prussia.

RUSSIANS ON SOIL OF NAZIS   Soviet Tanks Battle Enemy In Streets Of Baltic Port

REDS TIGHTEN GRIP AROUND MEMEL PORT   Violent Battle Flaring All Along East Prussian Borders With Russ Forces Attacking.

RUSSIAN FORCES ROUT DISORDERED HUNGARIAN ARMY  OVERRUN DEFENSES ON 120- MILE FRONT

HER DEFENSES OVER-RUN BY RUSS ARMIES   Situation Called Debacle, Speeds Balkans’ Collapse

SOVIET FORCES SWEEP QUICKLY FOR BUDAPEST   Hungary on Verge of . Knockout; Assault on - Austria Soon Indicated

Reds Within Five Miles of Dort of Memel   Other Russian Troops  - Break Into Debrechen, Third Hungarian City, 116 Miles of Budapest

Magyar Defenses Overrun   Battle For East Prussia Appears To Be Under Way.

Russians To Take Hungary   MILITARY COLLAPSE OF GERMAN ALLY SEEN

PANIC SEIZES HITLER'S LAST BALKAN ALLY   Budapest Is Doomed; Soviet Drive Into Austria Looms _

Soviets Within Five Miles Of Memel  Hungarian City Of Debrecen Entered

Nancy and Maastricht, Strong Points at Opposite Ends of Front, Captured by the Allies.   ‘CITY OF AACHEN ALSO ENCIRCLED

Yanks Surround Aachen Seize Nancy, Maastricht Cut 10 Miles Into Reich

Great German Communication, Center Surrounded Maastricht Nancy Cantured

Aachen Half » Encircled Now   Allies Driving Powerful Wedges in Face of Siegfried Line —   Through First Belt   Three Penetrations Made Toward Rhine Cities of Cologne and Coblenz

BPW B48484 BR Bire  THIRD ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, ()Lt. Gen, George S. Patton's troops captured Epinal, south of Nancy, today.

FIRST BIG DEFENSE POST SIEGFRIED LINE BELIEVED BE DOOMED   DOUGHBOYS DRIVE TEN MILES INTO FAMED WEST WALL AT TWO PLACES

Strongholds Maastricht, Nancy Taken   Aachen, Surrounded, Within Grasp of U. §. Doughboys

YANKEE ARMIES DRIVING INTO SHEGFRIED LINE   7  German Strongholds Battered At Opposite Ends Of 180-Mile Front

‘Lemperatures   Famous German Line Easily Cracked; Claimed Nothing but Obsolete Group © Of Outmoded Concrete and’ Steel Pillboxes

UNITED STATES ARMIES ENCIRCLED  AAPHEN TODAY   They Also Captured Nancy ‘and Mastricht, Stronghold at Opposite End of Front.   10 MILES INTO GERMANY   ‘Pierced the First Zone of ‘the * Siegfried Fortified System.

U.S. ASSAULT HOLDS AACHEN IN STEEL RING   Nancy and Maastricht Captured in Thrusts Toward Siegfried

YANKS 10 MILES INSIDE GERMANY   Nancy, Maastricht, Strongholds on Opposite Ends Of Front, Taken.   PENETRATE ABOVE TRIER

NANCY AND MAASTRICHT TAKEN AND AACHEN NOW ENCIRCLED; DOUCHBOYS DRIVING NEW DENTS      Rey - TAME S MM TLONC

-Aachen Capture Nears  Deepen Reich Entry   Yanks Lunge 10 Miles Into Germany North of Ancient City of Trier   Within Yanks’ Grasp.

PUSH THROUGH FIRST BELT OF LINE   Great Communication City ls Surrounded   Maastricht In Netherlands Also Captured By Yanks; ° Defenses Topple

Siegfried Line Proves Soft; Two Big Cities Bagged, Third Cut Off   x *& * * Deaf Men and Service Troops In Defense Units

DRIVE 10 MILES INTO GERMANS SIEGFRIED LINE   Prove Nazis’ Vaunted Defenses Are Obsolete Concrete Pillboxs

ANCY AND MAASTRICHT FALL 1) AMERICANS; SIEGFRIED 1S BROKEN AND DENTED BY ALLIES

Germans Yield Two Bastions   Nancy, Maastricht, Nazi Strongholds, Fall to American Troops; Outer Belt Of Siegfried Line Penetrated by Allies

YANKS TIGHTEN RING OF STEEL ABOUT AACHEN   Nancy and Maastrict, Key  West Wall Bastions,  Fall To 3rd Army

Yanks Smash 10 Miles Into Reich   Aachen Is Surrounded; Nancy, Maastricht Fall to American Forces; German Siegfried Line Proves to Be Obsolete

‘SMALL INCREASE NOTED IN BOND ‘SALE YESTERDAY   Total For Charleroi Area Is Now $473,251; Much More Needed

NO CHANGE IN BOND FIGURES OVER WEEKEND   No Report Available Because Banks Are Closed On Saturday

30 CARRIERS IN PACIFIC OCEAN   Knox Says U. §. Has Taken Initiative; U-Boat  Menace Declines

U.S. Naval Force, With More Than 50 Carriers, Goes  Where It Pleases in Pacific

2040-TON RAID “GN MAGDEBUR¢   Berlin Again Visited By British Planes

Hundreds Of RAF Bombers  Batter Nazi Industrial. City: +:   Magdeburg Hit By Over 2,000 Tons Of Bombs ‘ Tn Raid: Berlin Feels Lighter Aerial Blow

SEVEN NIP-HELD ISLES POUNDED   Iwo Jima, 750 Miles From Tokyo, Hit—Truk Nearly Out of War

Japs Claim American Helc Peleliu Island Is Invaded And Bitter Battle Raging

Mikado Gets Sad Tidings On Birthday   Japs Suffer Reverses on  All Fronts

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses  On 3 Fronts   Allies Celebrate Emperor's Birthday With Victories In China, India

Hirohito Gets Setbacks (On Birthday   Emperor Expresses Concern Over Plane Production

Fourth of Hollandia Area's Airdromes Falls to Allies; Japs Thrown Back in China   Tokyo Forces in India Keported Pinned Down; Reverses on Widespread Areas Seen As Giving Emperor Unhappy Birthday

Chinese Throw Back Nippon’s Crack Troops   Jap Air Bases Pounded By Allied Bombers: Enemy Also Handed  Setbacks In India   Aitape Field Raided

SAD BIRTHDAY FOR HIROHITO   Allies Strike Hard at Nips on All Fronts—Emperor Is 43

POTATO CENTER CROP IS CUT 50 PER CENT   Wayne County Growers Stand To Lose Over $250,000

Blame Low Income In Army Rejection   Alabama Eighth Highest In Draft Status, Report

State Has Another First -- The Highest Draft Rejection Rate In The Nation

HOFFMAN ELECTED MAYOR 48 TO 42   Noses Out Mayor Donald Ankeney at Clearspring

HOFFMAN ELECTED © MAYOR 48 10 42   ee ee  Noses Out Mayc Mayor Donald Ankeney at Clearspring

Daring Twin’ Maneuvers By Yank Forces South 01  Ormoc Surprise Japanese

Nips Surprised AsU.$ Cavalry Springs Assault   Infantry Breaches Enemy’s River Line; Tokyo Reports Major Paratroop Operation

Yank Cavalry F lanks Japs —   “Amphibious Landing. Catches. Nips Napping.

U. S. CAVARYMEN, RIDING AMTRACS, KNIFE JAP LINES   COME AROUND LEYTE HORN IN A DARING FLANKING MANEUVER

Yanks Pull Surprise Move Against Japs   Amphibious Flanking Maneuver Made Below Port of Ormoc

NIP PARATROOPS SAID DESTROYING U..§. AIRDROMES   Enemy’s Ormoc Bay Reinforcement Line Said Cut

Yanks Breach Jap River Line Path To Ormoc   American Cavalrymen Sur prise Nips In Daring Amphibious Flanking -Maneuver Ou Leyte

Sea Cavalry Flanks Japs At Ormoc   Daring Amphibious Maneuver Catches Enemy By Surprise; Breach Palanas Line

YANKS BREAC JAP LINE ON “LEYTE ISLE   Hit Palanas Barrier South of Ormoc—Other Forces Surprise Nips in a Daring Amphibious Flankino Maneuver.

—PA CI ACIFI C—  FOE'S PALANAS LINEBREACHED   Daring Amphibious Flanking Maneuver Made Below Ormoc:   GAINS REPORTED   Wayal And Air Forces Cut Japanese Rein: forcement Line

Jap Paratroopers Land Behind American Lines  To Destroy Airfields.

NEW LANDING FLANKS LEYTE LINE OF JAPS   Amphibious Attack Below, Ormoc Surprises Foe Now in Serious Situation MacArthur Reveals.

CAVALRYMEN BREACH JAP LINE ON LEYTE   Daring Amphibious Flanking Maneuver Surprises Enemy Held Port of Ormoc   COMPLETELY OFF GUARD

IN PHILIPPINES   ‘24th U. S. Army Corps, In Daring Operation, Surprises Nips

U.S. Cavalry Surprise Japs Below Ormeoe   Amphibious Tractors Round South Leyte Horn to Knife Key  Japanese Positions

Yanks Flank Jap Troops delow Leyte   Cavalrymen in Amphibious Move Make 125-Mile  Sweep

Amiracs Make - Surprise Raid on Jap Lines   Heavy Attack Is Made Af ter 3-Day 125-Mile Trip On Own Power

Amphibious Blow By Cavalrymen Surprises Japs  Heavily Armed Amphibious Tractors Travel 125 Miles in Three Days Fooling Kins

Tokyo Reports Landing Behind American Lines   Airfields Said To Be Under Attack By Paratroopers

Yanks Surprise Japs in Leyte Flanking Attack   Enemy Is Caught Off Guard Below Ormse; Nips Claim Airborne Landinas<

Break Jap Lines South of Ormoc   Cavalry Surprises Enemy in Amphibious Flank ing Move .   MAKE: 125-MILE TRIP   Tokyo Claims. U. S. Airfields Were Damaged by Paratroopers

JAPS SUFFER LOSSES BELOW ORMOC SECTOR   Caught Completely Off Guard By U. S.  Surprise Move

Successes on Land, Sea, in Skys, Are Reported by Yanks   Surprise Japanese With Daring Sea Blow off Leyte Coast

Americans in Daring Move   YANK 'CAVALRYMEN TAKE TO WATER AT LEYTE

RUSSIANS REACH POINT 13 HILES ~ ABOVE BUDAPES)   Tank Forces Drive to Danube in Bold Thrust, Sealing Off Besieged Capital From East.   REDS SOUTH OF CITY SCORE BREAK-THROUGH   Bastion Astride Invasion Route to Austria Menaced —Nazis Fight Stubbornly in Some Sectors.

Reds. Tighten Budapest Loop   Tanks Reach River. Above  Hhiinnawine” Cusceat

REP. CANNON OF FLORIDA FINED   CONGRESSMAN WAS ARRESTED WHILE IN GAMBLING HOUSE

G. 0. P. to Name 55 Delegates  Michigan, Hawaii, Delaware to Choose

POLICY PUBLICITY IRKS REPUBLICANS   House Group Incensed at Release Before Planned Friday Meeting

Hull Avoids Details of His 17 Points   EXPLAINS THAT HE MUST NOT IMPEDE WAR EFFORT BY BEING TOO SPECIFIC AT THIS TIME   GOP Forced His Hand

VIVIEN KELLEMS WRITES COFFEE   ASKS WHERE HE OBTAINED RIGHT TO SEE LETTERS

VIVIEN KELLEMS SEEKS LETTERS   CHALLENGES COFFEE’S RIGHT TO SEE MISSIVES

Miss Kellems ‘Wants fo Know   Seeks to Learn How Her Letters Got Into Hands of Commentator

FDR Played M’Carthy To Sid’s Bergen   REP. LUCE TELLS REPUBLICAN WOMEN OF PRESIDENT’S SPEECH BEFORE TEAMSTER’S UNION SEPT. 16.   Hillman To Get Lesson

FOR SPEECH DRAWS BARBS OF MRS. LUCE   Charges He Played McCarthy To  Hillman

Luce Takes Hillman,  Roosevelt For Ride FDR Played McCarthy Tc  Hillman's Bergen

EO eee eee ee SS Bae ee ee  i Romanian Plains Weakest Spot In Nazi Line

Senate Committee Approves Bill Granting Federal War Workers Compensation Benefits

Fourth Term Campaign Seen Almost Certain      Observers Claim No Other Democrat Would Have Chance

Main Invasion Force Takes Town   Of Hollandia Few Hours After Landing — Two Tadji Fields Captured   COUNTER ATTACKS ARE ANTICIPATED

U.S. Troops Invade Palau And Morotai   Toehold 250 Miles Off Philippines Won By MacArthur's Men

New Blows Struck At Jap Bases      Island 560 Miles Bast Of Philippines As Battle Starts To Clear Road :Back To Bataan And Correcidor   ENEMY DEFENSES HEAVILY BOMBED

Armadas Pour Fighting Men On Two islands   Palau Aud Halmahera Islands Hit On Roads To Bataan And Corregidor.

Twin Invasion Blow May Cut Chain of Bases   Japs on Palau Offer Strong Resistance

U.S. TROOPS G0 ASHORE ON PALAU AND HALMAHERA   MacArthur and Nimitz Explode Combined  Offensive From Land, Sea and Sky 

Palau, 560 Miles From the Philippines, Is Under Assault Following Record Bombardment

Halmahera and Palau Islands Action Scenes   MacArthur and Nimitz in Great Combined Attack

 ° Morotai Beachhead Secure  MacArthur, Nimitz Forces Breach Caactal Dafencec

Troops Pour Into Palau. Halmahera   Offensive Opens Drive To Ke-capture The Philippines

BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR OBJECTIVES   Gen. MacArthur’s Troops Also Storm Into Halmahera Islands from South.

Palau Is Invaded By Yanks   Halmahera Islands Also Invaded By Gigantic Armada

Take Enemy By Surprise In Attacks   Islands Are 250 Miles South of Philippines—Battle  on Beaches

TWIN INVASION BLOW AIMS TO CLEAR ROAD BACK TO PHILIPPINES   Japan’s Inner Island Defense Chain Threatened; Nimitz And MacArthur Forces Strike At Same Time   Ry FRANK TREMAINE

Yank Invasion Armada Pours Men Into Islands   General Douglas MacArthur's Troops  Storm Into Halmaheras From South

Twin Landings Launch Drive On Philippines   MacArthur’s Troops Go Ashore On Morotai, 250 Miles South Of Mindanao; Number Of Beachheads Established In Palau Chain

Two Invasions Armadas Put Pincers on Philippines— Bombardments Precede Landings

TWIN OFFENSIVE IS AIMED AT PHILIPPINES   Japs Doomed, MacArthur Says

TWOINVASIONS PLACE TROOPS NEARER GOAl   Nimitz Storms Palau As MacArthur Lands  In Halmaheras

HITLER TELLS ARMS. CHIEFS =~ GERMANY TO. WIN THE WAR   FUEHRER SAYS GERMAN “IN. VENTIVE GENIUS" 18 “BOUT TO RESTORE WAR . ' “EQUELIBRIUM"

Hitler’s Views.....   Tells the Germans Their Inventive Genius Will Win

ALLIES CLOSE ON MOGAUNG'N FROM 3 SIDESI   Increasing Pressure on Myitkyina, with fighting Already Raging within City.

AUTO-TRAIN CRASH TIKES SIX WOMEN   Share the Ride Group Killed at Pewamo; Seventh War Worker Iniured

DEM CHAIRMAN SAYS FOR TO RUN AGAIN   Farley Silent on Fourth Tern at $50-a-Plate — Jefferso Dav Dinnep ‘

DECLARES PARTY, NATION DEMANDS HIS LEADERSHIP .   CONSIDERS DEWEY AS MOST LIKELY NOMINEE OF GOP

Democratic Party Chairman Says FDR Will be Candidate   New York Powwow Leaves No Doubt As  to Program

RENOMINATION GF FDR PREDICTED BY DEMOCRAT HEADMAN   Robert Haanegan, Demo Na tional Committee. Chieftain Admits Dewey Is Likely G QO. P. Nominee—Farley I: Oniet on Stand

AEDICTS 4TH TERM FOR FOR   Hannegan Makes Prediction At Annual Jefferson Dinner in New York.

‘Roosevelt Will Complete  Assignment   Hannegan Predicts Fourth Term: Farley is Silent

Hannegan Says FDR Will Run   Jim Farley, Present At Time, Gives No Indication What Stand He'll Take

Outlook Gloomy  for Chinese  Donald Nelson Asks Production Boost

Free Exchange Of Information Being Sought   Editors Call On All Nations To  loin In Part

WINE TO TAKE OUT Don's Grill, N. Brie St—Ad   FREDERICK (C. HOFMANN

WHEN DISASTER STRIKES, THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IS READY FOR THE EMERGENCY

C10 Unions Back Ward Strikers In Detroit Area   Four Stores to Open Today Despite Picket Threat, Says Manager

MONTGOMERY WARD WORKERS ON STRIKE   1,500 In Detroit Area Leave Jobs; Walkeut May Spread To Other Cities

Nazi Defeat. To Free More CivilianGoods   WPB Says 35 P.C. Out put Can Be Turned to Supplying Needs

DEFEAT BLAMED ON _ HITLER BY GENERAI   Von Paulus us Says It Is Use less to Continue Bloodshed

MILLIONTH TON OF BOMBS DROPPED BY AMERICAN AIRMEN   Huge Weight of Bombs Used on Enemy; Operations Have Been Expensive

12, 000 AIR FORCES BATTLE ‘CASUALTIES SUSTAINED AND 42.000 PLANES ARE LOST

Half of Total * Released Since D-Day In Europe   1,350,000 Sorties Flown By Army Planes Since Pearl Harbor

BOMBINGS ARE HEAVY BUT COST IS HIGH      Milllonth Ton Dropped This Week on Germany

Yanks Drop Million Tons Bombs Since Pearl Harhor   14,600 U. S. Planes Are Lost in Combat

A. A. F. Drops Over Million Tons Of Bombs Since Pearl Harbor; Plane Losses Are About 42,000

Drop Millionth Ton Of Bombs  AAF Now Has 72,000 Battle Casualties

FIRST ATTACK IS MADE UPON BATAVIA, JAVA   ONE SMALL POCKET OF NIPS LEFT ON PELELIU

2,000 BOMBERS HAMMER REICK   Railyards, Chemical and Oil Targets Mauled

OVER 2,000 U. S. PLANES: HIT WEST FRONT RAILYARDS   In Addition to Five Rail Centers, Oil Works at Ludwigshafen Je Also Pummeled by Strong Fleets of Bombers and Escorts

2,000 U.S. BOMBERS BLAST 4 BIG TRANSPORT HUBS IN WESTERN GERMANY TODAY

_ Plane Repair Centers, ransport Hubs Hit Bombers Blast Germany, France

SEEK TO HALT SUPPLIES FOR GERMAN LINES   1,200 Flying Forts, Liberators in Crashing Attacks at Oil Works, Rail Centers.

Four Cities In Western Germany Hit   Two Thousand U. §. Bomb ers in Raids on Trans portation Centers

NAZI RAILY ARDS OBECTIVES OF AMERICAN Pair   They Supplied the Western Front; 2000 Heavy Bombers Participated.   CHEMICAL WORKS HIT   One Rail Junction at Ludwig shafen Was Bombed. - Today. -

Air Armadas Busy Again   Smash Railyards Supply Western Front, Also Big Chemical Works

HEAVY AIR ATTACK   Siegfried Line Depots Are Among Points Blasted by Allied Planes

2,000 Planes Poundat Nazi Targets   Five Enemy Railyards Supplying West Front Are Bombed

Direct Air Blows At German Cities   Rhineland Industricl Centers Are Hard Hit By American Bombers

2.000 HEAVIES IN GIANT RAID INTOGERMANY   Frankfurt, Coblenz, Ludwigshaven, All in Front Line of Western Defenses are Blasted

American Planes Hit Rhineland   Karlsruhe and Mannheim Raided By American Heavy Bombers

AMERICAN HEAVIES ATTACKED GERMANY IN FRONT LINE AREA  FRANKFURT, COBLENZ   FRANKFURT, COBLENZ AND LUDWIGSHAFEN WERE HEAVILY BLASTED

2000 BOMBERS SMASH AIRCRAFT AREAS IN FRANCE   Pound Rhineland Key Cities; Hit Strasbourg, Metz

AMERICAN HEAVIES ATTACKED GERMANY IN FRONT LINE AREA  = ERANWYEIIDT CORI ENT

LINDBERGH  INSTRUCTING PILOTS IN SOME PHASES inc wuieu Al TITHRE WORK

INVASION JITTERS GRIPS BRITAIN AS TRAINS CANCELLED AND OTHERS ARE PUT ON DAY TO DAY BASIS   Berlin Reflects Tenseness by Estimates of 3,500,000 Troops in South England and Reports of Troop Concentrations in Corsica

Tension in Britain Hits New High   Nerves Taut, Anger Grows on Eve Of Big Invasion

New Invasion Tension In Britain; Civilian Rail Travel Slashed Further

All Britain On Edge   Feeling That Invasion Is At Hand Heightened By Cut in Rail Service

Sharp New Bans on Rail Travel in Britain Hint Of Nearing Europe Push

Invasion Tension Grows In Britain  German Air Scouts Seek Word On Plans of Allied Command

BRITAIN TENSE OVER INVASION   Thousands Left Stranded As Train Schedules Are Cancelled   BRITISH HATRED FED

More Trains Canceled In England   Both Sides of Channel Tense Awaiting Invasion

British Train Schedules Cut; Tension Grows   Farewells Between Soldiers and Their Loved Ones Are More Poignant Than Ever

Britain Tense With Travel By Train Reduced   Charge 47 Officers In Nazi Prisons Were Murdered; Escaped  Men Tell Story

Britain Places Further Check On Rail Service   New _Invasion-—Tengeness rips Nation As Lroops Get Priority On Trains

AS H-HOUR DRAWS NEARER English Railroad Station — Goodbyes Are More Poianant

ADD RESTRICTIONS ON TRAVEL WITH D-DAY VERY NEAR   Thousands Left Stranded With as Many as 50 Regujae Trains Canceled, Troops Have Priority.   NAZI AIR SCOUTS ARE MAKING OBSERVATIONS   Six Planes With Enemy Seeking Information on Invasion, 3,500,000 Men Poised to Make Trip.

het     New. Inv           GREAT. BRITAIN AWARE “OF NEW MILITARY ACTION

PASSENGER TRAIN PorAVIPE cy HE   Thousands Of . Civilians Left Stranded In Stations By Move   RUMORS FILL AIR   Train Timetables Through Country On Day-To-Day Basis

Invasion Fever Grips Troop-Packed Britain: Trains Scheduled By Army

Invasion Steps Gripping Britain   Tenseness Growing Stronger As Passenger Trains Taken Over.

New Invasion Tenseness Grips Britain as Train Schedules Are Slashed

FURTHER CUTS IN TRAIN SCHEDULES ADD TO SUSPENSE   TIMETABLES ARE PUT ON VIRTUAL DAY-TO-DAY BASIS

Britain Tense as: Trains Go: On War Basis   50. Schedules’ Canceled and Troops. Given. Priority on Trains Running...   MORE- FAREWELLS ." .- ARE-BEING -SAID   Story: of ‘Mass Murder’. of ‘Prisoners Enrages: British; “Nazis Eve Corsica

CIVILIAN TRAVEL CUT, INDICATING BIG DRIVE NEAR   Many Britons Stranded in Stotions as Troops Gain Priority on Rails

Britain Feels New Invasion ‘Tenseness   Civilians Stranded As Government Uses Trains For Troops

BRITISH EXTEND RAIL TRAVEL BAN   Thousands of Civilians Left Stranded in Stations

TROOP THAN BLT Pala ON ALL LINE!   Passenger Schedules Slashed Leaving Thousands of Civilians Stranded,

Invasion Tenseness Mounts in Britain; Train Service Cu   Farewells Between Soldiers and Women Are More Poignant

Tension Grows in London as ‘D-Day’ Nears   German Air Scouts Fly Over Britain Seekina Information

London’s Invasion Tenseness Grows Due To Train Scarcity And Reports Of RAF Slayings

Invasion Tenseness Grows in Britain As Trains Are Cut  Hatred of Nazis Fed By Stockholm  Execution Account

Train Tieup Hints D-Day Very Close   Thousands Stranded At Various Depots Throuchout Britain

Nazis Say Three And Half Million Allies Ready To ©  Pounce Upon Reich Soon

Invasion Tenseness Grips Britain As Train Schedules Are Cancelled

Timetables Are Put on Virtual Day-to-Day Basis ‘With Troops Given Priority   NAZI RADIO WARNINGS

Invasion Tenseness Increasing British Fliers Shot In Nazi Prison, Claim

British Trains Cancelled  As Invasion Troops Mass   Germans Estimate Three And A Half Million Soldiers Are Poised In Southern England For Bia Thrust Across Channel

Britain Puts Railways On  New Footing   Tension Grows On Both Sides Of Channel As Civilians Stranded.   NAZI AIR SCOUTS OUT

Britain’s Railways On Pre-Invasion Footing   Tension Increases On  Both Sides Of Channel

BEACHHEAD FORCES ATTACK FROM REAR   ritain Gripped By New Tenseness As Rail Traffic Is Cut.

Big Fight Ahead, ‘Ike’ Tells Pilots  Nazis To Be Knocked Qiut Sawe Ceneral

VOTES TO EXTEND PRICE CONTROL   SENATE COMMITTEE Ap‘PROVES BILL TO CONTINUE PROGRAM 18 MONTHS,

‘Stabilization Program ‘Given Committee 0. K.   Action by Senate Group Overrides Administration Attempt to Kill Amendment

Russian Troops Cross Prut River   Capture Kolomea In Carpathians

Airfields for Small Towns Advocated At Kansas City   Will Serve as Feeders to The Big Cities

RAF Baek Over Nazi Territory   British Bombers Following Up Big Attack an Rerlin

73 Bombers Lost By RAF In Attacks  Upon Berlin   Fires, Ruin Caused In Friday Pounding

Aerial Attacks On Rhineland   RAF BLASTS GERMAN INDUSTRIAL AREAS TODAY

1000Planes Pour 2,800 Pounds Of Bombs On Capital   73 Ships Are Lost By English In Airway Battles; Leipzig Also Hit

NAZI HUB HIT BY 2800 TONS OF BIG BOMBS   BATTLES OVER CITY TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF BRITISH

Raids Follow Berlin Battering   Follow-Up Attackers Believed Fewer Than Record Smash

RAF Follows Up Great Attack With New Assaul   Loses 73 Big Planes as Germans Throw Up Fierce Defense

PLANES SHACK RUHR, BERLIN   Powerful Attacks Follow. Firs! Shuttle Bombing

RAF Blasts Ruhr, Berlin   Prompt Follaw-Up to Historic Shuttle Raid

PAT AS TO DE GAULLE   Says Civil Matters Should Await Liberation

NOT ENOUGH OF FRANCE LIBERATED YET TO CALL IT A COUNTRY, SAYS PRESIDENT

Today In Washington  Claim Food Acreage to Miss Goal   Melancholy Report On Plantings May Bring On Review of Entire Production Setup

Pessimistic Report On Food Plantings Issued By Agriculture Bureau

Production Slash      IN WASHINGTON TODAY: Senator McKellar Commends Cut in FCC Funds, to Revamp Navy Standards, April 15 Tax Declaration Date Sticks

Congress Oppose Military Nominee   Suggestion Is Made That MacArthur and All Other Military Leaders Should Keep Out of Politics Now.

THUMBS DOWN FOR M'ARTHUR   Both Parties Join Chorus of Dissent to Vandenbery

Decry Officer  As President   Congressmen Oppose Vandenberg Plan To Put MaeArthur In White House.

General Killed In Plane Crash   Head of 10th Armored  Division Is Victim

Lav arinarseeaaterin Dice, “are A PAREN: ia  Army General Is Killed in Airplane Crash in Tennessee

Security Tax Case Opened By Committee   Altmeyer Says Raise Of Appropriation Must Be Made

TAX ‘FREEZE? “1S EXPECTED   ‘CONGRESS BELIEVED READY TO KEEF SOCIAL SECURITY TAX AY PRESENT LEVEL

CHINA LEADERS HIT ‘TOKEN’ AID OF U. S., BRITAIN   Stung By Churchill’s Claim Of ‘Lavish’ Assistance

Allies Fail In War Aid,  Sa v Chinese   Pitiful Amount Of Token Assistance Blamed For Critical Situation ©

CHINESE WANT  MOREAID SENT THEM   Becoming Bitter Over Lack Of Supplies

CHINESE CHARGE “TOKEN HELP” FROM ALLIES   Say U.S. and Great Britain Have Fallen down in Aid

Chinese Officials in Bitter Statement Charge Token Aid Provided by Allies

Chinese Bitter at Token" Assistance as U. S$. Abandons Another Major Air Base

FOURTH AIR BASF LOST IN CHINE   Chinese Official Charges Allies Have Failed In  Assistance

China Complains of Little Aid by U.S, Britain   Pitiful Amount of “Token” Assistance Is Reported

Chinese Claim Allies Give Only “Token” Assistance   Official Spokesmen Are Stung By Loss Of Fourth Mayor Air Base In Eastern China

Amount Sent Not Enough  For Division   Spokesmen, Stung By Loss of Air Base, Answer Churchill

Chinese Charge Failure To Give  Adequate Aid   Say Only Pitiful Amount of Assistance  Given By U. S., Britain

PATTON FORCES HOLD OVER HALF OF BORDER CITY   Seventh Army Makes New Gains on Alsatian Plain

BIG NAZI GUNS FAIL TO HALT DRIVING YANKS   More Than Half Of Vital Valley City Already In American Hands   FIRST ARMY ADVANCES   jen. Eaker Warns Huns Air Power To Cling To German Throat

WAIT U.S, MOVE IN PHILADELPHIA   Expect Government to Run Struck Transit Lines by Nightfall

FEDERAL INTERVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA STRIKE NEAR   6,000 Transportation Employes Ignore Pleas To Operate Cars and Busses   War Plants Hampered -—~ Violence Quelled In Third Largest U. S. City

H-DAY PLANS ARE NEARLY COMPLETE   Committees — Prepare For Mammoth Paper Drive In County

Fighting Rages South of Aacher   Tommies Pounding Arnhem; Russians In Budapest Suburbs

BRITISH, CANADIAN ARMIES PUSH UP T0 MAAS RIVER TODAY   MOP-UP STAGE TO OPEN ANTWERP HARBOR HAS BEEN REACHED

BRITISH, CANADIAN ARMIES PUSH UP T0 MAAS RIVER TODAY  MOP-UP STAGE TO OPEN ANTWERP HARBOR HAS DEER DPDEASCLUCHR

Pound Anew At Arnhem, Nazis Say   Yanks Southeast Of Aachen Locked in Bloody Struggle

Yankees, Nazis Battle Bitterly Before Cologne   British Press To Maas, Pound Anew At Arnhem

Allies Advance Aloné The Maas On 40-Mi. Line   Nazi Strength Cut In Twos Red Forces Battle In Suburbs Of Budapest

Leipzig Oil Plants Pounded by Bombers   Saarbrucken Roailyards Hit in 2250-Plane Attack

Allied Bombers Again Blast Reich   Fleet of 3,000 Planes Strike At War Machine

3,000 ALLIED PLANES-BLAST NAZI TARGETS   Synthetic Oil Planes In. Ruhr, Leipzig Areas Hit

‘Where ls Hitler And His Intuition? Adolf’s Disappearance One Of War’s Maitor Phenomena   By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press War Writer

Where Is Hitler And His Intuition?  A AAP ; Adol?’s Disappearance One  Of War’s Maior Phenomena

GOVERNOR GETS COEDS CASE   Irate LSU feud. ‘udent Body Threatens To Strike In Protest

300 Glider Pilots In Action As Front-Line Troops In Netherlands  ee i a i i

LT. POSTMA WOUNDED   Was on Duty in Philippines; Is Now in Hospital

BOY, 14, LANDS IN DENVER JAIL . WITH BRIDE, 21   Young Woman, Who Left Two Daughters in Los Angeles, Says It Was “Love at First Sight.”   TO FACE CHARGE ‘ OF CHILD-STEALING   Groom’s Mother Filés Com* plaint—Two Seized When .They Inquire About Unreceived Money.

CALAIS AREA HIT AS BERLIN BURNS FROM NEW RATE   Half of Nazi Capital Waste: Brunswick, Hanover Blasted

RED ARTILLERY SHELLS PSKOV   Soviet Forces Press To Within Six Miles Of Beleaguered City

liege Guns Wheeled Into Position te Shell Nazi — - Strenghold    DIVISIONS ROUTED,   Soviets Claim Widespread Desertions in German Ranks

Reds Aim 3-Way Assault at Baltic Gateway Bastion   ~ Smashing Toward   Pskov from Three Sides; Wheel Siege Guns into Position

Senator Hits Method in Baruch Plan   Wants Congress Not Executive To Set Policies

Baruch Program   Draws Challenge  Gives Too Much Power To Executive Branch

Baruch Plan Under Fire By Senators   Propose! Puts Nation's Economy in Hands of Executive, Is Cloim

George Assails Baruch Repor   Plan Of Rule By Executive Order: Financier Details Plan To Group.

POST-WAR PLAN IS CHALLENGED   Baruch Proposal Puts Powe In Hands Of Executive

Sen. George Assails Baruch’s Plan as Executive Order Rule   Drastic Struggle in Congress Hinted Over Who’s To Have Control of Post-War Changeover to Civil Life

GEORGE ASSAILS BARUCH PROPOSAL   SENATOR SAYS IT CALLS FOR CHANGE-OVER TO PEACE BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Baruch Plan Draws Ire of Congressmen  Charge Post-war Economy Put in

POST-WAR PLANS OF BARUCH ARE HIT IN CONGRESS   Senate Committee Decrics Executive Order Rule

Baruch Plan Challenged In Congress   Plan of Rule by Executive Order Georgia Senator Says

Crities Oppose Baruch’s Plan As Dictatorial   It Would Deliver Economic Destiny to Executive, Senators Declare

Hodges Named Radio Speaker   Charleston Man to Answer Talk on Univers

Hitler Driven To Fortify Vast European Coastline   What Once Might Have Been Springboarc For Attack On Britain Now Vulnerable Area For Invasion By Allies

Hitler Quit Boasting He Would Invade England in 1941-42 to Plan for His Own Defenses

Saturday Best Day For Bond Sales Yet   But Drive Not Yet to Halfway Mark in Amount Pledged

YOUR DISCARDED CLOTHING MIGHT SAVE A LIFE IN LIBERATED EUROPE THIS WINTER

Ciothing for Europe:   Give All the Clothes You Can Spare te Europe

Florence Area Again Bombed   Allied Fliers Blast Enemy Communication Lines Over Wide Section   DALMATIAN COAST IS ALSO ATTACKED

NAZIS HOARD AIR STRENGTE   Keeping Large Force at Ex. pense of Civilians and  Vital Industry

Nazi Plane Production Hard Hit  Nazi Plane Production Hard Hit  Germans Saving Aircraft To Strike At Invasion Forces

Nazi Plane Production Hard Hit $e     Germans Saving Aircraft To ‘Strike At Invasion Forces

‘Miser’ Policy Adopted by Germans   Civilian Population and Industry Suffer for Defense

Germans Adopt Miser’ Policy Of Air Warfare   Nazis Save Planes af Expense of Civilians and Industry

Nazis Let Civilians ‘Take It’ To Save Planes for Invasion; Allies Expect Early Mastery

NAZIS SAVING AIR ~ FLEET FOR D-DAY   ; HITLER EXPECTED TO RISK ENTIRE FORCE IN EFFORT TO BLOCK INVASION,

Kirke L. Simpson Says: Russian Capture of Krivoi Rog May Prove Catastrophe to Nazis

AXIS REPORTS 90 BOMBERS ATTACK CITY   Fly Over Vatican, Asserts Enemy Broadcast

U.S. Bombs Rome, Say Germans   Claim 90 Planes Attack Residential Section; No  Allied Confirmation.

DREADNAUGH] TIRPITZ HIT - BY TORPEDOES   U. S. Plans Indemnity For Attack on Swiss Town

Budapest Bombed By  Yankees   Attack Follows Record Smash On Steyr; Northern European Targets Hit

Allied Airborne, Seaborne Forces Land Qn Albania In Step To Speed Liberation

BEGIN DRIVE TO” LIBERATE BALKANS.   Appreciable Army Put Ashore by Ships and Dropped From Skies

ALLIED ADRIATIC AIR-SEA FORCES INVADE ALBANIA   Amphibious and Parachute Troops Supported by Warships

FIRST LARGE-SCALE OPERATION MADE ACROSS THE ADRIATIC.   ‘Warships Support   Amphibious Troops Swarm Ashore as Airborne Units Drop from the Skies.

New Operations Seek To Liberate Balkan Sector   Airborne And Seaborne Forces Landed On Albanian Mainland By Allies   SPEEDS OFFENSIVE TO LIBERATE GREECE

Twin Pushes Gain Against Nazi Forces   Great Barrage Paves Way For Offensive Led By Montgomery

Twin Offensives To East And West Gain; Americans Reach Solid Battle Area

ST, JEAN FALLS TO AMERICANS IN NEW ATTACK   Allied Units Advance Despite Furious German Resistance

Two Lake Ships Sink: 10 Missing   Fog Blamed for Separate Collisions

Message Rings in Ada Today of "Beace on Earth’   Churches Procisim Anew Birth of .Chsiatehild, Gled Christmas Faffows

Message Rings in Ada Today of ‘Peace on Earth’   Churches Proclaim Anew Birth of Christchild, Glad Christmas Follows

JACKIE COOPER MOVIE STAR, ACQUITTED   Cleared of Charges of Contributing to Girls’ Delinquency

Churchill Tells (i Damage Done By Robot Bomb:   Reports 2,752 Fatalities To Date Caused By Robot Bomb Attacks   LONDON TARGET FOR MOST BOMBS

NO DUNKIRK, SAYS ALEXANDER   Allied Beachhead Below Rome Safe, Says British Commander After Tour.

Reinforcements Aid Americans On Biak Island   But Japs Sweep Across Tungting Lake in China In Expanding Offensive

JAPS PUSHING DEEPER INTO MIDDLE CHINA   TROOPS REINFORCED FOR NEW MOVES IN SOUTH PACIFIC

More Yanks “and On Biak   _ Other  roops Pressing On; Javs Broaden Out In China

U.S. Pours More Troops in Fight For Biak Island  Japanese Thrusts Menace Changsha From Three Sides

Bricker Returns: Plans Trip West   Governor “Amazed” At His Reception

AST LT. L. F. ENGLE IS AWARDED THE DFC   Award Is Given For “Extra ordinary Achievement”   OVER 30 MISSIONS

Nazis Adopted Wrong Strategy in‘France, Lost All, Says Eisenhower

Bradley Overall Commander Yanks In North France  Eisenhower Lands Menigomery Says Invasion Now Five Day: Ahead of Schedule

War in France Beats Schedule Asserts General   Eisenhower Teils Of Progress Made By Allied Armies

American ‘General. Now Full Field: Commander as Originally Planned

Eisenhower Elevates Bradley, Optimistically Reports Attack Five Days Ahead of Schedule

BradleyGiven, Command in North France   American General's Post  Js Equal With That . of Montgomery

Pp. adley  7 Paras a Fa eeere newness SB SVBVIEI FEED FA ee ee i het ae ee er teria ere 2 eed  Yankees In Northern France

Bradley Full Field Commander; Germans Picked Wrong Strategy, Hastened Allied Victory

A Bigger Job for Bradley ©   Status Equal to Montgomery Planned from _ First, Says Eisenhow: er: Tells of Progress

SCORE VICTORY IN MALACCA STRAITS   Airbase On Admiraltys To Be In Use Soon   LANDING FORGE   Wiped Out, Japs Announce; No Resistance To Attack On Rabaul, New Guinea

Jap Aircraft Carrier Is Torpedoed by Sub   American Landing Force on Admiralty Island in Bismarck Sea Beats Back First Nip Major Counter Attack and Yanks Expect To Put Seized Airfield To Full Use in Tightening Squeeze on Enemy’s Pacific Bases   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

British Sub Torpedoes Jap Carrier; American Invaders Repulse Enemy Counterattacks

Enemy Escort Scattered In Malacca Strai   Nipponese Cruiser Also  Crippled; Admiralty  -Hold Is Tightened

JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER 1S BELIEVED SUNK BY BRITISH SUB  CAPTURED ADMIRALTY ISLANDS AIRDROME

Jap Carrier Is Torpedoed  bv British   Enemy Repulsed In Admiralties; Raboul And Wake Raided Again

JAP AIRCRAFT CARRIER HIT BY BRITISH U-BOATS   Believe Nip Ship Sunk in Strait; Repel Japanese Attack on Los Negros 

BRITISH SUB STRIKES JAP CARRIER; CONCENTRATED BLASTING OF JAPS CONTINUED

Screen of Five Protective  Vessels Penetrated During  Attack in Malaecea Strait

Temneratures   U. S. Forces Repulse Jap Attack in Admiralty Islands

British Submarine Hits Jap Flattop In Malacca Strait   Captured Airport in Admiralty Islands Soon to Serve Allies

AP. ‘FLAT-T0P REPORTED SUNK   British Subs Hit Carrier In Malacca Strait; Damage Cruiser

British Subs Join Fight on Jap Shipping   Announce Attacks on Flattop, Cruisers.and Supply Ships

Japanese Fiat Top Torvedoed   “Allied Subs. Also Hit Jap : Cruiser in Malacca Strait Area   COUNTER BLOW ON ISLAND REPULSED   Enemy Beaten Back as Americans Hold to Momote: Airfield

BRITISH SUB REPORTS JAP CARRIER HIT   Ship Believed Sunk in Malacca Strait; Americans Repel Counter-Attack in Admiralty Islands

British Sub Torpedoes Jap Carrier   May Have Been Sunk — Jap Crufser Also Hit   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Writer

British Subs Nail  Jap Plane Carrier   Allies Expect To Use Newly Won Airfield   Reveal Dutch Submarines Have Taken Heavy Toll In Jap Shipping

CRUISER HIT, SUPPLY SHIP SENT DOWN   Americans Repulse Counter-Attack Los Negros Island -

British Sub Sinks Jap  Carrier ©   Action in Malacea Strait; Americans Repulse Counter-Attack on Los Negros

British Sub Torpedoes Jap Plane Carrier  Allied Craft Eludee 5 Enemy Chasers to  Ce nuen nm Te.

Score Hits Also On Cruiser In Malacca Strait   Most of Supplies For Burma Army Through There

British Subs Score Hits On Jap Ships   Believe Plane Carrier Sunk

Jap ‘Aircraft’ Carrier Sunk By. British ‘Sub:  In. Malacca. Strait.

Torpedo Nippon Carrier   Flattop Probably Sunk By Britis: Submarine   Excellent Springboard.

British Sub Eludes Five Escort Ships   British Bombers Strike Stuttgart, Munich, Allied Planes Renew Daylight Bombing

Allies Expect To Use Newly Won Airfield   Reveal Dutch Submarines Have Taken Heavy Toll In Jap Shipping

JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER 15 BELIEVED SUNK BY BRITISH SUB  CAPTURED ADMIRALTY ISLANDS AIRDROME TO BE USED SOON

Quickly-Captured Momote Airdrome Shortly To Be In Full Use of Allies  LOSSES ARE NEGLIGIBLE

JAP CRUISER TORPEDOED IN MALACCA STRAIT AREA ALSO: FLATTOP PROBABLY IS SUNK   Ocean Supply Lane Used by Japs to Supply Jap. Army in Burma Scene of New Naval Losses to Nips. 7,000-Ton Carrier Was Heavily Guarde

british U-Boat Sinks Carrier   Five Sub Chasers Shepherd  Jap Atreraft Ship Through ieee Tipe eee

GERMANS PUSH DRIVE ON REDS   Nazi Tank and Infantry Units Seek to Upset Thrust Into Balkans

i a Of BOMB BERLIN   Raid Follows American Attack on Kiel and Muenster

BERLIN, KIEL AND MUENSTER BOMB TARGETS   Allies Feature Daylight Attacks  COAST BATTERED  Over 2,000 Fighters In Air

titi 0 RAF.AGAIN sn BERLIN   Raid Follows American Attack on Kiel and Muenster

ALLIED PLANES AGAIN MAKING DAYLIGHT ATTACKS TODAY AFTER BLOWS AT BERLIN AND KIfL

TEXAS DEMOCRATS REMAIN SPLIT AS FACTIONS BATTLE  INDICATIONS POINT TO ANOTHER HOT BATTLE I

Draft of Single Youth Speeded   ARMED SERVICES’ MANPOWER NEEDS TO BE FILLED WITH INDUCTION OF THOSE UNDER 26 AND FATHERS; FEW INDISPENSABLE BY THAT AGE, SAYS ROOSEVELT

F. DR, FAV YOUTH ACCENT IN INDUCTIONS   Men Over 26 Too Old To Fight, View Of President

Government Will Speed Up Draft Of Single Men   Induction Of Deferred Single Men Under 26 To Be Advanced

U.S. to Draf Bulk of Men From 18-26   Deferments Will Be Virtually Wiped-Out  For Younver Groun

Men Under 26 Face Speedup In Induction   President Emphasizes Demand For Younger Soldiers In Service

To Speed Up Drafting of Deferred Men Under 26; F. R. Says Older Men Cannot Stand Rigors of Battle

MEN UNDER 26 NEEDED IN SERVICE   _ Army Says It Has Been Getting Too Many Older Men

Draft Accent Is Placed on Men Under 26   Few Persons Indispensa. ble at That Age, Says Roosevelt

Americans At Russian Base Have Already Made it Definitely American

Pilot Dives Stricken Bomber into Jap ‘Freighter Rather Than Be Captured

U.S. Aids Pole Pact   SEEK RESTORATION OF RED-POLE RELATIONS; ARMIES SLASH RAIL LINE

Half-way Mark Is Neared   $291,970 Raised to date ...$135,639  eee eee eevee

HOLDOEGEL, 43, DIES OF POLIO   Served as Des Moines  District OPA Attorney

CORONER’S JURY VERDICT   Find Evangelist Died of Accidental Overdose of Sleeping Tablets

Anti-4th Term Democrats Hold Chicago Confab   O'Daniel Hits New Deal's ‘Taxing Power Racket;’ Backers May Draft Dewey

DEMOCRAT GROUF FIGHTS 41H TERM   Senator O’Daniel Says New Deal Has Set up Machinery For Big Racket to Perpetuate Itself in Power

ANTI-FOURTH TERM DEMOCRATS GATHER   Texas Senator Delivers Bitter Attack on New Dea}

“World's Biggest Racket” = Started by New Deal To Continue  In Power, Sen. 0’ Daniel Charges   Democrats Opposed to Fourth Term Hear Texan Flay Roosevelt; Prefer To Support Republican

Germany's Oil Supplies Hit   Yank Bombers Blast At Paris Area, Others Hit Romania, Danube Area.

Heavy Raids Are Continued On Reich And Nazis’ Fast _ Fast: Dwirdling Oil: ‘Supply

Shawnee Soaked By Heavy Downpour   Eastern Part Of State Gets In On Showers

War Frauds Division Probes Chute Contracts; Issue Raised in Deaths of Eight Paratroopers

‘DRAFT’ VIEWS © NOT CHANGED BY STIMSON   SENATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS DECLARE MAJORITY OPPOSITION .TO LABORDRAFT STILL  REMAINS .

LABOR DRAFT PLEA RECEIVES COLD SHOULDER   Congress Apparently Unmoved by Stimson’s Supporting Speech

COLD SHOULDER   Congress Apparently Unmoved by Stimson’s Supporting Speech

40,000 Key Men Under 26 Due for Draft Deferment   Armed Services, War Industries Reach Manpower Agreement

40,000 Under —26 Get Draft Deferments   Pact Is Reached Between Production Agencies and Armed Services

AGENCIES AGREE ON DEFERMENTS   About 50,000 Men Under 26 Who Have Key Jobs in Industries To Be Deferred; FDR Must Approve

Officials Agree On Deferments   Men Under 26 With Key War Industry Joos To Remain In Produetion,

Decision Near On Heavy Draft Of War Workers   Roosevelt Confers With Hershey; Few Deferments Likely

A greement Reached To Defer About 40,000 ‘Men Under 26 Who Hold Key Jobs In Plants 

Army To Let Key Workers Retain Jobs Despite Age   50,000 Men Will Be Deferred In Future

40,000 IN KEY WAR JOBS TO BE DEFERRED   Early Passage Of “GI Bill Of Rights” Is Seen

Services Waive Calling 40,000 Young Key Men   Accord With Production Ageneics Now Awaiting Dioct).. nd,

LEADERS AGREE ON DEFERMENTS   About 40,000 Men Under 26 Te Be Kept In Key Industries

Deferment Compr omise  Is Reported   40,000 Key Men Under 26 May Be Kept in Industrv

DAWSON, onOTT IN AUTO WRECK   Charleston Mayor Escapes Injury When Auto Upsets; Bluefielder Has Minor Cuts About Head

COUNTY FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION MEETS   J. Henry Lucken, Of Akron, Is Re-elected As ° One Of The Stockholders

For County Treasurer   To the Voters of Hood Co.; ‘DEAR FRIENDS.

Prepare Way to Invade Japan   Philippine Drive May Be Forerunner

Sturdy Defenses Built By Nazis  Writer Describes Beach Obstacles

AIROCHY GhAnot HURLED BY JAPO   Nipponese Launch Full Scale Atroc:.ty Campaign Against U. S.

ATROCITY CHARGE HURLED BY JARS   Nipponese Launch  Full Scale Atrocity Campaign Against. U. S.

JAPS OPEN NEW CAMPAIGN CHARGING U, S, ATROCITIES   ENEMY BROADCASTS SHOW FULL-SCALE PROPAGANDA PROGRAM DESIGNED. . ‘TO OBSCURE OWN CRUELTIES

‘Hobbyists’ Get Tax Jolt   Sénate Ends: ‘Dodge’ On Losing Veutures

New Tax Law May Kill Money-Losing Hobbies Indulged in by Wealthy

THREE DIE AS FORTRESS FALLS   Army Ship Catches Fire Over Ohio; One Saved

Robot Fire  Decreasing.   Allies ‘Are. Taking -Launching: Outfits

WAR CORRESPONDENT IS KILLED IN ACTION   Tom Treanor Meets Death on Road to Paris

BRITISH TAKE NEW STEPS 10 CHECK LEAKS   Neutral Diplomats Barred From Leaving the Country   CENSORSHIP RULES ARE VERY DRASTIC   Action Is Taken to Safeguard Secrets of Comina Invasion

Drastic Action Taken to Guard  Invasion Moves   Communications of All Missions Subject to  Censorship; Brazilian’s Departure First Banned

Britain Forbids All Diplomats To Leave Island   Drastic Step Taken To Protect Secrets Of Coming Invasion

BRITAIN PLUGS INVASION LEAKS   Censorship Is Tightened Nous’ Diplomats Can't Leave

LONDONMOVES TO SAFEGUARD ALL SECRETS   Forbids All Neutral, Diplomats to Leave Country; Places Drastic Censorship on All Mail.   Security Measure

BRITISH TAKE NEW STEPS 10 CHECK LEAKS   Neutral Diplomats Barred From Leaving the Country   CENSORSHIP RULES ARE VERY DRASTIC

Britain Takes Pre-Invasion  Safeguards   _ Unprecedented Action Designed To Insure No ‘Leak’ of Plans  ALLIES AFFECTED. TOO

New Censorship Action Closing Secrets To Foe   British Foreign Office Forbids Diplomats To Leave Country; Also Subjects Their Mail To Scrutiny; Only Three Exceptions

England Limits Envoys’ Travel, Code Messages   Unprecedented Precaution  Taken as 2d Front Atinek Nears

Tight Muzzle Excepts — U.S., Reds, Own Units   Censorship Applies Alike to Neutrals, Other United Nations; Seen Invasion Safeguard

RRITAIN PUTS ENVOYS UNDER RESTRICTION   Action Taken to Safe° guard Secrats of Coming Invasion

Britain Moves to Safeguard Invasion Plans  Neutral Diplomats Forbidden to Leave Country

aRANGE MEMBERS HUSKING BEE   Men of Claiborne Grange Will Assist in Caring for Corn Crop of Unfortunate Granger

GRANGE PRESENTS C000 PROGRAM   WILL ALSO CONDUCT MEMBERSHIP CONTEST IN NEAR FUTURE. REQUEST DONORS

FIVE INSTITUTES WILL BE HELE   Claiborne Grange Sponsoring Events Also Makes Many Contributions to Worthy Causes

GERMANS FEAR BULGAR BREAK   Rushing More Troops to Strategic Points as Bulgarians Demonstrate Against War.

War Bond Sales Continue To Lag In Clay County   Only 15 Per Cent of Quota Reached During First Week of Drive

Three Additional Townships Pass Campaign Quotas   Fulfill Pledges On Pearl Harbor Day, Clay Chairman Asks

All-Governor Ticket Looms As Possible  Fight by Willkie on Foreign Policy Plank lanored by Deleaate<

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Delegates Okay GOP Platform, Ignore Willkie   Disputed” Foreign Plank Pledges ‘Peace Force’ To Prevent War

Platform Is Adopted  Unanimously  Foreign Policy Is Reported to Be Aynvproved bv Dewe

World State Not Part Of Platform   PREVENTION OF AGGRESSION BY “PEACE FORCES” ADOPTED BY REPUBLICANS REPORTED TO HAVE DEWEY O. K.   Willkie May Bolt

G.0.P. Platform Meets Approval Of Convention   Swiftly Ratified In Spite of Willkie

Dewey Aid ‘oConfer  With Willkie   Dulles Meets with GOP’s 1940 Standard Bear yay

DEWEY AID TO MEET WILLKIE   DULLES TO ATTEMPT TASK OF REACHING MEETING OF MINDS

Dulles to Meet With Willkie   Willkie Seems Less Optimistic of Concrete Results of Meet

Dulles And Willkie Plan Parley On World Affairs   Dewey's Representative Wil Meet With 1940 Nominee —Governor Urges Inter nationalization Of Ruhr Valley

Dewey’s Aide Seeks Willkie  Security Views   Dulles Will Attempt to  Reach Meeting of Minds With 1940 Presiden. tial Nominee

Dulles Gets Joh Of Attempting To Agree ‘With Willkie.On International Security

GOP ENVOY TO MEET WILLKIE   Dewey Sends Dulles To Parley On Foreign Policy

DULLES 10 MEET WITH W. WILLKIE   Dewey Turns Attention to Conference With Maine Candidate.

DEWEY'S AIDE * MEETS WILLKIE   International Security Problems To Be Discussed At Session

WOULD-BES’ WIVES: They Disagree On Question, Then Shy Away from Politics

PRES. IN SOUTH FOR THO WEEKS   White House Discloses FDR Recuperating From illness

ROOSEVELT ON VACATION TRIP   PRESIDENT TQ SPEND TWO WEEKS IN SOUTH TO SPEED - RECOVERY FROM * BRONCHITIS

F. R. GOING SOUTH FROM WASHINGTON   President Off For Two Weeks of Relaxation With Quest for Fresh Air and Sunshine.

Nazis Report Air Raid On Rome’s Outskirts; Fall of Cassino Near   U. S. Losses in Big Aerial Assault Raised to 65 Planes. With Germans Losing at Least 152; ‘Mass Flight’ of Sofia Citizens Is Reported

SOVIETS FREE MORE TOWNS BY THRUSTS   Allied Plane Loss in Battle Set at Siztw

Tornado Toll Hits 152 in Three States  Freak Storm Leaves  Slag: aap ces: wine   Freak Storm Leaves 1000 Injured, $5,000,000 Damage

Death Toll From Tornadc Reaches 15?   Damage in Millions Reported Over Area

Many Hurt, Property  Damage Hiek   West Virginia, __ Pennsylvania And Maryland Hard Hit.

TORNADO DEATH TOLL I$ AT 152   Northern West Virginia I Hardest Hit Section

‘Thousands Homeless; DamageTops5 Million   More Than 500 Persons Injured Throughout North-Central W. Va.

MISSOURLE 18 DROPPING   Workers Are Fighting to Hold Back Waters at Hamburg, lowa

10 More Nip’ te  Ships Repr “d. Sunk Or Damaged   Marines, Army Troops Mop Up Scattered Japs  In Southern Palaus

TEN MORE JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK   Put Out of Action By Air Force Bombers

Continue Attacks On Jap Shipping   Bombers Score Hits  On 10 More Vessels

FLIERS BATTER TEN JAP SHIPS IN NEW BLOWS   1,000 Fanatical Nips Are Holding Out in Palau Caves

10 MORE JAP SHIPS HIT IN PHILIPPINES   Troops Continue Mopping Up On Peleliu, Angaur

DeGaulle Is Entertained Extensively   Gen. Pershing Asks Him About Health Of Marshal Petain

FDR AND DE GAULLE TO CONTINUE TALKS   French Leader Busy With Round of Receptions

Church of England Paper Praises F. R.   ORGAN SAYS DEWEY “CEASED ISOLATIONISM ONLY WHEN RIDICULOUS”

Motorists Must  Sign Coupons   OPA Drive To Reduce Black Market Work

Girl Released Unharmed.   OPA Cautions Drivers to Sign Each Gas Coupon

Transit Strike _ Leaders Fired   Army Restores Ser vice In Philadelphia

Philadelphia Cars Run on  Schedules   ARMY GUARDS EVERY VEHICLE, FIRES FOUR STRIKE LEADERS, PREPARES FOR GRAND JURY SESSION,   Race Issue Shunted

ARMY GUARDS VEHICLES AS STRIKE ENDS   Data Assembled in Phila_delphia for Grand «Jury Probe

Philadelphia ‘Transit Back To Normal — Under Army   Government Gathers: - Data for Presentation. To U. S. Grand Jury.  Convening ‘Tomorrow FOUR TOP LEADERS OF STRIKE FIRED  Only 13.Qut of 6,000  Absent as Soldiers

ARMY GUARDS VEHICLES AS STRIKE ENDS   Data Assembled i in Philo. . delphia for Grand ~. Jury Probe

PHILADELPHIA CAR SERVICE IS NORMAL   All Except 18 of 6,000 Transit Employes Back on Job—Soldiers; on Guard.

US. PREPARES STRIKE PROBE   Data Assembled as Service Is Resumed on Transit  Lines in Phila.

BY 8TH ARMY   Bridgehead North of Forli Won by British; Yanks Make Small Gains

PHONE:-QPERATORS IGNORE W.L.B: RULE TO RESUME! TASKS   Board Promises Further Action To Terminate Walkouts in Ohio Cities

Five Plants Seized After Work Delays   *Unions Refuse To Put Men On 48-Hour Limit

U. §. SEIZES SHOPS” - RESULT OF STRIKE   Union Ban on Overtime Work Leads to Fed eral Action

Union Ban Leads To U.S. Seizure Of Five Plants   Had Defied:, WLB. Order To Stop Limiting Men” Yo 48 Hours Per Week

FARMERS DECIDE TO MAKE BOND   At Leas; a , Dozen Seek Re “lease at Poplar Biuff; Quick Trials Planned

SOME BUTLER COUNTY MEN TIRE OF JAIL      At Least a Dozen Farmers Locked Up Yester. day on Riot Charge at Own Request Now Are Readv to Make Bond.

BUTLER COUNTY FARMERS WANT TO GET OUT OF JAIL   Asked Sheriff Hogg at Poplar Bluff to Get Their Attorneys.   TOTAL OF 55 ARRESTED   Farmers Are Charged With inciting a Riot on December Eighth.

55 Farmers Choose Jail  In Protest   Spurn Change to Put Up Bonds on Charges of Inciting to Riot

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK BK. KEINE Friction In The Court

BELIEVE TURKS NEAR A-BREAK WITH GERMANY   Observers See Early Clash; With Air Bases to Allies

Turk Break Is Expected   Rupture Of Turkish-Nazi Relations Believed To Come Within 24 Hours.

TURKEY AGAIN NEAR BREAK WITH GERMANY  ~ Mav Come Within   May Come Within Next 24 Hours, It Is Indicated

Turkey Reported About Ready to Break With Nazis   German Nationals Told To Be Ready to Leave; Turkish Cabinet Meets

24 HOURS MAY OEE NATION ON SIDE OF ALLIES   Nazi Newspaper Says Rupture of Relations “May Lead to War.”

Action Likely Within Next 24 Hours  Turk Break With Nazis Iramineni

BREAK IS EXPECTED IN 2A HOURS   Bulgaria Trying To Get Out of War, Report States

Turkish-German Break ‘Imminent, Allies Say   Von Papen Orders His National: Out of Country—Passports To Re Given in 24 Hours

LAND-BASED YANK BOMBERS — BLISTER VOLCANO ISLANDS   @® ‘American Target Only 633 Miles From Home Shores of Japanese   > Gen. MacArthur’s Planes Speed Up Cam paign To Liberate Philippiness

Earlier Date Is Considered  For Primary   Election On August 15 Would Enable Men In Services To Vote, Believes Committee

Advance State Primary Date, Is GOP Proposal   LUCAS TO INTRODUCE NEW SOLDIER VOTE BILL

Wisconsin Primary May Be Held Aug. 15 To Aid Doughboy Vote,Says GOP Group

Nazis Attack — Finn Island   Former Partners Fall Out: War May Be Declared

LABOR SEEKS — ALT. VOICE   ; oo Urges Representation For Employe-Stockholders  On Directorate

A.T.&T, Stockholders Reject Representation ‘of Employes on Board

U.S. Forces Trap Japs  In Burma   ‘Merril’s Marauders’ Defeat Japan’s  18th Division in Three-Hour Battle

‘ONCE-PROUD NIP TSTE DIV. BEING HACKED Th PIECES   Bag May Be Biggest In Rurma Campaign

HIT APS ON Aah, FIRGT TIME IN WAR   American Troops Capture Village Ten Miles Behind Lines, Chinese Troops Help To Bottle Up The Nipponese   2,000 JAPS ARE TRAPPED BY U. 8S.

American Troops Trap 2,000 Japanese In Ist Asiatic Blow At Enemy   Yanks And Chinese Striking In Coordinated Attack Bottle Up “Superior” Division

Witnesses Say There s Enough Water for All Purposes in the Missouri River Basin

SecondPhase Pacific War Won By U.S.   Forrestal Says Fight With Jap Planes Successtul

Second Phase of Drive For Philippines Called Success by Forrestal

U. S. Navy In Virtually Unopposed Command Of Waters of Far Pacific

rKisenhower Announces For First Time That Ninth Army is at Front  ARE FORCING AHFAD   ARE FORGING AHEAD   American Vanguards Are 10 Miles Inside of  Germany

Fourth Season For Civic Forum  Opens October 26  Dr. Mann To Talk On Germany And World War III

SAYS SOVIETS * DESTINED 10 BATTLE NIPS   Urges Vladivostok Diversionary Assault

TELLS JAPAN RUSSIA WILL ATTACK THEM   ‘Russian Pearl Harbor’ Proposed By Frantic Nazis

HITLER WANTS JAP ATTACK ON RUSSIA      Must Have Help To Prevent Collapse at Front

Meat Ration Cost Down      Sharp Réduction i in Point Value of Pork And Seme Beef Cuts Into Effeet Sunday

Point Values of Meat Reduced   Some Beef, All Pork Included in Order

Reduce Points OnPork, Many Cuts Of Beef   Civilian Allotment For March Greater Than  _ Expected; Butter Stays At 16 For Month

OPA CUTS POINT VALUE OF MEAT   EIGHT PER CENT MORE ALLOTTED FOR MARCH

DROP IN MEAT POINT VALUES FIXED SUNDAY   Butter, Cheese, Lard Values Unchanged By OPA Order

‘SHARP REDUCTION ‘INRATION POINTS: VALUES OF POR   Beef Cuts Also Will Be Re; . duced Beginning Sunday, OPA Reports.   NO CHANGE IN BUTTER   Veal, Lamb, Mutton, Cheese, Lard, Other Dairy Products Unchanged.

Sharp Cut in Points  On Meats   Reduction on Pork and Beef Cuts Will Go Into Effect Sunday   OPA ACTION COMES “AS A SURPRISE   Large Share. of Available Meat During March ‘Will Be Pork

CUT BEEF AND PORK POINTS   ‘Lowered Ration Costs 0! : Popular Cuts Effective Sunday

WILL CUT PORK AND SOME BEEF RATION VALUES   New Schedule of Points Will Become Effective Sunday, OPA Announces

Changes Go Into Effect On Sunday   Pork Will Make Up Half  Of Meat Supply For _ March, Is Report Of  OPA Administrator

Sharp Cut in Beef and Pork Ration Points  OPA Awannimerece Slach   OPA Announces Slash Due Sunday; Butter Not to Be Included

Fewer Points Will Be Required For Pork And Many Beef Cuts, Effective Sunday, O. P. A. Says

SHARP REDUCTIONS IN RATION POINT VALUES PORK, BEEF  ALL PORK EXCEPT SPARI RIBS AND SOME BEEF CUTS ARE LOWER

Sharp Reduction In Meat Ration Values Is Ordered   (Pork And Many Cuts Of Beef To Be Reduced In Point Value Sunday; Butter, Lard, seal Produets Are Unchanged

Point Values Of Beef And Pork Cut Sharply   But No Changes In Ration Values Of Veal, Lamb, Butter, Cheese .

Meat Ration ints fo Be Cut Sunday   8 Pct. More Stocks On Hand Makes Slash In Values Possible

Ration Values of Pork and Beef Are Reduced Sharply for March; Butter, Dairy Products Remain Same

MORE MEAT FOR TABLES IN MARCH   Point Reductions Effective Sunday to Provide 8% More

REDUCE POINTS ON PORK, BEEF   REDUCTION WILL GO INTO EFFECT SUNDAY, MARCH 5

Ration Point’ ValueOn Pork And Beef Cut   Veal, Lamb, Mutton, Butter, Cheese, ‘Lard Un: changed;-Reductions Effective Sunday

Vegetables to Plant Now Given   Pork, Meat Reductions Are Announced

Pork, Meat Reductions Are Announced   during March made possible the lowered point values fer March.

RATION VALUE OF BEEF AND PORK REDUCED   Cuts, Effective Sunday Range From One _ ‘tc Three Points, Putting Average for Pork at 1.’ Points a Pound.

A Reduction In Pork and Beef Points   Cuts Will Range — From One to Three Points; to Become Effective Sunday

Beef and Pork Doint Values   Lamb, Mutton, _ .1, Cheese and Lard  Point Values Are Unchanged, Announcec

More Pork, Beef Due, Cut Points On Items   Sharp Reductions On Pork Items, Some Slight Cuts For Beef On Sunday

OPA Cuts Pork Beef, Ration Point Values   More Meat To Be Available To Civilians As Production Rises

Ration Point Value of Pork, Some Beet Cuts to Be Reduced   OPA Announuces Chart Will Be Changed; in Effect Sunday

Effective Next Sunday Sharp Reductions in Ration Point Value of Beef and Pork

PORK POINTS CUT ‘UNDER OPA ORDER ~ FORNEXT MONTE   Some Cuts of Beef Effected In Order But Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Dairy, Products Are Unchanged.   CHANGES DUE SUNDAY COME AS SURPRISE   ‘Increased Marketing of Livestock, More Than Anticipated, Gives Civilians Slightly More.

Pork Points  Will Be Cut   Other. Meats, Cheese Will Remain Same —

Point Values of Pork, Some Beet Cut For March   Eight Per Cent More Meat Promised For Coming Month

Cut Points On Pork, Some Beef   Reductions Range From One to Three Points—Effective Sunday

Sharp Cuts In Meat Points   Ration Point Values To Drop on Many Items Sunday In New Schedule

To Reduce Point Values of Beef   But Ration Values on Mutton, Butter and Cheese to  Be Unchanged.

Five British Sloops Sink Six German Submarines, Five Take Crews With Them

British Sink Six Nazi Subs  InN. Atlantic   One of 5 Light Sloops Lost to Torpedo Hit During 20-Day Hunt

British Down  Six Nazi Subs   Five Naval Sloops Sink German Submarines In North Atlantic Waters.

British Navy Sinks 6 Nazi  Submarines   On Patrol In North Atlantic

Chinese Shake-Up Believed Effort To End Infernal Crisis: Kai-shek Gains Strenath

Cabinet shift should help Chiang setup  Chinese cabinet posts are altered

PROPAGANDA CHIEF BELIEVED (10. HAVE OVERREACHED » BEMBELF ON: WINGED.   BOMB REPORTS

HITLER FACING ROBOT BACKFIRE   Germans Await Surrender Of Allies Under Nazis’ Greatest Hoax

Japs Fail To Stop Raiders   Assault on Marianas . Huge Success Despite Persistent Attacks By Enemy Fighters

FEW JAPANESE HOLDS ESCAPE OUR ATTACKERS   Scope of U. 8. Offensive Ever Widening.—No Let-up in Campaign Against Rabaul.   Still Hiding. Rv UNITED PRESS

Noose Is Drawn Tighter Around Tokyo Defenses   [Advanced U. S$. Forces  Now Within 1,400 ! Miles Of Tokyo

JAPANESE ISLANDS STRONGHOLDS BEING BATTERED HEAVILY   THERE HAS BEEN NO LET UP IN EVER-WIDENING ALLIED CAMPAIGN

Raids Follow Yank Forays over Reich   Germany Assault Thrown Back at Roitie Beachhead; Reds Continue Advance

ANTERICAN FLYERS BLAST JAP BASES OVER WIDE AREA   Nimitz Report Says Enemy Attempts To Protect Morianac Futile

U. S. Raids Shake Japanese Control Of Pacific Isles   Navy Discloses Big Carrier Strike at Guam; Moscow Is Eveing Developments

U.S. Navy Has Now Hit at Most Jap Island Grouns   Russia, Now at Peace With Nips, Finds Campaign Impressive

FEW OF JAPAN’S CLUSTER OF ISLAND FORTRESSES NOT HIT BY AMERICAN ATTACKS

Nazis Hurl New Coastal Drive   ENEMY STRENGTH STILL UNDIMINISHED; CASSINO FIGHTING IN SEVENTH DAY; NO REST SEEN FOR EITHER SIDE

POPE’S SUMMER VILLA ‘BOMBED THIRD TIME   1 i :  , Vatican Radio Reports “Many Casi  : ualties” Following Lat  - est Attack

SITE OF POPE PIUS’ RESIDENCE BOMBED   Vatican Radio Reports Third At tack on Castel Gandolfo Caused “Many Casualties.”

Lash Allied Lines From Six Points   Yanks Beat Off Three Attempts; Fighting at Cassino Still Violent

; SUMMER HOM HOME OF “POPE BOMBED 3RD = TIME, RADIO SAYS   Vatican Broadcast Claims Other Vatican Property Was  Also Attacked

FIGHTING REPORTED _IN WARSAW STREETS   : “y : Poles Said to Be Waging Open Warfare Against Germans in Roarmer Cantital.

U5. WARPLANES KEEP UP ATTACK ON PHILIPPINES   Army Troops Land on Atoll in Western Carolines to Give Nimitz a New Naval Base.   JAPANESE WARSHIPS FLEE FORMOSA WATERS   American. Battleships and Carriers Escape Damage in Assault on Enemy’s Inner Defenses.

Japs Took One Look, Fled From Formosa Area, Says  Nimitz: New Atoll Seized   81st Division Troops Revealed to Have Landed on Ulithi Atoll Sept. 20 and 21; Two Medium Sized U.S. Ships Damaged  In Formosa Strikes, Says Pacific Admiral

Wards, U.S. Take Case To Courts   Company Seeks to End Injunction; Congress Committe: To Beain Probe

HEARING ON MAIL ORDER CASE OPENS   Court Continues Injunction Hearing Until Next Monday

Government Obtains Injunction to Halt Interference With Operation of Business

WARD SEIZURE HEADS TOWARD COURT BATTLE   House Considers Resolution For Probe Of Government’s Action

Injunction Granted To End Firm’s Resistance; Avery Pleased Issue Has Finally Reached Courts

Wards Battle Court Enjoiner   Order Forbids Company Interference With Government Operation of Plant; Avery Predicts 100 Per Cent Resistance

INJUNCTION ISSUED IN WARD CASE   Restrains Co. Heads From Interfering with Gov’t Operations

Mail Order Firm Counsel Seeks — U. S. Injunction   Company Attempts: To Get Dissoltion ‘of Government Order

Gen. Bradley Commander ol  U. 8. Troops   Gen. Eisenhower Announces Division  Of Allied Leadership

Bradley's Men to Take Fight Into Germany   EISENHOWER SAYS U. S. GENERAL IN NEW JOB EQUAL TO MONTGOMERY

Pay Boost Data Goes To FDR   WLEB Leaves Issue of ‘Little Steel’ Change Up to President

WLB WILL HAND WAGE QUESTICN 70 ROOSEVELT      Board Will Not Make Any Re commendations One Way & Or Another

ENEMY HOMELAND, STRONGHOLD IN PHILIPPINES “AND MA ‘OR’ OlL CENTER: AT SUMATRA: BOMBED IN ASSAULTS BY AMERICAN. PLANES-SOFT. ° » ENING:UP OF ‘PHILIPPINES ‘STARTED RY’ MACARTHUR'S LIBERATOR BOMBERS         By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

ALLIED FORCES SHOW GAINS ON ALL FRONTS   Liberators Execute 3 Successive Night Assaults On “Japs”

—_—_oC_o_ eS S Pr Predict - Passage of Revised Green-Lucas Bill Providing Federal Service Ballot

FEDERAL BALLOT GAINS SUPPORT   Administration Puts Pressure On Southern Opponents

BOMBERS HELP GROUND FORCES AROUND ANZIO   Three German Divisions Being’ Driven Back by Americans as They Retake Lost Ground.

Yanks Hurl Nazis Back: Bitter Battle   Most Of Early German Gain Is Wiped Out In  Fierce Counterattack.

Break Up Major Enemy Assault South Of Rome   Foe Communique Says Rome Line Pierced At Several Points

Bombers Lead in Anzio Battle   INFANTRYMEN SMASH STRONG GERMAN ATTACK; HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES AT CISTERNA AND APRILIA AS HUGE NEW COUNTERDRIVE BEGINS

Stimson Says U.S. Will Try Hard to Spare Rome, but Will Protect Selves   Yank Lives Come Fiest, Says Stimson

THOUSANDS OF MISSILES HIT TROOPS   Reappearance of Heavies Indicates Intensity - of Latest Struggle—Allies Push Back Three Divisane 1.000 Yards. 22!

Thousands of Bombs Batter Massed Nazis   Fierce Counterattack by Doughboys Regains Some Ground Lost to Germans

Vighting Grim As Nazis Hurl big Offensives   U. S. Bombers Over Southwest Germany After RAF Raids On Stuttgart

BETTER SUPPLY OF MEAT SEEN   More Top Grades Of Ra tioned Beef And Pork Due Next Month

Stockholm. Worried That Red Fleet May Interfere with Swede Shipping ‘Of. Materials to Reich and Finland

Sweden Uneasy  Over Red Fleet  May Break Into Baltics. Threaten Traffic  ne. Bmpr?’ cri pra «4 arr

REDS FORCING NAZIS TODAY FROM BALTICS   Russians Makine Fresh Breaks,  Germans Say

BRITAIN FAVORS JTALIAN TREATY   U.S. Officials Ponder Move For Provisional Plan

Peace Plan Is Studied —   Allies: ‘Considering’ Pact. With. Italians.

Treaty With Italy Uraed   British Suggestion To Be Discussed by Other Allied Nations

Japs Sink U.S. Transport, Only 70 Of 1429 Are Lost   Destroyer, Liberty Ship and Plane Aid  In Dramatic Rescue

ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL LOCATES BABY   Spirited from Hospital as Mother Undergoes Operation

MAIN ASSAULT ON  SEVASTOPOL NEAR   Soviets Already Are Near Enough to See Bursts of Own Artillery Shells Within City.

Soviets Smash Last Axis Resistance; Take Coastal Stronghold Of Balaklava

Saipan Losses Put at 15,053   2,359 Yanks Killed, 1,213 Missing. 11.481 Wounded

U.S. Casualties In Saipan Drive Total 15.053   Yanks Bury 11,948 Japs; About 1,000 Nips Taken Prisoner

Announce  ngces In Conquest of. ~ Saipan Islant   Number of Casualties Shews Churucter of Oppositien

US. Casualties On Saipan Reach 15,053   Total of 2,359 Killed, 11,481 Wounded and 1,213 '  Missing—Going to be Tougher, High 7 Ranking Officers Assert 

Prime Minister of Australia © : _ Expresses Gratitude to “Ainevics

Heavy Nazi Guns Ring Our Anzio Beachhead   Capable Of Combing Entire Area From Front_Lines To Allied Shipping In Anzio Bay; Enemy Airfield At Zagreb Raked.

AWARD CONTRACTS TO 2 ADDITIONAL SCHOOL TEACHERS   One to Teach Grades 5 and 6, Laurel Bend; Other At Edgely   HELWIG PRESIDES   Cot, Bedclothing, Chairs Donated for Junior High Health Room

BOARD IN BRISTOL TWP. EMPLOYS NEW TEACHERS   Miss N. Naomi Byler to Teach At the Edgely School   DONATE $20 TO FIREMEN

SOVIETS PIERCE NAZI DEFENSES NEAR BUDAPEST   Bloodiest Fight of Campaign e Looms for Capture of Capital City

Red Shock Troops Reported Pouring Through New Break In Lines Near Budapest

REDS MAKE NEW BREA", GERMAN’ <!:  Soviets Att i; : . to Cut Last M P ~ Routes

Soviets Launch Bloody Battle For Budapest   Nazis Flee From Fortified Town Of Jaszbereny

REDS MAKE NEW tHe Ae  GERMAN ! 22   Soviets Att ag, t Cut Last M “* Xo From Bud 7 ¢

Pucheu Asserts Giraud Bid Him To North Africa   Opens Defense To Treason Charges

Says Giraud Invited Him   Ex-Vichyite Tells Why He Went To Africa

SEDITION TRIAL OF 28 MEN AND 2 WOMEN OPENS   ALLEGED DEFENDANTS CONSPIRED AGAINST FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

SEDITION TRIAL STARTED TODAY   30 Persons Charged With Conspiracy to Overthrow U. S. Democracy.   JURY BEING SELECTED

30 GO ON TRIAL FOR SEDITION AT WASHINGTON   Lafayette We are Here, Shouts One Defendant  in Brief Flurry.

BRIEF FLURRY AT OPENING OF SEDITION TRIAL   Chicago Woman, One of Thirty Facing Charges in Federal Court, Interrupts Proceedings   CONSPIRACY ALLEGED

Sedition Trial Is Upset by  Woman’s Cry   Defendant Shouts Protest at Start Of Capital Hearing

Germans take another notch in belts lunder new decree: party affairs cut

German Food Rations Further Cut. Nazi Party Activities Curtailed

GOEBBELS ORDERS FOOD RATION CHT   Nazi Party ” Activity Suffers  as Another Decree Limite Erille

DEMS DEMAND TAFT - PICKREL VOTE RECOUNT   Cuyahoga County Group Request May Require Herbert Ruling

Browns Triumph In 3rd Game Of World Series   American Leaguers Unleash Hitting Power In Two Big Innings to Smother Cardinals, 6 to 2: Kramer Goes Route

Browns Score 4  In Third to Beat Cardinals 6 to 2   Add Two in Seventh; Sewell’s Men Take A Two to One Game Lead in Third Game of Series Before 34,737 Fans   13346 -67.8 83.8 6 Cardinals 10 0 0 0 01 0 0-2 7 O Browns 0040002 0 x—6 8:2

Calais and 3,891 Nazis Captured   Commander Fails to Obey Hitler’s Order

Capture Of Calais  Confirmed   Stubborn German General Finally Agrees That Further Fighting Is Suicidal.

REPORTS $223,060 POLLECTIBLE BLL   Brown Files Report Based On State Liquor Group’s Records.

BROWN BLASTS LIQUOR BOARD   Auditor General Says His  Intervention Saved   State $235,350

Two Injured In Collision   Car And Truck Crash At Early Morning Hour

@ IF F. D. R. WON’T RUN  Kelly Suagests Marshall or Barkley for President

ONE WAY TO GET A DRINK   @ tPF Fa. We Ae Vewrse eo cL  Kelly Suagests Marshall or Rarkley for President

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  Nazis Stand Chance To Lose Rich Silesia Territory

FOR'S POLICIES CHALLENGED BY FOUR GOVERNORS   Speakers Before Fink! Session Of Annual Governor's Conference

Dewey Visions His Eleetion To Presidency   GOP Nominee Tells Utiea Gathering What New President Will Do

_ Dewey Gives Unity Pledge   Candidate Speaks From Train Platform.

French Patriots Capture 14 Towns   Underground Rises All Over Country

Reds Gain Six Miles Northeast Of Pole Capita   Reach Biebrza River Marshes; Ring Around 300,000 Of Trapped Germans Tiahtenina

Yanks Punch Into Reichswald   Americans Break Across German Frontier At New Point Near Beek, Holland — Troops Moving Head On Against  Kleve, Anchor of Siegfried Line

‘Lost Sa Ha lation In Face Of Odds   Hodges’ Men Beat Back Counterotteck

‘New Reinforcement:  Reach ‘Red Devils’   British Battle Forward on 13-Mile Front, Eisenhower Calls on Alien Workers in Germany to Strike

Ruhr Industry Is Threatened By New Push   British Throw More  Troops In to Aid Poc keted Sky Fighters

British Bring More Aid To Air Troops   Eisenhower Calls 12 Million Foreign Work ers In Germany To Action

‘Allies Push Toward Cleve, Siegfried Line Anchor, to Create New Threat to \Ruhr; Light Relief Units Reach Pocket

British and American Troops Head for Kleve   More Men Thrust Across Rhine Near __ Arnhem to Relieve Surrounded Airbornes; Foreign Workers in Germany Being Armed.

Aim Drive At Anchor Point   More British Across Near Arnhem;Germans Putting Up Desperate Defense

 Allies Mass For Rhur   Twin Wedges Push Toward Siegfried Anchor In Growing Threat to German Defense Line

British Consolidate Pas. tion For New Push !nto Northern  Retch: Patton Advances = ft South; Allied  Cratins Measured Ino Yards Against Desperate Cict« man Stand.

ALLIES SMASH NAZI SIEGE OF ARNHEM ARMY   “Limited Assistance” Received by Airborne Force by Rescue Troops

Linkup With Paratroops As Threat To Ruhr Industrial Area Gains Breadth, Force

SMASH ACROSS GERMAN BORDER NEAR NIJMEGEN  BRITISH ARMY UNITS   BRITISH ARMY UNITS BREAK RING AROUND BESIEGED CHUTISTS

Siegfried Line Anchor Periled   British, American Troops Thrust Wedges Across German Border in Stab at Vital Kleve; Sweep Into Ruhr Threatened

LOST DIVISIO OF BRITISH — GIVENAID   Threatened Sweep To Ruhr Gaining Force   FOREIGN WORKERS   In Germany Are Told “Hour For Action Has Come!” Battle At Richswald

Nazi-Held Foreigners Told“HourHasCome’   Danger To Trapped Sky Troops Eased As Battle Flames In Fierceness

RUHR SWEEP GAINING NEW POWER, SIZE   British Second Army Thrusts Near. er Airborne Troops Bottled up By German Forces.

THRUST ACROSS REICH BORDER AT NEW POINTS   British Rush Troops Te  Relieve Beleaguered  Airborne Army

German’s Northern Industrial Area Threatened as Allies Extend in Breadth and Numbers.   HOUR FOR ACTION IS HERE, SAYS EISENHOWER

Yanks, British. Rip Into Reich, Drive tor Kleve   Americans Break Across German Frontier a! Point Near Beek; Hodges’ First Army Rips Attack East of Aachen; Supplies Ferried

DRIVE AIMED AT SIEGFRIED ANCHOR LINE IN HOLLAND  MADC TDANDC CLONT 7   MORE TROOPS SENT TO AID TRAPPED AIRBORNE FORCES AT ARNHEM

NEW THRUSTS ACROSS BORDER   Threatened Sweep Into Ruhr ls Gathering Breadth And Force.   ‘HOUR FOR ACTION NEARS

DRIVE AIMED AT SIEGFRIED ANCHOR LINE IN HOLLAND  MORE TROOPS SENT TO AID TRAPPED AIRBORNE FORCES AT ARNHEM

BRITISH-AMERICAN WEDGES AGROSS THE "GERMAN BORDER   Were Made ina Direct Drive on the. Siegfried Anchor of Kleve.   IS GATHERING FORCE   British 2nd. An Army Thrust More ‘Troops Across Upper: Branch of the Rhine.

Threatened Sweep Into Ruhr Gathers Breadth and Force   British Send Relief to “Red Devils” in the Arnhem Sector

Twin Drives On Kleve Under Way   More Troops Cross Upper Rhine in Assault Aimed at Joining With Air-Borne Rritich Eorece: Dutch Border Town Falls

AMERICANS DRIVING TOWARD KLEVE AFTER BREAK ACROSS REICH FRONTIER NEAR BEEK   Supreme Headquarters Announces Troops Are Engaging Germans in Reichwald Troop Concentration Area East of Waal River   POSITION OF TRAPPED FORCES MUCH BRIGHTER

Thrust Two Spearheads _ Against Kleve, Siegfried Line Anchor   HOLD TO NORTH BANK   U. S. First and Third Armies Rip Counterat tacks and Advance

ALIED TROOPS THREATEN NEW ‘SWEEP INTO RUHR: AIRBORNE ‘TROOPS SUPPORTED BY RELIEF

BRITISH SEND SOME HELP 10 TRAPPED UNIT   Threatened Drive Into Ruhr Gains Breadth And Strength

Cross Border Twice More; Storm Nearer Arnhem Trap   Finns Fight Nazis; Still Fear Reds

BRIGKER NOT LOSING HOPE   OHIO GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES HE WILL REDOUBLE EFFORTS TO WIN. REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION. —

Sky Trains Of Gliders Are Ferrying In Air-Borne Reinforcements   THE OPERATIONS ARE PROCEEDING ACCORDING TO PLAN   Allies Are Nearing Toulon; Yanks May Have Begun New Drive Toward Paris

Liberators Drive Inland To Take Five Towns As Reinforcements Pour In

Pointers On New Tax. Bill   New Measure Hurdled Last Obstacle Today And Has Been  Sent To President.

Simple Tax Bill Passed By Senate   Doughton May Urge Coorporate Chances

DIAMOND DEALS IMPLICATE BANK   Biggest Financial House In World Indicted For Trading With Enemy

ndict Chase Bank Apiamond Case                 t World’s Largest Bankg Concern For Selling al Industrial Dia. ionds.

Russians Take Rail Junction, Sweep 20 Miles Westward Along Road Leading to Pinsk

DEWEY URGES BROADENING OF SECURITY ACT   Farmers, Domestics Must Be included, Nominee Says

Broadening of Country’s Social Security Program Is Proposed by Gov. Dewey

Dewey Proposes ‘Broader, Stronger ‘Social Security  P Program to Assure

Dewey Offers Plan For Social Security   Broadening and Strengthening of Act Proposed by Governor in Final West Coast Talk—Medi" * "gal Program Discussed

Dewey Calls For Broader And Stronger Security Act    Outlines His Program To Carry Forward: ‘An American System _ Of Social Progress:   WINDS UP. SWING ‘ALONG. PACIFIC COAST   “Urges: Co- -operation With ‘Medical Men In’ Medical Program:

BROAD SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN   Candidate Calls For De velopment Of Medical Assistance Program   HELP FOR VETERANS ANOTHER OBJECTIVE

MRS. B. J.. DALTON DIES   Wag Prominent in. Lawrence Musial Cireles for Many Years

Colorado’s  Trend Eyed      Congressional Race  Is: Held: Indicator '

Colorado Election Being Watched Today As Result May Show Trend   Democrats Matching War Hero Against Repub-lican Business Man For Congressional Seat From State’s First District.

— TOPS FUND QUOTA   Neighbor Towns Aid in Col lecting $38,000 Oversubscribing Goal by $4000

CONCORD TOPS FOND QUOTA      Neighbor Towns Aid in Col lecting $38,000 Oversubscribing Goal by $4;000

Konevy-Tightens Warsaw Noose   Thousands of Nazis Slain In Sandomierz Trap

Soviets Report Gain in Warsaw Flanking Drive   Wipe Out 15,000 Nazi Troops Held In Sandomierz Trap

ALLIES CAPTURE 7 TTALIAN TOWNS   YANKS WIN BACK IMPORTANT ‘HEIGHTS TAKEN BY GERMANS 2 DAYS AGO.

7 Key Towns Fall_in Italy   American Army Reeaptures Bills Last 2? Dass Aon

Tar Heel Flyer Becomes Ace   Greens»oro Boy Neff Running Close BeSind Gabreski.

COOL DAY OPENS FALL   Unpredicted ‘Showers Lower Kan! gas Temperatures

Shipbuilding Strike Ends   17,000 Workers Vote To Return to Jobs”

Japs Impervious To Threats By State Officials   U. S. Sent 89 Protests On Treatment Of War Prisoners

Two American Subs Missing   Capelin and Sculpin With 150 Officers and Men Presumed Lost

TWO U.S. SUBS LOST IN ACTION   Capelin and Sculpin, With 150 Men, Missing in Enemy Woters

TWO AMERICAN U-BOATS LOST   Capelin And Sculpin Missing With About 150 In Crews

20.8, SUBS LOST WITH {50 ABOARD   SUBMERSIBLES CAPELIN AND SCULPIN APPARENTLY , SUNK BY JAPANESE.

130,000 Tons of Bombs Rained on Europe in Month  VYEV TADCLTeE wit   KEY TARGETS HIT BY HEAVY BOMBERS   Two - Way Pre - Invasion Aerial Campaign in Full Swing

130,000 Tons of Bombs Rained on Europe in  Month   KEY TARGETS HIT ~~ BY HEAVY BOMBERS   Two - Way Pre - Invasion Aerial Campaign in  Full Swing

Bombers lash at nazi installations in northern Italy   Historic Brenner pass is smashed 4s intensive air month is rounded out

Allied Planes Hit Po Valley   1,000 Yank Planes Attack: Others Over Huneary

English-Based Bombers Hit at Italy   100 Rail Junctions Hit in Last Month’s Offensive

Yank Planes Support Push For Rome   Aerial Fleet Ends Month In Which 90,000 Sorties Made

Stevenson.Talks With EDR: And Other Demo Chiefs But Shies From Political Vein

LONDON INVITES U.S, LAWMAKERS   Plan To Pay Parliament Visit Meets Mixed Response

Soviet Troops Now Inside Bucovina Are Strangling Communicationsof Czernowitz

Red Troops Inside Bucovina Drive To Isolate Czernowitz      Russians Extend Lines Along Prut River To 80 Miles, Shell Enemy Ranks Across Stream

REDS DRIVE ON IND RUMANIAN CITY OF JASSY   Street Fighting Reported In Nikolaev As Nazi Lines Crumble

Red Artillery Batters Nazis On Prut River   Fighting Reported In Streets Of Nikolaev On Black Sea; Soviet Guns Hammer Foe  Along 80-Mile Stretch Of River

Cernowitz Is Neared As Defense Falls Apart   LONDON. (PF — The cape ture of ‘Nikolaev was announce ed‘tonight by Marshal Stalin. .

Report Strangling Of Communications Inside Czernowitz   Russian Guns Blast Nazi Forces; Capture Of Nikolaev Imminent; Death Pocket Menaces Germans’

GERMAN ATTACK IN CASSINO IS STOPPED AGAIN   Allied Air Force Continues To Spread Destruction Over Hitler’s Europe

Germans Face Disaster on Russian Front   Artillery Sends Tons of Shells Into Enemy Ranks

RUSSIANS INSIDE BUCOVINA =, APPEAR TO BE STRANGLING CZERNOWITZ COMMUNICATIONS   Red Artillery Shells Nazis Along 80 Miles of Prut River; Enemy in Flight Towards Isasi. Street Fighting in Black Sea Port on Bug Estuary

Red Artillery Shelis Foe  Across Prut   German Forces Are Fleeing Toward las Without Answering Big Russ Guns; Death Pocket Fashioned Around Enemy

Fighting In Streets Of Nikolaev Is Reported   Nazi Command Cannot Halt Our Troops, Says Red Army Paper; Slam Cermans’ Eseape Hope

No Indications As Yet Reds Have Crossed Prut River   Street Fighting Reported In Nikolaev, Black Sea Port East Of Iasi

REACH OUTSKIRTS OF CZERNOWITZ, INSIDE BUCOVINA   DRIVING GERMANS INTO DEATH POCKET TO THE NORTHEAST

RED ARTILLERY THINS HITLER'S RANKS ON PRU]   Russians in Bucovina Are Slashing Communications Of Czernowitz Today

Germans Flee Toward lasi As Reds Gain   Russians Threaten Communications of Czernowitz and Shell Enemy Ranks

Artillery On Prut Shelling Fieeing Enemy       Positive Indication Yet Russians Had Crossed River Dividing Bessa rabia and Rumania   Nazi and Rumania Guns Kept Silent   Strect Fighting Reported In Nikolaev, Black Sea Port On Bug Estuary

REDS HOLDING 80 MILES OF RIVER FRONT   Continue to Wipe Out German Resistance  East of Border

Russians Also Drive To Outskirts Of Czernowitz, Bucovina’s Capital.

BULLETIN   LONDON, March 28 —/P)—The capture of Nikolaev was announced tonight by Marshal Stalin.

IN NIKOLAEV   Fashioning Death Pocket for Germans In Biv Salient

Silence Of Nazi, Rumanian Guns  Indicates Flight   Red Artillery. Along 80  Miles Of Prut Pouring Salvos Into . Enemy Ranks—No Report Of Answering Fire—Many Germans And Rumantans. Driven To Death In Narrow Stream.

REPORT STREET TING RAGES WNIKOLAEV   nag Advance Cripples : Com: munications to- Important aamanian CHYS

Thomas and Otjen To Battle It Out For Senate Place   Demo Congressmen Renominated, Davison, Weems Win Easily, Questions Carry

Otjen Gains Republican Nomination   Ray O. Weems Wins As State Corporation Commissioner; High - Court Judges Win

German Troops Halt Advance Of Americans   Yanks Temporarily Delayed in Italy

NAZI TROOPS HALT PROGRESS OF FIFTH ARMY   Bitter Fighting Rages Ir Outskirts Of Castellina As Allies Attempt To Break German Resistance

NAZI TROOPS HALT YANKS BRITISH GAIN   ‘ounterattacks Backed by Heavy Artillery 10 Miles from Livorno; 8th Army Lunges South.  fe pre. ft a

NAZIS HALT STH. ~ ARMY; 8TH GAINS   COUNTER, BLOWS. STOP CLARK ‘FORCES -10.MILES FROM - PORT OF LIVORNO: 

DRIVE IN ITALY COMES TO HALT   Resistance Of Germans Stiffens On Highway To Leghorn

@ BATAAN SFEARD  12 Officers Forced to Dig Own Graves—Then Buried. Alive

CLAIMS CAPTURE. . 0F 25,000 YANKS   BERLIN REPORTS NEW GAINS DESPITE THIRD ARMY’S FLANK ATTACK.

Flank Attack By. 3rd Army Is Repor ted   Offensive Slowed But Not ‘Halted,  Germans Annotince NT AE VP ATITOTAKTE

BERGE RAPS CARTELS AS AID TO REICH   Assistant Attorney General Declares Nation Will Win the Peace Unless Deprived of Trade Mo noanoaliec,

Flood Control On Floyd River To Be Studied  War Department Wi Hold Hearing July 1:

Flood Control On Floyd River To Be Studied  War Department Will  Hold Hearing July 18 In Sioux City

B-2d) STRIKE JAPAN, SUMATRA   Raid on Major Port and Shipbuilding City Made From China

HIT NAGASAK PALEMBANG AND DAVAO   First Two Targets of B-29’s; Third Pounded by Liberators

JAPS JITTERY AFTER YANKS’ TRIPLE BLOW   Smouldering Ruins Left by Bombs in Mainland Attack

TREE SUPERFORTS LOSI ON RECORD BOMBING RAIL   Pay First Return Call to Philippines — Hit Sumatra Refinery—Jap Homeland   MACARTHUR FLIERS JOIN NEW DRIVE   SY  Revised Strategy of Pearl Harbor Confab Evidenced In Latest Attacks

U.S. Air Forces Hammer Jans  On Three Fronts   Japanese Homeland, Philippines And Sumatra Are Heavily Bombed  ‘ :   HUGE B-29 BOMBERS IN TWO OF RAIDS

CAPITOL ROUNDUP   Raid On Japan, Insurance Bill Argentina Top Subjects

A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA   Boy Killed by Bolt of Lightning at Bloomfield

Superforts Pound Tokyo   Hit Capital for Hour and Half——One B29 Lost

Bombs Damage Large Area In Nippon Capita   Superforts Keep Cit} Under Attack For Hour And Half

Poured Bombs ‘On Tokyo's Big Aircraft Plant   Superfortress Pilots Report Heavy Damage Japs Surprised by Yank Formation

Catch Japs Off Guard   First B-29’s Over Tokyo Find Enemy Oppositien Light

Tokyo Takes Heavy Blows   Superforts Cover Vital  Area Two Blocks Wide

TOKYO BOMBED BY SUPERFORTRESSES ON WEDNESDAY   Bombs Streaking From Cleat Sky, Pounded a Surprised City.   MANY NEW BOMB HITS   The Mushashima Aircraft Factory Was the Target.

—TOKYO RAIDS—   TOKYO SURPRISED BY B-29 ATTACK   Nip Capital Pummeled For Hour And A Half In Wednesday Raid ©   DAMAGE IS HIGH   Industrial Center Of Japanese Capital Is Swent By Fire

The Fifth Heavy Bombing Of Tokyo Superforts Limp Back On Only Two Engines

Superforts Score In Tokyo Strike  Most Of Bombs Hit  Plane Plant Taraet<

PLANE FACTORY BOMBED IN ToKYo RAID  a   Planes Lay Pattern Of Explosives Two Blocks Wide

[12 2 Bombs Hit Tokyo Plane Plant Fires Could Be Seen for 80 Miles

Tokyo's Industrial Area Burns   No Anti Aireraft Fire Until Pilots Were Over Target. One Superfort Lost

TOKYO RAIDED AGAIN BY B-29S   Surprise Attack Leaves Towering Fires In In” °' dustrial Area

BELIEVE DAMAGE TO TOKYO IN B-29 RAID GREAT   Superfort Pilots Pound at Sur-. . prised Capital for-Howr. and a Half Wednesday—Aircraft Factory Was Primary a, ee

Surprised Tokyo  Reels Under  Raid From B-29’s Superforts Streak  Through Clear Skies for Attack

Towering Fires Started In Tokyc   Surprised Japs Unsuccessfully Try Smokescreen Defense.

REGION AROUND LYON LIBERATED   Nazi Occupying Forces Chases Out Of About Third Of France

In Smashing Assault On Japan’s Great Island Fortress Of Formosa   TOKYO SAYS RAID IS CONTINUING   Three Day Losses To Enemy In This Area Is 95 Ships And 310 Planes

35 Ships Sunk — Or Damaged; 221 Planes Destroyed   American Communique Confirms Report of Raid On Jap Island

39 Ships, 22] ‘Planes Destroyed By Americans   Tokyo Says Attack Is Continuing 24 Hours Later

Task Foree Slams Japs  At Formosa   Thirty-Five Ships And 221 Aircraft Smashed From Air.

35 Jap Ships Sunk in Raid On Formosa   ' 221 Planes Downed At Coat of Only 22 American Aircraf:

Stunning Blow is Given Japs in Formosa Attack   JAPS STAGGER UNDER BLOWS

Planes Sink Or Damage 35 Ships, Destroy 221 Planes   Report Made On Smashing Assault On Formosa By   Task Force

Powerful U. S Task Force Still Battering Island Fortress, Tokyo Says; Our Loss 22 Planes, No Shin Damage   Ry FRANK TREMAINE

FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER LOSES   Sen. Pelter Apparently Defeated; Moore Is  Renominated

Enemy’s Defenses Bending Under Allied Hammer Blows ‘At Approaches To Cologne   First Army Seizes Fortified Town Of Weisweiler And Germans Are Driven From Height In Eastern Edge Of Hurtgen Forest; No Nazi Collapse Hinted

Enemy Driven From Hurtgen Forest Height   Americans Bend Nazi Line Defending Cologne; Almost All Strasbourg Cleared; Two Saar Towns Taken

WAR FUND DRIVE EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER WEEK   Have Over $4,100 Reported Quota Of $6,600; Need More Donations.

WAR FUND DRIVE ENDS THIS WEEK; SHORT OF QUOTA   Have $3,200 Reported For Quota Of $6,600; Need More Donations.

Price and Wage Control Bill Veto Predicted   Pearl Harbor Case Delay Indicated; Ward Seizure Topic

Expect President to Veto Measure  Senate Acts on Price, Wage Control

2. More Subs: “Are Missing   “Trout And Tullibee Overdue On Mission

<s",y Announces  se, . two: Submarines Lost In Pacific   Vessel Which Spilled Past Japs In Manila Bay Reported Missing

Two More U. 5. Subs Are Overdue   Trout Famed for Philippine Voyage

2 SUBMARINES LOST   The Trout Carried Gold Away From the Philippines

TWO U.S. SUBS REPORTED SUNK   TROUT CREW WON MEDAL IN CORREGIDOR RAID

2 American Submarines Lost, Navy  Announces   Trout And Tullibee Were Long Overdue; Former Rescued Gold  Fram Philinninee

Two American Subs Are Lost, Navy Announces  Trout, Tullibee Overdue. Report

Submarine Trout’ Which Snatched Treasure From Under Japs At Philippines Is Missing

TWO U. S. SUBS REPORTED LOST   Trout and Tullibee Carry 130 Men to Death  In Pacific

Fenno’s Former Sub, ‘The Trout, Lost With Crey   One Of Two Underwater Craft Reported Lost; Had Brilliant Record

Famous Sub Is Lost in Action   Trout, Which Saved Philippines, Goes Down Fighting

TWO U.S. SUBMARINES LISTED LOST   One Is Famous Ship Trout; Other Is the Tullibee

Orinda Skipper Listed Missing With Sub Hero Of Corregidor Escape

Two Submarines Sunk in Pacific   Trout’ and = Tullibee Reported Overdue and Presumed Lost —Had Crews of 65 Kach

Iwo U.S. Subs, 130 Men Lost  Orinda Officer in Command of Vessel Noted for Exploits

U.S, SUBMARINE LOST IN PACIFIC   The Trout Is Unaccounted For—A Second Sub, Tullibee, Reported Overdue

—Sea War—  2 U.S. Subs  Are Overdue; Believed Lost   Trout Carried Gold From Philippines; Tullibee Was a New Craft

Trout and Tullibee. U.S. Submarines, Are Lost on Patrol  First-Named Vessel Rescued Gold In Philippine Dash

Famed American Sub ‘Trout’ And One Other Lost   Sneaked Vast Amount Of Gold Out Of Philip. nines In 19042.

Two Subs Overdue   Trout Carried Gold From Corregidor In Daring Feat of 1942

Are Overdue; Believed Lost   Trout Carried Gold From Philippines; Tullibee Was a New Craft

U.S. NAVY LISTS TWO SUBMARINES LOST IN ACTION   Trout, Tullibee Are Lost Somewhere In Pacific Area

TROUT EVADED JAPANESE AT MANILLA BAY   Tullibee Was Other Vessel Today Reported to Be Overdue and So Presumed Lost

SUB THAT SAVED MILLIONS 15 LOST   TROUT CARRIED GOLD FROM PHILIPPINES--SUBMERSIBLE TULLIBEE MISSING.

SUBS TROUT AND TULLIBEE LOST:   U. S. NAVY LISTS 2 UNDERSEA BOATS AND CREWS OVERDUE

Both Vessels Are Listed As Overdue   Total Losses For the War Now Are 77

TWO U. 5. SUBS AFPORTED LOST   Trout and Tullibee Are Listed As Overdue From Patrol.   65 MEN ON EACH VESSEL

Navy Reports Loss Of Two Submarines   All Personnel, Normally 65 to Each Craft, Presumed Lost—One Is the Trout, Which Transferred Gold From Corregidor.

Total InDrive Now $171,563   $291,970 Raised to Date ...$171,563  eee ee eee eee

truce which will expire at 6 a. m. Friday. The Canadians and Brtish then will resume ther attacks.

lirpitz Hit by Quake’ Bomb  R.A.F. Lancasters Attack Nazi Ship From Russian Base

WIVES FACTOR IN CAMPAIGN   Stir Comment by Whatever  They Do or Say

Relentless drive earries U.S. 3rd  army to Forbach   Seventh plunges within 3 miles of old Maginot line: factories threatened

Plan Draft of Farm Youths This Winter   Younger Men Now Deferred to Replace Older Men Discharged

WANT MORE FARM BOYS FOR DRAFT   Heavier Calls Expected During Winter and Following Spring

ASKS RETURN   COUNTY TREASURER OF MILAM COUNTY ASKS FOR REELECTION TO OFFICE THIS YEAR

Damage Estimated 125; 000 .. on Four Alarm Fire. At -Ge> ‘Louis--Block Burns

Damage Estimated 125,000 In Four Alarm Fire At  St. Louis--Block Burns

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DESK SOLDIERS ORDERED OVERSEAS   Appeal Made to Civilians te Fill Vacated Posts.

Poles Refuse  Curzon Line   Government-in-Exile Informs Anthony Eden

Polish Government Won't Accept Curzon Line As Boundary, London Hears

REDS CLOSER 10 AUSTRIA; OPEN DRIVE   To Budapest From Three Sides! Heavy Fighting near North End of Lake  Ralaton.   Block Rail Line

War Not Near End Admiral Declares   Over-Confidence Deplored by King

Japanese Take Terrific Pasting in June   Southwest, Central Pacific Areas No Place for Nips

Japanese Take Terrific Pasting in June  Southwest, Central  Pacific Areas Ala Diwea far Nine

Urgent Need for Crippled Child Care Expected to Speed Easter Seal Sale

Announce Opening Of Annual Sales Of Fasfer Seats   Chairman Emmons Confident Of  Rieke te Oe ge

PLANES CONTINUE HAMMER KURILES   Bombers Keep up Steady Pounding of Enemy Bases   3,000 JAPS KILLED   In Admiralty Islands Since Americans First Landed On February 29

YANK BOMBERS  SMASH KURILES  FOR FIFTH DAY   Japs Attempt To Strike Back At Yanks On Eniwetok; Are Repulsed

Chiang Responds To AP Request   Says Prospects Now Excellent for U. 5., Chinese Cooperation

operation Future Bright   hiang K ai-Shek Says Pros pects Excellent For Chi nese-American Relations.

Tells Why FDR Could Ignore Ban He Had Placed Against Every One Else

Soviets Closing On Lwow From Three Directions   Konev's Armored Units Move In On City From North, East and South

REDS CLOSING ON LWOW FROM THREE ANGLES   Prepare For Final Assault 01 Fortress City—Approach East Prussia

RED ARMIES CLOSING IN ON LWOW   Others Nearing Border Of East Prussia

a CLOSE IN ON LWOW IN POLAND   “Approach City From Three  Directions

Soviet Forces Close Against Base of Lwow   Civilian Personnel Move With Army to Install New Govt.

Soviets Poise fo nock Out Lwow   Close Pincers in Three-Way Drive

MASSING FOR DRIVE   Fall Of Nazi Bastion In Poland Believed  To Be Imminent

Reds Closing On Lwow; Approach E. Prussia Border   Mobile Russian Forces Converge On Polish Fortress City From 3 Sides; Final Assault Near

Russians Put Grip About City of Lwow   German Base Near Fall—Fighting on East Prussian Borde

Reds Close In On Lwow, Anchor City   Early Liberation of Big German Base Forecast by Moscow.

Russians Close In On Polish City   Lwow Under Heavy Fire; Reds Race Toward East Prussia

Preparations for Invasion Move Forward  At Rapid Pace on Both Sides of Channel

@ FROM PREPARATION ISLE—  Huss Says Invasion-Worried Nazis Can Be Too Foxy

Dw TMEV FRE ON eee eee  Huss ; Says Invasion-Worried Nazis Can Be Too Foxy

Charge Iowa Counties Taking Advantage of Action Boosting Old Age Pensions

‘New Decade Of Toil Faced By Russians   Soviet Government Wil Build Up Its Heavy Industry And Capita Goods After War

RUSSIAN PEOPLE NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT END OF WAR   However, It Is Generally ~ Believed Hitler Will Be Crushed Seon

SENATOR SEES SOLDIER VOTE BILL DELAYED   Ballot Before Monday Impossible, White Tells Members

FOOD PROSPECT FOR NEXT YEAR APPEARS DIMMER   Seek To Prevent Imposition Of Ceilings On Live Cattle Prices

oiiwinsen To Prevent Imposition Of Ceilings On Live Cattle Prices

Vinson Hears Meat Appeal   Livestock Men Warn OF Ceiling on Cattle

MEAT OUTLOOK FOR PUBLIC IN 1945 GLOOM)   ‘City Dealers, Livestock Men Battle Over Price Ceilings

Cattlemen oird for fight  re . . : i lo join senators in call on Vinson

—PACIFIC—   ‘Ground Activity Brings United Nations Forces Closer To Madang   ACTIVE IN BURMA   Repeatéd Attacks On Par: amushiro May Indicate New Offensive

Japs Got Bombs On All Fronts Over Week-End   Paramushiro Hit Again; Stilwell Gains in Burma -

U.5. Bomber: Blast Many. Jap Bases   , Hongkong Raided; , Paramushiro * Also Hit Again

*Aerial Action Keeps Going in Pacific Theater   Paramushiro Bombed AS: Many Jap Bases © ‘Are Heavily. Blasted

ALLIED. BOMBS FLAY PACIFIC   Paramushiro Raided Third Time; Ground Troops Near Madang

BOMBS SHAKE JAP POSITIONS ACROSS PACIFIC   Hong Kong Was Attacked Yester. day While B-24's Once More Make Marshalls “Visit”

ENEMY DEFENSE POSITIONS FROM PARAMUSHIRO IN NORTH TO BURMA AND SOUTHERN ISLANDS BLASTED   Madang, Jap Held Key City in Northern New Guinea Under Heavy Attack. Northern Air Offensive Seen in Attacks on Paramushiro

ALLIED AIR POWER SHOWN IN PAGIFIC   American Airmen Strike At Many Jap-Held Poits

JAPS HIT HARD IN AIR BLOWS   ‘Allied Warplanes Range Over   Enemy Bases ‘Covering  Wide Arc.

Allies Bomb Japs Over Wide Area   Two-Pronged Drive Moves Ahead Towa: ' Madang

Pacific Aerial Drive Growing   Paramushiro, Hongkong . Are U. S. Targets

PARAMUSHIRO AGAIN RAIDED BY U.S. FLIERS   Aerial Blows Dealt Japs in Burma,. Hongkong, Marshalls, New Guinea and New Britain

DESTRUCTION FROM AIR RAINS DOWN ON JAPS PACIFIC FRONT  ALLIED AIR MIGHT BEGINNING TO BE SHOWN IN MANY AREAS

Jap Bases Hit Tn Guinea, Pacific, Burma   Paramushiro Hit  And Nip Ships  loo ap po wher

PARAMUSHIRO RAIDED AGAIN BY U.S, BOMBERS   Other Fliers Attack Hongkong, Marshalls; ‘Aussies’ Drive Nearer Madang

Raiders Hammer  Jap Bases   , Allied Fliers Extend - Explosive Arc North and South

Allied Planes Rain Destruction“ ‘on™ Japanese Bases”   Paramushiro in Far North, Hongkong and  ‘Marshalls Pounded -By U. S- Rambare

Paramushiro Hit In Far North By Ally Planes   Shipping, Airdromes In South Bombed: Hongkong Blasted Says Tokyo

Japanese Feel Air Power of Allied Forces   Destruction Rained on Enemy Targets Over Wide Territory

NAVY BOMBERS  HIT THIRD BLOW  AT PARAMUSHIRO ATTACKS VIEWED AS  START OF AERIAL  OFFENSIVE IN NORTH

Allies Increase Tempo Of Aeria War In Pacific   Bombers Hit Japs From Paramushiro To Burma Front

Step Up Pacific Air War   Allied Bombers Strike At Jap Bases and Shipping from Paramushiro Island to New Guinea

JAP BASES GET HARD POUNDING   Paramushiro, Hong Kong Hit In Raids; Aussies Roll On

Allies Gain in Air Power on Pacific Front   Attack Jap  Bases, Freight Ships, Troops With Intensity

ALLIES POUND JAPS IN LAND, AIR ATTACKS   American Bombers Active From Kuriles to South Pacific: Aussies Gain in New Guinea.

AERIAL BLOWS SMACK JAPS IN WIDENING AREA   Paramushiro Hit Again; Bur. ma, Marshalls And Rabaul Are Targets

U. 5. NAVY FLYERS BOMB JAPANESE ON PARAMUSHIRG   Hongkeng and Marshall Is. land Enemy Bases Also Attacked

Aerial Destruction Plunges Down on Japs’ Long Pacific Battlefront.   GROUND TROOPS ACTIVE

Air Attacks On Japanese Continuing   ‘Raids Extend from Paramushiro to Southwest Pacific; Allied Forces Resume Ad  wance in New Guinea

Allies Rain Havoc On Japs Over Wide Pacific Area  Paramushiro Is Hit Again; Bombers Strike Many Zones

Japs Hit Hard By Allied Planes   Paramushiro Struck Again By Bombers; Gains In Burma

Finance Men Of 34 Nations OK Principles For Bio Fund   Stabilization Find Of 8 Billion Dollars Designed To Restore World Finance Order   RUSSIAN APPROVAL GIVEN AT LATE HOUR

Eight Billion Stabilization Fund Planned   34 Nations Agree On Broad Outline

International finance plan is agreed on.  Russia concurs at last moment

Experts of 34  Nations Approve  Stabilization Fund Plan Calls for Total  Of Eight Billion Dollars With Gold Basis

Treasury Technicians of 34 Nations Agree on Outlines for Gold-Based Stabilization Fund

MONEY PLANS FOR POST-WAR ERA DRAFTED   Treasury Announces Experts of 34 Nations Agree

Broad Plans Outlined On World Fund   *Gold Remains As Basis Of Exchanae

Accord Reached On Gold-Based Stabilization   Treasury Technicians Of 34 Nations Agree On Broad Proposal

Experts Draw Plan For World Finance   Treasury Technicians of 34 Nations Announce Their Agreement on Eight Billion Dollar Gold Based Stabilization Fund

Chinese Force Takes Strong  Burma Bastion   Fall Of Inkagahtawng Catches Number Of Japanese In Trap

Yanks in Italy Gain Slowly   2-Mile Daily Advance Made in Heavy Mud

hiith Army  Thre atening  Po Valley   Troops Hammer Through Stiff Resistance 15 Miles Fro mBologna

oth Army Close To Bologna and Ttaly Po Valley   Allies Stepup Drive. Hammer Through Stiff Defenses

Yanks 15 Miles  From Bologna   Advance Despite Stiff Enemy Defense Action

Allies Drives  Near Bologna 7   5 DAYS REMAIN FOR ELECTORS TO REGISTER

BENEFIT PLAN TOBE STUDIED   BYRNES SUGGESTION OF FED- ERAL ALLOWANCES FOR JOBLESS GETS CON-. BSIDERATION

MORE CASH FOR JOBLESS ASKED   Montana Solon Would Add Federal Cash To State Payment Plan

HEAVY ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN FRANCE NEARS   Normandy Generally Quiet Today   NAZIS GET SEVES  Hitler’s Favorite Facing Allies

HOKE MIL FUNDLBEE JONORS LISTED OR   Farmers Also Hear Discussion of Corn Picker Adjustments

BEESON TELLS OF PORN. VARIETIES   Farmers Also Hear: 2. Discussion. of Corn Bicker Adinstments

RED BOMBERS JOIN IN DRIVE ON BUDAPEST   Range Over Hungary Ip Support Of Attacks On Capital

SOVIET BOMBERS JOIN OFFENSIVE  TO CRUMBLE ENEMY FORCE IN HUNGARY   36 German Planes Fall To Pilots

American Fliers Active As Ground Troops Smash te Within a Mile of Cassino Stronghold.

WARD CASE TO WHITE HOUSE   Gov't Seizure or Economic Restrictions Studied By Vinson

Ward Dispute  Verdict Near  Facts Of Case Being Studied By Vinson

Allies Hurl Back Nazi Anzio Thrust   Patrol Forces, Artillery Active On Haly Front

Break Up Attacks Below‘ Rome; Bad Weather Hin-, dering Air Operations. — :

Sporadic Fights Mark Action On Anzio Beachheat   Four Nazi Raids Against Allied Positions Renelled

Allies Repulse Four Nazi Drives On Beachhead   Bombers Hit German Planes Aground In North Italy

Allies Sash A Nazi Raids OnBedchhead   Guns of 5th Hammer Back Carroceto Thrusts With Heavy Losses

Repulse Four Anzio Raids   Heavy Losses Inflicted On Germany; Weather Curtails Air Operations

-REPULSE FOUR RAIDS   Allies Beat _Back Germans Or Anzio Béeachhead ©

Four Enemy Raids Repulsed on Anzio Beachhead by Allie:   Allied Artillery, ” Patrols Active Along * Entire Italian Front

FOUR GERMAN BLOWS FAIL ON BEACH-HEAD   Allies Inflict Heavy Losses; Nazi Planes Aground Hit

YANKS REPULSE NAZI ASSAULTS   Four Enemy Drives Against _ Beachhead Beaten Off

PORT OF LIVORNO WITHIN GUN RANGE OF GLARK’S ARMY   Yanks 31% Miles From City, a Potential Base for Big Assault on Germans’ *Gothic Line.   SEIZE HILLS GUARDING FLORENCE AND PISA   Allied Advances Are Genoral Along Extended Front in Italy Except in the Center.

Jap Vessels Are Put Out Of Commission   Two Cruisers And One Destroyer Damaged Maybe Sunk

ENEMY LOSES 43 PLANES IN CLASH   Kavieng And Rabaul, Key Jap Bases, Battered In Air Raids   TROOPS ADVANSE   Two Gruisers, One Destroyer May Have Been .. Sunk At Kavieng

2 JAPANESE GRUISERS AND DESTROYER Hill AND PROBABLY SUNK   Attacked By U S. Carrier Planes in Attack at Kavieng, New Ireland   5 AMERICAN PLANES LOST

TWO JAP CRUISERS  AND ONE DESTROYER  DAMAGED FROM AIR NAVY CARRIER PLANES  MAY HAVE SUNK THREE ENEMY WARCHIPC

Carrier Planes Cut Strength Of Enemy Navy   Two Cruisers Badly Damaged In Pacific Raid

4 Jap Uruisers Badly Damaged, Possibly Sunk  Destroyer » Also Hit In / Battle Near Kavieng,   SATIDOR IS SECURED   Yanks Bag 160 Planes «Of Foe In 10 Days, Losing 25

U. S. N. Carrier Plane: Set 2 Jap Ships Afire, Allies Down 32 Aircraft

3 Jap Ships Knocked Out By Bombers   Carrier Planes Carry Ow! Heavy Attack on Enemy in New Ireland Harbor   GROUND FORCES ATTAIN OBJECTIVES   33 Jap Planes Destroyed in Other Actions by Aled Warplanes

Ships Damaged, Possibly Sunk: Off New Ireland   Sixth Army Troops Secure Objectives At Saidor. ; :

Raiders Bag 3 Jap Ships, 33 Planes   Get Vessels at New ireland; New Guinea  Base Blasted

Japs Naval Strength Hit Latest Blow   Two Cruisers, One Destroyer Are Made Target

2 Jap Cruisers, Destroyer Sunk By U. S. Planes   While Warships Sink Other Planes Destroy 33 Japanese Airplanes.   Sixth Army Secures Position at Saidor

P CRUISERS LEFT BURNING   U. S. Navy Carrier Plans Blast Enemy Vessels In New Ireland

3 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK, 33 PLANES SHOT FROM SKY   New Blows At Enemy's Sea And Air Power Revealed By MacArthur; U. S. Loses Five Planes In Two Successful Operations.

TWO JAPANESE CRUISERS SET AFIRE BY U.S.   32 Jap Planes Knockec From Sky

REDS THREATEN TO SPLIT AXIS HUNGARY FRONT      Stockholm Reports Germans Are Preparing For Yule Offensive

BUSINESS MENS LUNCH Mall course 50c, Bank Grill.—aArc   LA PETITE BEAUTY SHOP For sale. Dial 83029 —A4Ad.

HEAGH RHINE AS YANKS GET HOLD IN METZ   Striking Gains Reported on All Fronts of Allied Allout Drive.

DRIVE THROUGH BELFORT PASS FOR 28 MILES   Third Of Metz Captured; Push Nazis Back On intire Front

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Tokvo Reports Attacks by Allies on Bonin Islands

TOKYO REPORTS STRONG ATTACK ON BONIN ISLES   Stronghold Off Japan Hit: Task Force Includes Cruisers

Japs Claim U. S$. Naval And Air Forces Assault Two Islands 600 Miles Off Coast Of Japan Proper

Tokyo Reports Bonin Islands  Under Attack   Islands Only 600 Miles From Japan, Part Of Sea Defense Of Japan Itself   AIR AND NAVAL FORCES IN ATTACK

Disorder Marks Pre-Convention * Move On Lewis   Meeting Of Edmundson Group Is Quickly Adjourned

‘UM. W. self-government caucus is ‘broken up by members of opposition

Thaw 17 To Aid Aid Nazis’ ‘Cause.   May: Shift. Soldiers: To Italy Warfronts:

Spring Slowdown On Russian Front ‘May Divert German Troops To Italy

Concern Mounts Over the Allied Campaign in Italy   Russian Thaws May Enable Foe to Divert Troops to Peninsula; Danger of Stalemate

Slowdown on Front in Russia May Aid Nazis Before Rome   Can Allow Diversion of Reinforcements to Italian Front

Coneern For Campaign In Italy Shown  Among Allies   Anziv Beachhead Is Only Place Where Enemy Can Call Next Mavo

Capital Shows Concern Over  Italy Warfare   Spring Slowdown On Russian Front May Divert. Nazi Reinforcements To Anzio Beachhead

SPRING THAW IN RUSSIA CAUSES ALARM IN ITALY  Soviet Slowdown Would Permit Nazis to Move Against Allies

REPORTS OF EARLY  SPRING THAWS BRING CONCERN OVER ITALY - ANY SLOWDOWN ON RUS.  SIAN FRONT MIGHT GIVE CERMANS NEW BREAK

Vision Dangel of Stalemate Below Rome   Spring Thaws in . Russia May Give™ Germans Advantage

THAWS ON RUSSIAN FRONT MAY HINDER ALLIES IN ITALY   Fee] Any Slowdown of the Soviet Battles May Mean Increased Nazi Troops Will Be Sent Inte Italy

EARLY SPRING THAWS ON SOVIET FRONT MAY CREATE NEW PROBLEM FOR ALLIED FORCES IN ITALY   Fresh Concern Felt for Campaign in Italy As Hit ler May Get Respite in Russia and Move New Div ‘sions into the Narrow Beachhead Battle Zone

Date is Set for Convention of Republicans   Precinct caucuses to precede county convention March 17.

SUPPLY OF MEAT SHRINKS, POINT VALUES TO RISt   Bowles Announces Hous ewives Will Have to Part With More Coupons for Cuts in February.   UPWARD REVSION MAY NOT INCLUDE PORK   OPA Chief Says Present Shoe Allotment Will Continue —Sugar Situation Stil! Tight.

SMALLER SUPPLY OF MEAT SEEN   Ration Point Values Wil Be Higher In February, Bowles Announces

Meaat Supply to. Bez Smaller, OPA Chief Predicts   Bowll les Reveals Ration ' P®gint-Values- to Be Increased

Supply of Meat Will Be Smaller During February   rice Administrator Bowle: Says Ration Values Will Be Higher

Educational Deficiency Causes More Rejects Than Men Lost in Battle

WOULD EXTEND PRICE CEILINGS   OPA Committee Suggests Expansion of Program

Urge Extension Of Price Ceilings   Dollars-and-Cents Figures Recommended

SPAIN REDUCES COMMERCIAL TIES TO NAZIS   U. S. To Lift Embargo On Ou Shipments Under New Agreement

iar EXPORTS 70 PERMANY   SPAIN AGREES TO "REDUCE.  METAL SUPPLY SHIPMENTS _  TO COMPARATIVELY .  SMALL AMOUNT #

OFAN TO GUI WOLFRAM SUPP!   State Department Reaches Agreement on Sale to Nazis

RESCUERS HACK WAY TO B-17 WRECKAGE   Authorities Say Outlook Dark For Survivors

ROMANIA MAY BE OFFERED PEACE TERMS   Restoration of Transylvania May Be Given by Reds

Say Peace Offer  Made Romanians   Transylvania May Be Restored By Soviets

Romania May Accept Riss Peace Offei   Sov iets. Reported. -Rroffering to Restore All of Transylvania

Russia Promises All Transylvania to Romania If Satellite Breaks With Axis   Prince Stirbey Reported Man Who Delivered Red Terms to Antonescu Government

Demonstration In Canning will Be Held May 11   Miss Mary Sue Herndon t Give Instruction in Varjous Methods

HARD BATTLE ON SAIPAN IN MARIANAS   Between 20,000 and 30,000 Japs Oppose  Amer. Invaders

20,000 Japs Wage Desperate Fight for Saipan   Invasion Tough Assignment For Americans

Decisive Battle Raging ©   30,000 Japs Defend Isfand; Americans Push Toward Garapan

AMERICANS GAIN 2 MI. ON SAIPAN   30,000 Japs Locked In Death Struggle Wrtih U. S. Troops

Furious Fight for  Saipan   U. S. Troops Advance To 5 Miles of Garapan Island’s Main City

SAIPAN ISLAND'S . JAP FORCES IELD ~TOYANK GUNEIRE   Arierican Units Are Battling - Everything  From Tanks to Knives, and Bare Hands Says" Communique,   FRENCH LAND ON. ELBA, "SPRINGBOARD TO ITALY   Russian Troops Continue to Drive Northward Along Karelian Isthmus After Breaking Defenses. —

' New Gains Made On Saipan   ' Americans Involved In Heaviest Fighting Since Tarawa

BIG BATTLE IS RAGING ON SAIPAN   Two Divisions of Jap Troops Engaged In Death Struggle With Marines.

(ANKS, JAPS IN DEATH STRUGELI ON SAIPAN ISLE   Fiercest Fight Since Tarawa

AMERICANS USE TANKS, BIGGUNS TO INVADE AREA   2 Divisions of Nippon Troops Are Locked in  Battle for Marianas

BONIN ISLES RAIDED BY NAVY UNITS   Some 30,000 Of Foe’s ’ Best Troops Battle Invading Forces

Murray Prisoner of ClO Communists _ John L. Lewis of United Miners Says

JOHN LEWIS SCORED FOR AROUSING HATE      Murray Says He Would Feel Different With Son in War

Reds Step Up Air Attacks On Sevastopol   Army Follows In Effort To Wipe Out Garrison

@ FER CENT BPEACHED   Reds Start Drive Against Germans — In White Russia.

GREEK PREMIER IN ATHENS TO ASSUME CONTROLOFNATION      (Continued from Page one)  In warfnre

GEN. WALKER KILLED   Was Leading His Men Against German Machingun Nest

Ay Be hs fe  ARGUMENT SEEN UN TEACHER PAY   Board Expected To Consider Local Action At  Friday Meeting

Senate Debates On Union Status   Would Have To File All Financial Returns

Will Cut Aussie Army By 90,60¢   20,000 of Those To Be Released Next Twelve Months Enter Industry .

WILL MAKE DRIVE ON AUTO STAMPS   Final Day Arrives For Own: ers to Purchase Stamps, Penalties Possible.

Gasoline Coupon Endorsements To Check Black Markel   Supply Allocated For Civilian Consumption Asatte Only Vital Naa:

FINNISH BREAK WITH GERMANY DUE SATURDAY   Ships Ordered To Ports And Parliament Convenes

Finnish-Nazi Break Expected   Parliament Scheduled For Meeting Today

Finland Expected To. Break Off-~ German Relations   Would Be First Step Toward Making Peace With Soviet Russia

FINNISH BREAK WITH NAZIS SEEN   Parliament Meets As First Step in Russian Peace

Finns All Set To Quit Reich   AH Ships Ordered  Into Neutral Ports

FINLAND MAY BREAK TODAY. WITH GERMANY   First Step Toward Making Peace  With Russia Is Seen

AMERICANS REINFORCED   Yanks Assault Anti-Tank Obstacles And Pillboxes Just Beyond Rotgen, Germany

Berlin Admits Wall Dented As U. 5S. Steps Up Double Invasion   Germans Disclose to People For F irst Time News That War Has Surged Into Homeland j Troops Penetrate Defenses Quickly; Germans May Continue F light to Rhine.   ROLLETIN

1.400 Yanks rescued from tivo escort carriers sunk in battle of Philippines

1,400 Rescued From Sunken Escort Carriers  Six Baby Flat-Tops Fought Large lanonese Task Force

1)  Ero ar es A Oe & eer eg aye I *: ; he Pe Re i ee ae I mone i rr

Two Escort Carriers Lost, Four Others Damaaed In Battle: 1.400 Men Rescued

HUNDREDS RESCUED. IN NAVAL BATTLE   Six Baby Carriers Fight Big Japanese Task Force

BRITISH HEAVY  BOMBERS BLAST NAZI AIRCRAFT CENTERS AGAIN   Vaires, 15 Miles Of Paris, Hard Hit By RAF Flyers Last Night.

Bond Sales Are On A Slow Start   4th War Loan Drive Is Underway, But Sales Are Very Light So Far

Plane Crash 1s Fatal To          Lt. Col. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Kitled In England Tuesday

Senate Fighton— Nominations May - Delay Trips Home  Controversy Over State Department. -Appointees

 Controversy Over Six State Department Nominations  Makes Pre-Christmas Adjournment Plans Uncertain

Congress Stymied On Pre-Christmas Adjournment  Senate Fight Over State Appointees Ties Up Two Maior Bills

Appointment Row Threatens — Congress Adjournment Plans   Six State Department Nominations Face Opposition as Lawmokers Draw Plans to Go Home for Christmas by Wednesday

ADJOURNMENT IS BEING STALLED BY CONTROVERSY   State Department Nominations Stir Bitter Senote Rattle   HOUSE MEMBERS ARE LEAVING WASHINGTON

CONGRESS FACES DELAYED RECESS   Senate Controversy Over Stettinius Nominations Is Obstacle to Adjournment

NOMINATIONS CAUSE TIE-UP   Throw Shadow of Uncer. tainty Over Congress Holiday Adjournment

RESISTANCE CONTINUES IN ROMANIA   Russians Report Fighting Continues Despite Armistice

Romanians Fight Advancing Soviets   Vanguard Now 170 Miles of Bucharest

Soviets Meet Nazi Pressure In Bessarabia   Reds Smash Toward Bucharest; Germans In Retreat In Romania

FIGHTING IN ROMANIA HAS NOT STOPPED   Enemy Everywhere In Retreat, Germans Firing On Romanians

ROMANIANS AND NAZIS FIGHTING AMONG SELVES   Russian Drive Toward Galat; Gap Gains Momentum

Reds Smash Forward In No. Romaniz   Resistance Melts Away Under Soviet Blows, Russ Says.

Dewey Assails ‘Incompetency’  Of U. S. Regime   Says Administration Lacks li In a Degree Required For Orderly Reconversion After War

GOV. DEWEY Tl PEND WEEK-END AT PAWLING HOME   Brief Rest Period After West: ern Trip; Will Return to Albany Monday   SAYS NEW DEAL LACKS DEGREE OF COMPETENCE   Required to Begin Orderly; Switchover From War tc Civilian Production; Dis. closes Discussion on Program Among Governors

‘Dewey Says Administration Lacks Degree of Competence Needed  ‘to Bring an Orderly Reconversion

Dewey Claims New Deal Lacks Ability   Administration Said Unable to Cope With Switchover

rena      Son of Mr. and Mrs. ‘ul ert  Boschert Telephoned Them  . From S. Carol : pects To Be Be Horie Christmas.

Montana Mantled By Season’s First Snowstorm  Storm Brings Welcome Moisture to  Eialde Bannclandac

Montana Mantled By Season’s First Snowstorm  Storm Brings Welcom Moisture to Fields, Rangelands

Secret Weapons  On War Fronts   Say Equipment In Use Better Than Enemy’s

Rerial Offensive Against Hitier’s Europe Reaches New Peak: Vital Cities Bombed

DAYTIME RAIDS FOLLOW ATTACK ON STUTTGART   Munich And Other Targets Blasted In 1000-Bomber Night Assaults

State Beset By Serious  Coal Shortage   Lack of Household Fuel Said Result of Need for Manpower

SEVERAL INJURED IN PRISUN BREAK   (;uard And Several Priseners Injured In Attempted Jail Break

CONFESSION VITAL IN LONERGAN TRIAL   Defense Fights To Keep It Out of Record

F.D.R. CONFERS WITH. PACIFIC COUNCIL ALLIES SMASH JAPS IN HUON DRIVE

Navy Reports Personnel of Waves Totals 62,800 ‘And Goal May Be Exceedec

Democrats Deride GOP Nominations   But Republicans Predict Victory

When Johnny Comes Marching Home He'll Be Slated For Many Benefits

POWERFUL. ‘SOVIET AIR: FORCES. BLASTING. PATI ‘AHEAD OF LAND FORCES IN OFFENSIVE AIMED AT  ’ CAPITAL OF EAST PRUSSIA—YANKS ON AACHEN  : SECTOR. R- CONSOLIDATING THEIR: POSI. -   : “TION—GAINS IN HOLLAND iad

RED PLANES CUT SWATH POINTING TO KOENIGSBERG   ‘Attacks Pace Army Blows Aimed Directly at Capital i. of East Prussia

Powertul Soviet Air Forces Aiding Drive On Prussia   Relentless Attacks Being Made In Advance Of Land Force Assaults   MOST OF BELGRADE NOW LIBERATED

Russian Fliers Cutting Swath To Koenigsberg   Sweeping Raids Carried Out in  East Prussia

Dewey fo Reply To Roosevelt Speech Tonight   Secret Pacts Are Charged By Goy. Bricker

Dewey Will Discuss Roosevelt's Speech in Address Tonight   Speech Will be Broadcast; Other Political Developments

Month Remains For Candidates To Get Votes   Dewey Moves His Campaign Into West Virginia Today and Bricker Is in Minnesota.

Has Said He Has No Plans for Additional Addrceaes; Aides. Urging Three or Four

MVVeLy iv ween Up” on President “Will Maintain His     Critical Attitude in  Taniaht'e Snaarh~

Dewey Takes Campaign Into W. Virginia; F. D. R. Next Move Obscure

DEWEY HINTS AT OPEN DISCUSSION OF FDR SUPPORT   PACKS COUNTER-PUNCH INTO WEST VIRGINIA FOR ADDRESS TONIGHT

GOV, DEWEY 10 BROADCAST 10 NATION TONIGHT   Wallace-Truman To Talk From New York

Dewey Ready fo Again Hit FDR Policies   GOP Candidate to Speak Saturday Niah? at Charleston

DEWEY TO FIRE COUNTER-BLOW   Will Answer Roosevelt Talk In West Virginia Tonight

Dewey Begins New Vote Tout   Heads For W. Virginia, Will Reply To FDR

Dewey Moves Campaign to W. Virginia in Quest of Electoral Votes.

Dewey, Hits Back Tonight   Coudidates Expected To Attack Disclaituer By FDR of Reds

Expect Dewey To Reply To F.R. Tonight   GOP Candidate Speoks In West Virginia; Say Roosevelt Will Give More Addreccec

Adm. Halsey Is In Line For Greater Role   Relinquishes South Pacific Command to Deputy, Vice Adm. Newton

Adm. Halsey Relinquishe:  South Pacific Commane   Victor Of Guadalcanal And Santa Cruz Chosen For New Offensive Task; Vice- ‘ Adm. Newton Takes Post

HALSEY GIVEN NEW POST WITH PACIFIC FLEE]   Is Succeeded as S. W. Pa cific Commander By Newton.

Adm. Halsey Is Replaced   Will Be Given Another Role in, ‘South Pacific War Theatre

Halsey. Relieved  For New Position   To Take New Post As Yet Undisclosed

HALSEY QUITS COMMAND. IN SOUTH PACIFIL   Admiral:Is Being As. signed To New. Position

Admiral Halsey Assigned New, Undisclosed Role   Succeeded” BY “Vite-Adin. Newton, Deputy Cmdr., As Chief In So. Pacific

Simple Ceremony Marks Change  Admiral John H. Newton Succeeds Halsey As Top Allied Chief In Pacific

ADMIRAL HALSEY T0  GET NEW ASSIGNMENT  IS OUT IN PACIFIC ALLIED FLEET COMMAND  ER RELIEVED BY ADMIRAI NEWTON WIS NEPITV

Adm. Halsey Relieved of  His Command   Famed Sea Dog To Take Over  Rilaes Tha atfin,. Dake

Halsey Gives Fighting Talk.   As He Leaves Top Post Witt Navy in South Pacific Says to Men “Well Done”

HALSEY TURNS HIS PACIFIC COMMAND OVER TO NEWTON   Admiral Halsey Given New, Undisclosed Rele As Adm. Newton Takes Over As South Pacific CommanderIn-Chief

Adm. ; Halsey Gives Up  Command  _ Sea Fighter Has Another Tob To Do

ADMIRAL HALSEY GETS NEW ROLE   Newton Becomes Commander In South Pacific

Vice Admiral John Newton Replaces Admiral Halsey In Pacific Theatre Of War

Halsey Gives Up Pacific Commane To Deputy Chief   Vice Admiral Newton Takes Over; Naval Head To Get Another Post.

Halsey Takes New Post In Pacific Area   Duties Undisclosed; Newton Named Successor to . Naval Leader

Newton South Pacific Chief   He Succeeds Admiral William: F. Halsey Jr. In Command of Fleet

NAZIS TAKING OVER RUMANIA, BULGARIA; REDS SMASH AHEAD   Germans Hasten To Bolster Shaky Balkan Defenses As Russians Drive Through Poland And Bessarabia

Leyte’s Capture Greatest Defeat In Jap History   Palompon’s Capture Yesterday Leaves Only Mopping Up Work.

Leyte Battle Comes to End; Javs Smashed   Christmas Morning Surprise Amphibious Invasion by 77th Inf. Captures Palompon

Americans Invade Polompon   Amphibious Landing At Harbor Was Christmas Morning Surprise for Enemy

Leyte Campaign Brought to Close On Christmas Day   Surprise Landing  ‘* At Palompon Harbor Was End for Japs; Nips’ Worst Defeat

YULESURPRISE HANDED JAPS BY M' ARTHUR   Amphibious Invasion of Palompon Harbor Brings Leyte Campaign Prac. tically to an End  ENDS GREATEST BATTLE

U.S. Casualties Are Placed _ At 11,217 As Hard-Fought Leyte Campaign Is Ended

YANKS CAPTURE LEYTE, SAMAR   Japs Suffer Greatest Military Defeat in History When Palompon Falls

YANKS: CAPTURE PALOMPON, LAS! ESCAPE HARBOR   BATTLE FOR LEYTE ISLAND REDUCED T0 MOPPING-UP STAGE

Defeat Hailed As Greatest. For Japanese Land Forces   Am phibious Troops Strike. Early Monday

Yanks Invade Leyte Port To Crush Nippons   Amphibious Landing At Palompon Harbor Brings Bloody Island Campaign to An End

112,728 JAPS KILLED  ON LEYTE   Americans Lost 2,623 Killed, 8,422 Wounded and 172 Missing; Total 11,217.

Yanks Mor Up Leyte; Job Done   MacArthur Reports Last Tap Stronghold  Teka:

U.S. Victory on Leyte Complete   CHRISTMAS ATTACK BY YANKS SURPRISES JAPS

Last Enemy Post On Leyte Seized   Amphibious Invasion of Palompon Harbor Clinches Campaign   ONLY MOP-UP REMAINS   112,728 Japanese Killed  in the 67 Days of Fighting

Major Leyte Battle Over   Perhaps Greatest Diéfent tn Jop History, Says Exuttent MacArthur

Bloody Leyte Battle Ended By Jap Rout   Palompon Landing Breaks Last Enemy Resistance Center

Yanks Mopping Up on Leyte   Landing at Palompon Harbor Ends Conquest On Island

_MacArthur Says Japs y Suffered ‘Perhaps Their Worst Military Defeat’   Troops Killed in Campaign— Nips, 112.728: U. S. 2.623.

ONLY LEYTE ISLE MOPPING UP REMAINS   MacArthur’s Campaign Complete Except fox Cleaning Up Jap Remnants in the Nipponese Armv’s Greatest Defeat.

Greatest Defeat To Jans, Exults Gen. MacArthur   Amphibious Palempen Invasion Ends Leyte-Samar Campaign; Huge Nip Losses Annsenced

ENEMY FORCES ARE TRAPPED, WIPED OUT   ‘MacArthur Calls It Nips’ Greatest Defeat   112,728 KILLED   Naval Casualties Not Included In Total; Yank Planes Are Active

U.S. A“nhibious Invasion Of Palomp.” Ends Leyte Campaion: Mopup Remain:

LEYTE-SAMAR BATTLE ENDS: U.S, VICTORY   Greatest Defeat In Military History

Campaign For Leyte Finished   MacArthur Announces Christmas Morning Surprise Landing

Leyte-Samar Campaign IsOver _   Surprise Amphibious  Landing At Palompon Ends All But Mopping Up Operations On Isle

FIRE HIDES SUN IN LOS ANGELES   Brush Blaze — Destroys 25 Homes; Ashes Fall On Coast Cities

25 HOMES BURN IN BRUSH FIRE   Ashes From Blaze Fall 01 Los Angeles, 30 Miles Distant

ACTION FLARES ON BEACHHEAD   Allied Gunners Break Up Nazi Forces Waiting Attack Sienal

New German Counterattacks At Anzio Are Beaten Off   American Artillery Drives Off Big Tank Concentration

Fighting Flares Again In Battle For Rome. .. American Troops Break  Up New German Thrusts At The Anzio Beachhead

NEW ACTION FLARES UP ON ANZIO FRONT   Artillery Gunners Break Up German Groups Preparing To Attack Yanks West of Cisterna   CANNONADING HEAVY

BATTLE FLARES IN ANZIO AREA   Artitery Gunners Break Up German Groups Preparing Attack.   IBOMBERS OVER AUSTRIA

FIGHTING FLARES ON ANZIO FRONT AGAIN; ARTILLERY I$ ACTIVE   BOMBERS BASED IN ITAL} ATTACK GERMAN WAR PLANTS IN AUSTRIA

Allies Repulse New Attacks On Anzio Beach   Estimate German Losses At 7,000 In Official Report.

Fighting Flares ‘As Nazis Gird “For New Blow   Artillery Breaks Up Units Readying For Attack; Infiltration Is Repulsed

Heavy Fight ‘lares Anew About Anzio   Artillery Gunners Break Up Nazis Set To Attack

Allied Guns Block Third Nazi Attack   ltaly-Based Planes Smash Enemy Points In Austria, Balkans

Nazis At Anzio Raked By Allied Heavy Artillery   Gunners Break Up German Regrouping For New Attack

HGHTING FLARES ON  ANZIO FRONT AGAIN;  ARTILLERY IS ACTIVE BOMBERS BASED IN ITAL  ATTACK GERMAN WAR PITLANTS IN ATISTRIA

FIGHTING FLARES ON ANZIO FRONT   Allies Repulse Nazi Attempts To Infiltrate Lines

Big Guns Halt Nazi Plans for Drive on. Anzio   German Troops Broken Up By Heavy Gunfire

Fighting on Anzio Front Flares Again   Gunners Break Up Nazi Groups Preparing Attack in ‘Cisterna Area and Infantry Prevents Infiltration Near Carroceto.

ALLIES BREAK UP GERMAN ASSAULTS   Visits Are Exchanged In Air Raids on London, Points Over Germany.

Sharp Clashes At Some Points On Anzio Front   Yank Artillery Breaks Up German Groups Preparing To Attack.

Fighting Flares On Anzio Front   Guns Shell Nazi Groups— Stop Attempts To Infiltrate

Fighting On Anzio Front Again Flares   Artillery Breaking Up All German Attempts _ to Regroup Forces

American Gunners Keep Range On Nazi Groups  Anzio Fighting Agair Flares Up; Enemy

Fighting Flares Again On Anzio Front; U.S. Artillery Breaks Up Reformed Nazis

Fighting Flares On Anzio Front   German Attempts To Infiltrate U. S. Lines  Repulsed   NAZI WAR PLANTS IN AUSTRIA CRIPPLED

Nazi Attacks on Beachhead Are AaainRepulsed   Area South of Rome Lashed by Heavy Rains

American Gunners Keep Range On Nazi Groups  Anzio Fighting Again Flares Up; Enemy  Base. .f_ RANE: SRAM TORS

Fighting Flares. Again on Anzio. Beachhead Front   German Groups Preparing Attack .: Broken Up by Allies

Allies Halt New Thrust Near Anzio   Heavy Gunfire Stalls Nazi Attempt  To Reorganize

FIFTH ARMY REPULSES-—NAZI ATTACK   Rainstorm Grounds Planes; Big Guns Blast Enemy Tanks

BIG GUNS BLAST NAZIS FORMING FOR NEW DRIVE   Sharp Clashes Break Lull on Beachhead, Allies Block In filtration Attemnots   Spaaiz Visits Italy to Explain How British ard Halian Based Air Attacks Co-ordinated

Nazi Attacks Beaten Off By Artillery   Third All-Out Assault On Beachhead Still Unable to Move

NAZIS BEGIN THIRD ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Heavy Action Continues On Cassino Front

“BEAT OFF NEW NAZI ASSAULTS IN BEACH AREA   German Attempts To Mass For Third Drive Fail

New Fighting In Anzio Area   Allied Artillery Breaks Up German Forces Forming for Attack

ALLIED GUNS BREAKING UP NAZI GROUPS   Bombers Strike In Austria, Supply Shipping Raided

Fighting On Anzio Front Flares Again  Artillery Gunners Break Up German Attack Groups

Fighting Still Flares ‘Along Beachhead Line   Bombers Strike Austrian Plane Plant and Enemy Supply Shipping—Nazi Movements Foreshadow New Blow.

ARTILLERY STOPS GERMAN ATTACKS IN THE OFFING   Fighting Flares Up on Anzio Front With Amer icans Pounding the Enemy

Anzio Front Is Again Made Battle Ground   Kesselring Apparently Preparing for Third Try ot Beachhead

Allied Artillery Gunners Break Up German Groups  Preanaring Bar An Attack

Battle Flares At Beachhead   Germans Probe Allies Lines In Preparation For Assault.

Battle Flares Again In Anzio Area In Italy   Artillery Gunners Breaking’ Up German Groups Pre-  paring For New At. tack:On Americans 

NAZI TROOPS ROUTED TODAY BY ARTILLERY   German Aircraft Factory Struck In Austria

ALLIES BREAK UP ATTEMPT TO CUT BEACHHEAD LINES  AMERICAN BOMBERS

Yanks’ Anzio Guns Repulse New Assault   Artillery Breaks Up Nazi Cisterna-Correceto ~ Plunge

Artillery Gunners Break Up Foe Groups Preparing To Commence New Assault

Nazis Prepare For Attack On Anzio Front   Allied Artillery Pounds Groups Getting Set For Another Attempt To Smash Beachhead

FIGHTING OPENS AGAIN AT ANZIO   Allied Artillery Breaks Up Ger man Troops Concentrating for Attack.

Fighting Flares ‘On Anzio Front   Allies Halt German Thrusts and Trade Air Blows with Foe

New F ighting Flares On — ~ Anzio. Beachhead Fron   Allied’ Artillery. Gunners Break Up Nazi Attack; Bombers Raid Impertant German Aiteraft Plant In Amstiria :

FIGHTING AGAIN FLARES ALONG ANZIO FRONTIER   Allied Artillery Breaks Up German Groups Preparing to Attack

CLAIMS INVASION SHIPS GATHERED   Nazi Radio Says Greatest Concentration Ready

ALLIES MASSING BIGGEST SEA ARMADA SINCE DUNKERQUE, NAZI RADIO REPURIS   Vichy Reports Reds Reach Italian Front

German Radio All Excited By Movement   AMERICAN BOMBERS STRIKE TRUK AND  BASKS IN ISLES,

[Hundreds of Ships Assembled for ‘Dash Across Channel, Berlin Reports

SHIPS BEING MASSED FORINVASION, CLAIM   Berlin Radio Tells About Cross-channel Activity

Michty Fleet  Is Gathering   Nazis Report Great Allied Troop Movements

Germans Say Ships  Massed  I or Invasion   Great Armada Reported In British Waters: Nazis Complete Defenses

Enemy Reports Great Concentration; Troops Leaving London For Channel, Other Ports

Nazi Radio Reporis Big Concentration Of Shipping in British Waters for invasion, Troops Leaving for Ports

Huge Allied Fleet Being Assembled, Germans Declare   Nazi Continue Sending Out Invasion Warnings;  _SS Troops Moved Up ~

/Huge Fleet Of Allied ‘Warships Gathering In British Waters Reported

Germans Report Allies Massing for Invasion   Nazi Radio Says Royal.Navy, Backed by Americans, PoncenfratingRe. 3s. Planes 7

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Germans Claim Allied Ships Concentrating in Rritich Waterc

Fleets Massed, Berlin Asserts   Claims Americans and British Concentrate In British Waters -

UP MORE-THAN 1100 BOMBERS.   Cologne Main Target. “Numerous” Forma- tions in Action Today!

Allies Mass Off Britain,  Bertin Says   ‘Swedes Report Hitler “Rushes 5S Elite Guards  Into Atlantic Wall

300,000 Men Ready To Repel Allied Blow   Crack SS Troops Reinforce Defense In Face of Attack Across Channel

GERMANS RUSH PREPARATIONS FOR INVASION   Expect Landing Momentarily

Invasion Army Masses, Report  Nazis Tell of Huge Allied Fleet; Rush Troops to Coast

States Allied Navies Massing   German Radio Says Greatest Concentration Since Dunkerque.

‘Enemy Claims Allied Troops Leaving London For Ports   Reinforcements of SS Elite Guards at Atlantic Defense Wall

English, American, French and Italian Fleets in British Waters   Nazis Report Troops Leaving London On Trains Bound for Various Ports

10 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN THE CAROLINES      U. S. Navy Task Force Makes Daring Raid

10 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN RAID OFF CAROLINES   Marines Strike Out In Bid Fo Quick Conquest On Tinian

U.S. Task Force Sinks Jap Destroyer, Nine Other Ships in Raid on Carolines

‘10 Enemy Ships Sunk in Raid on ‘Western Caroline:   Marines Seek to Complete Conquest of Tinian

Task Force Sinks 10 Jap Ships  U.S. Navy Makes   U.S. Navy Makes “Daring Raid on Western Carolines; Marines Press On

US. TASK! SINKS 10 JAP SHIPS IN RAIL   Naval Forces Strike Carolines as Marines Attack Marianas

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE ON GUAM, TINIAN   Navy Task Force Sinks 10 Nip Ships in the Carolines

10 ENEMY SHIPS ARE DESTROYED   Carrier Planes Blast Palau, Yap; Guam Gains Reported

REVEAL 10 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN CAROLINE RAID   Marines Now Hold Third Of Tinian Island In Marianas

Cabinet Crises jin Many Nations  Changes in Iran, Einland Switrerland

Three Cabinet Crises Show   Switzerland, Iran, Finland Troubled; Germany Has Spanish Worries

Switzerland Joins Iran, Finland _ In Cabinet Crises; Germans Admit Trouble With Spain And Portugal

Swiss Foreign Minister Out      Berlin Says Crisis There and in Iran ‘And Finland Due to Pressure By Russia

News (2,      THE/ NEW v5  Ber Dain Marta 3"   WHAT SERVICEMEN ARE THINKING

Drawing For Antelope Hunting Permits To Be Held In Austin Aug. 28

New Step In Plastics Solves Problem Of Night Lighting Of Licenses

Plastic Auto License Plate More Legible in Darkness Than in Light

Nazis Frontline Fighter Plane Force 1,000 Planes Larger Than Year Ago

Attack Follows Day Assault by 3000 Planes on Hitler's Europe   U. S. Rips Kiel, Muenster Total Loss Only 25 Craft   German Fighter F orce ‘Strangor Than in 1047

Allied Troops Moving To Aid  Glider Forces   Paratroopers And Glider Units In Holland Encountering Savage Resistance   BRITISH FORCES PUSH TOWARD AREA

Bridge Will Aid Allies In Drive   Joint Push To Relieve  Paratroopers

COMBINE WITH AIRBORNE UNIT! AT NIIMEGEN   United Forces Push North to Relieve Other Units

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   REPORT JUNCTION OF BRITISH ARMY AND ATTIED AIRBORNE TROOPS

Encirclement of _ Myitkyina Complete   ‘British Chindits Effect Latest Move in Allied Burma Warfare.

Government . Seizes Ten  Strikeldle_      Chief Executive. Acts. As Supervisor. Strike Continues To Keep 2 000 from. orking   INTERIOR DEPT. AGENCY IN CHARGE.  “Coal Vitally “Needed™: - For Steel: ‘Production; 900.000 Tons Lost 

GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER 10 COAL MINES   4,200 Persons Idle at Properties; Or dered Back to Work Mon-

U.S. Seizes Ten Soft Coal Mines   Will Run Pennsylvania Pits Closed by Strike

Government Seizes Ten  Coal Mines   President Orders Action on Request of  War Labor Board

MINES ARE RUN BY GOVERNMENT   Drastic Action Is Taken In Pennsylvania Strike With 4,200 Idle

10 Mines Where Strikes Have Halted Work Taken Over By U.S. Government

10 BITUMINOUS COAL MINES ARE ORDERED SEIZED   4,200 Miners Have Been Made Idle By Strike Of Union In Pennsylvania   GOVERNMENT BEGINS OPERATION MONDAY

Government Seizes Ten Coal Mines   Stanp-.ge Had Cost U.S. Loss of 200,000 Tons Of Soft Coal Neid-d Bee Cone] DLate

Governm’t Takes (ver Coal Mines   Seizes Pennsylvania Mines As 4,200 Persons Go On Strike.

Mines To Work Under Federal — Jurisdiction!   President Follows Board's Action To Halt Big Stoppage

Ball Throws Support Behind FDR   Republican Bases Decision on Foreign Policy

Politics   Sen. Ball’s Decision To Support President Arouses Ire of GOP

A FINE WEEK END   Somewhat Colder Weather Is Fore‘east for Kansas

Double Used for Hitler, Says Paper   AURAL SURGEON CLAIMS OFFICIAL PICTURE NOT OF FUEHRER

PROOF NAZIS USING DOUBLE FOR HITLER   Pictures “Incontestable Proof” A Dowhle Is Being Used Since July

CLAIM HITLER DOUBLE USED   London Express Cites Evidence in Picture

No Change in ‘Renegofiation   Pep-Talk Dinner by Contractors Seemed To Make No Change

WILMINGTON IS BADLY DAMAGED BY HURRICANE   Shipyard and Resort Area Sustains Damages Estimated at Two Mil lone

HURRICANE DAMAGE ESTIMATE. $2,000,000  wearer agree er se’ Rive AT "8" he oo

SMASH ACROSS RAPIDO RIVER IN WILD GALE   Glean Information on German Defenses In City

British-Canadian Forces Drive Forward In General Offensive, Seize Tilly Sur Seulles, Road Hub Between Bayeux And Caen,  11 Miles Inland

Yankee Spearhead Is 14 Mules From Prize Port And Drive Is Packing Devastating Punch

BLISS TO SEEK RE-ELECTION   Candidacies Announcec by ich Court fuistices

Three Justices Te Seek Re-election   Judge Hale Among The Thre Announcing

Democratic Chief Slaps at Dewey   Challenges Him to Come Out in Open

HANNEGAN GIVES GOP CHALLENGE   Dares Party to Bring Out Its Candidates

FDR Salutes The Gallant French   Expresses Confidence Of Liberation In Bastille Message.

HEROIC FRENCH SALUTED IN U.S.   Liberation Within Year Hence Predicted By President

High Court Affirms Conviction Of Carolene Products Co., Officials.

WOMAN FACES. ~ KIDNAP TRIAL   NEW YORK ABDUCTOR SA¥S SHE TOOK. BABY FROM .HOSFITAL AFTER DRINKING _

Red Siege Arc Closed Around Black Sea Base   Bay “Graveyard” of Transports, Barges Planned For Evacuation

Resistance Of Germans Is Stiffering   Russian Artillery and Planes Prevent Escape of  Enemy by Sea

Resistance Of Germa: Stiffens             EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TC LATE, HOWEVER; REDS ALR PUSHING THRU NORTHERN  SUBURRS

SEVASTOPOL EXPECTED 10 FALL SOON   Scores of Ships Are Sunk In Harbor By Russian Shells

FALL OF CITY IS EXPECTED IN NEXT 48 HOURS   Reds Biast Evacuation Ships After Seizing Airports In Suburbs

DOOMED NAZIS HAMMERED BY 2 RED ARMIES   Main Airfields In North Suburbs Already In Soviet Hands

Fall of City Seen Within 48 Hours   Reds Slaughter Nazis Seeking to Escape by Sea

Temperatures   German Transports, Barges Sunk By  Soviets in Harbor

Axis Resistance Stiffens As Reds  Hammer Suburbs   Main Airfields Already In Russian Hands;  Harbor Ablaze

Radio Stations on Skyways Including Main Enemy ers on Southeast Coast  Follows Night Stabs at

REPORT REDS AND ROMANIA TALK PEACE   Capitulation of Army and  - Return of Bessarabia and Bucovina to Russia Said to Be Part of Soviet Terms.

Allies Call Upon Axis Satellites To Get Out Of War   Virtual Ultimatum Says Must Make Decision Now

ROMANIA, REDS SAID WORKING ‘ON PEACE TERMS   Territory Transfers Thought In Prospect If Settlement Reached

CARMEE INTHISTRIALIST DIES   FURTHER NOTICE GIVEN Jap Fleet Cannot Feel Secure

B-29s Serve Notice On Tokyo That War Has Started— ~—-By Kirke L. simpson  Jap Fleet No Longer Safe At Home Or Sea

Missouri River Men Take Stand  t   To Committee for River  Governors to Name Men Study

WATER USES STUDY PLAN IS ADOPTED   ...9 States Agree To An Over-all Survey

Missouri River Men Take Stand   Governors to Name Men To Committee for River Study

KIMMEL ANXIOUS TO GO ON TRIAL   ASKS OPEN HEARING — SAYS FULL. STORY .OF PEARL HARBOR STILL UNTOLD.

AdmKimmel Demands Public Trial   “WHOLE STORY OF PEARL HARBOR” HAS NOT BEEN TOLD DECLARES VICTIM OF DECEMBER rn   Kept In Dark 2 Years

South Pacific Flyers Hit Truk  Rivelenwne, oh Mibseccee   Airdrome at Aitape Also Is Blasted

South Pacific Flyers Hit Truk  Airdrome at Aitape Also Is Blasted

Continues Bombing Of Truk   For The Tenth Time Big Atoll In Caroline Islands Subjected To Hammering.

50 FAMILIES MOVE ‘TO HIGHER GROUND   Ottawa Suffers Its Fifth Worst Flood in City’s History

90 FAMILIES MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND   Ottawa Suffers Its Fifth Worst Flood in City’s History   CREST EXPECTED SOON

Skies Are Clearing ‘As Kansas Floods Beain to Recede   Marais des Cygnes Reaches Fifth Highes! Stage at Cttawa; Highways Opening

Ford Appeals to. Governor Kelly For Protection   ‘Blockade of Gates at River Rouge Plant Cuts Production

Ford Motor Co. Asks Protection Of Rouge Plant   Gates Blockaded, Production Cul

Mud Disappearing But Derby Track To Be Slow for Historic Race Today

MORE POSTWAR JOBS IS BRICKER’S AIM   Ohio Governor Is on Tour Through Southwest

Several Ships Of U.S. Fleet Hit Oct. 22-27   Doughboys in Drive  On Carigara on Leyte; Tokyo Bomb Reports Confused: New Air Hit

BOMBERS BLAST KIEL AND CALAIS   1,000 RAF Planes Assault Duisburg and Hanover at Night

GREAT FLEETS RIP AIRFIELDS, LOCOMOTIVES   Violent Air Fights Over Germany  fee eer  HIT CALAIS AREA  me emn n  Germany Busy Sound ing Alarms

Nimitz and British Fleet Commander Hold Conferences at Pearl Harbor

The Crossley Poll  Twenty-Three States -To Decide Presidency   Seventeen Counted Sure Of Roosevelt; Eight For Dewey, Balance Undecided.

All Southern Stotes, Except Ken’ 1, West Virginia, Li : Definite For Roosevelt

}CROSSLEY POLITICAL POLL   25 States Established, 23 Pivotal  RR: Arnhthalld M Croccloav

U, 5, PREPARED TO TAKE STEPS IN S. A. GRISIS   This Country Has Fears That Argentina May Again Serve as Axis Espionage Base   Ry JOHN A. REICHMANN

Allies Mass for Climactic Smash on Nazi Citadel   Eisenhower Orders Security Blackout of All Holland Operations as Situation Becomes “Extremely Fluid,” Supplies Reach Trapped Men

MAKE BELIEVE HERO IS AWOL   FBI Agents Arrest Soldier for Auto Theft

FALSE PARATROOPER ON FEDERAL CHARGE   Hamilton Youth Steals Auto, Recounts Supposed Exploits

—Yanks Battle Into Langerwebe—  U.S. Ist Slugs Nearer Roer   Third Army’s Front Inside German Saar Basin Has Widened To 19 Miles

ALLIES MAKE GAINS IN ALL SECTORS LONG LINE FACING REICH  U.S, FIRST ARMY ENTERS   U. S. FIRST ARMY ENTERS HURTGEN; THIRD ARMY HEADS FOR SAARBRUCKEN

TROOPS DRIVE INTO CITY OF LANGERWEHE   Town Is Final Major Road Center West of Stream and Is 2414 Miles From Cologne—Third Army. Through St. Avold.

AMERICANS .NOW HALF MILE FROM NAZI FRONTIER   No Natural Barriers Ahead and Qne or More Columns May Have Crossed Into  Germany

Gen. Eisenhower ‘Warns Against ' Over-Optimism   “Hails Allied ‘Triumphs, ~. But. Sees Bitter Fighting ~ * Before Germany Defeated

General Says Long, Bitter Fight Ahead   Supreme Chief Is Confident of Victory but Not Easy One

‘General DeWitt Says Signals From Shore Aided Japs Jin Attacks on West Coast Early in War; :/Evacuation of Nips Virtually Ended Signalling

Charges Signals Given Jap Subs   Coast Evacuation Cut U-Boat Attacks

SHORE. SIGNALS AIDED JAPS IN At'rACKS ON . — COAS'' RARLY IN WAR

Allies Whittle Japs’ Airpower At Rabaul Base   No Planes Rise To Fight Off New Raiders

JAPS LOSING RABAUL BATTLE   Strong Enemy Base Weakens Under Continued Allied Air Attack.

No Resistance fo U. S. Planes ~~ Over Rabau   Air Knockout Indicated; Japs Have Fled,: But ...They-May Return:   ALLIES PUSHING “AHEAD: IN-BURMA   More: Enemy ‘Barges Sunk; Japs Deeply. Impressed by - -. TS Blow at:Truk ©

Rabaul Raid Is Unopposed   Japs May Be Withdrawing: Many Japanese Supply, Troop Barges Sunk

Pare Down Resistance At Rabaul   Not a Single Enemy Fighter Contests Last Allied Air Assault; Move Ahead in Burma

Allies Sink 55 Jap Vessels   Destroy Hundreds Of Jap Aircraft During February

Pursue Steady Operations To Deplete Rabaul   Japs Fail To Send U; Single Interceptor lh Last Raid, Indicatin, Withdrawal

February Is Black Month for Japanese   ‘In Three Weeks We Move 800 Miles Closer to Tokyo’ Navy Chief Says

Rabaul Hit By  Tons of Bombs   Allied Suecess ky ident—Troops Seize Initiative

No Jap Air Resistance As Americans Blast at Rabaul, Key Nip Base

RABAUL STILL UNDER HEAVY AIR ATTACKS   Steady Campaign to Knock Out Vital Jap Base in Southwest Pacific Shows Siicceee

RABAUL DRIVE 5 SUCCEEDING   Allied Operations Yield Evidence of Gains in Steady Campaign.   PIVOTAL BASE FOR JAPS

JAPS FAIL 10 BATTLE YANKS   Bombers Raid Rabaul Unmolested; Action In Burma Flares

ALLIES ATTACK RABAUL WITHOUT AIR RESISTANCE   Allied Troops Seize Initiative ‘From Japanese in Burma Sector

Rabaul Campaign Looks Successful In S'west Pacific  Klnt Mann lan Diane   Not One Jap Plane Intercepts Sunday Raid on Airdrome

JAPS LOSING INITIATIVES IN PACIFIC   Allies Show Gain At Rabaul; Japs Deny Retreat

ALLIED OPERATIONS AGAINST RABAUL ARE KNOCKING OUT BASE  LATEST BIG RAID ON JAF ISLANDS STRONGHOLD MEETS NO OPPOSITION

Allies Raid Rabaul Without — Being Challenged; Capturing Initiative On Burmese Front   Japs Apparently Withdrawing Planes And Ships From New Britain Base

Success in Steady Campaign to Knock Out Rabaul Is Seen   Japs Fail to Send Up Single Plane to Oppose Air Attack

CAMPAIGN T0 OBLITERATE RABAUL GAINS   Southeast Asia Command Announces Allied Troops Have Seized Initiative On Arakan Front   INTERCEPTORS ARE FEW

EVIDENCE OF AIR POWER’S SUCCESS AT RABAUL SEEN   Sunday’s Raid on Rabaul Airport Unopposed by Single Fighter-—Allies Taking Initiative on Arakan Front in Burma

Allied Campaign To Seal Fate 01 Rabaul Mounting   Knock Out Of Enemy's Pivotal Base Nearing Realization

Allies Score In Drive Upon Rabaul   Forces in Asia Take Initiative in Campaign in Burma

JAP SHIP, PLANE TOLL BOOSTED   Allies Near Goal In Drive To Knock Out Rabaul

JAPS IN FLIGHT ON NEW GUINEA   NIPPONESE HEAD FOR MOUN. TAINS TO AVOID MEETING ADVANCING ALLIES.

AUSSIES THROW NIPS BACKWARD   American Bombers Hit Rabaul Airfield Again

Nipponese Chased Into New Guinea Mountains; Starvation Takes Toll

JAPS FLEEING BEFORE ALLIES AT REISS POIN]   Australians Find Bodies 0! Enemy Troops Who Starved To Death =   DAILY RAID STAGED ON RABAUL AIRFIELD

JAPS. FLEEING ON NEW GUINEA   Nipponese Take to Moun. tain Country as Australian Troops Advance

Starving Japs Flee As Allies Advance   Nips Found Dead, Apparently Starvation Victims. Evidencing Effecte OF Ria-lL nda

JAPS FLEE 16 MOUNTAINS ON NEW GUINEA   As Australians Press Toward Americans In Saidor Area; Find Some Of Enemy Dead Of Starvation.   567 Planes Gone

JAPS FLEE IN'!'O HILLS OF NEW GUINEA-BETORF. —JEARD PRESSING ALLIFS

Many Japs Fleeing into Mountains Of New Guinea To Escape Capture

JAPANESE FORCES REPORTED FLEEING      New Guinea Troops Try to Escape Advancing Alliac

New Guinea Japs fleeing   to mountains   Nips starved by allied blockade

Japanese Flee to Escape  Allied Forces   Nips Starve in the Saidor Area as Result of Blockade

OFFICER ARRAIGNED FOR DEATH OF WIFE   Army Captain’s Bars Taken Off ‘for Safekeeping’

Air Service To London Is Planned For After War--$250 Fare With Service Every Two Or Three Hours

Improvement in Supply of Paper. Expected By WPE   Guarded Prediction of More Newsprint Made By Bureau Head

His Company Distinguished Itself In Hot Battle On  Bougrainville

Japanese Routed From Positions —  On India Highway   British Counterattack After Month-Long  - Retreat From Posts

BRITISH CLEAR ROAD TO KOHIMA IN TWIN ATTACK   American Air Offensive In Pacific Centers On Truk Island

JAPS LOSSES ‘VERY HEAVY, SAYS REDADT   British Throw Strong Units in Indian Fighting

BRITISH IMPROVE INDIA CONDITICN, JAPS ARE ROUTEL   Month-Long Retreat Followed With Counter-Attacks at Both Ends of 100-Mile Battlefront.   BOMBERS FROM ITALY STRIKE HARD BLOWS   Fifth Army Patrols Cut Deeper Into German Lines At Anzio Beachhead Second Time In 24 Hours.

BRITISH ROUT JAPS ON EAST INDIAN FRONT   Report Enemy Losses  Heavy in Struggle For Vital Road

JAPS BEING PUSHED BACK NEAR IMPHAL   Imperials Also Clearing Road To Kohima

Drive On Dimapur Disrupted   Invading Troops Routed From Strong Points On Kohima-Dimapur Road By British Forces

Reds Storming Sevastopol; « U.S. Planes Rip Carolines;. Jap India Advance Halted

IMPERIALS OPEN COUNTER ATTACKS TO GUARD IMPHAL   Communique Denies tap Claim of Having Penetrated Plain Near City.

DUREN, JULICH ARE MENACED BY AMERICANS   Canadian Army Fights On Reich Soil in Cleve Area

Allies stab at Siegfried  line anchor  Flame throwing unit opens path

Fifth Allied Army Reaches German Soil   Yanks Battle Way Out Of Hurtgen Forest ° In Drive on Cologne

HIVE GERMAN TOWNS TAKEN BELOW DUREN   ASSAULT TOPPLES HURTGEN, WEST OF COLOGNE

Canadians Tn Holland Cross Border  Into Reich   New Wedges Driven Into Julich Gateway, More Towns Menaced In Push Toward Rhine  FLOODGATES OPENED

ANOTHER ALLIED ARMY BATTLES ONTO NAZI SOIL   Americans Hammer New Wedges Into Gateway to Rhine, Drive Near Duren

TAKE 4 OTHER     OF COLOGNE   Capture Puts New Wedges Into Duren-Julich Gateway to Rhine <4 Reach Open Terrain,   PATTON’S FORCES _ . ADVANCE IN SAAR   Gains Up to 10 Miles Made at Undisclosed Points— French Close Trap On Thousands.

Invaders Pass Through Five Reich Towns   Flame-Throwers Used to Open Path for United Nations Men

Allies Take Four Other Nazi Towns   Fitth Allied Force Crosses Border To Hit Siegfried Line

Take Five Towns In Advance upon Gateway fo Rhine   Violent Assaulf West of Cologne

CANADIAN UNITS PENETRATE ONTO SOIL OF REIGH   Are Stabbing At Northern End Of Siegfried Line; Yanks Advance   HURTGEN IS TOPPLED BY BRADLEY’S TROOPS

Faeth Army Stabs at the Northern Anchor of *  Siegfried Line  ALLIES APPROACH "DUREN STRONGHOLD  General Hodges’ Troops _ Advance Along Hitler Highway

Fast American Bombers Sweep Info Holland   Unnamed Targets Struck In Region Of Nazi Airbases

RAF Bombers Strike Berlin  In Heavy Raid   Attackers Beat Way Through Fiercest Defense Yet Thrown Up By Nazis.   HIT FRENCH TARGETS

‘Berlin Lashed ByRAF, Yanks ~ Rip Rail Point   Britons Meet Heavier Flak, But Ignite Big Fires;  rr... ~~ «.

British Lose 73 Bombers in Berlin Attack   R. A. F. Fliers Say Nazis Threw Everything They Had at Them as They Flew Over Germany

BRITISH LOSE. 71 OF 1,000 PLANES SENT 10 BERLIN   Defense of Capital Fiercest Made by Germans — Fire and Ruin Spread by Heavy   Bomb Load.   RAIDS LEAVE 3 OTHER ‘WAR CENTERS ABLAZE   Naval Base of Kiel, Frankfurt ‘and Schweinfurt in Flames as Result of Stabs ‘bv Armada.

Berlin Raid Costs RAF. 73 BigPlanes   2,800 Tans of Bombs Spray Capital With Fire and Ruin

GEAMANG PUT UP FIERCE DEFENSE   Marks Heaviest Loss Ever Sustained Over Berlin   BOMBWEIGHT RECORD   Night Parade of Warplanes Punches Lightly at Other German Cities

RAF LOSES 73 BIG PLANES IN BERLIN ATTACK   British Aim 2,800 Tons o Bombs on Targets in Night Stob

‘R.A. F. Blasts Berlin in \Heaviest Raid   2,800 Tons Bombs Are Dropped: 73 Bombers Lost

73 Big Aircraft Downed; Defenses Reported Fiercest Yet From Germans

73 Bombers Lost During Fierce Fights   Heaviest Loss Ever Sustained in Raid on Reich Capital   KIEL ALSO BLASTED   U.S. Continues Offensive With Blow at French Rait City

MET BY FIERCEST GERMAN DEFENSE   British Fliers Drop More Than 2,800 Tons Of  Damkha   73 BIG PLANES ARE LOST IN ONE OF BIGGEST RAIDS

PLANES STRIKE THRULFLAK AND NAZI FIGHTERS   Dump Record Load of Bomb: on Berlin, Hit Leipzig and Weimar.

NAZI CAPITAL HAS BEEN HIT BY 35,000 TONS   Yank Planes Hit Northern France Rail Targets Yesterday

FIERCEST NAZE DEFENSE HITS RAIDING FORCE   British Reveal 73 Big Planes Lost During Night Assaults

THREE’ SOVIET ARMIES. PUSH NEAR CAPITAL   Reds Widen Wall Of Trap Around 100,000 Nazis In Baltic Area

A RENN mw  Hungarian Resistance Crumbling as as Red Armies Attack the Defenses of Budapest; Operating on Wide Front

HUNGARY SEEMS ABOUT READY T0 DESERT HITLER   Three Powerful Russian Army Units Are Crombling Budapest Defense

HUNGARY READY TO LEAVE NAZI FOLD AS REDS PRESS ATTACKS   Russians Converge On Nation’s Capital

Yanks Blast — Philippines   Pre-Invasion Air Blit: Rises ta Now Piteoh

Preinvasion Blows Flare Up Over Philippine Islands  Davao, Palau Blasted By Strong Force Of Yank Liberators .

HEAVY: AIR BLOW DEALT PHILIPPINES   STRONG FORCE oF. BOMBERS WIPES OUT 38 JAP PLANES IN THE ASSAULT.

Pre-Invasion Air War in Pacific Flares   Heavy Assault Is Made on Davao by Allied Bombers

38 Jap Planes Destroyed in Davao Atfack   American Heavies Blast Philippine Defense in First Attack Since 1942

Philippines Are Bombed As Softener; Planes Lost   Pre-Invasion “Plan Is Fast Developed

HEAVY BOMB ATTACK * LAUNCHED ON DAVAO   Pre-Invasion Air War On Philippines Flames x Into Heavy Action; 38 Japanese Planes Are Destroyed —

Labor Asks Voice At Peace ‘Table   Necessary If Future Wars Averted, Says Green

Newsman Sees Death Rain  On Fortress   Allied Ground Troops Poised for New  Advance Into Ruins

Cassino Smashed Like Toy Town Bashed Against a Wall, Says Eye Witness

Democratic Chiefs Huddle for Confab  on Congress Plans   Creation of Supreme Military Commanders Reported Under Fire

Congress Expects To Renew U.S. War Powers Act  Post-War Highway,   Post-War Highway, Crop Insurance Plans to Be Studied

Short Program For Congress Being Planned   Present Legislative Session Will Take Up Few Matters And Probablv Quit in MidDecember.

SHORT StoolON 5. DISCUSSED   President Offers No Sugges_ tions for Congress, Say Leaders.   PROGRAM TOBE BRIEF

. 1. VOTE BILL NEAR PASSAGE   State Senate Places Meas. ure in Position for Fi nal Action Today

Senate Prepares -GI Measure -for Speedy Passage   Democrats, Meanwhile, Help Confirm GOP _ - Appointments” —

French Corps Leaders Chosen   Koenig To Head Resistence Forces In France.

Boost in Rank For Bradley Is Requested   Is Recognition For Fine Work Since Invasion of France

Senate OKs Nomination For Permanent Rank of Mai. Gen. For Bradlew

General Bradley To Get Promotion   President Recommend: Rank Of Major General

Ups Bradley to Major General   Roosevelt Would Make U. S. Officer’s  Promotion Permonen?

FDR Nominates. “Oniar™ “Bradley” ~~Major-General   Others Advanced To Rank On A ‘Temporary Basis “Inelude -Frank - Merrill

Nominate Bradley for  Major General   Accomplishments On Battlefields  Are Recognized

Allied Troops Below Rome  Drive Inland   ' Reported Dozen Miles From Landing Beaches, Threatening Highways  VELLETRI MENACED

Movement May Indicate Beginning Of Nazi Withdrawal on Southern Italian Front; Extend Bridgeheads   Germans Report Americans Occupy Velletri; Appian Way in Reach of Allied Patrols; Violent Nazi Counteroffensive Is Awaited

Allied Troops Extend Bridgehcad Near Rome 12 Miles Inland, Threaten Major Supply Arteries

Withdrawal of Nazis From Southern Italian Front Believed Started; 5th Army Close to Appian Way

FIFTH ARMY PATROLS REPORTED IN CASSINO WHILE BRIDGEHEAD IS WIDENED AND GERMAN SUPPLY LINE IS  THREATENED.

FIFTH ARMY'S PATROLS PUSK INTO CASSING   AMERICANS OCCUPY VILLAGE ASTRIDE APPIAN WAY

Allied Landing Forces Cut Historic Appian Way at Town of Velletri, 24 Miles Southeast of Italian Capital; Violent German Attacks Fxnected in 42 Hanre

NAZI RETREAT FROM SECTOR IS INDICATED   Kesselring Believed With  drawing Units to Meet  . Threat to Supply Ar« leries From Rome,   FAMOUS APPIAN WAY IS REPORTED CUT   Yanks and British Operat« ing Below Italian Capital Push More Than 12 Miles Inland.

Bridgehead South of Rome  NAZI AIR FORCE ATTACKS LAUNCHED  Allied Vanguards Meet Quickly Formed Battle Groups

Allies extend bridgeheads deep inland   Move nazi units to protect supply

Bridgehead Below Rome Is Widened   Hitler May Demand Italian Victory “At Any Cost’; Two Nazi Supply Lines Under Direct Threat

Allied Troops Extend Their Bridgehead South of Rome  NAZI AIR FORCE ATTACKS LAUNCHED  Allied Vanguards Meet Quickly Formed Battle Groups

FIFTH ARMY PATROLS REPORTED IN CASSINO   Occupation May Indicate Beginning Of German Withdrawal From Southern italian Front

Bridgehead South Of Rome Extendec In Effort To Cut  ) Supply Arteries   Nazi Command Apparently ls Withdrawing Units from Cassino Area To Meet New Forces

U.S. Bombers Pound Guam   135 Jap Planes Downed And. Two Ships Sunk, 9 Damaged 

Fierce Defense Put Up By Forewarned Enemy  135 Jap Planes Destroyed with Allied Loni Soe ne  Adopts Regula

Only Six Yank Planes Lost in Marianas Raids,  2 Jap Ships Sunk, 9 Hit

Yank Planes Attack Guam, Run Into Fierce Japanese Defense in Marianas Raid

1,000, 000 Men ‘Landed In France In First 28 Daus Of The Invasion

BRITISH JAB AT , GERMAN FLANK   Second Army Follows Retreating Nazis, Pounding at Northern Flank

NAZIS’ RETREAT _ STILL ORDERLY   Stubborn Rear Guard Stand Put Up All Along Front

Germans Carrying Out Great ‘Movement On Roads Subjected To Terrific Allied Pounding   Retreat Called Dramatic Race Against Time: Withdrawal Is Still Orderly

Trapped Germans Racing to Safety  German Withdrawal Still Orderly Says Officer as British Advance

8 NEGROES IN FLORIDA VOTE   Unchallenged in Casting Ballots in Primary

YANKS WITHIN 130 MILES ON ADVANCING ~ RIGHTY-MILE FRONT   Germans Fleeing So Rapidly They Have Had No Time to Wreck Roads.

NAZIS MOVE FROM PARIS INTO NANCY   Leave Bridges Intact In Mavenne Retreat  Pye” TLITOSN prrec

John gs Vance Of Refugio Dies   Oiler completed In Placedo Field   Sians of the Times

Stilwell’s Forces Start Drives Against Three Nipponese Bases; Use Tanks, Dive-Bombers

DRIVE LAUNCHED AGAINST 3 ENEMY BASES IN BURMA   Stilwell’s Forces Attack Japs On Two-Mile Front With Support of Artillery, Planes and Tanks.   ADVANCE COLUMNS 10 MILES FROM KAMAING   Fighting Heavy On Imphal Sector in India With Nips Slashing Futilely Toward Pale! Pass.

New Allied Offensive Is Launched   North Burma Jap Bases Are - Attacked by Chinese

GEN. STILWELL LASHES OUT AT JAPS IN BURMA   Tanks, Dive-Bombers Support Chinese Drive

Uhinese Begin ew Offensive Against Japs  Nip Anti-Tank Gun   Nip Anti-Tank Guna Silenced As Allies Support Agssanit

New Drive Aims At-Jap Bases In North Burma   Stilwell Announces Gains Scored By Chinese Troops

Allies Launch New Offensive In North Burme   Stilwell’s Chinese Attack With Tank, Dive-Bomber and Artillery Support

Allies Launch New Offensive In North Burma   Chinese, Aided by Tanks, Bombers Hit Japanese Positions

‘Burma Site Of Fighting   : ‘Allies: Have Begun - Offensive Campaign

New Attacks On J ap Bases   Dive Bombers In Support Of Drive In North Burma

Williamsburg Airman’s ‘Lone Wolf’ Raid On Rabaul Stirs Army Leaders

lowan Figures in ‘Lone Wolf’ Hop  Praise and Censure fer Daring Act

PHEASANT SEASON. OPENS. SATURBAY   t ns 7 “s a Z HUNTERS SHOULD ASK FARMER, FOR PERMISSION TO HUNT.  ON HIS.LAND  . ”

RAF Night Bombers Batter Bucharest Oil Refinery After American Attack On Hungary From Italy

RAF Heavies Hit Bucharest And Budapest   Italy-Based Bombers Raid Refinery; Bad Weather Covers British Areas

Japs Told Kohima-Imphal Battle Of Vital Import  Allies Score Successes ~ On India-Burma Front

ALLIES CONTINUE TO REPULSE JAPS IN BURMA, INDIA   U-Boat Sunk Off African Coast In Indian Ocean

RepelJ ap Raids  InKohima Area   Mountbatten Reports Other Successes Also

Japs Unable To Advance In Attempts Near Kohima   ‘Five Columns Move * In Honan Province

Populace Seeks Safety in U.S. Lines. Report   Nazi Counter-Attack Still Awaited; Foe Moving Holland Troons

Half of City Destroyed by Bombs, Shells   Expect Counter-Blow By Nazi Forces Shifted from Holland

Doughboys Slue Deeper in City   _U. S. Military, Staff Ready to Take Control of Reich Town’s Problems; Most of Eastern _ Half Occupied; Counteroffensive Expected

STREAM INTD YANKS LINES BY THOUSANDS   Germans Rush Troops from Holland as Doughboys Mop Up Town.

3,000 Planes Blast Moving Nazi Troops   Nazis Make No Lunges at Aachen For 24 Hours

‘Doughboys Smoke-out Last  Die-Hard Nazi Troops In Blasted City   Counter Attacks  Halted By Enemy   Final Conquest Of Bastion Now Just A Mop Up Job For Americans

Eastern Half Of City Mostly In U.S. Hands   Terrified German Civilians Flee From Aachen To Safety Of American Lines As City Becomes Seething Cauldron Of Fire Under Heavy U. S. Attack

Populace Stages Mass Exodus to Yank Lines   Nazis Rush Troops From Holland In Effort to Plug Break-Through

Formosa Ripped by Heaviest Raid; Yank Troops Mop Up Ruined Aachen

Nazis Draw In Holland Flank. To Plus Break   Civilians Stream Out From Aachen Planes Pound Shifting Germans.

German Residents Have Had Enough, With Bombs and Shells Falling ‘Almost Continuously for Four Days

German Losses Heavy   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Rages Inside Big City

TRY TO PLUG YANKS’ SURGE IN RHINELAND   Terrified Citizens of Aachen Rush to Safety

Civilians F leeing As Aachen Burns   Half of City Destroyed by Bombs; East Side Now in American Hands

Warplanes Blast Cities In Germany   Two Thousand Used i ‘Raids on Rhineland—Also  Hit Vienna Area

Nazis Driven 165 Miles Back, 213,000 Killed or Taken Prisoner in 11-Day Onslaught; Finnish Retreat Continues

Germans Routed From Last Major Russian Bastion   Retreating In Great Disorder To Avoid Encirclement After Suffering Tremendous Losses In Reds’ Ten-Day Offensive.

TURNED OVER TO PREMIER   Italian Government Now Has Rome and Two Other Provinces

ROME S TURNED OVER TO ITALIANS   Ruling Powers Vested in Italian Officials

CABINS IN B29 ARE PRESSURIZED   Special Superchargers Keep Air Pressure Normal In Sunper-Forts

GOP Chooses Successor To  Replace Lee   ‘Resignation Of  Of Candidate A Surprise; New Choice Not Yet Announced

CHINESE MEET REVERSE ALONG PROVINCE LINE   ‘But U.S. Ground Troops in Burma and New Guinea Press For ward Against the Japanese

U. S. Soldiers Drive Steadily Into Jungles   Chinese. However, Are Hard-Pressed At Lovang

Loyang Taken From Chinese, Japanese Say   Americans Make Further Gains In Burma And New Guinea

Burma, Guinea Forces Press On  Chinese In-‘Loyang ° Hard Beset By Jans

Yanks in burma, New Guinea Cain on Nippons  Chinese Desperate  Ay  Avrawore   Chinesé Desperate At Loyang; _ Encircled By Japs

Japs Encircling Chinese At Loyang: Allied Troops Joining At Salween

Chinese Offensive Bogs Down   Fall of Loyang Seems Imminent. As Japanese Hurl Troops Aguinst City from All Sides

JAPS ENCIRCLE CHINESE CITY   Forces Desperately Beset in Loyang; Americans Make Gains.

Japs Predict Fall of Loyang In Few Days   Chinese Admit Encirclement of hey City as Big Counter-Drive Stalls

Fall Of Loyang Near, Japs Say But Nips Take Licking: In Other Areas

NLS cu "UATHER FRONTS   Stilwell’s Troops Push Ahead In Slow Battle For Myitkyina   STREET FIGHTING   Sixth U.S. Army Scores Advances Bn New Guinea Campaign ;

GROUND FORCES RECORD BURMA, GUINEA GAINS   Chinese Armies Appear Desperately Beset By Japs In Loyang

AMERICANS CLEARING JAPS FROM OBJECTIVES IN BURMA AND NEW GUINEA: LOYANG MAY FALL SOON   Allied Troops Along Salween and At Points in New Guinea Make Steady Progress, But Jap Menace to Ancient City of Loyane Growing Daily

CHINESE DRIVE BOGS DOWN IN HONAN PROVINCE  AMERICAN TROOPS  PRESS FORWARD IN

CHINESE ARE ENCIRCLED AT LOYANG AREA   Despite Hard Blows Suffered in Offensive Gen. Chen Says Nation Will Survive   WIPING UP MYITKYINA

Yanks Fight — For Myitkyina   Gen. Stilwell’s Men Battle for Streets In Burma City

Encircled Forces in Loyang Appear Desperately Bese!   Elsewhere ‘in Pacific Fighting Allies Are Making Progress

U.S. UNITS GAIN IN BURMA, NEW GUINEA SECTORS   Chinese Admit Encirclement of Loyang by Japanese; Raid Truk Again

Counter-Offensive ls Boaging Down   Americans Continue To Gain in Burma

Roundup Of Day’s News From The Pacific...  Pressing To Clear Jap Forces From Two Vital Spots; Chinese Pressed

LOYANG FALL NEAR   Stilwell’s Men Are Sull Fighting To Clear Myitkyina

Yanks Press on In Burma, Guines   Japanese Claim Encirelement of Loyang in China

AMERICAN GROUND TROOPS PRESS JAPS IN TWO SECTORS  CHINESE IN BESIEGED LOGANG, HOWEVER, IN

Yanks Gain in Burma anc ‘New Guinea   Chinese in Difficulty At Loyang as Japs Encircle Town

GROUND FORCES GAINING IN NEW GUINEA BURMA   Chinese Forces Appear Desperately Beset in Battle for Loyang

American Units  In Pacific, Asia  Press Forward   But Allied Reports Reveal China’s Loyang Forces Are Desperately Beset

AMERICANS IN BURMA PRESS FORWARD TODAY   Chinese Forces At Loyang Are In Trouble

Army Board Reports to Sec. Stimson On Pearl Harbor, but H's Secret

SECRECY SURROUNDS PEARL HARBOR PROBE   Army And Navy Submit Reports Lo Stimson And Forrestal; Publication Before Election Urged

Mighty Aerial Battle Viewed As ‘Rehearsal’   American Plane Losses Already Replaced; Nazi Plane Factories Crippled.

Crews Still Streaming In From Battle   New American Planes On Runways to Take Up Aerial War   BULLETIN

YANKS RECOIL FROM AIR LOSS   NEW CRAFT ON RUNWAYS, FLIERS EAGER FOR FIGHT

PROMPT AMERICAN: ACTION ABOUT,NEWS FREEDOM PROBABLE  PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT EXPECTED TO APPROVE  CA}TATSrasrnr CAMA

REPORT SAYS FIGHT RAGING WITHIN CITY   Capital City Is Said to Be Front Line Hattieground

Soviets Open Great Drive On Capital   Main Nazi Defenses Kast Of Budapest Are Collapsed.

Red Artillery Shells ‘Heart’ Of City, Claim   Soviet Troops Storm Into Southern Suburb Of Hungarian Capital; Violent Street Fighting Rages, Stockholm Asserts

Reds Smash Main Defense Of Budapest   Unconfirmed Reports Tell of Street Fight

Fight Rages For Budapest   Russ Launch Drive To Encircle Tottering Hungarian Capital

BOARD LISTS St IN 1A, 52 IN 20   2 Conscientious Objectors; 5 Necessary Civilians;. 22 War Workers

BOARD PLACES 4 MEN IN TA   18 Names in Classification Announced in County Today

69 MEN IN 1A   New Action List Include: 34 Farmers and 29 War Workers

BOARD PUTS 49 IN FARM CLASS   New Action List Has Onl Five General Service Registrants

100 GIVEN FARM CLASSIFICATION   16 in 1-A on Latest Draft List Issued by Local Board

Scouts Easy Victory Idea   OWI Says Enemy Can Take Heavy Punishment Before Collapsing

he PRODUCTION BOLSTERED BY BIG .  RESERVE SLAVE LABOR  OWI Dashes Cold Wate On Any Idea of Quick

Victory Will Be Slow, Hard, OW! Warns Americans   Nazis, Japs Have Big Reserves Of Slave Labor

OWI Has Dash Of Cold Water   Uses Figures to Dash Hopes Of Quick, Easy Victory

Nazis, Japs Can Stand Much Punishment Before Collapsing, 0. W. I. Declares

Warns Ayainst Early Victory   OWI Says Both Germany and Japan Can Take Lots of Punishment.

OW! Insists Noxis And Jops Will ‘Last Lona Time Yet Using Slaves

HOUSE GROUP 0.K'SWAR FUND BILL   Votes $1,033,358,367, Searcely Third of Figure of Year Ago

WAR AGENCIES FUNDS SLASHED   House Approves Billion Dollars For 16 Bureaus

_JAPS FAIL TC OPPOSE YANKS - INMARHSALLS   @ Ni ip Ships Abandon Rabaul  tort ett  BLAST BASTION  ened In Pacific Area

AMERICANS PUSH 2) MILES INLAND IN SOUTH FRANGE   "Threaten to Outflank Great Naval Base of Toulon as They Drive Toward Rhone Valley.   7,000 PRISONERS CAPTURED TO DATE   Enemy Defenses Crumble in Many Sectors — No BigSeale Resistance Met bv Invaders.   RIVUETIN.

Nazis Prepare To Flee Paris: City Is Mined   Captured Cherbourg Is Readied For Use By Allied Armies

Japs Enlarge Imphal Threat   Patrol Stabs Within Dozen Miles of City

Hint Naval Units Blast Palau Isles   Chinese Troops . Encircling 1,000 Nipponese in. Mo-. gaung Valley; Truk Is Hit

Japs Gain In Drive On Imphal   One Column Pushes. Within 12 Miles of  City; Truk Pounded By Allied Airplanes

JAP THREAT TO IMPHAL GROWS MORE SERIOUS   -Indian Border Town Is ‘Focal Point of Pacific _ War Today As Jap En . Jarge Threat

Jap Pressure On Imphal Has ‘Been Increased   Patrols Stab to  Within 12 Miles Of British Center On Indian Border

JAPS DRAW ARC 22 MILES FROM IMPHAL, INDIA   Enemy Patrol Stabs to Within Dozen Miles of Ciiy, Communications Center   TRUK HIT AGAIN   Ho Further Reports Received on ’ Palau Aitack—Chungking Fears Drive to Split China

Japs Press Threat to Imphal; Silence Hides Yankee Navy   War in Pacific Center: on Imphal, Palau and  Truk This Weekend   Allies, in Sudden Thrust, Take MileHigh Mountain Northeast of Cassino

Allied Bombers Blast At Truk: Fleet Is Silent   Three Major Actions Are Proceeding In Pacific Theaters

Enemy Enlarges Threat to Imphal! In Westward Thrust   Truk Becomes Regular Target For Allied Bombers

Japs Increase Imphal Drive   Main Enemy Forces Establish Are 22 Miles From City

JAPANESE ENLARGE THREAT 10 INDIAN TOWN OF IMPHAL ~  TRUK AND PALAU SHARE _. INTEREST. IN. WARFARE. IN PACIFIC me

Truk Smashed Again As Yank Warships Prowl Sea Silently   Jap Threat from Burma Increaases on Border of India and From Chungking Come Warnings of Jap Drive Designed To Split China

Japanese Drive Toward Supply Route Of Allies  Truk Hit 4th Time; Silanca Cantininoec   Truk Hit 4th Time; Silence Continues On Palau Offensive

NIPS PENETRATE TO WITHIN 12 MILES OF CITY   Airmen Raid Truk Again Radio Silence Hides Palau Attack

Japs Increase Threat to Key Town of Imphal   Allied Air Power Aids in Defense. As Other Bomber. Hit Truk. Palan

Point Values Of Vegetables Drop Sunday   No Chance of ‘Holiday on Coupons, However, Bowles Says

Ease Rationing Of Vegetable:   Point Values Of Canned Goods To Be Reduced

Lower Point Value Cannec Vegetables   Price Administrator Bowles Says No Chance of Processed Foods Being Removed from Rationing Now

—-RATIONING—  OPA CUTS POINTS ON CANNED F000!   No ‘Chance ‘Of Processed Foods ‘Being, Removed From Rationing Now

Reduce Points for Canned Vegetables Commencing Sunday   But No “Point Holiday” in Sight for Processed Foods

OPA Lowers Ration Points  Of Vegetables   Main Varieties Of Canned Foods Cut. With Some Fruits Raised

Point Values Of Vegetables In Cans Are Lowered   Processed Foods Remain Rationed

No “Point Holiday” On Processed Foods   But Beginning Sunday, Values Will Be Lower on Many Canned Vegetables

LOWER RATION POINT VALUES ON CAN GOODS   Cut Most Vegetable Items; Not To Stop Food Rationing—Bowles

VEGETABLE POINTS WILL BE CHANGED   Slow Sales or Improved Supplies Given as Cause, Fruits Scarce.

Canned Food Point Cut    Lower Values on Most Vegetables and On Some Jams and Fruits

Ration Point Values on Most Canned Vevetables to Be Lowered on Sunday

LOWER CANNED GOODS POINTS   OPA Dims Hopes for End To Processed Food  Rationing

PROCESSED FOODS TO BE LOWERED IN POINT VALUE SUN,  Processed Foods To Be Lowered In Point Valve Sun.

Points Slashed  on Food   SUNDAY CUT SLATED ON CHIEF VARIETIES OF CANNED VEGETABLES

Processed Foods Will Not BeRemovedFrom Rationed List But Values Are Lower

CANNED VEGETABLE RATION VALUE CUT   Point Requirements Lowered For Tomatoes, Corn, Beets, Spinach And Dry Beans— Some Fruits Higher

NEW WPB CHIEF NOW IN CONTROL   Lt. Com. J. A. Krug Replaces Charles Wilson as Vice Chairman.

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United Press Re-Opens Paris Bureau Today   Ralph Heinzen’s Office Still Magnificent, Says Writer Who Rode Into City With Ernie Pyle

YANKS SQUEEZE TRAP ON JAPS’ LEYTE FORCES   Tokyo Reports New B-29 Raids On Capital, Kobe

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses Near Ormoc   Tokyo Radio Reports ' New B-29 Assaults On Capital City

Tropical Rains Slow Action In Philippines   Paratroops Cleared From Dromes; Nips Fear Raids

American Planes Blast Volcanic Islan On B-29 Road To Tokyo Again

Japan Loses Many Men in Leyte Battle   Tokyo Tells of New Superfortress Raids on Home Islands

Japanese Suffer Heavy Losses In Ormoc Trap   Nippon Radio Report New Superbomber Attack on Tokyo

PRISONERS BREAK JAIL AT ELMIRA   Four Fugitives Being Sought by State Police

Eden Polished Up For Churchill Job   Liberators Plaster French Coast Again

FRENCH COAST WNDER ATTACK BY LIBERATORS   Bombers Over Germany Indicates Twe-Way Attack On Reich

2-Wa av Raid By Yanksor Germany   Liberators Hit Coast; Italy-Based Flanes Strike at Southeast Reich

Nazis Say Air Battles Fought With Yanks  Over Yugoslavia   No Fighters Rise In Coastal Attack   RAF Wrecks German Plane Repair Works In  Toulouse Area

Invasion Coast Blasted Again By ‘Eighth Air Force   Heavy Attack Made From. Italy ‘Against’ ~ Ploesti Oil Fields ©

TWO-WAY AIR ASSAULT BY AMER. PLANES   Strike French Coast and S. E. Germany

BRITISH RAID NAZI PLANTS IN FRANCE   Indicate Attack By Heavy Bombers Was Effective

Plane Contract Action Assailed  Closing of Brewster Factories Arouses Workers Who Stick to Job

Nazi Resistance Weakens in Italy   Polish Troops Join in Attacks

POLES PASS ANCONA; SEIZE SENIGALLIA   Pesaro, on Gothic Line Seems To Be Next Objective; Other Allies Closing Steel Trap   Barricade Pisa

POLISH TROOPS SCORE IN ITALY   Yanks May Have To Turn Their Artillery On Tower Of Pisa

POLES MARCHING ON “GOTHIC LINE? OUTPOST IN ITAL)   Plunge 17 Miles Beyond Captured Port of Ancona in Full-Scale Drive Up  Adriatic Coast...   FIGHTING IS BITTER IN FLORENCE AREA   Nazis Erect Barricades in _Pisa and Indications Are Yanks Will Be Forced to Storm City.

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PEAK OF BATTLE FOR CHERBOURG COMES WHEN: FULL NAZI COUNTER DRIVE BEGINS: ALLIES WELL SET   With Control of Air and Aid of Naval Guns Allies Expected to Be Able to Meet Full Force of Rommel’s Attacks, Allies Getting Ahead with Joh

BATTLE CHERBOURG PENINSULA MOUNTING IN FURY BUT ALLIED EOOTHOLD IN FRANCE JS STRONG

ALL-OUT NAZI BLOW MAY BE NASTY AFFAIR   —BY DeWITT MACKENZIF— Associated Press War Analyst

Chinese Check  Jap Pincer Move   Bitter ‘Fighting Rages North of Changsha

Powerful U. S. Formations Batter Brunswick Saturday  Cat Least 81 German Fighters Are Blasted Aut ME Ale By Rambere And Einhter Beenrte

2 LUFTWAFFE PLANES DOWN IN AIR FIGHT   Anglo-U. S. Raiders Lost 59 During Attack

Raiders Shoot Down 92 Planes In Attacks On Three Cities  Seren vets aecgre inane meme   34 U. S. Bombers.  20 Fishiers Lost   Germans Put 1 Up Bitter Fight During Raid Against Brunswick

Move Wounded  U.S. by Plane   Big Scale Evacuation From Halloran Hospital  Is Under Way

Evacuation Of Wounded By Airplane   First Time Tried in U. S. On Large Scale — Moved Inland

NATION-WIDE TOLL OF STORMS 1S 49 KILLED   200 Injured As Wind Rain, Snow Sweep Country, Wreaking Havoc

49 DEATHS REPORTED IN STORM-HIT AREAS   200 Others Injured During Tornadoes, Rain, Snow

HIGH WATERS FLOOD FARMS, ROADS IN OHIO   Clearing, Colder Weather Forecast Offers Relief to Nation

Tornadoes and Floods, Leaving Toll of 49 Dead, Succeeded by Clearing Weather

Heavy Storms Subside After Much Damage   Know 49 Dead in Storms Which Swept From Rockies to Atlantic

Fortv-Nine Persons Killed When Storms Sweep Nation   Tornadoes, Rain Squalls, Winds And Snow Leave Trail Of Death And Destruction From Rocky Mountains To Atlantic

Storms Cover  Wide Spread   49 Known Dead; as Tornadoes, Rain, Wind And Snow Raise Havoc

Storms Take Toll Of 49; 200 Hurt   Area From Rocky Mountains to Atlantic Ocean Hit by Storms.

NATIONWIDE STORMS THAT COST MANY LIVE’ REPORTING SUBSIDING  KNOWN DEATH TOLL OF  49 WITH NEARLY 200 OTHERS INJURED

Storm Toll Reaches 49   jured As Gales, Floods Sweep Across Nation

Widespread Storm: Subside After Taking 49 Lives   Nearly 200 Injured  As Weatherman : Strikes at Nation

Storm Battered  - United States — ‘Catches Breath   49 Dead and 200 Injured As Storm Eases After Final Swing

Twisting Storms Subside Leaving 49 Known Dead   200 Or More Injured As Tornadoes Sweep From Rockies To Atlantic.

STORMS CAUSE OF 49 DEATHS   Tornadoes, Rain Squalls Wind and Snow Storms Subside Today.

Storms Subside With 49 Dead In Wake: Floods Rise In Ohio After Long Rain

Three Top-Ranking Officials Resign Positions in the OWI   Sherwoed To Remain

OWI Wrangle Ends With Resignation:  Chief Elmer Davis Score: This‘ Time

OW! Overseas Men Resign As Month Long Fight Ends   Warburg, Johnson, Barnes Leave Barrett Is Branch Director

SEEN VICTORY FOR DIRECTOR   3 New York Officials Quit; Sherwood Plans Trip

BREAK SETTLES OW! WRANGLINE   Sherwood And Three Top Men Resign; Victory For Davis

CARS BURIED BY SNOW   More Than 30 Persons, Some In- jured, Await Rescue in Shelter

Slides Trap 30 Motorists      "Travelers ought On High Colorado Pass

Greeley.and Kersey Families Among 30 Caught in Avalanche Of Snow on Top Berthoud Pass

FORCED TO WITHDRAW   Allies Given Set-Back in Serchio River Valley by Nazi Attack

Fifth Army Forced Back   Germans Launch Strong Counterattack Near Italy’s West Coast

Nazis Force Fifth Army Withdrawal   iTroops on Western End ~Of “Front in Ituly Fall Back Before Gernaan Attack

Fifth Retreats Before Germans   New Enemy Advance Pushes Fifth Army From Advance Positions.

AIRFIELD ON ~BIAK ISLAND. [8 CAPTURED   KEY AIRRASE FOR ASSAULTS ON PHILIPPINES AND EAST INDIES PALLS TO MAC. ARTHUR'S MEN.

Door To Philippines Opens As Allied Forces Capture Strategic Mokmer Airfield

MOKMER FALL "FASHIONS NEW ~ PACIFIC DRIVES   Capture of Biak Airdrome Leads to Philippines, Dutch East Indies

Allies Clear Coastal Strip   British. Partisans Seize 100 Miles Of Yugoslay Dalma-, tian Coast.

BRITISH AND PARTISANS IN COLLABORATION   Agreement Made for Nat'l Gov't Meanwhile Reds Bearing Down Toward Budapest

‘ALLIES CLEAR 100 MILES OF YUGOSLAV COAS!   Three Ports, Split, Metkovic, Dubronik Are Taken

CLEAR COAST OF DALMATIA      100-Mile Strip Held by British and Partisans

Tra La, Tra La! *Tis Spring!  But They yao To Tell Weather Man About It

German Line Breaks Unde Allied Blows   Planes Pound Enemy Escape Route From Netherlands

Claims New York Will Be Bombed   Correspondent Says Flying Bombs And Crewless Subs To Be Used.

Goebbels Warns Crewless Sub with Flying Bomb Will Attack New York

ADMITS SLAYING WARSAW SHERIF!   HAROLD GOFF CONFESSES KILLING AFTER CAPTURE IN TWO-DAY CHASE.

Canada Holds  Back Plan For  Civil Airlines oe r Nations  TYmrmPrAacnce   on   Latin Americans Insist  On World Peace Rights

WORLD BANKING PLAN STUDIED   Conference Rounds Out Work On Monetary Fund

Complete Plans For World Fund   Delegates Increase Original Estimate

Red Onrush “Roars Down On Bucharest   Rumanians Killing Ans Capturing Germans I: _ Pitched Battles.

German Troops Are Ordered To leave Bulgaria  Romanians Capture   Romanians Capture Complete Control Of Bucharest; Bulgars ‘Neutral,’ Report

News Behind The News  Copyright MeClure Newspaper   WASHINGTON Re Rear Tucker   . ° bs The adDiceatisfaction 2.

Finland Await: Answer to Peace Plans   Russia Willing to Adhere to 1940 Boundaries

Finnish Leaders In Conference or Peace Question   8 Paasikivi Believed to Have Submitted Proposal to Moscow

ear Old Boy Imprisoned for Eight ays in Tool Compartment of Trailer

BOY RELEASED FROM TRAILER   Spends Nine Days As Captive In Tool Compartment. Recovering

VAWATA ONE? NIPPON'S MAIN WAR CENTERS.   Two Air Battleships Lost in Accidents, None Due to Enemy:

DUCHESS OPERATED ‘UPON IN NEW YORK FOR APPENDICITIS   Operation is Successful and no Complications; Extra Care  Not Needed

Windsor Dutchess Has Appendectomy   Elaborate Precautions Guard Privacy of Wallie at New York Hospital

¢. 0. P. Governors Open Dewey Drive   Three Hit at PAC In Radio Talks

G. 0. P. Talks Inaugurate Dewey Drive   Governors Assail Political Action, Democratic Bosses

ANOTHER WARD CASE TO FDR   WLB Puts Hummer Dispute Up to President

CASE TAKEN FROM HANDS, JURIST SAYS   Action Dropped in Litigation Pending in Chicago.—C.L.0. Wins  In Bargaining Election.

WLB TO SEND WARD SUBSIDY COMPANY DISPUTE UP TO FDR      Springfield, Th, Company Refuses to Comply With Board's Order

Control  of Wards Ended —   Release Eliminates Injunction Ruling; Union Dissatisfied

Judge Refuses To Give Ruling Or Ward Injunction   Government Gives Up Plant To Company . After Union Election

American Commander in First World War Says Sons of 1918 Soldiers in Like Bat Je of Liheration

Order of Day By Stalin  Is Given   Bulgaria and Romania May Sign Peace Terms This Week

Both Bulgaria, Romania Read For Surrender   German Balkan Front Finished; Slovaks Revolt

‘Balkan Nations Expected To Sign ‘Terms of Peace   Revolution Breaks Out In Third Satellite Nation, Slovakia

Slovakia Revolt Breaks Another Hitler Satellite In His Balkan Kingdom

BULGARIA AND ROMANIA GET PEACE TERMS   Expected to Sign Them  Before Week-End

Bulgaria and Romania Get Peace Terms   Revolution in Slovakia Is Spreading

GIVE BULGARIA, ROMANIA TERMS OF PEACE TODAY   May Sign Before End Of Thi Week; Revolution In Slovakia

Reds Direct Stern Rebuke At Bulgarians   Sofia and Romania On Verge of Signing Terms With Allies

NAZI BALKAN FRONT SOON 10 COLLAPSE   Bulgaria and Romania to Sign Peace Terms; Slovakia In Revolt.

3ulgaria and Pes Romania Get: T C Peace Terms Pol   Signing Due by Weekend 2  Report Hungary Asks  ' Armistice Conditions

HITLER HAS NEW WORBIE IN SLOVAKIA   Bulgaria Due to Sign Peace Terms bis Week-End

Janet Meis And Stanley Norton Wed Tuesday  Ceremony At St. Joseph Cathalic

Janet Meis And Stanley Norton Wed Tuesday  Ceremony At St. Joseph Catholic Church. I] eMare

Flyers Fear . Jap Capture   Execution Rumored  In Rabaul ‘Section:

NO AGREEMENT ON ROOSEVELT RUNNING MATE   CHICAGO BUZZES   Scene of Convention Waits Hannegan

Coloma Soldier Gets Hero Aware   Pyt. Ernest L. Leatz Wins Silver Star .

Philippines at ‘War’ With U.S.   Japanese Concerned Over Early Landing

Nippon-Held Philippines Declare War    Laurel Empowered to Con script Filipinos to Fight for  Japan; Seven Jap Barges . Demolished

PHILIPPINES REGIME NOW U.S. “ENEMY”   Japanese~-Controlled Re- public Announces Belligerency as a’ Result of Raids on Manila, Tokyo Sava.

JAP CONTROLLED PHILIPPINES ARE AT _ WAR WITH THE U, S.   Tokyo Boasts Invasion Would That War Had Been : Declared.   AFTERMATH OF A RAID   Fokve oBasts Invasion Would * Give Japs a Chance to Destroy Units.

Japanese Boast They Are Ready For Invasion   Indicate Fleet Will Come Out And Fight American Attack

740 DEFENDING PLANES AND 262 SURFACE CRAFT BLASTED DURING TWO WEEKS ATTACK BY AMERICANS

Japs Lose 740 Planes And 262 Ships In Two Weeks Of Pre-lnvasion Raids

Jap-controlled Filipino State At War with U.S   Declaration Follows Raids on Islands; Japs See ‘Knockout Blow’

JAPS HINT MOVE FROM NAVY SOON   Philippines’ Puppet Regime Declares War On U.S.

PHILIPPINES DECLARE WAR ON U. S.-TOKYO   Destroy Over 740 Jap Planes, 262 Ships in Pre-Invasion Assaults

NAVY PROGRAM MADE PUBLIC   MORE THAN 40,000 VESBELS _ADDED THIS YEAR—MILLION AN HOUR IS SPENT

ISL. W. SHERMAN IS MISSING   He Was A Son Of Howud Sherman, Of Wells bora.

BRITISH TAKE ‘AREZZO, STH ARMY GAINS   Strongly Defended High. way Hub Falls After Attack

Hitler Using Pressure to Keep Finland In the War.   DRIVING GERMANS TO BALTIC STATES   Other Russian Troops Are Now Driving Into Old Poland.

FINLAND NAMES ENVOY TO TALK PEACE TERMS WITH RUSSIA   Reliable Sources In Sweden Say Former Finnish Premier Paasikivi  Is Man To Talk Treaty.

TWAS NO NIGHTMARE   Boy Tells Police Lion Chasing Him - - and It Was

Robots Renew  British Raid:   Sweden Says Germans Concentrating On Flying  Bombs To Hit New York.

CHURCHILL SAYS DRIVES PLANNED WITH J, STALIN   Promises Made at Tehran Car. ried Out in Great Allied Offensives

Churchill In War Report To Commons Today   Cheering House Hears Him Assert That Axis Armies Are Recoiling on Every Front in the World.

Commons Cheers  GI Blitz   Churchill Advatices Date for Crushing Of Ian Enunive

U. S.. Russia: And Bri itain Keep Promise  Of Teheran   Churchill Says Enemy Is Reeling Everywhere; Sending Fleet To Far East

INVASION, RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE LINKED   Churchil! Tells Commons That June 6 Attack Was Planned at Teheran

Allies Winning War On All Fronts Churchill Tells Cheering Common:

PROMISES KEPT, CHURCHILL SAYS   Reports Normandy, Russian Smashes Set At Teheran

Coordinated Soviet - Allied Blows Planned At Teheran Says Churchill

Churchill In War Summary   Normandy-Russian Squeeze Agreed On at Tehran; Both Sides Kept Promise

“Britains Asiatic Fleet Greatly © Strengthened”   Normandy Offensive Planned and. Date Set At Teheran Conference

Red Offensive And Invasion Coordinated   Agreement Made at Tehran Carried Out, Churchill Declares to House of Commons

Churchill Hails Gen.  Eisenhower As Genius In Coordinating Men   Says Invasion Could Not Have Been Earlier: Discloses Agreement With Stalin; Robot Casualties Of 18,735 Listed, 17,000 Homes Hit

SAYS INVASION FILLED VOW TO STALIN   Action Coordinated With Red Army Offensive   Between Defeat Of Nazis, Japs, Will Be Shorter Than Anticipated

4,135 BRITONS ARE KILLED BY ROBOT BOMBS   Churchill Discloses That 17,000 Homes Have Been Destroyed By Rockets “ince June 15   EISENHOWER IS LAUDED

Churchill Says East-West Offensives Were Planned At Teheran; Robot Bombs Have Killed 4,735 Persons

Churchill ‘Says Axis Recoiling   House Of Commons Hears Prime Minister Laud Americans, Russians

THE WAR  TODAY  By DeWITT MACKENZIE ‘Associated Press War Analvct

WAR TRENDS NOW RUN ACCORDING © TO EXPECTATIONS   Nazi Fighting Tactics ‘at Cherbourg and Russian  Offensive ‘Moves Shape Tt.

ome The War Today ————=  Russia’s New Drive Going as Expected  Q@v NEWITT MACKENZIE

400 Eagles  Coming Today   From Lincoln. Omaha And Elsewhere—To Initiate 55 ~-~Banquet Tonight.

Nazi Resistance Grows Weaker On Italian Front   Fifth Army Forces Are Within 2] Miles of Bologna

GURKHA TROOPS 600 YARDS FROM RUBICON RIVER   Fifth Army Within 21 Miles of Bologna

German Defenses Weaken Steadily  Allies Driving on Rich Po Valley

Qakland-Bound Train Derailed   Service Personnel, Civilians Victims as Chair Car Section Leaves Track Near Colfax; More Bodies Belieyed in Wreckage

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE THROUGH 112-MILE HOLE   Powerful Offensive in Southwest Ukraine Smashes Nazis

FRANCE POUNDED AS U.S. KEEPS UP NON-STOP DRIVE   RAF Follows : Americans’ Day Attack With Blows During Night

NAZIS Ud 170 PLANES YESTERDAY   6S Yankee Heavies Fail To Return  eter ennai  RESIDENTS FLEE  Predict Capital May Crack Soon

WAR. LABOR BOARD A _ PROVES PORTAL TO PORTAL PAY PACT. <«   Caused Two Strikes   Ends Thirteen Months of Bitter Controversy—45 Minutes Travel Time Allowed.

Release Of Bulk Of Nation’s Coal Mines From U. S. Control Looms As WLB OK’s Portal-To-Portal Pay

CARLY RtLEAat UF GOAL MINES EXPECTED TODAY   Boards Action Ends 13 Monihs of Controveisy

WLB APPROVES “AGREEMENT IN ~ MINE DISPUTE   COAL MINERS TO BE CREDITED WITH TIME OF UNDERGROUND TRAVEL TO THER worRK —

YANKS DRIVE ON FLORENCE   Within Ten Miles of  Italian City  Occupy Only Part of Pisa

GRANGE HEARS REP, COOLEY   Five-Point Program For Nation's Agriculture Has Better Outlets, Stable Values, Ownership.

"Worked Way to German Foxhole and Executed Operation", Hero's Speech

speech By Indian Inspiring Tribute Jero Is Modest !s Paid Cardinal

SOVIET TROOPS AT STRATEGIC RAIL: JUNCTION   Rip Nazi ‘Northern -Baltic Front To Shreds

Wallace Forces Claim 200 Votes Pledged to Him   Wage Hard Campaign For Vice President

Wallace Backers  Claim 200 Votes   Vice-Presidential Choice Up to Roosevelt

WALLACE BACKERS CLAIM 200 VOTES   Backers of Vice-President Announce Support From Six States

Grounded Nip Planes Destroyed And Merchant Ships Hit; Escort  Vessels In Indian Ocean Fired   Warships Bombard Base At Sabang: First. Blow Struck By Allies Since Fall Of Islands To Enemy Two Years Avo: British Led Assault

Surprise Raid Made By Carriers In Indian Ocean  Deal Blows To Airfields At Sabang, Lhonga.

® Surprise Raids Carried Out on Sabang, Lhonga   Attack Made Just Four Days After Shift Of Headquarters

Allies Strike First Blow At  Sumatra Japs   Surprise Attack From Sea With Ground Gains

Planes In Ist Allied Raid There   Sabang, Lhonga Bases Are Blasted By Forces Including Bombers

British Planes ~ Strike Sumatra   Aircraft Carriers, Escorted by Powerful Fleet, Figure in Surprise Attack   on Jap Bases in the Dutch East Indies.   WARSHIPS HIT SABANG

POWER FLEET OPENS ATTACK ON SUMATR   Blasts Sabang and Airfields Near Lhonga from Sea and Air,

RAID IS FIRST ON JAP-HELD ISLANDS   Northern Sumatra Pounded By Bomber Force   HITS SCORED   On Docks, Land Installations: 22 Nip Planes Also Destroyed

Raid Staged On Lhonga And Sabang  In Sumatra   Somerville Directs Surprise Air Blow

POWERFUL ALLIED FLEET STRIKES AT JAPANESE BASES  FIRST AIR-SEA BLOW AGAINST JAP-HELD — DUTCH EAST INDIES

Carriers, Battleships, Cruisers, Submarines Lsed In Operation   Kirst Raid Since  Fall Of Islands   Pianes Bomb Airfields In Surprise Attacks On Sabang, lhonga

Powerful Allied Fleet Hits Sabang In Nothern Sumatra   Is First Attack On The Dutch East Indies; Surprise Raid Brings Heavy Damage

Two Sumatra Airfields Are Targets   Battleships and Carriers Join Other Fleet Units in Delivering First Blow On Japanese-Held Islands in South Pacific

Surprise Raid Scores Damage   Sabang Base, Lhonga Airfield Deait Heavy Blows By Bombers from Carriers

ALLIED AIR-SEA FORCE STRUCK AT BASE OF SABANG   An Airfield at Northern Tip of Sumatra Also Attacked Yesterday.   BATTLESHIPS USED   Attack Four Days After Admiral Mountbatten Moved Htis Headquarters.

Planes And Battleships Go Into Action. .... First Great Air And Sea Blow Is Struck Against Japs’ Dutch East Indies

‘Allied Fleet Raids — Jap-Held Sumatra, Blasting Two Ports   Ships, Oil Tanks, Barracks Aflame In Sabang, Lhonga as Mountbatten Strikes at Enemy From India Water

First Air-Sea Blow on Dutch East Indies   Shell Nip-Occupied Sabang; 700 Miles From Singapore

First Strike Since Fall of Islands in ’42   Sumatra Airfields and Jap. Harbor Attacked By’ Both Planes and Ships...

Powerful Sea, Air Force In First Attack   Carrier Force, Cruisers, Destroyers, Battle Ships and Subs Strike First Blow, Attack Airfields in’. Sumatra — Enemy Planes Destroyed, Ships, Other ‘Targets Hit.

a He “i      All .Types Warships Represented In Dawn Attack   CUT THE JAP LIFE LINE TO BURMA

JAPANESE-HELD SABANG ISLAND CHIEF TARGET   ‘Planes from Carriers Hit  Harbor Installations  ) and Two Vessels

teavy Blow Aimed sy Allies in The Yutch East Indies   arrier-Based Planes Rip Up Shore Installations and Airfields at Sabang and Lhonga As Fleet Shells Dock Yards   Y LINK IN ENEMY SUPPLY ROUTE TO BURMA

Surprise Attack On Dutch Indies   Sabang .and Lhonga Airfields Struck by Allied Fleet   SOMERVILLE DIRECTED   Pilot of Only Plane to Be Forced Down Saved By  Submarine

Airfields In Sumatra Hit Heavy Blow   Warships Join Planes In Assault, Causing Large Fires

Big Fleet Hits Sabang, Air Fields   First Air-Sea Blow Since Fall Of Isles to Japs in 1942

Allied Fleet Strikes at East Indies   British Sea-Air Blow At Sumatra May Be The Forerunner of Amphibious Attack

FIRST ASSAULT SINCE FALL OF DUTCH ISLANDS   Planes and Ships Hit Northern Area in Surprise Blow

Carrier-Based Planes Rip Up  Installations   Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers and Subs Engage In Attacks On Sabang and Longa   Airfields Raided In Surprise Move   Large Fires Left Burning In Sectors Captured By Tokyo Forces In March, 1942

Strikes wutch East Indies   Allied Planes Take Off From Carriers To Make Surprise Raid on Ielands

Dutch East Indies Given Air-Sea Blow   Powerful Allied Fleet of Carriers, Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers and Subs Attacks Two Objectives in Sumatra.

Alles Battle To Gain Vital Rimini Airbase   Greeks Make Mile And Half Advance In Day Of Bitter Fighting

Greek Troops in ltaly Push Ahead   Eighth Army Unit Nears Po Valley

Fierce Hand-to-Hand Fighting Rages With Germans in Area of Carroceto; Gale Grounds Allied Aerial Support; Dauchhovse Inch Wav Un Hill to Cassino

Battle rages as wild gale  sweeps front   Allied situation is very serious

Attack During Heavy Storm For Hand to Hand Battle With Enemy: Weather Grounds Allied Airmen   Germans Offering Bitter Resistance; Americans Fight Through Hail, Rain, Sleet, Move Slowly Up Hills Overlooking Cassino

oth Army Attacks In Italy During Deluges of Rain   Troops at Cassino Inch Forward Through Hail, Sleet in Effort To Relieve Hard-Pressed Men

ARMIES BATTLE IN BLINDING RAIN AND WIND STORMS   Allied Planes Grounded by, Gales—Veteran Correspondent Believes Crisis Is © at Hand.   FIGHT AT CASSINO  INCREASES IN FURY   Doughboys Inch Way Up Hills  Toward Road Leading tor, a  ‘Hard-Pressed Comrades :=-:. on Beachhead.

Fifth Army Inches Forward ‘On Anzio Beachhead Despite  Fierce Hand-To-Hand Fights   Allies Still Holding Off Furious German Assaults; 60Mile-An-Hour Gale, Snow, Rain And Sleet Keeps Air Forces Grounded

FIGHTING IN SEVERE AND CRUCIAL HARD PRESSED UNITED STATES TROOPS STRUGGLE ON ANZIO BEACHHEAD BELOW ROME

Rain Storms Sweep Front   Fierce Hand-To-Hand Battles Are Raaina

ces Of lark Take Initiative   ake in Mid-Pacific And Rabaul in South Take Severe Poundinc

Fierce Hand-to-Hand Battles With Germans Reported  GAINS ARE SCORED. IN CASSINO AREA  Losses on Both Sides Reported to be Heavy  a

Hand-to-Hand Battle Rages Near Carrocelo   Germans Offering Bitter Resistance

Nazis Throwing Everything Into  Fight for Rome   Yanks, British Slam Germans Back In Hand-To-Hand Battles; Allied Air Might Grounded By 60 Mile Per Hour Gale

HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE RAGES BELOW ROME   SLIGHT ADVANCE IS REPORTED DURING WILD STORM

Fierce Barrage Laid Down By Allied Artillery; Yanks Inch Ahead in Bloody Struggle at Cassino

Allied Blow Delivered in  Wild Storm   Germans Offer Bitter Resistance; Fighting Is Hand-to-Hand

Fierce Barrage Laid Down By Allied Artillery; Yanks Inch Ahead in Bioody Struggle at Cassino      BR. CNWARD KENNEDY

Article Mentions Sergeant Vaughn   Filipinos Praised By Soldier County Man Writes League From Foxhole In Philippines

Article Mentions Sergeant Vaughn   CB SE"-TD,~SCOCSCO  Filipinos Praised By Soldier County Man Writes League From Foxhole In Philippines

U.S. Air Fleet Blasts Berlin   American Bombers, Fighters Renew Pounding German Capital, Brunswick; Nazis Report Violent Air Battles; French Targets Hit

1,400 PLANES PONIND BERLIN AND END LUL   Blast Getmah Supply Bases , as Bad Weather Over furope Lifts.

All-Out Air War Resumed   Germans Throw Up Many Fighters To Stop Americans

WEATHER CLEAR S-DAY LULL IN ATTACKS ENDS   Flak Heavy, Luftwaffe Out

DENTISTS CLOSE ANNUAL DISTRICT SESSION TODAY   Install Charlotte Man As President

San Diego Loses All Air Line Service   Na ZI sV ] ‘in Vi ct 0 ry :  It sR adio S sho Ww

SENATE IN FIRST TEST REJECTS “STATES RIGHTS” MOVE BY TWO-VOTE MARGIN.

STATES RIGHTS EFFORT BEATEN   Administration Forces Win Soldier Vote Round 44 to 42

St. Louis Clubs Rivals in Series   For First Time in  History, Two Teams Will Battle for Title; Opener Wednesday

Browns, Cardinals to Fight World Series in St. Louis   Ry CHARLES DUNKLEY

Hollywood Air Ace Killed In Macassar Fight   Bob Westbrook Bags 20 Planes

Churchill Plans Strong Defense Of His Policies   Course Held Necessary

Clearcut Allied Policy in Europe Demanded  Churchill Stands Firm on Actions ;

Churchill — - OnGreece   Says He May Cary. Tx  The People Defense Of Intervention bor Policy

Explanation Of European Policy Asked   British Clamor Grows For Policy Statement

Churchill Stands Firm on Policy. Despite Clamor   U.S. Source Denies Roosevelt Approves Russo-British Plan

CHURCHILL IS FIRM. ON GREECE, ITALY   Prime Minister: May Take Cas> Before the ’ Nation . 

EXPLAIN DRAFT LAG   State Headquarters Says Majority Of Local Boards Short On Quotas Since Last October

Missouri, Behind In Draft Quotas, Now Will Comply  Other States Also

Preston Farmer Suffers Broken Back And Neck  ‘Badly Hurt In  wey ee ey

Preston Farmer Suffers Broken Back And Neck  +>. 3 +e   ' Badly Hurt In. ke Fall From Wagon While Haying

Crisis Nearing in OW! Squabbl  Hinted Davis May Be Lef#* Out of Pletura

—OW! SQUABBLE—  PRICE MAY HEAL REDRGANIZED OW!   Elmer Davis, Present Director, May Be Left Out Of Picture

PRICE MAY HEAD REORGANIZED OWI   Rumor Censorship Directo: Slated for New Post

Price May Head OWI   Director of Censorship Considered as Man To Reorganize Unit

OWI Shakeup Reported Near; Davis Might Go   Censorship Director Byron Prive May Be Asked To Reorganize Ageuey  and. Head Jt r

Nazi Offensive Repulsed, Los! Area Regained      German Infantry Heavily Bombed

NAZIS THROWN BACK IN FIERCE ‘ANZJO BATTLE   Lost Ground Regained, * Situation in Hand, Clark Reports

Third Strong German -Attack Rolled Back by. . Allies  [REGAINING OF LOST GROUND ANNOUNCED  General Praises Men for Turning Back the — Assault

Ground Lost Has Been Regained Clark Discloses   Situation Is Well in Hand; Allies Control Bridgehead

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Offensive. - Repulsed ~ At Anzio   Fifth. Army_ Commander Says ‘Ground Lost to  _Germans: _Regained   AtBeachheacd: __

Nazi: Assault Rolled Back   Clark Visits Front, Says » Situation Is Well In Hand

3 Tank-Led Nazi Drives  Turned Back   Ground Lost te Enemy In Battle of Beachhead Regained, Clark Says  GENERAL AT FRONT

GERMAN GAINS ARE WIPED OUT BY AMERICANS   Fifth Army General In Daring Escape Below Rome

GROUND TROOPS, ARTILLERY AND HEAVY BOMBERS ROLL BACK THIRD STRONG GERMAN ATTACK ON BEACH HEAD.

REGAIN a0 LOST 10 ENE          Fifth Army. Chief. Vis ts Troops in Field ‘and Brin Out Word Situation I Well in Hand. 2      NAZI LOSSES HEAVY. — } IN-TWO-DAY BATTLE   Prisoners “Report” “American and British Artillery Fire; Was’ Demoralizing—500 Captives Countéd. ~

NAZIS FLUNG BACK A MILE: LOSSES HEAVY   GEN. CLARK PRAISES TAKE TOLL

SEE LARGE-SCALE CARRIER ATTACKS ON JAP HOMELAND   Formerly Deemed  Impractical Experts Now Believe Navy Planes Match For Land-Based Craft.

Sees 18 Months More of War But Would Prepare for Peace   In Annual Budget Message to Congress, Roosevelt Sees Possibility of Collapse of Germany Soon, but Urees Continuation of Hold-the-Line Policy

Budget Embodies Plans for At Least 18 Months More Of Conflict.   PREPARING FOR PEACE

President Sums Up Needs for Another 18 Months of War   Figures on Global Conflict Until Mid-1943 But Drafts Program to Abserb Impact of Sudden Victory in Europe

Message Asks 90 Billion For War: Also Stresses Preparations for Peace

90 Per Cent To Go To Wer Expenditures   President Sums Up Budget As “Requirement For Victory”

90 BILLION FOR WAR PURPOSES ASMED BY FDR   Financial Requirement For _ Nictory, Claime 2. President ¢ ~   Budget Facts

Budget Embodies Plan for 18 Months Of ‘Offensive War’   Congress Gets 100: Billion: Estimate; Speedy Victory May Cut Spending; 90 Bullion Laid: Out for War Activity

Chief Executive Offers Budget Message; Long War Preparation Asked   PLAN REFLECTS PREPARATIONS TO ABSORB IMPACT OF SUDDEN VICTORY IN EUROPE; FOR WAR ACTIVITIES ALONE NEW REQUEST PROJECTS EXPENDITURES OF $90,000,000,000 IN FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 

Funds Asked For 18 Months of Wan   But Hope Reflected For Sudden Victory In Europe   REQUEST RENEWED FOR HUGE TAX BILL

90 Billions Sought For War Effort Alone   Figures Based On Assumption Global Conflict Will Continue At Least Until Mid-1945, But Preparations For Possible Early Victory In Europe Reflected In Procram.

Budget Hints Preparations Made For Sudden Victory   But Roosevelt Plans For 18 More Months Of War; ‘Hopes’ For Peace Saving

Congress Given President's Second 100 Billion Dollar Budget to Carry on War   Envisions Funds Needed to Carry an Another 18 Months Which He Declares Will Bring Decisive Action Atfecting All Mankind

President Submits Second 100 Billion Dollar Outlay; Sees War's End Next Year   Calls for Stiff Tax Program To Raise Additional 10 Billions; Says Offensive War Starts This Mont!

Plans Included for 18 More Months of Global War to Cost 90 Billions

iWar Needs $90 Billions For Coming Fiscal Year, President Tells Congress

Roosevelt Marks 90 Billior Of Total For Demands On Fighting Fronts   Budget In A Nutshell

PRESIDENT HANDS ANOTHER WAR-TIME BUDGET TO CONGRESS  SECOND HUNDRED-BILLION DOLLAR CALL

President Asks $10,500,000,000 in New Taxes, Asks Congress Continue Renepatia:  tion Laws   ASSUMES WAGE-PRICE LINE   Urges Doubling of Social Security Taxes. - Preparations Now to Absorb Impact of Quick Victory in Europe

F. R. Offers Second $100 Billion Budget   Program Includes Plans For At Least 18 Months More Of War; Prepare To Act If ~ Conflict Should End Sooner 

President Lays Second Budget Before Congress   War Budget Calls for $100,000,000; Embodies Plan For 18 Months More of Global War; Also To Absorb Victory.

Second Hundred Billien Dollar Budget Laid Before Congress By President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Roosevelt Bases Proposals To Congress On Prospects Of Another 18 Months Of War At Full-Scale But Also Asks Preparations To Absorb Impact Of Victory In Eurone

100 Billions Asked In New Budget Sent To Congress   Deficit For Year To Be $59,000,000,000; New  Taxes Of $10,500,000,006 Proposed By President

New War-Time Budget Calls for Nearly 100 Million   But Plans Reflect Preparations to Absorb the Impact Of Sudden Victory

9) BILLIONS WILL BE SPENT ON WAR   President Wants 101% Billions of New Taxes Levied in Next Year

Roosevelt’s Budget Reflects * Preparations to Absorb . *  Impact of Sudden_  MWietory   DEMANDS STIFF - ¢ : FISCAL PROGRAM   Calls For ‘Doubling Social “Security Tax and- Enactment of $10,500,000,-.- 000 Levy “Measiire

CHIEF EXECUTIVE HOPEFUL ENTIRE SUM UNNEEDED   Budget Provides for Saving in Event of Quick Victory In Europe

% Billions Needed for War For Fiscal Year   Chief Executive Asks for Funds In Message Today

PRESIDENT PUTS BIG MONEY BILL UP TO CONGRESS   Voices ‘ ‘Hope That This Total War Program Will Never Be Fully Obligated and Spent,” But Points Out We Must Be Prepared.

Victory Pattern Looks Toward Demobilization   Budget in a Nutshell

PLANS FOR AT LEAST 18 MONTHS OF GLOBAL CONFLICT ARE EMBODIED IN HIS BUDGET AND ALSO REFLECTS PLANS TO ABSORB THE IMPACT OF SUDDEN VICTORY IN EUROPE—NINETY BILLIGN FOR WAR ALONE

Sudden Win Hinted In Europe   Finances Proposed For 18 Months More of Fighting

PROVISIONS F QUICK VICTORY IMPACT LISTED   Declares Groundwork to Return-U. S. to Peace Must Be Laid

FDR REPEATS REQUEST FOR HIGHER TAXES   Deficit for Year Is Expected to Reach 59 Billion

Requests Include Plans For Easing Sudden Victory Jolf   FDR Hopes War Will End Earlier, So Much Of Money Won't Be Spent

Need 100 Billions — ' For Year and Half   Roosevelt Also Reflects Preparations to Absorb Impact of a Possible Sudden Victory of Allies in Europe.   Assumes Fighting Will Continue Full Tilt Until Summer of *45

PRESIDENT PLEADS FOR MORE TAXES   Renews His Appeal To Hold Line On Prices And Wages

Pian On At Least 18 Months Of War   Reflects Preparations to Absorb  Impact of Sudden Victory in Europe-— Assumed Wage and Price Line Can Be Held — Backs Contract Renegotiation

Plans For At Least E ighteen  Vonths of War   President Gives Expenses Outline, For Both War  And Peace in U, 8

Roosevelt Offers Second Hundred ~ Billion Budget   KxK *= KK OY Budget Briefs

MOST FOR WAR AND PLANS LAID FOR LONG FIGHT   President Also Calis for Bigger Tax Levies While Incomes Are High

FUND WOULD. BE FOR NEW FISCAL YEAR   Nine-tenths of July 1, 1944-June 30, 1945, Budget for War—Requires $10,500,000,000 in Additional Taxes. =:

PRESIDENT HANDS ANOTHER WAR-TIME BUDGET TO CONGRESS   SECOND HUNDRED-BIL. LION DOLLAR CALL FOR EXPENDITURES

Solons Ready To Cooperate  On Conversion   House and Senate Leader: Promise Speedy Action in Demahilizatinn

Congress To Plan For Reconversion   Legislation To Be Taken Up Immediately When Body Convenes.

Nazis Propagandists Assert Britons And Aniericans ‘Suffering From Nervous Tension On Invasion Eve

NAZI PRESS SAYS AMERICANS ARE PANIC-STRICKEN   DECLARES PEOPLE OF BRITAIN HYSTERICAL ON EVE OF INVASION

NAZIS TRYING TO BOLSTER MORALE ON HOME: FRONT   Picture Britain and United States As Hysterical Over Invasion Outcome

PROPAGANDISTS OF GERMANY ARE BUS!   Say U. S. And Britain Near Panic Stage Over Invasion Tension.

Eruptions From Europe   Nazis Say Allies ‘Panic-Stricken’ By invasion

‘German Propaganda  Pictures £ Allies i in... VA Store @F Panic:

“On Verge Of Panic”’   Nazi Propagandists Bolster Home Morale By Picturing Allies Swept by Hysteria

Moscow Objects To Statement by. Polish Officials   Reference ‘to Frontier Claimed Erroneous by Soviet. Radio ——-~-

POLISH GOVERNMENT ACCUSED BY MOSCOW   Statement Says There Was An “Erreneeus Affrmaiion Cencerning Seviet-Peliskh Frentier”

F. R, PHYSICAL CONDITION GOOD   President Will Have -- §2nd-Birthday -“Sunday

Brown, Storm Head Stars Here For Bond Rally   Four Hollywood Personalities On Program

Soviets Already Shelling German Lines Pushed Back Into Rumania; Reds Expected to Enter Country Today or Tomorrow.   (By the United Presa)

Rumanians Fear Bucharest Will Be Raided Soon   Capital Of Estonia Also Becomes Panicky As Russians Approach

 Babson Forecast For 1945.  Predicts Farm Income Equal to That of 1944

Twenty-Six Of Present Thirty-Three Members OF Staff Sign Contracts   LeMars School _ Teachers Named Por Coming Year.

SIGN TEACHERS FOR NEXT YEAR        26 of. Present .33::Meémbgrs ‘To Return For Next’ sx  School Season

Whereabouts of Jap Navy Remains ‘A Mystery; U. S. Airmen Fail to Find Fleet in Raid on Marianas

FAIL TO SEE ENEMY SHIPS   Americans Disclose 135 Planes Destroyed, Two Vessels Sunk at Marianas.

Attackers Note Absence of Ships  In Marianas ©   ~ Airmen Destroy 135 Nip Planes, Sink _ Two Vessels In Raids

NKS CAN'T FIND THE JAP NAVY      Enemy Fleet Not In Mariana Islands It Is Discovered

Japanese Navy Still Under Cover   Enemy Fleet Not Found in Marianas

WHEREABOUTS OF JAP FLEET STILL MYSTERY   American Airmen Destroy 13: Planes In Marianas, > See No Ships

STATE DRAFT BOARDS 10 SPEED INDUCTION   Industrial Deferments Will Be Cuortailad

BOARDS SURVEY TIGHTENING OF DRAFT DELAYS   Army To Subordinate Industry Needs, State Officials Told

LIGHT AND MEDIUM BOMBERS SUPPORT INVASION TROOPS   Forces’ Blasting Their Way Into ‘Cherbourg Today Ge' Magnificent Support From Light Type Bombers—Cali Aran Alen Hit

HITS ROCKET BASE   Big Force of Heavy Bombets Makes Fourth At- . tack in Day

U, §, FLIERS AID UNITS IN FRANCE   Rocket Coast, Ruhr, Berlin Also Hit by Allies

Mighty Aerial Blows Struck By Warplanes   RAF Bombs Ruhr, Berlin;  U. S. Armada Smashes Berlin, Went on to Russia

Air Forces In Mighty Offensive :   Roar Over Over Cherbourg. In Close Support of  Land Troops; Hammer Rocket Bomb Bases

WAVES OF AMERICAN-BRITISH BOMBERS AIDED BY ARTILLERY POUNDING DEFENSES OF CITY   Great Assault Designed to Crush Last Resistance To Doughboys Who Move Up and Begin Storming Nazi Positions. Attack Is of Gigantic Proportions

Allied Planes Support Yanks at Cherbourg   Crushing Air Blows Are Aimed at Foe; Attack Rocke? Installation:

AGAIN POUND ROCKET AREA   Fourth Bombing In Less Than 24 Hours Directed At Platforms in Pas-De Calais Section   AFTER NIGHT ATTACKS

GIANT BOMBERS RIP TARGETS IN HEAVY ATTACKS   Nazi Rocket Nests Pounded By Aircraft — 119 Planes Are Lost

ROCKET BOMB BASES TARGET OF BIG FLEET   Day and Night Aerial Assault Against Hitler's Fortress Carried on From Isles Bases.

Bombers Hit France in Twin Blow  Closest Support   Closest Support Given Troops In Day Attacks

Hit Roeket Launching Grounds   Daylight Blows  Today Follow Aerial Attacks From France To Ruhr and Berlin

Air Armadas Smash Rocket  Coast Bases   ey, ‘ My Allied Aerial Fleets Batter Cherbourg In Suppert Of Ground Forces.   RAID GERMAN CITIES

Planes Blast GermanLines  At Cherbourg   Powerful Support Given U. S. Ground Forces;  Rocket Base Hit

LIGHT AND MEDIUM BOMBERS AIDED IN CHERBOURG BATTLE   U. S. FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS ALSO BLAST ED ROCKET BASES

BOMBERS AID ALLIED DRIVE ON CHERBOURG      Planes Sweep Within 100 Feet of German Cannon  - in Closest Support Yet Given to Gen. Bradley’s Dourhhovs.

Bomber Fleets Aid Americans  AtCherbourg   Carry, Out Crushing Offensives “Rocket-Bomb Installations Hit; Berlin Again Attacked

AERIAL RAIDS CONTINUE      Rocket-Launching Area Gets Fourth Hammering in Less Than 24 Hours.

Forts, Libs Smash Buzz  - Bomb Areas   Far Flung Forays Outdo Nazis’ Secret Weapon — 8

Planes Blast Rocket Bases   Pas-De-Calais Area Pounding; Berlin Attack Planes Land in Russia

Fleets of Bombers Hit Cherbourg, Robot Plane Site at Pas-De- Calais

 Mission Believed to Involve European Politics—No Change in Pacifie Commands.

FINAL TOUCHES BEING PUT ON PACIFIC PLANS   Present Winning Team Te Continue Victory Drives Against Japanese   EDEN JOINS SESSIONS   Big Decisions Involved  Conference Deal With Basic Strategy

Secretary Eden  Reaches Quebec   British Foreign Secretary Joins Conference After Hurried Flight From BRrnoland

EDEN EDEN FLIES TO CONFERENCE — ON PACIFIC: WAR STRATEC   AMERICAN OFPICERS TO HOLD TOP COMMANDS IN THE BIG PUSH AGAINST JAP

ALLIED CHIEFS IN LAST STAGE OF MEETING   American Experts to Direct,Offensives Against Japan

$30,000 ESTATE LEFT BY DOG, PEt   Earmarked for Care of Less Fortunate Pooches in Wisconsin

FDR SAYS ITALY TO REGAIN ITS PREWAR POWER   President Jokes About Charges, Wide Range Of Subjects

FDR. SCORES TALES ABOUT PEARL HARBOR   Expects Such Things Before Election, Press Told

BRICKER HITS S$ FDR SPENDING   STORIES STIR FDR DERISION   President Hits at Flurry Of Pearl Harbor Tales, Defeatism Charge

Congress Considering “Court of Inquiry”  To Bring Out Story Of Pearl Harbor

0 a lair  Consider “Court Of Inquiry” For Kimmel, Short   Regular Court Martial Requires Generals Busy At Fronts

Every Nazi Soldier Held In Italy Will Make Push  From Britain Easier

Precious nazi troops drawn into death tilt   Allies will deliver one-two punch; Ctolin ta add enift kick fram rear

Invasion Hopes Brightened by Drive in Italy   Grand-Scale Operation Certain to Have Some Effect on Hitler's Westwall Defenses

Drive ls Seen: As Auxiliary To Invasion   Tying Up Troops Main Objective

EXPECT THIS OFFENSIVE 10 BE SUCCESS   General Alexander Has Had Time to Marshal Forces in Italy to Keep Nazis Occupied.   Weather Favorable

Tight-Packed British Island Invasion Base Cheers ‘Preliminary’ in Italy

} «co  [Navy Officers Still Have Not Discovered Cause Of Explosion

Blast Entirely Destroys. Two Ammunition Ships;  Shakes 50 Mile Area

U.S, SEIZES 99 MACHINE SHOPS   Navy Ordered To Take Over Plants In California

Straight from the Shoulder: Highlights of Dewey's Acceptance Speech af the Chicago Convention

Highlights Of  Dewey's Speech  Of Acceptance GOP Presidential  Nominee Address

Allies Better  Pacitic Setup   Heavy Aerial Blow At Japs. Capture Of Two Key Points Improves Position.

—PACIFIC— Allies Wrest Two Key Points From Japanese   iMarines Capture Hill 660 On New Britain After Four Days Of Bitter Fighting While Aussies Force Open Gateway To Northern New Guinea

Allies Wrest Key Points from Foe. In Pacific Drive   ee se et eee _—_S ae orl rll OO  Hill 660 Falls to Yanks and Aussies Take Sio; Strike —  Manvuyu Atr Riaw,

Planes Bomb Enemy Ships   Leave Nine Burning; Allies Take Sio, Hill 660

Capture of Two Key Positions Helps Allies in Pacific   New Britain’s Hill 660 and Sio Base On New Guinea Fall

ALLIES IMPROVE THEIR POSITIONS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Capture Key Points in New Britain, New Guinea Over Week End

NEW GAINS IN PACIFIC ARES   Capture of Two Key Points Materially Improves — Allied Position

Allies Take2 Jan Key Points   Marines Take Hill 660 in New Guinea In Bloody Battle

POSITION OF ALLIES SOUTHWEST PACIFIC (IREATLY IMPROVED   TWO KEY POINTS CAPTURED, ANOTHER HEAVY AIR BLOW DEALT JAPS

ALLIES IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC MAKE NEW LAND GAINS AND HIT JAP SHIPPING HARD FROM AIR   Hill 660 Captured After Bloody Fighting, ir Borgen-Bay Area of New Guinea. Japs Planes and Shipping Various Sector Sustain Damage

JAPS BEATEN BY ALLIES IN TWO SECTORS   Marines Capture Main Defense Bulwark at Cape Gloucester and Aussies Advance in Northern New Guinea.

Wrest Two Key Bases From Japs   Hill 660 Overlooking Borgen Bay Falls to  Americans; Aussies  Seize Port of Sio

GERMAN ROCKET ROMR   Allies Gain ~In Pacific.   - Assault Main Rome Defense Line

Allies Gain Two Jap Bases   Capture Hill 660  And Sweep Through Sio in New Drives

Marines Seize  New Britain Hill  Sio Captured — Jap War And Cargo  Vessels At Rabaul Damaaed By Planes 

Allied Fliers Rake Supply Bases and Barge Line on New Guinea And Dive Bombers Hit Seven Cargo Vessels While Shooting Down Half of Force That Tried To Stop Them

Capture of 2 Jap Positions Is Reportec   Allied Position in The Southwest Pacific Is Improved

2 Key Points _ Seized From Jap Forces   /Marines. Take Hill 660. Im New Britain, Aussies:Capture Sio in New Guinea   ALLIED AIRCRAFT IN-NEW. ASSAULTS   Japanese Retaliate With Nuisance Raids, But Little Damage Is Inflicted -~ 

Allies Take 2 Key Points ‘From Japs    Navy Bombers Damage Seven Nip Cargo Vessels, Light Cruiser, Destroyer; Down 29 Interceptors .

Take Dry Beans  From Rationing   Values In Pineapple, Tomato Juice Boosted

Raw Dry Beans Off Ration List   Fruit Butter and Prune Juice Also

LOSSES DATE FROM JAN. 22 ALLIED DRIVE   Beachhead Operation Has Drawn Into Action Enemy Divisions From An ti-Invasion Forces inthe W act

NAZI CASUALTIES IN ANZIO BATTLE FIXED AT 15,000   2,816 Prisoners Included Also. Germans Forced t Draw Troops from Othe Fronts

Invasion Coast Is Weakened   ANZIO BEACHHEAD DRAWS NAZIS TROOPS FROM WEST

Nazis Losses at  Anzio Heavy   15,000 Men Lost Since Invasion; Hopes Of Kesselring Fail

New German Army Formed At Beachhead   Only Slight Action Reported Yesterday

Yank Columns Roll Steadily Into Belgium  And Fatherland   Perl Said Captured; Advance Continues  In Southern France; Nazis Evacuating  Finland: Reds Roll On

Paris Broadcast Places Yanks in Reich Territory   Battle of Germany May Be Under Way

U.S. Subs Bag 20 More Jap Ships   Pacific Toll Boosted To 874 Vessels Sunk

Federal-State Cooperation Demanded During Governor Convention in Pennsylvania

Govs. Pick Dewey To Mediate   GOP Leader Heads Demand For Better Cooperation Beiwee State And Nation.

Governors Adopt Dewey Proposal On State Policy   Issue Settled With Declaration for Federal Co-Operation

New Rulers Of Bolivia Fail Of Recognition   Britain Joins American Nations in Move to Squeeze Out Pro-Axis Movements

Britain — Joins In Rebuff   Refuses to Recognize New Bolivian Government; Other Countries Take the Same Stand

U. S., Britain, 7 Others Refuse To Recognize  Bolivian Cou p   Further Action Against Pro - Axis Movements Expected   Break in Argentine, Awie Tine Banerne

stroke Would Cut Last Escape Route of All Nazis Remaining in Western France and Belgium— Americans Said, Without Allied Confirmation, to Be Inside German Borders at Two Places 100 Miles Apart—Enemy Fleeing From Rocket Coast.

Move Would Cut Escape For Germans   Speadheads Said To Be At Reich Border At Two Points

Last Escape Route Sealed; Yanks In Reich   Germans Fleeing Rocket Bomb Coast —Americans Are Heading East

Brussels Liberated By Allies   Nearly All Of Belgium Freed; Nazis Stil] Flee.   Holland Beckane   American Forces Are Reported To Have Driven To Antwearn

AMERICANS ARE REPORTED NOW ON REICH SOI   French Advices Say Other Allied Troops Have Driven Into Antwerp

ALLIED TROOPS HAVE CUT LAST ESCAPE ROUTE .   Americans Reported to Have Entered Antwerp Cuttine ‘Germans Off

Two American Forces Are In Reich, Report   Allied Trcops Drive Into Antwerp, 23 Miles North Of Belgian Capital, Is Claim; U. S. Spearheads Reach Aachen, Is Assertion

NEAR ANTWERP IN QUICK PUSH FROM CAPITAL   Two Yank Spearheads At Border of Reich, Reports Claim

2 American Spearheads Rumored At Nazi Border   U.S. Troops Also  Said To Be At Namur: Main Rail Routes To Berlin Threatened

Yankee Treops Across Border In Reich, Hint   Americans Threaten Rail Lines To German Cities Of Cologne, Duccaldart

Peleliu Japs Booby-Trap Marine Dead   Latest Barbarism Revealed; Enemy Crematory Found

PHILIPPINES AT WAR’ WITH U.S, JAPS DECLARE   Puppet Regime Takes Action In Sequel To Raids

hilippine’s Puppet €overnment Declares War On U. S. And — ritain---China War Gloomy

Jittery Japs Fear Invasion  Of Philippines   Martial Caw on Island: Follows Attack; Pele lin Gaine Slaw

Philippines Now "At War’ With U.S., Japs Say.   Puppet Government Impelled by Nips, Takes Formal Action

PRESS BATTLE AGAINST JAPS IN PHILIPPINES   Puppet Government Declares War Against United States, Britain

INVASION BY AMERICA IS FEARED 3Y NIPS   Martial Law Proclamation Follows Heavy Attack by  Ty. & Planes

War Declaration Made At Manila By Puppet Chief   Yank Forces Press Intense Campaign Against Island Area

Declaration Made As Bombers Blast Shipping * Days   Marines Make Slight Progress Against  Japs On Peleliu

Pre Invasion Raids Knock Out 740 Nippon Planes, 262 Boats In 2 Weeke 

DECLARATION IS ISSUED BY JAP STOOGE   American Forces Continue to Press Intense Campaign Against Islands.

JAP PUPPET DECLARES WAR ON U.S.   Laurel Philippine Government Charges Agaression

GOVERNMENT DECLARES WAR   United States and Britain Are Named By Japanese Who Are Ruling Former American Islands.

THE WAR TODAY   THE WAR TODAY  Japan's Taner Defense  Now Highly Vulnerable

Jap Outer Pacific Guards Beaten Down To ‘Line of Defense in Name Only’

Today’s War Moves   Says U. S. Navy Could Cut Nips’ Defense Lines Anywhere

THE WEATHER   oe LHe War  Oday a<  Allies Smash Outlying Jap Defense Line

Mrs. McCallum’s Petition, Denied By Judge, Goes To Appeals Court

Vote Inquiry Into Unrest At ‘State Prison   Resolution Provides For Legislative - Conamittee To Determine Cause Of Recent Disorders

Seek Probe Of Waupun Trouble  Legislature’ s Committee May Delve Into Issue

Early Holiday Deaths Now 96   New York Leads States In Accident Fatalities —

Veto Set Today ‘On Subsidy Ban   Congressmen- Get Notices Of FDR Mecesco

SMITH DENOUNCED BY GOV. BRICKER      America First Party De. nounced by Ohio Executive

Bricker Hits At American Firsts   Denounces Gerald Smith and Party; Dewey Says He Is Still Racket Busting.

STEEL WAGES “TO. INCREASE      UPWAED REVISION: SEEN _ AFTER REPORT: OF STERL.. PANEL OF WAR LABOR  7 BOARD...

‘LITTLE STEEL’ INCREASE SEEN   War Labor Board Panel Lays Foundation to Push Postwar Buying

“LITTLE STEEL’ REVISION LOOMS   WLB Says Wage Increase Will Be Stimulant To Post War Buying

ARMY TROOPS JOIN MARINES ON PELELIU   Step Up Battle For Bases Which  Guard Philippines

Army, Marines Join In Serap  For Peleliu   Navy Strikes Crippling Blows; Single Bomber Sinks 3 Warships

Naval Bombers Strike Crippling Blow At Jap Shipping  SINGLE BOMBER SINKS THREE SHIPS  Japanese Dead Reaches 8226; Heavy Fighting Continues

LONE U.S. PLANE SINKS 3 NIPPONESE WARSHIPS   Record Bag of Enemy Cra Made in Sinele Run

Army Units Join U: S. Marines On Peleliu Island —   Naval Bombers Strike Crippling Blows At Japanese Shipping

Naval Bomber Sinks Three Jap Warships   Enemy Troops On Peleliu Held In Tiny Pocket

Geezil, The Weasel, Makes Death Date But Keeps It Secret From Inspector

Yank Airforce Radios Ahead To Berlin That “We Are Coming”; Tells Civilians To Scram, But No Nazi Fighters Appear

91 Enemy Rocket Planes Destroyed   Hungary Raided On Major Scale

Twin Blow Gets 9{ Nazi Planes   22. More Damaged In Budanest Raid

91 FOE PLANES ARE WRECKED   Results of Raids on Budapest Airfield Revealed; Italy Fronts Quiet

91 Planes Destroyed Near Budapest by U.S. Air Foree   22 Others Are Damaged in Devastating Attacks on Hungary; 26 German Planes Blasted in Attacks on Sofia, Belgrade

91 GERMAN PLANES WRECKED IN RAIDS       Aircraft Destroyed on the Ground in Twin Assaults

Rocket - Firing Planes Are Destroyed   Enemy Loses 91 Aircraft in Allied Raids ©

NATIONS AGREE ON WORLD OIL POLICY   Agreement Between U, S. ond Britain Is Siqned

OIL PACT SIGNED BY U.S. BRITAIN   Agreement On World Policy Looks Toward Security

FOREIGN PAY CUT OPPOSED   Senate To Object to Any Ef fort To Force Men To  S§ehd More Home.

RAILS’ RELEASE FROM ARMY CONTROL NEAR   Agreement by NonOperating Groups Expected Soon

Seaman Killed, 14 Injured When Fire Sweeps Pier, Ship at Newport News

PIER AND SHIP ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE  ;   One Merchant Seaman Loses Life In Seven-Hour Blaze At Hampton Roads, Va.

Light Vote Being Cast In State   Primary Termed Most Listless  In Recent  Years

 Misty Weather and Apathy of Voters Result In Unusually Light Turnout At the Polls

PARTY SELECTS SINGLE CHIEE   Al Horstman Elected National Committeeman and State Chairman.

Ohio House May Refuse to Seat Democrat-elect   GOP Majority Would Accept Man Who Lost Lucas County Election

HECT wecr STFORE ‘ois   REPUBLICANS EXPECTED TO REFUSE TO SEAT DEMOCRAT. AND ANNOUNCE RIVAL WINNER

4th War Loan Drive Launched   M’ Arthur Hailed as Rand Ruswer Na 

Yank Superforts Assault Japan Industrial Centers In Daylight, Night Raid:

SUPERFORTS IN ATTACKS ON VITAL INDUSTRIAL TARGETS   77 B-29 Bombers In Raids On Kyushu, One Of Four  Islands Composing Heart Of Japanese Empire; : Enemy Clarms To Have Bagged 25 Of Raiders

Two Raids Reported by Japanese Home Radio:  FIVE CITIES HIT IN INITIAL RAID   Broadcasts of Nipponese Conflict in Many Detaile

9,000 NOW IDLE IN PHONE STRIKE      Ohio Bell Walkout Spreads to Michigan; Long Lines Swell Ranks

GOVERNMENT MAY TAKE OVER LINIES BY NIGHTFALL— MICHIGAN WALKOUTS LOOM

MORE WORKERS JOIN IN STRIKE      Telephone Tie-Up Threatens To Spread To Michigan

Air Attacks. In New Arez On Riviera   Suggests Invasion Of South France — May Be Possibility

French South Coast Bombed  Italian Riviera Also Hit By Allied Planes

“Little Ladies Of The Sea’’ Turn Out To Be Too Tough To Be Classed As Feminine

Drys Call Off Statute Fight   Delay Follows Poll Showines Hostility

DAYS DELAYING RIVE FOR LAW   Plan to-Renew Fight for War Time Prohibition in New Congress.

3 War Craft Included in Raiders’ Toil   Yanks Gain Steadily In Polou Invasion; Towns, Villages Taken

3 Warships In Toll Of 29 Japanese Ships Sunk By U. S. Subs   ance @ aeeeee

NEW AUTO TAGS ‘ON SALE WED.   Deputy Registrars Named To Issue Plates Here

Tire Inspections For Automobiles ToBe Abanddonet   Passenger Car Test: To Be Discontinued After April 20 

Kwajalein Atoll  Resistance Fades  Before Marines   Namur, Four Other O Coral Keys Fall Yank Casualties Ar  ‘Low

Overwhelming American Power Winning Battle   Reports From Front Indicate Imminent Fall of Large Base

JAP RESISTANCE CRUMBLING ON KWAJALEIN ATOLL   FRONT-LINE REPORTS INDICATE FALL OF ISLET IS IMMINENT

ENEMY RESISTANCE ON KWAJALEIN ATOL! SEEMS CRUMBLING  HEAVY PRESSURE OF AMERICAN INVASION TROOPS BEING FELT

EXPECT EARLY FALL OF KEY TO MARSHALLS   Nips Lose 1,250 Men In Costly Defense of Atoll

Jap Resistance Growing Weaker  Marshalls Conquest Moving Rapidly

American Forces Hold Over Half Of Islets in Marshalls   Allied Fliers Blast Nip Targets in New (ruinea, Burma; Navy Shells Jap Positions in Solomons

Fall of Largest Mid-Pacific Base Expected Soon   Tokyo Radio Says Americans Had to Risk Marshalls Invasion

Japanese Casualties In Central Pacific High; American Losses Low

Jap Resistance On Kwajalein Isle Crumbles   Imminent Fall Of Largest In String Of Mid - Pacific Rases Seen.   NAMUR {8 SEIZED

—M ARSH ALLS—  More Than Half. Of Marshalls In.  U. S. Possession

JAPS CRUMBLE UNDER STRONG YANK ASSAULT   Marines Take Over Namur And Four Other Keys On Vital Marshall Base

Fall Of Japs’ Big Marshall  Base Nearing   U. §. Transports, Other Ships Are Moved Inte Lagoon; Enemy Death Toll Is High

Half of Key Islands Already Jaken by American Invaders; Tanks Mop Up on Kwajalein   Jap Dead Put at 1,250 on Island As More Than Half of Defending Garrison Is Wiped Out by Marines

Yanks Tighten Marshalls Vise   IMMINENT FALL OF LARGEST STRING OF MID-PACIFIC BASES SEEN AS PATTERSON SEES “WIDER CRACKS IN RING”; PARAMUSHIRO HIT

YANKS SEIZE SOME 30 ODD CORAL ISLETS   Fall of Japanese Base Imminent; 1,250 Enemy Soldiers Killed

JAP-RESISTANCE ONKWAJALEIN ISLE CRUMBLES   Casualties Running High For Nips; Unexpectedly Low for U. S.

Fall of Kwajalein Atoll Believed Near   Japanese Resistance Cr American Pressure; Heavy Compared to Attackers.

RUMORS’ CURRENT IN LONDON  THAT HITLER “LEARNED . “GENERAL PUT OUT “PEACE FEELERS”   By INTERNATIONAL “NEWS SERVIC

The Special Privilege Club, At $1000 Per Man For Membership Is Criticized By Gov. Dewey

Demo ‘Club’ Membership Made Known   Report Lists Contributions of Party Support; ers in ‘1,000 Club’

Greeks Call: More Militia   Ellas Infiltrate, ‘City, “As Battle Continues

GREEK PREMIER ENLARGES ARMY   Athens Uncertain Whether ELAS Will Try Another  Plunge Into Center Of Use

Allies Threaten ) Italian Ports   Livorno, Ancona Under Heavy Fire

ANCONA AND LIVORNO PORT   Eigthth Army Captur Villages Of Meone Morra And Mucignano In  Upper Tiber Valley

TH ARMY GAINS — 2 MILES IN ITALY   SMASHES TO WITHIN 8 MILES OF LIVORNO AGAINST STRONG OPPOSITION.

ALLIES NEAR TARGETS ON TWO FRONTS   Within Eight Miles of Livorno and Same Distance from Ancona, at End of 150-Mile Front.   Slow Business

Allies Near Large Perts -(n Advances   Livania o. Waa, Ancor: On East Only Eight - Miles Away, Slow -- Pracrece Mode

ALLIES NEAR. BIG. PORT OF LIVORNO   American. Units Blast For_ward Against Great . Resistance

] New Contests Added to Meet   1,000 High School Students Expected

Bridgeless Seine  Only Avenue Open; Trosos ta Rout u   ROAD TO BERLIN

Germans Destroy Military Installations Inside Paris; Seine Reached at 2 Points   New Trap Sprung on Nazi Asmies Fleeing Normandy; Reports Say “U.S. Troops in Suburbs of Paris

Drive by Yanks North of Dreux Blocks Escape of Fleeing Seventh and Fifteenth German Armies Except Across Virtually -Bridgeless Seine — Strategy Is to Destroy Enemy, Allowing Capital to Fall Without War’s Destruction.

Dispatch Says Three Columns Now In Suburbs   Seine River Reached In Slashing American Offensive; Germans I: Rout In France

Demolitions Rock Paris as German Rout Multipiles   Crossing Bridgeless River Only Escape For Trapped Boche

Spring New Trap on Fleeing Germans; Cut Escape Route   Lt. Gen, Patton’s Army Again Swings North to Close Trep; Germans Blasting Military Objectives In French Capital; French Patriots Join Drive

Foe's Retreat Becomina Rout   ..Kisenhower'’s Chief Aim Is To Crush Enemy Army

Explosions And Fires Reported   Report From Berlin Says Allies In Capital’s Suburbs

Patton Surges West of Paris To Destroy Foe  Germans Explode   Germans Explode War Installations In French Capital

Demolitions Rock Capital As U. S. Entry Is Reported: British Approach River

Patton’s Armor Swerves Again From Paris To Destroy German Army Before It Crosses Seine

Patton’s Armor Bars Escape Along South Bank of  Seine   GROWING INTO A ROUT   French Resistance Forces Liberate Area Around Troyes

—WEST FRANCE~  REPORT GERMANS FLEEING CAPITAL   Nazi Radio Declares Petain Government Is Leaving Vichy   PARIS’ FALL NEAR   German Broadcasts Say U.S. Forces Reach  Seine In 2 Places

Flight Has Turned  Into Rout   American Armored Columns Spring New Trap By Veering West of Paris; Fires, Explosions Reported There by RAF Fliers

New U.S. Trap Closes on Foe; Paris Rocked By Demolitions   Laval, German ‘Officials Flee City; Petain to Leave Vichy

ROGK CAPITAL      Armored Columns Swing 18 Miles Northeast in En- — veloping Action.   AMERICANS JIN SUBURBS?

* American Armo , Blocks German Retreat Routes   Allied Headquarters Maintains Silence On Location of Forces As Nazi Troops Are In State of Confusion

Nazis Blow Up Installations In  French Capital   l. S, Armored Columns Veer To Northwest Of Paris To Enter Cities Of Mantes And Vernon And Form New Trap For Germans Fleeing Northward From Normandy Front

Demolitions in Paris Reported by Airmen   German Preparations to Withdraw From France Reported, Laval Flees Paris, Petain Moves from Vichv   Second Trap in 10 Days

Nazi Assauits Near Cassino Broken Up By Allied Artillery   Two Hotel "Key Point’ Areas of German Defenses Within Ruined Bastion Are Hammered “inceasingly By Big Guns From Beaches   ORSGO*!4 SECTOR OF 8TH ARMY FRONT SHELLED

Allied Cassino Guns Shell Key Hotel Points   ‘Guns Also Break German Attack North Of City— Enemy Retaliates With Night-Long. Bombard. “ment of Allied Positions South of City. .

Guns Smash Nazi Attack At Cassino  Continue to ~ Hammer Hotel _ Key Point

llied Guns fop Germans   Break Up Attacks North of Cassino; Hammer Key Points

NAZIS’ ATTACK NEAR CASSINO IS BROKEN UF   Artillery Blasts Troops and Two Heiels Within City Turned Inia Defense Positions   /PATROLS ENGAGED   Army Newspaper Says ‘Failure’ o! Cassino Skirmishes Have Become Apparent

Heavy Artillery Blasts Germans   NAZI ATTACKS BROKEN UP IN CASSINO AREA.

Allies Break Up Nazi Push North Cassino      Hammer Two Hotel Key Point Areas Within Town; Artillery Duel Heavy.   BEACHHEAD ATTACKED

Big Guns Pound Two Hotels Held  By Nazi Forces  Anzio Beachhead Troops Beat Off German Agcanlts

Artillerymen  Stop German: Drive; Hotel Area Pounded   Cassino Situation Remains Critical

Cassino Battle Develops Into Artillery Duel   Allies’ Guns Break Up Nazi Attack To North Of Town

ALLIES BREAK GERMAN RUSH NEAR CASSINO   Americans Protect Beachhead Below Rome Sunday

Big Guns Break Up Nazi Attack  Above Cassino   Hammer Key Points In City; Enemy Thrusts At Beachhead Repelled.

Allies Repulse German Assault  North Of Cassino   Hammer Hotel Key Positions

Artillery Halts Nazis   German Attack North Of Cassino Checked; Two Hotels Pounded   Beat OF Attacks

NAZI ATTACK AT CASSINO HALTED BY ARTILLERY   Germans in Night Long Shelling of Allied Positions to the South

POUND GERMAN KEY POINTS IN RUINED CASSINO   Allied Artillery Breaks Up Attack by Nazis North of Town

ALLIED GUNS: BATTER NAZIS IN CASSINO   Artillery Directed Against Enemy. Nests in Two Hotels and Also Breaks Up German Attack Narth af Town,

Allies Break Up Nazi Attack Near Cassino   Key Point Areas Of German Detense Area Heavily Hammered

Artillery Halts Attack by Nazis   Allied Guns Continue to Hammer Key Point Areas in Cassino Battle

STOP NAZI DRIVE ABOVE CASSING   Allies Continue Attacks on Enemy Targets in City

Allies Break Up German Atfack North of Cassino   Nazis Retoliate in Nightlong Shelling Of Allied Positions

Allied Artillery Smashes German Attack In Cassino   Big Guns Are Still Concentrated On Ke  Hotel Fortresses In Italian Sector

Allies Smash  THe Attank On  SAUL ALets Un  oy Becca: Wa ae oe crest Cassino © Foti   Artery Continues Tx Hammer ‘Kev Point’ Of German Defenses In Ruined Town

ARTILLERY STILL POUNDS CASSING   Nazi Attack North of City Beaten by Big Guns

HAMMER NAZI CASSINO HOLDS   ARTILLERY BREAKS UP ENEMY ATTACK NORTH OF TOWN

Allies Squelch Nazi Cassino Raid; Mosquitos Hit New High In Ruhr

FIELD ARTILLERY BREAKS UP GERMANY ATTACK AT CASSINO  THREE SMALL GERMAN ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAD WERE BEATEN OFF

REMOVAL ACTION ATTRIBUTED TO PERSONALITIES   Roosevelt Says Stilwell And Chiang Clashed; U. S. Envoy Quits

Troops Of Allies, Cut Off On Hill Now Withdrawn   poetachment Supplied By Aircraft On Monastery Hill Back With Fifth Armv   CASSINO BATTLE IS LITTLE CHANGED

No Quick End  In German War  _ ea ey   People Who Believe Home Front Will Fall ts *“Wishful Thinkinge.’

Knox Doubts Collapse of Nazis Soon   No Ground for Hope of Collapse Of German Home Front, He Feels

Predicts Long, Costly War In Pacific Knox Sees No Reason To  Expect Early Collapse Of German Home Front

KNOX SCORES PEACE HOPES   QUICK WIN UNLIKELY, NAVY SECRETARY SAYS

“No Ground For Hope German Home Front To Crash’---Knox   Navy Secretary Declares Quick Ending Of War Is Unlikely

Knox Terms. “Wishful Thinking” ‘Any Such  ‘Belief;.Jap War to Be. ‘Costly

KNOX CANNOT SEE PEACE SOON   Belief In Early End Of War Wishful Thinking

QUICK ENDING OF THE WAR UNLIKELY SAYS SEC, KNOX   Termed “Wishful Thinking” Any Belief European Conflict Will End Soon.   IS A DIFFERENT FRONT   Not Like the One in the Other War, the Secretary Declared.

‘A QUICK ENDING . - OF WAR UNLIKELY   Such ‘Wishful Thinking’ ts a Disservice to the War Effort, Knox Says

EARLY ENDING OF WAR 1S UNLIKELY   Knox Says Wishful Thinkers Do Disservice to War Effort.

No Collapse On German Home Front. Knox Says   Quick Ending Of War Unlikely; Long And  - Bitter Fight In Pacific Predicted

Japanese shock troops tightening pincers around city of Chenehsien

Nips Closing In On Chinese City   Pincer Jaws Only 15 Miles Apart  ss  nrarea?r Aarmre i SS

Nips Closing In On. Chinese City   Pincer Jaws Only 15 Miles Apart

TWO ARMIES SHAPING MASSIVE TRAP FOR GERMANS SOUTH OF LENINGRAD; AFTER FALL OF ANCIENT BASTION.

TRAP ENGULFS GERMAN UNITS AT LENINGRAD   TWO SOVIET ARMIES CLOSING IN ON 250,000 MEN

German Troops Trapped 5S. W. Of Leningrad   City Rapidly Being Liberated From Nazi Threat

Attacks Cost Germans 44 000 Troons   Other Nazis Are Trapped in Strelna Corridor

Reds Claim Six-Day Battle in North Has Cost Germans 44,000 Men; 250,000 Foe Soldiers Periled

‘Red Army Seizes Novgorod and Surges On to Wipe Out Units Scattered in Fighting.   THREATEN ENTRAPMENT OF 250,000 GERMANS   Total of Enemy Dead and Captured Boosted to 44,000 on Sixth Day of Offensive in North.

ENTRAPMENT OF HUGE ARMY I$ RED OBJECTIVE   Soviets Crush Ahead to Engulf Scattered Units; Enemy Loss  Hiked

FLANK DRIVE DOOMS NAZI NORTH HOLD   German Losses Placed Near 44,000; Others Face Russian Trap   SOVIETS DESCRIBE FOE AS ‘PANIC-STRICKEN?

Soviets Shape Big Pincers to Catch Germans   Enemy Losses 44,000 Men in Six-Day Drive In North; Airmen Blast Escape Roads

Toll Of Dead And Captured Is Hiked To 44 Thousand, ~ Russians Say

00 Germans illed, Moscow eport Asserts   Offensive Traps Many Nazi Troops

Trap many Germans in Strelna area   Foe loses 44,000 men in six days

NOVGOROD FALLS TO RED TROOPS; NAZIS TRAPPED   14,000 Enemy Forces Have Been Killed And Cap. tured In North   GERMANS ENDANGERED IN LENINGRAD AREA

‘Giant Pineer Closing On ‘Huge Foree   Undetermined Number Definitely Bottled Up  In Strelna Corridor  ESCAPE ROADS HIT

Reds Bottle. Up Nazis In Swift Drive.   Ancient Novgorod Bastion’ Captured

Thousands Caught In Strelna Sector   44,000 Germans Said Killed In Six-Day Red Offensive: Leninarad Sieae Said Near Break

British Talks With Turkey Bogged Down   Conversations Suspended After Month Of - Wleetings.

Turkish and Britist Military Men Complete Sessions  Secret Discussions Are Suspended Over Supply Total

Turk-British Talks Dropped   Sudden Suspension Of Month-Long Secret Meetings Disclosed,

TURKISH-BRITISH TALKS SUSPENDED   Suspension of Secret Military Sessions Won't Alter Turkev’s Policy.

ANGLO-TURKISH TALKS HIT SNAG   Secret Sessions Ended Suddenly; Ankara Stand Cautious

Ottoman Pro-Ally - Policy Unaltered   But Increasing Reluctance  Is Seen on Air Bases Ry William BF Kine

QUEBED TALET!N IS IN FULL SWING   First Sericus Discussion Will Bevin Today

QUEBEC IEETINS (5 (N FULL SWING   First ‘Sericus Discussion Will Bevin Today

FDR, CHURCHILL START STUDY OF PEACE PLANS   Annihilation War Against Japan Also Considered At Quebec Parley   STRATEGY TAKING FORM   Surrender Of Nips Six Months After Nazi Fall Is Aim

Ground Troops In Small Gains   Eighth and Fifth In New Gains; More Brazilians In Italy.

SMALL GAINS IN PO VALLEY MADE FRIDAY   Germans Put Up Furious Fight Against Allies

BRITISH GAIN ° IN PO VALLEY   Fifth Army Seizes New Hills Near Bologna

NAZIS IN FIERCE PO VALLEY FIGHT   AMERICANS, BRITISH HAMMER SMALL GAINS

NAZI DEFENSE OF PO VALLEY ~1S FANATICAL   Despite Great Resistance, However, Both British and American Forces Hammer Out Small Ad "mene Sm TFtalxr

Allies Pound Out ‘Small Po Advances in Raging Attacks   German Forces Putting Up Stiff Resistance; Brazilians Arrive

ALLIED TROOPS IN ITALY HAMMER OUT SMALL GAINS FRIDAY  LOW FLYING FIGHTER AND FIGHTER-BOMBERS TEND MATERIAL AID

HUN RESISTANCE HEAVY INITALY   Allies Inch Ahead Against Fanatical Defense

Allies Hammer OutSmall Gains On Italy Fronts   Germans Patting Up Fanztical Defense of Po Valley; Fifth Army Seizes  New Hills

Furious Battle Raging in Ifaly  Small Gains Made Aaqainst Germans

Small Gain In Fierce Battles Near Bologna   Fighterbombers Support Al. lied Forces; Brazil Sends More Troops

Allies Make Small Gains   Planes Help Troops Advance Against German Po Valley Defenses

YANKS, BRITISH  REGISTER SMALL  GAINS IN ITALY FIFTH ARMY TROOPS SEIZE NEW HEIGHTS  Til Ar HAI AAA A

Red Troops Take Three Strongholds On saat Approaches To Embattled Warsaw ,

Demobilization Is Explained  Will Start With  IT Amramoamn VWircrrrary

Expect Million Men to Be Discharged From Army Soon After German Defeat

Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Will Start Homeward Soon After Nazis Defeat

TROOPS EXODUS HOME PLANNED   SOME TO RETURN HOME, OTHERS TO FIGHT JAPS

U.S. TROOPS TO  LEAVE EUROPE   Collapse of Germany Will Release Men for Pacitie

Army to Discharge Millions of Veterans; Some Units Will Go to Jap Theater.

DISCHARGES START WHEN HIING REATEN   Combat Veterans in Europe to Be Returned Home

ARMY PLANS MASS TROOP MOVEMENT   Some Will Come Home Fairly Soon After Germany Quits

Plans for Demobilization Thrill Fighting Men and Their Families   NAZIS BEING CHASED. FROM ITALIAN AREAS

‘Mad Man of Matton Is Phantom  See. Biel hae Sa Se. sa   Prowler Uses ‘Gardenia’ Anesthetic on Victims

Amelia Earhart Mystery Revived by Discovery of Pictures on Saipan

Deer Hunter  Meets Death   St. Cloud Physician First Victim; Shot By Another Hunter

Upper Branch’s Proposal to Force Confirmation of All Receiving $4,500 a Year or More Turned Down—Approval Predicted of Provision in Bill to Require TVA to Go to Congress in Future for Its Operating Funds.

1-A’s Will Take Pre-Induction Physicals Soon   Exams Scheduled Before New Plan Starts Feb. 

Yanks on Saipan Advance Toward Main ny and Port  Ce oe ee en o/c  nr es o

U.S. Forces Push Ahead In Marianas   Veteran Invaders Drive Against Jap Tanks and Artillery On Saipan Island

Beachhead Secured By Yanks On Saipan   Invasion Area of Island Blasted by Planes and Warships To Clear Path for Battle-tough Assault Troops - - - Japs Now Being Rooted Out of Jungle Hills

NAVAL GUNS AND ROCKET-FIRING CARRIER PLANES AID LANDINGS MADE IN FACE STIFF OPPOSITION   Saipan, Potential Base for B-29 Super-Forts Raid. ing Japan, Scene of Heavy Fighting. Casualties Reported’Light and Allied Gains Being Recorded

Landings Secure in Marianas   Americaus Reported Within 5 Miles of Saipan’s Chief Town

Progress Made In Invasion of Marianas Base   Aginan Point Captured os Yanks Battle Toward Town

Yanks Tighten Grip on fsland   SAIPON INVASION NOW HOLDS PACIFIC SPOTLIGHT

Warships, Planes Cover Their Move   Beachheads Secured, Jap Tanks Repulsed, Americans Moving Toward Major Town; !sland Far Past Truk

WARSHIPS AID INVADERS AFTER 1,100 MILE HOP   Japs Report Action By Task Force Off Bonin Isles

‘Battle Way Inland ‘On Saipan   With Beachhead Secure Yanks Capture Coastal Headland; Meet Jap Artillery and Tank Units

Yanks Take Sugar Town On Saipan   Landing Force Advances Across Island Against Tanks, Artillery—Casnalties Moderaie

Meet Heavy Opposition From Jap Tanks, Artillery, Troops; Beat Off Counterattacks; Island  Is Potential Base For Ric

Advance Is Made On Saipan Island   American Troops Push Ahead in Marianas Despite Opposition by Jap Tanks and Artillery—Big Guns ‘of Battleship Assist Operations.   AGINGAN POINT TAKEN

Push Japanese Back On Isle 1,500 Miles Southeast of Tokyo   Americans Beat Off Tank Assault To Capture Agingan Point Two Miles Inland

Yanks Advance In Saipan   Beat Off Series of Stiff Counter-Attacks By Jap Tanks

Yankees Advance Against Japanese ‘On Saipan Island   Meet Bitter Resistance From Artillery, - Tanks and Ground Troops; Capture Agingan Point, Headquarters Announce

Yank Troops Advance © On Saipan   Island Is Potential Base for New Heavy-Duty Planes

YANKS GAIN IN MARIANAS   Warships, Planes Protect Troops Invading Saipan; Win Beachheads

YANK INVADERS OF SAIPAN FIGHT INLAND TODAY   Japanese. .Ba ‘Battle  To Check. Drive In _ oMaranage   Could °'Be- 3e- Used - By. CB: 29s, . Big: ‘New: . ~ USS. Bombers =

U. S. Troops Make Gains  On Saipan   Yanks, Covered By Battleships And Planes Secure Beachheads

BULGARIANS SAID TOHAVERESISTED 0 NAZI DIVISIONS   Istanbul Newspaper Reports German Attempt to Take Over Civil Affairs of Balkan Kingdom.   OUTCOME OF MOVE IS NOT DISCLOSED   Moscow’s Izvestia Accuses Sofia Authorities of Pushing Nation Toward “Ca tastrophe.”

Describe U. §. Air Attack on Manila Bay   Hundreds of Yank Planes Are Involved

-U. S. Planes Run Wild Over Manila in One of Greatest Victories of War

Eyewitness Aboard Flagship Describes Bombing of Manila   Ry GEORGE FEF JIONEFS

Correspondent Reviews First Day Of Second Battle Of Manila   Ry GEORGE F. 10vKr¢

Eye Witness Tells of U. S. Carrier Plane " Attacks in Second Battle of Manila Bay

Navy Wins Second Battle Of Manila Bay: Carrier Planes Litter Harbor With Wrecked Ships

Nips Hit by New Weapon   U. S. Ships Anchor in Guam’s Harbor; Defenders Split

U.S. Armor Runs Riot Past Seine To Circle Paris   Battle Of ‘Northern France Reaches Mop-up Stage

Yanks Closing Escape Route of Nazi Army   Corridor Open to 7th Is Cut to 60 Miles

Close Last Escape Corridor For Nazis To Bare 60 Miles As American Tanksg Sweep Down The Seine River For Channel Ports — Germans In Headlong Flight Before Onslaught

Tank Units Push Down Channel of Seine River   Other Columns Said To Be Halfway Around Paris In Rapid Thrust

NEW DRIVE CUTS ESCAPE GAP TO BARE 60 MILES   Showdown for Paris at Hand

Germans in Flight After New Thrust   Tank Columns Half-way Around Paris, Is Reported Today

THRUST DOWN SEINE IN NEU TANK ASSHULT   Drive Tightens Trap Around Thousands of Nazis South of River.

American Columns Are Reported Halfway Around Paris In Lightning Thrust, U. 8. Armor Now Encirchue Gaillon   NAZIS HERDED INTO SEINE RIVER FUNNEL

American Tanks Spearhead New Offensive Sweep Dowr Seine To Close Nazi Trap

OFFENSIVE UNLEASHED   Last Escape Gap For Seventh Army Remnants Narrowed

LE HAVRE IS MENACED BY TANK TROOPS   Americans Sweep Down Seine River In Great, New Offensive In France.   BULLETIN

Narrow kscape Corridor for Nazi 7th Army   Tighten Noose on Battic-Weary Germans South of the Scine

Escape Corridor Is Narrowed by Yank Offensive   Americans Said Half Way Around Paris in Thrust

Great New Offensive For Channel Ports Launched by Allies   Last Escape ‘Corridor for Reich 7th Army Units Closed to Bare 60 Miles in Latest Tank Drives

Head For          OTHER YANK COLUMNS REPORTS IN THRUST TO RIVER MARNE

New Offensive Narrows Lane Of Nazi Flight   Other Yank Columns Reported Half Around Paris Toward Marne

RETAKE TOWN JUST CAPTURED BY THE ENEMY   Paris Says, However, No Notable Changes In Positions Made

Greatest Air Assault Of All Time Reported Rocking Nazi Europe   American Bombers Make Daylight Raid on Western Germany.   R.A.F. FOLLOWS BY NIGHTLY ASSAULTS   In Italy the German Army Withdraws to Lick Its Wounds.

Nazi Occupied Europe Rocking Under Greatest Daylight Raid Of All Time

Fighting On Anzio Beachhead Below Rome Is At Stalemate At Present.

Eye-Witness Account Of Landing Is Given By AP Correspondent:  Says Resistance Nil

\Dixon Says Reported Tough Nazi Defenses \Not Yet Found But Mau Be Hidden Inland

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspgper   WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker

Communists For Roosevelt For President   Party Dissolves Organization at N.Y. Convention

Communist Party Of U.S. Dissolved  Keynote Speech Calls  For F. R. 4th Term

Communists  To Disband   Vote To Dissolve As Political Party; . Support Roosevelt

REDS DISBAND PARTY IN Y.S.   Browder Moves for Action and Urges Reelection of President Roosevelt.

COMMUNISTS DISBAND AS POLITIGAL PARTY   Browder Calls for Re-election of President Roosevelt

Communists Disband as Political Party   NON-PARTY GROUP TO BE FORMED; ASK F. D. R. RE-ELECTION

U.S. Communists Dissolve _ ‘As Political Party; To Use ‘Funds To Help Win The War   Browder Offers Motion To Disband, Liquidate Affairs, Sell Property

Communists Vote To Put End To Party   Browder Calls For Reelection Of Mr. Roosevelt

Communist Party To Disband After 25 Years  Earl Browder Calls For Re-Election Of FDR in Autumn

Communists Of U. S. Dissolve Political Party   Earl Browder Calls For Re-election Of President  Rancavalt

COMMUNISTS TO ‘BACK 4TH TERM   CROWDER DECLARES RETIREMENT OF FDR WOULD BE DISASTER

Communist Group Decides To Disband Political Party; New Organization Planned

Communist Support For Roosevelt    Browder » Makes Statement—Was Candidate Himself in 1936-1940

COMMUNISTIC PARTY ENDED   U. S. Organization Votes To Dissolve As Political Group

Roosevelt Gefs Full Support Of Communist   Browder Asserts Party Will Back Fourth Term For FDR

Browder Declares Communists Will Support Roosevelt   New Name Will Be Chosen, Word ‘Party’ Will Be Dropped; ‘Will. Have No Candidate

American Reds to Support Roosevelt  Party Chief State:   Communists Open Con vention; To Endorse Fourth Term

COMMUNIST PARTY TO DISSOLVE AS POLITICAL GROUP   25-Year-Old U. S. Organization Will Reorganize, However, Along Non-Party Lines —Browder Stents Disbanding Move

Ellis Stands — Alone Among G.O.P. Ruins   Roosevelt’s Margin In West Virginia Tovs 70.000 Mark

‘Democrats Given Big State Margin   Rep. Hubert S. Ellis Only Republican To Gain Lead; Governor Neely Believed Elected In First District

Six Members of Board of Public Works, Five FourthTermers, Go Back Into Of » fice; Meadows Leads Dawson 62.522 Votes

British Capture Nine Villages In Rimini Sector   Resistance Stiffens On Western End  of Italian Front

EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES 9 VILLAGES   Launches Battle For Air Field Below Rimini

BRITISH EIGHTH ADVANCES ALONG ADRIATIC FRONT      Resistance Stiffens On Western Front Against Other Allies

BRITISH TAKE NINE - TOWNS ON ADRIATIC FRONT IN N. ITALY   , Nazis Stiffen A Along U. S. Sector To Protect Po Valley

Leaky Skies Fail To Dampen Spirits For Series Opener   Unreserved Seating Sections Third Full 3 Hours Before Game Time

Series Opens af St. Louis Today   Mort Cooper and Galehouse Pitch

Rains Fail To Halt Ist Series Tilt   Browns, Cards Deadlocked In Scoreless Tie At End of Third

HAZE HEAVY AS HOUR FOR GAME NEARS   Ball Park A Third Filled Three Hours Before Series Opener

Showers in St. Louis Before Game   Galehouse and Cooper Named For Mound Duty In First Game

—WORLD SERIES—  GALEROUSE AND COOPER BATTLE   Heavy Haze. Hangs’ Over Park As’ Rivals Take Fiéld ny   BAND ON HAND   Both’Managers Stand Pat On Original Pitching Selections

RAIN DAMPENS FIELD IN FIRST SERIES TILT   St. Louis Managers Count On Cooper, Galehouse

ROOSEVELT ORDERS PROGRAM SPEED-UP   Study ‘of Reich Controt __ After War. Being Made

FDR SPEEDS UP PLANNING FOR REICH CONTROL   Orders FEA to Press Studies on Curbing German Power

Reich Control Study Ordered   Roosevelt Hands Problem To FEA Exnerts

PEACE PLAN STUDY SPEED   FEA Doing Work About Control of  Germany

CURB ON REICH FUTURE STUDIED   Ways Sought To Prevent Germany From Making War Again

ANONYMITY BACKFIRES IN RECENT STRIKE TALK   Bitter Explosions Are Caused By Latest Anonymous Statement

Yanks Launch Drive To Trap German Army      Nazis Abandon Pico As Bombers Pace Big Push

Troops Crash Into Main Nazi Line 22 Miles From Fifth Army Italian Front

Troops On Beachhead Open New Drive Cracking Nazi Line TwentyTwo Miles From Fifth Army.

New Phase of Italian War Opened With Smash by Allied Troops Stationed at Anzio   Simultaneously 8th Army Drives Agoinst Hitler Line From East and 5th Army Hits German Defenses in the Coastal Sector

General Clark Personally. Directs Beachhead A   Eighth Army Renews Battering -of inforced Hitler Line onFront — a

Eighth Army Is Attacking Hitler Line From East   Altied Attempt to Crush Germans in Italy Gains Fury

In Mighty ‘Assault   > ae cee ie Infantry and Tanks - Tear Into Huns

ith Army Hits At Enemy in March on Rome   Anzio Beachhead Forces Smash First Opposition

Anzio Blow Biggest Since Landing Is‘ Day of Destiny” for Doughboys

Heavy Attack Crack: Bolstered Hitler Line   Allies Smack Into German Wall Only 22 Miles From Main Force

ATTACKS OPEN NEW PHASE OF WAR IN ITALY   Simultaneous Assaults Hit Enemy at Every Point Along Line

NEW PHASE IN CRUSHER MOVE AGAINST NAZIS   Germans Out of Pico, Thus Admit ting First Major Reverse Since New Italo Drive Opened

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST PATH FOR FIERCE ATTACK   Meanwhile, Europe Battered Day and Night from Air; Reds Ready To Strike

[Join Eighth Army Smash tc ‘Crush Nazis   Tanks and Planes Lead Beachhead Assault; Pico Evacuated by Germans

[wo oth Army Forces Are 22  Miles Apart   Tank-Led Assault Jumps Off Hour Before Dawn; On EMlat T and   TAKE MORE HEIGHTS

SEEK TQ TRAP NAZIS ON MAIN BATTLE FRONT   Germans Evacuate Pico, Central Hitler Line Bastion

Enemy Receiving One of Greatest Thrashings in its History from Allies

Clark's Army Moves Out In Full Force   British Forces on East Strike Co-Ordinated Blow; Allies Declare Battle of Italy Has Entered New Phase; Bombers Give Aid

Nazi Army Caught  Between Two Drives   Germans Admit Giving Up Pico— British Told Fighting in Italy ‘Bessars Deserption

Foe Evacuates Pico, Hitler Line Bastion   . . Hundreds Of Big Bombers Pace New Offensive   Mass On Russ Front.

‘British Minister of Information Declares Enemy is Receiving One of Greatest Thrashings in Their History   SMALL GAINS ARE BEING MADE ON WEST COAST

Fifth Army Strikes Hard One Hour After Dawn Today — Liri Valley Is Reported Shaken.   AERIAL WAR RENEWED OVER THE CONTINENT

BOMBERS PACING ALLIED ADVANCE   Fifth Army Cracks Into Nazi Line In Powerful New Drive   PICO EVACUATED   Germans Withdraw From  Stronghold In Center  Of Hitler Line  

Eighth Army Drives Against Hitler Line From the ; East. wait   ATTACK OTHER DEFENSES

GERMANS EVACUATE Pico   Nazis Throw Full Reserve Strength Into Hitler Line

General Clark Personally Directs Beachhead Attack   Eighth Army Renews Battering of Re— Hitler Line on in ront

BOMB 50-MiLE ROME RADIUS   Beachhead Troops Only 22 Miles From Main Fitth Army  CLARK OPENS POST

ANZIO TROOPS ONLY 20 MILES FROMFRONTLINE   Nazis Evacuate Pico; Clark Sets Up Command On Beachhead

Allied Forces Only 22 Miles Apart; Germans Evacuate Pico   Heavy Bombers Blast Path for Assault from  Beachhead

BRITISH TAKE OFFENSIVE TO EAST   General Clark Personally Directs Movement   BEACHHEAD   22 Miles From Other Units Of Allies; Pico Lost, Germans Announce

Day Of Destiny For Beachhead  Writer Describes Start Of Big Allied Push

Powerful Offensive Said Spearheaded By Heavy Bombers   Allies Crack Into German Lines 22 Miles From Main 5th Army; ' Berlin Reports Pico Evacuated

Mighty Offensive Pounds Against The Hitler Line; Eighth Strikes From East   Germans Receiving One of Greatest Thrashings in Their History from Alexander's Men, London Asserts

Americans Strike Powerfully From Beachhead Base   Drive Into German. Line 22 Miles From. Main Fifth Army Advancing From South

"Germans Receiving One Of The Greatest Thrashings ln Their History” In ltaly

‘Clark Establishes Advanced Command Post  In Area; Germans Evacuate Pico, Pivot   . Stranchold In Hitler  ine

Heavy Bombers Batter Targets   On Main Front Fifth Army Captures More Heights and Allied Troops Pierce Hitler Line All Along Front — Berlin Says Pico Evacuated

OTH ARMY ALS ATTACKS; SEEK TO CRUSH NAZIS   Tank Led Assault Just After Dawn Made After Heavy Artillery Barrage

Nazi Reserves Fail To Check Main Line Push   Reinforced Enemy Yields All Along Hitler Barrier; Heavy Bombers Spearhead New Assault By Troops At Anzio°

Eighth Army Strikes  on East Simultaneously   Anzio Offensive Hits at Cisterna Astride  Appian Way; Berlin Announces Pico On Main Front Evacuated.

Sth Army Slowed By Nazi Reserves; Advances Are Made In Most Sectors

Drive Into Nazi Line 22, Miles From U. S. Front in Lower Italy      Bombers Pave Way for Attacking Troops at Anzio; British Renew Assault on Hitler Line

ALLIES SMASH FORWARD TODAY IN MICHTY OFFENSIVE TIMED TO WORK WITH EIGHTH ARMY   Tank-Led Assault from Anzio Got Off to Early Start Before Dawn This Morning, Opening New Phase of the Battle for Control of Italy

MIGHTY. OFFENSIVE “ANID TEACHER      Simultaneuesly the 8th.Army ' Drove: Against the Hitler Line in. the East. .   NEW PHASE OF BATTLE   Othe: 5th Army. Forces Ham: - miered. ‘Upon Nazi Defenses in Coastal Areas:

PUSH TOWARD YANKS IN THE HITLER LINE   Troops There, Meanwhile; Drive Toward Anzio— Nazis Admit Fall of Pico, Central Bastion of Hitler Line, }

CRACK GERMAN LINE AS MAIN ARMY ADVANCES   FLEET OF BOMBERS SPEARHEAD DRIVE IN ROME SECTOR

British Eighth Renews Heavy Assaults On Center of Main Line, Germans Announce Evacuation of Pico

Tanks, Planes Pace Bio Beachhead Blow   Gen. Mark Clark Leads Greatest Assault Against Nazis Since Landing Made Jan. 22; Troops Aim at Junction With Terracino

Anzio Beachhead Forces Smash Ahead In Mighty Assault Timed with Blows By Both the Eighth and Fifth Armies

New Phase of Fight for Italy is Begun; Mighty Offensives   Reinforced Allies in Simultaneous Advances Against Nazis

Nazis Evacuate Vital Bastion Of Hitler Line   Lt. Gen. Clark Establishes Command Post on Beachhead For Big Attack

owerful Offensive Cracks Nazi -ine 22 Miles From Fifth Main  Army Cermans ] eave Pica

Great Bomber-Paced Attack Linked With Eighth Army Smash From East.

Turkey Pledges Allies Aid Within Limits ‘OL Material Possibilities

Hull Plea Has Turks in Dither   Appeal to Stop Trading With Germany Presents @ Delicate Problem   [270 INDICATION OF ANY DECISION   Allies Marking. Time as Neutrals Debate Their” Course of Action

CHINESE PREPARED FOR FINAL ASSAULT ON TENGCHUNG   Gaping Hole Torn in City’ s Defense Wall by Yank Planes. 

Allies Move fo Invade Germany On Grand Scale   2000 Prisoners Taken in Battle For Strasbourg

TIME LAG ON BIG FIGHT 24 TO 48 HOURS   OWI Representative Gets Ire Up Over Holdup Of News; To Ask Capital Help

Press Protests News Blackout   Headquarters Promises Partial View of Critical Situation Today.

Daily Report Forthcoming   Officials to Release News Once Each Day

NEWS BLACKOUT BY ALLIED ARMIES BRINGS PROTES!   Supreme Headquarters Called Upon to Reveal More About Advances of German Forces.   PROMISES BIGGER VIEW OF SITUATION TODAY   OWI Representative Calls Policy a “Head-in-the-Sand”’ Course and Says More Could Be Revealed.

More War News Soon: Wave of Protests Brings Promise Of Daily Report from West Front

Soviets Take Kirovograd As Four-Day Offensive Routes 100,000 Germans

Soviet Ukraine Armies Seize ‘Two Key Points   Junction of Forces Would Threaten Nozi Entrapment

Hitler Faces Greatest Debacle of War   Soviets Are Only 50 Miles From  Tunction of Armies

WLB PROBE IS ASKED BY MESA   Committee Orders Truce Continued In 4-Day Strike

ODDS ON ROOSEVELT SHORTENED TO 17-5   St. Louis Bet Boss Figures FDR Has 32 States

Odds On FDR Re-Election Shortened   32 States in  Roosevelt List

Odds Change On Election   St. Louis Betting Commissioner Releases Latest Wager Ficures

NAVY MUM ON TIP MARSHALL ISLES INVADED   Seaplanes Make Strong Surprise Attack On Wake

TOKYO REPORT ON INVASION SMASH NOT CONFIRMEL   Navy Bombers Attack Nipponese Bases on Wake leland °

NEW LANDINGS IN PACIFIC?   No. U. S. Confirmation of Reports Broadcast by * Japs

Announcements Reveal Eight Air  Attacks On Enemy Held Bases   Pacific Fleet Headquarters Remain Silent On Japanese Hints That Foot-Soldiers Are Locked In Invasion Fight

Claim Powerful American Sea, Air Forces Launch All-Out Assault Against Marshalls   Pacific Fleet "Headquarters Fail ‘to Verify Story Of Invasion

BELIEVED HUGE YANK ARMADA IS STILL IN ACTION   Dispatches Say Carriers, Battleships, Perhaps Troops Fighting—Wake Is Hit.

MONTGOMERY WARD PLANT IS GIVEN BACK   Secretary Jones Makes Public Order Ending Government Possession President Speaks.   FDR Defends Seizure

Government Ends Firm Possession  Wards Returned to Company Officers

Order Is Issued Effective Tuesday   Sewell Avery Says Public Indignation Caused Action by Government: CIO Wins In Election

Oklahomans Return Democrat to House   Victory Gives Democrats 217 Seats in Chamber Aguinst 210 for Republicans; W. G. Stigler Holds Early Lead in Voting

Oklahoma Votes Democratic By Large Majority   Steigler’s (Return 1s Seen As Victory Far - Roosevelt. Forces. Dewey and Roosevelt Leac In New York Primarics

ELECTION WON BY DEMOCRAT IN OKLAHOMA   STASSEN LEADS IN INSTRUCTED GOP DELEGATES

34 Hurt in Collision Of Troop Train, Freight  Near Norton, Kansas

LOWER TAXES IN BUREAU COUNTY FOR THIS YEAR   One Of Five Counties In State To Show Reduced Levies For Current Year According To Illinois Survey.

REGAIN MAJOR FOOTHOLD IN RUINED. TOWN      New Zealand Forces Charge Often, In Vain

Germans Regain Ma Foothold In Cassino; Fierce Fighting Rages  tor

Enemy Garrison  Is Reinforced   Nazis Still Hold One-Fourth of Town Despite Allied Bombings

More Nazis Join Batile For Cassina   New Zealanders Try in Vain to Dislodge Foe From Blasted Town

NAZIS. MOVING MOE TROOPS  INTO GASSINE   Regain Major Foothold: After 11 Days of Eighting in Shattered Town.

More Enemy Units Are Joining Fight   Nazi Garrison Regains Major Foothulds In Shattered Town After 1] Days Of Fighting

FRESH NAZI TROOPS ARE BROUGHT IN   New Zealanders Make Effort to Dislodge Germans

Nazis moving fresh troops into Cassino   German garrison regains major {foothold after fierce Il-day battle

‘LATHER BRUSHES *€150 at Craig's —Ad.   NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS IN  p Bit Sia Mag ln quite, si say

‘44 PARLEY OF CHAMBER  FEBRUARY 3   Chamber of Commerce Will Open Annual Meeting  : With Dinner at   6:30 p. m.   14 NAMES ON BALLOT   Tickets Are Now on Sale: Members Will Choose President,

C. of C..  To Stage Meeting   Election of. Officers At Legion Home  Feb. 3.

Yanks Virtually In Control of Leyfe and Samar   Japs Take Terrific Lacing From U. S. in Philippines Battle

UICIVAN FLANDD LY FROM LEYTE GAINST JAPANESE  round Troops Give Japan’s 16th Division Violent Lacing  wee ewtare* RIA RPFRY TTI cr’ rec

Jimmy Bell, Carroll, and L. B. Moore; Bluffs, Victims   County Attorney Reports Russell PeterSa Is Held Under $3000 on

1. D. WIOOFE, DIUTIS, VICC  County Attorney Reports Russell Pet son, Trucker, Is Held Under sa 000

Japs Press Liuchowas Drive Gains   City Strategic Prize Controlling All the Main Railways In Kwonasi

Japanese Converging upon Chinese Rail Center from Three Directions

MacArthur’s Sixth Makes Slight Gain In Fight To Take Mokmer Airdrome

TROOPS FACING TOUGH BATTLE   MacArthur’s ’s Thrust Into Schoutens May Be Fiercest Struagle.   JAP RESISTANCE MOUNTS

Schouten Isle Conquest Turing Into A Tough Struggle; Ponape Blasted

U. 5. INVADERS DRIVE WITHIN 2 MILES OF DROME   Enemy Recoils From Surprise; Mighty Defense Battle Expected

Fierce Struggle Looms for Island   Biak Campaign Is Developing Inte Toughest Clash in Pacific

Tonopah Fliers Out of Canyon  een   Airmen Rescued From River Gorge

RESCUE OF THREE ARMY AIRMEN IS" COMPLETED TODAY   Kalispell Man and Two Conipanions Brought Out Of Great Gorge at 11:30 a. m. After Spending Nine Days On Plateau

NAZIS ATTACK NEGRO DIVISION ON ITALIAN FRONT   First Shock Carries Up To Three Miles

Negro Troops Face New Attack   Germans In Surprise Action On Quiet Sector

STIMSON TO BACK ‘DRAFT   SECRETARY TO OPEN DRIVE - FOR LAW PLACING ALL  LABOR. UNDER FED- . ERAL CONTROL

Roosevelt’s Speech Draws Sharp Views From State Leaders  gn ee , ee ee ~™ Ff Be eee   Owlett Avers Bob Hope Has Rival

GOP LEADERS HIT FDR TALK   “Once Again He Promises A Heaven on Earth,” Taylor Asserts

Police Intensify Drive on Trucks   Violations of Wartime Speed Limit Get Officers’ Attention

MERCURY TO RISE IN MIDWEST TODA}   EARLY FORECASTS ON TEMPERATURES FOR AREA ARE, REVISED UPWARD.

BREAK IN COLD WAVE PROMISED   Shortest Day Of Year Is Accompanied By Frigid Blasts

Million Paris Residents )  Roar Tremendous Welcome When Churchiil Arrives

Holiday Visit Touches Off Wild Ovation   Premier Appears ; With Gen. De Gaulle In Armistice Rites

Churchill in Paris Triumpt   Million Hail British Chief in Wild Fete — Along Boulevards

New Transport Walkouts Threaten War Shipments   Workers Returt To Jobs in Detroit

TWO MAJOR LABOR DISPUTES END; NEW TRANSPORTATION STRIKE THREATENED IN MASS.

Allies Capture Vital Bridge   100,000 Nazis Face Doom as New Path To Germany Is Paved by Hard-Fighting Troops: Hitler Hurls in More Armor

Army Transport Plane, Missing Since Friday, Found With Nine Dead

NAZIS PUSHED BACK FROM COSINA RIVER   British Patrols Drive On i Italy’s Wettest Autumn

SUBURB IS REACHED   British Patrols Force Germans ‘to Withdraw from Positions

Cy ant TS WweAr wee Giant Fires in  South Raging, 14 Homes Burr   Incendiaries Blamed fo1 Forest Blazes in Mandarina

LAGUNA FIRE STILL RAGES UNCONTROL'D   100,000 Acres In So.-Cal. Devasted By Flames

Raps Fascists In Argentina  Sec. Hull Criticizes Nation’s Government

Argentine Branded Fascist Den By Cordell Hull   Secretary Demands  Clarification of

Argentine Branded Fascist Den By Cordell Hull  Secretary Demands  Clarification of mf... Assticrcla

Supreme Court Decides In Favor of Railread in Truck Line Operation

Hirohito, Koiso Plead for Unity   Emperor, Premier Admit War Situation Grave

Diet Told Japan Is Facing Crisis   Emperor, Premier Give Messages

Crisis Seen By Premier In Diet Talk   Possibility of American It vasion of Homeland Is  Emphasized

Mirohito, Koiso Warn Nation of Grave Situation   Possibility of Yank Invasion of Homeland Revealed By Premier

KOISO TELLS JAPANESE YANKEES ARE COMING   Hirohito, in Message to Diet Says Outlook Black

Grave Crisis Admitted By Hirohito And Jap Premier   Must Turn To Offensive, Koiso Declares At Diet Session

Hirohito-And Koiso Tell Their © . People Japan Now Facing Crisis

HIROHITO ELLS DIET__ CRISIS GRAVE   Jap Premier Says Life of Empire Is At Stake -

Highest Authorities In Japan Tell Jap Diet “Decisive Stage Of War” Now At “and

JS. Battering At Gates, Jap Jiet Warned   Hirohito and Koiso Fear Fate of Race, Empire in Balance

Premier Tells Diet Life Or Death Of Empire Is At Stake   U.S. Invasion Held Imminent   National Labor Registration Of Skills Set For November 

TELLS DIET CRISIS GRAVE   Jap Premier Says Life of Empire Is At Stake

Japan At Crisis Stage In ‘War, Empire Life At Stake   Bulgaria Cuts All Nazi Ties; To War On Reich

ONE IS HALTED BUT 2 OTHERS NEAR FRONTIEF   Nazis Apply Scorched Earth Policy To  Own Soil 

Nazis Prepare For Oceupation By Russians      Civilians Being Moved Out of Koenigsberg  Araa

Germans Scorch Prussian Earth As Reds Close In   Civilians Evacuated  From Areas East Of Konigsberg

Nazis Using Fire to Halt Soviet Tide   Russians Close in On 215 Mile Arc; Civilians Fleeing

NAZIS AWAIT RED ONSLAUGHT INTO PRUSSIA   Apply Scorched Earth Policy To Own “Holy Soil,” Evacuate Civilians

Nazi Defenses In East Prussia Are Bolstered   Two More Red Armies Join Growing Battle

Civilians Already Have Been Evacuated In Area East of Konigsberg

Two More Russian Armies Join Fight To Break Desperate Hun Resistance

Reds Tighten Grip Around  East Prussia   Bitter Nazi Resistance Slows Russian Advance

Civilians Evacuate Area Kast of Konigsberg — Nazis Setting Fires to Houses and Other Installations Along East Prussian Border.

Civilians Evacuated  From East   Russians Close In Along 215-Mile Arc On East Prussia

Buildings on ‘Holy’ Soil Burned Before Arrival of Russians   Two More Red Armies Join ir For Assault on East Prussia

Prepare For Invasion of German Soil   Their First Application o ‘Scorched Earth” Policy Is Reported

RUSSIAN ARMIES  CLOSE IN ON NAZIS ALONG 215 MILE ARC AT PRUSSIA   German Civilians Being Evacuated From Areas East of Konigsberg.

Battle For Warsaw Is Roaring On   Germans Apply “Scorched Earth” Policy, Burning Houses, Farms And Other Installations Along East Prussian Frontier i   RUSSIZNS ABOUT TO SMASH BORDER

SOVIETS MASS TROOPS FOR ALL-OUT ATTACK ON EAST PRUSSIA; NAZIS TRY “SCORCHED EARTH’ ON HOMELAND

Germans Apply Scorched Earth Policy in Prussia   Red Armies Are Closing in On 215-Mile Arc

First Application Of Scorched Earth Policy On Their Own Soil   RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON 215 MILE SIEGE   No Decisive Change In The Battle For Warsaw

SGORGH EARTH “AS ED DANE COMES CLO   Two More Russ Armies Join Mounting Battle for East Prussia.

Germans.Apply Scorched Earth Policy To Their “Holy” Soil As Russian Armies Close In   Premier Warns The Japanese

Germans Apply Torch In (  Fast Prussia   Civilians Evacuated From Areas East Of Kronigesberg

RUSSIANS SEEN READY TO SMASE ACROSS BORDER   Houses, Farms And Other Installations Are Destroved

Two More Russian. Armies—lIst Baltic And Second White Russian—Revealed To Have Joined In Mounting Battle For East Prussia

Army Engineers Rush Repairs On Wakde Airstrip   Remaining ‘Japanese Defenders On Island Reported Cornered .

Army Engineers Rush Repairs On Wakde Airstrip; Jap Remnants Are Cornered in North End of Island   Russian Fliers Bomb Finnish Port: Nazi Attack in Poland is Repulsed

ENGINEERS RUSH REPAIRS; 10 USE WAKDE AIRSTRI   Remaining Japanese Defen_ ders Cornered .on One Seation of Istand.

Wadke Air Strip In U.S. Hands   Infantry Invaders Crowd Japs Into Coffin Corner Of Stepping Stone To Tokyo.

War Plants In Germany Heavily Hit   Nearly 2,000 Planes Of Sth Air Force In Huve Assault

ANNOUNCE PRIZES FOR BOND BUYING   A Big List of Valuable Articles at Auction On June     Troy arreaTarTe TV y VIR Pree

The War Today      Ch urchill’s Review’ of . War Tortic.to Allied Confidence

CHURCHILL ADDRESS AND REVIEW OF WAR WAS ANOTHER MASTERFUL EFFORT AND INSPIRATION MOVE

WAR ANALYST LENDS PRAISE ‘TO MASTERFUL WAR REVIEW OF CHURCHILL IN HOUSE COMMONS

The War Today   By OPWITT MACKENZIF  Adteecmeatestt Preece Var Anmalsx at

WAR  TODAY   Charchill Says Allied Victory Net Far Away In Eurepe and Orient. Points te

Kisenhower Expects Final  Battles West Of Rhine River   “onmander Confident Of Victory But Says “We've Got To Fight Like Hell For Ut. All-Out Production Urged On Home Front To Speed Supplies To Armies

BATTLE WEST OF RHINE EXPECTED BY EISENHOWER   Only Sensible Course Left Open To German Army Is His Belief e

6 Allied Armies in Field   Eisenhower Asks For More Supplies For Front Lines

EAPLOTS FINAL BLAMAN of ANE WEST OF RHINE   War Not Won, We Must Fight Like Hell, General Tells Newsmen.

Germany's Best Bet To Battle West of Rhine   Struggle Will Not Be Easy, Declares General Eisenhower

Commander Issues Call To Everyone To Apply Fult Pressure To Speed Defeat Of Germany

MORE EFFORI IS URGED BY EISENHOWER   Expects All Out Fight West of River Rhine

Bombers Hit italian West Coast Ports   All Lands Sectors in Italy Quiet During Day

ITALIAN WEST COAST PORTS BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBERS   PRESENT [S TRYING TIME FOR HOME FRONT AS D-DAY NEARS AND WE. ALL SFE HITLER’S DEFEAT

Bombers Jab At Italian Ports; Captives At Anzio Total 4,000   Attacks In Poland Repulsed By Reds

BOMBERS LASH PORTS IN ITALY   Piombino, Orbetello, Genoa And Santo Stefano Hit

Allied Air Fleets Strike Hard At Italian Cities  Beachhead Antiaircr Crews Have Scored

ALLIES BLAST ITALY'S WEST COAST PORTS   Heavy Bombers Attack Piombino, Orbetello and Santo Stefano by Day and Others Hit Genoa by Night.

ITALIAN-BASED PLANES ACTIVE   West Coast Ports Bombed: Land Sectors Are Reported Quiet

RAID NAZI PORTS IN WEST ITALY   Targets North of Rome Also Hit by Allied Fliers

RUSSIA DEMANDS ROMANIAN ALD AS PRICE OF TRUGE   Calls for Attack Not Only on Nazis, but on Hungarians for “Liberation of Transylvania.”   DISAVOWS DESIRE TO ACQUIRE TERRITORY   Statement Means That State of War Continues to Exist Between Balkan State and Allies.

REDD OTIPULATE, ARMISTICE PRIGE   Call on Romanians to Send Armies Against Germans   WILL GIVE HELP   ‘State of War Continues to Exist; Russians Topple Nazi Strongholds

Reds Fix Fight On Germans as Armistice Price  Berlin Attempts to   Berlin Attempts to Set Up Puppet Regime As Rival to King

Italian Solons Face Prosecution   Charged With Aiding  In Fascist Crimes

Extra Time For Draft Eligibles Is Reduced   Clearance Of 1-A Classification Appeals Now On Current Basis

Jap Mainland Chinese Area Are Targets   Giant Bombers From Saipan Rain Explosive And Fire Bombs on Nips

Superfortresses Pour Fire Bombs On Jap Homeland   Tokyo Reports Nagoya is Hit By 70 Planes

NAGOYA AGAIN A TARGET OF HUGE PLANES   Meanwhile Americans Make Sharp Gains on Mindoro, Continue Bloody Leyte Fighting.

Gen. MacArthur Hits Hansa Bay  Bombers Pound Jap   Bombers Pound Jap Supply Base on New Guinea Coast

Allies Trying Blast Jap Base Hansa Out War   MacArthur Reveals Daily Pounding Of Base This Month.

Bombings of Japanese Sup ply Base On Northeast New Guinea Coast Stepped Up

Nips Draw Siege Lines Around City To Isolate British-Indian Troops

JAPS GAIN IN MANIPUR STATE   Have British Garrison Almost Encircled and Closing in  Rapidly.

The Gallop Poll--- « British Voice Satistaction With Churchill by 86 Per Cent Majority

[The Gallup Poll—_ oe  Survey Shows Churchill’ s ‘Popularity Remains High

County Attains 43 Per Cent of — $885,000 Quota   Moorhead Citizens Pass Halfway Mark In Bond Purchases

County Reaches 77 Per Cent of War Loan Goal   Moorhead Purchases Amount To $204,885, 81 Per Cent of Quota

Chairman Urges Bond Purchases  By End of June   Clay. At 88 Per Cent Mark With Total Buying ‘of $786,022.

Clay Cor. 8 a 7 Hits 90 Per éi rat In War ‘an Drive   Fic wey Township and Village Reach Goals In Sixth Bond Push

Seven Additional Districts Reach Or Pass Quotas      Clay Has 97 Per Cent Standing, Figures _ Released Today Show

Goal In E Bonds Not Yet Reached,  Chairman States   Clay Second In State: To Surpass Figure In Fifth Bond Drive ’

Nine More Clay Communities Top  War Bond Quotas   County Purchases Now Total $1,025,020, 115 Per Cent of Goal

Eight Additional Clay Communities  \Gain Bond Goals   County Total Stands At $882,790.50, 128 Per Cent of Quota

21 Communities In County Top War Bond Quotas   Clay Purchases Now 122 Per Cent of Goa! In Sixth Loan Drive

County Attains 63 Per Cent of War Loan Quota   Seven. Communities Still Have Not Reached One-Fourth of Goal .

Five More Clay — Communities Top ‘War Loan Quotas   County Raises Total Purchases In Drive —  To 113 Per Cent

District Attains 135 Per Cent of Campaign Quote      Glyndon Continues To Set Pace; Dilworth Running Close Second

Total Purchases Reach $1,186,205.80 As 25 ,  Communities, Gain Goal

Barnesville Near Goal; Chairman Praises Progress   Clay County Reaches 55 Per Cent Mark In Fourth War Loan Drive

County E Bond Goal Still Not Reached In Drive   Urge Fulfillment of Pledges Before End of Month's Business

Yanks Find World War  Shrines Intact On Battlefields Where Their Fathers Dic<

Only Weather Same in France   ‘Advance Contrasted To Thot.of 1918. .

Bulsaria Ready To Make Peace   Bulgars Ready To Quit War At Terms Of Allies, Algiers Radio Says

1,000 Bombers Blast Cologne Railway Yards   Other U, 8. Planes Attack Military Objectives in Saarbrncken and Kaiserlautern

1,000 BOMBERS POUND COLOGNE   48 Allied Planes Missing In Other Attacks On Reich

Railroad Yards at Cologne Smashed  Heavy Bombers Fellow Up Friday Night Raid

Wewak Is ‘Neutralized’ And  Marianas Bombed First Time   [wo More Islands Taken In Marshalls And Strong U. S. Fleet In Indian Ocean

JAP BASE AT WEWAK SAID NEUTRALIZED   Aitape Comes In For Newly Intensified Attacks

ARMY BOMBERS HIT MARIANAS IN LONG SWEEI   Two More Atolls in Mar shals Occupied; Bomb Truk Again

Neutralize Jap Base At Wewak  Aitake Again Raided By  Allied Warplanes   Bomber Shot Dewn

AERIAL BLOWS RAINED ON NEW GUINEA COAST   Marshall Bases Captured; Caroline  Area Raided

CHANCE FOR PEACE FADING IN FINLAND   Officials Reject Terms De. spite Blunt Warning From Marshal

FINNS’ PEACE CHANCES FADE   Mannerheim Warning Lines Cannot Be Held Ignored By Helsinki Leaders

tins Jas~ 2eace -02e Sone 2u1 . \ tn “~~ s ‘/annerieim Savs le-ense “wie

Hope of Peace For Finland Seems Gone   Government Ignores Warning Given It by Baron Mannerheim

‘FINNS CANNOT HOLD AGAINST SOVIET ARMY   Finnish People Not Informed Of Mannerheim’s Statement: Peace Hopes Are Waning

FINNISH PEACE CHANCES SLIP   Army Head Says Soviet Drive Would Crush  Country's Lines

EXCHANGE LINER INTO HOME PORT DOCK TODAY   The Gripsholm Expected to Tie Up At Noon With 663 Allied Nationals

POST: WAR LEAGUE ~ URGED BY BISHOF   METHODISTS TOLD WORLD ORGANIZATION SHOULD. BE : SET UP TO KEEP: PEACE.

DRAMATIC RETURN MACARTHUR TO PHILIPPINES BREAKS BACK OF ALLIED TASK IN PACIFIC

GENERAL MACARTHUR AND PRESIDENT OSMENA™ INAUGURATE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT AT -TACLOBAN AND REPULSE JAPS INTO HILLS —

WAR TODAY   MacArthur’s Retin to Philippines “Is Prelude to Struggle For Conquest of Japanese Muinland Itself,

Jap Airtields Put Into Use   Tacloban Becomes Temporary Capital for Philippines; Ground Forces Extend Positions   The War Today  Taking of Leyte To Simplify Ultimate Conauest of Japan

BRITAIN REVEALS COST OF CONFLICT   White Paper Lists 733,030 Casualties, One Home in Three Damaged, One in 30 Destroyed

CASUALTIES T0 DATE 733,030   London White Paper Reports on Cost Of Conflict

STORY OF WAR COSTISTOLDIN WHITE PAPER   Britain Has Suffered 733,~ 030 Casualties in Five Years

STATISTICS UF BRITAIN ARE VERY GRIM   After Five Years of Total War; 733,030 Casualties, 136,115 of Them Civil  Butter-Meat-Hose

136,115 Are Civilians; Treasures of Centuries Dissipated, Report Says

Reports on Cost of War To Britain   White “Paper Discloses Heavy Toll in Lives  And Prope:ly to   . United Kinadom

PLANES SurRIKE MAIN BLOWS wiGAINS! NAZL ~- COMMUTNICA'TION LINES

SOVIETS CUT GERMAN LINE IN UKRAINE   Reds Sweep Through 112-Mile Gap In  Nazi Defenses In Big Offensive.   BULLETIN

Soviet Army Striking Hard At Foe’s Life Line Ir South Russia; Rout 12 Nazi Divisions In Drive On Railroad   (RITLLETIN)

New Russian Drive Opens In Ukraine   Germans Admit Fierce Fighting Results in Gains

Soviet Forces Strike At Nikopol Bridgehead: Gain In Polish Sector

RUSSIANS PREPARING A GERMAN TRAP   ‘Trying to Herd Nazis Into Marshes   Also Have Opened Still Another Offensive Against Germans On East Side of Dniener River.

GERMANS SAY SOVIETS STRUCK IN SOUTHERN AREA AT NIKOPOL   Other Attacks Also Reported On _ Northern Front. Red Army Makes Progress In Old Poland

RUSSIANS UPEN NEW OFFENSIVE   Reds Pushing at Both Ends of Their 95Mile Front.

Japanese Pilots Turn Out To BeKids Who Don’tKnow What It’s All About Today

JAPANESE AIR FORCE HAS BEEN BLASTED HEAVILY   “Kids Who  Don’t Know  What It i is All About’’: “<a td  “Manning Jap Planes Now

Jap Plane Losses Climb Sharply As Green Pilots Fill Fast Thinning Ranks

JAPANESE PLANE LOSSES INCREASE   TABULATIONS SHOW SCORE OF 8 TO 1 IN ALLIES! FAVOR

Tokyo Confirms Halsey’s Statement. ... . Jap Pilots Now “Just  Kids Who Don’t Know  What It’s All About’

6 VEGETABLES IN CANS POINT-FREE   OPA Says “Bargain Sales” Will End When Old Stocks Are Sold to Public.

ADD EIGHT POPULAR CANNED VEGETABLES TO FREE LIST   Move Made To Free Storage Space For The New Crops

Eight Vegetables Are Added To \Point-Free List   “Bargain Sale” Will End When Old Stocks Gone, Declares OPA

Plan Canvass on Service Vote   OCD Volunteers to Get Data for Service Ballot

Clayton Testifies At Senate Committee Meet  Nominee Is In Favor: Of World Price. For American Cotton

World Level For Cotton Prices Urged   Witliam L. Clayton Would Pay Growers To Switch Crops

Senators Question Clayton   APPOINTEE FAVORS WORLD COTTON PRICE, AMERICAN EXPORTS

WORLD COTTON ~ PRICE FAVORED   Will Clayton Tells Solons Views On Postwar Trade

SENATORS HEAR CLAYTON VIEWS   Favors World Cotton Price, Wants Domestic Cut

Favors World Cotton Price   Clayton Goes Into Line Of Senate Fire As Opposition  W eakens.

Clayton For World Price On U.S. Cotfor   Tels Committee, Would Use Inducetrent Poyments To Change to Other Crops

VORG WOR COTTON PRICE   Nominee for Assistant Secretary of State Quizzed By Senators.   HAD DEALT WITH JAPAN

China  Deplores  Scant Aid   Chungking Spokesman Blanses Reverses on  Lack of Supplies

U.S. TO SELL PHONOGRAPHS   40,000 Portables to Go on Market Soon

Hull Warns Neutral Nations Agains! Deavidina Sanctuary To War Criminals

U. S. To Shun Those Who Harbor Enemies   Giving Haven to Hitler or Other Axis Leaders Will Mean Loss of American Friendship for Years to Come, Hull Says.

Secretary Hull Warns Neutrals   Will Forfeit U.S. Friendship If They Harbor Axis Leaders

Warns Neutrals To Deny Sanctuary To Hitler Gang:  Offenders Will Lose U. 5. Friendshir

Neutrals Told Not To Be  Sanctuaries  Hull Still Waiting for Reply

Neutral Nations Warned Against Helping Enemy   Allies to Block Hope of Haven For Wer Criminals

NEUTRALS WARNED AGAINST GIVING AID TO WAR CRIMINALS  MOST OF NEUTRAL GOVERNMENTS PROMISE NO HAVEN RE CRANTEN

Hull Warns Neutrals Not to Shelter Leaders of Axis  Loss of American Friendship in  Fesdreca Thrantanan

Warn Neutral Nations Again On Sanctuary   ‘Secretary Hull Says Axis ' Criminals Must Not Be Aided

War Felons Trao Tighten   New Warnings and Pledges of Neutrals: Disclosed by Hull

Neutrals Told Not To Shelter  Axis Leaders   Allies Warn That No Nation Is To Provide Hideout for Hitler or Any War Criminal.

Don’t Shield Axis War Criminals, Hull Again Warns Neutral Nations

Hull Warns Neutrals Not to Shelter Leaders of Axis  : Loss of American ' a a ws a

War Criminals  To Be Punished   Neutrals Warned by Allies Not  To Give Haven to Hitler or . OtharAsds Landers

STILWELL WILL GIVE NAVY AlD IN TOKYO DRIVE   Says Transpacific Drive Must Be Supported By Land Offensive

Riddoers Oa High Ag Iaueee  EIULLLTE OO UU EL UYEU cao Ute  Auetion Exeveeds $100,000

KlebergA pparentlyLicked;Also Patton; Sam Rayburn Coming  FromBehind;Stevenson, Woods Shennard And McDonald Win

ABOLISH WAR UNIT SYSTEM OF DEFERMENTS   Question Of Essentiality Left To Local  Boa rds

MICHIGAN GOES OVER 10 DEMS   Early Margin For Dewey Is Wiped Out In Recheck

Dozens Killed as Blind German Robots Hit Children’s Hostel, Hotel, Homes

Dozens Killed By Robot Raid   Germans Flung Aerial Torpedoes Across Channel On Southern England.

Robot Toll On Increase   Blind Bombs Wreck Children’s Hostel, Hotels, Shops, Homes

Children Are Killed By Robots   Dozens Die As Germans Increase Rocket Attack

ROBOTS CLAIM BRITISH LIVES   Number of Children Among Victims in Attacks on Southern England

FORECAST FOR IOWA COLDER   4 Inches of Snow on  Ground at Fort Dodge

MERCURY DROPS TO 15 BELOW   Continuance of Cold _. Wave Forecast in lowa

State Treasury ‘Can Stand Income Tax Moratorium   Officials Give Figures to Show Sufficient Surplus  Biimharnae

REPEALING IOWA INCOME TAX   BRUMBARGER GIVES THE PROS AND THE CONS

ROLL CALLON SOLDIER VOTE IS REJECTED   House Expected to Approve Bill Leaving Matter to States   DEBATE IS HEATED ON THE QUESTION      Senate Now Considering Federal Ballot Measure

WILL TAKE NO ROLL CALL ON SOLDIER VOTE   House Rejects FDR Demand Legislators “Be Counted”

HouseDodges Record Vote   Roosevelt's Request For Roll Call Killed

No Roll Call On Soldiers Ballot Bill   EJECTS PRESIDENT’S DEMANL YHAT CONGRESS “STAND Ui; AND BE COUNTED”;FISL CALL: AT ANSULI   States Likely To Rule

HOUSE VOTE IS REBUFF TO FDR   Demand For Roll Call On Soldier Vote Is Defeated

ROLL CALL ON SOLDIER VOT   House Rejects FDR Demand Legislators “Be Counted”

Roosevelt’s Demand That Legislators “Stand Up and Be Counted” on Issue Is Rejected, 233 to 160—Action Paves ‘Way for Probable Approval Today of Measure Leaving ‘Question of Troops’ Voting to States.

HOUSE REJECTS ROLLCALL VOTE   Roosevelt Plan To Stand Up And Be Counted Is Ignored

House Shuns Roll Call Vote On Ballot For Soldiers  Approval by House nr ee, ee: cc as   Of Measure Leaving Question Up to States Foreshadowed by Move SHARP REJECTION OF F.D.R. DEMAND  Big Battle Promises To Be Carried Over To Election Campaign

Tlouse Rejects Roll Call on U.S Soldiers Ballot   ’ Ignore Roosevelt's Demand Opponents Vote in Open

HOUSE REJECTS ROLL GALL VOTE   Both Branches Of Congress Still Studying Ballot Bill

House Members Vote 233 to 160 Against Roll Call On Ballot Measure   Reject President Roosevell’s Demand thal Congress ‘Stand Up anc Be Counted” on Issue

House Refuses Roll Call Vote On Soldier Ballot   Rebuffs President 233 to 160; Heated  Debate Continues

Representatives Anderson and Fernandez (D. N. M.) both voted against the resolution against a roll call vote.

HOUSE VOTE RAPS -FEDERAI. BALLOT   Question of Service Voting Likely to Be Left to States

NEW ASSAULT. WS UNDERWAY ~ FOR WARSAV   ONE SOVIET ARMY EXPECTED :2Q JUNCTION WITH TITO's. ARMY IN JUGOSLAVIA ° <

RUSS DRIVE ON AFTER TAKING BUCHAREST ©   Victorious Legions Reach Border of Bulgaria to South

Red Army Rolls Through Bucharest; Reaches Border Of Bulgaria To The South

Train Derailed  At Lake City   Five Hospitalized When Olympian Crashe:

Revenue Report Shows Drop In Auto Use Tax  $4.0,121,760,232 Is Total Amount  Collected in Year

U. S, REVENUE REPORT GIVEN: SETS NEW HIGH  $40,121,760:232 aid By Various Tax Med  ax tyv¥iecl1ums

S40 BILLION IK VARIOUS TAXES   Breakdown Reveals $5 Use Tax Paid on 2,400,000 Fewer Cars.

TWO MILLION CARS JUNKED   Taken Off Road During Past Year, Gov't Discloses

Motor Vehicles Slump Sharply  Two and Half Million Fewer Cars Operatine

Race Program For Friday   Main Revenue Sources Are Revealed in Report

If Walcheren. "Falls, Allied Ships May Reach Port Of Antwerp   SOUTHWEST HOLLAND OFFENSIVE Is. IN ITS FINAL STAGE   -American, Polish Troops Make Twin Advances Across Mark Waterway

ALLTES INVADE LAST BARRIER TO USE OF ANTWERP   Swarm Ashore On Welchercn Island at Entrance to Schelde Estuary.   GERMANS ESCAPE SOUTHWEST HOLLAND   DeGaulle Has Narrow Escape m German Air  Raid On Paris.

Tract to Serve As Memorial Tc Persons in Service   ELECTION NEXT SPRING

QUAKERTOWN TO HAVE LAND FOR PARK SITE  Ordinance Is Adopted At   Ordinance Is Adopted At Recent Meeting of Borough Council   RECREATION CENTER

A “Superman” Writes Home...  German Soldier Admits Defeat to Diary Written in Fox Hole

Nerve of Troops Dries Up Gradually  Diary Reveals Attitude of Nazis

Drive 18 Miles Inland, Seize Carentan and  Menace St. Lo   American Troops Half Way Across Cherbourg Peninsula

Kentucky Derby Barn Destroyed   Nine Thorobreds Are Lost in Fire

Chief Executive Says Allie: ~ Poised To Strike Foe In - Every Battle Theater

ALLIES POISED TO BLAST FOE IN ALL ZONES   This Month Ushers In Last Phase Of Conflict, Says President

U.S. Enters Fourth and Last Phase of War, Roosevelt Say:   Allied Forces Now Prepared to Blast Enemy in Every Theatre, President Savs, Lauding Management, Labor, Military

“Offensive War’ Starts This Month   Fourth Phase Of Conflict Cited by FDR

U.S. Ready To Blast Enemy, Says FDR In Message   Ry JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

U.S. Now Poised To Blast Nazis, Japs   Roosevelt Tells Congress America Has Started “Offensive Warfare” Which wall I Bring Total Victory To ‘Allies .

January Marks Start Of Offensive War, Fourth And Final Step To Total Victory, President Reveals In Message To Congress

ON INTO BUDAPEST   Red Army Fights Yard by Yard Toward Heart of the City

SOVIETS CLEAR DEFENDERS FROM BUDAPEST AREA   All Night Bayonet Battle Highlights Capital Fighting

SOVIETS ADVANCE INSIDE BUDAPEST   BELIEVE MAJOR PART OF BUDA HAS BEEN CLEARED BY REDS

ROUT NAZIS IN THE HEART OF BUDAPEST   Red Army Troops Clear Germans From Several Main Streets in AllNight Bayonet and Gre‘nade Rattles.

A Yard by Yard - Battle Is Waged For Budapest   Drive Out Defenders With Bayonets and Grenades; Fight inHeart of Capital

BUDAPEST FURY 1S INGREASING   Russian Troops Push To New Gains Above Danube River, Crossing The Hron.

Soviets Clear Main Streets Of Budapest   Bitter Fighting Still Rages In Hungarian Capita

FIGHTING HARE FOR BUDAPEST   Red Army Troops Clear En_emy From Several Main Streets of City.

Night Fights in Budapest Raging   Germans Cleared from Streets in Bayonet, Hand Grenade Battles

Russians Say Every Nazi In Encircled Capital Faces Death Or Capture

Plough  Through Budapest      Doomed German Garri son Being Routed Out Methodically By Reds  In Close Range Battle

U.S. INDIANS IN JUNGLE BATTLES   Red Skins Win Battle on New Britain Island.

Indians Outwit Japs In Jungle   U. S. Tribesmen Find Own Battle Style In Southwest Pacific

14 JAP SHIPS — HIT IN ATTACK (N MANILA BAY   Carrier Planes Wreck Drydock, Destroy 28 Enemy Aircraft

MANILA RAID NETS BAG OF 14 JAP SHIPS   Three Warships and Floating Dock Included In Score Reported By Admiral Nimitz  SO BILALRLICC RAECTOMAYVEN

28 JAP PLANES WIPED OUT, ONE U. $. SHIP HIT   130 Enemy Planes Damaged As Force Strafes Three Airfields

Planes Attack Manila Bay; Jap Leyte Spearhead May Be Cut.   IN STRATEGIC ACTION

14 Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged   Carrier Planes Raid Manila Bay—Floating Dry Dock Destroyed

14. Jap Ships Hit At Manila   3 Warships Amang Targets in Raid By. Carrier Planes

YANKS BATTER 14 JAP SHIPS   Left Sinking In Manila Bay, 28 Nip Planes Wiped Out

NEW AMERICA RAID ON JAPS IN MANILA BAY   Fourteen Enemy Ships Put Out Of Action

Manila Raiders Blast 14 Ships   Three Warships Among Bomber Tarcets

Manila Bay Area Hit.   Fourteen Jap Ships And 28 Planes Bagged In Carrier Plane Raid

14 Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged by US Carrier Plane Raid in Manila Bay   Floating Dry Dock Is Wrecked; At Least 28 Nip Planes Destroyed

Raid On Manila Nets 14 Ships      Heavy Damage Inflicted Upon Japs There By  Carrier Planes.

Planes Batter 14 Jap Ships   Vessel In American Force Is Damaged

Japanese Shipping Dealt Heavy Blow   American Carrier Plane Raid Sinks Fourteen Vessels Including Three “Warshins: 28 Planes Wined Out

Carrier Plane Raid on Manila Bay Area Leaves 14 Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged

Jap Fleet Takes ‘Another Whipping In Manila Bay   Shipping and Port Facilities Destroyed By Carrier Planes In Sunday Raid

Soviet Paper. Says Separate Peace Talked   Secret Meetings of Two English: Officials and Von Ribbentrop Are. Charged; 5th Army Lays Siege to Cassino

Reds’ Purpose For Report of , - Main Concern            Separate: Peace Discussions ~ Not.‘ Without’. Results,’ Says Russian Paper   LONDON. STILL FIRM. . “FOR JOINT ACTION:                Incident Occurs as New DipJomatic. Crisis Arises One ‘Polish Boundary ©

Report England” Secretly Seeking Separate Peace   Dispatch Stirs Tense Surprise But Meets Incredulity In Allied Quarters:

VON RIBBENTROP  IN CONFERENCE WITH  TWO ENGLISHMEN?   Officials Had Conferred -.Secretly With the German. Foreign Minister.   A REPORT FROM CAIRO   The Dispatch Was Published at Top of Pravda’s Foreign News Page.

REFUTE PRAVDA PARLEY REPORT   Two English Officials Re . ported ta Have Conferred With Von Ribbentrop.   HALIFAX MAKES DENIAL

Red Broadcast Causes Furor Among Allie   Russians Also Refuse To Negotiate With Polish Gov't

Russian Paper Floats Rumors  Of Peace Talk   Quotes Cairo Speculation on Meeting of British With Von  Ribbentrop

DISCUSSED WITh NAZI MINISTER, PRAVDA REPORTS   At Same Time Russia Rejects Polish Exile Government's Plan For Common Frontier.

Report Stirs  Up laterest in Allied Quarters   No Hint Given to Identity of Britons  In Rumor From Cairo; Story Held False

Russians Report British Seeking Separate Peace   Print Rumors Of Secret Conference With Nazis

CAIRO REPORTS MEETING WITR VON RIBBENTROP      Say Two English Officials Meet Nazi in Spain or Portugal

HALIFAX DENIES REPORT   Russians Rap Polish Reply To Curzon Line Proposals

Reds Report British, Nazi Peace Talks   Story Says English Officials Had Conferred Secretly With Von Ribbentrop

PRAVDA PRINTS A CAIRO REPORT OF SECRET MEETING   DISPATCH TELLS OF ENGLISH MEETING WITH RIBBENTROP

NO TRUTH IN STORY, ENVOY HALIFAX SAYS   Russians Quote Balkan Circles

Pravda Story Stirs Britain and America   Publishes Rumor England Was Seeking a Separate Peace

British Deny Peace Talks With Nazis   Russian Paper Prints Rumor Of Meeting Of Ribbentrop With Two English Officials

Pravda Reports British Officials Confer With Ribbentrop To Find __ Separate Peace. Terms With. Nazi:

SOVIET PAPE PUBLISHES REPORT   Claim English Officials Meet Von Ribbentrop   CONFERENCE   “Is Not Without Results,” Story Goes; Allies Say It Is Incredible

RUMOR IS HELD FALSE BY LONWNON.   Moscow Says Ribbentrop ’ Met British in the =. Pvrenees wt

Halifax Denies Peace Reports  Pravda Said British Met With Ribbentrop

Moscow Paper Prints Cairo - Report Of Secret Meeting   SOME RESULTS, SAYS PRAVDA

Published In Pravada Paper As From Cairo   Two English Officials Said To Be Conferring With Von Ribbentrop.   BRITISH DENY STORY

SOVIET NEWSPAPER SAYS CAIRO REPORTED ALLEGED PEACE TALKS: HALIFAX AND HULL IN DENIAL   German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop Reported to Have Met Two Polish Officials Who Waited to.  Know Terms of Separate Peace with Nazis

Story Denied  Vehemently By British   Allies Are Surprised, Puzzled as to Reason For Its Publication  RUSSTANS STIRRED

Pravda Reports 2 Leading Britons Have Met With Ribbentrop, Talked Over Terms of Separate Peace   Hy AES WANT ER

Pravda’s Report Untrue--London   Dispatch In Russ Paper Asserts Two English Officials Conferred With Von Ribbentrop

Soviet Prints . Parley Rumor Anglo-German   Cairo .Tate implies Britain Sounds Out Nazis About Peace

Rumor Stirs Furor   Dispatch in Soviet Press Reports British Seek Separate Peace With German Reich

RUMORS FROM CAIRO ALLEGE CONFERENCE WAS RECENTLY HELD   BRITISH, HOWEVER, STATE FULL ACCORD WITH ALLIES MAINTAINED

Reds Report Secret Peace Move   Von Ribbentrop Said To Have Met Two British Officials

Britons Said To Have Met Ribbentrop   Communist Paper Has Obscure Story That Causes Sensation

Pravda Causes Stir in Allies   Hints Britain Ready To Make Separate Peace

CLAIMED BRITISH DISCUSS TERMS WITH VON RIBBENTROP  PRAVDA, OFFICIAL COM. MUNIST PARTY PAPER, PUBLISHES CAIRO RITMOR

REDS ACCUSE BRITISH OF DOUBLE CROSS   Pravda Publishes Rumor From Cairo Of Separate Peace Efforts By Briton With Germany.   Story Is Denied

PRAVDA PRINTS NAZI-BRITISH PARLEY STORY   Britain Emphasizes Full Allied Accord; ul. &. Mystified 4

BRITISH'NAZI TALKS REPORTED   RED ORGAN PRAVDA SAYS PEACE TERMS DISCUSSED

Report Nazis And British Discussed Peace Terms   Pravda, Russian Paper Gives Publicity To Message From Cairo; Anthanticity Danhted

Russian Report From Cairo Say  Nazis Ask Peace   Ribbentrop Confers With British On Terms Of Separate Pact, Report

Russian Newspaper Publishes Story as Rumor, Ascribing It to Cairo as Source; Russia Rejects Settlement of Poles

BRITISH DENY THEY EXTEND PEACE FEELER   Halifax Answers Report, Published by Red Organ, That Two Britons Had Conferred Secretly With Ribbentrop.

Separate Peace Accusation Of Russia Is World Puzzle; Flatly Denied By Britain

No Trath To Moscow Story,  Says Halifax   People Who Believe That Siory Will Believe Anything, Is Contention Of Ambassador

PRAVDA PRINTS GREEK RUMOR OF PEACE TALK   Report of Meeting Between Von Ribbentrop, Two English Officials, Stirs New Distrust

REDS PRINT RUMORS OF SECRET PEACE MEET  Ribbentrop Supposed to Have Met Britons But Halifax Denies Report

Communist Paper’s Printng of ‘Rumor’ Amazing to Allies   Report That British Talks With Nazi Leader Denied

Cairo Reports Two British Officials Seeking Separate Peace With Nazi Enemy; Pravda Publishes Dispatch   General Reactior Is Message Has No Foundation

Publication Of Rumor In Pravda, Official Communist Newspaper, Puzzles British

Official Russian Party Paper Says Meeting Rumored   Foreign Minister Reported Willing to Settle With Britain

Pravda Dispatch Stirs Conjecture As To Its Purpose; London Mystified By Story.

Pravda Publishes Rumor of English Seeking Separate Peace With Nazis   Lord Halifax of England Denies ‘Peace’ Report

London Discounts Russian Rumor of British-German Separate Peace Talk

Pravda Reports Anglo-German  Peace Talks   Rumor is Creating Excitement Among  Gneiat (UNbieama

British Deny Pact With Nazi Officia!   Lord Halifax Says There’s No Truth to Report That Two English Officers Confer Secretly With German Minis ter on Peace.   Report From Cairo Arouses Keen Interest Among American Officials

Soviet Report of Secret Parley Is Branded False   Pravda Publishes ‘Rumor of Meeting Between Britons And Von Ribbentror

Von Ribbentrop © Was Spokesman   Meeting Did Not End ‘ -Without Some Results   HELD IN SPANISH OR PORTUGAL CITY

REDS SAY BRITISH MAY MAKE PEACE   Charge Made Two Britains Talk to Von Ribbentrop

Russ Report Nazi-British Peace Parle}   Pravda Story Denied- in London s Washington Is “Amazed” -

Puzzled by Pravda “Rumor” Report of Conference by 2 Englishmen: Von Ribbentrov   British Emphasize No Separate Peace to Be Made With Nazis

Rumor Secret Peace Meeting   Russians Report AngloGermany Conference

MOSCOW PAPE SAYS SEPARATE PEACE STUDIED   Britain Reiterated Pledge : Of No Peace Without  Allied Accord

Red Story  Astounds Officials   Moscow Paper Tells Of Reputed British Meeting With Nazis

Russians Stirred Over Separate Peace Rumot   Communist Paper Publishes Report That Two British Officials Conferred With Ribbentrop; Meeting Denied

PEACE PARLEY RUMOR HEARD   Moscow Paper Says English Officials Conferred With Ribbentrop

LORD HALIFAX SAYS RUSSIAN STORY UNTRUE   REPORT FROM CAIRO PERPLEXING TO BRITISH

British Reported To Have Met Von Ribbentrop To Get Terms For Separate Pact With Nazis

MATERIALS DISPUTE APPROACHES CLIMAX   Byrnes Offers to Compromise o Decide Dispute Between Nelson and Armed Services,

Dyrnes Offers Umpire Duties On Conversion   Neleon Expected to Reply Soon to Armed Services  Bengt Shere Wl...

Large British Forces Will Go to East   Curtin Says England Will Help Wipe Out Jans

Britain To Send Large Forces To Pacific This Year, Curtin Claims

Curtin Says Britain Will Send Formidable Forces to ‘Pacific Before End of Year

Vast British Aid Pledged   New Forces to Enter Pacifie Area Soon

ee a oe fee Ae Se Sn es ee ee ee ee Seems!  U.S. Home Front Near Collapse Says Japan-Caused by Shortage of Cigarets

Halt’Cigarette Sales At All U. S. Army Stations Except Air Combat Posts

GIS OVERSEAS LACK CIGARETS   ‘Stars And Stri Stripes Asks  ‘Where Are They?’

SOLDIERS JOIN CLAMOR TO GET MORE CIGARETS  hen Placed on Sale of Smokes  oe Reitein ac Wallac in Parse

Cig Ban For Gl's In London To End   Assuring Enough for Men At Front Caused Shortage Back in England

PROMISE YANKS MORE CIGARETS   Ban on Sales Temporary  War Office Explains

Cigaret Sales Ban In London Temporary   GI's At Rear to Be Supplied As Soon As Troops At Front Get Sufficient

Congressman Dies to Retire, He Announces   Throat Ailment  Forces Decision To End Career

RETIREMENT OF DIES MAY MEAN COMMITTEE END   Texan’s Decision To Quit Politics Comes As Big Surprise In Capital   PROBERS FACE OPPOSITION   Board Now Engaged In Inquiry Of Political Activity Of CIO

DIES TO UOIT ~ _ PUBLIC-LIFE   roan WHO HEADS UN-AMERI CAN INVESTIGATION COM. MITTEE NOT CANDIDATE .” OFOR RENOMINATION -

85,000 Jap Troops Killed   Figure Dates Back To Start of Offensive

85,000 JAP TROOPS KILLED BY YANKS IN PACIFIC WAR   Stimson’s Figure Does Not Include Nips Lost on Sunken or Damaged Ships  rr ery  re vat. aes Tees yr re A we “ .» @ wan nas ae   207, 283 U. S. Army Casualties Since War  Started—-37,237 Are Killed

Bombers Defy Adverse Weather   Eighth Day of Attacks  On Railway Junctions

No Hope of Relief From Icy Roads   Most of State Coated During Night

WPB to Use Sanctions on Defiant Firms   AUTHORITY TO WITHHOLD MATERIALS, FUEL, TRANSPORTATION GIVEN

WMC Rules Gain Teeth.   "Material, Supplies: - Curtailment Likely

Center Due To Strike Valley.   pared By Storm in Gulf Rain Cheers, Cools Bexar

CANADA DISORDERS AGAINST CONSCRIPT DECREE CONTINUED   Prime Minister’s Stance Bolstered . By ExDefense Chief

MONTREAL CROWD: SMASH WINDOWS AS PROTEST TO OVERSEAS DRAFT .   Prime Minister May Get Confidence Vote

MacKenzie King to Get Support   Anti-Conscription Feeling Is High

GONFIDENCE = T( BE VOTED KING   Feeling Against Conscription Continues To Run High

FEELING IS HIGH ON CONSCRIPTION   PARLIAMENT BACKS KING'S ADMINISTRATION

RATION TOKEN — IN USE SUNDAY   Double Stamp Validity Is Planned for 3 Weeks.

Water and Tear Gas Break Up Pre- — Homecoming Near-Riot at Madison!

Army Takes Over  Cleveland Firm   Seizure Ordered in War Workers’ Strike

Army Seizes Ohio Plants Hit by Strike   Workers Vote. To Resume Vital War Jobs

Attempt to Save Entombed Miners Begun With Faint Hope Of Success

DRILLERS HOPE TO AID MINERS   Desperate Effort Being Made To Reach Entombed Men

Hope to Reach 64 in Mine   Two High-Speed Drills Being Prepared To Sink Shafts

RENEW EFFORTS TO SAVE MINERS   Start Drilling Of Two 350. Foot Shafts to Reach 64 Entombed Men

Prepare to Drill to 64 Men. Trapped: In Ohio Coal Mine  Will Be at Least 2 Days  Before Small Drill Gets To Entombed Men

Dewey Gets A  ‘Big Reception , At Philadelphia   Opens Drive For Presi dency With Radio Ad  dress Tonight.

Philadelphia Gives Dewey His Most Enthusiastic Reception Of Campaian

eaves New York City With 11-Car Train; Will Travel 6700 Miles Throughout Nation

ELECTION BOARD TO DECIDE VOTE   ' Responsibility For Making  Decisions on Soldier Bal “Yots Remains in County

Quezon, President of Philippines, Dead   Known As Father of His Country; Dies in United States

EXILED HEAD OF PHILIPPINES DIES   Manuel Quezon Succumbs At Summer Home

Nazis In Desperate Struggle To Keep Up Failing Transports   Newspapers Reaching Spain Reveal Terrific Toll Of Allied Air Assault; Even Horse-Drawn Vehicles Being Recruited To Aid Rail System

Nazis Waging  Bitter Battle   TRANSPORTATION IS BIG PROBLEM FOR GERMANS

Nazis Are: Struggling Hard To Stave Off Utter Defeat  For Transportation Front

Tr. ‘ansportion. Break Shown   Bombings By Allies: “Upsets: Nazi. System

GERMANS STRUGGLE DESPERATELY KEEP TRANSPORTATION UP  FAR BEHIND THREE BIG RATTIFFRONTS NAZIS

Armageddon on Wheels Looms in Reich; Nazi Transportation Front Endangered

Nazis Wage Losing Battle   Desperate Efforts To Keep Transportation Lines Open Balked by Constant Air Assaults

Desperate Railroad Struggle   Germans Striving to Stave Off Defeat on the Gréat Transportation Front 

ARMAGEDDON ON WHEELS FEARED   Trarsportatio Problems  Worrying Nazis.

New Finnish Cabinet Will Be Organized   Old Cabinet Failed To Neaotiate Peace

Japs Withdraw In Augusta Bay Area   Fight Rearguard Actions, Being Badly Cut Up

Reveal Secret Of Nazi Plane  Like Fourth Of July Rocket With Wings

German Robot Planes Losing ‘Glamor’ Fast   Long-Range Rocket Bombs Are Proved Not Very Accurate

Mainly of Nuisance Value, New Robo Plane Is Not as Effective as Bomber

Once It Leaves: the Nazis’ it Is ‘Out. of: Controk: of: Forces, ‘Firing It.            ‘STRIPPED. OF “GLAMOR         ot. the: Mysterious, Earth: Shaking. Device’ Pictured: i _ by Gernians.

SNOW BLANKET COVERS MIDWEST   Two to Nine Inches of Snow Over Area With More Predicted.

Se ee  MAY BREAK RECORD   Prospects Boosted by Un. usually Favorable ‘Weather

BRITAIN'S SUBS BAG 32 SHIPS IN NEW RAIDS   For Eastern Forays Pay Off As Fleet Gathers in Indian Ocean

32 Jap Ships Destroyed by British Sub:   Successful Forays Made in Ad vance of Fleet Now Gather ing in Indian Ocean for At tack on Singaport

Burma Raids Net 32 Jap Vessels   MacArthur's Planes Strafe Batavia; Pacific Bombers Sink Three Nip Freighters; Air Blows Delivered From Palau to Paramushiro

British Subs Sink 32 Jap Vessels   Tokio Speeds Up Offensive in China

British Subs Destroy 32 Nippon Ships   Japs Speed China Drive to Offset Allied Drive Threat

British _ Sink 32 Jap Ships   ‘Ally’s Fleet Largely  In: Pacific W:  alers, Prime ster Says

Scared?--Sure, Until Fight Starts  Thrice Wounded Decorated  Veteran of 40 Tank Battles Thinks Infantry Rough

~-TIGHT DEMO RACE—  Olsen Stays In Lead   Plans No Campaign If He Is Winner

Argentinian “Post Yielded By Ramirez   Farrel] junta Facing Crisis As President Ouits

Reds Repulse Germans in Bloody Fight   Five-Day Hill Assault Claimed Costly To Nazi Attackers

Reds Repulse Nazi Attempts To Storm Hill   Fight Bloody Battle For Strategie Position North Of last.   ADVANCES CHECKED

REDS REINFORCE BATTLE AT IASI   Bloody Struggle for Vital  Hill Position Continues

NAZIS REPULSED IN IASI THRUST   Powerful Soviet Fire Checks Enemy On Romania Front

Japs Press New China Attacks   Nips Push to 80 Miles of Changsha, Launch Drive for Hankow-Peiping Rail, Yank Invasion of Schouten Islands Progresses

TOWN AND COUNTRY   Happenings in And About Town The Past Seven Days

TRUMAN ON VISII STATE ON NOV. f FOR MAIN SPEECH   Democratic Nominee To Speak In Parkers- , burg With Meadows

SN te et heh Ne et ah tah tat Saat ah Set Sart Teak eh at et  : Ration Reminders

Roosevelt Leads State Soldier Vote   Lackawanna Spoils Lead Held by Dewey In 12 Rural Counties  DEMOCRATS AHEAD

GI VOTE COUNT IS COMPLETED IN 14 COUNTIES   Democrats Given Lead As Tabulation in State Begins

Monastery  Hill Now Free of Germans   No Nazis There Now After 6 Months of Occupation -

Cassino Now Free of Nazis   British-Poles Sweep On From Ruined Town  In Pursuit of Foe

War Sweeps Beyond Cassino with Tow: And Famous Monastery Left in Ruins  Devastating Artillery Pounding Leaves Only Chapel, Monastery Foundations _ Intact, Basilica Covered with Debris

Navy Against Merger of All War Services   Forrestal Indicates Opposition to Consolidation

JAPS LAUNCH NEW DRIVE FOR HANKOW ROUTE   Severing of Rail Line Would Prevent Ladings On China’s Coast

Japs Launch Drive On Chinese Road   Enemy Attempts Tc Occupy Entire Chinese Rail Line

Japanese Launching For Big Rail Route  Fear Allied Move On The China Coast

Japs Launch NewPushDow Hankow Route   Offensive Presages Another Battle for Changsha; Fight Rage: North of Tungcheng

JAPS LAUNCH NEW DRIVE ON CHINA ROUTE   Nipponese Troops Move to Occupy Hankow Rail System -

FIVE MILLION FOR OVERSEAS   ROOSEVELT DISCLOSES U, 8, TO HAVE HUGE ARMED FORCE GVERSEAS BY JULY 18ST

SMITH'S STATEMENT FALSE, WILLKIE SAYS  -~ on eomens am ote ae ae” lee

Commando Raids Alarm Fascists   Prospect of Italian Coast Invasion Seen

GOEBBELS ISSUES RUTHLESS ORDER TO REINFORCE REELING WEHRMACHT   KEY MEN IN NAZI ARMAMENT FACTORIES TO BE SENT TO BATTLE, OTHERS MOBILIZED FOR WORK

'Nazis Order Bottom of Barrel Swept ‘To Increase Army; To Draft Politicians

HITLER DECREE MOBILIZES ALL FOR WAR ERFOR’   Men Exempt Forced Into Uniform; Home Work Pressed

FOR TOTAL WAR   Thousands Formerly — Exempted As Indispensables Ordered Into War Effort.

HITLER RUSHES MORE TROOPS TO RED FRONT   Nazis Counter-Attacking With Vigor At East Prussia Border

Nazis Order All Civilians To War Work   New And Ruthless Total War Decree Calls Up All Manpower

Everything Must Disappear From Public Life In Struggle Of Germany

German People Face Strictest Demands of War   Goebbels Orders All Available Civilians To Fight Or Work

ORDNANCE CHIEF SAYS U. S. WILL HAVE BEST GUNS  COUNTERACTS NAZI CLAIM OF WEAPONS

Allies-Axis Are Having Word War   Rival Spokesmen Claiming An Edge In War Weapons

Allied Battle Arms Superior To Germany ’s   Ordnance Chief Reveals Improvements; Nazis Boast Of Secrets.   COMES FROM GOEBBELS

Americans Claim Weapon Superiority As War-Of-Nerves Is Again Renewed

Says Yanks’ Arms Good   Superior or Equal To Enemy's, Gen. Sayley Declares

U.S., Nazi Claims of New Weapons Added to Invasion War of Nerves

U.S. Equipment For Invasior Declared Better Than Nazis   Ordnance Officer Tells Of American ‘Secret Weapons’; _ Germans Tell Of ‘Hidden’ Defense Preparations

America Claims Weapons as Being Equal If Not Superior fo Those Used by Germans   Chief Ordnance Officer in Answer te Claims of Germans Says Some Ordnance Will Be Used for First Time When Invasion Is Launched

Claims Heard On Both Sides Of The Channel  Invasion War Of Nerves (Sets Additionz! Impetus

Both Sides Are Claiming Aces In Hole ‘As Invasion Time In Axis Europe Nears

Says Equipment In Allied Hands  Excels Germans   Development Of Materiel Is Revealed By Sayler; Nagzie Talk OF *“Secrets’”

Allied Battle Equipment Is Best—Sayler   U. S. Ordnance Chief Reports On Weapons; Germans Boasting Of New Defenses

U.S. Invasion  Tools Best, Troops Told   Battle Equipment Excels Enemy's; Nazis Tell Readiness

Says Allied Battle Equipment.On_  Invasion Eve Superior To Nazis   Germans Boast Of Secret Defenses As War Of Nerves Stepped Up; Holland Area Declared “Forbidden Territory.”

15 EQUIPMENT GALEN SUPERIO   Nazis Tell Of ‘Unknown Preparations’ Behind West Wall   GOEBBELS WRITES   Americans To Have Best Weapons Possible, Says  Sayler

Equipment? Ours Finest   Superior or Equal To Germans, Says Chief Ordnance Officer

U, S, INVASION EQUIPMENT I$ WORLD'S BEST   _ Some Weapons To Be Used First  Time On Nazis

U. S. To Have Edge. In Arms  For Invasion   American Weapons Are Portrayed as Better in General ar

Germans Boast Of Defenses on Invasion Shores   American Battle Equipment Best Says U.S. General

Allied Battle Equipment on Eve of Invasion Superior to That of Foe

U. S. Battle Equipment Is Superior, Says Sayler   Germans Boast Host Of Secret Weapons

Epic Stand by Yankee Cooks, Company Clerks and MPs  Holds NazisFrom Luxembourg

ONE REGIMENT SAVES GAPITAL   STOPS GERMAN DIVISION NEAR LUXEMBOURG

SENATOR SAYS U. $, SHOULD HAVE ISLANDS   Clare Luce Booth Against America  Grabbing Isles

McKellar For _ Deeded Bases In Caribbear   Tennessee Senator to “Gc  Limit” in Demanding Per manent U. S. ‘Posses- ° sions After War

Wants British, French Islands   McKellar to Ask Permanent Possession  Of Bases

Annexation Plan Pushed   British, Jap Isles ©  Soucht by McKellar

MCKELLAR WANTS CARIBBEAN ISLES   DECLARES CONTROL BY U, S, WOULD BE : HELPFUL TO BRITISH

Says U. S. Possession Of Caribbean Islands Would Benefit Britain

$1 Billion Cut Demanded in UN RRAFund   Reynalds Calls Bill Direct ‘Invitation to Use Power Politics

WOULD CHOP OFF ONE BILLION OF UNRRA FUNDS   Senator Reynolds Says U.S. Being Asked to Put Practically All the Money

Would Cut Relief - Fund To The Bone   [s Bitterly Opposed To Helping Our. - Allies   STILL THINKING IN ISOLATION TERMS

Ball Announces ‘He Will Support FR In Election   Minnesota Republican Senator Approves Foreign Policy Stand

Ball Throws His Support  To Roosevelt   Republican Says Views On Foreign Policy Meet Requirements

FDR Says French To Pick Own Govt.    Snannet Leap Will be Uecided At Last Moment— —By Kirke L. Simpson (/  Weather Forecast To Fix Hour For Invasion

Daily Temperatures   Man Who Lost His Arms in Last World War to Tour Hospitals

Daily Temperatures      By GNEVED TRE      Man Who Lost His Arms in Last. World War to Tour Hospitats

NOSQUITOS HIT COLOSNE AGAIN INTWO ATTACKS   Dump Two-Ton Block Busters on Burning City —

Conflicts End Near, NazisSay   Cermans Believe Xmas I: Deadline For War

Germans May Quit by Christmas Is Opinion of Those Inside Reich: Allies’ Weight Realized:

Kirke L. Simpson Says:  Attack in Italy Is Full-Scale Offensive against German Army

FRENCH TROOPS HAVE ENCIRCLED TOULON SECTOR   No Indication Of Resistance In Rhone Area

RESISTANCE IS DISORGANIZED!   U. S., French Troops Within Three Miles Of Toulon

Toulon Encircled By French Troops   American Infantry Opens Drive For Rhone River in Southern France

Southern France — Attack Succeeds   ALLIED ARMIES NEAR TOULON AS NAZIS TRAPPED

Naval Base Shelled By Allied Ships   U.S. Forces Head For Rhone Valley; Resistance Light

French Army Threatens Toulon Anew   Naval Base Is Object Of Encircling Move; U.S. Advances

Touion is Virtualiy Encircied   French Patriots Playing Role In Allied Advance.

Toulon Is Encireled By French Army Force   Within 3 Miles Of Base; American Troops Head Up Rhone Vallayv

American. . Infantry Heads Toward © Rhone —  IN ‘SOUTH F FRANCE  Enemy: Resistance Is   Enemy. ‘Resistance I: _ Reported Disor-.  ee

American Army Presses On . ‘Up Rhone Valley Meeting ‘Disorganized Resistance   Toulon Is Encircled And Infantry Is 15 Miles From Marseille

U.S. Infantry Nears Marseille; Head For Rhone   More Than 14,000 Nazi Prisoners Seized As Invasion Forces Enlarge Bridgehead

Capt. Mills Brandes, Sandusky, Has Big Part In Drive Above Toulon

American Infantry Head for Rhone Valley Against Disorganized German Resistance

Willkie Warns Against Disunity  Fires Charge Against Demo Administration

Sergeant Ludwig Killed On Battle”  Line In France  : Parents Notified g By War Office: ak - Tuesday Evening 

Sergeant Ludwig Killed On Battle:  Line In France —  Parents Notified.  By War Office ey TO norlax<y, Cc. a

Medium Bombers  Attack Florence  Italian Fight Limited To Patrol Activity

VITAL RAILWAY CENTERS HIT   Allies Reluctant to Attack Florence Because of Artistic Importance.

SHELL TOWNS OW KORCULA ISLAND   BRITISH DESTROYERS ATTACK GERMAN BASE OFF DALMATIAN COAST

TRAIN GUNS ON SECTIONS ~ OF KORCULA   Large Numbers of Nazis Reportedly in Island Towns —British Clash  With Enemy at Many Points in Italy.

Island Towns Held By Nazis Bombarded   British Destroyers Shell Places On Korcula Island

Towns in Sector Off Dalmatian Coast Reported Occupied by Large German Forces

British Warships Shell Korcula Isle   Destroyers Carry Out Raid On Nazi-Occupied Island; New Bombing Of Rome Reported

Allied Bombers Raid Florence In First Time   British Destroyers Shell Island Off Dalma tian Coast

BRITISH NAVY SHELLS COAST TOWN ON ISLE   German Groups Driven Back By Allied Armies

Medium Bombers Raid Florence For 1st Time: English Shell Korcula

Frog Named Tom Dewey Wins Jumping Contest; Roosevelt Did Not Run

HIMMLER TOOK RULE BY FORCE   London Paper Says Double Now Poses For Hitler

U.S. Takes Over Mail Order Firm   Chicago ‘Properties of  Ward Company Seized

Mercury. Drop Predicted Here Again Tonight   Orchardists Report 15-20 Per Cent Loss; Early Vegetables Hard Hit

Proposed GOP Plank on Peace Results in Row   Willkie Declares It Ineffective, Drafters Call It Adequate

HUNTING PROSPECTS BRIGHTENED TODAY   Snow Flurries Promised; ’ OPA Tracks Down Illecal Gas Users.

War Department Asks Increased Output As Production Lags; Failure .To Meet Goals Delays Military Aims

War Production Lags, Army Warns   Says Monthly Goals Are Not Being Met

War Department Investigates Series Of Decorations Bestowed on Dog Hero

BE-MEDALLED DOG IS INVESTIGATED   ‘Chips’ Not Entitled To Honors War Department Says

Famous: Resort: Swept by Fire.  Coney” Island: Hos COEN NN BI...

KEEP PAY CODE, NAM HEAD URGES   Gaylord Asserts Relaxation Would Help Only 25 Pct.

Urges No Change In Wage Formula   Manufacturers’ Head Wants Little Steel Formula Retained.

N.A.M. FIGHTS OVETO SCRAP WAGE FORMULA       Says Government Would Be Robbing Itself Of Taxes In End

Manufacturers’  President Opposes  Wage Rule Change Asserts Only 25 Percent of  Workers Would Benetii, All Weuld Pay Bill

WLB Urged To Stand Firm On Wage Formula   National Association of Manufacturers Calls For Fair Treatment Of ‘Those Who Fight

URGES NO CHANGE IN WAGE FORMULE   President Of NAM Asks War, Labor Board To “Stand. Firm

WOULD STAND PAT ON WAGES   National Manufacturers Head Urges Fairness; Johnson to Testify

WAGE BOOST OPPOSED BY MANUFACTURERS   Increase Not Fair To Men in Service, They Say

SEC, KNOX BACKS FDR’S LABOR ACT   Claims Draft Needed To Assure War Production

KNOX PLEADS FOR PASSAGE OF SERVICE BILL   Says Law Necessary To Prevent Disastrous Slump In Production

KNOA aPEAKS FOR NATIONAL SERVICE LAM   Navy Secretary Tells Congress Need to Avert Slump When War Ends.

KNOX IN FAVOR OF SERVICE ACT   Navy Secretary Says National Service Law Would Be Insurance Against Possible Peril In Pacifie.

Knox Testifies For Enactment Of Service Lav   Navy Secretary Declares It Would Provide Insurance Against Production Slump; Be Needed After Defeat of Germany.

SAYS SERVICE ACT NECESSARY   Knox Sees Danger of Plane Production Disaster

National Service Law Must Be Enacted, Knox Warns Congress   fo Prevent Disastrous Production Slump After War.

Knox Says National Service Law Is Needed to Prevent Slump in  Production After Defeat of Nazis

INDUSTRIAL LAG FEARED BY KNOX   National Service Law Would Prevent Future Slump In Business

Knox Supports National Labor Draft Measure   Back President In Stabilization Of Production

Knox Says Labor Turnover Imperils War Preduction   ‘Labor Draft Law Will Be Needed ‘More Than  Ever Before’ to Implement Pacific War  Day Nazis Defeated, He Argues

NationalLabor Law Essential Knox Insists   Navy Chief Declares Legislation Would Avert Production Slump   MEASURE IS NEEDED

Knox Tells Senators Civilian Draft  Would Be Insurance Against Slump

Knox Cites Need Of Labor Draft Before Congress   Speedy Defeat of Japs Depends On Bill, He says

Work Draft Law Backed by Knox   Claims It’s Needed To Help Production

Knox Fears Slump After Reich Falls   Gives Reason for National Service Law

NAVY SEC. KNOX FOR NATIONAL SERVICE LAV   it’s Good  Insuranee Against Serious Pro duction Slump Wher Germany Is Finally De  fantar   WASTEFUL

Production Must Be Stabilized,  States Secretary   Fears Big Slump After European Phase of  War Comes To End

Knox Says Labor Draft Needed To Prevent Production Slump When European War Ends

NIPPONESE LOSE ZEST FOR FIGHT   Forees On Bougainville Cut In Half Since Yanks Landed

ALLIES ADVANCE ON NEW GUINE:   TROOPS ONLY. 10 MILES: FROM FRONT LINE.DEFENSE OF ‘> MADANG AREA.

PUSH NAZIS FROM OUTER STRONGHOLD   Three Towns, Five Fills Wrested From Axis.—Heavy Fighting Along Whole 25-Mile Line.

Italian Drive Believed. Linked With Main Push   No New Light On Invasion Date Shed By Southern Battle

CORINTH SEIZED IN ALLIED DRIVE   British And Greeks Go Into City Without: Opposition”

Corinth Falls To British and Greek Forces   Albanian Port Of Sarande Now Being Attacked

BRITISH AND GREEK FORCES TAKE CORINTH   Enter City With No Opposition; Sarande Hit

British And Greek Forces Oceupy Corinth   Grecian City Is Taken Without Opposition

No German Forces Met . Inside City By Invaders   “Land® F orces Begin _ Attacking Sarande °

British and Greek Forces Meet No Opposition in Occupying Corinth

Corinth Taken By Allied Forces   No Opposition By Germans As Greeks, British Advance

Corinth Taken From Germans Without Fight   British And Greeks Occupy City: Attack Started Against Sarande

BRITISH, GREEKS OCCUPY CORINTH   NO OPPOSITION BY NAZIS AS FORWARD UNITS ENTER CITY

Corinth Occupied: Germans Flee To  ~ Greek Mainland   250 Collaborators Giv« Up Without Fight Sarande Is Nex Objective

Drive Continued By Allied Troops As Corinth Falk   British And Greek Forces Meet No Nazis In City; __ Collaborators Give Up

British Forces Enter. Corinth   Liberating Army Finds No Germans; Attack in Albania

Grgek Colaborationists Give “tUp; Southern Albanian : Port Attacked

‘BRITISH-GREEK FORCES OCCUPY. . CITY OF CORINTH   No Germans Were Met in the City at South End of Isthmus.   SARANDE IS ATTACKED   The Southern Albanian Port Is a Supply Base for the Nazi Garrison.

CORINTH NOW IN HANDS OF ALLIED FORCE   Members of Collaborating Greek "Security Battallions’ Surrender to British and Greeks   FEW GERMANS FOUND

‘ALLIES ASSAULT NAZI-HELD PORT NEAR CORFU ISLE   Supply Point For Island Garrison Menaced

NO GERMANS ARE MET IN GREEK CITY   Allies Attacking Supply Base For Germans On Corfu

British, Greeks Capture Corinth   No Germans Found In Greek City When Allies Occupy It.

ALLIED FORCES TAKE CORINTH   Troops Seize City Without German Opposition

GREEK PORT OF CORINTH I$ CAPTUREL   British and Greek Forces Take City From Collaborationist Battalions —No Nazi Troops Are Seen.

REDS WITKIN 30 MILES OF EAST PRUSSIA   NEW FRONT OPENED TO KNOCK OUT GERMANS

REDS OPEN DRIVE ON A NEW FRONT, KILL 7,000 NAZI   Smash Through Enemy De fenses Between Polotsk and Pskov and Seize 1,000 Places.   ARMIES TO SOUTH PUSH CLOSER TO E. PRUSSIA   London Papers Quote Broad¢ast as Saying Russians Are Within 40 Miles of German Soil.

Rapid Progress Made in the Latest Soviet  nsive —  GAINS ARE SCORED — ON OTHER FRONTS  Troops Reported Within 20 Miles of East  Prussia

Gain 22 Miles, Threaten Germat Army in Baltics   7,000 Nazis Killed, Hundreds Captured

Nazis Facing Disaster in Baltic States   7,000 Germans Slain In Fighting Between Polotsk and Pskov;  1,000 Planes Seized

Russians Free 1000 Towns in  New Offensive   New Drive North of Battlefields In Poland and Lithuania Aims To Clear Soviet Soil of Germans

LONGER FUEL ODL SEASON   Coupons 4 and 5 Valid for Deliveries Through Aug. 51

West Stages Dewey Rodeo   “Candidate Shrugs Off New Deal Criticiem Of His Caninsien

DEWEY SEES A RODEO.   Republican Candidate Given Assurance of Support in West

Dewey Ignores  Blasts Of Foe  Candidate Takes Time Off To Attend Rodeo

GOP Nominee Shrugs Off New Deal Blasts While Enjoying Respite At Valentine, Neb.

Dewey’s Speeches Blasted   Western Reception Lilse Old Times, G. O. P Candidate Moves t¢ Wvrominge

Dewey Takes a Day Otf to Go to Real Rodeo   GOP Candidate Guest of Honor at Roping, Bulldozing Contests

BUTLER CONFIDENT GOP CANDIDATE WILL CARRY NEBRASKA—  Dewey Silent On Ickes CIO Speech; Also Mum On McCormack’s Attach   New York Governor And Party Guests Today At Colorful Nebraska Rodeo

Dewey Shrugs Off New Deal’s Critical Blasts   GOP Campaigner Takes Time Off Today To See Special Rodeo.

Nebraska GOP Presents Rodeo ToGreet Dewe   View Western States Going Strong For Republican: At November Election

DEWEY SHRUGS OFF ATTACKS   Nebraska, South Dakota Executives See Big  GOP Landslide

Germans Say Allies Clash In Rhone Area   Say Their Forces Meet U. S., French Troops Far Up Valley

Truman Greets Friends on His  Return to K. C.   Quits Important Job to Another More Important  One, He Says.   Candidate For Y.-P. Confident of Victory

Truman Home, ‘Receives Many  — Well Wishers      “Quitting One : Important Job to Do One Even More Important,’’ He Says +

aire to Quit  Foes   Will Resign as Head- of Senate- Committee at: “Next. Meeting: —

100,000 NAZIS) BELIEVED TRAPPED IN THE BALKANS   Invasion of Greece Last Step in Allied Plans to Destroy Holding Forces in Greece and Yugoslavia.

Ujelang Atoll Tn Marshalls Is Occupied   Invasion Brings 22  Isles in Group Under American Rule; Jap Resistance Overcome

YANKS SEIZE WJELANG IN MARSHALLS   Advancing to within 264 Miles of Ponape, Eastern Outpost of Truk; Most Bombed Target.   Natives Drown

ELEANOR 10 BE AT ~— Q BIRTHDAY BALLS   Polio Drive Benefit Annual Balls Saturday

DANGER FACING CHINA GREATEST IN SEVEN LONG YEARS; RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF MENACE SEEN

Russia May Denounce Neutrality In April 1945— —By DeWitt Mackenzie  Japs Want To Keep War Away From Home

JIM FERGUSO SUCCUMBS 10 LONG ILLNESS   Former Governor Of Texas Proved Stormy Character

Former Gov. Jim Ferguson’s Funeral  To Be Conducted Today At Austin

Leaders Who Know Germany Agree End Is Near, but Are Divided in Opinion on How It Will Come—One School of Thought Looks for Fuehrer to Commit Suicide, Another Expects German Generals fo Do Away With Him.

Hitler's Days Are Numbered, Diplomats Say   Have Litfle Doubt thal Fuehrer's Fate Will Be an Early Death

Hitler’s Days ~~ Numbered, Say — Informed Men   Early Death Fuehrer's “Fate, Many Who Know Him Maintain

DELICE HELD HITLER FACES EARLY DEATH  on borrowe   Fuehrer Said to be Living on Borrowed Time   GERMAN GENERALS MAY DECIDE ACTION      Masaryk Thinks Reich Leader May Take His Life

BELIEF HELD HITLER FACES EARLY DEATH   Fuehrer Said to be Living on Borrowed time   GERMAN GENERALS MAY DECIDE ACTION   Masaryk © Thinks Reich Leader May Take His Life

HITLER'S END -]S HELD NEAR   Persons Who Know Reich  Believe His Fate Will Be Early Desth

ADOLE HITLER'S DAYS NUMBERED   Fuehrer Now Living On Borrowed Time, Close Observers Say

F DR Is Seen Perpetuating Himself As.  U. S. Leader’   ‘Brownell Attacks. -Democrat’s: Stand:

G. 0. P. CHAIRMAN ASSAILS F. D..R.’S “SOLDIER” STAND   Brownell Declares Roosevelt Using Commander-in-Chief Title as a Pretext to Remain in Highest Offite

FDR's Use of Commander-in-Chief Tittle for Political Purposes Flayed

BROWNELL SAYS PERPETUATION IN OFFICE FOR AIM   CHARGES PRESIDENT USES COMMANDER TITLE AS PRETEXT

ROOSEVELT USES TITLE AS PRETEXI   Republican Chairman Says He’s Trying to Perpetuate Self In Office

Claims FDR Using War to Retain Office   GOP Leader Attack:  Patriotism Appeal By President

Brownell Critical Of Roosevelt Use Of Military Title   Says FDR Tries to Perpetuate Himself in Office by Appeal As Commander-in-Chiet

Alleges FR Using Title In Politics   Brownell Says President Using Name As Soldier

HITS ROOSEVELT ‘SOLDIER’ CLAIM   GOP Chairman Calls FDR Stand Pretext to Stay in Office

TITLE USED BY FOR AS PRETEXT, CHARGE   GOP Chairman Says He : ‘Perpetuating’ Himself

BROWNELL HITS FOURTH TERM   G.0.P. Chairman Says Presi derit Uses Military Title To Hang On to Office.

PUVA PLES PANS 2 ANE  Brownell Charges ‘Pretext   CLAIMS FDR USING TITLE OF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF TO CONTINUE AS PRESIDENT

Brownell, GOP Leader, Charges Roosevelt Would ‘Perbetuate’ Himself As President

Brownell Says FDR Use of Title Is Just Pretext  Roosevelt Attempt To Be Soldier -  Comesc Under Fira

Brownell Hits Use of Title   Says F. D. R. Uses Commander-in-Chief To Retain Office

Brownell Hits At President For Statement   Says He Is Using Commander in  Chief Unfairly

E.R. ‘Soldier’ Reference Hit By Dewey Aide   Cites President’s Pledge ir  1940 to Give Up Office

Charges FDR Uses Pretext   Alleges Difference Hetween Hin and CI lay

GOP Head Raps FDR’s Statement   Using Title of Commander to Perpetuate Self In Office, Charge

GOP Drive Beginning to Assume Form   Greatest Effort Likely to Be Made in 26 Republican States

Asserts Title Use ‘A Pretext   Brownell Makes Comment on FDR’s Statement

FDR IS WEARING QUT HIS TITLE?   GOP Campaign Boss Asserts ‘Commander-in-Chief’ Talk ‘Old Stuff’

FDR SAID USING HIS TITLE FOR PERPETUATION   Brownell Comments On President’s Acceptance In Albany

Brownell Hits At Roosevelt  a? .¢ 6 ew   Criticizes “Good Soldier” Statement

F.R.’s Use Of Title Assailed  GOP Chairman Flays Link With Military

BROWNELL HITS FDR STATEMENT ON ATH TERM   Commander-in-Chief Title Being Used to Perpetuate Self in Office

City Has No Hard Feelings Toward U.S   Editor's nete: Here is the story of

AIR MEDALS AWARDED T.-SGT. FRANCIS R. ARGUST AND IST LT. GEORGE R. BROWN; THIRD OAK LEAF CLUSTER TO AIR MEDAL GIVEN IST LT. 1. F. ENGLE

Allies Batter New Guinea Area   Partisans Battle Five Nazi Columns In Italian-Yuaoslay Border Sector

AMERICANS SHOOT DOWN 63 PLANES IN RAID ON REICH   ‘Three Major Targets, Including Oil Refinery and Railroad Yards, Heavily  Blasted. ,   12 BIG BOMBERS, 10 FIGHTERS LOST   Ships Based in Italy Pound Points in Brenner Pass Through Which Nazis Must Send Supplies To Front.

2000 Bombers - Continue Raids Toto Germany   63 German Planes Downed In Duels: Russian Front Is  Quiet Today

ALLIED PLANES NEVER STOP IN STEADY ASSAUL'   5,000 Carry Out 29th Day of Grim Visitations Across Channel

2 Thousand Allied Plane: Raid Reich   63 Nazi Planes Downed: Brenner Pass Is Blasted

63 Nazi Planes Are Shot Down In Sky Battles   ‘Duels Cost Invading.’ :nericaus Twelve Bombers   and Ten Fighters Dur ing Attacks   Aireraft Plants And Rails Bombed   Synthetic Oil Refinery in Stettin Area Among Targets; 8,000 Tons of Bombs Dropned

U.5. BOMBERS HIT 3 MAJOR NAZI TARGETS   AERIAL DUELS COST ENEMY 63 PLANES, 213 IN 2 DAYS

Allied Troops Cut Deeper Into Gusta Line; English-based Bombers Still Hammer Europe   Germans Put Up Strong Resistance From Fortified Positions in Italy's Mountains; U.S. Air Crews Pick Off 63 Maxis; Lose 22

Attackers Down 63 Nazi Planes   American Toll 22 Planes; Maior Tarcots Rine.d

U.S. Bombers Smash Deep Into Germany   4,000 Planes Blast Europe in 29th Day of Offensive

industrial Germany Hit In 29th Day Of Non-Stop Air Drive   Two Thousand Planes Stagger Germany; 14  Bombers and 10 Fighters Fail To Return From Reich

Bombers Keep Up Air Raids   Eight Thousand Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped On Occupied Europe

2000 Planes Rip Germany   63 of Enemy Shot Down; Americans  Lose 12 and 10

Allies Down 63 Nazis In Sky Battle:   1.750 British -Based Bombers And Fighters Blast Installations In Numerous Spots

U. S. Planes Blast Three Big Targets In Germany   63 Enemy Fighters Dropped In Battle

Fleets Of Bombers Batter Three Big Targets In Germany   Nazi Plane Losses to 213 In Two Days; Italy-Based Planes Hit 14 Points

2,000 Allied Planes Attack Three Reich Targets; Down 63 Enemy Ships in Sky Fights

Drop 8 000 Tons Of Explosives In dwo-Way Drive   Train Repair Shop, Plane Factory Are Plastered Heavily

AIRCRAFT ‘SHOT DOWN   22 Planes Are Lost In Heavy Assaults On Northern Reich

130 BOMBERS ATTACK THREE VITAL TARGETS   5,000 Allied Planes in Two-Way Assault During Day

American Infantrymen Hold Initiative On Leyte; Japs Get Heavy Reinforcements

Americans Press Attack on Leyte   Jap Garrison on Island Reinforced

HOLD INITIATIVE IN LEYTE DRIVE   Yanks Inflict Heavy Losses On Reinforced Jap Defenders

DRAFT SETUP NOT CHANGEL   HERSHEY SAYS PRESENT POL"ICY OF DEFERMENTS WILL CONTINUE -IN -SELECTIVE SERVICE’

Fourth Marine, Seventh Infantry Divisions Capture Roi Islet, Establish Two More Beachheads

Hold Roi Islet, Drive Inland On  Namur, Kwajalein   Twelve Beachheads Are Developed At Comparative Light Cost By Fourth Marines and Seventh Infantry; Japanese Resistance Is Increasing.

Infantry Advances On Kwajalein Isle   Casualties Are Reported Light And No Naval Losses Were Suffered In Marshalls Landinas

17,000 QUIT: AT RAMP. SHIPYARD FORCE SHUTDOWN   Original Dispute Said to Have Involved Less Than 100 Men; Whether to  Spray or Brush, Problem  lack NAVY TO STEP IS

17,000 Strike At Shipyards   But Workers Will Return To Job If Navy Tales Over.

Army Disciplines Officers Involved In Battery Sales   Reprimands, Relief from Duty and Reclassification Among Ponishmenis Meted Oct

War as Usual is Observed On Continent   Services Held In Cathedrals For U. S. Troop:

CROSS BORDER BY WEEKEND AT PRESENT PACE   Nazi Lines Sagging Under Triphammer Russian Attack

Soviets Tear New Gaps in Nazi Line   Surge West From Point Less Than 49 Miles From East Prussian Border;  May Reach There in a Week

Russians Go Westward At Rapid Pace   Predict Fighting On German Soil By End Of Week

RED ARMY NOW 49 MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Russians Near German Soil In Big Push

RUSSIANS MAY INVADE REICH THIS WEEK   Berlin Admits Retreats On Whole Central Front   RED ARMY TROOPS   Drive To Within 49 Miles Of East Prussia In Headiong Advance

Soviets Less Than 46 Miles  From Prussia   Going At Pace Which Will Carry Them On German  Soil By End Of Week.  . i . 7 A were _ A SS  ee

German Soil Within Sight of Red Forces   Objective May Be Reached This Week lt Speed Is Kept Up

Nazi Losses Mount as Red Army Rolls on Toward Germany   Russians May Carry War to East Prussia by End of This Week

Tank Forces Spearhead Bia Drive   Nazis Lay Mines At All Appreaches To Eas? Prussia

REDS MAY BE ON ENEMY SOILBY LAST OF WEEK   Soviets Score 25-Mile Gain in Drive Toward East Prussia Tuesday

Soviet Forces Expected To Be In Reich by Week's End— Berlin Warns People To Prepare

Russian Forces Knock New Holes In German Lines   Red Army 49 Miles From East Prussian Border Speeds Push To West

Reds Push for East Prussia   If Russians Continue Pace They Will Reach Germany by Weekend

Reds Punch Fresh Holes In Nazi Lines   Russian Surge To West May Reach German Soil By End Of Week.

Reds May Get To Nazi Border Soon   Russians Now Hold Ground 49 Miles From East Prussia

Reds Surge Through Nazi Defense as Troops Drive Toward Prussian Borders

Advancing Russian: » May Reach German Soil Within Week   East Prassians Fear Parachut. ists, Shitt 300,000 Foreign Work. ers $e Interior Germany

RED ARMIE NAZT GROUND WITHIN WEEK   This is Made Possible By  Rapid Advance on All Sections of Front; German People Warned.

Armies of Soviet May Cross German Border This Week; Menace 4 Enemy. Bastions

Soviets in  A Dash Westward   May Carry the Fighting to German Soil  By Week End

END OF WEEK Mt SEE BATTLE f GERMAN SOIL   Retreats Along Whole ntral Front Reported By Berlin.

Enemy. Soil Is Neared > In Russian:  Onslaught   Foreign. Workers “Are Transferred.

Reds Knock Hole:  In German Lines   Russians Advancing Ever Closer To German Soil of East Prussia

RUSSIANS RACE TOWARD CAPITAI OF LITHUANIA   Important Communications Center Of Daugavpils s Menaced

Red Knocking Big Holes in German Lines   Soviet Armies Now Reported Less Than 49 Miles from East Rrussia; Another General Captured

Soviets Surge Westward at Amazing Pace   Cavalry, Tanks  Drive Spearhead  In Twenty-Mile Advance on Germanys

Drive May Carry Russian Forces Onto German Soil By End Of Week; German People — Warned By Berlin Of Grave Situation.      Fear Russian Parachutists

Soviets Tear New Gaps in Nazi Line   Surge West From Point Less Than 49 Miles From East Prussian Border;  May Reach There in a Week   BY EDDY GILMORE

Russians Surge  Toward Prussia In Swift Drive   Cossicks and Tanks Throw Huns Back In Disorder: Reds May Reach Nazi Soil This Week   knock New Holes  In Sagging Lines   Germans Surrounded In Wilno, Isolated Units  Being Mopped Up By Soviet Forces

PUNCH BIG NEW GAPS IN SAGGING ENEMY DEFENSES   STOCKHOLM SAYS EAST PRUSSIA IN STATE OF ALARM

SUVIETS ANUUK LARGE HOLES IN _ GERMAN LINES  Continue Dr Drive Towar d East Prt ussian , or der  NEW “ADVANCES   NEW “ADVANCES      At’ Least 4,000 Nazi Soldiers Are . Killed

—RUSSTA—   Russians Less Than 49 Miles From Border  Of East Prussia   ‘Surging Soviets Advancing Rapidly With Gains Being Recorded On 350-Mile Front Between ; Latvia And The Pripyat Marshes :

Present Speed Would Reach East Prussia This Week   Germans Frantic As Buffer Space ls Eaten Away

New Holes Cut _ In Retreating German Lines   Advaiicing Russians Now Only 51 Miles From Enemy Border; Progress in Center

Reds Sweep Westward 20 Miles   Present Pace of Advance Would Carry  Fighting to German Soil By End of Week

KNOCK LARGE NEW HOLES IN SAGGING LINE      Reds Within 27 .Miles of Strategic East PrussiaRiga Railway

SMASHING RED ADVANCE MAY CARRY FIGHTING TO HITLER SOIL BY WEEKEND

German Losses Mounting With Red Advances  Russians Now Less Than 49 Miles From   Russians Now Less Than 49 Miles From East Prussia; Enemy Admits Retreats

KNOCK BiG NEW HOLES IN NAZIS’ SAGGING LINES   “Highest State of Alarm” Reported by East Prussia Germans

MAY FIGHT ON - GERMAN SOIL   BY WEEK-END   Russians Smash Less Than 49 Miles From Enemy’s East Prussian Line

Will Carry Fighting to German Soil by End of Week if Advance Continues at Present Pace—Reds Gain All Along Front.

RUSSIANS KNOCKING LARGE NEW HOLES IN GERMAN LINES WITH FIGHTING GERMAN SOIL NEAR   Soviets May Reach German Frontier Before End of Week. General Advance Made on 350-Mile Front. Prussia Fears Red Parachutist Attack

NEAR SOIL OF ENEMY   Red Army Is 49 Mile: From East Prussia In Swift Drive

RUSSIANS FORCE ENEMY RETREAT ON WIDE FRON]   Reds Less Than 49 Miles From East Prussia — Nazis Admit Losses

Soviets Make Wide Gains Against Nazis   German Losses Mount; Red Army Rolling Toward East Prussia

Reds Are Within 50 Miles Of ‘German Soil   German Radio States “Distance Between Us and Battletield Has Almost Vanished”

RED ARMY CUTS THROUGH LINES NEAR PRUSSIE   Cherniakhovsky'’s Cavalry, Tanks Advance 20 Miles in One Day; Fight on 350-Mile Front

Now At Point Only 49 Mile From East Prussian Borde  As Tempo Speeded Up

East Prussia Border Now Only 49 Miles  From Soviets   General Advances Made Along Entire 350-Mile Front; Germans Alarmed

KELLY'S YOUTH GROUP MEETS   Gets Proposed Legislative Attack Upon Child Problems

KELLY CONFERS TODAY ON JUVENILE PROGRAM   Improvement of Training School Here Suecested

FORMOSA hil IN FORCE BY B29 BOMBERS   INNER JAP DEFENSE RING JOLTED IN AIR ASSAULT

BRITISH GOTO AID OF GREEK PEOPLE   BUR oe Londen, Oct. 16.—A German commumique said today that Greece had been evacuated.

Commander Says Results of Japan, Sumatra Raids Good.   PHILIPPINES ARE BOMBED

Other Heavies Open Assaults On Philippines   Army Reveals Three Sky Giants Missing On Widespread Blow: Aaainst Japanese

Doughboys Four Miles From Pisa   Other Units Move Nearer to Florence

Rommel Forces Halt British Push Near Bloody Caen   Decisions Near in Russian Campaigns on Eastern Front; Tommies Advance in Italy

BRICKER LIVE GOP CANDIDATE   Declares He Won't Withdraw Name: Shuns Secondary Nomination

NOTTO TO QUIT RACE—BRICKER   Party Policy May Embrace International Cooperation Plank

Bricker Won't Quit Contest   Ohio Governor Declares His Name Will. Go. Before *,G.0.P: Convention.

—POLITICS—  NO WITHORAWAL, BRICKER STAN   Ohio Governor Says His . Name Will Go Before GOP Convention :

Bricker Refuses To Withdraw from ‘Republican Contes   Ohio Governor Further Says He Will Not Be Offered Nominatior ~ As Vice President

Bricker Insists He's In Race to End af Chicago   Ohio Governor Doesn’t Expect Second Place

Bricker Won't Withdraw Name From GOP Race   ” Reports Tomorrow To Platform Committee On Domestic Affairs

Bricker Will Not Get Out Of His Battle To Receive  Republican Nomination

BRICKER SAYS HELL REMAIN IN GOP RACE   Explains Stand In Face Of Apparent Lead Held By Dewey

‘Bricker Not To Quit Campaign For President   Does Not Expect to Be Offered Vice Presidential Place, Ohioan Says In Chicago

Republicans Aim To Offer Voters Short Platform   Report GOP Framers - Intend Statement Shall Include Every Essential

Bricker Takes Personal Charge Of Last Lap Drive   Most Party Leaders~ Predict Walk Over For Dewey.

Bricker Says He Won't Withdraw; Signs Point to Victory for Dewey

Bricker Will Stay in Race   _ Ohie-Governor Says “> He Will Not Withdéaw  Name From Convention

Bricker Will  Stay in Raee   J Ohio Governor Won't Withdraw Name from Consideraation for GOP Nomination

Dewey Outlines 8-Point Program To End Federal ‘Abuse And Smear’ Rule

Gov. Dewey Outlines Kight-Point  Government Program   Republican Nominee Cites Employment, Farm Prices, Taxes Among Major Problems; Attacks ‘Bogus’ Promises

ewey Will End overnment by  Abuse and Smear Outlines GOP Program  In Buffalo; ‘Roosevelt

Leaders Call Troops Back In Singapore   Hone Wanes As Nations Fail at Parleys; Nightly Blackouts Held in PI; Hawaii Troops‘ Alerted’   DEWEY PRESENTS 8-POINT PLAN ce  FDR Promises Beemied ‘Worthless’ at Buffalo

Gannon Convicted  For Bank Robbery  ‘Blow Your Brains Out,  He Tells Judge

Dewey A Fence Straddler, Says  Senator Truman   Flirts With Isolationists, Curries Hearst, McCormick Support.

Army Within Two Miles * Of Coutances; Nazis Trapped   Scenes: Of Chaotic: Retreat. Evidenced

Normandy Campaign Goes Well   Americans Threatening Coutances: Retreat of Nazis Chaotic

Threaten Coutances With Early Capture   84th German Army Cut Into Little Knots of Resistance, 50,000 to 70,000 Nazis Believed Cut Off in Advance

London Has 5th Bombing   Shelters’: Jamnied “As Hits Are. Recorded

Germans Again Attack London   Raiders Come In From Thr-ee Directions: Ten Planes Shot Down.

LONDON HIT AGAIN BY NAZI RAIDERS   Ten Planes Downed, Many Casualties Reported

Bombers Strike Again At London   German Raiders Cut Deer New Wounds Into City’s Searred Face.

GERMAN BOMBERS QVER LONDON AGAIK   Fifth Raid in Six Nights Causes Casualties, Property Damage.

London Hit By Another Raid  Sharp Attack By Nazi: Causes Capital Damas

Londoners Flock Into Shelters Again Nazi Bombers Cut Deep New Wounds In London;  Ten Warplanes Downed

VETS CAN READ UP ON POLITICS   Green-Lucas Bill Is Ready For F. D.

“Supreme Test Ahead:”  Right Now Jap Fleet Is Unable To Challenge Yanks, Nimitz Says

WAR PLANT WORKERS WANT TO BUY STOCK   Jack & Heintz Co. Boss Says They Have $17,000,000

Hickenlooper To Seek Senate Post   Iowa Governor Announces Hi: Candidacy

Weed Question Back To OPA   Vinson Throws Whole Thing Back In Lap Of OPA Again.

YANKS BREAK BACK OF JAP RESISTANCE ON GUAM ISL   ‘Airstrip on Orote Peninsula Already Being Used By American Planes  ee tee 8 nr    Half of Nip Force on Tinian Killed—Invaders Overrun Island

SPEARHEAD DRIVEN’ ACROSS GUAM AS ENEMY 18 HERDED . INTO. BMALL AREA “ON TINIAN. «-

JAP RESISTANCE BROKEN IN GUAM   Yankees Cut Island in Two; Tinian’s Largest Town Also Occupied

Allies May Be Trying To ‘Win Victory Before Winter Begins   AMERICANS ARE STRIKING HARD TO WIN AACHEN   Fierce Fighting Reported Under Way Northwest And Southwest Of Metz

FITCH PREDICTS AMERICAN BOMBERS WILL KNOCK OUT RABAUL'S AIR DEFENCES   Fear Gnawing At Japs--Fear Of Future

WASHINGTON MARINE DENIES RAPE MURDER   Earl McFarland Is Not Positively Identified In Lineup; Girl Slain Oy Golf Course

MARINE DENIES STAYING GR   Golf Course Strangling Case Suspect Held in Washinoton

NIGHT ASSAULT ON REICH INDICATED   Berlin Radios Go Off the Air Wednesday Eve ning

ANOTHER GRAY DAY   Freeze Is Ptedicted Again for Tonight in Kansas

‘Switzerland Given First Check For Damages Due lin Schaffhausen Raid

FIRST INSTALLMENT PAID SWITZERLAND ~ FOR BOMBING ERROR   Million Dollar Check Handec Over for Damages

Senate Wants Gen. Marshall Kept In Post   Military Affairs Committee Wants Such ‘Assurance Before . Making Him ~ “General of  the Armies’.

Senate Committee Demands Proof Marshall to Stay  Military Group Puts Block in Way Of Prestige Move

Want Assurance Marshall Not To Be Transferred   Before Senate Committee Approves Creation of New Title, Want Assurance He’ll Remain Chief of Staff.

PLAN NEW TITLES FOR ARMY CHIEFS   SENATE WILL APPROVE BILL IF MARSHALL'S RANK IS NOT CHANGED

Senators Fret Over Awarding General Rank   Want Assurance Arnold Will Be Retained In Present Post

Mogaung Falls To Allies After Heavy Assault   Japs Flee Southward As Their ‘Noted Singapore Diyision Suffers ‘Bitter Defeat —

Nazi Rail, Airdromes Hammered   Yanks’ Two-way Ai Assaults Pinch Axis

Twin Aerial Blows Struck  At German Plane Factories British And Itolian Based Planes Make Big  ee Be i Poe Bk SM ) ponee Cree aes 

Bombs Rain In Bucharest And Ploesti   Yanks Send Fleet Of 1,000 Bonibers Deep Into Balkans

Iwin-Blow Supports Red Army Advance Into Romania   Thirty Fighters Fail To Return   Other Formations Penetrate As Far As Vicinity Of Berlin

Fighters Hit From Britain   Italian-Based Bombers Smash at Romanian Targets

PARTISANS TAKE INLAND TOWNS   Slavs Crush German Offensive In Eastern Basnia

Partisan Armies Score New Triumphs   Three Strategic Towns Have Fallen

Crush German Offensive In East Bosnia—Threaten To Envelope Part Of Nazi Second Tank Army   BATTLE PROCEEDS ON 30-MILE FRONT

SLAV PATRIOTS WIN BACK THREE TOWNS   Seize Island, Crush Nazi Drive, May Trap Tank Army

Jugoslavs Grab Inland Towns ~   Partisans Threaten :  Nazi Second Tank Army

FORMOSA BASE IS BLASTED BY YANKS’ B-29'S   Air Installations at Tainan Destroyed — Jap Battle Reports Denied

B-295 NOW PAY GO00 OWIDENDS   Einansho Air Base Installations Smashed in Third Attack. .   CALLED VITAL TARGETS:

U.S. Bombs Rip Einansho =  _ Air Installations at Tainan   Meanwhile, Reluctant Jap Fleet Runs Again; Admiral Nimitz Denies Ene: my Claims of Routing U. S. Forces

Nip Fleet Came Out, Then Fled, Nimitz Reports   Only Two U.S. Ships Slightly Damaged; Attacks on Luzon, Formosa Continue

U.S. Heavies Again Ignite Berlin Fires   22 Planes Lost in Attack; City Severely Punished; RAF Hits Night Blow

CUTS ONLY LINE OF FLIGHT IN ODESSA AREF   100,000 All But Isolated

Reves! Capture of Razdelnaya, Key Rail Center   100,000 Germans Are Believed, Trapped 4 On Black Sea Coast

Virtually — Isolates : Odessa Dist.      INFANTRY, CAVALRY AND — . ARMORED FORCES TAKE CITY, CUTTING GERMANS’ MAIN. LINE OF FLIGHT _

Germans Have Only Minor Roads By Which To Retreat Into Rumania   Soviets Set Sta ge To Annihilate Fou   Enemy May Attempt Dunkirk, Using Small Black  Sea Fleet

Capture of Razdelnaya Is Reported   Cuts Principal Line of Flight for 100,000 Encircled Enemy Troops

War Factory Strikes on Increase   Chrysler Curtailed— 10,000 Foundrymen Slaw Shins

New Policies Laid Down for Draft Boards   What Constitutes Aid To War Effort Cleared By State Officials

CAN'T DELAY INDUCTION ON BASIS OF AGt   Draft Boards Giver New Instructions  By Mellon

U.S. INVESTING OLD CASTLE, FORT DRIANT   Capture Will Permit Ist and 3d Armies to Strike New Blows

Hope Agreement Can Be Reached   U. S., Britain, Russia Undecided On Germany

Hull Says Allied Governments are Not Yet Agreed on Plans for Poswar Control of Germany

LIGHTNING DRIVE PUTS FRENCH ARMY RHINE RIVER TODAY   GERMAN LINE GUARDING COLOGNE BENT DANGER. OUSLY BY ALLIED POWER

French Bypass belfort, Drive  To Rhine Bank      Americans, British Dent Nazi Cologne Defenses

Pressure Bends Nazi Defenses Near Coloqne   Troops Sweep Through Bergundy Gate, 19 Miles from Rhine; ‘Impreqnable’ Metz is Falling

French Assault Breaks Through At Belfort Gap   Metz About To Fall to Americans While Yanks Slug Toward Saar Basin and Into Vosges Mountain Passes—British Reach Maas River in Holland

GERMANS YIELD GROUND ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   American, British Forces Push Nazis Back in Aachen Sector

Gls in Metz, Chase Nazis  ‘from Aachen   Reds Advance on Budapest from Gyongyos, 40 Miles Northeast of Capital

Farley Included  In Harmony Move  Party Chiefs Urge That He Keep New York Post

TRADE RIVALRY POSES THREAT TO WORLD PEACE   Military And Political! Plans May Be Nullified  By Economists   BRITAIN BELIEVED VIRTUALLY BANKRUPT

WAR MENACES PEACE PLANS   Commercial Rivalry is Seen Developing Among Allies

FIGHT FOR TRADE GETS UNDER WAY   Fierce Rivalry Among Al. lies Beginning to — Develop .

FIERCE RIVALRY IS DEVELOPING AMONG ALLIES   Struggle For World Trade May Lead To Economic War Nullifying  Peace Plans

Rivalry may prove world peace threat  See commercial conflicts certam

Commercial Rivalry Developing — Among Allies   Threatens To Nullify   Military and Political Plans for World Peace Writer Hightower Says  ee em er Ee ae eer me

Economic War Among Allies Looms      UNLESS KEPT IN BOUNDS IT COULD GROW INTO NULLIFICATION OF MILITARY AND POLITICAL PLANS   Iranian Oil Incident One

Fierce Commercial Rivalry Already Is Developing Among the Allies

Trade Rivalry Imperils Amity ‘Between Allies   Conflicts ‘Already Arising Over Iran Oil Grants, _BReitieh Lanid.tense

Inter-Allied Commercial  Rivalry Seen   Threatens to Nullify Military, Political Plans for Peace

Fierce Trade Rivalry Among Allies Un For Discussion At Bia Three Meet

J0B CHANGES DUE V-E DAY, OW! STATES   “Restricted” Report Sees Civilian —  Dislocations —_

‘QUAKE ROCKS WEST CENTRAL OHIO REGION   Earth Tremor Early Today Arouses Shelby, Allen County Residents

Shelby County ls Center of      Thousands Awakened By Shock at 7:50; No Damage Reported

Buildings Shaken In Cities   Lima and Sidney Residents Report Hearing ‘Rumbling.’

Enemy Exerts Strong Pressure In The Rochefort Area  23RD ARMY ADVANCES  Nazi Drive, Apparently Checked, Continues  Its Pressure

YANKS TRY TO RESCUE GARRISON   THIRD ARMY UNITS ADVANCE SOME ON 25-MILE FRONT

Restrictions Relaxed To Permit Building of Prewar-Standard Houses

. ‘ Restrictions  On Building Are Relaxed   Materials May Be Obtained Without Priority Rating

SOVIETS WAGE HOT BATTLE Of ANNIHILATION   Seek to Wipe Out 45,000 Nazis North of Sandomierz

SOVIETS TRAP 30,000 NAZI   Annihilate Germans at Sandomiesz Reds Poised to Drive Into Reich

Moscow Reports More Nazi Troops Caught In Trap   Some 35,000 To 40,000 Germans Face Annihilation North. Of Captured Sandomiers   REDS MAY HAVE ENTERED PRUSSIA

Pacific Fleet Supports Philippine Drive   11 Enemy Ships Sunk or Hit; 50 Planes Destroyed

11 More Ships, 50 Planes Hit   Carrier Aircraft Continue Support

Planes Back Land Attack  Pacific Fleet Craft   Pacific Fleet Craft Down 50 Jap Planes.

World-Wide Speech Slated by Churchill   ADDRESS MAY RALLY BRITAIN TO FEVER PITCH FOR INVASION

Churchill to Rally Britain To Invasion   Sunday Talk Expected to Stress Importance of Western Front

CHURCHILL TO SPEAK SUNDAY   Will Probably Rally  Britain for Invaston

CHURCHILL T0.G0. ON AIR TO RALLY FIGHTING AL IE   Four Radio Networks Wil Carry Prime Minister's Speech on Sunday.

CHURCHILL T0 BROADCAST SUN.   Expected to Stress Vital Necessity of Western Front

World Awaits Churchill Talk   Expect News About  Invasion and Charter

CHURCHILL IN IMPORTANT TALK SUNDAY  Will Re Carried   Will Be Carried By U. S. Radio  Networks

Churchill Talks Over Radio Today      Fighting Speech on Invasion Expected

CHURCHILL TC BROADCAST 10 WORLD SUNDAY   Will Add to Fever Pitch of Excite. ment in Anticipation of Allied Invasion From Isles

CHURCHILL, IN WORLD SPEECH, TO STIR BRITAIN TO INVASION FEVER PITCH

INVASION RALLY TALK BY CHURCHILL TOMORROW   Speech at 3:00 P. M. To Be Broadcast in the United States By All Networks.

Bleak Battle News Confronts Readers This Christmas   But Seems Clear Nazi Counterattack Approaching Crisis

West Front Hun Drive Nears Crisis   Reassuring Gleams Not Lacking in Bleak Battle News From  Europe om Christmas  ae

Flag Day Ceremonies Sunday sara ust PPhinnashinhavaheidMadiainiiids  General Byron Will Deliver Main Address At City Park

Flag Day Ceremonies Sunday ; ’ General Byron Wiil Deliver Main Address At City Park

CINCINNATI FACTORY CLOSED BY STRIKE   Race Problems Rise Up as War Effort Threat

GREAT REICH PLANE PLANTS LIE IN RUINS   FACTORIES UNABLE TO KEEP UP WITH DESTRUCTION

Nazi Plane Output Hard Hit by Raids   Spokesman Says Nazis Can't Replace Air Battle Losses~

14 of Reich's Aircraft Centers Are Destroyed   641 German Planes Lost; Allied Toll 3500 Airmen; 450 Craft

German Air Industry Knocked Out fo Point Where It Can No Longer Make Replacements   High American Air Force Spokesman Declares Germany Can No Longer Prevent Allies From Bombing Toraets Wherever Allles Desire

Germans Unable To Replace Aeria Battle Losses  Russians Report  a... ., - DBaerreaee *   Russians Report Continued Success;  Calm Holds in Italy

One Week’s Aerial Attacks Knock Out Nazi Air Industry   Air Raids Intensified On  Defenseless Germany: Hitler Rushes To Front

ENEMY STUNNED, UNABLE TO KEEP INVADERS AWAY   Many of Reich’s Most Valu able Aircraft Centers Blasted Out of War

Rains Still Soak State   Widespread Showers Delay Farm Work, Keep Rivers Bankful

FEAR NAZIS PLAN TO USE POISON GAS   Would Be Last Desperate Act Of Germans

Germans Plan To Use Gas British Paper Declares; Nazis Boast New Weapon —

Swedish Press Dispatches Report Nazis Boasting of New Mystery Weapon Which Will Win War In Next Six Months.   GERMANS FIGHT FOR BEST PEACE

C § ge e as Boast New Mystery Weapon  Sa é:  lazis Set To Use Poison Gas

New V-2 Weapon Readied   Germans Are Told Hitler Will Win War in Six Months

Outburst of German Optimism Brings Belief Hitler Will Use 'Poison. Gas as Last Resort   Nazis Boast of New Weapon Sure to Win War for Reich Within Six Months; “Allied Gains are Sign of Panicky Fear”

Poison Gas Is Expected From Nazis   Germans Boast Mystery Weapon To Win The War.

NAZIS PREPARE POISON GAS USE   CONTINUE BOASTS OF MYSTERY WEAPON

U.S. Troops Take Nancy   *Smash Into Heart Of Vaunted Nazi West Wall 

U. 3. First Army Headquarters, Sept. 18, — (UP)—— American troops surrounded Aachen late today, and the fall of the city  arr Se Bee

U.S. Armor Plunges Into Blazing Tank And Big Artillery Battle In Heart of Nazi Siegfried Line

Lonc on Suffers Worst Since 1940 Blitz: Super Riacke- Bomb’ Pl: nned

Churchill Says. 1,15? Killed By Robot Bombs   About 8,000 Others Seriously Injured By Enemy Weapon

2,752 ARE KILLED BY FLYING BOMBS   Churchill Discloses Heavy Damage in London oe A PAge

Rockets Slay 2, 752 Persons   8,000 Hurt, London Chief Victim, Says Churchill

8,000 Seriously Injured, Churchill. Announces Tn House of ‘Commons :

Churchill s Frank About Bomb Deaths   Lists 2,752 Killed By Nazi Robot Bombs In First Three Weeks

BUZZ BOMB DEATH TOLL IN ENGLAND REVEALED AS 2.752   Churchill Tells Commons §8,000 Others Have Been Seriously Injured in ThreeWeek Period.   CHILDREN TAKEN FROM DANGER ZONE   London Disclosed as Chief Target With. Damage Ex_ tensive—- Answer to Weapon Not Found.

Churchill Tells World in “Brutally Frank” Message; Allies Blasting Launching Sites.

ROCKET BOMB LOSSES BARED BY CHURCHILI   ROBOTS KILL = 2752 AND WOUND 8000 IN 3 WEEKS

Kirke L. Simpson Says: German Flight into Rumania May  Result from Terrific Red Drive

Price Control Bil Heads For More Senate Snags   Debates Center Around Bankhead Cotton Amendment.

YANKS WHITTLE ENEMY’S POWER ALONG MOSELLE   Fisenhower Orders Security Blackout to Screen Movements

SOFTENING OF PEACE TERMS “1S PORECAS]   STALIN SAID TO BE PREPARING TO OFFER MODIFIED TERMS TO FINNISH. GOVERNMENT -

Consumer-Farmer Conflict Remains Paramount in World Food Problem

BEWEY FAVORITE IF U.S, ELECTION WERE DUE TODAY   Roosevelt Secure in 17 ‘@ States but They Have Only 150 Votes

Dewey Heavy Favorite Now   Assert New York Governor Would Win If Election Was Held Today

SINK 24 ENEMY TROOP BARGES   Allied Naval and Air Forces Team in Dealing Sharp Blow to Japs

JAP ESCAPE  BOATS SUNK ~ OFF QUINE!   NAVAL CRAFT AND .PLANES COMBINE TO SINK BARGES CARRYING ENEMY TROOPS:

Allied Air And Naval Forces Sink 24 Barges   Sharp Blow Is Struck At Jap Evacuation Plans In New Guinea   JAP SUPPLY DUMPS ARE ALSO WRECKED

RUSSIAN BOMBING FLEET MAY STRIKE GERMANY IN EAST AS RED ARMIES NEAR NAZIDOM   Hitlerian Air Expert Reminds His People New Danger Confronts Germany As Nazi Armies Retreat Now Toward Homeland. Red Air  ry. Og.

The War Today:  Threat of Air Blows From Russia Worries  Nazi Man-In-the-Street

GERMAN RETREAT ON RUSSIAN — FRONT MAKE IT POSSIBLE REDS TO'BOMB CITIES WITHIN REICH

U. §. Marines and Infantry Invade Guam   Landings Made With Littl: Loss Under Thunderous Barrage

PACIFIC FLEET HEAVYWEIGHTS BOMBARD GUAM   ISLAND APPEARS RIPE FOR RESCUE FROM THE JAPS

PACIFIC FLEET SHELLING GUAM STEADILY TODAY   Japanese Seized Island First Days Of War

GUAM APPEARS ALPE FOR U, INVASION   Battleships Join Assault on Jap-Held Island; Barrage Goes into 13th Day

American Marines And Infantrymen Swarm Ashore On Guam Today, Bent On Taking Island Base From Japan

BATTLE WAGONS TAKE PART IN GUAM ASSAULT   Japanese Navy Minister Ousted After Saipan , Defeat

Battleships Batter Guam   Big Ships Join in Continuous Assault  On Jap-Held Island

EARLY RESCUE OF GUAM LOOMS   Heavyweight Navy Guns Are Turned Qn Island

U: 5. Invasion Guam Expected   American Naval Forces » "Softening Up” Island’s Japanese Defenses

PLAN RETAKING IT FROM JAPS      Island Is First Bit of United States Territory Taken in. Pacific War.   BOMBARDED FOR 17 DAYS

Guam Ripe For Rescue From Japs   Bombarded from Air for 13 Consecutive Days; Japan Reported Ready for Peace on Certain Terms

YANKS LAND ON SHELL - RIDDLED GUAM BEACHES   Big Force Moves Inland Against ‘Moderate Resistance’

17-Day U. S. Pounding Is Continuing   First Bit of U. S. Territory Captured by Japs Is Being Retaken

Battleships Pour Shells On Guam   Big Vessels Join In Non-Stop Assault,  Possible Prelude To Recapture of Island

GUAM CAPTURE BELIEVED NEAR   American Battleships Join Continuous Assault On Island   DEFENSES SOFTENED

Americans Near Nancy   Head for Siegfried Line Where Decisive Battle May Be Fought; Win Bridgehead Across Moselle

Patton’s      Ghent Captured, Ostend, Boulogne, Calais Isolated By AngloCanadians

Clapper Finds The General: 1s “ Available’”  MacArthur’s Presidential Possibilities Discussed:

Aachen In Circle Of Allied Forces   Last Thin Lifeline Pinched Off by Converging a Americans   SOME AID BY CHUTE   Advance in Vosges Puts Alhes Within 32 Miles of Rhine

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Mews Day And Night   First Army Forms Junction At Wurselen, Seal Off Besieged City   Five Nazi Attacks Are Beaten Off   Patrols Clamp Two-Edged Hold On Sea Approach- — es To Antwerp  :

FALL BACK AFTER TEN DAYS’ BATTLE INSIDE FORTRESS   FAIL TO PENETRATE UNDERGROUND PASS MORE THAN 100 YDS.

YANKS FIGHTING AHEAD AGAINST TRAPPED NAZIS   Allied Patrols Cross Neder Rhine in Holland; Advance in Vosges Area

FOE SUPPLIED BY PARACHUTE   Bitter Battle Inside Fort Driant Ends With American Withdrawal.   IREPORT NEW PROGRESS

LIFELINE IS CUT BY YANKS      Nazis in Besieged City Now Can Be Supplied Only by Parachute— Third Army Withdraws From Fort Driant.

Yank Troops Seal Trap On Aachen   North, South Forces Meet, Cut Off Foe’s Narrow Escape Line

YANKS CUT AACHEN LIFELINE, CRUSH FIVE COUNTERATTACKS NAZIS SUPPLY CITY BY AIR

Aachen Now Is Sealed Off   Yanks Fight Off Ferocious German Counterattacks, Edge On in Aachen

FEROCIOUS NAZI ATTACKS AT  CRUCIFIX HILL REPULSED AND RING TIGHTENED GN HUNS

American Troops Battled to a Junction From. Positions North and Northeast of the City.      THE. JUNCTION WAS MADE AT MURFELEN   Was Effected by the U. S. First Army Which Crushed Five Frantic Nazi Counterattacks.

LAST LIFELINE NAZI GARRISON IN DOOMED CITY HAS BEEN CUT  FIVE FRANTIC GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS IN THREE DAYS CRUSHED

Americans Cut Aachen Lifeline In Fierce Fight  Junction Of 2 Allied   Junction Of 2 Allied Cuts Off Aid; Allied Patrols Cross Neder Rhine In Holland

American Forces Meet From Positions North and Northeast of Besieged Nazi City.  4 ¥¥VV¥$_gewkct FLISAARAATEY WY XY   ALLIES COMPLETELY SURROUND THE CITY

FRANTIC ENEMY COUNTER BLOWS CRUSHED BY U. $   Allied Patrols Cross Rhine in Holland. Battle ‘or Fort Driant Ends Unsuccessfully

ALLIED TROOPS RIP ANTWERP SEA ENTRANCES   American Troops Forge Circle Around Aachen

NAZI GARRISO} COMPLETELY ISOLATED   Germans Supplying Troops By Parachute   U.S, FIRST ARMY   Smashes Five Frantic German Counterattacks On Besieged City

Proceed By Blocks  In Aachen   Operate With A Deliberation Intended to Save American Lives

Last Thin Lifeline Of German Garrison Cut By Junction Of Forces Northeast Of City

" Nazi Lifeline Cut by Junction ® North of City.   Americans Smash Five Counter-Attacks Destroying Up to Sixty Enemy Tanks

U. S. Forces Near City Are Joined   Five Frantic. Nazi. Counter Attacks Beaten Off In Bloody Fighting   CANADIAN MOVE UP ON-ANTWER)   Seventh Army in South Drives to. Within 22 Mules of Rhine

Approaches to Antwerp Secured; Units Cross Neder   Dozen Towns Taken ln Broad Advance Through Vosges

AVER BUDAPEST ASSAULT OPENS   60 Divisions and Seven Red Tank Corps Reported in Attack .

Fourth Term Before AFL   Resolution Endorsing FDR Considered  By Convention

HITLER GIVEN A SETBAK ON BALKAN FLANK   Berlin Broadcast Declares Action at Ankara Must Be Regarded as a Prelude to War   RATIFIED BY ASSEMBLY

MANNERHEIM HEADS FINLAND FOR PEACE BID   Russia Reported Willing; Turkey May Make War On Axis  RULLETIN

Dewey Shrugs Off Attacks   Candidate to View Rodeo in Nebraska Today

CONQUEST OF NEW GUINEA ABOUT OVER   Is Now Termed Virtually Completed

Reconquest of New Guinea Nearly Over   MacArthur's Brilliant Strategy Paves Way Kar Philinninee Move

Reconquest of — New Guinea Over   Casualties One-Tenth of Those For Japan

LIGHT RAINS FALL   Are Expected to Cause No Further Flood Troubles

Jap Air Power Can Be Massed ~ Jn Small Are:   Secretary Forrestal Says “Long And Hard” Fight In Prospect In Pacific

30 Jap Bases’ Capture Told. By Forrestal:   Enemy's Air Power Now Massed in Small Area, . Navy Chief Says

Navy Warns Eisenhow Pacific Battle Fight On Will Be Long Soil Is N

Forrestal Sees  ‘Long and Hard’ Fight in Pacific   _ Points Out Japs Conserving Air Power, New Have Smaller Thvea te Defend

Japs Can Now Mass Their Air Power, He Says   Forrestal Sees Long, Hard War In Pacific

FORRESTAL SAYS LONG, HARD WAR’ WITH JAPS AHEAD   Jap Air Force Now Massed In Small Area And Will Give U. S. Stronger Re sistance.

Jap Mass Air Power   fait 2 VUWCL  Long and Hard Fight Ahead, Secretary of Naww Forrestal Sav«

Forrestal Sees Long, Hard Fight As Japan Masses Her Air Power In Narrowing Theater Of Action

FORRESTAL PREDICTS LONG, HARD FIGHT IN WHIPPING JAPAN  JAPANESE NOW ABLE TO CONCENTRATE AIR POWER IN SMAIT AREA

SIX JAP NAVY CHIEFS KILLED   Die In Battle With Yanks Raiding Fortress Guarding Tokyo

LONG HARD FIGHT WITH JAPS SEEN BY SECY. FORRESTAL: EXPLAINS VIEWS

NAZI ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAD FIZZ7LE OUT   Only Skirmishes and Artillery Duels Being Fought There .

NAZI ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAD STOPPED COLD   Described Today as iD ailure  ALLIES ADV ANCE  eet ce ee  Aerial Forces Make 500 Sorties

Second German Attempt To Drive Fifth Army From Their Beachhead Below Rome Fails

Second German Offensive, With 135,000 Men, Fails   Nazi Attempts To Drive Fifth Army Off Italian Beachhead Are Foiled   HEAVY CASUALTIES SUFFERED BY GERMANS

Truman Urges  F.D.R. Reelection   Probe Chairman Says President Hasn’t Hidden Mistakes.

Allies Launch Another Drive Upon Germans   Seize Objectives In Sector Between Nice-Marseilles

BOND SALES HERE ~ AROUND $500,000   Plans Mapped to Speed Campaign in Washing. ton County

GOAL IS NEAR IN BOND DRIVE HERE   Official Total Placed at $1,867,432.50 by ©  Chairman

WAR LOAN TOTALS G0 OVER MILLION   Estimated Figures Giver as Postoffice Sales Increase

BOND TOTALS RISE IN CAMPAIGN HERE   ailmater Figure: Put at 700,000 as State. : - Bite: Goel - :

BOND TOTALS RISE IN CAMPAIGN HERE   Estimated Figure Put at $2,700,000 as State Hits Gocl

BOND SALES IN CHARLEROI ARE SLOWLY RISING      About $20,000 Increase Is Included In Reports Made Today

LOCAL BOND SALES —NEAR TWO MILLION   Additional Figures to be -Reported Today From Bank Sales

POLICE GET TWC FALSE ALARMS DURING NIGHT   One to Quiet Black Cat, Other for “Attempted Break-In”

AERIAL BLITZ ENTERS 31ST STRAIGHT DAY   RAF Visits Cologne Last Night  ee ae  ALL PLANES SAFE  ee,  Weather Hindered Week-End Raids

PAS DE CALAIS, COLOGNE HIT BY ALLIED BOMBS   RAF And Yankee Forces Press Pre-Invasion Aerial Assaults

U.S. "HEAVIES’ HIT TARGETS IN NORTH FRANCE   R. A. F. Blasts Cologne; Nazi Flyers Stage Spy Raids

New Application Form for. Commercial Vehicles Announced   Old Forms May Be Used Until September First

St. Louis Millionaire Holes Up Fos Six Years ToStudy and Just Read

JUDGE TO GIVE BALLOT RULING   State Opposes Decision tr Trumbull-co Action

ALLIES REACH OBJECTIVES IN INVASION   Of Islands in -alau Group; Sst. Division Cracks Defenses of Anvan.   Tiny Planes

Mass Sedition Trial   Opens 4th Turbulent Month—*Side Issues Numerous’

BOND DRIVE AT HALFWAY MARK   Purchases Yesterday Push Sales Figure to $957,460, Is Report

SALES OF WAR BONDS LAGGING   First Week's Total Here Is Only $176,686, But "E’ Sales Move Up

French Militia Flouts Decree   Order To Disarm Brings on Crisis for DeGaulle

O’GAULLE ORDER BEING OPPOSED   Attempt To Disarm Under. ground Forces In France  Is Challenged

Underground Opposes Ban On Firearms   DeGaulle Order  Causes Crisis

De Gaulle Regime  Faces Exigency Order Disarming Patriotic Militia Being Protested

DE GAULLE ORDER MEETS OPPOSITION   Disarmament Decree rks Civilian Branches of Authority

De Gaulle Government Precipitates First-Class  Crisis With Decree Disarming All But Army, Police

Crisis Created by New Decree of Government   Bulgaria Pledged to Give Full Aid in War on Nazis

De Gaulle Creates French Crisis With Order to Disarm Communists   Affects Maquis and All Other Elements That Resisted Germans, Though Lauding Their War Work

Fear Trouble From French Partisan Group   Communists Defy De Gaulle Order Restricting Carrying of Arms to Police and Army

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A DESPERATE NAZI   Throws Everything Available At Reds to Stem Offensive Into Poland And Czechoslavakia.

GERMANS THROW MORE TANKS INTO BATTLE AGAINST RUSSIAN ARMIES   Nazis Trying To Halt Soviet Preparations For Drive Into Czechoslovakia.

GREAT CONVOY DELIVERS U. S. TROOPS ABROAD   One of Largest Contingents Ever fo Cross Allantic Suffered No UBoai Aitacks Enroute   READY FOR FIGHT   Troops Highly Trained and Fully Equipped — Scattered to Bases Throughout United Kingdom

Convoy Hauling Big Contingent _ Of Troops Docks   Huge American Force - Crosses With owe f Sirigle Attack

Invasion Foree Strengthened   One Of The Largest Contingent Of Americans Arrives In England.

Invasion Army Boosted Greatly   Huge Convoys Cross Atlantic Safely

Yank Invasion Forces In Britain Increased - By Biggest Convoy Yet

Huge American Convoy Arrives In Great Britain   Thousands of Yanks Reinforce Eisenhower For Invasion Thrust

THOUSANDS OF YANK TROOPS REACH BRITISH ISLES AFTER SUCCESSFUL OCEAN CROSSING

FROM AMERICA IN ENGLAND   One of Largest Convoys Ever to Cross Atlantic Arrives Safely with Large Contingent

U.S. Invasion Forces Grow _ AsConvoy Reaches England   One Of Largest Contingents Of Yank Troops Ever Sent : Abroad Crosses Atlantic Without Single Attack

More Troops Info Brifain   Huge Convoy Has Storm Discomfort, No Sub Attacks

BiG CONVOY REACHES BRITAIN FOR INVASION   Crossing Made Without Single Submarine Contact

HUGE CONVOY SAILS ATLANTIC   Contingent of U. S. Invasion Forces Makes Crossing Without Incident

CONVOY LANDING IS MADE SAFELY   Large Force of American Troops Arrive Without U-Boat Trouble

Great Force of . American Troops Lands in- England   _ All Are Ready for  - Combat; Crossing» Made without Single Attack by U-Boats

Huge Convoy Makes Shores   More U. S. Soldiers Landed In England

Big U. S. Convoy  Reaches Britain  Reinforcements Mak e¢ Crossing Unmolsted

Invasion Forces in Britain Enforced by One of Largest Contingents of Americans   Convoy Makes Trip Across Atlantic Without a Single Attack by German Submarines; New Trooss Dismerced to Yarious Bases

Thousands Cross Atlantic Ready For Invasion   No Attacks Made By Submarines

CONVOY GROSSING (S WITHOUT MMISHAF   One of Largest Contingents Of Troops Ever to Cross Atlantic.

Large Contigent Of Troops Safe   U. S. FORCES REACHED ENGLAND FOR  ‘INVASION

GREATEST CONVOY LANDS IN BRITAIN   Rough Sea Causes Only Excitement For Men Fully. Ready For Battle.

Mammoth  Convoy To Britiin   Contingent of U. S. Troops Makes Crossing “Without Incident”; Readv for Combat

AMERICAN CONVOY ~ REACHES ENGLAND      Great Contingent of Sol. diers Landed ‘After   'Safe Vovace

Huge New froop Convoy to Britain   American Soldiers Have Quiet Crossing

Convoy Safe in Great Britain   Large Number of U.S Fighting Men Make Trip Without Attack

Huge Convoy Lands Safely  In Britain   Invasion Forces Mightily Strengthened By Fully Trained Troops

Lands In Great Britain Without Single Altack By Enemy Subs; Heavy Storms Encountered

RECORD CONVOY CROSSES OCEAN   'Highly-Trained Combat Troops  Land In England

REINFORCE U. S. INVASION UNITS   Largest American Convoy Arrives in England

Invasion Forces Reinforced — By Arrival Of Great Convoy   Largest Contingent Of Soldiers Ever To Go Across At One Time

LARGEST CONVOY OF U.S. TROOPS REACHES BRITAIN   CROSSING WAS MADE WITHOUT ATTACK BY ENEMY SUBMARINES

Biggest Tanks Attempt To : Halt La Haye Capture--Soviets Nearing Latvia

Soviet Advance Is Now Nearing Latvia Borders   Soviet Adial Armadas Aid » In Hurling Devastation In Fleeing Nazi Ranks   REDS ARE ONLY 100 MILES FROM GERMANY

Bashore Tells of Plans for Unified — Developmen? of 14 Large River Basins

Nylon Industry Can. Supply All U.S. Hosiery Demand :as War Needs Drop ©

Yugoslav Capital Liberated Hungarian Stronghold Falls   Russians Reported 7 Miles Inside East Prussia; Partisans Seize Port

Belgrade s Liberated By Soviet Army   Way, Now Cleared for Drive Upon Budapest

$2,594 Japs Casualties in  Philippines   Yank Losses 10,409,  MacArthur Reveals;  77h Division Gains §-29’S HIT BURMA

Japanese Lose 82,504 Men in Philippines  American Casualtie: a ee ele   American Casualties Are Set at 10,409 by MacArthur   The Pacific War

Japs’ Losses Top Ours, Eight to One: B-29s Score Again  Navy Blasts 91 Nip Planes on Luzon Raid; U. S. Gains on Leyte

Jap Losses in Philippines Since Invasion Started on Oct. 20 Total 82,554 Men

Ration of Eight to One With American Casualties Listed   U. S. Planes Down 91 Japanese Aircraft As Ground Forces on Leyte Capture Supply Depot

NAZIS PONDER NEW STEPS TO TIGHTEN RULE   Hitler’s Control Over Army Indicated By General’s ‘Congratulations’

Hitler Calls For All-Out  Mobilization   Goering Heads Defense Council; Goebbels And Himmler Get Top Places

PURGE PUTS NAZI PARTY IN CONTROL   Evidences Point to Complete Subjugation of Army by Hitler and His Aides

GOERING IS GIVEN GREAT : _ POWERS AS DEFENSE CHIEF   May Even Give Orders to Hitler in All-Out Move te Adapt Reich and Territories ’. to. War

Orders Move. Up Goebbels  To Commissar  In New Plan    Entire Country Put Under Defense. U nit

Hitler Appoints Goering and Goebbels To Head Defense and Total War Effort  New Arrests Reported in Blood Purge With Repercussions in Sweden as Russian Armies and Allies Push Offensives

Goering De Facto Dictator   In Complete Charge Of Internal Affairs; Goebbels is “Commisar Of Total War Effort”

Total Mobilization of Reich, Occupied Countries Ordered   Hitler Issues Decree as Enemies Pound at Doors to Germany

Hitler Names Goering Chairman Of Home Defense, Orders Total (Mobilization Of War Resources

Goering Appointed Chairmar Of Defense Council; New ‘Decrees May Be Issued Soon   Reichsmarshall Will Supervise Railways, Mail, and Industries; May Issue Orders To Hiahest Reich Authorities

TOTAL GERI MOBILIZATION HITLER ORDER   Appoints Goering Defense Chairman With Supervisory Powers

Air Chief May Be Hitler's Boss as Civil Life in Reich Is Turned Upside Down

Goering Named Defense Head Of All Reich   Hitler Also Issues Decree Ordering Total Mobili. zation of Germany and  Occupied Territories

Reich, All Occupied Nations Will Feel ‘Weight Of Decree; Goebbels Gets Post

HITLER NAMES GOERING HOME DEFENSE BOSS   Powers Surpass Those of Fuehrer, Himmler On Homefront

MOBILIZATION OF CONQUERED AREA ORDERED   Goebbels Appointed te Direct Germany's  New Effort

Total Mobilization of Germany And Slave Countries Ordered   . « Fuehrer Strives To Bolster Tottering Empire

Goering Put In Charge of Reich Defense   Hitler Orders Total Mobilization of All Nazi Territory

Hitler Orders Total Mobilization Of Reich And Occupied Countries And In New Decree Names Goering Chairman Of Defense Council

GOERING HEADS DEFENSE EFFORT   GOEBBELS NAMED REICH COMMISSAR IN DRASTIC MOVE

Upheaval In Reich  Grave   Goering Named Head of Defense And Goebbels  War Commisar

Names Goering As Chairman Of Reich Defense  Fuehrer Decree Calls For Mobiliz fier n Of

Germany Faces Drastic-Measures  Hitler Henchmen Take Control   Hitler Henchmen Take Control Of Army, Nazi Leaders in Command

Hitler Mobilizes German Reich for Total War Effort   Goering, Goebbels and Himmler Appointed To Key Positions in Dafense of Nation

“  SNAZT REVOLT = Reich’s Armed Forces  Controlled By Nazis      Field Marshail-Gen. Walther von Model, Leader Of One Of. Germany’s Battered Eastern Armies Sends Congratulations To Hitler

Goering Is Named Council Chairman Of Reich Defense In Sudden Move   All Occupied Area To Be Mobilized Under Decree

Hitler Decrees Total Mobilization ‘Of Nazi Territory   Goering Named Chairman of Council For Defense of Reich

Reichmarshal Authorized to Issue Orders to ‘Highest’ Nazis   Wording of Announcement Hints His Power Surpasses Fuehrer’s

Hitler Names Marshal Home Defense Chie!   Total Mobilization’  Decreed; Generals Urae Rebellion

se ceninenniatiennettiedentineettnaestiameetinanntienedtibantdtnemttantinematinenstamnet  Nephew Of Local ‘Woman Reported Killed In Action

PFC J.C. NORTHRUP KILLED AW ACTION   BROTHER OF RICHWOOD LADY LOSES LIFE OVER HOLLAND. MEMBER PARATROOP UNIT

Jap Counter-Attacks lon U.S. Positions  Beaten Off by Marines   Pressure Is Directed Against Borgen Bay Area; Liberators Join in Hammering Enemy's Positions

NEW ACTION TO CLEAR ANTWERP FOR ALLIED CONVOYS UNDER WAY  REPORTED LANDING ON BEVELAND ISLAND NOT ALT @W  CANLIDEMEHT Atrir

New Blow at Germans On Island   British Landing on South Shore of Beveland Near Antwerp Reported   11,000 NAZIS. MAY BE TRAPPED THERE   British Also Close In on Tilburg; May Cut Off Escape for 50,000 Troops

Nazis Trapped In Holland hy Allied Forees   Reported Landing on Beveland Island May Be Another Phase of Attack To Open Antwerp as Supply Port

50,000 Huns Goal of Trap in Holland   British Eighth Army Moves to within 37 Miles of Bologna in Italy

Allied Forces Yn New Drive For Antwerp   Berlin Reports Landings Made on Schelde Island:

NEW ACTION T0 CLEAR ANTWERP FOR ALLIED CONVOYS UNDER WAY  REPORTED LANDING ON BEVELAND ISLAND NOT

QUADS IN FINE CONDITION NOW   Hospital Issues Encouraging Report — Mother Doing W ell.

Outer Crust Nazi Defenses Penetrated in Couple Hours, Drive Carries Four Miles South St. Lo-Periers Road

Allied D Drive       Scores Gains   U.S. Tanks Smash Breach 4 Miles Deep i in German Lines Today

Heavy Thrust Puts Allies Four Miles — Below St. Lo   ‘Troops Battle’ With ‘Enemy “At. ‘Marigny

Allied Drive In Normandy Scores Gains   U.S. Tanks Smash Breach 4 Miles Deep in German Lines Today

Four-Mile Gap Cut Near St. Lo: Battle Grows   Infantry And Armored Forces Reach Main Nazi Defenses

Cheering American lnfanirymen Mouni Armor. Into Battle   Hammer Into Terrific Struggle in Marigny Streets Today

2 ‘Waist’? Towns ‘Reported Taken  By Finn Forces   German Reinforcements Halt Drive Near Kemi; Reveal Heavy Fighting

Finns Capture German Force   Nazis Reported Driven Out Of Tornea in Banle

Finns Press After Fleeing Nazi Forces   Capture Town And Continue Advance

Allied Campaign Shaping Into Three Wedges Forcing More German Reserves

U.S. Armies Form Solid Attack Line   Three Now Ranged Along Roer Anu Saar, Important Rhine Barriers

WALKOUT WILL BE HALTED BY ARMED FORCES   Transportation System In Philadelphia Seized By Army — Roosevelt Approves Move

Question Of Employment Of Negroes Is Still Left Unsettled   WAR PRODUCTION IN CITY MUCH AFFECTED

Army Takes Over Philadelphia's Transit System  6000 Agree to End Three-Day Walkout ;  Claim Negro Issue Won

Philly Workers End Strike As Army Steps In   Transportation Employes Vote to Return to Jobs a few Hours After Government. Seizes System—Mass Meeting Held 

ARMY SEIZES PHILADELPHIA TRANSPORTS   Gen. Hayes Counts on 6,000 Idle PTC Employes To Report for Work This Morning.   Violence Subsides

Strikers Vote To Return — After Army. Takes Over   ‘STRIKERS TAKE VOTE AFTER ARMY APPEAL   “Ghrelin of Negroes _. Which Caused Strike Tnsettled Question:  -

Gen. Hayes Takes ommand of All Jransporfation   (alls on Workers lo Return fo Jobs

T0 OPERATE STREET CARS AND BUSSE   \ Troops Act on Authorization ‘of Roosevelt to End -'Three-Day Walkout of 6,000.   TIE-UP HAD CUT WAR PRODUCTION   Strike Marked by Clashes Between Whites and Negroes in Which 13 Were Hospitalized.

Prime Minister Predicts Increasing Close Collaboration Between Its Leaders and Those Of United States.

ROMMEL USING EVERYTHING HE HAS IN BATTLE   No Holds Barred on Either Side, Writes Huss From La Haye

GREAT BATTLE OF NORMANDY KEPT ROLLING   TANKS BEATEN BACK; GERMANS FACING MAJOR DEFEAT

CIO Wins Workers’  Election   Avery Says Public  Indignation Forced . 5. Out,  Challenges Results.

Company Chairman Sewell Avery Fires Blast at Commerce Secretary Jones and Chief Executive

BYRD PLANS 10 PROBE BUDGET   Cites Huge Unexpended Balances In Four Departments

Senate Near Final Action . On Tax Bill   Special Finance Commit‘tee Meeting Called to Work on Changes

Entire Gestapo May Be Tried   Allies Agreed On Three Main Points For Post War Germany.

Allied Policy for Reform In Germany Will Be Fully Developed After Nazi Fall

Senator Charges. Soviets Violate Follahoration Asks it Cruiser_S en To a Rusales By Way of —

NAVAL TRANSFER RUMOR IRKS SOLON   Senator Bridges Says Soviet Policy Story Unable to ' Be Checked

Bridges Asks if U. S. Cruiser   Given to Russia   New Hampshire Senator Demands Confirmation Or Denial of Rumors

Senator Curious On Aid to Reds   Bridges Hears U. S. Transferred Warship

Bridges Charges Russia Breaking War Agreements  Reports American   Reports American Cruiser Given Reds As ‘Appeasement’

Will Be Week or So Before F. R. Returns tc Capital, Ist Lady Says

Roosevelt fo Stay i in South   Doctors Dc Not Want Him ic Leave Until He Has Completed Rest

WRS, ROOSEVELT SAYS PRES. OK   Will Return From Southern Resort in “Week or So”

Chariton Boy Gets DFC As Tail Gunner  Gn ‘Tuxedo Tomie’   Holds Many Other Medals Indicating His Courage.

BOYS INJURED WHEN TRUCK OVERTURNS   Vehicle In Which Three Hanove1 Youths Were Riding Meets With Accident

First Absentee Returns Favor Roy McKittrick   Mail Vote Count in 69 Jack ‘son County Precincts Against Donnell   OTHER COUNTIES. CUT DONNELL’S LEAD   Governor Is 8,17 8,171 Ahead, Only 23 Precincts Missing, in Vote at Polls

U.S. Planes Hit Japs at  Mariana Is.   Carrier-Based Planes Catch Portion of Jop Fleet at Base

NEW RAIDS MAY HAVE WRECKED MORE JAP SHIPS   Assault Made On Twin Mariana Bases Of Tinian And Sapian

ANOTHER DAMAGING BLOW AT JAPANESE FLEET IS REPORTED   Bold Attack By U. S. Carrier Force On Bases 1,300 Miles From Tokyo May Have Revealed Truk Victory

AMERICAN TASK FORCES ATTACK NEARER TOKYO   Speculation Grows That Yanks Again Caught Japs by Surprise

NEW BLOW DEALT TO JAP FLEET   Hundreds of U.S. Planes Assault Twin Mariana Bases

Yanks Blast  Tand’ Tnner teed chen a, Se Se Ne  ‘Island Forts   Enemy ‘Warships Targe _ in Air Raid on Twin Mariana Islands   PARRY BASE SEIZED   Occupation of Eniwetok _ Finished; 3,000 Japs Believed Slain

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST BASES: IN MARIANAS   Naval Task Force _ Thrusts to Within 1306 Mi. of Tokyo

OPERATIONS ARE. “NLAST BARRIER “TOUAPAN ISEL   Adm. Nimitz Reports Assault Opened Tuesday, Radio: Is Silent, Complete Facts Are Unknown.   REDS, ENEMY ENGAGE JN STREET FIGHTING   Soviets Break Into Dno Out: skirts, Capture 150 Local ities,.1500 Germans Are Killad :

TASK FORGE HITS BASE WITHIN 1300 MILES OF TOKYQ   Another Segment of Jap Fleet May Have Been Caught In Surprise Blow.

Task Force Hits Last Islands On Way To Tokyo   Yanks Move In On Eniwetok Atoll In Marshall Sector

MARIANA RAID SEEN AS BLOW TO JAP FLEET   Big Jump on Road to Tokyo

ANOTHER UNIT OF JAP FLEET LIKELY STRUCK   Speculation Grows Over Possible Result of Attacks on Mariana Bases.

Twin Mariana Bases of Japs Bombed by U. §.   Naval Force tn Action 1300 Miles From Tokyo

Portion of Nip Fleet 8 TWO STRONGHOLDS IN MARIANAS GROUP RAIDED BY U. S. PLANES

Believe Hundreds Of U. S. Planes Have Wrecked Another Portion Of The Jap Fleet © -

Christmas Seal Sale Successful  Mefinriale af Triva      Officials of Drive Are Grateful

Christmas Seal Sale Successful   Officials of Drive Are Grateful

Restraint in Welcoming Year 194 Asked of Motorists. Other Residents

USE RESTRAINT, © URGES. STINE   Drive Sanely Over: Annual Hol-¥ iday, He Says—14 Deaths - Past Week-End.

Army Group Ousts Three From Office   War Declaration Ready When Colonels Group Steps In To Stop It.

ARGENTINE OFFICERS IN COUP   Reportedly Blocked War Declaration Against Axis

Yanks Repulse Counter Attack In Admuralties   American Forces Rush Work On Airfield On Captured Los Negros Island   BASE IS BUT 610 MILES FROM TRUK

NEW AIRFIELD ON ADMIRALTY ISLES FOR U. 8.   Sharp Jap CounterAttack Beaten     WAKE IS BL ASTED  Yank pre Roam In Pacific

U. S. SOON T0 USE AIRBASE Ih ADMIRALTIES   Men of MacArthur “Bloodily” Repulse Counter-Attack

Japanese Counter-Attack In The Admiralty Islands Is “Bloodily Repulsed”’

Win Beacheads In Normandy   Landings Made from Cherbourg to  Le Havre, Germans Say—11,000 Planes Support Attack—Russians Reported Massing for Another Great Attack

Thousands of Airborne Troops Flank West Wall-4000 Naval Shipsin ArmadaLeHavre Is Objective

Advance Several Miles From Secured Positions Along Normandy Coast   Meet Unexpectedly Slight Opposition, Losses Smailer Than Anticipated; Coastal Guns Silenced

Enemy-Held Territory Penetrated in Normandy Area Against Unexpectedly Slight Opposition And With Losses Much Smaller Than Anticipated—Airborne Troops Lead Assault—“First Of A Series” Of Attacks, Churchill Declares

TOKYO ADMITS U.S FLEET ATTACK ON TRUK DISASTROUS   Two Nipponese Cruisers, Three Destroyers and 14 Other Shios Sunk

Comes After Severe Blow By America   U-S PLANES’ BLAST OF REICH IS FOLLOWED BY BOMBARD. ING BY CRAFT BY RAF.

New Cave-In Spurs Town Into Action   Anti-Sinking Steps Demanded Following Second Incident

TRIBUTE PAID T0 ADAMS COUNTIAN   Major Earl W. Worley, Littlestown R. D, 2, Director Of Training For Army = Air Forces At Arizona Field

Carriers Hit Near Nips’ Home Island   Destroy 84 Planes In Raid Within 600 Miles of Tokyo

Sink And Damage 58 Ships, 89 Planes On Ryukyu Islands   Operations 200 Miles From Japan Homeland Signals Nearness of Pay-Off Day; Blasts Buildings and Defense Installations.

AB. LOVEJOY, WWhlaT, DEAD AT 76 HERE   Heart Ailment Fatal After Week in Hospital; Rites Saturday.

Head for Civitavecchia 40 Miles From Holy City. Nazi Army Broken

American Fifth rmy Smashes head in Italy   Nazis Near End Of Resistance

FIFTH ARMY FANS OUT ON WIDE FRONT   Advances Rapidly on Objectives Above Rome—German Re _ sistance “Light.” ©

MAJOR BREAK REPORTED ON ITALIAN FRONT   FIFTH ARMY GAINS 10 TO 12 MILES ABOVE ROME

Attack Catches Germans Napping  Enemy Defense Collapses Reafare Clark While Wh

hifth Army Smashes Ahead Above Rome   Fifth Army Continues Rapid Advance in Direction of Key Tyrrhenian Port of Civitavecchia: Nazi Resistance Is Light

FIFTH ARMY'S MAJOR BREAK ABOVE ROME   Reported by Germans; Fan Out on Wide Front 10 Miles from Eternal City; Nazis Breaking.   2,300 Sorties

ALLIES DRIVE TO TEN MILES ABOVE ROME   Fifth Army Fans: Out on a Wide Front

Germans Admit Major Breakthrough in Italy  Allied Troops Plunge on Toward  ame'« Seanart of Civitavecchia

Germans Admit Allies Have Made Major » Break Through Lines; Alexander Says Strength Of Nazi Armies Broken

80,000 Japanese Killed Thus Far,  Nimitz Declares  Reviews Provress

ODT ODT Warns There Is No Room For Any Vacation Travel On Nation’s Trains

Frenchmen Stage General Uprising Throughout Haute Savoie; Town After Town Is Liberated

Major revolt  flames along Swiss border  Liquidate nazis  in Hante Savoie

French on Swiss Border Revolt Against Germans Who Fight Among Selves

Ford to Up Wages If U. S. Permits  i... ta ee  ee DReanart   Plans to Follow Report Of New WLB Policy

Ford Anxious  To Up Wages Says He Will Soon As Government Permits

FORD PROPOSES NEW PAY RAISE   Increases Will Come Soon As Government Permits Them

FORD PLANNING WAGE INCREASE   Boost Scheduled As Soon As Government Permits

LOCAL SOLDIER IS KILLED ON FRENCH SOLL   Cpl. Claude R. Ramsburg Lost In Action, Mother  Te Infarmed

ritish Say Reds Cross *Prut; Soviet Artillery Shelling Nazi Defenses   British Bombers Hit Nazi Armament City Of Essen Last Night

Torrent of Steel From the Russian Guns Pouring Into Rumania.   NAZI BOMBERS ARE HAMMERING RUSS   Germans Are Expected to Make Strong Stand in South Area. 

Lack Of Definite Plans By Government Slows Post War Construction

Don't Hope For tarly Victory, Churchill Warns   No One Knows When Germany Will Fall, Commons Is Told

ANTWERP PORT IN OPERATION BY ALLIES   Was Taken Intact It Is Revealed By Churchill

Early Victory Now Doubtec By Churchill   Premier Confesses Changing His Mind Qn Peace Prospects

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO SUBURBS OF BUCHAREST   Fall of Romanian Capital Believed Imminent

Russian Forces Smashing Way  Into Bucharest   Report Red Army Legions Are Already In Environs Of Romanian Capital   PLOESTI OIL FIELDS FALL TO RUSSIANS

Conquering Soviet Forces Smash Into Bucharest After Capture Of Ploesti Fields

Open Up Assaults On Nazis   U. S. Bombers Hit 4 German Cities; Other Targets

TAKEN IN DRIVE   Join Forces Making AnzioVia Casilina Penetra tian   REACH LATEST DEFENSES

Maj. Johnson fo Be Guest of Republic   Ceremonies Held At New York Plant for Oklahoman

Seventh Arm) Narrows Naz! Escape Gap   Death Or Surrender Eave Routed Germans

Starving Trapped Japs in New Guinea Attemot to Reform Shattered Troops

Jap Assaults Thrown Back  Attempt Made to   Attempt Made to Reform Lines

Churchill Says It's Impossible to Tell When German War Will End, But Thinks Not Before Next Summer

Lautious otatement 1a ouggestive—— By Kirke L. simpson (  Charchill Thinks Crisis Coming This Year

Women’s Club Met Tuesday   Shakespeare Members End Vacation, Map Plans For Activities During Year

Club Prepares  For Election   Shakespeare Members Name Committee To Nominate Officers

Japanese Lose 35,000 Troops In Month In India   Last Resistance On Kamaing-Mogaung Road Broken By Allies

TAYLOR ACTED ON HIGHER ORDERS IN SEIZURE OF WARDS   Undersecretary Called Troops Th On Instructions From Superior Officers

WEIRD NAZI PILOTLESS PLANE HARNESSED BY SECRET MEASURES   FLYING TORPEDO DAMAGE LIGHT, BOMBERS EXPLODE ON CONTACT, UNABLE TO RETURN

Almost All of Foe’s Sea Forces Involved in Huge Battle of Warships, Planes

Japanese Navy Badly Defeated, Damaged, Routed   Battleship, Carrier And Smaller Ships Sunk ; 5 Battleships, 2 Carriers Heavily Damaged, 200 Planes Downed In Battle Still Raging.

British Bombers Follow Yanks In Reich Raids   Carry Air Offensive To Wipe Out Plane Plants

Heavy Enemy Attacks Fail. to Stop Yanks   Allies Pound d Rabaul Again, Dropping 33 Tons; “Total over 1,829 in 23 Days -

U. $.-Lit Fires Guide RAF to Nazi Motor City   Sole German Blow At Beachhead Was Repulsed by Allies

RAF Plasters German Plane Engine Center   Huge Bomb Cargoes Unloaded on Augehurg; Frankfurt Aleo Hit

Continue Cycle Ot Raids on Reich Plants   Two Attacks Made As Wintry Weather Makes Fighting  In dtaly Light

_ RAF HURLED GREAT " CARGOES BOMBS ON FLAMING AUGSBURG  AIRPLANE ENGINE PRO-

MATRON, JUDGE TO BE. FINGERPRINTED FOR CHAPLIN CASE      By FPRERERICK. GC, OTH™M, an. United ‘Press Holtywotd  fDlarracninnilant

Ramirez Said  To Have Quit   Argentina’s Affairs Are Again Tansled

U.S. Keeping Watchful Kye On Argentina   Report Ramirez Quii Under Compulsion Affects Recognition

ARGENTINE CHIEF REPORTED OUSTED   INFORMATION REACHING V. 8. HAS BEARING ON RECOGNITION OF COUNTRY.

Ramirez Exit  Held ‘Forced   Capital Sees Recognition Bye 1... S. Tnealeed

Nazi Planes  Raid London   Many Fires Set By Incendiaries and Explosives of Enemy

London Raided Again By Jerries  Berlin Makes Much Of Light Attack

‘Nazi Raiders Strike Anew At London   Drop Explosives And Incendiaries In Fierce Attack

CLAMP PINCERS ON NAZI FLIGHT   Allied Forces Are Reported 100 Road Miles North of Rome

REAR-GUARD, FORCE TRAPPED OBY “DEIVE-NASIO “MAKING. » BRAND ro COVER: RETREAT .

Fi ive Nazi: Held! Airfields In Ttaly Attacked   Returning Fliers Report German-Planes -Blown to Pieces Trying To  Take-to Air

Allies Strike Five Airfields in Northern Italy  Dogfights Are Prelude — Bombing

een om Bm. ot . mos Pe  pelt Ra mh A ea! aie RS To eee  REL CREE * I aia Piaf geet ) Ge of tre Wee a kee © a ie ete  ee ee Daeriaainet BRITE Eee re eee PAI) cae eo: iu rey : i

1,000 Ex-italian War Prisoners, Now U. S. Army Service Troops, To Arrive At Imperial Dam This Week

Tiyan Airfield Falls to Yanks on Guam   Marines and Army Troops Meet Main Jap Forces

3 Towns, Airfield Seized on Guam   Yanks Gain Mile as  Resistance Increases

President Blamed In Chungking Row   Ex-Missionary Tells Of U. S. Ultimatum

Jap Invaders Ot India Lose Three Points  Allies Seek to Hold   Allies Seek to Hold Two Main Roads Leading to Imphal

Invading Japanese Lose Key Positions  Torn Loose From Three  Indian Stronaholde

ALONG KEY HIGHWAY AFTER SURPRISE THRUST ACROSS BURMA_ BORDER; BRITISH TROOPS BEING SUPPLIED BY AIR. ALTHOUGH NOT CUT OFF.

Japs Torn Loose From Positions   Brit Troops Oppose Invasion Thrust

JAP COLUMNS REPULSED ON INDIAN FRONT   ALLIED OFFICERS SAY ENEMY PUSH IS HOPELESS

JAPS CHECKED IN INDIA DRIVE   Torn Loose From Positions Covering Tiddim-Imphal Road, Allies Report

CENTRAL GERMANY, FRENCH COASI POUNDED IN LUFTWAFFE CAMPAIGN   YANKS FROM BRITAIN DESTROY 2100 NAZI PLANES IN EIGHT WEEKS, GENERAL DOOLITTLE STATES

German Fighters Battle Fortresses   Fae Punches Hard As U. S. Bombers Pounce On Central Germany

NAZIWARPLANES PUT UP A FIGHT   Fortresses Plunge Deep Into Central Germany; Doolittle Reports Over 2,100 Nazi Planes Destroyed In Fiocht Weeks.

Army Aiming To Wipe Out Luftwaffe   Flying Forts and Liberators Blast Away At Calais Coastal Area

Assault Aimec At Luftwatte   Allied Airmen Seek To Destroy Hitler's Air Force

AMERICAN FLYING  FORTRESSES RAIDED  CENTRAL GERMANY AT SAME TIME LIBER ATORS POUNDED FRENCH COASTAL AREA

Stiff Air Fights in Germany   Bombers Meet First Opposition In Six Days.

PENCIL QUESTION SAID STILL OPEN      Ericker Renews news Study of ie gues Plans Chat 4 Nith © Leadere

Views His Own, Hershey Claims  Answers Dewey Talk; General A Republican

General Hershey L sed Own Opinion   selective Service Head Set: Gov. Dewey Straight

Hershey Explains His Statement   Assures President Was Talking of Field Where Had No Responsibility

HERSHEY REPLIES TO DEWEY CHARGE   DECLARES STATEMENT ON DEMOBILIZATION WAS HIS PERSONAL OPINION.

EMFULT FALLS TS ALLIES; NO FIGHT   '  ‘Snipers Exchange Shots in Florence, Where Patriots and Fascists Are Kiohtine.   Enlarge Bridgehead

EMPOLI IS SEIZED ~ BY ALLIED FORCES   Italian Town Taken by Eighth Army Without Fiaht

Empoli Taken By Eighth Army Without Fight   Nazis Probe Allied Lines Bolstered by Hitler Promise of New Offensive Soon

Empoli Falls To 8th Army   Florentine Civil Warfare Poses Allied Problem

EMPOLT CITY CAPTURED BY ALLIED TROOPS   Poles And Italians On Ad riatic Sector Enlarge Bridgehead Across  Cesano River

Allies Take . Empoli, West Of Florence   Hitler tells Germans  Reich's Armies Will  Soon Resume the Offensive

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES EMPOL!   Arno River City West of Florence Falls Without Fight

Hitler Boasts ()f New Blows   Hitler Attempts To Boost Retreating Reich Armies.

0. P. A. More Lenient in Ment Rationing in Month of March   Ten Thousand New Car; Will Be Released Next Month.

Vatican Sources Report Pope Told Churchill Church Recognizes the Justice of Punishing War Criminals

Churchill, Pope Conter   Prelate Sces Justice Of Punishing War Criminals, Report

Pope to Approve War Guilt Trials   Church Will Recognize Justice of Punishing Axis Criminals

War Orphan   Baby, Youngest Passenger To Cross Atlantic On Army Plane.

Heart Attack Fatal 'To General Roosevelt   Son of Farmer President Dies While Resting In Captured Truck

Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Dies at Head of Divistor      Heart Attack Sufferec Near Front in France. Fatal to Soldier

Gen. Roosevelt Dies of Heart Attack   Death Comes as He Rests Quietly in Captured Nazi Truck

SON OF ‘TEDDY’ IS DEAD   GEN. ROOSEVELT SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF NORMANDY

HERO OF TWO WARS BURIED IN NORMANDY   Heart Attack Is Fatal To General While On Front-Lone Tour

Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Dies at 56 on French Front   Son of Former President Expires While Resting in Captured Nazi Truck Shortl? After Visiting Son; Burial to Be Today

, —ROOSEVELT—  Teddy Jr. Succumbs  In Truck   Death Strikes Former President’s Son At Rest In: Normandy

GEN, ROOSEVELT DIES IN FRANCE   Brilliant Military Career Ended By Heart Attack

Gen. Roosevelt Dies in Normandy   Son of Former lL. S. President Succumbs to Sudden Heart Attack

Prepare Full Army Rites For Roosevelt   Teddy's Son Victim of Heart Attack While  Serving Nation

Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt ‘Dies of Heart Attack in Normandy

Gen. Roosevelt Dies At Battle Post In France   Son Of Former President Victim Of Heart Attack At 56.

GEN. ROOSEVELT DIES IN FRANCE ‘OF HEART ATTACK   TEDDY, JR., FOUGHT IN TWO WARS; WILL LIE IN FRENCH SOIL

Was Veteran of Two World Wars  Adventerous Life Broucht to Clese

GEN. THEO. ROOSEVELT DIED A HERO    Heart Attack, in France Due to Battle Fatigue

Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, 56, Dies of Heart Attack in Normandy; Had Been in First Invasion Wave

Gen. Roosevelt Dies While at The War Front   Son of the Former President Expires in  A Captured Truck

Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Dies of Heart Attack   Stricken at Headquarters on Normandy Front, Where He Led Division: Was in Africa Campaign

Heart Attack Fatal to Son of Teddy Roosevel   Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; Wounded and Decorated “As Major in Last War

FULL MILITARY FUNERAL SET FOR GEN. ROOSEVELT   Son Of Former President Dies Of Heart Attack In Normandy

Gen. Roosevelt Dies in- France   Battlefield Heart Attack . Fatal to ‘Teddy’. Ir.

Burial To Be On French Soi!   Brig. Gen. Theodore Roose velt, Jr., Dies Of Heart  Attack.

Gen. Roosevelt Dies in Normandy Of Heart Attack  c.., ef FB Gietebean Pane Race   Son of TR, Stricken Four Days Earlier, Continued Strenuous Duties at Front Until Death

TEDDY BURIED NEAR BROTHER      French Soil Gets Body of Adventurous Son of Former President

GEN, ROOSEVELT DIES IN NORMANDY OF HEART ATTACK   End Comes to Theodore, jr.. Son of Former President, as He Rests in Captured Truck.   BODY TO BE BURIED IN FRENCH CEMETERY   Officer Made Assault Landings in Algeria and Sicily — Fought in First World War.

General Teddy Roosevelt Jr. Dies Of Heart Attack On Battlefield In Normandy

Rep. Miller Urges MacArthur to Break Political Silence and Say He's Available for Nomination

GREAT FLEET NOW MASSING FOR JAP RAID   Enemy Positions In Ali Sectors Beings Bombed

Tempo of War Against Japan ls Far Flung   Japanese Positions in Every Section of Pacific Being Blasted

EVERY SECTOR   Allied Plane Attacks May Be Forerunner of New Landing Assaults.   SHIPS, PLANES IN NORTH

Allied Flyers Pound Japanese On Every Front   Attacks Forerunners Of New Landing Blows Against Bases

Great Pacific Air Blows Might Be Invasion Prelude   Allied Attacks on Japs Range From Far North to South

Heavy Allied Air Blows In Pacific Seen as Prelude to New Landinas

Planes Smash Jap Positions   Hammer At Every Sector, Hint At Landings to Come

Planes Blast Javs; Allies Plan Landings   Smashing at Enemy Positions in Every Front In Pacific

Far-Ranging Allied Warplanes Pounding at Japs’ Positions   Aerial Activities May be Forerunner of New Landings

[MAY BE FORERUNNER OF NEW LANDING ASSAULTS AGAINST ENEMY’S OCEAN BASES   U.S. 14th Army Air Force Strikes at Jap Bases In Thailand. Japs Claim U. S. Is Massing Vast Fleet of Airplanes and Ships in Northern Sector

Allied Blows Hint Of New Landings On Pacific Bases   Planes Pound Foe in All Sectors of The Battie Front

RAIDS POINT 10 NEW LANDINGS ON JAP BASES   Planes Smash at Nippon Positions in Every Sector of Pacific Front

Airmen Hammer Japs lin Every Sector of the \Pacific Battle Front

Pacific Bases Of _. Japs Are Bombed   FAR-RANGING PLANES OF ALLIED COMMAND IN ACTION.

HINT NEWU. S, INVASIONS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Airmen Attack All Japanese Bases in Area; Marshalls, Rabaul Main Targets

Allies Blast Jap Bases   Air Fury ii in Pacific To Pre-Invasion Level: Fan Inland at Saidor

ALLIED AIRMEN SMASH JAPS ON MANY FRONTS   American Fliers Ba Based in Chin: Strafe Thailand—Chinese Ready for Counter-Offensive   PARAMUSHIRO HIT   Jap Air Resistance Stilfens Over Marshalls but Allies Down 10 Witheut Loss

NEW BLOWS SEEN AS FORERUNNER TO LAND THRUSTS   JAPS ASSERT U. S. IS MASSING GREAT FLEET FOR ATTACK

Far-Ranging Allied Air Blows In Pacific May Pressage New Land Raids

ALLIED AIR ATTACKS OF JAP ISLAND BASES BEING CONTINUED  ARE INDICATION OF PLANNED NEW LANDINGS ON ENEMY TERRITORY

Allies May Be Ready for New Landing   Groundwork Is Seen For Blows at Japan in Future

Allied Raiders Soften Up Jap Pacitie Bases   New Landing Assaults Likely As Americans. Aussies Bomb Nip Positions,   ATTACKS WIDE-SPREAD

Veterans’ Pay Debate Continues   Fight Waged for Bigger Allowance

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today.   Amendment Defeated.

’ SEEK MORE LIBERAL MUSTERING OUT PAY » FOR WAR VETERANS   Floor Fight Carried Into Second Day In  House 

SE MOVING TO SHOWDOWN ON MUSTER-OUT PAY   Advocates Of More Liberal Allow. ance Opposing Committee Mensure

House Passes Mustering Out Pay Measure   Bill Would Give  Discharged Vets @100 tn 2200

Channel Ports Objective of Nazi Strategy  Military Experts in Washington See Ohbiective<«

Allied Supply Lines From Coast Would Be Cut if They Reach Objective and Ring Thrown Around Eisenhower’s Armies on Northern Sector of Western Front—Foe Expected to Attempt Crossing of Meuse in Namur Area.

(Channel Ports Seen as Goal  ‘Of Nazi Push   Success Would Trap Huge Allied Forces In Northern Sector  MEUSE IS BARRIER

French Gain Two Miles on Leff Cassino Flank   American Troops Press Farther Into ‘Gustav Line’

Japanese Leaving Sio; French Gain On Italian Front   Australian Troops May Already Control Aficcion: Allies Move Nearer Cassino Bastion

French Go — Forward in. Hot Batile   Five Nazi. - Counterattacks: Beaten Off in Two-Mile:: ’ ain Toward Cassino   AMERICAN. FLANK? IS STRENGTHENEL  Yanks Engaged in. Hard Fighting in Mountains; Bombers Raid Yugoslavia:

French Advance Toward: Cassino   Flanking Column Batters At Nazis”

FRENCH NEARING CASSINO   Allies Gain ‘Commanding Place On Three Heights

French Gain Miles in Italy  Gen. Juin’s Troops Take Acquafondata And Three Heiahts

FRENCH DRIVE NEARER CASSINO   Advance Two Miles in Face of Heavy Enemy Fire

FRENGH TROOPS STAVED OFF FIVE GERMAN ATTACK   Fierce Fighting Developed «¢ the Right Wing of the Sth Army Front.   ARE PUSHING FORWARE   Advanced Two More Mile Toward Cassino, Captur-— ing Three Heights.

French Stave Off Stiff Nazi Attacks  Gain Two Mere Miles In Move On Cassino

FRENCH PRESS ‘TTALIAN. DRIVE   New Mountain Heights Are  Captured In Drive  For Cassino

French Win ltaly Victory   Juin’s Army Drives  Nazis Back 2 Miles, Captures 3 Heights

French Troops Capture New Nazi Heights   Juin’s Command Gains New Round in March Toward Cassino

Juin’s Forces Aid Yanks in Cassino Push   Acquafondata — Captured as Three More Peaks in Apennines Fall   PRISONERS TAKEN   Fifth, Army Fighters Smash Into Belt of Forts as Tommies Press On

FRENCH SEIZE HEIGHTS, SCORE NEW ADVANCE   Pressure of Juin's Troops Streng thens Flank of Americans Bat tling Way io Cassino   BOMBERS ACTIVE   Mostar Airfield and Sibenik Area in Yugoslavia Heavily Bombed by Allies ~~ 7

French Forces Drive 2 Miles   Aequafondata Is Seized On Left Flank; Yanks — Near Cassino -

French Drive Two Miles On  Cassino Road   Beat Off Series of Five Naz i Counterattacks 5 Take High Ground

FRENCH STAGE COMEBACK IN CASSINO ARES   TWO - MILE ADVANCE THREATENS TO FLANK HUNS

FRENCHMEN SEIZE ACQUAFONDATA IN DRIVE ON CASSINO   Five Fierce Nazi Counter-Attacks on the Right Wing of the Fifth Army Also Staved Off by French Troops

Fighting French Stave Off Nazi Attacks  Village and Height: Fall to Allies

French Army Cuts Deeply Into German Defense  SEE, Ms Oe = ena   Americans Now Stand Within Four Miles of Cassino

‘—ITALY—  FRENCH CONTINUE BRING IN ITALY   Advance Of Two More  Miles Toward Cassino Reported By Allies      COMMAND HEIGHTS   Gen. Juin’s Troops Helping Fifth Army In Rome Campaign

French in Italy Seize Acquafondata Village; Push Forward 2 Miles

SEIZE TOWN IN ADVANCE ON CASSINO   Also Take 3 Heights: Yanks Dig Deeper Into Nazi Defenses

French Capture ~Htalian- Village _ At Acqufondata         German-Held Casini . Is ~ Objective Of Advance; * Fhree. Heights’ Taken

FRENCH TROOPS TAKE HEIGHTS   Assist In ‘Drive On Cassaino, Repulse Enemy Counter-Attacks

French Army Cuts Deeply Into German Defense  Americans Now Stand   Americans Now Stanc Within Four Miles of Cassino

FRENCH GAIN TWO. MILES IN ITALY   ATTACK LEFT FLANK OF GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS GUARDING COASSINO,

French Drive on Against Germans   Stave Off Fierce Counter-Attacks On Right Wing of 5th Army Front

French Beat Off German Attacks And Gain 2 Miles   Their Pressure On Nazi Mountain Line Greatly Strengthens American Flank

French Seize Acquafondata   Also Capture Three High Points Nearby in Two-Mile Advance

French Gain Two More Costly Miles   Fifth Army Edging Slowly Forward Toward Rome

French Seize ‘Key Town on ‘Road to Rome   Acquafondata, Near Cassino, Falls; Mt. Ferro Also Captured

French Repu)se Five Nazi Counter-Blows   Push Forward Two Miles Toward Cassinc In Fierce Fighting on Right Wing of the Fifth Army Front in Italy.

ACQUAFONDATA VILLAGE TAKEN BY FRENCHMEN   Capture Moves Forces Two Miles Nearer Cassino, . Main. Objective of. ; Allies   STRENGTHENS RIGHT ‘WING OF AMERICANS   Viticuso Now Apparently in Allies Control; Germans Admit Loss of. Acquafondata - .

French Troops Seize Village  Near Cassino   Push Forward Two Miles And Capture Three Important Heights In Acquafondata Area

VITAL HEIGHTS ARE CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH   German Counterattacks Beaten Off; Americans Plow Into Fortifications  Outside Of Cassino.

FRENCH TROOPS PUSH FORWARD: GAIN TWO MILES   Germans Evacuate Acquafonda Near Cassino Front

French Troops Make Further Gains In Italy   Capture  Acquafondata. Three High Points Near It; Fifth Advances.   AIRCRAFT IN ACTION

FRENCH FORGES STAGE. SOMEBAC ON BATTLEFIELOS   Plunge Two Miles Forward Into Left Flank of Nazi Fortifications   YANKS STAND LESS THAN 4 MILES FROM CASSINO   Germans Admit Withdrawal From Acquafondata, Entered by the French; Allied Aviation Active, Striking Enemy Supply Dumps

French Gain In Halian Fighting   Village of Viticuso Believed in Control Of Allied Forces

French Make  New Gains   Capture Village of Acquafondata; Repulse German Counter Attacks

Ven. Juin’s Troops Capture Heights In Two Mile Advance  Against Stiff Nazi Onnosition

FRENCH ADVANCE ON CASINO AFTER REPULSING NAZIS   American Troops Storming Enemy Fortifications On Maunt Traechio

French Make 2 Mile Gain; Repel Blows   Pressure Adds To Strength of Flank of Yank Troops

French Smash Back Foe, Take Acquafondata   Also Capture 3 Impor. tant Heights In Drive On Cassino.

FRENCH STAVE QFF NAZI BLOWS   Score New Gain In Drive With Fifth Army

FRENCH TROOPS IN ITALY HAVE BEATEN OFF COUNTERATTACKS   FIGHTING ON RIGHT WING OF FIFTH ARMY GEN. JUIN ADVANCES AGAIN

French Drive Is Success   Three Mountains Are Captured By French Veterans

FRENCH TROOPS PUSH FORWARD TWO MORE MILES   Village of Acquafondata Captured in Fighting Vicinity of Cassino

French Win Key Points At Cassino   Acquafondata, Three Peaks Fall As French Win Imoortant Victory

Driving Info German Flank   Encircling Move to Aid Yanks Smashing Toward Cassino

FRENCH SEIZE ITALY VILLAGE   ACQUAFONDATA TAKEN IN DRIVE ON CASSINO

Fighting French Stave Off Nazi Attacks  Village and Heights Fall to Allies In Italian Battle

Frenchmen Pushing Off  Nazi Drives   Ground Gained In Italy Despite Resistance

FRENCH TROOPS AID FIFTH ARMY ITALIAN DRIVE  PUSH FORWARD TWO MORE MILES

French Smash ‘Nazi Counter-Blow to Push Toward Key   Pressure on Foe Strengthens Fiank Of U S. Forces Driving on Cassino

French Push Forward on  Nazi Flank   ‘Americans Also Gain Some, Eighth Army ’ Held to Patrols

Fight Two Miles Forwar Into Left Flank of ‘Hun Lines Guarding Cassino.  "In Italy >

FRENCH TROOPS PUSH FORWARD   Capture Village of Acquafondata and 3 Heights Near Cassino.   ALLIES -ARE IN CONTROL

ASK EDMUNDSON TO RECONSIDER   LEWIS REQUESTED TO REJECT RESIGNATION OF UMW DIST, CHIEF

BERLIN SAYS GREAT BATTLE BEING WAGED   Yanks Clear Enemy From Factory District

Wales Steel And Tin Operations To Be Crippled By British Coal Strikes

BRITISH STEEL MILLS MENACED BY COAL STRIKE   Steel And Tinplate Plants Will Be Crippled Unless Strike Of 100,000 Miners Is Settled Quickly.

Strike Threatens Steel, Tinplate  100,000 Coal Miners In Britain ‘Out’

700 Villages Are Freed by Russians   Germans Rush All Available Help to Littoria Area

Beachhead is 9 1-2 Miles Deep Through Vaunted West Wall is Made in Caen-La Havre Vicinity   Allies Cross Channe! to Land in Vicinity Of Le Havre: Proarcss Is ‘Satisfactory’

Allies Rule Skies Over Fighting Zone; Goering Calls On Airforce To Throw Back Allies Even If It Means Death Of Hitler's Faltering Luftwaffe

BEC BR RR EBECETFRORSRURESRUEE  Now Hollywood Has F, D. R. Committee

USA, British Join Jn Ruhr Offensive   Crack Defenses of Metz In Bia Drive, Eastern Holland

British Second Army Drives Towards Ruhr   Americans Fight Way Through Metz Forts

; Force: Hits Nazi Plane Plant:   Armada of Nearly: 2,000 - Planes Crushes: ‘Two Fac tories ‘and Bombs at Least Six: Major Airdromes * <Twenty. Planes. Reported Lost

U.S. bombers erush 2 nazi air factories   Powerful force strikes Germany

enw Force Hits — ~ Nazi Plane Plant   Armada of Nearly. 2,000 Planes Crushes Two Factories ond Bombs at Least Six Major Airdromes _' —Twenty. Planes Reported Lost

Factories At Brunswick And Six Major Airkelds Raided   STUTTGART ATTACKED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE

2 NAZI AIRCRAFT PLANTS BLASTED BY U. 8. AIRMEN   Nearly 2,000 Bombers and Fighters Strike at Bruns‘wick and Other Targets  S in Germany.   20 PLANES LOST, 33 BAGGED IN RAIDS   Blow One of Many Dealt Reich in Last 36 Hours in . Stepped Up Aerial Offensive.

U.S. BOMBERS PLASTER NAZI PLANE PLANTS   BLOWS DEALT BY AIR FLEET OF NEARLY 2000

Brunswick Plane Factory, 6 Maior Airfields Targets   5000 Allied Bombers Drop 8000 Tons of Bombs on Germany

Other Targets In Germany Get Hard Pounding   Drop 8,000 Tons Of Bombs in Raids

33 German Planes Shot  Out OFSky   Campaign To Destroy Enemy Air Force Grows

Nazi Plants Are Crushed      Allied Bombers Darken Sky, Wreck Factories: Air Bases

County's 'E’ Bond Buying Stilt Laas   Port iw Sixth Wor Lean Comes. te End Saturday; ‘E’ Quota Wot Reached

NEW YORK WILL BE FIRST STOP IN FOR'S CAMPAIGN   Speech Tomorrow Will Be One of the Most Important Ones

NEWYORK. WIkL BE ARST STOP IN FOR'S CAMPAIGN   Spéech-Tomorrsw __, Will Be One of the Most Imvortant Ones

E’ BOND DRIVE NOW AT 76 PCT,   $11,175 Added Monday Brings Total Within $87,068 of Quota

5,500 Idle At Carnegie’ S Gary Plant After 39 Quit; Ohio Bomb Cutput Halted

Indiana Steel Strike Halts Work of 5500   30 Cranemen Charge Agreements Violated

Pictures Invasion As Great Struggle   Hardest Fight In Cost of Lives Is Ahead—Knox

NATION FAGING HARDEST FIGHT      Knox in Dramatic Appeal for Congress to Vote Labor Draft

Thousands Sob, Chant ‘She Will Rise’ at Last Rites For Aimee Semple McPherson; $10,000 Floral Display:

LOCAL LEGION — POST ARRANGES BIG BANQUET  Affair Will Note Armistice Day

Russians Sink 11 More German  Ships Off Crimea   New Triumphs Boost Nazi Losses to 110 Vessels in 22 Days

New Red Ground Attack Started, Berlin Reports   Russian Black Sea Fleet Bags Nozi Transports

SOVIET CRACKS GERMAN LINC AT SEVASTOPD   Berlin Reports Powerful New Offensive; Moscow Says Shins Sunk.

Russians Sink 11 Nazi Ships r Sevastonol   Maintain Their Tight Blockade Around Besieged Port City

Soviets. Sink 8 More Na azi Eseape Ships   Four Tr anspor rts Included in Latest Toll at Sevastopol

SREB ERERORSABE SLATER Ss  Gaines Sesiath Gen. HOSPITAL NOTES  se & EL Boe BOB OB OR ORE

Rough Riders Breach Marne In Great Strength At Two Points and Hammer Retreating Enemy.

OPA Plans Tc Increase “‘B”’ Gas Rations   Give Relief If  Survey Warrants

Stimson Praises New Army Policy   Replacement Plan Popular with Vets

Ghastly!   Briton Horrified By American Food, Likes. American Girls.

Senator Reynolds Asks Ceiling on Post-War Taxes   Limit to 25 Per Cent Of Earnings Proposed In Senate Debate

Post-War Tax Ceiling Urged’   Senator: ‘Would Set 25-Pct. Maximum

SOVIET ARMY IS 14 MILES FROM ODESSA   100,000 Nazis Face Entrapment Along Coast Line

Escape Route Is Slashed As Major Gains Are Recorded   More Than 100,000 German Soldiers Are Now Facing Complete Encirclement By Russians

TIRE QUOTAS SHARPLY CUT   INGREASED USE Or RECAPPING FACILITIES IS URGED BY OPA RATION HEAD

UNION. WON EASY. VICTORY IN BALLOTING FOR BARGAIN“ING RIGHTS—RURTHER CONTROVERSY  LOOMING —

GERMANS CAPTURE ATZECH LEADER   GEN. RUDOLF VIEST, COMMANDER. IN SLOVAKIA, . 18 TAKEN PRISONER.

PLANE FLIES TAIL FIRST   Pusher Monoplane Has Engine and Main Wing in Rear

se BRANCHES ON ONE TRE:   One Of A Series OF Article On Our American Form Of Government.

STRUGGLE FOR CENTRAL, WEST FRANCE ENDED   Patton’s Tanks Turn Up Behind Sens On Yonne

Army to Release Textile Workers   Needed to Boost Output Of Cotton Duck For Military Tents

Subs Get 15 Craft; Total 642   CONVOY NEARING WEWAK ATOLL DOWNED IN FIERCE FOUR-DAY BATTLE

Fliers Bag  80 Nippo Aircraft   AMERICAN FIGHTERS, BOMBERS HIT FIVE ENEMY CARGO SHIPS

Citadel Of Cologne Bombed Twice By British Mosquitos  RY POPRTRT FrAecOW

17,500 FORTS LIBERATORS RAID GERMANY   During October; Bombers Grounded 11 Days; RAF Missed 2 Nights; Canal Attacked.   100 Tons Per Minute

Cog ge Nonimed wins Tact Nid  ~ By Aled Planes  Raids Celmindsd Big Bombing Menth For   Raids Culminuisd Big Bombing Menth For Air Forces

HIMMLER-JUNKERS TRUCE IS REPORTED   Agreement Said to Provide That Hitler Shall Keep Hands Off Military Affaira

Nazi Junkers Regain Helm  DE ecc ened ann Bh mane Biala   Himmler Keeps Hitler Out of Sight by Fear

‘Himmler in Saddle:  No. 1 Nazi Said To Have Reached Agreement with German Generals

Himmler Plots With Generals To Keep Hitler Under Cover   Reports Fit Well With Fuehrer’s Reported IIIness; Hitler Said Filled With . Fear Of Attempt On Life

Bags 82 Planes, i9 Vessels Close to Tokyo   Powerful Carrier Task Force Hits Iwo Jima in Bonin Islands, Hammers Pagan in North Marianas

82 Nip Planes Downed in Carrier Strike   Americans Enter Suburbs of Garapanon Saipan

82 Nip Planes Downed in Carrier Strike  Americans Enter Suburbs of -

STRIKE 753 MILES FROM JAP CAPITAL   Destroy 82 Planes, 19 Small Cargo Vessels

Task Force Planes Bag 82 Jap Craft   19 Cargo Vensels Blasted in Raids By Powerful Ficet

19 Ships sank or Damaged   Biq Task Force Hits Japs 753 Miles of Tokyo

CARRIER TAOK FORGE HITS AT BONIN ISLANDS   Destroys 82 Planes and Sinks or Damages 19 Small Cargo Vessels.

WLB Threatens Seizure of Ward Company Stores   Board Reaffirms Al Orders; Demands Compliance by Monday

SEIZURE OF WARD PROPERTY LOOMS   WLB Demands Compliance of Orders by Monday Night; Officials Fail to Appear at Hearing

Seizure ot Seven Monigomery Ward ~ Plants Probable  WLR: nasiandé Conwii  WLB’ Demands, Conpli“ance With Hts Orders _ By Monday Night

WLB ULTIMATUM GIVEN WARD FIRN   SEIZURE OF MAIL ORDER COMPANY’S STORES IN 7 CITIES THREATENED. _.

BRICKER HITS DEMO ATTACK ON BUSINESS   Nominee, in Joplin Talk, Declares It Part of “Scheme to Build Political Power by Setting Class Against Class.”

New Wages May Necessitate Rise In Cost of Steel Throughout Nation

OPA STARTS STUDY MATTER OF HIGHER PRIGES FOR STEEL   TO DETERMINE IF STEEL WAGE INCREASE WILL NECESSITATE PRICE HIKE

PAY RAISE FOR STEEL WORKERS CAUSES .STUDY   Wil L Deter “mine If Higher Steel Prices - “Needed By

Wage Boost In Mills Studiec   Little Steel Formula Unchanged By WLB

OPA STUDIES STEEL PRICES   Must Determine If Pay Boost Necessitates Higher Rates

OPA EXAMINES WAGE INCREASE   Extra Pay To Steel Workers Will Be Checked As Basis For Possible Rise In Steel Prices.

OPA STARTS STUDY MATTER OF HIGHER PRICES FOR STEEL   TO DETERMINE IF STEEL

OPA TO DECIDE ON STEEL PRICE   Solon Predicts Upper House Will Refuse To Share Responsibilities

WAGE INCREASE MAY SEE BOOST IN STEEL PRICE   OPA Plans To Rule On Issue Within Month: WLB Sets Boost In Night Pay

_ —STEEL—  PRICE JUME MAY FOLLOW PAY HIKE   OPA To Determine If CIO Necessitates In. erease

OPA STUDIES PAY PROBLEMS   To Decide If Wage Boost Will Call for Raise In Steel Prices

OPA TO STUDY STEEL PRICES   WLB Announces Pay Raises for Steel Workers, Based on Eliminating Inequalities

Steel Wages Increased on Night Shifts   Pay Formula Unchanged Says War Labor Board

ARGUMENTS HEARD BY SUPREME COURT IN ELECTORS CASE  - PRO-ROOSEVELT CONVEN  TION BOLTERS SEEK TO LARCT PDIMARY VOTE

One Canadian Wants Canada fo Get Out   Says Big Nations Have Enough Men to Win War

UNTESTANTS FOR CONGRESS LEAVE HOLES IN TICKETS   No Democratic Certificates Are Filed in First, Third, Fourth, and Sixth   RESERVATIONS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN MADE   Pennybacker Eliminates Him. self From Gubernatorial Race; Two or More GOP Aspirants for Six Congres. sional Posts Shown

BELIEVED PRESIDENT TO MEET CHURCHILL IN ANOTHER MONTH  WILL FORMULATE PLANS FOR CONTROL GERMANY

FOR and Churchill Will Meet Soon to Plan Shift Of Might to the Pacific

Roosevelt, Churchill Meet Soon   Shift of American, British Might from Europe to War on Japs May Be Plannex

‘Roosevelt and Churchill May Meet This Month in Quebec for Talks on Shift of War to Japan

Churehill,_  F.DR. Plan Early Talks On Pacific    “Likely To Be.Held _-:  - This Month in ‘Sacbes “To Work Out: ‘Shift:  - Of Power Against Japs   SECOND. ‘TALK. SEEN’. [AFTER NAZIS FALL”      “Would iiclude ‘Stalin = “For. Discussion: of Role -T. Be Taken by: Russia

FDR-CHURCHILL MEETING SET FOR OCTOBER   Quebec Site Seen For AIllied Leaders Planning To Knock Out Nips

MEETONWAR PLAN DUE IN NEAR FUTURE      Roosevelt and Churchill Expected to Confer in Quebec

BELIEVE CHURCHILL AND FDR TO MEET IN QUEBEC SOME TIME THIS MONTH

CHURCHILL AND FDR 10 MEET SOON   Possibly in Quebec to Plan Shift of the War te Japan; Will Meet Stalir Later.  tte  a omen

CONFERENCE OF ALLIED LEADERS EXPECTED SOON   Churchill And Roosevelt Believed Planning Ses sion In Quebec

‘Two to Discuss Shifting of Power From Europe to Far East  to Crush Japan — Session With Stalin After Germany’s  - Capitulation Predicted—Whether Russia Will Join in Attacking Nipponese Is Uncertain.

Allied Leaders Probably Will Meet in Quebec   Roosevelf, Churchill Wil Plan Shift of Forces to Pacific

RUSSIAN ARMY POURING ACROSS IBEREZINA RIVER   Begin To Outflank Fortress City Of Minsk From Sonth

SOVIETS CROSS LAST DEFENSE RIVER BARRIER   Now Only Thirty Miles From Capital Of White Russia

Soviets Cross  Berezina  Ist White Russia  Army Cuts Last nie... t AL.

MINS. FALL EXPECTED IN FEW HOURS   Germans Make Some Resistance At Berezina River But Red Armies Push Ahead.

Russian Cavalry Only 30 Mi. From Strategic Minsk   Ist Army Pours Across Berezina, Pursuing Fleeing Germans

Two- Year-Old Hopeless Battle Not In Vain  Yanks Carrying Out Revenge Pledge

Fhilippine Drama: Yanks Return To Avenge 36,000 Who Fell To Japanese

NEW GFFEHOIVE UNLEASHED Ih GAEN AREA   British, Canadians Smash Through Enemy Defenses

CANADIANS AND BRITISH OPEN OFFENSIVE   Americans Resume Attack Along 32Mile Front to West

BLAST HITLER'S ATLANTIC WALL   Also Batter Railroads and Airfields Behind Coast  Defenses

Big U.S. Air Fleet Blasts Enemy Europe   2,500 Planes Take Part in Heavy Assault

3 AIRDROMES IN FRANCE HIT BY U. $ BOMBERS   4 French Railroad Centers Blasted by RAF in Night Raids

Airfields, Railway Yards In France  Are Air Blitzed   American Heavy Bombers Follow Up Strong R.A.F. Night Smash. es

2,500 PLANES RAID TARGETS OVER EUROPE   Almost 5,000 Tons ol Bombs Fall on West Wall Defenses and the Airfields and Rail Centers Behind Them.

2.500 Planes Bomb Vital Rail Sectors   5,000 Tons of Bombs Used in Latest Assault

LARGE BRITISH FORCE BLASTS FRENCH RAILS   Germans Hint Allied Planes Over Reich as Air Stations Black Out

FRENCH RAIL CENTERS BOMBED DURING NIGHT   Americans Shoot Down 125 German Planes in Blows at Rerlin, Brunswick

Aerial Blows Patterned On Invasion Wall   2500 Planes Carry Nearly  §000 Tons of Bombs In New Forays

2,500 Allied Planes Batter ‘Nazi Defenses   Nearly 5,000 Tons Of Bombs Dumped on West Coast Sector

00 TONS OF BOMBS ADD TO DESTRUCTION OF WEST WALL DEFENSES AND RAIL LINES        ~ Renewed Pre-Invasion Air Offensive on Unprece ~ dented Scale Underway. Attack Today Is Follow Up of Disastrous RAF Visitation Last Night

Nazi Airfields, Rail Yards In France Blasted   Heavy Yank Bomb At tack On West Wall Fol. lows RAF Night Smash

Bomber-Fighter Armada Strikes   Northern France And Germany Targets

Raid Airdromes And Rail Yards   American Heavy Bombers Strike at German Centers in Northern France, Following Night Attacks by RAF   NEW BLOW AT GERMANY

Yank Planes Blast Fields In France   Rail Yards at Reims Pounded— Berlin Reports Planes Over Reich

BOMBERS BLAST AT FRENCH AIR FIELDS & RAILS   \merican Heavies Stage Daylight Attack Following Strong Night Assault By British Planes.

Defenses Of West Wall Hit In Air Blows   2,500 Allied Warplane: Drop 5,000 Tons On Area; 125 Nazis Shot  Diawrm estclew

—LONDON— :  Uo, FLIER RAID QGGUPIED FRANGE   Night Waves Of RAF Bombers Smash Four Railroad Centers   DOWN NAZI PLANES   Ports And Bridges In Northern Italy Targets Of ‘Allies

British Blast Nazi Network Of Rail Lines   Enezny Airdromes Pounded by American Bombers in Daylight Raids On French Area   Fighters In Great Force Take Part   125 Huw Warplanes Are Bagged.in Assault On Brunswick, Berlin by  U. S. Airmen

Bombers Hit Air Fields      Air Offensive Steps ‘Up Again With Heavy Blows At Airdromes

ALLIES BLAST FRENCH CITIES BY AIR TODAY   2000 Bombers In German Raid, Berlin Says

2500 Planes Used in Day Attacks   Airdromes, Railroad Yards Again Are Targets for Yanks

Yankee Bomber: Smash Germany  Airdromes and Rail Yards Are Blasted

AMERICANS BOMB THREE AIRDROMES   Follow RAF Raids On Four French Railroad Centers

Heavy Forces American Planes Blast at Europe   U.S. Bombers Atfack Three Naz Airdromes, Railroad Yards “With Heavy Fighter Escort

ASSAULTS REPORTED   Daylight ‘Attacks Or Reich Claimed By @.. Berlin Radio

Hit Rail Centers In Invasion Area   West Wall Defenses, Rail Centers and Airfields Targets :   2.500 PLANES IN TASK   Air Forces Over Germany Today Reach as Far. as Cologne

Thundering Aerial Offensive Carves New Destruction   2,500 Planes Dump 5,000 Tons ef Bomb: On West Wall, Rail Yords and Airfields

Enemy Airdromes And Railroad Centers In France Blasted By Allied Planes

J.S. Bombers Hit Nazi Airdromes In North France   Take Part In Big Raid: Railyards Also Blasted

German Defenses Again Battered  2500 Planes Join in Renewal of Allied Pre-Invacion Offancive

2,500 PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON FRANCE   Attacks Follow Severe Assaults Deep In Germany

3 French Airdromes, Reims Rail Yards Hii   RAF Night Flyers Raid Targets Jn Four Other Cities in France

LARGE FIGHTER ESCORT WITH BOMBERS   125 Enemy Planes Downec By Americans Friday   R. A. F, AGTIVE   Over Nazilands By Night; Mediterranean Airmen Smash At Ports

Clark’s Army Only 15 Miles  Of Leghorn   Allies Surge Ahead Across Width Of Italy: Eighth  Army ‘Takes Arezzo

Allied Armies Push Ahead in Italy In Leghorn Drive  American Forces Now Are Within Gun  i ocon om al Abecase q } aed

Yank Troops Near Livorno   Penetrate Within 15 Miles of Italian West Coast Port

ALLIED TROOPS SURGE FORWARD WIDTH OF ITALY   Americans Plunge To Within 15 Miles Of Livorno; Lake Trasimeno Area Cleared: Eighth Near Arezzo: Nazi Fight “To The Last Man.”

Clark's Army Nearing Leghorn  Eighth Army Within 8 Miles of Arezzo

Americans Only 15 Miles From  Livorno Today   Sth Eight } Miles From Inland Center Of Arezzo

ALLIES SURGE AHEAD IN ITALY   Yanks Within Big Gun Range of Gothic Line

Fifth Army Within 15 Miles Of  Livorno   Nazis Flee Nortl To Avoid Combat With Allies

Yanks 15 Miles Livorno; British ‘Approach Arezzo      Americans Within Big  Gun Range Of Next  German Defense Line.

HFTH ARMY NEAR NAZIS’ GOTHIC LINE   Americans Wi Within Big Gun Range of Prepared Positions Running From Pisa to Rimini on the Adriatic.

ALLIED ARMIES MOVING ACROSS WIDTH OF ITALY   So Called German Gothic Line of Defense Now Within Range Allied Big  Ciume

ALLIED DRIVE IN ITALY CONTINUES   Yanks Now 15 Miles From Leghorn—Nazis Flee Before Eighth Army

Yanks Peril Gothic Line’   Americons Drive 15 Miles From Leghorn on Coast

Yanks 15 Miles Livorno; British  Approach Arezzo   Americans Wit! Within _ Big Gun Range Of Next -German Defense Line.

US Forces In 15 Miles  Of Livorno   Allied Troops Advance Up _ Italian Boot Continues from Adriatic to West Coast

Allied Armies Push Ahead in Italy In Leghorn Drive  American Forces Now Are Within Gun Range of New Line

ALLIES GAIN ACROSS ALL OF NATION   Fifth Storming Up West C Coast, Other Units Advancing

Allies Surge Across Italy   Yanks in 15 Miles of Livorno, British Near Inland Communications Center

MORE AI ATTAGKS SEEN BY ARNOLD   ‘We Haven’t Called -Off the Dogs Yet,’ Air Chief Tells Newsmen

SAYS 3-4THS Of BERLIN RUINED   Arnold: We're Wiping Out Nazi War Centers

EIGHTH ARMY HAS LINE ALONG ROAD   Touring Congressmen Visit Front Lines in Italy Under Fire.

Name Warren GOP Keynoter   Selected by Arrangements Body Meeting at Chicago

GOV. WARREN IS SELECTED AS KEYNOTER   Coast Executive, Surprise Prospect in Early Speculation, Wins Important GOP Assignment   OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

Little Billy Meers Will Die Unless Someone Pays Off His Debt in Blood

Boy, 4, Draining Blood Bank, May Soon Die; Public Interest In Plight Wanes

HALT ARMOR PLATE OUTPUT   CIO Pickets Turn Back 3,000-Detroit Workere

Armor Plate Workers Quit   Michigan Plant Only Supplier For Plate For Navy Landing Barges.

3,000 Turned From Gates of  Steel Plant   Labor-Management Dispute Leaves 6000 Idle in Critical Industry

STRIKE CLOSES ONLY PLANT OF KIND IN U.S.   3000 Workers are Turned Back At Gates By CIO Pickets

Strikers Halt All Production of Navy Armor Plate  Pickets Turn Back 3,000 Workers At Detroit Plant

C10 PICKETS AT DETROIT PLANT STOP WORKERS   6,000 Employees Made Idle by Strike Which Has Stopped Production of Armor Plate

Sennen atemmeienemeian aeneenenneateninenieenee  Strike Closes. Big Armor Plate Plant

6,000 Idle In ClO Strike At Detroit Plant   Halt Production Of Armor Plate For U. S. Naval Landing Barges.

WORKERS TURNED AWAY FROM STEEL PLANT BY PICKETS   Producticn of Vital Armor Plate Halted by Strike at Great Lakes Steel Corporatian Plant at Detroit

PIGKETS KEEP WORKERS AWAY   Steel Corporation Only Mill Producing Armor Plate For Barges.

UNION SCORES FORD RIOTERS   Ten Workers Discharged With Full Approval of UAW-CI10

Ist Objective Accomplished   Allied Forces Now Coming Up Against  Massine Enemy Reserves

ALLIED ARMIES STN TO CHOP ~— OFF PENINSULA   Railway From Paris a Cherbourg . Snipped   LANDING HINTED ‘WEST OF THE PORT

Over First . Hurdle   Heavy Reinforcements Strengthen Foothold; Berlin Sees Threat to Pinch Off Cherbourg

Steady Stream of Reinforcements by Sea and Air Speeding in — Berlin Reports Pincers Threat to Cut  Off Cherbourg Peninsula

Major Battle of France Joined   Invading Forces Strike Deeper Into Interior From Fallen Bayeux Under Blanket Air Cover; Nazis Beaten Off

Second Stage Is Under Way * As Bayeux Falls To Allies   New Airborne Landin Landings Speed. Allied Drive Across Normandy on Wide Front Today Be

Second Stage Is Under Way As Bayeux Falls To Allies   TT  New Airborne Landings Speed Allied Drive Across Normandy on Wide Front Today

COUNTERATTACKS BY ARMORED FORCES OF GERMANS REPULSED   ALLIES WIN FOOTHOLDS IN FRANCE AND CONTINUE TO FIGHT INLAND

FIERCE FIGHTING RAGING INLAND ON FRENCH SOIL   Germans Falling Back Under — Terrific Onslaught as Allies Pour in Reinforcements

Start Second Phase Action On Big Front   Steady Stream Of Soldiers — Ard Weapons Landed; Bombs Dropped On Railway Lines,

Steady Stream of Reinforcements by Sea   Germans Report Invaders Seek to Seize * Cherbourg; Enemy Throwing More Reserves Into Growing Battles.

Begin 2nd Phase by Fierce Drive South  Of Seized Bayeaux   Pincers Threaten to Isolate Cherbourg Reported by Berlin; Spearhead Strengthened By a Steady  Stream of Reinforcements

Churchill Reports Fighting in Caen: (rermans Claim 1,300 Gliders Captured or Destroyed; Weather Improves

Constantly Reinforced by Sea and Air Allied Armies Strike South of Fallen Bayeux in Fierce Fighting

Capture of Bayeux Opens Way for Big Push in Interior   Berlin Reports Allied Pincers Movement Threatens Strategic Port of Cherbourg _ As British and Canadians Take Towns

Allied Liberating Troops in Fierce Fighting South Of Bayeux.   TROOPS ARE REINFORCED

Sattle Centers On ‘ffort to Cut Off ort of Cherbourg   test Capture Snips Railway Between Paris and : Peninsula Harbor, 45 Miles to Northwest, and Opens Way for Inland Thrust   . CONFIRMATION OF WEST COAST LANDINGS

BAYEUX IS FIRST CITY CAPTURED BY INVADERS   Headquarters Announces Initial Phase O Invasion Accomplished; Reinforcements Strengthen Spearhead

Tip Of Cherbourg Peninsula Under Threat, Is Claim   Eisenhower Announces Seizure Of Bayeux As Forces Drive On Caen; Reinforcements  Landed; Airstrip Built By Allies

Hit South Of Fallen Bayeux Which Opens Way For Deep Inland Thrust

FIRST GOAL OF INVASION PLAN ACCOMPLISHED   Bayeux Capture Snips Paris-Cherbourg Rail Line

‘Allied’ Troops Secure Foothold, Defeat First Thrusts   -MORE TROOPS POUR IN   Move to Take Cherbourg Peninsula; German Forces: : Move Up

Second Phase Underway, Says Eisenhower, As Allies Hack Steadily Across Peninsula.      Kk «k Kt Kw AAF Cleans Out South Normandy

Invaders Set Out To Defeat Tactical Reserves: Reinforcements Pouring In

[Nazis Put Tactical (Reserves in Action   Steady Stream of Reinforcements by Sea And Air React. Allies; First Phase of Invasion Over: Fichting South of Bayeux

Beachhead Troops Join Paratroops   Heavy Battles, With Tanks and Reserves Flare Over Peninsula

Allies Hit South from Bayeux: Pincers Threat To Cherbourg Reported

First Phase Invasion Accomplished; Battle Growing In Intensity   Allied Liberators Fight To Pinch Off Whole Cherbourg Peninsula; Steady Reinforcements   Confirmation Lackina.

Strike South From Bayeux   Steady Stream of Reinforcements Strengthening Growing Beachhead   Want Peninsula Tip   Allies Now Meeting Nazi ‘Tactical Reserves’ a5 Battle Intensified

Allies Now Meet Attack by German Tactical Reserves   Liberation Forces Strike Southward Across Peninsula

By The Associated Press : LONDON—D.N.B. in a Berlin broadcast today announced that the Russians had launched an offensive on a broad front in the sector north of lasi. Romania.

Next Step Is To Turn Back  Nazi Snipers   Allies Striking Southward Today from Captured Bayeux, Encountering German Tactical Reserves.   MAIN NAZI FORCE IS DEEPER INLAND

Allied Forces Striking South From Bayeux in  Fierce Fighting   ‘Local’ Reserves Beaten; Tactical Troops Next Target

First Phase Of Assault On Europe Is Successful, — Says High Command

FRENCH TOWN OF BAYEUX FALLS TO ALLIES AND CAEN BURNING; “HARD FIGHTING’ IN PROGRESS   Germans Claim Allied Forces Open New Attacks In Southwest in Effort to Cut Off Cherbourg. French People Happy As British and Americans  rt. .

[Allies Over First Hurdle Of Winning Footholds In  France; Threatening Caen

Invaders Capture Bayeux and Open Up Route for Advance Deeper Info Enemy Territory   Marshal Rundstedt Calls on Germans to Make o "Last Man” Defense of Atlantic Wall, But Berlin Admits ‘That Invaders Are Progressing

Heavy Fighting Gains; Rail Line To Paris Is Cut: Pincer. Develops

ALLIES ARE REINFORCED BY SEA, AIR   Einsenhower Says Confidence In Allies Justified

ALLIES NEAR CHERBOURG IN LATE THRUST   German Aircraft Now In Battle Against Allies

Rival Forces Fight Fiercely For Advantage   German Broadcast Claims Destruction Of 1,300 Gliders

Giant Spearhead  Being Reinforced  Germans Report Allies Shaping Pincers To Cut Off Peninsula

Moved Out to Defeat Ger man Tactical Reserves Thrown Into the Great  Battle,   A STEADY STREAM OF REINFORCEMENT   These Forces Strengthened Massive Spearhead; Berlin Reports Pincer Move ment Is Underway.

Berlin Reports Pincers Threat Against Cherbourg   British Push South from Bayeux with Opening of Second Phase of Invasion, Defeat of Tactical Nazi Reserves

Next Step In Beating  Foe Started   Allied Army of Liberation Moves Southware From Captured Bayeux; Fighting Is Heavy as Reinforcements Reach France

FAVORABLE FACTORS FOR PRICE OF STOCKS   ‘Situation Is Auspicious Now _ For Stock Market Boom and ' Rise Waits Only On Favor able Invasion News; In the ' Opinion of Roger Babson.

SEES NO CHANGE IN STOCK MARKET UNTIL CONTINENT INVADED   ROGER BABSON DISCUSSES INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN WARTIME

Stock Market To Await Invasion   BABSON SEES NO NEW CHANGE UNTIL BIG -  o=RVENT

Guam And Rota Islands Hit _ By Vessels And Airplanes   Japanese Positions in the . Marianas Shelled and : Bombed by Naval Forces, Admiral Nimitz Announces 

Punch at Guam Thrown by Yanks   Jap-Held American Island Atlacked

Trade Commission Undertckes Solving Of National Problem — Cigaret Shortage

TWO-WAY AIR BLOW ON GERMANY TODAY   Follows 1,700-Ton Assault on Aachen by RAF Last Night; FDR and Churchill to Conference, Say the Germans.

King Victor Emanuel Of Italy, Announced That He Will Withdraw From Public Life When Allies Enter Rome.

Italy-Based Planes Make Two-Way Offensive Attack   NINE R.A.F. PLANES LOST LAST NIGHT

Hungary Occupied  By German Troops   Step Taken as Last Ditch Stand Against Red Army in the Hills, Dispatches From Neutral Capitals Declare

EXPECT SIMILAR ACTION AGAINST OTHER SOUTHWESTERN EUROPEAN SATELLITES SINCE RUSSIANS HAVE CROSSED INTO BESSARABIA.   ‘Re RICHARD R. KASISCHKE)

NOE LTTE IN,  SWEEP SPURS HITLER MOVE   Troop Clashes Reported; Soviets Enter Rumanias— Call for Invasion   CASSINO FIGHT STIFFENS; YANKS SINK JAP CONVOY

Nazi Invasion Troops Occupy Nation: Leaders Held in Reich   Germans Prepare Last Ditch Stand Against Red Army; Regent, Army Chief Prisoners; Enemy Expected to Seize Other Nations

Hitler Reported Holding Horthy After Conference   Military Crisis Appears af Hand

GERMAN FORGES MEET RESISTANCE   Prepare for Last-ditch Stand Against Red Army   HUNGARIAN LEADERS   Apparently Hitler’s Prisonerg@ In the Reich; People Urged to Oppose

Germans Aim To Lock Door Against Reds    Army Seizes Control While Hungarian Head: Are Held in Germany  DEMANDS REFUSED

Regent And Military Leaders Held Captive At Hit ler’s Headquarters   PEOPLE ARE URGED TO OPPOSE GERMANS

Hitler's Reluctant Allies Resist as He Prepares for Last-Ditch Fight;. Horthy, Other Leaders Held

Balkan Nation’s Forces Resist  Enemy Soldiers   3 Hungarian Leaders Prisoners in Reich: Hitler Ready for Las’ Stand Against Reds

Sweep in Despite Native Resistance   Step Seen As Preparation For Last-Ditch Stand Against Russians; Same Fate May Befall Other Satellites

Germans Take Over Hunearv   Nesisting Leaders Meld In _ Move To Glose “Back Door”

‘Invasion is meeting stiff resistance’  Nation’s leaders tricked by Hitler

Americans, Japs Ready For Battle   They Are Facing Each Other On Northern Tip Of Saipan Island -

U.S. Troops. Putting Squeeze On Saipan Japs   Isles Defenders Now Bottled Up In Neck On Northern Tip

South in Revolt on Race Issue  Democrats Move to Recapture Harmony

2,000 Huns Are Delaying Fall Medieval City   ‘Enemy Putting Up Desper _ ate Resistance in Dough. .  ‘boys’ House-to-House Battle   Escape Gap to Foe Is ‘Good As Closed?   Hitlerites Continue to Put Up Desperate Battle in Holland; Canadians Forced on Defensive

ESCAPE AVENUE CLOSED; ENEMY STIFFENS LINES   Canadians Forced To Take Defensive After Fierce Fighting In Holland

Yanks Battle Nazi Troops Inside Aachen   German Reinforcement Attempt Broken Up; Believe Some May Have Entered City

‘Root Out Defenders In Aachen   Flamethrowers and Grenades Used By  Advancing £Z-..-.....

THWART NAZIS EFFORT 10 AD BESIFFED MEN   Doughboys Advance by Using Flame Throwers, Grenades, Machine Guns

Resistance Of Enemy Stiffening   Escape Gap as Good as Closed — Nazis Fight Bitterly In Holland

Dig Germans. From Ruins; Press Ahead      U. S: Guns, Planes Pound Reinforcements ‘Heading for Fortr ess Town’,

GermansRootedOut In Bitter Struggle   ‘Aachen Escape Gap Virtually Closed But Allies Admit Reinforcements Reach City: Holland Battle Rages

Yanks Close Ring Around Aachen Foe   Germans Rush Up More Troops to Stave Off Disaster

EFFORTS OF GERMANS REINFORCE AACHEN GARRISON FAILED  AMERICANS FORGE DEEPER INTO CENTER

Enemy Escape Is Halted; Fight intense   House-to-House Battle Takes Heavy Toll Of Germans; Counterattacks Fail; Resistance Becomes Steadily Grimmer

Aachen Escape Gap As Good as Closed  by American Force   Yankees Battle Agains! Increased Resistance in Burning City

84 GERMAN TANKS ARE DESTROYED   U. S. Forces Smashing Deeper Into Ruins  Of Ancient City

‘Escape Gap About Closed,  Savs Officer   Some Reinforcements May Have Slipped in to Aid 2,000 Nazis

—WESTERN FRONT—  BLAGT ATTEMPTS TO AID GARRISIA   U. S. Planes And Guns Thwart Efforts To Reinforce Defenders   - ESCAPE CUT OFF   Doughboys Use FlameThrowers, Grenades “And Machineguns

U.S. Land, Air Units Repel Attempts To Reinforce Garrison   Yanks Smash 84 Nazi Tanks in 2 Days, Capture 1,000 Prisoners; Battles Rage in Holland

ESCAPE GAP CLOSED FOR REICH CITY   More Than 1,000 Prisoners Taken at Aachen as Nazis Resist Every Step for Advance

Yanks Report Stiffer Resistance In Ruined City   But All German Relief Efferts End In Failure; Grim Battle in Holland

Fighting In Medieval German City Developes Into HouseTo-House Battle, Reports Say.   BATTLE IN HOLLAND IS ALSO INTENSE

Aachen Escape ~ Gap Is Closed By Americans   No German Counter Attacks tor 24 Hours; Desperate ' Resistance Inside City   BUT DOUGHBOYS CONTINUE PUSH   Bitter Battles in Holland; Canadian Forces Are Nearing a Junction

Escape Gap Held “Good As Closed”   Nazis Still Battle Bitterly In Holland To Break Up Attack

Grim Battle Into Heart Of Aachen   ‘Allied Progress Along Entire West Front Is  Slowed By Tesperate Resistance of Germans

PUSH DEEPER INTO CITY   Despite Frustration of Another Attempt to Reinforce Garrison, Nazis Seem to Have Slipped Some Aid Through.

AACHEN BATTLE IS VIRTUALLY WON BY ALLIES   _ Escape Route Of ~ Germans As Good As Closed Now

HOLLAND SECTOR IS AFLAME WITH BITTER BATTLE   OLA AED IT  Small Gains Slugged Out ir Italy With Support of Low-flying Planes

Some German Troops May Have Slipped Into City; Bitter Fight In Holland

ALL NAZI REINFORCEMENT ATTACKS FROM THE EAST REPULSED BY BARRAGE OF BOMBS 4ND SHELLFIRE THAT TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF FOEYANKS SAY “ESCAPE CAP’ ’AS GOOD AS CLOSED

Bar German Aid  In Aachen Fight   Efforts to Send Help to Gar» rison Stopped; _acenn p   BATILE IN THE CITY   Doughboys Advance Slowly in House-to-House  Struggle

TEMPERATURES:   Germans Fight Stubbornly To Hold Key City   Resistance Stiffens  As Allies Gain  Foothold

Shells Stop New Attacks From Enemy   Bitter Fighting Also Marks Canadian Battle For Holland Points.

Yanks Battle In Streets of Wrecked City   Some Germans Slip Into City, Despite Closing of Gap, As Fight Continues

Doughboys forge deep into Aachen  Nazi reinforcement attack balked by curtain of lead

STRENGTHENED   Germans Routed Out With Fire, Explosives in HouseTo«House Battle.   GAP ‘AS GOOD AS CLOSED’

Move To Reinforce — Besieged Garrison.  ~ Halted By U.S. Fire   ‘Escape “Route ! “Good. As Closed;” “German Resistance’ Desperate; “ Capture'1000 Nazis In Five Days.

ROOT OUT NAZIS IN FIERCE HOUSE TO HOUSE BATTLE   FRONT LINE OFFICER SAYS AACHEN ESCAPE GAP GOOD AS CLOSED

Yanks Put Up House-House Fight For City   Much Resistance Is Offered By Nazi Defenders

GERMANS UNABLE T0 MAKE NEW ATTACKS AS DOUGHBOYS BEGIN DIGGING THEMFROM PILLBOXES

BITTER STREET BATTLE RAGES INSIDE AACHEN   Nazis Put Up Stiff Fight Agains! Yanks; Push  Past Overloon

Resistance By Nazis In Aachen Is  Increasing   Escape Now As Good As Closed, American Officer Says: Bitter Battle In Wolland

NAZIS ROOTED OUT WITH FIRE AND EXPLOSIVES   Guns And Planes Thwart German Attempts To Reinforce City

Meet Few German Fighters   Dirty Weather Shields Raid on Aircraft Center

BLAST AIRCRAFT CENTER, MEET NO OPPOSITION   Bad Weather Grounds Nazis

PRODUCTION OF LIVESTOCK EYED   Return of Meats to Ration Lists Prompts Question About Plans

Nazi Reign Of Terror — Is Forecast  Two Pro-Nazis Named To Places On Vichy Board.

Reign Of ‘Terror Seen In France   Two Violent Pro-Nazis Named To Vichy Cabinet

Troops Take Possession of Montgomery Ward; Biddle in Charge of Legal Phases   Climax fo Dispute Extending Over Period of Two Years Comes After Ward Manager Refuses to Surrender Business to the Government

7,700 American Fighting Men are S‘ain by Bestial Jap Murderers   ON THE ALERT

U.S. Gives Documented Account of Horrors Practiced On Prisoners of Bataan and Corregidor.

Horrible Atrocities And Bestiality of Japs Told By American Officers

American Fighting Men Are Starved, Tortured, Murdered While Prisoners of Japanese

30 SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED   OUR LOSSES LIGHT   Only Two Carriers and Number of PT Boats Lost in Battle.   JAPS CAME WITHIN RANGE OF BIG GUNS  Rout Complete As Jap  Armada Flees Still Pur sued by Our Planes and  Two Fleets.

Nip Fleet Badly Smashed In Atter pt To Halt Invasion Of Philippines-U § Losses Light

DEWEY HITS AT POWER POLITICS IN LEAGUE TALK   Attention Centers On Coming World Security Meet of Bie Three

Hull Allays Fears That Allies Will . Dominate World   Dewey: Says Four Big Nations. Plan. Alliance To Coerce Small-Ones.

Jur largets Were Al Craft Plants In Germany  NAZI RESISTANCE WAS VERY FEEBL  British Make Heavie Attack Against France and Belgium

One of the Heaviest Blows of War Agamst Two Aircraft Plants   Losses Small as Luftwaffe  Fails to Send Up Defending Fleets.

Ammunition Is Being Rationed On Western Front . .. That Costs Lives

Leaders Call For ‘Work Or Fight’ Law   Strikers. Flayed; Solons Told of © Effect on Troops

Strikes Cited As Proving Need Of ‘Work or Fight   Nation’s War Leaders Urge Quick Passage Of ‘Labor Corps’ Bill

STRIKE THREATENS PRODUCTION HALT IN ‘FORT’ ENGINES   600 Workers In Dodge Chrysler Plant Quit Over One Man’s Pro motion.

Plea To Vote Democratic Reported Enclosed with Soldier Ballot Form

American Soldier on Guadalcanal Receives Ballot Letter Urging Re-election of Roosevelt and Makes Pertinent Inquiry ‘Ts It Legal’

Chicago Soldiers Get Instructions From Kelly with Ballots, Charge

Soldier Claims Persuasive Letter Sent With Ballot to Guadalcanal Soldier

Soldier on Guadalcanal Thinks He Got Gyped or Buddy Got Too Muck

G.I. Gets Plea For F. D. R. Along With Ballot Notice   Chicago Soldier On Guadalcanal Receives Letter From Edward J. Kelley Instructing Him How To Vote, Paper Says

es AED OVER POUR LEBSEO TR i  + CNA) NEWS BUNTING      Red Fleet Shells Nazis on Leningrad Front

Farmer Is Cited For U.S. Court   OPA Takes Action Against Owner Of Farm Where Vendue Disturbance Occurred.

Women’ s Sport Association Is Organized   Velma Workman President

LONE TEXAS CAPTAIN ARMED WITH PISTOL ONLY CAPTURES GERMAN 75 MM GUN AND CREW

Martie Goes in For Martin as Finance Comindicioner Here   Ed Martin Returns. Fo Bank, Ray Martin Nemed To City Comnrission

Martin Goes in For Martin as Finance Commissioner Here  Ed Martin Returns To Bank. Rav Martin Named

Consider Plan To Raise Road Fund   Suggest Increase To Forty Million Dollars

Would Spend Cash on Iowa  Road Building   Post-War Commission Proposal Gets Nod from Engineer

Nazis Are Yielding In Droves   Their Entire 80-Mile Front in Normandy Shattered and Yanks Push On   ‘BRITISH FORCES  ALSO MAKE GAINS    Bradley in Position to Cut . Off Brittany Peninsula or  Head for Paris

Invaders Approach Vire City   Nazis’ Trans-Normandy Line Is Smashed in Dozen Places

U.S. Forces: Make Plunge: Into Brittany   British and Canadians Also Score Gains on  Flaming Western Front

Allies Striking Swiftly Ahead Against Enemy  Bradley's Troops Ir   Bradley’s Troops Ir Position To Batter Across Brittany Or Head For Paris

NAZIS BEING. DRIVEN BACK CONSTANTLY   Troops Operating East of  Vire River Are Five Miles From Key City of Vire—Germans Surren:  dar an TNitarcians

Yanks Poised For Possible Drive On Pari   Thousands Of Prisoners Taken As German Line Topples Under Blows

German Line Is Smashed,  Foe Surrenders in Droves   Americans Join British in Drive On Vire as Whole Front Moves Forward Enveloping French Villages, Towns

Wounded Yanks Home From Fronf   Gripsholm Arrives With Cargo of Injured Men and Refuqees

King Peter Mixes Politics, Romance   Trying to Save Throne By Agreement With Tito

Peter Seeks To Save Throne   a ed  ould Make Pact With Marshall Tito, Yugoslav Leader

Italians Press King to Quit   Formal Request Pends As Parties Plan to Form War Cabinet

RACING YANKS WIN GRENOBLE IN ALPS PUSt   Germans Still Holding Out in Toulon, Path Of Escape Cut

Squabble Over Texas Presidential Electors Goes Before State Court

Texas Dispute To Go fo Court  Elector Squabble GC.'lil iindtamdad

GREAT SEA PORT HIT BY GUNS, RAKED FROM AIF   Flaming Chaos Prevails  There; Harbor Strewn With Wreckage.

10,000 Tons ‘Of Bombs Hit  ‘Nazi Defenses   11,000 Allied Planes Take Part in Greatest Air Operation of War  1.000 CARRY TROOPS

Allies Control Skies  Over Invasion Area   10,000 Bombs Crash Down Clearing Way For Ground Troops: Largest Air-Borne Force in History Delivered Into France

PLANES CLEAR SKY FOR HUGE ALLIED PUNCH   ATTACKING AIRMEN RULE SKIES OVER NAZILAND

FDR May Settle Race Trouble   WLB May Call In White House To Operate Philadelphia Transportation.

FIERCE FIGHTING BELOW PESCARS   Eighth Army Trains Guns on Adriatic Coastal Highway

Canadian Units Of Eighth Army Smash Forward   Allies Drive Toward Pescara Despite Desperate German Resistance   WEATHER LIMITS MUCH ACTIVITY

LIMITED CIVILIAN PRODUCTION WILL START AUGUST 15   Extent Will Depend Upon Needs of War Machine.

VICTORY OVER GERMANY PROMISED WITHIN A YEAR   Reich Cannot Meet Necessary Production Goals, Says FEA.

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT  Far From Unanimous

Mighty Air Raid Leads Invasion   RAF Hammers French Coast All Niaht

GUN NESTS HIT HARD BLOW 10 HELP INVASION   Nazi Coastal Batteries Blanketed By Rain Of Bombs

MOTOR FORCES PUSH FORWARD FOR 9 MILES   German Left Flank Crumbled In Drive Past Avranches Area

Pigl Ray Puan FORWARL NINE MILES   Drive in Brittany Crushes Nazi. Positions as Far as Pontorson

FIRST ARMY PUSHES: rn NINE MILES   Drive in Brittany Crushes Nazi,Positions as Far as Pontorson

Unable To Halt U.S. Armor   Churchill Optimistic Over Early Victory

Japs. Pounded Relentlessly By Americans  On Guam Isle   “Battered. ‘Rebubacke:  “OF Enemy Pocketéd

YANKS SEE NEW IMPROVEMENTS AT JAP EXPENSE   Enemy Built Orote Airstrip, Improved Harbor For U. S.

Americans Tighten Trap Or Nipponese In Advances On Guam And Tinian

—PACIFIC—  NIPS ON TINIAN ~ HELO POCKET   Warships “Join In Bombardment To Regain Former: U. 8S. Base   6.206 ENEMY DEAD   Admiral Nimitz Declares Worst Of Fighting Behind On Islands

Firm Grip On Guam; Conquest Of Tinian Near   Americans Extend Holding: and Japs Have No Hope of Escape

Yanks Force Japs on Guam   Enemy Forced Into Northern Half for Merciless Pounding

Remaining Japs Pounded Heavily   AMERICANS PUSHING AHEAD ON GUAM AND TINIAN -

JAPS IN A POCKET \DE   American Soldiers and Marines Sweep Swiftly Across Guam

Japs, Squeezed Into Northern Part of Guam, Battered Havily   Small Pocket of Japs Left on Tinian; Warships Line Up Around Northern Guam, Pour Shells Into Nipponese

AGANA, GUAM CAPITAL, NOW INU. $: HANDS   MacArthur takes Sansapor, 4 Hours’ Flying Time From Philippines

YANKS CAPTURE ISLAND CAPITAL IN GUAM DRIVE   U. S$. Troops Pound Last Enemy Defense Lines on Tinian

ICKES GRANTED NEW ASSISTANT   House Action Regarded By Friends As Vote Of Confidence

Ickes Receives Support in Bid For Assistance   Friend, Regard Action  In House as Vote of ... Cantidence

Frank Goodwit To Quit Aug. 1 As. Registrar   Motor Vehicles Official Will Be 70 in October

5.000 Planes Sent To Russ By One Route  Qencaant’ Line Ts   ‘Crescent’ Line Is Highspeed Supply For India Theater

BAY OF BISCAY PREPARED FOR ~ ALLIED SMASK   200,000 Square Miles of Water Cleared  rd  VESSELS WARNED  Bombs Pound Invasion Coast   VESSELS WARNED

INVASION MOVE SEN IN MINING BAY OF BISCAY   Intensified Naval War On Communications  Of Foe Possible

WAC TAKES STAND   Officer Testifies In Her Own Defance In Wachinestan

Mines Are Returned To Owner:   Sixty Percent  Of Bituminous Operations Releasec After 13 Months.

SOFT COAL MINES RETURNED TO OWNERS   Ickes Relinquishes' Contril o Properties Producing 60 Per Cent of Bituminous Output,

JOKES RESTORES MORE GOAL MINES   Most of Northern West Virginia Mines Returned to Private Ownership: Few Southern Mines Affected

Ickes Releases  Soft Coal Mines   Retains Federal Control of Some

s GERMAN SHIPS SUNK BY RUSSIANS   Nine Were Heavily Loaded With Troops Escaping Sevastopol.

OHIO GOVERNORSHIP RACES SHAPING UP FOR BOTH PARTIES   Vie Donahey’s Son - In . Law Third Democratic Candidate ,

FERGUSON I Ne NEW ATTACK   LONG-8 TAN DING. -FEUD. BETWEEN BRICKER AND AUDITOR REVIVED BY SPEECH  '- AT NEWARK .

STRIKE BRANDED STAB IN BACK   Walkout Of § Mechanics May Boost U. S. Casualties, Patterson Says

FORTY-FOUR -OH10-FLAN-TS WILL, . BE AFFECTED: IF WALKOUT I8 STAGED TOMORROW °

ELAS RESUMES ITS ATTACK ON BRITS IN CENTRAL. ATHENS   Left-Wing Militia Sends Shells Crashing. Inte Inner Area of Maj. Scobie’s, Headquarters After. 24-Hour Calm Period

Federal Court in Verdict Against Pullman Co. Today   Must Abandon One or Other of Their Branches  of Business 

Republican Presidential Nominee Prepares List For Study By GOP Governors’ Parley At St.  Louis

eeeeEEeeeeeee——eEeEeEEeEeEyE——————  Dewey Will Present New Deal Criticism:

Raids Not Mentioned By Allies   Nips Broadcast First Visit Of Superfortresses As Unimportant.

Nips Describe Dramatic Aerial Battle   Enemy Propagandists Claim Attack Was Unimportant

PLANES WRECK SIX JAP SHIPS, i,000 DROWN   Nip Air Power Grows Weaker

U.S. Planes Destroy 7th Jap Convoy   Five Thousand Enemy Troops on Way to Leyte Are Killed

Aachen Leader  Quits, Weeps Colonel's Discipline Fai Is After Sign ning  ae ae eee

UNITED PARTY STARTS1944 BALLOT DRIVE   REPUBLICAN CHOICE FLIES TO CHICAGO FOR ACCEPTANCE

GOP Candidate Flays ‘Stubborn, Tired, Old Men’   Praises Bricker, His Running Mate

Dewey Gets All But One Vote and Bricker Nom' inated Unanimously at Convention Wednesday.

Ohio Executive's Speech Brings Great Cheers  }CONGRATULATIONS OFFERED BY WILLKIE  Great Enthusiasria Marks Closing Day of Convention”. - :

Dewey Voted Nomination  By 1,056 to 1   Praises Selection Of Governor Bricker For Vice President  ARS DEWEY THERE

OhioanStepsDown, Awarded 2d Place   Voting Quick, Unanimon: Except t for M’Arthur  By DRouslag BR (ornail

Says His Election Will Mean End Of One-Man Government In America   TRIBUTE TO BRICKER PAID BY CANDIDATE

ADVANCING IN SLOVAKIA   Nazis Say Furious Battle Raging In Hungary

New Sweep Flanks Army At Budapest   Russian Drive Aims At Lake Balaton And Austrian Border

RUSSIANS IN NEW FLANKING MOVEMENT   New Sweep Takes Them to Hungarian Town of Pees.

Red Flanking Force Sieges Pecs Bastion   2 Ukrainian Armies Form 90-Mile Frout In Eastern Slovakia

RED ARMORED GROUPS FIGHT IN PEGS AREA   New Flanking Movement Made Toward Lake Balaton, Austrian Rorder

RED COLUMNS DRIVE TOWARD AUSTRIAN SOIL   New Flank Sweep May Draw Nazi Reserves From Budapest

London Sources Believe German Fighter Output Has Suffered Body Blow

Allies Inflict 180,000 Casualties in Three-Week Offensive; Yanks Pour Shells Into 5 Industrial Cities

Third Closing In On Saarbrucken  With 4.5 Mi. Gain   Allies’ Great Winter Push Takes 180,000 Wehrmacht In Three Weeks; Momentum Of Advance Slows Down On 450 Mile Front.

REAPS TOLL FROM ENEMY   Final Saarlautern Resistance Nests ) Cleaned Out

Lieut. L. H. Jones Of Hinton Weds Ruth L. Elliott  Ceremony Held   Ceremony Held At Grace Church In Sioux City

Lieut. L. H. Jones Of Hinton Weds Ruth L. Elliott  _ Ceremony Held  At Grace Church In Sioux City

‘Negro Vote Ruling Hit by Legislature   soutnerners See Speedy State Action to Offset Supreme Court Decision

Ponder Texas Decision By Supreme Court... .  Action Expected From South’s Democrats To Keep Primaries “White”

RULING ON NEGRO VOTE CONDEMNED ‘BY SOUTHERNERS   PREDICT ACTION IN STATE LEGISLATURES TO OFFSET DECISION

SPEEDY AcTION BY STATES PREDICTED IN NEGRO VOTING  EXPECT PLANS BE PER  EXPECT PLANS BE PERFECTED BY SOUTHERN STATES TO OFFSET RULING

MOVE STARTED TO GET TAX ON PUBLIC LANDS   Southern Politicians Are Concerned by Ruling on Voting by Negroes

Dixie States May Seek Retention Of Racial Ban   Supreme Court Negro Vote Ruling Hit by Southern Leaders

Expect New State Action To Prevent Vote By Negroes   Quick Action Seen: By Southern States to Gir. cumvent High ‘Got Ruling That Denial: © Vote Is Unconstitution. al

SOUTHERN LEGISLATORS PLAN ACTION TO OFFSET SUPREME COURT DECISION UPHOLDING RIGHT OF NEGROES TO VOTE   Decision of High Court Hailed As Blow to Stat Soverignty by Some and Defended by Others As “Absolutely Right.” Southern Leaders Commen

Court Decision Upsets South  Dixie Leaders Plan Negro Vote Barrier

Resent Court Ruling   Southerners Up In Arms Over Negro Vote Decision; Texas to Ask for a Rehearing

NEGRO VOTE DECISION T0 BE DEBATED   Speedy Action Is Predicted By  Texas Group

Seek New Way to Ban Negro Voters  Decision of Supreme ' Court Causes Furore

Southern States Seek Means to Bar Negro Voting in View of Texas Case

Dixie States May Seek Way Around  Court's Decision   Southerners Condemr Rule Negroes Can Vote in Primary

4 Escape In New ‘Break’ At Anamosa   Govérnor Orders Fresh Investigation Following  Flight Of Trusties.

Four Eseape Relormatory   Trusties Make Break From lowa State Prison: Second In Twelve Days.

4 More Escape  From Anamosa Trusties Flee, lowa Governor Orders Probe

INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED BY HICKENLOOPER   Trusties Walked Away  From Prison Farm During Night

Stolen Cars Mark Trail Of Escapees   Nebergall Goes to Anamosa to Make Investigation of Circumstances

Dall Rig Bi as ema  Firemen’s Dance  Attended By Large Number Wednesday

Red Offensive In Southwest  Hungary Opens   Soviets Cross Danube in Force Below Budapest On Front 93 Miles Wide, 25 Miles Deep

SOVIETS CROSS DANUBE ALONG 93-MILE FRONT   Stalin Confirms Naz Reports on New Hungary Drive

Reds Occupy PecsinNew Offensive   Cross Danube South of Budapest on Wide Front, Take Many Localities

Congress Meets For “Lame Duck’ Session Tuesday   Legislative Action Is Likely to Await * Roosevelt’s Speech

wh LANE. DUCK SESSION TE MEET. TOMORROW   “Spirited Lez’ slative Battle: But Little : Concrete lAction Seen

CONGRESS’ LAME DUCK SESSION TE MEET TOWORRGU   Spirited Leg slative Battles But Little  Concrete Action Seen

lowa Sun Tan Fans Can Decide Own Fate   Old Sol Will Play Square With the Moderates

niles Saon Wall Gonic ta “& Pree fatter  vosmandy Tornado Wiped Out Paris Defens

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Defense Of Paris Seen Impossible   Hitler’s Defeated Legions Will Retreat Te Belgian Gateway late Nazi Germany

Today’s War Moves~   Hitler’s Chances to Defend French Capital Very Small

PATTON'S CAPTURE OF STRATEGIC POINTS ENROUTE TO PARIS HAS PARALYZED HITLER'S DEFENSES   Nothing Left for Nazi Dictator to Do But Puil H: Army Out of France—aAll That Is Left—And He Should Have Done This Sooner

~ WAR TODAY   Hitler’s Chances of. “Making a Successful Defense. of. Paris Have Beeo Virtually Nallified

Wright Aero May Lose Contracts      Strikers Warned By Army Officer

Discrimination Strikers May Lose Jobs   Army Considers Taking Contract From Wrieht Plant

ICC Says RR Negligent In Fatal Wreck   Protection Was Not Adequate

Crew of Derailed Train Failed To Give Adequate Protection, Report States — Suggestions Made for Devices to Provide Future Protection.

Railroad Tragedy Wasn't Necessary   Proper Protection Would Have Prevented Wreck

BLAME FIXED FOR ~ BIG TRAIN WRECK   Southbound C: Crew: Failed to Protect Derail- : ed Cars ee

ICC Fixes ~ Blame For  Rail Wreck   Says Crew of Derailed Cars Should Have Furnished Flag Proiection

Lack of Flag Blamed for Rail Wreek   Crew Had 40 Minutes In Which To  Warn EFxnress

\ail Tragedy At Rennert That Killed 72 Caused By ACL Failure To Give Adequate Protection

Rail Wreck DueToLack Of Warning   Rennet Tragedy Is Investigated By Commission

1.C.C. Blames Crew Of Train Involved In N.C. ~ Wreck Which Killed 72

Latin-American Affairs Office Will Be Liquidated, Rockefeller Reveals

INTER-AMERICAN OFFICE 10 CLOSE   Good Neighbor Policy Not Abandoned; Wartime Avency Is Lianidated .

CANADIANS ENLARGE UAMONE BRIDGEHEAD   Beat Off Powerful German Counter Attacks on Italian Front.

Canadians Expand  River Bridgehead   Beat Off Tank Supported  German Counterattacks

Canadians Cut Italian Road    ‘Nazi ‘Counterblows. Gain Little Ground’

Sixth War Loan Bond Box Score   Allies Repel Nazi Thrust  Near Faenza

CANADIANS EXTEND BRIDGEHEAD OVER LAMONE IN ITALY  Kesselring Throws

BRIDGEHEAD. ENLARGED   Canadian Troops Beat Off Powerful Nazi Counterattacks

Yanks Only 43.” Miles From Edge (f Paris, Report   U. S. Spearheads Said To Have Reached Chartres, In Paris Drive   CONFIRMATION IS NOT YET GIVEN   Reported At Chartres

ARHEADS REPORTED IN CHARTRES   Stubborn German Resistance Continues at Three Points

War Is Demanding More Gasoline, Supplies Shrink  Rations May Grow Shorter in West and Midwest

Gasoline Rations Cut Due April 1   Sharpest Reduction Expected in Supplies for West Coast Areas

THIRD ARMY S REPORTED ATTACKING   ‘Germa ns_Tell. of Action ok Confirmed By: Allies, Deep Nazi Thrusts:

COUNTEROFFENSIVE DEALT HEAVY BLOW BY ALLIED AIRMEN  ’ REPORTS OF GROUND   REPORTS OF GROUND ACTION STILL LAG UNDER CENSORSHIP SCREEN

Reds Report Winter Drive Is Under Way   Fate of American Garrison in Bastogne, Wiltz Still in Dark

@aryvryvyryryvryvryvryvryryyerpre ree ee YF Where Else Would Ceiling Poster Go, Grocer Asks OPA

HOUSE PASSED WAR DEMOBILIZATION AND RECONVERSION BILL  CONFEREES NAMED MEE’  WITL CENATADC TH COM   CONFEREES NAMED MEET WITH SENATORS TO COM. POSE DIFFERENCES

Congress Leaves Unemployment Doles 'To States —Rushes To Get Holiday

Congress Studies Reconversion, . - Surplus Sales Before Adjourning

‘WAR DEMOBILIZATION BILL IS PASSED NOW   House and Senate To Find Common Ground on Law

Congress Planning Labor Day Recess   Controversial Issues Go To Conference Group

Congress Prepares  To Take Holiday   Both Hlouse And Senate Kill Measures To Aid Postwar Unemployed.

Congress Prepares  To Take Holiday      Both House ‘And Senate  Kill Measures. To ‘Aid  Postwar, Unemployed:  q

AFL Favoring Soldier Vote   Executive Council Wants Congressional Enactment of Law Assuring Every Service Man Abroad A Vote.

SOVIETS TAKE 180 TOWNS IN BROAD BLOWS   Russians Knife Deeper Into Carpathian Zone, Stage Amphibious Thrust

REPUBLICANS PICK CHICAGO FOR SESSIONS   Will Hold Convention During Week Sta-ting June 26

REPUBLICANS: TO MEET IN GHIGKED TO NAME NOMINEE   Party Leaders Schedule Convention for Week Beginning June 26   HALLANAN TO HEAD ARRANGEMENTS GROUP   Committee Will Recommend Keynoter and Permanent Chairman; Dewey, Willkie And Bricker Top Discussion of Possible Candidates

GOP to Hold Parley June 2¢ In Chicago   Committee Meeting Has No Upset-; Demos Pick Site January 22

Republicans — Pick June 26 Meeting Date   ' National Committee Accepts Chicago Bid — OF S75 _ OD far Canfal   DEMOCRATS TO PICK DATE, CITY JAN. 22   Republicans Talk Mostly of Bricker, Dewey and Willkie

GOP Sets June 16 as Date for Convention   ® Democrats to Set Date After Meeting on January 22

GOP TO MEET INCHICAGOTO NAME TICKET      Convention te Begin on June 26, Committee Decides   WILLKIE, BRICKER, DEWEY MENTIONED   Hallahan Nomed to Head Committee on Arranaqgements

10-WEEK SIEGE WINS MYITKYINA   Important Northern Burma City Falls to Allies

Myitkyina Falls After 10 Weeks Of Jungle War   Allied Fighters OverCome Weather As Well As Japanese Army

MYITKYINA IN: “ALLIED HANDS   Troops Overcome Monsoon, Jungle and 3,000 Jap Gefenders.   \VITAL BASE IN BURMA

MYITKYINA IS CONQUERED BY ALLIED FORCES   Flyers Now Able To Fly Around China Hump

Myitkyina Added To Stilwell’s. Pacific Triumphs   Two Airfields, Vital Road, Rail Terminals Captured

Myitkyina Is Captured By Allied Troops   Fall of City Puts Two Airfields, Important Rail and Road Terminals in Stilwell’s Control

Myitkyina Falls To Gen. Stilwell   Allied Victory Comes After Ten Weeks of Fighting for Base

Key City Vital To Reopening “ Of Ledo Road   Japs Routed By Bazookas, Flame-throwers And Artillery

GEN. STILWELL AFTER TEN WEEKS TAKES VITAL CITY   Overcomes Monsoon, Jungle and 3,000 Jap Defenders of This: North  Burma Base

Stilwell’s Troops Capture Myitkyina Tn North Burma   Victory Clears 200 Miles of Ledo Road fo China—Japs Seusezed an Goam. MW. Cuines

Myitkyina, Major Ledo Road Link, Finally Captured   Burma and China Allied Patrols Now Only 20 Miles Apar

Japs’ Burma Base Falls in Allied Smash   Myitkyina Captured by Stilwell; Japs Facing Disaster on Guam

BURMA BASE OF MYITKYINA FALLS   REMNANTS OF JAP DIVISION WIPED OUT BY STILWELL

My itkvina Is Captured by Stilwell   Guam Japs Facing Death; N. Guinea Trap Closes;  Hengyang War Rages

Japs Lose Burma Base Myitkyina, On China Road  Bi, ccs a, OR coe,   Yanks Force Nips To Cover in  Struggle for Guam

Myitkyina Falls to Allies After TenWeek Jungle Fight   Stilwell Clears 200 Miles for Ledo Road Build ine Purposes

Canadian Draft Is Held Up by Striking Troops   Men Due to Depart For Overseas Face Threats of Bullets

Mutineers In Canada Half Embarkation   Violence Threatens In Conscript Protest

Subscribe 65 % Of Total First Two Weeks In  New Drive.   COMPANIES AID TOTAL

Subscribe 22% Of Total First Few Days In New Drive.   COUNTY QUOTA IS $265,000

Pre-Induction Physicals To  Iowans Soon   Program To Be Fully Under Way By February 1, Savs Gen. Grahl

(Eisenhower Tells Troops ‘Definite ‘Opportunity for Major Allied Victory’ ‘Depends on Special Effort of All Arms

Japs Guinea Army Routed  441 More Killed in Destruction by Yanks

Attacks Pressed on Trapped Japanese Forces   Americans Drive South, East on Driniumor River

HOPE FOR PEACE BETWEEN GANDHI AND BRITAIN SEEN AS GREAT AID TO ALLIED CAUSE IN GLOBAL WAR

The War Today   oe Solution of Indian Prob lem Would Be Major Vietnry of War,

18 Trapped iners Safe   . Men Freed Through * ‘Air Shaft Passage

Second Attack in Two Days Is Made; U. S. Subs Sink 12 More Jap Ships

Subs Sink 12 More Jap Ships; Wake Hi   Army Planes Drop 100 Tons of Bombs _On By-Passed Marshall Islands, Meet No Enemy Opposition; Rabaul Fields Blasted

Wake Bombed: U.S. Subs Sink 12.Jap Ships   Rabaul Subject to Big-Seale Raid by Allied Aviators

1) Enemy Plars Shot Down In.         Marshalls an  Wake Islands ] Targets of Airn

WAKE ISLAND AGAIN BOMBED   Second Attack in Two Days Is-Made; U. 5. Subs Sink 12 More Jap Ships

Wake Island Again Bombed; Pacific Fleet Hits Islands   Coronado Bombers of Fleet Air Wing Strike for Second Straight Day—No Mention ofthe © ~ BDamaae Inflicted’.. ,

NAVY CONTINUES WAKE BOMBINGS   Remaining Jap Bases In Marshalls Given  Hammering

WARSHIPS KEEP UP ATOLL RAIDS   Fleet Air Wing Strikes At Wake Island For Thirteenth Time

U. §. Submarines Destroy 12 More Japanese Ships  Naval Bombers Hit Wake Again; Little Opposition

Aerial Raid Slaps Rabaul   Marshall Islands Are Given Aerial Pasting

Soviet Push To Tiraspol Opens Major Rail Center   Nazi Relief Force Victor Near Skala

Other Soviet Forces Head For Tiraspol   Nazis Achieve. Minor Success In Skala Sector

SOVIETS AIM ~ FORBASE AT SEVASTOPOI   Twin Red Armies Advance; Germans Break Trap In Area West Of Skala

Batter Way Inte Escape Port of Tiraspel While Mazis Cut Cordon te Trapped Skala Treess

—RUSSIA—  mi gEFENGES. —ARESHATTERED   German Relief Force Cracks Russian Cordon West Of Skala   LOSSES ARE HIGH   Important Rail Junction Of Pascani In Romania Taken By Soviets

Other Red Units Reach Tiraspol As Russians Gain On 500-Mile Front

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE DEEPER INTO CRIMEA   Reds Advance Toward Large Naval Base of Sevastopol

Two Russ Armies Advancing on Sevastopol Base   Other Forces Battle Way Into Tiraspol, Bottleneck for German Garrison Fleeing Odessa; Nazis Score at Skala

OTHER SOVIE UNITS REACH ~ TIRASPOL   Germans Dent Line Around Skala Pocket   In Central Rumania Taken; Close In On Capital Of Bessarabia

French Report Paris Now Free   Germans Say Fighting Still Going on Inside Capital of France

PARIS FREED OF THE GERMAN YOKE   The Nazis, However, Declare Fighting Is Continuing in the Capital.

PARIS FREED, GEN. DE GAULLE TELLS FRENCH   Nazis Report Continued Fight Within Capital

De Gaulle Addresses  Parisians   Tells Cheering Crowds City Now Is. Free, But Nazis Declare Fighting Still Going On

Paris Again Proclaimed A Free City   Report is Nazis Have Surrendered, But Fighting May Still Be Continuing

'‘DeGaulle Says Paris Is Freed  From Germans   Supreme Headquarters, In Daily Communiaue, Fails  To Confirm Fall Of French Capital

FRENCH RADIO IN CITY TELLS OF LIBERATION   However Germans Declare Fighting Still Going On

DE GAULLE SAYS PARIS IS FREE: DENIED BY NAZIS   Germany Reports Fighting Still In Progress

Alexandria Army Ait Field Commanded By Lt. Col. Quick   Colone! Holds Silver Stars, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal

LAURO TELLS OF STRUGGLE BY FORTRESS   Returns From Hazardous Trip To Berlin Shot Full Of Holes; Lost Fighter Escort, Battled Alone.   Two Men Scratched

Amendment May Upset Post-War Work Program   Controversy [n House, Senate

STIMSON REPORTS HEAVY TOLL OF. ENEMY ON IS- . LANDS—NAZI PLANE LOSSES HEAVY -

Growing Demands On Food Cause of Australian Move  Senatorial Criticism of Wa “Effort Termed

Amy Cut Defended By Australian Minister   ‘List “Must” Legislation \For Congress

Aussies Explain Army Cut Back   Explain Country Is Only Adapting Economy To Meet War Demands.

BOCHE CHECK ALLIED PUSH ON PO VALLEY   Foe Mou nts Attack Fo Fourth Straight Day

Nazis Halt Allied Po Valley Drive   ‘Very Strong’ Enemy Forces Strike in Italy

Fierce German Resistance Stalls British, Yanks Pushing Toward Po

Nazis Stall Allied Drive In Po Valley   U. S. Troops Meeting Violent Resistance

Germans Halt Allied Drive In North Italy   Americans Meet Tough Resistance

ADVANGE HELD BACK IN ITALY   Allies On Last Mountain Rim Guarding Po River Valley

ALLIED FORCES STOPPED IN ITALY   AMERICANS FIGHT OFF VIOLENT GERMAN THRUSTS 4TH STRAIGHT DAY.

NATION FACES  CATASTROPHIC  OIL SHORTAGE      Internal Supply Good For Only 14 Years, Say Experts.

BAN DRAFT RULE TO GET 0.K. 10 CALL MEN 27 UP   Physically Fit Draftees it Unessential Work Face Induction in Ohio

Emphasis Still To Be Placed On Younger Men, Goble Orders; Only Those Refusing To Take War Work Will Be Inducted

OHIO DIRECTOR LIFTS BARS T0 OVER 26DRAFT   Local Boards Now May Call Group Without Obtaining Gohle’s Permission

Conderman Is Fighting Father   Major Took Place Of Son Japs Slew

FIGHTING FATHER OF YEAR NAMED   Major Disobeys His. Colonel to Avenge Death of Son in Pacific

Entered Marines To Avenge Son’s Death. .... North Carolina Marine  Corps Major Designated  “Fighting Dad Of Year’”’

Ten German Divisions in Soviet Trap   Caught in Joining Of Two Ukranian Fronts, Says Stalin

First and Second Ukranian Fronts Are Joined Today   Germans Say Lutsk, 70 Miles Inside Poland, Evacuated

NAZIS ABANDON LUTZK, ROVNO IN OLD POLAND   REDS TAKE SMELA, RAIL CENTER IN THE DNIEPER BEND

Big Moves On Entire ~ East Front   Stalin:in Triumphant An- nouncement Tells of Captore of Smela   GERMANS QUITTING ~ BIG POLISH BASES:   Surprising News. From. Ber“lin Admits Loss of Lutsk: aud:Rovno. in Poland

TRIUMPHANT SOVIET ORDER OF DAY TELLS Gr NEW VICTORIES  FIRST AND SECOND UKRAINIAN FRONTS REPORTED REEN JOINED

FIRST AND SECOND UKRAINE FRONTS HAVE BEEN JOINED   Ten German Divisions Were Trapped, According to a London Report,   LUTSK, ROVNO TAKEN

RUSSIANS RIP 100 MILE HOLE IN NAZI LINES   Germans Admit Evacuation Of Lutsk, Rovno, Deep Within Poland

Nazis Admit Abandoning Lutsk, Rovno   First and Second Ukrainian Fronts Joined—-Gains  Of 45 Miles Made

Russians Take Another City   REDS FORCE GERMANS OUT OF POLISH - AREA

Berlin Admits Evacuation Of  Polish Bases ~   Quit Rovno And Luck, Also Being Pushed Back In Estonia.

Nazis Abandon Lutsk, Rovno In Old Poland   Red Offensive Forces Germans To Leave. Cities

nside Poland Are  ne Strongholds I Jccupied by Reds   erlin Discloses New Offensive Has Been Launched and Says Soviet Army Has Crossed Middle Gorin River   OTHER NEW RUSSIAN THRUSTS ARE REPORTED

NAZI MOVE SHOWS REDS ARE 7O MILES. INSIDE OLD POLAND      ‘Russians Had Not Mentioned Their New Offensive   SOVIET TROOPS  ALSO IN ESTONIA

New Soviet Drive Th Center Revealed   Invasion of Estonia Also Nears Finnish Gulf—Nazis Claim Troops Mobilized

Germans Lose Rovno and Luc!   Stalin Announces New Triumphs; Smela Taken; Enemy Evacuates Polish Cities, Reds Advance Deeper Into Estonia

TRIUMPHANT SOVIET ORDER OF DAY TELLS GF NEW VICTORIES  FIRST AND SECOND   FIRST AND SECOND UKRAINIAN FRONTS RE. PORTED BEEN JOINED

RMANS LOSE ROVNO, LUTSK N OLD POLAND   > Stalin Annourices Ist "and 2nd Ukrainian ~Frents Are Joined

TWIN ARMIES OF UKRAINE MERGE   Berlin Admits Evacuation Of Lutsk And Rovno   RAIL CENTER   Of Smela On Dnieper Bend Captured By Red Army; 300 Villages Fall

Rovno Also Falls To Red  Steamroller   10 German Divisions Are. Trapped Between Two Ukrainian Armies

Ukrainian Armies Join   Germans Admit Loss Of Lutsk, Rovno in Old Poland Both Rail Centers  REDS IN ESTONIA  Lutsk 515 Miles From Berlin; Huge German Army Encircled

RED UKRAINE TROOPS TRAP 190,000 NAZIS   First and Second Soviet Armies Finally Join Hands South of Kiev

GIVE UP LUTSK, ROVNO BEFORE NEW RED PUSR   In North Germans Evacuating Narva in Estonia to Soviet Thrust.

‘Lutsk, 70 Miles Inside Old Poland, Given Up As Russian Troops Advance

STALIN ANNOUNCES NEW DISASTER FACES NAZIS WHO ARE EVACUATING ROVNO AND LUTSK IN POLAND   Ten German Divisions in The Ukraine South of ~ Kiev Face Disaster When Russian Armies Complete Junction.  Whole German Line Is Wavering

Red Troops (Of 2 Armies Close Ring   Enemy Withdraws From Rovno And Lutsk In Old Poland; Russian Fighters In Estonia

Russians Grab Lutsk, Tovno   STALIN PROCLAIMS CAPTURE OF SMELA, RAIL CENTER IN DNIEPER BENE     D; TWO SOVIET ARMIES GAIN 45 MILES IN 100-MILE BREAKTHROUGH

Nazi Retreat In Old Poland Held Surprise   German High Command Says Towns “Evacuated” In Course of Embittered Defensive Fighting”   Places Red Armies 70 Miles In Natien   Soviets Believed Well In.  side Estonia Since Cap-:  ture of Kingisepp, to Reach Narva River .

Encirclement Completed By Russian Armies — Lutsk And Rovno Are Lost By Germans

Nazi Line In SouthBroken AsArmyRoll: On In North   Red Army Crushing Forward Along Gulf Of Finland And Is Near Narva River

LUTSK, ROVNO INSIDE POLAND ARE EVACUATED   Germans Also Pull Out Of Narva In Face Of Developing Red Drive

Shatter Nazi Lines On 100-Mile Front   ‘Soviets Trap 10 iGerman Divisions In Mighty Drive   First and Second Ukrainian Fronts Are Joined; Polish Strongholds Fall

Reds Unite Two Fronts; Smela Taken   Germans Admit Loss Of Lutsk And Rovno Inside Old Poland.

Germans Acknowledge Loss of Lutsk and Rovno and Are Evacuating Narva; Stalin Proclaims Joining of Ukrainian Armies, Trapping Nazis.

Lutsk, Rovno” Evacuated ©  As Red Forces Push Forward   Nazi High Command Admits New ‘Losses

TWO UKRAINE ARMIES JOIN, CLOSING TRAP   Nazi High Command Adé mits Evacuation of Royno and Lutsk, 30 and 70 Miles, Respectively, Inside Old Poland.

PRINTS THE NEWS  TELLS THE TRUTH      Lutsk and Rovno, in Poland Evacuated as Reds Press Forward Along Broad Front   Nazi Withdrawal From Lutsk, 40 Miles East of Battle Scene, Proves Surprise; Reds-Also: Advancing Inside Estonia

Two Fronts Joined by — Red Forces   Germans Admit Loss of Lutsk and Rovne In Old Poland; Vatutin and Konev Smash Throuvah Ukrainian Enemy Lines

Jkrainian Armies Join, Trapping [0 Nazi Divisions   Germans Admit Withdrawals  _ From: Lueck, Rovno In Poland

Red Armies Join Fronts in Ukraine   Germans Also Give Up Lutsk and Rovno, in Old Poland

Nazis Abandon Two Key Towns In Old Poland  Stalin Claims Ten   Stalin Claims Ten Divisions Caught In Trap

NAZI TROOPS ABANDON TWO TOWNS TODAY   Lutsk And Rovno Taken By Reds In Poland

Nazi Troops Abandon Towns Deep In Poland And Narva,  Enemy Stronshold In Estonia

NAZI TROOPS HAVE ABANDONED LUTSK, GERMANS REPORT   itovne, Another Important Stronghold, Also Has Heen Kvacuated,   A RED ARMY OFFENSIVE   Meanwhile the Nazis Said They Were Moving Out of Narva in Eatonia,

- Developing Russian Offensive Forces Germans to Withdraw From important Town:

TEN GERMAN DIVISIONS IN SOVIET TRAP   Two Major Points in Old Poland Lost to Conquering Reds, Hitler Forces Admit

MOEA A4AK4 24S Ew  Of Narva Also Is Admitted   Berlin Announces Withdrawal of Troops From Rovno, Lutsk   RUSS SPEED DRIVE   Dispatches Indicate  Soviets Battling on Estonian Soil  La

150,000 MEN HELD IN JAWS OF RED PINCERS   Stalin Announces Soviet Ad vance; Germans Lose. Poland. Estonian Towns.

Stalin -Claims Trapping Of 10  Nazi Divisions   Vatutin And Konevy Lead Red Breakthrough Against Foe   Germans Admit Loss Of Two Polish Towns In Broadcast

Soviet Armies Join, Encircle Ten Division   German Line Shattered For 100 Miles; Berlin Admits Disaster

Marshal Stalin Makes Announcement in Triumphant Order of Day.   NAZIS ACKOWLEDGE LOSS

GERMANS FLEE LUTSK, ROVNO IN OLD POLAND   Yield City 70 Miles Inside Border to Advancing Russians, Berlin Admits: Also Quit Narva.

CAVE-IN DELAYS ~ HUNT FOR GIRL.   Earth Swallows Child Out Walking With Aunt in Pittston

American Ace Run Kill String to Thirty-Six Planes  Major Richard Bong Bags Two More In Ormoc Dogfight

UREEN, MURRAY DENOUNCE PLAN TO DRAFT LABOR   AFL and CiO Heads to See ~ Roosevelt as Senate Considers Bill

AFLandClO Chiefs Score FDR Proposal   Austin Won't Press For Bill Untess Public Demands It

GASOLINE SPILLED — IN TANK ACCIDENT   Trailer - Breaks Loose on Slope of Sideling Hill - -

GASOLINE SPILLED IN TANK ACCIDENT   Trailer Breaks Loose on Slope of sigling Hil

SOLDIER VOTING BATTLE FLARES   Republicans and Democrats Shift Blame for Delay

SENATE ARGUES SOLDIER VOTE DELAY BLAME   Martin Predicts Republican Opposifion in House to Rol! Call Vote on Legislation   LUCAS CONFIDENT   Author of Adminisiration Bill Seeks to Cut Off Debate and Force Showdown

Party Clash Over Soldier Vote Delay   Barkley ‘Claims Soldiers “May Wait Until 1972;  ‘Taft Counters

PARTY LEADERS * IN SCRAP OVER _ WARVOTE PLAN   “GOP and Democratic Solons Accuse ‘Other Side’ of Delaying Decision

Clash On Delay In Soldier Vote  House Republicans Oppose Roll Call

House Refuses Roll Call Vote On Ballot Bil   Bill Would Create Uniform Federal Ballot Machinery  For Forces.   REJEC:T ED 233-166

Senators Clash Over War Ballots   Democrats and Republicans Debate Responsibility for Delay in Vote

‘Never Before Have Defenders Had To. With. stand Such Assault,”  Correspondent Says

Texas, Louisiana Governors Confer  With Roosevelt  2portedly Discuss Anti-Fourth Term

Curious and Hopeful  Australian Brides of U. S.  Soldiers Reach America

9) Australian Girls Reach U. §.   Brides, Fiancees Of Yanks Arrive

REPORT ON WELFARE   Total Cost in Douglas County in October $15,974.05 

REPORT ON WELFARE   Total Cost in ‘Douglas las County in   October $15,974.05

Tehran Legation Promoted To Embassy Status   U. S. Strengthens Ties With Middle East Regarding Oil

Treaty. Debt Of Percale is Due Again      5,200 Indians to Get Yard Each by Terms Made Century Ago.

May Put Ceiling On Live Cattle   Hope To Stop Threatened New York ‘Meat Holiday’

BIG RESERVES OF VITAL FOOD HELD BY GOVT   Huge Supply of Rationed Items May Become Hot Political Issue

BIG FOOD RESERVE ‘MAY BECOME ISSUE INU. S. POLITICS —   Persons and. Agencies Allocat ing Food Supply May Find  Stecks a Political and Eco nomic “Hot Potato”

Emergency Food Stock Reserve May Prove Political “Hot Potato” In “44

Food Reserve May knter Polities   Both Sides Close]; Watch Plans For Distribution

Federal Food  Reserves to Face Politics   Billions of Pounds Of Commodities Involved In Election Struggle

Reserve Food Stocks ‘Hot Potato’   May Be Subject Of Controversy In Coming Campaign

FOOD RESERVES LOOM AS LIKELY POLITICAL ISSUE   POSSIBLE EFFECT ON NOVEMBER ELECTION SCRUTINIZED BY WFA

FOOD RESERVES MAY CAUSE SPAT   Vast Stocks Of Food Held Back By Government May Become Political Hot Potato In Coming Campaign.

Vast Reserve Food Stocks May Become Both Political And Economic Hot Potato

LARGE FOOD RESERVE I$ NOW STORED   May Be Political And Economic Hot Potato

FOOD POLITICAL ASPECT VIEWED   Reserve Stocks May Become ‘Hot Potato’ During Election Year

TURKEY SEVERS TIES WITH NAZIS   Diplomatic and Economic May Not Mean Entry as Belligerent

UP TO BERLIN TO SAY IF IT IS TO BE WAR   Ankara Severs Diplo matic, Economic Ties With Nazis

WAR DECISION ‘UP TO HITLER, _ GERMANY TOLD   DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS SEVERED: AND ENTRY. INTO WAR DEPENDS  __ ON NAZI ACTION

AULIVIEY IN PHILIPPINES SAID HALTED   Ground Work Stopped by Drenching Rains While Pearl Harbor Says More Tan Vessels Damaged.

25 More Jap Ships Revealed Hit at Manila   Rain Halts Fighting at Ormoc: Nips Raid Levie Fleet

GROUND ACTION IN PHILIPPINES      Air Raid Made to Re‘luce Jap Shipping to Philippines

Rains Cause Stalemate On Leyte As 25 More ‘Japanese Ships Are Hit

ANOTHER 25 JAP VESSELS SUNK, DAMAGED   General MacArthur Is Waiting for Clear Weather to Finish Up Leyte.

RAINS HALT BATILE ON LEYTE ISLE   Another 25 Vessels Added to Toll of Friday's Air Raid

FIGHTING ON LEYTE HALTED BY WEATHER   Drenching Rains Bting Activity To Standstill

Heavy Rains Halt Ground Fighting In Philippines; Revised Figures on Bombings Show 20 Jap Ships Sunk

Another 25 Vessels Added to Heavy Toll of Japanese Shipping   TOKYO WATER FRONT BELIEVED HARD HIT

Ground Activity in Philippines Halted by Rain   Jap Toll in Last Friday's Raid Maninte

«Leyte Drive Is Halted by “Heavy Rains   Figures Show 20 Ships Sunk, 9 are Wrecked, 19 Damaged

Rain Causes Stalemate On Leyte Island   Ground Activity Comes To Abrupt Halt — Give New Figures On Toll Of Jap Ships

NIMITZ ADDS TO ENEMY SHIP TOLL   Ground Troops Bog Down In Torrents

Drenching Rains  Halt Yank Drives   Ground Activity Halted By Philippine Torrents

Vice President Wallace Plans to Visit China’s Capital as Representative of Chief Executive

Wallace Plans Trip fo China In Late Spring   Vice President Will Rep resent President on Official Visit

WALLACE 10 VISIT — CHINESE CAPITAL   VICE PRESIDENT TO MAKE TRIP AS: ROOSEVELT'S REPRESENTATIVE, ~

WALLACE TO VISIT CHINA, HE STATES   Political Speculation Re. yiewed as Trip Is Announced

Wallace Plans Trip to China In Near Future   Vice President May Be Out of Country for Demo Conventions

VIGE PRESIDENT PLANNING TRIP TO CHUNGKING   Wallace’s Colleagues Puz zled Over Nature Of Projected Tour

District Chemical Firms Named in Government Suit   Government. Charges Violations of Anti-Trust Act

Life on Leyte Under Jap Rule Is Described   Three Citizens of Americar Ancestry Jailed and Beaten

Reaction Is Liberalism Of New Deal   GOV. BRICKER QUOTES WALLACE BIDDLE AND ROOSEVELT ON THEIR DEVILISH PURPOSES IN GOVERNMENT.   People Not Deceived

John W. Bricker Labels New Deal As ‘Reactionary’   Ohio Governor. Declares GOP Proposes To End “Economic Slavery”

SHACKLES OF NEW DEAL POINTED QUT   Bricker Says Administration Has Reached Back Into Centuries to Find Devices For Regulation of Peoples

BRICKER SAYS NEW: DEAL REACTIONARY   Liberalism Defined as Faith in the Future of America

SOVIETS LAUNCH DRIVE FOR LWOW   TROOPS MOVED UP FOR EAST PRUSSIA SMASH

Japanese Push To Outskirts Of ¢ henghsien   Advance ‘Threatens Chinese Hold On LOO-Mile Section Of Railway

JAPS ENTER SUBURBS OF CHENGHSIEN   Peiping-Hankow Rail Hold by Chinese May Collapse

Chinese Disclose Jan Encirclement  Of Kweilin Cil  Despite Developments Arm my Co onfi ident City : (eee

Jap Fleet Awaits Chance, Says Knox  May Strike When Time Is Ripe. He Hints

Backstage Battle Over Vets’ Bonus Moves ‘Into Open: Others Would Out-Do Legionnaires

Offer Soldier Bonus Bills   Five Veterans’ Organizations Back Compensation Legislation

SOLDIER BONUS ~ BATTLE OPENS   New Legislation Pushed B\ Five Service Groups

New Drive for Soldier Bonus Is In the Open   Five Service Groups te Sponsor New Bill—As} Hearings

BONUS LEGISLATION  INTRODUCED IN BOTH  HOUSES OF CONGRESS WOULD PAY MAXIMUM 01  - $3,500 AND $4,500 FOR WOME AND OVERSEAS

Veterans Bonus Moves Into Oper  _New Move Launched ~ by §& Graanizations

Dele y Five Service Groups   Backstage Battle Moves Into Open; Bonds Proposed

Bonus Legislation  Is Demanded Now   Backstage Battle Between Vets Organization Moves Into Open.

SERVICE GROUPS PROPOSE HIGHER SOLDIER BONUS   8 eA A ADD A  WOULD GIVE $3 DAILY FOR HOME SERVICE, ¢4 FOR FOREIGN

BATTLE OVER BONUS FOR FIGHTING MEN MOVES INTO OPEN   Service Groups Are Offering Bonus Legislation in Bath Houses of Congress   ILEGION: PLANNING DRIVE

Veterans’ Organizations in Batile Over Bonus for Current Conflict

Hawaii Martial Law Hearing Reveals Japanese Have : Had Submarine And Plane Near Pearl Harbor Recently

Officers Say Invasion Danger Is Over. But Enemy Espionage Work Threatens

RATION CALENDAL   Over 15,000,000 Taxpayers Will Have to Estimate 1944 Income by April 15

ESTIMATES DUE SOON   Many Must Pay a Fourth of Income Tax for 1944 by April 15

15 Million Must Make Tax Return   April 15 Deadline for Filing, Partial Payment

FIERCE HaniN RAGES 'N ATHENS   British and Greek Loyalists Hurl Back Two Dewn Attacks

HURL BACK TWO *LEFTIST BLOWS WITHIN ATHENS   British and Greek Loyalists - Get Reinforcements * ~~ During Night

Hot Aachen  Duel: Yanks Yield Driant   Southern Offensive.   Small Nazi Gains.

13 Canadian War Prisoners Put To Death By Nazis  ae -_- wm... 4. een

Pri isoners Are   Shot by Nazis   : : Thirteen Canadians Lined Up  and Executed in Village Now Held by Allies

Truman Will Speok At Lamar. Aug. 31   Plans Approved for His Ac ceptance of Vice Presidendial Nomination.

SET FOR CAMPAIGN   Senator Harry S. Truman Holds Conference igaee  Roosevelt

T  ruman To Accept At Lamar   Open-air Speech At Courthouse On August 31,  Roosevelt Announce

CROWDS CHEER FOR DE GAULLE   Better Understanding With U. S. Achieved,  Says General

DE GAULLE IS “GREETED BY BIG CROWDS   French Leader Acclaimed _ by New York Residents

NEW YORK CROWDS ~ CHEER DE GAULLE   FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ROAR WELCOME AS HE DRIVES UP 5TH AVENUE.

DE GAULLE IS -GREETED BY BIG. CROWDS   ‘French Leader Acclaimed by New York Resi- . : dents

— ares ‘nin hy Ola” “é£2*A_ion f.cc.aim'.~e sau_e . Zece)ion 1. ew V crs

Fifteen County Men Inducted Last Week   Many Fathers are Included In This Group

Men Inducted Mon. Into Armed Service   Four Married Men From Laurens Among the Gr oup Tr, Taava

Railroads Offer Plan To Pay Off National Debt   100 Year Period Asked in Proposal

Churchill in France for Vital Study   : . France Restoration t  - First-Rate Power Seen in Move

Role of France As World Power Mapped in Paris , Churchill Opens   \ Conferences { mere. Wc Clnwl L.

Churchill Back In Paris First  Time Since 40   Opens Con ferences With French Provisional Goyernment On Armistice.   BRINGS ASSURANCES

Churchill Opens Meeting With French Government   Bigger Role Seen for France In United Nations Councils

France fo Win World Power Restoration ~   Winston Churchill... And Anthony Eden Ge To Paris to Confer With Gen. De Gaulle

Churchill And  Freneh Confer   Talks Center On Restoring France As World Power

Churchill And DeGaulle Meet   Briton to France, Opens Conferences on Restoration Of France as World Power

Churchill, Eden Visit De Gaulle  To Restore France As Vital Member in  Big Power Councile

U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS FLYING FROM ITALY BLAST VIENNA AREA  DAL UCAUV ROMRERE BI

Yanks Follow Big British Night Attack   Other American Planes Sweep Out of England To Hit German Bases, While Main Yuaoslav Port Is Target for Fortresses

Italy-Based Bombers Rip Vienna Area   Yanks Blast Aijrcraft Plants; Reich Pounded  Anew From Britain.

Messerschmitt Plants Smashed, Rails Blasted   Anti-Invasion Air War Mounts As U.S. Planes Lash Ahead

‘Yanks Strike From Italy 'And Britain   Messerschmitt Factory Nea Vienna Blasted; RAF in Heavy Night Assault

HANNOVER ALSO HIT IN BIGGER NIGHT'S RAIDS   Pre-Invasion Smashes Increase In Fury On Fourth Day

Fresh Bombing Blows Hit Nazi Supply Routes   Aachen Is Night Target; New-Waves Of Planes Renew Attack Today

. 8. Planes Hit Vienna Area; Nazis Flee Russ  German Aircraft Plants Target _ Of Yank Armada

U.S. BOMBERS MAUL VIENNA   Attack Nazi Targets From Italy and England

U. S. Bombers Blast Vienna Plane Plants   British Airmen Strike Aachen and Other Enemy Rail Centers and Industrial Areas in Reich; Slight Loss Suffered.

More Than 500 Bombers Sent Against Plane Factory Of Germans At Wiener Neustadt

Yanks Hit Aircraft Factory in Austria   More Than 500 Bombers From Italy Strike at Wiener Neustadt as Britain-Based Fleets Strike Continent From West.

Allied Planes Continuing —  Air Assault.   British Hit Invasion Rail Lines—Yanks: Lose 68. Bombers

Yank Bombers Renew Assaults Upon Continent   Hit Nazi Plane Plants And Cripple Air Force

Planes From British, Italian Bases Strike German Targets   Blast Plants Near Vienna, Zagreb Railways, Airports; U.S. Loses 80 Airplanes in Tuesday’s Assault

Yanks Resume Great Air War Over Germany   Bombers Return to Assaults for Fifth Straight Day

Bombers Fly From Italy   Attack Vienna Area, Following Heavy Raids By RAF in Central Germany

BOMBERS FROM ITALIAN BASES   Britain - Based Air Fleets Sweep Toward Europe in 5th Day of Drive.   TO CRIPPLE AIR FORCE

Yank Planes Hit Nazi Air Plants In Vienna Area   Britain-Based Allied Craft Continue Great Drive To Cripple Luftwaffe

HAND AACHEN NEW BEATING   Hannover And Other Bases Hit; Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin Radios Silent

Plane Factories Near Vienna Hit   More Than 500 U. §, Heavy Bombers, Based on Italy, Sweep Into Southern Germany While Gthers From Britain Strike Again.   FIFTH DAY OF OFFENSIVE

Reds Advancing Through Crimea: Raids Hit Rail   In Far East, Burmzd Offensive Winning For Allies, Says  Commander

126 NAZI PLANES KNOCKED DOWN IN SKY BATTLES  RAF SMASHES AT ©   RAF SMASHES AT AACHEN, HANNOVER IN WEST GERMANY

American Bombers Camp Vast Air Squeeze on Europe   Itely and BritainBased Heavies Blast Vienna Area, Zagreb And Other Taraets

AMERICANS AND BRITISH GIVING NAZIS NO REST   RAF Slashes At Hannover And Other Targets; Daylight Raiders Over The Contnent Again Today.

RAF Bombs Reich By Night in Wake OFU. $. Day Raids   Smash at Aachen, Hannover to Wreck Havock on Nazi Lines

Supply Lines Of German ' ;Anti-Invasion Forces   Battered By Heavy, Medium Bombers   Major Rail Link At Aachen Blasted   Fiercest Sky Battles of War ‘Fought, Only 9 Bomb-. ers Lost Last} Night In Raids

ANTI-INVASION SUPPLY LINES R.A.F. TARGETS   Aachen, Hannover and Ocher Objectives in West {> “lasted by British Bombers   NINE PLANES MISSING

Four Persons Lose Lives In flaming House   I-xploding Stove Turns Home Into Blazing Inferno   FORT WORTH TIVE STOCK

ALLIED AND GERMAN FORCES — CONTINUE TO BATILE HEAVILY WITH COLOCNE AS ORIECTIVE

MacKenzie Says—  Great Battle At Cologne Near Climax   Action Fiercest Since D-Day; Drive Still Not At Full Force

WAR. TODAY   German Ariiies At En. trauce to Cologne Plain Sagging, But Still Not Breaking Under Allied Pres dt sure

Postwar Rule in France Decided  ~DeGaulle Group Wins ‘Assurance of Control

Allies Will Treat Only With de Gaulle   French Committee Gets Nod, Eden Tells Commons

Eden Saye De Gaulle Committee Will Be Acting Government of France As Soon as It is Liberated

Red-Faced Weatherman Again Promises Reliet From Heat And Drought

Forecaster's Face Red, But Racine Is Cooler Anyway   Temperature in Racine was 86 degrees at 1 p. m.

ClO Tinged With Communism, Die: Committee Says   18 Executive Board Members Are Reds, Report Declares

DIES REPORTS ON CIO INVESTIGATION   Charges Communist Campaign to Subvert Congress {n Totalitarism.

TILLMAN IS NOW LEADER OF PARTY   Dies Committee Says Many CIO  Leaders Communist

Dies Committee Charges Leaders Of C10 Political Group Are Communists; Says Hillman, Not Browder, Heads Reds

Hillman Is Called  Communist Leader   Committee Charges Group endeavoring To Sudvert Congres: To Totalitartan Program

1300BiG BOMBERS HIT HIT   500 Fighters Take Part In Attack; Aid 3rd Army Drive

1300 BIG BOMBERS HIT METZ AREA   500 Fighters Take Part In Attack; Aid 3rd Army Drive

Dispute Delays Ration Changes   Meats’ Point Values Extend Into December

Minor Advance Made By Yanks North Of Aachen   ie Germans: ‘Evacuate __Konigsherg . ‘Civilians3. =“po Valley Battle Rages

NAZIS ATTACK TO SAVE UNITS IN HOLLAND TRAP   Allied Troops Hold Wide Beachhead on South Beveland Island

Reds Stop Nazi Attacks  in East Prussia Salient —   ‘S Hertogenbosch, Is Now Reported Completely in Allied Hands

Nazis Open Savage Counterattack On 10-Mi. Dutch Front   Assault British Salient To Spring Jaws Of Trap

Germans Attack in Holland   Seek To Relieve Pressure From British Pincers.

Sermans Launch Counter Blows   Wall of Fire and Steel Meets Enemy Attack on Dutch Front

Coast Plans 1-4 Billion For Publie Works   Califernia leads nation in’ post-war planning; ready to ‘start when War ands. —

DISCOURAGES MOVEMENT OF LABOR    Heavy Demand Continues For Vital Weapons

WPB ‘Freezes’ Production Of Civilian Goods   Move Designed To Curb Shifting Of Labor From War Plants.

By STERLING F. GREEN _ (Copyright, 1944, By The Associated Presa)

Civilian Output Frozen   New WPB Order Issued to Keep Labor in Vital War Industries

Freeze Civilian Production At Present Levels   War Production Board Drastic Move To Meet _ ~ Vital War Needs.

PRESENT LEVEL WILL BE HELD INDEFINITELY   Order Calculated to Keep Labor in War Production Plants

WPB Freezes” AllManufacture Of Civilian Goods   Drastic New Move To Stop Labor Drift From War To Peacetime Activity

CIVILIAN GOODS SETUP FROZEN   WPB Action Designed to Keep Bulk of Nation’s Manpower in Wear Plants

Civilian Goods Production  Frozen at Present Levels  WPRE Order Aims to Discourage Transfer of Labor From Wear Plants

Freeze Ordered On Civilian Goods   Production To Be Held At Present Levels

Drastic Move Made  In Order To Provide For Viial War Needs; Order Ready To Go Ou

All Civilian Production Frozen By WPB Order in Drastic War Action   Designed To Halt Labor Shift To Peacetime Job:

CIVILIAN GOODS OUTPUT FROZEN   Throws Weight Behind Drive To Keep Workers on Munitions Lines; Sets Production at Current Levels

CIVILIAN GOODS PRODUCTION BEEN ORDERED FROZEN   ORDER DESIGNED TO DISCOURAGE MOVEMENT OF LABOR FROM WAR WORK

WPB FREEZES ALL CIVILIAN GOODS OUTPUT   Action Holds Production At Present Levels To Meet War Needs

WPB Freezes All Civilian Output At Present Level   Move Is Designed To Keep Workers In War Factories

WPD Thlto TO BUT QUTPUT UF MUNITIONS   Ceiling Will Block Plan for Expansion of Durable Goods Proaram.

WPB Freezes All Civilian Goods Output At Present Level To Meet War Needs

Frozen Indefinitely h Drastic New Move to Meet Vital Needs of War

SAP WAR LEADERS  BAL BEewws Oprerrm   WPB Moves to Help Munitions Production

Drastic New Move Made to Halt Labor Movement Into. Peacetime Manufacturing -Before War Needs Have Been. Filled

WPB Freezes Production of Civilian Goods   Drastic Move Seeks To Relieve Shortages In Military Material

PRODUCTION OF CIVILIAN GOODS » ORDERED FROZEN   Drastic Move To Meet Vital War Needs Is Cause

Civilian Goods Production Frozen  WPE Enters Drive To Keep Workers PN bg age pe

WPB Freezes All Civilian Goods   Order Designed To Discourage Move of  Labor From War Plants.

Freeze On , Quotas For Civilians   Production F or Domestic Need to Stay at Present Level Indefiniiely   . x  SEEK TO SAVE  LABOR FOR WAR   Current Program Believed Sufficient.to Meet Essestial: Home Front Needs

Production Frozen  On Civilian Goods   New Order, Not Yet Made Public, Designed To Halt Shift of Workers from War Factories to Those Making Peacetime Articles

Home Front Production “Frozen”   Drastic WPB Order Holds Civilian Goods Production at Present Levels Indefinitely

VITAL WAR NEEDS ARE PUT FIRST   Labor Movement Curb Is Aim Of Drastic Order By WPB

ALL CIVILIAN PRODUCTION IS ORDERED FROZEN   The WPB in a Drastic Move to Meet the Vital War Neaads_   AT THE PRESENT LEVELS   Js Designed to Discourage Movement of Labor From War Plants.

WPB FREEZES CIVILIAN OUTPUT IN NEW ORDER   Devised to Discourage Any Further Loss of Labor by War Plants

FREEZE ORDER GIVEN BY WEE   Civilian Production to Be Maintained at Present Levels.   :TO HALT LABOR MOVING

Keep Workers On Munition Lines For War   Blocks Earlier Plans For Output Of Civilian Goods

FREEZE CIVILIAN PRODUCTION AT PRESENT LEVELS   WPB TAKES DRASTIC NEW STEP TO MEET VITAL WAR NEEDS

WPB Freezes All Civilian Production   Drastic Action Taken to Discourage Move From War Industries

WPB FREEZES CIVILIAN OUTPUT AT PRESENT LEVELS IN MOVE TO MEET VITAL NEEDS FOR WAR

‘Production for Civilians Frozen By WPB Order   Step Is Taken to Provide Vital War Goods and Stop Drifting Mannowar

WPB “Freezes’’ All Civilian Production  ’ At Present Levels to Meet War Needs

WPB Freeze ‘on Production For Civilians   Drastic New Move to Meet Vital War Needs Holds Present Level’

W.P.B. Freezes Civilian Goods At Present Level   Action Token To Meet Vital War Needs —

CIVILIAN GOODS QUTPUT FROZEN   WPB ‘Hold-The-Line’ Or. der to Discourage  Labor Shifts

FDR, WILLKIE KEEP IN TOUGH   Says No Meeting Set With 1940 GOP Nominee

FOR HAS CONTACT WITH W. WILLKIE   Last Week President Saic He Knew Nothing About Report.

FDR AND WILLKIE MAY CONFAB SOON   FDR Says They Have Private Contact; May Meet

FDR Wants to Confer With Willkie Again   Willkie Will Talk Foreign Policy, But No Politics

 WILLKIE WOULD PREFER TO: MEET WITH: F.D.R.. AFTER THE. ELECTION

F. R. Contacts Willkie   President Remarks No Plans Made for  An Immediate Meeting

F. D. R. Admits Private Contact With Willkie    President, However, Declares He Knows Of No Plans For ‘An Immediate Men ‘With 1940 Republican Candidate

FDR, Willkie In Contact   PRESIDENT SAYS NO PLANS YET FOR IMMEDIATE MEETING

Willkie Gets Letter From The President   ‘Possible Conference Is Intimated -- Willkie Would Prefer Meeting ‘After Election.

Russia Likes  Lublin Body   May Be Recognized By Red ‘Government

Russia Ready To Recognize  Polish Group   Military Moves Speed Approval

Russia Soon To Recognize Polish Cov t. At Lublin   Tired Of Waiting For Exiled Regime la London, Stalin Makes His Own Plans

Last Prussian Frontier Held By Red Forces   Constant German Attacks Repulsed

Batter down strongly built enemy forts.  - Pinned German force wiped out

REDS BATTLE ON PREWAR GERMAN SOll   ALSO ADVANCE IN OTHER SECTORS DURING DAY

Soviet Forces  Reach German  - Soil In Surge   Third White Russian Army Troops. Win Historic Hon. .. OF of Carrying Battle to Nazi Homeland— - KMhahy-TowneTaken 

deds Reach German Soil   Historic Honor Goes To Army Of Jewish General

Invasion of Nazi Homeland  Now Imminent  Only River Boundary Separating eee e ay  i a

REDS REACH FRONTIER OF EAST PRUSSIA   Smash Across Field Lit ~ tered With Nazi Dead —Crossing of Border Believed Imminent.   GERMAN TROOPS FIGHT DESPERATELY   sean Repeated Coun_ ter-Attacks i in Effort to  Prevent Invasion of ~ Their Homeland.

Battlefield Littered With Nazi Dead And Burned Out Tanks And Guns   WARSAW MIGHT BE OUTFLANKED BY REDS

Soviets Ready to Cross Into Prussia   Moscow Announces the Border Has Been Reached

HOW SUPPLIES ARE GIVEN TITO   AIRPLANES VISIT HIM IN. THE -NIGHT

Destroy 300 Jap Planes As Airstrip Taken   Grim Battle Off Saipan Lasts Hours. With Nips Suffering Heavy Casualties

YANKS BAG 300 JAP PLANES IN SAIPAN BATTLE   Surge On Land Captures Vital Airstrip On Island

300 JAPANESE PLANES OUT OF WAR AT SAIPAN   U. 8. Pilots, Warship Guns Deal Heavy Blow In Air. Land Forces Forging Ahead

300 Jap Planes  Downed at Saipar   Ground Troops Captire Airport And Seal Off End of Pacific Isle

iP AIRASSAULT oMACHE AYU   American Pilots And Warships Séore Convincing Triumph   1 SHIP DAMAGED   Ground Forces. Seal Off Southern End Of Vital Pacific Island

Airstrip Seized; Island Tip Sealed Off  300 Jap Planes Knocked Out Off Saipan As Yanks Win Great Pacific Battle

300 Jap Planes Downed By Yanks Off Saipan; Biggest Air Batt: Since Midway   THE IMPORTANT A’ %, 7) AIRFIELD ON SAIPAN FALLS TO AMERICAN ASS.“ T FORCES AND SEALS OFF SOUTHERN END OF 1. ~ ND—SUSTAINED JAP AIR ASSAULT SUNDAY SMA. ZED BY TASK FORCE

300 JAPANESE PLANES BAGGED INPACIFIC WAR   Air Battle In Marianas Said to Have Been Biggest Since Midway

VITAL AIRDROME AT ASLITO IS TAKEN IN GAIN   300 Japanese Planes Destroyed In Biggest Air Battle Since Midway

300 Japanese Planes Toll Off Saipan   Newly Captured Airstrip At Aslito Being Put In Shape

QUUTAENN EC OF SAIPAN * CUT OFF   Vital Airstrip On Island Captured By Americans   JAPS CLAIM   Battleship, Two Cruisers, Destroyer, Sub Sunk; Guam Pounded

Yanks Destroy 300 Jap Planes   Win Biggest Pacific Air Battle Since - Midway, Announced

Capture Aslito Airfield      South End of Saipan  Firmly in Yank Hands Following Decisive Air and Land Victories

300 Japan Planes _ Destroyed to Win Biggest Air Fight   * In Vicious Battle Off Saipan U.S. Pilots Smash Japan Assault.   ‘Vital Airstrip Taken By U. S. on Island

U.S, AIRMEN DESTROY 300 JAP PLANES   Aslito Airstrip Being Prepared For Landings

UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS,  HYYVT A WT TIA TDODSYID  Pope eae 

Ground Troops Thrust to Magicienne Bay, Cut Off 'Nippons at Nafutan Point

Japanese Lose 300 Planes Off Saipan Raiding U.S. Task Foree   Only One American Ship Damaged; Yanks Take Airstrip

Smash Big Jap "Air Attack Off Saipan Island   U. S. Naval Task Force Downs 300 Nip Planes In Pacific Victory.

300 Jap Planes Destroyed Off  Saipan Island   Land Surge Captures Vital Airstrip and Seals OLf Southern End Area From Nips

Yankees Destroy  300 Jap Planes In Greatest Air Fight In Pacific   American Airmen Seal Off End Of Saipan

U.S. DOWNS 300 JAP AIRPLANES IN SAIPAN AREA   Biggest Air Battle in Pacific Since Midway; Yanks Seize Airstrip

Walkout Of 3800 Hughes Employes Virtually Halts Plant’s War Work

ROYER FLIER IS MISSING OVER GERMANY   T/Sgt. Norbert E. Rhodes, Gunner on Bomber, Fails to Return to Base.

AGREEMENT I$ SEEN ON ‘GI’ BILL   ODT Asks Civilians To Give Up Vacations

RAINFALL IS LESS    Showery Conditions Tapering Off, Says Weather Man

ELLIOTT, FAYE ON HONEYMOON   Hope to Visit White House Before Leave Expires

“Dusty” Bhoads Sent fo Prison  Sentenced to Three Years in F+. Madisan

OBSERVERS SAY VOLCANO; BONN SLES IMPORTANT   Stepping Stones Are a ‘“Must” Objective in Far East Host lities

State Income Tax Collections Up   Run Well Over Official Estimates For Whole Year

Roosevelt May Visit Europe In Near Future   Several Reasons - Cited for Presidential Trip

FDR MAY VISIT EUROPE TO SEE D-DAY ACTION   Observers Believe Post-War Organization Would Also Be Factor

TRIP ABROAD BELIEVED PLAN   Roosevelt Says He Might See Chirchill: Date Vague

FDR Wants Closer Look At the War   New Conference With Churchill Seen in  Near Future

HDR Hopes To See Churchill   Several Factors Might Impel President To Make Trip Abroad.

FDR WANTS GLOSt LOOK AT THE WAR   Several Factors Might Impel President to Make Trip Abroad: Expects te See Churchill Soon

FDR LOOKING TO TRIP OVERSEAS      Closeup Of War, ‘Talks With Churchill Hinted

BELIEVE FOR PLANNING MEET WITH CHURCHILL   Top Allied War Officials May Confer Near Start of West Invasion

FDR May Discuss Postwar-Sefup With Churchill   Makes Casual Remark He Expects to See Prime Minister Soon

E.R May Ge To View War Plan Peace   De Gaulle Meeting, Post-War Setup, Other Reasons for Voyage

Believe FDR Plans New  Trip Abroad  TT. ©... fama   To See Churchill, Closeup Of War

Believe FDR Plans Trip      Meeting With Allied Leaders Before Long Hinted By President

PRESIDENT MAY TAKE TRIP SOON   Meeting With Churchill In War Zone Hinted At Washington

PRESIDENT MAY SEE CHURCHILL   Roosevelt Believed Anxious to Get Closer View of War in Europe

See FDR Planninc Another Journey  Believed He Wants Closer View of War

—SENATE COMMITTEE.—  Supplies For War Ample   CIVILIAN OUTPUT PROBABLY CAN BE RESUMED WHILE WE STILL ARE FIGHTING JAPAN

Nelson Replies On Conversion   Senate Given Data On Civilian Goods

Eisenhower Ends Cheek of  British Forees   Supreme Commander Reports to King on Inspection Tour of  Pa*«al land Poarces *

British Army Is Reviewed By Eisenhower   Pronounces Soldiers Fit And. Ready, for Part  Sees A Ty eave.

EISENHOWER RETURNS FROM INSPECTION   Pronounces Men Fit and Ready for Part in Job to Come; Reports to King George.   No Explanation

Main Drive Of Enemy Turned  Aside. Slowed   Hun Counterattack Breaks Out In Sector 20 Miles South of City of Luxembourg   German Gamble to  Fail--Eisenhower   Says Enemy's Sally From Behind Strong Fixed Hefenses “May Give Us  Victory Opportunity”

Russ Give U.S. Air Bases For Shuttle Raids Across Reich   fortresses Land in Soviet Union After Raid  on Romania   Russian Reaction to Ti © BParte:> ‘Vaew Bia!

House Stages Tense Session In Debate on  Lend-Lease   Congressmen Ask Sharp Questions, Some Being Aimed ‘At British Policies   RUMORS NOT TRUE, REP. BLOOM INSISTS

Lend - Lease Unleashes Hot Words      STORIES OF ADVANTAGES TAKEN OF AMERICAN LIBERTY ARE DENIED BY HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS GROUP.   During House Debate

Home Front Issues Take: Solons’ Eye.   Republicans Watch -Wisconsin Primary; Navy Destroyer O'Bannon Cited

MANY PROBLEMS FACE CONGRESS AFTER HOLIDAY   Politics, However, Holds Top Billing in Capital Show With Campaign On

CONGRESS WILL FACE PROBLEMS AFTER RECESS   Taxes, Veterans’ Benefits, Price Control And Subsidies Are On Schedule

Army Releases Trucks for Civilian Use   All Light Equipment; 7,000 New Passenger Autos Turned Back

Bond Purchases Still Lagging   Individuals Letting Big Investors Carry Most of the Load

DELAY IN CIVIL SERVICE ASKED   Ferguson Seeks Chance For Returning Servicemen

WPB Plans Huge New Tire Plants To Supply Army  Will Be Spent to Boost Production

FDR MAY MAKE FIVE SPEECHES   » Fort Wayne Platform Talk Included in President’s Bid for Midwest

ARMIES HEAD DRIVES   New Attacks Aimed at Roer River and Saar Region Defenses

Delegates of 44 Nations Meet to Try for Solution World Monetary Problems

Nevada, Indiana Remain to Name GOP Delegation:   States Can Swing Dewey Nomination Reporter Believes

Dewey Strength Remains Short  Only Switch Could Insure Nomination

INDIANA, NEVADA ‘VET TO CHOOSE ¢. 0. P. DELEGATES   Roster of Republican Delefates te National Convention in a Month Complete But for These Two States  se, meee a caren wk

Dewey Still Lacks First Ballot Win   Only Two States Still To Name Delegates To GOP Convention

Indiana and Nevada Last To Choose Delegates; Dewey Gaining Strength

Only Two More States To Choose Convention Delegates  Dewey Isn't Expected To Win Out On First Ballot

Two States to Name Delegates   Indiana and Nevada To Make Election Early in June

395 DELEGATES LINED UP FOR GOV. DEWEY   Pennsylvania And California Groups Could Give Nomination

2 States To  Pick G.O.P. Delegates   Gov. Dewey Still Short of , First Ballot Clincher. Survey Shows

‘ONLY: TWO. STATES STILL TO SELECT G.0.P. DELEGATIONS   Indiana and Nevada to Name Delegates; Dewey's Back— ing Growing _

BACK TO CIVILIAN LIFE   Political Decisions Are Being Left : To French in Riviera

Dewey - Bricker Welcome Support Of Labor Unions   Ohio Governor Thinks Sid Hillman Drives Votes To GOP

New Landing In Schoutens  Neutralization Raids Hit Jap-Held Isles

> FLASHES   Leasnd Wire Bulletins on Latest World News ‘Today.   Aliicnx Advance.

CIANO WILL GO ON TRIAL TOMORROW      Others Who Voted to Oust Mussolini Also Must Face Treason Charges, Berlin Radic Declares.

Trial of Ciano, Others ‘Who Ousted Mussolini Will Start in Verona

TRIAL OF ITALIAN © OFFICIALS TO :  BEGIN TOMORROW  Count Ciano, Mussolinin Son-in-Law Will Be First

Knite-Wielding Moroccan Goumiers Aid In Cap. “hiring Key Mountain ‘Strongholds Oi, Route  ‘lo Rome

FRENCH TAKE VITAL HEIGHTS   Storm Strategic Positions Northeast of Cassino Supply Route

Captured Acquafondata Is Only Seven Miles From Rome Highway Stronghold

FIFTH ARMY  1 MILES FROM CASSINO   French Seize Mountain Stronghold of Acquafondata

1’, MILES FROM CASSINO   French Seize Mountain Stronghold of Acquafondata

French Troops Seize Heights Near Cassing   Mountain Stroaghold North. east Of Cassino Taken By French Attack   YANKS BEAT OFF GERMAN ATTACK

660,000 NAZIS TAKEN SINCE D-DAY LANDINGS   U. §. First Army Has Accounted For 200.138 Captives, Report Discloses

Planes Brave Stormy Sky to Lash Targets  French Rail Centers, Rocket Gun Area Avain Under U. 8. Bombsicht

Rail Centers in France Blasted   Raids Are Carried Out Despite Murky Weather Over Continent

Return To Their Base:   WEATHER HAMPERS MAJOR ACTION IN 19TH DAY OF AIR WAR; STRIKE BUDAPEST  — FROM ITALIAN BASE

va ONE ROOSEVELT PROPOSAL . FINDS FAVOR ON CAPITOL HILL      MOST CONGRESSMEN LINK MESSAGE WITH FOURTH TERM CANDIDACY OF  THE PRESIDENT.  «

Congress Views President Roosevelt As Fourth Term Candidate; Prepares Reject His Draft Labor And Four More Of His  Six Legislative Recommendations

CONGRESS READY TO REJECT F. R. LABOR DRAFTING   Other Proposals Hit; See Message Fourth Term Gesture

3 Missionaries’ Fate Unknowr   Americans May Be Held By Bolivian Indianc

CONVERT ISLAND TO ADVANCED BASE   Longest, Boodiest, Most Costly Battle Places U. S. Forces Nearer Tokyo, Philippines

‘405 PLANES AND 105 VESSELS HIT IN MANILA BLOW   13-Barge Troop Convoy Sunk Off Peleliu by Yank Warships

BAG ANOTHER 45 PLANES, 105 SHIPS   Halsey’s Forces Pay Return Visit to Manila Area

Huge Damage lnflicted On Jap  Sea-Air Power   P Report 405 Enemy Planes And 195 Ships Blasted In Philippine Attacks   TROOP CONVOY ALSO DESTROYED

American Carrier-Based Planes Hit Jap Sea, Air Power With Avenging Fury

British Offensive Gains Momentum In India Campaign  Relief Troops Contact Surrounded Kohima;  Caroline Raids Go On

BRITISH BREAK JAP HOLD ON KOHIMA FRONT   CAROLINE ISLANDS RAIDED DAILY BY U.S. BOMBERS

Allies Establish Contact With Kohima Garrison   British Prepare to Attack From Rear; New Drive Frustrated

ESTIMATE ON PLANE OUTPUT   4 e x we % PRODUCTION BOARD CHAIRMAN DECLARES 100,000 . PLANES WILL BE BUILT  ‘DURING, THIS YEAR

Combat Planes Gel Emphasis For ‘44   More of Them and Larger Models Are Planned

SENATE. DEBATES LEGISLATION ON RECONVERSION    Differences May. Cause Bitter Battles Over Many of the Issues:

RECONVERSION DEBATE OPENS IN SENATE   Bitter Battle May Develop Over Many Issues

DEBATE OPENS — ON CONVERSION   Northern, Southern Dems May Split

PROF. LANGE CONFERS WITH PREMIER STALIN   Chicazo Educator Says Russian Leader Wants To See Poland  A Strones Nation

Chicago Professor Obtains Interview: With Soviet Chief   Oscar Laije Promisad  Poland’s tntarasts To "2 Res ected

DISTRICT HOME DEMONS TRATION MEET APRIL 1!   Liberty County Members to Serve As Hostesses

H. . EMPRASIZES FOO AND HOME   Thirteen Counties Send Delegates to Wednesday Session

Three brotherhoods settle wage dispute with nine cent boost   Possibly opens way to early return of railroads to private management

Three More Rail Unions Accept Wage Adjustment  Non-Operating Groups’ Pay Demands« Remain

Three More R. R. Unions Accept Raise In Wages   May Soon Return Lines To Owners

SETTLEMENT OF WAGE DISPUTE   Railroad Operating Brotherhoods Accept Same Pay Boost As Other Workers

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RAIL MEN ACCEPT PAY BOOST TERMS      Wage Dispute of Operating Brotherhoods © Satelad

Disputed — Pay Case Is Endec   Non-Operating Workers Are Not Included In Agreement

RAILROAD WACE DISPUTE ENDED   Operating — Brotherhoods All Accept Nine Cents An Hour Increase

Action Settles Operating Brotherhoods’ Dispute; Wage Demands Of Non-Operating Workers Yet To Be Settled

Rail Dispute Involving Operating Men Settled   Three Brotherhoods, Firemen, Conductors, Switchmen, Accept Nine-Cent Pay Boost   SAME AS AWARDED TO 2 OTHER GROUPS  —— +. of "ss se faitrn “of fl

AUSTRIA IS AIM OF RED COLUMN   One Unit Five Miles From Mishkolc, Third Points to Budapest

New Spearhead Pointed At Budapest Indicates Early All-Out Russian Assault

British Second Joins U.S. First, Ni n th In Terrific Push Toward German Rhing

Third Army Men Storm Fortress From Two Sides   Other Patton Units Drive Toward Saar On 15-Mile Front; Deenen Aachen Weda.

Cross  Reich Border   Into Metz From Two Sides; Allies punch Out Gains All Along 400-Mile West Front

Drives Into Saar Sector On 15-Mile Front   Triple Development Takes Place With Advance On Metz

Triple Assault Hammers at Reich   Patton Strike Latest Developments In Series of Sensational Moves  By Six Allied Armies Hitting Reich

Gen. Patton Sends Patrols into Reich   Six Allied Armies Achieve Promising Developments On 400-mile Front; Wedg Reaches Within 25 Miles of Rhine,

Americans Enter Fortress City Of Metz From South   Third Army Unleashes Sudden Drive Toward Saar Valley On 15-Mile Front; Patrols   Cross German Border In Perl Sector

Enter City From North And South   Patton’s Troops Also Surge Into Germany; Sensational Moves

Six Allied Armies Make Advances In Drive To Rhine  British Offensive Menaces Dutch —

3rd Crosses Reich Border   Great Allied Wedge Crashes To Within 25 Miles Of Rhine; Powerful Attacks

Broad Aifack Now Raging on Serman Borders   Sensational Gains Are Recorded By Six Allied Armies

UNLEASH DRIVE TOWARD SAAR, RIP INTO. METZ   3rd Army Enters Reich; Smash Toward Rhine And Belfort

Great Battle Is Raging In Aachen Sector   Nazis Are Crossing Rhine River On Southern Front

Allied Armies Face 10 Enemy Divisions ‘In. Aachen Sector   U. S. Ist Army Holds W eiswiler; Reds Block Latvian Escape Gate; British Reach Italian Objective

GERMAN 19TH ARMY MENACED BY FRENCH TRAP IN VOSGES AND ESCAPE MAY BE FOILED

French Trap Nazi 19th Army Forces In Vosges Range   Allied Advance Slowed By Big Aachen Assauit

Nazis Hurl 12 Divisions Into Aaachen Sector      French Snap Shut Trap on Enemy 19th Army in Vosges Mountains: U. S. Third Crosses Saar River.

REPORTS INDICATE FRENCH SHUTTING “TRAP ON GERMANS   GREATEST BATTLE WEST‘-ERN FRONT CONTINUES TO _ RAGE IN AACHEN AREA

Nazi Escape Gap Cut to Eight Miles  Greatest Battle Of War Raging LL. Buawatinan Auaam

FIERCEST FIGHT ON LINE WAGED IN AACHEN AREA   Enemy Corridor Narrowed To Eight Miles On West Bank Of Upper Rhine

U.S. Ninth Army In France, Making Mightiest American Force On One Fighting Front   Lt.-Gen. William Simpson Commands Fourth Yank Army To Join Drive

U.S. NINTH ARMY ALSO HITS NAZIS   Takes Place In Drive Under Command Of Simpson

NINTH ARMY IS NOW IN FRANCE   Lt. General William H. Simpson Is Commanding The New American Unit To Go Into Action.

ARIZONA SENATOR WINS DEMOCRAT RENOMINATION WITH 2-101 LEAD   MONTANA GOVERNOR IN RACE AGAIN, WYOMING PRIMARY FEATURED BY CONGRESS BATTLE

Bulgaria Reported to Have Asked for Peace Terms  >. wae carer ma'am rrare

Say Bulgaria is asking for peace terms  Ankara report  se Wneontirmed

COURT ORDERS OFFICER HANGED   First Such Case Since Last World War

ARMY OFFICER TO BE HANGED   Found Guilty Of Slaying Two Girls, Two Men

OPA EASES CURE ON TYPEWRITER!   Lifts Control on Sale and Rental of Few New and All Used TypéWriters: Other Restrictions Trimmed

MAKING PLANS FOR 4945 COUNTY FAIR   Set Dates aa August 6 te 10—Annuat Meeting,

PLANS MADE TO HOLD FULL FAIR IN 1945   August 6-10 Set at the Annual Meeting for the Fair Next Year

Would Increase Membership of Missouri House   Code Makers Plan. Added Representation for Cities

Compromise Version Of Price Control Extension Measure Sent to Congress

Stilwell Cuts Japs’ Main Escape Route   Chinese Tighten Northern Burma Trap on 3 Sides

WAR TODAY   Battle for Cologne May Prove Decisive Battle Of War to End All Wars For Years to Come '

MacKenzie Says—  Alllied Push on Cologne  Plain Vital   Battle Before Rhenish City May Be Decis ive Action of War

ALLIES PRESSED GREAT DRIVE . AS HOME FOLK OBSERVED THEIR TRADITIONAL THANKSGIVING DAY

[BATTLE OF COLOGNE PLAIN MAY BECOME DECISIVE FIGHT OF WAR; ALLIES ARE MEETING STIFFER GERMAN RESISTANCE

FIERCE FIGHTING IN PROGRESS ON COLOGNE PLAIN MAY PROVE TO BE THE DECISIVE BATTLE 

The War Today—  End Of World War II Will Be More Than A Breathing Spell

SOUTHERN DEMS URGED 10 POOL   Sumter Group Proposes Achievement Of Balance Of Power Through “Solid South” Preferential Primary.

MITCHER'S FORCE BLASTS PAGAN; JAP POCKET AT NAFUTAN ERASED   ENEMY CAPTURES U. S. AIR FORCE BASE AT HENGYANG. CHINESE CITY IN FLAMES, SURROUNDED BY TROOPS

Nazi targets left wrecks  after raids  10 bombers anc 0 fichters Toct

B-29’s Bomb Nagoya   “Most Inflammable” Target Hit By SuperForts After Feint Aimed Toward Tokvo

Nagoya  arget Of Large B29  Bomber Force   Airplane Factories on Jap Home Islands Smashed;  mperial Palace Grounds Hit, Tokyo Radio Says

Third Jap City Of More Than Million Population Gets Severe Davlioht Pasting:

SUPERFORTRESSES IN HEAVY RAID ON GREAT JAP AIRPLANE-GENTER   NAGOYA, HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE INDUSTRIAL CITY, RAIDED WEDNESDAY

Superforts Return to Japan in Force   65,000 Men Are Now Being Placec In Ground Force

Yank Formation Possibly Largest Yet To Hit Japan   10 Ships In Nip Convoy Sunk, Damaged By U. 8. Forces In - Philippines

NAGOYA BOMBED BY SUPERFORTS   Industrial City One of Japan’s Most Inflammable Targets.   UPSET JAPS’ DEFENSES

B29s Smash At Nagoya on Jap  Home Island   Largest Jap Plane Plant Is Target of Raid—Tokyo Reports Imperial Palace Hit

TEN JAP SHIPS WITH SOLDIERS FOR LEYTE SUNK   Doughboys in the Philippines Still Battling Elements as Well as Enemy

Explosions, Huge Fires Rip Nippon Plane Plant Center   Super-forts Sow Vast Destruction in War Factories, Early Reports Indicate

B-29s Attack Nagoya On Jap Honshu Island   Has Largest Concentration Of Airplane, Airplane Parts Plants.   INFLAMMABLE CIT Y

FLIERS SMASH ANOTHER LEYTE RELIEF CONVOY   Japanese Claim Superforts Damage Grounds of Imperial Palace

B-29s Unload On Nagoya   Kk kw hu KehlhClU KK Pacific Chieftains In Strategy Huddle

Superforts Pound Nagoya, On Home Isle Of Honshu; Philippines Convoy Sunk

180 B-29s Bomb Nagoya, Jap Aircratt Center   U. S. Fliers Smash Nip Convoy, Down  55 Enemy Planes

Nip Plane Factories Objective   Third Largest City In Japs’ Homeland Is Industrial Center.

Feint Toward — Tokyo Upsets Jap Defenses   Superforts Switch Course to Bomb One of Enemy’s Most Inflammable Targets      SECOND LARGEST JAPANESE CITY      It Has Large Clusters of. Factories; Most of City’s : Buildings of Wood

Big Bomber Fleet Hits Nagoya, Japan   Force Over Nips’ Second Largest Island City Equals or Exceeds Largest Formation Yet to Attack the Enemy Homeland.

Huge Fleet Strikes Vital War Plants   Upset Air Defense By Making Feint Flight for Tokyo

ANOTHER EEN “GANVOY SMASHED   Five Tyansports And 4 Cruisers Destroyed By American Planes   NIP LOSSES MOUNT   Heavy Superfortress Attack Made On Highly - Inflammable City

Tokyo Area Is Raided   Another Jap Convoy In Philippines Destroyed

HIGHLY . INFLAMMABLECITY GETS BOMB DOSAGE AND OTHER CITIES ALSO ROCKED BY EXPLOSIVES

Superforts Hit Center Of Jap Aircraft Works   Two Home islands, Korea  Targets Of U.S. Bombers

Superfortresses Smash at Nagoya Industrial Area   Main Jap Island Becomes Target Of U. S. Raiders

SUPERFORTS HIT IN GREAT FORCE   BELIEVE LARGEST GROUP YEF TO. BOMB JAPANESE HOMELAND

industrial Center Hit Repeatedly   Is Highly Inflammable City; Ninth Japanese Convoy Destroyed

Further Gains Hit Out In Penetration  North Of Aachen   Hodge's First Army Scores Complete Penetration Of Siegfried Line, Is Now Facing Second Line Of Newer Defenses, Thought Less Impregnable

Allies Lunge Farther Into Nazi Defenses   Ist, 3rd and 7th American Armies in Sianificant Gains

First Clings To Hold on Fort Driant   Germans Battle Desperately to Hold Bastion Before Metz

1.200 Planes Hit Objectives In Munich Are:   oth Attack Of Region In Month; Ltaly-Based Bombers Raid Ploesti.   ATTACK AUGSBURG

U.S. Formation. Of 2200. Planes Raids Continen:   Blast Munich Objectives, Other German Targets; Attack French Airfields

1,200 American Heavies Batter Reich, France  Germans Report Soviet Bombers ;

U8, PLANES RAID GERMAN TARGETS   2000 Bombers and Fighters Smash at Objectives In Munich Area.

1,200 BOMBERS RIP NAZI BASES   Munich, Other Reich Areas And French Fields Torn

Price, Wage Law Extension Moves Forward in House   Committee-Approved Changes Include ‘Freeze’ on Subsidies

RIVER WATERS HOLE 24 CRASH VICTIMS   Rivermen Fear ear That Bodies May Never Be Recovered from Swift Current

CRASH VICTIMS STILL IN RIVER   PARTS OF AIRLINER RECOVERED; SEARCH FOR BODIES UNDERWAY

BODIES OF PLANE CRASH VICTIMS IN MISS. NOT FOUND   Muddy Waters Still Hold Wreckage and Remains Of Those Who Met Death

MUNITIONS SHIP BLOWS UP   80 Killed, 300 Injured by Blast in Danish Harbor

Nazi Munitions  Ship Blows Up   Eighty Reported Killed, Many Hurt, Damage 95 Millian-

NAZI MUNITIONS SHIP. BLOWS.UP  Report 80 Killed, 300 Hurt in Aarhus Harbor

NAZI MUNITION SHIP BLOWS UP IN HARBOR   Reports Say Damage Exceeds $25,000,000, 80 Killed

er iaaamiataacaacmanaceummacuamectemuummmmeatanasiiiieiaanaaaal  80 DEAD AND 300 HURT IN GERMAN SHIP BLAST

German Munitions Ship Blows Up in Danish Harbor  $25,000,000 Loss, 80 Dead Reported—Nazis Forced to Give Strikkere Cancocciane

French Menace Southern Flank  Of German Lines   Americans Mop up at Stolberg as Ninth Advances in Aachen Sector

Will Be Filed With Civil Aeronautics Board as Justification for Establishment of R Service at Mt. Alton Airport; Copies Will Be Made Available to Interested Airlines

Economic Survey Of Bradford Ares Plotted for Airline   Survey Being Made ¥or Regular Service at Mt. Alton Airport

Large Fires, Explosions Are Observed   Jap Batteries Are Silent; No. U.S. Ships Damaged

WARSHIPS BOMBARD — JAP ISLAND BASE   Fleet Unopposed: in in Attack or Matstyva—Large Fires and ' ' Explosions Observed. -

Predicts Less Food This Year   Wickard Says Allies Will Fare Better  Than Axis Countries

Sen. Brooks Says Many Employes ‘Discommoded’ By Two Railway Strikes

SOLDIER TELLS. OF ~BRENCH INVASION      Pvt. Allen E. Taylor, Para. trooper, Talks From... Enaland

SOLDIER TELLS OF   nr A 8 6 mr A a Bl  FRENCH INVASION   Pvt. Allen E. Taylor, Paratrooper, Talks From .  England

WORKERS PROTEST; STRIKE IS CALLED      Around 2,500 ; Employes Idle at Kentucky ; Plant

‘Six Japanese Admirals Die In Naval Raid   Believed Hit by Shells of U. S. Sub at Entrance to Tokyo Harbor

6 Jap Admirals Killed At Tokyo Harbor, Probably By Shellfire From Attacking U. S. Submarine

Six Japanese Admirals Are Killed By U.S. Attack   ‘Enemy Action’ At Tokyo Naval Base Believed To Have Been Submarine

JAPS SUFFER LOSS OF FIVE HIGH OFFICERS   American Subs Reported Off Japan Coast

Six Japanese . Admirals Die’ During Action  In Nip Harbor   “May Have Been Killed By Sub.

Japan Reports Death Of Seven Rear Admirals   Says Philippines Battle Decisive

6 Jap Admirals Reported Killed In Allied Blow  Type Of Attack On Noval Base In Area Of Yokohama Is Not

Nips Report Death: Of Seven More  Japanese Admirals  Today’s Total Brings List to 19; No Details Are Given

6 Japanese Admirals Are Killed   Diet Opens Special Session To Hear ‘True War Situation’

SIX ADMIRALS REPORTED DEAD   Tokyo Says They Were Kill. ed By Enemy Action in Command Area.

Six Jap Admirals Killed In Action at Tokyo Naval Base   Shelifire from American Submarine Believed To Have Accounted for Deaths

6 Jap Admirals Killed in Action  Submarine Believed Responsibie for Loss

Six J ap  Admirals Are Killed   May Have Been Hit By U. S. Submarine Fire In Tokyo Harbor; 37 More Nip Ships Sunk 

TOKYO REPORTS SIX JAPANESE ADMIRALS KILLED RECENTLY  ALLIED WAR SUMMARIES INDICATE ENEMY BEING

High Jap Naval Officers Killed   Six Admirals Die By Allied Action As Jap  Diet Opens Session

Subs Raid Near Jap  Capital   Tokyo Reports Action of Underseas Craft; Diet Opens Session

Six Japanese Admirals Die At Yokosuka   37 Nip Ships and Barges Knocked Out in Approaches to Philippines; Japs Advancing in China

Raid Kills 6 Jap Admirals   Tokyo Radio Bares U.S. Attack Upon Yokosuka Station

Six Jap Admirals Killed in Action   Tokyo Harbor Loss May Have Resuited From U.S. Submarine

Six Jap Admirals Reported Killed By Enemy Action   May Have Been Victims Of Shellfire From U.S, Sub At Yokosuka Naval Base

MISSISSIPPIANS OFF TO MEETING   Delegates, Divided On Party Policies, Bound By Unit Rule

Dems Of Mass. Plan Anti-4th Term Strategy   Possible Election Of GOP President  Seen In Move

Seek to Halt Roosevelt's Nomination   Massachusetts Democrats Assert They'll Bolt Party

STOP ROOSEVELT DRIVE LAUNCHED AT BOSTON, MASS,   Bay State Democrats Announce Ely Candidate  Bee the cee ht mee

Anti-New Dealers Threaten Party   Boston Group Hope To Block Fourth FR Term

New Deal Foes Back Former Massachusetts Governor In  Move ToBlock Fourth Term

U.S. Commandos Said Wiped Out _ At La Spezia   Allied Assault On Cassino Is Reported Changing To Artillery Ducl Today

THE RAIN IS OVER   Flora Says It Stopped Just in Time to Prevent Flocds

ARMED FORCES OF U. S. OVER SEVEN MILLION   Massachusetts Has 237,000 Men; 5087 Women In Service

End of Greek Civil War is. Now Expectec  ELAS Accepts Terms  Pe ee ere BM « near omer

Athens Fighting ls Continued Despite Regency   However Selection Of Archbishop Gives Peace Hope

FINAL CHAPTER © SOLOMONS DRIVE NEARLY FINISHED   One Thousand Japs Killed In Latest Enemy Attack On Americans.

Service Teams Have Many Southern Backs  Any Scorer Is Likely To Be From Dixie

RAF Made Heaviest Attack Of   War On French Invasion   Coast Last Night; Followed By Smash In France, Belgium Today   NON. STOP ASSAULT NOW IN 24TH DAY

Celebes Blasted By U. S. Planes   Halmahera Also Hit In Latest Attacks

CELEBES AND * HALMAHERA ARE BOMBED   Targets Are Stepping Stones To Philippines

Raids On Philippine Stepping Stones Are Intensified; Japanese Expect Landings

Carrier Planes Attack Islands Near Philippines   Tokyo Believes New American Landings In Area Probable

WAR HENRY: ED SUNDAY   Funeral For y Pioneer. Kings we “ley Resident Held This  “A feaenoon

Edward L. Henry Taken By Death —  Was Early Settler In - Kingsley Vicinity

EDWARD L. HENRY DIED SUNDAY   Funeral For Pioneer Kings‘ley Resident Held This.  Afternoon

COUNTIES EYE STATE SURPLUS   Ask Share of Sales Tax for Use By Local Gov'ts

Procedure Outlined for Assuring Returning Veterans Their Old Jobs

MEN WHO ABDUCTED. CAPONE) SYNDICATE. MANAGER ° RE- -* PORTED DEMANDING ;  UP TO $250,000

Family Ready To Ransom Capone Boss   Await Demand for Big Cash Payment for Guzik’s Return

$250,000 MAY BE DEMANDED FOR GUZIK RELEASE      Capone Syndicate Manager Expected To Pay Off For Freedom   TOUHY MOB GETS BLAME   Family Of Gangster Said To Be Raising Cash For Snatchers

U.S. Gliders Land Troops InBurma   Reinforcements Join Chindits In Wrecking Supplies

AIR BORNE TROOPS LANDED IN BURMA   Commando Invaders Re. inforce Allies, Communigue States.

Allies Place More Troops  Inside Burma   ‘Chindits’ Get Heavy Reinforcements From Glider Planes

Americans Land Far Inside Burma   Air-Borne Troops Aiding '‘Chindits ’

Ut Gen. Eaker Says Bombing of  Cassino Accomplished All That  Was Expected of it by Commanders

Court to Hear  Board Puzzle   Parties to School Dispute Called fan Tadav

School Puzzle _ Handed Court   High Bench Asked To Edit Education BRaard Act

Battered Ge:.nan Troops Herded Up Saone Valley   - Southern Forces Less Than 65 Miles From Yanks In North France

Allies Near lar hehe In France   Southern Armies Drive Within 65 Miles Of Northern Forces

RUSSIANS MAKE RAPID ADVANCE AGAINST PSKOV   Press to Within 17 Miles of Byela. ya and Keofilova-Pustin, in Defense Ring   MOP UP GERMANS   Desperate Struggles, Mark Final Stage of Fighting in Dnieper Bond Neath Tran

Soviet Forces Drive on German Bases   Key Communications Centers to Be Next Russ Targets

RAPID PROGRESS REPORTED TODAY BY THE RED ARMY   Moved Along Highway and Railway Between Luga and Pskov.   BLOCK RESCUE RAIDS   Russian Troops ‘Threw Back Nazis in an Attempt to. Rescue Comrades.

Russian Army Gains Rapidly Toward Pskov   Nazis Take Refuge ‘fn Forest Where Guerillas Thr

Russians Speed Toward Centers  Of Communication  Other Units Cross Swamps, Forests . Protecting Pskov

REDS PUSHING TOWARD PSKOV   DEATH STRUGGLE OF NAZIS IN CHERKASY POCKET NEARING END

Reds Drive To Ensnare Nazi Force   Death Struggle In Dnieper Bend

Russians Thunder Toward Key Base   Pskov Drive Gathers Speed; Death Struggle For Trapped Germans

RUSSIANS MAKING PROGRESS ALONG LUGA-PSKOV ROAD   Final Stage Reached in Battle Of Cherkasy Pocket Where Thousands of Trapped Nazis Face Death or Capture

Red Army Advances In North   Russians Tighten Clamp on Nazi Trap

REDS ADVANGE TOWARD PSKOV      Battle Against Trapped Nazis Enters Final Phase

REDS WIPING OUT REMNANTS OF THE TRAPPED GERMANS   Meantime Russian Armies Advance Rapidly Along  Roads to New Junctions

Russians Push ‘On Junctions   Death Struggle of Trapped Nazis Enters Final Phase in Forest

Reds Pronress Rapidly Along Road To Goal   Trapped Germans Fight Desperately To Gain Freedom

RUSSIANS MAKING RAPID PROGRESS IN NORTHERN CAMPAIGN  DOWN IN DNIEPER BEND DEATH STRUGGLE OF TRAPPED NAZIS NEAR ENI

Rescue Attempts by Nazis Thrown Back by Russian Armies   Dnieper Bend’s Death Struggle Entering Final Stages

REDS ADVANCE RAPIDLY IN PSKOV AREA      Troops Move Along Highway and Railway Between That City and Luga — Death Trap ‘Struggle in Final Stage.

MAKE RAPID PROGRESS IN PSKOV DRIVE   Dnieper Battle Continuing At Furious Pace

Russians Race   To Isolate Nazis   German Death Struggle In -- Cherkasy “Pocket” Now In Its Final Stage

GERMAN DEATH STRUGGLE NOW IN FINAL STAGE   Red Army Makes Rapid Progress Between Luga And Pskov; Nazis Making Last Desperate Stand In Cherkasy Trap.

THU ERO  PSKOM NEXT GOAL il SURGING ital  Russi2 's Success aful      Russia's Successful Fighting: Tactics Exemplified In New Drive   STEADY ADVANCE   Death Struggle Of 'Trap~ ped (Germans Entering ’ Pinal Stages * .

Allies Report Positions Are Improved   Sudden Barrages Take Heavy Toll of Germans

ENEMY PRESSES “CONTINOUSLY ~ ATBEACHHEAD      Allies Lack Support Of Bombers Due To Weather

British Artillery’s ‘Timed Crashes Shatter German Positions; Anglo-U. S. Situation Improves

Photos Show German West Wall a Barrier of Concrete, Steel and Guns

PHOTOS BARE ATLANTIC WALL   Shown to be Tough Barrier Of Concrete, Steel And Guns

Nazi Defenses Mapped by Allie  Actual Photographs Taken of West Wall

Concrete Hides Enemy Defense  Along West Wall   Tough Barrier Of Steel, Guns Mapped From Air For Coming Invasion

German West ‘Defense Wall Appears Tough   ‘Photographs Reveal It As Series of Strong Points . Embedded In Concrete, Steel, Guns

Allied Aerial Photos — Show Strength Of The Germans’ ““West Wail?’

STRONG POINTS OF [WEST WALL GIVEN ‘CAREFUL SCRUTINY   Concrete Embedded FortificaUons Supported by Mines, Barbed Wire

Photos Reveal Nazi Wall A Maz (f Mines, Wire   Pictures Show F ortifications Gun By Gun an Mile By Mile.

Strong Points  At West Wall   Allied Photos Show Fortification Embedded In Mine fields, Wire.

Eisenhower Has Complete Picture  Assemble Detailed Map Of Germany’s West Wall  From Many Photographs

4ir Reconnaissance Enables Allies  To Map Nazi Detenses Mile by Mile

German Defenses  Are Photographed  Strong Points Embedded  In Concrete

Photos Show Nazi Secrets  Of West Wall   Invaders Face Tough Barrier

Allies Map West Wall   Aerial Photographs Show Nazi Defenses in Minutest Detail

Aerial Photos Of German Westwall Reveal Tough Barrier Of Concrete

Photos Reveal German Guns   NAZI DEFENSES ALONG INVASION COAST FOUND

Allied Map from  Photographs Show German West Wall Strongly Fortified

Secrets Of Hitier West Wall Learned  From Photos   Fortifications Are “Shown Gun By Gun And Mile By Mile: Strong Points Sunk In Concrete

PHOTOS MADE Of “WEST WALL”   ' Strong Points, Barbed Wire. Minefields Showr

Graphic Picture Of Pacific Death Trap  Describes Ebeye Island In The Marshalls As A “Little Corner Of Hell’

FULL SCALE THRUST INTO EAST PRUSSIA EXPECTED SOON   Red Army Units Gave Soviet Command “Important te Information.   A SECOND EXPEDITION   Was Made Across the Sesupz River Northeast of Insterburg.

Reds Send Patrol into East Prussia   Important Information _ for Full-Scale Thrust into German Territory Obtained; Soviets in Lomza Outskirts

Red Thrust Onto Nazi Soil Near   Preparations Are Believed Completed For Drive into  East Prussia

Russian Patrols ~ [n East Prussia   Second Expedition In Three Weeks Gathers  Information For Imminent Offensive

REDS GET SET FOR BIG DRIVE INTO GERMANY   Russians Pound Gateway to Berlin Across Prussia and Surge Through Balkans

Russian Patrols Make Second Stab Into East Prussia   Germans Say Red Armies Open New Assault on Warsaw

Reds Repeat Raiding Into East Prussia   Other Forces Plunge Deeper Into Poland, May Be Ready for Blow in North

Reds.Poised For Thrust At Reich      Patrols Stab Again Into East Prussia; Berlin Reports New Drive Toward Warsay

Russians Get - New Information   EAST PRUSSIAN PATROL REPORTS ON SCOUT TRIP

SOVIETS READY TOHIT NAZIS AT FULL BLAST   Artillery Shells East Prussia By Day And Night

SOVIET PATROLS PUSH INTO EAST PRUSSIA, RETURN   GET INFORMATION FOR THRUST INTO ENEMY TERRITORY

Red Patrols Thrust Into  E. Prussia   Invasion Believed Imminent, Sevieis Ou Move Before Warsaw and Teward Hungary

Nazis Say Reds Moving Against — Warsaw: Enter Prussian Gate City

Soviet Patrols Return From ast Prussiz   Bring Back Important I. formation For Full-Scale Thrust Into German Territory

RUSS PATROLS ENTER PRUSSIA   Soviet Army Reaches Lomza, Key North Polish Rail Center

REDS THRUST INTO GERMANY PROPER AGAIN   Patrols Obtaining Information as Groundwork for Full-fledged Russian Offensive.

FULL-SCALE SOVIET  THRUST INTO EAST  PRUSSIA EXPECTED SECOND PATROL EXPEDI  . TION OF RED ARMY INTO CERPMANY clit¢rree

RUSSIANS BARE SECOND THRUST ONTO NAZI SOIL   Patrols Scout East Prussia For Information To Aid In Expanded Attack

Reds Poised For Thrust Into Prussia   Russian Units Return With Information

RED PATROLS PROBE LINES IN EAST PRUSSIA   Vanguards Withdrawn After Completing Mission; Enter Lomza

Expect Red Thrust Into Reich Soon   Russian Patrol Goes Into Germany for Second Time

Reds Poise For Thrust Into Reich   Russian Patrols Pene-. trate East Prussia Again.

Patrol Units: Back In Line After Probe .  Into Prussia   ‘Red Force Plunges Into ‘Polish Center.

Full-Scale Soviet Drive Is Imminent   Patrols To Prussia Back; Advances Made In Balkan Areg

Soviets Prepare Reich Invasion   Patrols Into East Prussia Report Back With Information

RUSSIANS GIRD FOR NEW PUSH   Patrols Return to Soviet Lines With ‘Inside’ Report On Nazi Defenses

Russ Poised For Main Reich Attack   Soviet Forces Are Set For Full-Scale East Prussia Assault

Patrols Back From Push In East Prussia   Polish Rail Center Of Lomza Attacked By Soviet Army

Russ Shaping Full-Scale Reich Thrust   Germans Report Soviets Again on Move Before Warsaw

East Prussia Attack Set   Russ Generals Gain Information From Patrol Expedition

Red Invasion Of Germany Is Imminent   Units Back From East Prussian Foray With Important Information

Russians Ready. To Attack Reich —ht-Any-Moment   Patrols: Return, With: Vital . Information For Thrust ‘Inte: German’ Territory

Reds Prepare to Hit East Prussia  Full Scale Thrust  Expected Any Moment

2nd Incursion Made On Germar Soil By Soviets   Information Gained By Patrols Valuable

TROOPS FORM SEMI-CIRCLE EAST OF CITY   Portions of the White Russian Capital Are Reported in Flames Following An Attack By Red Air Force.

[Russians Move in Semi-Circle East Of City to Close in   Five German Divisions Liquidoted With 16,000 Killed ond 18,000 Captured in Fall of Bobruisk, Stalin Announces

Reds Opening Minsk Assaulf   Bobruisk, Last German Stronghold On The ‘Fatherland Line’ Captured

Direct Assault Made on Minsk By Red Armies   Russians Move in Semi-Circle in Climax to Week. Long Offense.   Last Fort in Germans’  Fatherland Line Falls

Red Army Closes In On Minsk   Capture of Brobruisk Opens Way for Direct ‘Assault On Capital City of White Russia

Russ Troops Drive Close  To Minsk   Three Great Armies In Semi-Circle Smash On White Russia Capital

 ivisions Liquidatec       c   Soviet Armies Begin Direct Assault on Minsk as Stalin Announces Fall of Bobruisk —Heavyv Nazi Losses

Direct Assault On Minsk Begins By The Russians   Bobruisk On Germar Fatherland Line I: Captured; Anothe Capital Falls

SERVICES SUNDAY. FOR FRANK PLUMB, FORMER SUPERVISOR   Hillsdale: Farmer. Died Dee. :31 After. Brief ‘

SERVICES SUNDAY FOR FRANK PLUMB, ; FORMER SUPERVISOR   Hillsdale: Farmer. Diec Dee. 31. After Brief  Eg f Femme rng eee a

U.S, SOLDIERS      HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS LOOK ON AS YANKS PARADE DOWN FAMOUS AVENUES,

FLU DEATHS GROW, TABULATION SHOWS   Epidemic Moves Into New Year With Mortality Unoturn

Death Rate From Flu Epidemic ls On the Rise   13 Per centJump Pushes Fatalities Near ‘28-’29 Level

2,000 Yankee Bombers Shatter Berlin   58 Planes Missing in Greatest Air Attack of War

(Continued On Page Four) HOUSE BOOSTS ALLOWANCE FOR CLERICAL HELP

War Ravaged American Ouipost Becomes Mighty Military Base   island Of Guam Has Been Declared Secure

awe  SS ecN NEWS BUT ETINS       Bodies of Crew Found With Wreckage of Bomber

Gen. Arnold Urges Commissions For Women Pilots; Says He Expects To Have All Men Fliers Overseas

COMMISSIONS WOMEN PILOTS URGES ARNOLD   Chief Of Regular Army Air Forces Wants WASPS. To Have Full  Renefite

Their Initial Attempts To Capture City In India Has Been Repulsed

Japanese Closing In On Imphal   ALLIED. BASE MENACED ' BY ENEMY IN INDIA

ES POUCH THEFT ¢ SOI VED   M. D. Whitlock Admits Taking Money Bag on March8: —

52,622 EXPRESS POUCH THEFT IS SOLVED   M. D. Whitlock Admits Taking Money Bag on March 8

Sixth Straight Day Of Action Over Japan And Eastern Asia   MAY BE SEARCHING FOR JAP SEA FORCE   War Department Ciaims No B-29’s Lest During Flight

Japs Say B-29s Raid Tokyo And Hong Kone   : Superforts Seek Enemy Fleet Units Based in the Colony

Japs Report B-29  Reconnaissance   Superforts Witnessed Over Western Kyushu

DEMOLITION, FIRE BOMBS HIT TOK YC   Sixth Straight Day for Super-forts In Action Over Jap Territory.

+ Japan Raided Sith Time “In Six Days   Superfortress Scouts Hong Kona First Time

B-29 REPORTED OVER JAPAN   Sixth Such Report by Tokyo Radio This Month

SUPER FORTS HIT TOKYO IN NUISANCE RAID   Another Roars Over Hong Kong Big Naval Base On China Coast

B-29 Hits Tokyo In Nuisance Raid Early This A. M.   Sixth Straight Day T hat Superfortresses Have Been Reported in Action Over J: apan or Jap-Dominated East Asia

B-29 Superfortresses Continue Action Over Japanese, Eastern Asia

B-29’s Drop Bombs On Tokvo, Hong Kone While on PRarannaicscance Trin

SCHOOL REPORTS FOR NOVEMBE   MANY PUPILS HAD A PERFECT ATTENDANCE RECORD FOR THE MONTH   South Hume

General Eisenhower And Private Talk Of Kansas W heat And Abilene

Sen. Eisenhower Puts Aside Invasion Worries To Talk With Home Town G. I.

‘Tke’ and ‘GP Just Home Town Boys   Private Pays Visit To General; Talk About Old Home Days.

Liberate 310 Towns in Mighty Push; Ten-Day Offensive Costs Germans 63,000 Men Killed and 9000 Captured

BIG PORT ON BLACK SEA IS LATEST PRIZE   Stalingrad Veterans Smash Across Dnieper

WESTERNER MAY KEYNOTE GOP   Convention Committee Turns Attention To Governor Group

PROGRAM OF PUBLIC WORKS MAY BE AUTHORIZED S00   BILLION AND HALF DOLLARS . TO BE ALLOCATED TO POST. WAR PROJECTS .PRO-VIDING JOBS

CONGRESS TO ACT ON PUBLIC WORKS BILL   Billion-Dollar Flood Contra!  Program Planned

Stettinius Says Argentina Still Axis Espionage Base; New Regime Not Recognized

U.S. Suggests Argentina Bar  Axis Spy Ring      U. 8. Envoy Is Instrue ted Not To Have Relations Wisk Now Pewinsan

U. S. Recognition Being Held Up   Argentina Still [s Base for Spies

U.S. Refrains From Tieup In Argentina   Stettinius Charges Na tion Still Base for Axis Espionage

Wallace. Luce Speak in State   Sen. Brewster To Talk In North As Hoosier Political Tempo Speeds

C .S n > Ma ce  Po rk Fre e   Leaders Plan To Take Pig Meat Off Rationed List If OPA Fails.

$60,000 LOSS CAUSED BY FIRE   3 Story Muscatine Theater Is Gutted

Miners Get Slant At Draft Status   But Their Future Remains in Doubt

7,500 Coal Miners to Go Into Service   ABOUT 10,000 WILL GET DEFERMENTS UNTIL SOMETIME IN SUMMER; OTHER 7,500 MEN ARE 4-F’s.   Youths 22 To 25

President Keeps Own Vote Tally   Kept Informed of Returns By Radio and News Wires.

President Kept Personal Check On Nation's Vote  F.D.R. and Closest Aide Watch Returns from Room At Home

Allies Advance in  Rain-Soaked Italy   Front Turned Into Sea Of Mud and Water

500 Japs Killed In Suicide Drive At Bougainville   Have No Chance, Battle To End

if 2 = ~~ He myli- s werze 5° 2 .ays Sravec on Geroec “Vire ‘--er Suicica. Socomzrs Awacs

AWOL Gangsters Caught in Rome Face Army Trials   Americans, French, British Involved

TERRORIST GANGS IN ITALY CAUGHT   PREYED ON ROME AND NAPLES — BANDS COMPOSED, IN PART-OF DESERTERS..-.’

NEGRO SOLDIER NAPS AT COURT MARTIAL   Two Gangs, Composed of Army. Deserters, Rounded Up By Military Police-In Ital}

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Crisis Near In Russ Bid For Balkan:   Fall of Budapest Will Be Great Aid to Allied Battle Plans

FALL OF HUNGARIAN CAPITAL CITY WITH ITS FOOD AND WAR PLANTS WILL BE HEAVY BLOW TO HITLER

CAPTURE OF BUDAPEST, ASTRIDE ‘BROAD DANUBE, SHOULD HASTED ‘END OF HITLER AND ALL NAZIS

Jap Shipping Heavily Hit   Nine More Ships Sunk In Two Bombing Raids

Six Japanese Ships Sunk In  ‘Rabaul Harbor   24 Nip Fighters Are Shot Down By U. S. Planes

Torpedo Planes Spread Havoc In Simpson Harbor   Blasting Of Rabaul Stronghold Raises Toll On Enemy To 26 Ships And 102 Planes In 10 Days; Admiralty Islands Struck Again.

Yankee Torpedo Planes Sink Six Jap Ships   24 Enerny Fighters Are Also Shot Down In Attack on Rabaul

HOUSES WILL MOVE TO CAMP BY WATER   No Flood, Transportation or Ohio River

SEEK SOURCE OF GAPSULES   INQUIEY UNDERWAY, INTO om. k  CUMSTANOES OF WORLD . “FAMOUS EVANGELIST.

NAZIS SEND FINNS HELP   GERMAN CHIEF OF STAFF NOW AT HELSINKI AND. TROOPS. AND ARMAMENT ARRIVE

German Rail Lines North Of Rome Are Hit   Concentrated Aerial Blows On Axis Communication Lines By Allied Fliers

Air Battles Over Italy   Planes Keep Busy as. Land Activity Slows

3,343 Japs Die  New Guinea       Jap Casualty List Reaches Nearly 4.000 In MonthOld Invasion.

3,343 OF JAPS KILLED IN NEW GUINEA FIGHT   Wakde Conquest Completed By Sixth Army Troops

Japs’ Deaths In Guinea Area Total 1,000 Weekly   Yanks Count Bodies After Hard Contests

JAPS LOSE NEARLY 4,600 IN 4-WEEKS’ GUINEA CAMPAIGN   Casualties Amount to 3,829 For Jap Defenders of North New Guinea and Wakde Island -- Yanks: Repulse Coanmene. Atracleo

76 Japs Killed For Every American  Japanese Casualties In Month-Old Invasion Of New Guinea 1,000 Week

Rationing of Meat May be Extended Soon   Some Lamb Cuts To Be Affected Sunday by New OPA Order

Patriot Troops  Tie Up 6 Nazi Units in North   ‘irst Communique From Partisans Report Shift OF Germens

ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT IS SEIZED     °   Military Takes Over To Prevent War With Axis.

U.S, RETURNS ~ WARD'S PLANT   Seizure Rights Unsettled; Union Wins Vote; More Strife Seen

Federal Judge Will Not Rule on Seizure of Wards  Government's Right To Take Plant Goes Unanswered

GOP Senators Seek Final Vote On Ballot Issue   Both Parties Aghast At Proposal To Skip The 1944 Election

CHURCHILL IN SURPRISE CALL ON U. S. TROOPS   Predicts They'll Soon Have Op portunity of Getting Crack at Nazis in the West

ESTIMATE 18+26 KEY WORKERS... ~ TOTAL ABOUT FORTY THOUSAND   PRODUCTION OFFICIALS DIB. CLOBE (ESTIMATE IN CON.’ NECTION Witt STRICTER, DEFERMENT REGU.  ¢ LATIONS

ONLY 40,000 10 GET INDUSTRIAL INDUGTION STAY   18 to 26 Year Group to Be Hard Hit; Mcre Fathers to Go.

DEFER 40,000 18-26 KEY MEN   Production Officials Reveal Estimate to Guard Must War Programs

DEWEY AND GOP TO STRESS JOBS   Republican Nominee Wil! Visit Pittsburgh and St. Louis For Conferences.

DEWEY'S CAMPAIGN (SSUES SHAPING UP      Will Expand on Foreign Affairs’ Plank, Stress Reconversion,

Expect Dewey To Enlarge On  Coming Issues   Candidate To Stress Policy On Foreign Affairs, Reconversion

Dewey’s  Presidential Campaign Issues  Shape Up More Clearly After Meetings

GOP Stresse: Stand Upon Vital Issues      Foreign, Postwar Policies Of Dewey

Dewey Fixing On Campaign Issues   Foreign Affairs May Be Principal Topic

DEWEY SHAPES CAMPAIGN PLAN   To Stress Post-War Reconversion; Expands For eign Policy Plank

DEWEY DEVELOPS LINE OF ATTACK   INDICATES STRESS ON RECONVERSION, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

First Army Drives Deep Into Germans? Last Defense Zone West of Capital City

POOLS FOR 1-4 RECISTRANTS ORDERED   Draft Boards, Slowed By Uneertainty Over Pre- . Pearl Harbor Fathers, Ordered To Speed Up  ee re 2 COTES 2 TUS

DRAFT QUOTAS _ FALLING SHORT   Mellon Calls for ‘Establishing of Pools for . 1-A Men

Pools of 1-A Registrants Are Ordered   State Director Declares Draft Boards Have Fallen Short   WILL BE RECLASSIFIED

Draft Boards Fall Short Of Quota Calls; Survey County Difficulties   State Director Scans Situation With Pre-Pearl Harbor Cases In Doubt

‘Air Force Knocks Out Planes, Tanks   Sudden Break In Weather Big Help

Fifth War Loan Goal Set At 16 Billion Dollars  ~ Drive To Start In The County

Fifth War Loan Drive To Siari June (2. Run To July 8; Goal 16 Billion, With Six Billion Expected From Individuals

WILL REVEAL ARMY DEFEAT   Nazi Propaganda Agency Preparing People For Shock

Nazis Agencies Hint Wholesale Flight in France   Apparently. Preparing. ‘German Publiefor Shock Of ‘Adverse Developinent:

Nazis Being Prepared. for Shock  Propaganda Agencies Tell 7 _ Of Expected French Flight

Nazis Prepare People for News of Defeat   Announce Patton’s Troops Only 12 Miles From Paris: Will Pull Out When Necessary

Nazis Prepare People for News Of Woe in France   Radio Talks of Shifting French Puppet to Some Safe Place

Propaganda Agencies Prepare People for Shock Of Wholesale Retreat

German People Are Prepared for Wholesale Flight   Nazis Pull Back While Awaiting Some ‘Miracle Weapons’ Which Can Change ‘the Whole Aspect of the War’

German People Given Warning Of Sure Defeat   Laval To Jein Hitler

‘Be prepared to withdraw’  German official issues warning   Nazis prepare people for wholesale flight

NAZI PEOPLE TO LEARN OF TROOPS PLIGHT   German Propagandists Begin Preparing Public For Shock Of Wholesale Flight From France

WPB Decision On Dual Road Due This Week   Will Determine If Materials Will Be Released Now

DECISION ON ROAD — ~ PROJECT SOON DUE   WPB to Pass on Materials + for Dual’ ‘High-—  ‘wee

DECISION ON ROAD © ~ PROJECT SOON DUE   WPB to Pass on on Materials > for Dual’ ‘High way

‘45M ay Be’Sportsless ... Professional Athletes Face Draft Review

U. S. Tracks Get Request To Suspend   Byrnes Sets Jan. 3 Deadline; Calls for ‘pro’? Sports Drafting

MONTY BIDS Wl EIGHTH FAREWELL   Tells His Famous Warriors That a Victorious End of War Is in Sight; Reviews Drive From El! Alamein

Montgomery Sees Certain Victory, He Says in Speech to Eighth Army

CITY WAS BLASTED   Messerschmitt Factory There Was Target—Thirty-eight Planes Last.

NEW RECORD HUNG UP AT BRUNSWICK   2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped in 23 Minutes. Mosquitos Make Stabs at Nazi Capital

HIT BRUNSWICK AGAIN, FOLLOW UP YANK BLOW   Light Bombers Pound Berlin After British Fake Big Raid

RAIDERS REPORT BiG FIRE RAGING IN GERMAN CIT   Mosquito Planes Pound Aaain At Berlin and RAamelaloires

Brunswick Is ‘Target Of Attack          GERMAN AIR CRAFT CENTER. C 4 VICTIMS; RAIDS FOLLOW HUGE DAYLIGHT ATTACK BY AMERICANS

Britain's Biggest Bombers Drop Mere Than 2,400 Tons Of Bombs On Aircraft Center   388 BOMBERS LOST IN NIGHT'S RAID

GERMAN CITY QF BRUNSWICK LEFT BURNING   RAF Follows Up American Raid to Blot Out Entire Enemy Production.

600 Members Join Concert Group   Artists For Season To Be Selected Today

600 Members Join Concert Group  Artiete Far Seacan To   Artists For Season To Be Selected Today

McGarty..Grocer; Purchased By John Wolfe  Change Will Be Made June 1

NAVY COURT 10 PROBE ATTACK   Study Is Begun Of Japanese Raid On Pearl Harbor

PEARL HARBOR INQUIRY OPENS   Navy Court Convenes, Army Group Starts Later in Week

NAVY INQUIRY BOARD CONVENES   Opens Study Of Jap Attack On Pearl Harbor

S@aeseeaaeeeve ese®eeeeces Nazi Propagandists Try the Impossible

Vichy Reports Allied Foree Tn Italy Uppec   Claims New American Re inforcements Landed;

Submarines Took Arms To Philippine Patriots   “MacArthur Supplied Guerrillas for -.Two Years; Valuable Information Secured From Undereoranund

Three Powers In Agreement On Post-War Govt's.   Plan for Handling “-cupied Germany Nearing Completion

RUSSIA AGREES TO POSTWAR PROGRAM   Plans Drawn for Military ' Gov't for Defeated Germany

Allies Agree  On Principle Of Military © Governments  Russians in Accord ~ m.)hglUlhmDlhlhlU ee eT   Russians in Accord On Control of Reich And Such Satellites Ac Rack Nazic ta End   PROGRAM WITH TEETH NEAR COMPLETION   U. S., Britain, Russia Train Officer Teams For Capntired Areas

Allied Armies Set To Purge  Nazi Leaders   Russians Agree With U. S. Britain on Army Rule al Csmmmnane

Russia Accepts Postwar Plans   Eisenhower To Head Military Government

ALLIES AGREE ON GOVERNING OF GERMANY   Russia Joins Great Britain and United States on Principle; ‘:Government with Teeth.”   Training Forces

PLAN TO RULE BEATEN REICH IS AGREED Of   Allies Get Ready For Military Government for Foe

Halts Work In Detroit War Plants   Patterson and Forrestal! Call on Foremen to Go Back to Work

War Leaders Urge F oremen  Back To Work   Soldiers’ Lives Endangered by Strike, Union Is Tolc

FOREMEN'S STRIKE (8 GRAVER THAN ~ PUBLIC REALIZES   Patterson, Forrestal Wire Idle Men Telling Them What Harm Is Being Bone.

BATILE FOR VALMONTONE, ON GERMAN RETREAT HIGHWAY, WAS MAIN ACTION TODAY IN ITALY

FURIOUS BATTLE BEING FOUGHT FOR VALMONTONE   Loss Will Mean Great Blow to German Defense Of Rome If They Plan To Defend City

The War Today  Loss Of Highway Would Be Heavy Blow to Nazi Defense OF Rome.

Valmontone Is Key To Allied Plan In Italy   Strategic Prize Important to Nazis in Defense - Of Rome

Bird Songs Stand Out In Sudden Lull Of Furious Drive On Aachen By Planes, Guns

NEW HOFFMAN ‘SMEAR’ HIT      New Deal Paper’s Story  Vigorously Denied  t   By Congressman

ET PLANES NAZIS LATES)   New Weapon Said Capable of Terrific Speed; Hard tn Handle

DEATHS OF 4 JAP OFFICERS REPORTED   Vice Admiral, Trio of Generale Announced Dead  “+ th “Binsitinonete

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL, MEET SOON   Plan German Finale; Speed Up Jap Defeat

U.S. Planes: Take Toll Of Jao Vessels   Japs Claim Attack 0. Island Is Repulsed

Five Jap Ships Sunk And Three Damaged; Jap Report On Mania Invasion Janored

Jap Shipping In Dutch East Indies Struck   Bombers Sink Five Freighters, Damage Cruiser Severely

Five Jap Ships Sunk by Planes In East Indies  Wake Island Among Points Blasted in Series of Attacks

Five Japanese Freighters Sunk by Flyers  Three Others Are Damaged in

Allied Planes. Hit Cruiser, Sink Five Ship:   “Enemy Broadcasts Tell of Carrier Raid On Sumatra. East Indies

Tokyo Bombed for Fifth Straight — Day; Ground Forces on Leyte Slash Into Two Pockets of Trapped Japs

’  Japs Are Trapped   Capture of Ormoc Seals Fate of Jap Admiral and Men

Tokyo Hit Again By Superforts; Ormoc Is Taken   Key Base on Leyte Seized, Thousands Of Japs Face Trap

SUPERFORTS IN FIFTH STRAIGHT TOKYO ATTACK   Last Jap Port On Leyte Falls

SUPERFORTS BLAST JAP ISLE OF IWO   U. S. Fleet Units, Army Liberators Join in Attack

Planes Dump Record Load On Iwo Jima   Superforts Blast Jap Attack Base; Fleet Jolts Isles

TAKE PART IN ACTION   ‘Island 750 Miles ‘From Tokyo Given ‘Greatest’ Raid

Supertorts Back Fleet In Assault   Strategic Jap Base Hit Simultaneously By Combined Force.

FLEET MAKES ATTACK ON TWO ISLANDS   Bombers Aid in Assault Southeast Of Japan «—

Hagerstonian About Italy  Local Man Finds Plenty Of Activity In Red Cross Club

 Hagerstonian About Italy sa aa anemia  Locai Man Finds Plenty Of Activity In Red Cross Club

Poles Knock Nazis From Section of Gustav Line Considered:Impreqnable  ;

— Uproot Kesselrings Crack Paratroops — Poles Avenge Warsaw Massacre

Further Peace Feelers Are Expected   British Government Standing Pat On Allied Terms

British Fight InStreets Of Venray —   Germans Sensitive : - To Every Allied Move.  “long Explosive Front

ALLIED FORCE SPARS-ALONG 85 -MILE LINE   BRITISH IN VENRAY NEAR GERMAN BORDER

GERMANS CEASE COUNTER BLOWS AROUND AACHEN   Allies Believe Nazi High Command Has Despair ed OF Saving City   BRITISH TROOPS ARE FIGHTING,IN VERNAY

First Day Nazis Fail To Attempt Counterattack   Powerful American and British Forces Spar with Enemy

British And American Forces Press Germans On Wide Front   Troops of General Hodges’ First Army Probe Cautious: ly in the Aachen Area—British Pene- ___. trate Vanrnay .

May Have Decided To Abandon City   American and British Forces Spar Warily With Germans Alona Entire 85-Mile Front

Nazis Stop Attempts to Aid Aachen  Ty... yr Fae...   Heavy Fighting Swings North to British Front’

BRITISH PUSH GERMANS ON   British Penetrate Venray: Hodges Army Repelled Five Times By Sensitive Enemy Near Aachen.   Jans Join Seventh

ALLIES IN WEST PREPARE FOR. NEXT BLOW AT GERMANS   Hedges’ Troops Probe North _of Aachen as British Break Into Dutch Town of Venrav.   SUPPLIES MOVED UP ON 85-MILE FRONT   Enemy Radio Predicts Mighty - Anglo-American Pre-Winter Offensive Will Be . Launched.

NAZIS CEASE ASSAULTS IN AACHEN AREA   Hope of Saving City From Allies May Be Abandoned

WAVE ON WAVE OF JAPSSLAN IN LOSNEGRO   An Estimated 3,000 Killed or Wounded Since Invasion of Admiralties.

Fierce Counter Attacks By Japs On Los Negros Halted  Americans Wipe Out Wave After Wave Of Jap

Waves Of Nips Killed   Japanese Hurl Troops Against American Lines

ENEMY RECOILS INFULL DEFEAT AT LOS NEGROS   Estimate 3000 Nips * Killed, Wounded By Americans

Japs Slaughtered In Island Battle   Enemy Repelled in Los Negros Fight

Train To Train Radio Telephones Used Daily By Pennsylvania. Re R.

Yanks Aim New Drive At Duren   Nazi Colonel Weeps After Fall of Aachen

EASTWARD RESUMES   Canadians Gain 9 Miles In Drive To Clear Schelde Estuary

Fall of Aachen Sends Yanks Plunging Ahead  Canadians Advance   Canadians Advance Nine Miles on Schelde Estuary

Yanks drive swiftly ahead  as nazis take up new line  Gain mile in thrust toward Duren: Canadians extend hold in Schelde

Americans Go Beyond Aacher Into Reich   Formal Surrender Made in City by German Commander

Yanks Strike East From German City   Canadians Advance Nine Miles in Drive to Free Port

Canadians Anc British Drive . Nine Miles   Would Free Antwery Approaches And ~ Open Harbor To.  Allied Shipping

WEDGE DRIVEN INTO GERMANY BY AMERICANS   AACHEN SURRENDER LAUNCHES NEW OFFENSIVE

Canadians Gain In Struggle To  Seize Antwerp   German People Not Told Of Anchen’s Fall; 800 Nazis Surrender To  American Forces   Air War Is Slowed By Dirty Weather   10,000 Prisoners Taken In Ten-Day Assault On Historie City; U. 8. Casualties Light

Allies Gain In Drive to Use Antwerp   Canadian Troops Score Nine-Mile Advance Against Foe

COMMANDER AT AACHEN CRIES O CAPITULATION   Canadians Score Nine-Mile Advance [n Drive To Open Antwerp

DRIVE TOWARD COLOGNE, NEXT MAJOR TARGET   ighter-Bombers Help Infantry in Push Toward Goal

Canadian Army Drives 9 Miles Tn Netherlands   Aachen Surrender 1s Firs Formal Yielding by Foe Oe Damspland’« Sail

MAKE FINAL DRIVE   Candidates for State Offices Are in Southeastern _ Kansas

Carry Campaign to Southeastern Kansas   Schoeppel, Lemon and Hill in Same Area; Allen Joins in Oretary

‘Gallup Poll Shows Distrust Of Bureaucrats Y e e Manpower Commission Plan  Draws Public Disapproval

Gallup Poll Shows Distrust Of Bureaucrais Manpower Commission Plan Draws Publie Disapproval

MacArthur States He Has Not And Is Not Seeking The Presidehtial Office

NOT CANDIDATE, -WPARTHUR SAYS   Replies To Public Questions Stirred By His Letters

MARTHIUR SAYS HE'S NOT ASKING TO BE PRESIDENT   “Sole Ambition” Now fs to Assist. In Winning War, Remains Quiet on Being Drafted By Convention.   SAYS LETTERS WERE PRESUMED AS PRIVATE   General Makes . Statement on Correspondence Witt Nebraskan After Recent Publication.

DECLARES SOLE AMBITION IS TO HELP WIN WAR   GENERAL REPUDIATES ANY CRITICISM SEEN IN LETTERS TO MILLER

MacArthur  DeniesHe Seeks Office   Statenient, However, Leaves Way Open On Drafting

MacArthur Leaves De oor To Dr. aft Ajai   But’ Declares -Le Letters te Miller Neyer: Were In~tended for Publication

Presidency View Given  By MacArthur   Doesn’t Seek Office, He Says; Repudiates Other Letters Interpretations

Gen. M Arthur's Ambition Is To Help Win War   Has Not Sought, Does Not Seek Office

No Criticism Intended, Gen. MacArthur Says Of Letters to Congressman

MACARTHUR SAYS AMBITION IS TO WIN WA   Letters Congressman Released Were Not for Publication, He Explains

MacArthur Says ‘Sl bition’ To Aid Win Wai ? Denies Criticism Of President, Asserts

Reply Stirs Conjecture   General MacArthur's Statement on Politics Fails to Clear Position

Contends Sole Ambition Is To Help Win War   MacArthur Asserts He fs Not Seeking Office And Denies Criticism Of Any Others

MacArthur Denies Aspirations to President’s Office  Supporter Maintains General Is Still Subject to Drafting

Says Letters Not Intended for Publicatior   MacArthur Still Silent on Aceptance If He Is Drafted by Party

MACARTHUR SAYS HAS NOT DOES NOT SEEK OFFICE   “Sole Ambition” Is to Help Win War, He States In Reply to Questions About Candidacy

GENERAL MACARTHUR  STILL LEAVES OPEN  PRESIDENCY MATTER SAYS HAS NOT SOUGHT  AND DOES NOT SEEK OFFICE. WANTS WIN WAR

Gen. MacArthur Not Seeking GOP Nominatior   Sole Ambition Is to Win War He Says Today

MacArthur Says Sole Ambition Is To Help Win War  General Answers -GOP. Presidential

FARMERS ARE WARNED   ‘Hog Supplies Too Heavy For This Late in Week

Occupation Of Finland By U.S. Seen   Soviets and Finns May Agree to New Armistice Plan

Red Army Legions Hammer hag Warsaw; Drive 72 'Miles Across Romania

Jonés Resigns As Chairman Of Draft Board  Declares Action Wos Bosed On Policy Difference

<a, FLOOD “ai TOLL MOUNTS TO 50   Others Reported Missing; Nearly 200 Injured

STORMS CAUSE “FIFTY DEATHS, HEAVY LOSSES   TORNADOES IN ARKANSAS TOOK: GREATEST TOLL IN. LIVES AND PROPERTY DAMAGE

Storm Death Toll Near 50   At Least 200 Injured In Storms In Southern And Central States

90 DEATH TOLL IN STORM AREA   ‘Several Others Are Missing, _ ~ Injured List Mounts to Near 200

Invaders Find Nazis’ Coastal Defenses Faked   Enemy Is Demoralized By Surprise Blows; Germans Lose Hope

SOLDIERS CAN'T GET CIGARETS   THEY WONDER WHERE THE SMOKES ARE GOING

NAZI CHIEF URGES ARMY LEAVE FINNS   Doubt if Hitler Will Follow - Suggestion; Reds Tie Finns  with Germans

Finnish Leaders Confer with Russian Envoy as Armistice Rumors Prevail

HITLER URGED TO-REGALL MEN FROM FINLAND   Fear Entrapment Through Peace Negotiations

NAZI CHIEF IN FINLAND URGES TROOP RECALL   Reported to Fear Trap Through Peace: Doubt Hitler to Heed Warning

‘Direct peace negotiations under way’   Hitler urged to evacuate troops

Finnish Peace Believed Near   Direct Negotiations Repor ted Under Wav

NAZIS URGED TO QUIT FINLAND   Officer Fears Entrapment As Peace Move Is Pushed

FINN- SOVIET DEACE TALKS ARERUMORED   Direct Negotictions Ap. parently Are in Proarece   STOCKHOLM HEARS ARMISTICE IS NEAR   Evacuation of Nazi Troops - Reported to Have Been Uraed

Nazis Prepare To Flee Fintanc   General Appeals Te Hitler For Order

NAZI COMMANDER URGES RECALL OF ARMY IN FINLAND   Diet] Reported to Have Warned Hitler Peace May Trap Troops

RUSSIAN-FINNISH PEACE TALKS SAID TO BE UNDER WAY   Hitler Urged by Colonel General Dietl to Order Evacuation of Part of Smal! Nation.   TERMS OF STALIN ARE NOT DISCLOSED   But He Is Reported Ready to Guarantee Republic’s Independence After the War.

Diet! Wants To  Leave Finland  Fears Peace May Trap His German Army

‘innish-Red Peace Talks Believed Started: Hitler Urged to Get Troops Out

REDS, FINNS NEGOTIATING FOR PEACE   Facts Of Diplomatic Meeting Not Disclosed, But Many Snags Must Be Ov aponhme   Not Sympathetic

HITLER URGED TO RECALL TROOPS FROM FINLAND   German Commander in Finland Said to Fear Entrapment by Russo-Finnish Peace

Russo-Finnish Peace Parley Said Going On   Indications Seen of Large Nazi Troop Withdrawal

HITLER-URGED 10 RECALL TROOPS FROM FINLAND   Fear Expressed For Entrapment By Rus: sian-Finnish Peace

Ger ‘mans Fear Entrapment By  Red- FinnPeace   Hitler Urged to Bring Troops From Northern Finland to Avert Their Capture

Nazi Commander ir Finland Nervous   Reported Asking ito Withdraw Troops

DIRECT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TAKING PLACE   German Commander In Fin. land Urges Evacuation  Of Troops There   SEVERAL STUMBLING BLOCKS IN EVIDENCE

Finland and Russia Discuss Peace Terms   ~ Rumor Gen. Diet Urges Hitler to Evacuate Troops

NAZI TROOPS   German Commander in Fin. land Reported to Have Made Request.

TERMINATION OF FINN-RED FIGHT HELD IMMINENT   Russian Envoy Receives Finnish Legation  To Talk Peace

Finnish Agent Contacts Reds Seeking Peace      zi Evacuation Rumored: Swedes Expeet Truce To Re Declared

Finn - Russian Armistice Believed Near   Peace Negotiations Said Under Way Between Nations

QuitF inland, Hitler Urged   German Commander Move     Fears Peac

FINN-SOVIET PEACE TALKS -ARERUMORED   - Direct Negotiations Apparently Are in. Progress   ‘STOCKHOLM OLM HEARS “ARMISTICE IS NEAR   Evacuation of Nazi Troops ; Reported to. Have Been Uraed

. ) URIN. LAN. D—  HTL WAGED TO RECALL TROOPS   Sudden‘ Finnish - Russian . Peace. May Trap Germans In Finland

Direct Peace Negotiations in Progress   7 German Divisions In Finland Seen Chief Fly in Peace Ointment  CBERMANSG ITPTT ORY

Removal Of German Soldiers From Finland Urged As Peace Trap Thréatens Enemy Army

Hope Held Out In Polish Talks   Leaders of Two Rival Groups Optimistic

Question of Poland Near Final Phase   Agreement Probable As Conference At Moscow   Turns te Military   Affairs

Yanks Spread Over Breton   Tidal Wave Sweeps Brittany - With Little Nazi Opposition

Out-Flanked Nazi Lines  Crumble as Spearheads Slice Breton Peninsula

Fall of Cathedral City and Railway Hub Seems  imminent  IS REELING IN BROKEN RETREAT  Great Strides Also Report. ed in British  — Sector

Soviet Shells Begin Falling In East Prussia   Outflanked German Positions in France Reported Crumbling Before Americans; Drive in Italy Remains Stalled Near Florence

Germans Reeling Before Dizzy Drive of General Bradley’s Troops Thru France; Fall of Rennes

ENTIRE BRETON PENINSULA IS BEING MENACEL   Out-Flanked German De. fenses Are Crumbling Throughout France   ISOLATION OF BREST IS EXPECTED SOON

Fall of Cathedral City and Railway Hub Seems Imminent     BROKEN RETREAT.  Great Strides Also Report ed in British = Sector

Threaten to lop off all Breton peninsula   British smash thru sagging enemy center: thousands of nazis trapped

FRENCH PORT FACES THREAT OF ISOLATION   Other American Units Move on Rennes, Communications Hub Half Way Across Brittany.   BIG STRIDES MADE = BY BRITISH TROOPS   Dempsey’s Second Army Gains 17 Miles—Bag of Nazi Prisoners Increased to 22,000. .

WARDS’ SEIZURE ACTION LOOMS   Government Move Hinted In Defiance Of WLB Orders

WARD AWAITING SOVT ACTION   Firm Continues Defiance Despite Threat of Seizure

Wards Face Seizure of Property Again in WLB Wage Figh'   WLB Deadline Passes Case May Goa to White House if Unsettled

Wards Facing U.S. Seizure   Sewell Avery Again Defies WLB Order; Case to White House

WARD'S STRIKE IS COMPLICATEL   Company Officials Fail To Show Up At Detroit WLB Hearing

Sewell Avery Again Facing Possible U.S. Seizure of Montgomery-Ward Stores .

Avery Awaits Board Action.   Ward Chairman Fails: ro Heed Board Order

GOVERNMENT.T0 DIRECT WARD'S?   Possible Seizure. of Property _ Faces, Sewell Avery For,” Second Time

WARD DISPUTE ~ FLARES: AGAIN   :  MAIL ORDER COMPANY, UNIONS AND: GOVERNMENT ARE HEADING FOR ANOTHER SHOWDOWN

WARDS MAY DEFY WLB DIRECTIVE!   Company Has Until Midnight To Comply With Board’s Order —

New Appeal Sent fo Ward's  WLB Chairman Says Doliopee of U.S. Will amner War Fefart

Ward Stores  Face Seizure  War Labor Board Says Next Action Is gore ee ee

Ward Firm Again Facing U. S. Seizure   WLB Order Is Not Fully Met

U.S. Wards Close  To New ‘Collision   Company Passes Up  WLB Hearing

Possible Government Seizure Faces Montgomery Ward Co. Second Time

Nazis say new V-3 rockets nearly ready ‘to fire against New York’

Arkansas Man ‘Mentions Three   Broughton, Rayburn And Kerr Mentioned For Vice President

Nazis Increase Effort To Cut Supply Line   Make Desperate Attempt To Cut Spearhead Off

Second Enemy Try Expected In North As Forces Build Up   German Planes Blasi American Field Hospita

Nazis Bomb American Hospital   Building Plainly Marked With Two Big Red Crosses

Terrific Cost of War Is Revealed   Treasury Issues Year-End Report

Man's Cost Almost 200 Billion Dollars   But Treasury Points Out Nation’s Income Also Has Zoomed

War Has Cost U.S. 89 Billion In Past Year   Government's Income Zooms While Spending At Unprecedented Total

Global War Cost Listed   140 Million Daily Is Spent Since July 40

4 ‘War’ Years Cost Country $200 Billion   Expenses of $140,500,000  Daily Since July 1, 1940 Ravenlead he Teecescn..

Cost of War Mounts to  200 Billions   U.S. Checks Out $140,500,000 Per Day So Fav

osevell Hails  of Rome: pins Nation   bers Relief or the Italians   ny HOWARD FLIEGER

ALLIED VICTORY IS FAR DISTANT, PRESIDENT SAYS   No Thanks Due Hitler That Eternal City Escaped  Devastation   UNITED NATIONS WILL FEED ITALIAN PEOPLE

Fall of Rome Is Hailed by F.D.R   Ultimate Victory Lies Far Ahead

President Hails Rome’s Fall; Cautions Road Ahead Is Tough   Invitation Extended to Italy to Help in Establishing Last Peace—Speaks of Military Operations  Yet ta Come in Furone

Declares All Other Nations Opposed to Fascism and Nazism Should Help Give Italy a Chance; Greater Military Effort Looms

Fatal Train _ Mishap Today In California '   SEVEN CARS WESTRBOUND SOUTHERN PAGIRIC. DERAIT NEAR COLFAX.

Airmen Bomb Wake, Sink Ship   Tons of Bombs Dropped On Kara and Kahili Airdromes: Blast Vessel.

War Chest Drive _ Tobe Boosted in Radio Broadcast   A. M. G. Swenson to Serve as Chairman of Drive in Jenes County

Massed Russian Force Plunge Into Dnhnieste Valley Within Sight O  Bessarabia.

Soviet Armies Make Great Gains And Liberate Many  Towns In New Offensives

Balkan Border Town Falls To Russ Army   Soviet Drive Reaches Dniester River; Other Cities Taken

Reds Take  ‘Three More Rail Kevs      Soviet: Forces Push to With. in Sight’. of Bessarabia; Mary Attack Finland   THROUGH AREAS OF MUD. AND FLOODS   Germans. Also Report Strong: Russian Moves in the North 

ROUT SIXTH NAZI ARMY, KILL 36,000   Also Overrun 100 Populat. ed Places in Drive Which Sweeps Up Yampol, on Dniester River, at Bessa« rabian Frontier. . “4

U.S, BOMBERS REHIT MUNICH   Second Air Attack on City in Two Days

BOMBERS SMACK MUNICH AREA   1.000 U. S. Heavy Planes Lead Daytime Assault

2,000 PLANES AAI MUNICH SEGOND TIMI   Other Bombers from ftalian Bases Blast Railroads in South France.

(sreat German Industria Center Hit For Second Day; German Armor Knocked Out In Nor.  mandy.

2,000 U.S. Planes Again Hit Munich Area; Other Bombers Strike In Southern France   Germany’s Fourth Largest City Pounded Second Time By U- S. In As Many Davs

German Targets in Munich Area Again Blasted From Ain      Third Day of Round-the. Clock Bombings Continues’. Today

U. 5. Bombers Hif Communications In Munich Area   Also Attack Other Objectives; Marauders Go After Supplies in Rear

American Plane: Batfer German City Of Munich   German Convoy Head. ed For St. Lo Strafed By Allied Airmen

1,000 ‘Heavies Attack Munich   Home Of Nazi Party Is Given Blasting

1,000 Yank Bombers Hit Munich Area   Three Important Fuel Dumps Behind German Lines Pounded

2,000 U. S. HEAVIES HIT MUNICH AREA   COMMUNICATIONS OBJECT OF STEADY ALLIED AIR ATTACKS

YANK BOMBERS POUND MUNICH   Great Assault Second in a Many Days on German City

750 Fighters Convoy Big Planes; Three Nazi Fuel Dumps In Normandy Blasted

—ALKIAL—   1,000 BOMBERS PLASTER MUNIGE   Second Attack In 2 Day: Carried Out By Amer iean Planes

1,200 Bombers Again Strike Hitler’ s Munich   Great Force Of Fighters Accompanies Heavies On Acsauh Today

Americans Agair Smash at Munich  Natal City of Nazi Party Hit Second Day

ALLIED SKY FLEETS TOTALLING 4000 PLANES ATTACK MUNICH AND OTHER GERMAN CENTERS   City of 282,000 Persons Under Second Straight Attack with Many Vital War Industries Bombed. German Fuel Dumps Blasted by Many Planes

Munich Again Is Allied Air Target   A 2,000-Plane Raid Strikes at German Rail Bottlenect

Yanks Again Bomb Munich   Make Second Attack In Two Days on Natal City of Nazi Party

Munich is Raided by Yanks   Other Attacks By Air on Oil Installations Of Germans

1200 Planes Renew Munieh Area Attaeks   Second Time In Two Days German Natal City Of Nazi Party Is Hit.  a ent cei  ee ae a. a. oe sb ee fe ~~ 2 FF WAS

Yanks Attack Munich Again   Around 1,000 Heavy Bombers Strike Nazi Party's Birthplace

Duy War DONnGS and Otalips  1000 American Heavy Bombers Blast Munich Second Day In Row

Nearly 2,000 U.S.  Planes Again Hit  City of Munich Rail Yards in France. Fuel  Bumps in Normandy Ameng Sher American Tareetx

Strong-U.S; Aerial Groups Rain Bombs on Munich In  Germany, Southern France

Great German Industrial Center Hit For Second Day; German Armor Knocked Out In Nov:  wana «<3

Yank Heavies Batier Reich In Day Assault   Fighter-Bombers Destro. 28 German Tanks, Hit [16 More In Attacks On French Zones

MUNICH REGION POUNDED AGAIN   ,000 U.S. Heavy Bombers Rip War, Railway Center

Finns Urged To Ask Russia For Peace Term:   Movement Grows To Bring End to Bitter Hostilities

Finnish Party Would Ask Reds  For Peace Terms   First Action By Any Major Political Party Since Hull Warning.

PLANES AND BOATS USED IN RESCUE OF PEOPLE FROM FLOODS   HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY DAMAGE FROM MEXICAN: STORMS

Disaster Expected: to. Accoun! For Hundreds of Lives;.  Rescue. is Slow

* PLANES: AND BOATS + USED IN RESCUE OF , PEOPLE FROM FLOODS  = geratrer FTAafe ATF TIlmr   HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY DAMAGE FROM ’ MEXICAN STORMS

Rommel Relieved of Nazi Command   Rumors Say Marshal Removed From Front

Rommel Believed Removed Ink rance   Marshal Reported Held Re sponsible For Defeats

Desert Fox QOutsmarted By Invaders   Plan For Defense Of French Coast Was Anticipated

lito's Partisans Occupy Adriatic Port Of Ragusa   Troops And Supplies Now Can Be Landed On Dalmatian Coast

Yugoslav Troops Capture Adriatic Port Of Ragusa; Nazis Evacuate Debrechen

Records Show G.0.P. Harmony   More Uninimiiy in Congress Revealed

ROOSEVELT AIDE -LEADING FIGHT TOOUST FARLEY   David K. Nites Aims At Re: moval of Chairman Who > Opposes. Fourth Term.

Report Effort To Oust Farley  May Have Support Of F.D.R. Acivisor

RED ARMY GROUND TROOPS COME TO GRIPS WITH NAZIS ‘AT SEVASTOPOL   Soviet Forces Said Te Have Broken First De fense Ring Around City.

Racial Equality Platform Plank   Raises Controversy Among Southern Groups

Relief Forces Near Kohima  Plans Made for Final Assault to Deheve Carrnsann

GUNS TRAINED ON REAR OF JAP POSITION   Calcutta Dispatches Say Preparations Almost Complete For Assault To Relieve Garrison

FLORENCE HL-WAY CLEARED IN WTALY   Kighth Army Makes Kight Mile Gains On Both Sides Of City

Raps Security Talk Secrecy  Congress Won't Stand For Double-Talk’

SENATOR WANTS OPEN DEBATES   Bridges Cautions Against Secrecy and ‘Double-Talk’ By Security Parley

‘Horse Pulling  ‘Contest Winners  Bob Brownlee’ s Téeaih Tn First Place °

Horse Pulling  Contest Winners   Bob Brownlee’s Team In First Place

Bip AIVOCT MELOCNSS LINE IS MEd WOICCIVe=— whey EMITKE L. GPs   Nazis Say Ukraine Battle To Decide War

Mrs. R. R. Bedell Taken By. Death  ‘Was Wit ife. Of. City Attorney

Mrs. R. R. Bedell Taken By Deal  *WasWife: Of: ah, City Attorney a

Senators Demand Japan Be Stripped of War Facilities When Conflict Is Ended

Siegfried Line To Be Scene of Decisive Battle   Hun Defense Stiffens as U.S. First Army Drives Into Ardennes Forest And Third Pours Across Moselle.

Western Front Sees Big. Battle   TWO YAN K ARMIES HAMMERING AT GERMANY

Third Army Of Patton   Drive Wedge Into Outskirts of Metz, West Wall Fortress

Patton, Rolling Again, Reaches. Nancy And Metz   First Army Extends Flank North Of Namur; British Reach Ypres, 17 Miles From Lille

REACH NANCY. PUSH WEDGE INTO METZ   Hodges’ Men Are Probing Into Ardennes Forest   NO REPORT   On British Columns Moving Through Holland; Ypres Neared By Canadians

Hodges’ First Army Stabs Into Ardennes, Nazi Invasion Route   Third U, S. Army Meets Desperate Resistunce On 5SO-Mile Front; Moselle Bridgehead Gained At Heavy Cost: Seventh Ariay Neare Camtact

Armies Drive  On Toward Nazis Wall   Patton, Hodges Divisions Slash Ahead as Fos Stiffens Resistance; Climactic Fight Is Expected to Flare Up at Siegfried Line

Patton’s Troops Pushing Forward On Broad Front   Yanks Reach Nancy, Metz After Winning Fierce Moselle Battle; First Army Aims At West Wall Along Nazi Invasion Route

Patton's Units At Nancy And Edge Of Metz As First Army Builds Up Bia Line

Patton On Edge Of Met: And First Army: Close: To:  Siegfried Tine Basec:

Third Army Drives Wedge  In Nancy, Metz Fortresses; First Probes Forest Route

Patton’s Army Drives Into _ Outskirts of Metz and to North First Army Has 75-mile Front.   OTHER ARMIES ARE REPORTED IN GAINS

German Resistance Stiffens    Allies Plow Ahead © While Also Massing Power for Coming Bolt Across Border

FINAL BATTLE AGAINST NAZIS MAY BE ON NOW   First And Third Armies Hammer Two Bis Lines

Patton's Army Resumes Drive Along Moselle   Attack Resumed Along Fifty-Mile Front Near Germany

Patton’s Army Reaches ‘Fortress. Cities _ Of Nancy And Metz. At Heavy. Cost Against Desperate _ Resistance; Hodges’. First ; Army Builds Up 75-Mile As eault Line,

[See Final Fight OfEuropean War At Siegfried Line   Patton-In-Metz..Qutskirts 3. Poles -Push To Ypres; Southern Towns Fall

First Army Takes Path Nazis Used   British Go Into Yypres as Americans Advance on 75-Mile Front   HEADING TOWARD DECISIVE BATTLES   Third Army Moving on Metz and Nancy; Gent Captured by Tommies

PATTON UNITS HAMMER INTO RIM OF METZ   Hodges’ Army Moves Ahead In Belgium; Nazis Stiffen In Bid To Gain Time

Third Army Drives to Metz Outskirts; Reds in Yugoslavia Seek Junction with Tito’s Partisans; Yanks Push Germans Back to Main Defenses of Gothic Line

Nazi Resistance Stiffens  ‘As Siegfried Line Neared   Hodges Troops Probe Ardennes Forest, British Second Army Reported Moving LiIntoa Alhert Canal   Probe into Ardennes Forest

DECISIVE BATTLE OF WAR IS BELIEVED NEAR AS FIRST AND THIRD ARMIES PUSH FORWARD   Attacking Both North and South of Metz Doughboys Run into Fierce Artillery Fire as Resistance Stiffens   PATTON FORCES MOVE INTO OUTSKIRTS OF METZ

Patton's Army In Outskirts Of Metz   Moselle Breached At One Point In U.S. Assault

Two Amerizan ‘Armies Gird For Showdown Fight In Germany      U_S.. First..And. Third. Groups -Hammer. Eastward On 2 Broad Fronts Toward Hitler’s Defense > Line: Stiffer Resistance Encanuntered -

WESTERN FRONT   Boasted West Wall Built by Nazis Eight Years Ago To Undergo Test

GUARDS KILL 3 JAP PRISONERS   Nipponese Attempted * Uprising in Hospital

Three Japs Kalled in Mutiny Try   BOARD TO INVESTIGATE SHOOTING OF PRISONERS WHO RUSHED GUARDS

3 Japanese Prisoners  Are Killed   Shot When They Rushed Guards -

Dutch May Ask Slice of Prussia   Seek Compensation For German Damage

Navy Rebuffs Merger Now   Forrestal Says Idea Shouk Have Mature Thought

NAVY OPPOSED 10 UNIFYING FORCES   Enthusiasm for Post-war Unified Command is Dampened

BRITISH TRYING TO PIN NAZIS INSIDE HOLLAND   General Dempsey’s Troops Menacing Reich 10 Miles  From Kleve   EISENHOWER ISSUES NAZI PROCLAMATION

Powerful Forces Are Moving Up Along Maas River   Smash Back Enemy Troops Trying To Cuf the Dutch Corridor

>) 00 NAZI   German Soil Menaced Along 15-Mile Front Near Northern End. of Siegfried Line.      PATTON CRUSHES ®: 3 COUNTER-BLOWS       Yanks Driven From Bridge Before Fort Briant—U. S. First Army Gains Near Aachen,

Allied Forces Believed  . Massing for Great Battle  POCKET WIPED OUT  BY BRITISH ARMY  U. S. First Army Advances Toward City  of Cologne

By British Second Army Pushing in Three Directions; Americans Fight Through Hurtgen Forest Near Aachen.

Allies Menace North End Of Siegfried Line   Strike Toward Reich Southwest of Kleve; Dutch Corridor Widened; Patton Repels Big Attacks

German Border Menaced Along 15-Mile Front   U. S. Forces Keep Up Pressure on Path  To Industrial Cologne

British 2nd. Lashes East, West, North   - Menaces German Soil Along 15-Mile Front Ten Miles from Kleve  PORRIDAR WINENEN

ALLIED FORCE OF 3 MILLION TO HIT REICE   HOLD ALONG RHINE WIDENED TO BAR NAZI ESCAPE

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Allies Massed On Front To Launch Mighty Offensive   See Text Of Eisenhower  Deaclamatinan On Dave 7

Second Spot Voting Will Start Today   Truman Begins Stretch Drive to Catch Wallace For Vice Presidency; Byrd Gets 89 Votes

F.D.R. Gets 1,086. Votes. And Byrd 89   Byrd Support Comes Largely from. South; Farley Gets One Vote   RUNNING MATE TO BE NAMED TODAY  Wallace and Truman Chief Contestants; Barkley Still Race

Roosevelt Named;Byrd Has 89 Votes      TWO TEXAS’ DELEGATIONS SEATED WITH HALF A VOTE EACH DELEGATE, SPLIT ON BALLOT.   Farley Got One

Nazis Going Back In Certain Amount Of Confusion; Troops Find Some Villages Deserted Open Roads Ahead  MOERDIJK BRIDGE IS      MOERDIJK BRIDGE IS RAIDED BY BOMBERS

Harvey Says Appointment Of New Revisor Will Help Hasten Committee Work

HUNGARY: GETS TERMS FOR PEACE   London Paper Reports Allies Contact_Baron_Apor___ at Vatican 

Washington Hit By Heavy Rain  Capita! Drenched By 6-Inch Downpour

RAID BERLIN TODAY   Huge Battles Over Wide Territory Reported as Air War Resumed.

Bag In Christmas Day Attack Large   1,100 Vehicles, 35 Planes Knocked Out

German Army Withdraws # From Horence   Allied Troops Enter With Relief for Impoverished People

FLORENCE IS ABANDONED BY THE GERMANS   Bulk of Troops Withdrawn During Night to North of Canal Which  ' Flows . Through _ the Northern Outskirts.

Same Campaign of Attrition Against Islands South of Japan ae That. on. Approaches to: Philipeuses: a ‘Bevun .   F lorence, Italian City Of Art And Culture, Spared Battle As Nazis Evacuate

ANCIENT CITY UNRAVAGED BY EITHER SIDE   Enemy Withdrew During Night to North of Nugnone Canal; Fighth Army Ready to Cross Arno

Germans Pull All Forces Out Of Florence   Ancient Cradle of Italian Art Spared Ravages of Battle

Nazis Abandon City of Florence  Cradle of Art and Culture Saved Damage

Florence Is Evacuated by Nazi Forces   Military Government Aids _ Hungry Civilian Popula’ tion; 8th Army Advances Against Stiff Resistance 

Florence Left — to Allied Army   GERMANS WITHDRAWING FROM ITALIAN CITY

Nazis Withdraw  From Florence   Spare Making Cradle of Italian Art a Battle Ground: Allies in City. 

Nazi Troops Abandon City Of Florence   Cradle OF Italian Art Spared From Ravages Of Battle As German Forces Are Withdraw

Florence Evacuated By Germans   Ancient Center of Art and Culture Spared From Ravages of Battle   ALLIES MOVE IN : TO FEED HUNGRY   Eighth Army Moves Up tor An Assault on Nazis Gothic Line:

italian Art ‘Capital in  Allied Hands   Germans Evacuate’Treasure House of Renaissance’ After 2 Weeks   SIEGE [§S LIFTED,   AMG Officers Cross City Ahead of Troops to Aid Civilians

ALLIES ENTER FLORENCE AS GERMANS FLEE   Eighth Army  Readies New Assault On Arno Riv  er Positions

FLORENCE SPARED AAVAGES OF BATTLE      Germans Withdraw Forces From Ancient Cradle of , Art, Culture.

Nazis Withdraw From Florence; ‘Allied Aid Begins   Civilians Are Found Short of Food, Water, Medicine; Front Is Quiet °

Florence Evacuated By Germans   Allied Troops  Remain on South  Bank of Arno Officers Enter

Italy Art City Sure To Escape  War’s Ravages   Meanwhile, Eighth Army Moves Toward Crossing Of Arno For Assault Hun Gothie Line   Allies Will Feed .  Fiorence Hungry   Military Government! Crosses Arno On Mission While Troops Remain Qn South Bank

Allied Troops Prepare to Cross  Arno While Military Government Aids Freed Citizens

Germans Have Quit Florence   Ancient Cradle Of Italian Art And Culture Spared Battle Ravavesa.

Germans Withdraw All Their Forces From Florence   Ancient City Spared Ravages of Battle As Allies Hold Fire

Florence Completely Evacuated By Germans   Hungry Civilians Now To Be Succored; Nazi Resistance Stiffens Along Gothic Line

Assault Lines _ Are Pushed fo :  Roer and Saar   Germans Losing 3,000 Men Daily in Prisoners, Many’ More in Dead, Wounded   NO FIGURES ON U.. 8. CASUALTIES   Ceaseless. Artillery Fire as Americans Edge Ahead © in Battle of. Attrition. ~

Linnich under Seige; Aim Wedge at Cologne   Red Troops, Flanking Budapest, Move to within 78 Miles of Capital

FIRST AND NINTH ARMIES SET FOR MIGHTY THRUST   Roer and Saar River Drives To Precede Assault on The Rhine

Troops Mass On Roer and Saar Rivers  Bitter Fighting ; Rages On Road

Yankees Drive Wedge Toward mhine Country   Bitter Battle Rages As Assault Lines Formed

AMERICAN ARMIES ALL ALONG WESTERN FRONT DRIVE AHEAD  ASSAULT LINES FORMED BEFORE THE ROER ’ AND SAAR RIVERS.

Press : : Toward  Rhineland   Allied Armies Drive Steadily Forward Under Ceaseless Fire  Of Heavy Artillery °

RED COSSACKS CHASE NAZIS OVER ROMANIA   Balkan Troops Jcin March Toward  Bucharest

Japs Stage New Counterattacks   Stilwell’s Forces Hit Area In Upper Yangtse

Destroy Three Nazi Tanks In Raid On Anzio   Allies, French Crash Stiff Resistance In Rapido, Cassino Areas

Score Aerial Triumph As New Beachhead Grows: Counter-Attack Fails —

ATR BATTLES FOUGHT IN TTALIAN AREA    Allies Bring Dowin'S0 % Nazi-Plaiies 

BEACHHEAD DEEPENED VY MILES   Main Fifth Army Fights Fiercely At Gustav Line

ALLIES DOWN 5( NAZI PLANES IN ITALY, FRANCE   Beat Oft Ground Attack

FIFTY ENEMY PLANES ARE KNOCKED OUI   Armored and Air Forces Counter-attack Is Driven Back Decisively.

HARD BLOW AT NAZI AIRCRAFT IN ROME AREA   Half-Hundred Reich Planes Shot Down in Italian Action.—Ground Attack Repulsed.   Hold Expanded Rv ASSOCIATED PRESS

50 Enemy Planes Shot Down in One Of Biggest Air Victories   Massing Nazi Armored Units Stab in Vain at Rint of Week-Old Position; Aty Fields at Marseilles Are Raided

ALLIES REPEL NAZI STAB AT NEW BEACHHEAD   Beaten Off Below Rome And 50 Foe LPlianes Are Downed

Railway Ticket Black Market Is Broken ‘Up By EBI After 31 Put Under Arrest

Railway Racket In Florida Is Halted By FBI   Tourists Held Up Or Ticket Prices

Railroad Ticket Racket Revealed  FBI Arrests 31 Persons In Florida

Miami Travel Black Market Raided by FBI   “31 Arrested for Selling Railway Reservations At Bie Deofir

31 Seized'For _ F ee- T iki  nig Tin  Train: *Racke      Sixteen Railroad . Employ.  es, d4- Hotel . Workers  and Driver: in: ‘Florida . ‘Aociised bv FBI’.

TRAVEL RACKET EXPOSED AFTER G-MEN NAB 31   1, Edgar Hoover Accuses Florida Group in Rail Reservation ‘Deals’

F.B.1. NETS 30 AS RAILWAY, HOTEL RACKETEERS: WEST ALSO FACES PROBE

Rail Reservations  Black Market Hit   BI Arrests 31 At Florida Resorts

BI Ex poses Rail Ticket Black Market   16 Railroad Employes. Uf Hotel Workers, Cabmen Arrested At Miiami

Black Market In Train Reservations Smashed By G-Men; Servicemen Chief Racket Victims

5% Mortgage Loans 5% + Monthiy Balances. MASS. SAVINGS & LOAN CO, a a

Germans Declare Mos! of Baltic Sea a War Zone   Action Puts Sweden Close to Armed Conflict

Swedes Strive  -To Avoid War   But Nazi Ban on Baltic Shipping Stirs Nation .

Germans Declare Most of Baltic Sea a War Zone  i .* SS ee SS ee   Action Puts Sweden Close to Armed Conflict

Blueprint For Money Conference   DR. HARRY D. WHITE WILL, LAY TREASURY PROPOSAL BEFORE BRETTON WOODS GATHERING TODAY,   Silver For Money?

MONETARY USE “OF SILVER URCH   Proposal Seeks it Amended on Altied Stabilization Fund at Confab

Crash Kills Lance Wade, Tucson Ace   Had 25.Enemy Ships To Credit; Buried With Full Honors

Top Ranking American Ace Crashes to Danth   Lance C. Wade, Serving With the RAF, Had 25 Planes to His Crodi+¢

MISHAP FATAL TO AGE AIRMAN   Downed 25 Nazi Planes, But Dies In Crash Behind Lines

Valiant Pilot Meets Death   Veteran American Air Hero of RAF Crashes In Italy January 12

Yank Ace of RAF Killed   Lance Wade, of Arizona, Dies in Crash in Italy

WADE CRASHES TO HIS DEATH   Squadron Leader Oliver Kallio, Ironwoood Was Successor to Hero.

Wing Leader Lance Wade, Top-Ranking Ace In Italian War Theatre, Meets Death

Yank Ace With R.AF. Is Killed   Crash-of Sniall Plane Behind Lines Takes Life of Commander Wade   HAD SHOT DOWN _ --98 ENEMY PLANES   Escaped Death Many Times in Air Battles; Known as Greatest Mid East Pilot

Lance C. Wade Crashes To His Death In Italy   Ace, Of RAF Fighters Lived In Tucson Before War

Great Combat Flier Killed   Lance Wade, With 25 Planes To Credit, Dies in Accident

Yankee Ace Of RAF Dead   Wing Commander Wade Crashes to Death; Downed 25 Planes

Flying Ace Wade Dies In Accident   Famed Texan, Called War’s Best Fighter; Killed Behind Lines In Accident

Japs Drive On Changsha   Enemy With Fresh Reinforcements Gains; Aim to Split China

Japs’ Offensives Aimed at Dividine China, Is Belief  ry re ee; a ee   Situation ‘Indeed Grave,’ Spokesman Says—Jans Drive Against Changsha

GERMANY BLASTED FROM TWO FRONTS   1100 Bombers Strike From Britain While Another Large Force From Italy Hits Southern Targets.   !ALLIES DRIVE FOR PARIS “OVER HUMP’   Allies Expand Salient Around Caen as Russians Close in On Lwow.

GOV'T WILL TURN EXPORT - IMPORT BACK TO OWNERS   Private Enterprise to Be. Respected, Leo Crowley Says

Government to Return Import, Export Business  After the War   Private Enterprise Given Encouragement Ry Leo T. Crawley

AXIS LOSING” ~~ SUB-WARFARE   ALLIES HOLDING ADVANTAGE  \ IN BOTH ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC IN: UNDERWATER.  PHASE OF COMBAT

Hitler Escapes Death in Bombing; Three Nazi Leaders Injured   British Radio Says Chancellor Suffers Brain Concussion; Fuehrer Resumes Work, Confers With Mussolini After Assassination Attempt; Generals, Admirals Wounded

DANES FIGHT TO PROTECT THEIR KING   Battle Germans in Streets of Capital

Danish Policemen ‘Battle Germans   Copenhagen Reported In Strike’s Grp 

Armistice Day Ty Be Marked By 2 Programs   Legion Exercises in Park —Poster Will Be Dedicated

LegionProgran At Monument Armistice Day   Saturday at 10:30 a. m.— Bevenue Post Event Sunday Night

War Vets Converge on Offices in Seven. Cities as Work Program Gets Under Way

FSA STEPS UP WORK LOCATION FOR VETERANS   Many Placed First Day as New Program Gets Under Way in Seven Cities Across Nation

War Vets Seek Jobs  Take Advantage of Government's New Expanded Program

AIR INVASION ALSO CARRIED BACK TO REICH   Assault on Communications Staged by U. S. Mediums

PREANVASION ASSAULT ENTERS onTH DAY.   Planes Hammer Communicatious ines in France

Republicans, Gathering in Chicago, Lack Vice Presidential Candidate

Pre-Convention Gossip at Chicago Turns to Lack of Hot Vice Presidential Contest — Neither Bricker Nor Warren Want Second Place on Ticket.   DELEGATES AT CHICAGO

Vice-Presidential Nominee Post Goes Begging On Eve Of Republican Convention

Second Place Goes Begeing   Main Job of Republicans Now Appears To Be Selection of  Running Mate for Dewey

SECOND PLACE ON COP BALLOT NOW HOT ISSUE   Gov. Bricker (O.) May Be Awarded  Vice-Presidency

Vice Presidential Nomination Not Wanted by GOPS  Bricker, Warren Plair In Refusal of Running-Mate Post

GOP Interest Turns Toward  V. P. Nominee   Second Place on the Ticket Seems To Be Going Begging with Bricker and Warren Mentioned.

Scarcity of Vice Presidential Aspirants Stumps Convention   Warren and Bricker Mentioned, but Both Say They Are No!  Expecting Nomination.

SECOND PLACE ON GOP TICKET BEING SHUNNED   Dewey Rated Top Man With ‘Vice Presidency ‘Reward’ Proposed for Bricker

Vice Presidential Nomination Net Wanted by GOPS Bricker, Warren Plain In menisel at  Pe a Sr en. eee a

Second Place On GOP Ticket __Has No Taker:   Bricker, Warren Lead In Discussion, But Shun Position

HUNT “CANDIDATE FOR GOP-BERTH   "Vice Presidential Nomination Still Wide Open Affair

Jap Communique Says U. $. Task Force: That Raided Marianas Included 10 Aircraft Carriers, 8 Battleships

Dallas Woman Missing; Last Seen July 28   Margaret Hartburg Disappears From Bus Station in Buffalo After Visiting Husbanc

WHICH ISSUE SHALL I BUY?   There Is A Fifth War Loan Security To Meet Every Investment Need

WHICH ISSUE SHALL  BUY?  .  t 4 Eefeh War Loan Security To Meet Every Investment Need

First Large Defense Bastion ‘on North-Central Invasion Route to Warsaw and Berlin : May Fall Within Week

BEREZINA IS CROSSED BY RED ARMY   Soviets Closing In On Capital Of White Russia

RUSSIANS POUR QVER DEFENSE BEFORE MINSK   Fortress City Likely ) to Be Outflanked by — Soviet Drive Westward.

Nazis Flee as Soviets Cross Berezina River   Three Armies. Close Pincers on Fortress City.

Red Drive To Outflank Minsk Developing; Many Nazi Troops Surrender

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Rokossovsky s Fighters Cross Berezina River   White Russian Capital Of Minsk Obiective

LAST BARRIER BEFORE MINSK 5 CRUMBLING   Disorganized Enemy Fleeing from Powerful Red First Army.

CRACK RIVER DEFENSE, START TO FLANK FORT   Cavalry Leads Army On Heels Of PellMell Nazt Retreat

Reds Pass Last Natural Defense Before Minsk   Begin to Outflank Fortress City From South

Flaming Red Drive Seals Minsk’ sFate   Russians Cross River Barricade Before Kev Citv

REDS DRIVE 10 OUTFLANK Blt NAZI FORTRESS   Disorganized Germans Flee Before Cavalry Units

Move Breaches Last Defenses Before Minsk   Soviets Outflank City From South: Germans Flee Positions In Disorder

Drive Threatens Encirclement Of Nazi-Held White Russian Capital   German Forces Flee In Disorder   Moscow Says Crossing Of Berezina Seals Doom  Of Minsk

Russians Cross Berezina River, Advance on Minsk  Hundreds of Nazis  oa +,  “ETe,1L   Hundreds of Nazis Surrender With Arms and Baggage

CAVALRY IS 30 MILES FROM CITY   Russians Pour Across Brezina River Line Toward Fortress

REDS CROSS LAST BARRIER BEFORE MINSK   Begin to Outflank City From the South

Reds Prepare for Final Assault on Warsaw to Pave Way for Invasion ‘Of Germany; Russians Take Praga

REDS START NEW DRIVE ON NAZIS WITH TERRIHC WARSAW BOMBING   ARTILLERY, PLANES HIT POLISH CAPITAL WITH RENEWED FURY; PRAGA SUBURBS IN RUSSIAN HANDS

RUSSIANS BOMBARD WARSAW   Appears to Be Start of Major Offensive

750 BOMBERS ROCK BREMED   RAF Heavies Hit Oil Fields In Ruhr Valley

Heavy American and British Planes Attack War Industries in Germany

Aircraft Factories In Bremen Are Targets for Yanks  About 750 Liberators And Fortresses Paund German City

U, S. AIRMEN HIT BERLIN WITH 800 HEAVY BOMBERS   One Thousand Tons Of Bombs Dropped

AMERICAN HEAVIES  ATTACK BREMEN WAR  PLANTS THURSDAY OTHER U. S. BOMBERS  RAID UNNAMED POINTS; ATICTRIA ATTACKER

BOMBERS LASH BREMEN PLANTS   Widespread Daylight Attacks Also Made

800 Yank Planes Blast Germany   Vital Targets In Reich Bombed By Liberators

Bremen. Plant  Is Assaulted   RAF Heavies Cripple Nazi: Oil Production :

Great Air — Battles Over Germany —   Nazis Clairn Several Forts Forced Down South of Berlin”

Gotham Toured In Rain   PRESIDENT HAS A PAT ON BACK FOR SEN. WAGNER; VISITS WAR INSTALLATIONS

Roosevelt Goes On Display In  Crowded Day Of Vote Hunting Climaxed By

Submarine Output Halted By Strike   Efforts To ‘o Arbitrate Dis pute End In Stalemate

Workers Strike  In Sub Concern   Production Halted When Employes Walkout

TB Volunteers Hold Meet for Sales Campaign   Victorians Take Service Exams   — THE ADVOCATE — CONGRATULATES

LAUNCH ATTACK ALONG 25-MILE FRONT IN SOUTH   Gen. De Tassigny’s Force Plunges Forward Five Miles In Approach To Belfort Gap

French Attack On Wide Front Around Belfor   Ten Villages Seized And Some Prisoners Taken in Advances Of Four to Five Miles

Covering Both Sides of Doubs River on Belfort Gap Approaches; Score Advances.   All Day Battle

RUSSIAN ARMY AT GATEWAY T0 EAST PRUSSIA   Soviet Troops Drive To Within 2 and One-half Miles Of City Of Lomza

RED PATROLS ADVANCE INTO EAST PRUSSI   Russians in Furious Battle Push Close  To Lomza

RUSSIAN PATROLS IN EAST PRUSSIA FOR BRIEF PERIOD   Large Soviet Force Storms to Within 214 Miles of Gateway to Imperiled Province.   STRUGGLE IS ONE OF FIERCEST OF WAR   Berlin Announces Penetration of Nazi Lines in the Eastern Suburbs of Warsaw.

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Soviet Patrol: Cross Into East Prussia   Gather Data, Retire; Reds Penetrate Nazi Lines in Assault on  East Warsaw Suburb:

RED FORCES DRIVE ON EAST PRUSSIA      Russians Reported With. in a Few Miles of Lomza

RED ADVANCE IS MENACING EAST PRUSSIE   RESERVES HURLED INTO STRUGGLE FOR WARSAW

- Soviet Patrols Cross ‘Into Menaced Province To Secure Information

Soviet toree advancing on Lomza base  Warsaw entered; lash at Hunesary

Reds Cut Loose With Invasion Of East Fron   Soviets Hit East Prussia As Yankees Strike Reich

British Chasing  Germans Reach  Banks of Maas   Fog Saves Fleeing Enemy From Allied Air Attacks

BISPATCH INDICATES GERMANS MIGHT HAVI GOTTEN OUT OF CAEN  GERMAN COMMANDER RE PORTED RUSHING “REINFORCEMENTS INTO AREA

REPORT NAZI TROOPS RUN OUT OF CAEN   Von Rundstedt_. Being Outsmarted By Etsenhower

RHOADS OUSTED FROMOTTUMWA JOB BY JUDGE   Charged With Failure to Perform Duties as Safety Commissioner

MAIL ORDER C0. EXPECTED T0 60 INTO COURT SOON   Aitorneys Arrive To Defend Action; Troops At Plant

Assails Free Insurance Ides   Senator Attacks CCC Head’s Suggestion on Way To Spur Acreage of Flax

Find Bodies of Two Slain Men   Canton Decter and Soldier Had Been Shot in the Back

LEW AYRES TO BE MINISTER   Former Screen Star Wil Seek Pulpit After War Ends

Underground Citadel At St. Malo Surrenders After Week Of Constant Bombardment By Alltes

County Still Far Below Bond Goal   Half-Million Dollars Needed for Quota

Papansireon Is Fearful _ Civil War May  Result   Fight Is ‘Spreading To: ‘Thrace: ‘District.

British Planes Attack Leftists   Fights Spread To Thrace as Athens Area is Cleared

Athens-Pieaeus Area Is Being  Cleared   But Fighting Spreads To Thrace; Leader Of Elas German Officer

More British Units Thrown Into Battle   Parachute Troops And Infantry Fight Leftist Forces

BRITISH ARMOR, PLANES RIP GREEK LEFTISTS IN ATHENS   Small Arms Fire Continues in Capital As Guerrilla Action Spreads to Thrace

Planes Join Attack In Greek Uprising   Parachute Troops, Infantry With Tanks, Artillery Aid Blast Wav to Elas Positions

Atheus-Piracus Area Being} Cleared of Leftists; RAF Sirafing Nests OF Resistance

British Use Planes To Clear EAM Resistance      Premier Papandreou Says Leftists Are Now, Plunging Greece Into Civil War

7  INFANTRY JOIN FIGHT   Armed Resistance Is Spreading; Planes And Tanks Used

FIGHTING IN GREECE SPREADS   EAM Attacked By RAF And By Artillery

EAM FORCES ATTACKED BY RAF PLANES   Athens-Piraeus Area Being Cleared Of Leftist Forces

Scobie Says Making Progress To Clear Athens-Piraeus Area. Of Leftists Attacked by RAF

British Use Artillery, Planes, _ And Tanks Against Greeks: Who Will Not Give Up Guerrilla Arms

BRITISH GENERAL REPORTS ATTACK ON ‘GREEKS IN ATHENS ARTILLERY AND PLANES  USED AGAINST FORCES NOT IN FAVOR

NE Nd  HOUSE-TO-HOUSE ~ FIGHT INATHENE   British Wiping Out Principal Centers Of Elas Resistance   PLANES ARE USED   Elas And Greek Nationalists Reported Battl. ing In Thrace

British blast at rebellious forces near Acropolis  Fight way from house to house crushing resistance

VOTE TO FREFZE TAY   British Make Progress Against Elas Resistance

GREEK LEFTIST TROOPS FIGHT BRITISH TANKS   Resist Armored Force In House-to-House Battle in Athens

Paratroopers Used in Greek Fight   Planes, Tanks and Big Guns Employed in Curbing Disturbances

BRITISH PLANES AND ARTILLERY ATTACK LEFTISTS   PREMIER OF GREECE DENIES EAM CHARGE OF A DICTATORSHIP

Fighting In Greece Spreads To Thrace  British Use Planes   British Use Planes And Artillery In Blows At ELAS

British Employ Cannon, Planes Against Greek Leftist Forces  Claim German Officer Captured While

British Try to Break Up Greek Fight      RAF Planes, Artillery Used to Dig Out Leftist EAM Forces

Planes Used In Athens   Elas Fail To Heed Ultimatum Issued By Allied Commander

Battling In Greece © Spreads Into Thrace   British Use Planes, Tanks, Armored Cars, Artillery In Athens, Snipers Persistent; Free Election Promised

Fighting in Athens Still  In Progress   House to House Battles; Fighting Spreads to Thrace

Civil Warfare Spreading Into Thrace   Tanks, Paratroopers And Artillery Used Acainst ELAS

BRITISH MILITARY UNITS BLAST AT ELAS STRONGHOLDS   Troops, Planes and Artillery Go in Action in Acropolis Area of Athens to Crush Left Wing Militia — Fight  Spreads ta Thrace

+ + » FARM PROBLEM SOLUTION. GOP NOMINEE DECLARES   (The text of Gov. Dewey's Syracuse address is on Page Three.)

New Deal Plans Increased Farm Regimentation   GOP Nominee Pledges Simple, Firm Support For Crop Prices.

PLEDGES PARTY 10 SIMPLER FARM RULE   Dewey Says ‘Increased Regimentation’ Upon Farmers Attempted.

Higher Food Goal Urged By Gov. Dewey      Millions Do Not Get Right Things To Eat, Asserts Candidate In Address On Farm Problem

Dewey Says 6. 0. P Would Provide Simplified AAA   Roosevelt Goes To Chicago for Speech Tonight

New Deal Attempt: To Regiment Farms, Dewey Says  Candidate Declares Nation Must Get More, Better Food

U. §. Infantry Closing In 0 Reinforced Anchor Of Germa Line; Pico, Middle Hinge ( Line, Evacuated      EXPLOSIVES HALT ARMORED FORCE

Norse Slay 30 Quislings   Assassinations Are Almost Daily Routine In Past Six Weeks

‘Blue Star Mothers Write Folks In Service Regularly; Plan Rummage Sale

No Paid News Ads On War Bond Sale   House Committee Votes Down Measure Proposed

Advertising Bill Rejected   Newspapers Grant Space Voluntarily To War Bond Sales

FELL OVER 2,100 NAZI PLANES IN LAST 2 MONTHS   American Fliers Drop 37,000 Tons of Bombs on Germans Since Feb. 1

American Craft Sinks 20 More Japanese Ships   Superfortresses Set Huge Fires Raging in Nipponese Homeland  After Two Attacks

20 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U.S. SUBS   Three Being War Vessels, While Yawala Digs Out of Blasting By Super forte.   Island Of Honshy

YANK BOMBERS AND SUBS HIT JAP STRENGTE   Yawata Production Center Blasted; 19 Nip Ships Are Sent To Bottom

BLOWS BY AIR AND UNDERSEA JOLT JAPLAND   SUPER - FORTS RAZE FACTORIES; SUBS SINK 20 SHIPS

U. S. Superforts Bombard Japan  Triple Strike by   Triple Strike by Air Delivered

Superforts Hit Japan's Homelands   Sub And Planes Get More Japanese Ships

BIG JAP CRUISER SUNK BY BOMBER   U. 8S. SUBS SEND DOWN 19 OTHER NIP VESSELS — PLANES POUND YAWATA.

Air, Navy Attacks Stun Japs   Twenty More Vessels Sent Down By American Forces

FDR, Churchill Plot Jap Doom In Quebec Talk   Victor ie Parley Begun By U “S. - English  ee ee

Roosevelt and Churchill Begin Military Talks   Quebec Conferences Aimed at Jap Defeat

LIBERATORS HIT SHANGHA! AREA   Woosung, Vital Jap Storage Center, Main Target of U. S. Airmen

SEARCHERS GET MISSING CHILD   Youth and Pct Dog Discovered After 32-Hour Search—Approximately 1,500 Persons from Ports: mouth doin in Blunt.

Allied Bomb Raids Damage Japs Heavily   Shipping, Installations, And Airdromes Given Severe Mauling

Jap Installations Heavily Damaged By Aerial Blows   Fighting Dies Down On Southeast Front of Cape Gloucester

Allied Fliers Pound Jap Ships, Bases   Kavieng Attackec For I7th Night  In Succession

SHIPPING AND AIRPORTS BOMRED BY ALLIED FLYERS   MacArthur Reports Lull in land Fighting on Cape Gloucester

YANK AIRMEN WREAK HAVOC IN PACIFIC   Damaging Jap Shipping, Airdromes and Installations

JAP SHIPPING IS DAMAGED IN ALLIED RAIDS   Planes Range Over Southwest Pacific — Hit Enemy Tnctallatinne

Allied Fliers In Sweeping Pacific Raids   Jap ‘Airdrome and‘ Other Kavieng Installations Pounded Heavily ~ °   SHIPPING BLASTED   Aussies Forging North on Huon Approaching - Jap Barge Depot

Bradley Leads U. S. Advance   “Doughboy General” Assumes Personal Command of Yanks

Attempt on De Gaulle’s Life Halts Bia Victory Celebration in Paris   French ‘Pistol Packin’ Mama’ Picks Off German Snipers for Allied Troop:

1,750 American Planes (Rake German Factories   Hit Reich Refineries, Touch Off Series Of Fierce Air Battles

REGENCY T0 RULE: “GREECE PROPOSED   FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ATHENS—ELAS POUNDS BRIT. . ** ISH POSITIONS.

Regency May Be Agreed on For Greece   Fighting Continues But Plans for Peace Are Discussed

Regency Proposa Reported Agreed Upon in Athens   Is Discussed by British anc Greeks as Fighting Continues

Regency may solve conflict   Possible solution  to Greek trouble

Four More Marshalls Atolls Occupied By U. S. Troops   Occupation Of Tiny Islands Makes Jap tstand ' Empire In The Central Pacific Ineffective

4’ More Atolls Are Occupied By U.S. Forces   Another Island Also Taken Over By Americans, Adm. Nimitz Announces

French Troops Move Closer Swiss Border   Battered Remnants Of Ger. man 19th Army Virtually Trapped

Allies Approach German Border In South France   Battered Nazi 19th is Between Two U. S. Armies

Nazi Forces Are Trapped  In Pincers   French Mobile Units Push To Within 41? Miles OF Germany

Black-listed Naz To Speak Friday  Taught in Germany For Eleven Years

Court Agrees To Listen to Elector Suit   Oral Argument To Be Heard at Austin Wednesday Morning

French Bid For Full Voice Poses Problem At Quebec   Planes for Posi-War Germany Take Prece' dence at Conference of Allied Leaders

DeGaulle Demands Right fo Assis ‘In Controlling Post-War Germany

FRENCH DEMAND VOICE IN PLANS TO OCCUPY REICH   Roosevelt, Churchill Discuss Many Question:

FRENCH POSE PROBLEM FOR QUEBEC MEET   Want Full Voice In Problem of German Occupation

Ghost Fleet Still At Sea   Dutch Subs Operate Along Supply Lines

Sink 55,000 Tons (Maybe 25,000 More) In 20 Months.  Dutch Sub “Ghost Fleet” Blasts Jap Supply Line

jp Carrie Torpedoed Aritish §   1,900- Ton Craft My  Have Been Sunk ; Sei it On Cruiser; Du Chast Fleet’ Active

Ghost Subs Strike At Japanese Ships Off Indies  Gallant Remnants _ Of Dutch Fleet Continue Battle

Ghost Fleet Of Dutch Subs, Remnants Of Gallant Navy, Is In Action Again Today

Ghost Fleet of Dutch Submarines Is  Operating Against Japs Around Burma

Ghost Fleet Of Dutch Subs Pesters Japs   Remnants of Once Powerful Force Hacking Away At Supply Lines to Burma

Gallant Dutch Subs Are Active   SMALL NAVY HARASSES JAPS IN PACIFIC , AREA

Reds Recognize Badoglio Regime: To Trade Envoys   Diplomatic Acceptance Is First by Any Of United Nations

Russia, Italy To Exchange Ambassadors   First Diplomatic Recognition of Badoglio Regime

Russia, Italy To Exchange Ambassadors   Action Ta! en Without Consulting Other Allied Governments

New Italy Recognized By Soviets   Soviet Union And Badoglio To Exchange Ambassadors

RECOGNITION GIVEN BADOGLIO BY-STALIN   First Diplomatic Move Toward Italian Rezime By One Of United Nations

RUSSIA AND ITALY EXCHANGE ENVOYS ACTION SURPRISI   Moscow Birst ot United Na. tions to ‘Extend Diplomat je Recognition of Bado - glio Government,   LATTER'S CO-OPERATION WITH ALLIES PROMISED   Spokesman for Marshal Says Resumption of Relations ' Opens New Phase of ’ Italian Life.

List of Train Wreck Dead, Injured Given   FIREMAN AMONG THOSE KILLED IN STREAMLINER DERAILMENT IN ARIZONA

Transit Strikes In Other Cities  Montreal, Reading . Residents Also Walk

New Draft Policy Expands Essential List, Gives Locel Boards Dierrotian

FDR OPPOSES WAR POWERS   5-Star Service Heads Likely As Bill Moves On

VETO EXPECTED ON TAX FREEZE   Bill President Does Not Want Is Sent To White House

‘Nearly 2, 500 U.S. Warplanes Sear German Inner Fortress ‘Like An Enormous Blow Torch   Rail Yards And Air Fields Blasted In Great Air Sweeps From Two Sides

2,500 Planes Deal — Reich Two-Ply Blow   Striking From Britain and Jtaly, Yank Airmen Hit Large Array of Rail Yar ds, Airfields and War Plants.

Heavy Bombers Smash Germans  2,000 Planes Hit Rails and Airfields

Air Fleet Hits South Germany   2,000 U. S. Heavy Bombers Blast Rail Yards andAir Fields.

500 American Bombers Attack Nazi Airdromes   Raid North Italy And Balkan Areas

GERMANY HIT BY 2,900 PLANES IN DUAL ATTACK   Yanks Raid Schweinfurt, Munich; British Pound Nazi Capital

Planes Swarm Over Germany   Nearly 2,000 Heavy Bombers and Fighters In Assault Today

2,500 PLANES BLAST GERMANY IN 2-WAY RAID   Clear Weather Makes Way For Greatest Air Attacks Since D-Day

Nazi Railroad Yards Blasted      Heavy Aerial Assault Hits Munich Area, Southern Germany.

2500 U. S. HEAVIES ATTACK GERMANY   LASH AT RAIL YARDS, AIR FIELDS AND WAR PLANTS IN BIG RAID

GERMAN HARBORS, AIRDROMES BOMBED   American Airmen Strike in France Yugoslavia and-Italy—-R. A. F. Blasts Kiel,

RAF LASHES NAZI NAVAL BASE OF KIEL   U. §. Bombers Streak From Italian Bases To Blast Dromes And Harbors In France

Nearly 2,500 U.S. Planes Attack Railroad Yards and Airfields in South Germany

Nazi Air Arm Gets Hard Rap   Rail Yards and Airfields Were Under Raids

2,500 U.S. Planes Hit Southern Reick   Flying Bomb Plants Are Among Targets

Bombers From Italy-Britain Attack Muniel   Nearly 2.500 American Planes Bomb Aircraft Faetories. Fields.   HIT .CHEMICAL PLANT

2,000 Planes Hit Nazi Targets   Pound Rail Yards and Airfields in Southern Germany

Nearly 2,500 Heavy Bombers Attack Europe   Munich Sector Is Bombarded By Americans

Another Pounding For Nazi Targets   U, S. Force of 2,000 Bombers is Out Over Germany

HEAVIES ROCK MUNICH AREA   \imost 2,500 U. S. Bombers In Mighty Attack on Enemy's Plants

Americans Hit At Munich Area  Planes From Britain   Planes From Britain And Italy Take Part In Coordinated Blow

Reich Railroad Yards, Airfields Attacked By 2500, U. S. Heavies; Raids-Staged From Britain, Italy

Germans Trying To Stave Off All-Out Allied Pust   Enemy's Counter-Attacks Reveal Desperate Attempt To Gain Time And Keep Allies Off Balance

Maquis Frustrate Franco's Forces   Extend Control In Aran Valley Area

SPANISH MAQUIS EXTEND GRIP ON BORDER TOWNS Td ELEVEN VILLAGES   Franco’s Troops Fail In Counter-Aattacks

PRICE ADMITS PLEDGE BROKEN   Raps Publicity On Intercepted Letters To Nazi

Price Says Censor Pledge Violated   Director Seeks To Find Leak In Kellems Case

LOCAL PEOPLE 10 HEAR JAS, MELTON   He Will Be Assisted By Robert Hill, Pianist

Take Pont L’ Abbe  In New Advance   Mobile Patrols Stab at Approaches To Cherbourg; Mop Up Germans

* FEFORTS TO HOLD   Reinforcements Thrust Inte Battle to Save Cherbourg fram Canture.

A. P, CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF TREATMENT EMERGENCY HOSPITAL   ALL THROUGH DAY AND NIGHT LITTER BEARERS BRING IN WOUNDED

Blood Plasma Saving Scores Of Lives As Shock Cases Reach Army Hospital:

Blood Plasma Saves Lives in Shock _ Ward of Eighth Evacuation Hospital

Reporter Describes Shock Ward of U. S. Emergency Hosnital In Italv

Mother of Weimar Man Buried At Mentz On Monday   Sundreds Cheat Death With Blood Plasma In Italy

Blood Plasma Cheats Death   Saves Lives of Many Americans On Italian Front

Blood Plasma Cheats Death On Italy Fron   American Wounded Are Strengthened Fer Operations That Make Them Whole Again

a. Ge. CE . a. Gt ~All Day, All Night the Litter Bearers Come In

Plasma Saving Many Wounded   Humbling to View Doughboys Without Single Complaint

STATE POLIGY ON WAR NEWS   Military Security Stated to Be Only Reason for Censorship.   STATEMENT BY COOPER

BiG LOSS IN HARBOR FIRE   MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN. WAR SUPPLIES DESTROYED BY GASOLINE FIRE AT. _ HOBOKEN .

BLAZE SWEEPS HOBOKEN PIER   War Supplies Destroyed tn General Alarm Fire

RAINEY REPLIES T0 CHARGES AGAINST HIM LAST NIGHT  WAS IN WAY CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO HAD UNJU!

U.S. WAR BUDGET CUT FOUR BILLION   OFFICIALS, SLASH JANUARY ESTIMATE OF EXPENDI- —  TURES IN NEW YEAR, —_

President Announces $8,400, 000,00! Cut In War Budaet For Fiscal Year

War Budget Is Reduced   Estimates Far Below Figure Set In January

ARMY BUDGET IS $49 BILLION   President Aske for More Than $15 Billion in New Appropriations

Estimates for War. Spending Cut by $4,800,000,000, Says F. D. BR.

RENEW ROBOT BOMB ATTACK   Salvos are Increased b: Nazis; Horror Missiles  Cause Many Deaths

‘ CLAIMS DIVISION MAULED   German Radio Said 30th Had To Be Withdraw

BELIEVE NAZIS TRANSFER UNITS TO NEW FRONT   Allies Gain Against Heavier Resistance South of Rome

AMERICANS IN CASSINO; CUT APPIAN WAY   Germans Withdrawing in  Southern Italy But Are Putting Up Stronger Resistance Near Rome.

CONTROVERSY OVER  TEXAS A. AND ML  PRESIDENCY AIRED BOARD MAKES FULL  STATEMENT AND WALTO! EXPECTED TO TALK

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Renewed Robot Attack Kills Many   Barrage Lets Up When Clouds Lift

Dorothy Berrum Found Strangled   Chippewa Falls, Wis., Girl Of 14 Assaulted and Killed in Washington Park.

Warren fo Probe Boxinc   State Legion Chief Named Member of Athletic Commission

Meatless New Yeat Day Forecast For New York City  Greater Production ’ OF Livestock Seen as Sclution

Finn Firm On ~ -War Proposal   Finance Minister Says Country Will Immediately Accept Red Offer If Terms  Not Impossible.

Russia Opens New Offensive   Nazis Report Big Push Has Started In South Poland

Russian Army Tears German Lines Apart   Vital Rail Junction Of Hatvan Threatenec

Soviet Army Pushes Near To Miskole   Albanian Partisans Force Germans To Flee Tirana.

Reds Smash Gains Along  Eastern Wall   Guns, Planes Supporting Drive On BudapestMiskole Line

Red Tanks Rip Gaps in Nazi  Detense Lines   Threaten Breikthrouch.

ARMY COURSES ARE EXPANDED   Specialized Instruction For 17-Year-Old Group To Be Emphasized

~ Army To Announce Soon Plans for Pre-Induction  17-Year-Old Group

CLOTHES DRIVE IN. ‘COUNTY CONTINUES   Churches . Await Definite Word: on Shipping ; Plans  --

CLOTHES. DRIVE IN. COUNTY CONTINUES   Churches . Await Definite Word on Shipping Plane 

Mad Colonel At St. Malo Quits   Patriot Mobs In Chartres Go Wild As Citu Is Freed

Mad Colonel Surrenders      St. Malo Finally Falls After 11 Day: Of Suicide Defense 

5,400 Tons of Bombs Hit Nazi Centers   Great Armadas of Planes Keep Up Attack for 57th  Day

U.S. Bombers Blast Axis Targets Near Invasion Coast Hard   Ninth Air Force Attacks Budapest; Al lies Drop 4,500 Tons of Bombs on Continent Wednesday

London Feels Earth Shake From Engines   Budapest Is Night Target With Bombers Striking  ‘From Airdromes In Italy

Rail Centers Given Bitter Bomb Dose   3,400 Tons of Bombs Dumped on German Keys As Allied  Air Fury Mounts

Tremendous Yank Force Hits Europe During 27th Day   4,500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped By Allied Planes Numbering 3,000 In Yesterday’s Blows From Britain, Allied-Held Italy

THREE THOUSAND ALLIED PLANES DUMP 0,400 TONS OF BOMBS  EIGHT LARGE RAIL CENTERS SERVING WESTERN DEFENSE WALL HIT

German Radio Busy Telling Of Activities   English Channel Coast Is Shaken By Explosions In Calais Area

3,400 Tons Of Explosives On Nazi Airports      27th Day Of Great, Pre-Invasion Assault; 3,000 Planes On Raid.   [ON ALERT TONIGHT

German Radio  Busy Telling Of Activities      English Channel ‘Coas Shaken By Explosions In Calais Area © °

THREE THOUSAND PLANES USE TONS OF BOMBS DURING HEAVY RAID ON NAZT TARCETS

Formations Of Planes Hit Europe   Ground Shaking Roar of Planes Leaving Loudest London has Heard

Allied Air Attacks Near — Climax as Bombers Enter. ; 27th Day of Heavy Raids

PLANE FLIGHTS FAOW ENGLAND cuNKE PRIN   Railroads and Airdromes in _ Germany and France” Being Destroved..

Big Force of U.§. Bombers Blasts France   4,500 Tons ' Of Bombs Hit Europe Yesterday

Vibrations Of Yankee Attack Worst Of War   Americans Get In First Licks Of What Appears Day-Long Bombings  Enemy Territory   Night Blows Are Heaviest By RAF   Hungarian Capital Suffers Pounding By 3,000 Allied Planes and 4.500 Tens of Bombs

3,000 PLANES JOIN UNENDING AIR ASSAULT   Defense Wall and Rail Lines Pounded by. Allied Raiders,

Entire German Radio System Goes Off Ain   Silence Indicates Huge Air Offensive Is Continuing

Yank Fliers Attack French Airfields; Budapest Again Hit   Violent Blasts From Calais Area Rock Buildings In Folkestone; Great Aerial Drive In 27th Day

RAILROADS IN FRANCE HAMMERED   Heavy Bombers F ollow _ Attacks Of Mediums On Airfields

3000 Planes Used in Raids Against Hitler   Great Offensive By Air Pressed  B.. Adit At cue

South west Germany Believed Under Fire   Londoners Report Vibrations From Armada ‘Heaviest of War’

Budapest Hammered By Huge Allied Fleet In Night Attack   More Than 3,000 Planes, Based In England And Italy, Dump 4,500 Tons Of Bombs On Hitler's BFartrecc: Rail Yards Hit

Great Force OFfU:S. Planes Again Pounds Nazi Tarecets   Daylight Assault Opens After Night Attack By RAP On Budapest;  Attack On Mainland

No Surcease Given Hitler in Air War   Americans Launch Twenty-seventh Day in Great Force

ROUND-THE-CLOCK  BOMBING ROARS  INTO 27TH DAY NOISE OF PLANES  LEAVING BRITAIN INiNneeT weaen

Aerial Attacks Grow Severe   AMERICAN BOMBERS IN NEW SORTIES UPON EUROPE

Bombers Hit France in Day Assault   Preinvasion Attack Kept at High Tempo by Allies

3 ,000 Planes Unload 5,400 io of Bombs   Great Pre-Invasion Air Assault in 27th Day; Budapest Attacked Again

9,400 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON FOE TARGETS   Airports, Rails Scarred as Pre-Invasion Assaults Are Intensified

3,500 Warplanes Blast Nazi-Held Europe In Series Of Day-Night Raids

SCATTER 9,400 TONS OF FIRE ON REICH   Pre-Invasion Air Attacks Enter 27th Day   Hit By Bombers From Italy} Rail Centers Are Main Targets Of Yanks

3,000 Planes In Raid on Germans   Western Europe Is Blasted With 5,400 Tons of Ex plosives   HIT 8 RAIL CENTERS   Entire Nazi Radio Network Left the Air About 6:30 o Clock

5400 Tons of Bombs Hit Europe in 27th Day of ‘Mighty Pre-Invasion Attack

Great Fleets Roar Across Channel for 27th Day of Attack On Hitler's Europe

Airports, Rail Centers Feel Weight of 5,400 Tons of Bombs Following Heavy Biows Of Night; Budapest Hit by RAF From Italy

8,400 TONG OF BOMBS DUMPED   German Airports and Rail Centers in Western Eue rope Are Targets.   27TH DAY OF ASSAULT

Airports And Rail Centers Are Targets   Pre-Invasion Assault of Europe In Its 27th Day

Budapest Blasted by Bombers Based ix lialy, Planes Today Over Southwes? Germany

British-Based Heavy U.S. Bombers Back; Budapest, France and Germany Hit

AERIAL RAID IN 27TH DAY; BUDAPEST HIT   4,500 Tons Of Bombs Dumped On Targets

8 LARGE RAIL CENTERS GIVEN HEAVY BOMBING   3,000 Allied Planes Continue Intensified Pre-Invasion Air Drive

Sombers Based  In England, lialy, “Attack   Nazis Fear That Invasion Will Come  Monday As Raids Over Reich Continue   Bulletin

Aerial Assaults Made On Rail Yards And Enemy Positions In France And Belsium:

Fight Railway Yards, Several Air Bases Hit   Ceaseless Procession Of American Bombers Strikes; Explosions Shake British Towns

Methodical Destruction Rips Western Europe’s Rail Lines, Airports.

England Shaken by Blastings at France.—Bombers Strike at Reich From Both Directions.

Coal Mine Strike Elections Held  ln West Virginia  Eight More Pits in  es ae i on = =      Eight More Pits in Pennsylyania Taken Over by Government

Japs Fire Army And Navy Chiefs   Heavy Losses At” -Truke Annotinced

‘Losses Bring Shakeup of Jap Hich Command   Premier Tojo Assumes Chief of Army Staff Post; Losses at Truk Admitted

Jap Army And Navy Leaders Dismissed In Great Shake-Up   Drastic Action-Taken as s Stinging American Pacific  Attacks Sweep, on—Official ial Admissions Made of Losses at Truk ;

Japs Fire Army And Navy Chiefs   Heavy Losses At  Truk Announced By GLENN BABB

Tokyo Admits Big Truk Sethack: Tojo Gains Additional Power As Army, Navy Chiefs Lost Places   By Glenn Babb  aunt Ponce Baraion News Kaitor

High Japanese Officers Ousted For Truk Defeat   Chiefs of Army And Navy Fired

Jap Army And Navy Leaders Dismissed In Great Shake- Up             : 5 Sting American Pai , Attacks. Sweep, on—-Official ciol Admissions ee ‘Made ‘of Losses ot Truk ”

JAP. MILITARY HEADS OUSTED   Chiefs of Staff of Army, Navy Replaced:as Result of Defeats

Shelve Japanese High Command In Both Army And Navy After Defeats

Ramspeck Heads House Committee For Investigation  Author of Resolution for Inquiry Made Member of Group

COMMITTEE 10 PROBE SEIZURE   Seven-man House Group,  Headed by Rep. Ramspeck, Chosen to Investigate U. ~ §, Seizure of Ward Plant  1

COMMITTEE NAMED TO PROBE SEIZURE      Seven Men ‘Chosen for Montgomery Ward : * Case Inquiry

Lightning Blow of “Blood and Guts” Appears. to Have “Broken Back” of. Enemy Offensive.  “      RESCUES BESIEGED: BASTOGNE GARRISO      Two Nazi. Armies Pulk ing Armor From. Salle ents Menacing Met as Threat Grows. “**

Nazis Reported Withdrawing from Deepest Penetration of Belgium; Yanks Advance Steadily Against Foe’s South Flank. May be Decisive Battle of War. ©

Tide of Battle Definitely’ Turned, . _ Yanks Cut-Off Foe’s Fuel ‘Scpply Patton Drives 16 Miles Across: German Bulge,  Mavec ta 90 Milec af Ininine let Army

3rd Pounds Enemy Flank Along Front Of 35 Miles   Smashes Germans Back 16 Miles in Six Days And Relieves Threat To Luxembourg City  OFFENSIVE STALLED

Germans Forced Back 16 Miles By Mobile Army   Americans Advance On 35-Mile Front

Berlin Tells Of Germans Withdrawing   First Army Strikes Back at Enemy Attackers in North

Man Who Shot At  Camacho Is Dead   Lt. Rojas Dies Today In Hospital

American Bomber: Make First Big Attack Near Truk  Jap’s Ponape Base Is Target for Daring Yank Raid

JAPAN’S GIBRALTAR BOMBED BY LAND BASED YANK PLANES   ‘Ponape, Largest Of Caroline Islands And 410 Miles From Powerful Naval Base Of Truk, Raided In   “Considerable Force;”’ Cargo Vessel Sunk

CARGO VESSEL SENT DOWN IN ENEMY HARBOR   U.S. Bombers Make Deepest Thrust Into Jap Territory

Nimitz Reports Deepest Thrust Against Enemy   Other Nip Bases Reported Raided

Ponape Raided in Deep Thrust Into Enemy - Territory   INO OPPOSITION IN”  RAID ENCOUNTERED   Fifty-five Tons of Bombs _Are Dropped on Installations

The Gallup Poll— — \Dewey Leads Roosevelt In lowa, Minnesota  'And Wisconsin Poll

Reds Encircle Vitebsk, Break  Nazi Defense   Russians Fighting Trapped Garrison of City in Streets

Vitebsk Encireled  By Russian Forces   Soviets Fighting in Streets With Trapped Garrison of Around 45,000 Men—Battle Flames on 325-Mile Front

45.000 Germans Surrounded by Reds in Vitebsk   Vaunted Fatherland Line Fails To Hold

Vitebsk Encircled.  By Russian Forces   Soviets Fighting in Streets With Trapped Garrison of Around 45,000 Men—Battle Flames on “-. 30 hatin Crank’

Soviet Army Has Shredded Vaunted “Fatherland. Line”, Guarding Berlin   ‘SWEEPING DRIVES ON  MOGILEV, BOBRUISK

Reds Encircle Vitebsk, Trap 45,000 Nazis   Enemy Retreating in Panic, 16.000 Germans Slain

Reds Cirele Stronghold Of Vitebsk   Fighting Rages Along 325-Mile Front; Nazis Report Another Soviet Push in Ostrov Area

BRITAIN JOINS IN PARADE AGAINST BOLIVIAN REGIME   U.S. Refusal to Recognize New Administration Leads Way for Action by Others

WILL DESTROY PRO-AXIS MOVE   U, S. and Seven Other Na. tions Refuse to Recognize Rulers of Bolivia.

Argentina Expected to Break Relations  With Berlin Soon   British Joins U. S. and Seven Others Against Bolivia

ALLIES HURL BARRAGE INTO NAZI DEFENSE   Germans In Hotels At Cassino Take. Battering

U. S. and French Forces Seize Key Outposts of Gothic Line Across Italy

ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE THREE ITALIAN TOWNS   Drive Closer To Florence As Key Outposts Are Taken

5TH CAPTURES KEY OUTPOSTS OF GOTHIC LINE   Three Towns Taken After Street Battles; Losses High

Allies Hammer at Gothic Line Door   Capture Three Italian Towns in Violent 24-Hour Street Fight

ALLIES TAKE OUTPOSTS OF GOTHIC LINE   5th Army Captures 3 Key Towns Near Livorno, Florence

ALLIES TAKE ROSIGNANO IN STIFF HGHT SMASHING NAZI GOTHIC LINE   ADVANCING ARMIES IN 11 MILES OF LIVORNO, 23 OF FLORENCE; GERMAN DEFENSE INCREASES

Three Outposts In Italy Taken   Drive Moves Within 11 Miles of Livorno

Three Key Outposts Of Nazi Gothic Defense Line Across Italy Captured By Allies

CAPTURE THREE KEY OUTPOSTS   Sets Allies Up For Capture of Livorno.

U.S., French Take3 Key — Outposts Of Italy Line  After Stiff Resistance

Albert Cole Wins  In Congress Race   Representative Lambertson  Concedes He Is Beaten Tn First   REED AND WINTER WIN   McGill and Reed Will Meet In November General Election

Albert Cole Wins In Congress Race   Representative Lambertsoni oncedes He Is Beaten In First   McGill and Reed Will Meet In November General Election

ALLIED EUROPEAN COMMAND PERFECTING INVASION PLAN   HIGH OFFICERS WORKING  QUIETLY ON DETAILS OF   LANDING ON THE  CONTINENT

Davis Warns Labor About Peril Aliead   Says U.S. Operation af ' Plants Would Cause Loss of Right   To Strike

Biddle Call Ward’s War Industry   Federal Judge Hears Arguments On Petition to Quash Injunction

Wards Fight Injunctior   U. S. Files Papers as Judge Resumes Hearing on Petition

Says That Ward Is War Industry   Kiddle Presents Affidavits from War Agencies in Federal Court at Chicago Today

Try To Justify — Seizure of Wards   Biddle Presents Court Affidavit From Jones

AFFIDAVITS ARE FILED IN WARD CASE   Biddle Contends Firm Is Essential To War Effort

Soviets Capture Port of Petsamo  Major Tank Battle Races in Bunanary

[Russians Fight Within 150 Mile: Of Austria   Gain on Central Front And Capture Petsamo Qn Far Northern Front

ALONG 2,000 MILE FRONT   From Arctic Almost to Mediterranean; Expect Momentous Victories; Tank Battles on Plains.   Take Petsamo

ARCTIC PORT OF PETSAMO FALLS TO RED TROOPS   Hungary Asks Allies For Armistice; Tank Battle Is Raging   RUSSIANS ADVANCE CLOSER TO BELGRADE

ASKS ALL U.S, ~ WAR ON JAPAN   Bricker Hits Suggestions East Can Relax After Nazis Defeated

Capture Coriano In Italian Push   Allies Within Mile of Rimini Airfield

FRESH ARMOR THROWN INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Russians Meeting More Resistance From Germans

Panzer Units Slacken Reds   Fighting in Prussia Reaches White Heat

Soviets. Germans Battle bitterly   Both Sides Throw Fresh Army, Infantry Into East Prussia

MORE TROOPS JOIN FIGHT IN EAST PRUSSIA   Fresh Units ‘Brought Up By Soviets '. ‘and Germans

REDS LAUNCH PUSH ALONG NAREW RIVER   Berlin Reports Russian Divi _ sions Have Struck Behind   Artillery Barrage and Air Attacks   BITTER FIGHT RAGING

East Prussia Fight Furious  Reinforcements Are Thrown Into Battle

Nazis, Reds Both Rush In Fresh Armor      Fighting Blazes At White Heat On 150-Mile Front

Russians Launch New Offensive, Berlin Reports   Strike In Poland; Fighting Blazes In Battle For East Prussia.

Pilfering of Army Supplies May Be Investigated  Military Operations Once Threatened By European Looting

MAY INVESTIGATE SUPPLY PILFERING   Thefts of Army Goods in Europe Once Threatened Operations.

Pilfering of Army Supplies.in Europe Will Be Investigated, Says Lawmaker

WILLKIE LETTER 10 MADE PUBLIC TODA)   indicates He Was Dedicat ed to Removal of Adminictration.

Letter Shows Willkie Dedicated to Removal of Present Administratior

Highway Patrot At Standstill In Ozark Mystery  Officers Strengthen Identity of Bodies,

2 MEN IDENTIFY HEADLESS BODIES   EX-CONVICT HUSBAND OF ONE OF MISSING WOMEN QUIZZED BY POLICE,

Salvador Ruler Resigns Post   President Martinez Quits Because of Strike Situation

Martinez Resigns After Big Strike  President Of Salvador Plans To Ouit

Oregon Holds Its. Strategic ‘Primary   ‘Republicans Will . Pledge 14 Convention Votes; + Senators Involved -

G.0.P.Looks To Oregon Power Test   Nominee Expected To Get Support From Northwest

Oregon Primary Tests Strength Of Republicans   Write-in Ballot Provided for Party Candidates

Roundup Of Today’s Political News... . . Victory In The Oregon Primary Would Be Big - Boost To Dewey’s Lead

Oregon To Name  GOP Nominee   Rank and File Will Designate Choice in Writing-In Balloting

Slashing Aerial Blows Confinue   RAF Follows Up U.S. Day Pounding  By AUSTIN BEALMEAR

Slashing Aerial Blows Continue   RAF Follows Up -” U.S. Day Pounding

RAF planes’ follow huge day assault  American losses set at eicht craft

NAZI TARGETS HIT IN BOMBER RAIDS   Day and Night Assaults Continue to Punish Germans

BATTLE CHANGES DRIVE HOME FACT OF LONGER WAR   Over-Optimistic Americans Change Attitude After German Successes

GREAT DEMAND FOR ORDNANCE   American Workers Have Tremendous Job Of Replacement And Addition.

GRIM PROSPECT OF LONG WAR T0 BE FELT IN U.S,   American Workers Called or To Produce More While Civilians to Sacrifice

Nazi Successes Drive Home To Workers Prospects Of Long War   Whale Of A Job Of Replacements And Addition Face Those At Home Who Are Helping Manufacture Implements Of War.

Americans Face Prospect of Long Wa With Scarcities, Larger Draft Calls

German Push -Resounds On  ‘Home Front   American War Worker: Face Whale of a Job Of Replacement and Addition

HOMEFRONT TO HAVE BIG {0B   War Workers and Civilians Must Replace Materials Lost In Battle

German Thrust Brings Need of More Production   Nation Receives Grim Reminder War To Be Lenathened

Grinding Fury Of Nazi Drive May Bring Home To Atmerica Grim Prospects Of Lone War

Civilian Goods Shoved Backwarc  German Offensive Brings New Problem

Two Men Killed In Blimp Crash    Eight Rescued Off Coast of Cape Cod

MEATS CONTINUE: FREE OF RATIONS   OPA Assures No Changes on Point-Free Meats and Foods

Railroads Given Back to Owners; Dispute Settled   Agreement Provides Increases From 9 To 11 Cents For Non-Operating Workers; Order Effective Last Night   Overtime Provision

Wage Dispute s Settled; Raises Are Granted fo All Employes   Non-operating Union Members Given Nine to Eleven Cents an Hour Increases

Return Systems To Owners; Hike In Pay Grantec   Government-Seized Line: Are Restored To The Companies

U.S. Railroad: Are Returned To Private Manascement   With Raises All Around And Assurances Work \wil Not Be Halted  NON. OPERATORS GET  QO TON11 CENT DIV Ee   Wage Dispute Settled

Army Returns Raidroads To Their Owners   All: Workers Receive . Adjustmenis In Pay

Rail Pay Issue Settled; Lines Are Returned   Stimson Turns Back Systems to Private Management After Letter From White House—Increases Granted Operating and Non-Operating Unions

Vinson Approves 9.11 Cent Boost  Stimson’s Release Order  oe Te ee ae Core

Raises Put End To Wace Battle   Non-Operators To Get 9-1] Cent Hike

Railroad Lines Back to Owners Wace Dispute   Wace Dispute Is Settled

RAILROADS ARE TURNED BACK TO PRIVATE OWNERS   Wage Dispute Has Bee: Settled With Wage Increases All Around   LINES WERE TAKEN BY ARMY ON DECEMBER 27

Settle labor dispute with wage raises   All agreements are approved

WORKERS GET PAY RAISE OF 97011 CENTS   FEDERALLY - SEIZED LINES GO BACK TO OWNERS

Railroaders Get Raises; Roads Back   WAGE DISPUTE SETTLED WITH RETURN OF ROADS TO OWNERS AT MIDNIGHT BY ORDER OF SECRETARY STIMSON.   Vinson Approves

Rail Pay Dispute Settled: Lines Back fo Owners   ~ Raises All-Around ‘*-for Employees of Major Railroads

Orders Railways Returned as Pay Dispute Settled   All Factions Raised; Property Restoral Is Effective Today

CIVILIAN RADIOS LATER   None Will Be Produced Until After Germany is Whipped —

President Will Be 62 On Sunday   President's Personal Phy. sician Savs Chief Executive Now In Fine Health   HAS RECOVERED FROM FILI ATTACK   Bv ROBERT G. NIXON

Reds Surge Ahead On Three Fronts   Soviet Army Kills or Captures 1,750 Finns

Hitler Line Giving Away Under Stress   More and More Nazi Prisoners Are Being Sent From Front

Huge Quantities of Equipment Being Captured   American Tanks and French Infantry Break Into Hiller Line at Sant’ Oliva, Southwest of Cassino

ALLIES PRESS ON; « NAZI PRISONERS STREAM TQ REAR   Americans Join French Attacking at Center and Are Moving Forward On 16-Mile Front,   HUGE QUANTITIES OF EQUIPMENT TAKEN   Eighth Army Sweeps Up Liri Valley Toward Bastion of Aquino—Planes Pound Enemy.

Allies Capture Big Quantities Of Equipment   Yank Troops Poised Before Itri, North Of Formia; Prisoner  Lines Become Longer

ALLIES PRESS ADVANCE INTO "HITLER LINE’   GERMAN PRISONERS STREAMING BACK TOWARD REAR

DRIVE ENEMY BACK IN ITALY   American Tanks Join In Assault Along Center of Front

Gustav Line Torn Away, More than 100 Towns and Villages in Central Italy Captured.

American and French Troops Slash Into Nazi Defense Tearing It Apart Taking Many Prisoners

Nazis Leave Great Amount ‘Ot Equipment   Tanks and Infantry Drive into Hitler Line Southwest of Cassino  ITRI IS AENACED

UGE QUANTITIES OF BOOTY TAKEN   Allies Capture 100 Towns, Villages in Central Italy   YANKS JOIN FRENCH   Fifth and Eighth Armies Fight Together as Single Unit Under Alexander

Nazi Troops fall Back In Disorderly Retreat’   American: French Infantry Rip at Hitler Line Defenses

Tanks, Infantry Attack Hitler Line   American Breakthrough At Itri Is Expected To Compel Germans to Retreat To Mountains

‘German Forces Reported Reeling Under Heavy Allied Blows in Italy

German Troops In Italy Fall Back in Panic   Infantry Smashes Into Hitler Line   Many Germans Captured

Day Refells Trial Story   Says Mrs. Eisiminger Expected Pardon, Not Parole

German Report ‘Says Svinhufvud - Dies In Finland   Ex-President And National Hero Once Led Passive Resistance Movement

HENDERSON NAMED TO APPEALS COURT   Baltimore Jurist Elevated by Goyernor  . O'Conor

HENDERSON NAMED TO APPEALS COURT   Baltimore. Jurist. Elevated ‘by: Governor.‘ ' O’Conor

Navy Discloses Majuro Atoll In  U. S. Possession   No Opposition From Japanese

MRS, AL SMITH DIES SUDDENLY   Virus Pneumonia Fatal To Wife Of New York Political Genius

MRS. AL. SMITH EXPIRES IN EAST   Deeoly Religious Americar .- Dies Unexpectedly of ’ Droumoania

PLAN TO BAL TO BALK. ~ NAZI LEADERS   HONETARY. CONFERENCE IS TAKING STEPS TO PREVENT USE OF STOLEN ~ ' WEALTH

LUNESS CLAIMS ANNA D. SMITH   Funeral Services for Shor,sville Resident Ate P_anned Wednesday

ClO ACCUSED OF LAW VIOLATION   Leaders Silent On Justice Department Inquiry

U.S. CASUALTIES FORWEEK 11,19   Sec. of War Stimson An. nounces Figure—Reflects Bitter Invasion Battles.

Army Losses Jump Sharply   ‘igures Believed To Reflect Bitter Fighting In France, Italy

JOHANNA SHEEHAN FUNERAL FRIDAY           Pioneer Settler Came to ‘Plymouth County, 61. “Years Ago

JOHANNA SHEEHAN ~ FUNERAL FRIDAY   Pioneer Settler Came to Plymouth County. 61 Years Ago

END CAMPAIGN IN SOLOMONS   Green Islands Captured  Fate of 22,000 Japs Sealed

FAMOUS MILFTARY LEADER DE. CLARES AIR AND. SEAFOWER. “. NOT-ENOUGH TO WIN - VICTORY

New Drive Aimed at City of Bonn   Nazis Throw New Panzer Army Inte . Battle Near Cologne

Other American Forces Drawn Up Along Flooded Roer On Both Sides Of Duren; Nazis Turn Loose Strange New Aerial Device

Gains Made In Drive On Rhine City of Bonn   Fifth Panzer Unit Of Germans Fights To Hold Ground

HODGES’ SOUTH WING BREAKS INTO ACTION   Gain Mile In Three Hours, Enter Rollesbroich   CITY OF BONN   Goal Of Eastward Drive; Patch’s Men Pound At Bavarian Palatinate

Gain More Than A M In First Three Hours      7th Drives Toward Palatinate; ~. 3rd Fights Deener ints Saarland

first Army Heads Toward Bonn; Clashes With Nazi Armor On Cologne Plain

Hodges Men Advance More Than A Mile   Draw Up To Roer River On Both Sides Of Duren

American Troops Smash Eastward In Drive On Bonn   Southern Wing Springs Into Action Beyond Hurtgen Forest Area; One-Mile Advance Scored; Bavarian Palatinate Shelled

Attack Beyond Hurtgen Forest South Of Duren   Hodges Troops Springs Into Action Before Dawn

Spring Attack Southwest Of City Of Duren   Li. Gen. Hodges’ Riflemen Advance More Than a Mile In Less Than Three Hours   Nazis’ 5th Panzer  Troops In F ight   First Army Troops Draw Up to Roer River On Both Sides of Besieged Duren

Drives More Than Mile 4{n 3 Hours   Pointed Toward Bonn on Rhine— Wheeling Move In the South

Hodges’ First Advances on City of Bonn   Hurtgen Forest Left Behind in Drive on Beseiaed Duren

Southern Flank Of Gen. Hodges’ Forces Enters Rollesbroich   Yanks Reach Roer River on Both Sides of Duren; Take 1,521 Nazis Tuesday

HODGES MEN ON ROER IN AREAS AROUND DUREN   Nazis Throw In New Panzer Army To Hold Attack   Nazis Using Odd  New Air Device

Drives Eastward Toward Bonn; New Nazi Panzer Army Thrown Into Buttle   Swift Advances By Seventh tn Karlsruhe Sector; New Entry Inte Germany Made By Third Army: Patch Has Nazis Worried

Bonn Goal of First Army in Swilt Attack   Riflemen Advance One Mile in Less Than 3 Hours To Take Rollesbroich Near Hurtgen

U. S. First Hops Off For Bonn   Germans Throw In New Panzer Army Against First.

SOUTHERN WING OF ARMY GETS INTO ROLESBROICH; IS FACING NEW NAZI FIFTH PANZER ARMY

Muddy Riflemen In Gain Of Over Mile   First, Third Armies Swell Prisoner Bag; First Army Drawn Up at Roer River on Both Sides of Duren Now

Hodges’ Riflemen ~ Advance Over Mile In Pre-Dawn Push   New German Panzer Fifth Army Faces Yanks On Cologne Plain; Nazis Use Strange Aerial Device

SOUTHERN WING OF FIRST ARMY IN NEW ACTION   Moving Eastward Toward Rhine City of Bonn

SOUTH WING OF U. S, FIRST ARMY SPRINGS ATTACK   GAIN MORE THAN A MILE IN 3 HOURS; DUREN BELEAGUERED

Yanks Batter Out Gains On Road to Bonn   Big City on Rhine ts the First Objective of New American Push

Menace Reich Around North Flank of Nazi Line in Holland   Eindhoven and Geldrop Captured by British — Second Army

Churchill Put On Defensive   Prime Minister Grilled On Foreign Policy   LONDON, Dec, 8-(AP}-The House of Commons gave the Churchill government a vote of confidence today, ,  The voin was 279 tn 2n.

‘FOREIGN POLICY DEFENSE MADE BY CHURCHILL   ‘Gangsters’ Are Blamed for Trouble in Greece While Fighting Continues   De Gaulle Different

Churchill Clears British Position In Greece, Italy   London —(AP)— The house of commons gave the Churchill government a vote of confidence today.  The vote was 279 to 30.

Churchill Denies Agreement With America Broken  Prime Minister Says Keep Gengsters Out

Churchill Says British Intervened To Put Greek Gangsters Out of Power

Prime Minister Churchill Defends British Actions In ‘Greece, Italy Before Commons   British Acted To Keep Power In Greece From Gangsters’ Hands

CHURCHILL I$ SURE ENGLAND ACTED SAFELY   Explains Action In Greece Today To Commons

Britain Defends Intervention in Greek Affairs  Churchill Declares Nation Threatened S., Bamoaethoas Buawele

Charchill Defies Foes; Confidence  Vote Asked   Britain Acted In Greece To Halt Gangsters And Does Not Trust Sforza

Seven-Ship Convoy Sunk as Nazis Try To Escape From Allied Brittany Trap

AIRFIELDS. BOMBED ~ BY-ALLIED AIRMEN   Fliers Attack Japanese Positions on Min danao.

SCHOOL AID ROW BREWING   New Tax Fight Stirred By State Equalization Hearing

Jackson To Fill Van Nuys’ Term   Indiana Attorney Will ‘Serve People Best”

TRUK BLASTED BY LIBERATORS IN NEW RAIRS   Attacks described officially “Softening Up" Against Japanese

TRUK BASE BEING SOFTENED-UP FOR ALLIED LANDING   fimitz Communique /idicates Big American Flet Advance Impends.

Gen. MacArthur Is Moving Fas   New Guinea Likened To Geographical Turkey

Allies Force Japanese Back   General MacArthur Gains 1000 Miles In New Guinea

County Republicans Hear Gov. Merriam ‘At Convention   Tells Delegates Party Must Work For World Peace.

County Republicans Hear Gov. Merriam   Tells‘ Delegates. Party Must Work

DILLMAN HEAD OF COMMITTEL   State Planning Group to Recommend U. P. Industrial Develonment.

Japs Menacing Key Rail Line   Enemy Plunging On Waeactward In India

aps Advancing gainst Allies 1 India Jungle   Attempt To Cut American Lines

JAPS MENACE BURMA FRONT SUPPLY LINES   [MPHAL ISOLATED; FIGHTING RAGES IN JUNGLES

JAPANESE DRIVE ACROSS KEY ROAD IN INDIA BATTLE   Enemy Onty 35 Miles From Supply Lifeline for Gen. Stilwell’s Forces in Northern Burma.    ALLIES CONTESTING _ ADVANCE IN JUNGLES   British and Indians Defend ing Base of Imphal Hurl Back Several Small. Nipponese Attacks.

IMPHAL BASE MENACED BY JAP. TROOPS   Drive Westward Across Highway In Heart Of Allied Defense Zone; Hot Engagement In Jungle.   Second Unit

Push Across Imphal-Ko. hima Highway, Peril Life Line to Stilwell Forces

Enemy India troops cross vital highway  Imphal-Kohima  line is severed

Enemy Is Hotly Engaged In Jungle East of Road, Primary Goal of Invasion

Jap Troops Driving West Into India   Enemy Being Hotly Engaged by Allies in Jungle Defense Area

JAPS MOVE T0 THE HEART OF ALLIED ZONE      Invasion Forces Are Being Hotly Engaged in Junales   BASE OF ALLIES AT IMPHAL ISOLATED   Campaign Is Aimed at. Vital Burma Rail. wey Line

Japs Threaten YankeeSupply  Rails in Burm   Defenders of Imphal Bas Repel Attacks by Foes,  fat Raiwfsvndrspate

Japs Cross Key Allied India Road   Yanks Battle For Supply Lifeline To Burma Troops

Keep Eye > On Turkey   Concrete Aid to Allies Believe Likely As ReSult of Conferences

Kye on Turkey On War Stand   Doubtful That Country Join Allies At This Stage

Ankara Talk: Watched by Officials   Efforts Being Made to Bring Turks Closer To Allies

TURKS TO AID ALLIED CAUSE   Open Break With Nazis  Seen As Parleys  Contmue

Turks May Drop Neutrality  Swing To. Allies Seen —As-Talks Continue _

Turkey Thought About Prepared To Aid Allies  May Sever aricete Relatio

Now It's Gi  Undies For Marines   Coffee Too Scarce For Dyeing Use in Camouflaging Underwear

AUSGIES PUSH TOWARD SAIDOE   Use Mortars, Artillery and Tanks Against Strong Japanese Rearguard; Marines Beat Off Counter-blows

Aussies Gain In Drive To Reach Saidor   Squeeze On Japs Between Two Forces Increases

ADVANCE IS MADE BY AUSTRALIANS   Determined Resi: Resistance Re. ported by Japanese Forces _

Heavy Blows Fail To Halt Aussie Drive   Marines Advance “In Cane Attacks

AUSSIES CROSS BURI RIVER IN ‘JUNGLE ADVANCE   ‘Bitter Struggle Is Taking Place For Possession   Of Hill 660   NAVAL FLYING BOAT ATTACKS JAP CONVOY

ADVANCE IS MADE BY AUSTRALIANS   Determined Resistance Reported by Japanese Forces

Capital Shares Churchill Belief   Admit Nazis Far Fron Licked; Germans Stil Producing Great Quanti. ties of Munitions.

Experts Warn Nazis May Last Into °45   U. 3. Leaders Share Churchill Belief In Prolonged Fight

PRIME MINISTER STRESSES UNITY OF “BIG THREE’   Tremendous New Blows From Air Promised For Germany   Capital Believes European War May Last Until 1945

Two Piers And Atlantic City Boardwalk Damaged; Wind Hits 95-Mile-Hour Gale   NEW ENGLAND STATES PREPARE FOR STORM

HEAVY LOSSES ARE CAUSED BY FIERCE WINDS   Atlantic City is Hard Hit; Storm Heads Into New England

STORM MOVES UP COAST 10 NEW ENGLAND   Long Island, Atlantic City and Other Resorts Hit —Hundreds of Families Homeless.   VESSELS SUNK, HOMES UNROOFED   Wind Velocity in New York to New High— Train Service From Metropolis Disrupted.

Hurricane is roaring into New England  10 die; property loss widespread

Eastern Coast Areas Damaged By Hurricane   Atlantic City Hard Hit; Storm Sweeps Toward New England

Residents of Seaside Points Are Evacuatec From North Carolin: Northwards; 66 Mil Wind.

HURRICANE HITS ATLANTIC COAST   New England Seaside Dwellers Flee From Homes

Storm Hits New England After Lashing  Lower Coast.   At Least Ten Killed, Devastation Heavy Along Long Island,  ‘New JTerecay Shores   TREMENDOUS WAVES INCREASE DAMAGE   BLURB RAE APRA RS Shipping, Buildings, _ Piers, Highwa ays, Railenade. Suffer -

COST OF LIVING AND POLITICS SHARE INTEREST   Foreign Relief and Voting By Servicemen Caught in Congress Snarls

VIBRATION [6 CAUSE OF SEAL BREAKING   Broken Seal on Box Car of Aerial Bombs Not Work OF Sahboteurs.

One Vote Cast For MacArthur   Wisconsin Delegate  ~ Refused To Be Swayed

Germans Continue  To Shell Florence   Patriots Reported in Action Against Nazis

ARERICANS TAKE MOUNT GRANDE   Crack German Resistance South of Bologna After Fight

Bloody F ight Wins Key to Po. Valley —   Americans Capture Vital Hill... In Hard Battle ..’

Mount Grande Taken By Allies   Allies Approaching City of Bologna

NKS TAKE MI. GRADE IN ITALY   Eight Miles South of Bologna, Key To Italy’s Po VaHey

Americans Crack German Po Valley Defense Lines   Fifth Army Capture Mount Grande, Eight Mile From Bologna. After Days Of Bitter Fighting: British Eighth Army Advances

AMERICANS 8 MILES FROM BOLOGNA   Allied Forces Gain In Drive Toward Po Vailey

SOO.  E_-—t—t—=ti=é  Yanks Take Italian City   Strong Resistance Is Overcome.

CANNED GOODS POINT CHANGES   POINT VALUES ON ALL MAJOR CANNED VEGETABLES REDUCED FOR MONTH OF ‘FEBRUARY

CANNED GOODS POINTS ARE CUT   Greatest Reductions Are Made On Main Vegetables

Fewer Points On Vegetables   Supply Still Inadequate to Meet Demand

REDUCE POINTS ON VEGETABLES   Bowles Announces February Cut, Denies Request for Holiday

Chaplin Faces Arraignment Soon   Vatacnnw CC AmnAIANR   Veteran Comedian Is Fingerprinted For Mann Act Case

Polish Forces Occupy Large Warsaw Sector   Claim Underground Holds 40 Per Cent; Make Appeal for Aid

{(2-Year-Old Polish Boys Fight Nazis   Use Gasoline Bombs Aaainst Enemy Tanks

Two American-Born Japanese Indicted For Aiding Escape Of Nazi Prisoners

Three To Face Treason Charge   Sisters Indicted In Nazis’ Escane

CHARGE 3 WOMEN WITH TREASON   JURY INDICTS JAP-AMERICAN SISTERS FOR HELPING 2 GERMANS ESCAPE.

Japanese Women Indicted for  Aiding Germans  Three Face Charges Of Treason for Helping Men Escape

Indict Jap Women For Prisoner Aid   THREE SISTERS NAMED AS ACCOMPLICES IN ESCAPE OF GERMAN PRISONERS FROM TRINIDAD, COLO.   Return To Center

3 Jap Women Charged With Aiding Nazis   Federal Grand Jury at Denver Return Treason Indictments

Pincers Developed On Rovno Junction   Fall Of Rail Center Would Mean Germans Would Have To Re-Route Supplies For Army

Issues Peril Harmony Of Congress   Security Tax, River Bill Threaten To Disrupt Peace

PES STEERS SRS Oe  ‘SEORETARY HULL IN DENIAL OF STATEMENT ATTRIBUTED DEWEY

Dewey Statement  False, Says Hull  Suppression Of New: Denied By Secretary

CORDELL HULL SCORES DEWEY   Secretary Asserts N. Y. Governor ‘100 Percent Wrong’ In Recent Claim

eee  HULL DECLARES DEWEY IS WRONG   Denies Censorship of Political News. ‘

ALLIES BLAST WAY THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE   Cherbourg Now Certain To  Be Taken

Artillery and Planes: Aid Troops   Bradley Palls His Men Back During: Night- Tong Bom- F bardment :   ALTERNATE: BLOWS «.-: BY :GUNS AND: MEN   Germans,.-With Officers’ Gung: at. .. Their ~ Heads, Make Fanatical Resistance

Block-Buster Raids Smash Jittery Europe From Berlin To Calais Coas   Small Nazi Air Force Strikes At London, British Anti-Aircraft Guns Down 8 Pleanes

HUGE BOMBER FLEETS BLAST GERMAN AREA   Drop Block Busters in Night Assault

Yank Heavy Bombers Blast  Munich Area   Strike. In Force At Southern. Germany, And Strike Heavily in Support of French Invasinn Frant:

PLEASE INFORM THE PIONEER   When Relatives in Armed Services Send Change of Address

PLEASE INFORM THE PIONEER   St tee F FEY oe oe FS  When Relatives in Armed Services Send Chanae of Addres<

BLASTING OF JAP HOME ISLAND OF KYUSHU TOLD BY WAR DEPARTMENT   RAID TOOK PLACE AT 10 A. M. TODAY, JAPAN TIME; CITIES OF OMURA AND NAGASAKI IDENTIFIED AS TARGETS; NIP FIGHTERS FOUGHT INVADERS FOR OVER AN HOUR.

Republicans Fire Salvo at FDR sa scree Raila icc ipa  President Using Title To ' Keep Office, It Is Chargec

Republicans Fire First Campaign Salvo at F. D. R., in Advance of His Expected Nomination Next Week

Republicans Fire Salvo at FDR _ President Using Title To  _. Keep Office, It. Is Charged

Roosevelt Seeking Self Perpetuation   NATIONAL GOP CHAIRMAN QUOTES ROOSEVELT AS PREDICTING NOV. 4, '40, NEW PRESIDENT IN 1944,   Pryor Sees Dewey

ROOSEVELT CLAIM TD BE SOLDIER BLASTE!   GOP Chairman Says He’s First President to Claim It   TO PERPETUATE HIMSELF

POLES CAPTURE ~TTALIAN MOUNT   Fierce Fighting Raging On Eighth Army’s Front

ALLIES CAN-SEE 1 HILLS WITH BINOCULARS _   Vital Communication Routes 16-18 Miles From City Severed

ARTILLERY DUEL MARKS ACTION IN NORTH AREA   Reds Tightening Vise on Budapest as British Slug On in Italy

Yankees Battle Across Saar In Saareguemines   Big Guns Hammer Away At Industrial Center

Nazi Alsatian Front Yielding Before Yanks   House-to-House Fighting Rages In Saarguemines; Patton Throws Dozen Divisions into Fierce Border Battle —

START USE OF AIR FIELD ON WAKDE ISLAND      Admiral Nimitz Silent Regarding Report On Marcus Island Raids

German Baltic Forces Herded Into Russ Trap   Soviet Columns Drive Into East Prussia With Fresh Fury

Russians Tighten Noose Around Nazi Forces in Baltics   Reds Press on Riga for Biggest Kill of Summer Campaign

SIEGE ARC ON METZ IS TIGHTENED   Escape Corridor Only 12 Miles Wide; Two Rail Lines Are Cut

THIRD ARMY SPLITS LINE BEFORE SAAR   American Artillery Is Converging on Last Gap

Key Fortress ‘Tottering; 25 Tanks Blasted   Raiding American Planes Knock Out Armored Colima

oe Left 12-Mile  Escape Corridor      Sixth Armored Division Paces Attack In Gathering Offensive

SWEEP MADE AROUND MET? (LOSING APC   Escape Corridor Under Fire of Heavy Artillery

Siege Are Is Closed About Metz   Patton’s Forces Sweep To East Of Nazi Fortress.

DEWEY PLANNING 10 MORE TALKS   Intensive Campaign Planned For Final Three Weeks

DEWEY PLANS TEN SPEECHES   PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO ' SYEP. UP PROGRAM, DUR-" “ING CLOSING WEEKES _OF HIS CAMPAIGN

ROOSEVELT CALLS WORLD MONETARY PARLEY JULY 1ST  42 COUNTRIES AND FRENCH COMMITTEE  saririesor es SM )0 OC UO PP

An International Monetary Parley Called by F.D.R.   Invitations Issued To 42 Nations to Hold Talks.in U. S.Beginnina July 1

FDR Calls Monetary  Conference  Forty-Two Nations And French Grou; Cand Dialagwatac

FDR Calls Monetary Conference   Post-War Matters To Be Discussed

42 NATIONS CALLED INTO pomeentin   To Discuss Monetary Problems Beginning July 1

Pres. Roosevelt Calls International Monetary Conference For July 1

PARLEY CALLED BY PRESIDENT   Conference To Be Held in New ~ Hampshire To; Study Monetary Problems.

ISSUES CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARLEY   Conference Starts July 1 in U. S. to Discuss Post-War Monetary Plans

PRESIDENT CALLS INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFERENCE FOR JULY 1   42 Countries and French Committee Invited — Will Meet InN. H.-

FDR Calls Money Meet For July 1   Invitations Go Out to 42 Nations and  French Body

ALLIED PARLEY CALLED   United Nations Enroys Invited By Roosevelt To Conrene On July I

{2 COUNTRIES ARE ASKED T0 SEND EXPERTS   Meeting Scheduled tc Start July  in New Hampshire

43 Countries Invited To Send Envoys   Conference Will Be Held in New -Hampshire in July

United Nations  Money Parley Called by FDR   Delegates of 42 Nation Would Meet July 1  At Bretton Woods, N.H To Study Proposals

F.D.R. Summons International  Money Parley   Convenes July 1 To Discuss Post-War Financial Problems.

FOR Invites World Powers fo Meet Here   Issues Call for a Monetary Conference Beginning July 

MONETARY PLAN TO BE OUTLINED   Roosevelt Invites 4: Governments To Take Part In Conference

Monetary Meeting Is Called   Roosevelt Invited 42 Countries, French Committee;  Opens on July 1

World Monetary: Parley Is Called  Financial Problems To Be Discussed

FR Calls Monetary Conclave   42 Nations, French  Committee, A re Invited

Roosevelt Ask: Delegations Of 43 Nations   Session to Begin July 1 and Last Several Weeks

Roosevelt Calls International Monetary Conference to Meet in U.S.  To Discuss Postwar Financial Problem

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY MEEt CALLED BY FOR   Will Convene In United States For Several Weeks

FDR Invites Monetary Tall   International Conference To Begin In This Country July First.

Monetary Parley  July 1   U. S. Asks 42 Allied Nations to. Attend Meeting to Be Held in Bretton Woods. N. H.

42 NATIONS GET INVITATIONS TO BE AT PARLEY   Morgenthau Will Head American Delegation; Session Opens July 1

F.D.R. Calls  International  Monefary Mee!   42 Nations and French Committee Invited to Convene in This Country July 1

Monetary Parley For 42 Nations Called By FDR   Postwar Finance Problems To Be Discussed July 1 At Bretton Woods, N.H.

ROOSEVELT CALLS CONFERENCE 42 NATIONS JULY 1ST   International Monetary Problems Will Be Worked Out At Meet ing In New Hamnshire.

SETS MONETARY MEETING DATE   FR Calis Conference to Discuss Post War Financial Problems,   WILL BEGIN ON JULY ~

42 COUNTRIES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND   “Morgenthau To Head Affair In New Hampshire   Made At Meetings Will Be Subject To Approval Of Each Nation

World Monetary  Conference Callec   Postwar Financial Problems To Be Studied at Session in July

4) COUNTRIES GIVEN BIO TO ~ JULY MEETING   FDR Calls Conference to Act on Postwar Financial Problems.

“CALED BY FIR   id 42 United, Associated Governments Here;  "Starts Juv 1

Roosevelt  Calls World Money Meet   Sessions to Start on  July 1 for Discussing Post-War Problems

Conference To Discuss World Finances   Meeting Called By Roosevelt July 1 In New Hampshire

F.D.R. Calls World Monetary Conference To Meet Here July 1   invitations Sent To 42 Nations, French Committee Of Liberation; Will Discuss Post-War Financial Problems, Solutiorfs

Roosevelt Mails Out Invitations to Forty-Two Countries   WILL START ON JULY 1

A? NATIONS ARE ASKED TO ATTEND MONETARY PARLE’   Roosevelt Sets Conference to Discuss World-Wide Financia! Affairs at Bretton Woods, N. H.   MORGENTHAU HEAD OF ‘: QJ, S. REPRESENTATIVES   Establishment of 10-Billion international Bank Is Topic, Allies and Associates Asked,

‘Post-War Financial Conference Meets June 1   Roosevelt Issues  Call To Convene In U.S.: ; Morgenthau To Head U.S. Delegation

FDR Calls Monetary Conference for U.S. This Summer  International Session Will Be Held

F.R. Calls  ‘Monetary Conference   World Parley On Postwar Problems Begins In U.S. Julv 1.

MONEY CONFAB OF 42 NATIONS CALLED BY FOR   Ward Seizure Probe Shares Capital Interest With Housing Project Report

INVITATIONS SENT TO 42 COUNTRIES   ‘French Committee Included In Call Issued By FDR

42 COUNTRIES ARE INVITED T0 JULY 1 MEETING   Morgenthau To Head U. S. Group To Discuss PostWar Problems

Monelary Meeting Ts Called   Roosevelt Sends Out Invita, tions to All. the “Unit7” -ed-Nations :      TO: DISCUSS ALL”. “FINANCIAL. ISSUES   @ Morgenthau wil: “Head:-U:5. “Delegation, ‘Conference 49 Begin July. 2

MONETARY CONFERENCE iS CALLED   Invitations Sent 42 Countries And French Committee

F.R. Calls  Monetary Parley   42 Countries Bidden to Conference Beginning July 1

PARLEY WILL DISCUSS POST WAR FINANCES   President Invites 42 Countries to International Monetary Conference  In July   MAY INCLUDE OTHERS

WORLD-WIDE FINANCIAL MEET CALLED   F. D. R. Asks That International Parley on PostWar Monetary Problems Convene in This Country July 1.

A2 Nations Invited To Be Present  At Meeting   (Paul Mallon says president has other conferences in mind—see the editorial page.)

FDR Summons Money Parley Of 42 Nations   U. S. Gold Not ‘Big Stick’ Above Othere—World  REM w..25-232.,

FDR CALLS FOR DISCUSSION OF WORLD FINANCE   International Monetary Conference to Meet July 1 on Post-War Problems

FDR Calls Monetary Conference for U.S. This Summer  International Session Will Be Held In New Hampshire

ETARY—  INVITATIONS SEN THA? COUNTRIES   Bretton Woods, N. H., SeY jected Ags Site For Conference July 1   FRENCH INVITED   Secretary Of Treasury . Morgenthau To Head  American Delegation 

AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY TROOPS SWEEP INTO BOURG MONDAY   FRENCH ANNOUNCE FINAL NAZI RESISTANCE IN LYON WIPED OUT

South France Fight Enters Final Stage; Nazis Flee  U. S., French Patrols Enter Lyon; Field Near City Is Taken

Che Farmer and War Bond. by Mr. A, s. Goss  Master of the National Crange

HAVE UNTIL AUGUST 15   Unredeemed Cotton Will Then’ Be Placed in Poot and Sold

FUNDS FOR FCC CUT $1,654,857   First Appropriation Bill Of 1911 Is Approved By House

Houses Reduce — _ Appropriation For FCC Branch   Most “of Cut: Applied ~ To Intelligence Division

SUPER FORTS HIT MANCHURIA AS TOKYG CLAIMS NIPS HAVE LAUNCHED GRAND SCALE DRIVE

YANKEE MEN, ARMS AND SHIPS TRAVELED FAR PACIFIC AREA  MOMENTOIIS CHANCES   MOMENTOUS CHANGES SINCE JAP ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR IN 1941

Reports Conflict On Leyte Gains; B-29’s Hit Tokyo   Yanks Gain Ja Philippines But Japs Claim? New : Grand Scale. Offense

War Enters Fourth Year in Pacific   B-29s Hit Manchuria; Tokyo Reports Paratroopers Behind American Lines

Americans Gain In Leyfe Fight   Superfortresses Hit Manchuria. Cities

YANKS GAIN ON LEYTE, B-293 HIT MANCHURIA   Palanas River Line Broken; Industrial Plants Feel Sting Of Bombs

PUSH THROUGE RIVER LINE BY ORMOC   ' Spectacular Attack Made By U. S. Cavalrymen   SMALL RAID   On Tokyo Is Reported By Japs: Nips Pound B-29 Base On Saipan

On Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor   Spectacular Sweep By Yanks Exploits Leyte Breakthrough

Advances On Leyte Are Made By Yanks   Superforts Hit Manchuria’s War Plants — Japs Claim Paratroopers Launched Offensive on Leyte Airfields and Americans Make Assault With Amphibious Tractors

YANKEE MEN, ARMS: AND SHIPS TRAVELED FAR PACIFIC AREA.  . MOMENTOUS- CHANGES SINCE JAP ATTACK ON

Gain On Japs In Philippines On Pearl Harbor Day   Nips Claim Successes in Chinese Campaign

Germans Put Up Fierce Fight As Slashing U. S. Forces Near West Wall

Patton Crossing Moselle   Nazis Fight Back As Allied Armies Near Hun Homeland.   Reds in New Gain   Sialin's Troops Push Toward Yugoslavia; British Near Rotiertieam

NAZI RESISFANCE STIFFENED AS REICH FRONTIERS REACHED  MEN AND ARMS MASSED FOR STRUGGLE TO DEATE IN WEST EUROPE

Nazi Troops Resist Fiercely And Mass For Death Struggle   Allied Headquarters Announces That Patrols Crossed Into Reich And Then Withdrew; Eisenhower Says Battles To Be Fought Soon On Nazi Soil

Achtung! DNB Report Yank “Terror Raids” On Vital Rail Centers   Weather Clears, Allies Resume Air Offensive On Full Scale, Hit  Karlsruhe, Mannheim

Marines Take Offensive on New Britain  Airforces Step up   Airforces Step up Attack on MidPacific Bases .

BASES ATTACKED IN MID-PACIFIC   Sub ‘Pompano’ Reported Lost By Navy

Pacific Air War Growing   “Navy Announces Loss Of Submarine Pompane

Yank Bombers Join Attack On *  sland Target:   Another. Nip Cruiser s Blasted; Marines Are Led By Tanks

Marines Push Japanese Back On New Britain   Another Enemy Cruiser, Two Cargo  Ships Bombed

U. S. Force Routed Enemy Fleet Off Philippines Without Firing a Salvo

{This story by AP Correspondent William Worden js the first detailed account of the intricate tactics by which the U. S, fleet not only ovyerpowered but outmancuvered = the Japanese feet defeated off the Philippines}.

Complete Rout of Japanese Grand Fleet from Waters East of the Philippines Accomplilshed Without Firing Salvo from Big Ships or Losing A Chin

Intricate Tactics By U. S. Fleet In Smashing Jap Forces, Detailed By Writer   By WILLIAM L. WORDEN Represe nting the € ‘ombined

Details Given of Big Sea Battle  _ Worden Tells About Defeat of Japanese

JAPS OUTMANEUVERED IN PACIFIC NAVY CLASH   Correspondent Gives Account OF Intricate Tactics of U.S. Fleet

Story of Vision of Jesus on Cross a in Sky During Air Raid Is Confirmed.

Hundreds Say They Saw Vision   Report Seeing Jesus On Cross in Sky in April 27 Raid Alert

Vision OF Jesus On Cross During  fir Raid Alert Verified By Vicar   Hundreds Of Ipswich, England Residents Repor Incident: Sign A ‘Good Omen. Minister Says

Hundreds Tel of Vision During Raid   JESUS ON CROSS SEEN IN ENGLISH VILLAGE, CHAPLAIN CLAIMS

Vision of Christ on Cross in Sky At Ipswich Verified, Chaplain Says

Vision in Sky Seen by Vicar as Good Omer   Jesus on Cross Said to Have Been Seen by Hundreds

During Air Raid Alert - Hundreds Report Seeing Vision ~ Of Christ in English Heavens

Three Men Wanted in Theft Of Coupcns Nabbed Here   A. Silberisen Rites To Be Held Here Wednesday   Read This and Whoop   * * * * * * ii * Lf  . * * Request Made Not to Pay ‘42 Taxes

Chaplin on. Stanc Firm in Denials  Calls Testimony of Joan Berry Untrue

CHAPLIN PLAYS DRAMATIC ROLE BEFORE JURORS   Tears Well In Eyes As He Refutes Charges by Protege

Chaplin Weeps While On Stane   Wipes Tears When Tells About Gun Threat

Al a0 CAPTURE MORE SUBURBS   ‘Push Fight in Hungarian Capital—Plunge to Within 94 Miles of Vienna.

AUSTRIA GOAL _ OF SWIFT DRIVE * BY REDS’ TANKS   agbthering Artillery Barrage ‘Covers Last 57 Miles . to Border

Red Tanks in Pskov Suburbs   INVASION KEY TO BALTIC STATES COVERED BY SWIFT RUSSIAN ADVANCE; SOUTHERN DRIVE ROUTS NAZIS SIX MILES FROM LAST GERMAN RAILWAY POST

INTO PSKOV OUTSKIRTS   ot  Bate for Great Communications Base and Key to Control of the Baltic Is Raging With Una‘at ed Bury.

Nazis Evacuate In East Prussia   Capture Of St. Lo And Les. say Expected On Normandy Front

Republican Group Goes Uninstructed   23 Delegates To Represent Iowa At Convention

Fragmentary Couni Of Soldier Vote Shows FDR Favorite   Fourth Term Hailed As Victory For Internationalism

REELECTION GETS GLOBAL PRAS   Foreign Comments Treat Act 7 international. sm Victory

G.0,P, STRESSES RECORD IN STATE   Herbert Cites ‘Honest Rule’ As Convention Opens

Jap Tactics Shift Seen   Adm. King Declares Nips’ Cabinet Changes Prove Dissatisfaction

KING SAYS JAPS WILL FIGHT ON   Admiral Declares New Tokyo Government Will Fight to Bitter End

RMER IN KANSAS   Readings Between 90 and 95 Forecast for Tomorrow

LIFE AS HOUSEKEEPER ENDS FOR FUGITIVE   Ohioan Goes Back To Prison After 9-year Freedom

INSERTS EVIDENCE FROM GRAND JURY   Finance Company Lawyer’s Statement Concerning Hiring of Hemans Presented

TESTIMONY OF WITNESS USED   Statements Used As Check Against Witnesses Testimony in Trial.

Governments Prepare To  Return Home   Belgian and. Dutch Leaders Already In France

EXILED GOV Ts LAY PLANS 12 RETURN HOME   Dutch and Beigians in London Get Up Military and Crwil Missions.

EXILED SOV'TS SEND MISSIONS TO COUNTRIES   Dutch and Belgians Organize; Germans Increasingly Un naay

Bombs Soon May Sound Message for Filipinos   MacArthur Goes Ashore to Inspect New Positions in Dutch New Guinec

Hollandia’s Capture Brings MacArthur Bombers Within Range of Philippines

Allied Jab on New Guinea Brings ~ Philippines Within Bombing Range

Step Nearer Philippines   Capture of Hollandia Airdromes Would Put U.S. Planes Within 1,000 Miles of Islands.

HOTEL BATTLE AIRED AGAIN   Tobin Admits Teamsters Fought Naval Officers

Americans Gain ¢ to 9 Miles  on Broad Front   Town of San Jose Is Captured Against Negligible Opposition; Transports Continue to Pour Men, Supplies Ashore

Both Groups From Texas  To Be Seated   ‘Regulars’ Claim They Will Walk Out of Convention

PERISHES IN FIRE STARTED BY TORNADO   Woman Burned to Death Nea: Marshfield, Mo., After Home ~ Ts Overturned.

BOND CHAIRMEN PLAN MEETING   Officials to Discuss War Loan Campaign at Meeting Thursday

WAn BOND MEE] ON TAP THURSDAY   Fourth War Loan Opens January 17

Americans Firing More Shells Than Being Made Says Somervell; General Galls for 309.000 W orkmen

Yanks Need More Shells   Army Commander Says Winning of War Now Up to Home Front.

500 Reported Executed by Nazis in Italy   Attack on Fascist Parade Brings Speedy Mass Reprisals_

300 EXECUTED IN NAZI REPRISAL FOR BOMB PLOT   300 Machine Gunned  Colosseum After Procession Ie Ovnamited.-

Mass Killings by Germans in Italy   Hundreds Slain in Reprisals for Attack on Procession at Rome, Reported

Experts Compile Data For Dewey Campaign Talks  Plans Swing To Western Coast

Enemy Lines In Holland Threatened.   Second Army Now Within Few Miles ‘S-Hertogqenbosch

Nazi Defense Sags Under Heavy Blows   Dempsey Driving in On . ‘$-Hertogenbosch from Three Directions

Nazi Defense Arc Around ’$-Hertogenbosch Buckles .  ENEMY IS DRIVEN / BACK IN ATTACKS  Six Allied Armies Maintain Western Front Pressure

GERMANS ARE SQUEEZED It S.W. HOLLAND   While Six Allied Armies Maintained Pressure Sevyeral Towns Are _ Liberat aad   Rain - Mud

British Army Hammers  German Defense Arc In West Holland Section

Yanks Use New Schouten Base   Gains Reported In All Parts Of Area  Rv ROBERT FUNSON

Yanks Use New Schouten: Base ©   Gains Reportéd liv All Parts Of Area

JAPS LOSE RIDGE ON BIAK ISLAND   YANKS DRIVE CLOSER TO TWO AIRSTRIPS—PUT FIELD INTO OPERATION.

GOVERNMENT RUNS IDLE MINE SHAFTS   Western Pennsylvania Pits Seized Under Presidential Order

GOVERNMENT SEIZES TEN SOFT COAL MINES   8,000 Miners Idle After Walkouts Are Called

U.S, TO DIRECT ~ STRIKING MINES   Government Takes Action I Pennsylvania Disputes

Government Seizes Struck Coal Mines As Strike Spreads  10 Western Pennsylvania Pits Taken Over, in Battle for Becounition Supervisors’ Unict

Coal Mines ‘Are Seized   8,000: Workers. Idle ‘Due’ To. Squabbling

10 PENNSYLVANIA COAL PITS UNDER CONTROL OF GOVT   Federal Seizure, Ordered by Roosevelt Late Thursday, Carried Out to Prevent Spread of Strikes—8,000 Miners Idle

PVT. ROSS FIGHTS IN ITALY WITH INFANTRY REGIMENT THAT NEVER RETREATED

Local Soldier Fights in Italy With Infantry Regiment That Never Retreated

Local Soldier Fights In Italy With Inf. Reg. That Never Retreated

U.S, FLIERS HIT ~ KURILEISLANDS      Carolines, Marshalls Giver New Air Pounding Also

JAP KURILES BOMBED, PARI OF “SWEEP”   U. S. Planes Comb Islands Within 1,000 Miles of Tokio and Then Drive South Aaain.

Yanks Land on Three Islands   American Movement Flanks Japs on Biak And New Guinea

ALLIES INVADE 3 MORE ISLANDS OFF NEW GUINEA   Landings Made by American and Australian Amphibious Troops Without Ovuposition.   OPERATION FLANKS BIAK GROUND ACTION   In Battle for Burma Road, Japs Are Forced Southward by Rocket-Firing Planes and Infantry.

Allied Forces Flank Japanese Guarding Biak  Sweep Through Central China

Three More Islands Off  New Guinea Are Occupied   Operation Carried Out While Japanese Armies Being _ Driven Southward In Burma And Southeast China;  Rocket-Firing Allied Planes Used Tn Burma

ocket-Firing anes Used »N. Burma   tilwell’s Chinesemericans Gain in Battle for Burma Road   By LEONARD MILEIMAN ated Press War Pditor

Yankee Troops Outflank Ground Fighting on Biak   All Three Landings Are Unopposed By Nipponese Defenders

Flank Biak Battle; Lone Bombers Get Tremendous Surprise Raid Results

Opens Path To Bologna  Bloody Fight   Americans Take City Guarding Vital Pass

NAZI LIVERGNANO FORTRESS FALLS   OPENS WAY FOR DIRECT ASSAULT ON BOLOGNA

YANKS TAKE LIVERGNANO, NAZIS’ FORT   Victory Opens Way For Direct Attack On Bologna

Nazi Livergnano Fortress Taken By Yank Troops   Way Opened For Drive On Bologna, Key City To Po Valley

CITY AND COUNTY ORGANIZED TO LAUNCH 1944 RED CROSS WAR FUND CAMPAIGN MARCH 1

FOURTH WAR LOAN  CAMPAIGN WILL BE  LAUNCHED TUESDAY COUNTY QUOTA AN.  NOUNCED AT $2,819,000 BY CHAIRMAN RUTLER

— PACIFIC   SOLOMONS DRIVE. COMPLETED, SAYS CEN MAC HBTHIIR   Green ‘Islands Seized By Yanks In Bold Surprise Move   SIIPPLIES CUT OFF   Nips Left On‘ Islands Must Either ‘aye Ur Or Die

Conquest of Solomons Completed   Seizure of Green Islands Traps 29 000 Japanese

Green Islands Seizure Traps 22,000 Of Foe   Starve Or Surrender Line Drawn Around Japs In North Of Solomons

22,000 Nippons Isolated In New Pacific Assault   Green Islands Seized, Supplies To Enemy From Rabaul Cut Off

Solomon Islands Campaign Knded: Trap 22,000 Japs   Green Isles Captured By Allies In Quick Invasion Thurst, Leaving Defenders Choice Of Death Or Surrender

22,000 Japs Can Starve Or Surrender  Seizure Of The Green Islands Writes Finis To Solomons Campaign

22,000 Japs Trapped in  Solomons   MacArthur Says Enemy Must Be Beaten on Continent

Allies Seize Green Islands To Trap Japs   22,000 Must Give Up Or Be Starved

Americans Win Green Islands   Americans in Bold Surprise Move Close Trap on 22.000 Japs

Bold U. S. Stroke Scoops Up Island Group in Pacific   Seizure of the Green Islands at Northern Tip of Solomons Closes Trap on Foe

FIVE STRATEGIC ISLANDS SEIZED IN SURPRISE ALLIED ATTACK   Enemy Forces on Bougainville, Choiseul and Shortland Face Starvation or Surrender as Supply Cut Off by Bold Invasion of Green Islands—Resistance Is Light

Planes Attack Near Truk Isle   Halsey’s Forces Swarm Ashore on Green Islands, Closing Trap on 22,000 Nipponese Encamped in the Solomons

22,000 Japs Trapped in ~ §olomons   ‘Halsey’s Forces in Bold Sur- prise Move Seize the Green Islands   UNDER COVER OF AIR - AND NAVAL POWER   Little“ Resistance Offered ® and Japs on Isle Face Starvation or Surrender

HALSEY COMMANDS SURPRISE ACTION   Action Monday Night Meets Only Slight Resistance; Ends  Sslamane Camnpaioen

Green Islands Off Bougainville Taken by Allies   Conquest of  Solomons Is ws ic... The. PN.

GREEN ISLANDS ARE SEIZED BY ALLIED TROOPS   Conquest Of Solomon Islands Now Completed—Many Japs Face Death

Allies Occupy ‘Isles At North Tip Of Solomons   Seizure Closes Door Of Trap On 22,000 Japaanan ‘tn Tha Grnssth.

CONQUEST COMPLETED   No Opposition ls Met By Allies In New Invasion

LAST SCLOMON — ISLAND TAKEN   Green Isles Are Seized By American and New Zealand Troops

‘ADMIRAL HALSEY'S SOUTH PACIFIC FORCES STAGEBOLD SURPRISE MOVE TO CAPTURE GREEN ISLANDS   Small Island At Northern Tip of Solomons Falls To Americans and For All Practical Purposes Closes Campaign for Those Former Jap Outposts

YANKS COMPLETE: FULL CONQUEST OF SOLOMON ISLANDS   22,000 Japanese Soldiers Cut Off from Bases Face. Death or Surrender.

CONQUEST OF SOLOMONS 15 COMPLETED   Green Islands Off Bougainville Are Seized By Allies

Complete Solomons  Campaign   Green Islands Off Tip Of Bougainville Are Taken By Americans And New Zealanders

22,000 In Trap As Yanks Seize Jap- Held Isles   Nips Face Starvation Or Green Islands, Taken . . In Surprise Move, MacArthur Says

Halsey Force Seizes Isles In Solomons   Capturé of Green Atolls Cuts 22,000 Japs Frem Rabaul Supplies

LEFTISTS DIVIDE ON CONCILIATION   Liberals Try Put End to Civil War Which Has Turned Ancient Seat of Grecian Culture Unto Battleground

U.S. Troops Push Japanese Back  On Two Islands  Admiralty Group Pounded From Air;

0 FORWARD IN PACIFIC   Marines Capture Natamo, While Others Extend Hold In Augusta Bay Area, Blast Admiralty Islands.   Daily Support

Ground Forces Gain in Two Sectors   Marines Capture Natamo Point on Borgen Bay

Quiet German Plane Hits London Movie   Raider Slips Through Air Raid Defenses To Blast Theatre in Suburbs; New Type Of Near Noiseless Plane Believed Used

Registration and Book Sales Plan For LeMars Schools Announced   Only New Pupils Are Required To Revister

PFC. STANNBROOK KULED WN ACTION   County Soldier Dies in-Germany Sept. 14,. Farents Are Notified 

Pr. STAINBROUK AALED IN ACTION   County Soldier Dies in Germany Sept. 14, Parents Are Notified

BREAK RECORD FOR CANNING AT HALL CENTER   Top Capacity Of Plant First Three Days This Week

SET RECORD ~IN CANNING AT _ HALL CENTER   Near Capacity Produc tion Two Days This Week

Civilians Say Germans Preparing Defenses ° In Streets of Port City

LL LS TT: TSE CS  B-29 Bombardier Is Persevering; Finds, Tokyo Target

O'Daniel Says FDR Will Run For 4th If Alive   Thinks War Strikers Should Get Deserting Soldiers’ Penalty

SERVICE VOTE BILL STUDIED BY GOVERNOR   Executives of 48 States Looking Into Questions Put Them By President In Proposed Act   MEASURE IS UNSIGNED

U.S. GOVERNORS STILL STUDY FDR’S QUESTIONS   Only Three Executives Report  State Laws Permit Com promise Ballot :

GOVERNORS CON SOLDIER VOTE   THREE STATES APPROVE IN F. R. QUERY REPLY

Governors Study Soldier Vote: Bill  Slow in Responding ‘to FOR’s Request

Governors Delay Taking Stand on Service Measure   Three Advise President They Can Use Ballots

Meanwhile, Capital’s Lawmakers Learn New Draft Polic) Likely To Retard Return of Civilian Articles and Administration Standing Firm Against Wage Increases

GOVERNORS QUESTIONED ON BALLOTS   Replies Indicate Validating Action On Federal Bill

Seven Divisions Destroyed By Eisenhower Units      74,000 Captured Among Enemy Forces Involved In European Battle

Flame Throwers, Grenades And Cannon Used In Repulsing Germans; Battered Enemy Finally Retires From Fight     THIRD ARMY MASSES   THIRD ARMY MASSES FOR GCRAND ASSAULT

Seven Nazi Divisions Destroyed   Losses Average 6,600 Per Day, 9 Generals Die

Foe Casualties Reach 152,000 In Three Week:   Seven German Divisions Destroyed by ‘Ike’s’ Attacking Armies

Enemy Smashes Into Dillingen Before Retreat   Counter-attack East of Saar River Fails; Allies Press On

Destroy Seven Divisions on Western Frenf   Action is Heavy As Patton Masses for Drive on Saarbrucken

Super Bonu: Demand for Vets Looms  Muster-Out Pay Debate Shows Move in Offing

Veterans’ Bonus Demand Foreseen   Mustering-out out Pay Measure Debated

Expand Plans For Vet Jobs   MeNutt Says Demonstration Offices In 7 Cities Will Be Opened,

Vets’ Employment  Program Expanded  Demonstration Offices Open In 7 Cities

THOUSANDS T0 ATTEND SOTH COLES FAIR   One of Top Expositions in State Set for Next Week

Gel War Chest Contributions In   Mail Them If You Won't Be Contacted Dec. 11

Get War Chest Contributions In   Maiti Them Tf You Won't Be Conmtacted Bec. TT

\Clare Quotes Candidate: GOP Chiefs Agree With  Dewey On Foreign Polic’

WARPLANES DROP ‘BOMBS ON PARI   EXTENT OF DAMAGE UNDETERMINED — ATTACKING CRAFT UNIDENTIFIED.

Republicans Hold Caucuses Monday ‘And First County Convention Friday   First Preliminaries To Choosing Candidates For President Started

First Preliminaries To Choosing Candidates For President Started

James Enters Democratic Race   Free for All Fight For State Superior Court Develops

U.S. Flyers blast 41 Jap Planes on Path to Philippines   Davao Waterfront Hit Again by Night Patrol Bombers

‘41 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN HALMAERA RAID   Davao In Philippines Hit By Fourth Night Attack

U.S. Fliers Destroy Or Damage 41 Planes In Halmahera Attack   Waterfront at Davao in Philippines Also Bombed: Report Japs Shifting Home Defenses in Crisis

Japs Claim Their Navy Is Fighting   Report Damage Inflicted on U. S. Ships—Battle of  Formosa Continues

Roosevelt Again Assails 6.0.P. “Isolationists   President Talks To 2000 After New York Tour

FD. R.HITS ISOLATIONISM OF G.0.P   Says Germany to Be Shorn of Power, But People Not Enslaved

GEN. PATTON DENIES $1,000 BET STORY   Declares in Note to Marshall Hc Never Saw a Bill of That  Tiannminatian

Beach Braces  For 4th Blow   Germans Regroup Forces: Marl Rows Fichtine

Germans Regroup Forces Possibly For Major Drive   Shifting Takes Place Before Allied Beachhead Below Rome; Ground Fighting Slowed By Mud, Bad Weather

EXPECT NEW NAZI ATTACK AT ANZIO   GERMAN FORCES REPORTED _ REGROUPING POSSIBLY FOR  FOURTH MAJOR DRIVE.

IN ANZIO AREA   Foe Seen Preparing to Op. en New Assault on Allies on Beachhead

MUD HOLDS UP ANZIO FIGHTING   Nazis Regrouping Forces For Fourth Assault On Beachhead

‘Wage Restraint Will Be Sought Ih OPA Statute   2 Congressmen Propose It As Labor Federations Ask Hisher Ceiiine

Legislators  Move To Put Pay Formula In Law Books   Moyement Starts  As Two Major Unions Increase Pressure eg here: BW eee Dee   WLB PUBLIC GROUP” SEEKS F.D.R. ADVICE

Little Steel’ Lid May Become Law   Congressmen React To Wage Demands

i i a ‘Formula Under Fire ee  Little Steel Wage Control ‘Mav Be Written Into Law

WAGE CURBS. TO BE SOUGHT      lovement Develops to Put  “Little Steel Formula” Into OPA Law

Believe Russia May Grant Use Of Some Bases   Possibility Seen Of Use Of Russian Bases For Allied Attack On Japan

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT POLICY © —BIVING NO GOMFORT TO JAPS   MOSCOW'S WARNING REGARDING .MONGOLIA REFLECTS SOVIETS GROWING MILI. ‘ TARY: STRENGTH AND . . ALLIED SUCCESSES

Reds More Vigorous Policy in East May Give Allies Bases to Raid Japs

Five Rialway Wrecks Take Heavy Tolls   48 Die, 112 Injured In Serles Of Mishaps

Report Red Army Opens New Drive Against Rumania   Germans Tell About Attack; Russians Say 90 Planes Destroyed

Germans Report Red Drive; Russ Smash 114 Planes   Berlin Tells of New . Soviet Offensive in Romania, Fierce Battle

Air Weakness Of Japs Shown   Only Two Enemy Craft Seen During Raids On Marcus and Wake

Reports Of Devastation At Wake, Marcus Dulled Only By Jap Weaknesses

JAP WEAKNESS IN PACIFIC AIR VERY EVIDENT   ‘Absence of Planes from Marcus, Wake and Elsewhere Overshadows Allied Devastation

Marcus Islands Raided By Yanks   JAP. WEAKNESS SHOWN “JN FEEBLE AIR DEFENSES

Japan’s Aerial Weakness Seen In Inability To Protect Wake And Mareus Against U. S. Raid

—PACIFIC—  ONLY TWO ENEMY AIRPLANES SEE   Both Nipponese-Held Islands Pounded Heavily By Americans   INEW PACIFIC GAINS   MacArthur’s Forces Ready For Leap Into Strategic Schoutens

Japanese Air Weakness Shown at Wake   Not an Enemy Plane Seen as  Yanks Bombed

Jap Aerial Weakness in Pacific Displayed When  No Enemy Craft Rise to Defend Wake

‘Marcus-Wake Raids Show Foe’s Weakness   Only Two Japanese Aircraft Appear to Challenge Aftackers

Air Weakness Of Japs Shown In U. S. Raids   Marcus and Wake Approaches to Tokyo Not Defended Well in Air

Capture Of Another Jap Airfield Near. . . . Japan’s Aerial Weakness Overshadows Damage To Marcus, WakeIn Big Raid

JAP AIR WEAKNESS SHOWS UP AGAIN   n Marcus-Wake Island Raids Only Two Enemy Planes Seen

Japs Weak in Air on Islands   No Planes at Wake— Only Two Appear At Marcus

JAPAN'S AERIAL FORCES DWINDLE   In Assaults on Marcus anc Wake, Allies Find Little Nip Resistance

Jap Weakness Shown By Raid   Not An Enemy Plane Was Seen at Wake Where Yanks Poured 150 Tons of Bombs

Jap Air Defense of Pacific Bases Feeble - - Allied Forces Push On Nearer Philippines and Tokyo With Advances on New Guinea - - Chinese, However, Suffer Set-back While British Block Continued Enemy Thrusts at India

Mareus-Wake Raid Proves  Jap Veakness   Only Two Jap Aireraft Appear As Fliers Go On Two-Day Assault.   ices:  = so alates at ef ee tae bP ete a eo se ae a   DESTROY BOTH PLANES

RATES CUT   Insurance Policy Holder: To Save Million Dollars Annually

PAGES FLEET TASK FORCE ~ BOMBARDED MARCUS ISLAND   WARSHIPS. INVADE JAPANESE WATEES TO. BLAST: DE_PENSES—NO LANDINGS  ‘. . BEPORTED

U.S, FLEET UNIT BLASTS MARCUS   Shore Defenses Subjected to Destructive Fire by Naval Guns

MINE STRIKES SEEN AS MEN SET TO VOTE   Employes Of 59 Pits Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky To Ballot

‘Germans Bomb Bristol; li Raiders Destroyed   Choice of Southern England Target Hints Shift in Nazi Tactiess Aim at Allied Invasion Preparations

Strong Nazi Raid Directed Against Invasion Set-Up   Flares Light Up Coast Probably For Taking Photographs

INVASION'SET-UP DRAWS AIR BLOWS   NAZE ATTACK ON ENGLAND AIMED AT PREPARATIONS TO CROSS CHANNEL.

Germans Aim Their Raids AM Allied Invasion Bases   Yanks Blast German Airfields, Nazis Fail fo Put Up Battle

Southern England Heavily Attacked By Nazi Aviators   Raid Is Apparently Aimed at Allied Invasion Preparations

Bumper Food Crop Seen This Year   Second Largest Harvest In History Forecast

Expect Largest Crop In History Despite Drought   Production To Be 3 Percent Above Last-Year’s Mark

British Troops Enter Tiny Republic of San Marino as Nazis Violate Neutrality

British Move Into Tiny Republic  of San Marino   Germans Reported Violating Neutral . Status of Country 

BRITISH ENTER SAN MARINO ON ADRIATIC COAS}   Engage German Forces Operating in Violation ‘of Neu-.  >  trality :

Germans Enter Neutral Republic   British Clash With Nazis in San Marino

Nazi Forces Violate Neutrality   Tiny Republic . Is Made Garrison For German Troops

EIGHTH ARMY FORCE ENTERS SAN MARINO   Fifth Army Troops Take 3 Heights Inside Gothic Line

British Troops Enter Tiny San Marine Reoublic   Engage Germans Violating Neutrality

SAN MARINO ENTERED BY FIGHTH ARMY   Tiny Republic Entered By Allies To Oust Germans

Ralph. Wiltgen At rs \Garden.Gity,: Kansas}, Army Flying School .

THOUSAND CIO BOMBER WORKERS  G0 ON STRIKE   Production Halted at Detror Ford Plant.

FRENCH CHEER GUERRILLAS IN CAPTURED CITY   Maquis Wipe Out Nazi Garrison; Tri-Color Is Raised On Border

Anzio Army Seeks To Cut Germans Off   Fate of Etcrnal City And Nazi 10th Army Hinges on Struggle  SHOWDOWN FOR FOE

Aerial Pounding Blasts  Nazi Troop Movements   Under Personal Direction of Lt. General Clark, American and British Troops Lashing Out Toward Rome

Fate of German Army and Rome Near Decision   Savage Attacks Made by Allies

Allies Lash Out On Anzio Front   Massed Armies Launch War’s Greatest Offensive On Main Italian Line And Coastal Beachhead

Attack Paced By Terrific Aerial Blows   Allied Striking Force Largest of War Outside Russia

Fate of Rome May Be Decided Soon   Land, Sea. Airpower Join in Attacks on Navie

nome 5 Fale May Depend On Ouicome   Anzio Beachhead, Main Front Both Flame With Action

5TH ARMY LASHES — OUT BELOW ROME: AS 8TH STRIKES   Battle Touched Off That May Determine Fate of Eternal City and German Forces—Clark Personally Directs Anzio Onslaught—-British Stab at Main Hitler Line in Liri V: alley,

BATTLES MAY SOON DECIDE FATE OF ROME   Terrific Air Attacks Pace Great Allied  Offensives

Americans and British, Paced by Terrific Aerial Onslaught, Lash out from Beachhead.

Americans Drive At Nazi Rear, British for Rome   Pincers Squeeze Main German Line In Thrust to Sever Appian Way; Fate of Eternal City in Balance

5th Army Strikes From Anzio; 8th Rips Hitler Line   Great Battle May Decide Rome’s Fate In Next Few Days

Planes Pace Drive By Allied Armies   Veteran American Infantrymen Strike Principe! German Communication Lines

LAVARRE QUITS COMMERCE JOB ASSAILING OFEC   Accuses Wallace, Crowley, Perkins of Waging Secret War Agains! American Exporters

“Wage War  On Business’   Dep’t of Commerce ; ‘Official Hurls Charge “At Administration in. Offering Resignation

LAVARRE QUITS COMMERCE POST           "Activities Against U-S=: ~ Business Are Cited

EASTER RECESS TO BE DELAYED   Roosevelt Expected Te Let Soldier Vote Become Law

“FDR Victory Bandwagon”: Communist Musical Show Dedicated To President Is Sell Out in Boston

Invasion Coast Is Pounded Anew By Liberators   Night Brings New Attacks By RAF On Western Germany After Americans Wreak Havoc  Among Suicide Squads Of German Fighters.

Luftwaffe Attempt To Halt Allied Raid   Some Rocket-Firing Planes Used When Heavy Bombers Blast Inctallations In Bruncwick

UNION VETS BACK POST-WAR SET-UP   ema our Wor With 40-Hour Pay in Proposal

FDR Meets Pacifie War  Commanders   Sscret Trip of Roosevelt to Hawaii for Conference with Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz I¢ Revealed

‘Superfortresses Attack Japan Mainland, Sumatre   Russians Open Fierce Atfack Upon Southern East Prussia

Nazis Drive ‘British Back   Retake Castel Nuova In Widened Attacks

Germans Launch Attack In Italy   Make Efforts To Halt Drives On Bologna

Nazis Attack Fifth Army  Rritich Are Driven   British Are Driven From Castel Nuova

Ferocity Marks India Invasion  Fierce Battles Rage Along Burma Front

ALLIED FORCES APPROACH NIPS ON BURMA LINE   No Danger in India Unless Japs Reach Communication System in Assam

Jap Thrust into India © Is Resisted   Allies Sink ‘Destroyer, 2 .Cargo Ships in Bismark Sea, Graveyard for Japs

Fighting On Burma Front Growing In Intensity; ‘Nips Lose Destroyer, Two Vessels Off Aitape

Fighting in India Grows   Situation Held Not Serious By Allied High Command

FIGHT IN BURMA IS INTENSIFIED   More Jap Ships Sunk as Island Noose Tightened

AGAINST JAPS INVADING INDIA   Resistance Stiffens All Along Burwa Fiuni—imphal Otive Sees as Diversionary Move   JAP VESSELS SUNK   Three More Sent fo Bottom in Bis marck Sea, Marines Complete Cleanup of Malthias

ACTION FLARES IN BURMA WAR   Allies Converge on Enemy Troops in Border Area

Japs Racing Monsoon To - Imphal Base   Present Actions Listed as Diversionary But Goal ' Of Nipponese Evident

NPS AIG AT “SEAT NH   Key Road Center In Manipur Is Menaced By _ Enemy Campaign. :   ALLIES READY.   Japanese Lose Three More Ships In South. west Pacific =

BELIEVED JAPANESE  THRUST INTO INDIA  DIVERSIONARY MOVE THREE ADDITIONAL EN ’ EMY SHIPS SUNK IN RICMARCR SFA AREA

Allied Troops Press Attacks On Japanese Forces Pushing Into India From Burma

German Losses In Russia Mount   Troops Liquidated When Rescue Fails

EFFORT 10 ESCAPE RUSSIAN TRAP FAILS   Vast Amounts of Equipment Destroyed; Much Booty te Cantured

Plan Special Farm Radio Program for April 12th   Allan Kline Iowa Farm Bu reau Head, Earl Hall, Way~~mack”’ and Others on Air

ATTACKS RESUMED ~ BY ALLIED PLANES   Bad Weather Keeps Major Forces at Their Airfields

DRIVERS STILL OUT IN ST, LOUIS   Draft Boards to Reclassify Part of Strikers

ou TRANSPORIAIION LinVr-—  Induction Faced By Strikers   ST. LOUIS DRAFT BOARDS MOVE TO RECLASSIFY SOME OF 3500 IDLE WORKERS

Strikes Tieup Buses. Tram:   St. Louis Workers Unable To thet Yo Work As Trams. Buses Stop.

Draft Threatens Striking Street Car Operators   St. Louis Beards Move io Reclassity Men, Holding They Have Quil Jebs

St. Louis People Continue to Walk  Some of Strikers Face Draft Threat

DRAFT GALLS FACED BY TRANSIT STRIKERS   Boards Reclassify Many 0! Workers At St. Louis

SINGLE BOARD ASKED ON PRICES, RATIONING   Senators Appeal For End Of Confusion, Contradiction

Solon Asks ‘to Center 'Gov’t Control   Plan to End Confusion anc Centralize War Legislatior Is Submitted

Continuance Of Lend-Lease Urged by FDR   Tells Congress Program Is Needed Until Defeat of Both Germany and Japan Is Certaim

FDR Reports to Congress  'Lend- Lease Should Continue ‘Until End of Japanese War

LEND-LEASE 10 VICTORY ASKED   President Tells Congress There Should Be No Reduction in Aid.

President Urges Continuance of Lend-Lease Plan   Program Should Stand Until Axis  - Powers Surrender, Congress Is Told

President Urges Lend-Lease  Aid Continued Until Germany And Japan Have Surrendered

FDR ADVOCATES  LEND-LEASE FOR  TOTAL VICTORY SAYS AID SHOULD  CONTINUE UNTIL JAPAN IS WHIPPED

‘Lend-Lease Aid Should Continue Until Both Japan, Germany Surrender Says President

Congress Asked For Continuance  Of Lend-Lease   President Cites Sacrifices Of Other Allied Nations During Great Conflict

FDR Favors Continuance Of Lend-Lease Program Through Victory Over Germany

CONTINUANCE OF PROGRAM   Lend-Lease Vital To Total Defeat Of Both Enemies

Would Continue Lend Lease To Final Surrender   President Files Report With Congress

Roosevelt Urges  Lend-Lease Until  Japan Surrenders Opposes Curtailing Aid to  Allies With Defoai Hitler— Pool Mae £92 770 261 ON

Lend-Lease Aid Is Needed Until Both Foes Quit   —PRES. ROOSEVELT. Should Not Be Dropped After Germany Is Beaten. Concress Told.

Lend-Lease Aid Should Continue Until Enemies Give Up Unconditionally

Allied Victory In Peace, War ‘Is Dependant   To Stop Aid After Nazi Defeat Would Delay Triumph, Chief Says

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FDR Reports Lend-Lease ‘To Congress   Says Aid Should Continue Until Unconditional Surrender of Both Japan and Germany

CONTINUE LENDLEASE PROGRAM. SAYS ROOSEVELT   $28,270,351.000 Given Over For  Foreign Aid

Lend-Lease Aid Should Confinue Says Roosevelt   President Makes Quarterly Report On Help for Allies

No Halt to Lend-Lease   Asks Continued Aid To Allies Until Final Victory Over Both  Germany and Japan

F.R. Favors Lend-Lease  Continuance  President Would Keep Program Until Germany And Japan Both Fall

Report Given On Lend-Lease By President   Congress Is Told That System Should Not Be Weakened Until Germany and Japan Are Beaten.

LEND-LEASE IS VITAL 10 U. S.   FDR Urges Continuance of Aid Until Surrender of Germany and Japan

Lend-lease Aid Should Continue  FDR Says Plan Needed Until Victory is Won

Lend-Lease Should  Continue   Roosevelt Asks Congress not to Permit Weakening Of Supply System

Lend-Lease Very End--FR   Congress Is Warned Against Reduction Of Aid to Allies

Lend -Lease Is Defended   FDR Tells Congress Help. Must: Continue:

‘WARM, CLEAR DAYS NEEDED, CROPS-GARDENS     No Damage Reported From

WARM, CLEAR DAYS NEEDED, CROPS-GARDENS   Farmers Are Several Weeks Behind Schedule; Have Much Rain.

OK on Food Stamp Plan   WEA Approval May Form Basis for a Subsidy Compromise

Plan Approved To Subsidize Grocery Bills   Lower Income Families Would Get Federal Aid

NEW PLAN FOR FOOD STAMPS   Would Be Used To Subsi— dize Grocery Bills  Of 18,000,000

WFA Boosts Stamp Plan in Aid of Needy   Would Subsidize Grocery Biils of Low Income Families

Legislation W ould ‘Subsi, dize Grocery Bills of , Lew: Income Bamilicc «   MOVE SURPRISE; MAY -END SUBSIDY ROW   Program _to ‘Supply Basic Diet to Sub-Standard In-. ‘comes to. Cost $3,000,~~ 000,000 Yearly

Government’s Stamp Plan To Subsidize Grocery Bills  Gets Surprise Endorsement

Presents Food Stamp Program   WEF A Endorses Surprise Plan That Would Subsidize Grocery Bills.

Endorse Subsidy  To Low Incomes   WEA Gives Surprise Endorsement to Government Stamp Plan.

Croe ery Subsidy Approv ed By WFA   Stamp Plan Would Pay Grocery Bills For Poorer Families

WEA Gives 0. K. To Government Food Stamp Plan   Program Would Subsidize Grocery Bills of Low Income Families

POOR FAMILIES MAY GET HELP WITH GROCERIES   Food Stamp Subsidy Plan Given WFA Approval in Surprise Move

Food Stamps For Substandard Groups... .  WEA Endorses Plan To ‘Cut Grocery Bills Of Low Income Families

Low Income Stamp Plan Is Approved   WFA Endorsement To Affect 18.000,.000

FOOD STAMPS PLAN ENDORSE   Legislation Would Subsidize Low Income Families’ Grocery Bills.

Subsidies For   Low Income Groups May Get New Aid As WFA Endorses  Legislation

FOOD STAMP PLAN GIVEN ENDORSEMENT   Program Would Be Help To Lower  Income Group

WEA BACKING FOOD STAMPS   Subsidizing Grocery Bills of Low Income Families

W. F. A. Favors Proposed Food Stamp Program   Bill May Provide Basis For Compromise In Sub. sidy Dispute.

Food Stamp Plan Given (WEA Support   Surprise Approval Since Bill Bans Price Subsidies

WFA ENDORSES AIKEN’S FOOD STAMP PLAN      Federal Agency Surprises, Excludes Prohibition of Subsidy Pay to Farmers From Approval

Food Subsidy In New Form Seen   ADMINISTRATION FAVORS STAMP AID FOR FAMILIES

WFA Endorses Individual Subsidy   Approval of Stamp Plan Is Surprise

War  Stamp Plan Favored By.’ WFA Th Abrupt Move   Bill May. Become Basis For Compromise On Hotly ~~ Debated: Subsidy. Issue

TEXANS TALK OF 3RD PARTY   Meeting of Dissident South erners Is Called to Discuss: Course

Rebuffed Texans Talk 3rd Party At ‘Rump Session  Quit National Party Meeting

TEAS ENDL TERS AOLT CONVENTION   Dissident Southerners Plan Campaign Against New Deal

TEXANS IRED; CALL MEETING   Group That Walked Out o Convention To Call Session of Southerriers.

BOLTING TEXANS FOR THIRD PART   Call Meeting After Conven: tion Session; 33 Walk Out In Protest.

Third Party Talk Bolting Texans Ask Dissident Southerners to Rump Session

Southerners In a Huff       Third Party Talk Heard As Texas  Delegates Call Meeting

Bolting Texans Issue Call for  Rump Session   Third Party Talk Rampant— Communists Assailed

Anti-New Deal — Southerners Meet To Extend Revolt  Texans Lead In Talk Of Third Party

Democrats Ot Texas Io Meet Later Today   Third Party Talk Circulates Among Southerners as Convention Prepares to Nominate V. P.

Southerners Call Meeting   - Session to Discuss _ Next Step in Revolt Against New Deal

Texans Call For Meeting   Say Texas Convention Thwarted by Hillman Grou In Deliberate Affront

Buzz of Third Party is Heard   Southerners May Huddle for a  ‘Rump’ Session

Third-Party Talk Buzzing Among South’s Delegation To Democratic Convention

Anti - New Deal Texas Democrats Sound Battle Cry  Delegates Who Walked Out of Convention Call Southerners fo Meet May Develop Rump Session

Angry Southerners Talk Third Party   Delegatiens Will Hold: “Rump” Meeting At Close of Session

GULP. ADOPT IREE-POINT PRIGRAN   House and Senate Reject Schricker’s Lexislative Plans.

GOP. ADOPTS THRE: POINT PRARBAN   House and Senate Reject Schricker’s Let‘islative Plans.

Strategic Islands Bombed:  Mili and Jaluit Atolls Blasted By American Seventh Army Fliers

Marshalls Given Daily Pounding   Two Hits Made On  Fremy Trancnort

New Ireland Base Is Blast-  ed in Fierce Battle SCAND POSITIONS ——  ARE CONSOLIDATED Town Converted Into an  Inferno by the - Bombers

New Ireland Base !s Blasted in Fierce Battle  ISLAND POSITIONS—ARE CONSOLIDATED  Town Converted Into an Inferno by the Bombers

ALLIED BOMBERS LEAVE KAVIENG MASS OF FLAMES   Communique Pays Tribute To Heroism Of Flying  Boat Crew   GREEN ISLANDS ARE NOW CONSOLIDATED

Kavieng Air Blow Costs Eight Planes   Allied Gains In Gréen Island Landing Said Consolidated “Without Incident’!

Town Converted Into an Inferno, Says MacArthur   Allies Lose Eight Attacking Planes

ADMINISTRATION IS DETERMINED TO HOLD CEILING ON WAGES  ONE MORE ANNOUNCE. MENT IN CONNECTION

Expect WLB Deny Wage Hike Demand   Army To Take Men First, Materials Second: Willkie Supporters Say He Will Not Run Independently.

UTTLESTEEL PLAN STANDS   Wages Ceiling the Same Unless Congress Assumes Responsibility;

New Civilian Preduction ~ Is Threatened   Willkie Supporters Say ,He Will Net ‘Run Indepefidently; Criticizes Program

Rush Soldier Vote Action In Senate   Administration Wants Bill Passed Before House Can Act

Compromies On Soldier’s Vote Sought In Senate   Upper House Expected To Reach Balloting Stage In Short Time

POPE PIUS APPEALS FOR ROME'S SAFETY   Asks Belligerents to. Save Eternal City from Destruction: Same as Cairo, Athens

Seek States’ Cooperation   In River Plan      Gov. Griswold of Nebraska Gives Views at  Omaha Conference

Churchill, F.R. to Meet   Expected to lron Out Poltical Questions; New Stalin Parley Likely

ELL  NEW 3-POWER TALKS APPEAR LIKELY SOON   London Believes Roosevelt, Churchill To Meet First

Early Meet Looms   POLITICAL QUESTIONS NEED IRONING OUT: PARLEY WITH PREMIER STALIN MAY FOLLOW

Report Churchill,  Roosevelt to Meet  On Russ Question Speculation  Increases  TR ee ine aAtrinag  AMhRSea   Speculation Increases Moscow Playing Lone Hand in Europe’s Politics

REPORT ALLIED CHIEFS 10 MEET   Stalin Likely to Confer Later, Is Claim

Churchill! And Roosevelt May Confer Again   Conference Would Iron Out Political Questions; Parley With Stalin Possibility

Big 3 Parley On European ‘Politics Seen   U. S. and Britain Dis turbed by Russian ‘Lone ! Hand’ Indications

SOVIET POLICIES WORRY ALLIES   Moscow Playing Lone Hand In European Diplomacy

Another Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill Conference Is  Possible, London Learns

FDR-CHURCHILL MEETING SEEN      Possibility Of Another Confab With Stalin Hinted

Big Three May Meet  Aaain Soon   Stettinius Planning London Trip Which May Pave. Way for Talks   SEVERAL ISSUES UP FOR DECISIONS   Italian, Yugoslav, French ‘Polish and.Finnish ProbJems Need Ironing Out

Another Parley Among Big Three Forecast Soon  Russia’: 8 Lone > Hand  Tiininnwe   Russia’s Lone Hand Diplomatic Role Poses Questions

Russia’s ‘Lone Hand’ Policy n Europe Worries Allies   Roosevelt And Churchill To Meet Soon, Air  Problems, See Stalin Later

“Roosevelt And Churchill May Meet Again Soon   " Stalin May Confer With Them Later ° on War Diplomacy

Foresee Another Roosevelt And Churchill Meeting   Conference May Take’ Place After London Visit Of Edward Stettinius.

FA, CHURCHILL TD ~ MEET AGAIN SOON?   Possibility of Another Meeting With Stalin Suggested Too.

New 3-Power Conference Seen Likely   Stettinius’ London Visi May Be Prelude to Meeting

BRICKER PLANS BITTER BATTLE ON NEW DEALISM   Obioan Adopts Five-Plank  Platform In Open ing Campaign   ADDRESSES DINNER * OF GOP CHIEFTAINS

Bricker Has 5Pt.Platform For America   OHIO’S GOVERNOR TELLS REPUBLICANS AT WASHINGTON LINCOLN DAY DINNER HIS CAMPAIGN STKATEGY   Let People Make Policies

FOR 6. 0. P.IN COMING TEST   Lincoln Day Dinner Group Learns Platform

Bricker Reveals Campaign Plans   Takes Off Wraps In Fiery Speech

BRICKER’S HAT TOSSED IN RING   Ohio Republicans Launch Presidential Boom For Governor

BRICKER BARES HIS PLATFORM   Proposes to Fight Against Domestic Policies of FDR Administration

PLATFORM OF GOV. BRICKER -(S SET FORTH   Five-plank Program. on Domestic Issues Announced   WOULD LEAVE. WAR “TO MILITARY HEADS   Ideas of Governor Revealed at Lincoin Day Dinner

Bricker Reveals Platform, Raps Roosevelt Policies   Challenges President On Domestic Issues Fvinces Confidence

REGULATION OF LABOR UNIONS PRESCRIBED   Florida Supreme Court Claims They Are Subject To Rules As Other Oreanizations

ALLIES HAD UNEXPECTED SUCCESS IN ‘TRANSPORT OF: TROOPS TO INVASION  “GOAT:

HARNESS CALLS PRESENT CAMFAIH BATTLE OF “ISVS   Nation Is Living by Decree, Harness Charges in Speech

HARNESS: CALLS: ~ PRESENT CAMA BATTLE OF SMS"   Nation Is Living by Decree, Harness Charges in Sreech

Skipper: Tells Story of Destroyer That: Steamed Head-on for Four Battleships: in Philippines Battle

Veto Expected On Bloc’s Anti Subsidy Bill   Odds Even On Ability Of Houses To Raise Two-Thirds Vote

FDR EXPECTED TO VETO ANTISUBSIDY BILL   Pros and Antis Muster: Strength for Showdown

Food Subsidy Ban Certain of Veto   Farm Bloc Seeks to Override Roosevelt

Senate Rebukes Subsidies Bill   Farm Bloc Proposal Scheduled For FR Veto

More Snow and Cold Ison Michigan’s Docket for Tonight and W ednesday

OFL FACES VOTE ON 4TH TERM   Controversies Expected On Some Resolutions

BRITAIN WILL CLEAR PORTS FOR INVASION   Non-Combatants Expected To Be Evacuated From Bases Of Operation

JAP HUNTING GOOD   Allied Airmen Range Southwest Pacific to Bag 23 Vessels

23 Jap Ships Knocked Out In Air Sweep   Allied Bombers ‘ Range ‘From Dutch Indies to South Philippines

ALLIED FLIERS SINK 10 JAP SHIPS IN RAIDS FROM KURILES TO EAST INDIES

AMERICAN AIRMEN HUNT JAP SHIPS ‘OVER WIDE. AREAS   Raids From the Kuriles in the North ‘to Celebes in . the South Results in 23 Vessels Knocked Out With 10 Sunk

PLANS COMPLETED ° FOR TIRE DISPLAY   Synthetic Tires and Use to Feature Program To‘morrow

PLANS COMPLETED. © FOR TIRE DISPLAY   Synthetic Tires and. Use to  Feature Program To-:  morrow: =  .

WAR REPORTS ARE GIVEN BY SEC'Y OF WAR   Stimson Says Fighting Going Well for the . AiMee   CASUALTY REPORT GIVEN BY OFFICIAL   Total of 2,985 Americans Killed on the Italian ' Front

War Going Well, Stimson Asserts   Secretary Pleased With the Picture

CANADA SPLIT BY OPPOSITION TO DRAFT ACT   HOME SERVICE MEN PROTEST AGAINST OVERSEAS DUTY

Jap Attacks On — Hangyang Halted   ‘Repulse Ten Attempts To Storm Key City

2-PRONGED PUSH MADE ON 150,000   Other Russian Armies Force Rivers in Ro\ mania to Mop Up Enemy Escaping j From Odessa

Northeastern states will be final targets  Nominees switch to populous area

Roosevelt Talks Of Conservation Ih West Virginia  Dewey Speaks Tuesda:   Dewey Speaks Tuesday Wallace Accuses Him  Of ‘Doubletalking’

DEWEY PRECEDES FDR INTO BOSTON   Roosevelt Winds Up Seven - ‘State

PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN FINAL STRETCH      Dewey and Roosevelt Plan Speeches During the Week

Reforestation — UrgedbyFDR AtClarksburg   W. Va. Democrats Join President’s Train Crossing State

FDR Returns ‘Home’ From 7-State Trip  Gives Brief Speech At Clarksbura

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FD Returns to Capital; Plans  More Speeches   Extemporaneous Talk At Clarksburg, W. Va. On Reforestation: Ends 7-State Tour

FDR PLANNING. MORE TALKS   President Returns to Capital After Address In Chicago

~1.0. Steel Nins Slight ay Increase   Base Wage Raise Is Denied; Guaranteed Income Put Up to F. R.

WAGES OF STEEL ‘WORKERS BOOSTEI 5 GENTS AN HOUR   Demands for Base Raise and ‘Guaranteed Annual Pay ‘ Reférred to Roosevelt by Labor Board.   400,000 DIRECTLY _ AFFECTED BY DECISION   Chairman Davis Says Increase  -- Does Not Break Formula  _ =—Spokesmen for Indus- — try Criticise Rulinc.

Adjust steel. wages, reject base increase  Davis: Formula iskentunbroken

Steelworker Wage Raise Is Approved   But WLB_ Declares Order Does Not  Break Formula

Steel Workers Get Adjustment   Main Demeonds for Base Pay Raise, Guaranteed Annual Pay to White House

Average Boost  Of 5 Cents Ar Hour Awardee   Main Demands For Base Pay Raise and Guaranfeed Annual Pay Referred to White House   Little Steel Pay Formula Unbroken   Not Even Bent, Chairman Davis Says; Way Left Open For Question of General Wage Increase

Main Demands Are Referred To President   Average Increase Is 5 Cents; Hike In Base Pay, Bid For Annual Income Sent To F. R.

Workers Get o-Cent Pay Adjustments   . Guaranteed Wage Issue Referred To White House

Yanks Plunge ‘On In Guinea   Reinforced Troops Plunge Toward Two Jap Airdromes

Maffin Bay Airdromes Threatened By Advance   Destroyers Help Silenc Silence Jap Mortar: As 5-Day Stalemate In New Gumea Is Broken

Allies Break Stalemate in New Guinea   One American Bomber Lost Over Truk Base

Winnebago REA Provides Power to Produce More Food   Power Brought to 1348 Consumers, 25 More Miles of Line Erected in 1943. Will Add 100 More Consumers This vear

FATE IS UNCERTAIN   Report Chevalier Was Shot Lacks Confirmation

REPORT ON LIBERATED EUROPEANS   Will Provide 90% Of Own Food for Coming Winter

BIG RELIEF JOB FACES VICTORS   LIBERATED NATIONS NEED CLOTHING AND FOOD

Yankees Slug at ‘Gustav Line   Face Tough Battle In Cassino Assault

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Yanks Slash Way Forward In Italy   Desperate Nazi Counterblow Beaten Off At Cervaro In Advance Toward Cassino

Fierce German Resistance Met By Clark's Troops   3 German Airfields - Destroyed at Rome; French Advance

Yankees Slug Doggedly at Nazi Lines   German Resistance Is Reported Extremely Fierce

YANKS SLOWLY ADVANCE. UPON CASSINO FORT   Nazi Resistance’ Fierce Before ‘Gustay Line’; Counterattack Is  Beaten Off

YARD BY YARD GAIN MADE ON ITALIAN FRONI   AMERICANS SLUG IT OUT WITH NAZIS AT CASSINO

AMERICAN TROOPS SCORE NEW GAINS   Forces Smash at the “’Gustav Line” Defenses of Cinceingh

STRONG DEFENSES PUB ORIECTIVE   Maze of Weapon Pits, Mine. fields Faces Allies   “RESISTANCE FIERCE   irmen Hammer Airdromes In Rome Area; French Troops Make Gains

AMERICANS SLASH AT DEFENSE LINE BEFORE CASSINO   Nazis Fight Desperately as Yanks Advance Through Minefields and Barbed Entanglements.   TWO CRACK DIVISIONS DEFENDING BASTION   Allies Reveal Three German Airfields in Rome Area Are in Ruins as Resuk of Raid.

Hardin County Board Issues Rules for Month. Tires, Etc.   Fuel Oil.

RAF Batters Duisburg in Heavy Raid   Fighters Shoot Up Rail Facilities Over Wide Area

Fighters Shoo! Up Over 300 Locomotives   Scores of Troop Carriers and Trains Blasted

Five Bodies Found In Mississippi   Crash Victims Recovered By Salvage Crews

RECOVER FIVE BODIES. 19 MORE   ‘Resulting from Last Thursday Night's  Plane Disaster

FIVE BODIES TAKEN FROM RIVER CRASH   Youngstown Lieutenant’s Body Is Recovered

Legality Blocks Lonergan Trial   Accused Slayer Voices Disappointment Over Delay of Trial Bogged Down Under Legal Blocks.

Lonergan Trial Delay Foreseen  District Attorney Won't Press Case

Leningrad’s Reds Make 12-Mile Gain   Nazis Driven Back To Within 5 Miles Gf Krasnogvardeisk

70 Towns Captured By Reds   Capture of Rail Junction Would Be Blow to Nazis

Russian lroops Make 12-Mile Gains in North   Moscow-Leningrad Rail Link Freed By Latest Gains

(Ohio Solon Sees Close Tieup Belween Rationing Lift and Election Year

TO THE CONVENTION   Dolph Simons to Attend as Second District Delegate

Republican Wins Congress Seat From Democrat   Business Man Victor Over War Hero in Colorado

COLORADO PUTS GOP CANDIDATE IN HOUSE SEAT   ean Gillespie, Businessman, Defeats Wor Hero in Democratic District

Businessman Wins  Over a War Hero   Democrat Candidate With Military Back ground Loses in Colorado.

Republican Is Winner In Colorado   Defeat of War Hero In Contest for Congressional Seat Causes Surprise   MAJORITY IS CUT DOWN

BUS STRIKE NOW IN ITS FIFTH DAY   Penn -Ohio Coach Lines Drivers Ignore Labor Board Ultimatum

New Victory Clears Red Army Path   Russians Gain Twin Triumph in Capturing German Strongpoints On Road to Pinsk

Mozvr, Nazi Rail Center.  Fall To Reds   Junction Of  Kalinkovichi Also Seized: Clear Important Center.   ROUGH OPPOSITION

Third Town Attacked By Vatutin   Mozyr and Kalinkovichi Fall in Fourth Day Of Red Army Advance Despite Strongest Defenses Nazis Could Offer

Reds Repel Furious Counter-A!facks Near Vinniisa, 53 Miles from Rumavian Border   DRIVE ON KOVEL   Siege Guns Pound Outflenked Mozyr aad Kalinkovichi iz Rokossovsky's Advance

Twin Triumph ls Announced By Stalin   Clears Path Toward Pinsk Through Poland

Russian Army. Captures Mozyr And Kalinkovichi   Important Prizes Announced by Special Stalin Order of Day

Kalinkovichi and Mozyr Captured In Today's Advance   American Bombers Return to Battle After Biggest Fight

Defenses of Mozyr and Kalinovichi  Pounded by Reds   Nazi Counterattacks East of Vinnitsa Are Repulsed

Reds Capture Rail Points   Mozyr and Kalinkovichi, Strongly Fortified, Taken

Cossacks Cut Escape Lane From Mozyr   Russian Horsemen Sweep Beyond City —Speed  Drive to Pinsk

KALINKOVICHI IS ALSO TAKEN BY RUSSIAN FORCES   New Victory Clears Another Important Sector Of Zhlobin Rail Line For Red Communications; Stalin Issues Special  Order.

Two Hubs Face Russian Siege, Ariillery Blows   White Russian Army’s Offensive Gains Momentum

Reds Take Two More Rail Keys   Mozyr and Kalinkovichi Are Captured in Fourth Day: of Offensive “  STRONG: DEFENSES ' = ARE OVERCOME   Twin Triumph Clears.-Path for Reds Through Marshes: ‘Into Poland Toward Pinsk:

Strongest Nazi Defense Broken; Escape Cut Off   Vital Sector Falls To - Victorious Russians In   Four-Day Battle

NAZI DEFENSE BARRIERS FAIL TO HALT REDS   Twin Triumph Clears Path in Marshes  For Russians

SOVIETS TAKE ? TOWNS TORY   Clear Another Important Sector of Zhlovin-Berdichev Rail Line.   FOUR DAYS GF OFFENSIVE

Sarny Sector Is Broadened To 80 Miles   Konev Also Makes Progress in Kiroyograd Offensive

Reds Win Mozyr, Kalinkovichi, Cossack Forces Drive Ahead   By HENRY C. CASSIDY

SOVIETS STORM INTO TWO KEY RAL CENTERS   Twin Triumph Clears Way For March Toward  Pinsk

DRIVE INTO. KALINKOVICHI AND MOZYR   Former Is Junction of Moscow- Warsaw and Leningrad-Odessa Lines —Path Open Through Prinet Marshes.

Mozyr Falls To Forces of  Soviet Army   Rail Junction of Kalinkovichi Also Taken In Big Flank Attack

Russians Capture Mozyr   Clear Important Sector of Rail Line; U. S. Planes Swarm Back To Attack on Reich

IMPORTANT CENTERS CAPTURED BY SOVIET ARMIES ON FRIDAY  TWIN TRIUMPHS CLEAR   TWIN TRIUMPHS CLEAR WAY FOR RED ARMY MARCH TOWARD PINSK

‘Chinese Civilians Flee Hengyang As Japs Approach   Enemy Forces Seeking to Spli  — China Only 25 Miles Away tres Sianc River Town

Japs on Saipan Trapped   Routed Nip Fleet _Abandons 20,000 Men; Port Blair Raided

“Berlin Reports German Retreat From Florence   Don’t Want Allies To Destroy Italian City, Nazi Broadcast Says

Raid Follows Air Strike  at Manila   Japs Complete Junction il Southeast China, Cut : Na tion in Half

JAP CENTERS. HIT AGAIN BY BOMB FORCES   Important Industrial Centers Are Objects in Attack: Say Home Front Jitterv Over Offensive.

Shanghai and Nanking Docks Also Attacked   20 Jap Planes Shot Down, 16 Probably Bagged, 19 Damaged

Plane Plant on Jap Home Island Raided   B-29’s Blast Big Omura Factory on Kyshu for Third Time — Secondary Blows Dealt at Nanking and Shanghai.

B-29S IN ACTION   Superfortresses Hit Jap Factory on Island of  Kyushu

B-29's Hit Jap Plane Center  Omura Aircraft Plant On Kvushu A Taraet

20 Jap Attack Planes Smashed   118 Nip Planes, 3 Ships Knocked Out in Sea Borne Air Smash at Manila; Enemy Loses 1000 Aircraft in Month; Chinese Fall Back

B-29s Bomb Big Omura Aircraft Plant in Japan   Raiders Continue Destruction Started In October; Other Centers Are Struck

B-29s Raic Jap Air © Factory   Plant On Kyushu Hit For Third Time By Big Planes; Nanking and Shanghai Raided Too

HUGE JAP AIRCRAFT FACTORY BOMBED   B-29's Shoot Down 20 Attacking Japanese Planes. 16 Others Probably Destroyed; First Opposition in Such Strength Against the Superforts

B-29’s Hit Big Jap Plane Plant On Home Island Of Kvushu In: Raid Today

Strike is Eighth By U. S. Against Jap Home Isiand Of Kyushu.   NO REPORT ON LOSSES

B-29s Blast Jap Island Of Kyushu   70-80 Hit Nagaski and Omura Arxeas  Of Islands

Superforts Bomb Japs’ Air Center   Fourth Garrier Raid or Manila Wipes Out 118 Planes

Huge Ourma Aircraft Fae. tory Blasted; Twenty At. tacking Nip Planes  . Destroyed

JAPS’ OMURA PLANE PLANT ~ HIT BY B-298   Tokyo Radio Reports Sky Battle As Super Bombers Lash Out

JAP AIRCRAFT FACTORIES HIT BY SUPERFORTS   Kyusha Blasted For Third Time; Foe Sends Up Fighter Opposition

285 UNLOAD THEIR BOWES OVER KYUSHU   Hit Heart of Japs’ Aircraft industry After New Manila Raid.

Forts Raid Jap Homeland Aerial Plant   Other American Fliers Batter Manila’Graveyard

B-29'S BATTER CENTER OF JAP PLANE OUTPUT   Seaborne Raid On Manila Wipes Out 118 Nip Aircraft, Three Ships

Americans Have Slaughtered 50,000 Nazis in Southern France and Are Chasing Stragglers:

50,000 Germans Eliminated in Southern France   Yanks Cut Off Enemy Retreat in Bhone Valley, Attack Nazis From Ali Side:

GERMAN ARMIES BATTERED MOST SEVERELY IN RETREAT NORTH AND AT LEAST 15.000 SLAIN   At Least 50,000 Nazi Front Line Combat Troops Knocked Qut in Great Allied Effort to Hamper Their Flicht from France Back to Homeland

Germans Routed In South France, Lose 50,000 Men   Serious Reverses Hit Fleeing Nazis In Rhone Valley

Entire German Flank Turned in New All-Out Smash for French Capital; Nazis Offer to Surrender at Lorient

Turn Entire Left Flank Of Germans In 50 Mile Surge   Germans In Complete And Utver Confusion According To Reports From Front Line United Press Correspondents.

DAMAGE SUIT. DRAWS 0: CLaSE   Closing Arguments Begun in Miller vs. Basey Case

UANIAGE ull DRAWS 10 CLOSE   Closing Arguments Begun in Miller vs. Basey Case

PVT. W. G. WILDMAN KILLED IN ACTION; PREVIOUSLY HURT   Dorrance  Street Soldier, Aged 20, Went Over seas Last May   IN SERVICE. 20 MONTHS   Was Shot in Jaw Last June, And Later Returned To Action

PUT, WALTER 6. SVILCRTAN SKILLED (IN ACTION   Brother of Bristol Soldier Was Injured in Pacific   WOUNDED PREVIOUSLY

Sabotage Blast Kills 200 Persons   2000 Injured in Bergen Explosion

Servicemen Breal Up Picket Line In Kansas City Strike   Aroused Men Of Armed Services Storm Plant Gates, ‘Will Be Baek’

PICKETS CHASED BY SERVICEMEN   Soldiers And_ Sailors Take Hand In Strike At Kansas City

SERVICE MEN ROUT PICKETS      “We'll Be Back,’ Soldier Warns Unionist

IRATE SERVICE MEN DESTROY UNION  PLACARDS AT STRUCK BOMBER PLANT 

Soldiers Storm Struck Plant  Placards of Pickets Torn Up by Raiders; Officers Urge Peace

Angered Service Men Storm Closed Plant, Tear Down CIC  Placards. Promise tc) Return

SERVICE MEN ROUT STRIKE PICKETS   SOLDIERS AND SAILORS STORM ENTRANCES OF K. C. BOMBER PLANT.

Angry Service Men Scatter Pickels   Storm Plant Entrances Of Big Bomber Plant At Kansas City

Pickets Routed By Service Men At Plane Plant   Soldiers And Sailors Teat Up Posters At Bomber Factory, Closed By Work Stoppage

Servicemen Demonstrate  About Strike   Group Marches on Bomber Plant Despite Pleas of Officers

Planes Flown to Reds From Secret Bases   MAGNUSON REVEALS RUSSIAN-MANNED CENTERS FOR FERRYING AIRCRAFT

Secret Red Air Bases  Are Revealed   Magnuson Explains How Planes from U. S. Are Taken to Russia

BRITISH FLIER LOST IN OHIO RIVER AS HE LEAPS IN ‘CHUTE   Companion Lands Safely on  West Virginia Side

6 DEAD, 60 HURT. IN TRAIN WRECK   FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER COLLIDE NEAR MIS-SOURI VALLEY, IA,

Six die in crash; 70 are hurt   Nebraskan killed  in train crackup

EIGHT DEAD, MANY INJURED IN WRECK   Freight and  Passenger Trains Collide in Miss-ouri Valley

COLLISION KILLS SIX ONC. & NW.   Freight Rams Passenger In Missouri Valley; Over 60 injured

Light Die In Train Collision   More Than 100 Are Injured In Missouri Valley Train Wreck.

Train Wreck Kills Eight in lowa   Many of Dead, Hurt Said to Be Soldiers

Strength for Task Asked in F. D.R. Prayer   PRESIDENT LEADS AMERICA IN PLEA FOR FIGHTING MEN

1,000,000 SOON TO BE OVERSEAS   ROOSEVELT SAYS FARM MACHINERY EXPORTED IS HELPING FEED AEF.

Roosevelt Says .Only 2Per Cent . Tools Exported  James Markham to Succeed Leo Crowley as. _ Alien Property Custodian

Germans Give Up Efforts to Avert Turkish Break   Claim Ankara  May Sever Relations This Week; Grip  On Bulagars Weaker

Turkey Break  Is Momentary.   Germany wide Up ‘Hope. Of Any Accord.

GERMANS LOSING HOLD ON TURKEY?   Predict Announcement o Break Will Come on Wednesday.

Berlin Expects Turkish Break By Wednesday   Reich Losing In Bulgaria; See Allies Given Naval, Air Bases In Turkey

See Early Turk Break   Nazis Say the Rupture With Germany Will Be Announced Wednesday

NAZIS ABANDON HOPES OF TURKISH CONTROL, LOSING BULGARIA GRIP   DECISION ON DIPLOMATIC, ECONOMIC RELATIONS DUE WEDNESDAY; ALLIES MAY GET AIR BASES

NAZIS EXPECT TURKEY BREAK   Germans Also Apparently Are Losing Grip On Bulaaria

Turkish Break - With Germany Is - Due Wednesday  That Is Nazi Report Today; Hitler Also Loses  Oeuin an Ruloara

NAZI HOLD BREAKING ON TURKEY, REPORT   Indications Germans Losing Grip on Bulgaria

Nazi-Turkey Break Nearer   Cutting of Relations May Be Announced Within 24 Hours

Nazis Expect Turks To Break Off Ties   ‘Declare Ankara Will Announce Severance of Diplomatic and Economic Relations Wednesday—Bulgaria Slipping, Too.

TURKS PLAN T0 DROP GERMANS   Decision Will Be Announced Wednesday, Enemy News Agency Reports

DECLARE TURKEY WILL BREAK WITH REICH WEDNESDAY   Indications Too. That - .Germans Are Losing Their - Grip on Bulgaria; Diplomats Are Leaving.   ALL TURKISH EDITORS CALLED TO CONFERENCE   Scores. of Japanese Also Said to Be Booking Passage For Return to Their Home Island.

HOUSE DEBATES WAR PROPERTY   COMMITTEE STUDIES COMPENSATION MEASURE

SURPLUS WAR PROPERTY IS CONSIDERED   House Given Bill Setting Up Machinery to Dispose of Immense Stocks.

Fourth Term Draft Movement Starfed   Former California Governor Predicts Demos For FDR

Start Fourth Term Action   Former California Governor Opens Movement For ReElection Of Roosevelt,

OLSON DECLARES FDR WILL CARRY. CALIF. IN VOTING   ‘ Unofficial Fourth Term “Draft” of President Started by California Governor

British 8th Closing In On Florence   Repulse 5 German Divisions, Retake Monte San Michele

Nazis Hurl Five Divisions in Italian Area  Eighth Army Units Tighten Grip Around Florence

Nodse Tightens Around Florence   Veteran Eighth Army On Last Hill Line

Admiral Denies Any, Loss   Tokyo Propaganda Exposed as Superforis Resume Attacks

China-based Yank Planes Sink Enemy Cruiser and Destroyer In South China Sea - - Mikado’s Fleet Comes Out of Hiding But Turns and Flees When American Strength Seen

JAP FLEET REFUSES TO FIGHT   -Fliies At Sicht Of American Third Fleet Off Formosa

Report Contradicts Tokyo’s ‘Triumph’; Formosa Hit Again   American Admiral Says Part Of Enemy Fleet Came Out Of Hiding, But Fled At Sight Of Big U.S. Force; Yank Carriers, Warships Damaged Little

Nips Force 2 Warships to Retire   Enemy Strategy Misses Fire; Land-Based Torpedo Planes Fail to Scatter. Fleet .

Enemy Boasts Of Big Victory Are Denied By Nimitz   Two U. $. Warships Out With Light Casualties

Only Two US. Warships Put Out of Action, Nimitz Reveals   U.S. Admiral Flatly Contradicts Tokyo Vietorv Claims

SUPER - FORTS HIT FORMOSA FOR 3RD TIME   Carrier Planes Blast Philip. pines’ Defense Line As Action Mounts

Says Jap Fleet 2etused Fight      No American Carriers, Battleships Badly Damaged, Admiral Reports

TOKYO BOASTS ARE DENIED BY NIMITZ   No U. S. Carriers, Battleships Badly Damaged   NIPS TURN TAIL   And Flee After Seeing Yank Forces Unimpaired, Pacific Chief Reports

Only Two U.S. Warships Knocked Out of Action   Balikpapan Oil Refineries at Borneo. Left in Flames Again

Nimitz Says Cost Slight To Americans   No Serious Damage He Claims; B-29s In 3rd Straight Attack  On Farmaca Races

Jap Warships Flee After Discovering Size of U.S. Force   Two American Ships Knocked Out Of Action; B-29’s Continue Raids On Formosa

JAPANESE FLEET FAILED 10 MEET AMERICAN NAVY   Turned Tail On Sight Of U. S. Third Force

Pat Of Enemy Fleet Comes Out Of Hiding But Promptly Flees To Safe: Waters

tinois Governor to Mow Lawn to Highest Bidder in Bond Sole Rallv

Pennsylvania CIO Endorses Fourth Term   State AFL Delegates Also Cheer Address Urging F.D.R.’s Support

Pacific Naval ; \ Battle Raging   JAP FLEET CC COMES OUT TO: TRADE BLOWS , WITH U. S.

TEMPFRATIRYS   SEA GIANTS FACE  EACH OTHER EASI  OF PHILIPPINES NIMITZ SAYS U S.  FLEET EAGER AND READY FOR BATTLE

Japs Say \ ip. U.S. Fleets Are Fighting   Entire Japanese  Fleet May Be Engagec In Fierce Battle  Off Marianas Isles

History’s Greatest Naval Engagement Expected; First Blows Have Been Traded

Yank-Jap Fleets Face Each Other   Preliminary Blows May Have Been Struck Off Marianas

Mighty Sea "Fight Raging In Pacific ?   U. S. And Jap Fleets Believed Locked In Battle Off Marianas.

Some Indication Given Americans  Already in Fight   Admiral Nimitz Discloses  Japs Have Lost Six Hundred Warplanes.   Resistance Is Tough  On Embattled Saipan

Yankee, Jan Fleets Line Up For Top Sea Battle   Preliminary Blows Believed Already  Delivered

Showdown Naval Battle May Already Have Begun; a Possibility That U. S. Force Is Engaging Entire Nip Fleet

U. S. Naval Force And Nipponese Units, “Possibly Entire Japanese Fleet,’’ Face Each Other In 1,500 Miles Between Philippines And Marianas—Nimitz Says Americans Are Ready For Anything Enemy Has—Tokyo Reports Battle Under Way

First Blows Already Hit And Tokyo Admits Losses   Nimitz Confident, Reveals Air Attack on Nippon’s Fleet; Admiral King Says Sooner Jans Ficght the Better

U.S., Japan Battle Fleets In Position for History’s Biggest Naval Engagement

Fierce Fight Is Already Raging Off Marianas, Tokyo Asserts   ‘Possibly Entire Enemy Fleet’ Out, Says. Nimitz

GIANT FLEETS FACE 10 FACE OFF MARIANAS   Preliminary Battles May Have Started, Forrestal Hints

Jap Fleet ‘Out Near: ~ Philippines   Tokyo Reports Engagement ~ and Concedes ‘Consider-. “able Losses’...   SAIPAN: FIGHTING =. REPORTED. BITTER   Air’ Fields’ “There and on Bik. Aid JS. in, + Pacific Strugcle’

. oe . * B Admiral Nimitz Declares Entire Enemy Force  Is Off Marianas   Our Forces Eager For A Showdown   Reports Indicate Battle Joined With Losses For lapanese

UL S. FLEET MEETING JAP NAVAL FORCE   Japs Attempting To Keep Allies From Homeland

Battle May Have Far Reaching and Decisive Effects On Pacific War; Going Still Tough For Yanks On Saipan.

ENTIRE FLEE OF JAPS MAY * BEIN AREA   First Showing Since Midway For Nips’ Navy   Says He Hopes Enemy Will Be Available: Tinian Airfields Shelled

NIMITZ HINTS OF BIG NAVAL BATTLE SOON   U. S., Japanese Fleets In Position For Historic Clash In Pacific

Nippon Fleet Leaves Secret Hiding Place   Reports Indicate That History-Making Battle Mav Be in Progress

Creat Battle Now Believed In Progress   Nippon Fleet Found In 1,500 Miles Between Philippines, Marianas.  SAVVITIAACTTMMICIN. IR Ga DWawN   OPPOSITION IN SAIPAN

OUT OF HIDING   Engages U. $. Navy in Area Between Philippines, Marianas.   YANKS EAGER. READY

U. S.-Jap Fleets In  Battle Preliminaries   Nimitz Hints Entire Jap Fleet May Have Been Drawn Into Area for Long-Sought Battle; Yanks Eager and Ready

Islands Raided, Japanese Repor'   American Sea and Air Attacks On Volcanos And Bonins Revealed

TASK FORCE HITS JAPANESE ISLES   Bonin and Volcano Group Pounded by Warships  and Carrier Planes.

Senale Body Shelves Bil Favoring Unrestricted Jewish Palestine Eniry

Broiling Heat In France As  Troops Go On   Doughboys’ Spirits High As Alencon Is Taken; Sees Reached

Gas Ration Stamps Are Stolen Here   Coupons Worth 4,461 Gallons Taken by Burglars From Mid-Co Warehouse

Ho Sythe eee  Gas Ration Stamps Are Stolen Here   Coupons Worth 4,461 Gallons Taken by Burglars From Mid-Co Warehouse

Bataan Survivor To Visit State   Heavy Bombers Now In Range Of Mindanao

MacArthur Improving. Road To Philippines   Lightning Thrusts In South Pacific Speak Il For Japs: Big Nip Unit Trapped

Trap Closing on Japs Defending Ormoc Corridor   Americans Gain Steadily in ‘Leyte Fighting

Polish Exile Premier To Visit Stalin      London Group Hopes To Effect Compromise

London Poles Send Premier   Mikoljezyk Of Polish Government In Exile To See Stalin.

POLES IN EXILE 10 TALK WITH STALIN   Premier Mikolyczyk Represents Group From London at Soviet Capital:

POLISH PREMIER TO MEET WITH STALIN   Head of Government in Exile Leaves for Moscow Conference.

London Hopes For Compromise As Polish Government-In-Exile Sends Premier To Meet Stalir

Polish-Exile Premier Leaves For Moscow To Seek Compromise   Hope Still Held For Effecting Agreement Between Soviet And London Pole Regimes

86 Nazi Planes Downed Or Destroyed On Ground By 400 U.S. Fighters

Shot From Air or Destroy:  ed On Ground in Second  Longest Strafing Mis-   sion of War    2,000 Others Hit Reich Hard Blows   Bridges, Factories, Gasoline Stores and Retreaiing Infantrymen Hanimered From Air

86 NAZI PLANES BAGGED BY U.S. RAIDING FORCES   Airmen Travel 1,200 Miles To Munich and Back in Blasting Enemy

American Planes Spray Infantry, Gasoline Stores   Widespread Aerial Assault Supports Advancing Forces

86 NAZI PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   American Fighters Fb 1,200 Miles, Munich And Return

Fighters Bag 06 Airplanes   Americans Hang Up Second Longest Strafing Mission Record.

Hard-Hitting Yanks Bag 86 Nazi  Planes in Raids  Fighters Aid Infantry In Attacks on Retreating Forces

Fighter Pilots  Destroy 86 Of  Nazi Planes Mission Of 1200   Mission Of 1200 Miles To Munich And Return °

400 U. S. Fighter Pilots Hang Up Longest Strafing Mission On Record

BD NAZI PLANES ARE DESTROYED BY AMERICAN PILOTS   Twenty-Five Blasted From Skies and 61 Smashed on Ground — 16 U. S. Airmen Fail to Return.   STRAFING MISSION IS SECOND LONGEST   Four Hundred Fly to Munich and Back — Other Fliers Bomb Enemy Before AIlied Ground Troops.

86 Nazi Planes Destroyed by U.S. Flyers   Luftwatfe Comes Up for First Time Since Nov. 2

AAIDS Thiol BEHIND LINts IN RHINELAN   Strafe Retreating Germans, Blast Railways, Roads and Bridges.

1,200 Miles Are Flown . For Attacks.  On Germany   Retreating: Enemy’s “Troops,” Plants Hit.

Aerial Blows Stun Enemy   Fighters Destroy 86 Foes in Record Foray; Bombers Hit Plants

FAVOR DELAY IN COURT MARTIAL   Subgroup for Extending Short, Kimmel Hearing

Try Officers On Dee. 7,°44   Extend Time For Kimmel. Short Court Martial To Anniversary Of Attack.

Opposition To Court Martial Now   Admiral Demands Free, Open and Public Trial

U. 5. Troops Refuse to Descend to Japs’ Level in Prisoner Treatment

ODESSA DISTRICT IS PENETRATF FORGE NAZIS Bau   Pravda Reports Gigantic Battle Rages In Full Swing to Drive Last of Enemy From Ukraine.   RING 1S TIGHTENED ON ISGLATED JAPS   Marines Establish New Base In Pacific In Landings on   13 Small Islands, No Resistance.

Field  Dispatehes Say Armies OQuly 130 Miles North OF Seaport   Western Ukr aine May Be Liberated   Giant Battle To Drive Lust Nazi Out Now  Bee Deg ccge, pie:

Eyewitness Account of Jap Sub Sinking   (EDITORS’ NOTE—Following is an eyewitness story of today's communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters.)  BY JOHN LEONARD

Cannon at 50 Ft.      U. S. Destroyer and Jap Submarine Siug It Out Almost Toe-to-Toe

ALLIES SMAS DEFENSES OF FLORENCE   Eighth Army Forces Within Four Miles of Historic City

NAZIS CLING TO FLORENCE   Allies Within Four Miles of City Other wi In Italy  Quiet

War Production Facing ‘Highly Critical’ Three Months, Nelson Asserts; Urges Plan to Restore Civilian Output

200,000 Workers May Be Shifted   Needed in War Plants. WPB Head Asserts

Chinese Report Fires In Yawata.   Superforts Cause Blazes  Lasting Over Three Days

Allies In Control Of French Mediterranean Coast While Yanks Chase Nazis To Lyon

Allies Hold Major Part Of Coast   French, Americans Advance in South France Taking Lond Along Mediterranean

Allies Control Mediterranean Coast of France      Yanks Only 10 Miles From Italian Border; French Nearer Spain

AMERICANS 48 MILES FROM LYON   U.S. Vanguards Cross Italian Frontier, Reports Claim

French Troops Strike Within 50 Miles Of Spanish Border  AMERICANS ARE NOW TEN MILES OF ITALY  Giving Allies Control Of French Coast Of Mediterranean

AMERICANS IN HOT PURSUIT OF GERMANS   French Troops Strike to Within Less Than 50 Miles of Spanish Border.

French Troops Within 50 Miles of Spanish Front   Allies Have Almost Complete Control of Mediterranean Coast

YANKS ADVANCE WITHIN 10 MILES OF ITALIAN AREA IN FAST MOVE   Americans In Hot Pursuit Of Retreating Germans Up Rhone Valley.

FRENCH NEAR SPANISH BORDER   Allies Hold Most Of the French Mediterranean Coast

MILES FROM SPAIN BORDER   Allies Control Nearly All of Medit. Coast

iF rench and Americans Fan \Out Along Mediterranean and Chase Fleeing Nazis North

ALLIES PUSH 3 BIG DRIVES IN SOUTH FRANCE   Strike Nearer Spanish, Italian Borders, Up Rhone

FRENCH NEAR SPAIN, YANKS NEAR ITALY   Répid Advance May Take Them to Border Today: Germans Prepare For Stiff Defense in Hills.

Allies Hold Nearly All South Coast   German Position In Southern France Becomes Desperate.

LIGHTNING PUSH THREATENS VIA CASILINA BLOCK   Artillery Flashes Seen From Rooftops In  Rome As Nazis B~k4t Dante

Shell Germans 15 Miles From Rome   American lanks, Artillery Bring Casilina Highway Under Fire; 8 Enemy Divisions Falling Back Toward Eternal Citv

Infantry Takes Artena: German Attacks Fail   Shells Falling On Nazi Positions 15 Miles Of Rome

Other Fifth Army Forces Seize, Largest Town Yet Taken by Allied Offensive And Make Second Threat to Nazis

Doughboys In Fierce Battle Against Huns   Ww aging House-to-House War For Possession of Town Near Main Nazi Escape Route   8 Enemy Divisions . Are Facing Trap   Other U. §. Forces Threaten Velletri, 18 Miles From Outskirts of Eterval Citv

eALLIED SHELLS DROPPING NEAR e ETERNAL GIT)   Guns Pound Nazi Positions 15 Miles From Rome; Infantry Rolling

Foe Suffers Heavy Losses in Attacks   Four Divisions ¢ of Germans Hurled at Allied Beachhead; Gains Are Small

German ' Offensive Being Held   Americans Withstand Shock of All-Out Assault on Rome Beachhead: Gain at Cassino

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON GERMAN FORCES   Advance Up Mt. Cassino Is Progressing Slowly - « Reds Mass for New Drive

(Germans Fling Four Divisions  At Beachhead   Fifth Army Lines Intact—London Suffers Worst Raid Since 1940-41

NAZI FIELD MARSHAL KESSELRING MAKING HIS GREATEST BID   FIFTH ARMY LINES HOLD, HOWEVER, AND INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES

Nazis Losses Mount   Kesselring’s Big Push Bumps Into Stone Wall

CT MARKS TINES   FIFTH ARMY LINES HOLD IN FACE ‘CONCENTRATED EFFORT TO CRUSH ALL ALLIED FORCES   40,000 to 60,000 Germans Used in Heaviest Full Scale. Attacks and Battle Which May Prove Most  Decisive of War Now in Crucial Stage

HOLDOUT RAIL UNIONS SETTLE WAGE DISPUTE   Carriers Agree On 9-Cent-An-Hour Inerense: Ip io WLE

Ver Increase  Accord Reached   Nine Cents An Hour Agreement Achieved

RETURN OF LINES TO OWNERS RESTS WITH SHAW BOARD   Members Reconvene on Order of Roosevelt to Consider Another Proposal Providing Increases.   BOOST RANGES FROM 11.25 TO 13.3 CENTS   if Plan Is Found Acceptable Last Barrier to Return to Private Owners Will Be Eliminated.

Rail Wage Fuss Settled Partially   Operating Urions Accept Presidential Pay Award

Owners May Get Railroads Back   Plan Offered to Settle Wage Issue

FORD BREAKS ClO CONTRACT   Closes All Gates to Plan! In Canada After Work Stoppage

CHAPLIN NOT FATHER OF JOAN'S BABY   Blood Tests Before Three Physicians Vindicate Comedian

CHAPLIN IS NOT FATHER OF BABY   Blood Tests by Doctor Trio Reveal He ‘Could Not Possibly Be’

ESTS CLEAR ~~ FILM ACTOR   _ » fe, ACCORDING TO PHYSICIANS APTER BLOOD. TESTS

17 Foods Placed On Permanent  'Ration-Free List   Point Values Removed From Variety of Canned Vegetables

17 FOOD ITEMS TO BE TAKEN OFF RATION LIS’   Jams, Jellies, Soups, ‘and Baby Food to Take No Points.

JAPS LAUNC ~NEW ATTACKS IN FAR EAST   GENERAL OFFENSIVE HURLED . AGAINST BRITISH IN EAST. ERN -INDIA—ENEMY ADVANCE IN CHINA -

Workers Poised For Action In Red Cross Drive   Nation-wide campaign for funds starts tomorrow; local. workers ready.

TWO ClO LEADERS HEAD FOR WAR ARE!   Worldwide Labor Movemeni Seen for Future

GIO CHIEFS 12  VISIT FRANGE   Sidney Hillman, Others to _ Make Trip Denied to. Britons.

—CONTINENT VISIT—  CIO. Leaders Planninig Trip To Battlefields      'Sidney Hillman, R. J. Thomas And Emil Rieve, Now >},  In London, Announce Intention: Of. Visiting  x  a Prance And BRelsium

FLY ASSERTS PEARL HARBOR WIRES TAPPED   FBI and Armed Services Took Action Before Jap Attack and Despite Law, FCC Head Says

BRITISH UNITS IN ADVANCE ON ITALIAN FRONT   Fight Way To Enemy Stronghold Of Minturno, Nazis Western Anchor

GERMANS RESIST, BRITISH ADVANCE   Nazi DNB News Agency Report Allied Bombing of _ Rome, Many Killed.

German Line Is Broken   Western Anchor Of German Line Broken By Allies

Kenesaw M, Landis Dies in Chicago   Baseball Czar Since  1921 Was 78 Years Old; Entered Hospital With Cold October 2

Judge Landis Died in Chicago   BASEBALL COMMISSION. ER STRICKEN EARLY TODAY

Judge Landis, J Baseball Czar, _ Dies In Chicago   Served As Commissioner “For Nearly 24, Years; No Funeral: Services

Commissioner Baseball K. M Landis Dies   Had Rules Major Leagues Since 1921; lt! Since October 2

Judge Landis, Rigid Ruler Of Baseball, Dies   Too Much Work in Victory Garden Over Taxed Heart of 78-Year-Old ‘Squire’

78- YEAR - OLD COMMISSIONER ILL 55 DAYS   Rigidly Ruled Diamond Game 24 Years In Colorful . Career

BASEBALL CZAR IS DEAD AT 78   Was Commissioner Of Major League Baseball _ Since 1921, Just Re-Elected For Seven Years.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Ex-Judge, Sports Head, Dead   Picturesque Commissioner of Baseball! Called Early Today

Judge Landis, Baseball's High  Commissioner, Succumbs, Aged 78   Game’s Czar Since 1921 Dies After Seven Week’s Illness.

Death Takes Landis, Baseball Czar  Colorful Figure Ruled Snort With Iron Hand For 23 Y ears

KENESAWLANDIS DIES IN CHICAGO THIS MORNING   Top Commissioner of Baseball Since 1921 Ill Seven Weeks

HEART AILMENT ENDS COLORFUL PUBLIC CAREER      Dies Quietly In Chicago  Hospital After Long IIness

JUDGE LANDIS, NO. 1 BASEBALL BOSS, IS DEAL   Stormy Commissioner Who Ruled With Iron Hand, Passes Away In Chicago.

Served As Rigid Ruler of Organized Baseball*for 24 Years.   FORMER FEDERAL JUDGE

‘CZAR’ FOR 24 YEARS SUCCUMBS   Commissioner Was 78 Years Old, Ruled With Iron Hand

Landis, Czar Of Baseball, Heart Victim   Ruler of. America’s No. 1 Sport Dies in Sleep at Hospital

JUDGE LANDIS 8 UCCUMBED AFTER ILLNESS OF SEVEN ~ WEEKS—WAS NATIVE ~ u. . OF OHIO. 

Baseball Czar  Succumbs T oday   K. Landis. Baseball Commissioner Since  1921. Ill Seven Weeks

Baseball Czar’ Landis Is Dead   Famous Autocrat of National Sport Dies After Short Hiness

Colorful White-haired Commissioner Succumbs in Chicago Hospital He Entered October 2 for Rest and Treatment

BASEBALL CZAR LANDIS DIES   WAS LEGEND IN LIFETIME OF “FAIR DECISIONS”

Death Claims Judge Landis, Baseball: Cza   Commissioner Expires A 5:35 A. M. Today In Chicaqo

Estimate U. S. Air Attacks In Past 5 Months Have Cost Nazis More Than 8,000 Fighter Planes

Germans Lose 8.000 Planes  In Atr Raids   American Bombings Since November Cut Heavily Into Nazi Arsenal

Germans Lose 8,000 Planes Since. Nov. 1   More Than 3,000 Shot Down In Combat ' By Alles —

Nazis Lose $,000 Planes Since Nov. 1   American Raids Whittle Foes’ Fighter Force

Nazis Have Lost 8,000 Airplanes   Anverican Air Fighters Heve Gost Germans That Number since First of November

Yank Air Raids Cost Germany 8.000 Fighters   Since Nov. 1st Nazi Air Efficiency Has Dropped 30 Pct.

Single Bomher Sinks Three Jap Warships   South Approaches to Philippines . Pounded by Bombs

EDEN 1S EXPECTED TO QUIT THIS WEEK   Foreign Secretary to Devote Full Time to Leadership in House  nt Qammana

ALLIES SMASH WAY CLOSER T0 REICH BORDER   Advances Scored All Along 320 Mile Flaming Front In France   VAMA OVERRUN BY REDS   Nazis Report Paratroops Already Dropped Behind Lines In Yugoslavia

PHILADELPHIA TRANSIT SEIZED: 30,000 IDLE IN U. S.; CANADA   7000 DETROIT MOTOR PLANT EMPLOYES STRIKE; NEGRO BOY CRITICALLY INJURED BY WHITE MEN

83,000 Workers Idle In Strikes   ODT Will Take Over Transport Lines If Washington Orders

American Third Army Knock: Out 82 German Tanks In 24 Hour Battle East Of Nancy

Knock Out 82 Nazi Tanks   U. S. Airforce Also Scores In Fighting

LANA TURNER GETS HER SECOND DIVORCE   Original Sweater Girl Giver Custody of Daughter

COMPROMISE VOTE: _ BILL 1S APPROVED   Soldier Ballot Measure Will be Rushed to Senate

Modified Vote Bill Puts Poll Tax to States   Tydings, Lodge To Support Measure as Revised,  pees T

Senate Elections Committee Approves Compromise Plan For. Uniform Federal Ballot

Compromise Vote  Bill Is Drafted   Senate Committee Approves New Plan

APPROVES SOLDIER VOTE COMPROMISE   SENATE GROUP BACKS BILL GIVING STATES VOICE ON QUALIFICATIONS.

POLITICAL COSTS TOLD HOUSE CLERK   Joint Exnenditures of CI0PAC Amount to

5 MORE BODIES FOUND IN WRECK      Army Dead Now Numbers 30; 2 Trainmen Die

Yanks Carry Assault 15 Miles From Capita!   Stiff Resistance Slowing Drive; West Half of Alban Wall Attacked

Robot Bombing Falls Off as Germans Forced to Move Launching Sites Inland

100,000 FELONS WEARING KHAKI   Selective Service Reveals Many Former Prisoners Now In Army; 1,200 Inducted In Past Six Monihs   —~BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST-

More Than 1,200 Paroled Prisoners Now Wearing Khaki Colonel Reveal

1200 PAROLEES INU.S. ARMY   KEESLING REPORTS 100,000 EX-CONVICTS NOW WEARING KHAKI

1200 Paroled.Prisoners In  Armed Force:   Well Over 100,000 Mex Convicted of Felonies Are Wearing Army Khaki ©

Invaders Smash to 65 Miles From Luzon   Jap Ground Casualties on Leyte Total 14,045; “March of Death” Division Defeated; First Cavalry Division in Speedy Advance

Island Of Samar Quickly Engulfed   --- Americans Within 275 Miles Of Manila

U. S. Troops In Philippines Engulf Samar   Land-Based Yank Planes Join Search for Remnants of Ill-Fated Fleet

Northward Advance Moves 1 to Within 15 Miles  of Luzon FILIPINOS GIVE AID  Land-Based Fighter Planes : Take Part in Fight on Leyte      Rulletin

Captured Airfields Into Use      MacArthur's Forces Take  Over Samar Island 275 Miles From Manila   LAND-BASED PLANES  AID INFANTRY:   Soldiers Cheer as Fighters Join Battle; 14,000 Japs Are Killed in Advance

1). $. Planes Now Operating From Bases On Leyte  More Than 14,000 Japs Wounded Or Killed In Battle

JAPANESE RAIDED SUPERFORTS BASE IN CHINA LAST NIGHT  PHILIPPINE INVASION EX. TENDED SAMAR ISLAND AND DOUBLED ON LEYTE

Samar Island Is In Hands Of U. S. Troops    Filipino Guerrillas Aid  American Forces In - Their Drive Against   Japs On Island

Japs Also Fall Back On Leyte   Bataan Torture Division Suffers Heavy Casualtics

Practically All Of Samar Is In Hands Of Yanks   Gen. MacArthur’s Invad ers Push To Within 275 Miles Of Manila.

Bataan’s Deatl Mareh Avenged In Jap Defeat   More Than 14,000 Casualties Inflicted on Enemy

Japs Perish ix Droves in Burma Area   Allies Mow Them Down by the Thousands

NIPPONESE DIE IN WAVES ON BURMA FRONT   YOWLING ATTACKERS MOWED DOWN; ROAD BLOCKED

Jap Attackers Die in Droves   Make Desperate Attacks on Road And Rail Block.

JAPANESE MOWED. DOWN IN WAVES -INBURMA BATTLE   Charge. Into. Wire: and Through ‘Mine Fields. in Attempt to. Break:Grip :-'. Qn Communications, -—   CONTROL OF AIR. -  RESTS WITH ALLIES   Ground F-orces Behind Enemy’s Lines Receiving  ., Active Support of Bom: .  ers ‘and Fighters:

Japs Cut Down Tn Droves In Burma Battle      Making Desperate Assaults To Reopen Blockec Supply Line.

JAPS DYING IN (DROVES IN. NEW BURMA ATTACKS   Allied “Chindits”, Airborne Troops Blocking Jap Supply Lines Object Of Desperate Drive

Japs Dying In Droves In Fighting In Burma Area   Swearing And Shouting Nip Infantry Charges With Heads Down Unly To Be Shot Te Pieces

Jans Attacking Road Blocks Deep Within Brrma In Desperation   Allied Strangle-Hold On Enemy’s Important Communications Remains; British Gain New Features On Imphal Plain To Aid Positions

Jap Troops Die In Droves Trying To Break Trap   Stranglehold Put On Communications In Central Burma

JAPS PERISH IN DROVES ON BURMA FRONI   Trying to Break Stranglehold Clamped on Communications by Thousands of Chindits.   175 Fighters

JAPANESE DIE IN DROVES IN JUNGLE FIGHT   Americans Driving Into Enemy Along Burma Fronts

Japs Attack Rail Blocks in Burma Built by Chindifs   At Same Time British Tighten Grip on Imphal-Kohimoa Area

JAPS ‘DIE IN DROVES’ IN BURMA ASSAULTS   Attack Desperately In Effort To Break Chindits’ Hold

Desperate Jap Burma Forces Die In Droves   Waves of ‘Infantry Attacking Road and Rail Blocks Set Up by Allied Airborne Troops.

Chindits’ Draw Desperate Enemy Attack in Burma   Japanese ‘Dying in Droves’ Fighting Air-Borne Allies

Allied Chindits  Mow Down Enemy  British Tighten Hold In Imphal-Kohima Area

Japs Perish in Droves in  Burma Area  Allies Mow Them  Down by tha Thaw)ernnaAc

Japs Battle Fiercely For  Road Blocks   Dying in Droves as The} Seek to Dislodge Air Borne Units

Nipponese Fall in Droves in Fighting For Central Burme   Go Into Attack Like Boxer With His Head Down; Battle News

ATTACK RAIL, ROAD BLOCKS INSIDE BURM/   Frantic Charges Bring Nipponese Heavy Casualties

Japs Attack Road Blocks Established By Chindits   Enemy In Burma Being Slaughtered

Fight Desperately Against Road and Rail Blocks in Central Burma.   ‘USE VARIOUS WEAPONS

Jap Troops Now Driving Hard Against Chindits   British Strengthen Hold On Imphal-Kohima Area Threatened By Nips.

Japs Attack Chindit Posts In Desperation   Unusual Tacties Lsed Against Air-Borne Troops In Central Burma

DOUBLE TROUBLE AT ANZIO   British Forces Continue To Tighten Their Grip  Japs Dying In Droves In Desperate Burma Attacks

ALLIED OBSERVER SAYS NIPPONESE DYING IN DROVES   SEEK TO DISLODGE CHINDITS WHO HOLD RAIL, ROAD BLOCKS

Japs Attack Like Boxer With Head Down, Perish in Droves   Waves of Them Rush Blindly Into Mines, Booby Traps, Being Slaughtered Trying to Take Burma Road Blocks

Japs “Dying  In Droves”.   Desperate Attempts -. to Dislodge Chindits: from Supply Lines in. Burma Bring Huge Casualties

Allies Slay Droves of Burma Japs   Nips Sacrificing Themselves in  Desperate Push

JAPS REPORTED AS “DYING IN DROVES”   Assaults Against Allies in ; Burma Are Repulsed.

ENEMY DYING IN DROVES ON ALLIED FRONT   Road and Rail Blocks Established By Chindits Proving Thorn in Side of Jap Plans,

Japs Attacking Allied Bases   BURMA LINES MEE! FIERCE FIGHTING NIPS.

JAPANESE JUNGLE TROOPS ATTACKING ROAD, RAIL BLOCKS   Attacking Like a Boxer With His Head Down, and Dying in Droves.   THE BRITISH ACTIVE   Continue to Tighten Their Grip on the ImphalKohima Area.

Desperate Jap Jungle Troops  Die In Droves   Enemy Hurls Self At Allied Line Without Regard To Losses

JAPS IN BURMA DIE ‘IN DROVES   Battle Desperately to Cut Stranglehold Clamped  On Communications

Yowling Japs Die in Droves On Burma Wire   Wildly Charging Enemy Slaughtered by Allies In Junele Traps

Bill To Outlaw Poll Tax Killed   Senate Rejects Motion To Close Debate

MOVE-TO END VOTING TAXES. ~ WAS BLOCKEL   BENATE REJECTS MOTION TC ' LIMIT DEBATE AND FILIBUSTER THREAT KILLS BILE

Srvyryryv7rTrrrr rrr Tree ee Pierre Laval Is  No. 1 on French Underaqround List

Laval Rated No. 1 Traitor   Vichyite Is Marked For Vengeance Day

Pierre Laval Rates No. 1 On List French Underground Will Execute

Cherbourg Peninsula Virtually Cut In Two  By American Advance   U. S. Ninth Division Drives Within Four Miles Of West Coast   German Garrison Faces Entrapment   General Bradley Expects Nazis To Put Up Death Stand Fight For Port   Pierre Laval Placed No. One  On Undereround Execution List

Special Boards Created To ~ Probe Pearl Harbor Attacks   Army and Navy Courts Will Begin Study of Sneak Raid—Action Complies With Congress-  ional Resolution .

Probes Set On Blow AtHawaii   Army and Navy Create Boards To Study Raid

To Probe Pear! Harbor Attack   Investigation Begins Soon, Special Board Created By Army and Navy.

Jap Attack On Pearl Harbor  Will Be Probed   Army, Navy Name Special Boards

Pearl Harbor Attack To Be Investigated   Navy Court Convenes Monday; Army to Make Separate Inquiry

BOARDS TO PROBE PEARL HARBOR RAID   Courts of Inquiry Named by War and Navy Departments to Conduct Investigations,

Paper Says Nazis Massed For Air Invasion On Isle   Daily Mail Says Airborne Division Ready For Descent On Britain.

Nazi Gliders Mass, British Paper Reports   May Try Invasion Of Britain When Attack Comes

REPORT NAZIS PREPARING T0 INVADE ENGLAND   Claims Germans Mass Glider. Transport Planes Along European Coast

Britain Hears Germany Has Massed Gliders  Planes for Counter-Invasion of England

BRITISH WATCH COUNTER - BLOW   Germans Reported To Have Massed Gliders and Planes on Invasion Coast.

Say Nazis Mass Air Transports Against D-Da   Sufficient Craft Assembled To Allow Enemy Drop One Division On Britain

Daily Mail Reports Nazis Mass Planes For Counter-Blow   Glitters, Transport Craft Are in Concealed Sputs; D.N.B. Threatens ‘Angelo Ports

‘Nazi Gliders And Transport Planes Massed For Possible ‘Counter-Invasion Of Britain   Craft Reported In Concealed Hangars Sufficient To Land One Division

Report Nazis Massing Gliders To Drop Airborne Division ies Britain As Counter-Blow

PORADIC FIRE “GREETS YANKS . INSIDE AACHEN   Allied Guns and Bombers e Continue to Batter Ancient City

HOT WEATHER STAYS   Another Hot Night Is Forecast for Eastern Kansas

Italy-Based Heavy Bombers Smash at Nazi Plane Plants   Aircraft Factories in the Reich Pounded Four  Consecutive Days

AUSTRIA HIT   U. S. Bombers Based in Italy Smash at Nazi Aircraft Plants.

U. S.,Bombers Based In Italy¢ Blast Two Enemy Aircrait Factories at Steyr, Austria

Bombers Raid Nazi Factories In Austria  53 Allied ‘(Bombers Lost In Coordinated Attack; Nazis Lost 133 Planes

American Planes Bag 133 Nazi Fighters in Daylight Assaults   AMERICAN BOMBER LOSS CUT IN FEBRUARY

U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS BASED IN ITALY HIT AUSTRIAN FACTORY  ANOTHER DAYLIGHT AT-

133 NAZI FIGHTER PLANES SHOT DOWN IN CO-ORDINATED ATTACK BY ALLIED BOMBING SQUADS    Enemy Aircraft Production Plants Further Crippled When American Bombers Striking from British and Italian Bases Go Deep into Germany

YANK BOMBERS LASH AUSTRIA   Italian-Based Planes Hr Vital Aircraft Plant At Steyr

U. S. Bombers Hamme Nazi Plane Plants In Drive on Austria   Giant Force Stationed in Italy Follows Earlier Raids, Downs 133 German Planes in Fourth Day of Harsh Attacks

Twin-Pronged Raid OF Americans Tues. on Center of Reich Costs'$1 Bombers

Fifty-three Big Bomber: Lost In Joint Attack: Savage Resistance Is  Met By Allies

Allied Armies Push Through  Foe Defenses   U.S. First Army Racing Toward Vital German City — Other Forces in Final Drive to Capture Aachen and Big French Port of Brest.

Bombed Rhine In Path of First Forces   Third Thrusts Way Toward Saar; Seventh at Belfort

FOUR FANS [INVADE RING   Injuries Were Numerous After Exchange of Blows at Match —-

Wrestling Fans Put On Big Show   Mix it With Zaharias, Referee One of Victims In Melee

HARBOR WORKS   Yanks Advancing ¢«n Cherbourg Find Some Positions Unmanned

Ninth Division Recaptures _ IMoneseura, Takes Valognes; British Also Smash Ahead

Germans Driven Back to Inner Perimeter Defense,  British Reoceupy Tilly

Germans Give Up Valoanes   «Enemy Reported Demolishing Prize Atlantic Port

sect We rican  Pinch Off Japs In Saidor Area      Little Opposition Met In Capturing Airfield And Harbor — Trap Forces Struggling Against Advancing Aussies.

Saidor Airfield Is Captured By US. Troops   Enemy Force Trapped In Jungles by Newest Offensive

Yank Landing Pinches Off  Jap Forces   Aussies Pushing Foe Toward U. S. Lines In New Guinea

JAP AIRDROME AND HARBOR AT SAIDOR TAKEN   MacArthur Expands Operations In Pacific

Harbor, Airstrip Fall To Invaders; Surprise Assault Almost Unopposed

SURPRISE MOVE  BY MACARTHUR  TRAPS JAP UNIT HARBOR, AIRFIELD AT SAIDOR TAKEN  WiIiTWUoiiT A CIAWUT

Third Offensive Stroke In 18 Days  American Forces Seize  Harbor And Airport At Saidor In New Landing  * ef © @

AMERICANS CUT NIP SUPPLY LINE IN NEW GUINEA   U. S. Troops Land, Capture Airfield at Saidor, Trap Japs

Japs Trapped As U.S. Force  Takes Saidor   Harbor and Airfield on New Guinea Seized by, 6th Army Troops

Marines Capture New Guinea Port   Surprise Jap Troops In Landing Which Pinches Off Enemy

Americans Trap  New Guinea Japs Harbor, Airfield Seized at Saidor  fe Spurneice Raid hy It! S Tronaners

JAPS ROUTED FROM SAIDOR BY AMERIGANS   MacArti.ur’s Men Pushing Ahead  In Invasions

Third Division of New Guinea Made by MacArthur's Troops   Americans in Saidor; Encounter Little Jap Opposition

Americans, Led By Macérthur, Land at Saidor, New Guinea.   ISRD STRIKE IN 18 DAYS

'U. S. Forces Capture Saidor Airfield And Harbor In New Landing On North New Guinea   Meet Only Slight Opposition; Pinch Off Japs Battling Australians

U.S. Troops Raid Saidor, Get Harbor   Jap Defenders Are Pinched Off In — New Assault

Troops From Wisconsin Help Capture Harbor And Airfield After Surprise Landing

Saidor Seized — By U.S. Force   New Landing {s Success ‘On Guinea; Japs Fail  To Ficht Back

YANKS LAND AT SATDOR ON NEW GUINEA COAS!   Third MacArthur Invasion Operation In 18 Days; Pinch Off Japs Strug gling In Jungles

Yanks Land At Saidor In  3rd Invasion   Get Behind Nips Now Fighting Aussies On New Guinea; Airstrip Is Seized

Attempt To End Polish Problem   Top Diplomats Meet To Discuss Situation

Progress. Slow Th: Settling. Polish Row :  Lublin Blames   Lublin Blames Londen Group For Warsaw Deathe

POLISH ISSUE STILL TOUCHY DESPITE TALKS   Delicate Problem Hangs Fire After Churchill, Stalin Confer

CHURCHILL, STALIN FAIL 10-FIND TICKLISH POLISH PROBLEM ANSWER   HIGH DIPLOMATIC QUARTERS REVEAL MEETING OF PRIME MINISTER, LONDON POLISH GROUP

PROBLEM OF POLAND STILL HANGS FIRE   Sessions at Moscow Are Continuing

Wife Hunter Exceeds Bag   Two Too Many, Judge Rules and Sentences Ex-Pastor to Prison

N. M. Senator "Urges Retention Of Roosevelt   Democratic Office Seekers ig Jackson Day Crowd

Keep Roosevelt To Solve Peace, Hatch Urges   Senator Addresses Jackson Day Rally In Missouri City

POLITICAL CHANGE OPPOSED BY HATCH   SENATOR TELLS JACKSON DAY RALLY F. D. BR. SHOULD SERVE TILL VICTORY.

Step up pressure  on Leyte MacArthuve Jap   MacArthur: Jap plight darkens

CUT JAPANESE SUPPLY LINES IN ORMOC BAY   Americans Dump Scores Of Tons Of Bombs On Nip Airfields ; Sink Three Ships

BY U.S. FORCES IN LEYTE FIGHT   Japs’ Situation is Now Serious, MacArthur Reports

YANKS INCREASE PAEGOURE ON FUE   Enemy Tank Attack Fails te @ Break Grip on Ormoc   AIR THRUSTS COUNT   @onbers Hit Airfields, Shipping From Manila Area to Coast of New Guinea

GAINS REPORTED IN FIGHTING ON LEYTE ISLAND   Japs’ Line Of Reinforcements Through Ormoc Bay Is Cut   PHILIPPINE AIRFIELDS ARE HEAVILY POUNDED

LEYTE FIGHT INCREASES GN ANNIVERSARY   Of Pearl Harbor, With Yanks Making Substantial Gains; Japs Launch Ormoc Tank Attack.   Claim Ships Sunk

LEYTE FIGHTING IS GROWING FIERCER      Americans Make Substan_ tial Gains on All Fronts

Allies Advance In Italy Drive   Troops Move In On Nazi Lines Near Rome

Allied Fifth Army Breaks Into Outskirts Of Cassino   Lt. Russell Ault Hunts Wild Game In India—Riding A Jeep!

YANKS TAKE 3 HEIGHTS ON ITALY FRONT   Allied Bombers Raid Rail Targets In the Balkans

Russian Forces Crossing In Narew River Line Area   Powerful Offensive Drives T * ‘Within 22 Miles Of East Prussia

BREACH NAREW LINE; WARSAW THREAT GROWS   Gateway To Hungary Seized In Push Toward Yugoslavian Area

Narew River Line Broken In New Push   Offensive Carries Within 22 Miles Of East Prussia.

NAREW RIVER LINE BROKEN BY RUSSIANS   Red Troops Storm and Capture Gateway to Transylvanian Plains.

Reds Breach Narew River Defense Belt   Powerful Wedge Splitting German  Front at Warsaw

SOVIETS MAY SPLIT NAZI LINE BETWEEN E PRUSSIA. WARSAW   Red Troops Breach Narew River Defenses Ir Powerful Drive To Within 22 Miles Of South Border

SOVIETS PUS NEW DRIVE ON ~ EASTPRUSSIA   Cross Narew River in Thrust to Split Nazi Front

REDS OPEN NEW DRIVE ON PRUSSIA   Threatens to Split Nazi Front Protecting Warsaw

THREATENS TO SPLIT GERMAN FORTIFIED FRONT   Soviet Troops Capture Brasov, Gateway To Transylvanian Plains. -

Red Army Breaches Narew Line  Zakharov’s Army Opens New Drive On East Prussia Along 35 Mi. Front

Heavily-Fortified Line On Narew  River Breached .   Full-Scale Offensive Hits East Prussia’s Southern Frontier

Major Route Of Escape To Foes Severed By Sth   Allied Troops Cut Via Can ilina Near Valmontone Along Which Nazis Are Falling Buck   Algiers Announces Fall Of Ferentino   Infantry Fighting Bitterly In Velletri; Yanks Batthing On Heights Over leoking Rome

Seeks Basic Engineering Plan For MV:   Murray Amendment Now Faces Senate

Fear Encirclement By Patton’s Army   Copture of Four Forts After Frontal Attack By Third Army Forces Germans to Retreat

Forts Verny And Thiorville Are Taken By Force   Withdrawal From Historic Fortress Is Under Way To Prevent Encirclement By Driving American Steel And Armies.

, THIRD ARMY CAPTURES 4 FORTRESSES   Encirclement Threat Forces Enemy to  Pull Out

French Sweep Well West Of  Rhone River   Form Solid Buffer In South To Help Wipe Out Germans

Allies Supplying Food, Medicine  To French Natives In Southern France

U.S. Troops Drive Into  Montelimar  Rhone Is Cleared South of This Town

RHONE VALLEY   Battered 19th Army Bat. tles To Escape Trap Set By Allies

FRENCH TROOPS DRIVE THROUGH UZES AND NIMES   y’ French. Natives Given Food By Allied Army

ALLIED TROOPS ADVANCE WEST OF RHONE RIVER   SWEEP THRU NIMES; KNOCK OUT GERMAN FORCE OF 15,000

Nazis Give Up At Marseille   Surrender As Allies Tighten Big Trap

DRIVE INTO —MONTELIMAR   City 100 Miles Above Mar ; seille-— Only Isolated  ~ Pockets of Nazis Now Remain in Lower Rhone Vallev.

FRENCH CLOSE TRAP AROUND BOCHE UNIT   Solid Southern Buffer Is Formed To Help Wipe Out Battered German 19th Army  BIF AD i= IWATLIAAL BABDALCR

French Sweep  West of Rhone   Reach Uzes. Drive Beyond Nimes to Form Solid Southern Buffer

NAZIS FLEE IN RHONE REGION   Yanks Drive ve Into Monteiimar, 100 Miles Above Marseille,

Both Marseilles and Tulon _ Garrisons Surrender and Give Allies Needed Ports For Sunpplies. ;

French Drive Through Nimes In South France   Ferm Solid Buffer Doom: ing German Army Trapped by U. S, Surprise Thrust Farther North

19th German Army Caught  In So. France   French Troops Drive Nazis Against Americans

Americans In Montelimar   Rhone Valley Practically Cleared for 100 Miles Above Marseille

Hun 19th Army In Great Peril Of Destruction   Butler's Column Wreeking Havoc

U.S. Troops In S. France Mop Up Montelimar   Doughboys, Tanks Battle Germans Retreating Up Rhone Vallev.

Surprise Thrust Traps Remnants ‘Of German Army   Advancing French Troops Form Solid Buffer Of Trap.

_ French Column Races Toward * Spanish Border   All Resistance Ends In Huge Mediterranean Cities of Marseille and Toulon; Many Captives

FRENCH TROOPS TRAP NAZIS IN RHONE VALLEY   Allied Forces Fan Out Ik Drive for Italian Border

French-Push Their Gains   ~Uzes Reached; Nazis  Facing . Annihilation.

NAZIS BATTLI TO ESCAPE NEW TRAP   french Forces Reach Uzes, Drive Through Nimes   PORT FACILITIES   In Southern France Adequate For Operations Of Any Kind

Allies Take Nimes In S. France   Americans Only 20 Miles From Italian Frontier

FRENCH UNITS DRIVE ON WEST OF RHONE RIVER   Allies Form Trap to Wipe Out Nazi Army in Lower France

Seventh Army Helps Form Nazi Pincers   Unit Crosses Rhone To H2ip Wipe. Out German Force

Rhone Valley Is Cleared of German Troops   Only Small Groups Await Yank Mop; U.S. Troops 100 Miles North of Marseille

Rhone Valley ls Clear 100 Miles   Americans Thrust Into Montelimar

German 19th Army Surrounded in New Seventh Army Sweep   French Troops Drive Through Nimes to Reach Uzes Area .

Yank Troops At Montelimar  Enemy Nearly Cleared From Valley To South

Nazis Driven — From Rhone Valley Area   Yanks Locked in Battle With Fleeing Remnants Near Montelimar

French Drive Through Uzes And Nimes   Help Batter Trapped 19th German Army Cut Off To North

FRENCH DRIVE PAST NIMES   Form Buffer To Help Wipe Out German 19th Army

Two Destroyers, One Landing Craft Lost, Roosevelt Tells Conference

PRESIDENT TELLS OF LOSS OF TWO U.S. DESTROYERS:   Announces Loss of Destroyers and One LST at News Conference at: Which. He Says Invasion Is “Up to Schedule”

Toll of ‘Enemy Warships Sunk or Damaged ~""Reaches 61  ,ipwiis emmtieePr ital   NEW STRIKES MADE IN PACIFIC WATERS   One Cruiser Probably Sunk : and Two Reported  Damaaed

NAVAL AIRMEN HEAP DAMAGE ON JAPANESE FLEET   Heavy Cruiser Probably Sunk And Two Others  Damaoe.   90 PLANES ARE LISTED AS BEING DESTROYED

Nimitz Scores More Damage   Air Strike Around Island of Luzon Brina Vessel Total to 61

3 JAP CRUISERS. BOMBED AT LUZON, ~  BELIEVED SUN   Three Cargo "Vessels Sent Down, Oil Tanker Dam- : aged—90 Pianes Destroyed.   ‘ENEMY WARSHIP TOLL IN WEEK REACHES 60   Raids Made on Manila and Cavite—Tokyo Reports Attack on American Task - Fores,

Toll of Enemy Warships Sunk or Damaged “Reaches 6}   NEW STRIKES MADE IN PACIFIC WATERS   One Cruiser Probably Sunk and Two Reported Damaaed

ENEMY LOSS IN SEA BATTLE IS NOW 61 VESSELS   New Blow At Nipponese Fleet Damages Three Cruisers; Ninety Planes Downed

Bombers Inflict New Damage On Battered Nips   Three Cruisers Caught Believed Fleeing ‘Toward Home Waters ° After Engagement Off Samar Isle

BATTERED JAP FLEET HIT AT LUZON ISLAND   U.S. GROUND FORCES PUSH CLEANUP ON LEYTE

U. 5. Naval Airmen Continue Attack on Jap Fleet Boosting Toll of Enemy Warships to 60

Carr ier Planes Pound More fen:  ‘Enemy Vessels   “Cruiser: Probably: Sunk And 2 Others Damaged; 90 Jap Planes Destroyed

Japan’s Navy Again Victim Of Americans   Naval Airmen Strike Another Blow at Nippon’s Seapower

ther Warships nd 90 Planes ut of Action   Nimitz Announces Another Victory

What To Do With Germany? Asked Soldiers   Army Passes Out Booklet to Fighting Men for Their Opinions on Much _ Discussed Problem.

Army Gives Out G. I. Booklets on What To Do With Post War Germany

Army Asks G.I.JoeFor His Advice   On How to Treat and By What Methods Should Germany Be Submitted, When Defeatud

G, 1. BOOKLET ON TREATMENT OF NAZIS OUT   Gives Principal Aims Of Allies After War Ends

Pope ‘Pius Expresses His Appreciation On Conduct of Allied Troops In Rome

Good Timing Needed For ‘Fire Sales   World’s Biggest On U. S. Surplus Property Is Discussed

CONGRESS RETURNS TO ITS WORK TODAY AFTER ITS RECESS   Two Definite Deadlines Stared Members in the Face at the Opening.   ONE IS ON SUBSIDIES   Law Makers Must Decide by February 17 What Action Will Be Taken.

CONGRESS BACK TO WORK WITH BIG TASK AHEAD   Food Subsidies And Social Security Tax Rates Are Immediate Problems; Number Of Other Press ing Problems.

CONGRESS BACK FACING SEVERAL VITAL PROBLEMS   Legion Program for Helping Veterans Up - - President To Send Message

Goxgress Is Reassembled   TWO DEFINITE PROBLEMS TO BE MET BY MEMBERS

Three Attacks By Panzer Units Are Hurled Back   Armored Force. Smashed by 1100 Tons of Bombs 

ROMMEL MAY BE IN COMMAND OF ENEMY FORCES   Second British Division ‘Hurls Back: Three Thrusts and Beats Off Three Counter- oe  Attapka . ex

REPEATED NAZI TANK THRUSTS THROWN BACK   Germans Unable To Dent Wedge; Hint Rommel Takes Command

Nazis Ram Futilely At Lines of British   tdements of Seven German Panzer Divisions Seek to Stem Invaders

Rommel Believed In Polkmand Of Germans Attacking Caen Wedge   RAF Bombers Rain Blockbusters On Enemy Armored Forces Near Villers-Bocage

Repulsed — By Bri tish } 7 pis Near Caen      FRONT DISPATCHES: SUGGEST THAT ROMMEL IS IN CHAR OF THE ENEMY FORCES. ~*

BRITISH WEDGE HOLDING FIRM IN CAEN AREA   Lancasters And Halifax Bombers Blast Away At Panzer Divisions

DISPATCH SAYS EVERY ASSAULT IS BEATEN BACK   More Than 250 British Planes Almost’ Obliterate * Enemy “Armored: Force: 13 Miles: Southwest of Caen.   DROP BLOCK BUSTERS ~ ” “ON MASSED. TANKS   R. A. F. Bombers Attack Rail Centers and Qi! Works at Vierzon, France and tn Ruhr Valley.

BRITISH HURL NAZIS BACK NEAR CAEN   Reckless Attacks indicate Rommel Now In Charge

500 American Bombers Blast At Old Austria   Hit Targets Near Vienna and in Crotia As Germans Admit Retreats in Crimea

American Planes Strike Factories In Balkan Area   Aerial Squeeze Made on Germany From Fields in Italy, England.   Germans Retreating in Two Areas in Crimea

American Heavies Hit Plane Plants Near Vienna Today   Russian Trap on 15 Divisions Broken By German Thrust

Bomb More German Factories   Russians Beating Through Crimea; Take Scores of  Rumanian Towns

Bomb War, - Red Drive   * — Roars on   500 American’ Raiders.in At tack on. Vienna Area; : Other Air Raids :   GERMAN LOSSES MOUNTING HIGHER   pNew: Retreats Aground as Aerial: Squeeze Hammers Down More Factories ~

RUSSIAN DRIVE FORKS OUT FOR THREE ATTACKS   Nazis Step Up Fighting in Italy But Assaults All Beaten Back

Nazi Troops Fall Back In Crimea   Rail Yards at Zagreb Blasted. British-Based Planes Out

Aerial Squeeze On Reich   Italy and Britain Based: “Bombers Strike Nazi Aircraft Plants; Reds Roar Into Crimea

Vienna, Zagreb Battered By Americans; Yanks Lose 80 Planes In Tuesday Raids

GERMAN AIRCRAFT PLANTS AND RAILWAY YARDS ARE ATTACKED  OTHER AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACKED OBJECTIVES INSIDE GERMANY

Strike Other Targets i in  Separate Raid:   Germans Announce New Retreats in Northern and Eastern Crimea

GERMANS CARRY OUT ‘NO RETREAT’ ORDERS   Prisoners Believe Himmler Report On ‘Busy’ Hitler

YANKEES SEIZE MORE GERMANS   Captured In New Offen. sive. Toughies Still Abide by Hitler

COURT DECISIONS COMING 190 FAS   Justice Jackson Says Rulings Are So Great Lawyers Have No Pat Cases.

Changing Trends  In Courts Viewed ‘Justice Jackson Notes Judieial Situation

Justice Jackson Interprets Relaxation Of Legal Precedents as Sign of Times

Nazi Plane Plants And Lines Are Hit   British-Based Planes Cross Channel To Hit. Invasion Coast And Attack Nazi Airfields

Great Bomber Force Hits Nazi Targets   66 Planes Are Lost in Record Air Attack on Germany

3100 HEAVY BOMBERS HIT ALL GERMANY   7000 Planes Swarm Over Nazi-Held  Territory

Frances in Sydney Doubts If Jon Didney, They’re . . Perfectly Wed, Don’t You See

Soviets Pour Through Galati Gap Into Central Romania   TO FREE BALKANS — WITHIN FEW WEEKS

SOVIET ARMIES CONTINUE PUSH   Pouring Ebrough Galati Gap Into Jontral Romania — Heading fur Lioesti Oil Fields and Bucharest.

Seven Generals Lost by Nazis —   Liberation of Balkans Considered Matter of Weeks by Experts

Troops Enter City Following Heavy Barrage   Allied Bombers Artillery Pound Nazi Garrison

Hundreds Of Dive Bombers Resume Bombardment Of Burning City  GERMANS BOMB OWN CITY BY MISTAKE  American Infantry Closing In On City From All Sides

Victory  Near Says Churchill   Allies May Win War in Europe This Summer, Says Premier

Churchill Says Europe War May End This Summer   Premier Estimates Million Men Involved’ In Normany Battle

SUCCESS OF (CAMPAIGN   Prime Minister Says Invasion Proved Surprise

ALLIED VICTORY HELD POSSIBLE THIS SUMMEI   Optimistic Prediction At Embassy Dinner Made Public

Nursery Employe Is Killed in Truck Accident  John Eger, 62, Struck By Vehicle on  rm...) tAs.-k ee a

Nursery Employe Is Killed in Truck Accident  John Eger, 62, Struck By Vehicle on

Chinese fo Open Anglo-American Meet Today; Quick Agreement Is Expected

CHINESEOPEN TALKS TODAY ON SECURITY   New Questions Are Posed . @t Dumbarton Oaks 

Quick Agreement at Parley Seen  Chinese Delegation Outlines Desires

SECURITY T POSE QUESTION ON AGGRESSION   Dr. Koo Ta Emphasize Need For Quick Action To Stop Force

Marines Land on Two ‘More Islands   Land-Based Planes Now Within Range of Truk

Seizure Of Emirau and Elmusao Brings Truk Within Range of land-Based Bombers. Kavien; Doomed By Tightening Steel Ring.

U. 8. Marines Occupy Emirau, Elomusao With Little Trouble; Isolate Nips in South Pacific

MISTRIAL MAY BE DECLARED   Lonergan Case Judge Will Rule Today on Dismissal of Talesmen

Council of Christian — Education to Sponsor School of Instruction

Group Plans School For Youth Leaders   March 17 in Methodist Church, ’ Pocahontas

NAZI COMMANDER REACHES SOFIA   VON WEICHS TO REVIEW TROOPS-—-BULGARIA UNDER TWO-WAY PRESSURE,

INVASION OF JAPAN MAY NOT BE NECESSARY, NIMITZ SAYS  rt ape reg », a gay we ge   Pacific Fleet Commander Claims, However, Countr Should Be Occupied By Allies To Insure Peace; Enem Freighter Sunk In Davao Gulf In Philippines

Kurile Bases Given  Blasting By Airmen   Attacks Made While Nimitz Says He Believes Japan Can be Brought to Knees Without Invasion of the Mainland 

Soviets Surround  Orsha   Two Other Armie: Step Up Assault On Crumbling Center of Line

Reds Continue To Advance in  White Russia   Orsha and Mogilev New Objectives About to Fall

RUSSIAN ARMY BATTLES WAY INTO MOGILEY   Surround Orsha, Other Russian Armies Slash Deep Into Flanks

Red Armies Push Beyond Vitebsk   Orsha Surrounded ; Other Units Battle Way Into Mogilev

Soviets Step Up Assault On Crumbling Center White Russian Line  INVASION ROUTE TO WARSAW & BERLIN  Russians Moving Toward Minsk At Pace Of Nearly Mile An Hour

REDS SMASH NAZI LINE IN WHITE RUSSIE      So-Called “Fatherland Line” Broken by Red Armies

BASTIONS CAPTURED   Enveloping  Move On _ Citadel Of Minsk Is Under Way

ORSHA IS SURROUNDED BY RUSSIANS   +Other Red Troops Battling Way ~ Into Mogilev

Reds Speed. Past Vitebsk On Route To Warsaw-Berlin   Orsha, Mogilev - 2 Las Nazi Bastions Face Early Capture  *

RED ARMIES RACE TOWARD MINSK CITY   Orsha Surrounded, Mogilev Entered By Russ Troops

Senator Says-U. §. Should Be Good Samarifan Not Santa-Claus to Europe

Judge Hubbar« Sentences 4 in Special Court   Julian Gets Prison Term in Auto Case: Paratroopers Jailed

TERRIFIC EXPLOSION STARTS WHEN TWO VESSELS BLOW UP IN CALIFORNIA PORT   Felt and Seen as Far as Fifty Miles Away; First Estimate of Dead 650, But Final Toll May Not Be That High

BIG EXPLOSION IN AMMUNITION FELT 50 MILES   Two Ships at Loading Dump 40 Miles from Frisco Blow Up

PASUALTIES IN NAVY DISASTER “MAY TOTAL 650   EXPLOSION “AT WEST . COAST ‘ MUNITIONS BASE KNOWN “TO HAVE KILLED 250 ° NEGRO ‘SAtLons

BODY DISCOVERED W AUTO TRUNK   Chicago Police Now Hunting Missing Friends of ~ .... Vietim

Aggregate Bond Quota Topped Here, But “E” Sales Still Lag   Fourth War Loan Campaign Overail Goal Reached, A: Business Firm Sales Increase—Individual Purchases __ .— _-_- iahind Bu Subhetantial Guim Yat_

SHELL LWOW AFTER GREAT RED DRIVE   Russian. Armies Pushing Across Bug River Toward Warsaw: Win in Other Cections Over Nazis.

Reds Racing Across Bug; Shell Lwow   Nazi Eastern Front 3 Is Split Wide Open; Litovsk Line Cut

Early Swing To” Philippines Seen   Washington Cheers Jab At Admiralties

Early Swing To Philippines Seen   Washington Cheers Jab At Admiralties  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

Admiralty Blow, Philippine Road   Southwest Pacific Campaign  Now Taking Definite _ Swing To West and Phil ippines.

Wickard Offers Postwar Program   Greater Expansion Needed, He Asserts

Elton C. Fay Says: ‘Fall of Rome Expected To Align Faltering Nations with Allies

JAPANESE WOMEN IN ARMY   Patrols Report ‘Iwo Killed in Hollandia Area

SS —— ———_—  Decision on Rome’s  Fate Likely in Week   German Withdrawal Hints Studied by U.S. Military and Diplomatic Quarters: Roosevelt May Restate Allied Position

CULT MEMBERS ARE CONVICTED BY JURY   31 Are Guilty Of Conspiring Te Preach And Fratice Polygamy: Appeat Is Planned

Reds Claim . Trap Netted 73,000 Nazis   Russian Forces Bear Down on Rai Junction of Dno

‘Russ Troops ‘Near Pskov   More Than 30 Towns Captured Durina Day

Disaster Stalks Nazis In Italy.   Army Is “Dispersed To Four Winds” :

German Retreat in Italy is Every-Man‘for-Himself Flight   Nazi Army Dispersed; Reds Open Big Drive Against Finland

NAZIS IN MASS RETREAT TOWARI FLORENCE AREA   Fifth Army Tears Northward As Disintegrating Germans Flee

YANKS PURSUE FLEEING NAZIS   Fifth Army Takes Monteflascone, 71 Miles North of Rome

Original 14th Army Scattered And Beaten   Remaining Units Steal Each Other’s Transport In Order To Flee; More Areas Taken By Fichth

ARMIES CONTINUE — PURSUIT OF NAZIS      German 14th Army ir Italy ‘Dispersed to ' Four Winds”

Allies Speed Northward In Italy   Score Gains of Ten To Fifteen Miles on Entire Front; German Retreat Called Chaotic

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES CONTINUING ADVANCE IN ITALY  GAIN OF 15 MILES MADE BY FIFTH ARMY ALONG ITALIAN WEST COAST

~- A j al fa end ~ Nex: he aaa aha ee 4 1 F “rt rw TN ; ar e 2 -_  em drew Fi = TQ   Racing Allies Approach Orbe.-ello 71 Miles Northwest of tome

ALLIES ADVANGE ON ALL SECTORS IN ITALIAN WAR   German Army Dispersed to Four Winds, Says Headquarters.

Allies Sweep Forward Up Botl  Coasts In Italy, Seize Town:   5th Army Takes IJmportant Road Junction And Is Now Approaching Orbetello 71 Miles Above’ Rome.

Yanks Push '15 Miles up Ttaly’s Coast   Repel Counterattack While Other Units Take Montefiascone and Approach Orhetello

Florence May Be Nazi Flight Goal   Disorderly German Retreat Continues on Italian Peninsula   71 MILES FROM ROME   Allied Headquarters Say German  4th Army Is  Dispersed

GERMAN 14TH ARMY BROKEN. TO FOUR WINDS   All That Remains of Once Great Army Is Few Scattered Remnants,  Says Gen. Clark

Disaster Stalks Nazis In Italy   Army Is ‘Dispersed To Four Winds”  Re TVR BEermiwvenyyrtnwee

Fifth Army Goes Forward in Italy   Tmaportant Road Junction of Monte. fiascone Captured Near Shores o! Lake Bolsena While Other Columns Advance Along West Coast.’   AVEZZANO ALSO TAKEN

ROUT IN ITALY IS CONTINUING   Germans in Full Flight o Fifth Army Occupies Strategic Points

NAZI ARMIES INITALY NOW ONLY BEMNANTS   Allies Continue Drive To Reach Orbetello

Allied Onrush In aly Continues, Nazis Disorganized   Important Junctions Fall To Advancing Allies In Italian Campaigning

5th Army Troops Take Montefiascone And Approach Orbetello, 71 Miles To Northwest Of Rome; Chaos Grips Nazis

—ITALY—  IMPORTANT ROAD JUNGTION TAKEN  Allied Columns On West Coast 71 Miles North Of Rome        EIGHTH ADVANCES     Germans Continue North. ward Flight In All Sec. tors   Allied Columns On West Coast 71 Miles North OF Roma   EIGHTH ADVANCES   Germans Continue Northward Flight In All Sec. tors

Fifth Army Is Racing Up West Coast Of Italy   Von Mackensen Force Dispersed; Every Man ‘For Himself.’

Fifth Army Gains 15 Miles  On West Coast   45,000-Acres of Rich Farm Land  Falls to Allies

Allies Pursue Nazisin Italy, Near Orbetelle   Reich Army Dispersed To 4 Winds; Sth, 8th  Press Grimly Forward

Nazis In Italy - Are Dispersec   14th German Army I: Completely Routed

Filth Troops Occupy Great Road Junction   Monte Fiascone Seized; Other Columns Approach Or uli ben: Marat   IRUSH TO ‘0 FLORENCE

Allies 71 Miles North of Rome  Port of Orbetello   Port of Orbetello Near Capture; 8th Advances Up Tiber

It’s Every Man For Himself In— German Retreat   What Is Left Of Enemy In Italy Fleeing Toward Florence.

Allies Gain at Both Ends of  Italian Line   Germans Again In Full Retreat After Making Brief Stand

ARMIES CONTINUE PURSUIT OF NAZIS   German 14th Army it Italy “Dispersed to Four Winds”

Other Columns Approach City Of Orbetello   Eighth Army Pushes Up Both Sides of the Tiber, Near Bagno Reqaio, West of River

Fifth Army Gets Major Road Link North Rome   Montefiascone Is Captured; Other  Forces Drive

ALLIES PURSUE NAZIS 71 MILES BEYOND ROME   German 14th Army In Wild Retreat as Fifth And Eighth Armies Race Up Adriatic Coast

Fifth Army Races Northward in Italy   Key Junction Falls; British Move Up Both Sides of the Tiber

Nazi Italian Army Routed   Communique Says it Ils Widely Scottered

Clark’s Men Now 71 Miles Bevond Rome   8h Mops Up All Enemies Below Pescara River - Om Ade Side

Fifth Army Takes  Montefiascone   Clear Area South Of Pescara Of German Troops

Important Highway Junction Near Lake Bolsena Captured;  Nazi Rout Revealed

nce Proud rman 14th  y Crushed   Allies Advance Along Both Eastern and Western Fronts— Nazis in Grim Fight

ALLIES SCORE ‘NEW GAINS ON -TTALIAN FRONT   Nazi Counter-Attack Is Beaten Off; Fails To Stop Drive

Steady Gains By Allies In Italy   German Retreat To Florence Made At Rapid Rate

Allies Nearly 71 Miles Past Rome   Retreat of Nazis On Individual Basis

KEY TOWN IN “TTALY. TAKEN -BY FIFTH ARMY   Seize Montefiascone, Important Road Junetion   German Counter-Attacks Beaten Back By Yanks ~

U. S. Forces Boost Gains Across Italy   Montefiascone Is Seized With Other Columns Near Orbetello, West Of Rome

German 14th Army in Italy Dispersed, Gen. Clark Says   Depleted Enemy Units Falling Back to Florence—Balkan Bombings Continue

ALLIES ADVANGE ON BOTH ENDS OF ITALIAN LINE   5th Takes Rail Junction, Near City 71 Miles Northwest of Rome

Allies Drive Up Both Sides Of Italy; Near Orbetello, 71 Miles Beyond Rome

German Army Falling Apart, Is Indication  ~~. errsetercceanm Ee fr” er are’ ee a”

GAINS IN ITALY   Fifth Army Near {mportan: Road Junction 71 Miles North of Rome,

GERMAN 14TH ARMY BROKEN UP IN FLIGHT   BRITISH - AMERICAN FORCES 71 MILES BEYOND ROME

Nazi Divisions In Italy Driven North by Yanks   Complete Defeat Looms for Enemy

Thrown From B-29, He Lands Safely —   Engineer ‘Chutes From Sub-Stratosphere

UAW PLANNING THIRD PARTY   Setup Organization In Defiance of CIO Officials

22 More Centers Bombed By 4,000 Allied Planes   Hitler’s Fortress Rocks As Night Shift Takes Over After Day Raids Go Deep Into  France, Germany, Luxembourg and Germany.

400) PLANES HANMER AXIS ~ RAIL CENTERS   Pre- Invasion Blitz Soars to New Dich

Black Sea  Port Falls to Reds   Russians Seize Prut Crossing, Kill Thousands Nazis

RedsCross Prut River In Poland   Lwow Bucharest Railroad Is Cut By Soviet Army

VICTORY OPENS WAY FOR LAST UKRAINE PUSH   Break into Rumania Hinted

RUSSIANS WIDEN WEDGE IN MAKING 23-MILE ADVANCE   Forces.Are Opposite Cernau , ti, Capital of Bucovina, After Sadagura Along Prut Is Captured.   FOURTH JAP COLUMN CROSSES INTO INDIA   Allied Airmen Blast Twe More Japanese Supply Ships Off Wewak, Toll Is 20 In Two Weeks.

= To Be Modernized   Joint Committee To Make Legislative Group Smooth Working Organization.

Congress To Be Revampec   Joint Committee Is Working Out Program

Congress Seeks To Improve. Its Machinery   Hijacking by Gangsters, Salés by U. 8. Soldiers Reported in Dispatches

Nazi‘ Commander_ ; Rejects Ultimatum ~ To Give Up Or Die   Massed ‘Assault. Loosed ‘At. Noon; : Hundreds Of Civilians, Handful OF Troops Reach. U. S.. Lines

German Commander's Refusal to Yield Seals Doam on Historic German City And 1500 SS Troops Defending It

Attack Begins After Germans Reject Demand   First Assault Guns Go Into Action at Neon, Over an Hour After Ultima. tum Had Expired   DIVE BOMBERS HIT DOOMED NAZI CITY   Civilians Raise White Flags Over Some Buildings But Military Commander Refuses ta Quit

Heavy Guns And Planes  Open Attack On Germans   Aalieg Is: Expected: To Be. Destroyed -.

‘Stand-Or-Die’ Order Of Hitler Gets First Test   German Commander Seals Doom Of City And 1,500 SS Troops; Berlin Claims That Yanks Make Little Progress In Area; Canadians Better Lines

Surrender Ultimatum Is Rejected; Handful Of Soldiers Give Up   New Amphibious Landing On Schelde Estuary Gains Ground; Yanks Remain In Battle For Fort Driant

German Commander Rejects Ultimatum   Bombs and Shells Hurled On City as Lesson for Other  Defiant Nazi Communities

Nazi Commander Refuses To Give Up, Seals Doom Of City   Germans Rush Troops To Reich Bastion To Reinforce Defenders Against First Army

Ultimatum To Surrender Rerected   Third Army Men Battle From House to House  In Town Above Metz

Aachen's Fate Sealed By Nazis   American Lond And Air Assault Leosed On. City

German City Will Be Torn To Pieces   Big Guns Turned On Center With. Planes Supporting Attack

ied Fifth Army Drives ard In Italy To Score New Gains On Broad Front

NAZIS MAKING ANEW STAND   FTERCE RESISTANCE DEVELOPS  IN ITALY TO DELAY  . THE ASSAULT ON GOTHIC LINE

Formosa Port Bombed Heavily By Allied Craf   Docks At Takao Assaulted; Other Heavies Score Hits 600 Miles From Japan

RAIL CENTERS Ih FRANCE HIT BY ALLIED PLANES   Seek Thus to Block Nazi Reinforcements at Cherbourg

Chicago Transport ls Tied Up by 2 Railroad Strikes  All Efforts to Settle Wage Dispute Fail; 75,000 Are Stranded

Chicago Transit Lines Disrupted  75,000 Commuters Etfected by Walkout

Chicago Transport System Disrupted by Railroad Tieur   600 Employes of Two Electric Lines Quit Work Over Wage Row

How Civilian  Tips Helped FBI Probers   Suspicious Citizens Put G-Men On Trail Of Axis Spies

Washington Roundup   Subsidies Doomed Railroads Returned FDR Fights For Draft 4th Term Talk Grows

Small Particles Cause Of Illness Sweeping World   Disease Appears The Same As Affected Population Here In Past Months

Slash Across Via Casilina Escapi Highway In All Out Drive Or Capital—Enemy Cleared Fron Artemisio Mountains   PREPARE TO STORM _ MT. DELLA PARTS

POLISH ‘ARMY? SEEKING ARMS   BRITAIN AND U. 8. ASKED TO SUPPLY MORE EQUIPMENT FOR THE. GUERRILLA — ‘SF 1GRTeERS.

Japs Capture U. S. Air Base in Chine   Five Divisions Pressing Forward in Hunan Province Take Lingling, Second American Air Operations Center to Be Lost.

Jap Drive Success;  Manchuria Raided   Enemy Cutting Through Hunan Province-—Superfortresses Carry War to Enemy War Plants

“P"_ PACIFIC~  anlP DIVISIONS ~INCHINA DRIVE   Enemy Now Less Than 10 Miles From Kwangst Province Border   PALAU BLASTED   U.S: Pacific Carrier-Based Air Forces Lash Jap Stronghold

B-29'S ATTACK JAP ARSENALS IN MANCHURIA   Other American Bombers Pound Pacific Bases Before Philippines

American Air Base At Lingling Lost   Japs Drive Forward on Broad Front in Southern Hunan Province

Japs Capture American Air Base, Lingling   Japanese Driving Forward on 60-Mile Front Are -Less Than 100 Miles From Kweilir

Japs Seize U.S. Base At Lingling   Five Divisions Overcome Chinese

Japs Capture U. S. Air Base   Enemy Scores Victory In Hunan Province.

Japs Capture U.S. Air Base At Lingling   Japanese Reported Mass: ing In. Indo-China For Thrust Into Kwangsi_

Yanks Lose  Base to Jans   Five Enemy Divisions Move Into Lingling, Chinese Command Reveals

“What Was It” Seen In Sky    a. a ee ee ee  Plane, Meteor Or Something Viewed By Hundreds Throughout Southwestern Ohio

Big Meteor (Or Was It?) Attracts Wide Attention In Flight Across. Western Ohio

Gestapo Tortures Revealed  Many Prisoners Die Under Nazi Treatment. Refugees Report

Gestapo Tortures Revealed Ee le Vecied  Many Prisoners Die Under Nast Treatment Refusces Renost

Greeks Tell About German Torture  Charge Gestapo Treatment Harsh

NAZI REARGUARDS BATTLE PATCH'S ONRUSHING ARM)   Bitter Street Fighting Takes Place in Besancon as Americans Move Forward Toward Belfort Gap.   HOURS ARE REQUIRED TO DRIVE OUT NAZIS   Germans Apply Torch to French Farms as They Fall Back—Hundreds Taken  in Isolated Pockets.

Fighter Planes Search Out Positions of the — Enemy  BESANCON IS TAKEN IN DAY'S ADVANCES  Communication Center Is ‘Scene of Stiff Street Fighting

Big Guns and Planes Stari Preliminaries   Three Columns Are Converging on Vital Passace

Single By Ken O’Dez Decides   Blix Donnelly Holds Off Browns After Laniet Loses  Early Lead.

U, &, SETBACK WORST SINCE PHILIPPINES   Supreme Headquarters for Allies Admits Situation Grave, May Be Even More So

Returned Flier Reports Capital Walled by Flak   Heavy Fighter Escorts Accompany Formations To Capital

SH EVE NEA NEARING      25,000 Japs Begin Do Or Die Attacks, 6 More Nip Ships Sunk

Heavy Fighting On Leyte Looms   Bazooka-Firing Infantry Crushes Tank-Supported Jap Drive

25,000 Japanese In Ormoc Yalley Begin Final Bid   Bazooka-Firing American Infantrymen Halt Tanks

Ormoc Japs. Fail to Break ‘Yanks’ Trap   Tank-Supported Jap By Enemy Repulsed With Bazooka Guns

BATTLE TO FLARE SOOK   25,000 Japs in Ormoc Val. ley May Bid for Victory Or Death.      STOP NIPS’ TANK DRIVE

Japs in Ormoc Make Bid for Victory, Death   Break in Weather. Fighting May Reach New Intensity

Battle Rages in Ormoe Corridor   Japs Begin Desperate Fighting As Yanks Check Escape Attempt

25,000 Nippon Troops Facing Doom In Valley   Tank - Supported Assaults By Japanese Are Hurled Back By Doughboys Using Bazookas   Enenry Destroyer Sunk By Bomber:   Nips Are Making Stronger Atlacks And Are Now Getling Set For the Final Strugele

Leyte Battle — Looms Tough   25,000 Japs Making Final “Desperate. Bid

Leyte Battlefronts May . Soon Erupt Into Hottest: Fighting Of Philippines.

LEYTE ISLAND BATTLEFRONT MAY BE TOUGH   Bitter Fighting Expected By Nazi Bulletin

SOON FLARE UP ON LEYTE ISLANL   Japanese to Begin a Final Desperate Bid for Victory or Death.   -ON THE ORMOC VALLEY   American Infantry Crushed a Tank-Supported Japanese Drive.

Nips Launch Drive In Last-Ditch Bid For Philippine Wi   25,000 Japs Attempt to rush U. S. Stranglehold in Ormoc Valley

New Intensity  Seen in Battle  For Leyte Island aN dine eee  B.ter Relea Fall Ceale Tianhe

A CLIMACTIC LEYTE BATTLE TS EXPECTED   Increasing Attacks Indicate Nips May Soon Make Final Desperate Bid for Victory or Death  wn Clhiuinnn Vallaw

Heavy Fighting In Philippines Expected Soon   Desperate Bid For Victory Or Death By Japs Seen

HOT FIGHTING EXPECTED ON LEYTE ISLAND   25,000 Japanese In Ormoc Valley Begin Final Bid For Victory or Death  RAINS IMPEDE ACTION

McArthur Quiet About Philippines   Shoe-String Ridge on Leyte Was Scene of Five-Day Battle.

NIPS OPEN DEATH FIGHT TO ESCAPE U. S. LEYTE TRAP   AMERICAN AIRMEN, PT BOATS SINK ANOTHER JAPANESE DESTROYER

Leyte Fighting May Soon Flare Into Great Fray   Break .In Weather Expected To Mark Start Of Bloody Battle.

Decisive Battle Waits on Weather   Philippine Struggle May Be Renewed Soon on Big Scale

Late News Bulletins   French Mediterrancan Coast Put on Invasion Basis

‘County Buys Tis Bond Quota Says Chairman Watis   Has Not Yet Reached Subscription ; Extends Drive Throuch Feb. 29

Citizens Are Still Buying In Last Minute Rust   Complete Figures On Sales of 4th War Loan Bonds Published Next Week

Purchases Under  Amount Pledged   Failure of Markets to Take Hogs Cause for Drag

Former Mayor  Of Merrill Dies  James L. Jenkins, Early Resident Her«

Former Mayor  Of Merrill Dies  James L. Jenkins,  ya =CSOti<i® rr ev _ = 7»

U. S. Third Army Opens New Drive \In East France —   Another Severe Blow Dealt To Jap Sea ‘Power In Philippines

THIRD ARMY IN NEW ATTACK IN EASTERN FRANCE   Advances Mile As First Army Battles Hard At ‘Vossenack

Germany To Continue Wai   Goebbels Says Nazis Far From Defeated -

Drys on the March:  Reported To Have $10,000,000 Fund For Lobbying for National Sahara

Claims Dry Measure Trick On Soldiers  New Yorker Hints At Bankrall

NEW YORKER HITS . PROGRAM OF DRYS   Representative Celler Declares Drys Hove Huge Bankroil

SAY ‘DRYS’ USE $10 MILLION BANK ROLI   Cohgressman Calls for Defeat of Prohibition

THIRD ARMY ATTACKS ON BROAD FRONT   ‘Impregnable’ Fort Blasted By 1300 Big Bombers

87-Mile Front Is Only Six Miles From Rim Of Saar   Armored Division Advances Four Miles, Liberates 14 More Towns; Heavy Aerial Support Gives Attack Major Importance.

14 More Towns Captured as Armored Forces Plunge Ahead Four Miles; 1.300 Bombers Rip Nazi Stronshald

Third Army Extends Gains 6 Miles, Captures 30 Towns in Two Days; First Advances Southeast of Aachen

Yanks Extend Holdings on Saipan Beach   Navy Bombards Guam; Japs New Guinea Air Base Destroyed

U.S. Naval Task Force Shells Guam   Troops Expand Their Beachhead  Chee Satnan Telaral

Americans Extend  Beachhead in Hot  Fighting on Saipan Japs Lose Last Major  New Guinea Air Base; Allies Gain in Burma

Editorial Comment on Willkie’s Withdrawal from Presidential Race

Committee Stands Pat on Manpower   Proper Handling Needed. Savs Membei

Milifary Group Opposes Move To Draft Labor   Buck Army, Navy On Conscription

STRIKERS VOTE TQ RETURN   Committee Sticks to Its Guns Against Labor Draft Legislation

Is Not The Answer Committee Still Oppose:  easure  Nation Labor Draft

Labor Service Plan Opposed By Heuse Unit   Commitice Avers Problert Involves Putting Men Thin Praner Pasctc

Bombers Kesume  Attack On Reich   Allies Smash Aircraft Plants At Brunswick

PLANE PLANTS AT BRUNSWICK ARE SMASHEL   Nazi Claim Of Attempted Attack On Berlin Is Refuted

Berlin Reports Yank Bombers “Attempt” Raid   Nazis Claim Fighters Give Americans Worst Defeat

Yanks in Huge Brunswick Blow   Berlin Radio Terms Aerial Attack “Heavy Defeat” for Yanks; Say Defense Formations Carry Out Pincers Move

BRUNSWICK BLASTED BY U.S. FLIERS   Week-Long Lull is Broken By 1250 8th Force Planes

Osborn Asks Bond Quota In Ten Days   Casa Grande Quota Is.Up To $240,000; $10,375 Now Raised

\Gov. Osborn Urges Arizona Subscribe its Quota of 32 Millions in First 10 Days of Fifth War Loan Drive

Yanks Fight Deep Within Heart of City   Hint French Port May Already Be In Allied Hands.

GAIN GROUND IN FIERCEST FIGHT OF INVASION   Expect City’s Fall Hourly

U.S. TROOPS RIPPING INTO NAZI BARRIERS   Doomed German Defenders Putting Up Stubborn Resistance at French Port.   BULLETIN

Fighting Hottest Of Drive   Yanks Nearing Center of City In Final Push

Yanks Slash Into Cherbourg From Southwest   Reports Indicate City Already May Have Fallen

Other Blows Expected by Allies Soon   Fall of French Port Grows Nearer — Capture Hill Dominating Harbor

Bayonet highting In Streets   PORT MAY ALREADY BEIN — = ALLIED HANDS; GERMAN TROOPS: INSUFFICIENT FOR A SIEGE =. ”

Eisenhower Poises New  Europe Blows   ‘Germans Look for More Landings on Dutch, Belzian Coast

Official Word of Cherbourg’s Capture Not Yet Received But Momentary Message Is Awaited   (Latest Dispatches Say City May Already Have Been Taken-——Heavy Fighting Stil In Prawrese Late Today

AMERICAN TROOPS ARE IN CHERBOURG   Fall Of Harbor Is Hinted Today In Communique Of Allies

Possibility Exists That City Mc Already Be In Allied Hand Eisenhower Hopeful Cherbou May Fall At Any Time   ONE MAIN TERRAIN FEATURE CAPTURE

Temperatures   1,000-Plane Attack Clears Path for  Invasion Forces

Port May Now Be In Allied Hands Belief   One®of Three Main Terrain Features Taken By Americans

Yank Assault Ferces Bayonet Adkstice Thru Port’s Fortifications   Germans Ordered To “Stand To The Death”, Resist Fiercely In Hand-To-Hand Fichts

Eisenhower Is Hopeful Port Will Fall At  Anytime Now   Yanks Command Vital A pproaches   Americans Hack Way Mile Inside Nazi Fortifications In City

Vanguard Is Attacking Nazi Pillboxes   Germans Forced to Use Civilians in Effort Ty Stem Allied Tide

‘Fiercest Fight I've Seen In Nine Years as Reporter’ Says Gorrell From France

American and German Paratroopers Meet in One f Fiercest Battles of the Western Invasion

Arguments For And Against Compulsory Arms Training   Hy JAMES MARLOM

Soriety Notes  AND Club Boings   AS THE STORK FLIES   LOOKING BACKWARD

Food Contra Sefup Flayed  Inefficiency Declarec By Investiaators to B:

GOP Committee Assails Wartime Food Program   Declares Inefficiency In Administration  Causes Black Market

Hotel Taken An Cassino   Fierce Fight Raging In Southerr Section

Cassino’s Defenders Routed   New Zealanders Dash Through “Hell” Of Battle lo Clean Up Vital Key Point.

LIBERATION OF PARIS REVEALS NEW EVIDENCE OF NAZI CRACKUP: UNDERGROUND COMES UP FOR AIR

Hitler Has Lost Control Of Great Nazi Machine Through Which He Ruled France

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Nazis Lose Control of  Held Lands   Fuehrer’s Machine Control ef Conquered Peoples Is “Kaput”

HITLER HAS LOST CONTROL OF GREAT NAZI MACHINE, BOTH CIVIL AND MILITARY IN EUROPE   History-Making Invasion of France Was Only Way to Break Hitler’s Power and Its Collapse Means A Speedy End of the War in Europe

Loss Of Paris Shows Hitler’s Weakness   By DeWitt MacKenzie Associated Press War Analyst

amu The War Today <—.— Hitler Has Lost Control  of His Forces  av newi TT MACKENZIE

—By DeWitt Mackenzie il   Poetic Justice When French Patriots Seize Paris— omlay 4a!  Hitler's Reign In France Is Smashed

Hitler Machine Folds Up in West   France, Main Shield Against Germany, Back in Allied  Control.

THE  WAR TODAY   Liberation of Paris Confirms Fact That Hitler’s Fortress Europe Is Crumbling Rapidly to Its End

Nazi Machine Out Of Contro   Reborn * France.: Marks Doom Of Hitler

The War Today   a £ +” oF lUh[Va ae iment: 4     Fall of Paris Best Proof Witler’s Machine is Disintecratin¢’

Carve Gains Across Guam   Yanks Add Airfield, More Villages, Doomed Japs Fall Back to Woods

AIRSTRIP ON GUAM SEIZED   Yanks Overrun Two-Thirds Of Island: Tokyo Reports Roto Invaded

Yanks Back 10,000 Japs ‘Against Sea   Two-Thirds of Guam Wrested From Foes; wean Field Seized

Another Airfield on Gunn ie i Is in  Possession of Tough Americans

Yanks Take Three Guam Villages, Another Air Base   No Confirmation of Report Rota Isle Has Been Invaded.

U. 5. With Tiyan Has Seven Fields  In Mariana Isles 33 000 Jans Killed

Americans Blast Japs Out of island Air Base  Troops Make Gains On Guam;

Tireless Yanks Make New Gains On Guam Island  No Confirmation OF Rota Invasion

Americans Gain Ground on Guam  Annthar Airfionld AAneo Villanac   Another Airfield, More Villages Taken by Tough and Tireless Yanks

Yanks Hold Two-Thirds Of Guam   Estimated 10,000 Nips Being Pushed Toward Northern Tip; Enemy Death Toll to 33.000

NOOSE TIGHTENS ABOUT 10,000 NIPS ON GUAM   Another Airfield Seized. Bringing to Seven the Nest of Mariana Dromes  Captured

Japs Blasted From Airfield On Guam Island   Tough Americans Haye Cuptured Nearly 'TwoThirds of Former U. S. Possess

NIPS FORCED BACK ON LAST THIRD OF ISLE   33,000 Of Enemy Killed At Cost Of 5,139 Americans

Guam Two Thirds In Yank Hands   Capture of Tiyan Airfield Makes 7  - In Marianas for Use Aaainst Japan

GUAM CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Another Airfield Falls To Yanks’ Drive Across Island

ANOTHER GUAM BASE CAPTURED   Nearly Two-Thirds Of Former U. S. Possession Regained

Yanks Take © Another Guam Airstrip; Hurl  Back Japanese   -Ameri¢ans Gaining.  All Across Island _

AMERICANS BLASTED JAPS FROM ANOTHER AIRFIELD ON GUAM  DOOMED ENEMY FORCE   DOOMED ENEMY FORCE OF 10,000 MEN FALLING BACK INTO JUNGLES

Texas Threatened  By Flood Waters   Windsterms Kull Five; Rains Swell Rivers

sMichigan On Fence; Ohio ls Wavering   Democrats Control Congress; Victory Grows by the Hour

West Coast Guesses, Too   Onlyy It’s On Dates For Invasion of Philippines, China Coast and Japan

More D-Day Guessing      West Coast Picks Dates for Invasion Of Key Pacifie Points

Defeat Of Japs Now Assured   Success Of Invasion Puts Finishing Touch To War Experiments.

EXPERTS. DISCUSS INVASION LESSONS   Normandy Study Insures Defeat of Japs, They  Sav

Invasion Study Helping Allies   Lessons Will Aid In Defeating Japs

(Germans Fighting  For Rome   Fifth Army Strikes Heavily at Swaying German Line Sixteen Miles from Rome

sGERMANS FIGHT STUBBORNLY T0 » NIP ONSLAUGHT   But Fifth Army Is Advancing; Allies Now Within 16 Miles of Rome

Repulse Counter- Attacks Of Desperate Germans 16 Miles’ From Italy Canital

[STIFF GERMAN COUNERATTACKS [CHECKS ADVANCE BUT CAPTURE (OF CITY SEEN AS INEVITABLE   Germans Rush Two New Divisions into Fray in Effort to Stem Tide of Allied Advance before Rome Where They Are Making A Last Ditch  Ca...) C..- 7

Capital's Fall Is Said ToBe Near  Tanks and Infantry Renulse Heavy   Tanks and Infantry Repulse Heavy Attacks of Enemy

NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED   Savage Resistance Is Offers ed By Enemy Within 16 Miles of City.   PROGRESS SATISFACTORY.

‘Rome To Fall Before Many Days Pass On’  —CLARK   Germans Offer Savage Resistance On Their Last Natural Defense.  Awa sr7e79 wr Pe a ae ee ee ee eee

Allies Repulse Nazi Overnight Counterattack, Resume Drive   Artillery Sets Fire to Huge  Enemy Supply Dump

ALLIES MENACE FROSINONE ON THREE POINTS   Lines Move Forward Sixteen Miles Below Rome; Highways Are Cut

ATTACK IS PRESSED BY ALLIES   Nazi Counterattacks Repulsed; 8th Army  Nears Frosinone

Enemy Resisting Savagely On Last Natural Defense Line South Of Rome But Allies On Move; British Pushing Up Sacco Valley Fast

Eighth Army Rolls Up Via Casilina   .. Strong Enemy Counter Attacks Repulsed   Bomb Vienna Area.

Eighth Army Is Advancing Through Sacco Valley Along Via Casilina, Capturing Arce and Pressing Upon Forsinone

Italy's Capital To Fall Soon Promises Clark  Savage Resistance Offered By Nazis To Advancing Army

Allies Strike After Turning Back Attacks   General Clark Predicts Fall Of Capital Soon

Capital’s Fall Is Said ToBe Near   Tanks and Infantry Repulse Heavy Attacks of Enemy

Counter-Blows Repulsed, Fifth Army Advances   Enemy Losses Heavy In Fighting But 16 Miles From Rome

SECURITY TALKS NEARING CLOSE   British-U. S. To Open Parley With Chinese Group

Legion Convention Told MacArthur To Lead Conquest Of Phitippines

War Chiefs Point Way      Legion Hears Arnold Nimitz and Marshall Tell of Blows to Come

Legionnaires Hear Navy, Army Leaders Discuss Their Postwar Problems

Nimitz Tells Legion, Conquest Of Philippines Is Job For MacArthur

Legion Hears Fighters Tell Of New Blows   Arnold And Nimitz Unfold Future Strategy At Opening Session

Harder Blows  Are Pr ‘omised   “Mae Arthur To Teal’  “Philippine Conquest

ADDRESSED LEGION   Arnold and Nimitz Told of Future Plans for the : Army and Navy

Legion Told Of New Blows Against Enemy   Top War Leaders ° Address Veterans During Convention

LEGION HEARS OF WAR PLANS   Nimitz, Arnold Give Outline Of Objectives

Nation's Top Commanders Talks, Legion      ——  Adm. Nimitz Speaks From Pacific, Names MacAithur In Charge of Philippine Invasion

Legionnaires Hear Nimitz, Arnold Tell Of Impending Blows At Enemy

Legionnaire Meet Hears Reports By Nimitz And Arnold   MacArthur Will. Head Philippine Campaign.

PHILIPPINES UP TO MACARTHUR NIMITZ STATES   U. S. Fleet Will Support Attack, Admiral Tells  Levionnaires

7 op War Leaders  Address Legion   Nimitz. Arnold. Marshall. Outline Plans—Green Speaks

Legion Hears Nimitz, Arnole   MacArthur Will Lead Philippine Conquest

LEGION TOLD ASSIGNMENTS AGAINST FOES   .  Nimitz, Arnold, Marshall Outline   Strategy Against Axis for Convention at Chicago

Legion Hears Army, Navy Heads Forecast Doom Awaiting Enemies   Marshall Reveals 60 American Fighting Divisions Are on World Battlefields

LEGIONNAIRES HEAR OF WAR PLANS TODAY   William Green Is Labor Speaker Before Group

Conquest of Phillipines to Be Job for Gen. Douglas MacArthur: Nimitz

French Neara Junction   Enemy Battles to Pull Back Across Rhine Before Escape Is Cut  Off; 3rd Crosses Saar

Nazis Resist Alhied Advance:  Near Aachen   Troops Surge Down Rhine From Colmar To Junction With  Other Armored Uni:

Nazis Holding In Aachen Sector   Reports Heard Road Bridge Over Rhine Crossed By Allies

FRENCH FORCES DRIVE STEADILY TO TRAP ‘NAZIS   Stiff German Resistance Holding Up Advance Of Allied Armies

Nazis Retreat Fast To Cross Rhine On Southern Sector   Fierce German Resistance on Aachen Front Limits Allied Advance; Third Army Crosses Saar River

FIERCE BATTLE SLOWS PUSH IN AACHEN SECTOR   3rd Army Crosses Saar; Weather Bogs Cologne Plain Advance

French Near Junction on South Front   Savage Resistance in Aachen Sector Cuts Advance to Crawl

French Draw Net Tighter Around 19th   With Southern Army in Flight, Resistance in Aachen Area Stiffens

GERMAN TROOPS GRADUALLY LED FRENCH TRAP   Gen. Patton’s Troops Cross Swollen Saar

RHINE BRIDGE   Steady Progress Reported In Clearing Enemy from Vosges Mountains

T rap Being Closed On Enemy In V osges Mountain: Berlin Admits Retreat In That Area   Patton's Army Wins Crossing Of Saar River U.S. First And Ninth And British Second Armies Fight In Mud And Water

ADVANCE SLOW IN VICINITY OF AACHEN   Strasbourg Virtually Liberated By Allies   NO CONFIRMATION   To Rhine Crossing Report; Resistance Is Bitter In Mulhouse Area

French Surge Down Rhine, Close Trap on Vosges Heights   Armored Forces Sweep Toward Meeting; Fight in Streets of Colmar

Strasbourg and Colmar Are Practically Liberated and dcerman Army May Be Caught in Mountains.   TWO FRENCH ARMIES ONLY S MILES APART

ESCAPE ROUTE ACROSS RHINE BEING CLOSED   Fierce Fighting Rages on Aachen Sector and Muddy Plain Before Cologne

French Closing Vosges Trap On -Retreating Foe   U.S. Third Army Crosses Saar; Nazis In North Make Death Stand /

French Are Near Junction South Of Strasbourg   In North, German Resistance Holds Allied Armies to  Meacer Triumphs

RushMaimRoad Bridge Across Flooded River   Meanwhile, Paris Radio Says French Move Toward Junetion Between Strasbourg and Colmar   Trap On Huns In  Vosages Closing   Savage German Resistance tn Aachen Scetor Limiting Advanee of Three Allied Armies

Senate Committee  Attacks Biddle —   Claim Attorney General of Being -“‘In Error” -

JUDICIARY GROUP SCORES HIM FOR MANY MISTAKES   Sharply Accuses — Attorney General of Making Misleading Statements. -

Senate Assails Biddle in Ward Co. Seizure   - Jesse Jones, NLRB Also Criticized By Sub-committee

Government Censured for      Senate Committee Declares Biddle In Error

Biddle Blasted  By Sen. Judiciary Sub-Committee for Advice Given FDR

CLAIM BIDDLE ERRED IN WARD STORE SEIZURE   Accuses Atty, General In Making Erroneous, Misleading Statements

Schools Present Seventh Annual © Speech Festival  Will Be Held At Akron Wednesday Next Week. Avril 12

SPEECH CONTEST SPEAKERS NAMED   Will Represent LeMars H. S. At Annual Event . At Akron

Object Of Program Is To Funnel Workers Into War Plants; Controls Will Be On Voluntary Basis

MANPOWER CONTROL TO GET EXHAUSTIVE TEST  Some Senators Praise M’Nutt Plan But Others Are Not Sure of Need

Early WMC Plan Test   Next Few Months Expected to Prove Value Of New Labor Controls

Severe Test Ahead. For Manpower Order   KCK KX PR. KK Plan Analyzed

New Manpower Controls to Get Acid Test   Plan’s Objective Is To Steer Workers Inio War Industries

MANPOWER CONTRO! PLAN, DUE JULY 1, TO GET STIFF TEST   W. M. C. Officials Feel Effectiveness of System Will Show As Production Culbacks Increase and Workers. Are Released.

CONTROLS PLAN 10 GET SEVERE TESTS   Effectiveness of Voluntary Manpower Control Will Be Shown.

Truman Hits Service Law   Reynolds Doubts Survival Of Bill Before Military Affairs Committee.

Truman Opposes  FD Labor Draft   Doubt Expressed Bill Will Be Passed

SERVICE BILL DRAWS NEW OPPOSITION   Senator Truman Says He’s Opposed To Law

Labor Draft Hits Trouble   Truman, Long-Time F. R. Supporter, Against Idea; Senators Doubt Approval

TRUMAN ADDS HIS DISAPPROVAL TO LABOR DRAFT BILL   Chairman of War Investigating Committee Must First See a “Very Convincing” Need For Such Levislation

Roosevelt Given Another Setback  Sen. Truman Against Labor Draft Law

Labor Draft Proposal Believed Doomed  As Opposition In Congress Increases

 Zruman, Long-Time FDR Supporter, Lines Up Against Labor Draft:Senate Body Marks Time

~ Is Unpopular   Death of National Service ‘Bill: Is Predicted. By” ~- “Two: Leaders

TRUMAN SCORES DRAFT OF LABOR   Will Battle Measure Unless Its Worth Can Be Proven

TRUMAN RAPS LABOR DRAFT   Long-Time FDR Supporter Lines Up Against  Proposal

Sen. Truman Joins Rank of Foes; Labor Leaders Unmoved At Roosevelt Conference

New Draft Pian Has Opposition   Truman To Oppose A Civilian Draft Measure; Reynolds Doubts Its Passage.

LEAP-FROG ADVANCE OF 500 MILES ESTABLISHES . BASE WITHIN 1,000 MILES OF  " oFHE PHILIPPINES 

PAGIFIG FLEET IN JOANT FIGHT WITH MAG ARTHUE   MacArthur Wiinesses Preparatody Blasting of Invas.on Points.

PAGIFIG FLEET WONT FIGHT WITH MAC ARTHUE   MacArthur Witnesses Preparatody Blasting of Invasion Points, -

GEN, M’ARTHUR NOW 500 MILES NEARER T0 GOAt   Surprise Move by Great Amphibious Force Surprises Foe

Kirke L. Simpson Says: Terrific Blasting of Cassino Fails To Dislodge Nazi Troops

Fifth Army Drive On Cassino Is Slowed   Nazis Dattling Fiercely To Retain Hold On Fortress City; Italian Mainland War Is Still A Limited Operation

 Eternal City Gf Pohtical importance— —-By Kirke L. Simpson  Fall Of Rome Is Key To Balkan Situation

Invasion 0 of Japan May Not Be Necessary, Says Admiral Nimitz   Continuous Defeats May Bring Capitulation Before Troops Reach Jap Shores.

Nimitz Says Japs May Be Defeated Without Land Invasion Of Home Islands

PRESBYTERIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL TO OBSERVE CHILDREN’S DAY   OARD OF THANKS

Hull Accepts Direct Participation by Dewey's Foreign Relations Adviser in American Preparations for Organizing Postwar Security

Dewey Agent To Have Talks With See. Hull   GOP Nominee to Have His Adviser Discuss World. Security

Dewey Adviser To Work With Hul  On Peace Plans   Agree to ®i-Partisan Discussions on Eve of Big Four Meet

Hull conference may lend strength to U.S.  Diplomatic quarters see importance   Diplomatic quarters see importance in impendine cet-tovether with Dulle:

DEWEY'S ADVISER, HULL 10 CONFER   John Foster Dulles to Talk Over Postwar Foreign Policy

Dewey's Adviser Accepted by Hul For Peace Meet   Secretary of State Agrees to Direct Participation Move

FOREIGN POLICY AIDE OF DEWEY TO MEET HULL   Secretary Says He Will Be Happy To Confer With John F. Dulles   BI-PARTISAN MOVE HAILED IN CAPITAL

Hull Will Meet Dewey Aide On Foreign Policy  i a ee      Strengthens US With Its Allies

PLAN TO FORCE 4-F°S INTO WAR WORK SIDETRACKED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE

4F WAR CORPS — PLAN ABANDONED   DECIDE SELECTIVE SERVICE HAS POWER TO PUT MEN TO WORK

Abandon Plans for Legislation on 4-F’s   Government Agencies Have “Ample Authority” to Move Men into War Work

4.F Control Law Is Not Needed Now   House Committee Give: Up Plans for Specia Legislation

Shelve Plan For Induction  Of 4-F Clas:   House Committee Puts End To Proposal To Require 4-F’s To Take Essential Jobs

House Removes Threat to 4-F's   Decides Against Forcing Them Into Labor Battalions

4F JOB DRAFT LAW DROPPED   Special Legislation Is Not Needed, House Group  Savs

Labor Corps  Bill Scrapped   Committee Finds SS Already tlos Authority

No New 4-F  Legislation   House Military Group Decides WMC Has  Power for Action

4-F PLAN KILLED BY HOUSE GROUP   Agencies Declared To Have Needed Power Already

Plan To Legislate 4-Fs Into War W nk Abandoned   House Committee Chairman Says Selective Service And WMC Have Ample Authority To Move Them Into Jobs In Essential Industries

Abandon Move To Force 4-F Men Into Jobs   Committee Finds Other Agencies Ha‘‘e Power

4-F CONTROL PLAN DROPPED   House Committee Decides Action Unnecessary

Abandon Plans For Legislation Affecting 4-F’s   House Committee Finds Agencies Able To Push Men Into War Plants

Plans Abandoned For 4-F Battalion   Legislation Not Needed to Force 4-F Men Into Es sential Industry.

Drop Plans for 4-F Legislation   House Committee Feels Agencies Have Ample Power

MOVE TO DRAFT 4-F'S DROPPED BY COMMITTEE   Says Selective Service, W.M.C. Has Authority To Force Action

Abandon Plans For Legislation To Force 4-F’: Into Essential Jobs At Threat Of Induction

GONE TO WAR: Cigarettes, Scarce Here At Home, Used On Froni to Trade

GERMAN STATES SUCCESS OUT OF OUR REACH   Spokesman Says ‘Deficiency Of Means’ Is Prime Reason

STIFFER DEFENSE PLEDGED GERMANS   REICH TOLD BY GENERAL DITTMAR WESTERN FRONT WILL BE STABILIZED.

Nazis Admit Manpower Deficiency but Seek to Assure Reich With Promise of ‘Third-Line’ Reserve Power

Nazis Plan Fight On Shorter Lines   Admit Can't Hope for Success in France

Dittmar Says “Deficiency Of Means” Hampers Nazis, But Things All Right-Now

TWO HUGE NAZI ARMIES FACE DISASTER   Russians Battle Furiously in Ukraine and Below Leningrad

SOVIET BLOWS “QUITTING DOWN NAZI STRENGTI   rwh GERMAN ARMIES HAMRED ‘AS. RED ARMY OFFENSIVE REACHES i” PRAK OF FURY >

RUSSIANS CLOSE ON NAZI ARMIES   ‘Squeeze 250,000 Germans in Narrowing Pocket Below Leningrad

No Onions in Onionville Either!   MANY GARDENS IN CONNECTICUT TOWN FAIL TO FILL NEED

Germans Are Worried Abou  Invasion Date   Declare Original Date Set Has Come and Gone

The War Today  War Analyst Says Worry About D-Day Belongs * With Enemy.

Germans More Worried About Delay of Invasion Than Allies Who Are Now Having Their Inning, With Dates and Times and Places of Battle To Ba Determined bv Allies

WARD SEIZURE TO BE PROBED - BY CONGRESS   Resolution Will Probabl: Be Debated On Floor Of House Friday   INJUNCTION BATTLE IN CHICAGO COURT

Committee ‘Revolt’ Assures House Action on Montgomery Ward Seizure   Mail Order Firm Attacks Government Procedure in Court; Biddle Defends Order

House Preparing Ward Probe   Resolution For Investigation of Store Seizure  To Be Presented Today.

House To Debate Ward Seizure   Rep. Cox Promises Probe of Quarrel

House To Get Ward Seizure ‘Dispute Today   Rep. Cox Says Rules Unit Will Submit Resolution To Investicate Move

House Coalition Seeks te Press  Montgomery Ward Inquiry   Showdown May Be Demanded Today in Effort to Force Resolution to Floor — Report of Senate Investigator Awaited

MORE STEEL MADE THAN IS NEEDED, SAYS CIO CHIEF   DECLARES PROMISE TO SET RECORD IN 1943 HAS BEEN KEPT

German V-2  Buzz Bombs Launched   Fail To Measure Up To Jet-Bombs, Observers Claim

Germany’s monstrous terror robomb travels too swiftly to be seen or heard

Draft Economies     Survey Of Operating Expenses Being Made Of Declining Work

Stilwell’s Forces  Are Pushing Ahead   Chinese Troops Hold Positions 14 Miles From Captured Mvitkvina

ASK COOPERATIVE PRESS AFTER WAR   ALLIES WANT FREER EXCHANGE OF NEWS BETWEEN NATIONS

YANK BOMBERS RENEW BLOWS » DEEP IN REICH   Attack in Strength Brings @ Heavy Sky Battles Nazis Report

Huge Daylight Raid On Berlin By U.S. Bombers   Other Targets Deep Inside Germany Attacked In Great Strength   HEAVY SKY BATTLES DEVELOP IN RAIDS

Three Attacks By U.S. Bombers On Philippines   ‘Reveal Three Successive - Night Attacks On Jap Airfields At Davao   OPEN CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERATION

ENEMY CRUSHED ON BIAK ISLAND   Americans Move Forward From Captured Jap Mokmer Airfield

Fighting Rages On Western Tip Of Island Group   Pacific Headquarters Remains Silent On Assault Against Truk

No Word Received Yet From Admiral Nimitz As To What Resistance Our Troops Are Meet ing.

G. G, P. CANDIDATE PLANS AN. OTHER SLASHING ATTACK ON ADMINISTRATION IN BOSTON TONIGHT

Dewey Bids for Massachusetts Electoral Votes   Says at Buffalo FDR‘s Promises Are ‘Worthless’

DEWEY LABELS FOR PROMISES BROKEN, BOEUS   Beston Speech to Deal With Subversive Groups That Seek Control

DEWEY MOVES INTO MASSACHUSETTS FOR A SLASHING ATTACK UPON THE RECORD OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

$182,000 EMBEZZLED IN SUMMIT COUNTY   Deputy Treasurer Charged With Shortage

DEPUTY TREASURER HELD IN SHORTAGE   an   Akron Official Is Charged With $182,000 Embezzlement of Funds

UPA TIRE PANEL MEMBERS RESIGN   MOVE MADE IN PROTEST OF RECORD REMOVAL

Fullerton Ration Board Resigns   Protests Action of OPA Officials

Changes Mapped In Treaty Writing   Bloom Would Give House Hand In It

Bloom to Offer New Proposal to Give Conaress Share in Writing of Peace

Violent Deaths Hif Hard in Holidays   Motor Vehicles Not Only Threat to Human. kife, Other Accidents Numerous

ee eT eo  Violent Deaths Hit Hard in Holidays   Motor Vehicles Not Only Threat to Human Life, Other Accidents Numerous

EX-WAVE IS CLEARED OF KIDNAP CHARGE   Free To Marry Man Like ‘Charlotte’s Father’

President Calls For More Bullets   Say Lives Lost by Shortage at Front

Leaders Warn” Victory  Paced. BvProduction   President Echoes Warning  Of Eisenhower and Krug . Fe cer Ct OU

EISENHOWER 3 PLEA BACKED BY ROOSEVELT   Cites Costly Lack of Shells in Urging More Production

FDR Joins Ike In Appeal for More Supplies   Shells Ratio ed ip Europe; Help Saag  From Labor Us To Hike Production

FDR Says Lack Of Shells Cost American Lives   Joins Eisenhower In Sirong Appeal

Home Front Lag Costs  Yanks’ Lives   President Appeals For More War Plant Help

SHELLS NEEDED TO SAVE LIVES   Ammunition Rationing Costly For American Soldier Manpower

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SHELL SHORTAGE COST U. 8. LIVES, ROOSEVELT SAY!   President Calis for SteppedUp Production to Insure Increased Supplies for Eisenhower.   40 PER CENT OF ARMS PROGRAM IS LAGGING   Slowdown Due in Part to War Plant Workers Quitting Jobs for Other Employment.

ROOSEVELT URGES PRODUCTION BOOST      Lives Being Lost Because of Shell Shortage," He Says

WORKERS URGED TO REMAIN IN WAR FACTORIES   President Says Too Many People Are Trying To Find Post-War Jobs   PRODUCTION LAGGING IN MILITARY NEEDS

LL RATIONING 9 COSTING LIVED   President Joins Gen. Eisenhower in Urgent Plea for Greater Production on the Home Front

INDICATE RED ARMIES MASS FOR NEW BLOW   Nazis Expect Fresh Offensive  POLOTSK RAIDED  Soviets Increase Aerial Activity

NeW noo AntiY OrrENoWe MAY bit SUUN   Bomlers Raid Key Kazi Rail Juncucn {cr S.cond Time

NEW RE ON NORTHERN FRONT LOOMING   Bombers Raid Rail Junction Of Polotsk For Second Time

Police Probe Boys’ Secret Ism Society   Wipe Feet on Flag, Circulate Pamphlets and Carry Out Sabotane Acts

WOMAN DEFENDS — HER TAX STAND   MISS KELLEMS ACCUSES GOVERNMENT OF SQUANDER.  ING BILLIONS.

Plea Of Guilty Made By Driver Of Death Auto   Clarence Rowlee Admits Leaving Scene Of Fatal Accident

PLEADS GUILTY IN AUTO DEATH   Rowlee Awaiting Sentence On Charge of Leaving Accident

‘Report Baron Mennerheim Urged Need _ For Finnish Peace Overture To Russ

Rep Report Baron Mernerheim Ur ged Need For Finnish Peace Overture To Russ

FINNS SEEK PEACE PATH   WANNERHEIM REPORTED TO BE URGING GOVERNMENT * TO DROP OUT OF THE. WAR

Boob, Butch, Boots, Runt, Joker Are Running; Ballot Is Full of Nicknames

 Willkicites Hail Poll in New  Hampshire   ‘Significant’ Edge Seen.in Triumph Over Dewey

A Willkie Tinge To Vote in N. H.   Primary Vote Considered Test of Strength Between Dewey, Willkie.

Willkie Tinge Is Revealed Tn oN, Hampshire   First. State To Pick GOF Convention Delegates Chooses Slate In - Primary Voting

Willkie Leads - N. Hampshire GOP Primary   .Four of Republican Delegates at Large Considered in Willkie Corner   ONE DEWEY PLEDGE:   All Democratic Victors Are Pledged to Roosey elt Renomination

Victory for Willkie in First Tes;   Triumphs Over Dewey in New Hampshire Primary on G.O.P. Delegates   ALL DEMOCRATS FOR ROOSEVELT   New. York Governor Wins Only Two in the 11-Man Deleration

PRIMARY RETURNS IN   ietory Claimed for Willkie in New Hampshire Election

New Hampshire Favors Willkie   Gives Him 4 to 3 Lead Over Governor Dewey, Returns Indicate

Republican Presidential P rimary Votes For Slate of Delegates Favoring Him to National Convention —Democrats Named Pledged to Rancevelt.   FIRST STATE CHOICE

DEWEY BEATEN IN FIRST TEST WITH WILLKIE   New Hampshire Vaters Name Pro-Willkie Slate of Delegates,

WILLKIE. WINS “IN HAMPSHIRE   Gets Four Out Of Sever Delegates Named In Election

NEW HAMPSHIRE FAVORS WILLKIE   FIRST STATE TO SELECT DELEGATES FOR CONVENTIONS

NEW HAMPSHIRE FAVORS WILLKIE   Demo Delegates Pledged to Back Fourth Term

Willkie in Top Place   Trend in Primary in New Hampshire Finds Dewey Lagging Behind

WILLKIE WINS IN POLL TEST   1940 GOP Candidate Gets Nod From New Hampshire

FOUR OF SEVEN WILLKIE MEN WIN ELECTION   Two Candidates Pledged to Dewey Win Places While MacArthur Entry Trails Republican Field

Willkie-Minded Candidates Lead   New Hampshire G.O.P. Chief Says Willkie Victory Significant.

SOVIET UNION'S LATEST MOVE "PLACES PRESSURE ON BRITAIN   GRANTING . INTERNATIONAL  ‘RIGHTS TO REPUBLICS BE _ ,LIEVED PART OF DIPLOMATIC MANEUVERING 

RED REPUBLICS IN POWER MOVE   Giving Republics Freedom Counters Commonwealth Plans of Britain

Burma Crossing Is Made   Chennault Loses Big Airfield in China to Japs

SECOND ALLIED LANDING MADE IN PALAU AREA   Marines Battle Ahead  Third Of Mile On Palalin

Yank Invaders Gain in Palaus And Halmaheras   Chennault Loses Big Air Base in China; Stilwell Spans Burma

ALLIES BATTLE NEAR 2 ITALIAN COAST ANCHORS   Nazi Resistance Grows As Lajatico Falls To Yanks

Yankees Capture Lajatico in Italy   Nazi Base Falls In Bitter Fighting

ITALIAN FRONT: BATTLES FLARE   Nazi Resistance Stiffens Against Allied Drives

BITTEREST FIGHT IN LTALY -SINGE FALL OF ROME   American Forces Capture Lajatico 20 Miles Of Livorno ;   COUNTERATTACKS COSTLY TO NAZIS   Enemy Pushed Eighth Army Back Two Miles From Pietralunga

Yanks Capture Nazi Stronghold in Hard Fighting   Lajatico, Near Livorno, Taken as German Resistance Reported stiffening

STRONGHOLD OF NAZIS SOUTH OF LIVORNO TAKER   Bitterest. F ig hting Since Fall of Rome Now in Italy

STRONGHOLD IN ITALY CAPTURED   Americans Take Mountain Position From Nazis

GOP Leaders. Head for or Chicago   Convention Opens . Week From Today

GOP Committee Members Start Beating Drums   Dewey Still Has Inside Track For Nomination

G. 0. P’s Gather At Chicago for National Confah  Platform Makers to Meet June 21st;  Convention June 26

Germans Sail On Gripsholm   Will Be Exchanged for 1000 Americans Held As Nazi Prisoners

To Exchange Prisoners   Gripsholm Sails Today With Axis Internees; Sick, Wounded Among American Repatriates

Gripsholm Leaves for Lisbon to Bring Back Wounded, Sick American Soldiers

GRIPSHOLM LEAVES WITH AXIS GROUP   Wounded U. S. Soldiers to be Included in Exchange ' - #&@ Lishon

EXCHANGE LINER STARTS RETURN   Heads for Lisbon to Take On New War Victims

FLY 10 QUIT FEC CHAIR ON NOV. If   Badio Policy Sto Storm Center -Plans-Law-Practice-in— New York

Fly Resigns As Member, Head of FCC   Center of Disputes Over Radio Policy to Practice Law in New York After Nov. 15

\Exit James L. Fly: New Deal "Trouble Shooter” Will  (Quit Radio Commission November 15

Sgt. Strathman, Manning, Killed in Bomber Crash in Alaska; Body Found

Balkan Patriots Sing ‘St. Louis Blues’ After Rescuing U. §. Airmen

Governor Bricker May Soon Call Special Session of Ohio Legislature

TEACHER PAY ACTION SEEN   BRICKER. MAY CALL SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE  O ENACT SALARY © "'  “BOOST LAW.

Signs Point To Unprecedented Blitz Against Japan By Time Leaves Fall

REPORT GERMAN ARMY {N BREACH WITH HITLER SS   Warplanes Maul 5,000 Nazi Vehicles in Retreat Toward Seine   RItLEeTIN

NAVY COULD NOT HAVE DEFENDED PHILIPPINES   Admiral King Says, Even Without Pearl Harbor Losses, Not Enough Ships   ALLIED VICTORY IS NOW WITHIN SIGHT

 ‘Women of Rome (Wow!) Make Americans  Disa cree With Sherman’s Viewpoint on War

Now Don’t Blab Sis, But Here’s Some Dope Qn GI Joe And His Reactions To Femininity Of Rome’s Beauties

iN ow Don’t Blab Sis,  But Here’s Some Dope On GI Joe  7 os  i And Hie Reactions To Femininity Of Rome’s Beauties

ARCTIC PORT OF KIRKENES IS CAPTURED   By Russians Along With Thirty Other Towns; Conquest of Transylvania Accomplished.   Approved By Norway

Reds Invade Norway And Capture Port   30 Communities Fall Into Hands of Troops

Reds Invade Norway, Gain in East Prussia   Arctic Port of Kirkenes Captured From Nazis; Soviet Forces Complete Conquest of Transylvania

NORWAY PORT CAPTURED BY SOVIET ARMY   Completion of Conquest of Transylvania Is Announced

SOVIETS WIN ARCTIC PORT OF KIRKENES   Complete Conquest of Transylvania, Gain In East Prussia

Reds Invade Norway, Take Arctic Port Of Kirkenes.   Transylvania, Conquest Also Is Completed And 13 Strongpoints Won io East Prussia  CAIN FLSEWHERE

ARCTIC PORT OF KIRKENES FALLS TO RED TROOPS   Moscow Also Announces Complete Conquest Of Transylvania   EAST PRUSSIAN FIGHT IS GROWING BITTER

Daily Temperatures   By UNITED PRESS   MYRON SELZNICK DIES IN HOLLYWOOD

AMERICANS MASS TO TAKE CASSINC   Bulgaria Calfs Up Reserves Orders Curfew Owing to Paniky Residents.

U.S. TROOPS REACH EDGE OF CASSINO   Airmen Bomb Nazi Piane Plant In Southern Austria

Allies Breach Gustav Line In  Central Italy   U. S. Planes Hit Hard At Plane Plant In Austria   MILE FROM CASSINO   Frontal Assault With Flank Attack On  Town Expected

American Troops Massed Within  Mile of Cassino   Preparations Made For Frontal, Assault On ‘Mountain Stronghold

YANKS MASS FOE FINAL ASSAULT ON CASSINO   French Rip German Line

Murky Weather Is Cause of Lull in. Aerial Offensive  Nazis Provide New Way ee ee a en en   Nazis Provide New Way To Protected Mauled Sunnlyv Lines

BAD WEATHER BRINGS PAUSE TO OFFENSIVE   sv Britain-based Planes;  Nazis Trying to Provide New Method To Protect Supply Lines.   Lose 56 Bombers :

‘Military Funeral Saturday For Set. Waldo Pena Who Dies Of  Wounds Received Overseas

POLITICAL ACTION SPURTS OVER U, §.   Critical Primary Elections in New York, Missouri Hold Spotlight on Home Front

POLITICOS TAKE OVER IN CHICAGO   REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CON. VENTION TO BE HELD THERE NEXT WEEK.

Political Pot Boils This week In 7 States  Clark, Fish Run For Reelection; Dewey Starts West

ven States ok Elections ring Week  OP Conference » Lend impetus » Baltics

Politics Takes SuddenSpurt With Candidate-Picking In Seven States And GOPMeet

May To See Greatest Burst Of Political Activity Thus Far In Presidential Campaign; MacArthur Definitely Out.

The Weather   Party Delegates ‘n 26 States ‘yom This Month  Rjoosevelt, Dewey           Viewed as Two  Leading Candidates

Political Front Active This Month  Generai MacArthur’s Refusal To Be   Generai MacArthur's Refusal To Be, Candidate Narrows Republican Field!

Politics Facing Heavy Schedule In Next Month   Republicans, Democrats Of 26 States Will Select Delegates To Convention

Primaries Are Listed for May   Great Burst of Political Activity Fo Presidential Campaign Seen This Month With Tw o Majer: Parties Slated to Hold State Balloting Almost Daily.   INTEREST IN FLORIDA

DURING THE MONTH .%, QCRATS WILL NAME DELE- GATES REPRESENTING * * NATIONAL CONVENTION  VOTES AND THE REPUb . NS WILL CHOOSE 351 a 26 STATES f wae    By JACK BELL

Politics Get Impetus This Month   Most of Convention Delegates Will Be Named in May

May To Witness Greatest Political Activity In Democratic, GOP Camp:

GEN MCARTHUR QUT OF GOP RACE   NARROWS FIELD BY DECLARING HE WON'T ACCEPT NOMINATION

26 States to Decide Choice During Month   Dewey and Roosevelt Expected to Add to Their Following

—EUROPE IS JUMPY—  Guessing On D-Day Speeds Up   GERMANS CLAIM MASSING INVASION FLEET BOMBED

Germans Say Massed Invasion Vessels Bombed  Niawse Ams Niessefenta fssasse "Thiet A dcowce   Nazis And Neutrals Guess That Assault On Con. tinent May Come Within Two Weeks.

Nazis Believed Ready To Blast Dutch Dykes   Axis, Neutrals Continue Guessing Came as to Date of Allied Assault

 Berlin Claime  ALLIED INVASION VESSELS RAIDED      Europe Continues Guessing Game On Date Of Assault

Bomber Raid Last Night In West England   European Quarterbacks Busy Guessing Date of Invasion

Nazis Claim Alliec Invasion Fleet In Britain Bombed   Germans ard Neutrals Continue Guessing Game on Dates for Assault on Europe; Enemy is Ready to Blast Holland Dikes

Invasion Fleel Bombed, Says Nazi Report   Dutch Dykes to Be Blasted, Flood Big Cities to Halt Allies

> —IN VASION  GUESSING NG GAME. {S CONTINUE   Germans, . ‘Neutrals: ‘Say European Drive: .May Come In Two Weeks '

Germans Bomb Allied Boats   Berlin Claims Many Invasion Vessels Attacked From Air

Nazis, Neutrals Guess Invasion  Within 2 Weeks   German Bombers Attack Mass Allied Shipping

Claims Invasion Vessels Jammi  English Harbors   Germans Declare Shipping  Attacked By Bombers; Nazis Guess Two Weeks

Berlin Says Invasion Fleet Raided; Neutrals Expect D-Day May 6-June 7

BERLIN REPORTS BOMBER ATTACKS ON ALLIED SHIPS   NAZIS AND NEUTRALS EXPECT INVASION IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS

Invasion Tops Europe News   Nazis and Neutrals Keep Up Guessing Game, Many Betting on Date of Attack

Germans ‘Claim Attack “Effective”; Nazis Continue Tense Guessing,  See Invasion Less Than : = 2 Weeks Av 

BERLIN-STOCKHOLM DISPATCHES TELL OF NAZI BOMBER ATTACK  CLAIMED MASSES AL'IED INVASION VESSELS IN BRITISH HARBORS HIT

Axis Reported To Be Ready to Blast Dykes in Holland   Naz's and Neutrals, Continuing Guessing Game Started Several Weeks Ago, Say "'D-Day” Is Less Than Two Weeks Off   ‘TRAVEL BAN CLOSES TIGHTLY SHORES OF BRITAIN

Allies Massing Invasion Vessels   germans Say They Bomb Ships Assembled in English Harbors.

Britain Isolated as Travel Ban Goes Into Effect Today   Speculation on Time of Invasion Mounting Through Europe

BERLIN CLAIMS AN ATTACK ON ALLIED INVASION SHIPS   Assembled in the Harbors of Western England, Dis- patch Said.   RAID BY NAZI BOMBERS      Germans and Neutrals, Continuing Guessing Game, Said Invasion May Be Soon.

‘Nazi Torpedo Boats Sink Three British Ships; Other Enemy Blasts Effective; Nazis Preparing To Blast Dutch Dikes.

ELAN ON BRITAIN SHORES   Various Sources Predict D-Day Might Be Less Than 2 Weeks Away.   INVASION SHIPS BOMBED

NAZI BOMBERS BLAST ALLIED INVASION BASE   Germans Expect _ Invasion In  Two Weeks

GERMAN ony ALLIED FLEET BEING WMASSEL   Britain Virtually Isolated as Guessing on Date Grows in Europe.

Berlin Claims Massed Allied Vessels Bombec   D-Day Speculation Rife In German, Neutral Capitals Today

Newsmen in Berlin Wager Allied Move To Be Made During May: Bombing of Fleet Claimed

Invasion Armada In British Waters Attacked by Foe   Berlin Reports Blow At Gathering Fleet; Landing Within Two Weeks. Axic Guecene

Germans, Neutrals Play Guessing Game For Days Flooded Dutch Dykes Seen

ENEMY FEARS ATTACK SOON; GUESSES DATE   German Bombers Raid In vasion Fleet: Britain Tightens Shores

Invasion Ships Attacked, Say Nazi Reports   Berlin Claims Three In Convoy Were Sunk World Guessing Date

Air Filled With Rumors as Great Masses of Ships Gather Off England for Invasion Day

Allied Invasion Vessels — Assembling In British Ports *Attacked By Nazis

Tnvasion Ships  Hit, Nazis Say  Enemy Bombs Crowdec English Ports

Vocational Rehabilitation Service s Aiding 63 Handicapped Veterans

JOHNSON AND BONG ARE TIED AS AIR ACES   Captain Bags Two More in Fighting Over _ Germany

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CAPTURED AT CRETE   Whisked From Under Noses of Hundreds of Nazis in Daring Raid.

Revise Selective Service Rules   Furloughs Following Induction Eliminated

New System Set Up For February 1   Both Army and Navy Calls Will Be Sent Boards; Revamp Furloughs,

NEW INDUCTION SYSTEM TO STAR ON FEBRUARY 1   Draft Boards To Start New System; Orders Received 

TOLL MAY REACH — 200, REPORTS SAY   failienes Ring ling Outfit As Main ent o tfit Flames  Ip in

VY CHILDREN VICTIMS IN JRRIBLE DISASTER, LARGE UMBERS SEVERELY INJURED

Main Tent Of Ringling Bros. Circus Bursts Into Flame In Afternoon

SUDDEN BLAZE TRAPS 6,000 DURING SHOW   BIG TOP IS SCENE OF HORROR AT HARTFORD

Tiny Flame Envelopes Big Top in 45 Seconds As Wallendas Begin Highwire Act in Hartford, Conn.: Problem of Identifying Dead is Great

Many Persons Trapped Under Fiery Canvas And Horribly Hurt  At Hartford, Conn.  ARMORY DRILL SHED TURNED INTO MORGUE  Charred Condition Of Bodies Hampers Identification

CIRCUS TENT FIRE TOLL UP 10 200 DEAD   Burst of Flames in Big Top at Hartford, Conn. Starts Panic; Bodies Charred.   Cause Undetermined

U. S. Unable to End Bus Strike   Greyhound Drivers Ignore WLB Order

NEW TAX BILL TAKING FORM   Variety of Politics Shares Capital Spotlight

RENEGOTIATION REVISION SEEN   Senate Favors Program; Fight  Looms On Relief Plan

U.S. Expected To. Help Poles WithF rontier   Roosevelt and Hull Set to Mediate Soviets’ Curzon Line Offer.

‘U. S. Weighs ‘Polish Plea   FDR. May Lend Aid Jn Boundary Issue

FDR STUDIES POLISH PLEA TO MEDIATE   Russ Refuse To Deal With Regime In  London

U3. WILL CONSIDER POLE BORDER RIFT   Request For Mediation Made As Reds Cross Line

Thousands of Japs _ Caught in U. S. Trap; Face Quick Destruction

WAR PRIODNERS AEFUSE TO WORK   ‘Italians at Omaha Sitdewn; I  Placed on Diei.

GOODLAND WILL NOT REMOVE 2 SHERIFFS   Officials Accused of Permit‘ ting Operation of Slat Machines.

RED AIR FORCES SEND BOMBERS TOENEMY LINES   Aerial Campaign: De. ‘signed to Soften Nazi Defenses for Summer Drive

REDS CONTINUE TO SOFTEN UP NAZI DEFENSES   Soviet Bombers Blast Supply, Rail Centers Fourth Night

Bombers Shatter [Equipment Labs On Baltic Coast   U.S. Fortresses Blast Robot Laboratories In Coastal Towns   SCIENTISTS DIE IN LAB QUARTERS   Germans Claim Further Secret Weapons Being Made Ready For Action  a a),  of

BOMBS STRIKE ROBOT PLANTS   Fort Attacks Carried Out in Favorable Weather by Strong Force

DIES HAS A REPORT   Deals With Collaboration of Government Beads and C.1.0.

Bricker Calls For House- Cleaning   Ohio Governor Points Ont _ Federal Payroll Expansion

Says Nation Now Hires 3 Million   Bricker Declares. U.S. Needs Housecleaning At National  Cite]

BRICKER HITS AT EXPANDED U.S. PAYROLI   Urges House-Cleaning Reform of Federal Personnel

Truman Says FDR Has Prov ed His Ability To Lead, While Bricker. Citing Federal Paur oll. Uraes House Cleaning   Votes Said Added Ry Emnlove Hike   Victories In War Said No Accident

U.S. Payroll Expanded to 3% Million   GOVERNOR BRICKER PROPOSES THOROUGH HOUSE CLEANING IN WASHINGTON IN NASHVILLE TENN., SPEECH.   At Least 300,000 Too Many

Truman Says FDR Has Proved His Ability To Lead, While Bricker. Citing Federal Payroll, Urges House Cleaning   Victories In War Said No Accident

‘Thorough House Cleaning in Washington Is Proposed by Bricker   Five Point Program of Reform in the Federal Personnel Proposed; Candidate Charges Misuse of Civil Servic:

Montanans Shudder At Thought of Erickson Election  Republican Head Fears Communists Would Hog Appointive Jobs

Montanans Shudder At Thought of  Erickson Election  Republican Head Fear: Communists Would

G.0. P. Cites Perils Inherent in P. A. C Control Over Politics in Montana

Labor Alert io Hillman’s Program in Montana, G. 0. P. Leader Savs

Approximately 30,000 Return Each Month   Equivalent Of Eight To Fourteen Divisions !s Immobilized As Result Of System Of Furloughs

Army Returning 30,000 Men To U.S. Each Month   Slight Chance  To Boost Figure

30,000 Men Monthly Most  To Come Home   War Department Says Forces Will Be Weakened

Army Is Returning 30,000 Men to States Each Month  War Department Say: Number Cannot Be Increased Now

RETURN 20,000 MEN EACH MONTE   To Furlough More Would Endanger Fighting Units Overseas, Department Reports

30,000 Furloughs Monthly For Men Overseas Is Limit   Refurning More Personnel Would Seriously Affect Prosecution Of War

30,000 Men Coming Back Each Month   Number Can’t Be Increased Much

Monthly Freeing Of 30,000 Men Army Maximum   House Group Gets Answer To Furlough Requests For Overseas Troops

30,000 OVERSEAS LEAVES MONTHLY   MORE WOULD PREVENT PRESSING WAR, SAYS THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

FURLOUSHS TO BE GIVEN MEN NOW OVERSEAS   Must Wait Turn; 30,000 Monthly Coming To U. S.

30,000 SERVICE VETS RETURNING EVERY 30 DAYS   Army Says No Greater Number Can Come Without Delaying War

SUSPECT TAKES SLEEP POWDERS   Charles Bedaux Prefers Death To Charge Of Treason

Bedaux Takes Own Life To Avoid Trial   Famous Frenhman, Friend Of High Nazis, Faced Treason Trial by U. S.

BEDAUX ENDS OWN LIFE 10 AVOID CHARGE   Former Sandhog Wasa Friend of Windsor; Wife in Europe

Charles E. Bedaux, Facing Treason Charge,  Kills Self With Poison

SENATE VOTE KILLS RIVER CANAL PLANS   Beaver - Mahoning Waterway Project Rejected by 52 to 16 Decision

When Germany Collapses, There'll Be Schools There For American Troops

Cc hoice Offered Nazis:  (an Be Killed by Allies or Shot . By Own Soldiers, Himmler Advises

May Even Use Measure On Superior. Officer, Himmler Advises Troops

Nazi Soldiers Ordered To Shoot Anyone Who Confemplates Surrender

Jap General Admit: Imperative Need Of Air Supremacy  American Expulsicen From Leyte Is Rated Secondary

Japs Lose Sio  And Hill 660 In Ground Battles  Nine Ships in Convoy Are Bombed by U. S. Flyers at Rabaul

Formosa Blasted Anew By American Superfortresses   NEW YORK COPTON   Formosa Invasion Fear Or U. S. Ruse ‘Mav Have Brought Jap Fleef Info Action

Japs Continu ue f da 8              Tokyo Says Nip Fleet in Pursuit of Allied  Forces, Inflicting Damage.

SUPERFORTS STRUCK FORMOSA ANOTHER BLOW ON MONDAY  TOKYO REPORTS JAP

Tokyo Radio Claims Japanese Naval And Air Units Are In Battle With American Carrier Force Which Has Been Operating Off Formosa And Philippine Islands

OKAYAMA NEW B-29 TARGET   Tokyo Claims Its Navy Clashes With American Carrier Force

EI EAE ER SE  Tokyo Radio Declares Nip Fleet ‘Pursues’ © U. S. Task Foree   Second Mission Over Formosa Accomplished Without Loss Of Aircraft; Japs Say Fleet’ Has Finaliv Come Out OF Hiding

VICTORY OFF FORMOSA   Revolt Sweeps Hungary   Furlough Volume From Overseas At Peak

Adm. Nimitz Makes No Mention of Nip Fleet in Reporting   Superfortresses’ Raid Formosa’ Sécond~ Tinie Within 48 Hours

okyo Says ap Fleet 1 Action   Enemy Claims 16 U.S. Warships Sunk in Battle

(Nimitz, Silent On Ficht      Superfaoris Again Smash at Targets Disc Bamesca

Enemy Radio Claims Eleven Yank Carriers  Sunk, Six Hit   Enemy Broadcasts Not Confirmed by Allied Sources

JAPAN CLAIMS VICTORIES IN FLEET BATTLES   Imperial Navy Reported Active Against Yanks’ Philip. pines’ Offensive

SUPERFORTS STRUCK FORMOSA ANOTHER BLOW ON MONDAY  TOKYO REPORTS JAP NAVAL UNITS “ANNIHIL-

FIELD COMMANDER OF BRITISH ARMY ESCAPES FROM NAZIS IN ITALY   General Richard O’Conner and Two Other High Ranking Offcers Flee Enemy.

CLAYTON - .— QUIZZED BY SENATE COMM.   Questioned as i To Ability to Be Asst. Secretary

HARRIMAN BRINGS REPORT   Will Tell Roosevelt About StalinChurchill Conference

Peace Road Cleared?  Churchill and Stalin End Polish-Balkan Conferences

MOSCOW CONFERENCES BELIEVED HELPFUL IN SOLVING POLISH AND OTHER MOOT PROBLEMS

Progress Made In Settling Polish Dispute   Road. Appeared Cleat for Framing Firm Hard Peace After Churchill-Stalin Con-: ferences in Moscow 

Ohio Demos Pick Lausche For Governor      Stewart Holding Lead For GOP Nomination

GOVERNORS’ RACES IN OHIO PRIMARY GIVEN ATTENTION   Bricker Gets Ri Republican Backing and Roosevelt Garners Democratic Delegates

Air Assaults on Japs Continued  Activities Extend Over Wide Area

YAP APPROACH TO PHILIPPINE AREA BOMBED   WARPLANES SPREAD OUT FROM BASES IN MARIANAS

Opposition Nil Against Yap Raiders   Marianas Based Planes Meet No Interception On Two Successive  Egrove 

Americans Launch All-Out Assault On Germans at Brest   Allied Fliers Destroy 93 Enemy Planes 549 Vehicles, 58 Tanks in Last 24 Hours   Fliers Have Record Day

ALLIES PURSUE GERMANS ALONG 200-MILE FRONT   SEINE RIVER HAS BEEN CROSSED AT HALF DOZ. PLACES

Nazis May Be Trying to Leave France   Yanks Seize Elbeuf, 25 Miles From Mouth Of Seine

EISENHOWER GETTING READY FOR LAST DRIVE   Driving Northwarc To Germany And Belgium Today

Eisenhower’s Armies Extend on 200-mile Front = on Heels of Nazis, Fieeing from France.   SEINE CROSSED AT HALF DOZEN PLACES

American Forces  Plunge Ahead On French Front   Fleeing Germans Lose Heavily in Material, Men as Allied Planes Hammer Steadily; Great Attack Against Brest Ils Under Way

Seine Crossed At Many Points In Advance   German Garrison At Brest Under Heavy Coordinated Blows

Belgium Also In Path Of Forces Of Eisenhower   Advance Northward and Eustward In France Is Made On Heels Of  Fleeing Germans °   Seine Pocket Of Nazi Graveyard   Allied Drive Toward PasDe-Calais Coast Brings Lull In Attacks By Hun Robots

All-Out  Attack On Brest   Germans in Confusion Apparently Trying to Get Out of France; Drive to Free Ports

Pursue Fleeing Nazis on 200Mile Front      Allies Push Into Troyes, Launch Huge Attack on Brest. Cross Seine

Allies Head Eastward on Wide Front   Cross Seine in  Fierce Pursuit off Broken Enemy to Battlegrounds of First World War

Yanks But 130 Miles ‘From Reich   Nazls May Try Stand Along Old Somme-Marne Line.

OTHER TROOPS OPEN BIG PUSH TO GAINBREST   Forces Pour Across Seine In Chase Of Nazis Trying To Get Out Of France

American And Canadian Troops Drive Toward Reich And Belgium As Beaten Enemy Tries To Escape Complete Annihilation. — 

Pocket Below Seine Becomes Graveyard Of Reich Warriors   Nazis Fleeing Northern France Hammered Relentlessly by Both Advancing Land and Air Forces

Besteged Garrisen at Port Assaulted from Land, Sea, Air   Eisenhower's Forces Are Hard on Heels of the Fleeing Nazis

Fleeing Germans Trying to Get Out of France   Seine River Has Been Crossed at Half Dozen Places

Partnership Role With Allied Big Three Pledged By U. S., British Statesmen As Security Conference Opens   Rv R. H. SHACKFORD

WORLD PEACE PLANNED AT CONFERENCE   Organization Which Will Give Little Nations Full Part in Post-War Plans Discussed.

U.S. AND BRITISH PLEDGE TO CREATE SECURITY FOR BIG OR SMALL NATIONS   American - British-Soviet Conference Seeks To Prevent A Third World War.

U. S., BRITAIN PLAN WORLD LEAGUE SOON   Hull, Cadogan Stress Urgency at Dunbarton Oaks

SAYS PROGRESS IS SLOW °   The President’s Only News of War Is About the Weather

VICHY'S FALL HINTED NEAR   Berlin Radio Says Germany Ready To Take Over

ALLIED PROGRESS IN FRANCE SLOW, BUT STILL PROGRESS. ROOSEVELT SAYS

REDS BATTLE INTO NIKOLAEV ON BLACK SEA   DRIVE ON DNIESTER NEARING HITLER'S LAST RAIL LINE

Reds Win Invasion Bridgehead On Dniester River  Russians Threaten Key City to Balkans  = fae Lee: i See

In 17 Miles Of Vital Road   Russians Plunge Within Eight Miles of Rumania’s Eastern Border

Reds Menace Key To Whole Balkans Area   Troops In Eight Miles Of Rumania

REDS THREATEN NAZIS’ LAST ESCAPE ROUTE   Proskurov Falls Before Onslaught; 250 Towns Taken

Reach Dniester River on 50-Mile Front Opposite Key to Balkans;  Seize Nazi Ukrainian Stronghold

Establish Bridgehead On Dniester   Split of German Eastern Front Imminent

Reds Threafen To Cut Railway And Trap Nazis   Russians Now Only 8 Miles From East ' Border Of Rumania

Hard-Hitting Soviets Near Vital Railway Seizure of Line Would Split Nazi Eastern Front LAST MAIN ROUTE Russians Capture Town  Only 12 Miles From  Wy ere Wireenge

ARMY IS ONLY 18 MILES FROM RIVER BORDER   Stubbornly-Held Nazi Fortress in Middle Area Is Captured

NAZIS’ EASTERN ” FRONT TOTTERS _ UNDER ASSAULI   Rail Line Threatened As Soviets Build Bridgehead; Nikolaev Doomed

Erect 50-Mile bridgehead At Dniester River   Menace Czernowitz, In Approach Toward Carpathian Mountains.   CAPTURE PROSKUROV

Reds Win !nvasion Bridgehead Qn Dniester River  Russians Threaten Ke) City to Balkans In Rumanian Drive

Erect 50-Mile Invasion BridgeHead on Dneister   Soviets 18 Miles From Strategic Czernowitz; Key City Captured

Soviets Push Into Edge of Nikolaev   Russians Are Only 17 Miles From Vital Railway Line

NAZIS LIKELY 10 QUIT BESSARABIA   Von Papen  Says Ploesti Oil Regions To Be Defanded   ENEMY EASTERN FRONT IN ‘DANGER OF BEING SPLIT

Russians Move Across From Czernowitz, Key To Balkans, and Near Vital Nazi Rail Line

Threaten To Crack Entire  German Front  Red Break-Through May Trap 500,000 Men As 50 Divisions Fall Back

Survey of Wild Turkey Migration — Made in Turtle Creek Area by A&M

Hurley And N elson to China   es ata Sorat alter otitaat iat coal eo NE  Go On A Mission Talk On Supply  And EFeonoamice

Envoys Being Sent To China   Hurley And Nelson Will. Leave. Shortly

Nelson Is To Goto China   Stout Advocate of epering Now For Reconversion  Shunted to Far East

Hurley, Nelson On China Misston   Roosevelt Announces Sending of Envoys

Premier of. Poland Goes To Moscow   Seeks Remedy for Long Standing Dispute .-, Between. Two  - Countries

PREMIER WILL SEE STALI   London Exile Governmental Head Seeks Remedy By Moerow Trin

POLISH PREMIER BOES TO MOSCOW   Representative of Poland in Exile to Confer With Premier Stalin on Relations Between Poland and Soviet

Poland’s Exile Premier Going  To See Stalin   Hope of Reconciling Two  Faclions Is Voiced Woe FT mes cdc

Polish Premier To Visit Stalin   Authorized to Seek  Settlement of Dispute

Labor Turns On Heat Witk WPB On Spot      Presses Demand For More Wages

War Labor Board Is Confronted by Many Problems As End of War Nears

BELIEVES AMERICA NOW FIGHTING NEW WAR WITH GERMANY   JOE E. BUTLER, PRESIDENT E-TEX C. OF C. RETURNS FROM NEW YORK

BELIEVES AMERICA NOW FIGHTING NEW WAR WITH GERMANY  TAT KF BTrirn panrer   JOE E. BUTLER, PRESIDENT E-TEX C. OF C. RETURNS FROM NEW YORK

SINGLE SEWAGE PLANT FOR TWO CITIES FAVORED   Attorneys Instructed To Draft Report On Legal Phases

Red Army Fights To Isolate Miskolc; Battle For City Of Budapest May End Early

Soviets Fight fo Isolate Miskolc   Reds Control Rail Line to Budapest

SOVIETS BATTLE TO CUT MISKOLC   Red Forces Gain Firmer Hold on 85 Miles of Rails and Roads

SOVIET ARMY ADVANCES IN EAST PRUSSIA   Big Offensive Continues on 87-Mile Front; Capture 400 Towns

Tanks Battle To Cross  Rhine River   American and British Forces Are 55 Miles From Krupp Arms Plants; First Army Beats Off Desperate German Counterattacks

BRING IN MORE MEN, SUPPLIES   Armor and Airborne Troops Battle for Crossing of Lower Rhine,

Germans In Western Holland‘Are Trapped   Allies Have Foot in Door to Great Ruhr Valley; Germans Strive Desperately to Eliminate Breaches in Defenses

Reich's Fate May Be Hanging In Balance   Allies Have One Foot In Door To Great West Germany Ruhr Valley

‘Crossing at This Point Will Put Allied Forces at En trance to Nazis’ Great   Ruhr Valley.   AIRBORNE TROOPS FOLLOWED BY ARMOR

Allies Form Solid Front of 50 Miles  Across E. Holland   Siegfried Line Being Outflanked; Nazis Face Entrapment

Pour More Air Troops  Into Holland   British Second Army Moves Up in Force to Join Sky Troops for  Drive Into Germany 

Germans Hurl Heavy Tank, Infantry Forces At Yanks In Sieafried Line ,

Approach Entrance of the Great Valley Filled With War Plants   A RAIN-SOAKED FRONT   Fast British dvance May Trap German Force in lland

AMERICAN AND BRITISH BOMBERS DELIVER HEAVY. “ONETWO" ASSAULT—OTHER RAINS ANNOUNCED

Alhed Aircraft Bomb Nazi Hela  Ports In Greece   Piraeus And Athens Areas Are Bombed By JU. §&. And British Planes  os. £iPatyIa nae 224102 +

Daily Temperatures   Jap Shipping and Industry Will Be Destroyed by Bombs, Says Gen. Arnold

Bombers From Chinese Ba ases  To Crush Japs   Gen.. ‘Arnold: ‘Says.- Nipponese 2 Industry. ‘And Shipping bee Are Doomed

GIVES GOP NEW CHANCES TO SAY 'MET00" AGAIN   Projects Post-War Economic Plan; Vet: To Grow Apples, Not To Sell Them

60 Million Jobs ‘Goal After War Roosevelt Says   Promises Removal Of Wartime Check On Wages, Salaries

Tells Chicago Crowd GOP Orators Can Now Kepeat “Me Too”. On Polfey  Fo Provide Work   110,000 In Stadium ’ Hear President   Asserts Veterans To Get Aid, Not Apple. Stands On Street Corners; Defies Cold Wind

60 MILLION POST-WAR JOBS ROOSEVELT AIM   Economic Program Un folded in Speech At Chicago

President Renews Exposition of His Economic Theories   Includes Stabs at G. O. P. Opposition for Criticizing Men Whose Work Okay

FDR SAYS GOP FOR NEW DEAL OF THEIR OWN   All Republicans Ask. He Says in Chicago, Is a ‘Change’

President Declares He Believes Private Enterprise Can Give Full Employment

F.D.R. siates economicaim  for peace era Talk. spiced with ' stabsatthe g.o.p.

FD. R, OUTLINES PLAN TO PROVIDE OO MILLION JOBS   President Pledges Wage, Price and Production Controls Will Be Lifted in . Post-War Period.   THUNDERING APPLAUSE GREETS HIS REMARKS   Executive Jabs at Republicans in Speech Before More Than 100,000 in Chicago Stadium.

Roosevelt Calls For 60 Million Productive Jobs  Precident Outlines   President Outlines Post-War Economic Program for Country

FR. Outline “lans for Post-War US   Fifth Major Address Of Campaign Made at Chicago's Soldier Field

Roosevelt In Address On Post-War Jobs   Goal To Expand Industry and To Aid Agriculture

President Sets Post-War Goal Of Employment   60 Million Jobs ‘Pictured In Land Freed  of Wage,

F.D.R. states  economicaim  for peace era Talk spiced with stabs at the g.0.p.

President Chides GOF “Me Too’ Attitude; Campaign A Strange One, He Declares

PRESIDENT HAS JOBS PROGRAM   110,000 Persons in Chicago Stedium Cheer FDR; Raps GOP Orators

FDR Promises Jobs; Indicate Few Controls   Chicago Listeners Hear His Ideas on Post-war Economics

FDR Opens Other “Me Too” Roles To GOP, HeSays, In.  Citing Maiar Demo Actions -

“44 Campaign Is Strangest One Ever Seen   President Speaks To People Of Chicago In- Soldier's eens a   CALLED BUNGLERS

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Churchill, Stalin End Conference, Balkan Agreement  Make Progress Polich Prohlem

DNIEPER BEND TRAP. IS RE. ‘ PORTED TO HAVE COST THE ENEWY 72,000  “IN DEAD) 2

Press F; ights News Coritrol   . ‘Supreme Court Gets “Opening Arguments

AP Renews Fight Against Anti-Trust Suit by Governmen   Counsel Calls Threat “To Saddle News With _ Government Controls

Japs Drive At Kweilin From  New Direction   Other Enemy Troop: Complete Encirclement Of Poaching, Whose Fall Will Speed Cap ture Of Strategic U.S Air Base.

NEW DRIVE IN KWANGSI   Jap Forces Have Made a Stab in New Direction

Hull’s Plans ForGermany Lacking OK   SECRETARY OF STATE UNFOLDS TO REPUBLICANS PROPOSALS THAT MOSCOW AND TEHERAN DIDN'T APPROVE   Britain, Reds Hold Back

ATOMIZER WEAPON IN JUNGLE DEBUT   New Flame Gun Gets Initial Test In Solomon Islands Last Julv

FEW POINTS T0 AID HOUSEWIVES AFTER TOMORROW   Four Brown Stamps Expired O1 Saturday; Some Canned Item Stamps Added

Hitler Line — To Be Tough, Says Stimson   Difficult Fighting In Store For Allies

STIMSON TELLS OF HITLER LINE   Secretary of War Avers Next Step to Be ‘Exceedingly Difficult’

Stimson Gives Warning Word   Declares Next Step In Italy Will Be Difficult for Allies

OAARORUCKEN JUBUABS FALL TO AMERICANS   Yanks Hammer Out Gains Up to Three Miles on a 250-Mile Front.

rye into       ADVANCE UP TO THREE MILES AT SOME POINTS ~~ -HAVE CAPTURED COAL MINES

Make New Gains on a Wide Front   All Allied Forces on Western Front Improve Their  Positions

SOVIET BOMBERS HIT ROMANIAN, GERMAN TROOPS   Sevastopol & Scene Of Massacre That May Be Final Assault

REDS BOMB FOE IN SEVASTOPOL   Possible Prelude to Final Assault on City Seen

Nazi, Romanian Troops Bombed   Large Soviet Force  Cracks Down On Foe

“inal Soviet Assault On Crimean Port Is Believed Imminent;  800 Germans Slain

Franklin Junior Red Cross Arranges a Program. . . Where Money Goes

Stimson Declines to Tell When Pearl Harbor Facts Will Be Released

House Group Approves Law to Order Court Martial Pearl Harbor Officers

DEWEY BLASTS SECRETARY ICKES   SAYS HE’S HIGH ON LIST FOR “ELIMINATION”

Dewey Guns For Ickes   Nomince Reveals Labor Secretary *Hich on List’ Ton

ICKES, PERKINS TO BE OUSTED IF GOP SLATE §S ELECTED   Dewey Says Two Secretaries High on List of Officials To Be Deposed

Dewey Says Perkins And Ickes Are First to Be Ousted  Republican Nominee Says New Deal Has Deserted West

GOP Blasi at Perkins and Ickes   Dewey Says They Are High on List to Be Ousted If He Wins   REPORTERS ASK MANY QUESTIONS   Lewis Support of G.O.P. and MacArthur Incident Press Conference Topics

‘DEWEY DECLARES ICKES AND PERKINS \WILL BE AMONG FIRST T0 BE OUSTED F REPUBLICANS WIN IN NOVEMBER

Dewey Says Perkins And Ickes Are First to Be Ousted  Republican Nominee Says New Deal  ble; Meets sd VAlack

Japs Open Attacks in Burma Area   Claim to Have Been Suc cessful in Offensive Against Allies

G.I. Veterans Aid Bill Sent — To White House   House Completes Action With Vote of 390 to 0; To Cost 3 to 6 Bullion

G.  Bill Sent To White House   House Unanimously Approves Measure

GI Bill Sent To President   House Unanimously Okay: Weierans’ Aid Measure

GI Bill Sent To President By Congress      AFTER UNANIMOUS VOTE OF HOUSE FOLLOWING COMPROMISE APPROVED BY SENATEHOUSE COMMITTEE.   Hospital Program

22 Months Siege Is Seen Near End   Germans’ Main Supply Railroad For North Front Cut: More Than 80 Towns Recantured

SOVIET FLEET SHELLS NAZIS ALONG COAST   20,000 Enemy Troops Lose Lives in  Past 5 Days

New Air Heroes Get Full Share Of Avis Planes   \Mustang Fighter Pilot Bags Six Nazi Ships In One Stroke!

EARLY FALL OF STRONGHOLDS BELIEVED NEAR   Rear Guard “Suicide Squads” Protect Withdrawal On 42-Mile Front

azis in General efreat on Long ormandy Front   Yanks Expected To Take St. Lo, eriers, Lessay

Rear Guards Cover Flight From St. Lo   Frontal Assault Of German Anchor Temporarily Halted

FALL OF ST. LO. PERIERS, LESSAYBELIEVED NEAR   Allied Vanguards May’ Have Penelntes Three Points; Omar Bradley’s First 1 Army Seizes Hich Rancve ! if.

Nazis Begin Withdrawal Into France   Capture of St, Lo Near as General Retreat Beving

Germans Begin General Retreat in France; U. S. Troovs Threaten St. Lo

GERMANS RETREAT ALONG 42 MILE LINE IN NORMANDY   Americans Are Closing Net Around St. Lo; German Retreat Orderly.

Americans Thrust Ahead 3 Miles, Seize Vital Ridge   Fall Of St. Lo, Periers, Lessay To Allies Appears Near

ALLIES SOON WILL CAPTURE STRONGHOLDS   St. Lo, Periers and Lessay Expected to Be Taken Shortly from Nazis.

JAPS BLASTED AT HOLLANDIA   Foe Powerless to Resist as 250 Allied Planes Hit Town and Harbor   Eaker Insists Bombing Job at Cassino Success

ALLIED BOMBERS KILL OWN TROOPS   Unstated Number Killed at Venafro When Bombardiers Mistake Town for Target; Eaker Eyes Cassino Drive

BUMBERS SLAY THEIR OWN MEN   Eaker Reveals Mistake Justifies Attack On Cassino

Eaker Tells of Cassino Raids ee IG TABS  Allied Troops Accidentally Killed In The Air Attacks

Allied Bombers Killed Own Men Eaker Reports   Accidents Mark Raid on Cassino

ALLIED BOMBERS KILL OWN MEN   ACCIDENTAL DEATHS NEAR CASSINO DURING RAID ON STRONGHOLD REVEALED.

HINT GREATER TIRE OUTPUT   Tax Returns To Increase Three Times On Rubber Items, FDR Says

Rennes Is Occupied by Americans   Capital of Brittany Taken After Thirty Mile Dash— Little Resistance

‘ALLIED FORCES SET TRAP AT VIRE, ROAD HUB   1,000 Nazis iWave White Flag

Temperatures   Nazi Tanks Check British Army’s Push East of Vire

a  7 i i  BRETON CAPITAL FALLS AS GARRISON MARCHES OUT UNDER WHITE FLAG

Sen. Truman Gives Up His Chairmanshir   Democratic Candidate For Vice-President Resigns As Head Of Committee On War Program

‘Dewey Given Pledge of Penna. Majority; \President Roosevelt Maps Speech in Boston 

DEWEY WILL SPEAK SAT. HIGHT FROM N.Y. CITY   Penn, Victory for GOP Candidate is Predicted by Martin

DEWEY ASSURED STATE WILL 60 FOR REPUBLICANS   Delivers Addresses Last Night In Eastern Section Of Pennsylvania

12 U.S. Aircraft Lost In Big Air Battle At Rabaul   American Airmen Engage Over One Hundred Defenders Fighting Desperately To Protect Important Enemy Base In Southwest Pacific.

18 Nip Planes ‘Are Shoi Down in Raid   12 Yank Aircraft Are Lost to Strona Interception

TROOP SHIP SINKING GREATEST MILITARY DISASTER OF KIND IN HISTORY OF U. 

1600 TROOPS LOST AS U.S. VESSEL SINKS   Another 1000 Saved In Storm, Battle Off Europe

RST MILITARY DISASTER OF  “KIND AN U.S, HISTORY RE- .  ., WEALED—1,000 WERE .. RESCUED

US Vessel Sinks, 1,00C Men Lost   War's Worst American Marine Disaster Recorded In  uropean Sector.

1000 RESCUED; VICTINS’ KIN NOTIFIED   Worst Military Disas: ter of Kind in History of Nation «.

1,000 YANKEES PERISH AT SEA   ser tenes ma  y Transport Sunk off Eu  eae emi  Greatest U. S. Military Disaster

1,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS LOST WHEN TRANSPORT IS SUNK BY SUB   About 1,000 Other Men Are Rescued In Worst Tragedy Of Its Kind In Hietory Of Country.

l,  LOST IN SINKING OF TROOP SHIP   Next of Kin Notified; 1,329 ° Saved in Worst Disaster of Kind for U. S.

Carley Again Indieted on Fraud Charge   Seventh Name Added To Defendants’ List In Federal Case

REP. ). M. CURLEY INDICTED AGAIN IK WAR FRAUDS CASE   Massachusetts Democrat and Six Associates Named Defendants

Hollandia Suffers Another Heavy Aerial Attack—Aussie Ground Units. Advance Two Miles Closer to Ma dane

Berlin Bombed Third Time This Week by Yankees   Attack Keeps Allies’ Round the-Clock Bombing Campaign on Nazis.   Western Germany Is  Attacked by British

Liberators and Forts Team for Third Assault Within 5 Days   First Fighters Back Report Bagging 27 Nazis   Estimate 1100 Yank Rombers in Attack,

Heavy Rain of Incendiaries   Lemans, Other Areas Bombed In Big Attack

Stage Third Attack in Week on German Capital During Week   Let Loose 360,000 Big Bombs; Other News of War in Brief

CHARGES CATHOLICS ARE ANTI-BOLSHEVIK   Church of England Rip Mpgr. Sheen For Net Liking Spanish Bloed Purees

Sasebo Naval Base Bombed As Giant Fortresses Stage Second Raid on Mainlarid .   Yawata Steel Center, Target Of First B-29 Raid on June 15, Hit Again, Gen. Arnold Reports

Big Naval Base And Steel City Targets OF Raid   Sasebo Naval Installations, And Yawata War Planta Blasted By Superforts

Nazis Use Narrow Winding Streets In Wilno For Defensive Advantage Against Onrushing Powerful Red Armies

U-BOATS AGAIN * STRIKE AT SEA   British Navy Chief Reveals, However, That Big Convoy Escaped Loss

HUGE U.S. CONVOY ESCAPES RENEWED U-BOAT WARFARE   Subs on Prowl Again; Mighty British Battlefleet to Join U.S. Navy in Pacific

Y-BOATS PROWL ~ ATTANTIC AGAIN   NEW MENACE BARED AS 167SHIP CONVOY REACHES BRITAIN WITHOUT LOSS.

Some U-Boats Still In Atlantic Lanes  New Flurry of Activity;   New Flurry of Activity; Strong British Fleet On Woy to Pacific

Nazi U-Boats Seen Again Along  Atlantic Routes  British Send Huge Battlefleet to Pacific Theater

“APPROVED. LIST’ APORTED GWEN PARTY LEADERS   -.List Includes Five. Men Acceptable to F.D.R. as Vice Pr-sidential Nominee

WALLACE, BARKLEY AND MINTON REPORTED ON PRESI-: DENTS LIST FOR VICE PRESIDENCY

“APPROVED LIST’ A=PORTED GIVE PARTY LEADEAS   List Includes Five Men Acceptable to F.D.R. as Vice Prcsidenti2] Nominee

Pressure by Japs in India Continued   No Important Action in Kohima Area Reported

Capture Of ‘Kohima Is Claimed By  Japanese   Jts Fall Would Mean Complete Severance Of Important Manipur Road To North

EXERTING STEADY PRESSURE, KOHIMA   No Engagements of Importance Taking Place, However-—Allies Better position: In the Imphal Region, 60 Miles South of Kohima

Kohima Capture Denied by Allies  Mountbatten Reports Pressure in Area

Tokyo Report Not Confirmed ‘By Allied Unit   Lord Mountmatten Ack. nowledges, However, That Japanese Pressure on Kohima Is Steady   Foes Driven From Hills Above Imphal   Action on Tiddim-Imphal  Road to South Slackens:  Indian Units Fights Way Out of Obstruction

Japs Reported Pressing Action On India Front   Adm. Mounthatien Reveals. Allies Better Positions Above Plains Of Imphal

Japs Increase Their Pressure In Kohima Area   Tokio Says Road Junction City In India Already Captured.

Japs Nearing Kohima in India   Tokyo Claims. Capture but Allies Say: No : Decisive Battle Fought Yet.-

JAPS CONTINUE PRESSURE ON INDIA FRONT   Reports from Various Sections of Isolated Front Indicate No Let Up by Nivs

Japs Claim Capture of Kohima   Allies Admit Heavy Pressure Around Key  to Burma Suonlies

Enemy Claims Key Point Has Been Captured  Mountbatten Says That No Important Actior

Tokyo Claims Kohima Taker   Fall Would Bring Enemy Forces Closer To Vital Railway

Enemy Pressure In Kohima Area   Admiral Lord Mountbatten’s Report Fails to Confirm Jap Claims That _ Base Has Been Captured, Howevei   —Recounts No Important Battle.   SUCCESS NEAR IMPHAL

Japs Maintaining Pressure on Allies in Burma  Important Battles Of Campaign Yet to Be Fought

Japanese Claim Capture of Kohima   Allies Report Enemy Pressure   Allies Report Enemy Pressure But Say No Battle Has Taken Place

Japs Gosing  Around British  Indian - Base   Tokyo Report of -Kohima’s Capture Nat Confirmed

Adm. Mountbatten Admits Steady Nip Pressure in Sector   City Lies 60 Miles North of Imphal, British Give No Hint That Town Has Fallen To Japs

Reds Pounding At Gates ungary; Bulgaria On  Verge Of War With Nazis

N ew Assault Made By Air  On Germans   American Bombers Strike From Italy And Eneland

Bomber Attack On Nazis Extends Into Fourth Day   U.S. Planes Blast Supply Lines, Communications; Rail Yards, Bridges Under Attack

U. S. Planes Batter Foe Supply Lines   Targets Include Rail Yards and Bridges in Coblenz Area

U. 5. BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS SUPPORT AMERICAN TROOPS   ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS  AND SUPPLY LINES ARE HEAVITY ATTACKER

CONTINUE RAIDS ON NAZI LINES   Blast Transportation Targets Between Coblenz, Bonn

Strike Air Blows At German Lines   Seek To Destroy The Luftwaffe

HUGE RAIDS ON REICH CONTINUE   Coblenz And Bonn Railroac Yards Are Attacked

Planes Aid Yanks  Against German:   Bombers and Fighters Attack Enemy Commumications For Fourth Day

U.S. Air Might Strikes Nazis   German Communications. Supply Lines Attacked For Fourth Straight Day.

U.S. Bombers Attack Nazi  Supply Lines   Support Americans On Western Front

Knutson Is For ByrdFor GOP2dPlace   DEWEY LASHES OUT AT ADMINISTRATION FOR ITS ARROGANCE AND ABUSE OF EXECUTIVE POWER.   Byrd Assails Guffey

Dewey Lashes ‘Executive Abuse Of Administration  Move Develops To Put Byrd Second

Japs Planning Home Defense   Tear Down Tens of Thousands of Homes In Tokyo

French Troops Press Toward Spanish Border   Yanks Tighten Ring on Enemy In Rhone Valley

Resistance at Toulon and ‘Marseille Ends   Germans Try to File Through Yank Ring of Encirclement

Resistance Ceases at Marseiile   Germans Surrender as Al lies Blast Remainder of  Trapped Nazis

NIMES IS CAPTURED IN DRIVE   Enemy Resistance At Marseille, Toulon  Comes To End

Marseille And Toulon  Surrender   Thousands Of Nazi: Taken Prisoner In South France

Nazi Resistance At Marseille,  Toulon Ceases   Bulk of Battered German 19th Army Held In Huge Trap

FRENCH FORCES CROSS RHONE.AT TWO MORE POINTS   All Enemy Resistance Ceases ‘A Port Of Marseille And Toulon Base

FRENCH TAKE CITY GF NIMES   Smash Across Rhone River at Two or More Points — Pressing Southwest Toward Spanish Border.

As All Enemy Resistance Ceased At Toulon And Marseille  THOUSANDS NAZIS HAVE SURRENDERED  Fighting In Southern France Has Reached Final Stages 

FRENCH HEAD TOWARD EDGE OF SPAIN      Capture Ancient City of Nimes In So. France

FRENCH TAKE ANCIENT CITY OF NIMES   Remains of Nazi 19th Army Being Annihilated

All Resistance At Marseille, Toulon Ends   French Cross Rhone At TworPlaces to

© Rhone Crossed At Two More Points; Resistance Ends At Toulon And Marseille; Nazi Prisoner Bag Grows   Ry FLEANOR PACKARD

TAKE TOWN NEAR MEMEL   Virtually Completes Entrapment of 100,000 Germans

BIG PORT IS STORMED BY SOVIETS   Far to the South Reds Troops Now 5 Miles of Budapest

100,000 Nazis Are in Red Trap at Memel   Soviet Armored Forces Storming Port’s Outskirts

TRAP SPRUNG ON 100,000 NAZI TROOPS   Ten to Fifteen Enemy Divisions Pinned Against Sea In Vast Pocket.

Soviets Storm Large Baltic Port of Memel   100,000 Germans Backed to Sea In Vast Trap

Memel Siege Creates Trap For 100,000   Russians Reported On Baltic’s Shores South of Seaport

Virtually Completing Entrapment Of 100,000 Or More Germans   18 ENEMY VESSELS SUNK BY RED PLANES    Vezacial Falls Yesterday To Russians And Cap ture 27 Tanks

Soviet Troops Are Believed Storming Suburbs Of Great Baltic Port; Foe Trying Sea  Ewvacnation      Rw HENRY SHAPIRO

REDS CLOSE IN ON MEMEL, BALTIC PORT   Entrapment of 100,000 German Troops Completed

Nazis Face Entrapment In Balties   Red Army Forces Believed Storming Outskirts Of City

SOVIET FORCES CLOSE IN ON BIG PORT OF MEMEL   Expect To Complete Entrapment Of 100,000 Or More Nazi Troops

100,000 NAZI TROOPS. FACE ENTRAPMENT   Soviet Forces Moving Quickly In Drive To Engulf East Prussia

Soviets Close In on Baltic Port of Memel   Virtually Complete Entrapment 100,000 German Troops

ENTRAPMENT OF 100,000 NAZIS IS COMPLETEN   10 to 15 Enemy Divi. sions Pinned Against Baltie Sea

Reds Close On Memel; Trap Nazis   May Have Already Crossed East Prussian Border Set by Hitler

Pounding of Europe in 24th Day   Berlin Receives Anothe Dose of Bombs — Hit Paris Factory

French Invasion Coast Receives Heavy Blasting   Non-Stop Aerial Raids In Western Europe Go Through 24th Day

‘Some 50) RAF Planes Plant Blockbusters   Mosquitoes Carry Out Raid on Berlin

Craig Soldier Given Discharge  _ Will Come Home To Care For Mother

Organized Labor Proving Political Question Mark; CIO Going After It’s Foes

Going After Many Congressmen, Senators; More Interest in Local Issues

“One of Biggest Questions in Coming Political Campaigns Posed by Labor

Willkie Assails His GOP Crities  Bitter Foes Would Aid Administration, Claim

Otwa Lewis Is Casualty In France   Is Hospitalized in England; Sends Purple Heart To His Mother

TO PROBE DEATHS IN NORWEGIAN EMBASSY   Coroner Asks State 0. K. On Autopsies

TRAARN 1) RAPE IV GUAJURE PITT:  ‘Nazis’ Morale Gets Jitters When They Learn “Wild Men’ at Salerno Were Out of Melting Pot

SAY [T AIN’T TRUE, KEN!  Many ‘Texans’ of 36th Are From Bronx, Maine

Over Six Billion’ Dollars Spent By New Deal Boondoggling In Sout!: America.

Good Neighbor Policy: Butler Repeats Charge It Cost U. §. Taxpayers Gigantic Amount

RUSSIANS INVADE CZECH AREAS ON (70-MILE FRON]   Cut Across Eastern Tip of Country—Nazis in Deep Salient Face Danger of Annihilation.   MOSCOW IS SILENT ON E. PRUSSIA DRIVE   New Advances Made by Reds in Transylvania—Hand-toHand Fight in Belgrade Rages On.

Red Army Troop: Plunge Into Czecho-Slovakia   Cross Carpathian Mountains; Nazis Face Dangerous Trap

N azis Assert Drive Made on Kast Prussia   Large Axis Force Is Almost Trapped in Part of Transylvania

Reds Cross Carpathians To Enter Czechoslovakia, Peril Germans in Pocket

Reds Capture Passes In Carpathians   Russians Plunge Into Czechoslovakic On 170-Mile Front

Reds Silent About Drive InE. Prussia   ‘But Stalin :-Reveals - Carpathian Advanice  Menacing Many Nazis  CAPTURE 7. PASSES

Soviet Forces Plunge Into Czechoslovakia   Cut Clear Across Eastern Tip of That Country

ieee  MOSCOW SILENT ON DRIVE TO PRUSSIA   Seven ‘Mountain Passes Taken, Marshal Stalin Announces

Soviet Forces Cross the Carpathian Mountains  MOSCOW SILENT ON DRIVE TO PRUSSIA  Seven ‘Mountain Passes Taken, Marshal Stalin  Announces

Russians Cross Carpathians From Southern Poland  Moscow Maintains Silence on Reported Beck Dumsete Piet

RUSSIANS PUT GERMANS IN NARROW TRAP   Berlin’ Announces Red Army Attacking Area of Kast Prussian Town of Schirwindf.   Fight In Belgrade

SOVIETS CUT OFF SECTION OF SLOVAKIF   DESTRUCTION FACED BY NAZI ARMY IN DANGEROUS TRAP

Soviet drive imperils foe in Slovakia  Moscow silent on Prnecian artiian

Transylvania Is Reached By Red Army Wednesday   Soviet Troops Cross Carpathians On 170-Mile Front To Drive Forward 31 Miles

SOLDIER VOTING TO BE GLEAREL   Present Law Restricts Reading Matter For Combat Forces

Attempt toRelax News, Movies Curt   Senators Act to Permit Freee Cireulation of ~ News and Pictures Amona Troops

Japanese Finally Admit Setbacks   Communique Tells of Philippine Losses

NewLandings May Knife Into Balkans   Nazis in Greece Reported on Standby for Blow in Albania

 ° Nazis Expect Attack In  West Greece   Nazi Troops Reported Ready To Evacuate Greek Aegean Islands

Nazis Expecting Balkan Invasion   Bulgarian Parliament Meets To Hear Foreign Policy Statement

ALLIES GAIN IN BURMA AND CHINA   Chinese Drive to Within 12 Miles Of Burma Road Base

U. S. Declared Far Ahead of the Germans   Scientist Says New Weapons to Make V-1, V-2 Look Silly

YANKEES CROSS SELUNE, SMASH NEAR BRITTANY   Second Stage of Liberation g Opens; British Advance 10 Miles in Day

GCAIMAND DEFENSE LINE OW WEST GOAST BOWLED OVER   Americans and British Forces Join Ranks to Blast Loose Rommel Hinge   ENEMY PREDICTS NEW OFFENSIVE   Thousands of Prisoners Captured — Allies Can Strike In Several Directions

House Kills Amendments To OPA Bill   Clauses to Increase Prices of Cotton and Oil Voted Down

ouse Approves ice Control tension Bill  Cotton Amendment Stricken; Parity Provision Inserted

House Passes Price Control Extension Act   Textile Amendment Defeated; Farm Parity Prices Guaranteed

House Extends OPA, Accepts Parity Ceiling   Textile-Oil Pricing Killed; Court Appeat Kept In; Veto Threai Fades

House Approves Price Control  Extension Bill   Drops Cotton Amendment, Also One To Increase Priee of Crude 35 Cents

COTTON PLAN OF BANKHEAD IS DEFEATED   House Passes Revised Price Control Extension Bill

GEORGE NORRIS CRITICALLY ILL   Veteran Ex-Senator Grows Weaker, Doctors Report

Tokyo Reports B-29 Raid Against Japan   Nips Also Announce Deaths of 13 Japanese Admirals

Japan Admits Naval Base Area Bombed   Death of 13 Admirals Announced by Japan

St. Patrick Parade Held In New York  48.000 Join Procession In Gotham

Sharp Increase In Subsidy For Dairy Products   Missouri in 50c Bracket Halts Price Hike

TEXAS IS TICKING POLITICAL TIME-BOMB READY TO EXPLODE  HEAVIEST VOTE IN TEXAS HISTORY PREDICTED

TEXAS MAY SET NEW RECORD IN NUMBER OF VOTES TUESDAY AMENDMENTS ALMOST IGNORED

U.S. Navy Now Composed of 14,000 Ships   WPB Official Says Strength Double All Other Nations

British Smash Into Center of Vital City   Americans Drill Hole Deep Into Center of Front

>Allies Rip IntoCaen; Nazis Exit   Bastion on Road To Paris Seems In British Grasp

Germans Hint Key City May Be Evacuated   Montgomery’s Troops Within Half A Mile Of Center Of Town; Americans Score. Gains  In La Haye Sector Of French Front

Nazis Withdrawing Heaviest Artillery   Heavy Traffic Observed on Roads Leading From Key Port Which British Are Stormina

German Retreat Is Seen   Battle of Caen May Be One of War's Greatest

MONTGOMERY MASTERS FOE AT BEACHHEAD   May Be One of Most Decisive Actions  Of the War

Berlin Hints Of Abandoning Ruined Bastion   Twelve Suburban Forts Toppled: Americans Enter La Haye Again

Chiefs Of Two Airlines Hold Widely Different Views On International Post-War Operations

Americans Push Forward Against Stiff Jap Resistance  FIVE ENEMY PLANES DOWNED DURING DAY  Direct Hit Sco Scored by a   Direct Hit Scored by a Bomber on Jap Cruiser at Kaviena

Americans Push Forward Against Stiff Jap Resistance  FIVE ENEMY PLANES. DOWNED DURING DAY Direct Hit Scored by a  Bomber on Jap Cruiser at Kavieng

MARINES MOVE ON BORGEN BAY   Tanks, Guns And Planes Force Japs Backward On Cape Gloucester

STIFF JAPANESE RESISTANCE I MET AT BORGEN   Another Cruiser Is Hit By ’ Bomb At Kavieng; Freighters Exploded

U. S. Marines Open Drive In Cape Gloucester Area: Yanks Advance at Saidor

MARINES ADVANCE ON BORGEN BAY   USE TANKS, GUNS AND PLANES IN PUSH WESTWARD FROM CAPE GLOUCESTER.

Marines Push Toward Borgen Bay   Japanese Resistance in That Area Is Reported Strong

EASTWARD ON NEW BRITAIN   While Other Yank Forces Move Inland On New Guinea To Extend Holdings; Direct Hit On Cruiser.   Raid Rabaul

Democr ‘ats Win At Least Three New Governors   Total May Be Swelled When Final Returns In On Election

HUNGARIANS CALLED UPON TO GIVE UP   Countrymen In London Say To Throw Out Nazis As Bulgars Are Doing

Hungary Urged To Quit Fight   Pro-Allied Leaders Ask  Nation to Turn on Nazis

Free Hungarians Call on Nation To Desert Nazis   Germans Strive To Bolster Weakening Satellite

HUNGARY 10 QUIT THE WAR REPORTS SAY   Underground Re Radio Calls on. People. to Toke : : - Action

Romania Turns On Hungarians   Balkan Nations Reported Fighting Along Borders

gar'y Called nto Quit; aria ls Out   aground Demand:  arian Army » Out Germans; oe Defenses

HUNGARY 10. QUITTHE WAR REPORTS SAY   ‘Underground und Radio Calls On. r People to Take © Action —

Peace Desire On Increase In Hungary   Romania Apparently Waging War Against Nazis Energetically

Senate Group Cites Profits   200 Manufacturing Firms’ War Foarnings Listed

TRIPLE =MURDER CHARGE BACKED BY FBI AGENT   Surprise Witness Testifies Same Gun Probably Killed Entire Family

CONFESSION IS PUT ON RECORD   Slaying Story Admitted As State Case Nears End

Confession Read Into Trial Record   Collett Lawyer Violently Protests Its Admission

September, December Probable Months for War’s End In Europe   By EDWARD W. BEATTIE,

Heinze, en. EnRoute Home From  Germany, Reveals Defeatism Is Spreading Through Reich   ‘United Press Writer Says Civilian Discouragement Ha: Not Yet Reached The 1918 Peak However

Country Not as Bad Off as mi 1918, However; Nazi Army Stil Strong

RUSSIA'S TERMS ARE LIBERAL   Finns Meet in Special Session To Hear Report   ‘Inside Germany -- What’s It Like?--Here’s Answer

Reich: Badly Shaken. by Allied Bombings, But Army Still Strona, U: S. Writer Says

CONDITIONS INSIDE GERMANY TOLD BY INTERNED REPORTER   By RALPH KF. HEINZEN

German Will Weakening, Declares U.S. Reporter Being Repatriated      By RALPH E. HEINZEN

Hitler and Goering Losing Their Grip   [Himmler, Gestapo Chief, Said to Be Only Nazi Leader Who Hasn’t Slipped

DEFEATISM SPREADING IN GERMANY   Reich Has Not Yet Reached Depth of Discouragement Seen In 718.

Reich Hard Hit By Bombs But Civilians Show No Signs Of Collapse, U.P. Man Finds

Truckers Strike Takes Spotlight   Three-State Trouble Continues to Spread

Truek Strikers Cause Tieup   Three-State Strike In Midwest: Central Pennsylvania Hit

TRANSPORT LABOR STRIKES SPREAD   Truck Drivers Out in Three 0 Midwest States; 20,500 Are Idle

ALL TRAVEL TO IRELAND RESTRICTED   Many Of Outlawed Irish Army Thought To Be In Britain

ACTION SAID IN AETALIATION 10 BAN ON TRAVEL   Belfast May. Close Border to Southern Ireland as “Precaution,

BRITAIN BANS ALL TRAVEL TO IRELAND   Leaders of I. R: A. Order Members. to Retaliate —

OUTLAWED ORGANIZATION 19  REPORTED PLANNING AC _ TION FOLLOWING BAN ON. . TRAVEL TO EMRE

First Lady Denies Strategists Wanted Her in ‘Storage’   71s APS HEPRAILED

Group Places Watchdog Rein On Lend-Lease   Bill Presented to House  Gives Congress Cheek Tive Went tens

LEND-LEASE WHIP SOUGHT BY CONGRESS   Power of Watchdog Over Contracts Asked

FLEET JOINS IN POUNDING FRANTIC HUNS   Sevastopol Harbor Filled With Wrecked Ships, And Port In Flames   REDS IN CITY OUTSKIRTS   Allied Bombers Giving Mounting Support To Victorious Russians

MAJOR LOCAL DRIVE BEATEN BY AMERICANS   Yanks Within 8 Miles Of Strategic Port: Continue Gains

While Allied Planes Smash 650 Square Mile Death Pocket    30,000 GERMANS TRAPPED IN PORT   British Assault Forees Batthk Their Way. 12 ‘Miles West Of Caen .

Cherbourg Corridor Widened   ‘German Attempt to-: Break Out From...Port. Is ~ Thrown: Back   25,000: TO:.40,000 : :! ARE: errist UP   Bradley Troops Cut Across. Peninsula, ‘Now Hold 7- ;

American Thrust Extends to Western Shore of Peninsula    ‘MANY NAZIS TRAPPED   Allies Repulse Counterattacks, Enlarge Their  rridor

ESCAPE APPEARS IMPOSSIBLE FOR PORT DEFENDERS   U. S. FORCES BUSY WIDENING PATH TO THE ATLANTIC COAST

Germans Fail In Attempt To Break Out   Bradley Massing Men To Close in on Cherbourg—Beachhead  Is Quieter

From 2,000 to 30,000 Germans Trapped By American Victory Apparently Have Two Choices-Fight to Death or Surrender

Thousands of Nazi Forces Trapped in Northern Peninsula   Foe’s Attempt to Burst Out of Pocket Beaten by Doughboys

Can Surrender or Can - Fight To The Death   NINTH DIVISION ’ GRACKED NAZIS

Choke-Off Zone Across Peninsula Is Doubled In Width; Trapped Nazis May Total 50.000.

YANKEE TROOPS LAYING SIEGE 10 CHERBOURG   25.000 German Troops Face Death As Assault Path ls Widened

30,000 Foe Troops Believed Trap  ped In Narrow Wedge In Th  Cherbourg Area; Heavy Fight  ing All Along Normandy Fron   WREST PORTION OF  CAEN PROM NAZI

AMERICANS BY-PASSING MONTEFEROTURG IK RELIKFE   INVADERS BROADEN ASSAULT CORRIDOR By Wes Gallagher.

25,000 To 30,000 Defenders Cut Off By Swift Stroke Of Gen. Bradley's U.S. Forces   Germans Being Driven Into Another Trap; Our Forces Continue Beachhead Advances; Montgomery Building Up For Big Punch

THE UP 40,000 NAZI TROOPS NEAR PORT   Cherbourg Is Under Seige Of Gen. Bradley’s Men   CORRIDOR WIDENED   Yanks In Advances Along Beachhead Front; Enemy Losses Are Heavy

Estimate 25,000 to 50,000 Nazis Trapped on Peninsula; U. S. Ninth Division Decimates German Forces Seeking to Break Out

Wide Corridor Opened Across Vital Peninsula  Enemy Attempt To Break Free Quickly Checked

Long Toms Shelling Big Port   Texans Aid ~~ Holding Trapred  Germans in biet

AMERICAN TROOPS WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF PORT MONDAY   HOLD ON PENINSULA WIDENED AND NAZI EFFORT BREAK OUT STOPPED

Sth Division Crushes Act Of Germans In Darkness   Fifty Thousand Believed Bottled © On Cherbourg   BULLETINS

Lash Out in Heavy Attack About 13 Miles South of * Cherboura,   HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED

BIG PORT CITY UNDER SIEGE OF INVASION FORCE   Bitter Fighting Continues ir Sectors Farther Inland; Weather Is Handicap

Crush Effort To Get Out Of Cherbourg   Americans Fight Toward Port From Northeastern Line

9th: Division ‘Smashes ~ ae ‘Counter. .  Attack   es E. UP. FOE      Broaden .C orridor Across Cherbourg  “Peninsula: 0

Yanks Reinforce Assault Corridor On Isolated Front   Escape Appears Impossible For 25,000 Nazi Defense Troops Who Face Death Or Surrender

American Ninth Division Repels  Counter-Attack   25,000 To 40,000. Doomed Nazis Fail To Break Out As Steel Band Widens

Bradley’s Forces Smash Through To Sea; Lay. Siege To Big Port    Between 25,000 And 40,000 Germans Believed Caught in Trap With Only Choice Left To Surrender. Or Die Fichting

Yanks Trap’ Large Force OF Germans   U. S. Troops Reinforce Steel Cordon Across Normandy Peninsula as Stight Gains Arc Made FEleewhere on Ernnt

Nazi Attempt To Burst Out of American Trap Around Cherbourg Proves Costly to Enemy.   ALLIES COMMANDING 116-MILE WARFRONT

U. $. 9th Division Foils Desperate Nazi Break Bid   BY VIRGIL PINKLEY

Hurl Back Thrust South Of Cherbourg   Bradley's Men Building Up Strength for “Next Step”

Ninth Division Cuts Off Huge German Force   U. S. Troops Inflict Heavy Casualties On Enemy And Thrust Seven-Mile Corridor Across Cherbourg Peninsula To Sea

Bradley's Men Eight Miles Out Of Cherbourg, Shelling Port   Estimate 50,000 Nazis Sealed Above Yank Corridor

ALLIED GAINS DOUBLE. HOLD ONPENINSULA   Turn Back Desperate German Attempt to Break Out of Trap.

Advance U.S. Troops Hammer Port With Big Guns; 50,000 Nazis Face Death in Trap

‘Over 25,000 Nazis Trapped In Big Port   Germans Launch Heavy Local Attack; Bitter Fight on East Flank

Americans Crush Nazi Attempt to Break Out Again   Cherbourg, Cut Off by Yanks, Is Now Under Siege

Bradley’s Men Within 8  Miles of Port   German Escape Effort Is Beaten Off; =~ U. S. Wedge Widened

“Americans Push Back Thrust on " Cherbourg Neck   gfrom 25,000 to 40,000 German Troops Are Bot-tled Above Port.   Yanks Widen Corridor  Across Peninsula

Cherbourg lsolated  By Americans;Noose ls Being Tightened   Fight to Finish.

U. S. Forces That Severed Peninsula Are Widening Pats To the Atlantic

Americans Inflict Heavy Losses on Enemy in Counter-Attack; British Enter Tilly-Sur-Seulles

Heavy Loss Is Suffered In Contest By Germans   Yanks Inereasing — Hold On Peninsula

Nazis Lashed Out In Night;  Heavy Losses      Bradley's Troops Build Up Strength For ‘The Next Sten.   STILL HOLDING TOWN

NAZIS UNABLE TO WITHDRAW FROM U. S. TRAF   30,000 Germans Face Death Or  Surrender

Long Toms Toss Heavy Missiles At Norman Port   Second Nazi Attempt To Break Through Allied Lines Thwarted

LAY SIEGE TO FRENCH PORT   Peninsula Severed From Mainland; 25,000 Nazis Trapped

ESCAPE TRY OF TRAPPED NAZIS FAILS   WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN MORMANDY June 19—(7—The Americar forces were eight miles from Cherbourg tonight.

Yanks Surge On Besieged Port; Other Units Punch Across Base Of Normandy Peninsula

Within 8 Miles Of City   U. S. Troops Widen Corridor Blocking  Off Peninsula’s Tip; Halt Nazi Escape Attempt

Americans Widen Corridor Across Peninsular and British and American Forces in Other Parts of Normandy Front Repulse Afi German CounterAttacks ;   FRENCH HOLD ON ELBA ISLE 1$ EXTENDED   ‘Determined German Resistance Being Beaten Down and Numbers of Prisoners Taken

TEMPERATURES:   Guns Pounding Big Port; 50,000 Face Death Or Surrender

Lines Across Cherbourg Peninsula Hem in Nazis   British Battle Way Into Northern End of Tilly-sur-Seulles, Americans May Be By-Passinge Montebourg

7-MILE WIDE CORRIDOR   With the American Forces in Normandy, June 19 (AP)-The American forces were eight miles from Cherbour ‘g tonight. —  

Single Nazi Break-Out Attack Fails; Bradley's Men Pound Big Port With Their Big Guns; May Be 50,000 Germans Trapped

PLATFORM URGta WORLD POLICING   Pledge U. S. Into Association Sovereign Nations   IGNORE DIXIE PLEAS   For States Right Declaration and Side-tracks Other Issues

DEMOCRATS FAVOR PEACE WITH ARMS   States Rights Declaration Not Included In 1544 Party Piatform

Peace-By-Force Plank Features Party Platform   Democrats Also Take Firm Stand  On Race Issue

am, ee:  22re eS i Lo  Any ee wt hee   Shout Passage of Pla-form Ignoring: Southern Demand for States Rights 

Democrats Pledge Enforced Peace   Platform Favors World Association

For d Wins Run-Away G. O. P. Race;  Er ickson Nominated   Bottomly Takes Lead in Nip and Tuck Battle for Democratic Choice as Candidate for Attorney General

CHURCHILL PRAISES AMERICAN SOLDIERS   Jap and Negro Fighters in Italy Commended

SERVICE VOTE. BILL PASSED ~ BY SENATORS   SENATE VOTES 47 TO 3t FOR “COMPROMISE “STATE RIGHTS” ‘MEASURE— ‘ VETO 18 EXPECTED

Veto To Place Responsibility On President   Sen. Bridges Defends The  Measure

Urges Merger of War, Navy Dep’ts   Stimson Testifies  He Favors Plan

SEC. WAR STIMSON URGES MERGING WAR AND NAVY © DEPARTMENTS   Experience In Present War Have Proved Voluntary Cooperation Is Not As Good As Con centrated Authority. --

Joint Army, Navy Bureau Is Proj ected   Stimson Asks Merger Soon As Possible To Improve L. Ss. Effectiveness

Americans Use Captured Jap Airdrome   Destruction of Enemy Forces Reported

American Planes Use Wakde Field   Toll of Jap Dead Now Totals 883

FBI Warns To Be Oni Look Out For Noforious Confidetice Man, Bad Check Passer, Possibly Ii Neighborhood   Has Defrauded Scores Of Business Men Out Of Thousands :

21 AMERICAN PLANES FORCED DOWN AT SEA   AH Except Six Of Pilols Of Marine Corsair Fighters Are Safe     vy Announces

‘STRIKES ENDED, “REPORT OF WLB   Docket Free for First Since Pearl Harber as U.S. Backs Invasion

Tojo’s Assurance To Japanese That Germany Is “Confident” Is Boon To Nazi Propagandists

Nazis Thump Chests, Say Defenses Ready: Tojo Assists Berlin   Suppressed People Warned To Move From Highways; Britons Told Invasion-Counter May Come

Tojo Tells Japs Nazis ‘Impatient’ For Opening of Allied Invasion

Nazis Say They Are “Confident And Impatient.” ... .  German Defiance Grows As Invasion Day Near:

TOJ0 SAYS NAZIS ARE READY FOR D-DAY ASSAULT   British Radio Warns People of Occupied Europe to Leave Rail, Plant Areas

Tojo Joins Nazi P ropagandists in  Effort To Bolster Morale of Axt

Tojo Boosts Nazi Morale   Says Germans “Confident and Impatient” As They Await D-Day

Lunacy Commission Finds Wife Insane   Official Return Is Made To West. moreland County Authorities

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT BUCHAREST   Small Scale Attacks Made By Germans On Cassino Front

BUCHAREST {5 HAMMERED BY RAF BOMBERS   While Germans in Italy Move along Adriatic and Central Sectors and at Cassino.   Bomb Rail Yards

Pocketed Forces  Cet Aid   ‘Slaves’ in Germany Told Wour for  Catan [heclaAnia

SLAVE WORKERS TOLD TO RISE UP AND JOIN FIGHT   Help Arriving for Trapped Troops as Allies Ready To Surge into Ruhr

ALLIED FORCES IN DRIVE FOR KLEVE AS SKYTROOPS RELIEVED   TWELVE MILLION “‘SLAVE’ WORKERS IN GERMANY TOLD ACTION AT HAND

‘SLAVE’ WORKER TOLD HOUR FOR ACTION 1S HERE   Troops Near North End of Siegfried Line—Aid Given Trapped Forces

DEWEY TAKES A REST   With Family and Secretary He Goes to Sea Island

Candidates Reject Word  From Dewey   Most Of Slate Will Stay In April 4 Election Despite Message Sent By Governor

Land Surplus After War To Be Huge   Hasty Sale Of 8,000,000 : Acres Might Ruin ) Farm Values

ACQUITTAL PLEA OF 29 DENIED   Judge Refuses To Follow Hartzell Case Action

BLOOD DONATIONS AND BOND SALES TAKE BIG JUMP      Great Increase Shown In Roth In Many Sections Of America

PEOPLE RALLY BEHIND THEIR ARMED FORCES   Blood Donations, Bond Sales Way Up Following Invasion

German Prisoners Recaptured: Two. Girls Held for Assistine Fecang

GIRLS. AID IN WAR PRISONERS' ESCAPE   Two Had Fled From Canning Company Work Project at Owosso.

SENATE FACES SEAWAY. BATTLE   Aiken To Press For Action On St. Lawrence Project

SEAWAY POWE PROJECT LOOMS   St. Lawrence Measure Up For Early Action

HOPE FOR SHORT CONGRESS MEET FADES RAPIDLY      Vermont Senator Determined To  Get Acticn On Seaway Project

Health of Nation May Be Improved Under Proposals To Be Submitted

Jap Fields In Mexico?      Discovered, Seized By Mexican Officials

Mexicans Find 6 Jap Airfields   All Camouflaged By Enemy Farmers

Report Six Jap. Caimouflagec Airfields In Mexico Discovered By Military

: 150, 000 Planes Produced By U.S. Since 1941; 28. 000 Are Delivered To Allied Nations

Story Behind Red Might Told   Series of Dispatches in Californian to Tell of Vast Secret Industrial, Agricultural Installations Helping Russian Victories

A Substitute For Gasoline — Around Corner   Product Potentially Twice As Great as 1941 “Gas” Usage.

‘Good News For Drivers: _ Or Ur ivers:  Marsh Gas Substitute Is F ound To Take The Place Of Gasoline

TOLL OF GREAT AERIAL BATTLE 64 U.S, PLANES   Germans Lost 100 And 3 Aircraft Plants Destroyed

Glider-Bomb Plane ‘Factory Is Wrecked   Stimson Says Loss of 64 American Planes in Raid Justified by Great Results

‘Nazis Gather For ‘ Another Offensive   Allied Defenders Alerted On Beachhead As Artillery Duel Continues: Nazi Loss Hiah

NAZIS MASSING AGAIN AT ANZIO   Foe Preparing to Launch New Attacks on Allies On Beachhead

Badly Mauled Nazis Plan New Assaults   Anzio Beachhead Forces Square Off For: Another Round: Bombers Renew Foravs

NAZIS PLAN NEW SMASH AT ANZIG   GROUND TROOPS SQUARE OFF FOR BATTLE AS ARTILILERY DUEL RAGES.

Germans Mass To Make New Beachhead Drive   Plan Third Assault Against Stubborn Allies on Coast Line

Badly Mauled Nazis Plan New Assaults.          nzio' Beachhéad: Forces: Square: OFF For-Another Round: Bombare Reneul Earave

New Nazi Drive Likely in Italy   Germans Prepare To Hit Beachhead

Americans Await New Nazi Attacks   Germans Regrouping For New Smash At Anzic Beachhead; Action Confined To Patrols By Opposing Soldiers

German Forces Poised to Lash Again af Allies   Kesselring Rearranges Forces for Third Head on Smash

Russians Smash German Attack West Of Dubne   Red Air Forces Tighten Sevastopol Blockade: Land Front Stalemated

GERMAN ATTACK AT DUBNO BEATEN BACK BY REDS   “Final Assault” On Sevastopol Also Said to Be Under Way. by Russians

Reds Smash Nazi Attack   400 Germans Killed in Russian Counterblow

Russians Beal ‘Off Nazi Blow   Red Army Recovers Ground Lost in First German Attacks

Russians Halt Nazis Attack In Dubno Area  Canunterhlaw Raectarec   Counterblow Restores Red Situation In Lwow Center   Blast Ships -Aiding In Escape Of Nazi

OMAGH ATTACK AN LWOW ARE!   Reds Repulse Germans; Stalemate Continues in ‘Other Sectors.

REDS SMASH NAZI ATTACK NEAR DUBNO   Stalemate Continues Along Most Of Long Russian War Front

Soviets Halt Nazi Attack   Remainder of Land Front Stalemated; Red Planes Destroy Ships

RED ARMY SMASHED GERMAN ATTACK ON FRONT NORTH LWOW  NAZIS ALSO DRIVEN OFF IN CARPATHIANS AFTER CROSSING RIVER

Reds Kill 400 Nazis and Sink Seven Transports; Smash German Attack

Russians Smash German Attack West of Dubno   Over 200 Germans Reported: Killed in Carpathians Area

Soviet Forces Smash New German Attack   Action Flares Northeast Of Lwow; Blockade of Sevastopo! Is Tightened

Reds Smash Nazi Attack   Stalemate Continues Along Land Front; Airmen Blockade Sevastopol

REDS SMASH NAZI BLOW IN DUBNO AREA      Restore Situation After Having Lost Two Localities—Soviets Also Rout Germans in Carpathian Foothills. ;

Reds Smash Nazi Attack Near Dubno   Stalemate Continued Elsewhere on Land Front

Red: Army Smashe: German Attack In Dubno Sector  Russians Recapture Two Towns in Sustained Assault

Reds Smash Nazi Attack In Lwow Area   Regain Ground Yielded In Earlier, Attack .— Germans Drowning In   Black Sea as Reds Sink Transports.

Russians Halt New Nazi Drive   OVER 400 GERMANS ARE SLAIN IN BITTER BATTLE,

REDS SMASH GERMAN RAID NEAR DUBNO   Several Hundred Nazi Soldiers Are Killed

German Attack On Reds Halted   2 Towns Lost By Russ Are Recaptured 

RUSSIANS SMASH GERMAN ATTACK WEST OF DUBNO   Nazi Counter-Thrust That At First Succeeded in Throwing Reds Gut of Two Localities Crushed By Soviet Army

RUSSIANS BEAT BACK ASSAULT   German Forces Crushed in Stab Above Lwow, Communications Center

s hega 2. Locaiities Near Dubne   Red Army Smashes ‘Attack, Kills More Than 400 Nazi Troops

THREE CHICKENS FOR 500 U. S. PRISONERS  eet a2 ee ee ee 7% eee eo

ORMOC BATTLE NEARS CLIMAX   Suicide Nippon Pilots Hit U. S. Shipping In Philippines

VIOLENT FIGHT RAGES ON ISLE   Yanks Seize Peak Overlooking Ormoc Area—Thousands Are Trapped

U. 8. Tightens: Squeeze on Leyte Isle Japs  Lofty Peak Taken; Ormoc Bombed;

Doughboys Capture Strategic Peak In Determined Drive Toward Ormoc

Americans Tighten Squeeze on Island   45,000 Japs Contest Advance Of Yankee Troopers on Leyte Isle

Peak Overlooking Ormoc Battlefield Is Taken By Yanks In Leyte Fighting

Fighting Grows In Fury; Yanks Capture Peak   Climax Approaches fr Great Battle For Philippine Isle

I Progress ‘At Ormoc Reported   Delermined Yanks Put Squeeze On 45.000 Enemy Troons

BLOODY PEAK OVERLOOKING ORMOC TAKEN   Infantry Units of 24th Division Drive South Toward Jap Reinforcement   Port   MT. CATABARAN FALLS

PUSH PINGERS ON 45,000 JAPANESE   Yanks Advance Three Miles At One Point   NIP PLANES   Hammer At U.S. Shipping; Major Bong Runs Total Of Victims To 36

Squeeze Tightens On Japs on Ormoc   Americans Take 2,300-Ft. Peak Overlooking Ormoc Corridor   24TH MAKES PROGRESS   Enemy Believed to Have More Than 45,000 Troops  on Island

SQUEEZE ON 45,000 JAPS IS TIGHTENED   Ormoc Is Bombed Effectively As Mt. Catabaran Falls

Vise Tightens » On Reinforced Japs at Ormoe   Yanks Still Hold Initiative in Mounting Battle for Leyte; Expect Jan Att--L

PEAK OVERLOOKING BLOODY ORMOC NOW IN AMERICAN HANDS  DETERMINED YANKS TIGHTEN SQUEEZE 45,00C RITTERLY-FICHTING TAPS

Peak Captured By Americans In Philippines   Squeeze Tightened On Japanese In Ormoc Corridor

a aaa i  PEAK OVERLOOKING BLOODY ORMOC NOW IN AMERICAN HANDS  DETERMINED YANKS TIGHTEN SQUEEZE 45,00€  BITTEDIV TICUTING TrApbe

Yanks Seize Vital Mount   Overlook Ormoc Corridor; Japs Trying to Break Out But Without Success

U. S. SOLDIERS TIGHTEN GRIP CN JAP FORCES   e  Yanks Close In From < Directions On Enemy In Leyte Battle

Yanks Seize Vital Peak  Near Ormoc   Tighten Squeeze Against 46,000 Japs Bitterly Recisting U. S. Advance

Ormoc Dealt Effective Bombing; Twenty-Fourth Division Drives To Last Enemy Reinforcement Part

Tighten Squeeze On Leyte   Yanks Capture Peak Overlooking Ormoc; Still Hold Initiative And Sunerior: Number

Yanks Battle 45000 Nips   U.S. Troops Tighten Pincers; Take Peak Commanding Ormoc

Takes Peak { verlooking Bloody Ormoe   Making Good Progress Against Heavy Opposition

Tighten Grip on Japs on Leyte   2,300 Foot Peak Overlooking Corridor Taken by Yanks

War Depat linent Repot ls Officer From City Lost   Second Lt. J. R. Gamble  Missing In Action Over Germany

Pilot Missing An Philippines   Lieut. Leroy H. Ross, Former Local Athlete, Lost In Leyte Action

ROBERT FROMM LISTED MISSING   Former Miami Funeral Home Employe Completed Over 100 Air Missions

Lieut. N. L. Britt Reported Missing In Action Jan. 14   McDonald i Man Was Pilot of B-17 Over France.

Lt. Robert Duncan Missing In Action Over Yugoslavia   Grandson of Late Bob Duncan, Famous Sheriff, Bomber Pilot

Japs Cut Off From Supplies   Japanese Expected Attack Nearer Pearl Harbor

ABANDONED Tf STARVATION BY HIGH COMMAND   Garrisons of 32 Remaining Atolls Unable to Get Help

PACIFIC FIGHTERS STEP UP TEMPO OF PHILIPPINE DRIVE  Land For ces Edge C ] fn @ lee

BEALL IS. GUEST ~ATLARGE PICNIC   Nearly 500 Attend Outing Along the Conceéo- — cheaaue

BEALL IS GUEST ~ATLARGE PICNIC   Nearly 500 Attend Outing «Along the Cotioco-  *)  eheaque:~

Germat Advances Acknowledged By Yugoslav} eader:  Three Days of Heavy Fighting Revealed

Huge Naval Bill Given Che 0.K. by Committee   NORTHERN COAST OF NEW GUINEA BOMBED

House Committee Approves Record Appropriation Bill   Adm. King Says Japan Must Be Destroyed For Victory

RECORD NAVY BILL GETS APPROVAL   Destruction Of Japan Urged By Admiral King

Navy Pleads  Destruction  Ot Japanese   Accept No Other Victory King Urges In Asking Record Fund

Bill Carries Appropriations of Thirty-Two Billion Dollars;  Largest Item Is For New Ship! Construction    RECORD BILE 18 GIVEN HOUSE OX

Two Soviet Armies Crash Into Budapest Defenses From North, East, South

RED ASSAULT ON BUDAPEST 18 UNDERWAY   TWO ARMIES ATTACKING OUTER DEFENSES ON THREE SIDES OF HUNGARIAN  ' CAPITAL

Americans Take Important Nazi Supply Junction   Tank Forces Spearhead Within Seven Miles of Normandy West Coast

BOMBERS RAID JAP AIRFIELD      ‘Heap New Destruction on  important Enemy Positions in Pacific.    JAPAN IS IN QUANDARY

ALLIED BOMBERS PLASTER RABAUL   BETWEEN 22 AND 30 JAPANESE PLANES WERE SHOT DOWN

Nippos Blasted Over Wide Area By Allied Fiyers   Planes. Range Hundreds Of Miles To Smash At Enemy

Allied Airmen Plaster Rabaul   Allied Air Foree Ranges 2.000 Miles Over Jap Territory

ALLIED AIR POWER STRONG OVER PACIFIC   Reelkzs Destruction In Wide Area; To  Continue Raids

IMPORTANT JAP “BASES BONE!   Low- Flying: ‘Bomber's Inflict Damage On - Rabaul’s Airfield System   LOSSES INCREASE   Twenty-Four Raids In 26 ~ Days Account For 390 -. Japanese Planes

DOWN OVER 22 YAP PLANES IN RABAUL ATTACK   List Nip Losses in Air Since Last August at 1,291 Airplanes

U. S. Continue: Air War On Jap Bases   Bombers Range Ove: Wide Area In Southwest Pacific

Jap Planes At Rabaul Smacked  Try Interception, But Lose 22 Out Of 60

Allied Bombers Pound Japanese  Over Wide Area  — ee ee  Enemy Plane Losses Heavy

Japanese Lose 390 Planes In Single Month   Between 22 And 30 Jap Planes Shot Down During Latest Allied Raid On Rabaul

Pacific Fliers  TY Ry, AT Secchi ee win Ot  Jap Islands  Plaster Rabaul Airfields, Shoot Down 22 to 30 Enemy Planes  BLAST MARSHALLS      [Dump Heavy Bombloads'  on 3 Atolls, Hit Taroa  and Nauru 

MOTORISTS’ MUST KEEP TIRE INSPECTION RECORDS WHEN SEEKING GAS. TIRE

Germans Stiffen Resistance Along Old Polish Line   American Fifth Army Launches Pust On Cassino, Italy

NAZI TROOPS ARE MAKING STIFFENED RUSS RESISTANCE  AMERICAN AND BRITISH ' TROOPS OF FIFTH ARM)

GEN. VATUTINS ARMY DRIVING AT SWIFT PACE TOWARDS — RUMANIAN FRONTIER   Vatutin’s Forces Strikiag Southward in Effort tc Cut Off Germans in Ukraine and Reach Black Sea American and British Troops Launch Strong Attack m Italy

NAZI TROOPS ARE MAKING STIFFENED RUSS RESISTANCE  AMERICAN AND BRITISH TROOPS OF FIFTH ARM‘  EATING L ATTAMPLD

Germans Take New Position  In Marshland   Fifth Army Starts Another Offensive As Allies Continue Day and Night Raids

Yanks Gain Mile  Toward Cassino   -«- Strong Allied Attack Breaks Stalemate In Italy

U.S. Fifth Army Opens Strong Attack in Italy; Smashes Into San Vittore

Speed Is Declared Essential in Solving the Manpower Problem; Congress Asked to Act

SPEEDY MANPOWER ACTION IS SOUGHT   Deputy WMC Chairman Urges More “Teeth” in Controls.

Lack Of Rain Causes Concern   Agriculture Department and WFA Showing Concern Over Lack of Normal Rain and Snowfall During Fall.

SS eee  Dyess Horror- Story To Be Heard Over Texas Radio Stations

1,100 ON at -ATDONORA * MINE STILL Hi   Open Hearth Dispute “ Cause of ‘Outlaw” pew co teo, NAS a HE ng el

Cisterna Falls In House-IoHouse Battle   Light Casualties By Americans; German Artillery Lets Up

Nazis Offer No Artillery Opposition   ‘Allies Consolidate Positions Under Enemy Observation

Allied Troops Take Important. italian Center   Southern Sector Lacks Enemy Defense Lines; Bombers Remain . Idle

PEARL HARBOR . ~~ CHARGE MADE   MIN NESOT A, CONGRESSMAN ‘DECLARES ROOSEVELT  DID ~ NOT: KEEP KIMMEL AND ~~ e. ».' BHORT INFORMER.

NAVY AMMUNITION SHIP BLOWS UP   THREE SMALL U. 8S. VESSELS AND TORPEDO BOAT LOST IN PACIFIC WAR.

PLANES, SHIPS SOFTENING-UP PACIFIC ISLES   Carrier - Based Raiders Hit Guam, Rota In New Attacks

OE  “Softening-Up” Operations Indicate : Guam May Be Next on Road to Tokyo

Guam, Rota Hit By U.S. Forces   Softening Up Assault of Islands Continues

FINNISH CABINET SAID SEEKING ~ PEACE TERMS   American Warning Causes Special Session For Decision

REPORT FINLAND ‘SEEKNG WAY 1 CET OUT OF WAR   ‘Helsinki Hints Decisions Reached at Cabinet Session Last Niaht

Finland Reported Seeking Way Qut   Hull's Warning Seen As Call to Peace Loving Finnish

Seen Pushing Fin inns To Repudiate Nazis   Possibility That Initial Action Was Taken At Meeting Of Cabinet Revealed In Helsinki Dispatch

Finn Cabinef Studies Plan To Leave War  U. S. Plea To Ge OQat Can   U.S. Plea To Get Out Considered At Helsinki

REPORT FINNS SEEKING WAY TO QUIT WAR   Helsinki Dispatch Reports Possibility Preliminary Steps Were Taken at Cabinet Meeting Last Night.

FINNISH CABINET STUDIES WAY TO OUIT THE WAR   Appeals of U. S. for Finns To Get Out or Suffer Conseqeunces Having Weicht

FinnsSeeking Way to Get Out of War   Hull’s Appeal Discussed by Helsinki Cabinet; Decision Seen Near

Finn Cabinet Studies U. S. Warning Note   Dispatch Hints at Possibility of a Preliminary Decision By Cabinet  CITIZENS SEEK PEACE

Peace-Hun gry Finland S8eks Way Out Wa   Cabinet Studies Secretary Of State Hull’s Warning To Quit Or Take Consequences

FINNS TRY 10 GIVE UP WAR   Reported Seeking Way Out On Basis Of American Warning

Fi inns Desire  Allied Peace   Early. Announcement Seen From Helsinki .

THIRD TIME IN FIVE DAYS FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS WITH TREMENDOUS ESCORT OF FIGHTERS LOOSE BOMBS ON GERMAN CAPITAL.  wre ye Stee TTY

SS Jom ers anc), ) “1g ers IS. in Running § 3a: =e N1iC1 My ras Tig gi RS Mage Binora

38 heavies and 16 fighter planes lost during battle; down 83 German aircraft   Allied strategy to crush enemy resistance increasingly effective

Ruined Capital Also Hard Hit By Incendiaries   38 U. §. Bombers, 16 Fighters, Lost

Armada Estimated Between 1,600 And 2,000 Planes _ Drops Great Bomb Load-—

Yanks Lose 30 Bombers. 16 Fighters   But Escorting Craft By Selves Knock Down $3 German Aireratt

38 Bombers, 16 Fighters Lost: Nazi Loss 83   Industrial Targets Are Blasted by Rain of 10,000 U.S. Bombs

38 Bombers, 16 Fighters Reported Lost  At Least 83 German Planes Fall; Vital Factory Hit

Yanks Lose 38 Bombers, 16 Fighters; 83 Enemy Aircraft Are Downed; Bitter Air Battles Waged

54 American Planes Lost in Sky Battles; More Mud, Snow in Ital;   Reds Make New Gains in Ukraine Push, Against Growing Nazi Counterattacks ; English Move to Settle Yugoslav Quarrel

HEART OF CITY. AND PLANTS HIT BY HUGE ARMAD!   Raiders Drop 10,000 High Ex plosive Bombs and-350,000::  Incendiaries to Start 2 Big. Fires.   SMOKE VISIBLE 100. MILES FROM. CAPITAL   Fierce Battle Fought. Over  _ Wide: Area—Ball-Bearing; Factory Is ‘One. of Pri mary. Targets... ©

Ball-Bearing Plani Said Chief Tarcei   Week's Total Of Nazi Planes Hits 259: Yanks Lose 54

CONVENTION OF LIONS HERE WAS GREAT SUGCESS   Chairman Little Thanks Citizens For Fine Cooperation

NIPS CHECKED ELSEWHERE ON BORDER FRONT      ‘Stilwell’s Chinese Tighten Trap in Upper Mogaung

Japs Make Gains At Two Points In Indian Drive   Stilwell’s Forces Tighten Ring In Mogaung Valley

Allies Drive 7 Mi. Into Gothic Line   Polish, Canadian, Yank Troops Extend Gains

EARLY LOSSES LIGHT BECAUSE JAPS “ASLEEP   Americans Now Going Up Against Largest Japanese Army Yet Met in Pacific Theater   LONDON PLAY

LONDON PAPERS HAIL BRILLIANT PACIFIC THRUST   MacArthur's Campaign Played Up — British Renew Their Pledge To Help U. S.

STETTIN HIT BY BIG BRIT. BOMBING RAID   Germany’s Main Baltic Supply Port Blasted ©

AXIS EUROPE IS ROCKED BY RAF BOMBERS   Daylight Attack Upon French Invasion Coast Sent Through 36th Hour.

RAF Rocks Nazi Baltic Port and Frenct Coast After Record U, $. Raid en Kiel

British Raid Stettin, Key Baltic Port   Attack Follows Big Americen Raids Yesterday On Reich, France

Stettin Is Rocked by Block-Busters   Mosquitoes Bomb Axis Furope

STETTIN BLASTED BY GREAT FORCE AF RAF BOMBER’   Germany’s Main Baltic Sup _ ply Point Heavily Attackec By “Busters.”

NAZI BALTIC PORT RAIDED  BY BRITISH   Stettin Blasted By Hundreds Of R. A. F. Bombers

Big British Bombers Attack Baltic Supply Port: Day Raiders Continue ‘Second Front’ Coast Offensive

Baltic Port Hit Heavily In RAF Raid   Bombers Thrust At Berlin, Swerve North To. Flatten Stettin

U.S. Bombers Continue Nazi Raid Marathon   Blast German Targets Again Today; RAF Bombs French Objectives.

WEST GERMANY IS HIT AGAIN BY U. §. BOMBERS   American Heavy Crait Attack Germans for Third Day Straight

‘Heavy American Bombers Fly Over - Reich Third Day   Military Targets in Western t) Germany Are Bombed  * After RAF Raid.   . Liberators Also Hit Northeastern France

19th Attack In Month; New Record   Third Straight Day Attack Made by U. S.  Air Force

West German Targets Are ‘Attacked By ‘U.S. Bombers   Enemy Airfields In Northeast France Are Also Attacked; RAF Strikes Ivon. Laon

New Record For Single Month Sef   RAF Raids French industrial City And Rail Center

U. S. Bombers Return to Fray  Third Straight. Raid: Being Staged Friday

WESTERN REICH TARGETS HIT BY YANK RAIDERS   Daylight Blasts Follow Strong RAF Night Blows At Objectives In France

Allied Raiders Strike Heavy New Blows In Ever Growing Pre-Invasion Air Offensive   Western Reich, France Attacked; 7,000 Tons Bombs Fall In 36 Howie

HIRD U.S. IR “OMG AT BIC   American H eav y Bomb‘ers Over Germany For Third.Straight Day   NEW HIGH. RECORD   Today’s ‘Assault. Brings To 19° Yankee Attack: This Month...

Execute Third Straight Day Of Air Attack   U.S. Bombers Follow Up Strong RAF Night Blows At French Objectives.   HIT RAILS, AIRBASES

Pre-Invasion Drive Covers Large Areas; Nazis Seared   Raids During March Break Most Records

American Heayy Bomber: Soar Inte.Enemy Territory For the Third Straight Day

Attack Is 19th Of Month, Establishing New Record; Raid Germany And Airfields In France After R. A. F. Smashes Industrial City Of Lyon

Continue Aerial Attack on Reich   American Heavy Bombers Strike West  ern Germany For Third Consecu tive Day, Following up RAF Night  Assaults at Objectives in France,   NEW MARK FOR MONTH

DAY AND NIGHT FAIS CONTINUE   Americans Hit German Targets; RAF Bombs French Objectives.   19 ATTACKS THIS MONTH

American Bombers Keep Up Pounding   Western Germany Is Target Today

Bombers Over Reich Third Straight Day   American “Heavies” Strike at Military. Targets in Western Part of Germany Following Strong R. A. F. Night Blows in France. —

American Bomber: Hit Germany Third Day in Row  Other Planes Attack Enemy Airfields In Northern France

19th. Aerial Attack of Month on Hitler Europe Made Today   Western Germany and Northeastern France Under Bombardment

U.S. BOMBERS HIT REICH IN THIRD ASSAULT   Blast Military Targets In Western Germany After RAF Night Blows

Military Sites In West Reich ~-Hit¥orThirdDay   New High Record Of 19 Attacks In One Month Credited To Bombers

U.S. Heavies In Germany  For 3rd Day   Follow RAF Night Blow: To Set Record of 1! Raids This Month

German. Radio Shouts. Warn: ing: Enemy Planes: Over. ‘ Western: Reich:

American Bombers Hit Germany Third Day in Row   Other Planes Attack  Enemy Airfields

BOMB TARGETS IN GERMANY; CFT A AEGORD   Friday Raid 19th in Month; 6,000 Planes Attack in 26-Hour Pertort.

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT REICH 3RD STRAIGHT DAY   Attacks Set a New High Record, 19 For Single Month

Follow Up RAF Night Assault.   Attack Targets In Westérn Germaity—27 U.S. Planes Lost In <Yesterday’s: Raid, 61 Enemy  - Aircraft Downed  — ‘RAF. Hits ‘Hard’ At French Targets. . °

GERMANS FEEL ALLIED POWER IN AIR RAIDS   Hit New High In One Month’s Bombings

Accused Officer's Defense Epilepsy, Amnesia, Insanity   Seeks to Evade Capital Punishment for Deaths of Four

CLAIM INSANITY FOR SWANCUTT   Defense Counsel Also Al. leges Insanity And Amnesia

STATE SUPREME COURT ACTS ON AIRPORT DEALS   Act Unconditional, Body Says; Blow To Many Cities

Ruling Invalidating Airport Authorities Act Blow to Aviation   Number of Other State Laws Held Vulnerable  Under Decision

Airport Authorities Act Opinion Serious Blow To Postwar Aviation

RURAL SCHOOLS OPEN AUG. 28TH   Teacher - Situation In Ply- mouth County Better” Than Average

MANY SCHOOLS TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY   Sonie Rural Districts Are Unable To Secure Teachers For Opening

Most of: Rural Schools it in 1 Plymouth County to Open Monday, Aug. 28   Only Ten Are Not ‘Supplied With Teachers

London Hails Pact as Evidence That Neutrals See Early Downfall of Nazis

soviet Kilers Pound Nazi Retreat Line  Dispatches Indicate Days - of Beleaguered City . Are Numbered   RAIL HUB SEIZED   Other Units Wiping Out _ Skola’Pocket Below  Tarnopol

Soviet Troops Keep Driving For Odessa   200,000 German Troops Reported Pinned Down; Rumanian Reports Lacking

Where To Go For Good Advice   2. BABSON DISCUSSES SOUND INVESTMENT HINTS.

MODERN YOUTH, OBLIGATION OF NATION, BABSON SUBJECT  Three Suggestions Are Presented With Deb

SMALL NUMBER OF VOTERS .. ~- MAY SWING HOUSE CONTROL   LESS THAN 6,006. VOTES ‘ID RIGHT PLACES AT LAST ‘ ELECTION WOULD HAVE  CHANGED SETUP..

HANDFUL OF 7,000 VOTERS MAY OCOD HOUSE CONTRGL   1942 Representat:ves © Clection Was Decid:d by Scant Margin

HANDFUL OF 7,000 VOTERS MAY OEE HOUSE CONTROL.   1842 Representat ves 7 Election Was Decidad by Scant Marcin —

ATTORNEY GETS HIGHEST PAY INNATION ©   S. R. Fleisher of Author’s League Draws $645.000

TOP SALARIES PAID IN U. S.  MOVIF STARS HAVE LARGEST NUMBER IN LIST

MANY STARS OF MOVIE WORLD ~ LISTED IN TOP SALARY GROUP   TREASURY: MAKES PUBLIC NAMES OF PERSONS WITH. SALARIES TOPPING $75,000 MARE.

DISCUSS SHORT CUT TO VICTORY   AMERICAN, BRITISH . LEADERS CHART NEW STRATEGY AT QUEBEC

Shortest Route to Japan’s Defeat is Sought at Powwow   Speedy ~ Onslaught on Philippine lslands Seems Likely Now

INVASION MAY PRECEDE CLOSE OF CONFERENCE   FDR, Churchill Map Overall Strategy For Pacific

FDR; Churchill Plan War on Japs   ALLIED ONSLAUGHT TC TAKE PHILIPPINES EXPECTED

FDR-CHURCHILL PAVING GLOBAL VICTORY PATH   Expect Americans To Soon Be In Philippines

INVASION PLANS FOR PHILIPPINES BEING DRAFTED   Roosevelt-Churchill Confab Centers on Strategy for Global Victory, Is Tip

See Philippines Drive Launched Before Parley Echoes Die Away; _ Nazis Await New Allied Ultimatum

'Philippine_Attack May Procede End Of Quebec IF.D.R.-Churchill Talks

EXPECT EARLY INVASION OF PHILIPPINES   ‘Onslaught Believed Possible Betore Last Echoes. of Current Pacific War \ Planning at Quebec Die ‘Awaye a

Shortest Cut To Global Victory Aired At Meetina   Battie Lines Are Carefully Charted By Staff Officers

GLOBAL STRATEGY MAPPED BY WAR CHIEFS AT QUEBEC   ‘Allied Attack Against Philippines Expected as Résulfiof Conference

PREDICT QUICK ONSLAUGHT ON * PHILIPPINES   Would Be American Show With India, Burma, Ma‘Jaya British

Allied Assault On Philippines  Believed Near   May. Be Early-Aftermath. Of Quebec Conference; Division of Effort Is On Apenda

Leaders Study Short Cut to Full Victory   Leaders at Quebec Keeping Eyes Turned Toward Philippines

Onslaught On Philippines May Come Before Echoes Of -FDR-Churchill Parleys Die   British-American Command Seek Shortest Road To Japan's Defeat

FRENCH-SPANISH BORDER FORTIFIED   Nazi Defenses Reported Built Along Pyrenees in Extension of Atlantic Wall.

CGERNAUTI IS STORMED BY RED FORCES   Collapse of Nazi Resistance Lays Open Way for Russian Drive Into Rumania   BULLETIN

SOVIET DRIVES GAINING SPEED THRU ROMANIA   Claim Resistance Is Breaking Down   IGNORE POLITICS   Control Country as Far as Danube

RUSS DRIVE ON TOWARD BUCHAREST   Tell Romanians They Must Fight Against German Army

FEAR ANOTHER WARTIME COAL CRISIS LOOMS   Lewis Plans to Expand Dist. 50  WAL KOUT SEEN  Union Strike Notices Posted

PRE-INVASIO MIR BLOWS HIT ~ NEWINTENSIFY   U.S. Bombers Strike Deep in Reich After Record Night Assaults

HEAVIEST AERIAL BLOWS OF WAR BEING DELIV. ERED IN PRE-INVASION ASSAULTS TODAY FOLLOWING HEAVY NIGHT RAIDS—FIERCE AIR ' BATTLES REPORTED BY RETURN ING AMERICAN PILOTS.

KEY RAILROA YARDS HIT IN SOUTH FRANCE   AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST EUROPE IN EIGHTH DAY

Lyon Railyards Hit by Heavies   Other Rail Installation: In Southern France Undergo Onslaught

ITALY-BASED PLANES BOMB SOUTH FRANCE   As Weather Halts Heavy Offensive from Germany; Nazi Defenses Feel Brunt of Blows.   R. R. System In Chaos

Coblenz And Gelsenkirchen Hammered; Non-Stop Air Assaults Continued As Airmen Hit Nazis Today

JAP INVASION TROOPS BATTLE INDIA FORGES      Break Across Somra Hills Tract  Into Ukhrul Area.

Japs Crossing Mountains To  Attack Imphal   Four Prongs Engaged by British Troops

JAPS CROSS BORDER OF EAST INDIA   Heavy Fighting In Progress In ikhrul Area

ENEMY INVASION FORCES BATTLING INTO UKHRUL ARE!   Japariese Drive Across Somra Hills from Frontier of Ruema_

Japanese Break  Over Soma Hills   Nips Move Dozen Miles  Across Burmese Border

Japs Fighting on Frontier of India   Invading Troops Clash With British

McKay Enemies Claim Victory   Cautious’ Prediction Is Made Today

U. S. Court Rules AP Is No Monopoly   Enjoins News Service From Barring Members On Grounds of Competition.

Simplification Of Tax System Republican Aim   Called by Rep. Martin ‘Hopelessly Impossible;’ Study Group [s N.     famed

15 Republicans Named To Formulate Sound Policy for the Postwar Era

TAX PROBE UNIT NAMED BY 6. 0. P   eet Survey Planned! 25 Member Com-  mittee

JAPS ANNOUNCE NEW STRATEGY AGAINST CHINA   Attempt Made To Take Airfields  From Enemy

Tokyo Threatens Drive In China.  Allied Air Power. "  Helnoc Burma Farroe -

Allies Dump Bombs Along Jap Fronts   Nips Move Closer To Changsha But Chinese Advance In Hunan Drive

ALLIES STEP UP  AIR BLOWS ON 5  JAPANESE BASES NEW ASSAULTS IN  NEW GUINEA; HIT TRUK AND KURILES

TOKYO TALKS OF OFFENSIVE TO SPLIT CHIN   Would be Japs’ Way of Foiling U. 8. Strategy.—Base at Truk Pounded Hard Again.

Japs Facing Even Heavier  Air Attacks   Tokyo Radio Promise “Offensive That Will Cut China in Two.” Foil U. S. Strategy   Bombers At Truk.

TOKYO REPORTS BIG OFFENSIVE IS NOW ALL SET   Japanese Declare Drive Will “Cut China In Two and Foil American Strategy; Allied Blows Increase In The Meantime.

Allies Cram More Power Into Aerial  Blow At Jap   Japan’s ~ Offensive Is Aimed To Cut China In Two

Japs Warn Of Coming Offensive   ‘Most Formidable Ever’ Ready to Launch, Says Radio Broadcast; Take Beating on Five Fronts

Japs Targets  In New Allied Bomb Attack:   Enemy Hit on Five Fronts as  Tokyo Announces Offensive  in China and American Subs  = Destroy 16 More Ships

JAPS SAY CHINA WILL BE SPLIT INTO 2 PARTS   Nipponese Run Into Heavy Air Assaults Along Many Fronts

Offensive Ready To Halve China Announces Tokyo   Says American Strategy Will Be Foiled; Allied Air Blows at Japs Increased at Five Far-Flung Points

INCREASED AERIAL PRESSURE BY ALLIES IN CHINA AND IN NEW GUINEA HAMPER OPERATIONS   Japs Fling More of Their Husbanded Air Force Into Swirling Sky Battles in Southwest Pacific As Aerial Attacks Increase. Japs Says China Will Be  gt... EF... "F’.....2 -

HEAVY ALR HITS AGAINST JAPS   Tokyo Reports New Offensive to Cut China in Twa Is Ready.

JAPS DRIVING TO SPLIT CHINA   Act To “Foil U. S. Strategy” Enemy Risks 70 Planes at Biak and Loses 30.

Jap Drive In China Cause For Concern   American Submarines Destroy 16 More Nip Ships and Allied Air Attacks on Five Other Fronts of War Brighten Picture However

Japanese Threaten Offensive to Foil American Strategy   Announcement Made as Allied Air Power is ‘Growing Heavier

Tokyo Says Plans Ready To Cut China In Two, Foil American Strategy

FD. R'S HEALTH HAS GREEN LIGHT   President, 62, Declared In Better Physical Condition Than Average.

F. R.’s Health Better Than for Year   LONDON TRIP, POLITICS AFFECTED BY REPORT OF CHIEF’S DOCTOR

Mr. Roosevelt in the “Pink. of Condition”.   In Better Health Now Than at Any Time  During the Past Year

PHYSICIAN SAYS ROOSEVELT IN PERFECT HEALTH   Better Than Most Men of His Age, Doctor  Sava

‘Champ’ Set to Defend Title? Doctor Says FDR In Better Shape Than Most Men 62

Workmen Trapped While Inside Shaft Combating Flames   75 Reach Safety Before Blast; Fire Rages Unahated Through Pit; U.S. Inspectors Rush to Over ation

Former Countian  Killed In Mine    Oscar Felix One Of 14 Men Burned Alive In Mine Explosion.

HOPE WANES FOR 1 TRAPPED IN MINE   Underground Inferno Halts Rescue Work, Blast Wrecks Ventilating System

14 MEN TRAPPED IN BURNING MINE   A Fire, Raging 3000 Feet Un: derground, Halted the Rescue Work. —

All Hope Gone for 14 Trapped In Coal Mine   Raging Fire 3000 Feet Underground Blocks Rescuers

14Miners Are Likely Dead After Blast At Shinnston   Explosion Occurs After Men Enter Pit To Check Fire;  Vantilatare Wrackas

ENTIRE FIRE FIGHTING CREW BELIEVED DEAD   Explosion Shoots Flames  3,000 Feet, Felt Twe  Miles Away

AT LEAST 14 _ MEN TRAPPED IN FIERY MINE   Flames Raging 3,000 Feet Underground Bar Efforis to Reach Men—Fans Not Working

14 Killed in Mine Blast   Enter Mine Shaft To Fight Fire; Rescue Work at Standstill

‘Williani Abel. Dedlaréy Hoey Set On Fire Last-Night Near O'Neil Stop .-

YANKEES AGAIN RAID MINDANAG   Continue Halmahera Raids; Truck Gets Heaviest Attack to Date

Mindanao Is Again Bombed   U.S. Fliers Make New Bomb Attack On Southermost Of Philippine Islands

TURKISH BORDER CLOSED BY BULGARS AS ARMISTICE FOR’ BALKAN KINGDOM IS STUDIED

Allies Hold Whip hand. Over Satellite   German ‘Troops Reported: Occupying “Wunearian: Capital

BULGARS -PEAGE TALK SUSPENDED   Bagrianov Government Falls; Allies Are Aareed.

AMS OFAFTED FAR BULGER   Ivan Bagrianov’s Government Falls; Neutrality Plea Fails :

BULGAR CABINET RESIGNS; FAILS T0 SIGN PEACE   ‘Rumors Spread Across Europe That Hungary Also Seeking Peace

Russ Advance Toward Serbia: Will Join Tite   Junction Of Red ‘Army ~ Jugoslav Partisans, ? Expected Soon

Bulgarian Cabinet Falls in Crisis   Hungary Reported Also Seeking Terms

BULGAR GOV'T FALLS: PEACE TERMS READY   'Premier’s Effort To End War As Neutral Fails; . Hungary Totters

Balkan Area Development: Are Likely. Within Hours   Hungary Is Rumored Prij-ceed. For ’Peace

Report Russians At North Border Ready For Actior   Anticipate Far-Reaching Internal Developments Inside Balkan Kingdom

Bulgarian  Government  Fails, Falls, Was Unable To Win  Easy Way Out Of War

Sofia Fails to Obtain Easy ‘Out’From Allies   _ Berlin Begins Campaign of Denials’ “That Hungary Is Readw for Peace

Bulgarian Government Falls: After-Failing:... To Win Easy Armistice

Nazi Balkan ‘Wall Falling  in 3 Places   Bulgarian Government of Ivan Bagrianov Falls, Rumor Hungary Seeking Way Out

RUMORS GROW THAT HUNGARY WANTS PEACE   Bulgarian Government Falls As Allies Fix Armistice Terms For Country

 Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary Hitler's Southeastern Front  Falling Apart In Three States

Government Of Bulgaria Falls   Rumors Spread That Hungary Trying To Reach Allies For Terms.

Bulgaria Fails In Move fo Take Neutral Stand   Rumors Spread That Hungary Wants Armistice

HUNGARY IS REPORTED TOTTERING   Far-Reaching Developments in Bulgaria Loom

Hungary Said To Be Asking Peace Terms  Government Falls In Bulgaria After Stand Ru Alliac

BULGARIAN GOV'T FALLS; HUNGARY SEEKS ARMISTICE   Phen ded WAS OF REREVETA ET Pe  BULGARIAN PEACE TERMS DRAFTED BY ALLIED DELEGATION

Bulgarian Regime Falls, Armistice — Terms are Drafted   Hitler Loses Grip on the Balkans; Hungary May be Near Finish

BULGARIA TRYING TO FIND WAY OUT OF SERIOUS SPOT   * Continue® orem . Pepe Oneyt

ALLIED TERMS FOR BULGARIA ARE DRAFTED   Government of Ivan Bagrianov Falls After Failure To Win Easy Way Out of War  WIINGAPRY MAY RE NEYT

Strong Allied Peace Terms Now Drafted   Russians Move Near Border, Making Ready To Move In Should Plan Be Rejected

Premier Ivan Bagrianoy'  Sought Easy Way Out Of War by Pleading Neutrality   Hungary. Seeking   Armistice Terns    Far-Reaching Internal De.  yelopments Within Balkan Kingdom Indicated: Falling Apart,

Cabinet Falls In Bulgaria; Bor der Shut         pread IL ungars ing to Make e Contact

Bulgar Government Topples; Nation May Accept Peace  Hungary Is Reported Striving Toward Terms With Allies

ulgarian Government ell Today   Armistice Terms Have Been Drafted

Bulgar Gov't Falls On Peace  : Failure ‘To Win. Easy : Terme: Brings End”

Bulgarian Cabinet Falls in Failing Neutrality Status  - Armistice Terms Drafied but Kept Secre-—Red Armies Push  Riens Rulsarian Frontier

Bulgar Peace Plea Refused: Cabinet Quits   Altied Terms Given Sofia; Hungary Is Reedy to Quit War

Bulgarians May ,Be Next to Wall Out on Germans   The Government of Wan Bagrianov Falls; May Speed Balkan Breakuno

Bulgarian Cabinet Resigns   Rumors Seay Hungary Is Also Seeking Allied Pecca Terme

BULGAR REGIME TOPPLES TODAY   Hitler's Balkan Front Cracked Again As Another Satellite Secks Peace

WASHINGTON PPOsES ih WAR PLANS   Complete ‘Commerc: al and Diplomatic Break Is Highly Desirable;  -

WASHINGTON OPPOoES TURK WAR PLANS   Complete Commerc’al and Diplomatic Break Is Highly Desirable

Eisenhower In Kansas Visit   Gets in Brief Meeting With ‘Mother and Brother

~WATER HEARING— Irrigation Testimony Continues   4-County Plan Cheaper Than Use Of ‘Pumps,’ Says Hastings Farmer

CEE oeeeennmnemmnemanincnmenend  See Decline In Milk Production   Quota Restrictions On Civilian Milk Consumption May Be Extended; Output Depends On Feed.

Milk Ration May Have to Be Extended   Civilian Milk Consumption Must Remain at Present Levels

Gain Three Miles In Jungle Warfare   Americans Batter Way Toward Jap Base On New Britain As Other Yankee, Forces Clean Up Enemv On Los Negros island

Marines Slash Way Through  Advance Of Three Miles Reported On New Rritai

Yanks Close in on New Britain Base   RA nw rinane (11% 9 hAtl or

Rabaul Virtually Useless To Japs After Pounding; Marshalls Raided Second Time By Nip Planes; Yanks Within 20 Miles Of Madang

Rabaul, Strong Japanese Base, Is Neutralizec   U. S. Warships, Supply Vessels Take Over In Admiralties

U. S$. Marines Near Talasea   Cut Their Way Through Jungle in New Britain, It Is Announced

American Marines Now Two Miles From Talasea; Clean Up Los Negros

Goal N Neared By Marines   “Within Three. Miles Of Talesa, Jap Base

LOS NEGROS IS HELD FIRMLY; SFADLER HIT   American Marines Are Within Two Miles Of Jap-Held Talasea

Hidden Nazis Giving Yanks Most Trouble   Doughboys Fight Within Sight Of St. Lo Spires

Drive Launched Against Nazis After Dawn   Germans Resisting Fiercely As U. S. Forces Advance

State Nominations to Be: Serutinized”   Senate. by 37:27. Vote Asks Inauity.

REPORT VIOLATIONS. OF MILITARY RULES   Local Police Receive Rules _ From 3rd. Service  Cammand .

REPORT VIOLATIONS. OF MILITARY RULES   Local Police Receive. Rules _ From 3rd. Service ae eee

Telephone 6   Nazi I5th Army Faces New Trap   U.S. Third Army Vanguards 17 Miles Beyond Soissons; British Race Toward Robot Coast

KELLY A TRADING BLOWS   Charge Each Other of Us. ing Divide and Conquer Tactics

—~— nee:  KELLY, FRY TRADE AMPA CHARGES   ‘Divide and Conquer’ Tactics Are Used Both Dems and GOP Claim in Speeches

British Planes Hit Naval Base      1,000 Bombers Blast Nazi Port of Kiel

Marshall Urges  More Sacrifice Warns People: Must Face Realities

Italian Island Shangri La Just Finding Out That War Going On; Speak Brooklyn There

RUSSO-POL BORDER LINES NOT AGREED ON   Settlement Would Probabiy Speed Nazi Downfall

Russ and Pole: Fail to Agree   Unable to Reach Any Accord on Territory; Hits Military Plans

Red-Pole Breach  Widens   .--Both Sides ‘Stand Pat’ On Disputed Territory

REDS AND POLES ARE FAR APART IN OLD DISPUTE   Apparently More At Odds Than Ever In Territorial Argument, Settlement Of Which Micht Speed Rout Of German  Armies,

Breach Widen: Between Poles, Soviet Union  '   Setilement Would Speed Germa ~ Rout On Eastern Front

Settlement Would Speed German Rout  Breach Believed Widening Between Governments Of Russia And Poland

Soviet Split ‘With Poland Grows Wider   Settlement of Dispute Might Speed Defeat  Of German Armies

REDS AND POLES NOT IN ACCORD   Appear Farther Apart in Territory Dispute

BREACH BETWEEN POLES AND REDS — WIDENING TODAY   Settlement of Territorial Dispute Would Speed Routing of Nazis

Soviet, Polish Breach Widens   Settlement Of ‘Territorial Dispute Might Speed Germans Rout.

View Troubles _ Of Reds, Poles ~~ As Increasing   Settlement ‘Of Controversy Would Help ‘To Speed ‘Rout Of German Armies

Russian-Pole Breach Continues 10 Widen As Pravda Reasserts Attitude

Russo- Polish Controversy Is Widening   Two Governments Appear Farther Apart Than Ever In Dispute  SETTIFEMENT IS NEENEN

Russians, Poles Split Further Over Boundarie   Differences Between Polish Exile Gov't And Soviet Widen

WORKERS QUIT C10. IN BODY   ‘Union Accused Of Being Communist-Influenced Political Machine

aia sts del ances een Aeneas  Partisan Bands in Bulgaria Threaten

Battle Rages In Bulgaria   Large Store Of Armaments Cached By Particans Discovered.

Allies. Hope To S; pare. ‘Buildings In. Rome If Not Used By Germans

WEATHER NAZI OFFENSIVE AND PUSH FOE BACK   Initiative Regained By - U.S. Troops In 3rd  :  Beach Battle

Allied Forees Hope To Spare  Rome’s Shrines   Stimson Says They'll Stand So Long As They're Not Used By Nazi Military

Main Japanese Island Bombed by Many B-29s   Great Aircraft Center of Nagoya Is Attacked

SIXTY-TWO MEN ACCEPTED      Thirty-Five Will Serve In rmy — Twenty-Seven In Navy. 

TWENTY-SIX == LEFT THURSDAY   For Service In The Army, At New Cumbermne

Already Through Enemy First Defense Line Storm Fortifications  NOW APPROACHING CITY’S OUTSKIRT  In Caen-Tilly Sector Vi lent Battles SwayBack And Forth

U.S. FORCES ARE STORMING INNER DEFENSE   Americans Rolling Up Gains Under Cover of Artillery Bombardment.   BULLETIN

Cherbourg Is Expected to Fall Hourly   Heavy Fighting ls Reported in’ Streets of City

Installations in Harbor Blown Up as American Forces Close in on City   Germans Reported Seeking to Evacuate—Fighting Comparatively Light

 Heavy ‘Weapons Wheeled Up For Final Assault On Beleaguered City; Vanguard Through First Defense Lines Of Germans   START EVACUATION OF BESIEGED PORT

American Forces Clamp Arc of © Steel On City:   Reports Say Violent. Fighting Raging InStreets of French Port

Americans Approaching City’s ‘Dutskirts; Many Germans Reported Leaving Cherbourg   Resistance Being Countered By Yanks Who Are De termined Te Seize Coastal Base Quickly As Possible

NAZIS AIM TO PLUG HARBOR AS FIGHT NEARS END   Are Of Steel Surrounds Port City; Heavy Woaanane Mavad In

YANK GUNS RAIN FIRE ON PORT; © CAPTURE NEAR   Inner Defense Lines Broken

ARMY-NAVY E TO TRUSCOTT’S   St. Joseph Boat Firm To Receive Award On  October 26

Trescott Plant Wins ’E’ Pennant   Army, Navy Officers Te Present Awards

Men in Italy Have Respite [From Long Siege of Wartare   By DANIEL DE LUCE

Governor Answers Press Queries on University Debate   But Says Not Trying To Run Other State Government Sections

GOVERNOR WILLING TO AID SETTLEMENT UNIVERSITY TROUBLE  ALSO ADMITS BOTH SIDES HAVE RIGHT TO EX DDEOCC WRIELIP WrIeire

Fighting Fourth, Captor of Montebourg, On Way Back to Reich, Commander Says

FOURTH GOING BACK   “Hottest Fighting Outfit In Las War,” In Action to Settle Unfinished Business

C.1.0., FUND CRITICIZED   Labor Paper Sees Da Danger in Hill aan: Millions

London Poles Weigh Decision   Consider Plan to Visit Stalin to Discuss Situation

Polish Government in Exile Will Try To Resume Relationship With Soviet

Poles In Exile Contact Reds   Mikolajezyk May Visit Moscow To Discuss Territory Along Bug River.

POLES IN LONDON MAY VISIT STALIN   Exiled Government Feels It Is Possible to Attain Some Recognition.

POLISH PROBLEM COMES TO LIFE   Russia Backs Government Recently Formed

Public Has Wrong Idea About The Thing. ...  Mere Tonnage Of Bomb Raids Not Necessarily Measure Of Good Done

Accuracy Effectiveness Gauge  In Allied Aerial Onslaughts   One 500-Pound Bomb Dropped Directly On Objective Worth More Than 500 Tons That Miss Their Mark.

Public Hears Air Victories  Only In Tons   Aerial Officers Regret Ex: pressing Measures By Weight-Dropping.   (MANY MISSES FOUND

1NON-STOP INVASION BOMBING IN 20TH DAY      Accuracy, Not Tonnage, Is Test Of Allied Bombing Raids

PICKREL VS. TAFT DEBATES SCHEDULED   Senatorial ~ Candidates T Appear at Warren First

TROOPS GAIN 15 MILES IN THE UKRAINI   Other Groups Advance on Vitebsk, Nevel' and the Dnieper Bend Fronts— Great Nazi Withdr awal Is Exnected. 7

NAZIS ADMIT LHITOMIR LOSS   GERMANS REPORT “NEW RED MIKOPOL ATTACKS”

Lad Sends Earnings To Help Some Gl   Own Brother Couldn’t Call! Last Christmas, Since Died On Saipan

faooy tested Neurotic Cats Lap up Booze. But Healthy Ones Spurn It

2 STATES SWING — TO SEN. TRUMAN   DRIVE UNDER WAY TO -NOMINATE MISSOURIAN ON THE FIRST BALLOT,

Heavy Blows On Carolines  Continuing  Air Force Picks Up Where Fleet Left OF

START ATTACK TO NEWTRALIZE PACIFIC ISLES      Two Additional Raids Made On Truk—Other Islands In Pacific

Huge Enemy Loss As a Trap Closes   Americans Put Pressure on Japs in Mountains East of Ormoc   FOE IS SCATTERING   Growing _Disorganization Indicates End of Leyte Battle Near

“Beginning Of the Ena” On Leyte   Jap Forces Reported  Completely Disorganized in Ormoc Valley; Great Numbers Wiiled

Japs Suffer More Losses   Three Small Transports Sunk ct Ormoc; Nips Being Slain in Mountains

Many Jay: Being Killed In Mountaiis. East Of  Ormoc: 3 Trov:; Ships Hit

ENEMY’S GROUND LOSSES HEAVY, SAYS MACARTHUR   AMERICANS APPLY PRESSURE TO SOUTH END OF ORMOC TRAP

ENEMY LOSSES ON LEYTE ARE UNUSUALLY BIG   Three Boats Are Sunk As They Try Landing

MacArthur Claims Jap Losses On Ground Are  Extraordinarily Heavy

Americans Put Pressure on Japs at Ormoe   (Great Numbers Are Being Killed  In the Mountains

Slaughter Nips In Mountain To East Of Ormoc   Foe Was Apparently Unaware Of City’s Fal When It Sent Ships Toward Port

KILL MANY JAPS IN ORMOC AREA   Other Enemy Troops Drowned In Attempt To Send Freighters Into Ormoc.

End of Leyte Fighting Nearer As Nips Scatter   MacArthur’s Men  Pursue Enemy into Mountains; Three  Transnart< funk

Hage Enemy Loss As a Trap Closes   Americans Put Pressure on Japs in Mountains East of Ormoc    Growing _ Disorganization Indicates End of Leyte: -. Battle Near

Japs Suffer More Losses   Three Smaitt Transports Sunk. ot Ormac; Nips Being. Sicix im Mountfates

ROUT CONTINUES ON WEST LEYTE   Large Numbers of Enemy Troops Wiped Out in Ormoc Sector

—PHILIPPINES- IMPINESE LassEs MOUNT ON LEYTE   Yanks Put On Pressure On Trap In Bloody Or moc Corridor

Yanks Squeeze Nips On Leyte; Jap Ships Sunk   Great Numbers of Enenty Being Killed East of Captured Ormoc; Many Drowned

THOUSANDS KILLED IN NEW TRAP   Three Small Jap Troopships Sunk In Ormoc Harbor

NAVY INQUIRY COURT SET FRIDAY “IN SHIP BLAST: LIST 322 DEAD   CIVILIAN, GOVERNMENT PROPERTY LOSS NOW ESTIMATED AT $6.000.000: 1000 INJURED

Explosion Death Toll Revised Down to 322   Naval Court of Inquiry Is Set for Friday

Navy Sets $6,000,000 Disaster inquiry; Death Estimate Drops To 322

AMERICAN OFFICER DISGUSTED WITH GERMAN SUPERMEN   NAZIS CAPTURED IN CASSINO AREA CHEERFUL AFTER SURRENDER

‘Look At ‘Em  Yanks Find Nazis Ragged   Supermen Shoot Till Ammunition Exhausted, Then Crawl Out and Give Up

CONGRESSMAN SAYS RATIONING ‘TS ENTERING ELECTION PLANS   MINNESOTA REPRESENTATIVE PREDICTS VIRTUALLY ALL _TFEMS:. WILL BE RE.” “_- MOVED BY FALL

Silver Wedding Day Celebrated  Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wetrosky Honored

Silver r Wedding — Day Celebrated _  “Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wetrosky Honored

W.H. Caman of  Beatrice, Dies Telephone Official,  passes nee BB acces FT awa woe

Respite Given Eligible Men in Essential Work   26-29 Group to Be Withheld for Present Time

6 AND OLDER MEN DEFERRED   Order Delays Induction 0 Bulk Of 1-A’s 26-37

HERSHEY ISSUES ORDER REGARDING INDUCTION PLAN   Threat Of Service Lifted kor Workers From 26 To 29   {8 To 25 AGE GROUP CAN MEET NEEDS   Men 30 Through 37 To Be Deferred For Indefinite Period

MEN OVER 26 GET FURTHER _DEFERMENTS   Registrants 30-37 Put Off for Indefinite Period

Most Older Men To Be Deferred   Men 26, Older Now Classified 1-A Get Indefinite Deferment

Draft Unit Orders Deferment of Most Men 26-29 Until Dec. 1, Men 30 to 37 For Indefinite Period

Deferments Due for Men Over 26   New Order Removes Draft Threat for Most of 1,650,000 1-As in Age Group; Those 18 to 25 Enough for Army-Navy Needs

18 to 25  Age Group In Draft   New Order Depends Qn Cost of Western Front and Other  Military Operations

MEN OVER 26 TO HAVE LONG DRAFT DELAY   Essential Workers Ars To Benefit Under New Order

‘Selective Service Releases New . Draft Regulations   Local Boards Will Be Determining Factor  - On Essential Jobs

pratt Deferment ‘Ordered for 1-4’s 26 and Over  18 to 25-Year-Olds Will Fill All Needs Until Dec. 1

Bulk of Men 26 and Older to Be Deferred   New Orders Are Issued by Draft Head, Gen. Hershey

ORDER BULK OF MEN OVER 26 DEFERRED   Selective Service Definitely Wants Younger Men

DEFERMENTS FOR MOST MEN OVER 26 ARE ORDERED   New Directive Is Issued Clarifying Status of 1.650.000

REMOVE THREAT OF INDUCTION OF OLDER MEN   Deferments For Bulk Of Met Over 26 Years Old Have Been Ordered

Deferments . Ordered for Men Over 25   2) i en Tne <a HEMVURM LUUNECE WATE al Least Until Dec. 1, Gove Heorchoy

GLAIMS SOVIET “DOUBLE FACED      ‘MEMBER—OF-2-U881A-N-PURCHASING: COMMISSION DECLARES STALIN REGIME. ‘' CONCEALED POLICY . — ‘15S FOLLOWED

CLAIMS RUSSIA DOUBLE DEALING   Soviet Representative in U.S. Resigns Commission in Protest

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Nazi Public ls Prepared For Invasion   Reveal Truth to Homefront After Years Of Lies In Effort to Bolster Flagging Morale

WAR. TODAY   Pmany Bluntly Dis sing Reieh’a Peril   Hope of PreventSudden Break in mefrout Morale

HITLERITES ARE FIGHTING WITH BACKS TO THE WALL; BATTLES 10 ISTART SOON ON GERMAN'YS SOIL

GERMANS NOW ARE TOLD TRUTH: LITLER DARE NOT RISK INVASION WITHOUT AN ADVANCE WARNING

Nazi Leaders Admit to People That Germany Is in Desperate Straits

NAZIS FINALLY FORCED TO TELL GERMAN HOME FRONT TRUTH ‘AS ALLIES POISED FOR RTT.

German Propaganda Admits Invasion Coming— —by Ve Will Mackenzie !  Navis Dare Not Withhold Invasion Warning

The War T’oday— Oo Nazi Officials Beginning To Tell . People The Truth Of Reich’s Peril

THE WAR TODAY  German People Get Blunt Disclosure of Reich's Peril

The War Today   German Masses Told Peril Ac Allies Strike for Berlin

Plot To Kill Pres. Camacho, Mexico, Fails   Executive Grape Assassin's Arms After First Shot Misses Mark

Bullet Misses Camacho   Mexican Officer Takes Point-Blank Shot at President

Cordon to Fill McNary Senate Seat   “LAWYER TO SERVE UNTIL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER; SNELL NOT CANDIDATE

Train Wreck Takes Big. Toll   16 Dead; Between 150 And 200 Injured

TROOP TRAIN ~ CRASH KILLS AT LEAST 16   ARMY CENSORSHIF OFFICIALS SAY 14 SOLDIERS AMONG > DEAD—FIVE COACHES DERAILED

I ARE RILLED IN TRAIN WRECK   200 Are Injured as Train Carrying Troops Is Derailed

BERLIN IS GIVEN NIGHT’S RESPITE   Capital Still Aflame With Destruction Goal Nearly Accomplished

SECOND VENIRE IS DRAWN FOR COLLETT TRIAL   First Panel Exhausted; Seat 11 Jurors Tentatively

Bloody Riot Breaks Out In Brussels  pep UW... *.. SN... tk.   4 Civilians Killed, 38 Hurt in Clash With State Police

FOUR KILLED IN BRUSSELS RIOT   Demonstrators Protest Bar On Keeping Weapons

Demonstrators Against Government of Premier Pierlot and State Police  Clash

Four Slain  In Belgian Disorders   38 Persons Are Wounded.As Demonstrators Clash With State Police   MARCHERS IN LINE. THREE MILES LONG   Fighting Breaks Out As They Clamor For Premier Pierlot to Resign

RIOTING BREAKS OUT IN BELGIUM   Demonstration Staged Against Government Of Premier Pierlot

Legislature Moves Slow In Its Work   Has Been in Session Only 20 Hours Since Convening January 4; Only Few Bills Paced

British Trap - Enemy Units ~ In Caen Port   Yanks Smash Ahead After Drive Through Vire River Line

eS =  EAS WARNEL RETURN 10 WORK   Wright Company Tells Workers Resume Production or Be Discharged; 19,000 Are Idle in Various Plants

Strikers Warned By Labor Board   Work or Lose Jobs, Kennedy Tells Them

NAZI WEAPONS ON DISPLAY HERE TUESDAY   Exhibit to Open at 11 O’Clock on North Fourteenth Street

Lorenzen Is FoundGuilty Of Murder   Jury Fixes Punishment as Life Imprisonment — Sentence March 25

LORENZEN, 58, IS CONVICTED IN DEATH OF WIFE   Life Term Recommended for Ida Grove Farmer Who Poisoned Mate

other's Friend helps bring ease and comfort to expectant mothere.

Mother's Friend feips bring ease and comfort to: “expectant ynntharc

Frontiers Alerted by Nazis in Fear of Allied Smashes   Germans Admit Allied Air Superiority in Preparing for Blows

STAND BY’ ORDERS FOR NAZIS GIVEN   Coastal Forces Ordered to Stand  By tor Invasion

Enemy Coastal: Units Alert For Allied Assault   Nazi Forces Said In State of Alarm  Along Atlantic Wall

Berlin Alerts Army Against  Invasion   - Sweden Reports Germany Expects ° Attack Momentarily

Berlin Alerts Whole Coast  Occupation Forces Warned to Expect Ful

-Britain Puts Ban (On Eire Shipping   More Security Measures Are Invoked To Protect Invasion Plans; German Jitters Mounting

92,000 NAZIS DEAD IN TRAP, 11,000 TAKEN   Moscow Announces Complete Liquidation of 11 German - Divisions. in 14-Day Battle.

Reds Liquidate Ten Trapped Nazi Divisions   52,000 Germans Killed and 11,000 Captured

Russians Kill 52, 000 Trapped: Nazis Near Korsun And 11,000:Surrende:

Soviets Completely Liquidate 63,000 Nazis in Korsun Trap, Stalin Triumphantly Reveals

11,000 Give Up To Russ Force After 14 Days   Nazis Lose 10 Divisions, One Brigade to Soviet Cirele in Tikraine

10 DIVISIONS LIQUIDATED IN UKRAINE   Eighth German Army Surrounded Near Korsun After 14-Day Battle; 52,000 Nazis Dead.   Major Attack

Ukraine Forces Have Liquidated 10 Nazi Divisions  52,000 Germans Are Killed, 11,000 Surren erin Karcun Tran

10 DIVISIONS WIPED OUTBY RUSS FORCES      Liquidation: of Germans Announced by - Stalin   52, 000 GERMANS KILLED IN BATTLE   Mass Suicides Observed Among » German Trooos

7 4,000 German Troops Are \Liquidated In Korsun Trap; War Equipment Captured   Greatest Single Disaster To Nazi Forces Since Stalin. ’ grad; Massed Suicides Reported Among Men In Final Days Of Russian Siege

DNIEPER LOOP GERMAN ARMY IS WIPED OUT   REDS KILL 52,006 IN TRAP, CAPTURE OVER 11,000

SOVIETS WIPE QUT NAZIS. IN KORSUN TRAP      52,000 Germans Killed In 14-Day Battle; 14.000 Captured

{4-Day Battle Gives Reds Big Ukraine Victory   Russians Advance In Northern Area

Stalin Announces 52,000 Germans Killed,  e Surrendered; Soviet Forces Advance In North

Russians !hunder Down Railway Toward Pskov   Hitler Suffers Greatest Single Disaster Since Stalin grad; All German Equipment And Arms Fall To Reds

Stalin Reports 5,000 Trapped Germans Slain   Says 11,000 Others Surrendered, All War Material Taken

DRAFT BOARD BALKS ~— ATINDUCTION CAL   Wants Deferred Childless Men To Go First

Yanks On Saipan Slashing Inland   Jap Resistance At Beach Is Smashed  By CHARLES OH. McMURTRY  om ge goog a ee oa ee

U.S. Forees Advance After  One Reverse   Two or More Enemy Divisions Fighting American Invaders

Smash Japanese On Large Beach   Americans Recoil After Being Thrown ® Back Short Way

Raiders Blast 47 Jap Planes, Sink Two Ships   Attacks Aimed at Air Bases From Which Nips Might Strike at Invaders of Saipan

Invaders Were Temporarily Forced Back By Fierce Jap Counter-Attacks   BONIN ISLANDS HIT  BY CARRIER FORCE

Yanks Hold Firm To St. Vith Village   Fight Off Frontal Attacks By German SS Division

Anson Mayor Issues Proclamation in Regard to Coal   “BUY YOUR COAL NOW PERIOD” By The Myaor Of Anson, Texas . A&A PROCLAMATION

1 EX-OAILORS ELECTROCUTED   Pay Penalty for Hitch-Hike Murder of Former Sheriff; Boys Sing on Way to the Chair 

ALLOT QUOTAS FOR TOWNSHIPS IN WAR DRIVE   Officers Meet Here Monday To Fix Amounts To Be Collected —Several Changes . Made In Chairmanships.

Kerr Announces Two Appointments   Mrs. Schneider Head Matron at Pen, Mrs. Logan To Tecumseh

U.S. Sets Up 3 Beachheads on Island   Violent Battle Rages in Sulu Sea, Japanese Report

YANKS PUSH INTO ISLAND OF MINDORO   Americans Pouring Onto Beachheads After 600-mile Jump from Leyte.   Tananese Report.

American Troops Make Amphibious Jump From Leyte   Leap Puts Doughboys - Within 130 Miles of Philippines Capital

HOLD 3 BEACHHEADS  AFTER NEW LANDINGS ON ISLE NEAR LUZON   Two Airfields Immediate U. S. Goal After Daring 600-Mile Jump From Leyte To Within 130 Miles Of Manila   Reo WIELTAM RO DICKINSON

Philippine Isle Is Invaded Without Single Casualty   600-Mile Amphibious Jump Made From Leyte  To Within 130 Miles Of Manila; 150-Ship   Convoy Lands Veteran American Troops   ONTYV SCANT OPPOSITION

600-MILE JUMP IN CAMPAIGN TQ SPLIT ISLANDS   First Troops Land Unopposed

Succeed In =      INVASION FORCES POUR INTO. THREE BEACHHEADS; ARE  ONLY 130 MILES FROM MANILA.

Yanks, Pouring Ashore On 3 Beachheads, Aim At San Jose Airfields   ‘Americans, Landing From 150 Ship Convoy, Met Scanty Opposition From Unprepared Japanese

Temperatures    New Landings May. Enable U, S. to Split Nip Empire

LAND ON ISLE. BUT 130 MILES FROM MANILA   Leyte-Based Convoy Aided By Filipinos In 600-Mile. Trip: Three Beachheads: In U. S. Hands. oe

U.S. INVASION FORCES DEEP ON MINDORO ISLAND   New Offensive Threatens Two Of Island's Main Air ? Bases

Offensive Threatening Two Of Island's Main Airfields  Doughboys Pour Ashore From 150-Ships Under No Opposition

Casualties Few in Smashing Invasion Leap   U. S. Troops Pour Into Three Beachheads After Amphibious Jump to 130 Miles Fron Manila: Two Main Airfields Threatened

Firemen Get Five Calls ln Two Days   Home Of Negro Badly Damaged

Further Kasing Of Supplies Of  Food Possible   Limitations On Some Products May Be Relaxed In Few Weeks

MORE POINTFREE FOODS IN NATION TODAY   Civilians Eating Point-Free Meat, Canned Foods

Further Easing Of Food Likely   Changes May Be Temporary, Offici’s Point Out

FURTHER EASING CIVILIAN FOOD ISUPLIES SEEN   In Addition to Various Meats, Fluid Milk and Other Dairy Products t  Ra I aneseened

Further Easing Of Ration  Control Over Foods: Seen As Most Meat Is Released

‘Only Beef Sieaks, Roasts K>tioned Further Easing Of Civilian Food Supplies Is Probable

ae a aA  More e Easing:  ‘On Civilian Food Likely   Dairy Products and Margarine Restrictions Next to Be Affected

Some Cries Of “Politics” Are Heard... . . Further Relaxation Of Civilian Food Supplies Probably To Come Soon

FURTHER EASING OF  FOOD SUPPLIES FOR  CIVILIANS PROBABLE LIMITATIONS ON MILK, ICE  CREAM, CHEESE, ETC., MAY RE LOOSENED

FURTHER LIFTING OF FOOD LID DUE   More Limitations Expected To Be Eased Somewhat

St FURTHER EASING FOOD RATION SOON   Oversupply For Armec Services Cause of Reduc:. tion in Points on Articles Beside Meat.

» Further Easing In Rationing Of “Foods Probable   ‘Relaxation Of Restrictions On Dairy Products  Eeneaected Sann.

‘A Further Easing OF Civilian Food Supplies Probable   -Government May Add To Feast-Like Fare Of Recent Weeks;  A Cry af “Balitiects

See Further Easing Up On Food       Loosening of Restrictions on Dairy Products May Follow on, Heels of Meat Bonanza

FURTHER EASING OF CIVILIAN FOODS PROBABLE   Government May, In Next Few Weeks, Loosen Limitations On Dairy Products and On Margarine

More Easing 0! Civilian Food  Supplies Loon   Limitations On Sales 0: Fluid Milk, Iee Cream, Cottage Cheese, May Be Loosened

FURTHER EASING OF FOOD FOR CIVILIANS SEEN   Other Action May Follow Lifting Meat Rationing

TEMPERATURES:   Further Easing Up Of Regulations Looms As Stocke Soar

FURTHER EASING OF CIVILAN FOOD SUPPLY PROBABLE   LIMITATIONS ON DAIRY PRODUCTS MAY BE LOOSENED

More Hogs  Favored For Corn States  RAS meta thn   Minnesota Would Have 5 Per Cent Increase Under WFA Program

BUDAPEST IS HIT FROM ALL SIDES IN SOVIET DRIVE   Russians Also Hammering Closer Key Rail City  a in Czechoslovakia

Powerful Assault Launched On Budapest, Germans Claim; Giant Russian Winter Drive Reported

Patriots At Paris Attack Nazi Troops   Laval In Flight Toward German Border While French Increase Their Resistance To Germans

Laval Flees  To Frontier Patriot Rebellion   Patriot Rebellion Spreads In Paris

Americans Establish Bridgehead Across Siene. Allied Flags Appear in Paris

‘Monty Cites Decisive Victory   End of War in Sight, General Says, as Armies Close Noose on Paris From Three Sides; 10,000 Beaten Germans Give Up to Tankmen

Nazis Faced With Spreading Patriot Revolt In Paris   Premier Laval, Other Pro-Nazi Officials Reported To Have Fled

Patriots in Paris Fight Nazi Troops   German Reports Say Al. ready Some Allied Patrols Enter City

Benjamin C. Hyde Dies In Kansas City After Long Illness   Brother of Judge Hyde Was Former Insurance Head

Saipan Battle Largest Scale Pacific Clash   Fighting Results In Heavy. iest Losses Of Any Campaign In Pacific

Bitter Fighting On Saipan Island   Scoring Daily Gains; Casualties Are Heavy

Mitsubishi Airplane Works Raided by 100 Super-Forts In Smash From Low Altitude

[phos; Wayng L. Bradon, Lodi;. Lester B, Woosley, New Boston and William M, Ferry, Sandusky,   GANDHI ILL

U. S. Threatens Axis Suppliers"   Nations Warned To Stop Trading With Enemy ©

GREEN ISLANDS SECURELY HELD   Kavieng, Japanese Base. Target For Heavy Aerial Attack

JAP BASE ABLAZE AFTER ALLIED RAID   EIGHT PLANES LOST AT KAVI_ENG—YANKS TIGHTEN HOLD ON GREEN ISLANDS.

Trainload of Explosives Blows Up on Suburban Paris Siding; Number Victims, Damage Small

By Lewis Hawkins, Associated Press Correspondent iRepnrecscentine the Combined Allied Press)

British Drop Record Load of 4.400 Tons as Yanks Hit Air Centers   All of Targets Lay in Narrow Belt 275 Miles of Coast Arca

FIGURES ARE FOR 24-HOUR .. PERIOD, AS AMERICAN FORCI SMASH SIX NAZI AVIATION °* CENTERS

Six Aviation Centers Are Hit by Allies   American Heavy Bombers Follow Up Night Raids By British

Six Air Centers _ In Germany Hit By U. S. Raiders   8, 000 Tons of Bombs. Dropped By Allies In 24-Hour. Period -

2000-Plane Assault Lashes “Festung” From Coast to Berlin   Six-Pronged Attack Hits Nazi Plane Factories in Second Huge Raid

5,000 ALLIED PLANES TAKE PART IN RAIDS IN 24 HOUR PERIOD   Preinvasion Bombing Hits Record Pace As 2nd 2,000 Plane U. S. Force Smashes At Nazi Aviation Centers

5,000 PLANES TAKE PART IN O4-HOUR ATTACK   Range Reich, Western Coast

THOUSANDS OF BOMBERS ARE OUT ONCE MORE TODAY   ‘Continent from Coast to Deep - Inside Germany Is Taking Great Blasting. 

Jap Cruiser Is Sunk By Sub  Near Singapore   British Submarine Pene. trates Deep Into Enemy Waters In Pacific Fone   THREE SUPPLY SHIPS ARE ALSO SENT DOWN

SUB SINKS JAP  CRUISER NEAR SINGAPORE   Action Takes Place Deep in Enemy Waters .

JAP-CRUISER ~ SUNK BY SUR   DARING SUBMARINE, VOYAGE  _ INTO MALACCA STRAITS  "+ NETS WARSHIP AND FREIGHTERS

Halsey’s Planes Engage Enemy Off Leyte Coast   Reported Steaming Into Philippine Waters to New Invasion Area As U. 8. Forces Prepare to Battle

TOKYO CLAIMS FIRE BOMBS LANDED ON PALACE GROUNDS   JAP BROADCASTER SAYS ONE BUILDING NEA PALACE HIRGHITO WAS DAMAGED

Gil Brive to Sea vate By Yank Tanks in rapping Germans   Marshal Rommel Is Reported to Have Been Wounded tn Strafina

OMAGH THRU GOUTANGES I BILE ORIVE   Wazis in Stampeded Retreat Under Bombing and  Strafing Attack.

SS Elite Guard Is Rushed Into Battle   More Than 7,000 German Prisoners Rounded Up by Rapid Advance of American Forces

Yanks Drive to Coast; Rommel Said Wounded   Tank Wedge Cuts Off Escape of Fleeing Germans

Lightning Blow Traps Thousands on Coast   Gen. Rommel Reported Injured; Yanks Credited With Great Victory

AMERICANS AGAIN RAID WAKE ISLAND   HITS SCORED ON JAPANESE OIL STORAGE TANKS AND BARRACKS AREA...

U.S. Airwing Rakes Wake   Marshall, Caroline Installations Jolted

Jap Islands Are Shelled   Wake. Pityiln Under I. 8. Ship. Air Fire

Liberators of U.S. Air Force Blast at Wake   Hit Oil Storage © Tanks and Barracks; All Planes Return Despite Heavy Fire

‘Wake Island ‘Again Target Of U.S. Fliers   Bombers Brave Heavy Fireon 16th Attack : Marshails Bases Blasted

WAKE ATTACKED BY YANK FORGE   island Pounded Second Time In Month—115 Tons of Bombs Dropped

Merrill Men Make Quick  Jab in Burma   Counter Slash Adds New Confusion In Varied Drives

Arerican Bombers  Pound Wake Island   Jil Storage Tanks And Barracks Area Blasted With Total of 115 Tons Of Bombs; Pitylilu Isle Shelled

fake Island mbed For th Time   eavy Anti lanes Encounter ircraft Fire

Yankee Bombers Blast Wake Island, © Hitting Japanese Fuel Storage Tanks

House Approves Post-War Flood Control. Measure  Bill Now Goes  Diakems Geseahe

Russian Troops In Lithuania Drive To German East Prussian Frontier

RUSSIAN ARMIES FIGHT TO BORDEA OF EAST PRUSGI   Moscow Says Crossing Into Germany’s Easternmost Province Near   ACTION BRINGS WAR TO GERMAN HOMELAND   Peril to East Prussia, Cradle Of Militarism, Highlights All Action Along Eastern Front; Other Soviet Armies Make Additional Gains

Reds Slug ToReich’s Boundary   Moscow Says Crossing Into East Prussia  Ic Imminent

FRESH SURGE PUTS REDS ON GERMAN SOIL   First Time in 30 Years; Honor Falls to Third White Russian Army Under Jewish Expert.   Beat Off Attacks

Russian Troops Reach Frontier  Of East Prussia   New Vistula River Crossings Are Made In Central Poland

Fierce Street Fighting Is Reported In Sandomierz, West Bank Stronghold 110 Miles Southeast Of Warsaw

DRIVE CARRIES SOVIETS UP 10 FOE FRONTIER   Russians Reach Reich Border 42 Miles From Tilsit

Yugoslav Ojfensive Timed With Invasion   Tito, Claiming 600,000 Soldiers in His Potential Army, Says He'll Continue Struggle Until Nazis Totally Defeated

Tito Says Half Of Yugoslavia Already Freed   Promises New Drive Against Nazis When Second Front Opens

Yugoslavs Ready To Join Allies In Great Drive   Defeat of Germany ls Goal, Tifo Says

YUGOSLAV ARMY - PLANS TO START DRIVE ON 0-DA\   Marshal ‘Tito Says: ‘General Oftensive Will Be Launched \ ge Europe Is Invaded From West.   150,000 FIGHTERS . UNDER HIS COMMAND   Allied Aid Increased, He Re - yeals, But Force Still Needs  _ Tanks, Planes and  Motorized Equipment.

TTTO IS READY TO OPEN DRIVE   Has 600,000 Partisans Set To Strike at Nazis As Invasion Begins

Yugoslavia Half Freed By Partisans, Tito Asserts  Says He Will Start . General Offensive When Allies Strike   CLAIMS 600,000 IN POTENTIAL ARMY

TITO IS PLANNING FOR NEW ASSAULTS   Marshal Outlines Plans. for Continuing Struaale

FREEDOM NEARS FOR YUGOSLAVIA   Nation Half Liberated Now: Tito To Strike With Invasion

Tito Plans Drive To Coincide With Western Invasion   Half of Yugoslavia Already Liberated by Partisan Forces

Tito Will Fight ’Till War’s End   Yugoslav Leader Is Interviewed at  His Hideout

YUGOSLAVIA HALF FREED BY TIT0’S MEN   Plan Counter-Offensive  ~ Synchronized with Alied Invasion against (Lermans.   150,000. Fighters

Tito Pledges Army to Fight On fo Victory   Yugoslav Force Plans Offensive When Allies Move

Must Use Some of Power. To Avoid Serious Breach In Defensive Outposts

SUMMER BAND PLAYS   Concert Will Be Given in Fowler Grove Thursday Evening

AXIS REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE F.F.1. AS ARMY   French Interior Forces To Be Shot Regardless

French Patriots War On Nazi Tanks   Ambushes Detroy German Convoys, Tank Columns

French Patriots Ambush Tanks; Yanks Advance   , Fighter Planes Accompany  U.S. Troops, Knocking Out 70 Tanks In A Day

Tank Attacks Defeated By Patriot Units   French’ Guerrillas Continue Successful War Against Nazi Foe

FRENCH WRECK GERMAN TANKS   Patriots Successful in War,  Allies Report

Nazi Hurl Huge  Forces Against — British To Protect Paris Main Road   Armored Columns Spearhead Advances; Now Beyond Canisy

FRENCH FORCES SAP NAZI ARMORED POWER   Ambush Attacks Down German Tank Assaults on Allies

NAVY REFUSES NAME OF SHIP OR DEATH LIS]   Reveals 163 Rescued As Ship Went Down Off Sandy Hook

163 of Crew Saved, Some Badly Hurt   Name of Ship and Men Lost Not Announced, Nor  Cause of Explosions

Number Killed: Not Revealed By Navy Department   Cause of Disaster Off New York Harbor Is Not Disclosed

Toll Unknown in Destroyer Blast   Ship Goes Down In N. Y. Harbor

Nazis Continue Bitter Resistance on Cologne Plain; Soviets Near Austria

American Doughboys Pelted With Flowers By Civilians   CHEERING ITALIANS WITH WINE BOTTLES  Lamnc Danavy (Mf Tha 1193+.

Landing Said Like A Review, Not Real War      Germans’ Failure To Resist Called Flabbergasting

CHRISTMAS TIES AT $100 ON WEST COAST MARKET  OPA Can‘t Make Up Its Mind If They’re Works of Art or Not

\dvice to Aunt Emmy: 100 Ties Placed on Sale in West,  bul OPA Knows Only of $50 Style

Pithy Paper Is Proposed For Author   Creator Of Ferdinand Might Write It This Way:

Nazis Try Escape by Sea   Soviets Sink Huge Enemy Transport, Many Power Barges

GERMANS MASS BiG GUNS IN BID TO STOP SMASH   U.S. Troops, Supplies Pour Through West Wall Gap; British Launch Push   ew ee eee Fe  WITH THE FIRST UV. §&, ARMY, Oct. 5—American tanks, advancing more than a mile, captured Beggensdorf today.

GEN. HODGES SENT HIS TANKS PLUNGING DEEPER INTO GERMANY   ENEMY BATTLES STUBBORNLY TO KEEP ENTIRE WALL FROM CRUMBLING

ENEMY DEAD LIE ON ROADS AFTER ~~ YANKS CUT LOOSE   Whitehead Describes Scene After Thunderous Artillery Barrage

VERDUN AND ARGONNE HAVE FALLEN BEFORE SPEEDING AMERICANS  BROKEN GERMAN FORCES IN FULL RETREAT TO THEIR HOMELAND

FINNISH PEACE MOVES AWAITEL   New Government Moves Slowly; Cabinet Not Selected Yet

MARINES GRA TOEHOLD ON TINIAN ISLAND   Beachhead Establish. ed by Mortar and Shellfire by Yanks   BY SERGT. TONY SMITH (‘A Marine Corps Combat  le tie

4-F MenAre Needed For War Work   Knox, Stimson And Land Declare Limited Service Legislation  Is Necessary.

Conference Airs Varying Views  On Labor Draft   Government Leaders Call for Laws to Fill Industry Needs

Armed Civilians Search For Man Who “Gasses”’ 35  a — >      Woman And Boy  Latest Victims

Mystery Prowler  Hunted   Armed Mattoon, Ili, ‘Civilians Patrol Streets After ‘Attacks

First t Blows Of Battle For  P PRP rea  iv 1p pines SiriicK oy Uo.   Three Successive Attacks Made On Davo, Capital OF Mindanao Island; Japs Surprised

Saipan Fleet, Troop Base Established   New Blows Presage Invasion Soon By Americans

Philippines _ Raids Begun   Conquest  Contest Is Believed Nearer

Phil ip p ines BattleOpened By W Arthur   Planes Carry Out Three Raids: Japs Lose 35, 000 Men In Marianas

Philippines Are Bombed First Time   Organized Resistance ‘On Guam Now Over} . Prepares the Way ? For New Obiectives .

Opens Drive fo Recapture Philippines   MacArthur Sends Big Air Force to Blast Davao Airdromes

Bombardment Opens Battle Of Philippines   First Bombing Since Corregidor Fall Told by MacArthur

First Allied Bombing Of Islands Since Fall Of Corregidor Reported By Gen. MacArthur, Heavy Planes Hitting Davao, Mindanao, On Three Successive Days — B-29 Superfortresses Raid Nagasaki, Japan, And Palembang, Sumatra

LIBERATORS HIT DAVAO DROMES IN THREE RAIDS   First Night Attack Catches Japs With Capital City’s Lights Ablaze

Reconquest of : Guam Ends Affer 10 Days’ Fight   10,000 Japanese, 1,214 Americans Killed In Campaign

Pacific Headquarters Transferred to Saipan   First Bombing of Philippines Announced; Three Super Fortresses Unaccounted For In Raid On Japanese Homeland.

YANK AIRFORCES BEGIN FIGHT TO REGAIN ISLANDS   Battle for Philippines Now Under Way—U. 5S. Flag Waves Over Guam

Battle Opens To Take Philippines   Bombs Are’ Dropped on Islands for ere cn Since 1942  ~   GUAM IN ALLIED HANDS   Gen: MacArthur Announces Three Raids on Southern Philippines.

U. S. Air Blows Portend Battle For Philippines   Jap Airdromes on Davao, Mindanao Are Announced ~ By MacArthur

MacArthur’s Forees Bomb  Philippines   Leap Frogged Up the Coast of New Guinea

Campaign Open: For Reconquest Of Philippines   Islands Bombed For First Time Since Corregidor

Aerial Phase. Of Battle For Reconquest Of The Philippines Under Way

Planes Begin to _ Hit Philippines   U. S. OFFENSIVE OPENED TO RECAPTURE + ISLANDS

DE VALERA REGIME DEFEATED IN DAIL   General Election to Bo Held in Ire land as Result of No- Confldence Vote.

SAMUEL JONES SUCCUMBS HERE   Well-Known Resident 0: Dickerson Recently Un derwent Operation

GERMANS FALLING BACK IN PRUSSIA   Russians Winning Battle Of Hungarian Plains Slashing Forward

Nazis Falling Baek Into East Prussia   Russians Also Smashing Through Belgrade Streets

NAZIS FALL BACK INTO E. PRUSSIA   Red Army Wins Battle of the Hungarian Plains

SOVIET TANKS T MILES INTO PREWAR REICH   Hungarian Plains Battle Won By Reds And Town Taken

NAZIS FALL BACK INTO fF. PRUSSIA   Reds Have Also Won Battle Of  Hungarian Plains

RED ARMY ADVANCES IN HUNGARY   Roads To East Prussia Choked With Enemy Troops, Report

Six-Mile Breach In Gothic Line   Allies Push Within 25 Miles of Bologna

IRUSSIANS GAIN SOUTH (OF WARSAW   Soviets Admit Ist Setback East of Polish Capital

LONDON, (U.P) —Radio Moscow announced, tonight that the German East Prussian frontier had been reached by Russian forces.

SHIPPING RAIDS ARE CONTINUED IN EAST INDIES   Jap Minelayer And Two Cargo Ships Sunk In Cele bes-Amboina Area   SITUATION IN CHINA REMAINS CRITICAL

Four Nippon  Vessels Sunk   Destroyed In: Allied Raid. Off. Bornes

Four. Japanese T  s hins Sunk In  Borneo Attack   Eneniy Schooner Also De siroyed ‘Off Southern ‘Philippines; Palau Posi’..- tions Strengthened .:..

JAP'S OUTLOOK SAID BAD BY REL PARTY JOURNAL   Additional Fighter : Plane Airstrip y Taken Near Peleliu

M’Arthur Planes Blast Eight Ships   4 Vessels Sunk, Others Seriously Damaged

Sink Or Damage Four Jap Ships   Renewed Attacks Made In Dutch East Indies

JAPANESE SHIP LOSSES MOUNT   U.S. Planes Spread Havoc Among Surface Craft In East Indies

BIG JAPANESE OIL CENTER IS LEFT IN RUINS   BALIKPAPAN OUTPUT WON’T HELP TOKYO FOR SOME TIME

United Air Lines Representative Tells Of Bright Prospects For Government-built Airport at Mt. Alton   Believes That Private Plane Ownership In Area Using Airport Will Be More Than 300; Lighting Equipment Will be Received Soon

Bright Future For City as Air  Terminus Seen   Private Plane Ownership in Area of Ove: 300 Craft Envisioned; CAA Engineer Indicates Lighting Equipment for Port At Mt. Alton Likely; Others Give Talks

WAR CHEST MEET SET FOR OCT. 9   WORKERS TO GATHER AT CAMERON FOR BARBECUE AND TO LAUNCH DRIVE

ALLIED ANZIO ~ ARMIES HURL BACK GERMANS   Nazis Fail To Gain Single Yard  CASSINO FLARES Bulgarian Capital Heavily Bombed

Ger many Faces Desir ‘uiction In  Prolonged War   Forcing Conflict Into Win. ‘ter Stidematé” Will. Sub-

DEVASTATION IN STORE FOR REICH   If Nazis Force European War Into Winter Stalemate and Spring Clean-up; Gestapo Holds Reich Together

Germans Face Ruthless Devastation  Allies Plan Tough Policy in Any - Winter Campaign

Nazis Have. Nothing T o Gain ene a es oO SL  Prolonged War Means Ruthless Devastaf ion

Ruthless Devastation  May Tear Reich -Apa  IF WAR RUNS INTO SPRING

Nazis Invite. Ruin on Land   Ruthless Devastation Awaits If Foe Forces Winter Stalemate

Reunion In A Stockade  Kansan Finds His Brother InB.H. War Prisoner Came

Curley Indicted For Second Time   Ex-Boston Mayor Faces New Charge

Retail Stores Do Amazing Amount Of Business To Set Record in 1943

Consumers On Spending spree In Last Year   Retail Sales Throughout Nation Break Records as People Bought Everything That Was Loose.

MISHAPS HURT ~WAR EFFORTS   OWI CALLS INDUSTRIAL ACCL DENTS A MAJOR PROBLEM— "37,600 WAR WORKERS KILLED

More Men Killed  On Home Front   War Production Taking More Lives Than Battlefronts, Reports 0. W. I.   OVER 37,600 KILLED SINCE PEARL HARBOR

Robots Strike London Twice   Bomb Explodes On "Grounds. Of School’

Barkley Praises Record Of Roosevelt, New Deal In New York Speech

_ seemeeeneren tenet  F_R.’s ‘Edge Over Dewey In N_ Y. 316.013 Votes

43 More Enemy Planes Downed In South Pacific   32 Bagged at Rabaul Many Japs Dying of Starvation, Disease

~—OMLES OF LETTE! ES BONDS ARE SHOR   LIS DESTANY 4) JAP PLANES f   Airmen Attack Rabaul and Kavieng; Many Bodies of Japs Who Apparently Died  Of Starvation Found

Starvation And Disease Take Lives Of Japanese   Loss From Bomber Attack Js Obseured

South rachic Raids Bag 43 Jap Planes  Allies Continue Attacks -on Kavieng and Rabaul AIRFIELDS BLASTED  Marines Find Hundreds af Tane YY¥aan nf   AIRFIELDS BLASTED   Marines Find Hundreds of Japs Dead of Starvation

TWO JAP DEFENSE -BASTIONS BOMBED   ALLIED AIRMEN DESTROY 43 PLANES, IN RAIDS. ON RA. BAUL AND KAVIENG. -

Raids Continue On Rabaul, Kavieng   Japs Lose 43 PlanesOver Two Airdromes

Allies Down 4: Jap Planes in South Pacific   Rabaul, New Britain, And Kavieng, New Ireland, Suffer Heavy Attacks

Allied Airmen Destroy 43 Jap Planes   32 of Aircraft Are Shot Down in Attacks on Rabaul

ALLIES DOWN 43 JAPANESE PLANES   Heavy Air Assaults. Are Made  Upon Rabaul And  Kavieng   FIND BODIES OF NIPPONS WHO DIED OF STARVATION

NIPS LOSE 43 MORE PLANES   Heavy Aerial Losses Suffered  By Enemy in South Daritice Biahktinan

Allied Airmen Continue Blows In South Pacific   Kavieng Airdrome Rocked by 167 Tons of Bombs

Mob Wills Negro  Kor Twin Murder   Daughter And Wife Of School Head Slain

Heavy American Naval Carrier Task Force Goes Beyond Blasted Bastion of Truk To Attack Mariana Islands and Bring War Threat Closer To Enemy’s Homeland — Allies Continue Ground Drives on Invaded Islands

NEW AMERICAN OFFENSIVE DRAWS NEARER .TO TOKYO WITH ATTACK ON WARTANA

U.S. Fliers  Hit Marianas   American Pacific Offensive Moves Closer to Japan

BOMBERS BLAST AT JAP BASES   War Carried Close to Nips’ Home Waters by Land, Sea, Air Forces

U.S. Forces Carry Assault Closer to Jans’ Home Waters   West New Britain Now Completely In Allies’ Hands

SWEEPING OFFENSIVE  OF AMERICAN FORCES  EDGE NEARER JAPAN HEAVY U. S. CARRIER AT: TACK HIT MARIANA IS FPALRIMIOG BFP isnrrn TArUTA

NAVAL FORCES CARRY ASSAULT NEARER TOKYO   Several Hundred Planes Bomb Island 1;300 Miles trom Japanese Capital.

TASK FORGE IN ATTACK ON NEW SPOT--MARIANAS   Position of Japanese in Pacific Grows More Perilous as Offensive Widens Steadily.

TASK FORCE DEALS BLOW TO MARIANAS      American ‘Navy Car ries Fight Closer © To Janan

YANKEE FORCES MOVE NEARER JAP HOMELAND   Carrier Attack Hits Marianas As Eniwetok Base I's Taken From Enemy

Carrier Attack Hits Two Mariana Isles   New Drive On Anzio Front

ATTACK FIRS} ON ISLANDS PAST TRUK   Carry Assault Even Closer To Jap Home Waters   ALL OF ENIWETOK   Now In Control Of Allies; Report Move To Oust Premier Tojo

Carriers Hit Mariana Isle In First Rat   American Forces Extend Offensive With Capture Of * Base In Eniwetok.   CLOSE IN, ON. NIPPON

Marianas Newest. Target   U. S. Naval Task Foret Delivers Heavy Attack on Enemy Isles; Eniwetok All Ours

Carr ier Force Strikes 1 300 Miles to South   American Fighting Men Win Another Base in Eniwetok _ in Western Marshalls  ;

U.S. Carrier Force Moves Beyond Truk To Blast Marianas   MacArthur Says West End of New Britain Is In His Hands

U.S. Forces Move Nearer Japan Shores   Task Force Under Mitscher Hit Fiercely at Mariana Group

SAIPAN, TINIAN HEAVILY BOMBED   SEVERAL HUNDRED PLANES IN ATTACK ON JAPANESE BASES

Hit Islands in Kasy Flying Range of Tokyo   Drive Carries  Americans 700 Miles Past Truk For Vital Gains

PACIFIC WAR ARENA NEARER JAP HOMELAND   American Planes Blast Islands In New Raid

mericans Carry ssaults Nearer To Jap Home Waters   Heavy U.S. Carrier Attack Hits Mariana Islands, 1,300 Miles South of Tokyo, For First Time During Conflict   REPORT SAYS THAT TOJO REGIME IS TOTTERING

SWEEPING AMERICAN OFFENSIVE DRAWS NEARER TO TOKYO WITH PLANE ATTACK ON ISLANDS   Silence Still: Shrouds Latest Move by American Warships Which Are Hunting for Japanese Ships from Truk.. Chinese Report Japs Plan to Overthrow Tojo

Moves Beyond Bombed  Truk; Conquest Of Eniwetok Completed Bv Americang<

U. S. Bombs Fall Closer ‘To Japan   Mariana Islands, 1,300 Miles South Of Tokyo, Blasted  By Carrier Force

BRING ASoAULT NEARER JAPAN   Heavy U. S. Carrier Force Hits Islands, 1300 Miles From Tokyo.

CARRIER FORCE RIPS JAP-HELD MARIANA ISLES   Yank Bombers Strike Ai Tokyo’s Front Door; Make New Gains

Heavy Task Force Hits Jans Again   Growing. U.S. Offensive Brings Raid on Mariana ‘Isles ‘for. First: Time   U.S: WINS ANOTHER BASE IN’ ENIWETOEK   Several Other Raids “Are Made; Western New Britgin in Allied’ Hands

SWEEPING OFFENSIVE OF AMERICAN FORCES EDGE NEARER JAPAN  _ HEAVY U., S, CARRIER ATTACK HIT MARIANA IS-

Potato Prices  Raised By OPA   Boost Ceiling Price On Canned Spinach

POINTS TO G.O.P. VICTORY   Republican Chairman is Pleased ) With Maine Election

STEADY GAINS IN MARIANAS   ADVANCES BEING MADE ON BOTH GUAM AND TINIAN BY  "AMERICAN INVADING  “ FORCES .

MARINES CLOSE ON STRATEGIC PALAU AIRBASE   Engineers Ready Morotai Airstrip for Heavy Bombers

dtines Battle Against Stuff esistance Toward Airport  On Peleliu Island        ANKS ON MOROTAI. TAKE - FIELD IN EASY MANNER

—PACIFIC—  MORCTAL TSLANG AIRFIELD SEIZED   Will Be Of Great Aid To . Allies In Coming Philippines Battle.   ’ LOSSES LIGHT   Americans Drivin g¢ Toward Vital Airstrip On ‘Pelelit: Island ©

Yanks Fight  For Airstrip On Peleliu   Push Ahead Against Furious Jap Opposition; Prepare Pitoe Airfield for Use Avcainst Mindanao

AMERICAN MARINES BATTLING AGAINST LARGE JAP FORCES  MOROTAI ISLAND LANDINC EASY BUT PELELIU BEACH. HEAD MENACED

OPPOSITION BY JAPS IS FIERCE BUT YANKS GAIN   Nipponese Tanks, Used in Counter-Attacks, — ‘Ave Thrown Rack

Americans Drive Toward Airstrip On Pelelin Island   U.S. Losses Light In Twin Invasion Of Jap Strongholds

YANKS CAPTURE PITOE AIRFIELD ON MOROTAI ISLE   Nimitz’s Forces Repel Jay Tank Attacks in Palau Group

Battle for Palaus Moving Forward  - One Airstrip Taken; Battle on for Another

JAP ATTACKS THROWN BACK, LOSSES LIGHT   Pleliu Airstrip Main Objective for Yank Force. Would Be Used in Philippines Drive   Re ASSOCTATED PRESS

PITOE AIRFIELD ONMOROTAI EASILY TAKEN BUT PELELIU ISLAND STRIP WELL DEFENDED

Stiff Resistance To Palau Landing   Airport Readied On Morotai Island

Marines Head Forlmportant Palau Airstrip  Japs Driven Back  In Fierce Battles —

~—Rush Airfields On Captured Island—  Morotai Falls; Nip Oppositior Stiff On Pelelit   ..+ Repel Several Enemy Counter Attacks

Vice-President At Western. Union  Oy Talks On. Democracy ' To Students = -

Vice-President At Western Union  v4  Talks On Democracy . To Students

Postwar Pants for Men to Have Two Way Stretch, Eliminate Use of Suspenders or Belt

WLB TACKLES WAGE QUESTION   Executive Session Studies Possible Formula Change

WLB Considers Changing Little Steel Formula  Acts On Issue In Secret Session

WLB Tackles the Ticklish Little Steel Wage Issue   Growing Doubt That the Question Will Be Decided Before Election

Other Nations Buy Gold From United States  Hoard Decreases Within A Year

JAPAN AIR FORCE FOLLOWS FLEET INTO HIDE-OUT   “or Many Weeks No lap Planes Have Dared Intercept Allied Bombings Of Jap Bases.

MARTHUR TALKS 10 FILIPINOS   Pledges Them Complete Liberation of Jap Tyranny

REVEAL ‘SIT-DOWN’ BY SOLDIERS   2,000 Yanks, Irked By Mine Walkout Last Summer, Staged 2-Hour Strike On Guadalcanal

Soldiers in Strike, Says Pacific Vet   GUADALCANAL FORCES JOIN AFTER HEARING OF COAL MINE HALT

Tells of -Guadaleana! “Sit-Down’ Bv Soldiers, Angered by Strikes

Discharged Soldier Tells Of Two-Hour Strik At Guadalcanal, Matchine Coal Strike

ACTION LINKED WITH ATTITUDE ON AXIS AGENTS   Pressure Put On Free State

U.S. Denies Eire Merchant Ships   Request For Expulsion  Of Axis Refused

EIRE REQUEST FOR SHIPS IS DENIED BY U.S.   lrish Refuse to Eject Nazi-Jap Diplomats

Refuse To Sell Ships To Eire   Action Follows Irish Rejection To Oust Axis

IRELAND STANDS, FIRM AGAINST 1, WARNING ON AXIS   De Valera Will Not Evict Axis Agents and Diplomatic  Representatives.

lreland  Refused Ships   EIRE REJECTS ALLIED REQUEST TO EXPEL AXIS REPRESENTATIVES

John J: Tolsma J. Tolsma Taken By] Death  Resident Here ; ‘Past Fiftv Years

SHIPS: SHEEL GOTHIC LINE  - KEY BASTION   ALLIED ‘FORCES IN_ ITALY --BTEP-UP THEIR DRIVE TO CRACK STRONG NAZI.   PEFENSES .  ~

Allied Naval Forces Join In Italian Battle   Hurl 300 Rounds Of Shells Into Rimini Area On Adriatic   NAZI FORCES GIVE STIFF RESISTANCE

DR. POLING 1S REFUSED RIGHT TO USE PULPIT   Barred Because He Brought Pavrtisan Politics Into Church, Said

A Quiet Night Isn't So Quiet  It’s Favorite Time For Attacks, Raids

West Part of New Britain  Held by Allies   Rabaul Plastered Again; Kavieng Hit by Sea And Air

ALLIES HAVE. ALL WESTERN NEW BRITAIN   Two Forces Meet, Adding 3600-Sq. Miles of Captured Territory

Allies Gain Sesment of Former Jap Held Territory   Western Portion Of New Britain  In American Hande

U.S. Army Force In Junction With Marines in Pacific   Gain Control of Large Territory Held by Japs

M ARTHUR TOPS ILLINOIS VOTE   Leads All Other Candidates In Presidential Preference Primary

ILLINOIS TURNS IN HEAVY VOTE FOR MARTHUR   Smashing Demonstration Of Strength Displayed By General In Primary

LEADS ALL STATE GOP CANDIDATES BUT GOV. GREEN  BENSON MAINTAINS COMFORTABLE LEAD

MW’ Arthur RolisUpA Good Vote   REGULAR REPUBLICANS. PACED BY GREEN, SCORE EASY WINS: LIGHT VOTE

CARTHUR IS FAVORITE IN ELECTION TUES,   Benson Ovtruns Stratton In Primarv

Two- Mile Gains Made On West Coast of Island   Desperate Japanese Attempt To Escape Is Complete Failure

Yanks Reach Guam Airfield   Marines on Tinian Take Ushi Airstrip

YANKS WITHIN 400 YARDS OF GUAM AIRBASE   Japs Lose 400 Dead Ih Attempt To Flee Peninsula

BATTLE UNDER WAY FOR VITAL GUAM AIRBASE   Make Two Mile Advance Aimed At Driving Enemy Into Sea

Yanks Battle fey Airfield on Orote Peninsula   Marines, Army Control! Most of Guam West Coast

YANKS FIGHT FOR GUAM  AIRFIELD   Field Is Within B-29 Bomber Range of Japan

Yankee Troops Fight Valiently For Airfield on  Orote Peninsula   Ushi Point Airstrip On Tinian Occupied  Re Amarierandc

U), S:FORCES ON” GUAM BATTLE FOR AIRFIELD   Americans Now Control Hight Square Miles on Peninsula

AMERICANS ADVANCE ON GUAM   Invasion Forces Battle For Orote Peninsula Airfield

lanes Shot Down in Bold Attack  ecord Sea-Air Blow Includes 68 Nip y Cruisers, Destroyers and Carriers

Sweep 5 Mindanao Airports   First Air-Naval Attack On Islands Nets Excellent Results

Air, Sea Attack Smashes 89  Ships, 68 Planes   Task Force Under Admiral Halsey Hammers Nipponese on Mindanao;  ‘Whole Convoy of 52 Vessels Sunk

Air and Naval Attack Made on Philippines   Entire Enemy Convoy Is Wiped Out

Nippon Puppet Covernor Dies   Death Of Wang Ching-Wei Snaps Thread Binding JapDominated Chinese,

Death of Wang May Aid China   Followers May Now Swing to Support Of Chiang-Kai-Shek

Wang Maybe Not Quisling   Jap Puppet May Have Been In Key Post Under Orders From Chiang Kai-Shek

NANKING PUPPET LEADER IS DEAD   WANG CHING WEI'S DEATH MAY PROVE HANDICAP TO JAPS

‘Death of Puppet Chinese Premier May Break Jap’s Nanking Control

Tokyo Reports Raid On Sumatra   Says 40 Carrier-Based Aircraft Participated

TROTTER’S HOME ALMOST HIT BY CRASHING PLANE  Ce tee & ef eens 2h ae ee

Soviet Siege Guns Hammer At Budapest  Armored Force Moves Forward  Views ko Verva

Reds Send Up Barrage Near Budapest   Soviet Forces Fight Forward Yard By Yard

SOVIET ARMORED COLUMNS FIGHT NEAR BUDAPEST   Shells Plastered Ujpest Today In Danube Sector

Soviet Siege Guns Start Pounding Budapest Suburbs  Armored Units Battle Way Forward on Two Sides of Capital

Reds Drive Nearer to Budapest  War Now on Threshold of Austria, Red

Red Siege Guns Shell Budapest  Heavy Barrage Laid Gown in Subscbe

Russ Siege Guns Slug Budapest  Armored Columns Gain Slowly Against Nazis‘

Russian Siege Guns Lay Down Heavy Barrage On iBudapest’s Closest Suburbs   Armored Columns Fight 7 Forward East Of Capital

Barrage Prepares Way For Infantry Russian Heavy Artillery Is Softening Up Budapest

Inner Defense Towns Seized Near Budanes   Soviets’ Artillery Hammers Path For Troops; Fight Yard By Yard.   H AVE MINE PROBLEM

SOVIET GUNS HIT SUBURBS OF BUDAPEST   Heavy Barrage Laid on Closest Segments of the Capital, Two-on North and One on East—Two Other Strongholds Fall.

REDS TAKE TWO TOWNS MOVING IN ON BUDAPEST   Force Russians to Battle for Every Yard Leading to Capital

RED ARTILLERY HAMMERS OUT PATH FOR TROOPS   Soviets Encounter Some of Stiffest Nazi Resistelice of War in Siege of Budapest.

Russian Seige Guns Blast Budapest's Closest Suburbs  Reds Capture Two Towns i in Capital’ s  ee aoe 2a

Russian Guns Lash Suburbs Of Budapest   Soviet Armored Units Fight Nearer City In Slow Advance

Edge Closer To Budapest   Reds Fight Forward  Yard By Yard Against Strong German Defense

RUSS SIEGE GUNS LAY BARRAGE ON BUDAPEST SUBURBS   Columns .of Soviet Armored Units Fighting Forward Slowly Seven Miles North and 10 Miles East of faye Capital

Red Barrage  Hits Budapest   Soviets Forge Ahead As Two Strongholds Fall in East Section

RUSSIAN SIEGE GUNS BOMBARD BUDAPEST’S CLOSEST SUBURBS  RUSSIANS STILL SOME DISTANCE FROM HUNGARTAN CAPITAL

SIEGE GUNS LAY BARRAGE ON BUDAPEST   Soviet Armored Columns Push Forward Yard By Yard Seven Miles North  of Hungarian Capital  STRONG POINTS TAKEN

HESIEE GUNS” “ALISTBUDIPES   Soviet Armored Columns Near Capital In Bitter Fighting

Rea Artillery , Rakes Suburbs "Of Budapest   Stiffest Resistance Is Encountered by =~ Ground Forces; Move On Toward Austria

SOVIET TANK PUSH SLOWLY ON CITY   Two Strongholds On Rhine Taken In Advance   EFENSE RING   Around Hungarian Capital Reported To Be Potent; 12 Slovak Towns Fall

Russian Guns Blast Towns ~ On Outskirts Of Budapest   Strongholds: Taken In Pest Approaches

RUSSIAN GUNS HIT BUDAPES!      Shells Plaster Suburbs; 12 Cities On Slovak ~ Border Fall

Guns Pound Budapest   Siege Cannon of Russians Blasting Capital’s Suburbs

Russian Artillery Plasters Budapest With Heavy Barrage   Soviet Forces Capture Three Strong Points

REDS GAIN SLOWLY   Russian Heavy Guns: Blast _ Suburbs of Hungarian Capital

Red Artillery  Pounds Magyar Capital Suburbs   Russian Armored Forces Battle Their Way Slowlv Toward Budapest.

Russian Siege Guns Trained  On Budapest   Soviet Armored Colunii: Fight Forward Yard By Yard Close to Capital City

Russian Guns Blast Suburbs Of Budapest   Armored’ Columns Fight Yard-by-Yard Tnto Hungarian Capital

Amphibious Landings Are Made in France, Aided By Huge Naval Bombardment

AMERICAN, BRITISH AND — CANA  FRENCH COAST AT 2:32 C.W.T. THIS MORNING

U. 5. MARINES EXTEND GAINS ON EAST COAST   Japs Hold Only Strip at Northern End, Says One Report

Peleliu Island Attacks Nearing Climax Of Battle   Complete Conquest NearDiscover Scores Of Jap Planes Ruined By Pre Invasion Bombs

DRAFT SYSTEM PRESENTS VIEWS   National Service Act Woul Slow Down Draft-  ing Of Fathers

Preinductior Notices Sent To 75 More By Board 1   Contractor, Livestock Dealer, Merchant, Mail Carrier, News Reporte Included In Long List

Board 1 Calls 67 To Take Preinduction Tests Soon   Those Notified Include Former Alderman, Assi County Agent, School  And Music Teachers

Unchecked Reds Reach Dniester   New German Sixth Army Said Routed  By TOM YARBROUGH  mow etme ed Meme Stank Ul ettar

REDS REPORT GERMAN SIXTH ARMY ROUTED   NAZI CASUALTIES IN 11-DAY BATTLE OVER 50,000

Nazi 6th Army Virtually Is Destroyed   Soviets List 50,000 German Dead in the Last 11] Days

Casualties of Reich Total Over 50,000   Soviet Forces Pursue 40 to 50 Divisions of Fleeing Germans

Unchecked Reds Reach Dniester   New German Sixth Army Said Router

Reds on Dniester, Ready To Invade Rumania; Reich Loses 50,000 in Ukraine

ADVANCE ALONG SEINE MENACES SHATTERED FOE   Drive From Sen Brings: Yanks Within 150 Miles of Reich

DEATH TRAP IS. BEING CLOSED ON NAZI ARMY   Allied Forces Marching Into Paris; Spearheads Move On Troyes

Stettinius Is Approved By Senate Group   Speculation Arises On Appointment Of New Undersecretary

Stettinius’ Choice Has Group’s Favor   Senate Committee Recommends  Approval of Appointment; Also Hurley as Ambassador ta China

INTO CIGARET DEAL   Senate ' Will Investigate  Shortage at Home And Abroad

Wewak Is Being ‘Isolated, Wiped Out By Bombers   2,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On las Bastion During Month Of March

WEWAK BLASTED AGAIN BY YANKS   Japanese Supply Dumps Are Destroyed in Heavy Air Raids on New Guinea

Wewak Raids Taking Effect   No Planes Using Airdrome: Now, Fuel, Ammunition Blown Up, Ships Sunk

Japanese Ait Resistance On  WwW ewak Bashed   ‘Thousands of Tens of Ship ping Sunk and Ammuni tion Dumps Blown Up  ' During Bombings

Allied Bombers Drop Big Load On Wewak Area   Heavy Damage To Jans’ Base

Partisans, Red Units Break Inte Morava Valley   Key Rail, Highway Junction of Uzice Seized By Russians

UZIGE IS TAKEN BY TITO’S MEN   Nazi Lines Severed By Loss Of Key Rail Junction

litos Men Seize Key Rail Junction   Yugoslavs Break Into Grea Morava Valley

BERN REPORT OF MASSACRE   CLAIM EYE-WITNESSES - TELY. _ OF WIFING OUT OF FRENCH ‘\ “VELLAGE BY NAZIS © .

German Says Second Aifempt on Hitler's Life Failed Because of Omniscience of Star Gazer

Ge SE Tego ON erat See See BE  Big Bomber Hits House, “Two Children Missing

CRASH AT MERRIAM   Four-Engined Plane Hits Residence, Burns; ies Recovered

Flight Officer Roy Mageard  Is Missing   Young Sedalian Down In Action On  Raid March 23

Japs on Last Mile to Vital India Rails   “No Word of” ‘Confirmation From Alliad Saurcoc. .

TWENTY-EIGHT NAMES FILED FOR ELECTORS CN TEXAS BALLOT   ONLY 23 PUT FORWARD, HOWEVER, BY RUMP PROROOSEVELT CONVENTION

Ask Increase In Price Of Cotton Goods      Council Fears Consumption Cut

Representatives of America’s 400,000 Indians Meet to Organize New National Council; Seek More Rights

TALIANS. FAGE DESPERATE WINTER   New. Hope Is Given « by Allied Formal Diplomatic Recognition

ITALY IS GIVEN RECOGNITION   Allied Nations Resume Diplomatic Relations

ITALY GIVEN.  HECDPALTIO   DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS  ARE RESTORED: WITH. THE PRO‘ CNISIONAL. GOVERNMENT. _- OF BONOMI ' =

U.S.INV ASTON FORCE LANDED INMOLUCCAS   89 More Jap Vessels Blasted, 233 Planes Destroyed

Yanks Invade Island South Of Philippines   MacArthur Force Lands On Northern Tip  7. 7; a ee

Yanks Land On Morofai ‘In Moluccas   Forces Headim, Toward Philippines Within 300 Miles OF.  Mindanao ~*~

AMERICANS INVADE ISLAND 300 MILES FROM PHILIPPINES   Yanks Land Virtually Unopposed on Morotai After daps Are Lured From  Points Occupied.   LIGHT RESISTANCE BEING OVERCOME   Troops Go Ashore After Planes and Warships Attack—No Air or Sea Losses Suffered.

Yanks Land On Mindanao In Philippines   MacArthur's Forces Catch Japs Totally  Unprepared; Heavy Air Attack Reported

Bricker Lays Blame Squarely On President Roosevelt For Failure To Fortify Guam   Feared To Offend Japan. Says Candidate In Scathing Attack On Policy

Raps Roosevelt Failure’ at Guam   Bricker Says F. D. Refused to Fortify

Cleanup of Leyte Nears Conclusion   Japanese Resistance Weaker as Americans Press Forward   TAKE TANKS AND GUNS   Ineffective Air Raids Made on U. S. Posifions on  Mindoro

Yankees Cleat Last Jap Hold on Leyte   Enemy Is Showered With Bombs in Christmas Assault

BESTS SINATRA   Kiwanis Clubs Vie. During Auction. at Newark Nioht Club

HOUSE KILLS U.S. AID FOR WAR WORKERS   Demobilization Bil] Cut; Deadlock Slated

Large-Scale Daylight  Attacks Resumed on ‘Second Front’ Coast   Big Force of. Bombers and Fighters Roars Out From Britain After Mosquito Raid on Western Germany

FRENCH COAST RAIDS RESUME ON BIG SCALE   RAF Sweeps Ruhr Area: Nazi Plane Losses Put Above 152

Preinvasion Air Assault Renewed In Calais Area   152 German Fighters Officially Claimed Lost In Clash Tuesday

BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS FLY SHUTTLE TRIPS   Sweep Over Calais Area Open: Latest Attack In Force Against Enemy Rocket Coast

French “2nd Front” Coast Assaulted by  Waves of  Allied Planes   Assumption Made That More Than 152 Nazi Aircraft Downed Tuesday

RESUME PREINVASION AIR ASSAULT   Waves of Planes Sweep French Coastal Areas

BOMBERS RESUME RAIDS ON FRENCH “INVASION” COAS]   Allies Hint Germans Lost More Than 152 Planes in Tuesday's Battle

MacArthur And Stassen Favorites   Lead Primary Voting: Dewey Gets Sizable Nebraska Write-in

Dewey Given Wrife-in Vote   New York Governor Makes Good Showing In Nebraska Election

Military Men Gain Delegates, Dewey Is Strong  : ~ MacArthur, ‘Stassen. » Show. GOP Popularity . Hint: “Wallace Out

MacArthur, Stassen- Lead In Primaries   Dewey Shows Great. Strength, qn Nebraska

DEWEY VOTE - 1$ SURPRISE   WRITE-IN OF NEW YORK GOVERNOR'S' NAME GAVE. HIM. SECOND, PLACE IN NEBRASKA

MacArthur Leads In Illinois, Stassen In Nebraska Primary; Bay Staters Seen On The Fence

Midwest Gives Political Boost To Military Men   Stassen and MacArthur Show Strong But Dewey Given Showing in Neb.   Stassen Is Winner of Primary in Nebraska

Primary Tests Bolster Dewey  In Middle Wes:   Mac: Arthur and Stassen Are Given Support But New York Governor Leads In Balloting   Farley Is Facing  N.Y. Ouster Move   Gov. Green Wins Battle In Jilinois As Candidate For Re-election On Republican Slate

M’ Arthur, Stassen  Show Strength In  Midwest Primaries Bui Dewey Has Record-Break  ing Vole in Nebraska Despile Fact Name Written.In .

MacArthur and Stassen Backed In Midwest Vote  Dewey’s Strength Bm Te Ian Der   Dewey’s Strength Displayed By Write-in Ballots

MacArthur and Stassen Lead   Dewey Gets Big Write-In Vote in Nebraska Primary

Government Will Spend $24,000,000 In New. Project Scheduled To Start In 10 Days

NEW JUVENILE CODE. SIGNED   State Law Now Emphasizes Responsibility of Parents

Will Review All Farm Deferments Under Ruling  Blanks Being Mailed Out This Week By Draft Board

Will Will Review All Farm Deferments  Under Ruling  Blanks Being Mailec  _ Gut This Week R.; Dean fr Raavel

FLIERS CLEARED INVASION SHORE   Southern French Area Torn For Fifth Straight Day

CAMPAIGN HITS HOME STRETCH, WAXES WARM   Charges Fly Thick And Fast As Parties Get In Stride

SCHOOL REPORTS FOR SEPTEMBER   MANY PUPILS HAD A PERFECT ATTENDANCE RECORD FOR THE MONTH

Most Nazi Armor Thru Escape Gap   German Army Units Left in Trap Being Pounded  to Pieces   ALLIES NEAR CLEANUP   Sides of the Salient Pressed Together by Converging Attack.

Supreme Court Says Insurance Is  Interstate Business  Decision Which Has Stood for 75 Years Is Overruled

INSURANCE CO. OPINION AIRED   Supreme Court Holds Firms Are Engaged in Interstate Commerce

Insurance Is Held Subject To Trust Law   U. S. Supreme Court Reverses Ruling of 475 Years’ Standing

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Insurance Business Comes Under Anti-Trust Statute

Insurance Firms Indicated Losers In Anti-Trust Case  l  Supreme Court Rules Bulletin ; in Interstate Commerce, Black  Hints al Wider Decision

Insurance, Interstate Commerce   Court Brings Business Under  Federal Control

JAPS' VICTORY BOAST DENIED   MacArthur Says Yanks Are Still on Job At Arawe

Americans Hold Arawe: Japanese Report of Recapture Not True, MacArthur, Spokesman Asserts

Allied Shipping  Losses Are Low   U-Boats May Be  Massing for New Drive

SHIP LOSSES HIT LOW MARK IN MAY   Allied Losses Only Frac tion of Nazi Boat Destruction

New Detection Devices Used  U-Boat Action Hits Lowest Ebb Th Pre-Invasion Month of May

Reds Coming Into Position To Join In Raids On Reich   _ May Pattern Heavy Attacks After Forts After Study Of U. S. Style Of Bombing

TEMPERATURES:   Cherkasy Death Trap Tightened By Soviet Army   Korsun, Core Of Enemy Resistance, Taken By Red Troops   East-West Bombing Of Berlin Coming

Soviet Air Force Coming Into Position To Batter Germany From The Air

Russians Now Near Enough To Raid Nazis  From East   Many Of Hitler’s War Plants, Though Safe Front Allies, Now In Danger Of Red Bombs

Reds Study British Strategic Bombing As They Secure Fields Nearer Germany

THE  WAR TODAY   Next Two Or Three Weeks May Be Mest Critical of Any Time Of War for Germany

‘WAR ANALYST SAYS LOOSE LEFT WING OF HITLER’S NORMANDY ILINE IS SPOT TO BE WATCHED

The War Today   By DeWITT MacKENZIE  Aeanciantand Prece Wir Annivet

Morale Of Troops And People Is Badly Shaken—  ‘arayt Three Weeks May Bring German Crisis     me By WEWIIE Machenam \

AMERICAN FORCES ARE ROARING TOWARDS FRENCH CAPITAL TODAY IBETWEEN SEINE AND LOIRE RIVERS   Hitler Is Trying Frantically to Stabilizes Normandy Line and Keep it from Being Torn Away from Its Right Anchor at Caen Where Allies Are Attacking

Key German Defenses Fall On East Front   Orsha Taken, Mogilev and Polotsk on Eve of Capture

 :   : Aerial Attack on German Forces Is Renewed by AmericanAirmen

GREEN REVEALS POST-WAR AIMS   DECLARES NEEDS OF EVERY SECTION ARE BEING CONSIDERED

Nazis Impressed By Allied Bravery In Raid On Dieppe   150 Expected To Report On Monday

besten teeieeeeennemnennemeneninmemnnatienataeeaemetiel  TELEPHONE STRIKE ORDER IS REVOKED

HINES 18 GRANTED PAROLE IN NEW YORK   Politician Convicted In Policy Racket Will Be Given Fresdom On September. 12

Allied Air Chief Declares Luftwaffe Prohably Will Not Be Able to Stage Comeback in Europe

Will Give Major Address At 8:30 O'clock At Meeting Of Foreign Policy Association

ROOSEVELT DRENCHED IN TOUR OF NEW YORK; ‘THREE MILLION PEOPLE SEE U.S. EXECUTIVE

Lyttelton Makes Apology to House   Says He Only Tried To Express British Gratitude For Lend Lease.

Lyttelton Disclaims Intention to Say ‘Japan Provoked to Attack Pear] Harbor

STAGE SET FOR pie WAR SHOW      Clear Weather Is Promised For Huge Spectacle Tonight

Army Chemical Show Tonigh'   Filstrup Fied To Be Scene Of Program 

Air Attacks In Pacific  Cain Momentum   Movement Started To Neutralize Truk And Other Nip Bases

ial Fe  Tr ruk Blasted’ Ag aininWide  ABA b SY x Bomb YY COD            Liberators Batter Japs Atoll Fort 8 Times in Four Days

CONTINUE TO BLAST TRUK   ' Offensive Against Carolines Gains: Momentum ::.

Air Assault On Truk I[s Continued   Other Strongholds In Carolines Blasted By 18 Raids Made In Four Days

JAPO REPORT SUNDAY AID ON TRUK BASE   Two-Way Assault on Enemy’s islands Gains More Momentum.

Report 18 Raids ‘on Carolines in Four Days   Seek to Neutralize Truk and Other Strongholds

TRUK POUNDED FOR 8TH TIME BY LIBERATORS   Bombers Raid Jap Isles 18 Times In Spreading Air Assaults

Truk, Other Jap Caroline Bases Heavily Plastered   Two-Prong U. S. Raids Aimed to Knock Out Foe

BULGARIA TO BE GIVEN NO CHOICE   ALLIED PEACE TERMS WILL BE ON ‘TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT’ BASIS

New Hungarian Government . Under Nazis  Bulgaria Expected ‘To Withdraw;  Germans Are Gloomy

BULGARIAN PEACE PLAN NOW READY  Will Probably eee se   Will Probably Be Signed  In Cairo

NAZIS DESERTED BY BULGARIA AS DEFEAT CERTAIN   Russian Army Advances Also Puts Hungary on Dangerous Spot

Hand Terms To Bulgaria In Few Days   “Take It Or Leave It’ Offer Prepared; Shake-Up In Hungary

New Government Of Generals Set Up in Hungary   German Troops Enter Slevakia, Withdraw from Bulgaria as Armistice Terms Reperted

Armistice Proposal Expected © To Be Handed Hungary Within Few Days Under Present Plan

NEW REGIME 1S INSTALLED IN HUNGARY   Germany Tries To Shore Up Reich's Last Balkan Defenses Against On rushing Soviet Army  BREin*aiar £2824 Oe cs oe ae _* a te 2 ook eee

Hungary Gets New Military Government   Cairo—(P)—A Bulgarian armistice delegation arrived here today.

Bulgaria to Get Terms   Armistice Proposal of “Take It or Leave It”’ Type Completed

*Believe Armistice Proposal Will Be Handed - Bulgarian Emissaries Within Few Days at Cairo

PREPARE TERMS FOR BULGARIA   Map Armistice In ‘Take I Or Leave It’ Phrases

New Hungary Government Takes Office   Germans Attempt To Shore Up Last Balkan Defenses

DOUGHBOYS FACE GRIM CHRISTMAS ON WEST FRONT   GREAT PROPORTION OF YANKS WILL BE FIGHTING FOR LIFE

Christmas Day for Many Yankees Will Be Fight for Life   Some Doughboys Face Yule Festival Surrounded by Nazis

Front Lines. Assured of “White Christmas” But Yanks Fight for-Lives

Western Front Reversals To Dim Home Front Goods In ’45   White Christmas, Surrounded By Nazis, Is Dismal Setting For Many Of Our Troops

Terrorists Hanted in Palestine      »yome Ger mans May Feast on Cantured American "TT vaxlenes

No Christmas Respite For U.S. Soldiers   ‘Yanks Will Spend Holiday At Front Fighting For Lives

There Is Snow On The Western Front Christmas Over There Has Its OQwn Flavor

Nexis Capture Turkeys . aia we Canned Rations to Be GI Joe’:  Christmas: Dinner: at Front

WHITE YULE PREVAILS ON WEST FRONT   But in That Respect Alone Will It Be Traditional! Christmas—Yanks Are Engaged in Fighting for Their Lives.

ssociated Press  ne ZL. SSAULLETING ==  TUESDAY, 8 A. M.   Yanks On Western Front Will] Spend Xmas Fighting For Lives

Only Snowfall Will Make Christmas  Same for Yanks  Most Will be Fighting For Their Lives Along Western Front

Doughboys on Western Front to Have Whit Christmas But Turkey Dinner Comes Later

This Will Be a White Christmas On Western Front—Fighting One, Too

U. S. Soldiers On Western Front Will Spend Christmas \Day Fighting For Their Lives

Heavy Snowfall Is Only Christmas Reminder for Western Front Soldiers

GLOOMY XMAS ON WEST FRONT   Few GI’s Will Enjoy Holiday Feast, Many To Fight For Lives

Yule Finds Doughboys In Desperate Conflict   {t's A White Christmas, But Desperate One, On Western Front; Even In Battle Yanks  Dasa wa trite: Caarial Batiane

White Christmas For Soldiers At Front!  + That Is, It aie Makes It White: Otherwi ise Yuletide Outleck Is Bleak

White Christmas on Western Front But No Peace on Earth for Gls __

Turkey Taken Up for Every Am erican But Some May Neve Get to Eat It—British Fam ilies Entertain Many in England—Tommies To Get Less Sumptuous Rations. But Rum Is Included

Eisenhower Takes Command of U.S. Forces in Europe   Supreme Commander ta Free Officers for Field Duty

Aides Named  For Invasion   Eisenhower Designates Lee, Smith His / anes

EISENHOWER TAKES _ COMMAND OF TROOPS   General Will Head American Ferces Se As Te Streamline Eurepéan Headquarters

Eisenhower To Be Commander of All U. S. Europe Force   Adds These Duties to Supreme Commander Job

PHILLIPS IS ACQUITTED   Oklahoma Governor Was Tried on a Charge of Conspiracy

10 Oklahoman: Feared Among Crash Victims   Seventeen: Persons Die in Crash of Army Transport Plane at Omaha, Neb.. Airport

RAPISTS ARE HUNTED WHO ATTACKED GIRLS   They Strike as Children Play On School Swings

FINNS HINT PEACE, LEAVING GERMAN   Helsinki to tssue Statement of Policy—Polish Group Leaves Moscow.

Welfare Per Capita Cost Here Is $6.58   Jackson County Rank: Forty-Ninth in Expend. itures with SL75.209 Spent in L945

CARROLL COUNTY IS 12TH IN PER CAPITA COSTS WELFARE HELP   EXPENDITURES IN 19438 TOTAL $187,541.14 FOR ALL CLASSES OF ASSISTANCE

To Meet Impending Emergency  May Use War Prisoners To Aid Rapid Movement of Wheat

Drive Winning Battle on Biak   Jap Garrison Staging Wily and Tenacious Fight

Yank Tenacity, Artillery Winning Battle for Biak    Bush Reports Complete Victory Seems Certain Afier Doubtful Progress Earlier

Purchases Total $2,354,648, Including Those in Joplin of $1,667,852, and Campaign Leaders Predict Goals Will Be Exceeded by Week-End—Oversubscriptions Reported by Jasper, Sarcoxie, Carl Junction and Oronogo.

CITY BOND SALES OVER TWO MILLION   CARTHAGE GOES OVER TOP— COUNTY T OTAL HAS PASSED $3,000,000.

CITY AND COUNTY _-QVER TOP TODAY   EACH HAS ONLY SHORT WAY . TO GO TO REACH RECORD  ‘WAR BOND. QUOTA.

‘Washington Political Leaders Voice Frank Expres. sions of Pleasure Over  MacArthur's Stand   Sen. V: andenberg Declines Commren   Rep. Miller, Who Had Urged General To Accept Nomination if Offered, Not Available

MacArthur Clubs To End Activity  GOP Leaders Silent Or Pleased By Decision

‘SOVIETS SMASH GERMAN COUNTERBLOW; KILL 3,000   Nazis Admit Russian Gains On  All Fronts.

RUSSIANS KILL 3,000 NAZIS MASSING TO LAUNCH ATTACK AGAINST SOVIETS IN ROMARIA

Big Three Give France ‘Voice’ Against N aZIS   DeGaulle Invited To Full Membership In Advisory Commission

Allies Recognize De Gaulle Regime   Action of United States, Great Britain and Russia Makes Bia Three Into New Bia Four

High Council Door Opened To De Gaulle   Step Restercs Once Prostrate France To Bie Power Equality

SA  50,000TH ENGINE IS FINISHED AT WRIGHT      Production More Than in 20 Years Before War

“RATIONING”   Feature Picture at Electric Theatre, Saturday and Sunday

British Force 18 Miles From Eternal City   Din Of Battle May B Heard In Rome; U.S Troops Advancing Ot Vital Cisterna

Alhes Expand Positions On  Road To Rome   ‘British Drive To Within 18 » Miles Eternal City Which Probably Hears Din of Battle

Tommies Rip To 18 Miles From Rome   Residents of Holy City May Hear Battle Din. as Allies Advance   FRENCH TAKE HILLS   Nazi Gun Positions at Cisterna, ‘Appian Way Key Point, Bombed

ALLIES DRIVE NEARER ROME   British Within 18 Miles of City, Report Says

Britich Advance 3 Miles; Americans Approach Cisterna   Romans Within Earshot of Batile: Yanks Bombard Highway, Railway, And Air Stronghold of Nazis POM! PTD a ey pe At Arete oF

British Force 18 Miles From Eternal City   Americans Within Artillery “Range Of Vital Point Of  Cisterna.

ALLIED DRIVE REACHES OUT TOWARD ROME   AIR WAR IN ITALY GOES AGAINST GERMANS

Allies Close To Cisterna   Can Block Use of Airfield Appian Way or Railroad In That Area

Allies 18 Mi. From Rome   Beachhead Expanded; Appian Way, Cassino R.R. in U.S. Gun Range

Allies Expand Bridgeheads In New Advances   Americans Within Gun Range of Vital Cisterna

BRITISH TROOPS DRIVE TO WITHIN (8. MILES OF ROME   Din of Battle Now Probably Can Be Heard by Residents of the Italian Capital.   AMERICANS MENACE TOWN ON APPIAN WAY   Cisterna Within Range of U. S. Big Guns—Yanks on Cassino Front Attack Gustav Line.

Fifth Army Closes In On Important City Of Cisterna, 37 Nazi Planes Shar Down

British Advance 3 Miles; Americans Approach Cisterna   Romans Within Earshot of Battle; Yanks Bombard Highway, Railway, And Air Strongholé of Nazis BY EDWARD KENNEDY

British Push To Within 18 Miles of Rome   Americans Within Light Artillery  Range of Cisterna, - Headquarters Says

Allied Hold Is Expanded Near Rome   37 Nazis Down In Vicious Air Blows

British Troops Drive to With8° ~=—s in.:« 18 Miles of Rome   AMERICAN GUNS   g. Bring Vital Point of Cisterna  Within Range; Air War Hits New Peak

Eternal City Able to Hear Battle Sounds   Cisterna Is Facing Immediate Threat of Being Captured

Expand Beach Position, Cut Supply Lines   Din Of Battle Now Within Hearing Of Eternal City

BATTLE MOVE TO WITHIN 18 MILES OF GIT   Americans in Light Artillery Range of Cisterna, 33 Miles Away.

Yanks Prepare Big Push on Biak Isle  Mop-up Squads Pry Jap Snipers from Naw Guinan Cece

OPEN WAY FOR FINAL BIAK PUSH   Cliff-Scaling Yanks Eliminate Japanese Snipers

Yanks Open Way For Big Push On Biak Airfields   Cliff-Scaling Troops Mopping Up Enemy Machinegun Nests.

CLIFF - SCALING YANKS. FERRET JAP SNIPERS   Invasion Of Baik Island Again Pushed Into High Gear

—PACIFIC—  OTH ARMY UNITS » ARE- REINFORCED   Campaign For Strategic Biak Island Resumed Bv Americans   WARPLANES HELP   Allies Forces Score Gains Against Nips In Indic And Burma

Biak Yanks Rout Enemy From Caves   Road to Airfields Cleared of Snipers; Planes Strafe Japs

Yanks Climb ‘Biak Cliffs   Mopping Up Japanese Who Blocked Advance On Mokmer Airfield

Yanks Scale Biak Cliffs to Mop Up Nips   Reinforced Sixth Army Units Use Coast Rood To Approach Airfields

Anthony Eden Quebec Bound  Expect F. R., Churchil To Issue Statement

Eden Enroute fo Join Roosevelt. Churchill Parley  sp *s gf B+ 4g"   Details of Pacific Strategy Being Settled By Leaders

QUEBEC MEET ENTERS UPON FINAL PHASE   Forma! Statement Moy Come Before Weekend

Aim of Allies In Pacific War To Be Outlined   Military, Naval Strategy Mapped By War Leaders

Anthony Eden Is Enroute To Quebec Parley   ‘Meanwhile, Roosevelt: and  Churchill Enter Final Phases of Conferences  [ Statement Expecied

FD, Churchill May Outline Allied Aims   Parley Enters Its Final Phase

Allied Objectives In Pacific May ‘Be Disclosed   Formal Statement From Conferees at Quebec May Come Before Adjournmen:

Statement Due _ On Pacific Wai   Announcement Will Be Made At Quebec

JOIN iN THE QUEBEC TALKS   British Foreign Minister En Route to Canada With Up-to-Minute Re port on ‘European Political Situation.

Joint Statement Promised Soon  Reosevelt-Chuschill to Announce Aims

. Pacific War Objectives . .  Joint Statement by Leaders May Climax Quebec Parley

Pacific Setup to Be Kept   Quebec Conferces Put Off Choice of Top Conauander

Roosevelt And Churchill May  Issue Statement  Strategy For Defeatin; Japan Already Chartec At Quehec Parlevs.

—FDR, CHURCHILL —   Leaders May Make Statement Outlining Plans Against Japs

Allied Objectives Are Being Outlined   Roosevelt and Churchill Expected To Announce Broad Plans For Whipping Japan—Comi: g of British Foreign Minister Raises New Speculation About Conference

FDR-CHURCHILL TO LAY PLANS BEFORE PUBLIC   To Tell Aims In - Pacific Zone  By Week-End

Eden on Way to Quebec Parley  British Secretary   British Secretary Bringing Latest Word On Europeon Polities

Expect Format Statement of Jap War From Queber   Allied Leaders May Announce Objectives  Of Jap War.

EDEN ON WAY 10 QUEBEC CONFAB      Secretary Confers With Poles Then Heads for Canada

Expect Quebec Statement Soon   F.D.R., Churchill Parley Nears End

F. D., Churchill Seen Outlining War Objectives   Believe Leaders At Quebec Parley Deem Time Ripe For Setting Forth Aims

EDEN EN ROUTE TO CONFERENCE   FDR, Churchill To Make Statement On War Aims

cden Enroute To Quebec With Late War News  Polish Question May  Ba Taaises Etatamant   Polish Question May Be Topic; Statement On Japan Possibility

Urges. $8,000.000,000 . Program. be Put-dnto- EE fect Before End of War: 34, Nations: Approve.

Monetary Plan Wins Support Of See. Hull   Endorses International Stabilization Fund: Asks It Be Put Into Use Before War’s End

Hull Urges Speedy Adoption of Plan To Back World Currency With Gold   Secretary of State Wants Stabilization Plan Put Into Effect Before End of War

Today in  W ashinagton   A Roundup of Developments From. the Nation’s Capital

Outlines Of ~ International  ~ Plan Evolved   Monetary Problems Must Be Solved Hull Says , Today

Hull Advocates Putting International Plan To Stabilize Money Into Effect Ere War Ends

Quiek Action On Stabilized Fund Urged   Program Called Keystone to All Pestwar Planning

SECRETARY HULL =. LAUDS PROGRAM   Progress Made Toward Creation of an International Stabilization Fund.

HULL FAVORS A MONETARY SYSTEM NOW   Lauding Proposed International Stabilization Fund, Secretary Says It Should Be in Use When War Ends. os

Speed Work Stabilization Plan: Hull   Hove 8 Billion Fund Ready by War's End, Urges State Chief

Stabilization Program Giver  Hull’s Suppor   Creation Of International Fund Would Help Bring Post-War Prosperity, ‘Asserts Secretary

Hull Wants World Money Plan Soon   Would Be Ready For Post-War Trade

HULL ASKS SPEED ON STABILIZATION BEFORE WAR ENDS   Secretary of State Indorses Worid Money Scheme In Which 34 Nations Plan Participation.   EXPECT ROOSEVELT TO CALL CONFERENCE   8-Billion Fund Based on Gole is Not Yet Binding, Russians Give Approval al Last Minute.

UNITED NATIONS MONEY PLAN IS IN HIGH FAVOR   Secretary Of State Wants Quick Action On International Stabilization Fund; Wants It In Operation Before End Of  ar.

$4 Nations Agre On International Hnancial Plan   Russia Approves Gold Based Fund Just Before Agreement Made Public.

CALLS FOR FUND OF $8,000,000,000   U. S, MUST PUT UP $2,500,000,000 IN ° STABILIZATION FUND

Gold Basis For World Financial Trade Proposed  To Call International Conference On Detail Of Monetary Plan

l'reasury Stabilization Plan Gains Wide Support; Hull Wants Program In Operation Before Victory

Hull Would Begin Finance Plan Before War Ends  Progress Being Made On Creation of

STABILIZATION PLAN LAUDED      Hull Urges That Program Be In Operation Before End of War. 7   FAVORABLE TO CONGRESS

Nations To Stabilize All Money   International Conferees Suggest An 8 Billion Dollar Fund

A World Monetary Plan Is Proposed   Hull Urges That  Stabilization. Fund Be Put into Effect Before End of War

Allied Planes © Again Blast Truk   ‘Tokyo Reports Renewec Attack On Stronghold

Blast Enemy Air Base on New Guinea   Wewak Hit Again, While Australian Troops in Ac tion at Kwato

WEWAK HIT BY 206 TONS OF BOMBS   Jap Bases Along 1,700 Mile Front Given Pounding

New Truk Attacks Reported By Japs   Enemy Says Raids Made Monday And Tuesday

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS IO VOTERS TONIGHT   second Campaign Speech To Be Broadcast At 9:00 P.M,

GET-OUT-VOTE TALK BY F.D. R. DUE THURSDAY   May Be Last Campaign Speech By President Before Election

PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK TONIGHT IN SECOND BID FOR 1944 VOTE   90,000 Party Meetings Set

FDR Speaks to Party Workers 9:05 Tonight   President to Make Second, and Possibly Last Campaign Talk

FD. R. fo Make Political Talk .  Radio Address eo 4. ff... ™. ..* bag

First Pacific Play-by-Play   Eyewitnesses Give Radio Reports Right on the Spot

MUNICH RAIL HUB BLASTED BY U.S. PLANES   RAF Lancasters Attack Buzz-Bomb Installations In Northern France

Heavyweights Lash Munich, South France   26 Big American Bombers Fail to Reach Britain After Munich Smash

U.S. Heavies Hit Munich Area Again   26 Bombers Lost in  Raid on Railway Hub Serving Two Fronts; Southern France Hit

Verd Leerrias A goin  ia a4 * Ld mt f ans ital £ ~aus » eee Oe eee ww ee me ON   Anti-Airctaft Fire Intense as Yanks Attack Through Heavy Clouds

Americans Bomb Munich Section   German Rail Lines Reported Damaged

1,200 PLANES DROP BOMBS OVER EUROPE   Strategic Areas Feeding Fronts in Russia and lialy; No Planes Lost from Escort Force.   Crew Bails Out

HEAVY BOMBERS BATTER MUNICH   Vital German Rail Hub Attacked; 26 Planes Fail To Return

MUNICH AREA AGAIN HIT BY BIG BOMBERS   More Than 1,200. Planes Raid Vital Railway Hub

MAY MOVE TO TOPEKA   WREN Seeks Permission to Move : Broadeasting Tower

Convict Wilson On Six Counts   Former Dairyman Founc Guilty on Absconding Witness Charge

LABOR BREACH, HITS NEW DEAL   Angrily Withdraws Application for AFL  Readmission

John L. Lewis Withdraws Bid by UMW To Join AFL   ’ Says Unity Blocked By ‘Palace Guard,’ . New Deal Executives’ For Political Reasons  ASKS FOR RETURN  OF UMW’S $69,000 Letter to AFL Head May Reverberate In 1944. Camopaien

wis Recalls MW's Bid for  eturn [0 AFL   Labor Unity Blocked For Political Reasons, -» Leader Claims ; efund of Check A sked

Lewis Takes Back Bid To Join AFL   Sends Scorching Letter To Green Accusing New Deal.

BREACH WIDENS ~INLABOR RANKS   Lewis Withdraws UMW Bid To Get Back Into AFL

Yanks Make Good Progress Toward Citadel Of St. Lo   Nazis Wage Desperate Fight As Showdown Stage Looms

Reports Indicate Showdown Battle Brewing Which May Determine Course of War

TROOPS, TANKS PUSHING AHEAD AGAINST ST. LO   Americans Begin Battle of Annihilation on Germans Trapped Back of Lines.

Announce Deadline for Filing Nomination Papers is Thursday, Februarv 17 at 5 o'clock

SOVIET TROOPS SMASH ACROSS NARVA RIVE   Other Red Units Cut Last North-South Line of Northern  Russia

SOVIETS DRIVE 15 MILES INTO NORTH ESTONI   Stronghold of Narva Isolated by New Maneuver

WLB Gives Ruling  lor Local Firm   Associated Press Lists Decision Affecting Woolen Mills Here

KWEIPING FALLS TO JAP FORCES   ENEMY OUTNUMBERED CHINESE DEFENDERS BY RATIO OF 4701

JAPS SEIZE BASE, CHINESE ERASED   Kweiping Defended To Last; Kweilin Called War Key

Swift Driving Japs Get Vital Chinese Center  Defenders Of Kweipin Killed To Last Man I,   Defenders Of Kweiping Killed To Last Man In Desnerate Rattle.

APS TAKE KW   Greatly Outnumbered, Chinese Defenders Fall Before Enemy

Forrestal Reveals Navy Has Added Almost 65,000 Vessels Since 1939

Navy Acquires 65,000 Vessels In Five Years   Secretary Forrestal Tells Of Great Increase In Power Through Addition Of 9,000,000 Tons

65,000 Vessels Added To Fleet  In Five Years   Nearly 36 Per Cent of Total Combat Ships, Says Forrestal -

Says 65,000 Ships Added To U. S. Navy   Forrestal Reveals Five-Year Growth Of American Flect

65,000 Ships Added to Navy  In Five Years   Manpower Has Grown From 152,086 To 3,717,000

SWISS PROTEST IS GIVEN TO SECRET ARY   Huli Says Bern Government And Citizens Will Be Indemnified For Bombing

G. 0. P. Discounts Possibility of A Dark Horse   But Vandenberg Thinks There Is a Chance For Gen. MacArthur

Five Top Contenders For GOP Nomination  MacArthur Is Favored By Vandenberg

NO DEADLOCK EXPECTED AT GOP MEETING   Chances Stim for Dark Horse, Capital Politicians Think   FIVE ARE LISTED AS LEADING RACE   Willkie; Dewey and Bricker Believed to Have ---——S trong Support ——

Little chance of ‘darkhorse’   Unknown as g.o.p. leader unlikely

No Dark Horse Seen by G.0.P.   One of Favorites Likely To Get Nod

NO DEADLOCK EXPECTED AT GOP MEETING   ‘Chances Slim for Dark Horse, Capital Politi cians Think   FIVE ARE LISTED AS LEADING RACE      Willkie, Dewey and Bricker Believed to Have — ‘Strona Sunnart W Ate sentence

NO DEADLOCK IS ANTICIPATED AT GOP CONVENTION   Politicians See Little Chance Of Darkhorse Get ting Nomimation

Darkhorse Not Expected ‘To WinG.0.P.  Nomination   Practical Politicians Believe First Ballot  Will Give Indication Of Probable Winner   MOST DELEGATES SEEN INSTRUCTED

‘Plot That Failed’ Against  ‘Hitler And Allied Success ~ Change Outlook Among Nazis

CRUSHED PLOT CHANGES NAZIS   Older Men Pessimistic Be. cause They Fear War To Go On

‘SUPER-FORTS’ HAND JAP MILL HARD BLOW   Stimson Tells Of Success  Latest Raid On Anshan

Tighten Noose On 10,000. Japs Tn North Guam   Seventh Enemy Airfield In Marianas Group Seized By American Forces

SUPERFORTRESSES HIT COKE OVENS   Other Factory Buildings Alse Bombed in an Important Blow.

Superfortresses Score Direct Hits at Anshan  Stimson Discloses Attack Result

CLIPPER FALLS AT PORT OF ANTILLA   At Least Five Know: Dead in Crash in  ——€uha

CLIPPER FALLS AT PORT OF ANTILLA      At Least “Five Known Dead in Crash in “Cuba

Desperation.  Causes Loss"   Superforts’ “Attacks © Costing Japs Heav rily

Omura Battle Proves Japs’ Desperation   Suicide Attack On : B-29 Armada Shows Rombs Cause Havoc

REGISTRATION OFF 2.208   County Has 5,728 Listed As Qualified To Vote In Consolidated Primaries

REGISTRATION DOWN 2.400   Republicans Lose 600, Democrats Lose 1,600 In Comparison With ‘40

COUPLE MARK THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING DATE      Mr. and Mirs. George E. Jones Keep Open House. For Relatives. Friends

pe a oie a      Mr. _and Mrs. George E. Jones Keep Open House. _. For Relatives, Friends

British Smash German Gothic Line inltaly   Complete Destruction of Foe’s Army ‘Matter of Time’

Reds Sweep 40 Miles in Transylvania  Russian Armies Speed Toward Hungary Capita

RUSS DRIVE DEEP ACROSS TRANSYLVANIA   Burst Into Valley Above Hungary Plains

N o Letup in Drafting of  Fathers Due   Commission Says More Physically Fit Men Needed

Family Men Must Make Up Army’s Needs   Can’t Let Down on Quality On Fighting Men, EF. TD. R. Told

MEDICAL 8CARD VOTES AGAINST DRAFTING 4-F’S   Five-Man Commission Appointed py Pres, Shatters Fathers’ Hopes

Hopes of Easing Father Draft Are Shattered   Induction of Many 4-F Men Held Impossible

Hope Of Easing Draft ‘Of Fathers Shattered   Armed Forces Cannot Lower Physical Standards In Safety

REPORT MEANS FATHER DRAFT MUST GONTINUE   Plan to Use 4-F's Fails

Medical Commission Opposes Lowering Physical Standards for Armed Forces

Lower Draft Standard Not  Held Feasible  Medical Group’s Report Blasts Hope of Easing Father Call  NEED COMBAT MEN  Army Deficit Must Be Made Up From “All Available Sources”

Drafting of 41s Hit By Report Of Medical Unit   Findings of Board Shatter Plans to Ease Father Draft

4-F INDUCTION PLAN SPURNED BY COMMITTEE   Can't Lower Physical Standards Further, Doctors Report

REPORT KILLS ALL HOPE FOR EASING DRAFT OF FATHERS   Declares Army and Navy Urgently Need Men Fit  far Camboat Servicra

Army Shuns 4-F’s, Wants Family Men   Refuses to Lewer Physical Standard To Base Dad Calls

HOPE 10 EASE FATHER DRAFT GETS SETBACK   Medical Group's Report Urges No Change In 4-Fer Status

WON'T INDUCT MEN NOW IN 4-F CLASS   Need Is for Men Capable of Combat; Not Limited Duty

HOUSE SET FOR NEW FOR TILT   Congressional Approval Sought For Settlement Of Lend-Lease

BORDER LINE DISPUTE GETS QUICK ACTION   SEVERED RELATIONS EXPECTED TO BE MENDED SOON

Yugoslaviang Battle Nazis In Banjaluka   Report Tito’s Division: Occupy Half uf City After Bloody Fight

Partisans Occupy Half of Banjaluka   Bloody Fighting Rages in Streets Of Nazi Headquarter:

SLAY PATRIOTS SEIZEHALF OF CITY IN BOSNIA   Partisan’ Forces ‘Capture ’ Portion. of Banjaluka _and Headquarters of Nazi Tank Army

Two Large Enemy Ships Scuttled   Intercepted and Attacked by British Warships and Naval Aircraft.

Action Delayed  On Service Act  louse Committee Move Mav End Legislation

Senate Board Votes to Kill Food Subsidies   Thumbs Turned Down  On Major Proposal Of FD’s Message

Measure to Be Held In Abeyance Pending Development, It Is  Annatncod ta Prace .'

VOTES TO KILL FOOD SUBSIDIES   SENATE GROUP REJECTS NEW DEAL PLEA FOR FUNDS TO HOLD DOWN PRICES.

Bans Food Subsidies AfterJune30   SENATE COMMITTEE REJECTS PRESIDENT’S REQUEST FOR BILLION AND A HALF FOR 1944 SUBSIDIES.   Would Continue CCC

Civilian Draft Bill Set Aside ByHouseGroup   Action By. Military Com- Mhiltee Serious Setback. __For President’s Rec -  . ommendation   Showdown Asked On Subsidy Bill   Hope of ‘Compromise (WwW anes; Amendments + Slow Progress On Tax Bill In Senate

Service Legislation Gets Setback From Congressmen  Death for Measure Sighted by  Some Observers

National Service  Act Sidetracked   House Committee  Precludes Action on Legislation at This Session.

May Indicate End of Bill This Session   Does Not Preclude Consideration Later, Chairman Declares

Subsidy Fight Set To Reach  Senate Floor   10-9 Ballot in Committee Okays Bankheail Measure  wal Dats CAmiMal

Group Favors Ban on Subsidy   Senate Body Rejects Roosevelt Request

FDR Service Bill Delayed By House   Hearings On It Are Already Set

SENATE GROUP VOTES TO END SUBSIDY PLAN   Committee Turns Down Bill Calling For Billion and Half  Appropriation

GROUP VOTES APPROVAL OF SUBSIDY BAN   Administration S$ uffers Reverse as Committee Acts   REQUEST OF FDR IS ELATLY REJECTED   Bill Would Continue Life of Commodity Credit Corporation

SUBSIDIES ARE ORDERED KILLED AFTER JUNE 30   Senate Committee Rejects Administration’s Request For Extension   LONG DEBATE SEEN ON FLOOR OF SENATE

Roosevelt Gets Another Rebuff   Committee Rejects Food Price Plans

\Chirman. May, Aller Meeting Be hind Closed Doors. Says Action ' Held in Abeyance   Will Wait Developments   Action Believed in Some Quariers to Foretell End of Legislation This Session

Labor Draft Law Given a Setback  Military Committee  Votes to Side-Track Pranncal indefinitely

NATIONAL SERVICE LEGISLATION PUT ON THE SIDETRACE   House Military Committee Postponed Action Indefinitely.   MAY.END4d- BER SESSION   Action Does Not  Preclude; Future Consideration of . Such Legislation, —

Service Bil Strikes Snag   Military Committee Of House Sidetracks Measure Indefinitely

ACTION DELAYED ON LABOR DRAFT   House Military Committee May Consider FDR's Request Later on

Labor Draft Legislation  Is Setback   Program Put Aside Indefinitely By  House Group

House Shelves Nat'l Service Legislatior   Action On Mustering _ Out Pay May Come By Tonight

FDR's Service Legislation Side-tracked   Military Committee Votes to Hold the Measure in Abeyance

ni e- -—™ _~ re to PY 40“ 4o~ a ete men oF ae Hae tee Bo   ~ i _—_ L fone &.

NATIONWIDE ~ PRAYER PLAN   PRESIDENT. TO LEAD “NATION IN PRAYER DURING BROADCAST AT 1¢ O'CLOCK... : TONIGHT

AMERICAN PLANES STRAFE AND BLAST SHIPS OF ALL SIZES — AND KINDS IN LEYTE AREA

Japanese Ships Sent to Bottom:  Destroyed While ion Way to Leyte

OMAGH MORE JAF Hips OFF LEYTE   Reinforcements Still Being Sent hy Enemv.

ENEMY oT GETTING HELE   Slip Troops and Supplies Into Leyte Under Cover Of Darkness.   CHINA PICTURE BETTER

75 More Jap Vessels Sunk In Philippines   Many LadenWith Help For Trapped Foe On Leyte

MURE TROOP ARE LANDED BY ENEMY   AAdded Pressure Is Exerted On Town ( Of Limon   CHINA PICTURE   Brightens As U. S. Defense Plan Is Taken By Chiang; B-29 Over Honshu

Yanks Batter 15 Japanese Ships, Barges   U. S. Airmen Run Into Little Opposition;  Foe Still Getting Men Ashore On Leyte

Yanks Tighten Grip Against Jap Supplies   75 More Jap Ships. Barges Sunk. Damaged By Our Be A siek Cece   SLIP IN MATERIAL

New Air Victories Revealec   Reserves Still Reach Leyte Despite Growing Yank Carrier Raids

Sink, damage  79 Nip ships  near Leyte Attempting land  etnen ts end oie es pee

Jap Ships and Barges Blasted By U.S. Planes   Reinforcements intercepted on Way to Leyte

SMASH 75 JAP SHIPS, BARGES OFF LEYTE ISLE   American Flyers Blast Nipponese Who Still Slip Aid to Troops

SOLOW WOULD EASE LITTLE STEEL RULE   ‘Offers Amendment “to Increase Wages 3 Percent Instead of Havina Subsidies

ALLIES PRESS TWIN THRUSTS; TOJO BARES PRODUCTION LAG   YANK PLANES, P-T BOATS BLAST SHIPPING, GUINEA BASES: GROUND PATROLS STAB ARAWE

American Troops Surging Forward In Moselle Area   Smashing Offensive Reminiscent Of Sweep Through Brittany; Dozens Of Towns Fall  As Patton’s Men Menace Saar Basin

AMERICANS GRAB MANY VILLAGES IN METZ DRIVE   Patton's Forces Attempting to Knock Out Barriers to Soarbrucken

Armor Gains, Men Advance Upto 10 Miles   Dozens of Towns _ And Villages Fall] to  American Offensive

Threaten To Isolate Fortress.   Patton’s Men Surge Forward Gaining Up To Ten Miles in New Full-Scale Offensive

DRIVE AROUND METZ CONTINUES AS FULL BLOWN OFFENSIVE  DOZENS OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES FALL TO AMER. ICANS IN DRIVE

Patton's Forces Advance Along 75-Mile Front   Struggle Continues In Aachen Area; Planes Deal Hard Blows

Japs Continue India Advance   Allied Command Minimizes Enemy Penetration Of Indian Territory.

Japanese Push West in Indis   Allied Commander Claims Nat Serings

JAPANESE MOVE AHEAD IN INDIA   Force Pushes Westward After Penetration Into Mountains

IDRIVE ANNOUNCED BY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS; MOVING TOWARD IM.PHAL ON ROAD WINDING TO JUNCTION OF HIGHWAY.

FRENCH SEVER ESCAPE ROUTE FROM TOULON   Infantry Advances Through Outskirts of Southern Port in House to House Fighting   DRIVING ON MARSEILLE

Nazis Inside Toulon Now Face Death   Hitler’s Garrison Isolated by New French Advances

French Encircle Naval Base, Cut German Escape   Allied Warships Hurl Fire At Forts as Land Artillery Blasts Away

NAZI GARRISON AT TOULON CUT OFF BY FRENCH   German Troops In Full Retreat From South France

Berlin Admits Allied Entry Into Pert City   American Troops, Meanwhile, Sweep Steadily Westward Mm Drive to Isolate Marseille   Thrusts Extend 60 Miles Inland   Allies Nuw Hold 2,000 Square Miles In South. ern France; Yanks Seize Two Towns

Yanks Sweep AheadinDrive On Marseille   Encirclement Ap Appears to Be Matter of Few Hours   Nazis Set Ferest Fire in Effort to Check French Forces

Big Mediterranean Naval Fortress is Wrested From Foe   Americans Press for Iso. lation of Marseille to Northwest

Yanks Sweep West Aiming At Marseille   Other U.S. Units On East Reach Points 60  Miles Inland

Battle Raging In Streets Of Big Naval Base   Last Exit For Nazis Barred; Marseille’s Capture Near

FRENCH CUT ESCAPE WAY OUT OF POR]   Allied Grip on South France Ex panded to 2,000 Square Miles, Doubling Landing Area

Town Is Regained By Chinese Troops  (i Rea Se i hee ae ae ee, ae  ee ee ee fe

ARMORED DIVISION  OF GEN. LE CLERC HAS  ADVANCED 18-MILES FAR TO NORTH, COLOGNE  FRONT, GERMANS LAUNCH COUNTER ATTACKS

Nazis Thrown In Series Of  Counterblows   Whole German Front In South Is Dissolving; Rain, Mud Intervene,   GERMANS RETREATING

WHOLE GERMAN FRONT IN SOUTH DISSOLVING AS ALLIES MAKE GAINS ALONG ENTIRE LINE

—Germans Pushed Steadily Eastward—  U. S. Ninth Battles Toward Cologne In Cold Rain And Muc   ..-- French In Strasbourg Suburb:

German Counter Attacks In Roer Fail To Halt 9th Army's Steady Advance

German Front inj... South Disorganized   Abandoning Equipment and Fleeing For Germany; Slow Progress Made Against Severe Weather and Tanks in North Area.

ARMORED DIVISION OF GEN. LE CLERC HAS ADVANCED 18 MILES  FAR TO NORTH, COLOGNE  CDART CLODAAARIC YT ATIAIU   FAR TO NORTH, COLOGNE FRONT, GERMANS LAUNCH COUNTERATTACKS

BOMBERS HIT TEN MAJ OR J AP BASES =   Destroyers Also Bombard Wotje Island

10 Major Jap. Bases Blasted   Hit Points From Wotje To Philippine Islands

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT TEN MAJOR JAPANESE BASES   Bombard Battered Wotje Island In Marshalls Early Sunday Mornine

TEXANS DOMINATE FARM SETUP; POLITICAL TWIST IS NOTED IN AGRICULTURAL BUREAU MAKEUP

Latest Personnel Shift Makes Federal Food Proaram Much Of A Texas Show

NEW RATION TOKEN PLAN BEGINS SOON   Rules Given for Three Weeks Transition Period.

1-Point Green Stamps May Be Used As ‘Change, Period Feb. 27-Mar. 20

Allied Fifth Is Smashing Northward 52 Miles From Rome Pursuing Kesselring

British Coast Guns Attack Nazi Convoy   Cross-Channel Duel Lasting 3 Hours Is Waged

BRITISH COASTAL BATTERIES ATTACK GERMAN CONVOY   Touched Off a Duel With Nagi Long Range Guns on the French Conaat,   CONTINUED FOR 3 HOURS

New Strikes, Back to Jobs, Spot News of Labor, Industry   Bus System Strike — in ‘Pennsylvania Delays Many War Workers

Bus Emploves  Go On Strike   Thousands Of War Workers — Stranded As Bus Drivers  Walk.Out.

15,000 Away — From Jobs In  - Strikes Today   Added Support for ‘Work Or Fight’ Legislation Is Developed

Harmon Describe: Battle with Japs   Not Like Football, Grid Star Asserts

PUCHEUEXEGUTED AY FIRING SQUAN   Convicted Vichy’ Leader ‘Gives Command For  “Own Death

Pucheu Executed On Spy Charges   Gives Own Orders Tc Firing Squad

Vichy Official  Dies For Treason      Spurned Bandage For . Eyes And Faced Firing Squad   HIS FAMILY UNDER ARREST IN PARIS

Vichy Chief Commands Firing Squad  Which Takes His Life   Pierre Pucheu Is Executed at Dawn Today On Charge of Treason After General De Gaulle Refuses to Intercede

PUCHEU EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD   Former Vichy Official  Convicted of Treason

PUCHEU FALLS BEFORE FIRING SQUAD TODAY   ‘Former Vichy Minister  Convicted.of - Treason Pays with life. Gave Orders to Fire 

Pucheu Killed By Firirig Squad   Vichy Official Pays for Treason

ean a i te      Pucheu Dies Gallantly; Commands Own Firing Squad

PUCHEU KILLED AT OWN ORDER   Former Vichy Official Gives Command To Fire At His Execution

PUCHEU FACES FIRING SQUAD   Former Vichy Official Dies  Under Treason Sentence

Pucheu Shot By French As Traitor   Ex-Vichy Minister Gives Own Command For Death Volley

Meat Cheats Facing Problem as Result  of New OPA Ruling   Washington Bureau Experts Trying to Anwer New Question

baat se ianrsinenaniin malin aaa alata iia  NEW SCHOOL OPENED BY DAYTON MATERIEL HUB

Fighting Tapers Off in Athens  Formation of Regency May Quiet Greekec

Seek Regency For Greece   Might Solve Strife in Country; Fighting in Athens Continues

GREEK CRISIS MAY BE OVER; LESS FIGHTING   Damaskinos Will Take Place On New Regency

BRITISH SLOW GREEK REBELS   Negotiations Continue, Regency May Solve Problems

Fights Slacken. Sides \egot iate   Greek Subway Blocked By British as Crisis Solution Is Sought

Fighting Slackens In Athens As British Continue Peace Negotiaitions With EAM Forces   Allies Pinning Hopes On Regency To End Strife In Greece

Regency May Solve Greek  Civil Conflict   Fighting Slackens in Athens as British Continue Peace Negotiations

Senators Battle to Retain Seats  Opposition to Smith and Caraway

PRIMARIES LEAD TODAY’S POLITICAL PARADE IN SOUTH   Negroes Reported Prepared to Vote in All Counties in Arkansas

Southern Primary Elections Lead Political Parade   South Carolina and Arkansas Races Hold the Spotlight of Nation

AIR MEDAL TO WIFE   Mrs. Allphin Accepta Honor on Behalf of Lt. Robert Allphin

DISCHARGE PAY BILL REVAMPED   Maximum Of $300 (,0es To Overseas Group; Minimum $100

COMPROMISE BILL READY FOR ACTION   Mustering - Out Pay May Range From $100 to $300 Under New Proposal.

$300 DISCHARGE TOP SET IN COMPROMISE   House Range On Payments, Senate Restrictions Kept

Discharge Pay Compromise  Is Drawn Up   Provides $100 to $300 With Top Pay Going To Ones Serving Abroad

AMERICAN TROOPS NTO MONTELIMAR “ON RHONE RIVER   Enemy Now Has Been Clear. ‘ed. -From Rhone Valley ‘Except Isolated Pockets.   THE GERMANS FLEEING   U.S. Troops Are Locked in Battle With the Retreat: > ing Nazis.

Allied Bombers Renew Day, Night Offensive To Blast Axis-Europe   Stuttgart, Munich And Coastal Area Belted With Explosives; British Loge Only 4 Planes

Forts. Liberators Smash Southwest German Targets   Attacking Fleets Meet With Litthe To No Opposition From Nazi Fighter Planes: Raiding Of French Coast Continues

SOUTHWEST “TARGETS IN GERMANY HIT   American Planes Take Up Assault After RAF Night Raid on Stuttgart.   BULLETIN

SECRET TESTS UNDER WAY ON PLANE THAT MAY DWARF PERFORMANCE OF B-29

» fests Under Way on New Plane Giant   ~ B-36, Much Larger Than The Superfort, May Heap Destruction on Tokyo Targets; Other Air Weapons Being ) —s_ Developed.

Reveal Tests on New Giant  'U.S. Bombers   B-36s Will Dwarf Superforts Largest Plane Ever Attempted in This Country

SECRET TESTS ARE UNDERWAY ON NEW GIANT AIRPLANES   Among Them is the B-36 Described as Largest Airplane Attempted in U. S.   WORKING ON ROCKETS   A Brief Mention Was _Made Today of the Work Being Done on B-35, B-36, B-42

Pre-Med Students      President Refuses To Interfere To Have Them Deferred

Leads Rescue of Yankee Wounded   German Fire on Htalian Front Fails to Stop ivan Roggen and Litter Bearers

Firing Ceases, to Allow Nazi, Yank Red Cross Men to Save Wounded   Brief Armistice Is Instigated by Americans   Brief Armistice Is Instigated by Americans On Italian Front; Germans Also Enter No Man’s Land to Pickup Own Casualties

Firing Ceases, to Allow Nazi, Yank Red Cross ‘Men to Save Wounded   Brief Armistice Is Instigated by Americans On Italian Front; Germans Also Enter No Man’s Land to Pickup Own Casualties

JURY INVESTIGATES GRAFT IN MICHIGAN   14 Charged with Conspiracy In State Legislature

CHARGE FRAUD IN MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE   Five Men Accused of Bribing and Nine Present and Past Solons of Bribe ‘Taking by One-Man Grand Jury. -

Rounded Ur   Edward Smythe Arrested By FBI In Time For Conspiracy Trial In Progress

Fleeing Defendan! In Nazi Plot Case Is Run Down   Edward James Smythe Near Canadian Border ; Protests Delay Trial

DEFENDANT FOUND BY AGENTS OF FBI      Accused Seditionist Seized Near the Candian Border

Nab Missing ah 4 fendant  pied In n New Yo rk   ArMpied In New York About 40 Miles From Canadian Border.

eVANKEES HUNT HIDING PLACE ° AF JAP FLEFT   ns  @Find No Warships at Mariana Isles  GUAM IS BOMBED  semen ae  Nips Lose 135 Planes, 11 Ships

U.S. Soldiers. Drive Toward Rhine Defense  Near Aachen   Stalemate OF Almost" Two W eeks Is: Ended.

Big Bombers, Artillery Blast Holes for Troons   First Army Doughboys Follow Up With Fixed Bayonets—Americans Attack Before Belfort. British in North

Bombers Hit Jan Islands   Wake And New Guinea Mainland Are Blasted

BOB FITZGERALD TURNED LOOSE   Jury Acquits Former State Official Saturday After Lengthy Deliberations

Stock Market. Outlook Uncertain   BABSON BULLISH FOR LONG PERIOD ON MART °

BABSON [S BULLISH ABOUT STOCK MARKET   Looks Good To Him For The Long Pull. Does Not Fear Inflation If Large Scale Industrial Production Can Be Maintained.

DISAGREEMENT AT AVIATION CONFERENCE  Smaller Nations Do Not Like    Smaller Nations Do Not Like   American Plan

EQUAL AERIAL RIGHTS ASKED   Latin-America Opposes Domination By Big Three

COUNTRIES FIGHT AVIATION PLAN   LATIN AMERICA NATIONS SEEK EQUAL VOTE RIGHTS

Ex-Berrien Man Suicides After Poison Atfemp!   Charles W. Gittersonke Tried To Kill Family In Peotone, Ill.

JAP SHIPPING HEAVILY HIT   32 Barges Loaded With Troops Are Destroyed by American Planes.

"Small Loan Racket’ Claimec By Congressman   Leon Henderson, Others Blamed For Conditions

REP, SHEPPARD Of CALIFORNIA BARES SMALL LOAN RACKET   - DECLARES FORMER FEDERAL BUREAU OFFICIALS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE

LIST SOLDIERS’ NAMES TODAY AT  POLLING PLACES   Election Officials Are On Duty Tc Receive Names Of State Soldiers

Barkley Will Speak in City   Jefferson Dinner Draws Senate Majority Leader

FOR MUSIC LOVERS   Joint Recital: To Be Given Thursday Evening, July Fae. U.

FOR MUSIC LOVERS   Joint Recital- To Be Given Thursday Evening, July . WatK.U, ..

CAPTURED PRISONERS DAW HITLER AT FRONT  Believed He Was Responsible For Desperate Push TO RESTORE PRESTIGE  Germans Say They First Saw Him About Week Ago   TO RESTORE PRESTIGE   Germans Say They First Saw Him About Week Ago   SETBACK FOR HIMMLER

EIGHT PERISH IN BUS:TRAIN CRASH   TEN OTHERS HURT AS WABASH TRAIN HITS ST, LOUIS CITY BUS

Eight Persons Burn fo Death   Ten Others Injured When Train Hits City Bus in St. Louis

8 DE, 10 INJURED INTRAIN-HIT BUS   Victims Trapped In Blazing Wreckage After Crash

8 KILLED AS TRAIN RAMS CROWDED BUS   Victims Perish In Flames, 10 Others Hurt, 7 Critically

Eight Burned To Death In Crash Of St. Louis Bus   Passenger Train And Bus Crash Sunday: 10 Others Badly  Injured

8 BURN TO DEATH IN BUS WRECKAGE   Ten Others Injured When Hi By Train in St. Louis

8 KILLED AS. BUS CRASHES   10 INJURED AS TRAIN HITS ST. LOUIS VEHICLE

EIGHT KILLED IN BUS CRASH AT ST. LOUIS   Wabash Passenger Train Strikes Loaded Bus

8 PASSENGERS DIE IN ST, LOUIS RAIL-BUS CRASH   All Victims Burned To Death as Gasoline Tank Explodes ¢ +

Kight Persons Burned to Death, 10 Others Injured After Bus-Train Collision

End Run On Siegfried Line Success And Runt Valley Open To Allies

Child Falls Thru Glass, Walks Home, Dies in Mother’s Aims, Heart Pierced

Hitler Making Last Stand on Eastern Front   Divisions Rushed Fron Germany, Sent Into Battle

PRICE LID ON LIVE CATTLE IS DISCUSSEL   No Rollback Intended; U.S. Seeks To Curb Illicit Trade

PROPOSED CHANGES IN CATTLE PRICES KILL BLACK MARKET  THIS WAS STATEMENT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOOD PRICES OF OPA

GEORGIA HOUSE PASSES SOLDIER VOTE BILL   Bill Transmitted to . Senate and May Be Votec On There Friday -

Eighth Gains Along Arno And Adriatic   Capture Mt. Foresto Above Florence: Nazis Still Shell City

ALLIES MAKE ITALO ADVANCE    Good Progress Toward Gothic Line Reported in Area Where the Eighth Army Stationed

CHAPLIN CHOKES UP ON WITNESS STAND   Actor Denies Red-Headed Joan Berry’s Charges That He Had Ben Intimate With Her In New York, Beverly Hills

Chaplin Weeps, Makes Denial   ‘Comic Says Beauity Threatened Him

CHAPLIN ON STAND: DENIES ACCUSATION   Film Comedian Denies Testimony of Joan Berry

Chaplin Weeps, Makes Denial   Comic Says Beauty  Threatened Him _ By GENE HANDSAKER

In Tears Chaplin Testifies   Weeps As He Describe: Joan's Gun-Invasion Of His Mansion ;  Denies Violation.

Chaplin Denie: Charges Made By Joan Berry   Jammed Courtroom Listens Intently as Actor Takes Stand

ch  ALL TIED UP: ONE GAME EACH   Browns Are Hosts To Cards Today In 3rd Game

FIVE STATES "REGARDED AS HOLDING KEY   POLITICAL OBSERVERS STILL PUZZLED OVER STAND OF THE SO-CALLED “St. LENT VOTERS

NATION STAGING GREATEST FEAT OF DEMOCRACY   Shrewdest Observers Say Five Eastern States Will Be Deciding Factors   FORECASTERS ALL AT. SEA   White House Race Develops Into Contest Between Cities, Rural Areas

OUTCOME STILL SHROUDED IN DOUBT   President and Dewey Both Confident of Final Count

Japs Advance Near Railroad In North Chine   Americans Take Airfield; British Pushing Japs; Chindits Capture Village

Japs Within Seven Miles Of Changsha   Chinese Prepare To Hold Positions, Give Battle

Japs Drive Close to Changsha   Enemy Pours ‘In Divisions To Defeat Chinese

Bitter Battle in Dismal Italian Rain Results ln Smashing of Fierce German Tank Attack

Allied Army Stops Nazis’  Counterblow   Bloody Night Battle Is Fought In Rain On Rolling Farmland

Regret Expressed  At Swiss Bombing   Hull Says U. S. Will Make ‘sok el

Florence Hit For First Time   Strategic Railyards Bombed; Famous Landmarks Spared.

U.S. Bombs Hit Rail Targets in Florence, Italy   Care Is Taken to  _ Preserve the City’s Cultural Treasures _In Heavy Attack -

Rail Yards At Florence Are Bombed   Crowded Tracks Are Heavily Damaged In Attack By U. S.

Florence Bombed First Time Today   Cultural Landmarks Spared by Raiders

Bomb Railyards At Florence   Take Care to Avoid Hitting Historic Landmarks

Bombers Give Florence First Attack   Main Freight Yards Of Italian City Are Yank Targets

German Supply Movements For  Anzio Wrecked   ‘Attack on Florence First , of War: Had Been Spared Because of Cultural  i Landmarks   Four Factories In France Hard Hit   Secret Weapons Areas Along Coast Bombed: Exact Targets in Germany Not Revealed

FLORENCE, ITALY, BOMBED BY U. 8. MARAUDERS TODAY   Strategic. Nazi-Held Italian City Spared Aerial Attack Until This Time Because of Cullural Treasures

Rail Yards Of City Hit  First Time      Special Precautions Teken fo Spare Cultural, Religicus, Historical Landmarks   RAID SUCCESSFUL   Ellied Announcement Says Nazis Deliberately Used Reluctance To Bomb Florence

B-26 Marauders Bomb Florence For First Time   Korcula Isle Towns Off Dalmatian Coast

RAIL YARDS BLASTED BY U.S. FLIERS   City Had Been Spared, Up to Now, Because of Artistic Importance, but Nazis Have Made It a Maior Base.

AIRMEN MAKE ~ HEAVY RAIDS   ALLIED FLIERS MADE 3,000 BOE"TIES VESTERDAY—ROBOT BOMBS CONTINUE: TO TAKE TOLL: 

Heavy Bombers Smash At Nazi  Forces In France   Strong Support Is Given Allied Ground Forces Battling In Normandy

Future of Wallace Still Mystery Capital Guessing On Next Job Of The Vice-President

Wallace’s Next Job Subject  For Speculation   Vice President to Step Down in Favor of Truman on Jan. 20

 Henry Wallace's Political Future Capital's Big  Guessing Game As End Of Vice-Presidency Nears

New Yorker Seen Sure Winner as Big States . Pledge Him Their Votes

Going Against Japs Will Get Tougher   Adm. Barbey Says Local Air Superiority for Landings Possible Momentarily

SAYS BATTLE AGAINST JAPS TO BE HARDER   Resistance Will Grow as - Yanks Move Into Innex Defenses, Admiral Barbey, Hollandia Drive ' Leader, Declares. ©

Sees Tougher Going Ahead In Pacifie  Operations   Japs Expected To Put Up More Fight As Allies Draw Nearer To Homeland

BRITISH NEAR MYITKYINA IN BURMA   - Jungle Commandos in _ Strong Drive on Jap Rase

Chinese Troops Score New Gains   Jap Attempt to Aid Trapped Force Fails

ALLIES ATTACK ON ADRIATIC ISLANDS   Blast Enemy Garrison and Withdraw Without Loss

WILLKIE ESTATE LEFT IN TRUST FOR WIFE   Valued at More Than $20,000— Principal to Go to Son Upon Widow’s Death.

Reds Thrust At Budapest From South   Armored Spearhead Fakes Town Only 75 Mijles From Austria

ARMY MAKES dt MILE GAIN IN TWO DAY   Smash Ends of Nazi Defense in Hungary, Seize 300 Towns.

Russ 75 Miles from Austria   Seize 5 Bastions in Danube Crossing

RUSS WITHIN 75 MILES OF AUSTRIA LINE   Loosen Beth Ends Of Hungarian Defenses

Drive Toward Oil Field Continues    Nazi Killed, Captured Said to Total 205.000 in Past Six Days

IPro - Japanese Filipinos Are To Be Interned   MacArthur Orders Arres' of All Who “Have Given Aid, Comfort and Sus tenance.to Enemy”?

JAP-AIDING FILIPINOS TO BE INTERNED   ders Military Confinement for Those Who Have Given Support tc Enemy in Philivvines.

RESCUERS RECOVER - BODY OF CHILD, 7   Little Girl Swallowed Up in Mine Subsidence Tuesday

GIRL’S BODY TAKEN FROM Bi CAVE-IN   JULE ANN FULMER, SWALLOWED UP BY THE EARTH, DIED OF SUFFOCATION.

BODY OF GIRL FROM CAVES   Shovel Replaces: Men  Using Buclésts in Pittetah®

Recover Rody of Child Swallowed _Up By Subsidenc   Rescue Workers Locate Pittston Girl Far _ Below Surface

Body of Child Found 35 Feet Below Surface   Pittston Deeply Stirred By Death of Girl, 2, Swallowed Up by Earth

Cigaret Shortage Stumps Probers   Lawmakers Run Short Of Smokes at Hearing

QUICK SEAPORT ‘REPAIRS FORECAST   STIMSON BELIEVES SUPPLIES SOON WILL BE MOVING THROUGH CHERBOURG.

Major Battle In India Is Likely   Japanese Fighters Are Re. ported Within 49 Miles Of Allied Supply Line

JAP ADVANCE” "NOT CHECKEL   ALLIES PREPARING FOR . ALLOUT. BATTLE AGAINST EN-" +: EMY¥ INVASION TROOPS  IN INDIA.

FORCED LA PLEA RENEWED; CONGRESS COOL   Industry Opposed To National Service Legislation

Congress Chiefs Cool Concerning Service Draft   Plea For New Law » Issued By Three ~ Administration Heads

LEADERS CALN CN DRAFT BILL   New Administration Warning  Issued ihat National Service Legislation is Urgently Needed.

CONGRESS COOL TOWARD NATL SERVICE LAW   Unlikely to Do Anythine About 4-F Labor Draft

CONGRESS COOL TO SERVICE LAW   Industry Opposes Demands Of Military Chiefs

PLEA FOR LIMITED LABOR DRAFT LAW MEETS COOLNESS   Administration Issues Warning Industry Needs Protection With 1,400,000 Men For Armed Forces.   FEAR PLAN WOULD BE INJURY TO INDUSTRY   Statement From Three Reveals Many of Required Men Must Be Obtained From Shops, Farms.

Militarists Plead With Congress Fo Labor Draft Law   Armed Forces Accused Of Failing To Use 4-F In War Work

Call for Labor Draft Repeated   Congress Leaders Remain Cool Toward Proposal

Nazi Army Retreating In Disorder   Abandon Arms and Am munition All Along Line,  as Reds Push On

CLARK'S ARMY NEAR BREAK - THROUGH 10 ROME VALLEY ROAD   Russian Advance Units Also Roll Toward Rumania; Americans Driving Nazis Out Of San Vittore

Nazis Routed By Reds in South Russia   Allies Crack Main German Defense Lines in Italy

SOVIETS BATE NAZI FLANK ON RUMANIA ROUTE   Allied Troops Grack Main Defenses Guarding Valley Road To Rome

U.S. Forces Oner Surprise Assaull On French Front   Yank Forces Sweep Across Vire River In New Drive In Normandy   FIERCE ARTILLERY BARRAGES AIDING

SURPRISE YANK ATTACK TAKES NORMAN TOWN   Enemy Counter-Blows On Peninsula Fail  To Make Gains

YANKEES SMASH OVER VIRE RIVER AND TAKE TOWN   American Troops Advance In Three Other Sectors Below Cherbourg

Ann Sheridan Wants To Fight Those Who Say She Dogged It in G. . Show

a Ls & ae * & o pfgerey it Pt py d ifs? i, Piao?  Memorije:z/ Foundation

Dewey Flays ‘Cynical’ Ties Of New Deal   Boston Crowd Hears Charge That FDR &..1d Mat to Radicals

DEWEY CARRIES HIS CAMPAIGN INTO MARYLAND      Accuses Roosevelt Of Selling Out His Party To Communists

Dewey Denounces F. R.’s ‘Alliance’ With Communists  Says Reds Plan to & Take Over U. S.

DEWEY cLAIMS FDR. SOLD OUT DEMS   Accuses President Of Betraying His Party

Dewey Rips FR Sell Out Of His Party   Cheering Boston Crowd Hears of New Deai-Hill.  man Alliance.

FISHING SF ASON OPENED APR. 15   Concord Anglers Report Fine Success in Local Streams

OPENED APR. 15      Concord Anglers Report Fine Success in Local Streams =

DEWEY SPEECH GAVE OUTLINE ~ OF HIS PLANS   PRESIDENTIAL, NOMINEE PLEDGES END OF "ONE-MAN GOVEENMENT’—STEESSED  HE IS “FREE ;

G. 0. P. CHOICE PLEDGES YOUTE IN HIS REGIME   Also Promises Cabinet of Ablest Men He Can Find

Prof. Marinoni Dies Suddenly In New Jersey   Suffers Heart Attack At Bus Halt En Route  To New York City

More Levees  Fail, Adding Flood Dangei   District Engineer’s Office In Omaha Is Placed On 24-Hour Duty

Help Alert As  Mizzou Rises   Four Additional Levee Failures Put Personnel On 21hour Duty.

29TH DIVISION IN FRENCH FIGHTING   Local Men in Battle on the Cherbourg Peninsula

RECALL ENVOY TO ARGENTINA   Relations Between Country  And U. S. Strained

Hitchcock Dies In Air Crash Noted Polo Star ‘Headed Fighter: Grouy

Tommy Hitchcock Killed in England   Polo Star, Flyer Dies in Plane Crash

THOMAS HITCHCOCK, JR. DIES IN CRASH   Death of Famed Polo Player in Airplane Accident Announced 

Tommy Hitchcock Killed in Crash   Famous Polo Player Victim of Accident

TOMMY HITCHCOCK IS KILLED IN ACCIDENT   One OF Americans Greatest Pole Players Victim Of Plane Crash In England Tuesdar

BRISTOL SOLDIER IS KILLED; ONE MISSING   Staff Sgt. Angelo V. Pollace Lost Life Ou The 4th of July   LT. WARREN IS MISSING

BIGGEST RAID OF WAR ON NAZI CAPITAL   With 1000 Bombers and Equal Number Fightdrs Searing Berlin as Pas de Calais Is Bombed   Basdorf Factory

[Rocket-Launching Sites On ‘Cherbourg Peninsula Taken By Allies; Berlin Pounded   More Than 1,000 U. §. Heavy Bombers And Equal Escort Of Fighters Sear German Capital; 49 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down; American Losses Are 59 Planes

Mare Than 1,000 Heavies Under Escort Hit the City  598 AIRPLANES LOST RESULT OF ASSAULT  Rocket - Launching Sites Reported Captured Intact *

HEAVY BOMBER BATTER BERLIN   1,000 U. S. Planes Sear City With Fire Bombs   ATTACK CONTINUES   RAF Strikes at Comet Bomb Launching Spots Near Pas de Calais

Berlin Raided After Great Daylight Blow   More Than 1000 U.S Heavy Bombers Make Attack on Capital

HEMP MAY NOT BE GROWN NEAR LADD THIS YEAR   Only Four Of Eleven Mills In Illinois Will Be Operated Dur. ing The Present Season Ac. cording To Reports.

Government's Hemp Crop Program Cut 33 Per Cent in 1944   Four Mills in’ Dixon Vi cinity to Operate Throughout Year

HEMP MAY NOT BE GROWN NEAR ~ LADD THIS YEAR   Only Four Of The Elev: en Mills In Illinois To Operate

WAR. ‘ODAY              {an Declaration of Yar On Bulgaria Has y Important Anis; Intensifies Hit‘« Troubles

Russia May Bid For Entry To Mediterranean— —hy Ue  Bulaaria Tried To Play With Both Sides  Witt Mac

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Soviet War On Bulgars Seen Vital   Declaration By Russia Shakes Further Nazi Stand In Tottering Balkan Area

The War Todaz.  Russia’s War on Bulgaria W3ll Tangle Pearce Prahleme

The War T oday— Russia’s Declaration Of War Is . Just What Bulgaria Had Asked For

pear Pouady.  ussian's Declaration Of War On loaria Is Of Utmost Importance

RUSSIA'S DECLARATION. OF WAR. ON BULGARIA IS OF GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN IT APPEARS

Germany s Balkan  Hold Slipping   Turkey and Bulgaria Being Watched Closely

TURKEY LEANS TOWARD BREAK WITH GERMANY   Hitler’s Balkan Armo: Being Cracked

GOVERNMENT HEALTH PROGRAM PROPOSED   Low-income e Groups To Get Care Under Plan

Medical Aid Aid Is Proposed:   Dr. Parran Outlines _New Hospital’ Setup:

ORGANIZE NEW BOYS 4-H CLUB   Greatly Expanding Worl In Taylor County

India Invaders  Gain on Ukhrul   Japanese Advance 12 Miles Through Somra Hills

a ae arteries: ieee  Tank Clash In France First Real Test OF Streneth

The War Today   SEE SE SE SSeee een eT  Counter-Attack By Germans In France Beains

Crucial Time Arrives For  Allied Force   Clash of Armored Giants As Main Nazi Push Starts in France

NAZI COUNTERATTACK AGAINST INVASION MEANS CRUCIAL TIME FOR FIRST STACK OF ACTION

ine War t oday—  Crucial Phase Of Invasion Is Near: DeGaulle Poses Problem For Allies

Peace Feelers Hit Allied Capitals At Rate Of About 1 A Week, But Have Phony Ring

VAGUE PEACE FEELERS HIT ALLIES OFTEN   Any Serious Move Would Come Through Neutral Nation

Put Out Vacue Peace Feelers   Replies, If Made, **Unconditional Surrender”

Peace “Feelers” Reach Capitals  At Rate Of One Or Two Weekly   Proposals Are Vague, Roundabout And Evi. dently Unauthorized; All Based On Assumption Terms Wil! Be Eased

Peace Feelers Frequently Are Received  All Are Based Upo: Hope Allies to  i ee ES a

Peace Feelers Made With False Hope Allies May Weaken   Shadowy Figures Flit About Neutral Capital: In Best Fiction Ferm Only to Get Confirmation of “Unconditional Surrender”

WOMAN'S CLUB MARKS SILVER ANNIVERSARY   BOWEN HOME IS SCENE OF SUMMER BIRTHDAY PARTY OF DELPHI CLUB

RUSSIANS TURN NAZIS BACK ON LOWER DNESTR   800 Germans Killed, 28 Germar Plaries Shot Down On Eastern Front

ervyvryv rrr rrr rr ree Russians Nip at Germons as Big Ottensive Waits

800 Nazis Dead Following Attack   Soviet Army Turns  Back German Assault

BACK NAZI ASSAULTS   800 Germans Killed Yesterday; 28 Planes Brot Down

Gloomy German Repatriated Prisoners ‘Enter France En Route to Fatherland

Nazi ‘Wounded and Diplomats - Exchanged for Americans Have Little to Say Before Departure From Spain for  -  France—Food in Internment Camps Apparently Agreed ‘With. Them, Whereas U. S. Citizens Were Thin.

SENATE INTO ~ LABOR SHORTAGE   Investigating Committee to Learn If More Authority Needed.

Allied Officers Lead Yugoslavs   Partisans Battle For Important City

SLAVS AND NAZIS IN BLOODY FIGHT   PARTISANS BATTLE DESPERATELY TO COMPLETE CAPTURE OF BOSNIA TOWN.

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Budget About Ninety Billion   Based On The Assumption Nazis  Be Out Of War

NINETY BILLION BUDGET IN SIGHT   Total Is Roughly Double Government’s Income; Based On Assumption Only Japs To Fight After July 1

Federal Budget Set At Ninety Billion For Coming Year  Figures Based on Idec Japan Will Be Only Enemy July 1

NEW BUDGET TO BE 90 BILLION   U. S. Bureau Estimates Consider Fact Nazis May Fall Before June 30

Government Sets 90 Billion as Revenue Required to Carry Throuch 1945

New Budget Set at 90 Billion  Roughly Do uble the G  overnment<¢ iIncame

Experts Assume Nation Will Be Fighting Japan Alone in Arriving at Total, Which Is Practically Double Current Income—$80,060,000,000 Will Be Marked for War Spending and Rest for Normal Expenses and Interest.

Guard Killed, 4 Convicts Shot At Stateville   10 Prisoners Attempt Escape; Two Are Vets Of Roger Touhy Break Two Years Ago

GUARD IS KILLED IN PRISON BREAK   Three Convicts Among 10 Trying To Escape Joliet Are Wounded

FOUR-IN ATTEMPTED PRISON BREAK SHOT   Guard Forced to Accompany Till nois Convicts as Hostage Fatally Wounded.

GUARD KILLED AT STATEVILLE   3 CONVICTS SHOT IN AN ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT OF PEN

NEW PROBER IS SENT HERE FOR VOTE INQUIRY   To Delve Into All Phases Of Hoffman-Foley Campaign

Probe Of Campaign ls Reopened Here   Thorough Sift Of Expenditures, Particularl; Those Of CIO-PAC In Behalf Of Foley Indicated By Federal Offictal

Storm Death Toll Rises To 45: Arkansas Bears Brunt Of Blow. Counting 34 Dead

46 KILLED AS STORMS RAGE INTHENATION   Arkansas Hardest Hit, Counting 34 Dead in  Tornadoe<c   WIND STORMS HIT IN MANY SECTIONS   Rain and Snow Cut Into the Voting in Nebraska

Western Gales Claim Lives  Of at Least 46   More Than 150 Injured; Wind, Rain, Hail, Snow Strike Several States

HighWindsKill A6, Injure 150 In South. West   31 Dead in Arkansas; Falling Wall Crashes  Six in Indians

Storms Across Nation Kill 46, Injure Over 150  Tornadoes. Snow,   Tornadoes, Snow, Rain Cause Heavy  Loss Over Wide Area

46 Lose Lives As Storms Sweep Over Wide Area   Arkansas, Hardest Hi Counts 34 Dead: New Floods Rising

NOT ALL JAP FLEET AT TRUK, RAID SHOWS   Task Forces Spread Out Tc Defend Homeland, Belief

NAVY PROGRAM 10 SEND AUGUST 320   Rabie Airport To Revert ‘To Private Operation Snon

Nurse Sit-Down  Strike Ended   Walkout In Protest Against Working Conditions, New Rules.

Cadet Nurse Strike Ends   “98 Students Return To Hospital Chores

BABY SAVED; MOTHER DIES   DELAWARE WOMAN FATALLY  BURNED WHILE EXTINGUISH-~  ING FLAMES THREATEN. " ING INFANT'S LIFE

[Plan Revival at the Eureka Church   'W. Carl. Ketcherside, -Evan: gelist of St. Lonis, Will Be Speaker. .

Walker Doubts If P. O. Dept. Could Deliver Soldier  Ballots on Time

Hold Circus Officials As 146 Die In Blazing Tent, 250 Persons Hurt   Most Victims Of Hartford Fire Women, Children

159 DIED IN CIRCUS TENT FIRE   Many Of 250 Injured Are In Grave Condition

Steps Taken To Establish Blaze Blame   Five Circus Men Indicted On Charge Of Manslaughter

Circus Death Toll Jumps To 152; Former Resident, Daughter Die;. Noa Protection Here

250 Injured As Panicky Crowd Bolt:   80 Children Dead; Anguished Parents Besieging Morgue

CIRCUS FIRE DEATH TOLL REACHES 158   Parents File Through Morgue Identifiying Bodies of Young Victims

Death Toll 146 In Circus Fire   Five Officials Face Manslaughter Charges; 250 Persons Injured, 14 Ma Die in Hartford, Conn., Holocaust

BLAZ TENT DURING  MAIN SHOW   Hold Investigation To Determine Cause   TWO-THIRDS   Of Victims Were Children; 225 Of 6,000 Spectators Injured

Circus Fire Toll _ 152, Cause Probec   (Eyewitness Account Page :4-A.)

Death Toll at Circu:  F ire Reaches 159,  250 Others Injured   Relatives Still Seek to Identify Victims Of Greatest Disaster in American Circus History; Probe Is Proceeding

FIVE RINGLING OFFICIALS HELD IN HIGH BAIL   Believe Fire Now Started in Top of Tent; Cause Not Known

AT LEAST 80 CHILDREN ARE AMONG VICTIMS   Tragedy Strikes as Big Top Suddenly Is Enveloped In Mass of Flame.

Ringling Big Top Reduced To Ashes   Two-thirds of Hartford Disaster Victims Children; Most of Adult _ Dead Are Women

Circus Fire Disaster Toll Mounts To 159 Dead, Mostly Children; 250 Are Injured   Most Of Adult Victims Are Women; Stampede Among 6,000 Spectators

5 OFFICIALS CHARGED IN HOLOCAUST   250 Persons Injured In Blaze; Probes  Being Pressed

Canvas Tent Covering  10,000 Dissolves Into Flames; Panic Ensues   Police Prosecutor Avers That Managment Of Company Is Guilty Of Manslaughter

25 MORE IN SERIOUS CONDITION AS EFFORTS MADE TO IDENTIFY _ SCORES OF FIRE VICTIMS   Investigation of Cause of Holocaust Under Way With High Circus Officials Under Heavy Bond. 6,000 Panic Stricken People Were in Tent

Majority Of Victims Are Boys, Girls   Parents Seeking Children Among Dead; Five Circus Officers Held On Charges Of Manslaughter After Hartford Blaze   BODIES OF 69 ARE STILL UNIDENTIFIiEL

Five Officials Face Charge of Manslaughter   Weary Relatives Seek to Identify Bodies of Loved  Ones in Bia Armani

Ringling Brothers Officials Char ved With Manslaughter For Tar ford Disaster

Victims Are Burmec Or Crushed To Death At Hartford, Conn.   Worst Disaster In Circus History Occurs When ’ Main Tent, Filled By 6,000 Spectators, Catches Fire

Ringling Big Top. Swept By Flames In Few Seconds —   Hundreds Injured In Trying To Escape From Burning Tent

FIVE SHOWME CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER      Grief - Stricken Relatives Visit Temporary Morgue After Tragedy

 Greatest Circus Fire In History  Death Toll Reaches 146 As Identity Of Bodies Continues

MANY CHILDREN AMONG THE DEAD   BLAZE IS DESCRIBED AS WORST DISASTER INCIRCUS HISTORY *

80 Children Perished In Blaze —      MANY BODIES STILL UNIDENTIFIES FOLLOWING HOLOCAUST AT. HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT .

5 Circus Officials Held Pending Investigation Ot Fire That Lett 146 Dead

139 LOSE LIVES IN CIRCUS FIRE; ) PERSONS HELD   At Least 250 Injured in Hart ford Blaze — Ringling Officials Accused

TOLL IN CIRCUS BLAZE MOUNTS TO 152 DEAD   Triple Investigation Opened: Five Officials Held For Manslaughter

EIGHTY CHILDEN AMONG VICTIMS OF TRAGIC FIRE   Five Officiats Held For Manslaughler Ton Haeliord

Death Toll In Circus Blaze  Mounts to 156   Twenty-Five of 250 Injured In Serious-Condition; ‘Big Top of Ringling Bros. Destroyed

10,000 ATTENDING — RINGLING SHOW AT TIME OF DISASTER   80 Children Lose Lives As “Big. Top”  _ Burns—Fourteen Of 208 Injured: In Hartford Hospitals an Mav Die Do,

Injured Total 250, with 25 of Them Seriously Hurt Blaze Spread With Incredible Speed   First Move Orderiy

159 Dead in Circus Blaze; 250 Injured   Five Officials of Ringling Brothers Held, Manslaughter Charge

Officials. Facing Charges _  Rlave Rreake On   Blaze Breaks Out As 10,000 Watch Aerial Act; Many Unidentified

Three National Disasters Take 170 Lives; Circus Fire Claims 145 Dead, 208 Injured: 17 Die As Troop Train Wrecks In Tennessee

159 Dead, 225 Injured Ir Hartford Circus Blaze   Two-Thirds Of Dead Are Children; Ringling Bros. And Barnum And Bailey Undecided __ As To Future After Worst Disaster.

NATION'S TRAGIC. CIRCUS DISASTER CLAIMS L45 LIVES   State Prosecutor Orders Five “Employees Held Pending Complete Investigation of Cause of Blaze...   ALLEGE GASOLINE AND PARAFFIN COATED TENT   Relatives Seek to Identify Charred Bodies — Mostly Those - ‘of - Epa  “ane Women. :

BIG TOP BURNED BY ROBRINE FIR   Hartford, Conn., Scene Of Greatest U. S. Circus Disaster   CHILDREN PERISH   Manslaughter ‘Charges Are Filed As rote: Is ‘Launched

Most of Victims In Worst Circus  Fire Are Youths   Relatives View Bodies of 146 Burned or Trampled at Hartford, Conn.   Circus Officials Face Manslaughter Charges

Show Officials Face Charges of Manslaughter   inflammable Tent, Blocked Exit, Negligence Reported

Parents Stream Through Morgue Attempting to  Identify Children   Conn. Officials Attempting to Fix Responsibility

New Medical Insurance Plan Likely In lowa   Program Designed To Take Care Of State’s  Il aw-Incame Groups.

Iowa State Medical Society Will Vote on- New Insurance Plan for Low Income Cronne

File No Charges Against The C10   Right To Broadcast To Service Men Denied Socialists

Big Bombers Hit Siam and Burma   Shift Attack Suddenly to South After Raid on Japan— Yanks on Levte Make Proere

Bombers in Heavy Blow At Thailand   Super Fortresses Probably - $truck at Bangkok —  Alarm at Tokyo

16 B-29 FLEET ROM INDIA IN HAILAND RAID   Allies Gain in Islands, China

veers eeeuesoim ene ccaiees, fam a, BU ao oon aera ae LINN CO. WOOL GROWER'S MAKE MARKETING PLANS

Three U. 5. Correspondents Captured By Nazis; One Is Freed by Allies

NEWSMEN HELD AS GERMAN PRISONERS   Three Seized on Sept. 12 But One Is Re~ -" - leased.

NEWSMEN HELD AS GERMAN PRISONERS   Three Seized on Sept. 12 But One Is Released

Yanks Advance Over Nine Miles Into Brittany   American Advance Reaches Town 13 Miles Southwest Of Avranches   NAZI POSITIONS  BEING CRUSHED  ,/RIVMICTIN \

RENNES IN PERIL AS NAZIS GRACK AT MANY POINTS   British Smash Nazi Lines and Overrun Panzer Divisions

MHA TEIN ALL GERMAN RESISTANCE   Plunge Thru Many Brittany Towns  ne)  NAZIS CRACKING  ny  British Advancing on Vire

TANK COLUMN CUTS THROUGH FNEMY LINES   Clash Blazing In Open Country May Decide Fate of German 15th and 17th Armies   PLANES LASH RESERVES

American Planes Make 100th Raid of Month On Marshall Island Bases

CHUM KILLER TO COLDWATER   Judge Hatfield Commits Niles Boy to State School

Reds Sharply Chide Turkey   Bulgaria Fixes Attention Of Moscow Diplomats

Neutrals No Haven For  War Guilty   Churchill Says British Insist

Third of City Is Occupied   Isolated Nests Of Resistance Reing Wiped Out

U.S. Troops Mop Up Enemy Pockets in City   Complete Liberation of Port Near as German Resistance Dwindles; Americans Capture 3400 More Prisoners; New Invasion Push Launched

Entire Eastern Part Of City Seiz ed By American Forces, Smas! Straight Through Its Heart T. Water Front   CITY IS NOT YET FULLY OCCUPIE]

Americans Weeding Out Remaining Nazi Nests; Resistance Diminishes

All Forward Elements Advance Deep Into Heart Of City   Fighting Is Now On Reduced Seale   20.000 German Prisoners Taken On Peninsula In  24-Hour Period

Get 20,000 Prisoners onPeninsula   Weed Out German Suicide Squads With Fierce Street Fighting

TROOPS FIGHT NW OTREETO OF DOOMED TOWN   Light Resistance Indicates Germans Abandoning Violent Defense.

Final Battle of Cherbourg Is in Mop-Up Stage   Yanks Penetrate Center of City to Waterfront

Wiping Oui Isolated Nazi Nests   CITY NOT YET FULLY OCCUPIED: * BUT TROOPS HAVE SMASHED TE : TO THE WATERFRONT A

SMASH THROUGH HEART OF CITY TO WATERFRONT; FEW NAZI NESTS ARE ISOLATED

PLAY BY PLAY  wr rpaornT TATATTATSL   TWICwWTy xurneyte   THIRD INNING   FIFTH INNING

HITLER BEATEN AS WAR OPENS ON FIFTH YEAR   Belief Grows in London End for Nazis May Come in Five Weeks. -

Tells Where Allies Stand on Eve of Fifth Anniversary: of Start of. War .

SEPTEMBER FIRST   Where The Allies Stand After Five Years Of Blood And Struggle   WAR IN EUROPE MAY END IN NEXT MONTH   If Allies Get Good Weather And Fair Share Of Battle Breaks

Tells Where Allies Stand on Eve of Fifth Anniversary of Start of War   Rv VIRGIL PINKLEY

Army in England Told fo Behave   Gen. Eisenhower Asks Soldiers to Maintain Good Name for U. S.

Eisenhower Urges Good Behavior   COMMANDER ASKS HELP TO PROTECT AMERICAN NAME

YANKS IN ENGLAND GET BEHAVIOR CODE      Commander Tells Them To Be Courteous To Civilians

Asks Soldiers — 'To Behave Well   Eisenhower Wants the “Good Name of American Army” Undamaged

Moves 3,200 Miles On His Way Back   MacArthur Advances And Australia Misses American Soldiers

3,200 Miles in 30 Months - That Is Progress of Gen. MacArthur's Return

WAR VETERANS TO “CET INFORMATION   Make Arrangements For Operation of Center at Em ployment Office.

STRONG DEMAND MADE ON SENATE FOR $115,900,000   Issue Rises When House Kills Off Agency By Refusal Of Funds   RUSSELL ISSUES PLEA   y Rehabilitation And Other Loans Halt If Lower Branch Is Sustained

NEW EFFORT TO SAVE THE FSA HAS BEEN STARTED IN SENATE   AGRICULTURE SECRETARY AND WAR. PRODUCTION  HEAD BACKING AP-_. PROPRIATION MOVE —

Security Needed   Thousand American Soldiers Are Lost In Sinking Of Troopship; Worst Disaster Of Its Kind Is Reported In European Waters   Hit At Nicht

Ship Is Sunk; 1000 Men Lost   American Troop Ship Goes Down as Result Of Enemy Action

Enemy Sinks Yank Troops Aboard Shin   Navy Announces 1,000 American Soldiers Lost

About 1,600 Soldiers Aré Rescuec © As Vessel Goes Down Rapidly At Nicht: in Heavy Sea

Army Discloses Troopship’s Sinking In European Zone;  1,000 Others Rescued

Transport Sunk; 1,000 Men Lost  Navy Announces Loss But Withholds Details

1,000 Allied Soldiers Drown When Troopship Is Sunk in European Waters; 1,000 Others Rescued

Enemy Strikes In Night; Red Trap Nets 63,000 Nazis   Korsum Area Cleared; Record Aerial Blow Hits German Lines in Italy

Ship Carrying 2,000 Troops Is Attacked At Night; _ ~~ Details Lacking

TROOPSHIP LOST WITH 1,000 MEN   Toll 1s Greatest Suffered By U. S. Convoy Forces

1,000 American Troops Lost When Enemy Sinks Transport At Night In European Waters

000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS LOST   iat Number Killed Or Drowned When Sub marine Sinks Ship

1,000 Lost in Sinking of Troopship   Army Announces Loss of American Troops Following Sub Action: 1,000 Saved

1060 Americans Lost When Transport Sinks   Army Announces Worst Disaster in U. §. History— Fremv Action Blamed

ARMY ANNOUNCES SEA DISASTER IN FUROPEAN WATERS   Vessel Sunk by Enemy Ai tion; About 1,000 Soldiers Rescued

U.S. LOSES 1,000 SERVICEMEN AS VESSEL SINKS   Save Only Half of Troops on Ship Sunk by Enemy Action

1,000 Yanks Drowned i in  ‘Ship Sinking   Transport Victim of Sub Night Attack, Says Brief Note

1000 Americans. Reported: Lost ~ In Ship Sinkin   Esieniy, Submarine Blamed. ‘For. Transport: Tragedy In North Atlantic: Area

1,000 Yanks Lost In Ship Sinking   Truk Assault Marks End Of  Jap Domination In Area

Transport Sinking Biggest Seu Loss  __ Toil of 1,000 Men. - Gredtest Suffered By an Allied Convay

TROOPS LOST ON TRANSPORT   Sinking of Heavily Loaded Troopship Recently Announced. 1,000 Others Saved

Allied Troopship Sunk In European Waters in  Probable U-Boat Attack   Half of 2,000 Men Rescued When Shin Goes Down on Dafe and af Place Not Revealed: Trave“v 's Worst of War for American Forces: Heroic Efforis Prevent Much Heavier Loss of Life   DATE. LOCATION SECRET

1000 SAVED IN SPITE OF DARKNESS   Locale and Nature of Atack, Prob ably by U-Boats, Unrevealed   TOLL GREATEST   Ship Sank Rapidly in Heavy Sea, Communique Says — Date of Sinking Not Disclosed

Same. Number Rescued— _ Greatest. ‘Toll Ever. Ex“acted. from American Convov Forces.

1,000 Soldiers Lost As U-Boat Sinks Troopship   Another Thousand Saved But Disaster Worst Recorded

America Loses  First Troopship   Army Announces Loss Of One Thousand Men In European Waters

VESSEL ON WHICH 1,000 LOST LIVES WAS SUNK BY FOE   Totl Was Greatest Suffered by’ Allied Convoy Forces—-Oc-, curred in European Waters!  But No Survivors in England 

L,UUU UtDers  Are Reseued  After Sinking {Transport Due to Enemy Aclion  In European Waters, War Department Says.   NO SURVIVORS TAKEN TO BRITAIN   Indicates Vessel When Sunk Was Bound For Mediterranean

SINKING DUE TO ENEMY ACTION   Army Announced.1;000 American Soldiers Lost, 1,000 Saved.   TOLL GREATEST SO FAR

RESCUE EFFORTS CAVE 1,000 MEN   Marks Greatest Loss Evel Exacted From U. S. Convoy   SUNK AT NIGHT   Date And Location, Other Than European Waters, Not Told By Officials

1,000 Die in Worst Troopship Disaster   American Soldiers Go Down During Heavy Storm in Frnronean Waterc

U-Boat Attack Said to Blame For Ship Los:   About 1,000 Are Rescued When Transport Sinks After Nicht Blaw

BREATEST SE LOSS OF WAR IS REPORTED   1,000 American Soldiers Lost; 1,000 Saved

LRA NSPORT—  TINGPORT SUNK (000 YANKS L051   Thousand Saved Wher  “Ship: Goes:‘Down Ir European Waters .

498 Lost As Mediterranean Transport Sunk   War Department Announces Third Large Loss of Military Personnel.

THOUSAND LOST ON TROOPSHIP   Boat Sent to Bottom By Nazi Sub; Rescue 1,000 Men

NAZIS SINK TROOP SHIP 1.000 SAVED   Transport Goes/Down Quickly in European Waters After Night Attack — Believed Sub Victim.

“LUUU LOOPS Lost on U.S. Transport Army Announces Another  1,000 Saved in European Waters  DATE IS WITHHELD   DATE IS WITHHELD!   Death Toll Is Heaviest Suffered by Allied Troopship

1,000 Americans Die As Troopship Sinks   Thousand Others Rescued In Greatest Disaster Yet To An Allied Troopship

4000 Others Are Rescued From Troop Ship   Submarine Believed to Have Attacked in European Waters

Allied Troop Ship Sunk By Enemy Action In European Waters, Navy Reports   HALF OF MEN SAVED BY HEROIC EFFORTS

1,000 U.S. ‘Troops Lost On Transport   Another 1,000 Rescued In: Blow Called Worst Of War: Only Bdré Detaile Givan

One Thousand U.S. Soldiers Lost In Ocear   Transport Sunk by Enemy; ~1,000 Are Rescued; Believed Bound For Mediterranean

War Department Reveals Loss In Attack At Nigh’   Rescue Efforts In European Waters ls Hampered By Heavy Seas

TROOP VE 5 SUNK WITH LOSS OF 1000   DISASTER IS WORST EVER EXPERIENCED BY U.S. CONVOY

Loss of 1,000 Aboard Ship Is Disclosed   Brief Announcement By Army Gives Few Details of Troopship Sinking  DATE IS UNDISCLOSED

1,000 Yanks Die In Sinking Of Troopship   Ship Struck At Night; Heaviest Such Loss to Date

1,000 LOST ON ARMY VESSEI   Troopship Sunk by Enemy) Action in European Waters; 2,000 Men Aboard.

F. R. to Lead Prayer for Invaders   PRESIDENT SUMMONS ARMY, NAVY CHIEFS FOR INVASION PARLEY   Doine All Rieht

Says New Tires For ‘A-Card Holders May Not ‘Be Available Until 1945

A-Card Autoists Face Tire Delay   Tires Cannot Be Released To This Group Until Early In 1945

“A” MOTORISTS MUST WAIT   New Tires Will Not Be Available To Them Until Next Year

Foe's Positions at Anzio Are Taken by Allies   Yanks Drive Forward to Take Points in Center

Siavs Praise Meoseow Trip  Of Priest   Bishop Lifts Suspension of Father Orlemanski

GOP LEADERS LAUD WARREN AS KEYNOTER   PREDICT CHANCES FOR SECOND PLACE GREATLY ENHANCED

SEE A DEWEY AND WARREN ‘COMBINATION   Talk of Such a Ticket Looms Large in Speculation of G. O. P. Leaders About Make-up of 1944 Presidential Race.

Dewey Endorsed By Convention Of Republicans   ‘Antt-Bossism’ Forces Are Confident Of Detroit Victory

IAX ASSISTANCE OFFERED PUBLIC   G. R. Arndt, .4 wuty Collector at LF io he Ht Postoff ter canto.

FEDERAL INCOME TAXPAYERS NOTICE   Deputy Collector Will Be in Linton to Assist Taxpayers.

SOME OF SNARLS IN °G. 1. BILL’ ARE NOW IRONED OUT   Political Flare-up Spices Capital Argument Over Coal and Meat

ICKES’ NAME NOW LINKED 10 MOOT HOPKINS LETTER   Secretary Promptly Denies Charges Made by Sen gtor Lanner

JOB-HOLDER IN WASHINGTON IS SUSPECTED ©   Bombshell in Jury Probe

Ickes Linked To Dispute On Hopkins’ Note   Prompt Denial Made As Probe At Washington Studies Forgery Charges

Ickes Aide Is Suspended in Letter Inquiry   Justice Dept. Official Brands Enistle Foraery

Attorney For Departmen Of Justice Expect: Forger Of Leiter To Be Named Scon

ENROLLED IN SWIM CLASSES   Conducted Daily at Walden Pond By’ Red  Crose

GOP Chieftains Map Plans for Election Drive   “Bill of Rights” Declared Preview Of 1944 Platform

"44 Platform Is Seenin FR Bill of Rights   Republicans Set About to Counteract Measures in Their Program

Label “Rights” Platform Hint  Republicans Set Out To Contradict “Bill” ln Detail

Republicans Find Preview Of Platform Of Democrats In Message Of Roosevelt

— * SREPUBLICANS— "> = GOP Plans Campaign.  To Counteract Message   Republican. Leaders ders Declare Roosevelt’s - ‘Bill Of . Rights’ Proclaimed Tuesday Is Preview Of 1944 _.. Democratic Platform

GOP Studies Roosevelt New Bill of Rights   Seen by Leaders as Preview of the [944 Democratic Platform

SAY NEW ‘BILL OF RIGHTS’ FDR’S 1944 PLATFORM   Republicans Make Charge; GOP to Study Domestic, Foreign Problems

GOP REGARDS NEW ‘BILL OF RIGHTS: AS FDR PLATFORM   COMMITTEE STARTS MAPPING PLANS FOR ELECTION CAMPAIGN

APPEAL CALLED PARTY PLATFORM   GOP Seeks To Counteract Roosevelt’s Bill Of Rights

BILL PREY  EW (F PLATFORM   GOP Label “Bill of Rights’ Forerunner of 1944 Demo Camnaion.   PLAN STUDY OF AFFAIRS

REPUBS PLAN TO (COUNTERACT FDR ‘BIEL OF RIGHTS   Labelled As Preview of 1944 Democratic Platform They Plan to Study Nation’s Problems

GOP Sets ‘Out To Counteract  FDR’s ‘Rights’   Claim Second: nd -Bill of Rights Preview Of Democratic . ection Platform

GOP WEIGHS  ROOSEVELT’S ‘BILL OF RIGHTS   Comitteemen Leaving Chicago Plan to Counteract What They Regard as FDR Plaiform

New Bill of Rights Preview Democratic  Platform Says GOP   Republicans Map Plans to Counteract = It During Campaign

Say Message  1944 Platiorm   Republicans Claim “Bill Of Rights’ Declared By F. D.  R. Political Program.

6. 0. P. SEES FDR’S “BILL OF RIGHTS” 'AS DEMO PLATFORM   Map Plans to Counteract It— Broad Study of Domestic and Forcign Problems Ordered by G.O.P. National Committeemen

GOP TO DEVELOP ANTIDOTE FOR FOR’S PROGRAM   Committee Starts Plans for Picking Candidate Who Will Oppose Him

GOP Prepare: F ight Against Proposals   Republicans Say President Has Siated Platform

GOP. Sees ‘Platform’ In FDR Billof Rights   Committee Members Depart After Selection of Chicavo for Convention

G. 0. P. SEES F.D.R. TALK AS PLATFORN   Consider His “Second Bill of Rights” a Preview of What Democratic Party Will Campaign On This Vaar

Believe Dewey Will Run If Drafted Republicans See 1944 Platform For Dems In IK. R.’s “Bill Of Rights”  tk & = 

President’s New “Bill Of Rights” Called 1944 Democrat Platform Review By GOP

GOP Girds For Fight      Claim FDR “Bill of Rights” a Preview Of ’44 Demo Platform

REPUBLICANS HIT ROOSEVELT BILL OF RIGHTS   Declare Speech Outlined  Democratic Platform  ~ For 1944: Campaign. Of Administration —   JUNE 26 DATE SET .FOR GOP SESSIONS   Convention Will Be Held  In Chicago; Seek to  _ Counteract Program: ~ “Of Democrats *

Raids Switch To  Invasion Coast   Liberators Strike — At French Targets

U. S. BOMBERS POUND COAS1   Follow Night Attack by British Planes

 ~ YU, §. Heavy Bombers  Hit Invasion Coast   Follow In Wake Of Small RAF Night Assault In France

BOMBERS SHAKE INVASION COAST   Reported Site Of Rocket Guns Hit By Liberators With Thunderbolt Fighter Cover

Little Resistance Being Faced In Italian Campaign   Patrols Push Around Pontassieve With Slight Opposition

Patrol Activity Is Aggressive on Italian Front   Push Northward From Center of Allied line

ON NEW AUTHORITY   Roosevelt Confers With TVA Chairman on Mis souri Valley Plan

CIVILIANS EVACUATED FROM AREA   Underground Revolt Brings Gestapo Reinforcements

CHINA SPLIT ‘BY JAPANESE 1S IMMINENT   Nips Seek Continuous Land Route to Singapore

Japs Drive for Quick Juncture   Enemy Pushes Toward Gap East of Kweilin

Japs In Guinea Resume Attacks   Allies Bomb Enemy Lines-East of Wewak

OSE Tee ees ae EE neem mmennee  O. P. A. RELEASE TOO DENSE FOR A HEAD

BELGIANS RISE AGAINST NAZIS   Secret Army Rolled Into Ac tion With Allies o Month Ago

BELGIAN SECRET ARMY DISCLOSED    FORCE STRUCK MONTH AHEAD OF ALLEED . ADVANCE . AGAINST GERMANS,

One Man’s Opinion   8 RAGIO COMMENT, :0;  W. EARL. HALL Managing Editor

One. Man’s Opinion   A Radio Commentary by W. EARL HALL  Manenina Sditar

One Man’s  Opinion   Aa Bacio VORB 6M  Ww. EARL HALL Meanaaina Editor

British Fliers Score Victory Against Robots   Droves Of Flying Bombs Shot Down By Planes And Anti-Aireraft

Robot Bombs Shot Down In Great Numbers   Increased Success Indicated in Effort Of British To Reduc.  Bomb Damace

Reds Inte Suburbs of Budapest   Battle For Important City Now in Final Stages.   COSSACKS HAVE A FIELD DAY   Chop Down  Straggling Boches As They Lead  Russian Advance.

Conferees Have Agreed to Freeze $1,500,000,000 Subsidy Program Until June 30, 1045 

CONFEREES AGREE TOKEEP SUBSIDIES   Administration Has Sought to Retard Costs of Meats, Butter, Milk, Flour.

3,000 US. ‘Warplanes  Hit Europe   Factories, Rail Yards in Enemy Terntory Bombed

Yanks Send 3,000 Pianes Over Europe   Vital Targets in Three Axis Nations Rocked By U.S. Bombers

Huge Air Blow Hits Europe   Americans Begin Second Week of Preinvasion Assault

3,000 American Warplanes Blast Europe Targets   Five-Pronged Assault Carries Preinvasion  Drive Into Eighth Day

Freidrichshafen, Munich. Bucharest And Ploesti Heavily Bombed   Attacks Launched From Britain. Italy   Kscorting Fighters Encoun ter Sharp Resistance Over Germany

Second Week Of Pre-Invasion Air Drive Opened With 2-Way Blows On Targets In Germany And Romania

PRONGED ATTACK HITS AXIS TARGETS   Rail Yards And Plane Plants Are Blasted

BUCHAREST. PLOESTI ARE HiT AGAIN   Plane Factories In Germany Are Targets of Yanks

3,000 AMERICAN BOMBERS OMAGH NAZI FACTORIES      Friedrichshafen, Munich Areas Hit In Pre-Invasion Air Assault

8 Countries Daal Tindar  BRUUh Waercete  Heavy Blows      Mighty Processions Blast rat Germany, Yugoslavia, ! Romania   9-PRONGED ATTACK

U.S. Air Force Assault Reaches Top Intensity Of Pre-Invasion Raids   British - Based Ships Blast Airbases At Munich While Bombers From Italy Strike Balkans

AMERICANS ARE HITTING THE. REICH -ONCEMORETODAY   About 1,000 Heavies are Pounding Targets As Air War Continues. 

BRITISH-BASED BOMBERS BLAST 2 GERMAN CITIES; BUCHAREST, BELGRADE HIT

70,324 Voters On Registered List in County   Madison Shows Increase of 5001 Over Total of Two Years Ago

Nearly 2,000,000 Illinois Citizens Eligible to Vote Outside Cook Co.

BRITAIN PAYING CASH FOR GOODS   Agreement Made On All NonMilitary Capital items

YANKEE FORGE TIGHTENS GRIP ON ROER RIVER   Reinforcements Fail to Halt Advance; U.S. Shells Hit Karlsruhe

PATCH'S. TROOPS SMASH ACROSS REICH BORDER AS FIRST AND NINTH ARMIES EXPAND THEIR FRONT, ON ROER RIVER—NAZIS RUSHING REINFORCE.  MENTS TO THE FRONT IN EFFORT TO STOP AMERICAN ADVANCES

EVACUATION STEPPED UP IN LONDON AREA   All Mothers With School-age Children Eligible

40,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Reich Wilhin Six ays  Cauca Crantact Aaricr   Cause Greatest Aeria! Destruction World Has Ever Known

40,000 TONS FIRE - STEEL ON GERMANY   For Six Days and Nights Cause “Greatest Aerial Destruction World Has Ever Known.”   Fire Three Ships

In First Weight Of Attack Soviet Army Advances Up To 331 Miles, Head For Tarnopol  Volichisk On Railroad   SEEK TO COMPEL GENERAL RETREAT

Yanks Seeking To Cut Escape Road on Leyte   Dismounted Cavalry Atfack af Carigara

“Talis {rdieates Toe Has Written Off: Ley tes But Fighting Is :Bitter®

FIRST CAVALRY STORMS TOWN   ‘Americans Handicapped By Heavy Mortar Fire From Enemy Troops

Yanks and Japs Reported Lockec In Leyte Battle   Enemy Seeks to Hold Open Escape Route For Fleeing Troops

MARTHUR'S MEN BATTLE JAPS FOR VITAL COAST TOWN   Seesaw Fight Rages for Control of Carigara Near Only Escape Road Open to  , Foe on Leyte.   ANOTHER U. S. COLUMN MOVING ON STRONGHOLD   Advancing Units Are Pinned Down for Hours by Bridge Demolitions and Artil lery Fire.

YANKS CLOSE IN ON LEYTE ESCAPE ROAL   ISLAND APPARENTLY WRITTEN OFF BY NIPPONESE

Seesaw Battle Is Raging for Carigara   Japanese Struggle to Protect Onlv Escape Route

See-Saw Battle Raging for Town of Carigara   SEIZURE OF ESCAPE HIGHWAY 1S SOUGHT   Fall of Town Would Pave Way for Drive on Pinamopan

Americans and Japs Fighting  For Carigara   Dismounted Troops of U. S. First Cavalry in See-Saw Battle

American Forces Converging to Pocket Enemy for Showdown on North Coast of Island; Pave Road for Drive on Pinamopan.

Yanks Battle Big Jap Force Holding Town   First Cavalry Troops are Locked in Struggle for Carigara; Foe Fights To Hold Open Escape Route

Draft-AAA Sign-Up Wrangle Goes On   OPA, USDA, Draft Officials Called Before Committee

PRESSURE TACTICS TO BE PROSECUTED   House Committee Demands OPA, Others to Tell Congress What They Know.

‘Virginia Areas Under Water As Rivers Overflow   Crest At Richmond Is Expected Tonight; Highway Travel Hit

Civilian Coal Supply Reduced  Householders to Get 90 Pct. of 1943-44

Government Limit Placed on Use of Bituminous Coal Residents of This Area  To Get Only 90 Pe. Cent of Last Year’s

Government Limit Placed on Use of Bituminous Coal  Residents of This Area   Residents of This Area To Get Only 90 Per Cent of Last Year’s

To Select Dewey On Ist. Vote   Many States Crawling On Bandwagon As New York Governor Strength Develops. ,

xy Piles Up 200 tra Votes; Warren cely Running Mate               rey Shows Wide Victory Margin ¢ New Yorker on Convention Eve; ans Set for Acceptance Thursday

Finn Envoy Ordered to Leave U.S.   - Relations Between Two Nations at Low Point; Police Guards Posted

U.S.-Finnish Relations Now  At Lowest Ebb   Minister Procope And Three Aids ‘Requested’ To Leave Country.

Congressman Says Red Attackson — Finns Unjustified  War of Extermination Is Charged by Minnesota Solon

Congressman Says Red Attacks on Finns Unjustified  War of Extermination Is Charged by  RAtemacntian Calan

No Quarter Asked, Given  Above Cassino  Poles and Germans . Fight It Gut

Poles, Germans Fight to Death Before 130-Day Bitter Siege of Cassino Ends

GERMANS WITHORAW IN NORTHERN (TALY   Pull Back Toward Gothic Line Fortifications in Central Area.

Reds Surround Minsk, Eastern Base Of Nazis   Allied Assaults Mount Along Normandy Front

U. 5. Warships Turn Back Japs   Force Five Enemy Destroyers Trying To Aid Biak to Flee

REINFORCEMENT OF BIAK HALTED   Navy Stops Second Enemy Attempt to Give Aid

Reinforcing  Is Thwarted   Japs Again Stopped In Biak’s Landings

YANKS MOP UP JAPS — IN CAVES-ON BIAK   Allied Navy Thwarts Second Nip _ ponese Attempt to Reinforce Garrison on Island.

New Japanese Reinforcement Move Stopped  5 Nip Destroyers Put T. Ci:nks Ry Allied   5 Nip Destroyers Put To Flight By Allied Naval Craft; Believe One Was Damaced

Resistance Is Melting ‘Before Push   British Forces Take Port Of Rion, 95 Miles From City.

Fortified Port of Rion Taken By Allied Units   German Resistance Appears Melting In Face of Swift Drive

British aim for Athens  on mainland  Fortified port of Rion seized

Port of Rion Falls in Swift Drive Down Peninsula Threatening Capital; Greek Guerillas Aid Invasion Army

‘Swift British Attack Perils Greek: Capital   Invaders Capture Patrai and Rion Fortified Ports

British Strike For Athens After Capturing 2 Ports   Nazi Resistance Melts Greek Guerrilla Forces Rise Up

British Forces Strike Down Toward Athens   Fortified Town of Rion Is Captured

Nazi Resistance Wilts in Greece   British Advance Towards Athens

British Troops Are Advancing Qn Athens   German Resistance In Peloponnesus Apparently Light

German Guns On Coast Silenced   Warships Expected To Drive Tnto Gulf of Corinth

British Driving.  On Athens   Invasion Troops ‘Capture Port of Rion, 60 Miles West of Corinth

ALLIED FORCES STRIKE TOWARD GREEK CAPITAL   Overrun Peloponnesus And Capture Fortified Port Of Rion

Yanks Go Ahead Despite Heaviest Shelling Of War   British Take Two Greek Ports, Strike For Athens

British Invasion Forees  In Greece Move On Athens   Ground Forces, Supported By Planes Based On Mainland, Capture Fortified Port Of Rion And Group Troops For All-Out Offensive To Take Capital

BRITISH MAKING SWIFT PROGRESS IN GREEK DRIVE, CAPTURE RION AND ‘HEAD WEST FOR NAZI-HELD ATHENS

INVASION OF GREECE:  British Drive on In Greece; Head For Athens Area

German Resistance Appears To Be Melting Swiftly In Face Of Quick Advance; Coasta] Batteries At Corinth Silenced   GREEK GUERILLAS RISING EVERYWHERE

RESISTANCE. OF NAZIS. MELTING BEFORE ATTACK   50,000 Guerrillas Are Reported Rising Before Retreatine Cermans

BRITISH TAKE  RION PORT IN GREECE   Troops Advancing Toward Athens, 95 Miles Away

Strike Down North Coast Of Peninsula For Athens   RUSSIANS SURGE TO DANUBE NORTH BADR   Germans Suffering Heavy Losses In Retreat To Belgrade

BRITISH BEGIN DRIVE TOWARD GREEK CAPITAL   Nazi Resistance Fades As Invaders Drive From Patrai

LEGION AUXILIARY PLANS ACTIVITIES   Reports Also Heard By Bair Post Unit—Plea Made For Old Christmas Cards

CHAPLIN GIVES UP TO INDICTMENT ON MANN ACT CHARGE   Comedian is Nervous, lmpressed as Fle Surrenders to Face Federal Charges

RAPS SPEECH BY HOFFMAN   Trying To Destroy Freedom of Speech, Says Gotham Editor

Hoffman Taraet Of Return Fire   Newspaper PM Bring: Charges Acainst Him

Solons Hear Plea For Munitions   Congressmen At Front  Talk With Eisenhower

Buzzing A Buzz Bomb Real Scare  Daring Yanks Nearly Plunge To Death When They Fly Through Exploding. Rocket

U. 5. Destroyer Sunk by Torpedo   Lansdale Is Lost In Mediterranean

U.S. Destroyer Sunk In Mediterranean   Lt. Robert Morgenthau, Son of Treasury Secretary, One of Last to Leave Ship; Casualties Moderate in Apr. 20 Sinking

AMERICAN VESSEL SUNK BY GERMANS   U. S. Destroyer Lansdale Sent Down in Mediterranean

Casualties In Sinking ‘Moderate’   * ¢  Sec. Morgenthau’s Son  Rescued; Among Last   To Leave Lansdale  IN WATER 3 HOURS

UJ. 8, DESTROYER SUNK BY GERMANS   SON OF TREASURY SECRETARY MORGENTHAU LEAPS FROM SHIP AND IS SAVED.

DESTROYER IS SUNK BY GERMAN PLANES   !  Lansdale Lost In Mediterranean   With Moderate Loss Of Life. Navy Announces

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Aesasiated Presse War Anszilwsi

GERMAN DRIVE MAY REBOUND   Allies Have Chance Tc Turn Setback Into Great Victory

TRYING TO FIND BRIGHT SIDE TO MURDEROUS COUNTER-DRIVE OF CERMANS ON WEST FRONT

THE WAR TODAY - - - - - - - By Dewitt Mackenzie    CONCENTRATED ARMY

FLYING FO HIT TARGETS IN FRANCE   RAF's Mosquito Bombers Raid Western Germany

Yanks in New Blast at France   NAZI INTERFERENCE NIL: R. A. F. BOMBS TARGETS IN GERMANY

Hint Advance Announcements of Bomb Targets   Spaatz Believes Plan Will Challenge Nazis To “Come Up and Fight”

MAY ANNOUNCE GOALS BEFORE STARTING RAIDS   Spaatz Prepared for Extreme Measures to Eliminate Nazi. Fighters

Bait Is Thrown To Nazis   Northern France Bomhed Without Mant Upposition

NEW CHALLENGE T0 NAZI AIR POWER   Reluctance of Nazi Pilots to Come Up and Fight May Lead Allies to Announce Raids in Advance.

MAY TELL NAZIS OF AIR ATTACKS   Plan Considered To Draw Fighters Into Battle

AAF Plans  Lo Challenge N azi Fiehters   Vargets May Be Announeed la Advance To Entice Gecmaos Lito Air

Sixth War Loan Drive Workers Will Get Supplies  Helena Navy Station  Provides Officer LE weld Daskaltntace

Sixth War Loan  Drive Workers ;  Will Get Supplies Helena Navy Station  Provides Officer  Tom Li ewesllae Deicke ltatace

Army and Navy Bombers Attack Rabaul, Kavieng   Enemy Airdromes Reported Ablaze

JAP AIRDROMES ON NEW GUINEA ARE HAMMERED   Mitchell Bombers With 75Millimeter Guns Ripped Into Jefman Field   HEAVY FLAK IS MET IN RAID ON RABAUL

JAP AIRDROMES ARE BLASTED BY FLIERS   Americans Seek to Prevent Enemy From Bol-. stering Air Arm :

Allied planes pound foe on  New Guinea Drop 300 tons on Jap bases

JAP AIRDROMES PLASTERED BY 300-TON RAID   Army, Navy Fliers Act To Forestall Aid To Nipponese Stations

*OLD POLISH CITY OF WILNO - MENACED AS RED ARMIES GO FORWARD ON WIDENING FRONT   Two Powerful Russian Armies May Reach Latvian And Lithuanian Borders Within Three or Four Davs. Germans Appear Unable to Halt Drive

Baranowicze Is Abandoned to Victorious Reds   Germans Admit Withdrawal; Fight In Wilno Outskirts

Germans Quit Baranowicze   High Command Reports Abandonment; Soviets on  Outskirts of Wilno

NAZIS WITHDRAW “ATBARANOWICZE, HOLD NEAR WILNC   ‘Abandon Rail Hub. In Poland While Violent Fighting Rages on Outskirts of Li: thuanian City.   JAPS GIVE UP LAST NOEMFOOR AIRFIELD   Saipan Citizens Surrendering But Jap Soldiers Fight on—Chinese Closing In at Tengchung Wall.

Nazis Flee Kowel In Path Of  Russians   Soviets Reported Within 25 Miles Of Wilno

GERMANS FLEE BARANOWICZE IN OLD POLAND   Berlin Reports Red Troops Now Fighting on Oulskirts of Wilno.

City In Old PolandFalls To Fighting Russians   Soviet Troops Mid. way Between Moscow, Berlin

Soviets Open New Drive, Nazis Report   Germans Abandon City Midway Between Moscow and Berlin

Nazis Flee Kowel: Russ Near Wilno   Red Armies Only 122 Mi. From E. Prussia; Land Behind Finns

Nazis Abandon A Key Point on Road to Warsaw   Baranowicze Falls to Reds Who Open Drive in the  Carpathians.   Russian Troops Only 530 Miles of Berlin

WITHDRAW 10 SHORTEN LINES, NAZIS EXPLAIN   Russians Press Drive fo Cut Off States On Baltic Sea

NAZIS YIELD STRONGHOLD IN POLAND   FallOf Town” Breaches Germans’ Secondary Defense

‘Fall Opens Way To Drive On Warsaw, Bialystok   Nazis Announce That Red Army Is Punching At Outer Defenses Of Wilno

Germans Fall Back Through Old Poland   Baranowieze Given Up—Reds Drive -Toward East Prussia

STRONGHOLD OF NAZIS 1S TAKEN   Baranowicze, Nearly Mid. way Between Berlin and Moscow, Falls.   ON. WILNG OUTSKIRTS

'Nazis Report Forces Have  ‘Quit Kowel   Russians Capture Polotsk And Drive for Wilno; Land on Finn Islands

New Russ Push Hits Nazi Wing   Berlin Admits Carpathian Offensive Near Czechoslovak Border is Effort To Break Southern End of German Line

Nazis Evacuate City Of Kowel In Old Poland   Farther North, Russians Race On To Within 25 Miles Of Wilno.

Nazis Quit Another  Bastion   ‘Abandon Rail Key in Old Poland 220 Miles From Warsaw; Reds To Outskirts of ‘Vilna

Soviet Force Now In Wilno  Fight In Outskirts; Baranowicze Falls

NAZI STRONGHOLD OF BARANOWICZE FALLS TO SOVIETS   GERMANS REPORT FIGHTING IN THE SUBURBS OF WILNO

Germans Yield ’ Baranowicze To Russian Forces   Reds ‘Farther- North Re ported Fighting On Out: skirts Of Wilno.

See Soviet Armies Set To Smash Through Baltic States Into East Prussia

NAZIS ABANDON BARANOWICZE IN OLD POLAND   Russians Gain 217 Miles In Latest Push

Russians Fight To Outskirts Of Wilno   Baranowicze Given Up By Nazis To Red Forces

POWERFUL RED TROOPS POUND WILNO DEFENSE   Germans Withdraw From Baranowicze on  Main Railway Route

SOVIETS TAKE BARANOWICZE IN OLD POLAND   Russians Now 530 Miles From Berlin and 490 Miles from Once Besieged Moscow

RUSSIANS NEAR PRE-WAR LINE ON FINN FRONT   Germans Evacuate Kowel, 490 Miles Southeast of Berlin

Old Polish City Falls to Reds   Russians Battle On Wilno Outskirts

Hammer 217 Miles In 17 Days As Germans Report Abandoning Baranowicze.

Russians Open New  Offensive   Aimed at Breaching Nazis’ Southern Wing Before Carpathians

Soviets Open Way for Drive Into Warsaw   Germans Abandon Baranowicze, 530 Miles From Berlin

Germans Qui Baranowicze In Poland   Say Soviets Are Fighting Od Outskirts Of Wilno

Enemy Defense Broken   Germans Admit Baranowicze Abandoned; Clears Way For Drive To Warsaw: Reds Near Halfway Mark To Berlin.

Germans Give Up Town in Old Poland   Abandon Baranowicze Nearly Half Way Between Moscow and Berlin: Reds at Outskirts of Wilno

‘Harry S. Truman, Missouri Senator, Believed To Be Alternate Candidate

.ruman Is New Threat To Wallace  Vice President Arrives to   Vice President Arrives to Claim Renomination in Person   SURE OF 325 VOTES      Roosevelt, Will Address Convention by Radio  Tomorrow -

Mobilizer Byrnes Drops Out Of Race   Senator Truman Of Missouri Seems To Be Choice Compromise Candidate.

_ de _, —_ sa ig a ea — bi be ict  ¢Byrnes Drops From Contest For Candidacy

BOWS TO FDR’S CHOICE OF WALLACI   Vice-Presidential Possibility Asks Name Not to Be  Placed Before Convention.   SEN. TRUMAN FROM MISSOURI IS NAMED AS . POSSIBLE ALTERNATE   Today’s Convention Session, Opening at 11:30, Strictly Routine; Opposition to FDR Provides Sideshow.

Byrnes Abandons Dem Candidacy; Truman Alternate:   Circumstances Hint Withdrawal Was By Request

ESTUARY CITY HELD BY NAZIS OVER 2 YEARS   Titanic Battle On in Ukraine

Dnieper Fort Is Seized   Biq Rail City Captured After Ritter Fighting

Soviets Capture Kherson   KONEV’S ARMY ADVANCES 20 MILES, CAPTURING 60 TOWNS, VILLAGES

NAZIS PRESS ITALIAN PUSH   FIFTH ARMY MAKES NEW WITHDRAWAL IN FACE OF CONTINUED ASSAULTS

AERIAL FLEET AGAIN LASHES AT FRANKFURT   Rocks Under Terrific Bombing   RECORD ARMADA

FRANKFORT IS AGAIN ATTACK: ‘BY AIR FLEE’   VITAL GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CENTER WAS AMONG TAR ‘GETS, OF ALLIED WAR. .  PLANES TODAY iN

BOMBERS AGAIN HIT FRANKFORT   Nearly Obliterated, Vital City Blasted Four Times in Fourteen Days

RAF Bombers Hi: Kiel Naval Base  2,800 Tens Dropped Sunday Night

NAVAL BASE AT KIEL GETS BOMB BLAST   2,800 Tons of Explosives Dropped by RAF Last Night. Americans Over Furone ‘

Allied Airmen In Busy Day   Hit Many Points After British Blast Kiel, Berlin

Allies Blast  Nazi Targets   German Bases Objectives In  France, Italy, Jugoslavia  Blasted.

Big Bombers In Attacks in Three Areas  Kiel, Bucharest And Berlin Among  Citv Tarvet<

2,800-T0N BOMB LOAD HITS KIEL   R. A..F. Rains Destruction of Great Naval Base at Rate of 150 Tons a Minute—Other . Targets Blasted.

BUCHAREST AND KIEL BOMBED   Targets of Allied Bombers Are in France, Italy, Yugoslavia.

500 U.S. PLANES POUND GERMANS   Naval Base at Kiel Hit Hard by British Fliers

Heavy Aitacks From Air On 4 Axis Points   Great Fleet Bombs Kiel; France, Yugoslavia and Italy Also Bombed

RAF Batters Foe At Kiel   500 Yankee Heavies  Out On Raids Today

Allied Planes Out in Force Over Continent   British Raid Kiel And Destroy Naval Arsenal; Normandy Weather Is Worse

KIEL BLASTED BY RAF PLANES   U. S. Bombers Rip German Airdromes, Visit Rumanian Capital

BOMBERS HIT REICH, FRENCH, SLAV TARGETS   RAF Concentrates on Kiel, Nazi Naval Base, with 2,800 Tons of  Explosive Damage

Nazi Ports. Air Fields Are Blasted   Americans Bomb Objec-: tives In France, Ltaly And Yugoslavia

RAF’S BOMBERS SMASH AT KIEL   Heavy Attacks Carried Out Betore Dawn—500 U. S. Heavies Rip Targets

BRITISH BOMBERS STRIKE GREATEST AIR BLOW AT KIEL   500 U. S. HEAVIES ATTACK AIRDROMES IN SOUTHERN FRANCE

GERMAN AIRDROMES, HARBORS AND OTHER OBJECTIVES BOMBED   GREAT FLEFT OF RRITICI   GREAT FLEET OF BRITISH BOMBERS BLASTED NAVAL BASE OF KIEL ALSO

500 Bombers Hit Many Nazi Targets   Big RAF Force Batters KielMosquitos Smash At Berlin

Army Drivers Played Heroic Role In Alaska   Did their fighting be‘hind wheel of huge ‘trucks while -establishing Yanks,

ARMY DRIVERS IMPORTANT IN ALASKA   Many of Them Have Played An Heroic Role

aimieienin i Tule ote  Allies Have Proof Retch Plans Comeoebacl:

GERMANY’S APPEAL TO ALLIED NATIONS SOFTEN DEMANDS FOR UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IS GREAT DISPLAY OF BRASS   Coming As It Does On To pof Nazi Threat to “Turn Europe Into A Maelstrom of Destruction” In Attempt to Make Allies Come to Terms

The War Today   Goebbels’ Appeal Gives Proof Of Nazis’ Desperate Straits

WAR TODAY   Goebbels’ Plea for Modified Peace Terms Seen as Preparing German People for Certain Surrender

The War Today  ome  Prussianism and Nazism Must Be Wiped Out Before Peace.

HEAVY AIR ATTACK MADE ON GERMNY   R. A. F. Night Armada One of Largest Ever Seen Headed Toward Continent.

More than 276 Persons Die in United States Over Holiday Weekend as Result of Accidents—Traffic Accidents Take Biggest Toll.

LIST 276 DEAD OVER WEEKEND   Transport Cras wiajor Holiday Tragedy

HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS KILL 276   Toll Is Highest In State  Of California

War Show Will Be Given Here On Wednesday   ve — At Stadium Will Give City Taste Of What War Is Like

Camp Sibert Soldiers To Present Realistic Battle Monday Night   Army's Modern Weapons For All-Out Warfare To Be Shown At Athens High School Stadium

OPPORTUNITY 10 SEE AND HEAR WEAPONS Ur WAR IN USE   REALISTIC SCENES WILL PORTRAY ARMY IN ACTION

Advances Scored By Us. Army   “Old Hickory” Division Goes Into Action On Normandy Front Fighting.

REVOLT TAKES OVER COLOMBIA   Military Group Makes President Prisoner, Runs Government

COLOMBIA LEADER IS REPORTED SEIZE   President Lopez and Several Cabi net Members Said to Be Prisoners of Military Group.

Immediate Danger To Bengal Assan Remov ed   Reinforcements Also Behind Long Jap Fron In Central And Northern Burwa

Allies Now Have Secured Burma Lines   Reinforcements Flown In To Avert Danger to ~ Indian Bases

SUBSTANTIAL ALLIED FORCES BEEN FLOWN BEHIND JAP LINES  BELIEVED IMMEDIATE  DANGER TO BENGAL-ASSAM RAILWAY REMOVED

SUBSTANTIAL ALLIED FORCES BEEN FLOWN BEHIND JAP LINES  BELIEVED IMMEDIATE DANGER TO BENGAL-AS-

Airborne Troops Reinforce Chindits On Burma Fronts   Kohima Garrison Relieved, Allied Troops Remove Danger fo Bengal-Assam Railway

Burma Chindits Now Reinforced  Immediate Danger To Bengal Assam  Ba cry Be neneend

Major Plane Center of Japs Under Attack   Twenty-fourth Raid on Tokyo; Other Cities Blasted

Big Fires Started in Japan   Japs Admit Mounting Air Blastings Force Industry Evacuation

Blow for Peace, Freedom Near, Churchill Declares   British Premier Tells Americans They Can Face: Struggle with Gonfidence

Ratify Funds For Treasury   Approve Appropriations For Departments; Post Office “Out Of Red’

Bill Carrying Funds For Treasury, Postal Departments Sent To Floor

Postoffice _ ‘And Treasury Bill Offered   Postoffice Has Reported ‘Operating ‘Out of Red’ After 24 Years

POSTOFFICE OUT OF THE RED AFTER 24 YEARS   Operating Revenues Ex: ceed Expenditures By $1,332,849

NAZI AIR BASES HEAVILY BOMBEL   ALLIES STRIKE IN GERMANY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM—BAG 27 PLANES, LOSE 21.

3,000 planes blast enemy on all sides  Hit south France. Belgium, Holland

PLANES POUND FOE AIR BASES   Raid Germany, Holland and Belgium, Support New Allied Invasion

3,000 PLANES CAST 6,000 TONS BOMBS   Over Belgium, Holland and Germany While Italian-Based Planes Blast Invasion Path.   “Coffin Corridor”

3,000 Heavies’ Hit Airdromes   Anglo-American ‘Sky Fleet “Ranges Far in Eurove

3,000 PLANES BLAST PORTS   Strike Belgium, Holland And Germany During Heavy Raids

Bridges Demands Facts of Rumor  Has Navy Transferred Cruiser to Russia?

Senator Hears U. S. Cruiser  Given Russia   Bridges Tells Colleagues People Entitled to Truth

Cruiser Transfer Report Probed:  Sen. Bridges Hears ‘OF Shift To Russia 

SENATOR QUESTIONS U.S, SHIP IN RUSSIA   Says Cruiser’s Presence Patchwork Appeasement

HEARS CRUISER GIVEN TO REDS   BRIDGES DEMANDS T0 KNOW THE TRUTH OF ALLEGED TRANSFER

WANTS TRUTH AROUT REPORTS   Senator Informed Cruiser Had Been Transferred To Russia.

Senator Asks Why Russia  Gets Cruiser   Charges Some Government Actions  Are Disturbing

Cruiser Given Russia, Charged   Sen. Bridges Protests Secret Move’; Other Transfers Rumored

Sen. Bridges Ask: If Russia Has Been Given Cruiser  Naval Transfer Said Part of Policy Of Appeasing Reds

Cruiser Given To Russia? » Bridges Asks   Senator Demands To Know Truth Of Reports About Capital

Cruiser Gift Story Probed by Bridges   SENATOR HEARS REDS GETS U. S. WARSHIP IN NEW “EXCHANGE”

SAYS WARSHIP GIVEN RUSSIA   Senator Bridges Demand: Truth Be Told About Report

Asserts Russia Got U. 5. Cruiser   Senator Seeks Truth O}   Reported Transfer

2500 PLANES RAID GERMANY IN 15 HOURS   Opposition Scarce} Only Four RAF Bombers Lost

Total Of 53.2 Percent Of Vote Cast For Roosevelt, With 413  Electoral Votes For The President   PREDICTIONS UPSET IN ROOSEVELT WINK

Heavy Majority Assured   Nye and Fish Are Eliminated By Democratic Foes   Paper Drive to Be Held Here On November 18   Pre-klection Polls Prove Flop Nov. 7

Just Teeny Weeny Bit Off--Polls Call Accurate Forecast   Fortune's Count Comes Nearest To Final Vote

Canada Rejects Eire’s Plea in. Regard to U.S   Declines to Influence State. Department to —--Withdruw Notes

BRITISH FORCES ENTER PATRAS, USE AIRFIELDS   Operation May Swiftly End Rule of Germans ; Throughout Balkans

Nazi Balkan Rule Near End   British Parachute Troops Strike First Blow by Seizing Airfield Supported by U.S. Planes; Germans Facing Giant Trap

PATRAS PORT AND AIRFIELDS ARE CAPTURED   Landing Forces Reported To Have Made Contact With Enemy In Southern Albania   GREAT TRAP IS CLOSING

Sea, Airborne 1 ee ’   roops inter Port of Patrai   Seize Airfields From Which RAF Spitfires Already Are Operating

AIRFIELDS TAKEN BY INVADERS 10 RUB OUT ENEMY   Port Occupied by Britain’: Forces in Landings to Trap Germans

Jaws of Huge Trap Close On Balkans With Reds On East   Greeks Cheer Sea and Airborne Troops of Liberation and Help Assemble Materiel Depots—Russians Drive Through Yugoslavia To Cut Off Escape of Germans

LAND FROM AIR  AND SEA; ENTER  PORT OF PATRAS ENEMY CONTACTED  BOTH IN GREECE, SOUTH ALRANIA

Enter Patras, Seize Airport   Greeks Wildly Welcome Invaders; Patriot Groups Cooperating Close With Allied Forces In Greece And Albania.   ‘Greek Isles Are Being Liberated

RAF FIGHTERS OPERATING ON GREEK AIRFIELDS   Hint New Invasion May Ent ., Nazi Rule in Balkans Soon

CONTACT MA WITH ENEMY FORCES   Planes Already Operating From Captured Bases   PATRIOTS   Cooperating With Allies; Progress Also Reported In Albania Drive

J oytful Welcome By Greeks   First Return’ of -British Forces Since 1941 _ May Bring Quick End To Nazi Balkan Rule

British Enter  Nation's Third Largest Port   _ Airfields Seized From Which RAF Already is Operating on New Front

PORT, LANDING FIELDS TAKEN IN NEW DRIVE   Patrai Falls; ~ German Hold On Balkans Being Loosened

Sea and Air Invasion of West Coast   Enter Patari, Third Largest Port in Nation; Details Lacking

SEIZE PATRA! AIR BASES IN SWIFT ATTACK   Invasion Presages End Of German Rule Throughout Balkans

Drive Aimed To End German Power Rule Throughout Balkans  aL Se Se ae eT. ee oe ee ae 

British Soldiers — Enter Greek Port, Seize Air Fields   British Invade Greece by Sea and Air And Make Contact With Enemy in Greece _ And Neighboring Southern Albania

BRITISH LAND INW. GREECE   Enter Port of Patrai, Seize Airfields From Which Raids Have Begun.  GERMAN RULE MAY END

Operation May End Rule Of Germans In Balkans; Contact Made With Enemy   City Of Patras On Corinth Gulf Entered; Airfields Are Seized And Put In Use Immediately

British Seize Airfields,  Enter Port Of Patrai er Landings In Greece

TROOPS GO INTO PORT OF PATRAI AND WIN FIELDS   invaders Strike From Sea Air In Return To Region They Fled In 1941

Enter Patrai, Get Airfields   Put New Jaw on Pincers Threatening Whole Balkans As Reds Move West

Allied Forces Enter Port Of Patrai   Attacks Made From Sea And Air Before Invasion Strike

Strike From Sea, Air on West Coast   Enter Port of Patras—Seize Airfields —Used By Planes

BRITISH TROOPS  HAVE LANDED IN  WESTERN GREECE PORT OF PATRAI  AND AIRFIELDS WERE AUICWIY cfi7en

BRITISH ARMY IN GREECE IN NEW INVASION   Airfields Seized In Effort To  Erase Nazis

British Land In Greece, Take Patrat   Spitfires Operating From Airfield on Mainland, Port Falls

Blow Near Patrai Endangers Germans   Spitfires Already Operating From Seized Airfields; Germans Contacted In Greece and Souther Alhania

THE INVADERS STRIKE FROM SEA AND AIR   Forces Enter the Port of Patrai and Seize Airfields From Which the R. A. F. Already Is Sup mauting Attacka.

BRITISH TROOPS HAVE LANDED IN WESTERN GREECE   PORT OF PATRAI AND AIRFIELDS WERE OUICKLY SEIZED

ALLIES ADVANCE IN SOUTH END OF FRONT   Allies Seek to Break German Control of Balkan Countries

Greece Is Invaded From Sea and Air   British Parachute Troops Strike First Blow on  Pelopennesus   TAKE PORT OF PATRAI   Patriots in Greece and Al. bania Cooperate With  Invasion Forces

TROOPS SEIZE PORT OF PATRAL AND AIRFIELDS   German Demolitions Reported at Gulf ° Of Corinth

U. S. Makes New Oil Agreement With Canada   To Pay 20 Cents Barrel Plus Production Costs; Has Post-War Option 

U. S-CANADIAN OIL PACT MADE   Imperial Concern Will Get 20 Cents a Barrel Plus Production Costs

Bombing of Kuriles Designed To Soften Up Island For  merican Invasion Says Knox

MESA STRIKERS RETURN TO JOBS   Act Following Army Seizure and Parley With Plant Officials

Berlin is Halt Tn Ruin   COLOGNE, KASSEL AND HALLE COMPLETELY DESTROYED

BOARDS 10 SUM FARM DEFERMENT   Approximately 9,000 Workers In West Virginia Involved: Draft inductions Will Be Stepped Up

Red Army Sweeps Within 12 Miles Of Polish Border   Red Army, In General Advance Along 200-Mile Front, Kills More Than 4,000 Germans, Frees 150 Towns.

Soviets Within 12 Miles Of  Polish Border   Pursue Fleeing German Forces In New Advance

Routed Nazis Retreating In Disorder   Red Wave Rolls On Toward Border; Kills 4000 Germans

Rouen Evacuated.   Norris Regains Consciousness   CONDITION STILL SERIOUS BUT RECOVERY POSSIBLE

NORRIS SUFFERS BRAIN STROKE   83- Year-Old Former Senator May Reeoyer, Say Doctors

Ripa Wise iat NCSA Dea Rca ci) ca a  Norris’ condition is about the same

Radios, Cars . To Be Higher   Ast: Durable Goods “Costs Are Guessed

Prices of new cars, refrigerators expected to rise 20 to 35 percent

Civilian Goods Prices to Be Up   Trend for New Cars, Refrigerators Noted

INFLATION THREAT GROWING SERIOUS AMONG FARMERS   5 Indications Of Ht Cited By Agricultural Economics Bureau; Remedies: Listed

WARN FARMERS AGAINST BUYING MORE LAND NOW   Federal Bureau Reports Danger From Pressure Of Too Much Surplus Cash And Urges Puschase Of War Bonds.

Heavy Loss Is Tommyrot   Gen. Bradley Says He Has No Fear of Invasion Outcome

INVASION LOSSES WILL NOT BE HIGH   Officer Says “Stuff About Tremendous Losses Is Alt Tommyrot.””

U. S. Planes Raid Zagreb In Support  Of Russians   Ground ‘Action Has Again Stalemated

BRADLEY THINKS INVASION LOSS WILL BE LIGHT   Talk About Tremendous Losses In Invasion Of Europe “All Tommyrot,” Says U.S. Ground Forces Commander; Gives Reasons.

Bradley Says Invasion May  Not Be Costly   Heavy Losses Talk Tommyrot

Tommyrot, Is Bradley Idea Of Loss Talk   Tells American Officers Our Power Too Great; Says Nazis to ‘Play Dirty’

Bradley Asserts Talk of Heavy Losses In Invasion of Europe are ‘Tommyrot'

Talk Of Tremendous Invasion Loss ‘Tommyrot, Bradley Says   U.S. Ground Forces Leader Tells Officers To Lead Men In Attack; Overpowering Equipment

SMALL INVASION LOSS PREDICTED   Bradiey Says Allied Power To Surprise Enemy

Invasion Losses to  Be Light   General Bradley Is Optimistic  In Telling Men Of Invasion Plans

Bie eS Talk Is CTS ont   Tells: Officers Invasion Will Be Show, Worth Gambling Life to See

Talk of Tremendous Losses “Is Tommyrot”, Bradley Tells Officers on Invasion Froni

 THE INVASION This Stuff About Tremendous Losses ‘Tommyrot,” Says Lieut. Gen. Bradley   "Some of You Won't Come Back _.. But + Will Be Very Few”

Bradley Sees Less Risk in Invasion   Says Talk of Huge Losses Is ‘Tommyrot

, Heavy Losses “Tommyrot”’  Gen. Bradley Tells Forces, Poised For Channel Invasion

BRADLEY SEES LIGHT LOSSES IN BIG PUSH   U. S. General Says Talk of Tremendous Casualties Is “Tommyret” -—Hints at Great Naval and Air Power.

Talk of Gigantic Invasion Losses Is “Tommyrot”’   Only “Very Few” Will Fail to Come Back, General Brodley Says; No Fear of Outcome

Invasion Chief Scores Heavy  Losses Talk   Lt. Gen. Bradley Says Naval Air Power Said  Tt Rae Tramendausk:

Predicts Small Invasion Losses   General Bradley Says Stuff About Big Casualties Is *“Tommvyrot.”

Bradley Denics Terrifie-Losses Faced By Allies   Says Pre-Invasion Talk Of Tremendous Costs Ahead Is “Tommyrot”

Talk Of Big Invasion Losses Tommyrot, Says Gen. Bradley   Tells His Officers 1t Will Be Great . Show, Gives Them Vital Instructions

BRADLEY BLASTS STORIES OF HUGE INVASION LOSSES   TELLS AMERICAN OFFICERS TALES ARE ‘TOMMYROT’

Gen. Bradley Dubs Operation ‘Biggest Show? Heavy Invasion Losses 'Tommvrot

GENERAL BRADLEY SAYS HEAVY LOSSES TALK 15 TOMMYROT  COMMANDER AMERICAN GROUND FORCES SAYS HA: NO FEAR OF INVASION

SCARCITY OF LIQUOR BLAMED ON HOARDING BY LARGE DISTILLERS   Senate Committee Suggests Monopoly be Investigated

WILLKIE STATES HE HAS MISSION   Asserts Group Which Stays In Power Too Long Corrupts Self

French Girls Hard To Figure Out  Yanks from Wyoming and Kentucky Abou About 1 To Giv Give Ma Mademoiselles Brush Off - - - Then

Nazi Weaknesses Speed Invasion   Unexpected Weak Links Popping Up In German Defenses.

Two Women Found Beaten To Death      Onc Body Discovered Neat Bear Cage. in Boston Park; Other in Hole

COLD WAVE DUE TO STRIKE AREA DURING NIGHT      “Wintry Wave Now Centered It Northern-Midwest States

TnhnlY PEROOND ACCUSED GY Uo 10 GO ON TRIAL   Accused of Seditious Conspiracy—Lawyers Preparing for Ordeal

SEDITION JURY TASK STARTED   Defense Lawyers Demand Complete News Coverage

THIRTY PERSONS ACCUSED BY Ut TO GO ON TRIAL   Accused of Seditious Conspiracy—Lawyers Preparing for -Ordeal

State Demos Meet to Reelect David Lawrence   Also to Decide Whether To Abandon Ruling  Requiring Pre-Primary Approval of Candidates

Troop Train Cracks Up, — 100 Injured   Two Coaches Topple Into River, Two Burn At Brink of Gorge  SEVERAL KILLED ©

‘Several’ Killed, 200 Hurt; Four Coaches Smashed  Coutesiaun oft Soom   Confusion at Scene Makes Early Estimate Of Toll Impossible

Train Wreck Kills Three Injures 200   Engine and Two Cars Of Troop Train Crash In Deep River Gorge

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SECRET BALLOT GIVES VOTER CHANCE TO NAME ANY CANDIDATE OF CHOICE

Ward Seizure Illegal, Senate Group Asserts   Subcommittee Report Assailed By Biddle

REPORT CLAIMS BIDDLE ‘ERRED’ IN WARD CASE   Attorney General Hurls ‘Star Chamber’ Charge At Senate Group

BIDDLE MAY GET SENATE HEARING   RAPS SENATE COMMITTEE ON WARD CASE DECISION

Biddle May Get “Day In Court”   Answers Charges of Senate Subcommittee

Emie Pyle Wins Pulitzer Prize   Army, Navy Criticized For Handling of News

 Ernie Pyle Selected ‘by Board as Pulitzer Prize Winne1   Certain Acts of Army and Navy Censorshi Are Deplored by Group Making Awards; Byron Price Commended for Code Policies

Russians Poised For Mighty New Attack-~ —By Kirke L. simpson (if  'Frozen Dnieper Opens Way For Red Assault

Romania Declares  Nazi Wart   Bulgaria Breaks Diplomatic Relations, Hungary, Slovakia  Ready To Explode.

Marines Land On Manigassa Tn Marianas   MacArthur Reports Savage Fighting In New Guinea

Maniagassa Island Seized By Marines   One of Dead Nip Navy Commanders Directed Attacks on Midway And on Pearl Harbor

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Break With Scandinavian Country Formally Made In Note To Last Remaining Helsinki Representative At Washington — Secretary Hull Declares Finland Has Been Reduced To “Condition Of Puppet Of Nazi  Germany” By Recent Developments

Alexander Thesleff, Charge D’ . Is Given Passport and Order Return to His Country 

ITS RELATIONS   Envoy of Nazi Controlled Country Is Given His Passport.   Finland Is Deprived Of Liberty by Nazis

Alliance With Reich Perils Allied Cause, Says Note; Envoy, Staff Given Passports

Break Comes After Long Negotiations   Smaller Nation Regarded as Puppet of Nazis

Scandinavian Nation Called ‘Nazi Puppet’   Rupture Marks End Of Efforts For A Finnish Russian Peace.

NAZI PACT Ta HEAGON GIVEN FOR RUPTURE   Break Marks End of Efforts to Bring Finland Out of European War.

Scandinavian Country Only ~ ‘Nazi Puppet   State Department Official Hands Note To Charge D’ Affaires,   DEPRIVE OF LIBERTY

FINN ALLIANCE WITH GERMANS CAUSES BREAK   Finnish Nation Is Puppet Of Nazi Germany, Hull Charges

Severs Relations Because of Finns New Nazi Tie-Up   Hull's Note Brands Nation As Puppet Of Germany: Thesleff Handed Passport.

No Other Course Open Says Hull ‘In Explanation   Finnish Alliance With Germany Reason for Action; Ends Peace Efforts

Nation Branded Puppet of Nazis   Alexander Thesleff, Charge D’ Affairs, Is Given Passport and Ordered to Return to His Country

Break With  Finns   Government of Finland ‘Now “German Puppet, ” Says Note from Séc. Hull, Explaining Act

New Close Alliance of Finnish Government and Nazi Germany Reason For Final Action

Has Joined Forces of the Enemy   ‘Note From Hull Points ‘Out : Consent: Was, Given: to German: Infiltration F   2- coe EFFORT: « . - FOR PEACE ENDED.   U.S. Maintained:-Relations. Through .Three-. : Years. of. Finns’ War With Russia. -

Action Today by U.S. Because of  Alliance Between Finland and Nazis

Rule Called Nazi Puppet For Aiding Adolf Hitler      Passport Is Given Last Remaining Diplomat

U. S. Finally Ends Relations With Finland   Mull Takes Action, Noting Infiltration ef German Treeps late Finland, Geverament

Relations Are Broken Today With Finland   Last Remaining Representative Is Handed Passport Today, Together With a Note of Explanation.

U.S. SEVERS TIES  BECAUSE OF FINN,  GERMAN ALLIANCE BREAK MARKS END  OF EFFORTS TO GET FINNS OUT OF WAR

U. S. Breaks Off Relations With Finland   Action Taken Because Of Finns’ New Close Alliance With Germany

HULL DECLARES THAT COUNTRY NAZI PUPPET   Infiltration of German Troops into Finland Reduces State to Puppet Condition

Country Now Nazi Puppet, Hull Declares   Passport Is Handed To Last Remaining Representative Of Helsinki In U. S.

Charge D’Affaires From Helsinki Is Handed Passport   Infiltration of German Troops Into Scandinavian Coun: try is Scored in Note Ending Series of Diplomatic Crises   MARKS END OF LONG PERIOD OF NEGOTIATIONS

Break Marks End of Efforts To Make Peace Between Finland, Russia.   OFFICIAL GETS PASSPORT.

MOVE FOLLOWS NEW MILITARY ACTS OF NAZIS   American Note Declares Operations in Finland Vital in War Outcome

Hull Message Brings to End All Relations  Note Says Scandinavian         . — . «  Note Says Scandinavian   Country Now ‘Puppet of Nazis’   ENVOY IS RECALLED   Break Folows Long Effort by U. S. to Heal Russ-Finn Breach

Eisenhower Clamps Dimout On Fierce Arnhem Battle; Fight Critical, British Say

News Ban Cloaks Fronts As Foe Reports British Arnhem Force Wiped ou

News Dimout Ordered On Battles At Arnhem, Kleve; Nazis Cut Supply Route

Fate of the British Airborne Division Is Still a Mystery   German Propaganda Agency Declares Entire Unit of Sky Troopers Has Been Wiped Out; Other Reports More Hopeful   THIN TRICKLE OF SUPPLIES GOING THROUGH

British Press Says Situs. tion Is In Crisis, New Push Against Belfort Indicated And Patton. “Tank Front Broaden ed; Bloody Fightiis Kverywhere.

Allies Near Kleve, Anchor Of West Wall   -Pocketed Airborne Troops Holding Out Against Nazi Attacks

Nazi Reports: Conflict With Last “Allied ‘Release’ Iweiie SARA   INEWS BLACKOUT   Séereey Hides War -Developments At . Arnhem

British Press Says Situation Is In Crisis; New Push Against Belfort Indicated And Patten’s Tank. Front Broadened; Bloody Fighting  BPvervwhere._

Germans Declare Entire Airtroop Unit Wiped Out   Allies Gain On Kleve, Berlin Reports Big U. 5. Offensive In Belfort Sector

NPS REPORT 30 U. S. TRANSPORTS IN MINDANAO SEA, RAID ON HONSHI   BROADCAST SAYS SIX SHIPS SUNK IN HINTING NEW INVASION PENDING; FIGHTING HITS LULL

REPORT FRANCO REVOLT FLARING   Madrid Claims Uprisings Have Been Subdued

Parts of Spain Reported in “Open Revealt”   Troops Break Uprising im Aran Valley

CATALONIA REVOLTS FRANCO RULE: SAY VALLEY UPRISING SQUELCHED   TIME ARRIVES FOR SUPREME ATTACK, RADIO SPOKESMAN SAYS, ASKING GUERRILLA AID

‘OPEN REVOLT’ PERILS FRANCO REGIME, CLAIM   Madrid Admits But One Uprising, Brands It Failure

PARTS OF SPAIN IN “OPEN REVOLT   Oppose Franco Government “National Union” lor Supreme Attack

Leningrad-Moscow Railway Now Controlled by Reds;  Advance Close to Estonia

Reds Menace. New Rail Link   Soviet Armies Gain Almost Full Control Of Northern Routes

—OHIO ELECTION—  itt a AMILLIOK VOTING IN OHIO   Bitter Election Campaign “To Bring Out Heavy Vote   BRICKER ON AIR   Stewart AndLausche Wind Up Gubernatorial Campaigns

BITTER STATE BATTLE ENDS   ‘Ohio Candidates To Make  Last-Minute Campaign  Speeches Tonight

hio Political Arena Comparatively Quiet But Bricker Schedules Brief Last-minute Appeal for GOP Support While Stewart and Taft at Hamilton Rally — Lausche Stays at Home

Soviets Dozen Miles Beyond  Bessarabia   More Than 50 Rumanian Towns Taken by Konev

BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS PRUT IS WIDENED   Towns and Villages’ ‘Swept Up by Konev’s Second Ukrainian Army; Isai-Dorokhoi Railway Cut 7

Reds Roll Over Rumanian Plains   Enemy Resistance Ils Disorqanized

WIDEN PRUT BRIDGEHEAD   R eported ‘More Than 15 Miles Inside Rumania

Soviets Cut 12-Mile Path IntoRumania   Annihilation Battle Being Waged Against 193,000 in Circle

Backs Marshall For President   Rickenbacker Says He's Ideal Candidate

Allied Officer Asserts Only A Miracle Can Save Major Part Of  Huge German Force

NAZIS CLAIM LANDING IN SOUTH NEAR   REPORT ALLIED CONVOYS POUR INTO MEDITERRANEAN

Landings in South May Come Soon   Germans Report Large Convoys in Gibralter Straits; DeGaulle Calls For an Uprising

EXPECT NEW DRIVE   German Radio Reports Convoys Moving Thru  _ Strait of: Gibraltar

NAZIS OBSERVE LARGE CONVOYS   Think Landings in South Europe Likely

[Americans Near Domfront ‘As Canadians Gain 2 Miles To Cut Down Escape Gap

BERLIN REPORTS BIG CONVOYS IN MEDITERRANEAN   Hints New Landings in S. Europe; Disaster Looms in France, -

LEYTE-BOUND JAP CONVOY SMASHED   Seven Ships Sunk; Three Others Left Dead and Burning

New First Army Offensive Topples 3 More Towns; All Nazi Resistance  Crushed in West Suburbs of Duren

Widens Front On Roer; 7th Strikes At Karlsruhe   Push Up Rhine In Tank-Led Attack Threaten: © To Turn West Wall At Vital Elbow; Patton Is Meeting Stiffest Resistance.

SLAS OO nT DES OF STRONGHOLD   West Wall Breach New Threat To Duren

Yanks Meet Fierce  Resistance in Italy  sie GL ELT_ are Te -:, ee le

FLAMING CURTAIN OF ARTILLERY FIRE RETARDS AMERICANS   Make Tough Going for Yanks Trying to Take Liverno.

THANKSGIVING OBSERVED BY MEN ON FRONT LINES   American Troops Get Holiday Fare In Keeping with U.S. Traditions

Nation Marks Thanks Day With Prayer   Traditional Rites Are Observed Throughout Land

Americans Are Observing Thanksgiving On Scattered Battlefronts Of World

Troops Mark Thanksgiving   Festive Day Comes to War Fronts on Turkey Wing and Prayer of Confidence; Special Cooked Dinners Enjoyed by Men

National Thanksgiving Takes Turkey and Trimmings to U.S. Fighting Men; Religious Services

Thanksgiving to Yanks Fighting      MANY SOLDIERS SPEND DAY ON FIRING LINES

Men at Front Join in U.S. Thanksgiving   Feasting, Prayers Mark Festivities On All Battlefronts

Thanks Day Observed On Fighting Fronts, And There’s Turkey For All

Men In Battle Zones Served Turkey Dinner   War Department Rules It A Thanksgiving Day Must For Warriors

TURKEY TOPS SERVICE MENU   Served to Fighting Men in All U. S. Forces

Jail Breakers Captured After Thrillmg Run _ Men Convicted  . For Burglary of  AL. pe.  . @,

Jail Breakers  Captured After  Thrilling Run Men Convicted  For Burglary of Akron Liquor Store

CRACK DEFENSE OF NAZIS ABOVE BOTH CITIES   Other Soviet Armies Gain Steadily in Rumanian Bessarabia

SOVIETS TAKE IMPORTANT R.R HUB AT KOWEL   Drive on Nikolayev and Odessa  CROSS BUG RIVER     Soviets Plunge Far Into Romania

Nation’s Tribute Marks Navy Day   Jap Strength Cut to Half, Says Adm. King

Del Rio Weather  {nformation } Furnished by 0. B Weather Bureaa  Dept. of Conmeree,

REDS IN SIGHT OF BESSARASIA BORDER TODA’   New Break - Through Carries Ukrainian Army 50 Miles Into  Old Poland

RUSSIANS IN SIGHT OF RIVER   Enemy Makes Frantic Preparations For Evacuating Men

RED ARMY {S WITHIN SIGHT OF DNIESTER   Zhukov's Forces Drive 50 Miles into Old Polond

Russ Within  Dniester River   Northern Army Shoves On Toward Lwow Area

Ukrainian Army Within Sight Of  Dniester River   Soviets Drive 40 Mile Wedge Thru Nazi Supply Lines

RUSSIANS APPROACH DNIESTER AND DRIVE DEEPER INTO POLAND   Smash To Within Sight Of Bessarabian River Border

Soviets Near Border of  Bessarabia   Nazis Frantically Prepare to Cross Dniester River

REDS WITHIN SIGHT OF, _ DNIESTER   Nazis Prepare To Evacuate . Into Bessarabia

RUSSIANS REACH DNIESTER, NAZIS BECOME FRANTIC   German Lines Are Beyond Stream; Dead, Wounded Abandoned By Enemy In Panicky Retreat.   AMIRALTIES NEARLY IN YANKEE CONTROL   American Glider Pilots Lan Many British In Rear 0 Japs In Spectacular Inva: sion In Burma.

UMW Predicts Approval Of Portal-To-Portal Pay   Base Opinion On Supreme Court Decision In Iron Ore Case

Allies Relied on Manmade Harbors   Artificial Breakwaters and Sound Floated across Channel

ALLIED INGENUITY:  Artificial Ha Harbors Used To Free Western Europe

Two Artificial Harbors Floated Across Channel Helped Allies Supply Ground Troops In France

Artificial Harbors Floated to France, Secret of Successful Allied Invasion

Early Landings In Philippines Now Forecast   Latest Advances By Mac. - Arthur’s Troops Bring  : Yanks Nearer Philippines

HALEY AND MACKATHUR HLT FLANK   STORM BEACHES ON JAP STRONGHOLDS OF HALMAHERA AND PALAU.   300 Miles To Goal   Ground, Sea and Air Assault Clears Way for Ultimate Strike at Philippines. ¢

TAKE BEACHES ON ‘DOOR STEP OF PHILIPPINES   Twin Invasion Aims Pingers at Mindinao from East and Southeast

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Admits Killing Two Women in Hotel Rooms   Man is Arrested At Bar Near Scene Of One Slaying

RIPPER SLAYER HELD; SLASHED HIS 2 VICTIMS   Attended Horror Movie Between Killing Of Women

Killer Attends Horror Movie Between Crimes _  Confesses To Los Angeles Slayings

FDR VACAT  PLANS FORMING   Jaunt May Blend With New Big Three Meeting in Offina

OPEGIAL SEGoION DECISION 15 NEAF   Revision Of School Teachers’ Salaries To Be Only Business

TEACHER PAY BOOST STUDIED BY BRICKER   Governor Considers Calling Legislature Session

LEASE SHIPMENTS   Lend-Lease Shipments Total $28,270,000,000 To July Ist   INSURE SPEEDIER VICTORY OVER JAPS   Present Lend-Lease Law Expires June 30, 1945 Unless Terminated

Roosevelt Asks That Lend-Lease Be Extended After German Collapse

Lend-Lease Hits 28 Billion Total   F.D.R. Makes Report to Congress

F. D. R. Urges Lend-Lease Continue After Nazi Defeat   AID TO ALLIES TOTALS $28,270,000,000; PRESIDENT ASKS EVERY EFFORT TO END WAR

Lend-Lease Total Over 28 Billions   Congress Urged to Continue Proaram

President Urges Lend-Lease Be ‘Continued After German Defeat ‘Until Victory Is Gained Over Japs

WIGKARD BEGIN CPEAKING TOUR   : Secretary of Agriculture Taking Swing Through Middle West for FDR.

TOP MEN BACK PRICE CONTROL   Head Of WPB Says Need Of National Service Act Is Passed

Post-War Rein Upon Spending Held Required   Two Years of Peacetime  Price Control Urged “Ry Nelenn Fi...

After RAF Attack On Duisburg, Industrial Center   NEW PRE-INVASION OFFENSIVE STARTS  20 German Planes Were Shot Down, Scores Destroyed On Ground

Kiel Hit in New  Air Blitz   Huge Plane Force Roars Over Europe, Duisburg Blasted

NAZI CENTERS GET BOMB LOAD IN NEW RAIDS   ‘About 2,000 American and British Planes Hit Kiel, Duisberg and Other Targets

Nazi Baltic Naval Base Is Hard Hit   One of Largest Air Of fensives of War on Con tinent Is Reported

BOMBED BY AMERICANS   Follows British Night Raid On City of Duisburg

4000-Ton Bomb Load Delivered   Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Roars Unabated: French Coast Hard Hit

Kiel, Duisburg Blasted By Allied Air Fleets In — Terrific 24-Hour Raids

2,000 American; British Planes Hit War Centers   Duisburg Bombarded Heavily As Assaults On Europe Continue

Kiel, Duisberg Shattered by Yankee Raider:   Allies Estimate 2,000 Aircraft in Action  Avainst Nazis

Nazi Broadcasts Report Yan Planes Over Central Germany, Hinting At Air Battles Over Reich

2.000 Allied Planes Drop 4,000 Tons Of Bombs On German War Centers, Also French Coast FPortificatione    OFFENSIVE ROARS THRU FOURTH DAY

Kiel, French Invasion Coast  Are Pounded   Attacks on Wake Of 2,000 Ton Assault on Duisburg

Allies Bomb Kiel. Duisburg   2,000 American,:  British Planes Hit U-Boat Base,

FRENCH COAST ALSO POUNDED BY U. S. FLIERS   Day Blows Follow 2,000Ton Attack By 700 RAF Raiders

Kiel, Duisberg Battered by 4000 Tons   French Coast Also Slammed for 4th Straight Day

2000 ALLIED PLANES SWEEP OVER GERMANY   4000 ‘Tons Drop On War Centers Of Kiel And Duisbure

Daylight Assault On Pas De Calais Staged By Allies   Sweep Over Channel After British Mosquitos Stab “KE Waster ~ Gerniany

Air Assault On Germany Anew      HEAVY RAIDS MADE ON AXIS TARGETS IN EUROPE

FORMATIONS HIT EUROPE   Attacks Follow RAF Forays Into Western Germany

ALLIED PLANES POUND GERMANY   Attack by Daylight Follows Raid by RAF Mosquitos On Nazi Targets

ALLIED PLANES HIT REICH AGAIN   Roar Across Channel Today After Sunday Night Stabs

Day Raiders Seen Headed ‘in Direction of Pas de Calais -.  TrLADHMOPM BAaADMnM YOCnTnN   RAF Slips Through Nazi ” Defenses. Without Loss

Large Formations Of Allied Aircraft Hammer Europe   Daylight Raids Today Followed RAF Mosquito Stabs At Western Germany Last Night; No Allied Losses.

Resume Bombing -German Targets   Coastal Areas Believed To Have Received Hammering   NO MENTION OF NIGHT RAIDS MADE

BOMBERS VITAL FRENCH INVASION AREA   Mosquitos Blast Targets  In West Germany; New  Attacks Underway

Allied Planes: Keep UpRaids   Targets In Germany ‘And - France Are Hammered Yesterday, Today

Allies Hit at Nazi Targets   Large Formations Crass Channel To Bomb in France

New Aerial Blows Af Europe   Many Aircraft Take Part In Daylight Raids On Targets

Invasion. Zone Hit Day, Nigh!   Western: Germany And France Bombed —

British Troops Drive Onto  Walcheren Isle   Berlin Reports ‘Enemy’ Shipping Already Has Entered Waterway En Route to the Great Belgian Port of Antwerp

Germans Step Up Retreat, Toward The Maas Along 50 Mile Front   10,000 ENEMY TROOPS YIELD BREDA TODAY   Allies Report binding Some Villages Deserted By The Germans

German Defenses Falling Apart In Western Holland      40,000: Routed Nazis Gradually Driven Up Against Maas River

Huns Fall Back in Holland.      Breda Falls, Nazis Retreat: Along 30

4),000 NAZIS OPEED FLIGHT TOWARD MAAS   Retreat in Confusion Under Constant Strafing by Allied Planes.

ALLIES GAIN IN BATTLE OF HOLLAND   40,000 Routed Nazi Troops Being Pushed Back to Maas River

Enemy Yields Breda   Last Big Nazi Stronghold in Southwest Holland Faiis to Allies

British Take Another City In Holland   Allies Nearing Holland Victory and Opening Of Antwerp Port.

BEF Storms Last Enemy Stronghold   Montgomery Forces Set for Showdown Battle for Antwerp

Huns Fall Back In Holland   Breda Falls, Nazis Retreat Along 50 Mile Dutch Front

Last Stronghold in Dutch Pocket of Nazis Taken   Roosendaal Is Taken by British

Last Maj jor Stronghold —   ASSAULT FORCES STORMS _ INTO ROOSENDAAL; ENTIRE NAZI POCKET COLLAPSES

Japanese Claim Fifty Warships Sunk; Superfortresses Bombard Island Again

FUTURE PEACE ATTEMPT SEEN IN NEW MOVES   British Drive 8 Mile: Past Caen, Storm Two Towns

Railway Unions Paper Voices Alarm Over  C. 1.0. Political Plans   Official Organ Declares P. A. C, Is ‘Full of Ominous Possibilities’ for Entire Labor Movement in U. S.

ARMED FORCE MERGER PLAN IS SUBMITTED   Committee to Seek One Department of National Security   BILL EXPECTED TO BE OFFERED SOON

ARMED FORCE MERGER PLAN IS SUBMITTED   Committee to Seek One Department of. National Security   BILL EXPECTED TO. ' BE OFFERED SOON   Two Military. Officers Testify in Support of Proposal!

SINGLE DEPARTMENT FOR ARMED FORCES   Iwo Fost-War Planners Favor Merger Of All Military And Naval Branches

Andrew Raven Dies At Wheel Of Car Monday  Stricken While   Stricken While Driving To Work; Was Found Dead

Andrew Raven Dies At Wheel Of Car Monday  ‘Stricken While Driving To Work;  Stuy.

Airliner Makes Record Flight  Less Than 16 ait On Hop To Ireland

 MOVING DAY FOR JAP? . Final Stand of Japanese May \Be on the Asiatic Mainland

Jan Leaders May Give Up Home Island  - Last Stand May   Be On Continent

Yank Tanks Save Bastogne; Nazis Pulling In Horns   Americans Follow Up Break-Through To Bastogne By Recapturing Five Towns; Huns’ Only Bright Spot Is Strong Drive Launched At Liege.

A KANSAS DELEGATE: DIES   c. C. Wilson of Meade Collapses on Convention Floor

eeawn Sti SevevitnivesT 3 F7 “uve”  ATTORNEY COLLAPSES, NIES AT GOP SESSION

Russian Forces Commence Storming Of Sevastopol; Sav Nazi Resistance Low

Americans Gain Four Miles; Seize Ammunition, Take Many Prisoners   Officer Says Enemy Forces Have Ceased To Exist as Army; Eisenhower Takes Command

Nazi Army In North France Surrounded   Nine-Mile Corridor Under Artillery Fire

Roof of German Corridor in Normandy Is Caving In     co: <a <a ae feces ‘ee ess em mee Ses   GAINS ARE SCORED “BY ALLIED TROOPS   Enemy Probing South Limits of Trap for: Weak Spot

TRAPPED NAZIS NON-EXISTENT AS COMBATANTS   Those Eluding Alhied Vis: In France Unable To Stand Before Paris   BATTLEFIELDS SOAKED BY HEAVY DOWNPOUR

Yanks pound nazis penned in death trap  Escape gap cut to bare 9 miles

German Armor Probing Walls For Soft Spot   Rain May Give von Kluge Chanee for Withdrawal Of Mauled Legiann«

NAZIS IN DEATH TRAP HAMMERED   Climactic Battle Rages for Northern France   50,000 IN TRAP   Von Kluge Tries Desperately To Flee Through Narrow Escape Gap

Nazi Pocket: Is Hammered Mercilessly  * German 7th Ceases  On ar  —_   : German 7th Ceases’ To Exist as Army, ‘Tl. §©..Offfeer, Accerte   ‘CORRIDOR 9 MILES

ON ALL SIDES QF DEATH TRAP   Americans, British and Canadians Close in On Enemy

Roof of German Covidar in Normandy Is Caving In   GAINS ARE SCORED _ BY ALLIED TROOPS   Enemy Probing South Limits of Trap for: Weak: Spot

As Gallagher Sees It:  en RR eR knee nN Ie eS sANeeneie inti  Associated Press Writer Describes American Advance against Germans

Dr. T.C. Johnson, Beloved Surgeon, Laid To Rest At Close Of A Useful Life      Succumbs to Third Heart Attack at Thompson Memorial Hospital Fri: day: Hundreds. of Friends Pav Tribute.

-   Succumbs to Third Heart Attack at Thompson Memorial Hospital Friday. Ilundreds_ of Friends Pay Tribute.

Triple A Reecords Destroyed   OHIO OPPONENTS RANSACK OFFICES DEMANDING AAA CHAIRMAN RESIGN POST

Services First In U.S. Plans  On Manpower   War Production Sacrifice Determined Upon To Put Young Men in Uniform

Build Army At Cost of WarSupplies   EVERY AVAILABLE MAN UNDER 26 CALLED FOR BY COMBAT ARMS OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.   Rift with McNutt

Army Now Ready to Sacrifice War’ Production to Get More Young Men

High Command is Ready To Sacrifice Production To Get Youth in Service

High Command Will Sacrifice War Production if Necessary to Build a Young Men's Army

PRODUCTION TO BE SACRIFICED   High Command Intends To Build Young Men’s Army, Industry Told

Army, Navy Take Precedence Over War Production   All Able-Bodied Men Under 26 to Be Called  For Combat Service

Production — May Suffer In Building of Young Army   Calls for Combat Use Of Virtually All Men Able-Bodied Under 26 Nelson Tells Steelmen   PLANTS MUST EXPECT MANPOWER LOSSES  Selective Service Hits Replacement Failure Bv Mannower Ac uacy

Draft to Take All Able-Bodiec Men Under 26   War Production to Be Sacrificed If  Necessary to Build Young Man’s Army

YOUNG MAN'S ARMY IS PLAN, NELSON SAYS   War Production to be Sacrificed if Necessary, He Savs   ADDRESS !S GIVEN TO STEEL INDUSTRY   McNutt’s Commission Is Accused by Draft Officials

Production to Be Sacrificed For Young Ari   WPB Head Says All Men Under 26 Preferred By High Commarid

Plant Output  Secondary To Army's Needs  WPB Chief Warns Industry OF Plan

Allies Yield More Grounc  At Cassino   Nazi Infantrymen Regain Hill 146; Attack at Anzio

ALLIES GIVE  UP ALL BUT ONE POSITION ON MT. CASSING   Nazi Combat Patro!s Counter-Attack Heavily in Town

ALLIES ABANDON ALL EXCEPT ONE CASSING SECTOR   German Combat Patrols Counter Attack Heavily Inside Cassino

ALLIES RETAIN BUT ONE HOLD ON MT. CASING   Nazi Patrols CounterAttack In Town’s Hotel Area

Cassino Foe OnOffensive   Nazis Serappy After 12 Days of Battering

Allies Hold But One Position on Cassino Slopes   German Patrols Counterattack Heavily

ALLIES KEEP ONE HILL ON MT. CASSINO   Nazi Attacks Are Repuised On Anzio, Cassino Fronts

Allies Quit All Cassino Forward Post:   Germans Appear To Be Going Over To Offensive

NAZI] COMBAT PATROLS ATTACK INSIDE TOWN   Hangman’s Hill and Hill 220 Are Now in Enemy Hands

Allies Abandon Another Post On  ‘Mount Cassino   German Infantrymen Capture Hill 146; Nazis On Offensive

Polish Exiled Government Fires Commander  Reds May Demand Dismissal of President, Also

Polish Faction Atiacks New Military Chief   Moscow Group's Leaders Brand Bor as ‘Criminal’

Polish Split — Is Widened  Moscow Group Flays Gen. Bor As Leader

BILLS AIMED AT FOREMEN's ‘UNION 'AND LABOR: POLTTY- ' CAL COMMITTEES MAY  BE SIDETRACKED 

LABOR GROUPS MADE TARGETS OF NEW BILLS   War Plant Foremen’s Union Under Fire   WOULD PROBE CIO  te nce  Election Conscious House Adamant

WORK (5 BACK 70 MORNIAL IN PLANTS   33 in Detroit Area Affected By Maintenance Workers’ Strike.

MOST STRIKERS RETURN TO JOBS      Production Normal In All But One Of Detroit’s Plants

Center Set Up For Disabled   CCNY To Give Soldier: Rehabibitatinn Aid

Expanded Sea- Ain Operations Loom In Indian Ocean   Mountbatten Anxious To Put Singapore Under Attack

Increased Indian Ocean Operations Seen  Monsoon May Boost Sea Activity   British Subs Sink Five Jap Ships — On Supply Route   ‘Port Blair, Main Base In Andaman Islands,  Bombardment Target

BRITISH SUBS SINK 3 SHIPS; PORT SHELLED   Increasing Blows Or Jap Sea Lanes Predicted

Ten British Tank Columns Threatening Encirclement Central Fortress Vimont

British Flank New Rommel  Line Anchor   Yanks Surge Beyond St. Lo Outposts As Germans Retreat

British Push: GermansBack Beyond Caen   Rommel Is Regrouping Forees For Offensive

Snow Slows Poles’ Drive   British Eighth Atmy Is: Nearing -Faenza ~-

POLES SEIZE MT. FORTING   Fight Through Snow In Mountains For Half Mile

DRIVER KILLS @ IN OAFETY ZONE   Police Say Plant Foreman Had Been Drinking Before Hitting 16 on Street

3 KILLED, 13 HURT BY AUTO   Report Motorist Plowed Into Safety Zone Group

Germany Calling Old Women, Girl  Much Work Sent to Homes in Rural Areas

Old Women, Little Girls Sought for German Factories   Manpower Problem is Serious Because _ of Alles’ Bombings

NAZIS RECRUIT OLD WOMEN FOR WAR PLANT JOBS   APPEAL FOR GIRLS UNDER 12 TO TAKE PART-TIME WORK

a eae ees, oT aa ee eee ee eee ee  Nazis Call Girls, Grandmothers To Aid In War Tasks

Girls, Grandmother: Forced to Work  For German Reich  Shortage of Workers Results From Loss of Factories

Russian Troops Pushing Ahead Toward Pinsk   Thousands Of Nazis May Be Trapped In Vast Pripet Marshes  fp   GERMAN FORCES RETREAT HASTILY

PUSH 20 MILES B OLY   Germans Forced to Abandon Guns in Rapid Flight

SOVIET ARMY. i PRESSING ~ TTS ATTACKS   VICTORIOUS SOVIET TROOPS -ADVANCE 20 MILES AFTER, “* CRACKING TWO NAZI... . BTRONGHOLDS -

GERMANS FACE TRAP IN PRIPE] MARSHES   Nazis Stiffiy Resisting Newest Offensive, However

SOVIET FORCES POUND TOWARD * BREST-LITOVSK   Russians at Heels of Routed Nazis 20 Miles Beyond Mozyr

PUSH 20 MILES BEYOND MOZYR KALINKOVICHI   Germans Forced to Abandon Guns in Rapid Flight

It All Depends on Who's Sending ‘Em   Farm and Other Midwest Problems to Occupy Dewey at Conference

DEWEY LOOKS AT AGGIE PROBLEM   Agriculture and Other Midwest Problems Will Occupy Time of GOP Presidential Nominee on St. Louis Trip

DEWEY TO CONFER ON WESTERN TRIP   Agricultural. ar and. Othe: Problems Will be Discussed

RAFDOOMS COLOGNE TO LIQUIDATION   Sixth Massive Raid In 56 Hours on War Center

FR,  Churchill Begin Quebec Victory Parley   Military Staffs Accom.  pany Two Command. ers-in-Chief To Impor. tant Conference.

LEADERS BEGIN EIGHTH PARLEY ON WAR MOVES   British Prime Minister Sees ‘Victory Everywhere’ As He Meets President

Roosevelt, Churchill  in Quebec   ‘I’'ve- Lost Some . Weight,’ Says F.D.R.;'I’ve Lost Some Color,’ Churchill Replies   MEETING ASKED BY PRIME MINISTR   Military Talks Scheduled With Emphasis on Pacific Battle Plans

WAR IN PACIFIC MAY BE TOPIC OF CONFERENCE   Stalin Says He’s Too Busy With War To Attend

BOTH LEADERS PLEASED OVER WAR PROGRESS   Will Draft Plans for Complete Defeat of Germany and Japan

Roosevelt and Churchill Begin Quebec Conference   Allied Leaders and Military Staffs Plan Next Phase

EIGHTH MEETING SINCE START OF WAR BY CHIEFS   U. S. Army, Navy Leaders to Attend Meet; Churchill Sick on Way Over

Control of Germany Aiter War and Offensive Against lanan Will Be Discussed

F.R., Churchill Meet to Hasten V-Day, Map Peace   Leaders Greet Each Other Warmly; Their Wives Chat

Accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, ‘Mrs. Churchill   “U.S. Chiefs of Staff Britain's Military Leaders Also Attend

FR, Churchill Talk Victory Plans Today   Allied Leaders Meet at Quebec With High Officials; Map Future

BEGIN VICTORY TALKS AT ONCE AFTER MEETING   English Minister Says Victory Everywhere

Churchill. EDR Launeh Quebee Talks   War Leaders Will Map Plans For Final Defeat Of Germany, Japan

ROOSEVELT MEETS CHURCHILL MONDAY EIGHTH CONFERENCE  STALIN, INVITED, UNABLE _ TO LEAVE RUSSIA AT CRITICAL PERIOD

FDR Arrives At Quebec For Parley   Confers With Churchill on Wear Strateav

FDR, Churchill In Conference  To Plan Moves   Premier Stalin Says His Armies Are on March and He Is Needed on Home  Fronts.

“Victory Is Everywhere, Exclaims Prime Minister As He Greets President

TALKS OPEN AT ONCE AS ALLIED LEADERS CONFER   Mesdames Roosevelt, Churchill Accompany Husbands To Canada

‘Churchill,  Roosevelt Meet Today   Secretary Early Intimates That Conference Will Stress Pacific War; Wives of Two Leaders in Quebec

Roosevelt And  Churchill Meet Again In Quebec   Stalin Unable To Attend Because Of Pressing Army Duties.

Conference Open  FDR Meets Churchill   President And Prime Minister Begin Talks Which Are Expected To Stress Pacific War   Position Understood.

j pin : < ; Victory Parley   Military Staffs Accom pany Two Command: ers-in-Chief To Impor  ’ tant Conference.

Meeting Suggested By Churchill  For Reasons Given As Strictly Military

Victory Conference Underway   Wives Of Both Leaders Accompany Husbands

PRESIDENT IN QUEBEC FOR WAR PARLEY   Churchill Reaches Canadian Metropolis Shortly After Arrival of Rocsevelt   AGENDA IS OUTLINED

Leaders Plan For Victory at Quebec Meet   Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Togethe For Eighth Time  Since War Began

Meet To Confer On Pacific War   Roosevelt and Churchill, Aftended by Large Staffs,  in   STALIN NOT PRESENT   Pressing Campaigns of Rus: sian Armies Reason for Absence

Leaders Meet for War Conference  Churchill and FDR Arrive in Quebec

‘Victory’ Big Topic At Quebee   Pacific Strategy To Be Worked Qu, Spokesman Asserts

Allied Leaders Bring Wives Along To Eighth Historic Meeting; High Military Aides In Attendance.

War With Japs Is To Be Chief Topic   Victory Is Everywhere,’ British Minister Says; New Far East Commander May Be Named

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILE IN {0TH MEETING   Urgent Decisions Must Be Made With War Against Japs Ahead of Schedule.

FR, Churchill Map Japan War   Stalin Sends Regrets to World Leaders In Quebec Parley as They Meet Eighth Time; Army and Navy Heads Present

CHURCHILL AND... . ROOSEVELT : MET. IN QUEBEC TODAY   Began at Once a Vietory Conference in Canada’s Oldest City.   ‘THEIR EIGHTH MEETING   “Victory Is Everywhere” Churchill Said as He. Shook. Hands With Roosevelt.

ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL IN QUEBEC   To Map Plans For Final Defeat of Germany, Japan

Stress On War   In Pacific   But “Big Two” and Military Chiefs Have Many Other Urgent Problems to Solve

F.D.R. In Quebec To Meet With Churchill      Will Confer With British Prime Minister, Who Arrived By Ship.

BEGIN VICTORY CONFERENCE IN CANADIAN CITY   VICTORY EVERYWHERE, CHURCHILL EXCLAIMS AS HE GREETS F. D. R.

OPEN TALKS “AT ONCE IN - OLD CITADE!   Top-Flight Military Chiefs With Two War Leaders, Presumably to Map Action Against Japs in the Pacific. -

War Plans To Be Made At Parley   Both Leaders Show Pleasure At Gains Made In Battles.

QUEBEC IS SCENE OF ANOTHER HISTORIC MEETING BETWEEN © AMERICAN - BRITISH CHIEFS

FDR, Churchill In Quebec For Planning Talk   Get Right Down to Business; Pacific Situation Expected To Be Major Theme

EIGHTH MEETING TAKES PLACE IN ‘ QUEBEC CITADEL   Victory Conference Under Way Shortly After Two Leaders Arrive

IN QUEBEC TO MEET PRESIDENT   Both Arrive For Tenth War Conference Amidst Extensive Preparations.

ALLIED CHIEF OPEN TALKS AT QUEBEC   “Victory Is Everywhere,” Says Prime Minister   HIGH OFFICIALS   Of Both Countries Convene For Eighth In Series Of War Meetings

FDR, CHURCHILL PEACH QUEBEC   Stalin Turns Down Invita tion Due to Military Duties

Roosevelt and  Churchill Hold Quebec Meet   “Victory Is Everywhere” Says Churchill—Stalin Unable To Attend

Second Quebec Conference Gets Under Way Today   Problems of Victory In Evrope and Pacific to Occupy Allied Leaders

Meet To Confer On Pacific War   Roosevelt” and Churchill Abend by Large ‘Staffs,  in Quebec:   STALIN NOT ‘PRESENT   Pressing Campaigns of Russian Armies-Reason for Absence

Stalin Unable To Attend Gathering   Leaders Assemble In Historic Territory

President Arrives in Canadian City Early Today After Secret Trip From Washingion   Prime Minister  Journeys by Shir   ‘Victory Is Everywhere,’ Churehil! Exclaims As He and Nation’s Chief Mect

Top Militarists Of Two Nations Also tr Quebes   Leaders Start Immediately On Problems Marked For Eighth Vital Parley

Shots Fired When Humbert: Appears   Royalists Rally in Rome for Prince

U.S. Takes Over Eight Strike-Bound Ohio Plants at Order of Roosevelt

Allies cling staunchly to beachhead   Endless parade  of captured foes

Russia Sends Ultimatum To Bulgaria Threatening Break ‘Unless Policy Is Changed   Midnight Thursday Is Deadline Set; Significant Events Said Approaching

SANTA'S COMING FOR BOY TONIGHT   HAS EARLY HOLIDAY BECAUSE DEATH FEARED

"NUBBING’ 10 HAVE CHRISTMAS TONIGHT   Doomed Chiid Gets Many Gifts From All Parts of Country.

Christmas Eve Comes Tonight For Dying Boy   Santa Remembers  Nubbins Hoffman

Nubbins Is All Excited!  +++ + +++ 4 It’s Christmas Eve For Ailing Lad And Presents

Tonight's Christmas Eve “For Nubbins Hoffman .As-Gifts Flood Home

~-NATION SENDS GIFTS—  Christmas Eve Tonight For Nubbins   3-YEAR-OLD LAD MAY NOT LIVE TO SEE DEC. 25

Allies Capture Mogaung Strong Point In Burma .   Japs Being Inched Back In Steady Drive By Yanks, Chinese

Malakawng, Sw ong Point  Of Japs, Falls   American, Chinese Troops Take Area, Wipe Out Enemy

License Plate Issuance Begun   ‘Brisk Business At Local Office Reported

Big Fires Set In London By Nazi Air Raid   While No Estimate Of --Casualties—-Available, They May Be High.

NAZI BOMBERS BLAST LONDON   Large Fires Rage In Wake Of Most Determined Raid In Months

‘Heavy Air Attack Is Made On London  Fires Glow And Casualtice   Fires Glow And Casualties Are Believed To Be Great   Tons Of High Explosives, Thousands OF Fire Bombs Showered On British Capital

Boche Strike English City In Three Waves   Explosives and Firebombs Showered. Down in Greatest Assault in Three Years   Casualties Are Believed High   Berlin Says Seven of Sev. eral Hundred Planes Missing; Churches, Hospitals Hit

Casualties Big In London Raid   GERMAN BOMBERS OVER BRITISH CAPITAL AGAIN

London Suffers Fiercest Raid Since ‘41 Blitz   Many Casualties Occur As Luftwaffe Strikes British Capital

New U-Boat Attack Seen   * S26 S64 we28 bw Ws: Secretary Knox Says Germans Will Raid Allied Shinning Sacon

Kriox Declares Mass Assault by Nazi Subs on Allied Shippiiig Due Shortly

Knox Predicts U-Boat Assault  Germany Concentrating  On Subs, He Says

OPA Says Prices Have Soared Tenth Since March; Private Salee Hit

PRICE CEILINGS FOR USED CARS   Even Deals of Private Owners Affected by Ruling Effective July 10

ORDERS CEILING ON USED AUTOS   Ptisertctdiaes Take Effect at January Levels

TER ‘TO ROMANIA   Satellite State Must Act Quickly Or Face Red Army

Russia Offers Peace Terms fo Tired Romania   German Satellite Must Act Quickly Or Face Red Army, London Believes

REDS OFFER PEACE TERMS TO ROMANIA IN LIEU OF INVASION, UNDERSTANDING

Seesaw Battles Declared Raging In Polish Corner   Report Formidable Barrier Guarding Sevastopol Is Captured By Russians

Russia Reported To Have Offered Peace to Romania   But Nazi Satellite Must Act Quickly Or Face Power Of Soviet Army

Nazi Attacks Near Lwow Beaten Back   Fierce, Seesaw Fighting Reported By Soviets. In Old Poland; Formidable Barrier Guarding Besieged Sevastopol Taken By Reds

Greek Coalition Regime To Include All Parties Planned by Leaders

ET  IN TLL HEALTH: ENDS HER LIFE      Daughter Discovers Body Of Mother On Return From Shopping

Local Woman Takes Own Life   ‘Mrs. Charles Boetmar - Turns On Gas Stove

Reds Fight In Streets Of Vitebsk   Soviets Chop Down Survivors Of 75.000 Nazis Trapped In City

Victory is Major Success   50,000 oar More Germans Trapped In Fortress City

German Reporter Admits Yugoslav Campaign Serious  23.-Nazi_ and Bulgariar . Divisions Failte. Stop Partisans ~~

Army Paper Appeals To Home Front   Cautions Americans Back Home European  War Is Not Yet Won

CENTRAL FRANCE HIT BY BOMBERS   U. S. Fortresses Spearhead Allied Attack for Third Successive Time

GREAT AERIAL ARMADA OVER FIIRADE AGAIN   Offensive Led By B-17 Fortresses   ‘HUNDREDS IN AIR

EIGHTH MAJO® DAYLIGHT ASSAULT IN"NINE DAYS FOLLOWS THIRD CONSECU. . TIVE NIGHT ATTACK ON GERMANY

BOMBS GERMAN AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE   Also Blasts Jittery Invasion Coast of Occupied Land

Storms Kill Three People   ‘Western States ‘Are Hurt By High: Wind

SEVERE STORMS SPREAD DAMAGE BUT BRING RAIN   ‘At Least Three Killed Wher Wind Cuts Wide Swath In Southern States

Several States In Wind Storm Area, Four Men Killed   Trees Block Streets

ANDS OF AMERICANS   60,000 Germans, Four Divisions, Blasted Out of the War

GREAT CITY 48 NOW IN HANDS OF AMERICANS   60,000 Germans, Four Divisions, Blasted Out of the War

JAP ATTACKS REPULSED NEAR IMPHAL   Nips Suffering Heavy Losses In Battle

ALLIES 57 MILES FROM FLORENCE   Mud Hampers 5th Army Drive In Italy - ‘

ALLIED GAINS IN TTALY MODERATE   Armored Spearheads Within 60 Miles of Florence

Moderate Gains Made By Allies  In Italian Drive   ‘Tanks, Infantrymen Roll Back Strong ~ Enemy Opposition

U.S. Spearheads Within 60 Miles Of Florence   British Eighth Army Units Converge on Big Port of Ancona

SLIGHT GAINS MADE IN ITALY   Allies Advance North of Grosetto and Peruria

BULGARIA MUST SURRENDER AREAS TO OBTAIN PEACE   Ailies Expected to Insist She Give Up Those Parts of Greece and Yugoslavia She Seized.   COUNTRY TO RECEIVE TERMS IN FEW DAYS   Romania to Sign Armistice Soon—Russia Urges Hungary, Finland and Slovakia to Quit War.

Bulgaria Seeks Terms Of Armistice Hull Says   State Department Says Sofia Has Been In Touch With Allies

PEACE TERMS FOR BALKAN STATES READY   Finland Asked To Quit Nazi Group Today

Bulgaria Is Expected To Be ‘Handed Surrender Terms By Allies Within A Few Days   Armistice Terms For Romania To Be Signed Shortly As Balkans Collapse

SOVIETS URGE OTHER NATIONS ‘TO SURRENDER   Enemy Countries Should Follow Bulgaria’s Exam ple and Fight Hitler

BULGARIAN PEACE TERMS PREPARED   WILL PROBABLY BE GIVEN TO ENVOY IN CAIRO IN FEW DAYS

Bulgaria’s Request Is Examined   Question Of Armistice Is Under Consideration By Allied Officials, Reports Secretary Hull

Bulgaria to Have Peace - Terms Soon   Nazis Put on Pressure To Keep Satellite ‘Under German _..  Cantral

Peace Offer To Bulgaria Thought Neat   Protection for Greek And Yugoslavian Interests Seen

War Loot Lost By Bulgarians   Allies Determined Axis Puppet Must Disgorge

Terms Ready For Bulgaria   Other Nazi Satellites Warned To Act Before It’s Too Late.

Bulgaria’ Terms Of Surrender. Being Prepared; Romania Pact To Be Signed Soon By.Moscow.

BULGARIA TO GET SURRENDER TERMS   Expect They Will Be Hand. ed to Envoy in Cairo Soon.

BULGARIA 10 GET ARMISTICE TERMS   RUSSIANS ASK GERMAN ALLIES TO QUIT WAR

Bulgaria Soon TO Hear Terms Of Surrender   Expect Signing of Russian, Romanian Armistice Shortly

Bulgaria Awaits eace Proposals Of U. S.-British   Russian Ultimatum Issued To Notions Friendly To Axis

Hull Confirms Bulgars In Contact With Allies On Terms For Armistice

Surrender Terms May Be Handed to Bulgaria in Few Days; Armistice  With Romania Due to Be Signed Soon

Await Terms Of Surrender   Bulgarian Envoy at Ankara; Russia Urge: Nazi Allies to Quit

ALLIES AWAIT DECISION Ot BULGARIA   Germany Works Desperately to Shore Up Balkan Front; Peace Terms Submitted.   Suicide Stand

Expect Peace  With Bulgars   Surrender Terms For Bulgaria To Be Handed To Nazi Envoy.

TERMS OF PEACE BEING DRAWN UP FOR BULGARIA   Other Satellite Countries Warned by Allies To Get Out of War Now

Allies Draw Up Surrender Term: For Bulgaria  a a . Ae   ‘Greek, Yugoslav Interests. In Balkans To Be Protected

Bulgaria Soon toKnow Allied Peace Terms   Report Greece and Yugoslav Interests Will Be Protected

BULGARIA TO GET QUITTING TERMS   Greeks, Yugoslavs Claimed To Have Full Protection

Bulgaria to Get Terms From Allies   Surrender Agreement To Be Given Envoy Of Nazi Satellite

Bulgars Await Allied Terms Of Surrender   Armistice Terms For Ro mania Expected to Be Signed Shortly In Moscow

SURRENDE BULGARIA IN SHORT TIME?   Armistice Terms for Balkan Satellite of Nazis May Be Negotiated at Cairo Soon

BULGAR PEACE TERMS READIED   Sign Romanian Armistice In Moscow; Other Nations Totter

Reds Warn Nazi Satellite Nations Time Runs Short  Bulgaria Waifs Delivery of  Allied Terms, Believed to bi Warondifinnal Surrender

UnitedNation: Peace Terms For Bulgaria. About Ready.   Germans Put Pressure On Balkan Satellite’ Trying To Keep Tt  Fran: Severing Ties

PEACE TERMS PREPARED FOR BULGARIA   Nazi Satellite Will Learn Conditions in Few Days as Romania Prepares ta Sian

JAPS CLEARED FROM TIDDIM ROAD IN EAST INDIA   Allies Now Only 50 Miles From Jap Base at Tiddim.

JAPS ENCIRCLED IN BURMA PUSH   Americans And Chinese Wipe Out Nipponese Suicide Squads

Japs Menacing Allies in India   Grenades, Bayonets Used by Americans

SINO-YANKS POSE IN ON JAP SQUADS   In Mogaung Valley Of Northern Burma; New Threat To Allied Life Lines Develops From Invasion.   Own Airfields

Stilwell’s Force  Advances As Fourth Jap Spearhead Hits North of Imphal

Jap Force In North Burma Surrounded   Chinese, Americans Wipe Out Suicide Squads To Advance

ALLIED SUPPLY LINE MENACED   Fourth Jap Spearhead Is Moving Toward Kohima In Indian Jungles

Stilwell Force Closing in on Japs in Burma   Fourth Jap Spearhead Moving Steadily Into India; British Drive Ahead in Akvab Area

Szar: 0° 3a.aans “ar Seen, 3u2 ow a2 ~ earz 0. 20.anc . ncicazet.

 om, —By Kirke L. Simpson (  Russians May Drive To Berlia Thru Poland

‘LOST BATTALION’ IS RESCUED   American Unit Held Hill Inside Nazi Lines A Week

SUN SHINING AGAIN   Temperatures in Nineties as Rain Belt Moves On

SILENCE HIDES 3 DAYS’ NEWS IN LUXEMBOURG   ‘Ike’s’ Order Heartens G. I.

Maximum 40-Mile Gain Is Revealed As News Ban Still Hides Luxembourg Progress

Eisenhower Calls On Allied Troops To Stop Enemy.”   Maximum Penetration Less Than 40 Miles,,.. ” Say Field Dispatches’

Work or Fight Draft Rules Given Boards   OLDER MEN TO BOLSTER DEPLETED SERVICE POOL UNDER NEW INSTRUCTIONS

Selective Service To Tell New Plan  Define Standards For Occupational Dofoarmont Clanror

Framing New  Draft Policy   Finishing Touches Being Done to Clarify Status For Men Over 26

3 Deaths Occur  In Coast Deluge   Los Angeles Schools  Close: Roads Flooded

Seven Inches of Rain, High Waves Pound Southern California: Comedians Quip

4-DAY RAIN CLOSES LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS   Three Deaths Laid to Storm— Rescuers to'Canyon Where 50 “ ‘amilies Are Marooned.

—Bomber, Fighter Explode In Air—  Three Planes Crash Following Collision

16 Soviet Republics Given Power To Handle Own Affairs  RY HENRY C. CASSIDY

Russ Move Stirs World   Reorganization of Sovict Union Gives Diplomatic Power

Soviel Safes To Handle Own Foreign Affairs  16 Republies Given   16 Republics Given Right To Control Military Units

RUSSIA VIRTUALLY  CHANGES ITS FORM  OF GOVERNMENT SOVIET UNION MEMBERS  MAY DEAL DIRECTLY WITH ATURR NATIONG

Diplomats See Possibility Of Broad Foreign Policy  In New Russian Program

Soviet Union's Reconstruction a Brilliant Diplomatic Move — Which.May Force Many Issues

Russians Grant 16 Republics Their Own Army  Allied Councils To Feel Weight Of Soviet Power

Sec. Knox Says Selfish Oil Companies Should Not Be Allowed To Block Arabian Oil Pipeline

Knox Criticizes Oil Companies   SAYS INTERFERING IN OIL LINE PROJECT ACROSS ARABIA

Billion Barrel Supply There Would Add To Our Security Says Knox.

re. (EST OF “BS POWER I$ LAUNCHED   Senate Group Challenges Rule Over  Economic Life

OPENING. MOVE IS BASED .ON “REFUSAL . TO. GRANT PRIORITIES FOR IERIGA-"  . TION PROJECTS

POWER OF WPB IS CHALLENGED   Contnal OL Food Productioh  Materials At Stake

OMBERS BATTER NAZI RAIL LINES   U.S. 15th Air Force in Italy Keeps Attack Going as Bac Weather Grounds. BritishBased Planes

BLAST AT RAIL LINES IN REICH   Italy-Based Planes Attack As Weather Grounds Craft in England

rom Italy, While Weather Grounds British-based Bombers; Designed to Disrupt Rail Traffic.   Start Fires

Stimson Voices Confidence, Though He Says Situation Now Critical

Stinson DeclaresNazis Will-Keap - Disaster in Push  Confident ‘of Allied ~ Victory; “Says. Nuzis -. Spoflarlleuvalve —

OT IMGON VIEWS WAR SITUATION   Confident Germans Will Rear Disastrous Consequences From Gambling CounterOffensive; Tells Casualties

STIMSON SEES REICH DISASTER   Secretary Confident That Belgian Break Will Help Victory

But Says U.S: Efforts To Check Enemy Drive Cost Severe Casualties

A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA:   Legion Auxiliary Elects New State Officers

—AIR WAR—  ANF BOMBS HIT) NAZI DEFENSES   Three Large Railroad Centers In.France Also Are Battered   WEATHER IS BAD   [Brings First Lull In Two Weeks In Daylight Aer jal Offensive .   RILLETIN

FRENCH CHANNEL COAST HIT   Strong Formations Of Bombers And Fighters In Raid

GOP National Committee Selects Chicago As Cony. City   Pertinent Suggestions Given bv Halleck

CHICAGO CERTAIN TO BE G. 0, P. NATIONAL '44 CONVENTION CITY   Republicans Will Wir Control Of House, Leader Says

Vegetables In Cans, Jellies, Jams Unrationed   No Points Needed For Several Processed Foods After Sept. 17.

Blue Tokens Will Be Discontinued   Future Point Values In Multiples of Ten

OOME PROCESSED FOODS OFF LIST   James Byrnes Announced ‘Unrationing’ of Several Food Items.

BLUE RATION TOKENS A. BEING DISCONTINUED P.   S ABSENTEE BALLOTS ED PASS THOUSAND MARK   OPA Announces That Action Will Be Taken October 1 In Line With New Policy

some Foods to Re Ration-Free   Will Be Removed From Rationing  On Sept. 17

Will Remove Several Items From Ration   “Unrationing” Order To Become Effective Sent, 17

UNRATION SOME CANNED FOODS   Canned Vegetables, Fruit Spreads, Other Items Released By WFA

BLUE RATION COUPONS TO BE DISCONTINUED   Orders Come From OPA Stating Reduction In Food Rationing Was Re  . sponsible For Token Discontinuance.

Point Values Of Some Foods  Off Sept. 17   Fruit Spreads, Canned Vegetables, Related Products Included

Ration-Free  Foods Listed   Some ci Processed Foods Will Be Removed September 17

Blue Ration Tokens Void After Sept. 30   Processed Food Point Values Will Be Set Up in Multiples of Ten

Processed Foods Off Ration List  Several Items Free After Sept. 17

Blue Ration Tokens  _ Discontinued Oct. 1 Multiples Of 10 Aid The  Hoaucewives

BLUE TOKENS DISCONTINUED QETOBER 1ST   One Point ‘Blue Tok: éns Shall No Longer Be Used After Oct. 1

More Processed Food Is To Be Removed From the Ration List Sept. 17th

Some Canned Vegetables and Fruit Spreads to Be Unrationed Sept. 17

Mile Of Appian Way Reported In Hands Of American Units   Slash Great Holes In Anzio Front In Swift And Decisive Advance; Cut Trunk Railway To Capital

ANZIO FORCES CUT APPIAN WA) FOR TWO MILES   Hitler Line Breached At Pico, Pontecorvo; Terracina Has One Escape Route

PLANES SMASH NAZI VEHICLES   150 Destroyed and 150 Others Are Damaged

NINTH JAP CONVOY IS WIPED OUT   10 Ships Wrecked In Nip Effort to Reinforce Leyte

Ten Vessels Are Wrecked:  Japs Drown   MacArthur Regroups Army For Knockout Of Jap Garrison

Regroup Forces For Final Phase of Leyte Battle   Planes, Torpedo Boats Wipe Out Japanese Reinforcement Convoy

MARTHUR GROUPS FORCES FOR FINAL BATTLE OF LEYTE FRONT   PLANES, TORPEDO BOATS WIPE OUT NINTH JAP REINFORCEMENT CONVOY OFF COAST

Yanks Destroy Jan Replacements   U. S. GROUND FORCES ON LEYTE REGROUPED TODAY

NINTH JAPANESE CONVOY WIPED OUT OFF LEYTE      Gen, MacArthur Regroups Ground Forces For Final Phase Of Leyte Battle

Oth Attempt Jo Enforce  Leyte Fails   Ground Forces Re-Grouped for Final Battle

LEYTE TROOPS GET READY TU FINISH BAT TL   Japs Lose Heavily When U. S. Bombers and Torpedo Boats Hit Convoy.

Oth Nip Convoy Lost at Leyte   10 Ships Wrecked, Thousands Drown

Battle of Leyte In Final Phase; Destroy Convoy   MacArthur Regroups Ground Forces on Island—Thousands of Jap Soldiers Drown

PHILIPPINE FIGHTERS SINK TH JAP CONVOY   Thousands Drowned  On Way To Ormoc

10 Ships Out OF 11 in Jap  Convoy Sunk   MacArthur Grouping Leyte Forces as Nips Suffer Defeat

Gen. MacArthur Regroups Forces for Final Battle of Leyte   Ninth Jap Reinforcement Convoy Wiped Out In Last Six Weeks

OPA LAW GHANGES QFFERED BY UNIT   Smith Committee Planning “Kangaroo Court” Abolition

House Group Seeks Many OPA Changes; Would Abolish Kangaroo Courf

Danforth W. Co Comins Tells of Articles in Concord “Town Warrant

IN CONCORD ~~ HAD SESSION      Rep...R. K. King of Millis Gave Talk on “The  Commonwealth”

TRADE BOARD IN MEETING AT ~ COLONIAL INN   Danforth W. Comins Tells of Articles in Concord Town Warrant

ALLIED TROOPS NOW 16 MILES FROM ROME   Bursting Forward in New Offensive from Invasion Beachhead They Straddle Appian Way

NAZIS MAULED AS RED DRIVE NEARS ESTONIA   Germans Reinforce Sagging Lines in Italy While Berlin Still Burning

IMPORTANT POINTS IN GERMAN DEFENSE OF ITALY ATTACKED   RUSSIANS NEARING ESTONIA AND FIGHTING IN STREETS OF KINGISEPP

ADVANCE FORCE 16 MILES FROM CAPITAL CITY   y Soviet Troops Push Nearer Estonia, As Nazi Front Crumbles Swiftly

Fight Within Outskirts of Two Key Cities   Russians Are Only Kight Miles From Estonia, As City Of Berlin Burns

Campoleone Is Reached Today: Reds Advance   Russians Are Within 8 Miles Of Vital Estonia; Spain To Quit Axis?

Special Mobilization of  Coast Guard Reserves Ordered Fer This Eve

‘Three German Generals Said Execufed for Not ‘Obeving Hitler's Orders

AdvanceUnits Only Three and One-Half Miles trom BigPort   Montebourg and Valognes Captured By Steadily Advancing U. S. Armor

SURRENDER OR DEATH FACES 30,000 NAZIS   Allies Retake Montebourg

Crash Through Outer Defenses of Cherbourg   Montebourg and Valognes Are Captured

Yanks 3 Miles of Big Port   American Army Now Vvithin Sight Of Rurning ¢ ity

Germans — Have Set Port Afire   FALL OF PRIZED FRENCH CITY: IS IMMINENT; ALLJES TAKE ~~ MONTEBOURG AMP. VALOGNES:

Gi gantic War Developments  Are Looked For   High American Military   Figures Join Churchill  in ltaly as U, $. Air Might Is Loosed

MORE DRAFT CALLS HERE AS GROUP LEAVES   Business of Local Selective Service Board Booming

CALLS HERE AS GROUP LEAVES   Business of Local Selective Service Board Booming

WAR TODAY   Exact Time Is Set For Allied Assault On Hitler's Fortress On Mammoth Séste

BRITISH LABOR MINISTER REVEALS — “THAT EXACT MOMENT FOR INVASION OF CONTINENT HAS BEEN FIXED   Some Unforseen Emergency, However, Such A: . Shifting: Winds or Tides Could Possibly Bring Change in Time. But Hour for D-Day Nears

The War Today   By DeWITT MacKENZIE (Associated Press War Anaiyst)

JAP MHITARY: LEADERS WILL DIRECT NATION   General Koiso, Admiral Yonai To Form Gov peament

Hirohito Orders Another General, Admiral to Form New Government.   ‘FOLLOW MILITARY RULE

HIROHITO HAS ORDERED A NEW CABINET FORMED   Mandate Given Gen, Kuniaki Koino and Admiral Mitsum-asa Yonal.,   POWERFUL LEADERS   Completion of New Govern ment Expected Tonight or Tomorrow,

APPOINTS TWO MEN TO FORM UNITY CABINET   Tojo’s Ouster One of  Greatest Upheavals Of World War Il

PREMIER TOJO WITH ENTIRE CABINET OUT   Emperor Hirohito Orders General and Admiral to Form Government.   No Departure From Former Principles

Jap Emperor: In Call for * New Cabinet   Militarisis Are Expected te ' -. Maintain Control of Government   DRASTIC UPHEAVAL ‘' - JS UNDER WAY      Elder Statesmen. Called. Tr for Conferences With -Hirohito" :

Tojo Hits Skids;  ‘Cabinet Resigns   Reverses Worry ‘Sons Of Heaven’

Tojo, Japanese Dictator, Falls With His Cabinet   Two Militarists Are Chosen for His Successors

Emperor Puts Government In ) Men's Hands   General And Admiral In Charge; Act Comes In Face Of Mounting  Dicactarc Far lanan

Jap Emperor Names 2 To Succeed Tojo   Koiso And Ysnai, Former Premier, Called Back: No Change In Policy

Japan Shaken By Fall   EMPEROR ORDERS GEN. KOISO AND ADMIRAL YONAI TO SET UP A NEW GOVERNMENT

NEW CABINET BEING FORMED BY HIRQHITO   Military Leaders To Be Selected To Lead War

Gen. Koiso And Adm. Yonai Named to Form  _ New Cabinet Aimed At Strengthened and Combined Operations of Army and Navy-

Tojo and Cabinet All Fall as Nippon Leaders  Hirchito Reshuffles Entire Regime Because of Losses

War Lord Tojo And His Entire Cabinet Fall:   Ouster Laid To Saipan Defeat; Hirohito Issues Orders

HEADS OF NEW GROUP APPOINTED   General And Admiral Named By Emperor In Jap Shakeup

Gen. Koiso And Admiral Yonai Called To Helm   Ordered To Form Cabinet After Tojo, Boastful Litle Tyrant, Falls

Defeats Force Fall of Tojo   Jap Premier, Entire Cabinet Ousted by Repeated Nippon War Setbacks; Two Men to Share Responsibility in Future

TOJ0 OUSTED; MILITARY MEN MIKADO CHOICE   General Koieo, Admiral Yonai Will Form New Government “In Cooperation” Soon

TOJO'S REGIME FALLS IN JAPAN   HIROHITO ORDERS KOISO AND YONAI TO FORM CABINET

Military Heads Begin Forming 'NewNip Regime      Governor General of Korea and Admiral Yonui Are Striving to Build Cabinet   Selection Of Pair Is Unprecedented   Foretells Deterniined Ef fort to Cope With Ac. knowledged Peril of fap Defeat

Tojo’s Cabinet Out as Result of Many Japanese Reverses   Another General and Admiral Ordered to  Form Government

Emperor Hirohito Orders Another — General and an Admiral to Form New Government ‘in Cooperation,’ Tokyo Says

‘NEW BLOOD’ IS SOUGHT BY NIPS   Tojo and Gang Ousted, Hirohito Names Others to Form Government

Defeats Force Tojo Out As Jap Premier   General And Admiral Ordered To Form New Government

Tojo Out As Japan  Premier   In Crisis Hirohito Names Two Big Leaders to Form A New Cabinet

A New Jap Cabinet to Be Formed   Military Leaders Are Charged with Task; Tojo and Entire Cabinet Quj+

Premier Tojo, Entire Cabinet Fall In Unprecedent Shake-up in Japan

New General. Admiral To Be  Decided Soon   Eiji Amau Resigns As Presi. dent Of Japanese Informa: tan Raard.   SILENT ON FUTURE

‘KOISO, YONAI COMPOSE JOINT PREMIERSHIP   _ Unprecedented Choice - Of Two Men Shows Aim For Unified Force:

GEN, TO!0 QUITS AS JAP PREMIER   Gen. Koiso and Adm. Yona Will Attempt to Form a New Government.

Jap's Emperor Mandates Two Leaders To Form New Government Aiter Ousting  Tojo Whose War Strategy Didn't Work

Expect Continued — Jap Military Rule   General and Admiral, Aggressive Exponents of Expansion, to Form New Government in “Co-operation,” Replacing Tojo.

Job to Two Military Leaders   Choice Indicates No Change From Drastic. Militarist Tone of Fallen Tojo Government

Tojo And All His Cabinet Resigned   Hirchito. Has Ordered Two Military Men to Form New Government   FOLLOWS JAP DEFEATS   Permier Had Fought Losing Battle for Past Week To Avoid Fall

MAN WHO LED JAPAN INTO WAR AGAINST U.S. HAS FINALLY FALLEN  A GENERAL AND AN ADMIRAL CALLED UPON TO  FORM NEW CABINET

Yugoslav Partisans Land On Adriatic Island To Annihilat German Garrisons At Blaia

YANKS -GHINESE MEET IN BURMA   China And Burma Are Linked Together Today

Explosion Kills 5 But Plant Goes Ahead With Scheduled Bond Rally

Japanese Press Gains in China   Advance 10 Miles South of Changsha

JAPS ADVANCE ON HENGYANG RAIL JUNCTION   Chinese Troops Pres: West In Drive From Salween Front To Reopen Supply Line From India Through Burma

Japs Pushing  - Across Hunan   Long Advance Is Claimed Along 88-Mile Are

RAILWAY TOWN LOST BY CHINA   Tokyo Forces Try To Cut Country In Half, Make 10-Mile Advance

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BUTLER RENEWS SPENDING ATTACK   Charges “Good Neighbors’ Oucted in Rolivin

French Underground Set For U. S. Invasion; ~laim They Have Need For More Weapons

2 U.S. DIVERS MISSING, PAIO AL TAN CAPTAIN   R.C. MAN RECAPTURED FROM JAPS ON LEYTE

TEMPERATURES:   Yanks Mopping Up Remnants Of German Forces   Thousands Of Prisoners Taken; British Blast Foe To Eastward

Dig Out Fanatical Nazis In House To House Fighting As  German Artillery RBlacte

Digging Out Last Fanatic Germans   Nazis Pumping Heavy Shells Into City From Northwest Cape—British Batter Forward on Opposite End of Normandy Front — 3,340 Prisoners Taken

Backbone of Cherbourg Defense Broken; Fight  To Dig Out Last Nazis

Allies Average Capture of 1,000 Nazi Prisoners Daily Since French Invasion, Bag Totals 20,000 Huns

Yanks Fight to Dig Out Last Fanatic .  German Soldiers .   Backbone of Enemy Resistance Broken As Doughboys Reach Beaches and Continue to Battle House-to-House

YANKS REACH THE WATERFRONT BUT ~— NAZISFIGHT ON   Have to Dig Germans Out House to House .    NOW THE NAZIS © ~ SHELLING CITY

MANN AREAD IN EFFORT 1) CONTACT HITLER LIME   Americans and French Drive Germans Oug of Important Liri Valley   BRITISH STILL MENACING CASSINO   Kesselringe Sends Reserves Into Battle— Allies Ahead of Schedule

TWO-THIRDS OBLITERATION STAGE NEAR   Night Attack on Reich Capital Twelfth Major Assault In All-Out Raids.   BULLETIN

BIG CAPITAL TWO-THIRDS DESTROYED   18,000 to 19,000 Tons Have Already Fallen on Berlin

26,000 VOTE IN FAVOR OF STRIK   Truck Drivers Have Taker Action In Attempt to Get 7.Cont Increase.

Truck Strike in 12 States Voided   Drivers Threaten Midwest Walkout

Drivers Threaten  To Call Strike   26,000 Over-the-Road Truckers Favor Walkout

U.S. Assumes Control Over  Erie, Pa. Co.   Lord Manufacturing Firn Charged With Boosting Prices On War Producis

NAVY TAKES OVER PLANT   F.D.R. Orders Seizure for Refusal to Abide by Price Fixing

FDR Directs Navy To Seize Erie Plant For Failure To Abide By Price Fixing Rule   President In First Action Of Kind Says Refusal Interfered With Output

GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER ERIE FACTORY   Executive Order Says Lord Manufacturing Co. Interfered With Production Of Vital Supplies  DISPUTE OVER PRICES

om Settee 00 eee nl mnie  Senate Fuss, Over State Dept. Aids   FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE APPROVES ALL FOUR, TWO WITH OPrOS!ITION,   Held To Be Reactionaries

Expect Blow At South France   Berlin Reports 15 Allied Divisions Massed In North Africa.

Berlin Reports Allied Troops in Africa to Strike  Against France

CASUALTIES IN ARMY 118,128   19,499 Dead, Half of Wounded Recover

Veterans’ Aid Voted By Chest   Gives $3,600 To Help Finance Office

VETERANS’ AID OFFICE SET UP   Community Chest Votes $3,600 to Finance Project

‘Super-Warship Sent to Bottom Of Tromso Fjord   Twenty-Nine Lancasters Carry Out Attack

Allies Bag Reich’s Last Major Vessel   MOST OF CREW BELIEVED LOST WHEN SIX-TON BOMBS HIT MYSTERY SHIF

ARROGANT COLONEL CAPTURED BY YANKS   Von Der Heydte, Commander Of Parachute Troop, Quits Xrem  Pain And Hunger

Soviet Armor 30 Miles From Polish Border   German Forces In Full Retreat Toward Bug River

REDS WITHIN 83 MILES OF POLISH BORDER   Hundreds of Thoue sands of German Troops Imperiled In Dnieper Bend.

TIGHTEN SIEGE LINE ON VITEBSK SEIZE ZHITOMIR   German Lines Rolled Back on 200-Mile ~ Front Near Kiey

Germans in Full Retreat From Russia   Reds Tighten Siege Lines Arourd Vitebsk in White  Russia  i ¢ diy hs tae

Last Nazi Escape Highway from F Vitebsk Cut, Thousands Faeé. Doom; Retreat Near Kiev Grows

ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL DISCUSSION GETS UNDER WAY   QUICK AGREEMNT IN EXPECTED ON POSTWAR POLICY

POSTWAR OIL PLAN (S BEING DISCUSSED   Main Goal Is Permanent Group to Study Resources. Needs.

TALKS ON OIL POLICY   Common, Anglo-American  PostWar -Action te Be Discussed"

Balkans Voved As Reds Gain   Rumania’s Highways Clogged By Peasants Evacuating Inland.

Red Advance Stirs Fear In Rumania   Nation in Turmoil As Soviet Forces Capture Kirovovrad

GREAT SOVIET DRIVE AIMED FOR RUMANIA   FACTORIES MOVING; FLEEING PEASANTS CLOG HIGHWAYS

Panicky Rumanians Leave Areas Russians Nearing   Pro-Nazis Hold Government Bound to Axis Even As Nation Trembles; Bulgaria, Hungary Badly Worried

Balkan Powers  Fear Russians   Seek Means Of Eseaping As Reds Press Closer.  - Upon Rumania

Frantic Balkans Seek Way Out Of  Nazi Partnershit   Prepare For Worst As Red Armies Near

Rumanians Flee Before Advance Of Soviet Army   Machinery From Frontier Factories Sent to Interior

Axis Satellite Nations Are Preparing For Worst  Rumanian Peasants Clog Roads   Rumanian Peasants Clog Roads From Bessarabia, Bucovina

Rumanians Pull Out Of Bessarabia In Expectation Of Russian Invasion

Big Armada Of Yank Aircraft Bomb Germany   RAF Bombs and Strafe: Nazi “Dankerque”  Attempt From Great Port Le Havre

MARSEILLE CAPTURED:   RAF Strafes A German "Dunkerque’ at Le Havre

Air Armadas Batter Reich   Contribute To Progress * Of Armies Closing In On Germany.

Air Armada Blasts Nazis   “Dunkerque” Attempt at LeHavre Strafed; Oil Refineries Hit Hard

NAZI ESCAPE FLEET AND LAND TARGETS POUNDED BY FLIERS   2,300 -U.'S. Craft Bomb German and Czech Areas Following RAF Blasting, of “Nazi Flotilla Attempting to Flee LeHavre

2,300 AMERICAN PLANES IN RAIDS   Dozen Targets in Reich and Along Czech Border Blasted by Yanks

VAST ARMADA OF 2300 AMERICAN PLANES IN Gu ACHES a GERMANY   RAF BOMBED AND STRAFED GERMAN ATTEMPT TO FLEE LE HAVRE

1,300 U.S. Planes Hit Targets In: Germany   Mount One Of Greatest Assaults By United States Air Forces

2,300 PLANES RAID GERMANY   Targets On Czech Border, »Fleeing Troops At LeHavre Also Hit

Giant Air Fleet Strikes Germany   U.S. Armada of 2,300 Ploenes Raid Nazi Oi! and Industries

2,300 AMERICAN PLANES SMASHED GERMAN TARGETS   Greatest Assaults Ever Mounted by United States Air Forces

American Aerial Armada Of 2,300 Planes Smash At 12 Targets Throughout Europe   Concentrate On Le Havre Where Germans Attempt Dunkirk

Yankee Airmen Smash Le Havre Escape Attempt   2,300 American Planes Strale Ships and Boais, Others Plaster Oil Piants. Factories

2,300 Planes Pound Many Targets   Sink, Damage Many Ships Seeking to Flee Le Havre

Partisan N ight  Fighters Surround Nazi Garrison Zagreb Raided By Tito's Fighters

C. PRAHL DIES IN COLLISION Oh NORTH 220 ST.   Pvt. Ray Gullion, Driver of Other Car, Slightly Injured

LANDING IS MADE ON MANUS ISLAND BY AMERICAN TROOPS   Less Than Five Hours After Invasion U. S. Cavalry meh Were Within Half Mile Of Jap Airfield At '  Lorengau; Island MacArthur’s Main Obiective

Americans LandOQn Manus Island   Admiralty Goal Invaded With Minor Casualties

U.S. Forees Land — On Manus Island   First Cavalry Division Troops Land on Biggest Island  of Admiralty Group—Only Minor Casual. ’ troe Apa Suffarad

Make Landing Near Vital Jap Airdrome   Naval, Air Attacks Support Invasion: Losses Are ‘Minor’

AMERICANS LAND (ON ANOTHER IL IN ADMIRALTIES   First Cavalry Division Troops Invade Manus, Main Jap " Base in. Area and Long . MacArthur's’ Goal...   NIPPONESE PUT UP STIFF OPPOSITION   Part of Yanks Push to Within Halt a Mile of. Airfield at ‘Lorengau While Others — Move Inland.

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YANKS LAND ON MANUS ISLE IN ADMIR ALTIES   Aided by Destroyers, Bombers; Push Near Jap Airfield

GLAGH BtIWEER WHITE ROUSE ANL CONGRESS NEARS   Possibility of Veto in Price Contrcl Act Is Evident

PRICE CONTROL BATTLE LOOMS      ADMINISTRATION LEADERS SEE POSSIBILITY (OF PRESI-’. DENTIAL VETO OF. con? GRESS REVISION ‘OF BILL -

CLASH BETWEER WHITE. HOUSE AND CONGRESS NEARS   Possibility of Veto . in Price Contre! Act Is Evident

Lawton’s Ace Is Still Going Strong   Johnson Has 25 Planes— All Bagged in Air Fighting

More Than 7,000 Tons of Explosives Are Showered On Nazi Cities in 36 Hours

CASSINO BATTLE DEADLOCKED BUT FIGHTING RAGES   Reds Drive To Within Sight Of Rumania Proper and Push Toward Poland

YANKS BATTER REICH THIRD DAY WN A ROW   7,000 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped On Enemy In 36 Hours

Hammer German Targets   Allied Airmen Shower 7,000 Tons of Bombs On Enemy in 36 Hours; Reds Near Rumania

New Air Offensive In Third Day as Yanks Hit Reich   Russians Sight Prut River; Cassino Still Baffles Allies

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS POUNDED GERMANY, FRANCE  AIRFIELDS PRINCIPAL OBJECTS OF CONTINUED AIR ATTACKS .

HIT GERMANY, FRENCH BASES INNEW BLOWS   Allied Planes Throw 7,000 Tons Of Explosives At Nazis In 36 Hours

60 FROM COUNTY DIED IN SERVICE   Casualty List During July Highest Since Start of War.

60 FROM COUNTY DIED IN SERVICE   Casualty List List During July. Highest Since Start at War

TH ARMY OPEN DRVEIN SECTION “NORTH OF AER   Yank’ Troops Now Settled Down to Process of Weeding ‘Out Last Ditch: ‘HoldOut Squads..of. Fighters. ;   GY NOT OFFICIALLY, _ OCCUPIED BY TROOPS  allied Headquarters Announces.Robot Planes Again Hammer England; Allies Hit Back. Hard. °/%

Nazi Resistance Collapses in City   3,400 Prisoners Taken in 24 Hours: British Start New Drive Out of Caen

MOP-UP STAGE REACHED; OPEN DRIVE AT CAEN   U. S. Troops Pour Inte Port, Erase Pockets Of Resistance

ALLIES SWEE FORWARD ON WIDE FRONT.   Finnish Break in Relations With Reich Reported

FRED TOEL, 72, DIES AT LE MARS   Retired Blacksmith and Farmer Succumbs To ‘Lone Sickness

SOVIETS MAINTAIN DRIVE ON TWO KEY NAZI BASE CITIES   Germans Putting Up a Stiff Resistance at Both Pskov and Narva, However

Smash to. Within 5 Miles of Airdrome; Enemy Has Heavy Losses   CLEAR AITAPE AREA   Another Yank Column Is Closing In on Foe From ) Yumboldt Bar

Jungle Troops’ Near Hollandia’s  Main Airdrome   Enemy Suffer Heavy Losses In Drive On  Tanahmerah Beachhead

JAPS ARE REPULSED ON NEW GUINEA   U. S. Troops Are Within 42 Miles Of Hollandia Field

FALL OF AIRFIELD ATHOLLANDIA SEEMS IMMINENT   U. S. Jungle Troops Smashing CounterAttacks Take Many Janse

U. 5. Troops Near Main Enemy Base at Hollandia   Capture of Airdrome Is Believed Near

Yanks Smash Jap Counter- Attack, Inflicting Losses   Americans Only 4! Mi From Hollandia Airdrome

Japs Defeated in Counter-Attack   U.S. Troops Near Hollandia Airdrome

Hollandia Air Base kixpected To Fall Shortly   Americans, Suffering Casualties, Within Four Miles Of Objective

IAPS HAVE HEAVY LOSS IN ATTAGK BYU. §. TROOPS   Enemy Makes Assault as Americans Push Forward From Beachhead to Reach Hellandia Airdrome.   REDS OPEN FRONT IN LOWER DNESTR VALLEY   Berlin Issues Communique As Moscow Gives No Immediate Statement to Await Development.

Within Five Miles Of Main Airdrome At Hollandia; Smash First Jap Counter-Attack, Taking Heavy Toll   Ry WILLIAM R.DICKINSON

ALLIED FORCE WINS IN BURMA   Scores Major ‘Triumph by Wiping Out 8,000 Japs In Arakan Campaign

NIPPONESE WIPED OUT IN TWO-WEEK. BATTLEIN JUNGLE      Most of Enemy Troops Figh to the Death, but Some Escape and a Few _ Surrender... :         FIRST MAJOR ALLIED _ VICTORY ON’: ONT           Mikado’s Soldiers. Had . Set  Sweeping Advance * Into India.

ALLIES SCORE WIN IN BURMA   8,000 Japanese Destroyed By Force Of British Troops

BRITISH AND INDIANS WIN BIG VICTORY   In Western Burma; Chinese  In North Ae aine 45  files; Task F ce Of 8,000 Tories Destroyed.    Re-Train Chinese

Allies Score Major  Victory in Burma   Force of 8,000 Japanese Destroyed in Two Weeks of Confused Fighting; Mos Of Nip Troops Fought to Their Deaths

Major Victory. in Burma Made by Allies   8,000 Japs Are Destroyed in Bitter Fight

6,000 JAPANESE ARE WIPED OUT NORTH OF AKYAB   First Major Victory In Burma Scored After Two Weeks’ Battle   FEW CAPTIVES ARE TAKEN IN FIGHTING

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GI Places Hand Over Grenade To To Prevent Buddies Being Killed .

Collusion With Nazi  Prisoners   Sensational Relation: Between Soldiers, Wacs And Enemy Internees Revealed,

Germans Claim More Than 200 American Planes Shot Down On “Blue Monday.”

Berlin Still Blazing Away   Raiders Reported Out Aaain Tuesday Night

Allied: Fliers Rain Ruinon French Coast   Berlin Citizens: Stream From. Blazing Capital

GILBERT GIVES APRIL WEATHER CROP REPORTS   Season Unfavorable to Field and Garden Crops; Fewer Pigs and Chickens

Whirlwind Rush Clears Corners Of Crimean Area   Germans Lose 60,000 Men And 507 Towns In One Week’s War On Dusty Peninsula; Ancient Tarter Capital Among Many Communities Taken

As Much As 53 Miles Gained In One Day By Russian Army   Moscow Reports Fleeing Germans Are Throwing Awav Rifles And Even Personal Relanainac

‘Superfortress’  ls Latest Bombe:  Mightiest Aircraft Listed as B-29

Fourth Infantry Hit Siegfried Line   Gen. Barton's Division Hardly Paused After Paris, Drove Wedge Into Line

Subs Destroy  14 Jap Ships   Destroyer, Escort Vessel  Among Nippon Losses

Japs Move Back  Moluccas Bases   Air Pressure Drives Nipponese Westward

(Uontinue qd on Puge 8, Colhunn 8  HOUSE COMMITTEE WARNS AGAINST HASTE IN MERGER   - Senator Hill Cautioned By Committee Against Haste in Military Merger Legislation

Leader Warns Against Military Bill   Senator Says Trouble May Arise If Forces Are Unified

Caution in Merging of Armed Forces of Nation Urged by Representative

Unite Armed Forces Bill Sent Senate  Hill Proposes Giving  Air Forces Equal d Tf. 2... * gh DT

House Votes Job Priority For War Vets   First Major Move Move To Provide For Military’ Personnel After Conflict

Movie Actress Faye Emer son to Become Third Bride of Col. Ellion Roosevelt

Wedding Date Of Roosevelt, Actress, Secret  Plan To Marry Withn Week

Ward Company Contends Collective Bargaining Election Will Be Invalid If U. S. Retains Control of Plant

Court Extends Ward Injunction   Promises Further Ruling Wednesday

Ward Injunction Order Extended   Makes Expiration Date Later Than Sunday Night—To Rule in Injunction Case Wednesdays

JUDGE EXTENDS WARD INJUNCTION   WORKERS NOW FEDERAL EMPLOYES, CONTENTION

U, 5. MAY STOP BUYING MEAT OF ARGENTINA   Project Being Explored Would Reduce Local Supply 15 Percent   PROPOSED AS SANCTION   Rude Sheck Looming For South American Nation if America Acts

U.S. PLANS BLOW AT ARGENTINA   May Order Slash In Meat Purchases

SINATRA FATHER OF BOY   Crooning idol Happy at Birth of Son; May Carry on ss --Mame---

Japs Really Dug In On Northern Saipan   Marines Tried to Spare Civilians, Consideration Cost Them Casualties

Russian Army Within 60 Miles Of Germany’s  East Prussian Border   Surging Westward Along Central Front Soviet Troop: Capture Luniniec And Slonim Two Important Rail Centers

2,000 Warplanes Hit Crumbling Enemy Positions  13 Bombers and Five Fighters Are Lost in Operations

CORPORATIONS AND EMPLOYES — SUPPORTING WAR LOAN DRIVE   QUOTAS BEING EXCEEBDED IN PURCHASES REPORTED TO DATE—E BOND SALES LAGGING

U.S.S.RANGER ANSWERS FALSE: GERMAN CLAIMS   Accounted for Destruction o: More Than 40,000 Tons of Nazi Shipping.   SHIP REPORTED SUNK   Strike Into Norway’s Waters Made 6 Months After Hitler Announced Sinking.

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U.S. S. Ranger Raids Shipping Off Norway   Aircraft Carrier Goes On Daring Raid In Enemy Waters—Takes Heavy Toll Of Ships

REDS OCCUPY "ESCAPE PORT;. MASH LINE   RUSSTAN ARMIES IN BALTIC BATES CRUSHING GERMAN "RESISTANCE ON TWO:  FRONTS aa

ROBOT WEATHER UNITS, ARE IN OPERATION   Stations Providing Data In Greenland And The Tropics For Allied Military Attacks

SEMI-TRAILER TRUCK HITS C.&N.W.RR.   Shoved Steel Overpass and Track Several Inches

Heavy Battle Will Soon be Waged for Rome Says Stimson   Germans Below Rome Feel Pressure From  Fifth Army

Squeeze On Nazi Troops   Allies Aim at Destruction of 9 Divisions in Italy; German Bases Totter in North Russia

CRACK GOERING UNIT REPULSED BY FIFTH ARMY   Soviet Capture Of Krasnog vardeisk Complicates  Enemy Defenses

Germans Face Troop Squeeze on Two Fronts   Situation in Haly and North Russia Becoming Serious

FIFTH ARMY TROOPS TIGHTENED SQUEEZE ON GERMAN FORCES  EVEN GREATER SQUEEZE APPLIED TO. NAZIS IN NORTH RUSSIA

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY PUTS PRESSURE ON 100,000 NAZIS: COUNTER ‘ATTACKS REPULSED   _ Germans Launch First Major Attack in Effort to ’ Wipe Out Allied Beachhead, As Allies Strengthen  WY Positions for Drive Toward Rome

BITTER BATTLE LIKELY BEFORE ROME IS TAKEN   Russians Slogging Ahead in Freak Thaw’s Mud To Trap Big German Force

100,000 Nazis Are Caught in  Squeeze Play   Russians Also Entrapping Nazis In Northern Russia In Heavy Fighting

Gen. DeGualle  Changes Mind   Agrees To Allow’ Freneh Representatives To Serve As Liaison Officers.

Swedish Editor Says Finns Peace May Cause Revolt   Declares Mannerheim Only Person Able To Unite People

Finnish Civil War Seen Under Terms   Acceptance of Rus: Proposal Might Lead to Fighting

Finns May War Over Red Terms      CIVIL STRIFE FORECAST IF PEACE PLAN ACCEPTED

FINN PUBLIC UNPREPARED FOR PEACE   Russia’s Original Demands May Cause Civil Wor Outbreak

U.S. FORCES INVADE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS; RABAUL OUTFLANKED   MacArthur Personally Directs New Blow; Yank Casualties Light As Jap Resistance Fades; Pincers Aimed At Truk

‘Admiralty Coup Begins Closing Pincers On Truk   Brilliant Landing Has Generally Light Casualties

U. 5. Invasion Force Lands ir Admiralty Group   Rapidly Extend Beachheads, While  Resistance Laas

Nip Resistance Light; Invaders Seize Airdrome   Americans Take Stranglehold On Los Negros Isle In Surprise Operation Directed By MacArthur Personally; Rabaul Raided

THRUST ACROSS BISMARCK SEA   Americans 1,300 Miles  From Philippines

Americans Invade  Admiralty Islands   Quick Airfield Capture Dominates Whole Grou Enenwv in South Is Now Teal atec

MW’ Arthur Visits Raarhas   Landing Is Made On Los Negros Island By Yanks

Yanks Win Quick Victory In Taking Admiralty Isles   MacArthur Views It From Ship’s Deck. ‘72,000 Japs Are Now Trapped. ,

Troops on LosNegros  IMPORTANT FOOTHOLD IN PACIFIC IS GAINED BY ALLIES   Jap Airdrome Captured; Foe On The Run

U.S. FORCES TAKE ISLE IN ADMIRALTYS   Los Negros Is Only 610 Miles From Nip Base At Truk

LANDINGS MADE IN ADMIRALTYS BY U, S. FORCES   Extend Beachheads In Thr Acréss Bismarch Sea, Surprise Jans

RAPIDLY EXTEND BEACHHEADS WITH LOW RESISTANCE   Troops Move Nearer Objectives of New Guinea, Americans Are Now 1300 Miles From Philippines.   MORE THAN 70,000 IN TRAP, SOME ISOLATED   Soviet Armored Forces Enter Pskov, Germans Routed {n Companion Drive tn Northern Russia.

Key Air Base 610 Miles From Truk Captured In Latest Pacific Action

GAIN FOOTHOLD FOR NEW SOUTH PACIFIC DRIVE   Surprise Attack Captures Airfield; Jap Resistance Dwindles Rapidly

-U. S. Invasion. Forces Have Landed In Admiralty Islands *1300. Miles From. Philippines

Completes Prong of Pincers Move  On Base At Truk   Japanese Defenders On Los Negros Island Taken By Surprise

Airdrome — = Is Seized © In New Move   ADVANCES AMERICAN FORCES 254 MILES WESTWARD FROM NEW BRITAIN; 610 MILES FROM. TRUK --:-

Goebbels Takes Magician Role   To Pull Trump Cards Out Of Sleeve For Jittery Germans.

Germans Soak Up Goebbels’ Line Of ‘Trump Card’ Being Held As Stimson Reveals Air Defenses Badly Crippled   Nazi Replacement Ability Whittled  By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK Associated Press Staff Writer   Unknown Weapons Claimed In Place

Germans Soak Up Goebbels’ Line Of “Trump Card being lad Ae GHmean Renenle Air Defenses Badly Crippled   Nazi Replacement Ability Whittled  By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK   Unknown Weapons Claimed In Place

Nazi “Trump Cards”: New Defense Plans and Weapons Will Stop Invasion, Says Goebbels   Bombing Can't Knock Out Luftwaffe, Nazi Chief Declares in Attempt To Bolster German Morale

EFFORT MADE BY GOEBBELS TO CALM NAZIS   Talks of Mystery De. fense Measures And Weapons

GOEBBELS {5 TRYING TO SOOTHE NAZIS   Promises “Trump Cards” When Invasion Starts; Other Reports Reveal Anxiety of Germans.   Hidden Host

Red Cross War Fund Campaign In Plymouth County Off To Good Start   Increased Activity In Nursing, War Work And Other Activities

Woman, Boy Husband Apprehended   L. A. MOTHER FACES CHARGE OF STEALING CHILD BRIDEGROOM

U.S. Forces Push Ahead in Italy And Normandy  Russians Report Successes All Alane Thaw Feante

Yanks Push Into Outskirts of Lessay, Fighting Last Mile to St. Lo, Advance Within 4 Miles of Periers

JOHN SEIDEL, 34, DROWNED IN GRAND RIVER YESTERDAY   Evidently Became Exhaust ed While Swimming Across the Stream.   BODY WAS RECOVERED   He Accompanied Several Boy Scouts on Outing 1 Miles West of Bedford.

HILLS ABOUT BIG CITY IN SOVIET HANDS   Armies and ‘Fleet Mass For Attack To Drive Enemy Into Sea

Red Armies, Fleet at Sevastopol to  Push Foe Into Sea   Russ Tighten Siege on Great Black Sea Naval  Base

Soviet Artillerymen Again Siep Germans Desperately Attacking te Step Drive Inie Poland

Red Forces Mass To Capture City   Tighten the Siege of Sevas.topol on Both Land  andSea yg.   FICHT IN FOOTHILLS   Russians Repel German Attacks Near Carpathians in Poland

Hills Around City Held By Russians   Germans Report Red Reserves Flowing Through Poland on Most Direct Berlin Route

ARMIES, SHIP ARE MASSED AT BASE   Hills Around Great City In Soviet Hands   NAZI THRUSTS   In Old Poland Thrown Back As Axis Loses 68 Tanks, 1.500 Men Killed

RUSSIANS MAKE READY TO DRIVE ENEMY INTO SEA   Crimean Armies And Soviet Fleet Combine Forces To End Battle For Important City; Germans Again Hyrled Back In Poland.

Fleet to Join Assault; Vital Hills Taken   Aim to Throw Enemy Into Sea; Germans Put Up Heavy Resistance

Reds Mass Land And Sea Power At Sevastono!   Ready ‘’to Fling the Enemy into the Sea; Strong Nazi Blows In Poland Repulsed

Russian Artillery Breaks Up German Carpathian Thrusts   Soviet Land Armies, Sea Fleet Moves In For Kill at Great Naval Base

SOVIETS READY TO FLING NAZIS INTO BLACK SEA   Invasion Routes To Berlin Made  By Russians

Russians Tighten Sevastopol Siege   Red Armies and Fleet Massed To’ Fling the Enemy Into the Sea”

RUSSIA'S CRIMEAN ARMIES AND THE RED FLEET HAVE MASSED   Attempt Will Be Made at-Sevastopol’ to “Fling Ene* my Into the Sea.”   TMK SIEGE TIGHTENED   Rusaians Have Captured Hills Dominating the City’s Anproaches.

—RUSSIA—  ARMIES, FLEET HAMMER NAZIS   Noose Around Great Black Sea Naval Base Is Tightened   HILLS CAPTURED   Russian Artillery Hurls ~ Back Germans In Old ‘Poland. Fighting

Berlin Reports Russ Reserves  Being Shifted   Move Presages Assault on Direct Route to Nazi Capital

Reds Tighter Siege on Sevastopol   Soviets Take Hills About Black Sea  Naval Base

TIGHTEN SIEGE AT SEVASTOPOL   Red Armies And Fleet Ready To Destroy Enemy

Foe Will Be Pushed Into Sea   Reds Storming One Pass After Another

RED TROOPS, SHIPS MASSED   tussians Capture Hills, Storn Passes Around Big Black Sea. Base.

Hun Artillery Fails’To Halt  Russian Forces   Soviets Capture Hills Dom: inating Approaches to Sevastopol; Storm Pass After Pass   Nazis Thrown Back In Old Poland Area   :Hitler’s Hordes Confront ed With Hurricane of F: ire   at Foot of Carpathian Foothills

Russians Set To Take Sevastopol   Crimean Armies, Red Fleet Massed For Final Assault

Reds Pressing Bloody Siege at Sevastopol   Land and Sea Forces Join Hands to Throw Enemy Into the Sea

RUSSIAN CRIMEAN ARMIES AND FLEET MASS AT SEVASTOPOL  ANNOUNCED OBJECTIVE

Fighting Grows In Violence   Red Artillery Fire Breaks Up Carpathian Thrusts.

Reds Mass Army, Fleet To Smash At  Sevastopol   Have Captured Hills Dominating Approaches Yo dig Naval Base, Are Storming Passes

Russians Ready For Final Blow At Sevastopol   Hills Near The City Captured By Reds; Navy To Play Part

Soviets Mass  Troops, Fleet For Big Blow   Will Fling Enemy Into Sea’ At Sevastopol; Powerful Thrusts By Germans Repelled

MASS ARMIES: AND FLEET         Will “Fling Enemy Into the Sea,” Naval Write Says as Soviets Tighte: Ring Around Black ees  Raga.

BURNING COLOGNE AND OTHER CITIES UNDER CONSTANT AIR [ATTACK FROM BRITAIN-ITALY   German’s Anti-Invasion Transportation Network : Being Wrecked by Allied Attacks As Nazis Attempt to Consolidate Defense Lines in Balkans

Russ Tighten Siege Arc on Sevastopol  Dominating Wis Cap. tured Despite Nazi Screen of Fire  RED FLEET MASSED Soviet Troops Throw  Back Heavy German "De serentc ton TV-E Yt.      RED FLEET MASSED   Soviet Troops Throw Back Heavy German Thrusts in Old Poland

Reds Closing Grip on Sevastopol   Army and Navy Mass Forces to Recapture Port

Reds Mass Forces for New Blows   Reserves Flowing Throug! Ukraine Into Sector on Polish Front   TIGHTEN SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL   Great Strength Gathered for Final Attack Despite. Heavy Resistanre

Reds Massing To Drive Foe Into Black Sea   Ring Tightened Around Sevastopol; Escape By Sea Hampered

FOR OBJECTS 10 BRITISH CLAIM   Denial of Sta'ement U. S. Supported British Pclicy in Greece Sought

CHINESE ADVANCE SOUTHEASTERN ASIA  eRe es iA ae CER A Pere iA ee ke ee

Gay, Laughing Big Top Crowd Changed Swiftly Into Panic-Ridden Mass

Flames Sweep Huge Main Tent of Ringling, Show at Hartford, Conn.; Many Trapped When Fiery Canvas Collapses on 6000

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6.000 Terrorized Spectators Flee as Blaze Envelops Main Tent; Total Dead May Hit 200

Flames Create Panic as 6,000 Watch Ringling Performance at Hartford, Conn., and Men, ‘Women and. Children Scream and Fight. for Exits—Four Officers of Show.  Chariged With Manslaughter. — :

FIRST BODY OF 66 MINERS IS FOUND   Hurried Pencil Scrawl Leads To Body

French Maquis Capture Toulouse   Report Control Now Extends Over One Third af Eranca

Maquis Capture Toulouse, Sixth City Of France   Patriots Control  Third Of Nation

Toulouse Is Claimed for Maquis   City Is Sixth Largest in France

CAPTURE TOULOUSE   Patriots Take Sixth Largest City and Control Third   of France

Maquis Take Sixth Largest ‘City In rane   Toulouse Captured; Now Control Entire Pvrenees Revion

Maquis Seize French City .   - Toulouse . Captured: From ‘Nazi Tropps

Algiers Radio Reports French Patriots Capture Sixth Largest City in France and Battle Foe in Streets of Mar wat Pees.

Patriots in  France Gain   Control One-Third Of Nation Composing Eight Departments

Maquis Take. Toulouse Fighting Rages In Marseille Streets  Patriots Seize City Near Spanish Border;   Patriots Seize City Near Spanish Border; French Now Control One-Third of Nation: Movement Supplements U. §. March

MAQUIS SAID IN CONTROL OF 6TH CITY OF FRANCE   Entire Area Around Toulouse Said Held By FFI, One-Third ‘Of France

SELECTION NOW PLACED TOGETHER   No More Army and Navy Pool Effective Tnly 1

Cigar Shortage Continues Here nan neal eaiiae  Wholesaler Says Overseas _ Shipments Cause Situatior

Cigar Shortage Continues Here Se  Wholesaler Says Overseas _ Shipments Cause Situation

JOIN OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB  SwimetTiAg KISGKHKia BSC Dotew as as   “RATTOCY ¥ rants re

 Liberation Party To Continue Fight Until Greek Government Quits

KAM Speaker Denies Charge  By Churchill   Says Liberation Party Did Not Seek To Seize Power In Greece.   DIVISION IN BRITAIN

GREEK REBELS DENY PLOT 10 SEIZE CONTROL   Declare Present Fight To Continue Until Papandreou Quits

DuPont Is Accused by Atty General   \TTORNEY GENERAL SAYS ANTITRUST LAWS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY BIG INDUSTRIAL CONCERN.   DuPont Pleads Innccence

THREE FIRMS SUED BY U. §,   DuPont, Remington Arms And British Company Operate Cartel, Charge

‘Trust’ Charges Filed Against Three Firms   Du Pont, Remington Arms And British Company Named by Government

Conspiracy to “Restrain Trade ~ Charged by 0S   Three Big Industries Accused of Sherman Act Violation

U. S. Names 3 AsArms Cartel   Anti-Trust Action Filed: DuPont Issues Denial

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.   Hostages of the Nazis   Nazi Vengeance

AFL Shies Away on World Conference  Bid by the British   Polite Rejection Indicated by Attitude of Councilmen

A. F. of L. Council Consider World Labor Conference   Advance Signs Indicate Polite Refusal To British Labor Conference In Lon don.

AFL Considers Britain’s Bid   Sending Of Delegates To London Labor Meeting Js Not Favored

SEX KILLING CLUE SOUGHT IN DIARY   STRANGULATION DEATH OF HEIRESS PROBED

Joint Pacific Command Now   Nimitz, MacArthur Link Command Areas for 6,000 Mile Battle Arc

RAIDS ON TRUK AND CAROLINES ARE CONTINUED   Jap Fleet Sighted; Believed to Have Run to Philippines

GERMANS ATTACK FINNISH ISLAND   TWO FORMER ALLIES BATTLE AFTER NAZIS DEMAND SUR‘RENDER OF HOGLAND. f

NAZIS ATTACK FINNISH ISLE   Assault on Suursaari is Reported to Have Been Turned Back

Surplus Hogs Glut Pens in Many Market   Situation More Acute Than During Heavy Shipments Last Winter

INTO FIERCE RESISTANCE   <Begin Fighting Way Toward 3 Airfields—Leap Puts MacArthur 900 Miles From Philippines.   CRUISERS BATTLE SHORE BATTERIES   Heavy Naval Bombardment Precedes Landing —American Losses Are Described as Light.

Invasion Of Biak Island By U.S. Troops   Shore Batteries In Duel With  Naval Force

Yanks Are 200 Miles Nearer To Philippines   Infantrymen Swarm Ashore To Gain Foothold 900 Miles From Davao After Warships Bombard Enemy Shorg Installations

U.S. fighters storm ashore on Bbiak, run into terrific barrage   Three airfields put under assault: landing operation casualties light

Now 900 Miles Qf Philippines;  Resistance Stiff   Southeastern Beaches Stormed,  Aiirfields First Objective In New Offensive

Campaign on New Guinea  Is Concluded   Heavy Jap Resistance Met, but Beachhead Is Established

Yanks Invade Biak Island In Shoufens   General MacArthur Pushes Offensive Within 900 Miles of The Philippines

MacArthur’: Men Nearer  Philippines   Meet Strong Jap Resistance on . @testecie Felandc

Only 900 Miles From Philippines   Americans Run Into Fierce Resistance In Landing on Island

U. §. Troops Leap to Biak in Schoutens   MacArthur Reports Fierce Fighting, China Faces Pincer Move

Yanks Storm “Ashore On Biak Island   Campaign In New Guinea Near End

Battle Japs For 3 Vital  Plane Bases   Operation Puts Allies As Near Philippines As To Their Supplies At Finschhafen

OPENING OF ANTWERP PORT IS ASSURED   Allied Ships Wait to Pour Supplies Into Western Europe for Offensive Against Carmany

REPORT ALLIES FIGHT ON ISLE ~ NEAR FLUSHING   Troops Landed In Area To Free Approach To Big Port

Big Isle Base Is Attacked   Antwerp Needed To Funnel in Allied Supplies

ALLIES OCCUPY WALCHEREN FOR’ IN SEA MOVES   Is Key To Estuary, Long Battled For; Nazis Retreat

Are ‘On Last , Bar ‘ier To  An.werp .   ISLAND IS KEY TO THE a SCHELDE ESTUARY; ANTWERP. IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF PORT:

Naval Forees Back Landing Of Amphibians   Kev To Schelde Estuary Attacked In Drive To Open Port Of Antwerp.

: Roosevelt And Hershey (Keep Men In Service Cheaper Author) : Hear A Bit Of Satire From 11 Soldiers In Letter Made Public

FDR STRENGTH CUT IN STATE   Both Democrats And GOP Confident Of Victory

13 Ships Destroyed Off Leyte   Three Nip Cruisers, 4.000 Reinforcemenis, Get Watery Grave.

Sank Transports Bound for Leyte   Ten Troop Ships and Three Destroyers Carried Jap  inforcements   4,000 WERE ON BOARD   Some Fresh Troops Have Slipped Into Ormoc to  Join Nips

TEN MORE NIP TROOP SHIPS CO 10 BOTTOM   American Planes Catch Transports Off Leyte and Curb Reinforcement Move   Ee ae a THREE JAP DESTROYERS ALSO REPORTED SUNK

U, S. FLIERS SINK 13 NIP SHIPS ON WAY TO LEYTE   Boosts Jap Reinforcement Losses To 21,000 In Philippines

Planes Sink 10 Jap Transports, 3 Destroyers  Cripple Nip Attempt To Land Division On Leyte; Estimate 4,00

13 JAP VESSELS SUNK BY FLIERS BARRING LEYTE   3 Warships, 10 Transports Blasted; 4,000 Troops Believed Drowned

13 Jap Ships Are Sunk: At Least 4,000 Troops Lost   Total Nip Losses In Attempts To Aid Leyte Fight Are 21.000

YANK’ FIGHTER PLANES SINK’ 13 NIPPON VESSELS   10 Tr: anspor rts And Three.. Destroyers Ave Blasted —   4000 ON BOARD   Japs Suffer Heavy Losses In Landing Men On Leyte

Nip Leyte Landing Try Thwarted; 13 Ships Sunk  Latest U.S. Plane Strike Hikes Total to 97 HOO Killed 42 EFramu Vaceanle  ack

Yank Airmen Sink 13 Jap Ships W: ‘h 4,000 Aboard; To Have Ke: -sforced Levte

JAP PERSONNEL LOSSES EXPAND   Enemy's Attempts To Reinforce Leyte Stand Have Cost 21,000 Nipponese Lives. Manv Vessels.

»—PACIFI FI c—  FLIERSSINK 10. MORE JAP SHIP   4,000 Reinforcement Troops. For. Leyte Forees Believed’ Lost

ARE CAUGHT OFF LEYTE   Ten Transports, Three Destroyers Sent To Bottom

13-Ship Convoy Is Destroyed   Attempts By Japs To Land Division On Leyte Frustrated.

13 More Nippon Ships In Leyte Convoy § unk   At Least 4,000 Jap Reinforeements Sent To Death; Three Destrovers Losi

Bombers Bag 43 Jap Ships In Leyte Arc   4,000.Troops Lost As 10 Transports, 2 Trestenvexrs Sink

A 13-Ship Jap Convoy Destroyed   Enemy Effort to Reinforce Leyte Garrison Ends in Another Disaster

Jap Convoy Broken Up Near Leyte   Ten Transports, Three Destroyers Are Sunk By U. S. Planes With Loss Of 4,000 Men

U. S. Fighters Destroy 13-Ship Convoy With At Least 4,000 Troops Aboard

Sink 13 Enemy Ships   Action Off Ormoc Cripples Effort to Land New Division; 4.000 Troops Drown

Japs Were ‘Trying to Land 4,000 Troops on Leyte: Some Got Ashore

rene Vital Road Point In Normandy   Breach In Enemy Defenses Widened To Seven Miles.

British and Canadians Forced To Yield Some Ground South of Caen  - In Face of Heavy Nazi Counter-Attacks.

Yank Forces Seize Canisy, Road Junction   Take 25 Towns In Three Days Of Offensive

EIRES REFUSAL 10 QUST NAZIS, JAPS BRINGS REACTION   All Travel Between Britain and Emerald isle Banned. U. S. Swings Into the  ftaon

IRELAND FACES LOSS OF TRADE, BORDER BANS   fEngland Retaliates For Refusal To Oust Axis Officials On U. §. Plea

lreland to Feel Further Effects Of Allied Ire   Britain Takes First Step in Halting Travel]

EIRE TRAVEL BAN MAY NEXT CAUSE FOOD SHORTACE   Shipments of Coal, Machinery Are Threatened In Prediction That Border !s Due For Clesing.   ENGLAND PLACES BAN ON MOST OF TRAVEL   Country Depends on England, United States For Many Needs, Eire Has Limited Number of Ships.

Curtailment of Shipments To Eire Predicted   Australia Refuses To . Intercede For Irish Over U. S. Statement

Iowa Exceeds War Chest Quota   State Contributes 118.38% of Quota

Bellevue Seen  As Likely Site   Conference Held Here Tc Scan Sites For Proposed State Institution.

CONFERENCE HELD ON HOSPITAL SIT      State Health Officials Meet City and County Officials

PREPARE JAPS FOR BAD NEWS ABOUT RABAUL   U.S. Marines Plowing Through Jungles  DRIVE OVER DEAD  Cut Willaumez Peninsula In Half

YANKS ADVANCE ON NEW BRITAIN   MacArthur Reveals Position on Los Negros Also Improved

NOW TWO MILES FROM DISTRICT CAPITAL   Push From Landing Point Almost Cuts Peninsula in Half

Big Airfield ‘On Roi Taken ‘By Americans   Casualties ‘Modest,’ Action Progressing Favorably, Nimitz Say:  FIRES ARE PROBLEM

Infantrymen Press Kwajalein Assault   Fires Set by Own -Cuns Hamper Yank Attack; Nimitz Reports ‘Modest Casualties’

New Areas Invaded \ Progress at All Po —Some Prisoners: en by Americans...   NIPS ARE. PUSHE D:        Enemy Apparently. Making Last-Man . fense of Islet Agai Overwhelming Force

Roi, First Land Of x 3 Jap Empire to U.S.   Neutralize Enemy Strongpoints in Mandated Islands

Successes In Marshall Island _ Are Attended By “Modest.  Casualties” Report Says — y

American Marines Gapiure Strategic Roi Island As New Landings Are Made

Two Additional Islands Invaded By Yank Troops   Actions Progressing Favorably According to All Reports; Some Prisoners Taken By Americans

Nimitz Says Casualties  Were Modes!   None of Ships in Invasion Fleet Were Lost

Americans Take Kwajalein Airfield Make Two More Landings; Drive Goes Favorably at All Points

MARINES HOLD KEY AIRFIELD IN MARSHALLS   NEW LANDINGS ARE MADE IN CENTRAL PACIFIC BATTLE

Two Additional Islands In Same Atoll Invaded With “Moderate Casualties’’   JAPANESE PRISONERS HAVE BEEN CAPTURED

Invade Two More Enemy Isles in Marshall Chain   Nimitz Announces Important Gains

Strong force on Kwajalei and Namur   Roi capture gives strategic airfield

AT MID-PACIFIC MARSHALL ISLANDS; ATTENDED BY “MODEST CASUALTIES” AND WITHOUT LOSS OF SHIPS.

High Court Rules Soldier Votes Must Be Received by Time Polls Close

Supreme Court Holds Soldier Vote  Law Unconstitutional   Only Those Ballots Received Before Polls Close Election Day Will Be Counted; 1944 Voting to Be Governed by Early Laws

URNS “PLOT” 10 HIS ADVANTAGE   “Assassination Attempt” May Have Been Play-Acting

Boyle Says Too Many American Women Do Nothing to Help in War  $$$ ee {TFAVEFC FROW 4 WAR CORREFRPONRENT’CS WVOTOoCRAMY 1   (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOK.)

Solomons- Based Bombers Smash at Rabaul  70 Tons of Bombs Bre Dronved

Solomons - Based Bombers Smash at Rabaul  70 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Jap Airfields

1,500 American Bombers In Raid   Great Fleet of Planes Bomb Central Germany Oil and Airplane Works.

Plant Area Is. Blasted   U; Ss. Heavies Push “Deep Into Germany.

Allies Smash Foe Targets ir Twin Assautt   Fierce Air Battles Rage Over Stuttgart and Hungarian Cities

Factories in Central Germany  Are Raided   Fleet of 1,000 American Bombers Also Hits Refineries

Reich ‘Detroit’ Is Plastered   Thousand Heavy Bomber: Hit Stuttgart; Hungary Hit By Another Fleet.

PLANE AND OIL FACTORIES HIT   Smash German Targets In 1,000-Plane Raid

GREAT AERIAL ATTACK MADE AGAINST NAZIS   1,000 U. S. Heavy Bombers Raid Many Bases

Americans Hit Plane Plants   Heavy Bombers and Fighters Also Attack Nazi Oi! Refineries

Great Air Fleet ~~ Hits Germany   NEW BRITISH AND U. S. AERIAL BOMBINGS REPORTED

1500 Bombers Smash Germany  Luftwaffe Attacks in Great Air Battles

PLANE PLANTS, OlL REFINERIES ARE HIT IN HEAVY ATTACKS   Tons of Bombs Also Dropped on Robot Installations In Calais Area.

MISSING MAN ARRESTED FOR SEDITION CASE   Bond - Jumper Nabbed By FBI Near Border Ut Canada

SEDITION TRIAL IS. RESUMED:   Missing Defendant Found Near Canadian Border

Writer Visits Tito’s Mountain Lair, Finds Him Pleasant, Calm Confident   Nazis Know Site of Yugoslav Chief's Headquarters, But Bomb Attacks Fail

TANK-LED GERMANS IN ATTACK   Renewed Action Follows Return Ot Good Weather

Artillery Duels Blaze As Lull Breaks On Anzio   Americans Hold Owny Raid German Positions In Southern Italy

Airfields Near Rome  Attacked   Another Raiding Force Stnkes at Railway Junctions

Action Is Renewed As Weather Clears Up On Storm-Ridden Allied Beachhead

Gun Duel Breaks Anzio Lull   TANK-LED GERMAN TROOPS IN LOCAL THRUSTS AT ALLIES

U.S. Dive Bombers Pound Nazi Airfields Near Rome As Fifth Army Makes Gains

U.S. Planes Hit Targets Near Rome   Allied Ground Arm: Improves Positions tn Beachhead Area

Nazi Airfields In Suburbs of Rome Bombed   Allies Improve Their Position At Anzio

Germans Launch Tank Thrust at Anzio Beachhead   Russians Close in On Pskov and Shell Baltic Area

American Dive Bombers Blast Rome Airfield   Ground Troops Pound Nazis With Steady Shelling

ANZIO LULL BROKEN   Heaviest Artillery Duel of Recent Days Breaks Out, As Clear Weather Arrives.

FLIERS RAID NAZI FIELDS NEAR ROME   Ground Forces Improve Positions On Anzio Beachhead

NAZI AIRFIELDS IN ROME GIVEN NEW POUNDING   Allied Forces Improve Anzio Beachhead Positions

Beachhead Lull Broken By Artillery   Renewed Acticn Follows Attecks By U. S. Bombers Gn Rome Suburbs

REAT ARTILLERY DUEL 1S RAGING   American Bombers Blast Brunswick Visited Third Time During Few Days.

Break Lull Of 10 Days In Italy          GROUND ACTION FOLLOWS _ ATTACKS BY YANK DIVE BOMB! ON NAZI AIRFIELDS IN ; ROME SUBURBS

BIGGEST ENEMY BASE IN GRASP OF OUR TROOPS   Casualties for Japanese Run High, While Those for Yankees Unexpectedly Small,

Tce Ae ee NE  Body Identifie d: Youth (Confesses To Three Murders

es Knew For Months Invasion Was Coming—- mn BY MCV ILE yea mse  Germans Lacked Power To Stop New Landing

OBSERVER SAYS FOE UNABLE TO PROTECT COAST   Seven Waves of Infantry Go Ashore in 2. Hours

“Germans Are Cracking Up  Hitler Just Couldn’ t Defend South France From Powerful Onslaught of Allied Armies

THE  WAR TODAY   Southern France Invasion Reveals Germany No Longer Has \The Strength to Withstand Such An Attack

INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. WAS MADE QUICKLY AND WITH MINIMUM GERMAN RESISTANCE   It Means That Hitler No Longer Has The Strength to Withstand Such An Attack anc That Thev’re Undoubtedly Cracking Up

First Army Drive Gains Momentum   Hand-to-Hand Battle Waged for Fort Driant in Vicinity of Metz

Drive Gathers Momentum Despite Savage Germat Fire; Siege of Dunkerque Reopens After Truce Expires

RESOLUTION CONCERNING JEWS HELD UP   Stettinius Makes Request of Congress in Surprise Move

Wonderful Soviet Arsenal Behind The Urals Shown To World Through Press   BY HARFPISON SALISBURY

Party of Americans Permitted to Go Behind Scenes, View Soviet Arsenal  Statin at Last Removes Veil From Industrial. Aaricultural Achievements East of Urals   By HARRISON SALISBURY Tinkted Pras Carraanandant

Miracle Of Red Qutput Finally Told   Arsenals Built East of Ur. als Shown To American Party.

SEES NO DELAY IN WARD ACTION   Rayburn Says Resolution for Inquiry to Be Taken Un This Week

Secret Unit Aids Allies In Belgium   Underground Forces Pave Invasion Way

Bricker Studies Special Session   Soldier Vote Bill To Be Chief Issue

AIRMEN BATTER NIP ISLE BASES   MARSHALL, ADMIRALTY GROUPS TAKE POUNDING

Failure of Car Owners to Use Recapping Service Blamed for Tire Problems Now

“Deadly Sting” In New Unit   Group of Light Aircraft Carriers Does Big Job in Pacific

NEW CARRIERS PLAY BIG ROLE IN PACIFIC WAR   Small Type Ships Will Protect Task Forces

Light. Carriers, Built On Cruiser Hulls, Quickly Prove Their Worth

Urge Farmers 'To Save Seed   Critical Grass Seed Situation In Nation

Drizzling Rainfall Dampens Oklahoma  Ranges From Waynoka’s 2.08 to Ada’s .04

Drizzling Rainfall Dampens Oklahoma  Ranges From Waynoke’s 2OR ta Ada‘e 14

TIRPITZ SINKING  WILL FREE MANY BRITISH WARSHIP FOR PACIFIC DUTY   Big Enemy Vessel Was Serious Threat

Britain May Shift Ships To Far East   Sinking Of Tirpitz Removes Threat To Allied Convoys

TIRPITZ SUNK; BRITISH FLEET GAN SAIL EAST   Sinking Frees Navy For Naval War Qn Japan

NAZIS’ LAST CAPITAL SHIP JS DESTROYED      Tirpitz Was Sunk in Fiord Off Norway Sunday

Axis Alarm Grows; Giant Air-Borne Tnwasion Predicted by Enemy Radio

Estimate Allies Will Attack With 100 Divisions Within Two Weeks.

TER LINE PROPOSED   ‘All American Flag’ Airline Designed As Leatling World Carrierr.

Chart Globa’ Air Carrier Program   Designed to “Insure  U.S. A. Proper Place In World Aviation”; Would Have New CAA

brea LINE PROPOSED   Airline Would Be Leader In Foreign Transportation

U.S. GLOBAL AIR SERVICE IS PROPOSEL   Senator McCarran Seeks Billion-Dollar Federally-Chartered Line te Represent Nation in World Competition.

‘Mammoth American Airline, (Combining Present U.S. . Companies. Proposed in Bill’

Federal Airline  For International Traffic Proposed   Senator McCarran Proposes Corporation With Billion Dollar Capital.   No One Carrier Could  Have Control of Firm

‘All American Flag’ Large Airline Transport Carrier Proposed in Senate Bill

Phillips Back From Post He Ouit In India   Unpopular With British, Report

KING PETER AND GREEK PRINCESS MARRIED TODAY   Ceremony in London Unites Yugoslav Ruler And Princess Alexandra Of Greece

Yugoslay King Weds Princess ‘Ceremony: in the Yugoslav. Leqation

JUCOSLAV KING WEDS PRINCESS   -Ceremony Conducted at Legation in London

GREEK, YUGOSLAY ROYALTY WEDS   KING PETER, PRINCESS MARRY IN LEGATION

KING PETER AND A] EXANDRA WED   Yugoslavia’s King And Pretty Greek Princess Are Married In London

KING PETER AND PRINCESS MARRY   Private Ceremony Conducted Before Small Number Of Guests

King Peter, Alexandra,  Wed Today   Take Marriage Vows tn London

Pretty Greek Princess Weds Yugoslav King   Private Ceremony Per‘formed In Legation of: ~ Groom’s, Country,  In London

King Peter Weds Princess   Much Royalty on Hand At London Ceremony; May Re. linquish Yugoslav Throne —

King Peter Is Married   Weds Greek Princess Alexandra at Yugosla\ Legation In London

KING PETER MARRIED. TODAY   His Bride is the Daughter of the Late King Alexander of Greece

Yugoslav King Weds Princess   Pretty Greek Girl Becomes Bride in London Ceremony

YUGOSLAV KING WED IN LONDON   Princess Alexandra  Greece Is Bride

SWIFT ADVANCE “ALREADY ROUTS NAZIS FROM FIRST LINE OF HILLS OVERLOOKING LIRT VALLEY.

Americans Take Southern Flank: Hold Advantage   Speedy Thrust Of French Unit Between British And Yank Armies Puts Severe Dent In Gustav Line Below Cassino

British Ready For Big Smash Up Liri Valley   Yanks Occupy Spigno After Fierce Battle; Nazis Withdrawing From Yankee Sector

Smash Through Central Sector Of Gustav Line   Allies Seize Dozen Towns in Mounting Italian Campaign

German Defense System  at Cassino fs Threat ened  DOZEN TOWNS ARE ___SeizeD BY ALLIES   British Lay Plans for a Smash Into Liri Valiey

Nazis Routed On Key Hill Sectors; French Advance Rapidly Between American And British Forces

Enemy Forces Routed From Hills   German Advantage Eliminated by Advancing Troops

ENEMY FORCE ROUTED FROM LINE OF HILLS   British Preparing for Big Tank Smash Into Liri Valley

French Threaten To Flank Cassine   Hundreds Of Tanks Poised ‘To Chase Nazis Back On Road To Rome: Allied Losses Not High

‘British Throw Many Tanks Across Rapido   May Complicate Plans Of Foe To Withdraw  From Cassino Sector  YANKS TAKE SPIGNO

U.S. Requests Eire Cut Axis’   Country Asked To Stop  Government Emissaries

Reds Reach Borders Of Jucoslavia   Balkan Peninsula !s Isolated By Advance

Reds Open Drive North of Warsaw   Juggernaut Rolls Up Foe As Nazis Bemoan Fate

Russians Drive Toward Prussia In New Assault   Twin Victories Give Nazis * More Cause For Alarm

Destroy Bridge; Block Advance   Yanks Blow Up Bridge Over Ambleve River In Belgium

Yank Engineers Blow Stavelot Bridge Under Nazis’ Noses, Create Road Block

MOTHER ACCUSED OF: KILLING YOUNG CHILD’   21-¥ear-Old Washingtan Woman Aceused Of Beating Dacghter With Chair Eung

Congress. Embraces World-Wide F reedom Of News Thesis And Moves To Advocate   International Agreements On Information

Worldwide Freedom of News Object of Proposal Submitted to Congress

FREEDOM CRUSADE HAILED   Proposal Resoundingly Supported By Leaders in Congress.

ITALIAN PORT {S SET AFIRE BY GERMANS   Fifth Army Captures Volterra as Nazis Counter‘attack

American 5th army forces win Volterra  "Face stiff enemy ” counter-attacks

oth Captures Highway Hul   Nazis Set Livorpo Aflame As Allies (Bice In

Leghor n In Flames As Yanks Near  Americans Are Within Ten Milee OF Part

Volterfa Falls, Allies 10 Miles  From Leghorn   NAZIS’ DEFENSE PLAN Shattered at Caen and La Haye

Volterra Falls to Sth Army; Livorno A fire   Germans Throw ¥ eteran Division Into Battle for Mountain Road Hub Guarding Port: Eighth Army Captures Filottrano

VOLTERRA 18 CAPTURED BY FIFTH ARMY   Now within 10 Miles of Port of Livorno, Although Progress Slow toward Gothic Line.   Clear Road

Leghorn Burns As Americans  Draw Closer Road Hub Guarding   Road Hub Guarding Approaches to Greai Port Is Captured

Tokyo Razes Its Pine and Paper House in Fear of Fires Set hy Super-Forts  School Children Tear Down Structures in Great Fire Trap City of Narrow Streets

TWO OTHERS IN HOSPITAL WITH BROKEN SKULLS   New Year’s Revelers Skid On Bridge At Texe rific Speed 

Speeding Auto Wrecked New Year's Morning; Motor Thrown 20 Ft.   Auto Deaths In Berrien Yn 1944

.—_AERIAL—  GIANT AIR ARMADA BLASTS GERMANS   Two Thousand American Bombers And Fighters  Jn Record Attack   PLANTS BOMBED   Rocket’ Bomb Platforms In Pas-De-Calais Area Also Battered

Rocket Bomb Platforms, Gi Refineries, Plane, Tank Plants Hit.   REPORT HEAVY BATTLE

U.S. Heavy Planes Get In Terrific  Licks Today   Central Germany Is Also Hit During Daylight Raid

Biggest Air . Blow of War At Germany   2,000 U. S. Planes Blast Rocket Coast, Other Ob tectives

1,500 PLANES BLAST EUROPE   Great Yank Aerial Armade Hits Robot Coast, Reich Plants

MoreThan1500 Bombers Attack 5 Reich Cities   ‘Targets Hanging From Oil Refineries to Airplane anil Tak Plasiite Are Aaided   21 ;U. S. Bombers Crash In Sweden   Six Crewmen In One Killed: Kocket Bomb Plar forms In Par De-Calais  Also Bombed

Great U.S. Force Of Bombers Hits Many Targets   Entire Sky Fleet Striking Over Wide Areas May Have Had 2000 Planes

American — ~ Bombers Hit Again   1,500 Of Big’ Craft -Pound “Rocket. Area and: Nazi. Targets      GERMANS “REPORT : HEAVY BATTLES   Huge Formation Is. Fifth Since D-Day; Fighters ’ “Also: Active

Striking: Force Possibly “Greatest In History: Oil Refineries, Plane And Tank Plants Hit: Enemy Battered Jr Normandy.

RECORD ARMADA RAIDS FRANCE, REICH TARGETS   Over 1,500 U. S. Bombers Hit Robot Starting Point, Oil, Tank Firms

2,000 U. S. Planes In Great Armada Hitting Ac Rocket Bomb Platforms

GIANT U. S. AIR FLEET ATTACKS ROCKET BASES   WUALCT DAOLO  OIL REFINERIE  AND WAR PLANTS IN CORPMANY WIT

Objectives In Central Germany Also Hit By Yanks Third Great Assault In 24 Hours Against Pilotless Plane Platforms In France

American Airforce Puts Two Thousand Planes Into Attac!   Scores of Targets in Hitler’s Europe Are Pounded Today

1,500 Planes Pound Rocket Domb Region   Targets in Central Reich Also Hit by  Large Force

OVER 1,000 BIG BOMBERS POUND ENEMY TARGETS   Pas - De - Calais And Targets In Germany Bombed By Possible Greatest Air Armada In History,  Numbering Possible 2,000 Planes.

More Than 1,500 Heav’ jes Attack Rocket Platforms, Oil Refineries

ROCKET PLANE BASES OBJECT ALLIED PLANES   Heaviest Bomber Armada in History Concentrates on French Coast  And Oil Refineries

Giant Armada Hurled at Nazi Industry   Aerial Force of 2,000 Planes Ranges Over German Lands

Historic Armada In New Assault On Rocket Area   Report 21 American Heavy ot Bonibers Make’ Forced Landings In Sweden

PLATFORMS OF ROBOT PLANES, OIL TARGETS   Meanwhile British Developing Technique for Minimizing German Pilotless Planes

U. S. BOMBERS ATTACK ROCKET PLANE BASES   Greatest Fleet In History On Daring Flight

1.500 Planes  Hammer Reieh   Attack Pas-de-Calais: Oil Refineries, Aircraft Plants In Germany,

Great American Bomber Fleet Attacks German Oil & Plane Industries

1500 Heavies Attack Rocket Gun Platforms   Americans Also Bomb Oil Refineries, Tank And Airplane Plants In Central Germany

RECORD U.S. AIR FORCES HIT GERMANS      Hit Rocket Bomb Platforms, Attack Central Germany

Powerful U. S. Air Fleet Now   GERMAN ROCKET COAST AND OTHER AREAS BOMBED

Gigantic U. S. Air Force Pounces on France, Germany   What May Prove History’s Greatest Armada Flails Many Objectives

1;900-PLANE ARMADA HITS NAZI TARGETS   U. S. Bombers Blast Calais Area, Objectives In Central Germany

Flying Fortresses Assault Hamm, Soest Railyards  420,000 Fire Bombs Are Dropped Upon

FLEET OF FLYING FORTRESSES ATTACK HAMM-SOEST TODAY   AREAS JUST BEHIND PIERCED SIEGFRIED LINE HEAVILY BLASTED

700  FLYING FORTS SMASH HAMM, SOEST RAILYARDS   Yank Air Armada Rains Bombs Behind Sieafried Line: Bremerhaven Blasted

‘Bremerhaven,   Great Seaport  Of Nazis Fired   Swift Mosquitos Damp Blockbusters On Berlin; Allied Bombers Over Continent Today

700 Forts Hit German Rail Yards   Hundreds of Others Supply Airborne Troops  In Holland

Powerful, Growing Army of Allied. Sky-Troops Battled Forward, Threatening to Break Into Germany.   AROUND FLANK OF THE SIEGFRIED LINE   The British 2nd Army in : Ground Push, Landed Farther South in Holland, Dispatches Said.

700 FORTS RIP REICH TARGETS   Hamm and Soest Railroad Yards Pounded After British Hit Berlin

ht Officer Nelle Asks — Mother: To Set Table; He's ‘Soon Putting Feet Under It   tled to. Trip: Home, Now at He’s Completed 51 Missions

CAPT. JIMMY REFUSES HIS MAJORITY   Wants His Junior Officers to Be Promoted First

Turns Down Promotion  To Major   J immy Stewart, Film Ac _ tor, Wants Others Te _ Be Advanced First

New War Looms on Price Control  Move Launched for Sweeping Changes

Battle Brews Over OPA   Drive Launched to Make Sweeping Changes In Price Control Act:

Seeks Sweeping ()P A Revisions   OPA Becomes Perimeter of Another Brewing Battle In Congress; Wolcott: Wants Major Changes.

Battle Brews In Congress Over OPA Act   Wolcott To Seek Major ' Changes Before _.Extension

REVISION OF OPA CONTROL ACT IS NOW DEMANDED   Sweeping Changes Sought by Some Congressmen in Bill to Extend Life from June 30

BRITISH UNITS PUSH BEYOND ODON RIVER   Germans Must Defend City Or Go Into Retreat   AMERICANS   Cleaning Out Remnants Of Enemy Troops In Cherbourg Vicinity

BIG TANK BATTLE UNDERWAY NEAR CAEN BASTION   Yanks Take Arsenal, Attack Airfield East of Cherbourg

British Drive Through Odon River Defense   Big Tank Battle Rages Five Miles Southwest Of Coen, Strong Germai ‘Bastion in Normandy

INV ASLOIN—  NAZI DEFENSES “DNDN BROKEN  Iny s Biggest T ‘ank “Confit, Reported Us = Way   ‘CAEN OUTFLANKED   Montgomery’s Offensive Called. Successful By Staff Officer

AXIS BREAK BY ARGENTINA'S NEAR, REPORT   High Diplomats Predict Rupture Before Saturday   ITEMS LISTED TO SUPPORT FORECAST   Subversive Movement Reported Afoot in South America

ARGENTINA SET TO BOUNCE AXIS   Discovery Of Spy Ring May Sever Relations With Enemy

Great Sections Of France Freed By Underground   Fighting Rages Again in Streets Of La Haye du Puits

Glaligny, Scorman and Labutte Were Three Towns Announced Taken by Americana,   FRENCH UNDERGROUND Army Is Very Active.   Has Liberated Areas in Six Departments in Southern France, Supreme Headquarters Announced,

U.S. Infantry Takes Three Norman Cities   French Underground Frees Whole Sections Of France In Laree Seale Fighting.   FIGHT FOR AIRFIELD

Troops’ Flank La Haye du Puits, Where Forces Withdraw From Captured Railway Station—Fighting Fierce in Caen Area,

Battling Yanks Advance Lines Around La Haye To Take Cities   French Underground Active In Liber ating Whole Sections Of France To Help Allies

3 More Towns In  Hands of Allies   American Infantrymen Under Bradley Make Ad vances in France   Heavy Battles Ragein bt Ground in Forerst  Mont Castre

3 MORE TOWNS TAKEN   WHOLE SECTIONS OF FRANCE ARE BEING LIBERATED BY FORCES OF UNDERGROUND

3 TOWNS FALL NEAR LA HAYE      Yanks Fight In Streets, As Other Units Flank   Nazi Bastion

FLANK LA HAYE WITH ADVANCE   French Underground Force Free Sections

Yanks Flank "LaHaye; Take _Three Towns   Liberation Of Whole Sections Of France By Underground Revealed.

French Underground Meantime Credited with Great Aid to British and Americans by Impeding Troops and Equipment Movements Over Rail vnedea

Outflanks La Haye; Nazis Hitting Back   French Underground Army Liberates Whole Sections Of France; Bitter Fight Waged for Carpiquet Airfield

Three More Places in Normandy Taken by U. 8. Doughboys   Footslogging Infantrymen Flank La Haye, German Anchor

—INV ASION—  3 More Towns Fall To ~ Hard-Driving Yanks   Americans Making Steady Progress Down Cher Bourg Peninsula As Furious Tank And Infan trv Battle Rages Near Caen

French Are Helping on Big Scale   Whole Aréas. Liberated .in Heavy Action; Doughboys: ‘ in Hard’ Battle   BITTER CONFLICT -.. IN CAEN SECTOR   Ailied Troops Closely -Packed inNo-Man‘s ‘Land: ~ Struggle ai Airfield:

Ww hile Invasion Goes Forward  the French Underground  Has Liberated Whole   Sections of Country.   1, 313 SQUARE MILES  HAVE BEEN FREED

Heavy Battles Still Rage in La Haye Area   Forces Battling in Streets; French Underground  Frees Many Areas

Americans. Take Three More Towns   Glatigny, Scorman And La Butte Fall  To U. S. Infantry;  Guerrillac Gain

U.S. Captures Three New French Towns   Underground Fighters Liberate Many Occupied Sections

American Troops Storm Into Three French Villages   French Underground Liberates Whole Sections of France.   Nazis Western Anchor  _Flanked by Yankees

U.S. Troops Seize 3 French Cities; 1,000 Bombers Hit Europe   Russians Increase Power of Attack in Drives Toward Baltic Republics; Partisans Strike in France

FIGHT GOES ON ~ IN STREETS OF LAHAYE   Glatigny, La Butte, Scorman Are Captured   Liberates Whole Sections: Train Derailments Also Credited To French

Allies Outflank Western Ancho1 Of German Line   Pass La Haye Passed In Advance; Reveal Partisans Liberating Sections Of France

[AMERICANS MAKING ‘STEADY PROGRESS FRENCH INVASION   ANNOUNCE CAPTURE OF THREE MORE TOWN ON CHERBOURG PENINSULAR

Bradley’s Forces Take Three More   French Towns. HEAVY FIGHTING French Underground  Army Frees Large — Areas

French Patriots Engaging Reguia: German Troops   Frontal Attack by U.S. Forces Waits On Circling Move

HAND - TO - HAND FIGHTING RAGES IN MANY PLACES   Allied Forces Reveal Much Help Being Given invasion By French Underground

Sections Of France Are Liberated   Underground Aids Yank Offensive On Peninsula

NAZI ANCHOR TOWN BEING QUTFLANKED   Underground In France Liberates Whole Secttons

CONTINUES IN LA HAYE   French Patriots Free Whole Sections Of Land From Foe

‘American Infantrymen — Capture Three More Town:   Yanks Continue Battle in Streets of La Haye, British and Canadians Wage Bitter Warfare for Carniquet

3 More! Towns In Hands of Allies   American Infantrymen Unt Bradley. Make Ad.   vances in France   Heavy. Battles Rageing for Ground i in Forerst  “Mont Castre

EY" MEN PUSHING AHEAD   French Underground Army Liberates Whole Sections Of France.   STIFF FIGHTING AT CAEN

Yanks Capture 3 More Towns.  Flank La Haye   Foe Has Division Every 3 Miles in Caen Section

Allies Have Gained Average of 43 Square Miles Every Day   British and Canadians In the Caen Sector Cling Doggedly to Carpiquet And Waae Bitter Battle for Airfield

DRIVING TOUGH IN SOME PARTS OF THIS STATE   Boone Had About Five Inches of Snow—Most of Midwest Under Blanket of Flakes

Snow Blanket Up To 13 Inches Thick For lowa   Most Highways Open But Driving Everywhere Reported Hazardous. .

PUSH FORWARD ALONG GREEK COASTAL ROAD   Other Units Fight Desperately Against Germans in Albania

LAND FORCES ADVANCE ALONG COASTAL ROAD TO CAPTURE RION.   Garrisons Surrender   More Landings Made Qn Albanian Coast Where Germans Put Up Stiff Fight.

FUNDS FOR ITALY MADE AVAILABLE   WAR-TORN NATION TO GET DOLLARS EQUIVALENT TO LIRE ISSUED TO YANKS.

DOLLARS ARE ISSUED FOR ITALIAN MONEY   Funds Will Be Used By Rome Government To Pay For Essential Civilian Supplies

ITALY 1S AIDED BYU, $. DOLLARS   Equivalent Of Lire Used To Pay Troops Will Buy Supplies Here

U.S. WILL PROVIDE  FUNDS FOR ITALY      Plan to 7 Make Money . Available Announced by Roosevelt

Dozen German Divisions Riddled; 20,000 Prisoners Taken: Noose Tightening   Rommel Faces Disaster, British Staff Officer Says; More French Towns And Cities Fall To American Troops

Rain Over Battle Area   8th Grade Students Ordered Into Germany’s War Work

NAZL MANPUWEN  8th Grade Pupils In War Work   Yanks Pay For Gains.

Hitler Orders Far Reaching  Mobilization   Eighth Graders Into War Work, Red Cross Workers  To Armament Plants

EXTENDS DECREES ON MOBILIZATION   Germany Orders 8th Graders Into. War Work; Takes Other Steps.

Germans Make Drastic War Rulings   Universities Closed, Eighth Graders Compelled to Work

Nazis Brace Home Front      Order Eighth Grade Pupils Into War Work And Close Universities

Eighth Graders Go into War Work 'As Germany Scrapes Manpower Barre

German 8th Grade Pupils Go fo Work   Thousands of Red Cross Men Take War Jobs: Schools Close

GERMANS USING EIGHTH GRADE PUPILS IN WAR   Students Must Be Employed In War Plants

8th Graders Are Mobilized  In Germany   Red Cross Workers Sent to War Plants By Goebbels’ Order

GERMANS ORDER EIGHTH GRADERS INTO WAR WORK   Red Cross Workers Pressed Into Service; Publications Banned

GS awmnosy Fishth ily aisio Pupils  AFUE BERGE  Are Ordered Into War Work   Reich Deerees Far-Reach ing Mobilization; Shows and Shope for Fairs . Abolished

Nazis Order 8th Grade Pupils to Work   FINANCE MINISTRY DISSOLVED IN MOBILIZATION DECREE

Nazi Children Ordered Into War Plants   Extensions of Total - Mobilization Plan _ Are Announced

Reich Children  Put in War Work   Eighth Grade Students Red Cross Workers Ordered Into Plants

Nazis Scrape Labor Barrel   Eighth Grade Students, Red Cross Staffs In War Industry

Germany Orders Eighth Grade Pupils And Red Cross Workers Into War Work

Germany Drafts 8th Grade Pupils  Boys and Girls to Be Put at War Work

Hitler Orders Children Into War Plants   Thousands of Red Cross Go Into Factories in. Broad New Decree ~

Orders Total Mobilization   Dr. Goebbels Is Using Grade Students aid Red Cross For Industry

Reich’s 8th Graders Must Do War Work   Both Boys and Girls Are Included in Farreaching Extensions of Germany’s Total Mobilization Decrees.

German Pupils Ordered Into  War Factories   Goebbels Further Curtails Civilian Activity; Ousts Prussian Ministry

Germany Scrapes Manpower Barrel; Puts School Children To Work; Red Cross Workers Sent To War Fronts

EXTEND DECREES TO PUSH TOTAL MOBILIZATION   CLOSE UNIVERSITIES AND SEND RED CROSS WORKERS INTO PLANTS

President's Appea To Finns Too Late,  Nation Is Nervous  Fear Breakoff With U. S..and Sweden as Result of Refusal

Gandhi Asks Two States _   “Would Split India - Under. Fature Rule

Liberators Hit Port of Davao In Heavy Raid   Early Landing In Philippines Feared in Tokyo

Bombs Level Davao Works: Palau Totters   Big Port Rocks Under Explosives From Air Armada

LIBERATORS RAID PORT OF DAVAO   Americans Mopping Up On Island Of Peleliu

TWO-WAY DRIVE ON PHILIPPINES IS INTENSIFIED   Land-Based Liberator Bombers Batter Big Davao Port

Liberators Batter Big Philippines Port   Japs Predict Early Invasion Of Island; Conquest Of Stepping Stones Completed.

PHILIPPINES LANDING NEAR BY YANK FORGE   Big Port Of Davao Is Battered By Land-Based Bombers Without Opposition From Japs   STEPPING-STONE ISLES CONGUEST ABOUT OVER

Fleet Of B-24 Bombers Rocks Davoa, Truk   Unopposed By Enemy; Marines Trap Foe  On Peleliu

Eden Refuses to Debate on Robots   Blitz Continues; Nazis Scatter Propaganda

Montgomery — Shifts Forces New Drive   New Nazi General Takes Command of 55 Panzer Corps

Allies Mass lor Big Push In N  ormandy      Dead Calm Settles Over Battlefront As New Drive Planned

MONTGOMERY IS PLANNING NEW NORMAN ATTACK      Almost Dead Calm Today A Activity Falls Off In France

MONTGOMERY 10 MASSING TRCOPS FOR NEW ATTACK   Normandy Front In State of Almost Dead Calm as Activity Fell Off Most Since D-Day.   BAD WEATHER CUTS DOWN AIR ACTIVITY   Gen. Dietrich, Old Line Nazi Takes Command of S. S. Panzer Corps In Area Around Caen.

TROOPS MASS FOR DRIVE IN NORMANDY   Little Activity On French Front Today; Weather Is Bad

NEW SET OF. MISTAKES   Charchili Comments on Events: Fol. lowing Last War

“NEW SET OF MISTAKES ©   — Comments 6: on Evénts Fol lowing Last War

U.S. Troops Seize Key Italian Town   Livergnano Captured After Fierce Fighting

Strategists Study Pilotles: Nazi Planes   SCIENTISTS WORK TO LEARN METHODS OF UPSETTING CONTROLS

Alarm Over New Weapon Voiced  — By Military Men   U.S. Military Leaders Say Pilotless Plane ‘Definitely Dangerous’

U. 5. Armed Forces Lose 1,607,000 Men   Most of Them Through Discharges, Is Report

‘Go Home and Get Some Clothes’  Monahans Women Can’‘t Wear Shorts

TEXAS TOWN BANS WOMEN IN SHORTS   City Council Votes to Prohibit Scanty Attire—Measure Popular With Girls.

Nazi Lines Fall Back In Italy On Wide Front   Allied Forces Are Marching On  Prize Cities

5TH ARMY BEATS OFF TANK ATTACK   REPULSE NAZIS IN CECINA OUTSKIRTS; CONTINUE ADVANCE

azis Pressed  Back in Italy   Foes Giving Way All Alon; 65-Mile Front

ENEMY LINES FALL BACK ON ITALIAN FRONT   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES MARCH ON PRIZE CITIES

Yanks In Italy Now Within 17 Mi. Of Livorne   German Tank Counterattacks In Outskirts Of Cecina Reaten Off.

Nazis Fall Back on Italian Front   Fitth Army Beats O# Tank Attack

Pincers Threaten Caen   Allied Blows Force Nazis  Back’ on Italian Front

Nazi Resistance Proves Failure  5th and 8th Armies Continue Advances

Chase of Nazis in Ttaly Continues   Germans Fall Back Again When Attempt At Resisiance Enil<

rman Tank rces Beaten   Army Repulses Attack Quiskirts of Cecina in italian Campaign.

New Gains Made  Toward Leghorr Sth Army Repulses   5th Army Repulses Nazi Tank Attack

Fifth Army In Italy Gains   Beat Off German Tank Counterattacks On Cecina’s Outskirts

COUNTERATTAGK BY TANKS BEATEN OFF   Allies Drive Along Italian West Coast Toward Livunarno Pisa.

ALLIES GAIN IN ITALY ON WHOLE FRON]   Fifth Army Beats Off Counterblows Below Leghorn

FAIL IN COUNTER DRIVE IN ITALY   Nazi Tanks Beaten Off  as Allies Continue Gain

Fifth Army Advances © On Livorno   French Gain Mile on Road to Siena; Enemy Withdraws from Chienti River i in Adriatic Sector

Fifth Army Gains In Leghorn Drive   Yanks Only 17 Miles From Important Port On West Coast; French Near Siena

Fifth Army Advance On Liverno In Full Swing   Counterattack Of Tanks Is Beaten  Off At Cecina

FIFTH ARMY IN OUTSKIRTS OF CECINA   After Beating Off Nazi Counter-Blow Some Elements Push on Beyond Town Toward Leghorn and Pisa.

HITLER'S UNITS DRUBBED ANEW   Germans Forced Back Along 165-Mile Front by Allied Troops

FIFTH BEATS OFF NAZI TANK DRI  Continues Toward Livor  Continues Toward Livor _ no After Checking Ceci na Assault   FRENCH ADVANCE   {mportant Port Now Only 17 Miles Away From Doughboys

Fifth Army infantry Beats Off Nazi  Tank Counterdrive:  Allied Advances Are Continued on Italian West Coast

NAZI TANK BLOW HALTED IN ITALY   Yanks In Cecina’s Outskirts; British, French Advance

FIFTH ARMY BEATS OFF COUNTER-BLOWS IN WESTERN ITALY   Nazi Attempt to Halt LivernoBeund Yanks With Tank Counter-Attacks at Cecina  *-Fail—French Move Ahead

NAZIS CONTINUE ~ RETREAT IN ITALY      ALLIED “rRoops. “MARCHING ¢ ‘ON CI T LE SOF LEGHORN, FLOREN CE "AN. D AN CONA.

Beat Off ” Tank Attack   Allied Drive Along West Italian Coast Nears Port of Livorno

Germans Fall Back in Italy   Allies Push Steadily For Three Important Italian Cities

Germal «  Bae k mY a   ‘ : J 9} Allies Advance Onan” Line Across Boot.M ae ® Leghorn, Florence.P°!  Me Ff  ie

5th Continues Coast Drive   Germans Falling Back Before Eighth Army in East

Nazi Units Retreating All Along.  Italy Front   2 Armies Marching Closer To Livorno

Allies Move On Italian Prize Cities   Fifth and Eighth Armies Strike for Livorno, Florence. Ancona   French Meet Stubborn Resistance in Drive for Siena

REPEL GERMAN PUSH IN ITALY   Fifth Army Troops Move Into Cecina Suburbs

ALLIES ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS IN ITALIAN AREA   Counterattacks By Germans Dispelled

HUGHES TOOL PLANTS AT HOUSTON SEIZED BY ARMY WEDNESDAY  “THREATENED INTERRIIPTION” Or WORY PEA.

JAP CASUALTY TOLL 60,000 IN TEN DAYS   At Least Four More Ships Sunk

JAP LOSSES IN 10 DAYS 60,000   Heavy Toll Taken in At, Sea, Land Battles

Sea, Air, Land Struggles Take Big Enemy Toll   ‘Ship Losses Raised — To Between 62 To 64 By New Aerial Blows

Gou.-Elect Blue Studies  Justitutions   ‘Hopes To Provide Needed Additional Funds

T0 INSPECT ALL : STATE INSTITUTIONS   Many Changes are... ,.., Necessary in Post War’ Period

‘Lt. Gov. Blue Intends. To Visit Every State . Institution Personally

A Broader Scale of Benefits   Byrnes Said to Be: for George Reconversion Plan With Some Changes   WOULD TAKE IN THE SMALL PLANTS   Says They Ges Hungry Just Like Workers for Larger Emploves

Diseuss Postwar Payments   Administration Reported to Propose Payments Up to $20 For Plant Workers

Police Nab Accused Pair in New York   CLAIM TWO MEN ADMIT ABDUCTION OF TWO CAB DRIVERS, PASSENGER

MENADMIT THEY ARE ARDUGTORS   Two Norfolk, Va., Men Seiz ed By Authorities at Movie Theater.

Police Seize Dapper Bandit Pair Who Admit Taking 2 Cab Drivers and Girl on Wild Rides

KIDNAP SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER SECOND ABDUCTION   Two Norfolk Men Admit Washington, Brooklyn Choraes

Allies Poised To Hit Again, FDR Asserts   President Hails Liberation of Rome. But Warns Ultimate Victory ‘Lies Some Distance Ahead’; ‘Bars German War ‘Generation Hence’

President Cautions Victory Over Nazis  Stull Lies Far Ahead   : Executive Says It Is Source of Deep Satisfaction That Freedom of Pope and } atican City Assured by Allies; No Thanks Due Hitler Because Rome Spared, He Says

NAZI SURRENDER ‘STILL WAR AIM, ROOSEVELT SAYS   President, in Hailing Capture of Rome, Says Beating Hitler “Lies Some ' Distance Ahead.”

ROME’S FALL CAUSE FOR JUBILATION   Commander - in - Chief in Radio Address Cautions That Struggle Still May  se Costly.   City’s Safety Assured

Roosevelt Jubilant ~ Over Fall-of Rome   Says Allied Victory Comes at Excel lent Time; Cautions Victory Still” Lies Some Distance Ahead

President Sees Harder Fights Ahead   ‘Asks Itaiv To Help Build Lasting Peace, Urges Others To Aid  HITS FASCIST RULE

VICTORY SEE AS FAR AHEAD BY ROOSEVELT   LAST DAYS OF WAR WILL BE COSTLY, NATION WARNED

/  , Drive Germany to the Point Where She Will Be Unable To Seek World Conquest’ Again

One Up, Two ToGo Says FDR   President Hails Fall Of Rome As Beginning Of Victory In Fireside Chat.

Conquest of Rome Just One Stride on Long Road to Victory, Roosevelt Says

Warning Given Of Hard Fight Yet to Come   No Thanks Are Due Germans for Sparing  City, FDR Asserts

ANNOUNCE CHANGES IN DAIRY PRODUCTION   State 4-H Club Offices Roles Dalry Production Is On Basls of Proj. ect Rather Than Contest

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newapaper   WASHINGTON Ry Rav Tucker

Merrill's Noted Marauders Have Morale Break-Up  If Yanks Sent Back To Battle’

Almost Complete Morale Breakdow: Of Merrill's Marauders Disclosed

ill-Advised Promises Given as Reason For Almost Complete Break In Morale of Merrill’s Marauders

Stalemates Persist in Labor Row   Ford Plant in Windsor Asks Aid’ of Royal ~~ Mounted Police to”  Keep Order 77”

Women in Red Cros: Drive Boost  ‘Total to $37,019.17   Fifteen Divisions Working in Butte Campaign, With Nine of Them Handing In Partial Reports

Women in Red Cros: Drive Boost  Total to $37,019.17  Fifteen Divisions Working in Butte   Fifteen Divisions Working in Butte Campaign, With Nine of Them Heandina In Partial Reports

WELDING COUNTERS HELD UNDER BOND   Twenty-five, Accused of Fraud, Arraigned in Court

REDS SMASHING GERMAN LINES   Soviet Troops Drive Forward On Seven Fronts; Lwow Tottering

STRIKE IS SETTLED AT WRIGHT PLANT   ClO Leader Announces Al Workers To Return

Warren Held Is Winner Of State 4-H Meat Award  Has Had Wide  Experience In 4-H Pentianrt Wark

Legion Submits Veteran Program   Six-Point Proposal Goes to Congress

Legion Presents  Veterans Program  Bill Scheduled For Introduction

Allies Prepare For Final Drive Jo Take Cassino   Americans Hurl Shells into City

British Open Aifacks on Way to Rome   Americans Rain Artillery Shells on Cassino

Bridgeheads Established At3 Points   New Offensive Starts Along Old Appian Wa 80 Miles from Rome  CASSINO IS SHELLED

British Launch New Offensive On Appian Way   Three Bridgeheads Established Across Garigliano River

NEW THRUSTS LAUNCHED ON ITALIAN COAST   RIVER IS CROSSED BY BRITISH; YANKS POUND CASSINO

BRITISH CROSS GARIGLIANO AT THREE POINTS   Nazi Stronghold Being Pounded by Ameriean Artillery

BRITISH CROSS GARIGLIANO RIVER IN PUSH ON ROME   Tommies Fighting Under Clark Establish Three Bridgeheads at Outset  of New Drive.   ENCOUNTER FURIOUS GERMAN RESISTANCE   Meantime American Artillery Rains Shells Into Cassino Preparatory to Attack on City.

OF Fifth Resume ‘Attacks: Smash, Across Garigliano  British On Western Flank,

BRITISH CROSS GARIGLIANO AT THREE POINTS   Nazi Stronghold Being Pounded by American Artillery   By EDWARD KENNEDY

Crossings Made  On Garigliano   3 Bridgeheads Established By Brinish a Tale

Allies Establish Bridgeheads On Garigliano River, Prepare For New Assault

British On Western Flank, Of Fifth Resume Attacks, . Smash Across Gariqliano

British gain new toehokl on Italy line   Lower Garigliano river is crossed

Across Lower Gargigliano River At Three. Points In Face Of Furious Nazi Resistance; Shell Cassino.   Canadians Take Hill

British Smash Across River In New Drive   Bridgeheads Established at Three Points While Am ' erican Artillery Rains Shells Into Cassino . Preparatory fo an Assault

British Cross  Garigliano, Set Up Bridgehead   New Offensive Opens On Road to Rome: Yanks Shell Cassino; French Probe Lines

British Force Way Across  Italian River   American Artillery Rains Shells Into  City of Cassino

ALLIES CAPTURE CORFU ISLAND   Garrison of Only 60 Quickly Surrenders

CORFU GRABBED WITHOUT FIGHT   Nazi Garrison Of 60 Quits. Doesn’t Fire A Shot

Allied Troons Capture Isle of Corfu   Only 60 Nazi Soldiers Are in Garrison; Booby Traps Are Left

CORFU ISLAND FALLS TO ALLIES   Nazis Surrender Without Offering Resistance

Corfu Garrison Has Surrendered   Sixty Men Give Up Without a Fight; Albanian Partisans Cut Escane Routes

GREEK ISLA OF CORFU IS HELD BY ALLIES   Avenues Of Nazi Escape In Greece  Are Cut Off

Greek Island ‘Of Corfu Falls To The Allies   British Troops Also Are Reported in Athens and Order Prevails

GERMAN GARRISON SURRENDERS CORFU WITHOUT RESISTANCE  COASTAL ROADS AND COASTAL WATERS UNSAFE FOR NAZIS’ ESCAPE

Capture Island Of Corfu   Garrison Surrenders Without Firing Shot; Cuts Another Nazi Escape Road From Greece

ALLIES TAKE CORFU IN THE IONIAN SEA   German Garrison of Only 60 Men on Fertile Greek Island Surrenders to Troops Without Firing a Shot.

IS FIRED BY NAZI TROOPS   Garrison Of Only 60 Gives Up; Cuts German Escape Route

Allies Capture Corfu Without A Single Shot   Ionian Sea Garrison Of Only Sixty Men  Surrenders.

Corfu Held By Allies  After Nazis Surrender   German Garrison Of 60 Men Gives Up Without Fir. ing Shot; More Brazilian Troops Join Allies In Bjyohtine In {tale

GREEK ISLAND OF CORFU CAPTURED BY ALLIED FORCES   No Shots Fired As Only 60 SNe: Defenders - of “Fertile  Teland” in“‘onian Sea ‘Surrender — Albanians . Take Road Center

GREEK ISLAND OF CORFU CAPTURED   ALLIES SIEZE NAZI GARRISON WITHOUT FIRING SINGLE SHOT

Allies Seize Corfu Island  Germans Surrender Without Firina Shot

Greek Isle Of Corfu Captured   Fall Eliminates Avenues Of Nazi Escape Northward From Greece.

Greek Island Of Corfu Is  Captured By Allied Force   Its Fall Follows Taking Of Sarande; Small Enemy Garrison Sorrenders

Allies Take Corfu Island   German Garrison of Only 60 Men Surrender Without Firing Shot

NAZIS GIVE UP CORFU ISLAND   Fall Of Greek Isle, Albanian City Slashes Escape Routes

— GREEK ISLAND   German Garrison of Only 60 Men Surrenders Without Firing Shot.

Greek Island Of Corfu Taken By Allies After Nazi Garrison Surrenders Without Firing Shot

German Troops on Corfu Surrender   British Entry at Athens Reported

British Stem Advance Of Japanese in India  Enemy Halted at Four Key Fotis; Chinese Hold 2.000 tn Death Tb

2,000 Nips Caught in Death Trap   Chinese Surround Foe in Valley; Britons Also Ralls

Chinese Troops Loop Death Trap Around Enemy.   Main British Frontier Forces In Action With Plane Support

British Army Halts Japs On  Indian Border   Defense Effective At Four Key Points On Frontier

JAPANESE IN INDIA ARE SLOWED UP   Brot to Halt By British in Some Sectors

BRITAIN S MAIN FORCES SLOW DOWN JAPANESE ON INDIA FRONT   Jap Invaders Almost Halted At Four Key. Points Along 140-Mile Border.

2,000 JAPS CAUGHT IN DEATH TOAD   Jap Invasion Slowed, Halted By British

JAP FORCES IN INDIA ARE SAID HALTED   Chinese Troops Also Trap Large Number of Nips by Swift Movement Back of  T inac.

JAP INVASION  IS SLOWED BY BRITISH   Chinese Loop Death Trap About Japs In North Burma

Four Key Points Along 140 Mile Border Stopped.   stopped.  JAPS SUFFERING SEVERE CASUALTIES  Chinese Caught Two Jap Battalions in Hopeless Trap.

British Halt Jap Invaders Of India   Sulwell’s Chinese In North Trapping 2000

TROOP TRAIN HIT ON LUZON ISLAND   Yank Flyers Also Blas 22 Jap Barges With Reinforcements

Convict Who Escaped ‘Went Straight’ 12 Years, Turned in by His Wife

ROMANIAN COMMUNIOGUE   List 3,204 Dead as Result of American Air Atlack

Reds Lash On In All Areas   ‘Nazis Réport Heavy Attack: -On250-Mile Front In North.

RED ATTACKS SHOW GAIN ON MANY FRONTS   BIG OFFENSIVE Is REPORTED NEAR LENINGRAD

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON BASE AT LYON   Nazis Dig In Feverishly For Rear Guard Fighting

Expect Nazis to Make Last Stand at Lyon   Troops Reported to Be Feverishly Digging Trenches in That City

French and U. S.-Troops Closing In On Lyons   More Than 55,000 Nazis Taken As Prisoners Since Invasion South France: Troops Enter Contes On East Edge.

Nazis Dig in As Allies Draw Closer to Lyon   Rearguards Seek To Delay Pursuit; German Prisoners in South France 55 000

SEVENTH ARMY CLOSES IN ON LYON RAPIDLY   Nazis Trying Desperately to Es cape Jaws of Trap Being Closed On Them by Yanks, French,

So. France Army Closes  In on Lyons   55,000 Prisoners Taken by Patch’s Men Since Invasion

Yanks, French Closing In On Nazis in Lyon   Heavy Troop Movements Seer on Roads Morth of City—Ameri: cans al Grenoble May Plan New Trap

7th Army Units 7.5 Mis Inside Italy, BBC Hears   Other Columns Are Steadily Closing In On Lyon; Bag Of Pricaners 55.000

Seventh Army Closing In On Lyon; Gen. Patch Aims To Trap Germans

Allied Troops  Close on Lyon   Germans Feverishly Dig Rearguard Positions to Slow Up Advance

PATCH’S SEVENTH ARMY CLOSING IN RAPIDLY ON LYON   RETREATING GERMANS STRIVE DESPERATELY TO SLOW UP ADVANCE

Yanks and French Close Jn on Lyon   Progress of 7th Army Is Hampered By Rains; Nazis Seek to Escape

Rain Fails fo Stop Advance on lyon   Prisoner Count Exceeds 55.000

Allies Advance Steadily on Lyon   Germans Dig in Feverishly in Attempt To Slow Pursuers

Allied Forces Are Near Lyon   Rains Slow Pursuit Of Fleeing Germans In South; Yanks Cross Into Italy, Is Claim

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON LYON TODAY   Bad Weather Checks Allied Advance in Sectors

‘Allies Charge on Lyon Despite Rain; Foe Makes Stubborn Stand   Germans Frantically Seek to Escape Trap Laid by U. S., French; Many Nazis Are Taken Prisoner: Eastern Towns Fall

ALLIES CLOSING IN ON LYON IN RHONE VALLEY   +» Germans Digging In For Stand To Hold City

American and French Columns Closing in Steadily on Lyon.   }HEAVY MOTOR ACTIVITY

ALLIES CLOSE IN STEADILY UPON LYON   Retreating Germans’ Reported Feverishly Digging Rear-Guard Positions in City' to Slow Their Pursvers.

2500 Bombers Smash Germany From Two Ways   Forces From West and South Stage Joint Aerial Assault on Reich Cities

Great Aerial Fleet Strikes At Germany   Scores Of Bombers Land At Bases In Russia

German Targets Given Terrific Aerial Blasting   Hundreds Of American Warplanes Strike At Hitlerland

Reich Plastered From West And South By Huge U. S. Air Armadas   Remarkable Run Of Five Days Of Good Weather Giving U. S. Army Force Chance To Destroy Remainder Of Luftwaffe.

Diminishing Oil Stores  ‘Are Blasted   1,000 U. S. Heavy Bombers Hammer German Targets

Yenators to Keep Navy al Present Size  Believe U. S. Should   Believe U. S. Should Be Own Judge of Need After Conflict

Senators United on Large Navy  Favor Strength Equal to Keeping Peace

Robot’s Speec Hits 3,500 Miles an Hour   Vengeance Weapons Fall in Allied Sectors of Front

SEND ROCKETS AGAINST YANKS ON WEST WALL   Number of Robots Fel.  In Single Sector, Writer Says

V-2 Bombs Fall in Battle Area  But Experts Find Them Not Effective

Missile Termed Poor in Accuracy, Less  Effective Than Robombs; Travels ; At Sneed Faster Than Sound, 20 Miles Up

NAZIS AIM V-2'S AT WARFRONTS   Rocket Bombs Hit U. S. And Canadian Troop Areas

German V-2’s *Now Striking French Areas   q Army Also Reports Rocket Bomb Falling in Allied Sectors of Belgium — New Weapons, Traveling 3,500 M.P.H., Poor in Accuracy.

Wingless Projectiles, Traveling Faster Than Sound, Fall in Sectors of French and Belgium Front — Eerie Weapon Termed Poor in Accuracy — German Communique Says England and Antwerp Are Still Under Bombardment.

V-2 Used Against Allied Troops On Western Front   Thirteen And Half Ton Wingless Projectile. Speeding At 3.500 Miles An Hour, Falls In Sectors In Belgium And France As Well As England

V-2 Rockets Fall On Army   Front Dispatches Say Bombs Hit Allied Sectors In Bel gium, France.

German V-2 Weapon Moves At Speed of 3500 Miles  Per Hour at Its Maximum

V-2 Falling In Allied Areas Of France, Belaium   Nazi Weapon Travel: 3,500 Miles An Hour From 55 Miles;  It’s 46 Feet Long

Germans Claim Extensive V-2 Damage in Antwerp   At Least 36 Persons Killed or Badly Injured in Britain. ”

Committee Asks For Great Bases   . Needed Permanently, Report Declares

Probers Urge U.S. Annex  Leased Bases  House Group Sees Permanent Need for Bastions

U: § OWNERSHIP. ‘OF LEASED BASES 1S RECOMMENDED    Congressional.Group Says: Ar‘pangements Should Be Made ., to Obtain Bastions” re From Britain.   $130,000,000 SPENT - ‘TO FORTIFY THEM   Committee Would Make Surplus. Vessels” Available. to ~ South American Countries After War.

U.S. Advised To Own Bases   aking Over of Island Ring From Britain Ureed

Dwight Dahmes Married In New Orleans Feb.6  Was Wounded In Fighting In italy

Dwight Dahmes Married In New Orleans Feb.6  Was Wounded In Fighting In italy And Sent Home

BIG GAS STAMP SALES EXPOSEL   Chief Clerk Of Lansing Board Arraigned, Held On $2,000 Bond

Russians Hail Fall OF Re Rome While  Mussolini “Pledges” Restoration

Mussolini Admits Loss Is ‘Painful’   But Ex-Duce Says Measures To Be Taken To Restore Capital

Profits Can't Be Reaped From Taxpayer Funds lise. U. $. Bankers Head Declares

FIGHTING ON BEACHHEAD IS INCREASING   Nazis Make Small Gains Southwest of Carroceto; Allies Raid Enemy-Held Cerreto Alto.   1,300 Sorties

Ponape and Satawan Also Blasted in Big Raid; No American Warship is Damaged; Aircraft Losses Small

Bombs, Shells Hit Satawan And Ponape   Heavy Damage Done, Japs Lose 126 Planes; No U. 8. Warship Hurt  WAKE ALSO BOMBED

Bombers Give Wake Heaviest Attack of War   Battleships, Cruisers Hit Ponape, Satawan; U. S. Aircraft Losses Light; No Ships Struck

STRENGTH OF NAZI ARMIES BEING SAPPED   German Armor Still Strong, However   strong, mowever     HEAVY FIGHTING  Enemy’s Tank Losses Mount

Ceiling His Place Was Small So He Put His List  Where, He Thought, It Belonged

Americans In Gains; German: Hold British   Rommel Using Armor To Stem Advance In Caen Area

Invasion Army Pounding Ahead   YANKS GAINED NEARLY TWO MILES IN 7 DRIVE...  _..

Balkan Kettle Boils As Bulgaria Tries To Get Out Of War Through Russia

BALKANS BOIL AS BULGARIAN PEACE NEARS   Hungary Gets New Pro-Nazi Cabinet     REICH DE SPE RATE  Bulgars to Sign Peace In Cairo

DEWEY ATTACKS FDR DIPLOMACY   Says Tactics Have Spurred German Resistance.

Dewey's Speech Hits Roosevelt's Secret Diplomacy  Republican Candidate Says Foreign Policy Causes Deen Anxiety

FOREIGN POLICY ISDISCUSSED BY GOV. DEWE\   Says FDR Has No Intelli gent Program For Dealing With Germany   NEW DEAL BUNGLING IN EUROPE IS CITED

DEWEY ASSAILS DIPLOMACY OF F.D.R. IN TALK   Republican Chief Claims We Are Paying In Blood For Lack Of A Plan

Gov. Dewey Raps FDR's “Personal Foreign Policy   Also Scores The Secret Diplomatic Moves Of New Dealers

Dewey Raps Secrecy In High Office   Says America Without Any Plans For Peace -

SLIPSHOD PEACE PLANS ASSAILEL   Secret Diplomacy Of Roosevelt Scored By Gov. Dewey

Jap Dead in Marianas Now Set at 44.956   New Figures Show 4,470 U. S. Dead, 20,345 Wounded

 10 Japs Killed \For Each Yank In  Marianas Battle   . 44,956 Nips Reported Slain In Fighting On Guam, Saipan, Tinian

Japs Lose 10-to-1 in Casualties in Marianas   Toll in Two Months of Fighting Revealed

44,956 JAPS ARE KILLED’ IN MARIANAS FICHT   U. 8. Loses 4,4’ 470 Dead, 20,345 Wounded and 721 Missing

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELO TUESDAY, OCT. 11TH   John C. Sayers Passed Away After A Lingering Illness On October 7

Four B-29's Lost in Raid on Jap Targets   Results are "Fair;” Large Fires Visible; Nips Lese 15 Fighters

B.298 STARTED HUGE FIRES IN YAWATA. RAIDS   4 Superforts Reported Lost in Co-Ordinated Day and Night Attacks

Japs Say 80 Planes Reaeh Yawata Area   Nips Forced to Draw in Air Protection; Liberator Sinks Cruiser Off Hong Kong 

Blazes of Destruction From Daylight Raid Sighted By Night Bombers Far From Target   Industrial Planis In Yawata Blasted   Yanks Bag 15 Enemy Fightere; 13 Probably Destroved; Four U.S, Bowhbers Lost

—BH-29 Raids—   Yawata Pounded In Day and Night Super-Fort Blows

Double Aftack Made on Enemy By Great Planes   Industrial Area At Yawata Left Burning Is Report

SUPERFORTRESSES JOLT JAPS WITH A DOUBLE PUNCH   FOUR BIG BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN; NIP CRUISER SUNK

B-29s Strike Double Blow on Jap Mainland  Four Superforts  Lost in Day and

B-29'S POUND JAP HOMELAND IN TWIN RAID   Nip Airforce Abandons Bases Guarding Philippines

Great Damage  Seen in Two  ~ Raids on Japan   Four B-29's Lost in Day and Night Bombing of Kyushu

Four Bombers Lost In Raid On Kyushu   Day And Night Blows Made By Giant U. S. Craft

Two Waves of B-29 Super Fortresses Again Blast. Targets In Jap Homeland

 War Industries On Kyushu And At Yawata Hit  In Day And Night Raids By B-29's; Official i Communique Reports Four Bombers Lost

YAWATABOMBEL AGAIN WITH 3 OTHER CITIES   Tokyo Radio Claims Large Toll Of Yank Planes, Airmen

Fires Started ‘By Air Raids  Seen In Japan   Second Wave Of Planes Sees Results Of Virst Attack

TWICE AT JAP HOME CITIES   Washington Says Yawata a Target of Both Flights and Tokyo Names Three Other Places Under Attack.

Super-Forts Saw Big Fires Left by Earlier Attacks   Day and Night Raids on Japan Are Coordinated

Lose 4 Bombers In Kyushu Raid   Double Strike Is Made by  Superforts on Japanese  = Mainland.

B-295 CARRY OUT DAYLIGHT JAPAN ATTACK   Fires Sighted Following First of Two Raids; Four Planes Lost

SEWELL AVERY SHAKES HANDS WITH OFFICER   Employes in Chicago Go on Strike for 2nd Time This Year

Roosevelt Orders New Seizure Of Montgomery Ward   U.S. Army Takes Over Properties In Seven Cities

ARMY TAKES OVER WARD -- PROPERTIES   Roosevelt Orders Seiz ure; Will Not Tolerate Any Interference Now

ARMY ACTS AS ORDER 1S SENT BY ROOSEVELT   Avery Greets General -Byron Pleasantly in “Office: 2 Shake Hands

MONTGOMERY WARD PROPERTIES SEVEN CITIES ARE SEIZED  PRESIDENTIAL ORDER BRINGS SHOWDOWN; HAI IGNORED WLB ORDER

7 Ward Stores Are Seized By Order Of FDR   Army Takes Over A: Firm _ Continue To Accept WLB’  Directives

Ward Plants in 7 Cities Seized   Major-General Joseph Byron Serves Order on Sewell Avery; Action by Presidential Directive After Company Defied WLB Orde:

Govt. Acts To End Row With WLB   Interference With War Production Won’t Be Tolerated, Says F. R.

seize Ward roperty in even Cities   rovernment Takes Over After ‘Company Refused to Comply With War Labor Board Order Regarding Unions

Army Seizes Ward Stores in 7 Cities   Presidential Action Taken to Enforce Orders of WLB

Sewell Avery, Chairmar Of Board of Ward's Makes No Opposition To Action by Army

Wards Facing Court Action   Second: Government Seizure Held Likely

ARMY AGTS ON FDR ONDER Aa STRIKES START   Chicago Employes Walk . fter Kansas City an Detroit Strikes.

U.S. AMY Sewzes Ward Co. Stores In Seven Cities  he . a? 2, nn ee   F. R. Takes Step After Labor , Settlement Fails

PRESIDENT SEIZED WARD PROPERTIES   Facilities In Seven Cities Taken Over Today By Government

rmy Takes ver Stores n 7 Towns   President Directs War Department To Make Pay Increases Retroactive

Mail Order Firm’s Outlets in Seven -- Cities Taken Over   Second Action of Kind - This Year Taken to End Directive Row

THE ARMY TAKES POSSESSION OF MONTGOMERY WARD   Plants in Seven Cities Taken Over Under Presidential Executive Order.   SEIZURE AMID STRIKES   Government Will Not Tolerate Any Interference With War Production, F. D. R. Said.

Ward Company Again Seized By The Army   Pres, Roosevelt Issues Directive Calling Upon Army To Take Over Plants in Seven Cities.

Army Takes Over Seven  Ward Stores   Seizure Came Amid Strikes: War Production Must Not Stop

Army Takes Over / Ward Plants   Presidential Order Follows Refusal To Comply With WLB Directives.

Seizure Second This Year in Labor Dispute   Roosevelt Order. Forestalls  Wave of Strikes

Army Seizes Ward Properties Under Presidential Order  s Showdown on

Here We Go Once More   Wards’ Balks Again, Government Again Has Army Take Over Properties

Ward Seizure Order Issued. By Roosevelt.  Criticises Stand Of Sewell Avery

COVERNMENT IS » RUNNING WARD STORES AGAIN   @ Army Seizure Ordered in Seven Cities by FDR As Strikes Spread

AVERY ACCEPTS SEIZURE ORDER IN GAY MOOD   Gov't Begins Showdown On Refusal to Heed WLB  Directives

Montgomery Ward Taken (ver by Federal Government  In Seven Cities

PRESIDENT TAKES ACTION IN CASE INVOLVING WLB ORDERS: SEWZURE COMES AMID STRIKES

RMY SEIZES MAIL ORDER HOUSE AGAIN   Montcomery-Ward Proper. ties In Seven Cities Are Taken Over

INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN FIRM IS FILED   Presidential Order Forces Showdown on Company's Refusal to Comply With WLB Directive

Ward Stores Seized By Army in 7 Cities   Avery Faces Restraint Iijunction; Vnjon Workers Strike at Chicago

Byron Designated To Seize Concern   Local Man Reported In Chicago Ready To Serve Presidential Order.

Ward Property In Seven Cities Seized By Army   Government Asks tnjunction To Restrain Company

PDR Orders New Move in .abor Dispute  Elem Claime WLR   Firm Claims WLB Lacks Authority to Enforce Directives

Employes to Keep on Performing  Normal Duties -—- Move is Second Seizure This Year of Chicago Vicm's Facilities.

Montgomery Ward »Properties Seized In Seven Cities.  ' Army Takes Over  @ Under Order from President, to End

Properties In Six Cities In Federal Hands   Action Taken Under Presi- dential Order In Showdown On Company’s  Defiance of WLB   Firm Had Ignored Labor Directives   Avery Greets Military Head With Handshake; Rooseveli Says Strikes Handieap War Effort

Army Takes Over 7 Ward Properties   FDR Says U. S. Won't Tolerate Interference With War Production

‘ Will Not Tolerate Strikes”   ‘Complaint Says Company Refusal to Obey -~WLB Order Menaces Labor Dispute Program

Avery Friendly © _As Army Officer Serves President's Order at Chicago Suits Are Filed

Army Takes Over Units in  Seven Cities   President Directs War Department to Make Retroactive Pay Boosts

F. R. ORDERS ACTION IN 1 CITIES OF U.S   No Interference to Be Tolerated i War Production, President Declares in Order

Army Seizes Seven Ward Stores Today Under Orders of The President:

WARD PROPERTY IN SEVEN CITIES SEIZED BY ARMY   ACTION TAKEN UNDER PRESIDENT’S ORDER TO FORCE SHOWDOWN

Action Ordered By Presiden   Governmerit Moves For  Showdown Today

Army Seizes / Ward Plants   President Orders Drastic Step on Recommendation of Vinson to End Dispute Over WLB Wage Directive

Seizure Comes Amid Strikes In Companies   \ ill Not Be Allowed To Set Aside Government Wartime Policies.  DIRECT PAY INCREASE

ARMY MOVES Ih ON STORES IN SEVEN CITIES   Second Seizure In Year Accompanies New Chicago Strike

SEIZE PLANTS AFTER CHICAGO WORKERS STRIKE   President Orders Seizure Following Rejection of WLB Directives

‘U.S. Cannot Tolerate Interference With Production.’ Roosevelt Says

Say Miners Want Contract  UMWA Officers at Madrid for Conference

Union Leaders Say They Will Try To Pave Way For Ending N. M. Coal Strike

B-29s Back Over Japan  To Map Raid   MacArthur Says Two Transports Heavily Damaged In Borneo Attack

ATTACKED 4TH TIME   2 Enemy > Transports Hit In Assault On  Brunei Bay Zone

LONE SUPERFORT ON SCOUTING MISSION REPORTED BY -JAPS   Two More Transports Hit In 4th Raid On Borneo

American Flag Hoisted in Rome  Historic Ceremon:; t Ndelestcs Poet bel

Lubbock High To Graduate 296 In Rites Today, Monday: Six In Armed Services

NAZIS ANTICIPATING THREE-PRONGED DRIVE   German Commentators Use Numbe Of Theories In Predicting Time OF Invasion

Nazis Forecast Invasion Route   Invasion-Guesses Fill European Air; Commentator Says Won’t Be Long Now.

Nazis Predict  3-W ay Invasion   Simultaneous Strikes From West, Russia and Italy Are Forecast

GERMANS PREDICT d-WAY INVASION   BELIEVE ARMIES IN ITALY WILL STRIKE AS DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY,

JAP TROOPS OVERTAKEN   Allied Forces in’ Burma Reach Mogaung-Mandalay Railroad

- ROMMEL PROMISES MANY SURPRISES. TO INVADERS   Noted German General Says Attack Is Imminent And Germany Is Ready ‘With New Weapons

Says Nazis Are Ready   ‘Rommel W arns That Many Great Surprises Await Invading Army

ROMMEL SAYS INVASION ALONG WEST IMMINENT   Field Marshal Adds His Voice to Guessing Din Among Germans

Invasion Very Near, Rommel Tells Germans   Many Great Surprises Awaiting Allies, Field Marshal Boasts.

Rommel Reports On Invasion Plans  Attack Near Asserts Nazi Chief  — Balt. 3 Ata ee mahi wen Del

Rommel Thinks Allied Invasion Near At Hand   [Armistice Terms To Be Presented To Germany _ Said About Complete

Allied Attack Considered Imminent   War of Nerves Even Affects  Nazi Commander

Germans Ready.  Rommel Declares  Invasion Operation Is  Imminent, He Says

ROMMEL SAYS INVASION NEAF   Declares German Soldiers Have New Weapons

Rommel Vows Surprises For  Invasion Army   ‘German Field Marsha!  Says This Is Partieularly   True of Those Who”   =—s Land by Parachute

ROMMEL SAYS NAZIS READY   German Soldiers Await Invasion Attack With New Weapons, Claim

Marshal Adds His Voice To The Guessing Din  Nazis Ready For Coming Invasion, Rommel Says

ROMMEL HAS. INVASION GUESS   Says German Soldier, Armed With New Weapons, Is Ready for the Utmost.

Rommel Guess On Invasion War   GERMAN GENERAL SAYS ALLIED ATTACK IS NEAR.

ALLIES HAVE. 138,000 WAR BIRDS ON JOB   Air Official, — Revealing ' Figures, Declares That for All Practical Pur. poses Main: Battle Ha’ Been Opened.

Says Paratroopers Will Meet Surprises Behind The German Lines When They Land.

Attack Is: Imminent,  Rommel  Tells Nazis   Adds His Voice To Those Of Other Guessers; Pledges New Wespons

CLAIMS NAZIS HAVE SURPRISE FOR INVADERS   German Field Marshall Says Troops Armed With New Weapons

ASSERTS NAZIS ARE READY FOR ALLIED INVASION   FIELD MARSHAL SAYS MANY SURPRISES IN STORE FOR ATTACKERS

ROMMEL TELLS SOLDIERS OF DANGERS AHEAD   Claim Germans Armed With  New Weapons

Rommel Promises Allies Many Tough Obstacles   Nazi Chief Declares   Germans Are Well  Aemad far Invocion

CO-ED KILLED IN SIDEWALK COLLAPSE   Three Others Are Injured in Downtown Toledo Cave-in

CO-ED KILLED IN TCLEDO CAVEIN   Three Others Injured as Sidewalk Collapses

 DPUrAINS aSSUES Senate Ponders Shad, Fruit Fly ‘And Sheep Blitz Lecislation

REVOLTS BREAK OUT IN VIENNA   Sabotage And_ Rioting Reveal Discontent Under Nazi Rule

ReportRevolts Break Qui In Vienna Area   Uprisings, Arrests, Casualties Occur i Elsewhere in Austria

Violent Austrian Revolts Reported   Nazis Announce Cut in Rations

8,590,000 Nazis Killed, Captured On Eastern Front      Soviets Engage Enemy In Great Tank Battle Outside of Budapest _

War With Russia Costs Nazis 8,590,000 Troops   Stalin Says Red Prewar Frontier Now Fully Restored

8,590,000 NAZIS IMMOBILIZED ON EASTERN FRONT  Killed or Captured By Soviets; Reds Proese on Richarect

TANK BATTLE IN PROGRESS AT BUDAPEST   Stalin Says Nazis Have Lost 8,590,000 On Eastern Front

Ministers Here Supporting TB Scal Campaign   Reds Claim 8 590,000 Germans Killed or Captured on East Front Since War Began

Soviets And Germans Are Engaged In Tank Battle Outside Budapest  RUSSIANS BRING UP REINFORCEMENTS  Hungarian Government Reported Escaped From Budapest

Germans Lose 8 590,000 on Russian Front  Stalin Estimates Nazi Casualties On Red Birthday

SOVIET FORCES IN TANK BATTLE NEAR BUDAPEST   Marshal Josef Stalin Discloses The Great Loss Of Nazi Forces

HED LINE UP FINAL ATTAGK ON BUDAPEST   Berlin Reporis Fierce Battle With Tanks Hindering Soviet Drive.

Final Battle For Budapest About to Begin   Reds Have Killed or Captured 8,590,000 Nazis in East Front

ALL OF RUSSIA NOW BACK IN SOVIET HANDS   Stalin Says Entire Russian Frontier Now Restored :

Russians Have Killed or Captured 8,590,000 Germans on Eastern Front, Premier Stalin Claims Today

SMITH LOST ~ IN PRIMARY   “COTTON ED” WAS" DEFEATED BY.. WIDE ‘MARGIN--MRB.’. ‘” CARAWAY ALSO LOSER

Wakde Island  Bombers Target   U. S. Airmen Smash New Jap Base To Prevent Aid To Hollandia   OTHER JAP BASES ARE ALSO POUNDED

NAZIS ARE RETREATING AT FALAISE   Kscape Gap Narrowed 8 To Eight Miles In  ' Pincers Move

Yanks But 40 Miles From Paris   British, Canadians Launch Assault On Falaise.

Weste  Von Kluge’s Troops Run Allied Gauntlet - On Normandy Fron’

Fight Said To Be Near Chartres   Estimate Of Enemy In Pocket Revised Downward As Many Escape

REPORT ALLIES ARE 40 MILES OUTSIDE PARIS   Most of Von Kluge’: Troops Reported Out of Danger

Most Armor Is Extricated By Von Kluge  Steps Up Tempo of Rush Under Ganitlet of Anied Fire S- MILE CORRIDOR  Germans Declare Yanks Only -10 Miles East _ - Fy      > - MILE CORRIDOR

[Allied Planes Pound Fleeing  Huns In France   ‘Most of German Atmored Forces Mauage to Get Out of Pocket, But 56,000 Trapped   Road Hub Seized  In Yanks’ Advance   Berlin Suys St. Male Has Fallen to Allies and Other Forges Neur ing French Capital

Berlin Broadcasts Declare American Third Army Under General Patton Has Pushed 60 Miles in Lightning Advance

Shower Steel and Surrender Passes on Von Kluge’s Hosts as Retreat Begins To Show Signs of Chaotic Confusion

Steel, Surrender Leaflets Fall On Trapped Nazis   New Encirclement of Fleeing German Troops Threatened as Yanks Drive to Within 40 Miles of Paris: Patton’s Armor Gains

British Staff Officer Says Von Kluge’s ‘Withdrawal from Normandy Pocket No Longer Being Conducted According to Plan—Believe 50,000 Enemy Forces May Yet Be Encircled—New Entrapment Threatened Nearer the Paris Area.

Armored Spearheads Driving of Toward Seine Carries Menace of Swinging Behind Enemy and Bottling Nazis Up: Between River and Atlantic Coast

GERMANS PUT AMERICANS 40 (MI, FROM PARI   Americans Shower Steel and Surrender Leaflets on Fleeing Foe

BITTER BATTLE REPORTED NEAR PARIS SECTOR   Von Kluge Able To Pull Armor  From F;ont

Enemy Says One Yank Column 40 Miles From Paris   Most Nazi Troops Have Withdrawn From Allied Trap

General Patton’s Yanks Now 40 Miles From Paris, Threaten New Trap for Panic-Stricken Forces of the Enemy

Enemy Runs Gauntle Of Shells to Escape  Von Kluge Manages to Pull Most

West France to See German Rout   NAZI GENERAL PULLED ARMOR OUT OF FRONT

Threaten To Spring New Trap   As Nazis Are Ground Down in Falaise Pocket, New Columns Swing Toward Paris

NAZIS’ SEVENTH ARMY MENACED BY NEW DRIVE   Enemy Reports Patton’s Force Hos Gained 60 Miles; Foe Running

hescues Armor Through ( yap 0 Kight Miles   German Casualties Heavy As Allies Halve Seventh Army Salient

Bulk Of German Armor Escapes — Normandy Trap   American Columns Reported Striking Eastward ~ Towards Paris; Nazi Radio Says 40 Miles From City

Yank Forces  Approaching City Of Paris   Now Within 40 Miles of French Capital, Cerman Report Says

Nazis Put Yankees Near Paris   Most of German Armor Escapes from Trap in Normandy

Nazis Say U. S Column Hurled Toward Paris   Threatens New Trap Of Germans Now Escaping Through Normandy Pocket

Nazi Commander Rushing Troops Out of Pocket Under Gauntlet of Fire   Germans Report Americans Strike  Eastward Within 40 Miles of Paris

NEW INVASION OPERATIONS PROCEEDING “ACCORDING TO PLANS” HEADQUARTERS SAYS   British Radio Broadcasts Report Stating That Forces Have Taken Five Towns, Including One Some Miles Inland   PRISONERS BEING BROUGHT IN IN LARGE BATCHES

Patton Drive Gains 60 Mi. On Capital   Nazis Flee Trap Under Heavy Fire; Gop s Narrowed

Nazis Step Up Withdrawal   Get Most of Armor Out; Escape Gap to Eight Miles; German Losses Soar

Escape Gap Narrowed te cight Miles   Berlin Says Yanks Strike Eastward to 40 Miles of Paris

NAZIS EXTRICATE ARMOR FROM BIG NORMANDY TRAP   ALLIED CLEAN-UP SHOWS ESCAPE GAP FAILED TO CLOSE

lies Pound Retreating ye In Normandy; Nazis  i] Of U.S. Paris Drive

FLEEING UNITS LASHED HARD BY AIR FORCE   Less Than 50,000 Germans May Now Be In Pocket; Paris Push Reported

YANKS WITHI 40 MILES OF CAPITAL   Falaise Retreat Hole Cut To Eight Miles   Are Believed Left In Trap: Enemy Showered With Surrender Passes

Von. Kluge Gets Bulk Of Armor Out Of Allied Trap At Falaise   More Than 50,000 Nazis Still Caught In Normandy Encirclement But German Retreat Begins To Show Signs Of Chaotic Confusion

Kk *-W™ wy  West France   x *k& *k& * _ AAF Throws Another Big One   K K* KO OU Valley of Death

BERLIN CLAIMS U.S. WITHIN 40 MILES OF PARIS   Allies Narrow Escape Path tc Eight Miles; Urge Seventh Army to Surrender

Berlin Claims Drive Pushing Towards Paris   Resistance Of Nazis In Pocket Crumbles Into Suicide Fights

By The Associated Press  SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY

Nazis. Pull Armored Forces. Out. Of Normandy —  GAP. ‘NARROWED Von Kluge’ Seeks. To  ‘Save Troops. From eae ES a aoe as

Allied Troops Battling Ger. / mans Within 40 Miles of Paris   MAKE A 60-MILE DRIVE

May Again Bottle Up Nazi Units   Enemy Casvalties in Great Debacle in Northern France” Estimated at 300,000   PERHAPS 50,000 STILL IN TRAP   French Are Rising and Berlin Talks of Great New Developments Shaping Up

An American Column Within Forty Miles of French Capital. .   THIRD ARMY IN A DRIVE   Fleeing German Troops Are Threatened With a New Encirclement.

ROOSEVELT CRITICIZES» cs ' FICTENCIES” OF. BILL BOT: PUTS SIGNATURE ON MEASURE: ™.

FRAMEWORK OF RECONVERSION ESTABLISHED   F. D. R. Signs Bill for Modification of Baruch Plan

Willow Run, Ahead of Schedule, Gets Permit To Close 2 Days for Inventory

Willow Run Closed For Inventory   Bomber Plant Will Be Closed Two Days By Approval

PRESSURE SCORED BY SPANISH PRESS   -Newspapers Ask Continuance of Nation’s Policy of Neutrality

Union Officers — Crack Down on ~ 14,500 Strikers   R. J. Thomas Goes Over Heads of Local to Order Meetin

CHRYSLER UNION IS REPRIMANDED   President Of CIO Tells Strikers To Get Back To Work

Threatens Party Bolt If Post-War Plans Not Backed   Retirement Follows © Decisive Beating In Wisconsin Primary

Party Leaders Hope Willkie Will Remain Active in Fight Against Roosevelt Fourth Term

‘FREE LANCE’ ROLE IS SEEN FOR WILLKIE   His Support of Ticket Unsure

LARGE FORCE OF BOMBERS BLASTS SOFL   Air Armada Sets New Record for Mediter ranean Bases

Heavy Bombers Of RAF Are Out  In Foree Again   Two Powerful Armadas Take More Than Hour Te Cross Enelish Coast

MERICANG onO0T UP NAZI DROMES   Bombers Raid Fields in Holland-German Border Area   RAF QUT AGAIN   Number of Nazi Warplanes Knocked Out by Americans In 4 Days Totals 106

RAF Quit In Great Force Over E Europe   Nazis Fill Air With Warning

APPROVES A PAY HIKE   Senate Passes Postmaster Salary Bill Over Reed Protest

Germany Doubles Gestapo Force to Quel] Revolt in Occupied Nations; Troops Mass on Jutland Peninsula

F.D.R, ACCEPTS D'GAULLE RULE   Stand Thought Tantamount to Recognizing French Committee

Russians Threaten Last Rai! Exit , Fer 200.000 Germans Pocketed ; Below Leningrad. Artillery  Bombards Kerch   REACHHEAD WIDENED  IN NETTUNO SECTOR   Re United Press}

Five-Day Strike At Timken Ends      Workers Return to Jobs Voluntarily

Rnssia Lashes Gut Al Bulgaria In Moscow Reports if War Peace Attitude Toward Western Neighbors

Reich Military Chieftains Arrive on Russian Fran   Moscow Assails Bulgaria For Lending Heln to Foe

EVACUATION OF SOFIA ORDERED   Result Of Heavy Allied Air Blows Against Capital

Panic Seizes Balkan States   Bomb -Shattered Sofia Being Evacuated

Sofia Being Evacuated by All Citizens   Allied Air Attacks. Have Smashed Center of City of 200,000 Population   OTHER BIG TOWNS ALSO CLEARED   Hotel Housing Most of Ger. man Army Staff Said to  Have Been Wrecked

BULGARIA ORDERS  SOFIA EVACUATION   Death is Penalty for Looting German Radio Reports

Evacuation Of Sofia Is Ordered   Bulgars Plan To Move 300,000 as Result of Raids

Bulgaria Orders ‘Evacuation of Sofia, Air Target   Poland’s Reply To Russia Held Favorable

BULGARIA ORDERS SOFIA EVACUATED   MOST OF CAPITAL’S 300,000 CITIZENS TO BE MOVED TO PROVINCES.

Bulgaria Orders Sofia Evacuated   Other Large Towns Will Also Be Cleared

Evacuating Bomb Battered Sofia   Center Of Bulgarian City Almost Totally Knocked Out.

Bulgars « Order: - 300, 000. ‘Leave. = Sofia. At ‘Once      Government Ukase -Result - Of Heavy Allied “Aerial Assaults On -Capital

EVACUATION OF 300,000 SOFIA RESIDENTS ON   Bulgarian Government Acts as Result of Heavy   Allied Air Blows   Against Capital

Total Evacuation  '  _ Of Sofia Ordered  Other Large Towns Also To Be Quit

ALLIED AIR RAIDS BRING EVACUATION ORDERS FOR SOFIA   Bulgarian Government Tells Capital’s 300,000 Citizens to Get Out—Say City’s Center Nearly Knocked Out

300,000 Told To Fiee Sofia   Istanbul Dispatches Declare City’s Heart Almost Knocked Out

Bulgaria Orders Sofia Evacuated   Order of Government Results From Heavy Allied Air Blows.

300,000 MOVE OUT OF SOFLA   Evacuation Forced By Raids, Nazis Say

DEPTH NOW 7 MILES; CANISY IN YANK HANDS   Americans Have Taken 25 French Villages In Three Days

Whirlwind Drive Expands Breach To 12 Mi. Bepth   Offensive Engulfing 25 Towns Becomes Major Advance

NE reak Snow Falls on Austin. 8. A. Beeause  Warm. Cold Air Masses in Tuqeo-Wen

AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO  GET HEAVY SNOWFALL  IN FREAKISH WEATHER TUG-OF-WAR BETWEEN  MASSES WARM AND COLD AIR RRING PRECIPITATION

Verdun and Sedan Are Left Behind   British Dashing Up Coast 30 Miles a Day, Avenging Diepve and Dunkerque

GERMANS GAVE UP VERDUN WITHOUT A FIGHT; ALL ORGANIZED GERMAN RESISTANCE NOW ' WIPED OUT OF NORTHERN FRANCE.   Reach Belgian Frontier

Pegun Island Seized by Yank Forees   Key Island in Mapia Group Captured by MacArthur's Men  Despite Heavy Rains

YANKS NEARING JAPANESE BASE   Americans Drive In Rain To Ormoc Road

TE ISLAND DRIVE SLOWED BY HARD RAINS   Americans Within Small Arms Range of Ormoc Road Behind Japanese Forward Line  ~—_ne bomen cts Ure oe hlUrrlCUlUklhlUC<C A ClUrlCOe er eae Oe

AMERICANS ARE IN RIFLE RANGE OF ORMOC ROAD   THREATEN TO CUT OFF JAP TROOPS; EASLEY WOUNDED

Rains Slow Drive Of Yanks On Leyte   Toll of Jap Ships in Manila Raid Revised Upward: American General Wounded in Philippines; Japs Prepare for Air Attacks on Home Islands

AMERICANS 0 LEYTE WITHIN ORMOC RANGE  Can Strika City   Can Strike City With Smaller Artillery

Rains Slow Yanks’ Drive to Cut Of Japanese on Leyte   Gen. Easley, MacArthur Aide, Wounded by Enemy Sniper

Tropical Rains Slow American Troops Hammering Japs in Leyte Corridor

Leyte Offensive Nearing Ormoc   AMERICAN ARTILLERY IN RANGE OF JAP BASES

Jap Corridor Under Steady Artillery Fire   Americans Within Smal Arms Range Of Ormoc Hichway

YANKS NEARING ORMOG HIGHWAY   Brig. Gen. Easley Wounded By Jap Sniper’s Bullet On Leyte.   CONSOLIDATE POSITION

JAP NAVY CUT BY 38 VESSELS   Philippine Battle Takes Heavy Ships

Soviets Race for Poland   Greatest Sovict Offensive of War Plunging Ahead

SOVIETS CAPTURE VITAL JUNCTION: NEARING POT ANT   Novograd Volynski Is _ Captured, «Stalin Announces   CARRIES: REDS 12 MILES “FROM: POLISH BORDER

Russ Take German Bas Near Poland   Twe More Important Cities Expected to Fall at Any Hour

Russian Troops Are Nearing Old Polish Border .   Germans Being Flung Back in Bloody Battles

Vitebsk ana Belaya Tserkov About to Fall   Marshal Stalin Issues Special Order of the Dav

LAST BIG GERMAN BASE INDISTRICT ISLOST BY ENEMY   Vatutin’s Army Races Ahvad at High Speed to Throw Vanguard Over Boundary By End of Day.   ABOUT 4000 GERMANS BEING KILLED DAILY   Thousands of Japanese Are Doomed as American in vaders Swarm Ashore In   Northern New Guinea.

ALLIED AERIAL ACTION MOUNTS   Heavy Bombers Support  Invasion Forces As  Weather Clears

‘Temperatures   Third Battles Almost Clear ‘Of Saarlautern  U. S. Seventh Wipes Out Nazi Pocket. ~

STUBBORN NAZI POCKET ROUTED IN STRASBOURG   Battle Of Attrition Or Cologne Plain Enters 16th Day

Gov. Dewey Says Administration  Afraid Of Peace   New Deal Fears Continuance Of Its Own Failures To Get This Country Going Again; Conceived In Defeatism

GOP Candidate Opens Campaign To Defeat FDR   Seeks Early Return Of American Troops

Dewey Asserts Present Administration ‘Afraid Of Continuance of Their Own Failures’

Administration Is Afraid of Peace, Gov. Dewey Charges  G. O. P. Presidential Candidate Calls for "Rebirth of Faith’ in  Fiiture of Notion «esc Camnaien Onens   Louis Bromfield, Life-Long Democrat, Describes Democratic Party as a Tired and Quarrelsome and Politically Shifty... Wreck’

Says Roosevelt Failed To End Depression And Now Is Afraid Of Peace

Meneys Opening — — Ba ttle, Scores   New D eal Rule         Governor, i in. First Major: Speech, ‘Says Administration oe i Afiaid  of Peace” Because of Own ; et welt Egilapes in the Pact. LO

New Deal Failures Attacked By Dewey In Philadelphia; Administration Fears Peace   iGOP Presidential Nominee Tells Cheering Throng Roosevelt Failed For Eight Straight Years To Restore Nation’s Domestic Economy

Dewey Lashes Out At Administration   Opens Presidential Campaign Witn address At Independence Hall Jn Philadelphia

Dewey Attacks Administration For Defeatism   Nominee Claims New Deal Saved by War, Afraid  Of Denner TT... Ci.

Dewey Declares  New Dealers Are Afraid Of Peace   GOP Nominee Plunges Into Active Phase Of Fight For Presidency; Starts Trans-Continent Tour

Dewey Charges New Deal Afraid Of Own Failures   Says They Lack Ability to Restore Domestic Economy

German Airplane Production Is Cut   “Good Results’? Reported in Raids on Aireratt Plants — Destroy 142 Planes Yesterday

EAST COAST EVACUATION IS CLAIMED   Foe Driven 50 Mile: North Of Rome As  Chase Continues

GERMANS BEGIN RETREAT FROM ADRIATIC LINES   Allies Push 50 Miles North of Rome in Pursuit of Foe

Dispatches Hint Commanders Struggling To Reorganize Forces   Planes Strafe Foe. inflicting Damage   Allied Pace Slows Down While Troops Clear Roads Of Blocks

German Troops in Full Retreat from Rome and Adriatic Fronts    ‘Bield Day for Planes

FLEEING NAZIS PUSHED BACK ON ITALIAN FRONT   (Germans Start General Retreat From Adriatic Coastal Tine

Nazi Armies:in Full Retreat All Across Italy   Germans Struggle To Reorganize  And Make a Stand

Nazis Struggling To Reorganize For Counterdrive   Allied Planes Strafe Enemy Columns To Inflict Heavy Losses

FLEEING NAZIS SLOW RETREAT ABOVE ROME   Aim To Reorganize And Turn On Persuers 50 Miles From City

NAZI ARMY TN ITALY NOW IN FULL RETREAT   Withdraw Coastal Line at Adriatic End; 14th Army 60 Miles Past Rame.

NAZIS’ 10TH ARMY BEGINS RETREAT   Heading North From Adriatic Coastal Line Below Rome

ee ee  ‘Yanks Race Past Captured Civitavecchia In Pursuit Of Germans Along Broad Front

Death Claims Billy Meers   4-Year-Old Boy Dies Despite Continuous Blood Transfusions

Little Billy Meers Is Dead   Victim Of Nephritis Fails To Survive Despite Nation-Wide Plasma Gifts

4-Year-Old Billy Meers Loses His Fight Against Chronic Nephritis

Four Sons Of Kingsley Couple Are Now Serving In The Armed Forces   Fifth Works In Defense Plant And Two Farm

Hundreds Of F ighter Planes Slash Deep Inside Germany   Spotlight Falls On American Pilots Who Racec Their Planes To Munich And Back; 155 Nazi Pilots Shot Down

CHINA'S PRODUCTION GOAL TO BE DOUBLED   Nelson Mission Reports It Has Hit No Snags

Germans Appeal Frantically to People to Remain Calm and Warn Them to Avoid Wishful Dreams of Deliverance

GERMANS ARE REPORTING ON ALLIED DRIVE   On Paris As Well As On Riviera; Flemish Paper Promises Move Terrible Robots and U-Boats.   Gas Warfare

Ohio OPA Director Acts To Crack Gas Black Market, Warns Filling Station Operators

SHAKE-UP IN OHIO GAS POLICY ANNOUNCED  OPA TAKES STEPS TO STAMP OUT ACTIVITIES OF BLACK MARKET IN THE STATE.

Nazis Increase Pressure On Bosnia Railway   Secretary Knox Says Hopes of Early End of War ls “Wishful Thinking;*Backs Labor Draft Law

NAZIS STEP uP PRESSURI IN BOSNIA   Fierce Fighting For Control Of Railway Continues

Chinese Declares Government Reform Demand Would Be Tantamount to Threat

Chinese Resent Attempts at Reformation   Say This Shouldn't Be Condition of War Cooperation

CHURCHILL IS HOPEFUL   EXPECTS WAR TO REACH “DECISIVE STAGES’ IN ‘44

Exposes Traffic in Labor Rentinc  Practice Brings . Hiah Profits

‘Profits. Up To 250: Per-Cent:Made. By Labor Hirers, House Group Told

 House Group Probes Report Labor-Hirers”  Have Made Huge Pratits In All Parts Of Land

NEW RACKET IN LABOR HIRING BEING PROBED   House Military Committee Investigating “Labor Renting Traffic” in Which Millions Made

Labor-Renting Racketeering Is Under Investigation By Military Committee

BEING PROBEL   Profits in ‘Labor Renting Traffic’ Run Into Millions Of Dollars.

‘Labor Hirers’ Are Accused In Profits Probe   “Renting Traffic” Aired Before House Group; Workmen Got Small Part O£ Wages

“Labor-Hirers’ Receive Profits  Of 250 Per Cent   Congress Hears Report Of Case

Professional “Labor Hirers” Make Big Profits in War Industries, Group Told

Enormous Prolits by ‘Labor Hirers’, At Government's Expense, Revealed

Positions _   GERMANS ARE DEFENDING : TRANSPORT CENTER IN =» NORMANDY WITH STUBBORN RESISTANCE <

‘Two Armies Closing Line Around City   Shells Screaming Into Enemy Points Inside Fortress

Canadians Battle To Hold Carpiquet   Germans Put up- Fierce Resistance In Bloodiest Fighting :of Invasion

seneral Bradley’s Troops Capture 16 More French Villages. German Counter - Attack Thrown Back.

LAHAYE UNDER HAMMERING BY BIG GUNS   Battle for Nazi-Held Normandy Bastion Reported Raging Violently.

SEIZE BRIDGE IN AREA WHERE BATTLE BITTER   German Strong Point on Appian Way Brought Under Range of Allied Light Artillery

Ralph Thompson To Military Service   Recently Promoted To Lieutenant in Patrol

SEA TRAINING "PROGRAM HIT   — - : ~ ~ MEN ENROLLED IN MERCHANT MARINE_5 C.H 0 0.L8.AFTER.-

DRAFT POLICY CUTS SEAMEN DEFERMENTS   Bigger Butter And Beef Supplies Seen; Sugar Supply Is Decreased

Germans Believed Running Short of ~ Supplies in ttaly   Allied €ommund Says Wrecked System Can't Sustain Troops

NAZI SYSTEM OF SUPPLY WEAKENED   Allied Air Forces Say Germans Can’t Hold Out in Italy

Red Armies Now Released  For ( ampaigns   Germans Continue Retreat in Italy As Bombers Blast Targets in Reich   Bulletin

british forces Battle To Halt  India Invasion  Japanese Drive Threat To Allied Push  In Burma AIM AT IMPHAL nemy Uses Old Tactics  Of Infiltration. On Front      Of Infiltration.  8 Uses Old Tactics On Front

Ground Forces Cut Jap Burma Railway   BRITISH CLOSE IN ON ENEMY AT TIDDIM AS CHINESE MEET STRONG RESISTANCE IN NIPPONESE THREAT TO BURMA GAINS

Mystery Glider Army Cuts Enemy Lifeline as Other Forces Rush Toward Border

Mystery Troops Landed Astride: Main Railway   Surprise Blow Struck By Band of Air-Borne  Indian Infantrymen . *

200 Nazi Planes Bowned   American Losses Reported Officially at 64  Bombers

But Luftwaffe May Have Lost More Than 300   Forts and Libs Take Rocket Gun Barrages In Historic Battie

London Sources Say That 300 Nazi Planes Were Destroyed While 60 American Bombers  Were Lost.

Four Snowbound On Mountain Pass      Rescue Parties Start Towards Stalled Road Bus

RAINY ELECTION DAY   Slightly Cooler Weather Forecast 5 for Tomorrow

UARRA ADOPTS. RELIEF FORMULA   impoverished People of AxisInvaded Nations to Get . Sustenence

NAZI BRUTALITIES IN ROME REVEALED   EIGHT HUNDRED TO 1,000 PUT TO DEATH DURING GERMAN OCCUPATION.

OMBIA CHIEF OFFERS TO QUI   President Lopez Resignation Given Senate; Likely Refusal Seen

YANKS REPULSE JAPS IN GUINEA   111 Enemy Troops Slain Ir Wakde-Sarmi Sector

ANNIHILATE TRAPPED JAPS   American Hifanteymen Rid) Inge. tuear Istand, Site ef Wakde Islouds’ Airstrip dapanese Slaging Bitter Re wnce,

WIPE OUT ALL JAPS TRAPPED IN WAKDE AREA   Enemy Dead Total 676 In 3-Day Operation At Airdrome 

Japs Trapped on Insoemear Island ‘Are Wiped Out by U. S. Infantrymen

Insomear Isle Japs Annihilated By U. S. Troops   Engineers Rushing Repairs On Captured Enemy Air Field

MEETING SET TUESDAY TO PLAN DETAILS   Special Committee Has Session With Court Saturday ~

7 wy . ort : =e PS fuci -farriec Gaccner - eC ‘or “Sarcenia ‘“urcer” 7roe

Loans to Help Veterans Return  To Businesses  RFC Announces Plan In Co- Operation  Se

Servicemen Get Business Loans   R.F.C. to Make Loans Available to Vets to Aid Them In Reestablishing Businesses.

 RETURNED SERVICEMEN MAY SECURE LOANS   Those Forecd To Liquidate Business Ventures When Inducted Will Get Federal Assistance

OPA CLEARS UP RATIONING RULES   CALLS ON HOUSEWIVES TO DESTROY STAMPS THAT HAVE BECOME INVALID.

RATION AULES ARE CLARIFIEL   Housewives Urged to Destroy Old Stamps; Red Tokens Continue Good for Butter, Meats and Cheese

Housewives Asked to Destroy Ration Stamps Ruled as Invalid Tuesday

Red Tokens Still Valid   OBA Further Explains New aise COradora -- «r

Destroy Invalid Red Stamps .  OPA Announces Red Tokens Will Continue To Be Used

Housewives Are Asked fo Destroy Alt Food Ration Stamps Voided Tuesday

Destruction — OfInvalid Food Stamps: Asked by OPA   . Seeks To Prevent — Violation of Rules; Agency Announces  List of Valid Stamps RED TOKENS VALID

DESTROY INVALID STAMPS. IS PLEA   Request Is Made by OPA To Prevent Voided Coupons From Beina Put Into Use

Oil Magnate Dies at Age of 67   fowa Farm Boy Who Found Indians, Oil In Early Oklahoma

L. E. Phillips Is Taken By Death   Rose From Janitor To Head Giant Oil Industry

Allies Well Supplied For  War In India   Reserves Of Men Weapons Reported Ready By Stimson

Stimson Notes Luftwaffe Loss   Stimson Declares Allied Reserves  To Match Jap in India Substantial

26,000 JAPS' DIE IN RECENT FIGHTS   Stimson Says Allies Hold _ Strong Points in the Burma Area

Mrs. Anna Dirks Pioneer Resident  Died Wednesday  Was Almost NinetySeven Years Of Age Lived In Grant Twp.

Mrs. Anna Dirks Pioneer Resident.  Died Wednesday  ‘Was Almost NinetySeven Years Of Age

HILL APPOINTED TO FARM POST   Nominated to Fill Spot in Agriculture Dept.

Aerial Lashing Of  Kuriles Continues   Islands Near Jap Homeland Pounded Again; Marshalls Also Are Battered  _ 4 Ce Ce

Aerial Lashing Of  Kuriles Continues   Islands Near Jap Homeland Pounded Again; Marshalls Also Are Battered

Australians Point Toward Madang Base   5 Key Truk Islands Raided by Liberators ¥n Softenine-Up Plan

U.S. bombs rock Kurile  approaches Surike only 450  miles from Janar

Kurile Islands Raided Fourth Tume in 4 Days   Aleutian-Based Army Planes Lead Attack; Truk Has Heavy Raid

FOURTH DAY OF OFFENSIVE IN KURILES   With Strikes at Three Islands on Approach to Tokio; Fourteen AirPlane Raids.   Raid Truk

Race Disorders In Philadelphia  Injure Scores Walkout of 6000  Traction Men Referrec For Roosevelt Action

Foes Taken by Surprise  Because of Lack of Artillery Prenaration

Patrols Fighting in City   Riq Rail Hub Almost in Graar Ot Americans

Keystone Nazi Base is Almost In Allied Hands   Germans are Taken By Surprise by Lack Of Artillery Fire

Yanks Also Reported Reaching Lessay, West Anchor Of German Line   British - Canadian Attack At Caen Gains 3 Miles In 24 Hrs.; Big Guns Pound Nazis On Orne

British Forces Wage New Offersive Below Caen, Batter For. ward Several Hundred Yards   Toward Two Key Villages   ASSAULT FORCES STORM TWO TOWNS

BRITISH SEIZE PARTS OF THO KEY VILLAGES   Battle in Noyers and Evrecy as U. S. Troops Storm Other Bases,

Normandy Line’s Central Keystone Almost In Grasp   British Forces Batter Forward In Offensive   Below Town of Caen

Periers and Lessay Also Feel Blunt of Attack Which Reels  Enemy Back on Norman Froni

Central Keystone Of German Line In Normandy Almost In Allied Grasp   Other Units Storm Periers And Lessay   British, In Offensive Below Caen, Advance Several Hundred Yards

Allies Are Expected To Fight For St. Lo In Street By Street  OCCUPATION IS NOT COMPLETED  British Forees Waging New Offensive Below Caen

Periers, Lessay Aproaches Hit By Other Forces   Nazi Keystone’s Fall Nears; British Gain Anew South of Caen

Seige Are Clamped By /  First Army   British Push In Toward Noyers And Evreey

Saint Lo Is Entered by Americans   Town Almost Within Grasp of Allies—Heavy Fighting Reported

\NK PATROLS -AASH INTO TINED ST. LO   Nazi Keystone Jotly Defended

SUPER FORTS IN NEW ATTACK ON FORMOSA ISLAND   Aircraft Repair, Supply Base Hit Also Depot At Heito

Big Sea-Air Battle Raging Off Formosa And the Philippines   tye FRANK TERMWMAINE

JAP NAVY KEEPS WW HIDING AS U.S. AGAIN HITS TRUK   43 Enemy Planes Destroyed ‘as Carrier Task Force  Strikes 

JAPAN'S NAVY AGAIN FAILS T0 FIGHT   U.S. Task Force Returns Unchallenged to Truk Bastion

JAP FLEET OFFERED NO OPPO. SITION TO ASSAULT DURING WHICH ENEMY LosT 128 PLANES

GREAT BARRAGE. BURST FROM GUNS ON ALLIED LINE   U. P. Man Describes the Greatest Massed Artil.lery, Fire of This War.

German Blockade Rune! Scuttled by Crew, 145 Men Are Taken Prisoner

ITALIAN CAPTIVES WILL HELP U.S   GROUP. THAT VOLUNTEERED FOR SERVICE IN TRAINING FORK NONCOMBAT DUTY,

Reds Approack Yugoslavia in Fast Drive   Germans Cleared From Wide Area on Danube River

Reds Roll Toward Yugoslav Border   Other Forces Advance In Transylvanian Alps

ARETURN ENGAGEMENT   Flora Predicts Hotter Weather; No Chance for a Shower

FIFTH ARMY HAS SEIZED BOCCONI   Progress Reported Made In Invasion Of Albania

Fifth Army In New Gains On  ltalian Fron   Spearheads Of Force Occupy Bocconi, Some 30 Miles From Spezia   ITALIAN PATRIOTS CATURE BELLARIA

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   STH ARMY SPEARHEADS OCCUPY BOCCONI

Political Groups Under Scrutiny  Widespread Probes Being Demanded

Proposed ClO Political Probe May Widen   Roosevelt Picks Up More Delegates; Close Idaho Race

Solons Urge ‘PAC’ Probe  Be Extended   Include Others With CIO Political Action Organ- ization

Influenee Of Spheres Out   United States Officials Insists L. S. Maintains Firm Stand.

U. S., Britain Both Stand Firm On Opposing Policies Toward Greece, Ital}

F DR Approval Being  Denied.   “Influence Spheres 8 . Opposed By America

IU. S. Flatly Opposed To Development \Of Spheres Of Influence In Europe

Officials Say U. S. Firmly Opposed To Spheres Of Influence In Europe

Influence Spheres For Dividing Europe Are Opposed By U.S.   Authoritative Officials Deny Un qualifiedly President Roosevelt Approved Any British-Russian Agreement — Fighting Continues in Greece Where Britain Exerting Influence

DENY FDn PUT UN UN GALKAN OPHERE SPLIT   U. S. Officials Declare Gov't Has Cautioned Britain and Russia.

OFFICIALS MAINTAIN " S. OPPOSED TO “SDHERES OF INFLUENCE” IN EUROPE

National Democratic Spokesmen Make Bid for Ohio Electoral Vote  Taft Charges Fourth Te _ uld Lead to Collapse of Busines

Wars Do Not Wait For New Commander-In-Chief To Learn Something Of Duties, Walker Asserts

DEMOCRATS BID FOR OnIO VOTE   National Spokesmen Enter Campaign in State

NIMITZ REVEALS 38 SURFACE ‘VESSELS AND 34 PLANES DE-~ * STROYED. OR DAMAGED

VITAL CHINESE CITY IN PERIL   Citizens Fleeing From Hengyang As Tokyo's Forces Close In

Chinese Civilians Flee Rail City  Japs Are Within 25 Miles of Goal

Soviet Troops Are Closing Tn on Rovno   Nearest Forces 13 Miles from Vital Traffic Hub; Moscow Silent on Cairo Rumor: French Take Sant’ Elia

Soviet Troops Converge Upon  Trathe Hub   French Soldiers Of Fifth Army Take Sant’ Elia In Italian Area

Red Troops Are Only 13 Miles From Transport Hub   Moscow Gives No View on Disturbing Nazi Peace Rumor

Gillespie Sergeant, Reading Bible, Finds New Name For Wrecked Airplane

Truck Tire Outlook Becoming Critical]   OPA District Officials Have Called a Meeting to Be Held in Kansas City.

Catholic Priest's Suspension Lifted   Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski Sends Apology to Bishop

Bishop Lifts Suspension of Flying: Priest   Apology Results in Revocation of  Punishment

Neutralized or Taken, It Passes Out As Major Block To Philippines Drive

Assault on Truk Ends Jap Unchallenged Domination   Navy’ s Swift Stroke After Conquest of Kwajalein  Brings Radical Change in Strategic  Situation in Pacific

ATTACK ON TRUK MARKS END OF JAPS’ UNCHALLENGED RULE OVER LARGE AREA

MarksEnd Of an Era For Japan   Bold Attack on Truk Brings Nipponese Dom. inance of South Pacific Area to End

ENEMY LOSING PACIFIC GRIP   Truk Assault Seen As End To Jap Control of Huge Ocean Territory

Truk Security Now Dissipated  Strategic Initiative Now With U. S. Fleet

TRUK ASSAULT MARKS END OF NIP DOMINATION   Believe Japs Unable Ta Rebuild Port After Heavy Attack

Assault On Truk Marks Base’s End As Major Obstacle To Philinninee

Truk Assauit Pins Japs in Large Area   Least Result Means Enemy No Longer Secure at Base

No Longer A Major Obstacle On Philippines Noad  Truk Attack Ends J aps’ Domination In Big Area

‘NavyA ttack On Truk Island ‘MarksEnd Of Unchallenged ‘Hold Of Japs On Wide Area

Japan’s Unchallenged Domination Huge Area Of Pacific Is Ended With U.S. Attack On Truk

Assault Changes Pacific Situation   Blow at Truk Marks End of Unchallenged Japanese Dominatior

Students Protest Firing of Co-ed For Writing Pamphlet on Kissine

Patton’s Men Battle Way Into Metz   Invaders From South Get Within 70 Miles Of Belfort Gap

FORCE GROGoING OF MEUSE RIVER   Pressure Is put on All Along the 130-mile Front   U. S$. THIRD ARMY   Drives Into City of Metz; Last Enemy Resistance in Sedan Is Crushed

Yankee Third Battles Into  Metz; Sutters First Setback   Pressure Is on All Along 130-Mile Front For Armies Bearing Down Siegfried Line

Allies Keep   Pressure on Along Front O£f 130 Miles   39 Miles from Aachen, German Gateway City,_ 20 Miles from Saar In Battle into Metz  TWO BRIDGEHEADS ~   PUT ACROSS MOSELLE Third One Is Lost,:: Eirct Aled Sethack ~

Yanks Within 39 Miles Of Aachen, Gateway to Germany, Enter Metz   Americans Plough Half-Way Through Ardennes Forest Against Fierce Nazi Resistance in Spectacular Advances

First and Third Armies Driving Toward Berlin   Increase Pressure On German Forces

U.S. Soldiers Fight. Within 39 Miles  of a       NAZIS:PUTTING UP STIFF .RESISTANCE.   Third Army Troops Threw 7 Bridgehéads Across : ‘Moselle <0

Nazis Show Fierce Resistance for Liege. Metz Along 130-Mile Front

Sedan, Where Germans Outflanked Maginot Line in 1940 to Win Battle of France, Falls to Allies

American First And Third _ Armies Launch Battle For Reich; Push Across Meus:   Patton’s Troops Fight Way Into Metz, 20 Miles Away From Saar Border; First Army Fighting Within 39 Miles Of Aachen; Resistance Is Stiff

One Crossing of River Is Repulsed   British, Canadian And Polish Forces On Channel Cut Off Twe Vital French Harbors

Fall of By-Passed Sedan Revealed By First Army   Patton’s Men Plunge Into Metz, Fall Back At Pont-a-Mousson

Attack Made By Americans  On Wide Front   U.S. Forces Fight Into Metz, Smash Half Way Through the Ardennes; One Moselle Bridgehead Lost

First and Third Armies Making Rapid Strides Toward Seigfried Line and the Nazi Fatherland; Stiff Fighting  in Some Placec.

Enemy Stands Against Smash Aimed at Saar   1st Army Foes Are Denied Chance To Resist Push

Heavy Attack Made Against  Munich Works   Bombers From England And Italy Smash Plants, Rails, Airdromes

GERMANS STEP UP BUZZ BOMB ATTACKS   Millions Move Underground in Lon don—15,000 More Children Leave Capital.

LINDER DECLARES ONE WEEK HOLIDAY TOBACCO MARKETS   Pending Renewed Pleas In Washington for Better Ceiling Prices

Georgia Declares Tobacco Holiday   Other States Will Follow Stand Taken

BRITISH NIGHT RAIDERS SHOWER: BOMBS ON BERLIN   Other Allied Planes Sweep Over Southwestern Germany and the Northwestern Coast.   ENEMY TROOPS SMOKED OUT IN CAEN AREA   Airmen Set Woods Afire With Explosives and Strafe Nazis as They Flee From Shelter.

Berlin Bombed By British in Night Atfack   Other Points Hit By Allied Planes

Berlin says night raiders  over Europe Weather hamper: aerial operations

RAF Raiders Strike Berlin, Other Sectors   Night Attack Comes After Weather Clears Troops Get Support

Kimmel And Short Cleared By Navy,  Army Conclusions   Pearl Harbor A Closed Book But Public Is Still In The Dark

BOOK CLOSED ON PEARL HARBOR   No Further Investigation Expected Until After Wars End

PEARL HARBOR PROBES ARE: COMPLETED   No Farther Action Against Short, Kimmel

No Action To Be T «7 “, Against Short, Kimmel  Pearl Hark r Story Still Secret

250,000 MEN POUR ASHORE WITH GENERAL   Appeal Is Made To Fili: pinos To “Rise And Strike”

Under Blazing Barrage From Sea and Air; Gen. MacArthur Urges Filipinos to “Rise and Strike”; Fulfills Vow to Come Back.

Nazi Airdrome in Holland Hit   American Planes Also Over Germany

U. S. Bombers Strike at Dutch ‘Fields   British Devastate Enemy Munition Stores Behind Front

PLANES GROSS RAMPARTS OF ATLANTIC WALL   800 British Raiders Devastate Three Big Anti-Invasion Supply Dumps.

American Planes Pound Holland,  France, Germany   RAF Hits Nazi Troop Centers And Anti Invasion Bases

BOMB FIELD IN HOLLAND   Nazis Report Allied Bombers Are’ Over West Germany -

Following Nightly Raids Of =. A, f. In France  BATTER GERMANY’S ATLANTIC SEA WALL  19 Allied Bombers Were Lost In All Operations

Nazi Supply Bases Are Devastated   British Lose 49 Bombers in Breaking Through Night Fighters

Coast Wall, “Dutch Aeria Base Raked   Berlin Reports American Planes Over Germany

O’Neill, MeNut Picked to Win Close Contests   im. Runes Seeii Linesy Tor  Congress and  Qunervi cor mneryvicor

Miss Rubie 'S. Juggins i: Bride of Isaac Mourar, Spririg City, Pa.

COUPLE WED       Miss Rubie ‘Ss. Juggins ‘is Bride of Isaac Mourar, Spring City, Pa.

OLD CONTROVERSY JG NEARING AN END   Struggle Between Menom: inee Indians and U. S. 69 Years Old,

SOLDIER VOTE MAY TELL TALE   Service Men's Vote May Change Political Complexion Of 16 States.

SOLDIER VOTES CARRY POWER   May Change Political Com- plexion Of 16 States

SOLDIER VOTES MAY CHANGE POLITICAL TREND 16 STATES  ENOUGH SERVICE. VOTE! meerrt AAOET FAT ETRE AT PTE   ENOUGH SERVICE. VOTES OVERCOME PLURALITIES BELIEVED IN MAILS

sLOIER BALLOT MAY DECIDE RACE   G. L Votes May Change Political Complexion In 16 States   MANY ARE VOTING   Outcome In Many States May Hinge On Servicemen’s Attitude -

Soldier Vote May Decide The Election In Michigan   Same Situation Prevails In 15 Other Key States; Willkie Carried Michigan By Less Than 7.000 In 1940

Service Balloting In 16 Pivotal States _ May Be Decisive Factor In Flection:

SOLDIER VOTE MAY CHANGE POLITICAL COMPLEXION IN AT LEAST 16.STATES

Service Vote Decisive In Many States   May Upset GOP  Maine Tradition

al VOTES MAY BE DECISIVE   May Change Political Complexion In 16 Major States

Two Balkans Capitals Hit By Heavies   Quick Jabs Lash Belarade. Sofia 

Sofia, Belerade “i Railway Centers Bombing Targets   -Fortresses, Liberators Strike From Italy At “Prime German Targets

Yanks Bomb Sofia Belgrade  ” Attock Rail Centers tn Balkan Capitals:   “Attack Rail Centers iin Balkan Capitals; British Wellingtons “Atteck Budapest

Rail Yards At Belgrade Are Blasted   Americans Raid Jugoslay Capital, British Raid Budapest, from Italy

BELGRADE, SOFIA HAMMERED IN AIR WAR ON BALKANS   American Heavy Planes Pound Railway Facilities Used .by Germans in Fighting Russia.   ONSLAUGHT IS FIRST ON YUGOSLAV CAPITAL   Other Vital Centers in Hungary, Romania and Northern Italy’ Blasted bv Yanks.

Yank Heavies Pour Bombs on Belgrade, Sofia   Rail Yards, Plane  Plants, Airdrome Hit In Third Straight Day Of Raids on Balkans

BALKAN RAIL YARDS HIT BY U. §. BOMBERS   Facilities at Belgrade And Sofia are Principal Targets

RAIDERS STAB AT SOFIA AND AT BELGRADE   FLYING FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS BACK SOVIETS

Belgrade And Sofia Again Attacked By Fliers Of U.S.   Rail Facilities, Aircraft Factories. and. Airdrome. Hit ——by Fortresses and Liberators—Series of == Swift Jabs Made-by-Airmen———___——

Aircraft Plants Heavily Bombed In Belgrade Raid   Assaults Staged From Italian Bases For  Third Day

BELGRADE ARE RAIDED   Italian West Coast Ports Are Also Attacked

Two Balkans Capitals Hit By Heavies  Quick Jabs Lash p Calin  Pa a ,

BELGRADE AN SOFIA BOMBED BY AMERICANS   In Series of Swift Jabs; Fortresses Lead Off, Pouring Bombs on Rail Yards in Yugoslavia.   Artillery Duels

U.S. Bombers Blast Sofia And Belorade   \ircraft Parts F actories, Railroad Installations Attacked

BIG THREE PLAN COOPERATION OK NAZI COLLAPSE   Joint Occupation By U.S., Britain, Soviet Is Projected

Allies Set for Nazi Surrender  Makes No Difference I!'Who’s in Berlin First

Fall Of Hitler — To Bring Co-op ‘Big 3’ Program   Immaterial Which Army Is First To Reach Ber lin. Sav Officials.

Allies Agreed on Postwar Days   No Confusion Likely With German Collapse

United States, Britain, Russia To Cooperate After German Collapse

Plans Ready For Collapse Of Germany   Will Make No Difference Whether Nazis Surrender to Russians on East or BritishAmericans on West )

Plans Worked: Out To Handle: Defeated Huns.   Call for Full Cooperation Among United States, Britain and Russia in Victory Hour

No Difference. Which Power I First In Berlin   Plans ‘to deal with German collapse are now being — prepared in detail.

Plans For Immediate Follow-Up _... Of Surrender, Collapse Of Reich Said Worked Out In Great Detail

Victory Hour Plans Are Made By The Allies   U.S., Britain and Russia Are Agreed Upon Plans When Germany Surrenders’ or Collapses.

Allies Reveal Terms Nazis Will Be Given   Plans for Surrender Of Enemy Are Completed in Detail

Draft Follow Up Plans For Fall of Nazis   ‘Immaterial’ Which Alfied Armies Reach Berlin First, Officials Say

‘Detailed Plans Made To Occupy  Germany   Makes No Difference Which Of Allies Gets To Berlin First; Three Are Actine Jointiv

Plans Underway For Follow-Up When Huns Fall  Full Cooperation Of Allies Pro mited

Plan For Joint  Occupation Of Berlin Ready   Makes No Difference To Allies Which Is First In Berlin

Allies Ready For V-Day   . Complete Detailed Pians for Action i After Nazi Collapse

Will Accept Surrender In  Name Of All   Plans ‘Are Worked Out In Complete Detail For Day Of Surrender Or Collapse Of Germany

OCHVIGE VOLE LIT 15 SWELLED   ‘Selective Service Records Approved for Use in Preparing List

SERVICE VOTER LIST 1S SWELLED   ’ Selective Service Records Approved for Use in Preparing List

Leading Through The Vosges To Upper Rhineland Above Belfort MOPPING UP PROCESS GOES ON IN AACHEN Five Of Sixteen German Planes Are Shot Down During Night

YANKS, FRENCH WIN 3 PASSES IN MOUNTAINS   Americans Take Key Rail Hub Of Bruyeres In Eastern France

Candidates Settle Down fo Campaign   Republican Governor and Lieutenant Governor Races Will Be Exciting

Govetwiy wd. ‘Lieut. Gov: Race interests G. O. P.   Democrats Have Only One Ticket: in Field   War. Ballots

Iutereat Jowa G.G. pp  Primary   Keen Competition For Most Nominations

Three Republicans “After Nomination for Governor in Primary   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentitiel’s Special Correspondent

POUND VITAL WAR CITY OF ANSHAN   Wreck Jap Installations Requiring Year to Build

More States Discard GOP Govertiors  In Most Cases Voting   In Most Cases Voting  _ Reflects Support of _  Roosevelt in Election  {

Democrats Gain Three Governors   Washington State Elects Mon Wallgren

CALLS A REPORT SLANDER   Former Opera Star Resents Report ef His Death  =—

Eisenhower Tells Slave Workers To Battle Reich  Organized Uprisings Against Nazis Seen for Germany

FOREIGN WORKERS IN GERMANY TOLD THE HOUR FOR ACTION HAS COME ARMS BEING PROVIDED FOR WORKERS

WoT RUCTIONS GIVEN WORKERS   Eisenhower Spokesman Tells Foreign Help in Germany What to Do.

Hour Of Action Has Come—lIke  Eisenhower Message Given Foreiaqn Workers

Slave Workers In Reich Told  tour Has Come   Instructions Given Foreigners On Rising Against Nazi Oppressors

Ike Uraes Reich Revolt   Foreign Workers In Naxi Factories Given Instructions

EISENHOWER WARNS FOREIGN WORKERS IN GERMAN PLANTS   HOUR FOR ACTION HAS COME, SPOKESMAN FOR GENERAL DECLARES

New Keonomy Drive O pens  In The House   Committee Cuts Deficiency Bill; Daniels Testifies: Bonus Bills Offered

Cuts Made In Requests For Money   $9,325,064 Slash in Funds Asked by Federal Agencies Reeommended

U. S. Considers Cutting Finn Ties   Break Would Be Based On Link With Nazis

4900 Japs — Annihilated in Imphal Area   Does Not Include  Those Slain by Artillery Cire

ILLBILLY MUSIC IS IN LIMELIGHT AGAIN CAPITOL CORRIDORS  MEMBERS O’DANIEL BANI ‘WERE CARRIED ON

Two Hillbilly Musicians Serve As  Boiler Inspectors, Probe Reveals

HILLBILLY MUSIC 15 IN LIMELIGHT AGAIN CAPITOL CORRIDORS   MEMBERS O’DANIEL BANI WERE CARRIED ON LABOR PAYROLL

Paris Hears AmericanGuns   Police Strike, Food is Short, Churches Overcrowded With Residents

THUNDER OF YANKEE GUNS BEING HEARD   Germans Report Capital in Chaos As U. S. Armies Rush Nearer

Nazis Picture Paris as City of Chaos   Thunder of Americar Guns Can Be Heard in Capital

Paris, Now a  Front Line  City, Changes Pd :   Chaos Prevails, No Transportation, Food or Police

Food Situation In Paris Serious ‘As Allies Drive Close To Capital

DECLARE PARIS IN FRONT LINE   Nazis Picture Capital a:  City of Chaos

Te Ft Se KK FR Hw  U.S, GUNS HEARD IN PARIS, GALLED CITY OF CHAOS   Capital Without Food or Transportation; Gendarmes Strike

Paris Hears The Thunder Of US Guns  Nazis Say It Is City of Chaos

PARIS BECOMES ‘CITY OF CHAOS’   In Front Line, Berlin Says; Gendarmes On Strike

Eisenhower Hints  Of Winter Offense   Says Victory Is Assured And Many Germans Now Fight With Pistols Held At Their Backs

All 16 Russian States To Send Out Ambassadors   U. 5. Can Send One To Each of Them

Each Republic Would Plan Its Foreign Affairs   According To the Suggestion Of the Moscow Government the Different States Would Have Great Powers Within Themselves.

Eldred Boy Hit By Automobile   Thomas Vanscoter, 5, Patient in Hospital

Tito Pr oposes 6-State Regime in Yugoslavi ia      Close Co-Operation With Balkan Neighbors Is Pledged By Leader

lito Says Nation — To Have Federal, Democratic Rule  Yugoslavia to. Work_in Collaberution With

Buzzbombs Hit  Britain Again Leaflets Dropped On Village By Plane

Japs Show Alarm Over Implications Of Manila. Bombing  Assert Jap Navy Ready, Repor! Philippine Declaration of War an TT & and Reitain

Tokyo Confused By Big Yank Raid on Manila   ‘Fear of Invasion __ _ Mounting; Report — Puppet Government At Wor with U. S.

MANILA ATTACK CAUSES PUPPET TO DECLARE WAR   Marines on Peleliu Island Are Stalled in Mop-up by Jap Fanatics

Strategy Implied. In Manila Raids Worries Japan   Nimitz Says U.S. Front Line At Pelelin Unchanged; Hunt Enemy In Caves

JAPAN BETRAYS INVASION FEAR   Puppet Filipino Government Declares War On  U. S.. Britain

Nips Betray Fear U.S. Will Invade Philippine Island:   Peleliu Japs Stall Marines on  ‘Bloody Nose Ridge

JAPS SHOW: ALARM IN PHILIPPINES BY INVASION TALK   U. S. Carrier Blast at Manila Bay Brings Much Jap Speculation About Invasion—Report Puppet. Government Declares War on America

Tokyo Reveals Concern Over  Manila Raids   Fills Airways With SpecuJation on “Invasion”; Navy Leaves Enemy Confused

Tokyo Puppet In Philippines Declares War   Enemy Growing More Alarmed As Invasion Nears

Japs Fear Yankee Invasion To Follow Philippine Attacks   Report Puppet Regime Declares War On U. S.

JAPS HINT OF FLEET BATTLE   Promise Blow at Enemy; Betray Philippine Invasion Fear

ITS CONFUSION   Betrays Growing Alarm Over Implications of Manila Blast.   PELELIU FIGHT {S BITTER

ENEMY SAYS PHILIPPINES DECLARE WAR   Nipponese in Confusion After Amrican Manila Attack

Frightened Japs Talk of Invasion   Bitter Struggle on Peleliu Continues As Enemy Guesses Wildly

TOKYO’S RADIO BETRAYS ALARW FQ      U. S. Marines On Peleliu Make Much Progress

Japs Alarmed By New Blows   Fill Airways with Speculation on Philippine Invasion

Puppet Regime In Philippines Declares War   Jap High Command Kept In Confusion Over : Next U.S. Move

Japs Betray Alarm in Philippines by Invasion Forecast   Foe Left in Confusion by U.S. Army and Navy . Leaders in Pacific

JAPANESE RADIO FILLS AIR WITH INVASION FEARS   REPORT DECLARATION OF WAR ON U. S. BY FILIPPINO PUPPETS

Philippine © Raids Make Japs Jittery   Tokyo Reports Puppet President Has Declared War On U. S.; Allies — Stalled On Peleliu

Jap Filipino Puppet Joins ‘War on U.S.   Tokyo Shows Alarm By ‘Welcoming’ Yank Tavasion of Islands

300 STRIKE AT SARANACPLANT   Protest Company’s Fail. ure To Recall Three Veteran Workers

Walkout Ties Up Saranac Plant   Nearly 300.Men Idle In — Employe. Dispute

No Capitulation Yet!   Brussels Radio Denies Report Germans Give Up   Finns Quit War On Reds; Terms Under Negotiation

NAZI CAPITULATION OFFICIALLY DENIED   Rumor Causes Flurry in Britain, Brings Headquartters’ Denial.

Belgian Radic Denies Nazi Capitulation   Rumor Of Peace Causes Flurry

CAPITULATION RUMORS BROADCAST BY BRUSSELS   Report Quickly Denied, However, And Fighting Continues in Europe

Peace Rumor Denounced as Wholly False   Radio in Brussels Denies Mysterious Rumor That Germany Had Capitulated

FALSE REPORT _OF SURRENDER - 1S BROADCAST      BRUSSELS RADIQ CIRCULATES UNFOUNDED, RUMOR—OTHER SIMILAR REPORTS ~~  _ EXPECTED

Deny Report Germany Had Capitulated   Broadcast Said to Have Been from ‘Foreign Station’

RADIO ADMITS WAR STILL OD   Brussels Station Denies Ca pitulation Story

Deny German Surrender Rumor   Brussels Radio Causes  Flurry Of Excitement

RADIO REPORT ON SURRENDER IS UNFOUNDED   Capitulation Report Apparently Originated From The Garbling Description Of Nazi Troops Capture   FIGHT STILL GOES ON AGAINST AXI¢

Rumor Heard That Yanks Capture 2 German Towns; —  British Advance in Holland

False Reports That Germany Has Quit War   rently Due to Misun. derstanding of Radio  Report   tT andane ve Celebrate’

War Not Over   > oa  Brussels Radio Corpesta Erroneous Report of Nazi Capitulation

Spike Phony PeaceRumor   Quick Denial By Press In Britain Follows Report of Nazi Surrender

Provokes Official Denial Reich Had Capitulated; Many Londoners Start Celebrating

Brussels Radio Issues Apology For False Report   Earlier Broadcast Said Germany Had _ Capitulated, But it Was a Mistake.

Nazi Capitulation Report Is Retracted   Brussels Radio Broadcasts Rumor And Later States ‘Fight Goes On.’

— ee  FALL OF GERMANY IS DENIED   ‘FOREIGN STATION’ BROADCAST CAUSES A MOMENTARY FLURRY

REPORT OF NAZI SURRENDER UNTRUE -- WARNING IS GIVEN AGAINST MORE PEACE RUMORS

Will Be True Some Day Soon   Brussels Radio Sets Off Excitement by Denying Rumor Germany Hed Quit

RUMOR CAUSE OF FLURRY   “Celebrants” Quickly Go to Nearest Saloon

First “Capitulation” Story Excites London   Beussels Radio Report Later Denied, Asserted Germany Was Quitting

BRUSSELS RADIO DENIAL GERMANY HAD CAPITULATED MYSTIFIES MONITORS

rR. LEADS IN NeW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA   Clare Boothe Luce Keturned to Congress; Ham Fish Defeated

F.D.R. LEADS IN-NEW YORK, PENAISV VANIA   Clare Boothe Luce . Keturned to Congress; . Ham Fish Defeated ~

2000 Planes In Berlin Raid   Greatest Daylight Offensive In History

OKLAHOMA HAS POLITICAL BOUT   Two Parties Face Test In Special Election For Congressman

MUST STEP UP FATHER DRAFT, HERSHEY SAYS   Senate Committee Gets Outline Of Manpower Problems

WMC Blamed For Lagging Inductions   Few Younger Men Being Replaced by Those Who Are Older

Labor Turnover Blamed for Lagging Draft Inductions .   Situation Tightens

WMC Cause Of Draft Lag, Says. Chief   Labor Replacement Failure Vharged by Keesling at Probe

Induction Lag Due To WMC  Replacements   Service Head Says Turnover Not Licked; Stresses 4-F Control

CED Check Sheet To Go Out Into Mail Saturday   Survey On Wilson County Post War Employment Needs Begins Tomorrow.

WARREN TQ TALK FOR GOV. DEWEY   REPUBLICAN NOMINEE’S SPEECH SLATED SATURDAY

Engineers Rushing Work On Airfield   American Fliers Sink Or Damage 17 Ships And Destroy 235 Planes

Engineers Rush Work on Airfield Close to Manila  Nimitz Reports New Blows in Support Of Philippine Invaders

Important Island Located Within 155Miles of Manila   Tokyo Says 286 Yank Carrier:Planes Raid “Luzon: Again Saturday

AIRFIELD BEING PREPARED IN INVASION AREA   Carrier Planes Hit Jap Air Bases And Shipping

Score By Innings . 123456789 R H E 100000200 1 3 2 00030000x 3 10 0   Browns . Cardinals   BATTERIES—Browns: Potter, Muncrief and Kramer and Hayworth; Cardinals: Lanier, Wilks and Walker Cooper. a

WEUIT Dy saltiays 123456789 R HE Browns....000200000 2 2 O fardinais 060606900001 1 7 =9   BATTERIES. Browns: Galehouse and Hayworth; Cardinals Morton Cooper, Donneily and Walker Cooper,

Score By Innings 1234567891011 R H E Browns. 00000020000 2 7 § Cardinas00110000001 3 7 1   BATTERIES _.. Browns: Potter and Muncrief and Hayworth; Cardinals: Lanier and Donelly and Cooper.

-Doughboys See Stranded Germans      FLOOD-RAINS IN 1944 STIR MEMORIES OF KATE SHELLEY

Sightseeing On *A’ Gas Rations   Florida Tourists ’ Leaving For Home

FLORIDA COOL 10 MIRACLE VISITORS   Given Nicknames After Mak.  ing Long Auto Trips With  Only A Rations.

Stalin Charges Germany Plots Another War   Urges Peace Organization

Stalin Urges Creation Of Postwar Organization Empowered To Act To Avert, Suppress Aggression

Stalin Calls For Armed  Force To Preserve Peace   Soviet Leader Declares Germany Is On Verge Of Catastrophe; Alliance Of U. S., Great Britian, Russia Vital He Says

Stalin Names Nazis, Japs As Aggressors, Troes Snecial Post-War Armed Alliance

Stalin Asks For Postwar Peace. Body   Names Japan as Weil as  Germany Aggressor Nation in Moscow . Addrzss

Stalin Urges Postwar Peace Group   Says Organizatior Only Way to Avert Third War

INSURE PEACE THROUGH FORGE, STALIN URGES   Up To Peace-Loving Nations To Prevent Future Conflicts, Marshal Says   GERMANY PREPARING FOR ANOTHER WAR

STALIN PLATS HOLY ALLIANCE 1944 MODEL   Russian Dictator Wants Super-State With Power to Start War Whenever Its Rulers Wish.   Accuses His Ex-Ally

STALIN ASKS FOR STEPS 10 INSURE PEACE      Premier Names Japan and Germany as Typical Aaaressors

YANKS FIGHTING TOWARD MOXMEI FIELD ON BIAK      Knock Out 11 Tanks In First Ar mored Battle In South. west Pacific

Jap Tanks Blasted on Biak Island   Americans Advancing ‘lo ward Mokmer Air Strip —Raid Saipan

Western Part ‘Of State Hit  Hard by Heavy Fall of Snow   Crippled Industry  -, And Transportation Fighting To Resume  - More Normal Schedule

Snow 12-23 Inches Deep Thru State   FIVE PERSONS DEAD FROM STORM, SCHOOLS CLOSED THOUSANDS STRANDED; _INDUSTRY TREATY RETARDED,   Hunting At An End

Russians Capture Austria Gateway   Reds Also Seize 60 Czechoslovak Towns

Bridgehead Is Broken  by Red Forces   Other Columns . Closing on Historic City

SOVIETS SIEZE ~ AUSTRIA ‘CATE   Historic Battlefield Mohaes Captured

Ford's Windsor Plant Calls For Mounted Police   Production Stoppages Spread In Detroit; WLB Ignored

NEARLY 30,  WAR WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE   Work Stoppages Continue In Detroit and Wind sor Plants

FEEDER PLANTS FACE SHUTDOWN   25.000 Idle In Windsor And Detroit Strikes

G FACTORIES ARE AFFEGTEL   Production of War Material Is Hampered By Work Stonnaces.

FORD FEEDER PLANTS MAY JOIN IN WALKOUT   15,000 Are Out At Windsor Detroit Stoppage Goes On

Plight of Sky Army Holding Gateway to Rhine Is Desperate; Immediate Relief  Only Hope for Band

Security Blackout in * Holland Hides Fate of Trapped Air Troopers

ENEMY DRIVE ‘NOT REGARDED AS SERIOUS”   Assault From Burma Made With Small Armed Force, J Secretary Says   U. S$. DOMINATION CITED   g War Chief Points Out Lack Of Nip Comebacks Since Start Of Yank Push

‘Both Parties Make Strong Effert Te [Clinch 35 Penna. Electoral Votes

BRICKER WINS PARTY PRAISE      Republicans Laud Ohio Governor For Stepping Aside For Dewey

BRICKER WINS PARTY PRAISE   Ohio Executive Hailed as Bril: liant Campaigner with Vote Getting Appeal.

GOP Leaders Laud Bricker _ For Vote-Getting Ability Ohio’s Governor Will Be Welcomed on His Re Sone fen TE 'nibeserniaccee ‘Txmteht.

CONTRAGT BILL ‘BEING RUSHED   RAID on JAPAN SPURS ACTION ON PLANS FOR ADJUSTING THE CANCELLED WAR CONTRACTS

AGTION SEEN WAR GONTRAGT TERMINATION AGTS   Postwar Economic Head Says: ‘‘We Want to Be Ready”

ACTION. SEEN I” WAR CONTRACT. TEAMINATICN ACTS   ‘Postwar, Economic ‘s ‘Head Says: “‘We:— ‘Want to Be Ready”:

Last of About 2,652,000 G! Votes Are Being Sorted  — 35 of 40 States,         35 of 40 States, Counting GI Votes, Still Accept Them

SOLDIERS MAY TIP ELECTION IF IT’S CLOSE   More Than 3 Million Gls Cast Absentee Ballot Votes

EARLY REPORTS INDICATE AN ALL-TIME HIGH TURNOUT OF FIFTY MILLION DURING DAY   In Unprecedented Numbers Men and Women Throughout Country Hurry to Polls to Register Decision for President   WEATHER IS GENERALLY FAVORABLE EVERY WHERE   Last of 2,652,000 Soldier Votes Being Counted Today

—MINERS—.   EDMUNOSON HIT TN UMW REPOR]   Perennial Battle Over District Selg-Govern ment Opens

Dewey Promises Red-Hot Fight For Presidency   Vets Entitled to. More Than Dole, C. O. P. Declares

STATE MAN 10,000TH EVADER SENTENCED   Missourian Who Smuggled Draft Cards Out of U. S. in Doll Head Gets Four Years.

CREWLESS PLANE   STAYS IN AIR ‘NEARLY FIVE HOURS AFTER ‘10 MEN PAR' ACHUTE TO. SAFETY.

Identify crashed B-I7 as Sioux City craft: flew 400 miles without crew

Peace Discussions To Open August 14   U. S.. Russia And Britain To Meet In Washington

Many German Troops Wo: uid Be Freed For Defenses—  ‘Mazic Believed Planning To Abandon Italy

Roosevelt Asks Aid for WarRefuvrees   Urges Free Peoples of Europe to Open Frontiers to Victims of Oppression

Correction in Wage, Living Cost Urged   A. F. L. ASKS ROOSEVELT TO RECTIFY “INEQUITY” TO PREVENT CHAOS

AFL Asks FR To Stop Strikes   Want Upward Revision of Little Steel Formula

CONGRESS MAY OVERRIDE TAX BILL VETO   President Faces Most Serious Split of His Administration .

Expect House Will Pass Tax Bill Over Vete   Majority Of House Ways And Means Committee Flays Veto Action   “INDEFENSIBLE ACT”’ STATEMENT ASSERTS

ARTER SLOW START BOND DRIVE PICKS ‘UP IN-MOMENTUM      veriof.: Twelve Towns  Are. Over Top and Many . Goals Are Reached Dur -ing-Past Week. :

MIGHTY YANKEE FLEET AGAIN ON LOOSE IN EAST   Tokyo Reports Big Aircraft Task Forces Strike At Strategic Marcus Isles   ‘ALLIES MUM ON THRUST   Jap Report Comes Close On Announcement Of Blows Pending In Pacific

TOKYO RADIO REPORTS ATTACK ON GROUP BY AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.   Claim 32 Shot Down   No Immediate Confirmation by Washington Naval Authorities of Week-End Assault.

 Government Gives Up Hope of Getting : Relief Supplies to Imprisoned Men

Three Americans Who Got Away After Bataan Tell of Unparalleled Barbarity      ‘Heroes Of Corregidor Would Never Have Surrendered Had They Known What Treatment Lav Ahead

Japs Close Avenues of Aid (From U.S. to Captives;.7700 Tortured, Slain and Starved

70 HEROES OF BATAAN   Hope Fades tor More Exchange’ of Prisoners or Sending ; Relief Sunplies ..

NATION HEARS. FULL FACTS OF JAP ATROCITIES   Story Told by 3 Who Escaped

Relief Cannot Be Giver Survivors, Early States   Documented Report of Nip Brutality Told In Official Military Release

MORE REPORTS ON ATROCITIES MAY BE MADE   Exchange Of Civilians  May Halt

Four Jap Bases  Heavily Bombed   Powerful Bomber Squadrons In Attacks In New Guinea-New Ireland Sector   NO INTERCEPTORS IN NEW GUINEA AREA

YANKS RIP JAP BASES AT WILL   New Zealanders Take Nazi Positions

THE BEST BUSINESS TO GET INTO WHEN THE WAR HAS ENDED   Babson Groups 72 Industries Into Four Classes According To His Views Regarding Profit Possibilities.

MERCHANDISING MAY OFFER BEST CHANCES AFTER WAF   Babson Lists Four Groups With Possible Care Should Be Used In Selection—Profits, of Work to Be Followed.

Postwar Jobs Listed Today   ROGER BABSON TELLS ABOUT VARIOUS WORK.

SAND-SWAMP JEEP LATEST FOR PATROL   Can Make 50 MPH Over Any Kind of Beach

MOVEMENT GETS ~FEEBLE SUPPORT   Woodring Suggests Nomination of  Secretary Hull! for President

Democrats in Congress Appear Cool to Woodring Movement   Anti-Administration Group Expected to Have t ttle Influence on Presidential Campaign

Lawmakers Coo To Woodring’s Political Move   Dewiscrats Foresee ° Litthe Hope for Drive To Nominate Sec. Hull

Woodring’s Anti-Roosevelt Plans Spurned by Democrats in Congress

FOR DISCLOSES HE HEARD TOM   But President Adds He Wasn't Interested in What Dewey Said

JAP DEFENDERS OF . GUAM PAYING PRICE   Seven Nipponese Are Dying For Every ¥ank Kilied On Island; Another Airfield Taken

Slaughter 7 Japs’ for each Yank lost in Guam campaign   Americans seize second air field; army veneral, troops are praised

JAPANESE ROLLED. ‘BACK ON GUAM   AMERICANS PURSUE 10,000 ENEMY TROOPS FLEEING HEAVY BOMBARDMENT.

BOY, 16, ADMITS DOUBLE KILLING   St. Charles Boy Trapped In Ohio By Theft Of Automobile

4,000,000 MEN IN JAPANESE ARM   PATTERSON SAYS U. S., TO WIN WAR, MUST DEFEAT ENEMY GROUND FORCES.

VANDENBERG SEES ELECTION VICTORY   Prenicts Republican Presidential Ticket Will Tri- umph in November

Vandenberg Predicts Victory  Michigan Senator Sees GOP Gathering 300 Electoral Votes

SOUND OF COMBINES HEARD   Oklahoma Wheat, Crop May -Beat. > the 1931 Recor .

(COV. BROUGHTON DELAYS OPENING N. C. MARKETS   Order Postpones Ofening of Tobacco Markets -Pending OPA Act‘on on  Crathiivnege DPericae

Cabinet Split On Nazi Plan   Morgenthau Proposal For Breakup Of Nation Halts Long-Range Machinery

FDR Cabinet Argument On German Peace Stalls Allied Plan   Harsh Morgenthau Program Would Strip Reich of Industry; Roosevelt Fails to Sell Scheme to Churchill

Morgenthau  Splits Cabinet Group Open   Treasury Secretary Sponsors Plan for Destroying Germany As Industrial State

Morgenthau Asks  Total Destruction Of Reich Industry   FDR’s Peace Committee Split by Agrarian PoetH’ar Plan

MORGENTHAU PLAN LEADS TO DISPUTI   ‘  Secretary Would Destroy Reich as Industrial State and Convert It Into Farm Country.   HULL, STIMSON OPPOSE PROPOSAL   Two Declare It Will Not Work—President, Backing Scheme, Lays It Before Churchill.

FDR’S Cabinet Committee Splits Wide Open Over Long Range Germany Control Plan   Work in Treasury, State and War Departments Badly Snarled by Differences Developing Over Praposal to Convert Germany inte Small Farms

U. S. Committee Split on Peace Plan for Germany   Dispute Stalls 3-Power Planning  O§ Post-War Control

Peace Policy Splits Cabinet   Members Divide on’ Morgenthau Plan To Convert Germany Into Country of Small Farms, Destroy Industry

Split In Group On the German Peace Policy  Hull And Stimson Nat In Aeceard   Hull And Stimson Not In Accord With Morgenthau

REICH’S FUTURE CAUSES DISPUTE   Morgenthau Proposes To Split Nation Up Into Small Farms

Post-War Reich Plans Outlined By Morgenthau  Would Moke Nazis Agricultural Nation

Morgenthau Proposal To Destroy Germany As Industrial State Snags Peace Policy Plans

Disagree on policy for reich  Morcenthanu plan   Morgenthau plan is drawing fire

MORGENTHAU WOULD ERASE INDUSTRIALISW   Hull Cool, Stimson Is Violently Opposed To Proposal

Committee Reported Split Qn German Peace Policy   Division Reported To Have Occurred Over Morgenthau Proposal To Destroy Germany As Modern Industrial State And Split It Into Farms

Cabinet Committee Splits Wide Open   Morgenthau Suggests Converting Reich Into Aaricultural Country:

His Contention for Destroying Germany As Industrial State, Leaving Agricultural Country Has Peace Policy Committee in Snarl

DEFEAT SEEN   Pall of Senate Committee Shows Proposal Has Little. Chance

OR DRAFT DEFEAT SEEN   Poll of Senate Committee Shows Proposal Has Little Chance

American Flyers Keep Up Blows Near Philippines  Forrestal Warns Japs Of Heavy Assaults

U.S. BOMBERS POUND PORTS IN PHILIPPINES   DAVAO MARKED FOR NEXT MOVE BY MACARTHUR

3 FREIGHTERS SUNK OFF MINDANAO   By Navy Catalina Planes While Liberators Continue Relentless Bomb mo   38 Tons Bombs

Yanks Threaten To Trap Nazis In Cherbourg   French Forces Land  Upon Island Of Elba

Democrats Told Ballot Must Not Become Hitler’s Weapon   Senator Jackson Says Commander-In-Chief Must Not Be Taken From The Fighting Forces Overseas As He Calls For Re-election Of President Roosevelt

JACKSON WARNS AGAINST CHANGE   Permanent Chairman Says Roosevelt Needed Now

Wartime No Time to Change President, Jackson Declares in Keynote Address  Senator Tells Democratic Convention Ballot Box Must Not Become Hitler’s Secret Weapon,

BALLOT BOX MUST NOT BE - "HITLER’S SECRET WEAPON’   “How Many Legions Would It Be Worth to Hitler to Change ‘Presidents?’ Asks Democratic -Chairman

Jackson Says Action Vital Tc  Winning War   Speakers Hammer at Theme of No Change In War—Race For Vice-Presidency Hot

No Time Now To Change Leaders, Jackson Declares  Says GOP Victory Would Aid Avyis

Sen. Jackson.  Upholds FDR   Sees Defeat Upset: For Allied ‘Causes

Keep Present Government In Force, Declares Chairman of Convention

New.Deal Bureau Backtracks In South  ra 70 FEPC Dismisses Charge At  Dallas. News Not Satisfied

Ghost Fleet of Ships Sunk or. Damaged Three Years Ago: Today At Pearl Harbor Roams Pacific”

Union Wins Ward Hlection; U.S. Out   Labor Protests as Government Leaves

ClO Displeased as Army Quits Ward Co. Plant   Union Wins mn Vote, Demands New Agreement

U.S. Gives Plant Back To Company   Union Wins in Election Among Employes—Judge Delays Action

SANSAPOR IS OCCUPIED BY ALLIES   Are Now Firmly Entrenched 600 Mis. From Philippines

‘COUNTER- “INVASION? THREAT 1S NOT IGNORED: BY ALLIES   CHANCE EXISTS GERMAN AIR BOURNE TROOPS MAY AT: — -TEMPT TO UPSET INVASION SCHEDULE

ALLIES READY IF NAZIS TRY OWN INVASION   Hun Attempt To Hamstring D-Day To Be Stifled, Drowned In Blood   REAL THRUST DOUBTED   Officers, However, Refuse To Be Hoodwinked Into Scoffing At Threat

Navy Will Have Negro Commissioned Officers First Time In History

FREEMAN IS DEAD   Leavenworth County Deputy Was Wounded January 22, 1944

Sedition Case - Resumed Today   Smythe’s Capture Ends Prospect Of Delay

Thirty Men and Women Face American Justice on Charges of Conspiring To Set Up Fascist Government

SEDITION TRIAL DELAY IS ENDED   Missing Defendant Seized By FBI Officials

Reich Bars Discussion Of Shortcomings To Cc onceal Them From Foe

POTATO SHORTAGE SEEN FOR SPRING   Prices Expected To Stay High And Increase

Strikers Go Back To Work   Plants Being Geared Rapidly To Make Up For Lost Time

REPORTS 156,0 000 NAZI CASUALTIES   Killed, Wounded or Taken  Prisoner, Says General

156,000 Nazis “Written Off? In Normandy  Gen, Montgomery Enthusiastic Over Allied Victories

Claim 156,000 Germans “Written Off” Thus For In Normandy Campaian

MONTGOMERY SAYS 156,000 GERMANS ARE ‘WRITTEN OFF   One Sixth of A Million Germans Killed, Wounded or Captured in Six Weekes

berman Loses in Six Weeks at 156,000   Montgomery Sees Lot of Hard Fighting to Come on French Fields

Plane Gets Last lick At Enemy   Nazis Lose 156.000 in France,  ‘No Difficulty’ Says. Monty

156,000 GERMANS ‘WRITTEN OFF   ‘Monty’ Says Allies Will Defeat Foe In France

UMW-ClO VOTES TO KEEP PLEDEE   Proposal Rejected. to Revoke No-Strike Clause-at . Convention

Four in Fagin” Gang Convicted   Life Imprisonment Is Recommended

MARINES POUND PONAPE, KUSAIE. AIRDROME AND DOCKS NEAR TRUK   TANKS PROTECT FLANKS OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN DRIVE TO HUGE ENEMY BASTION OF RABAUL

MOODY AND MORROW  WILL FILE MOTION  IN NEGRO VOTE CASE FORMER GOVERNOR DAN MOODY WILL ARGUE CASE  PCATIDT

Texans To Ask For Rehearing On Vote Rulina   Dan Moody, Wright Morrow Of Houston File A Petition

MOODY AND MORROW WILL FILE MOTION IN NEGRO VOTE CASE  FORMER GOVERNOR DAN  MOONY WIT? ARCTILE CAG   FORMER GOVERNOR DAN MOODY WILL ARGUE CASI BEFORE SUPREME COURT

Texans File Rehearing Motion In Supreme Court  Chairman Butler Announces Lawyers

Bombers Strike Twice at Robot Roost District   Nazis Send Winged Bombs Across Channe! For Fifth Day; 23 Planes Lost in Raids

ROBOT ROOST AT CALAIS IS BOMBED   While Nazis Hint at Unveiling of Second “Secret Weapon” Soon; Noisy Bombs Launched.   Based In France

U. S. Soldiers Help Subdue Fires and Dig Victims From Ruins of Damaged Buildings — American Bombers Pound Launching Area—German Troops ‘and Communications on Normandy Front Blasted—23 Planes Lost.

ROCKET BOMB ROOSTS BEING KNOCKED OUT   ROBOT RAIDS CUT BY CEASELESS ASSAULTS

‘Heavy Bombers Pound Nazi  ! Robot Plane Launching Area   Aerial Blasting Continues as Germans Hint at Second “Secret Weapon’”—Twenty-three U. S. Planes Lost in Missions

Allies Pound At Roosts Of Rockets   Six Months of Raids Cut to One-Fourth Seale Enemy Planned

Robot Roosts Batlered By U, 5, Heavies  aon ey Ur i ee oe   Ceaseless Attacks Clip Nazi Plans

Woman Shot In Hotel Dies   Puzzled Police Push Hunt for Slayer; Lack Tangible Clues

WOUNDS FATAL TO DIPLOMAT’ WEALTHY WIFE   ‘Many Puzzling Aspects Confront Police In Hunt  For Slayer

SHOOTING CASE   Police Intensify Hunt for Slayer of Socially Pra-. minent Woman.

Hunt Gunwoman As Diplomat’s Wife Succumbs   Many Theories To Mysterious Shooting, But Few Definite Clues.

‘Many Puzzling Aspects  Confronted In Killing of Mrs. Frank Starr Williams. Chicago

Clues Lacking In Death Quiz   Mrs. John S..Williams Je Vietim Of Shooting In Chicago. Apartment.

Hotel Gun Victim Dies Mystery Woman Huntec   Frank Starr Williams, Diplomat And Husband Of Slain Socialite, Convinced There Is ‘lap Angle’ To Drake Murder

HUNT WOMAN IN SHOOTING   Many Puzzling Angles Confront Police: Revenge Motive Seen.

HUNT KILLER OF WEALTHY WOMAN   Search Is Intensified For Slayer Of Mrs. Frank Williams

SENATE COMM. CRITICIZES SEC. STIMSON   Say He Didn’t Show Need of Nat’! Service Law

Labor Draft: Need Doubted By Senators   Most in Military Group Remain Unconvinced by Stimson Plea

Solons Say: Stimson Failed to Show Need for National Service Act.

Senate Battles Conscription   Claim Soldiers Don’t Want Families Scattered

Need For U. S. Labor Draft Is Not Shown   Stimson Fails To Convince Senate Group That Law Should Be Passed

> STIMSON FAILED 10 PROVE LABOR DRAFT , NEED, GROUP SAYS   Picture Not Changed By Testimony, View Of Reynolds

Stimson’s Views On Nat. Service Leg. Fails to Impress Senate Committee

Gov. Bricker Takes Hand In  Probe of Gambling Suicide   Demands Full Report from Lucas County Officials on Death o' Man Who Lost $30.000.

Death Note At Toledo Starts Inquiry   Bricker Orders Gambling Places Closed in That City

Judge Says He's An Icky (Not Hep)   Witnesses in Jive Case Asked Jargon From Underworld

Floogie-Boos, . _ Ickies, Heps. Worry Judge   Jurist Has Trouble With the Lingo in Hollywood Jive Case.

Jitterbug Lingo Has Judge Nuts   Actress Sues When Hep Marine Hurts Her   Definitely Hep

400 Yankee Planes Bomb Nazi Plants In Northern France   British Raid Rhineland, Quiet In Russia, Italy

Aerial Onslaught © Continued: Today   GERMAN COAST DEFENSE SECTORS BOMBED AGAIN:

HIT TRANSPORT LINES, KEY IN NAZI DEFENSES   Heavy Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Swings Inte 18th Day Straight

North France  Coast Is Day Target   British and American Planes Make 25 Smashes At Nazi Transport System in 24 Hours; Big Planes Hammer Number of Enemy Bases

1,000 Planes Over Europe During Night   About 500 Liberators Hit Points In France

RAILWAYS ARE ROWE TARGETS   25 Heavy Smashes Made in About 24 Hours Against Enemy Centers.   OBJECTIVES SCATTERED 

‘Railways of Vital Need to  Germans Hit   RAF Batters France During Night; Bombardment By Air in 18th Day

1,000 RAF Bombers Hit Nazi Targets In Wide-Seale Raids   Lull Continues on Soviet Front as Reds Mass for Big Push; Germans Attack on Beachhead

Enemy Targets Hammered Again By U. 5. Fliers   RAF Bombers Strike Industrial Centers And Munition Plants

American Bombers Hit Northern France   About 500 Planes Carry War Into 18th Successive Day, Following Heavy Assault On Enemy Targets at Night.

Nazi-Oceupied Areas Blasted Continuously      American Forces Take Up: Pre-Invasion Attacks To-  day After Night As.  saults By RAF   Factories Major British Targets   Yankees Encounter No Ger man Fighters and Unusually Small Amount Of Fisk

18th Day’s Attack Also Batters More French Rail Targets   R. A. F.’s Night Raids Hit Lyon Auto Works; Chemical Factories Pommeled

More Than 25 Heavy Blows  In 24 Hours   Installations In Northern France Hit By British. Based Bombers.   (MEET NO FIGHTERS

1,509 Bombers Go To Nazi Targets During 18th Day   Fifth Army Loses Small Area on Anzio Beachhead

Allies Smash ‘Hard At Nazi Rail Targets   Day-Night Attacks Rip Lines In France, Italy, Belgium And Germany.

REICH PUNCHED © AGAIN BY U, S. AERIAL FORCES   @Mecanwhile Spain ‘Gets Into Line’ By Trimming Exports to Germany

U.S. Bombers Raid France In Eighteenth Straight Day Or hades ks on Continent

GREAT WAVES OF AIRSHIPS HIT GERMANY   No Nazi Fighters Contacted Over Most Targets

Air Offensive In 18th Day   Turn 25 Smashes in 25 Hours Loose on Centers Of Enemy Defense

900 U. 8. Planes Continue Blasts At North Frane   Great PreInvasion Aerial Offensive Carries Into 18th Consecutive Day

—AIR WAR—  STRATEGIC AREAS HEAVILY BLASTEA   Fliers Carry Giant Air Offensive Into 18th Consecutive Day   MANY SORTIES   Enemy Targets In France, Belgium, Italy, Germany Hit

Americans Follow on  British Heels   Rail Targets and Coast Defenses Pounded Steadily

Nazi Defenses Hit From Air 25 Times 24-Hour Interval   Rail Transportation in Reich and France Hit Constantly

AIR OFFENSIVE IS IN 18TH DAY   Attacks Are Made In France, Belgium, Italy And Germany   RAILROADS BLASTED

Round The Clock Bombing Still On In Nazi Europe   Spain Yields To U. S. British Diplomatic Pressure

Intense Air ‘War Enters Its 18th Day In The West   American Planes Take Up Where British Ended Last Night; Targets In Italy Blasted Again

Follow Up Night —Raids-On-Factories, Rail Targets.   By RICHARD MeMURRAY AD War Fditar

U. 5. BOMBERS HIT FRANCE IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Attack Follows Night Raid on Germany by RAF Bombers

Germans In North Franee  Again pembes  OFS cialis   Great Air Invasion In 18th Day; 500 Yankee Planes Follow 1,000 Craft Night Blow

Air Invasion Carried Into lts 18th Day   American Liberators _ Blast Installations in Northern France

Tertific Allied Pre-Invasion Aerial Assaults Blast Enemy Targets In All Hitlerdary

U. 5. Bombers Blast af Nazi Installations   Carry Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Into 18th Consecutive Day After R. A. F. Raids

European Air Assault Rolls ~ Past 18 Days    P ” Russian Front Remains  Quiet as Red Army  Prepares

a5 Heavy - Blowsi in ~ 24 Hours   Aled’ Air: Forces Swing. Into Most: Widespread Raids: "On Rail Lines <<   mY FRANCE, ITALY, <". OPRMANY: BELGIUM   18th: Consecutive’ Day ot “Raids: Chemical Plants“: :- Hit in Night Raids

jiberators Carry ir War Into 18th ‘onsecutive Day   mations of Medium Bombers and Fighters Cross and Recross Channel Skies in Early Afternoon Following Earlier Raids   TiSH AND CANADIANS STAGE NIGHT MISSIONS

LIBERATORS HIT NAZI IN FRANCE   Eighteenth Consecutive Day Of Aerial Offensive

Pre-Invasion shir Offensive In 18th Day   German Factories Blasted in RAF Night Attack

WIDESPREAD ATTACKS MADE 0! RAIL TARGETS IN NORTHERN FRANCE BY AERIAL FORCES   25 Heavy Smashes in Period of 24 Hours Against German Rail Transport Centers in Great Pre-Invasion Offensive Aimed at Wrecking Cammunication limes wm  a:

Transport Web Hit 25 Times in Past 24 Hours   Yanks Report Meeting No Fighters, Little Flek

RUSSIAN FRONT QUIET - FIGHTING FLARES IN ITALY   Spain, Sensing Nazi Defeat, Bows To Allied Demands To Stop Giving Aid

Yanks Pour Bombs Into Coast Points   Bombers Follow In Wake of RAF Night Assaults

AMERICANS Gi INTO ACTION IN DAYLIGHT   R.A.F. Pounds Nazi Lands From Two Directions   4,000 SORTIES   Flown From Britain Monday; Belgium, Italy, Germany Also Hit

LAF Attacks Precede U.S.  Raids on Reich   Spain Bows To Allied Demands. As Raids Prepare Nazis For Invasion Soon

AIR INVASION IN 18TH DAY   Allies Strike Again I France, Belgium  And Italy

Bombing From Over  900 Planes   Today’s Raids Over Nazi Europe Follow Attacks of 1,000 by Night

AMERICANS LEAD NEW ASSAULTS   Day And Night Aerial Attacks In 18th Straight Day

AIR INVASION ~ ROLLS ON IN ITS 18TH DAY   France, Belgium, Italy, Germany All Furnish Targets for Bombers Under Allied Colors

BOMBERS IN ACTION FOR 18TH DAY   Yankee Fliers Take Up Day Attack on Reich Railroads and War Plants After British Return.

BOMB GERMAN INSTALLATIONS IN NO. FRANCE   AMERICAN HEAVIES CARRY AIR ATTACKS INTO THE 18TH DAY

Pre-Invasion Bombings Roll On   Allied Planes Strike In North France Today _After Heavy’ Blow at ‘Coast Area Last Night

Aerial Offensive _ ~ In Eighteenth Day   American Heavy Bombers Blast Nazi Targets in Northern France Following R. A. F. Night Attack in Four Countries.

Invasion Areas And Nazi Supply Lines Blasted  18 Straight Days Of Interrupted Air Attacks

ABSENCE OF MANY. CONGRESS.  MEN' FROM HOUSE HOLDS Ur  ACTION ON-FOST- . “WAR PLANS”.

NEED 100,000 IN WAR WORK   Army Supply Chief Urges ClO to Help Recruit Labor for Plants.

LABOR ASKED ° TO STAY PUT IN WAR WORK   Somervell Condemns Those Who Desert Vital Plants

Seek Workers In War Plants   Lt. Gen. Somervell Asks For More Laborers At CIO Convention,

More Workers Needed, CIO Told   Somervell Speaks at Convention—Some Item: 40 Per Cent. Behind

Somervell Asks -~CIO.Te RecruitWar Workers   Army Supply Chief Calls For 100,000 Men To Speed Up Production

‘All but (0,000 New Car in Ration Pool Set For Release by July 1

NO CUT IN CAR QUOTA   As for Last Four Months, 3,600 Will Be Released in January.

Smythe Tells Why He Failed To Show Up   Alleged’ Seditionist Charges ‘FBI Péreerution

Third Of Chest Goal Reachec   Report Luncheon Held In Hotel Whitcomb

Pleads Innocent To Kidnapping Fall River Child   Girl Of 18 Who Hoped To Become Bride Today Js Held In $3000 Bail

AGED INVALID DIES IN FIRE      80- Year-Old Woman Burns To Death In Fire Near Honston

U. S. Occupies 10 Atolls In Marshalls  Old Glory Now Flies _ Over 14, Enemy Still Clings to Four

A OTHERS UNDER DAILY SHELLING   Two More Islands in Admiralty Group Seized As Americans Keep Hit- — ting Enemy in Pacific

JALUIT ATOLL IN MARSHALLS NOW ISOLATED   AMERICANS OCCUPY 14 ISLANDS IN JAP CHAIN

Americans Seize 10 More Atolls In Marshall Isles  MacArthur Extends Hold on Admiralties ; Truk Hit Twice More

Fourteen Of Jap Islands NowQOccupied   More Raids On Truk Reported By Nimitz; Fleet Js Still Active

Yanks Meet Litfle Resistance on New Landings   Japs Retain Only 4 Atolls in Group; Two Admiralty Islands Fall

Gov't Takes Over Three Plants   Roosevelt Says Some of Their Assets May Be Sold For Wage Payments.

Democrat Platform Stresses Record of 12 Years’ Action   By ERNEST B. VACCARO

Platferm Stands Squarely On Record Of Roosevelt In Both Peace And War Time

Woo Electorate On FDR’s Record   Democ ratic Racial Platform  Stripped of States Right   Proposals.

SHIFT OF INITIATIVE BELOW ROME SEEN   But British Official Says Fears Allies Will Be Driven Into Sen Are Unwarranted.

Allied Drive for Rome Not Going As Planned, British Speaker Says

Police Work on * Two Good Leads ~~ In Murder Gase   Major ‘Development ir: Slaying of Society Woman Expected

DARDEN REPLIES TO BILL GRITIGS   Governor Declares Assault on ~ Convention Measure Passed By Assembly Lacks Justification

Darden Says Duty Is His   Takes Responsibility ‘For Assembly Action

Textile Workers Returning fo Jobs   More Than 8,000 Ending 62 Day Walkout from Mills

TEXTILE WORKERS CALL OFF STRIKE   Operations Resumed at Fall River Plants

PHILLIPS I$ NOT GUILTY, JURY IN CAPITAL RULES   Ex-Governor Acquitted on Con. spiracy Charge After Brief  : Deliberations Saturday

SEE-SAW CLASH FOR POSSESSION OF . VOSENACK   Pursuit of Nazi 15th Army Continues  In Holland

Yankee And Nazi Tanks See-Saw For  Reich Junction   Americans Surge Back After Losing Grip Under Heavy Punishment; Another U. S, Column Reaches Maas 13 Miles From Rotterdam.

Devil’s Island Prison Urged . For Axis Gang   DeWitt Mackenzie Suggests That for Hitler, Mussolini

The War Today   German Crackup on East Front Micht Speed Up Channel Invasion

Potential Catastrophe Hangs Around Retreating Armies Hitler Hopes for Final Stand

POSSIBILITY OF NAZI COLLAPSE ON RUSSIAN FRONT THOUGH UNLIKEL' STILL A CONTINGENCY OF DISASTER   Should Hitler Have to Weaken His Western Front to Avert Collapse in the East Invasion by Allies Would Be Simplified, Think Some

CHEAPER WINTER ~ FOOD PREDICTEL   OPA Feels” “Price Controls Will Lower Many Venetablee —-

Bombs Rain Near Writers’ Beach Villa   Correspondents Decide Old Pier Nearby Makes House Target

Mars Grinds Out Continual Action On Italian rront   Correspondent Re ports lhrills and Chills to Be  Found on Beachhead.   Krauts Throw Plenty Of Shells at Yanks

New ‘Killing  Ground’ Set  Up By Allies Elements Of Five  Nazi Divisions In Rouen Area Pounded

Fern GORSIEBS ny men zt i =  LYCi aR iE bri 3 Uren Sei Up  By Allied Armies Against Hun

AIR TYPHOON HITS ISLANDS IN PACIFIC   With New Airfield 200 Miles Closer to Philippines Raid is at High Pitch.   All Planes Return

WVU CASE TO BE AIRED ON RADIO   Neely to Take Board’s Action To People in Fireside Chat Next Week; Alumni Rally To Defense of Lawall

Harried By State-Wide Condemnation, Neely Will Go On Radio Wednesday

OHIO POLITICAL BATTLE WARMS   Bricker Raps Lausche And Dem Candidate Slugs At “Bossism”

iat AIT AT LAUSCHE   DVERNOR;: ‘ENTERS! STATE (CAMPAIGN. J SPEECH LINK;      _ WERSIVE ELEMENTS”

British Cross Canal; Yanks Near Belfort   Greatest Airborne Invasion In History Strikes At North German Lowlands

Paratroops Fan Out For Drive Into Germany   Operations Going Well, Savs Allied Headquarters

Gliders Carrying Troops, Supplies Floeding Holland   British Near Units Behind German Lines; Americans Score New Gains

Ships, Aircraft Rip Nip Pockets   ENEMY RESISTANCE NARROWED IN NEW VICTORY IN KWAJALEIN ATOLL; AMERICAN TROOPS SLASH BOUGAINVILLE IN SUDDEN CROSS-ISLAND THRUST

Japs Overwhelmed On Kwajalein Atoll   Seventh Division Wipes Out Foe To Capture Important Pacific Areo

Seventh Division Troops Eliminate Japanese From  Kwajalein. Ebeve And Loi

Two More — Isles Are -— Occupied      Yanks Widen Offensive in Marshalls; Jap Planes Kevt Out of Skies   NO INDICATION OF NAVAL CHALLENGE   Military Government. Takes Over, Ending 25-Year Rule . of Area by Tokyo

Army Smashes Last Japs on Kwajalein Tip   Potential Airfield Ant Seabase Taken, Nimitz Reports

Kwajalein Beachheads Extended   Seaplane Base Among   Jap Positions. Taken By U. S. Forces In Marshall. Islands

Three Isles Fall to U. S. Forces   Seaplane Base and Potential Airfield Added To Holdings; Military Government Prarclaimed: Navy Hos Suffered No Losses

Slavs Slice Nazi Railroad   Coastal Territory Is Threatened By Drive

FINN-GERMAN BREAK LIKELY   : Mannerheim Is New Finn President  eee ee rent

Land Fighting on Italian Front Again Limited   Most Activity Is Reported to Be in Skies

RAF Blasts Nae Lines in  Central Italy   Pre-Dawn Strike on Three West Coast Ports.

ITALIAN PORTS - RAIDED; LAND FRONTS QUIET   Three West Coast Harbor Cities Plastered By Allied Fliers

NAZI LINES IN» ITALY BOMBED   RAF Night Raiders Attack  Communications

Central Italy Bombed By RAF   Report Direct Hits Despite Bad Weather

FLIERS RAID NAZI PORTS IN ITALY   Fighting On Land Fronts Limited To Patrol Action

DRIVE BY GERMANS REPORTED   nl ne  Moscow and Berlin Give Conflicting Versions of New Battle in Bessarabia

Weather Causes Much Concern or Fronts in Italy   Allied Advantages Somewhat Offset

ale Grounds Allied Planes, Delays Supplies— ’ a=By Elton C. Fay (7)  Bad Weather Is Problem At Rome Beachhead

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Adiniral Halsey Predicts Big Allied Celebration in Tokyo Soon After The War in Europe Is Cleaned Up

More Gas Blasts  Menace Cleveland   Homes Evacuated as  Death Toll Reaches 114

Fear More Explosions Will Add To Death List Estimated  Now At 200.

‘Federal Judge Rules Martial Law No Lonaer Needed in Hawaiian Islands

COURT RULES AGAINST “HAWAII MARTIAL LAW   Declares It Is No Longer. Neces . gary After: Nimitz Expresses Contrary View.

MRS. LEATHERMAN SUCCUMBS AFTER LENGTHY ILLNESS   Res-dent of Tipton 42 Years Was Avtice in Church and Civic Work

MARS. LEATHERMAN SUCCUMBS AFTER {ENETHY ILENESS.   Resident of Tipton. 42Years Was Avtice in — - Church and Civic Work

Find Schat's Body; Arrest Two Negroes   Truck Owner Third Victim Of Killer; Truck Found, Negro Seen to Leave It

Roy Schat Was Third Victim of Killer, Indicated After Investigation

‘Nazi Supply dines Raided   Russian Planes Hit White Russian Centers

REDS BOMB NAZI RAILWAY CENTERS   GERMANS PREDICT HEAVY FIGHTING SOON WILL BREAK LAND FRONT LULL,

Soviet Heavies Pound Naziland   - Nazi Insist Big Land. Blow. Near

Soviet Planes Hit at Nazi Transportation   Germans Say Lull on East Front ‘Khout to Be Broken:

Soviet Bombers Hit Nazi Bases   White Russia and Poland  Are Russian Tarceita

Reds Keep Up Aerial Assault On Nazi Lines   Long- Range Blows Possible Prelude. to New Offensive

Polish Exile Premier Must Agree with Rival Group Before Talks with Soviets

HEAVILY BOMBED   Campaign Goes on to Destroy Ger. man Army’s Supply Lines

RAF MOSQUITOS BOMB KARLSRUHE   2500 SORTIES FLOWN YESTERDAY TO BACK UP GROUND TROOPS

Western Rhineland Blasted by Armada of Allied Bomber:   More Than 750 Fort: Strike Munster, Hamm and Bielsfeld Cities

750 To 1,000 U. S. Plane: Rip Munster, Bielsfeld, Hamm In West Reich

Fortresses Hit Cities In Germany   RAF Mosquitos Bomb Karlsruhe In Night  Attack

Nazis Foresee  Fall Of Warsaw   German Military Spokesmer Virtually Concede Loss Of Polish Capital

GERMAN ARMY HEADS ADMIT WARSAW’S LOSS   Polish Capital Outflanked   REICH TREMBLES   Reds Ready To Enter Nazi Territory

U. S. And Britain Seen Drifting Into Socialism   Editor Of Iron Age Sees Grave Problems Arising From World War Il

Medical Center Riot Quelled   Inmates Overpower Guard, Smash Windows Furniture, Plumbing

Squelch Howling Riot At U. S. Medical Center In Springfield, Missouri

Three’ Legates Are Nosatiaaiaal   President Names Ambassa dors To Countries  Freed By Allies

5 Ambassadors Named By F.D.R  Will Represent U. S. In Liberated Nations, . be  wea ne Ww o> Fe PRO Fe

New Envoys  Nominated By FR   Will Send Men To Netherlands, Belgium

West Assured of Better Times, Ickes Declares   Irrigation Viewed Key to Future Stream Development

Final Agreement Reached on Gi Bill of Rights      Passage Early Next Week Probable; WPB Abandons Plan to Import Mexican’ Workers 

“G.1, Bill  Of Rights”   Benefits ‘For Men and Women of World War TI. Provision

SERVICE BENEFIT PROGRAM SET   SENATE-HOUSE GROUP AGREE ON “G. I. RIGHTS”

Veterans To ' Get Benefits   Senate and House Conferees Reach Final Agreement on OG L Bill of Rights”

Hun Panzers ‘Stuck Neck-Out’ Too Far; Enemy Hastens To Dig Defense Line

Patton On South Only 10 Mi. From Hodges On North   Flattening Of Tip Of Salient Approaches Rout At Some Points; Enemy Digs In Feverishly For New Defense Line North Of Sauer.

Local Women Work 224 1-4 Hours To Complete Total Of 3,839 Surgical Dressings For Red Cross Here

Local Women Work 205 Hours To Complete 3,070 Surgical Dressings In Red Cross Rooms During Week

BASIC. ISSUES ARE QUTLNED B THE DEMOCRATS   Series of Pamphlets Were fent Out by the National Committce

BASIC ISSUES} ARE QUT a0 THE DEMOCRATS              Series of Pamphl ts Were Sent Ont by the National: Committce 

Provides Prompt Pay to Industry  Senate Militar Committee Reports

BILL TO GUARANTEE ‘BUSINESSMEN’S PAY   War Contract Compensation Supported by Army, Navy

ALLIED FORCES DESTROY JAPS ON INSOEMEAR   Defenders Of Myitkyina Are Now Threatened With Same Fate

Allied Forces Have Annihilated the Japanese on Insoemear Island   Two Day Allied Air Attacks On Marcus Island

Germans Expecting Invasion By May 1;  /Hint Coordinated Offensive With Russia

German, Spanish Sources Forecast Landings Between Today and May 1

D-Day Between Now and May I, Say Soothsayers--Parachuters Readied

Moscow Forecasting Dual East-West Push   Glider Troops Step Up Training; Channel Tides, Moon Phase Cited

STABILIZATION OF BATTLE LINE SEEN   Germans Make Stiff Patrol Thrusts Westward   SCHEDULE CALLS   For Arrival in Paris Jati. 17; No Broad Enemy Movement Sighted

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (Ry International News Servic   GERMANS ATTEMPT TO SMASH 3RD ARMY'S BRIDGEHEAD TO SAAR

Captured Bridge Aids in Advance   Span Remains Intact in Spite of German Efforts to Destroy it

Today In Washington  Simple Tax Bill Put On FDR's Desk   Ward Probers Told Firm Violated Labor Laws In Plants In Three Other Cities

Jap Cabinet is Dissolved   Entire Body Resigns After Failure in War

PREMIER 10J0 AND CABINET HAVE RESIGNED   Japan Will Renovate Total Personnel To Fight on

DIRECTED VERDICT DENIED BY JURISI   Chapters of Joan Berry's Life Given at Chaplin Trial: -

Chaplin Defense Witness Tells Of Early-Morning Visit by Joan Berry   Tulsa Oil Man Tells of Acquaintance With Film Comedian’s Former Protege

Nazidom No  Longer Appeals ‘To Him   German Soldier Is Sick Of Bestiality Of His Army

GLAMOR OF WAR CHANGES TO HATRED OF NAZIS IN STORM TROOPER’S DIARY

NAZI'S DIARY ATTACKS CREED   Trooper Expresses Hatred For Bestiality Of German Army

County Court News Of Sioux County   Guardianship And Estate Matters Up Court's Fime Durij The Past Week

County Court News Of Sioux County   Court Virected Clerk To Draw Three Grand Jurors To Take Place Of Those Discharged

County Court News Of Sioux County   Barney Powell, Charged With Ottaining Money By False Pretenses Pleaded Not Gulity

County Court News Of Sioux County       Nataralization Department Representative WiLL Examine Elev. en Applicants On 7th

County Court News Of Sioux County   Seven Persons Were Examined For Citizenship. By Federal Examiner From QOnitha

U.S. Bombers In New Attack  On Halmahere   Campaign Looking To Recapture Of Philippines Being Speeded   NEW TERUST MADE AT TALUD ISLANDS

JAPS SUFFER SETBACKS ON: ~ ISLAND FRONT   StacARTHUR'S . FORCES. MAKE NEW. LANDING—TINIAN RESISTANCE BEING  \ CRUSHED

American Sixth Extends Hold Across New Guinea Through Surprise Landing

Stop Five Nazi — Drives At Italian Beachhead Lines   Artillery, Ground Action Flares Anew On Fighting Front

REPULSED NEAR ANZIO   New Flareup of Action Reported On 5th Army Front

Donations Pass  $1,200.00 Mark  Mail Campaign For Poliomyelitis Success

Infantile rene Dive 7 ie eee ari Big Success      Schools ‘and _ Individuals Respond Generously To Appeals

Drew Pearson ‘Natural-Born Liar’ Sen. McKellar Asserts in Speech

PEARSON CALLED LIAR BY SENATOR M’KELLAR   Tennessean Angrify Denies Columnisis Charge That He Drew Knife On Colleague In Senate

Soviets Cross Borders of Estonia   Russians Capture More Than 40 Towns. Settlements

Russian Spearhead Advances  Across Border Into Estonia Is Second Pre-War Border Crossed By Soviet

Charge Schenley With Conspiracy   Newark Grand Jury Returns Sealed Indictment Against Whiskey Firm.

Black Market Sales Charged To Schenley   Distillers and Group of Salesmen Are Indicted

Schenley Charged With Conspiracy   Liquor Corporation Accused by Jury

LIQUOR CONCERN FACES CHARGES   Schenley Corporation Is Accused of Conspiracy Sell Liquor Above Ceiling, Keep False Records

Distilling Co. Char ged’ With OP A Violation   Schenléy Corp: Named In Sealed Indictment; Ten Accused of Conspiracy tn Price Violations

Schenley, TenAre Indicted   Distillers Corp. Charged With Violating Price Ceilings.

LEND-LEASE NOT ROBBING SMOKER   Fewer Cigarets Than in PreWar Years Now Going To Other Nations

Tobacco Export Nof fo Blame For Shortages   More Experts Take Hand in Ciaaret Affair

Exports Held No Cause of ‘Fag Famine   Foreign Sales Drop Since Beginning of War; New Cut Seen

Deny: That Exports of Cigarettes and Tobaccos Under Lend-Lease and Other Programs Are Causing Shortage Frere, reese grey

Congress Is Still Unable To Answer “Oh, Where Has My Cigarettes Gone?”

Experts Explain Cigaret Shortage   Deny It Is Due to _ Shipments Abroad

Deny Exports Catise Famine Tobacco Good:   Government Experts Cite Statistics to Refute Favorite Claim Many  Smokers

Tobacco Experts Declare Exports Of Leaf Has Not Caused Cigaret Shortage   No Great Amount Of Cigarets Being Shipped Under Lend-Lease

Federal Programs Are Said Not  Cause of Scarcity  U. S. Experts Blame Cigarette Famine On Various Factors

' Tobacco Situation...   Exports Not Causing Shortage, Congress Investigating Case

Reasons Are Given for The Cigaret Shortage  _ Government Experts Say Exports Tinder Lend-T ease Notto Blame

Experts Say Exports Not Cause of Current U. S. Shortage of Cigarettes

Tobacco Experts Cite Figures   Deny Exports of Tobacco Responsible For. Ciqaret Shertaae

GOV'T TOBACCO EXPERTS HEARD      Solons Told Lend-Lease Exports Haven’t Cut Cigarette Supply

CIGARETTE LACK IS UNEXPLAINED   U. S. Government Searches For Cause Of Shortage, While Fewer Shiploads Go  Ovarcoad   —RBY OVID A. MARTIN—

Service Men Tell. of Experiences Sr a RP SHIENCES,  Received By Letter League

Service Men .Tell of Experiences.  $$$ riences  Lr  Received By Letter League

ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS BOOSTED   Railroads, Troop Concentra: tions, Bomb Nests Hit

Air Attack Hurls Japan   Super-fort Blow Good, But Folls Short of Goal, Air Chief Says

Two Superforts Lost During Raid   Japan Hurt by Attack From Air But Not Enough Asserts Hansell

Clouds Bother Tokyo Raider:   Hansell Snys Results Good But Might Be Beticr

Superforts Fell Below  Expectations   Cloud Cover Prevented Most Effective Work,  Commander Says

CLOUDS HINDERED RAID OVER TOKYO   U. S. B-29's Hurt Japan, But Not As Much As Had Been Hoped

RAID OVER TOKYO   U. S. B-29's Hurt Japan, ‘But Not As:‘Much:As ~ “Had Been

OPENING BLOV   U. S. Commanders Prociaim Relentless Campaign on Jap War Plants.   AIRCRAFT PLANT [S HIT

Bomber Chief Says Raid Not Up To Expectations  One Superfort Lost To Ramming of Jap Fighter Plane

Raid On Tokyo  Didn't Come Up To Expectations  Reveal Late Planes   Reveal Late Planes Hit Bad Weather; On Shot Down, Another ‘Presumed Lost’

Raid Hurt Tokyo But Did Not Do Damage Expected   Only Four B-29's Failed to Strike Important Targets

WAR PLANTS IN CAPITAL CITY: HARD HIT BY RAIDERS: JAPS . LOSE HEAVILY AROUND MANILA

LAST OF B-29'S MET CLOUDS IN RAID ON TOKYO   Results Good But-Not Up to Expectations of U. S., Hansell ‘Says

Byrnes Urges Bill To Guide  Demobilization   ‘Assistant President’ Tells Senators Now Is Time

Byrnes Shuns Post-War Reconversion 7 Directorship But Urges Ouick Actior

CALL FOR TAX SLASH AFTER WARIS MADE      Byrnes Says War Taxation Should End With  Peace

. 1ROOP  IN NORMANDY PUSH ONWARD   Hammer German Cross-Road Line Today

Americans Gain Four Miles On Peninsula   Three Road Junction Towns Besieged By U. S. First Army

Yanks Batter Closer To St. Lo, Key Road Hut   Hammer Germans’ Triple-Bastion Line In Western Normandy In Greatest Advance Since The Capture Of Cherbourg.

U.S. Troops Gain 4 Miles, Capture 16 Towns in Normandy   Yanks Straighten Center Line, Inch Ahead Toward St. Lo Against Heayiest Nazi Artillery Fire

A-MILE GAIN MADE BY U.S. IN NORMANDY   Doughboys Straighten _Line _ Jn Drive at Important German Road Line.   PRISONER COUNT 54.0001   A background map showing ‘Allied routes. to Paris - - appears on pare £ today.

Fight Near St. Lo, Lessay in  Four-Mile Gan   Three Towns Fall In Drive As Nazis Fight Desperately ‘To Hold Positions

Nerve Center Of  Germany Closer To Ultimate Doom   2,800 Tons Of Bombs Strike All Sections Of German Capital, Wreck Political, Military and Civic Life of Reich: Cost Is 43 Bombers.

1000 RAF Bombers Pour Tons Of Explosives—90 Per Minute-on. City in Concentrated 30-Minute Raid

Cassino Monastery Completely Ruined By U.S. Bombarding   Berlin Fiery Inferno After Big RAF Attacl

J. A. Stillman, Banker, Passes   He Was Former Board - Chairman of National City Bank of New York

(Troop Carrier Forces Celebrate on Brandy ‘Patton Took From Nazis

FRENCH COAST HEAVILY HIT BY ALLIED PLANES   American 8th Air Force Makes New Daylight Attack Today.

Bombers Rock Invasion Coast Again   LIGHT BRITISH NIGHT RAIDS ON WESTERN GERMANY ARE CARRIED OUT WITHOUT LOSS

U.S. And British Planes Continue Bombing Raids On French Channel Coast

Allied bombers Pound French  Invasion Coast  R. A. F. Heavies Also Active During Night

French Invasion Coast Attacked   Western Germany Bombed in Nicht

Bombers Follow Up Night Attacks By Mosquitoes   Over 200 Marauders Hit Rocket Gun Coast; Nazi Opposition Light

NEW LABOR ORDER PRAISED BY ARMY. “AS FORWARD STEP   Byrnes © Ruling’ Establishing “ Mandatory tate Controls Described °  Greates . Forward sda. :   FACILITAT TES CONVERSION FROM WAR TO PEACE   Maj. Gen. Clay Says Army Never. Authorized . Statement That Over-All Procurement Was Lagging.

ARMY APPROVES LABOR CONTROL   Would Play Major Role ir Plant Reconversion

Radio Silence Blankets Marshall Raid   MacArthur's Planes Take Heavy Toll of Enemy Aircrait

DEMOCRATS CERTAIN ROOSEVELT WILL GET NOMINATION AGAIN   President Says “Oh When Told of National Committee Resolution   4TH TERM IS ENDORSED

Democrats Agree Roosevelt-Must Be. Party: Choice   Naming Of Vice President Seen Chief Issue At July National. Meeting

elected’ national chairman,’ was given authority to set the date.

Nomination Of F.D.R. For 4th Term Appears Certain To Party Chiefs   National Committee Members Already Planning For What May Be Only Major Battle Of. Convention—Choice Of Vice-President.

Democrats Seek Roosevelt's ‘44 Running Mate   Nomination For Fourth Term Said Certain

FDR Assured Democratic  N om i nation   Only Major Battle of Chicago Convention Will Be Choice for Vice President; Wallace, Rayburn in Running

Running Mate For F.R. Only  Demo Problem   Fourth- Term Nomination For President Re garded .As Certain.

POLITICAL POT IN CAPITAL IS BOILING AGAIN   Meanwhile, Lawmakers Give Attention To Tax Bill and Mustering-out Pay

Only Way To Stop GOP Resurgent Tide....  Nomination Of F. D. R. For Fourth Term Seems  Certain; V-P Row Seen

Fourth Term ‘Bid Looked For   DEMOCRATIC LEADERS BELIEVE FDR TO ~ " RUN

Job Laws With Teeth Are Urged      WPB Head Makes Call fo: Legislation to Enforce Manpower: Rulings   WOULD KEEP WAR PLANTS ROARING   Manpower Shortage Said. to Be Due to Failure to Pass Service Law

‘War Help Shortage Laic To Congress   WPB Head Calls for ‘Laws With Teeth’ to Keep Workers on Jobs

Government Takes Over Truck Firms; Yo End Strike   President Directs ODT Operate Industry Until Walkout Is Settled

Back to Work Path Cleared For Strikers   25.000 Truck Dr Drivers to Return After U.S. Seizure of Companies

Government Takes Over Operation of 103 Trucking Firms      25,000 Striking Drivers in Eight States Ordered Back to Work

Back to Work Path Cleared Today For 30,000 Idle Worker:   25,000 Truck Drivers To Return At Once Under U. S. Orders

ODT Takes Over  Midwest Trucks  To End Strike General Moters Workers  Voie te Return to Werk, Beinac Cietbere Vote Tadauw

GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER TRUCK LINES   President Orders Seizure; 25,000  Drivers Out

Trucking Firms Taken Over By Government   Drivers Ordered To End Strike And Go Back To Jobs

GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE OF 103 TRUCK OFFICES   ODT Sends Longnecker to Minneapolis to Direst Striking Midwest Trucking Industry

B0,000 RETURN TO THEIR JOBS   U. S. Takes Over Operation Of 8 Midwest Trucking Lines

Government Takes Over  Truck Lines   To Resume Hauling Monday; Drivers Will Get 7c Pay Increase Ordered

U. S. Seizes Truck Lines   25,000 Drivers Get Rack-to-Work Order

Nazi Defenses Split Wide Open In Yank Attack   Doughboys Gain Nine Miles In Two Days; Trap Being Closed On Germans Troops

BRIGHTENING ALLIED OUTLOOK IN ITALY EXPECTED BE HEAVILY RFEFI ECTED IN BATKAN NATIONS

RUSSIA MAY PLAY DOMINANT ROLE IN DETERMINING FUTURE STATUS OF SEETHING BALKAN POLITICS   Political Aspect of Balkans Now Looms Strong And Indications Point to End of Kings and Dictatorships in That War Torn Part of Europe

Democrats Say Inflation Licked   Barkley Says Prices Held Stable Since Roosevelt Order Was Issued.

Demos Cheer Administration Price Report   Republicans Fail to Join Democrats in Reaction On Claims ©

sag SE ME oe pA  Stabilization Claims Bring Split Views        Senate  Democrats ‘Cheer —Republicans* Charge ‘Fumbles’

No Inflation Says Demos, - Yes, Repubs      Rep. White (R), Maine, Claims Four Officials Think Well of “Their  Report,” Not He

DEMS APPLAUD STABILIZATION   GOP Charges Serious Fumbles on Wage, Price Acts

Says Officials Who Report on Hold the Line Recommend Selves Highly

ADMINISTRATION'S INFLATION HOLDING IS GIVEN ACCLAIM  REPUBLICANS, HOWEVE! CHARGE SOME SER-

ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS PRICES HELD IN LINE   Oppo ents, However, Take Issue with Leaders As to Claims About Living Costs :

Expect Controls To Be Continued   Republicans Charge Fumbles on Wage Controls, Subsidies

HOLD-LINE PLAN STIRS ARGUMENT   Democrats Praise Report. G.0.P. Sees ‘Fumbles’

Food Front Alert Meetings Start —  Monday, March 6   Important Job of Providing Food Will be Topic of Series of Mestings in Country Schools.

Jap Atrocities Stir Anger Of Prisoners’ Relatives; They Line up to Buy Bonds

Daily Temperatures   Residents of Maywood, Ill.. Stirred By Atrocity Stories; Many Have Relatives in Jap Prison Camps

Senalors Adopt Smoothing Plan  Contract Renegotiations In For Study

Weigh New Plan For Soldier Vote   Hint Settlement Is -At Hand In Senate °

UVETS MODIFY TEA FUR FINN   Outlook Now Better, Informed Sources in Etrope Maintain.

Daniels Says He Advised Slattery To Leave REA   Presidential Aide  Talks Freely To Committee About Rural Electrification Bureau

Tried to Induce Slattery to Quit   Assistant to Roosevelt Asked Head of the REA to Resign His Office.

Roosevelt Aide SoughtRemoval Of REA Chief   Jonathan Daniels Tells Sen. ate Group Request Made After. Investigation Of Agency   Director Refused  To Quit, He Says   Disclosed Official Of REA Proposed Former Sena  tor Geo. Norris, Nebras  ka. For Administrator

Daniels Says He Suggested Slattery Quit   President's Aid Appears Before Committee

‘Adsninlatcatize. atix  Agsistant / To. FDR ‘Says, ‘He Did So> After “Investigation

Daniels Says He Sought To Oust Slattery   President’s Aide Reveals REA Case

NIELS REVEALS INQUIRY ON REA   Slattery Was Requested T: Resign Place Last July But Refused.

World Farm Plan Ready for Study By 44 Nations   Constitution for Setup Aimed to End Hunger, Aid Farmers Ready

Seek To Ratify World Agency   International Food Organ ization Would Free World From Hunger.

BETTERMENT OF RURAL LIVING ONE OBJECTIVE   Organization To Fre: World From Hunger Is Seeking Recognition   ECONOMIC LOT OF FARMERS STRESSED

Heroic Last Ditch Stand by American Lost Battalion in Italy Is Disclosed

A Heroic Fight By U. S. Rangers   Iwo Battalions of Fifth Army Are Trapped on the Appian Way.

OVER ONE THOUSAND AMERICAN RANGERS WIPED OUT BY NAZIS  THEIR MISSION TO ENTER CISTERNA AND ENTRENCE

Two Ranger Battalions Fight To End In Italy   Seized Tanks Kavoed

Lone Fight ~ Heroic but Hopeless   Loss.of Two. Ranger BattaHons in Italy Is New "5" Epic of.. War   “ CUT OFF IN DRIVE 2 O-TAKE’ CISTERNA   Of: More. Than 1,000, Only a , Handful Come Back: Fight’ -. 9° Last “Bullet -

900 American Rangers Wiped Out in Effor to Infiltrate Nazi Lines to Reach Cisterna

American Rangers, 900 Strong Infiltrated Four  Miles Through Enemy Lines in Early Days, But  Few Have Ever Returned. Germans Say Most Of Them Captured

‘There Will Be A Sequel To It,’”’ Say Few Who Came Back  U.S. Rangers Figure In ‘‘Lost Battalion” Story

Stragglers of Two Lost Battalions Tell of Heroic, Honeless Fight.

U.S. RANGERS RAID CISTERNA, BATTLE GREAT ODDS UNTIL AMMUNITION FAILS

FEW RETURNE 10 REPORT ON HEROIC STANL   Survivors Promise tc Return to Avenge  Death of Pals

Lost Battalion  Fights To End   Fifth Army Rangers Trapped In Attempt To Spearhead Attack At Anzio.

Heroic Ranger Battalions Fight to Death at Anzio   Rv RICHARD G. MASSOCK

New Wave OI error Opens On Patriots   _Geéstapo Presses Vicious Campaign

Nazis Renew Terror Reign   ~ Hundreds Being Sfain On Eve of Invasion

MASS. SHOOTINGS LAID 10 GESTAPO   NAZIS DEAL RUTHLESSLY WITH PATRIOTS IN. FRANCE, BELGIUM AND HOLLAND.

MANILA’S FIELD AGAIN BLASTED   20 More Jap Planes Bagged Increasing Total to 144

Rear Adm. R. W. Hayler, Native Sanduskian, Given Decoration For Bravery

Presidential History Repeated in Decade   WE'LL BEAT JAPS AT ANY GAME. FR SAYS

Berlin Raid s One of Heaviest   4-Engined Bombers Go Into Action

‘Hoosier Boys Save Co 2 Corn Crop and Have Fun Doing It in Doing It 

Allies Win In Sharp Fighting   Germans Again Cleared From Chiusi, Fifth Army Stabs Toward Livorno, Pisce

[8th Army Retakes jBitterly Defended iChiusi, Push Ahead   Fifth Army Drives 10 Miles Beyond Captured Piombino In Push Toward Livorno and Pisa.

Germans Ousted From Chiusi Area   Yanks 10 Miles Past Piombino Now

Fifth Army Advances 10 Miles Beyond Piombino; 44 Allied Planes Lost in Vienna Raid

BRITISH RETAKE CITY OF CHIUS   Fifth Army Drives 10 Miles Beyond Piombino

Chiusi Retaken After Assault By Eighth Army   Yanks Advancing On Wide Front In Italien Area

ARE MOVING NORTH   Fifth and Eighth Army Troops Advance on Italian Front

Fifth Army Pushes 10 Miles Beyond Captured Piombino As Eighth Seizes Ruined Chiusi   Fierce Fighting Rages In Drive On Florence; 55 German Planes Bagged

Allied: Units “Stab Toward  Livorno, Pisa   ‘Eighth Drives Nazis from Chiusi; Fifth Advances On West Coast

Eighth Army Retakes Chiusi   Fifth 10 Miles Beyond Piombino in Stab Toward Livorno

Bitter Battle For Florence   Eighth Army Smashes German Counterattacks; Enemy to Defend Pisa

Nazi Enemy Is Driven Out Of Ruins Of Chiusi Again While Fifth Army Advances

Dritisn migntn NetARES BU ulned Chiusi; American Fifth Advances Ten Miles Bevond Piombino.   _BY NOLAND NORGAARD-

CHIUSI RETAKEN BY EIGHTH ARMY   AMERICAN, FRENCH TROOPS BATTLE UP HIGHWAY TO SIENA

Allies Continue Northern March  Stubborn GermansYield More Ground

Allies Retake Ruins of Chiusi   Push Several Miles To Northwest; 5th Army Pushes On

GERMANS YIELD CONTESTED CITY   Ruins of Chiusi Taken by Eighth Army—Clark’s Forces Push on

Eighth Drives Nazis From Chius   Fifth Army Moving Towards Pisa Moves Past Piombino.

A Steady Advance By Allies in Haly   Eighth Army Drives Nazis from Chinsi; Fifth Stabs at Pisa

British Retake Italian Sector   GERMANS. PUTTING UP : STIFF RESISTANCE . * IN ITALY

ENEMY ISDRIVEN ~ FROM CONTES uf ~~ BINS OF PHS      Sth Army, After. Retaking Cherusa: Fought on to. : the: Northwest.   MOVED SEVERAL MILES   Drove Into Outskirts. of Castiglione del Lago on Shore! of Lake Trasimenc. "

MAKE STEADY PROGRESS IN NORTH ITALY   Fifth and Eighth Armies Slugging Ahead Despite Severe Opposition From the Nazis.   Re HOLLAND NORGAARD

British Troops Force Germans  To Leave Chius   Advance 10 Miles Beyond Piombino In Big Drive Toward Livorno, Pisa

8TH ARMY PUSH AGAINST PISA GAINS 10 MILES   Chiusi Retaken After Battle In Lake Trasimeno Sector

Poles Move Forward on Italian Front   Advance 17 Miles Above Ancona; Florence Battle Grows More Furious;. Pisa to Become Major Battleground

In Stab Toward Pisa   5th Army Drives Ten Miles Past Piombino In Italy; Chiusi Taken

Eighth Army  Gains Chiusi   Slug On Several Miles To Northwest, Enemy Fights V igorously,

3th Army Liberates Chiusi While 5th Advancing Along  Coast Drives Upon Livorno

ALLIES STAB TOWARD PISA AND LIVORNO   Troops Have Reached Point 10 Miles North of Piombino Along Italy’s West Coast — British Retake Chiusi.

‘EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY RECAPTURES ‘CONTESTED CHIUSI   Fifth Army Trocps on Italy’s West Coast Push 10 Miles Beyond Piombino in Thrust Toward Livorno and Pisa

—ITALY—  Fifth, Eighth Armies Smash North In Italy      British Drive Nazis From Bitterly-Contested Ruins Of Chiusi While Fifth Stabs Toward Livorno And Pisa :   Rr NOLARD NORGAARD

Allied Advances Pressed i in Italy  ee ee <a crn   British, American Troops Push Ahead

POLISH TROOPS ON EIGHTH ARMY FRONT IN ITALY ANVANCE   OTHER EIGHTH ARMY FORCES SMASH COUNTER ATTACK NEAR FLORENCE

FIFTH ARMY IS ADVANCING UP ITALIAN COAST   Enemy is Again Driven From - Bitterly-Contested Ruins Of Chiusi by Eighth   Forces

Jap Alien Is Found Dead From Stabbing   Co-operative Enterprise Manager Dies at Tule Lake

REQUEST FOR HIGHER LIMIT ON DEBT CUT   Reduction From 50 te 30 Billion Voted in  Committee

VERBAL BLOWS ARE EXCHANGED DURING STATE CAMPAIGNS   Dempsey.Stands on Record anc Gunderson Attacks _ Present Administration

Five German Divisions In  Nikopol Trap   Ring Of Death Around 10 More In Ukraine: Narva Outflanked By  Soviet Moves

'175,000 Nazi ‘Troops Facing ‘Certain Death   Russians Cutting Units To Pieces; Hitler Refuses To Let Men Surrender

REDS WITHIN 45 MILES OF NAZI INVASION LINES  GERMANS APPARENTL   GERMANS APPARENTLY HAVE LOST KRIVOI ROG AND NIKOPOL

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Troops Engaged in Houseto-House Battles Inside Citv   GAINS REPORTED IN METZ-NANCY AREA   Two Fresh Tank Divisions -? " Are Thrown Into  Fiaht

HOUSE TO. HOUSE FIGHTING RAGES INSIDE AACHEN   Third Army Strikes Between Metz And Nancy On 20-Mile Front   DOUGHBOYS CHECKED BEFORE FORT DRIANT

Americans in Twin Blows Strike at Road to Cologne; 6 Miles Gained In Blow Between Metz, Nancy

First U. $. Army Throwing Noose Around Germans   Third Army Hits Powerful Blows

Yanks Near Last Nazi Escape Road   New Drive Expands Allied-Front To © 20 Miles At Metz

Fighting Inside Aacher Reported in Three Lon don Newspapers; Firs: Army Reports City i Isolated.

Escape Road From Aachen Is Reduced  To Four Miles   ' Third Army Captures Eight Towns-in Drive Along 20-Mile Front Between Metz, Nancy  PICTIT INSIDE AACHED

‘Irreplaceable’ Men To Be Rationed Out To Industry   Manpower Crisis Beginning Tc Emerge From Its Muddled State

18 T0 26 MEN TO TAKE TEST FOR INDUCTION   Selection of Key Men in Industry to Follow and Others Will Go Into  . «  Aweman Sarvicac Sann. :

DECISIONS IN MANPOWER CRISIS MADE   Deferred Men Below 26 to Be  Examined at Once

WILL SUPPLY YOUNGER MEN   Manpower Crises Begins to Emerge from Muddled State — Series of swift Government Decisions Made.

Manpower Woes Eased By Action   Group Headed by M’Nutt to Name  ‘Ineplaceables’

All Under 26 Facing Draft Call   Deferments to Be ‘Rationed’ to War Industry by  New Committee

Pre-Induction Physical Exams Ordered For All Industrially ‘Deferred Men Under 26 Years

NEW DRAFT RUL! ‘RATIONS’ MEN FOR INDUSTRY   Strict Limit On Determents

Order Physicals For Men Under 26 Now Deferred   Expanded Manpower Commission To Decide  Industries Affected

New Manpower Ageny Will “Ration” Industrial ‘Deferments For Irreplaceables Under Twenty-Six

ORDER SPEEDS INDUCTION FOR MEN UNDER 2¢   New Deferments Will Be ‘Rationed’ Out To Industries

NAZIS IN GREECE FLEE NORTHWARD   ABANDON . REARGUARD. - AC TIONS IN RETREAT —'CORINTH OCCUPIED BY ALLIES,   RTT TRIN.

House Eliminates Federal Workers , Migrant Benefits  Slaps Senate Measure ;  Passes Substitute ee PS i Dil

House Kills Travel Pay For Workers   Approves Compromise Bill to Clear Way For Recess Until After Election ~

U.S., BRITAIN TO CONFER ON NEAR EAST OIL   ‘Siettinius Reveals Conference to be  Held Soon in Washington — Pipeline Deal Tipoff   VU. S. SEEKS SHARE   Undeveloped Asia Minor Reserve Estimated Twice That Remain -ing Within U. S.

U. S, And Britain To Dicker For Large ‘Slice Of Undeveloped Oil Resources _

300 WACs Will Bivouac Here   Two Companies Coming To City Saturday

Chaing Break Charged to White House   Congressman Claims President Cause of Generalissimo’s Ire

NELSON ORDERED BACK T0 CHINA   TO HELP REORGANIZE COUNTRY’S WAR EFFORT

New Assistant County Agent Named This Week   W. H. Steele Assigned As G. B. Phillips’ Assistant Here

Cannonball PAA Service Aids Burma   Veil of Secrecy Lifted On India Flights

TEXAS PRIMARIES EXPENDITURES WILL BE INVESTIGATED  SPECIAL HOUSE COMMITTEE WILL BE IN DALLAS

SOLEMN HIGH — REQUIEM MASS IN’ CONCORD   Held for Miss. Katherine J. - Toomey at St: Ber- mard’s Church

“Schoots-at-War” Meeting, August 25   War Bond Otficials and School Leaders to Plan Aetividies

MAKE INCOME TAX REPORTS UP NOW, SCOFIELD URGES   Great Service To Self And To Government, Collector Savs

Copies-of 1943 Individual and Vietory Tax Returns Mailed Taxpayers: List ‘Instructions

425,000 Federal Income Taxpayers Now Receiving Copies Of 1943 Individual ‘Income And Victory Tax Return Forms   Many Taxpayers Substantially Paid Up On 1943

INCOME TAX PAYERS WILL GET BLANKS   State Collector Urges Filing Immediately

U.S. CONQUEST ‘OF MARIANAS NOW ASSIIREN   Air Attacks From Marianas 8001 By Thousands Of U. S. Planes

Bombers Will Attack From Marianas And East And West Of Japan   100 Carriers Now Roaming Pacific   Enemy Admits Losses In Air Attack On Fleet Off Philippines

Jap Fleet’s Flight Abandons Its Army   Americans Push Conquest of Saipan—100 U. S. Carriers in  Pacific-—Chinese Hard Pressed

NOXON MURDER TRIAL ENDS IN MISTRIAL   Electrocution of Mentally Deficient Child, Charge

Republican Party Looks Good to Him, Cotton Ed Smith Tells His Colleaques

“Cotton Ed” Feels Politically Low Holds Nose and ComplimentsG. 0. Pp.

Sen. Smith Turns to Republicans In Warm Plea for States Rights   smith Warms tp

STRANGE GUERRILLA ARMY IS HARASSING NAZIS BEHIND THEIR DEFENSE LINES IN BALTIC AREA

HUGE GERMAN STEEL PLANTS ARE WRECKED   AMERICANS STREAM ACROSS RIVER INTO REICH

Yanks Smash On Into Saar   Third And Seventh Join In Slashing Blows Aloria Flaming 60-Mile Front:

Fort Driant, Which Resisted Attack Recently, Falls To Americans   NEW SAAR CROSSINGS - NEAR SAAREGUEMINES

Wreck Saarbrucken Steel Plants With Heavy Artillery Fire; Renew Siecfried Line Assaults

German Forces Hammered along 60-Mile Front   Vital Saar Steel Factories Doomed

Yanks Closing In On Sieafreid Line   Long Toms of General Patton’s Army Hammer Away at Factories in Industrial Center

THIRD, SEVENTH MAKE JOINT PUSE   Cgncerted Drive From Saarbrucken tothe Rhine    HIT SIEGFRIED LINE   Patton’s Armor Closes Stead. ily on Saar Capital; Germans Strike Back

American Third and Sey: enth Armies Hammer at Siegfried Line on 60  Mile Front. as   2 NEW CROSSINGS ..... OF SAAR FORCED      Advances Up to 3 Miles. Made by U. S. Troops Vital Nazi Steel Fur naces Knocked Out. -:

Outlying Defenses of Palatinate Province Also Pounded      NEW CROSSINGS OF SAAR RIVER MADE   Patton’s Armor Closing Steadily on Saarbrucken

3d, 7th Armies Advance Along 60-Mile Front   Saar Crossed at 2 More "Points as Long Toms Pound War Plants -

Third And Seventh Armies Punch Forward Along Entire 60-Mile Front; Nazis Retire In North

Seventh Army Of Strasbourg      German Forces Threatened With Entrapment between Vosges Mountains, Rhine River

Gls Break Through Nazi Lines, Near Strasbourg   Germans Attack French Troops Fighting North Along Rhine

U.S. Breakthrough   Erases Nazi Front.      1000. Mulhouse Germans Seized; Reds Near Vital Rail Junction; Poles, British Take Italian Sites

YUGOSLAVIA ALMOST -FREE   Priest Says Normal Activities Being Resumed 1

Twister Hits Virginia Beach; Hurricane Apparently Spent In Eastern Carolina Swamps   Cavalier Shores Damaged But Other Sections Of Beach Resort Unaffected   WHLABMINGTON 'NAATACTN

Mighty Fleet, Airforce Go Along; Many Japs Trapped In Hollandia Area

~HOLLANDIA BEACHHEAD WON Nearer Bataan   Great Sea-Air Attack In North New Guinea Isolates 60,000 Japs   WARTHUR HAPPY

Landings Virtually Unopposed   American Troops Take Airport at Tadji and Move Swiftly Inland; 60,000 Japs Isolated

500 MILES UP COAST OF NEW GUINEA AND ISOLATE JAPS +   Powerful Surprise Blow Seals Fate of 60,000 Jape On Island Together with 80,000 Others in Solo-  mons. Is Strategic Step Back Toward Philippines

AMERICAN FORCES JUMPED FAR AHEAD NEW GUINEA COAST   GREATEST AMPHIBIOUS OPERATION IN PACIFIC WAR IS ANNOUNCED

Powerful U. S. Forces, Under Strong Naval, Air Cover Make  3 Landines In Surnrise Move

Yanks Jump 500 Miles Up Coast Of New Guinea   140,000 Japanese Troops Outflanked By Allied Advances

YANKEES SEIZE NEW POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA   60,000 Japs Trapped As MacArthur's Forces Jump 500 Miles

BIG ALLIED BLOW SEALS THEIR FATE   M’Arthur’s Men Jump 500 Miles Up Island Coast in Greatest Amphibious Operation of Southwest Pacific War. 

Attack Traps  60, 000 Nips, Huge Stores:   Allies Smash Thre Through to: Be-. leaguered. Kohima, Fight Around Imphal  ;

Big Allied Force Strikes Hollandia   Supply Lines of 60,000 Japanese Troops Are Cut by Attack =~   ‘HUGE STORES TAKEN   Surprise Blow Is Heaviest Stroke in Southwest Pacific War ~

SURPRISE JAPS IN HOLLANDIA, AITAPE AREAS   Blows Isolate 60,000 More Of Foe; MacArthur Goes Ashore In Operations

AMERICAN FORCES JUMPED 500 MILES TO BATTLE JAPS   Grabbed Healthy Chunks Out of Two of Japan’s Treasured Strongholds.   IT WAS IN NEW GUINEA   Greatest Amphibious Operation in History of Southwest Pacific War.

Troops Moving Inland After Two Landinas   Jap Counter-Attacks Expected; Thousands Of Enemy Trapped

ARGENTINE REBELLION QUICKLY ENDS   Col. Duco’s Regiment Marches Out In Battle Kit Only To Surrender Unconditionally.   Unrest Continues

Move To Oust Farrell Fails: In Argentina   Third Infantry Reyolt  Ends Without Bloodshed And OCyiete Gaerne Peet

COLONEL FAILS IN ARGENTINE REVOLT   Troubled Regime of Presi. dent Farrell Weathers First Crisis

FARRELL REGIME WEATHERS CRIaIS   Army Colonel Stages Brief And Bloodless Rebellion Against Argentine Government; Army Men Surrender

Peron Regime  Balks Revolt   Army Colonel's Bloadles: Coup Effort Fizzles

MARTIN ISSUES PROCLAMATION FOR ‘WORSHIP’   Asks That Bells Be Rung At 6:00 P. M. To Gall Worshipers

King, Nimitz Confident Of Sea Battle Success; Saipan Attack Goes Well

ADMIRAL KING IN STATEMENT OF "WELCOME"   No Definite Information, But Indications Are That Contact Made With Main Ferce

Admiral Nimitz Expresses Confidence in Victory for U. S. in Showdown Battle Between Philippines and Marianas

Admiral Indicates Entire Enemy Fleet May be Out, Yanks Eager and Ready

THE SOONER THE JAP FLEET FIGHTS, BETTER WE'LL BE SATISFIED SAYS ADM. KING   Commander-in-Chief of American Navy Says Jap Fleet May Be Moving into Position and Americans Are Ready. Initial Blows May Have Already Reen Struck

Sec. Forrestal Indicates Fight is In Progress   Jap Fleet Cornered For Showdown; Tokvo Reports Fierce Battle Raging

Navy Chief Is Confident Of Outcome   King Appreciates ‘Cooperation’ of Jap Fleet in Coming Out of Hiding

KING CONFIDENT OVER OUTCOME   Anpreciates ‘Cooperation’ of Jap Navy in Moving Into Battle Position.   INO DEFINITE REPORTS

Admiral King Confident Of The Outcome   ‘Sooner They Fight, Better We'll Be Satisfied, He Says

Auseticans : Hope for ~ Showdown   y Contact May . Have: Beer Made ‘Yesterday, Says « Navy- Secretary:   - BUT. STRICT RADIO SILENCE PREVAILS   Admirals ‘King. and’ Nimitz - Confident If Jap: Fleet > "Gan Be Cornered:

Navy Chief Hopes Kleet Catches Japs   Admiral King Welcomes Chance To Meet Foe In Showdown Fight

Forrestal Thinks U. S. Fleet Has Succeeded In Catching Up With Enemy Naval Forces   Admiral Glad Enemy Has Apparently Move At Last Into Battle Position; Sighted In Last Few Days Off Marianas Islands

Tokio Declares Major Sea Battle Is Under Way   Fighting Ships Square Off East Of Philippines

Admiral King Confident Of Triumph   Navy Boss Expresses Thanks for Jap Battle Co-Operation

Great Naval Battle With Japs Coming   American Forces Anxious at Reports That at Last the Japanese Fleet Is Moving Out To Do Battle.

Admiral King Confident of Naval Victory  Navy Chieftain I. Bf... OFF, tw   Navy Chieftain Is Pleased Over Battle Possibility

KING CONFIDENT OF VICTORY, GRATEFUL TO JAPS FOR BRINGING OUT NAVY

King Confident Of Outcome of Pending Battle   “Sooner Jap Fleet Fights Better We'll Like It,’ Admiral Says.   Indications U. S. Has Caught Up With Japs

Admiral King Welcomes Test Of Naval Power   ‘The Sooner The Japs Fight, The Better,’ Chief Declares

SHOOTS WIFE AND KILLS SELF   Marquette Couple Found Dead in Home 

IN W. CONCORDE.   Requiem High Mass This Morning for Native of Boston

N iW. CONCORD   Requiem. High Mass This Morning for. Native: of Boston

Americans May Soon Strike Out Against Mil   Heavy Bombardment May Be Prelude  Th New Landings

DRAFT CHIEF HERSEY CAUSES WPB PLANS CANCELLED TO RESUME LIMITED OUTPUT OF CIVILIAN GOODS

DRAFT LIMITS ~ CIVILIAN GOODS      Hershey's Order Causes Cancellation of Plans

DRAFT ORDER HALTS PLANS FOR CONVERSION   WPB Cancels Program To Resume Limited Output Of Civiliary Goods   HEAVY MANPOWER DRAIN   Production Board Becoming Peace Minded Despite War Department

CIVILIAN GOODS PRODUCTION . I$ DELAYED BY DRAFT PLAN   WPB PROGRAM, FOR MORE NON-MILITARY OUTPUT GETS +, SETBACK DUE TO STRIN GENT POLICY

Strategists Add To Victory Date Figure   Three to Six Months Added Because of German Successes; Failure of Allied Intelligence May Bring Big Shakeup

Rebel Resistance Said Continuing In Greek Capital   British, Grecian Units Forces To Give Up Several City Blocks

British Troops Surrounded by Greek Rebels   Major Offensive ls Reported At Athens

SNIPERS PICKET ALL ROUTES OUT OF GREEK CITY   Several Hundred ELAS “Troops Moving Toward City Stvafed by Planes

DAITIGH GIVE “UY BEFORE FLAS ATTACK   Reveal “Rebel Infiltration” Into City, Heavy Guns Smash Buildings.

IN ATH  ENS B  ATTLE   General Situation Has Improved Little, Says British Commander   BRITISH AND GREEK GOVERNMENT YIELD   Dozen Or More City Blocks In “Very Fierce Fighting”

Athens Battle in New Crisis   E. L. A. S. Surround British, Throw Strong Blocks Across Roads

REBELS GAIN IN ATHENS BATTLE   British Forces Were Surrounded In Heart of City

Allied- Supplies Shipped To Italy   Rebuilding Country Will Aid In Fight

FDR Plans Italian Aid   Substantial Supplies TT, Rebuild Nation.

Large Allied Supplies To Go to Italy   Electrical Goods As Well as Food To Be Rushed

Increase Flow Of Supplies To Italian People   Greater Assistance Is Given In Rebuilding Nation Suffering From Effects Of War

German People Are Desperate  Fear Extermination Tf They Lose War

GERMANS CONVINCED BE EXTERMINATED IF THEY LOSE THIS WAR  TAYLOR HENRY, REPATRIATED A.P. WRITER TELLS STORY

ANOTHER FORCE HITS AIRFIELDS IN PARIS ARE   Axis Reports Third Blow Struck At Vienna By Raiders

2000 YANK PLANES CROSS CHANNEL   Hit at Berlin And Airfields  Near Paris

‘Lisbon Man Dies In Fire At His Home   Robert 8. Carpenter Loses Life In Blaze Caused By Oi! Blast

ITALIAN FASGIS! EXECUTED TODAY   Charged With Having Sent At Least 50 Hostages To Death

Rome Chief Is Executed  Sg, Se ae gy Sentiony eee nto.   Caruso Convicted Of Collaboration.

Corn Freeze Order Expected to Close Soor   Farmers Who Wish to Take Advantage of WFA Service Urged to Sell Now

Corn Freeze to Close Soon, Urge Farmers to Sell   Loveland Hopeful Corn Will Be Purchased Before Deadline. June 25

FREEZE ORDER 70 CLOSE SOON   Urge Farmers To Put Corn Under Contract

Freeze of Corn To Close Soon Says Chairman  To Lift Five Cent Service Charge On Delivery

nig Promised  n Reconversion   Demobilization Also On Congress Calendar

Roosevelt Assailed By Lewis pi el dvirerinaliah eadaeiaaticha net Aimaihdhia  ) Mine Union Head Asks That \FDR Be Turned Out Of Office

Lewis Appeals for Defeat  of Roosevelt  Says Coal Miners Were Kicked in Face by President

Assails FDR In Speech To Miners   John Lb. Lewis Hits Al President for ‘Kick _ In Face" to Mine Workers

Lewis Criticizes  New Deal But Fail:  To Indorse Dewey UMW Members Urged  To Oppose Roosevelt, Others Draw Scorn

JOHN L. LEWIS ASSAILS FDR   Union Chief Declares President “Kicked Every  Miner in Face”

Lewis Assails FDR For ‘Kick In Face’ To Mine Employes  Appeals To Members To Oppose President

LEWIS’ ADDRESS RAPS PRESIDENT      Coal Miners Got Kick In The Face, Convention Of UMW Told

Roosevelt Assailed By Lewis  Mine Union Head Asks That FDR Be Turned Out Of Office

LEWIS ASSAILS FDR IN SPEECH AT CONVENTION   Mine Leader Indirectly Endorses Dewey For President

Reds Driving Swiftly Into Pripet Marsh   Surge Directly Towarc Pinsk; One Column Only 70 Miles From Base At Kovel

GERMAN TROOPS PURSUED TODAY BY RED FORGES   Nazis Disorganized Along River; Many Fail To Escape

Reds Within 70 Miles of Kovel Base   Backbone of  Nazi Defenses in . Pripet Marshes  Broken, Claim

SOVIETS PURSUE ROUTED NAZIS IN OLD POLAND   DRIVE TO WITHIN 70 MILES OF BIG ENEMY KOVEL BASE

Reds Pursue Badly Routed ‘German Army   Pour Through Breaks In Defenses Toward Pinsk in Poland

Russians Press Retreating Foe Over Wide Ares   Backbone of Nazi Defenses Broken By Latest Advance

Reds Pour On Through New Gaps   Backbone of Nazi Defenses North of Marshes Broken; Germans Bewildered   BERLIN REPORTS NEW RED DRIVE   Says Soviets Have Opened Push North of Lake Iimen: Reds Head for Pinsk

GERMAN STAND NEAR SLUCH COLLAPSES   Ukraine Troops In Heart Of Pripet Marshes   BROKEN LINE   One Of Strongest Yet Put Up By Enemy: 40 More Villages Taken

Soviet Troops Driving Upon Kovel   Red Army Offensivs In Two Other Sections Gaining

Major Base Is Neared In Fighting   White Soviet Army Is Battering On Toward Pinsk

Red Army Driving Swiftly Into Heart of Pripet Marshes   Nazis Appear Bewildered; Fierce Fighting on Italian Front

RAF Bombs Messerschmitt Plane Plant   Mosquitos Bomb Berlin and Magdeburg; Russian Planes Attack German  Convoy in Black Sea; RAF Raids Nazi Shippina Off Norway .

+ NAZIS FLEEING ACROSS PRIPET MARSH AREAS AS REDS WIDEN BREACH MADEIN OLD POLAND   Backbone of German Defenses Reported Broken And Fleeing Germans Do Not Take Time to Min Or Blow Up Bridges. Much German War Materiz  Qanturad 

Russians’ Steamroller Drives Within 70 Miles Of Big Nazi Kovel Base

White Army Cracks Back Of Defenses   Soviet 70 Miles From Big Communications Base

RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE NOW WITHIN 70 MILES OF KOVE!   Pursuing a Disorganized Ger man Army Over a Sector West of Noryu River.   A COMMUNICATION BASE   lo the North, White Russiar Army Offensive Smashed Backbone of Nazi Defense.

eer PUR INE LR  Rout Of Germans Grows As Russians  lAdvance On Kovel

Reds Pursue Enemy West Of Sarny   Nazis Not Given Time to Blow Up Or Mine Bridges

REDS ADVANCE WEST OF HORYN RIVER IN POLAND   Smash Nazi Defenses i Pripet Marshes in Drive Toward Pinsk

MOVING AREAD IN PRIPET AREA   Russian Troops Drive Within 70 Miles of Communications Base.   ENEMY LINE 1S BROKEN

Red Troops But 10 Mites From Kove! Base   German Defenses In Pripet Marshes Area Broken

Rokossovsky's Troops Pour Through Breach as Bewildered Nazis Retreat Toward Pinsk   DRIVE INTO POLAND   Vaiulin's Forces Smash Enemy’: Defense Line Belween Sluch and Horyn Rivers

RUSSIANS PURSUE FLEEING GERMANS FAR INTO POLAND   Nazi Garrisons Trapped When Line Collapses In Prinet Marshes

Nazis Report Offensive By Russians In  North Sector   Claim Drive Opened In Lake Ilmen Front; Germans Disorganized On Wide Line

70 MILES OF OVEL BASE   Russians, in Drive for Big Communications Center, Have Passed the Horyn River Beyond Cantured Sarny.

WHITE RUSSIAN ARMY IN SURGING ADVANCE TOWARD CITY PINSK  TREMENDOUS LOSSES  DECLARED INFLICTED ' Ma CI ccne

Reds Pursue _ Disorganized Nazi Forces   Germans Expected to Or der Stand Between the Sluch and Horyn Rivers

Soviets Aiming  At Pinsk   Disorganized Nazis Chased Beyond Sarny

Smash Backbone Of German Lines On Soviet Front   New Offensive in Long Dormant Leningrad Sector Opened by Reds.   Germans Are Hurried  In Forced Withdrawal

Reds Chasing Nazis Through Pripet Marsh   Two-Pronged Drive Carries Close To Polish Base

Soviet Avalanche Rumbles After Disorganized Foe   Reds Plunge Within 70 Miles of Vital Base; Smash Nazi Defenses in North

Soviets Pouring Through Broken Enemy Line in   White Russia  AXIS BEWILDERED:   Red Army Within 70 Miles of Important Base of Kovel

Push Within 70 Miles Of Big Kovel Base In Old Poland; Mozyr, Kalinkovichi Yield To Soviet Offensives ~

FOOCHOW GOAL OF NEW ATTACK   Action Believed Attempt To Counter-Act U.S. Move

Japanese Invade Fukien Province On China Coast   American Airmen Smash Again at {sland Targets

PACIFIC—  FUKIEN PROVINCE INVADED BY JAP   Nips Hope To Counter Any U. S. Landings On China Coast   FOOCHOW IS COAT,   Chinese Editorial Blames British, U. S. For Military Failure

Japs Move On Foochow   Drive On East China Coast City to Counter Possible U. S. Landing

Japanese Land Troops on Chinese Coast  Enemy Move Is Made To Counter Any American Invacian

Jep Troops Land in China      Fotees Land Northeast Of Foochow; Aim to Riock 1) S. Invasion

Tokyo Reports A Jap Landing On China Coast   Purpose.to Block  U.S. Invasion. Plans; Nipponese Advance On City of Foochow

Russians Start Repairing Port  Of Sevastopol   Planes Sink Two Nazi Transports, Damage Others in Great Battle

AXIS SHIPS SUNK OFF SEVASTOPO!   GERMANS CONTEND STIFE FIGHTING STILL RAGES ON BEACHES OF CITY,

Capture of Sevastopol Gives Reds Control of Entire Black Sea Area

LAST CRIMEAN AREA CLEANED UP BY RUSSIA   BLACK SEA FLEET SINKS 2 AXIS TRANSPORTS

Russians Sink Two Big Ships   Transports and Several Other Craft Fail to Escape as Reds Capture Port

Russians Blast Nazi Transports Near Sevastopol   Reds Have Already Begun Gigantic Task Of Repairing Port

Russian Fleet Sinks Three Axis Vessels   No Important Land Front Changes Noted, Soviets Say

ProprietorOf Doll Shop Gets 10 Years In Pen   Woman Convieted of ‘Vio. lating Censorghip Law In Selling Japanese Information

Doll Shop Owner Given 10 Years   Violated Censorship Rules To Help Japs Before Pearl Harbor

Breaku Dp C-B-]  Positions   Result of Removal Of Stilwell After Demands Made by Generalissimo

Yanks Defeat New Attacks On Beachhead   Bombers Continue to Hit Enemy’s Supply  Lines in Italy

REPULSE TWO NAZI ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAD   Yank Infantry Keeps German Troops at Bay

AMERICANS BEAT OFF 2 NEW JABS AT ANZIO BEACH:   Atied Bombers Lash Nazi Supply Lines Below Rome

MINOR ATTACKS ON BEACHHEAD ARE SMASHED   Nazi Shock Troops Seek Weak Spot For New Drive

AMERICANS REPULSE 2 NAZI ATTACKS   Anzio Front Quiet, Airmen Batter Supply Lines

Beachhead Battle Lines Unchanged   Two Nazi Attacks Repulsed; Allied Bombers Active

Yanks Fight Off 2 Nazi Attacks  Against Anzio   Unopposed Bombers Range Over Enemy Armor Units

Two Nazi Attacks on Anzio Faii   Allied Bombers Range Unopposed Over Beach, Hammer at Nazis

Churchill May Contact Stalin In Attempt To Settle Polish Dispute

SOURCE OF CLINTON DRAFT FUSS IS UP   To Report for Induction on Wednesday

NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLES AS PSKOV NEAREI   Mobile Units Slash Behind Fleeing Fascists

Russians Advance  To Pskov   Red Army Within Fourteen Miles Of That Important City; Pustoshka Captured.

Soviets Near Pskov Limits   Wide Advance Made On Bia Front Monday

APPROVE FREEZE OF PAY ROLL TAX AT { PER CENT   House-Senate Conference Committee Ignores Roosevelt’s Wishes in Retaining Rate.   LEVY ON COSMETICS FIXED AT 20 PER CENT   Work on Bill Nearly Finished —Group Still to Consider War Contracts Renegotiation.

+reeze on Social Security Tax Rate Approved   Joint. Committees Make Adjustments in Revenue Bill

SOCIAL SECURITY TAX FREEZE VOTED   Conference Com mittee Acts Despite Roosevelt Opposition —

Accepts Social — Security Freeze   Employers and Employes To Continue One Per Cent Payment For Pay Roll Taxes This Year.

Social Security Freeze Favored   Conferees Approve Plan Decnite FDR

SECURITY LEVY FREEZE VOTEL   Vandenberg Leads Fight To Keep Tax Rate At One Percent

FREEZE OF TAX RATES OMEHED ESPITE FDR   Social Security Levy “Level Held By

Security Tax Rise Refused   House, Senate Conference Rejects FDR Plea

Carbide Blast’  -Injures.6.Men  Fire: ‘Following Explosion Toc Ointelie Oualled::

1ST ARMY BATTLES DOGGEDLY UNDER BLANKET OF FOG   Reinforced Army Tank and Infantrymen Turn Back  Slowed Nazi Offensive FNEMY DRIVE SLOWS  Reports Say Offensive Has Slowed After Repelling of Six Attacks

BATTLE IN FOG TO BLOCK NAZI. PENETRATIONS      SHAEF Admits Some U. S. Units Cut Off in German Offensive

Russ Report Nazi Losses ‘Enormous’   Thousands Slain in Unsuccessful Thrusts

Allies Smash at Hitler Line Along a 25-Mile Front as Germans Continue to Yield   Americans Strike Toward Key Appian Way Junction of Itri and Capture Only Link of Communtcation Between Ends of Hitler Line

Attack Takes Place On 25-Mile Front; French Carve Deeper Into Line From Center Position  BULLETIN By The Associ: ted Press  WITH THE FIFTH ARMY BEFORE SANT’ OLIVA, ITALY— French troops and American tanks broke into the Hitler line forti PPR See ig ee

French Are Gaining in Center Area   Poles Fight Within Mile and Half of PicdiMonte, Four , Miles West of Cassinu   Air Raids Resume      Targets in Brunswick and Berlin Steuck in Today’s Raids

Germans Admit “Local Dent” In Defenses   Americans Push For Itri, Junction Held By Nazis

Yanks Near Itri; French — Carve Deeper   Poles Within Mile-and-a-Half  of Piedmonte_

HITLER LINE ASSAULTED BY ALLIED FORCE   U. S. Forces On Way To Appian Junction

Yanks Assail Appian Way Junction; French Hammer Nazi Mountain Defenses

Airfield Below Rimini Reached By Aliied Units”   Canadians, Greeks Within Two Miles of Coastal City °

ALLIES IN ‘ ALY ARE. EAR RIMINI   Only Two Miles Away from Key  To Po River Valley

Canadian and Greek Troons Near Rimini   Fall of City Will Open Up  Po River Vallev

ALLIES ALMOST AT RIMINI ON ADRIATIC COAST   Reach Northwest Corner Of Air. field—Only Two Miles From City

ALLIES REAC AIR FIELD NEAR RIMINI   Eighth and Fifth Armies Gain; Nazi Resistance Stiff

EA. GRANT 2) IS KILLED IN CHARLESTON   Second Victim of Division St. Crossing in 10 Days; Worked Here

, y   Second Victim of Division St. Crossing in 10 Days: Worked Here

New Secret Weapon Used By Yankees:  On Tinian    a Potentialities: Great, Correspondent Says.” : eee Big Objectives.  In Marianas Are Won   GUAM’S. ‘APRA: HARBOR IN AMERICAN HANDS  MacArthur Bombers: Smash 4 “Airdromes; ~ B:29 Raid Effective:

New Weapon Used by U.S.  In Marianas   Guam’s Apra Harbor Firmly in American  Hands; MacArthur's Fliers Hit Airfields

FRENCH PATRIOTS ENTER TOULON; STREET FIGHT ON   Americans 9 Miles From Marseille In New Advances

FRENCH BATTLE IN STREETS OF SHELLED TOULON   Yanks 9 Miles From Marseille

TOULON IS 75 PER CENT ENCIRCLED   Montgomery Says End Of War ‘ Is In Sight

Fighting Rages in Toulon   French Enter Key Naval Base; Yanks Stab Near Marseille

Toulon Base Is Under Siege From 3 Sides   Allies Stab to + Less Than 15 Mi. From Marseoille

French Forces Enter Parts of Toulon   Two Battleships and Six Cruisers Bombard Port

French In Parts of Toulon   Yanks Are Moving On Marseilles: Get 50 Miles Inland

ALLIED TROOPS DRIVING NEAR TO MARSEILLE   Invasion Forces Are Supported by Heavy Sea, Air Bombardment.   BULLETIN

Marseille Only Nine Miles From American Lines   14,000 Nazi Prisoners Taken In First Six Days of Southern Push

Americans Close In On Marseille   ‘Street Fighting Is In   Progress In Toulon As French Move Into City Of 100,000

HIG DEADLINE. IS JANUARY 14TH   Only Seven Candidates So Far Officially in City Races

FILING DEADLINE IS JANUARY 11TH      Only Seven Candidates So Far Officialiy in City Races —

1] States Will Determine Result Presidential Race Roosevelt Carried Nine of Them. Willkie   Roosevelt Carried Nine of Them, Willkie Two in ‘40 by Small Margins; Shift Watched

Presidential Campaign Now Primarily A Contest For Eleven Of The Big States

Governor Pledges Aid to Stockme In Retention of Branch Rail Line

Ford Leads Fight to Retain, Develop Transport Facilities   Chief Executive, Senator Wheeler and Congressman O’Connor Determined That Rail Line Will Not Be Abandoned

Gov. Ford Pledges Aid to Improve State Transport   Protests Proposed Abandenment of Feeder Line From White Sulphur Springs; Seeks Better Connection With Markets

Holiday Weekend's Death Toll Growing   Hits 317, Over Last Year, Below Predictions

ay eS eee Sa  COAL PRODUCT FED TO COWS   New Substitute Found to Furnish Nitrogen Needed To Make Protein

Capture Of fas! Is Near   Rumble of Battle Being Heard in Port of Odessa

SOVIETS STILL SURGE ACROSS BALKAN PLAINS   British in Air Blow at Hungarian Capital to Further Tangle Nazi Retreat Lines,

Konev’s Army Takes 50 Towns   Forces 15 Miles Inside Border, Cut Railway, Nazi Supply Line; 3000 Germans Killed in Skala Battle Near Cernauti

Hit Bases in Islands Near Philippines   One of Greatest Naval and Aerial Offensives of War  in Pacific

Foree Attacks West Of Caroline Bastion   American Air Force Joins it Assault on Inner Defenses— Attack Is Continuing

MAKES DEEPEST PENETRATION OF JAP WATERS   Bomber Fleet Blazes Trall Of Destruction Along 2,600-Mile Arc 4,

HEAVY ATTACKS CONTINUING   Groatent! Coordinated ‘Offensive of { Paciie War — Marks Deepest tration  of Japanese Waters co Fall of Philippines:

Powerful U.S. Task Force  Strikes at Jap Base 460 Miles From Philippines

Enemy Bases on  Palau Wrecked   Japanese Navy Again Declines to Battle; Ships Flee Before Attack

PALAN ATTACKED TOBLAST BASES IN NEW THEATE   Fleet Makes Deepest Pene tration Within 550 Miler of Island, Truk and Othe Points Bombed.   RUSSIANS ARE PUSHING INTO CARPATHIANS   Reds Advance So Rapidl With Tanks and Motor That Germans Are Unabl to Destroy Bases.

U.S. WARSHIPS BLAST JAP PALAU BASES   islands Only 460 Miles From the Philippines

a a xikek pi Adee VD  US. Task Force Force: Thunders at Palau Islands in   W estern Carolines  TRUK ALSO SEARED Fiery Trail Blazed Along  2,600-Mile Bombing  ' Are to Marshalls      ‘TRUK ALSO SEARED

Hit Palau Isles; Enemy Warships "Flee Before Raid   e ‘Heavy Attacks’ Continuing, Nimitz Says; Bombers Also Blast Truk, Destroy 54-69 Planes, Lose Onlv One

Jap Ships Flee. Before Attack Gets Under Way   Islands Are Only 460 Nautical Miles From Philippines

Task Fleet Guns Shell Palau Isles   Yank Bombers Rain Havoc on Truk and Other Enemy Bases

PALAU ISLANDS VAMMERED BY STRONG FORCE   Enemy Navy Still Fails To Accept Challenge For Final Battle

U.S. SEA UNITS STRIKE NEAR PHILIPPINES   Bombing Fleets Also Spread Destruction Through Truk and Other Outposts.

Japanese Jungle Troops Slash 30 Miles Across  Frontier From Burma

JAPS DRIVE 30 MILES ACROSS INDIA’S BORDER   Cut Main Road Linking Imphal And Kohima In 3-Way Push

Jap Palau Islands Under Attack by American Force; Japs Cut Highway in India

Jap Troops Cut Indian Highway   Jungle Forces Close For Major Assault

Japs Closing In For Big _ Assault On Kohima And Imphal, British Bases

JAP TROOPS CLOSING IN NEAR KOHIMA    Enemy Jungletroops Slash Across Indian Frontier From Central  Burma; Cut Highway

KOHIMA ROAD CUT BY JAPS   Nips Closing In On Twin British Strongholds

Advancing Japs Close in on Two  India Strongholds   Highway Linking Imphal, Kohima Lost by British

Main Road To Twin British Strongholds Cut By Nips; Tiddim  In Burma Evacuated

Jap Jungle Troops Close In For Major Assault On Two British Strongholds In Burma

Increase of Fifty Cents Barrel In Price of Oil ls Advocated By Gov. Martin At Bradford

Gov. Martin For Increase _ In Oil Price   50 Cents a Barrel Would Stimulate the Industry ~— Against Foreign Pipeline

CULLMAN COUNTY STUDENTS MAKE GOOD AT FLORENCE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

TEN HAPPY MEN ARE BACK WITH UNIT ON SAIPAN ON SATURDAY  SURVIVED B-29 WATER LANDING ON WAY BACK FROM TOKYO RAID

Suspension of Pork Rationing Onposec By Chief: Says February Supplies Low

CHURCHILL AND EDEN IN ATHENS   SEEK TO END WAR IN GREECE; STREET FIGHTING CONTINUES

CHURCHILL IN ATHENS, SEEKS TO END “WAR’   Dynamite Cache Found Near Hotel Where Greek, British Army Officials Are Residing

CHURCHILL, EDEN ARRIVE IN GREECE      Seek To End Bloody Greek Civil War

, CHURCHILL WILL TRY PEACE ROLE   , Prime Minister and Eden In Athens Seeking End To Conflict

Churchill -and-Eden Go To Greece In Attempt To End Bloody Civil Conflict

Churchill and Eden in Athens   Premier Seeks to End Strife in  Greece

Churchill, Eden Arrive in Greece   British Patrol Find Dynamite Hidden Near Officials’ Hotel

SEEK SOLUTION TO GREEK ROW      Churchill, Eden At Athens For Meeting; Discover Dynamite Plot

Churchill Seeks To End Bloody Greek Civil War   Ton Dynamite Discovered In Street At Main Doors Scobie’s Hotel.

CHURCHILL AND EDEN SEEK TO HALT GREEK WAR   Arrive In Athens And Start Work  Immediately

Winne Seeks To End Civil  War In Greeec   British Patrols Finds Dynamite Under Street Car Lines Near Hotel.   BEAR FOE MARKINGS

Churchill In Athens   Prime Minister and Secretary Eden Seek To End Civil War

CHURCHILL, EDEN IN ATHENS ATTEMPT TO SETTLE TROUBLE   TON OF DYNAMITE FOUND UNDER STREET CAR LINES NEAR HOTEL

British Chief Seeks End Of Civil War   Ton of Dynamite Has Been Found in Front of Main Hotel

German Dynamite Endangers Officials  Paccokilt ts in Adnons Seeking End Of Strife

Seeks to End Greek Civil War   Churchill at Work ‘On Athens Mission: Discover Dynamite  In Official Hotel

CHURCHILL AT ~ GREEK PARLEY   Dynamite Bomb Discovered Near Hotel

DYNAMITE IS PLANTED NEAR ATHENS HOTEL   Ton of Explosives Found Opposite the Main Entrance of the Structure Where Greek Government Officials Live.

Churchill Seeks Greek Peace  Prime Minister And Eden Arrive (In Athen:

SOLONS ACT TO EXTEND HOURS   Consider Three Bills Ik Special Session Of Legislature

ASKS STATE SOLONS REWRITE VOTE LAWS   Want Time . Extended, All Servicemen’s Votes Count- ed. Time Standards Set

New York Stocks   New York Cotton    Sitting On Photographer's Chest, Vice President Wallace Drives Bargain For Destruction Of Unauthorized Negative

FLYING BOMBS ANGER BRITISH   Londoners Settle Down To Work Under Threat Of Death

London Lives And Works In Face Of Death   Residents Sohered By Prime Minister's Report Ou Devastation From Flying Bombs

Quick Death Is Accepted   “Londoners Calmed: - By: Churchill. Talk

Pay Increase for Steelworkers Ordered by WLB   Board Also Grants Vacations With Pay To 400.000

PAY BOOST I GRANTED STEEL NIGHT WORKERS   WLB Still Retains Old Formula As Wage Yardstick

Steel: Steel:Workers “Get Wave Hike   WLB Stays Within: Limits Of Accented Formuls .

SOLDIERS HELD AS MURDERERS   Detroiter Implicated In Fatal Shooting On English Estate

Resistance To Japs In India  Is Increasing   New Enemy Rail Line Hit; Hindustan Paper Criticises Communique

JAPANESE MEET INDIA SETBACK   Enemy Columns Encountering Increasingly Stiff Resistance In Drive Into India.   ~BY CHARLES A. GRUMICH-

Japs Hit New Burma Snags   Shaduxup Occupied by Chinese-U.S. Forces In Threat to Railwoy

J aps Finding Going Tough   Allies Putting up Stiffer Resistance to Advance Into India

JAPS ARE MEETING STIFF RESISTANCE ON BURMA FRONT   Setbacks Handed to Invaders of Indian Province  By Allied Forces There

JAPANESE COLUMNS MOVING INTO INDIA MEETING RESISTANCE  AMERICANS AND CHINES! OCCUPY TOWN ON IMPORTANT RAIL LINE

Jap Invasion Forces Meeting Stiff Resistance   Reports Indicate  Confused Military Situation; Stilwell Reports Successes

Yank Troops In Burma Drive At Jap Rail Center   Enemy’s_ Three-Pronget Advance Into India Vir tually Halted.

Enemy Suffer: Setbacks in Burma Drive   Heavy Bombers Hit New Jap Rail Line From Siam

Battle Jap Units in India  Yanks-Chinese Take   Yanks-Chinese Take Shaduzup in North  Burma Action

“Japs Meet . Stiffening Resistance   oO ee? Pye ss Propags Advantage of - Drive inte. India Blunted by Allied Blows      @ AMERICANS ALSO ‘PUSH OWN ATTACK   Twin ‘Oftensives in. Burma Sector Result in Much “Confusion

Hold Japs On Border Of India   Allies Occupy Rail ~ Town in North Burma; British Commandos Move on Myitkyina

Japs Entering  India Resisted  : Allied Planes Keep Raidina Foe’s Bases

Allies Check ‘Japs’ Triple India Drive   FOE BURNS TOWN   ritish Commando Unit Nearing Supply Base of Mvitkvina

Jap Troops in India Are Meeting With Stiffened  Resistance, Face Setback

Japanese Columns Meet Resistance   Setbacks Encountered by Enemy As They Stage Advance Into India

Japs’ 3-Pronged Drive In India ~ Meets Setbacks      British Commandos Appear To Block Drive Toward Manipur.

RESISTANCE TO JAPANES! [SGROWIKG   Invaders Suffer Setbacks; Allies Score In North

No Respite In French Coast  Aerial Attack   Cross-Channe!l Bombardment Of Pas De Calais Area Is Resumed   SHUTTLE SERVICE PROGRAM IS SEEN

Baptists Elect Neff President   Catholics Charged, With Interference

Infantry Medal Given Sergeant From Chariton   Ralph Ansley Also Wins Promotion at Bougainville.

Sgf. Vernon Nelson Wins Promotion and Citation ror Battlefield Conduct

Wayne Carroll Gets Recognition; Mdeal   Promoted to Rank of Sergeant After Attack At Boursinville

BUDAPEST HIT IN BOMB RAIDS   UWS., RAF Planes Attack Hungary, Ruhr

AGREEMENT 1S ENPECTED SOON ON GEORGE BILL   House Turns Down Liberal Amendments to Postwar Measure

AGREEMENT IS EXPECTED SOON ON CEORGE BILL   House . Tiirns Down . Liberal Amendments. “to Postwar-Measure

ACCORD NEAR ON POSTWAR BILL   House, Senate Differences May Be Ironed Out In Few Days

HOUSE, SENATE TO ACT QUICKL' ON GEORGE BILI   Conference Agreement in “2 or 3” Days Predicted

AVVV ITTV ITV VITVTVTFTr Ts Here's Latest  Official Reason For Nazi Defeat

Flow of Supplies To China Grows  ive T...6hLULULlU   20,000 Tons Flown Into Country Monthly

Antwerp Port Is Opened To Allies By British Drive   Americans Appear To Be Probing For Softest Spot To Launch Another Major Smash At Cerman West Wall; Salient Is Widened.

U.S. Ist Army Advances Beyond Aacher   Berlin Says Yanks Are Preparing Major Offensive

Allies Capture Flushing, Clear Both Sides of echelde Estuary; Nazis Brace for Giant Push on Aachen Front

ALLIED SUPPLY SHIPS SET T0 ENTER ANTWERP   Schelde Estuary’s Two Sides Are Cleared

Solons Voice _ Demand For  U. S. Bases   Call For a ‘Realistic’ Peace Treaty After Present War

Realistic Peace Treaty Is Urged   U. S. Would Use All Isles Necessary To Seeurity

Solons Want U.S. to Own Islands   Acquisition !s Seen As Desirable Step for Security

Renutlicans Mapping Strategy  in St. Louis   Governors’ Conference Is Making Plans

26 G.O.P. Governors Map Campaign At St. Louis August 2-3      State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent —

I's $ Now Up to Each Candidate   Govs’ Meeting at at St. Louis With Candidate Dewey

PROBE PLANNED ON DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS GOODS   War Department Reported Burning Huge Quantities Of Radio Materiel

Big Naval Base  OF ‘Singapore “4 ‘Raided by B-29’:   Yank Forces on Leyte Set for Bloody Battle With Reinforced Japs

Allied Airmen Blast ~ Scattered Jap Targets   =nemy’s Ormoc Sector Positions Un der Hammering of Long Range American Artillery

With Dixon in the AEF: 16 American Parachutists Saved By Heroic New York City Woman

Ace Enjoys Combat Job   Johnson, With Long String, Is Methodical

Jackie Cooper Accused   MOVIE STAR-NAVAL TRAINEE CHARGED WITH CONTRIBUTING TO DELINQUENCY OF MINORS

JACKIE COOPER FACES CHARGES   Morals Counts Are Filed Against Film Actor

4-F’s Hold Solution  For Labor   Group Which Refuses To Shift To War Work Must Take Blame For Labor Battalions.

STORM BLOWING OUT TO SEA BUT COLD WAVE HOLDS   Midwest and Northeast Held in Grip Snow-Storn Florida Is Mild

20 To 33 Below Zero Weather Grips Midwest   Blizzard Blowing Out To Sea After Dozen Meet Death In Storm.

WEATHER —  M0 AELIET NEAR FROM COLD WAVE   Snow. And Cold Cover ‘Most Of Nation With  12:Deaths Reported   Heavy: Fall Of "Siow ‘Abates In. Ohio, Wea’ ther Will Continue Cold

Storm. Blowing Out To Sea Off  Eastern Coast   No Promise of Relief From . Accompanying Cold Wave; 12 Deaths Attributed to Snow... ~

Nation Is Gripped In Cold Wave With No Immediate Relief Promised By Bureau

Storm Blows ‘Out To Sea ‘But Leaves 12 Deaths   Sub-Zero Temperature In Middle West; Below Zero Marks Registered In Many Places

DUE TO STORN   Sub-Zero Weather, Much Snow General in Midwest, Northeast States.

Cold Wave Grips Midwest Regions   Sub-zero Weather Follows Snow Which Moves Over Atlantic Ocean

NORTHEAST, MIDWEST  CONTINUE FLOUNDER  THROUGH SNOWDRIFTS AT LEAST TWELVE  DEATHS WERE ATTRIB. UTED TO WINTER STORM

Uncle Sam Loser In New Postal Money Order Rates   By JAMES MARLOW AND GEORGE ZIBELKE

BANKS LIKELY FO SELL MORE MONEY ORDERS   Uncle Sam Seems To Have Outfigured Himself In Boosting Postal Rates

Keds Liberate Much Territory   Three-Fourths of Seized Land Freed

COUP MAY STOP JAPS IN HUNAN   New Chinese Stab Puts Nipponese Supply Lines In Danger

Farm Bureau Victory Party on April 12      LARGESE ME ERSHIP N HISTORY ATTAINED IN ~ ANNUAL DRIVE

SOUTH LEBANON COPS FIRST WIN IN COUNTY LOOP   Bonth Lebanon  Sohacf{ferstown

TABLES TURNED ON CEDAR NINE IN RETURN TILT   Lebanon  Wewmanstown

Also Reach ‘Outskirts — Of Lessay   ON OTHER WING OF FRENCH FRONT, BRITISH ADVANCE THREE MILES IN 24 HOURS

VIOLENT BATTLE BETWEEN RIVERS ODON AND ORN   British Attack on Nine-Mile Front Southwest of Caer Gains Maximum of Twe and a Half Miles.   AMERICANS CROSS AY RIVER, ENTER LESSAY   United States Bombers Blast French Rail Yards and Bridges—Alsc Attack Robot Depots.

Yanks Reported Fighting Inside if. Lo, Lessay   British Gain Three Miles Below Caen In Heavy Fighting   AJINEPUIN, JULY Li. American patrols have entered St. Lo, supreme hea dquarters reported today.

BELEAGURED EAST AND WEST ANCHOR BASES OF GERMAN LINE SMASHED   Americans Also _ Seize High Ground East Of Periers, Strong Point Of Enemv.

YANK FORCES REPORTED IN ST. LO, LESSAY   New Gritish-Canadian Attack Makes Gains In Caen Area

\Sunny Skies Over France, * Allies May Soon Throw Full Air Strength Into Battle

Strikes Blamed by AFL Spekesman on Gov't. Failure   3.750 Strikes in 1843 Revealed by Frances Perkins

TOTAL FORCE . IN EXCESS OF 7.000 PLANES   Attacks on‘ 17th Consecutive Day of Aerial Of_ fensive Spearheaded by Flying For tresses and -Liberators: -

17 DAYS OF AIR ATTACK FOR EUROPE   Defense From German Planes Negligible in Heavy Attacks By U.S. and Great Britain

2,000 U. S. Planes Blast af Invasion Defenses   RAF Lost Only One Plane in All Its Night Operations

BACK WALLACE FOR PAN-AMERICAN JOB    Would Iron Out Sore Spots  on South America; Makes Good Envoy

Washington Puzzle: Finding a Spot for Vice Pres. Wallace   Latin American Post Rumored for Ex-Secretary of Agriculture

Ask Deferment For Coal Miners   No Request Planned For Men Under 22

IOWA BOND DRIVE T0-G0 OVER TOP   Large Single Day's -Buying Boosts Campaigr

Churchill Says Allied Bombin g To Smash Nazis  Attack Far Beyond Any   Attack Far Beyond Any Now Employed To Fall On Europe As Prelude To Final Victory

Churchill Hints Vast Pre-Invasion Air Blow   Reich Faces Huge Assault; British, Yanks To Be in Equal Force for Initial Landings

Equal British, U.S. Forces —  Are Seen; Red Press Rapped   Minister Is Unable To Set Peace Date

Churchill Reaffirms Allied Unity But Warns Hitler Still Strongly Entrenched In Nazidom.

COMMONS GIVEN REPORT ON WAR BY CHURCHILL   Yank Forces Overseas Surpassing Those Of British, Prime Minister Says

Says Victory May Not Be So Far Away   Churchill Reassures World There Is No _Rift in Allied Camp

Hold Your Head, Fritz—   Churchill Tells Of Heavy Bombing Facing Germany

Allied Bomb Tempo to Be Increased   Churchill Says U. S., Britain to Share Invasion Army Size

ALLIED BOMBING — WILL STRIKE NAZIS, . SAYS CHURGHIL   Will Be Hit in a Prelade to Final Smashing by Amerjeans ‘and British.   ABSOLUTELY UNITED      Allies Stand United on War Plans, Making Certain a Vietory, He Said.

STATES ALLIES FIRMLY UNITED TO BEAT NAZIS   U. S., British Armies “of Equal Power” Will Make Attack on Europe

Prelude to Final Smashing of Reich Outlined in Speech   Allied Bombings Far Beyond Anything Yet "Employed Or Indeed Imagined" Are Promised by British Prime Minister   NAZIS BELIEVED PREPARING RETALITORY MEANS

Bombs Precede Invasion Army   ALLIES UNITED ON WAR PLANS AND CERTAIN OF VICTORY, PRIME MINISTER SAYS, GIVING REVIEW OF WAR IN ADDRESS FOR COMMONS

Churchill In Talk About War   BRITISH LEADER SAYS ALLIES TO HIT GERMANY

Every Cornei Of Reich to Be Blasted   U. S.-British Invasion Units To Be About Equal, Churchill

Germany Promised Poundings Beyond Any Yet Imagined   Churchill Tells House of Commons of Progress of Conflict

British Prime Minister Not Too Optimistic   Tells Commons He Can Not Guarantee War Would Finish In Europe This Year   New Attack Means By Huns Prepared   Britain, He Says, Can Ex pect Pilotless Aircraft"  Or Possible Rockets:. To Be Employed

Prelude to — Final Invasion   Three Allies to Stand United, He  Tells Commons.

REAL BLOWS FROM THE AIR YET 10 COME   So Says Churchill, Telling. Commons Allies Will Smother Germany With Bombings Beyond Any thine Tmaomned.

Attacks To Be Heavier:  Churchill   Hitler And Generals Still In Control But They Will Feel Weight Of Extended Offensive

Hints Victory May Come Soon: Names No Date   ‘American Air And Land Power Predominant, Commons Told

To Crush Germany From Air   As Invasion Prelude Says Churchill; Declares Allies Stand  United on War Plans

Churchill Says Nazis Will Be Struck Everywhere As Prelude To Big Invasion   Makes Cautious War Report To Commons; ‘Must Fight Germans Somewhere Untiess W Are To Stand Still And Watch Russians’

3 Great Allies Firmly United   ...U. S. Bomber Force Begins To Surpass Britain’s

Germany Stull Strong Under Hitler’s Rule   First Battle Summary Since Own Private War With Pneumonia.   TALKS TO COMMONS

All Parts ” of Germany io he Hii   Invasion Prelude to See Air Expansion Beyond Any$ thing Imagined   GERMANY STRONG, UNDER. CONTROL   @Allies Absolutely. United, Prime Minister Declares in War Review-

Anglo-Yank Forces Equal  For Invasion   Three Great Allies in Close Unity, He Says; Final Victory Certain

DECLARES BIG 3 NATIONS STIL FIRMLY UNITED   Prime Minister Says U. $. and British Invasions Forces Will Be Equai.

Three Great Allies Stand Strongly United, Churchill Reassures House of Commons

WAR REVIEWED BY CHURCHIL!   Allied Bombing to Strike Every Corner of Germany Before Invasion.   'BIG 3 FIRMLY UNITED

Comnions Is Told Imminent Attacks To HitEntire Reich   Says 3 Great Allies Remain United; Views Hitler Maintaining Power; Anglo-American Strength Equal

SMASHING AIR OFFENSIVE PLEDGED   “Victory May Not Be Far Away,”’ Commons Told   SECRET WEAPONS   Of Germany To Be Beaten By Allies, Prime Minister States

Allies Still Stand United, Churchill Says in Review   Victory ‘“May Not Be So Far Away,’’ He Tells Commons: U. §., Air Miaht Growing

UNIMAGINABLE BOMBING TO PRECEDE INVASION OF EUROPE --- WINSTON CHURCHILL

Promises Raids  Beyond Anything Ever Imagined   U. S., British Armies Of Equal Power To Invade: Says Hitler Still Strona

CHURCHILL PROMISES ALLIED BOMBINGS IN TERRIBLE MEASURE  WILL BE PRELUDE TO FINAL INVASION BY EQUAL ALLIED FORCES

Mighty Air Blows Promised Germany   Churchill Gives Review of War In Stirring Speech in Commons

 e e American Air Fleet Surpassing Britain’s   British and Yanks To Be Equal When Invasion Starts— Nazis Plan Retaliation

Churchill  Promises “Unimaginable” Bombing of Reich, Invasion Prelude

Prime Minister Says U. S. Forces Will be: Greater at End if Invasion Prolonged— Predicts Greatly Expanded Air War  Ae ee ne ee a ww eee GP OF TRIP res    ALLIES ‘ABSOLUTELY UNITED’   Foresees Wide Field of Friendly Co-operation in Peace, Independent Poland— Can’t Guarantee Nazi Defeat This Year   Victorv Mav Not Be Far Away

Says Invasion Forces To Be Equally Divided   Upholds War Effort In Italy; Predicts Tremendous Aerial Blows On Entire Nazi Domain; Reaffirms Unity Of Allies

BRITON ASSERTS ALLIES AGREED ON WAR PLANS   Bombing ‘Beyond Imagination’ To Hit Foe—300 Divisions in Hitler's Army

GreatSmash To Precede An Invasion Of Europe   Premier Declares Absolute Unity Is Prevailing

Final Air Raids Promised  As Prelude To Invasion   Allies ‘Absolutely United’ He Reports; Says Hitler Still In Full Control   U. S. AIR POWER SURPASSES BRITAIN  Retaliation Raids On England Coming, He Savs: Won’t Predict End Of War

Argentina Curbs 2 News Agencies   Associated Press And United Press Service Under Restrictions

Bucharest Is Bomb Target   U. S. Heavy Bombers Hit Railroad Yards

Bucharest Blasted By Airmen   Strike Another Powerful Blow To Aid Russian Advance  In Axis Areas.

Yanks Strike First Blow At Bucharest  Air Fleet Thunders 575 Miles From Italy for Attack  > Allies (Offklal)

U. S. Airmen Are Hitting Japs Hard»   They Have Destroyed 119 Japanese Planes In Past Two Months

Japs Losing in Air Wat   Lose From 119 to 193 Planes in South Pacific   Many of Their Air Fields Al so Are Completely Out ot Commission.

Oregon Supporters of Dewey Undecided On Request to Keep Name Off Ballots

Another Trap Set By Soviet Forces   French Win Major Battle m Italy, Seizing Three Strategic Peaks

Nazis Put Up Only Feeble Fight in Defense of Famed City of Last War

Immortal Verdun Is ~ Cantured   Casualties Are Light as Americans Roll’ Through War-Scarred Argonne   SPEED THROUGH HISTORIC AREAS   Germans Make Half-Hearted Defense; No Allied T.ncaee at Reims

VERDUN TAKEN BY AMERICANS IN MEHSE AREA   Plunge On In Attempt To Trap Nazis

Only Feeble Resistance hy Germans ‘Marks New Battle of Argonne Forest

Yanks Dash Through Scarred Argonne’ To Take Verdun, Maginot Line Anchor

IMMORTAL VERDUN FALLS TO AMERICAN 3D ARMY  Feeble Fight Put Up by Germans In Defense of City Famed in 1918   FIFTH WAR ANNIVERSARY FINDS NAZIS ON THE RUN

Axis Forces Menaced By Imminent Isolation   Nazis Seeking To Escape From Northern Italy Through Switzerland; Report Savs Reauest Denied      Patton Surprises Enemy, Pounds Into Verdun Virtually Unopposed

Not A Single Casualty Suffered As Yanks Roll Into Verdun, Still Shell-Marked From Last War

German Fight for Verdun Feeble  Famous Argonne Dark and Lifeless

Verdun Gives U. S. Soldiers Delirious Welcome; Petain Still Revered By Many French   Called “Tired Old Man Under German »Thumb”’; Nazi Resistance There Weak

Immortal Verdun  Captured   French People Flock Into Streets To Give Hearty Welcome to Yanks

Immortal — Verdun Is Captured  Nazis Flee After. : Half-Hearted Stand

Nazi Verdun Fight Weak   City Falls in 24 Hours; Held Three Years in Warl

German Fight For Famed City Verdun. Feeble   French Papulace Flocks Into Streets tao Welerme Americans Despite German Shelling

Nazis Put up Little Fight at Famous Verdun   Patton’s Troops Move 65 Miles in Less Than 24 Hours

PUSH FOR LINK WITH ALLIES IN BURMESE DRIVE   If Successful, New Chinese Push Would Regain Important Part Of Old Burma Road Route.

CHINESE ARK... ADVANCING IN BURMA   Drive to Within 10 Miles of Jap Base at Kamaing

DEATH CAUSES  NEW TROUBLE “AT JAP CAME   SHOOTING OF INTERNEE Bi GUARD RESULTS IN FRESH WAVE OF UNREST AT  JULE LAKE

TAX PROGRAM ~ NEARLY READY   AQMOST ALL DISPUTES OVER TAX BILL FOR SENATE, CONSIDERATION ARE  . IRONED OUT

Sencte Nears. Passage of New Tax BillOnly One-Fifth Amount Asked by F.D.R.

Red Cross Total Reaches $7,580   Dilworth Sends In : Partial Report ~

POLL WORKERS SEE CLOSEST CONTEST SINCE 1916   Betting Odds Favor FDR

American 7th Army Con: tact Northern Invasion Forces   FRENCH MOVE UP NEAR SWISS BORDER  German General Surrenders With 18,000 Of His Soldiers

Nazi Flight Route Cut  nth Army Mak   Seventh Army Makes Contact In North.

First Army Rolls Across Frontier Yesterday, Advances Into Rhineland Early Today

YANKS PURSUE NAZIS TOWARD BELFORT GAP   Seventh Army In Contact With Northern Invasion } Forees Now

Seventh Army Continues Drive Toward Belfort   Big Pincers Being Swung Around Escape Route Into Germany

J. §. ARMIES LINKED IN CENTRAL FRANCE   7th Makes Contact With 3rd, Then Resumes Chase Of German Forces Fleeing Toward Belfort Pass   RY FLEANOR PACKARD

@ BATAAN SPEAKS  Col. Romulo Now Sure That U.S. Won’t Forget Philippines

Be Stree we eee pen eee  Col. Romulo Now Sure That U.S. Won’t Forget Philippines

Soviet Armies Within Sight City Outskirts   Meanwhile Russian Planes and Warships Are Pouring Fire Into Enemy at Docks   Germans Attempt Crimea Dunkerque   Huge Pert Assuming As pect of Giant Exploding Ammunition Dump; Panic Mounting

Land Forces, Warships, Planes Batter Foe  Around Sevastopol   Russian Troops Within Sight Of Hills Surrounding Crimean Naval Base; Harbor Is Littered With i Sunken Axis Ships

Tarnapol Falls; Sevastopal Also Besieged   Rout of Shattered Remnants of Axis Armies in Crimea Appears Near as Nazis Try Dunkerque From Vital Port

Powerful Russian Land Units Converge Within Sight Of Hills On Outskirts While Planes And Warships Pour Fire Into Retreating Germans And Romanians At Black Sea Port — Heavy Explosions Indicate Hitlerites May Be Preparing To Evacuate

NAZI BASTION TAKEN “AFTER MANY WEEKS   Premier Stalin Announces Fall of Southeastern Polish “Hinge” Position Near  fl war sewar

Direct Hits On Germany's” ~ Escape Fleet   Huge Port: Is Assuming As. : * pect’ of Giant Exploding? Ammunition ° Dump ©   HARBOR LITTERED ©: “WITH WRECKAGE   Soviets Striking Powerfully: to: Break-Up Nazi-Attempt”’ “to Do: ‘a -Dunkerque™

PLANES, SHIPS POURING FIRE INTO DOCKS   Soviets Work To Break Up Nazi Escape Effort  PANIC”   Mounts Among Retreating Germans; Prisoners Number 31.000

Reds Nearing Outskirts of Sevastopol   Many Nazi Ships Blasted; Soviets Capture Tarnopel

Batiering — a Balkan « Gateways      Reds Are Fast Exploitin, . Broad Breakthrough im: Tarmopol Ares         GERMAN DEFENSES... "RAPIDLY FALLING:   Soviets ‘Near: “More: _ Vital Point; From. Which The: ‘Can Launch New. Drives        Ry EDDY: GILMORE

Other Soviet Armies Are Attempting To Block German Evacuation Of Sevastopo Naval Base

Conquest of Crimea Imminent   Take 31,000 Axis Prisoners in Drive, Others Cornered

Hem Nazi Armies  In an: Sevastopo   Russian Red Sea Fleet and Air Force Block Escape by Sea   [POUR FIRE ON DOCKS   Port Described as ‘Giant * Explodin Ammuni tion mp”

SOVIET FORCES WITHIN SIGHT OF NAVAL BASE   Russian Airmen Bombing Embarkation Points As Enemy Retreats

ESCAPE BY LAND, SEA IS CUT OFF   Black Sea Port Turned Into Huge Dunkerque For Hitler’s Men

IN POSITION. TO HIT LWOW. OR HUNGARY   Nazi Bastion Had Held Out for Weeks—Other. Reds Near Sevastopol, Pinning Germans Against Black Sea. ~ j

NAZIS ATTEMPTING ESCAPE BY SEA LOSE HEAVILY AS PLANES WARSHIPS BLOCK ALL ESCAPE   Huge Port Is Paralyzed with Wreckage of Ships . And Floating Bodies of Axis Dead. Russian Shock Troops Smashing Through Defenses for Final Kill

Germans Pinned On Coast at Sevastopol   Enemy Given Severe Strafing; Harbor Littered With Wreckage; Riot Among Nazis, Holding Only One-tenth Crimea

Stalin Says Tarnopol Has Been Taken   Hinge City Had Held Out Against Russians Since March 23

Closing Trap Around Nazis at Sevastopol   All But About One Tenth of Crimea Now in Hands of Soviets

PIN GERMANS ON COAST AT SEVASTOPOL   Russians Pour Shells From Planes and Ships Into Naval Base.   Prevent Any Rescue Of Enemy’s Forces

Nazi Army Pinned In Congested Area Around Naval Base   Black Sea Port Pictured As Giant ~~ Exploding Amniunition’: Dump As Reds Paralyze Enemy Traffic

Many Enemy Vessele Sunk   Great Port Likened to Blazing Ammunition Dump

Nazis Put Up Stubborn Fight At Hinge Base   Bastion Encircled Since March 23; Other Troops Driving for Sevastopol

Soviets Pin Foe Against Black Sea   Sevastopol Looms Dead Ahead for Red Army; Warships Blast Embarkation Points

Red Armies Take Tarnopol, German Bastion in Poland; . Close Trap at Sevastopol

THWART NAZI ATTEMPT AT DUNKIRK ESCAPE   Tarnopol, Stubborn German Bastion in South. eastern Poland, Captured by Red Army After Long Battle

Stalin Says Tarnopol’ Been Take         Hinge City Had Held ; Against Russians bec March 23 :

Russ Shock Troops Are Converging on Base at Sevastopol   Germans Pinned Down to Narrow Strip of Coast  Around That City

Troops, Planes, Ships Pound Fleeing Nazis Trying Escape at Sevastopol —Alushta’s Fall Traps Germans

BASTION HELD QUT FOR WEEKS   German ‘Hinge’ Position Strong Though Encircted Since March 23.

Red Planes and Ships Battering  Foe on Docks   Crimea Port Described As ‘Exploding Munitions Dump’

Germans Caught In Death Squeeze   Axis Troops Attempting Flight rom Sevastopol by Black Sea

Nazis Making Dunkerque Out of City   Explosions Rock Area as Russian Warship And Planes Cut Off Escape Route; Red Army Troons Are Nearina Outskirts

‘Axis F orces Trapped SAE. Sevastopol -~ Today"  cur OFF’ FF’ ESCAPE

Red Army Drives Near Outskirts Of  Big Crimean Base   Harbor Littered With Bodies And Wreckage Of Ships As Russians Strike Hard; 31,000 Axis Troops Taken Prisoner During Great Six-Day Offensive

FINLAND SWINGS OVER TO NAZIS   Break With America Due Soon; Axis Troops Hold Helsinki

ALLIES “INVITE SATELLITES 10 SEEK PEACE   Promise Less Harsh Terms to Those Quitting War Now

UNITED NATIONS ASK SATELLITES BREAK AXIS TIES   Hungary, Romania, Finland and Bulgaria Offered Escape Chance

BALKANS GET _NEW WARNING JO QUIT WAE   GERMAN SATELLITES RECEIVE FORMAL STATEMENT FROM ALLIES—-NAZI ATTACK ON DNSTR

YANKS, BRITISH JOIN FOR BLOW AT HUN -EUROPE   “Extraordin rity Peatge’ Numbers Jf Fighters Join !. Assault   COAST AREAS POUNDED

00 WALK OUT OF EXCHANGE AT SPRINGFIELD   @Akron Workers Vote To Join Movement Involving More Than 100   ®OTHER BALLOTS PENDING   WLB Asks Explanation Of Why Work Order Is Ignored

PHONE SERVICE IN OHIO CURBED   ‘More Than 1000 Operators Walk Out In Strikes   Board Of CIO Is Ready To Demand Upward Revision Of Wage Formula

Uruguay, Cuba. Turn Down Bolivia   3 Won't Regogniie’ “Revolutionary. Regime -ader Present Form

STALIN CALLS FOR ~ JOINT BLOWS 10 ~ PRIICU EDMAN   Praises America and Britair for Aid In Great Rusagian Drives,

STALIN SAYS CERMANY MUST BE CRUSHED ©   Must Be Beaten In ‘Its Own Lair’ Is His Edict

Temperatures   “Crush Germany in Jts Own Lair,” Russian Tells Allies

Stalin Calls For Joint Blows  To Whip Nazis   German Central Front Is Softened by Russian Air Raids

WANTS GERMANY EAST AND WEST   Soviet-Planes Seften Enemy’s Central Froiit For Next. Russian Offensive -

Soviet Planes Soften En: emy’s Central Front For Next Offensive  LARGE BOMBERS * SMASH AT IDRITSA  German Airfields In White Russia Hit By Soviet Bombers

Russian Premier Asks Aid of Great Britain and United States in Driving Germans Into Own Country to be Finished Off.

Stalin Calls For 2-Way Blows To Crush Germany   Joint East-West Attack Held Necessary To Finish Off Foe

BIG GUNS EMCHANGE FIRE ACROSS-@HANNEL   British-German Duel One- o Fiercest of War—Blasts Rock Land and Churn Sea.

BRITISH AND NAZIS EXCHANGE SALVOS   Fierce Coastal Gun Duel Across the Channel Reported .

CHANNEL GUNS ROAR IN DUEL   Coastal Residents Take To Shelters; Attacks May Be Axis Finale

Air Base af Liuchow Lost by Americans   Base Personnel Is Evacuated by Air Transport on Nov. 7

U.S. Air Base Inside China’ Lost to Japs   Field at Liuchow Js Put Under Torch By Yank Garrison

Liuchow Now In Jap Hands   U. S. Forces Destroyed And Evacuated Air Base At Luichow.

Jap Advance Forces Evacuation of Liuchow Air Base  Personnel, Equipment Flown Out Before Base Was Destroyed

Yanks Abandon Aerial Base at Liuchow, China  Japanese af City as Drives In Kwangsi Province Threa!

U.S. Air Base In China Abandoned   But Our Airforce Continues To Wreak Havoc On Japanese.

LAST U.S. AIR BASE IN CHINA FALLS TO JAPS   Americans Destroy and Evacuate Liuchow Field: Enemy Near Long-Sought North, East Junction. 

Liuchow Air Base Wrecked   Yanks Evacuate It, Jap Advances Almost Complete Canton-Manchuria Route   Evacuation By Air

FOURTH AIRFIELD ABANDONED TO ADVANCING JAPS   Kweilin Also Lost As Offensive Possibility In China Disappears

Yankee Air Bases Lost   5 Luaichow Is Destroyed “By. Retreating Army

UJ. §, AIR BASE AT LIUCHOW DESTROYED BEFORE EVACUATION  HEAVY BLOWS BY FOUR. TEENTH U. 8. AIR FORCE DURING WEEK-END

Americans Give Up Air Base In China  Center At “POR   Center At Liuchow Destroyed And Left To Japanese

U.S. Air Force Evacuates Big Base af Liuchow   Chinese Report On Enemy Drive Declared Grave

UL S. LOSES AIR BASE ATLIUCHOW   Yank Airmen Strike on All Fronts in China

U.S. Foreed To Destroy  Its Air Base At Liuchow   Most Of Evacuation Of Personnel And Materials Is Done By Transport Command

WRECK CHINA BASE, THEN WITHDRAW   14th Air Force Strikes On All Far East. Fronts

Yanks Forced Out of Another China Air Base   Americans Destroy Field at Luichow Before Withdrawing Air Blows on Japs

U, S, AIRBASE AT LIUCHOW OF NO VALUE TO NIPS   Fourteenth Airforce Has De stroyed Installation and Evacuated Field

Yanks Destroy And Evacuate Liuchow Base   Japs Practically Complete Their Job Of Cutting China In Twa.

Yank Base ‘At Liuchow Evacuated   Jap Forces  Seem on Verge Of Meeting From North and South

YANKS DESTROY CHINESE BASE   Personnel And Equipment Evacuated At Liuchow

Parodv on Gettysburg Address Comes from Seabees Somewhere in So. Pacific

Italian Soldiers Desert Germans   British Advance Nearer to Faenza

Dewey Scores Reconversion Program Delay   GOP Candidate Talks With State’s Leaders In Pittsburgh Visit

Dewey Receives Party Leaders In Pittsburgh   Scores New Deal On Reconversion

Dewey Gets Welcome in Pittsburgh   SPENDS DAY IN CONFERENCE! WITH WESTERN PENNSYL VANIA "LEADERS IN AGRICUL TURE, BUSINESS AND LABOR.   Cabinet Job for Labor

DEWEY TALKS ON ISSUES ON —WAYTOWEST   Candidate Says Reconversion plans Too Long Delayed

Dewey : Assails  New Deal Lack Of Peace Plans   “Government Preparation For Reconversion Job . Long Delayed, He Says:

DEWEY TALKS ON ISSUES ON WAY TO WEST   Candidate Says Reconver. sion plans Too Long — Delayed —

RECONVERSION DELAY SCORED BY GOV. DEWEY   Importance of PostWar Plan Stressed at Pittsburgh Meet

Dewey Pledges Cabinet Chair ToUnion Labor   Candidate, in Pittsburgh, Claims Reconversion Planning Ie Tardy

REDS MOVING AGAINST. NAZIS   Drive Through Carpathian Foothills Toward, Czechiostovakia—Capture Next ty Last ‘Major Souree of Oil for'German War Mac

SOVIET F DRIVE NEARER SLOVAK BORDER   Battles For Warsaw And East Prussia Mount To New High Of Fury

CHURCHILL, F.R:. MAY MEET SOON   Quebec Likely Site of 2 Power Parley

FR, Churchill Likely To Meet  Soon In America   Quebec Believed Most Possible Site For Leaders’ Conference

Plan Meeting Between FDR.  Winston Soon   President, Prime Minister Expected To Confer In North America

NINE TOPICS IN CHURCHILL, FDR MEETING   British - American Chiefs Confer Shortly

Roosevelt and Churchill Believed Likely to Meet Soon, Probably in Quebec, to Discuss War Situation

FINAL WAR SMASH, PEACE TERMS ON F.D. R-CHURCHILL AGENDA   PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER, EXPECTED TO MEET FOR INFORMAL TALKS, MAYBE IN QUEBEC

Roosevelt To Meet Winston Churchill   Believed To Be Tonight In Quebec Or Some Place In North America

QUESTIONS FOR FR. CHURCHILL   Quebec Be'ieved Most Likely Site For This Important Meeting of Two World Leaders

fecretary Hall Lists 1' Points Based On Previ ous Speeches   ATLANTIC CHARTER IS UPHELD BY OFFICIAL

American Foreign  Policy Is Outlined   Secretary Hull Calls on Liberty- -Loving Men and Notions to ‘Show Themselves Worthy” by Fighting for Preservation of Liberty

Hull Defines U. S. Foreign Policy In Fight For Freedom   17-Point Schedule Calls On All Liberty Lovina Pecple To Show Themselves Worthy

Hull Defines Foreign Policy; Urges Men Be Worthy Of 0. S. Liheriy

Hull Defines. U.S. Foreign Policy In Fight For Freedom   ‘17-Point Schedule Calls On Ail Liberfy Lovina People To Shaw Theérrealven VAL. ck.

SAY JAPS TO YANKS   ‘Are Sacrifices of Soldiers Worthwhile?’ - - Radio Asks

House Republicans Unimpressed by Hull Conference, Want A Clearer Outline of U. S. Foreign Policy

Nazi Collapse To Increase Produce   Civilians To Get More Goods At Fall Of Germany.

German Collapse To Up Civilian Output 30 Per Cen   Production Will Not Interfere With Pacific Campaign, Says Nelson

Production For Civilians To Increase  At Nazi Fall   30 Percent Is Seen By WPB Chief Nelson, With Civilian Econom) Ae Aha 1029: T orl   WAR PRODUCTION © MAY DROP SHARPLY  ao er, ee oe eee eee

DFPENRS OM WA   ‘Nazi Collapse Would Permi! 30% Increase in Output, _Maleon Balleven

Collapse of Germany Would Permit Increase in Civilian Production

German Collapse Would Permit Big Increase in Civilian Production

British Throw Back New Tank-Supported Nippon Counter-Drive In India

Japs Lose 13 Vessels, 4000 Men in Terrific Fight for Vital Harbor   U. S. Destroyer, One Transport Sunk; Enemy ’Chute Troops Wiped Out in Effort to Nullify Invasion Of Levte Landing Port in Yamashita Line Center

Landing Made At Ormoc By Forces Of U.S   Sensational Landing at Enemy Held Port Reported— Japanese Cc.ivoy of Thirteen Ships Destroyed and Paratroopers Wiped Out _.

Yamashita Line Is Split By Maneuver   Japanese Convoy of 13 Ships, Trying to Reinforce Troops on Island. Sunk by Planes

Capture Center Of Enemy Line On West Coast   Destroy 13-Ship Japanese Convoy

TAMAGHITA LINE CENTER 19 SEIZED   MacArthur’s Forces Stage 3 Sensational Moves   STOP PARATROOP THREAT   Yanks Sink Six Transports, Seven Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts

LANDING MADE BELOW ORMOC BY AMERICANS   ENEMY PARATROOPS AND 13 WARSHIPS WIPED OUT

Americans Seize Center of Yamashita Line   Spectacular Enemy Paratroop Threat Is Stopped; Nipponese Lose 62 Planes; Suffer Heavy Loss of Life in Sinkings

SINK 13-SHIP CONVOY: BAC 62 PLANES   Enemy Suffers Heavy Loss of Life as. Vessels Are Sent Down — Nip Paratroopers Killed. :   CENTER OF FOE’'S LINE IS SEIZED   U. S. Troops Go Ashore in Rear of Nipponese in Move That Catches De ' fenders by Surprise.

Heavy Loss Of Life Reported; Nips Drop Paratroops On Eastern Leyte   YAMASHITA LINE IS. SEIZED BY YANKS

Pretty Wedding . Takes Place At Trinity Church  L. W. Heimgartner  And Maycelle Lang Exchange Vows.

Donald Lang And Lois Spies Wed  Pretty:Wedding __ In Trinity Church

Stimson Says German Army Strength Gone   Says Great Bulk of Nazi Army in Wester: Europe Has Been  Destroyed, Crippled

STIMSON SEES VICTORY SOON   Says Nazis Lack Strength For Prolonged Defense Of the Reich

Nazis Claim Yanks Mass In Iceland  Hitler Yields to   Hitler Yields to Army Commanders On Defense Plan ~

MORT COOPER STRIKES OUT 12 MEN SUNDAY   Cardinals Leading Brownies By One Game Today

Help Offered To 4-F Registrants In Finding Job On Production Froni

There are Jobs for Men in 4 F Classification, Harrison Announces

Hospital Tent Is. Wedding Scene  : Westfield Nurse _ _ Weds Army Officer

Hospital Tent Is Wedding Scene  Westfield Nurse Weds Army Officer

D. (. Policemen In Third Slugfest   When Service Men’s Row Ends, Original Pair Gone

Gothic Line Set Despite French Battle   Nazis Appear Ready to Fight It Out Near Florence Now

Huns In Ital y Determined To  “Fight To End”   Allied Patrols Find Them  Sitting Tight in Their Gothic Line in Floretce Ares

U.S. Air Fleet , Rocks Bologna   Airmen: Trying to Batter Down Po Valles Cate

American Planes Blast Bologna   Nazi Bivouaes and Stores Pounded

GERMANS BOMBED IN BOLOGNA AREA   ZANKS TRY TO BLAST PATH ~TO PO VALLEY--GROUND FIGHTING SAVAGE.

GREAT BLOW DEALT ~ GERMANS IN ITALY      UL S. Planes Attempt to Blast Pathway to Po Vollev

Cassino-T'ype  Bombing Giver Bologna Area   Germans Putting Up Desperate Defense On Italian Front

PLANES BLAST AT PO ROUTE   Yanks Strike Biggest Air Blow in Italy in Trying to Open Path

FOE CONCEDES STEWART WINS   Court May Be Asked to Enc Partially Completed Vote Recount

TALASEA AIR STRIP FALLS 10 VETERAN UNITED STATES MARINES   ABANDONED JAPS START SUICIDAL ASSAULT ON ALLIED BASE ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND

MARINES SEIZE AIRSTRIP, TOWN ON WILLAUMEZ        Fars in Suicidal 2 Barbed Wire Bez czinville fstend       ARTILLEEY ACTION   Tokyo Breadces!  Says Rebaul Can. not Be Defended [ue to Jag Lack of Planes

Bougainville Japs Lashing Back at U.S   Suicidal Drive Captures Some Positions But Has No Major Effects

VETERAN AMERICAN MARINES CAPTURED TALASEA AIR STRIP  HOPELESS BAND OF JAPS OPEN SUICIDAL ASSAULT ON BOUGAINVILLE

savy Fighting On Bougainville   ‘MacArthur’s Headquarters Says Japs, In Suicidal “Lunge, Penetrated Barbed Wire Barnicades And ’ Captured Machinegun Positions

Talasea Air Strip “nd Village Fal! To U. S. Invaders   Trapped Japs Try Desperate Offensive On Bougainville

ALLIED TROOPS ADVANCING ALL AROUND BISMARCK SEA WHILE JAPS MAKING SUICIDAL DRIVE   Strategic Point 170 Miles from Rabaul Falls. Japs Attack Allied Base At Empress Augusta 01 Bougainville Island. Rabaul Again Bombed

Talasea Air Strip Falls To Marines   Japs Start Suicidal Assault on Allied Base at Empress Augusta; Japs Pocketed on Los Nevros

Nippons Hit Back At Allies   MAKE SUICIDAL ASSAULT ON EMPRESS AUGUSTA; RABAUL BOMBED INTO _  USELESSNESS

RUSSIAN DRIVE PUSHING NAZIS TOWARD BORDER   Fighting in Italy Continues In Lull - - Air Assault Made On Invasion Coast

JAPS BATTERE ON ALL FRONT!   Marines Take Talasea Airstrip; Nips Open Up / Suicide Attacks

Yanks Check Jap Lange on Bougainville   Veteran Marines Win Air Sirip On New Briinin

1000 Tons O! Bombs Blast Nazi Lines   FORTS HIT SUPPLIES FEEDING NEW DRIVE

SUPERFORTS USED AGAINST SUPPLY LINES   Three Hundred Bombers Spread Nearly 1,000 Tons of Explosives Behind Enemy Troops   AFTER NIGHT ATTACKS

Big Bombers Used for First Time in Effort to Stem Nazi Counter-Offensive in Belgium   Heavy Fighting Rages Along 60-MileFront as Enemy Attack 20 Miles Inside Belaium Threatens to Cutflank Aachen

FLYING FORTS RAID NEAR LINE   Tackle Targets Close Behind Nazi Offensive

Fortresses Strike Near German Line   Heavies Used to Pound En emy Supply Line Immodiately Back of Front Line   FIRST SUCH MISSION FOR BIG FELLOWS   Continuing Air Assaults Taking Heavy Toll of Nazi Machines and Supplies

Fortresses Blast Nazi Supply Lines   New Tactics Used To Hinder Advance

Nazis Supply Lines Hit By Bombers   Fragmentation Bombs Are Dropped on Rail, Road Junctions

HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES ALONG A SIXTY-MILE. FRONT   SECURITY CLOAK HIDES ONSLAUGHT OF NAZI RESERVES

Forts Blast Nazi Army's Supply Line   Drop Explosives on Enemy Immediately Behind Front Lines

300 FORTRESSES HIT NAZI SUPPLY LINES WITH TONS OF BOMBS  RAF LANCASTERS BLAST ED NAZI SHIPS IN BALTIC PORT LAST NICHT .:

HIT SUPPLY LINES   German Supply Lines Heavily Bombed by 300  Fortresses

Forts On New  Type Mission 300 Bomb Supply Lines Behind Enemy Troops

Forts’ Attack Supply Lines Of Germans   Spread 1, 000 Tons Bombs On Nazi Rails, Roads in First Such Mission

Plaster German Supply Columns   Flying Fortresses Used to Break Up Nazi Reinforcement: On Way to Front

BRICKER-ON— — EAST COAST   GOVERNOR BLASTS ‘ ADMINISTRATION ON SUBJECT OF FREE ENTERPRISE. RECORD

Bricker Flays New Deal Economic Record: Dewey Returns to Albany   By LEO W. O'BRIEN

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   CANADIAN TROOPS JAB TANK SPEARHEADS

Man Kills Four In Family Fight   Two Carteret, N. J.,  Policemen Victims

ALLIED AERIAL BLOW AGAINST JAPS IN INDI   In China, Meanwhile, Nipponese Have Full Control of Important North-South Railway.

Vital Rail Route Held By Japanese   (By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ) (Associated Press War Editor).

JAPS CONTROL VITAL RAILROAD LINE IN CHINA   Allied Fliers Pound Truk, Continue Pre-Invasion Raids on Ponape  :

Jap Invaders Hold Control Of Railroac   Chunking Acknowledges Japanese Conquest of Vital Line :

Japanese in India Rocked  By Air Blows   Chinese Admit Japanese Conquest  Of Railroad

Japs Hold Vital R. R. In China   Press On Loyang, Bombed In India

Japs Control Vital Railroad  Chungking Admits  Pracenra On Lavana

JAPANESE HOLD VITAL RAIL LINE   Nips Rocked By Aerial Blows On Truk And In India

Chinese Forces Trapped In New Jananese Drive   Allies Loose Aerial Blows Against Jap Base At Truk

Bitter Fighting At Loyang   Japs in India Rocked by Mighty Two. Day Blow From Air

Soviet Drive GainsGround At Budapest   One Russian Drive Now Is Within 98 Miles Of Vienna

Russians Trap Nazi Garrison In Budapest   Another Army Drives 17 Miles to Within. 98 Miles of Vienna

Russian Sweep. Cuts Last Line From Budapest   Reds Move Within 98 Miles Of Vienna as Offensive Marle Crorniens Back

REDS TRAP NAZIS NEAR BUDAPEST   Only 17 Miles Remain Before Russians Complete Encirclement of Canital

NAZI GENERAL AT CHERBOURG SURRENDERS   A Rear. Admiral Joiris Port Commander in -Capitulation — Enemy Casualties Since D-day Placed at 70,000. —

French and American Troops Fight Toward Paris to Join With Patriots

SURVEY OF TEXAS  COUNTIES INDICATE  LIGHT SERVICE VOTE COMPARATIVE TRICKLE  OF BALLOTS HAVE BEEN RETIIRNED CO FAR

NAME ‘BERLIN, THE ACCURSED’. AS RUSSIAN ARMY OBJECTIVE   MOSCOW DROPS APPEALS TO GERMAN SOLDIERS TO. OVERTHROW HITLER AND INDICATES MILITARY PLAN

Individual Red. Points Cut In Half, However   Pork, Veal, Mutton, Lamb On Free List,   Bowles Announces .

MOST MEAT WiLL BE RATION FREE ~ AFTER MIDNIGHI   Bect Roasts, Steaks Remain on List Under Surprise Order of OPA Administra  tor Bowles.   RULING MAY REMAIN IN FORCE 5 MONTHS   Monthly Allotment of 60 Rec Points Per Person Is Re: duced to 30 Begining or Sunday.

Points Off Meat Except Beef items   Plank Steaks, Hamburger And All Variety Meats, Sausage, Canned Meats And Canned Fish Point Frea   ARE REMOVED FROM RATIONING TONIGHT

MONIGHT SET AS DEADLINE FOR ALL OTHER GUTS   feet Steaks, Roasts are Still Rationed However—Serwee Needs Adequate.

OPA Removes All Meats From Ration List Except Beef Steaks, Roasts

BOWLES CITES LARCER STOCK LESS DEMAND   Steak, Roasts Still Rationed

But Two Exceptions Are Made   Only Two Beef Items Now Remain On Ration List

seef Steaks And Roasts To Be Taken Off Ration List  Ali Nieats Except 6

EFFECTIVE AT MIDNIGHT   Price Administrator Chester Bowles Makes Announcement of Change as Supply is Larae.

Beef Roasts, Steaks Are Only Exception   Surprise Order By OPA Chie!  Effective at Midnight To  night; Point Allotment:  Cut.

OPA REMOVES MOST MEATS IN SURPRISE ACTION   May Lower Points On Beef Later Adrutar Indieates     eylai

MEATS T0 BE POINT FREE AFTER MIDNIGHT   Only Exceptions To be Beef Steaks And Beef Roasts

Hamburger, Stew Meats Point Free   Surprise Announcement Is Made by Bowles—Effective at Midnight

SURPRISE ORDER ISSUED TODAY Oi RATIONING   New Law Will Go Into Effect At Midnight Tonight. Canned Meats  “and Canned Fish Point Free.

HOCSIER BECOMES VCE-FRESIBENTIL pscipi TY   Hutceson Campaign Relieves Tension of Committeemaa Battle

HOOSIER BECEMES VICE-FRES: Hen PASSIPILITY    "Hutcheson Campaign Relieves! Tension of Committeeman Battle

Next 10 Years ~ Are Important   LONG RANGE PLANNING NECESSARY SAYS BABSON

BABSON SAYS LONG RANGE FORECASTING IS NECESSARY   Declares That Beyond the Postwar Decade. the Future Depends Upon Character, Education of Young People.

FDR Ignores Tax Deadline, Veto Expected   His Signature an Saturday Would Have Put March  BRosiness Uniler Levy

Roosevelt Tips Off Design to Veto Tax Bill  1 ate Jact Davy far Promnt Tice   Lets Last Day for Prompt Use Pass Withont Signing; GOP Members Cry ‘Politics’.

Invasion May Bring Collapse   Swedish Commentator Says Bombs Have Shaken Germaxy to‘ Very Foundations’   MIGHT FOLD UP AS ITALY DID   Cross-Channel Hop Is Not Necessary, Sen. Chandler Says: Relies on Bombing

Chinese hen in —- 1,000 Japanese it Burma Town  Alinnanaca Datrante May   Nipponese Retreats May Mean They Pluri to Abandon Burma

Rescue Work Halt Likely    n Bomb Dump Wreckage Appears Too Large --

RESCUE IS HOPELESS   Bodies May Remain Buried at Scene of Bomb Blast

May Leave Bodies Of Some in Ruins   German V-12 Bomb May Have Set off Tremendous Bomb Depot Explosion

American Soldiers Execute Nazi Spies Who Enter Third Army Lines ‘Under Guise of Poor Polish Refugees

HEAVY LOSSES IN FIGHTING ON SAIPAN   1,474 Yanks Killed, 7,400 Wounded and 878 Missing

NEARLY 10,000 CASUALTIES RE. ‘PORTED TO DATE BY NAVY: IN THE GROUND  ‘>. BATTLES  . “

Stabilization Report Brings Few Attacks   Review Of Progress In Holding Line Against Inflation Is Subjected To Little Criticism

Congress Reacts To FDR's Report Of Stabilization   Sen. Taft Calls gay  ‘“Ingenious”’ In F  tw! ot &* oh ce? ‘aos ale aie le

Allied-Bulgarian Armistice Signed   Country Allowed 15 Days In Which To Get All Her Troops Out OF Greece Yuanclavia

Bulgaria Accepts Armistic Terms Granted by Allies   Evacuation of Greece, Yugoslavia Set; Hungary’s Capitulation Near

Green Differs With British Trade Unions   AFL Stands Behind Free Enterprise, Not Govt. Control

Coast of Britain Raided in Force   About 300 German Planes Figure in Attack, Centering ‘on Portsmouth, Marking Second Consecutive Night of Air Assault. °   ALLIED BLOWS LIGHTER

Nazis Stage Own Counter-Invasion Aerial Offensive   For Second Straight Night Strong Force Pounces on South Coast of Enaland

Nazi Planes Bomb English South Coast   Six of Estimated 300 DownedHospital Hit  By Bombs

Germans And British Exchange Air Punches   Nazis Send 300 Bombers Against British Isles In Counterattack; English Knock Down Six

German Bombers  Raid Portsmouth   Counter-Invasion Air Offensive Lounched: Allied Activity Reduced

Nazi Airforce Striking Back in Night Raids   Return for Second Straight Day to Hit English Coast

GERMANS HALO ENGLISH GOAST   Portsmouth and Four Other Coastal Towns Feel Enemy Blows.   LULL IN ALLIED AERIAL

SOUTH ENGLISH COAST BOMBED BY NAZI PLANES   300 Planes Believed in Attack; Berlin Reports Portsmouth Heaviest Hit

NAZI FLIERS RIP ENGLISH COAST   Portsmouth Reported Torn; R.A.F. Hits Ludwigshafen

Nazi Airmen Stage Counter-Offensive on Britain's Coast   Allied Aerial Activities Slackened in Last Sixty Hours

Germany Sends 2 Waves Over British Areas   ‘Six Enemy Planes Out Of  Possibly 300 Are Bag.   ged During Bombing   Coastal Towns   PorismouthNamed Target By Berlin   Meanwhile, Mosquitos At tack Industrial City Of Ludwigshafen, Ger. _ many, During Night

Nazis Hit Back AtEnglandin Counter-Raid   Attack Southern — Coast for Second  Consecutive Night; ‘Six Planes Downed

Germans Attack Southern Coast Of England   Two Bomber Waves In Assault, Six Nazis Downed

PORTSMOUTH IS MAJOR TARGET, BERLIN CLAIMS   RAF Mosquito Planes Attack Plants at Ludwigshafen

Allied Aerial Activity Wanes; Seen As Pause Before Crushing New Bombing Blows

300 German Planes Attack Britain's Southern Coast; Portsmouth Target of Raid   Allied Air Attacks Slacken Off In Grim Pause Before Heavier Pre-Invasion Bombing Assaults

CENTER ATTACK ON PORTSMOUTH SIX SHOT DOWN   ALLIES SMASH AT LUDWEIGSHAFEN AND AIRFIELD IN FRANCE

PORTSMOUTH [S TARGET, NAZIS SAY   Allied Air Blows On Reduced Scale; Said Only Pause

Nazi Aircraft — In New Attack   GERMAN PLANES RAID ENGLISH COAST TODAY

Four Other English Coastal Towns Said to Have Been Attacked and Hospital Is Hit, Causing Number of Casualties. New Crushing Air Blows by Alliage Indicat :

NAZI PLANES HIT ENGLISH COAST LINES   Second Consecutive Night of Bombings By Germans

Nazi Bombers Strike Back At South England   Hit Portsmouth Area As Allied Air Blitz Against  Cantinent Slackens.

Germans Raid Portsmouth During Night   Nearly 300 Bombers Are Employed In Counterassault

German Bombers Aitack British  Invasion Ports  Six Nazi Planes Downed as Four Coastal Towns RaidedRAF Blasts Ludwiashaien

Nazis Raid Britain Again   300 Planes in Attack On Portsmouth, Other Cities on South Coast

ALLIED ATTAC ON REDUCED SCALE   Portsmouth Identified As Main Target   Flown By Planes From Mediterranean: Shipping Facilities Struck

isles Again Bombarded By Germans   300-Plané Fleet Jolts Portsmouth, Other Coast Towns

NAZI PLANES ‘BOMB COAST OF BRITAIN   Force of Possibly 300 Planes in the Night Attack — German Radio  , Declares Raid Concentrated on Portsmouth.

Nazi Bombers Hit Portsmouth   Allies Slow Aerial Activity From England as If Preparing More Blows

Nazis Raid England's  Coast Area Last Night   Six Planes Bagged; Mosquitos Hit Back

6 Planes Shot To Earth By Defenders   Allied Aerial . Attack Slackens; Is Grim Pause

Nazis Bomb South Coast Of England   Second Consecutive Night Of Aerial Counter By Jittery Foe

REICH BOMBING FORCE OF 300 RAIDS ENCGLANI   Six Attacking Planes Are Shot Down—Allied Air Ac-  tivity Curtailed

LIGHT BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST LUDWIGSHAFEN   Allied Planes Over Europe Today as Paris Radio Goes Off Air

Berlin Declares Attack Focused On Portsmoutl   ‘Allies Confine Operations From British Bases To Raids Ou Ludwigshafen

Nazi Planes  Strike Back   Raid Eastern Coast Second Straight Night; Allies Bomb Ludwigshafen

Nazis Make Second Raid On England   Assault By 300 Planes Re ported Concentrated ‘Ox. : Portsmouth   A GRIM PAUSE IN ALLIED AIR DRIVE   Curtailed. Operations. Arppear’ To Be Only The Pause Before the Storm

U. S. Bombers Pound Marshalls   Allies Lose 10 Planes In Raid On Jap Bases

SIX INJURED IN RAVENNA STORM   Property Damage Heavy ir Eastern Ohio

Senate At Work On  Lower Tax   Roosevelt's Demand For len Billion Finds Little Favor  In Committee.

Nation Lead Into Prayer For Success In Invasion   Roosevelt Asks Al To Join Him In Guidance Plea

FR. PRAYER T0 BE OVER RADIO TUESDAY NIGHT   President Asks Nation to Pray for Victory, Safety of U.S. Forces

Roosevelt Writes Victory Prayer  President Completes Work Monday Night

Rhodes’ Landing  Reported   Patrai Port Falls to Greece Invaders as Nazi Fight Melts

British Invasion Forces Seize Rion  Drive For Athens   After Losing Patrai Germans Leave In  Panicky Flight

ALLIES GERMANS BACK TO ROCHEFORT   Narrow Escape Gap to 17, Miles. Hit Bulge On Three Sides

Patton's Third Army Armored Forces Given Credit for Stop  Of Nazi Offensive By Driving Wedge In Flank and By Rescue of Troops Held at Bastoone

Flanking Assaults Cut Width of Enemy Salient to 15 Miles   Foe Losing Initiative on All Fronts; Von Rundstedt Fights to Save Army As Patton Chops Out 20-Mile Wedge

PATTON'S ARMOR SLASHES 20 MILES INTO NAZI FLANK   CUT ENEMY ESCAPE GAP TO 17 MILES NORTH OF BASTOGNE

CHASED BAGK ACROSS RIVERS   American Armor Pounds at Von Runstedt’s Most Ad- ] vanced Sector. y  4   PATTON MAKES BIG GAIN

Enemy Falls Back 10 Miles Over Lesse, Homme Rivers; Escape Gap At Bastogne Is Narrowed

Patton First Army Gain Sensational   Twenty-Mile Wedge Driven into Southern Flank of Von Rundstedt’s Sahent: Tin of Rlow Rolled Rack

Most Advanced Penetration of Enemy Troops Has Been Met With Powerful Armored Blows.   NAZIS DRIVEN BACK MORE THAN 10 MILES

Patton Forces Von Rundstedt To Shift Lines   Infantry Chase Nazis Back, Narrowing German’s Escape  Gap

Advance Troops in German Offensive On Run as Yanks Throw Attack Into Reverse   Americans Hammer Foe From 3 Sides: Shift in Gen. Patton's Attack Forces Him to Give Up Hold On Dillingen

Dashing Yonks Narrow Von Rundstedt Escape Gap North of Bastogne to. 7 Less Than 17 Miles, It Is Reported.

nemy’s Escape Gap Cut To ‘Less Than 17 Miles; Celles Pocket Wiped Out; Patton’s (Army Rolling Back Foe Flank

U.S. Armor Forces © Germans To Cross 2 Narrow Rivers   Eseape Gap Reported Cut To Less ~ “Than 17 Miles Above Bastogne; Offensive Kicked Into Reverse

Nazi Offensive Is Kicked Into Reverse : By U.S: Assaults on 3 Sides of Bulge   Most Advanced German Spearheads Chased Back to. Rochefort; Nazi Escape Gap Is Cut to 17 Miles

Patton Smashes 20 Miles Into Enemy Flank In Six Days   Rundstedt’s Escape Gap Whittled Down to . 17 Miles

Nazi Escape Route Less Than 17 Miles North of Bastogne   Hurl Nose of Hun Bulge Back 10 Miles: Third Army Drives 20 Miles Into Enemy Flank

—— Hitting Bulge From All ‘Three Sides   Enemy Pushed Back 10 Miles; Pattons South Flank Drive Ends Push

KXWRERSTERN FRONT—   Americans Slam Into Three  Sides Of Extended Bulge

ENEMY ESCAPE GAP NOW LESS THAN 17 MILES   Patton Drives 20 Miles Into Enemy Flank In Six Days

U.S. Armor Pushes Nose Of Thrust In   Pressure On Sides Continues; Patton Widens Corridor To Bastogne

PATTON CUTS 20 MILES INTO NAZI FLANK IN 6 DAYS   Enemy’s Most Advanced Spearheads Thrown Back Over 10 Miles

GERMANS SAY  ESCAPE GAP CUT TO 17 MILES   Stand Of 10Ist Airborne Division Is Called Turning Point: Patton’s Forces Finally Stop Drive

Armored Blows On Rundstedt’s Nose Telling   Most Advanced German Spearheads Hurled Back More Than 10 Miles,  Chased Aernss Rivers   Enemy Escape Gap Cut To 17 Miles   Patton’s Forces Continue To Roll Ahead, Capiuring More Towns In Vicinity of Sibret

Enemy Drive Is Going In Reverse   Nazi Forces Pushed Back Across Lesse, Homme Rivers; Ghastly Scenes of Carnage Mark Battlefields; Foe Loses Hundreds of Tanks

Most Advanced Nazi Spearheads Are Beaten Back   Von Rundstedt Escape Gap: Cut To Less Than 17 Miles

10-MILE GAIN IN ROCHEFORT AREA SCORED   Americans Hammer German Bulge in Belgium On Three Sides

VON RUNDSTEDT'S OFFENSIVE ‘IS BEATEN INTO REVERSE BY AMERICAN ARMORED DRIVES   Most Advanced Spearheads of Enemy Columns Are Driven Back More Than Ten Miles and Dashed Across Lesse and Homme Rivers   BELEAGUERED DIVISION RELIEVED BY PATTON

THIRD ARMY TROOPS ROLL UP NAZI SOUTHERN FLANK; 710 TANKS ARE DESTROYED

Enemy Escape Gap Cut Down By Americans   Von Rundstedt’s Offensive Is Kicked Into Reverse; Patton’s Troops Push Forward  20 Miles Into Nazi Flank In Six Days

Nazi Spearheads Beaten — Back Ten Miles; Escape Gap Menaced At Bastogne

Yanks Slam Into Three Sides Of Belgian-Luxembourg Bulge: Nazi Escape Route Narrower

SEIZES FRONTONE   Major Effort Devoted to Refief of Starving Florentines

EIGHTH =ARMY IN FRONTONE ON CESANO   Only Significant Ground Action Along Italian Front; Relieve Hungry and Thirsty.   Artillery Exchange

8TH ARMY CAPTURES FRONTONE   Gain On Adriatic Side Only Major Advance In Italy

TOWARD NAZIS “GOTHIC LINE’   Eig hth Army Forces Sweep Into Mountain Town Of Frontone

Allies Take Frontonein \ Short Gain   hly Important Grounc Aktion Along Italian  nt; Feed Hungry  Of Florence

8th Army Troops Capture Frontone And Occupy Empol:   Germans Threaten to Burn Villages, Sheot Males, Intern Women fer Sabsiage

Br ‘itish Push Ahead Alon g _ Adriatic Coas'   Kighth Army Troops Cap/ ture Frontone In Appenines; Sniping Dies Down In Florence

FRONTONE TAKEN BY EIGHTH ARMY   ONLY MAJOR ACTION IN ITALY; FLORENCE POPLUATION IS FED

Frontone Falls to Allied Armies   BRITISH TROOPS MAKE BIG ADVANCE IN ITALY

STH ARMY IN NEW VICTOR)   Capture of Frontone, 27 Miles Inland from Adriatic, Is Announced

Italian Front Largely Quiet  Eighth Captures Town Near Adriatic Coast

Lull Covers Italian Front   Frontone Captured In Only Major Tilt

FIGHTING IN ITALY SLOWLY DYING DOWN   Allies Capture Empoli Without Any Resistance

Eighth Army Seizes Froptone 21 Miles Inland   Sniping Dies Down In Florence, Supply Shortage Relieved

Frontone Falls In Only Major  8th Army Gain   Sniping Subsides Inside Florence; Allies Aid — Population

ALLIES CAPTURE ADRIATIC TOWN   Take Frontone In Drive Toward End Of German  Gothic Line

FRONTONE IS TAKEN   Eighth Army Troops Advance Inland About Miles ©

Eighth Army Takes Frontone   Sniping Dies Down In Florence—-F ood Going in

Frontone Is Captured by Eighth Army   Sniping Dies Down in Florence; Empoli Falls Without a Fight; Threaten Italian Civilians with Retahation

Frentone Captured In Only Major  Advance in Italy  Military Supplying Florence With Little Difficuliv

Frontone Is Captured By Eighth Army  Sniping Dies Down In Florence: Srant

Ford Promises Joli Priorities To War Veterans  House Atso Votes to Give Ex-cearvicamen   House Atso Votes te Give Ex-servicemen First Chance

FORD TO GIVE VETS JOB PREFERENCE   AND HOUSE VOTES TO PUT THEM AT TOP OF LIST FOR GOVERNMENT WORK,

Ford Promises Job Preterence For Veterans   House Votes to Give Them First Call on All Federal Payrolls

WAR VETERANS PROMISED JOBS   Ford Pledges Priorities To Men Returning From Service

JOB PRIORITIES TO BE GIVEN VETERANS   Ford Promises Those Who Served in War to Get First Chances

American Forces Are Withdrawn From Fort Driant  Enemy Installations Are Blown Up After Tough Fight

PUNE BREAN T— Yanks Are Withdrawn  From Fort      Blow Up Enemy Installations Before Quitting Driant

Yanks Out Of Fort Driant   Hydraulically Raised Pillboxes Fired on Soldiers Who Had Passed Them

‘Americans Withdraw From Inside Fort Driant   Used Acetylene Torches To Cut Steel Doors; Mushroom Pillboxes Raised Hvdraulically

Thousands of Slit Trenches Bear Mute Testimony to Punishment Dealt Nazis by Allied Planes

CROP ESTIMATE FOR TEXAS BETTER THAN GENERAL AVERAGE   WHEAT PRODUCTION IS FORECAST AT 40 PCT. ABOVE 10-YEAR AVERAGE

SPY ARRESTED BY AGENTS AT HARPERS FERR)   Simon E. Koedel And Fos. ter Daughter Held On Espionage Charge

MASSEUSE HELD IN SPY INQUIRY   Brooklyn Girl and German Foster Father Suspected Of Aiding Nazis .

Man, Woman Held Under Bond on Espionage Charges  Girl, Foster Father Are Arrested by Justice Department

STETTINIUS DENIES — -LEND-LEASE RUMOR   A‘cting Secretary. Says Britain Has Not Raised - Future:of Program

STETTINUS. DENIES LEND-LEASE TREKS   British Haven’t Mentioned Future of Aid, Says U.S. Official .

Renot  British Ask tease-Lend For Aller Wai   Rumor Causes Flurry in Congress but Meets _ Official Denia!

Lend-Lease Tatk  Stirs Statesmen   Stettinius Denies  Post-War British Plea

‘British have  not made bid’  Stettinius denies lend-lease story

DENIES ENGLAND ASKED AID AFTER FALL OF GERMAN\   Stettinius Says Ally Has Not Raised Question of Future Lend-Lease Assistance.   FLURRY IN CONGRESS CAUSED BY ARTICLE   Manufacturers’ Pub lication Asserts British Officials Are Insisting Help - Be Continued.

IBRICKER OPENS _DRIVE FOR THE G.0,P. NOMINATION   Governor of Ohio Blasts Ad: ministration In First Broadside.   Ry ANTHONY G. DE LORENZO

FIGHTING BITTER. ON ITALIAN FRONI             MASSED GERMANS STRUGGE TO KEEP ALLIES OUT OF GREAT PO VALLEY.

British Reach  Marano River   Nazis Squander Reserves  To Stop Allied Advance

ALLIES AIMING FOR PO VALLEY   German Reserves’ Are Squandered To Hold Gothic Line

Democrats Are Concerned Over Stand In Texas   Southern Dissatisfaction Is Taking on Proportions of Revolt and May Hamper Fourth Term Plans.

FDR Sees Shortage In Forces   Memorandum Is Sent To Both Hershey And McNutt

All Deferments To Be Reviewed By F.D.R.’s Order   President Calls For Checl On All Occupational Nefarments.

President Says 44 Crucial Year Of Present War   Calls For Review Of All Oc. cupational Draft Deferments In Nation

SHORT 200,001   President Orders Review o1 All Occupational Deferments.

U.S. Armed Forces Short By 200,000   —PRES. ROUSEVELS Says Failure To Fill Draft Quotas Gravely Cuts Manpower Pool.

ORDERS REVIEW OF DEFERMENT LIST IN NATION   F. R. Declares Armed Forces Are Short 200,000 Trained Men

FR Calls Review ‘On Occupational Draft Releases   “Manpower Pool Has Been Depleted”, Says President In Speech

Pool of U.S. Manpower Is Depleted   Roosevelt Asks Action in Communication to McNutt and Hershey

F. D. R. Orders Review of Deferments   ARMY QUOTA SOUGHT FROM 5 MILLION JOB-DEFERRED MEN

—Armed Forces Shy 200.000 Trained Men—  All Deferments For Occupation To Be Reviewed   Roosevelt Urges Agriculture And Industry To Release Younger Men

Government Too Liberal W ith Draft Departments Says Pres. Roosevelt

FR. CALLS FOR REVIEW OF ALL DEFERMENTS   Sends Message To Draft Chiefs; “Pime To Wit New Balaneer’

‘Occupational Deferments  Are Cheeked   President Orders Review as Draft  Demands Increase

REVIEW I DEMANDED OF HERSH   Too Many Draftees in “Occupations”   ARMY NEEDS MEN  Charges Nation Too Lenient

Shortage of 200,000 Men  In Services   President Directs Checkup “With a View to Speedily Making Available’ Required Persennel   SIX MONTHS LAG   Order Exiends Review Earlier Ordered of Farm Delerments to ial Bi im Al: Uter ciasses

REVIEW OF DEFERMENTS IS ORDERED   Agriculture And Industry Urged To Release Young Men

REVIEW IS ORDERED OF DRAFT DEFERMENTS  President Estimates Services Are Short 200.000 Trained Men

INDUCTIONS FAR UNDER QUOTAS, SAYSF DR.   Executive Sends Joint Message to McNutt and Hershey

ALL GCCUPATIONAL DEFERMENTS ARE GRDERED REVIEWED   Presidert Reosevelt Says the Armed Forces Are Still Short 2003000 Trained Men   INOTIFIES PAUL McNUTT   Tells Chairman of War Manpower Commission of the Shortage.

FDR Asks For Draft Review   Nearly 5 Million Deferred  For Occupational Reasons

Armed Forces 200,000 Men Short, Report  F. R. Asks Agriculture, Industry To Release

F.R. Calls for Draft of More Deferred Men   Army Demands Not Met, He Says; Urges Use of Four-F

PRESIDENT ORDERS DEFERMENT REVIEW   Selective Service Has Not De jivered Quantity of Men  Needed, Chief Says

CHIEF EXECUTIVE SAYS MANPOWER “SHORTAGE ‘GRAVE’   Nearly Five Million Younger  Men Slated To Face New  } Sonik iss:

Army Needs More Men   FDR Says Armed Serv ices Short 200,000 Men; Orders Review Of Draft Deferments

Armed Forces Need 200,000 Immediately, Says Chief in Memo to McNutt, Hershey

FDR CALLS FOR DRAFT REVIEW   Too Liberal Occupational Deferments Depleting Manpower Pool

President Roosevelt Orders Review Of Draft Occupational Deferments

PRESIDENT HAS CALLED FOR REVIEW OF ALL OCCUPATIONAL DRAFT DEFERMENTS   Seeks To Make Available Quick ly Personnel Needed By Armed Forces

Order Review 01 Job Deferments  FDR Says Army — “Muct Have More Men

RECHECK ON ALL DEFERMENTS IS ORDERED BY FR   Armed Forces \ Short of Quota

Occupational Deferments Up F or New Check   ‘Roosevelt Orders Review  : Says Armed Forces Short  - of 200,000 Trainpl Mon

 President Orders Draft Review - of Occupational Deferments   Telis Hershey and McNutt Armed Forces Are Falling 200.000 Behind Planned Goals.

REVIEW OF EACH   Cites Grave Draft Shortage in Message to McNutt and Hershey

Armed Forces Still Short 200,000 Men   President Orders Review Of Occupational Deferments Immediately

ORDERS REVIEW OF DEFERMENTS NOW IN EFFECT   URGE RELEASE OF YOUNGER MEN FOR MILITARY SERVICE

COMPLETE REVIEW OFDRAFT CASES “URPED BY F.D.R   McNutt and Hershey Are  Sent Communications of  __ Occupational Deferments Need 250.000.   190,000 CONVICTS ARE NOW WEARING KHAK   Men From Prisons Given Same Theatment as Others, Report Reveals 32,000 In Desertion List.

ODT Seizes Truck Lines In Midwest   103 Firms Taken Ove  As Government Moves T poy ey

COVERNMENT TAKES OVER TRUCK LINES   Seizure of Companies Ordered to Break Traffic Block

Army to back operation by ODT labor   Longenecker is named manager

TRUCKERS SENT BACK 10 WORK   Government Takes Over 103 Companies In Driver Strike

Government Seizes 103 Midwestern Trucking  Firms Tied by Strikes   py 25,000 Privers Idle Mean Threat to Vital War Plants Says Order Placing - ODT in Charge, Awarding Pay Increase

U.S. Takes Over 103 Strike-Idle  Truck Firms   ‘All Strikers Ordered. : To Return Inmediately: “To Receive Wage Boost

Few File For County Offices  - None of the Present Officials Opposed

Few File For County Offices  Nene of the Prevent  Officials. ‘Opposed

WALK OUT AT COVEL PLANT   Strike Against WLB Ruling Refusing Requested Pay Boost

‘American Bombers Raid Paramushiro, Bases on Marshalls and Rabaul Shipping

Few Cigarets To Continue   1945 ‘Tobacco Crop ‘May End. Shortage

LEADERS FEAR MORE STRIKES   Threats Of Stoppages Pre. sage Heavy Increase In Idleness

More Strike Threats Heard   Coal Mines, Steel Mills, War Plants Already Have Men Idle In Disputes

War Fund Drive Now  $16,763.20   Approximately $9,000 More ” Needed Fer Naugatuck  To Reach Quota Goal

4 Americans  Are Ousted   : Writers And Artist Are Ordered Moved

Ninth Air Force Officers Accused Of Attempted Coercion Of Correspondents

Air Force Bans Newsmen, Blames  Publicity Lack   Action Follows Armvy’s Threats

4. Newsmen  Banished By  Oth Air Force Public Relations  Officers Jealous DV Othare Oathic

SAYS STH AIR FORCE PUBLICITY HUNGRY   Correspondents Ousted for Failing to Devote Time to Covering Unit

Say Reporters _ Failed To Give Fliers Publicit   Ex-Fitchburger Is Among Three Ordered Gut Of Oth Air Force Theater

ATRENS UNDER WARTIAL LAW      Greece on Brink of Civil War — At  past. 16 Persons Killed in Riot ous Demonstrations — All Public Utilities Paralyzed in Athens.

PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW   At Least 16 Persons Have Been Killed  Ton Tikcese meee wad lama

ATHENS UNDER MARTIAL LAW   ACTION FOLLOWS LEFT WING RIOTS AND STRIKES

Results of Bombings  Axis Shakes Occupied Lands  For Goose Feathers and Glass

FLOOD WATERS BREAK LEVEES, FARMS SUFFER   Spread Across 51,000 Fertile Acres In Illinois

River Stage Slumps As Dikes Break   Illinois Farms Under Water When Levees Fail to Hold

Levees Crumble Under  Weight of Mississippi   Water Spreads Over Farmlands As River’s Crest at Highest  a rr i ce a. ae

LEVEE BREAKS SPREAD FLOODS   Total Damage Ia Western States Set At 30 Million

CITY WORKERS NEEDED OW FARE LABOR FROKT   War Food Officials Set October Needs at 729,000 Laborers

Needed for Harvest      “City Workers” Will Be Needed On Farms, WFA Officials Say

FARMERS NEED “CITY WORKERS   ESTIMATE, 700,000 CITY PEOPLE NEEDED FOR HARVEST— _ MORE MEXICAN HELP ‘" - PLANNED :

Tokyo May Be Target   Marshall Hails Raid as First Step in New Type Pacific Smash

Special Emergency Board to Consider Overtime Claims Of 15 Rail Unions

Rail Pay Claims To Be Studied   Board Ordered To Consider Claims Of Non-Operators

Wage Claims Of Rail Unions Are Taken Up   Reconvening Of Buard Ordered By Roosevelt To Considér Claims For Additional Pay

President Reconvenes  Wage Board   Non-Operating Employees To Have Demands Considered

President’s Order Asks Settlement Report in 30 Days   Reconmendations of Body Will Become Effective in 15 Days; Million Workers Seek Pav Banc

FAR, CALLS BACK SPECIAL BOARD IN RAIL CASE   To Reconsider Raise Issue

RAIL BOARD TO RECONVENE   Group To Consider Unsettled Wage Claims of NonOperating Employes.

FDR ORDERS RAIL CLAIMS BE STUDIED   Calls On Board To Consider Wace Issue

CONSIDERING DEMANDS OF RAIL UNIONS   4 Case of 15 Non-Operating Unions Reopened

CASE AGAIN BEFORE BOARD   By Presidential Order, Panel Will Consider Unsettled Claims of the 1,100,000 Non-operating Employes.

RAIL EMERGENCY BOARD IS ORDERED TO TAKE UP WAGES   Shaw Board Requested to Make Report as Soon as Possible, Not Later Than Next 30 Days.   TO CONSIDER CLAIMS NOT PREVIOUSLY HEARD   Previous Award of 4-Cents An Hour Declared Insult By Members of Local Unions of Operators.

Rail Pay Again Before Board   Unsettied Overtime Question of ‘Non-Ops Will Be Taken Up

Board To Study Rail Pay Claims  GQenaun Tn Rar   Group To Reconvene On FDR’s Orders

Board To Take Up Non-Ops’ Wage Claims   President Orders Emergency Board to Turn In Report Soon

TO CONSIDER RAIL WAGE CLAIMS   FDR Calls An Emergency Board On Pay Question

BOARD WILL TAKE UP RAIL WAGE CLAIMS   Demands of Over Million Non-Operating Employes Will Be Considered By Emergency Group   MADE EXECUTIVE ORDER

RAILWAY WAGE BOARD TO HEAR NON - OP CLAIMS   Roosevelt Reconvenes Shaw Board fo Make Recommendations on Claims for Adjusiments

ee  Board To Consider  Rail Pay   -- FDR Moves Tv Break Deadlock On Overtime

EMERGENCY BOARD WILL MEET AGAIN      To Consider Unsettled Wage Claims of Non-Operating Rait Employes.

President Recalls Board to Consider Demands of Nonops   Asks Decisionon Wage Claims Come Not Later Than Thirty Days

Railway Wage Claims Board  Is Reconvened   President Asks Report in 30 Days on Non-Ops’ Dispute

PRESIDENT ORDERS EMERGENCY WAGE BOARD RECONVENED  TO CONSIDER UNSETTLED CLAIMS OF OVER MILLION NON_.OPERATING MEN

Roosevelt Orders Rail Wage Board ToReconvene  To Consider Claims For Additional Pay.

Orders Consideration Of Rail Wage Claims   Emergency Board Will Reconvene at Behest of President Rooseve!?

Roosevelt Reopens Rail Pay Hearing      Reconvenes Emergency Board to Consider Claims of 1,100,000 Workers

President Calls New Rail Parley   EMERGENCY BOARD WILL RECONVENE TO CONSIDER UNSETTLED WAGE CLAIMS OF 1,100,000 NON-OPERATING TRANSPORT MEN

FR Reconvenes Board To Study Overtime Pay   Action Designed To Break Railway Wage Dispute Deadlock

»>resident Roosevelt Issues Executive Order Calling for New Efforts.

F.D.R. MOVES TO BREAK RAILWAY PAY DEADLOCK   Recalls Special Board To Consider Overtime Wage Claims

BOARD TO TACKLE RAIL WAGE ISSUE   President Roosevelt Orders Emergency Group To Consider Claims

FDR SUMMONS BOARD TO ACT ON PAY CLAIMS   Emergency Setup ‘io Study De. mands of Over Million Railroad Employes

Board Called To Act On R.R. Wage Claims   F.D.R. Reconvenes Board To Consider Claims Of 1.100.000.

CALLS BOARD 10 STUDY R. R. PAY   President Hopes to End Wage Deadlock

To Consider R.R. Unions Pay Claims   Special Mediation Group? Called into Session Again )  by Roosevelt

Special Board To Study Rail Wage Dispute   FDR Orders Board. Headed By Judge Show, To Con. sider Claims.   REFUSE ARBITRATION

Roosevelt Orders Emergency Board To Review Claim Of Wage Earners   Railway Workers Are Assured Of An Airing

Rail Wage Issue Back To Board   Emergency Panel to Consider Demands of “Non-Ops” Who Refused Mediation Offer

RAIL WORKERS’ WAGE BOARD IN NEW MEETINGS   Roosevelt Orders Reconvening; To Decide Issue

Orders Board To Consider Wage Claims  Shaw Group To Hear R. R. Workers

Railroad Wage Claims Reopened  Demands of Non-operating Unions   Demands of Non-operating Unions To Be Considered by FDR Board

NEW EFFORT MADE TO END PAY DISPUTE   BPECIAL BOARD CONVENED TO REACH AN AGREEMENT— JOHNSON FLAYS RAIL. ROAD DRAFT POLICY

FDR IN NEW MOVE TO SOLVE RAIL SQUABBLE   Issues Executive Order Re convening Special Board

FDR In New Move To Fix Rail Dispute   Calls Emergency Board T: Consider Overtime Pay Claims.

heopens Rail Wage  Question   President Orders Emergency Board to Reconsider Non-Op Case

Wage Claims To Consider   Non-Operating Railroad Employes Are Involved

RAILROAD PAY BOARD T0 MEET   Emergency Group Called To Consider 4 to 10 Cent Increase

Sabotage and Violence Mounting in Copenhagen—Baltie Shigping Almost At Standaiitl

‘Both Allies And Axis Step Up Battle Preparations, Denmark Has Been Isolated

RELIEF SUPPLIES  FOR AMERICAN POW  PILE UP IN RUSSIA JAPANESE GOVERNMENT  HAS SO FAR FAILED TO ARRANCE NELIVERY

Relief Supplies For Prisoners Of Japs Undeliverec   Tokyo Red Tape Halts American Aid

Japanese Diplomatic Red Tape Keeps Supplies from Reaching U. S. Prisoners

PRISONER SUPPLIES PILE UP IN RUSSI   Stalled By Diplomatic Rec Tape Tokyo Uses to Prevent Delivery.

Waging His  Kind Of War   Patton's Men Relieve Bastagne; Lift Threat Te kuxembourg City

STRATEGIC HEIGHTS WON FROM NAZIS IN BITTER BATTLE   Tanks Slam Breach In Defense at San Angelo, Huns Admit— Violent Counter Attacks Meet Defeat—Air Invasion In Force Continues

Triple “Air Raid Hits Nazi Beaches   1,500 U. S. Planes In Unprecedented Blow

Stinging Triple Attack   Unprecedented Bombing Attack Reaches Tempo Demanded By  General Eisenhower.

COMBINE TO HEAL   New Concept Uses Both Occupational and Physical  Therapy

TOKYO SHIPPING GETS BAD BLOW   Warship And 15 Cargo Vessels Sunk By U.S. Submarines

HorneAnticipates Nazis Still Going At End Of Year   Admiral King Reveals Plan For Sipgle Department Of National Defense

Admiral Horne Believes Germany Will Still Be Fighting At End of ’44

Admiral Doubts War In Europe Over This Year   Horne Believes Germany Will Be On Her Feet, However Groggy.

Admiral Does Not Expect Deteat of Reich This Year   House Gets 32-Billion Naval Bill

European War Will Not End This Year   Adm. Horne Says: Getmany' Will Still Be on Mer Feet Jan. . '45

Admiral Believes Germans  Will Last Out Year In War   Studv Unified Command.

Admiral Sees Nazi’s End Still Distant   HORNE SAYS GERMANY WILL STILL BE FIGHTING IN 1945

Lane Forecasts  Maryland Vote   Sees President With 38,000 To 40,000 Margin Sans Service Vote.

DEVELOPMENTS IN FINLAND WATCHED   Possibilities of Bulgarian Peace Move May Hinge On Outcome.

Third B-29 Raid On Tokyo From Saipan Revealed  Three Destroyers and 1 Transports on Way To Leyte Destroyed

Leyte-Bound Jap Convoy Is Destroyed   Enemy Loses 4000 Troops as Result of U. S. Airmen’s Attack

Another Jap Convoy Sunk By Airmen   MacArthur Says 4,000 Troops Are Destroyed

Allied Air Attack: Threaten To Cut Off Jap Outposts   Menace Forces On New Guinea And New Britain

ADMIRALTY ISLES BLASTED BY ALLIED PLANES   _ Japs On New Guinea ‘Threatened With Virtual ‘Isolation

Allies Soften Up Admiralty  Isle  Defenses   Continuous © ‘Rain Of Bombs  Shaver Dowa:

MIDWEST AREA HAS SNOWFAL!   New York Swelters As Mercury Drops To 18 In Nebraska

JAPS CLAIM HENGYANG CAPTURED   No Confirmaticn; Chinese Mass To Seize Tengchung

JAPS CLAIM THE CAPTURE OF HENGYANG   City Under Siege a Month in Nip Drive to Gain Control of the HankowCanton Railway and Spnht China.

SIMPLE TAX LAWS HOPE IN RONGRESS   Administration Joing Forces Asking for General Overhauling

Congress Sets Simplified Tax Law Objective   Minimum Levy, Withheld At Source, Proposed By Ren. Roberison

Party Leaders Favor Changes In Tax Measures   Ask Overhauling Of Present Laws

Simplified Tax Returns Pledged In Washington   Administration, Both Parties in Congress  Agree Change Needed

HIT-RUN DRIVER — WAIVES HEARING IN MAYOR'S COURT   Rape and Assault Case Against Jesse James Moose Continued One Weel.

NAZIS TOLD SECRET WEAPON WILL WIN   Goebbels Urges Patience for Results, Though

Nazis Desperate In Italy Fighting   Bitter Defense of Po Valley Waqed

Nazis Receive Reinforcements   Wage All Out Battle In Apennine Foothills

Germans Toss In Troops To Stop Allies   Violent Fighting Rages in the Apennines Foothills

Nazis Stiffen Stand in Italy   American Advance  All But Stopped

Nazis P utting Up Hard Fight In North Italy   Make Desperate Attempt To Halt U. S. Drives Toward Bologna

Beat and Choked Aged Mother to Cast Out Devil  Attempt_at Exorcism   Atte m pt at Exorcisn Related to Police . By Spinster

Gen. Roosevelt Dies In France  Son Of ‘Rough Rider’ Dies Of Heart Strain

J. 5. Third Army Drives to Forbach n Attempt To Take Saar Factories

Defenders May Retreat  From Roer   Germans Believed Hurrying Bracing Of Rhine Bastions  FIRST ARMY GAINS

SH DRIVE ON SAAR BASIN AR INDUSTRY NOW MENACED Y ANOTHER AMERICAN ARMY

Patton's Men Reach Forbach In Big Advance   First Army Smashes to Roer in New Drives; Nazi Retreat Indicated; Seventh Joins Saar Battle

INQUEST INT PATRICK DEATH IS CONTINUED   Main Witness Fails to Appear; Jailed for Resumption Tonight

10. PATRICK DEATH IS CONTINUED   Main Witness Fails to Appear; Jailed for Resumption Tonight

CIVES ELECTION COST   Gerhart Announces Amount fo! County Was $2,599.74

eNAZIS COLLAPSE AFTER 12 DAYS © DEFENDING CIT)   U. S. First Army Occupies Community, Clearing the Way for Ruhr Drive

Losses By Yanks Light   First Large Center Reduced to, Shambles By Hitler’s Orders

City’ s Fall Opens Gateway To Ruht   @ Nazi Citadel Is Captured On 7th Day Of Siege; Canadians Launch Drive North Of Antwerp

Fashion New Drive on Foe at Antwerp   Heavy Rains Bog Down Fighting Along Western Front; Aachen Half Free

Aachen Falls After Seven Days of Siege   Caplure of City Removes Obstacle From Road Leading to Ruhr Valley

Yankees Capture Aachen Following Seven-Day Siege   Mop Up Last Remnants Of Trapped Nazi Post

U.S. TROOPS MAKE GAINS ON BIAK ISLE   Japs In Caves and Cliffs Kept Under Steady Bombardment

BOMBARDMENT OF IAP TROOPS        merican Tanks, Artillery and Warships Engaged in Effort to Rout Enemy from Biak Island.

Yanks Pound Japs In Trap  ' Troops Poised Near Rarnalkan Airfiald

Trapped Japs Being Reduced  By y. “Americans   Panks; ‘Artillery and Warships ~ Pound. Enemy Hiding In: Caves Near Mokmer

Americans Pound Jap Remnants  Trapped On Biak   Yanks Drive Within Striking Distance . of Remaining Airfields,

YANKS BATTER  JAPS ON BIAK   Warships, Artiller y And Tanks Hammer Enemy

‘USDA WORKER IS HERE THIS WEEK TO GET FARM DATA   Miss Shelley Turner Asks Cooperation From Local Farmers

“LAME DUCKS" HOLD POWER   85 Members Ending Terms In Congress May Decide Fate of Bills

ROOSEVELT DENIES USE OF PROFANITY   President Gives His Version Of Election Day Incident To Stop Flow Of Letters

The Case Was Exaggerated, But  The President Admits He Said A Bad Word

President Confesses to Little Bit of Lusty Cussina in Voting Boot}

FDR Admits He ‘Cussed’ in Booth. ‘But Denies Using Name of Deity

YANKEES ADMINISTER STAGGERING BLOW TO GERMAN DEFENSES   Steamroller Offensive By Clark’s Fifth Army Smashes Formidable Defenses of Nazis  In Brief Span of Less Than Day

Push Over Rhine From Strasbourg   Capture of City, Except One Bridgehead, Has Been ‘Effected   BRITISH THROWN. BACK   Germans Recapture Two Villages on the Cologne Plain

Troops Go Over Flooded Stream “Near Strasbourg   Great Battle of Attrition Proceeds On Cologne Plain; Yanks Inch Barware

BRITISH DRIVEN FROM HOVEN IN FLAMING BATTLE   FRENCH CLEAN OUT THE WHOLE WESTERN PART OF STRASBOURG

CHURCHILL PRESIDES — AT MEETING OF DOMINION PRIME MINISTERS TODAY

One Enemy Unit Gives Up as Hodges Prepares to Smash Ruhr Gateway After Serving 24-Hour Ultimatum

DEWEY SPEECH. “HIT NEW DEAL   GOVERNOR ASSAILS ADMINIS. TRATION FOR IMPOSING “WHIMS” ON NATION THROUGH “AUREAUCRACIES”

FEDERATION   Of  romania Clubs Held  Annua Meeting In Wellsboro.

‘Tomorrow Marks Second Anniversary Of Tragic Surrender At Bataan

Bataan Fell Two Years Ago Tomorrow   Isolated American Force Subjected to Jap Brutalities

RIOTS ARE REPORTED   Many Were Killed and’ Wounded in San Salvador Trouble

Canadians Drive South Of Caen And Capture Railway Town Of Bourguebus After Bitter Street Fichtineg

British Point Three Drives  Toward Paris   Maul Five Nazi Divisions In Continued Advances That. Overrun Troarn

Railway Station !s Seized in Normandy Advance  CEDMAAN RIVICIONIC      GERMAN DIVISIONS ARE BADLY MAULED   Nazi Forces Are Relentlessly Pressed © Back

Britons Smash Into German Troarn Sector   Threaten to Cut Off Stronghold From Southern Normandy

British Units Break Into French Town   Germans Blocking Road to Paris Given Rough Treatment

GERMAN BASE OF TROARN IN BRITISH HANDS   ENEMY IS PUSHED BACK ON ROUTE TO PARIS

BRITIGH GO INTO CITY OF TROARK   Tanks, Infantry Smash Into Rail Station East of Caen   STRIKE AT ST. PAIR   Counter-attack Beaten Off, Press Foe Against Marshes of Dives River

British Enter Troarn, Fluid Battles Ras   Monty’s Tank Columns Storm Nazi Anti-Tank

Allies Continue Advance on Paris: Gain in Italy   Russians Near Heart of Poland,  Move on Prussia

BRITISH CAPTURE RAIL STATION 8 MILES FROM CAEN   Five of Eight Divisions Blocking Road to Paris Badly Mauled by Montgomery’s Forces.   NAZI COUNTER BLOW IS HAMMERED BACK   American Troops in St. Lo Sector Improve Positions by Pushing to Line of Vire River.

BRITISH CRASH TROARN; RESUME MARCH 10 PARIS   Vicious Drive Is Directed At Heart Of France In North ©   CANADIANS ACTIVE SOUTH OF CAEN

Railway Station Is Seized in Normandy Ad yance  GERMAN DIVISIONS ARE BADLY MAULED  Nazi Forces Are Relentlessly Pressed Back

British Tanks, Infantry Reach Troarn   Five of 13 German Divisions Are Badly Battered

ALLIES WIPE OUT DIVISION OF NAZIS DAILY   Russians Advance to Little More Than 30 Miles From Minsk

Mrs. Mary Bracco Dies of Wounds; Husband Assailant   Man Calls Sheriff's Officers to Report Tragedy; Says He ‘Killed Her so She Won't Suffer Any More’ From Illness

PRICE LEVELS ~ ~~ NOT SETTLED   HOUSE BLOOKS COTTON, FISH .AND ONL RAISES BEFORE BILL GOES TO CONFERENCE

Russ Launch New Drive   27 Divisions Hurled Against Nazis in Latvia, Berlin Says

RUSSIANS IN A THREAT TO SEAL OFF BUDAPEST   Soviet Shock Troops Wedgec Deeper Into Southern Slovakia Today.   SEIZE 30 LOCALITIES   Second Ukraine Army Drove to 14 Miles East of the Rail City of Loson.

NAZIS ADMIT LINES CUT IN LATVIA   Report Huge New Russian Drive In Baltic State

Huge Rec  Smash  Predicted   Berlin Says Russians Hurl 27 Divisions Into Latvian Drive

Berlin Reports Red Arm) Has Hurled In 27 Divisions   AGAINST SOUTHERN RIM OF NAZI POCKET  With Campaign That Is  nw itn ze Me a Ty. ft, on «  A oe on

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON IN SLOVAKIA   Germans Alarmed Over Soviet Pressure On West Side of Danube Near Budapest

Russian Shock Troops Wedge Deeper Into Slovakia; Budapest Menaced

Army Intelligence ‘is Caught Napping   RED OFFENSIVE IS SPRUNG IN LATVIA

Berlin Declares Northern Drive Opened By Red:   ay 27 Divisions Horled At Nazis South Of Riga Along 22-Mile Front

SOVIET UNITS WEDGE DEEP INTO SLOVAKIA   Two Powerful Russian Army Groups Threaten to Seal Off Beleaguered Budapest From West  ENEMY SHOWS ALARM

Reds Start New Attack in North   Terrific Bombardment Opens Drive as Wedge Deepens in Slovakia

Soviets Close ~ In On Losonc,  Big Rail City   Wedge Deeper in Southern Slovakia; Tighten Siege of Budapest

Soviet Shock Troops Push Deep Into  Southern Slovakia  Relief Is in Sight For 25,000  leglated Patriate

Date of Soviet Push Set   Yamashita Defense Line Completely Destroyed   27 Russ Divisions Attackinea Nazie Sav

Russiané Give Allies Assurance of » Mighty Winter Drive on East Front

Threaten Rail City Of Losonc Guarding Capital   Shock Troops Wedge Deeper Into Slovakia

Reds Uncork Vicious Drive Inside Latvia   Germans Report 400,000 Troops  Punehing Lines

Nazis Say Reds Start New Drive on Latvia Front   27 Divisions Crack Lines, Radio Admits; Russ Reported Massing

Red Army Opens New Offensive   Move Seen as Paving Way for Drive in Poland and  East Prussia

REDS RENEW THEIR DRIVE ON BUDAPEST   Two Powerful Armies Seek to Seal Off Hungarian Capital From the West—Wedge Is Driven Deep Into Slovakia.

Soviet Army Troops Deepen Thrust Into Southern Slovakia   Seize 30 Localities, Push to Within 30 Miles of City

SOVIETS DRIVE IN HUNGARY 10 CUT OFF NAZIS   Decisive Battle Rages In Budapest - Lake Balaton Gap

Red Offensive Under Way In North, Report   27 Divisions Thrown Against Nazis, Says Berlin Radio; Gains Made In Slovakia

Nazis Admit Line Broken In Latvia   Russians Believed Massing Troops For Final Push.

77 Red Divisions Hurled in New Push   Assault.Germans on ‘22-Mile Front South Of Saldus Near Riaa

Three Soviet Armies Make  New Advance:   One Drives Deeper Into Southern Slovakia; Two Sealing of Budapest -

BERLIN STATES RUSSIANS. GAN ‘ON NORTH LINE   Claim Russians Hurled 27 Divisions Against Pocket in Latvia

——Vo“™”™™Y”.:—Y”-—C”—”—”—-”™—~™~<;3;3;3;3 3 }PMThCé<( fw  SOVIET UNITS EXTEND GAINS IN SLOVAKIA

Reds Close On Losonc, Slovak Railway Center   Two Other Armies Threat To Seal Off Beleaguer- — ed Budapest.

 Russians Open New Attack ‘In Latvia; Mass Forces For  All-Out ‘Win-the-War’ Push

Soviet Troops Wedge Deeper  Into Slovakia   Meanwhile, Two Powerful ‘Red Groups Threaten to Seal Off Beleaguered Budapest

Red Army Wedge Penetrates Slovakia New Russian Offensive Foretells Fall Of Buda

11 Divisions Are Hurled Into Figh! On Northern Front   Blow Falls In Latvia, 60 Miles From Baltic Coast

Reds Push Deeper Into Slovakia   Rail City of Losone Now Is Threatened; New Budapest Threat

‘Russians Believed Massing For Huge ‘Offensive; Attack Nazis In Latvia 

Russians Near Losonc, Slovak Railroad City   New Thrust In Hungary Threatens To Seal Off Rudavnest From West.

SOVIETS OPEN NEW DRIVE IN LATVIA SECTOR   Mass Huge Forces For Campaign “Expected To Conclude The War”

SOMETS GAIN IN SLOVAKIA   Two Powerful Red Armies Drive to Seal Off Budapest

Soviets Close In On Losone: New Red Drive      Russian Shock gy roops Wedge Deeper Into Southern Slovakia.   Sis 30> LOCALATINS

Report Russians Hurling More Men Into Latvia   Nazi Lines Pierced At Several Points, Germans Concede

97 Russian Divisions Attacking   Reds Threaten Seal Off Budapest From West

Russian Soldiers In New Operation   Powerful Red Troops Battle to Seal Off Budapest From West   TWO CENTERS SEIZED   Soviet Shock Troops Are Wedging Into Southern Slovakia

Losnoe Nears As Russians — Plow Deeper Into Slovakia   Red Armies Threaten To. Seal Off Budapest

NAZI LINES BROKEN ON RAST FRONT   Soviets In All-out At. tempt to Liquidate Trapped Enemy Troops.

Berlin Reports Russian Advance   17 RED DIVISIONS IN BATTLE ON EAST FRONT

Berlin Says Reds Opening New Offensive   Claim Big Push Started Across Polish Plains

All Out Attempt To Liquidate Tens Of Thousands Of Germans Trapped Against Baltic, Break Into Nazi Lines   GREAT CAMPAIGN MAY CONCLUDE WAR

RUSSIANS BEGIN LATVIAN DRIVE   ' Break Nazi Lines in New  Northern Attack

Soviet Troops Drive Deeper Into Slovakia   Russia Promises to  Hurl Three Army Groups Against Germans in East to Relieve Allies

Russian Soldiers la! New Operation   Powerful Red Troops Bat- ‘tle to Seal Off Budapest From West  {   Soviet Shock Troops Are Wedging Into Southern  Slovakia

BOND BANQUET TICKETS OING   Only Few Reservations Re: main for $1,000-Per  Plate Dinner

STRIKE HALTS BUS SERVICE   Greyhound ? System From Atlantic To Middle West Is Affected

Car Pooling Plan Goes Into Effect   Holders Of Supplementa Rations Required To Enxr, Pools.

CAR POOLING PLAN GOES: INTO EFFECT   Holders ‘of Sup; Supplemental Rations Required to Form Pools

More Than 7,700 Soldiers Slain By Yellow Jap Thugs   U. S. Officers Picture Tortures Endured For 361 Days

POST HOSPITAL HIT BY CRIPPLED PLANE   Four Persons Killed At Camp Haan: X-Ray Department Is7 Set Afire

Four Die as Army Plane Plunges Into Hospital   Pilot Parachutes To Safety as Ship Goes Out of Control

Pilotless Plane Hits Hospital   Four Persons Killed At Camp Haan, California

Four Persons Are Killed When P-38 Fighter Plane Crashes Into Hospital

Dies and Winchell Air Controversy In Acrimonious Radio Broadcasts   Congressman Charges Plot to Smear Congress ; Commentator Says He'll Continue Criticism

WATTS FILES IN GOVERNOR RACE   Five-way Contest Among Democrats Develops as Deadline Nears

CANDIDATES ADO NAMES TO LIST   J. Blackburn Watts Joins Wide-Open Race For Democratic Nomination For Governor; Others File

Signs of Turkish War Move Grow   Departure of German Ambassador Reported

German-Turkish Break Foreseen   Departure of Franz Yon Papen From Ankara Seen as Sian Turkey May Ficht With Allies

Red Army Drives Closer to Viipuri   Soviets Capture 100 Towns, Settlements

REDS (N KARELI AREA PUSH TO LAKE LADOGA   Front Curves Unbrok. en 65 Miles From Gulf of Fimland

CONGRESS MAPS BRIEF SCHEDULE   Less Than Half Of Its Members On Hand For Lame Duck Session

NEW. MEASURES PLACED BEFORE 78TH CONGRESS   Crop Insurance Law Tc Be Given Early Attention As Session Opens  In Washington

CONGRESS MAPS SHORT SCHEDULE   FLURRY OF REQUESTS FOR NEW LEGISLATION GREETS  LAWMAKERS.

ESSION BEGUN BY CONGRESS   Many Proposals for Legislative Action Greet Members on Return

CONGRESS 15 CONVENED TO FINISH WORK      Extension of President's Powers Expected to be Voted

GUNGRESS MAPS SHORT SCHEDULE   Leaders Lean to View it Is Useless to Undertake More Than Brief Legislative Program

Requests Fill Calendar Of Congress   Leaders See Action Delayed for Newly Elected Group

Congress Maps Brief Program For Expiring Term   Extension of War Powers of President Tops Current Business

Legislators Face Flurry OfRequests   Expect Program of the  Present Congress to  * Be Brief: Many Not In Washinaton

Congress Reconvenes To Wind Up 1944 Tasks.   New Legislation Asked ‘ On Highways; Aliens, Smaller War Plants

Senator Barkley Expected To Nominate  Roosevelt At Democratic Convention

Barkley May Name FDR For 4th Term   Speculate Upon Wallace Chances

Barkley May Nominate F.R For 4th Term   Would Seal Senator's Reconciliation; May Run as Vice President

BARKLEY MAY NOMINATE FDR      ‘Dear Alben’ Expected To Seal Reconciliation With President >

SEN, BARKLEY MAY NOMINATE FDR PRESIDENT   Democrats Will pen Convention  Next Wednesday

Sen. Barkley May Name Roosevelt   Belief Expressed President Will Seek Fourth Term

BARKLEY MAY NOMINATE FDR      Such An ‘Act Would Seal Reconciliation With President, Is View

UNITY SOUGHT BY DEMOCRATS   Sen. Barkley Expected To Nominate Roosevelt

Barkley to Name FDR for 4th Term   Kentuckian Expected to Nominate Roosevelt at Democrat Convention

BARKLEY WILL NOMINATE FOR   Wallace’s Return Opens Speculation On VicePresident Choice

Pick Barkley to Nominate FDR  Seen as a Full Reconciliation Move

‘BARKLEY MAY BE \CHOSEN FOR FDR \NOMINATION TALK   Senate Leader Who Broke With President Now Dubbed for New Role at Con veantian

Barkley May Nominate F.D.R. For  Fourth Term, Seal Reconciliation   New Speculation On Wallace’s Chances Of Being Renominated For Vice-President; Believe President Will Accept.

Roosevelt To Be Nominated 4th Term By Barkley   May Be Precedent For Exclusion of Texas and Mississippi Delegates.

BARKLEY WILL BE FDL NOMINATOR   Fresh Speculation Arises or Wallace’s Chances For Vice-President.

BARKLEY MAY NOMINATE FOR   Believe Roosevelt to Accept Another Nomination

Demos Analyze Dewey’s Talk  White House Issues Statement On Claims

INDICT FORMER LT. - COVERNOR   Accused of Taking And Giving Bribes To  Legislators

Ex-Lt. Governor Called Bribe   Murphy Is Expected Tc -Surrender Today

Himmler Gets Broad Powers On Home Front   Gestapo Chief Starts Roundup of All Wehrmacht. Officers Suspected of F; avoring Early Peace © With Allies--One Consniratar Identified

Tornado Hits Eas:. 152 Dead In Two States.   Thousand Hurt in Penn sylvania, W. Virginia; Tass $2. 00-000

Tornado Kills 140 Injures 1,000 In Eastern Area  Twister Cuts Swath Through West Virginia, and Pa.

a rr  Tornado Kills at Least 140 Persons In Pennsylvania and West Virginia

Tornado Takes 140 Lives In  Eastern States   1,000 Said Injured; Property Damage Will Exceed Three Million

FOUR MILITARY COPS SPENT ONE DAY IN PARADISE   There Was No Dusty Roads to Police and No Stragglers to Round Un

Navy Reports Loss Of U. S. Sub Pompano   Believe Raider  Sunk In Pacific

Air Fleet HitsEurope   Almost 3,000 Warplanes Blast  Targets From Coast To Romania

8 More Homes Sold LePage Reports Lively Turn Over in City’s Real Estate

Ten Homes Sold In Past Week, LePage Reports  Land Purchases Also Included in County’s

“Roughest, Toughest” U.S. Infantry Unit Yet Draws Ohio Volunteers To Burma

CARRIERS LEAD RACE TO TOKYO   Navy Will Have Over 100 By End Of Year, Says Navy Air Chief

U.S. To Claim 10 Carriers In ’44   At Close of Year Powerful Fleet Will Overcome All Pacific Objectives.

Navy To Have 100 Carriers .  By Next Year, Admiral Says   Air Arm To Spearhead Yank Westward Drive, Bureau of Aeronautics Chief Ramsey Onines   SPEAKS AT LUNCHEON OF ASSOCIATED PRESS   General Vandegrift Sees Japs Stffening. Praises News Services

RAMSEY TELLS AP OF AIR ARM RISE   Admiral Convinced Navy Pilots To Spearhead Drive West. in Pacific -

RATTON’S ARMY ‘TAKES 4 TOWNS AN NEW ATTACK   Yanks’ Position Between ® Metz and Nancy Now Improved

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   IMPROVE AMERICAN POSITION ON FRENCH FRONT

YANK POSITION IMPROVED IN GERMANY   Third Army Advances One Mile; Four More Towns Are Taken

THIRD ARMY — ATTACKS ON ——. METZ FRONT   FOUR TOWNS TAKEN DURING DRIVE LAUNCHED AT DAWN—FORESY BATILE  _ STILL RAGING

OPA VIOLATORS BEING CHARGED   Charges Against Washington County Men Filed In Federal Court

(HARGES FILED IN FIVE RATION CASES   Local Men sn Accused of Having Illegal Sugar  Coupons 

(HARGES FILED iN ~-FIVERATION CASES      Local Men’ Accused 1  Having lilegal Sugar Coupons

SAYS NAZIS KILL 33 MORE FLIERS   British War Secretary Tells of Additional Killings

33 More Allied Flyers Slain By NaziCaptors —   War Criminals Commission Keeps Account Of Killings

Nazis Kall 33 More Fliers   British War Secretary Grigg Says 27 Shot When Trying To Escape Prison,

MORE ALLIED FLIERS SLAIN   British Official Says 3: Killed by Germans

Germans Shoot 33 More Fliers  Nazis Allege 27 of Last Victims Killed  FO e, Ee Bawmna

Nazis Accused of Slaying 33 More Allied Fliers by Sir James Grigg

Nazis Shoot Allied Fliers, Grigg Says   33 More Slain,  Commons Hears

LIQUOR BLAMED FOR ABSENTEEISM IN WAR PLANTS   Dry Advocates Seek Na. tional War Time Ban or  Alcohol As Aid to Indus. ‘Spay

DRY CRUSADE 1S LAUNCHED   Claim Weekend Sprees Retard War Output

JAPS DAMAGE U.S. SHIPS IN CARRIER FORCE   Lose Ten Planes In Raid; U. S. Suffers Light Loss In Personnel

Jap Raiders Hit U. S. Fleet   Several Yank Ships Damaged in Attack

CITATION BY PUBLICATION   CITATION BY PUBLICATION     No, C-805,.358     Prank Booker vs. Cleo Booker

CITATION BY ‘PUBLICATION   MTATION BY PUBLICATION     No, A-206,894     Robert Mills vs, Dollie Mills

CITATION BY PUBLAG ATION   Baughiie Barrett     VS. LTuadie Bay ‘Barrett

CITATION FW PUBLICATION   SUEF, Bl Memiradyed 6 ay  Tiian Knowles vs, Spencer Knowles

‘CITATION BY. PURTICATION             “No: ‘€-304,808 ga Fred Ww ‘Huddleston’ -. Mrs. Taciile E. Huddleston

CITATION BY PURLICATION   CITATION BY PURLICATION     No, A-805,398 H. TL. Benson vs.  J. W. Benson

2 Others Under Assault In Marshalls In Pacific   Powers of Emperor of Japan Sus pended In Chain By Order of An American Admiral

Americans Invace Three Additional Marshall Islands  Victorious Assault Crute Dietance From   Victorious Assault Cuts Distance From  Tokyo to 2000 Miles

Division Entrenched On Rhine In Critical Plight   TT 6 South, Patton’s Army Is Locked ° In Toughest Battle Of Campaign

Texas Labor Law Case 1s Argued   U.S. Court Hears  ‘Rantctration Plag

Reds Now 80 Miles. From Germany Proper   British Take Caen, Yanks La Haye in . France; A Americans Close in On akan Port

Rush Holt Attempting A Comeback   iix-Boy Senator Pops Up Again As Governor Candidate

NAVY BOOSTING STRENGTH FOR WAR ON JAPAN   Increase of 383,000 Needed to Keep Pace with Operations.

Navy Plans Hike in Men   Big Seale Operations On Japan in Offing

Navy to Add 383,000 Men   Raises Goal to Keep Pace with Pacific War

REDS NAB PARNU, PORT CITY: WARSAW ENTRY S CONFIRMED   MOST OF ESTONIA IN RUSSIAN HANDS; SOVIET FORCES STRIKE SOUTH, WEST OF TALLINN

Storm Fortified Heights And Pour ISalvos Into City   Heavy Fire Poured Pnto ANS” Suicide Sotuads: nd of Battle in Sight as Reds Storm f ortitied Plcights and Press bear coy Neainst Blaeh Ses

Movement to blonoer County's Most) Distinguished Citizen Given Additional Impetus:

SOLDIERS PRAY IN ~— TTALIAN FOXHOLES   Spectacular Easter Service Broadcast to Americans and Nozis

Yanks Share Easter With the Nazis Rites Held Near Lines--Guns Silent

GERMANS SHARE DOUGHBOY SERVICES  Roar of Battle Silenced for Easter

American Soldiers Share Easter Service With Nazis on Italian Front

Easter Services to German Line   Thousands of American Sol. diers Knelt in Fox Holes Near German Infantry.

M’ARTHUR CLUB! TO CEASE MOVE, SAYS PRESIDENT   Savage Expresses Regret Over General’s Action

SOVIETS WIDEN ~KARELIAN GAF   Strong Air Support Given Determined Drive in Isthmus

RUSSIANS BREAK SECOND LINE IN THEIR DRIVE UP ISTHMUS   FIGHTING FRONT IN FINLAND WIDENED TO 47 MILES AS RED MACHINE ROLLS FORWARD

Soviet Legions, Strong Air ‘Support Continue Determined Push Up Karelian Isthmus

Japs Withdraw All Warships From Rabaul   Supply Lines Weakened jo Danger Point

JAPS RECALL ALL WARSHIPS FROM RABAUI   None Sighted By Raiders And Shipping There At Lowest Ebb

JAP WARSHIPS WITHDRAW FROM RABAUL  Have Apparently   Have Apparently Abandoned  Important Base

NIP WARSHIPS WITHDRAWN FROM RABAUL   Action Believed Due to Allied Air Raids

JAPS OcEM TO BE GIVING UP NEW BRITAIR   Warships All Withdrawn at Rabaul: Madang May Be Evacuated.

Jans Withdraw All Warships  From Rabaul   Shipping at Big Nipponese Base At Laweet Fhh

Rabaul Harbor Cleared Of All Jap Warships   Allied Air Blows Agains! Important Jap Base Are Taking Effect Reports MacArthur

Truck Strike ‘nd s Seen   Workers Are Expected ack On Jobs Monday

UOT WORKS ON TRIKE BOUND INDEPENDENT?   Hopes to Have Trucks Moving by Monday Under Order to End Walkout.

Johnson In Split With FDR   Senator Declares Term Would Be On« Of Defeat And  Frustration

RESCUE CREWS DIG IN RUINS   ' * ESTIMATES OF DEAD IN AR_GENTINA QUAKE DISASTER RANGE BETWEEN 5,000   “AND 10, 000 .

SEEK BODIES OF QUAKE VICTIMS   Officials Believe Toll May Reach 5,000

DENY CHARTER FOR BANK   Commissioner Finds No Need for Proposed Neodesha Facility

War-Fund Chest Reports Given _  Contributions Of $23,445 Announced At Report Meet

War-rund Chest Reports Given OS iver  Contributions Of $23,445  Announced At Report Mee!

Russians Carry War To Nazi Soil, Close Siege Arc On Warsaw; Trap Sprung On Germans In Baltics

KAUNAS FALLS IN nos DR FOR LITHUANIE   Reds Closing in on Warsaw from Three Sides; New Battle in Jelgava.

ussian Troops rive Closer to azi Home Soil   peed of Soviet Advance Perils Armies of Reich

Smash To  Suwalki  Triangle Soviet Forces  _ Closing in On Warsaw. From

Keystone Base Before Prussia Falls To Reds   Other Russian Forces Smash Through Suwalki Within 22 Miles Of Germany.

PRE-WAR CAPITAL OF LITHUANIA FALLS T0 SWIFT MOVING RUSSIANS   Kaunas Now In Hands of Soviet Army; Reds Closing In On Warsaw From Three Sides.

Ked Army Captures Kaunas, Pre-War Capital Of Lithuania  RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON WARSAW  Great Battle Raging Six And One-quarter Miles  Of Warsaw

Berlin Admits Fall Of Kaunas Reds  Pierce E. Prussia   Russians Close In On Warsaw; Germans  Abandon Siedlce

Soviets Swing tron Are Around Warsaw   Lithuanian Capital Falls ‘to Jewish General’s Baltic Troops, Berlin Report Says

U.S. Has Removed Export Bans On Turk Shipping  Military Supplies: May Be Sent To Nation Shortly

U.S. Removes Ban on Goods Sent Turkey   Civilian Products for Cash and Lend-Lease War Items Resumed

Export Bans On Turkey  Are Removed   Shipment Of Items Under Lend-Lease Will Be Resnmed

Russian Newspapers Print Britain's Denial of Separate Peace Story

BY POWERFUL U.S. BOMBERS   RAF Turns Attention To Sofia, Capital Of Bulgaria

U.S. Bombers Hurl First Raidat Vienna   _ RAF Hits France In Two-Way Squeeze on Nazis

FCC FUNDS CUT 'BY HOUSE GROUP   Radio Intelligence Division Practically Eliminated

Soviets Reduce Nazis’ Budapest Escape Corridor   Germans Claim Defense Victory On Latvian Front

RUSS TIGHTEN SIEGE PINCER ON BUDAPEST   Hundreds of Tanks In See-saw Battles

Soviet Troops Clamp Pincers On Budapest   Almost Three-Quarters Of City Circled; Push Carries Within 109 Miles Of Vienna.

LOU MP bk  TO SHUT ThAP ON BUDAPEST   Other Forces Hammer Way to Within 109 Miles of Vienna.

Chinese Build Bases By Hand   67,000 Peasants Make B-29 Landing Field

DEWEY MAKES PLANS   With Governor Bricker He Will Discuss Campnaian Strateay

MATTOON PROWLER MVSTERY EXPLAINED      Fumes From War Plant and Mass Hysteria Blamed For Reports.

GAS ATTACKER NON - EXISTENT   War Plant Fumes Blamed For Near Hysteria In Mattoon

Jon Hall Injured in Argument Postlude   Screen Hero Blames Two Unknown Men for Slashes

REDS DRIVE T ENCIRCLE BIG NAZI BASTION   Push Seals Doom of Nikolayev   FREE 327 TOWNS   Nazis Rush Troops From Denmark

Knox's Death Saddens FDR   President, In Southland Taking First Real Vacation In Years, Fit And Rested

President Is Deeply Affected By Knox's Death   President Roosevelt Mourns Sudden Death Of Able Member Of Cabinet  ROOSEVELT ON

PRESIDENT IS SADDENED BY KNOX’ DEATH   Deep Tan Acquired on Vacation Fails to Hide Grief

SILENCE BROKEN BY ROOSEVELT IN _ PRAISES OF KNOX   Newsmen Summoned to Hear Expressions of Regret and { Told Loss Is Great “to  ' Us, Me Personally.”   DIED AT HIS POST, IS CASUALTY OF WAR   Executive Refers to Secre _ tary as One Who Did Much  , For Country, Helped In Defense and Success.

Will Relieve Rationing Of ‘Meats, Canned Goods Soon   “Reasonable Ration Basis” Before End Of Year Predicted : By Gol. Houston

YANKS SEEK JUNCTION IN GUAM BATTLE   Move from Both North and South To Cut Off Airfield

Attempt Being Made To Cut Off  Orote Peninsula   Amphibious Operations Smoothest of War Say Front Dispatches

Jap Resistance Gains as Push_ Gees Inland — Tokyo Admits Landing  But Claims Heavy  vr

TOKYO ADMITS CUAM INVASION IN BROADCAS)   Nimitz Says Increasing Enemy Resistance Met in Some Sectors

ADVANCE ON GUAM ISLAND   Two Forces Drive Toward Junction On West Coast

YANKS PUSHING INLAND TOWARD GUAM AIRFIELD   T'wo-Pronged Drive Now Meetung stiffer Kesistance

GUAM FORCES IN TWO-WAY DRIVE FOR JUNCTION   Seck To Isolate Orote Airfield, Resistance Stlilfens.

Targets on Path to Philippines Hit By Allied Planes. MacArthur Reports

5 Ships Sunk by M Arthur Fliers   Bombers Also Damage Four More Vessels

General Surprises Gls With Visit   Praises Eight Dirty, Unshaved Yanks for Working on Mud Road

Commander Popula r With Fifth Army  Takes Time Out To Stop and Visit With Men

JAPANESE ARE MENACING U. $. AIRBASES   Protecting Chungking: Advance to Within Four Miles of Walied City of Ishan.   Bomb Locks

Chinese Renot  Jans Near Ishan InPush to West  Tokyo Claims City anc {ts Ajrrort Already an Tha. Ly Nips

JAPS ADVANCE TOWARD ISHAN FOR INVASION   Bitter Ficshting Reported Today By Chinese

Japanese Land Army Drives Toward Ishan in Move To Raid Hinterland

8,000 MINERS OUT ON STRIKE   Protest Dismissal of Union Official

CHILL IN THE AIR   Indian Summer Weather a Month Early, Says Forecaster ,

5TH ARMY TAKES ENTIRE SECTOR IN QUICK DRIVE   Germans Also Withdrawing On Adriatic In y (emerald Retreat

Fifth Army Races  Steadily North And Northwest . OF Rome With Most Advance Units Now Reported 33 Miles North Of Eternal City

Nazis Abandon Tarquinia, in Italy Claimed   Gen. Clark’s Forces Capture Caprarola, 34 Miles North of Rome: Germans Flee

Germans Abandon Tarquinia in Italy; Retire On Adriatic   Allies Report General Advances On Italian Front Simee Attack Launched Nearly A Month Ago

Germans Abandon ‘Tarquinia   Enemy Shows no Disposition to Take Determined Stand in Italy

NAZIS FLEE ~ADRIATIC SEA DEFENSES   Fear Encirclement as Allied Italian Army Presses Them Closer in Rout From Rome.

RED ARMY IS NEAR'NG BUDAPEST   Russians Approaching Orkeny, 24 Miles From Capital

RUSSIANS PUSH CLOSER TO BUDAPEST   Hammer Approaches To Orkeny, 24 Miles From Capital

Reds Hammer At Last Big Barrier Before Budapest   Soviet Armored Units Slash North Through Flimsy Nazi Defenses

REDS SLASH NORTH THRU HUNGARY   Near Town _ 24 Miles — From Budapest

REDS HAMMER AT ORKENY, GATE TO BUDAPEST   24 Miles Away Front Hungary Capilal; Within Biz Gun Range

Main Battle Of Budapest Is Imminent   Hungarian Capital Is Within Range Of Soviet Guns.

ORKENY WITHIN GUN RANGE OF RED COLUMNS   City Last Major Barrier Before Budapest, 24 Miles Away

Reds at Last Big Barrier  To Budapest   ‘Malinovsky’s 2nd ‘Hammers at Orkeny 24 Mi. From City

Reds Strike Last Budapest Barrier   Advance at Ten Mile a Dav Pace

Soviets Are At Approaches To Orkeny   Last Major Barrier Before Budapest I'inder Artillerw Fira

Japs Flee In Panic Before Allied Drive   Australian Infantry Routs Nip Defenders From Ramu Valley

J apanese Driven Back By. Thrusts Gf The Australians   Three Strong Assaults, Preceded by ‘Dive- Bombins and Artillery Barrages, Flank the Enemy— ‘More Positions Are Captured

Japanese Flee From Aussies Nips Leave 100 Dec   Nips Leave 100 Deac in Fast Departure

Japanese Flee From Aussies  SS a a   Nips Leave 100 Dea in Fast Derariure

“1 2 2 "tp rere  are oO “oor a  Me A yeooyye ve S ~ we a 46  , ial r 4 ‘ a me 2 aan Pee, en > eee 122. w

JAPS DISLODGED IN RAMU VALLEY BY AUSTRALIANS   Jungle-Wise Aussies Penetrate Swamps And Scale Peaks In Advance   SMALL ENEMY VESSEL DESTROYED BY BOMB

AUSSIES SEND JAPS FLEEING FROM RAMU   In Northeastern New Guinea; Thursts Preceded By Artillery Barrages; Cut Off Large Enemy Forces.   Blast Halmahera

TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE PINCHES   MANY COMMUNITIES IN NEBRASKA USING RESERVE FOOD STOCKS

TRUCK STRIKE SUK DAYS OLD   Nebraska Communities Are Using Reserve Food Stocks.

Food Supply Threatened By Strike   500 Nebraska Towns Witkout Shipments

Goering vs. Goebbels  Aaatrattatal  _ aoe dower 3 : gees PR 7 som

Death of 4 Boys AtErie Lerner  ‘Mysterious’ ~~   : Tots ‘Died Too Fast” For Food Poisoning,  Pathologist Declares .

Landings Made OnGreek Coast; RedsPushAhead      15,000 Nazis Face Entrapment Along Schelde Estuary North Of Allied Lines in Belaium

BRITISH INVADE WEST GREECE AND SEIZE AIRFIELDS AS REDS STORM ON TOWARDS BELGRADE

Jeffers Opposed to Hillman, Crop  Says Unions Have Lost Autonomy

Report: Badly Mauled Nazis in Ukraine Are Regrouped to Hold Line

NAZIS REGROUPING PANZER DIVISIONS IN SOUTH UKRAINE   Making Prepatations for An  other Attempt to Hold  Bag River Line.   {LONDON RADIO REPORTS   Will Attempt to Regain Con trol of Trunk Railway Running to Odessa.

Germans Are Regrouping Tank Forces,  ‘LondonHears   Make Desperate Effort To Hold Bug River Line Russians Drive To End Sieve Of Leningrad

Light Resistance Offered By Nazis   General George S. Patton’s Third Army Is Reported Gn Move Again After Short Delay

Border Village of Rotgen Captured by the Americans   NAZIS FALL BACK  TO RHINE SECTORS  Three U. S. Armies Have Captured 320,000  Prisoners

Yanks Reach Outskirts Of Aachen, Take First  Village Inside Germany   Americans Strike From Four Sectors Along 90-Mile Front At West Wall; Enemy Offers Little Resistance

Capture Rotgen, Border Village In German Reich   Other American Columns Gaining

CAPTURED BY HODGES MEN   Westwall Core Hit in Three Places; Third Army Pushes Ahead

U.S.HitsNear Core Of Siegfried Line  On Four Sectors   Rotgen Inside Germany Also Captured; Nazi Troops May Be Falling Back on Rhine; 320,000 Nazis Taken by American Armies

German Border Village Taken By Invaders   Allies Strike Close to. Westwall in at Least Four Sectors

Yanks Hit Nazi Westwall  at Four Points   Rotgen, First German Community to Be Reported Captured in All-Out Assault on Reich, Taken by Americans

Win Positions in the Town Forest and Heights Overlooking City. Nazis Falling Back Toward Rhine.

New Guinea Drive Ended Says General   Americans Advance Nearer Philippines With Light Losses

Pittsburgh Ace Dies in Action Over N. Guinea   Lt. Col. Thomas Lynch Downed 26 Jap Planes Ju Two Years of Flying

Dewey to Rur If Wanted, Say Friends   Aides Make Statement As Bricker Campaign Staff Sees New Gains

Dewey Backers. Hint He Would Head GOP Slate   Bricker Gains  Added Support

DEWEY REMAINS GOP TOP CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT   Friends Of Ohio’s Governor Bricker, However, Hope New Support Thrown His Way May Be A Winning Stretch Run

Dewey To Run lf Nominated; Bricker Gains  Backers Of Leading Candidates Dispute First Ballot Claims

BRICKER GAINS NEW SUPPORT IN GOP RACE   Dewey Backers All But Announce New Yorker Is Candidate

Dewey Remains Leading Republican Contender - But Bricker’s Supporters Claim New Strenoth

Bricker Picks New Support with Home Stretch Near   Maryland Delegate Declares. He Will. Back. Qhioan;. Dewey Revealed as Willing To Accept Nomination.

Bricker Gains More Support For Nomination   News Conference Reveals Dewey Believed “Willing”

New Type of Ace Is Reported, Downing Naz: !Pilotless Rocket Planes

STATE PERMIT SOME CUTTING   Allow Connor Co. to Cut Timber in Mountain Area For War Effort.

American Raiders Lose 33 Aircraft   Yank Assault Tops Heavy RAF Frankfort Blow

Fighting Men H en Have 1 _No_ Illusions  Man at Eran coe — a ee ee

Ia Nice at Home-But Hell ‘Over There’  EE Se Siren sere  Tough Days Lie Ahead Ere Peace Can Return

Sudden Death Claims Famed Sister Aimee   Body Of Aimee Sempk McPherson Found In Oakland Hotel   NOTED EVANGELIST   24-Year-Old Founder Of Angelus Temple Dies Of Attack

Angelus Temple Founder Expires  Aimee M’Pherson  Dies in Oakland

URW atl ASIDE URDER CANGELED BY GOVERNMENT   Corn for Commercial Use to Be Obta:ned by Normal Methods

CORY SET ASIDE ORDER CANCELED BY ROVERNITENT      Corn for Comme Use. to: Be Obta: ned. ‘ by-Norma) Methods

Rail Unions Squabbling  Accepting of FDR's  Arbitration Ranned y

RIFT GROWS AMONG BIG FIVE OPERATING RAIL BROTHERHOODS   . Three Unions Assail Two Others For Okaying F. D. As Referee

RAILROAD UNION RIFT BROADENS   Three Denounce Other Two For Accepting Arbitration

RAILWAY UNION iRIFT BECOMING IMORE EMBITTEREL   Members Of Three Unions Adopt Resolution Condemning Other Two

FOUR EXPLOSIONS DEATH TO MAN   Kings Mill Powder Plant Is Scene of Blasts

Hitler Makes Direct Appeal to German Army for Loyalty; Number of Prominent Military Leaders Reported Liquidated 

Hitler Asks German Ar my for Loyalty as Indications Mount That Revolt Continues

Fate of Many Top Generals Is in Doubt   Same Men Reported Purged and Connected  With Rebel Rezime   QUIET, SAYS BERLIN   Ley Blames Revolt, Still Flaming, on ‘Idiotic Nobility of Reich

Congress Cool To Service Plan   Kee »p Servicemen in Uniform  ~ Until Jobs Are Open; Hershey

Solons Cool Toward Plan   President’s Service Act Not Enthusiastically Met

COOL RECEPTION IN CONGRESS TO FDR PROPOSALS   Senator Johnson and Qther Declare It Will Never Get Out of Com  ets Pr

CONGRESSMEN COOL TOWARD SERVICE ACT   Austin-Wadsworth National Ser vice Bill Waits, Already En dorsed by Officials

British King  Visits Troops   Makes First Trip To  -Invasion Beachheads

Fire Costly ...  EVERTON, ARKANSAS,  DESTROYED BY FIRE    Damage of Midnight Conflagration ; Estimated at $20,000. BEVERTON ARKANS

Flames Destroy Part of Village  Postoffice and Other Buildings At Everton

BUTTER SUPPLY REMAINS TIGHT   Sugar And Pork Scarcities To Be Corrected Soon

BUTTER SUPPLY TO STAY TIGHT   Sugar, Pork Scarcities To Be Corrected Soon, ~~ Washington Says

FOOD ‘SUPPLY  ~ REPORT MADE   BUYTER TO  BE “PRETTY TIGHT” BALANCE OF YEAR—MORE  ~ BUGAR. AND PORK SOON

TIGHT’ BUTTER SUPPLY LOOMS   Civilians Will Get Less Can: ned Foods, Beiief

Who's Boss: Congress Or White House   Why Have Any? Better They Should Work Together

Clark Declares Rome Sure to be Captured   Fifth Army General Strikes Confident Note as He Compliments Troops for Their ‘Successful Operations’

General Clark Reassures All Of His Troops      Says. Supplies Will Give Them Opportunity To Slay Germans “In Large Numbers”   Told. To Kill Every Hun Showing Head   Generals Wilson and Alex_ander Inform Churchill There Is “No Justifica-   tion for Pessimism’?

oughest of Americas ighting Men Sent to rance To Smash Nazis   orrespondent Describes Elaborafe Preparations for  Assault upon Invasion Coast; Reports Men Fif and Anxious to “Get If Over and Go Home; All Equip—oed with Gas Masks   By HOWARD WHITMAN   TOUGHEST OF THE TOUGH

Five-Year-Old Boy Falls to Death In Ten Mile Creek  Kradolfer Boy’s Body   Kradolfer Boy’s Body Not Immediately Recovered From Creek

Five-Year-Old Boy Falls to Death In Ten Mile Creek  Kradolfer Boy’s Body Not Immediately Recovered From Creel

SENATE COMMITTEE OPPOSED T0 CERTAIN PLANT RECONVERSION  NORTH AND EAST PLANTS BE FROZEN, BUT SOUTH AND WEST RECONVERTED

Would Freeze War Plants In Eleven States   Senators Propose Ban On Reconversion Of Government Plants In Concentrated Areas

FREEZE ASKED ON WAR PLANTS INNORTH, EAST   Reconversion Ban Advised In Ohio, 10 Other States To Aid West, South

FREEZE GOV'T WAR FACTORIES   Senate Group Urges Ban On Recenversion In 11 States

WOULD CURB WAR PLANTS IN EAST   , ‘Ban on Reconversion Asked  by Committee.

‘Senators Propose Freeze ‘Of Government-Owned  Northeastern War Plants

Reconversion Plan to Favor West, South   Industrial Development Would Be Given Boost Under Senate Pregram

‘Freeze’ Proposed As An Aid To Industrialization  Of West And South.

E astern War Plant Conversion Opposed  . Senate Committee Urges Free Zing  In 11 States, Industrialization ar Wact and Sawih

Asks Preference Jest. South On Reconversion   Senate Group Urges Ban - -On All War Plants In-11 States In North, East

REDISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY OF NATION PLANNED   industrialization of Wes’ And South Recommended By Senate Committee

WOULDAFFECT ELEVEN STATES   Michigan Included in Plan to Freeze Government-Owned War. Plants.

iAsks Reconversion Ban ‘On Government Plants   Committee’s Proposal Would. Affect 11 Northern And Eastern States, Including Ohio; Favors Industrialization In West And South

Senate Group Seeks To Aid West, South  By Banning Reconversion In Northeast

Would. Prohibit Reconversion of All Federal-Owned Plants in II States

Industry Shift Is Proposed —   Boost In South. ‘And. . West Recommended

PROPOSE BAN ON RECONVERSION   War Plants In Ohio, 10 Other States Would Be Frozen

Seek Ban On Reconverting Some Plants   ‘Senate Group Advises In dustrialization of West, South Areas

Would Freeze War Plants In Eleven States   Senate Conimitice Warn: Against Lack. of Bal. ance In Postwar: “Economy

RECONVERSION PLAN HITS EAS]   Ban On Converting U. S. Owned Plants Proposed

Hard-Driving Russian Troops Are Within 35 Miles Of Lake Bala. ton; Rip Through German Hun. garian Defenses _   MORE THAN 60 TOWNS VILLAGES CAPTUREL

Fast-Driving ‘Reds Menace Austria Gate   Decisive Engagement! At Balaton Possible In Next 48: Hours

REDS 35 MI. PROM GATEWAY TOAUSTRA   May Reach Border Within Next 48 Hours

Russians Ripping Through German Defenses Rapidly   Axis Lines Wilting Before Furious Soviet Onslaught

RUSSIANS PLUNGE ONWARD TO LAKE BALATOH, VITAL JUNCTION   REDS RIP THROUGH HUNGARIAN, GERMAN LINES IN SAVAGE, UNCHECKED OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH

Russians 35 Mi. From Austria  Germans Hurriedly Pull Back to South Shores of

RUSSIANS NEAR GATE TO AUSTRIA   Reach Point Within 35 Miles Of Lake Balaton

Reds 35 Mi. From Gate To Austria   Germans Pull Back To Marshy Lake Balaton

RUSSIANS NEAR LAKE BALATON, AUSTRIAN GATI   Showdown Battle Of Central Europe May Be Fought There

Nation Honors Lincoln Today   Wallace Heads Group Making Pilgrimage To Lincoln's Tomb

WALLACE VISITS LINCOLN’S TOME   President and Veteran Lead ers Honor Emancipator

Use Eggs For Easter--Plea   Might Help Relieve Distressing Surplus If Children Go in For Coloring Them -

With Ham And Eggs Reported Plentiful Easter Dinners Should Be Traditional

Ham andEggSupply  For Easter Is  Experiencing Boom Cheerful News Seen  For Consumers This Holiday Season

Good News for Nation's Housewives,   Children; Ham and Eggs Plentiful

Big Yank  Fleet in Assault   Wide Damage, Fires Left by Bombers; Western Europe Hit

1000 BOMBERS LEAVE CAPITAL   Toulon Also Hit By Heavy Force Bombers

GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE IN SECOND DAYLIGHT VISIT   Nazi Broadcasts State Terror Raid Resulted In Many Fires [n Thickly Populated Areas.   THREE ITALIAN PORTS USED BY AXIS BOMBED   More Skirmishing Reported On Anzio Beachhead Whils Cassino Is Quiet, Enemy Patrol Beaten Off.

Nazi Broadcasts Admit Damage In Raid Heavy :   Assault Climaxes 13 Days of Most -:  Destructive BleetinSs

3000 YANK AIRCRAFT SMASH AT INVASION  TADALCTC AUED FLNDADE l\THRRULIGWG Waki kW

Sweden Warned Time Is Short   Increase Pressure  To Stop Aid to Nazis

WORLD UNDCR WAR OnADUWS ON GHAIST MAS   Roosevelt and Pope Pius i Prayers for Victory and Peace.

‘America’s Fourth Wartime Christmas  Passes Soberly; World Leaders Send Messages of Hope and Courage

Cov. Stevenson, John Lee Smith Ave Renominatec   All Present State Officials Lead Ticket, Most Win Without Run-off

SEVERAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN TEXAS ARE IN TIGHT RACES  REP, LUTHER JOHNSON HAS BEEN RENOMINATED OVER CHESTER NORTH

REPORTS ILLEGAL USE OF GASOLINE   75 Million Gallons Drained From Nation’s Supply in January.

Fortresses Bomb Bases At Vienna   il Kefinery In  Albania IAlso Attacked

FLIERS RAID VIENNA AND ALBANIA   Italian-Based U. §$ Heavies Attack Oil Installations

Austria, Albania Bombed By Forts   500 U. S. Planes Blas Nazi Military Points °

Soviets take  Monor, clear  railway line Red troops pour gecross Danube

INVASION TIME GROWING NEAR AS WORD GOES OUT FOR CONCERTED “MASS ACTION” OF THE UNDERGROUND IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA   SOVIET ARMIES ONLY 100 MILES FROM THEIR FRON  TIER AS CZECHS RECEIVE LONG-AWAITED ORDE! FROM LONDON.

Interior Department Gives Rules for Filing Claim to Land on Moon

Property On Moon Is A U.S Concern   ‘Applicant Must. Be Prepared to Establish Permanent Residence.”

Priest Confers With Stalin   Describes Stalin as Friendly Disposed Toward Catholic Church

Pol'sh Priest And Stalin In Second Parley   Father OrJemanski De clares Soviet Leader A  Friend of Poles.

CATHOLIC PRIEST LAUDS RUSSIANS AS GREAT PEOPLE   DESCRIBES STALIN AS VERY FRIENDLY TOWARD THE CHURCH

U.S. PRIEST SAYS CATHOLICISM TO BE POLISH CREED   Rev. Orlemanski, After Talk. With Stalin, Molotiv, Say. Stalin Friendly Toward Ro iman Catholic Church

Stalin Very’ , Friendly to Catholicism   So Reports. ‘Rev. Orlemanski of Springfield, Mass., is. Friendly to Polish People  "

Declares Stalin I Friend of Poles  U. S. Priest Granted Second. Conference

Premier Stalin,  Bay State Priest In New Parley   Attitude Of Soviet Leader Toward Catholics Is Described As Friendly

Priest Says Stalin Friend To Catholics   American Cleric Praises The Russian-People and Their Leaders

PRIEST GETS VIEWS OF STALIN ON POLAND Red Leader Declared ’ a  Taward Raman Cathalice Ohaus

Stalin Friendly ~ To Church. Claim  U. S. Priest Talks With  Premier Again

Pr riest Winds Up Conference  With Russians   Polish American Clergyman Describes Stalin as “Friendly Disposed Toward Catholic Church

Springfield Priest Meets Again With Red Premier  Stalin and Molotov Are Praised by American Visitor

Old Drive, Best Coon Dog in the Ozarks, Safe and Mountain People Are Happy Again

KILGORE SEEKS ACTION ON BILL   WAR DEMOBILIZATION MEASURE BEFORE GROUP

Postwar Price Controls Urged   OPA Chief Tells Aims At Labor Convention

YOUTH IS KILLED   Clifford Masten Was Victim of Hunting Accident : Yesterday

NATION-WIDE CHECK ON GASOLINE BOOKS   Owners Will Be Required To Endorse Coupors With Proper  Numbers, Bowles Sars

Three Iowa Men Commended For  Valor In fomliak   ‘LeMaré Youth ; Awarded Medal  Bae EB ffielancy

Three lowa Men Commended For Valor Ih Conihat  ‘LeMara Youth  Awarded Medal. «For Efficiency:

‘Lonergan’s Trial Taken Off Calenda   Judge Dismisses Jurors Issues Contempt Citation to Broderick

Orders Lonergan Case Mistrial varces Broderick With Contempt   Judge Orders And Charges

Dismiss Panel  In Murder Trial   Uproarious Scene Tops Defense of Lonergan

OFFSHORE   Navy Band Concerts to Open in City Plaza Tuesday Night

Former Carroll Seaman Reported  Officially Deac  Joe Meindl, Once An   Joe Meindl, Once Announced as Missing, Now Listed as Dead

Former Carroll Seaman Reported  Officially Dead   Joe Meindl, Once Announced as Missing, Now Listed as Dead

JUDGE ENTERS NUMBER ORDERS CIRCUIT COURT   Finish Four Cases Tuesday; Judge Ingram Grants Divorce Decree.

JUDGE ENTERS NUMBER CIRCUIT COURT ORDERS   Grants Decree For Divorce; Judge Daily Presides, Meet Tuesday.

If Marriage Annuled, “We'll Wait Until ‘Sonny’ Is of Age, She Asserts

JAP REGIMENT SURROUNDED IN ORMOC REGION   4000 Men Encircled; Fight From Caves, Hill Bastions

Trap Almost Closed on Leyte Japs   Yanks Encircling Regiment; Drive For Ormoc Gains

Methodism Must Return ‘To Farm Land   Only One Real Dirt Farmer At Convention

Death Toll  Boost Seen   VW. Are’ Known Dead Tn “Crash Of. Clipper

17 ARE DEAD IN CRASH OF BIG CLIPPER   Six Bodies Recovered and Remainder Believed in Cabin of Air Liner Which Sank Yesterday in Nive Bay. 

{7 Die as Clipper Hits Swell Sinks   _ Bottom Torn From Big Ship, Survivor Says; . Crew:ls Praised

CLIPPER CRASH COSTS 17 LIVES   9 PASSENGERS AND 5 OF CREW SAVED OFF CUBAN COAST

BELIEVE 17 DEAD IN PLANE CRASH   Nine Passengers, Crew Of Five Safe After Traaic Plunee

{1 Persons Die As Clipper Sinks  Plane Crashes During Take-Off .

7 MlGGING Of DEAD IN CRASH   Pan American Flying Boat Breaks in Two And Sinks.

17..PASSENGERS DIE       Huge Pan American FI! ng Boat  in Accident Near Cuba

Seventeen Die When Clipper  Crashes In Bay   Giant Flying Boat Cracks Up After Hitting Swell On Cuba Take-Off

GOP To Retain Control of Calif. Senate  25 Republicans, 13 Democrats   25 Republicans, 13 Democrats Already Seated

Lumbermen Ask FDR lo Take Over   Northwest Industry Tied-Up By Strike

24.Veterans Of Air Force Die In Train Wreck   ~ 27 Persons-Lose Lives, 40 Hort it Collision ‘Near: Terré: Haute, Ind.

REORGANIZATION OF COURT IS APPROVED   Baltimore League Of Women Voters Takes Action In Support Of Constitutional Amendment

SOUTHERNERS BACKING BYRD   Mississippi Delegates Lead Way In Supporting Virginian

RECALL OF U. S, ENVOY IS ASKED   Difficult Situation Arises Cuban Relations

WALLACE READY FOR LAST FlohT   Assured of CIO Backing; Is Confident He Can Whip the Oppcsit-on

WALLACE READY FOR FLOOR FIGHT   ClO Heads Spurn Trades as Bitter Battle Looms at Convention

What's the Matter With Campaign in Italy? ‘War Correspondents Bare the Brutal Facts

“THE INSIDE STORY WHAT WENT WRONG AT CASSINO AND ANZIO ?   Frank Description of Allied Campaign in ltaly by Correspondents in the Field

GIVES IDEAS ON PLOWING   Author Faulkner To Tell About Plowless Farming

OPERATION DELAYED AFTER RUSH AIR TRIP   Tulsa Child, 4, Flown to St. Louis Hospital, but Is Too Weak for Immediate Surgery.

Super bomber: Raid Japanese Steel Center   B-29’s Successful Ir Daylight Mission Against Anshan

Superfort Raid Largest of War   Ohio General Takes  Personal Command

RECONVERSION LAWS EXPECTED   Congressional Leaders ‘Promise Speedy Action After Reconvenings

NO CONVERSION PLANS READY   Ix  xp  ec  ct A “ ® on  ie O , SS T 0

Soviets Tighten Trap In Ukraine On Doomed Foe   Encircled Divisions Face Annihilation, Russians Declare

Col. Earl T. Vance, Known Here, Taken by Death  Montana Flier Had Been Stationed At Colorado Base

Col. Earl T. Vance, Known Here, Taken by Death  Montana Flier Had Been Stationed  a a: ee a . hee”

DANUBE VALLEY ASSAULTS FRUM BASES IN ITALY   Budapest, Hungarian Capital, Reported Hit.—Bad Weather For British-Based Bombers.

Tepke, His Aides. he Executed in “Prison Saturday   Last’ Plea for Stay Re_fused to Leader of Murder, Inc.

GANGSTERS DIE AT SING SING PRISON   Louis Buchalter and Two Others Executed on . Saturday

(GERMANY BLASTED FROM TWO SIDES IN NEWEST AIR ATTACK  PLANES BASED IN ENGLAND AND ITALY TEAM UP TO BATTER NAZIS

First Coordinated Air Attack From Bases in England And Italy.   32RD BOMBING IN 3 DAYS

Germans Report Huge Battle Inside Limits of Krivoi Rog   ‘Planes Based in England, Italy Blast Reich Aircraft Factories in Coordinated Assault

Hit Reich In Joint — Air Blow   U. S. Eighth and 15th Air Forces Assault Germany from Italy And Britain Today

DANUBE, ALPS SECTIONS HI   Mosquito Raiders From Isles Carried on Intensive Aeria' Offensive During Night

5000 Planes  Hit Reich   HUGE AIR ARMADA STRIKES AT NAZI INDUSTRIAL CENTERS

Bombers Rir Reich From 2 Directions   Co-ordinated Assaults From Italy, Britain Hit Important Targets

BLAST TARGETS AT BRUNSWICK   8,000 BOMB TONS DROPPED ON REICH IN LAST TWO DAYS

RAF, Yanks Pounding Nazi Targets   Netherlands and Northern France Attacked Today; Western Germany Raided

Unbroken Assaults Are Continuing Thru Mon-day after Yanks Hit  Air Fields, Brunswick °

FOLLOWS TIP BY CHURCHILL OF BIG BLOWS   Allies Stand ‘Absolutely ~ United’, Prime Minister Tells Commons

Dual Attack on German Targets   Planes Strike From Bases in Britain  And Italy

Germany Hit From TwoSides   ALLIED PLANES BASED IN BRITAIN AND ITALY LASH OUT AT REICH

Bombing Fleets Strike-From           Bases In Italy And England         “AAE ‘And. RAF Will Blow. "Em Down, Says. Churchill

Allies Depart From British, Italian Bases   First Coordinated Air Attack   Against Germany; Hit   BPactorics   ISPAATZ DIRECTS RAID

SMALL BRITISH “BOMBERS RENEW PADS ON REICI   Military Objectives in‘ Northern France Also Under AtiacL

EEP ROLLING  5. BOMBERS VER EUROPE   pproximately 2,000 Planes Drop Nearly 8,000 Tons in Less Than Two Days   FOLLOW UP TO R. A. F

BRITAIN-ITALY HIT GERMANY   First Co-Ordinated Attack on Far Ranging Ger. many Objects Staged To. day

Air Attack Coordinated From 2 Sides   First Blows Originating Both in Britain and Italy Struck

German Cities Bombed From Britain and Italy for First Time   Combined Assault Is Third Major Daylight Operation in Three Days; Nazi Defenses Staaqager Under Heavy New Blows

“Twin Blow from _Fngland and Italy "Is First of War   U.S. Forces Lash at Aircraft Factories And Other Targets  ’ From South and Wect

REICH JARRED IN TWO-WAY RAID   Nazi Targets Blasted From South and West at Same Time

RAF Bombers Hit Germany   Air Attack Is Pressed Home By Day, Night

American, British Airmen Continue to Pound Nazi Targets   German Aircraft Factories Suffer New Damage in Raids

TWO AIRCRAFT PLANTS RAZED   Yank and British Raiders Crush Big Factories In Western Germany

Joint Bombing Of Reich From England, Italy   First Co-ordinated Air Assault On Plane Factor ieng OF Germany.

Airforce Again Pounds Germany  _ Medium and Light Bombers Hit Targets

U.S. AIRMEN HIT NAZIS FROM ITALY, BRITAIN   American Eighth and 15th Ai Forces in First Co-ordinated At - tacks on Germany   PLANE PLANTS HIT   Brunswick, Hannover and Targets Near Netherlands Border Strafed by. American Planes

All-Out Drive Qn Beachhead Ts Beaten Off   Allies Are Now Secure Below Rome; Break Up Preparations For New Attack

U.S. Batters Nazis In Greatest Air Raid of War   Twin Blow Smashes German Plane Production: Center.

IS THE FIRST SUCH ASSAULT ~ OF THE WAR   Planes From South and West Strike Simultaneously at Aircraft Factories and Other Targets in Germany.

Hardships of War Take Heavy Toll On Seat of Pvt. Mashburb’s Pants

WAR TODAY   Acceptance of Thesis  Russia Will Emerge Dominant Power Of -Eastern, Hemisphere Wirlecnread

Russia Will Emerge Dominant Power Of Eastern Realm   Mackenzie Says Now Universal Acceptance Of Startling Thesis

THAT RUSSIA WILL EMERGE FROM PRESENT WAR DOMINANT POWER IS NOW GENERALLY ACCEPTED

Moscow May Wield Dominant Power After War ‘All Europe Kow-Tows to Russia

TREND OF SMALL EUROPEAN STATES TOWARD MOSCOW INDICATES PLACE RUSSIA WILL PLAY ON CONTINENT   Czechs and Others Begin Orienting Their Policies In Line With Those of Russia and Protective Cooperation Against A New Germany 2s Envisaged

RUSSIAN ARMIES RING BUDAPES:   Drive Two Miles Inside City Limits After Encirclement; Dooms German and Hungarian Garrison

BUDAPEST CUT OFF; REDS TRAP 100,000 OF FOE   Encirclement of Hungarian Capitol Is Completed as Russian Drive to Danube

REDS PLUNGE iW@® Miles INSE DECITY   Compt — #e Encirclement Of Hrae we gzary’s Prized Capit gs!: Slash On Tow grads Vienna

Penetrate 2 miles inside doomed city  Entire garrison foeec dectructoy

Encirclement Of Budapesi  Completed —   Soviet Forces Drive Inside City Limits, . Dooming Nazis There  OADTCINAIAT TX INK ANN

Budapest's Fall Sealed; Russians Are within City   eed Army Completes En circlement of Hungarian Capital

Germans And Hungarians In City Are Believed Trapped   Russians Have Not A anounced Crossing of fT a ea, Ren, Be eae eee

RUSSIANS INSIDE. BUDAPEST; ENEMY GARRISON DOOMED   Escape of Axis Defenders, Originally Numbering 100,000, Blocked by Encirclement of City.   REDS SEIZE 13 TOWNS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA   ” Advance Puts Soviet Units 63 Miles From Bratislava and Within 96 Miles of  Vienna.

Reds Complete Encirclement  Of Budapest   German Garrison Seems Hopelessly Doomed to Death

NAZI FORCES ARE TRAPPED AT BUDAPEST   CAPITAL ENCIRCLED; REDS ARE INSIDE CITY LIMITS

Red Tentacles. Choke Capital Escape Routes   Russians Continue Assault  ‘Toward Austrian Border Bi. Wok bh lesates Ecc

Death or Capture Is Only Alternatives for Enemy Garrison   Soviet Forces Encircle Budapest and Seal Fate of Thousands of German and Hungarian Battle Forces

Russian Forces LEncirele Budapest; Dooming _ The German Garrison

JAP CRUISER HIT OFF NEW GUINEA   Presence of Heavy Ship Puts Patrol Bombers on Alert in Area

YANKS BLAST ~ JAP CRUISER   JAPANESE HEAVY CRUISER. 18 BLASTED BY. FLIERS "IN. NEW GUINEA-AREA.

DON SERVATION EROUP MEETS   Representative From State Service Present, 215 Petitions Signed

SOMERVELL CHALLENGES WORKERS   300,000 More Men Are Needed ir Munitions Plants

INDUSTRY TOLD U.S. NEEDS MORE WAR WEAPONS   Top Leaders Challenge Manpewer For Early Victory

16 Texas Counties “Over Top” End Of First Day In United War Chest Drive

Nazi Power Crumbling, Says Churchil   PRIME MINISTER VISITS ROCKET PLANE FIELD, SPEAKS TO AIRMEN

eChurchill In Talk to RAF _In Normandy   Prime Minister Asserts Allied Victory ‘Certain’ —Enemy’s ‘Central Power Is Crumbling,’ He Tells Airforces.

American League   "They Missed The Old Bounder' But Churchill Sees Hitler's Fall

‘Doolittle Serds U. S. Bighth Air Force Heavy Bombers Back Into Action Across Straits Of Dover Over France   EARTHQUAKE BLITZ SHAKES COAST AREA

G.R. Pipeline Suit Opens Here   $4,000,000 Project  Involved In Case

YAP AND WOLEAL IN THE GAROLINE CHAIN. ATTACKED   Every Ship Anchored’ at These Enemy Bases, Were Sunk or Damaged.   MANY ENEMY SHIPS HIT   One Japanese Warship Sunk Near Palau and Two Near Woleai. —

Fleet Blasts Every Enemy Warship Caught at Three Bases; Yap, Woleai Raided

ALL SHIPS ANCHORED ~ ALSO REPORTED SUNK   2 Nearby Bases Also Attacked Knox Says in First Report on Action

No Estimate Of Number Caught At  Anchoragves   U.S. Loses About 27 Planes In 3-Day Strike; No Indication Of Damage To Our Ships

Ail Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged In Blow at Base   U. §. Naval Force Alse Struck Heavily at Yap and Woleai, Knox Discloses

Every Vessel Cau ght In Jap  Lagoons Sunk   ‘One Warship Near Palau  and Two Near Woleai  Among Victims Of   American Gunners   27 U.S. Planes Lost In Attacks   Seeretary Knox’s Mention  OF Woleai and Yap First  Disclosure Two Points   Have Been Bombarded

Every Ship at 3 Enemy Bases Hit   Navy Reveals More Details of Strike at Palau Island

Knox Reveals Partial Story of Palau Raid   All Japanese Ships at Anchor Are Sunk or Badly Damaged

All Ships Caught At Anchor Hit   Woleai, Yap Islands Also Blasted By U.S. Task Force

Every Ship At Three Bases Sunk, Damaged   Sec. Knox Reveals At tacks on Yap and Woleai in Addition To Palau

[GLAND OF YAP (5 ONE TARGET      All Jap Ships Caught at Anchor Are Sunk Or Damaged, Says Knox.   MANILA HAS AIR ALARM

Many Enemy Ships Sunk At Palau Base   3 Jap Warships Blasted; Manila Has Raid Alarm

Yap, Woleai — Raided With. Palau Island   Full Details Must Wait For Completion of Task Force Mission _

Break In Silence Discloses Every  Ship In Area Hit   ‘Task Force Also Struck 2 Other Points In Carolines: All Ships Sunk, Damaged

Three Nip Naval Vessels Sunk In Addition Dur ino Carolines Raid.

KNOX REPORTS NAVY SUCCESS IN BOLD BLOW   Struck Two Other Jap Bases in Pacific,  Chief Reveals

Report Enemy Shipping Sunk   Task Force Sank or Damaged Every Jap Ship At Three Bases Attacked

KNOX TELLS OF VICTORY STRIKE BY U.S. FORCE   LISTS ADDITIONAL SINKING OF THREE JAPANESE WARSHIPS

Knox Says Task Force Hit’ Palau, Woleai And Yap   27 U.S. Planes Lost In Powerful Blow At Anchorages and Lagoons.

WOLEAI, YAP FELTBLOWS AFTER PALAU      All Enemy Ships Caught At Anchor Sunk, Damaged By American Force

Carolines Raid Tough On Japs   ALL ENEMY SHIPS ARE SUNK BY U. S. FORCE.

All Vessels Either Sunk Or Damaged   Yap Ard Woleai Are Assaulted As Well As Palau

SECRETARY KNOX MAKES REPORT ON RECENT SEA ACTION ALL JAP SHIPS CAUGHT   ISLANDS NET REPORTED AECTRAVEN

Air Alarm Sounded In  Manila As American Task Force Enters Philippine Waters

TASK FORCE HITS NUMBER OF SHIPS AT THREE BASES   Jap Radio Claims Americans Lost Two Battleships,  _ Two Cruisers and An Airplane Carrier.   KNOX GETS MEAGER REPORT OF 3-DAY FIGHT   27 Aircraft Shot Down Dur. ing Four Days, No Mention ls Made of Loss of Any U. S. Vessels.

Knox Laughs. at Huge Claim by Nipponese   No Credence to Report Two Yank Battleshins Sunk

Jap Ships Sunk  In Raid on Palau   Fourteen Atolls in Marshalls Under Flag of United States

All Jap Ships At Palau. Yap. Woleai Hit   Vessels Caught  At Anchor By LU. 5. Task Foree Raiding Nipponese Bases

‘Woleai and Yap Islands Also Raided   One Enemy Warship Known Sunk; Vessels At Anchor Blasted

No Way To Estimate Total Jap Losses. ... .  All Jap Ships Caught In  Palau Attack Sunk Or Damaged, Knox Reveals

Every Vessel  At Three Islands Hit   U. S. Fleet Which Bombarded Palau Also Raided Two Other Bases; Secretary Knox Says Exact Number of Ships Sunk Not Known Now

All Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged   No Way to Estimate the Number. of Jap. Vessels. Caught-in Anchorages. *.   WOLEAI AND YAP. ALSO.-ATTACKEL:   No Indication of Damage te Our Ships; 27 American: = * Planes Lost - :

Task Force That Poundec Palau Also Attacked Nip Islands Yap And Woleai

Knox States All Vessels  In Harbors Are Damaged   Enemy Warship Also Blasted By Gunners

Expect Turkey to Break With Nazis   Action in Few Days Anticipated

CHINESE OPEN “NEW ASSAULT   DRIVE STARTED IN EFFORT TO . SO3N FORCES WITH STIL“Ol WELL'S FORCES =~ IN BURMA

BRITISH POLICY IN ATHENS GETS NEW CRITICISM   Churchill Silent on ‘Spheres Of Influence’ Deals With Soviets

ALLIES AGREE, COMMONS TOLD   Churchill Avoids ‘Zone o Influence’ Query In Greek Debate

Commons Told of Full Agreement on Allied General Aim:   Churchill Evades Query of Division of Spheres of Influence

Churchill Says Powers Agreed On Vital Issues   General Aims Same But Complete Agreemeni May Be Lacking, Commons [s Told

COMMONS’ FIRE HITS CHURCHILL ON GREEK ISSUE   Prime Minister Says Big Three in Entire Agreement On Aims

Three Allies In Agreement On Greece,  He Declares   But Churchill Doubts If There Is Accord On Every Phase Of Matters There

Se ee  BRITISH POLICY TO UNDER FIRE  Churchill Declares Allies In Agreement On General Aims        EDEN ITS HEARD   Prime Minister’s Attitude In Greek Situation Is Criticized ~

‘CHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS BIG THREE IN FULL AGREEMENT  BRITISH PRIME MINISTER RUNS ‘INTO HOT CRITI Pie rm CABZEENBIC

Churchill Runs Into Storm Of Criticism   Heated Debate On Greek Policy Flares in Commons

Churchill Says Allied Nalions In Full Accord  n Otulin Roo ke tc.

Churchill Says Britain, Russia And U. S. In Entire Accord About General Aims   Speaks To House Of Commons In Special Debate On Greece

Agreement on General Aims, Premier Says   Avoids Questions About Divisions Of Spheres of  Influence

Shure Says Big Three Agree On Major Aims   Agreement On All Aspects Called Another Question In Commons Address

Churchill Says Three ; Powers Are Agreed On Liberation Policy   Prime Minister Refuses to Answer Question: On Whether Britain and Russia Have Decided to Set Up “Spheres of Influence”

Churchill Opens Debate Over British Policy   Says Big Three In Entire Agreement Over General Aims Of Alliance.

PRIME MINISTER SAYS BIG THREE AGREES ON AIMS   But Admits to Commons Some Aspects of Greece Issue May Show Differences

Powers Agreed Along General Alliance Aims  Churchill Declares Differences Exist On Details Only

Churchill Asserts Big 3 in Accord   Complete Agreement on all Aspects - Another Matter, Prime Minister  ’ Tells Commons in Debate on Greece

Claims Agreement ‘On General Aims   Churchill Explains Allied Differences Are on Details Only

CHURCHILL SAYS BIG THREE AGREE   “The Three Great Powers Are In Entire Agreement About General Aims Which Rind.”

SOME DISCORD DOES EXIST . HE ADMITS   Declines Comment On Subject Of “Spheres”   OPEN DEBATE   On British Policy In Liberated Lands: Commons Hears Prime Minister

Vichy Minister Assassinated in His Bedroom, Probably by French Patriots

VICHY CHIEFTAN IS ASSASSINATED   MENRIOT, PROPAGANDA MINISTER, VICTIM OF FRENCH SYMPATHIZERS

Propaganda Chief Assassinated In Paris Bedroom   Philippe Henriot Was _ Laval Aide, Biggest ‘ Collaborationist Yet _ To Fall

Henriot Slain By Assassins  Vichy Information Minister Victim of French Potriots’ Ire

Information Chief at Vichy Shot   Henriot Assassinatec By Uniformed Men During Night

FAITH IN NAVY UAGED BY TOKYO   Says Fleet Will Not Go Inte Unnecessary Battles   SEES FINAL VICTORY   Refers the First Time to Unanswered Question as to Whereabouts of Navy

Japs D Defend Navy Action   Tokyo. States Faith ‘Must Be Continued

J apanese Are Asked to Have ‘Faith’ in Their Navy, Which Will Not Engage in ‘Unnecessary’ Battles

Ploesti Oil Fields and Reich Bombed   Two Big Fleets Carry on StrategiAnd Tactical Attacks

Nazi Rail Hub, Air Base, Oil Center Bombed   U.S. Bombers Strike From Britain, Italy

2,750 U.S. PLANES HIT AT NAZILAND   British-Based Bombers Smash At Germany, France

BIG PLOEST Ol CENTER IS BATTERED   2,750 Planes in Huge Raids on Nazi Strongholds

2750 U. S. Planes Hit Ruhr Yards   Bembers Smash Nazi Rail Hubs, Air Base, And Ploesti Oil Center

NAZI ANTI-INVASION DEFENSES BATTERED BY BIGGEST ATTACK   Aerial Drive Goes Forward Without Let-Up After RAF Bombers Smash At French  Qharelinea   (RIUILLETIN)

Japs Retreat To Rabaul For A Final Stand   Enemy, Trapped In New Britain, Abandon Two Wave Baeac.

U.S. CONTROLS MOST OF NEW BRITAIN ISLAND   Enemy Expected To Fall Back For Stand Around Rabaul

Japs Give Up Pair Of Bases   Quit Gasmata, Cape Hoskins, Retreat to Rabaul For ‘Last Stand’

Japs In Full Retreat Toward ‘Rabaul For Last Stand After ‘Abandoning 2 Bi-Passed Bases   Trapped Nips Yield Cape Hoskins And Gasmata To American Forces

Japs Fall Back In New Britain Toward Rabaul   Nips May Make Last Stand At Maior Stronghold

Japanese Abandon Gasmata, Hoskins, Retreat to Rabaul  MacArthur Puis Enemy Dead and Wounded at 10,000, Leavin

YANKS CONTROL MOST OF NEW BRITAIN ISLE   Japs Abandon Bases At Gasmata And Cape Hoskins

Japs Retreat Eastward Toward Last Stand At Rabaul  America Controls Most All Ot New Britain Now

Allies Extend Grip On New Britain   In Full Retreat, Foe Plans Last-Ditch Stand at Rabaul

MacArthur Silent About Letter On Presideney   Suggested ForSecretary Of War But Is Also Criticised In Congress For Political Interest

Wisconsin’s Vote Makes Willkie Quit   G. O. P. Figure Says He Hasn't Chance To Gain Presidency

Urge New Post _ For MacArthur   General’s Name Is Mentioned for Pos' of Secretary of War in Cabinet b; Both Republican and Democrati Senators at Washington Today.   NO COMMENT MADE

Willkie Bows Out Of Contest After Setback   Dramatic Statement Is Made At Omaha Wednesday Night   MacArthur Has No Willkie Comment

REDS RESUME OFFENSIVE ON ENTIRE RUSSIAN FRONT   Battlefields Flare From Warsaw North To Pskov Nazi Agency Says   Soviets Increase Pressure on Polish Capital Push on Prussia

RESUME SOVIET DRIVE IN NORTH   New Strength Also Hurled Into Fight to Retake Warsaw

Terminate. Trial ‘Of Boston Police In Gaming Case   Indictment  Nol-Prossed _ Just Before 5 Officials * Are Ready ‘To. Appear

3 Cars Derailed On Great Western Near Lidderdale  Two Freight Cars Over turn. Third Partly Off

3 Cars Derailed On Great Western Near Lidderdale   Two Freight Cars Overturn, Third Partly Off Track; Traffic Halted

Allies Suspend Efforts to Take Cassino  Failure Conceded   Failure Conceded By Army Papers; Softening Resumed

Save You  “WASTE PAPER  - For The City Wide  ~ BICKUP   Allies Fail. At Cassino   Stubborn Germans Beat Off ‘Continuous 1-Day Assault

Allies Admi! Battle Fails At Cassino   Attempt To Wrest City From German Hands Suspended

Bombing Fails To Drive Nazis Out of Wreckage   Allied Artillery Continues Action

‘Learn many lessons from bitter battle’  Predict eventual capture of town

ALLIED DRIVE FOR CASSINO IS SUSPENDED   Big Guns Blast Enemy Positions as Land Activity Ceases

ierce: ‘11-Day Assault Against azis Holding Key Town ‘to Rome Concededly        SSED ARTILLERY — _ . BOMBARDS GERMANS   rmy. Newspaper Says Knovw!‘edge Gained. in Battle ‘Will Be. ‘Used in Next Thrust at City.

Soldier Press Admits Failure At Cassino   But' Lessons’ Are. Learned “And Allies Will Profit — In Western Invasion

Cassino Is Nazi Victory   Artillery Begins To Pound Hotel Fortress

Allies Suspend Effort to Take  Cassino Now   Failure Conceded by U.S., Canadian Papers: Blast Nazis in Hotels

DRIVE ON CASSINO REPORTED HALTED   Action Suspended After Failure of Eleven-Day Assault

Save Your  WASTE PAPER  For The City Wide  PICKUP  Friday. March 31 (Pickups for rural areas wil be at the schools on Thursday   Allies Fail At Cassino   Stubborn Germans Beat Off Continuous 11-Day Assault

Stilwell Weeps As He Learns Sick Marauders Were Flung Into Combat

Sick Soldiers Sent to Battle. Army Reveals   “ILL-ADVISED PROMISES” CAUSE MORALE BREAK IN MERRILL’S MARAUDERS

Wounded Yanks Ordered to Front Lines; Leaders’ Promises Branded ‘Ill Advised’

Morale of U.S. Marauders in Burma Once Near Collapse, Is Disclosure

Wound Men Sent To Fight   Misinterpretation of Ord. ers Sends Convalescents Back To Burma Front.

Burma Blunder Periled  Famous Marauder Unit   Sev eral Hundred. Convalescent Fliers Called T “Myitkyina; .-Gen. Stilwell Went Openly Ove Order Mixunp :

Rommel Fails To Stop Yanks Normandy Push   Coutances And Brehal Key Positions, Fall To Bradley’s Men

Total Victory Still Object-Morgenthau   TREASURY SECRETARY SPEAKS AT WAR BOND RALLY, TELLS COSTS

Mil llion Nazis Stand Watch Night 'And DayTo Resist Allied Landing

MILLION NAZIG WATCH BEHIND ATLANTIC WALI   Cannon on Land and Mines in Sea Part of Gigantic ~ ‘Invasion Guard.

Here’s Description of Germans’ ‘Atlantic Wall’   ae RR meme RE  Nazis Boast of Guns On Iavasion Coast

Couple Killed in Gas Explosion   6,000 Big German Guns to Greet Ailied invasion:   Girl Scouts Sell Bonds on Saturday

Bonus Plan fo Keep War Workers Bogs   Several Congress Members Say Smackec OF ‘Paid Patriotism’

Arguments Slow Down Convention  Deadline to Adjourn Only 24 Hours Away

Arguments Slow Delegates’ Drive For Adjournment   5 Articles Need Approval Before Tomorrow's Deadline

BOYS IN STATEHOUSE   Boys’ State “Members Administer Kansas Affaira Today

FIRST ARMY LEAPS THREE MILES AHEAL   Hicach Points 6 Miles Inside Ger many.—Another American Offensive Against Siegfried.   PRFAR DOGS

alti BOND DRIVE IS DUE IN JUNE   Treasury Has Not Determin ed Date, Quota May Ex geed $20,000,000,000.

Meat, Butter Pinch in View   Food Cost in Year Rises 47 Per Cent

Predict Greater Meat Shortage   Overall Food Costs '  Increase 47 Per Cent

 ABOUT OLD SANTA: Service Men, Women Overseas Have Decided What They Wan

New Battle Cry “Vengeance,” Sweeps Nation   Americans Aroused To Pitch Unparalleled Since Pearl Harbor

Revelations of Jap Atrocities Give Nation New Battle Cry— Vengeance’

AMERICANS ENRAGED AT CRUELTIES   Senate Promises to Dig Up More Facts About Nipponese Brutality.

Vengeance’ s Now Battle Cry   Congressmen Vow That All Possible Facts Will Be Dug Up; Whole Jap Story Not Yet Told, White House Hints

U.S. Anger Mounts at Jap Deeds   War Bond Buying Zooms; Congress Pledges Further Investigation

Wrath Sweeps Nation   Hint Full Story Of Atrocities Not Yet Told

“Vengeance” Is Blazing New Battle Cry Of United U. S. Aroused By Jap Atrocities

Say We're Yellow Ry United Press   Congress Leads in Cry. For Vengeance Against Japs   Full Story of Atrocities Yet to Be Told—Nip Reaction Now Awaited

Destruction Of Tokyo One Of Possibilities Which Result From Operations In Pacific

Solon Promises New Nip Facts   WHITE HOUSE HINTS FULL STORY OF ATROCITIES YET TO BE TOLD; TOKYO DESTRUCTION, HORRORS FOR JAPANESE PEOPLE SEEN AS REVENGE GOAL

FULL STORY OF JAP BRUTALITY NOT YET TOLD   Senate Probe Promised

SENATE COMM. TO DIG INTO ATROCITIES   Many Known Facts Not Yet Published; Public Anger Mounts

NEW ATROCITY FACTS SOUGHT BY CONGRESS   It's Propaganda, Say Japs; Bond Sales Up Over Nation

Nation Aroused To Concentrated Fury And New Battle Cry “Vengeance”; Hint Full Story Has Yet To Be Told   WAR BOND SALES . HAVE SKYROCKETED

WAR BOND SALES ROCKET AT NEWS OF JAP BRUTALITY   Aroused America Expected to Show Big Increase in War Production

VENGEANCE 0 JAPAN, GRY ON AMERICAN LIPS   Indications That Even More Facis On Enemy Atrocities Will Be Revealed In the CU. 8.

New Facts On Atrocity Due in Probe   Military Hearing Slated; War Bond Sales Skyrocket

More Stories Yet To Come On Horrors Of Jap Prison Camps   Popular Anger Will Not Alter Strategic Decisions Calling For Knocking Out Germany First, Then Japan

ption is Four To One Ahead OF Germany aiid Seven To One Above Japan

ALLIED AIRCRAFT OUTPUT EXCEEDS THAT OF ENEMY   Invasion Forces to Have 4.1 Air Superiority Over Reich on D-Day

U.S. Far Ahead in Plane Strengtt  Now Believed 4 to  Ahead of Germany

‘HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD’ Hitler's Once-Mighiy Aerial Armada Is Now Sunerseded

Air Superiority Of 4-1 to Favor Invading Yanks   Ratio of Plane Production Is 7 to 1 in Japan’s (‘ase

U.S. Production of Planes is 4-1 Up on Nazis, 7-1 on Japan   Country Made 171,250 Planes From Pearl Harbor to March

U.S. Production Of Warplanes Is Leading Axis  America Has Turned Out 171,257 Since Pearl Harbor

U. S. Troops Will Hit Europe With Plane Output 4-1 Up On Germany, 7-1 On Japs, Report Reveals

Allied Plane Output Gives Biq Edge Now   Estimated at 4 to 1 Over Germany And More Than 7 to 1 Ahead of Japan’s

Plane Qutput 4-1 Up On Foe   United States Aircraft Pro. duction Climbs Up 7 To 1 Ahead Of Japan.

Air Superiority 4-1 to Favor Invading Yanks   Ratio of Plane Production Is 7 to 1 in TAREE Case

U. S. Land Forces Have Good Cover  Allied Air Power Ahead Of Germany 4 To 1 And Tops Japan By Over 7-1

Production Of Planes Up   100,000 Will Be Made In Next Year — Nazi’s Output Down

U. $. PLANE OUTPUT LEADS REICH 4 10 1   Production, Reaching 17]1,257 Craft Since Pearl Harbor, Is Mére Than 7 to 1 Against the Japs,  ‘ Revort Shows.

U. 5. War Output Excels That of Axis   Production Report Shows 4-1 Planes Up On Reich, 7-1, Japs

U.S. Plane Output Exceeds Nazis 4-1   171,257 Built Since Pearl Harbor

TWIN RED ARMY OFFENSIVES THREATENING MANY GERMANS   Soviet Army Which Has Lifted Seige Of Leningrad Is Driving Southward.

Twin Drives Threaten To Encircle Many Nazis; Soviets Take Much Booty   Allies Reach Last Nazi Defenses On Road To Rome: Germans Prepare Retreat

300-Thousand Nazis Trapped Between Twin  Red Army Offensives   Many Germans Surrender Rather Than Face Certain Death.   KILL 45,000 NAZIS SINCE LAST FRIDAY   Soviets Capture 447 Field Guns, 300 Mortars, and 30 Tanks.

Nazis Groggy Under Allied Aerial Blows   Enemy _ Appears . Stupefied By His Handicaps And . Unable To Think  .

Buxom’ Blond Wife Says She Paid $5,000. To “Other Man” Liachand: Arccreed. OF. Killing

Paid Bills, Says Accused’s Wife   Buxom Wife Says Dr. Lind Wouldn’t Let Her Give Him Up.

Miller’s Wife is Recalled In Murder Trial   Love Triangle Enters Defense

ILLICIT LOVE BARED AT MURDER TRIAL   Wife of Accused Man Tells of ‘Keeping’ Slain Man

LAWYER'S WIFE  SAYS SHE PAID  TO KEEP SECRET TESTIFIES AT TRIAL  OF ROBERT MILLER, SLAYER OF DR. LIND

ROMANIA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY   While Luftwaffe Bombs Bucharest; Nazi-Dominated Hungary Reshuffles Cabinet.   Let Balkans Go

House Probe of Ward Case Voted   300-60 Ballot Follows Spirited Debate

HOUSE VOTES PROBE OF WARD AFFAIR   Will Include Inquiry into ‘Firm's Defiance

HOUSE VOTES 10 DIG INTO WARD CASE   Vote is 300 to 60 on Probing of Plant Seizure

HOUSE VOTES FOR PROBE OF WARD CASE   Vote For Dewey Resolution Is 300 to 60

Workers Ask Govt. Seize War Plant   Stop Work In Contract Dispute At Ward Sub. sidiary.

HOUSE PROBE OF WARD PLANT SEIZURE   Firm’s Resistanec to Government Also Will Be Investigated

Admiral Says Marshall Invasion. ‘Could Be ‘Main Event’ in Pacific War; Nip Fleet May Challenge

INVASION OF THE MARSHALS MAY BE ‘MAIN EVENT   U.S. Would Be In Best Posilion to Take Truk, Orive tn Tokyo. -

Mid-Atlantic States Busy Digging Out From Debris Left By Great Hurricane

Stilwell Is Collecting Now   Gets First Installment From Japs for 1942 Beating, Reverses Burma Warring

WAR IN BURMA IS GOING WELL   Stilwell’s Forces Avenge 1942 Defeat by Killing 20,000 Japs to Date

Munitions Output Is Running Behind   Nelson Warns War Produc tion Not Completed

‘WPB Chief Warns Only. 48 Pct. of 1944 Munitions Proaram Completed

Big Three In Agreement On Outlines Of Peace Policy   Conference Continuing Sessions At Dumbarton Oaks Today

New League of Nafions Planned By “Big Three”   U.S., Russia and Britain Discuss Site of “Capital”

Site For World League Debated   Opposition-~Te---Geneva Expected At ThreePower Parley

Hungarian Capital Blasted Jn Fourth Might Raid In War; Patrol Activity On Italian Fronts Boosted —

Budapest Rail Yards Struck Hard by Bombs   Hun Patrol Attacks Are Intensified

BUDAPEST RAIL YARDS STRUCK IN RAF ATTAGK   Fourth Night Raid Of War Made On Capital Of Hungary

Planes Slash Nazi Rail Net To Italy Lines   German Ground. Troops Jab at’ Anzio Yanks With Radio Tanks

RAIL YARDS AT BUDAPEST ARE BATTERED   Land Fronts Below Rome Break Out In Battles of Greater Fury.

Budapest Railway Receives Blasting  By Allied Planes   Campaign To Smash Chain of Axis Rail  Lines Intensified

BUDAPEST IS BLASTED BY RAF. BOMBS   Activity Increasing On Land Fronts Below Rome

Mediterranean Based British Bombers Strike Deep Into Nazi Europe —Ratter Budapest Before Dawn.

MORE ACTIVITY ON LAND FRONT ACROSS ITALY   Nazi Patrols Much More Active Indicating Germans Believe That “Big Push” Imminent.   Driven Off

Flood Control Passes Senate   PUsots JUREIG  The Billion Dollar Measure Now Will  ge

HUGE FLOOD CONTROL  BILL PASSED SENATE;  GOES CONFERENCE BILLION DOLLAR MEAS URE CALLS FOR CONTROL RECLAMATION. ETC.

FLOOD CONTROL BILL APPROVED   Billion-Dollar Measure Passes Senate, Goes to Committee for Changes

SENATE PASSES FLOOD CONTROL   Billion Dollar Measure Ts Sent to Conference

Billion Dollars Involved In Move For Postwar Jobs   Calls For Flood Control, Navigation, Reclamation, Hydroelectric Projects

Billion Dollars ‘Involved In Move ‘For Postwar Jobs   Calts For floed Conivet, Navigetion, Reclamation, Hydreclectric - Projects.

Senate Approves Billion Dollar Flood Control Bill   , Missourt Basin ; Plan OK’d By House Group

Huge Flood Control Bill Passes Senate  Measure Projected As Part of Post-War

Flood Control Measure Gets  Senate s 0. K.   Billion-Dollar Authoriza: tion Bill Moves On To  QC nwmboneanne fC aeromnstban

Murray Abandons Fight To Block  Flood Measure   Postwar Rivers,  Harbors Bill Up

SENATE PASSES FLOOD CONTROL   Billion Dollar Bill Now Goes  To Conference

Crossley Poll’Shows Roosevelt Leading   Survey Gives President 52.2 Per Cent; Margins Are Narrow In Many States.

American Forces Have Now Ram. bled More Than 11 Miles Since Cracking Hitler Defenses   “RT FSaPrn”

Race Program For Saturday   "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO RETREAT’, NAZI WRITES

Germans Flee Airborne Army  Leave 13 Villages; U. S. Losses Light

Troops Establish Firm Bridgehead   Extends Almost To  Outskirts of Faenza

FOOD RIOTING FEARED IN ROME   Doubled Population Adds To Occupation Worry Of Allied Chiefs

SERIOUS PROBLEM IN FALLEN ROME   Allied Generals’ Most Urgent Task Is to Prevent Riots

UNRRA Efforts Face Democrats   Montanan Limits U.S. Participation To $650.000.000

Democrats Halt Relief Bill   O’Connor To Move Only  $650,000,000 Be Used In  _ Aiding People of Axis  Conquered Countries.

Maj. Hemans on Stand for State   Tell of Receiving Money from Small Loan Companies and Peddling It Among Lecislators

lalks On Stand As Star Witness For Prosecutior   Tells Of Distribution Of Cash To Members Of Leaislature

Foremen Vote To End Strike, 28,000 More Idle   General Arnold Warns Stoppage Hurting Air Force

Memorial Day More Significant Now  — Never Sets on American Graves

AMERICAN WAR DEAD PAID USUAL TRIBUTE   Memorial Day Services Are Held At Widely Separated Places Today

Pav Tribute To War Dead   Americans Around The World Honor Fallen Servicemen: Forees Push On.

Sun Never Sets Now Or U. S. Grave:   So Americans Around the World Honor Their War Dead In Special Services

Americans Pay Homage to Fallen Heroes   “Sun Never Sets On _U. S. Graves,” Chaplain Reports

‘News and Whereabouts of Hopewell Boys in the Service   Burroughs Now a “Triple Threat Bip Man’?

U. S. Heavy Bombers in Coast Smash   FLIERS MAINTAINING MOST SUSTAINED AIR OFFENSIVE IN HISTORY

U. §, FLIERS RIP INVASION COAST      30th Attack on Sector in January by Allies

Air War Pace Hot   Bombers Smash French Coastal Area in 30th Assault in a Month

Americans Hit French Coast   Thunderbolts Drop Bombs on German Taraets in Holland

FRENCH COASTAL AREAS BOMBED   Swedes Report Fires Stil Rage Thruovt Berlin

4 HARBORITES IN U.S. COURT   Two Plead Guilty to Federal Charges, Two to  Stand Trial

TwoB. H. People Face U. 5. Trial   Two Others Awaiting Federal Sentences

Lt. C. Coldren Killed in Actior  Over France   Husband of Former Local Resident In-Army Air Corps

Lt. C. Coldren Killed in Action   Parents Reside On Smethport R. D. 4

> DRAFT BOARDS GET NEW REGULATIONS » ON 4-F JOB SHIFT   Army Rejects Entering War Work To Be Reclassified

‘Order New 4-F Classifications   Draft Authorities Alter Regulations

Soviets Blast Open. Routes To Slovakia   Russian Troops Expand Trans-Danube Front to More Than 100 Miles—Villages Taken:in Czechoslovakia .

Soviets Sweep Nine Miles Up the Danube   Two Invasion Route: Into Slovakia Are Blasted Open

BRITISH, YANKEE TROOPS HIT HARD   Great Co-Ordinated Offensive Gets Results; Reds Within Seven Miles of Latvia

DEWEY PROMISES SWEEPING CHANGES   Says Petty Bickerings Will Go; Takes Over Reins of  Campaign.

BOOST IN STATE PAY 1S STUDIED   Proposal Will Be Submitted To Next Legislature

Civilians To Get More Phones   W.P.B. Orders Permit Manufacturing of Phones for 12 Months.

cIO Demands Relaxation Of  Wa ge For mula   Murray Blames Six for What He Describes “Bad  Administration” of “Little Steel? Formula

PLOESTI OIL AREA BOMBED BY U.S. FLIERS   Bombers Hit the Railway Yards Despite Op ' nacitioan   OIL FILLED TANK CARS ARE FIRED   Nazi Airforces in Berlin and Munich Sections Hit

PLOESTI Ol AREA BOMBED BY U.S. FLIERS   Bombers Hit the Railway Yards Despite Op'. position   OIL FILLED TANK CARS ARE FIRED   Nazi Airforces in Berlin _ and Munich Sec-

RAINS DAMAGE QUALITY OF COTTON IN OKLAHOMA - ORT AOA Cres AW. +e

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Nation Pays Tribute To Al Smith   Quarter Of A Million View Happy Warrior’s Body At Cathedral

Take Their Guns and Dis. appear Into the Night; California License

BELGIAN RULER PROMISED HELP   Resigned Ministers Vow To Aid In White Army Curb

Britain Discloses Huge War Losses   Most of Pre-War Merchant Fleet Sunk

Soviet Troops Capture Town of Stryj   Fires Rage in East Prussian Towns Being Hit by Reds

VITAL ROADWAY TO SLOVAKIA IS TAKEN BY REDS   Fires Are Raging In Prussian Frontier Towns

RUSS! ANS SEIZE MOUIITAIN TOWN IN @LD POLAND   Fall of ‘itryj Announced by Stalin —New Gains In Yiast Prussia

Vital Road Junction Captured   Russians Tanks Lunge At East Prussian Border In Heavy Attacks

Soviets Halted Short Of Border After Savage Battle   Nazis In Mightw Fight For Warsaw   Stryj, Carpathian Moun. tain Junction In Poland Captured

Russians Seize Road Junction In South Poland   Capture of Stryj Opens Route Into Czech Land

Reds Reach West Bank of Vistula River   Germans Report Major Try to Starm Straan, No nf Warceu

Russians Storm Vistula, Say Nazis   Moscow Remains Quiet On Big Warsaw Battle

Nazis Admit  Soviet Gain At Warsaw   Moscow Is Silent On Developments On Polish Front

FIRST EFFORTS BY REDS FAIL, GERMANS SA)   Big Red Drive Toward Baltic Alarming To Berlin

GOP Changes ()PA Tactics   Abandons Anti-Subsidy Fight For Approval Of Price Control,

House To Skip Subsidy Issue   Republican Leadership Seeks Court Review Of Regulations On OPA,

GOP Decides To Abandon Subsidy Fight   Court Review Of OPA Regulations To Be Asked

House Republicans To Abandon Fight Against Subsidies  Leadership Plans to Insist on Court Review OPA Regulations— T2 Manthe Fvioncian Mensd

Anti-Subsidy Idea Dropped by GOP   Court Review of OPA Orders Asked

GOP To Give  Up Subsidy  Controversy   Will Ask Only Review By Courts of* Regulations Made By OPA

F avor OPA Extension      "18-Month Continuance ‘Recommended; GOP to ‘Drop Subsidy Ficht

Faith  Advertises For Money , In Paper Because He “Sure Needs It”

EMPLOYE OF CITY ~ 1S ELECTROCUTED   Wm. ¢, Kiser, - 40, ‘Loses “Life While Working  on Pole:

EMPLOYE OF CITY 1S) ELECTROCUTED   Wm. Cc. Kiser, : 40, Lose: ‘Life While Working on Pole

China Hangs In Balance   Two Major Drives To Decide Military Fate

Chinese Menace Jap Stronghold   Encirclement Of Kamaing Nearly Completed By Allies

4 NEW TEACHERS TO BE AT BUCKINGHAM   One Vacancy Still Exists; This Is In Science  Department  fe Pana t ae > &  - =— = + =) — . =  -s   SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 6

ONE TEACHER —-¥  IN BUCKINGHAM TWP   Students Will Register for Fall Classes September 7   FOUR NEW TEACHERS

Driven By Allied Forces   British Second Army Closes In On Escape Bridge

MASS RETREAT FOLLOWS GREAT ALLIED THRUST   Early Validation Of Part Of Antwerp Promised By New Victory   NETHERLAND BATTLE WON   Action Farther South Of Limited Nature—Reds Roaring Ahead

NAZIS PULL STAKES IN HOLLAND; BEGIN MASS RETREAT   Promises Early Validation of Antwerp As Gigantic Supply Port   NAZIS FLEEING FAST   Battle for Both Southwest Holland and Antwerp Has Been Won

Port of Antwerp May Soon Be in Hands of Allies   British Second Army Reaches Meuse River

MASS RETREAT SOON TO CLEAR ANTWERP PORT   Terrific Allied Thrust Puts German Escape Roads Under Fire

Nazis Tighten Grip On German People, Troops   Expect Support Will Be Weaker

HITLER TIGHTENS HOLD ON ARMY AND PEOPLE  Washinaton Believes Nazi Reaime   Washington Believes Nazi Regime Will Get Less Support, However

Soviets Are 76 Miles From Warsaw; Last Red City Held By Nazis Threatened

Another Column Drives Closer To Riga And Breaks Into Pskov   Border Reached   1,310 Towns Swept Up On 950-Mile Front By Nine Red Armies

NEW ATOLL BLASTED INTO USELESSNESS      Is Next Base to Be Taken On Road to Tokyo

Raiders Meet No Opposition In Heavy Assaults   Naval ‘Experts Believe  Aitack Foreshadowing of U.S. Invasion Threat

INVASIGN BLOWS ‘BY AMERICANS ~ MAY COME NEXT   Meager Details Indicate Shore Installa  tions Reduced to  Shambles

ACRIAL ROUTE 5 DEVELOPED   Burma Supply Route at Point Where It Is Good Substitute of Road.   MANY FLIERS DOWNED

AMERICAN BRAINS AND BRAVERY HAVE DEVELOPED WORTHY SUBSTITUTE FOR BURMA ROAD TO CHINA FROM INDIA   Story from American Air Base in India Tells of Accident in Which First Lieut. Thomas Geary Caldwell of Thomasville Was Killed in September

AERIAL SUPPLY LINE TO CHINA DEVELOPED BY BRILLIANT ATC   WORTHY SUBSTITUTE FOR BURMA ROAD MADE POSSIBLE BY U, S. AIRMEN

J. S. Airmen Make China Aerial Supply Route. Substitute For Burma Road

U. S. Fliers Brave Hardship to Open Burma Road  Intrepid Airmen Get Supplies Over Hazardous Territory

\Brains, Bravery, Brilliant Organization Of U.S. Fliers Gives Chinese Supply Route

Great Work of ATC in India Made Known   Opening of Substitute Burma Road Revealed as Modern Miracle

Story of Heroism Never Told Before Because of Obvious Need. For Secrecy But Many Have Died and Many Suffered in Keeping Open Worthy Successor to Burma Road

DEWEY CHARGES ‘INCOMPETENCY'   Cries That ‘Little Men Rattle Around In Big Jobs’

Candidates of ‘Both Parties Loose Blasts.   Dewey Lashes F. D.; ~ Truman Turns Guns On GOP Nominee

Administration Held Incompetent   Goy. Dewey Renews His Attack On “Tired Quarrelsome New Deal”

»Political Campaign ‘Warms Up   Dewey and Truman Share Spotlight As Election Necra.

HARSH WORDS MARK DRIVE   Dewey Calls New Deal ‘Most Incompetent’? While Truman Calls GOP Nominee ‘Fence Straddlar’

Ohioan Quicker On Draw Than Japs And Lives After Three Are Killed

Ohio Blanketed With Heaviest Snowfall In 10 Years; Storm Is Centered In Eastern States   SNOWSTORM CAUSES AT TEAST 94 NEFATHS

Yankees Fight Across Moat to Ft. Drian!   Flame - Thrower Assault Breaks Way Into Main Bastion Before Metz   Magan BARRAGE OPENS BATTLE   Divebombers Also Used in Heavy Battle by Third Army Forces

YANKS TAKE» UBACH, TOWN INSIDE REICH   Drive Not lot Only Puts Troops Through Siegfried Line in the Aachen Area, but Also Menaces That City:

Doughboys Battle Their Way Into Main Metz Fort  Fires and Explosions Are Touched Off  Ry Artillary Boarrnaa

UBACH FALLS, SLASH AACHEN ESCAPE ROADS   Opens Second Major Break In Siegfried Line; Hit Metz Key

HUNTER DROPS DEAD IN BOAT   Heart Attack Fatal To Joel Shick, Local Busi ness Man

GENTILE ASKS. - FLYING PROBE   FIGHTER ACE'S NAME MEN. TIONED IN CONNECTION '. WITH LOW FLYING © AT COLUMBUS

GENTILE MENTIONED IN INVESTIGATION      Low Flying Over Columbus Probed by Wright Field

Mother Says Marine Ace To Return   Boyington Is Missing After Downing 26th Jap Plane

Maj. Boyinigton Fails to Return From Raid on Japs at Rabaul on Which He Equalled Record of Foss

Ace Lost; Mother Vows Confidence   MAJ. “PAPPY” BOYINGTON REPORTED MISSING AFTER TYING PLANE RECORD

MARINE ACE TIES RECORD; NOW MISSING   Major Boyington jad. Downed 26 ap ‘Planes .

SIGNAL MIXUP CAUSED Loss    AMERICAN. FLIERS AND. AMERICAN P-T BOAT CREWS EN/GAGED IN COMBAT ” OFF NEW GUINEA

HALL - DORSEY FIGHT AIRED   Band Leader Threatened His Life, Actor  Asserts

HALL TESTIFIES IN DORSEY CASE   FILM ACTOR TELLS OF THREAT TO KILL HIM BY BANDLEADER

JUNIATA MAN [5 MISSING SINCE JULY 18   Second Lt. Wayne L. Simpson Is Unreported In Flight Over Yap Island.

Russian Tanks Batter Way Into Budapest   Axis Concentrates Forces on West Side of the Danube

Writer, Who Leaped From Plane Over Berlin Sends Amazing Story From Inside Germany

Marines Must Remain Part Of Navy In Service Merger, General Warns

SAYS TRADITION OF MARINES TO BE RESPECTED   Vandergrift Speaks in Behalf of 168-YearOld Service Branch

Vandegrift Hits At Merger Plan   Opposes Combining of War, Navy Departments

VANDEGRIFT OPPOSES ARMED FORCES NCRGER   Plan Would Discard Leatherneck Tradition, Congress Is Told

GOP Choice Is Debated    Both Dewey, Bricker Backers Are Hopeful

GOP Nominee Victor Claimed By 2 Factions   Backers of Gov. Dewey Claim His Nomination, While Gov. Bricker Also Is Winning Support.

Dewey Backers Confident; Taft Warns Real Strength Of Bricker Is Not Known

MARYLAND GOP BREAKS TOWARD BRICKER STABLE   TAFT CONTENDS TRUE STRENGTH NOT YET SHOWN

BO PEn CENT WANT DEWEY?   Backers Report He is Prime Favorite in Presidential Polls,   ‘OTHERS FAVOR BRICKER

8 Wee Weeks Time Set   Nazi Industrialists See Defeat; Hitler Warmed. Renort

WILLKIE: AIDES CLAIMS: FALSE, HAMILTON. SA Ys      Says ee aos ee Deriand: for Willkie- 2 - Overwhelming - 

Willkie Drive © Draws Attack   Hamilton Sees Pressure Method Being Used By * GOP’s ‘Manavers

False Claims Given Public, Says Hamiltor   Former GOP Chairman Blasts Tactics Used by Willkie Managers

WILLKIE “BLITZ ATTEMPT NAILED   Former GOP Committee Head Says Undue Pressure Being Brought on Party Leaders In Every Part of Country

New Controversies : Head Toward President From Ward Sutlsidiar es

Hurricane Spreads Huge Destruction   $50,000,000 Florida Citrus Crop Ruined

$50,000,000 IN DAMAGE DONE CITRUS FRUIT   25 Deaths Reported As Gale Roars Toward Sea

House Sets Up Machinery For Ballot Frauds  All Contributions Of Individuals To

House Sets Up Gr oup To Scan Voting Fraud:      Unions Included. In New   Plaus to Investigate Elee tions; Rayburn to Nine Seven

Election Antifraud Probes Will Include Unions  Investigations in Pas Confined to Gifts Made by Corporations

FAIR NEARING. CONCLUSION   Final Events on 1944 Program Scheduled for This Evening

Four And Half Years Of Nazi Rule Is Ended   French Free Selves As U.S. Armed Forees Outflank Historie Capital and Rush Toward Rhine   No Direet Assault Preceded Capture   Americans Are Already  Near Battlefields They   Made Historie In the  First World War

Nazi Retreat To Seine Is A ‘Rout’   Thousands Of Prisoners Taken In Trap: U. S. In Fontainebleau

Capital Liberated — After Bitter Battle By Armed Civilians   Flight of Battered Hitler Army Across Seine Turns Into ‘Rout; Alles Half-Way Across France

i yeag      Battered Nazi Seventh Army. Routed Along Seine; Armored Forces Drive Across France —

YANKS REACH SENS; AIRMEN TELL OF ROUT   Allies Gain In Attempt to Wipe Out Germans West of Paris

German Flight Appears Rout, Airmen Stafe   British and Canadians Rush Ahead to Push Nazis Tighter Against Fire of U. S. Forces

‘GERMAN TROOPS IN ROUT TODAY IN SEINE AREA   Americans Seem To Roam Over Battlefields

Resistance Units Reported Seizing Public Buildings   Germans Pushed Tighter Against Seine Into Fire Of U.S. Flanking Forces

ALLIED TROOPS GCCUPY PISCOPI ISLAND TODAY   Land From Ships Thursday; Near Rhodes Group

PISCOPI IS OCCUPIED   Allied Landings on Dodecanese Island Was Not Resisted

U. 9. SERGEANT PROWD OF QUADS   To Register Babies In His. Name and Support Thew; Youngest of Quads Di

THUNDERBOLT RAID ON NAZI AIRDROME   In Holland; Invasion Coast Of France Hit Again While Germans Attack London With Incendiaries.   Residential Area

Americans Raid Nazi Airdromes   British Also Bomb Northern France

NAZIS’ FIGRTER BASES BLASTED   U. S. Thunderbolts Take Over Offensive, Get Back Without Loss

GERMAN FIGHTER BASE IN HOLLAND BLASTED FROM AIK   Allied Airmen Attack GilzeRijen Airdrome and Speed Away Without a Single Loss.   LONDON AREA BOMBED, SIX NAZIS DOWNED   Two Churches, a School and Many Houses Burn—Southeast England Also Hit by Raiders.

25,000 Leave  Calais Sector   French Civilians Removed From Invasion Coast

Allies. Get..Firm.. Grip. Qn New Britain Area   U.S. Thunderbolts Take, Over In Swift Attack

‘Boner’ by Young Associated Press Operator Tells World of ‘Invasion’   ‘Flash’ of Eisenhower Landings in france Goes Out by Mistake, Unknown to Editors

Gal Almost Set lt Off   London Teletype Operator Practicing, Let Invasion ‘Flash’ Slip Through

MISTAKE CAUSES INVASION TIP   Inexperienced London Girl Is Blamed For ‘‘Flash”

Invasion Flash Turns Out To Be A Dud, Operator Wrote It For A Keyboard Test

B. H. WOMA KILLED BY CAR   Bertha Koontz Steps From Behind Parked Auto, Fatally Hurt

SUPER-FORTS RAID SASEBO IN JAPAN   Major Nip Naval Base Bombed By Big U. S. Planes

NAVAL ‘STATION AT SASEBO HIT ON SECOND B-29 RAIL   Homeland of Enemy Feel Weight of Explosives from Giant U. S. Planes.

Big Forts Strike Japan's Sasebo Navy Installation and Yawata Steel Center

Japs Cleared ‘From Wakde   18 Nip Ships Are Sunk Or Damaaed In Other Sector:

Yank Casualties Only 1 to 34 Japs On Wakde Island   Allied Planes Keep Up Hammering Of Nippon Defenses

Complete conquest   of Wakde   U.S. loss light; hit ships. planes

up Resistance Viped Out On Wakde Island   llied War Planes Strike At Tips Of Jap Defenses; Raid Loerabaja.   NCIRCLE MYITKYINA

Jay Resistance On Wakde Island ls Wiped Out  18 Enemy Vessels Blasted in Series  Of Aerial Attacks

FORGE RING OF STEEL AROUND CITY   Repel Repeated Counter-Attacks by Germans

Highest Court Reeonvenes Today at Noon   First Meeting Since Adjournment in June; Docket Is Heavy

SNOW INVADES ENID DISTRICT   Freezing Temperatures Sweep Through Wide Section of Northwest Oklahoma

Lights Go on Again in Freedom   Manchester Cheers Blaze; Luxembourg Demonstrates for Return of Crand Truchess: Mentone Waves Flacs. Sigs Cheers Liberators

ALLIES GAIN ON SOUTHERN BURMA FRONT   No Important Activity On Imphal Sector

British Capture Burma Village   Reported As Important; Identity Not Revealed

Keep Agreement to Help Romania Clear Out Nazis; Advance on Other Sectors Reported.

Reds Capture . Buzau, Cutting Ploesti Oil Line   ‘Drive Toward Constanta, Black Sea Port

Soviets Sweep Across Border Of Transylvania   In South Capture Buzau 40 Miles from Ploesti Oil Center

REDS GAIN IN ROMANIA AND HUNGARY   Nazis Admit Soviet Forces Now In Transylvania

Buzau Falls In Offensive  On Ploesti   Germans Reported To Be Evacuating All Romanian Coast

Russ Take Buzau, Cut Nazi Oil Line   Reds 40 Miles from Ploesti, 57 from Bucharest

REDS IN TRANSYLVANIA; POUR THROUGH PASSES   Soviets Break Carpathian Barrier At Two Points, Capture City 40 Miles From Romanian Oil Center

RUSS TROOPS HAVE ENTERED TRANSYLVANIA      Have Also Captured Buzau, Only Porty Miles From Ploesti Fields

Russian Troops Sweep Into Transylvania, Aim At Port Of Constanta   Capture Buzau, Only 40 Mi. From Great Oil Center Of. Ploesti And 57 Mi. From Bucharest

Russian Forces Hammer Ahead  Into Transylvania   Buzau, Only 40 Miles From Ploesti, Falls  In Soviet Advance

Russians Racing to Oil Fields   German Black Sea Fleet Menaced By Russian Victory

OTH SMASHES INTO VELLETRI BELOW ROME   Also Cuts Across Nazi Escape Highway In All-Out Drive

Increase In Cost Of Relief   In State As Whole, However, Reduction  In August Was 9 P. C. Over 1943.

Cost Of Co. Relief  Decrease   Week Ending Jan. 4th $998 Lower Than Comparable Week  Of Last Year.

Cost Of Relief  Decreases   One-Seventh Of Total Now On Rolls As Compared With Five Years Ago.

Direct Relief  Lower   Total Of 2,221 Cases Of All Type Of Rehiet In County Week Ending Sept. 28.

Increase In Cost Of Relief   Trend Downward Generally In State, But County Costs Increase Slightly.

. \ FDR, Urges Unswerving ‘Support Of Navy Until Last Battle ls Won

FA PAYS TRIBUTE TO NAVAL FORGES   Heroic Performance Has Won Admiration, Grati- . tude of All.

Japanese Army Faces Annihilation In the Jungles of Northern Burma

Mansfield Reports Improvement in Chinese Situation  Montana Congressmar Returns From Confidential Trio

Mansfield Reports Improvement in Chinese Situation  Montana Congressma:  Returns From fantiaantionl Tete

eMacArthur Forces Capture Wakde Island; Allies Take eVital Jap. Airfield i in Burma

AMERICAN TROOPS SEIZE WAKDE ISLE FROM JAPANESE   Go Ashore After Naval and Air Bombardment — Encounter Only Moderate Resistance.   MUNITIONS, TRUCKS AND MOTORS CAPTURED   Allied Headquarters Says Invasion Promises Quick Reconquest of All Dutch New Guinea,

HERBERT ASKS SCIOTO COUNTY BALLOT PROBE   Impound Election Records To Investigate Claim Of Irregularities

. Mitchell, Democratic Oandidate for Governor Will’ Deliver Radia Addresses

AMERICAN SUCCESS IN ITALY CREDITED TO GREEN TROOPS   Engaging in First Battle, Yanks Smash 60 Miles in 14 Days.

Fresh Divisions — Move On In Italy   Plans Success Said Due To Replacements

Mexico Excludes Argentina From  Post-War Talks  Invites All American Foreign Ministers But  is... ta fantevanece

Future Supply Of Gasoline And Coal May Be Made From Waste Materials

GASOLINE FROM WASTES PLANNED   PLANT WASTES SEEN AS POSTWAR SOURCE OF COAL AND OILS

Present Postwar Plan To Make Gasoline And Coal From Farm Crop Wastes

Wastes of Farm Crops Will Produce World’s Gasoline And Coal. Scientist Reveals

Russian Forces Crushing Finnish Resistance As _ They Draw Nearer Viipur!

a RUSDIA—  Viipuri Is Soviet Goal -In Finland   Russians Reported Within 30 Miles Of Key Port

Soviets Near Viipuri; Press Finns Heavily   Northern Offensive Spreads Over Whole Front as Reds Advance

Lack Of Support From Germans Provokes Finns   -Many-Ready~-Fo-Evacunte Isthmus To Russians Nearme Main Defenses

Russians 30 Miles From Viipuri Port   Front from Arctic to White Sea Ablaze with Action, Finns Resent Lack of German Aid

REDS NEARING FINNISH PORT   Move Up Isthmus In New _ Advance; Nazis Report New Drives

Reds Push Closer to Viipuri   Crush Finn Resistance, Advancing to Within 30 Miles of Key City; Northern Front Ablaze

RUSSIANS ONLY 30 MILES FROM PORT OF VIIPLRI   Crush Finnish Troops Resisting in Strongly Fortified Positions

Reds 30 Miles From Viipuri   Whole Northern Front in Action, Enemy Reports Say

Finnish Mannerheim  Line 20 Miles Away As Reds Drive Ahead   Enemy Reports Entire Arctic Front Is Blazing Into Action In New Attacks

SOVIET TROOPS GAIN TOWARD PORT OF VIIPURI   Enemy Reports Russians Widen Northern Battlefront

Reds Advance To Within 30 Mi. OF Viipuri   Russia’s Whole Northern Front Is Reported Ablaze Again.

Soviet Forces Push 30 Miles  - From Viipuri   Finnish Troops Crushed Near Port As Russian - Drive In North Zone Gains Ground

RUSSIANS 30 MILES FROM PORT   Soviets Near Viipuri In Smashing Drive Along Isthmus

Twenty Miles from Mannerheim Line: Whole Northern Front Is Now Ablaze With Action

RUSSIAN DRIVE NEARS VIIPURI   Entire Northern Front Is Ablaze With Action

DOWN 57 MORE JAP AIRCRAFT   Nipponese Losses For Jan- uary Raise To Well Above 300  Pb ANK PAINTC TAVE hj

Allied Airmen Get (7 Jap Planes, Wreck Strongholds  Ground Troops Open Two New Fronts; Enemy Losses Mount

j] Jap Planes Blasted From Sky By Yanks   Smashing Air Offensive Paves Way For Land Advance

51 to 77 More Jap Planes Knocked From Pacific Sky   Ground Forces Are Pushing Forward on Two Island Fronts

MANY JAP PLANES  BLASTED FROM SKIES  IN PACIFIC SECTOR MORE THAN 300 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN  TANITARDY Ie DrevaAnT

37 More Jap — Planes Shot From Skies   Enemy.Losses:for, January sAlone*Now- Well: Over 300; '. Ground:Forces Gain :   WEWAK.- RECEIVES HEAVIEST: BOMBING   Americans and Aussies: Are _Advancing;. More Landings: Likely ‘Soon

Allies Down 77 Nip Planes in Pacific Air War Aussies Make Gains in New Guinea

Allied Planes Destroy 07-77  Jap Atreraf   Inland Drive Toward Madang Shows Progress As Aussies Advance.  'WEWAK IN BIG RAID

Allied Fighters Take Big Toll of Japanese Planes   §7 to 77 Aircraft Ara Blactacd funn   57 to 77 Aircraft Are Blasted from Pacific Skies: Push Ahead on Two Fronts

YANKS CRIPPLE NIP AIR MIGHT   Ground Troops Push Into Jap Territory On Two Battle Frents

NEARLY 75 JAP PLANES DOWNED N THE PACIFIC   Ground Forces Also Advance Inte Enemy Territory on Two Fronts-—300 Nip Planes Downed So Far in January

ALLIED PLANES STREAKING HAVOC ON NIPS AS GROUND FORCES GO FORWARD ON TWO BATTLEFRONTS   New Devastation Being Wrought on Jap Defenses And Big Jap Base at Madang in Northwestern New ‘Guinea is Object of Concentrated Attack

Yanks Blast Jap Planes  Japanese Lose Between 57 and "797 Dienec

Allies Down Many Jap Planes   Pacific Ground Troops Push Forward; Enemy Holdings Blasted

New Devastatior Heaped Upon Pacific Ener   Nips Begin to Feel Allied Power In Burnia

91 To 77 Jap  Planes Downed   Allies Advance On Two Battlefronts

Down 57to77 Jap Planes ‘In Two Areas   Enemy Plane Losses in Southwest and Central Pacific Reaches Total of 300 for January

Allies Down 57 To 77 Jap Planes   Ground Troops Push Forward on Two Battle Fronts in Pacific

Airmen Down Many Zeros   Ground Troops Push Toward Madang in N. Guinea

Jap Air Power Hit Hard Blows  Fallen Planes Cover Allied Invasion Route:

Blast Out Victory In Skies   Japs Lose Over 300 Planes in January; Ground. Troops Gain On Two Battlefronts

‘Cold’ Washington   French Leader To Be Given Everything But Recognition

ft Happened This Week. .. . American Troops Are Enveloping Paris

Americans Drive On Two Sides of  Riot-Torn Paris   Patton’s Forces Ready to Strike Out for First World War Battlefields Against Weak Nazi Resistance; Yanks Fight Into Versailles, 10 Miles From Capital Area

@ HE'S GOT SOMETHING THERE!  Call It Thieves’ Market, Not Black Market, Urges Sol

Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey Ready to Act As Second-Run Secretary For Husband

Basic Freedom Of Workers  Said Issue   Green Asserts That Labor Draft Seems Not Apt to Pass

Gen. Eisenhower Finds British Well Trained  For Role In Invasion

IKE’ INSPECTS BRITISH TROOPS   Meets King George After Inspection Tour

Eisenhower Back From Inspection   Highly Pleased With Thoroughness of Qo aekh TeaanKwe

EISENHOWER HAS AUDIENCE WITH © KING GEORGE VI   Invasion Commander Inspects. British Troops; Is Pleased

‘IKE’ INSPECTS BRITISH INVASION ARMY; HIGHLY PLEASED. VISITS KING GEORGE

Eisenhower Tours Invasion Forces   Is Highly Pleased With Training—Planes Grounded by Weather

GENERAL HOLMES HERE   Newly Named Assistant Secretary Visits His Parents .

BRICKER GALLS FOR REVIVAL IN NATION OF FREE ENTERPRISE   Campaigning Resumed By Governor After 4-Day Parley Ends

GOV. BRICKER RESUMES HIS CAMPAIGNING   Ohio Executive Doesn’t Count Self Out of the Race

SOLONS WILL FACE BATTLES IN APRIL   Congress, Happy in New Fighting Role, to Recess for Easter

Problems to face congress  after recess  Solons happy in new fighting role

Congressmen Look Forward Gleefully to Many Quarrels Which Appear to Be on the Schedule

Quarrels Pile Up For Congress During Recess  Members Already at Home Find Voters

QUARRELS LOOM FOR CONGRESS   Voters Reported Pleased With Assertiveness Shown Lately By Two Houses

REICH, FRANCE BELGIUM HIT IN RECORD SMASH   U. S. Fliers Based in Italy Rip Oil Refineries in Hungary, Yugoslavia

1000 Fortresses. Attacked Oil Refinery, Air Bases   Others Attack — Targets Behind Lines in Paris Ayag

Heavies Hit Again; Blast Refineries, Nazi Bases   1,000 Fortresses And Liberators Strike In Germany, France Aud Releium

1,000 Planes Blast Refineries In Germany: Hit France and Belgium

Bricker Says War Effort Must Not Let Up “Until Last Jap Crushed To Ground”

Allies Check Nazi Smashes   Men Urged On, Victorious March On Rome Said ‘Sure’

Supplies Landed: Warships Help Repulse Atfack  Clark Assures Men Victory March on  Rame ‘Sure to Gome

Allied Grip . On Beachhead Strengthened By Bold Act   Weather Is Better; Supplies Unloaded

New Supplies Are Arriving to Help In the Italian Drive   General Declares Forces Will Be Able to Kill Off Nazis ‘in Large Numbers’—Leader Praises Men for Brilliant Landing, Which Forced Germans to Pour in Legions.

Supplies Arriving  And Allied Warships Assist in Repulsing. Bitter Nazi Attacks

WAROAIPS SHELL NAZI POSITIONS   General Clark Tells Troops Supplies Now Arriving   WEATHER BREAKS   Americans Finally Get Pos. session of One Entire Seotion of Cassino

‘Victory Sure’, Says Yank General as Supplies Land, Weather Break Frees Planes

Cen. Clark Reassures Men As Beachliead Holds   Churchill Declares Allies In Cond Position On Italian Front

~~ : : *  lark Reassures Men As       es Men As Beachhead H             ee ee ne  Russians Fighting On Outskirts Of Luga   Churchill Declares Allies In — Good Position On Italian Front

VICTORY SURE IN ITALY, SAYS LT. GEN. CLARK   SUPPLIES ARRIVING FOR FIFTH ARMY; WARSHIPS HELP

DRIVE TO ROME SURE TO COME, CLARK CLAIMS   Nazi Thrust Repulsed As Allied Warships Shell Attackers

Break in Weather May Mean Return of Air Forces to Renew Needed Aerial Advantage  GERMAN ARMOR BOGGED DOWN  Americans Advance Slightly in Cassino Against Desperately Resisting Germans

Supplies Get To Fifth Army Successfully   Lt. Gen. Clark Assures Men That They Will Capture Rome

MarchOnRome Sure To Come Clark Declares   Landing Of Supplies Now Being Carried Out Successfully

Supplies Are Landed In Face  Heavy Swells   Signs Point to Allied Air Superiority Getting Back To Aid of Ground .  Forces   Hun Confused By  Stiff Resistance   Battle in Cassino Also Tipping Slightly in Faver of Allies; Bloody Gains  Made ~-

WARSHIPS AID IN REPULSING NAZIS   Landing Of Supplies Is Successful Despite Heavy Swells   IMPROVED WEATHER WILL ADD TO PLANE ACTIVITY

GENERAL CALLS ON MENTO BREARE ENEMY’S LINES       Declares Supplies Are Reaclir  ing Beachhead That Ww fe Enable Them to Kil} “Large Numbers.”               GERMANY’S ARMOR BOGGED DOWN IN      Yanks Make Limited Gaing,  Cassino—No More Bit  Fighting Seen in War, Foe Says.

In Beating Off German Attacks   Supplies Rushed In To Keep Allied Offensive Going

Defense Attorney Will Ask That Both Men Be Sumnioned To Testify in Washington

Furious Air and Naval Battle for Stronghold Still in Progress, Belief

‘World Peace Organization, Empowered To Use Force If Needed, Favored By Dewey;   Some 60 Nations, Great And Small, Must Make Peac: Program Work, He Tells Louisville Audience; Candi date Critical Of Attempt To Purchase Good Will

Dewey Urges All Nations Aid In Peace   Says No Small Group Can Prevent New War

Dewey Outlines Peace Program   Candidate Says Enemies Mret Be Disarmed

‘All must have role  in peace’ Qnhieset chanid   Subject should be open-Dewey

Dewey Outlines World Peace Plan In Louisville Address   Security Organization Must be United Work “of Many Minds,” Governor Asserts—Says no Three or Four Men Can Shape It 

60 Nations Must Back Peace Plan Dewey Declares   Says No Small Group Can Handle Problems

World Security Organization With Power to Use Force Musi Be Developed by Many Minds---Dewey

Firecrackers Upset First Showing Of ‘FDR Victory Bandwagon’ Revue

Explosion Greets Musical Revue  Panic Averted in Boston Music Hail

Fire -Crackers-Throw : Confusion ‘Into The “FDR Victory Bandwagon”

Firecrackers Upset Browder Theatre Crowd   Explosions Follow Communist’s Plea for Contributions to Roosevelt  - Campaign Fund

FDR Boston Revue is Interrupted by - Firecracker Blasts   Premiere of President’: Musical Revue Plunged Into’ Confusion

Rally Disrupted By Firecrackers   Exploding Firecrackers Sent Communist Meeting Into Confusion.

Explosions At Communist Meeting In Boston Causes Excitement; No One Hurt

Firecracker: Explosions Throw Communist Revue,  FDR Victory Bandwagon,’ Into Mild Confusion

Blasts Hinder: -FD Show. Giy en. ~ By Communists   .. Browder “Talk: " Satiriae - “Dewev

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Earl Browder Addresses Premiere—Another Red Leader Appeals For Funds For  Roosevelt Campaign

TELEPHONE STRIKE ENDS AS WORKERS RETURN TO WORK:   Union Offici.ls Agree. to Submic Disputes to the War Labor Board

PHONE GIRLS - BACK ON JOB AFTER STRIKE   WALKOUTS THAT THREATENED NATIONAL CRISIS IS AVERTED BY MEDIATION AGREEMENT

DOUGHBOY SURVIVORS OF PRISONER SLAUGHTER TELL HOW GERMANS MASSACRED WOUNDED YANKS

NAZITANK CREW DISARMS 150 AMERICANS, ‘THEN SHOOTS THEM DOWN IN COLD BLOOD

NOZI brutaity nepeated ...  German Tanks Machine-Gunned Disarmed American Soldiers

‘Sobbing GPs Describe Mass \Slaughter of Helpless,  Disarmed Yanks by Germans   Utah Machine-Gunner Fires From Hip, Halts Nazi Attack

Glenville Corporal, One Of Few Escapees, Weeps In Rage At German Massacre Of 150 Captured Dough boys

‘Unarmed Yanks Herded Into Field, Mowed Down by Nazi Machine Guns

Disarmed Doughboys Herded Into A Field, Ristthlessly Machine-Gunned By Nazi Troops

Doughboy Survivors Relate How: ‘Nazis Shot; Killed Unarmed U.'S. Soldiers   Force Of 150 Americans Disarmed, Herded Inte Field Where They Were Targets For Ruthless German Machine Gun ‘Crews 

German Tank Force Slaughtered Group of Americans Who'd Surrendered

Yanks Report BrutalKillings   Gunfire Slaughters Men After Capture

TEMPERATURES:   Captives Lined Up, Mowed Down By Tank Crews   survivors Reveal Story Of Assassination Of Helpless Americans °

HANDFUL DOUGHBOY SURVIVORS TELL OF PRISONERS’ MURDER  WEEPING WITH RAGE STORY OF RUTHLESS GER

Over 100 American Boys Massacred in. Open Belgian Field   Survivors, “Who” Escaped by Playiig Dead; Are Less, Than Score

HELPLESS GI's MASSACRED BY NAZI CAPTORS   ‘Weeping Doughboys Relate Ruthless Killing Of 150 Yanks

Headquarters Attacked   !Doughboys Tell How Nazis Ruthlessly Slaughtered

Germen Fank Farce Saughtered Group of Americens Who'd Surtendered.

The Foe We Fight...  Hun Tank Unit Machine Guns Disarmed Yankees

HANDFUL DOUGHBOY  OURVIVORS TELL OF  PRISONERS’ MURDER WEEPING WITH RAGE  STORY OF RUTHLESS GER MAN ACT Ic ToaIn

Surviving Yanks Who ‘Played Dead’ Describe  How Germans Disarmed and Murdered Battalion

American Prisoners Shot Down By Nazis, Survivors Reveal   YANK OUTFIT SHOOTS WAY OUT OF BATTLE IN SIEGFRIED LINE

Yanks Sob With Rage as Germans Pour Gun Fire Into Their Comrades

Germans Kill Yank Prisoners  In Cold Blood   180 Disarmed Americans Laned Up In Ficld And Mowed Down With Machineguns; Wounded Doughboys Murdered On Ground.

Disarmed Dou ghboys Are Shot Down By Nazi i Machine Gunners   Other Wounded Pui Toe Death As They Lay On   Other Wounded Put To Death As They Lay On Battlefield: Only Few Managed To Escape

Nazis Shot Down American Prisoners  In Cold Blood, Doughboys Relate

Survivors Tell Of Yanks’ Murder By Nazi Tank Force      Rebellion Brews At LSU Against “No Kissing” Edict

[Allied Planes Bit Rahaul for 49th Time   Nips Are Blasted Heavily on Boucainville Isle

Base Of Rabaul Again Attacked By Yank Airmen   Air Offensive Against New Britain Bastion Goes Into 49th Day With 23-Ton Smash; Nips On Bouganville Hammered

Rabaul Agair Hit By Raids   Japanese Positions On Pitvilu Isle Hit

WITHDRAW IN FACE OF FIERCE RUSSIAN DRIVE   Nine Nazi Divisions Flee Before Two New Soviet Offensives

GERMAN-ARMY IS FORCED 10 GIVE UIP RAIL CENTER   Pincers Tightening on 500,000 Germans In So. Ukraine With Street Fighting In Tarnonol.   MARINES SPEARHEAD - MEETING RESISTANCE   Finn Commander-In-Chief  Advised Hitler of Move to — Permit Separate Peace  With Russians’

Hundreds of German and Romanians Soldiers Drowned   RFS BWEVSR4 4 7 BY ABAD ae Rear *  Another Red Army Makes Drive to Ploesti nl Fielde

2Ailitary Observers Have Been Predicting City’s Fall For Manv Hours.

Gives Description Of Bomber Attack Made Upon Japan   By ROY PORTER

NAN AND AW AJALEIN SLES HELD   Kleet’s Guns Pulverize Defenses  SEIZE ATRFTEL D  Jap Fieve Admit War Is Lost

‘G.L. Rights’ Bill Faces House Overhaul Attempt   Members Favor Insertion of Guards Against Idleness Encouraged By Unemployment Features of Act

OVERHAULING OF G. . BILL LOOMS   Prospects Seen That House Will Tighten Provision for Unemployment Compensation for Veterans

House to Change Senate G. . Bil  Seek to Tighten Compensation Section

G.. Bil of Rights May Be Overhauled   Aim to Tighten Up Unemployment Compensation Plans

CHANGES IN G. . BILL IN PROSPECT   House Expected to Tighten Provi sions for Unemployment CQomnpenantion.

Reds May Be On Great Drive   Long Awaited Main Offensive May Be Under Way, Striking for Berlin

Germans Say New Russian  Offensive Is On   Report Big-Scale Drive On Anniversary Of Nazi Invasion Of Soviet.

Russ Launch New Drive on Eastern Front   Nazis Report Fierce Fighting in Pripyat Area, Road to Berlin

Nazi High Command ‘Announces Russians Are Driving on Direct Moscow-to-Berlin Road

REDS LAUNCH LONG-AWAITED SUMMER PUSH   Offensive Against Germans Is Begun on the Eastern Front.   Heavy Tank, Plane Support to Infantry

Germans State  That Reds Have Started Drive   Reported Striking on Third _ Anniversary of Hitler’s In- vasion, by Opening on the  Eastern Front.

Reds Launch Offensive on Eastern Front   Triple Spearheads Drive Deeper Against Finns

Nazis Claim Reds On N  ew Summer Drive      Moscow Still Hasn't Confirmed Offensive: North Of Pripyat Marshes.   BITTER FIGHTING ON

‘Area Between Mogilev And Vitebsk Site Of New Drive   Moscow Silent But Enemy Radio Has Lot To Say; May Be Timed With Allied Advances

Germans Repor Reds Launching Summer Attack   Russians Using Tanks, Artillery On Grand Scale

Long-Awaited Offensive Is Set in Motion  Red “Army Strike Strikes: on 3d  Awmnsernwaenww nf Now:   Red Army Strikes on 3d _ Anniversary of Nazi. Invasion _   HEAVY TANK ACTION   Soviets. Move. Forward on Most Direct Road to Berlin -

LONG AWAITED SUMMER DRIVE REPORTED BY GERMANS; REDS REMAIN ON ACTIVITIES   Russian Reported Making Strong Attacks on Broad Front North of Pripet Marshes on Most Direct Road from Moscow to Berlin and Warsaw

Soviet Central Front Drive Said Aimed At Berlin Via Warsaw   Finnish Fight Doggedly, Are Beaten Back By Russians’ Triple Spearhead

Berlin Says Red Offensive Opens   Long Awaited Russian Summer Drive Starts on Third Anniversary of German Invasion—‘Small Local Advances” Admitted.   HEAVY GUNS USED

Germans nay      Declare Soviets Have Moved Forward on Broad Front North of Pripyat Marshes

RED SUMMER OFFENSIVE UNDER WAY, NAZIS SA’      Long-Awaited Drive On Eastern Front Begun On Third Anniversary Of Hitler’s Surprise Invasion Of Russia, Germans Announce — Moscow Has Not  Yet Confirmed Opening Of Assault — Soviet Advance Continues In Finland

Russians Open: New Offensive   LONG AWAITED DRIVE REPORTED NOW UNDERWAY

Berlin Says Anticipated Red Drive  Has Started   Finns Are Pounded Along Three Sides

Moscow Silent on Reported Drive North of Pripyat Marshes; Triple Spearheads Move Against Finns   Triple Drive Against Finns

Long-Heralded  Drive Launched, Nazis Announce      Reds Said Making Big-Scale Push On 100-Mile Front In. Vitebsk Sector

SAY BIG SCALE MOVE IS MADE ON BROAD LINE   Report Heavy Tank and Plane Support for Red Offensive

Russ Army Begins Summer Mffensive, Berlin Announces   No Confirmation of Drive ls Given by Moscow Officials

NAZIS REPORT RUSSIAN DRIVE      Claim Reds Start Push in White Russia

Russian Offensive Reported Opened   Germans Announce That Red Armies Have Struck Aaain on Eastern Front

GERMANS CLAIM LONG - AWAITED DRIVE STARTED   Moscow Has Not Confirmed Reports, But Nazis Say Offensive  _aunched On Broad Front On Most Di rect Road To War saw And Berlin.

Nazis Report Action on Broad Front   Soviet Assaults Are On Most Direct Route to Warsaw

Soviets Start March Against Reich Capital   Germans Report Drive Launched From North of the Pripet Marshes

Reds Begin Major Push ‘At Vitebsk.   Nazis Adinit Drive Js on ‘Grand Seale,’ Bat Minimize Gains

Soviet Army Strikes on Broad Front   Russians Atlack Toward Berlin While  Hammering at Finns

Russians Do Not Confirm Nazi Report Of Assaults   Most Direct Route To Berlin Taken  By Russians

Germans Claim Russia on Move   Moscow Silent on Summer Offensive

GERMANY SAYS REDS’ SUMMER OFFENSIVE ON   Red Army Is Launching Big Drive on Eastern Front, Nazis Report

Report Drive On Direct Roac Toward Berlin   Moscow, Success in Finland Assured, Fails To Mention Offensive Opening   Bulletin

Attacking on Broad Front, ‘Says Berlin   Open Drive on Third Anniversary of German’s Invasion of Russia

RED OFFENSIVE OPENS IN EAST, NAZIS DECLARE   Xeport Drive Launched On Anniversary of  Hitler Attack

Murray Demands Steel Wage Hike   Says Workers Will Not Tolerate Delay

Murray Demands Immediate Action   Says Workers Are Not Satisfied With Delay.

Japs Extend Dual  Drive in China   Chungking Silent on Battle for Kweilin

Japanese Drive Deeper Into Chinese Area   Ominous Silence Prevails on Kweilin Fighting

Labor's Sincere Leaders Lauded by Willkie; Hits At “Arrogant” Chieftan

Doughboys Take 4 New Bridgeheads, Patrols Cross Saar Near Merzig

Gen. Patton’s Army Has Crossed Saar River . At Five New Points   GERMANS SAY OUR FIGHTING MEN ARE BEING REINFORCED   American 7th And 9th Armies May Try To Cross Roer River . 7

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State Passes One Third of Quota  Lewis and Clark Claginte Te Rhaawesl

State Passes One Third of Quota  Lewis and Clark County Is Ahead

Lewis and Clark County Tops War Bond List  Individual Sales Hit $769,887  In Halana Tadav

Cascade County Leads State in Bond Sales   Silver Bow County Ranks Third as Drive Continues

Fanatical Jap Fight Futile Against Yanks As Palaus Conquered   Thousands of Nazis Caught in Brest U-Boat Pens--Commander had Fled

Capture of Peleliu Is Imminent; Enemy Resistance Called ‘Bitter’

Peleliu Fall Near as Other Isles Taken   Yanks Progress Slowly in Palau Group As Japs Resist Grimly

THREE OF JAPANESE. PALAU ISLANDS NOW HELD BY AMERICANS  CAPTURE OF PELELIU,  FOURTH OF GROUP, IS

3 Palau Isles Held   Yauks Mopping Up On Peleliny Fath Ralavel Naa»

YANKS MOP UP PALAU ISLANDS   Enemy Resistance On Peleliu Still Bitter,  Fall Near

Three Palau Islands Held.  By Americans   Capture of Peleliu. Imminent; Davao Heavily Bombed; Three Jap Destroyers. Sunk With Machinegun fire

YANKS HOLD ON THREE PALAU ISLANDS   Fall Of Fourth Imminent; Bombers Hit Davao For Second Time

PELELIU’S CAPTURE IS IMMINENT   Japs Report Carrie Plane Attack On  Major Bastion

3 Palau Isles Are Cone jue red By Americans   Fall Of Fourth—Peleliu ——~kxpected Momentarily; Planes Bomb Davao

Three Palau Isles in American Hands; Peleliu’s Fall Near   Japs Offering Bitter Re sistance Although 7,645 Men are Dead

ISLANDS TAKEN, FOURTH JARRED   Peleliu Fighting Enters Its Sixth Day, With 7,645 Japs Killed To Date

THREE PALAU ISLANDS HELD BY U. S. TODAY  Fall Of Pealelai   Fall Of Peleliu Is Imminent;  Davao Bombed

THREE PALAU ISLANDS RELD BY AMERICANS   Three fourths of Jap Garrison, 7, 645, Have Been Killed; Fourth  Island Nearly Taken.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN {AD Wae Pditar)

U.S, UNITS HOLD THREE ISLANDS IN PALAU GROUP   Fall of Peleliu Imminent: Marines Kill 7,645 Japs on Isles

At Least Three of Palau Islands Have Been Won   Capture of Fourth Reported Imminent, Davao Hit Heavily

Japs Battle Bitterly On Peleliu Isle   Japanese Lose Angaur Island And 7.645 Men In Paulau Campaign.   PDERIBRE ATPAVASG

Fall Of Peleliu Island Near As Three Of Palaus Fall To American Forces

THREE OF JAPANESE PALAU ISLANDS NOW HELD BY AMERICANS  CAPTURE OF PELELIU, FOURTH OF GROUP, IS  ALCO TRAMIANENT

Three Of Palau Islands Now In American Hands   Japs In Furious Last Ditch Stand On Totter.  ing Peleliu.

Enemy Resistance Is Bitter, But Slow Progress Is Being Made.     DAVAO JS HiT AGAIN

Three Islands In Palau Group Held By Yanks   Resistance Bitter, But Goins Made, Nimitz Announces

SLOW PROGRESS BEING MADE ON PELELIU ISLAND   Japanese Putting Up Bitter Resistance; 3 Isles Securely Held

3 OF PALAU ISLANDS IN U. §. HANDS   Peleliu’s Fall Imminent; 7,645 Japanese Killed

JAPANESE MAKE SHAKEUP AMONG COMMANDERS   Changes Made In Eastern and Western Armies. Allied Airmen Continue Hammering Jan Bases.

ALLIED SUCCESSES CAUSE JAPANESE TO - SHIFT COMMANDERS   No Mercy Shown Nips As American Bombers Pound Bases Incessantly.

EUROPEAN AERIAL ASSAULTS CONTINUE   Algiers Report Says Medi terranean-Based Bombers Attack Vienna.

ome ihe War loday ==  Yanks Make Great Speed  in Brittany  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

TODAY   Unless Germans Are Boldt tate Brest and Sit. Nazaire Strongly Chances of Stopping Americans Js Slim

ee eee  Breton Peninsula Has Many Fine Ports—  ee Vanke Giving Adolf Lessons In Blitz War _

Possession of Breton Wi'l Greatly Increase Allied Capacity to Pour Troops and Material into France And Stop Hitler’s U-Boats from Using Brest and T orient

U. 5, CASUALTIES MOUNTING DAILY   57,775 American Casualties On Western Front Last Month

‘Two Reminders V-Day Still Long Way Off  U. S. Casualties Mount, February Draft Calls Stepped Up

Nazi Drive, Casualty Rise “iid Increased Draft Calls. Show War Far From Won

TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S HOME RAZED BY FIRE   Priceless Relics Are Saved by Volunteer Firemen

SENTENCE SPY TO PRISON TERM   Judge Places Detroit Doctor in Jail for 16 Years

Spy Sentenced: To 16 Years  British Shoot 4th Guilty German Agent

Thomas Get: 16 Years On Spy Charge   Doctor Imparts War Information

Given 16 Years For Espionage  Gave Information To Leader Of Spy Ring

GETS 16 YEARS IN SPY PLOT   Detroit Medico Scored By Judge for His Nazi  Leanings

Dr. Thomas Gets Prison Sentence F or Spy Activities   Convicted Nazi Agent Must Serve 16 Years in Pen

16 Years Given ‘On Spy Charge   Sentence Imposed On Dr. Fred Thomas, Detroit Obstetrician

Spy Is Given 16  Years In Prison   Detroit Okstetrician Guilty Of Assisting Espionage Chief.

BOLIVIA SNUB SEEN AS PRELUDE   Further J oin Actior  Against 8 A. Axis  Intricues

New B-29 Bombers  In Action   First Report Of Existence of 20th Bomber  Command Unit

No Details Given Of Nip Air Blasting   New B-29 Superforttesses of 20th Bomber Command Carries Out.Raid; First Strike At Islands Since Doolittle Attack

SECOND BOMBING OF JAPANESE MAINLAND ANNOUNCED TODAY  TOKYO SAID POWERFUL NAVAL FORCE ATTEMPTING TO INVADE MARIANAS

COLUMBUS HAS CELEBRATION TO WELCOME BRICKER HOME   THOUBANDS JOINED IN Ova. TION TO GOVERNOR ON. RETURN FROM lite CONVENTION

Justice Says Court on Trial More Than Attorney as Contempt Action Gets Under Way in Helena

Reds, Deep in Transylvania, See Early Conquest of Hungary; British and Poles Smash Adriatic End of Gothic Line; RAF Bombers Pound Berlin, and Hamburg; Robots Strike London

Americans Storm Aer Vesle River In Advance Toward German Frontier

Ancient Cathedral City In  Path Of Onrushing, Berlin RaAawand Van Rash have

German Forces Retreat From Aisne River   German Radio Declares Rouen Evacuated; British Troops Head For Robot Bomb Coast; Fast Pace

U.S. Armored Units Reach Reims, Storm Across Vesle River   One Allied Branch Within 38 Miles of Belgium; Russia Drives Deeper Into Transylvania

Still Other Units Reach Point 10 Miles North of Reims an Aisne 50 Miles From Belgium, 107 From Germany

Another U.S. Column 50 Miles From Sedan, With One Force \Onlv 96 Miles From Germany   Americans Cress Aisne River In Two Places, Roll Enemy Back; British Are Heading For ‘Buzz-Bomb’ Coast

NINETEEN KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE   Transport Crashes Near Flagstaff, Ariz., Early Friday

19 Killed, Four Hurt as Big Plane Falls in Arizona  Transport Crashes Near Flagstaff;   Transport Crashes Near Flagstaff; Navy Craft Missing

19 Killed In Crash Of Transport Plane  Four Others Injured Ir Arizona

19 ARE KILLED IN CRASH OF TRANSPORT   Four Others Injured In "Mishap Near Flagstaff, Ariz, Yesterday

BUREAU COUNTY PUT IN 48-HOUR WORK WEEK CLAS!   War Manpower Commission Includes This County In Area Where Labor Shortage Requires Longer Hours Of Service.

Wartime Work Schedule Starts on Aug. 1   Better Use of Manpower, Aim of Decision

Allied Troops Urged To Tray Nazi Forces   Eisenhower Statement After Communique

KONEV'S UNITS ARE NEARING PRUT RIVER   snarp Resistance Falis 1 Check Soviet Advance  NEW OFFENSIVE   In Vinnitsa Area Reported By Germans; Escape Routes Severed

REDS WITHIN SIGHT OF BASE ON BLACK SEA   Battle  for. Port of: ‘Nikelaes Started, German Delenders ; ‘Appear Doomed.

Russians Launch Battle for Black Sea Naval Base   Nikolaev Appears Doomed as Red Army Draws Near; Germans Cut Off

Germans Appear Doomed As Baftle Beains For Vilal Seaport; Soviets Said To Be: ‘Massing Million Men For Estonia Drive”

OF NAVAL RASE   Battle of Nikolaev Begins, Germans Appear to Be Doomed.

Soviet Foree Is Battling For Sea Base  Of Nikolaev   Foe Appears Doomed; Rumania Threatened

SOVIETS FIGHT WITHIN SIGHT OF VITAL BASE   Mobile Troops Reach Points 25 Miles From Point Where Invasion Was Launched   NEW OFFENSIVE HINTED

Reds Open Battle For Black Sea Base      Fight Within Sight of Nikolaev and Nazis Appear Doomed, With Little Chance tu Escape in Important Numbers.

Vital Red Sea Base Expected ~ To Fall Shortly   Other Russian Forces Now Battling Inta Bessarabian Hills;  Rail Lines Cut

Reds In Sight Of Nikolaev   Germans in Naval Base Appear Doomed; Other Forces Into Bessarabian Hills

Reds Drive Within Sight Of Nikolaev   Germans in Black Sea Naval Base Seem Doomed

SOVIETS WITHIN SIGHT OF BLACK SEA NAVAL BASE   Reds Extend Bessarabian Front, Troops 25 Miles From Prut River

REDS FIGHT NEAR BLACK SEA HEIGHTS   Nikolaev Battle Now Underway: Nazis Doomed

Reds Battling Nazis In Sight Of Naval Base   Soviets Driving Into Hills Of Bessarabia; Street Fighting In  OP el Sg Sree 6

Russ In Sight Of Nikolaev; Nazis There  Doomed   Cut Off From Escape To Black Sea; Fighting In Kovel Reported; New Drive Near Vitebsk

Rumanian Troops Unable To Check Russians In Push Into Bessarabia

New Russian Drive Threatens German Tarnopol Salient   Red Vauguards Are Reported Only 25 Miles From Prut River

Baiile for Big Base Beguo and Germans Appear Doomed With Escape Lines Believed Severed   REDS NEARING PRUT   Dniester Bridgehead Widened and Nazis Report New Soviet Offensive on Vingitss 2re=

REDS ADVANCE WITHIN SIGHT OF BLACK SEA    Battle of Nikolaev Begins and Germans Appear to  Be Doomed.   Rumanians Can’t Halt Tempo of Red Army

Nazis Doomed Within Major Seaport City   Advancing Soviet Troops 25 Miles From Prut River

GERMANS MOVE OFFICERS FROM CAPITAL CITY   American Troops Marching Toward East on 50-Mile Front; Paris 135 Miles Away

U. S. Forces Accelerate French Gain   British Troops Open New Spearhead Drive Toward Capital

NAZI OFFICIALS PULLING OUT OF FRENCH CAPITAL   German Attempt To Escape Normandy and Brittany Cut Off by Allies

Germans “Reported: Moving Some, of Their Admiristra:.. tive Offices From: Threat: ened: French: Capital: :.    NAVAL BEOCKADE “AIDS   Tt Already -Had: Broken: ‘Up Three “German: Congoys \ Apparently. Attempting »— An Evacuation.

Hear Nazis Moving Some Offices   British Cut Paris-Pointed Spear Head Across Orne

Columns Press Eastward Along 50-Mile Front      Wheel Out From Overwhelmed Brittany; British Also Thrust Toward Capital

German  Threatened   British Advance Threatens Hinge Of Nazi Front Below Caen

American Troops, Swinging Eastward From Breton Peninsula, Point 50-Mile Front At French Capital City, 135 Miles Away—Germans Reported Moving Some Administrative Offices From Metropolis—   Early Control Of Five Ports Indicated

Americans Widen Front To 50 Miles In Paris Offensive   Nazis Losses Total 16,700 on Breton Peninsula; Report German Officers Fleeing From Capital of France

16TH DAY OF AIR ASSAULTS ON RABAUL   Airmen Follow Raid by U. S.  Destroyer

U.S. AIRMEN POUND AIRFIELD ATRABAUL, N. B.   Follow Up Daring Daylight Raid of . American. Destroy ers in 16th Dav 

RABAUL GIVEN 16TH STRAIGHT AERIAL BLAS]   Attack Follows Daring Day Raid By U. 8. Destroyers

Airmen Follow Up Destroyer Raid On Rabaul   15 Planes Toll Taken As Attack Continues On New Guinea Base

HUGE RED FORCES SPEEDING THRU  BIG GAP KARELIAN ISTHMUS DEFENSE   Soviet Troops Have Captured More Than 80 Towns and Villages.

Finns Reported Fleeing Before New Offensive   Big Russian Forces Shatter Karelian Isthmus Defenses

The War Today   Recapture of Verdun Called Bietne an War's sth Anniversart

AMERICAN CAPTURE OF VERDUN BRINGS HOPE TO ALLIES, DOOM TO ARROGANT FORCES OF HITLER

MACKENZIE SAYS— _  Nazi Gains Of 5 Years W iped Out   Ancient French Towns Liberated; Hitler Faces Bitter Doom

CAPTURE OF VERDUN IS FITTING OFFERING FOR HITLER ON FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF MAD CONFLICT

Verdun’s Capture Fitting Memento For Hitler on War's Anniversary

Political Interest Centers on FDR's Answer to Attack On Foreign Policy

Parties Vow To Promote Lasting Peace   Opposition Unable_to Handle Assignment, Speakers Claim

Winning and Keeping The Peace. Becomes Campaign Theme.of Both Parties

WIN THE PEACE iS POLITICAL ISSUE OF WEEK   Roosevelt Will Speak Saturday At New York

Party Orators Trade Punches In Radio Talks   Foreign Policy of Administration Is Assailed by Dewey

Dewey Blames Bloodshed On Secrecy of FDR   Says Secret Diplomacy Brought Chaos To —  Italy and France.

ELECTION CAMPAIGN STRESSES WINNING  AND KEEPING PEAGE. REPUBLICANS AND DEMO  CRATS, HOWEVER, AT . ONNS OVER METHODS

POLITICS TURNS TO WINNING AND KEEPING PEACE   Republicans and Democrats At Odds As To Which Can Best Do The Job.

DEWEY ASSAILS ROOSEVELT RECORD OF SECRET DIPLOMACY; CAMPAIGN TURNS ON MATTERS OF WAR-PEACE

Campaigners Talk On Peace Plans   Parties Differ on Which Man Can Best Win. Keep Peace

PEACE ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN   Dewey Assails FDR’s Foreign ‘Policy from New York, Others Defend It: -

GERMANS STEP UP THRUST ON SOVIET FLANK   Throw More Armored. Infantry Reinforcements Southeast of Lwow

NATIONAL VOTE OF 44 MILLION r PREDICTED   (Roosevelt And Dewey Appeal For Large Vote   ELECTION FACTS

Death Hovers Over Joined Twins; One Said Living on Other’s Vitality

Nazis Reported Out Of Islands Near Greece   British Commando Attacks Said To Have Won Ground

Germans Giving Up Islands Off Southern Greece to Raiders   Allies Drive Into Greece from Northwest, Partisans Fight Near Athens as Nazis Hold on Nation Slips Fast

“WORK OR FIGHT” BILL SUPPORTED   SELECTIVE ‘SERVICE BACKS PLAN DESIGNED TO FORCE  MANY INTO WAK JOBS. .

WORK-DRAFT BILL _ GIVEN APPROVAL   Measure Would Force 4-F Group Into Essential Activity

‘Work or Be Drafted Measure’ Draws Suoport of Military, Selective Service

WORK Of FIGHT BILL SUPPORTEL   Measure Designed Force Men Into Essential Jobs   COMMITTEE HEARING   Selective Service and Mili. tary Officials Urge Passage of Measure

Military Officials Support ‘Work or Be Drafted’ Bill   Measure Would Force 4-I's, Men 38 to 45 Into War or Essential Jobs; Selective Servier Also Favars Plan

j-F's May See  — in U.S. abor Battalions   1,000,000 Not Now On Essential Jobs

New Work-Or-Dratt Bill 1s Supportec  Backing Is Gained Al  Senate Sessian

‘Work or be drafted’ measure draws favor at military committee session

HOUSE PASSES SUPPLY BILL   OPA Given Funds To Fight Black Markets

Pier Blazes  At Hoboken   Spectacular Fire in Wake of Explosions; Damage in Millions

Fire, Starting On Barge, Burns Hoboken Pier   No Indication Of Sabotage In Blaze Causing $4,000,000 Damage.

Spectacular Fire Causes Heavy Loss   Huge Hoboken Pier in Ruins Today After 4-Hour Blase.dgiGontrolled

British and Aerial Army Open Path to Air Troops; Trap Formed for Germans

Bridge Vital ‘To Relief Of Trapped Airborne  - Forces Taken. Intact After Terrific Battle; Seal Of Doom ‘Virtual: ly Set On 100,000 Ger. mans In Western Hol. land.

Unit of Sky Soldiers  Surrounded by German:   Desperate Battle Waged by Nazis to Prevent Turning of Siegfried Line Spreads All Along Front

ALLIES CAPTURE NUMEGEN BRIDGE IN HARD BATTLE   100,900 Germans Appear Trapped In Holland

Allies Capture Nijmeger Bridge Leading to Arnheim Battle   Fate of Nazi Northern Flank , and Ruhr Valley Is at Stake

Sky Troopers Rush To Aid © Buddies As British Take Strategic Bridge Intact’

Americans In Pocket Fight To Hold On   Fate Of Germans’ Ruhr Valley Hinges On Battle Outcome

Fate Of Ruhr Valley, 100,000 Enemy Troops Hinges On Grim Battles In East Holland Area

BRITISH +=SMASH FREES YANKS IN HOLLAND TRAP   Tables Turned on Germans As Gigantic Tank Battle Races Along Moselle

‘Chutist Troops In Grave Danger Of Entrapment  2nd Army Rushing To Rescue Britons

Take Bridge In Hof Fight   Air-Borne Troops Pocketed Near Arnhem Hang Grimly To Place Astride Road  MANY GERMANS DOOMED  Failure of Desperate German Attacks Leaves Enemy Caught in West Holland

Victory After 24-Hour Battle Clears Way for Relief of Encircled American Parachute Troops

TEMPERATURES:   Rhine Bridge Taken, Rescue Of Trapped Airborne Force Near

RHINE BRIDGE CAPTURED IN RAGING BATTLE   10,000 Germans In Southwest Holland Said Virtually Doomed

bridge Over the Rhine At Nijmegen Is Captured Intact by Allied Forces   Germans Making Desperate Effort To Save Their River Defense Line  wm scesAbsAAmam AA 8 Babs oe

Vital Bridge Captured By Allied Troops   Enemy Forces Caught in Trap In Hot Fighting

Huge Span Is Taken Intact   Victory Menaces Whole Fate of Rubr Valley

Fate of German Ruhr Valley and Entire Northern Flank Hinges on Outcome of Big Battle —- Americans in Other Area Hang on Grimly to Breaks in Line

CIRCLED YANKS FIGHT FOR LIFE AS FOE STRIKES   100,000 Enemy Troops Are Faced With Capture In Fierce Holland Fight

SENATE PASSES BILL OF RIGHTS   Every Suggested Aid To War Veterans Provided By Legion Measure

GI Bill of Rights Passes Senate Unanimously  Measure Now Goe:  to House; Provides C 1d, Rane be

Veterans Bill Passed by Senate   ‘G-I’ Measure Gives Manv Benetits

SENATE PASSES ~ SOLDIER AID BIL   MEASURE CARRYING $3,500,000,000 PUT THROUGH BY UNANIMOUS VOTE.

War Bond Awards Given Allenport Safety Winners   Ten Workers Receive Company’: Gifts In Bonds For Safety Interest

POLES JOINED BY BRITISH IN ATTACK   On Gothic Line Outposts Near Adriatic Coast; Enemy Apparently Taken by Surprise.   Florence Quiet

ASSAULTS MADE ON GOTHIC LINE   British And Polish Units Surprise Enemy Near Adriatic Port

Allied Troops Make Smashing Attack On Gothic Line Outposts Near Adriatic

Poles, British Open Attack On Gothie Line   Threaten to Outflank Pesaro; Allies Within 18 Miles of Po Valley

DEWEY AT FARM FOR WEEK-END   Nominee To Study Federal, State Obligations For Speech Material

DEWEY POISED FOR LONG TRIP.   Studies Plans For St. Louis Parley

Lujan Holds 106 Lead in Court Contest   Returns Still Missing From 26 Divisions, Acearding to AP

Reinforcements Land Steadily On Holland Soil   German Siegfried Line May Be Outflanked By Latest Ailied Move   OPPOSITION TO ALLIES IS SMALL

HUGE FORCES NOW POURING INTO HOLLAND   Operation Going Much Better Than Expected Says U. S. Command

Texas Can Take » Care of Befuddled Flector Situation  Believes Wallace Visiting in Texas'as Battle Intensity Rises

TEXAS GOVERNOR AND VICE PRESIDENT IN CONFERENCE MONDAY  WALLACE AND STEVENSON BREAKFASTED TOGETHER AND TALK LONG

"Workers Win In Ward Case   WLB Orders Company To Sian New Contract

PATH SMOOTHED FOR RETURNING WAR VETERANS   WMC Removes Bars On Employment Control

Childress Marine, Who Stowed Away on Ship to Join His Dad, Killed in Fight for Kwajalein

MEET TO PLAN WORLD PEACE AGENCY SEEN   United Nations’ FullDress Parley May Be Held In November

Meeting in November To Form World Peace Agency Is Termed Possibility

Tit. VISIT -PITTSBOCRGH   ‘Powers May Meet in November, Hull Says France Must Be Strong

Chinese Forces Meet Stilwell   Japs Striking Within 65 Miles of Kweilen Base

CHINESE CONTACT STIEWELL’S “ARMY IN-CHINA SECTOR   Japanese, However, are Making:Gains im Another Sector of Warfare

Chinese Forces In N. Burma, Yunnan Establish Contact   Now Fully Control Vital Trail Between Myitkyina And Tenchung, Ex-Jap Bastions

PACIFIC HERO S SLAYER SOUGHT   DEER HUNTER’S BODY FOUND NEAR NEVADA CITY

PACIFIC WAR VETERAN FOUND SHOT 10 DEATH IN MYSTERY WHILE HUNTING

GOVERNOR ASKS LEGISLATURE FOR SIMPLE, DIRECT AND EASILY UNDERSTOOD VOTING PLAN MEN AND WOMEN NOW IN THE SERVICE QF U. S.   Suggests That Necessity of Registration Be Eliminated ——Wants a Military Ballot Day’’-—Assurance That the Ballot Will Be Secret

EXTRA ASSEMBLY OPENS TO SPEED SOLDIER VOTE   Governor Addresses 3 Outlines an Progrant         Lewishata Ri-Parti

USE OF RATION TOKENS BEGINS FEBRUARY 28TH   Red and Blue Discs, Dime-Sized, Worth One Point in Change

RATION TOKENS G0 INTO USE OVER USA SUNDAY, FEB. 27   New System Has Many Advantages, Will Speed Shopping

Army Would Put 4-Fs in War Jobs      Draft of Others Also Recommended

Patterson Urges Draft of 4-F’s For War Work   Manpower Problem of Critical Character Says Army Official

MEN 38-45 MAY GO WITH 44°S INTO WORK BATTALIONS   Wilt Force Rejectees and Others Into Essential Industry to Aid Home  Front.

Army, Navy Back 4-F Draft Plan   Would Force Men Rejected as Fighter: Into Essential  Wor Industries

ARMY WILLING TOORAFT 4-F°3 FOR WAR WORK   Patterson Says Manpower Problem Has Reached Critical Stage.

WAR DEPT. FAVORS WORK DRAFT PLAN   Likes Idea of Putting :-4-F Men Into Industry

CAR WRECKAGE CARRIED BLOCK BY FAST TRAIN   Mother and 3 Children Die in Crash; Another Child Critically Hort

Bad Weather Disrupts U. S. Daylight Raids On Nazis   RAF Raiders Are Reported Out Over The * Continent Again Early Wednesday Morning

Blockbusters Hit  German Center   Ludwigshafen Blasted; Weather Limits Raids

WAMAN’S BODY FOUND IN TRUNK   Salted-Down Corpse I Discovered By Clerk In Express Office

Body in Trunk Offers Mystery   Dead Woman Shipped From Chicago to Coast

BODY IN TRUNK IS “FOUND BY CLERK   Express - Agent’s Curiosity -Leads to Discovery in. -Loe Anaeles .

Railway Express Clerk Finds Body Of Unknown Woman in Los Angeles

Jap Peace Terms Demand Seizure Of American Navy  Would Take Over Marchant FElaat

Japs Indulge In Wishful Thinking   Name ‘Peace Terms’ To United States

Aerial Assault On Marcus Isle - Causes Anxiety   Sound Alarms In Japan; Kurile Island Also Attacked   Phooey!

Confiscation Cf U.S. Fleet Jap Demand   In Published “Peace Terms”

iia AAe ehhh ede ead a a Jap ‘Peace Terms’ To U.S. Include ¢ Abolishing Navy

GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY SCORES   Argentina’s Break Called Greatest Triumph

Avers Inflation Would Be Result Of OPA Changes   Bowles Tells House Group Profiteering And Black Markets Would Follow

KLUGE HAS ONL 10 DIVISIONS   But Delays in Getting to Robot Coast Seen

CLASH IN SPAIN   Not Clear If They Are Frontier Skirmishes Or ‘Revolt.

internal Warfare Rages In Spain   Tempo of Guerrilla War To Overthrow Franco Rising.

SPAIN SAID IN REVOLT AGAINST FRANCO REGIME   Conflicting Reports Range From Border Skirmish To Full War

Spanish Revolt Reports Contlict  Three Provinces Said tothe lave lv m7

UPRISING IN SPAIN REMAINS OBSCURE   Reports of Clashes Alona French Border Conflict

News Conflicts On Clashes On Spain's Border   Frontier Scraps May Be Only Skirmishes O Formidable Revolt Aqaainst Gen. Franco

ARMED CLASHES IN SPAIN TOLD   REPORTS FAIL TO REVEAL ACTION AS GENERAL UPRISING

Spain Torn By Strife British Heaz   May Be Revolt  Against Franco

Observers Puzzled by Rumored Revolt of Spanish Maquis   Conflicting Reports Tell of Armed Uprising on Frontier

CONFLICTS IN SPAIN AGAINST FRANCO REGIME   American Forces Disarm Some  Spanish Reds

New Conflicts Over. Spanish Civil- Fighting   London Cautions . Against Baperting Big Revolt

‘Road to Hell’ Waits Germans, Says Goebbels  Promises “Herculean’ Effort to Hold Off

Goebbels Lashes Reich Toward Road of Hell’   Pledges Mighty Effort by ‘Loyal’ Army to Hold Off Allies

Fifth Army Makes Gains: Blocks Route   Eighth Advances 60 Miles North Of Eternal City

Armies in’ Italy Meet Resistance   Fifth Army Takes Highway Junction Beyond Or- — betello   [THRU ENEMY SHELLS   Nazis Throw In Horse Ar tillery to Check dvance

Road Junction Captured By Fifth Army   Troops Swing Around Orbetello As Other Units Gain Also

BRITISH INVADERS PUSH 23 MILES INLAND   Fifth Army By-Passes Town, Blocks Retreat North Of Rome 

BACK THE BEACHHEAD— BUY BONDS!   Highway Junction In Italy  Captured

OTH BY-PASSES ORBETELLO, CUT ESCAPE ROUTE   Capture Road Junction ir Flanking Movement Far North of Rome

Fifth Takes important Road Point   Swings Around Strong Point Of Orbetello Eighth Advances

Allies By-Pass Orbefello and Take Junction   Movement Apparently Blocks Retreat of Germans Defending Key Italian City.

Fifth Army 71 Miles Past Rome   ‘Capture Road Junction ;  Kighth Army 60 Miles ‘North of Capital

Retreat Routes From Orbetello Closed To Nazis   Allied Advance 60 Miles North Of Rome; Press On Narni; Take Latera

ALLIES ADVANCE NORTH OF ROME   Enemy Bastion Bypassed by Fifth Army — Nazi Resistance Weakening

Junction   Forces Swing Around Heavilv-Defended Orbetello, 71 Miles Above Rome; Other Gains Reported

—ITALY—   IMPORTANT ROAD —VUNGTION TAKEN   Allies Swing Around Heavily-Defended Stronghold In Italy   EIGHTH ADVANCES   More Towns Captured In Allied Offensive North Of Rome

Vital Road Hub Taken In Drive By Allied Army   Fifth Units Advancing 7] Miles North Of Rome, As Gernian Resistance Grows Stiffer

FIFTH ARMY SWINGS PAST ORBETELLO      Going Around HeavilyDefended Bastion, Troops Take Important (Road Junction 414 Miles Beyond the Town.

Fifth Army Swings Past Orbetello, Strong Point   Movement Believed To Block Retreat Of Nazis From That  acts a

Yanks Capture  Road Junction   Move Presumably Blocked Retreat Route Of Orbetello Defenders.

ALLIES PRESS NORTH IN ITALY   Fitth Army By-Passes Strong Nazi Position, Cutting Off Retreat.

Eighth Army Advances Up Tiber Valley 60 Miles  North Of Rome; Germans Withdraw In Some Places Without Resisting

Fifth Army Cuts Around \Orbetello   Evade Heavily-Defended Strong Point and Capture Highway Junction

Fifth Army Force by- Passes ‘Strongly Defended Orbetello   Take Highway Junction 4 Miles Above Town, Trapping Orbctello Garrison; 8th Advance. ing Under Intense Shell Bore.

Vital Highway In Italy Taken  Eighth Army Marches Up The Tiber River

Important Road Junction Taken  By Fifth Army   Orbetello By-Passed In Northward Advance By Allied Farcee In Italy.

Orbetello By-Passed, Highway Cut   Allies Move Steadily North in Italy fo Fronis 43 to 60 Miles North of Rome

Enemy Faces Big Sefback In Italy   Fifth Army Traps Nazi Force At Orbetello

Fifth Army T akes  H ighway Junction   Allies in Italy Push Around Orbetello For Important Gains

ALLIES CONTINUE DRIVES IN ITALY   Fifth Army Swings Around Nazi Strong Point

5th Arm v Takes Vital Road Link In North Italy   Allied Forees Continue sweep Up Peninsula On Broad Front

RUTHVEN SCHOOLS OPENING MONDAY   Postponed Opening This Week on Account of Failure to Get Needed Supplies.

RUTHVEN SCHOOLS OPEN AUGUST 28   School Held in Gymnasium and  the Methodist Church Basement This Fall.

1,500 Planes Hit Ploesti, Belgrade   U, S., British Heavies Sthike New Blows

U.S.. Britain Tighten Up Blockade  Of Germanv   "Warn All Neutral European Businesses Not To Assist Enemy In Its Final Struggle  POLICY TO HOLD FOLLOWING WAR 15.000 Tadividuals  And Business Firms Already an PBlackliat

ALLIES CLAMP DOWN ON AXIS TRADE LEAKS   NEUTRALS GET LAST WARNING BEFORE INVASION

United States and Britain Give Warning to Neutrals   GIVEN IN ADVANCE _ OF VICTORY DRIVE   Blacklisted Firms Face Possibility of Prolonged Sanctions

Allies Tighten Feonomie Hold On Germany   Neutral European Businesses Warned Not to Aid Enemy

U.S. and Britain Voice Warning  Neutral Businesses Must Co-anarnia

Neutral Countries Get Final Warning As Invasion Near:   Allies Tighten Economic Blockade On -Germany; Firms.Black-Listed For Aiding Enemy In Link Eixal Mair 4 Pastanea

BLOCKADE IS MADE TIGHTER   Allies Warn Businesses in Neutral Nations Not To Assist Enemy

WITNESS TELLS OF ARGENTINE QUAKE   Many Driven Insane From Shock: Hundreds Still Are Missing.

REX TUGWELL DRAWS FIRE OF COMMISSIONER   Governor Of Puerto Rico Accused Of Assuming Role Of Dictator   “LIVING LIKE A KING”   J,000 Jobs Imaginary, Says Pagan In Scathing Denunciation

CHARGE MADE TUGWELL HAS ~ ARMED GUARD   PUERTO RICO’S COMMISSIONER IN BITTER ATTACK SAYS ~ -- GOVERNOR LIVES ~IN PALACE STYLE

Dewey Calls F or Thorough  Hou secleaning   San Francisco Talk Tonight To Demand Leaders Who Are Close To People

DEWEY SUPPORT SEEN BY ‘STAR’   K, C. Newspaper Predicts Most GOP Bailots Will Go to New Yorker

Workers Stage Stay-In Strike   ‘Protest. Cancellation of Corsair Contracts.

Work Sought For Brewster Employees   Stay-in Strike Ends on National Union Orders

Information That Will Not Be of Aid and Comfort to the Enemy Released on Lend-Lease Activities

PLANES FYOORTE   Lend-Lease Report Discloses Aid Allies Have Received

28,000 PLANES SENT TO ALLIES ON LEND-LEASE   Craft Supplied Up Tc January 1 Valued At Over Two Billions

28,000 Planes Sent To Allies by America   Three-quarters of Exported Air Fleet Went Under Lend-Lease, Crowley Reports. Many Plane Engines, Parts Also Shipped

150,000 PLANES, OTHER EQUIPMENT ~ HAVEBEEN BULLI   20,000 Valued at More Thar Two Billion Sent to Ait  ’ Forces of Other Allied Na: tions.   MANY AERIAL BOMBS SENT IN SHIPMENTS   British Commonwealth Has Purchased, Paid For 920¢ U. S. Planes Since Wat Began In 1939.

28000 PLANES SENT TO ALLIES   U. S. HAS RETAINED 122,000 OF 150,000 MADE SINCE MARCH 1, 1941.

About 28,000 U.S. Planes Sent So Far  To Our Allies   Aircraft Having Value Of $2,300, 000, 000 Go To Allied Nations Under Lend-Lease Plan   U. 8. HAS PRODUCED 150.000. AIRPLANES   Engines, Spare Parts Send Equipment Total To Nearly 4 Billion

‘Allied Troops Launch First Big Spring Test of Hitler’s European Power with Push Started in Italy

Cold Wave Marches East On Gale Heels   Eastern Coast Hard Hit by Winds And Hieh Tides

COLD SPELL  FELT ACROSS THE NATION   Below Zero in Iowa, Nebraska and Dakotas

Cold Snap Will Last Til Sunday   Colder Friday Night Is Forecast; Icy Streets, Roads Cause Two Accidents; Two Hurt, Fire Plone Rroken

FDR EVADES FOURTH TERM QUIZ. AGAIN   Clever Question From Reporter Only Brings Laugh Although President Has Plenty of Votes.

President Nov Has 800 Votes  In Convention   Roosevelt Still Coy About Fourth Term

FR. PARRIES 4TH TERM QUIZ FROM NEWSPAPER MEN   Vague Hint Hée May Run Seen Twined In Next Churchill Meet

Presid. $l Reb Ao Talk ° éth Term   _ mnecticutt Pledges iXaise Delegate Total For FR To Over 800

ROOSEVELT HAS 800 DELEGATES: REMAINS SILENT   Despite Convention Strength . He Still Evades Fourth .  Térm Commitment. .

President Keeps Dodging Fourth Term Questions   All Attempts to Smoke Him Out Are. Unavailing

Bombers Range Far  in Smashing Bases in Jap-Held Lands   Tabulations Show Enemy Lost 2,594 Aircraft in Last 6 Months

—PACIFIC— ,  Huon Peninsula.  Victory Is Nea   Je apanese Being. Cleared .. From Strategic - “New Guined Coast: Area As Allied Planes Range Far In Séries Of Southwest Pacific Raids

CAMPAIGN TO CLEAR  HUON PENINSULA OF  JAPS GOING WELL ALLIED BOMBERS RANGED  OVER WIDE SOUTHWEST DACIEIC AREA

JAPS BEING CHASED FROM NEW GUINEA   Fierce Fighting Is Reported On Pacific Front

Japs Flee Betor Allied Forces  On New Guinea  Two Nip Bases Bombed  To Destruction

GUNS OPEN FIRE ON JAPS AT SIO IN NEW GUINEA   Allied Drive on Huon . . Peninsula Coast Sweeps Near Successful Climax

Fall of Sio on New Guinea ls Imminent   Fierce Fighting Reported from Cape Gloucester; Allied  _ Planes Span 3,000 Miles to Bomb Jap Targets

SWEEPING RAIDS BLAST JAPBASES   Australians Drive Close Te New Guinea Barge Point

Aussies Push Ahead in Huon   Allied Planes Stage Far-Flung Raids in Southwest Pacific

Batile for New Guinea Near Climax   Allied Bombers Range Far and Wide Over South Pacific

JAPS IN HUON PENINSULA ARE BEING CLEARED   Successful Climax to New Guinea Drive Now in  Making for the Allies

Marines Force Foe Backward ‘Step - by - Step’ In Hill Assault   Aussies Shelling Japs’ Barge Point on Huon Peninsula

Aussies Gain More New Guinea Ground  Rambhinn Attackc ar   Bombing Attacks or 3,000-Mile Arc

A Widespread Air Assault On Japanese   Destructive Raids Made On ‘Many Centers As Aussies Move Bp -On Sio   MAY SOON CLEAR HUON PENINSULA   Marines Engaged in Fierce Fighting In New Britain; Jan Plane Losses Heavy

SWEEPING ON IN DRIVE ON GUINEA COAST   Allied Air Power Ranges Wide Area in Damaging Raids on Japanese-Held Posts

Australians In New Guinea Advance   Coastal Barge Poin! Held By Japanese Under Fire

Jap Base on New Guinea Tottering  Campaian to Clear   Campaign to Clear Enemy from Huon Area Nears Climax

DRIVE ON HUON ‘NEARS CLIMAX; SIO BOMBARDED   Fierce Fighting Reporied on Cape Gloucester Where Japs Contes Marine Advance

Campaign For Huon Peninsula Is Nearing Climax  Allied Bombers In Raids Over 3,000 - Mile Front

Huon Drive Surging To Its Climax   \ustralians Firing on Sio Which Controls 100 Miles of Coastline

Finish Clearing  Japs Off Huon   Expect Sio To Fall To Allies Soon. As Bombers Rain Bombs

Jap Base Doomed   Troops Attempt to Flee Huon Area As Aussies Close in

Fall Of Japanese  Barge Point Near Aussies Closing In On Sio: Marines Gain

CLIMAX NEARS ON NEW GUINEA   Bombers Plaster Nippon Bases Over Wide  Area

Climax Nears in Allied Drive to Oust Japs From Guinea’s Huon Peninsula

FIGHTING SWEEPS TOWARD CLIMAX ON GUINEA COAST   ANZACS BOMBARD JAP BARGE POINT WITH ARTILLERY

Indications Are That Sio Will Fall to the Allies Before Long.   JAPS TRYING TO ESCAPE

Fan-Shaped Drive Pushed Into Poland   Germans Appear Unable To Halt War Machine; New Smash in North

Germans Unable To Stop Mighty Russian Offensive Toward Vital Lifelines

Nazis Hint Withdrawal ‘From All Of Russia   Berlin Report Comes As Red Forces Smash Onward In Massive All-Front Offensive

Big Drive Cuts Deeper Into Poland   Enemy Withdrawal From Soviet Soii Seen as Possibility

Soviets Slashing Fleeing Hitlerite Forces To Pieces   Reds Now 10 Miles Inside Poland; Left Wing Plunging Deeper Toward Rumanian Rord.

Soviets Already 10 Miles Inside Pre-War Borders   Germans Appear Unable To Stem Russian Advance

TROOPS FAN. OUT TOWARD SUPPLY LINES      Seek to Cut Communica= tions Vital to Nazis in Ukraine and Dnieper Bend — Enemy Seems’ Tinahle ta Walt Rede.’

Fan-Shapec Offensives Developing   Nazis Are Unable To Halt Great Red Machine

YANKS ADVANCE IN ITALY WITk FIERCE FIGHTING   Reported Allied Invasion Of Yugoslavia Denied; Called Nazi ‘Feeler’   By RICHARD McMURRAY

‘ Russians Fan Out: ‘After Entering Old Poland Toward Vital Enemy Lifelines

Possibility Of Entire Retreat Out OF Russia   Germans Claim Martial Law In Warsaw. Lublin, Radom, Jaroslaw.   10 MILES IN POLAND

Drive To Cut Supply Lines in Ukraine And Dnieper Bend   Nazis Appear Unable To Stop Advancing Russians, Blizzards Aid Reds in Northern Sector

SOVIET TROOPS ARE NOW DEEP IN OLD POLAND   Report Withdrawa Of Nazi Forces From Battle

GAINS MOMENTUM IN DRIVE INTO POLAND  GREAT FAN-SHAPED DRIVE BEING MADE,  ON NAZI LIFELINES  is OFFENSIVE

Soviets Smash At Germans From Newly-Won Base Of Rakitno, Inside Line

VATUTIN’S FORGES ARE NOW GAINING NEW MOMENTUN   Sped Toward Lu S “y+ by to Enemy Opera... > in the Ukraine.   RUSSIANS ON THE MARCH   Ist Ukranian Army Ripping the Germans to Pieces; Captured Much Booty.

Reds Ten Miles Inside Polish Border; Germans ‘Unable to Halt Advance

SOVIETS MENACE. ~ NATH LIFELINES   Vatutin’s Forces Gain New Momentum After Smash Into Poland   GAINS RECORDED   Germans Appear Unable “To “Halt . Rapidly. -Ad“vancing Red Machine

Nazis Unable To Halt Drive   Baltic Offensive Also Cutting Deep Into Nazi Lines

iE Y aie BEHIND ENEMY   Drive at Lifelines Vital to Foe in Ukraine and Dnieper Bend Areas

Reds Near — Four Nazi _ Lifelines   Great. Fan-Shaped Offensive Rolls on Unchecked, Taking Huge Stores of Booty   WARSAW - ODESSA LINE THREATENED   Nazis Facing. Encirclement In The Baltic Drive The Same As In Ukraine —

NAZIS UNABLI TO CHECK , DRIVE   FOUR CENTERS   )f Communication Within Striking Distance Of Vatutin’s Forces

Huge Stores Of Plunder AreCaptured   daltic Army Also Knifes Deep Into Resistance Before Leningrad

Reds Smash Germans On 175-Mile Front; Slash Deeper Into Old Poland From Captured Rakitno.

Hitler Men Go To Pieces ‘Under Assault   In North and Sauth Reds Threaten Lines  - Of Communication For Invaders

Russian Offensive Gains Momentum After Crushing Series Of Counter-Attacks By Von Mannstein’s Troops—Gen. Vatutin’s Forces Pushing On Toward Sarny After Capture Of Rakitno—Left Wing Heads South With Warsaw-Odessa Railway As Goal

NAZIS UNABLE TORALT REDS’ POLAND DRIVE   Great Fan-Shaped Offensive Heads Toward Vital Communications

Bargamin's Advances Threaten German Forces in Far North With Enrirclement   KONEV OFFENSIVE   Pincers Movement Threatens Germans in Bend—Reds Advance 25 Miles Toward Rumania

NAZIS APPEAR INCAPABLEOF HALTING ENEMY   Soviet Forces Ripping Germans to Pieces Over Front Extending Ten Miles Inside Poland   HUGE STORES NAZI MATERIAL SEIZED   ‘Heavy Losses Being Inflict ed On Retreating Ger  mans, Moscow Reports

Soviets Smash 10 Miles Into Old Poland   Nazi Official Says ' Germans May Have To Abandon Russia

NAZIS GAINS MOMENTUM   Series of Fierce German Counter - Attacks Crush ed. Reds Strike Deeper Into Poland

Nazis Appear Helpless Before Push   Vatutin’s Forces Smash 10 Miles to Strike At Enemy Lines in Dnieper Bend of Ukraine; German Losses of Men Heavy

Aiming at Vital Nazi Life Lines   Ripping German Lines to Pieces And Capturing Big Stores

RUSSIANS FAN OUT TO NAZIS’ SUPPLY LINES   Germans Appear Unable to Halt Onrushing Red  Hordes in Poland.   Ukraine Army Ripping Nazi Forces to Pieces

SOVIET FORGES PLUNGE DEEPER IN OLD POLAND   Strike Out for Newly Cap tured Base Of Rakitno

3000U.S Planes  Hit Reich   German Transports, France Aircraft Centers Get Blasts

INVASION THREAT TEARING DOWN NAZI MORAULE   Rhineland in a State o! Dangerous Tension, Say Neutrals.

Post-War Dream Plane Previewed  Aviation Writers   Aviation Writers  See 400-Passenger Atlantic Liner Moda!

De Gaulle Scheduled to Arrive Thursday For Talks With FR   Miss Brincks Succumbs Here  Late Tuesday

SEVERAL U.S. WARSHIPS HIT ‘BY JAP BOMBS   Land-Based Planes Damage Part of Carrier Force; Supply Difficulty Slows Philippines Fighting.

WIDESPREAD RAIDS BY OPPOSING AIRMEN IN PACIFIC SECTOR   JAPS LOST 34 PLANES, THREE SHIPS; U. S. LOSSES UNREVEALED

SUPPLY PROBLEM SLOWS ADVANCE OF YANK FORCES   Jap Planes Bomb U. S. Bases In Marianas and Ships But Lose 34 Planes

Yanks Prepare for Final Leyte Drive   Saced By Bong, Famous Unit of  Aees Wait Turn to Hit Jap Column

Long Supply Lines to Slow  Pacific War   Allies Fail to o Find Any Germans Left in Greece; Ait War Continues

Japs Lose 34 Planes, 3 Warships in Aerial Blows; U.S. Ships Damaged

Ship Shortage May Slow Down Leyte Campaign   Yank Admiral Says Nips Cut to Fifth Rate Naval Power

34 JAP PLANES, 3 SHIPS LOST IN AERIAL STRIKES   Several U. S. Warships Hit; Prepare for Final Leyte Battle it

YANKS SET TO CLEAR LEYTE   Japs Lose 34 Planes, 3 Ships In Intense Air Action

Churchill’s Visit  To France Stirs - Up Russian Hopes Reds Want All-Out Brit ish-U. S. Offensive tc Drive Nazis Out

Russians Cry For Action   Hope That Churchill’ Visit to France Means All-Out Allied Drive

FIGHTING AT BOTH LUBLIN, LWOW, CLAIM   Battle of Poland, Now Going for Reds, Only Signals Battle for East Prussia Soon

SOVIETS HAVE HIGH HOPES OF ALL-OUT ALLIED DRIVE   Churchill Visit To Normandy Leads Russians To Believe British and Americans Will Strike Soon

‘Russians Hope Churchill Visit Means Big Drive  ) Soviets Believe German Arm

YANKS ON LEYTE DRIVE TO NORTH, POCKETING JAPS   Adin. Nimitz Says ‘Several U.S. Warships Damaged @ , in Sea Battle

CARIGARA IS AMERICAN OBJECTIVE   U. S. Infantry and Cavalry Beat Nip Counter-Attacks

Yanks Battle to Take Carigara In North Leyte   Navy Disproves Tokyo Claims Of Sea Victory

eA Ships Sunk . Seeking to Aid Leyte Garrison   Total of 26,000 Troops, 29 Transports, 18 Escort Ships Lost

SEVENTH ORMOG BOUND CONVOY: 1S WIPED OUT   Fighter Planes ‘Sink Four Mort Transports; Two Other Vessels

9.000 More Troops Lost Tn Sea Action   Convoy Prevented From Reinforcing Leyte Garrison

Tokyo Hints New Attack  On Ormoe   American Fighters Sink Four Transport Bound For Leyte.

SEVEN MORE JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK   Seventh Convoy In Month Bound For Leyte Wiped Out

Plight of Jap Fort Imperiled   Pursuit Pilots Smash Attempt to Relieve Leyte Nip Garrison

TTH JAPANESE CONVOY SUNK; 9,000 DROWNEL   Attempts To Reinforce Leyte Cost 26,000 Men. 47 Ships

Believe 5,000 Japs Die In Last U.S Smash On Convoy   7th Attack Makes Toll 29 Jap Transports, 26,000 Troops

Seventh Convoy in Month Wiped Out by Yanks   Search Philippine Waters for More Jap Victims

5,000 Troops, Six Vessels, Lost in Attack   Tokyo Hints New Raid by Yanks in Ormoc; Ground Fight Bogged

SEARCH WATERS OF PHILIPPINES FOR JAP SHIPS   U.S, Planes Wipe Out Seventh Convoy Bound for Ormoc

SIX SHIPS BLASTED IN HEW BLOW   Efforts To Reinforce 4 Garrison Have Cost  Nips 26,000 Men

[th Attempt lo Reinforce  Leyle Foiled  Fe ae   3 Freighters and Destroyer Also Sent to Bottom

U. 5. WORKERS BENEFITS ASKED   SEEKS SOCIAL SECURITY FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYES

FDR Studies Action On ‘Vote Measure   Farm Wage Ceilings May Be Extended; Two House Members Say Farmers Threatened with Induction ,

Willkie Plans Another Visit - To Corn State   Tells Iowans Sunday That Independent Voters Are Tired of Demos

Mussolini Awaits Coming of Death   ll Duce Gravely All, Says Fascist Press

CITIZENSHIP FAILING  MEET RESPONSIBILITY  WITH BOND PURCHASE PRELIMINARY SURVEY —  IS VERY DISCOURAGING, CAVG CLATRDMAN RITTIED

CITIZENSHIP FAILING MEET RESPONSIBILITY WITH BOND PURCHASE  PRELIMINARY SURVEY IS VERY DISCOURAGING, SAYS CHAIRMAN BUTLER

Hitler Reported Still Alive But In Failing Health   False News Reports Said Being Given  To German Fuehrer

CLAIM HITLER IS ALIVE BUT FAILING FAST   New Report Has Him Kept From Insanity By Palse Reports

Lies Keeping Hitler Sane?  Vietory Tales Doled kT. Atiing Fuehrer

HITLER REPORTED KEPT FROM FACTS   “GOOD” NEWS DISPATCHES SAID EDITED FOR HIM

NAZI ‘VICTORY’ REPORTS KEEP HITLER HAPPY   False ‘Good News’ Given Ailing Fuehrer, Is London’s Info

Bricker Demands Candidates Talk   Wants Discussion Of National Issues

BRICKER CONFIDENT OF GOP NOMINATION   Ohio Governor Is Critical Of As rants For Office Who Won't  . Discuss Issues

Bricker Bids Candidates Speak Out   OHIOAN CHALLENGES ALL ASPIRANTS FOR PUBLIC OFFICE TO DISCUSS ISSUES IN THE OPEN.

CENSORSHIP IS SCORED BY WAR WRITER   Don Whitehead Returning From Italy Says Situation Serious As Reported And People Should Know Truth   Many Casualties

iniedeeeninieanialiiaiiidiianeaeaemmeieeeiainana bien t  BODY OF WOMAN TAKEN FROM LAKE   Police Think Martin Needed Help As It Weighed 250

Believe Nephew Aided In Murder   Police Say Impossible For One Man To Lift Cinder Blocks.

Powerful Reinforcements Dropped Into Dutch Lowlands   ae es * NS. 77 BAD! BD Be  TO SWIFT DECISION  Possible Sea-Borne Attack On The Dutch Coast To Follow

Yank Army Has Landed In Holland   Nazis Evacuate Severa! Dutch Towns and Villages, Is Reported

Trains Total 285 Miles In Length; Seek To Turn Siegfried Line And Open Way To Berlin From Holland      CONCEAL HOLLAND DESCENT FROM NAZIS

T Yoops In  SEEK TO TURN SIEGFRIED LINE AND OPEN THE WAY  ‘TO BERLIN; IN LATEST. MOVE

No Opposition Candidates For County Offices Six Republican And Six Democratic Nominees Unopposec

No Opposition Candidates For County Offices  Six Republican And  Six Democratic:

BY U. S, RAIDERS   Nauru and Three Marshall Atolls Hit; Japs Repulsed in Admiralties

Wake ls Again  Bombers Target   Nauru And Islands In Mar. shalls Are Also Under Attack   AERIAL OFFENSIVE CONTINUES IN PACIFIC

Russians Reach Bug River Bank   Also Drive Into Lithuania’ Latvia

Russia   REDS CONTROL RAILWAY NEAR EAST PRUSSIE   Fighting Rages in Streets of Wilno As City Verges on Capitulation, Moscow Said

NAZI TROOPS IN WILNO ARE IN RED TRAF   Characteristic Activ:   ity by Enemey In Lithuania Indicate:  Withdrawal.   BULLETIN

Russians Push fo Bug River   Troops Drive Deeper in Lithuania, Latvia

Red Forces Push Enemy Toward Sea   British, Canadians and Americans All Make Gains Today

Bug River In Poland Reached   Wilno Encircled While Reds Drive Ahead in Poland

Well Fed!   Ohio Soldiers With 37th Division Now Receive Best Food

Tank Destroyers Smash 4 ‘Tigers’ U. S. Veterans Help In British Sector

WARNING GIVEN TO NEUTRAL NATIONS   Forfeit of Friendship Penalty for Aiding War. - Criminals

No Asylum ForAxisWar  Criminals   SECRETARY HULL RENEWS HI> WARNING AGAINST GRANTING REFUGE; LITTLE DANGER THERE’LL BE ANY,   Indicated Penalties Tough

Neutrals Aren't Expected To Aid War Criminals   Secretary Hull Indicates Penalties Will Prove Too Tough

Hull Warns Neutrals on ~ War Guilty   Washington Believes No  Counhy Wild Give  oom Asylum fo Axis  ) Leaders

Hull Again Warns Neutral Nations   Penalties Will Be Tough On Countries Harboring Axis. Criminals.

Cross Prut Into Rumania; Capture Nikolayev Port   Red Army Hurls Germans Back 12 Miles In Poland; Forging Steel Ring Around Army Of 100.000 Trapped In Another Salient.

Huge German Force Is Being Entrapped   Russians Begin Flanking Move To Encircle German Armies Staggering Back From Attack

Never Safe From Wars   So Forrestal Makes Plea For Maintenance of Powerful Navy in Future

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Explosives and Incendiaries Dumped by  Fliers  PATTERN -FOLLOWED BY ALLIED AIRMEN  Blows Aimed at the Heart of Japan’s War Po- tential —

B-29’s Bomb Naval Base Of Sasebo   ‘Also Pay Second Visit To Steel City Yawata, Gen. Arnold Reveals  NO TeTAILS CIVEN

BRITAIN 10 REGAIN TRADE!   Churchill Announces, Cut Lend Lease in half when Germany Falls; New Program.   Large Reduction

Anglo-USS. Agreement Disclosed   ‘Churchill Announces Americans to Aid  England Recover Export Trade

ANGLO - AMERICAN TRADE PACT MADE   New Program To Be Inaugurated Next Year; LendLease To Be Cut in Half When Germany Falls

Commander Of Jap Fleet  Dies in Action   ‘Admiral Koga Killed, In Airplane at Fron, Tokvo Radio Declares

JAP FLEET CHIEF KILLED IN ACTION   ‘Admiral Koga Succeeded by Colorless Joemu  Toyoda

Japanese Fleet Commander Dies In Plane Crash   Tokyo Announces Death of Koga

TOKYO ADMIRAL DIES IN ACTION   Jap Fleet Chief Koga Is Second killed Within Year

ADMIRAL KOA NAVAL CHIEF iS KILLED   Second Jap Commander to Die within Year; %* vorted as Having “Died at His Post”   Honored Posthumously

INCOME TAX PLAN WOULD ELIMINATE FILING FOR MANY   New System Proposed By Rep. Carlson Would’ Automatically Deduct Income Tolls From: Wages, Salaries

NEW DEDUCTABLE TAX  LAW WOULD OBVIATE  MAKING OUT RETURN¢ REP. CARLSON OF KANSA‘  HAS NEW PROGRAM FOR EASING WORRY

WOULD SIMPLIFY INCOME TAX ACT   Representative Carlson Proposes Major Tax Change Making It Unnecessary For Millions To Make Any Returns At All.

Urges Tax Revision   Kansan Says Simplification Is No. 1 Tax Job for Congress

New Income Tax Law Proposed   Automatic Deduction From Wages, Salaries Under Carlson Plan

Seeks Abolition. . Ot Tncome Tax! - Return Filings   Author Of ‘Pay-As-You-Go _ Bill: Claims .- Present Statutes: “Hodge-Podge”’

Would Simplify Income Tax Plan  Kansan Proposes Doing Away With Returns

Income Tax Form  Relief Is Seen   Tax May Be Deducted  From Salaries

PROPOSES BILL  FOR AUTOMATIC  TAX PAYMENTS NEW PLAN WOULD ELIMINATE FILING  ne TAY OCTIIONC

Plan To Cut Tax Filing Is Offered   Vould Deduct Most Income Taxes From Salary Automatically

OFFERS NEW IDEA FOR INCOME TA)   Congressman Carlson Suggests Automatic Deductions at Wage Sources.

‘Drop Federal! Tax Returns’  (CARLSON   Kansas Representative Urges No Income Tax Returns  At All.

Ford Reelection Urged fo Protect Montana Waters   North Bakotan Says Governor Saved State's Rights

North Dakotan Credits Gov. Ford With Saving Missouri River Waters for Benefit of the Pennle

American Raid On Frankfurt Sets New Hich   Record Day Attack Fallows Another R.A. F. Blow at Bertin

Record Number Of Bombers  Batter Frankfurt Sections 102 Enemy Fighters Shot Down By Escorting  Planes: More Than 1,500 Yanks Are In Raid

i100 AMERICAN AIRMEN ARE SET FREE BY ROMANIA   iers Taken Back to Italy by Fortresses—50 Wounded, 60 in Excellent Condition.   OT DOWN DURING RAIDS ON OIL FIELDS   n Say They Were Treated ith Kindne#s While Prisoners and That Food   Was Adequate.

AIRMEN FREED FROM ROMANIA   Fortresses Bring 1,126 Prisoners Back To Italian Soil

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‘LAND, LABOR AND CAPITAL,’ ARE THREE I's OF SUCCESS   Even They Can Be Used to Destroy or to Con  struct, According to the Integrity of Those Who Possess.

Babson Writes On Economics   NECESSARY ITEMS IN SUCCESS STRESSED TODAY

Dewey Fires Blast At Gerald Smith   [Illinois Throng Hears Blistering Attack

Veterans Of Legion, VFW, Defend G-I Bill Of Rights   Bill Now Before House World War Committee, Strongly Boeked

A Hail of Steel ir Three-Day Strike At the Marianas   Sea Bombardment Adds to Fury, Japs Report; 29 Ships  Sunk or Damaaed -

U. 5. Warships Shell Japanese In Major Attack   Kuriles, Marianas Under Heavy Fire

Marianas Get 3-Day Blasting   Carrier-Based Planes Sink 13 Jap Ships, Bomb Saipan, Tinian

Japs’ Air, Sea Power Sliced By Yank Force   Task Fieet De Destroys - 141 Planes, Damage Or. Sink 29° Shins 

Marianas And Kuriles Bombarded   Huge Fires Started At Tinian, Saipan; Planes Add Bombs °

Allies Have New Base 880 Miles From P. I. Within  Heavy Bomber Range

ase etna etait  Gen. Stuelpnagel Seriously Injured By ‘Terrorists’  C i i = SSE een Sythe

DIE OF WOUNDS RECEIVED FROM RECENT BLAST   Hitler Reported Fleeing Berlin as Revolts Spread; Gestapo Purge Continues

Hitler-Aimed Bomb Kills 3   Gestapo Reported Barely Touching Real Revolution Leaders; Resistance Group Reported Existing in Germany for Year

Merciless Purge Against Ranking Rebels Prevails   Nazi Leaders Move Ruthlessly In Putting Down Overthrow

Two Officers, Hurl by Bomb, Die in Germany   “Nazis Press Purge Junkers Generals And Landowners

UNITED STATES NAVY CELEBRATES 169TH ANNIVERSARY TODAY  NATION JUBILANT AFTER WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN      WITH FACTS AT HAND IT IS APPARENT JAPANESE SUFFERED DECISIVE DEFEAT TO HER NAVY

DECISIVE JAPANESE DEFEAT SEEN MS SHORTENING WAR IN PACIFIC; -JAPS NOW IN SERIOUS POSITION

ictory In Great Naval Battle Assures Allies Success In Difficult Battle of the Philip TlleB.

The War: Today— : - — Big Naval Triumph Assures (U.S. Victory In Philippines

Jap Armada’s Back Broken   Loss of Front Line Ships Shatters Power

HEAVY LOSS OF CAPITAL SHIPS PUTS JAPAN’S FLEET IN BAD SHAPE; STORY ‘OF BIG BATTLE STILL NOT COMPLETE

Arguments In Favor Of Service Law   Refute Idea It Would Force Major Labor Dislocations

Palau Brought Into Pacific Area Spotlight   Gateway To Philippines Listed Now In Mac Arthur’s Communiques.

Philippine ‘Gateway In Range   Palau Can Now Be Pounded By Planes Based on Hollandia’s Captured Air Strips

Philippines Seen Slated -For Air Raid   MacArthur Sets Up Regular Air Patrol In Palaua Vicinity

MacArthur Moves Air War Nearer The Philippines   U.S. Bombers Attack Near Palau; Chinase Forces Open Major Drive in Burma

Jan Base at Palau = Now Under Attack E   U Strike Major ack Blow in Burme

Piraeus Port Left Smashed  $100 Million Damage Caused By Demolition

Greeks’ Counter-Sabotage Saves Athens; City Rocked By Demolitions At Piraeus   Weakened, Semi-Starved Inhabitants Hilariously Joyful Over Liberation

Athens Saved From Damage  By Germans   ; Nearby Port Of Piraeus  Wrecked But Activities  Of Greek Patriots Save  Ancient Capital

ATHENS IS FREE OF SERMAN YOKE   Greeks Celebrate As Ancient Capital Is Liberated By Allies

Germans Blew Up Piraeus   But Greek Patriots Outfought German Saboteurs, Protected Athens

ATHENS ELUDES MAJOR DAMAGE   Patriots’ Counter-Sabotage Helped Hold Down Injury

Germans Demolish Greek Port; Athens Saved by Patriots   Fear Civil Friction in Greek Capital; Nazis Flee North

ATHENS FREE BUT DISCORD FEARED   CELEBRATIONS STILL IN PROGRESS AFTER YEARS OF SERVILITY

Red Steamroller e8rings the War — Close to Rumania   ' Surge Toward Border Nearly Isolates Foe’s. Ukraine Army from.  Germany and Poland

SWARM ACROSS VITAL RAILWAY   Sever Last Westward Rail Connections for Germans {n South Russia.   SPRING THAWS ARRIVE

‘Impossible’ Weather Fails To Halt Reds   Russians Lunge Swiftly Across Severed Rail Line For Rumania; Germans Worried

Mannstein s Men Isolated In Ukraine   Soviets Push Ahead Despite Mud—Supp Lines Are Cut

RED UKRAINE ARMY SWARMS OVER ODESSA-LWOW RAILWAY IN DRIVE TOWARD RUMANIA   Last Westward Transportation Connection for Enemy Forces In Southern Russia Is Severed By Soviet Thrust  BREACHED FOR DISTANCE OF EIGHTEEN MILES

Russians All But Isolate Nazi Southern Army As Conflict Nears Rumania:

Seize Strongholds On Vital Railway Outlet Of Ukraine   Mud Fails to Stop Russians: Escape Routes To Germany In Peril

Soviet Forces Push Onward  Through Muc   Von Mannsteins Army Threatened With Isolation By Russian Troops.   SKIRMISH AT. CASSINO

Soviets Bring War Closer to Rumania in Steady Advance   Swarm Across OdessaLwow Railroad; Bad Weather is Hamper

Soviet Troops Press Ahead in Spite of Mud   Russians Bring War Front Close To Rumania Border

Bad Weather  Fails to  Halt Attack   Disintegrating German Forces Are Falling Back; Nazis See Red Army’s Final Attempt to Annihilate Forces of Reich

GERMANS ALMOST ISOLATED BY ¢ ADVANCING REDSIN SOUTHERN « UKRAINE WHERE MUDISKING /   Odessa-Lwow Railway Cut by Russians and Many German Strongholds Taken with Gen. Fritz Von Mannstein’s Nazi Army in Serious Peradicamaeant   Declares Heavy Toll Being Taken of Jap Shipping And Lack of Shipping May Be Controlling Factor In What Japan Is Able ToDo. Confident of  Victary

Reds Bring War Close  To Rumani    Soviet Spearheads Within 60 Miles of Uneasy Balkan Country   GERMANS S FACE ISOLATION THREAT   Gen. Mannstein’s Army Menaced as Russians Advance Despite Mud

Russians Press Toward Rumania   Gen. von Mannstein’s South Ukraine Army All But Isolated

Reds Bring War Close To Rumania   Soviets All But Isolate South Ukraine  German Army

Germans In Ukraine All But Cut Off   Russians Reach For Tarnopol After Breaching Vital Supply Railway.

REDS ISOLATE GEN. VON MGNNSTEIN        SHARP CLASHES MARK ANZIO-CASSINO STALEMATES: ARMIES BOGGED DOWN

TO GERMANY AND POLAND   Pushing Toward Rumania in Seemingly Impossible Weather, Reds Already, Are but 75 Miles East of Lwow.

Offensive Rolls. On Despite Ponds: And. Mud Brought On By Spring Thaw — Reds Take Strong Hold On. Sever . ed Odessa-Warsaw Rail —Enemy Losses Are Heavv.

Louie Found Guilty: Gets 4.Year Term   In Jail for 16 Menths.   “4 Half-Way Case.*

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BAYEUX TO CAEN HIGHWAY 15 GUT   German Broadcasts Report String of New Allied Blows   HEADQUARTERS IGNORES   SHAEF Says That Landing Beaches Cleared of Foe; Reinforcements Pour in

Troops ‘Do Better Than Expected’ As Nazis Throw in Reserves, Launch Armored Counterattacks

GERMANS STIFFEN RESISTANCE; HIT BACK AT POINTS   Stories From Battle Front Tell. of Many Casualties — Enemy Broadcasts Say Anglo-American Forces Have Attacked All Way From Calais Area to Nantes — Alr-Borne Operations Increase.

Allies Clear Beachheads  Despite Reinforcements  Hurled Into Battle Zone

‘Doing Better than Expected”, Official Report from Invasion Coast; Airforce Busy. 

Enemy Hurled Back On Coast   Road To Caen Cut Four Miles Inland: Fighting Gets Tougher As Germans Counter-Attack

Ike Tours Beaches . Under Nazis Noses   German Counter-Attack Hurled Back; Allies Plunae Ahead in Heavy Fiaghtina

Heavy Fighting Marks Capture of Bayeux in Interior of Normandy   Also Cut Highway fo Caen in Spite of Heavy CounterAttack by Reinforced German Army; Allies Doing Better Than Expected, Official Statement Says; Berlin Reports New Allied Attacks

Fighting Heavy Against Counter-Attacking Foe   Highway Cut From Bi Bayeux to Caen As Allied Troops Move In in France

Invasion Going ‘Better Than Expected;’. Clear Beaches Of Foe; New Landings Reported

Highway To Caen Is Severed; German Counter-Attacks Are Repulsed   NUMEROUS LANDINGS REPORTED BY ENEMY

(Nazi Attack Hurled Back By Allies ©  Tn Caen Area   Allies Doing Generally Better Than Expected As Forees Continue To Advance Inland LANDING BEACHES ENTIRELY CLEARED Many Nazi Reports : Apparently Designed To Gain Information

MORE SHIPS AND PLANES DAMAGED   Carrier Aircraft Strikes Against Philippines, Raids Begun September 1   Opposition Fight

B4 MORE JAP SHIPS HIT BY YANK FLIEDS   Total of 233 Planes Also Destroyed in the Attacks’

May Ease Italian Armistice Terms  Churchill’s Remark Suggests Prisoners  mw Cam ta pam’

LeMars Girl Weds Army Air Officer  Wedding Takes Place _udit Hobbs: N.” ae"; Eeeeneer

Draft Chief Woulc Keep Men In Uniform After War  Gen. Hershey Says Jobs Must Be Available First

REDS ACGUIRE TOKYO'S OIL, COAL LEASES   Sign Protocol Whereby Nips Give Up Proper: ties on Sakhalin Island in North Pacific—Dea Soviet Victory.

REDS DEAL NIPS STUNNING BLOW   Japs Surrender Oil, Coal Pacts on Northern Sakhalin

Japs Surrender Leases fo Reds   Yield Rights in Sakhalin Island In the Pacific

JAPS SURRENDER RUSSIAN LEASES ON NO. SAKHALIN   Protocol Is Drawn, Moscow Says, to Cancel Agreement on Oil and Coal Rights on Island.   ISLAND 1S OWNED BY TWO NATIONS JOINTLY   Russia Agrees to Sell Oil at End of War, Will Pay $950,000, Fishing Permit Made.

JAPS LOSE COAL AND OIL LEASES   Move Seen Evidence Of Desire To Keep Soviet Peace

Japan Returns Sakhalin Oil, Coal Concessions To Russia; Considered Staggering Blow   Moscow Agrees, Under New Protocol, To Supply Japs Oil After The War

JAPAN SIVES UP OWE GOAL LEASES   -Russian’ “Action, Jnvoly. ing  Pacific Island, Blow ’ To Tokyo. ye

Russians Gain At Jap Expense   VALUABLE OIL AND COAL LEASES SECURED BY REDS.

Japs Woo Moscow; Return Sakhalin  Coal Concessions   Oil Rights Also Returned To Soviets Twenty-Six Years Before Expiration

JAPS SURRENDER RED Oli LEASES   Won't Be Able To Obtain From Russia Until After War Ends

Ja aps Suffer Heavy ry Blow In Russ Dea   Tokyo Agrees ‘to Give Up ee and Coal Leases. on. “Sakhalin Island

Under Terms of Document Tokyo Agreed to Release Coal and Oil Leases on North Portion of Sakhalin Teland

JAPS YIELD COAL, OIL ISLE TO REDS   Sakhalin Leases Given Up; "Soviet Will Furnish Fuel

Japs Give Ur ‘Sakhalin Oil, Coal Leases   Surrender Of Rights To Russia Blow To Nipponese War Fffort.

MOSCOW GETS OIL HOLDINGS FROM NIPPON   Coal Leases In Northerr Pacific Island Also Affected In Protocal

Reds to Tak Up Oil Lease in Sakahalins      Reds Extend to Japanese tor Five More Years Siberian Sea Fishing Rights i

Japs Handed Blow By Soviet Russia  _ Deal by Which Nips Give Up Coal and Oil

Oil, Coal Leases Given Up by Japs   Russians Claim..Diplomatic Victory As Result of Signing New Protocol

Japs Agree to Surrender Oil, Coal Leases on Island to Riresians.

Sakhalin Island Leases Affeeted By New Protoco   250,000 Tons Of Oil To Be Furnished Nippon In 5-Year Postwar Period

JAPS GIVE UP RIGHTS TO RED OIL. COAL LEASE   Cancellation of Agreement Due To Expire in 1970 Seen As Blow to Tokyo.

Japs Give Up Leases to Reds   Soviets Extend Fisheries Treaty  For Five Years

Japs Give Up Oil Lands To  Soviet Union   ‘Surrender Leases Which Were to Have Expired In 1970

Japan Surrenders Oil And Coal In Pacifie To Moseow   Signing Of Protocol Covering Holdings On Sakhalin  Island Deseribed As Staggering Blow To + Tokyo Government From West:  ! Cer Fucl After War

JAPS SURRENDER ‘OIL-COAL LEASES TO THE SOVIETS   Move on Northern Sakhalin Island Interpreted As Gesture to Keep Peace With Reds

Russia Forces Japs To Give Up For:Nominal Sum All Coal and Oil Leases in North Sakhalin -

MOSCOW DEALS BLOW 10 JAPS   Forces Tokyo To Yield Oil And Coal Leases On Sakahalin

JAPS SURRENDER  SAKHALIN OIL,  COAL TO RUSSIA DEAL INTERPRETED  AS A DIPLOMATIC VICTORY FOR REDS

iMeve: Up ) Deadline 7 On Advertising Copy  Te Neen Of Day Before

MLE Ter WITHDRAWN      Allied Air Force ‘Announces that Bombers Have Cut All Railroad Communicatiogs Between Nazi Armies in Southern Italy and ‘Northern Supply Centers.

All Nazi Lines To South Italy  Front Severed   Fitth Army Airmen Say Every Bridge, Termi nal DNewactatad

Nazis Regain Control of Mt. Cassino; Allies Claim Bombs Cut Supply Lines

ALLIES GIVE UP CASSINO HILL SLOPES   Bombers Cut Rail Communications In North Italy

‘Pop Was a Pugilist . Philadelphia Kangaroos Enter Multiple Birth Derby

German Broadcasts Say There Is Ne Such Thing As Hitler Line In Italy

Yanks Menace German Supply Road at Coastal Anchor of Itri   Fires Indicate Foe is Destroying His Supplies at Gaeta   Nazis Deny There Is (Or Wace) Hitler Tine

TRUMAN QUITS PROBE GROUP   Resigns Despite Protests Of Members Of Both Parties

Sen. Truman Resigns Post  Quits as Chairman of War Inquiry Group Over Colleagues Protests

3,200 Planes ‘Rake Germany   Fleets From England, Italy His Roilk. OH Plants -

Record Bomber Fleet Blasts Nazi Railways   1,600 Heavies Dump 6,000 Tons of Bambs On Frankfurt Area

BLAST FRANKFURT   RAILROADS SMASHED BY GREAT FLEET—OTHER U. 8. PLANES HIT AUSTRIA,

GREATEST ARMADA OF BOMBERS HITS REICH   Fleet Of Heavies, Forming Sky Train 300 Miles Long, Strikes; 12 Bombers And Two Fighters Missing

Greatfleet Of Bombers ~ Hits Reich   Greatest Number Ever Assembled Blasts — Rail Center Of ~~ brankfurt

RECORD AIR FLEET HITS RAIL SYSTEM   More Than 16( 1600 Planes Blast German Network

Mightiest Bomber Fleet In History Blasts Rail Lines in Frankfurt Area

Mighty Airfleet Batters Nazi Railroad Center  1,600 Fortresses Batter at Frankfurt

OPA Ceiling On Auction Is Voided In Ohio Court By Judge Who Orders Tractor Resold To Highest Bidder

PRESIDENT ON AIR TONIGHT   Will Also Make Address at Chicago Tomorrow Night, While Dewey Will Make Farm Ad dress Tomorrow Nicht.

JOINT SEWAGE PLANT MOVED STEP CLOSER   Formal Approval Set For Next Monday Night By City Dads

Twin Cities Set To Build Joint Disposal Plant   Formal Resolutions Will Be Passed Next Week. Here, In St. Joseph

32 Marooned High in Rockies by. Snow Cid, Await Rescue; WAVE Injured

ARMY MOVES SUPPLIES T0 32 IN SNOW TRAP   Snowplows Battle Way Up 11,314 Foot Pass in Colorado

Floods And Tornadoes In Southwest; 32 Marooned By Snow In Mountains

SNOW-TRAPPED WAIT RESCUERS   32, Including 3 Babies, Are Marooned In Rockies

2 MARDONED BY SNOW AVALANCHE      Soldiers Apply Arctic Training in Carrying Supplies Un Rockies.

32 Wait For Rescue Erom Avalanche   People Marooned In Autos Swept Off Road Ry Sliding Snow

Marooned Autoist: Await Aid on  Lone Mountaintop  Soldiers Help Crews In Rescue of 32 Adults, Two Babies

GOEBBELS SEES LONG WAR, JAP ARENGY REPORTS   Present War May Last Many Years He Tells Jap Newspapermen.

‘Please Break the News Gently’  Hero Explains How He Lost His Leg

‘Dear Sister’  Soldier Tells In Letter How His Leg Was Shot Off.

MacKenzie Says—  Early Win Depends on Civilian Aid   Soldiers Will Battle On All Fronts Until Final Victory Hour Is Decreed

WAR ANALYST DELIVERS GOOD SERMON TO HOME FRONT FOLK ON ARMISTICE ANNIVERSARY

WAR. TODAY   Production of War Needs Must Continue Just. as. Men “Must Continue to Die Up To the Order “Cease Fives t*

AIR ATTACKS — LOOM BEYOND IMAGINATION   Warns, However, That Germans May Be Expected to Retaliate With Secret Weapons   PREFERS BELLS

BALIKPAPAN OIL CENTER RUINED   Liberator Bombers Keep After Vital Japanese War Fuel Source

—————ee=—_- — BALIKPAPAN TARGET FOR SECOND RAID   Nineteen Jap Fighters Downed, Seven Libera. tors Lost in One Hour Air Battle.   Sixth Raid

Borneo Target Of Another Big Airraid   40 Tons of Bombs Strike Important Japanese Oil Center

(9 JAPS DOWNED IN AIR BATTLE   YANKS LOSE 7% PLANES IN FIGHT DURING RAID ON BORNEO OIL, CENTER.

O'Daniel Predicts Texans Be Bought By New Deal Power   Delegates Will Be Paid to Support _ President Roosevelt

TOKYO DENIES EXECUTING U.S. FLIERS   Repudiates Early Broadcast From Singapore

EXECUTIONS DENIED   Tokyo Says No U. S. Fhers Who Landed im [ope  Were

Tokyo Denies U.S. Superfort  Crewmen Had Been Executed   Japanese Broadcast Says United States Government Has Been Notified Through Switzerland

No Yank Fliers Killed By Japs, Tokyo Declares   Officials Deny Any Plans To Execute Americans Forced Down In Nippon

Japan Denies Execution of U.S. Airmen   Jap Denial Covers Only Super-Fortress Fliers; Say Airmen Not To Be Executed

EXECUTION OF YANKS DENIED   Superfort Airmen Reported Safe By Japanese Captors

Tokyo Denies Yank Airmen Executed, Declares Broadcast Was Misunderstood

B-29 Airmen Not Executed  aa f YK VO}   Jap Radio Denies Government Killed Flers After ‘Fort’ Raids.

JAP GOVERNMENT DENES EXECUTION   Declares In Broadcast That No American Pilots Have Been Killed.

JAPANESE DENY B-29 EXECUTION   Nips Notify U. S. Officially Through Switzerland

JAPANESE DENY SLAYING FLIERS   Tokyo Reports U.S. Notified That Stories Were False

JAPANESE DENY YANKS KILLED   Tokyo Claims No B-29 Fliers Shot Down in Japan To Be Executed

Japs Deny B-29 Fliers Executed  Sinaanore Radin   Singapore Radio Report Retracted

EXECUTIONS DENIED   Tokyo Says No U. S. Fliers Who Landed in Japan Were Kill

Tokyo Denies B-29 Pilot Executions   RADIO REPUDIATES BROADCAST TELLING OF “SINGLE JOURNEY TICKET’

JAPANESE DENY KILLING PILOTS   Repudiate “Single Journey Ticket" Broadcast

Tokyo Denies Pilots Slain   Officially Repudiates U. § Charges That Fliers Hed Been Executed

CHURCHILL IN ATHENS TODAY   Eden Accompanies Prime Minister On Trip To Greek Capital

Churchill And Eden In Athens For War Talks   Make Unheralded Appearance to Intervene In Greece’s Tangled Politics Today

CHURCHILL IN GREEK CAPITAL   Invites Leaders To Meet Tc End Civil War

Churehill, In Athens, Tntervenes  In Civil War   Calls Conference  Of Military Leaders And Representatives Of Politieal Parties

Greek Parley Call Sounded By Churchill   Arrival of Briton Surprises Athens End to War Sought

CHURCHILL APPEARS SUDDENLY IN GREECE   Opposing Factions Called To Reconciliation Meeting

CHURCHILL GALLS ~ ATHENS PARLEY   British Prime Minister In Unheralded Visit Tt Greek Capital °

Greek: Party Heads Meet*   : Churchill Antervenés  ‘At Scene Of Conflict

Revolt in Slovakia Menaces German  Hold in Balkans   Romanian Envoys In Moscow; Bulgarian Group Reaches Cairo

ROMANIA TO SIGN PEACE IN MOSCOW   No Armistice Yet Exists Unless Nation Fights Nazis

Rumanian Peace Delegation Reaches Moscow   Uprising in Slovakia Adds to Unrest In Balkan Fortress

Romanians in Moscow for Peace Talks   Russia Says Country Must Fight Germany

Commission in Moscow to Discuss Peace   New Menace Seen for German Defense Structure

TAX HIKE PLEA BY.ROOSEVELT GIVENRERUN      Congress Cold to Appeal For Sharp Increase; "Similar Demands By  Treasury Denied

Implied Demand For Sharp Increase In Taxes Almost Shrugged Off.By Congress In No Moed For Taxes

Cold Shoulder  To Tax Raise   Congress Shrugs Off F. D. R.'s Demand: Freeze Social Security Tax.

FR. Call For Tax Hike Gets Cold Shoulder   Solons Indicate Chance For Big Increase Slim Ie Blantian Waeae

Roosevelt’s Implied Plea For Sharp Increase In Taxes  Finds Deaf EarsIn Congres:

Congress Shrugs Off Tax Demand  First Move Toward ‘Realistic Tax Law’ {is Up to Senate

FDR'S DEMAND FOR TAX GETS COLD SHOULDER   Social Security Rates Frozen

Congress Deaf To Demand For Higher Taxes   Message Is Followed By Freezing Of Social Security Rate

May Demand Bigger Tax   But Congress Cool; See Little Chance of Change

Solons Appear Disinterested h Added Levy   Senate Votes To Freeze Rate Of Social Security

Congress Ready To Ignore Plea  For Higher Tax      Roosevelt: Believed Trying fo" Reinstate sMorgenthau Version Of Tax Bill

Senate Votes Tax Freeze   Approves Measure to Freeze ’44 Social Security Tax At One Per Cent.

IMPLIED DEMAND OF PRESIDENT FOR MORE TAXES FAILS IMPRESS   CONGRESS HAS HEARD _ SAME DEMAND BEFORE AND REIECTED IT

Roose velt's Demand For Higher Taxes Gets Cold Shoulder In Congress; SS Rate Frozen

F.D.R.’s Demand For Higher Taxes Gets Cold Shoulder In Congress   Social Security Rate Frozen For 1944; President Contends Pending Tax Bill Does Not Tax All Unreasonable Profits.

Congress Balks on Higher Taxes  President's Demand Being Shrugged Off

Germans Lose  75 Tanks  To Americans   Paris Says French Troops Have Entered City Of Strasbourg; Third Army Advances On Saarbrucken: Rain, Wind Hamper Troons

Troops Battle In Driving Rain To Take Villages   Allied Forces Draw Ciaser to City of Strasbourg

French Troops Reach Suburbs Of Strasbourg   Yanks Smash Germans Back In Roer Valley Tank Battle In 26 Miles Of Cologne As Third And Seventh Armies Advance

HALT FIFTH ARMY   Rain, Mud and Stiff Nazi Resistance Stop Allied dvance  -

Allied Advance In Po Valley Is Virtually, Halted   Weather and Stiff German Resistance Responsible; Highway Under Fire.

Mud, Resistance Halt Po Drive   Heavy Artillery Keeps Bologna-Rimini Road Under Systematic Fire

ALLIES SHELL ITALIAN ROAD   Rain, Stiff Resistance Halts 5th Army Advance

RAIN, HUNS STOP YANKS IN ITALY   U. S. Troops Continue Fire on Italian Highway

Rain, Mud Slow Allies in Italy   Stiff Resistance Felt-— Allies Guns Pound Highway

ADVANCE OF ALLIES IN ITALY ENDS      Weather And Nazi Resistance Halt March On Po River

FR Refuses To Offer Opinion   ‘Won't Say How Much Power To Be Given U.S

MILITARY OFFICIALS MOVE TO END STRIKE   Lancaster Draft Boards Issue Ulti. matum Cancelling Truck Drivers’ Deferments

U.S. Invaders Now Hold Half Of Guam Isle   \Navy Enters Port Taken From Japs; Tinian Nearly Cleared

Conquest of Guinee  Clinched   Leap to Sansapor Puts Allied Forces 200 Miles Forward

14 Foe Warships  omnk ar Namacad WUE Wi bo CREED Upvu  ‘n Mariana Battle

Halmahera~ Again Has Heavy Raid   Makes Fouril: Big. Raid In Luss Than Two Weeks on Vital tsland

HALMAHERA IS RIPPED BY ATTACKS   From U.S. Planes in Cam. paign to Invade Philip. pines From South; Tar: gets in Flames.   Tonnage Up

BOMBS RAINED ON PHILIPPINE GATEWAY ISLE   INVASION BARRIER RIPPED APART BY AIR POWER

British Empire Casualties In Five Years of War Are Placed at 1,091,628

BIG SKY PLANE AWAITING TEST   ” same Flight Of The Giant Air Transport May Be Announced Soon

Giant PlaneReady Soon   Maiden Flight May © Be Announced During World Air Conference

Tales Heard At Capital These Days   Cordell Hull Putters At Golf, Breaking Record — At 72

ARMIES HACK DEEPER INTO SIEGFRIED LINE   Continue Mopup Of Aachen While Thwarting Nazi Counterattacks

Rachen Being Mouned   New Offensive Before Winter Is Being Understaken

Allies Capture Venray   3rd Army Brings Up Heavy Guns To Bombard Enemy) Defending Metz

American Pirst Army Beats Off German Counter-Attack Northeast Of Smoking Aachen, Continues Mopup Of City   MILE ADVANCE BY GEN PATTON’S ARMY

Tommies Capture Venray In Holland   Yanks Mop Up Aachen, Beat Off Nazi Attack

Yanks Score Small Gains In Fighting   Venray Captured; Third Army Nears Bastion Of Metz.

FORTIFIED DUTCH TOWN [S CAPTURED   American Ist Army Beats Off Another Nazi Counter-attack Near Aachen.

Preparation For New& lied Offensive Into” The Homeland    CAPTURE FORTIFIED TOWN OF VENRAY   And Drive Within Four Miles Of Moselle Valley Bastion

Punch Out Gains In Three Key Sectors; Yanks Hurl Back Counterblow, Continue Mopup Of Aachen

Is Opening Of Attacks Fr rom N ewly  Won Bases   Will Continue Until Invasion By. Troops.

ARMY MORALE — HIT BY STRIKES   Stimson Makes Strong Plea for Universal Service Legislation

SECRETARY SAYS STRIKES AND BICKERING ON HOMEFRONT’ AFFECTING  FIGHTING MEN 9°)

Stimson Assails Strikes, Bickering On Home Front   Says Morale Of Fighting Men Is Being Threatened By Home Front Activities   STRIKES LIKELY TO PROLONG WAR

Wheeler Proposes Senators Set Own Peace Aim  “~ Montana Takes Actior As FDR Fails In “Tokina o Stand”

Wheeler Proposes Senators Set Own Peace Aim  “~ Montana Takes Actior As FDR Fails  Rae f8Ple os Chmel!?

Wheeler For Senate Naming  Its Peace Aims   Senstor to. Offer Resolu tion “In Absence of President Taking Stand”  in Matter

Senator Wheeler Proposes Peace Solution   Urges That Senate Formally Proclaim Its Aims

Aetial Eyewitness Of Allied Landings In Green Islands Reports What He Saw

OF ENVOYS LEFT FREE   Reports Not Complete As Precincts Choose County Delegates

Most Delegates Selected Get  No Instructions  Ws ek aoe Oe i Oe a   Varied Sentiment to Fourth Term Shown by Resolutions

Bob Hope and USO Troupe Safe After Plane Is Forced Down in Australia

Bob Hope Bemoans Loss of Whiskey As Troupe’s Plane is Forced Down

FEDERAL OFFICIAL "HELD FOR BRIBER\   Charles Magolis, of the FEA, Arrested by © FBI Aaqents

BRIBERY CHARGED HEAD OF FEA UNI   “FBI Arrests Charies Margolis “After Accepting Pack Said Holding Cash

SOLDIER DIES IN ACTION IN FRANCE   He Is Pfc. Robert E. Staub, New Oxford — Employed Here Before Entering Army —Captain Is Wounded

@ MOTHER'S BOY AT HEART  “Commando” Kelly, Scourge of Nazis, Home to Visit Mom

AMERICAN MARINES PRESSING ASSAULT   Attack on » Borgen Area Is Reported in Dispatches

FIRE DEATH TOLL ~ INCREASED 10 157   Prayers Offered in Hartford Churches for Victims

Ringling Circus Fire Toll Mounts T. 157: Offer Prayers For Victims

Expected Veto of Tax Bill by FDR Seen As Notice of Leadershi p Over Cengress

EXPECT VETO. ~ OF TAX BILL   ROOSEVELT SAID. TO HAVE DE. CIDED' TO SEND MEASURE BACK. TO: CONGRESS _. TOMORROW

50 Officials OFUMW Will Back Dewey   John O'Leary, Int. V. P. of Union Said After a Conference Attended By Gov. Martin

Joyous Population Celebrating Its Freedom, Broadcast Asserts   Ag Economist Terms Land  Plan ‘Illusion’

DESTROYER ESCORT IS REPORTED LOST   Fechteler, Commissioned Eear Ago Sunk In Combat In Mediter ranean, Narr

eis Wie We.’ “¢ $3738,  Ti? Cee e  -" keg Nba vom Jo vu =  Go- Now So gar yest

CARDS TAKE SIXTH GAME WIN SERIES   Browns Defeated in Final Contest by 3 to } Score

Cardinals Win Baseball Title By 3-1 Vietory   Lanier, Witks Master Rival Batters While Winners Buneh Runs In 4th

Cardinals Win Their Second World Series in Three Years With 3-to-1 Victory Over St. Louis Browns

SEIZURE OF CAPITAL IS ‘MMINENT   Russians ‘Smash Into @Kecskmet, 43 Miles South Of City

Three Soviet Columns Are Converging  On Budapest   Fall of Hungarian Capital Now a Matter of Dave

Three Russian . Mobile Colur Near Budar <*   Fall of Hr Capital £. But Matter .’

Soviets Liberate Entire Petsamo: Area in Finland  Russians Converge ‘ On ‘Budapest -

Russians Head for Budapest   Three Huge Red Armies Race for Hungarian City

Three Russian Columns Converging On Budapest and Fall of Hungarian Capital Is Seen as Matter of Days

Reds Driving on Budapest  Thence (U§elismiunn   Three Columns Approach City

EXPECT FALL OF BUDAPEST IN FEW DAYS   Three Russian Columns Nearing Hungarian Capital

Racing Toward Budapest In Converging Drive From Three Points  FIERCE FIGHTING NORTH OF WARSAW Action In East Prussia  Confined To Artillery And Air Battles

THREE RUSSIAN COLUMNS HEAD FOR BUDAPEST   Fail Of Hungarian Capital Now Considered Matter Of Few Days

USE FLAME-THROWERS   Tank-Mounted Weapons Are Having “Deadly Effect

New Pacific War Plans Shaped at Quebec Meeting   Direct Attack on Jap Mainland May Result

New Hist Chiefs Slated   Direct Assault on Nip Homeland Aim of Quebec Conference

Leaders Condr First Forma)  Business Ses.   New Plans Being Laid For Final — Axis Destruction

Snape Pacific War Plans at Quebec Parley   Japanese War Requires Creation Of Super-Command

Roosevelt. Churchill Confer   Plon Final Destruction of Axis — Direct Assault on Japan

Chiefs Hold First Talks   Roosevelt And Churchill In Parley On Final Destruction Of Axis.

FR, Churchill Man Victory :   Two Allied Leaders Open Pocific Talks; Full Staff Meeting Called Loter Today; U.S. General Slated for Top Command

Tokyo Reports Foochow Capture   Last Remaining East China Port Taken

GIVEN VET VOTE   Committee Sidestens Propos al for Federal Ballot In House

Hurricane hoar: Toward Florida, Lashes Key West   Six Dead, 20 Hurt As Raging Gales Rip Havana

160-Mile-Hour Hurricane its Havana; South Florida Set As Storm Moves North

Fierce Hurricane Ravages Havana; Heads for Florida   Winds Up. Te 168 Miles An Mou Sweep Capital Of Cuba, Cross Keys Where Vets Died In 1935

Havana Is Damaged by  Hurricane  Storm Headed For. The Florida Keys

South Florida Battened Down For Hurricane      Mighty Storm Hits Havana And Moves Across To  Lash Kevs

HAVANA HARD HIT BY SEVERE STORM   Tropical Hurricane Ex pected to Hit Florida Today

HURRICANE HITS HAVANA, MOVES TOWARD FLORIDA      Will Sweep Western Coast Of Peninsula Near Tampa, Indicated

Fierce Hurricane Lashes Havana   Heavy Casualty List Is Feared As South Florida Braces Itself

CUBA, HEADS - NORTHTOU.S   7 Die and 350 Injured As Hurricane . Strikes

Hurricane Nears Coast (i Florida   ‘Six Deaths Reported ic Storm Sweeps Cube

HAVANA SLASHED BY  WINDS OF 140 MILES  HOUR ON WEDNESDAY LEAVING SIX DEAD THERE  STORM DUE FLORIDA KEYS LATE TODAY

Many Homes Flattened ‘in Havana   High Tides Forecast Along Florida Coast

Hurricane Sets Course For Floride   To Reach West Coast Of Southern State Some Time This Morning

Tropical Hurricane  Sweeps On Floride  Death And Damage Left By Storm

Strong Winds’ Strike Havana:  Florida Is Set :  For Hurricane   ‘€ aba. Is: Lashed By  160- Mile. ‘Gusts!

CUBAN CAPITAL HIT BY STORM   Hurricane Moves Out into Gulf of Mexico — Florida Keys Menaced

STORM ROARS NORTH AFTER HITTING CUB   Wind Velocity Of 160 Miles Per Hour ls Reported Today

Havana Is Lashed by High Winds   Severe Tropical Storm Moves Into Gulf—-Florida Keys Hit

HURRICANE I$ HEADED TOWARD FLORIDA KEYS  Great Damage Is Reported Todav

Heavy Loss in Havana From  Hurricane 160 Mile An Hour   160 Mile An Hour Wind Heads Over Gulf for Florida Kevs

Wind Gusts 140 To 160 ‘Miles An Hour   Storm Leaves Cuba For Gulf; Expected To Hit Florida Keys

Hurricane Heads For Key West   At Least Six Person Killed And 20 Hur As Tropical Storn Sweeps Over Cuba

Florida Keys F eeling Force Of Hurricane   Severe Tropical Storm Moves Into Gulf of Mex. ico After Lashing Havana

FLORIDA BRACED AS STORM NEARS   140-To-160-Mile Winds Hit Havana, Sweep North

Key West Station  Fails   Tremendous Air Mass Reaches  60 Mile Hour  Speed Over Havana

Storm Kills Seven In Havana, Moves  Toward Florida   Key West Escapes Full Force of Wind; South Georgia Warned

6 Die, 20 Hur as Hurricane Hits Havana   Greater Casualty List Feared From Rural Cuba Areas

140 MILE WIND RIPS HAVANA, HEADS FOR U. S,   Expect Severe Tropical Storm to Reach Florida Keys This Afternoon

Hurricane Hits Cuba Hard Blow, Menaces Florida   Peninsula Warned Of Strong Gales

TROPICAL STORM LASHES HAVANA   RADIO REPORT SAYS NUMBER OF HOUSES WERE BLOWN DOWN

Gales Head For Florida      Hurricane Damages Havana Badly, Then Heads for Florida

HURRICANE HITS CUBA, HEADS WEST   Record Storm Expected to Reach Florida Tonight

HURRICANE: IS HEADING FOR FLORIDA   Had Moved from Havana Toward Key West at Noon

Florida Keys In Path Of Severe Storm   Hurricane Winds And “Very High Tides,” Predicted

Cuba Dealt Heavy I Blow By Tropical  Hurricane    Southwestern: Coast  - Of Florida: Menaced;, Six Killed, 100 Hurt’ In-Havana Alone  a RT ae oma ere ee ee eee neem See

Weather Bureau Warns Full Hurricane Winds —  - Will Probably Sweep Evnacad Elarida Kave

Hurricane Warnings in Florida   Heavy Damage Already In. flicted on Havana; Keys Threatened   KEY WEST TRAFFIC BEING STOPPED   South Florida. Warned. Extreme Precautions Are in Order

Hurricane Hits Havana With 160-Mile-an-Hour Wind Inflicting Damaae

e Hurricane Moves  Toward Florida   Winds Reported At 160 Miles Per Hour

All Of South Florida Ready For Big Gales   Very High Tides -Also Forecast in Weather Bureau Report

HURRICANE IS WHIPPING INTO FLORIDA AREA   20 Reported Killed In Havana With Bigger Death List Feared

Batten Down Coast Cities for Big Blow   Seventy-Five Mile Per Hour  Winds Lash Florida Coast as Hurricane Moves North

Tropical Storm Menaces Florida  Severe Damage Reported at Havana

Florida Keys Area Prepares As Tropical Hurricane Approaches   Winds Of Great Force Batter Havana And Western Cuba Before Passing Into Gulf Of Mexico; Warn Of Extreme High Tides.

HEAVY CASUALTIES FEARED IN ISOLATED AREAS OF CUBA AND KEY WEST FEARS MUCH DAMAGE

FIERCE GALES LASH HAVANA, 6 ARE KILLED   Mainland Braces for Full Fury of Caribbean Hurricane

FLORIDA KEYS HIT BY STORM   Hurricane Winds Up To 160 Miles Per Hour Lash Havana  PREDICT HIGH TIDES

Known Dead 19 In Train Wreck In Tennessee   ‘All But Two Soldiers; Estimates of Full Toll Range from 40 to 50

RAIL WRECK TOLL. MAY REACH FORTY   Nineteen’ Known Dead. in Accident in Ten- . nescee .

MAY REACH FORTY   Nineteen. Known. Dead in Accident in Tenneseaa

19 KNOWN DEAD ~ IN TRAIN WRECK   TOLL OF 40 FEARED IN 50FOOT PLUNGE OF CARS '. CARRYING SOLDIERS.

19 Known Dead In Railway Wreck   Toll of Troop Train Crash May Reach 40

40 ‘To 50 Die In L&E N Rail Wreck   MEN WERE PREPARING FOR BED OR WHERE IN THEIR BERTHS WHEN TRAIN PLUNGED.   Most Of Them Soldiers

TRAIN WRECK DEATH TOLL REACHES 19   Dr. E. C. Muncy Of Knoxville Estimates Number To Have Perished Between 40 And 50

Russians Near Border  of Rumania  Important Rail Line Is  OO ii ee Ba TN a

Russians Near Border of Rumania  Important Rail   Important Rail Line Is Severed in Fight

Fats:   lowa Adopts New Induction Plan  Board to Build Up  Larne Recerve Poo!

RED FORCES — IN SUBURBS ~~ OF BUDAPES)   HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING ‘REPORTED AS RUSSIANS BREAK OUTER DEFENSE LINE

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   RUSSIANS-GERMANS IN HAND-TO-HAND RATTLE AT RIIDAPEST

Germans Admit Soviet Shells Falling In City Districts Of Budapest

FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES AS TANKS ENTER BUDAPEST   Vets of Second Army Push Into Capital, Street by Street

ALLIED FORCE SAID 10 BE IN NETHERLANDS   Reports Yank Troops Smash Into Reich  Unconfirmed

Great Port Of Antwerp Also Seized By British    Many Germans’ Pinned - Between Britons; Sea  And. Face ‘ ‘Dunkerque’ : With No Safe Exits’   3RD ARMY POSITION STILL IS MYSTERY   “Bat Reports ‘Persist Patton. Has Struck Into Nazi Homeland

Brussels Also Seized in Drive Up Lowlands; Report Reich Invaded   Belgium Split in Half by 210 Mile March in Six Days; Dutch Premier Jubiliant Over Advance

BELGIUM SPLIT IN HALF BY ADVANCE   Foe Pinned Between Sea And English Forces; Invasion Of Reich At Aachen And Perl  Taken, Rumored

Brussels, Antwerp Fall to British   German Armies So Scat tered And Retreat So Rapid Nazi Commend Cannot Find Ther

LOWLANDS ARE BEING FREED OF NAZI HORDES   Brussels And Antwerp Liberated; Germans Fac ing A “Dunkerque”   ‘DUTCH ASKED TO AID IN SAVING ROTTERDAM

FREEING OF LOW COUNTRIES PROCEEDING MORE SPEEDILY THAN THEIR FALL TO NAZIS

Report First, Third Armies Have Driven Into Germany   Next Few Days, Perhaps Hours Should Answer Question: Will Nazi Armies Fight on Own Soil: Wouldn’t in 1918

Antwerp and Brussels are under control  German rail gap “severed by allies

Report United States First and Third Armies Have Broken Into Germany But Headquarters Have Not Made Any Confirmation.

SEIZE GREAT BELGIAN PORT OF ANTWERE      Brussels Taken in Lightning Push—2 U. S Armies Said to Have Broken Into Germany.   BRITISH GAIN 210  MILES IN 6 DAYS   Battle for Netherlands Appears On — Eisenhower Tells Country, Liberation Is Near.

FORMER PASTOR IN CHINA WILL SPEAK HERE 26TH   Rev. G. W. Royall, Church of ‘the Nazarené; Japs Thought - Him . Russian Spy: Once Jap Prisoner

Dies Asks Action or  Officials   Committee Demands Prosecution of Alleged Hatch Act Violators

U. S. Loses 300 Aircraft In Scoring Successes;  Subs Sink 18 More Ships   Destroyer and Other War and Cargo Vessel: Listed in Latest Toll of Tokyo Sea Vessels; Jans Continue Gains in China Fighting

JAP CASUALTIES HEAVY ON LEYTE   30,000 Killed and Wounded; MacArthur in Narrow Escape

LEYTE-SAMAR CAMPAIGN NEARS END   Yanks Execute Three: Way Trap to Pocket Bewildered Japs

ENEMY FORCE. HAS SUFFERED ~ GREAT LOSSES   MacARTHUR SPRINGS THREEWAY TRAP AS JAP CASUALTIES MOUNT TO 70,000 —

Chinese Making Small Advances In Burma Fight   Junction Formed Between 22nd And 38th Near Moceunag

STAGE IS SET TO — GREET NEW YEAR   Observance in. This Community Will. be Restrained .

STAGE IS SET 10 GREET NEW YEAR   Observance in: This Com munity Will be. Restrained :

Churchill, De Gaulle Agree on Role France Is to Play  French Forces Plan To Participate in Military Occunation

FRANCE PROMISED KEY ROLL IN POST-WAR EUROPE   Agreements ‘Assuring Her Future Security Reached in Talks Between Churchill and DeGaulle—France to Occupy Some Nazi Soil

Key Role’ To France   Agree. That. French Forces Shali Join in Occupation of Germany

ASKS FRENCH MD IN FHT AGAINST. HUNS   Churchill Stated ‘Germans Might Be Beaten within the Next Six Months’

Patton's Troops Drive 8 Miles nside Germany   ‘Third Army Smashes Into Siegfried Line, Moves Up for Final Assault ‘On Saarbrucken; Other Forces Gain

Solid World Peace Is U. S. Aim. FDR Says   Charter Similar to U. § Constitution Favored Re Phin’ Pence.

Roosevel ‘Urces Sound Peace Plans   Recalls Solidarity Of Western Republics

Immediate Action In Plan for Peace Is Object  President Declares U. S. Will Act Before War Ends

FDR Favors: World Peace  Basis Now   President Cautious Against Waiting Until War's Kia

Real Peace Organization Is Objective   Substantial Progress Has Been Made, Roosevelt Asserts In Address To Diplomatic Missions

Says Peace Must Be Planned Now   The President Urges Speed in Structure For Warless World

Solid Peace Our Aim, Says FDR   Addresses Members Of Pan-American Nations

WAR IN GREEK CAPITAL TAKES CRITICAL TURN   25,000 Rebels Surround British Forces, Block Supply Routes

MEETS WITH DE GAULLE   French Leader Plans to Go From White House to New York

Nazis Hit New High In Gloom  Propaganda May Be Attempt  To Create Over-Confidence

May be A Blut Gloomy Reports On France Sent * Across Channe   Nazi Propaganda Hits A New Low On Eve Of Invasion

PROPAGANDA AIMS TO FOOL ALLIED HEADS   German Broadcasts Hit Gloomy Depths Appardntly to Create Overconfidence for Invasion.   6 German Planes

‘Nazi Propaganda ‘At Gloomy Stage   Attempting To Make Allies Over Confident For Invasion.

German Propaganda Broadcasts Turn Gloomy as Invasion Nears   May Be Aimed at Causing Allied  Over-Confidence; Anniversary of Axis

Nazis at Depths of Gloom In Broadcasts, Say French Railway System in Chaos

CHADS oPREADD IN BALKAN AREA   Believed to Be Miniature o What Allies Will Meet in Germany.

PARTIES PLAN  ORGANIZATION   Both Central Committees Will Meet Monday in Columbus

DEMOGRATS 70 “CHANGE SETUP   PARTY: LEADERS IN OHIO DE. CIDE TO STREAMLINE ORGANIZATION FOR COM- . ING CAMPAIGN

New Plan to Enslave U.S. Laborers   EX-UMW TOP AS WMC DIRECTOR, ENGINEERS VARIATION OF ORIGINAL PLAN FOR REGIMENTA TION   Pittsburgh Ration Idea

Russian Advance Is Smashing Ahead Toward Hungary   Red Troops Press Onslaught Aimed At Knocking Hungary Out Of War   ESTONIA CAPITAL FALLS TO SOVIETS

pooviets Overrunning Nazi Defenses In Baltics; Press To Knock Hungary From War

U. 8. INFANTRY AND TANKS FORCE OPEN GATE TO COLOGNE —  GEN. PATTON’S MEN DRIVE AHEAD AS MUCH AS TEN WMILEC IN CENTrD ,

‘French Trap Nazi Force — [Near Belfort   Hurtgen Falls: B Berlin Radio Admits Retreat Expected North of Strashourg —~

At Siegfried Line in Rich Saar Basin   Antwerp Openéd to Speed Supplies to Driving A

Germans Are Forced from Five More Towns After Hard Fighting, 23 Miles from Cologne.   PATTON'S ARMY IN GAIN OF 10 MILES

ADVANCE NETS FOUR TOWNS ON ROER   Patton’s Men Push Ahead 10 Miles In Places   TRAP CLOSED   On Many Germans Between Mulhouse And Belfort; Hurtgen Cleared

Gen. Patton’s Third Army Makes Spectacular Advance to Within Eight Miles of Nazi Citadel of Saarbrucken

Germans Forced From Five Towns During Fighting   American Troops Smash at Gateway To City on Rhine

Americans Take Five Towns In Bitter Battles   Patton’s Troops Drive Forward Ten More Miles

Five Towns Captured in Bitter Fighting to.Force Open Gates to Cologne   In Saar, Third Army Troops Move. To Within 8 Miles of Saarbrucken.

YANKo TRIVE TQ GLEAR WAY FOR COLOGNE   Pierce Nazis’ Battered Lines as Patton Gains Along 26-Mile Front,

PATTON IN RICH ISAAR BASIN   Ninth Approaches Julich, Pivot Of Roer River Line

PUSH DEEPER. INTO ROER      Captured Points ‘Ard Langerwehe, Hurtgen, Kleinhau, Jungersdorf, and Koslar — Patton Gains in Saar Sector. ,,

Tanks And Infantry Gain Control Of Langerwehe And Other Towns is  Roer River Area

U. S. Tanks and Infantry Drive Deeper Into Ger man Front BIG GAIN IN CENTER Patton’s Men Pash 10 Miles         Patton’s Men Push 10 Mile: to Crust of Saar Basin Line

Patton's Divisions Drive As Deep As 10 Miles On Into Rich Saar Besin; French Trap Many Germans In South; Antwerp’s Port is Open And Being Used

Yanks Forcing Open Gateway Toward Cologne   Patton Punches Ahead 10 Miles; Saarbrucken Is Neared; French ‘% Trap German Troops ~

Third Army Reaches Siegfried Line Edge   Hurtgen Cleared of Germans by First Army Veterans; French Trap Boche Between Mulhouse. Relfart

GERMANS FLEE FIVE TOWNS ON COLOGNE ROAD   Hard Driving Yank Units Threaten River Citadel of Duren   West Front Today

Nazi Defense Collapsing on Wide Front   Last Major Communication Point West of Roer Falls to Yanks 

Patton Pushes On Inside Saar Basin   French Army in South Traps Many Germans; First and Ninth Slowly Cracking Roer: River Line

Doughboys Capture 4 Towns Along Roer In Fierce Battles   Third Army Gains 10 Miles, Reaches Quter Siegfried Defenses In Saar Basin

3rd Army Forward 10 Miles   First Army Troops Push Germans from  5 Towns On Road to Cologne: Antwerp Open

Force Nazis From 5 Towns In Bitter Battles To Force Way To City; Langerwehe Topples

‘Drive Deeper Tn Nazi Front Along Roer   Langerwehe, Lasi Major Communications Point, Falls to First Army

First Army Records  Good Gains   General Patton’s Men Advance 10 Miles in Bid To Crack Siegfried Line in Saar Basin; Douahbovs Battle Nazis From House to House

PATTON'S MEN GAIN 10 MILES IN SAAR DRIVE   U. S. First Army Wins Complete Control Of Hurtgen

TANKS AND INFANTRY DRIVING DEEPER INTO GERMAN FRONT IN BITTER BATTLES FOR COLOGNE.   REINVADE MOROTAI AS PLANES ATTACK U. S. WARSHIPS AND SAIPAN SUPERFORTRESS BASE

American Tanks And In. fantry Force Nazis From Five Key Towns    Patton’s 3rd Army Gains Ten Miles   French Trap Many Germans Between Mulhouse And Belfort

Yank Tanks Force Nazis From 5 Town:   Infantry Helps Advance Along The Roer River

FOUR TOWNS FREED OF ENEMY AS ALLIES CONTINUE ADVANCE  RUINS OF HURTGEN. JUN:   RUINS OF HURTGEN, JUNGERSDORF AND KLEINHAU HAVE BEEN CAPTURED

Whole Roer Front Starts To Crack As U. S. Armies Pound Toward Coloane

DANE DEEPER ON ROER RIVER   To 10 Miles to Siegfried Line.   ‘USE PORT OF ANTWERP

Cologne Gateway Is Opening After Bitter Fighting   Langerwehe, Koslar, And Hurtgen Fall  To First Army Men; Patton’s Troops Gair

Patton Men Gain Inside Saar Basin      French First Traps Many Nazis Between Belfort, Mulhouse

TEMPERATURES:   Yanks Capture Hurfgen, Gain Up To 10 Miles   Saarbrucken In Range Of Third Army Guns; Enemy Desperate

DRIVE FORWARD IN BITTER FIGHT TOWARD RHINE   Patton Forces Gain Up to 10 Miles in Center of Western Front

—WESTERN FRONT—   Patton’s Army Nears Siegfried Line In Rich Saar Basin   U. S. First And Ninth Forces Crawling Forward On 25-Mile Front Toward Cologne; Antwerp Port Now Being Used By Allies .

Patton’s Army Gains 10 Miles In Center Area   U. S. Third Army Drives Into Saar Basin On 26-Mile Front; Saarbrucken Threatened; Hurtgen Forest Town Cleaned Out

Ninth Army Crushes Organized Resistance In Koslar; Fi irst ‘Captures Hurtgen, Jungersdort   Roer River Gate To Colegne Being Slowly Forced Open By Simpson And Hodges Armies; Enemy Trapped By French Force

ADVANCES INSIDE GERMANY RANGE UP TO TEN MILES   NAZIS ACKNOWLEDGE GENERAL WITHDRAWAL NORTH OF STRASBOURG

SPECTACULAR ADVANCES UP TO TEN MILES MADE INSIDE ENEMY’S RICH SAAR BASIN   U.S. Third Army Moves Up to Within Eight-Mile Cannon Range of Citadel of Saarbrucken Hinting at Withdrawal   RESISTANCE AT KOSLAR AND JUNGERSDORF WANE   REULLETIN

Temperatures   Patton Stabs Forward Ten Miles to Outer Siegfried Line in Rich Saar Basin; Allies Besoin Usine Captured Antwerp Port

Nazis Defense Yielding in Fierce Battles  Americans Advance  Hanza hu Mauce in

American Tanks, Infantry Opening Gate To Cologne   Third Army Reaches Outer Crust Of Siegfried Line

Patton's Third Makes Big Gains In Saar Basin   Most Resistance Collapses In Koslar As Yanks Push On

Nazis Driven From Five Towns; Patton  Advances 10 Miles   Ninth Army is Within Mile of Pivot of Roer Defenses

SEAL FATE OF . _JAPS ON ISLES   Guam Doomed  ne  U. S. Invaders Score New Successes

JAP DEAD 4,758 ON TINIAN, GUAM   Americans Trap Defenders on Orote Peninsula, Sealing Their Fate

American Invaders Seal Fate Oi Japanese Forces On Tinian And Guam Islands

ig - OF JAPS : GUAM AND “INIAN SEALED   Enemy Death Toll Boosted to 4,758 on Both Islands

CONTROL, OF .GUAM HARBOR  ‘EXPECTED SOON--P-Fs. AND  : AIRMEN. SINK TROOP 7 “TRANSPORT: °

Local Pilot Is Awarded D.F.C.   Lieut. Jack M. Bates Wins Honor For “Extraordinary Achievement.”

Japs Given Blasting ir Air Attacks   Big Bombers Strike Again at Nagoya—Fighter Planes  Raid Luzon

B-29’s Carry Heavier Loads  Fighter Planes Fly From Mindoro Bases

RAF Steps Up Aerial Blows - At Abbeville   {  Nazi Troops In Forest: Given Hard Pounding; Day Raids Yn Germany

OPA Boosts Food Points   Canned Tomatoes, Pineapple Juice and Others Away Up

Yankees Beat Off Nip  Counterattack  Momote Airfield in Admiralties to Be Tlead Immadinctalu

Admiralty Key  Airstrip Soon To ‘Be Used By Yanks   Enemy Develops Series Of Counter Thrusts Ir Effort To Recapture Strategic Los Negros But Is Thrown Back; U. S. Losses Negligible.

Record Raid Blasts Sofia   Largest Force of Italy-Based Forts, Liberators Strike

U. S. Heavy Bombers Attack Scotia In Concentrated Raid  Four Times In Ten Minutes German Radio jn   Four Times In Ten Minutes German Radio In Berlin Warns Of RAF Raids Thursday Niaht

Allies’ Air Pincers Tighten With Attacks On Vaires, Lyon, Kiel, Other Target.

Reich Girds for Last-Ditch Stand   Nazis Tell Plans to Wage Guerilla War

Nazi Guerillas Stand Ready, Himmler Says   Warns Any German: Aiding Allies Will Be Executed

Sniper Fires at British Premier In Athens Street   Bullet Hits Woman; Greeks Favor Regency When Factions Confer

Greek Leftist Sniper Fires At Churchill   Bullet Strikes Young Woman; Agree On Regency Proposal

GreeksAgree On Regency To End War   Sniper's Bullet Narrowly Misses British Official

CHURCHILL IS FIREDUPONIN GDEFAN CITY   Bullet Misses Prime Minister; Regency De' ¢ided Upon

SHOT IS FIRED AT CHURCHILL   Sniper’s Bullet Misses Prime Minister; Regency For Greece Agreed Upon

CHURCHILL IS: FIREDUPONIN GPEFIAM CITY   Bullet ‘Misses Prime Min. ister; Regency Decided: Upon

Churchill is target of sniper   Big 3 meet near; agree to revency

Elas Bullet Is Aimed at Churchill In Athens   ‘Big Three’ To Meet Soon To Take Up Situation in Greece, Prime Minister Says  REGENCY FAVORED

CHURCHILL FIRED UPON IN ATHENS _ BY GREEK SNIPER   Bullet Whistles by Him as He Stands Before British Embassy and Wounds Young Woman.   CONTENDING FACTIONS AGREE ON REGENCY,   Prime Minister Reveals He, Roosevelt and Stalin Soon Will Consider Situation in Country.

SNIPER FIRES ON CHURCHILL!   Misses British Leader; Pan ley Decides Upon’ Regency

PRIME MINISTER HAS NARROW CALL   Opposing Greek Parties Are — Agreed Upon Regency as  Principal Step Toward End~ ing Civil Warfare 

OWE T-MOVING FORGES Selle TOWN OF GORI   Fifth Army Within Seven Miles of Via Casilina After - Advance.

Cori, Outpost of Defenses Below Rome Captured.   Armored Units Drive Past Cisterna To. Mop Up More Ground

Stronghold On Appiar Way Taken   Enemy Yields Other Points As Allies Push Toward  Rome

Only One Route Is Left Open   American Guns are Within Nine Miles Of Via Casilina

ADVANCE POSES NEW THREAT TO. ENEMY RETREAT   Two More Nazi Bastions Fall

MOSCOW CONFERENCE MAY SETTLE POLISH PROBLEN   Stalin Believed Willing te Adopt Friendly Relations With Both Polish  Factions.

Reds Are Tightening On Nazis   Rush Into Great Dnieper City of Miko " ‘ Squeeze Huge German Force

Soviets Crusti Nazi Lines   Nazis Are Trying To Break Out Of Traps

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INDIVIDUAL “BAND SALES HALF OF GOAL   Treasury Reports Total Near 80% After Week-End Check-Uo

Nazis Move in Units By Ai. To Combat Allied Paratroopers   Push Germans From Landing Beaches; Some Allied Troops Join Beachheads in France

Gains Made Although  Resistance Stiffening; ' Foe Drops Sky Troops

Great Battle Raging On Cherbourg Peninsula;  More Troops Landed.      Germans Rush Airborne Troops Into Battle Area In Attempt To Counter Allied Thrusts; Nazis ‘ Admit Allied Beachheads Established

Enemy Driven From Beaches   Beachheads Linked as Invasion Forces Are Reinforced by 50-Mile Air Train; U.S., British Push 9 to 12 Miles Inland

20-Mile-Sky Train Bolsters Invaders; Foe Yields Bayeux   Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley Commanding  U. S. Ground Forces—H. Q. Still  Mum on Objectives of Land  Fighting—‘Decided Improvement’ Despite Poor Weather

Enemy Hurls Parachutists Into Fray To Battle Paratroopers Showering Down by Thousands   SUPREME ADVANCE COMMAND POST (AP)—

ENEMY CLEARED FROM BEACHES   50-Mile Glider Train Lands Reinforcements On Embattled Cherbourg Peninsula; Some Beachheads Linked

Nazi Attack  Repulsed Near Caen   Allied Leaders Say ‘Decided Improvement’ Shown Today as Invasion Forces Consolidate Holdings and Drive Inland

Invading Forces Making Progress On Whole Front   Destroy 52 Carriers   Fierce Counter Raids

Some Beachhead Positions Linked   Improvement Noted in Invasion Front Despite Bad Weather and Stiffening Resistance; Both Sides Resort to Air-Borne Troops

PARATROOPERS CLASH IN WAR FOR PENINSULA   Sky Train Continues To Send Allies to Beachhead Area

PROGRESS BEING MADE TODAY Al MIDDAY IN CHERBOURG Ania nv FACE STRONG NAZI ATTACKS   German Counter-Attacks Renulsed and Initial Beachheads Secured by Allies Being Cleared of Enemy. Bad Weather and Stiffening German Resistance Is Reported

Allied Forces Strike Farther Inland After Linking Some Beachheads; Whole Front Shows “Considerable Progress”

Battle Growing Over Cherbourg Peninsula   Berlin Admits Beachheads Established Over 50-Mile Stretch Of Coast —  Reinforcements Pour Down  Airborne Troops Seize Bridges, Roads, Help Sea-Landed Men Capture Towns

All Beaches Cleared Of Foe; Grip On Cherbourg Peninsula Tightened.

Push Into France From Sea Marked By Heavy Fighting   Allies Making Considerable Gains On Whole Front; Weather Bad And Resistance Mounts

Repulse German Counter-Blows Near  Caen—Clear Enemy from All Landing  Beaches and Link Up Some Beachheads Both Sides Drop Air Borne Troops

Counterattacks by Nazis Near Caen Are Beat. en Back   mAIN ON WHOLE FRONT   Bky-Borna Troops Are Rushed in to Main Centers by Both Sides

ALL INVASION BEACHES HAVE BEEN CLEARED   Heavy Fighting Inland Re« ported; 2nd Invasion  Indicated

Nazis Stiffen Resistance In — Caen Section   Bad Weather Sets In; Reports ‘Disappointing’ This   2 pees ane   BRADLEY IN COMMAND

Front Decidedly Improved Affer Morning Delays   Germans Repulsed After Skirmish Near Caen Today

‘Considerable Progress  On Whole Front’ Reported   Some Beachheads Linked Up After Germans Mopped Up—Both Sides Drop ‘Chutists—Battle Rages at Caen

Decided Improvement Shown Despite Bad Weather and Stiff Resistance

Allies Clear Nazis ‘From All Beaches   Strike Inland In France In Heavy Fighting Near Caen, Nine Miles From Coast; Airborne Troops Dropped Into Flaming Battlefront By Both Sides.   ‘DECIDED IMPROVEMENT’ REPORTED AT MIDDAY

Allied Lines in France Move Forward to Depth of 12 Miles Along a Front of Fifty Miles   German Opposition on Land Continues Light, Entirely Absent on the Sea, but Growing in the Air: Soviets Prepare to Strike

Enemy Driven From Beaches Held By Allies   Decided Improvement Is Reported By Headquarters; Reinforcements Are Flown In By Huge Skytrain

American and British Forces, After ‘Rough Going’ Earlier in Day, Continue Their Push Inland—Airborne Troops Hurled Into Battle by Opposing Armies—lInvaders Reported 12 Miles Inside Normandy.

German Unit Surrenders to Yank to. Escape Fury of French Partisans

946 Germans Give Selves Up   Surrender to 24-Year-Old Yank Officer

U, S. FLIERS BAG 28 AT COBLENZ   Force Of Almost 550 Fighters Keeps Up Pace In Air War

28 NAZI PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Americans Deal Out Another Stunning Aerial Blow In Coblenz Raid

AMERICANS DOWN 98 NAZI PLANES   YANKS LOSE 11.BOMBERS AND 8 FIGHTERS IN ATTACK -ON COBLENZ.

Yanks Down 28 Nazi Planes   Over 500 RAF Heavy Bombers Hit Benzol Plant at Dortmund

U. S. Fighter Pilots Be n 2é Nazi Planes   Equipment In Coblenz Railway Yards Bombed

DEWEY WORKS ON NEXT TALK   Will Discuss Relationship Of Government, People At San Francisco

Dewey Rides Southward To Frisco   TRAIN MENDED TO CONTINUATION OF JOURNEY; NEWSMEN SUFFER FROM MINOR INJURIES IN WRECK,   Speaks At Eugene, Ore

Dewey To Speak On Freedom And Security Plans   Nominee And Mrs. Dewey : Calm Following Train  Wreck

DEWEY PLANS NEXT SPEECH ON FREEDOM   Governor to Speak in San Francisco Tonioht

DEWEY MOVES TO CALIFORNIA   Wrecked Train Repaired; Next Speech Booked In San Francisco

Dewey Pleased With Outlook in Western States   Will Speak Tonight In San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO IS NEXT DEWEY STOP   Republican Candidate Will Speak Tonight On Relationship of Government And People

Decision Based Solely, He Says, On Obligation To Serve If Called   POLITICS GIVES WAY TO WAR, HE DECLARES

President Accepts Fourth Nomination  As An “Obligation’   SPEAKS TO DELEGATES FROM NAVAL STATION   Won't Campaign in Usual Sense Because of His Lack of Time

F R. ACCEPTS IN RADIO. SPEECH FROM WEST COAST   Full text of the President's Address an Pare 4

PRESIDENT ACCEPTS IN RADIO TALK   Spoke from West Coast Base; Got 1086 of 1176 Votes

Has 1087 Votes On Ist Ballot   Bitter Battle For Running-Mate Job Sees Wallace And Truman Leading Field

President Radios His Acceptance  From West Coast  Says War Will Be Won Peace Made, During Term to Be His Last

FDR ACCEPTANCE SPEECH IS MADE FROM WEST COAST   President, From Busy WarTime Naval Base, Fires First “Shot” In Quest of Fourth Term—Declares It Ile “Oblivation”

New Deal Recore Cited in Plea For Fourth Term   Flays Republicans In Long Speech

Vice President Nomination  Is Undecided   Wallace, Truman Appear to Be Leading Contenders

Speaks From Coast Base; Warns Against Change To Inexperienced Hands

FDR Accepts 4th Call As Sense of Obligation   President Outlines Administration's Post War Aims

Issue: Tested or new hands  Points to record, - outlines °44 job -

FDR APPEALS .. FOR SUPPORT      President Accepts Nomination, Warns Against Change In Office —

(89 for Byrd, Chief Executive  utions Against ‘Immature’ Leaders  is for 4th Term by 1,086 Votes

F.R. Accepts Fourth Term Nomination   Addresses Democratit Convention From West Coast Naval Base

PRESIDENT CITES DUTY 10 SERVE   EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP FOR WAR, PEACE ASKED

President Speaks To Conven _ tion By Radio—Platform _ "Ig Adopted

FDR Accepts Nomination. Says Retain KE xperie nce   President Will Not Have Time To Conduct Campaign: Win The War, Form World-Wide Organization And Build Up Economy Listed As His Aims

FDR Sees His Candidacy as “Obligation”  Makes.Acceptance.  Speech From West flinact Alaval Raca

President Run For 4th Term   Predicts Peace Will Be on Permanent Basis in the  Next Four Years

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ROOSEVELT TALK FROM NAVAL BASE   Accepts the Nomination From ‘Somewhere on the Pacific Coast’ and Tells of Accomnlishments and Plans

F. D. R. Accepts Nomination for Fourth Term   Says He Is Running From ‘Sense of Obligation’

President Accepts Nomination   Warns Nation Not  ‘To Turn 1944 Job _To Inexperienced,  immature Hands’

Delegates Stage 20-Minute Demonstration: After Executive Accepts in Radio Talk— Selection of Running Mate Put Off Until Today — Race for Second Place Appears Toss-Up Between Wallace and Truman.

GOEPTANCE TALK "COMES VIA RADIO   Senator Byrd of Virginia ®° Polis 89 ‘Protest’ Votes   VP BALLOT TODAY   Pwallace Claims Sufficient Votes to Win; Truman Gains Strength -

FDR “‘Accepts’’  From Naval Base   President in Accepting Nom. ination Says, as He Did Four Years Ago, It Will Be His Last.

President Accepts 4th Term Nomination as ‘Obligation’   Battle Triumph, Postwar Prosperity, Surety Against Another Global Explosion Stated as Aims—Blasts Republican Record

F.D.R. NOMINATED FOR 4TH. TERM HAS ACCEPTED   At Press Time Today Truman, Wallace and Bark . ley Have Been Placed In Nomination and Others Are Expected To Be Placed In The Race.

F.D.R. Accepts Nomination  From Base on Pacific Coast   Says After Four Years New Hands Will Have  Chance To Realize  7 TL, Te Wp ‘Rapak?   SAYS DECISION. BASED ON. SENSE OF DUTY  ‘Alludes To Dew ey As. ‘Inexperienced. And - Immature’

FDR Warns of Inexperience   World-Wide Job Ahead. President Says

Keep 44 Job In Experienced Hands Says FDF   Accepts Nomination For Fourth Time at Pacific Coast Base 

President Speaks To Convention By Radio—Platform _  - [Is Adopted

JAP GAPITAL AS HIT HARD IN DAYLIGHT   ENEMY RADIO SAYS AT LEAST 70 SUPERFORTA DROPPED INCENDIARIES AND EXPLOSIVES

TOKYO'S PLANTS TARGETS IN NEW RAIDS BY B-29’S   Jap Capital Radio Reported as Saying 70 Forts Participate

Bomb Tokyo Again   War Industries Are Targets in Fifth Raid Since November 23

REDS TIGHTEN STEEL CORDON AROUND NAZI   2,800 Germans Killed Trying to Escape Ukraine Trap

Soviets Pound Back Nazi  Rescue Drives 2,800 Germans Are   2,800 Germans Are Killed; 84 Big Transports Wrecked

100,000: GERMANS IN UKRAINE TRAP BEING WIPED Ov   Russian Airmen Destroy 84 Transport Planes Apparently Attempting. to Fly Out Troops.   ENCIRCLING RING IS CLOSED TIGHTER   Soviet Forces in North Clear Coast of Gulf of Finland From Leningrad to Point in Estonia.

RUSSIANS MOP UP GERMANS IN UKRAINE   By-Pass Narva With Smash into Estonia;  Bloodiest Fighting Centers On Wes' Bank of Dnieper.   “Same Picture”

Russ Slay 2800 Trapped Germans  ‘As Noose Contracts on Ten Divisions

Reds Tighten Nazi Cordon   Many Slain And 84 Junkers Transports Are Destroyed

Stezel Ring Tiightened. By Soviets   ‘Cordonin Around Trapped  Gerumens—in Ukraine

54 Junkers Planes Shot Down in Rescue Attempts by _-Germans—Coast of the Gulf of Finland . ‘Cleared by Red Armies...

German Rescue Attempts From Outside Fail   Soviet Troops Clear 110-Mile Gulf Coast; Dnieper Battle Rages

STEEL CORDON AROUND NAZIS   2,800 Germans Killed Trying to Escape Ukraine Trap

Enemy Fails To Break Out Of Huge Trap   84 Transport Planes And 58 Nazi Tanks Smashed by Russians  Mrigtmnminomiomonorminmmm

84 TRANSPORTS SHOT DOWN; 58 TANKS WRECKED   Russians Drawing Noose Tighter on Hitler’s “Supermen”

Soviets Pound Back Nazi_ Rescue Drives   2,800 Germans Are Killed; 84 Big . Transporis Wrecked

GERMAN AESLUE > ATTEMPTS FAIL   Reds Shoot Down 84 Big » Junkers Transport Planes   BLOODY FIGHTING   gy Rages In Small Area Where 100,000 Germans Face Death Or Surrender

Reds Smash  Nazi Rescue  Tank Squads   Russians Draw Trap Tighter Around Germans

100,000 Germans Face Death on Bank of Dnieper   Russians Closing Gigantic Pincers

Te Sohtee ueocedl Na: azis   84 Junkers Planes Shot, Down in. Rescue Attempts by ; ‘Germans——Coast of the Gulf-of Finland . “Cleared.by Red Armies - :

t.yewitness Battle of Falau Struggle  Nips Fight Furiously To Hold Isle   Germans Resume Robot  Bomb Raids On London

SCHEDULE PROGRAM OF PUBLIC HEARINGS   Badger Legislature Making Effort to Hold Two Weeks’ Session.

U. S., BRITISH FORCES BURST THROUGH ORNE AND MAYENNE RIVER LINES

LE MANS IS FIRST OBJECTIVE... 3 OF AMERICAN TROOPS, WHILE BRITISH ‘DRIVE ACROSS ORNE RIVER

British, U. 5. Coordinated Drives Cut Mayenne, Orne Lines 130 Miles from City

SPEEDY CONQUEST OF BRETON PORTS WILL OPEN ROADS   British Broadcast Reports the Germans Have Moved All Administrative Offices to Nanev   ANNOUNCE CAPTURE OF HOTLY-CONTESTED VIRE   2 Big Allied Bomb Flights Over Germany—Other At tacks Made From Italian Bases.

Coordinated Offensive Breaks Through German Orne And Mayenne Rivers, Capture 17,000 To 25,000 Nazi Troops   BRITISH TOMMIES SURGE OVER ORNE

BOTH ENDS OF GERMAN LINES ARE BUCKLING   Allies 130 Miles From French Capital; 17.000 Nazi Casualties

Bradley Swings Drive Onto Paris Highways; British Knife Nazi Line   Allies Capture Vire After Week Long Battle, Pursue Germans Retreating From Trap

Drive Breaks Orne-Mayenne Defense Lines   Coordinated Offensive Scores Gains Less Than 130 Miles From Capital

Doughboys Give Home Front Folk Gift Of Year by Halting Big Nazi Drive: Further Successes Are Seen

- Nazi Defenders Of Elba Split In Small Bands   French Cross Island, Grab Porto Ferraio As Germans Pull Out

Leaders See 2-Year War Against Japs   Rivcitrcin Tie onquer Nippon Told in Survey

OWI Predict: Long War Against Japan  Military Men See One and a Half To Two Years More

JAPS SAY B-298 BOMB RANGOON   Hamamatsu on Main Island of Honshu Is Target for Incendiaries

OA ‘World Charter For Labor”   Program of ILO May ‘Serve As Skeleton ‘On Which to Hang Final Peace Treaty

EASY CASHING WAR BONDS FINDS MANY TEXANS DOING THAT  MANY AND VARIED REASONS GIVEN FOR CASHIN( OF BONDS NOW

DROP SIX-TON ‘GIANT BOMBS ON . NAZI OIL PLANT   1000 RAF Bombers Blast Synthetie Oil Plant, Railways

HAS VISITED HELSINKI   Report ‘German Minister Is Putting Pressure on Finns:

NAZI MYSTERY INSTALLATIONS RAIDED SUNDA)   Several Hundred Allied Planes Bomb Targets In France And Holland   GERMANS CONSERVING FIGHTER AIRCRAFT

200 American Marauders Included in Attacking Force Which Also Boasted Planes Flown by British, Canadian, New  Zealand, S. Rhodesian and Norwegian Fliers

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NAZI TARGETS HIT  BY ALLIED FLIERS   Installations Along Northern Coast of France Attacked

French Coast Again Lashed   Allied Attackers Also Hil Holland Airdrome

Americans Bomb Calais Section   RAF, British, Aid In Daylight Raid

~,000-Plane Fleet Raids South Reich   Bulk of German Defenders Shun Clash With Yanks

Aircraft Plants Targets. of Raid   U.S. Loses 43 Big Bombers, 10 Fighters; 39 Nazi Craft Downed

U. S. Air Force Bombs Five German Cities   Nazi Plane Loss In Last 18 Days is Placed at 550.

Complete New Army Enters Fight—-Germans Admit Some Gains in Bitter Warfare

Troops Receive Repatriation   200,000 Soldiers Get  Changes In Service: Plan

ROTATION PLAN IS EXPLAINED   200,000 Troops Have. ‘Already Been Sent Home

WAR DEPARTMENT REVEALS TROOP ROTATION PLANS   More Than 200,000 Over. seas Soldiers Hove Been  Bannirintarl

War Department Announcing De. tails. of Plan for Possible Rotation of Men Between Foreign and  PE STH ASST NTCTICS,

Made Jump to Perform Operation  Major Daniel Maunz Awarded Soldier’s Medal for His Feat

‘ DIDN'T START WAR, BUT WANT T0 END IT QUICKLY,” SAYS B-29 COMMAND CHIEF

Shipping Losses An March Higher ~ Than in February   Reverses Met Moinly in Distant Seas, Drive =" =e Successful ~~

CONTINUE SUB SINKINGS RATE   Recsevelt; Churchill Report Small Increase in Cargo Ship Losses

Roosevelt, Churchill Report Continued Successes in War Against German Subs

Merchant Ship Losses Show Rise   FDR, Churchill Report February Rise; U-Boat Sinking Rate the Same.

Heavy Bombers Again Blast Hollandia Base   Truk Atoll fs Also Hammered; Japs Fail To Challenge in Air

Hollandia And Truk Hit Again   Great Air Forces Smash Heavy Blows At Japanese Air Concentrations.

Dewey Has Wide Lead in Test Wisconsin Vote   Willkie-Pledged Delegates Trail in Fourth Place

Dewey Delegates Gain Victories At Wisconsin Polls   Five Stassen ‘Backers Named; Willkie Group Trails In Fourth Place »

Dewey Victorious in First  Test of G.O.P. Sentiment on 1944 Presidential Race

Nimitz Announces Kwajalein Occupation Is Completed   WILL SPEED UP WAR

KWAJALEIN IS IN POSSESSION OF AMERICANS   Organized Resistance By Japs Has Ended; Capture Helps Strategy

Cuban RumBrings Angry Protests   Ferguson Objects To Cartel’ Plan

DEMOCRATS IN “SESSION TODA)   STATE CON VENTION-TO AP. “PROVE PLATFORM AND NOM ) INATE ELEOTORS—  ie ‘LAUSCHE HITS AT’ » SCHOBR :

Warren Enigma Of Convention    Long Has Decided Not To Accept Vice-Presidential Nomination.

Peleliu Fighting Called Worst Yet   Cave Fortresses Onvose Marines

Cave Fortresses Being Used By Desperate Japs   Marine Casualties Considerable, Says War Correspondent

YANK BOMBERS " STEP UP RAIDS ON PHILIPPINES   Pound Davao, Big Port. 7,045 Japs Dead On Peleliu

Liberators Blast Davao In Daylight;  Japs Fear Invasion   Yanks About Complete Conquest Of Path To Philippines

Navy Patrol Planes Destroy 3.000 Ton Enemy Vessel Off Borneo: Hit Japs In Celebes

Widespread Air Attacks Are Made On Jap Shipping   Heavy Blows Against En. emy Shipping In Pacific Are Reported By MacArthur   CELEBES AIRDROME HEAVILY BOMBED

EARLY OnOACOWN DEN Oot NDIA: BUAMA FRUN TIE   MacArthu.’s Forces Sink 32 Transport Ships; Hit New Guinea

ONE NIPPONESE COLUMN NEARS NATIVE CAPITAL   MacArthur Continues Heavy Blows Against Foe in New Guinea

FIND WRECKAGE OF HUGE PLANE r MISSISSIPPI   Servicemen, Top-Ranking War Production Meg  Among Casuals !

Locate Airplane  That Crashes  Into Mississippi 24 Persons On  Board Liner

24 KILLED WHEN LINER CRASHES NEAR MEMPHIS   Hits Mississippi River with Terrific Explosion, Sinks Few Seconds Later in Twenty-two Feet of Water   10 ARE ARMY MEN

TWENTY-FOUR THOUGHT KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   American Airliner Explodes, Sinks In Mississippi

24 Feared Dead In Plunge Of Big Airliner   Plane Seen To Crash And Sink In Mississippi River Last Night.

24 KILLED IN DISASTER 10 BIG AIRLINER   Giant Transport Bursts Into Flames and Falls Into The Mississippi River   WRECKAGE DISAPPEARS

PLANE EXPLODES AFTER PLUNGING IN DEEP WATER   Coast Guard Drag Lines Locate Part of Wreckage In Mississippi River

Piane Carrying 24 Plunges Into River   Coast Guard Finds Part of Wreckage of Craft, Which Crashed, Exploded and Sank Into the Mississippi.

Locate Plane In Mississippi   Transcontinental Plane, With 24 Aboard. Goes Into River

American Airlines Passenger Plane Crashes Into Mississippi With 24 Persons On Board

RIVER SWALLOWS PLANE AND OCCUPANTS NEAR MEMPHISIN CRASH - EXPLOSION LAST NIGHT   Pieces of Plans Reported Found Today and Dra Lines at Work in Effort to Locate Machine and Bodies. High Sperry Gyroscope Co., Engineers And Service Men Aboard a

Ten Victims Of Plane T ragedy Military Men   California-Bound Airliner Plunges Into Mississippi River Near Memphis, Tennessee   Bursts Into Flames On Hitting Water   Sinks Immediately In 22.  Foot Channel; Terrific   Explosion Follows  : ’ - Crash

Twenty-Four Thought Dead As Airplane Crashes Into Deep Waters Near Memphis

Dese Te mween  j Locate Part Of Airplane  Craft Plunges unges Into Rive 15 Miles Below Memphis  ENVELOPED IN FIRE  Terrific Explosion and Blaze Described by  !QyrTe.,   Terrific ~ Explosion and Blaze Described by Witness

BRITISH FORCES EXPAND SECTOR SOUTH OF CAEN   Drive Through Nine More Towrs and Storm Inte Streets of Troarn and Cit of Bouruebus,   REPORT FORCES UNDER PATTON IN NORMANDY   Two American Fleets of Bombers Totaling 300C Smash at Nazi War Plants and Airdromes.

BRITISH GAIN NINE TOWNS IN BREAK-THROUGH   Wild Battles On Caen Plain

British Widen Normandy _Break- Through: 9 Towns Fails Gisen Road To Paris

Arc of Normandy Break-Through Is Expanding   Troops Move to Vimont on Road to Paris

Nazi Reports American Army Under General George Patton Enters Action with BEF Force

Allied Armies Steadily Gaining In Normandy Taking Many Towns   Scores Of Allied Tanks Smash Through Nazi Fortifications  ADVANCE 8 MILES BEYOND CAEN  American And Canadian Forces Under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton

British Extend Normandy Gains  Allied Armored Units Smash Nazi Defenses  SS ee

‘Second Army Storms Into Streets  Of Troarn And Bourguebus-—  Spearhead Sent Down Paris Road Toward Vimont   ALLIED TANKS HIT NAZI FORTIFICATIONS

BRITISH EXPAND NORMANDY BREAK-THROUGH ARC, SEND FORCE DOWN PARIS ROAD.

LEADER OF NAZI 19TH CLAIMED WITHDRAWN   Reports Declare Blaskowitz Will Not Be Replaced

GERMAN FRONTIER REPORTS SAY 19TH ARMY HEAD FIRED  BRI ne MARCHA? . Rr ie.

Commander Of German 19th Army Reported Withdrawn   Blaskowitz Not To Be Replaced On South Flank: May Be Sent To Italy

Reds’ Fourth  Army Starts  Another. Drive   Marshal Ivan Petrov’s Forces Grind Out Gains Up to 16 Miles On 25-Mile Front   Germany Removes Commander  Of 19th Nazi Army In Rout

GERMANS ‘FIRE’ FIELD MARSHAL   Gen. Blaskowitz, Directing 19th Army, Reported Withdrawn From Field

Yanks Destroy 141 Jap  Atrplanes, 13 Ships in Marianas Isle Assault

LATEST Task Force Sinks 13 Jap Ships,  Damaaes 16 in Marianas Raid

U. S. Forces Increase Pace Against Madang; Take Two Strategic Hills

Yankees Nearly Finish Campaign At Bougainville Step Up Drive Asvainst Madano

Yanks Advance Toward Madang  Ranagainwilia Artian   Bougainville Action Said Nearing End

CHEAPER BEEF IS POINT FREE   Controversy Between WFA And OPA Ended In Compromise

TOP GRADES OF BEEF STAY ON RATIONING   Utility Steaks and Roasts Point Free August 13

Major Victory Fort Stivell Seen In Burma   Japs Surrounded By Allied Thrust In Myitkyina Area

Allies Tighten Net On Jap Base At Myitkyina   Move Toward First Majo. Victory Of Campaign In Burma.

Some Farmers Being High-Pressured Into AAA Program Says Representative

AAA Is Warned By Congress   Will Prosecute Those Who Threatened Farmers

WHO, ME? BLAME NOT FIXED  All Federal Rien Deny Star uae Coercion Of Farmers By AAA

PROMISES AAA COERCION PROBE   ‘Committee to Hear McNutt In Tuesday's Session

DEATH CLAIMS F (. DAVIDSON   Prominent In Michigan Masonry And St, Joe  Business Life

Pvt. Glennon ‘Dreckshag Suffered. Leg Injury While: Berving With In  . mech, babe Re.  : compen In Base Hos  pital In England.

Navy Proudly Celebrates 169th Anniversary; Forrestal Warns Jap Fleet Is Still Sizeable

UNITED STATES NAVY PROUDLY CELEBRATES 196TH BIRTHDAY WITH JUBILATION ON VICTORY

Crushing Defeat o of fap Fleet Gives Causé for Added®  Celebration   INDEPENDENT :FLEET: WAS CREATED. 168 YEARS ACO

U.S. Navy Celebrates Its 169th Anniversary With Jubilation Today

NATION MARKS NAVY BIRTHDAY   Chiefs Jubilant Over Defeat Handed To Japs

‘xultation Over Crushing Defeat Handed Japan’s Naval Forces Is Evident Throughout Service

All Hands In. ‘Navy Jubilant On Birthday   Exultation Is Evident - Throughout Service As Word Spreads of Pacific Fleet’s Victory

Great Victory Adds Sweetness to Gala Naval Anniversary   Birthday No. 169 Finds Fieet Exulted Over Great Sea Triumph

ThisIs _ Proud Day For Navy   Defeat of Jap Navy Adds Note of Jubilation to Celebration Of 169th Anniversary;

“Forrestal Warns Japs S Still Have Fleet ‘That Can Fight, As Nation Observes Navy Day Celebrating Victory

Forrestal Warns Japs Have Enough Fleet Left to Put Up Some Fight Yet, But Navy Exults Over Wrecking of Jap Seapower as United States Celebrates Navy Day

Controls on Business by  OPA Upheld   Supreme Court OK’s Authority  Over Violators

Ruling Provides Bulwark for Roosevelt Power   8-1 Decision Sustains OP A Rule Restricting Businesses Which Violate Ration Regulations

1300 PLANES RAID COLOGNE   Terrific Pounding of Ger. man City is Continued; Vienna Also Blasted

For Tenth Time This  - Month; Believed to Be Next Objective of U.S First Army.   Cathedral Stands

MARSHAL TITO’S MEN DRIVEN FROM CAPITAL   Jugoslaw Partisans Forced To Give Way Before  Strong German Drive.

"Allies Meeting With Reverses In Jugoslavia: *Yanks Gaining In Italy

Jugosiav Partisans Endangered      Germans Are Threatening To Encircle Large Units of Tito’s Army

LONDON SHAKEN BY HEAVY RAID   Hitler’s Fliers Seeking To Upset Invasien Plans In Britain

Snow Expected For Christmas  Many Parts Of U. S. Will Be Blanketed, VAs pn mthe mowmemum Geese

Allies Ahead Of 1918 Line   German Armies Crumpled Before Superior Force

JAPANESE BASE AT HAINAN ~§TRUCK BLOW BY BOMBERS   U, 4, AND CHINESE AIRMEN OF ‘CHENNAULTS COMMAND MAKE WIDESPREAD WEEK-END RAIDS

BOMBS SMASH JAPS’ HAINAN STAGING BASE   Best Allied Blow In C hina’ Theatre  POUND NIP ISLES  ee  Heavy Fighting on Los Negros

WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING TO \ 4 WIN THE WAR  i et et tt he Cll [Cf

Polish-Soviet Agreement Seen   Premier in Exile Plans Trip to Warsaw

TWO WAR CORRESPONDENTS. WRIGHT BRYAN AND EDWARD W. BEATTIE NOW HELD PRISONER BY NAZIS.

25 Overcome In Ship’s Hold In Brooklys   Second Mass Accident Strikes Flatbush Area After — Gas Accident -

MANY ARE FELLED BY ESCAPING GAS   FUMES SEEP FROM TANK TRUCK INTO BROOKLYN STREETS .

Thousand Overcome by Chlorine Gas in Downtown Brooklys   Authorities Seek to Determine Cause of Unusual Accident

195 Remain in Brooklyn Hospitals; 20 to 25 Men Over- come by Monoxide Gas in  Hold of Ship

150 Still From Chlorine: 1,000 Felled   Brooklyn Resembles Battle Area As Fumes Knock Out Hundreds

25 OVERCOME BY MONOXIDE GAS INN. Y.   Another New York Mishap Follows One Yesterday in Which 1,000 People Affected by Chlorine Gas

Gas Fumes Fell 1,000 in N. Y.   Hospitals Jammed as Result of Freak Accidents; 25 gyry GL...

SOVIET TERMS — --NOT-AGCEPTEL   FINNISH LEGATION SAYS RUSBIAN INDEMNITY DEMANDS TOO STIFF FOR HELSINKI GOVERNMENT -

REPLY WILL E SENT 10 RUSSIA SON   Terms Would Mean Starvation, ‘Leestion Sa

BIG INDEMNITY CHIEF OBSTACLE, DIPLOMATS SAY   Payment Of $600,000,000 By Little Nation Declared To Be Impossible   WOULD STRIP COUNTRY   ® People And Government Said To Be Unanimous On Refusal

Her HILL bE t okal tt Huseld SuuN   Terns World Mean Starvation,  ss yee leoition Svs. J ae

SOVIET PEAGE TERMS SPURNED   Finnish Rejection Will Be Sent: To Moscow

Attitude of Press Lauded By Stimson  _Makes Comment On Nazi Breakthrouah

Youths Change Pleas In Bare  Murder Case   One Immediately Given Life Sentence; One May Pay With Life

GERMANS BLAME OBSCURE VETERANS   Name Russian front Gener als as Leaders of Atiack Linan Hitler

Navy Commander Gets Suspension   Temporarily Relieved of Duty In _ Investigation Of War Firms.

News of Invasion Calmly Received   Relatively Few People in Streets at  New York as Word Comes That  Long Awaited Blow Has Been __ Struck at the Continent.    MOSTLY SERVICEMEN

Muskingum Project Called Ohio's No. 1 Postwar Need   Judge Wilkin Calls for Completion — Of Conservancy Work at Early Date

Situation Grave In North China; Japs Drive On   Allies Still Advance In Most Sections Of: India, Burma Fronts

Japs Link Two China Forees,  Win Rail Line   Nip Threat Against Vital Loyang Mounts; 20,000 Japs Killed  In India-Burma Front

Japs Grab Vita! Chinese Rail Line  Menace Loyang Allied Forces Still  Advancing in India And Burma Fighting

U.S. Planes Batter Jap's Stroncholds   Concern Sprecding Over Military Fate Of Entire Country

Japs Pushing "On In China   Situation Said Grave, But Other Fronts Are Brighter.

JAPSNOW CONTROL VITAL RAIL LINE   \ ee ne _ ee Chinese Report Foe Smash Against Loyang; India, Burma War Picture Is Different as

Germans ‘Take Over Finland  To Press War   Country — Swarms With  NanierBrenk With linited  States Expected

Nazis Rush Up Troops to Help Finns   German Soldiers Pour . Through Helsinki, ) Report Says

GERMAN MILITARY GOVERNS FINLAND   ‘Nazi Troops Swarm Country After Pretentious Show of War Strength.

Break Between U. S.  And Finland Seems Certain, Reliable Sources State

Finns Throw Off All Pretense as  Nazis March In  Leaders Hand Over LitwT. 43:

Finland Calls For Nazi Help   German Troops Swarm Country; Fighting War With German’s Aid,

Finns Throw Off All Pretense as  Nazis March Ir   Leaders Hand Over Little Nation to German Overlords Today

Finland Now Swarms With Nazis   Country No Longer Fights Separate War Against Russ

FINAL BREAK WITH FINLAND INOW IN OFFING   Solidarity of Finns and Germans May Force U. S., To Final Break

Nazi Troops In Finland   Nation Has Become Fuli German Ally In War With Russia

iPrussians in Full Control ‘OF Little Ally   You Ribhentrop Conyinees Government Russia ls Weakening

Budget Includes Pest Control Aid   Fruit Fly, Bollworm Aid Asked

SUPREME COURT OF  TEXAS RULES COURTS  CAN'T ISSUE ORDERS UP TO RAIL COMMISSION  TO DEVISE EQUITABLE PRORATION RULES

JAP FORCES OW PELELW - SAVAGE FOE   MARINES ENLARGING BEACTIBEADS IN FACE OF STIFF RE‘SIBSTANCE—MOROTAL IS LAND CAPTURED ‘

Marines Driving Ahead On Peleliu In Palau Grown   Invading Yanks Are Con. verging On Principal Airport In Islands   COUNTER-ATTACKS OF JAPS REPULSED   PEARL HARBOR. Sent

Seille River  Line Broker Below Metz   Patton’s Forces Outflank Metz In New Offensive.

Patton's Anny Qn March Near Metz   See-Saw Struggle For Vossenack In 3rd Day

Pgh. Expects Kelly To Be ‘Home Toda}   Mother — All Hustle, Anxiously Awaiting 7 Sons’ Greetings

County Girds For Coming Bond Drive   Chairmen Meet Saturday, Are Told Fifth War Loan To Be Hardest

Se ee al oe ee eg Ree  Fifth War Loan Drive Meeting Is Sef For Saturday

STATE RACE SHAPES UP  32 Individual Candidacies Are Announced, Others fn Prospect

Americans Smash German Assault   Mopping Up in Aachen Continues as Attempt at Rescue Fails

German Tanks Driven Back by  American Guns   Hodges’ Men Advance Slowly Inside Of City; Canadians in Furious Ficht South of Schelde

Of Armor and Infantry Kast of Aachen; Ameri. can Artillery Hurls Vol. lev to Smash Assault.   9.000 Prisoners

100 Big Guns Smash Nazi  Tank Assault Near Weiden   Yanks Make Progress Inside City of Aachen As Germans Drop Supplies by Plane  ATTACK EXPECTED

Strong Armored Attack Is Launched in Aachen Area  StOW—PROGRESS 1S MADE IN THE CITY  Enemy Pocket South of         Enemy Pocket South of che Schelde Cut by Canadians

Strong Armored Attack Is Launched in Aachen ; Area  SEOW PROGRESS IS  2 ce £2 ae ee F      Enemy Pocket South of! che Schelde Cut by  Canadians

British Sub in Daring Rescue of Yank Flier   Surfaces in Range of Japs to Pick Up Sumatra Victim

REVEAL HOW BRITISH SUB SAVED US. FLIER   Pick Up Yank Pilot In > Dramatic - Rescue   ‘OFF' SUMATRA   Pals of Downed Flier Help. In Saving : Jim

British Sub In Dramatic Rescue Of U. S. Flier Under Heavy Fire In Blow At Dutch East Indies

British Sub Makes Daring Rescue of Downed Yark Flier In Allies Attack On Sumatra

Submarine Makes Daring Rescue of Pilot   rT aw POPU be SA, SO, SO) SS,  Braves Jap Coastal Batteries for Lone Yank. Planes Helr

Flyer Protected by Buddies As Brit Sub Braves Heavy fan Shellfire to Save Him

Submarine In_ Daring Rescue  Of U.S. Pilot   Flier Picked Up Under Smoking Jap Shore Gun  Batteries Off Sumatra by British

Dramatic Rescue Of American Pilot Off Sumatra Described   British Submarine Risks Entire Personnel Under Jap Battery Fire To Save Flyer

BRITISH DARE JAP SHELLS 10 SAVE U. S. FLIER   Submarine Surfaces Under . Enemy Guns To: Take Pilot Aboard.

Yank Flier Is Rescued By Daring British Sub During Sumatra Attack

Dramatic Rescue In Carrier’ Strike At East Indies   British Sub Picks Up American Pilot; U. S. Naval Units Join in Attack

British Sub Defies Jap Coast Guns To Pick Up American Fighter Pilot

BRITISH SUBMARINE  IN DRAMATIC RESCUE  OF AMERICAN PILOT UNDER-SEA BOAT DARES  GUNS OF JAP COASTAL BATTERIES

IN DARING RESCUE   Hellcats and Sub Save a Pilot Downed in Sabang a

Drama In Sea Rescue   Sub and 12 nd 12 Planes Defy Jap Shore Batteries To Save Pilot Downed: _In Raid on Sumatra ~*

DRAVO CORP. GIVEN BOOSTER CONTRACT   Council Mokes Award  «After Rescinding Pre- — vious Action —

DRAVO CORP. GIVEN BOOSTER CONTRACT   Council ‘Makes - Awar ¢ After. Rescinding  Pre: vious Action ~~

JAPANESE SPRING DRIVE IN BURMA   Offensive Aimed at Invasion Of India and Disruption of Allied Supply Line Over Burma Hump Into China

BIG BATTLE DEVELOPING IN SO. ASIA   Japanese Apparently Invade India And Disrupt Supply Line To China; Cross Chindwin In Force.   Take Valley

Jap Onslaught  Aims at India   Biggest Battle Since 1942 Declared Develevinge

Big New Burma Battle Flares   Invasion Of India Indicated By Japs  By PRESTON GROVER

Big New Burma Battle Flares.   Invasion Of India Indicated-By Japs

Japanese Start Drive for India   Attempt To Prevent Relief for China

ILLINOIS RACE JRAWING LARGE BALLOT TODAY   Expect 4,500,000 Votes To Be In Boxes Tonight

Reds Enlarge Vitebsk Gaps To 100 Mile:   Russians May Hit Romania, Vital Lwow Area Next; Gains in Finland

LIBERATORS HIT AIRDROME IN GELESES   3 Enemy Planes Destroyed on Ground Without Jap Inter ference

Japs at Celebes Base Receive Heavy Air Blow   Enemy Shipping Also Bombed in Raids In Southwest Pacific

YANKS ENTER CAMPOLEONE AND CISTERNA   Crush Nazi Defense Positions  BITTER BATTLE  ee cent  TA! oe eae T as AY noth awn   Nazis In Northern Italy Called

CAMPOLEONE, CISTERNA   Launch First Anzio Area Attack After Repulsinge Nazis

IN SUBURBS Of CAMPOLEONE, CISTERNA   Launch First Anzio Area Attack After Repulsing Nazis

Ford Plants In Canada Remain Idle   DAY SHIFT WORKERS HAVE JOBS FUR HALF HOLIDAY TO DisCUSS THE DISPUTE WITH COMPANY,   Interferes with Work

Strike Closes Ford Company Of Canada Plant   About 14,000 Affected;  Bargaining Agreement Terminated by Firm

Galehouse  Is Choice   Named by Sewell to Start On Mound for Browns

With Baseball  t. Lovis Buzzes  ‘Cards Appear to Be   Cards Appear to Be Favorites te-Win; a Seu-Gui Reported Cae OQrnninn Conn.

Fifth War Loan _  Less Than Half  Of County Quota Only Week Left  Of Campaign To’ Buy Your Bonds _

Lt. Harmon’s Wearing 2 Decorations; One Is Locket From Elyse Knox

Stimson Reports  Germans Delaying   Communication Raids Are Cause

Without Invasion  He Says   Occupation Of That Country Would Be Necessary In Order T Win The Peace.

Nimitz Believes ‘ Japanese May“ ‘Surrender To U.S.   American Losses In Offensive  Reen Light

dinted; Fleet Chief Reveals 52,323  larak of Sudden Capitulation Nips Killed in Three Island Campaigns

Crosby and Sinatra to Compete in Yocal Duel in Command Performance

French-Russian Terms Revealed  Mutual Economic and  Military Aid Pledged

Franco-Soviet Terms Stated   Pledge Mutual Economic and Military Assistance For Twenty Years.

French - Soviet Pact Revealed   Nations Agree Not to Enter dbhhar

a  YY YanksBagi33  Nazi Fighters In Twin Raids   Key Aircraft Plants in Four German Cities Reduced to Ruins - .

U.S. AIR RAIDERS KNOCKED DOWN 133 GERMAN PLANES   Aircraft Plants in Four Cities Reduced to Smok-

133 GERMAN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Four Aircraft Plants Wrecked By Yank Airmen

Iowa Farmers Plan Expansion of Crop Acreage This Year, of Nearly 5 Percent

WPB Backs Down On Output Freeze   Gives Civilians Break  When Congressmen Kick

WPB Reverses Decision on Civilian Goods   Order Withdrawn, Says Sen. Wherry   Small Planis Need Work

Civilian Goods  Curb Removed   WPB Order Is Declared Avsainst “juke Man?

ENAL FARM SETS. WAR WORK RECORD   _ocal Institution Tops All Prisons of Its Size for  Wor Work

jeu FARM SETS. WAR WORK RECORD      ocal Institution Tops All ~ Prisons of Its Size for War Work _

Caught Coyote: With. a Dead Pig in-its Mouth “Gat Gach far Sraln

WIFE: OF FORMER VA. GOVERNOR DIE IN RICHMOND FIRE   Four Other People Lost Lives When Hotel Jeffer. son Rurned I ast Nicht

Richmond Hotel Fire Fatal to 6  Widow of Former Governor a Victim

6 Die In Richmond Hotel Fire   FORMER GOVERNOR'S WIFE, STATE SENATOR VICTIMS

Ex-Governor’s Wife Dies In Fire   Mrs. James H. Price Dies In Fire That Engulfs Richmond Hotel.

State Senator, 4 Women And Sailor Victim:   Trapped When Flame: Swept Upper Floors of Jefferson Hotel Early This Morning   14 Others Injured Or Badly Burned   Fire-Enveloped Hallway: Prevents Guest. From Fleeing; Firemen Rescne Many

6 Guests Die "In Hotel Fire   4. Women, 2 Men Perish in Richmond

GOVERNOR'S WIDOW  AND STATE SENATOR  DIE RICHMOND FIRE “NEARLY SCORE OF OTHE!  ’ oe GUESTS HOSPITAL Se ae er

Senator, Widow Of Ex-Governor  Of Virginia, Die In Hotel Fire   Fifth And Sixth Floors Of Famous Old Jefferson Gutted By Flames; Many Legislators Registered At Time.

6 Lives Lost In Richmond Hotel Fire On 2 Floors   State Senator, Four Women Guests And Unidentified Sailor Victims Of Flames

FIRES STARTED BY SUPERFORTS   New Defense Tactic Of Japanese Fails To Disrupt Tokyo Attack

-ClearWeather ’ Aids Raids On Tokyo sPlants   Japanese Plane Losses Heovier Than on Other Superfortress Attacks

SUPERFORTS SET FIRES IN TOKYC   LARGE NUMBER OF ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN. YANKS—ONE B-20 rokr,

SUPERFORTS BLAST TOKYO INDUSTRIES   One‘ B-29 Lost i in . Extend-.- ed Raid Over Jap  Capital

Two Lose Lives In Minneapolis   ‘Drownings Occur In. Trying Out Canoe

Washington Freezes Argentina Gold   Government Concerned At Hemispheric Break

Yanks Expand  Arawe Gains   National Guards From West Drive Japs Back 1000 Yards

American Infantry Forces Japs to ‘Retreat in Jungle   Action Refutes Tokyo's Claims Tha Arawe Had Been Recaptured: Allied Losses in Battle Are Light

Furious Counteroffensive Of Germans In Belgium Poses New Production Problems For Nation

U.S. Saipar ualties  Total 9,752   Losses Revealed On Bloodiest Battle of Pacific

Casualties on Saipan  Total 9,752   Death Struggle for Island More Bitter Than Tarawa

AGE-OLD ABBEY REPORTED ABLAZE AFTER AIR ATTACK   Nazis Converted Building Into Fortress; Cassine  Rettle Cantiniumese

Disregard For Sacredness Ot Monument To Religion Is Charged To Germans

NATION ON CHRIST eI URE’   Shoppers ~ Stores; Early Bu ndicates All-Time Sates High

EVERY DAY LOOKS LIKE THE NIGHT BEFORE XMAS IN STORES AS UNPRECEDENTED WAVE OF BUYING OCCURS THROUGHOUT NATION

NATION ON CHRIST SPLURG =   shoppers “; Stores; Early Bu indicates All-Time Sales High

SPANISH REBELS BATTLE TROOPS   London Spaniards Assert Revolution Is Spreading; Madrid Says Revolt Quelled

Seaway Plan Turned Down In Senate   Last Minute Boost From FDR Fails to  TurnBack Opposition  To Measure __

Senate Approves Two Big Program: For Water-Use   114 Billion for Rivers, Harbors, Flood Control: Seaway Plan Rejected

INTER-TRIBAL INDIAN CEREMONIAL” EXPECTED TO ATTRACT BIG CROWD DESPITE WAR-TIME RESTRICTIONS

RAF Bombers Hit Nazi Supply Ports   Battlefront Below Rome Blasted In Night Attack

FLIERS fil NAZIS NORTH ITALY PORTS   Widespread Aerial Blows are Struck At Rail Lines

NIGHT, DAY BLOWS BATTER NAZI LINES TO ITALIAN FRONTS   No Major Land Action Except By Patrols And Artillery

RAF RIPS ITALY RAILS   Heavy Artillery Fire on Anzio Beachhead By EFevnolds Packard

RAF Night Bombers Active  In Italy Area   No Major Action Is Reported On Land Fronts

“There’s A Limit To Taxes Americans Can Pay’”’ Say Leaders Attacking FDR’s Veto

TAX LEADERS [N HOUSE BLAST FD. R.   Will Seek to Override Veto Of Tax Bill

HOUSE EXPECTS T0 OVERRIDE TAX VETO   Leaders Of Each Party Rap F. D. Advisors As ‘Theorists’

Treasury Theorists Charged with Seeking To Usurp Tax Powers selonging to Cong.

GRAIN SUFFICIENT TO MEET ALL NEEDS      Prices Hold Up in Spite of Big : Crop Estimates

AID NEGLECTED MAN — BRICKER   Says Something Must Be Done For ‘White Collars’

SOME WAGE INCREASE FOR STEELMEN SEEN   Workers May Get Five Or Ten Cents An Hour Instead Of ’ 1% Cenis Being Demanded

Anzio Battle is Continuing   Forces Recuperating  Grom Bitter Fightina

ANZIO BATTLE BECOMES DUEL OF ARTILLER\   Big Guns Roar as Both Sides Prepare for Further Action

Allied, German Heavy Guns Trade Blows   Temporary Lulls in Great Conflict; Allied Planes Active

BIG GUNG BATTLE ON BRIDGEHEAL   Allies and Germans Pound Each Other’s Lines; Both Sides Prepare for Further Battles on Roads to Rome

ALLIED AND GERMAN GUNS POUND LINES   Heayy Artillery Dueling On  - Anzio Beachhead Continues As Both Sides Recuperate From Fighting.   Patrol Activity

STRUGGLE FOR BEACHHEAD IN SECOND MONTH   Enemy Still Under Orders To Wipe Out Allied Hold

Artillery Duels Rage in Italy   Both Sides Prepare For Other Battles

BlG GUNS TRADE» BLOWS AT ANZIO   LULL COMES IN GROUND FIGHTING—ALLIES ON ALERT FOR NEW ATTACK.

Nazis Back Off For New Start   Lull Marks Fierce Struggle At Anzio  By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

Nazis Back Off For New Start.   Lull Marks, Fierce Struggle At Anzio’

Nelson Lifts WPB Ban on Civilian Goods   Order, Delayed Since “uly 1, is Effective  Today; ; Household  Appliances on List

BEGIN PRODUCTION CIVILIAN ARTICLES   WPB Provides Priority Aid , But No Large Increases Possible Immediately.

MANUFACTURE ARTICLES FOR CIVILIAN USE   NELSON SIGNS ORDER FOR CONVERSION OF INDUSTRY

Restrictions On Making Of Civilian: Goods Eased   WPB Order Allows  Manufacture.of Some If Labor, Materials,  BRacihtienc Availahla   SMALL PRODUCTION EXPECTED AT FIRST  Tubs, Electric Ranges.  at es ee ae. ree ae

Civilians To Get More Goods   WPB Lifts Ban On Hundreds of  Civilian Articles.

Hundreds of Articles To Be Manufactured Where Loca Surpluses of Machinery anc Labor Permit

Ban Lifted on Civilian Goods  Partial Conversion to Peace Allowed

WPB RELEASES CIVILIAN GOODS   Many Items May Be Made If Surpluses Warrant

Production  Ban Lifted By Nelson   Civilian Articles May -: Be Made in Areas of. o=tubor, Machine ¢-Surnlue

Ban On, Civilian Production — ‘Lifted By‘ ‘Chairman Of WPB   Donald Nelson Paves Way for ‘Making Hundreds of .- Articles for Civilian Use ‘Where Local Gurnlucses Permit —

NELSON APPROVES MAKING ARTICLES FOR CIVILIAN USE   War Production Board Chairman Lifts Ban on Manufacture of Hundreds of Items.   LONG-AWAITED ORDER EFFECTIVE AT ONCE   Program Means Partial Conversion of Industry From Wartime to Peacetime _ - Production.

Permits Output Of Preferred List of Articles   Limited to Locations Having Surpluses  Of Labor, Machinery

N.Y. CLERIC URGES USE _ OF CONFERENCE TABLE FOR N. E. ECONOMIC RATTI ES

ltalian Leaders Spurn Badoglio Coalition Plans   New Government Outlook Dismal

BADOGLIO FAILS TO UNITE ITALY   Party Leaders Against Marshal’s Demands To Usurp Power

RAF Bombers in Fresh Blows af Nazi Continent  Americans Blast Brunswick; Down 36 Enemy Fighters

ATTACK MADE ON BRUNSWICK   Yanks Down 36 Nazi Fi ighters in Raid on Plane Manufacturing City

Giant RAF Force Roars Out Again   Blow Follows U.'S. Raid At Brincusel

RAF sends sreat force  over ‘Europe Following U. S. davlisht assault

Fortresses and Liberators Blast Brunswick, Bag 36 Nazi Fighters   By GLADWIN HILL

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT BRUNSWICK   Escort Planes Down 35 Enemy Fighters And  Lose Only Five

¢ Reds Continue Drive In Romania   ‘Nazis Make Unsuccessful Assault Near Tiraspol

Attack Hints U.S. Planning Cuam Landing   Seaborne Assault on Isle,  Neighboring Rota Goes Well Inia 2d Week

GUAM SHELLED AGAIN BY U. S. WARSHIPS.   Carrier Aircraft Bomb and Strafe Island—Nearby Rota Also Is Blasted.

SPEEDY FLEET SHELLS GUAM, ATTACKS ROTA   CONTINUED ASSAULT HINTS INVASION OF ISLANDS

Tito, Subasic Confer in Free Territory   Partisans Report 10,400 Nazis Killed Since May 25

Tito and King Peter’s Regime Reach Accord ‘For Yugoslav Liberation

To Free Yugoslav People Speedily   Accord Reached Between Marshal Tito and Yugo slav Government.

American First Army Is Atfaining Full Power in Battle near Aachen

OTHER TARGETS ARE IN FRANCE   Raid Fotlows One of Great« est Daylight Aerial Assaults af War.   3,000 PLANES TOOK PART

BOMBERS RAID “NAZI CAPITAL   No Planes Lost in Attack or in Other Night Operations—North France “Invasion Coast” Blasted Again Today.

Air Tempo * Mounting - . Steadily   3,000 Planes Sent Out From Britain Alone Yesterday; More Paids Today   FRANCE, GERMANY AND BALKANS HIT   ftaly Also Attacked and Al-. ied Losses Are Held to OF Planes

German Sub Fires On Trawler Off N. Atlantic Coast   Cannon, Machine - Gun Rake Fishing Boat; No Casualties

Germans Gain in Yugoslavian Drive Despite Heavy Losses fo Partisans

SARAJEVO - IN DANGER FROM GERMAN DRIVE   Nazig Smash Down Vrbas . River Valley to Within 45 Miles Bosnia * Capitol

Japanese Shell Montanan  for Two Hours State Flyer Escape   State Flyer Escapes After Being Downed at Rabaul

Japanese Shell Montanan  for Two Hours State Flyer Escape:  After Being Timessmnoaet sh Becks snot

ALLIES OPPOSED DURING ADVANCES TO SAVE GERMANS   Operations Designed to Permit Shattered Armies tc Get Into Their Main Detense Positions.   MORE DESTRUCTION IS WEAKENING JAP POWER   Reds Continue Their Advanees Toward Viipuri; Chinese Reported In Gains Near Tengchung.

Suff Battles Are Raging On  Italian Front   Allies Blast Nazi Lines In Hills North Of  ome

In Heaviest Fighting Since Fall Of Capital 10 Days Ago   NOW 70 MILES NORTH OF ROME   Only ‘Two Enemy Planes Sighted Over Battle Area—Both Destroyed

New German Line Above Rome Cracked; Allies Advance in Hard Fighting

JAB NEW ITALY LINE   pur the Germans have thrown crack suicide divisions’ into five major counter-attacks in an attempt to, ctam the Allied advance.

HARD BATTLE ON IN AREA NO. OF ROME   Allies Advance Two Miles Despite Tough Resistance

Fierce Nazi Blow Slows Italian Drive   Yanks Punch Out 2-Mile Gain Into New Defense Line

Crack New Nazi LineAboveRome   Germans Try Stand At Road Junction And Fighting Heavy

SUPER-FORTS IN NEW RAID OVER TOKYO   Reconnaissance Over Osaka-Kobe Area May Presage Coming Attack.

Two Attacks Renew Fires In Capital   Tokyo Denies Damage Done By Raiders; New Areas Scouted.

Claim Nuisance  Attacks By B-29’s   Tokyo Says Fire Bombs Hit Kobe-Osaka Area

SUPERFORTS IN TWO FIRE BOME RAIDS ON TOYKC   Also Extend Reconnaissance Area To Include Kobe-Osaka District

HEAT IS HERE AGAIN   No Relief Krom 100-Degree Tem: peratures in Sight -

010,000 Enemy Face New Trap   Allies Widen Nijmegen Lifeline but Lose Only Bridgehead Across Rhine at Arnhem; Hope Dims for Early War End

Churchill States War in Europe Might Well Continue Into Next Year

LOSS OF RHINE BRIDGEHEAD IS MAJOR SETBACK   CHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS WAR MAY CONTINUE INTO ’45

Conquerors, But Not Oppressors Gen. Eisenhower  Proclaims to Nazis

China Changes Cabinet Posts   Gen. Ho Ying-Chin Has Been Replaced By General  Chen Cheng.

DAY OBSERVE IN MANY LANDS   General Clark Sets Tone of Solemn Dedication in Address to Troops; Ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery

Nation Pays Tribute te War Dead; Memorial Services Held on All Fronts   Spokesmen for North and South Emphasize Unity of United States

MEMORIAL DAY IS WIDELY OBSERVED   General Clark Sets Tone of Solemn Dedica So ee

Clark's Speech Sets Tone Of Solemn Dedication For Wartime Memorial Day

Allied Test on Monetary Meet at Hand   Bank Will Stabilize Post-Wa Reconversion, - Stimulate Flow of Money

Nations Wai Reds’ Money Pool Action   Nation Expected To ‘Play Ball’ With Allied Delegates

Argentines March; Ired By Hull Note   SET OFF NOISE BOMB IN FRONT OF NEWSPAPER LA NACION’S BUILDING; SHOUTS SLOGANS ANTI-U. S.

NOISE BOMB BLAST MARKS AIRES PARADE   Orderly Demonstration Is Staged in Argentina

Bomb Punctuates Shouts Of ‘Yankees No’ As Blood Of Latin Demonstrators Boils

Old Resident Dies In Akron  ! Mrs. Phillip Lubben _ Lived Here 60 Years

Old Resident —  Dies In Akron Mrs. Phillip Lubben Lived. Hera 6a y, pin wa

 Japanese Navy May Be Called In To Stop This— By vames L. Yenc   Sainan Airdrome May Become B-29 Base

SPEAKER FOR OHI0 . HOUSE IS CHOSEN   Jackson Betts, Findlay At torney. Is Choice of Republicans

NAME ATTORNEY HOUSE SPEAKER   GOP Selects Jackson Betts at Ohio Caucus

Nazi Positions At Anzio Are Heavily Shelled   Bad Weather Holds Up Aerial Action

ALLIED PLANED TAAFE ENEMN ON BEACHHEAL   Bad Weather Hampers Aerial and Ground Activities Throughout italy.

Allied Big Guns Rake Germans On Anzio Beachhead   Shells Rip Enemy On Roads Around Sector; Hamper Mass Movement

F ighting in ltaly Slowed By Weather   Nazi Positions at Beachhead Raked By Allied Cannon

WEATHER BAD ON 2 FRONTS IN ITALY   Ground Action Is Limited to Patrol Clashes

'BIG GUNS POUND NAZIS MASSING FOR ANZIO PUSH      Fifth’s Missiles Wit Pre-Located Positions Ait Forees Grounded.

Allied Guns Pound Nazi Supply Roads   YSritish Planes Sink German Ship Off Spain

Nazi Positions On Anzio Front Raked By Guns   Bad Weather Grounds ie Forces And Limits Ground Action

ALLIED LONG RANGE GUNS RAKE GERMAN POSITIONS AT ANZIC   Rain And Mud Limits Air, Ground Activity Over Italy

CANADIANS IN.’ DRIVE AGAINST LE HAVRE   Savage German Resistance Still Being Encountered

King Declares Britain Intends to Strengthen Forces Fighting lane

WAR AGAINST JAPAN PLANNED BY BRITAIN   Civilian Production To Start When Nazis Beaten

King George Says Britain To Reinforce Armies Now  Fighting Against Japanese   Victory Remains Supreme Aim. He Tells Parliament

King George VI Says Allies Can Look Forward To Victory With Greater Confidence Than Ever

KING DECLARES , BRITAIN TO AID IN PACIFIC WAI   Forces Already Assigned To Destruction of Japs Will Be Increased

CAPITAL FIXED IN WORLD BANK   Initial Post-War Fund Of $8,800,000,000 Is Agreed Upon

Reds Win Out On Quota For World Bank   Only Technical Details Remain

Congress’ Cooperation Sought By Hull to Keep Policies Out Of Politics

Asks Unity On'Foreign Policy —   Hulk. Urges That Issues Be Kept Out of Poli- . tics ;:Outlines U. S.  International Program

Keep Foreign Policy Out Of Polities—Hull   To Work With Congress: Move Closer To Hour Of Decision.   GIVES BIG PROBLEMS

issues Seen Effort To Keep U. S. Foreign Policy Out Of Election Controversies

Hull Calls For Unity Of Action   Secretary Hopes To Keep Principles Of Nation’s Foreign Policy Out Of Political Controversies

Hull Promotes Foreign Policy Free Of Politic:   Pleads For Home Front Unity On World fesuas

Hull Defend: U.S.Policies. Urges Unity   Secretary Calls on Congress to Form Advisory ' Committee

Hu!! Would Avoid Rift Over Policy   Plans to Work With Group From Congress

Hull Asks Unity On Foreign Policy   State Secretary Expresses Hope Plan Can Keep Out of Politics

ALLS   Home Front Unity On Foreign Policies  Urged By Hull   Secretary Of State In Broadcast Explanation  Launches Drive To Keep Principles Of Nation’s  International Stand Out OF Politics

Hull Explains U.S. Foreign Policy in Talk   Secretary of State Also Asks For Home Front Unity, No Politics in War

Hull Calls For Home Unitv On Foreign Issues   To Work With Congress In Effort to Keep Foreign Policy Out of Politi. eal Campaion

Says Allies Must Cooperate In Peacetime To Avoid Another World Conflict In Next Generation; Compromise With Fascism Held Impossible

HULL ATTACKS DISUNITY OVER FOREIGN POLICY   Seek Bipartisan Group To Aid tn Planning PostWar Program

HULL EXPLAINS. FOREIGN POLICY   Couples It With Plea for Home Front Unity on International Issues.

Hull Pleads for Home Front Unity On Foreign Policy   Launches Campaign to Keep International Issues Out of U. S. Political Campaian

HULL PLEADS FOR UNITY ON HOME FRONT   Will Work With Congress to Keep Foreign Policy Out of Politics.

HULL PRESSES U.S. UNITY ON WORLD POLICY   Will Work With Bi-Partisan Group To Keep Foreign Issues From Politics

SECRETARY HULL IN RADIO EXPLANATION UJ. §. FOREIGN POLICY   PLEA FOR UNITY ON HOME FRONT MADE BY STATE DEPARTMENT HEAD

Hull Seeks Unity Of Two Parties on Foreign Policy  Congress in Development

Hull Appeals For International Organized Peace   Warns of Disunity In Election Year; Gives Detailed Summary Foreign Policy.

Hull Would Keep Foreign Policy Out Of Campaign   Secretary Of State Pleads For Home Front Unity On European Issues

ASKS FOREIGN POLICY FREE OF POLITICS      Hull Hopes to Keep U. S. Principles Out of Election-Year Controversies —Suggests Bipartisan Planning.

Hull Says U.S., Britain, Russia And China Must Act In Harmony In Shaping Future

SECRETARY HULL IN RADIO EXPLANATION U. 5. FOREIGN POLICY  RIERA FP FATE Fa LIES   PLEA FOR UNITY ON HOME FRONT MADE BY STATE DEPARTMENT HEAD

Hull Launch*s Campaign To Keep For ign Policy Out Of Political Issues

HULL PLEADS FOR UNITY ON FOREIGN ISSUE   Secretary of State Urges That Subject Be Kept Out of Coming Poli tical Campaign   ASPECTS ARE DISCUSSED

FOR UNITY ON HOME FRONT   Secretary of State Would Eliminate Foreign Policy As Election Issues at Thic Crucial Hour

Hull Pleads Home Front Unity on Foreign Issues   Work With Congress Keep Foreign Policy From Politics

LOWER ‘GRADES OF RURAL SCHOOLS INCREASE ROLLS   Co. Supt. Morse Issues . Report on Rural Schools

fO GERMANY’S HUGE DNIEPER BEND ARMY; RECAPTURE TERRITORY TAKEN IN 1941 INVASION; CAPTURE LAST TOWN.

Vatutin’s Men © Hard on Heels Of Beaten Foe   Russ Baltic Army Drives Toward Latvian Border Ower Frozen Front

Great Soviet Offensive  Rolls Ahead   Other Red Columns Threaten To Sever Rail Line from Odessa  MAIN ESCAPE ROAD

Russian Army Smashes Near  - Poland Borde:   “Crushing Red Offensive Rolls Ahead Through 150 More Villages; Enemy ‘Faces Disaster in Dnieper Bend

Destroyers Blast Jap Base  For Hour, Sink Ship, Fire 2; Battle for Guam, Says Tokyo

DESTROYERS SHELL BASE POINT BLANK   50,000 Japs Facing Starvation in Region

Japanese Base at Kavieng Again Shelled   U.S. Destroyers Sink One Ship, Damage 2 Others

American Destroyers Raid Japs’ Kavieng Supply Base   Aliied Bombers Drop 100 Tons Of Bombs On Rabaul: Enemy Onnosition Je Still Lackina

Japanese Base  at Kavieng Again Shelled  U. S. Destroyers  Sink One Ship, Damaneas 9 CYhare

Kavieng Shelled For Third Time   New Ireland Base Hit Again Friday

LODGE BURNS MORTGAGE   Dr. Millard E. Gladfelter Speaker At Banauet in Quakertown

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To All In The Various  Communities  CIECANED RY CCRIREC

MRS. MacDOWELL IS 87   Composer’s Widow Established Creative Art Colony

ATICAN CITY. NTOUCHED BY IGHT FOR ROME   Keeps Strictly Neutral Policy

SOVIET TROOPS NEAR BUDAPEST   Reds Cross Tisza River, 56 Miles From Hun garian Capital

Russians 56 Miles From Budapest   German Commentator Says Tiza River Crossed by Red Army

‘Goebbels Pleads for Increase  in War Effort   Promises New ‘Secret Weapon’ Which Will Nullify Allied Defenses Soon Will Be Put Into Operation

Goebbels Tries To Pep Up German War Effort, Tells Of Hitler Attack

Secretary Hull And Dulles To Confer Soon   Adviser Of Gov. Dewey Will Hold Conference With Hull In Regard To U. S. Foreign Policy

HULL TO CONFER WITH DEWEY AID ON WORLD PEACK   Dulles To Clarify Disputed Points On Fereign Policy.

FOREIGN POLICY MAY BE OMITTED FROM CAMPAIGN   Hull-Dulles Meeting Arranged To Discuss Views On Policy

Hull-Dulles Parley Is Seen as Making Chances Bright for Keeping U. S. Foreign Policy Out of Campaign

MISSISSIPPI RIVER STAGES   Hull Agrees To Meet With Dewey's Adviser

U.S. State Department  Is Shuffled   Hull Announces Reorganization to Aid Foreign Policy

Hull Reorganizes Depariment   Seeks to Facilitate Foreion Relations

State Department Announces Chang   Foreign Relations Conduct Affected

Hull tells of change in office   Will facilitate foreign dealings

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CHICHI JIMA BOMBED TODAY BY U.S, SHIPS   Several Japanese Ships Damaged Off Formosa

ISLES RAIDED, JAPS JITTERY’   Tokyo Reports Widespread Air And Sea Attacks

BONIN ISLAND RAID MADE BY SHIPS, PLANES   Chichi Jima Is Attacked As Pacific War Tempo Is Quickened

Allied Planes And Warships Attack Bonin   Lokyo Reports taid o7 Davav in Philippines; Japs Show Nervousness Over Rail

Chichi Jima  Hit from Air and Warships   First Significant Move in Pacific Theatre in Several Days; 40 Liberators Attack Davao

REPORT BLOW ON BONIN ISLE   Japs Claim Warships, Planés Attack Island

TOKYO REPORTS NEW BONIN RAID   Says Warships And Planes Hammer Chichi Jima

Tokyo Reports U.S. Warships Attack Bonins   Planes From Carriers And Shells Land © On Islands

Yankee Warship: Shell Japs On Bonin Isles  MacArthur Ready For Retaking Of Philippines

Allied Warships And Carrier Planes Raid Chichi Jima  Tokyo Reports Attack as Well as New Raid on Davao, Jap Race on Mindanae

Jap Ships Sunk at Davao   Toyko Reports Raids on Chici Jimi, Davao; Merchantmen Sunk

Allied Warships, Planes Bombard  Bonin islands   Japanese Repor Pacific Action

ALLIED WARSHIPS  AND CARRIER PLANES  HIT BONIN ISLANDS FIRST SIGNIFICANT MOVE  IN PACIFIC WAR AREA IN CPULGDAL NAYe

Report Attack On Bonin Isles By Ships, Planes   Significant Move In Pacific Causes Nervousness On Tokyo Home Front

Allied Carrier Planes Attack Bonin Islands  Tokyo Also Reports Philippines Raided

U.S. Warships Shell Bonins   Action Brewing In Philippines Area.

Tokyo Nervous (ver Davao Raids   Report Attacks On Bonins, Marshalls, And Marianas.

WIDE SPREAD AIR AND SEA RAIDS ARE MADE IN PACIFIC   =i acme kyo Announced.   DAVAO RAID WAS HEAVY   Japs Warned Enemy Activity Against That City Would Bear Watching.

Chichi Jima Bombed By 100 Planes; Also Shelled   40 U.S. Liberators Also Attack Davao, In Philippines; Formosa Raided

Gen. Stilwell Getting Close To Jap Base   British Overcoming Nipponese Invaders of Eastern India

ALLIES STRIKE FOR JAP*BASE OF KAMAING   Only 10 Miles from Objective Which They Desire to Reach _ before Monsoon Hits.   American Trucks

STILWELL FORCES MOVE ON JAP BASE   REACH POINT 10 MILES FROM KAMAING—ALLIED PROGRESS IN INDIA SLOW.

Allies Peril Jap Base Of Kamaing  QrilwelPeo Raroene   Stilwell’s Forces Near Major Burma Objective

Foothold on Dnieper Is Liquidated   Ukranian Army Wipes Out a Brideghead 75 Miles  Lone

LOCAL TROOPER IS CITED BY OFFICER   Harry Holsinger Is Given _ Award by Ober for  Heroism

LOCAL TROOPER IS” CITED BY OFFICER      Harry Holsinger Is: Given bicaichi- by Ober for ©  MW oegiem

Spaniard Sees Fall Of Franco in General Embargo  Statesman Urges Allie: To Stop All Deals  VAsial. Cli Af af Alatian

Spaniard Sees Fall Of Franco in General Embargo  Statesman Urges Allies To Stop All Deals With Chief of Nation

WORK STOPPAGES IN FIVE BADGER PLANTS   Action at Kenosha Draws Admonition From War Labor Board.

Stoppages In  5 State Plants ~ WLB Orders Kenosha Workers To Go Back

CHURCHILL, TITO AND SUBASIC MET IN ITALY   Shaping of Post War Fate Of Yugoslavia Discussed In Talks in Conference

Churchill, Yugoslavian Leaders Meet in Italy; Discuss Nation’s Future

Churchill Has Confab With Slavs   Talks May Do Much Toward Post-War Fate Of Yugoslavia

Churchill's . Day Is Busy   Meets Marshal. Tito:  To ‘Discuss ‘Warfare.

AMERICAN ARMORED» BLOWS BEATING BACK GERMAN SIPEARHEADS  VON RUNDSS TEDT'S ESCAPE GAPEHAS NBEEN NARROW. ED TO SEVENTEEN MILES

Third Army Units Continue Advance As Enemy Digs In   Von Rundstedt Troops in Danger Of Encirclerment

Yanks Slam Into All Three Sides Of Extended Bulge, Narrow Escape Gap

{0ST ADVANCED SPEARHEADS HURLED BACK TEN MILES   Escape Gap North of Bastogne ~ Cut Cut to Less Than 17 Miles as Yankees Attack On All Sides

The Western Tip Was Pushed Back a Distance of Ten Miles; Americans in an Advance.   REACH OUTSKIRTS GF ROCHEFORT   The German Troops Were Reported Digging in at the Western End of their Salient.

American Armor Strikes at Salient From All Sides; Rundstedt’s Escape Gap Is Narrowed to 17 Miles North Of Bastogne by Third Army Advance

Gen. Von Rundstedt’s Advance Spearheads Hurled Back Across Lesse, Homme Rivers Into Rochefort; Escape Gap North of Bastogne Cut to Less Than 17 Miles by Yanks

Patton Builds Power Wedge in Nazi Bulge   Von Rundstedt’s Escape Gap Cut to Less Than 17 Miles North of Bastogne; Troops Isolated Near St. Hubert in Death Fight

Yanks In Edge Of Rochefort   Less Than 17 Miles Separate First, Third Armies at Bastogne Neck

PARTY GROUP. HITS BALLOT      GOP NATIONAL COMMITTEE ENTERS VOTE DISPUTE BY -ASSAILING “FEDERAL”  ” RALLOT:

Japs Lose 13 Ships, 4,000 Men   Ten Transports Sunk by Americans Fighting Off Enemy Reinforcements   3 NIP DESTROYERS * ALSO ARE SUNE   Japs Make New Claims of Heavy U.S. Losses; Rains Limit Ground Action

U. S. Bombers Hit Jap Base On Wake Island   Destroy Airdrome And Six Planes On Raid

REPORTS SAY DOUGHBOYS ARE INSIDE CITY   Americans Fight Across Main Highway At Two Places

BREAKTHROUGH TOWARD RHINE THOUGHT NEAR   Battle For Fort Driant Continues As Patton’s Men Gain Slowly

Americans Clamp Pincers On Aachen Cut Nazi Escape Corridor To 4 Mile:

House-To-House Battle Reported Inside Nazi City   Say German Escape Route —~“Ent-Po-Scant-4-—MilessSee Wide Breakthrough

With Ernie Pyle at the Front ~ pane  Wreckage Litters Beach But It Was Expendable ©   » German Prisoners See Replacements . Pour Across Sea They Guarded So Long

Boys Discover Wrecked Ship Near Ann Arbo!   Struck Tree On Farm; Bodies Found. Beside Smashed Plane

Mussolini Attends: Troop va al Milan, Makes Another Balcony Address

Airmen Sow Invasion Seed on Europe, 29,000-Ton Load   Bombers Assault German Landing Defense And Strike Vital Communication Centers Needed to Move Reinforcements

Reds Break Off Talks As Finns Reject Terms Of Proposed Armistice   Nazis View Quiet on Russian Fronts As Lull Before Storm; Italian Based Bombers Keep Hitting Nazis in Balkans

4000 War Planes Bomb, Strafe Nazi Europe   29,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped in 6 Days; Strike Enemy Defenses

Four Thousand Warplanes Bomb and Strafe European Fortress; 29,000 Tons Dropped  In Six Days; Sow Havoc Among Defenses Along Coast and in Vital Communications

Paris Exiles Wodehouse  English Author Tax   English Author Taxed With Aiding Nazis by Berlin Broadcasts

Bricker Remains Active Candidate   Says He'll Continue Fight for Delegates

Barkley Confers With President   First Visit Since Break Over Tax Veto; Discuss Judiciary Resolution.

Barkley Calls on FDR, Reports an Agreeable Visit  Returns to Senate to Block Resolution on Executive Orders

Postwar Taxes  To Be Unveiled      Experts, After Four Months Work, About To Throw Light On Program.

Study Postwar Tax Program   Report of Experts Expected to Throw Light On Economic Conditions After Walz

To Reveal Post War Tax Plan   Treasury and Congress Experts’ Tax Reports To Be Enlightening.

Liquor Quiz And Drought To Continue   Probers Interested In Shartage, Not Prohibition

Nazis Alfack Reds To Save  Lwow Base   Moscow Fails To Announce Advance; First Time In Weeks:

NAZIS STIFFEN IN DEFENSE OF POLISH BASTION   Large-Scale Attack Near Stanislawow Repulsed,  Communique Says   SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL BY REDS CONTINUES

Germans Open -Aifacks "in Old Poland   Russians Declare Nazi Forces Were Repulsed

GERMANS TRY SAVING LWOW      Big Base in Corner of Old Poland; Russians Report Nazls Launch Vain Counter-Attacks.   40 Large Fires

Nazis Try to Stem Red Push on Lwow   Battle for Sevastopol in Crimea Takes On Character of Siege as Soviets Shell Enemy Positions; Dnestr Battle Rages

GERMANS TRY TO HELP EASE LWOW CRISIS   NO HOPE OF ESCAPE LEFT FOR TROOPS AT SEVASTOPOL

NAZI ATTACKS IN OLD POLAND ARE REPULSED   Attempt Made To Save Lwow From Soviets; Lull Develops In Red Drives

Large Scale Attack Near Stanislawow Is . Staged   LITTLE MENTION OF SEVASTOPOL MADE   Communique Fails for the First Time in Weeks — to Record Advance

Soviets Declare Red Armies Have Repulsed Enemy:   Nazis in Vain Effot Near Sevastopol; Begin Seige of City)

Nazi Attacks Are Repulsed.  Russians Say   ~ Battle. of Sevastopol Settles Down to Siege, City Heavily Shelled  SOME CAINS MADE

NAZIS LAUNCH LARGE ATTACK IN OLD POLAND   Foe Lashes Fiercely to Save Big Base At Lwow

Germans Lash Ow Fiercely At Lwow   Big-Scale Attack Launched In Poland Bit Rireeiane Declare Enemy Renulsed

Build Up To Third Assault   Nazis Subject Allied Troops At Beachhead Below Rome to Heavyiest Bombardment Yet

Sees End of Bismarck Fight; Anzio Beachhead Under Fire; Mosquitos Bombing Germany   Gen. MacArthur Directed Operations From Warship; Nazis Subject Yanks In Italy to Shelling: Reds Advance

Fifth Army Has Beaten Back Two Enemy Assaults   Germany Claims Big Encirclement Near Cisterna

Russians Carty On. ‘As Finland... Fatefully. Debates ‘Peace Question. .

Chaplin Plea For Acquittal Is Overruled   Both Counts of Mann Act Violation to Be Heard Despite Fight

COURT REJECTS CHAPLIN § PLEA TQ HALT TRIAL   Mann Act Charges Will be Submitted To   lnew

Chaplin Lawyer Asks Acquittal   Butler Tells Of Pair’:  Intimacy

FEAR FUTURE WEAPONS   Patterson Says Defense Against Sudden Attack Is Necessary

NAZIS REPOR ACTIVITY BEACHHEAD   Fifth Army at Anzio Drives for Union With Alexander's Troops

BEAGHACAL DEFENSIVE UNDER WAY   New Smash Progress-« ing Well   ite, FY Mae NAZIS QUIT PICO  Americans Again Menace Terracina

Second Place Fight Grows in Bitterness   Wallace Fighting Hard, But Truman Seems a Certainty

Truman Gains Support As Battle Nears   Balloting On No. 2 Berth Tomorrow

Gen. Marshall, James Byrnes in France; The First U. S.-to-Paris Flight Since 192.

Daffy Dorsey Trial Is in A Muddle   State Is Stuck With Its Case

, Judge Refuses D. A. Plea For Dismissal OF The * Tommy Dorsey Trial

Prosecution Denied Motion For Dismissal  As Daffy Dorsey Trial Becomes Confused

American Forces Tighten Blockade Of Death Around Hundred Thousand Japanese   Bombers Of Southwest Pacific \command Pound Japanese irdrome On Woleai Islands

100,000 JAPS TIGHTENED   War Department Sees “Hopeless Future” for Trapped Nips

INVASION KITS BEING PACKED   First Shipments Have Been Made To War Zones

16 Governors Confer Today In St. Louis   State Executives Called Together By Candidate Dewe;

Government Back to Village Pump’ Urged at GOP Governor Conference

HEAR FINAL ARGUMENTS IN WARD CASE   Decision Not Expected for Several Days

FINAL ARGUMENT IN WARD SEIZURE EXPECTED TODAY   Judge Holly Believed Ready to Announce Decision Sometime Late Today.

ARGUMENTS IN WARD CO, CASE GIVEN TUESDA)   Federal Judge at Chicago, However, Expected to Take the Case Under Advisement

FDR Reveals New Plan For Italy   Will Increase Flow Of Badly Needed Goods To Italians

INDIA-BASED SUPERFORTS STAGE RAID   Attack Made 24 Hours After Sister Ships Paste Nagoya

Thailand Raid By India-Based B-29's Revealed   40 Bomb Hits on Big Nagoya Aircraft Plant Shown by Photos

Paratroopers Land On Cherbourg Peninsula   Allied Combat Teams Break Out From Under Fierce Nazi Fire And Drive Inland, Causing Confusion In Enemies Line

:oastal Guns Silenced By Naval Broadsides; New Troops Pour In;  Rectctance Stiffenc

Greeks Celebrate Independence Day  Local Chapter Is Active In Relief

Nazis Are Pushed Back To Miskole  Some Nazi Escape Routes Are Cut

Reds Stop Enemy  Escape Routes   Nazis Declare Russ Have Opened Winter Offensive in North

ENEMY TROOPS ROLLED BACK BY RUSSIANS   German’s Escape Route Cut Off Near Miskolc

Reds Closing in On German Area   ESCAPE ROUTE BLOCKED IN HUNGARY BY RUSSIANS

New Red Offensive in Latvia Told in Report From Berlin   Russians ‘Attempt to Cul Off One of Two Escape Ports

Reds Drive Into Miskolc   Berlin Claims Russians Open Winter Offensive Against 300.000 Troons

Reds Close In On Fifth City Of Magyars   In North, Open Winter Drive Against Nazis in Latvia

RUSSIAN ARMY PLUGS ENEMY ESCAPE ROUTES   Reds Roll On In Hungary; Nazis Reveal Winter Drive In North

-—RUSSIA— + + ~  SOVIETS BLOCK ESCAPE ROUTES   Nazis Rolled Back To Outskirts Of Miskole In Hungary

Red Forces Roll On in Hungary   Threaten Nazi Escape Routes from Miskole; Whittle Down Enemy In Latvian Pocket

Nazis Report Says Russians Are Closing in   Withdrawal From Miskole Now Appears Likely

‘Russians Near Escape Route From Miskok   German Withdrawal From _ Hungary’s Fifth City  : Now Reported to Be Inimiinent

SOVIETS MENACE CITY OF MISKOLC   WINTER OFFENSIVE IN WESTERN LATVIA OPENED, NAZIS SAY

NEW NAZI TRAP IS SET BY REDS   Germans Say Russian Drive Launched in Latvia

Russians Closing Escape Routes Neai Miskolc, Hungary   Nazis Say Reds Open Drive On Troops In Latvia

Reds Fight Into Miskolc Outskirfs   Nazi's Say Red Winter Offensive Opened On Weoct Loatvid Packat

Soviets Close In On Escape Routes Of Nazis In Hungary; Steadily Increase Pressure   German Withdrawal From Strategic City Of Miskolc Appears !mminent

Germans Claim Seviet- Offensive  Opens In Latvia   Other Red Forces Drive Nazis To Suburbs Of Miskolec In Huugary

REDS CLOSING IN ON ESCAPE GAPSINNORTH   Enemy Troops Rolled Back To Outskirts of Miskolc, Hungary's Fifth Largest City   WITHDRAWAL IMMINENT

NAZIS SAY REDS OPEN BIG DRIVE   Report Assault On 300,00 Germans In Latvia Trap

REDS HIT NEW HUNGARY CITY   Nazis Report Great Russian Offensive Underway In Latvia

Soviet Troops Close German Escape Routes   Hungary's Fifth City Virtually In Reds’ Hands

Reds Close In Upon Miskole Eseape Routes      Nazis Report Opening Of Soviet Winter Offensive in Latvia.

RED ARMY TROOPS CLOSED NORTHERN FSC APE FOR NAZIS   GERMANS REPORT RUSSIANS HAVE OPENED WINTER OFFENSIVE IN NORTH

Russians Cut Route of Nazi Escape   Germans Announce Start of Reds’ Winter Campaian

REDS CLOSE IN ON GERMANS’ ESCAPE ROUTES   Soviets Push Into Miskole Outskirts; Report New Drive in Latvia

Escape Routes For Nazi Forces Cut Off As....  Russians Battle 300,000 Germans Pocketed In Far Western Latvia

Withdrawal In Misckole Seen   Red Army Troops Fight Into Outskirts Of Hungary’s Fifth Town,

Red Troops Close In on Escape Lanes   Germans Claim Russians Open Winter Drive In North

REDS REPORTED IN NEW DRIVE   Russian Armies Fight To Hungary City

Soviets Closing. ped Routes  Germans at Miskole  mm MeaPeIe Prat ieCLArR

NAZIS IN A POCKET   Red Army Opens Winter Offensive Far to North in Latvia

Report Whole Enemy Drive Is Blunted   Germans Say Major Battle In Progress

Enemy Gets Double-Barrelled Pounding from  Air and Artillery   RIP COMMUNICATIONS

Yanks Return to Offensive as Fog Lifts: Planes, Artillery Open up

Historic Sedan, Verdun Fall;.: Rocket Bomb Area Is Cut Off              Crossing of Belgian Border Near; British May Trap Enemy at Dunkerque; Canadians Get Revenge for Dieppe

Former Assistant Secretary  of State Agrees To Accept Extremely Important Envoyship

Continuous Bombing Tips Jackpot When Relief Fleet Is  Sent Down.

Hundreds of Japanese  Troops Killed   Attempt to Relieve New Guinea Bases Is Frustrated

JAMMED WITH NIPS DUE FOR WEWAK RELIEE      Escorting Corvettes Sent to Bottom By Bombers

Language Is Barrier At Money Parley   Russians Prove  Stumbling Block

U.S, SHOULD KEEP — WAR WON ISLANDS, BRIGKER DECLARES   Presidential Aspirant Sees Them As Aid To Post-war International Trade

President Asks Public to Support Plan   Congress Message Repeated in Fireside Chat

National Service Law Is Requested   Every Able-Bodied Adult Would Be Drafted For All-Out Home Front Effort Under Plan

Urges Support For Labor Draft “And ‘Real’ Taxes   President Makes Radio Appeal After Congress Indicates Strong Coalition Opposition To Service Legislation Urged By Message.

President Ask: Public to Support Plan  Congress Message Repeated _—

Four Jap Ships Sunk Off Marshalls   Single Destroyer Gets Supply Ships

Allied Pincers May Close on Japanese   Americans, British, French, Dutch Unite in Surprise Attack Which Brings Wide Destruction to Enemy

Sumatra Blow Marks Opening Of Offensive   J. S., British French And Dutch Forces Are Co-ordinated

Large-Scale Naval Pinchers Closing On Jap Empire   British Fleet Now Strong Enough to Press in From West

ALLIED FLEET OFF SUMATRA   New Chapter In Asiatic War Against Nips Opened

Grand Scale Naval Pincers Is Begun Against Japanese   Allies in Successful Attack on Sumatra, Opening New Asiatic Chapter.   British Eastern Fleet  Enters in Operations

“New Asiatic War ‘Chapter Is Opened        @Putlne of Pincers Attack ' in Air Assault on  ’ Sumatra      STRAIN ON JAP POWER   Two Strong Naval Forces Will Menace Enemy ~ Supply Lines

Allies Put Naval Pincers on Japs In Pacific War   . Sumatra Raid Viewed as Impor‘lant As Demonstrating Return of British Navy in Pacific

NAVAL PINGERS PLAN QITLINEN)   New Chapter in Asiatic War Opened in Coordinated Assault.   'FLEET-BORNE AIR DRIVE

U.S. Naval Pincer Plan  Ts Outlined   [Sumatran Attack Opens Indian Ocean Jaw of Strategy

SUMATRA ATTACK REVEALS GIANT PINCER TACTICS   AMERICAN FLEET HITS ISLAND BASES ON PACIFIC SIDE

Hail Victory Over Japs In  Sumatra Raid   Puts Allied Naval  Pincers Movement In Clearer Foceus— Japs Aim at Honan

JAPS FEELING NAVAL BLOWS   Latest Raids Give Outline Of Coming Grand-Scale Pincers Movement

Sumatra Blow  Held Starter   Nayal Coup Regarded As Opening New Phase

GRAND-SCALE NAVAL PINCERS MOVEMENT AGAINST JAPANESE  SUCCESSFUL ALLIED ATTACK ON SUMATRA OPENS

Sumatra Blasted in Surprise British-American Fee t-borne Attack While Yank War ships Prowl Pacific for Showdown Battle With Jap Navy

GRAND SCALE NAVAL PINCERS AGAINST JAPS SEEN IN JOINT ACTION U.S.BRITISH FLEETS   Entry of British Fleet Into Pacific Warfare Heralds New and Greater Attacks Against Japs in Indian Ocean and Other Far Distant Areas

U.S.; French Dutch Jo oin  with British   Well- Executed Bi: Blow:. at Sus matra Previews Far- East - Sea Attacks

Sumatra Attack Launches Allied  Drive Upon Japs   U. S., British Navies  Join In Pincers Move

A Huge Naval Squeeze   Successful Attack on Sumatra Foreshadows Future Strategy of Allies in the Pacific

Early Outline of Grand-Scale Naval Pincers’ Against Japanese Is Brought Into Clearer Focus

American-British Fleets Coordinate in Sumatra Attack   Indian Ocean Becomes War Theater of Major  Importance

Allied Seapower Clamps Pincers On Nippon Empire  Japs Menaced in © Both Pacific And Indian Oceans

GH ACTIVITY IN FELD OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEVELOPS   FDR Asks Free People of Europe and Asia to Give Refuge to Nazi Victims   SECRETARY HULL, GOP CONGRESSMEN CONFER   Group Seeks Specific Data on United States Foreign Policy; Hull Calls on Hungary Not to Submit Tamely To Nazi Whip

Plea For Shielding Of Refugees Made   Roosevelt Appeals to Germans and other Peoples of _ Europe and Asia to Grant Asylum to Refu. gees From Axis Executioners

Roosevelt Asks Germans fo Aid Nazi Oppressed   Hull Urges Hungary To Resist Hitler Invasion Program

Split In Demo Ranks. Widens   Separate Sessions Nlow Said Possible

Democrats to Defend Party Home Policies   Pre-convention Fight to Emphasize Stand on Domestic Issues

National Politics Warming Up; Eye New Mexico GOP   Administration Switches Emphasis To Domestic Policies

Democrats Use Domestic Issue In Campaigning   Republicans Make Ready To Select First Delegates To Convention.   SACRIFICES NECESSARY

‘Sixteer-Inch Guns Of American ' Battleships Joined Cruisers,  Destroyers .Planes In Bombard‘ ment To Cover Advance   JAPAN SEES MOVE AS TOKYO ASSAULT

Tokyo Reports Yankee Blow 1,190 Miles To Southeast; Official Confirmation Lacking

CARRIER-BORNE AIR FORCE BLASTED JAP OTATEGIC ISLAND  . BERLIN ALSO ADMITS All RAID ALARMS SOUNDED

EXTEND INITIAL BEACHHEAD WITH CONQUEST SEEN   Speedy Landing Deepens Gash in Japs Pacific Defense

MARCUS ISLAND STRUCK HEAVY BLOW BY YANKS   Single American Bomber Raids Shimushiri In Kuriles

MARCUS ISLAND ATTACKED; JAPS oUFFER LOSSES  Midway Between   Midway Between Tokyo And The Marshalls

BEACHHEADS ON ENIWETOK ARE EXTENDED   Elements of Pacific Fleet Apparently, Retire After Pummeling Truk.

‘Tokyo ‘Says Installations  Damaged By Carrier   Planes; Claim 32   Bombers Bagged   Other Raids Within 900 Miles Of Tokyo   Air Advance On Japanese Capital Jumps Halfway Down Kuriles, Commaunique Says

Tokyo Tells Of Two-Day Aerial Blow   Enemy Broadcast Announces Heavy Attack By Task-Force; Strike At Kurile Island Base

U.S. FORCES HAVE LANDED ON ENIWETOK   Marines and Infantry Invade Strategic Atoll

TRUK IS BEING FLANKED BY NEW US. INVASIONS   Details of Assault on Big Base Still Lacking—Offensive  nee an,

NEW RAIDS AGAINST ISLANDS NEARER JAPAN WORRY ENEMY MYITKYINA MAY FALL SOON   Admiral Nimitz Strikes Hard at Marcus Group 1190 Miles from Tokyo While Gen. Stilwell’s Forces Now Hold Edgs in Fighting for Control  AT. at 9... __

@U.S. Invaders Of Eniwetok Atoll Extending Beachheads; Carrier Force Retiring After Air Blow At Big Jap Naval Base

Allies Attack Marcus Island. Japs Announce   Nips Sound Air Raid Alarms Throughout  Japan As Homeland Is Threatened

U.S. Planes Hit Marcus Isle In  2-Day Attack   Jittery Nipponese Sound Air Raid Alarms In Japan

U.S. CARRIERS ATTACK JAP. MARCUS ISLAND   Base 1,190 Miles from Tokye Blasted by Planes in Two-Day Raid.

U.S, PLANES HIT MARCUS ISLAND   Japs Admit Heavy Blow Agoinst Important Base; Other Bastions Raided

Carrier-Based Planes Attack Marcus Island   Naval Units Approach From East and Open Two-Day Radio Blow, Jap Radio Asserts

TOKYO REVEALS ASSAULT ON JAP BASE NEAR HOME   . Damamge Acknowl ~ edged 1,200 Miles Southeast Of Enemy Capital

Planes Off Fleet ‘Hit Marcus Island   Raid Causes Air Raid "Alarms to Sound in North and East Japan   ‘IN A TWO-DAY ATTACK   Scene of Latest Stroke Midway Between Tokyo and Marshalls

Island 1.200 Miles From Tokvo Hit By U.S. Planes   Air Raid Alert Sounded In All Of North And East Japan During Attack

Marcus Raid Sends Alarms Over Japan   Carrier-Borne Force Mauls Island 1,190 Miles From Tokyo

Tokyo Reports Allied Raid on  Marcus Island   2-Day Assault Made by Carrier Force, Foe Declares

Maloelap Atoll Under Sea Attack   Pacific Fleet Believed Retiring From Truk Attack —~ Conquest Of Eniwetok Foreseen «

Carrier Force Bombs Island  Nearer Japan   Marcus Island Raid Sets Off Alert  In Lower Tanan

MARCUS ISLA IS ATTACKED BY CARRIER FORCE   Liberator Bomber Strikes Close To Tokyo; Jap Defeat Near In Burma 

Marcus, 1,190 Miles From Tokio, Hit By Task Force   Liberator Bomber Approached 400 Miles From Japan

ATTACK ISLAND WITHIN 1,200 MILES OF TOKYG   Jittery Japs Order Air Raid Alarms in Japan as Marcus is Hit

Air Raid Alarms Sound Throughout Homeland, Axis Radio Says, as Tokyo Discloses Yan} Carrier Force Hits Marcus Island—Allied Forces Put Enemy in Box in Burma

Air Raid Alarms Sound In Japan, Berlin States, As Allies Raid Marcus, 1,190 Miles From Tokyo

Japs Jittery When Allied Naval Force Hits Marcus Island   Carrier-Borne Raiders Do Considerable Damage

Liberator Bomber Strikes a Shimushiri, Only 400 Mile: from Japan's Main Islands

Marine and Army Force Believed Using Tanks and Fiame-Throwers   TRUK ATTACK ENDS   20,000 Yanks Estimated Clashing With Japs on  Eniwetok Atoll

Japs Claim Attack on Big Convoy   17 of 50 Ships Blasted in Sulu Sea, Tokyo Says

Invasion Forces Pulverize Japs" In Advancement   Tokyo Reports “Fierce” Fighting On Truk Base; Taros Being Shelled

Yanks Widen Beachheads On Eniwetok   Camers Retiring After Termfic _ Bombing of Truk

Marcus Is Raided By U.S. Fliers      Worried Enemy Sounds Alarms Over Japan, Berlin Radio Reports

U.S. NAVY AIR  FORCE HAMMERS  MARCUS ISLAND NEW BLOW WORRIES  ENEMY; AIR RAID ON JAPAN FEARED

TOKYO REPORTS MARCUS BLOWS   Says Carrier-Borne Force Stages Week-End Raids

FLEET, PLANES COVER LANDING IN MARSHALLS   No Details on Truk Raid

JAPAN SOUNDS ALARMS AS U. S. BOMBERS HIT NARCUS ISLAND. AFTER STRIKE IN KURILE ISLAND   Ry CHARLES A. GRUMICH

Strike Close To Japanese Homeland   Marcus Island, 1,19¢ Miles from Tokyo, Is Heavily Pounded By Carrier Force

CARRIER Hl] MARGUS ISLANC   Worried Japs Sound Air Raid Alarms Through North, East Javan,

Base 1200 Miles South Of Tokyo Heavily Attacked   Japs Boxed On 3 Sides In Myitkyina Sector ‘On Verge Of Collapse

ENIWETOK ATOLL BEACHHEADS ARE BEING EXTENDED   Tokyo Radio Reports Fierce Fighting In Progress as Forerunner For Assault Upon City.   15 SHIPS INCONVOY  PROBABLY DESTROYED   German Forces Near Lake llmen Appear In Full Retreat Toward the Baltic States to Escape Trap.

PLANES BLAST MARCUS ISLAND   Jap Radio Rays CarrierBased Aircraft Carries Out Raids

TRAPPED JAPS SMASH AT SINO- YANKS   In Futile Attempt To Escape Triangle; American Sharp Shooters Pick Off Victims In Moonlight.   2,400 Bodies

JAPS HOPELESS ~INBURMA TRAP   Sharp - Shooting Yanks Pick Off Hundreds By Moonlight

JAPANESE BEATEN BACK WITH HEAVY LOSSES IN BURMA   Trapped Nipponese Smash Unsuccessfully at Wall Around Them—300 Slain  Crossing River.   AMERICANS PICK THEM OFF IN MGONLIGHT   Mountbatten Reports 5,000 Enemy Troops Killed in Past Month in Arakan,  Burma Campaigns.

NAZI FORCES — ~-BEING CUT wp BY RUSSIANS      moscow MILITARY “LEADERS BAY GERMANY NOW SUFFER-. ING WORST DEFEAT ~~ IN HISTORY’

2752 PERSONS KILLED BY ROBOT BOMBS   U. S. Bombers Hit Nazi Targets; Gain In Italv

Four Shells for One Ratio in Force ‘as Allies Start 2nd Month of Invasior

Hagerstonian About Italy LTT,   Local Drive For Clothing Is “Welcomed By Needy Italians

\ Hagerstonian About Italy ee  Local Drive For Clothing I Is 7 W elcomed By Needy Italian:

Today's Fifth War Loan Scoreboard  in Marion County  Goal $3,365, 000. 00 Sales Yesterday 26,930.25  Deanna Cetee Agt yt, GE   BRIGKER TO LEAVE FOR CHICAGO TODAY

STRIKES HIT - DETROIT AREA      MEETING IN WASHINGTOD -HUSHED- AS WILDCAT WALE= “OUT CLOSE WAR PLANTS

Strikes Spread In Detroit Plants      Employees Walking Out In Many Places

FAVOR ENDING RAIL SERVICE TO MYERSVILLE   Permission Sought Te Terminate Trolley Line At Middletown   DIRECTORS DISCUSS REFINANCING PLAN

BOND REDEMPTION PLAN 1S APPROVED   PE Directors ors Take Action _ at Meeting in . Frederick

Defense Demands Mistrial Because Of Press Stories  Leseunan Conn

LONERGAN TRIAL HITS HIGH FEVER   Defense Demands Jury Be Fired—Defendant’s Past Is Raked

Smoll Slayer Will Hang   Judge Gives Death Penalty to Killer Of College Youth

U.S. PLANES SWARM OVER 90. GERMANY   While Weather Grounds British-Based Bombers and Fighters: 50,000 Tons in Past Mnoth.   Many Storehouses

New Record For Bombing Reich Looms   50,000 Tons Dropped Already This Month

BAN WEATHER LIMITS RAIDS   Britain-Based Planes Are Grounded; Oil Plants In South Attacked

Germany Is Hit by 50,000 Tons of Bombs  16,000 Big Bombers Have Pounded Rejich This Month

VOTES OVER NATION   Roosevelt Electors Are Running Ahead in Houston, Texas

Capital Prepares For Return of Chief Executive   Roosevelt Victory Statement Calls for Unity to Win War

Invasion Fever Mounts Today As People of Europe Are Told to Get Ready for Mass Revolution   ‘New Powerful American Radio Beams Message T Tethered “Fortress Prisoners” — Great Maneuvers Are Over

Hog Glut Swamps Midwest Markets  Day's Receipts Are Largest Since 1925

18 Nazi Planes Downed In Fights Over Germany   Dive Bomhers Wreak Havoc In Rail Yards; Blast Dieuze Dam.

Lord Moyne, British Minister, Is Slain by Two Men in Cairo Street

GUNMEN FATALLY HIT LORD MOYNE   British Resident Minister ir Middie East Shot While ’ in Cairo

LORD MOYNE, BRITISH MINISTER, SHOT, WOUNDED IN CAIRO. CHAUFFEUR SLAIN

British Resident Middle East Minister Fatally Wounded by Gunmen in Cairo

BRITISH TROOPS REACH EDGE OF CASSION PLAIN   Battle Lasts for 40 Hours; AP Correspondent With Forces in City

Seize Town After A Bitter Hand To Hand Struggle; Take More Than A 100 Prisorers; Planes Blast Maribor Factory.

Davis to Be Unopposed For Senate      GOVERNOR MARTIN AND STATI CHAIRMAN -TAYLOR PROMISI {iM THEIR DTMOST SUPPORT IN ELECTION.   Graff fer Superior Court

Organization To Back Davis  For Re-election   Old Rivalry Dissolved, Martin and Taylor Say; Actian Pleases Senator

Denbo Miner Is Held in Slaying Of Wife  Woman Is Slain With A  Penknife

Air Collision Kills 17 Army Flyers   Liberators Lock Wings Near Phoenix, Ariz.

START NEW FIGHT-ON — SUBSIDIES   Begins in Connection with Price Control Act

New Food Subsidy Tilt  In Prospect   Bills Presented to Continue Present  Pnice Control Act

AIRMEN BLAST : DUTCH INDIES      Allies Drive Deeper Into Jap-Held Areas

Wheeler Urges Federalized Europe States   Says Would Prevent oGontinent Division y Russia, Britain

Lone Survivor of Army Bomber Crash ‘lells oi 8A Days in Arclic Zone

Canadians Killed By RAF Bombers   Tragic Miscalculation Third in Allied Drive

FINAL TRIBUTE 10 WENDELL WILLKIE   Minister’s Address Carried By Loud Speaker To Those Outside Chapel

Second Line of Fortifications Deep In France to Be Defended by Nazis to Last

Rail System in Germany Still Intact   Allen Says Bombing Has Failed to Disrupt Railway System

rie 10 ati THEIR FIRST LINE   But Soldiers Ordered to Defend Tanner Fortifications to Tact Man

Nazi Rail Network Still Intact   Repatriated Newsman Says Transport System Working Smoothly Despite Allied Bombings

Larry Atien Writes  GERMANS ARE WELL BRACED   REICH RAILROADS FAR FROM KNOCKED OUT, REPATRIATED AP CORRESPONDENT REPORTS

GERMAN SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATIONS 18 WORKING SMOOTHLY  _ FIRST DISPATCH FROM

Nazis Building Second Defense Wall In France   Larry Allen, Released A. P. War Correspondent,  . ‘Says Germans Expect Allies’ To Smash Through  ‘Atlantie Wall

‘UNTIL THE LAST MAN’ AP Correspondent Says Nazis Have Second Western Defense

FRANCE HOLDS NAZI SECOND DEFENSE LINE   “Must Be Held,’ Soldiers “Told as Preparations for B-Day Rushed.

Nazis Have Second Powerful Defense Line Deep In France, Says Repatriated Larry Allen   ‘A. P. Writer Declares German Railroad Systems Intact Despite Heavy Bombings

ALLEN REPORTS NAZITRANSPORI IN GOOD SHAPE   Writer Says New Defense Line Being Riilt Rv Carmanc

Nazi Rail Lines Are ~ Operating   Larry Allen Gives Report on Conditions: in Germany; Damage Ouickiy Repaired   12 MILLION WAR PRISONERS WORKING   German Morale Holding Up Well, France Anxiously ‘Awaiting Its Chance

LARRY ALLEN SAYS GERMANS BUILDING W DEFENSE LINE   Repatriated War Corres‘pondent Says Her Communications System Still Working Smoothly

Nazis Concentrating On Second Fortification Svstem Deep In France

Germans Building A Second Defense System in: France   Larry Allen, Recently  A Prisoner in the   Reich, Discloses

Nazis Rush Second Defense Line  In France, AP’s Allen Reveals   Apparently Bombings Have Not Disrupted Railroads Feeding German War Machine, Says Repatriated Correspondent.

NAZIS BUILD SECOND LINE IN FRANCE   Repatriated A. P. Writer Says Germans Have Been Told They Must Hold Inland Fortificatiangs to Tast Man.

German Rail Lines Still  In Operation   Reporter Says Enemy Building Line Deep in France

Larry 4 Allen Says German Transport Is Not Yet Seriously Damaged--Still Most Efficien

Allen Declares Germany’s Network Of Communieations Largely Intact

Nazis Building 2nd Wall, Allen   Says Transportation Intact Despite Heavy Allied Bombing

Nazi Prepare New “Line”   A.P, War Prisoner Reveals Germans Expect Allies To Break Wall

RAIL NETWORK IN THE REICH STILL INTACT   Associated Press Correspondent Writes of Observations During Trip  Across Europe   EXCHANGE UNDER WAY

Of Prison Life Told   2 Repatriate Says ~ Red Cross Packs Offset Starvation

Second Line Of Defense Back Of Invasion Coast Revealed By Larry Allen

NAZIS BUILD SECOND WALL INSIDE FRANCE   Hitler’s Orders Are to Hold It At Any Cost, Correspondent Says

Larry Allen Says Nazis Build Secone Line of Defense  AP Writer Found Communica tions System Working Smooth];

Allen Doubts Rail Damage   Reports Bombings Haven't Upset Nazi Rail System

Nazi Rails Not : Crippled, Claim  Factory And Residential  Bepgace Smachad

Nazis Are Building Second Wall  To Meet Invasion  Larry Allen Thinks Communication Lines Still Good

Raids Fail To Disrupt Nazi Rails   Larry Allen Says Nazis Ready For Invasion

NAZI COMMUNICATIONS INTACT REPORTS ALLEN   Released War Correspondent Tells of Trip Across Germany

WOUNDED YANKS CRASH VICTIMS   Ambulance Plane Hits Cliff In Southwest Scotland

U. S. Evacuation Plane Crashes; 22 Are Killed   First Fatal Crash In Command’s History; Occurred In Scotland.

22 Killed In Plane Crash In Scotland   Craft Was Carrying Injured From Battlefields For Transfer to U. S.

COURT REJECTS KASTER APPEAL   Upholds Death Sentence Imposed in Slaying

CAMPAIGN ON IN BEADLY ANT CT   Theme Songs, Razzle-Dazzle Emblems And Slogans All Are Missing

INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES ON GERMANS   Series of Bitter Battles Still in Progress

Quota Letters Have Been Sent Everyone   Need For Money bs Fully Explained By The County Chairman, Mr. P. B. Mouw.

Allies Continue Advance In Burma   Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Japanese

Big German.Oil Refinery. Bombed  - Other Raiders Blast Hombura. Stuttaart.

Continue Blasts At German Oil   Force of 1100 Heavy U.S. Bombers Spread Ruin at Mersebura

ALLIES HAMMER 5 GERMAN BASES   Britain Loses 62 Planes Ir Heavy Night Attacks

NAZI SYNTHETIC OIL PLANT HIT BY WARPLANES   1.100 American Heavies in Raid at Merseburg With Bremen Also on Target List

Merseburg Synthetie Oil Plant Is Bombed  U.S. Planes Attack Bremen; RAF Lose:  atom Whb ewe oe Ne COT Ee

Synthetic Oil Plant In Reich Again Bomb.d   Merscburg Undergoes Two Attacks in Day;- British Lose 62 Planes in Night Raids

1,100 Heavies Assault Reich  Leuno Synthetic Oil Plant Struck Again

Merseburg And Bremen Are Hit By Big Bombers   Raids Follow Night Blows On Stuttgart, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Robot Bases

MERESBURG HIT ND HEAVY BLOW   1100 U.S» BOMBERS BLAST SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS; LASH BREMEN

U. S. BOMBERS HIT OIL PLANT   Bremen “atso Attacked “On Heels Of Night Raids

German Synthetic Oil Plants Bombed Second Successive Day    1100 Heavy U. §. Bombers Hammer Leuna Warks at. Merseburg: RAF Sends 1,000 on Night Altack.

Heavy Force (Of Planes Lashes Nazis   U. S. Airmen Pound Synthetic Oil Plant in Germany

Nazis’ Synthetic Oil Plant At Merseburg Struck Blow For Second Successive Day

BLAST OIL PLANT   Force of 1,100 Heavy Bombers Strike Nazi  Installations

1,100 BOMBERS RIP MERSEBURG      , 2nd U. S. Raid in 2 Days on Nazi Refinery

Force Of 1,100 American Heavy Bombers Hit Germany’s Leuna Synthetic Oil Plant —   Raid on Merseburg Second in Two Days; Bremen Also Hit

SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS IN REICH HIT FROM ALOFT   Force of 1,100 Americar Heavy Bombers Rake Legna and Otker Strate gic Areas

American Bombers Again Hit Leuna Synthetic Plant   Stuttgart, Hambarg, Frankfurt and Robot Bomb Bases in France Strafed, 62 Planes Lost

STREET FIGHT IN KESCKEMET, NEAR BUDAPEST   Russians Control New - Territories In Great Drive

REDS ROUT FOE  AT KESCKEMET   Nazis Cleared From Three Sides Of Hungary City

SOVIETS GAIN IN 3-WAY ATTACK ON KESCKEMET   Other Forces Battle in City Reds Liberate 200 Hungarian Villages

Russians Are Battling in Kesckemet  60-Mile Break in German Defenses .

Fierce Fray Raging In Kesckemet   Red Forces Little Over 40 Miles from Budapest

A TWO WAY ATTACK   Russian Troops Launch 2 Fierce Drive Toward ©  Budapest

Soviet Forces. Drive 42 Miles ‘From Budapest   Motorized (ufaniry and Tanks Batter Germans In Kesckemet; Push Through Hungary

FOE IN KESCKEME!]      Soviet Tanks Pouring Into 60 Mile Break in Nazi Defenses.

Red Army Is Battling In Streets ‘Of iKeeskemet   Soviet Troops Pour Through 60-Mile Wide Break In Enemy Lines Between Rivers

RUSSIAN TROOPS ONLY 44 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   Clear Enemy Detach ments From Three  _ Sides Of Kesckmet   «Tanks And Artillery Pour Into Wide Break.

Reds Fighting Near Budapest   SOVIET TANKS DRIVE TO WITHIN 43 MILES OF CITY

Blaze Way Toward Budapest   Red Army Forces Pour Through 60-Mile Break In Enemy Defense Line 43 Miles from Budanest

Soviets Battle Foe In Streets Of Keeskemet   Reds Pour Into 60-Mile Wide Break In Defenses Between Danube, Tisza.   siarr NAZI ATTACKS

Red Legions ‘Near Capital Of Hungary   Russians Clearing Enemy Detachments Fram Kesckemet

Reds Pour Into Hungarian Gap  Moving on Budapest on 60 Mile Front

Russians Drive Toward Budapest   Battle Germans In Streets Of Kesckemet, 44 Miles Away.

Kesckemet, in Hungary, Is Won   Russians Thrust Near to Budapest

Reds Battling For City Of Kesckemet   Russian Forces But 43 Miles Below Budapest

Russian Forces Are Pouring Into A 60-Mile Break In Nazi ‘Defense Positions In Hunqary   Entering Gap Between Danube, Tisza Rivers; Street Fighting In Kesckemet

REDS CLEARING KECSKEMET IN BUDAPEST DRIVE   Street Fighting Rages As Nazis Attempt To Save City

FIERCE FIGHTING TN KESCKEMED   Russian Motorized Infantry Cleaning Out Scattered Germans

Reds-Huns Battle Hand-To-Hand f Street Fighting  Tanks, Artillery Pouring Through £fm bAtlan Beasls

Nazi Lines at Cassino Falling Back   German Vehicles Stream Northward After Invasion

NAZI RUMANIAN GRAB CONFIRMEL   BALKEAN SEIZURES BLOCK ANY EFFECTIVE PEACE MOVES BY SATELLITES.

Confirms German  Occupation Of  Rumanian Nation Rumor Nazis Have  Not Ended With Present Occupations

Struggle For Life Is Indieated   Diplomat’s Wife Is Near Death From Wound Suffered While In Drake Hotel Room

Allies Seore First Big Win  In Arakan Area   Jap Force Is Largely Destroyed After Initial Gain By British, Indians

Allies Crush  Jap Forces Major Victory Over Enemy in Arakan S.nred Firat Time

Dewey Asks Name Be Withheld From  Wisconsin Ballot  ‘Strongly Disapproves,’ He Tells Backers, of  Sunnart in Primary

DEWEY OPPOSED TO PRIMARY RACT   GOVERNOR ASKS THAT HIS NAME BE WITHHELD FROM WISCONSIN ELECTION,

DEWEY REFUSES     10 BE CANDIDATE   Asks N: ame me Be Withdrawn From Wisconsin Primary

Dewey Declines To Be Candidate In Wisconsin   Refuses To Enter Primary Contest

Yugoslavs Join Reds in Concerted Drive on Belgrade  Forces Approach Rich Copper and Coal Mines Held by Germans

Partisans Aid Red Forees — In Yugoslavia  Join Un with Russians   Join Up with Russians In Move on Stronghold Of Donji Milanovac  DRIVE FOR RAILWAY

lito's Force Has Reached Russian Line   Two Armies Linked In Drive On Belarade

Partisans Linked Up With Russian Army   Troops Launch Converging Drive on Beigrade-——Re" conquest of Big German-Worked Copper and Coal Mines Threatened

Roosevelt Urged To Seize Wright Plant In Lockland After 5,000 Leave Jobs

‘ASKS PLANT SEIZURE   CIO Says Production Stops at  Lockland Wright Plant

CURVING CALVES DISTORTED MUSCLES? HOLLYWOOD HORRIFIED AT THOUGHT

Chiropodist Believed to Be Out on Lim By Leg-Conscious Hollywood; ‘Men Seem to Approve “Deformity”

NEED WORKERS IN NAVY YARDS   Huge Number Needed For Repair Work Says McNutt

Turning Loyal May Not Help Japs In U.S:   Could Still Be Denafionalized. Under New Bilf

PHIL KENNAMER KILLED IN FRANGE   TULSA’S “SOCIETY GANG’ SLAYER WAS SERVING AS. A PARATROOPER.

BRICKER’S PLANS TO REMAIN SAME   Willkie’s Withdrawal Comes As Surprise To Ohioan

Bricker Surprised By Move   Ohio Governor Only Can didate Now Campaigning Personally

BOND DRIVE WILL “BE ENDED TODAY   Grand: Total - for: County E ‘thay F ‘Reach $3,000,000—  Ls Figure’ \

BOND DRIVE TOTAL ~ ISNEAR $3,500, 000      Latest Figures Received From Federal Reserve Bank 7

BOND DRIVE WILL BE ENDED TODAY   Grand “Total: for: County “May Reach $3,000,000  - -Fieaure i

Guffey Thinks Roosevelt Will Seek 4th Term   Senator, Lawrence Publicly Bury Hatchet; Bradley to Seek Post

Guffey Says President Will Carry State   Democratic Senator Predicts Nomination and Election of Roosevelt  MEETS IN PITTSBURGH

Yank Raiders Shadow Japan   Bombers Strike Boning, 630 Miles From Tokvo

BOMBERS USING BASE ON SAIPAN   Bonin Islands Attacked; Guam Blasting Leaves Widespread Damage

FIRST. FRUITS OF BEACHHEAD PLAN NOW ARE REAPED   Position in Italy Can Now. Be Better Appreciated, Stimson Says

Stimson Cites Value of Anzio Move   American Division: Are in First Battle in Italy

BEAGHREAD WING STIMSON PRAISE   First Fruits Of Italian Operation Now Visible Says Secretary

DAAGTIG oT EP OAD StI Fh NEXT SUNDAY   OPA Wins Long Fight with WFA for Restoration of Rationing. .

Point-Free Meats Will Return To Ration Lists  December 31 Is Seer As Date for New Announcement of OPA

  Many Meats To Be. Returned ‘To Ration. List   Virtually All Canned Vege lables Also Will Go Off Free List Beginning  ' Wednesdav

MEATS, FOODS TOBERESTORED TO RATION LIST   Drastic Move To Be Ef. fective Dec. 31, Reports Say

ALL MEAT BACK ON RATION LIST   New Point Values Will Become Effective On Dec. 31

Rationed List May Increase   Scarcity Is Reported. In Many:Free Foods

Report foods will go back  on ration list May take action next Wednesda

Refurn Meats, Vegetables To Rationing List   Expect New Values To Become Effective On Dec. 31; Jams, Jellies To Require Points

Nearly All Point-Free Meats And Canned Vonetahles Due Rack On Rationing Soon

Tighter Rationing Ahead On Meats, Canned Goods   Points to Be Restored on Most Meats And Canned Vegetables at Start of Year

Point Free Meats Back on Rationing   Announcement to Be Made by OPA Next Wednesday Is Rumor

ITEMS 10 BE PUT ON RATION LISTS   Virtually All Point-free Meats And Canned Vegetables To Be Restored by Start of the New Year

All Meats, Canned Vegetables Due lo Be Returned to Ration List   Announcement Expected This Week, to Become Lifective Jan. 1; Represents Victory for OPA

Meats Returning to Ration Lists  Canned Vegetables Will Be Included

CANNED GOODS WILL REQUIRE STAMPS AGAIN   Major Victory Scored By OPA in Decision Of Arbitrator

RATION POINTS ON MEAT SOON   OPA Also to Place Canned Vegetables on List by January 1

Point-Free Meats to Be Put Back on Ration List   Canned Vegetables, Too, Will Be “Unrationed” Reliable Report Sav:

Place Meats, Vegetables On  Rationed List   Commodities Will Be Back On List By The New Year Announced OPA,   Atl, GUIS OF BEEF

DENY ACQUITTAL FOR ARMY PILOT   Flyer Reported to Have Testified That He Flew No Lower Than 30-to-40 Feet

DENIED ACQUITTAL IN MEYER DEATH   Pilot on Court Martial for Reckless Flying

Riverside Man, Gashed In Brawl, Is Near Death   Alleged Assailant Held; Fight Occurs. Or North Shore Drive Following Dance; Victim In Mercy Hospital

MAN SLASHED BY FRIEND AS PARTY CLIMAX   Hundred Stitches Are Required To Close Wounds

KANSAS KEEPING COOI.   Temperatures From 65 to 70 Forecast for Tonight

Japs Narrow Chinese Grip On Railroad      Invader Column Seizes Minkiang and Presses Drive for Lovang

Rommel Forces Face Disaster As British Gain   Bradley's Troops Race to Rennes, Deep in Brittany

Allies Threaten To Cirele Three Huge Nazi Brittanyv Pockets   Center Of German Front Is Cracked   Sixteen Miles Separate Doughboy And Tommie Armor Spearheads

Allied Forces Stab Deeply . Into Shattered Ger ‘man Lines   DRIVE EASTWARD, TOO   ‘Broken * ‘German Forces . Caught in Pocket Be‘ tween Allied Units ©

Other Allied Spearheads Are Striking Against Twisted German Lines East Of Avranches

Rommel _ Faces New Disaster   One American Force Aime for Brest, Second for Renues

British Smash Enemy Back 12 Miles in Center   Brittany Peninsula Being Reduced at Speedy Clip

BRITISH CRACK LINES SOUTH OF CAUMONT   Allied Prongs Are Pointed At Brest. Rennes   SPEARHEADS   Which Would Trap Enemy Are 16 Miles Apart; Many Prisoners

Allied Forces Stab Deeply Into Shattered Ger man Lines   DRIVE EASTWARD, TOO   UDARIVE ELASLWARV, 1UU     ‘Broken © German seen Caught in Pocket Be‘tween Allied Units

[Powerful Yank Forces Stab Deep \Into Brittany; British Advances Threaten to Trap Many Nazi Units

AMERICAN SPEARHEADS KNIFE THROUGH ENEMY RESISTANCE IN OFFENSIVE INTO BRITTANY   German Troops Stumble Back in Retreat North of Villers-Bogage, Keystone to Nazi Defense In Caumont Sector   LITTLE NOTABLE OPPOSITION IS ENCOUNTERED

Break Out in Center: Nazis F acing Trap   New Disaster Faces Injured Rommel; British Racing Toward Rennes

Our Troops Make Inroads into Twisted German Lines in Driving Toward Brest and Rennes.   BRITTANY PENINSULA BEING PENETRATED

Tank Forces. Move Toware Brest, Rennes In Brittany    “Rommel Is Reported “Ta, German, Hospital,

British Break Through Center Of Normandy Line   Americans Racing Toward Brest, Big Seaport in Brittany

Multiple Prongs of British, Yank Armor Forces Shatter Twisted Lines of Germans

British Threaten Huge Nazi Force To South Of Caen   Yankees Pressing For Capture Of Peninsula

YANKS RACING SOUTH TO CUT OFF BRITTANY   British Armor Smashes  Through Center ef  - Nazi Defenses ‘

THREATEN 10 POCKET THREE REICH FORCES   Looks Like More, New Disaster Just Around Corner for Germans in French Campaign

AMERICANS ROLL TOWARD RENNES AND VITAL PORT   Brest Menaced by U. S. Units; Britons Crack Heart of Foe Defenses

A Multiple Drive Rolls  in France   Three Huge Pockets of Nazi Troops Face Encirclement; Yanks Near Rennes   ALSO PUSHING ON TOWARD BREST   Other Powerful Thrusts Under Way With British Lashing Out Strong -

New British Offensive Gains  More Ground South Of Caen   Big Ports of Brest, St. Nazaire Ahead; Yanks Take 20,000 Prisoners

Nazis in Brittany Face Encirclement: Invasion Proceed:   Germans in France Are Confused; Distraught as Allies Press on

British Break Threngh Center of Line, Lay Trap with Yanks For Germans Arcend Vire

British Army Drives South 13 Miles   Scattered Pockets of German Soldiers Face Surrender or Death in Powerful Allied Push

Allies Striding Toward Brest in Brittany Sector   Marshal Rommel Faced With Fresh Disaster as Yanks Crack Line.   Germans in Brittany Facing Encirclemen

Yanks Smash Ahead In France As Nazi Defenses Collapse   ‘Allied Forces Fan Out Against Disorganized Fleeing Nazis; Air Support Grounded by Weather; Dogged Attacks Bring Allies Closer To Florence in Tough Battle for Italy

KLUGE’S FORCES DRIVEN BACK BY BRITISH TROOPS   AMERICANS KNIFE AHEAD IN PUSH TO CUT OFF BRITTANY

ACHIEVE NEW NAZI DEBACLE INNORMANDY   Yanks Thrust Toward Rennes in Swift,  New Advance

Americans and British Threaten to Encircle Three Huge Pockets of Enemy; Injured . Rommel Faced With New Disaster Threats

ALLIED UNITS IN FRANCE SMASH GERMAN LINES   Nazis Admit Rommel Suffers Brain Concussion in Air Attack

Dozen Of Hitler's Divisions Riddled   ... Britons Crack Center Of Germans’ Line

ALLYED ARMORED FORCES STAB DEEPLY INTO TWISTED GERMAN LINES WITH BREST AS GOAL   France’s Great Port Seriously Menaced by Allied Advances Which Are Hacking German.Lines to Pieces. German Defenses Confused and Disbeavioht

Americans In Gains Toward Brest. Rennes   Fresh Disaster For Enemy With Britsih Cracking Through Center Of Line

U.S: ARMORED UNITS STRIDE TOWARD BREST      Enemy Retreat Is More Disorderly As Allied Columns Expand

Break Through Center and Threaten to Circle 3 Poc- ; kets of Enemy.   1 REPORT ROMMEL INJURED

Jap Resistance Crumbling  On Kwa} alein, Chief Yank. Goal in Marshalls Invasion

Vast U.S. Invasion Fleet Shows ‘We Hit Hard and For Keeps’ Says Admiral

Yanks Mopping Up in Marshalls  Adm, Turner Pleased With Progress Made

96 PLANES LOST IN BRITISH RAID ON NUREMBERG   Industrial, Communications City Hit by ‘Tremendous’ Air Armada

RECORD LOSS IN ATTACK ON NUREMBERG   City Plastered With 2,240 Tons of Bombs; Yanks Over Reich

Heavy Bombers Raid Mannheim And Karlsruhe   Ludwigshafen, Aachen Hit; . .Enemy. Waters Mined; Pas De Calais Target

Rhine Cities Battered hy ‘Yank Planes   Big Fleet of Bombers Sweeps Across Channel Today

FRESH FLEETS HIT EUROPEAN AXIS TARGETS   Donty Two Allied Planes Fail To Return From Night Operations

WAR  TODAY   Allied Offensive In Normandy May Prove Acid Test For Wavering German. Armies In West and East

The Acid Test:  Quick End of War Hinges On Success Of New Allied Push

New Normandy Offensive May Be The Big Show— —By DeWitt Macken  Concerted Allied Blow Might Break Nazis

Great Allied Offensive in Normandy Near  pw weeiarie =e 2028 62 ce OOo

The War Today   Normandy All-out Drive Seen Acid Test on War’s Windup

GIRL DROWNS WADING      Girl, Claiming To Have Been Raped 4 Times, Jailed

Girl Is J ailed InSlayi ng’ Of Youth On Date      Father and Brothers Of Girl, 17, Held; Police Told Man Shot Boy And Raped Her -

Girl, Father and Brothers in Jail Accused Of May 18 Killing Of ‘Date

BLASTS SUGGESTION FOR INCREASED PAY   Idea of Boosting Congress Pay Called Ridiculous, £ Indefensible.

Salary Boost For Congress Blasted   Rep. Murray Declares Idea “Ridiculous, Preposterous, Indensible.

There'll Be More _ Rejoicing In Heaven »-0ver This Redemption   Than’ Over the he Continuation 0! i ee Ordinary Lunch ‘ Rooms

There'll Be More Rejoicing In Heaven Over This Redemption   Than: Over the he Continuation of 4 os 199 Ordinary Lunch a Rooms

2ND TYPHOON CHECKS YANKS ON LEYTE ISLE   Losses High in Pinamopoan Area; Weather Bogs Down Supply Shipments

TYPHOON RAGES AT 100 MILES AN HOUR ON ISLAND   Americans Fighting In Toughest Terrain Of War In Approach On Ormoc.

Yanks Battle In Typhoon   Torrential Rains and 100-mile An Hour Wind Slow Action On Levte

Their Lines Thin, Supplies Bogged Down, Yanks On Leyte Battle Japanese In Typhoon   Nips Making Americans Pay Dearly For Every Ridge On Road To Ormoc

TYPHOON, JAPS LASH AT YANKS IN PHILIPPINES   Americans On Leyte Lack Supplies To Battle Tough Enemy Units

Yanks Hampered By Bad Weathe:   MacArthur's Men Meeting Stiff Opposition in Philippines   'AMERICANSPAY DEARLY   Weather Makes It Almost Impossible to Move Supplies

BLOODY BATTLE IN PHILIPPINES   Typhoon, Tough Jap Opposition Slows  Yanks

JAP FAILURE T0ATTACK SHOWS ENEMY HARASSEL   Roads Washed Out By 100-Mile-An-Hour Storm On Leyte

100-Mile-an-Hour Typhoor Slows Progress of Yanks In Their Drive on Ormoc   ‘Japs Are Making U. S. Troops Pay Dearly for Every Ridge

Typhoon, Mud Slowing Yanks   Jap Opposition on Leyte Extremely Tough, Both Sides Have Supply Worries

Lines Spread Thin; Storms Stop Planes   Washouts and I Mud Are Preventing Big Moves to Bolster Attack   STRONG JAP FORCE ALONG RIDGES   But Neither Side Makes Any Claims of Victory in Bitter Battle

Battle Of Leyte Is Raging Amid 100-Mi. Typhoor   Weary Yanks Struggle With Fresh Japs On - Storm-Swept Isle

Nipponese Opposition  Very Tough   Americans Also Have to Fight Typhoon and Terrain Difficulties

Yanks Battling Tough Japs As Storm Rages   Only Trickle Of Supplies Reaching U. S. Troops; Roads Impassable.

America’s Leading Ace Lt. Col. Francis Gabreski German War Prisoner

Chinese Smash Hengyang Push   Defenders Claim Japanese Beanlaved Muatard lac

JAPS ASSAULT HENGYANG DEFENDERS   Under Cover of Large Quantity of Mustard Gas and Artillery Baraga; City not Taken.   Chinese Hold On

O'Conor Urges Soldier Voting, Teacher Bonus   Senate Gets Four Bills, House Three

Governor Urges Legislators To Keep The Session Short      "Gag Resolution” Designed to Limit Introduction of Bills Approved at Democratic Caucus—Senate . ond House Leaders Selected

O’Conor Addresses Special Session Of General  Assembly   GOP IS OPPOSED TO ADMINISTRATION PLAN

Bricker or Dewey? Governors in Political Spotlight  With Supporters of Both Confident

 257 Delegates As Starter? Bricker’s Manager Predicts  NoNomination In First Ballot

Gov: Bricker Claims Votes   Campaign Manager's Tally Is Encouraging

General German Retreat Expected At Any Moment— —By Kirke L. Simpson (4}!  Nazis Paid Heavily For Delayed Withdrawal ©

‘Espionage is directed by nazi envoys’   Break relations with satellites

SPOKESFIELD TAKES POST AT DARIEN, CONN   Donald ‘P. ‘Belcher Ha: “Started 1 Hes as Coach and Teacher . -

SPOKESFIELD TAKES POST AT ~ DARIEN, CONN   Donald P. > Belcher Has Started Here as Coach and Teacher

Superintendent Tye’s ' County School News   All Schools Are Urged To Help Get In AML The Serap Possible Doring Sumer Months

GO. SCHOOLS WILL COLLECT WASTE PAPER   500 Highth Graders To Graduate This Month

Questions And Answers On New Ration Token System   It’s Simple: You Take Your Change In Tokens

Brewster County's Quota Is Set at $224,000, County Chairman Announces

Invite Women to Helo Write GOP Platform   Spangler Would Have One From Each State en Resolutions Group

More Delegates  To Be C “titil   Picking On Big Scale Scheduled For This Week

REPUBLICANS ASK WOMEN 10 HELP WRITE PLATFORM   At Will Be First Time They Have Taken Hand in Task if Plan Wins Convention Approval,   G. 0. P. TO NAME 142 DELEGATES THIS WEEK   Politicians Await Selections to See if They Will Further Increase Dewey's Big Lead.

DELEGATES 10 Bt PICKED THIS WEEK   Selections Witl Be Made Every Day Except Monday; Women Invited to Help GOP Platform

NAZI RETREAT NEAR TOSNO IS DISORDERLY   Unable To Stem Russian Steamrolier: 250,000 Germans May Be Trapped As Towns Are Captured.   Take Equipment

STEADY GAINS ARE . MADE DURING DAY   German Bridgehead ir the  Gruzino Area Liquidated

Soviets Smash Nearer Key Rail Junctions   Germans Reported to Be in  Disorderly Retreat

SOVIET FORCES ADVANCENEARER KEY JUNCTIONS   Two Towns Through Which Nazis Must Escape Are Now Threatened   GERMANS REPORTED IN ‘DISORDERLY RETREAT”

SOVIETS PUSH (LOSE TO NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE   Reds Threaten to Trap 250,000 as They Peril Key Rail Towns

Germans Fleeing As Red Troops xtend Drives   Russians Approach Two Key Junctions

Red Army Holds All Railways in Leningrad Area   STEADY GAINS ARE . MADE DURING DAY   German Bridgehead ir the Gruzino Area Liquidated

Germans, in Disorderly Retreat, Unable to Stem Russian Steamroller

F. D. R. Again Declines To Confirm Or Refute Prediction He Will Run

German Gestapo and Elite Troops Attempt to Shift Responsibility ‘For “Death Factorv’ at Lublin

Nazi SS, Gestapo Deny ‘Death Factory’ Blame   German Captives, Being Tried By Russians For _ Lublin Atrocities Seek To Shift Responsibility; ” Many Poles And Jews Slain

Dogs Go. Into Training For Combat Duty   Pups are one-half airdale and one-fourth each of German shepherd and: bull terrier.

MELLETT QUITS AS WHITE HOUSE AIDE      Former Newspaperman to Become Washington Columnict

MILKMEN GIVEN PASTEUR MEDALS FOR HEROIC ACTS   Dairy Industry Honors Deliverers for Saving Many Lives

GERMANY 15 AGAIN TARGET OF AMERICANS   Heavy Bombers Thunder Over Berlin Dropping 1,500 Tons Of Bombs On Area.   Lose 10 Planes

German Citadel Staggers Under Terrific Attacks   Battle At Cassino Is Still Raging; Reaches Its  Wildest Pitch

BitterEngagement Ensues South Of Fallen Chenghsien   80,000 Nipponese Said Thrown Into Battle For Honan Province Railway, Wheat Country

Japs Move North ‘On Hankow-Peipin Railway in Honan  Seek to Join Forces Advancing   South from Captured Chenghsies __Dhieece Rattle Advance

Two More Indicted in Clark County On Gambling And Bribery Charges

Special Jury Indicts Pair in Gambling Probe  unty Officials a ies nked to Sneinatiald Cac

Objective is Sevastopol naval base  Tiraspol seized bv Ukraine army,

Dewey Heads For Session Of Governors  Predicts Republicans Will Find Solutions

ON GOP CHAT OF GOVERNOR   Raps Administration For Friction in  Units © 

Reds in New Pust at Siret   Strike at Rumania Oil Fields Indicated in River Advance

OFFENSIVE IN ROMANIA FOR RUSS FORCES   Report of New Action, However. Comes From Axis Sources.— Action Along Siret River.

Nazis Report Russians Have Opened New Offensive in North Romania

SOVIETS OPEN NEW DRIVE ON BOTH SIDES OF SIRET RIVER   Nazis Issue Report That German Troops Are Holding Well

Russians Open New Offensive   Striking at Romanian Defenses Before Bucharest and fimportant Ploesti Oil Fields

Nazis Say Reds Have Begun New Romanion Drive   Konev's Second Army Believed Striking  Toward Galati Gap

SOVIETS HOLD ANTONESCU AS WAR CRIMINAI   Nine Other Romanian, German Leaders in Russian Hands

FORMER ROMANIAN PREMIER JAILED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   ANTONESCU AND HIS FOLLOW. ERS ARE CLASSED AS ~ “WAR CZIMINALS” BY SOVIET

Ramirez Forced Out, He Reveals   Ex - Argentine Chief Tells Own Story

Officers Doubted Spy Ring Expose, Says Ramirez   Deposed Argentine President Explains His Resignation

FORCED 10 QUIT, RAMIREZ CLAIMS   Says Opposition Provoked By False Rumor

Was Forced Out, Declares Ramirez   Argentine Army Officers Forced Him to Step Aside

500 U.S. Bombers Attack Rail Yards   Vital Targets Blasted In Cologne, Coblenz

STRONG BRITISH WAR FLEET ASSIGNED TQ PACIFIC AREA   POWERFUL NAVAL FORCE TO OPERATE UNDER. COMMAND OF AMERICAN ADMIRAL NIMITZ

Kuriles Blasted By U.S. Warships   Big Task Force Deals Heavy Blow to Japs

MagnesiumUnfold Sad Waste Tale   Project Cost Nearly Double First Estimate

Soldier Vote Returns Only 20 Pct.   Some 80 Thousand Votes ‘In 15 Counties Have Been Returned ‘to. Respective Districts -

Orphaned Yugoslav Babies Evacuated By American Transport Plane to Italy

Yank Pilot Safely Smuggles 66 Babies To Italy From Hidden Yugoslav Airvor

[Two Modest Heroes Tell Congressmen Of \How They Received Congressional Medal

Sergeant Kelly, One-Man Army, and Indian Hero Tell of Routing Nazis

FIERCE AERIAL BATTLE RAGES FOR 24 HOURS   Gains in Ground Fighting Are Made by  Americans

JAP-HELD NANKING IS ATTACKED BY B-29’S   Large Force Of Superfortresses Reported In Action Against Chinese City

Superforts Hit Jap-Occupied Nanking Chin:   ‘Two American PT Boats Smack ‘Nip Destroyer; Oufrun Other \Ships Amidst Hail of Gunfire

NANKING BOMBED ~ BY SUPEREORTS   DOCK AND WAREHOUSE AREAS OF CHINESE CITY POUNDED BY AMERICANS,

ITALIAN CABINET IS APPROVED BY ALLIES   No Change in Monarchial Institution Asked

Headquarters Maintains Silence to Keep Enemy Confused as to Main Blows; Yanks Are Reported in Outskirts of Paris

U.S. Forces Open New Smash Toward Bordeaux; Nine Armored Divisions Among Enemy Units Facing Capture

American Rush Reaches Edge Of French Capital   Flying Columns Driving To Capture 250,006 Enemies Gradually Falling Into Trap; Secrec: Marks Lichtning Armored Advance.

Marshal Montgomery Now Outranks Commander Gen.  Eisenhower, Allied Leader

‘MONTY’ MADE FIELD MARSHAL   Hero Of El Alamein Given Britain’s Highest Rank

IMMUNIZE FOR TUBERCULOSIS IN COUNTY THIS WEE   Treatment Also Given By Doc. tors For Prevention Of Diph. Theria And Small Pox; Parent: Urged To Cooperate.

References to Reds and New Deal Cut OFF Air      rey Expected to Make  {th Term Nomination Speech

ALLIES TAKE NETTUNO, GO 4 MI. INLAND   Beachhead Is Being Steadily Expanded

Broadcast By Germans Indicates Drive By Allied Troops Toward Town Of Littoria ©

‘TO END WASP TRAINING   No New Students Will Be ‘Taken, General Arnokt: Saya.

Four Attacks Made Against  Paramushiro   Double Blow Delivered By U. 5S. Bombers In One Night As Aerial Offensive Increases

KURILE ISLANDS TAKE PASTING   JAPANESE COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF IMPHAL

Includes Backing By Powerful Armed Forces, Authority To Use Which to Be Vested in United Nations Security Council; Hull Reminds Much Work Yet to Be Done on Plan

Big Four Reveals Tentative Plan to Subdue Aggression   Powerful Army. And Ait Force Will Back Up  Peace Committee

Present Plan For Peace to Nations   Result of Dumbarton Oaks Deliberations Is Made Known Today   Way for U. S. to Furnish Forces Is Yet to Be  ided

Peace Plan, Detailed But Incomplete; Presented To  World By: Allied Powers

Peace Plan is Called Major Goal Of War   Detailed, But Incomplete Design For Maintaining Peace by Use of Force

AOUMBLY OF NATIONS CRUX (F PROGRAN   Proposals to Maintain Peace by Force Come from Dumbarton Qaks,

F. R. Announces Plan As Approved by U. S., Britain, China and Russia

Roosevelt Calls Incomplete Plan Good Beginning   World Police Force Includes Special Air Detachments

Powerful Armies  Would Stop War   Tentative Plan Calls for General Assembly, Security And Economic Councils

Dumbarton Oaks Security Pians Include General Assembly As Well As Security Council Of 11

BIG FOUR ANNOUNCE “DETAILED PLAN FOR PEACE ORGANIZATION - WOULD BE BACKED BY  POWERFUL ARMED UNIT: AND CPecrAl AIREORCE

Security Council For Peace   Four Powers ry Today Announce 4 oo Pentative and  » ' a . > « Incomplete Plan

Four Nations Agree on Peace Plans   Security Program To Be Backed By Armed Forces

World Security Program Listed   Tentative Plan Calls For Maintaining Peace By Foree, States Aims

Four Nations Agree on Peace Plans  Caan: Demrerm —   Security Program To Be Backed By Armed Forces

Assembly of Nations Proposed   Would Convert the United Nations Into Permanent Peace Organization   WOULD USE ARMED FORCE IF NEEDED   Such Authority Would Rest With Council of Eleven, Including Big Powers

Major Objective of Big Powers Inspires Hopes of Millions  PE ete weet ce ett tn te i a ee

FR Says Task of Designing . Future Peace ‘Has Been : Well Beaun.’

—Big Four Moves To Tie Hands Of Aggressors—  Security Plan To Keep Peace Blueprinted   Tentative Project Growing Out Of Dumbarton Oaks Ranges From Diplomatic Persuasion To Powerful Armed Forces To Avoid Future Wars

Allies Reveal Program   Roosevelt Hails Document as Step Toward Security

Present Plan :  Peace to Nations   Result ‘of Dumbarton Oaks Deliberations Is Ma Known Today _   Way for U. S. to Fu jk Forces Is Yet to Be Decided 

United Nations Form Tentative Plans Kor Organization Backed By Powerful Methods Of Force

PEACE PLAN T0 STRESS FORCE ~ BY ‘BIG FOUR   FDR Lauds World Security Idea As Outlined — 11 Nations Included

World Peace Supported By Force Planned   F. R. Declares Hopes Of Millions Hinge On Program Drawn Up At Dumbarton Oaks

UNITED NATIONS WOULD PROVIDE "WORLD ARMY   Special Air Force For Lightning Blows At Aggressors Planned

PEAGE PLANSBY ~ FORGE PRESENTED. TO WORLD Tonay   Were Announced by United States, Britain, China and Russia.   A PEACE ORGANIZATION   ‘Backed by Powerful ‘Armed Forces Including Special’  Air Detachments.

Tentative Peace Plan Agreed On  Provides Council of Eleven Members

Would Hold Air Armada Ready For Attack on Any Ageressor   Blueprint Not Yet Complete: New ‘Big 4 Parlevy Predicted

Agreement Vests Authority to Use Armed Forces in United Council  Composed of Eleven Nations

World Peace Through a New League   Roosevelt Hails Dumbarton Oaks Results as Great Forward Stride

Outlines Broad Program Of Peacetime Activity, Cites Savings in State

Governor Sees Big Surplus in State in 1945   Martin Says Excess To Go for Post-War Work: Reviews Gains In Anniversary Talk

Martin’ Wants Estimated $100,000,000 Surplus Used For Postwar Work

American Pianes Over Coast “Thick As Flies”; Sky Black   Flier With Buffer Force Declares ° Cloud Over Coast Hampers Germans

NO COMMENT — _ FROM DEWEY   NEW YORK GOVERNOE REMAINS SILENT ON HIS PRESI. DENTIAL HOPES DE SPITE GAINS

Governor Dewey Remains Silent   New York Chief Executive Is ‘Political Sphinx’ In Pres sent Situation

DEWEY KEEPS o DEEP SILENCE ON CANDIDAC}   Capital GOP Leaders Think Willkie Will Help Fight New Deal

Greek Banks May Be Nationalized To Hit Inflation   Drachma Falls  To Low Levels

U.S. Heavies Carry Out Vital Raids   Luftwaffe Fails To Oppose Big Bombers.

Truce to  End War Aid: F. R.   Reverse Lend-Lease s Set by British at $3,348,127,000 Total

British Given Report On Their Aid To The U.S.   FDR Also Makes Report to Congress That Lend-Lease Will Expire After War Has Finished.

BRITISH HELP TOU. §. TOLD   Reverse Lend-Lease Worth Three Billions Re vealed In London

London Reports Contribution To Lend-Lease   Roosevelt Tells Congress When Program Will End

British War Aid to Allies Tops 3 Billion   Empire's Reverse Lend-Lease Outlay Shown In Report

Tells Cost Of Reverse Lend-Lease   $3, 348, 127,000 Is Britain’s Part: in Program; Plan Should End With War. Savé Roosevelt

TELL COST OF BRITISH HELP   Reverse Lend-Lease Totals $3 Billion, No Figure On U. S. Total.   MIX-UP OVER REPORTS

14 German Divisions Sent Reeling By Russian Attack   Thousands Of Enemy Troops Killed In Fight Near Cherkassy Pocket: Russ Front Widened

“Fighting Fool” Likes Symphony Music, Chocolate   Adm. Spruance Battles Japs

Allies Gain OnBeachhead   Cassino Front Quiet But For Propaganda

Airliner Falls in River and 21 Die   Wreckage Located in’ Mississippi Nenr Memphis Today — At Least t2 Soldiers on Plane

WRECKAGE 18 LOCATED ON RIVER BOTTOM   [Twelve or More of Victims Members of U. S. Armed Services.   Passenger List.

WRECKAGE FOUND AT BOTTOM OF MISSISSIPPI   At Least 12 Servicemen, One Wac, Among 21 Passengers; Dallas-To-Memphis Plane Was Flying An Hour Late

Locate Wreckage Of Airliner; 24 Believed Dead   Crashes Into Mississippi 14 Miles From Memphis

24 Killed When Plane Crashes Into Missippi   Memphis-Bound Ship Goes Into Water Short Distance From Field

12 Members Of Armed Forces Die In Airline Crash   Tragedy Occurs Just 10 Minutes Before Landing Time

24 Die When Airliner Sinks In Mississippi   Ship, Nearing Memphis Plunges Into River, Had 9) Passengers

24 Die as Airliner Falls Into Mississippi River; Believed Due to Explosion

Airliner Crashes In Mississippi: — Passengers And Crew Believed Deac

Twenty-One Passenger: And Crew Of Three Perish In Crash On Flight To Memphis

RAINS HURT WHEAT   Moisture in July Cut Production; a Boon to Sorghum Crop

Finns, Russians Cease Fighting   Armistice Ends Four Years of War

Four-Year War Is Ended Today  By Finns. Reds   Germans Begin Evacuating Troops; Finland Expected To Remain Free

Farmers Plow Carefully on Fields Near Cisterna, Scene of Bloody Battle Between 5th Army and Nazis

xeeettktkke«ee.r  Bodies of. Dead Cover’ Italian Fields After Two Days’ Fighting

Big 3 Powers Working To Get Short Cut Lend-Lease Route Through Dardanelle

Study Short Russia Route   Big Three Powers Working To Get Supplies Through Dardanelles,

Allies Asking Short Route   ‘DardunellesPastaze  Needed: To. Red. Port

DARDANELLES ROUTE SOUGHT   Allies Seek Short - Cut For Lend - Lease Supplies To Russia

Big 3 Powers Working To Get Short Cut Lend-Lease Route Through Dardanelles   to Persian gulf terminals. Wliminate Tand Haul

ALLIES SEEK DARDANELLES SUPPLY ROUTE   Would Use Passage to Aid Red Armies, Saving Precious Miles on Present Lend-Lease Shipments Via Ivan.

Solon Charges Communists  Guide P. A. C.   Clash Breaks Out During House Election Hearing

Hillman And Church In Hot Clash   HILLMAN REPORTS HIS PAC HAS SPENT $371,086, OF WHICH $67,320 WAS IN PRIMARIES AND STATE ELECTIONS.   Denies Communism

Wounded Navigator Scribbles Note: io Pilot to Bring Crippled — Fortress Home Safely From Raid

MASTER PLAN SOON WILL BE IN OPERATION   Molotev Promises Full Strength From East, West. Sevastopol Fall “Sets Up” Russia

Russia Is  Ready for Blast   Sevastopol Capture Leaves Reds Free for German Smash

BRIEF INAUGURAL ADDRESS PLANNES   Fourth One Scheduled for 4 or 5 Minutes By Roosevelt

\Nomination of Dewey on F irst Or Second Ballot Predicted — By G..0. P. Leaders at Chicage

2 LEADERS LOOK FOR DEWEY T0 WIN ON EARLY BALLOT   Taft Says Bricker “Has a Good Chance” as Platform Discussions Get Under Way in Chicago.   FOREIGN POLICY PLANK OFFERED BY AUSTIN   Calis for International CoOperation to Preserve Peace, but Goes Beyond Mackinac Declaration.

Prominent Republicans Predict Dewey Nomination ‘For President On First Ballot At Convention —

Landon Sees First-Ballot Dewey Victory   Keystone Delegation To Be for New Yorker One Delegate Asserts   TAFT SAYS BRICKER HAS GOOD. CHANCE   HAS GOOD CHANCE  Little Delay Expected ~ In Agreeing on Plank On Fareion Poley

LEADERS FORECAST DEWEY NGMINATION   Selection on Early Ballot Seer; by Former Goyernor Landon

PARTY PLATFORM “TALKS FORMALLY GET UNDER WAY   Two Prominent Republicans Forecast Dewey on First . Or Second Ballot   THIRD SAYS BRICKER ‘HAS A GOOD CHANCE’

DEWEY VICTORY CALLED CERTAIN   Landon Says New Yorker Will Be Nominated On First Ballot

SNOW ON THE WAY   Cold Weather and a White Christmas: Are Forecast

Taxpayers Favor Additional  Education Levy  High School Standare Maintenance Is Aiutharizved hv Vata

Taxpayers Faver Additional  Education Levy High School Standar  Maintenance Is ee) ee eee Mal Cone See eee

FIFTH ON MOVE IN ITALY   Infantry Sweeps Within Three Miles Of Cassino

OTH BROADENS 15 OFFENSIVE   Virtually Entire Army on Move From Near Coast To Central Italy.

AMERICAN OTH ARMY HAS BROADENED ITS ITALIAN OFFENSIVE   FRENCH UNITS HAMMER THROUGH HIGH POINTS TO THREATEN CASSINO

~~ WEARS GASSINE   French. Units: Hammer ‘Through. Mountains: To Threaten City>

OFFENSIVE BY CLARK'S ARMY IS BROADENED   French Units Hammer Through High Mountains  to Threaten Nazi-Held  i Stronvhold   YANKS WITHIN THREE MILES OF OBJECTIVE   Advance With, Frontal Attack and Capture of Cervaro; Germans First to Anuiannice Loss

FIFTH ARMY TAKES MOUNTAIN PEAKS ON WTALIAN FRONT   French Units Advance te Menace Cassino from Third Sida

Entire Fifth Army On the Move As Offensive Widens   French Push Ahead In Surprise Thrust To Menace Cassino From a Third Side

Fifth Army On the Move  k.verywhere   French Report Gains After First Day of Their Drive in Mountains

French Troops With 5th Army Crush Nazis   Make Important Gains in Allied March Upon Cassino Stronahoid

5TH ARMY ON MOVE FORWARD   Entire Line Advances: Frenel Units Drive Nazis "from Mountains.

Entire 5th Army Broadens Offense Qn Italian Front   French Units Go Through Mountains to Threaten  Cassino on Third Side   Yankee Bombers Win Air Battle Over Sofia

Whole 5th Army Moves Forward On Wide Fron   Infantry Advances On Cassino As French Support Drive

vette TK van 6      American Troops With: in Three Miles of Cassino   GAINS ALSO MADE BY FRENCH UNITS

YANKS AIDED BY FRENCH TROOPS IN ITALIAN WAR   Americons Within 3 Miles of Cassino, Now Menaced On Three Sides

Fifth Army On Move Again   Yanks in Three Miles Of Cassino; French Take Part

U. S. Forces React New Peak of Activity in Italy  Troopers Capture Cervaro, Take Strategic Hillsite

French Force New Threat In  Cassino Area   Nazi Base In Danger From Three Sides As Sth Army Advances; Allies In Mountains

Entire Fifth Army Moves As Advance Is Broadened_ .   U.S. Air Force Scored Crushing Victory In Battle Over Sofia; Shot Down 28 Of Foe: Lost 2

YANKS PUSH GN TOWARD ROME   Fifth Army On Move In _ Broadened Offensive; French Units Help

French Aid Allied Drive  For Cassino   LONDON (AP) — The Rome radio announced that Rome was bombed at noon Thursday.

FRESH UNITS OF THE AMERICAN STH ARMY THREATEN CASSINO   Virtually the Entire U. S Force Was on the Move Today.   In the First Day of French Offensive in Central Italy, Troops Advanced.

ENTIRE FIFTH ARMY EXPANDS BATTLE AREAS      Front From Coast to Central Italy Broadened; Cassino Being Threatened   SURPRISE FRENCH MOVE PUSHES GERMANS BACK

Americans Expand Drive From Coast to Center of Peninsula; French Units Also Gain.

FRENCH EXTEND CASSINO SMASH   Juin’s Men Thrown Against _. Base From Third Side

Almost the Entire . Fifth Army:on Move   Broadens Offensive From Near Coast to Cen. tral Italy 4s French Units Hammer at Cassino From a Third Side. :

Fifth Army Assailing  Cassino   Poilus Enter Italian Battle From New Direction

AMERICANS ON DRIVE TODAY FOR SASSINO   Germans Announce Fal: Of City In Report Wed.

Yankees Widen Drive.in Italy   _~French Forces Smash Through Mountains -To Threaten Cassino

AMERICAN OTH ARMY  HAS BROADENED ITS  ITALIAN OFFENSIVE FRENCH UNITS HAMMER  THROUGH HIGH POINTS Try THDEATEON CACCING

American 5th  ‘Army Moving   Broadens Offensive Upon Coast To Central Area; French Advance

ALLIES BROADEN ATTACK IN ITALY; FRENCH UNITS AID   Sky Battle Over Sofia, Bulgaria Cost 2 American Fortresses and 28 Enemy Planes

French Aid In Offensive In Italy  Fifth Army Is On Move Along — Entire Front

ALLIES DRAW RING OF TROOPS ABOUT CASSINO   Americans Advance Within Three Miles of Town Alter Capiure of Cervaro   French Advancing   Threaten Cassino from Third Side in Surprise Attack in Mounfairs, Capiure Peaks

All Of 5th Army Goes In Action To Take Cassino   French Units Draw  Task Of FI anking

Allies Closing In On Cassino  From 3 Sides   French Troops Go Into Action As Yanks Continue Advance.

French Storm Key Heights Near Cassino   Cervaro Falls to . dth Army Bayonets; Adriatic Coast Shelled

Fifth Army Starts Drive   Offensive Broadened With French Units Going Into Action

French Units Hammer Through Mountains to Threaten Cassino From Third Side, Take Strategic Peaks.

Fifth Army Broadens Its Offensive After Moving Up on Virtually all Fronts

Fifth Army Broadens" — Offensive   Cassino Theatened From a Third Side ag French Forces: Pound Through   SEVERAL PEAKS: ARE CAPTURED      Surprise Advance Takes in Many Prisoners; Yankees Also Move Ahead

5th Army On Move      Broadens Offensive Into Central Italy; Close in On Cassino

French Aid Fifth Army At Cassino   Yankee Frontal Attack Sweeps To Within Three Miles Of City.

Fifth Army On The Go In Italy   YANKS BROADEN NEW DRIVE AGAINST GERMANS

Moscow Says: Hungary Now Collapsing   Ankara Reports Riots Break Out In Capita!

RIOTS SPREAD IN CAPITAL AS RUSS APPROACH   Budapest Stricken By Panic; Food  Scarce

¥RANK G. CLARK, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE ENFCRMS TAX PAYERS

January 15 Last Tax Filing Date   Congress Changes Time for Estimated Income Tax Declarations

Soviet Troops Capture Base of Pinsk   Russians Advance to Within 7 Miles of Grodno

Russians Smash Through German  Defense Lines   Two Strong Points Rowled Over In Steady Advance

Within 7 Miles Of  Grodno   Record Series Of Sweeping Victories Over Germans In  Flight Homeward.

Pinsk Falls  To Russians   Expect Grondo Capture Soon; Report East Prussia Entry

Swerved Domaged Plans From Control Tower On Return From Bombing Raid On Berlin

Five Circus Officials are Charged With Manslaughter; Death Toll Of Tragedy Expected to Reach 150

Huge [Tent Of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Goes Up In Fire.

O RINGLING OFFICIALS ARRESTED; SEEK 10 FIX DISASTER BLAME   Victims Of ‘Big Top’ Blaze And Panic At Hartford Include 80 Children; Fear Death Toll To Reach 150

HARTFORD, CONN. CIRCUS DISASTER TAKES HEAVY TOLL   145 Persons Known Dead; 80 Of Whom Were Children   CHARGES ARE FILED AGAINST 5 OFFICIALS  yg GIMP Sane x, ihrer game re ame : See   Tent Sprayed With Paraffine Melted In Gasoline

‘Long Toms’ Shel Japs’ Leyte Base   Artillery and Planes Rake Ormoc Valley

Nationwide Control Over Hiring Of Male Workers Over 17 to be Effective by July 1, Says McNutt

EMPLOYMENT POWER TO BE TAKEN OVER IBY WMC ON JULY 1   Employment Service to Supervise All Hearing.

Extend Control of Employment   Male Workers Ove) 17 to Be Affected

WMC To Control  Hiring   Nation-wide © Control of All Industrial Male Workers After July

Employers Must Hire Males Thru USES by July 1   Efforts Made to Channel Labor Into War Work

Sets Controls Male Workers:  Action Denouncec   Termed Illegal Labor Draft by yessman; Employers Other ‘an Farmers Must Use Agency

WMC Will Establish Job Control System   Program Will Be Announced This Weekend By WMC Chief McNutt

McNutt Announces New Method to Control All Industrial Employment

Referral System To Be Carried Out Through U. S.  Emplovment Service.

Measure Effective By July 1   Semi Compulsory Act Is Brainchild Of Manpower Group

EMPLOYMENT CONTROLS TIGHTENE!   Semi - Compulsory Hold Over Men Past 17 Is Started

WMC to Order Half-Compulsor Labor Controls   Plan Will Affect All Men Over 17 Working in Industry

Modified Labor Draft   USES to Place Men Where Needed in Nation’s War Plants

MC NUTT PLANS JOB CONTROL ON NATIONAL BASIS   ‘To Channel Men ‘Into, War Jobs

Tightened Job Control To Be Effective July 1   All Industrial Male Workers 17 and Over  Included In Program

PREDICT NEW PROGRAM FOR JOB CONTROLS   WMC Expected To Order Plan Into Effect July l

MANY AUSTRIAN qUIT NZ AB   Thousands, Reported Deserting And Joining Guerrillas In Alns   GERMANS WORRIED   Latest Russian Action Is Aimed At Outflanking Budapest

NumerousAustrians Desert Nazi Army  Archduke Savs Enemy   Archduke Says Enemy Apparently Intends To Fight for Vienna

Nazis Continue to ‘Retreat in Italy   Enemy Reports Allied Drive on Gothic Line

Scarlet Fever Is Being Controlled   HEALTH OFFICER SAYS ONLY TWO CASES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN CITY

American Soldier’s Bravery Taken For Granted---Jap Has to Prove His

Two Kinds of Bravery Found In the Pacific—  American and Japanese   Kye WILLIAM L. WORDEN

25 Jerries Killed By 7-Man Patrol  Three Doughboys Get Back Unharmed

(UNITED NATIONS’ SUCCESSES IN EUROPE PUT ARMIES ONTO GERMAN SOIL AHEAD SCHEDULE

Invasion Of Germany Running Ahead Of Schedule-— — by Ve WH Mackenzie \!  October 31 Fixed As Date For Hitler's Fall

WAR TODAY   German Morale Crackjag Up In the Face of Hitler’s Pleadings to Army Not to Surren tt .

TERRIFIC BOMBING SEEN NOW AS GREATEST THREAT. TO BREAKING WILL OF GERMANS TO FIGHT ON

Allied Drive Info German Fatherland Is Ahead of 'D-Day' Schedule Originally Sef By Military Leaders Of Unifed Nations

GREW SAYS LONG WAR ROAD AHEAL   ——  Recalls Chat with Nimitz While On Tour; Bond Calae Ranorted

WFA Outlines Soil Program   Nearly $300, 000, 000 to Farmers Who Practice Soil Conservation

Farmers To Get Soil Aid Money   WEA To Distribute £290.000.000 For Soil Cultivation

$790,000,000 FOR 44 SOIL PROGRAM   CONSERVATION PLAN TO BOOST OUTPUT ANNOUNCED BY WFA

$290,000,000 Will be Distributed in “44 Soil Conservation   Program is Announced in Capital by War Food  Administration

$290,000,000 Will Be Spent for Soil Conservation   Total Is Largest Since Practice Was Begun Back in 1936

WFA Announces ~ New Farm Plan      Upwards of $290,000,000 To Be Distributed Among Farmers Under 1944 Soil Program.

Soil Payments Are Increased; No More Crop Allotments   Payments Will Be In Form of ‘Limestone and Phosphate for Soil Building -:

WARNING ISSUED ON U-BOAT RAIDS   Lord of Admiralty Tells Commons Germans Are Making Preparations.

U-Boats Still Menace Allies Britons Told   But Admiraliy Figures Show 1913 Loss Far Less Than Expected

A. Y. Alexander Warns Commons Nazis Plan New U-boat Campaign; Reveals Nine War Vessels Lost Off Anzio

Britain Is Warned Of New Sub Danger   Losses Cut Sharply. But New Offensive Seen

Germany Is Preparing for New U-Boat Campaign to Cripple Allied Shipping   Two Cruisers, Two Destroyers Lost By British in Anzio Beachhead Defense

Soldier Vote Bill Goes To Conferees  Senate, House Gr oup  mo a   Senate, House Group Expected to Find Compromise

DEADLOCK ~* ON SOLDIER VOTE SEEN   a   House Certain To Reject Senate Version

Soviets Prepare For Winter Thrust   Claim Concentrations  of Material Massed

REDS MASSING ARMIES ON EAST FRONT   Soviets Predict Offensive Will  Reach Germany

Winter Campaign Is Ready   Russians Not Worried About Western Front

Firm Ordered To Turn Back ‘Excess Profit   Jack and Heintz to. Be Deprived of $1,750,000 by War Department

6,000 DETROIT WORKERS JOIN PROTEST STRIKE AT APAACDIIC PLATE PLANT

6,000 ON STRIKE IN STEEL PLANT   Armor Plate Output Hil at Ecorse; 7,090 Still Out at Briggs

6000 Join In War Plant Strike   Protest Dismissal of Worker At Detroit

Ask Industrial  Wage Increase   Want Liberalization of Little Steel Formula

‘ Steel Workers Dernand More Pay   Seek Boost of 17 Cents Per Hour

latinas ESE Oe er eee eee — Se — See S  PEARL HARBOR ® CASE EXTENDED

BLAME TRIAL SILL SIGNED   President Approves Measure for Court Martial of Kimmel and Short.

FDR Approves Pearl Harbor Probe to Start at Once Overrufes War and Navy Secretaries  rr, Bit Mm K an Actian hu Canarecc

EXTENDS THE 'DEADLINE   Another Six Months Added to Time for Pear] Harbor Investigation

Approves Pearl Harbor Trials   Signs Bill For Early Court Martial Trials Of Kimmel. Short.

PEARL HARBOR’ TRIALS PUSHED   FDR Signs Bill Demanding Cases Be Called Betore Dec. 7

Short, Kimmel To Face Trial   FR Signs Bill Setting  Action For December 3

FDR SANCTIONS PEARL HARBOR COURTS MARTIAL   APPROVES BILL FOR HUSBAND AND SHORT TRIALS BEFORE DEC. 7

Report Accuses Army Command And Contractor   Japs’ Surprise Attack Was Avoidable; Gen. Short Is Censured

FR Approves Move to Try Military Men   Admiral Kimmel, General Short To Be CourtMartialed This Year

Orders Military Trial This Year   Mismanagement of Pearl Harbor Installations Are Revealed in House.

Senators Debate Flood Control Bill Second Week   Show No Signs  Of Compromise

YANKS KELL 200 JAPS IN NEW DDIVE   Americans Reach Important Hill Near Borgen Bay

Marines Kill 200 Japs at Borgen Bay   Important Hill Is Reached by American Forces

_7 we ‘rw. ~ nN ~ Sm C y i apie _ tree =~ 4377  Dod. Maw. vnURUne   > ecges “_as-ing Peace,” Savs . *“o Tas < cor “en “Grown ©_c” 1 ~-"lee: Sa ues. Zunning “a7e

Dewey Flies To Accept GOP  Nomination  Willkie Congratulates New York Governor; Rricker im Secand Pla:

War leaders commended  for efforts ‘Administration  is quarrelsome’

No Job for Those Grown Old and Quarrelsome in Office. Nominee Says

CIRCUS TRAGEDY VICTIMS BURIEL   Fire Aftermath Spreads Sorrow In City Of Hartford, Conn.

CIRCUS VICTIMS’ RITES PLANNED   Death Toll Set At 154 As Officials Press Probes

Dead Buried At Hartford   “Mayor Opens Probe In Circus’ Tragedy:

DISASTER TOLL RISES TO 187   Circus Victims Buried: Train Wreckage Cleared

City Evacuated According to Berlin Communique; Vital Defenses Of Southeastern Europe Are Now Laid Open   SOVIETS CELEBRATE THEIR BIG VICTORY

Pathway Opened For Push Across Rumanian Plains   Gettian High Command Acktiowledges Luss of Important Center

CERNAUTI IS CAPTURED BY SOVIETS   Russians Storm Into Key Gateway Of the Balkans

Termed QO  Of Greate:  Victories —              CAPTURE OF IMPORTANT POINT  SWEEP ACROSS RUMANIAN: PI

ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE AS GERMANS REVEAL (TS LOSS   Fall of Third Largest City In Prewar Rumania Opens Way For Reds to Enter Satellites.   39 JAP BUILDINGS ON NEW BRITAIN BLASTEC   Japanese Invasion of India Is Slowed Up or Halted at Four Key Points By British Forces.

CERNATI THE GATEWAY FOR §. E, EUROPE   Germans Claim They Evacuated. City While Russians Claim Capture by Storming It

Cernauti Stormed By Reds   Way Is Opened For Soviet Sweep Into Satellites

Stalin Announces Important Victory   Germans Admit They Have Evacuated City Guarding Path Into Satellite Countries

PRUT RIVER IS CROSSED BY SOVIETS   Third Largest City Of Pre-War Rumania In Russian Hands

Capture of Cernauti Is Announced   Third Largest City in Ru. mania Opens Way for  Russian Sweep

1S CAPTURED BY SOVIETS   Russians. Storm Into Key Gateway Of the Balkans

NAZI GARRISON NUITS KEY CITY UNDER PINCERS   Victory Paves Way For Swift Advance Into Rumania Proper

GERMAN DEBACLE ROWS, DEFENSES “ARE CRUMBLING   Zhukov’s = Armies Plunge Headiong Across Prut tn Sensational Drive.

3rdLargest Rumania : City Taken By Storm   Collapse of Nazi Lines Opens Way for Whirlwind Red Thrust

Cernauti Captured  By Russians   Nazis Acknowledge Loss of City in Pre-War Rumania

bs azi Loss Of Cernauti Opens Way For Soviet Advance Thru Rumania

NORTHERN JAP ISLE BOMBED BY WARSHIPS   Venture Within 1,200 Miles Of Tokyo For Raid

ditorial Comment Vritten Today and  oved by Teleg raph re Cable.

Eire‘e Bitterness Toward England Is Very Strong   LENGTHENED WAR

AGE OLD HATRED OF ENGLISH BY IRISH BLAMED FOR HER PRESENT ATTITUDE TOWARD ALLIES IN WAR   Her Heart No Doubt With the Allies, But Hatred Of Hundreds of Years and Memiory of Strife of 28 Years Ago Clings Vividly in Minds of Irishmen

LONDON’S IMPOSITION SEVERE TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS PLACES IRELAND IN ECONOMIC TROUBLE

abe War ioday  Eire’s Bitterness Toward English Cause For Neutrality ?

The War Today   British Restriction on Travel Heavy Blow to Eire’s Trade

BIG NAVAL BATTLE CALD UNDERWAY   Japs Take Position Between Philippines, Marianas   NIMITZ CONFIDENT   Declares U. 8. Has Enough Power To Be Favorable in Decisive Engagement

Japanese Fleet Moves; Major  Battle Hinted      Tokyo Says Fight Already Taking Place—Possible -Damage to Enemy Ships Already inflicted, Adm. Nimitz Save

Showdown in the Pacitic Indicated by Nimitz in Report of Naval Action

; Pacific Chief, Confident of Victory, Says U. S.   Force ‘Has Enough Muscle To Take Care j of Bvervthine” Pane Can Mncter

Great Naval Battle Against Possibly Entire Nippon Fleet May Be Under Way in Pacific

~0<¥0 Aacio ° “es 2e09.e 2 “luge . ava. .4a7~e Samping, ‘farianas crive 3o0acs «as

Naval Battle Now May Be  In Progress   Damage Possibly ‘Already Inflicted OS Eons Wrareecl te.   NIMITZ CONFIDENT; U_ 8S. FLEET STRONG  Says Nips Have Lost  eps came

ENEMY STUNG TO ACTIN IN WEST PACIFIC   GREAT SEA CLASH MAY ALREADY BE UNDER WAY

Jap Fleet Has Moved Between Philippines And Marianas, He States   600 ENEMY AIRCRAFT BAGGED IN FEW DAYS

Nimitz Hints. SomeDamaae Already Done   Fleet Shows Up_ West Of Satnan

Admiral Nimitz Hints Dramatically that History -Making Engagement Is in Progress.

OUNTY BOND SALES LAGGING   “gent faced ialee ment ssued ssved By The j

BOND SALES, ‘SECOND. WEEK   Chairmen Call for Increase in Tempo; Sales of Bonds hue Cammoanitiec Listed.

Mud, Cold, Bullets and Minetields Won't Stop Us if Bonds Are Bought

Army Needs Unlimited ©   Eisenhower. Pleads’ For. Bond. Purchases

General Ike Wants More Equipment   Allies’ Leader Urges Support Of Sixth War Loan

GENERAL EISENHOWER APPEALS TO AMERICAN PEOPLE T0 BUY BONDS   SOLDIERS MAKING HEADWAY BUT THEY NEED MUCH WAR MATERIAL

Eisenhower Asks American People To Go All-Out   Commander Pleads That 6th Bond Drive Be Over-Subscribed

Gen. Eisenhower Pleads  For Shells, Tires, Guns   Commander Urges American People To Over-Subscribe Sixth War Loan So That Supplies Can Be Rushed To His Courageous And Suffering Men

EISENHOWER URGES HOME FRONT We WAR BOND PURCHASE  "VA/. Klaad Adanees frame Amminmibian ‘User   “We Need More Guns, Ammunition,’ War Chief in Europe Informs Americans

EMSENHOWER IN APPEAL TOU. §.   Issues Urgent Appeal to U S. Public to Buy More War Bonds.

Gen. Eisenhower Makes Second Appeal ‘For Home-Front Support of Armies 'By Oversubscription of 6th War Loan

MORE FOR TROOPS   Eisenhower ‘Appeals for Shells, Tires, Guns and Planes

Eisenhower Makes New Urgen Appeal To Nation To Buy War Bonds; Arms Needed Quickly   “‘Myriads Of Supplies” Said Needed; Nimitz And MacArthur Join In Plea

Eisenhower Asks For Increase In Bond Purchases   Individual Purchases Total Less Than 10 Per Cent Of Quota

EISENHOWER IN APPEAL FOR AID   Success of Sixth War Loan Drive Vital To Troops Hitting Reich

Convene To Name FDR   Third Session of Conven. tion This Afternoon

CARDS AHEAD, 4-0, IN THE 4TH GAME    Hopp’s Single and Musial’s Homer in First Start Trouble   Score at end of fifth inning: Cardinals 4; Browns 0.

GIVES PICTURE OF INVASION   Tight Air Umbrella Over Landing Craft

Nelson Says U.S. Has Best Weapons   Quality Will Save Thousands of Lives in Invasion

Yanks Capture :Two Islands in Admiralty Group   Series of Allied Successes in Pa. cifie — Action in India and China

YANK AIRMEN LOSE 86 IN GERMAN RAID   Suffer Heaviest Loss Of Any Recent Trip As Flak Takes Great Toll

RAID ON REICH PROVES COSTLY   Refineries And Railroad Yards Hit; 86 Planes Fail To Return

3,000 ALLIED  WAR PLANES ( HIT GERMANY    Fifty-Six U.S. Bowhers, 30 Fighters Fail to Return; Believe Fighters On Friendly Territory.   Solid Burst Of Flak

96 U. S. BOMBERS, 30 FIGHTERS FAIL RETURN FROM RAIDS ON REICH   Fortresses And Liberators Lead Attack Of Nearly 3,000 Planes: Oil Refineries And Rail Yards Hit

3.000 Planes Blast German Oil Refineries   86 U.S. Craft Fail  To Return From Raids Saarbrucken Rail Yards Also Attacked

86 American Aircraft Fait To Return Following Raids ‘On German Oil Refineries

0 U. 5, BOMBERS, 30 FIGHTERS LOST IN RAID ON REICH   Few German Airmen Rise to Challenge Attacking Fleet, but Anti-Aircraft Fire Is Heavy.   OIL REFINERIES, RAIL YARDS BLASTED   Some of Planes Failing to Return to Bases Believed to Have Landed in Friendly Territory.

Heavy Losses Suffered by Americans in Air Battle  CLOUDS OF FLAK SHOT INTO SKY  Nearly 22,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Germany

86 American Planes Lost Over Reich   Nazi Rail Centers, Oil Refineries Hit By Yankee Bomber:

86 Yank Planes Lost Over Reich  Believe Most Land in Friendly Area

Bir. JAEETING   ae ‘* Says British sport Soviet View Jit Polish Situation

BV. HaETNG   “¢ Says British port Soviet View dt Polish Situation

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER CALLS ON POLES TO ACCEPT CURZON LINE AS FRONTIER

CHURCHILL URGES AN EARLY MEETING OF THE BIG THREE   Pronouncement Made Dur. ing Debate on Russo-Polish  Border Problem   AT ANY PLACE NAMED   Prime Minister, However, Would Welcome Meeting in England

Attack By British Is Powerful   Mojor Offensive Gets Under Way In Caen Sector

Deep Beachhead Won Below Capital City With Seizure Of Nettuno Harbor, Nazis Admit; Biggest Landing Since Salerno

; Fifth Army Troops to South Break Through German Defenses.at Three Key } Paints _ a

Invasion Outflanks Formidable German Lines Before Rome   Américan Rangers and Commandos Seize Miles-Long Beachhead in Surprise Maneuver Against Foe

Seize Long Beachh So. of               OCCUPY HARBOR OF NETTUNO 32 MILES SOUTH OF ROME; ... LAND UNDER COVER OF DARK: oh 7

Powerful American, British and French Forces Make Landing Below Eternal City

DESCRIBE ACTS OF YANK HEROISM   Human Bombs Blast Nazi Tanks, Save Comradés

Doughboys Become Human Bombs To Destroy Tanks in Italian Fighting

Tells How U. S. Doughboys Turned Themselves Into Human Bombs And Destroyed German Tanks

Japs Lose 89 Ships, 68 Planes in U.S. Seaborne Aerial   Entire Convoy Sunk Off Mindanao; Other Convoys Scattered

Blast Mindanao in Second Strike  Heavy Loss Inflicted by Sea-borne Planes

JAP CONVOY OF 12 SHIPS SUNK AT PHILIPPINES   'T More Boats Sunk in U.S. SeaBorne Aerial Attacks. Destruction for 68 Jap Planes

Japs Report New Assault On Philippines   U. $. Task Force Sinks 89 Ships In First Attack

Japs Lose 89 Ships and 68 Planes   US Carrier Planes Make Two Attacks on Philippines; Two Nip Convoys Routed by Allied Aircraft

AIT AGAIN AT, ‘PHILIPPINES   First Attack Takes Heavy Toll Of Japanese Ships And Aircraft

Philippe Isles Are Hit Again   Tokyo Tella of Second Strike by Carrier Force

ENTIRE CONVOY WIPED OUT IN FIRST ASSAULT   Japs Lose 89 Ships, 68 Planes To U, S. Task Force

Two Sea-borne Air Attacks on Successive Days Spread Havoc Over Enemy Concentrations—U. S. Losses Very Light—Two Other Convoys at Extreme Ends of Mikado’s Empire Also Wiped Out

JAPS DECLARE CARRIER CRAFT ON 2ND ATTACK   U.S. Reveals First Assault Cost Nipponese 89 Ships, 68 Planes

U.S. Planes Deal Islands  Second Blow   Entire Convoy Is Sunk Off Mindanao Island As Seaborne Planes Strike

AMERICAN CARRIER PLANES BLASTED 89 SHIPS AND 68 PLANES  HEAVY BLOW DEALT TO JAPANESE OFF PHILIPPINES BY NAVY

Carriers Stage ‘Second Assault “On Philippines   Attack’ Follows” Mindinao : Raid Which Cost. Japs .. 89 Ships And 68 Planes

SECOND STRIKE AT PHILIPPINES   in First Entire: Convoy of 52 Vessels Sink Off Mindanao.   U, 8. LOSSES ARE LIGHT

Philippines Struck Twice by Carrier Based Yank Planes   89 Ships, 68 Planes Destroyed; Central Is. lands Blasted

Central Islands Are Hit      Follows Closely On Yesterday’s CarrierPlane Assault On . Mindanao: Losses Light

U.S. Fliers in New Raid on Philippines   First Carrier Air Strike Costs Japs S89 Ships and  68 Planes

U.S. Carrier Raids On Philippines Cost Japs 89 Ships And 68 Planes

PHILIPPINES HIT SECOND TIME   Tokyo Reports Another Seaborne Air Attack

SINK JAP. CONVOY OF 52 SHIPS OFF MINDANAO ISLAND   AMERICAN CARRIER PLANES FOLLOW-UP ‘ DEVASTATING RAID

TOKYOREPORTS SECOND ATTACK ON KEY ISLANDS   Rocket-Firing British Fliers Scatter 15-Ship Convoy In Adaman Sea Fight

American Planes Hit Philippines For Second Time   Japanese Lose Aircraft. Shins

ENTIRE CONVO} WRECKED OFF _ PHILIPPINES   Tokyo Reports New Attack By Carrier Planes   Announced As Very Light; British Destroy Ships Heading For Burma

ENTIRE ENEMY CONVOY OF 92 SHIPS DOWNED   Navy Says Task Force Destroyed 68 Jap Planes in Raid

Tokyo Says Allied Planes Sull Attacking   Warships and Airmen Sink 80 Enemy Yessels

Entire Convoy Wiped Out by Carrier Force   American Losses Are Light; No Surface Ships ‘Hit by Enemy

U, $. TASK FORCE WRECKS 89 NIP SUPPLY SHIPS   Destroys Entire Enemy Con: voy of 52 Vessels, Smashes 68 Planes

99 Vessels, 68 h First. Attack   Huge Convoy Of 52 Jap Ships Sunk Off Mindanao; Worships Aid In Stiff Blows

SEABORNE AIR ATTACK COSTS JAPS HEAVILY   Entire Japanese Convoy of 52 Ships Sunk

Chenghsien Being Stormed By Big Japanese Force   60,000 Troops Thrown Into Struggle For Honan Province City

60,000 in China Advance   Nips Rap Chenghsier Outskirts, Cross Peiping Railway

Battered From Air In Retreat   Eisenhower Calls For All-Out Effort To Win Biggest Victory in West

AMERICAN, BRITISH. AND CANADIANS ARE CLOSING TRAP DOOR  DESTRUCTION OF GREAT PART GERMAN SEVENTH ARMY BELIEVED NEAR

Airmen Rake Fleeing Huns on All Fronts   Eisenhower ‘Declares ‘Fleeting but Definite Opportunity for Major Allied Victory’ .

Eseape Path Narrowed to 16 Miles With Americans And Canadians Closine Tn

Unser Pia A yn Vote _. Return to Work   Eight-Day Dispute Ends With Job Resumption __ By Sundoy Shift .

Chrysler Plant CIO Strikers Vote To Return   Act After UAW President Says Public ‘luflamed? Against Auto Union

Japan In New Threat Against Lives Of Captured U. S. Airmen   Broadcast Claims Japanese Hav Made Reply To Formai Inguiries

Tokyo Hints At Reprisals Against Fliers   Execution of Doolittle Airmen Recalled by Veiled Jap Threat

JAPAN UTTERS NEW THREAT T9 U. S-ATRMEN   Lives of Aviators, Who Bombarded ' Tokyo. May Be Taken -

FRANK KNOX IS BURIED TODAY       To Lie Beside Former Comrades [ni Ari ‘ington Cemetery . 

Knox Burial Will Be In Arlington   Nation To Pay Homage To Secretary of Navy

ANOK BURIED WITH HONORS IN ARLINGTON   ‘Services Attended by Scores of Officials, Foreign Dignitaries.

KNOX BURIED IN ARLINGTON GRAVE MONDAY   Various Other Services Being Held Wherever Conditions Permit for U.S. Fleet

FUNERAL TODAY FOR SECRETARY OF NAVY KNOX      Interment Will Take Place At Arlingtod; Navy Tec Pay Homare

‘Cologne Takes New Air Battering In Effort to Cut City Out of War

500 Planes In Raid on Cologne   More Than 60,000 Flights Made  By Allied Planes In October

Sorties Over Reich For Month Total 600,000   Heavily Pounded Cologne and German Rails Again Hit.

States Congratulated By Roosevelt For Quick Mobilization In Wartime

Governors Open Annual Conventior   President Praises Executives For Quick Mobilization of Resource:

FDR Urges States To Prepare For Victory   President Congratulates Governors At Conference On Unity Of Action For War

WALT HES BLAM ICD BY bR, BRITAIN   Churchill Sees War’s Ke arly E nd  REICH WEAKENS  Hitler Reseed In Hiding

‘Writing on Wall’ Seen In Germany   Eden Says No Real Distine tion In Leadership

EVENTS IN REICH SHOW GENERALS KNOW WAR LOST   Eden Rejects any Makeshift ¥ Peace, Churchill Sights End of Conflict

Hopeful Japan May Do Better   By WILLIAM FRYE and JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

U.S. Heroes Welcomed Their Death   Hull Is Gathering Data On Japanese To Take Action

Prisoners Are Tortured, Slain   Americans Starved, Deprived of Medical Aid; Captives Beaten, Buried Alive; ‘Most of 50,000 Murdered,’ Says Hoyt

HULL PLEDGES INHUMAN JAPS TO BE PUNISHED   Senator Clark Demands Japan Be “Bombed  Out of Existence’’

Capital Shocker At Barbarity  Demand Retaliation For Prisoner Cruelty

GOVERNMENT [3 GETTING FACTS   Officials Think Publication Of Account Might Bring Improvement.   ‘CONGRESS IS SHOCKED

/   Hull Promises Jap Perpetrators  Of Atrocities Vill Be Punished

Washington Is Stirred By Shocking Atrocities   Reser bling Ali Data.

Starvation, Torture and Cold-Blooded Murder : Was Lot of Many of American, British and Filipino: Troops Who Surrendered in Early Days of War Save Storv Released by American War Department

Mistreatment To Prisoners  Of Japs Told   Hull Says Government Gathering All Available Infor.  matinn   CONGRESS SHOCKED

ENRAGED OVER TREATMENT TO OUR SOLDIERS   Congress Is Indignant, Describing Reports as Almost Incredible.   Intend to Bring Those In Charge to Account

Hull Says Japs Must Suffer for Cruelty   Secretary Reveals Government Is Gathering Data on Treatment of Captives for Use In Punishing War Criminals.

DECLARES JAP CAPTORS ACT LIKE DEMONS   Secretary Hull Says We're Filing Facts On Criminals

U.S. To Punish War Criminals   Hull Says Responsible Japs To Be Brought to Account

Fiscal Experts Look At Prospective National Debt   Forcing Revision of Budget Bureau's Approach to Policy

National Debt Rises. Steadily.   Affords Challenge ‘To Fiscal Experts.

INTO PSKOV   Have City Surrounded; Nazi Retreat Turned Into Rout.

Soviets Smash Ahead In Double Threat To Nazi Forces Guarding Baltics

BERLIN, PARIS, BRUSSELS - AND COLOGNE HIT   1,100 RAF Bombers Orop 4,480 Tons Of Explosives ~ On Vital Areas

We ee ee ee eee  U.S. Heavies Smash At French Targets   Heavily Escorted Bombers Go For Nazi Airfields

Over 500 American Bombers Blast Airfields In France   Improving Weather Enables Air Forces To Resume Support Of Invasion Armies

U.S. Bombers Hit Nazi Airfields As  Weather Improves   Resume Support Of Normandy Invasion Troops: Nazi Rocket Bombs. Continue On England.

NAVY INCREASES USE OF ROCKET   Projectile Program Will Be Doubled; Invasions Hard On Ammunition

Presidential Vote On The Increase; Predict Less This War Year   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Size of Jowa Vole  on November 7   Democrats Say 1,100,000 and G. O. P. 900,000

Munich Blasted By Great Force of U. S. Bombers   Smash Rail Barges, Trains, Barges Along Seine River Sector

2,200 U. S. PLANES RAID MUNICH AREA   Ausburg, Nearby, Also Reported Bomb Target

AXIS GETS BLAST (F 3000 PLANES   2200 U. S. RAIDERS SPEARHEAD ASSAULT

BO a a     SS aD  HIMMLER EMBARKS ON REIGN  OF TERROR TO RESTORE ORDER IN GERMANY AFTER REVOLT

RED ARMY NEAR ESTONIA BORDER   May Trap Thousands of Disorganized Nazi Soldiers.

MEETING OF REPUBLICAN * GOVERNORS: WITH DEWEY ENDS! WITH . AGREE- '. MENT ON J68UES

G.0.P. LEADERS END THEIR ST. LOUIS PARLEY   Oppose Move of Gov’t to Take Control of Insurance Reserves

GOP STRESSES STATE RIGHTS   26 Governors End Historic Meet   BARAT UVSRA 2WY ATSBWY Y  ee ce ee  Agree on 14-Subject Program

Nearing Prize Adriatic Port Of Ancona.....  German Losses In Italy In 41 Days May Run To 100,000, Allies Report

‘Nazi Losses In Italy May Be 100,000   New Divisions Are Brought In From Other Fronts

Dewey Makes ‘Mopping Up’ State Tour   Declares New Deol Failing Miserably

Dewey Swings Across State in  Bid for Votes   Tour Follows Address In Baltimore: Winds Up His Campaign in New York Saturday

 Dewey Makes “Mopping Up’ Tour Of Pennsylvania;  Declares Roosevelt's New Deal Regime Has Failed -

Smee ee a i cm  Doughboys Capture Chateau- Thierry   Whirlwind Advances Carry Americans Over French Soil  sy state by AEF of 1918 to Within Fifty-Five Miles ot de lien   New and More Deadly Trap May Be Forming Around Last of Nazi Army

Americans Also Occupy Belleau Wood   Patton’s Third Army Rolls On Toward Cathedral City Of Reims.

SATURDAY TO BE COLD    North Edge of South Wind Moves Into Southeastern Kansas

Dewey Wins Oregon’s 15 Delegates By Wide Margin   Primary Returns Indicate Unseating  Of Sen. Holman; Morse Leading

DEWEY TAKES OREGON'S GOP DELEGATION   Cordon, Sprague Run Close; Morse Tops Holman

FDR Says Nazi Youth A Menace   Believes Nazism Implanted In Young Minds Will Always Be World Menace.

Social Security Job Examiners ' At Employment Office Here Today And Tomorrow To Aid Applicants

SEEK NON-PARTISAN PEACE ORGANIZATION   Efforts Being Made to ReMove Security Group Erom Politics.

TO DIVORGE PEACE FROM U. §. POLITICS   Dewey, Hull Exchange Notes; New Attitude Toward Peace !s Ushered In

Keep Shirts on Is Stimson’s Advice on Anzio Battle   Pavis to Compiain af Way News from Italy Now Censored

Russ Planes Blast Nazi Rail Centers   Reds Repulse Enemy’s Dnestr River Attacks

German Attacks Repulsed   Most Far-Flung Aerial Assault Of The Air Carried Out By Soviet Planes.

REDS PLAN NEW BLOWS AT NAZIS   SOVIETS DOWN 17 PLANES, SMASH ATTACKS

RUSSIANS PREPARE FOR FIERCE BATTLE   Only Local Nazi Attacks Break Month Long Lull In East.

STILL QUIET ON GERMANRUSS FRONTS   Red Army Is Preparing for  Battles Ahead

Fighting on Red Front Still Lags   Russians Prepare for Future Battles

FIERCE FIGHTS AHEAD FOR REDS   Soviet Army Prepares for Major Assaults

Seo. Riley Hall Answers to ''30"   Well Known Newspaper Man and Writer Passes Away at. Henryetta.

George Riley Hall Dies At Henryetta   Pioneer State Publisher Was Also Author

PINEVILLE MEET HEARS HALLANAN   Party Leader Says Roosevelt Administration Is as Unprepared for Peace as it Was for War

Battle Mud And Flood In Cologne Push   Drive Straddles Hitler Superhighway; Allies In South Doom Strasbourg.

ALLIES TAKE PRISONERS IN CASSSINO AREA   ‘Break Up or Repulse German Attacks, Knock Out Another Tank Established ia Building   PADUA IS BOMBED   Verona and Bologna, on Route South from Brenner Pass, Othe1 Junctions Grafled

Gian’ Blas! Rocks Coasi Near Calais   Observers Think Huge Robot Blast Is Cause

Mystery Blast Rocks Channel   Super Robot Indicated By Greatest Explosion

Moleria May Be National Problem When Soldiers Return, Says Medic

Allies Repulse Strong, German Counter-Blows   Make Normandy Gains, Reds Report Success

TOLL TAKEN IN THE LAST THREE DAYS   Despite Violent Enemy. Blows ‘at Normandy Lines, Yanks Smash Ahead in the St. Lo and Lessav Sectors. s

wm EIN Y  AMERICANS GAIN IN NEW PLUNES   Hitler’s Forces Loses At  Least 124 Tanks In  Futile Charges   BITTER FIGHTING   British Hold Solid Line With Caen Sector Onijet

Two Paratroopers Waive Hearing,  Held in $2,000 Bail   Pair Returned Here Last Week After Being Picked up in II.

3,000 Planes Deliver Huge Bomb Load      Expecting Allied Thrust on Rome, Nazis Pump 4,000 Tons of Shells into Anzio

CLARIFICATION OF ARGENTINA'S STATUS AWAITED   Officials At Washington Are Much Disturbed By Turn Of Events

SEPTEMBER COSTS JAPS 1,100 PLANES   “MONTH IS ‘MOST DISASTROUS OF WAR FOR ‘THE. NIPPONESE AIR FORCE.

AIR FORCE iN THRGES OF WORST MONTH   September Costs Japanese 1,100 Planes While Few Planes Were in Skies During August.   Allied Losses 182

decy. Knox Sees” Allied Victory In Imphal Are   Southeast Asia Command Reports Ambushing Of Japs Near Tiddam Road

Japanese Press Onward In India   Enemy, However, Dealt Blows In Pacific

Knox Confident British To Halt Japs At Imphal   Nip Fleet At  Singapore Base

Night Assault By Americans: Surprises Foe   Advance by Patton Erases Shallow Enemy Salient " In Metz-Naney Area.

Third Army Digs Deep Between Metz, Nancy Along a 20-Mile Front   Reds Slash 63 Miles Through Nazis’ Lines, Take 2000 Towns in Drive on German East Prussia; Bologna Italy, Menaced; Many Nazis Flee Greece

Hodges Armor Gets IntoOpen   7,000 Planes Lay Down All-Time Record Barrage North of Aachen

Nazi Defense Arc Crumbles 2ofore Rhine   Record Acriat Blow Opens Wide Path  3. Colocne Gates

TANKS RUMBLE ACROSS PLAIN ABOVE AACHEN   Head for Cologne ‘As Nazi Defenses  Melt Away

Tanks Strike After Barrage Of Air Armada   Four Reich Towns Overrun In Push Across Open Plains North Of Aachen

Push Cracks Enemy Defenses In Rhineland   Germans Use Hastily Formed People’s Division

Race Unchecked on Road to Cologne ©   Tank-Riding Doughboys Cash tn On Four Days Of Sluaaing With Germans To Breach Defense:

US Tanks Head for Cologne   New Breakthrough Is Made North of Aachen By Yanks

TEN JAP BATTLESHIPS RONK OF OD AUACED   ESTIMATE MADE ON RENITAINING FAP SHIPS

MASS JAP SUICIDES AT WAR'S END SEEN   Chinese Say Mikado Should Be Left to Japanese

tne te rete een amen emer  LEAVE MIKADO TO NIPS SAYS CHINESE DELEGATE

Dr. T. M. Hampton Dies After Brief Illness  Veteran Dentist Was Highly Respected By Dental Profession

Dr. T. M. Hampton Dies After Brief Iliness  Veteran Dentist Was Highly Respected  DB. Manse! Deanfnect mm

DROP MINES — INTO DANUBI   TRAFFIC SUSPENDED. OVER WATER ROUTE IMPORTANT ' IN GERMAN BUPPLY SYSTEM

Allied Forces Hold Despite Shelling And Bombing Italy-Based Bombers Pound Fiume, Pola, Targets In Albania And Yugoslavia

Allies Destroy Enemy Ships   German Attempts To Crash Bosnia Line Held

ALLIED PLANES SINK 7 SHIPS   Also Hit Nazi Barracks OPE Dalmatian Cancer

Dieppe Taken By Canadian Army Force   Allied Planes Rain Death And Ruin On Fleeing Enemy Troops,

Begins In. Forest No. Of Sedan      THIRD ARMY SURGES PAST . VERDUN INTO ALSACE-LORRA‘ IN CANADIANS CLOSING IN ON DIE)

Historic City of St. Mihiel Taken by Yanks   Allied Drive Only 25 Miles From Germany

American Troops Open Battle For Belgium as Patton's Army Pushes Past Verdun to Alsace-Lorraine.   Canadians Capture Dieppe, Seize Harbor, Hardly Firing a Shot; Other Spearheads Reach Within Two Miles of Le Havre

U.S. Third Army Drives On After Verdun Capture   x ion German Resistance ™ Said Melting Away Under Yank Pressure

TWO AMERICAN ARMIES GRACK MAGINOT LINE   Sweep Inte Alsace-Lorraine and Through Ardennes Forest Gap.

ON STORM FRINGE   Rains and Cooler Weather Reach Qver Into Kansas

JAPS GAUGHT   IN-NEW TRAP  ~ BY LANDINGS   TWO SURPRISE LANDINGS ON NEW GUINEA CUT OFF FS‘CAPE ROUTES ce “THE ENEMY

Yanks Make Fresh Landings In Hollandia Area; Capture Japs By The Hundreds

SEVEN BURNED 10 DEATH AT CHILAGO   Five Women And Two Men Burned In South ~ Side Apartment Fire ~

Lewis Wants Action on UMW Annlication   Threatens to Cancel Return of Miners I'nion to AF of I,

JOHN L. MAY CANCEL AFL all   Wires Green for Decision on Application

LEWIS S IRKED BY AFL'S DELAY   Threatens To Cancel Bid For Readmission Of UMW

UMW THREATENS TO CANCEL BID TO REENTER AFL      Lewis Wants Action Soon On Application To Join AFL Group

Columbia Joins United Nations   President Lopez Is Guest Of President Roosevelt At Canital.

J ap Air Force At Hollandia  Wiped Out By Allied Fliers   Total of 228 Enemy Planes Demolished or Irreparably Damaged, Genéral Douglas MacArthur Announces in Communique

Hollandia Japs’ Air Foree Lost   288 Planes Wrecked There. WM’Arthur Renarisa

DETROIT DOCTOR GOES 10 PRISON   Obstetrician Convicted On Espionage Charge Gets 16 Years

BIG VICTORY FOR AIRPORT BONDS URGED      Campaign Chairman Markwardt Terms Elec: tion Tomorrow “Red Letter Day” in History of City’s Progress.

JOPLIN 10 VOTE ON AIRPORT BOND “PROPOSAL TODAY   Ballot on $250,000 Improrement Proposition to Decide City’s Future.  Transportation.   TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY REQUIRED TO CARRY   Civic Leaders See Success If Turnout Is Heavy—Polls Open From 6 A. M, Until 7 P. M.

Kurile Base  Is Bombed  T frariaay ae 0) ae   Long Range Planes Make Many Raids.

Nazi Defense Cracks Up And  Becomes A Rout   ‘United States troops fight way to a. point -only seven miles from. Cherbourg.

CAPTURE TOWN T MILES FROM GREAT PORT   Shell City With Long Toms

Long Tom Cannor Blasting Targets  MANY SIGNS OF DEMORALIZATION AMONG GERMANS ARE EXHIBITED   RESISTANCE NEGLIGIBLE IN SOME SECTIONS; BRICQUEBEC IN MID-PENINSULA IS TAKEN

American Guns Shell Port City   Troops Drive Toward Montebourg, Strengthen Norman Peninsula Barricade Where 30,000 Nazis Are Trapped, Bricquebec Captured

eile War Lull Lull Ended By Bombings   Shrinking Jap Empire Given Heavy Blasting

Allied Battle Planes Keep War Rolling in Pacitic  Widely Scattered   Attacks Reported;  Halmahera Hit Again

Jap Outposts Heavily Raided   Allied Planes Swing Are of Bombs Around Nipponese Empire

Dewey Raps Head Of ‘America First’   Says Smith Trying To Smear Bricker

Dewey Assails Action of Smith   Says “America First” Head Is Trying To “Smear Gov. Bricker

Gerald Smith Denounced By Gov. Dewe;   America First Leader Is Accused By Nominee Of Attempting To Smear Governor John Bricker

Dewey Charge: Smear Aimed  ‘At Bricker   Repubticun Nominee Assails America First. Inc,. Action

SPEAKS TO CROWD AT END OF TRAIN   NOMINEE PROMISES TO RESTORE GOV'T TO PEOPLE OF U.S.

Dewey Assails Gerald Smith  “Rabble Rouser’ Like Hitler, He Says

RUSSIANS AND ALLIES TEAM UP IN BALKANS   Air Blows Reported Struck With Consent Of Reds

U. S. and Russians Join in Balkan Battle   Working Out Plan for Co-ordinated Drive Against Germans; RAF Strikes Anew at Targets in Industrial Ruhr.

Censored Dispatch Says Allied Air Attacks Are Coordinated With Soviet Ground Drives

U.S. Bombers Helping Red  GroundArmy   Teamwork Of Allies In Balkans Improves As Americans Smash Targets

Balkan Bombings Reflect Unity   Unified Military Strategy Between Allies Indicated

SOVIET-ALLIED MILITARY TEAM WORKS TOGETHER   Co-operation Between  _ Western Allies and Russian Takes Turn for the Retter

Military Cooperation Much Better   U. 8. Bombings of Balkan, Ete., In Accord and With Consent  AE BDasaata

Bombings Show Co-Operation With Russians  — Red Army Assisted By Attacks on Bucharest, Ploesti

Balkan Raids Reflect New Allied Unity   U. S., British Attacks Are Coordinated With Red Ground Offensive Against Germans

American Bombers Gcordinating Closely With Reds In Balkan Fight.

M'ARTHUR IS REGARDED AS “RECEPTIVE”   G. O. P. Leaders Believe, However, Dewey Will Be Chosen

gL? LEATERS oct GcWeY fa REAL HOWINE   Leiicf is Strong That MacArthur Would f.ccopt Nomination.

B.0,P, LEATERS act DEWEY Ag RENT HOMINEE   ' Belief is ‘Strong That MacArthur. Would Accept” Nomination,

M’ARTHUR NOT OUT OF RACE   REPUBLICAN LEADERS SAY LETTER INDICATES GENERAL. - WOULD ACCEPT “DRAFT”

BLIZZARDS SWEEP. MIDWEST AREAS   SNOW BLOCKS ROADS IN NORTHERN KANSAS—COLD ' MAY REACH TO ‘TEXAS.

PRAIRIE STATES HAVE BLIZZARD   Snowfall Is Heaviest Of Season: New Cold Wave On Way

DIPLOMATS TO CONFAB WITH ELAS   Dramatic Arrival Is Accompanied by Alexander

Allied Infantry, T anks And Planes Annihilate Fleeing Nazi 7th Army      Dawn To Dark Air Assaults Smash 3800 German Vehicles; Yanks Renorted Bound For Vichy

Death Calls Exiled Head Philippines   Manuel Quezon, 65, Succumbs at Saranac Lake, N. Y., as Result of Tuberculosis

M. Quezon, Filipino Head, Dies of T. B.   President of Philippine Government Had Long, Varied, Brilliant Career

Manuel Quezon, Exiled Philippine President, ~ Dies of Tuberculosis

PRESIDENT OF FILIPINOS DIES      Manuel Quezon, Who Resisted Jap Conquest, Is T. B. vill yt Victim

Quezon Dies In Exile at Saranac Lake   President of Philiopines Succumbs To Tuberculosis

Philippines President Quezon Dies   Long Hiness From Tuberculosis Ends In Leader's Death

Chieftain Of Phillippines Government Succumbs To Tuberculosis; Had Held Position Since 1935

President of Philippines Dies  Tuberculosis Fatal To Manuel Quezon

Quezon Death Ends Lifelong Freedom Fight   Filipino President Dies From Tuberculosis At Saranac; Left Islands By Sub

M.QUEZON DIES AT HIS SUMMER HOME   Exiled President of Philippine Government Had Tuberculosis.

Exiled Leader Of Philippines Is Dead At 65   Manuel Quezon, Head Of Government Since 1935, Dies At Summer Home At Saravec Lake

Quezon Dies Of Tuberculosis  _ Philippine President ies At Saranac

Manuel Quezon  Is Dead   EXILED PHILIPPINES LEADER FAILS TO LIVE TO SEE HIS .BELOVED HOMELAND LIBERATED

DISEASE CLAIMS MANUEL QUEZON   EXILED FILIPPINO PRESIDENT. DIES AT SARANAC LAKE HOME

QUEZON SUCCUMBS   Exiled Philippine President Continued to Work Here . ‘

Manuel Quezon, Long Philippine President, Dies   Proponent of Full Independenci Cooperated with U. S. After Invasion by Japanese

Lyle Kohnke Killed Today In Car Crash    Former Lidderdale Youth,  19, Dies in Accident  Near Perry

NEW DISPUTE IN WARD CASE: 1S UNDERWAY   WAR’ LABOR - BOARIY OFENB HEARING ON EXTENSION OF. PRESENT CONTHACT ” “WITH UNION 7%

WL PaePAnes POR ANOTHER WARD “CRISIS”   ‘Union and Company Representatives Called to Washington

Navy Dispenses With Usual Radio Silence To Swiftly Report Raids On Marianas

Japanese Lose 13 More Ships In Navy Attack   Huge Task Force Land: Terrific Blow; 141 Nip Planes Bagged In Marianas

13 Japanese Ships Sunk by Naval Force   16 Others Damaged, 141 Enemy Planes Bown in Attacks on Marianas by Ships, Planes

U.S. Task Force Wins Three-Day Fight Off Guar   American Fleet Steams Boldly Within 1,500 Miles Of Tokyo

U.S. Task Foree Deals Heavy Blow To Japs   Strike Martina Bases 1,M0 Miles Of Tokyo, Sink 13 Jap Ships, Dam. age 16, Down 141  Planes

13 Jap Ships Sunk; 16 Damaged By Planes   Task Force Also Destroy: ed 141 Planes In Three Day Attack

Navy Dispenses With Usual Radio Silence In Reporting Devastating Of Marianas

10,000 on Strike In War Plants   Union President Defies WLB Edict

STRIKERS DEFY THREAT OF WLB   Walkout Affects 200,000 Workers In Michigan And Ohio Warplants

Last-Ditch Stand Staged by Germans   Garrison at Sevastopol Holds on To Smouldering Ruins of Old City

Murder Confession Clears Up Mystery Of Long Missing Girl   Building Superintendent Admits Killing Reporter And Stuffing Body In Furnace

Admits Killing Girl Reporter   Building Superintendent Says He Stuffed Body In Furnace.

Girl Reporter Long Missing, Slain, Burned   New Haven Man Confesses Crime

Confesses Killing Woman Missing Since Last July   Man Claims Body Burned In New Haven Furnace Night Of Disappearance

MISSING REPORTER KILLED AND BURNEL   Furnace Murder Confessed by Girl’s Slayer

NEW HAVEN MAN HELD AS SLAYER OF GIRL REPORTER   J  Rose Brancato Murdered and Body Surned in Fur nace Last Julv

MAN CONFESSES IN BRANCATO SLAYING      New Haven Woman Reporter Disappeared Mysteriously Last July.

Mysterious Disappearance of Girl  Reporter Solved; Murder Confessed

CONFESSES HE KILLED WOMAN   Building Superintendent Held In Death Of Rose M. Brancato

MURDER OF GIRL REPORTER TOLD   DISAPPEARANCE OF ROSE BRANCATO IS SOLVED BY POLICE

NEW HAVEN GIRL IS NOW CLEARED   Walter W. Law, 39, Building Superintendent Signs Confession in Rose Brancato Death

U.S. Controls 5 More Atolls in Marshalls   American Airmen Step Up Attacks on Rest of Jap Positions; First Raid Made On Ulul Island; Ponape Also Attacked

FIVE MORE ATOLLS CAPTURED BY U.S.   Americans Step Up As. — saults on Remaining  Jap Positions

YANKS TARE FIVE MORE MARSHALLS   While Airmen Step Up Assaults On Remaining Isolated Jap Positions; Bomb Other Points In Marshalls.   Raid Ponape

YANKS OCCUPY MORE ATOLLS IN MARSHALLS   Bombing of Jap Positions in Islands Is Continued

ALLIES KINDLE NEW FIRES IN RUHR VALLEY   Essen Still Smoulders As Germans Strike Back At England And Wales

The War Today  Berlin Being Attacked Because Of Its Military Importance.

WAR TODAY   *“Qbliteration” Bombing of Berlin Held Justified Because of Its Vast Military Im nortanee

The War Today—  No Let-Up To Bombing Of Berlin, City Of Vast Military Targets

WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES MASS ~ BOMBINGS OF GERMAN CITIES AND CIVES MILITARY SIDE PICTURE

DESTRUCTION OF BERLIN VIEWED ‘AS NECESSARY STEP TO VICTORY BECAUSE OF ITS MILITARY VALUE   Greatest German Munitions, Railway and Industrial City, It Is One Great Sprawling Target and Chief Citadel Between Allies and Victory

Superfortress “Lord And Master” Of. Flying Forts   Screen Of Secrecy On Huge Battle Wagon Partially Lifted

PARTIAL  DESCRIPTION OF THE B-29  Described As ‘Lord and Master’ Of Flying Fortress

ARMY DESCRIBES SUPER FORTRESS   B-29 Is Heavier Armed Than The Fortress Or Liberator

ENEMY PUSHED OUT OF GREECE   Pursuing British Troops Within Seven Miles Of Yugoslav Border

Germans Driven Back in Greece   Reds Head Off Retreat  Teward Yugoslav Line

Brilish, Greeks ‘Seven Miles Front ~ Yugoslav Bordet  Miles Above Kozex.t,,  Recently Taken

.U.S. Airmen Using Airportin France  Massive Fleets Hammer Trann Cancentration<

Allies Set Up Plane Bases in France, Complete 27,000 Sorties Since D-Day

County Conventions of Political  Parties to Be Held Next Friday   Will Select Delegates. To State and State  Tudicial Conventions

Red Cross Sends Garden Seeds to War Prisoners   Vegetable Seeds, Garden Tools to be Sent to Americans in German Camps.

SNIPER SHOTS AT DE GAULLE BRING MANHUN}   Attempts On Life Fail, Bood Speeded To Paris

French Hunt Nazi Collaborators Who Made Repeated Attempts to Kill De Gaulle, One in Famed Cathedral

German Snipers Attempt to Kill  French Leader De Gaulle Order:      De Gaulle Orders Hunt for Enemy Gunmen in Paris

Patriots, Allied Troops Hunt Snipers  De Gaulle Escapes: Assassination

Seek Snipers, Collaborationists After Attempt On De Gaulle’s Life

Allies Rush Supplies to Needy Paris   Issue Ration Books tc Starving Populace; Hunt Snipers

Hunt Snipers as Result of Effort to Kill DeGaulle   Desperately Needed Food Is Rushed to Paris

ATTEMPT MADE? ON LIFE OF DE GAULLE   Results in Order To Shoot Snipers on Sight

Fifteen Reported Killed In Attempts To End Life OL Free French Leader

Smipers Fire ‘At De Gaulle in Cathedral   Patriots and Allies Searching Paris For Collaborationists

Snipers Try To Take Life Of De Gaulle   French Patriots And Allied Troops Search Paris For Bands Of Collaborationists

GERMAN SNIPERS Sunt OUT IN FRENCH CAPITAL   Paris'On Road To Normalcy; Atiempt On deGaulle Fails

HUNT FOR WOULL BE ASSASSIN OF DE GAULLE   Manhunt Proceeds on Mammoth. Scale Around Paris

U.S. IS CHECKING “ON SWISS TRADE   Guarding Against Supplies Reaching Hands of > Germans

CHINA READY FOR JAPAN SMASH AS AMERICANS BATTER ISLANDS   INFORMATION CHIEF SAYS ARMIES READY FOR OFFENSIVE; ALLIES IMPROVE ISLAND HOLDS

Invasion Is Third By U.S. Forees   GEN. PATCH’S MEN CROSS BORDER, WEST OF KARLSUHE, _ FOUR MONTHS AFTER REACHING FRANCE

Hammer Into Rhenish Palatinate West Of Karlsruhe From Alsace —Three Springbeards For Eisenhower’s Forces   THIRD ARMY PUSH INTO SAAR SLOWED

Patch’s Forces Invade Reich in Palatinate   Battles of Cologne Plain, Saar Basin Continue at Feverish Pitch; U. S. Forces Fight on Rim of Roer Fortress of Duren

SEVENTH ARMY NOW BATTLING ON REICH SOIL   New Threat to Siegfried Line

Patch’s Army Plunges Across the German Border Near Karlsruhe in Third Invasion of Germany by Yanks

Seventh Unit: ‘Slash Across Reich Border   Patch’s Veterans Threaten to Turn Sjecfried Barrier

CROSS : SRD U.S. FORCE ON REICH SOll   Patch’s Troops Gain Up To Six Miles In 3Pronged Drive

AOLLG AGUS BORDER Weal ~ OF KARLSRUHE   Patch’s Veterans Make Third Invasion of Reich in the War.

7th Army In New Crossing   Patch’s Veterans Plunge Spearhead Into Naziland

Third Invasion Of ‘Holy Soil’ Made By Yanks   Seventh Army Units Cross Border Into Palantinate West Of Karlsruhe.

Third Invasion of German Soil ls Reported   Enter Rhenish Palatinate From Alsace Reaion

Cinderella Army Makes 3rd Invasion of Reich By American Soldiers   Thrust On 19 Mile Front Threatens To Turn Siegfried Line At Its Karlsruhe Elbow

Seventh Army Crosses Line In Two Places   Fourth Invasion on Wes! Front: Yanks in Palatinate

SRD INVASION OF GERMANY BY AMERICANS   Push by 7th Threats ens to Turn Siegs fried Line at Karlsruhe Elbow.

Third Yank Springboard On Reich Soil Achieved   General Patch’s Troops Cross From Alsace Into Palatinate Territory

War’s Third Invasion Of Reich By. United States Forces   THREE SPEARHEADS INTO GERMAN SOIL   Four Months To Day After Splashing Ashore In Southern France

Cross Line At 2 Points  Near Rhine   Nazis Flee Under Peppering Hail Of U. S. Bullets

POST-WAR AID PLAN DEBATED   House Will Vote Monday On Big Fund Proposed For Relief. in War Areas

World Relief Debate Opens   Fulbright Denies UNRRA Will Promote Stalin

Official Board of Inquiry Will Probe Crash in Ogle Co.   Body of Young Pilot Removed From Wrecked Plane Saturday

Bomber Falls Tn Mill City   Entire Crew Killed When Explosion and Fire Follows Crash

Nazi Casualties in France Total Over 400,000, Eisenhower Reports

Nazi Casualty List In West Over 400,000!   Two German Armies, Part Of Two Others, Lost  In France

 TOWARD BETTER FESTIVITY: Dealers in Alcoholic I Drinks ‘Asked to Close Day of Victory

MEDICAL SCHOOL TO OTAY IN GALVESTON REGENTS RECOMMENI  ACTION IS FLAT REJECTION OF PROGRAM OF PRESIDENT RAINEY

B00 DEAD, HURT IN AMMUNITION DEPOT EXPLOSION   2 Ammunition Ships Blown Up 40 Miles From San Francisco

Bid DEAG, HURT W ANMUNITION DEPOT EXPLOSION   2 ‘Ammunition Ships ~ Blown Up 40 Miles _ From San Francisco

AIR AND GROUND WAR BURST INTO BITTER FIGHTING SATURDAY  NORTHERN AND SOUTH_ ERN ENDS BATTLEFRONT SEE HEAVY FIGHTING

Units Defy. Curtain  Of Fire   Air War Bursts Into New Violence Over Holland

‘V-E’ Day Wage Policy Of WLB To  Compensate For Loss Of Overtime

REVISION T0 REPLACE LOSS OF OVERTIME   Abandonment Of 48-Hour Week Considered By Federal Board  cere nena = ne   INDUSTRY GAIN CITED   Other Methods Studied For Improvement Of Labor’s Provision

WAGE PROBLEM ~ BEING STUDIED   METHODS. OF OFF-SETTING DROP IN PAYROLL. AFTER V-E DAY GETTING SEE ‘YOUS ATTENTION 

REDUCTION ON CANNED GOODS POINT VALUES   Coming for February But Bowles Warns There'll Be Less Processed Food During ‘44

OPA Cuts Point Values Of Major Canned Foods   a TC I  CHART ON PAGE 2

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today.   Paint Valne Reductions.

Reduce Point Value Of Many Canned Vegetables   Effective Sunday, Cut Will Range Generally From Two To Four Points

Canned Goods To Take Fewer Ration Points   Cut in Major Items Effective In February

Girl Scout Radio Show on Saturday   fooced Veagetahles Get Point Reductions

Soldier Vote Bill Being Polished Up   Unemployment Crisis Coming in Future Unless Government Obstacles Removed from Civilian Production, Truman Committee Warns

Allies Facing Winter Stalemate  ‘Thirty Days to Decide Length of Europe War

October To Decide Duration In Europe   Germany May Hang On Until Spring Unless Maior Break Is Scored Soon.

(pl. Howard Stinger -- On Road To Berlin; <.."Draise for Airforce

6 Killed In Pennzoil Co. Gas Blasts   FLAMES SEND UP GREAT CLOUDS OF BLACK SMOKE PREVENTING EXAMINATION OF THE RUINS FOR OTHER POSSIBLE VICTIMS   Near Oil City

Soviet Striking Forces Stepping Up Face Of Sensational Advanee On Southern Front, Many Border Crossines   STAFF HEADQUARTERS OPENED TN RUMANTA

New Zealanders Mopping Up At Cassino   Maori Natives Dislodge Enemy Paratroopers

CASSINO;  GERMANS HOLD FAST      (Fresh Units Help Nazis Cling To Corner Of Ruined Town

Maoris Oust Nazis: From  Hotel Fort   rho, Sn re Violent Fighting Continues in Hills -Around Town

Positions in Hillis Change Hands Often   Germans Still Putting Up Fierce Resistance in  That Sector

MANS POUR i TROOPS INTO GASSING   Other German Units Fight Way Back To Crest Of Hill 165; More Than 100 Nazis Killed Or Captured In Cassino 4»   COUNTER ATTACKS ARE DRIVEN BACK

AIR OFFENSIVE CONTINUES OVER    GERMANY, FRANCE   Air Bombardment of Allies Over Italian Front Fails to Dislodge Nazis From Cassino.

MADRS FIGHT WAY TO LAaT STRONG POINT   German Tanks in Hotel Lobby Knocked Gut in Close Quarter Battle.

LAST OF GERMANS AT CASSINO ARE BEING MOPPED Ut   100 Nazis In Continental Ho: tel When New Zealander: Finally Break Resistance at Last Center.   SOUTHWEST GERMANY, FRANCE ARE BOMBEE   German Planes Offer Weak Resistance to Lose Seven Craft, Invasion Coast Is Bloctard.

Allies Mop Up Last Remaining Nazis In Cassino   New Zealanders Lead Drive To Eradicate  Defending Germans

Bitter Fight Raves   Nazi Paratroopers Make Last Stand On Fringe of Town

Army Defeats Navy in Service Tilt   _ More Than 70,000 Fans Watch Day‘s Big Game

MIAMI FLIER IS LISTED MISSING   Tech. Sgt. Edmond Fitzjarrell Participated in Attack on Nazis May 8

NYLONS MAKE WOMEN BRISTLE - - AND HOW   Advertising Party Turned Into Scramble for Toothbrushes

FRY PREPARES FOR STATE-WIDE DRIVE   Walter Averil Jr., Is Named Committee Chairman.

Canadians Smash Boulonge Lines To Ferry Harbor   English Coast Visible From Upper Part Of City

Nine-Year-Old Child Dies Affer Four Years Of Uninterrupted Sleep

Germans Bomber in Snow Storms  Oil Plants and Rails in the Ruhr Blasted

DETERMINED TO BE DONOR   Topeka Woman Took Vitamins to Qualify for Blood Bank

Muecke Economize “Bart 4 abo:   Capper’s Farmer Tells- of Labor Saving Devices .  Used By Them .

Byrnes Order: Job Ceiling In 181 Areas   Local Groups to Fix Lids on Civilian Plants in Country

Byrnes Orders Rigid Ceilings On Employment   Rv STERLING F. GREEN

RIGID EMPLOYMENT CEILINGS ORDERED      New Move to:Meet Manpower Shortage Is _ Decreed

RIGID EMPLOYMENT CEILINGS ORDERED   New. Move to:Meet_Man- power Shortage Is Decreed ©

Byrnes Clamps Rigid Control Over Industry   Individual Plants in 181 Labor Scarcity Areas Affected hy Order

Dewey Charges Rival Party Failed Jobless   Confers With Labor, Business Leaders — In Pittsburgh Meet

Fish Battles For Seat in N Y Primary      SENATOR BENNETT CLARK IN MISSOURI IS OPPOSED BY PRO-ROOSEVELT ROY MCKITTRICK, ATTORNEY GENER +.   Clare Luce Silent

JHURCHES OF CITY PLAN FOR HOLY WEEK   Union Services to Feature Sermons by Local Ministers

MEN CAN PICK OWN READING   Senate Lifts Ban On Films And Radio Programs

"Well,  Like That" Says Dotty, Her Tone Making It Clear She Doesn't

ALLIES OCCUPY CITY, PRESS ON AGAINST NAZIS   Fighter-Bombers Lash at Fleeing Columns on Congested Highways

5TH ARMY PUSHES  BEYOND ETERNAL  CITY; NAZIS FLEE CROSS TIBER RIVER  TOWARD NORTHERN ITALIAN HORIZONS

The. Eternal City Was ‘Turned Into a Near Carnival - for the Soldiers.   1S VIRTUALLY INTACT   Dome of St. Peters, Dominating the City, Reflected Rays of Sunlight on Troops.

MARINES SMASH JAP ATTACK ON CAPE GLOUCESTER   American Airmen Blast Enemy Bases Over Wide Jone in Pacific

MARINES REPEL NIPPON ATTACK ON NEW GUINEA   More Than 200 Enemy Troops Killed — Airmen Drop IMore Bombs

JAPANESE TRY ATTACK, LOSE 200 ON CAPE   Marines Make Enemy Regret CounterAssault

J ap Attack ° Is Repelled In  -New Britain   More Than 200 Enemy Troops Slain During Clash With Marines On Cape Gloucester

Jap Attaek Crushed on New Britain   Mannes Tighten Gnp on Cape, Kill 200 Enemy Troops

Yanks Repulse Counterattack On New Britain   Strengthen Hold on Cape  Glaticacter

200 Japs Slain In Gloucester Counter-raid   'U. S. Fliers Attack Five Airfields; Sink Barges Off Huon Peninsula.

U.S. Forces Crust  Jap Attack  On New Britain 200 Nips Die In Futile Counterblow

JAP ATTACK CRUSHED ON NEW BRITAIN   Four Nip Barges Are Sunk Off New Guinea

¥ our Jap Barges Are Sunk Off  Huon Peninsula   Marines Repel One: Enemy Battalion In Turning Back Drive

SEIZED PLANT TURNED BACK 10 COMPANY   Government. Gives Up Possession as Employeg Complete Election On C. I. O. Representation;   PURPOSE SERVED, : JESSE JONES SAY   Chairman Sewell ‘Avery Attributes Return of Property to Indignation of Public.

French coast hit by RAF  blockbusters  6,000 tons loosed on enemy target:

NAZI EUROPE ATTACKED BY 4 O00 PLANES   ALLIED FLIERS DROP 6,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES

German Railway Centers and Airdromes Are Pounded  T7—™*/, LL ££ oe ee welCUlClU ell le      13 AIRCRAFT LOST IN MORNING RAIDS   ‘Re Bee Re  Sere PR rene == lc  Night Attacks Continuing, German Radio Renariée

German Railway Centers and Airdromes Are Pounded  13 AIRCRAFT LOST IN MORNING RAIDS  Night Attacks Continuing, German Radio Reports

PLANES BLAST COAST ALONG DOVER STRAIT   RAF Attack Centered On Dunkerque and  Calais Areas

Allies Use 4,006 Planes in Raids On Axis Targets   Score of Rail Junctions Are Blasted with 6,000 Tons of Explosives

Tempo Of Ait Blows Rises   Violerit Blasts On Coast .  Shatter England’s Windows

6,000 Tons of Explosives Fall on Enemy   Mightiest Aerial Armada of History in Attacle

'NEW OFFENSIVE IS FORECAST BY BERLIN AS NEW JABS BY AMERICANS GAIN FOUR MILES

Yankees Gain Again in Aachen Area   Germans Brace for Expected All-Out Offense As Dutch Port of Flushing Falls; Battle for Antwerp Comes to Virtual Close

Powerful New Offensive May Be Forming In U. S. Thrusts Beyond Aachen

DRIVE SHAPING UP   Berlin Says U. S. Drive South of Aachen Fore casts Offensive

NAZIS BELIEVE MOVES HERALD NEW OFFENSIVE   Battle to Open Up Route to Antwerp Is Virtually Concluded

FIRGT An  MY IN 4 MILE DRIVE      Battle to Clear Way to Port Of Antwerp Is Virtually . Ended.   PUSH AHEAD IN, VOSGES

Antwerp Port Is Cleared   Resistance Increases in New Yank Attack Southeast of Aachen

Two-Mile Advance Scored by Hodges; Nazis Fear Thrust   Gains in Hurtgen Forest Widened As Enemy Reports New Attacks ‘Forerunners of the Forthcoming Offensive’—Ancient Dutch Port of Flushing Taken by British Troops.

First Army Gains Two More Miles   Berlin Says. Drive a Is Forerunner of Coming Offensive; Battle  For Antwerp N ear End

Yanks Gain A Mi: Grea! Drive Hinted   Another Town Taken As Hodges’ Men Jab Along 30-Mile Front

U.S. 1st Army Plunges Ahead 2 More Miles   Hurtgen Forest Push Forerunner Of Majo: Blow—Nazis; British Capture Flushina

Yankees Punching Forward   GAIN TWO MORE MILES SOUTHEAST OF AACHEN: FLUSHING IS OVERRUN

Yanks Capture Town on Banks  Of Roer River   Berlin Predicts New Drive by Dodges’ First Army

Bricker Says He’s Not Inter ested in Vice Presicential Nomination.

Ohio Governor Won't Accept Second Place   Bricker Says 1 He’s Onl; Interested In Presidency

Bricker Says He’s Uninterested) 'in Second Place on Ticket,   ‘Governor's Manager Says He Will Go Into Convention with! 257 Delegates; Executive on Air at 10:30 Tonight. 

NOT INTERESTED IN SECOND PLACE   BRICKER SAYS HE IS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT ONLY

BRICKER LISTS 257 DELEGATES   Campaign Chief Says There Will Be No Nomination On First Ballot

RESULTS ELECTIONS  IN THREE STATES ARE  AWAITED TUESDAY POLITICAL OBSERVERS  STUDY PREDICTION ABOUT COP CONVENTION

Not Interested, Says Bricker To Vice Presidency   Manager Predicts No First Ballot Nomination At June Convention

Bricker Won't Take 2nd Place   Not Interested in Vice Presidential Nomination, He Says

BRICKER SHUNS VICE PRESIDENCY   Claims European Invasion May Affect Election

Nation Awaiting Hection Results   Predict GOP Will Not Name Nominee On The The First Ballot.

BRICKER SNUBS ‘SECOND PLAGE   Says He’s Not Interested In Vice Presidential Post

aad  Bricker. Not Interested  InG.0o. P. Nomination For Vice President   Ohio Governor Tells Washington Press Conference His Goal Is To Be Named Party’s Candidate For President . «

Henry Kaiser Club for President Incorporated in State by Chicagoans

Fears Repetition Of Pig Slaughter   Iowan Quotes OPA Head's Letter Hinting ‘Curtailment of Livestock’

Flying Wallendas.See Scores Die : os Aerial Artists Witness Tragedy

Short-Term Pacts Advocated for Ending Furopean War Instead of Peace lreaty

Peacemakers May  Junk Old Pattern   Unconditional Surrender Eliminates Treaty Need

Important Ridge Taken By 8th Army   Germans Are Fanatically Defending Coriano; Amerieans Continue to Gain North of Pisa

Sth Army Captures an Important Position on A Ridge in North Italy

Important Ridge In Italy Taken   Americans Still Make Gains North Of Pisa

Furious Battling Wins Ridge For Allied Troops  Italian Fight Rages As British, Yanks Gain Slowly

British Take Ridge In Italy   Furious Fight: Rages “South: Of. Riniini 0h

HEAVY BATTLE BELOW RIMINI   British Seize Vital Ridge ir Fierce Fighting

HALF MILLION ARE CASUALTIES   Almost 3 Years of War Cos! . U.S. Services Total af BNO 10R -

POLES ATTACK NAZIS ALONG ADRIATIC SEA   Allies Clean Up Hostile Fascist Pockets And Lash Out At  Snipers

ADRIATIC FRONT ACTION REVIVED   Francaville Captured By Italian And Polish Units

ALLIES OPEN NEW DRIVE IN ITALY   POLISH AND ITALIAN TROOPS  ATTACK GERMANS IN ADRIATIC SECTOR,

In Adriatic Sector, Cap turing Fr ancavills Moving on Toware Cesano River.  Parts Open

New League Will ‘Direct’ All Penalties   Security Leaders Will Hold Powers To Prevent Wars

Budd Builds Welded Stainless Steel Cargo Plane of New Design for Navy

Welded Plane Is Produced For US Navy   Ship Resembles Whale In Flight

Hopkins Held Manipulator Of Stettinius   FDR Advisor Seen Maneuvering Clayton, - Deuglas Inte Posts 

REDS SAY NAZIS KILLED 102 000   Sovict Commission $a ys Great Numbers Were Discoverecl at Two Places.

Reds Charge Nazis Murdered 1 02,000   Many Persons in Rovno Area of Pre-W ar Poland Forced to Dig Own Graves. Soviet Commission Finds: Torture Is Disclosed

02,000 MURDERED BY NAZIS IN POLAND      Soviet Commission Reports on Civilian Atrocities

102,000 Massacred In Poland By Nazis: Mass Graves Found   Ry ENMYV Cll anne

Nazi Atrocities Are Listed by the Russians  Charge 102,000 Were Murdered in the Rovno Region

Say Many in Rovno Area  Of Old Poland Forced To-Dig Their Own Graves

Reds Reveal Mas: Murder In Poland   Nazi Slaughter More Than 102,000 Civilians  And Prisoner<«.

Reds Charge Germans Murdered     102, 000 Pet »rsons In Rovno Region

AROUND THE TOWN   102,000 Civilians, War Prisoners in Rovno Area Murdered

‘KEEP OUT OF RAIN’ CHURCHILL TO FDR   Private Message Also Sent From Prime Minister

SLOVAKS RISE AGAINST NAZIS   Romanian Mission In  Moscow  Bulgars Prepare For Armistice

RESTRICTED AXIS SHIPPING URGED   CONFEREES SEEK TO CURTAIL NAVAL POWER

General Staff Sees Terrific Battles Ahead   Hope Virtually Abandoned For Swift Knockout Of Germany

Greatest Armor Blow by Yanks Cuts 4-Mile Gap   Planes, Big Guns Aid Attack; Troops Use Tanks as ‘Broncos’

Omar Bradley's Armor Forces Knock 4-Mile Wide Breachin Enemy Lines West of St. Lo

ONE PRONG OF SOVIET DRIVE AT VISTULA   Nips Report Raid On Naval Base  A 4 Cu Laine

’ FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates' Warld News Today.   Ayericans Capture Mariviny.

INITIAL MAJOR OPERATION FOR TANKS OF U. $   Breach German Line Over 4-Mile Stretch In Area West Of St. Lo, Normandy, Today

Armored Units’ Lead Offensive On Broad Front   Marigny, St. Gilles : First Big Prizes In  Break-Through Drive:

News Day And Night   Breach Of Nazi Defenses Opens Way To Heart Of Normandy   Guns And Bombers Support Attack   Front Dispatches Say Gew man Resistance Mild, Spotty

Germans Willing To Quit Aachen   Doughboys Cleaning Up City Find Nazis Ready to Surrender

Americans Are Advancing . Against Collapsing Resistance  GERMAN INFANTRY, ~ TANKS ARE POUNDED  Altied Front Shows Signs of Imminent Eruption

Signs Indicate Whole Front About to Fall   British 2nd Army North Of Aachen Appears Set To Spring Into Action Across Rhine Plain

Exile Suggested For Disloyal Japs   Witness in California Inquiry Urges Step

Japs Hurl New Assaults on Kohima, Impha!   Invaders Beaten Back: Smash Again at Britigh Garrisons

JOBS PLANNED FOR VETERANS   Ohio Commission Named Te Work Out Program

ISLAND BASES OF NIPPONESE ARE POUNDEL   LIBERATORS STRIKE SORONG IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA

LIBERATORS HIT SORONG, PALAU - YAP   Airdromes on Dutch New Guinea Targets for Bombers; Interception at Van   Four Planes Lost

See Parallel Between Smashing American Blitz T ‘Paris And German Blitz Of 1940 That Tumbled Fra

Heinzen Tells About Way  To Paris   Former UP Manager In France Describes Importance of Capital

Nazi Campaign of 1940. \Parallels Yank Tank Drive lof Today, Heinzen Declares

Reverse Blitz In France   U. S. TANK DRIVES PARALLEL 1940 GERMAN BREAK-THROUGH

British Guns Aid Government    Rebel Headquarters Captured in Bitter Fighting; Intense Hostilities Reported in Various Sections of Greek Capital

Greeks Battle British Troops in Capital City   100 Killed in Clashes With Left-Wingers

Open Fight On Rebel EAM Forces   British and Greek Pro-Government Forces Seize Leftist Headquarters

Tanks Rush EAM Group In Athens   Bloody Fighting Rages in Elalf Dozen Sections of City

400 LETT CAPTURED IK HAST ATTAGK   Papandreou Gov't Remains in Office with Assistance of Churchill.

BATTLE IN PROGRESS IN ATHENS   British Aid Greek Government Force: Fighting Leftists

Assault On Leftist Forces Is Opened   England Supports Papandreou In Capture of EAM‘s Headauarters

British Aid Greek Army In Fighting   EAM Headquarters Fall To Assault: Leaders Arrested.

Seize Greek Leftists In Armed Fray   Communist Group In Athens Surrenders To Bri tish Tank Unit.

Offices of EAM, Reds Captured: Fighting Rages   Building Seized in Violent Struggle; Strike Continues

Headquarters of Rebellious Units Reported Seized   Showdown Fight For Government Control  Believed Under Way

TANKS FIRE IN BLOODY CLIMAX TO REBELLION   Cabinet Crisis Thought Past

Buildings Fall In Violent Struggle   ELAS High Officers Surrender To Govt.

(BRiaswou ISSUE ULTIMATUM "TG LIBERATION FORCES IN ATHENS: BUILDINGS SPIZED

Headquarters Of Eam in Athens Taken   British and Greek Forces Quelling Street Fighting

COMMUNIST QUARTERS CAPTURED   Pitched Battle Rages Between Opposing Forces

British Open Assault on Greek Rebels   Intense Fighting Rages in Many Parts of Athens

os POISON ~ KILLED. 509   PROBE OPENED INTO DISASTER __IN_SOUTHERN ITALY WHEN __ ' ‘TRAIN STOPPED.IN TUNNEL .-!

~ CALL SESSION   Governor Holds Legislature Meeting Needed to Aid In Soldier Voting

Allied Planes Sweeping Skies  On Italy Areas   Giving Record-Breaking Support to Huge Ground Offensive Against Hit. Jer’s Southern Walls

Record Allied Air Support Given Ground Offensive In Italy; Planes Swarm Skies   Strategic Bombers Sent Out To Slash Communications: Hampered By Overcas

Artillery Pounds  At German Lines   Main Enemy Position With in Ruined Cassino Is Heavily Blasted

POSTAL RATES TC ADVANCE SUNDAY   No More Local Delivery At Old 2c Rate—Airmail To Cost More Too

Increased Rates  On Mail Service  New Schedule Goes in _ Effect March 26

NAZIS KILLED BY RUSSIANS IN NEW FICHT   Germans Putting Up Resistance At Sevastopol

Quiet Along - Soviet Front Is Continued   Only Localized Fighting Is Reported in Daily Moscow Communiques

Reds Kill 600 In New East Attack:   Germans Attempt To Recover Lost Positions Around Tiraspol.

LULL CONTINUING ON EASTERN FRONT   Report Germans, Roman: ians in Sevastopol Offer Strong Resistance.

Localized Fighting Is Reported  On Russian Front  Soviets Claim 600 Germans Killed In Day’s Battling

SHARP, LOCALIZED FIGHTING REPORTED ON RUSSIAN FRONT  ALONG MOST OF LONG TTMSErTarnm Farr rrAavmrrirrt

REDS REPORT NAZI ATTACKS ARE FAILING   Declare 600 Germans Slain in..Crumpling Blows in ‘Old Poland — Moscow ~ Says Lull Elsewhere Is Unbroken.

‘Lull Continues  On Soviet Front  600 Germans Reported  Slain In Two Areas

Reds Repulse Nazi Attacks   Kill 600 Germans in Localized Fighting; Lull Continues

Russians Kill 600 Germans Sharp Attacks   Fighting Near Stanislawow  } and Tiraspol. Localized;   Prolonged Lull On East Front Unbroken

600 NAZIS SLAIN BY SOVIET ARMY   Russians Report Many Killed Near Stanislawow; No Action Reported Elsewhere On Eastern Front.

Dewey Wins On First Ballot   Bricker Withdraws To Take Vice Presidency.

Nazi Situation In Balkans Held Critical   Revealed 5,000 Tons Of Guns and Supplies Flown In te: Patriots

CHAOS IS GRIPPING BALKAN COUNTRIES   Enemy Forces Face En: gulfing, Dispatches , - State

VOTES 10 EXTEND PRICE CONTRO   SENATE APPROVES COMPROMISE MEASURE AND SENDS IT TO WHITE HOUSE.

DEADLOCK ON PRICE ~~ CONTROL BROKEN; BIT. - SENT ''O WHITE HOUSE

ATTEMPT ON DeGAULLE'S LIFE — DURING PARIS PARADE FAILS   ‘Several Specators Killed And Dozens Wounded In Shooting Between French Patriots And French  Fascists; General Given Thunderous Ovation

DE GAULLE I TARGET FOR SNIPER FIRE   During Parade; Parisians Thrown Into Panic by Unexpected Attack by Fascist Militia.   Four Photographers

DE GAULLE UNHURT ~ IN PARIS: RIOTING   Gunfire Breaks reaks Up Libera. tion Parade i in. French ; - Capital .

GUNFIRE ENDS PARIS PARADE   DeGaulle Escapes as Wild Flurry of Shooting Disperses Celebrators

DEMOCRATS OF MISSISSIPPI. JOIN ANTI- NEW DEAL eROUP   STATE CONVENTION FOLLOWS LEAD OF TEXAS—SPEAKEES FLAYED POLICIES OF ADMINISTRATION

New Dealers Denounced in Mississippi   Demo Revolt Looms If Concessions to  South Refused

Liberty Ship Cracks Up On Alaskan Run   Fifty-Five Members Of Crew Missing After Ship Is Broken In Twe  By Explosion

CRITICAL DRIVES BY ALLIES NEAR, KNOX DECLARES   Ptea for Lend-lease Extension Highlights Day’s Events In Nation’s Capital

Continuation Of Lend-Lease Urged by Knox   ‘Tells House Group Allies  “On Threshold of Criti  cal” Offensives  Against Axis

Knox Supports Lerid-Lease: Act  Naval Strength Of United Nations Given

OEGRETARY OF NAVY KNOX STATES ALLIES ON EVE OFFENSIVES   MAKES REVELATIONS IN IN URGING CONTINUATION OF LEND-LEASE ACT

Knox Forecasts ~ New Offensives   On Threshold of Moves Against Axis Which Will Dwarf All Previous Thrusts, Secretary of Navy Declares Today.   ADVOCATES LEND-LEASE

ALLIED DRIVES PENDING-KNOX   Action Will Dwarf Al Previous Thrusts, Navy Sec’y Says

EUROPEAN CRISIS IS APPROACHING IN GREAT DRIVE   Knox Says Other Offensives Will Be Dwarfs In Comparison With Plans Now Nearly Ready.”   ASKS FOR THREE-YEAR -LEND-LEASE EXTENSION   Secretary of Navy Appear as Final Witness Befor Conference of Foreign Af fairs Group.

Cooperation Assurances  Among Allies Found Vital   Defends Large Sums Spent Across Globe

Allies Are On Threshold Of Critical Offensives, Knox Says Coming Actions Will Dwarf All Previous Thrusts  Te As fk eee. AL EL neckiticnn CR TF Ae ST hw

Knox Appeals For Lend-Lease   Allies on Threshhold Of Great Offensives, Navy Secretary Says

Crisis Near Knox Tells.  Congress   Secretary Says Lend-Lease Has Made It Possible

“On Threshold of Critical’ Thrusts   Will Dwarf All Other Offensives Says Knox In Asking Extension — Of Lend-Lease Ac?

SECRETARY OF NAVY SANOX STATES ALLIES “ON EVE OFFENSIVES ' -MAKES REVELATIONS IN  \ IN URGING CONTINUATION ' Ap TENDIBACE ac

DECISIVE DRIVES WEAR, SAYS KNOY   Congress Urged To Continue Lend-Lease After + June 30 -

Knox Warns Of Big Offensives   Urges Congress To Assure Our Partners Of LendLease Help.

ALLIES ON THRESHOLD OF OFFENSIVES TO DWARF ALL ‘PRIOR THRUSTS, SAYS STIMSON

LARGE TANKER, ) TRANSPORTS LOST BY NIPS   Enemy Also Counts 10 Cargo Ships on, Bottom As Subs Strike Hard

Coming Operations Will Dwarf All Previous Actions  Critical Offensives By Allies Near, Says Knox

IRELAND FEARING ~ALLIED BLOCKADE   Churchill Declines Further Comment, Lack of Coal Will Be Serious.

Eire Believes Britain Will Blockade Isle   : GUESSES. aeeereen Sm

Blockade hreat Casts Glooni on - Southern trelanc  Government Silent a: . Churchill Issues Woarnina

Trish, Fearful Of Lean Days, Cry‘Blockade’   Churchill Declines Fur. ther Information on Fire Isolation

IRISH BLOCKADE MAY PARALYZE ALL INDUSTRY   Churchill Declines To Throw Light On Allies Intentions

EIRE SAYS “BLOCKADE’    Expect Lean Times to Follow Isolation by Britain

ALLIES CLAMP DOWN ON NEUTRAL IRELAND   Eire To Be “Blockaded’ While Axis Spies There

BUTTER SUPPLY DROPS SLIGHTLY      About 8.5 Per Cent Less for Current Quarter

Police Control In Germany  Is Strenothened   Growing Panic. in Reich; Absenteeism. in: Plants, Peace Riois Reported 

Prisoner Bag Reaches      Seek Solid Senate Majority To Safeguard Peace Plans

FEDERAL AGENCIES SAVE. MANPOWER   ‘Quarterly Survey Reports Are Made By Civil Service Cammission

EXTRA GAS ISSUED CHICAGO DRIVERS   Five Davy Old Electric Line Strike Ties Up Trattic

HITLER MISSES PARTY HOLIDAY   Fails to Make Speech on Eve of Special Day

BELIEVE HITLER IS MENTALLY ILL   DER FUEHRER WILL REMAIN SILENT ON NAZI ANNIVERSARY

Hitler Silent on Greatest Holiday  r Hall Putsch Celebs ation Delayed

HITLER'S VOICE IS NOT HEARD   Mystery Is Injected Into Celebration Silence

What's The Matter With Hitler? Passes Up Greatest Holiday Of Nazi Party Without A Speech

Hitler Silent Upon Eve Of Nazi Holiday   War Dampens Celebration

Resistance Squashed By Army   Military Helps Dept. Of Commerce Oust Officials  On FDR Orders.

‘Government Takes Over Montgomery Ward Properties    Army Ordered To Operate World’s Second Lorgest Mail Order Business Until ClO Baraaining Agent Recognition Is Given

HERRON FACES PRISON TERM   COLUMBUS JURY FINDS MAN GUILTY OF CAUSING DEATH OF SMALL CIILD

DERELICTS LINE SHORE NORMANDY   Footroom Scarce; Foxholes Numerous; Many Bodies There

WelterOf Wreckage   BUSY SOLDIERS CAREFULLY STEP AROUND BODIES OF THEIR DEAD COMRADES

Wreckage Fills Sea Off Beach  Troops Step Carefully Around Bodies Of Men

Germans Bomb Yank Hospital   Both Sides Prepare Drives in Cassino and Beachhead; Allied Guns Rake Tanks at Continental Hotel; Snipers Active

Ultimatum Is Reiected   American Big Guns And Dive Bombers Proceed With Destruction of Reich City   Ring Tightens.

Germans Fail To Heed Demand lo Surrender   Major Battle For Vital Area Is Developing

Major Struggle Developing As Troops Advance   Begin Moving Toward Small Corridor Left Open To City; Yanks Striking Hard

BLAST CITY AS NAZIS REJECT SURRENDER BID   Major Battle Developing As Germans Rush Up  Reinforcements

Troops Rushed Up By Germans From The East   U. S. Artillery And Planes Bombard Important City

German Commander Of Garrison Turns Down U. S. Ultimatum To Surrender City

GERMANS RUSHING UP TROOPS” TO REINFORCE CITY AS BIG ‘GUNS AND PLANES GET STARTED

GERMANS TRY TO RUSH IN TROOPS   Surrender Ultimatum Rejected By Nazis   CANADIANS   Improve Position In South: Patton’s Progress Slow In Metz Area

It Was Just an Hour and Ten Minutes After the Expiration of the Twenty-Four  . Hour Ultimatum.   A MAJOR BATTLE : WAS. DEVELOPING   Heavy Guns Thundered in an _ Obliterating Barrage and Bombers Cirecled on the . Surrounded City.

Hard -To - Beat Germans Rash  Fresh Troops Into City   Reds Score In Hungary   x kK Kk & Death Of Aachen

Germans Rush Reinforcements In Bitter Defense   Progress Is Slow All Along Great Western Front

Fresh German‘ Troops ‘Are Rushed Toward Aachen As American Artillery And Planes Open Full Seale Attack On Ancient City Where Charlemagne Had Headquarters

Destruction Of Nazi City Begins   Enemy Commander Spurns Ultimatum; U. S. Planes, Guns Turn Loose Terrific Bombardment; Civilians Seek to Give Up

Major Battle Developss As Yanks Begin Furio Attack Of: Destructieé

‘Nazi Troops In City Refuse To Surrender   Gerrzany Rushing Up Reinforcements in An Effort to Hold Base

U.S. Guns And Planes Blast Besieged City   Germans Rush Up Reinforcements In Effort To Relieve Garrison; Yank Ring Around Ancient Town Is Drawn Tighter

AMERICAN BIG GUNS ATTACK AACHEN TODAY   Nazi Commander Refuses U. S.  Truce Plan

First Army Units Open Assault To  Wipe Out Garrison   By Refusing to Accept 24-Hour Ultimatum for Unconditional Surrender German Commander Seals Doom of Fortress City   }. S. GUNNERS FIRE FIRST SALVOS AT NOON

Refuse To Yield  City   Major Battle Shaping Up erican Guns And Pianes Start to  Pound City to Pieces

Germans Rush Un Reserves   Bringing Up Strong Rein- © forcements to Try to Save City that Defied Ultimatum

Massed American Big Guns. Open Assault To Destroy Old City   Alamo Scouts are Pride Of Commander Krueger

GERMAN RESERVES MOVING FROM EAST TOWARD DOOMED CITY  U. S$. ARTILLERY AND PLANES TURN ON REIN FORCING COLUMNS

Germans Bring Up Rein.   foreements As Ficre   Deluge Rains On Cats Refusal Of OC ltimitiuis   Indicates Nazis Deter  mined On Suicidal focfense Of Reich.

City Is Being Pounded by U.S: Artillery and Planes   Americans Battle Germans In Winding Tunnel at Ft. Driant -

Major Battle Looms as Foe Rushes Troops Up From East   Nazi Reserves Moving on City by Broad Daylight

Foe Refuses To Surrender Historic City   Great New Battle Looms as Both Sides Seek Showdown

YANK GUNS AND PLANES BLAST NEW COLUMNS   Perhaps Full Division of Nazis Trying to Get to Besieged City

Assault Opened As Germans Turn Down Ultimatum   Final Attack Not Heavy As Expected; Germans Rushing Up Reinforcements

Nazis Refuse To Surrender City           Big Guns, Dive-bombers Hurl Explosives , Fire Into German industri Center After Ultimatum Expires °*

GERMANS RUSH TROOPS IN FOR MAJOR BATTLE   Western German City to Serve as “Test Case” in Relation to Treatment of Others

Doughboys Begin Destruction Of City As Nazis Reject Ultimatum   Major Battle Is Developing   Germans Elect To See Cite ies Die Rather Than  Surrender Them

Big Battle for City Is Developing   U. §. Artillery and -Planes Turned Against Enemy. « Columns From East   WHOLE DIVISION  MOVING TO:FRONT   Heavy Fighting Continues: in Other Areas, But Aach-~en Is a Test Case

Destruction of Nazi Fortress to Be Pattern For All German Cities

Nazis Refuse To Surrender City   Big Guns, Dive-bombers Hurl a And Fire Into German Industrial Center After Ultimatum Expires —

Germans Bring Up Rein: forcements As Fiery Deluge Rains On City: Refusal Of Ultimatum  _ Indicates Nazis Deteramined -On Suicidal Defense OF Reich.

Surrender Ultimatum Is Rejected   Assault is Test Of Reich Decision  'To Sacrifice Town:

Hope, Grant, Other Film Stars Named In Alleved Use of Butane for Antes

HASTINGS WILL MAKE BID FOR PRORATE JUDGE   Elected Sheriff On 2-Term Pledge, And Says He'll  Stick To It.

Three Killed As Interurban Cars Collide   Many Injured in  Accident Four and One-Half Miles Sovth Of Oklahoma City

Chinese Advance On Salween Front   Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Japs

Bricker Flays New Deal Policies   Pledges to Clean Up ‘Governmental House’

Red Troops Near Pskov   Advancing on Historic City; Death Trap at Sherkasy Drawn Tighter

Red Forces Press Closet To Pskov   Other Russian Troops Whittle Down Cherkasy Death Pocket

RUSSIANS DRIVE NEARER PSKOV INNORTH FRONT   Reds Also Whittle Down Cherkasy Death Pocket in Upper Dniepe:

 Cherkasy Death Pocket Being  Whittled Down By Russians; Claim 50,000 Nazis Trapped

Red Army Is Closing On Pskov Today   Other Units Are Cutting Down Cherkasy Death - Pocket

Leningrad Army Drives Forward   Historic ‘Pskov Goal; Fighting Furious —

CITY'S FALL TO MAKE SECOND TRAP POSSIBLE   ‘Circle Of Death’ Tightened As Nazis Attempt Rescue

Russians Push Toward Pskov,  Nazis Retreat   50,000 Germans Trapped  In Death Pocket Being  Whitled Down In  i  Cherkasy Sector 

REDS PRESS EVER CLOSER UPON PSKOV   ‘Steadily Whittling Down Pocket in Which Thousands of Nazis Apparently Are Trapped.

SOVIETS DRIVE TOWARD PSKOV   Whittle Down Number Of Germans In Dneiper Bend Trap

Reds Driving Nearer Pskov: Death Pocket Is Dwindling   Holding Positions Of Foe Threatened

Govorov Army Presses Closer  Toward, Pskov   Reds Hope To Be In Strategic Base By Feb. 33 and Forge Great En - trapment — Take Rail ‘Stations, Pound Re treating Nazis. -

Russ Whittle Down. Nazis  In Death Tr ap   Last- Ditch Battle Fought Against Overwhelming Odds

Driving Red Troops Move Near Pskov   Other Forces Whittle  Enemy Catight in Death Pocket

inlin Faces Another Trial For Conspiracy  ix Others To Be Tried Aqain

Sgt. Robert Kohout In German Prison Parents Learn  Reported Missing   Reported Missing Early In July. After Bombing Mission _

Sst. Robert Kohout In German Prison Parents Learn  Reported. Missing Early In July: After Bombing Mission

TRUK ASSAILED BY ARMY LANDBASED PLANES   History-Making Attack Recorded By Big Liberators In Carolines

Put Japs On “Spot” For Air Defense —  U.S. Planes Blast Truk In Assault

LAND-BASED PLANES IN RAID ON TRUK   First of Series Of Blows Aimed To Ruin Base

12 DEAD, MANY HURT AS PLANE BURNS COLONY   Explodes in Trailer Unit at South - Portland

(2 DIE AS PLANE ‘STRIKES TRAILERS   SCORES HURT IN CRASH AT SOUTH PORTLAND, ME.—4 . CHILDREN AMONG DEAD. .

U.S. Army Plane Hits Trailer Park; 12 Dead, 40 Hurt   Fire Demolishes Auto Houses and Burns Many Residents

12 DEAD AS PLANE.  HITS MAINE CAMP   Aircraft Plunges Into 100. Unit Trailer def Camp ©

12 ARE KILLED IN PLANE GRASt   Army Plane Smashes Into Government Trailer Colony Near Portland, Maine, Airport: Scores Injured

12 DEAD AS PLANE . HITS MAINE CAMP      Aircraft Plunges Into 100. Unit Trailer Camp.

ARMY PLANE CRASHES ON TRAILER CAMP   Twelve Persons Killed In Maine's Worst Airplane Accident In History

12 Killed and Scores Hurt as Bomber Crashes Into Maine Trailer Camp

ATTEMPT MADE TO BURN CHURCH AT UNIONVILLE   Interior Damaged By Smoke And Fumes From Hot Air Furnace   OFFICIALS QUESTION SEVERAL SUSPECTS

Attempt Made To Burn Church   Frederick County Police Investigating Attempt At Unionville.

Strong Foreign Plank Intent.   Racial Issue to Fore Before the Committee

Plank Urging W orld Police Force Is Asked   Behind-The-Scenes Struggle Over Racial Issue Bedevils Committee

HONOR FIFTEEN FORMER WORKERS WHO LOST LIVES      Unique Memorial At Auditorium Of Charleroi High For Allenport Works

THREE SOLDIERS AMONG VICTIMS AT MO. VALLE!   Fast Freight Rams Into Passenge Train, Resulting in Injuries for About Hundred

NINE KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH: MUNDRED HURT   Freight -Crashes Into Passenger Train In Iowa

Known Deaths In lowa Train  Wreck Reach 9   About 100 Persons Injured In Crash At Misenur: Vallev.

9 DIE, 100 HURT AS TRAINS RAM   3 Soldiers Are Among Dead In lowa Rail Accident

9 Killed, 100 Hurt In Wreck   AS FREIGHT PLOWS INTO C., N. W. PASSENGER TRAIN AT MISSOURI VALLEY

Nine Killed, 100 Hurt In Rail Wreck   Fost Freight Hits Passenger Train In lowa

9 KILLED IN IOWA TRAIN COLLISION   One Hundred Passengers Are Injured As Freight Plows Into Coaches

10 ) Lose Lives In Train Crash   Freight’ Plows. Into Passenger Coaches -

9 PERSONS DIE IN TRAIN WRECK   100 INJURED IN COLLISION NEAR COUNCIL BLUFFS

O0 INJURED AS TRAINS COLLIDE   Nine Persons Are Killed In lowa Railway Mishap

100 HURT WHE FREIGHT PLOWS INTO COACHES   Wreckage Scattered for Half Mile on N. W. at Missouri Valley

Three Soldiers Among Nine People. _ * Killed in Railroad. Wreck in lowa

NINE KILLED IN RAIL COLLISION   100 Injured As Freight Rams Into Passenger

NINE ARE DEAD IN WEST IOWA R.R. ACCIDENT   Fast Freight Smashes Passenger Train at Missouri Valley

9 KILLED, 100 HURT IN IOWA RAIL CRACKUP   Fast Freight Plows Into Passenger Train Near  Council Bluffs

Nine Killed in Rail Wreck at Missouri Valley   100 Injured When Freight Collides With Passenger Train

3 KNOWN DEAD, TOO INJURED IN IOWA RAIL CRASH   5 Cars Derailed as Freight Rams Into Passenger, 3 Soldiers Killed

seineneseesineetienmneeena: ee  NINE KNOWN DEAD IN IOWA TRAIN CRASH   100 Injured When Freight Hits Passenger Train

BRICKER SAYS COMMUNISTS RULE FD. R.; “SUBVERSIVE RECORD® IS — CHARGED TO THE PRESIDENTS AID

Bricker Raps Subversive New Dealers   Says New Deal Is In Hands of Foreizners

Miller Describes Shooting Lind   Thought He Was Reaching for Gun

COCKER SPANIEL, FIRST DOG TO LAND IN FRANCE, DIES A HERO’S DEATH

Planes Blast 8 Jap Ships in Rabaul Port   Navy Bombers Attack Kusaie Island in First Raid on Carolines; At Least 18 Jap Planes Bagged in Battle Over Rabaul

Eight Jap Ships Blasted At Rabaul: Yanks in First Raid on Caroline Islands

Eight Jap Ships At Rabaul Hit By U.S. Planes   Far to North First Raid Is Made on Carolines, Powerful Enemy Base

RIPPED BY AIR FORCE   Eight Vessels Blasted By Bombs. Kusaie 5 ego rolines:22.— Attacked

In First Raid On Caroline Islands, Bulwark Of Japan’s Mid-Pacific Defense Line; 33 Zeros Gone.   New Propaganda

U.S, Planes Blast Eight Jap Ships, Battle 100 Zeros   Bombers Hit Enemy Base in Carolines, Nearer to Truk

Jap Islands Are Attacked   Bombers Blast Eight Ships In Rabaul Port

American Fighters Sweep Over Berlin   First Such Flight Over Capital; Bombers ‘Attack Northwest Germany; New 12,000-pound Bombs Being Used.

, American - Fighters «  }o Berlin   AAF Planes Are Over -German Capital for the First Time   SIX-TON BOMBS ON NAZI TARGETS    “Northwest. Germany and . Northern France Given -Poundine Today

'U.S. Force in First Day Raid Over Capital   Heavy U. S. Bombers Batter Northwest Section; RAF Attack at Night

Big Bombers  Hit Other » Nazi Cities   German Capital Had Been Considered Too Far Away for American Planes; New Bombs Weighing 12,000 Pounds Now Used by RAF

REICH POUNDED ~ AGAIN FROM AIR   Yanks Raid Northwest Area And Air Fields In France

Concentrate Efforts On Undisclosed Objectives; Stab At French Rocket Gun Coast; Attack French Assembly Plant.

BRITISH PLANES REDUCE GERMAN AIR PRODUCTION   Meanwhile, American Bombers Rock Enemy Cities Without a Loss

Yankees Carry Out Another Raid On Reiel   Undiselosed Objectives Hit In Northwest Sector; . RAF Blasts Points  In Franre

Plane Plants In France Hit   Sweeping Operations Car. ried Out Without Loss Of Single Plane.

TEMPERATURES:   Yank Air Force Over Berlin In Daylight Sweer   Heavy Bomber Fleet Attacking Northwest Germany Today

Offensive Is Costly Failure  lor Germans   Bombers Aid in Battle, Attack Reich Targets— Russians Advance

XAF Blasts Factories Near City Of Paris. ....  U. S. Fighters Stage Initial Berlin Sweep

R. A. F. Formations Blast at Aircraft Factories Near Paris And at Albert

Aircraft. -Factories  Anc Other Targets in-France Also Hit In Day: Anc Night Attacks By Mar auders. and RAB — In dustrial Targets in Ger moanv. Elit:

U. S. Bombers Pound Reich Ir Davlight Raid   RAF Blasts Aircraft Factories Near Paris And At Albert.

YANKS POUND GERMANY 2ND STRAIGHT DAY   Sustained Attacks Hit Nazi Targets In Scattered Sections

AMERICAN HEAVIES POUND GERMANY FOR OND STRAIGHT DAY      RAF Attacks Paris Area By Night; U. S. Targets Today Undisclosed   FRENCH FACTORIES HIT

Big Bombers Hit Germany In Northwest   Capital Once Thought Too Far Distant For Light Planes; Round Trip Is 980 Miles

Mosquitos Strike Western Germany; Aerial Campaign Keeps Steady Pace

American Fighter Planes in Sweep Over Nazi Capital   [s First Time .U S. Airmen Have Staged Flight Over Berlin; Rip Reich Targets

Heavy Bombers Hit North Germany, Others Strike at Nazi Airfields in France

U.S. PILOTS IN BERLIN SWEEP   Carry Out First-Time Of. fensive; RAF Drops Six-Ton Bombs

U. S. BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST NAZI TARGETS   Indicated Heavy Force Attacks Unspecified Places on Heels of RAF Raids in Paris Area

PLANS STARTED TO LET RUSS USE ITALIAN SHIPS   Nazi Losses High in Third Counter-Attack on Rome Beachhead

'U. S. BOMBS GERMANY SECOND DAY   Marauders Slash At Nazi Airfields In North France

Yank Planes Blast Reich For 2nd Day   Others Slash At Airfields In Northern France

U.S, BOMBERS POUND GERMAN CITIES TADAY   Airfields Struck In France; 14 Planes Lost

YANK FIGHTERS SWEEP BERLIN   New 12,000 Pound Bombs For Special Targets Revealed By RAF

Planes Renew reich Bombing   Concentrate On Undisclosed Objectives In Northwest Sector.

Air War Is CG arried To Nazis Again  By Ameriean:   Heavy Bombers Again Pound Germany While Airfields And Plants In France Are Also Hi

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS POUNDED GERMANY FRIDAY  RAF HAMMERED AT AIR   RAF HAMMERED AT AIRCRAFT FACTORIES NEAR PARIS LAST NIGHT

U. §. Bombers Again Assault Nazi: Targets   Return Over Enemy Territory for Second Successive Day

Bombers Give Nazis No Rest   Big Fleets of Them Strike In France and Germany, Hitting Fast Pace Today

U.S. Bombers Again Pound Nazi Targets   Undisclosed Objectives tr Northwest Sector Attacked

Americans In 2nd Straight Daylight Raid   Size of Fighter Escort Indicates Attack Is of First Order

Chinese Make Gains In Hukawng Valley   Japanese Still Are On Of. fensive in Hill Positions

CHINESE FORCES PUSH BACK NIPS   Infantry Wipes Out Enemy Nests in Burmese Fighting, Mountbatten Says

Chinese Hurl Back Japs On  Burma Front   Allied \ Warplanes  Active In Area

‘Lone Superfortress Met 79 Japanese Fighters, Got Back Without Scratch

Republicans Three States To Hear Dewey   - Oklahoma City to Welcome Republican Presidential Nominee For Major Address

Dewey fo Reach Oklahoma Monday   Republicans From Adjoining States to Join Oklahoma Republicans in Welcome

Isolated Jap Garrisons in the Marianas Being Repeatedly Attacked

Light Naval Force Shells Former U.S Station Of Guam   Bombardment Reveals Plans To Retake * Seized Island

Guam Blows Hint ‘Grab’   Allies Seen Planning Receapture of Island

Island of Guam May Be Next Allied Objective   Japanese Garrisons In Marianas Brought Under Weight of U. S. Forces

* His Answer: of “Nuts? To Surrender Demand Became Rallying Call

Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe’s Reply of “Nuts” to Ger  man Ultimatum to Surrender Became Rallying Call for Garrison—Troops Faced Five Nazi Divisions in 4-Day Battle and Knocked Out 200 Enemy Tanks,

n. McAuliffe plied ‘Nuts’ Bastogne   ung Commander Gave rse Answer to Nazis’ quest for Surrender

66 ee) - ne N. 8 co Bese ron 2 328% a ‘Jelr ae an cases  te oT g NE reo ys _

One Of America’s Very Youngest Generals Made History By ‘Nuts ToNazis’

Jury Charges Aid to Germany   28 Men and Two “Women Ate’ Indicted:

Generosity Of Girl Believed Led To Murder   Hollywood Canteen. Host- sa, Fotnd “Floating. in Bathtub, Thought. Victimt of Soldier:

DAYLIGHT RAID RIPS GILBERTS   Air Offensive Resumec In Mid-Pacific; Nauru Island Pounded

Many Of Our Soldiers and Civilians Will Celebrate Easter, Sad and Depressec

Sino-American Troops Move On   Close Pincers On Japs. In Myitkvina Center

Allied Forces Close Pincers  On Myitkyina   Heavy Losses Also Inflicted On. Jap Column Seeking

JAPS GLINGING TO BURMA CITY IN TIGHT SPOT   Allies Make New Break into Southern End Of Base

ALLIES GAIN IN BATTLE OF MYITKYINA   Hold Positions On Three Sides of Jap Garrison

May Seek Bar Clarke Johnson   OSulliran Plans To File Moetien Disqualifying Pair

Retrial Date Set August 2]   O'Sullivan Plans To File Motion To Disqualify Clarke, Johnson.

NEW YORK GOVERNOR'S . BOOSTERS AT GOP MEETING APPEAR TO HAVE WON PARTY LEAD’ pega

Draft Dewey Forces Firmly Established in Republican Party Following Meeting

STOPPED COLD IN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE INLAND   Moselle Battle Climax Near -

ALLIES SMASH APPROACHES 10 SIEGFRIED LINE   Powerful Air Support Backs Thrusts Along 175-Mile Front

Breakout attempt on coast halted by British troops  Battle of Moselle river raaringa toward climax

1,500 Planes Rake Ruhr, Rhine Cities Before U. S. Troops   Hitler Pouring Reinforcements Into Siegfried “Line as Allied Tea RAvane e Near Frontiers

Enemy Thrown Back in Fatal Attempt To Escape Pocket: Moselle Battle Near Climax

Channel Nazis . Fail in Break * For Homeland  Climax Seen in Bitter Fight at Approaches To Germany .

Continued Security Blackout ceals Most Of Operations Battlefront, Patton Seeks Shatter forces On Heights   MOSELLE BATTLE ROARS TO CLI

Every Potential German Target Shows on Maps   More Than 300 Corresnon dents Are Ready To Cover Invasion

lron and Steel _ To Be Used for Some Proc  civil ian Items, wee Announce

Ban on Iron; Steel  Use Is Relaxed   WPB Authorizes Metal  For a Few Items

UNIONS SUPPORT WARD WALKOUT   All Detroit CIO Locals Called Out; Hearing Scheduled Today

WARD STRIKERS — ~ RECEIVE SUPPORY   C. I. 0. LEADERS IN DETROIT PROMISE FINANCIAL AND MORAL BACKING,

100 ClO Unions Back Ward Strike   Vote Aid on Eve Of WLB Hearing

Jury Selected To Try Dorseys In Assault Case  Jane Churchill First Witness

BYPLAY SPARKS DORSEY TRIAL   il Women, One Man Jury To Hear First Wit ness Today

ON THE LIGHTER TER SIDE: . THEATRICAL BY- PLAY IS ENACTED IN COURT SCENE

Russians Rush Work On Communication Lines— —By Kirke L. Simpson (A  Recaptured Rail Network Aids Red Offense

10 Killed in Blimp Crash   Training Airship Hits Huge Lakehurst Hangar ; No Fire Follows

Ten:Crew Members Killed Wher. Dirigible Crashes  Training Blimp Hits Hangar At Naval Air   Training Blimp Hits Hangar At Naval Air Station And Cantral Car Plummete To Earth

10 DIE AS BLIMP RAMS HANGAR   Student Pilots Fail to Clear End of Structure

Ten Killed When Airship Crashes   Dirigible Plunges Into Hangar During Take-Off

Six Officers, Four Enlisted Men Die In Crash of Blimp   Eleventh Creman Injured When Stodent Officer Fails fo Clear Building at Lakekurst

TEN FATALLY HURT IN AIRSHIP CRASH   Craft Hits Ho Hangar a Lakehurst Naval Air Station

Ten Naval Fliers Die  In Crash   Blimp Crashed Into Hangar At Lakehurst:  Control Car  Drops 250 Feet.

Naval Airship Strikes Hangar. 111 Lose Lives   Car Plunges 258 Feet To Ground in Accident At Lakehurst Aiv Station

PLANE CRASHES INTO HANGAR   10 Killed in Accident at Lakehurst, N. J.

Ten Killed In Training Ship Crash   AG Kr —ticshis ila to ’ or Hangar  ring Take-Off Drills   At tabahuret

ihe War Lloday—  Damage To Nazi Aircraft Plants In Tuesday’s Raid May Justify Our Loss

AMERICAN AIR FLEET DELIVERED MAJOR DEFEAT TO NAZIS IN BIG ATTACK ON GREAT AIRPLANE PLANTS   Despite Loss of 59 Bombers, It Was Terrific Physical and Moral Blow to Hitlerites. Blasting of War Plants Paves Way for Ground Victories

WAR ANALYST SAYS AMERICAN AIR FLEET ADMINISTERED MAJOR DEFEAT TO HITLER ON TUESDAY

MACKENZIE’S VIEW OF AFRIAL BATTLE   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE  er oe toe Analy:

The War Today   Mass. Raid on Plane Plants Solar Plexus Blow at Reich

aaa The War Today <<  Yank Bombers Dealt Major Blow to Nazis  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

Madrid Nazis Are. Happier’   ‘Sees ‘Split: of Reds,  ‘London, Washington

Germans In Spanish Cafes Are Delighted Over Allied ‘Split’   British-ELAS Clash in Greece Seen As Definite Division Of Allies; Nazis Happier Than Ever In Past Year; See U. S., Britain Blocking Russia

SHORTAGE OF — WORKERS AT ~~ LENOX PLANT   War Manpower Director Visits Lenox To Help ~ Solve Problem.

Nazis Attack Finnish Isle   Invasion In Ef Effect Puts Germans At War  With Them

Great Force Pushes Inland Near Toulon   [Troops Meet Only Light Ground and Air Resistance; Union with Invasion Armies in North France Is Obiective

German Escape Gap Narrowed In Allied Push   Control Of Highways Clinched As Patton  Nears Canadians In Northern France

Fourteen Dead  la Texas Wreck   At Least 81 Injured In Rear. End Collision At Texas Station

Soviet Waits Finns Peace ~. Commission   E ;  Satisfactory Setilement  Expected as Hostilities Come to End

REDS OFFER FINNS EASY PEACE TERMS   Finland Expected To Keep Borders Established in ‘41

WAR ENDS ON FINNISH FRONT TODAY   Moscow Says Peace Pact Will Not Be Harsh

Finns Cease Firing; Expect Russia to Leave Finland's 1941 Borders Intact

Finns To Get Mild Peace  From Russians   Helsinki Surrenders ; Borders To Be Toft Inteet

Buite Group to Meet With Bottomly on Aspects of Soldier Vote Law

Nazis Leaving Peloponnesus to Avoid Trap   Reds, Yugoslavians Drive to Cut Off Escape Routes

Congress Asked For $275,000 for Mt. Alton Airport   Moncey to Be Used for Lighting and Radio Facilities at Big Field

Congress Askec  For $275.000 For Port Here   Money to Be Used for Lighting and Radio Facilities at Field: Feeder Ports Planned

Corrective Right Of Management  Upheld By WLB   May Discipline Employes Who Figure In Strikes  In Violation Of Contract

Holds Company Within Rights  WLB Rules Employes Must Observe Contrac

WLB Upholds Right of Employer to Discipline Contract-Breaking Worker

Management Is Upheld By WLB: May ‘Discipline   Strike Called When Man ‘Too Good’

RULE AGAINST OUTLAW STRIKES   WLB UPHOLDS RIGHT OF MANAGEMENT T0 PUNISH VIOLATORS

Board Upholds Labor Discipline   Rules Contract Not To Be Breached

Discipline By Management of  Worker Upheld   WLB Reverses-Decision Of Regional Board, Regard ing’ Action Against Vio- >  Jators of Coniraéts: - .

HONOR GENTILE. BY BOND BUYING   Piqua Jumps Gun in Drive Big Parade Escorts Air Hero

GENTILE DREW “HURE THRONG   PIQUA'S CELEBRATION ‘YES. ., TERDAY: ‘FOR AIR comnar  ACE WAB SUCCESS DE‘SPITE SHOWERS 

DEWEY. IS GIVEN ‘LARGE WRITE-IN VOTE INNEBRASK!   New York Governor Trails Stassen in Early Returns With 4,352 to Latter’s 9,658.   GEN. M’ARTHUR RUNS . WELL IN ILLINOIS   Governor Green Wins’ Renomination —- Richard J. Lyons Named G. 0. P-. Senate Candidate,

Dewey Receives Strong Write-in Vote in Nebraska   Strength of New York Gov ernor Surprises Political Observers

Dewey Gets Good Vote In Nebraska  Primaries   His Name Written In By Numerous Voters, But Trails Stassen, Te Fardy Raturne   ILLINOIS RENAMES GOVERNOR GREEN

Plan-to Save Dogs From Gas Chamber Ends   Wrangling Forces Closing _ of Shop Where Strays ‘Were Sold. '

IN€ALrly 2,0dUU Tons Dropped In 20 Minutes  Raid by U.S. U. 5. Heavy. weights Cuts Off Water  © ie faa “Danvags   Allied Formations Sweep Out in Day Attack on French Coast

EAGLES SATURDAY NIGHT Orenestra and danre —Aan   TOMeR OLN FUR COAT

ICE CAPS, $1.05 At tM rato’s —-Ad.   EAGLES SATURDAY NIGHT Orchesira and danre —aAd.

BESINESS MENS LUNCH ull course 30. Bank Grilli—A:      TORR OM FUR COAT

For good meals and steaks com: to the Sheridan. —~Adqd.   TOR OTM EFETR Omar

COMMUNITIES MAY GET AID FOR PLANNING   State Fund Avoitable On Matching Basis For Post Wor Plans

Highlights of G. 0. P. Platform   Cooperative Peace ls Party’s Goal

GREEK PEACE CONFERENCE IS RESUMEL   ELAS Armed Forces Break Semi-truce By Firing on Warships at Piraeus.

Hold Peace Conference At Athens   Churchill Warns Greek That City Must Be Res cued from Anarchy

CONTINUE CONFERENCE AT ATHENS   ELAS Forces Break Semi-Truce By Firing On Piraeus

GREEK ELAS BREAK TRUCE WITH GUNS   Churchill Meets Again With Rebels To End Wartare

Greek Factional Leaders Resume Peace Parley —   Semi-Truce Effective. During Discussions  Conducted In Athens

GREEK REBELS STUDY APPEAL BY CHURCHILL   First Peace Talks Fail: ELAS Warned To Accept Terms

Greek Factiona! Leaders Meet With Churchil!   Despite Semi-Truce Elas Armed Forces Shell Rritich Shins

CHURCHILL TELLS GREEKS BRITAIN HAS NO DESIGNS ON TERRITORY  Peace Conference

Dewey Speaks On Foreign Policy In New York Tonight   Speech Will Be Heard On Norwalk Radios, 8:30 P. M. (EST)

The War Today...   By De Wilt Mackenzie  Associated Presse War Analyst

SINGLE YEAR BRINGS CHANGES; SECRETARY HULL'S WARNING TO NEUTRAT S BRINGS COMMENT

WAR TODAY   Pro-Nazi Turkish Press Gives Answer To Hull, Says Chrome May Be Sent to Germany; Test Is Hinted

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE  Leatioiated Perea« thar Amalia at

New Tax Bill Hikes Income To 42 Billion:   Disapproval of President By Refusing Signature  ae a Ee

New Tax Bill Goes To The President  Some Opine FOR May Not Sign t

Tax Increase Bill Sent to President For His Action   May Let It Become Law Without Signature To Show Disapproval

TAX INCREASE BILL SENT TO FDR BY HOUSE   President May Not Sign 2 Billion Dollar  Measure

Roosevell Gets New Tax Bill   President May Show Strong Disapproval

Tax Increase’ Legislation  Sent to F.D.R By Congress —   $2,315,000,000 Bill Will Increase Annual To About 42 Billion  ABOUT 100 BILLION 1944 SPENDING SEEN  Individual Income And Victory Taxes Amano Those Roasted

TAX BILL SENT TO WHITE HOUSE   SENATE-HOUSE. CONFERENCE ‘REPORT IS APPROVED BY BOTTI BRANCHES.

TAX INCREASE BILL 1$ SENT TO ROOSEVELT   WHITE HOUSE NOT SATISFIED WITH REVENUE CUT

TAX INGREASE BILL IS SENT TO PRESIDENT   Roosevelt May Let Measure Become Law Without His Signature   LUXURY ITEMS ARE TO BE HEAVILY TAXED

TAX MEASURE SENT TO FDR BY CONGRESS      Bill May Become Law Without Roosevelt's   Clanntura   SOME OPPOSITION ' VOICED IN HOUSE   Joint Conference Commit..tee’s. Recommenda* tions voted

Congress sends two billion dollar tax bill te Roosevelt   Measure meets opposition in house as some members question adequacy

TAX INCREASE BILL 1S SENT TO PRESIDENT   Measure May Become - Law Without His Sienature

Two Billion Tax Rill Goes to White-House   Senate Passes Measure Unanimously; House 238 to 101

Reports Say Island 'May, Fall Soon To Amerie cans. Japs Stiffen Re_ sistance.

COUNTER PROTEST MADE BY GERMANY   Allies Accused of Killing Captured Soldiers

Stettinius Denies Charge of Nazis ‘Americans Killed German Prisoners   Berlin Reports Charges

PVT. MILLER BRINGS IN 19. GERMANS   Diminutive Baker From Peoria, Illinois, Bluffs Nazis Who Take Him Prisoner On Italian Front.   Lose Six Planes

Pint-Size Private Traps 19 Germans   A Prisoner, He Induces  . aptors to aaa ee

HEAVY SNOWS BLANKET GARY      12 Inches Fall In Indiana City Overnight, Other Areas Normal

WAR CHEST MEE [S SET SEPT, 12   MILAM COUNTY CHEST OFFICIALS TO ATTEND MEET AT McCLOSKEY

RELIEF FRO HEAT IS SEEN BY. WEDNESDAY   Mass Of Cool Air Moving Eastward — Rain Gives Some Aid

SUEESAS<ARNONOREEAIO.ae am _ammeapnaminiemennomeal ANTI-JEWISH PROPAGANDA FIGHT LED BY MURPHY

MacArthur Backers Hope Illinois Vote Will Bring on Boom   Light Vote is Expected in State Primary Poll Tomorrew

Chief Interest In Illinois Primary Will Center On MacArthur Vote

PRIMARES  IN STATE GROWS   Stratton-Benson Race Attracts Attention

National interest in Election Centers on ‘Draft MacArthur’ Test.   NEBRASKA VOTING TOO

illinois Primary Will Be Test For MacArthur Draft   Show Sentiment  In Middle West

Japan's Navy ls Smashed fo ‘a Naval Runt’   Latest Victory Brings a Total of 60 Warships Sunk er Damaged

35,000 Japs Die  In Naval Battle   Japanese Losses Mount as Final Check Is ' Made

STILL MOUNTING JAP FLEET LOSS NOW TOTALS 60   Planes Damage Three Enemy Cruisers Fleeing Near Manila

35,000 Japs Belived Lost In Sea Battle   Sixty Warships Sunk Or Damaged; Japan Is Reduced To ‘Navy Runv

Japan Reduced To ‘Naval Runt By U.S. Victory   Dogged Search by Planes Discloses Fifty-eight Ships Sunk or Damaged

Japan Reduced  To'Naval Runt?   ‘Can Take ‘Em In Stride, Halsey Says

JAP FLEET HAS BEEN REDUCED TO ‘NAVAL RUNT’   Declare High Naval Authorities Speaking Of Decisive Defeat Administered To Fleet In Philippine Battle.

Japan Just ‘Naval Runt After Defeat   Enemy: Warship Toll  To 60 As U. S. Carrier Planes: Continue Hunt For Fleeing Nip Craft

Japan’s Naval Power Gone   Incapable of Seriously Hampering Any Offensive By U. S. in China

'—PHILIPPINES-— «.  Estimate 35,000 Jap: Died In Sea Battles   High U.S. Naval Authorities Declare Japan Incap-. able’Of Opposing American’s China-Bound Of- fensive For. Manths Ta Come at 

Defeat by “ Reduces Japan To'Naval Runt’   U. S. Naval Authorities Estimate Japanese Lost 35,000 Men in Battle Of the Philippines

Japan Reduce To Status of “Naval Runt”   Estimate 65,000 Jap Seamen Lost In Big Engagement

LOSSES CUT JAPAN TOA “NAVAL RUNT   High Authorities Say the Nips Cannot Seriously Oppose America’s China: Bound Offensive fo Moaonthe ta Came.

TEMPERATURES:   NIPPON NAVY IS HELPLESS TO SLOW UPYANKS   Three More Cruisers Are Blasted At Manila; 35,000 Japs Killed

Japan Now Reduced To Status of ‘Naval Runt’   iwo More Enemy Cruisers Are Hit. Raising Tose Ta Gn

Second Defeat In Battle OF Philippines Makes Nips Incapable Of Seriously Opposing U. 5.   60 Enemy W arships Sunk Or Crippled   35,000 Men Believed Kill. ed In Engagements Paying Way For ChinaBound Offensive

JAP NAVY IS NO LONGER SERIOUS MENACE: HALSEY   LATEST SCORE OF NIP LOSSES: 60 WARSHIPS AND 35,000 MEN DEAD

Halsey Says Japan Reduced fo “Naval Runt” by Victorious U. S. Forces

NIPPON REDUCED TO NAVAL RUNT   YANKS BLAST TOTAL OF 60 WARSHIPS IN FIGHT

JAPAN'S FLEET IS NOW ALMOST COMPLETE LOSS   Unable To Oppose China-Bound U. S.  Invasion Forces

JAP FLEET NOW A ‘NAVAL RUNT   Losses Increase to 60 Ships as Halsey’s Planes Continue Hunt

JAPS NOW ABLE TO MAKE ONLY SUICIDE RAIDS   Enemy Fleet tc to > Lose Valuable Time for Repairs; Toll Rising

Japan’s Navy Now Unable To Hinder Allied Advance ~        ‘oll Rises ‘Lo 60:Shig Jap: Fleet’ Is Reduce To Runt Status; Manila Bombing Continues.

RUNT NAVY LBV   NIPPON SEA LOSSES MOUNT TO 60 WARSHIPS SUNK OR NHAMACIED-. $250900 # $£=%§9¥xKILLED

U. S. To Ignore Bolivian Setup   Fear Axis Politics In Latin America

LAKE SEAMEN ~ ARE MISSING   TWO FREIGHTERS GO DOWN IN "LAKE ERIE WITH TEN CF ” QREW FEARED DEAD-

HALF OF OHIO OFFICES FALL TO DEMOCRATS   Northeast Vote Puts Lausche In; Taft  Be. VUianxtdan

Bombing of Home Island is Reported   Honshu Raided by U. § Planes—Landings on Lu zon Are Possible

Japanese Report American Convoy In Mindanao Sea .   Nippons Speculate On Possible Yank Landings On Leyte

10 U.S. Planes Are Shot Down By Allied Guns   +4 Reported Missing In Second Incident OF Sicilian Campaign,

Second Mistake Costs 44 Lives   Ten U. S. Planes Shot Down by Allied Guns

Another Allied Boner Revealed   Planes Shot Down Ry Our-Own Guns

“Friendly Fire” Shoots Own Men   Another Mistake Of Wat Announced; Transports  Shot In Sicily.

10 AMERICAN PLANES DOWNED BY OWN GUNS   it OMcex: s And Men Missing After Attack by “Friendix” Weapons Last July is-14.

Error in Antaircraft Fire Costs U. 8. 10 More Planes and 44 Officers. Men

ho Down by Allied Guns   ‘Ten Blasted From Skies During Catania Battle in Sicily, Half Friendly”. Antl-Aircraft’ Fire — Forty: -Four Officers and: Men, ‘Aboard rasa eapgitad Incident of Kind to : ‘ Ocwur i That: Theater of War. : ;

Americans.  In Belgium   Nazis Withdrawing 7 From. Low Countries

Tulsa Truck Drivers Join In Walkout   No Grievance, Just Taking Step in Sympathy With Striking Fellow Members

Two More Group: Formed To Fight Erosion Of Soil   Farmers At Elkmont, And Holland’s Gin Are Organized

heconversion Plans Hurried Ry Axis Plight   Congress Reopens Tuesday Pressed To Legislate  i Mn ea Mm

Conaress fo Meel, Plan Peace Sefup   Jobs for 30,000,000, Dispesal of Surpluses Immediate Problems

New Trarvedv tn Familv_   CONGRESS OPENS SESSION TUESDAY   NAZI REVERSES BRING DEMAND FOR QUICK DECISIONS ON “PEACE” BILLS,

Challenge of Approaching Peace Confronts  ‘Congressmen Returning to Washington

nese of Approaching Peace Confront:  Congressmen Returning to Washineton

Legislators  To Convene   ~ Congress To Begin ~ Historic. Sessidns_ 3

GUNGAESO atl TO CONVENE TUESDAY   Approaching Peace Challenge Confronts Lawmakers   POSTWAR PLANS URGED   Pleas for Quick Decisions on War to Peace Transitions Heard

Lawmakers Face Challenge in Opening Session  Approaching Peace, Postwar Plans

Members Of Congress Return To Washington For Another Potentially Historic Session’

POSTWAR PLANS FACE CONGRESS   Lawmakers Hear Pleas For Quick Action To Prepare For Peace

Peace Challenge First On Agenda for  Returning Congress   Possibility of Widespread Unemployment, Stagnated Industry Confronts Lawmakers in Coming Historic Session

Congress Faces Demeobilization Task On Tuesday   Kilgore Bill Would Establish New Oifvices

CONGRESS FACES VITAL PROBLEMS   Transition From War To Peace Brought Nearer By Nazi Defeats

L. S. Raiders Bomb Sotia  And Belgrade   Americans Also Blast Targets Along French Invasion Coast

YANKS RESUME 2-WAY ATTACK ON AXIS EUROPE   Nazi Strength Cut by 8,000 -

French Coast Is Also Hit   American Planes Stage Another Two-Way Attack

US Bombers From Italy Smash Rail Yards In Balkans      Pound Aircraft Plants As Raids Hit 3rd Straight Day

First Air  Blow at Belgrade   Italy-Based Yank Planes Lash Balkans Third Straight Day -

Citation to Van Chandler Air Group   PRESIDENTIAL  CITATION  4TH FIGHTER GROUP  8TH FORCE.

17 Report For Exams And Induction   Two Classes Report At Ft. Leavenworth On September 14

Stalin Calls For Western Invasion   Says Simultaneous Onslaughts Necessary To Finish Germany

Allies, Reds Must Combine In Final Stey   Premier Joseph Stalin Makes Announcement In May Dav Sneech.   PEOPLE BACK ARMY

Must Join  For Kall    Combined Assaults on Reich from East and  West Called for In May Dav Address to Soviet

Stalin Urges  Combined Blow   Wants Allies to Hit Germans From West to Coordinate With Reds

STALIN APPEALS FOR TWIN BLOWS   DECLARE COMBINED ONSLAUGHTS NEEDED TO SMASH GERMANY

STALIN LAUDS ALLIES IN MAY DAY MESSAGE   Premier Calls for Simultaneous Onslaughts to Finish Off "Wounded Beast In His Own Den"   FASCISM IS CRACKING

Combined Blow   Urged By Stalin Sovi iet Premier Notes Value Of Allied Aid

Stalin Calls for Combined Blows To Smash Reich   Must Strike from Both East and West Premier Says in May Day Speech

STALIN CALLS FOR UNITED ALLIED BLOW   Drives From East And. West Needed To Crush Nazis, He Says

Attacks From East and West Seen by Stalin   Only Way to Crush Hitler, He Declares in May Day Address

Stalin Wants ‘Nazi Beast’ Finished Off   Leader Demands Combined Push From East, West

STALIN URGES UNITED ATTACK TO SMASH NAZIS   Soviet Premier Praises Allies for Aid in Past Russian Military Victories

FASCIST BL IS REPORTED CRUMBLING   Coordinated Drive Would Finish German Machine   MARSHAL   Credits Allies For Their Contribution To Past Soviet Successes

Stalin Says — Big Drive Is Now Urgent   Wounded Beast Must Be Tracked Down Into His Own Lair and Beaten

ISTALIN CALLS ON ALLIES TO JOIN ALL-OUT ATTACK   Says Wounded German Beast Must Be Finished Off i in His Own Den by

Combined Allied Blows at Germany Called For By — Stalin In May Day Speech’

Stalin n Calls For A Simultaneous Fast And West Drive On Germans

Stal. in May Day Spe: :, Makes Plea  tor Action in West   Praises ilies for Considerable Help Given in Armies

‘Double Blow Needed to Crush Wounded German Beast,’ Red Premier Says on May Day

Stalin Sees — Nazi Defeat   East, West Attacks To Finish Off Foes

‘Wounded German Beast’ Soon To Be Finished ~- Stalin   May Day Talk Urges Combined Blow

Germans Begin Evacuation Of Vital Sector   Stalin In May Day Speech Says Reds And Allies Will Strik: Simultaneously

ASSAULTS FROM EAST AND WEST TO CRUSH REICH   Stalin, in May Day Talk, Call: For Final Blows Within Germany

May Day Message Says Simul: taneous 2-Way Blows Must Hit Germany.

Wallace Stock Climbs; Kansas Supports Him   Backers of Truman Confi dent; Ickes Tells Roosevelt Nod to Senator “Mistake”?

Path for  Invasion  Blasted   Blockbusters Hit Dunkerque-Boulogne Area in Three Raids

NAZI OTRENGTH HAS INCREASED   Foe Has More Fighter Planes Available Now Than on D-Day. . .

Nazi Arms Peril Grows   Enemy Artillery, Planes Show New Strength Since D-day

BOND SALES HIT NEAR 7 MILLION   Surplus Of $1.435,349.25 In Allen-co Drive

Nazi War Machine > Hit By Loss Of Oi   Germans Deprived of Three-fourths of Output of Main Oil Source by Bombings of Romania Fields, Eaker Declares 

ROMANIAN OIL FLOW 15 CUT FOR GERMANY   OUTPUT AT PLOESTI DOWN 75 PERCENT AFTER BOMBINGS

Allied Bombs Cut Enemy Oil Supply   Disrupt All Communications To Russian Front

Supply Cut 75 Percent, Mediterranean Theatre Air Force Leader Savs

Nazi Supply Of Oil Is Slashed   Invasion-Conscious Germans Shudder  Re EMUAON vwerwiernw  -~*

Nazis Deprived of Vital Oil   memenininceetinane   Communications Also Disrupted

DIL FIELD AIDS HIT NAZIS HARD   Deprived of Three-fourths of Main Oil Source   LINES DISRUPTED   Air Force in Mediterranean Area Takes High Toll of German Aviation

Bombs Strike Chief Source Of Nazi Oil   Output of Ploesti Fields Believed Cut by Three-Fourths

Oil Production At Ploestils Cul by Raids  Germans [Lose Heavily In

Capture of Town Would Split Nazi Armies And Paralyze Rail System

Ninth Army Leaps Into Action Again   Seek to Envelop Cologne Plain; 21 Miles From Rhine.

Ninth Army Takes Vichhofen As First  Opens Roer Drive   Third Gains To Widen Siegfried Line Wedge

U.S. 9th Army Leaps into Fray   Hodges’ Troops Take Positions For Sweep behind Nazi Defenses

Hull Proposes To Outlaw World Cartels   United Nations Trade Conference to Study Matter Is Projected

ON PLANS FOR CARTEL CURB   United Nations Trade Conference Proposed by Secretary

HULL AT WORK ON PLANS FOR CARTEL CURB   United Nations Trade Conference Proposed — by Secretary

Hull Reveals. Plan For Cartels   United Nations Trade Conference Would Outlaw Cartels.

Hull Tells FOR of Work ~ On Cartels   Plans United Nations Trade Conference to Ban That Type of Organization

iribufes Paid At Antietam —— EF netam  Congressman Beall Speaks At Largely Attended Ceremonies

irtbutes Paid At Antietam —_—  Congressman Beall’ Speaks At  Largely Attended Ceremonie:

Desperate French Collaborationists Threaten to Plunge Country Into General Civil War

Make Good Proeress   Desperate French Collaborationists Threaten ‘to Plunge Country Into General Civil War

Allies Destroy or Damage 49 Jan Planes   Three Enemy Ships Are Sunk in Widespread Actions

Willkie In Last Lap Of Campaign  Makes Speeches Today In 3 Cities

Bargaining Election at Ward’s Won By CIO Union   Government Releases Control of Company On Eve of Ruling By Federal Caurt   PRESIDENT UPHOLDS LEGALITY OF ACTION

(10 Union Wins Ward Election; Plants Returned   sovernment Relinquishes Control before Votes Are Counted   Avery Will Return

U.S. Releases Ward’s Plant   CIO Union Wins Collective  Baraaining Vote Decisively

CIO Union Wins Collective Bargaining Election; Court Decision on Seizure Pending

Government End Possession Of Ward Plant   Poll on Collective Bargaining !ssue Is Won by C. f. O.

CLO Union Wins Ward Election; U. S. Moves Out   Employes Select Bargaining Agent By Total Vote of 2440 to 1593; Avery Prepares to Resume Office

C.LQ. group wins election  at Ward plant  Control yielded  by government

Bargaining Election Won  By ClO Union   President Says Vote Settles Dispute; Avery Disagrees

Government Turns Property  Of Ward Co. Back To Owners   Order Relinquishing Control Announced by Secretary Jones—Union Wins Collective Bargaining Election

CO_ UNION. WINS ~ WARD'S ELECTION      Government Lavra . ~-Controt—of Prof Seized April 26

Avery Says Company Will Still Oppose Any Form Of “Closed Shop”   GOVERNMENT RETURNS BUSINESS TO OWNERS

Property Released From U. S. Control   Avery Says He Will Fight ‘Closed Shop’ Contract

Observation Is That This Challenge to Fuehrer’s Rule Coupled with Germany’s Precarious Military Position Creates Situation Where Anything Can Hannen

WARD SEIZURE TODAY LIKELY   Properties. in Seven Cities Expected to Be Taken Over in Dispute

Ward Seizure Expected Today   Chicago Employes Prepare to Strike

SEIZURE OF WARD: ‘STORES EXPECTED   GOVERNMENT PROBABLY ‘ WILL TAKE OVER PROPER_ TIES IN 7 CITIES TODAY.

NEW JAP DRIVE MENACES CHINA   Chungking Fears Thrust From Indo - China On Kunming

Get Priorities For Dehydration Plant Outlined Plans  To Operate Under Federal Control By  Qn. Li. yae 86 .

Get Priorities For Dehydration Plant Outlined Plans To Operate Under Federal Control By  cq -., 

EMPHASIS ON WAR FRONTS   Quebec Deliberations Seen Aimed Chiefly At Japanese

Military Leaders Attend Conference   Roosevelt And Churchill Hold Long Session With Military Strateaists Of The Allies

Roosevelt And Churchill Get Down To Business In —— Plotting Japan’ Defeat

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FDR, Churchill — Discuss Strategy Against Japanese   Stepped-Up- British Participation in Far Eas War Seen by Closing Gap Between Allied  Foarees in Bact Indies Brrme ond Indian

Real Business  T alked at Quebec   Roosevelt-Churchill Hear War Advisers

Churchill, FDR Get Down to ‘Real Business’   Quebec War Council Plots Utter Destructior Of Japs; Emphasis on British Cooperation

F.D.R., Churchill Get Down to Real Business  Plot Downfall of Japan; Study European Action

WAR EXPERTS CALLED IN ON CONFERENCE   Military Staffs Start Plot. ting Downfall of  Japan

QUEBEC COUNCIL. PLOTS JAP DOOM   ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL CONFER WITH HIGHEST MILITARY EXPERTS.

OW! WILL SEEK 10 CURB CONFLICTING WAR FOREGASTS   Contradictory Statements by High Officials Have Caucad Criticism

NEW POLICY ON NEWS ADOPTED   Program Designed To End Conflicting Statements

‘NEW POLICY \ON PUBLIC INFORMATION      Seek to End Conflicting Opinions

GOVT, ADOPTS OPENER POLICY FOR WAR NEWS   Public to Get More, High-Ups to Be Curbed in Their Expression of Military Opinion

Left for Dead After Smashing Nazi Attack, Tough Yank Crawls to Base

‘Dvt William Johnston Conducts One-Man War To Drop 30 Nazis On Battle Front Of Italy

Climactic Rattle for Third Largest Port in France Raging One to Three. Miles from City Limits — Nextx 24 Hours to Tell Story.

DEWEY WORKING ON STATE TASKS - AFTER FIRST REST   Governor: to Move Slowly on Campaign: Plans for Some Time.

Liberators Hit Refineries at Balikpapan  ~ Vital Oil-Producing Area Under

Liberators Hii Refineries lat Balikpapan   Vital Oil-Producing Area Under Attack Four Hours

Assault Forces Of Canadian Fi Army Capture Calais Citad Second Army Advances Tow: Neder Riin   NAZIS LOSE GROUND, RESISTING BITTER

Hard Driving Tommies React Meuse River on Wide Front: Canadians lake Calais Fort

Citadel In Calais Falls To End Siege   Narrow Gap In Holland Thru Which Nazis Might Escape. .

Lunges Made At Arnhem Gate In Bid To Redeem Crossing   GERMANS SLOWLY LOSING GROUND   Canadians Battering Through Last Defenses Of Calais

Long Siege At Calais Nears End   Canadians Take Citadel a‘ Seaport-——Germans Resisting Bitterly

BRITISH OPEN EW DRIVE IN RHINE TRIANGLE   Patton’s Army Storms Forest

Nijmegen       NEW DRIVE IS EFFORT TO CLEAN OUT TRIANGLE _— INSIDE FORKS OF RHINE

Calais Falls To Canadians Ending Siege   Bitter Resistance But Germans Lose Ground Near Arnhem

Drive Below Arnhem   Stubborn Tommie: Anxious to Wipe Out Recent Defeat

BRITISH 2ND MAKES BID TO REDEEM LOSS   Tanks and Infantry Swing Back to Attack Against Nazi Fanatics.   BULLETIN

Plan to Blast Open Gates to N.W. Germany   Calais Citadel Is Captured by Canadians

English Advance In New Attempt To Blast Gates To Reich   (‘anadians Take Calais Citadel   Violent Battle Flares On U. Ss. Third Army Front Around Metz

[Calais Citadel Reported Taken In Latest Push   General Dempsey’s Forces Advance To Meuse River Front

WORLD AIR MEET MUST DECIDE ON ECONOMIC RULE   Routes, Rates, Frequency Of Flight Are Big Questions

WORLDWIDE AIR PLAN SHAPES UP AT CONFERENCE   Conferees Still Facing Momentous Issues On Air Agency

Controls  of Air Studied   Question of How Far to Go in Economic Sanctions in Question

Authority Of World Air Unit Holds Up Pact   At Least Three Momentous Issues Must Be Settled Before Agreements Can Be Reached

Economic Contro Of Air Is Topic Of Conference  Adaew Beakleme Caan.   Many Problems Face Aeronautics Group Meeting In Chicago

Controls Upon Aviation Big Issue At Stake   U. S., Britain Fail To Acree

World Unity On Air Plans ls Vital Now   Effort to Get Together May Set Pattern for United Nations Teamwork Later

AIR PARLEY DECISIONS IN MAKING      Solution Of Issues Blocking Path To Aareement Near

SAN ANGELO AREA BLANKETED BY HEAVY SNOWFALL THURSDAY   REPORTS OF HEAVY SNOWFALLS FROM OTHER POINTS IN TEXAS

By LEONARD MILLIMAN Mecnviated Preece War PF ditar   One of Ours Lost

US Aircraft Destroys 221] Jap Planes   35 Ships Destroyed or Damaged; Formosa Bombed from End to End; 22 US Planes Shot Down

POUND ISLAND FROM END TO END   Carrier Planes Fly Within 100 Miles Of China   U. S. Carrier Is Sunk But Nimitz Denies Any American Ships Damaged

Roving U. S. Fleet Fails to Stir Foe   Incomplete Reports 22 American Planes Shot Down; Japs Tell ‘of Thursday Raid

Yankees Down 221 Jap. Planes, Sink, Damage 35 Ships   Strong Carrier Force  Bombs All Of Formase

Japs Lose 396 Planes During Formosa Drive   Strong Formations Of U. S. Attackers Within 100 Mi. Of China.

‘Yank Air Attacks Suggest Momentous Blows Facing Japs   Nip Fleet Fails To Give Battle as Broadening Offense in Mikado’s Dooryard Knocks Out 93 Ships and 310 Planes in Five Days

SMASH 221 NIP AIRPLANES IN FORMOSA RAIDS   Sink or Damage 35 Jap Ships; 22 U. S. Planes Lost In Attacks

U.S. Fleet Also Hits Philippines   Japanese Warships Fail To Give Battle as Americans Rove Within Nipponese Home Waters

35 Enemy Ships. Sunk, Damaged  coe Liem cna a »  In Chinese Raid   Tokyo ‘Says 5th. Hit Made By Pacific Fleet. With - New. Aitack On Formosa:

STRIKING WITHIN 100 MILES OF CHINA COAST AMERICANS CARRY OUT HEAVY RAID.

U.S, CARRIER PLANES STRIKE TAPS HARD BLOW   Formosa Bombed From One End To The Other

Luzon, Most Strategic. Of Philippines, Is Hit Chinese Lose Foochow

LUXURY BUYING TAKES SPLURGE IN THIS NATION   Rush to Counters Especially for Cosmetics in Order to Escape New Excise Tax

Sales of Luxury Articles Increase AS New Taxes Slated. Next Saturday Will Boost Prices of Liquor, Furs

Pre-Invasion ~ Measure, the = Swedes Say      “ade: All Travel. aisthed   ‘HITLER? 8 DEPUTY:: 2 IN FGLL CHARGE   Rumor: ‘of Disturbances ‘Heard. But: Treated: With: ” Greatest Reserve et Sxl

Germans Virtually Isolate Denmark to Round UpSahoteurs  Underground Workers Reporied   Underground Workers Reporied ‘Swarming’ Country 2s Nazis Take Security Measures

Germans Isolate Denmark In New Saboteur Purge   Unconfirmed Reports Indicate Nazis May Be Encountering Internal Difficulties

Travel Halted, Communications Cut as Germans Launch War on Underground

Nazi Clamp On Denmark   Country Isolated in Effort to Stamp Out Underground Activitie:

Germans Moving Swiltly Against Danish Saboteurs   Little Nation, Swarming With Underground Workers, Is Isolated.   Britain Halts Most Of Travel Overseas

 Nazis Move Against Danish Underground   Cut Off Late Monday, Denmark Is Virtually Isolated from Sweden

Country Said Swarming With. Underground Workers, Nazis Move  - to “Attack Swiftly And Sternly” In Pre-invasion Precaution.

Denmark Cut From Sweden   Unexplained Move of Germans Linked With Invasion Possibility

DENMARK CUT FROM SWEDEN   Virtually Tsolated In Unexplained Nazi Move

Danes Isolated As Sabotaging Of Nazis Grows   Germany Cuts Off Little Country “Swarming” With Underground Workers

Germans Act To “Crush Mounting » Danish Sabotage   Country Is Isolated In Drastic Effort To Clean LJn; ‘IT ]nderorainnd ”

Nation Said ‘Swarming’ ’ With Enemi   Penalty of Death Warning Issued For Saboteurs

Hitler’s Deputy Reports Country Overrun With Underground Workers

WIS FEAR NEW “MOVES BY DINE   Denmark Virtually : Isolated From Sweden By - Hitler’s Action   FEAR INVASION   Britain Bans -Overseas Travel In Invasion Sec recy Move ©

Nazis Move Against - Danish Saboteurs   Little Nation Virtually Isolated From Sweden as German Minister, Werner Best, Seeks to Stamp Out Underground Elements.   By ROBERT N. - STURDEVANT.

Nazis Clamp Firm Rule OnDenmark   Country Is Teeming With Saboteurs; Communication Cut

Denmark Isolated From Sweden Announces Best   May Wipe out Underground as Invasion Surety

GERMANS ACT AGAINST DANES   Stockhoim Reports Oemark Cut Off as Nazis Fight Sabotage.

ADVANCE PAST VERDUN, SEDAN   Other Forces Reach Or Cross Belgian Border; Trap Closing On Germans At Dunkerque, Rocket Coast

Chungking Warns On Jap Offensive   Enemy Presses Drive  Along 100-Mile Front

LONG DELAY MAY RESULT   Key City’s Capture Would Be Blow To Allies

Detailed Study Of Schools Provided In Bill Offered Assembly By Galax Solon

FDR Ousts Biddle Aid   Assistant Attorney General Littell Fired For Insubordination

LITTELL FIRED BY ROOSEVELT   Claim Attorney General Aes Ae Paice Boece eee?

FDR FIRES NORMAN LITTELL, ASSISTANT: ATTORNEY GENERAL   Liiell Asserts the Fuss Had Prevented the Appointment of a “Tommy Corcoran  _. Henchman”. as His Succes: 20r

Several Items Hold Attention In Washington   Closing Days of Congress Reveal Controversies on Taxes and Feud in Justice Department.

FR Dismisses  Biddle Assistant   Littell Given Notice For “Insubordination”

Justice Aide Dismissed By Mr. Roosevelt   Biddle Comes Out Ahead In Feud With Littell

FD. R. Fires Assistant U.S. Atty. General   Littell Says Biddle Appointment of ‘Corcoran Man’ Foiled

President Fires Norman Littell In Capital-Roy   Justice Department Strife Seen Headed Today For Senate Investigation

BIDDLE AIDE . IS FIRED TODAY BY ROOSEVELT   Norman Littel Is Oust: . ed For “Insub- : ordination”   ACCUSED BIDDLE   Charges Attorney General Interfered In Coreoran Case

Littell Fired By President   Assistant Attorney General Discharged For “Insubordination.”

Assistant Attorney Genera Fired in Justice Department Disruption   INSUBORDINATION IS CHARGE: PROBE LIKELY

President Dismisses Littell   Assistant Attorney General Removed From Office for ‘insubordination’

Assistant Att'y Gen. Dismissed   Receives Letter From President Roosevelt Charging ‘Insubordination’

BIDDLE HELPER OUSTED BY FOR   Assistant Attorney General Littell Is Removed for ‘Insubordination’ Today

President Fires Littell, Charges \Insubordination   Roosevelt Acts to End Long Feud in Justice Department; Senate Taiks Probe

‘“Insubordination . . ; . Inexcusable”’ So  FDR il ataaoniana Norman Littel For Row In Justice Department

Littell Fired By Roosevelt  Insubordination Is Inexcusable, FDR Savs in Statement

BIDDLE’S AID FROM OFFICE   Says Removal of Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell Neces: sary Because of Alleged Insubordination.

FDR Removes Assistant U.S. Attorney   Norman Littell Faces insubordination Charge by President

President Fires  Aide ‘To Biddle   Action Follows Feud Ip Justice Department

Littell Ousted After Dispute With Superior   ‘Roosevelt Cites . Insubordination Ae Canase of Act

FDR Fires Littell, Justice Assistant;  " Biddle Wins by KO   “Insubordination” is Re. sponsible; Battle Over ‘Security Seen

Littell Is Fired — By Chief Executive   President Acts to Halt Dispute In Office of Attorney General

Roosevelt Steps Into Row OF Justice Department By Removing Littell On Insubordination Charge

GEN. PATTON IS IN EUROPE   First Intimation of Whereabouts Since March Given

PATTON'S RETURN INDICATES ZERO HOUR: APPROACHES   Former Commander of 7%t Army Is Now on European Frant_

GEN. PATTON HAS ARRIVED IN ENGLAND   Presence Heralded As Bringing Invasion Nearer

Russians Regroup for Final Assault On Sevastopol; 15 Nazi Ships are Sunk, 36 Planes Downed in 24 Hrs.

Massed Squadrons ‘of Red Air Fore: and Naval Vessels ‘Sink 15 Enemy Ships and Destroy 36 Pianes in 24 Hours,

Reds Sink 15 Nazi Vessels   Planes Take Over Sevastopol Siege, Downing 9 Transports

Nazi Troop Transports Are Bombec   Destroy Many roe ed Planes — Other Germaii  Vessels Are Sunk .

Massed Red Air Units Take Over Sevastopol Siege   15 Enemy Vessels, 36 Planes Destroyed ‘In 24-Hour Period

15 NAZI SHIPS SUNK BY REDS IN BLACK SEA   Germans Claim Russians Launch Final Assault On Sevastopol

War Prisioners “Cost Is Great   Uncle Sem Already Spent The Sum Of Nearly $3,000,000 © On Camp Sites

Russia's Recognition Of Present Italian Regime Shows Dissatisfaction

THE RUSSIANS STIR DIPLOMATIC WATERS   Apparently Have No Faith In Allied Post-War Plans.

Berlin Now At Mercy of Bombers   Protection of Daylight Is Taken Away

BERLIN'S LAST DEFENSE GONE   Daylight Now Offers No Protection Capital at Mercy of Bombers

Jap Navy Suffers NewReverse With ‘Loss of Carrier   United States Submarine Adds to Toll When Giant Carrier Damaged and Probably Sunk

New Japanese Naval Losses Are Revealed   Big New Carrier and Other Vessels Now Believed Sunk

28000-TON JAP CARRIER PROBABLY SUNK BY U.S, SUB   Nimitz Reveals Three Torpedoes Hit Flat-top During June 18-19 Battle in Philippine Sea,   ENEMW’S AIR LOSSES RAISED TO 370 PLANES   “4 Huge American Task Force Still Prowls Pacific Seeking Showdown With Mikado’s Fleet.

Big Jap Aircraft Carrier - Ts Reported Sunk By Sub   Japan‘s Naval Defeat in Philippines Vaults to Crushing Proportions—Enemy Loses 360 Carrier Planes -

28,000 Ton Ship ls Torpedoed by U. 5. Submarine   Destroyer Also Sent to Bottom

REPORT JAP CARRIER HAS BEEN SUNK   Also Definitely List Destroyer Gone in Addition to Ships Damaged and 360 Planes.   Task 58 Busy

Nimitz Says 28,000-Ton Ship Hit By Three Torpedoes And Probably Sunk   70 AMERICAN PLANES LOST IN SEA BATTLE

‘FREEZE’ VETO BY FDR LOOMS      Solons Delay AUjournmer Action Expected Today *

JAP CONVOY ~--4$ BLASTED   P-T BOATS ATTACK BARGES ATTEMPTING. TO EVACUATE TROOPS FROM BIAK , JSLAND

Students Rebel President’s Loss   Texas Students Go On the March To Protest Discharge of Pres. Rainey.

4 Seaports Won;Toulon Drive Opens   500 Square Miles Of Coast Captured Cannes Hub Periled

Columns Near Cannes and ‘Toulon Base   Fliers Report Nice » Harbor in Flames By Enemy Demolitions

Port Of St. Raphael, Frejus captured, Nice Harbor Reported In Flames, 500 Square Miles OF Territory Is Liberated.   COASTAL TOWN oF DRAMONT CAPTURED

BEACHHEADS IN SOUTH ARE NOW LINKED   Allies Liberate 500 Square Miles of Territory In New Invasion.

900 SQUARE MILES OF TERRITORY NOW IN HANDS OF ALLIED TROOPS   Four Seaports and Five Inland Towns Captured In Swift Advance.

Toulon Under Gun: Of Yank, French  Invasion Forces   All Beachheads Connected As Troops Move Inland and On Nice and Cannes

Capture The Port Of St. Raphael And Nearby Frejus  LIBERATE 500 SQUARE MILES OF TERRITORY  Within 10 Miles Of Big Naval Base Of Toulon And Riviera

Advance 25 Miles  Beyond.Riviera —   Liberate Numerous S. French Towns

Invaders Link 50 Mile Front   Within 10 Miles Of Cannes and Toulon, Big Noval Base

NVADERS LINK EACHHEADS O} O-MILE FRONT   : Vanguards Near Cannes, Toulon

bines Laniings  DO TH nied   500 Squere Miles Of Invasion Coast Area Ils Occupied

SOUTHERN FRANCE INVASION FORCES LINK BEACHHEADS   New Air-Borne Troops Drive 25 Miles Inland to Liberate Some 500 Square Miles of Territory.   CLOSE IN ON TOULON, CAPTURE ST. RAPHAEL   ‘Allied Air Force Planes Blast Targets Far Beyond the Combat Area Chiefly Bridges Along Rhone.

ARMY 25 MILES INLAND; MANY TOWNS TAKEN   Fighting Grows On AO- Mile Front; Rainforcements Arrive

Allies Link All Beachheads And Drive 25 Miles Inland   , astieneenneenneeemnel  Columns Nearing ‘Toulon. Cannes   Junction Formed With Troops Landed Behind  Lines By Air

200 Square Miles Freed in New Push   Junction With Air-Borne Units Effected as New Reinforcements Pour Ashore

MUSIC PROGRAM AT HIGH SCHOOL   City School Music Activities Department To Present Special Christmas Attraction——Community Sing.

Christmas Musical Event At High School Sunday To Include Old Favorites

NAZIS SACRIFICING PLANES IN EFFORT TO RAM: BOMBERS   “WSTLY TACTICS NOW BEING USED IN ATTEMPT TO BREAK UP ALLIED FORMATIONS

Claims FDR ‘Initialed’ Greek Setup   British-Russ Pact On ‘Stabilization’ Of Country Bared   Where to Find It   “Navel Seat Device Catapults Pilots from ‘Suicide’ Craf

BRITISH HALT ATTACKS NEAR MANIPUR CITY   But Japs Claim Fall Of Kohima, Big Supply Base

Key Cernauti Base Doomed By Red Drive   Enemy Artillery Pours Steel Hail Over Prut River; Street Fights Rage in Nikolaev

Cpl. J. R. Wilkevich Killed In France   Message Keceived By Family ‘bells Of First Local Casualty  In divasion

Newsmen Pick Roosevelt and Dewey With Former Winning Next Novembe:

U.S. Loses Last East China Base   Airfields Destroyed As Japs Approach

U.S. Abandons Last Big China Base   Fast-Moving Japs Force Americans Inland 400 Miles

U.S. Airbase in China Is Destroyed   Last Important Airfield Is Abandoned

Red Army Drives In  On Odessa   Push on Through Mud In Campaign to Drive Germans Out of Russia; RAF Blasts Rail Yards

‘RUSSIANS SPLASH  THROUGH UKRANIAN  MUD TOWARD ODESSA MOSCOW REPORTS 75,00¢  GERMANS SLAIN IN UKRAINE IN TEN DAYS

Splash Through Ukrainian Mud  Toward Goals   Soviet Armies Menace Odessa. Claim 75.000 Nazis Killed

Report 75,000 Nazi Losses In Past Ten Days   Press Through Ukraine Mud To Drive Out Foe

VICHY GOVERNMENT. REPORT. ‘ED “LOSING CONTROL “AS “INVASION SABOTAGE BE “VOLTS GET UNDERWAY 

22 JAP PLANES BAGGED AT RABAUL   ALLIES LOSE FOUR CRAFT IN ANOTHER SMASH AT ENEMY’S STRONGHOLD.

ALLIES BAG 22 JAP WARPLANES   Enemy Losses At Rabaul Total 380 So Far This Month

Over 100 Jap Planes Sent Blazing Into Sea In Ferocious Air Battle

TELL FINDINGS ABOUT INDIANS   Committee Says White Man Isn’t Doing Right By Group.

Paris Not Cleared Of German Forces   Allied Troops Fighting Way Into French Capital Today   PATRIOTS ASK HELP   Conflicting Accounts Indicate Confused Battle - °° for City

Western France   Germans Repudiate Armistice With French, Continue  Fighting in Paris

tanks Enter ‘Capital Join Partisans   Patton's Seventh Army At Swiss Border After Swift Advance

Nazis Abandon  . Lower. .Greece   British Troops Take Rion. Seal Off Corinth Gulf

Beaten Nazis On the Run From Greece   Gulf of Corinth Sealed Off by British Advance

Nazis Appear To Be Fleeing All Greece   British. Capture. Rion, Seal off Corinth Gulf In Push Toward Athen:  RTCEHT ON COPRETT

British Invasion Forees In  Greece Score Big Advance   Troops Move to Gateway of Athens as Nazis Abandon Most of Peloponesus—Town of  8 Rion Is Serzed

PLUNGE TOWARD ~ ATHENS GATEWAY   _ BRITISH CAPTURE FORT D TOWN OF RION—TURN ENEMY GUNS ON NAZIS,

British Advance On Gateway fo City of Athens   Gulf of Corinth Is Sealed Off

British Make Progress In Greek Drive .   Germans Abandoning Most Of Peloponnesus

IN GREECE AS ENEMY FLEE!   Seal Off Gulf of Corinth by Capture Of Patrai

ISTHMUS OF CORINTH GOAL OF BRITISH   Capturing Rion and Sealinf Off Gulf of Corinth in Greek Offensive; Destroy Three Planes.   Bad Weather

British Move Rapidly Toward Athens   Germans Appear to Be Fleeing Greece Quickly

Reveals Laval Leased Land in Portugal for Hideaway   Heinzen Believes Petain Won't Flee PByanre Dnder Nazi Flac

TOULON NAVAL BASE BLASTED   Stalemate Continues On Ground Front Around Anzio Beachhead

Price Control After War Is Proposed   Cost-of-Living Meeting Passes Resolution in Short Session

American, RAF  Bombers Blast Vital Targets   Reds Capture Zhitomir, As Allies Strike In Italy

PARIS REPORTS — 900 DEAD IN RAID   AMERICAN FORTS AND LIBERATORS BLAST TWO BALLBEARING PLANTS.

Great Fleet of U. S. Heavy Bombers Blasts Paris, Nazi Chateau Bernard Air Base

Heavy Raids On Europe  ‘Continue   Ball Bearing Plants And German Airbase Principal Targets  COAST IS POUNDED

TWO BEARING PLANTS HIT DURING RAID   3500 Aircraft Hit Nazi Europe in Forty-eight-Hour Forays   SIX GERMAN PLANES SHOT OUT OF BATTLE

Blast 2 Vital Ball Bearing Plants, Airdrome   6 German Planes Lost; 1000 Allied Planes in Raid

Targets In France Blasted — By Large Force Of Fliers   Sections of Paris Hit Heavily, According to Radio Report-—Unspecified Targets on the French. Invasion Coast Attacked

Great Bomber Fleets Blast Continental Targets Friday  Germany's Vital Ball Bearing Industry Is  ee

Flying Forts Bomb Plants N ear Paris   American Bombers _ Blast Ball Bearing Works, Nazi Airbase

Danes Clash With Germans   Raise Flags of Allies Over Barricades in Copenhagen, Capital

Patriots Battle In Copenhagen   Germans Machine-Gunoning Peovle. Close Harbor

Allied Flags Unfurled in Copenhagen   Nazis Rush More Troops to Scene As Patrinte Racalt

LL A LL LOE LL ELL LOS ODL NLL EL LLL ILL LLL LLL LS OLS ONL IN ET LEE LTE LE OR ALLO LE A LOE CLE Ie  ALLIED FLAGS FLY IN DENMARK AS 15,000 PATRIOTS GO ON STRIKE

Allied Flags Fly From Barricades in Streets of Copenhagen as Danish Patriots Demonstrate

Dane Patriots Fight Germans   Allied Flags Fly From Barricades In Streets Of Copenhagen,

Denmark i in Turmoil as 15,000 Danish Patriots Battle Nazis in Copenhagen

15,000 DANES TAKE STAND FOR FINISH FIGHT WITH NAZIS   Patriots, Armed With Ma. chine Guns. and Rifles, Are Behind Barricades in the Streets of Copenhagen. .   ALLIED FLAGS WAVE ' FROM THEIR FORTRESS   Prepare for Ne: w Struggle _ Aftes Ni g. ht: Battle in» _ Which 700 Are‘Report- — ed Killed or Wounded. _

15,000 Danish Patriots Battle  Nazi Garrison  700 Reported Slain In Street Fighting; Nazis Use Planes

DANISH PATRIOTS STAGE BIC RIOT   Allied Flags Wave From Barricades as People Rise Against Nazis

DANE PATRIOTS ~ FIGHT GERMANS   Allied Flags Flying As 15,000 Wage Battle In Copenhagen Streets

Allied Flags On ‘Forts’ in Copenhagen   15,000 Armed -Danes in Revolt,BattleNazisFrom _* Behind Barricades

Nazi Rocket Fighter Planes Used Against U. S- Bombers; New Aerial Phase Attained

“Rocket Fighter Planes  Used by Nazis   New Weapon Fails to Make Any .. Attack on Allies

AERAAL OFFENGWVE ENTERS (STH DAY   Attacks Cost Americans 4 Bombers, 3 Fighter Planes   FOLLOW RAF RAID   Bomb Load Since Wednesday Averages 6'2 Tons a Minute, Night and Day

2,800 Sorties Made on 14th Day 0 Great Aerial Assault; Foe Puts —- Up Only Little Opposition

2,800 Sorties Blast Nazis In Single Day   61. Tons Per Minute, Night, Day, Dropped Since Wednesday  RAIDS CONTINUING

“EVE OF INVASION” ATTACK ON CHERBOURG AREA FOLLOWS RAF ATTACK ON FREDERICKSHAFEN AND OTHER VITAL POINTS IN GERMANY.

Americans Hurl 2,500 Planes Against French Air Bases; Nazi Technical Center Assaulted By British

Yanks Blast German  Air Bases in France   Triple-Headed Blow Struck as More Thar 2.800 Sorties Made During 14th Day of Air Offensive: Only Seven Planes Lost

Invasion Area Of France Is  Blasted By U. S. Bombers   First Triple-Header Bomber Strike Highlights Attacks ——Bombs Dropped at Rate of 61/2 Tons _ a Minute, Night and Day

2,800 Planes Hit Nazis’ French Bases   Allied Bombs Drop at Rate of Over Six Tons a Minute

Blame Storm —  Tn Drowning  -Of11 Soldiers   Interior Of: The Carolines ~* Reported Feeling . Lash’ ° OF. Tropical’ Hurricane

11 Drowned During Big Hurricane   Army Announces Death of 11 Civilian Employes of ~ New Orleans Port   STORM DEATH TOLL . WOW TOTALS 37   Winds Lashing: Inland, But Big Blow is ‘Deereasino in Intensity

11 DROWNED IN PATH OF STORM   Soldiers From New Orleans Port of Embarkation Perish at Sea

Storm Capsizes Boat Drowning  Eleven Soldiers   Skipper Is Sole Known Survivor

Soviet Troops Reportec Rushing Across Field: Of Balaklava, Jus’ Eight Miles South O:  Sevastopol.

SOVIETS MAKE NEW GAINS IN GRIMIEA   Expected Momentarily To Capture City Of Balaklava

FALL OF CRIMEAN CITY WOULD PUT SOVIETS ONLY 8 MILES FROM SEVASTOPOL

SAVASTOPOL WATER FRONT IS ABLAZE   Entire City Contains Scenes of Horror as Two Russian  Armies Converge Toward . Trap.

U.S. Bombers Hit Nazi Air Bases Ir Rome Sector   Trio Of Enemy’s Most Im. portant Airdromes Are Blasted During Attack   AMERICAN BOMBERS ROAM WIDE AREAS

NAZI AIR BASES NEAR ROME HIT ” BY U.S, BOMBS   #®anks Repulse Counter Blow at Cervaro, Drive Ahead on Cassino Road

ADMINISTRATION OF TVA ATTACEKD BY SEN. M’KELLAR   Chief of Senate Appropria  ticns Committee’ Charges   Power Agency Discriminated On Rates

YANKS MAKE GAINS IN CASSINO AREA   Allied Warships Continue to Support Rritich

‘Crack Tank -Unit Blasted By Invaders   Fall of Cassino Not Confirmed By Allied Chief

NAZI ATTACK BELOW ROME IS REPULSED   Three Tanks Are Knocked Out, 120 Germans Killed

INVADERS BREAK FIRST GERMAN COUNTERATTACK   Local Gains in Cassino Area

Yanks Break Nazi Attack Below Rome   First \Counter-Blow in Force Launched  Since Invasion

Repulse Nazi Counter-Attack Near Littoria   Goering Division Driven Back By Allied Units Which Are Operating South Of Rome

Allies in Italy Push Deeper Into Nazi Flank   Counter-Attack Of Germans I< Futile

Crack Goering Units Repulsed Below Littoria   Americans Make Gains In Cassino Area Against Strong Force

ALLIED FORCES BREAK ENEMY COUNTER - BLOW   Italian Invasion Spearhead Being Pushed Deeper Into German Flank.

Seize 1150 More Towns.in Great Westward Drive   Other Soviet Forces Break Into— Polotsk,. Battle in Streets; Threaten Rail Junction in Poland

Minsk Falls To Russians   Great Red Offensive Surges Westward Toward Germany

Minsk, Last Big Nazi-Held City in Russia, Falls to Reds   Great Soviet Offensive Gains Fourth of Distance To Berlin in Just 11 Days of Fighting

Drive Nazis From Last’ Stronghold   Germans Collapse Under Steel Pincers” Of White Russian Armies. ‘Reds Near Dvinsk

Powerful Red Tide Breaks into City of Polotsk   Onrushing Forces Leave Minsk Behind And Threaten Huge German Debacle

Russ engulf  1,150 towns  during drive Surge forward an enives frank

Ask Removal Of Controls On  Small Incomes   Permission To Employers To Increase Wages To $200 Level Urged By AFL Representatives

AF OF L ENDORSES WAGE RESOLUTION      Would Allow Increases Under $200 Level Without WLB Approval.

AFL Endorses Wage Resolutior  Suggests Lifting Ow Incame Cantrol

Are Married On  New Year’s Day  Robert S. Gillespie and Virginia Fleck Wed

Are Married On New: Near’ s Day  Robert S. Gillespie anc Vireinin Fleck’ Wed 

Senators Disposed to Accept FDR's . Nelson's Statement at "Face Value’

PLAN TO QUESTION CHAIRMAN OF WPR   Senator Want to Know Oth_ers’ Views on Civilian Production.

Denied N elson Ching Mission  ‘Kick In Teeth   Rooseyeli“Says ‘WPB Chief's Absetice’ In’ No Way Alters Reconversion Policies

Russia s Peac “ Terms In Present Form  Cannot Be Accepted By Finland

Finland Balks At  Terms   RUSSIAN PEACE CONDITIONS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT PRESENT

18 Charges of War Horrors  By Foe Listed   American Prisoners Beaten to Death, Starved, Declares Note

JAPS OFFERED «NO RESISTANCE TO SPEAK OF   * GENERAL . MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHILIPPINES,  age, SSE  yry yIuieoy,y

Mightiest Ocean-Going Armada Lands Huge  Force  JAPS ARE. SURPRISED  ee. wae. @e, at aw Sark Mee 22%) a.   Enemy Caught Completely Off Balance by The Doughboys

GENERAL DOUGLAS MARTHUR FULFILLS HIS PROMISE OF 1842—"T SHALL RETURN”   Tens of Thousands of Yank Doughboys Land on Leyte Island, 300 Miles From Manila; Japs Are Caught Off Balance

Troops Landed With Ease on Island of of Leyte  Amaricane , cance an   Americans and Australians Join For Invasion

NAZI FLIGHT REPORTED AT FRENCH PORT   Allies Consider Beachhead Hold Absolutely Safe. Nazi Escape Highway Under Fire

U.S. HEAVIES HIT 6 NAZI AIR BASES   1,000 BOMBERS TAKE PART IN ASSAULT ON TARGETS IN FRANCE

BLAST SIX NAZI AIRDROMES IN NORMANDY ZONE   Force Of 1,000 Heavy Bombers Rains Bombs On Scattered Airfields Over Wide Arc In Invasion Area; Clouds Hamper Air Operations.

‘Big American Bombers Blast  German Airheses   Transport Straled Behiad Invasion Coast, Berlin and Oil Refinery Bombed

U. S. Heavies Assail Nazi .  Air Bases   Allied Planes Also Seek Out Robot Launchers

U. S. Heavies ' Hit German Plane Centers   Hit Dozen Fields in Great Arc Around French Beachheads

Yanks Pound Nazi Airbases  Day Raid Follows Big Blast at Coast Robot Piane Center

[AMERICAN AIRMEN POUND AIRFIELDS IN NORMANDY AREA   1,000 Heavy Bombers Assault Enemy's Air Installations Following RAF Raids in  ’ Germany and Calais Region

Central Area Touzhest   Nazi Air Bases Ringing Invasion Area Battered By Heavy Bombers

Americans Cut Last Rail Link On Peninsula   Enemy Reported Trying To Escape Normandy’s Major Seaport

DESPITE BAD WEATHER ALLIED PLANES HANMER BEACHHEAD ARC AND BERLIN AND OTHER CITIES.   Half A Dozen Nazi Air Bases in Normandy Blast: ’ edwith Heavy Bomb Loads and French Sector r Hard Hit. Czecho-Slovakia Gets First Bombing

MEDITERRANEAN AIR  FORCE LIBERATORS  STRIKE AT BALKANS GERMANS STEPPED UP  THEIR SHELLING OF THE AN7IN REACHHUEAN

35 Nazi Planes Downed; Hit  Balkan Target:   Mediterranean Air Force Smashes At Prime Rail Centers

Bombers Hit Rail Targets   Air Action Against Nazi Communications  In Italian Sector

Two Transport Hubs in Italy Are By-Passed   Flanking Drive on Livorno Continuing

ALLIES TAKE SEVEN TOWNS INITALY °   2 Transport Hubs Are Bypassed And Invested

ALLIED ARMIES MAKE PROGRESS IN NORTH ITALY      By-Pass And Invest Transport Hubs On Journey To Florence

ALLIES: ‘BY-PASS TRANSPORT HUBS NEAR FLORENCE   5th and 8th Battes Stiff Resistance. Thru Seven Large - Towns -

Allies Press OnFlorence   Last Two Big Transport Hubs Taken: Flank Attack Launched On Livorno

Yanks Threaten Terricciola in Push fo Livorno   Seven Towns, Many Heights Fall to Allies

Allies Close  On All Sides  For Arezzc   Fifth and Eighth Armies Move Up Several Miles on Way to Florence

ALLIES BY-PASS POGGIBONSI AND ARREZZ0 IN ITALY   Steady Gains Being Made All Along  Front,. But Fighting Increasmgly Bitter.

ALLIES MARCH ON GOTHIC LINE IN FLANK MOVE   Battle 17 Miles East Of Italian Seaport Of Livorno

Allies Invest Towns 22, 30 Miles  from Florence   ROME > ~ne W. P) — French forces of the Allied Fifth army today captured Poggibonsi, road junction below Florence.

Flanking Drive on Livorno Is Staged by U.S.   Gains Totaling Several Miles Are Renorted

ALLIES FLANKING ‘PORT OF FLORENCE IN ITALIAN DRIVE   Drive Against Prize Port Of Florence Continues Despite Fierce Fight-

House Makes Bid Against Heavy Odds fo Assist {n Writing Future Peace

YANKEES BAG 4? MORE NAZI AIR FIGHTERS   Allies Continue To Blast Europe   LONDON RAIDED

U. S. MUST SPEAK PLAIN TO ALLIES: SEN. VANDENBERG   WASHINGTON VIEWS BRITISH, RUSSIAN PACT WITH CONCERN

10 Per Cent of “Take” Standard Rate for Tips to Chicago Burglars

Thomas Says ‘Creeping Paralysis’ Of Deflation Has Already Set In:

SWANEY’S GRILL Ror tasty lunches and dinners.—-Ad   Po Weprran ne WANEY ORDERS

ON SECURITY     END TODAY   Essentials Agreed On By Big Powers’ Delevatea—

NAZI RAIDERS FIRE LONDON   Oil Bombs, Incendiaries Dropped By Fast Enemy Planes

Remnants Of British Force Finally Rescued—Less Than — 2,000 Men Evacuated—~—

Allies Hail Incredible ‘Red Devil’. 8-Day Stand   Point to Huge Toll To German Attackers And Development Of Other Thrusts

British Thrust Aided by Stand Of “Red Devils”   Over 12,000 Nazis Slain in Fight; Violent Assault on Metz Front Launched by Patton’s Men

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FIRST AIRBORNE DIVISION TOOK SEVERE LOSSES   1,200 Wounded Left Behind At Arnhem; Montgomery’s Delay Costly   ALLIED CORRIDOR INTO HOLLAND HELD

Original Force Of 8,000 Kill 12,000 Germans In Great Stand   Corridor Extending Up through Holland Being Expanded; Nazis Fall Back across Meuse

Less Than 2,000 Britis! “Red Devils” Return t: Comrades; Germas! Dead Number 12, 000 ti 15 100.

Return With Story of Valor to Take Its Place Beside Dunkerque; Replacements Widen Corridor Hold

Great Armadas Rain Bombs On German Targets   Augsburg Arms Plants Smashed; New Tactics Used By British

Pvt. W. J. Kamradt Wounded In Italy °  Farmed Here Before Entering Service

Pvt. W.’J. Kamradt Wounded In Italy °  “F armed Here Before Entering: ‘Service oo

Tug Launching Saturday At :   Dachel-Carter Ship Ti Be Christened

EDEN 10 JOIN QUEBEC CONFAB   POLITICAL PROBLEMS ARE MOUNTING AT MEETING

Eden To Attend  Quebec Session   Hull May Also Join . Roosevelt, Churchill ”

EDEN JOINS CONFERENCE AT QUEBEC .   Peace Terms for Germany Most Pressing Problem

EDEN JOINS QUEBEC + PARLEY TO DISCUSS POSTWAR POLICIES   } British Minister To Talk With FDR, Churchill On Peace Terms

War Conferences  Reported Moving Into Last Stages   President, Churchill May Continue Talks At Some Other Point

Foreign Secretary Eden Will Join Anglo-American War Talks At Quebec   Oonferences Have Broadened Fat Beyond Military Ouestions

Kden To Joim  In War ‘Talks   He Will Discuss Political Problems Accompanying Allied Victories

SUICIDE TROOPS SCREEN GERMAN FLIGHT TO WEST   Entire Enemy Defense Line East of Nikolayev May Collapse

SINATRA RAS TEA IN WHITE. HOUSE   Trio Flies. to Washington far Chat; FDR “Ribs” VUniras Aharnt Cirte

Politics   Hull Blasts Reports That He’d Stay With Any ‘Dewey Cabinet’

HULL OBJECTS TO PUBLISHED REPORTS   Seeretary Discounts Rumor That He Will Be Given Cabinet ~ Post By Dewet if Elected

WILD HORSES LEFT FREE TO ROAM OREGON RANGE  Mustangs Have Different Idea When Cowbovs Attempt Roundup

GEORGE KALER DIED SUND      Was Visiting Friends When Taken Ill; Requiem Mass at St. Bridget’s. Church 

Was Visiting Friends When Taken Ill; ‘Requiem Mass at St. Bridget’ s €hiitch ©

Encircled For Six Days, Yank Force Fights Clea   How 400 Doughboys, Trapped In Woods, Mad Way 10 Miles Through German Lines After Heroic Stand Is Revealed Today

Decisive Battle Is Believed To Be Raging To Climax   Hundreds of Tons of Supplies, Principally Ammunition Dropped by Parachute to Americans in Encircled Bastogne   "NEXT FEW DAYS EXPECTED TO TELL THE STORY’

Says CIO-PAC  Communist Run   Claims Attempt ‘Being “Made To Control Labor

/CIO.Committee Charged with Communism ‘By Unamerican Investigation Committee

Aurora Girl, Victim Of Leukemia, Looking Forward To Dad’s Return

ance Against Sigfried Line;  bers Blast Path for AdCities Bombed   RMAN FREIGHT YARDS “GIVEN HEAVY POUNDING

ee  Bombers Smash German Cities  Cologne and Kassel Bounded by Americans

U. S. Bombers Blast Germany   ‘Cologne ‘And: Kassel. *Plants: Are Pounded:

2,700 U.S. Planes Aid New Drive   Cologne, Kassel, Hamm Battered As Well As Westwall Areas

7700 Allied Planes Strike In New West Wall Drive  900 Flying Fortresses Rip Cologne, Mr. ...t. EF. ...... Woe Ow. wd Om kw

1,000 BOMBERS HIT KEY KASSEL, COLOGNE BASES   Germans Also Report Other Formations Over Reich In Giant Air Blows

ALLIED WARPLANES IN SLASHING ATTACK ON GERMAN LINES  COLOGNE AND KASSEL     BLASTED; OTHER PLANE cnppART NEW Nove

THOUSANDS OF PLANES OVER REICH TODAY   German Industrial Objectives at Cologne, Kassel In Siegfried Line Area Are Assaulted   WARNING TO DUTCH

2700 Planes Support Blow At West Wall   Allied Warplanes Blaze Path to the Siegfried Line for American Douchbovs

PLANES Mala NEW OFFENSIVE   More Than 2,700 Warplanes in Attack on Siegfried =  line.

Allied Warplanes Strike in Support Of Offensives   More than 1,000 Bombers Cat  Gaps in Siegfried Line — Bhoed af Boje. Man

ALLIED WARPLANES IN SLASHING ATTACK ON GERMAN LINES   COLOGNE AND KASSEL BLASTED; OTHER PLANES SUPPORT NEW DRIVE

Sevénteen Hundred Others Strike Close and Deep In Support of Great New Onslaught

2,700 Allied Planes Hit Reich Today   Air Arm Supporting Hodges’ Men in West Wall Attacks

BOMBER FORCES ASSAULT LARGE GERMAN CITIES   Cologne, Kassel and Hamm’s Freight Yards Pounded By VU. S. Airmen

Rir Fleet Cuts Path for Hodges   2,700 Allied Warplanes Sent Oui in Support of New Offensive   11,000 ARE USED AT THE FRONT LINE   Others Bomb Cologne, Only 30 Miles From Front, and Other Nearby Centers.

2.000 U.S.  ‘Planes Make Great Drive On Germans   1,000 Hit Industrial Targets And Equal Number Strike Nazis Vaunted West Wall

Huge Air Force Supports Yanks’ New Offensive   More Than 2,700 Planes Strike Enemy In Aachen Area; Cologne a Target

Huge Aerial Armada Aids New Offensive   2700 Warplanes Strike In Close Support Of American Ground Drive; Cologne, Kassel And Hamm Raided

GIVE SUPPORT IN GREAT NEW AACHEN DRIVE   Blaze Path Into Nazis Siegfried Line As First -*U. S. Army Pushes Relentlessly On.

LEND GREAT WEIGHT TO NEW DRIVE   Biast Siegfried Line And Hammer Coloane, Kassel

Cologne, Kassel  Industries Bombed  Another 1,000 Planes Join U. 3 First Army  yy ff.

2,100 Airplanes Support Offensive   Path Blazed Into German Westwall

Nearly 3,000 Planes. Aid US. Offensive In Aachen Area With Telling Blows

1,000 Planes Hit Siegfried Area Targets   1,000 More Join First Army in Assaulting West Wall

Aachen Becomes Target Of Heavy Artillery Attack   New Offensive Started After Stalemate; Bombers Active On  Entire Front

COLOGNE HARD HIT BY GREAT AFRIAL FORGE   Two Directional Attack Reported By Germany

Cologne And Kassel Under Heavy Attack   1,000 Big Bombers Hit At Targets In German Cities

Massive Air. Support For US Offensive  Over 2700 Allied ’ Planes Take Part

Navy Cuts Back Building Plans For Submarines   Completion Schedules To Be Maintained For Next Eight Months.

GEORGE MAUCK 15 KILLED IN ACTION   Maugansyille Youth Loses Life in the Pacific : ’ Theater

GEORGE MAUCK IS KILLED IN ACTION   Maugansville ville Youth Loses Life in the Pacific _ ' Theater

Rome Radio Tells of Troop Departures  BS mo meas be Da   Negotiations Known to Be Under Way

GERMAN-RUL SOURCES HINT OF DEPARTURE   Such Action Would Represent Major Allied Victory

Wallace Called to Convention   FDR Limits Support to Letter of Praise

Residents Flec, Lowlands Flooded As Midwest Rivers Go on Rampage

MacArthur Makes 7-Mile Penetration Along 25-Mile Front *  e¢      5,000 Japanese Reported killed   Landing Reported Made O1 Samar Island: Eleven Cities Liberated

Yanks 7 Miles Inland   Jap Resistance Diminishing, Says MacArthur Report

11 Cities And Towns, 3 Adjacent Islands In~ American Hands; Landing On Samar Reported   By William B. Dickinson

FRONT LINE IS EXTENDED T0 25 MILES   More Than 3,000 Japs Already Killed and Resistance Thwarted.

3,000 Japanese Soldiers Killed In Yank Assault   Nippon Counterthrusts Effectively Prevented,. Headquarters Declares

Have Killed Over 3000 Jap Troops   BEACHHEAD NOW 23 MILES WIDE; THREE ADJACENT ISLANDS HAVE BEEN TAKEN

Samar Island Is Invaded By Yanks, Claim   Americans’ Beachhead Deepened On 25-Mile Front; Jap Chances For Counterattacks Fading; 11 Towns Reported Liberated

Bridgehead Troops Led by Tank Force   Gen. MacArthur Capitalizing on Reliant Success at Tacloban

Yanks Are 7 Miles Inland On Leyte; Push Across To  Samar I< Renorted

Ground Troops Kill 3000 Nips, Smash Attacks   Yanks Take Three Adjacent Islands, Widen Beachhead to 23 Miles; Japanese Premier Concedes Invaders Gained “Toehold” on Island

Beachhead Is Deepened  Seven Miles   Counter-Thrusts From Jap Forces Are Eliminated

JAPS FAIL IN ATTACKS; LOSE TEN TO OUR ONE   11 Cities, Three Isles Taken

Airfields at Manilla Hit In New Raid   U. S. Forces Drive Seven Miles Inland—Take Other  Islands

FRONT WIDENED 25 MILES AFTER INLAND PLUNGE   3000 Of Enemy Killed In Early Stage OF Cround Onerations

‘American Invasion Forces Plunge Seven Miles Inland On Leyte And Widen Front

CAPTURE FEW PRISONERS IN INLAND DRIVE   Japanese Air Force Reported Attacking U. S. Invasion Fleet in Gut.

Yanks Plunge / Miles Inland on Leyte Island   Offensive Front Widened to at Least 23 Miles

GREAT SKY RAID ROCKS NAZILAND   Aerial Blow Is Worst Of War; About 7000 Pianes In Attack

Germans Feel Hardest Blow   Over 6,000 Allied Planes’ In. Raids ©:

Greatest Air Blow Of War Hits. Germany  Gigantic Armades Smash At Reich

Nearly 7,000 Planes Hurled Against Reich  51 Heavies And 15 Fighters Lost; Blow   51 Heavies And 15 Fighters Lost; Blow Greatest Coordinated Assault Of War

GERMANY ROCKED BY GREATEST AERIAL SMASH IN HISTORY   By HENRY B. JAMESON

Greatest Air Blow Is Dealt   Devastation Left Across Germany After Raids By Thousands of Planes

6 U. 5. PLANES LOST OVER REICH   SEVERAL GERMAN CITIES IN FLAMES AFTER DEVASTATING AIR ASSAULT,

Up to 7,000 Planes, Man ned by 35,000 Airmen, Blast Oil Supply and All Types Factories

6,000 to 7,000 Planes  In Assault Fine Weather Gives Fliers Their Chance

6,000 Heavies Rock Germany   Heaviest Raid of Entire War Shakes Raiol

7,000 PLANES HIT REICH IN WAR'S GREATEST BLOW   Cities In Germany, Austria, Hungary In Flames

Oil Supply Lines, War  Plants Hit   More Than 6,000 Planes Sent Over. .. Germany in One Day

Blizzard Holds Mid-West Area In Frigid Gri   Near-Zero Temperature Likely Here; Minus 4? In No. Dakota

BERRIEN DiGs OUT OF YEAR'S HEAVIEST SNOW   Weatherman Predicts SubZero Will Strike Tonight >

Gains Made In Senate  And House   New Deal Is Assured Of Safe Majorities In Both Branches  NVE. GILLETTE ODT

Hold sizable  lead in senate  Power in house orowing laronre   Governors

WIN 237 SEATS WITH 36 RACES — JO BE DECIDED   President’s Party Assured of 55 Senate Members With 3 Needed to Retain Present Strength.   GILLETTE OF IOWA GOES DOWN TO DEFEAT   Prominent Republicans Bowing to Opponents Include Nye, Danaher and Hamilton Fish.

CRUISER, TWO DESTROYERS SUBS’ PREY   Seven Carzo Ships Also on U.S Toll List. British Subs Get Five Nipponese Boats

American Subs Sink 3 Jap Ships   Also Destroy Seven Cargo Vessels, Tanker Large Naval Auxiliary

U.S. SUBS SINK 3 JAP WARSHIPS   Nine Other Ships Sent to ) Bottom by U-Boats

Nine Other Enemy Ships Sent To Bottom by Undersea Boats, Bringing War's Score to 695

Yankee Subs Get Warships   Add Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers to Mounting List of Enemy Ships Sunk

Allies Striking At Nippon Supply   Light Cruiser, Three Destroyers 11 Supply Vessels Sent to Bottom Bv Yanks. British

Seven Cargo Ships, Tanker Also Listed   U. S. Submersibles Deep In Enemy Controlled Waters; Total Of Foe’s Loss Now 695 <

YANK SUBS SINK 12 JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC WAR   Brings Total Hits Of Enemy Vessels To 695; 544 Sunk

JAPANESE ALSO LOSE 7 CARGO SHIPS TO SUBS   Successes In Enemy-Controlled Waters Are Revealed By Navy Dept.

SHIPS GUNK BY AMERICAN SUBS   New Sinkings Bring to 695 Number Jap Vessels Sunk, Damaged.   LOCATION !S NOT GIVEN

ENEMY’S WATERS COMBED   Yank Torpedoes Get 9 Other Nippon Ships   Toll Is Mounting.

SUBMARINES 60 DEEP INTO JAP DOMINATED SEA   American Undersea Craft Destroy Seven lap Cargo Vessels, Tanker And Auxiliary In Addition To Cruiser And Two Destrovers.

CRUISER AND DESTROYER SENT DOWN   Victory of U. S. Submersibles in Unidentified Waters Reported by Navy Department   DETAILS NOT REVEALED

17 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK   Light Cruiser and Three Destroyers Sent To Bottom

Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sunk By American Subs   Seven Jap Cargo Vessels, Larg Tanker, Large Naval Auxiliar Also Destroved

ENGLISH,U.S, SUBS DESTROY 17 JAP SHIPS   Allied Bag Includes Cruiser, 3 Destroyers, 13 Smaller Japanese Vessels

U-Boats Sink 3 Jap Ships   Light Cruiser, Destroyers Destroyed Deep In Enemy  Waters,

ALSO FINISH OFF SEVEN “CARGO SHIPS   In Addition, Submersibles _ Have Destroyed a Tank: er and Auxiliary Deep in Enemy -Controlled ' Woaters.

Sink Jap Warships   U. S. Submarines Account for Cruiser And Two Destroyers

Yank Under-sea Raiders Also Send Down Seven Freighters And Big Tanker Deep in Enemy Waters - - - British Increase Toll with Dest royer and Other Vessels

ENEMY LOSES 1,000 MEN IN BURMA   Nips’ Effort To Take Key Rail Line Fails   Hits Truk, Tokyo Claims; Mop-Up Work Continues Around Hollandia

Light Cruiser, 2. Destroyers Go ToBottom   Navy Also Destroys 7 Enemy Cargo Vessels

Cruiser, Four Destroyers In Pacific Tol   Seven Cargo Boats, One Tanker, Big Auxiliary Also Destroved

Subs Sink Jap Cruiser And Two Destroyers   Seven Enemy Cargo Vessels Also Sunk; _Latest Sinkings Bring to 695 Number Of Ships Sunk or Damaged. :

‘Seven Cargo Ships, Large Tanker And Big Auxiliary For  Nipponese Navy Included

FOUR WARSHIPS AMONG LATEST VICTIMS OF ALLIED SUBS IN ENEMY CONTROLLED WATERS   Light Cruisers and Three Destroyers Sunk in Latest Attacks. American Subs Have Sunk 544 Nip Ships and 150 Others Hit and Damaged

Jap Cruiser,  2 Destroyers Sunk By Subs   U. S. Submersibles Alseo Account For Seven Enemy Cargo Vessels

ae eee Oe ee eee  JAPANESE NAVY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES BY U.S,   Two Destroyers  And Light Cruiser Reported Sunk

Eleven Other ‘Enemy Vessels  Are Destroyed   American Targets Found In Japanese-Controiled Waters, Navy Depart ment      Brings Submarine Toll to Near 706   British U-Boat Crews Bag }  Shipping In Asiatic Wat.  ers; Tokyo Says Truk  Again Attacked

Three Jap Warships — Are Sunk   Light Cruiser and:Two De. stroyers Are Sent to Bottom by U.S. Snubs   7 CARGO VESSELS _ ALSO DESTROYED   Navy Reports on Work of Undersea Craft Deep in Enemy Waters

Toll Includes 3 Destroyers, Light Cruiser   U, S., British Submarines Also Send Eight Other Vessels To The Bottom

Also Destroy Seven Jap Cargo Vessels, Large Tanker and Naval Auxiliary

U.S. Subs Bag Light Cruiser, 2 Destroyers   7 Cargo Vessels, Tanker Naval Auxiliary Also Destroyed

U. S. SUBS SINK JAP WARSHIPS   Seven Cargo Vessels, Tanker Also Sent To Sottom

Violent Attempts To Break Road Block Repulsed   Over 1,000 Enemy Killed. During. Four Lunaes at Block

Nine Other Vessels Sent To Bottom   Yank Ships Operating Deep in Enemy Waters

IPL 1S CLAIMED      Attack Is Started ‘Along Adriatic . . By Ales

Germans Reported Firmly Entrenched In Positions 300 Yards From Rapido

Patrol Finds Nazi Defense Line Strong   French Forces Occupy San Elia, Three Miles From Stronghold

PATROL PROBES NAZILINE   Doughboys Find Foe Stronely. Entrenched

Yank Patrol Probes Nazi “Gustav Line’   Doughboys Cross the Rapido River to Test Enemy Defenses and Withdraw After Skirmish—French Seize a Town.

Rapido Line Probed By Patrol   U. S$. Doughboys Fine Nazis Entrenched For Desperate Fight

Americans Push Across Rapido River   French Troops Capture Town OF San Elia

American Troops Prepare ~ To Hit Nazis Gustav Line   ‘Patrols Probe Positions And Find German: Are Strongly Fortified

U.S. PATROL CROSSES RIVER TO NAZI LINE   Doughboys Find Germans Strongly Entrenched in Fortified Positions an Raninon   FRENCH ADVANCE   Uccupy Sant’ Elia and Valyori— Canadians Launch Atiack Along Adriaiic Coast

Arc Tightens About Cassino   Yank Patrol Probes German Defenses As Battle Looms. —

Yanks Probe Nazi's Strong “Gustav Line” in Italy as Soviets Close in on Rovno   French Troops Occupy Sant’ Elia; Allied Net Tightens Around Cassino; Reds Fight for Communication Ce nter South of Pinsk

AMERICANS STAB ATGUSTAV LINE   ALLIES TIGHTEN ARC ON CASSINO, GATEWAY TO ROME

AMERICAN UNITS CROSS RIVER IN STAB AT ENEMY   Yank Patrol Withdraws Across Rapido After Probing ‘Gustav’ Positions

FRENCH FORCES OCCUPY VILLAGE NEAR CASSING   Patrol Unit Finds Strong Nazi Lines West of Rapido River '

FRENCH TAKE SANT’ ELIA VILLAGE   ‘Canadians Launch Attack On Adriatic Side   BIG BOMBERS   Plaster Pisa Rail Yards; Other Transportation Facilities Struck

NAZIS’ DEFENSE LINE IS PROBED   American Patrol Crosses Rapido River North of Cassino.   AIR FORCE ACTIVE, TOO

Patrols Battle On ‘Gustav Line   French Forces Seize  Sant’ Elia; Canadians  }

Patrol Finds Nazis Strongly Entrenched Not Far From River   French Seize Sant’ Elia and Valvori to Help Allies Tighten Arc Around Cassino, Which Blocks Valley Pathway on Toward Rome

Doughboy Patrol Crosses Rapido River and Probes. Nazi Line, With. draws After Skirmish. Enemy . Found — En. trenched 300 Yards Be: vond. Bank.

YANKS CROSS RAPIDO RIVER   Sant’ Elia, Three Miles From Cassino, Occupied by French

Yankees Probe Nazi Gustav Line Positions  French Forces Take Sant’ Flia

Americans In ltaly Probe Gustav Line   French Occupy Town Just Three Miles From Cassino

Gustav Line Under Probe In Fighting   Frenchmen Take Sant’ Elia Just North Cassino

‘GUSTAV LINE’ IS PROBED BY YANK PATROLS   Germans Hold Strong Points On Rapido

American Patrol Contacts Nazis Across Stream as Allies Prepare For Final Drive on Cassino.

French Troops In Occupation Of Sant" Elia   Germans Entrenched In Fortified Positions

French Occupy Se ant’ Elia In Ttaly Campaign   American Patrol Crosses Rapido River But Withdraws After Skirmish; Huns Entrenched

Yankee Patrol  Above Cassino   Americans. Probe Strong Gustav Line Positions; French Enter San Elia

U.S. Patrols Cross River   Probe Nazis’ Strong Defense Positions On Gustav Line

THE AMERIGAN PATROL CROSSED: RAPIDO RIVER   Probed the Strong “Gustav Line” Positions, Headquarters Announced.   SANT ELIA OCCUPIED   French Forces Advanced One Thousand Yards to Seize’ This Point. “

American Patrol Probes Strength  of “Gustav Line”   Withdraw Over Rapido River After Skirmish With Nazi Forces

Yank Patrol Probes Nazi Gustav Line   French Forces Occupy Sant’  Elia, Northeast Of Cassino

Yankee Patrol Probes Nazis’  Defense Line   French Troops Occupy Sant’ Elia, 3. Miles  From Cassino   CONSOLIDATE GAINS   Veather Fine But For Gales Blowing On Sth Armv Front °

Rapido Crossed  By Allied Patrols  ‘Gustav Line’ Probed; : Beesnalen Acheson

CROSSED BY U.S. PATROL      Probes Nazi Line Then Withdraws; French Advance

“Count Your Change" Now Applies to Tokens as Well as Money in Food Store

Token System Goes Info Effect InFood Stores   New Plon Used For . Meats And Processed Foods

Ration Tokens. Placed In Use   New Ten-Point Stamps Aleg Validated.

RATION TOKENS IN USE TODAY   OPA’s New Plan Expected to Save Food Shoppers Time and Worry

NAZI U-BOAT BASE GUTTED   Attacked By Giant U.S. Air Fleet  cows...  eS. gS rar ree _.

1,100 Yank Planes Bomb German Port   Wilhelmshaven Target Of Great American Daylight Raid

HUGE FLEET OF BOMBERS AND  FIGHTERS MAKE DAYLIGHT  DEVASTATION RAID ON -. P WILHELMSHAVEN

Big Daylight Raid Rocks Nazi Base   1,100 Pianes Unleash Attack On Wilhelmshaven

8 Vegetables Taken Off Rationed Lis  May Restore Others, The OPA Declares

More Vegetables Taken Off List   OPA Says Point Value To Be Restored Later In The Year.

Goodbye To Old Pullman Car Type   No More to Be Made, But New Ones to Make Traveling Fancy

McCANE-SONDOCK DETECTIVE AGENCY  INVESTIGATIONS EVIDENCE OQTAINED RELIABLE  224-8 SHELL BLDG. PHONE C. 0371

Analysis Of War Profits Presented   President’s Reference To ‘Unreasonable’ Gains Examined

Cites Veterans Exemption Rules   Tax Board to Extend Right to Present War

Britain Calls Up 250, 000 Troops   Churchill Issues Order  For Reinforcements

INVASION TO BRING GAME OF STRATEGY.      Rommel, Once Beaten By Motitgomery, Faces Him Again In France

Those Old Rivals, Rommel and Montgomery, Playing Game of Wits Again

BATILE FOR CHERBOURG AREA BIDS FAIR TO BECOME BATTLE OF WITS BETWEEN OLD RIVALS

NAZI TROOPS ARE FLEEING FROM GREECE   Allies Begin Clearing Aegean; Airport in Athens Used

Nazis Flee Northward From Greece   Aegean Sea Being Freed For Naval. Operations; Allies Use Athens Airnards

Foe Fleeing North Greece   Extensive Damage Sai  Suffered by Athens

German Troops Flee North From Greece   - Head for Yugoslavia as Fast as Facilities Permit

NAZI TROOPS REPORTED IN FULL FLIGHT   Germans Moving North ward From Greece Areas

Nazis Fleeing Greece Head For Yugoslavia   R. A. F. Warplanes, U.S. Transparts Use Athens Airport

GERMAN TROOPS ARE EVACUATING GREEK MAINLAND   One Airport In Liberated Athens Now Being Used By Allied Airmen

Allies Complain 0f U. §. Army Pay   Say Serviceman Can Outspend Allied Brothers Every Way

Other Nations Can Raise Army Pay, Or Keep Still About That Of U-S.

"SO WHAT?2"- SAYS SENATOR Allies Complain Yanks Have Too Much Spending Dough

Suppose Yanks Do Have More Pay--So What?   Sen Clark States We Have Right to Pay What we Please

Polish Emigre Government Orders ‘Underground to ‘Avoid Conflict’ ‘With Soviet Armies in Poland

POLES ORDERED TO ASSIST REDS   Exiled Government Tells Patriots to Help

‘IRST ARMY IN DAWN ASSAULT SMASHED FORWARD A. MILE WHILE SEVENTH ARMY DRIVES TO WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF KARLSRUHE AND ' SPEARHEADS ARE REPORTED MILE FROM RHINE—THIRD FIGHTS  OFF COUNTER-BLOWS

ROER TO RHINE   First Army Stages New Attack to Gain More Than a Mile

UP-T0-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   GERMANS IN SUICIDAL DELAYING ACTION

VEGETABLES CUT IN POINT VALUE   RATION COUPON COST OF BEEF, LAMB AND VEAL BOOSTED ‘SLIGHTLY.

Points Sliced — On Vegetables   Beef. Lamb, Veal Values Are Slighily Raised

Slash Points on Processed Food:  Most Vegetables Cut for February

Vegetable Points Cut, Beef Is Up      Veal, Lamb Increased; Less Processed Food  Will Be Available EFFECTIVE SUNDAY

Points on Canned Vegetables Cut For February  Ration Values of Beef, Lamb, Veal Boosted Slightly

Point Values on Vegetables Cut  Meats, Cheese Are Raised, However

MEAT VALUES. RISE, CANNED GOODS DROP   Ration Point Values for Many Canned Iterns Reduced   NEW POINT TABLES IN EFFECT SUNDAY   Beef, Lamb and Veal Cuts Jump One to Two Points

Ration Values Of Processed Foods Lowered   Two-Point Cut Made In Most Items: ”_eat  Stamp Cost Higher

VALUES GIVEN VEGETABLES   OPA Also Announce: Increased Ration Cost of Meats

Forced To Defend Himself,’ Maj. Richard Bong Downs Two Japs To Revain Role As ‘Ace Of Aces

ONE OF QUADS HAS SUCCUMBED OTHERS ‘SOUND’   \English Community Is Grieved By Death Of One  Quadruplet

ALLIES SUCCESSFUL ON 2 BURMA FRONTS   Namber Of Casualtics Inflicted On Japanese In Upper Chindwin  Valles;      irmen Are Active

Allies Gain In Burma Battle   Push Japs Back On Two Burma Front; Report New Successes.

Army-Navy Inquiry Finds Pearl Harbor Chiefs Not Guilty   Military Boards Uncovér No Evidence for CourtMartials

No Evidence to Warrant Pear! Harbor Officers Court Martial. Say Boards

Pearl Harbor Disaster Near Vanishing Point   Army and Navy Boards of Inquiry Exonerate Military Officials for 1941 Sneak Attack.

ALLIES DRIVE ENEMY FROM GUSTAV LINE   Yanks Capture Fortified Town of Castellonorato

British Troops. Threaten fo Gut Road to Cassino      Crack Nazi. Forces. Face Entrapment... by Allied Advance

British Troops Threaten to Cut Road fo Cassino   Crack Nazi Forces Face Entrapment by Allied Advance

Berlin Declares U. S. Firs! Army Has Been Cut in Two in Atfack Planned and Directed by Hitler

HITLER REPORTED — DIRECTING ATTACK   Berlin. Claims American First Army “Cut in  Twa”?

NAZIS SAY FIRST ARMY CUT IN TWO   BERLIN RADIO DECLARES TWO DIVISIONS ARE THROWN AGAINST YANKS.

First Army ‘Cutin Two,’ Berlin Says   Contend That Secret Of Hiiler’s Silence Now Is Revealed

Berlin Claims: Attack Splits’ Hodges’ Army   Nazi ‘Radio. Remains Chary Of Success Pretictions -‘But Hails Big Drive: .

HITLER SAID LEADING NAZI COUNTER BLOW   Berlin Avers American First Army Is Cut In Two By Drive  Into Belgium

SAYS HITLER DIRECTS DRIVE   Berlin Radio Claims First Army Cut in Two by Nazi Offensive

HITLER DID IT, BERLIN CLAIMS   Fuehrer Credited With Directing Attack To Split U. S. Front

Argentine Retorts Sharply To Blunt Charges By U. S.   Nation Denounced In Hull Statement

RUSH FORCES INTO BALKANS   German Troops Moving Through Austria Says Swiss Report

DnlcaT oPhiNe IARDENS WAY FOR INVADERS   , Ideal Weather Forecast for Coming Weeks; German Troops on Move.

FEAR INVADERS MAY HIT HARD BLOW THERE   Ideal Weather Forecast Along Europe's West Coast

Aerial Offensive Goes Into  Its Tenth Day   MacArthur's Airmen Blast Shipping in Mindanao, Ceram and Boeroe Areas; 70 Barges Damaged Off Halmahera

034 PLANES 338 VESSELS LOST BY NIPS   Halsey’s Carriers in 10th Day of Luzon Strike

HUNGARY IS ON VERGE OF CAPITULATION   Panic Grips Budapest As Soviets Race Toward  the Capital City.

GIB GILCHRIST NAMED HEAD OF TEXAS A, AND M.   Engineering Dean Began Duties Last Saturday; Succeeds Dr. T. O. Walton

GIBB GILCHRIST IS NAMED PRESIDENT DF TEXAS A. AND M.    BECOMES 15TH ADMINIS.  TRATIVE HEAD COLLEGE  STATION INSTITUTION

DOUGHBOYS ADVANCE ON GUAM ISLAND   Other American Forces Continue To Shell Tinian And Pagan Islands

Secure Beachheads — in First Three Days, With Only 1,958 Casualties; Cutt Off Orote.   Bomb Truk

Jury Selection Proceeds Slowly  Lonergan Lawyer Hint: At Missing Witness

SEEK JURY 10 TRY LONERGAN   Job of Selecting Panel Is _ Expected to be Long Process

Quadruplets Born:  Lives   Wife Of Decatur, Ala., Soldier Is Mother

Death Claims Three of Quads   Only One of Four, a Girl, Clings to Life In Alabama Hospital

ONLY ONE QUAD LEFT TO ALABAMA PARENTS   Death Claims Boy and Two Girls Soon After Birth

B-29 AIRMEN BOMB PLANTS OF JAPANESE   Aircraft Factories at Na: goya Pounded Heavily

COLONY WRANGLE ENTERTAINS {10   British Emoire Family Fight Spurred By Indian Workers’ Envoy

NAZI SOURCE STARTING NEW PEACE RUMOF   LATEST BATCH OF RUMORS FROM INSIDE EUROPE LINKS FINNIBH AND GERMAN PEACE FEELERS

(lain Finns Seek Peace Terms forNazis from Soviet   Report Paasikivi Represents Berlin As Well As Finland

750 Bombers Again Blast Nazi Oil Works   Air Campaign Seeks Destruction of  Petroleum Supplies

U.S. Heavies Pound Axis Oil Plants   Italian-Based Planes Raid Oil Facilities for Second Day in Row; Nazi Opposition Light

COAST AREAS ARE POUNDED BY U.S. FLIERS   Heavy Bombers Continue Raids on Hitler's Atlantic Wall

RED ARMIES PRESS FORWARD ON FRONT POKOV TO ROGACHEY  GERMAN COMMANDERS THROW IN FRESH TROOP: IN EFFORT STOP SOVIET.

Desperate Counterattacks By Nazis To Plug Central Front  ‘Gaps Smashed By Red Armies   Russians Closing Rapidly On Pskov In Two-Prong Steam-Roller Attack

TWO SOVIET ARMIES CLOSE IN ON PSKOV      Reds Advance Through Heavy Snows Despite Nazi Counter-Attacks to Plug the German Central Front.

NAZI ATTACKS FAIL TO HALT RED ADVANCE   Russian Armies Closing In Or Pskov, With Porkhov Already Reported Outflanked   Drive Through Gap   6,000 Germans Reported Slain, Great Stores Seized in Battle Around Captured Regachev

Russ Exploit Large Break In Nazi Lines  At Rogachev   Red Army Closing Rapidly On Pskov; Soviet In Position To Shell Defenses

NAZIS. ATTEMPTING TO PLUG CRUMBEING ———CENTRAT FRONT   Germanys White Russian Armies Counterattacked Desperately Today.   CHECKED BY RUSSIANS   Red Army Closing In Rapidly ~ on Pskov In a Two- , Pronged Attack. . —

Germans Fail to Halt Soviet Plunge   Counterattacks Seek to Plug Breakthrough; Russians Clasing In Rapid): On Pskov Stronghold in Northwest.

Reds Smash Nazi Counter Attacks   Central Front !s Crumbling; Soviets Clace in an Pekayv

A SOBER G. 0. P.   Fanfare to Be Lacking When Republicans Meet June 26

Jap Army Is Still Powerful Enemy   To Be Detecated ‘The Heard Way’

SAYS JAP WAR NO ‘PUSHOVER   Patterson Warns Against Too Much Optimism

A. F. of L. Calls C. 1. 0. Political Endorsement ‘Kiss of Death’   Hillman’s Political Action Group at Chicago Convention

LAUNCH DRIVE AGAINST NAZIS INYUGOSLAVIA   Combined Attack Hits Enemy's Lines of Communication

Tito’s Partisans Go On Offensive   Slavs Drive Against German Communications

ALLIES, TITO BEGIN CAMPAIG) IN YUGOSLAVIA   Strike at Nazi Communications

Artillery Duels Break Out Along Italian Front   Nazi Activity Around Cassino Is Increasing

Nazis Step Up Action In Italy   Violent Artillery Duels Break Out On 5th Army Front

ARTILLERY DUELS RAGE AT CASSINO   Sudden Increase In German Troop Movements Reportec

He: avy Guns Duel In Southern Italy   Bombardment I n f i iets Many Casualties On Nazis

Nazi Movements On Increase In Cassino Sector   Troops, Supplies Being. Moved In; German Counterdrive Expected

Artillery Duels At Cassino Are Violent   Germain Troop and Supply Movements  Cnaddaniyvy Inerancad

New Attack By Germans Is Indicated   Motor Columns Blasted by Allied Guns—Patrol Ac tivity at Anzio

German Troops  Mass at Cassino   New Enemy Blow Appears Imminent

GUN DUELS ON CASSINO FRONT GROW VIOLEN]   Note Sudden Increase In Nazi Troop, Supply Movements

DR. BASCOM ANTHONY CLAIMED BY DEATH IN-TAMPA SUNDAY   Noted Methodist Minister And Philosopher Will Be Buried in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah

NOVEMBER VOTE DECREASE. SEEN   ' Survey Reveals Big Decline In  Primary Balloting

PREDICTS LIGHT ELECTION VOTE   Survey Indicates Drop from 1940 Presidential Race

Recent Primaries Indicate Big Drop In Total Vote of November Election

See Big Drop In Tolal Vote For President.   Survey Based On Primaries Shows Decline

LIGHT NOVEMBER VOTE INDICATED   18-STATE SURVEY REVEALS DECLINES IN PRIMARY VOTING

Presidential Vote Will Be Greatly Reduced [s  indication In Primaries

Light Vote In Fall Election, Survey Shows      Sharp Drop In State Primaries

Total Vote In Fall Balloting May Be Light   Associated Press Survey Indicates Fall Below Figures of 1940

Brenner Pass Hit By Allies   Bombing Of Enemy Territory Resumed  After First Break Since 17th Of April

Bombings Halt All Brenner Traffic   Pre-Invasion Assaults Resume After Lull

Point Values on Vegetables Down   Canned Fruits Take Shearo Boosts

Up Point Value Canned Fruits      ing Point Reductions For Vegetables.

: Thousands Reported Killed in Argentine Ouakes; Eyewitness Depicts Devastation

ARGENTINA SCENE OF DISASTER   Argentina Has its Worst Quake Saturday Night

QUAKE TAKES 0,000 TOLL IN ARGENTINA      Series Of Temblors Strike Suddenly Through Many Towns

Tremors Destroy  City of San Juan   Army of Doctors, Nurses Rushed to 15 Towns im Stricken 50-Mile Area

SAY THOUSANDS DEAD IN QUAKE   Argentina Rushes Aid to Stricken Area

90 Per Cent of Buildings Levelled in San Juan and 15 Other Cities in South America by Major Quake Saturday Night; Army of Doctors and Nurses Take Over; Thousands Are Killed.

10,000 BELIEVED KILLED IN QUAKE   15 Places In 50-Mile Radius In Argentina Greatly Damaged By Tremors.

Argentian’s Quake Toll  Near 10,000   Series of Temblors Rocks 15 Towns; San Juan, Capital, In Ruins.

EARTHQUAKE HITS CITY IN ARGENTINE   Number of Dead May Reach “7H 10.000 Mark

Provincial Capital Is Leveled   Thousands Reported Killed by Temblors Saturday Nioh#

Aid Speeded To ‘Argentine City  Struck By Quake   San Juan Death Toll May Reach Thousands, Early Reports State

Aid Speeded  To Stricken City in Andes   pan Juan Uevastated ov Series of Temblors; 15 - Towns Rocked   iNO LIGHTS IN AREA   \Operations Performed by.  Lamplight in Effort to Save Injured

Rush Aid to Quake Victims   REPORT 10,000 DIE IN ARGENTINA TEMBLORS; SAN JUAN DEVASTATED

Report 10,000 Die In Quakes In Argentina   Temblors Shatter 15 Towns; San Juan Hardest Hit With Most Buildings Levelled; Rush  Resene Ffforte

MORE CHINESE ~ CITIES TOTTER   Great Jap Offensive May Divide Nation

Jap Forces Drive Toward Junction   Chinese Civilians Quit Three Key Cities

Roosevelt Seems Certain of 432 Electoral Votes   *—races Broadest Front * Political Coalition In Modern History

F.D.R. Problem to Lead Widely Diverse Groups   New Deal Links Communists and Conservatives

Coalitions May May Give FDR Some Trouble   President Fairly Certain of 432 Electoral Votes

FDR Faces Conflicts In Congress   Radicals vs. Southerr Conservatives Is One  Of Many Problems

Many Issues Confront  President  Left Wingers Need Greater Representation

BROAD POLITICAL COALITION FACES F. R. LEADERSHIP   Mixture Includes South Censervatives, N. and E. Communists

FDR 10 HAVE DIFFICULT JOB   Will Have Task of Leading Broadest Front Political Coalition of Modern History.

ELECTORAL VOTE NOW 4327099   President Could Have Won Without Southern States

Problem Faced In Controlling Coalition U nit   President Roosevelt Wins Even Without Support Of Solid South

No Let-Uy In Reich Bombing   Heavy U. S. Forces  Batter Brunswick and Other Cities Following RAF Blow at Frankfurt

STRONG FLEETS OF AMERICAN HEAVIES WERE OUT THURSDAY  AIR BASES AND BRUNS-

STRONG FLEETS OF  AMERICAN HEAVIES  WERE OUT THURSDAY AIR BASES AND BRUNS WICK, IN HEART OF RLICHU RATTEREN

Russian Army Battering at Gates of Black Sea Naval Base And Surging on Toward Rumania While New Drive Launched To Trap Nazi Force in Vinnitsa Area

8 DIVISIONS OF 3RD ARMY ARE FIGHTING   Six Infantry and Two Armored Groups Are Thrown Into Struggle by Patton in a Move to Encirele Great Bastion.

Germans Fire 13-Ton Rockets   PROJECTIVES BLAST AMERICAN LINES ON WESTERN FRONT

ba tein errata ennai nian aadiimimmate el  Nazi Fire Robots At Yank Lines

\Ramirez Faces ‘Revolt’s Crisis.   Argentina Torn By . Pro-Nazi_ Upheaval

Grave Political Crisis Faces Ramirez  German Protest Brought About Palace Revolution In Argentina, Revealed

Gen. Gilbert, Two Other Officials . Forced to Resign as Result of Germany's Protesis   SPAIN IMPLICATED   Berlin Threatened Reprisals for Detention of German Military Attache

INSOLENT GERMAN PROTEST CAUSES ARGENTINA ACTION   National Coup Is Reported, Move to Block War on  . Nazis, Foreign Minister Forced to Quit Office.   ARMY OFFICERS REJECT DEMANDS OF GILBERT   President Ramirez is Placer In Precarious Position Question Over Spain : Also Involved.

German Threat Back Of Coup In Argentina   Protested Detention Of Attache Charged With Being Spv.

Declaration Of War Closes In  On Argentine   German's Curt Protest Against Attache’s Detention Angers Officials.   6 MINISTERS OUS TED

Nazi Rebuff Brought Coup In Argentina   ‘Ousted Official Favored War on Reich; Ramirez Faces Crisis

Germany Cause Of Argentine Palace Revolt   Proaxis Army Officers Force Resignation Of Foreign Minister.

German Protest Took Argentina Close fo War:   Spokesman Says Insolent Note. . Angered Minister

Sharp German Nofe Brings On New Argentine Political Crisis   Says Charges of Nazi Espionage ‘Lie,’ Threatens Reprisals; Then Minister Who Demanded War Is Forced Out

GERMANY’S PROTEST IN CURT LANGUAGE ALMOST CAUSED WAR  HOWEVER, PRO-ALLIED ARGENTINE OFFICIALS FORCED TO RESIGN

Three Leaders Ousted by Group   Pro-Nazi Faction Regains Control of Araentine Regime

1506,000 Under That Age Stated For- Induction, Says Rep. Costello,  : House Leader   Possible Setback ‘May Change Plans   Group Under 26 Will Be ‘Hard Hit, Farmers and Other Workers Face Call to Service

ESTIMATE ON. DRAFT CALLS   COSTELLO SAYS: HALF OF MEN UNDER 26 HAVING DEFERMENTS WILL BE. TAKEN: THIS YEAR

DRAFT SAFETY SEEN FOR DADS   Few Over 26 To Be Called. Costello Reports

Costello Sees Little Need To Dratt Fathers Over 26 Remainder olf Year

Claims Fathers Aren't Needec   Few Over 26 Will Be Called—Costello

Predicts Small Draft Of Fathers Over Twenty Six   Costello Says Approximately Half Million Deferred Youths Will Go.

500,000 Under 26 To Be Inducted In 1944 Few Fathers Taken   Some To Be Deferred Because Of Farm Or Essential Industry

COSTELLO SEES HALE OF YOUNG MEW CALLED   Draft W.ll Rake Men Under 26 Who Are Deferred

VERY FEW MEN OVER 26 WILL BE IN SERVICE   Selective Service Will Need Young Men This Year

Half Million to Lose Deferment  Fathers Over 26 Likely te Escape

Few Fathers Over 26 Will Be Drafted   Armed Services To Take Younger Deferred Men

Sees Few Dads Over Age Of 25 Called In 1944   House Military Chairman Says Deferred Young Men To Be Inducted

To Dratt Few ~ Dads Over 26   Giver Half Million Men Under 26 Will Be Inducted This Year.

Calling of Dads Over 26 Unlikely   Men Under 26 in Deferred Jobs to Be Called, Costello

Will Call Few Men. Over 26   Half-Mitlion Younger Deferrables to Go

Costello Says Few Fathers To Be Called Up   Asserts Deferred Men Under 26 Due For Induction

NO DRAFTING OF FATHERS OVER 26 IN 44 PREDICTED   COSTELLO SAYS DEFERRED YOUNG MEN TO BE CALLED

DRAWS PICTURE OF DRAFT SETUP   Rep. Costello Thinks Few If Any Fathers Over 26 Need Be Inducted This Year.

“Few, If Any’’ Fathers Over 26° Will Be Called This Year, Is Predicted

Induction of Dads ~ Over 26 This Year Is Held Improbable   House Military Chief Quotes Selective Service Figures

EXPECTS SLIM FATHER DRAFT   Rep. Costello Says Younger Men to Fill Quotas

DADS OVER 26 MAY NOT GET ~— CALLIN944   Legislator Expects 500,000 Now Holding Deferments Will Enter Service

Over-26 Fathers To Be Deferred?   House Military Chief Predicts Reprieve

House Military Chief Predicts Few Dads Over 26 To Be Drafted In 1944

Leaders to Rush Plans for Peace  Both Parties Demand Immediate Action

Legislators Chart Course   Post-War: Measures Getting” ‘Attention 

Party Leaders Want Action On Postwar Plans   Senate Committee To Meet To Consider Conversion Problems

LEADERS CRY FOR BILLS 10 AVERT CHAOS   Reconversion Heat Turned On Senate Committee To Speed Legislation

China Blasts Churchill’s WarAidTall   Supplies Pitifully Inade uate, Says vy Spokesman

FORMER BURLINGTON _ BOY DIES IN FRANCE   PFC. BILLY TENBROOK IS KILLED IN ACTION ON AU‘GUST 2ND

Govorov Flanks Nazis in Baltic For Tallinn Drive   Twe Wings Race for Escape Port While Bagramian Sweeps Up 108 Merce Towns in Brive on Riga’

REPEL GERMAN TANK DRIVES IN PUSH FOR RIGA   Russians Liberate 4,75C Places on Baltic Front in Two Days

Russian Forces Nearing Estonian Capital After Clearing “road Isthmus

Soviet Armies " Rush Unchecked  , Across Estonia   Two-Way Drive Aimed At Tallinn, German Es teen Daet

Soviets Seek _ To Trap Huns Now Fleeing.  Fr rom ‘Finland   “Anchorage Of Baltic Line. Is Destroyed

Reds Race For Enemy Eseape P ort Talinn   Baltic Line Destroyed In Massive Sweep Across . . Estonia.

A Massive Sweep Made by Russians   Reds in Double Barreled - Drive for Escape Port . of Tallinn   German Defenses Wiped _ Out Between Lake Pei pus and Gulf

RUSSIANS DRIVING FOR TALLINN PORT TO BLOCK GERMANS  FOUR RED ARMIES IN MAS SIVE. OFFENSIVE ALONG NORTHERN END LINE

Russians Sweep Across Estonia   Seek To Block Escape Port Of Germans

Red Armies Advancing in  Baltic Area   Apparently Stalled By Autumn Mud in Warsaw Battle: Take More Towns

Soviets Rush For Nazi Escape Port   Double-Barreled Drive For Tallinn Marks Red Army Advance

Russians Sweep - Aeross Estonia   RED ARMY QESTROYED ANCHOR DEFENSE LINE.

Reds Pushing For Tallinn   Govorov’s Men Turn German Flank and Sweep Across Estonia

Reds Driving For Seaport Of Tallinn   Seek to Seal Escape Route For Beaten Nazis

RUSSIANS DRIVING FOR TALLINN PORT TO BLOCK GERMANS  FOUR RED ARMIES IN MAS SIVE OFFENSIVE ALONG

Soviets Less Than 65 Miles  From Tallinn   Northern Anchor of German Line Destroyed as Russian Forces Sweep Across Estonia: Threaten to' Trap Nazis

RUSSIANS DRIVE AGAINST GERMAN ESCAPE, TALLINN   North Anchorage of German Baltic Line Wiped Out in Great Sweep Across Estonia.

REDS RACE 10 TRAP GERMANS AT PORT CITY   Nazis Lose 4750 Populated Areas In Two Days

RUSSIANS RACE FOR TALLINN T0 NIP NAZI FLIGHT   Twin Push Aimed At Escape Port; Other Red Columns Hit Nearer To Riga

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Reds Smash North Anchor Of Nazi Line   Race Forward In Dual Drive For Escape Port Of Tallinn

ESCAPE POR OF TALLINN  RED OBJECTIV       Moscow's Guns Thunde Salute to Govorov for His Four Days' Gains In  Lake Peipus Sector  FOE'S FLANK IS TURNED

Annihilation Faced By Nazis as Reds _ Sweep Baltic Area   Russians Dash Acrosg Estonia for Tallinn To Cut Off Germar Escape from Finland - - Soviets, Meanwhile, Char ge Finns Failed To Live Up To Agreement To Disarm And Turn Over to Them Hitler’s Forces in Country

Russian Forces Race On Tallinn In Double Drive   Nazi: North Anchorage In Baltic Area Destroyed In Estonian Advance

RED ARMY RACES ACROSS ESTONIA IN BIG VICTORY   Escape Port of Tallinn Next Goal of Soviet Columns

Russians Race Toward Tallinn   Double-Barreled Drive Aims at Cutting Off Nazi Eseape Port

LIKE TIDAL WAVE RED TROOPS SWEEP NORTHWARD T0 TRAP GERMANS FLEEING FINLAND

REDS DRIVE TOWARD PORT OF TALLINN   Having Knocked Out Another Anchor of German Baltic Line, Soviets Seek to Block the Enemv’s Escape.

SOVIETS BATTER ACROSS BALTICS TOWARD TALLINI   Nazis Northern PAnchor On Finnish Gulf Is Destroyed

FSEAPE PORT   Red Army Vets Destroy Northern Anchorage of Baltic: Line.   SILENT ABOUT WARSAW

Soviets Race Forward For  Tallinn Port   Destroy Northern Anchorage  Of German Baltic Line In _ Estonia Sweep.  WING SEIZES RAHLKA

RED ARMY VETS IN GREAT SWEEP BLOCK GERMANS   .eningrad Veterans Destroy Northern Anchorage Of Nazi Line Now Press Across Estonia; 100 Towns Taken.

Reds Destroy North Anchor of Nazi Line   Soviets Executing Hard Drive for Baltic Escape Port

Soviets Sweep Toward Nazi _ Escape Routes   Racing Across Estonia to Port; Anchorage Of   German Baltic Line  Destroyed

SOVIET TROOPS RACE TOWARD TALLINN PORT   ~ Seek to Trap Any Nazis Escaping From Finland Into Estonia

RACE FORWA IN ADVANCE — ON TALLINN   Seek To Trap Nazi Forces Coming From Finland   4,750 LOCALITIES   Taken By Reds In 2 Days; Hungarian Rail Towns Pounded From Air

Soviets Race to Close Escape Port of Tallinn   Seek to Annihilate German Troops Leaving Finland

Anchorage Of Baltic Line Destroyed   Two Forces Of Red Troops Seek To Trap Fleeing Germans

4,750 POPULATED PLACES RETAKEN IN BALTIC DRIVE   SOVIET ARMY RACES ACROSS ESTONIA IN DRIVE ON TALLINN

Reds Push Drive on Tallinn    Speed Twin Thrusts Toward Nazi  scape Port On ‘Baltic; Wide Gains in Four Days

Reds Drive For German Escape Port   Two-Pronged Force Heads for Tallinn On Baltic Coast;  . Smash Toward Riga

Russians Rapidly Wiping Germans Out of Baltics   Four-Day Gain of 37 to 44 Miles Scored by Soviets

POLISH AMERICA AMERICANS APPEAL TO BRITAIN      Message Urges Hands Of Policy for Russia

UL. 8. Poles Warn Britain  To Stay Hand   Committee Claims To Represent  10 Million Here

Senate Studies War Contract Renegotiation   Recesses to Study Reduced Tax Bill, Other Measures

PLANES LAND ON U.S. BASES IN RUSSIA   To Be First Allied Planes to Complete Shuttle Attack on Enemy Soil and Wind up in Russia.   High Praise

(Romanian haid Reveals Bases ‘On Soviet Soil   Precedent-Making Program Puts All of Continent Under Allied RBombsa

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BIG THREE ARE SOLIDLY UNITED SAYS CHURCHILI   Nazi Hopes of Discord Groundless As War in Last Lap, Prime Minister Reports.

Cardinals Capture Second Game In Eleventh Inning   Champions of National League Even Series With 3-2, Extra-Inning Victory; Donnelly. Muncrief Star in Relief Roles

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Capt. Gentile, Credited as New American Ace of Aces, Still Far From Satisfied

RAYBURN CHOSEN FOR COAST TALKS   Democrats Believe Selection Significant as Choice Over Wallace

DEMOCRACY LIVING FORCE, FDR STATES      Election Demonstrated the Fact, President Declares

Dewey Sends No Word To F.D.R.   Victory Proves That “Democracy Is A Living Force.”

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Warplanes Join Baitle on Japs  Marines, Soldiers Gain on Peleliu

Hungary Border Reached By Reds Says One Report   Unofficial Sources In Moscow Say Troops Also In Czechoslovakia   ESTONIAN NAVAL BASE IS SEIZED

SOVIETS CROSS INTO SLOVAKIA   Reds Pierce Carpathians.  Breach Pre-War Border : of Hungary

ged Forces “Well Inside” Slovakia; Seize Estonian Naval Base At Baltisky

SOVIET ARMY CROSSES INTO SI OVAKIA   Other Troops Breach Pre-War Border of Hungary

SWEDES URGE FINNISH PEACE   Public Is Uninformed Of Message From King

NLRB PREPARES FOR WARD VOTE   Determine Which Employes My Vote in Bargaining Eiection

WARD CHECKUP. S UNDERWAY   LIT OF EMPLOYES, BEING COMPILED FOR ELECTION —--ON- BARGAINING- AGENT FOR WORKERS

PREPARE FOR LABOR VOTE AT WARD'S   Election to Be Held Soon; Byrd Seeks Senate Probe

Seek To Cut Production of Food Supplies   Anticipate Early War End to Lessen the Demand

Seek To Cut Production of Food Supplies   Anticipate Early War End to Lessen the Demand   Legislative Action Plots Return of ~ Farms to Pre-War Owners, Veterans

Americans Charge St. Lo Defenses;  Seize 16 Towns   Assault Arc Halfway Around Citadel In New Yank Gains

Yanks Smash at St. Lo Defenses   Periers and Lessay Also Almost "In the Bag,” Reports Indicate

16 TOWNS AND VILLAGES ARE TAKEN BY U.S   Initial Gains Up to 600 Yards Are Scored During Attack at Dawn.

ASSAULT ARC TIGHTENS ON ST. iLO. IN NORMANDY   U.S. 'Proops Charge On Other Hinges Of Lone Cerman Line

Americans Move Against St. Lo At Dawn Today   Yanks Also Close On Periers And Lessay, Normandy Anchors

TAKE 16 TOWNS ~ INDRIVE ALONG 49-MILE FRON]   Gams Up To Three And » Half Miles Made In New Attacks

Nazi Anchot Cities Face New Threat   Early Seizure Of Enemy Strongholds Reported Imminent

Ist Army Advances  31%, Miles   Official Reports Say That Periers, Lessay, St. Lo Are ‘Almost in Bag’

TORNADO KILLS NINE PERSONS   Southwestern Wisconsin, Northwestern Illinois Hit By Storm.   DESTRUCTION IS HEAVY

Patriots Now  Hold Vast Areas   Forty Thousand WellEquipped Men In Single Battle In Italy.

PATRIOTS FREE MUCH OF FRANCE   Order for General Uprising Given; Paris Houses Greatest Resistance Force

Partisans Form  A Rising Tide  Against Nazis French, Italians,  Are Aiding Allies;  © eee: Beet 2S Bo

FRENCH PATRIOTS HOLD LARGE AREA   40,000 Well Equipped Men Fight in Single Battle In Haly.

Vast Areas Controlled By Patriots   Total French Force Reported Stronger Than Pre-War Army

Fall of Romanian Capital Due Today: Bear Down On Pre-War Bulgaria.

AERIAL BATTLES RAGE IN BERN, BALTIC RECIONS   Assaults Aimed At Reich From British And Italian Bases

HEART OF REICH YANKS’ TARGET   Oil Plants Attacked, Other Ob. jectives Struck by 1,000 Fortresses

1,000 ‘FORTS AGAIN BATTER NAZI TARGETS   Germans Report Heavy Air Duels Rage; Other Planes Pound Ploesti Area

11,000 U.S. Fortresses Pound Reich   Cloudy~Weather Fails To Keep Planes Idle In England

1,000 Flying Fortresses Over Germany   American Planes Wage Battles With Nazi Airmen

1,000 Fortresses Smash Targets In Central Germany   Day Raids Follow Hard Pounding Of Ploesti Oil Fields.

Nazi Planes Tangle With U. §. Forts   Great Aerial Battles Reported as Raging Over Central Germany

Nazi Europe Hit By 2200 Bombers   Allied Air Armadas Continue Their Mighty Pre-Invasion: Offensive

U.S. Planes Raid 6 Nazi War Plants   Factories Making Air planes Bombed in Huge Raids Today

2200 YANK PLANES HIT NAZI PLANTS   Smash at Six Aircraft Sites, In Germany, Poland

Nazi Plane Factories Hammered   Bombers Range Along Giant Arc Of German Territor:

Thousand Fortresses Raid Targets tn Central Germany Great Sky Battles Reported   Heavies Escorted By Equal Number Of Fighter Planes

RULES CHANGED ON TIRE BUYING   Essentiality Of Driving Now Sole Yardstick For Eligibility

SEVASTOPOL'S FALL HELD IMMINENT   Axis Forces Surrendering In Great Numbers   20,000 GAPTIVES   Taken By Tolbukhin’s Men; Enemy Cracks At Seams Correspondent Says

SEVASTOPOL'S -FALLNEARSIN SOVIET SWEEP   Disorganized Germans And Romanians Are Reported Quitting By Battalions

Slash Across Crimea Unchecked: Advance Units Near Sevastopol   AAF, RAF Stab At Germany ©

Report Axis Troops Flee In Contusion   Prospect of Fall on Russian Good Friday Grips Nation

DOWNFALL OF SEVASTOPOL IS PREDICTED   Enemy Cracking Under Pressure  Of Russians

NoChance for "Dunkirk" as Troops Flee   Axis Forces Reported Out of Control and. in Great Confusion

AXIS TROOPS OUT OF CONTROL, FLEEING THE RUSSIAN ARMY   Red Star Correspondent Sai¢ “the Enemy Has Cracked at the Seams”.   MANY SURRENDERING   Germans Raced for the Port in the Bright Crimean Sun; Seek Escape.

BATTALIONS Ot ENEMY GIVE UP      Red Army Rushes Through Disorganized Groups of Nazis. Romanians.   [LEADERS DESERT MEN

Russian Army Nears Victory At Sevastopol   Axis Troops Fleeing Out of Control: City May Fall Today

IMPENDING FALL OF SEVASTOPOL CHEERS SOVIETS   Prospect of Its Fall on Russian Orthodox Good Friday, Grips Imagination of Russians

Sweep  Across Crimea   German and Romanian Troops Flee in Confusion Before Swift Moving Soviet Armies

Romanians And Germans Give Up By Units   Escape Believed To Be impossible For Most Of Enemy

No Place For Fleeing Nazis   Tanks Race Remnaats Of Enemy For Base, Many Battalions Surrendering

Vietory Salutes Boom In Moscow   Enemy Reported “Crack/ ed At the Seams”, Out j Of Control and Fleeing  In Confusion — More  Than 20,000 Prisoner: t. Taken: a

Romanians And Germans Flee in Panic .   20,000. Axis Prisoners Taken _ In Crimean Drive

Surge Close To Doomed Sevastopol   Fall of Big Crimean Base Believed Close At Hand; Axis Troops Surrender En Masse

aUSGIANS MARCEL IN SEVASTOPOL   Scores Of Nazi, Roman ian Battalions Deserted  By Commanders   NEAR NAVAL BASE   Front Line Reports Say Fleeing Axis Troops Out Of Control

100,000 Hiins Are Trapped in The Crimea   Allies Carrying A Air War into Seventh Consecutive . pay, German Radio Reveals:

Sevastopol Major Goal Of Soviets  Sea Plunge   Good Friday Hopes Of Victory Upheld

Close on Sevastopol, — Fall of German Naval Bas Is Expected Shortly, Reported

Escape By Sea N ow Appears to Be Impossible   nha rv Correspondent Says  “Enemy Has Cracked At : Seams, ? With Armies Gut Of Contral   Tanks ! Make Sheep Of Huns, One Says   Flight So Rapid Food and Ammunition Dumps Left Intact: Many Towns Swept Up

Axis Troops Fleeing Before Russian Armies   Fall of Crimean City Expected Within Few Hours

AXIS DEATH TOLL HEAVY   _, Germans, Romanians Surrender By Battalions

Fleeing Nazis And Romanians Out OF Control; Enemy Cracks ‘At Seams. Red Newsman Savs   Soldiers. Deserted By Commanders, Race For Crimean Port To Find Escape Impossible; Fall Of Sevastopol Expected Soon In Moscow

Sevastopol May Fall Today; Disorganized German And Rumanian Troops Surrender By Baltalions As Russians Slash Forward

Reds Blasting NaziFoesFrom All of Crimea   Press Forward iin Hope Sevastopol May Yield Before Night

GERMANS HAVE ~"GRACKED’, RED WRITER STATES   Axis Troops Reported in Full Flight—Naval Base to Fall Soon

Many Nazis Surrendering By Battalions As Soviets Roll Unchecked  Throuch Crimea.

The War Today  Ford Withholds Reasoning Back of Prophesy On War’s End.

‘The War: Today   Ford May Be Right; Nazis Seen Hanvcine on bv Teeth

——— The War Today ——— SomeReasons For Ford’s  Predictions  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

FORD  PREDICTION OF ENDING OF WAR IN TWO MONTHS BRINGS UP ANALYSIS OF WAR SITUATION   German’s in Dire Straits Today But Hitler Gang Determined to Fight It Out. Russians Call for New Front and All Out Drive to Force Collapse

HENRY FORD’S PROPHECY ABOUT END OF WAR JN TWO MONTHS IS BASIS FOR REVIEW BY ANALYST

WAR TODAY   Ford’s, Prediction War Will Be Over In Eight Weeks Tasty Morsel To Roll Under the  Pn ait.”

, BILLS CALL FOR REGULATION OF COAL INDUSTRY   Both Houses Of Congress Get Legislation To Take Place Of Guffey Act

COAL REGULATION, ACT SUBMITTED   Operators, Miners Endorse Legislation Patterned After Duffey Law

Col. Crumrine Is Promoted By Army  Top Officer Of 3rd Serv. ice Group

Now He Knows About Butane— Petroleum Administrator Ickes Modifies Order on Butane After Mrs. Hunsaker Calls

RUSSIAN DRIVE ROLLS ON IN SOUTH   Reds Capture Base; Yanks Raid Berhn

Postponement For Waste Paper Drive  Miller Called Out of Town, Collection to Be

PVUSIVUNGIIGI FUE Waste Paper Drive  Miller Called Out of Town, Collection to Be On Auaust 15

Hagerstonian About aly Battle On M osquitoes Ends As Autumn Arrives In Itah

Hagerstonian About Italy i eeneewenneerreeeeciene et  Battle On Mosquitoes Ends As Autumn Arrives In Italy

Swiss Border City Hitby — ‘Yank Bombs   Havoc in Industrial Schaffhausen Causes 36 Deaths

‘Area of About Five Square  Blocks in Swiss City  Burned Out by Ameri : can Ailtack   Other Hits Cause   Minor Damage   Some Witnesses Asser! Sixty Bombers in Formation and That Two  Had Crashed

U.S. Planes Batter Switzerland City   At Least 50 Dead; Much Damage Caused

CONGRESS READY TO BEGIN RECESS   :FDR May Blast Its ' Failure to. Provide ‘Unemployment Pay

vero ) ACTION ‘NOT: LIKELY      conaREss’ HEARS ROOSEVELT ) WILL NOT INTERFERE wit CAMPAIGN; RECESS PLANS.

London’ 's Striking Bus Drivers. Reported Facing  -Government Prosecution  4

Britain’s New Anti-Strike Law Faces Test As Transport Workers Continue Walk-Out

London's Striking Bus Drivers Reported Facing Government Prosecution

WAR ANALYST BELIEVES PLANS FOR INVASION ARE NEAR PEAK; TO BE AN ALL-OUT OPERATION

14 he War Foday— Watch Actions On Other Fronts For ‘Tip On Allied Opening Of Invasion

Fall of Sevastopol Releases Red Armies to West; Germans Withdrawin y in Italy; British and American Navies Massing for Greatest Air-LandSea Attack

WAR TODAY   lies Approaching Peak of Preparations For Invasion of NaziHeld European Contnent

Preparations For D-Day  Nearing Peak   European Activities Gauged by Relation  To Approaching Day

GREATEST LAND-WATER-SEA OPERATION IN HISTORY ABOUT TO START AGAINST ‘GERMANY BY ALLIED INVASION FORCES

The War Today  Evident That Allies Are Approaching Peak Of Preparedpess,

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Aewriatest Peess Viar Aralset

Preparations for D-Day Are Nearing Peak   Fall. of Sevastopol One Link “in Related: Plans for. - Big’ Thrust   SIGNS OF SUPPORT ON OTHER FRONTS   Great Armada ‘of Warshins and: Swarms of Troops No Doubt Are Ready

NAZIS RETAKE HILL IN CASSINO FIGHTING: ALLIES HOLD RAILWAY   HUGE AIR FLEET BLASTS AUSTRIA, YUGOSLAVIA CITIES, DOWNING 30 OF 80 ENEMY PLANES

STRONG FORMATIONS BOMBERS CONTINUE BLASTING AT EUROPE  ALLIED PLANES BASED IN BRITAIN AND ITALY IN TWO.WAY DRIVE

Russians Cross Dniester in Swilt Advanee   Vinnitsa EvacuatedGermans Recapture Hill Near Cassino  In Heavy Fighting   Bulletin

BURMA FRONT TRAP SPRUNG ON JAPANESE   SURPRISE MANEUVER PLACES 2,000 ENEMY TROOPS BE. TWEEN ADVANCING Citi NESE AND AMERICAN   FORCES ° ~~

SURPRISE. YANK DRIVE IN, BURMA TRAPS NIP UNIT   e\mericans Push Ten Miles  Behind Foe to Cut Off / Retreat

Senator Guffey Claims Barkley Ousted Him From Campaign Committee Post

WAS OUSTED, - GUFFEY SAYS   Did Not Resign As Head of Senatorial Campaign Group, He Asserts

Fired,Guftfey Says He Did Not Resign   MAJORITY LEADER BARKLEY REMOVED HIM FROM HEAD OF SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, SAYS PENNSYLVANIAN.   Guffey Ineligible

Communist Aid {s Disclaimed By Roosevelt  _ Democrat Party Sold to Radicals p...I'.2. D.el-ac

Men Leave For Service Camp   Selective Service Board Announces Departure Of  Draftees.

Chinese Clear Japanese From Railway Center   Bloody Fighting Rages Throughout Streets of Strategic Myitkyina

Japs Cleared f rom West Edge Of Myitkyina   Despite Torrential Rains Allies Make Progress in Burma

Clear Japanese From Rail Junction In Burma Battle   Street Fighting Rages Ir City 6th Day As Trap Closes

ALLIES GAIN IN BATTLE OF MYITKYINA   Road Junction on Edae of City is Captured

BITTER FIGHTING FOR MYITKYINA S STILL RAGING   Cornered Japs are Counterattacking: Repeatedly But Fail to Break Trap.

Japs Trapped In Myitkina   Chinese Slaughtering Stubborn Enemy in Burma Stronghold

Chinese Clear Jap Outposts In Myitkyina   Bloody Fighting Continue: In Barricaded Streets Of Doomed City

Allies Cut Appian Highway; Yank Troops Take Terracina; Clear Japanese from Railway

Chinese Squeeze Death Trap on Japs in Myitkyine   Cornered Garrison  Fights Futilely to Break Thru Circle

Seek Support Ot Peace Plan   Hull Confers With Group Of Representatives On PostWar World Agency.

LIBERTY HULL S PEACE PLAN AIM   SECRETARY STRESSES FREEDOM FOR ALL

ALLIES FOLLOW UP GAINS MADE IN PACIFIC AREA   Chinese Driving To Burma From Southwestern China; Continue To Ad Vance.

ALLIES PUSH GAINS AGAINST JAPS ON ALL MAIN FRONTS   Americans and Chinese Surround Garrison at Myitkvina.

PROKIBITION LOSES IN NEBRASKA VOTE   Plans to Outlaw Closed Shop Trail in Two States, Lead in One. .

ROMAN GANGSTERS ARE UNDER ARREST   Allied Military Police Aid Italian Civil Police in Roundup.

SOVIETS NEA VINNITSA, AIM FOR RUMANIF   Odessa and Warsaw Railroac Objective to Entrap 750,000

IMUUSANTS Ur GERMANS NN LIGHT   Major Escape Routes Menaced  = em mrs  TAKE 110 TOWNS  Nazis May Quit Occupied Territory

U.S. AMPHIBIOUS TROOPS ON ANOTHER PALAU ISLAND   rhe Tenth to Be Invaded in Less Than a Month, It Is Announced. .   SLIGHT. OPPOSITION   Encountered by ‘Soldiers of ‘the 8Ist Army Division . .on Garakayo Islet.

BEACHHEAD ON PALAU ISLAND ESTABLISHED   Light Opposition Encountered By U. S. Forces

Bridgehead Carved by American Forces on 10th Palau Isle   Garakayo Invaded _ by Soldiers of 81st Army Division

Yanks Land on Another Palau Isle   ; Only Light Opposition En  countered in Invasion of ; Carakava   ISLET IS 2 MILES NORTH OF PELELIV   Concern Expressed Over  Situation in China; Storms is Are Delavine Yanks

Invade Tenth Islet.   American Amphibious Forces Land On Garakayo in .Palaus; Forts Hit Zamboanga. Marcus

ees eae RR  AMERICANS SECURE.  FIRM BEACHHEAD ON  ANOTHER OF PALAUS TWENTY-FIVE LIBER ATORS BLAST ZAMBOANCA. PHILIPPINE FORTRESS

Tenth Isle Of Palaus Is Taken Within A Month   American Amphibians Meet Light Encounter On RBeachhead.

Beachhead on Another Isle   Tenth Invasion in Less Than Month Strikes In Palau Group

YANKS INVADE PALAU ISLET   Garakayo Is Tenth To Be Invaded by Americans During Past Month

ESTABLISH FIRM BEACHHEAD AND PROCEED INLAND   OPPOSITION LIGHT; FIRST BLOW STRUCK AT ZAMBOANGA FORT

Weather Ma v Delay Action In Philippines   Typhoons Give Advantage to The Japanese

Yanks Land On Another Of Palau Isles   Little Resistance on Garakyo; Zamboanga Add ed to Major Bomb Targets

YANKS FORM BEACHHEAD ON NEW PALAU ISLE   Unit Invades Garakayo Islet; Blast Fortress Guarding Philippines

Opposition on Garakayo Is Reported Light   Weather Conditions May Delay Philippine Invasion - - Nimitz

Beachhead Established On Garakayo   10th Palau Island Invaded in. Less Than Month: Nimitz Concerned Over Situation in China

Tenth Island of Palaus Invaded   Weather May Delay Philippine Landing

INVADE NEW PALAU ISLE      Americans Establish Firm Beachhead on Garakayo Iselet, Light Opposition Met

Invade Garakayo, Another Island In Palav Group   ‘Amphibious Troops Secure a Beachhead; Nimitz Predicts an Invasion of Ching

Strong Beachhead Established On Garakayo, Close To Peleliu   Weather To Delay Phillippine Drive   Nimitz Says Bases Needed On China Coast For Bombing Of Japan

U.S. Amphibious Troops Establish Another Firm Beachhead On Garakayo

INVADE TENTH PALAU ISLAND   Light Opposition Met By 81st Army Division in New Invasion.   WEATHER CAUSES DELAY 

AMERICANS WIN BEACHHEADS ON 10TH OF PALAUS   Amphibious Troops Land Or Garakayo, Push Inland; Jamhoanaa Raided

Tenth-Island-to be Tnvaded in Less Than Month by Our.       PHILIPPINE ‘INVA: INVASION _ . DEPENDS ON WEATHER

Yankees Invade Tenth Island In Palau Group   Firm Beachhead Is Established On Garakayo Islet

10TH ISLE IN GROUP IS INVADED   Zamboanga Pounded - By 25 Liberators : In Heavy Raid

4,900 PLANES STAGE BIGGEST BLITZ ON REICH   1569 American Bomber: Lead Softening Up of Germany

Senate Leaders are Cool Toward Plan for Change In Ratifying of Treaties

SENATORS COLD TO NEW PLAN   Proposal To Change Two Thirds Rule On Treaty Ratification Has Opposition

CHANGE IN RULE ON ADOPTION Of TREATIES FOUGH   Plan for Ratification by Majority Vote of Congress Opposed in Senate Foreign Affairs Group.   ISSUE IS REVIVED BY BLOOM’S APPEAL   New York House Member Calls for G. O. P. Support for His Constitutional Amendment.

wwators Cold foward Sharing freaty Powers   hep. Bloom Revives iaue by Proposing pycts Be Ratified by toth Congress Houses

SENATORS COLD TO PROPOSITION   Proposal To Permit Rati. fication Of Treaties By Majority Vote Opposed

Senate Cold. To Proposal. For Sharing Treaty Power   Even Some Favoring Constitution Change  Voice Opposition  To Such Action Now  HOUSE VOTE ASKED

Senators Shun -Treaty Making ‘ By Bloom Plan   Constitutional Amendmen :: For Majority Rule Held Unkikelv To Sueeprd

U.S. Air Forces Blast Nazi Aircraft Plants In France, Belgium   700 American 4-Engined Daylight Raiders Drop Destruction  Along 300 Mi. Front

STEEL CENTER AND NAVY BASE MAIN TARGETS   Yawata Industrial Plants and Sasebo Harbor Hit by B-29’s

Latest News Flashes By I. N. S.   Yank Bombers Again Blast Jap Targets

MINDORO RAID OF NIPPONESE NAVY CRUSHED   THREE DESTROYERS SUNK; DAMAGE IS LIGHT

Futile Navy Blow Is Costly to Foe: B-29s Hit Tokyo  ..... Ort. we is   Planes, Ships Blast Iwo Jima Once More  Batter Manila Area

EARLY VOTING INDICATES NEAR RECORD LIKELY   Close Finishes Expected i Races for President and Governor

Look for Near Record Voting At Ohio Polls   Expect 3 Million Ballots To Be Cast; G.. Vote Is Factor

Ohioans Voting ‘Straight’   Many Precincts Vote On Ballot Every Minute.

Heavy Rural Vote Being Casti in Ohio  a a ae eres S   “Fast end Furious” Balloting Reported In Many Sections

America Achieves Greatest Sea Victory in Its History    Naval Box Score

Two Jap Carriers, Five Cruisers, One Battleship Sunk   Several Other Enemy Ships Sent Te  Bottom or Damaged; Troops  Gain in Philippines

American Attacks Seen Mortal Blow To Nippon’s Navy   (Decreases Home Defense Power, Might To Face Yanks Again, Hope To Halt China Invasion

Americans Sink or Damage More Than 25 Enemy Vessels   Allied Victory in Three-Pronged Battle for Control‘of Philippine Waters May Prove to Be Mortal Blow to Tokyo's Defense. System

SEE POSSIBLE MORTAL BLOW TO MIP FLEET   Incomplete Total Says At Least Eight Top Warships Sunk

Yanks Crush  Enemy Forces In Philippines   Possible Mortal Blow In Big Air-Sea Battles

VISION DEWEYWARREN SLATE   Nomination of N. Y. Gover: . nor On First Ballot  Predicted

First Ballot Nomination Of Dewey Likely   Trend Is Toward Gov Warren, California,  For Second Place

DEWEY-WARREN COMBINE ISSEEN   Republican Ticket Speculation Also Includes Gov. Bricker’s Name

DEWEY-WARREN TICKET LOOMS FOR REPUBS   New York and California » Governors Seem Most Likely to Head GOP » Ticket

Dewey and: Warren Seen,   GOP Ticket   Small Minority National! Committee Look For Late Shift

Edward L. Cline, Banker And Civie Leader Dies Here  Ye ee eee .) oe: FR

10,000 Jeps Counted Dead On Gaum as Yanks Close in For Kill in Coffin Corner

Yanks Drive 6/2 Miles on Guam,  Close In for Kill   Annihilation of Japs Near; More Than 10,000 Dead Counted

INVASION GOAST UNDERGOES RAIDS   Aerial Pounding of Hitler’s Fortification Is Kept up Through Fourth Straight ” Day; Day, Night Operations

MILITARY TARGETS IN FRANCE BOMBED   NAZI DEFENSES ON SHORTEST INVASIOIN ROUTE HIT FOURTH STRAIGHT DAY,

NORTHERN FRANCE TARGETS ARE HIT      Aerial Pounding of Hitler’s Fortifications Continues

INVASION COAST BATTERED AGAIN   U. S. Airborne Troops Train For Battle Behind Lines

Aerial Blows on France Continue  Parachute, Glider Troops Practice

Parity Prices Guaranteed To Farm Producers   Pace Says Compromise Adopted Assures Farmers Parity Prices.

Britain’s P Pledge For Finish Fight on  Te 5 i Teal ¥-~ Dd rw Axetaat

AFL Says Labor  Sacrificing Most   Presses Plea to End Little Steel Formula

AFL Leader Continues To Attack Pay Formula   _ Greatest Sacrifices Are Made by Workers Under Present Setup, Federation Man Says.   COST-OF-LIVING  REPORT DISPUTED   ’ Todustrialists Hit ‘At Minority Report Bv Laber Members

BIG PUSH ON GOTHIC. LINE ‘1S UNDERWAY   HEAVY FIGHTING RAGING: AS ALLIED TROOPG APPROACT _ KEY DEFENSE POSITIONS,

Heavy Fighting Raging On Adriatic Sector; Germans Put Up Strong Resistance

Seven Towns Captured by Americans in Gains on 48-Mile Front.   BITTER FIGHT AT CAEN

Allies Have 32 Divisions On 14-Mile Front,  Paris Asserts   Tanks, Infantry Draw Semi-Circle Around Bastion Town

FLOCDS BLOCK FAENZA ATTACK   Lamone River Turns Into Torrent; Only Patrol Action Reported

Patrols Active on Italy Front  Raging River Stop: British Advance

WESTERN HALF OF RHINE FORT CITY IS WON   Battles Are Raging Around Famous  Cathedral

Half of Rhine Fortress  City Is Won   100,000 Germans Are Reported to Be Outflanked in Vosges

GOV. DEWEY WINS FIGHT ON VOTING   ASKS TIME EXTENSION FOR SERVICE BALLOTS

Goebbels Hints At Surrender  Propaganda Chief Complains of Stiff . Allied Peace Terms

GREAT DEVASTATION IN FRANCE’S TOWNS   Cherbourg Peninsula Full of Evidence of Violence of Germans.

ae SQUAD “KILLS PUCHEU      FORMER HEAD OF VICHY: GOoVERNMENT. POLICE SHOT BY. . FRENCH TROOPS AT ALGIERS

PUCHEU FACES FIRING SQUAD   French Collaborationist Executed For Treason

POLISH PICTURE SOME BRIGHTER   Reserved Optimism Follows Premier’s Chat With   Stalin in Kremlin

Japan Warned By Leaders of Danger Aheac   Mounting Air Bombardments and Possible Invasion of Homeland Forecast by Emperor and Prime Minister

Apparently, Germans Have . Little Left To Step British-American Thrust   GENERAL PATTON'S MEN ARE WITHIN 6 1.2 MILES OF METZ   Allied Troops In Italy Have Scored Series Of Fresh Gains

Montgomery Ward ‘Head Expects to Find Trade Cut   Asseris Nothing Done by Federal Officials and Nothing Gained by Plani Seizure

Seizure  No Help   —SAYS AVERY   Nothing Accomplished, Nothing Restored, According to Ward Head

Business To Show Drop, Says Avery  U: S. Representative: Did Nothing, He Claims

MEAT OHOBTAGE GRIPS NEW YORK   Announce Proposal That Ceiling on Live Cattle Be $17.50 at Hundredweight

World Security Plan Includes ood, Finances   Issue of Ratifying Treaty Will Be  Given to Congress

An International Air Corps Finds Conference Favor   Plan Backed by Russia and China  Is Reported to Have Roosevelt’s Approval

International Air Force Project Is New Possibility  Security Conference May Produce Plans for Such

International Air Force Project Is New Possibility   Security Conference May Produce Plans for Such A Project

Gubernatorial Candidates Trade Punches Over Bossism; Durbin Raps Realty Deals

Surrounded But Stubborn Everybody But the Germans Thinks Yanks are in Rennes

Stubborn Germans Hard to Convince That Yanks Had Captured Rennes

German Troops Attempting to Escape Annihilation Suffer Heavy Losses; Fall of Siegfried Fortress [mminent

400 American Planes Hit Luzon Installations; New U.S. Invasion Forecast

400 American Bombers Blast Main Philippine Island of Luzon Today   JUMP BY MacARTHUR BACK TO MANILA NOT FAR OFF, IS INDICATION, PLANES IN TODAY’S RAID CAME FROM SEA TASK FORCE.

Paratroopers Cling To Slim Footholds   Hitlerites Dug in Strongly in Wreckage of City’s Main Hotel

Young Claims “Ures te Kill’ Prompted Him to Kill Mother, Aged 45

YOUTH BEING HELD FOR PROSECUTION   Student Tells Officials He Was Driven By An ‘Urge Tr. Ki?

New Reports Of  Nazi Cruelties   Russian Woman Guerrilla Is Bound And Exhibited In Window Before Murder

Lt. Merle J. Roth Killed In France   Berrien Springs Officer Was Fighter Pilot

Reporters Win Praive Of Baillie   UP President Says Writers Risk Lives.

MOUNTAIN OF STEEL READY TO CONVERT   Conversion May Come Before Actual Nazi Surrender

OWA SOLDIER VOTE ISSUE UP ONWEDNESDAY   Legislature to Pass on Extension of Ballot Time

Legislature to Meet Wednesday  Soldier Vote Only Certain Problem

Service Ballot Authors Denounce Conferees Bill   Lucas Catis it ‘Worthtiess, as Green Advises Veto, Rahuce Ts Sennins OCnsicwesietiiad 55 Pein.

Hatch Opposes Compromise Plan On Service Vote  Conferees Complete Work: Bill Called State Ballot Victory

COMPROMISETO BE INTRODUGED   Advocates Of Federal Ballot Urge President To  Veto Measure

[wo Admit Killing Br itish Lord Moyne   layers of Diplomat: Quoted As Saying-They Were Members ‘Stern Gang?

GERMANS CLAIM BERLIN I$ QUIET   Nazis Say Revolt Effort Has Collapsed

Byrd Group Asks Free Mail Ban   Post Office Revenue Would Be Boosted $3! Uvv,000 If Free Mailing Privilege Taken Away..

JAPCABINET ABOUT READY   Promise Announces ment Tonight  Program Reported Irom Tokyo

Churches To Collect Old Clothing   Appeal, For Liber ecples: "Seeks 15 Million Lbs. From Nation

Flies Atlantic To Return To Bastogne  Fighting General Rejoins Troops

4th Division Relieves Siege of Bastogne   GENERAL SCORNS SAFETY OF WASHINGTON TO LEAD 101st AIRBORNE MEN

Recommend Price Control Renewal   Bowles Claims Act Will  Prevent Price Chaos’

Back the Attack! Buy War Bonds OE BONS  Fifth War Loan Drive Is Opened Here With A Rall

Back the Attack! Buy War Bonds Fifth War Loan Drive Is Opened Here With A Ral

36 Crippled U.S. Bombers Forced  Down in Sweden  More Than 300 U.S Airmen Are Now Interned Thare

Questioning Convicts in  Lamar Killing   One Arrested Thursday, Two Picked up Today

2 Suspects Nabbed In Sheriff Slaying   Escaped Oklahoma Convicts Hunted Down by Bloodhounds Near Skiatook—To Be Questioned at Tulsa in Murder of Pattersons.

Little Progress In Search for Bandits Who Slew Sheriff   Several Suspects Held As Hunt for Convicts Continues

Capture Three Escaped Convicts  TA DMriactian Wersthe      To Question Youths In Connection with Death of Sheriff

NAZIS TRY 10 FREE CASSINO   Two Strong Attacks Beaten Off   Sofia Blazes After Allied Raid

YANKS SMASH FORWARD NEAR AVRANCHES   Topple Germans Out of Positions West End of Line

future of Montana at Stake in Senate Hearings Opening This é APES OF S Week in Washmgton on Disposal of Siate’s Water

Future of Montana at Stake in Senate Hearings Opening This Week in Washington on Disposal of State’s Water

Respite tor Buchalter And 2 Pals   GOVERNOR DEWEY REQUESTS COMMISSIONER LYONS. TO DEFER EXECUTIONS PENDING APPEAT TO SUPREME COURT   Ctorv Like Fiction

Execution Of Lepke Stayed By Governor  Plea For Appeal Of Case Granted

‘Lepke’ Granted Two-Day Stay Of Execution   Dewey Acts at Last Minute to Permit Supreme Court Appeal

GOVERNOR DEWEY “STAYS EXECUTION OF GANG LEADER   ‘Louis (Lepke) Buchalter Saved Short Time Before . - Hour Set for Death at Sing Sing.   REPRIEVE IS GOOD © TILL SATURDAY NIGHT   Chief of “Murder, Inc.” Plans Appeal to U. S. Supreme  -- Court, His Attorney z Announces. . _

Dewey Again Stays Execution Of Buchalter   Acts Pending Final Appeal to U. S. Supreme Court

FEELING GROWS THAT WALLACE IS FDR CHOICE   TRIP TO FAR EAST INDICATES HE WILL BE RUNNING MATE

Wallace Trip Adds New Light   Believe Roosevelt Has Chosen Him To Be Running Mate Again.

V.P.Wallace Starts Trip   Will Visit Siberia and China; Political Angle Mentioned

Vallace Believed Chosen By oosevelt As His Running Mate   euPporter of Fourth Tern Says He Finds Little Demand For Vice Presi-_  dent's Renomination

Wallace on  F.R. Ticket   Vice President’s Trip To China Takes on New Political Aspect

Considered Impregnable A Year Ago  Enemy Resistance Wiped Out By American Units In Western New Britain

Allies Clear Part Of Isles   Western End Of New Britain Taken Over

FROM WEST NEW BRITAIN   Blast Broad Gap In Enemy’s South Pacifie Perimeter

Green Island Capture Complete   Invaders Make Junction On New Britair

News Is Good, Says Simpson   Situation In France Appears Much. Better

News Favorable, Stimson Says  Overall Situation On Western Front “‘Continues Critical”

Stimson Says War Situation in France Is Critical  Germans Must Expanc Base of Salient To Achieve Success

War News Better, But Situation on Western Front Still ‘Critical’

Latest News Is Favorable-Stimson   But Overall Situation On West Front Still Critical

Battle Situatior S till ‘Critical  Stimson Says   U. S. Casualties ‘Severe’: 13,000 Nazis Takes  Prisoner

Western Front Sul Critical   But News Favorable, Socey Stimsan Saves

Latest News From France Favorable But Situation ‘Critical,’ Stimson Says

Overall Situation on the Western Front Continues Critical--Secy. Stimson

Western Front Situation Still Critical, Claim  News Favorable, But Enemy Hasn’t Been   News Favorable, But Enemy Hasn't Been Halted; U. S. Losses Called ‘Severe’

Stimson Says War Situation in France Is Critical  Germans Must Expand Base of Salient

Allies Slash Japs Heavily   Hit Shipping, Island Defenses, Chinese Cut Burma Road Near Lungling

NEW BLOWS ARE RAINED ON JAPS   Shipping, Communications, Island Defenses Hit

Biographer Analyzes W. A. White's “Paradoxical” Attitude Toward F.D.R

School Children Sell Many Bonds   Given Credit For 33 Million Worth

DENMARK IS ~~ NAZI WORRY   GERMANY MAY TAKE OVER ALL POLICE SUPERVISION  ’ AS RESULT OF . SABOTAGE ~

Woman Dies From Wounds in Hotel Mystery Shooting   Police Believe Revenge Motive; Seek Enemies”

SOCIALITE DIES AS RESULT OF WOUND   Revenge Motive Advance. ed in Slaying of Chi cacao Woman

SOCIALITE DIES OF GUN WOUND   Wife Of State Department Attache Shot By Mysteri ous Gunwoman

Vengeance Motive Considered Mysterious Woman Is Sought In Slaying of Attache’s Wife

GUNSHOT FATAL IN DRAKE HOTEL   Socially Prominent Wife Of Washington Official Dies Of Head Wound

Nazis Shift  Lines   Strengthen Forces  On New Front South Of Rome; Pull Back From Cassino Sector

Battle For City Near; Cassino Is Reported Entered   Swiss Report Says Germans Declare State of Siege in Rome After Anti-Nazi Italians Kill German Officers

Germans Drawing Back From Cassine To Brace Flank   Nazis Apparently Intend to Stage Fight for Rome

Patrols Enter Cassino   Nazi Defense Stiffens In South of Rome Area

Germans Shift  Strength For Battle Of Rome   Yanks Recross Rapido, Patrols Enter Cassino

NAZI LINE KEY IS CAPTURED IN 5TH ARMY DRIVE   Russians, Meanwhile, Seek To  Take Railhead and Trap  250,000 Germans

Nazis Shift Their Forces Toward Rome   Climactic Battle for Rome Believed to Be Nearing

y GERMAN DEFENSES STIFFENED AGARST ” ALLIED BEAGHHEAN   SHIFT OF ENEMY STRENGTH INDICATES BATTLE OF ROME IS NEAR

MAJOR BATTLE APPEARS NEAR ~ INROME AREA   Allies Reported Within Sight Of Base Only 15 Miles : From Italian Capital

Germans Stiffen in Beachhead Defense:  Weaken Elsewhere   Cassino Believed to be in Allied Hands This  Afternoon

Defenses Stiffened As German Forces  ‘Pulled From South   Believe Nazis Seek To Avoid Trap Betwéen-Main. Lines And City; Naval Gunfire Supports Allies

County Postwar Commission is  Named by Smith   First Objective to be Plans for Welfare of Service Men

New Dealers Do. Not Believe in Our Form of Governmen   Martin Dies Tells . Southern Democratic Club Membres This

Nazis Say Hitler Is Feeling Well   Berlin Radio Answers Speculation Abont Hitler’s Dis. appearance.

Blacklist Slapped On Finn Firms By United States  Cabinet Members Hit By Drastic Step Aaninet ElahétveFoaur

84 FINNISH FIRMS BLACKLISTED BY U. S   Two Headed by Cabinet Members —Action Most Drastic Against Country in Months.

U.S. Blacklists Finn Firms, Moves To Force Break  Swedish Companies nage on List  Aidine Nagte

SWEDISH AND FINNISH FIRMS ON BLACKLIST   NATION TO SUFFER TRADE PENALTIES AFTER WAR

FINNISH FIRMS BLACK-LISTELD   84 Concerns Affected B\ American Order

Greyhound Bus Drivers Refuse To Resume Work   War Labor Board Demand Spurned

DNB SaysSummer Offensive Begun   Attacks Concentrated On Smolensk Highway

ATTACK SAID TO BE ON FRONT NEAR. VITEBSK   Strong Troop and -‘Tank ‘Formations Open Large- Seale Operations in White  Pees

PANEL NAMED T0 HEAR PAY PLEA   Group To Map Hearings On Steel Workers’ Demands

Strike Leaders In Philadelphia Fired From Jobs   Army Action Results In Transportation Strike In Philadelphia Com. ing To End

oll, 5, ARMY ENDS WORK STOPPAGE "IN PHILADELPHIA   Soldiers In Full Battle ® Dress Continue Riding On All Vehicles   UNION LEFT NO CHOICE   Employer On Regular Runs After War Effort Loses 5,000,000 Man Hours

THREAT OF ORAF HOS STRKE   “Philade'phi Transit System Normal Again Under Army Guard -

THREAT OF DRAFT ENDS STRIKE   Philade'phia Transit System Normal Again Under Army Guard

Strike Leaders Fired As Philadelphia Transit Returns To Normal Under Army

MOKMER FIELD DRIVE HALTED, JAPS REPULSED      Troops Enter Hills Of Biak Island To Clear Out Snipers

SIXTH WAR LOAN DRIVE WILL CLOSE NEXT SATURDAY  Bale Of E Bonds In . i “Plymouth County Is

Plymouth County Lagging In Sixth War Loan Sales  County Not Far From Bottom In Report For State

GERMANS FALL BACK TOWARD SEVASTOPOL   120,000 Face Capture or Dunkerque   ABRARUN VUULUFIEDV Nazis Break Through Skala Ring

120,000 GERMAN TROOPS DOOMED IN CRIMEA DRIVE   Perekop Isthmus Cleared With Kerch Restored to Russians

DOOMED NAZIS FALLING BACK ON SEVASTOPOL   Germans And Romanians Fight With Backs Against Black Sea

Russians Driving Toward = Sevastopol Cut Escape Route Of 100,000 Nazis In Crimea

German Troops Are Forced Back In The Crimea   Capture Or ‘‘German Dunkerque’’ Are Facing Thousands Of Nazis   REDS LIBERATE CITY OF KERCH

US. TROOPS MAKE NEW ADVANCES ON  SAIPAN ISLAND   Americans Fight Through In tenee Mortar and Artillery Fire Toward Gar-

Points 615 Miles From Tokyo Hit By Task Force   Carrier Based Planes Attack Bonin, Volcano To Challenge Jap Fleet

ON SAIPAN C0 FOR CARAPAN   Drive Toward Administration Center in Spite of Fierce Jap Resistance By 20 000 Men.

“Rp” B 0 n d Sales Here Still Lag   Only 40 Per Cent Of Quota Met To Date, William G Boies, Chairman, Asserts

Seek More "E” Buyers   Uncle Sam‘s Best Bargain Finds Few Takers.

C. E. GRIFFITH IS HEAD COUNTY _ -RED CROSS WORK   Rev. A. E. Cole, Bradford, I: Head War Fund Drive  During March.

Red Cross to — Seek $4,200°. Fund Drive   C. E. Griffith of; Toulon. I: . Elected Chairman of*  County Chapter. .

RUMANIA ORDERS CIVILIANS OUT OF BORDER PROVINCE   Red Army Surge Threatens to Explode Simmering  Rolken “ituqtian

Russians 20 Miles From Last Route of Retreat for Nazis   Reds Hammering at Bug River Defense Line Near Dniester

Reds Open Great New Offensive   Threaten Million Germans With Encirclement—Allies Gain in Italy

Panic-Stricken Govt. of Rumania Orders Civilian Evacuation; Situation In Balkans Nearly Explodes ANTONESCU REPORTED TO HAVE  ORDERED MASS FLIGHT FROM  BORGER PROVINCE; GERMAN RESERVES ARE HURLED BACK

Germans Admit Powerful New Red Dnieper Drive; All Poland A ‘War Zone

U.S. Invasion Of Another Island   By MURLIN SPENCER ‘Associated Press War Correspondent

TEMPERATURES:   Americans lsolate  Rabaul And Kavieng   “Marine Raiders, Swarming Ashore On Emirau Island In St. Matthias Group Of Islands, Draw Nooce On Enemy Garricons

STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE HEAD IN POLL TAX STATEMENT   BUTLER, ON EVE OF COMMITTEE MEETING, EXPRESSES OPINION

Rabaul Airfields  Are Knocked Oui   Possibly 42 More Planes Downed

Allied Airmen Knock Out 2 Rabaul Fields   42 Jap Planes Downed In Hits At Enemy’s Major Base

TWO AIRFIELDS AT RABAUL ARE KNOCKED OUT      Possibly 42 Planes Shot Down Tt Neutralize Enemy's Last Maior Base

Allies Knock Out Two Airfields On Rabaul Island   "Bombers Bag 24 Jap Planes In Continuous  Raids On Enemy Bases

Two Airfields At Rabaul At Least Temporarily Have Been Knocked Out

YANKS IN TRAP IN ITALY UNDER FIERCE ATTACK   Victorious Red Forces Drive Germans Back on Three Important Sectors

Cisterna Racked by Bombers _   Greater Part of Nazi Strong Point Facing Rome Bridgehead Is Wiped Out By Allies

Enemy Report !s Unconfirmed by Allied Command   Cisterna, German Bastion, Is Nearly Destroyed by Bombs

Nazis Increase Pressure Near Rome Position   Violent Fighting Continues at NaziHeld Cassino— Soviets Victorious

Allied Bombers  Destroy Nazi Cisterna Posts   Germans Claim Gain In  Bridgehead Near Rome

Germans—Declare— Allied Bridgehead Penetrated Deeply   Tons Of Bombs Poured On Enemy Stronghold By American Fliers; Fourth Of Cassino In U.S. Hands

German Pressure Increasing With Intense Artillery Fire On Allies

But Nazis Claim Italian Advance  Of Several Mile:   Reds Push On Past Nikopol, As 15,00€ Nazis Die In The Dnieper Area

Allied Fliers Destroy  Nazi Base Near Rome   Germans Claim Advance of ‘Several Miles’ Into Narrow Pocket Held by American Troaps

WAVES OF ALLIED PLANES DESTROYED BIG PART CISTERNA  RUSSIAN VICTORS AT  RIVADHI pRPECe OW

GOERING AND OTHEX  WAR ALS HOPE TO  _ SAVE OWN LIVES BY  oe aig Oe

‘WAR CRIMINALS ‘WEIGH PLAN TO EVADE JUSTICE   »Kings Leopold, Christian And Gen. Bor Destined To Be Pawns   .GOERING HINTS TRICK   Hostages To Be Executed if Hitler Or Leaders Are Put To Death

Olevsk Seized in Big Red Advance   Mediterranean Flyers Take up Air Offensive Against Europe

LIBERATED AS NAZIS RETREAT   Eighth Army Troops Near Pescara, Coastal Anchor Of * Adriatic Line *

ee OOOO  ‘Powers Must Work Together Or See Destruction, Savs Eden

EDEN SAYS BIG FOUR CAN FORCE PEACE   Includes France With Previous ‘Big Three’

‘DON GENTILE DAY’ PLANS READY   Piqua Prepares Big Blowout Thursday For Its Hero

Hold Childbirth ‘Death Rates at ‘Minimum Levels   Credit to Doctors, Hospitals, Nurses For Gocd Fight. :

15 Per Cent Increase in Memorial Day Weekend Travel Will Tax Facilities

Big Increase  In Travel Seen   Train, Bus and Airlines Expect Jammed Facilities For Memorial Day Weekend

TRAVEL RUSH SEEN FOR THIS WEEK END   Transportation Companies Expect Increase

EXPECT HOLIDAY RUSH   In Spite of ODT Appeals Heavy Travel Is Expected

SAYS GESTAPO HOLDS CONTROL OVER GERMANY   Allied Leader Declines To Predict When V-Day Will Come, Pledges All-Out War

SAYS NAZIS WAGE DEATH STRUGGLE   ‘Eisenhower Say Says Allied Pressure to Continue  to End

Eisenhower Tells Price Of Victory   Says Allied Pressure On Nazis to Grow Steadily Until Surrender

EISENHOWER TO CONTINUE HIS PRESSURE   On Germans, Increasing it Steadily Until Surrender; Asks Plenty of Supplies to do Job.   Stripped Bare

Gen. Eisenhower Asserts Allies Must ‘Fight Like Hell’ For Peace; Pressure To Increase

‘lo Get Peace We Must ight Like Hell—-L ot’s Do It   --SAYS EISENHOWER  Surrender or Destruction of Germany Is Objective of Allied Might; General Reports on Tour of the Front

Eisenhower Calls for Supreme Effort To Beat Gestapo-Driven German Army

EISENHOWER ¢ FIGHT 10 ia FOR THE GEAMAND   Says Hitler and Gestapo Has Maintained Pistol-in-back Control of Reich   WANTS MORE SUPPLIES THAN GETTING, ASSERTS   General Declares Great Power of Allied Armies Now Thrown Into Campaign to Force Germany to Surrender or Be Destroyed

War a Fight To Death for Nazis, Says lke   To Get Peace We’ ve Gor To Fight Like Hell for It, Now Let’s Do It, Eisenhower Demands

NATION SPURRED BY EISENHOWEF   We've Got To Fight Like Hell For Peace, Says Allied Commander

Eisenhower  Asks Increase In Manpower  And Supplies   Declares Pressure  ’ On Germany To Rise Until It Surrenders Or Is Destroyed  ASKS HELP OR ATT.

AFL POLICIES: ARE ADOPTEL   VOICE FOR LABOR AT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AMONG RECOMMENDATIONS OF DELEGATES

STRONG JAPANESE FORCES DRIVING FURTHER INTO INDIA   ‘ENEMY LOSSES REPORTED HEAVY BUT THEY CONTINUE TO DRIVE AHEAD

JAPS ADVANCE DEEPER INTO UKHRUL AREA   Enemy Losses Are Reported Heavy In India War

Japs Pressing Toward Imphal Base in india   Tokyo Declares City Evacuated By Allied Force

Tokyo Forces On March From Ukhral Sector   Meanwhile, British Indian  Troops Are Engaged-in: Fierce Struggle With Foes East of Kohima   Nip Losses Heavy In All Baitles   Little Activity Reported From Tiddim, Surrendered to Japanese hy British Yesterday

Japs Drive On Toward British Base In India   Within Dozen Miles Of Imphal

Japs Continue To Make Gains Into India   Invaders Within 12 Miles of Imphal, Desnite Lossea

JAP PATROLS NOW 12 MILES FROM IMPHAL   Enemy Forces Press Orive West Into India; Chinese Advance in Burma.

Japs Drive Nearer To British Base At Imphal   Auchinleck Issues” Optimistic Statement As Enemy Nears Jungle Communications Center

JAPS MAKE GAIN IN HARD DRIVE TOWARD IMPHAL   Xl lied Communique Admits Enemy Advances Io The West; Japanese Losses Are Reported As Heavy.

Jap Units Push - Closer to Imphal   Additional Gains by Enemy Forces Invading India Reported Today With Patrols Placed Only 12 Miles From Jungle Communications Center.   GAIN IN UKHRUL AREA

APS FIGHTING HARD IN BURMA   Drive Further Westward ir India Toward British Base of Imphal.   REPORT HEAVY LOSSES

Japs Now Are 12 Miles From Imphal   Fierce Fighting Rages With Second Nip Column Farther North

British Put Up Furious Fight To Save Imphal from Capture; Berlin Reports It Evacuated

BURMA  PUSH WESTWARD FAW INDIA DRIVE       Allied « Communique Ac knowledges Threat To British. Base   NIP LOSSES HIGH   Unconfirmed Berlin Report! ‘Says Imphal ‘Has Been! Byacuated

Strong Jap Forces Drive Onward In India; Patrols Stab Imphal, British Base      Indian Troops Battle Enemy Column In Second Sector, Allies Say Foe Suffers Heavy Losses; Ambush Of Small English Detachment Reported

Threat To Imphal Is  Increased   Jap Advance Is Made In Ukhril Sector 32 Miles Northeast Of British Base

Japanese Units Push Westward Toward Impha   rong Enemy Forces Stab ‘Yo Within Dozen Miles “Of Vital British Position

SALIENT HELD DESPITE NAZI RESERVE ARMY   Within 11 Miles of Drawing Circle Around Caen, Seventh (Important) French Port.

Rommel Throws Fresh Reserves Against Allies  Heavy Casualties Are   Heavy Casualties Are Inflicted On Enemy;  Nazis Admit Gains By American Troops,  o¢

ROMMEL’S NEW TROOPS BEATEN IN FIRST TEST   Gains Are Notched by U. S., British Forces in Fighting Near Caen

Continue to Drive Salient Southwest of Caen Despite Attacks   ASSAULTS. BROKEN UP   3radley’s Yanks Beat Down Resastance Near Cherbourg

Big Salient Is Opened In Drive On Caen   United Nations’ Forces Nearing Circle About City

Circle About City Lacks But Eleven Miles of Closing   Rommel’s Counter-Attacks Frustrated Despite Use of Fresh Reserves--Yanks Move to Straighten Lines

CASUALTIES OF ENEMY ARE HEAVY   Allies Hammer Deep Salient In Foe’s Lines At Caen

Rommel fails in effort to  stem assault British troops encircling port

Rommel Reserves Fail To Halt Allies   , . Situation Termed “Altogether Satisfactory

FRESH TROOPS ARE RUSHED * BY ROMMEL   British Forces Are Drawing Circle Around Port   COUNTERDRIVES   Cost Nazis Heavy Casualties; Two dozen enemy tanks Knocked Out

ALLIES DENT NEW SALIENT IN CAEN AREA   Hammer Gains Despite Fresh German Reserves Thrown Into Battle.   British Draw a Circle Around Inland Port

British Troops Within 11 Miles of Drawing Circle About Port.   NAZI RESERVES ARRIVE

Situation Described by Allied Headquarters As “Altogether Satisfactory” and German Efforts tc Break Allied Salient Foiled. British Ships Aiding  Land Farces

Montgomery’s Troops Half Mile From  One of That City’s Main Air Fields

Drive Salient Into Nazi se, Nearly Encircle Caen ‘e Enemy Reinforcement

Situation  About Caen ls Termed Satisfactory   Rommei Maneuver Against Salient  :   Is Failure

Encirclement of City Near; British Half Mile From Big Airfield; Nazi Attack Fails

Rommel’s Attacks Are Broken Up   British Forces Repulse Several Counter. Blows; Closing Caen Ring

British Draw Circle About Prize Port   Germans Suffer Heavy Casualties ih Absrtive  Move

Big Salient Driven Into Enemy Lines   Marshal Rommel’s Flank Counterattacks Fail; German Losses Heavy

Allies Continue Advance in France   Rommel Sends Reserves !nto Fray But British Widen Their Salient

Little Effect On Allied Advance      Deep Salient Driven Into Enemy Lines and Situation Is “Altogether Satisfactory”

Rommel S ~ Assaulis ~ Smashed   “Allies Hammering Out. Sa lient Despite .Enemy’s :' Yse-of Fresh Reserves   ‘THE SITUATION : IS SATISFACTORY   b Bradley’s- Forces . Make “Small Attack to Straighten Linez'as:Caen Battle Roars

Situation In Battle For Caen “Altogether Satisfactory,” Headquarters Reports — Marshal Rommel Throws Entirely Fresh Reserves Into Normandy But Fails To Halt Offensive — British Second Army Closing Circle Around Inland Port

Rommel Hurls Reserves In Normandy   British Troops Stem German Attempt To Smash Salient

British Smash German Counterattacks and Hammer Salient into Enemy’s T ines.   NAVY SALVAGE EXPERT ARRIVES AT CHERBOURG

Rommel Fails To Smash Line   Encircling Armies Within ! Miles Of Closing Noose

Fresh Reserves of Germans Unable to  End Caen’s Threat   British Second Army Ha: City Almost Encircled Today

Wedge ls Driven Into Enemy Lines Southwest of City   Germans Bringing Entirely Fresh Reserves to Battle

Within Il Miles Of Encircling Of Caen   Germans Try To Smash Salient But Are Beaten Off; Salvage Expert Put To Work To Restore Cherbourg Docks

Good Evening .   Rain and snow yesterday, sun. shine today and taxes tomorrow.

“Dear Folks: Having a wonderful time and a half; wish you were  Y\waoxrn

Good Evening .. . It may be treason to say it, but this swell weather is too durned hot.

American Troops Fight Way Into Saarlautern Today   First Army Fights To A Standstill, Slow Gains Elsewher:

TROOPS DRIVE INTO BASTION OF LINNICH   Ninth Army Thus Shoves Northern Arc of ColognePlain Battle Within  15 Miles of Rheydt - Munchen Gladbach.

Invaders laké GCaumont And Viplers Bocage; Yanks Now 30 Miles (nland On Cherhourg

Nazis Said To Be Making New Attack   General Situation Is Reported As Favorable To The Allies

Enemy Staging Desperate Counter-Attacks, How: ever, Germans Are Showing Signs of Becoming Groggy. _

Pearls of Wisdom Gathered Within (. L’s “How To Act on Home Leave”

Returning Soldiers Need Not ‘Feel Uneasy  In America If They Study New Handbook

Allied Plaiies Hit Nazi Rail Supply Funnel  Also Pound German Ai Force Concentrafions

POUND NAZI SOURCES OF AIR SUPPLY   Also Railway Points; Better Weather Facilitates  More Flying; Bomber Is Missing.   Hit Four Subs

1,300 Heavies  Blast Germany   Air Foree Concentration: Singled Oni he Alec _

POUND AT NAZI SUPPLY LINES   Over 1,300 Allied Bombers Also Hit at Airdromes In Germany

Allies Sweep Onward in Italy   Nazis on Run From Rome to Tyrrhenian Sea With Small Resistance; 2000 Surrender to British, Enemy Blows Up Tiber Bridges in Rout

Proskurov Rail Junction Falls, Reach Dneister   Russ Say ‘We're Fight- ing Where We Fought.  In 19417’

Russians Drive on at Prut   SLASH AT RUMANIA; GERMANS ROLLED BACK TOWARD SEA

Sink Ships And Planes; Raid Rabaul   Airmen Make 1,000 Mil Sweep from Carolines to  New Guinea

Russ Spr ead” New: Ruini in Bomb Raids   Rail Jun ction of J Lw and ‘Sambor, Suffer. ‘Heavy. Blows   . Soviets Claim rane Enemy Aircraft Destroyed in . Attacks

C.aim sermanS.ow>: 2ear -acjor "Nor<, save _icuoranc sit 2arcies

Pearl Harbor Delays Criticized teeth sha aot loan iniarintaabaas  Colonel And Contractor Hit  In Long Committee Report

Pearl Harbor Delays Criticized eS MC Zee  Colonel And Contractor Hit In Long Committee Report

Russians Smash Through Estonia To Trap Germans   Thousands Of Germans In Baltic States Now Facing Annihilation   WARSAW THREAT GROWS STEADILY

sit PUSH      Columns to South Steadily Increase Threat to Warsaw

SOVIET FORCE SMASHES DEEP INTO ESTONIA   Drives on Nazis Trapped In Baltic   SQUEEZE WARSAW   Report Germans Quitting Capital

ESTONIA LINE “1S BROKEN BY ~ NEW THRUSTS   DRIVE ‘UNLEASHED TO CRUSE TRAFPED GERMAN FORCES-—WARSAW CLIMAX BE. _  LIEVED NEAR 

Russia's Third Baltic Army Smashes Deeper Into Estonia To Annihilate Nazi Forces

REDS WIDEN BREAK-THROUGH BELOW LAKE PSKOV; DRIVE  DEEPER INTO LATVIA-ESTONIA

Infants’ Deaths In Hospital Not Criminal Matter  Coroner Report Clears Woman

bee ue tAL Mt AA a eet a unc th gt en Ran A ot aka LL eS a LOR at ea A ected  Too Many Duties For Pharmacist

Report Nazis At Thionville  Give up Town   Indications Germans May Forfeit Metz, Now Being Encircled

Patton Men Within 3% Mi. Of City   Nazis May Be Forced To Evacuate All Metz To  PURE. Fe, A PRYING RARE

KING WILL TAKE HAND   George of Greece Will Leave London for Cairo

MARINES TAKE KEY ISLANDS IN GROUP ONLY 580 MILES FROM JAP BASE.  AT TRUK

Marines Now Only 580 Miles From Truk   Landing Follow a $ ‘  Air Barrage

Jap Army, Navy Shake-up Made To Bolster Defenses   Tokyo Explains Action While American Battleships Continue To Pound Guam As Prelude To Invasion; MacArthur's Forces Sink Five Enemy Ships

FDR Calls On 17 Yr. Olds To Enroll In ASTP   Considers Move Vital To Country’s War Effort

ALLIED PLANES SMASHING JAP. SUPPLY LINES   Lull in Ground Fighting In Southwest Pacific  Brings Heavier Aerial Atstarbe

Airmen Hit Jap Supply Lines   Thirty Barges Destroyed During Lull In Ground Fightine.

Jap Supply Lines Bombed   Allied Planes Take Advantage of Lull In Ground Fighting

ALLIES POU BASES OF JAPS   Take Advantage of Lull In Ground Fighting In Pacific War Theater

Smash  At Jap — Shipping   Allied Warplanes Harras Nip Supply Lines; Chinese Launch New  Offensive in Burma

JAPANESE ISLAND SUPPLY LINES POUNDED FROM AIR   Thirty Enemy Barges in New Britain and New Guinea Areas Destroyed—Hits and Near Misses Scored on Other Vessels

\Allied Airmen Blast \Japanese Supply Lines   Warplanes Sweeping Low Over Waters Of New Britain And New Guinea Sink Or Damage To’ tal Of 30 Enemy Barges

ALLIED PLANES SMASHING JAP SUPPLY LINES   Sweep” ‘Low-Qver Waters  ' Of New Britain and New Guines: Destroying   30 Barges

JAP SUPPLY LINES UNDER AIR ATTACKS   More Than 30 Vessels Destroyed Or Damaged By Attackers On N. Britain, N. Guinea Areas

Allied Planes Attack Jap Supply Lines   Thirty Nip Barges. Destroyed “or Damaged; Intermittent  ' Fighting Continues on Cape Gloucester

OMASHING AT SUPPLY LINES   Allied Planes Take Advan tage of Lull in Pacifie Ground. Fighting.

JAP SUPPLY LINES BOMBED   Allied Planes Take Advantage of Lull on Ground To Hammer Foe.

Turn Air Fury on Jap Supply Lines  Allies Destroy or Damage 30 Barges And Hit Twa Shine

ALLIED AIRCRAFT SMASH AT JAPANESE LINES OF SUPPLY  MANY BARGES DESTROYE! AND OTHER SHIPS REPORTED .DAMAGED

Japanese Supply Lines Are Targets   Ground Fighting Is Less Violent

Pacific Air Fleet Blasts At Supplies   30 Barges Bound for Japs In Advanced Positions Are Destroved

AIRMEN BLAST JAP LIFELINES IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Hit 30 Nip Barges, Two Ships Off New Britain Coast

Allies Smash at Jap Shipping In South Pacific  Aussies Advance Toward Sai dor On New Guinea

Draft Deferments Review Ordered   Hershey Follows  Roosevelt's Advice

ORDER REVIEW OF DEFERMENTS      Men Under 26 Slated For New Study

TWO RECENT ALLIED FAILURES HAS RESULTED IN WIDESPREAD BELIEF WAR HAS GONE TO POT

WAR’ TODAY   Defeat At Aruhem Is Only Temporary Set back Despite Wide. spread Belief War Has Gone to Pot

Sofia Heavily Bombed A gain   Bulgarian Capital Plastered By RAF

BEING: BOLSTERE   Goebbels Propaganda Claims . War in West Being . Btahilizad

WARPLANES SMASH BATTERED GERMANS   Dawn to ‘Daylight  Raids Made on Nazi_ Taraets .

From Bases in Italy and France; Bridges, Railroad Junctions, Fuel Tanks.   Hit Freighters

Aerial Might Is Hurled at Nazis  Warplanes Smash Clheabes Peanunes

WARPLANES SMASH BATTERED GERMANS   Dawn to ‘Daylight . Raids ~ Made on Nazi. . Targets” 7

NAZIS RAKED BY WARPLANES   RAF Typhoons Blas! Enemy Armor In Heart Of American Lines At  Base Of Brittany Peninsula

AERIAL MIGHT IS STRONGEST SINCE D-DAY   ARMORED COLUMNS POUNDED, SUPPLY DISRUPTED

uERMANY HIT WITH RECORD AERIAL BLOWS   “Allies Keep Up Dawn To Night Assault Upon Reich

ALLIES BEGIN BIG OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Germans Pushed Back Many Miles In Italy

Cassino Area Hit Heavily By Ariillery   Advances Reported As 5th And &th Begin Offensive

PIRESS IS CRITICIZED BY PRESIDENT   Chief Executive Thinks Full Account Of Montg’y Ward Case Not Presented

16 American Bombers In Emergency Landings In Switzerland Saturday

ARGENTINA’S BREAK WITH AXIS _ BRINGS LAMENTATIONS FOR POOR ENCLAND FROM VON RIBBENTROP.

War Workers ' Are P-o I] e d 9 Bond Holding   Survey Checks Possible ‘Redemption of Bonds For Unemployment

NOTICE IS SERVED OF MORE INVASIONS   Eisenhower © Sa Says Normandy Drive Is Mere Beainnina

‘Ike’ Promises More Invasions   General Expresses Delight At Progress Of The Invasion.

MORE INVASIONS PROMISED BY IKE   NORMANDY OPERATIONS ONLY PART OF WHAT IS TO COME, GENERAL SAYS, _

Eisenhower Warns Hitler: Drive into Normandy Only Part Of Campaign To Defeat Germany

Eisenhower Notifies Nazis  To Expect More Invasions   Commander's Report to Roosevelt Speaks Of Drive Into Normandy as “‘Mere”’ Start: Gallantry of Troops Involved Praised

New, Greater Blows Against Nazis Pending   Attacks From Reds, Mediterranean Will Come, Ike Discloses

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY STIRS BITTER DEBATE   Senators Hit British Role in Greece, Red Moves in Balkans

British Intervention in Greece Condemned; Russia's Role Criticized

Senate in ‘Debate. on ~ Appointees   Nominations Used a:  “exéuse to Attack—~  British, Russian =~ Policies

Great Britain And Russia Criticized  In Senate   Hiram Johuson Pleads Something Be Done About Greek Situation: Nominations Debated  POLICIES NOT CLEAR

American Foreign Policy Debated  Bitterness Marks Arguments On State Dep’t Nominations

Senators Bitterly Debate Foreign Policy of U.S.   Britain’s Role in Greece and Russia's  In Balkans Assailed

Senators Critical Of British Policy In Greece And Russia’s Balkan Role

American Foreign Policy Debated esreiarnicieasscomnainateibine. soonest eid chaise  Bitterness Marks Arguments On State Dep’t Nomination:

KF oreign Policy Stirs Bitter Senate Debate   Nominations Used As Excuse to Hit British, Russia

REPORTS THREE PACIFIC STRIKES   Tokyo Radio Says Carrie Planes Hit Philippines, Palau, Sumatra

ADMITS SAFE CRACKING IN BOONE LATELY   Pair Nabbed at Oakland, Ia., Confess Two Jobs in This State, One in Wisconsin.

SAFE CRACKING JOBS ADMITTEL   Escaped Convicts Confess Three Big Robberies

Eseapees Said To Have Robbed Series Of Cafes   (Additional Story on Page 11.)

BOOST IN INCOME TAXIS APPROVED   HOUSE-SENATE CONFEREES VOTE TO ABOLISH EARNED INCOME CREDIT,

Tax Measure Is Approved By Conferees   Srnaller Taxpayers Are Most Affected

Conferees Near Full Agreement On Tax Measure   Earned Income Credit Will Be Abolished, Victory Levy 3 Percent

Conferees Near Tax Agreement   Earned Income Credit Ys Abolished

Conferees Near Agreement on  Higher Tax Bill   Victory Levy to Becom Straight 3 Per Cent  Levy on Income

Income lax Boost Appears Likely   Senate, House Conferee: Agree To Abolish Earned Income Credit

(658 Million For (Farm Program  Proposed By FR   Elimination of Parity Payment Cuts Funds To Lowest Since 1934

STRIKE BOUND   ket Lines. Established ollowing: Vote by Cl 2 O.: Workers to Quit— ee Grievance Procedure Ts  a po ee

FORD PLANT IN CANADA IS IDLE   New S hu td own Comes Only Three Days After Work Resumed

Ford Canadian Plant Closed   Union Workers Halt Work Over Grievance Procedure Dispute.

Workers in Ford Plant in Canada On Strike Again   -_ Dissatisfaction with Grievance Procedure Cause—Otfice Work. ers Slav Oot in Symoaihy

NEW WALKOUT SHUTS FORD GANADA PLANTS   UAW Calls Second Stoppage During Mass Meeting

CALLS FOR STRIKE AT WARD'S INK. €   ‘UNION DIRECTS WALKOUT IN RETAIL STORES AND MAIL ORDER HOUSES.

Blackout Oi News Is Lifted   Remnants of Air Troop Division Flee From River

YANKS SWEEP ONTO PLAINS FROM NORMANDY   Americans And British Join And Drive South From Avranches   RUSSIANS RING WARSAW   Reds Say Nazis Have Put Torch To City—MacArthur Moves Closer To P. I.

Pravda Critical Of Allied Weakness’   Russian Writer Angrily Assails Tendency Toward Going Easy on Germany

SEES ALLIES WEAKEN   Seviet Writer Finds § Finds Signs of Lack of Purpose

Death Takes Dr. Bizzell   Scholar-Educator Who Guided O. U. Through Great Development Is Dead

DR. BIZZELL, 68,  DIES IN NORMAN   Heart Attack Fatal to Former ©. VU. Prexy After Long Iliness

US, BRITISH IN CO-ORDINATED NEW DRIVE   Headquarters Says It Is Limited in Objectives, However

U.S. BOMBERS FROM  ITALY, ENGLAND  STRIKE IN BALKANS   Pound Nazi’ Oil Storage and Refineries and Transportation Facilities in Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia

Bombers Raid Oil Storages   Hit Refineries In) Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia; Hit Giurgiu Port,

Nazi Oil Storage Plants Are Raided   American Heavy Planes in Shuttle Flight From England to Italy

Big Bombers Pound Three Balkan Nations in Raids  British-Based Planes Join in Attack On Oil Refineries

Oil Plants Blasted   NAIE PETROLEUM REFINERIES AND STTRAGES ARE BOMBED IN ROMANIA, HUNGARY, YUGOSLAVIA

Budapest Hit In Air Attack  Bad Weather Limits Activity Over France

AMERICAN HEAVIES BOMBED NAZ! OIL, BAIL INSTALLATIONS  OBJECTIVES IN ROMANIA HUNGARY AND YUGO.

Advance in Italy Over Nazi Bodies   Americans Hit German Cities After Sky Battle  Over Germany

AMERICAN TANKS AND FRENCH TROOPS CRASH CENTER LINE; NAZI RETREAT DISORDERLY   Last Major Barrier Between Allied Armies and Rome Being Crushed and German Losses in Men And Material Heavy. Hitler Line Cracked in. Central lTtaly   GERMAN AIRBORNE INVASION SEEN AS POSSIBILITY IN BRITAIN AT TIME ALLIES CROSS CHANNEL

NAZI RETREAT (5 DISORDERLY   Yanks, French - Break Inte Last Major Barrier Be- _ fore Rome. a.   ENEMY’S LOSSES HEAVY

American Tanks Lead French in New Offensive   Heavy Bombers Are Back Following Bad Weather

UNITED NATIONS FORCE ADVANCE ON ITALO FRONT   Nazi Defense Line Under Attack on 25-Mile Front. Twin Drive Strategy Being Used

Nazis Retreat In Disorder To New Defenses   French Troops Crash Into Center Of Wall After 17 Mile Advance; Fortification Is Under Attack On 25-Mile Front

Trap Sealed On Japanese At Myitkyina   British Make Surprise Thrust Across Irrawaddy To Cut Escape

CROSSING BY CHINDITS   Most Dramatic Allied Victory In Two Years Assured

British Seal Escape Route   Chindits Block Last Japanese Road   Nazis Seek to Calm People; Say Allied Invasion Is Nowhere Near

Airborne British Unit Seals Last Escape Route For Stubborn Japanese Garrison

ANOTHER DETROIT PLANT IS CLOSED, 60,000 NOW IDL   Briggs Shuts Down One Fac: tory With Statement N. avy Refuses to Take More . of Its Output.   STRIKING FOREMEN AMONG THOSE OUT   War Labor Board Summons Leaders for Showdown as Walkout Threatens Aircraft Production,

60.000 Idle In 25 Plants in Detroit Area   Briggs Shuts Down Factory as Navy Won't Accept Its Output

DFTRAIT STRIKE TIE-UP SERIOUS   Showdown Sought By WLB Government May Seize Plants

Briggs Company Plant, Employine 10,000, Closes   Firm Says Navy Has Re fused To Accept Any More of Output

Capture of Loyang Seen   Chinese Stronghold in Honan Province Cut Off, Says Spokesman

SHOES ARE TIGHTER   Rationers Can’t Continue to Let Folks Have Two  Pairs a Year

OPA Tightens Shee Rationing  Validation Date for   Validation Date for New Stamps Postponed Until Later in Year

SCANNING ‘LOST AND FOUND! NOSEY NEWSPAPERMAN CIVEN THE RUN-AROUND

Charter Hunt Disappointing   Document: Was Never Actually Formulated

Atlantic Charter Non-Existent As Formal Document, Roosevelt Says

President Reveals Atlantic Charter Does Not Exist as Formal Document

Atlantic Charter Does Not Exist as Formal Document, President Reveals

HITS GERMANY, SATELLITES   Schweinfurt. Budapest And Osnabruck Are Among Targets

Tremendous Salvoes Heard In London  seesnae ott,  PLANES FILL SKY,  Many French Targets Blasted

Soviet Offensive Cracks Hungary's Border Defenses   Hungarians Urged to Capitulate Before it Is Too Late

RUSSIANS. URGE HUNGARIANS 10 SURRENDER OR MEET CATASTROPHE; BATTLE FOR RIGA NEARING END

Leaflets Are Dropped Upon Axis Nation   Russian Offensive Cracks 90-Mile Stretch On Frontier

q a ciara  URGE HUNGARY TO QUIT WAR   Russians Tighten Pincers Drive Against Last Axis Satellite

APROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN OPENED BY THE RUSSIANS   Hungary Is Urged to Surrender; Leaflets Dropped Over the Line.   IS LAST BALKAN STATE   Broadcast Informed Hungarians It Is Not Too Late to Desert Hitler. +

RED PINCERS ON HUNGARY TIGHTENING   Sovict Propaganda Urges Surrender Of Vassal State

Russians Tell Hungary to Quit Germans   Leaflets Urge Army to Surrender as Soviet Forces Crack 90-Mile Line’ on Czech-Polish Frontier

SOVIETS TIGHTEN HOLD ON LAST BALKAN STATE   Russian Troops Crack Oper Czech-Polish Border Fortifications

NATION (S URGED TO SURRENDER   90 Miles Of Defenses Cracked; Soviets Seize Key City

Soviets Urge Hungary to Desert Nazis   Russians Make Gain: On All Sides In Balkan Fighting

Reds Urge Hungarians To Surrender   Soviet Troops Tighten Pincers Against Last Balkan State

Russian Troops Tighten Pincers Around Hungary   Campaign Opens To Force Balkan State to Knees

Russians Urge ‘Hungary te Surr-cder in Propaganda Campai;’; Tighten Pincers

Reds Urging Hungarians ‘To Capitulate   Leaflets Dropped Over Lines Calling For Troops te Quit

Reds Campaign For Surrender By Hungarians   Tighten Pincers Offensive Against Hlitler’s Last Big Balkan Vassal State

RUSSIA 5 URGING HUNGARY SURRENDER AS BEST WAY OUT   COMBINED RUSSIANCZECHOSLOVAK FORCES EXTENDING ADVANCES

Reds Urge Hungary To Quit   Declare Balkan State Must Seek Peace Or Meet Catastrophe As Armies Thrust Closer

RUSSIANS CALL ON HUNGARY 10 CAST OFF NAZIS   Leaflets Dropped Over -Front Lines Urge  - Troops to Surrender ©

Red Propaganda Campaign Urges Hungary's Surrender  Reuccian Offensive Cracke 90.mile

Soviet Leaflets Urge Hungarians To Abandon War   . Powerful Military And Propaganda Drive Launched Aganst Hitler’s Last Vassal

Hungarians Urged ‘To Surrender as Pincers Tightened  Beds Crack 90-Mile Streich of Frontier. Extend Freat Alene Czeche-Slevakia

Soviet Pincers Putting Squeeze On Hungarians  Reds Break 90-Mile Stretch Of Frontier  Fortifications; Call - ba. TT. 2... !

Red Advances Close Pincers Around Hungary   Leaflets Dropped From Air Encourage Magyar: To Surrender.

Pressure Put On Hungary   Soviet Troops Tighten Pincer Before Opening Propaganda for Surrender

Red Pincers - Tightens On  Hungarians   Russians Open Up With Propaganda Campaign To Hurry Surrender

Russians Urging Hungary to Quit   Leaflets Point to Case of Romania

RUSSIANS PINCH IN ON HUNGARY; URGE SURRENDER   RED OFFENSIVE CRACKS 90-MILE BORDER DEFENSE

SOVIETS CALL ON HUNGARY T0 QUIT   Open Propaganda Campaign As Pincers Tightens

Soviets Urge Hungarians tc Desert Hitler   Leaflets Dropped Tell Maygars It Is Not Too Late to Save Selves

Hungary Urged To Surrende:   Warning Given As Rec Army Extends Hold

SOVIETS URGE HUNGARIANS TO GIVE UP   Drop Leaflets to Troops as Red Armies Tighten Pincers on Hitler’s Last Big Balkan Vassal  ' Otatea ;

Folic Acid Extracted From Liver Source Of New Essential Vitamins

NEED 400 CORO FOR BLOOD BANG.   Cards Begin to Come in for Red Cross Visit March 28, 29.

NEED 400 OGKORS FOR BLOOD BANG °   Cards Begin’ to Come -in for Red Cross Visit March 28. 29:

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Growing Fury of Allied Assault Troops Is Shown by Burned Out Tiger Tanks, Wrecked Self-Propelled Guns Abandoned

Oft-Vaunted Hitler Line Is Smashed By SwiftGains   1,750 Enemy Vehicles Damaged: More Than 12,000 Prisoners Taken; Niel [tare Ueed laces

Offensive Growing In Fury   Armored Infantry Mov ing Toward Velletri— 18 Miles From Rome

Allied Assault Force Converging on Rome   Troops Race Ahead in Wide Are; Germans Admit Retreats ‘Forced’

New Gains Are Made As Fury Of Fighting In  Italy Increases   Allied Forces Rolling Back Germans In Swift New , Advances Toward Eternal City; Shambles Of Mant Tinfaat Met dant

Yanks Fan Out Beyond Highway   Steady Progress Made Against Spotty Resistance

Americans Moving Toward Vellatri As Foe Defenses Crumble Throughout Italy

One Out Of Every 41 Ameri cans Now Are Prying Into Private Affairs Of Others, Governor Martin Tells State G. O. P. Committee

O’DANIEL URGES DEFEAT OF FOR   Texen Predicts ‘Thorough Housecleaning’ in Congress and White House.

O'Daniel Calls For FDR Defeat   Says Thorough House Cleaning Needed in Capital

Ranger Is Ghost Ship On Nazis Records, But She's Dealing Them Plenty Of Misery

Ranger Is Ghost Ship fo Germans   Report It Sunk To Their Sorrow

Two Other Vessels in the Convoy Are Set Afire  BLOWS ON ENEMY BASES CONTINUED  Japs Lose 17 Fighters in Attack on American Base

Four Hit At Kavieng And 18 Planes Down  eo . gee wes sew wee ewe

Japanese Carge Ship Sunk; 18 Planes Bagged   Enemy Positions East Of Arawe Bombed; Rabaul Raided Again

JAP CARGO SHIP SUNK, 2 DAMAGED OFF NEW IRELAND   Naval Catalinas Blast Enemy Convoy—Encounter Stiff Anti-Aircraft Fire but : None Is Hit.   18 NIPPONESE PLANES DOWNED.OVER SAIDOR   P-40 Fighters Intercept Attack on American Invasion Area on the New Guinea Coast.

Germans Admit Allied Gains In Ground Fighting   Berlin Radio Claims   Heavy Casualties -Inflicted On Reserves

WPB Signals Action In Peaceful Work By Releasing Metal   Control Loosed on Aluminum And Permission Given to  Request Change-Over Tools

Step Toward Conversion Is Permitted   WPB Relaxes Its Controls On Alorminen:

felson Signals tart of Orderly ‘econversion  Lifts Aluminum — Curbs, Okehs Work  On Post-War Medals

NELOON EAato WPE CONTROL ON ALUMINUN   Also Enables Planis to Get Postwar Work Tools During Wartime.

HALF OF JAP BURMA ARMY CASUALTIES   Indian Divisions Mop Up in West. ern Burma, Part of Enemy Force Retreats South

4,500 JAP CASUALTIES IN BURMA      Over Half Of Force Killed Or Wounded By Allied Troops

Allied Troops Have Killed Or Wounded 4,500 Nips In Burma War Since Feb. 4

Mountbatter Routs West Burma Jap:   Saves Two Divisions Of Indian Troops From Capture

Mystery Flash!   Noisy, Brilliant Phenomenon Puzzles Residents (4 Indiana.

Brilliant Flash  Baffles Hoosiers   Phenomenon Thought To Be Huge Meteor Arouses Interest

Sky Phenomenon Which May Have Been Huge Meteor, Puzzles Hoosiers

Hoosiers Baffled — By Whatsit   Meteor or Something Brings Deluge of Questions and Reports From Far and Wide

Indiana, Illinois Residents Puzzled by Odd Phenomenon   Strange Object Seen  Hurtling Through Hoosier Sky Today

Solons to Tackle Peacetime Military Training Question After Election

American Forces On Morotai Island Continuing Their Consolidation Of Positions

PEACE OVERTURE MADE TO SCOBIE   E.L. A. S. SHELLS HIT BRITISH HEADQUARTERS

Soviets Racing Across essarabia In Drive To Reach Rumania Proper

Two Red Armies Are Now Racing Across Bessarabia.  15 MILES FROM  THE PRUT RIVER Wave of Confusion Between Hungarian Soldiers in Jugoslavia.

RUSSIAN TROOPS ONLY 15 MILES FROM PRUT RIVER   Marshal Konev’s Second Ukraine Army Swetps  Across Bessarabia.

25 Republican State Executives Confer With Party Nominee   Busy Two-Day Program is Mapped Out by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey

Thomas Dewey At Conference  Of Governors   Republican Nominees To Lead Discussion Of Fifteen-Point Program Recently Announced ~

Gov. Dewey Greeted By 25 Republican Governors ‘At St.Louis Conference

DEWEY IN ST. LOULS   To Have Two-Day Conference With 25 Republi can Governors °

Dewey ‘In St. Louis To Confer With Governor S   Republican Presidential. Nominee Is Greeted By ‘Crowd As Train Backs Into Station; Arrival Is Sienal For Session Opening

G.0.P. GOVERNORS OPEN CONFERENCE   DEWEY IN ST. LOUIS FOR 2-DAY MEETING WITH 26 STATE HEADS

Airmen Cook Up Large Batches of Destruction For Japs In the Pacific

Outline Plans For Reconversion   Krug and McNutt Give Plans For  Civilian Production.

Top Administrators Quiline Plan to Conver! Segment of Industry to Civilian Production

Girl Breaks Eqa On Flynn's Head   Movie Star Figures In Hollyood Fracas

“One Of Our Planes Failed To Return,’ Adopts A Never-To-Be-Forgotten Sight

Lincoln Officer Co-Pilot In Lead Plane On Maleolap Raid  _ pusidinas. Shipping Among Jap Targets Hit

HAS SMALL MARGIN OVER COURTNEY   Comes From Behind on Strength of Downstate Vote

POWER DRIVE ON LENINGRAD FRONT OPENED   White Russian Offensive by Reds Has Pinsk as Next Goal in Pushing Germans Back

Reds Start New Drive  In North   Lengingrad Front Breaks Into Flame Germans Say; Mozyr Captured

RED ARMORED SHOCK TROOPS SETTING TRAP   Soviets Fanning Out   In Effort to Encircle Thousands of Hitlerites.   BULLETIN

RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT   Gains Made In White Russia And Ukraine

LONG-WAITED SOVIET OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED THERE, LONDON SAYS   — German Report That Red Army Has Opened Powerful Drive; Pripet Trap Clos ing On Nazis

Launch Heavy Attacks, Berlin Says; Russians Continue Pripet Gains

Would Wipe Out Salient In Nazi Line   Sets in Motion Entire Rus sian Front From Finland  to Crimea

NAZIS REPORT NEW RED DRIVE AT LENINGRAD   Whole Russian Front Blazes

DNIEPER BEND IS HELD LOST FOR GERMANS   Soviet Troops Now Using Horses to Overcome Mud In Ukraine Offensive

Senate Shunts Aside 6 Aides To Stettinius   Turns to Debate Surplus Property Board Nominees Amid Talk of « ' Filibuster . °°

Vote On Cabinet Aides s Held Up   Tolk OF Filibuster  Heard In Senate

Nominations  Sidetracked   Pepper Sees State Dept Nominations Returned  To F. D. R.

Key State Deparment Nominations ‘Sidetracked by Senate Proposals

Browder Urges 4th Term for Man Who ~— "Sorung’” Him From U. 5. Penitentiary   EX-CONVICET SAYS DEWEY ELECTION WOULD. OFFENL RUSSIA—START LYRE War HERT.

18-MILE PUSH BY AMERICANS ON WEST WALL   Six German Divisions Virtually Destroyed With Interior of France Now Menaced

Granville, Big Seaport, Falls To Allied Units   Six Nazi Divisions Reported Decimated In Headlong Assault 

Nazi Left Wing Cracks: Retreat Turns Into Rout   British Also Gain, Approach Junction With U. S. Forces

SHRED 6 NAZI DIVISIONS IN SWIFT DRIVE   British Gain Near Caumont

Port of Granville Captured   Doughboys Cross See River, Storm Into Avranches

War Department Favors Universal Training Purely for War Purposes

MILITARY TRAINING AIM OF DEPARTMENT   s Army Would Train For Comba And Not Along Lines Favored By Roosevelt

Hitler Mystery Growing Deeper   Do Or Die’ Proclamation Of Long-Silent Fuehrer R By Himmler; Inner Enemies Admitted

Nazis Unable To Stamp Out Internal Opposition In Reich   Himmier Ie “Second” Bitlar

HIMMLER SPEECH DEEPENS MYSTERY OF INNER REICH   “Where’s Adolf?” Is $64 Question

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  Assn eiane CaAvano Ciaht Wau In Tanatohan (hfe

ALLIES HOPE TO ELIMINATE -_ ESPIONAGE GROUPS IN EIRE   EFFORT BEING MADE TO HAVE NATION CURB ACTIVITIES OF GERMAN AND JAPANESE AGENTS

U.S, REQUESTS EIRE TO CLOSE “AXIS LEGATIONS   Menace Safety of Americar @ Troop Movements Is Claim

He Was Seeking a Way to See His Mother, 13-Year-Old Admits in Explanation of Slayinc

Boy, 13, Tells How It Feels to Be Killer   YOUTH ‘HELD, CHARGED WITH SHOTGUN DEATHS OF FOSTER PARENTS

Reds Drive Nazi Armies Back to Starting Point   Russians Advance To the Prut River

Debacle at Prut Ends Nazi Drean Of Soviet Defeat   Once 935 Miles Into Russia, Germans Back Now at Starting Point

Hundreds Dead In English Bomb  ‘Dump Explosion      Hundreds Of Cows Killed, Part Of Village Gone, ~ Rect Rubble.

Toll in Bomb Blast Heavy   Underground Dump in England Explodes; Entire Village Wiped Out

English Town Is Destroyed.   Ly ilisve Vaiishes: As. Dump. Explodes

Many Missing In Bomb Blasi   Scores of Britons Simply ‘Disappear.’

PLANS OUTLINED “FORHANDLING OF OCCUPIED LANDS   Gen. Eisenhower to Haw More Power Than Roma, Generals Under Setur “With Teeth In It.”   MOST OF EUROPE T0 BE UNDER CONTROL   Gen. de Gaulle to Contro Civil Affairs of France Diplomatic Recognition t Be Granted.

OCCUPATION OF EUROPE MAPPED      [Germany To Be Governed  By Big Three Forces

Defeated Nazis Will Be Governed By 3 Power:   Eisenhower To Have Greatest Authority O: “Any Man In History, Is Belief

Post-Armistice Rule for Germany ls Being Planned   Eisenhower Will Have Most Power Given in History

Allied Military Mandate Planned To Govern German   No Allied Military Government Intended For Post-War France

‘Big 3’ Commission ‘To Rule Over Reich   Eisenhower to Have Direct Control; France Free of Military Command

Will Set Up Joint Control Over Germany   Military Government To Be Established For Period After Defeat Of Hitler’s Forces

Tri-Power AMG Will RuleReich   Work Out Details  Of Plan to Govern Defeated .Germany; Eisenhower “Bio Boss’

Eisenhower Will Be Given Great Powers... . . Germany Faces Military Government With Teeth In It, Authority Says

“Big 3” Will Govern Germany After War      Source in Touch With Allied Armistice Proposals Says British-Russian-U. S. Re‘gime “With Teeth in It” to Rule.

A merican-British-Russian Military Commission ?lanned To Govern Germany, Control Europe

Eisenhower To Supervise Military Rule   ‘Joint Allied Government To Control Reich

America, Britain and Russia to Have Military Control After Victory, Gen. Eisenhower As Chief.

Allied Military Council Proposed To Rule Germany   Gen. Eisenhower Would Be Given Greatest Authorsty in History.   No Military Control Planned For France

Allied Military Commission Will Govern Defeated Germany   Gen. Eisenhower, Its Supreme Commander, Wil Be Given Greatest Authority, With Direct Control Over Liberated Civilian Life.

Fullest Powers To Be Allotted  To Eisenhower   Russ Army Regime for Areas Occupied by Soviets

Powerful Allied Military Government To Govern Germany After Her Defeat

GERMANY TO BE GOVERNED AFTER PEACE   Big Three Will Control Rule Of People

Eisenhower To Boss Europe For Period   Triple-Allied Military Government to Be Over Germany For Time; Supreme Authority to Gen. Ike

Joint Allied Military Regime fo Govern Defeated Germany After Hitler Is Conquered   Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to Be Invested With Powers Even Greater Than Those of Old Roman Generals in Ancient Times

 Three-Power Commission  Planned To Govern ‘Germany After Defeat

Tight Rule * of Germany  . Is Planned   Eisenhower to. Have Even More Power Than the Old Roman Generals   BIG THREE WILL GOVERN GERMANS   ge Question of Any  Sell * covernnent for Some Time After Nazis Are Defeated

Defeated Germany to Be Governed Jointly by U. S., Britain, Russia

REPORT ALLIED BOARD TO RULE DEFEATED NAZIS   Will Grant Gen. Eisenhower Powerful Authority Over Liberated Europe

DEFEATED GERMANY TO BE GOVERNED BY THREE-POWER BODY  ALLIED MILITARY GOVERNMENT WITH TEETH IN IT PROPOSED

Joint U. S., British, Soviet Commission Planned To Rule Defeated Germany After War   Eisenhower To Have Greatest Power In History: Plans Made For France

THREE-POWER RULE MAPPED FOR GERMAN]   Sweeping Powers Due For Eisenhower Under Plans For Reich’s Control

Military Rule for Reich: Government  With Teeth is Plar   Gen. Eisenhower Will Be Supreme in AMG After Victory

Beaten Germany To Be Governed By Allied Group   Government Will Have Teeth; Eisenhower Will Have Vast Authority

Americans-British-Russians Will Govern Germany By Allied Military Government

Joint Allied Government to Rule Nazis   Eisenhower Will Be Giver Greatest ‘Authority in Al History to Rule Europe

Pall  Is Planned For Reich  Joint Commissior Le oe  TT... ...   Joint Commission To Have Plenty Of Power

Defeated Germany Will Be Governed  By American-British-Russian Commission

Betty Deviney *  Becomes-Bride-, Weds Paratrooper Clyde Buehler *

Papers Defy Censor; Seized   Australian Papers Pub. lish Restricted Article Against Orders.

Miracle Surgery   Piece of Shrapnel Taken from the Heart Of American Officer

WEATHER STOPS ARMY   With Italian Operations at Standstill, Nazis Reinforce

ADVERSE WEATHER RESTRICTS ACTION   Gales and Floods Bring Op: erations to Standstill in Italy.

Bad Weather Hits Italy   Gales and Floods Stop Allies; Nazis Reinforce Defenses

RAF Deals Heaviest Blow to Berlin Fights Fiercest Battle of Campaign

73 AIRPLANES ARE LOST WITH ENEMY PUTTING UP FIGHT   Berlin Radio Says Leipzig and Weimar Were Two Other Cities Bombed, 2,800 Tons Are Unloaded.   ANCIENT TUNNELS OF CASSINO USED BY NAZIS   Underground Passages Made In 16th Century Explains Escape of Men When City Was Bombed.

MORE THAN 2,800 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON NAZ! CAPITAL BY BRITISH

Over 2,800 Tons of Bombs Fall On Nazi Capital   RAF; Rail Center of Hirson Also Hit®: Hirson Also Hit 

Twin Assault On Nazis Cost: 73 Bombers   RAF Pounds Capital With More Than 2800 Tons; Big Aerial Battle

Weddings Of Two  South Plymouth  Young Women Bainbridge-Kraft _ And Spies-Parks  Rlveretinla ('ntinakewuntasl

Weddings Of Two South Plymouth Young Women Bainbridge-Kraft _  And Spies-Parks “Nhiontiale Calehrated

BRANDY RESTORED AS LIQUOR BONUS   Rum Removed from Ration List in Ohio Now

GROUNDED SHIP IS ABANDONED   . Navy Personnel, Crew Rescued From Liberty Vessel

Three Are Sunk; ‘Two Hit Hard   First Major Enemy Force lo Venture  Out Since Leyte Defea Badly Beaten.

attleship, Heavy Cruiser Hit by  hree Destroyers Sent to Bottom, imerican Planes and Torpedo Boats

Clerks’ Strike AtMontgomery Ward Still On   Employes of Four Detroit Aréa Stores Affected By Walkout; Union Asks Help

eee aeaeaeeeQVu0u7yeeeeeeeeee eee  Ward Co. Store Employes Stage Detroit Strike

STRIKERS APPEAL FOR UNION HELP   Four Montgomery Ward Stores In Detroit Area Affected

Debris Covers Lawns   Abbey Reconstruction Possible. Savs Office

Bulgaria ls Sending Out Peace Feeler   Premier Says People Want Out Of Conflict

New Bulgarian Premier Plans Move for Peace   Says All Obstacles To People’s Will Are to Be Removed

NAZ PLIGHT BAD AS CITY IS BY-PASSED      British Evade Tilburg As Canadians Take Town

CONSIDERED AS TOP MAN   British Ask for MacArthur to Lead Attack on Japan

Roosevelt Wants Navy Man fo Lead In War on Japan   Churchill Believed To Be in Favor of Gen. MacArthur

KING OR NIMITZ TIPPED FOR TOP PACIFIC POST   F. D. Thought To Favor Navy Man For No. 1 Command

ROOSEVELT IN FAVOR OF U.S. NAVAL OFFICER   Big Chief for Pacific  Is Leading Issue of  Conference at Que  bec.

President Believed Seeking British Agreement to Naming U. S. Admiral As Allied C-in-C in Pacific War

ROOSEVELT WANTS NAVY MAN TO LEAD PACIFIC DRIVES   King Or Nimitz Are Favored For Post

Pacific Helm Lies Between Kine, Nimitz   Navy Man Desired By FDR as Britons Lean to MacArthur

TO CHOOSE COMMANDER IN PACIFIC   Roosevelt Favors Navy Man to Head Allied Forces °

King or Nimitz May Head Up Pacific Drive   Report British Favor General MacArthur

Barker Gets Recount in  DA Election   State Canvassing Board Sete Proceeding for Der. 19 at TA.

UKRAINIAN ARMY NEARS BUDAPEST   Continue Drive to Cut Off Hungarian Capital From Austrian Lines.

Red Army Armorec Column Gains In Budapest Drive  Tolbukhin’s Soldiers Drive Big Wedge Into German Defense

3rd 15 Viles  From Budapest   Russians Clear South Bank Of Lake Balaton In Drive On Austria.

ussians 15 iles From pital   Soviet Attempts To Cut City Off  * aid Austrians

AAZISFIGHT TO SANE BUDAPES   German Resistance- Tn: créases: As Reds Near Hungarian Capital

Russians Widen Grip On Drava River Front To Block German Retreat.

Heavy Armor Of Red Army Blasts Nazis   Relentless Push Against Budapest Is Stepped-Up

SOVIET TROOPS 19 MILES FROM BUDAPEST TQDA)   Big Wedge Made In Area West Cf Danube

Budapest Now Only 15 Miles:   From Russians   “Red Army Continues Sus: tained Drive to Cut Off Capital From Austrian Conmunicatious

Surge T oward Budapest   Driving Red Army Pushes to. Within 15 Miles of City; Nazi Stand Stiffens

ANOTHER SOVIET ARMY IS 15 MILES FROM BUDAPEST  DRIVE TO. CUT Or   DRIVE TO.CUT OFF HUNGARIAN CAPITAL IS NEARING CLIMAX

SOVIET FORCES TIGHTEN GRIP ON BUDAPEST   Nazi Resistance Stiffens as Reds Push Nearer Hungarian Capital

Russ Gain in Budapest Push  Third Ukraine Army Advances in Bri ye  a en ee eed

Fierce Baltle Near Budapest   Reds. Sending Heavy Arner into Big Effort to Cut OF Key City

Soviets Widen Grip Along  Dri ‘ava Rive er   Move to Prevent Escape of Nazis Into Austria

CEOSER TO BUDAPEST   Russian Ukraine Army Only 15 Miles from Hungarian City

Nazi F lank Is Pierced; Resistance Is Growing   Drive Is. Atternpt To Isolate -Gity:

LITTLE MORE THAN 15 MILES FROM CAPITAL   Wedge Pounded In Nazi's Flank West Of Danube

New Advance  On Budapest   Russians Attempt to Cut Off Capital From

Russian Army Nears Budapest  Drives To Sst Off  mnaanrinn Cant ita

Soviets Clear Lake Bank In - Austrian Push   Right Wing of the Third - Ukraine Army Only 15  Miles from Capital

Reds-Pound A Big Wedge in Nazis’ Flank   Nazi Resistance Is Increasing

Russians Closing In on Budapest   Tobulkhin Widens Drava Grip; Takes 2.000 Prisoners Daily

Red Armored Forces ‘Are Near Budapest   Right Wing of Third Ukraine Army About 15 Miles Away From Capital in Drive to Cut It Off From Austrian Communications.

Armored Right Wing, of Ukrainian 3rd- Army Slashing Forward to Cut Off the ‘Hun_garian Capital’ From © 2

Reds 15 Miles From Budapest   German Resistance Grows as Soviets  Widen Danube Wedge

EXPECT $300 AS MUSTER-OUT PAY   House Military Committee Is Putting Final Touches to Final Payment.

Reds Encircle Large Group Qf  German Troops   Soviets Advance In Far Northern Sector Of Front

Russ Crush Besiegers  Of Leningrad   Capture Novgorod, Encircle Nazis West of Old Capital

Chopping Up Big Nazi Army Caught In Northern Trap   Over 40,000 Germans Killed In Six Days Of Hard Fighting In Russian Drive; Southern Campaign Moving Further Toward Baltics.

British Report Total Of 10,056,000 Gross  =~" Pons ‘of Shipping Sunk

President of National Livestock Association Warns of Beef Shortage Next Spring That Will Leave Even Army on Restricted Rations

HOUSE VOTES CURB ON POWERS OF OPA   Amendments _ Approved Despite Prospects of Veto .

ouse Ignores eto Threats,  otes OPA Curbs   Final Ballot Delayed By Debate on Cotton; Administration Worried

CURBS ON OPA ARE VOTED BY LOWER CHAMBER   Agency’s Order May Be Challenged In Federal Courts Under Amendment   PRESIDENTIAL VETO CONSIDERED LIKELY

House Action Would Cartail OPA’s Power:   Threat of Veto Ignored; Agency’s Rulings Made Snhiect ta Canrts

Vic Mature Keeps Date With Young Mascot of Coast Guard Show Cast

3rd Army Cuts German Escape Route To 12 Miles And Wins New Bridgehead Acress Moselle River   By J. EDWARD MURRAY

Narrow Germans’ Escape Corridor To Twelve Miles   Germans Reported Evacuating Civilians From Border Strongpoint Of Saarbrucken

Guns Lashing  Nazi Columns On Exit Road   Patton’s Warriors Hold Bridgehead Sonth of Bastion

Dewey Attacks PAC, One Thouand Club in Buffalo  Roosevelt's Record Blasted As Eight Proposals Are Made

Dewey to Boston For Major Speech  Candidate Opens Up On CIO and the

Dewey Blasts ~PA€ tnd Hits  ‘Thousand Cluk   Heads For ‘Boston ‘Tonight Afier Major Address At Buffalo; Assails New Deal Record

Dewey Offers Eight Point Program For An Administration   Broadcast Address Tonight Expected to Assail C1OPAC, Thousand Club

Dewey Speaks at Boston Tonight   Expected to Attack PAC and One Thousand Club in Talk

NEW DEAL CAN'T FIND JOBS FOR VETS, IS CLAIM   Dewey Asserts Administration Doesn't Have 'Understanding’ of Problem

Dewey Charges Administration en Ability To Create Work * For Returning Veterans Of War

,8Yr. Tenure "Enough For « Excutive,  Says Dewey   Tonight at 9:50 over NBCU and MBS, Gov, Thomas ¥. Dewey, will speak from Boston.

Dewey Shouts — “Worthless’ ai FDR Promises   Makes That Reply to the President’s Talk on Jobs in Post-War Era   GOES TO BOSTON FOR TALK TONIGHYT   Scheduled to Discuss C.1.0. Political Activity and the One Thousand Club

DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN SEVENTH ARMY FIRST GOAL OF ALLIED INVADERS IN BATTLE OF FRANCE   To Outflank Strong German Forces Along English Channel to the North and Get Robot Bomb Strongholds Is Second

THE  WAR’ TODAY   Allied Stsategy Held ‘To Be Destruction Of German 7th Army, and to Gutflank Eneny Along Channel

Destruction Of 7th Nazi Army In The Making-— —Hy Dewitt Mackenz!  Allied Plan Is To Outflank Channel Coast

Paris Rated Second Goal   Clearing of Channel Coast Most Important

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF Associated Preas War Analvat

Vichy May Yield All To Germans   Diplomatic: Reports Indicate France Soon Will Become ’ Full-Fledged Puppet   SERIES OF TALKS _ STILL GOING ON   Propaganda Ministry May Already Be in Hands Of the Germans

Guns, Tanks Ready for Push   U. S. Equipment Equal or Better Than Enemy's, Sayler Reports; Germany Expects Landing in Denmark, Shortcut to Berlin

Nazis Expect One Landing InDenmark  New Weapons for Invasion Units

New Weapons Promised For Invasion   War of Nerves Against Germany  Goes On

Yanks Promised New Invasion Weapons Germans Expect Landing in Denmark

CLOSE ROAD TO BERLIN   Nazis Call Allied Atten - tion To This And Say One Invasion Army To Enter That Way.

New Type Weapons For Smash Into Axis Europe   Never Before Tried In Combat;  Germans Expect Landing In Denmark

ARMY TO USE NEW WEAPONS   Include Many Types Never Before Used in Combat

U.S. Invasion Forces Are Told They  Will Smash Into Axis Europe With New Type Weapons Better Than Nazi

BEST EQUIPMENT MILITARY SCIENCE HAS EVER MADE   Germans In for Surprises When Their “Fortress” Is Attacked.

German Military Experts Predict Invasion Will Be May 25th  NEW TYPE WEAPONS NEVER USED BEFORE  Have Been Thoroughly Tested At Proving Grounds In U.S.

SECRET TYP Eo BEING TESTED FOR Bl PUSt   Meanwhile Germans Predict Allied Landings Planned for Denmark,

Weapons Sent to Enoland   Berlin Believes Denmark Will Be Invasion Point

NEW WEAPONS HINTED READY FOR INVASION   Nazi Chiefs Expect Allied Landings In Denmark As Well As France

Nazis Fear ‘Assault Via Dane Coast   Goebbels Admits Loss of Stir enguh dn Aerial Coitibat

Yanks to Use New Guns In Invasion   Nazis Expect at Least One Force to Iry Denmark Landing   Send New Traone

U. S. Invasion Army Equipped With Secret Weapons Never Tried in War

Polish Troops in Italy Wipe Out Nazi Post   hill Allin n Pillbox; Anzio - Patrol Blasts Big Ger: man Dump

Polish Troops Battle Germans   Wipe Out Occupants Of Large Enemy Pill Box On Italian Front

Another Chinese Stronghold Lost   Japs Advance on Vital Rail Junction

CHINESE THINK HENGSHAN LOST   Japs Advance Rapidly Down Vital Railroad

Enemy Replaces 35,000 Troops Killed, Captured Or Wounded  DO-OR-DIE ATTEMPT TO STOP INVASION  very Enemy Transport Loaded With Reinforcement Troops

AFL CHIEF SEES PROSPEROUS ERA   Greatest Deoys for Working Man and Mgnagement To Follow the War

Millions Of Workers Stay On Jobs Labor Day To Suppor! War Effort

Workers Stay On Job fo Back Fighting Men   Working Men ‘and Women Hear Praises ’ Sounded for Their Production Efforts

HIT SPHERES OF INFLUENCE   State Department Hearings Continue but U.S. Does Not Favor British, Russian Plans

Group Passes > Nominations   Hold Up Final Action On Archibald MacLeish For Absent Senators.

‘Connally Asks Action On Aide  ‘For Stettinius   ‘Other Senators, However, Demand More Information On State Department Appointees

SENATORS OKAY 3 NGMINATIONS   One Action On New Assistants For Stettinius is Held Up Today

Enemy Vessels Retire on ~ Finding U. S. Fighting .. Power Intact   “BIG VICTORY” A FAKE   Slugging of Formosa, Phil ippines and Other Points Goes On

Taft, Bender Re-elected: Ohio Goes for Dewey   Ferguson, Nye, Ebright, Hummel And Jenkins Win

VOTE MARGIN FOR LAUSCHE  NOW 107,000      StK REPUBLICANS AND THREE DEMOCRATS WINNERS IN CONTESTS FOR STATE  OFFICES :

JAPS KILLED AT 1,800 DAY RATE   Americans On Leyte Press On To Enemy’s Last Escape Port

Trap Closes On Japs In Leyte Corridor As Yanks Make Junction   Last Tiny Enemy Port Is Menaced As Troops Cut Road From Ormoc Corridor To Palompon; Airdrome On Mindoro Completed In 5 Days

Yanks Drive Nips Toward Sea On Leyte Island   ‘Single’ B-29 Drops Fire Bombs On Nippon Capital

Japs Attempting To Cut Way to Escape Seaport   1,546 Enemy Dead Counted by Yanks

JAP ESCAPE PORT ON LEYTE SHELLED   NIPPONESE FLEE TOWARD PALOMPON AFTER DEFEAT IN ORMOC CORRIDOR.

YANK PINCERS SNAPPED SHUT ON JAPANESE   Climaxes Laborious Fight Along The  Ormoc Sector

U. 5. PINCERS CLOSED SHUT ON JAPANESE   American 10th and 24th Army Corps Succeed In Leyte Juncture

YANK FLIERS USE NEW FIELD ON MINDORO ISLE   U. S. Forces Join on Leyte Island, Close Vise on Japanese Forces

Count 1,800 Jap Dead Daily on Leyte Island   Garrison Remnants ‘Are Being Chased Toward Palompson; Monu-Uo ic aRnid

SAIPANBASE FORTS POUNCE — ON NAGOYA AS PLANES START OPERATING FROM NEW FIELDS

Yanks Relentlessly Slaughtering Japs   Nipponese Losses Estimated 1,800 a Day as U.S. Forces Push Determinedlvy to Palomnon

Mindoro Air Dori In Use   York: Aiy Forces. Down Enemy Planes, Raid. Enemy Fields on Nearby [slends   Many Japs Trapped   Slaughter of Nips Pocketed On Leyte Gees On By  American Lend Forces

Japs Die  At Rate of 1,800 a Day   Yanks Chase Foe Swiftly Toward Last Escape Port On Leyte Island

Yanks Gain Three Miles   Push West of Corridor Toward Japanese Escape Port of  Palompon __

Offensive Is Now Materiel Battle      B-29’S BATTERING NIPLAND EVERY DAY

100 Superforts Pound Nagoya Aircraft Plant   Yanks Mop Up On Leyte, Japs Retreat in China

Force of 100 B-29’s Blasts Nagoya Plant   U. S. Fighters Take Off From Mindoro; Divi. sions Mert on Leyte

YANKS ON LEYTE MERCILESSLY PURSUING JAPS   Battered - Enemy Remnants Fleeing Toward Palompon, Last Fair Port on Island— Count Nip Dead at Rate of 1.8005 a Dav

YANKS SHELL NIP PORT ON WEST LEYTE   77th Division Push Nears Palompon  Harbor

Americans Meel In North Leyte  Planes Using Bases Set Up On Mindoro

U. S. Ground Troops Close Nutcracke On Shattered Yamashita Line: 11,327 Japs Slain in 7 Days

B-29s Batter Nagoya Plane Plants Again   Meanwhile, U. S. Fighters Begin Using New Mindoro Airfields.

b-23s Hit Nagoya: Yanks Close in On Japs at Leyte  , Yanks Use Mindoro   , Yanks Use Mindoro Airfields to Bomb Philippines

Plants InNagoya Hit Fourth Time In Single Week   U. S. Fighters Use Airport Only Half Hour From Manila To Down Japs

YANKS CLOSE PINCERS ON “LEYTE JAPS   > Two Army Corps Reach  Juncture to Block. Nip  . Escape to the Port of  Palompon— Airfield in Use on Mindoro Isle.

U.S. Superforts Smash at Nagoya  i Fourth B-29 Raid of  Week Against Nippons

2.032 More Jay  Dead in Levte Island Battle   Knemy Air Bases At Iwo Jima Raided Tuesday

LARGE FORCE OF SUPERFORTS HIT JAP WAR PLANTS   Operating From Newly Erected Mindoro Field

YANKS ADVANGE ON LEYTE ISLE   Chase Japs Whose Aban‘doned Dead Number 1,800 Every Day.

TTTH DIVISION IN ADVANGE ON PORT OF ESCAPE   Palompon Under Artillery  Fire; Jap Remnants In Flight   1,546 ENEMY DEAD COUNTED THURSDAY

Yanks Killing 1800 Japanese A Day on Leyte   Pressing Mercilessly Against Enemy Retreating Toward Palompon; Artillery Fire Murderous

b-29'S BLAST NOcOYA PLANTS      Fighters Use Mindoro AirStrips; Fighting On Levte Near End

B-29 BOMBERS AGAIN HIT JAP NAGOYA PLANT   100 Superforts in Fourth Raid; Fighter Ships Now Using Mindoro Airstrips; T avte Squeeze Tightens.

‘Jap Escape Port Blasted by Yanks   Port of Palompon Cap tured as Americans Press Drive to Clear All Japs From Leyte

Yank Pincers Shut on Japs   NIPPONESE ‘TROOPS IN POCKET OF LEYTE ISLAND

LAST PORT OF ESCAPE IS SHELLED   Ground Opposition Still Lacking On Mindoro Island

JAPS BEING CUT DOWN AT ~ HIGH RATE      Enemy Losing 1,800 Men ‘A Day In Flight To Last Leyte Escape Port

Yank Pincers Close on Leyte   Pocketed Japs Being Destroyed; Yank Planes Usine Mindoro Base

LEYTE NUTCRACKER CLOSED; 100 B-29S BLAST NAGOYA FACTORIES   ~ SEVENTH-SEVENTH, FIRST CAVALRY DIVISIONS JOIN IN ORMOC VALLEY; 2032 MORE NIPS KILLED

YANK FIGHTERS OPERATE FRON MINDORO FIELD   American Troops Close Nutcracker on Broken Jap Line in Leyte

LARGE FORCE GREAT U. 5. BOMBERS HIT JAP WAR INDUSTRIES   U. S. FIGHTER PLANES NOW BASED ONLY THIRT MINUTES FROM MANILA

Yanks Destroy Pocketed Japs   Remaining Nips on Leyte Frantically Seeking to Escane

Japanese Retreat Toward Last Port   American Infantrymen Are Chasing Enemy Troops on Leyte   NO GROUND OPPOSITION   Nips Continue Their Air Attacks on Invaded Mindoro Island

100 Superforts Stage Attack On Jap Mainlanc   Fighter Planes Operate From New Base Half Hour From Manila

japs Use 150 lanes To top Supers   British Troops Capture Town In Northern Burma

“Count 1,800 Jap _Dead Daily on "Leyte Island.   Garrison Remnaniz Are Being Chased Toward Palompson; Mop-Up Is aRpid

Leyte Trap Shut.   Pocketed Jap Troops Being Wiped Out; Aircraft Into Action from New Mindoro Drome

YANK  PINCERS CLOSE ON JAP   Pocketed Enemy. on Leyte Being . Destroyed; Advance on Mindoro.

AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE ON LEVTE   77th Infantry Division Drives Toward Po—_.  Jampanl le

PLANTS HIT BY YANK RAIDERS   Leyte Nutcracker Being Closed; New Airfields Used , On Mindoro

Yanks Chasing Foe on Leyte  Abandoned Dead Counted at Rate of 1 200 « Dew

B-29’s Bomb Nagoya Plane ‘Plant Again   Yank Planes: Use New Airfields Built on Mindoro Island

AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE ON LEYTE   77th = Infantry Division Drives Toward Po. feampnon ssw

LAST FLIGHT PORT FOR * JAPS ON LEYTE UNDER FIRE OF U. S. BIG GUNS   "77th Division Advances Three Miles West O: Ormoc Corridor; Japanese Planes Continue Raids On Mindoro

Yank Pincers  Snap Shut on  Leyte Japanese Peckeled Mipponese Troey   Peckeied Mipponese Treeps Being Destreyed While U. S. Planes Use Mindere Airfield

Yanks Shelling Last Jap-Held Port on Leyte   Tih Division Advanee:  3 More Miles Down Ormoe Corridur

Superforts Bomb Nagoya Plants Again As Yanks Pinch Shattered Yamashita Line

Shells Batter ‘Leyte Japs’ Escape Port   Americans Killing Opponents at Rate OF 1200 a Dav

Nagoya Targel Of Superforts  From Saipan   Planes in Philippines Take Off From Newly Built Mindoro Fields Half Hour from Manila

U. 5. AIRPORT: ON MINDORO ARE IN USE   Nutcracker Closed On Jap Lines On Leyte   B-29'S STRIKING   From Bases In Saipan And China; Continue Raids On Iwo Island

B-29s over Nagoya Aircraft Plants ©   Remnants of Jap Force on Leyte Seek-in Vain-to Quit Trap

KILL 1500 JAPS DAILY ON LEYTE   ENEMY RETREATING TOWARD PALOMPON,  AST ESCAPE PORT

U.S. Forces Get Nearer To Palompon   Jap Escape Port on Leyte Island Under American Fire

Leyte Yanks Shell Last Jap Center   77th Division 3 Miles Beyond Ormoc Corridor

TTTH =MAKES ADVANCE ON LEYTE WSLAN   NAGOYA GETS 771 NEW BLASTS AD FROM SAIPAN LE)

ACROSS LEYTE THRU IAP DEAD   Enemy Death Toll Reaches 1,800 Per Day As Drive Nears End

Japanese On Leyte Doomed; American Planes Using New  Airbase On Mindoro Island   Pincers Snapped On Hapless Japs On Northwest Leyte

Yankees Shell Fleeing Japs  Enemy Leaving 1,800 Dead Daily Behind

MINDORO AIR FIELDS NOW IN U.S, USE   Superforts Have Made Four Strikes This Week Against War Industry in Japland

Juncture Is Made by Two Army Corps  New Mindoro Air  Race le In Use

Yanks Advance Toward Jap Escape Port   Nipponese Remnants Are Trying to Cut Wary to Palompon

Aircraft Plants in Nagoya Targets of Forts From Saipan      MacArthur's Men Close Nutcracker on Japs on Leyte Island

- SNOW IN CARPATHIANS   First Fall in Mountains Where Russians Fight

Six Nip Ships Are Sunk or Damaged   MacArthur Reports the Attacks Are ‘Continuing’

Japan Convoy ls Cornered   Allied Planes Score Victories Over Ships

Ploughs Into Idle Passenger   Story Of Crash In Texas Snowstorm Guarded By Army And Villagers.

Want Service  AtHighfield   Hearing Set For Those Who Protested W. M. Discontinuance.

United States Saved From Inflation by FDR, According to Hannegan

Democratic Leader  Praises President  New Head Takes Crac! At GOP

Allies Drive Back Japs Or  Burma Front   Put On Pressure In Jungle Push

Reclamationists Open Annual  Meet in Denver Group to Indorse  Amendments to Riwcare Markarc Ri!)

Expect Meeting To Seek Priority For Irrigation   ‘Both East and West Oppose President's Authorities Plan

SOUTH HAVEN MAYOR F LOPS   Repudiates Endorsement of Foley As ‘Bad Mistake’

SOUTH HAVEN’S MAYOR IS NOW FOR HOFFMAN   Steve Visser, Who Last Week Declared For Foley, Changes Mind

Cannon Is Chosen Air Force Leader  Gives Tactical’ Support To Armies

RELLY OPPOSES SPU IN SALES TAX FUNDS IN SPECIAL MESSAGE   Legislature Convenes For Session Under Cold Gaze of Grand Jury   WANTS SHORT SESSION

GOVERNOR ASKS FURTHER STUDY OF TAX SETUP   Special Session Convenes To Consider New Proposals

NIP COLONEL OUTLINES “VICTORY” STRATEGY   NOGAI SAYS DECISIVE BATTLE TO BE FOUGHT ON ARC FROM PHILIPPINES TO JAP HOMELAND   U.S. AIRMEN DEAL NEW SOFTENING BLOWS TO HALMAHERA, KURILES   RAIDS PREPARATORY TO NEW SMASHES HIT JAPS' 3500-MILE ISLAND BARRIER, EIGHT SHIPS DESTROYED

REPORT FINNS . HAVE PROMISE > OF NAZI HELP   SINNISH CABINET 18 REPORTED 1TO HAVE’ DECIDED TO CON- ° TINUE IN THE WAR =

OF RIBBENTROP   Finn Cabinet Renews Its Declaration of Loyalty to Nazis

GERMAN DISASTER IN WESTERN: EUROPE GREW STILL NEARER IN WEEKEND ACTIVITIES OF ATTIFS

‘THE  WAR TODAY   With Paris Virtually Flanked, Germans Are In Nasty Predicament; Wholesale Nazi Withdrawal Presaged

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Crossing Of Seine River Trap s Nazis   Battered German Army Hemmed In By Planes, Troops, Analyst Says

Allied Task Force Lashes Jap Posts In North Sumatra   Carrier-Based Planes Strike At Fields, Other Installations At Sabang; Battleships Join Fight

Lhonga Also Hit in Raids On Sumatra.   Second Allied Attack  On Dutch East Indies  Since Taken by Japs x) DI ANTS CIUIACOEN

JAP BASES ON SUMATRA HIT “IN AIR RAIDS   Carrier Borne Allied Air' " craft Blast Enemy __ Pocifions .   MANY BOMBS FALL. DURING THE RAIDS   At Least. 22. Nipponese ‘Planes Destroyed on ‘Ground

DESTROYING 22 PLANES ON GROUND, SHIPPING AND OTHER INSTALLATIONS IN DUTCH EAST INDIES; CARRIERS PROTECTED BY STRONG FLEET.

olARRIER PLANES ATTACK SUMATRA   ~ Blast Japanese Airfields, In: Stallations, Shipping   POWERFUL ESCORT   Allied Task Force Suffers No Damage; Enemy Taken By Surprise, Declared

Carrier Planes Attack Japan’s  Sumatra Bases   Many Fierce Fires Left Burning While 22 Planes Destroyed: Two Nip Ships Hit

U. S., Britain, Russia Still Not Together On  ‘Nazi Occupation Control

Russia Balks At Post-War Control   U. S., Britain Agree On Peace Rule

Soviet Acquiescence Sought on Plan For Control of Conquered Germany

U. S., Britain Plan Control Of Nazi Land   Fail To Secure Reds’ Approval

U. S., BRITISH HAVE NOT AGREED WITH REDS ON PRAGRAM      Occupation of German Areas Sull Major Problem for Allied Nations

Occupation Problems  Knotty   ‘Full Agreement With ' Russia on Occoupation Of Enemy Countries Is Not Yet Reached

Assault Forees Break Through  \azi Defenses   Aerial Offensive Supports First of Grand Assaults on Hitler's Europe

FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUING IN LATEST OFFENSE   Mighty Air Armadas from England Keep Up Blasting Of Europe Invasion Area

Naval, Air Power Support Big, New Ground Assauits      Thousands Of Bombers Blast Western Europe

GERMANY HARD RIT ON EVERY BATTLE FRONT   Great Battles In Italy Hurting Hitler’s Army

—AMERICAN PUBLISHERS—  Freedom Of Press  Assured   . . »« NEWSPAPER PRESTIGE MOUNTS UNDER WARTIME REPORTING

DEWEY HAS FEWER  BONDS, POLITICALLY,  THAN ANY CANDIDATE IN MODERN HISTORY

f Elected, Dewey Will Have! Fewer Political Obligations Than Any President In} History

Norway Revolf Believed Near   Thousands Imprisoned By German Gestapo

Conditions in Norway Near An Explosion   Nazis, Fearing Revolt, Stage Greater Reign of Terror in Norse Nation

Conditions In .Norway Close To Explosion   Germans Are Attempting To Smash Home Front Organization Through Increased Terror

NORWAY CONDITIONS EAST APPROACHING EXPLOSION POINT  NAZIS, FEARING REVOLT ATTEMPT SMASH HOME

Conditions in Norway Fast Nearing Explosion; Germans Fearing Revol:

Conditions In Norway Near An Explosion   Revolt Feared As Germans Move To Smash Forces

. . Nazis Facing Serious Revolt By Norwegians   Enemy Using Increased Terror to Keep Home _Front Under Control;  Many Arresis Made

EXPLOSION IN NORWAY NEAR   Nazis Increase Terror For Fear Revolt Will Break Out Among Norwegian People

Norway Seethes With Revolt, Explosion Near  1000 Hostages Wald Bu Rlaewiee   1000 Hostages Held By Nazis; Many Are Slain

ALLIES WON'T DEAL WITH HITLER   Only German High Command and Gen. Eisenhower Can Come to Terms, Says British Precs.

THREE FACTORS IN FOR DECISION   Friends Expect No Word on Fourth Term Till Mid-July

Roosevelt Weighs 35 Points Before. Deciding to Run for Fourth Term

‘Fifth Army Thunders North of Fallen Capital in Swift Pursuit of Broken Enemy; City Is Virtually Unscathed

POWERFUL FORCES OF FIFTH ARMY THUNDER NORTH FROM CAPITAL  CONTINUE EFFORTS TO TRAP TWO

NAZIS FLEEING NORTH OF GITY   Welcome Approaching Hysteria Showered on Allies By Italians,   ‘BOMBERS JOIN ATTACK

Fifth Army Tries To  Catch Fleeing Nazis   Yanks Cross Tiker After Capturing Eternal City—20,000 Prisoners Taken and Untold Quantities of Equipment Destroyed

Thanksgiving To Be November 23 In Most States ©   Some Commonwealths To Wait Until Week Later For Observance

\Nazi Captives Won’ t Admit Defeat \Swear Reich Will Win “Next Time”

wews OF OUR MEN~2WOMEN in UNIFORM    TREASURY DEPARTMENT Woachineton

CONCORD HIGH COMPETES AT BOSTON MEET      Local Track Stars Come in For Six Points in Scattered Entries

Bombers Hit Synthetic Oil Plants And Other Nazi Military Targets

1,000 Heavies. 1,200 Escorts Set Reeord   Hit After RAF Drops Second Heaviest Load Tn Saturday Night Raid  92 NAZIS DOWNEN

mericans Lose { Big Bombers ind 13 Fighters   Heaviest Single Day Raids of War

Yanks Shoot Down  (93 German Planes {47 U.S. Ss. Aircraft Missing;  . ro

146 KILLED IN FREAK TORNADO ON FRIDAY NIGHT   More Than 1,000 Injured In Three States, Surveys Reveal   PROPERTY DAMAGE RUNS INTO MILLIONS

Tornado Death Toll Now 146; 1,000 Injured   Property Damage Placed at Millions

WRITER URGES AMENDMENT ON PPESS FREEDOM   ‘Thinks New Constitutional An  endment Should Be Adopted To Safegnard Freedcm

Tokyo Enlarges Drive At.India;  Suicidal. Attack ‘At Bougainville

Jap Line See-Saws In India; Make Suicidal  Drive On Bougainville

YANKS AWAIT JAP ATTACKS   Enemy Fails in Suicidal Raid In Solomons; Advances In India

300 Japs Die During Attack   Enemy Forces Make Suicidal Aassaults Against Bougains ville

JAPANESE UNITS ENLARGE DRIVE TOWARD IMPHAL   Believe Nips Prepare for 2nd Suicidal Attack on Bougainville

NEW ATTACK EXPECTED AT BOUGAINVILLE   Japs, Beset on Half Dozen Fronts, Apparently Set For Suicidal Assault In Solomons   SUPPLY ROUTE CLEARED

Japs Enlarge Indian Thrust   Enemy Burma Bases Threatened; Nips Ready Suicide. Drive In Solomons.

JAPANESE CONTINUE DETERMINED DRIVE ON IMPHAL, INDIA  ’ ALSO BELIEVED PLANNING  NEW SUICIDE ATTACK AW BOVIS AINVITIE

Enemy. However, Suffers Re. verses Over Widespread Area in Pacific.

JAPS GAINING GROUND WITK INDIAN DRIVE   On Other Fronts, Japs Bow to Clean-cut Blow Delivered by Allied Land, Air Forces.

Enlarges Thrust Toward Imphal  Otherwise Tide Flows Against Japanese

JAPS ENLARGE DRIVE TOWARI INDIAN IMPHAI   Another Suicidal Attack May Be Made On Bougainville

MS EN INDIAN DRIVE   Suicidal Attack By 300 Nips On Bougainville  Wiped Out

Japs Enlarge Thrust Toward Imphal In India   Americans On Bougainville Wipe Out Enemy Suicide Attack.

FANATICAL JAPS MOWED DOWN IN SUICIDAL ATTACK   Confused Burma_ Situation Near Crisis - - Allies on Top Elsewhere in Far East

JAPS ENLARGE THEIR DRIVE INTO INDIA   Also, 5,000 . Miles Eastward, They Apparently Get Set for Another Sui ' cidal Attack on Bougainville Island.

Japs Push * Aitacks al _ Heavy Loss   Some: Progress Made in. One -of Three Drives Toward . “.-Tmphal in India ’  ‘CHINESE: AND “AND YANKS c ALSO“ADVANCE   Fierce Fighting “Continues; @Suicidal Raid in Solomons ‘Smashed:Heavy-Air Blows

Japanese Stage Suicide Attack On Bougainville   300 Wiped Out By Yank Defenders; Foe Gains In India

JAPANESE CONTINUE DETERMINED DRIVE ON IMPHAL, INDIA  ALSO BELIEVED PLANNINC NEW SUICIDE ATTACK ON BOUGAINVILLE

300 Japs Fall Before Yanks on Hill 129   Allied Planes ‘Bomb Kurile Islands Northeast of Japan Proner \

Alies Drive On Myitkyina   Japs Meet Stiff Battle Inside India; Enemy Pacific Bases Pounded

FNEM ENLARGES DRIVE INTOINGI   Nips Run Into Fierce Allied Resistance East Of Tmnhal   KURILES BOMBED.   Paramushior And Onnekotan Islands. Attacked By Yank Airmen

JAPS ENLARGE THRUST AIMED AT INDIA BASE   Allied Trecps -a! Same Time Strike Nearer Myitkyina, Main Jap Base on Burma Road   KURILES BOMBED   Jep Attacking Force, Wiped Out Qn Bougainville, Apparently Plan Other Suicide Smashes

Jap Drive Widens In India   Push Toward Rail Key North of Imphal; Allies Blast Kuriles  And Mid-Pacifiec Isles

Japanese Enlarge  Thrust Toward  Indian Stronghold   Foe Also Gets Set For a Suicidal Attack on Yanks Holding Bougainvill

STORM HOWLS FROM ROCKIES T0 ATLANTIC   Mid-Illinois Gets Snow, Ice and Sleet; Colder Here Tonight

GENERAL DENIES COP CANDIDACY   MacArthur, However, Drops Hint He May Accept lf Drafted

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC COMMAN DER, SAYS HE. HAS NOT SOUGHT NOMINATION—  SILENT ON “DRAFT" ....

Gen. MacArthur Denies Any Move For Nommation   Issues Statement To Clarify His Position In View Of Recent Letters Made Public

ILO DELEGATES DEBATE FUTURE GERMAN STATUS   Leaders Disagree As To Punishment To Be Dealt Nazis

ARGUE FATE OF GERMAN PEOPLE   LABOR DELEGATES DISCUSS TERMS OF PEACE TO GERMANY

Labor Delegates Argue Germany's War Punishment   A. F. of L Amid is Protection for German People

ILO Split On Punishment For Germany   Disagree On Whether Entire People Or Leaders Should Pay

First Wartime Presidential Pol Since 1864; Score Of States Ar Listed As Doubtful In Today’ Election; Voting Heavy   CAMPAIGN FINALLY ENDED LAST NIGH

Lines Of Voters Wait For Polls To Open In Country’s Large Cities   Poll Takers Foresee Closest Race For Presidency Since HughesWilson “Photo-Finish”

FRENCH PATRIOT REVENGE GROWS   Puppet Vichy Cabinet Shuffled; Belgian King Moved

BELGIAN MONARCH TAKEN T0 GERMANY   FRENCH GUERRILLAS IN. CREASE RESISTANCE—VICHY CABINET RESHUFFLED.

BELGIUM KING IS CAPTURED BY GERMANS   French Patriots Smash Important Communication Lines and Attack Nazis in Interior Of Invaded France

NeW PORK BORUS AWARUCD BY UPA JO EASE NARAET   Agency Also Lays Groundwork for Lower Citrus Prices

CITRUS FRUITS PRICE CUT SEEN   OPA Also Makes Stamp 3 in Book 4 Good for 5 Points of Pork

Bricker Suagests FDR State Plans   Seeks Declaration On a Fourth Term

BREMERHAVEN IS - OBJECT OF ATTACK - RY THE BpITICN   Dropped 420,000 Fire Bombs  on This German City ! Today.   BERLIN ALSO IS HIT   Attack on Bremerhaven Was Made by Powerful Force of Heavy Bombers,

Allied Warplane: Sweep Thru Skies To Shower Bombs  On German Ports   British Night Raid Is Following Up In Daylight

Bremerhaven and Reich Capital Get Record Blast   RAF Drops 420,000 Fire Bombs on Port; Yanks Lose 16 Planes By Flak.

420,000 FIRE BOMBS AIT BREMERHAVEN   Port Would Be Logical Debarkation Point for Nazi Troops in Event of a Withdrawal From  Norway.

Fire Bombs Showered On Bremerhaven   German Port Under Heavy Attack By British Planes

Allies Bomb Bremerhaven, German Port   Powerful Force of  _ Bombers Sweep Over Germany and Make Attack on Berlin

B-29°S SMASH JAP FACTORIES IN MANCHURIF   Third Attack on Enemy’s Mainland Arsenal Made by Suoechorts,

Bricker for Peace By Force Plan   Speaks to GOP  In Massachusetts

SHANGHAI OMURA, NANKING BOMBED   LARGE FORCE OF SUPERFORTRESSES TAKES PART IN 8-PRONGED, ATTACK.

B-29's Bomb Three Targets   Hit Aircraft Factory On Kyushu, Military Facilities At Nanking, Shanghai

Longe Range Planes Hit  Japan With Heavy. Load. :   China Based F lyers Bomb 3 Vital Areas

SUPER BOMBERS DEAL BLOWS AT BIG JAP BASES   Powerful Drive Brings Red Army To Within 43 Miles Of Budapest

SUPERFORTRESSES RAID NANKING AND SHANGHAI   B-29’s Also Blast Aircraft Factory On Japanese Home Island Of Kyushu n Three-Pronged Attacks

B-29's Splatter Bombs on Enemy Aircraft Center   Instruments Find Targets Hidden By Cloud Masses

Superfortresses Bomb Japanese Aircraft Center   Attacks Also Made On Enemy-Held Chinese Cities

Superforiresses Blast at Jap Homeland   Two Nip-Occupied Cities in China Also Are Battered

Secret Instruments Guide Aan nL. rile. Me. DZ7 DUIS Paimiy NAT 4  Omura, Nanking, Shangha

HOME ISLANDS OF NIPPONESE ARE BLASTEL   SUPER - FORTRESSES RIP WARPLANTS AND DOCKS

B-29’s Bomb Jap Industry In Home Isle   Iwo-Linemy Held Chinese Cities Also Blasted By Supers

USE NEW SECRET INSTRUMENTS TO LOCATE TARGETS   Omura Aircraft Center In Japan Blasted With China Shipping Centers

GIR BLOWS HINT NEW RED DRIVES 4N EAST PRUSSIA   Swift Moves Against Riga @ Three Transports, Many Barges Sunk

REDS STEPPING UP ATTACKS ON EAST PRUSSIA   Battle In Streets In Drive To Capture City Of Beigrade

REDS STEP UP EASTERN FRONT TEMPO   Launch Mass Plane Assaults Behind Nazi Lines in East Prussia

Brooklyn Greatly incensed at English ‘Writer Noel Coward's Description Of Wounded Brooklyn Gl's Overseas

FERGUSON WILL ASK AUDITOR POST AGAIN   Gives Up Plans To Make Bid For Ohio Governorship

PLAN ACTION  TO INCREASE ~ TEACHER PAY   BRICKER CALLS SPECIAL. 888_ SION TO ALLOCATE. STATE. = TREASURY FUNDS.TO  _ MEET EMERGENCY ~

U. S. Marines Gain Two Miles on Guam   Troops on Tinian Control Half of That Island

SIX KILLED IN RICHMOND HOTEL FIRE   25 Injured As Blaze Sweeps Two Floors

SIX LOSE LIVES IN HOTEL BLAZE   Guests Trapped In Their Rooms By Fire At Richmond, Va.

SIX DIED IN "HOTEL FIRE   FLAMES SWEPT .TWO FLOORS  OF FASHIONABLE RICHMOND  "HOTEL SHORTLY AFTER ~— MIDNIGHT .

Senator Among  Six Dead In Fire   Fashionable Hotel In Virginia Razed

JEFFERSON HOTEL AT RICHMOND, VA. BURNS: 6 KILLED   Twenty-five Injured As Slaze Sweeps Top Floars of Famous Hosteirv.

Six Perish When Blaze Sweeps Virginia Hotel   Fifty Hospitalized, Many Injured in Leap From Window:

Sen. Weaver, Mrs. Price Among Victims; Guests » Rescued From Windows

Virginia Fire Claims 6 Lives  At Least 25 Injured As Flames Damage Hotel In Richmond

BAKERY DRIVERS EXTEND STRIKE   City of Detroit Virtually With: out Bread

OUT OF BREAD DUE TO STRIKE   Strike of Penicillin And Blood Plasma Workers Deadlocked

Detroit Bakery Drivers Strike, City Breadless   Seven Thousand  Idle In Michigan

Strike Stops Detroit Bread   Bakery Drivers Refuse To End Strike Despite WLB Warning.

—w yy SRY ee Oe  ermans May Abandon Port To Avoid Disaster—  f2en Is Key To Seizure Of Cherbourg Dock:

Russians Gain Ten-Miles  Against Finns  All Out Attack on East Front

Russ Gain  Ten Miles   Break Finn Defenses Across the Narrow Carelian Isthmus

Russians Gain Ten-Miles Against Finns  Da ee ee ee ee oe   All Out Attack on East Front Seen by Germans

Leo Henrich And Florence Kellen  Are Wed Monday   Ceremony Takes Place At St. Mary’s Church Remsen

Leo Henrich And Florence Kellen  Are Wed Monday  Ceremony Takes Place At St. Mary’s

Mystery Blast In France Rocks Channel Towns   Terrific Explosion Is Heard On English Coast, Eman. ating In France   FORECAST HEAVIER AIR RAIDS ON REICH

FRANCE TARGET ~ OF MARAUDERS   Stimson Says Nazi Fighter Strenath Cut 23 Pct. Since January

'Polish Forces Enlarge ‘Hold on Warsaw   General Reports Situation Is Well in Hand

Russians Trap Germans In Czechoslovakia Drive Across the Carpathians

Patriot Commander Avers Only Temporary Truce to’ Permit Civilian Evacuation . From Capital

Make Big Haul © Of Liquor In Transit Here _ “Thirty-Eight Cases  . Siezed By Officers Intl a Mare

Make Big Haul Of Liquor In Transit Here  pe pe a A   Thirty-Eight Cases Siezed By Officers. In Le Mars

Unconditional Surrender, Help Against Nazis Demanded of Finns   Reports to Washington Reveal Peace Terms Offered Finland by Reds

Fleeing Japs From Yunnan   ‘Chennault Airmen Make Wide Thrusts To Yangtze River

College Trustees Of Western Union Meet This Week  Will Adopt Budget  And Consider Plans For Coming Year

College Trustees Of Western Union Meet This Week  Will Adopt Budget And Consider Plans

BRITISH TROOPS MOPPING UP IN BURMA JUNGLE   1500 Japs Out of 8,000 Force Of ficially Reported Slain, Others Withdrawing

INSISTS UPON ACTION BEFORE ENEMIES QUIT   Chief Executive Is Back at White House After Inspection in Pacific.

PRESIDENT 13 HOME FROM TOUR   Complete Seizure Of Germany, Japan Is Roosevelt’s Aim

FDR Back in White House From Pacific   Determined German, Japanese Homelands Must be Occupied

PRESIDENT HAS RETURNED FROM PACIFIC VISIT   Makes 15.000 Mile. Five-Week: Inspection Of Bastern Pacific

US. Sales Tax Again Considered   Modified Plan is Now Regarded as Likely Compromise

Modified Sales Tax Possibility As Compromise   Senate Moves Toward Final Approval of New Revenue Measure

TAX COMPROMISE LIKELY; MODIFIED SALES TAX PUSHEL   Demands Heard In Both Houses Of Congress For Such A Levy

Reaction To Breakthrough Is Awaited   When Nazis Reinforce One Part Of Front They Weaken Another

STRATEGY OF DOOMED NAZIS MAY LENGTHEN WAR, OBSERVERS SAY   LACK OF RESERVE FRONT-LINE TROOPS HITS GERMANS; WITHDRAWAL SAID BEST POLICY

American Communists Will Drop Objective Of Establishing Socialism

Eileen Wiltshire Wichser  Receives Word From  Government   PLANE BOMBARDIER

LL  OZ] SINCE NIPS STARTED WAR   Navy No Longer Lists Vessels Damaged by Submersibles

Sink 16 More Jap Merchant Ships   Subs Pressing Their Attack In Pacific

U. $. SUBS SINK SIXTEEN MORE TOJO VESSELS   ~ Underseas Craft Bag Total of 27  C cmnnnemanetl  HIT SUPPLY LINE  Ships Bound For Pacific Bases

U.S. Subs Destroy 16 Jap Vessels   Press Vigorous Attack On Enemy’s Pacific Supply Lines

Tokyo Denies Damage Great In Yank Raid  Jar Capital Hit, Starnes Declares Refore Cangreaa

Japs Name Two Targets as Hit By Super - Forts   Claim Seven Planes, Including ‘One 8-29, Shot Down in Raids ea Meii and Shimeneseki

Report Ordered Withdrawal SUPREME HEADQUARTERS  ATFIPNMN Oenrnrtinataenia

Mother, Children Burned to Death   Flames Sweep Home Near Philadelphia; Two Others Hurt

MOTHER, CHILDREN ~ BURNED TO DEATH   Flames Hit Suburban Home; Three Children Die

RAIL CENTER 9. MILES NORTH OF PARIS POUNDEI   Flying Bomb Tnstalla tions in’ Northern France Hit During  Night

REPORT NORRIS GROWING WEAK   Has Lost All Consciousness,  Physician Reveals

Se ee REE ee te MEE TE ee rier rel Seer er,  Senator Norris crowing weaker

Chrysler Co. Strike Called Off By Union   Executive Board Calls Workers Back; Pacific Northwest Lumber Industry Threatened

TB,000 IDLE IN MICHIGAN STRIKES   Eour Firms Affected By New Labor Disputes hi Detroit Area

CHRYSLER STRIKE INVOLVING 12,089 BROUGHT TO CLOSE   Sudden Cessation of Work Stoppage at the Big War Plant Ordered by Executive Board of Detroit UAW

UNION CALLS OFF STRIKE AT CHRYSLER CORP,   End Walkout Day Before Group to Probe Reason of Work Stoppage

Strike at Chrysler Detroit Plant Halted by Workers  Nearly 12,000 Had Been Idle in Defiance of WLB

UAW Calls Off Strike At Detroit      12,000 Return To War Plants

Chrysler Corp. Workers Call Off ‘Wildcat’ Strike   Executive Board of Local Acts After Thomas’ Warning—Drug Firm's Plants Idled

Union Halts 12,000 Chrysler Strikers   Local Sends Workers Back To Jobs Day Before Explanation Was To Be Given

CHRYSLER CORP, STRIKE AT END   Union Orders Workers Back To Jobs—Over 11,000 Had Been Idle

END STRIKE AT CHRYSLER   Called Off Suddenly As Union Cracks Down  On Strikers

CHAYOLER STRIKE fo CALLED OFF TODAY   Strikers Ordered Back to Work Day Before Explanation Is Due.

Detroit Strike Ends Suddenly  Nearly 12,000 Are To Return to Work  ,

Cheval: Strike. . Called: Off Today   The Walkout Caused Idieness for Nearly: 12,000 War Workers. *

‘Automobile Strike Called Off By Union Leaders   Executives Took Action Day Before Membership Was to Appear Before Leaders

Chrysler Strike Off   12,000 War Workers Ordered Back to Jobs By Union

CHRYSLER STRIKE ENDED SUDDENLY   12,000 War Workers Told To Go Back To Jobs

Strike Ends At Chrysler   Locals Executive Board Orders Men Back Before  Councils.

Chrysler Strike Over   Sudden Termination to Send 12,000 Idle War Workers to Jobs

French Troops Booked To Play  Invasion Role   May Be Led By French Officers Trained In The United States.

Consider A Plan For France   Under It, French Officers Train in U.S. for Invasion ‘and Government of Freed France

French Troops to Fight Under Own Officers   U.S. Trained Military te Lead Invasion Forces Govern Country

Consider Plan F or French Ta Lead OwnArmy   Officers ‘Trained in U. 8. May Head Invasion Into Europe and Rule Liberated Areas.

FRENCH OFFICERS TRAINED IN U. S.   EXPECTED TO LEAD FRENCH TROOPS IN ELIROPE. INVASION

INTERCESSION OF ALLIES IS ASKED BY POLES   Cabinet Would Have Unit. ed States And Britain Deal With Russia   SOLUTION OF DISPUTE OVER BOUNDARY SEEN

Poles Ask Aid In Ending Red Border Dispute   U. S., Britain Urged To Mend Relations Between Two Powers: Early Peace Seen

Poland Seeks Settlement With Russia  Ask United States and Britain to  Beemmnma Maatiuna

Poland Seeks Settlement With Russia   Ask United States _and Britain to Arrange Meetings

Polish Cabinet Asks Mediation Of Border Clash   U. S. and British Aid Sought in Settling Dispute With Russia

GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE WANTS DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES MENDED; “ENCOURAGING RESPONSE” BRITISH OFFICIALS AVER.

POLES SEEK AID ON RED PROBLEMS   Cabinet Requests U. S. and Britain to Bring Russia and Poland Together on All Qutstanding Disputes

POLAND SUGGESTS BOUNDARY TALKS   REPLY TO RUSSIA ASKS U. 8. AND BRITAIN TO SEEK CONFERENCES.

 Polish Governmeni-In-Exile Asks Great Britain, U. 8. Yo Aid In Setilement Gf Border Disnute With Russia

Poles Propose Plan To Reach  Soviet. Accore   Americans, British Asked  To Arrange Discussion  pares

U.S.-British Aid Asked By Poles   Two Nations Would Air All Problems  By JUDSON O’QUINN

POLES SEEKING ALD OF BRITISH HS. IN DISPUTE   Want Allies to Bring 7 About Negotiations * On Boarder Line

Poles Ask U. S. and Britain To Help Patch Up Boundary ‘Acreement With Russians   Conciliatory Tone of Request Indicates Willingness to Arrive at Early Settlement  And Renewal of Relations With Moscow

Ready for Discussions ~~ With Russia on Problems  Involving Two Countries

U-S.-British Aid Asked By Poles   Two Nations Would Air All Problems

British, U.S. aid asked in  Pole dispute   Earnest plea. for solidarity

Polish Gov't Asks Britain, © US. Aid In Border Dispute   'Nations Asked to Bring Poland and Russia Together : to Discuss Problems—Early Settlement Expected as Result of Latest Move

Poles Ask Allies To Help Bring Accord with Reds   Seek Settlement Of All Problems

Rural Districts Going Over War Bond Goals   Drive Leaders Warn, However, County Hasn‘t Yet Reached Half Way Mark and December Days Now Are Flitting By

Seek Change in Electing Presidents   LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO REFLECT POPULAR VOTE IS INTRODUCED

SUPPORT SEEN FOR PROPOSAL TO ALTER ELECTORAL SYSTEW   Changes Sought To Better Reflect Popular Vote Of Nation

HANDS-OFF U.S. POLICY FOR ITALY   Refuse to Interfere With Government Of Freed Area

Half Of Navy‘s Reserve Officers Want To Stay In Service After War

BOLIVIA RECENVES PECOENITION   State Department , Names Warren as New Ambassador

BOLIMA REGEN RECOGNITION   State Department Names Warren as New Ambassador

AS or ce Oe eee he, ae ee ee  W. A. Delaney, jr, Slightly Improved

JAP AIRPORT LAYS BATTERED AND [a ISELESS TODAY   In the Wake of ‘the First American Aerial Attack ~~

BASE GUARDING ~ TRUK BLASTED   Strategic Island Runaways in Carolines Battered and Useless

AIRSTRIP USED BY FIGHTERS TEMPORARILY KNOCKED OUT BY DELUGE OF* EXPLOSIVES ~~

Widespread Air Assaults Made  In Pacific Area   Vital Sea Approach To Truk _ * Is Heavily Bombed By Yanks   MANY JAP BASES TARGETS OF BOMBERS

Solomons-Based Liberator Pound Nomoi Islands In Carolines For First Time

AMERICANS PUSH ATTACK ON SAIPAN   Navy Shells Guam, Likely Object of Next Invasion

PUSH ATTACK ON SAIPAN   Navy Shells Guam, Likely Object of Next Invasion

ENEMY TROOP: BAKGES "BLASTED DURING ATTEMPT TO CUT OFF AMERICAN FORCE ON SAIPAN

‘Commando’ Kelly’s Mother Asks Roosevelt To Allow Famous Son To Come Home

4 ged Mother of “Commando” Kelly Appeals ‘to President to Grant Furlough to Hero Son

Ailing “Mom” Kelly Appeals to FDR To Grant Her Hero Son a Furlough

Yank Hero’s Mother, Blindness Near, Asks FDR To Send Son Home   Wants To See Son, Who Won Nation’s Highest Military Honor, Before Her Eyes Fail Completely: Seven In The Service.

WETS TEN YEARS FOR AIDING JAPS   WOMAN DOLL STORE OWNER SAID TO HAVE RECEIVED $60,000 FROM ENEMY.

Pacific War First Plea Is Rejected   House Chief Says Army, Navy Must Decide

Enemy Hurled Back   Patton's Troops Nob 12 Siegfried Line Pillboxes

Germany Loses 152,000 Men In Three Weeks   Equivalent Of Five Divisions Lost  Kach Week Of Allied Winter Drive.

Yanks Enter -Saarbrucken Factory Area   Cermany Suffers 152,000 Casualties In 32-Week Conflict

Third Beats Off Heaviest Attack Yet Thrown at Bridgehead; Nazis Lose 152,000 in 3 Weeks

Resistance By Nazis Mounts On All Fronts      Ninth Army Captured Big Julich Sports Stadium; Heavy Snowfall Reported; German Attacks On Saar Bridgeheads Stopped

Doughboys Win Sports Stadium in Julich Battle   Germans Casualties Mount to 152,000 in Three Week Drive

Stop 4 Nazi  Attacks on Bridgeheads   Heavy Snow Adds To Hand Fighting Along West Front

Important Line Severed   Volochisk Taken By Soviets in Drive in Ukraine.

TEMPERATURES:   Russians Sever Last Railroad Route From Besieged Enemy Base

Russians Open Gate for Push Toward Reich   Street Fight Foreshadows Speedy Fall of Polotsk  Tn Gaviat Laciana

Soviets Fight In Tarnopol’s Streets Today   Have All But Wived Out Remnants of 15 German Divisions

Russian Troops Capture Great German Bastion  Of Minsk In Heavy Drive   Red Armies Are Battling In The Streets Of Polotsk 120 Miles Northeast Of Minsk And Are Heading Toward Outskirts Of Molodeczno

FIGHTING RAGES IN STREETS OF NAZI STRONGHOLD   REDS HAVE ALL BUT WIPED OUT GERMANS IN THE SKALA POCKET

REDS CAPTURE VITAL CITY 10 ENCIRCLE FOE   Fighting in Streets of Tarnapol Reported By Red Army

Reds Take Minsk, 1150 Other Places fnoulfed By Drive   Canoral Congratulated

REDS FIGHT GERMANS IN THE STREETS   Enemy Resisting Fiercely to Guard Approaches to Lwow and Soviets Struggle for Every Foot of Ground.

Russian Forees Battle Enemy Inside Polotsk   Onrushing Reds Bag 25.658 Germans in Two Days, As Toll Shoots Higher

Sever Last Rail Link To Odessa   Main Retreat Route From Big Base Cut By Soviet Capture Of Vital Junctian

Soviet Force Fights Nazis In Tarnopol   Near Destruction Of 15 German Divisions Trapped In Pocket; New Blow At Odessa

200,000 Axis ‘Troops Pinned Against Shore   Malinovsky Girding His Troops to Storm City

REMNANTS OF 19 NAZI DIVISIONS ALL BUT ERASED   Russians Battle For Possession Of Nazi Stronghold Of Tarnopol; Germans Wiped Out In Skala Pocket; Closing In On Odessa.

Capture of Junction Pins 200,000 Nazis, Rumanians Against Black Sea  ONLY FERRY LINE LEF'1  Russians, Germans Fight h Streets of Tarnopol For Possession of Stronghold

Russian Trap Encircles  200,000 Men   Other Forces Battle for Possession of Nazi Bastion at Tarnopol; Enemy Loses All But Remnants of 15 Crack Divisions

Reds Take Minsk, Blasting Germans From Their Last Major City on Soviet Soil

Russians Battle For Every Foot Of Stronghold   Streets Of Tarnopol Scene Of Fierce Fighting As Red Forces. Drive. On

REPORT NAZIS WIPED OUT IN SKALA POCKET   Russians Wage fierce Fight For Possession of Tarnopol Bastion

iyi? pica acl ye ER el andl acca  200, 000 Nazis, -Rumanians Against Black Sea  ONLY FERRY LINE LEFT  Russians, Germans Fight In Streets of Tarnopol For Possession of Stronghold

RUSSIAN TROOPS CUT LAST NAZI OVERLAND RAILWAY OUT ODESSA   ONLY ESC PE ROUTE NOW FOR 200,000 TROOPS IS SMALL FERRY LINE

Reds Cut Important  Rail Line   Capture of Volochisk Is Announced in. “Mighty Drive in Ukraine   LEAVES GERMANS ‘ONLY POOR-ROADS   Odessa-..wow  Communications Destroyed . and .15,000 Nazis Are? Killed

15 German Divisions Wiped Out by Reds  tenant Diaehting Padgeo'ac RPacle   Street Fighting Rages'as Reds & Possession of Tarnonol

Tarnapol Fall Nears; Street Battle Rages   Another Soviet Force Mopping Up Germans in the Skala Pocket

_ Phone 5 for Want Ads, = : Subscriptions, All Advertising, “: Job Printing’   ‘Russians Cut  ‘Last Rail Line Out of Odessa

Russians Mop Up Last Of Trapped Germans   Driving. Nazis From Tarnopol-While Closing In On Germans’ Main Odessa Escape Route.

GERMANS ARE MOWED DOWN BY THOUSANDS   RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE GAINS 150 MILES IN 11 DAYS

Tarnopol And Odessa Goals Of New Drives By Russians      Huge Force In Poland Sets Stage For Pusk  Toward West: Armies Cut In Two

Russians Rip Huge Hole in Ukraine Front   12 German Divisions Retreat in Newest  Moenase ta Raccltsc

MINSK FALLS; REDS POURING - INTO POLAND   N azis Lose Last Major City in Russia—Fate of 200,000 Defenders of  Bastion Uncertain.   ‘POLOTSK SCENE’ OF STREET FIGHT   More Than 1,150 Towns -Engulfed. as Muscovites ‘ Sweep Westward—N ew Gains Made in Finland.

Report Germans All But Wiped Out In Skala Death Trap   Soviets Kill 3,000 Enemy Troops, Cap. ture Over Half of Bastion Guarding Approaches To Lwow

MOSTOF CITY lb HELD BY SOVIETS   More Than 8,000 Nazis Killed: And 300 Captured In Struggle   NEARS GLIMAX.”   Ukrainian Armies Launch New Blows At Lwow And Odessa:

Minsk Falls To Storming  Red Troops   Nazis Blasted Out of Last Major Russian City After Spectacular Coup; Towns Freed

REDS POUNDING AT GATES WHILE CITIES BOMBED   Yanks Roar Back Over Blasted Europe as British Planes Return from Night Attack

AUSSIANG GUT OVERLAND LINE   Last Railway From Odessa Severed With Capture Of Junction.   CITY NAZI STRONG POINT!

Huge Enemy Forces Pinned Against Sea   Soviet Armies Also Fight in Streets Of Tarnopol; Other  Units Near Lwow

Reds Drive On To Capital of Bessarabia; Pin 200,000 Germans In Black Sea Port; Launch New Blows At Odessa and Lwow.

Reds Battling To Oust Nazis  From Tarnopo   Field Dispatches Declare Germans In Skala Pocket  All But Wiped Out.   50 MILES OF LW0OW

Nazis Resist Fiercely In Stronghold   Remnants Of Enemy Divisions Wiped Out By Reds

Reds Cut Off Escape Route From Seaport   Jittery.Rumania Reported Ready To Ask Armistice

While Russia's Capital Falls In Soviet Coup   Thousands of Nazis Killed or Captured

Wipe Out Nearly Fifteen Divisions Of German Troops   Russians Fight in Streets of Tarnopol For Possession of City,   Dramatic Struggle Is Waved Against Nazis

Reds Steadily Liquidating Tarnepel Garrison, Survivers Trapped Divisions ai Skala

Russ Within  etetaatntot  Few Miles of Escape Line  New Blows Launched at Opposite Ends of ’ Long Front  FIGHT IN TARNOPOL  ‘Battle for Posse Possession of  Lwow Reported Near  Climax

NAZI DIVISIONS WIPED OUT IN SKALA POCKET   Allied Artillery Hammerg Enemy Positions Along Italian Front

Reds Wage Bitter Fight In Streets Of Tarnopol   By HENRY ©. CAeeINng

Russians Fighting In Streets For Possession Of German Stronghold—Remnants Of Fifteen Enemy Divisions In Skala Pocket All But Wiped Out—Last Escape Route From Black Sea Port Being Threatened By Advancing Third Ukraine Army

‘Remnants Of 15 Divisions Wiped  ‘Out Around Skala   ‘Third Acmy Is Within 2   Miles Of Last Escape Route for 200,000 Axis Troops Pinned. Against Black Sea Coast Near Odessa.

GREAT BATTLE RAGING IN TARNOPOL   No New Report On Advance Into Rumania   200,000 NAZIS   Pinned Against Black Sea Coast: 50 More Towns Are Captured

Russian Driving Nazis From Tarnopol, Close on Germans’ Odessa Escape Route   Reds in Race to Trap Hitlerites in Shrinking-Pocket at Ukraine's Southern Tip

Reds Battle For Capture Of Tarnopol   All But Wipe Out Remnants of 15 Nazi Divisions Surrounded In Skala Pocket

Reds Battle Foe in Streets Of Tarnopol After Russian Advance Smashes Into City

Latest Drive Severs South Escape Route   New Sweep Greatly Broadens Red Front Deep in Old Poland

ADMIT HOLD-UP AT ASHLEY WYE   THREE SOLDIERS AND GIRL APPREHENDED BY MISSOURI PATROL

SOLDIERS A GIRL ADMIT ARMED HOLDUPS   Arrested Tuesday In Missouri; Had Three Guns

Soldier, Girl, Admit Robbery Officer States   Apprehended 12 Miles East of Jefferson City

FIFTH ARMY DRIVEN FROM RAIL DEPOT   But Cassino Is Still Seven - Eights Encircled

Enemy Drive To Liquidate Rome Beachhead Beaten Off   General Clark Says Renewed Heavy German Assaults Can Be Expected In Anzio Section

Bucharest s Target For ° Nazi Bombers   Germans Thrown Back in First Skirmishes

WAR DECLARED ON FORMER ALLY BY ROMANIANS   Bucharest Is Bombed By Germans; Royal Palace  Js Tarzet   BALKAN SITUATION CRITICAL TQ NAZIS

Chaos Reigns Throughout the Balkans   Berlin Admits Big Retreat Is Under Way by Reich Forces

YANK ADVANCE LEAPS WITHIN 80 MILES OF BREST   Probes Approaches Of St. Nazaire, Nantes; Sweeping Rrittany

Fan Out Over Brittany. At Will And Approach St. Nazaire And Nantes

Hard-Driving Troops Sealing Off All Breton   Half of Peninsula in American Hands as Infantry Nears Coast

SOME COLUMNS ARE  ADVANCING 30 MILES DAILY, RIVALING REDS   Armored Units Are Believed Near Approaches To  St. Nazaire And Within Eighty Miles OF React

falf of Brittany eninsula Now ir \merican Hands   Advance Due to Hit South Coast Today, Is Word

SMASH TO COAST IS IMMINENT   Vanguards Within 18 Miles Of Nantes, Vichy Reports

Americans Probing Approaches To St. Nazaire and Nantes On South Coast.

LEAP AHEAD IN SWIFT MOVES INTO BRITTANY   Vanguard Troops Push Ad. vances To Within 80 Miles Of Brest

Ave Only aD Rae From Brest             AMERICAN ARMORED TROOPS.  OUT THRU BRITTANY AT RECO PACE OF MILE AND QUARTER, PER HOUR

Half Peninsula Now in  U. S. Hands   Armor Fans Out In Push to Brest And Nantes

ONE HALF OF — BRITTANY IN" ALLIED HANDS   News of Bradley’s Arrival at South France Coast Scaling Fate of Rest of Peninsula Kxepected

Armored Columns Carve Gains Thru  Entire Peninsula   Nazis Retreat From Allied Trap In  Caen Sector

Big Pacific Battle Looms   Jap Forces Trapped In New Guinea Area

CHINESE TROOPS RECAPTURED YUN GFENG YESTERDAY   Fighting Continues Above Enemy Held Hsingyun, . 40 Miles Northeast of . .  Cantan

Chinese Troops Recapture City  Of Yungfeng   Communique Doesn't Mention New Chinese Offensive In Hupeh Province

NAZIS. THROW “WORE TROOPS INTO COMBAT   Third of German West Front Strength Brought into Critical Sector.

WestRoerBank All But Cleared Of Nazi Troops   German Command Bolsters Defense With Third Of Western Strength.

‘Vast Conflict Raging Over ‘Cologne Plain   Nazis Hold Allied Gains to One Mile; Foe Blows Bridges

(germans resisting furiously   Linnich falls; big  winter test looms

Foe Massing On Cologne Plain; Julich Entered   Linnich, Leiffarth, Roerdorf And Flossdorf Occupied By Yanks; Patton’s U. S. Third  Army Smashes Into Saarlautern

LAST GERMANS WEST OF ROER   Four Towns Seized: GI’s Push Into Julich

Gain in Heavy Fighting on Rhine Front   Third Army Pushes to Saar River on 11 - Mile Front

WINE TO TARE OUT Pon’s Grill N Erie Sth-—aAad   INFRA-RED HEAT Lares

SHIPS CRASH IN FOC: 10 MISSING   Two Lake Freighters Sink After Collisions

LAKE CRASHES SINK 2 SHIPS   Ten Seamen Feared Lost In Two Collisions Due to Fog

In Lake Erie            10 Seamen Go Down: ‘As Well As Two Freight Carriers

One Carrying Ore From Es. canaba, Other Had Load Of Sulphur.   FOG CAUSED COLLISIONS

SHIPS CRASH ON LAKE ERIE   Ten Seamen Feared Lost: Two Freighters Believed to Have Sunk

Two Lake — Ships Sunk; 10 Men Lost   Two Collisions In Heavy Fog On Lake Erie Take Toll

10 MEN FEARED DEAD WHEN SHIPS COLLIDE   2 Freighters Sunk During 4-Vessel Erie Crashes

SHIPS COLLIDE iN LAKE ERIE DURING STORM   Ten Seamen Lost And Two Freight  Carriers Sunk

Freighter Sinks After Crash In Lake Erie;  26 Are Rescued   Freighters Loaded With Iron Ore And.Sulphur-In Accident North Of Erie, Pa. Another Sinks In  Palon Paccara

Two Ships  Sink In Fog; Ten Men Are Lost, Report   Collision On Lake Erie: Freighters  Go Down In Pitferent Accidents

Two Items Leff To Be Decided At Air Parley   Canado’s Suggestion As To Fares, Rates, Accepted By U.S.

DELEGATES STUDY DRAFT OF WORLD AIR REGULATION   LACKS AGREEMENT ON ISSUE OF FREE AIR EVERYWHERE

REGULATION OF POST-WAR AIR CONTROL NEEDED   Plan Laid Before Delegates; Will  Meet Tomorrow

‘Near Unity On World Air Plan   Agreement Expected —  Soon On: Only. Two: Im. ‘portant Items’ Which — Yet Remain Unsettled

Civil Aviation Conference Is Near Agreement  Two Important lecnac R emain

PACE AIR AND TRAFFIC RULE TO DELEGATES   Two Major Items Blocking Agreement at World Aviation Meet.

Near Agreement on Air Control  Two Important Items Yet to Be Decided

Hsenhower Back Afler Visit to ~ Normandy From  Confers With Bradley And Mentaomery, Flies

2, DESTROYERS INCLUDED IN LATEST HAUI   Light Cruiser and Nine Non-combatant Vessels Fall Prey to Americans.

U. S. Subs Sink Three Of Ships   Merchants Ships Are Also Among New Allied Toll

GERMAN RESISTANCE STIFFENS ON SOVIET AND ITALIAN FRONTS   Day And Night Allied Raids Smash Nazis’ Main  Greek Supply Port; Sarny Under 3-Wav Assault   Re TINITEN PRESS

American Planes Widen Sweeps On Japan's Outposts   Nip Strongholds Seek To Cover Outer Defenses

Americans Hit Caroline Isle lor First Time   Bombing Mission To Ponape Marks Extension Into  Mandated Islands

YANK PLANES CARRY ATTACK TO TRUK AREA   Liberators Bomb Within 410 Miles of Great Naval Base: Kavieng, New Ireland, Also Heavily Hit,

ACIFiC—  CARLIN ISLAND. BOMBED BY BY YANKS   Important Jap: Adminis. trative Center Attacked For First Time   KAVIENG BLASTED   American Fliers Broaden . Operations Against Enemy Bases

New Ireland And Bismarck Bases  Raided From Ai   First Air Raids On Ponape Announced; Green Isle Bases Strengthened

Yank Bombers  Broaden Drive  ...u_lap.Rases.   Indian Troops Halt Move “By Enemy To Encircle Allies In South Burma

Ponape Is Raider Goal   Fliers Meet No Opposition: Kavieng On New Ireland Heavily Bombed

RAID PONAPE, BLAST KAVIENC   Extend War Into Mandated Caroline Islands, Far on Road to Truksand Philippines   SMASH SHIPPING   Indian Troops Fight Off Jap Encirclement, Held Vital Pass in Northern Burma

American Bombing Missions in South Pacific Broadened   Far-Flying Planes Are Blazing Trail Into Japanese Islands

BROADEN AIR OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPS   Far-Flying U. S. Bombers Blast Kavieng, Ponape In Latest Blows

STRONGLY - GUARDED APPROACHES TO PHILIPINES AND MAINLAND — OBJECT OF NEW PLANE ATTACKS   Kavieng, New Ireland and Ponape In Mandated Caroline Islands Among Latest Objectives of Broad ened Attacks by Far-Flying American Bombers

FAR-RANGING U. 8. HEAVY BOMBERS ARE AFTER JAP OUTPOSTS   IMPORTANT ENEMY GUARD BASES CONTINUE COME UNDER ATTACK

Speed Action to Isolate.  Jap Truk Base   American Bombers Blaze in Widening Radius to Strike Kavieng, Ponape

BOMBERS SMASH AT STRONG JAP BASE ON PONAPE   ANOTHER RAID IS AIMED AT KAVIENG, NEW IRELAND TOWN

YANK BOMBERS POUND AT NEW JAP OUTPOSTS   Smack Bases Along Approaches To Philippines And Nip Mainland

Ponape Is Attacked by US Bombers   First Attack of War on Japan’s “Gibraltar of the Pacific;” Kavieng Set Ablaze by Allied Planes

Yankee Flyers Extend Scope of Operations   Ponape of Caroline Group Smashed Along With Other Raids

Pacific Air Raids Extend  To Carolines   Ponape Is Attacked By Bombers; Blow Within 410 Miles Of Truk.  Enemy Naval Base

Broaden Bombing Raids On Jar Bases Athwart Approaches To Philippines And Jap Mainland   Raiders Strike In Carolines 400 Miles From Truk; Kavieng Is Heavily Raided

OPERATIONS IN PACIFIC WIDEN   Bombers Blazing Trail Into Heart of Jap Island Outposts.   ATTACK KAVIENG, PONAPE

ALLIES EXTEND AIR OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPS   Bomb Approaches to Japan's Homeland, Philippines; Hit Kavieng, Ponape

Hit Deeper Into Jap Territory   American. Bombers Smash at Ponape,  In Carolines; Blast Jap Base at Kaviene

YANKS EXTEND PACIFIC FRONT   Bombers Blast Kavieng; Hit Islands In Car oline Group

Bombers Strike Ever Nearer To Truk Fortres:   First Aerial Assault Made On Ponape By U.S. Flyers

Allies Extend Blows to Ponape   Blast Jap Stronghold In Caroline Islands, Also Bomb Kavieng

U. S. Strikes First Blows At Carolines   Bombers Also Attael Jap Base Despite Onnosition

OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPS BROADENING   Far-Flying American Bombers Blaze Trail Into Heart of Nipponese Island Outposts   ASSAULT ON PONAPE

Planes Widen Operations Avainst Japs   Bomb Ponape In Mandated Caroline  Islands

Blaze New Trail To Heart of Foe’s Island Outposts   Allied Planes Smash At New Ireland Base And Hit First Blow  At Carolines Tarqet

majytes monogrammed Eee meet  Gracious. Living C Offered th Postwar World

Japs Lose Heavily Trying To Stop Allied Air Blows   Futile Efforts Cost Japs - 350 Planes in 30 Days  Over Rabaul Alone.

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   Pays Price of 350 Planes ir 30 Days Fighting Over Rabaul.

Japan’s Plane . Losses Double   Heavy Price Being Paid In Attempts To Save Pacific Bases

JAPAN LOSES 350 PLANES PAST 30 DAYS   High Price Paid In Attempt To Stop Allies

Japan Paying High Price In Aerial Combat   Loss of Fighter Planes In Futile Effert to Halt Allied Raids Mounting Daily

JAPS PAY STEEP PRICE TO HOLD AIR, SEA BASES   LOSE MORE THAN 350 PLANES IN 30 DAYS OVER RABAUL ALONE

Enemy Loses 350 Planes In 30 Days.... Japan Paying A Steep Price, But Can’t Stop Great Allied Air Blows

IAPS’ RABAUL LOSSES STEEP   Defenders Have Lost More Than 350 Planes During : Past Month

Japanese Lose 51 More Planes In Battles at Rabaul and Wewak   ‘RAIDS ON MARSHALLS BEING ACCELERATED

Japs P ay Steep Price in Raids   Over 350 Planes Are Lost By Enemy in Thirty Days at Rabaul

Japan Pays High Price  ToBombers   Rabaul Plane Los: In Thirty Days Exceeds 350

350 JAP PLANES FALLIN 30 DAYS   Enemy Pays Heavy Price It Futile Bid To Stop Allies:

JAPS LOSE 486 PLANES IN LAST  MONTH OF 1943   Costs Allies 68 Aircraft, Nips Still Defend Rabaul Despite Heavy Losses

350 Jap. Planes Lost In°30 Days In-Rabaul Fights   Lost, 486° Month Before; “Allies “Sacrifice Only 147 In:66-Day ‘Period

Jap Air Losses Heavy But Fail To Halt Allies  350 Planes Shot Down In Month Over Rahanl]

Yanks Now Hold  Major Positions   Japs Retreat as Tacloban is Named Seat of Philippine Government

UP-T0- PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETIN  (By Interna tional News Service )     CAPTIIRE IMPORTANT CITY ON LEYTE

TAKEN AGAINST LIGHT RESISTANCE   American Troops Now Hold Three Major Population Centers

24TH INF. TAKES PALO; TAGLOBAN NAMED CAPITAL   Dulag Aliso’ in Yank Hands: Japs Now Withdrawing Toward West

Patrick J. Hurley Strongly Uraed As American Ambassador fo China

Hurley May Be Named to China Post   Repos State Trouble Shoeter Muy Becou.s   fiw Aabesrader  / Te Clingking .

NER CI, eileen lean mmidlnneel  Bumpers Promoted To Rank of Captain

DE GAULLE SEES ALLIED DISUNION   Warns France to Work for : Own Salvation

FRENCH TOLD TO EXPECT NEGLECT   De Gaulle Tells People Not To Depend On Allied Aid

DE GAULLE FLAYS ALLIES FOR ‘NEGLECT OF FRANCE IN POST-WAR PLANNING

Western States Water Rights Are Threatenec  Oe ea a a.  ie   Aggressive Steps to Defeat MVA Urged by Speaker

House Votes  Big Army Bill   $49, 109,002,795 Sought To Carry on Fight Against Axis Powers

“Hitler Doom” Bill Also to Soften  Tojo for Downfall  Military Leaders Hope Germany to Be Put Out of War This Year

1944 HARVEST RECORD SHOWN BY FORECAST   Only Adverse Weather During Harvest Can Prevent It

Measure Would Cut Out Present FSA   Committee Would Change Financing of Farm Tenant Program

- Gen. MacArthur Reports “Total of Over 7,000 Tons ~ Bombs Laid on Enemy  - Targete

JAP TARGETS IN PACIFIC HEAVILY BOMPED RECENTLY   Attacks In Past Few Days Increase Total of 7,000 Tons Dropped On Nip Pacific Objectives Already This Month

STRIKE CLOSES STEEL CASTING COMPANY PLANT   Another Walkout Hampers Oper ations At C-I Steel At Irvin Today

WINTER MAKES APPEARANCE ON BALTIC FRONT   Slows Down Red Army Drive In East Prussia, Auce Taken

Soviets Slowed As Winter And Nazis Dig In  German Resistance Stiff Yin Masurian Lake   Cherniakhovsky’s Men Batter At Outposts Of Gumbinnen

Both Sides Suffering Heavy Losses As Arctic Gales Impair Advance

LOSSES HEAVY IN BATTLE OF EAST PRUSSIA   Czech Road Center Taken

First Blasts of Winter and Stiff Resistance Slow Down Russ Drive   Battle Of East Prussia Raging Unabated With Heavy Losses

WINTER SLOWS RUSSIANS IN EAST PRUSSIA   First Arctic Gales Impede Invaders

AED OAWVE IN EAST. PRUSSIA oN. DOWN   Battle Rages in Arctic Gales and Snow; Losses Heavy t on Both Sides.

RUSS DRIVE IS SLOWED ON EAST PRUSSIA   First Blast of Winter Felt On Central Front

WINTER BLAST SLOWS SOVIET PRUSSIA DRIVE   Nazi Resistance Stiffer As Battle Rages Unabated

National Tickets Carry Names of 1114 Candidates  End of Campaign Finds i   End of Campaign Finds Both Sides Claiming Victory

CANDIDATES TO GIVE BRIEF TALKS TONITE   Roosevelt and Dewey Expected to Confine Remaining Words to Appeals For Big Turnout  SOME VITAL FACTORS

Voters Issue Edict Today   Sound And Fury Die, And Ultimate U.S. Boss--- The Voter--- Will Speak

Two Candidates In Last Vote Appeals   More Than 3,000,000 S ervicemen’s Votes May Be Deciding Factor, But Count May Be Slow

- Sound And Fury Die, And Ultimate US. Boss--- The Voter--- Will Sneak

Who Can Best Speed] Peace Is Major Issue/ In Wartime Election.   Both Candidates For President To Make Final Radio Appeals Tonight

Opinion Leans To Roosevelt ‘As Winner   President and His Op-ponent Make Last Minute Talks, Muay Be Weeks Before Final Result Is Known

Americans Will Speak  Tu e oc ay   Both Presidential Candidates on Air for Brief  Addresses Tonight

FLOOD OF CAMPAIGN ORATORY NEARS END; BALLOTS ARE NEAR  ESTIMATED UPWARD OF 44,000,000 VOTES BE CAST GENERAL ELECTION

44,000,000 Electors Expected to March to Polls Tomorrow   Candidates Will Finish Campaigns With Brief Radio Talks Tonight

Roosevelt and Dewey Make Final Radio Talks Tonight; Both Parties Confident   Presidential Candidates Expected To Make Last-Minute Appeal for Bie Vote: Turbulent Race Near End

Candidates Plan Final Appeal fo Voters Tonight   Peaple to Decide Issues at Polls Of Nation Tuesday

HOT CAMPAIGN ENDED EXGEPT FOR POT SHOTS    Women’s Voie or Ballots of  Service Men May  Decide Result.

°44 Political Campaign Nears End   l “Silent  Vote” Worries Politicians in Race As Close As Pollers  Figure This One to Be

, Dewey Maks Final Radio Talks   Political Fortunes 1,114 Candidates Decided Today

Publi Speaks at  Polls as Din of % Oratory Fades Out   Victory and Peace Have Been Principal Campaian Issues

People Decide Tomorrow At Nation’s Polls   50 Million May Cast Ballots; Great Issue Is Who Is Better Man For Victory, Peace

DEWEY AND FDR TO MAKE LAST PLEAS TONIGHT   if To 50 Million Are Expected To Yote Tomorrow

Candidates’ Appeals End   Close. Election. Seen “By. Press -Analyists ’

Brief Talks to Close Campaigning Ti onight   Roar of Political Oratory Fades; ' FDR, Dewey Calling for Heavy Vote

Seek “Best Man” To Push Victory, Guide The Peace   Both Candidates Plan To Confine Final Talks To Appeals For Big Vote

Great Issue Before People: Best Guide in War, Peace; Both Candidates to Speak

44 MILLION MAY G0'T0 THE POLLS   ROOSEVELTS TO VOTE AT ‘HYDE PARK, DEWEYS IN NEW YORE CITY.

Voters Set to Pick Wartime President   44,000,000 Americans to Trek to Polls Today; Soldier Vote May Be Controlling Factor in Close, Bitterly Fought Campaign

NEW FACTORS ARE SOLDIER, WOMEN VOTE!   Complexion of Congress Also Will Be Decided At Polls Tuesday

Tomorrow Is Day When John Public Speaks   Millions Have Been Listeninging to Candidates for Several Weeks — Tomorrow Is Your Day.

44 Millions Are Expected to Vote Today  Political Fortunes of 1,114 Candidates ait Stak

Campaign Oratory Fades Out Tonight And People ‘Mave Their Say Tuesday

44 MILLION EXPECTED 10 VOTE TUESDAY   Polls Will Be Open 17  ~ Hours, Over Various Time Zones of Nation— Political Oratory Is Ahont at an End.

Roosevelt and Dewey Plan To Wind Up Campaign With Brief Radio Appeals to People To Vote F At Tuesday's Election To Select Not Only President But Also Governors and Lawmakers

SURVEYS SHOW CLOSE CONTEST FOR PRESIDENT   Many Offices to Be Filled; Flood of Oratory Nearly Over

TEMPERATURES:   PEOPLE READY FOR DECISION AT THE POLLS   Tumult And Shouting Of Campaign Dies Dawn On Election Eve

50 Million People May Cast Votes In Tuesday’s Election   Victory, Peace Issues Presidential Campaign

Speech  Flood Fades   ROOSEVELT AND DEWEY MAKE FINAL APPEALS TO THE NATION TONIGHT   Silent Vote Watched   Both Speak Tonight.

FLOOD OF POLITICAL ORATORY ENDS  AND TUESDAY THE PEOPLE WILL SPEAK

SOLDIER VOTE TO PLAY BIG PART IN RACE   FINAL COUNT TO BE DELAYED IN 11 STATES

(American Voters To Decide On Roosevelt or Dewey To Head Nation Back To Peace

40-50 Million Votes Forecast for Tuesday   Oratory in National Race Virtually at End; Silent Vote of Great Importance in Predicted Close Contest This Year

CANDIDATES GIVE  FINAL AIR TALKS      Issues Drawn As Voters to Ballot on Choice; Both Parties Optimis te Over Result

Zero Hour For Fiery Campaign Race Draws Neat   Both Candidates Make Final Appeal To Public In Speeches Tonight.

Bitter Campaign Near End; Voter King Tomorrow   Dewey, Roosevelt Plan Brief, Final Talks Tonight

Americans Will — Speak Tomorrow At Voting Booths   Roosevelt And Dewey Deliver. Final Speeches Tonight.’

MUST DECIDE ON BEST LEADER IN VICTORY, PEACE   NATION’S SILENT VOTE REGARDED AS DECIDING FACTOR

BOTH PARTIES APPEAL FOR BIG VOTE   Brief Talks Planned By Candidates Tonight   1,114 SEEK   Offices Of Governor, Senator, Representative; Races Look Close

People To Choose Between Dewey Arid Roosevelt    Vote Of Between 44 And 50 Million Seen Tomorrow

John Q. Public  To Halt Oratory  With Ballot Voice Batter Man To Speed Victory,  Guide Peace, Issue To Voters: Sanate Rance Coniral Sanahi

44,000,000 to Pick Wartime Executive   ALSO A CONGRESS, 31 GOYERNORS, LEGISLATORS AND MINOR OFFICERS AT 130,000 POLLING PLACES.   Soldier Vote Factor

Americas Millions Choose President  Tomorrow; 4 Of 5 Polls Give FDR Edae

Candidates Check Issues to People   An Estimated 44 Million Voters To ‘Polls Tuesday

Political issue is left up to voters as eg eas ie Ts F  jcatididates complete campaign drives

DECISION GOES TO 44 MILLION AT THE POLLS   Speakers Ease Out of Bitter Campaign on Election Eve

14 Million To Cast Votes In United States   Great Issue—-Who Is Better Man To Speed Victory, (,uide Peace.  as? en “_ fos a = = S a SO ee

Last Verbal Volleys Fired As Voters Trudge to Polls To Elect Wartime President

FINAL OUTCOME MAY BE CLOSE; TALKS TONIGH   President To Speak Over Radio—Dewey Also To Make Vote Bid

ARRIVE FROM AUSTRALIA   High Allied Officials Ar> En Route to Washington

Yank Doughboys Battle In Burma   Vets Of Guadalcanal And Southwest Pacifi Score Success In First Action; 2, : Japs Believed Cut Off

YANKS ATTACK JAPS IN BURMA   U. S. Infantry Veterans Open Drive to Clear  Road to China

Yank Infantry Is — Attacking In Burma   General Stilwell Out To Get Even With Japs For ‘Hell Of Beating’ Given Him In Fighting

Yankee Infantry Atfacks in Burma   2,000 Japanese Caught in Trap

Doughboys. Go: Into Action Ist. Time In Asia ©   Strike Enemy ;-: From Rear In First Success te Open Shoe. Cut - te _Chiria’s Relief . Road “Stillwell Hits Back. At The Japs ‘

Stilwell Leads American Infantry In Firs? Action Cn Asiatic Continent In Northern Burma Offensive

BY USING TACTICS EMPLOYED BY ENEMY IN PREVIOUS FIGHT. GENERAL STILWELL ANXIOUS FOR, REVENGE FOR BEATING AT HANDS OF JAPS.

HARDENED YANK INFANTRY NOW IN BURMA AREA   Veterans Score First Victory In Drive To Open  Burma Road

YANKS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE ON BURMA FRONT   SURPRIZE BLOW IS DEALT JAPANESE FROM REAR

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIF  East Prussia May Go Under Rule Of Poles   Rad Germans Prevail

Bill Seeks Tip On Fourth  Term Decision   Bridges Backs Plan To Require Early Printing of Ballot

WANTS NAMES PUT ON BALLOT   Bridges to Try to Force Roosevelt Hand on 4th Term Decision

BRIDGES TRYING TO FORCE FDR’S HAND   Republican Senator Would Have Democrais Advance Date Of Courention

Bridges Seeks To Force Roosevelt Into Open Regarding Fourth Term

Sen. Bridges In Move fo Force FDR Decision   Plans Legislation Requiring Names Of Candidates on Ballot

GOP Senator  Seeks to Force President's Hand  Wants Servicemen’s Ballots to Carry   Wants Servicemen’s Ballots to Carry Candidates’ Names

Bridges Has Plan to Force FDR’s Hand      WILL INSIST UPON NAMES _ OF CANDIDATES BEING PRINTED  ON BALLOTS GOING TO MEN IN ARMED FORCES   Vandenberg Jumps Traces

PUT ON BALLOT   Bridges to Try to Force Roosevelt Hand on 4th Term Decision   Asks Publishers to Aid In Production, Morale

ROOSEVELT HAND   Bridges Proposes Print Cand'dates’ Names on Vet Rallots

Bridges Plans To Foree FD’s  Hand on Future   Senator Will Seek Names of Candidates  On Overseas Ballots

SERVICE MEN'S BALLOT REVISED   Plans Laid To Force Hand Of Roosevelt On Fourth Term

Chinese Launch Offensive To Join Stilwell   Chennault’s Sky Dragons Support Drive To Connect Troops With Burma

Chinese Open Great Drive On 100-Mile Fron   Salween River Crossed At Many Points; Burma Offensive Gains

Chinese Begin Big Offensive In West Yunnan   Loyang Entered At Three Points In Japanese Drive

Sky Dragons Help Chinese In Drive To Merge With Stilwell   Large Forces Succeed In Breaking Jap Held On Strategic Railroad, Recapture Suiping.

OFFENSIVE IS BEING WAGED BY CHINESE   Salween River is Crossed at Many Points on Oneriundred Mile Front   CASUALTIES ARE HEAVY

STRIVING T0 LINK UP WITH BURMA ARMY   Large Forces Cross Salween River Along Front Of 100 Miles

CHINESE SEEK JUNCTION WITH BURMA FORCES   New Offensive Opened In Yunnan Province With Yank Air Support

CHINESE FORCES STRIKE BACK IN WESTERN YUNNAN   CROSS SALWEEN RIVER AT SEVERAL POINTS ON 100-MILE FRONT

CHINESE OPEN NEW OFFENSE   Make Effort to Link Up With Gen. Stilwell’s Troops In Burma,

Chinese Drive Will Join With Stilwell   Heavy Casualties Are Reported; U. S. Fliers Give Support

Chinese Cross Salween, Push To Join With Stillwell’s Men   Launeh Drive on 100-Mile Front, Supported by Chennault’s Fliers

Chinese Forces Open Offensive to Join Stilwell   Cross Salweer on 100 Mile Front in Western Yunnan—Sniping Recaptured hy Chinese

CHINESE OPE NEW OFFENSIVE   Force Crossing of Salween River To Back Up Stilwell in Burma.

NATIVE TROOPS TRY TO LINK UP WITH STILWELL   Salween River Crossed t Many Points In New Chinese Drive, Report Reveals; Jap Hold On Railway Is  Cracked.

Jap Grip Loosened On Vital Railroad By Chinese Drive   Meanwhile, Americans Blast Enemy Island Bases and Sink Forty Barges at Rabaul by Dive-bombers Armed  GAs Ah. Phew we bond POs uw

Chinese Start Own Offensive   Strike With Large Forces Over 100-Mile Front To Link Up With Stilwell

iy * ( News Behind ‘Lhe News Copyright Aevlure Newspaper Suendjioale   * WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker   Disappointed ones FUT ate

BAIL FOR BRIGGS SET FOR $3,000   Arraignment Probable Late in Week for Hopkins Forgery

BRIGGS TO POST BAIL FOR TRIAL   Former Ickes’ Aid Indicted For Forging Letter

Bricker Declares PAC Threatening, Intimidating Voters  Nominee Says Workers Told to Vote for New Deal or Lose Jobs

No. 1 Manpower Problem Seen An Moving Labor  We Must Maintain  War Production,

Shifting Sufficient Workers To Scenes Of Rush Jobs Called Biggest Problem

PLANES SINK SIX VESSELS OFF NORWAY   While Methodical  Destruction of German Industrial Centers Continiec.   Sting Berlin

Urge Battle For Milk Prices   Plea Made to Governor by State Farm Council

COBB REQUESTED CHEERFUL RITES   EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO CHASE AWAY THE GLOOM

No Gloom At Cobb Funeral   Humorist Leaves Request There Be No Long  Cerans:. (iemt.

FRENCH TROOPS INVADE ELBA, ALLIES. TAKE KEY ITALY TOWN...   ISLAND LANDING G GIVES PARTISANS SPRINGBOARD TO SUPPORT FORCES RACING NORTH TO FLORENCE

French Occupy Island of Elba   5th and 8th Armies Continue Advance

WITNESSES TELL HOW HITLER'S BRITAIN INVADERS PERISHED IN FIERY SEA

Belgians Reveal Hitler Tried To Invade England in ‘40 but Failed in Sea of Flaming Oil

Belgians Reveal Hitler Tried to Invade England Sept. 16, 1940, Failed: RAF lanited Channel Oil Blanket   By JOHN A. PARRIS

German Attempt at Great Britain Invasion Revealed   ‘Hell at Arnhem Told by Officers

REVEAL FAILURE OF ATTEMPT 10 INVADE ENGLANI   Channel Fired To Foil Hitler

Hitler Tried Britain Invasion --- And Failed   English Channel Fired With Oil   British Repulse Massed Attack

Germans Attempted To Invade England In 1940, Rut Fleet Rurned AtSea And “pare Died

England Thwarted Hitler's 1940 Invasion Try With Sea of Flame, Reporter Reveals

RAF Turned Channel Into Flaming Sea To Halt 1940 Nazi Invasion of Britain

Nazi Attempt At Invasion Is Revealed   German Troops Died By The Thousands In Flaming Channel.

Antonescu, Other Nazi ‘Leaders Held By Soviet ‘Troops as War Criminals

LAPSE 8958 idles eee  scornhaenter ie tmton  Soviet Troops Hold Ten in Romania As War Criminals

Report New Yank Army Has Landed   Thousands of Planes Used in Battering of the Siegfried Line

Six Powerful Allied A rmies Are Poised For Thrust Against German Rhineland

6 Allied Armies Mass For Assault On Reich Under Mighty Air Arm   New Ninth Army Joins Battle As Security Blackout Dims News Of Columns Over Border

Other Troops Cirross Border Into Germany   Strong U.S. Forces Lead Advance Against Germany's Defense Bastions

Dispatch Says American Tank Infantry Forces Now In Ooi tact With Siegfried Line, No Taking Aerial Pounding   GENERAL ADVANCE AGAINST GERMAN

NAZI BOMBERS SMASHED HOMES AND APARTMENTS   PENETRATE TERRIFIC ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE IN 3-WAVE ASSAULT

London Hit Hard by Nazi Fliers  Biggest Raid of Yeer Leaves Many Dead

London Hit Hard By Three Waves Of Nazi Bombers   An Estimated 150 Planes Spread Wide Destruction; Many Casualties Counted

LONDON UNDERGOES  HEAVIEST AIR RAID  IN RECENT MONTHS BRITAIN’S CAPITAL LEFT WITH FIRES BURNING AND  BRANIV CACTIAT TIE?

NAZI RAIDERS BOMB LONDON   German Bombers Leave Fires, Casualties, Smashed Homes in Area.   RAID HEAVIEST RECENTLY

Nazis Blast London   Fiercest Air Raid Since 1940-41 Leaves Many Fires, and Casualties in Its Wake

190 GERMAN BOMBERS HIT LONDON AREA   Striking in 3 Waves, They Leave Fires, Smashed  . Homes and Apartments, and Casualties in Their Wake.

London Hit By 3 Waves Of Bombers   Widespread Damage Left After Nazi Assault On Capital; Bodies Are Sought In Wreckage

Nazis Strike Twelve Sh London Hard With Jap in Air Attack Are Destro:

ESTIMATED 150 NAZI BOMBERS HIT AT LONDO}   High Explosives and Fire Bombs Hit Churches, Hospitals, Schools, Homes—!2 Known Dead

German Raiders, Striking In ‘Three Wayes, Spread Death ‘And. Destruction In London   Attack Heaviest In Year Leaves Fires Burning; Search Wreckeae For RBodie«

Heavy Attacks by Nazi Bombers Damage London. Set Big Fires And Result in Deaths a Injuries

LONDON HARD HIT BY NAZI BOMBER FORCE   Damages Greatest To Britain In More Than Year

EEE EE Oo ee  NAZI BOMBERS GIVE LONDON HARD ASSAULT   Three Waves of Planes Hit City, Heaviest Raid Since 1940-41

German Raiders Smash At London   Attack By 150 Planes Is Heaviest Since “Blitz’ Ended; Casualties Left In Half  Dozen Districts

Nazi Planes Hit London In 3 Waves   About 150 in Attack—-Leave Fires and Casualties

feavy Toll ‘eared Taken By Bombing   hree Waves of German Bombers Roar Over City   ARGE FIRES GLOW   umber of Schools, Three ospitals, Two Churches Damared

London Undergoes Heaviest Air Raid Since 1941   About 150 Nazi Planes Bomb City and Leave Fires Burning

Casualties. Fire Follow German Raid   Nazi Raiders Strike in Three Waves During Last Night

German Bombers Leave Death And Destruction In Heavy Assault OnLondon

Damage Is_ Greatest in Past Year   Rescuers. Are Digging Inte Wreckage for Victims; 12 ' Known Dead’ Reported   RAID IS: LARGEST... IN MANY MONTHS   Anti-Aircraft Barrage: the Greatest Ever; Americans: See the Raid. .8"-

ENEMY PLANES BONB LONDON   British Capital Rocked by High Explosives; Casualties Unknown

TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ARE DUMPED ON CITY   U. S. Service Men Help in Extinguishing Fires In Many Districts -

Nazi Bombers Hit London In Three Waves   Homes And Apartments Are Smashed During Attack By Estimated 150 German Planes

German Bombers Blast London, Casualties High      Fiercest Attack In Recent Years

GERMANS SEND BOMBER FORCE OVER LONDON   ‘Many Fires Started As Bombs Strike Many Sections of City.

‘THREE WAVES BIG BOMBERS INFLICT DEATH AND DAMAGE IN VARIGUS PARTS CAPITAL   About 150 Raiders Leave Death and Casualties an Much Property Damage in Wake. Several German Planes Shot Down by Defenders

LONDON BOMBED BY THREE WAVES OF NAZI PLANES   Fires and Wreckage Left in Wake - - Watching Yanks Heip Put Out Flames

Raid Was the Heaviest on the  British Capital Since the  Sustained Assaults of .   1940 and 1941.   LEFT FIRES, SMASHED HOMES IN ITS WAKE   Damage Was the Most Widespread of Any Attack of the Past Year; Many People Were Killed.

Nazi Planes Leave Fires  th London   Many Buried In Debris of Smashed Building:

Three Waves Of Bombers Blast London; Damage Is Heaviest In More Than Year

THREE-WAVE BAD CMASHES  GND          : Smashed Homes; “CS sualties ‘Left In - Wake’ Of Attack”

‘Heavy Aerial Blows Go On   - RAF Batters Essen, Opening ~13+h Day Of Major Attacks 

U.S. BOMBERS HIT GERMANY WITHOUT LOSS   ENEMY FIGHTERS MISSING; OVER 1000 IN RAID

Essen Raided As Air War Goe Into 13th Day   RAF Attack Follows American Daylight Blow at Brunswick:  No U. S. Bombers Los

Allicd Air Offensive Against ‘German Europe Roars Into 13th Consecutive Day

CITY POUNDED IN 12TH DAY OF AERIAL ATTACK   Nazis Put Up No Fight And No U. S. Planes Are Lost

Air Invasion Carries Over  Into 13th Day   RAF Attack Follows 1,000-Plane U. S. Raid On Brunswick Sector  NO BOMBERS LOST

British Navy Flyers Hit Five Enemy Transport —  Ships Off Norway Coast   Quintet of German, Romanian Vessels Sunk By Reds While Trying to Aid Sevastopol Troops; Americans Improve Position on Anzio Beachhead

WHO ATTACK DEEP INSIDE GERMANY WITH 1000 PLANES WHICH PLAY THUNDERING OVERTURE TO INVASION WITH 1,500 TONS OF BOMBS.

Fliers Strike With Massive Force at City of Essen   DAYLIGHT RAID BY AMERICANS MADE   Brunswick and Other Tar. gets Hit Without Opposition

Essen struck by massive  RAF armada Allied offensive enters 13th day

Essen-Brunswick Bombed by RAF And Americans   Massive Forces Raid Continent

Patriots Lay Groundwork  For Invasion   ig a Amy Begins Cam Thruout Fuop.

Pre-Invasior Fights Start   Vast Underground Is Sabotaaing Germans

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   METZ FALLS TO ALLIES

FRENCH OVER-RUN MAGINOT LINE BASTION OF MULHOUSE AS U.S. FINISHES METZ   Eisenhower Reports Savage Battles at Many Points Along Entire Front and Severe Resistance in Many Areas

U.S, AND FRENCH ADVANCES PERIL ALL UPPER RHINE   Mulhouse Bastion Falls, Last Metz Resistance Wiped Out

French Take Maginot Line Bastion As Yanks Wipe Out Enemy at Metz

Eisenhower Reports Savage Battles at Many Points Along Entire Front and Severe Resistance in Many Areas

Marshal Victim of Strafing    Wounded, Says German Officer; Dead, Says French Wouan

Marshal Rommel Killed In Action On Normandy Front, Reports Claim

Name of Hitler not on list of war criminals. 2 London papers report

HITLER NOT ON > ERIMINAL LIST   London Newspapers Claim Nazi Leaders Are Still Among Missing

Yankee Heavies Strike   PRE-INVASION AERIAL ASSAULT GROWS TO CONTINUOUS BATTLE

HEAVIES BOMB WEST GERMANY, FRENCH PORTS   Enemy Has Been Hit by More Than 7,000 Tons of Explosives in Last 36 Hour Drive.

Yankees Hit After British  Strike Franee   Continuous Battle Goes On Against Enemy Air And Communication  Center«e

MILITARY TARGETS IN  FRANCE AND WESTERN  GERMANY ATTACKED HEAVY AMERICAN BOMB ERS ESCORTED BY FIGHTERS ON FRIDAY RAID

First Airmen Back Report No Opposition   New Record Set for Number of Raids in One Mouth   BULLETIN

Heavy Yank Bombers Roar Over Germany   Attack Targets in Western Sector for Third Straight Day

. Heavies r German) in Today   F Conducts Strong ids On Objectives France During aht

BOMB MUENSTER      Lyon and Lesa in Franhe Other Targets es Rei! Yards, Air  fietds Stratea

OCT. 31 WAR END REPORT REFUTED   London Claims WPB Plans Figure That Date for Nazi Collanse———-

Yanks Take Big Toll on Biak Isle   U.S. and Jap Forces Lock in Fierce Battle

NIPPONESE LOSE MORE AIRFIELDS   Noemfoor Island Strips Taken Over In New Drive On Tokyo

Second Airdrome ls Captured by Americans on Noemfoor Island   Koransoren Airstrip s Taken on Independence Day; Stronaer Resistance Is Expected

Increase Noted In Home Owners  In The County  Fewer Homesteads On Farms However

Increase Noted In Home Owners In The County  Fewer Homesteads _ On Farms However _ More In Towns 

DEFIES FDR'S ~ DEMANDS FOR LARGER SUMS   Measure Returned to House; Veto Is Hinted

Senators Defy FDR In Tax Bill   Pass Measure Providing For 214 Billions In In Revenue: Sen!  Back To House.

K.0.3 GERMAN PLANE PLANTS   Lose 64 Craft, But ‘Cripple Nazis’ Air Defenses

Estimate Nazis Lost 120 Planes In Huge Battle   Three Major Nazi Aircraft Plants Believed Out Of Commission For Months   U.S. BOMBER LOSS IS PLACED AT 59

MHINK 120 NAZI PLANES DOWN, "YANKS LOSE 64   Three Big German Aircraft @ Plants Believed Out For Months

GREATEST PUSH IN HISTORY SET TO ROUT NAZIS   Two Million Men May Be Involved—New Gains Inside Germany   By WILLIAM L. RYAN (Associated Press War  a 2 ee

2 Million Engaged In Battle   Yanks 28 Miles From Cologne; Line Breached

ALLIED ARMIES BLAST  NEW GAINS FRIDAY IN  ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE ENGAGEMENT COULD BE COME LAST MASSIVE BATTIE OF WECT. ERONT

Grand Offensive Nets Gls 2 Miles   U. S. Ninth Army Captures Dozen Hun Towns Around Westwall

YANK AERIAL ACE IS PRISONER OF NAZIS   Lt. Col. Francis Gabreski Had Been Unreported Since July 20; Family Is Overjoved

AGE U.S, AIRMAN REPORTED SAFE   Missing Gabreski Now Listed As Prisoner In Germany

Russia Tells Satellites To Fight Hitler   Rumania, Bulgaria Warned Battle Is At Their Doors

Survivor Reveals Jap Sub Submerged With 100 Captured Yanks Bound On Dec!

Survivor Tells of Jap Sub Diving With 100 U.S. Seamen on Its Deck   Witness Tells Court One of Victims Made Last Minute Oral Will Favoring Brother

To Suspend ASTRP Enlistments Jan. 1   Military Scholarship Offered In Pre-induction College Program Under Army STRP

Lagoon at Kwajalein Is Taken Over   Marines Complete Conquest of Namur—American  Losses Light

HEART OF MARSHALLS OCCUPIED   Not Single Ship Is Lost By Yanks During Invasion

Full-Dress Review of Foreign Policy _ Appears in Offing   Senate .Committee, Plans Hearing on Nominees --to State Dept.

Knox Is Buried At Arlington   Throngs Pay Final Tribute to Official

Whirlwind Victory Hailed by Moscow   Capture Of Dnieper Mouth German Base Clears Way For Coordinated Drives On Black Sea Obiectives

WAY CLEARED FOR ADVANCES ON BLACK SEA   SOVIETS KILL OFF 20,000 MORE GERMANS

GERMAN BASTION OF KHERSON IN RUSSIAN HANDS   City Was Taken By Nazis Few Months After 1941 Attack On Reds   1,000 ARE REPORTED MURDERED AT LWOY

10,000 Germans Killed, 2500 Are Captured   Fall of City Opens Way for Drives on Nikolaev, Odessa

Germans Lose 22.500 Men in Battle for Port   Victory Opens Way For Drives to Next Black Sea Objectives; Bug River City Taken

BIG GERMAN BASE: FALLS IN BITTER STREFT FIGHTIN   Three Ukraine Armies Sweep      Now Stand 50 Miles ~ From Rumania.        20,000 MORE NAZL.,  TROOPS ARE KILLED:   Two Red Columns - Moving  Forward at Incredibl  Speed—Battle. ‘for Ta nopol Still Rages. ©

American Fliers Blast Marshall Islands Still In Jap Hands; Lash Ponape

Bombers Range Far Over Pacific   Japanese Installations Ove Thousands Of Miles Are Targets

‘Msgr. M. J. Ready New Bishop Of Columbus   Ohioan Succeeds Late Bishop Hartley: Bishops For Other Dioceses Namer}.

TRIO CONVICTS WHO  KIDNAPPED GIRL ALL  BACK IN HANDS OF LAY YOUNG MISSISSIPPI GIRL  RELEASED UNHARMED AFTER TWELVE HOTIRS

Manhunt In State Ends, ‘Trio Caught   Escaped Convicts Waged Bold Wave of Crime Over Week< End in North Mississippi ~

Three Desperate Convicts Are Captured After Wild Week-End In Mississippi

DESPERADOES CAPTURED IN MISSISSIPPI   Trio Terrorized Several Towns After Jail Escape

Wild Flight From County Jail Is Ended   None of Trio Injured By Car Wrecks and Blazing Guns

Desperado’s Crime Spree  Ends; Caught   Ralph Ward, San Quentin Escapee, Races Through Police Trap But Stolen Car Upsets Near Mississippi Town

LAST OF ESCAPED BIG PLANES AGAIN CONVICTS SEIZED BLAST CONTINENT

TAKE 3 BANDITS IN MISSISSIPPI   Captured After Holding 16-Year-Old Girl Pris oner 12 Hours

Three Felons Recaptured   Young Fugitives Taken Following Sensational Flight

Last of Trio Tracked Down By Army Doss   Mississipp! Towns: Terror After Gun -Battles 4

KIDNAPERS CAPTURED IN MISSISSIPPI   Girl Is Released Unharmed; Father Shot By Cai he

 Desperado, Two Fugitive Pals Captured in South After Running Gun Battle

Three Escaped Desperadoes Back In Cells After “No Capture’ Boas’

a Ld LJ BE aeg he eS  3 San Chisastin. Escapees Caught After Crime Orgy

Kidnap Bandits Are Recaptured In Mississippi   Shoot Father In Girl Theft

Three Convicts Recaptured In Police Chase   Escapees Who Held Young Girl 12 Hours Caught; One Man Injured

3 DESPERADOES ARE RECAPTURED   San Quentin Fugitives Escaped From Mississippi Jail

LAST OF THREE ESCAPED BANDIT CONVICTS CAUGHT   Greenwood, Miss., Officials Report Capture of Last of Trio of Despera>

Fugitives Who Kidnaped Girl Are Captured   Last Of Three Escaped Convicts; Was In Stolen Auto.

THREE ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT   16-YEAR OLD GIRL RELEASED BY MISS. FUGITIVES UNHARMED

CONVICT TRIO IS RECAPTURED   Girl Abducted By Felons As Hostage Freed Unharmed

THREE ESCAPED MEN CAPTURED   San Quentin Convicts, Who Boke Jail, Abducted 16Year-Old Girl.

SEVENTH WISCONSIN HUNTER 1S KILLED   Three Persons ‘Wounded if Vilas County; One 10 Years Old.

PREDICT COLD WAVE TO STAY OVER WEEK-END   State Shivers In Grip Of Year’s Lowest Temperature Readings

COLD 10 CONTINUE: SNOW STORM OVE   Temperature in Adrian Drops To One Decree

Nip Supply Base Heavily Bombed  3,000-Ton Vessel Te Lett Rlevzinae

Yanks Bomb Jap Bases In New Britain   MacArthur Says Damage Is Great

Too Little, Too Late Tale Repeated At Anzio Beach   Service Paper Scores   Service Paper Scores Apparent Failure In Long Deadlock

Anzio War Explained   Too Little And. Late, States. Service Paper

Too Little, Too Late Tale Repeated At Anzio Beach _  Service Paper Scores Apparent Failure In Long Deadlock

A National Service Bill Is Pending   Legislation Providing  Drafting of Men from 18-65, and Women 18-50 Waits Congress’ Action

Service Laws Are Now in Congress   They Would Provide Machinery For Drafting Men, Women For Labor.

Service Act 5 Now Pending — - Gn Congress:   Provides for, Labor Draft.in Event Volunteers Do Not Fill the Need.   HEARINGS: ALREADY " HAVE BEEN-HELD   President’s s Message Regarded as Endorsing “Prin ciple Without Specific’ Plan

ER: TE SOONER Neer Recomm  LEGISLATION 1S PHNDING IN BOTH HOUSES

National Service Measures Pending  Program Is Opposed By Organized Labor

May Compromise Soldier Vote Bill   Deadlock May Bring Out Taft Plan Again

COMPROMISE . POSSIBLE ON SOLDIER VOTE   “Sen. Taft’s Plan May Prove to Be Only Solution

MURDER PROBE ~ IN NEW MIXUP   CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER DE ' CLARES HE DOES NOT BE. -LIEVE STRANGER WAS  IN HOTEL ROOM —

WILLIAM! JOHNSON DIES HERE SUNDAY   Aged Resident to Be Bur. ried Here Wednesday Afternoon.

GEORGE JONSON DIES HERE TODAY   Had Been a Resident of Linton for Fortyseven Years.

AGED WOMAN DIES SATURDAY NIGHT   Mrs. Lydia Johnson Will Be Buried Tuesday Afternoon

Germans. Report Island Invaded  Adriatic Invasion Declared Started

Plymouth Coop   Lease Building Will Remodel And  ~ Move Next October

Plymouth Coop Lease Building —  Will Remodel And ‘Move Next October

CHURCHILL ARRIVES IN PARIS   He and Eden To Confer With DeGaulle

Churchill in Paris to Talk With De Gaulle   ee tata ee h  MILLIONS CHEEP. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IN ARMISTICE CELEBRATION

Paris Welcomes Churchill and Secretary Eden   Briton Pays. Homage At Soldier’s Tomb With DeGaulle

Million Persons Cheer Piime Minister ~  Churchill Lauded By Paris Crowd

German Officials Reported ‘Streaming Northward From Rome: Moving Headquarters   Preparing For Military Evacuation _In Face Of Latest Allied Threat

Germans Retreat From Rome Area   NAZI OFFICIALS FEAR NEW ALLIED LAND AP TACKS

NAZI OFFICIALS STREAM NORTH OUT OF ROME   Only Defense Untis Left in Italian Capital, Report Say—DemonstraHons in North Healy

Fugitives Fill Roads, Fleeing Eternal Citv   Nazis Reported Fearful Next Blow Will Descend On South France, Rush Up Reinforcements

Nazis’ Exit Gluts Roads From Rome   Army Evacuation Next Likely Step; ‘atrioets Suokine

Germans Prepare For Loss Of Rome; Officials Begin Exodus   Highway Leading Out Of Rome Filled With Fleeing German And Italian Fascist Authorities; Anti-German Demonstrations Reported.

Madrid Claims Nazis, Fascists Fleeing Rome   Stockholm Reports New Drive Touched Off Italian Riots

Nazi Officials Reported Fleeing Rome Plan to Empty Bulgarian Cities Told

‘Nazi, Fascist Authorities Fleeing Rome   Roads North Jammed With Officials’ Cars, Madrid Reports Say   TELEPHONE SERVICE CLOSED TO CIVILIANS

German, Fascist Officials Are Fleeing Rome   Scramble To Get Out  Of. Capital Before Allies Arrive

Nazi Officials Leaving Rome  Fascist Authorities Flee Eternal City

Nazis Leaviiig  RomeInHurry   Headquarters Are Moved To: Florence As New Threat Leoms

Nazis Plan To Evacuate Rome  Madrid Learns   German Officials Reported Already Streaming North to New Headquarters At Chiusi

GERMAN OFFICIALS REPORTED FLEEING   Fascist Authorities Alsc Are Getting Out of Rome

Axis Officials Leaving Rome  Nazis Fear South   Nazis Fear South Attack on France

German Officials Said Leaving Rome   May Be Preparatory To Military Evacuation

Nazi Officials Said To Be Leaving Rome   Quartermaster Corps Headquarters Moved tc Florence in Preparation for Possible Military Evacuation of City.

Nazi and Fascist Heads Flee Rome   Germans Leaving Italian Capital

Nazi Officials Leaving Rome. Madrid Says   Highways Filled With Cars Filled With German, Italians

Fascists Leaders Are Heeing Rome   All Communications Between Rome and North Now Closed To Civilians.

Nazi Officials Streamina North In Rome Exodus   Quartermaster Hdqs. Have Already Been Moved To Florence

GERMANS PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE LOSS OF ROME   Nazis Move Their Quartermaster “Headquarters to City of Florence

HIGHWAYS OU} OF CITY FILLED WITH FASCISTS   _ Germans Nervous  " Over Threat Of Landing In Southern France

German Officials Reported Streaming North To Escape Bombing Directed At Rome

High German Officers Get Out Of Rome   Enemy Preparing For Possible Loss Of City; Headquarters Shift To Florence

Nazis, Italian Fascists Flee From Rome   Report Roads Clogged Because of Threat of Allied Forces Pressing On Capital From Sout!

AE ee  THREE ON TRIAL IN WRIGHT PROBE  Air Officers Charged With Neglect Of Duty In Court Martial      Prosecution Stresses Public - Responsibility In  War Plants —

BUSINESS HOLIDAY FOR 4TH WAR BOND DRIVE      All of the Four Counties In This Dis. trict WIH Cooperate In Ob pervance on Jam. iSth

Hundreds Injured And Damage Spread Over (reat Area   Explosion Is Felt  For Miles Around   Navy And FBI Begin Inquiry To Determine Cause Of Blast

Two Munitions Ships Explode At Port Chicago   Explosion Felt 50 Miles Away; Navy Men Missing

Vesscls Sunk, Shore Damage Extensive Ammunition Carriers Blow Up in mick Succession at Port Chicago: Other

Enormous Damage Caused To Port Chicago, 35 Miles From San Francisco: Aid Rushed

Fear Death Toll ~ May Reach 350      Mile-High Skyrocket of Flame Pierces Sky, Ground Thunders for Miles as Ammunition Ignites, Blows Up —

California Boom Town Is Wrecked      ‘Death. Toll-a:Pert of Chica: go-on Sen Francisco, Bay: May Total 650   2 SHIPS EXPLODE; : = “DOCKS LEVELLED      At-Least 1,000 Injured;Steps of Red Cross Hospital“ Covered: :With Blood.”

BLAST LEVELS DOCKS; NEARBY TOWN IN RUINS   Flames Leap Mile High; San Francisco Area  Shaken

Hundreds Injured, Much Properly Damaged When Two Munitions-Laden Vessels Explode Last Night

Many Lives Lost In Big Explosion   Two Ammunition Vessels .. Lost at a Navy Muri  tions De   HUGE PROPERTY ‘LOSS   Almost ‘Every House ‘in Town of Port Chicago Was Wrecked

Hundreds Killed As Two Ammunition Ships Blow Up In California Harbor

VESSELS WITH MUNITIONS ARE BLOWN TO BITS   Nearly Every House in Nearby Town on Frisco Bay Wrecked by Blast

Hundreds, Possibly 1,000 Injured as Ground Shaken for Miles Around, Two Coast Guard Vessels Sink

Yundreds Are \njured in Explosions   Port Chicago In California Battered By Blast

San Francisco Blast Kills 350  Navy Crewmen   Hundreds Wounded When Two Ammunition Ships Explode; Ouake Felt Fifty Miles Away

Hundreds Injured, Dock Area Leveled As Two Navy Ammunition Ships Blow Up   Twisted Wreckage Delays Count Of Dead In Blast Rocking San Francisco Area; Parts Of Ships Are Showered Over Radius Of Mile

Two Coast Guard Vessels. Also Blown Up, With Toll Of Dead Probably At 350

Destruction High  In California Port Navy Lists 200-250 Of Its  Personnel Presumed Lost

\mmunition Ships Blow Up In Port Near Frisco   350 to 650 Killed; Hundreds Injured In Explosion

Loss of Ships, Munitions, Property Will Run Into Millions of Dollars

Estimate Puts Dead at 350° In Blast at California Base; Earth Is Rocked for 50 miles   Red Cross Rushes Aid to Scene Of Disester Near San Francisco; Town of Port Chicaqo Is Wrecked

BLAST LEVELS DOCK AREA OF WESTERN PORT   Explosion of 2 Naval Ammunition Vessels Causes Ruin

Hundreds More Injured by Blast   Port of Chicago Dock Area Levelled and Town Outside San Francisco Damaged; Cause of Great Explosion Unknown; Most of Dead Naval Personnel

War-Booming Port Chicago, Near San Francis co, Wrecked By Blasts.

Two Vessels Destroyed In California   Navy Munitions Dock Is Scene Of Tragedy

NAVAL DISASTER TAKES HUGE TOLL OF DEAD, INJURED   FLAMES SOAR MILES

TEMPERATURES:   Ammunition Ships Blow Up In California Port   Two Boats Blown To Bits At Port Chicago Shell Depot In One Of Most Disastrous Explosions In Hictary OF LL S Navy t

Port Chicago Depot Dock Area Is Leveled   Many Hundreds, Mostly Navy Personnel, Injured; Blast One Of Most Disastrous In U. 8. History   AMMUNITION CRAFT BLOWN TO BITS   Earth Quakes.   Felt 50 Miles Away.

2 Ammunition Ships Explode At Naval Doel   Almost Every House In Port Chicago, Calif., Was Shattered To Bits,   FELT 50 MILES AWAY

2 SHIPS BLOWN TO BITS IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY   ESTIMATE 350 DEAD AND 1,000 INJURED IN GREAT DISASTER

Two Vessels Are Shattered Near San Francisco   Port Chicago, Town Of 1 900, Wrecked  a aia el ae

Hundreds Dead in West Coast Blast   Two Ammunition Ships Explode At Port Chicago   Death Estimates Run As High As  350 Mostly U. S.  Navy Personnel

TWO VESSELS DESTROYED   Death Toll In Ammunition Blast Near San Francisco May Reach 350

200 to 250 Navymen and  Around 130 Civilians Are Missing.   DAMAGE INTO MILLIONS

SET FOR HEAD-ON DRIVE INTO REICH   ALLTES, OUTNUMBERING FOE 5 TO 1, PREPARE TO INVADE THE HARD WAY.

Arnhem Traged Sobers Allies  Prospects for Early Peace Fade as Army

Reich-Smashing Push By Allies Planned If War Continuesin 1945   -‘Unshakable Confidence Among Allied Leaders _ Makes Final Ruin Of Nazis Completely Certain

WAR AGAINST GERMANY MAY RUN INTO 1945   ULTIMATE VICTORY PROMISES LONG CONFLICT

Allies Mass For Plunge Into Reich The Hard Way: Head-on   Fighting Men, Sobered By Heroic Tragedy Of Arnhem, Move Into Position; Confident They Can Do The Job

Allies to Go In Head-On   Grim After Arnhem Tragedy, Men Prepare to Drive Right Into Germany

Yank Drive Perils Town Of Hurtgen   British Push Final ‘Mop-up of Autwerp’s Seaward. Approaches  3 STRONGPOINTS FALL

Hodges’ Men Drive In Hurteen Forest   British -Rip. Schelde: Line, Clear’ Way to Antwerp. -

GAIN IS MADE BY 1ST ARMY IN NEW DRIVE   Big Push Through Forest Preceded by Great Barrage

sé 1 Claims  é 2 as Nearing * Catastrophe”   Ukraine Armies Shove On In Drive As Reds Celebrate Victories

eerles ol Attacks used Into General Offensive on Wide Front HOLIDAY MARKED Rad Asma Oheaiene R77,   Red Army Observes 26th Anniversary of Its Founding

Russians Unleash New Push   Three-Fourths Of Russia Is Free of Nazis

Soviet Army Celebrates lis Birthday   Continues To Smash Ahead On All Fronts

RED ARMY, ON 26TH BIRTHDAY, IS ASSURED BY STALIN THAT NAZI GERMANY IS NEARING CATASTROPHE

Nazis Near Catastrophe. Says Stalin   Red Amy Marks 26th Birthday by Big Scale Attack

RAF CONTINUES RECORD AERIAL RAIDS ON REICH   Nazi Anti-Aircraft Fire Downs 56 U. S. Bombers; 30 Fighters Lost

BRITISH SMASH REICH TARGETS; 4 RAIDERS LOST   Halifaxes and _  Lancasters Bombard Duisburg—Americans Lose 56 Bombers

U. S. Airforce Suffers Heavy Loss Bomber:   Fifty-Six Four- Engined Planes and Thirty Fight. . ers Missing In Record’ Raid Over Germany

GREAT AERIAL ATTACKS MADE UVER GERMANY   76 Bombers And 32 Fighters Are Downed

U. S. Air Force  Loses D4 Bombers In Raids  On German Targets   Craft Hit By Ack-Ack Believed Down In Friendly Territory; Waves Of British ‘Planes ‘Shower Two Nazi Cities

3000-PLANE RAID COSTS 86 U.S. AIRCRAFT   Americans Run Into Terrific Ack-Ack Barrage Over Germany: British Continue Attacks.

RAF Bombers Hit Reich During Night   U. S. Air Force Loses 56 Heavy Planes And Thirty Fighters

U.S. Airforée Has Worst Loss Since April With 56 Bombers Shot Down .

Eighth Air Force Suffers Heavy Losses In Raids   Fifty-Six Four-Engined Bombers Downed; RAF Continues Pounding.

Heavy Bomb Raids Cost 86 Airplanes   Pulverizing Blows Against Leipzig Synthetic Plants

RAF Picks Up Where Yankee  Planes Stop Oh peek oo eee, Togs ay   Americans Lose 56 Bombers. 30  Fichters in Raid

Bombing Raids Prove Costly To “UL S. Air Foree   30 Fighters Believec Lost After Lons Foray Over Nazi Oi Plants   11,000 Planes Involved

30 FIGHTERS MISSING AFTER RECORD RAIDS   11,000 Planes Fly ven Missions In -Hour Period

86 PLANES ON RAID MISSING   Losses to Ack-Ack Fire Over Germany Includes 56 Bombers

96 BOMBERS LOST IN RAIDS ON GERMANY   Record-Breaking Aerial Offensive Costs U. S. Air Force Heaviest Toll Since April Raids   ACK-ACK IS BLAMED

RAF Planes Sustain Record Air Offensive Against German Industries.

86 U. S. PLANES FAILTO RETURN FROM GERMANY  HEAVIEST LOSS OF ACT  COICANM AIDCA

56 Bombers, 30. Fighters . Are Downed  By Ack-Ack   All-Day. Raids Made On Nazi Oi Plants

Heavy Loss in Nazi Bombing   L. S. Heavy Bomber Loss Greatest Since  April With 56 Downed

Germany Struck By Great Force Of Air Raiders   Loss To Americans Heaviest Since Berlin Attack

Great Air Attacks  Continue   RAF Armada Strikes After Raids Costing U.S. 86 Warplanes’

] Fliers Killec In Plane Wreck   Victims Identified After Plane Crashes North Of Shreveport

100-Mile Gale Sweeps Over Muskogee Area   No Injuries Reported, Or Houses Overturned; Electric Power  Service Halted

Leon Phillips Enters Denial   Former Governor. Says He Never Received One Cent of Payoff

INVADING JAPS REACH KWEILIN   Fall Of City To Be Blow For Chinese; Eastern Area Isolated

JAPS OPEN-NEW CHINA OFFENSIVE   ADVANCE SIX MILES IN RENEWED THRUST WEST FROM PINGNAM

Kweilin In Path Of New Jap Offensive  Chinese Attacked At Outskir

JAP ADVANCES IN CHINA TOLD   Open New Offensive in Kewilth Area; Make Gains In Most Sectors.

All-Out Drive  For Kweelin   Japs Open Offensive For Seaport, Reach Outskirts Of Kwanest.

Japs Open All-Out Drive In China   Kknemy Troops Reported On Outskirts Of Kwangsi

Japs Open Power Drive On Kweilin   All-Out Offensive Reaches Outskirts Of City; Renew Advance from Foochow

Dewey Raps Government Wool Policy   ENOUGH ON HAND TO LAST CTIVILIANS 4 YEARS IF PRODUC. TION STOPS ENTIRELY, CANDIDATE FINDS.

U. 5. HOARDING OF WOOL HIT BY GOV. DEWEY   Sees Piling Up of Re serves Carried to Ridiculous Point

Wool Stockpile Much Too High, Dewey Is Told   Reserve Move Carried To Ridiculous. Extreme, Governor Savs: in Idaho

Wool Reserves Far Too High, Dewey Asserts   Governor Scores New Deal Policy

Noted Humorist Dies After Illness   Irvin S. Cobb Had Serious As Well As Comic Side; Was Beloved By All.

Irvin S. Cobb Dies in New York   Famed Writer  Succumbs to IIIness

IRVIN: COBB. DIES AT THE AGE OF 6?   Famed Humorist and Author Ill for Three Months

Irvin S. Cobb, . Noted Humorist. Makes Last Ouip   Author, Actor, Speaker Dies in New York Hotel After 3-Month Ulness

Irvin Cobb, 67, Dies in Gotham   Death Noles of Humorist Direct ‘No Mournine’

OVER 140,000 NIPPONESE IN MIGHTY TRAP   ALLIES NOW WITHIN BOMBING RANGE OF PHILIPPINES

American Forces Cut Off 60,000 More Japanese: Troops By Landing Far, Up New Guinea Coast

U.S. LEADS NAZIS IN SECRET WEAPONS   Wright Field General Tells Of American Robot Planes

ONCE ALLIES GET FOOTHOLD IN FRANCE WEIGHT OF CONFLICT MAY BE SHIFTED TO SUPPLIES

MATERIAL WILL TIP SCALES — IAFTER D DAY   MacKenzie Says Once Allies Get Ashore in  Europé, Weight of Con flict Will Shift to Sup niles

WAR TODAY   Invasion Day, Date Of Which Has Been Set, To See Titanic Clash Of Men and Materiel

F. D. R.’s Son Won't Talk About Award   COURTMARTIAL THREAT KEEPS JAMES FROM BEING LIKE MOTHER

EEO NO PARTISAN SPLIT ON SECURIT   Senator Austin Issues Statement After Meeting With Dulles.

b. 0. P. UNITY ON PEACE PREDICTED   AUSTIN, DULLES CONFER ON FOREIGN POLICY

DULLES, HULL CONFER TODAY   Bi-Partisan Support of Security Efforts Is Predicted

No Party Cleavage Over Peace Issues Predicts Senator   Republicans In Senate In Harmony This Time Says. Austin

Republicans Give Pledge To Assist  in Security Move   No Party Cleavage Over Issues Involving Peace

CHURCHILL, TIT0 CONFER IN ITALY   LEADERS DISCUSS TOP MILITARY QUESTIONS

{ Cpl. George Viereck _  Killed In Italy; Father + On Trial For Sedition

M’Arthur, Nimitz Talks Disclosed   Pacific: War Chiefs ‘Map New Offensives

Noose Tightens On Nazis   Fscape Corridor Cut To 10 Miles in Northwestern France

ESCAPE HATCH FOR 200,000 NAZIS CLOSING   Forces of Von Kluge Writhe In Coffin Corner Already Narrowed to Half Its Earlier Size   UNPRECEDENTED BATTLE

7,645 Japs Killed in Palau Isles   Fierce Fighting ontinues; U.S. Mops Up Angaur

NAZI COLUMNS IN ITALY ARE FALLING BACK   Linking of Anzio and Main Fronts Is Exploited by Rapid Advances.   BULLETIN

CISTERNA IS CAPTURED BY FIFTH ARMY   Nazi Stronghold Is Taken After 4 Hour Battle

R. A. F. Reveals  ‘Secret Weapon’  People Are Shown Aerial Nightmare

NIGHTMARE OF BURSTING FIREBALLS American Pathfinders Turn Darkness Into Daylight for Allied Night Raids

AITHHOLD CRITICISM GF ARMY'S SETBACK   OLD TRICK OF GERMANS   They Did Same Thing in Italy, Also in Africa   BUT LOST BOTH TIMES

PUBLIC WARNED AGAINST PANIC    SENATORS EMPHASIZE CRITE CISM OF MILITARY LEADERS “NOT WARRANTED UNTIL  FACTS ARE KNOWN

Nazis Lose 24,000 Men At Beachhead   German Pressure Lightens—19 Divisions Massing

Nazis Lose  24.000 ° Men At Beachhead   Fourth Of Army Wiped Out In Three Attempts To Drive Allies Back

24,000 on Beachhead   Opposition at Anzio Dwindles, Allies Report

Weather Holds Up Fighting on ltalian Front   German Army Not Recovered From Beating

NAZI PRESSURE ON FIFTH ARMY FADES AT ANZIO   Germans Lose 24,000 Tn 3 Drives; Mass Ror Now Smach

German Power Fades Before Rome Beachhead   Report 24,000 Nazis Killed In Bloody Battles In Sector

PRESSURE ON ALLIES SLACKENS   Report Says 20,500 Of Best German Troops  Killed Or Wounded

Nazis Hal Pressure at Anzio   GERMANS LOSE 24,000 MEN, FOURTH ORIGINAL FORCE, IN OFFENSIVES

Nazis Lose 24,000 Mer On Anzio   3,500 Are Captured; Germans Throw Best Armored Divisions Inte Italy Battle.

NAZI ATTACK REPULSED ON ANZIO FRONT   German Casualties In Anzio Sector Set At 24,000

24,000 Nazis Die Trying To Push Allies Into Sea   German 14th Army  Staggers Under Allied Blows

Germans Lose 24,000 Men In Anzio Attacks   Nazi Pressure Fades To Negligible Amount After Failures ©

ONE-FOURTH OF ORIGINAL FORCE LOST BY NAZIS   Enemy Pressure Fades To Almost Nothing, Allies Reveal

OFFICIAL GERMAN  LOSSES AT ANZIO  ARE NOW 24.00   Three Fruitless Attacks on Beachhead Very Expengive to the Nazia.

NAZIS LOST 24.000 MEN ON BEACHHEAD   Lost Quarter of Force in Three Attacks at Anzio

Momentous Post-War Trade Program Completed in Detail by Delegates

Bricker Predicts GOP Victory   Confers with Dewey on Campaign Plans

American People Are Ready For Change, In Opinion Of Gov. Bricker

Gov. Bricker Says American People Ready for a Change   Predicts Republican Victory in November At Press Conference Before Meeting Dewey 

Big Three Unity Vital - Churchill   War Now in ‘Last Lap,’ Prime Minister Says

Warns Nation’s Future May Depend On Developing Foreign Oil Reserves

Foreign Oil Needed, Says Committee   CONGRESSIONAL POLICY ON RESERVE ALLOCATION FOR FUTURE ASKED

America’s Oil Reserves Being Depleted by War Senate Committee Says

Sound Warning On Oil Supply Of Nation   Truman Committee Calls For Positive American Policy

Far-Reaching Raids On Japs Made By Yanks   Iwo Jima Hit From Air and ‘Seas; Tekyo Says B-29s Dump Incendiaries “eer On- Nip Canale: - + --

BOMBS ON IWO JIMA   Jap Island Base Hit By U. S. Sea and Air Attacks in Concert

Planes, Ships Hit Iwo Jima   Jap Base Is..750-: Miles: From’ Tokye

J oint Blow At Iwo Jima   U. S. Blanes and Ships Plaster Isle In Voleano Group

BLAST WO JIMA FROM AIR, SEA   WARSHIPS, BOMBERS HIT SECOND BLOW AT JAPANESE BASE

SUPERFORTS IN RAID ON JAP HELD ISLAND   Bombs Dropped O; Tokyo During Sunday Reid

‘Triple Squeeze ‘On Leyte Japs - Draws Tighter   Americans Practically Sever Ormoc @ Road Behind Trapped Japs; Isle Flames With Bitter Fighting

YANKS SEIZE 3. STRATEGIC LEYTE HILLS   FRENCH ARMY ¥. ATTACKS = N3 75 MILE FRONT L'   “Practically Sever Ormoc Road,” Repulse Counter Attack, Making Triple Saueeze.   One Ship Damaged

Yankee Forces Virtually CutOrmoc Road   Americans Drive to the Rear of Jap Positions

Americans Cut Ormoe Road in Philippines  Ritter Fighting on   Bitter Fighting on Leyte Parks UV. S.. Pacific Campaign

ORMOC ROAD IS VIRTUALLY CUT BEHIND ENEM)   Action Announced As Leyte Island Flames With Bitter Fighting   LANDING ATTEMPT BY JAPANESE FRUSTRATED

AMERICANS GAIN INBITTER FIGHT FOR LEYTE ISLAND   Plunge Toward Ormoc From Three Directions, 24th . Advancing Over Piles of Enemy Dead.   ROAD CUT BEHIND TRAPPED NIP REGIMENT   ‘ New Hill Positions Overrun by Yanks—Nip Counter-At' tack at Balogo “Bloodily” Repulsed.

Americans Sever Ormoc Roac And Repulse Jap Attempt To Break Tightening Trap

Yankees ‘practically cut Ormoc road’ as bitter battle flames  British sunhbmarimes destrov 24 more   British submarines destroy 24 more,  Japanese shins: toll is 69 in five days

U.S. Forces Sever Road Behind Japs   Yanks Bloodily Repulse Enemy Attack At Baloge

ORMOC FLIGHT ROAD CUT OFF FOR JAPANESE   LAST STRONGHOLD ON LEYTE IS SQUEEZED

Ormoe Road  Practically Severed by 24th Division      JAPANESE REGIMENT REPORTED TRAPPED   Advances Scored by U. $ Forces on Other Fronts

Ormoc Road Virtually Cut By Yankees   Three Strategic Hills, Captured on Leyte, Counter-Attack Fails  CAING CPNERAT

Push Veteran Pay Planning   Favor Comparative Bill By War Department

HOUSE MAY PASS VETERANS’ PAY BILL THIS WEEK   Mounting Congressional Sentiment Seems To Assure Eearly Pasage

ARMY HAS LOST 4,000 PLANES   COMBAT MISSIONS COST 14,600 CRAFT—72,000 AIR FORCE CASUALTIES,

ARMY AIRPLANE LOSSES 42,000   Battle Casualty Total For Air Forces Is About 72,000

WAR COSTS AAP 4 000 PLANES   Operational Losses Account for Twice as Many as * Combat Ones

British And Greeks Chasing Germans  Se en oe ee ee ne ae en ae ee) ee ae a. ee

Allied Airmen Male 1,700 Sorties Over Nazi Territory: Ton Ge is Sieh! Assault At Genoa

ITALY, TOULON   Allies Down 36 Foe Planes In Many Raids; Action on Land Increases

ALLIES MAKE 1 700 SORTIES OVER ITALY   Topping Off Assaults With Night Blow At Genoa: Shell Yugoslav Island Of% Korcula.   Battle over Toulon

35 German Planes Shot Down During 1,700 Allied Sorties Over Italian Cities

Allies Hit Genoa.  Florence, Toulon   Airmen Make 1,700 Sorties and Shoot Down 36 Nazi Planes; Yugoslav Island Shelled Again: Ground Patrols Active

Allied Airmen Blast Targets In Toulon Area   Attack Florence, Genoa and Padua   Direct Hits on Factors

German-Held Italian Cities  Heavily Hit   Allied Ground Troops More Active as Weather Improves

Allied Airmen Raid Genoa, Padua, Florence And Toulon; Baq 36 Planes

Allied Airmen Down 36  Nazi Planes   Genoa, Padua and  Florence Are Heavily Pounded

White, Wheeler Present Senate  New Radio Bill  Bans Commercial News Rraadeactec

Senate Group Studies Bill Banning Commercially-Sponsored Newscasts

Senate Slapped With Drastic Radio Measure   Commercial Sponsored News Broadcasts To Be Banned Under Law

DRASTIC NEW RADIO BILL   Would Ban Commercially Sponsored News Broadcasts

NewRadioBill lsSeenDrastic   French Patriots Urged To Prepare for Invasion

Threaten To Overrun The Robot Bomb Coast Within 72 Hours   GERMAN RESISTANCE CRUMBLING SWIFTLY  Eisenhower Predicts That European War Can Be Wan This Year

Germany Will'Be Defeated This Year, Says Gen. Eisenhower; Reveals Nazi Losses in- North France, 400.000 Men

AMIENS IS CAPTURED BY BRITISH   New Advance In North France Is Expected to Outflank Robot Coast.

Quebec Parley’s Progress‘Fold   F.D.R. Expects Talks To End This Week End

War Conference’ Making Progress   European Matters Being Discussed, Although Pacific Wear Theater Is The Principal Suijiect

Quebec Meet Maps Plan To Kayo Axis   King or Nimitz Mentioned as Chief in Pacific

Progress In Victory Conference   Will Name Supreme Head For Pacific  War Forces.

Pacific Chief To Be Chosen   King or Nimitz Likely Choice FDR, Churchill Coordinate

DUTCH PEOPLE GIVEN WARNING   ‘Severe’ Air Bombardmen Of Isles Is Planned

Warn Dutch of  Bombardments   Foresee Severe Aerial ‘Bombing of Country

RESISTANCE OF NIPPONESE IS INCREASING   Enemy Forces on Fronts  2,500 Miles Apart Have  Objective of Preventing Exploitation of Bases   BATTALIONS AMBUSHED

JAPS HAVE MADE HEADWAY IN DRIVE AGAINST CHANGSHA   Fresh Reinforcements — Make Headway Against Chinese Troops Striving Ho Hold Capital

NIPS FIGHT HARD FOR BIAK ISLAND   Enemy Shock Troops and Tanks Slow Yank Drive Near-Mokmer Airdrome

Japanese Making Strongest Defense In Many Months   Americans Find Fierce Fighting On Biak Island

Japs Fight Fiercely To Stop Allied Drive   150,000 Pushing Back Chinese In Heavy Battles, While Biak Invaders Meet Resistance

JAPS RESISTING ALLIED DRIVES   Enemy’s Objectives in Biak Island and China Are The Same.   BATTLE FOR AIRDROME

JAP ENUUFS OFFER STIFF: ~ RESISTANCE  Fight Bitterly ly Against “Yanks On Biak Fe Island: oy ahs bag DEVELOP DRIVE Press Offensive Against Chinése  Railway      Press Offensive Against Chinése  Railway

Japs Defend Biak Island   MacArthur Meets Hardest Fighting In Several Months

Japs Putting Up Stiff Fight On Biak Tsk   Throw Tanks Against Yanks. Take Big Toll In Ambush; Nips Gain In China Battle

Japs Strongly Resist Americans Invading E Be      Offensive Against  China’s Hankow-Canton Railway Developing Swiftly; Nips Claim Ship Sinkings

AIM TO DELAY ALLIED SEIZURE OF VITAL BASES   Resistance Rises On Biak [ge land; Press Against Hankow-Canton Railroad

Americans Face Resistance In Biak Invasion   Offensive Developed By Nips To Seize Key Railroad

Yanks, Chinese ‘Meet Resistance   From Japanese   Two American Battalions Are Ambushed At Biak; China Rail Line Broken

Grim Defense ‘By Japanese ~~ in Schouten:   First-Class: Troops’. Are Thrown In.as Yanks Move Closer to Philippines... :   -NIPS CONTINUE po DRIVES IN CHINA   Still Trying to Split China and Seal Off the Hastern Part

Fierce Fighting Rages and Yank Progress on Biak Island Is Slowed by Fanatical Enemy in Caves and Trees—U. S. Destroyers and Planes Blast Positions

Jan Defenses At Biak, New Guinea Stiffeng Today   Biak Defense Termec Fiercest Of Was In Pacific; Yanks Stalemated

AIRDROME ON BIAK   Move To Seize Important Hankow-Canton Railway   FIRST TANK FIGHT   Wages In South Pacific: Saipan In Marianas Again Bombed

Severe Casualties Suffered by Yagks Invading Biak Isle   MacArthur Encounters Fiercest Resistance  in Many Months   323 Violent Deaths in United States During 4-Day Memorial Day Holiday

JAPS PUTTING UP RESISTANCE TO YANK DRIVE   Mips Fighting Desperately t Prevent ‘Americans From Takine Bases      ACTIVITY ON TWO WIDELY SCATTERED FRONTS FLARES

Japs Resisting Yanks in Biak,  Advance in China  Nippons Seek to Split Chinese,

JAPS STRONGLY RESIST ALLIED FORCES ON BIAK   Bitter Fighting Reported By MacArthur

Japs Offering Resistance In Biak Battling   Display Bursts Of Power Against American Forces

Biak Battle Fierce Fight   Japs Pin Down Americans Advancing On Airdrome; Ambush Two Battalions

Japs Display Nev Bursts of Power: On Two Fronts   Foe Puts Up Fierce Resistance Against Yanks on Biak and Hite Hard in Ching

JAPS RESIST STRONGLY ON TWO FRONTS   Show New Burst of Power Off New Guinea and in China, Hoping to Block Allied Use of Bases  Nearer Homeland.

APS. CLINGING GRIMLY 10 BIG FIELD ON BIAK   Vital Airdrome Is Under U. S. Ship and Plane Bombardment

Jap Resistance On Biak Strong   Swiftly Developing Offensive to Seize Hankow Railway

Japs Resist U.S. Troops  Invading Biak   Nips Develop Drive On Hankow-Canton Railway in Sudden Surge of Power   Casualties Are High.

NIPS HOLD ONTO KEY AIRFIELD IN SCHOUTEN ISLES   Japs Advance in Drive te Capture Vital Railway in China

Japanese are Dev eloping An Offensive   Hoping to Seize China’s HankowCanton Railway

Japanese Make Swift Advance On China Front   American Casualties Heavy in Biak Island Tnynston

Jap Fighting Power Gains On 2 Fronts   Resistance On Beak Is. land and Offense In Central China

ENEMY BATTLES FIERCELY WITH YANKS ON BIAK   First Tank Battle Of South west Pacific Reported; Japanese Also Step Up Offensive In Honan, 2,500 Miles Away.

JAPS BATTLE TO HOLD BIAK   Would Prevent Allied Use Of New Bases

Gangland Slays Gambling Boss   Chicagoan Is Shot . Tr Death By Gunman

ADVANCE IN INNER LINE CONFESSED   Crushing Blow Against Nipponese Navy Leaves Japs on Saipan at Mercy of Americans

British Fight To Stem Enemy  Near Apr ilia   Three German Assaults Against Americans West Of Cisterna Beaten Back With Gains   Heavy Casualties  - Inflicted On Huns   Tanks Clash At Point-Blank Range In Cassino Streets; Yanks Kill With Hand Grenades

Germans Foiled Jn Attempt to Break Anzio Beachhead   Three Enemy Thrusts Are Directed Against American Positions West of Cisterna, But Are Beaten Back By Doughboys   FIERCE FIGHTING AGAINST STIFF RESISTANCE

Heavy Losses Inflicted On  German Units   Situation Reportedly Less Grim But Still Serious For Allies

Nazis Foiled in Attempted Break Throuat   Violent Fighting Raging Below Rome ond Around Cassino

GERMANS ATTEMPT TO BREAK THROUGH ~ THE ALLIED LINES   Nazis Struck at Six Poinis Along the American-[ritish Defense Lines.   THRUSTS BEATEN BACK   The Fiercest of the Beach head Attacks Came in Area of Carroceto.

NAZIS STRIKE AT 6 POINTS NEAR ANZIO   Situation Called “Little Less Grin Grim”  CASSINO   Scene Of Fierce Fighting With Germans Clinging To Most Of City

Nazi Forces Attack Allied Positions At Anzio in 6 Sectors   Americans Repel 3 Enemy Thrusts; British Face Largest Counter-Drive; Battle for Cassino Continues

NAZIS CONTINUE ATTACKS NEAR BEACHHEAD    Yanks Seize Initiative West Of Cisterna, Gain Ground

FIERCE BATTLES IN CASSINO AND ANZIO SECTORS   Germans Batter At Allied Beachhead In Six Different Places; Americans Gain Some Ground West Of Cisterna.

Heavy Fighting og Continues as Bri. iish Seek io Repel Heavy Assaults Near Carreceto   SITUATION BETTER   Allied Airmen Sirafe German Gur Posifions but Nazis Increase Fire, Build Up Strength

Heavy Losses Inflicted On. German Units          Situation Reportedly Less _ Grim But Still: Serious For Allies aie

STRONG ATTEMPTS TI BREAK ALLIED LINES ON ANZIO FRONT  VIOLENT FIGHTING CONTINUES IN AND - AROUND CASSINO

Strike at Six  Different Points   Fierce Fighting _ Still Going On In Streéts of Cassino.

NAZIS HOLD GREATER PART OF STRONGHOLD   Fighting Comes to Close Grips Around Ruins of the Village

Attack At Six Points, Heavy Fighting Is Still in Progress; Americans Edge On In Cassino But Still Far From Breakthrough

British Battle  To Stem Enemy Drive   Heaviest Battle Is Reported at Carroceto; Americans Gain at One Point, Hold Firm Elsewhere Despite Nazi Pressure

Nazis Strike’  At6Points . Along British, U. S. Defenses   ‘Violent Fighting Flares In Cassino

STRONG ATTEMPTS TO  BREAK ALLIED LINES  ON ANZIO FRONT VIOLENT FIGHTING  CONTINUES IN AND ADATINNA CACCIND

BLOODY CASSINO NOW SCENE OF STREET FIGHTING   Once Powerful Nazi Lines Crumbling Under Vicious Attacks by Russians

NAZIS LAUNCH HEAVY BID TO SMASH LINES   Yanks Regain Some Ground; Fierce Battles Continue In Cassino’s Streets

'Nazis Strike At Six Points On Beachhead   Heavy Fighting Continues With British Attempting To Halt Attacks

OUAIKEAT IK DEFENSE AREAS   Heavy Fighting Continues As British Forces Try to Stem Plunges.   CARROCETO HARDEST HIT,

FIERCEST OF THE SIX ASSAULTS CENTERED IN AREA NORTHWEST OF CARROCETO—-THREE OF DRIVES AIMED AT U. S. LINES NEAR CISTERNA—CASSINO RUINS SCENE OF VIOLENT BATTLES

NAZIS DIRECT WORST BLOW AT BRITISH      Fighting Still Rages as Tommies of Fifth Army. Try to Stem Enemy, Plunge Near Aprilia— Yanks Stand Firm. 2°}

Strike At 6 Points Along Bridgehead Held By Americans   Violent Cassino Battle Continues; British Attempt To Halt Attack North And South Of Carroceto

ASSAULT HITS ALLIED TROOPS: AT SIX POINTS   Yanks Repulse Three Enemy Drives West Of Cisterna

Tanks Battle In Cassino At Point-Blank  Firing Range   Three Enemy Thrusts Against Americans At Anzio Beaten Back; Allies On Defensive

Allies Are on Defensive Despite Support From Air      Violent Battle of Cassino Is Raging Through Seventh Day

FIGHT HARD IN CASSINO RUINS   German And American Tanks Rumble Through City’s Streets   BATTLING IS CLOSE

VIOLENT ATTACKS MADE ALONG ALLIED PERIMETER IN EFFORTS TO BREAK THRU AND ISOLATE   American Doughboys Beat Back Fiercest Attacks Near Cisternia and Recapture Some Ground Allied Air Forces Strike Heavily at German Gun  Dreltinwne 2 4

Six Assaults Are Hurled at U. S.British Positions   Americans Beat Back Three Enemy Thrusts: Violent Fighting in  The Ruins of Cassino

Nazis Attempt To Cut Allied Lines On Anzio Beachhead;  Fierce Fiohtino In Cassino

Six Attacks Hurled Against Beachhead   Americans Struggle To Enter Cassino—Big Guns Lash Troop  Waldine Invasion Port

Americans Defeat Three of Six Nazi Attacks On Bridgehead Below Rome

U.S. and British Defenses Under  Heavy Assault   Violent Fighting Continues Southward in Cassino

New Attempt Made to Break Lines af Anzio   Violent Fighting Continues Today In Cassino Ruins

Allied Lines Under Attack At 6 Points   Yanks Beat Back Powerful Thrusts but British Are Hotlv Enzaged   FOE HOLDS CASSIXO   American and Nazi Tanks Duel in Streets but Enemv Is Well Dug In

GERMANS STRIKING A ALLIED FORCES: AT SX POINTS   British Forces Faced With Fiercest Of : -Enemy Plunges   CASSINO BATTLE IN 7TH FIERY DAY

FIERCE BATTLE STILL RAGING ON BEACHHEADS   Germans Staging Counter Attack In Cassino

Yanks And British Battle To:Stem. Enemy. Plunges -Doughboys Beat Off 3. Assaults—Violent Fighting Continues At Cassino With Yanks Making Slight . Pro gress.

Three Are Killed  At Gh ildersburg   Thirteen Others Injured In Powder Plant Fire

Yanks move forward on  Ormoe road Bitter fighting  races on ridges

CAINS REPORTED AGAINST STIFF JAP RESISTANCE   Yanks Tighten Squeeze Or Reinforced Enemy On Leyte Island   NO ATTEMPT MADE TO LAND ADDITIONAL MEN

Planes Batter . 45,000 Troops InOrmocTrat   American Fliers Down 24 Jap Planes Attempting  TP Wasnad. lnennara. .?-

Japs on Leyte Fail To Break Yankee Vise   Lose Nearly 8,000 Men Trying To Reinforce Position on Island

American Forces Tighten Squeeze on Japs Crowded On Western Leyte Island   Yanks Make Gains Ranging From a Few Hundred Yards to Three Miles; Foe Loses 10 Ships, 8,000 Men as Convoy is Blasted

YANKS ADVANGE IN LEYTE FIGHT   MacArthur’s Men Squeeze Reinforced Foe to Western Side of Beleaquered Island

Yankees Gain in Tough Leyte Fighting   Japs Continue Their Efforts to Break U. S. Vise

Cotten Textiles Price Increases  Ordered by OPA   Administrator Bowles Acts Under Terms Of Extension Bill

Prices Raised On 3d of Cotton  Textile Items   OPA Administrator Obeys Amendment in Extended Petes Cantral Act

Democrats Go Dry   Not Even Short Beer Greeted the 1179 Convention Folks

Germans Lose 75.000 Men In Ten Days   Third Ukrainian Army Advance Outstanding for Its Speed

REDS TOPPLt KHERSON;PUSH TG RUMANIA   City Falls After Week Of Whirlwind Advances; Large Rail And Water tunction.: Bad Roads.   Stubborn Fight

Toll Of Nazi Dead Estimated 75.000   Enemy Flees In Panic, But Hard-Driving Reds Chase Them Right Into City: New Three? Sean

Ukraine Armies Killed 20,000 Nazis During Week   WAY IS OPEN FOR DRIVE ON ODESSA   Vital Base Captured After Sharp Street Fightina

Panic-Stricken Nazi Garrison ls Wiped Out   15,000 Casualties In Last Ten Days

Nazis Suffer Great Losses In Retreat   73,000 Killed, Captured In.Ten Days of Battle, Moscow Announces  OTHER DRIVES GAIN

IRéds Say 75,000 Nazis Killed and Taken Prisoner in 10 Days; Foe Base at Nikelaew Now Menaced

SECRET GAS ROGKET ~ DEVELOPED BY NAZIS   Reports of Fire Rocket’ Come Through Switzerland

Alleged New Nazi Weapon Is Described   ROCKET SHOOTS INFLAMMABLE GAS BLAST OVER AREA

CHINESE TO JOIN WITH AMERICANS   Escape Of Enemy Col> umn Across River  Is Cut Off

HEROIG MARCH THROUGH THICK JUNGLES TOLD   Chinese Forces Aid Americans

Americans Beat Back  Trapped Japs in Burma   Yanks Who Marched 200 Miles Compress Enemy Acainst Advancing Chinese

Yanks Break Jap Try At Escape   Forces Close In On 2,000 Nips In Burma

Returning Pilots Insist Nazi Fighters Ram American Planes in Recent Raids

Robot Attack Sputters fo New Low as Defenders Score Against Bombs

ROBOT BARRAGE AT LOWEST EBR   Bombers Keep Up Their Pounding Of Rocket Lairs And Plants

125 German Planes Shot DownBy U.S Wednesday   Bombers Accounted For 42 And Fighters Got 83 More; Our Losses Reduced

American Fighter Planes Win Five to One Victory Against Nazi Fighters in Raids Against Berlin; Germany’s Losses Heavy

Solons, Military Confer Upon War Politics   Men In Service Can't See Films

TWO MOVIES BANNED FOR SERVIGEMEN   Military Officials Confer on Politics for Soldiers

2 FILMS BARRED TO U.S, TROOPS   ‘Wilson’ And Fibber McGee Movies Hit As Political

Ban On Overseas Politics Studied   Soldier Voting Act To Be Analyzed At Parley

BAN TWO FILMS FROM MILITARY   SAY DISTRIBUTION MAY VIOLATE THE SOLDIER VOTE ACT

BAN TWO FILMS FOR SOLDIERS: 100 POLITICAL   Conf rence Tomorrow on ' What Boys Shall Read  and Hear

William Hale Thompson, 75 Dies Sunday   Chicago’s Most Colorful . Public Official Victim _: Of Heart Attack

Neath Comes to — ' Former Chicago Political Chie}   Russian Diplomatic Action Termed Bold

‘BIG BILL’ THOMPSON, FORMER MAYOR OF CHICAGO, SUCCUMBS   ‘Heart Attack Is Is Fatal te Colorful Politician

FORMER MAYOR OF CHICAGO, 75, DIES   te  William H. (Big Bill) Thompson Victim of Heart Attack

Ex-Mayor of Chicago Dies   Big Bill Thompson Passes Away From Heart Attack

Bill Thompson Of Chicago Is Dead   Famed Mayor Who Reached Heights in ‘Color’ Passes

BILL THOMPSON DIES; THRICE CHICAGO MAYOR      Colorful Anti-British Executive Once Advocated ‘Punch King George in the Snoot’

FORMER CHICAGO MAYOR IS DEAD   ‘BIG BILL’! THOMPSON SERVED 3 TURBULENT TERMS AS EXECUTIVE

ADDS 2240 TONS OF BOMBS T0 U.S. LOAD   British Flyers Also Raid Madgeburg and Berlin

Estimate 3.000 Planes Hit Nazis In Past 24 Hours   Three Pronged Assault Is Made On Germany By Allied Bombers   BRUNSWICK HARD HIT DURING RAIDS

TWO THOUSAND TONS OF BOMSS DUMPED ON GER. MAN INDUSTRIAL CENTER LAST NIGHT BY.  RAF AS CLIMAX OF ALLIED 24-HOUR ~ AERIAL OFFENSIVE DURING WHICH te qs 3,000 PLANES TOOK PART

RAF DELIVERS BIGGEST BLOW ON BRUNSWICK   Mosquitoes Hit Madgeburg and Berlin; Invasion Coast Blasted

ADDS 2240 TONS OF BOMBS TO   British Flyers Also Raid Madgeburg and Berlin — 

Batter Forward Ancther Hi Mile To Within Miles Of L Of Rome; Armored Units ] Pass Appian Way Bastion   BIG TANK BATTLE NOW IN FOURTH D:

Much Support Being Pledged To Fulbright   Backing From Sims’ And Laney Camps For Congressman

MERCURY.-DROPS TO 5 BELOW   Not Quite So Cold Is  Forecast for Saturday

DEGAULLE TO ~ RULE FRANCE . DURING WAR   STATE DXPARTMENT RECOG; NIZES FRENCH GENERALS -GROUP AS THE GOV. ERNMENT

U.S, RECOGNIZES DE GAULLE RULE   eYecFacto Authority Wil Govern in New Zone of Interior

BIDDLE BELIEVES F. D. R. RIGHT IN SEIZING WARP CO.   Feels Reasevelt Authorized By War Labor Act to Take Over Firm—Admits “There le Room for Argrument’’

Biddle Upholds Ward Act   President Has Power for Requisition in Wartime, Testifies

Biddle Sees Cause For Dispute In Ward Case   [Believes President Did Not Exceed Authority But Telis Investigating Committee Congress Should Clarify Lawes

WARD SEIZURE BLAME SHIFTED   Biddle Says Congress Should Clarify Law - - Concedes Room for Disagreement

Biddle Gives Ward Case Views   Should Clarify Laws If Felt Authority Was Exceeded

Biddle Says Law Should be Cleare In Seizure Case   Still Justifies President’s

IfF.D.R. Exceeded Authority in Ward Case Congress Should - Clarify the Law, Biddle Say   States Government's Position and Defends Course of Action, Giving His Explanation of Moves .

Ward's Seizure Is Discussed   Attorney Biddle Believes Laws Should Be Clarified To Guide Leader

Clarify Seizure  Rulings—Biddle Room For Disagreement, , He Tells Congress

WARD PROBERS HEAR BIDDLE   Attorney-General Says He Would Like To See Law Clarified

Biddle Defends FDR Action In Ward Co.  Matter   Says President Within Rights

Defends Act of President in Ward Seizure   Biddle Tells Congress Legal Aspects Are Open to Disagreeemnt

House ‘Probe On Seizure Of Ward Property   Attorney General Biddle Attempts to Justify Government’s Action

BIDDLE TALKS ON SEIZURE OF WARD   ‘Doubt Over Legality But Believes President Had Power To Act.

Biddle Defends Seizure of Ward's   President Authorized by Statute To Act Declares Attorney General

BIDDLE SAYS E.D.R. HAD LEGAL RIGHT TO SEIZE WARDS   Tells Committee WLB or Warime Authority Permitted Plant Requisition

Ward Seizure Legal, Biddle Tells Solons   Specific Power ‘Given’ In War Labor Act; Urges Court Ruling

Ward Plant Seizure Legal.  Says Biddle   President Acted Within Power, Attorney General Tells Congressional Unit

Biddle Asks ‘Clear’ Law On Seizures   Action in Ward Case Defended at Probe; Admits Some Doubt

BIDDLE SAYS LAW IN WARD CASE MAY NEED CLARIFYING   If Coneress Believes FDR Exceeded Authority in Seizure Laws Should Be Clarified

Biddle States Laws Should  Be Clarified   Declares There is Room for Argument In Seizure Case

Biddle Tells Congress If FDR Exceeded Authority Law Should Be Clarified

Biddle Called In To Justify  Ward Seizure   Attorney General Says Laws Should Be Clarified To Guide FDR.   ALT HORTT VY Expire

Biddle Defends Ward's Seizure By Government   Attorney General Says Congress Should Clarify Law

BIDDLE CLAIMS LEGAL BASIS FOR SEIZURE   Attorney General in State. ment to Investigators Admits Disagreement Over Ward Case   SITUATION DANGEROUS

Biddle Defends Wards’ Seizure   Declares Congress Should Clarify Laws Governing Case

Biddle Leaves Job To Congress   CLARIFICATION OF F.D.R. POWERS URGED TODAY.

BIDDLE DEFENDS ACTION OF FOR IN WARD CASE   Attorney General Tells House Group President Entitled To Broad Powers

Reds Nab Two Vital Bastions   Capture of German Oil Center and Rail Junction Announced

-Reinforced Nazis — Fighting Furiously “To Protect Prussia   Germans in ‘Do-or-Die’ Stand In Defense of Eastern Border; Advance by Reds Beine Slewed

Bloodiest Battle Of Soviet Summer Offensive In Progress In East Prussia bat   NJSECEIOEYD BSR 2 AMAL BSE  East Prussia ae  ADVANCE PATH LITTERED WITH DEAD GERMANS  On The Italian Front Principal Action Centered On Battle For Florence

Few Gains Claimed By  Russians   Germans Apparently Are Making Do-Or-Die Stand Along Border,  « Warsaw And Krakow

FURIOUS BATTLES BEING FOUGHT IN ALL-OUT EFFORT TO HALT RUSSIANS   Battle For Warsaw Resolves Into Toe-To-Toe Slugging Match.

Strong Reinforcements Are Rushed Into Lines In East Prussia   Miles Of Trenches Built On Border   Soviet Advances Now Meas: ure In Yards Instead  Of Miles

GERMANS BATTLE DESPERATELY T0 HECK RUSSIANS   Furl Reinforcements of Men  "and Machines Ayainst Soviet Advance Near East Prussia.   BATTLE FOR WARSAW NOW SLUGGING MATCE   Nazi Withdraw From Florence But Leave MachineGun Nests Along Bank af Arno River.

Red Gains Cut by Stiff Resistance   Nazis in Desperate Defens of Home Soil — Bloodiest Battle of Year

NAZIS STIFFEN THEIR BORDER DEFENSE LIN   Pull Reserves from Reich to Battle Threatening Red Armies.

Russians Capture Gili Areas   Germans Fighting Like Madmen to Protect Home Soil

Send In Strategic Reserves   Bloodiest Battle Of Soviet Summei Offensive Raging Near E. Prussia

Reds Headed For Warsaw, Krakow Also Fighting Hard   Reports. That UES Had Reached od German  cal ie. ‘ ie a — ee

Sambor, Key To Great Galician  Oil Fields, Falls   Reinforcements Tossed Into Fray By Nazis In Desperate Battle

Germans Hurl Reserve: Into Battle For East Prussia, Polish Cities   Artillery And Luftwaffe Slow Red Progress As Nazis Go All-Out In Defense Of Reich

Nazis Hurl  New Forees Into Fight   ‘Do-Or-Die’ Stand Mode On Approaches To Key Bastions

Substantial Nazi Reinforcements In All-Out Attempt to Check Red Army

RUSSIAN ARMIES BATTLE IN TWO MAJOR. SECTORS   Nazis Drain Off Reserves From Reich For Red Battle

Germans Hurl Substantial Reinforcements Of Mechanized Fcrces, Infantry, Aircraft To Protect Border   ‘HITLER YOUTHS’ AIDING IN FIGHT

ADVANCE ON THREE FRONTS   Germans Throwing Reinforcements Into 3 Battles

CHARGES GESTAPO: ACTIVE IN AMERICA   Former Reichstag Member Says Nazi Organizations Exist in Prison Camps.

German Charges Gestapo Has Executec Five Anti-Nazis in U. S. Prison Camps

Gestapo Works In War Prison  Camps In U.S.A   Editor Charges Murder Of Five

UNITS OF GESTAPD SAID. ACTIVE HERE   Editor Says 5 Nazi Prisoners Executed in Camps By Members

NAZIS ORGANIZE AMONG PRISONER   Editor of Paper Declares Gestapo Is Active, Claims Five Men Killed.

Announce Cut In Butter Points   Reduction To Go Into Ef. fect Sunday; Lamb and Mutton Steaks Reduced.

Ration Value of Butter Is Cut .  4-Point Reduction Ordered by OPA

Butter Ration Points Reduced eee  Cut From 16 To 12 Points To Be Put Into Effect Sunday

BUTTER WILL BE REDUCED FOUR POINTS SUNDAY   Shortening, Lard, Cooking “Oils To Continue Point Free

Butter Ration Value Slashed To 12 Points   Points for Beef Cuts Up Slightly for May; Lamb. Mutton Lower

Butter 12 Points Beginning Sunday   some Changes in Meats for May

8), ‘Boosts ‘Coupon Cost of Most: Steaks, ‘But Lowers That “of Lamb ‘and Mutton—Margarine. Reduced From 6 to 2 eGard,’ ‘Shortening : ‘and ‘Cooking’ Olls ‘Stay On Free List.

BUTTER POINT VALUE IS CUT   Many Changes Made in Ra. tion Prices of Meats, Effective Sunday

Butter Ration Points Reduced: Beef Goes Up   Lamb and Mutton Reduced 50 Per Cent In New OPA Order

JAPANESE CAPTURE U. 5, AIRFORCE BASE AT HENGYANG, CHINA  ONE OF FIRST MAJOR FRUITS IN ENEMY DRIVE TO CUT CHINA IN TWO

UP Writers Describe Entrance Into Rome   Germans Leave 95 Per Cent of City Intact

City Little Damaged as Yanks Enter   Germans Fight Rearguard Action Right Up to Its Gates

Group of German Officers Captured  One Officer. Men Take   One Officer, Men Take Corps Commander

Rep. Luce Renominated:  Republican Congresswoman Hits Out af New Deal and Communists

CLARE LUCE AGAIN GIVEN NOMINATION   Blonde Congresswoman, in Acceptance, Hits: New Deal

Great Bombardment Softens Rhineland for US First Army   Armored Forces in Stiff Fight to Build-Up  Narrow Link to Dwindling Paratroopers

Today's War Commentary   The world’s two ware soon may hecome one World War.

INDICATION THAT JAP RESISTANCE MAY BE FALTERING   This Is the Report From Northern New Guinea, Save Stimson,

STIMSON OPINES NIPS WEAKENINC IN PACIFIC WAF   Wor Secretary Reports Japs Apparently Trying to Quit New Guinea

Allies Make Steady Gains in Pacific   Jap Resistance in New Guinea May Be Collapsing---Stimson

Jap Resistanee In Guinea Low  a T4544   Secretary Of War Says Allies Making Steady Progress Against Japs.

JAP COLLAPSE HINTED IN NORTH NEW GUINEA   Stimson Announces Stead Progress In Pacific War

SECRETARY STIMSON SEES INDICATION OF JAPANESE COLLAPSE  RESISTANCE IN NORTH.   RESISTANCE IN NORTH. ERN NEW GUINEA REPORTED LESSENING

Japs Near End of Rope In Northern New Guinec   Allies Hold Advance Positions in Burma

Stimson Says New Guinea  Japs Flee   Rabaul Battered By U. S. Planes, 12 Lost

‘Stimson Reports Indications. Jap Resistance In Northern iNew Guinea Now Collapsing   Nips Trying To Get Out; Allied Forces Making Steady Proaress

Jap Resistance In Northern New Guinea May Be Collapsing  Allied Troops Making Steady Progress, Stimson

Jap Resistance Growing Weaker   War Secretary Says Allies Making  Steady Progress

Japs Try to Gef Off New Guinea Stimson Says   Several Troop-Laden Enemy Barges Have Been Sunk by Planes And Naval Vessels

Yanks Are Making Steady Progress   Nips Trying to Escape From New Guinea By Nicht   3,000 JAPS KILLED,  U. S. LOSSES 228

JAP RESISTANCE IN NEW GUINEA MAY BE COLLAPSING   Secretary Stimson Says There Are Signs They Are Trying to Escape by  R. Prive

Steady Gains in Pacific, Stimson Says   Jap Resistance  May Be Breaking  In New Guinea— Big Damage in Raids

NEW GUINEA JAPS PRESSED   FOE’S FIGHT MAY BE COLLAPSING: STIMSON

Secretary of War Stimson Says It May Be Collapsing: Allies Making  Steady Progress

Japs Fleeing New Guinea, Knox Reports   Some Trying Night Escape Aboard Barges

Jap Resistance On Island Collapsing   Allies on Steady March In Northern New Guinea

Jap Resistance Collapse Seen For New Guinea   Stimson States That Allied Troops Are Advancing In Pacific

NewGuinea Jap Resistance Is  Seen On Wane   U. S. Troops ps Making Steady _Progress, Stimson Says In War Review

SECRETARY STIMSON  SEES INDICATION OF  JAPANESE COLLAPSE RESISTANCE IN NORTH.  ERN NEW GUINEA REPORTED LESSENING

Aussies Capture Sio, Vincke Area  Says Stimsor   War Chief Reviews All Fronts, Says Nazi Ajir Losses  Soaring

ALLIED AERIAL NAZI RETREAT   Biggest Force Since D-Day Rains Death On Germans

Bombers Drop Ring of Death Around Nazis   Allied Planes Spring Aerial Trap on Von Kluge’s  BWinning Army

Three Important Bases, Mili, Maloelap And Wotje In Jap Hands; Most Of Isles Taken Without Resistance, Nimitz Reports

YANKS OCCUPY MORE ATOLLS IN MARSHALLS   Only Four Important Areas Still Remain In Hands Of   Japanese Garrisons

U.S. CONTROLS ALL BUT 4 OF MARSHALL ISLES   American Troops Seize Ten More Atolls From Japs

Marshall Isles Taken By Yanks   14 SMALL ATOLLS NOW UNDER AMERICAN FLAG.

Yanks Grab 10 New Isles In Marshalls   Japs Hold Only Jaluit in West Half of Chain

FOURTEEN ATOLLS IN MARSHALLS IN HANDS OF YANKS   Japs Now Hold Only One Atoll In Western Half of the Group and Three in the Eastern .

N early All Of Marshalls Now In U.S. Hand:   Couquest Gf 14 Atolls Leaves Japan With Only Four Important Footholds In Area

14 ATOLLS IN THE MARSHALLS UNDER AMERICAN FLAG NOW   Nimitz Announces Capture of 10 More Yesterday, Leaving Only Four To Japs

ALLIES HAVE. CONTROL OF MANY ATOLLS   Jaluit Atoll Is Only Ground In Jap Hands

Half of Marshall Islands Are Under American Control   Foe Cleared from 10 More Atolls, Nimitz Discloses; Little Resistance Met

L.S. Takes Ten Marshall Atolls   Nearly All Western Half of Islands i Lnder American Flag

FDR CALLS ON BOYS TO TAKE FREE TRAINING   Specialized Program is Planned for Those Finishing School

College Training at Government Expense Is Offered Boys Through High School but Too Young for Draft

Free College Tr raining Plan For Boys, 17,  Announced   High School Graduates Too Young for Draft To Get Specialized   TESTS FOR CLASSES SCHEDULED MAR. 15

College training at government expense «s offered nation’s seventeen year olds

FDR Urges Youths To Take Advantage O: Government’s New Pre-Service Proaqram

ARMY AND NAVY PLAN TO SEND BOYS TO SCHOOL   Those Graduating From High School By July May Get College Course   ROOSEVELT URGES ALL TO TAKE TESTS

Free College Offered Boys Below Draft Age   DETROIT STORE ROBBER KILLED   Lady Companion Held; Air Force Uniform Worn In Holdup

ici parti THAN TWO YEARS AGO      Retiring and Incoming. G VB. Make No Recommenda' ions

Proposed Iowa Budget Ouer 60% B tigger Thau Current Oue   $12,000,000 Fund For .State School Aid Asked

DeMille May Quif $5,000 Radio Show   Hollywood Producer Refuses to Pay $1  IlLetnen: Accents Man”

Radio Ban Pends For Want Of $1   Cecil B. DeMille is Paid $5,000 Weekly for Radio Time, Pays No Penny in Tribute.

DEMILLE BALKS ON UNION FEE   May Lose Radio Program {1 $1 Assessment Is Unpaid

Licking Japs Top Nelson Problem   Survey To Be Made of Obstacles Faced

Thousands fo Be Drafted Off War Jobs   Selective Service to Draw 250,000 Men In 18 to 25 Age Group

nge Freaks Of Tornado Salvage Work Still Needed   I Priority For Reconuction of Farm Buildings

LEADERS, OF ‘DIXIE REVOLT: ~ SAY MOVEMENT TO SPREAD   ANTV-ROOHEVELT FACTION GLAIMS OPPOSITION; MAY AFFECT THE NOVEM-:  BER ELECTION. °

ANTI-NEW DEAL REBELS  ALB MAY AFFECT ELECTION   “Dixie Revolt’, Especially Over Snubbing Texas   AND C. I. 0. DOMINATION

BRITISH LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE IN NORMAND)   Dempsey’s Troops Penetrate To Nazi Secon dary Defenses   AMERICAN FORCES STILL ADVANCING

Plane Factory Target; Yanks Down 125 Naz Planes In Thursday’: Smash At Germany.

Strong Force Hits Targets At Old Capita!   Forts, Liberators Fly From  Italian Bases; Marauders Raid Creil.   TIRE FACTORY BLASTED

NO OPPOSITION   Aircraft Factory in Old Austrian Capital Target of U.S. Forces.   3RD RAID IN 24 HOURS

Six-Tonners Are  Dropped By RAF   . Austria-Bound Bombers Unmolested In Ait

Nazi Air Force Suffers a Heavy Loss in Fights   American Pilots Knock Down 125 Planes in Daylight Raids on Reich.   Some Allied Planes  Down in Switzerland

STRONG FORCE OF U. 8. FLYING FORTRESSES BOMBED VIENNA ARE  AMERICAN AIRFORCE ON THURSDAY SHOT DOWN 125 CERMAN PLANES

125 NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN BY U.S. AIR FORCE   34 PLANES FAIL TO RETURN FROM RAID ON GERMANY

Air Assault -in 24 Hours   ‘Americans Cross: Alps From Bases: in. Italy to. Hit Mil-: --ptary Targets:              AIRCRAFT FACTORY: 7 MAIN OBJECTIVE         “Other: : Planes: “Raid: France; : Following. Up Massive’ Us. i and. R.ACF’ Assaults: =

Americans Cross Alps In Smash At Austrian Capital   Aircraft Factory Target Of ‘Sweep; Yanks Down 125 Nazi Fighters In Attacks On Germany Yesterday; RAF Raids Sofia

Vienna Area Heavily Raided   Heavy Bombers Cross Alps From Italy; French Centers Hit Thursday

U. 5. Air Force Bombs Vienné   Old Australian Capital Is Target Today

VIENNA RAIDED BY BOMBERS FROM ITALY   34 American Aircraft Lost In Thursday’s Action   Smash Targets In France; Transport And Rubber Centers Bombed

Our Loss Is 22 Bombers 12 Fighters   RAF Tries Out ‘Factory Buster’ Bombs During Night Attack

Allies Scale Alps to Pound Vienna by Air   3-26 Marauders Attack Railyards  Near Paris; RAF Heavies Deliver Another Blow at Bulgarian Capital

Targets In Vienna Are Bombed  Rail Center At Creil, North Of Paris

()ther Planes Hit Paris Rail Center   Fighter Opposition Is Lacking for Big Planes Today

FLY OVER ALPS IN RAID FROM ITALIAN BASE:   Attack Meets No Opposition by Fighters and Little _ Aircraft Fire,

U. S. Planes Hop Alps. to Hit Vienna   Blow at Austrian Capital Comes After 125-Plane Bag in ‘Raid on Germany

U. S. Bombers Raid Vienna, in Austria   Blow Struck by Craft Based in Italy, Witl Aircraft Factory Reported Target—Toll on Thursday Raid to 125 Nazi Planes.

Yankee Air Force Scores Heavily in Thursday's Attacks   Follows With Air Raid by Italy-Based Warplans on Vienna

125 Nazi Craft Bagged in Raid Yesterday on Southern Reich   No Fighters Met Today; RAF Hits Factory Near Vichy

U.S. Bombers Hit Vienna   Planes Encounter - No Air Opposition; New Raid Near Paris

VIENNA AREA IS BOMBED TODAY BY AMERICAN PLANES   iF orts and Liberators Based. in ! Italy Strike at Aircraft Fac tory in Old Austrian CapLy

YANKS DOWNED 125 PLANES IN THURSDAY RAID   RAF Uses New 12,000 Lb. Bomb in Attack on Factory Near Vichy

Holders ot ‘A’  Gas Ration Books Must Get Renewals Before Sept. 21

‘A’ Card Holders: Must Ask Renewal   Applications Must Be Filed Before September 21

Tobey, Thomas  Get Nominations Massachusetts ClO  Congress Trio Loses

REDS SEIZE 40 TOWNS IN SWIFT “DRIVE ON PSKO!   One Column 75 Miles From Great Rail and Highway Junction, Another 47 Miles Away.   SOVIETS IN UKRAINE POUND TRAPPED NAZIS   Moscow Estimates Only 50,000 of Original Force of Perhaps 100,000 Are — Still Alive.

Reds Race To Fill Birthday Date At Rail Gateway to Baltic States

Arny Court Hears Vivid Deser iption of  Negro Soldiers Hanging Prisoner

WAR PRISONER TELLS OF RIOT   Largest Court Martial Hears Details Of Negro Attacks

Negro Soldiers’ Riot Case Heard By Court Martial   italian Captive  Hanged In Melee

Former Italian Air Force Pilot Tells Court Martial of Negro Riot

Fort Lawton Fight Described   Former Italian Pilot Tells of Storming of Barracks by Negroes

Eye-Witness Story Of Army Race Riot   Fort Lawton Incident Resulted in Hanging of Ital. ian Soldier; Negroes Are  Charged.

GOP Delegates Await Nod From Californian   Second Place On Party : Ticket Expected To Be Settled Soon

GOP Platform Includes World Policing Pledge   Willkie Criticism Is Ignored Today

Willkie And 17 Governors Failed To Change Platform On Foreion Policy —

Warren May Run On GOP Ticket With Gov. Dewey _   Californian Urged To Agree To Offer’

«GOP PLATFORM-—   ENFORCEMENT LANGUAGE IS UNCHANGED; WILL BE SENT CONVENTION LATE TUESDAY

TENSION SOUGHT “AY PALICORHIANE   Second Day of Conven tion Finds Vice Presi dency Still Open —   MARTIN SPEAKS   Former, President Hoover And Clare Luce To Talk Tonight —

Keep Foreign Plank Rapped By Willkie   Insert Promise to Bring Troops Home At Earliest Date

Reject Demands Made by Willkie  Foreign Policy Plank Aareed Upon

Warren Urged To Team With Gov. Dewey   Californians Ask Their Executive To Take 2nd Spot

RETAIN PEACE FORCE PLANK   G.0.P. Committee Approves Platform with Clause Criticized by Willkie.

Republican Platform Committee Rejects Criticism of Willkie and 15 Governors   Approves Foreign Policy Plank Retaining Pledge to Enforce Security by International Bodv Emploving ‘Peace Forces’

OKAY FOREIGN POLICY PLANK   GOP Platform Committee Passes Measure Despite Criticism

GOP PLATFORM GROUP OKAYS TENTATIVE FOREIGN POLICY: DEWEY NOMINATION EXPECTED   Raw Wilkie WMictaken

Republicans Reject Willkie Stand On Specific Pledges For Future Warld Security

GOP Platformers Retain Plank  Of Peace Forces  Protests by Willkie, Governors Are Reiected by Group

MANY SOLDIERS WILL CAST VOTE   ‘But Majority. of Them Ap parently Will Not Vote  in Primary

Thousands Using New War Ballots   Reports From 20 Counties Show 20,000 Apply For Ballots.

War Ballots To Thousands  Will be Voted by  Missourians in the A -— oe Pe

Thousands of * State's Soldiers Want War Ballot   Survey Shows 20,000 From 20 Counties Applied

AMERIGANS CLOSE IN ON JAPS ON GUAN   10,000 Enemy Dead Already Counted, Lines Cut in Two -

AMERICANS CLOSING IN ON GUAM JAPS   Nips Trapped On Northern Tip Of Island

JAPS HAMMERED INTO SMALL BIT OF NORTH GUAM   Final Phase Of Campaign Te Take Island Is Under War

Fifth Army Storming On   Drives One Wedge — 17 Miles of Rome In New Advances Up Italy   More Points Taken   Grenadier Commander’s Captured Notes Reveal Heavy Losses Among Hun

Slow Gain in Fierce Battles   One Allied Thrust’ Carrie: Within 17 Miles of Rome; 4 Strongholds. Attacked   3 NAZI DIVISIONS ARE DESTROYED   Desperate Counter . Attacks Made in Attempt to Save &. German Divisions

Three German Divisions Are Annihilated   More Than 15,000 Prisoners Taken by Allies—Aprilia Overwhelmed

Over 15,000 Prisoners  Taken; Three Divisions Virtually Destroyed —

Enemy Is Hit At Four   Strongholds   Resistance Is Fierce But U. S., British Push Forward, Nearly Destroy Three Nazi Divisions; Steady Fire Rakes Escape Route

Troops Advance Through Wall Of Enemy Fire   Battle For Rome Nears  Climax On Artena  Hillsides

BATTLE RAGES NEAR ROME AS NAZIS RETREAT   One Wedge Only 17 Miles From Eternal City

Allied Troops Drive Through Flame-seared Poppy Fields in Steady March Upon Rome   Three of the Defending 18 German Divisions Practically Wiped Out, While 15,000 Become Prisoners; Great Quantities of Materiel Taken

3 Nazi Divisions Cut To Pieces And 15,000 Captured      Fifth Army Smashes North To Near Italian City Of Compoleone; Germans Staging Desperate Counter-Attacks

3 of 18 German Divisions KO"d; Shells Blanket Escape Route   Foe Resisting Fiercely; More Than 15,000 Captives Taken

Nazi Forces Offer  Fierce Resistance In Italian Sectors   5th Army Troops Storm Toward - Four Rome-Line Strongholds;  3 German Divisions Destroyed

THREE GERMAN DIVISIONS NOW VIRTUALLY BEING DESTROYED BY ALLIES IN SHADOW OF ROME   Prisoners Total Now Exceeds 25,000, As Allies Drive Through Flame-Seared Poppy Fields Near Valmontone and Campoleone. Fighting Now Within 17 Miles of Rome 3

Tanks Batter Reeling Enemy   American Forces Reach Stopes of Alban Hills, Less Than 16 Miles From Rome’s Outskirts; German Strongpoints Blasted

Allied Troops _  Storm Toward. Eternal City   Drive Within Sixteen and. and One-Half Miles f Rome, Front Dispatches Disclose Today    ‘BULLETIN

Wedge Within {Miles Of Eternal City   German Resistance Overcome As Forces Continue To Gain

CASILINAROAD UNDER STEADY CANNON FIRE   Main Escape Route of Eight German Divisions Hammered by Fifth Army  ee ements

18 MILES OFF   American Tanks Attack German Mobile Strongpoints, Dispatch Says.   APRILIA OVERWHELMED

Headquarters Announces. Three German Divisiofis. of 24,000 Men Now Virtually Wiped Out—Pris« oner Toll 15.000,

NAZI STRONGHOLDS ALONG ROME LINES ARE UNDER ATTACK  FIFTH ARMY TROOPS THRUST TO WITHIN 16 MILES ETERNAL CITY

Germans Are Puttiit Up Some Fier '. Resistance   i NS NAZIS WIPEE iy

Allies Within Seventeen Miles Of Rome; Destroy Three German Divisions

NAZIS PUT UP: FIERCE FIGHT AS YANKS GAIN   Three Of 18 Nazi Divisions Destroyed In = Offensive

Battering Into Four Nazi  Defense Lines; 17 Miles Eram The Frarnal Cire

Yanks Take Aprilia In RomeDrive   Campoleone One Mile Distant -As_ Allies Maintain Heavy Pace

Nazis Resist Fiercely on Rome Line   Aprilia TakenAllies Within Mile of  Compoleone

_ Three of 18 German Divisions Committed To Italian Campaign Virtually Destroyed

ROME REVERBERATES TO BATTLE THUNDER ONLY FEW MILES AWAY   ADVANCING ALLIES DRIVE TO WITHIN MILE OF TWO STRONGPOINTS

Fifth Army 17 Miles  From Rome   Kighteen German Divisions Destroyed. More Than 15,000  Prisoners Taken

Fifth Army Troops Storm Toward Nazi Rome-Line Defense   One Wedge of Allied Force is Within 17 Miles of Capital

TANK FORCES ARE 16 MILES OUTSIDE CITY   Big Guns Continue to Pound Vital Enemy Escape Route

ALLIED TROOPS WITHIN 17 MILES OF ITALIAN GOAL   Take 15,000 German Pris oners, Destroy 3 Nazi Units in Italy

wow £ his kd  3 Of 18 Nazi Divisions Virtually Destroyed  By Allied Armies    Victorious Fifth Army Troops Storm Toward 4 Rome-Line Stronghalds Against Fierce Resistance: Via Castling Tlnder Fire

ALLIES PUNCH T0 WITHIN 17 MILES OF ETERNAL CITY   OVERWHELM APRILIA AND CLOSE IN ON OTHER NAZI FORTS

STIFF BATT STAGED IN FIFTH ARMY ADVANCE   Report 3 German Divisions Virtually Destroyed in Italy

BATTLE ROAR HEARD INSIDE ETERNAL CITY   Three More German Divisions Practically Annihilated as Fierce Drive Continues Northward,

Fitth Army Blasts Paths Toward Four Nazi Strongholds in Bitter Fighting; ‘Three Enemy Divisions Are Destroved

ONLY 17 MILES FROM ROME IN ADVANCE AREA   Allied Forces Make Steady Advance Despite Stiff Enemy Resistance

Growing Offensive Nearly Wipes Out 3 Nazi Divisions   Aprilia ls Captured; Big Air Fleets Plaster Germany

Battle Thunder Heard In Rome; ~ Berlin Bombed   Allies Advance Today To Valmontone As Invasion Armies  Are Poised

Fierce Resistance Met As One Wedge Is Thrust Within 17 Miles Of Eternal City— Three German Divisions Claimed Virtually Destroyed—Steady Artillery Fire Pumped Onto Via Casilina, Main Escape Route For Eight Nazi Divisions Being Forced Back

Filth Troops Storm Ahead To Rome-Line   Thrust Wedge Within 17 Miles Of Eternal City Against Strong Resistance.  ENEMY LOSS HEAVZ

THREE GERMA DIVISIONS ARE NEAR OBLIVION   Fifth Army Plunges Into Four Foe Strongholds in Push Toward Rome

Rome Reverberates To Battle  Thunder Only 16 Miles Away   Ry SID FEDER

Allies Advanee To Within 17 Viles of Rome   (rreatest Fleet  Of American Raider Hits Reich as Colleagues Gain

Three German Divisions Are Virtually Wiped Out In Ettort To Halt Advance

ONE WEDGE IS 17 MILES FROM ETERNAL CITY   Via Casilina, Main Escape Route For 8 Nazi Divi sions, Hammered

Sound of Battle Rolls Into Rome   Allies Drive Against Bitter Resistance South of the Citv   IN FURTHER ADVANCES   Main Escape Route of Ger mans Under Allied Ar-   tillery Fire

German Forces Being Destroyed   _ Plame-Thrower Defense Fails Halt Yank,

Drive © Toward Rome —   Fifth Army Storms Aprilia; Eighth  Is Within 2,000 Yards of Valmontone

Fierce Battle Rages as Troops Push Back Nazis   Point Reached 17 Miles from Eternal City

DESTROY THREE OF 18 NAZI DIVISIONS   Bitterly Contested Aprilia Taken By Fifth Army   If Enemy Reported Fierce: Pump Artillery Fire On Via Casilina

Brittany Cut Off; Advance Mile an Hour   Laval, Chateau-Gontier, Mayenne Fall in Drive Toward Le Mans: Brest. Other Ports Near Fall

Take Three Towns 140 Miles From Capital; St. Nazaire, Lorient Near Fall: Brest Entered

Whole Breton Peninsula  Is Sealed Off      Troops Reach Coast Close to.S1. Nazaire, . Fieht Nazis -in- Breet -

At Brest, St. Malo and St. Nazaire; Americans Tear Gaping Holes in German Defense.

Allies Take Positions Near Rome   Americans Expand Beach heads, As British Bombers Blast Berlin

Berlin Pounded Again by British   Russians Drive Disorganized Nazi.  Troops Toward Estonia and Latvia

Allied Toehold Covers 70 Square Miles, Six Miles Deep; Red Armies Speed Foe’s Rout In North   Ry INITEHEN PRESS

Invaders Smash Counter Attack; ‘Berlin Hit Again   Allied Raids Whittle Japanese Air Reserve

STEADY DRIVE GAINS GROUND ON ROME ROAD   Disorganized German Troops Reported Fleeing Before Soviet Armies

ALLIES LAND FIVE GREAT WAVES OF AERIAL CARRIERS, ~ SKY-TRAIN 50 MILES LONG   GERMAN SEVENTH AND 15TH ARMIES UNDER COMMAND OF ROMMEL RUSHING TO REINFORCE GERMAN DEFENDERS IN FRANCE

Exact Battle Picture 1: Still Confused and Will Probably Be For Some Time. Allies Land Re:  inforcements.

Eisenhower Reports Progress All Along 60 Mile Stretch; Rommel Rushing To Beachhead

Fifty-Mile Sky Train Reached Clear Across The English Channel; Poured Thousands Of Troops Into Beachheads

GERMAN TANKS AND INFANTRY MAKE ATTACK   General Offensive Is Launched Through Storm of Allied Bombs, Shells.

Germans Moving In Fast   Six Divisions Ot Germans Are Enveloping Ring

Critical Period Isat Hand in ltalian Campaian   General Offensive launched by Nazis Below Rome

Plane Cutback Ordered To Aid In Making B-29s   Superbombers Will Replace Liberators

REDUCTION IN PRODUCTION OF PLANES ORDERED   Army To Concentrate On Building New B-29 And B-32 Superfortresses   20,000 WORKERS TO BE AFFECTED AT ONCE

Production Cut Sharply On 3 Types Of Airplanes   War Dept. Announces ~ Sweeping Cutbacks  In C-46 Transports,  B-24’s, Thunderbolts   TO BUILD MORE  SUPER-BOMBERS   Immediately Affects "20,000 Workers, 100.000 More Later

OUTPUT IS CUT ON WARPLANES   Sweeping Reduction Te Affect Estimated 120,000 Workers

Aircraft Cutback Ordered in Labor Shift Program  In Change to Building New Superbombers

PLANE PRODUCTION REDUCED SHARPLY   ESTIMATED 109,000 WORKERS TO BE LAID OFF BY END OF THE YEAR.

PLANE PRODUCTION -CUTBACK ORDERED   Way Being Cl Cleared: for Huge B-29 and B-32  Superbombers

Clear Path To Build New Supers   War Department Or ders Sweeping Cutback in Aircraft

Plane Productior Cut Drastically   Cutback Affects Liberators, Transports,  and Thunderbolts.

Nelson Asks Inventory of  U.S. Munitions   Army Requested to Decide Whether Production In Sume Items Should Be Reduced

War Chiefs Asked About Cut in ) Munitions Output  Ronart Indiesates   Report Indicates Large Amount  Of Arms on Hand

TOP ARMY AND NAVY COMMANDERS ASKED CHECK MUNITIONS   WPB CHIEF NELSON ASKS DECISION ON CERTAIN OUTPUT CUTS

W.P.B. And W. F. A. Face Identical Problem: To Brak Production Or To Keep Output At All-Out Level   Nelson In Favor Of Some Cut-Backs   Board Divided Inta ? Schaale

WPB Asks Army Navy fo Size Up Stockpiles   Decide if Army. Should Not Cut Some Productions

Nelson Question: War Production  Asks Army and Navy to Take laventory

Nelson Calls on  Army and Navy te  Seek Output Cuts Report Army Over-Supplied ix  Nearly All Ordnance Revealed by Nelson of WPB

WAR SUPPLIES CHECKUP ASKEL   Nelson Urges Armed Forces To Review Stockpiles

ARMS Sone   Request Made by WPB Chief Nelson as Yardstick for Future Production

Nelson Asking ray, Navy For Check On Needs   Unprecedented Move Puts Production In New Public Light.

Nelson Challenges Materiel Needs   Thinks Army Should Cut Production

NO LET-UP IN ~ REICH RAIDS   Hitler Shakes Up German  Command On Russian Fronts

Small Formation of Forts Makes Assault and Reports No German Fight er Resistance Offered.   RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO MENACE GERMANS

Forts Bomb Invasion : Coast.   Two American Planes Lost; Nazi Generals Replaced in. Russia As Defeats Pile Up

HUNDREDS OF PLANES BRAVE BAD WEATHER TO BLAST EUROPE  BRITAIN CLAMPS DOWN

Fly Through Rain Squalls to Bomb Coast of France   German Fortunes Worsen by the Hour on the Russian Ukraine Front.   Step Up Artillery On Nazis in Italy

HUNDREDS OF PLANES BRAVE BAD WEATHER TO BLAST EUROPE   BRITAIN CLAMPS DOWN ON TRAVEL FROM IRE. LAND TO END ESPIONAGE

Belgian Cities, Budapest Hit   Brussels And Ghent Both Rail Bottlenecks Leading To Normandy.

Liberators Hit Brussels And Ghent Area:   Tactical Operations In Nor mandy Limited by Low. ered Clouds and  * Squalls

Mediterranean Heavy Bombers Blast Budapest  Heavy Air Battles Rage an Fighters Bring Bag of Nazi Blewne tm 9 Pheme 42 109

RAIL TARGETS IN BELGIUM,      Heavy Air Pressure Agains Reich, Satelites ts  .

ltaly-Based Planes Raid Steel Plant In Budapest   Air Battles Reach New Intensity  During Raid

U.S. Planes Bomb Rail Bottleneck To Invasion Area   ‘Liberators Attack “Targets  Near Brussels, Ghent; Budapest Is Also Hit

LIBERATORS HIT BELGIAN CITIES   Bombers From Italy In “Ter. ror Attack” On Budapest

Bombers Pound Axis Targets   Brussels, Ghent And Budapest Are Hit

—ALRLAL-—  BELGIAN TARGETS LAaHED BY BOND  BrusselsAndGhent      Brussels AndGhent Areas Are Battered By U.S. Liberators   BUDAPEST RAIDED   RAF Strikes At GivorsBaden, 12 Miles South. west Of Lyon

GERMANS LOSE 193 PLANES IN THREE DAYS IN BALKANS   Air Battles in Mediterranean Area Costly to Nazis Say Rome Reports

Down 193  Nazi Planes   Allied Bombers Engage In Big Air Battles Over Budapest, Hungary

Bombers Strike Belgium Areas, Also Budapest  Mosquites Keep Homburg Awake

U. 5. LIBERATORS ATTACKED BELGIAN TARGETS THURSDAY  BAD WEATHER LIMITED TACTICAL AIR OPERATIONS IN NORMANDY

U.S. Planes Make “Terror Attack”   Hit Targets In Brussels and Ghent; Raid Hungarian Capital.

Wallace Will Face Stiff Fight for Vice Presidency  Southern Democrats  Express Desire  For Other Nominee

WALLACE FACES NEW OPPOSITION   Stiff Fight — Expected For Renomination At Chicago

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   No Statement by Churchill Until After Holidays

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS IN NAZILAND  °50,000 Escaped Prisoners Terrorize Germail

Commandos Roam Germany:  50,000 Escaped Prisoners Strike Fear into Hearts of Nazi Public

CONGRESSMEN GO HOMEWARD   Oratorical Power Is Unleashed For Political Campaian

JAPANESE GAIN FAST IN CHINA   Nip Troops Advance 37 Miles West of Liuchow

Jap Freighter Sunk at Davae   M?Arthur Smashes Enemy Shinvine at Halmahera

SHIPYARD EARNINGS ARE. $228,234,380      Testified Before Congress Committee Wednesday

Nazi mines explode 300 yards from ‘King George, Spellman and generals

German Mines  Endanger King   American Steps On’ Weapon Near’ Scene

Mines Explode 300 Yards of King George   AMERICAN SOLDIER, ACCIDENTALLY SETTING OFF BLAST, KILLED

MINE GOES OFF AS KING DINES   Soldier Killed Within 300 Yards Of British Ruler’s Table

Nazi Mines Roar Near King’s  Italian Luncheon  George VI, Military Heads Escape Injury in Accident

Mines Explode Near Table Of Kine George And High Allied Officers

Two Alton Men Die in Action; One Is Missing   Jerry Klaus, James Stil. well Killed—Sgt. Harold K. Long Lost

MacArthur Takes Slap At New Deal   Congressman Mokes Public Letters on Subject of Candidacy

General Warns on Dictatorship   MacArthur Answers Request to Be Available for Republican Nomination; Does Not Anticipate Fulfillment of Predictions

Reveals Serious Threat to Allied Strategy Due to Loss of Kweilin Air Bases; Japs Advance Steadily

Austin Supports Draft of Labor   Says Lack Delayed Marchalle Occupation  FF nk Be eee

Only 87 Miles Off   CAPTURE OF LE MANS ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING   Real Break-Thru Announced in Normandy Below Caen, As British and Canadians Gain Five More Miles.

Japs Struck SevereBlow  Over Rabaul   Solomons Planes Keep Up Tempo Of Fighting

More Bombs Fall Upon Jap Base —   Planes Keep Up Steady Pounding Of Rabaul

‘ALLIES’ NEW BRITAIN HOLDINC IS EXPANDED   Airdrome In Dutch East Indies Is Hit In 1.800 Mile Flight

RABAUL GIVEN NEW BLASTING BYU S PILOTS   134 Tons of Explosives Are Dumped On Japanese New Britain Base

Marines Widen  Holdings At Cape Gloucester; War  Supplies Captured

Allied Airmen Pound Rabau'   Big Japanese Base Is Favorite Tarqet

Japanese Base In New Britain Again Hammered   Marines Expand Their Holdings At Cape Gloucester

Halsey’s Heroes Hammer Japanese  Hard And Often   Solomons Squad  Pounds Rabaul

ANIERICAN PLANES CONTINUE HEAVY RAIDS ON RABAUL   Airmen Dump 134 Tons of Bombs on Jap Base in New Britain

Allies Again Hi at Rabaul   134 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Jap Base On New Britain

nherwl Ofwor Rabaul Given  12th Air Blow In 2 Weeks   134 Tons of Bombs Wreck : Runways, Revetments ”. and Supply Area   6 BARGES BLASTED   Many Japs Found Dead of Starvation as Marines Near Cape Mensing

Rabaul Base Hammered By Bombers   Four Jap Air Fields _ Being Reduced to Ruins by U.S, Airmen

RAID ARSENALS IN MANGHURIA   B-29 Superfortresses Strike Boldly at Enemy Industrial Center. ©   FIRST DAYLIGHT ATTACK

Manchurian Industrial Targets Hit   Japs Say Anshan and Penhsihu Raided; Garbled Broadcast May Have Said One B-28 Downed

Super-Forts Hammer Jap Factory Area   Carrier Planes Attack Japanese Base on Palau

Giant Bombers Over Manchuria For First Time   Superfortresses Blast Mukden Area, Heart Of Nip Industry

Super-Forts Strike Manchuria Targets   Important Cities Used By Japanese For Making War Materials Attacked

Two Key Industrial Cities Left Smoking Near Mukden; One Plane Lost, Tokyo Hints

First Daytime Raid By Super Bombers Made In Fair Skies   Anshan And Penhsihu, Industrial Cities, Blasted, Exploding Japs’ Dreams Of “Inner Fortress”

Anshan, Industrial Center of Mikado’s Empire, Bombarded   Penhsihu Also_ Bombed; Tokyo Radio Broadcasts Bad News

Key War Arsenal Fired By Raiders in Daylight Attack   Anshan Torn By Bombers From Base In Western China; Tokyo Says Penhsihu Also Hit; Enemy Also Tells Of Carrier Plane Blow Against Palau Base

3 Cities in East Manchuria Hit   Americans Kil] 2,000 Counterattacking Japs and Move to Within One Third Mile of Agana on Guam; Nab All Northern Half of Tinian; Tokyo Reports 500-Plane Raid on Palau

Belgian Cabinet Expected to Deal With Crisis   Premier Rushes Back to Brussels After Bloody Clash

Communist Alliance Se‘zes  New Deal, Dewey Charges   Hillman, Declared Front for Reds, Branded Biggest U. S. Political Boss

Wider Powers Would Be Conferred On County Com missioners Under Setup   LEGISLATORS SPLIT DURING DISCUSSION

City and County Solons Disagree   Pr oposal To Increase. . County - Powers May Start New Feud

EARTHQUAKE IN NORTHEASTERN STATES TODAY   Windows Rattle an Water Mains Break But No Serious Damace

SEVERE TREMORS FELT EARLY TODAY   Hundreds Of Sleepers Routed From Beds In New England States

Seven Young Persons Killed   4-H Club Boys and Girls in Car Die in Collision With Train

TEEN:AGERS DIE IN ACCIDENT ON GRADE CROSSING  AUTO-TRAIN CRASH   AUTO-TRAIN CRASH OCCURRED IN NYC YARDS LAST NIGHT

eT eee en) ee etre yin nee eee ee Ts  Nine Die In Ohio  Auto-train Mishaps

THREE WOMEN AND NINE MEN TO DECIDE FATE   Jurors Not To Be Segregated Because of Possible Wartime Handicaps

SEAT JURY FOR J, W. COLLETT'S MURDER TRIAL   Select Three Women, Nine Men To Decide Fate of Clinton County Man

COLLETT JURY SEATED TODAY   Three Women and 9 Men Chosen to Try McCoy Family Slayer

SAIPBUILOERS  BACK ON J08S   Launching Postponed By Work Stoppage to Be Held Monday.   OTHER LABOR TROUBLES

Operator Must ’ Register Empty or Partially. Load: ed Trucks. oes

Tax On Sales Is Favored By Virginia’s County Group   _ Crush Makes Report As Committee Meets

POLL SHOWS SUPPORT FOR SALES TAX   County Officials In Favor Of Plan; Hearing Is Asked

CAMPAIGNSSTARTS BUT CANDIDATES’ TRAVEL CUT SHOR)   Gas Ration Puts ‘ Stop to Usual Rallies

Plows  ly State Tichels   Both Parties’ Schedules In Tune With The Times

Major Parties War Time Campaigning Picking Up Speed   State Capitol News Letter - As Reviewed by Sentinel’s. Snecial Correspondent ,

German Counter-Attack Is Beaten Back As Long Toms Drawn Up   ForcesMove Within 8 Miles Of Bastion   Remainder Of Front Flares With Violent Struggles, Carentan To Troarn

MYITKYINA SEIZED BY U. S.-CHINESE   General Merrill’s Troops Take Jap North Burma Base after Spectacular 20-Day Forced March.   Seek Final Link

Allied Forces In Major Coup Take Myitkyina Base   Capture Of Large Airdrome Threaten: Entire Japanese Position In North Burma

Jap Airdrome In North Burm: Falls to Allies   Merrill Forces Score Major Coup, Threaten Nips Entire Position; Big Base Under Siege

NORTH BURMA JAP AIRDROME BASES SEIZED   MERRILL’S FIGHTERS SPRING SURPRISE ON NIPPONESE

Allies Seize Airdrome at Myitkyina   Maneuver Threatens Jap Positions in Northern Burma

Japanese Airdrome  Is Captured In Coup   American and Chinese Forces Take Airbase at Myitkyina and Begin Shelling City—Enemy  Daeitiogn ThrantansaA

GUAM, WAKE, TRUK BASES RAIDED FROM THREE DIRECTIONS   Jap Island Defense Ring Pounded By U. S. Air Forces

Japan's Ring Of Defenses Get Blasting   Yariks Center Assaults © On Guam, ‘Wake, ‘Carolines”” Bastion. Of Truk 

Terrific Bombing Puts Many Nazis In State of Shock   Record Air Assault Paves Way for New Normandy Advance

YANKS ADVANCE MORE THAN MILE   AIRMEN DROP 250,000 BOMBS ON GERMAN POSITIONS WEST OF ST. LO.

Guam in Hands  Of Yankee Troops   Virtual KReconquest of Island Announced After 19 Days’ Fighting

GUAM ASSAULT REGARDED OVER   U.S. Has Only Small Group Of Japs To Wipe Out

suam Now Indiana Girl firtually . Suffers Fata  teconqdered Injuries

YANKS MOP UP REMNANTS OF NIPPONESE   Patrolling Warships and Vigilant Troops Guard Escape From Island By Sea or Land   ADVANCING ON AITAPE

 ° 7 : : ‘Guam Is in Hands of Americans  Atter 19 Days of Hard Fighting

Guam Conquered  After 19 Days   Ground Strewn With Jap Dead; 10,000 Already Buried by Yank Forces. 

CUAM FIGHTING NEARLY AT END   Island Virtually in Yank Hands After 19 Days, Nimitz Reports

Matter of Hours Before Complete Capture of Guam   Under Continual Aerial, Naval, Artillery Fire

END OF BATTLE ON GUAM ONLY FEW DAYS AWAY   Yanks Mop Up on Island; Warships Guard Against Japanese Escape

—PACIFIC— “,  cui ISAC ic — WNUS HANDS   Reconquest. Of Island “Completed Afteri9 Days Of Fighting *

Final Conquest Of Guam Made By American Troops   Jap Escapes Cut Off In Final Island Battles.

Guam Is in Hands of Americans  After 19 ‘Days of Hard Fighting    U. 9. Pacifie Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 10. (P}—The virtual reconqueat of Guam after 19 days’ fighting was annoanced last

Guam Virtually Retaken After 19 Days Fighting      Tokyo Has Reason To Fear New American Moves.

Final Pocket Of Japs Faces Guam Mop-up   Warships Aid Troops in  Preventing Escape of Foe in Coast Trap

No Shortage Of Coffee   Over Three Months Supply on Hand; New Brazil Pact

Plan No-Coffee ~ Rationing Now   Supplies Expected To Be More Than Ample

Ample Stocks of. Coffee Assured 4   Rationing Will Not Be Resumed, Byrnes Says

SPIKE COFFEE RATION RUMOR   Byrnes Reports Brazil’s Promise of Ample Supplies

Pennsylvania Farmer Gives Up Fight Against Rationing, Heads For Home In Mexico.

ONE MAN “WAR” > ON RATIONING      = woh x Proves a Failure, So Mennonite Farmer Moves to Free Mexico

FARMER QUITS, GOES TO MEXICO   Ends Fight Against ‘Rationing By Leavine U.S.   TAKES FAMILY   Sells Farm And Be longings Before Leaving

ASK GENEROUS JOBLESS PAY   Liberals Seek Support For Demobilization Plan 

Gasoline Rations for “A” Card Holders May Be Cut to 2 Gallons in Midwest

Ntuact Move Buildings   Cut in Gasoline Rations Indicated   ‘A’ Card Holders May Get Iwo Gallons

WESTERN AUTOISTS MAY GET GAS CUI   A Card Value Expected to be Reduced to Two ' Galions

MAY CUT WEST GAS RATIONS   PAW Advocates Slash From Three to Two Gallons For Week

‘A’ Card Cut To 2 Gallons  Looming Here   OPA Says Ickes Demand:  Gasoline, Rations Ra PBockevaacl

Over 20,000 Nazis Taken By Yanks In Past 9 Days   U. S. Forces Advance Over 60 Miles In Few Days In France Says Stimson   GERMANS SUFFER : HEAVY LOSSES

YANKS BLAST 7 DIMISIONS   Stimson Lists Nazis’ Normandy Losses  Praises B-29 Raids In Japan

SOVIETS DRIVE FLANK AROUND BUDAPEST AREA   Capital Pincers Spearhead Offensive On 100-Mile Front

RUSSIAN PINCERS SET ON BUDAPEST   ARMORED FORCES STRIKE 21 MILES FROM DANUBE

SOVIET FORGES CONVERGING IN BUDAPEST ARFE   Thrust To Within 21 Miles Of Danube River North of City

Russians Drive Within 21 Miles  of Danube River   Flanker Threatens To Cut Off Enemy In Northeast Hungary

Reds Flanking  City of Budapest   Within 21 Miles of Danube River

Soviet Pincers Ring Budapest In Steel Vise   Red Armor Drives Within 21 Miles Of Danube River North Of Capital.

Soviet Armies Flank Budapest  Throw Noose Arounc Northeast Hungary

RUSSTANS DRIVE AROUND BUDAPES!   Thrust To Within 21 Miles Of Danube River North Of Budapest

THOUSANDS PAY SMITH TRIBUTE   Around 20,000 Line Up For Last Respects To ‘Happy Warrior’

THOUSANDS IN LAST TRIBUTE TO SMITH   2¢,0¢0 From All Walks Of Life File Past Bier In St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Theusands Pay Respects to Alfred E. Smith   20,000 Line Sth Ave. To View Body; Dewey Visits St. Patricks: Rites Are Today

THOUSANDS PASS AL SMITHS BIER   GREAT THRONG TURNS OUT -TO PAY FINAL RESPECTS — TO 4-TIME GOVERNOR.

[housands Pay Respects to The ~‘Hapny Warrior   Funeral Services fo Alfred E. Smith To ‘Re Held Today

THOUSANDS PAY SMITH RESPECTS   Mass Outside Cathedral Be: fore Opening; Rites Are Scheduled Today

20,000 Form Line At Smith Bier   New Yorkers Pay Tribute to Ex-Governor

Nazi Airmen Hit Red Rail Lines  ‘Concentrated Attacks’  Are Reported

German Anxiety Over Red Drive Said Increased   Finn Raid On Russian Base Js Followed By Heavy Soviet Attack On Kotka

BERLIN SHOWS ANXIETY OVER SOVIET FRONT   East Front Quiet Giving Hitler Jittets

RUSSIAN LINES IN POLAND UNDER iNAZI BOMBING   German Concentration Of Communication Lines Reflects Anxiety Over New Red Attacks

GERMANS BOMB RUSSIAN LINES   Air Attacks On Red Communication Lines Reflect Growing Nazi Anxiety.

COMMUNICATION LINES RAIDED BY NAZI ARMY   Fighting Lull Broken; Reds Holdings Own

FARM FAMILIES GATHERING SEPT. 1   BIG JAMBOREE WILL BE HELD IN MARYSVILLE ARMORY. COTTERMAN SPEAKER

195,000 Kiev Citizens Died Under Nazi Heel   Were Tortured, Shot or Poisoned, Russian — Commission Finds 7”

Superforts Blast Singapore Naval Base and Sumatra Oil Refineries

Fall of Budapest To Speed Victory   STORY ON DAGE 7   LONG TOMS POUND JAPS

Superforts Bomb Singapore, Sumatra;  Trap Sprung On Japs In Philippines

American Artillery Echoes Superforts’ Blast at Singapore   Vital Oil Refinery in Sumatra Under Air Attack by Yanks

Yankees Spring Leyte Trap On Encircled Japs   Suicidal Banzai Charges By Nips Mark Desperate Valley Battle.

YANKS SHELL TRAPPED JAPS ON LEYTE ISLE   B-29’s Raid Singapore Naval Base, Sumatra Oil Plant Without Loss

SINGAPORE IS HARD HIT BY SICEDEORTS   American 155 MM Artillery Hits Ormoc Today =

Japs Attempt To Cling to Bonin cick,   Shelling of Ormoe Begun, Springing Trap on Enemy In Leyte Valley

Heavy Artillery Springs Trap on ‘Japanese on Leyte   Enemy Is Rushing Reinforcements to Threatened Bonins

B29s Raid Singapore And Oil Refinery on Sumatra:   Japanese Troops Mowed Down. While Makine Suicidal Attacks 

B-29s Bomb Naval Base, Oil Center   Three Jap Columns Advance on Liuchow, Last U. S. Air Base in East China .

Supertorts Lash At Singapore —   Suicidal Banzai Charges Costly To Ormoc Defenders; Tokyo Rushes More Troops to Bonins

Yankee Guns Hurl Shells on Japanese   Final Showdown in Battle for Leyte Launched at Ormoc

Yank Artillery Hammers Ormoc While Superforts Hit Singapore, Sumatra

SUPER - FORTS HIT SUMATRA AND SINGAPORE   Artillery Smashes Ormoc As Enemy Forces Make Desperate Attacks

Ormoc Garrison Shelled By Yanks In Cleanup Push   Spring Trap On Leyte Japs As Superforts Pour Bombs On _ Singapore

SPRING TRAP ON JAPANESE ALONG VALLEY   Superforts Pour Bombs on Singapore While Fierce Fighting Ensues on Leyte Island   By LEONARD MILLIMAN i Aeenciated Preece War Fditer)

UJ. 5. SUPERFORTS BLASTED SINGAPORE AND OIL REFINERIES   JAPANESE POUR REINFORCEMENTS INTO PHILIP. PINES BLOCK AMERICANS

TURN BIG GUNS ON ORMOC AREA; NIPS ENCIRCLED   SUPERFORTS BLAST AT SINGAPORE BASE, SUMATRA REFINERY

RATIONED BREAD PREDICTED NEXT   Federal Price Policies Assailed By Chicago Grain Trader

Opening The Way To The Heart Of Normandy In New Drive   RESISTANCE OF ENEMY WEAKENING   Seven Miles Gained In Area Southwest Of St. Lo Yesterday

Infantry Under Bradley Follows Thru to Marigny   Americans Surge Ahead, Germans Said Weakening

TANKS LEAD 4 MILE PUSH TC MARIGNY AREA   Nazi Defense Weakens In Normandy Under Heavy Blows

te nr enemas  UNCLE FOUND GUILTY IN DEATH OF CHILD   Confessed Throwing Shoe and ‘Spanking’ Infant

Army's Far East Newspaper Says Film Stars Quit Tour - But Angry Answers Hurled

HEAVIEST ATTAGK AGAINST RIE PONS S PAARIED QUT   Single L be.ator Made Attack on Enemy in Wake Island in Daytime

TRUK BLASTED BY NIGHT RAID   Jap Vessel Hit, Large Fires Started at Battered Jap Bastion

TRUK BASTION AGAIN POUNDEL   Heavy Attack Is Made In Caro lines By U. S. Bombers Is Report

ENEMY, INSTALLATIONS ‘ON  MANY STRATEGIC ISLANDS . BEING POUNDED BY  _U. 8. AIRGRAFT...__—

EDR. te Decide  1  Running Mate   Momentous Becctsion Up to President

WAR PLANT HEAD WON'T MAKE MONEY   William Jack Says ‘He Won’t Be a Penny Ahead’

NAZI GUESSERS PICK JUNE 22 AS INVASION DATE   Germans Believe Allies Wil Take Series of BeachHeads Along Coast.

Preliminary Allied — Landings Expected   Nazis Forecast Attempts To Seize Series Of Beachheads Prior To Invasion Later This Month

282 Tons of Bombs Fall on Jap Islands   Allied Forces Keep Up Pounding of Enemy Installations; Australians, Americans Advance

TOSNO TAKEN BY Ff   Continue Steady Pounding Of Stepping-Stone Islands

JAPS BATTERED IN AIR ATTACKS   Not One Allied Plane Lost: Two Nip Ships Sunk

Allies Pound  Jap Islands   Marshall, Admiralty Islands Feel Blows Of Intensified Raids

MacArthur’s Men Drop Many Tons of Bombs Without Loss of Single Ship. Advances Made In New Guinea and Solomons by ‘Americans ane ' Ayetralians

rnemy Air Forces Taking Beating Over Marshals   5. Bombers and Fighters Sweep Over Island 21st Day; Japs Lose 16 to 22 Planes.

Allies Pound Japanese Held Pacific Bases   Marshali ang Admiralty Islands Hard Hit; No U.S. Planes Lost

Americans Bommh Isles Leading To Philippines   Allied Ground ‘Forces Gain Jn All Sectors

Pound Jap Island Bases   Intensify ‘Air Aétacks On‘ Marshalls; Expand New Britain Beichhead

ALLIES POUND ISLAND GROUPS      Seek to Weaken Jap Hold on Marshalls, Admiraltys, in Air Attacks.

Allied Bombs Are Pounding Road Back fo Bataan   2822 Tons Dropped During Past Week Without Plane Lost

STEPPING STONE ISLES POUNDED   Marshalls And Admiralty Bases Are Main Targets

Day Of. Revenge Draws Nearer   Yanks Fighting Way Back To Bataan

Allies Sweep Over Marshall In Aur Attael   Seek To Weaken Jap Hold On Stores Leading To Philippines.   'RAID ADMIRALTY ISLE

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND MARSHALL ADMIRALTY ISLES  JAPS LOSE FROM 16 TO 99 PI ANES IN

ENEMY DEFENSES - RERIAL TARGET!   Marshall And Admiralty Islands Heavily ‘Attacked By Yanks

Allies Smash Jap-held Islands  Marshall, Admiralty Pounded From Air

Allies Active in Aw in Pacific in Philippine Route   Pound Marshall and Admiralty Islands With Bombs and Fighters

ADDITIONAL ISLAND GROUPS POUNDED BY ALLIED AIR ATTACK  MARSHALL AND ADMIRALTY ISLANDS HEAVILY BLASTED FROM SKIES

MARSHALL ISLE BASES LASHED   Weaken Japs’ Hold on Stepping Stones By MORRIE LANDSBERG  ee ea

PATTON ADVANCED MILE AND HALF INTO SIEGFRIED LINE   Eight Miles Deep in GerMany’s Saar Valley Yesterday.   SAARBRUCKEN RIPPED   Third Army Long Toms and Howitzers Tore City to Pieces.

Large Capital City of Saar Is Being Ripped to Pieces by » Guns Stationed Three Miles Away.   MAY SUFFER FATE OF AACHEN, REPORT SAYS

SAARBRUCKEN IS POUNDED; UNITS GAIN OVER MILE   Americans Into Forbach, Near Saar Capital — Reds Menace Budapest

U.S. Artillery Hammers Away At Saarbrucken  Russians Drive Up Danube To Join

lron, Steel Production To Germans Cut   Saarbrucken Kept Under Attack By Allied Biq Guns

Invalidate Rich  Coal Region Which Supplies Nazi Army With Iron and Steel

Yanks Plough Deep in Saar  Valley Region   Month Old Campaign Shows Gains as Yanks Pound Saarbrucken in Rich Coal District

SIEGFRIED LINE BEING BATTERED BY THIRD ARMY   Major Assault Is Reducing Saar Basin to Ruins - - Reds Battle Toward Budapest

U. S. Infantry Merges. Three Crossings into Two Strong Bridgeheads; Cavalry Enters Forbach

Saarbrucker Rocked by Artillery   Ground Troops Edge Closer to Saarland  Capital; Third Army -9 Miles Inside Reich

GEN, PATTON'S ARMY FIGHTING DEEP IN SAAR   Rich Coal Area Invalidated By Americans

Americans Fight Through Nazi War Factory Towns; Cut Output of Iron, Steel

Claim Saarbrucken Smashed To Pieces -Frem-3 Miles: Away   Patton 8 Miles Inside Saar Valley; - Infantry Foothelds Broadened; Vital Coal Region Invalidated

THIRD ARMY 8 MILES INSIDE SAAR VALLEY   Yanks Ripping Saarbrucken to Pieces With Heavy Artillery Fire

Patton Moves Farther into German Line   Broadens Foothold Across Saar River: Saarbrucken Pounded

Mile and a Half Advance Through Siegfried Line  Is Made While  Strong Pressure

Yank Gunners Keep Pounding At Saarbrucken   Vienna Reserves: Face Russians At Budapest

TONES IN SAAR VALLEY   Third Army Long Toms Continue To Demolish Saarbrucken   HEAVY FIGHTING   U. S. Attack Cuts Germans From Rich Coal, Ore Region

Patton Pushes. Further Into’ Siegfried Line   Month-Old Campaign Has Already Invalidated Rich Caal Region In Saar Basin

Men Of Third 1.5 Miles Deep In Siegfried Line, 8 Miles Into Rich Saar Vallev   Germany's Great Collieries And Coke Ovens Menaced; Texas Infantry Runs Into Thick Enemy Defense Zone

Gains 8 Miles  Into Germany's Saar Valley _   Third Army Artillery Devastating Saarbrucken

Third Army Long Toms and Howitzers Rip to Pieces Capital of Saar Three Miles Away   EXPANDING CROSSINGS

Third Army Long: Toms. Howitzers .  Rip Capital   ; Rich. Coal. ‘Regions  Useless. Po Nazis

AMERICAN ARTILLERY HAMMERS AT CAPITAL SAARLAND FRIDAY  SEVENTH ARMY PUSHED

Third Army Rips Saarbrucken Wi  Artillery Fire   Texans Taking Part In Patton’s Drive; Foothold Broadened  Across Saar

7th Reaches Enchelberg, Near Colmar   iranian!  Reds Tighten Noose on Bu-' dapest as Army’s Right Flank Nears Capital

Yanks Score New Po Valley Gains   Counterattack Hurled Back, Height Captured

Harry Slattery Resigns REA Post   Says Wickard Illegally Sought His Displacement

Nazis Murdered 2,000,000 Russ   Documents Reveal Mass Slaughter of Civilians

NAZI SECRET PAPERS REVEAL MURDER OF 2 MILLION MEN. WOMEN. CHILDREN

Commerce Fight Among Allies  Threatens Peace   Military, Political Postwar Plans Periled by Growing Possibility of Economic Warfare

Remnants of Germany Army Were Fighting Desperately to Escape Trap Before Slashing Onslaughts of Allies on Seine and Marne—-Near Battleground of Woarld War I :

CLAIM HITLER SUCCEEDED BY GESTAPO CHIEF   Reich Will Fight To “Last Gasp Regardless Of Cost, Js Belief

Himmler Claimed To Be Undisputed  German Leader   Reports From Continent Say Hitler Madman; Cologne Revolt Stopped

Rumors Deseribe Hitler As Raving Madman At Bertechgaden   Anti-War Revolt  Klares In Cologne   Swiss Dispatehes Say Entire Rhineland In State Of Tension

Anti-War Revolt Halted inCologne   Claim Hitler ey Raving Madman at Berchtesqadeni

Reports Which Lack Confirmation Say Hitler Insane, Himmler Ruling

Observers See Fight To The Last   Hitler Is Reported ‘Like A Mad Lion’ At Berchtesgaden.

Hitler Insane As Himmler Rules, Claim   Nazi Butcher Declared To Hold Reins With Power of Life, Death

Himmler Reported Dictator   Hitler ls Madman at Berchtesgaden, Say Diplomatic Sources

Hanging Of 31 Opposed To War Is Disclosed As New Rumors Put Himmler In Command

Cologne Revolt To Bring Peace Reported Today   Gestapo Takes Over, Hanging 31 Persons, Travelers Declare

Report Himmler Takes Over as German Fuehrer   Hitler Said to be Raving Mad; Revolt At Cologne Squelched

GESTAPO HEAD SUCCESSOR 10 ADOLF HITLER   Twenty-one Residents of Cologne Hanged for Making Wat Protest.

‘Incomes of State’s Aged and Blind Are Doubled in Last Four Years

C. B. & Q. Railroad Buys Millions in Bonds $10,000 to this County

Hard Blow Struck InSouth Germany   U. S. Heavy Bombers Have Struck Twice in As Many Days   ISNOW HAMPERED NAZIS   R.A. and Americans Take Turns Pounding Industrial Cities

Record Night Blow Crushes Stuttgart; Munich Also Torr   ‘American Heavy Bombers Raid Southern Reich Today After R.A.F.’s Great Assaults Wednesday Night; Railway Objectives In France Attacked

U.S. Bombers Follow Up RAF Raid OnGermam   Stuttgart, Munich And Other Targets Heavily Rattered

Southern Germany  Hit Anew   U.S. Airmen In Action After Night Blow

Yank Heavies Follow R. A. F. Night Attack   Strike in Great Force And Desperate Battles Occur in German Skies, Berlin Reports

Over 1,000 Heavy British Planes Raid Stuttgart, Munich   Germans Report Fierce Air Battles Despite Snow Storms, Cloudy Weather Over Europe

Follow Ur HugeRAF Air Blow   “Heavy Force” of U. S. Bombers Over Reich Today; British Drop 3,360Ton Bomb Load in Raid

U.S. BOMBERS TODAY FOLLOWED ‘UP HEAVIEST AIR ATTACK IN HISTORY BY RAF LAST NIGHT   Great Industrial City of Stuttgart Gets Most of ~ Explosives But Munich and Others Hit. 40 British Planes Lost in Great Attack on Germany

RAF Smashes Stuttgart in Heaviest Raid   More Than Three Thousand Tons Fall on Industrial Center

NAZI FIGHTERS RESTRICTED BY SNOW. CLOUDS   “Great Strength” of American Planes Participate in Raid

3,360 TONS OF BOMBS IS DROPPED BY RAF   Stuttgart Given One of Heavi est Bombings of War in Nioht Attack

Big Force of American Bombers Roars Back To Attack as Soon As British Armada Returns from Smoking Ruins Of Stuttgart and Munich

RAF Sets. a New Bomb Record in Stuttcart Blow   “U.S. Armada Falls ‘Up with Attack.on “Southern Germany In Great Strength:

Terrific Blow Landed on Nazi Area by Yanks   Great Force of Bombers Pounds Reich Cities In South; Targets Not Diselosed   RAF Makes Night  Attack On Munich   u eavy Snowfall Hampers ' German Fighters, Says Berlin Radio; Few Rise to Battle

U.S. Bombers Strike Heavy   Attack Southern many In Strength — Gerniai Report Fierce Air: thes — Stuttgart, Mi ich, Other Targets Last Night.

BRITISH STAGE MIGHTY ATTACK   Stuttgart And Munich Chief Targets In 3,360-Ton Bombings  REPORT AIR FIGHTS

German Cities Suffer Crushing Aerial Blow:   Stuttgart, Munich And Other Centers-Are Devastated

U.S. Bombers Strike Heavy Daytime Blow   Follow Up Record Night Attack By RAF On Stutt. gart. Munich.   40 RAF PLANES LOST

‘American Attack Follows (L000 Plane RAF Assault ‘On Munich and Stuttgart

Nazis Report Fierce Battle  Over France   Stuttgart Absorbs Bulk of Damage From Night Asscult

Allies Bear Down on Southern Nazi Area in Strength   U. S. Bombers Strike in Wake of Record Night Attack by RAF

Reich Hit By 1,000 Bombers   Stuttgart And Munich Get Heavy Hammering

RAF HURLS 3,360  TONS U.S. BOMBS  AT REICH TARGETS MAIN ATTACK AIMED AT STUTTGART; 40  : DIL ARCeC WCDe i neT

Yank Planes Hit Targets In Germany   Follow Record Night Attack Made by RAF Bombers

MANY GERMA TARGETS HIT BY BOMBERS   Air Battles Over Eastern France Are Reported

BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT ULM, AUGSBURG   Encounter New Four-Engined, Twin-Tailed Fighters on Strike Inio Southern Germany   STUTTGART RUINED   British May Have Set New Bomb Load Record in Blasting Manufacturing and Rail Center

GREATER FORCES USED IN RAIDS ON NAZI CITIES   Berlin Says Snow Falls ‘Hinder Intercepting Forces

Follow Up RAF Assault On Stuttgart   Americans in Second Smash in Two Days; Many Points Bombed

3,360 Tons Of Bombs Blast War Center   U. S. Bombers Strike Southern Germany During the Day

Allies Blast Southern Germany by Daylight   U. S. Heavy Bombers Stage Second ~ Aerial Invasion of Last Two Days; RAF Hits Railway in Amiens, France

Snowbound Nazi Planes Unable To Take To Air   More Than 1,000 Big Planes Used By Britist In Record-Breaking Attack Last Night

Plant Region: Is Attacked By More Than 1,000 Planes   3,360 Tons Dropped In Night Pounding

U. 5. BOMBERS HIT GERMANY AGAIN TODAY   Stuttgart, Munich Main Targets Of Attack   FORTY PLANES   Lost By R. A. F. In Operation: Americans Down 36 Nazi Fighters

FOLLOW RAF'S NIGHT ATTACK ON STUTTGART   Munich Also Is Target for Tons of High Explosive Bombs

Raid Follows Big RAF Night Foray   American Forces Rap German Cities Twice in Two Davs

Yanks Follow Huge Assault On Stuttgart   1000 Huge British Bombers Assault Nazis With Heaviest Tonnage Ever Dropped On Single Night; U. S. Bombers Out Today

SOUTHERN GERMANY ATTACKED THURSDAY BY U. 8, BOMBERS  BLOW WAS QUICK FOLLOWIIP OF RAF RLAST.

Stuttgart Is Hit By 3,360 Tons Of Bombs   R.A.F. Sends Thousand Bombers Against Important German Industrial Target;  U. S. Bombers Strike Today.

Yanks, RAF. Rain Giant Air Blows on Germany   U.S. Heavy Bombers Blast Southern Reich,' Record Tonnage Cascaded Upon Stuttgart

SOUTHERN GERMANY ATTACKED THURSDA\ BY U. 5. BOMBERS  BLOW WAS QUICK FOL.

\Cigaret Use is Mounting.   Scarcity To Remain “For Weeks. To Come

Shortage Of Fags Explained! Manufacturers Say Americans Smoking At Fastest Rate In History

Americans Smoking at Fastest Rate In History Cause Cigarette Shortage

Cigarette Output on Even Keel; — Dearth Laid to Smoking Speed-Up

American Forces Continue To Blast Way Closer To Ormoc: Advance Unchecked

YANKS CLOSE IN ON JAPS AT ORMOC   Three Night CounterAttacks by En- . emy Repulsed

PINCERS ARE CLOSING ON : JAP FORCES   AMERICAN TROOPS ON ALERT FOR DESPERATE ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACK TO ESCAPE TRAP

Yanks Capture Third Airfield  On Noemfoor   Victory Concludes Campaign on Island Off North New Guinea

Capture of Namber Airfield Gives Yanks Possession of All Noemfoor

Forty-Nine Nazi Planes Shot Down   Twelve Allied Planes Are Miss Following Sorties From From Italy  -Eawtare nr e tm:

CHURCHILL CHEERED BY ALLIED GAINS   Invaders Have Penetrated Several Miles Inland from Coast of France in Some Cases.   Prosress Satisfactory

Churchill Says - Allied Progress Satisfactory   Makes Two Reports to House of Commons on Troop Landings

Churchill Says Losses Lighter Than Expected   Prime Minister Avers Invasion Progressing In Satisfactory State

Enemy Digs In To Halt Yank Penetrations Of Reich Short Of Rhine   Thundering Artillery Action Marks See-Saw Struggles To Decide Fate Of Nazi War Industry

Meet Stiff Resistance By Germans   Advance by Yards to Extend Toe-Hold on Hard-won  Territory

Ist Army In New Thrust   Nazi Rhineland Defenses Cracked On 4-mile Front

Doughboys pace in Rhine assault slowed to yards  Veterans break stalemate on rim of Hurtaen forest

Patton Closes On Key Bastior Of Saarlautern   Three U. S. Armies Locked in Grimmest Battle Since Ypres

Doughboys Make Slow Advance On \Rhineland Front   Allied. Armies Locked In Most Violent Clash of Current War

FIGHTING FOR BETTER WOLDS ON SAAR. ROER   Gains Made by Yanks While Third Army Closes in  an Gsarfairtarn)

Terderatures   Beleaguered Budapest Being Evacuated On Left Bank of Danube, Nazis Say; Allied Troops Move Forward in Italian War

GERMAN WAR INDUSTRIES THREATENED   'wo Great Battles Open on Shell-swept Banks of Roer and Saar Rivers.   BULLETIN

U.S. Seeks to Expand Hold on German Rivers   Grim Battle Reminiscent of Bloody Ypres

SOLID FRONTS ON BARRIERS BEFORE RHINE   Germans Pouring in Men in Ef fort to Estab'ish Winter Defense Line Along Rhine

THIRD, FIRST AND NINTH ARMIES EX PAND HOLDS ON ROER AND SAAR RIVER BANKS

Doughboys Inch Forward Yard by Yard   Expand Toehold on Shell-Pocked Banks Of Roer and Saar

BEND WING OF  ENEMY LINE ON DUREN FRONT   Citizens Flee Saarlautern

BUTTON - ON - COAT NAPKIN IS DESIGNED   Ladies Can Use It Too, Inventor Declares

Reds Within 90 Miles of Austrian Line  ee, , © a ay   More Than 60 Towns Overrun in Drive West of the Danube

Austria Goal Of New Red Drive Today   Head to Plain Leading ta Border; Budapest’s Fall Imminent

SOVIETS EXPAND NEW OFFENSIVE WEST OF DANUBE   PUSH ACROSS MECSEK MOUNTAINS AND HEAD FOR AUSTRIAN BORDEF

RUSSIANS CROSSING MEESEK MOUNTAINS      Expand Offensive West of Danube; Pest Being Evacuated.

Red Troops Cross Mecseh ‘Mountains   Head Onto Plain Stretching To Border  Of Austria

RUSSIAN ARMY DRIVES TOWARD AUSTRIA LINE   Nazis Plan All-Out Fight For West Half of Budapest

Russian Capture of 300 Towns in S. W. Hungary Breaks Nazi Defense Line

Russians Expand West of Danube; Head for Austria   Border Now Only 90 Miles Away; Final Battle for Budapest Nearer

Reds Strike For Plain Leading To  iAustria   Part Of Budapest Is Evacuated By Nazis: Reinforcements Of Fnemvy Reaten Down

Plain Reached  By Soviet Troops  In Austria Drive German Puppe! Nation Only  Ninety Miles Away from Be Army: Nazis Evacuate Pest

SOVIET TROOPS ENTER PLAINS FOR BIG PUSH   Pest Evacuated By Germans; To  Meet Threat

90 MILES TO AUSTRIA   Red Troops Cross Mecsek Moun. tains Southwest of Austria

Soviet Troops Head Onto Plain  Leading to Austria  Tolbukhin Enveloping Vast Territory In Budapest Assault

Soviet Forces Cross Mecsek Mountains  To Reach Plain Stretching To Austria   More Arms Needed To Save Lives, Says Bishop Hobson

Into Open Hungarian Plains —      Nazis Evacuate Pest As Red Drive Toward Austria Threatens Capital from Rear

Soviets Push Rear Attack On Budapest   Troops Cross Mecsek Mountains; Germans Say Pest Being Evacuated

REDS REACH PLAIN ROUTE TO AUSTRIA   Cross Mecsek Mountains Below Budapest, Headed Onto Flat Land Stretching 90 Miles to  Noation’« Krontier.

REDS GAIN FAST IN PUSH HEADED FOR AUSTRIA   Cross Mecsek Mountains, Free 60 Towns: Nazis Evacuate Pest

Soviet Troops Press Attack On Budapest  Half of City: Is Evacuated   Half of City: Is Evacuated By Germens

MORE THAN 300 “PLACES TAKEN BY ATTACKERS   Number of Strong Potits Included on List Swept Into Net by Marshal Tolbukhin Army.

Nazi Line in Hungary Is Smashec   Reds Roar Forward, Taking 300 Communities ;Now Only 77 Miles From Austria  a RACTTIVHNNS   FOUR BASTIONS . ARE CAPTURED

R ed Offensive ‘Expanded West \Danube River   Russians Cross Meesck Mountains and Head Onto Plain Stretching to Austria Border

Pressure On Budapest Is Increased   60 Towns And Villages Are Taken By Soviet

®  CAPTURE 60 TOWNS   Eastern Budapest Is @ Being Evacuated, Germans Admit

Budapest Pressure Increased as Reds Drive for Austria   Third Ukrainian Army Overuns 60 Villages, Border 90 Miles Away

Reds Head For Plain Leading Toward Austria   Cross Mecsek Mountains As Germans Admit Leavine Budapest.

Russians Enter Plain Leading To Austria  Part Of Budapest   Part Of Budapest Being Evacuated By Germans

—RUSSITANS—   SOVIETS DRIVING ~ TOWARD AUSTRI   Ukrainian Army Over runs 60 Towns And Vil ‘Tages In Hungary

25 Milesin China Drive   Chinese Report Nips Use Poison Gas in Attacks At Hengyang Where..  Battle Is Grim

J aps Advance In Drive on  Vital Railway   Chinese Hold Back Enemy, However, in Hunan Province

Chinese Brave Japanese Gas   Eneny Advances 25 Miles In Kwangtung Province

JAPS LASH AT CHINESE WITH POISON GAS   Nippon Troops Attempt To Close Vise On Canton-Hankow Railroad

JAPS SEEK 10 CLOSE VISE ON RAILROAD   Slash Forward 25 Miles in Kwangtung Province While Chinese Contain Land in Hunan.      Gas Attacks

JAPANESE LAUNCH ~NEW CHINA DRIVE   Enemy Forces Seek: tc Close Vise on Rail '  Svstem

JAPANESE LAUNCH NEW CHINA DRIVE      Enemy Forces Seek to Close Vise on Rail - Svetem

Sillers Calls Soldier Voting Bill State's Most Iniportant At Session

CLEMENT RYAN ALSO BARRED FROM THE CHICAGO PLANT   President of Concern Also Re7 fused Admittance to Building.   INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED   Wayne C. Taylor, Underseeretary of Commerce, Is in Charge.

‘Army Bars 2nd Ward Official  From Administration Building  After One Is Forcibly Ejected   Government Wins Court Order To Balk Interference: Union Confers With U. S. Men

Officials Barred From Enfering Mail Order Firm   Montgomery Ward Ti Attack Restraining Order Today

Ward Prexy Barred From Building   Ryan Joins Avery in Gov't. "Lockout"

SOVIETS SMASH INTO SLOVAKIA   Ruthenia Is Conquered: Great Battle Rages In East Prussia

Soviets Complete Ruthenia Sweep,  In 15-Mile Gain   Slow Progress Reported From Forces In East Prussia

Reds Complete Ruthenia Conquest; Fierce Battle Raging in East Prussie

ARMY TAKES OVER OHIO STEEL MILL   Action Ordered by FOR After 600 Employes Halt

Bulgaria corns - Constabulary Ue Suppress Revvolt  Sofia Reveals Creatstior Of Units Similar toto

Strong Police Force Formed In Bulgaria   Revolt and Sabotage To Be Suppressed By Gendarmerie

Negro Sentenced to Die For ‘Lower 13° Staying Of Woman in January 194

No Increase Contemplated Z In Corn Prices During Year   Farmers Assured by the O.P.A. of Receiving Highest Prices.

No Increase in Corn Price Contemplated By O. P. A. Declares Administrator Bowles

Race Program For Wednesday   KING GEORGE VI ON TOUR OF ITALIAN BATTLEFIELD

British King Lands at Rome to Start Inspection of Italian Battle Fronts

KING IN ITALY ON INSPECTION TOUR   English Ruler Will Go te Forward Battle Fronts

Nazis Make Gain On Anzio Ground  Fifth Army Positions   Fifth Army Positions Lose Three Miles Along Carroceto Rim

NAZIS ADVANCE AT BEAGHHEAD   Slight Enemy Gain Is Made As Shelling Increases

German Thrust Gains Slightly   Shelling Resumed Long-Dormant  nese Emamt Asioe

Slight Gain © Made By Nazis On Beachhead   Enemy Shelling Also Increases -

Nazis Make Slight Gain At Anzio   Enemy Shelling Increases in Long-Dormant Cassino Area

Dutch Men, Women And Children Are Holding German Prisoners   GREETING YANKS WITH OPEN ARMS   First Important City In Holland Was Liberated Yesterday

BRITISH TROOPS PUSH BACK NINE COUNTER-STABS   Montgomery's Forces Roll Across Odon to Widen Their Bridgehead

‘Murderous Barrage’ Laid Down By Artillery Against Enemy Moving Up To Hit Right Flank; Germans On Highways Slaughtered From Air

Monty's al Widens Brea in Caen Line   Germans Reported to Have Lost 292 Tanks la Nermandy Battles

NAZI DEFENSES BEING CRUSHED IN TOUGH FIGHT   Yanks Continue To Mop-up Cherbourg While Bag of Prisoners Increases

Four In Infantry, Armor Through Widening Breach   Germans Reported to Have Thrown Bulk of 15th, 17th Armies Into Defense of Inland Port~—Yanks Mopping Up

Germans Try To Repulse Britishers   Montgomery's Men Smash 9 Attempts To Counter-Attack

Germans Throv Two Armies in Caen Defense   Nazis Launch Heavy Counter-Attacks in  Effort to Stem British Drive on Strong Point

BRITISH PLACE BARRAGE ON ALL ROADS INTO CIT)   Greater German Coun: ter Thrusts Expected Before Battle’s End

NAZIS THROWING EVERYTHING INTO BATTLE FOR CAEN   British Smash Nine Counter Attacks In 24 Hours   PLANES HELPING ‘WITH SLAUGHTER

GERMANS THROW BUEK OF TWO ARMIES INTO. FIGHT TRYING TO HOLD CAEN

BITTER FIGHT IN CAEN AREA IS REPORTED   Germans attempt to Smash Invasion; Nine CounterAttacks Repulsed

Bridgehead Is Widened In British, U. S. Drive   Large Armor Units Locked In Contest

GERMANS THROW BULK OF TWO ARMIES IN EFFORTTOHALT BRITISH FLANKING MOVEMENT

GERMANS POUR MORE TACOPS IN CAEN AREA   Attempt Made To Halt British South Flank

Allies Widen Breach in Line   Two German Armies Sent Into Armored Fighting Near City

Montgomery Beats 9 Counter-Atlacks And Forges Ahead   British Infantry And Armor Stream Across Odon River

BRITISH WIDEN BRIDGEHEAD OVER ODON   Montgomery’s Men Repulse Nine Counterattacks   3,000 NAZIS   Still Holding Out On Peninsula Near Cherbourg; More Captives Taken

FIERCE TANK BATTLE RAGES FOR KEY CITY   Germans Hurl Two Armies Against British Troops

Smash Nine Attacks by Nazi Forces   Tommies Stream Across Odon in Ever-Widening Bridgehead

Bulk of Two “Nazi Armies Along ¢ Odon   Allied Bridgehead Widens Increasingly Despite Bitter Resistance   LUFTWAFFE IS OUT   Froné Line Fluid as Tank Battle Ebbs and Flows on 17-Mile Front

Breach In Hun Lines Widened By Allied Army   {  Germany, Using Virtual Strength of Two Armies, Unable to Halt Advances    eet British Barrage  Of Fire Murderous   Berlin Says Allies Attack. ing Along 17-Mile Front; 3,000 Huns Resisting In Cherbourg

Allies Destroy 292 Nazi Tanks Since Invasion of France   Report Enemy Moves More Troops Into Caen Area, Huns Admit English Advances

Germans Hurl Two Armies Into. Caen Battle, Backed by Heavy Tank Forces, But Fail at Check

Two Nazi rmies Into Fight      Breach in Enemy Line Widened, and CounterAttacks Smashed South Of Inland Port City

All Efforts To Put Stop To Advance Are Failing   Bulk Of 15th, 17th Nazi Armies Sent Into Fighting

German Counterattacks Are Repulsed As Allies Widen : — Odon River Bridcehead =

British Smash Counter-Attacks, Widen Breach   Two Armies Sent Into Fray By Desperate Germans

Two Big Armies Seek To Delay British Advance   But Breach Widened By Montgomery As Yanks Mopping Up In Cherbourg

Talk Up Plan To Develop a New Gridiror   Let Contract For Soundproofing Part of Building

Dewey Pledges Vigorous Campaign To Send FDR Back To Hyde Park Home

Marshall and King Doing Superb Job, He Says In G.6.P. Aooentance.

Dewey Pledges Sweeping Administration ( hanges   Republican Nominee Roundly Denounces New Dea In Accepting Nomination: Promises To Retain Marshall And King As Military Leaders

However He Will Make Changes in Administration   Gen. Marshall and Adm. King Praised  2. Se hie

Gothic Snapped As British Ge  Past Defense:   Push Over 12 Miles; Bridgehead Set Up At Concha

Bridgehead Established Over Concha   Allies Progress On Both Flanks Of Battle Line.

BRITISH SEIZE MINTURNO ON ITALIAN FRONT   FIFTH ARMY GAINS ALONG ANCIENT APPIAN WAY

ALLIES OCCUPY ANCIENT TOWN IN STIFF FIGHT   British Advance 2 Miles On Appian Way; Three Villages Are Captured

British drive Germans out of Minturno   Nazi bastion is fully destroyed

CLARK'S ARMY TAKES TOWN IN BITTER BATTLE   Nazis Announce Min turno Lost to Brit ish Troops

Bitter ‘Give and Take’ Battle Along Coast  Attacking Allies Gain Firm Hold al ie oll im ste Den antol

British Capture Minturno Area   Ancient Town Falls After Destruction

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British Take Another Town  In New Drive   Italian Commiuniications And Airfields Targets Of Allied Air Attacks

British Drive Germans From Minturna   Bitter Battle Rages Along 7-Mile Front on West Coast

“ee tenements eomenenarynamnnirmtnneynuiennn nanmcreceaaevacntnw te  BRITISH TAKE KEY MINTURNG   Communications Center Falls in New Allied Push Beaun Monday   ‘GIVE AND TAKE’ BATTLE RAGES ON 7 MILE FRONT

British Forces Push Foe From Minturno   _ Germans Say Ancient Italian Town Left “Completely Destroyed’; Bitter Battle “ages on Coast; Air Forces Hit Airports

Nazis Admit Losing Town Of Minturno   ‘Give And Take Battle Rages On lialy’s West Coast

Germany Admits Yank Capture Of Minturno   Primary Objective Of Allied Advance

Defenders In City Routed   Give, Take Fighting Raging Alona Frent

CLARK'S FORCES SEIZE MINTURNG IN BITTER FIGH'   Key Communications Center Falls to British Smashing Way Up 500-Foot Slopes.   THREE BRIDGEHEADS ON GARIGLIANO SECURE   Captives Include Nazis Seeing Action for First Time— Show Strain From Air Attacks.

EVACUATION OF MINTURNO ANNOUNCED   8y Germans; Town Is Two Miles Beyond Garigliano River; Bitter Battle Rages Along Seven Mile Front.   Canadians Repulsed

Chrysler Plant Strikes Halted   Week-Long Walkout: Ended By Union Heads

Union Calls Off Chrysler Strike   Parent Body to Conduct Hearina

Yanks Mow Japs Down on Beaches With Rocket Gun   “Secret Weapon” Clears Way For, Landing Parties

Secret Weapon That Blasted Yankees’ Invasion Path on New Britain Unveiled

Yanks In South France Join © Forces In North, Form Solid Front; British Take Le Havre

Gen. Ike Warns Reich Citizens Areas To Soon Be Hit Hard, He Says

WILL BE: WAR THEATERS SOON, CIVILIANS TOLD   Two U.S. Columns in Germany Batter Siegfried ' Line.

Siegfried Line Under Assault; Le Havre Falls To the British   Both Crossings Made by American First Army   ‘Leave Rhineland, Ruhr P E isenhower  on oe os a

LE HAVRE TAKEN BY BRITISH   One Unit Five Miles Across Frontier; Tank Force Penetrates In Strength

Eisenhower in Warning to Ruhr Residents to Flee   Deeper Stabs Into Reich Reported by Front Line Units; Aachen, Saarbrucken Lashed by Pilots of Havocs, Marauders

COMMANDER OF NAZI GARRISON FIRST WOUNDEL   France's Second Largest Port Has Been Under Siege From Both Rombers and Artillery.

SIEGFRIED LINE ‘SOFTENED UP’ BY U.S, PLANES   Surrender of Le Havre Told

WARNS GERMANS TO LEAVE RUHR      War to Reach There Soon  Eisenhower Declares

EBEN EMAEL, MYSTERY FORT, IS CAPTURED   American Troops Outflank Outpost of Nazi Line Guarding Rhineland.   BULLETIN

Famous Siegfried Line Is Being Battered by Forces Reported Only 70 Miles Apart.   ANOTHER SPEARHEAD REACHES OUR RIVER

Ruhr And Rhineland Are To Become War Theaters, General Informs Public   First Army Spearhead 5 Miles Inside Reich From Luxembourg; Strong Armored Division Across

46 FEDERAL EXPENDITURES MAY SHOW CUT   ‘Spending Of 100 Billions Ouring Current Fiscal Year Is Behind Schedule

New U.S. Budget Is  Lower  1946 Program May Go Below 100 Billion Mark As

PRESIDENT MAY SLASH BUDGET.   MAY DROP BELOW HUNDRED BILLION MARK

U.S. 1946 Spending May Be Under Present 200 Billion Rate, New Budget Indicates.

pSenate Rejects State Control On Soldier Vote   Service Law to Reduce Farmers, Laborers in U. S.

Federal Ballot Wins Ist Senate Test Wednesday   State’s Right Group Is Defeated

State’s Rights Amendment Is Beaten, 68-23   Big Battle Expected On ‘Compromise’ Limiting U. S. Votes To States  BFathinoe Ta Particinate

States Rights Bloc Controls In Congress   Service Vote May Reach Senate Test in Spite of House Action

SERVICE BALLOT BILL WINS TEST   Senate Rejects “State’s Rights’”” Amendment By Vote Of 68 To 23.

Vote Bill — Weathers First Tes!   ‘State's Rights’ ~ Amend: ment Rejected in Senate . “on Roll Call Vote   BUT KEAL TEST STILL LIES AHEAD   Odds Favor a States Bill in House, Which F.D.R, May Veta

Poll Tax For Soldiers Out   Administration Wins First Senate Test

FEDERAL BALLOT PROPONENTS WIN TESTS IN SENATE   “State’s Rights” Amendments Defeated in  . i

‘State Right’ Group Loses In Senate Test   Amendment to Administration Bill Beaten 68 ta 92

States’ Rights Bloc Defeated Tn Senate Test   Federal Ballot Measure  Wins First Skirmish,   But Real Battle Is  : Still To Come

Senate Downs Overton Move   Administration Wins First Federal-Ballot Test in Senate

Senate Beats State Soldier Ballot Plan   Administration Forces Score Victory; Federal Ballot Called Best

FIAST SENATE TEST WOW Bt 5. VOTE BIL   Attempt to Restore Poll Tax and Local Registration Voted Down.

Senate Backs Federal Ballo   ‘State’s Rights’ Bloc Loses Firet Test

3 Tests Won By ‘Kederals’   Trio of States’ Rights Amendments Beaten

Federal Ballot Bill For Soldiers Wins First Test  States’ Rights Plan  On Registration

38 Governors Plan For Vote Of Servicemen   Lereyra Paggoasadiel Balloting Already Set Or Will Be Made Soon

FEDERAL BALLOT WINS TEST VOTE   SENATE REJECTS AMENDMENT, 63 TO 28 ON ROLL CALL

AMENDMENT T0 BILL DEFEATED   Administration’s Federal Ballot Bill Wins First Senate Test.   /FIRST OF MANY CHANGES

SOLDIER VOTING FIGHT HEATS UP   Administration in Comeback After Receiving Jolt

Federal Ballot Amendment VotedDown   Registration Clause Loses In First Test

SOLDIER VOTE AMENDMENTIS TURNED DOWN   Measure Wins First Test in Senate With Defense of "State's Rights" Chanae   OTHERS ON THE LIST

Federal Ballot Bill Wins First Round In Senate.   States’ Rights Amendment Defeated 68 to 23 Wednesday

Senate OKs Service Vote   Federal Ballot Bill Approved; State's Right Plan Rejected

Federal Ballot Wins First Test   Senate Defeats “State’s Rights” Amendment  Ta Menenre.

New Plan Rejected By 68-23 Vote   Proposal To Restore Local Registration Provision Defeated By Wide Margin

Federal Ballot Bill Wins First Test in Senate   “State’s Rights” Amendment Beaten On Roll Call Vote; Maior Test Later

Administration is Victor in Senate  Soldier Vote Test   Victory Comes in 24 Hours After House Rebuffs Bill

SENATE DOWNS STATE BALLOT   Administration Wins First  Test In Service Vote  Battle

State Ballot Backers Lose Second Rounc   Senate Votes Down Amendments Proposed by Sen. Overton

SENATE BLOCKS ‘STATES’ RIGHTS BALLOT MOVE   Overton's Amendment to Require Registration, Poll Tax of Soldiers Defeated 68-23   President Comments on Action Refusing Roll Call Vote on Administration-Backed Bill

SENATE TURNS DOWN STATES. RIGHTS’ IN SOLDIER VOTE BILL   Michener Votes Against Rol Call on Worley Bill in the House   BATTLE YET TO COME

Ballot Change Rejected   FEDERAL SOLDIER VOTE BILL WINS SENATE TEST; SOLONS BAN AMENDMENT

STATE'S RIGHTS AMENDMENT IS LOST IN SENATI   Administr stration Wins . First. Battle On Ballot Bill

Federal Ballot Plan Wins Tests   State’s Rights Amendments Lose In First Senate Votes Taken Today

Amenaimen': To Service Vote Beslon   Federal Ballot Bill Wins  Out in  Senate Votes

ADMINISTRATION'S FEDERAL BALLOT BIL! WINS FIRST TEST  SENATE DEFEATS “STATES’ RIGHTS”

Senate Defeats “State’s Rights” Soldier Ballot; House Bans Roll Call Vote

Win First Senate Test   Solons Turn: Down “State’s Rights” Amendments to Ballot Bill

Federal Ballot Bill For Soldiers Wins First Test  States’ Rights Plan  On Registration Sone mn Da !I! £..i]

Amendment Qn  Vote Bill Out   Senate Wins \ ictory As Congress Defeats ‘State's Rights’ Amendment,

Truancy Officer Must Quash Truancy Cause; In This Case ‘Cateymounts’ in Kentucky Hills

Says Conference at Teheran Laid  Ground Work For World’s Security

Five-Point Program Sent To Congress   Stresses Home Problems:  No Secret Agreements  Made in Conferences

WOULD MAKE ALL SUBJECT TO WAR WORK   Proposal Heads a FivePoint Legislative Program Recommended to Congress by President in Annual Message. ©

\sks Congress To Bring Every Adult  Into War Service   Realistic Tax Law, Further Renegotiation Of War Contracts, Cost Of Food Law, And Re-enactment Of Stabilization Act Included In Proposals To Congress \

CHIEF EXECUTIVE AVERS IT WOULD HASTEN VICTORY   Five-Point Program Also Includes Plea for ‘Realistic Tax Law’

Would Speec Victory, He Tells Solons   Proposes Draft To Fil All Necessary War Jobs. Balk Strikes; Economic ‘Bill Of Rights’ Asked

Millions ‘Are Not In This War at All.”  President Asserts   Five-Point Program, Including “Realistic Tax Law” And “Cost Of Food Lar” Offered

TOPS 5-POINT VICTORY PLAN OF PRESIDENT   Aimed At Putting All Into War And Preventing Strikes

Stresses Domestic Problems   President’s Annual Report on State of Nation Read By Clerk: In House and Senate

Outlines five Point Program   Proposes Realistic Tax Law, Continuation Of Contract Renegotiation Law, Cost of Food Law and Re-enaction of Stabilization Law — Lists Second Bill of Rights

NATIONAL SERVICE LEGISLATION {TOPS FIVE POINT QUICK VICTORY IPROGRAM SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS   President’s Message Tells of Recent Cairo and Teheran Conferences and Says No “Secret’’ Political or Financial Commitments Made, But Aim Solely at World Security

Legislation To Make Available For War Effort Abilities Of Every Able-Bodied Adult In Nation Tops Roosevelt Program Outlined To Senate And House— Pattern For “Second Bill Of Rights” Laid Down, Covering Future Individual Security

It Would Cover Future of Individual Security, President Says in Address to Congress on the State of the Union.

Congress Gets Program for Quick Victory   New Tax Law Is One of Principal Points Outlined by Chief Executive In Message to National Leqgislature

Would Make All Subject To War Work   President's Statement Offers ‘Second Bill Of Rights’ Covering Future Securitv

OFFERS PROGRAM OF 5 POINTS IN ANNUAL MESSAGE  RECOMMENDATIONS TO   CONGRESS DWELL ON NOMESTIC PROBLEMS

“COST OF FOOD” LAW, REALISTIC TAX ACT URGED   Message to Congress Deals Largely With Domestic Problems

Civilian Administration of Universal Draft Suggested   Roosevelt Also Forwards ‘Second’ Bill Of Rights Covering Individual  Security

[Law To Totally Mobilize Nation Heads Program   Five-Point Program And Second Bill Of Rights is Laid Before Congress

National Service Act Is Proposed By Pres. Roosevelt   Five-Point Program Also Includes Laws Covering Taxes, War Contracts, Food Costs, and Economic Stabilization Act . - 2

Second Bill of Rights Proposed - for Future Individual Security   But He Assails Whining Demands of: Selfish Pressure: Groups, ‘as He Says Each of Us” "Has’ Solemn ” Obligation: Under God: to: ‘Serve. Nation”

Seeks Measure To Halt Strikes And Bring All Into War Effort   Proposal Heads 5-Point Program Laid Before Congress

He Tells Solons  “Realistic” Tax   “Realistic” Tax Program, Food Cost Control Urged

5 -Point Plan  ls Presented In Message   Service Law Would Prevent Strikes; Realistic Tax Law Needed; Retention Of Renegotiation Asked, And Food Cost Program Urged

PRESIDENT SENDS CONGRESS MESSAGE ON MANY SUBJECTS   LEGISLATION DESIGNED  TO MAKE AVAILABLE  ARITITIFS OF ALL ADULT!

U.S, SERVICE LEGISLATION TOPPING LIS]   Would Make Ability of All Adults Available for U.S., Guarantee Early Victory

5-Point Program Also Asks Change  In Tax Measures   ‘Cost Of Food Law’ And_ Renegotiation Of War Contracts Also Mentioned

Civil Moblization Tops His 5-Point Victory Program   Teheran and Cairo Involved No Secret U. S. Commitments

SUGGESTED  IN FAS MESSAGE   National Legislation Would Guarantee Earlier Victory, Reduce Suffering.   REALISTIC TAX SECOND

Chief Executive Offers 5-Point Quick-Victory Plan in Solon Message   F. D. R. SAYS RECENT CONFERENCES AT TEHERAN, CAIRO INVOLVED NO “SECRET” POLITICAL OR FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS, BUT WERE AIMED SOLELY AT WINNING WAR, LAYING WORLD SECURITY FOUNDATION

All Must Work for Victory, President Tells Congress in Message on War, Peace

Russian Tanks Roll Within 40 Mi. Of Austria   Sweep Past Lake Balaton In Hungary; Peril To Budapest Grows.

Soviet Troops 40 Miles From  Austria Border   Armored Columns Surging Through German Defense Zone; Many Towns Takén

—AIR WAR— . ~  B.S. Air Force Hopes  ou aemees   Bombing Of Strategic Targets Relegated To Back .Seat In Favor Of Allout Campaign To Exter- minate Nazi Air Force

U.S. AIR FORCE IS SEEKING TO DESTROY GERMAN AIR POWER   AMERICANS FEEL CERTAIN THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO THAT JOB

Nazi Targets Secondary   It’s German Air Force AAE Is Going After; Bombers Not Dodging Fighters

U.S, AIR FORCE IS = SEEKING 10 DESTROY GERMAN AIR POWER  AMERICANS FEEL CERTAIN THEY WILL BE ABLE

AMERICANS AIM TO WIP OUT THE GERMAN AIR FORCE   Complete Extermination Of Planes and Sources of  Production Is U. S. Goal

Seek Fights With Germans   Strike Factories And Seek Combat With Fighters,

Dewey Says Secrecy — Cloaks Postwar Flans   Secretary Ickes Charges GOP Nomi nee Backed by Rabble Rousers  and Isolationists  __

Tekes levels blast at Dewey as g.0.p nominee asks Hight on European plans

Ickes Declares Dewey Backed  By Isolationists  GOP Candidate Make: Demand for Post-War Plans for Poland

Probers Defied By FDR Aide   Committee Moves To Test Powers of Inquiry

Showdown Looms  With White House   Senators Angered Ry Presidential Aide

lowa Masons Will Observe Centennial of Grand Lodge   R. B. Dobbs, W. M., of Mishna Lodge, Reports Local Lodge Will Observe Occasion

MASONS OF IOWA IN CENTENNIAL MEET   All Lodges Of State Will Meet April 20 To Commemorate Event

Aircraft Plant Thought Target Of B-29 Fleet   ‘Jap Counter-blow at Sai. pan Causes Some Damare

STRIKERS DEFY ARMY ORDERS   ‘Strong-arm Squads’ Terrorize Workers

Army Defied By Strikers   Philadelphia Transit Facilities Tied Up

BOMBS AGAIN ROCK MUNICH   Attacked From Air 3rd Straight Day  Britain Enjoys Robot-

MUNICH GIVEN THIRD BOMBING   London Gets First Respite from Robots in 28 Nights

MUNICH BOMBED FOR THIRD DAY   Communication Installations Are Chief Targets

Raging Russians ‘ncircle Wilno; Crack Big Line   Race Thru Baltic Corridor to Trap 20 Nazi Divisions

German Radio Reports Utena Battle Beyond Capital Of Lithuania   Red Army Rush Threatens Foe Cut Off In Upper Baltic Area; 20 Divisions Trapped

BALTIC DRIVE IS ENLARGED   Bug River Also Crossed and Resistance of Nazis is Broken on Several Fronts   Over Weekend.

Reds Fight Germans in  Wilno Streets   Russians Put Noose About City—Drive Toward the RBaltic

FIGHT FOR WILNO IS CONTINUING   Germans Are Believed . Withdrawing From Baltic States

Prison Quiet Today After More Trouble   Begin Quizzing Convicts To Find Ringleaders; Attempt Made To Start Fire In Cell Block

Seek Identity Of Leaders Of Disturbances   State Prison Inmates Are Questioned In Effort To Fix Responsibility For Riot Threats

Willkie Bids For State Delegates  Decision Would ii ‘Mandate’ To Party

Report U. S. Navy Gunner: Shot Down 20 Yank Planes By Mistake Over Sicily

U.S. Planes Shot Down by Mistake   Blasted by Navy Gunners Off Sicily

Armed Forces Required to Reduce Size When Men, Women No Longer Needed

Germans, Acknowledgin Break-Through In Line,: Rus Up Reserves To Meet Dis

21 War Plants — Not In Operation   Republic Employes Return To Duties

21 Plants In Detroit Area At Standstill   Workers Refuse To Go Back To Jobs In War Plants

Strikes Halt War Production in 21 Plants in Detroit-Windsor Area

Germany's Bissest Port on Baltic is  Pounded From Air   Respite of Capital is Short-Lived; Attack is Double-Edged

Thousands Of Evacuees Flee From Berlin      Fires Still Burn; Food Shortages In Many Sections

Leading Fighter Pilot Is Missing   Col. ‘Grabeski_ Had. Downed 28 Planes.

Grabeski Named  Among Casualties   Leading Fighter Pilot Said Missing In Action

Top Ace Missing   Lt. Col. F. Gabreski Lost in Action Over Germany; Had 31 Nazi Planes to His Credit

TOP AMERICAN ACE MISSING IN ACTION   Lt. Col. Gabreski Had Shot Down 31 Planes

U.S. Top Ace Reported Missing  Lt. Col. Gobreski Hod Score Of 31 Planes

Top American Ace Is Missing   Lt. Col. Gabreski Lost Over Germany

TOP SCORING U.S AIR ACE MISSING   LT, COL. GABRESKI FAILED TO RETURN TO BASE ON JULY 20

U.S. Leading Fighter Pilot Is Missing   Lt. Col. Gabreski Missing Same Day Destroyed 31st Plane

PENNSYLVANIAN 1S MISSING IN ACTION   Parents Were Expecting Word Son Was on Way Back to U. S.

LIST OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES UPON STATE PAYROLL   State Auditor Publishes Names Of Local People Who Were Employed By State Of Illinois During The Year 1943.

LIST OF STATE - EMPLOYEES OF ~ THE YEAR 1943   Names And Salaries Of County Residents In State Employe

Nazis Increase  Robot Attacks   Hit Southern England; Radio Says U. S. Next

Robombs Keep British Busy  Germans Hint U.S   Germans Hint U.5. May Be Blasted

Flurry of Robot Bombs Claims Five British Lives: Causes Heavy Damage

ROBOT BOMBS KILL FIVE IN ENGLAND      Talk Stirred That Nazis Have  Established New Launching Ritee In Holland.

ROBOT FLURRY SHAKES BRITAIN   New Launching Sites Can't Be Found, Berlin Boasts

Italian King Expected To Abdicate   Power To Be Turned _Over to Prince 'Himsherk Lodav

King Of Italy To Leave Post As Promised   Victor Emmanuel To Sign Documents Transferring Powers To Humbert

EMMANUEL TO STEP OUT IN FAVOR OF SON   Italian Sovereign is Expected to Fulfill Promise Made to Allies.

CROSS TIBER IN RUSH THRU ETERNAL CITY   Fighter - Bombers Hammer German Columns Stream. ing Northward

Victor Emmanuel Ready To Yield Throne of Italy ©   King Believed Set To Transfer Power To Prince Humbert

CROWN PRINCE 10 TAKE OVER UNDER PLEDGE   Transfer of Powers Are Scheduled to Be Made Soon

Allied Columns Approach Lyon In Rhone Drive   French Revolt in City; Germany's 19th Army Flees

Allies Converging  On Lyons   Four Columns Pursue German 19th Army Up Rhone Valley

AMERICANS 40 MILES AWAY IN DRIVE ON LYON   Four Columns Nearing City, Reported In French Hands

YANK TROOPS CONVERGE ON LYON; 55 000 NAZIS CAPTURED IN SOUTH   INDUSTRIAL CITY REPORTED ALREADY IN HANDS OF MARQUIS; ROADS FILLED WITH FLEEING GERMANS

CONVERGE ON CITY OF LYON   Pursuing Remnants Of German 19th Army

ALLIES CHASE. FOE UP RHONE TOWARD LYONS   Approach City On Seventy Mile Front, Rain Hampers Drive

FOUR COLUMNS CONVERGED ON LYON TODAY   Communique Announces That More Than 55,000 Germans Have Been Taken Prisoner In Less  Than Three Weeks.

NAZIS FACE THREE TRAPS   RUSSIANS ENDEAVORING TO CRUSH GERMAN FORCE "Te ENNA RAEL LINE UN , DER FIRE

3 SOVIET TRAPS THREATEN NAZIS   Drives in Czechoslovakia and Hungary Peril Austria

Americans Not to Miss Breakfast Drinks; Coffee, Tea and Cocoa Supply Adequate

Lots of Your Favorite Beverage  It'll Take a Big Jolt to Put Coffee Back on Ration List

HOT BEVERAGE SUPPLY AMPLE   Surplus Of Coffee And Tea Reported: Cocoa Imports Grow

British Attack  Japs In Burma   Drive Threatens Main Enemy Defense Lines

MEE EILEL SEE ee en REA ee ene  Too Much At Stake In Control Of Baltic

Forces Ring Aachen In Drive 6 Miles Deeper Into Germany; 4th Breakthrough Indicated

Yanks Cut Thru Line af Aachen   Several Penetrations Are Made and a General Break’ through Indicated   NEW GAINS ALONG ’ 500-MILE FRONT   First, Third and. Seventh All Moving On, Headed for the Rhine

UJ. 5. TROOPS HAVE MADE PENETRATIONS  OF SIEGFRIED LINE _ WHOLE GERMAN DEFENSE  SYSTEM IMPERILLED BY  ANWANCING noTICURNYE

Patrols Enfer Aachen To Peril Defense Setup   Headquarters Warns Breakthrough Is Not Necessarily Achieved To Seal Off Troops

German Defense Totters as Line Breaks in Several  ces   PLUNGE TOWARD RHINE   Third Army Reaches Super Highway, 30 Miles From Cologne

SnLTE PETS TWELVE: MILES NTO. ‘rh          j Part of Maginot Line Captured and German Big Guns are Turned.  Around to-Fire at Nazi Troops; Brest Taken. Ala With 12,000 Prisoners. French Report

GIVE TENTATIVE -OKEH TO BALLOT   Two Members Unable to Appear at Meeting

E.R. MAY MAKE LONDON VISIT   CHURCHILL-DE GAULLE CONFERENCE SLATED

PRESIDENT MAY YET DECIDE MAKE TRIP TO EUROPE   If He Doesn’t Gen. Char les DeGaulle Probably  Won’t Have A Top  * Ranking American Present at London Confer ANT ra

FDR May Miss Parleys With French Leader  Other Problems   Other Problems Interest Chief Executive More

MISS JOAN CLARK _ BECAME BRIDE OF ELMER PUNDMANN   “Ceremony Was Performed in Kan sas City, Kansas, on Saturday, Septeniber 2nd.

MISS JOANN.ELARK:~ "BECOMES BRIDE OF ~ ELMER PUNDMANN   Ceremony Performed, Last Satur. day Evening. At Kansas City, Kansas. -

Seek Way to Aid  Small Factories   Subsidies, Revised Price Tops Considered

Weavers Idle In Protest New Plar   Federal Intervention In Proximity Mfg. Co. Strike If War Orders Delayed.

91 WOUNDED YANKS BACK FROM GERMANY   Exchange Liner Docks al Jersey City

Rebels Seize Ecuador City  At Least 50 Killed ln Sudden Uprising

Decorate Eighteen American Generals   Among Them Was Omar N Bradley, Formerly of Moberly, Mo.

Eighteen U.S. Generals Are Decorated by British   British Empire Order

British Cross Awarded To Major Martin   Second Award Received By Former Employe of Times Herald

NAZIS ARE REPORTED rLEEING   Red Armored Column 2 Moves To Encircle Capital, Claim

GATHERING FOR “TRUE DEMOS,” WOODRING sDEA   Anti-New Dealers to Meet in St. Louis to Plan to Get Rid of the “Palace Guard”,

ANTI-NEW DEAL DEMOS T0 MEE   Would Return Nation to ‘American Way’

Not One Juror Ir  Lonergan Case Another 100 Drawn; Order 222 To Report

iax Payments Are Ahead of Last Yea:   lowans Don’t Bank On Chanae in Law

Demand for Shells Great. Byrnes Says   Running Ahead Of Military Timetable, He Declares

Ariillery Ammunition Loaded Into Freight Cars While TNT Still Hot

Hot Shells Are Loaded Into Cars   Still An Urgent Demand for Higher Production in  War Factories

ARTILLERY SHELLS IN GREAT DEMAND BY I. §. FORGES   WAR MOBILIZATION DIRECTOR BYRNES SAYS AMMUNITION BADLY NEEDED

Hot Shells Rushed to War Fronts   Demand So Great That Shipment Begins Betore They Are Cooled   ARMIES ARE AHEAD. OF THEIR SCHEDULE   Now Using War Supplies Not Scheduled for Produc  ton Until Next March

Ammunition Supply Desperately Needed   Demand Is So Great Hot Shells Are Being Loaded for Overseas Shipment as Soon as TNT in Them Hardens, Byrnes Reveals.

“Hor Shells Being Loaded  For Armies   Supply Short Because Land Forces Are So Fat Ahead Of Schedule

BYRNES SPURS WAR WORKERS   Tells Nation Need For Guns, Shells Is Un precedented

Yanks Hold 4-1 Air Advantage   Destroy 11,042 Axis _ Aircraft, Report Says

Negro Is Charged With FelonyTheft   Downtown Curbs Being Repaired   11.042 Axis Aircraft Destroyec

Wake and Eniwetok battered   Ebeye and Loi fall to Corlett’s 7th

Japs Blasted Out of Last Atoll Forts   Seaplane Base on Eheye, Kwajalein and Loi in American Hands   U. S. LOSSES LIGHT   Yanks Fan Out on Tokyo Road as Bombers Work North in Archipelago

deaplane Base Is Captured   Wake, Eniwetok Islands Are Hit By U.S. Planes

U. 5. Now Holds 20 Small Isles in Marshalls   American Planes Batter Enemy Troops on Wake, Eniwetok

President Of Salvador Resigns When Country Torn By General Strike

2 Ex-Governors Address Voters   James and Pinchot On Opposite Sides Of Political Fence

Allies Close Rapidly On Belfort Gap   Forces F rom ‘South France Rushing to Join Those Fron. North   BESANCON IS TAKEN   French Near Chalon on saone Without Serious Nazi Opposition

SEVENTH ARMY CHASING NAZIS TOWARD REICE      Are Now Within 75 Miles of Junction With American Forces Pushing Upward From North France.

SEVENTH ARMY 1S NEAR THIRD ARMY TODAY   French Drive Up Saone Valley Is Unopposed

Only Few Men Under 26 to Be Deferred   Summary of US Aims in War And Peace Asked; GOPs Still Hunting Keynoter for Convention

No Deferment forlen, 18- 25 Is Indicated   IN WASHINGTON TODAY: Politics in ‘Spotlight as GOP “Seek: ‘Leader, Informatiot

Stassenls  Expected To Win Tuesday   Nebraska Will Give Him Popular Vote, Not All Electorial Delegates

BELIEVE NEBRASKA DELEGATES WON'T SUPPORT STRASSEN   Naval Officer May Win Popularity Contest But Few of the State’s 15 GOP Delegates—Is Only Active Candidate

Deserted By Their Terror-Strieken Troops  2 German Officers Give Up

MANY ATTEND SERVICE FOR       Concord Woman Was Pastor of Spiritualist Church In Stoneham

SERVICE FOR MRS. TAYLOF      Concord Woman Was Pastor of Spiritualist Church. } In Stoneham

SPEARHEAD OF YANKS SAID 10 BE AT CHARTRES   Brest Siege Intensified As Second U. S. Column Joins In Assault   BRITISH FORCES’ GAIN   Japs Jittery After Raids By Super-Forts—Russ Bleed Nazis White

NAZIS AD ~ GAPITAL FALL: MAY BE: NEAR      AMERICAN SPEARAE AD LAST REPORTED WITHIN 43 MILES OF OBJECTIVE OF DRIVE;

Argue Financing’ Airport Program   Some Cities Protest Te CAA Against Any State Tieup

Argument Rages On Aviation Bill   Twin City Airport Gront In Controversy

Solons Will Seek Public Support. Of Peace Plans.   Congressmen Note . Disillusionment  Spreading in. U. S.

No Change in Condition o! Cardinal   Crisis Due Next Tuesday in Illness of Lowell Prelate -

lo Prepare a “Great Base for All Arms for Future Operations”; Americans to be “Liberators for Entire Archipelego,” Declares MacArthur.

Mavecnmen Of Islands Sel Up Again   Leyte To Become Base For Arms For Future Operations

Island Will Be Used as a Base For New Attacks   Osmena Sets Up New Government

WITHDRAWAL OF JAPS WESTWARD IS ANNOUNCE?   Great Base For All Arms " For Future Operations  Being Established   SUPPLY PROBLEM FOR NIPS IS DIFFICULT

Japs Retreat After Defeat  By Americans   Work of Making Island Great Base For Offensives Begun; Philippines Government is Reestablished

American Ground Forces Are Expanding Leyte Positions   Enemy Forces on Island Apparently Withdrawing Westward After “His Preliminary Defeat,’ Communique Reports

Americans Expand Holdings On Leyte; Reestablish Seat Of Philippines Government

PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT IS NOW RESTORED   Leyte Will Serve As Base For Future Operations

Last Jap Re: stance On Guam Wiped ut; 10,000 Enemy Killed Ip vattle

10,000 JAPS DEAD IN GUAM FIGHTING   Last Organized Resistance on Island Wiped Out .

GERMAN DEFENSES IN HOLLAND SAID TO BE CRUMBLING   Canadian Forces Within Six Miles of Juncture  With British.

TRUCK GOES  OVER HIGHWAY EMBANKMENT   Driver Badly Burned When Cab Bursts Into: Flames:

Two Subs Sunk And Big Convo Gets Thr oush   ‘Plane Crew Gambles with Lives ‘To Stay with Stricken Comrade

Soviets Forge 2) Miles Westward Moscow Renorts   -Vatutin Extends. 7 ‘Front'in Old Poland; Skrigaloy. Falls ~

Mozyr,Stepan. Kalinkovichi Fall to Reds   “Tremendous Losses’ Suffered by Enemy, Red Communique Says  MANY VILLAGES FALL

Reds inflict heavy losses  on Germans   Vatutin 46 miles inside Poland

‘Advance Continues In Pripet Marshes   Horyn River Is Crossed 46 Miles Inside Old Poland As Front In That Area Extended

Rail Junction and Regional Center Taken in Attacks   DISPATCH.TELLS OF GAINS IN POLAND   More Than 40 Populated Places Overrun by Soviets

GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN HURRIED FLUGHT   Vital Railway Junction of Kalinkovichi and Nearby Mozyr Fall to Stalin’s Troops.   ENEMY LACKS TIME TO SET TOWNS AFIRE   Vatutin’s Army 46 Miles Inside Poland—Left Wing Stands Firm Against Counter-Attacks.

Soviets Forge 20 Miles Westward Moscow Reports   Vatutin Extends © Front in Old Poland; Skrigalov Falls

Rail Junction of Kalinkovichi, Mozyr, Stepan Captured by Advancing Russians

Porziern <ec' Surg3 2 Sains 2. £1 es ~-weug 1 Srozen  fars.1es; “ross 2iver 49 ‘AL 2s in 20.anc

REDS CAPTURE WHITE RUSSIA RAIL JUNCTION   PINSK ‘NEXT LARGE Cizs IN PATH OF SOVIETS

REDS CAPTURE RAIL JUNCTION AND MOZYR   Inflicting ‘Tremendous Loss es” On Fleeing Germans As They Forge Ahead On Pripet Marshes.   Kill 2000 Nazis

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON ENEMY FORCES   More Than 400 Populated Places Occupied by Reds; 3,000 Nazis Die

Reds Wipe Out Thousands Of Fleeing Germans In Twenty-Mile Advance

Soviets Capture  Two Vital  Nazi Positions   Moscow Reports Tremendous Losses Are Inflicted on Fleeing Germans; Reds Advance 20 Miles Through Marshes

Two Red Armies inflicting Great Losses on Nazis   Advance 20 Miles in Frozen Marshes

IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTION FALLS   Russians Plunge Westward Through Frozen Marshes   ANOTHER RED ARMY   Crosses the Horyn River, 46 Miles Inside Old Poland; Villages Taken

Kalinkovichi and Mozyr Captured By Soviets: Germans Driven Back 20. More Miles in Pripet Marshes

IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTION FALLS TO RED FORCES   Kalinkovichi And Mozyr Taken With Tremendous Losses To Enemy   RUSSIAN ADVANCE IS MOVING WITH: SPEED

Bond Campaign Nearing Finish  But Individual Sales Still Short of Quota

ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN CREECE BELIEVED ON   More Than 1,000 U.S.  Bombers Hit Germany

1,000 BOMBERS ATTACK GERMAN WORKS TARGETS      Cologne, Kassel Districts Again Hit In Big Aerial Offensive -

1,000 Heavy U.S. Bombers Resume Raids On Reich; Hit Cologne, Kassel

Yank Bombers: Blast Cologne   Enemy Industrial  Targets In Reich Hit

1,000 BOMBERS HIT NAZIPLANTS   Rock Industrial Targets at Cologne and Kassel

Tried To Force His Resignation   White House Pressure Used Says R.E.A.’s Slattery

VAWORKERS ILL. PROBE LAUNCHED   Believe Coffee Supply In Plant Cafeteria Was " Tampered. With

First Break In Victory Used By Americans To Counter With Heavy Air Attack; Gen. Patton Slashes Into Battle   GERMANS CAPTURE LUXEMBOURG CITY

Weather Break Sends Air Fleets Into Action; — U. S. Attacks Nazi Flank

Weather Declared Perfect   Reports From Battleticld Are Still Black

Air Blows Batter Foe As Patton Wheels Into Nazi Luxemb’r’g Flank   Yanks Score Tank Victory West of St. Vith But Germans Appear To Hold Luxembourg City

YANKS, BRITISH FLY ALL TYPES IN ATTACKS:   Good Weather Favors Flyers

Thousands Of Planes  Hit Nazis   Blast German Tank Cok umns as Patton Strikes  Southern Flank

Armored Forces Score Important Defensive Gains   Weather Break Gives Allied Air Forces Chance To Enter Fray

AIRMEN JOIN BATTLE AS CLOUDS LIFT; 3RD ARMY SLASHES AT NAZI SALIENT

Gen. Patton Reported Diverting Forces to Bisect Salient   Germans Enter City of Luxembourg; Spearhead 20 Miles from France

SOVIET FORCES. GRINDING OUT ~ STEADY GAINS   CAPITAL OF RUTHENIA TAKEN IN BALKAN DRIVE—WITHIN: BS MILES OF PRUB- -.. SIAN CAPITAL

London — (Ins) — The Russlams have opened up a new offensive southeast of Libau, on the Baltic, the Nazi Agency DNB reported today.

ALLIES TAKE VILLAGE IN NORTH BURMA   Enemy-Held Town Taken by British-Indian Force

ALLIES TAKE JAP VILLAGE INN. BURMA   Nips Advancing Or Central Front Toward India

Sumprabum Taken By Indian Troops;  However Jap Spearhead Still   Advancing

Gestapo Seizin. ‘Hungarian Government, ald Citizens; Allies Take burma Village

India Troops Take Town in North Burma   Stilwell Chinese Force Storming Pass Into  ert ree

Jap Spearhead Driving Toward  Indian Border   Nippon-Held Village of Sumprabum Taken By Native Forces

RUSSIANS DRIVE OF FAST PRUSSIA   Large Forces of Sovie' Troops Invading OftDisputed Memelland

W FAST PRINSIA   Large Forces of Soviet Troops Invading OftDisputed Memelland

Army-Navy Group To Study Merger Of Armed Forces   House Committee Gives  Out High Command Plan

BEATING GIVEN JAPS IN CHINA   Transport Along Yangtze Crippled By Raids Of U.S. 14th Air Force

Stettinius  To Outline World Plans   Senate To Get. Views on Policy Of New Appointee:

Bombers Hit Nazi Targets   RAF Planes Raid Berlin In Its Third Bombing In As Many Nights.

PLANES SMACK RAIL JUNCTIONS VITAL TO NAZIS   Deliver Heaviest Series Of Daylight Blows Since Invasion Began

Second Front Coast Raided   Nazi Chemica! Center Blasted By Air Raid

More than 1,000 British Planes Again Hit at Berlin, with Numerous Side Trips.   ITALIAN FIGHTING IS STILL REPORTED BITTER

AIR BLOWS AT NAZI FORTRESS INDICATED   German Radio Stations Shut Down Half Way Across Europe—Northern France Renorted Hit,

Silent Radios Indicate Raid   Ludwigshafen Siruck Hard  By Americans Friday

Nazi Radios Silent; New Raids Seen   Renewal of Heavy Blows on Reich Cities Indieated

Bombers Pound Invasion Coast   Axis Radio Stations Again Go Off Air

Allied Bombers Blanket Europe; Berlin, Ploesti, French Rail System Attacked

BOTH BERLIN AND PARIS. RADIOS. WENT OFF. AIR AFTER -BOMBERS-CROSSED ~ CHANNEL “° .1 

NEW BOMBING ATTACKS SEEN   Paris and Berlin’ Radio Stations Silenced

German Radio Goes off Air   Indications Point To Allied Planes Keepina Up Blows

NEW AIR ATTACKS AGAINST EUROPE   Repeated Air Assaults Made Against Hitler’s Fortress Ry Allhes

Bombers Raid West Germany  Belgian, French ond Berlin Radios Silent

ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS HINTED   Radio Stations Go Silent Halfway Across Europe

Air Support Given Troops In Normandy   Allied Fliers Harass Ger. mans Rushing Up Re inforcements

More Allied Air Attacks Are Indicated  Radio Silence Over  Europe Suggests : ee 2S eee  ee ee: ee

Air Support Stepped Up   Day and Night Fleet Raking German Lines

Missouri Code To Be Submitted in Its Entirety   Constitution Will Be - Voted On At Special ’ Election This Fall

Constitution — to Be Offered  as a Whole   Convention Decides Against Offering Code in Sep arate Proposals

New Constitution To Be Submitted In One Proposal   Convention to Ask People to Pass on Its Work With Single Vote.   To Vote in 6 Months After Adjournment

Troyes, Key Rail Hub, Objective  of Yank Advance   Remnants of German Seventh Army Being Gradually Hemmed In

Yanks Within Day's Ride of German Frontier   Whereabouts of Patton Advance Force Secret

TRY 10 CLOSE ESCAPE TO ALL SOUTH FRANCE   Patton’s Forces Make Dramatic Thrust Toward Frontiers of Reich

Liberation of France Seen Almost Finished   Americans Take Sens, Close in On Nazi Armies

TANK COLUMNS RUSH TOWARD BIG RAIL HUB   Patriot Forces Take Over Cap-. ital After 4-Day Battle With Nazis

HEAD FOR RAIL HUB 130 MILES FROM FRONTIER   Liberation of France Near:

Next Target Is Rail Hub Of Troyes   Strict Secrecy Shrouds Position Of Yank Columns

TANK COLUMN A DAY'S AIDE FROM BORDEE   Strike for Troyes to Cut Off German Armies in South France.

Sens laken  In 65-Mile Inland Dash   ROME (U.P) — Allied forces have captured Marseille, it was announced tonight.   SUPREME HEAD QUAR.

Yanks Day’s Ride  From Nazi Border   American Armor Speeding To Close Last Escape Route Fram Southern France

A Lot of Brave Doughboys Have Been Avenged Near Stavelot in Belgium

Capture Heights Topping: Florence   Gérmiiis Battle _ Germ Til aaftle ta

Heights Above Florence Taken by British Army   Furious Fighting on Approaches to City Reported

BRITISH GAIN IN DRIVE ON FLORENCE   8th Army Moves “Up On Approaches To Historic City

NAZIS FIGHT TO HOLD FLORENCE   Enemy Battles Fiercely To Hold Hill Posts

BTH SQUEEZING NAZIS ON BANK OF ARNO RIVER   British Units Take Hill Four Miles From Florence

British Troops Seize Heights Near F "ee   Germans Resist Fiercely Against Attempted ‘Squeeze’ Play

BRITISH CAPTURE FLORENCE HEIGHT   MOUNT LA POGGIONA FALLS TO ALLIED ARMY

HEIGHTS ABOVE FLORENCE TAKEN BY BRITISH: 8TH   Germans Battle. Ten‘aciously to Hold Remaining ‘Hill Positinng

British Capture Vital Heights   Mount La Poggiona Falls To Allied Armies

British Capture Mt. La Poggiona Near Florence   Germans Desperately Fighting to Halt “Saneeze” Attack

Bricker Would Expose Pear] Harbor Faets   GOP Vice Presidential Can. tlidate Demands Speedy Disclosure of Cireumstances Of Attack

Bricker Asserts He Would Expose Pearl Harbor Facts   Accuses Administration of Withholding Details to Injury of War Eifort

Huge Crowds Meet Bricker InPa. Tour™   Estimates Up to 40;000 Green Him In Two Days; State Will Go Republican This Year-

JAPS PLANNING AAINLAND WAR   Foe Adds to Strength in South China, Army Fairly Well Intact.   ENEMY GAINS IN CHINA

Japs Plan to Fight Final Battles On Asia’s Mainland  Gen. Wedemeyer Says Strength There Being Reinforced

JAPS PLAN FINAL BATTLES IN ASIA, SAYS WEDEMEYER   BELIEVES NIPS WILL LAST ABOUT A YEAR AFTER GERMANY FALL‘

JAPS PLA FINAL BATTLES ON MAINLAND   Wedemeyer Sees Pacific War Continuing Year After German Defeat

Japs Will Battle On Mainland   Exemy Has Changed From an Oceanic to a Continental Stratery   GEN. -WEDEMEYER TELLS SITUATION   Stilwell Still Silent on China, But Praises the American Soldier

NIPS PLAN LAST FIGHTS ON SOIL OF SOUTH CHINA   U. S. General Also Predicts War To Last Year After Reich's Fall

Expects Final Stand By Japs On Mainland   Enemy Is Continuing To Build Up Strength In South China, Reports General Wedemeyer

SELLY £1  GHIA 15 CE GENTER OF NIP STRATEGY   Wedemeyer Sees Pactfie’s ‘Decisive Battles Fought Thera   NEW U.S. CHIEF   Stilwell’s Successor Discusses Outlook Of War Against Japs

Japs Plan fo Fight To End-Wedemeye   Believes War Against Japan Last a Year After Nazi Defeat

Gen. Wedemyer Says Nips Switch From Oceanic to Continental Strategy

WEDEMEYER FEELS JAPS’ LAST STAND WILL BE IN CHINA   Stilwell’e Successor in China Theater Declares Foe Reinforcing Her Substantial Strength in Southern China

NAMES OF JURORS ARE DRAWN TODAY   Both Petit And Grand Jury Selection Is Made

Japanese Maintain Silence on  Guam Operations  Domei Offers Hint That Changes Are Still in Offing

ONLY 1 PREMIER FOR JAP GOVT   Apparently Miado's War Lords Have Reconsidered Having “Two Headed” Cabinet Set-up.

Jap Warlord: Reconsider Co-Premiers   Silent On US  Guam Landines

Co-Premier — Plan Dropped By Japanese   One Man, Not Two To Head Tokyo’s New Government

Hagerstonian About Italy a RA aid  Tourists Spent Big Money On Visits Gls Take For Nothing

Magerstonian About Italy sau soda alaieshasinee as imaninieeieiinlata. J  Tourists Spent Big Money On Visits GIs Take For N olhing

Won't Seek Office At Term’s Enc   Prominent Local Jurist On Bench Over 20 Years

Reds Accept Security Bid   Conference of Big Powers Th Re Held Saan

Vegetable Pont Reduction Urged   Canners Cite Vast  Home-Canned Supply

Canners Ask Cut in Ration   Say Home-Canning Makes Vegetable Rationing Unnecessary

Time Near, French Told   British Warn of Early Invasion Of Channel Coast

FRENCH TOLD INVASION NEAR   Advised To Store As Much Food As Possible In   Advance

INVASION DAY NEAR, IS HINT TO FRANCE      Civilians Advised To Store Food for Emergency

AMERICANS SLASH INTO SAN VITTORE   Bloody Fighting Under Way In Streets

Fifth Army Drives Nazi  Troops Back   Front Dispatches Give Belief That Climax Of Allied Assault Is Now At Hand

German Suicide Troops Pounded Into Death Slot   Climax of Allied Assault Through Italy Said At Hand

WITTORE IS VIRTUALLY YANKS’ HANDS   to-house Battling Goes eNazi Lines Totter. ing.

ROAD TO ROME CLEARANCE NOW . SEEN IMMINENT   Nazi Suicide Troops Pocketed; 5th Army Seizes Mount Majo; Fighting Is “Bloody.”

Nazi Suicide Units Cling To Key City   Break-Thr. rough Near for Y: walks To Rome Hishway

Yanks Slowly Win Control of San Vittore   Nazi Death Squads Are Beaten Baek; Near Road to Rome

Bitter Fight Rages Over San Vittore   Sth Army About tc Break Through to Road to Rome in New Offensive

NAZIS WAVER ALONG ENTIRE ITALIAN FRONT   Allied Break-Through At San Vittore Is Believed Near

ROME ROAD IMMINENT   American Tanks Cleaning Out Machine Gun Nests

FORCE NAZI INTO 3 DEATH POCKETS   Allied Bombers Carry Aerial Raids Against French Invasion Coast.

Nazi Line in ltaly Reels   U.S. Tanks Pound Foes’ Suicide Troops In San Vittore

BREAK UPON ROAD TO ROME IS IMMINENT   Front Dispatches Indi cate Climax of Allied Assault Near at Hand.

Breakthrough Near On Route to Rome   American Troops Pound Germans On Streets of San Vittore Today

Nazi Tanks Reach Jajce  Headquarters Town of Marshall Tito Under

GERMANS USE TANKS  IN DRIVE AGAINST  YUGOSLAV FORCES REPORTED GUERRILLA  CHIEFTAIN’S HEADQUART. ERS REEN CAPTIIREN

Admit German Armored Column Reaches Jajce   Yugoslav Communique Says That Nazis Occupy Former Tito Quarters

Yugoslavs Driven From Town of Jajce   Formerly Tito’s Headquarters; Nazis Use Many Men

Nazis Occupy Jajce, Banja Luka In New Yuaoslavia Drives Tito Admits

Nazi Tank Column Drives to Jajce  Budapest Says Germans in Former

DEWEY EXPECTS TO WIN MAINE      How the ‘Nation Goes’ to Be Learned September 11

RUSSIAN ARMIES  POUND CRUMBLING AXIS DEFENSE LINES  THREE WIDELY SEPAR  ATED SECTORS THREAT ENED RY RED ADVANCE

Red Armies Thrust Deep Into Rumania and Tighten Siege Arc On Black Sea Port Of Odessa

Red Forces Kill 183,310 'Nazi Troops   Toll Taken in Four Weeks in March; Gain 11 Miles in Rumania

Nazi Defenses Crumbling on Three Sectors   Reds Thrust Deep Into Rumania; Soviet Armies Also Drive Closer To Lwow and Tighten Odessa Siege

TT-MILE ADVANCE MADE BY RUSSIANS ON RUMANIAN FRONT   Lines Are Tightened Around Odessa; Jasi Now Under Artillery Fire   208.260 NAZIS ARE LOST

REDS REPORT NEW GAINS IN THREE AREAS   Heavy Nazi Casualties Also Revealed by Red Officials

RUSSIANS BEAT AGAINST ENEMY ON EAST FRONT   Thrusting Deep Into Rumania; Driving Closer To Polish Stronghold Of Lwow; Tightening Siege Arc On Port Of Odessa.

Russ Seize Nazi Center Of Resistance   Khotin Falls in Ukraine, Where 15 Divisions Trapped

Russian Forces Pushing Nearer Lwow, Odessa   Pound Axis Defense Lines On 3 Widely Separated Eastern Front Sectors

Russian Avalanche Sweeping Toward Rumanian Rail Key   Units Reported Only 8 Miles from Jasi; Nazis, Suffer Heavy -Losses in North

Tasi » Rumania, Within Range Red Artillery   Russians Advance to Portals of Hungarian Border Tangles Routed Nazi Communications’   Siege On Odessa Being Tightened   German Army Supply Lines!  In Rumania Pushed Back   Behind Carpathians:  Run Thro Budapest

[asi Within Range Red Artillery   Russians Tighten Siege Arc os Odessa, Capture 80 Towns ix Drive Against Lwew, Poland

Axis Defense Lines Crumble On Russ Front   Soviet Troopers Drive Closer to Odessa and Lwow

Russ Pounding At Nazi Defense Lines   One Column Is Near lasi; Second Drives Upon Lwow

memnants of 15 Divisions Being Rounded “Up Near Czech and Polish Borders — Rumanian Troops Reported. Deserting by Thousands and Battling Germans— People Warned to “Ca. pitulate at Once.”

537,160 HUN AND SATELLITE * TROOPS KILLED OR CAPTURED IN DRIVE TO OUST NAZI INVADERS    183,310 Germans Killed and 24,950 Captured on Single Front in Last 28 Days. Red Armies Drive Closer to Lwow in Old Poland and Tighten Seige Arc on Odessa 4

RUMANIA WARNED BY MOSCOW RADI TO QUIT GERMANS   Soviet Forces Drive Deeper Into Balkan Nation as Lwow, Enemy Stronghold Is Threatened.   JAP INVASION ARMY IN BURMA IS BOMBED   Aerial Attack Is Intended to   Smash Rear Lines to Dis  rupt Flow of Tanks and Reinforcements.

Soviet Forces Push Forwarc on 3 Fronts   Smash Into Rumania and Poland; Closing Net Around Odessa

Reds Hit Nazis ‘In Three Sectors: Odessa In Siese   Russians Drive Close To Lwow Fortress 208,260 German: Slain

loscow » Reveals 208.260 Nazis Captured or . Slain  JEEP IN RUMANIA   tuss. Tighten Odessa Are and Stirge Closer to Lwow

Reds Can Turn Guns Upon Iasi   Axis Defenses Are ‘Sagging i in Three ain Sectors

Deep Thrust Into Rumania Wiping Out  Nazi Forces   Zhukev’s Men Shoot, Seize 208,260 Force

City’s Fall Seen; Axis Troop Losses  Over Hal; Million   Thrusts Move Nearer Odessa; Lwow; Fifteen Nazi Divisions Near Former Czechoslovakian . Border Being Encircled By Russian Forces

Soviets Pouring Into Rumania On Widespread Front  By TOM YARBROUGH  , ae a ee a nr Fee on   oon ee

Reds Drive To Within Big-Gun Range Of lasi   Sweep Nearer Lwow In Poland; Tighten Siege Arc On Odessa.

Draw Within Artillery Range OF lasi: Drive Closer To Lwow. Odessa.   List AXIS CASUALTIES

Heavy Toll Taken Of Nazi Forces   First Ukraine Army Kills or Captures 208,260 Germans

Artillery Duels, Patrols Clash on Two Italian Fronts  Americans Establish New Strongpeint Northwest of Padialione on Anzio BReachheat

YANKS IMPROVE BEACHHEAD LINE   NAZIS CONTINUE TO POUR HARRASSING FIRE ON ALLIED POSITIONS

BEACHHEAD SECTOR IMPROVES   Nazis Continue Fight But Remain On Defensive

AMERICANS ADVANCE ON ANZIO FRONT   Patrols Extend Beachhead, § Point Established

5th Betters Position on Beachhead   Guns Duel, Patrols Clash On Central Italian Front

Troops Hold New Position On Beachheac   Slight Improvement Is Made In Allied Line , On Central Sector Of Anzio Battlefront

Beachhead Allied Line Is Helped By Sharp Clash   Slight Improvement On Central Sector; Nazis Continue To Use Harassing Fire

SEVERE DUEL I$ CONTINUED   Allied Position ' Slightly Strengthened — Patrol Clashes Being Reported on Main Front.

U.S. Patrols Improve Hold on Beachhead   Defeat Germans in Sharp Clash—Air Forces Kept Busy

ALLIES ADD. . TO BEACHHE! BELOW ROME      Taking New Point Strengthens Their Position

YANKS HELP CENTRAL AREA OF BEACHHEAD   Combat Patrol, After a Sharp Clash With Germans, Establishes a New Strong Point — No Changes at Cassino. .

ALLIES WIDEN BEACHHEAD IN ROME SECTOF   Patrols Win New Strong Point To Improve 5th Positions

EXTEND ALLIED BEACHREAD IN ANZIO SECTOR      J German Harrassing Fire Is Con. tinuing Over Whole Beachhead

NEW STRONG POINT      Position, Set Up By trol After Sharp B proves Allied Li Bridgehead Below

NEW STRONG POINT _ ISESTABLISHED BY U.S, COMBAT PATROI   Allied Line on the Central Sector of the Beachhead Slightly Improved.   WAS NEAR TADIGLIONE   Enemy Buildings on the East Flank Were Gradually Crumbling.

American Combat Patrol Establishe: Stronqpoint Near Anzio Beachhead

Allies Strengthen Anzio Front  Establish Strong Point Nine Miles   Establish Strong Point Nine Miles Above Anzio After Grenade Battie

Allied Line In Central Anzio  Area Improvec   Anteriean Combat Patrol Establishes New Strong. point Northwest of  Padiglione. Italy

Yanks Hold  Anzio Point   New Stronghold Has Been Established on Beachhead Below Rome

ALLIES REPORT A GAIN IN ITALY   New Strong Point Established, Improving Allied Beachhead Line.

US Italy Patrol Establishes A New Strong Point   Improve Allied Lines On Central Sector Below Rome; Continue Bombing.

AMERICANS CLASH  WITH GERMANS IN  GENTRAL SECTOR ARTILLERY CONTINUES  ACTIVE IN BEACHHEAD AREA IN ITALY

Yanks Drive New Wedge OnBeachihead   PadiglioneGain Improves Allied Anzio Line; General Eaker at Front

Yanks Widen Beachhead Below Rome   Combat Patrols Take Strong Point In Grenade Battle

ALLIES BETTER ANZIO POSITION   Establish New Strong-Point In Central Beach-Head

U.S. IMPROVES ITALIAN LINES   Airmen Pound Railroad Routes in Italy

ALLIED PATROL ESTABLISHES NEW BEACHHEAD STRONG POINT   PADIGLIONE POST IMPROVES LINE ON CENTRAL SECTOR; SHARP RESISTANCE FROM GERMANS

RUSSIAN WEDGE SPLITS 150,008 TRAPPED NAZIS   -xtinction of Ten Encircled Divisions Now in Final Stages

EXTINCTION OF 150,000 NAZIS IN LAST STAGE   Reds Split Trapped Divisions   NAZIS DOOMED   Beginning of End fs Started

All's Quiet Over Western Europe   Planes From South Roar Over Balkans.

WEATHER HOLDS UP RAIDS ON GERMANY   NAZIS OFFICIALLY ADMIT THEIP LOSS

Set Fires in New Attack; KeilBombed   Daylight Operations or Limited Scale Over Germany Today

Berlin, Kiel Naval Base Blasted By British Bombers   Pilots Report 6 Mile Fire Blazing In Berlin Area

CONSIDER NAZI CAPITAL IS 75 PCT. WRECKED   “Twin Night Assaults Cost British 73 Bombers

REICH’S BIG NAVAL BASE AT KIEL BOMBED   Seventy-three British Planes Are Lost In Twin Assaults Over Germany.

9800:Ton  Blast Hits Reich   1000 R. A. F. PLANES IN NIGHT ASSAULT, SETTING HUGE FIRES

‘Russians Renew Drive Into Slovakia; Heavy Fighting Raging Around Budapest

RUSSIANS DRIVE INTO SLOVAKIA   Budapest and Latvian Offensives Also Being  Pushed.

Reds Win Fight On Saare Island   Stalin Announces End Of Resistance In Estonia Battle

Aviators Put In Busy Day   Hungary, Yugoslavia, Budapest And French Coast Feel Force  Of Bombers.

BELLE VERNON SOLDIER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED, KIN ADVISED ON SATURDAY)

Stimson Refutes Dewey Assertion   Says No Economic Or Political Factors Enter Into Demobilization.

Stimson Denies Demobilization Will Be Delayed   Says No Economic Or Political Factors Will Enter into Plans

TO DISCHARGE SERVICE MEN SPEEDILY   Stimson Calls Dewey’s’ Assumption Absolutely Untrue

To Release Menas Soon AsPossible   Stimson Asserts There  . Will Te No Delay to  ~ Ease Unemployment Situation

Demobilization Not Political   Says Army Will Not Delay To Provide Jobs

In Plans To Demobilize   SECRETARY STIMSON SAYS NO ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL FACTORS WILL ENTER INTO RETURNING SOLDIERN   No Comment On Morgenthau

Dewey lacks ‘feel of the west, says Ickes in reply to charge of neglect

AFL Opens Second Wage Control Front   ‘Little Steel’ Formule Is Called Economic Thumbscrew

AFL OPENS DRIVE ON PAY CONTROL   Joins CIO In Bitter Blast At ‘Little Steel’ Formula

A-New AFL Attack On Wage Controls   Little Steel Formule  an“Economic Thumbscrew”™ - Says Labor Group

Wage Rate 01 Steel Workers Attacked Again   Little Steel Formula Criticized Today by AFL in the Second Major Attack Within Two Weeks.

A.F. of L. Makes Attack On Little Steel Formula In Wage Control Fight

LABOR OPENS NEW FORMULA ATTACK   AFL. Asks Modification 0 Plan Used to Determine Waaes, Cite Living Costs.

A.F.L. Assails Wage Ceiling   Federation Joins C.1.O In Attempt to Break Little Steel Formula

“Economic Thumbscrew To Torment Working People.”’....  AFL Opens Second Major Attack On Wage Formula

AFL Opens New Major Attack On Wage Controls   Asserts Little Stee] Formula "Thumbscrew’ te Torment Workers, Living Costs Up 43 PC

Little Steel Pay Formula Again  Under Attack   AFL Assails It “As Econonic Thumbserew to Torment Working -People. of Aniarina??

AFL OPENS 2NC WAGE ATTACK   Little Steel--Formula Called ‘Economic Thumbscrew on American Workers.

AFL Attacks Wage Policy   Little Steel Formula Called Thumbscrew to Torment Working People

AFL Attacks Steel Formula In WLB Hearing  Meany Claims Living Costs Up 43 P. C., Standard Way Down

A. F. L. Opens Second Major Attack On Wage Controls In Two Weeks

AFL Attacks Wage Formula   “Economic Thumbscrew To Torment Working People,”’ Charge

AFL ALSO HITS STEEL FORMULF      Follows CIO In Branding Wage Plan As Economic Thumbscrew

“ FROST NOT EXPECTED   Temperature Range to Be Un changed, Says Forecaster

Allies  to Pool Shipping   United Maritime Council to Synchronize Merchant Vessels’ Use

15,000,000 CARS AND TRUCKS WILL BE NEEDED AFTER WAR MANUFACTURER FORECASTS

Sees Markel For Trucks And Cars   Frazer Says 15,000,000 Autos and Trucks Wanted Soon as Can Be Made

34 FROM UPPER END WILL BE INDUCTED   From Sellersville - Perkasie And Quakertown  Sections

Associated Press’s Don Whitehead “Scoops” Paris Liberation Story

AP War Correspondent First Newsman in Paris With Planning and Luck

AP CORRESPONDENT WAS FIRST NEWSMAN TO ENTER PARIS AND SCORED BEAT BY DARING PLAN

$43,500 IS AWARDED STATE FROM ESTATE   Judge Accused of Building Fortune Illegally

Believe 5th Loan Drive is Oversubscribed   Individual Sales During July will be Credited to Quota

Critics Seek To Lay Blame   Military Intelligence Held Responsible

BRUSSELS WRESTED FROM GERMAN GRASP BY BRITISH TANKS  UNOFFICIAL ADVICES SAY AMERICANS HAVE CROSS. ED GERMAN FRONTIER

BRUSSELS WRESTED FROM GERMAN GRASP BY BRITISH TANKS  TINOERICIAT ANVICES CAV   UNOFFICIAL ADVICES SAY AMERICANS HAVE CROSSED GERMAN FRONTIER

ERR eee ee ED Te NNO na tee er  Weather Stripping ‘Available For Homes

TOWN and FARM 43 - in WARTIME - Ger  - Propored by OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION         WEATHER STRIPPING FOR HOMES

British Slap Irish Reject   ‘A Deliberate Rebuff’ Is Press’ Description

CHINESE ADVANCE ON TENGCHUNG   Jap Base On Old Burma Road Menaced By Three Forces

CHINESE MAKE GAIN OF 19 MILES   Are Within 24 Miles of Major Jap Stronghold

Tengchung Goal Of Chinese Drive   Jap Garrison Flees As Lungling Falls

FOE EXPECTED TO QUIT GUSTAV LINE IN SOUTE   Germans Leave Key Position at Cassino as 100,000 Face Trap

WITHDRAW 10 ESCAPE TRAP   Yank Patrols Enter Cassino as Germans Evacuate City

NAZIS BEGIN T0 WITHDRAW 10 ESCAPE TRAP   Yank Patrols Enter Cassino-as Germans Evacuate City

22 Hurt, One Dies When Boat Platform Overturns In East  : Passengers Hurled » Into Delaware River;

STEAMER TILTS, ~ MANY INTO RIVER   BYSTANDERS LEAP INTO WaATER, FORM HUMAN CHAIN, AND EFFECT RESCUES,

About Fifty In River Due  Platform Tilt   Many Women And Children Rescued Near Salem, N. J.

Roosevelt © To Speak In New York   Hannegan Claims Large Registration In City Favors President — Dewey Will Talk Fou Times In State

State Battleground In Political Race   Republican Nominee Thomas Dewey, President Roosevelt Are Scheduling Talks to Gain 47 Electoral Votes

NEW YORK MAY BE HOT BATTLEFIELD. FOR F. D. R., DEWEY   Both Presidential Aspirants Schedule Major Talks For the State—Voter Registration Eyed Keenly By Party Leaders

Japs Launch China Drive, Invasion Of India At Stalemate   Manchurian Forces Seek To Seize Vital Railway

NIPS START BIG PUSH FOR VITAL RAILS IN CHINA   Estimate Over 50,000 Japs ir Push for Peiping-Hankow Railroad

FIRST LARGE-SCALE HGHTING IN CHINA FOR MONTHS FLARES  JAPANESE INVASION OF INDIA THREATENS TO REACH STALEMATE

Japanese Spring New Offensive  In Honan, China   Stalemate Appears Likely Wit   Stalemate Appears Likely With Japs Balked in India—Caroline Island Bases Strafed

Possibly to Boost Home Front Morale Allied Pounding in Pacific Continues

Jans Open Drive In North Honan   Attempting to Push Chinese From Hold On Railroad

Nips Halted at Kohima, and Imphal   Allies Pound Woleai, Satawan - Airfield in Carolines Third Consecutive Day

Full-Scale 7 Battle Flares In China   Japs Launch Drive at Chinese-Held Section Of Key Rail Line; Indian Offensive’ Duiled

Japs Re-Open War in China On Big Scale   Canipaign Believes Aimed to Bolster Mies la oak Hae

JAPANESE BEGIN NEW HONAN PUSH   Aim Offensive at Segment of Kev’ Railroad. 7"

Big-Scale Battle In China Flares   Japs Start New Push [r Honan Province

Japs Speed °Up Fighting In Rice Bow!   [Large Scale Offensive Is Believed Plan to Aid Home Front Morale 

NEW FIGHTING FLARES UP IN CHINA TODAY  Japanese Fight Uy... Tr. rj...

HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES IN CHINA   Japs’ Invasion Of India Now Heads Toward Stalemate

BATTLE IN CHINA   Japs Start a Big-Scale Of fensive in North: Honan Province

Japs Open Drive Fo Important Rail Link   Violent Fighting Flares In Northern Honan Province "Where Nips Seek To Dislodge Chinese * From Hold On Peiping-Hankow Railroad

CHINESE . FRONT BATTLE FLARES   British Forces Relieve Be. sieged Base In India

Japs Open Big Attack “On Chinese   The: First Large-Scale Move ‘Since.‘Rice Bowl’ Battie. “Plares In Honan   SEEKS TO PEP UP.” HOME FRONT MORALE      cavasion of India Has Been “Slowed and Rainy Season Is Near

NORTH FRANCE TARGET AFTER BERLIN ATTACK   One Of Heaviest Raids Ever Made On German Capital Came During Thursday night   SCWrEET DREAMS"

‘Hope You Survive’ Is Way Berliners Tell Each Other ‘Goodnight’ Now

Enter Two In Ellinois GOP Primary   File Col McCormick, Gen. MacArthur Petitions For  President Nomination.

AIRCRAFT PLANTS IN ITALY BOMBED   Fires Started in Raids on Bresso and Varese—Port of Qenonk Riasted.

Italian Plane Plants Blasted By U.S. Forts   Factories at Varese And Bresso Bombed: Port of Genoa and Livorno Also Attacked

Enemy Suffer:  Crippling ‘Blow in Raid   Warplane Factories in Italy Heavily Damaged

Yankees Take Biak Airport   Mokmer Wrested From Japanese Forces By Surprise Rear Attack

Yanks Capture Mokmer Field  Biak Isle Prize Falls to M‘Arthur After Lona Fight

Mokmer Airfield — On Biak Island Taken from Japs  Surprise Blow from Rear Give   Surprise Blow from Rear Gives Yanks Prized Base With Little Less—Philippines in Range

"Brig. General Davis Graves of AAF Is Missing   B Brig. Gen. Kendall Reported Wounded in Italian Action

General Graves Missing in Italy   Army Force Head Last Seen Feb. 8

GENERAL GRAVES MISSING IN ACTION      Commander of Air Forces Wing Reported Lost Over Italy

GENERAL GRAVES MISSING MONTH   Air Corps Officer Lost It Mediterranean Theater

AIR COMMANDER MISSING IN ITALY   BRIG. GEN. DAVIS D. GRAVES LOST FEB. 8—ANOTHER GENERAL WOUNDED.

9 DIE, 83 HURT IN RAIL WRECK   Train Derailed On Curve, Falls Into Gully

BRITISH TAKE HILL POSITION BEYOND CAEN   YANK ARTILLERY BLASTS PATH FOR TROOPS

Alhes Gain Up to 6 Miles In Normandy   Advance Despite Stern German Resistance, And Muddy Terrain  NAZIS LOSE TANKS

U.S., British Forces Gain  Several Miles   English Patrols Get to Orne River but  Have to Withdraw

Yanks Smash Number of Nazi Tanks   British Patrols Reach Orne River But Have To Withdraw; Armored Counterattack Ended

Germans Yield Ground Stubbornly on Both Ends of Front and: ‘in Center as Well. va         AMERICANS PRESS TOWARD LESSA’   Move Forward Six Miles South of St. Jean-— Tommies: Push Beyontl: Captured Caen.

F ront-Line Dispatches Claim Americans Gain Up Ts Six Miles South Of St. Jean De Daye And  Carentan In Twenty-Four Hours

Retreat of German Armies Still Slow   Enemy Expected to Resort to Town-by-Town Defense as Lona as Reserves Can be Moved

Scoring Gains of Two to Six Miles, While British Hammer Out Advances Near Caen.

Forces Slog Through Rain Soaked Mud: in France   MANY NAZIS HELD  «PRISONERS OF WAR   More Than 5,000 Know! Dead Since June . i 6th

Allies Seore Hard-Won  France Gains   Americans Knock Out Numerous Counter  Attacking Nazi Tanks

Allies it in Ttaly Storm Ahead; Debacle Looms   French Converge on Pico; Yank Cruisers Set Ter encima Afiesn

IMERICANS HOLD ‘PALAUISLANDS  Capture Of Important ToL Dt & Wee Weettes Ts      Capture Of Important Peleliu By Yanks Is Renorted Imminent   JAP LOSSES HIGH   Marines Have Killed 7, 645 Nips In New Battle  : Tn Pactfi«:

ANGAUR TAKEN: SLOW PROGRESS IS CONTINUED   Last Strip Of Island On Northeast Coast Held By Japanese

DEWEY 10 DISCUSS FATE OF WHITE COLLAR WORKER, FORGOTTEN MAN   PITTSBURGH SPEECH TO EXPLAIN “TWO FIRES,” TO BLAST POLITICAL BARGAINING, LABOR POLICY

Yank 3rd Army Within 8 Miles Of Saarbrucken   Organized Resistance Broken at Koslar; Wedges Driven into Defenses Along Roer River

Yankees Smash Nazi Defenses  Upon All Fronts   Three Armies Drive Foe Deeper Into Homeland

DEWEY-INVADES ‘MISSOURI HONDA)   ST. LOUIS TALK TO DEAL WITH HONESTY AND MAY TOUCH ON MACHINES,

Need for Honesty in Government to Be Discussed  Dewey Will Deliver Mearinr Addroece

Need for Honesty in Government to Be Discussed  Cet EE CK... cee.   Ne eee eS  Dewey Will Deliver Major Address in St. Louis Monday

HONESTY 10 BE DEWEY THEME   Nominee Expected to Talk Of Big City “Gangs” in St. Louis Address

Milo Mathews To Receive Award   $100 War Bond To Be Giver Next Saturday

Germans Retreat In Some Sectors  Of White Russi   »Nazis: Burning Villages As They Abandon Them Says ‘Moscow Report   BUG RIVER FRONT ' IS ALSO AFLAME

BUG RIVER LINE ABLAZE AS REDS SEEK NAZI TRAP   Other Soviet Units Close In on Rail Junction, South of Leningrad

BURNING TOWNS LEFT BEHIND BY NAZIS   Soviet Troops Close in on Key Rail Center

MOSCOW REPORTS GERMAN RETREAT IN WHITE RUSSIA   \Bug River Front Aflame as Nazis Attempt to Halt 1 Red Drive

Fifth Slugging It Quit With Nazis   Entire Southern Part Of Ruined Town Brought Under Fire Of Allied Artillery

NEW ZEALANDERS ARE SLUGGING THEIR WAY THROUGH CASSINO  EQUALLY AS BLOODY FIGHTING TAKING PLACE

BIG GUNS AID NV BETTERING ~ENEMW AREAS   Shell Continental Hotel as New Zealand Troops .. Fight in Street.

Battle for Cassino Is *Raging On After Nazis Launch Counter-Stabs

Heavy Guns Used on Main Hotel   Nazi Counterattacks Continue; Street Fighting Is Furious

GERMANS RETAIN CASSINO’S HILLS   Bloody Hand-To-Hand Fight Continues Inside Base

BATTLE FOR CASSINO DEVELOPS - ‘, INTO WILDEST FIGHT OF CAMPAIGN.

Slow Gains ~ On Cassino Battlefront   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Is Reported Throughout The Sector  

CASSINO BATTLE ONE OF HARDEST IN ITALY DRIVE   New Zealanders and Nazis Slug It Out At Close Range in Streets of Ruined City

Allies Make Some Gains In Cassino  Bitter F ighting   Bitter Fighting Raging in Town and in  Nearby Hills

GERMANS SHELL TOWN   Nazis Promise To Withdraw Military Traffic From Rome

New Zealanders Make Gains In  Southern Cassinc   Germans Shell  Ruined Town

Fight For Ruins Of Cassino Develops Into Wildest Battle Of Italian War

ALLIED FORGES INCH FORWARD IN CASSINO AREA   Germans Repel British Drive on Slopes of Monastery Hill

Germans Counterattack Against Hill, Are Repulsed; Allied Artillery Fires At Direct Range on Hotel In Ruined Town; No Major Change in Positions

New Zealanders Slug With Nazis To Clear Cassino   German Artillery Tn Hills Shell Ruined Town

Anzacs Making Slow Progress Inside Cassino   Bloody Fighting Rages In Hills Sector West Of City Also.

Wild Battle  ‘In Cassino   _Mesuvius Expells _ Fresh Flow of Lava

Close Quarter Fighting In Cassino Area Gives Gains   New Zealanders And Nazis Engage In ‘Heavy Slugging On Qtolamated Front

Anzacs Fight Cassino Nazis Hand to Hand   Foe Holds Stubbornly as Its Guns Pound Allies in Bloody Ruins

Allied E Drive. Stubbornly — Fighting ‘Germans Back ‘In Struggle for Cassino

' Lines See-Saw At Cassino Before ‘Heavy Nazi Attacks, Artillery Fire

New Zealand lroops Slug it Out With Enemy In Savage Hand-To-Hand Fichtinoe

Allies in Cassino Fight Hand-to-Hanc   Combat of New Zealanders and German Forces in Southern Sector of the City Is Described Officially as “Very Heavy.”

ALLIES MAKE ‘SLOW ADVANCE IN’ CASSINO   New Zealanders Slug It Qut With Germans in Southern Section in, Hand-to-Hand Fighting   NAZIS REINFORCED   British Alfack on Monte Cassino Slopes Frustrated by Mine Field, Infiltrating Germans

BITTER BATTLE NOW UNDERWAY NEAR CASSING   Germans Reinforce Lines; Allies Gain Ground

ALLIES THRUST ON IN CASSINO   Making Slow But Steady Progress In Southern Section

New Zealand and German Troops Fight Hand-toHand at Cassino.   GERMANS HOLDING FAST

BLOODY FIGHT IS RAGING FOR RUINED TOWN   Fifth Army Finds It Difficult to Neutralize Enemy Fire From Valley Below Bastion   DEFENSES REINFORCED

Savage Battle Rages Around Cassino Area   New Zealand Troops Slug It Qut With Nazis In Hand. To-Hand Fighting,   ANZIO PATROLS CLASH

Zealanders Gain Ground In Contest For Cassino   F ighting Is Bloody  In Mountain Areas

New Zealanders Battle Germans In Cassino Area   Siow but Steady Progress 1s Made By Allied Troops

Allies Make Slow Progress In Hand-To-Hand Fighting In Southern Sector Of Cassino   Fighting Equally As Bloody Rages In Hills To West: Beachhead Ouiet

Savage Battle  Stull Rages In   Cassino Areas   New Zealand Troops Are Fighting Hand-to-Hand In Southern Section  Of Italian City   Fire Of Artillery  Is Made Difficul   iMore Prisoners Taken Bi Allied Forees; Indian   Troops Get Supplies  i By Parachutes

Cassino Armies Slugging It Out   Allied Forces Making Slow; But Steady Progress There.

Recaptured Hotel Center Of Fighting   Germans Launch Two Counterattacks Against  Castle Hill Sector

‘Counterattacks in the Hills And Hand-to-Hand InStreets  BLASTS OF SHELLFIRE        No Major Changes: in Position as Battle Grows Tn Intensity .

1000 Nip Troops Lost in Fourth Enemy Attempt j   Follows Similar Destruction of Ships Day Earlier

Fourth Enemy Convoy Off Cebu Blasied   Estimated 2,000 Nipponese and All Cargo Lost

Fourth Convoy Sunk Off Leyte Island   Jap Reinforcement Tries Result In 17,000 Loss

2.000 more troops, four vessels lost  American fliers  eoathing tack nave

U.S. FLYERS DESTROY 4.SHIP JAP CONVOY   2,800 Nipponese Troops Lost Off Cebu as They Try to Reinforce Garrison at Leyte

Ickes “Advises Lewis Go Slow   UMW Told Travel Time Pay Mav Be Delaved

Draft Boards to Review All Deferment:   Order Issued by State Selective Service Director

Draft Boards Advised to Review Files Of 18-37 Reaistrants in 2-A and 2-B

38 Swedish Firms Put on Blacklist   New Pressure Applied Against Aid to Axis

W. A. White Rites Today   Funeral to Be Held At College of Emporia Chapel at 4°P. M.

War Finance Chairman Announces _ “County-by-County Bond Drive Quotas

'—PACIFIC—  JAPANESE-HELD ISLANDS AAIDEL   Nimitz Says U.S. Carrier Task Force Sank 13 Enemy Ships   16 OTHERS HiT   Tokyo Reports Guam And Other Marianas IsJands Are Attacked

Task Force Sinks 13 Jap Ships   Tokyo Says Big Naval Guns Pound Islands in 3-Day Attack Which  May Still Be Going On

Sink 13 Jap Ships; Yanks Advance in Biak Drive; Chinese Hold at Changhsa

GUAM BLASTED BY YANK BOMBS   Attack on Island Path Teo Japan Takes Spotlight

141 Jap Air Craft Blasted   U. S. Task Force Hits Guam, Saipan, Tinian Islands; 13 Ships Sunk

U.S. TASK FORCE HITS GUAM: OTHER MARIANAS ISLES.  SINK 13 JAP SHIPS, !  -hAMARE 14 OTHERS:   SINK 13 JAP SHIPS, DAMAGE 16 OTHERS; DESTROY 141 PLANES

Tokyo Admits Marianas Blow   U. S. Task Force Attacks Guam and Other Islands

13 Jap Shins Sunk, 16 Damaged, 141 Nip Planes Destroyed   Adm. Nimitz Reports on ~ Toll Taken by Navy Task Force

ALLIED SHIPS ROCK MARIANAS   Yank Warships Hit Inner Nip Defenses In Three Day Smash

141 Jap Plaries Downed: In Task Force Assault  Changsha Holds Out MacArthur's Planes Weod Mokmer Airfielc

CARRIER PLANES »5LAST ISLANDS   Principal Targets Only 1500 Miles South Of Japan 

NAVAL GUNS IN ON JAP ISLAND. RAID, ANNOUNGI   Guam, Saipan and Tinian Islands Main Targets for Mighty U. 8. Aerial and Sea Attack.

FLIERS SCORE IN MARIANAS      Navy Force Pounds Guam, Sink 13 Enemy Ships:.. . Destroy 141 Planes _.

DOWN 141 JAP PLANES IN RAID   Also Sink 13 Nip Warships ir Marianas Attack

Surface Ships Bombard Guam   Other Marianas Islands Raided Bs Jap Ships: 13 Foe Vessels Sunk.

Nimitz, Tokyo Agree As to Targets in 3-Day Strike Against Enemy.

Japs’ Inner Defenses Hit In Bold Raic   Admiral Nimitz Reports 13 Enemy Ships Sunk, 16 Damaged and 141 Planes Destroyed in Marianas Attack

OnIP, PLANE POUND GUAM, _ TOKYO SAYS   141 Nip Planes Shot Down In Three- Day Action   Holding Own In Fight For Changsha: City Beseiged From Three Sides

CHINESE HOLD FIRM IN BATTLE FOR CHANGSHA   By THE ASSOCIATED PRES:

Tokyo Admits Heavy Attack  On Marianas   Nimitz Says 13 Jap Ships, 141 Planes Destroved

NAVAL GUNS AND CARRIER PLANES POUR EXPLOSIVES INTO GUAM AND MARIANA ISLANDS FOR THREE DAYS   Enemy Defenses Flanking the Philippines Hard Hit By Carrier Task Force. U.S. Losses 15 Planes And 15 Airmen Says Admiral] Nimitz

 George Erskin of Sylvania Co. Talk Yo Rotary Club   Mas High Prai Vor Sub- factori Tewn Dome Work      in

George Erskin of Sylvania Co. Talks To Rotary Club   Has High Praise For Sub-factories in Tewn Doing Work

Allies Kill 10,000 Japs Near Im phal   Smashing Of Road Block Reported: Troops Mop Lp Kohima Area

BRITISH GA IN FIGHTING NEAR IMPHAL   Jap Road Block On Manipur Valley Road Is Smashed

10,000 India Japs Killed   Allied Counter Blows Break Open Northern Arc of Siege Lines

Britain Stops All Overseas Travel,  Pending Invasion   Nazi Radios Continue Speculations On Coming D-Day

10,000 JAPS ARE KILLED It INDIA FIGHT   U.S. Fighter Planes Aid Jungle Troops in Hollandia Area

10,000 Japs Dead In Imphal Battle   Enemy Death Toll Heavy In Month-Old. Fight

B-29 Bombers To War Fronts   Boeing Seattle Plant Halts Work On B-L7s And Con centrates On Supers

FLYING FORT PRODUCTION CLIRTAILED   Boeing Plant to Concentrate on Super-Fortresses

BOEING BEGINS SUPER-FORTS   CONVERSION OF SEATTLE COMPANY TO BE SPEEDED

GULLETT PAGES ELECTRIC CHAIR   Defendant Weeps As Jury Finds Him Guilty In McCoy Family Deaths

COLLETT FACING DEATH IN GHALR   Fayette County Farmer Convicted Of Killing  McCoy Family

COLLETT WEEPS INGELL AFTER DEATH SENTENCE   Clinton County Farmer Found Guilty of First Degree Murder

Convicted Triple Slayer Cries Out As Jury Dooms Him to Execution

ARMY DIVIDES RADIO AMONG FIVE PARTIES   No Favorites in Plans for Politics by Radio

The City Of Paris Is Steadi. ly Being Ripened For Capture   FRENCH PATRIOTS STRIKING AT NAZIS . IN FRENCH CAPITAL   Estimated 10,000 Germans Remain Trapped About 100 Miles From Paris

U-Boat Base AtKiel Hit   Eight Allied Planes Lost In Day‘s Mission

RAF Night Blow . Batters Duisbure   German Baltic Navy Base Fired by Americans

Party Leaders Struggling To Decide Slates   Both Democratic and Republican Chieftains Have Their Problems   LIVENGOOD MENTIONED

Brisk Action China Area   Centers on Point 12 Miles West of Jap-Held Hingan

Carrier Planes Blast Luzon To Support Drive   17 Japanese Ships And 235 Aircraft Reported Destroyed

17 Jap Ships Sunk Or Damaged, 235 Planes Destroyed In Three ‘Days Of Yank Carrier Assaults

Attempt. To Crash Dancé Injures 13   Police Called to California ‘University to Appre-" hend Gang -

Red Cross Month, 1944  —By—  The President of the United States of America  A Duanrlamatinn

By The President of The United States of America  A PROCLAMATION

PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS MARCH AS RED CROSS MONTH; WAR FUND GOAL IS SET AT 200 MILLION DOLLARS

RED CROSS MONTH, 1944  By The President of The United States of America

JAP HORDES STORM GATES OF KWEILIN   Important Chinese City Capture Imminent

Japanese Troops  Are Storming  Kweilin Gates Street Fighting in Ancient City  Te Pwnactean Saan   Chennault Hopes It Soon Will Be Possible to Shuttle-Bomb Japs

Japs Attack at Kweilin’s Gates   Reinforced Invaders Renew Liuchow Drive

Has Less than 10 Per Cent of Quota   War Bond Drive Is Off to Slow Start

Associated Press Files Appeal In Anti-Trust Suit   Denies Public Utility Claim

AP ASKS COURT 10 REVERSE A RULING   Contends News - Gathering Agencies Are Not Public Utilities.

AP Declares Agency Is Not ‘Public Utility   Takes Position In . Brief Filed Asking Supreme Court to Reverse N.Y. Opinion

Appeal Brief Is Filed by AP   News-gathering Agencies Not Public Utilities, AP Says

Furious Fight in Budapest Suburbs   City’s Fall to Open Gateway to Austria

3.000 Germans Killed by Reds: lhousands Flee   Counterattacks All Beaten Off

FURIOUS BATTLE * RAGES FOR NAZI BASE IN UKRAINE   “Germans and Russians Locked in Struggle at Staro-_Konstantino, Vital  .Enemy Bastion.   ‘SOVIET FORCES SURGE FORWARD DESPITE MUD   Rumanians Flee From Eastern Cities as Reds: Reach ‘Point 60 Miles From Country’s Border.

Battle rages: thru Ukraine  enemy base   Over 3,000 nazi soldiers killed

Furious Fight In Suburbs Rages For Magyar Capital   Bucharest Reports Red Army Units In Northern Outskirts After Racing Around Magyar City

Tanks Massed For Final Assault   Nazis Fleeing Across Danube To Western Side Of City; Reds Use Bridgehead

Fighting Rages  Near Budapest   Berlin Reports Reds Regrouping For Big Assault

Budapest Battle Rages In Suburbs   Russian Infantry Joins Armored Vanguards Ir Fighting For Capital Of Hungary

Reds Join for Final Assault on Budapest   Germans Report Recapture of Goldap, Important Rail Center; Russians Captur ing Defenders at Rate of 1,000 A Day.

Furious Fighting Raging In Suburbs Of Budapest   Reds Penetrate Defenses Of Hungarian Capital

UKRAINE ARMY MENACES BIG GERMAN BASt   RUMANIANS FLEE AS SOVIET TROOPS NEAR BORDER

Battle Rages In Subur “  Of Budapest   Russians Meet Violent German Counterattacks

SOVIETS BATTLE NAZI TROOPS IN OUTER BUDAPEST   ‘MASS FOR FINAL ASSAULT ON THE HUNGARIAN CITY

VITAL ENEMY BASE SCENE OF FIGHTING   With 3000 Germans Killed, Two Regiments Routed, 100 Communities Captured By Ukrainian Forces.   Sticky Terrain

THLEIS ON. FOR BUDAPES   Heavy Russian = Infantry Forces Join Armored Vanaguards.

NAZIS DECLARE GOLDAP RETAKEN   Red Infantry, Tanks in Hungarian Capital

HARD BATTLE Now UNDERWAY FOR BUDAPEST   Counterattack Is Started South  Of Canital

Fiery Fight  Rages In Ukraine City   Reds, Nazis Slug It Out For Base Of Staro-Konstantinov

Lhukov Reports Germans Refrea Leave Supplies   Nazi Lunge Near Narva Hurled Back; Drive on Rumania

HOT FIGHT RAGING   Russians and Axis Forces Battle in Suburbs of Budapest

Nazis Continue Southwestern Ukraine Retreat   “Furious Battle Rages At Staro-Konstantinoy; Cherni-Ostrov: Captured

Soviets Report   rune Battle Raging   Staro-Konstantinov Is Scene of Bloody Fighting

FIGHT RAGES FURIOUSLY AT BUDAPEST   Battle Taking Place in Suburbs of Hungarian Capital as More Russian Forces Are Brought Tntn Action.

Soviet Tanks Battling Way Into Budapest   Furious Fight Rages In Capital Suburbs As Reds Enter City

Fighting Reaches Budapest Suburbs  armor ed Vanguards netrate Defenses

REDS TWO MILES FROM CENTER OF BUDAPEST   Heavy Fighting Rages in Streets of Hungarian Capital

Edge Nearer To Capital   Germans and Russians Locked in Fierce Battle Near Bucharest

‘Furious Fighting Rages For Budapest   Fall Of Hungarian Capital Te Russians Believed Near; Nazis Attack In East Prussia

Fierce Fighting Rages In Budapest as Red Forces Pierce City’s Defenses —

Battle Rages In Suburbs Of Budapest   Germans Admit Defenses Of Hungarian Capital BResashearn..

Battle Raging For  Nazi Ukraine Base   Staro-Konstantinoy’s Fall Believed Imminent—Over 100 Localities Captured in Day’s Advances— "No Mention Made of Nazi Attacks

Reds 2 Miles  From Budapest   Furious Fighting Rages In Suburbs Of  Shell-Torn Capital.

Reds And Nazis In Fierce Fight Inside Budapest   Russians Now Only 140 Miles from Capital of Austria and 9 Miles from German Border in Balkan Offensive—Soviet Paper Dips Into U. S. Election Campaign

RED INFANTRY JOINS ARMORED VAN IN SUBURBS   German Radio Says Soviet Tanks Crash‘ed Into Southern  Limits Of City.

Russians Fight Inside Budapest   FURIOUS BATTLE RAGES AS HUNGARY STORMED

FURIOUS FIGHTING RAGES IN BUDAPEST SUBURBS ON MONDAY  GERMANS CLAIM THEY HAVE RECAPTURED GOL. NAP IN EAST PRUSSIA

Furious Fighting Rages in Suburbs Of Shelled Budanes   Germans Say East Prussian Rail Town Of Goldap Recaptured

FURIOUS FIGHTING RAGES TODAY — IN SHELL-TORN STREETS BUDAPEST — BETWEEN RUSSIANS AND DEFENDERS

SOVIET TANKS CRASH LIMITS OF BUDAPES!   Furious Fighting Rages In Suburbs of Shelltorn Hungarian Capital

3,900 PLANES BLAST REICH ON WEEK-END   Mosquitos Smash Cologne; Only 15 Raiders Missing

RICKER HITS SEN FDR SPEECHES BOI   Calls President's Utterances “Pattern of Contradictions”’

GREATEST SEA BATTLE SINCE JUTLAND NEAR   Jutcome May Determine Length of War Against Nippon Empire.

Sec. Forrestal Says There is “Some Indication” That Yank Fleet Has ‘Caught’ Enemy   Americans Maintain Strict Radio Silence Thus Full Confirmation And Reports Are Lacking— Kine “Not Worried”

Powerful Japanese Naval Unit Sighted Near Mariana Isles   ‘Possibly Entire Jap Fleet’ May Be in Battle With Yanks

CONFUSION IN" ~ DRAFT SETUP 1 ASSAILED   HERSHEY AND McNUTT CRITI_ CIZED FOR CONFLICTING . STATEMENTS--ONE-MAN CONTROL ADVOCATED ,

Reds Capture Big Ukrainian Railway Center   Trapped Nazi Forces Backed Into 20 Square Mile ‘Ring of Death’; Many Prisoners Taken

SOVIETS FORCE CLEANUP DRIVE IN RIVER BEND   Trapped Germans Pushed Into 20-Mile “Ring Of Death”

Railway Center Is _ Seized By Soviets   Shepetovka, Distributing Point for German Reserves, Captured—Many Prisoners Taken, According to Dispatch

Soviets take Shepetovka  rail junction   Trap Germans in ‘rings of death’

Red Army Take: Railway Center Of Sheptovka   More Nazi Units Trapped in East

REDS CAPTURE RAIL TOWN: TRAP NAZIS   Who Are Being Slaughtered Like Sheep in 20 Mile “Ring Of Death”; Take Material  And Prisoners.   Take Miropolye

SOVIETS TAKE KEY UKRAINIAN RAILWAY TOWN   Shepetovka’ Falls A:  Red. Armies Make “New Gains

Seize Ukranian Railway Center of Shepetevka, Long A German Supply Voint. Squeeze Trapped German Divisions Into “Rinw of Death”

Reds Capture Ukrainian Bail Cenier   Advance Poses New Threat To Rumanian Border

Army Using Six New Super Guns   U. S. Discloses Giant Weapons in Action

MARKS WAR’S CLIMAX. KENT      Journalist Tells Why Current Loan Should Be Quickly Over-suhscribed.

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT The Sixth War Loan

Alaska Troops Given Furlough To Mine Coal   Work and get paid like civilians, but can’t quit; many had. “no past experience.

U. S. To Broaden ‘French Relations   Statement Revising American Policy Will Soon Be Issued By The President.

Calls Story Of Attack ‘Hooey’   Union Official Wonders None Of 76 Newsmen Saw Fracas.

Teamsters’ Officer Doe: Not Deny Fight Might Have Occurred But Says  He Did Not See Gne

COLLEGE EXAMS BY ARMY-NAVY   Qualifying Tests To Be Given At J. 1S.

5 TONS COLLECTED   City Needs 314 Tons More of Cans to Make a  Car Load

STRONG NAZI DEFENSES ARE OUTFLANKED   Puts Formidable Forces On Plains Near Italy Capital

Allies Strike Behind Nazi Rome Front   \Landing 28 Miles From Capital Declared Successful; Redwood Pilot Leads Aesault

New Move Cuts  ECTS ver “& ac) Peet a ." us”  e   Rome Sealed Off By Paralyzing Air Blows

Heaviest Blows to Push Nazis From Italy Struck   Surprise Invasion By Thousands of  Allied Troops May Seal Rome’s Fate

mson, Knox, d Declare Necessary   000 Needed by Forces by End  Year to Come From  Trades, They Say

Renew Plea for Labor Draft Measure   Heads of Armed Forces Warn of Manpower Crisis

Miltary Heads Renew Drive For Labor Draft   Claim Law Necessary To Keep Vital War Plants in Operation

DRAFT FAVORED FOR WAR WORK   Manpower Crisis May Imperil Victory, Congress Told

Army, Navy Recommend Limited Work  Service Act   HOUSE COMMITTEE MAPS PROGRAM

Heads 0 Armed. Forces Say ‘Manpower Crisis May. En_ aanger Great: - Military  “Undertaking,   STATEMENT FOLLOWS _ (PALKS IN: CAPITAL   Comes On Heels. of Plea by "House Group for Induction of 4Fs Who Turn "Down War Jobs.

Heads of Armed Forces Renew  Demand for Labor Draft Law   Plan Seen as Only Way to Keep War Plants Staffed House Group Would Draft 4-F as Non-Combatants

TANKER EXPLODES, BURNS   Firemen Saved Waterfront Property at La Plata From Flames

Paris Revolt Order Issued From Cellar   Slight Jewish Lawyer anc Girl Secretary Leaders Of Underground

Six Men, Known to Each Other Under Fictitious Names, Led Paris Revolt

SME IRETED “REVOLT INARI   Order For Attack Given In Candle-Lit Cellar Aug. 19 ; .

6 MEN DIRECTED  THOUSANDS /PARIS IN NAZI REVOLT   Trusted Members of Committee Had Rendezvous in Streets of Paris

PARIS REVOLT LED BY SEXTET   Movement Directed From Candle-Lit Cellar

TUNNEL IS DEMOLISHED   Marshall Tito’s Troops Cut Off Railway Communications

Mrs. A.C. Jensen Passed Away On Palm Sunday  Remains Laid To Race Vactardacs

“BIGGEST YEP” 1S GON FOR SALVAG™ DRIVE   Flans Are Comp! te for Complete Canvass. of Tipton Wednesday

“Blasts! YEP S GOAL FUR SALVEG: DRE   Flans Are Complete for Complete Carvass of Tipton Wednesday

Rid Nazis From Area  In North   Nazis Driven 42 Te 60 Miles From Leningrad After 28 Month Siege.

Socialite Faces  Murder Charge   Farmboy Fatally Shot After He Dines At Socialite’s Home.

California Society Woman Is Heid for Murder of 19-Year-Old Farm Boy

Socialite Held On Charge Of Slaying Youth   Army Corporal's Wife Indicted In Death Of Farm Boy, 19, Last Julw 15

Forts Make Second Raid On Tarset   Raging Fires Set In Aircraft Works By Tons Of Bombs

JAP AIRCRAFT PLANT SMASHED IN B-29 RAID   Major Portion of Nipponese War Factory Believed In Smouldering Ruins.

High Winds Fan Disastrous Fires   Japanese Premier Admits War Situation Is Critical After Giant Superfortresses Blast Capital Fourth Time; One Bomber Is Lost

WINDS SPREAD 8 LARGE FIRES   Most of Musahina Work. Believed to Be Ruined

Big B-29’s fe ‘At Jap é PA  For Fou.~ ‘ime   Heavy Fires Started In Factory Buildings; One Plane Shot Down

B-29s Wreck Musashina Plane Plant   High Winds Fan 10 Big Fires After 4th Raid

Tokyo Airplane Plant Believed Ruined in Raid   Fourth Attack on Japanese Capital Made

SUPERFORTS AGAIN BLAST TOKYO PLANT   Fires Started In Big Musashima Aircraft Works

B-29's Strike At Japanese Capita. For Second Time In Nine Days; Eight.To Ten Fires Seen Burning Rr Airmen   100 SUPER FORTS TAKE PART IN RAIE

At Least 100 B-29 Super Forts In Last Bombing Raid   MOST SUCCESSFUL RAID YET MADE   One Bomber Lost While 12 Enemy Fighters Were Destroyed

‘Musashina Plane Works  ‘Smouldering   100 Big Forts Hit Tokyo Targets for A Fourth Time

B-29 RAIDERS WRECK TOKYO PLANE PLANT   Superfort Blow Fourth In 9 Days; One Plane Lost

MUSASHINA AIRCRAFT WORKS HIT   One American Plane Downed By Enemy Over Target

B29s Leave Major Part Of Huge Tokio Plane Plant In Smoking Ruins

oB-29 Bombers Hit Aircraft "Plant at Tokyo   Japanese Premier Admits Need of More Armaments

Red Cross Final Report MadeOn Annual Drive      EVERY DISTRICT OVER THE YOP IN COLLECTING 512,809.14

Bricker Charges Roosevelt Assumes Congress’ Powers  Pledges Use of Entire Industria Resources of Easi to Defeat

Germans Breal In Liri Valley  Enemy Ychicles Move  North in Face of bln, AN. MPhenne’é

Daring Landing Surprises iEnemy Forces   200,000 Germans Are Faced With Enxtreroment

FOE STAGGERED BY LANDINGS IN ROME VICINITY   Allies Seek Final Kill After Surprise Move-—Enemy ‘Breaking’

German Lines  Start To Break   Effeets of Landings Being  BE Bea Se

Stalemate Before Cassino Believed Broken as Result Of New Allied Beachheads

Irrigation Experts, Engineers, Water Conservationists to ‘Represent State at Conference

DEWEY, FDR ENTER HUME STRETCH   Their Fate Rests With Verdict of the ‘‘Silent Bloc”

Politics   ‘If GOP Wants Me as Candidate, Must Draft Me,’ Says Earl Warren

MARINES MOW dAPS DOWN TN NEW LANDING   Breach Peninsula Defenses on Willaumez 170 Miles West of Rabaul.

Marines Advance on New Britain   Cut Peninsula and Fight on Toward Talasea Village

Keyes Seeks To Checkmate Kelly   Ready To Enter Race " For Governor

PROGRESS MADE IN FIGHTING FOR CITY OF ST. LO   Nazis Conducting ‘Orderly Withdrawal’, Headquarters Says

NAZIS RETREAT IN GOOD ORDER   Americans Take Severa Villages But Germans  Recapture St. Honorine

ARMY IN MOVE ON PENINSULA   Occupy Several Villages; Four Roads Taken

Preparations For Cam paign Opening Tomorrow Most Elaborate; 6,000,000 Workers

F. D. R. TO GIVE ‘GO’ SIGNAL IN BOND DRIVE   Six Million Workers to Take Part in Campaign to Raise 14 Billion Dollars.

6th War Bond Campaign to Open Monday   14 Billion Dollars Is National Quota in New Drive

Nation Waits Greatest of © Bond Drives:   . Six Million Workers Seek $14,000,000,000 From Full Pockets

Heavy Rainfall In Texas   Areas Damaged, Others Benefited By Precipitation

PARTS EAST TEXAS BATTERED BY HEAVY RAINS AND WINDS   WEEK-END RAINS, HOWEVER, BENEFITED OTHER SECTIONS OF STATE

Greatest Tank. Battles of War  Reported Raging   Nazi Counterattacks. Hit Maximum Strength In Beachhead Fight

GERMAN ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD SEEN CRACKING   Great Tank Battle Rages

Full-Scale Nazi Attack Is Checked   Series OF Counterattacks Carried Out By U. S., And British Troops On Anzio Beachhead

German Attack Cracking in  Bie Tank Battle   Nazis Suffer Huge Casualties in New Phase of Reachhead Rattle

Allies Fall Back At Aprilia, Push Ahead At Cassino   4 Nazi Divisions Hit As Rains Ground Air Support

ALLIED LINES STILL INTACT AT BEACHHEAD   Germans Deliver Hardest Blows Yet As Fighting At Anzio Grows Even More Grim

German Assault Nazis Force Civilians To  ‘Against Anzio Is Cracking Up Take Monastery Bombing

YANKS CAPTURE PINAMOPOAN IN LEYTE CLEANUP   Heavy Shelling Routs Japs At Ormoc; 7th Division  Monarac Ferane Part

Stratecic Town on Leyte’s Northeast Coast; Jap Reinforcements Are Insufficient.   11 Planes Gone

Pinamopoan I: Taken by 24th Division   Yanks Turn South Toward Besieged Area of Ormoc

24th Division Takes Important Leyte Position   Pinampoan Falls To Yankee Forces

, MacArthur's Troops Ca pture Strategic Town on Northwest Leyte Coast, Turn Southwards

RALPH R. BROWN 15 NAMED PRESIDENT COMMUNITY CHEST  CAMPAIGN DATES SET AND OTHER OFFICERS ANI NIDECTHNRC LCIECTEN

RALPH R. BROWN IS NAMED PRESIDENT COMMUNITY CHEST  CAMPAIGN DATES SET AND OTHER OFFICERS ANI Lin aY  WIDELTADCE CIES

$500,000L0SS IN TOLEDO FIRE   Alcohol and Oil Drum Blasts Hamper Fight in Heart of Business Area

HELD TODAY   Services for Mrs. Mary A. Israel This Afternoon at 2 p. m.

American Big Bombers Hit Nazi Airfields In France   Two Heavy Blows Delivered Behind Normandy Bat tlefront—ltalian Based Planes Blast Bhd ot bo rh oe

Americans Bomb Nazi Normandy   Heavy Blows Dealt German Airfields

Heavies give nazi dromes dual blasting  Attempt to halt   @ .. og

American Big Bombers Hit Nazi Airfields In France   Two Heavy Blows Delivered Behind Normandy Battlefront—lItalian Based Planes Blast ‘Munieh Aran: -

GOP Senator Bal Throws Support To Roosevelt  Dewey to ‘Fill Gaps’ - the rong! s  Fareion Po! icy

i Ae _—_— aS a. ek  Defense Asks Acquittal In Case Against Officers

Selective Service Board Lists Men Of Val Verde County Accepted For Service In Army And Navy

Eire Head Urges Unity In Nation   De Valera Wants Irish To “Preserve Liberty”

Japanese Defense Of 225,000 Troops - Said Split In Two   Free Government: Of" Philippines Ts Reestablished On Native Soil; ~ Three: Slashing. Landings. Made

Invasion Splits Japanese Forces   Three Landings Made on Leyte; Yanks Rapidly Extend Positions; Heavy Equipment Pours Ashore

Losses Light!   Call Filipinos Revolt Nip Rule   Defensive Force of 225,000 Foe Caught by Surprise; Are Severed in Half

Japanese Defensive Force Of 225,000 Split In Two; Troops Extend Positions

MacArthur’s Invasion Forces Successful In 8 Landings   Nips Caught: Completely By Surprise As American Assault Waves Storm Ashore On Leyte During Fierce Bombardment

Army Smashes Smuggler Ring   Scores of Servicemen Court-Martialed; Huge Profits Made in China

SMUGGLING ON “HUMP” AIRLINE ENDED BY ARMY   Courts Martial For Several, More Scores Arrested—Both Service Men and Civilians

Catch Hump Smugglers   Mariy Americans in Ring: Running Contraband.to China By Air

Yanks Make Four Million Dollars in Smuaaling Contraband Over ‘Hump’

Army Charges Civilians And G. .’s..... Courtmartial Americans  For Smuggling In China

Se ores Held On Charges Of Gr aft] In C -B-1 Area   Chinese, Greeks, Indians, Americans Ami Red Cross Worker:

HumpSmugglina Ring Broken Up Americans Inv alved  BP. Pee. CE aw

Scores Of U.S. Servicemen Courtmartialed Smugglers   Delivered Stolen Lend.  Lease Supplies, Gold Cur rency Into China Black Market Over “Hump”

35 Chicago Foundries, Turning Out Needed War Iron, Closed by Strike

FOUNDRY STRIKE STOPS 35 PLANTS   CHICAGO WORKERS QUIT AFTER WAGE INCREASE REFUSAL

Balkan Slav Federation Is Devel oping   Yugoslavia May Be Enlarged With Numerous Autonomous Provinces; Istrian Peninsula, Bulgaria Considered Likely To Join New Natior

Yugoslavia May Be Enlarged With Numerous Autonomous Provinees; Istrian Peninsula, Bulgaria Considered Likely Vo Join New Nation

Senator Urges Stassen Draft   Kind of Candidate GOP Needs, Ball Savs

Ball Sounds Draft Call  For Stassen   Former State Governor “Can Do Job Best,”’ Republicans Are Told

STASSEN DRAFT MOVE LAUNCHED   Minnesotan Is Right Man For Republicans, Says Senator Ball

Jap Fleet Flees From Naval Battle   Rout of Nipponese Fleet Leaves Vast Area ToU. S. Navy: Advances Made on Saipan Isle

Shattered Jap Fleet Flees After. Attack from U. S. Carrier Planes 

TOKYO AFRAID TO MIX WITK UI. §. SEA FORCE   BATTLE -WAGON AND FOUR FLAT-TOPS AMONG VICTIMS

Navy Reveals Huge Task Force Roving Pacific   U. S. Planes Sink Four Jap Warships, Damage 10 More in Battle

HEAT WAVE BRINGS OHIO MILK SHORTAGE   Pasturage for Cows Seared: Milk Surplus Disappears

EE ee eeererrmrrErer  Allies Clear Second New Britain Air Base; “Heavily Repulse Japs”

SOLDIER VOTE BILL URGED BY GOVERNOR   Second Special Session of Arizona Legislature Opens

SOLDIER FROM BRISTOL I5 KILLED IN GERMANY   Third of Whitaker Brothers Is Listed as Casualty   HURT IN PACIFIC AREA

ROAD TO SURRENDER OFFERED FOR 10,000 CIVILIANS ON SAIPAN   Japs Cornered On Tip Of Island Awaiting Death Blow

Bombers Hammer German Airfields   Improving Weather Enables Planes To Aid

SHORTAGE OF FLOUR SEEN BY MILLERS   Pre-war Surplus Going Into Livestock Feed, Claim

NAZIS CONTINUE ROBOT ATTACK   BOMBS HIT ENGLAND NINTH STRAIGHT NIGHT, CAUSING DEATHS AND DAMAGE.

Germans Step Up Rocket Attacks   Peak Nof Reached, Parliament Hears

ROBOT ROCKET RAIDS CONTINUE   South England Assaulted For 9th Night; Deaths And Damage Result

FDR MAY. MAY-ALLOW TAX BOOST BILL TO BECOME LAW   Believe ‘Bill Will Not Have President’s Sionature 

Sl Corps Looks © - For Girls Who Know * How To Keep Secret   It’s: So Confidential " They Have Tt ~ Have Right Kind of Ances‘ tors To Qualify

PLOESTI RAIL YARDS TARGETS   American Planes Shower Bombs Over Tracks Filled With Tank Cars.   [MAIN SOURCE OF OIL

FIELDS BOMBED BY AMERICANS   More Than 40 Enemy Planes Shot Down by Allied Fighters During Ploesti Raid

Fires, Explosions Flare As Allies Drop Missiles On Cars, Buildings

Yank Bombers Blast Balkan Sources Of Oi   Thrust Made To Cripple Nazi Supply Of Petroleum

Yank Airmen Strike At Nazi Oil Supply   Main Source Of German Oil At Ploesti Dealt Heavy Blow, While Oil Tank Car Clogged Railroad Yards Battered.

Over 40 Nazi Planes Downed  In Ploesti Raid   American Heavy Bombers Blast Oil Fields And Rail Yards.

AMERICANS DOWN OVER 40 AXIS PLANES   Bombs Shower Over Tracks, Rolling Stock, Buildings Around Ploesti Oil Fields   R. A. F. HITS FRANCE

Down 40 Nazi Warplanes In Ploesti Raid   Railroad Yards No. 1 Target Of Assault By Yanks; Lines In Italy Smashed

U.S. BOMBERS, FIGHTERS DOWN 40) NAZI PLANES OVER RUMANIA   OIL TANK CARS HIT, RAILWAY ATTACK IN YUGOSLAVIA BLOW AT COMMUNICATIONS

40 GERMANS SHOT DOWN AT PLOESTI   Rail Yards Choked With Tank Cars Main Target Of U.S. Raid

U.S. Fliers Hit Ploesti, Oil Center   Rail Yards Mit While Tank Car Block Lines—Leskevac and Wis. Yugeslavia, Bembed

AMERICAN RAIDERS SHOT DOWN OVER 40 PLANES AT PLOESTI   ACTIVITIES ITALIAN BASED U. §. AIRFORCE GROWING IN IMPORTANCE

U. §, BOMBERS SHOOT DOWN FORTY PLANES   Battles Continue Over Rumania In Newest Attacks

Raid Ploesti Rail Yards; Attack Yugoslav Points; Blast Italy Bases.

Yanks Blast 40 Planes From Air  In Ploesti Raid   British Night Rai Smashes __ Aircraf Parts Factory I France

Yanks Bag 40 ~~ German Planes   HEAVY BOMBERS RAIDED RUMANIAN OIL - DISTRICT,

Yanks Killed By Own Bombs At Cassino Americans Shot Down  More Than 40 Nazis In Air’ Attack~-On Pioesti

Five Year Old Girl's Quick Action Credited ‘With Preventing Fire

Yankee Airmen Sink Five Jap ‘Ships InPacific   Hundreds Enemy Troops  and Sailers Die: Three  U. S. Planes Are  ; yo nct

Many Hundreds Of Enemy Troops Lost  Low-Flying U.S. Planes Wipe Out Five Jap Ships In Convoy Near Wewak

Jap Convoy Is Wiped Out   Got in Sight of Wewak, Then American Airmen Obliterated Last Five Ships

FEAR PURGE OF FASCISTS   ‘LEADERS OF PARTY IN ROME " REPORTED FLEEING CITY AS RESULT OF. LANDING

‘Americans Eat Too Heavily, Despite ‘Rationing, Says College Professor

Americans Raid Berlin Outskirts For First Time   Nazis Say U. S. Losses  Heavy In Fierce Action

American Forts Sweep Over Berlin Suburbs for First Time—Huns Evacuate Cervaro, Four Miles from Cassino—Russians Press on Sarny, 35  Miles Inside Poland

AMERICAN BOMBERS REPORTED TO HAVE HIT EDGES OF BERLIN  ASSERTED TUESDAY OPERATIONS COST 8TH

GERMANS CLAIM NEW DEFENSE TACTICS PROVE SUCCESSFUL IN REPELLING AERIAL SQUADRONS   Sweeping Over Berlin Outskirts for First Time, . Americans Run into Stiff Opposition. Over 1,000 Airmen Lost Say Germans. Late London Reports Say Only 59 Bombers and Five Fighters Lost

Underground Has First Word From Gen. Eisenhower   Gather Military Information, He Asks in Broadcast

Missouri River   Waters Pouring Over East Levee   German Prisoners To Be Called Upon To Fight New Break

BRITISH SEIZE . ELAS HILLOCKS   Strike to Clear Main Roads as Political Situation Remains Tangled

British Launch Heavy Attacks At Greek Rebels   Insurgents Are Dislodged From Three Heights

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   BRITISH FORCES LAUNCH EFFORT TO CLEAR ROAD BETWEEN ATHENS AND THE SEA

Invaders Get Half of Way  Across Island   Guam Bombarded by U. S. Warships for  First Time in War

Naval Forces Stage Initial Raid On Guam   Marines, Army Elements Push Two Miles Into  Japs’ Marianas Base; Village Of Himashisu _ Captured; Counter-Blow Is Repulsed

Two Divisions of Japs  Supported by Tanks  Thrown Back After '. Desperate Fight

Yanks Expand Hold on Saipan   Enlarge Beachhead Against Bitter Resistance; U. S. Warships Bombard Guam

Big Ships of U.S. Fire On Guam   Americans In Fierce Battle Make Gains At Saipan Island

MOVE INLAND TWO MILES ON 5 MILE FRONT   Destroy 25 Jap Tanks In One Thrust; Foe  Losses Heavy

Yanks Hold Island Front Five Miles Wide, Two Deep /Counterattack Hurled Back

Penctrate ‘Two Miles Mong A Five and A Hall Mile Frant In the faec of Frenzied  Retance By the Japs. Guum Bombarded

American Ships  Bombard Guam   Marks First Shelling Since Japs Captured  S. Stronghold; — Expand Beachhead On Southern Saipan

FLEET POUNDS GUAM; LANDING IS INDICATED   AMERICANS IMPROVE THEIR POSITIONS ON SAIPAN

Yanks Drive 2 Miles Deep  I nto Saipan   Americans Expand Beach: head In Bitter Fighting Against 30,000 Japs

AMERICANS GAIN IN SAVAGE FIGHT ON SAIPAN ISLE   Expand Beachhead to Depth of ‘Two Miles and Thrust Inland to Capture a Village.   JAPS LOSE 25 TANKS‘ IN COUNTER-LHRUST   (Enemy Defenders Estimaied to Number 30,000 Men— U. S. Warships Bombard Guam.

AIRSTRIP TAKEN AS YANKS NEAR MAIN CITY EDGE   21 Japanese Ships Sunk Since Invasion Started; Guam Attacked

Expand Foothold Against Frenzied Japs’ Resistance   Task Force Shells Guam for First Time Since Its Capture

Fanatical Japs Resist. fiercely.   Guam Bombarded By U.S. Warships”

Meeting Puts Badoglio On Spot   Italian Parties Plan Massive Gathering

Indicate $300 Vet Payments   Intimate Acceptance of House Proposal

CHINA MISSION   Group to Undertake Vast Reorganization of War Industries

Nelson To Run WPB in China   US. Production Expert Will Assiat Chinn

NELSON HEADS CHINA MISSION   Early Return to Far East To Reorganize Arms  Output Ordered

BURGLAR WAS BUSY AT JEWELRY STORE   Nightwatchman Runs Thief / Away From Julius Marks ©  Shop ,

IDENTIFY THREE UNITS   Infantry Divisions Spearheaded Southern France Invasion

Three American Divisions Invade  Southern France  Third, 36th and 45th, All Veterans of Mediterranean

COLD WEATHER GRIPS NATION   18 Lose Lives in Midwest As Heavy Snows Blanket Highways

SNOW BLANKETS MIDWEST STATES   MOTORISTS WARNED TO DRIVE SLOWLY ON ICY PAVEMENTS

14 Killed As Snow Covers  Middle West   Lives Lost In  Traftic Mishaps

French Clear Germans fron  Parts of Elba   Helped by Commandos, Allied Navy and Planes; Eighth Army in Perugia

RAF Planes Hit Kiel Naval Base   Berlin, Bucharest Also Are Bombed

RAF Bombers Swarm Over Nazi Europe   Hit Kiel, Berlin, Bucharest And Targets In Occupied France

Kiel, Berlin, Bucharest Are Targets for Many RAF Bombers   Headquarters of German Navy Is Particularly Heavily Assaulted

1000 PLANES BLAST NAVAL BASE AT KIEI   Rerlin, Bucharest and Military Installations in France Hit

1000 PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON EUROPE   Naval Base at Kiel Is Hit The Hardest

BALLOT ESTIMATES MADE BY DEMS, GOP   Governor Kelly Leaves Wayne County, Back in Lansing for Special Session

BOTH PARTIES SEF VICTORIES      Kelly Predicts 75,000 Majority, Fry Sees Opposite Trend

French Complete Elba Drive, Take 1,800 Prisoners   Nazi Lines Stiffen on Mainland Front; Rain Hampers Allied Push

PREDICT 65,000 IDLE BY TONIGHT IN MESA STRIKE   Independent Union See Representation: Charges Favortism to ClO

UNION: REPORTS 22,000 MEN O} STRIKE IN DETROIT, CLEVE+ LAND AND, TOLEDO THIS MORNING _

Volunteer Committees Aid Campaign In Communities.   COUNTY QUOTA IS $265,000

Volunteer Workers Will Aid Campaign Thru Communities.   COUNTY QUOTA IS $265,000

Campaign Aids Invasion Forces; Work By  Committees.   COUNTY QUOTA IS $317,000

DOCTORS AGREE MOVIC COMIC ISN'T FATHER   Hollywood Scandal Is  Solved Through Science

‘Farmers believe change of national administration weudahaae savs Willkie

‘Farmers belicve change of naiional administration overdue.’ savs Willkie

President Back To U.S. After Tour   ‘Word And Honor Of Japan Cannot Be Trusted,’ He Say

Roosevelt proposes “Ssolation’ of Japan   Charts need for network of bases to insure peace in report on tour

Roosevelt Cites Need Of Defenses   Makes Report On His Trip To Pacific Zone

Gov.Dewey Repudiates Ham Fish   G. O. P. Chief  Doesn't Want Help Of Anyone Who Arouses Races Or Religion.

Draft Age Limit May Soon Rise   Chairman May ‘Says Committee Would Never Lower Minimum Age To 17.

Higher Age Limit For Army Draft Urged by May   House Military Head, However Is Opposed To Taking Boys of 17

CONGRESSMAN WOULD INCREASE DRAFT AGE   May Is Opposed To Drafting 17Year-Qlds But Would Take Men Over 3§

Older Men May Fight: House Military Committee Favors Raising Draft Limit ''a Few Years”’

Chinese Wipe Out Trapped Force   Chungking Announces Hunan Amny Victory

REDS PUSH NAZIS BACK ON 100-Mi RUSSIAN FRONT   Soviets “Move Within 9 Miles of Railroad Junction of Dno

Red Army Pushing To Pskov   Moscow Claims Nazis Abandon Huge Piles Of Equipment As They Retreat.

DEWEY 10 DELAY CAN PLIGN PLENS   Few Believe That Foosevelt Will Refuse Fourth Term Bid

New Kind of Postal Money Order To Be Put Into Use in Near Future

- TODAY  on the HOME FRONT   NEW POSTAL MONEY ORDER CHEAPER THAN OLD

CHINESE CABINET IS OVERHAULED   H. H. Kung Removed As Vice-President of Executive Committee.

Chiang Overhauls Cabinet After Severe Criticism; Kung Removed From Office

WILLOW RUN PLANT SHUT ON WALKOUT   2,000 Workers Quit, 15,000 Are Sent Home

Labor Situafion Confinues Grave   Number Of Idle Workers Likely To Mount

FLORENCE CLEAR OF NAZI SNIPERS   Heavy Rains Keep Activity On Italian Front to a Minimum.

Price Ceilings  On Fresh Foods   Additional Fruits Vegetables On List

Troops Drive Deeper Into Open Country During — the Day .  GbEAT BATTLES. OF ARMOR ARE WAGED  Rommel Throws in Reserves But Fails to Stem  the Advance

Troops Drive Deeper Into Open Country During — the Day   LES OF __ ARMOR ARE WAGED   Rommel Throws in Reserves But Fails to Stem the Advance

British Units Advance Alon; Road to Paris   Last Defenses of Nazis Before Seine Are Shattered

Allies Widen Breach Into German. Lines   Nazis Manage Heavy Defense East of Caen

AMERICAN PLANES RAID NAM DINH   U.S. Naval And Air Forces Sank Or Damaged 40 Ships At Truk

Reveal U. S. Sank 40 Jap Ships On Truk   New Report Brings Total Enemy Loss To 1,191 Vessels

ENORMITY OF TRUK VICTORY IS INCREASING   At Least 40 Ships Sunk Or Dam. aged In Attack By U. S&S. Forces

RAISE JAP SHIP TOLL T0 FORTY IN TRUK ATTACK   Photos Prove 23 Sunk, Six Probables And 11 Damaged

Farm Price Boos! Wins Approval   Byrnes Recommends Plan To Prevent Slump For Farmers.

Byrnes farm  proposal is  well received Other plans are  wmder eriticiem

Farm Price: Subsidy F inds Initial Favor   Several Other Byrnes Proposals Get Less Favorable Reaction Atop Capitol Hill

F und To Keep Farm Prices  UpIs Given © Support _   - Byrnes Recommends -Fund, of Two Billion If Necessary To Keep  Gye ce a 1 een   OTHER SUGGESTIONS DRAW OPPOSITION

Farm Price Aid Program Backed [Unemployment Pay Plan Has Little Chance Of Adoption

BYRNES FARM PLAN OUTLINED   Mobilization Chief Asks $2,000,000 To Buoy Prices

PROPOSAL FOR FARM PRICE AID GIVEN SUPPOR]   Higher Unemployment Benefits Urged By Byrnes Opposed By Congress

Experienced German Army Officers Told to Save Selves for World War 3

EIGHTH ARMY MAKES GAINS   British Troops Advance on Broad Front Northeast Of Faenza

Nazis “Driven ‘Over. Montone      British . 8th. Army. Gains In. Po Vallayv

Kind Words For Late Spanish Minister Indicates U.S. May Be Seekins Better Relations

Mettinius’ Statement on Jordana Deaik Seen as Move for Friendlier Relations

U.S. May Seek » Closer Relations With Franco Spain   Washington Issues Deeply Sympathetic Message On Death of Minister.

U.S. Seeks Accord With  Gen. Franco   That Is the Indication of Friendly Note to Spain In Minister’s Death

Closer Relations With Spain Seen  United States Showing Friendly Attitude

GERMANS BRING NEW MATERIALS IN GREAT PUSH   Nazis Pay Heavy  Price For Their Latest Move

Smash North by Patton Not Confirmed; Losses Run High on Both Side:

Nazis Enter Belgian Road Key, Bastogne   Powerful Drives Spread Out Into Additional Towns

Have Entered Belgian Road Key   Advances Up to Thursday Revealed — Events of Last 48 Hours Still Cloaked in Security News Ban — Northern Wedge 40 Miles into Belgium. Communique Says

Nazi Forces Only 29 Miles From Sedan; Drive Into Bastogne   Huns Enter By-Passed Road Hub Ir Belgium; Seize Control of Wiltz From Yanks

Germans Declare  U.S. Units Pursued_ Along Our the Riv er   Bnemy In’ Surrounded Bastogne; Report Events Of Last 48 Hours . Cloaked: In Securi itv News Ban

Enter Belgian Road Key   - Allied Reports Show Germans 40 Miles Into Belgium Thursday; Yanks Hold On Flanks

Gcermans Enter By passed Road  Key, Bastogne   Nazis’ Central Wedge Veers to St. Hubert. Scene of 1940 Hitler Attack Near Sedan   Flying Fortresses Bomb.

Loble Motor Firm Franchise Draws Young's Criticism   Commissioner Issues Statement Pointing Out He Opposed Unprecedented State-Wide Certificate Supported by Jerry O'Connell

When Old Pals ‘Jerry’ and ‘Les Did a Little Teamwork Before  - O'Connell in Service Commission Helpex _Loble Grab Highway Truck Franchises

AMERICAN AIRMEN WERE BEATEN IN BULGARIAN CAME   Rough—Freatment~ Giver lier: Who Refused to Give  Information

U. S. Airmen In  Prison Beaten   Reveal Harsh Treatment After Release From Bulgarian Prison.

Battle tor Warsaw Is In  Final Phase   Move Made to Take 200,000 Huns in lL pper Balties Trap

jPOLISH CAPITAL BATTLE ENTERS FINAL STAGES   Soviet Forces Also Open Annihilation Campaign Against 200,000 Trapped Germans In the Upper Baltics.

BATTLE BEFORE WARSAW ENTERS FINAL STAGES      Red Armies Storming Through Eastern Suburbs, Swarm Over Vistula

NAZIS SEEK TO CHECK SOVIETS ALONG VISTULA   Early Fall Of Warsaw Looms As Red Troops Battle In Suburbs

Russian Armies Swarm Across Vistula River   Annihilation Drive Opened In Northeast By Soviet Forces

Soviet Drive To Sea Cuts Off 10 Enemy Divisions in Latvia in Trumphal Victory March

Russians Smash to Gulf of Riga, Trapping 20 Divisions In Latvia, Estonia: Real Warsaw Battle Near

BATTLE OF WARSAW ENTERS LAST STAGE; BALTIC TRAP SPRUNG   Russians Start Wiping Out 200,000 Germans Cut Off In Latvia And Estonia; May Flank Polish Capital

Russians Bring Up Big Siege Guns For The Final Pounding Of Warsaw.

WARSAW BATTLE NEARING END; 200.000 TRAPPED   Soviet Armies Storm Into Polish Capital Suburbs

POLISH UNDERGROUND — FIGHTS INSIDE WARSAW  200,000 Germans Trapped in

Red Forces Gain Along Wide Front   Polish Underground Re. ports Its Army Battling  Nazis Inside Warsaw

Soviets Flank Warsaw As Battle For Polish Capital Enters Climax   In Latvia, Estonia, 20 Nazi Divisions Face Catastrophe As Reds Seize Two Baltic Cities

Battle for Warsaw in Final Stages As’ Reds © Storm Through Suburbs

Russians Open ‘inal Stages of Narsaw Battle   200,000 Germans Trapped by Reds In Upper Baltics

Other Units  Trap Nazis In Baltics   Frontal Assault On Polish Capital Is Made Ready.

WARSAW IN FINAL STAGES   Russians Swarm Across Vistula In Flanking Drive

200,000 Germans Doomed To Probable Death Or Capture In Latvia  IN ITALY WE ARE 21 MILES OF FLORENCE  Bitterest Hand-To-Hand Fighting In Italy Since Cassino

Red Storm Through The Eastern Suburbs Of Bastion   Nazis In Baltics kace Destruction   Russians Advancing From Arctic To The Carpathians

BATTLE FOR ° WARSAW IN LAST STAGES   Reds Storm Thru City’s Eastern Suburbs

Secret Weapon Aids Americans In Pacific Drive   No Resistance Met By U. S. Units In 8-Mile Push To East Coast Of Guam

Americans Withe Japs With Secret Weapon   U. S. Spearheads Widen Wedge Across Guam, ‘Sweep Past Tinian’s Metropolis; Yanks Take Over Enemy-Held Installations

U. S. Secret Weapon So Powerful No Human Can Live Within 100 Feet

‘Secret Weapon Gives Americans Advantage In Marianas Battle; ‘Guam’s Main Harbor, Airstrip In Use; Heavy Air Blows Struck

Secret New WeapontIn Marianas   U.S. Warships ‘Enter Guam’s Port

Fearful’ Secret Weapon Gives Yanks Advantage In Guam, Tinian Action

Allies Have Advantage. In Invasion  Of Marianas   Warships: Reenter: Important Harbor.

Secret Weapon Aids Americans In Pacific Drive   Guam’s Harbor Ready for Use By Navy Vessels

U. S. Secret WeaponHiits Guam Japs   New Instrument ‘Of Death Gives Wanks Advantave

NEW WEAPON HELPS U.S. WIN IN MARIANAS   Guam’s Harbor and Airstrip and Tialan Town Now in American Hands.

Advance on Guam _ By New Weapon!   AMERICANS DRIVE ON PAST TINIAN IN MARIANAS

Island’s Capital City Seized: Orote Harbor, Airstrip Used By U.S.   5,000 Nipponese Trapped On Southern Corne Of Tinian; American Patrols Cross Eight Miles To Guam’s West Coast, Splitting Isle

NEW SECRET WEAPON OF U.S. SUCCESS   Correspondent on Guam Island Says Jap Cities Will Be Blasted; More Yank Gains.

Deadly Secret Weapon Routs JapsOnTinian   U.S. Forces Also Broader Their Positions In Drive To Take Over Guam

Fearful U. S. Secret Weapon Used On Tinian   American Warships Us« Guam’s Main Harbor: Airfield Cantured.

‘Cherbourg Houses: Are i in ‘Flames  [Some Streets ‘Are ‘Entirely ‘Dead

Japanese Face Loss of Vital  Base in Burma   Gen. Stilwell's Troops Snatch one End ‘of Myitkyina Airfield — Ground Gained in  LPrame fHfantivs in Chink

Ask Consolidatior of Stabilization, — Price Control   Rigid Limitations On OPA, Curbs On WLB Asked By Unit

SEEK RIGID OPA, WLB LIMITATION   COMMITTEE ASKS TWO ACTS BE CONSOLIDATED

Consolidation of Price Control and Stabilization Acts Asked by Committee

HOUSE GROUP WOULD UNITE WARTIME LAWS   Wants to Combine Price Control, Stabilization Acts

BILL CARRIES PLAN TO JOIN CONTROL AGT!   Consolidation of Stabilization and OPA Recommended by Committee.

Report Urges Consolidation Of Agencies   Committee Suggests Power of OPA and WLB Be Curbed

Seventh Fights Into Nazi-Held French Haguenat  Americans Beat Back   Americans Beat Back Foes West of Roer, Battling in Snow

STRIKE TS. WAR PLANTS   WALKOUT: AT. TOLEDO AF FECTS 28 FACTORIES ENGAGED IN WAR PRO.  on ’ DUCTION 3 °°

Wall. Of Armor And “Manpower Soon To-Strike   British - Belgian Divisions Baniling Within Three Miles of Germany Qn 40-Mile Front   SOME ALLIED GAINS ARE FOR TEN MILES   News Blackout Continues To Make It Difficult To Get Accurate Picture Of Action

'British Near Reich Border In New Thrust   ‘Germans Claim Crack Sky Troops Have Been Winved Out.

Fate Of Unit Trapped Still ls Not Known   Germans Claim Force “Wiped Out”; Drives Of 10 Miles Made

Widen Allied Push to Split Holland and Win Another Supply Road Northward; News Blackout Continues

BRITISH REACH MAAS RIVER ON 40-MILE FRONT   Allied Push To Split Holland Widened; News Of Arnhem Still Withheld

Duchy Capital Falls In Drive  Near Germany   British Troops Spear Into Holland As Allies Mass For Grand Assault.

ALLIES GIVE UP HOPE OF GETTING AID FROM TURKEY   Reports of Stoppage of Lend-Lease Aid So Inter  nreted in Wachinctan

Report Great Britain Withholding Supplies  From Turkey Since Collapse of Military Talks .

REPORT SHIPMENTS TO TURKEY STOPPEL   British Take Course As Result of Collapse of Miltary Talks.

ERITISH STOP AID TO TURKEY, ANKARA HEARS   Collapse of Military Talks Giver as Cause--American Lend-Lease Also Likely Involved

Arms to Turkey Being Stopped   Allied Efforts to Obtain Turkish Aid Fails, Believed

England Reported To Have Halted Supplies To Turkey   Interpreted As Move To High-Pressure Turkey Ento War On Side Of Allies

BRITISH CUT OFF SUPPLYING TURKS   Action Taken With Collapse of Military Conferences  of Two Nations.

BRITAIN HALTS TURK SUPPLIES   Move Interpreted As Mean ing Turkey Won't : Join Allies

Heavy Aerial Blows Hit In New Guinea   Assaults Made on Wakde-Sarmi Area Northwest of American Holdings at Hollandia, Com miinminio Anmnaimene

ena cnneel  Lupe To Be Buried in Ermine In Personal Shrine in Mexico

ACTRESS’ BODY ERMINE-GARBED   Funeral Set for Friday, and Burial in Mexico City

spirit OF Anzio” binds Troops Closer As Each Group Seeks Chance To Help Douahhous Renel Fnonie Netisce

ARMORED FORCES OF ALLIES RACED FROM BELGIUM T0 HOLLAND  IN SWEEPING ANTWERP AREA BRITISH SNAPPED SHUT GIANT TRAP

Allies Reported In Antwerp   Last German Escape Route in Belgium, Western France Cut by New Drive; Yank Troops Reported in Reich at Two Points

Third Army May Now Be Over Nazi Border   Official Reports Many Hours Behind Movements for Security Reasons; Little Resistance to Belgian Advance

ARMORED FORCES OF ALLIES RACED FROM BELGIUM T0 HOLLAND  IN SWEEPING ANTWERP

LIBERATION OF BELGIUM NEARS COMPLETION AND BATTLE FOR NETHERLANDS MAY SOON BEGIN   This Time It Is Germans Who Are Fleeing from     Dunkerque, Calais and Boulogne and Allied—TripHammer Blows Threaten to Cut Them Off

Yanks Reported Over Nazi Line, In Two Sectors  Reports Of Entry Sell Unconfirmed

Brussels Freed; Yanks Reported in Netherlands   Stockholm Dispatch Says Americans Capture Village in Germany; Columns Crash Through Meuse Valley; Nazi Retreat 100 Miles

ENEMY OFFERS NEW RESISTANCE AT GOTRIC LINE   House To House Battle Rages Day And Night In Rosignano; Struggle Is Reminiscent of Bloody Combat At Cassino.

NAZI COUNTERING BLOWS SLOW UP ALLIES IN ITALY.   Defenders Strike Out From Their Strong Gothic Line in First Aggressive Action in Two Months—Allicd Gains Small

GERMANS HALT YANKS IN ITALY   Lash Out At Fifth Army _ Troops For First Attack  In Two Months

DRIVE IN ITALY ALMOST HALTED   Germans Show Greatest Fighting Strength In Two Months

Nazi Attacks In Italy Halt U. 8. Advance   But Eighth Army Edges Nearer to Florence in Fierce Fighting

Drive Slowed Down In Italy   i;ermans Defenders In North Lash Out To Bring 5th Army Push Almost To Halt.

Leghorn Drive Near Halted By Nazis’ Defense   Germans Lash Out From Heavily Fortified Gothic Line

Allied Advance In Italy Halts   Germans Lash Out From Fortified Positions to Stop Americans.

GERMANS HALT ALLIED DRIVE NEAR LEGHORN   Gains Reported Slow; Fighting Now Severe

Germans Assum Aggressive Role  Change Tactics First Time ir Twe Months

GERMANS HOLD ALLIES IN ITALY   Nazis Attack From Gothic Line Outposts

Advances _— In Italy Are Slowed Down   House-to-House Battle Continues in Rosignano; Nazis Strike Back at Americans on West Coast

Fifth Army’s Drive Halted At Rosignano   American Infantrymen in House-to-House Fighting in Village

ENEMY PUTTING UP STUBBORN DEFENSE   5th Army Drive Toward Liv: vorno, Pisa, Florence Almost at Halt.

Foe Slowing Fifth Advance   Germans Lash Out From Fortified Line in Italy

GERMANS SLOW LIVORNO PUSH   FIFTH ARMY BROUGHT TO NEAR STANDSTILL

Nazis Stall Fifth Army's Push North   On Livorno   Eighth “Army: Also “Making  Few: Gains

GERMANS LASH BACK IN ITALY   5TH ARMY DRIVE TOWARD LIVORNO ALMOST HALTED

Nazi Attacks In Italy Halt U.S. Advance   But Eighth Army Edges Nearer to Florence in Fierce Fighting  yur wre UK LUT ROSY A AO

One Thousand Club to Be Special  Guests at Fourth Term Inaugural

FIRST PAY-OFF FOR 1,000 CLUB   ROOSEVELT INVITES CONTRIBUTORS TO 4TH TERM IMAUGURAL

Ist Army Advances In Attack Toward Cologne, Rhine River   Patton’s Forces Take Firm Hold on Fort Driant; Seventh Drives Near Bussang Pass

GRIP TIGHTENED ON METZ FORTS IN FIERCE FIGHT   Allied Warplanes Are Out in Strong Force—Americans Advance in Italy

ALLIES ADVANCE ONE MILE TODAY ON CERMAN SOIL   German Weapons Unable To Hold U. S. Soldiers

Slugging Yanks Third Of Way To Cologne   Siegfried Line Systematically Being Broken Up Along Thirty Mile Front By Hodges Americans; Win Hold On Metz Fort.

Hold Won On Parts Of Fort Near Metz   Tilburg, Stronghold In Holland, Neared By Allied Forces

U.S. First Army Slugs Hard in Aachen Section and Also in the Hurtgen Forest.   ALLIED AIR POWER AIDS GROUND FORCES

TRAP FOR JAPS IN INDIA SEEN   Allied Strategy Unfolds As Counterattacks Ease Kohima Pressure

Japs Being Entrapped In India Sector   Destruction Of All Japanese In Area Is Seen As Inevitable

PRESSURE AROUND KOHIMA EASED BY BRITISH AND INDIAN TROOPS; WIDENING SCOPE OF,OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL BURMA.

Allied Forces Ease Pressure — Around Kohima In East India   Nipponese Invaders May be Caught in Gigantic Trap and Face Eventual Extermination—Allied Air-Borne Forces Strike

Allied Attacks Slow Up Jap Kohima Drive   Moves Hint Setting Of Huge Trap For Nips in India

Japanese Facing Defeat in India   Entire Force May Be Annihilated

British Slash — Bases at Rear  Of Jap Column   Pressure Eased at Kohima: Invaders Said Falling Trntes: Pi fanien Tenskc

Counterblows Ease Pressure  About Kohima   Air-Borne Soldiers Slash From Rear at Nip Chindwin Bases; Extermination Seen

ATTACKS EASE UP PRESSURE IN EAST INDI:   GREAT ALLIED TRAP MAY EXTERMINATE JAPANESE

TOULON CITY COUNCIL HOLDS REGULAR MEET   Transact Routine Business; Claims Against City Total $738.

TOULON CITY COUNCIL HOLDS ROUTINE MEET   Approve Library Report Anda Bond Of Sexton; Bills Total $992.71.

CITY COUNCIL HOLDS REGULAR MEET MONDAY   Only Routine Business : Transacted; Pay Bills Of $872.34.

CITY COUNCIL HOLD REGULAR MEET MONDAY   Members Adjourn Until Next Monday Night; Pay Bills Of $719.

Willkie Makes First Major Nebraska Talk   Suggests Plan fer President, Congress +o Settle Differences

Dewey Prepares Final Address  Talk Is Scheduled at 90’Clack Taninskhi

Dewey Prepares Final Address  Talk Is Scheduled   Talk Is Scheduled at 9 o’Clock Tonight

Candidates Prepare Windup Of Presidential Campaigns  Dewey Says Voice Roosevelt Is Home Nearly Failed Him To Cast His Ballot

Dewey to End Campaign With Speech Tonight   GOP Candidate Says FDR Prolonging War In Europe; Tells of  Almost Losing Voice

DEWEY PLANS FINAL APPEAL   GOP Nominee Will Make Closing Broadcast at 11 Tenight

20,000 Drait. Anneals Filed   New Regulations Require Additional Work on Appeals

Republicans Veet At French Lick   Throng Into Town To Hear Gov. Bricker’s Acceptance Speech

Yanks Forced Out of Beggendorf; Doughboys Cling to Ubach; British Drive for Arnhem

HEAVY BATTLES RAGE ON WHOLE SIEGFRIED LINE   American First Army Units Give Up Beggendorf As Enemy Comes Back

Fighting Is Bitterest in Five-Day Campaign   Allied -Troops Cross Dutch Line North of Antwerp

Mighty Tank Fight Rages on Cologne Plain   Germans Try To Break Through on Metz Fortress

GERMANS IN FULL RETREAT ACROSS MAAS   Poles Mass for Assault on Breda; U.S. Troops Under Canadians Knock Nazis From Holland.   Pound Line

POLES OCCUPY FOE GARRISON ClTY OF BREDA   U. S. Troops Put Into Battle With Cana dian Forces

Ailies hammer nazis fleeing across Maas: most of Breda taken   Yanks in battle to clear Holland ‘corner, open Antwerp supply line

Thrust To Within Three And Half Miles Of Outskirts   eaeaeersee eo om” —— —_— =  Outskirts  DOUGHBOYS TIGHTEN LINES AROUND METZ  Eastern Tip Of One bridgehead A Mile And Half Of German Border

Yanks Close On Bastion  From South And West   Yser Fortress Group Is Second Captured In Heavy Assault On Pivotal City

Army and Navy Pitted Against Each Other; Women Are Cause of It All

MUST CLARIFY A LAW   Unexpired Sheriff’s Term in Sedgwick County Raises Question _

GIRL 10 OPPOSE ~ MRS, CLARE LUGE   DEMOCRATS SELECT ATTORNEY, 29, TO RUN AGAINST AUTHOR FOR CONGRESS,

Connecticut Portia to Pit Charm and — Skill Against Clare Boothe Luce at Polls

First Ship Honoring City Used During Civil War, Second In The Pacific

Bombs Being Dropped At Rate Of Eight Tons Per Minute On Hitler's  ' Europe.

Nazi Europe Shakes With Bomb Blast   Allies Drop Explosives At Rate Of Nearly 500 Tons Per Hour ‘

NEW OPA RULING ON OATS IN EFFECT   Ceiling Price on Argentina Corn Imported Here also Goes in Effect Now.

Nazis Recapture Hotel at Cassino   NEW ZEALAND TROOPS WIPE OUT NAZI FORTIFICATIONS, BUT ENEMY TROOPS REINFORCED; MANY PRISONERS ARE TAKEN

rmans Fight y Back Into ssino Hotel   rman Troops Are einforced in WreckCity During Night

Germans Fight Way Back Into Hotel at Cassino  Reinforcements Are Brought Into Continental Battle

Germans Retake  Hotel in Cassino  Ciorce Fightina Enterc 5th Day   Fierce Fighting Enters 5th Day For Possession of Ruined City

Nazis Regain Lost Ground At Cassino   Drive Back Into Hotel Despite Fire From Allied Forces

New Zealanders Again A  fal      From Which Germans          TROOPS ON SLOPE   Food, Medical Supplies Droppec by Parachute fo Allies Forces on Monastery Store

GERMANS FIGHT WAY  BACK INTO CASSINO  CONTINENTAL HOTEL NAZI COMMANDER TRY ING MAKE GOOD PROMISE DRIVE ATTIES OT

Nazis Retake Cassino Hotel   Enemy Defenses Stiffen, New Zealanders Seek To Recapture Stronghold

Reinforced Germans Fight On In Cassino   Fifth Army Is Hemmed In By  Nazi Positions:                 Cassino Positions. Other Strategic’-Point and Is -Laving’ ‘He  Artillery Fire On hed Troops.

Nazis Stick To Cassino  Forces on Western   Forces on Western Fringe Hold ; British At Anzio Make Raids

Grim Battles ‘Continuing In Cassino Areas   New Zealand Troops Wipe Out Part Of Remaining German Fortifications  On Western Edge

GERMANS FlSnT WAY 10 HOTEL   Commander Tries to Make Good Boast He’ll Throw Allies Out of Cassino.   ‘MOVED IN DARKNESS

GRIM STRUGGLE CONTINUING ON GASSINO’S EDGE   New Zealanders Wipe Out Some Enemy Resistance, But Nazis Bring In Reinforcements; Fighting Fierce; Nazi Prisoners Taken.

Nazis Hold On Grimly At Cassino   New Zealanders In West Edge Wipe Out Defenses

Germans Fight Way Back Into Hotel at Cassino  Reinforcements Are Brought Into a —s a i, Pos

Reinforced Nazis Recapture Strong Point in Cassino   Foe Fights Way Back Into the Continental Hotel and Stiffens Defenses Elsewhere

Reinforeed Nazis Cling To Remains  Of Cassino   Fierce Fighting For Town Continues; Plane: Used To Drop Supplies On Monastery Hill

NAZIS BATTLING DESPERATELY IN CASSINO RUINS   New Zealand Outfit Makes Progress, But Nazis Regain Continental Hotel

Germans Likely Moved Back te Building Under Cover of Dark   Enemy Resistance Stiffens As It is Re-inforced

Although Enemy Tanks In Lobby of Hotel Are Knocked Out Defend ers Still Hold Out   ATTACKS ARE REPULSED

NAZI FORCES RETAKE HOTEL IN CASSINO   Apparently Move in at Night—Enemy Defenses Stiffen in Southwest Part of Town and in Hills Behind.

Germans Retake Hotel   Drive Allies Out of Ruined Building in Bitter Battle for Cassino: Reds Surge. On -

Nazis Cling To Cassino Ruins After  Reinforeing   Enemy Succersfally Defendine Positions

Fierce Fray Continues Qt Cassino  New Zealanders Wipe Out Part Of German Fortifications

GERMANS FIGHT WAY BACK INTO CASSINO HOTEL    Enemy Lashes Back Savagely With  Hand to Hand Fighting Raging Around Nazi Garrison.

Enemy Filtering Force Into hae  Come From Monastery To Take Positions  —_ . —_—  . 2. =o set’ ecarereeae ee «ea.* a

Nazis Retake Hotel: Fierce Battle Ragina   Mountain Defenses Also Show Evidence of Strenathening

Roosevelt Backs Wallace for  Vice President  Letter to Convention Chairman Leaves Decision Up to Party; Nod Cheers Hopefuls for Place

BRISTOL GOES OVER BOND SALES QUOTA IN 4TH WAR LOAN   Newtown and Quakertown Also Go Over Top  In Drive   THE COUNTY LAGS   County Chairman Keller Is Confident Quota Will Be Reached by March Ist

BUCKS COUNTY GOES OVER TOP IN BOND DRIVE   BENSALEMITES HAVE A RED CROSS RALL!   Elmer Vansant, War Fund Chairman, Conducts  The Meeting   The Quota of $5,455,000 is Exceeded, With 3 Days’ Sales Yet To Be Made   TOTAL NOW $5,619,600 MOVIES ARE SHOWN

TO SELL WAR PLANT HERE   DFC To Dispose of Riverside Plant Leased Bv Autos

British Clean Up Japanese Forces On Burma Front   American Airmen Blast Foe Posts

West Wall Drive Opens; 2 Villages Wiped Off Map   Whole 460-Miles Western Front Restless: Correspondents, Warned Not to Expect Flashing Victory, Doubt Yanks Will Be Stopped Short of Rhine: Nazis Surprised

TWO-MILE GAIN -—— - MADEON FRONT   3,000 Allied Planes Give Support North of Aachen; Objective To Reach Rhine

Believe U. S. Ready to “Quarantine” Bolivia and Argentina to Prevent Spread of Fascist Revolutions

Tito’s ‘Partisans ns Expected To Take Croat Capital, Zagred, Very Shortly

Raiders: ‘Start’ B: Big- Fires ~ in 87-Ton- Assault on Ponape Island

REGION FROM HANSA BAY T0 SARMI IS HIT   Allied Might Rules Skyways Thruout acific

Raids Pound New Guinea’s North Coast   U. S. Planes Range From Hansa Bay to  Sarmi in Attacks

Allied Flyers N eutralizing Bases of Japs   New Guinea’s North Coast Target for Various Air Attacks

STALIN SAYS 1944 DECISIVE YEAR OF WAR   States 120 Nazi Divisions Knocked Out This Year

FARMER SLAYS FAMILY OF FIVE   Perry County Man Uses Ax To Kill Sleeping Wife, Daughters, Son

FIVE MEMBERS OF FAMILY = ~” SLAIN'BY BLOWS FROM AXE   CROOKSVILLE MAN KILLS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN AND _ { THEN BURBENDEES , TO POLICE

OHIO MAN SLAYS FAMILY OF FIVE   Freely Admits Crime. Faces Sanity Tests

\Fighting Way to Mountain, Home Again,  Death-Defying Yugoslav Youths Rally   (Other developments on Yugoslay front on Page 5-A.}

Yugoslav Youth Rally   Many Delegates Battle Through Nazi Lines to Attend 5-Day Meeting

GERMAN FORCES RACING TO ESCAPE RED ARMY TRAP   Russians Clear Nazis From Railway Between Leninearad and Maccaw

ENEMY UNITS MAKE RETREAT   Red Armies ( Clear Germans from Seeond Direct Railway Between Leningrad and Moscow.

RED ARMY KEEPS NAZIS FORCES I EREAT DISORDER   Enemy Forces Which Be * sieged Leningrad For Two ‘Years Being Forced to Give Up Strongholds.   MORE HARD ASSAULTS ARE MADE ON JAPS   Operations Indicate Plans For 2-Way Drive Against Strong Enemy Coastal Base of Madang.

‘Nazis Abandoning Strongholds as Reds’ Drive An Leningrad Sector Keeps Rolling Along

Germans Driven From Second Leningrad-Moscow Rail Link; Big Nazi Force Squeezed In Narrowing Corridor

Hull Is Suspicious Of Bolivian Revolt  Hints Hostile Forces   Hints Hostile Forces Inspired Mutiny

Outside Sources Blamed by Hull In Bolivia Coup   Early Conference Finding Indicates ‘Unjriendly’ Forres Resnonsible

Wallace Confident Of That 4th Term  Vice President Is Silen  About Self

PPPPPAPPPAP PPP PDA PAP AAS  Wallace Sees F.D.R. In-Fourth-Term Race

BASES OF JAPS ARE HAMMERED   Volcano, Bonin And Kurile Islands Raided By Yanks

DEWEY 10 MEET MAINE. SOLONS   Republican Delenation Bid to Luncheon Today at Mansion

Maine Officials To Meet Dewey   Nominee Continues  Talks With Congressmer

WAR, PEACE TASKS FILL SOLONS SLATE   Increased Arms Production One Problem, Postwar Security Another

Surplus Material, — Job Security Are Capital Problems   Summary of Main News of Day in Washington Compiled

HARMONY WITH CONGRESS SEEN   BELIEVE PRESIDENT MAKING PEACE WITH SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS

Nazis Shifted South To Hold  Italy Gateway   Yanks Drive On Vital Futa Pass. Encounter Enemy Troops From West

Yanks Approach Famed Futa Pass.   Nazis Appear To Be Shifting Troops

ALLIES NEARING APENNINE PASS   NAZIS SHIFT TROOPS TO MEET YANK THREAT

AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE IN ITALY   Approach. Famous Futa Pass Through Apennines

YANKS TAKE PEAKS NORTH OF FLORENCE   Approach Futa Pass, Gateway to Northern Italy

Yanks Approach Futa Pass North of Florence   Germans Are Shifting Troops to Meet Attack

U.S. 5th Army Troops Near Strateaic Pass   Shift of Nazi Troops Seen to Defend Gateway

Yanks Near Futa Pass   Five Mountain Peaks Captured In Push On Gate To North Italy.

US: TROOPS ‘ARE NEARING -P ASS TO APENNINES   Germans. Shift Forces to Protect Northern’ ee FS) (Te

GERMANS MAY SHIFT TROOPS TO ITALIAN FRONT   Brazilians Fighting With Fifth Army

Key Appennines Route Menaced; Nazis Are Shifting Forces To Meet U. S. Advances

Sees Deadlock in Servicemen's Vote Fight Unless States Have Last Word

Predicts Armed Vote Deadlock   Connally Sees Stalemate Unless States Have Final Voice 'n Approving Absentee Ballots.

Soldier. Vote F ight May End With Deadlock   Ualess States- Have Final   Voice in Approving Absentee Ballots Tieup Sen. Connally Savs- :

To Impound Absent Voter Applications   Hummel Orders Inquiry; Fraud Charaed to Five

British House Member Says America  Not Wholly in War, Trade Unfair

Southwest Pacific Has 72 Aces With Combinec Bag of 554 Jap Planes

INVASION CUTS. DEEPLY INTO GERMAN FLANK   Advance Patrols Already May Have Crossed Vital Appian Highway.

Hills Near Rome Clearly Visible   Report Indicates Allied Forces Not Far Away — Cut Nazi Communications

DOZEN MILES BETWEEN ALLIEI PATROLS, ROME   No Official Word on Battle

May Be Prelude To Allied Drive On Rome Front   Tough New Zealanders Mop Up Cassino Foes In Bitter Fighting

YANKS INCREAS! BAG OF ENEMY PLANES TO 435   Aerial Seige of Luzon Is Carried Into Third Day; Ship Sinkinas Are Boosted

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Nazis Use Four-Engined ~ Graft, Fires kockale~In Mass Against ~ U.S. Ferce

Yanks Pound Reich After Big RAF Raid   American Fighters Shoot Down 76 Nazi Craft Against Loss of 13 in Big Aerial Battles; 1,000 Bombers Blast Stuttgart

Powerful Defense Fighter Force Thrown Up by Germans  13 FIGHTERS AND—--— 22 BOMBERS LOST  Targets in Southern Germany Hit by Ameri-. can Armada

Americans Lose 35 Aircraft in Big Air Battles; 1,000 RAF Bombers Smash Stuttgart, Other Areas

16 Nazi Planes = by Yanks Jn Record Day   Americans Repor! Spectacular Raid

U. S. Fighters Knock Down ‘76 Nazi Planes   13 Fighters and 22 Bombers Lost in Attack

16 NAZI PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN BY AMERICANS   One Of Most Spectacular Aerial Battles Of War Fought Thursday   3,360 TONS DROPPED ON GERMANY BY RAF

YANKS BAG 76 NAZI FIGHTERS IN AIR BATTLE   AUGSBURG AND ULM ARE TARGETS FOR DAYLIGHT RAID

Spectacular Battle Fought Over Reich   Southern Germany Hit. 1,000 RAF Bombers Make Heaviest Attack  3.360 TONS DROPPED

3,360 tons dropped on nazi targets  Enemy throws uj nawartnl dofaheca

Yanks Down /6 Naz  Planes in Fierce Doafights   22 Bombers, 13 Other Planes Lost; 3360 Tons Bombs Dropped

STUTTGART, AUSBURG AND ULM ARE BOMBED THROUGH CLOUDS; MUNICH ALSO SUFFERS FROM RECORD RAID.   —_t. oe oe

MILKFUND DRIVE: BERINS. MONDAY’   -Funds to Be Used ; to Purchase Milk for - Undernourished Children

MILK FUND ORV BEGINS MONDAY   Funds to Be Used to Purchase Milk for Undernourished Childre:

FIRE REFUSES REQUEST OF CORDELL HULL   Declines to Close Axis Legations There

Eire Says No’ to U.S.  Demands   Allies Can Force Free State to Cooperate Through Economic Pressure

Bombers Rake Mergui Japs   U. S. Heavies Fly 2,000 Miles.To Hit Burma

JAPS REPULSED IN IMPHAL AREA   Several Attacks Beaten Off By Allies; Enemy Filters Whisugh To The North, However.

Jap Thrusts In India Repulsed   Allies Use Bombers On Supply Lines

  Allies Repulse Jap Attacks At Imphal; Chinese Hit Village   American Bombers Hit New Jap-Built Burma-Thailand Railway On Wednesday

FoeSurprised By First Naval Blow at Japan’s Home Territory.   Enemy Thinks “Invasion Is On, Fires Wildly at Shadows

20-MINUTE BLASTING SURPRISES DEFENDERS   Harbor, Land Installations Wrecked; Planes Follow With Bomb Foray

Excited Nips Fire in All Directions, Fail To Score Hit on Any Warship; First Sea Assault on Japan’s Home Territory

First Ships To Hit Jap  Homeland   Enemy Gunners, Surprised aad Evidently Fearing Invasion, Fire Along Beaches   TWO COASTS HIT      Vessel in Harbor Apparently Beached—Ought to Take That Place, Sailor Opines

Enemy Caught By Surprise; 7 H e Looked F ed For Aerial Blow   Wild Firing By Shore G Gunners Has No Effect on U.S. Task Force  Vaccele

Ships, Planes in Aifack.on  Paramushiro   All. U. S.. Forces -Retun  Safely; Japs Surprised, Defenders Fire Wildly.:   HARBOR BLASTED ~ ° "BIG. FIRES SEEN   Army Has Representative On Ships Making Assault; Japs Fear Invasion

Harbor of Kurabo Point Battered   Surprise Japs— Ships Shell Jap Homeland For 20 Minutes

Batter Southern Tip Of Paramushiro Island   First American Naval Attack On Nipponese Home Territory Catches Rising Sun Defenders Off Guard; No Yank Losses. :

Surprise Thrust Wrecks Land, Harbor Works; No Attacking Warships Hit

U. S. Warships Rip Paramushiro, 1,280 Miles from Tokyo   Is First Naval Blow Struck at Jap Home Territory; Jittery Foe Taken by Surprise

U. S. Warships Shell Japan's Home Islands   Ships Steam Within Five Milea Of Guns On Paramushiro

ATTACK MADE BY TASK FORCE   _Jap Defenders, Caught By Surprise,_Thought Invasion Had Begun

HOME TERRITORY OF JAPS GIVEN A BOMBARDMENT   Attack Lasts About 20 Minutes — Harbor at Kurabu Point Is Target

American Navy Batters Posts At Paramushiro   Attack Made in  Bright Moonlight With Ease—Planes Follow up Attack

TASK FORCE STRIKES AT PARAMUSHIRO   Sea Bombardment, First in Nips’ Own “Back Yard,” Takes Them by, Surprise — Ships Go Within 5 Miles of Shore.

THE PARAMUSHIRO SLND SLED      Japs' Caught by Sur‘prise and Become Rattled   NO SHIPS HIT BY -__ SHORE BATTERIES

U.S. Warships Blast Japan's Home Front   Harbor and Land Installations on Paramushiro Shelled

BATTLESHIPS ESCAPE FROM ENEMY WATER   Not One Ship Hit By Jap Shells During Raid

Enemy Caught By Surprise; He Looked For Aerial Blow   Wild Firing By Shore Gunners Has No Effect on U. S. Task Force  Vessels

Capt. H. L. Gearing Of Annapolis, Commands Portion of Attacking force That Fired From Sea Of Ohkotsk

Nips Caught By Surprise; Yanks Stage Night Attack   Warships Bombard Japanese Home Front For First Time

Blast Kurabu on Paramushiro Island   20-Minute Bombardment Catches Japanese By Complete Surprise; American Task Force Withdraws Without Any Ship Casualties

Navy Confirms Bombardment of Southern Tip of Paramushiro Island and Discloses An Attack Made On East Coast of Same Island; No Details Given.

U.S. Warships Hurl Fire Into Home Isle Of Surprised Japs   Shore Gunners, Fearing Invasion, Fire Wild; Vessels Escape Damage; Bombers Participate i in Bold Stab

[Homeland Blasted First Time In Surprise Move By U.S. Navy In Heavy 20 Minute Pounding

U.S, WARSHIPS IN BOMBARDMENT JAPAN HOMELAND HARBOR  WILD NATURE OF RETURN FIRE INDICATED EN.

Shelled by United States Warships on Friday; First Time   Bewildered Enemy is Caught Completely Off His Guard

Enemy Harbor, Mainland Hit For 20 Minutes   Enemy Caught by Surprise; Shore Gunuers Give Evidence of Being Rattled   Installations Are Badly Damaged   Wild Nature of Japanese Guuncery Indicated They Feared Invasion Was. . Already Underway

Initial Raid On Homeland Of Japanese Big Surprise   Fire From Island's Batteries Is Wild

U.S, WARSHIPS IN BOMBARDMENT JAPAN HOMELAND HARBOR  WILD NATURE OF RETURN FIRE INDICATED ENPUY FEARED INVASION

Surprise Puts Foe In Panic   Attack on Stepping Stone Ti Tokyo Made in Bright Northern Moonlight

Kurabu Point Hit   BREESE CCRT BS. SASS EY  In20-Minute Attack By U.S. Task Force   Americans Batter Harbor, Land Installations On Paramushiro, 1280 Miles From Enemy Capital

BIG GUNS HIT - KURABU POINT   Enemy Gunners Fire Into Air When Attack First Launched

Japs Thought An Invasion  Under Way   Wild Firing Shows Nipponese Defenders Were Badly Ratiled

FLEET ATTACK TAKES ENEMY “AY SURPRICE    Harbor and Land Installations Battered From Sea and Air Without Loss.

U. S$. Warships Bombard Paramushiro In First ~ American Naval Action On Jap Homeland

JAP HOMELAND ASSAULT MADE BY TASK FORCE   Nipponese Caught by Surprise With Heavy Blasting by Big Guns

Norfhernmost Tip of Enemy Homeland Hit   Japanese Guns Rattied When Navy Opens Fire:

Japs, Taken by Surprise, Reply Wildly to Heavy Gunfire—Planes Also Attack

BATTER KURABU POINT HARBOR ON PARAMUSHIRO  FIRST NAVAL ATTACK   FIRST NAVAL ATTACK CATCHES ENEMY BY COMPLETE SURPRISE

NAVAL ATTACK SURPRISED FOE   First Warship Bombardment Of Jap Homeland

Enemy Gunners, Evidently Rartled and Fearing Invasion, Fire Into Air and Then. Along Own Beaches and Into the Pacific

Jap Homeland Hit By Bombardment Of Paramushiro   Officially Confirmed

Paramushiro Island Is Shelled; Enemy Completely Fooled   Aircraft Follow Naval Blow At Paramushiro with Raids

The Enemy Was Caught by Surprise on Home Ground, Bombardment Lasted 30 Minutes.      BATTERED HARBORS, LAND INSTALLATIONS   Located on Kurabu Point and the Southern Tip of Paramushiro Island, It Was Announced.

Batter Port In Surprise  Night Raid   No American Ship Hit In 20-Minute Attack

Reds Nab Latvian Seaport   New Victory By Russians Seals Off Trapped Germans

Americans and British Holding Up News of Sea Battle, Japanese Say

london Theatre Bombed; / Die   Sneak Raider Gets “Through Undetected

Nazi Bomber Hits London Movie House   Blast Among Crowd Kills 7; Silent Plane May Be New Secret.

LONE NAZI RAIDER BOMBS THEATER IN LONDON - - 7 KILLEL   How It Got By Defenses  Remains Mystery

SEVEN KILLED AS BOMB HITS LONDON MOVIE   31 Injured, 15 Seriously, in ‘Fluke Attack by Undetected Lone Ger man Raider

London Bombed Solo   Night Raiders Over Reich in Strength; Coast by Day

7 Killed by  German Bomb   31 Injured When Lone Raider Hits London Suburb Movie House

DEADLOCK: ON ~ SUBSIDY SEEN   SENATE FINANCE CHAIRMAN SEES PRACTICALLY NO CHANCE OF ACCEPT- . . ABLE COMPROMISE

NELSON'S WPB FUTURE ‘IFFY   F. R. DECLINES TO SAY WHO WILL BE CHAIRMAN

WPB Post Taken By Navy Here From Normandy  Lt. Comdr. Krug Gets Job as  Wilson Resiens

WILSON QUITS WLB; KRUG IS NELSON’S SUE   Changes Climax Feud Between Boss And Aide

TWO PARTIES BID HIGH FOR VOTES OF SERVICE MEN   Platforms Adopted at Jefferson City Meetings Promise Many Things to Returning Soldiers.   DALTON AND WEAR ELECTED CHAIRMEN   Both Donnelly and Bradshaw Support Merit Systems for State Prison and Hospital Employes.

REDS TRUST OWN TANKS, NOT GERMAN GENERALS  Masi Fate To Be Settled at Front

Argentina Holds Up Its Shipping  Merchant Fleet Awaits New Orders

Argentina Govt. Freezes Merchant Fleet Movement   Other Problems Resulting From Break With Axis Claiming Attention.

Argentina Checks All Shipping After Axis Break  Ships Stay Anchored Awaiting Orders; Sub Danaer Ile Seen

Argentina Checks All Shipping After Axis Break  Ships Stay Anchored Awaiting Orders; ~-~ t rs  _ es. ee

Argentina, Fearing Subs, Freezes Movement Of Her Merchant Fleet   None Will Be Permitted To Leave Ports Until Protective Measures Arranged; Congratulations Pour In After Break With Axis.

RAMIREZ FREEZES ARGENTINE FLEET   TIES UP MERCHANT _ SHIPS “UNTIL THEY * OAN BE PROTECTED

Halt Movement Merchant Fleet  Argentina Acis Quickly Following Axis Break

NEW ARGENTINE PLANS MAPPED      Congratulations Pour In  After Break With   Axis Powers

Argentina Freezes Ship ‘Movements   No Reason Given for Action;  Expected to Again Ask for _ US Lend-Lease Aid; News paper Censorship Relaxed

ARGENTINE SHIPS REMAIN IN PORT PENDING ‘ORDERS   Move Believed Sten to Avert Sinkings by Axis Sub-

Argentina Maps Future Course; Ships Frozen   Washington Waits Lend-Lease Plea To Clarify Stand

ARGENTINA FLEET REMAINS IN PORT   Tieup as Protection From Submarines May Be of Only Short Duration.

Further Developments Are Awaited... .. Argentine Shipping ~ Temporarily Frozen

ARGENTINE GOVT. FREEZES SHIP MOVEMENTS TODAY   Tieup of Vessels in Ports Not Expected .to Last Long—Is First Follow-up Action to Break With Axis

SHIPS GUARDED IN ARGENTINA   Nation Seeks To Protect Merchant Fleet From German Subs

Argentina Holds Up Ships   Orders Merchant Fleet to Remain in Port for Orders

Argentina Ties Up Cargo Flee!   Nation’s. ‘Position. Noi Yet Fully Clear

ARGENTINE FREEZES SHIPS MOVEMENTS IN FIRST BREAK ACTION  MILITARY GOVERNMENT  BIG LATIN NATION CLEAR INC MATTERS [Ip

ARGENTINA HOLDS ALL VESSELS IN PORT AT PRESENT   r Diplomatic Break. With “Atte Bites Quick’ Action - By Freezing All Ship  Mavements«

all Argentine Ships Tied Up   Shipping Frozen as First. Move in Break With ss  Powers.

Argentina Freezes Merchant Fleet As First Follow-Up To Diplomatic Break With Axis   All Ships Ordered To Stay-In Port; No Reason Given; Nazi Agents Dealt Blaw

Argentina Stops Ship Movement   State Merchant Fleet Ordered to  Remain in Ports

State Fieet Held j in Port By Argentina      Merchant Ships ‘Frozen’ Until New Orders . Are Issued   Nazi News Agency Told to Wind Up Offices by Jan. 31

ASONFOR ORDER IS GIVEN   One of First Follow-Up Acts To Diplomatic Break With Axis.

Argentine Ships “Frozen” At Port  By Government   First Follow-Up Action After Cutting Relations With Axis Countries

Argentina Freezes Merchant Fleet  Vessels Directed + To Remain in Port

MERCHANT FLEET ORDERED FROZE   Argentina’s First Followup Action After Break With Axis   PROTECTION MOVE   Steps To Be. Taken To Cut Communications With Germany

Argentina Maps Action After Break With Axis New Bid For Lend-Lease Assistance Is Expected

Argentina Freezes All Ship Movements   Government Apparently Fears Reprisals by Nazi Submarines

f Mer chantmen n Of Argentina  s ‘Port-Frozen   Action Seen As Safeguard Against Axis Subs Lurk: ing In the South-~ Atlantic:

Order Fleet “Frozen”   Argentine _Action De. signed: to Safeguard Merchant Vessels

Ships Are Ordered Frozen In Port  Action Evidently Due To Fear of Axis   THREE ARGENTINE SHIPS SUNK 1942

Steyr Raiders Knocked Down 157 Nazi Fliers   Rumanian Oil City Of Ploesti Under Allied Air Attack On Wednesday

BRICKER AT FRENCH LICK TO MAKE HIS ACCEPTANCE TALK   Key ‘Borderline’ State Selected; Speech At 9:30 P. M. Saturday

Nazis Still Seek Plotters   Offer OF $400,000 Reward Is Indication Strife Still Exists

OFF ON RACE IN SEPTEMBER   President to Address Labor Leaders: GOP  Nominee on Tour

MAJOR PETRI DIES IN CRASH   Wright Field Army Board Probes Accident

ies BEING SOFTENED BY YANK BOMBERS   Forerunner Of Attack On Islands Close To Jap Mainland

Commandos  and On Greek Island Unopposed hy Foe   By CLINTON B. CONGER Representing The Combined  RIGS Mew

Binding of Wea Going Bey ‘bines: meg ond Com   POTATOES ARE BEHIND

CROPS ARE COMING   Binding of Wheat Going Right Along and Combines Start Soon   POTATOES ARE BEHIND

Campaign Probers To Call Gannett   Anderson Committee Extends Inquiry

ENEMY TROOPS FIGHTING OVER ESCAPE SHIPS   Remnants Of German And Romanian Forces Are Fighting For OutGoing Ships

C. 1.Q. Plans to Collect $5.000.000 to Put Roosevelt Ticket Over   100,000 Shop Stewards Will Get the Cash and Register 14,000,000 Voters Under the Plan

WHISKEY TO BE MADE IN AUGUST   WPB LIFTS BAN FOR ONE MONTH; TIGHTER RESTRICTIONS URGED

—WHISKY—  WHISKY MAKING: TOBE RESUME!   WPB To Permit Use Of ~ Alcohol Manufactured An August

TO MAKE WHISKY FOR ONE MONTH   WPB To Permit Manufacture Of 40 To 50 Million Gallons Of Whisky To Alleviate Shortage, Curb   Black Market.

WPB TO PERMIT WHISKY MAKING   Production Allowed For Single Month

Return to Liquor Production Hailed: State Buyers May Get Larger Rations

Supers Blast Mukden and Port of Dairen   Incendiaries Fall on Tokyo, Japs Report

BOMB ATTACKS OPEN 4TH YEAR OF NIPPON WAR   War Plants in Manchuria and Tokyo Are B-29 Targets

Russians Race Toward the Polish Border   Balkan Army Pushes Through on Both Sides of Vitebsk

SOVIETS OVERRUN 150 MORE TOWNS IN SWIFT MARCH    Advance Units 85 Miles From  Peltish Border and Less  Than 90 Mites From  ; i PRomanin_   GRAVITY OF PLIGHT _  <0MVETED BY GERMANS   Von Mannstein Tries Desper aiely to Re-Form His Lines, but Is Unable to Stop  BRucsiangs.

Seizure Of City Seals The Hold — Of Russian Forces On tailroad Line -

FOE ABANDONS GUNS, TANKS IN UKRAINE ROUT         Reds Push Nearer To Old Polish, Rumanjan Borders

Nazis Leave Tanks, Guns And Supplies   Break in German Line Widened to 200 Miles. General Retreat Seen  OTHER ARMIFS GAIN

Giant Allied Air Fleet Hits Paris Industrial Targets, Rips Base Aiding U-Boats

Lhitomir Falls In One of Great Victories of Year   Soviet Armies Plunge Far Beyond Rear of Disorganized Nazis

BROKEN ARMY ABANDONS TANKS BY HUNDREDS; RED ARMY WIDENS EASTWALL BREACH TO 200 MILES.

Reports say attempts at new  Pt Pe ee ie, ix Meme a Keene et eae

Writer Says 36th Sacrificed in Rapido Blunder   Capture of Hollandia Airdromes Imminent   Yanks Ready For D-Day

Rumania May Ask For An Armistice      Bulgaria Reported Having Named Meeting Place

BULGARIA READY TO TALK TERMS   (Scleadulen Peace Meeting; Rumania Takes Action

TITO WOUNDED, RUMOR CLAIMS   Casualty of Montenegran Campaign, Is Report

Marshal Tite Wounded, Is Cairo Report   Yugoslav Fighting Fierce—-Nazis Seize New Island

Jairo Radio Broadcasts Stocky Leader of Guerrilla Forces Felled In Montenegran Fighting

TITO WOUNDED, CAIRO REPORTS   Rumor Unconfirmed, However, In Communique From Yugoslay Headquarters

States Start Selection of GOP Delegates   Maine, Louisiana Act Tomorrow on Before Fuehrer

Seven States in Limeliaht Comina Week   To Select Delegates in Conventions and Primary Elections

TWO STATES 10 VOTE TOMORROW   Maine And Loutsiana Lead Off Seven State Series Of Primaries That Will Name Delegates To Both Con vantiane

TWO OF SEVEN STATES TO PICK - DELEGATES   Maine And Juouisiana To Lead:-Off7tote Garies

More Delegates Named For Both Party Meetings ; Dewey. Gets N. C;  Willkie’ Disagrees “With EDR’. Policy.

MAINE, LOUISIANA TO LEAD SERIES © OE CONVENTIONS   Start Ball Rolling Friday In 7-State Series of Political Parleys Where Delegates to National Convention Will Be Named

Political Pot Starts Boiling In 7 States   Series. Of Conventions Tc Begin Selecting - - . Pelegates -

TWO ARMIES RACE ACROSS FLATS 10 RUMANIA   Both Forces Seek to Be First to Grive Wedge Into Rumania.

GERMANS REPORT BITTER FIGHTING (5 IN PROGRESS   Demoralized German Troops Are Being Stiffened With Rumanian Levies Which Lack Military Ardor.   JAP TROOPS ADVANCE TOWARD INDIA CAPITAL   Allied Bombers Sink Two Jap Freighters, 7 Coastal Vessels, 23 Barges In Wewak Area.

RUSSIANS DRIVE FIRST WEDGE TO RUMANIA BORDER   Two Red Armies Race Through Shattered Defenses Of Germans

RUSS ARMIES RACE TOWARD RUMANIA   Three-Quarters Of Way Thru  >Besserabia

RUSS ARMORED GROUPS BREAK AGROSS HRON   Nazis Continue Suicidal Fight In Budapest To Delay Invasion

RED TROOPS GET ACROSS HRON RIVER   Drive West Thru Danube Valley Toward Vienna

REDS WIN BIG BATTLE, FORCE RIVER BARRIEF   Continue Vienna Drive: Budapest Siege In Fifth Day

THOUSANDS OF NAZIS KILLED IN BUDAPEST   Suicidal Battle To Delay So: viet Invasion In Fifth Straight Day

NAZIS STILL HOLD BUDAPEST; RUSS DRIVE FOR VIENNA  ff ow -§ aq Ann

Southern Push Halted; Troops in North Gain   Budapest Battle Enters Fifth Day; Reds Cross Hron

Russians Hurdle  Hron River Line   Budapest Battle Roars Into 5th Bloody Day

RUSS DRIVE ON VIENNA PROGRESSES   Axis Budapest Garrison Continues Suicidal Battle

Vienna-Bent Reds Shatter Hron Barrier   Armored Divisions Span River to Drive Iln Valley of Danube

Russ Divisions Break Across  Hron River Line   - Battle For Budapest Goes Into Fifth Day ~An- Suicidal Struggle

Yankee Raids On Jap Kurile Chain Kept Uy   Bombings of Bases Along  Northern Route. to En emy Homeland Enters   Fitth Successive Day

Aleutian - Based Aircratt Swoop Down On Kuriles   Foe Also Dealt Blows In South Pacific Fighting

Attacks On Jap  Bases Continue   Aleutian-Based Liberators Smash Matsuma Island In Kurile Chain

Important : “Red Gains _ in Estonia   =  Germans Report. Evacuation ‘of Strategic Narva Already Has Begun   BIG WITHDRAWAL OF NAZI FORCES   ; Troops Being Pulled Out of Several. Sectors as. the Reds Romp On.

NAZIS REPORT REDS DRIVING -INTO ESTONIA   Say Soviets Trying te Cross River Narova. Six Miles Inside Country—Moscow Silent on Exact Location.

SOVIETS MOVE TOWARD NARVE   Army West of Leningrad Presses Campaign for Freeing of Estonia.

RUSSTANS BELIEVED  ACROSS BORDER OF  ESTONIA WEDNESDAY GEN. GOVOROV’S FORCES  POUNDING WESTWARD AN CIETY MITE CPRONT

Soviets Cross Estonia Line   Capture Kingisepp and Drive to Important Seaport of Narva

NARVA, A RAIL CENTER, UNDER SOVIET CANNON   Junction Commands Escape Route for Germans Who Admit Extensive Withdrawal of Forces

RUSSIANS REACH ESTONIAN BORDER   SEIZE KEINKO IN _ SWIET ADVANCE ON SEAPORT OF NARVA

Indicated Russians In Estonia   Troops Reported Attempting to Cross River Narova.

Reds Surging Into Estonia  On Wide Front   Leningrad Veterans Take 50 Towns and Kill 2000 Germans in Drive -

Onrushing Soviet Forces Reported Inside Estonia   Spearheads Believed To Have Stormed Six Miles Beyond Pre-War Frontier

PENSION MEASURE OPPOSED BY HINES   Too Early to Take Action Covering Overal Compen-  sation for Vets. ‘

DRY WEATHER HURTS GARDENS   June Precipitation Below Average in Ohio; No General Relief Soon

Guns Are Silent While Easter Message [s Given Germans On Italian Battlefield

Co-ordinated Allied Push  Gains Ground   ‘Strike at Both Ends ‘Of Normandy Front, Resistance Is Strong

Great Co-ordinated Offensive Launched in _____Normandy  AMERICANS SMASH TO WEST OF ST. LO  British and Canadians Hit Below City of Caen

Americans Smash West of St. Lo as British, Canadians Push South of Caen; Offensive Comes Aller Eisenhower and Officers Hold Conference

U, S. TROOPS STRIKE AFTER AIR ATTACK   Advance West of St. Lo _ Comes on Heels of Push “by Montgomery’ 8  .Forees Near Caen.   ROMMEL THROWS ARMOR INTO FIGHT   Canadians and Tommies  ~. Take Initial. Objectives Battle Nazis at Close ' Quarters.

Americans Smash West of St. Lo, British Drive South of Caen; Greatest Offensive Since D-Day

U.S. Forces Advance  Despite Nazi Resistance   Tommy And Canadian Infantrymen And Armor  Divisions Clash Below Caen On FourRAslae FE vant

“ALLIES OPEN OFFENSIVE BELOW CAEN   Beachhead Lines on Both American and British Sectors.   Deceive Nazis

Gains Made Along Entire Nazi Front   Artillery And Bomb Barrage So Heavy Nazis Are Bewildered

YANKS SMASH GERMAN LINE BEYOND ST. LO   OVER 3,000 U. §S PLANES BACK OFFENSIVE

Allies Slash Out In France   Yanks Lead Biggest-‘Smash Toward Paris Since D-Day

MERICAN DRIVE SOUTHWEST )F PARIS MENACES ALL NAZI ‘ORCES IN THE SEINE AREA   o Official Confirmation of Various Reports of Striking Progress Past Les Mans, Which Was Captured Two Days Ago   -OMBAT TEAMS MAKE PROGRESS IN BRITTANNY   RYri$ypmFTINsS

Canadians, Poles Rush  Southward Below Caen   Allies Form Huge Pocket After Driving Within 90 Miles of Paris—One Column Strikes South Toward Orleans

HITLER'S ARMY IN A BAD WAY’   Montgomery Declares Part Of Germans May Not Escape In France

—INVASION—   Yanks Plunging Toward Paris Meet Little German Opposition   No Accurate Reports Available As To How Close  Fast-Moving U. S. Armored Units Are From French Capital; British Take Thury-Harcourt

Nazis Are  In Bad Spot,  Leader Says   Yanks Turn North in Scythe-like Move to Menace Enemy

“Wot’s the Matter, Guv’nor?’  * * * * . a *  Bombs Fail to Excite London Cabby

Bombers Leave Both British And   Italian Bases, Strike Staggering Blows In Pre- invasion Bombing Campaign      CAMPAIGN NOW IN SIXTH DAY

GERMAN NIGHT RAIDERS MAKE LONDON ATTACK   Number Of Persons Killéd Ag Bus Is Hit; Nine Of aRaiders Downed

LONDON HIT BY MINOR NIGHT RAID   One Bomb Kills Several When It Hits Vehicle

Enemy Recoils At Vicious Allied Attack   Break-through With Five Regiments on Small Front Fails

Nazis Defeated In Second Battle of Anzio   Germans Surrender By the Hundreds To Allied Armies

ALLIES TAKE BACK GROUND LOST AT ANZIC   Second Battle of Beachhead Ends In Bloody Defeat for Germans.

Nazis Surrendering By Hundreds After -Stunning Barrages   Victorious Yanks and Britons Recapture Half of Salient Won By Eetlerites at Terrific Toll

U.S. British Forces Retake Anzio Salient   Germans Surrender Rv Hundreds

SECOND BATTLE OF ANZ APPEARS TQ HAVE ENDEL   Germans Retreating Aftel Great Costly Battle to ' Banain Landing Area.

ALLIES RECAPTURE LOST GROUND AT 'ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Nazis Suffer Huge Losses Under Fire of Allied Troops, Warships

» ALLIES REGAIN SALIENT WITH > LAND, AIR HITS   Nazis Surrender By Thou: sands, Others Shot Down By Own Gunners

Half of Ground Reoained   Germans Lose Heavily When Big Push Fails

2nd Nazi Push On Anzio Front  Ends In Defeat   Shelling Stuns Foe

View On War Reversed By Methodists  Conference Votes Official Sunnar +

Twenty Million Chinese Are Facing Starvation In North China Province

Millions In China Facing Starvation   Under Jap Control Many Areas Become Wasteland

Willkie Has Entered Race   Seelcts Ralph Cake As Campaign Manager; Victory Points Listed

Willkie Outlines His Campaign   Tosses Hat Formally Into Presidential Ring. Chooses  Ralph Cake As Manager.

WILLKIE MAKES FORMAL ENTRY   ‘40 GOP Nominee Names Manager For Campaign

WILLKIE ENTERS RAGE AS LEADER ~ OF REPUBLICANS   Gives Three Principal Reasons Why Party Should Be  _ Returned to Power at Fall Elections.   WESTERNER IS NAMED ~ ~ AS CAMPAIGN MANAGER   Says Party Is Entitled to Legitimate Criticism and Take Advantage of Errors of Administration.

WILLKIE THROWS HIS HAT INTO RING   Says Republicans Can't Wir With “Bill of Errors”

WILLKIE MAKES HIS BID FORMAL   SELECTS OREGON MAN AS PRE-CONVENTION CAMPAIGN MANAGER

Willkie Formally Enters GOP Nomination Race   Announces Candidacy With Naming Of Oregonian as Manager; Will Have Orvanizations in Every State

Willkie 1944. GOP Candidate   Outlines 3-Point ‘Platform At Parley

Willkie in Formal Announcement He Will Be Candidate  Outlines Platform; Names Oregon Man as Manager

Willkie Makes Formal Entry Into Campaign   Names Manager and As ‘serts Republicans Best  Fitted For Tasks War _ and Peace-Making 

Willkie to Seek GOP Nomination   Names Ralph Cake of Oregon His Manager

Oregon’s Cake Will Be Leader   Aspirant Warns Republicans Must Pledge Better Ad ministration lo Win

Willkie in Race for Presidency   REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE SELECTS RALPH CAKE AS PRE-CONVENTION CAMPAIGN MANAGER AND SUGGESTS THREE WAYS THAT G. O. P. MAY WIN

WILLKIE ENTERS PRESIDENT RACE   Unsuccessful Candidate of 1940 After GOP Nomination

WILLKIE NAMES CAMPAIGN PILO]   Designates Ralph H. Cake as Pre-convention Manager in Formal Announcement. of Presidential Candidacy

Willkie Files Formal Candidacy  1944 GOP Would-be President Names  sas a pata ater cau ees

BOP CANDIDATE PIGKS MANAGER   Willkie Formally Announces Candidacy, Seleets.R. Cake for Job.

WILKIE SNOW TNE. OB: RAGE   Formal, Announcement ” Of ‘Candidacy’ Is Made In Oregon Speech  -;

WILLKIE REVEALS GOP CANDIDACY   Picks Campaign Manager, Ralph H. Cake, Oregon National Committeeman

Willkie Names Manager For His Campaign   Formal Entry In Presidential Race Announced

Willkie Picks Oregonian as Campaign Aid   Constitutes Formal Declaration of Candidacy ; Gives Program

Willkie Has Faith in Campaign Stanc  GOP Candidate Name:  Manager

WILLKIE 10 SET UP HEADQUARTERS   FORMALLY ENTERS G. O. P. RACE AND NAMES PRE-CONVENTION MANAGER.

Cold Wave Moving In   Temperatures Due to Drop Near Zero Here By Tomorrow Morning

Mercury May Hit 5 Below Tonight  _ Snowfall Is General ’ But Forecast Calls For Clearing Skies

Stimson Gives British and Canadians Much Credit for Doughboys' Success

3 Nazi Divisions Trapped At Port  British-Canadians Cc , wf ¢ rf. . aE

Gives Credit To British   ‘American Advance On Cherbourg Made Possible By Holding Op erations in Caert Area

Stimson Says Parts Of Three Nazi Divisions Trapped  War Secretary Has Praise for Regeh Cannas nnc

Trap Enemy On Peninsula   Stimson Announces Ameriean Forces Corner Nazis In Drive On Cherbourg.

STIMSON AVERS NAZIS TRAPPED   Parts of Three German Divisions in Cherbourg Area Are Surrounded

Stimson Says Parts Of Three Nazi  Divisions Trapped War Secretary Has Praise for British, Canadians

Allied Airmen Te Be At Merey Of Angry Civilians   .. IF DOWNED OVER GERMANY, MINISTER GOEBBELS SAYS

Allied Airmen Bailing Out In Germany To Be Left at Mercy of Mobs -- Goebbels

NAZIS WITHDRAW ‘ARMED PROTECTION’ OF ALLIED FLIERS SHOT DOWN IN BATTLE

No Protection To  ~ Be Given Airmen Goebbels Says Allies  Violate War Rules

Allied Fliers Are Threatened   Goebbels Says German Police Will No Longer Protect Them

ALLIED AIRMEN GIVEN WARNING   Nazis to Permit Public to Mistreat Fliers

STEEL SUPPLY ~ BELOW NEEDS   TENTHOUSAND ‘TONS MONTHLY TO. BE IMPORTED FROM BRITAIN FOR WAR PRO DUCTION °

HITLER PLANS ~ LAST DEFENSE      CALLS ON “GERMANS TO USE GUERRILLA TACTICS. —— “AGAINST THE INVAD-~ ING ALLIED ARMIES

Kaunas Is Also Surrendered to  Onrushing Russ   Ten Major Soviet Victories ~  Seored Within 24 Hours

5,000 TROOPS KILLED DURING ALLIED RAID   Swiss Dispatch Says Men Were Marching In Honor Of Von Ribbentrop At Time

_ —KETURN TO OHIO~  251. Nets- Of 37th Are On Way To Ohio Homes      Talk -Of War Forgotten By Boys, Weary Of . 30 Months.Of Fighting, As They Leave Camp Atterbury For Long Furloughs * °

Home Again!   Back From 30 Months In Pacific, 251 Veterans Sina ‘Beautiful Ohio’

‘Beautiful Ohio’  251 Veterans Of 37th Return From Long Pacific Campaign

251 Veterans of Ohio's 37th Division Nearina Home After 30 Months in Pacific

Mihailovie Out Of War Cabinet   King Peter Ousts General In Attempt To Appease Marshal Tito.   Tito Declares Yugoslavs Want Recognition From Allies

Tito Asks for Warplanes, Guns and Tanks; Also Wants Yugoslavia’s Gold and Warships

Tito Asks Allied   Recognition, Aid Requests Nation’s Gold,  Merchant Ships

Censors Grant Ban Removal on Tito Views   Marshal Agrees to Deletion of Portions of His Interview

AP INTERVIEW NOW RELEASED   Marshal Says Yugoslavs Want Material Aid and Recognition.   TELLS FOER’S STRENGTH

Story Held Up By Censorship Given Release   ‘Marshal Asks Return O! Gold, Warships, Othe: Vessels

GEN, TITO WANTS RECOGNITION AS WELL AS ARMS   Interview With Yugoslavian Partisan General By AP Correspondent Finally Cleared By Censor; Tito Explains His Stand.

Tito Wants Recognition Of His Committee As Yugoslav Government; Asks More Aid   His Interview, Held Up By Censor, Lists Mihailovic On Enemy's Side .

‘Armies Advance On Three Fronts; Nearing Kherson   Russians Move On Fourteen Miles Beyond Uman Toward Rumanian Border 65 Miles Distar

REDS MAY BE INTO RUMANIA WITHIN WEEK   GAIN OF 20 MILES MADE ON DNIEPER WEST BANK

REDS SWING FOR KNOCKOUT BLOW AGAINST HUNGARIAN DEFENSES —   ATTACKS PRESSED AGAINST KRAKOW AND CZECH MOUNTAIN PASS OUTPOSTS AS RUSSIANS ADVANCE

SOVIET AIMS FOR VICTORY BEFORE FALL   Troops Bridging Carpathian Wall

Germans Admit Loss of Krosno In South Poland   Russian Army Drives 18 Miles Into Transylvania

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON HUNGARY   Push Deep Into Mountain Defenses Of Hungarian Plain

KNOCKOUT OF HUNGARY AIM OF RED DRIVE   Smash Into Mountain Defenses Of Last Balkan Puppet

BERLIN SAYS KROSNO LEFT TO RUSSIANS   Powerful Sovict Drive Threatens Southern Germany

Nazis Admit Evacuation Of Krosno   South Poland Fortress  Guards Way to Reich, Czechoslovakia

SOVIETS AIM TO KNOCK OUT HUNGARY NEX]   Drive Across Plains Makes Good Progress; Other Ar. mies Push Toward Eas! Prussia.

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO HILLS ON HUNGARY ROAD   Enter Transylvania In Blows Aimed At Last Hitler Satellite

Russians Silent About Offensive Toward Krakow   Reds Drive Deep Into Passes Covering Hungarian Plains

Offensives Along All of East Front   Red Armies on March from East Prussia to the Black Sea

Soviet Army Drives Deep In Hungary   Powerful Offensive _ Drives Nazi Forces From Fortress City.

ETA EE  Nazis evacuate   Krosno fortress  ~ South Polish city guards way to reich and Slovakic

Red Armies Reported “On March” From East Prussia To Black Sea   Penetrate Hungarian Defenses For KO Blow - On The Attack Toward Krakow And Carpathians

Nazis Abandon Base At Krosno To Red Armies   Soviets Drive Against VPoland, Move To Crush Hungary

RED ADVANCE ‘FORCES NAZIS ~ FROMKROSNC   Fortress City Guards Way to Germany and Czechoslovakia

RUSOIAN ARM DRIVING INTO TRANSYLVANI   Offensive Not Yet Admitted By Moscow; Second Russian Army 100 Miles To North Pushing  TInta RBrnenvina   DROP PARATROOPS INTO YUGOSLAVIE

Carrier Planes Rain 800 Tons Of Bombs on Truk  126 Jap Aircraft Destroyed; Subs Sink 17 Enemy Ships

126 Jap Planes, 1] Vessels Hit In Truk Attack   Navy Force Drops 800 Tons of Bombs On Nip Island Base

Most Damaging Blow To Sase In Carolines Reported   Total Of 126 Japanese Aircraft Also Lost When Planes Battle Over Pacifie Islands

NAVY PLANES RAID JAPAN'S ISLAND BASES   ALLIED SUBMARINES BAG CRUISER AND 3 DESTROYERS

Australians Take Japanese Outpost On New Guinea  Enemy Defenses On Truk ‘Saftenine’   Enemy Defenses On Truk ‘Softening’ Under Air Blows

JAP GARRISON RUNS AS LONE ~ MARCH ENDED   Yank Bombe Softening Up Truk; We-wak Is Raided

Japs Flee As Aussies Enter Town   Allies Bomb Wewak; Truk Softening; Ponape Twice Hit

RAF Hammers Channel Coast Again   Three Largest Rail Centers Bombed In Speedy Attack

RAF Planes Blast Nazi  Stronghold On Channel   Big Bombers Off Across Channel Late Today

POWERFUL ASSAULTS BY RAF BOMBERS ON COAST AND FRANCE   MURKY WEATHER BRINGS FIRST LULL IN DAYLIGHT OPERATIONS

Invasion Coast Is Hammered By RAI   Murky Weather Brings Lull In U. S. Daytime Operations; Railyards Blasted By British

LASHED BY RAF NIGHT RAIDERS   Murky Weather Over Channel Halts Assaulis -by Daytime Bombers

BAD WEATHER ‘SLOWS ARRADDS ON ENEMY. ARE   Tqpalls, Ice Play: Major Rol ‘In Putting Stopper on Attack Schedule:

ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE. IS RESUMED   Strong Formations Slash At Europe; Antwerp Bombed’

RAF Fliers Rip Nazis’ West Wall  Blast Rail  Centers  fr  Lali £ra wmf   Blast Rail Centers To Impede Troop ~ Movements

Kreneh Coast Given Worst  raid .Of War   Murky Weather Prevails Over English Channel; No Signs Of Attacks.  EIGHT PL ANES LOST

ALLIES BOMB ANTWERP, AFTER FOG LULLS BLOWS   Air Offensive Resumed Late Today; RAF Strikes French Rails

POWERFUL FORCES OF RAF HAMMERED GERMAN DEFENSES   Installations Raided Were Along the Channel Coast in France.   SPREAD OUT 200 MILES   Blasted Three Large Railroad Centers Used by the Germans,

Powerful British Air Fleets Pound Channel Defense:   Railroad Centers in France Also Blasted In Twin Assault;  A Dovlich+ [uil

Bombers Hit Nazi Defense Areas Along  F rench Coast   Rail Centers Used By Germans To Shuttle Forces To Resist  Weegee Bee FIN og oe

Warplanes In Bia Assaults   RAF Works Over Defens: Coast, Three Of Large Railroad Centers

Bad Weather Grounds Big U. 8. Bombers   British Smash at French Rail Yards And Coast Defense

RAF Fliers Rip Nazis’ West Wall   Blast Rail Centers To Impede Troor Movements

British Rip Nazi  Railways   Invasion Coast Gets Heavy Bombardment, Three Key Targets Hit

France Receives Worst Battering Of Current War   Allies Blast Nazi Defenses Along Channel Coast; Hit Three R. R. Centers

RAF Bombers Lash France On 200-Mile Front   Batter Nazi Bases In Night Blow; Lull In Daylight Attacks.

BAD WEATHER BRINGS LULL IN AIR BLOWS      Suspension First in Two I Weeks — R. A. F., in  Overnight - Assaults, _ Blasted Three Railroad  Centers in France.

FRENCH COAST HIT BY Ri. A. F, DURING NIGHT  -arr~eamc A titan   Germans Attack England; Little Damage Done

French Coast Inferno After  Night Assault   Weather Curbs Early Davlight Attack Bul Mediums Roar Across Channel Later

THREE GREAT RAIL CENTERS ARE HAMMERED   Trappes, Tergnier, Samur Made Useless For Nazi Transport

NAZI RAILROAD CENTERS HIT IN RAF RAID   Planes Fan Out Over 200 Mile Front To Cripple German Communications.

RAF DROPS JJGOTONS OF BOMBS   750 Bombers In Sweep; Weather Grounds Day Raiders

Coast Area, Rail Yards ‘Are Raided Last Night   Allies, Continuing To Attack France

Allies Resume Air Offensive   Weather-Enforced Lull Comes to End

Bad Weather Holds Planes at Home Base   Lull in Air Invasion Follows Fierce Blows Wednesday Niaht

Nazi Railroad Centers Bombed   RAF Concentrates Or Targets In France

HAMMER NA INSTALLATIONS         Simultaneous Ove nig Assaults Made Over 2 Mile Front in France “2

RAF Planes Pound Nazi Defense Zone   Medium Bombers And Fighters Cross Channel  Late Today

RAF Bombers Batter French Coast Section   Three Large Railroad Centers Targets; Weather Hampers Day Planes

Railway Centers   RAF Armada Also Bombs Channel  Invasion Coast.

RAE BLASTS FRENCH RAIL HUBS AND COAST ~— IN NIGHT ASSAULTS   Three of Largest Rail Towns Used By Nazis Attacked;  Eight Planes Missing   DOWN 896 NAZIS IN MAY

End Weather ‘Lull in Air War on Nazis   Planes Take Off Late In Day As Skies  Become Clear

RAF. HURLS STRONG NIGHT BLOW AT FOE   Allied Daylight Assaults Or France Indicated When Radio Network Quits

WEATHER PUTS CRIMP IN AIR WAR ON EUROPE      No Activity Up To Noon As Mist Overhangs English Channel

Europeans Dive For Shelters as Bombers Return   Big Fleets Back . After Slight Lull Catised by Storm

German Installations On French: ChannelCoast - : Fiercely Bombed By RAE

THREE LARGE RAIL POINTS HAMMERED   Battering Among Worst Yet Dealt Invasion Defenses

Allies Bomb Antwerp  Aerial Offensive Resumed After Enforced Lull;

BATTER FRENCH COAST & RAILS   RAF Stages Double Night Attack On Atlantic Wall And Railways; Weather Stymies Aerial War To Aawe

Weather Holds Up U. 5. Planes   No. Signs of Aerial Operation From _ Britain Thursday

BAD WEATHER DELAYS START OF DAY ATTACKS   RAF Drops 2,240 Tons of Bombs in Assault; Nazis Scout English Shore

German Troop Movements In FranceSlowed   Rail Centers Over Which Huns Are Being Shuattled For Impending Invasion Targets   “Hell Let Loose” On the West Wall   Germans Send Few Planes Over Britain “On the Snoop” and to Drop Few Bombs

NAZI DEFENSE POSITIONS HIT   Powerful Forces of RAF Bombers in Simultaneous Overnight Raids.

Air Offensive Renewed. After Weather Delay   ‘Heavy Blows Struck By British Planes At French Rail Centers

Nazi Installations on French Invasion Get Worst Bombing   Railroad Centers, Vital to Germans, Targets of  Allied Planes -

RECORD BLOW HITS FRENCH CHANNEL COAST   Despite Ice and Enemy Fighters British Night Raiders Spread Ruin.   BULLETIN

Vichy Network, Off The Air Today Indicating Air Attacks In South of France: Murky Weather Prevailing Over Channel.

British Hammer Coast In Record  Bombing Assault   Daylight Offensive Halted By Poor Weather Today

RASIER TERMS ARE OFFERED SINNS, REPORT   Peace With Russia by Easter Seen Within Helsinki’s Grasp

Peace With Reds Appears to Be In Grasp of Finland   Parliament Called Into Special Session To Hear Report

Finnish Peace Within Sight   Parliament to Consider New Terms  Offered By Russia

Easter Peace For   Finland Possible   Parliament Called Into Extraordinary Session to Heal Report on Envoy's Visit to Moscow—Arimistice Terms Reported Modified

er Peace Within Grasp   : Finland’s sey, Back Voscow With  Red Terms

Finnish-Russian Peace Apparently  Drawing Nearer  New, Milder Red Terms To Be Considered

Finns and Reds Seem near Peace   Parliament May Take Early Action

ANTHONY EDEN FLIES TO QUEBEC FOR FINAL TALK,   ‘Indications Point to. American Direction of War Against Japan —

BU B48snu kb £.N ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NAPLES, May 18.—(AP)—Ameri ean troops have captured Formia it was announced today.

HINGE OF HITLER UNE SEIZED BY ALLIED ARMIES   Yanks Closing In On -Formia After Taking Cassino   FIGHTING IS OF A ‘VIOLENT NATURE

No Lef-Up In Cassino Fight   Allies Smash Heavily At Enemy Supply Lines In Northern Italy

bth Army Flings Back Nazi Attack:  Little Chan nee e No ote’ in Cassino Pesitions

FIFTH ARMY STILL BATTLING GERMANS IN CASSINO AREA  _ ALLIED BOMBERS STRIKE  . AT ENEMY SUPPLY LINES  IN NORTHERN ITALY

NAZI ATTACKS AT CASSINO THROWN BACK   Allied Forces Doggedly Fling Back Germans and Allied Bombers Blast _ Supply Lines

AXIS ATTACKS FORCED BACK BY 5TH ARMY   Americans Doggedly Defend Cassino Positions While Air Force Hits At Supply Lines

ENEMY’S STABS * ARE NIPPED BY ALLIED FORCES   ” Cassino Attacks Are Hurled Back — Bombers Pound Nazi Supply Lines

Fifth Flings Back Enemy Cassino Jabs   ‘Anzacs Push On at Close Quarters: Foe Shells Hospital. Killing 5

vv we Vv Vv 9 ~~ VY  Nazis Thrown Back At Cassino; ‘Allied Airmen Hit Supply Lines

Yanks Battle Nazi Attacks At Cassino   Bombers Srike Enemy Supply Lines in North Italy

German Thrusts Are Repulsed In  Area Of Cassino   Place Allies  On Defensive

NAZ] ATTACKS THROWN BACK BY STH ARMY   germans Repulsed ‘at Cas+ sings Allied Bombers Biast Dgsitions in Italy.

Close-Quarter Fight Raging   Bombers Lash At Foe’: Supply Lines  Se. BPmewmwanrnt wakenrw

Milth Repulses Nazi Push On  Cassino Post:   Allied Bombers Raid Rail. way Installations, Bridge:  In North Htaly.   RAF ATTACKS PADUA

CLARK’S TROOPS REPEL GERMAN CASSINO DRIVES   New Zealanders Still Battle Nazis Close Up in Southern Section of City

GERMANS CLING TO POSITIONS NEAR CASSINO   Allies Take Some Prisoners When  Attack Fails

Nazi Attacks In Cassino Sector Are  Flung Back   Close-Quarter Fighting; Enemy Also Makes Air Attack On Shipping On Anzio Beachhead

Fifth Army Flings Back New Drives For Cassino   . Allied Planes, Raid — -Enemy Supply Line

oth Army Forces Repel Germans In Cassino Sectot   Enemy Supply Lines Are Bombed

Allies Fling Back German Attacks On Cassino Sector  : Enemy Supply Lines   Enemy Supply Lines Struck Sharply In Northern Italy

HunsDoggedly Hurled Back In  Cassino Area   Meanwhile, New Zealand ers, In Southern Section, Still Engaging Enemy   At Close Quarters

Allies Throw Back Nazis on Cassino Front   New Zealand Forces Still Engage Enemy At Close Quarters; Supply Lines Hit

Allies Attack Enemy Supply Lines in Italy   Attack on Padua One of Most Devastating of Campaign -

Nazi Assaults At Cassino Repulsed      New Zealand Troops Still Engage Enemy At Close Quarters; Allied Airmen Active

5th Army Hurls Back Attacks On Cassino Positions; Allies Hit Enemy Supply Lines Hard   Close-Quarter Fighting Continues In Wrecked Town: Hillsides Also Active

Off Persistent German Attacks   Anzacs In Close Fighting With Nazis At Cassino

NAZI ATTACKS AT CASSINO CRUSHED   NEW ZEALANDERS BATTLE ENEMY AT CLOSE QUARTERS

Allied Bombers Hit Sharp Blows At Northern Italy  More German Attacks At Cassino Are Doacedly Fluna Bacle

5th Army Beat: Back Attacking Foe At Cassino   Allied Bombers Batter German Supply Lines In Northern Italy.

Fifth Army Force Repulsed Nazis   New Zealanders in Hand to Hand Fighting with  Nazis in Cassino   BOMBS ON RAIL LINES   BOMBS ON RAIL LINCO  Padua: Gets Third Major Assault 3 in Three  e Woake

U. $8. Forees Halt Germans Near Cassino  Allied. Bo mbers Blast Supply Lines In Northern thern Italy.  HEAVY NAZI ACTION Artillery, A Air Force  Join In Attack “ On Alhes   Artillery, Air Force Join In Attack “On Alhies”

Fifth Army Forces Hurl Germans Back In Cassino; Enemy Sunnly Lines Blacted

Fifth Beats Back Attack: At Cassino   Allied Bombers Strike at Foe Supply Lines In the North

Fifth Army Turns Back Nazi Attacks    Sharp Air Battles” Also Feature the Struggle at Cassino

Hard Fighting Continues in Cassino Area   German Attackers. Thrown Back and Allied Bombers Hit Nazi-Supply Line »   MORE BUILDINGS ' BLASTED DOWN   New. Zealanders’ and. the French Engage Enemy at. Close Quarters:

U.S. May Have Aerial Base  Near Japan   Chennault Has Field Close to Nipponese Homeland, Japs Say

Ward's in Battle With Post Office  RFC Operation of Firm ls Rumored

Montgomery Ward Demands Return of Postal Workers to Its Chicago Plant

Nazis Leave Last Natural Defenses To East Prussia   Soviet Troops Move Cautiously to Prevent  Anathae Tlrannanhara

ADMIT GERMA LINES PULLED FARTHER BACK   All-Out Russian Drive Against East Prussia Poised as Troops Wait in Great Are

Siege Arc Is Tightened By Russians   All of Red Armies Push Germans Back Against  the Border

Gov. Bricker To Launch Campaigr In Washington   Tells Press He Favors State Ballots For Soldier Vote

Bricker in Favor of State Ballots   Views Stated by Possible GOP Nominee in Preaee Canferanca

Gov. Bricker Advocates State Ballot   Calls for Drastic Reduction in Federal Payrolls

Bricker Favors State Ballots   GOP Candidate Pays Visit To Worthington

'Promises Air Crews Early Action   General Eisenhower Addresses Men at U.S Air Bases in Britain; Presents Air Medals

Nazi Doom Near--- ke   Air, Sea and Land Offensive Will Crush Foe, General Declares

Eisenhower Promises U.S. Airmen ‘Dawn-to-Dusk Flying Soon in Great ‘Land, Sea, Air Offensive in Europe

eech Bombers Resume Now — Nazi Smashin   Fighting Speech E Campaign Is Now Nation's Prospect #   Huge Forces Of Allied Four. Engined Bombers Cross Channel To Hit Enemv

Billy Pichelmeyer Is Promoted Staff Sergeant With A. A. F. In Italy

FRIGID WAVE IS  DUE TO STRIKE HERE TONIGHT   Snow and Heavy Winds to Accompany Drop la Mercury

Temperature May May Reach Zero In Twin Cities   High Wind Expected Te Drift State Roads By Tomorrow

DEATH CLAIMS, MRS. OVERMIAN,   Resident of Windrall : for Many’ Years Dies at: Frankfort Home  

DEATH CLAIMS MRS. OVERMAN   Resident of Windfall for Many Years Dies at Frankfort Home

Libramont Captured In New —  Strike—Strong Stabs Made By Patrols

Enemy lakes Libramont, 23 Miles From Sedan, As Lines Are Stabilized   German Flanks Give To New Allied Onslaught As Huns Also Inch Up In Westward Thrust To Meuse

Germans Occupy Libramont; Allied Air Power Heaps Havoc On Enemy   NAZIS EXPECT TO BE _ IN PARIS JANUARY 17

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Expect End Of Strikes [InNorthwest   WHILE ST. LOUIS RESIDENTS ARE FORCED TO TRAVEL BY CARS, TRUCKS AND BICYCLES DURING BUS-TROLLEY STRIKE.   1,000 Off Duty

End of Lumber Strike Indicated   Parley Fails to End St. Louis Car Strike

Medical Branch: Deteriorated Under Spies-Rainey Lead   Says Dr. C. T. Stone Before Special Senate Investigation Group

WITNESS DECLARES MEDICAL BRANCH OF UNIVERSITY SLIPPED   RAINEY AND SPIES BLAMED FOR DETERIORATION OF GALVESTON SCHOOL

RATIONING OF COFFEE IS NOT NECESSARY   Byrnes Says Four Menths Supply ls Now Available Te Civilians; Brasil Making Shipments .

AFREE PRESS in free _ America was won for this ation by newspapermen who went to jail, and news\papermen who died.   Coffee Rationing — -Unneeded, Brazil  ~ Promises Supply

Reveals Supply Coffee Plentifut   _ Byrnes Says No Necessity For Rationing Coffee Now.

Coffee Rationing Found Unneeded   Government Says  Supply Is Assured

COFFEE RATIONING HELD UNNECESSARY   Byrnes Says Ample Re. placement Stocks « Available

Americans Play Part in Raids   JAP BASE IN NORTHERN SUMATRA BOMBED BY ALLIES

Yank Carriers, Planes, Join In Air Attack on Sumatra   _ British-Directed Unit Included Ships of All Allied Nations—One Plane Lost

J. S. Navy Takes Part In Surprise Allied Raid On Sumatra   American, British, French And Dutch Naval Units Participated In Operation With’ Planes Carrying Out Successful Attack

U. S. Navy Unit, Planes Took Part In Sumatra Raid  Delayed Dispatch Tells of Daring Rescue of American

U.S. Carrier Force Was In Attack At Sumatra   Diversionary Raid  On Andaman Islands Proved Perfect Ruse Before Main Operatior

U.S, CARRIERS TAKE PART IN SUMATRA RAID   Reveal! American, British French, Dutch Ships in Operation

Russians Cut Railway Line Vital To Foe   Increases Menace To Baltic Nazis

Russians Cutting Supply Arteries  Important Raile   Important Rails Are Recaptured

ven. Lear Urges Military Training   Would Have Boys Of 18 Serve Year

Captain Brown — Accident Victim At Lakeland’ Fla.   Former Hinton _ Youth Killed = __ While On Service

Captain Brown Accident Victim At Lakeland’ Fla.   _ Former Hinton © Youth Killed While On Service

THREE-PRONGED SEA AND AIR BATTLE WAS COSTLY TO ENEMY   MORE THAN 26 NIPPON WARSHIPS WERE SUNK OR HEAVILY DAMAGED

NOMINATIONS TAKEN UP BY THE SENATE   Little Bewildered By SeeSawing Antics in Committee, Upper House Takes Up Appointments  MAC LEISH IS TARGET

Senators Opposing Nominees Want  Names Sent Back  Pepper Would Reques' FDR to Reconsider All Six Nominations 

Senators May Send Nominations Back to FDR   Opposers Say Resist Any Effort to Take Up Names Out of Order

Debate Return Ot Nomination:   Senate, Littl Bewildered. Gets Chance To Study State Choices.

OPPOSINGSENATORS STILL BLOCK LIST   May Attempt to . Send Names Back to the  White House   A VOTE JIS’ DELAYED

Hot Bipartisan Senate Fight On MacLeish Looms   State Dept. Nomination: Placed Before Chambe  For Confirmation.

Emperor Hirohito Warns “War Situation !s Becoming More Critical”

DAMAGE HEAVY IN LONDON RAID      Tons Of Explosives And Incendiaries Dropped By German Planes

AIR BLITZ AGAINST ENGLAND EXPECTED   Goering Believed Shifting Planes to Try to Disrupt Allied Invasinan Plans.

Allies Converge On Toulon Base   Fighting Is Going on Close to Port in Southern France War Area.

Toulouse, Sixth French City, Is Lost By Enem   Allied Forces Surging Northward; Enemy In Full Retreat

Americans Raid Railway Yards In Italy; Yanks Gain Beyond Lajatico

1,500 JAPS WIPED OUTBY AMERICANS IN CENTRAL LEYTE   Nipponese Continue to Reinforce Units in Northwest Sector for Showdown  Rattia   TWO-THIRDS OF ISLE IN M’ARTHUR’S HANDS   Enemy Air Force Carries Out Small-Scale Counter-Attacks With. Loss of 11 More Planes.

YANKS ADVANCE IN PHILIPPINES   Jap Counter-Attack Upon Two Divisions Is Beaten Back

Showdown Battle Near As Yanks Clean Up On Leyte; Japs Reinforced

MacArthur’s Troops Approach Japanese Fortified Positions ‘And Japs Rush Reinforcements

YANKS DRIVE TO END OF LEYTE ISLAND   Continuing to Liquidate Running Japs Through Typhoon; 2,000 Trapped.   Thanks Filipinos

Present J. P. System is Not Satisfactory  =. ¥ rid   Approval for Change Given by Convention

New Court Plan Wins Approval   Con-Con Proposes System ot Magistrate Courts to Replace.J. P: Courts”   WOULD REQUIRE LAWYER JUDGES   But .J ustices ©. 25°. Who - Have Served Four Years Would Be. Eligible

SON OF KIMMEL ~ LOST WITH SUB   SUBMERSIBLE HE COM'MANDED MISSING WITH 65 OFFICERS AND MEN.

Willkie Eulogized At Simple Rites   Throngs Line Streets To Pay Last Respects

Lonergan. Guilty In 2d Degree   Canadian Airman Near Collapse As Verdict Saves Him From Chair; Sentence Apnil 17.

Second-Degree Murder Verdict Saves Him From Chair; Gets 20 to Life

1944 SUPPLY OF FRUIT BASKETS TO BE LIMITED   Will Not Meet Increasec Demand, Growers Are  Advised

Late German Report Claims Americans Are Only 25 Miles ‘Away From German Border

FIRST PRIMARY JUST 10 DAYS OFF  Interest Light in Small Field of Candidates

Robot Planes Kill More in London Area   Noted Landmarks of City Suffer; Many Leaving Capital

ROBOTS hil LANDMARKS Ik LONDON   With Death Lists There and in Southern England Mounting; Evacuate Children from City.   Lord Hay Killed

3ad Weather Helns Germans Attack Southern England with Robot Bombs

Nazis Pour More Bombs Into London   Familiar Landmarks Among Places Already Hit; LU. S. Heavies Smash Enemy Targets

Robot Bombers Pepper London   Famous Landmarks Hit, British Now Reveal)

Union Service on  Sunday Evening, 7:30   Meeting to Be Held at Church ot Christ, With Sermon by the Pastor, Mr. Riess

War Production Dislocated By Pre-Inyasion Labor  Walkouts; More Time Will Be Required To : Get Plants Back To Normal Operation

48 Tons Of Bombs Fall Upon Bases   Central Pacific Air Force Keeps Up Hammering

12 Yank Bombs Hit Huge Jap. Plane Factory   Musashino Plant Today Not Turning Out Full Quota of Machines

HAUSER, NAZI CHIEF, WOUNDED   Commander of Beaten German 7th Army

WOUNDED IN NORMANDY   . Germany Makes Announcement _ About General Hausser

Germans Fall Back In Rout As Allied Pincers Tightens   Enemy Attempts to Flee Across SteelSwept Seine by Ferry, Rubber Boats; Nazi Casualties Mount Hourly   BULLETIN

Germans Fall Back In Rout As Allied Pincers Tightens  on    Enemy Attempts to Flee Across SteelSwept Seine by Ferry, Rubber Boats; Nazi Casualties Mount Hourly

Trains Crash On Bridge In Fog, No One Injured   Mississippi Span At Memphis. Tenn.

Trains Collide On Mississippi Bridge   No Passengers Injured, Trains Damaged Slightly

Nazi Attaek at Aachen Dents Yankee Lines   British Commandos Take Heavy Losses in Holland Battle

ALLIES GAIN IN HOLLAND FIGHTING   Nazi Attack Near Aachen Halted In Town of Vossenack

ALLIED TOEHOLD ON VOSSENACK 1S THREATENED   Germans Pour Fresh Forces Into Forest Battle

U.S. Ist Army Lines Dented by Germans   Nazis Secure Foothold in Vossenack

Win Foothotd In Vossenack Held by Yanks   Attack Intended to Cut Off Americans Driving for Schmidt

German Armored Units Dent U.S. : Lines With Savage Counter-attacks In Forest Battle Near Aachen Today

Fresh Forces Are Tossed Into Forest Struggle   Allied Troops To North Drive Up To Mass River, Holland Deep Barriers

Nazis Slash Into. Wedge Near Aachen   Allies Seized South Bank Of Maas River In Hol. land.

GERMANS THR FRESH TANKS IN FOREST BATTLE   Clearing Skies Help Yanks

Foothoid Is Won By Enemy   Counter-Attack By German Armor Drives Yanks Back

U.S. lst Army Fights Way Back To Within 1/2 Mile Of Lost Schmidt

ALLIES SCORE DEEP GAINS ON ‘A5-MILE FRONT      Drive to Maas River and Holland Bay to Trap Isolated Nazis: Americans Aitack Near Aachen. °

Janan Refuses To Accept Any Prisoners Aid   Large Quantities Of Food. stuffs And Medica] Supplies Remain At Viadivostok   JAPAN REVERSES EARLIER ATTITUDE

JAPS REFUSE FOOD FOR YANK PRISONERS ©   3,000 Tons of Supplies Already — in Russia

SUPPLIES FOR WAR PRISONERS BLOCKED BY JAPANESE ACTION   TONS OF FOODSTUFFS AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES SHIPPED OVERSEAS NOT BEING  DISTRIBUTED. ©

126 Jap Planes  Raked   Ponape, Statawan Hit in Three-Day Blitz; Army Bombs Wake

GERMANS SHIFT FORCES TO EAST   Seek To Stem Red Advances Into Reich Area

4-H Girls Plan  Achievement Day  Will Be "Bievdnted: By Clubs Aucust 21

4-H Girls Plan Achievement Day  Will Be Presented: By Clubs August 21

JAPO PREPARE FOR STRUGGLE   Navy Minister Post Change Made As Fart of Prenarations.

JAPANESE NAVY MINISTER OUT, TOKYO REPORTS   Guam Bombed By; Americans In  Raid Suriday

ADM, SHIMADA RESIGNS AS NIP NAVY MINISTER   Americans Continue Guar Bombardment; Hit Isle Near Japan

Navy Head Quits; Guam Hit Again   Optimism Absent from Jap Radio; Curtin Sees British Navy in Pacific ‘This Year’

JAPANESE NAVAL MINISTER RESIGNS   Indicates Tokyo Govern ment Stress Following Loss of Saipan

Japanese Naval Minister Resigns; Attacks Continue   In China ri  Tightens New Grip On Hengyang City

Adm. Shimada, Jap Navy Minister, Quits; Appointed Shortly Before Pearl Harbor

Nippon Admiral Resigns as Saipan Is Lost  Guam Pounded By Big U. S. Raid Of Planes, Ships

ACTION HINTS OF STRESS IN JAPAN   TOKYO BROADCAST ADMITS GRAVITY OF PACIFIC SITUATION

Shimada, Japan's Naval Minister Since “41, Quits   U. S. Conquest Of Saipan Shakes Tokyo Cabinet; Foe Admits Pessimism

Jap Navy Minister Resigns   Australian Promises Strong British Forces to Aid in Nip Smash

RESIGNATION OF NAVY CHIEF IS ANNOUNCED   Change Comes After Setbacks On All Fronts Save At Hengyang

Jap Navy Minister Ousted: Reason Is “Grave Situation’   Tokyo Frankly Admits No Reason for Mo ment of Optimism 

Japanese  Minister of Navy Resigns   Guam’s Railway Facilities Bombed; Nips Apply Heavy Pressure _ Against Heng: yang’s Resistance

Admiral Shimada Resigns as Japan's ‘Naval Minister   ~Shakeup Contes With Sigs’ Pac. ing Relentless Attacks on Gam, in Burma, Batile for Henayaug

Jap Naval Head Quits   Gives Hint of Stresses at Play in Nipponese Government

Jap Navy Shake-up Evidence of Fears   Yanks Carry Sea and Air Attacks Nearer Homeland as Added Pressure by British Fleet Promised - - - Death Trap on New Guinea Still Holding

Jap Navy Head Is Replaced; Guam Is Blasted Again   Australia’s Curtin Announces That Large, Powerful British Forces To Join Pacific Fight

AMERICAN FORCES POUNDING GUAM: SHIMADA RESIGNS   Japan Reports First Land. Based Bombing #f Iwo Jima Island by Allies

Admiral Shimada Resigns As Navy Minister Of Japan, Indicating Cost Of Saipan

Jan Navy  Minister Replaced   Defeat at Saipan Seen as Reason For New Shakeup

Saipan Defeat Brings Japs New Naval Head   Adm. Shigetaro Shimada Resigns, Giving ‘Way To Relatively Unknown Adm. Naokuni. Nomura; Guam Battered Again

Reds, Slavs Seize Most Of Belgrade   Nazis Caught in Narrow Trap, Tito Discloses

Russians, -Yugoslavs Capture Two-Thirds Of Belorade in Savage Hand Fighting -

Wewak Again Bomb Blasted   American Airmen In Action To Prevent Any Jap Reinforcing Move   OTHER AIR BASES ARE ALSO BOMBED

Allies Fight Way Into Paris   Americans Streak Along The Seine   Mobile Columns Onl) 20 Miles From Rhone

GERMANS REPUDIATE ARMISTICE WITH FRENCH UNDERGROUND AND ALLIED ARMIES ARE MOVING IN   Allied Headquarters Expect Fall of City Soon Bu’ Do Not Consider It as Yet Fully Liberated. Allied Armies Contin ue Slaughter of German  Foarcee   ROMANIA'S SURRENDER TO ALLIES AND WAR AGAINST GERMANS IS GREAT IMILITARY VICTORY AGAINST NAZIS

Noi Fully © . Liberated By French   Armistice Made Without Consulting Allies Broken by the Germans   ® CALLS FOR HELP THEN WENT OUT   Battle of Paris Results in Diverting Troops From More Important Tasks

Reich Only 150 Miles From Onrushing Allies --Captive Toll Mounts

Nazis Decline To Give Up in French Capital   Eisenhower Staff Says Fail of City Is Expected Soon

Allied Troop,s Called Off from Pursuit of Germans to Southeast, Fight Way Into City in ‘Rear Guard’ Action

PARIS HAS NOT YET BEEN LIBERATED, SAYS THE ALLIES   However, Fall of the French Capital Is Expected Momentarily.   ARMISTICE NEGOTIATED   Gen. DeGaulle Announced Karly Yesterday the City Had Been Liberated.

Fall of City Expected Momentarily, but So Far Headquarters Has Not Yet Admitted It.   GERMANS PURSUED ON DOWN THE SEINE

Allied Troops Fight Way Into Paris; Fall Report False  Nazis Renege Terms Of Armistice With Frenchmen

Large Sections Of Capital Held By French Forces   Call for Help May Have Delayed Important Action

ALLIED TROOPS FIGHTING WAY INTO CAPITAL   Fall of Paris Expected Momentarily With No Official Word Received of City's Liberation   ARMISTICE REPUDIATED

Paris Patriots Ask Allied Aid Against Nazis   Germans Repudiate Earlier Armistice Terms and Fighting Once More Flares In French Capital -

Paris Nof Yet Liberated, Allied Leaders Report   Troops Fight Way Into City to Answe. Requests for Help

Patriots Of Paris Ask Help   LIBERATION OF FRENCH CAPITAL NOT YET COMPLETE; ALLIED SOLDIERS RESPOND

ALLIED TROOPS FIGHTING WAY INTO THE CITY   Germans Apparently Repudiated “Armistice” Which Was Made With Partisans of France

Eisenhower Answers Call of Patriots For Help When Nazis Repudiate Armistice and Resume Street Fichtin:

GEN. EISENHOWER’S HEADQUARTERS SAY FIGHTING INTO PARIS  GERMANS APPARENTLY DECIDE BATTLE FURTHE! FOR FRENCH CAPITAL

LARGE AREAS IN CAPITAL UNDER FRENCH FORCES   Nazis Threatened to. Destroy Buildings; City’s Fall Expected

Allied Troops Fighting Way Into Paris   Fall of City Expected Momentarily but According to Allied Headquarters It Has Not Been Liberated

Claim Nazis Repudiate Armistice  Allied Troops Fightiag Way Inte Canital

Paris Isn't Entirely Free   Patriots Call for Help, Allied Troops Fighting Way Into City

New Guinea Area Scene Of Landing On Weekend   Beachheads Set Up By U. 5. Soldiers

AN INSTRUME OGRAM  MUSIC PR  NTAL   Free Public Concert To Be Given Next Tuesday. Evening

6 DEAD AS BUS HITS SNOWPLOW   9 Others Injured Near Windom: Minn.

NEW DRAFT EDICT GIVES OLDER MEN A SLIGHT RESPITE   Call Of Over-25 Men I: Suspended Until Youths Taken

Delay in Draft Only Temporary      Older Men Will Be Called Again Later

Eden States Policy For Freed Lands   Victory, Order and Free Elections [hrze - Feld Purpose of British =; Government

‘Big Three’ May Meet  In Britain   Hinted by Sec. Eden, Who Answers Critics Of Foreign Policy  PURPOSE 3-FOLD '

Pretty Wedding Held At Oyens  « Stanley Mohning And Blanche Petersen

Birth of Babies Six Weeks Premature —  Quads Delivered By Caesarian

Quadruplets Born in Philadelphia— Operation Is Successful   Case Believed To Be First Of Its Kind

‘Quadruplets—3 Girls and a Boy—Born To Upver Darby Mother; All Doing Fine

QUADS ARRIVE IN HOSPITAL   THREE. GIRLS AND BOY BORN IN CAESARIAN OPERATION  —~ MOTHER EXPECTED “TWINS

PULLMAN TO SELL SLEEPER SERVICE   COMPANY ELECTS TO RETAIN CAR MFG, BUSINESS

Pullman Firm  To Split Up Sleeping Car Service Business To Be Sold

Escapees Are Caught Friday In Dyersville   Convicts Who Filed From Prison Farm Have Only Brief Freedom

CATCH 2 WHO ESCAPED PRISON   Clarence Sweet, Paul Smith Back in Anamosa

Nazis Clamp Lid Upon Copenhagen   State of Siege Follows 15,000 Danes’ Revolt

Name 47 Railroads In Anti-Trust Suit  U.S. Officials Charge Eastern Domination

Speed Of Advance Believed To  Have Smashed Any Hopes Of  Germans For Extricating Many  In Trapped Garrison   “TERRAIN TURNED TO ; MUD BY HEAVY RAIN

Kew Nazis Can Escape From Port   Soviet Tanks and Infantry Near Outskirts of City

Reds Patrol Sea. Approaches To Prevent Possible Evacuation; Land Forces Tightening Noose   Believe More Than 100,000 Germans Are Milling Around In Closing Circle—29 Transport Planee Caught On Greund

Soviet Columns Approach City On 3 Highways   Speed Of Red Advance Kills German Hope Of Evacuation

Soviet Columns  Near Outskirts of German Base   Russian Planes Range — Over Sea Approaches To Prevent Evacuation

SPEEDY SOVIET ADVANGE ENDS ESCAPE HOPE   Nazis Jammed Against Sea

Soviets Drive Through Last German Defenses Around Odessa   Infantry Columns  Reach Edge Of City   Speed Of Movement Smashes Hopes Of Saving German Garrison

RUSSIAN INFANTRY. COLUMNS, TANKS APPROACH ODESSA   Nearly 400° Germans Killed Thursday Boosting Toll to 12,200 Since Encirclement Was Compleied.   JAP FORCES REACH THE INPHAL AREA   Allied Bambers Blast Japs’ Northern > New Guinea Supply Base In Wake of Attacks on Truk.

Approach Seaport on 3 Highways   German Armies, Jamme Against Black Sea, Face  Destruction

Red Army Drives From Three Ways   Germans Strive Mightily To-Extricate 100,000 Troops Tram Rlack Sea Port

Germans Squeezed Tighter   Early Liberation Of Black Sea Base Predicted Today

Germans May Flee Odessa As Russians Near Outskirts   Pace of Advancing Reds Smash German . Hopes of Stand in Black Sea’s Largest Port

EARLY FALL OF ODESSA TO RED FORCES LOOMS   Fierce Patrol Fighting Flares Along Anzio Front In Italy

Tanks Ang Infantry : Near City      APPROACHING BLACK SEA POR FROM THREE DIRECTIONS; PLANES PREVENT ANY EVACUATION ATTEMPT

EARLY FALL OF BIG BLACK SEA PORT EXPECTED   Soviet Planes Ready To Prevent Any Nazi Evacuation Try

7 Convicts Make Escare   Saw Way to Freedom From Michigan Prison During Movie Show

7 Long-Termers Escape Prison   Sawed Their Way Out Of Michigan Pen During Movie Show.

LONG-TERM CONVICTS SAW WAY TO LIBERTY   7, Including 4 Lifers, Are Hunted In Michigan

Removal of Processed Foods Won't Lighten Work of Rationing Boards; Campaign Will Make Ceiling Price Information Available   Sectional Meetings

Allied Airmen Hit  Burma Rail Lines  Also Aid Chinese In Hukawng Valley

piake ‘Board Shifts “More Registrants   Meaning Of  Draft Classifications

Eisenhower Reported Pleased With Thorough Training Given Units of His Invasion Forces

Invasion Chief Completes Inspection, Praises Troops   Eisenhower Hails British Training; Allies Await Signal, Pravda Says

Annihilation Of 7th Army Believed Near   Complete Disorganization Among Retreating Germans Is Noted By Allied Headquarters

Vatican Paper Reports Paris Has Fallen   Eisenhower's Forces Reach Last Stage of Campaign To Knock Out Nazi 7th Army

Pre-Dawn Attack on Borneo Naval Base Reported   Damaging Hits Scored on Two Jap Warships

B-295 Fight Biggest Battle Of Pacifie War   ‘Loss of Three Aver Japar Admitted; Foe Claims 30

2 Giants GF Air Are Losi   Superforts Carry Out Raid on Home Island of Japan

Losses Are First Due To Interception By Enemy Fighter Planes   Srd B-29 Missing And Presumed Los!   Bombers Shoot Down 20 Jap Zeros In Fight Over Homeland

Claim Two B-29’s  Lost Over Omura   Say Battle Was Largest  Superforts Encountered

Superforts Down 55 Jap Planes In Sky Over Kyushu   Tokyo Claims 63 B-29’: Are Lost In Greatest Pacific Air Fight

Two B-29s Shot Down Yesterday  Wor Department Report Deflates Jap Assertions Of U. S. Losses

NORTHERN END OF KWAJALEIN CLEANED OUT   Yank Troop Vessels Safe Inside Lagoon

7th. Army Moves Ahead On Edge Of Kwajlein Atoll   Fleet Guns Softening Up Loi And Gugegwe; Nimitz Reports No Serious Jap Challenge To Invasion And American Losses Moderate.

IRAF DELIVERS OBLITERATION BLOW ON NAZI CITY MADGEBURG   British Suffer Loss Of 55 Bombers In Raids Over Germany and French  Invasion Coast Last Nicht.

Megatherm Heating Likely Next Step in Evolution of Nation's Culinary Art

Yankees Swing North to Encircle Escaped Remnants of Seventh Army

DEWEY DRIVE IN 26 STATES SET   REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, GOVERNORS TO MEET

OPA Cattle Price  Move Draws Fire   Nebraska Senator Charges ‘Railroading’

Lene Navy Bomber Sinks hree Enemy Ships Qn Run In Southern Philippines

LONE CATALINA SKS THREE AP SHIPS AT DAVAO   Plane Sets New Record by Getting Haul in One Run

Cassino line imperiled by Fifth advance   Third of way thru defenses

Ciusto Seized After Furious  Battle in Hills   Allied Planes Blast Aircraft Plant in Italy; One-third of Defense Belt Smashed

THIRD OF WAY THROUGH HEAVY CASSINO LINES   Terrific Mountain Fight Rages As Counter Assaults Are Broken Up

ALLIES ADVANGE THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE BELT   Terrific Mountain Battle: Are Taking Place On 10Mile Cassino Front   COMMANDO FORCES ARE IN OPERATION

Allied Forces Peneirate Nazi Defenses   Hurl Back Strong German Counter-Attacks

FIFTH ARMY SMASHES INTO DEFENSE BELT   ferrific Mountain Battle Reminiscent Of Greek Italian Battles In Albania; Germans Hurl Reserves.   Intruder Attacks

Americans and British Punch Way Through Nazi Belt  FURIOUS MOUNTAIN BATTLES DEVELOP  Capture of the Hamlet of Giusto Reported by Allies

CLARK'S MEN. REPEL NAZIS, GAIN 2 MILES   Germans Use Reserves » hy Bitter Battle to Check Allies

Allies Advance In Cassino Area   Nazi Counter Blows Are All Repulsed

Americans and British Punch Way Through Nazi Belt   FURIOUS MOUNTAIN BATTLES DEVELOP

Allies Make Slow Gains On Cassino   Punch Third of Way Through Nazi Defenses Guarding Italian Town  LOSSES ARE HEAVY

Allies Continue Italian Advance   Are One Third of Way Through Defenses

FLIERS BLAST NAZITARGETS ALONG COAST      American Liberotors Beat at Objectives in France   FLAK ENCOUNTERED DURING THE RAIDS   Evidence of Allied Air Superiority Again Is-Given

RAF planes roar toward Hitler’s fort   Believe Germany target of raiders

Give Nothing. Churchill Tells U. S.   PRIME MINISTER SCORNS SUGGESTION BY CONGRESS ON BASES

Premier Rejects Air Base Measure   Churchill Says No To  U. S. Recommendation

Britain Not fo Cede Bases   Churchill Rejects Idea U S. May Get Some Now Leased

Won't Cede Any Bases, He Declares   Not the Slightest Questiox About It, Says British Prime Minister

Churchill Balks At Ceding Bases   Commons Will Be Consulted In Any Event, He Says

Churchill Rejects U. S. Plan to Retain Bases   Britain Has No Idea of Ceding Any of Its Territory, He Says

Tell High Cost Of Ammunition   very BaNSleship Broadcast Costs 811,268 For Shells Alone, Say Navy Men

Polish Government-In-Exile Hopes For Friendly Russian Relations - -

Capable Speakers ‘To Discuss Forum Topic At Panel Discussion   Head Of La. Tech” History Department To Lead Descussion

Forum Subject To Be "Social Progress And Free Enterprise’   Public Urged To ‘Attend And Enter Into Discussion

Expulsion of Spy Rings Requested   De Valera Directs. ‘Stand To’ Order To Eire’s Along Ulster Border; Statement By Both Governments Awaited

Roosevelt Insists He Will Not Campaign For Election “In Usual Sense”’

YANKS HAVE KILLED 10,000 IN FRANCE   Prisoners Taken by Bradley’: Forces Number 38,000—12,000 Others Wounded.

FDR RETREATS  EFORE SOLONS   President OK’s Testimony Of Jonathan Daniels

Daniels Gives In To Probers:  Ready To Talk         mony Will? ‘ot Be Harmful At This Time

Testify, F.D.R Orders Daniels   Congress Victor in Test With Executive; Assistant to Talk

DEWEY STEPS UP ATTACK ON FOR   Voters Asked To Prove Indispensable Man Does Not Exist

set MAKES ~NEW ATTACK   DECLARES ‘PRE-WAR CONDITIONS: WERE “ONE-MAN 'DE-.  PRESSION"--STEPS “UP:  ORITICIOM. 52).

Governor Dewey Talks In Montana   Has Conferences With Farmers, Cattlemen And Miners In Section

Qsmena Plans To Erase Jap Traces   Post Offices Reopened, Currency Issued In Philippine Islands

 MARA AAA A DAA AAAAAAAAA AL lred Driver Talks Self into Trouble With Federal Men

MAY EXAM MEN ABOUT TO BE RECLASSIFIED   Pre-Induction Test Does Not Deprive Registrant Of Right Of Hearing And Appeal

ed Cross Wal und Still 5000 Short   Urgent Appeal Made To Farmers To Send Contributions In

Senate Committee Asks Nelson to ‘Teil Us More’ About Production Plans

Nelson: Asked To Tell Plans   W PB Head. To Give  Production, Picture:

\Nelson Asked For ‘Lowdown’  On Production   WPB Chief Says Conntry Can Return to Standard Pre-War Days When Germany Falls

Group Wants To Know More Of Nelson’s Plans   W.P.B. and Army, Navy Heads Seem To Disagree On Civilian Produce.

Nelson Asked To Tell About  Reconversior   Given ‘Tell Us More’ Assignment By U. S. Sen. ate Today

‘Senate Committee Calls On Nelson  To Tell Of Plans For Civilian Goods

RAID ON TRUK BROUGHT TO END   War Situation Very Grave Says Tokyo, As Yank Fliers Sink 15 Ships in Jap  Convov.

Yanks Storm Down Slopes Before City   e Last Hours Of Siege At Hand As invaders Close Narrow Trap.

U.S. troops swarm down slopes within  1,000 yards of city   Stunned by hellfire of hot steel, nazis battline with fanatical fury

DEATH TRAP NARROWED BY YANK DRIVE   Last Hours of Siege At Hand, Gorrell Reports

Troops Slug Way Through Defenses   Final Assaults Launched Against City From Newly Won Heights on its Outskirts

Final Heights Crashed   Many Prisoners Are Taken By Invading Yanks

a  Government Puts No Limit on Cost of Rehabiliating Our Wounded Fighting Men

Vocational Training For Disabled War Veterans Has Unlimited Scope

‘arshall Aakes Trip To Europe   tives in Paris Afte  ion-Stop Flight and  Is Met by General Eisenhower

Marshall, Byrnes To Paris by Plane   Eisenhower and Other Officers Greet Party

MARSHALL OPENS TALKS IN PARIS WITH EISENHOWER   Former Flies Non-Stop to French Capital From U. S. —Unheralded Visit Unexplained.   WAR MOBILIZATION CHIEF BYRNES ON TRIP   Two Arrive Amid Reports Allies Are Preparing for Winter of War on Western Front.

GEN. MARSHALL FLIES TO PARIS   Staff Chief With Byrnes In Party Coafers With Eisenhower

JACK FRANKISH, U. P, WAR WRITER, KILLED ON WESTERN FRONT   Correspondent Known In Xenia; Covered Robot Blitz

Base Security On Equality, Armed Power   Delegates Also Agree on Fair System for Large, Small Nations

Allied ‘Big 3’ Opens Postwar Security Talks  Equality Of Nation: Stressed; Peace To Be

Peace Plan Is Goal of Conference   World Security Through Force, Is Keynote at Dumbarton Oaks

World Security Conference Open:   Delegates From Four Big Powers Hope to Map Enduring Peace Plans

WORLD SECURITY ORGANIZATION IS BEING PLANNED   Representatives of the U. S. Great Britain and Russia Are Forming Plans.   .HULL OPENED SESSION   Secretary of State Called for Strong Commitment to Use Force If Necessary.

WORLD SECURITY MUST BE BACKED BY FORCE: HULL   SECRETARY OF STATE   SECRETARY OF STATE OPENS BIG 4 PARLEY AT DUMBARTON OAKS

Base Security On Equality, Armed Power   Delegates Also Agree on Fair System for Large, Small Nations   ) BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

AMERICAN LEAGUE   Hull Demands Adequate Force to Insure World Security at Four-Power Conclave

Equality Of Nations Advoeated   Sovereign Equality Plus Use Of Force To Maintain Peace Urged At Dumbarton Oaks

Three Powers Open Talks. On Security   Britain, Russia and US Agreed World Security Must Be Based on Equality of All Nations

Emphasize Need for Force Agree on Sovereign Equality Of Large and Small Nations

OPEN oEGURITY MEETS TODAY   U.S., Britain, and ‘Russia Are Represented at Conference.   HULL IS FIRST SPEAKER

Must Back — Peace With All Force      Declaration by Hull Opens Historic Conference on World Security   FAIR TREATMENT FOR ALL NATIONS   Russian Speaker Emphasizes ‘Sovereign Equality’ of Great and Small

HULL PLEDGES U.S. FORCES T0 SECURITY PLAN   Peace Agency To Be Based On Sovereign Equality For All Nations

Begin Plans For World at Peace   Representatives of U. S., Great Britain and Russia Meet   ‘FOR THE GOOD OF ALL   Small Powers Reassured as to Their Position 1 in  World

World Security Talks Between Big 3 Begin   Secretary Hull Opens Historic Conference at  Dumbarton Oaks

Allies Plan For  World Security   Hull Calls For Adequate Military Forces After War

DISCUSS WORLD SECURITY PLAN   “Sovereign Equality” To Be Backed By - Force -

Russians Are in 30 Miles of Budapest   Hungarian Capital in Turmoil as Reds Approach

Spearheads Of Reds 30 Miles  From Budapest   Advancing Steadily Against Suff But Gradually Weak ening Resistance,   CAPITAL IN TURMOIL

Budapest Is Objective Of  Russian Army   Russian Spearheads Are Within 30 Miles Of City; Resistance Is Gradually Weakening

10Q Occupied Places Are © Taken As Russians Advance . Against Stiff Resistance

Red Spearheads Withing 30 Miles Of Budapest   Hungarians, Nazis Fall Back Upon _ Outer Defenses of The Canital Citv

Reds Driving Steadily On Budapest   Stiff Resistance {s Encountered

Wrest About 100 Towns From Germans   Nazis And Allies Reported To Be Falling Back

Russians Within 30 Miles Today of Hungary's Capital   German Resistance ls Cleared From Northern Finland

RED SPEARHEADS PUSH WITHIN 3. MI. OF BUDAPES   RESIDENTS OF CITY REPORTED TO BE IN STATE OF CONFUSION

Russians Gain In Drive On Budapest   Hungarian City Said To Be In Turmoil As Nazis Retreat

SOVIET ARMORED SPEARHEADS IN BUDAPEST AREA   Stiff Resistance Met In Plains; Nazis Weaken _

Soviet Spearheads 30 Miles From Budapest   Russians Meeting Stiff But Gradually Weakening Resistance “And They Roll On Toward Hun_ garian Capital ="

SOVIET FORCES NER BUDAPEST   Advance Steadily Against Stiff But Weakening  Roacictanra.

Soviets Only 30 Miles From Budapest In Steady Drive Across Hungarian Plains

RUSSIANS LESS THAN 30 MILES FROM BUDAPEST   Nazi Resistance Weakens  Defense of Hungarian Capital

Russians Make . Steady Advance   ARMORED SPEARIIEADS DRIVE NEARER - BUDAPEST

Soviet Troops Only 30 Miles fromBudapest   Make Rapid Progress in March Upon the Capital of Hungary

RUSSIANS NOW WITHIN 30 MILES OF BUDAPEST   Advancing Steadily — Gradually eakening Resist ance By The Nazis.

RED FORCES DRIVE NEARER T0 BUDAPEST   Field Dispatches Say the Soviets Have Driven to Within 30 Miles of Capital, Reported Scene of Confusion.

Russians Roll Over Plains Of Hungary      Meet Stiff But Gradually Weakening Enemy: Resistance in Drive On Budapest

REDS ADVANCE OVER PLAINS OF HUNGARY   Russian Spearheads Gaining Against Weakening Resistance Thirty Miles From Budapest

SOVIETS SPEED FOR BUDAPEST   Nazis Fall Back To Defenses Before Capital City

26 Other J ap War Vessels Likely Sunk Tn Great Raid   _ 205 Nipponese Planes Shot Down, Destroyed: ‘On Ground.as Carriers Of: Third Fleet Strike   FIRST YANK: BLOW. ‘AT MANILA BAY AREA   » Historie Nichols  _ And Clark Airfields - Suffer: Severely...

First Aerial Counterattack  Hits Manila   Yank Pilots Destroy 205 Jap Planes and Sink Ll Warships

ULARK, NICHOLS AIRFIELDS HIT   205 Jap Planes Destroyed in Air and on Ground   SURPRISE ATTACK   Yanks Catch Shipping at Oa. vite Naval Base; Japs Put Up Air Umbrella

Destroy 205 Jap aircraft and 11 ships   List 26 vessels, drydock, 2 baroes among probables

een enn LLL A OAL LO LLL LL LL AES,  26 OTHERS PROBABLY SUNK BY U.S. RAID   205 Nip Planes Destroyed; Floating Drydock, Two Barges Believed Wiped Out; Shipping Caught At Cavite Naval Base

At Least 11 Enemy Warships and-205 Planes Destroyed   Probably 26 Other Vessels Sent to Bottom by U. S. Carrier Aircraft; Cavite Naval Base is Pounded

VIBRATIONS FROM MOTORS. OF DAYLIGHT RAIDERS - FELT IN LONDON BUILDINGS AS PRE-INVASION : AIR OFFENSIVE GOES INTO 25TH CONSECU. TIVE DAY—BRITISH AND GERMAN SHIPS IN BATTLE OFF HOLLAND ~

Non-Stop Offensive Mounts to New Peak on 27th Day, Hammering Widespread Targets   NAZIS ‘FALLING BEHIND

Yanks Making Drive Inland On Saipan Island   Beachheads On Island Are Now Secured Is Report Of Admiral Nimitz

BEACHHEADS SECURED BY J. §. FORCES   Good Progress Made Against Organized Enemy Defenses

Dealhs Mount to 35 in Wake of Tropical Stor  Hurrienne Cweaaene Ova   Hurricane Sweeps Ove Carolinas; Force Diminishing

HURRICANE TOLL MOUNTS T0 35   Cuba And Florida Suffer Most; Gale Lessens Fury In Carolinas

Allied Aerial Assault In Fifth Day   Balkan Rail Yards Hit By Liberators Flying From Italy

AERIAL ASSAULT CONTINUES ON INVASION COAST   Yanks in Italy Study Two New ‘Secret Weapons’ They Captured from Germans

RAF BOMBERS HIT COLOGNE IN NIGHT ATTACK   Italian Based Planes Rip Balkan Rails, Down 35 German Planes

Dewey Prepares For Final Drive   Closing Speeches To Be Made When Time Ripe

Dewey To Make Stretch Drive When Time Ripe   Wide Gaps In Set Speeches

Dewey Plans Six Speeches   Won't Open Final Drive Until He Feels Right Time Is Reached

DOGS ARE UTILIZED TO DISCOVER MINES   Canines Secretly ° Trained To Locate Mine Fields

Army Finds New Use for Dogs--They  ‘Are Trained as Detectors of Mines

Planes Wipe Out Four Troop-Laden ‘Trans. ports, 6 Warships   Only Few Survivors Landed By Enemy   Ground Forces Push tate Mountains East Of — ” Ormoc Road

Naval Planes From Carriers  Attaek Convoy   8000 Nipponese Army Men Aboard Vessels  Reported Destroyed

4Transports, 6 Destroyers Go To Bottom   Gen. Yamashita Determined To Fight It Out With Yanks In Ormoc Bay Sector

Six Destroyers and Four. Transports Loaded with 8,000 Troops Wiped Out   - Carrier Planes Catch Convoy In _ Attempt To Sneak into Ormoc Pott

 Along With Six Warships, In Pacific   MicArthur Roe por ts Entire Convoy, Snei ig In Ormic Bay, Destroyed By Third Ficct Carrier Patrols

Four Transport With 8,000 Troops, Six Destroyers Are Downed M’Arthur Reports

Halsey Fliers Blast 4 Transports Carrying 8000 Troops to Leyte, 6 Destroyers Sneaking Into Ormoc

Jap Ships Intercepted Near Leyte   Reinforcements, Blasted by Planes From Carrier Force

Lost In Try To Reinforce Leyte Island   Only Remnants Of 8.000 Jap Fighting Men In Convoy Reached Shore.   SUPERFORTS ARE OUT

TROOP - LADEN SHIPS HEADED FOR LEYTE ISLE   10 Ships Sunk, 38 Planes Destroyed, Leaders Report ,

Remnants Left Of Rescue Troop Ships   Four Transports, Six Destroyers Wiped Out by Carrier Men

FEW OF 8,000 JAPS REACHED SHORE, CLAIM   Western Leyte Chosen As Battleground by Enemy Commander

U.S. Troops Drive Enemy  Back 10 Miles   Report Von Rundstedt Regrouping Forces For Possible New Stab

Spearheads Of Enemy Hurled Back 10 Miles   German Offensive Is Reversed As Yankees Pound At Bulge From Three Sidec

Western German Spearheads Forced Back Ten ,. Miles by Attack  Sn eeneedenenenenaneiiaedl  rg ee ee ee ee oe   A DRIVE FROM SOUTH   SR O7EXS VY £24 SSNS NN Oe  Patton Men Thrust 20 Miles Into Flank in Sixje Dav Battle

CUT DOWN NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE   Americans KickFoe’s Mighty Drive Into Reverse ~

German Escape Corridor Less Than 1] Miles   Americans Attack Three Sides Of Bulge Into Belgian Territory

Third Army Turns Tide in Fighting   German Escape Gap Is Cut to Less Than Seventeen Miles

YANKEES HIT BACK HARD AT NAZI SALIENT   Most Advanced Enemy Spearheads Rammed Back More Than Ten Miles by American Forces

WATERLOO CHILD DIES OF BURNS   Mother Is Cuitically  Burned in Trailer

Fewer Points: for Butter   "Values" Will Be Lowered {f Supply Continues Climb

Butter Supplies Show Increase   Drop In Ration Point Value Thought Likely

EXPECT CUT IN BUTTER POINTS   Report Civilian Supplies Improved During March

NEW VE Want Pal MAY STIL TABOR OUTCRY   Officials Feel . \ Confident New Policy Will Solve Froblem

Nimitz Praises Submarines in War on Japanese   Another Atoll in Marshalls Occupied By American Forces

U.S. Subs Smashing Jap Shipping, Nimitz Says in Optimistic Summary

New Atollin . The Marshalls Is Occupied   Another ier Offensive Hurled Against Japs, in Soutls Pacific 

New Atoll in The Marshalls Is Occupied   Another Offensive Hurled Against Japs in South Pacific

WAR ON NIPS IS FAVORABLE, ADMIRAL SAYS   Nimitz Reports Americans Occupy Marjoro Atoll in Eastern Marshalls.   Two New Offenses in Pacific Are Started

MUCH CREDIT FOR U-BOATS' POTENT WORK   Submarines Under U. 8. Flag May Soon Be Controlling Factor In Nips’ Sea Power

Says War — © Goes Well In Pacific   Admiral Nimitz Reveals Oc. cupation of Another Marshall Islands Atoll   " PRAISES WORK OF oS STTRMARINES   New Success on Los Negros J Island and in New Cuinea Reported

Orphan Child Flown To U. S.   Yank Father Killed In Battle; British Mother Dies.

Baby Crosses Sea In Army Plane   Son of Slain Flyer  Comes to Grandma

HOME RULE FIGHT SEEN IN ASSEMBLY      Legislative Council Ends Deliberations in Baltimore

CITY LAGGING IN FIFTH WAR LOAN DRIVE   Bonds Purchased Locally Thus Far Total Only $124,095

MARSHALL LAGS IN F ‘BOND, SALES   Individuals Must ‘Buy $138,000 More To Meet Quota

No. 13  The Super Way To End That Jinx Is To Be Used By The Kaiser  Shipyard

WORLD LABOR GROUP NAMES FIVE GOALS   Do It Now, U. S. Delegates Ask Member Nations

FREEDOM FROM WANT PROGRAM PUT T01.L.0.   World Labor Group Asked To Back Plan For Social Improvements

Labor Seeks World Program   U..S. Representatives To Conference Seek Immediate Action

MAJOR GENERAL MILLER BROKEN   Indiscreet Talk About Invasion Sends High Officer Packing

Officer Reduced For Remark  Major General Broken After Indicating Date Of D-Day

several Jap Vessels Sunk.   Nimitz Says Tempo Of War’ In Pacific To Be Snaeded

Jap Resistance On Kwajalein Atoll Ceases   Adm. Nimitz Writes Sim ple Finish to Invasion; 80 Islands Taken

Several Jap Vessels Sunk  ~ Nimitz Says Tempo Of War   Nimitz Says Tempo Of War In Pacific To Be Sneeded

VOVE TO CROVDON   LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Mother and Three Children Burn to Death

Reds Push On To Command Escape Corridor   Troops Within Range of Narva, Important Railroad Junction

Reds Believed Entering Estonia   Guns Within Range of Railroad Junction

RED ARMIES WITHIN MILE OF ESTONIA   Big Guns Trained On Last German Escape Route

RUSSIANS SWEEP TOWARD ESTONM   Advance Spearheads Probably Over Border According To Front Report.

Soviet Pressure Between Lake Ilmen And Gulf of  Finland ic Strone

AND THE BALTIC   Guns Already Within Range of City—Soviets May Have Crossed Border.

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GERMANY STILL CONFIDENT OF WINNING WAR   Allen Says Reich Expects To Stall Invasion And  Newatiate Peace _   PERMANENT DAMAGE WAS NOT OBSERVED   (Associated Pres. War Correspondent Just Repairiated Aboard

Allies Drive Across Vital Highway at Number of Points   Repairiated Newsman Says Nazis Still Expect io Win the War

NAZIS STILL EXPECTING TO WIN WAR   Says Larry Allen, Recently Exchanged Prisoner of War; Saw Germany from Interi ior.   Drop Leaflets

Germany Still Expects To Win, Says Larry Allen   4,000,000 Troops Massed in West

ALLEN SAYS NAZIS” STILL SEE VICTORY      Repatriated AP Writer Tells of Conditions in Germany

Greek Guerrilla Moves Collapse   Fear of Germans Halts Activities

Greeks Predict Guerrilla Collapse   Organized Resistance Against German and Bul garian Forces At Lowest Ebb.

Greek Guerrilla Forces Collapse   Report Resistance To Nazis at Low Ebb

British Warships ‘Pinch Hit’ For Grounded Allied Airpower To Support Beachhead Defense

Allied Headquarters Dispatch States Our Troops Have Stood Firm Against New Enemy Counter-Attacks.

A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA   Iowa Southern Utilities T.ahor Flection Close

Nazis Alibi For West Wal   Siegfried Line Doesn’t Mean a Thing Says Berlin Commentator   Robot ‘Easy Peace’ Assault Foreseen

Allies Drive To  Faenza Outskirts   Vital Rail, Road Centex Point of Heavy Thrust

Japs Speed. Up Drive on  Indian Base   Say 3,600 Enemy Tavaders Staughtered In Last Three Werks

Japs Step Up Offensive on Assam Fron   Pressure Increased on Strong Allied  Communications Center in India as Enemy Meets Reverses Elsewhere

TRUK OUTPOST OF PONAPE IS RAIDED AGAIN   LOW LEVEL ATTACK WRECKS PLANES AND SHIPS

Californian Is Figured to Be Running Mate  Keynote Address Highlights

Californian Is Figured to Be Running Mate   Keynote Address Highlights Opening Session

WARREN SAYS SOP TO SPEED VICTORY IN WAR   Outlines Program in Keynote Speech. -. Last Nicht

May Not Know Dewey-F.D. Winner For Days; Eleven States To Delay Soldier Vote Count

Massive Invasion Armada Catches Japs Completelv Off Balance   Only One E nemy Plane Comes Out   No Submarines In Evidence And Harbor Cleared Of Mines By Bombers

Expected Enemy. Attack Fails To Come  Invasion Most Incredible Of War

NAZIS HIT WEAKEST SPOT ON THE WESI   War Department Concedes Some Allied Units May Get Bottled Up in the Advance.

Hungarian City Dealt  ‘Heavy Blow   Bombs Twist Rail. Yards, Choking German Traffic

RUSSIANS ARE REPORTED T0 BE AT CHUDOVO   Soviet Troops At Keystone To Heavily-F ortified German Defense Line.

Russians Have Expanded Their Bridge-heads Several Miles.  SPLIT GERMAN ARMY OF 250,000 SOLDIERS  Soviet Prove That Nazis Killed 11,000 Polish Prisoners.

NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE MAY’ SPLIT A GERMAN ARMY:   Surprise Capture of Bridgehead Over Volkhov River Results in Reds Taking Chudovo Outskirts, Which City Is Key  *% to German Leningrad-Novogorod Line.

CONFEREES FIX DISCHARGE PAY   Acree to $300 Maximum For Overseas Service

Veteran Pay Bill Agreed   Compromise Fixes $300 Top for Service Overseas or in Alaska

JOAN BERRY GETS GRILLING ON STAND   Chaplin Accuser Bursts ‘Into Tears on Witness Stand 

JOAN BERRY GETS. GRILLING ON STANE      Chaplin Accuser Bursts Into Tears on Witness ’ Stand

‘Joan Berry Bursts Into Tears, Runs From Witness Stand To Attorney's Arms Duririq Paternity Trial

Joan Gushes Tears, Dashes To Arms Of Attorney And Denies Episode At Tulsa

Entire Convoy of Jap Vessels Believed Lost   At Least 15 Enemy Ships Sunk By Allies In Southwest Pacific

IN SO. PACIFIC   Entire Convoy Attempting To Reinforce Rabaul, Kavieng Destroyed

ENTIRE JAPANESE CONVOY BELIEVED SUNK IN PACIFIC   Allied Bombers Smashed 15 Vessels in Three-day Attack

ALLIED FLIERS WIPE OUT JAP CONVOY, BELIEI   Bombers Sink 15 Ships In Running Attack Of 3 Days

Military Commentator of Dome News Agency Makes Announce ment — dnteresting Information  advast.        Being Br

ENTIRE CONVOY OF 15 SHIPS SUNK BY ALLIED BOMBERS   Supplies and Reinforcements for Rabaul and Kavieng are on the Gattam.

RUSH NAZIS 10 ~ CASSINO AREA   Determined To Hold Leveled City   Leveled Ulty Allies Continue To Advance Slowly

05 PURSU NAZIS FROM VINNITSA   Extend New Holds in Poland and Rumania

RUMANIANS TO COUNTER SOVIETS   Mebde Units Smash at Badly Mauled Nazi Army, Extend Helds In

Soviets Tighten Grip On Outer Edge of Budapest   Artillery Bombardment On East Prussia Front Reported Stepped Up

REDS STEP UP ACTION ON TWO FRONTS   Tighten Grip On Outskirts Of Budapest

Russia Steps Up Prussian Barrage   Mass 300 Guns To A Mile On 95 Mi. Front

Soviet Army Poised for New Attaeks 2 oaGetp Tightens        Around Budapest— Guns Blaze in East

REDS TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP ON BUDAPES1   Russians Step Up AIready Heavy Bombardment In East Prussia.

Soviet Troops Preparing For Full Offensive   Russians Tighten Thei Grip On Outskiris Of Budapest And Step Ur East Prussian Drive

‘Tutor of  Tooters Is Honored   TRAINER OF 1000 BUGLERS AWARDED LEGION OF MERIT

Soviet Paper Stresses Hostility Toward Spain, Argentina, Switzerland

72 FARMERS SURRENDER IN A RIOT CASE   Butler Countians March in Body to Courthouse and Ask to Be Locked Up Following . Indictment in Racial Row.

Early Invasion of Guam Forecast   Carrier Based Planes  Again Blast Island —

Jap Peace Move Hinted as New Cabinet Slated  Leaders Friendly awesL TT! @. Raofarn   Leaders Friendly With U.S: Before  Atiack on Hawaii

BRUSSELS LOST, AXIS CONCEDES   Belgian Capital Radio Heard In Dramatic Farewell Message

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Nazis Concede Brussels Loss, Threaten Return   Radio Goes Dead Following Dramatic Broadcast Appeal

Germans Bid Farewell to Belgium In Amazing Broadcast From Capital

FALL OF BRUSSELS NEAR, NAZIS ADMIT   BROADCAST .YAREWELL TO BELGIAN CAPITAL—THREATEN TO COME BACK,

REICH CONCEDES BELGIUM'S LOSS   Sharp Warning Included In ‘Farewell’ To Brussels

Germans Admit Surrender Of Belgium Near   Acknowledge Forteoming Loss in Startling Farewell Broadcast Over Brissels Radia

Soviets Open Offensive In  Crimea Pocket Push Deeper   Push Deeper Into Northeast Rumania

FOURTH ARMY “MOVES ALONG - PEREKOP LANI      Other Reds 25 Miles Deep in Northeast Rumania

Strong Nazi Points Taken   Week-Long Stalemate In Anzio Area Broken

BRITISH SEIZE STRONG POINTS ~ ON ANZIO LINE   Rout Nazis, Remove Hazard to Allied Comeback

British Forces Seize Two Strategic Point:   American Artillery Breaks Up Enemy Infiltration Attempt as Fighting Flares on Anzio Beachhead

NEW AND MORE RIGID  DRAFT DEFERMENT IS  EFFECTIVE TUESDAY APPROXIMATELY 2,000, 000 MEN HAVE BEEN RE. - CLASSIFIED RECENTLY

TO FILL LARGE DRAFT QUOTAS   600,000-Man Induction Is Planned For First Two Months

New, Stricter Draft Deferment and Reclassification Rules Go Into Effect

Draft C Changes Put In Effect   Physical Exam Date Gives 21 Day Stay

Draft Determent on a New Basis  Reclassification Rules Now More Rici

NEW DRAFT SETUP MORE RIGID   Registrants Up To 22 Will Get Occupational Deferments No Longer Save In Farming Or Rare Cases.

NEW RULINGS PUT INTO EFFECT TODAY   More Rigid Draft Deferment And Reclassification Methods in Use.

Rigid Draft Deferment Into Effect   Reclassifying Revision Also Effective; Want 600,000 Men in Two Month:

NEW DRAFT RULE ON DEFERMENTS GOES INTO EFFECT   2,000,000 PRE-WAR DADS HAVE ALREADY BEEN RE-CLASSIFIED

New, More Rigid Draft Rules Go In Effect Today   Reclassification Finds 2,500,000 Men Remaining In Dependency Groups;

More Rigid Rules On Deferments Placed in Effect  Services Plan to Tak   Services Plan to Take 600,000 Men in Early Part of Year

More Rigid Rules On Deferments Placed in Effect  Services Plan to Take 600,000 Men in Early Part of Year

New, Rigid Draft Deferment Rule Goes Into Effect   Reclassify Many Millions Of Men

Burke, Mansfield Top Calf Ropers   Clyde Beats Toots Out By .2 of Second At Denver

lOWA IN SMALL GREEK   Believed to Have Lost Control of Auto in Fog

International Air Problems To Be Topic   Talks: Among ‘Nations Will Commence Soon

STATE HOSPITAL TO BE DISCUSSED TODAY   Western Shore Institution Will Be Established Either In Frederick Or Washington Counties

Admiral Halsey Says Heavy Blows Near In Pacific   Declares Allies Now Have Superiority On Land, Sea And In Air  U.S. PACIFIC FLEET IS DECIDEDLY READY

MIGHTY BLOWS HALSEY PLEDGE   Admiral Asserts Allies Hold Superiority on Land, — Sea and Air

HALSEY EY. SAYS HEAVY BLOWS PLANNED IN PACIFIC WAR   ADMIRAL . DECLARES” ALLIES - NOW HAVE DEFINITE 8UPERIORITY ON LAND, ‘ SEA AND AIR...

China-Burma Drive Opens   Thrust Across Salween Timed to Join Forces With Gen. Stijwell

OFFENSIVE AIMS AT CLEARING ROAD TO INDIA   American-Trained Chinese Army Bursis Over Salween River

WAY BATTLE IS OPENED TOCLEAR JAPS FROM BURMA   Chinese Cut Deep Into Enemy Positions, Get Support From Americans Sn Air, Surprise Blow,   JAPANESE ATTACKED AT FOUR OTHER POSITIONS   Yankees Use New Type of Rocket Gun In Pasific, 4C Enemy Barges at Rabaul Are Destroyed.

Troops Are Trained By Americans   Drive Underway To Open Lifeline To China's Army

Chinese Forces. Approach-Bu Burma  Bock Baek Inne   Push Back Japs West of Salween

Chinese Cross  Salween 2-Way Drive to.   2-Way Drive to Reopen Burma Road In Fuil Swing  On 100 Mile Front

CHINESE SMASH INTO LUNGLING   American Fighters Give Support to Ground Units

CHINESE IN A GAIN   Spokesman Reports A Strong Road Block Is Established

Streamliner. Tax Measure Is Approved By Congress   Eliminates Returns ‘For 30 Million Whose Wages and Salaries Are Under $5.000    VIRTUALLY CERTAIN OF F.D.R. APPROVAL

WHITE HOUSE GETS INCOME MEASURE   “Taxation Without Irritation” Plan Reshuffles Entire Federal Levy Structure

Streamlined Measure Given Unanimous Approval in  Both Houses   Melean Renews Fight

President Gets Simplified Tax  For Signature   House, Senate Pass Bill Without Negative Vote; Early Signine Seen

‘Painless’ Tax BillGoes To President  rT, .   Receives Approval Of Both Houses With Senate Changes

SIMPLE’ TAX BILL SENT 10 WHITE HOUSE   ENTIRE STRUCTURE OF INCOME LEVY RESHUFFLED

FDR EXPECTED 10 SIGN NEW TAX MEASURE   Painless Income Tax Bill Finally Approved by Conaress

SENATOR EASTLAND  ASSAILS HILLMAN AS  STRAIGHT COMMUNIST SOUTHERN SENATORS  JOINED BY SOME REPUBWie awe IN EEpr CicurT

Southern Senators Oppose  Ratification Of FEPC   Eastland Declares Such Action Would Mean “We No Longer Have Constitutional Government But Dictatorship In Name And Faet”

Maynard Stephens Heads McKean County Chapter.  National Polio Foundation

Maynard Stevens Heads County Polio Chapter      Frank Fay Reelected a Director at Annual Meeting in Bradford

5 Hit  Delay on  age Issue   ‘Decision on Pay Ceili ings Before ‘Nov. 7 Unlikely

Farm Wage Ceiling: May Be Extended By WFA This Year  Possibility of Milk Rationing for

EXPANSION OF PAY CEILINGS SEEN BY JONES   Nothing New Expected On Food Ration List, WEA Chief Reports

MAY HAVE 10 EXTEND POLICY   Senate Group May Have tc Keep Farm Wage Ceilings In Some Areas.

JONES FAVORS WAGE CEILINGS   WFA Chief Proposes Wider Control of Pay for Farm Workers

Farm Wage Ceilings May Be Extended By WEA This Year  Possibility of Milk Rationing for 11 ¢C te Pitese:ssce asl

Extension of Farm Wage Ceilings In Interest of Production Is Predicted

Beachhead Troops Are Driving Toward Nazi Supply Route   12 Nazi Divisions Might Be Trapped Down Highway Six

NAZI DEFENSES COLLAPSE UNDER MERGED ATTACK   Hundreds of Germans Are Taken Prisoner During Four-day Offensive

United Allied  Armies Batter Nazis In Italy   Cisterna, Littoria Fall To Rome-Bound Yanks

Enemy Pulls Back To Last Defense Before Rome.   By RICHARD McMURRAY AP War Fditor

Mauled Germans Retreat Info the Alban Hills, Last Existing Natural Obstacle Below Rome   American. Beachhead Troops Capture Cisterne and Littoria and Plunge Three Miles Beyond Appian Way; Supply Line Now Endangered

Enemy Supply Vein Menaced By Americans   Cisterna and Littoria Captured by U. S. Beachhead Troops, Who Plunge Three Miles Beyond Appian Way

Push 3 Miles Beyond Famed Appian Way Now   Germans In ‘Hasty Retreat;) Pacific Invasion Leap Is Anticipated

Cerman Forces Retreat Hastily Into Alban Hill   Yanks Push 3 Miles Beyond Appian Way To Within Gun Fire Of Highway 6

Operation May Save Boy’s Life   Nubbins Hoffman Unde:  Observation In Denver

At Least 16 Battleships, 37 Cruisers in American  Fleet Which Crushed Japs

Ib BATTLESHIPS STALK JAPANESE   Navy Lifts Veil on Hitting Power of Surface Craft of Pacific Fleet; Plane Carriers Are Identified

16 BATTLESHIPS ARE ENGAGEDIN PACIFIC ACTION   37 Cruisers Included Ir Fleet, Navy Says In Revealing Strength   NEWEST WARSHIPS ARE YET TO BE ASSIGNED

BATTLESHIPS, AND CRUISERS ARE BACKBONE   OfPacific Fleet, Totalin: 53, Exclusive of Air craft Carriers and Hun dreds of Destroyers.  ere   Pocket Battleships

 16 American Baitleships, 37 Cruisers Form Backbone OfForce Blasting Jap Fleet In Philippine Waters

NAZIS DRIVEN SLOWLY INTO CASSING TRAE   Fifth Army Units Also Oc: cupy Hills to Cut Off Any German Escape.

ALLIES MAY BE IN POSSESSION OF TOWN   Cairo Sources Also  Say Famed Monastery Has Been Seized 

Latham Will Make Ruling On Electors   Secretary Of State ls Studyina Problem

Solons Believe Settlement of Missouri River Problems Will Eliminate Need for T.V.A.’s

Russians Hurl Finns Across [mportant, Unnamed River   Reds’ Progress Slow Due To Multitude Of Obstacles But It Continues Steady

SOVIETS SMASH FINN FORCES   Reds Cross Vital River in Drive for Viipuri

Reds Hurl Finns Across River. In Viipuri Drive   Defenders Fell Big Trees On Highways, Rail Lines To Halt Russian Tanks

Russian Army Meets Multitude of .  Obstacles in Pursuit in Finland

Russians Press Toward Viipuri   Finns’: Resistance Stiffens, But Fails To Stop Red Army

FINNS UNABLE TO STOP REDS   GOROROV'S TROOPS ADVANCE IN SPITE OF MANY OBSTACLES

SOVIETS HURL FINNS AGROSS UNNAMED RIVER  Many Obstacles — Put Up By nemy

‘* q  "DENSE FORESTS   Finns Fall: Back on Viipurl, 25 Miles From Battlefront.

FINNS FORCED BACK BY REDS   Russians Push on Toward Viipuri Port Against Stubborn Defenders

Allies smash to Gustav line forward wall   Americans fight in Russian style

AIS [LOO UPPty ROAD BETIINE US.   erican Engineers Make. Possibl Advance After Germans Divert Waters of Rapido River   Tanks Cross Leg Road

Bridgehead Below Capital Expanded   Yankees Crawl Closer to Cassino; 90,000 Troops Believed Taking Part In Fight  For Rome

Nazis Flood Road In Vain Effort To Halt Advance   Fall of Cassino Appears Imminent

Nazis Divert Rapide To Flocd Lines   American Engineers Bridge Floods To Make Advance

Capitol Argument Sver Wartime Prohibition Echoes Thoughts 9 Quarter Century Ago

Prohibition Argument Flares in Capitol As Hearing on Dry Measure Draws Near

Prohibition Dispute Flares In Capital Again   House Committee Calls Hearings on Bill To Outlaw Liquor

Argument Over Prohibition: in ~ Wartine Keviver   Bill Outlawing Traffic in Alcoholic Drinks To Be Discussed

Prohibition Bill Before Committee   REP. HOBBS’ SUB-COMMITTEE WILL HAVE HEARINGS ON BILL TO OUTLAW ALCHOLIC BEVERAGES DURING WAR.

PROHIBITION ROW STARTED AGAIN   Absenteeism Revival Hints  New Battle In - Conoress

American-led Chinese Troops Fight Jap Attempts To Open Supply Line

ALLIED JUNGLE FIGHTERS TAKING HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY IN FAR EAST  WAR ZONE.

King Peter, Alexandra  Wed Today   London to See Marriage Of Yugoslav Monarch, Princess of Creoecve

EXILED POLES IN MOSCOW 10 PLEAD CAUSE   Mikolajezyk Flies tc Stalin - Churchill  Conference

Pole Rivals In Moscow   Polish Question May Be Settled There; Stalin in Highest Praise of U. S. Contributions

Moscow Parley May lron Out Polish Dispute   Factions May Get Together Before Churchill Leaves Russian Canital

Polish Problem to Be Discussed At Meeting of Churchill and Stalin

Moscow Meet To Decide Pole Question   Negotiations Renewed For Establishment Of United Government

Settlement Of Polish Issue Looms As Rival Chiefs Reach Moscow For Part In Parleys   Question Next on Churchill-Stalin Agenda as Poles Fly to Capital

Polish Question %n Agenda   Stalin-Churchill To Discuss This Thorny Problem

Polish Problem Is Taken Up af Moscow Parley   Roosevelt to Aid Poies to Build "Strong Nation”

EXILED POLE REGIME FLIES TO MOSCOW   Premier Mikolajczyk With  Political and Military Staff   To Join ChurchillStalin Parley   PRAISE FOR U. S. AID

STALIN PRAISES AMERICANS’ AID   War Might Have Been Different Without Help, Premier Says

Unity Hinted On Future Of Polish Nation   Envoys In Exile Reach Moscow; Churchill Lays  Groundwork.

Poles Reach Moscow for Conference   Hope to Wipe Out Differences; Stalin Lauds U. S. Help

Pole Problem  Major Issue U.S. To Take Part In Preliminary Talks

POLISH ISSUE TO BE DEBATED IN CONFERENCE   Representatives Meeting Today In Moscow

North Carolina Democrats Out For Roosevelt   Support Broughton For Vice President

North Carolina Boosts Roosevelt Delegates to 410  Democrats Vote To Back Governor For Vice-President

NORTH CAROLINA PICKS DELEGATE!   Lines up 30 More Behind FDR; Washington Convention to Select 16 GOP Delegates Saturday

Lt. Woodke Home From New Guinea  Served Ten Months  There As Bombardie)

Lt. Woodke H. Home  F rom Ne ew Guinea   Served Ten Months * There As Bombardier

Grand Jury Probes Hard Coal Pickets   NORTHUMBERLAND . COUNTY FREE LANCE MINERS HALTED UPERATIONS OF PLANTS’ IN HANDS OF GOVERNMENT.   Halted Stripping

Willkie Has Meeting With State Group   Wisconsin Candidates On Willkie Slate Go To Milwaukee For Brief Conference

Willkie Confers With Supporters  Lawrence Brody Backs His Candidacy

Vinson Stand Indicates ‘No General Wage Hoist Before Germany Falls

STABILIZATION DIRECTOR VINSON REAFFIRMS “HOLD THE LINE” POLICY OF.  : THE PAST

YANK BOMBERS HELP RUSSIANS   Italy-Based Units Aid Soviet Forces in Attack——Budapest Area Hit

Wiican Erman rai min 11 verticigein:  Halloween Handout Put Into Reverse

REVERSE HALLOWEEN WAYs   Instead of Asking, Oklahoma Bl birds Give eed

SOVIETS PUSH AHEAD AFTER VIIPURI FALLS   Poised for Thrust Deep Into Finland as Result of Victory

HITLER PLANS RUTHLESS PURGE   Nazi Army Of ficers in Plot to Be Killed

BLOOD PURGE ANNOUNCED BY NAZI LEADER   But Vatican Envo y Repudiates His Party

Nazi Disaster Mounts in Ttaly, Escape Roads Periled   ~ Allies Seize Junction 48 Miles East Of Rome. Rout Foe on Entire Front

Retreat Avenues Closing   Lt. General Mark Clark's Army Within 88 Miles Of City  Of Florence.

Governor Green Urges Observance of Armistice Day .On November 1)

Allies Smash At Enemy Near Kohima   Troops Seize Points At Key Base; Advance Continues

Bookkeeper Generous With Employer's Money _   “Lady Robin Hood’’ Breaks Boss

Chaplin Tells of Romance With Young Protege; Case to Go to Jury I uesday   Joan Berry Testifies Comedian Said He'd Spend Fortune ‘Blackening Your Name’

Chaplin Case To Be Given to Jury Tuesday   Actor Ends Testimony In Mann Act Trial; Final Arguments to Be Presented Monday

TESTIMONY. ENDED: . — IN CHAPLIN TRIAL   Jury Expected to Get Film Actor’s Case by Tuesday

Governors Blast the New Deal  Administration. Is Called Tool Of “Pressure Groups’

NEW DEALERS ARE BRANDED TOOLS OF PRESSURE GROUPS   Three Governors Speak In Second Of Series Of Broadcast Programs   PRELUDE TO GOVERNOR DEWEY’S OPENING TALK   Gov. Martin, Pennsylvania, Recalls Truman's State. ment That War Might Be Lost In Washington Because Of Red Tape, Waste

GOP GOVERNORS FLAY NEW DEAL IN ADDRESSES   CIO Political Action Com mittee Comes In For Particular Blast

3 Governors . Rap. New Deal In Radio. Talk   “Administration Called ‘Pressure: Groups’..Tool And Backward-Looking

New Deal Tool of Pressure Groups, Kansan Declare:   Martin of Pennsylvania Accuses Truman of Inconsistency

LIBERATORS PUSH 18 MILES INLAND   Germans Admit Loss Of Strategic Carentan; Cherbourg Line Is Crumbling; British Pressing Toward Caen

Americans Only 14 Miles From Cherbourg; Germans Say Allies Threaten To Encirele Caen

Cerisy Forest  Captured in 18-Mile Push   Doughboys Driving for St. Lo; Germans Report Troops Abandon Carentan

'Caen’s Encirclement Made Possible By British Advance; ‘New Allied Landings Reported   United States Troops Take Forest De Cerisy; Allied Naval Bombardment Drove Nazis From Carentan: Orne Estuary Crossed

Dents Driven Info German Line in France   American Forces Smash 18 Miles Beyond Beachhead

Whole Forest of Cerisy Captured by Yanks, Converging on St. Lo—Doughboys Within 14 Miles of Cherbourg — Now  Halfway Across the Peninsula

Allied Headquarters Silent on German Report Carentan Taken by Invaders; Nazis Throwing In Reserves Piecemeal

tee Power Drive Scoops Up Entire Forest of Cerisy, 18 Miles Inland; Germans Report Loss of Curentan

Germans Announce _ Carentan Captured by American Force   Genera! Situation on Cherbourg is ‘Better Than Satisfactory’

Doughboys Converging on St. Lo, Communics tions Center in Normandy. Americans Now Within 14 Miles of Che:bourg and New Dents Made in Nazi Lines

Capture Cerisy Forest   Score 18-mile Advance In Center of Normandy Beachhead; Nazis Say Carentan Has Fallen

Drive Through Cracking Line; Carentan Fails   _U. S. Forces Push Into Heart Of ' Normandy; Caen Nearly Encircled

German Line Cracking Under Sustained Onslaught Carried Forward by American Troops   At Other End of Invasion Line Caen Is Practically Surrounded With Fierce Tank Battie Between There and Bayeaux Raging

Germans Assert Carentan Seizec      Doughboys Converge On: St Lo, Communications Hub ‘  a  Center of Normandy ° <:

Yanks Drive 18 Miles Inland to Punch Deep Dent in Nazi Line   HARD FIGHT FOR CAEN   Rommel Mounts Fiercest Armored Counterattacks There

TAKE FOREST OF Gcnlay Ih NEW ADVANGE   Berlin Admits Stronghold of Carentan Has Fallen th Allies.

Our Forces Have Captured Entire Forest of Cerisy and Carentan Has Fall en, Germans Admit.   ST. LO, NINE MILES AWAY, IS OBJECTIVE

YANKS 18 MILES INSIDE FRANCE; TOWN CAPTURED   Germans Admit Loss of Carentan as Allies Slash Main Nazi Line

KEY POSITIONS TAKEN IN MOVE TO CUT OFF POST   Heavy Fighting Still Rages Around Caen - - But Allies Secure Beachhead

Carentan, Key to German Defense, Lost, Nazis Say   Whole Forest of Cerisy Captured; Converging on St. Lo

In Middle Of Beachhead   IS DEEPEST DE  Doughboys Conve ing On St. Lo hi Normandy.

Germans Assert Carentan Seized   Doughboys Converge On St. Lo, Communications Hub In Center of Normandy

Deughboys Converge on St. Lo.from Two Directions, Germans Report Caen Menaced by British Encirclement

Progress Of Allies Saps Foe’s Strength Of Reserve Troops   Doughboys Drive Across Peninsula, Smash At Cherbourg; Estimate 300-400,000 Allies Now In France

CERISY FOREST ALSO IN HANDS OF AMERICANS   Nazis Admit Caen Is Menaced by Flanking Moves of Allied Force

Whole Forest Of Cerisy Is Captured   Smashing Advance Has Punched Deepest Dent in Nazi Lines

Further Allied Gains Are Made Around Montebourg, 14 Miles of Cherbourg And Allied Beachhead Is 60 Miles Long

Nazis Admit Withdrawal At Carentan   18 Mile Drive Inland From Main Beachhead Noted;  Caen Facing Encirclement

Germans Claim Carentan Fell To U.S. Troop   Smashing Advance Through Forest Punches Deepest Dent In Line.   CAEN IS MENACEDOD

Capture Large Cerisy Forest, Menace St. Lo   60-Mile-Long Beachhead Established; British Surround Caen

'U.S. Troops Plunge 18 ‘Miles Inland; Germans  Say Carentan Given Up

Bombers Pound — Florence   Cultural Monuments Spared; Naples Reports German Capital Moved from Berlin

Historic Florence  Bombed by Allies   Military Targets in Italian City Are Hit For First  Time.

Bombers Spare Cultural Obiects   ..- Explosives Dumped On Railroad Targets

RAIL. TARGETS SMASHED TODAY BY ALLIED PLANES WHICH TRY TO AVOID HITTING LANDMARKS »   Ancient and Cultural City Being Used by Germans As Concentration Point Forces Allied Air Action. British Warships Bombard Dalmatian  Teland

BRESLAU NOW NEW GERMAN GFFICE SITE   Allied Bombings Reported To Have Forced Nazi Command from Berlin

Florence Hit by Bombers   Germans Reported to Have Moved Capital from Berlin to Breslau

HISTORIC ITALTAN CITY OF CULTURE UNDER AIR ATTACK   UNOFFICIAL REPORT SAYS GERMANS REMOVE CAPITAL FROM BERLIN

RED GROSS 10 Bt BUSY ALL SUNIMIEK   1000 Surgical Dressings Are Frequently Required In One Serious Case.

British Progressing In Counter-Drive Against Jap Forces At Kohima

NIPS WITHDRAW FROM POSITIONS ON NEW GUINEA   Enemy Apparently Plan Evacuation Of Manokwari And Nabire  Areas

U. S. Cruiser Leased to Soviet Union   Walsh Confirms Loan of Milwaukee To Ally —

Confirm Report of Ship Transfer   Say Cruiser Part of Soviet Lend-Lease

Sen. Walsh Confirms U S. Cruiser Was Lend-Leased to Russia But Still Belongs to United States

BEST JAPANESE TROOPS ON LEYTE   SHREWD TACTICS OF NIPS FAIL TO BUDGE 7TH U.S. DIVISION

Army Takes Over The Philadelphia Transp ort System   Full Service Expected To Be In Effect By Midnight

TROLLEYS AND SUBWAY TRAINS BEGIN OPERATION IN PHILA., ARMY OFFICERS SAY SYSTEM IS GATHERING HEADWAY

AMBASSADOR T0 ARGENTINE TO. GET-NEW POST- >   U. S. Representation To ‘Problem Child’ Nation Left Vacant

Armour fo Get Top-Flight Job   Ambassador to Argentina to Get New Assignment

ARGENTINE POST ~ TOBE LEFT OPEN   AMBASSADOR ARMOUR, RE_ CALLED BY WASHINGTON, NOT TO RETURN,

Leandro Sena Is Killed in Long Beach   Foreman for Shipyard Company; Funeral  To Be Ifeld Here

Halsey Fleet Has Destroyed 1,104 Planes   360 Jap Ships Also Are Knocked Out in Raids on Philippine Area   MacARTHUR AIR ARM ALSO SCORES   But Japs Claim They Have Captured One of Three U. S Airfields in China

Halsey Strikes Again: 22 Jap Ships Sunk, 70 Crippled In New Blow

22 Jap Ships Sent Down, 70 Damaged and  36 Planes KO’d   American Carrier Raid on Philippines Virtually Unopposed

Tokyo Claims Capture of Airfield in China: U. S. Planes Rake Philippines

SAY ANOTHER YANK BASE IN CHINA   Sink 22 More Jap Ship: in Raid on Central Philippines

Chennault Seen Forced To Move Back ToKunminé   22 Japanese Ships Sunk, 70 Others Damaged By ~~-F,-§ Carrier Fleet-Units-

Attacks on Philippines by Yanks Stepped Up To Blast Way for Invasion

YANK RAIDERS HIT JAPS HARD IN PHILIPPINES   Sink 22 Ships, Damage 70 Others, Destroy 36 Planes

YANKS DESTROY 22 JAP SHIPS   Philippine Raid Is Success; U. S. Airfield In China Falls

US Carrier Forces Sink 22 Jap Ships   70 Other Surface Craft Damaged; 36 Planes Destroyed; US Airfield in Southeast China Captured

Japs Claim Capture Of Advanced Yank Airbase In China   Americans Destroy Many Enemy Vessels, Planes

Yanks Lose Port In China, but Down Jap Ships   22 Nippon Ships Sunk, 70 Hit; 36 Planes Bagged

U.S. Carrier Fleet Sinks 22 Jap Shins, Downs 36 Airplanes   70 Other Surface Craft Damaged in Central Philippine Raid

92 MORE OF JAP SHIPS SMASHED OFF PHILIPPINES   36 Planes Also Destroyed; Tokyo Says Troops Take U.S. Field In China

REMARKABLE RECORD OF DESTRUCTION BY U. 5. CARRIER FORCE  AT SAME TIME TOKYO RADIO REPORTS CAPTURE

ANOTHER filT ON PHILIPPINES   Adm. Nimitz Announces Results of Almost Unopnased Raircl.   AIRFIELD TAKEN BY JAPS

American Task Fleet Adds Up Great Record  22 Japanese Ships Cant Ta Rattan

Bombers Smash Enemy Ships In Philippines   Devastating Raids Carried Out With Record Suecess: Japs Claim Field

CARRIER FLEET BAGS 22 ENEMY SHIPS, 36 PLANES  sehen, Gos Gate me 12:28   TOKYO RADIO CLAIMS CAPTURE OF ANOTHER U. S. BASE IN CHINA

TOKYO CLAIM! CAPTURE Of AIRFIELD   36 Nip Planes Are Downed; In Carrier Attack   LOSSES IN CHINA   Announced By Chungking; Gains Are Reported On Burma Front

Japs Claim Three More U. $. Airports   Another Big Navy Air Victory Told

Cold Wave Hits On 30-Mile Wind   Rain, Sleet and Snow in Store for State. Forecast

Snow, Cold Moving Across State Today   Severe Cold Moves Into Oklahoma; Drivers Urged to Stay Off Dangerous Roads Tonight

American First Third Armies Smash Eastward   Decisive Struggle Of War In Europe Now Impends

Bloody Battles Being Fought Along Moselle   Yanks Win Foothold Below Metz, But Lose Another With Heavy losses To South

BRIDGEHEAD 1$ WON BY YANKS AT HEAVY COST   Americans Lose Another Bridgehead in Face of Violent Artillery

AMERICAN TANKS AND INFANTRY FIGHTING ALONG MOSELLE RIVER  ONE BRIDGEHEAD WON _ AT HEAVY COST AND AN-

INFANTRY AND TANKS WAR IN MOSELLE AREA   General Patton's Men Secure Bridgehead At Heavy Cost

Hard Fighting Rages Alona Moselle River   .. American 3rd Outran Supplies; Stalled A Week

ADVANCING ON  BROAD FRONT   To North, First Army Drives Forward From Meuse  Bridaeheads.    PROBE ARDENNES FOREST

U. §. Armies Move Forward for Showdown   First and Third Armies Ready for Decisive BatHe

AMERICAN TANKS AND INFANTRY FIGHTING ALONG MOSELLE RIVER  ONE BRIDGEHEAD WON AT HEAVY COST AND ANATURD WAC Incr

Pattor’s. Forces Win One Bridgehead Below Metz and: Lose Another

Patton's Troops Drive Wedge into ' Metz; Reach Nancy   To North, Hodge’s Men Drive from ‘Meuse Bridgeheads Aaainst Barrier

Bulgaria Turns on Germany, Russians Race All Way Across Bulgaria   Reds Affack in North   American First Army Has Bridgeheads Across Meuse. British Advancing

U.S. Wins New Metz Foothold   First Battles for Germany Rage on Moselle River; Americans Reach Nancy, Push Into Ardennes Forest

NAZI RESISTANCE STIFFENS ALONG GERMAN BORDER   AMERICANS HAMMER TOWARD GERMANY ON TWO BROAD FRONTS

Siegfried Line Showdown Due   Patton’s Third Army Locked in Valley Fight for Reich Approaches as Hodges’ Forces Aim 4 Spearheads at Luxembourg

_ Bloody Battle Near Metz As Yanks Drive On West Wall   oth and 8th Plug Ahead

Forces To South Hurled Back Across River By Frenzied Germans   Siegfried Line Showdown Shapes   British Eneounter Stern Resistance In Advanee On Belgian Border

AMERICANS DRIVE INTO METZ OUTSKIRTS AS BRITISH FORCES GAIN GROUND: IN NETHERLANDS

Patton Gets Bridgehead Near Metz, Lose One at  Pont-a-Mousson   ;   PROBE THE ARDENNES   First Army Broadens Base; Battle Shaping on 200-—  Mile Front

Outmatch Nazi Troops Sent In For Land Support   American Forces Push Forward In Fierce Fight For Cassino, Cisterna

All Types of Bombers Hit Airdromes in Concentrated Mid-Day Attack —Fight Japanese Planes Shot Down.

Initiative Is Regained in Fierce Fight   Ground Littered With Dead Germans, Stream Choked With Bodies

EXPECT NAZIS TO ATTACK IN MORE VIOLENCE   Better Weather Gives Allied Air Power Full Opportunity to Assist Ground Forces.

British Lash Out Savagely   Planes Support Land Fight. ing; Americans Pour Into Cassino

British Stop Nazi Attacks, : Retake Bridge   Americans Hacking Way Through Cassino on. Soanth Front

Yanks Make 200-Yd. Gain In Cassino   Report Germans Have Bombed Another Allied  Hospital.

MAKE GAIN AT CASSINO   Nazi Offensive On Anzio Beachhead is Slackening

Fighting Is Diminishing in Aprilia Sector As Nazis Regroup For Another Onslaught

CASSINO FIGHT IS CONTINUING, YANKS ADVANCE   Hundreds of Our Planes Take to Air—German Man Losses are Hiah.

Beach Position Better   Tommies Hurl Back Elite Naz: Infantry Troops

GERMAN ATTACKS   Americans Advance Slightly in Heavy Fighting  at Cacecinga

GERMAN INFANTRY FROM FRANCE HAS BEEN OUTMATCHED   Strategic Bridge Is Captured By Allies, 5th Army at Cassino Fight Furiously For Break-Through.   REPORT NAZI ATTACKS HAVE BEEN DIMINISHED   Allies, Nazi Exchange Blows on German Base at Amsterdam and Attack Upon London.

British Claim First Definite Victory in Days   Germans Driven From Important Bridge On Rome Beachhead

BRITISH FORCE TAKE STRATE BRIDGE AND HOLD NORTHERI BANK OF IMPORTANT RIVER

GAIN STRATEGIC BRIDGE AFTER FIERCE BATTLE   Nazi Onslaught Slackening

ALLIED HOLD ON BEACHHEAD BECOMES FIRM   American Headquarters Reports Consolidation of All Positions.   BULLETIN

ALLIES BAb 6 JAP SHIPS   YANKS STILL FIGHTING REMNANTS OF CONVOY

Allied Planes Pounce On Japanese Convoy   Six Ships Are Sunk in the Bismarck Archipelago; Attack Still in Pranra««

Japan’s Convoy Off Mussau Loses Six Ships To Bombers With Attack Still Going On

Nip Convoy Off Massua Island  Under. Attack   Six -Vessels Sunk Or Dam-aged;. Others Fleeing; Bomber Assault Still  ~ -Jn Progress

Six Jap Ships Sunk And Attack Still Going On In Mussau Island Area

JAP CONVOY AT FLIERS’ MERCY   Six Ships Sunk Or Dam. aged Off Mussau By Allied Bombers

Japs’ Convoy Being Raided   Several Ships Hit Off Massau Island,

BOMBERS ATTACK JAPANESE. CONVOY   SIX SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN BATTLE OFF MUSSAU ISLAND

SIX JAP SHIPS ROUTED AT SEA   MacArthur Reports Enemy Vessels Sunk or Damaged Off Massau Island

Japs Lose Six Ships      Convoy Off Mussau Island At Mercy of Allied Bombers; Attack Still Going On

Six Jap Ships Sunk, Damaged   Foe Convoy at Mercy Of Allied Bombers in Bismarck Archipelago

Bombers Blast Jap Convoy  Six Ships Sunk or Damaged; Planes Hunt for Others

Planes Blast Jap Convoy   Six Ships Sunk or Damaged; Attempting to Supply Bismarck Loop

Germans Withdraw 17 Divisions into Hills in Effort to  Avoid Destruction

NO BEACHHEAD AT ANZIO NOW   Highway To Naples Open For Men And Munitions On Way To Rome

Arrest 10 In  Whiskey Plot Accused Of Stealing From Railroad Car

FBI Seizes Ten In Theft 0£510 Cases Of Liquor   Big Haul Made From Railroad Car After Tip By Rail Workers.

8,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Europe In 24 Hours   Pargets Hit From Coast To Berlin   Americans Smash Six Avia. tion Centers Deep  In Reieh

TWIN ATTACKS LEAVE CAPITAL NEAR KNOCKOUT   American Day Bombers Raid Targets In France

Well Known ‘U.S. Author  War Victim   Frederick Faust Killed  In Action On Italian  Front

F aust, War Writer, Killed In Battle  Created Dr. Kildare  . + e — s Ri aries

LL I  MAX BRAND IS ~ WAR CASUALTY   Noted Author Killed ix  New Offensive

Greek Peace Pian Refused   British Turn Down EAM Offer for Failure To Halt Resistance

British General Rejects Eam Proposals  Tone of Reply to Peace Officer Reacarded Hopeful

BRITISH REJECT  AFFER BY EAM   Fighting Against ELAS Is Reported Continuing

British Reject Offer by ELAS  “To End Strife   ‘Tone of Scobie’s- Hefusal  Interpreted as Hopeful we Per. Dacca erge

Scobie Rejects  Peace Proposals  Leftists’ Offer Fails To Give Immediate fCecentinn nf Rinting

Greek Peace Bid Rejected By Scobie   Immediate Cessation of Fighting Demanded In Terms by Briton

Greeks Fight, Make Offer   Ask New . Government, Prasecution of Collsbora tionists; British Reject Terms

ade by EAM  Peace Offers re Rejected   Fighting Continues in Athens After British Refusal

GREEKS’ PEACE OFFER REJECTED   FAILS TO MEET BRITISH CONDITIONS—FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ATHENS.

Carrier Planes Blast 10 Japanese Ships  249 Nip Warplanes Are Destroyed in Manila Attack

HALSEY COUNTS 440 JAP PLANES   About 80 Ships Sunk In 2-Day Battle

Halsey Blasts 10 More Ships   S, Carrier Forces Boost Two-Day g to 440 Enemy Aircraft; ve Additional War Vessels Smashed

Attack On Manila Is Repeated   Three Destroyers And Two Escorts Among Victims Of Carrier Planes.

Spurred By General’s Order, Yanks, British And Canadians Drive Furiously For Destruction Of German Forces In France.   Try To Flee Thru Narrow Gap

Trap Cl osing \) > Battered Enemy   Eisenhower Sees ‘Definite Opportunity For Major Allied Victory’ In Northwestern Europe

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Allies Drawing Big Trap Around 100,000 Nazis   General ‘Ike’ Visions Important Win As Boche Attempt To Escape

ALLIED FORCES DRIVE IN FOR FINAL ASSAULT   Planes Hammer  Disruptes Enemy Lines Thruout Northern France

BiG CARRIER AS LAUNGHE!   TWO CRUISERS" ARE” ALSO _ LAUNCHED IN TRIPLE CERE~ 7 , : MONY AT PHILADEL- .  . PHIA YARD

British Push Seven Miles to Mezzano 19 Planes Missing   19 Planes Missing in Davy’s Sorties

Two Army Pilots Accused of Rape   War Heroes Held On Girl's Charge

‘English Poet Laureate Believes Russia Will Be One of Strongest ‘Forces for Postwar World Peace

England’s  Poet-Lanreate Douhbis U. S. Will Be Much Help in Settling  Europe’s Problenis

COMMITTEE BLOCKS BOOK DISTRIBUTION   Pamphlet Regarding Negroes Purchased by : : Wer Den’t

Seventy-I'wo Wrecked on Ground, Indicating Foe Was  Caught by Surprise, and Eight Blasted From Skies—200  ’ Tons of Bombs Dropped on Enemy Base — Australians Driving Toward Madang Move Up Ramu Valley.

80 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED IN WEWAK RAIL   Enemy Air Force Apparent: ly Caught Unawares; Raid Is Heavy

FLIERS DESTROY 80 JAP PLANES   Wewak Base Surprised: Australians Advance Up Ramu Valley

BO PLANES AT WEVIAK BLASTED   Allied Airmen Stage Heavy Raid On Jap Base On New Guinea; Enemy Force Is Caught By Surprise *

80 ENEMY PLANES. - WRECKED ‘IN RAID   Heavy Attack Made on Base in New Guinea by Allies

80 Japanese Planes Smashed As Allied Heavies Hit Wewak   Japs Completely Off Guard: 72 Planes Destroyed On Ground .Fiacht Shat Dawn

Allies Destroy i} Jap Planes   MacArthur Reports Atlack on Wewak

CHEST’S TOTAL IS ONLY $35,38   16 More Concerns Here Join 100 Per Cent List

FUND IN CREST GOES 10 $96,38¢   Only Four More Days Left In $147,783 Campaign

Nazi Resistance Wanes in Italy   Allied Drive in Tiber Valley Unopposed

NAZI CITADEL 1S QUTFLANKED   Eighth Army Indians Near Pontassieve

Howard: Bammer : Suffers: Fatal  Heart:Attack =   Stricken While at: Wheel OF School Baa Monday."

Henry Bammer Died At Wheel Of School Bus  Was Victim Of Heart Attack

Successes In Italy By Allies   Both British And American Forces Press Forward;  British Take Stronghold

Arezzo Falls To British; Yanks By-Pass Leghorn   Transportation Hub Falls Without Fight

Expect Removal of All Frozen Fruits And Vegetables From Ration List

Frozen Fruits Ration-F ree   Vegetables Included, Beginning On Sunday

Frozen Fruits and Vegetables and Some  Canned Foods Ration Free Starting Sunday

REMOVE FROZEN FRUIT RATIONING   OPA Acts to Gain More Cold Storage Space

OPA fo Free Frozen Foods   No Points Required  Beginning Sunday es ee a er i

Frozen Food to be Taken Off OPA List      Expect Present .Meat Points to Remain in Effect During Anril -

To Remove Frozen Vegetables And Fruits From Ration List   Action Designed To Clear Storages For 1944 Production; Meat Values Unchanged

EXPECT CUT IN RATIONING LIST   FROZEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES MAY BE DROPPED IN APRIL.

Frozen Vegetables, Fruits Are Off Ration Lists  Present Meat Values To Be Continued During Next Month

Meat Points Unchanged   Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Will Go On Free List Soon

Frozen Fruits and Vegetables To Be  Removed From Ration Lists Soor

“NO POINTS!   Frozen Fruits “And Vegetab les On Ration-Free Basis . Starting: Sunday.

OPA TO FREE FROZEN FRUITS   - To Continue Present Meat -*Ration Values Thru Aoril

OPA Takes Points Off Frozen Foods   Meat Values Stay; Peas Ration-Free

FROZEN FOODS FREE SUNDA)   Fruits, Vegetables Will Go Off Ration List

BOMBERS oTRIKE BEYOND INVADERS   Range Behind Line in Smashing Drive. to Seal Off Retreat Corridor of Trapped Nazi Seventh Army

PLANES RANGE ALONG RISLE SECOND DAY   In Smashing Drive to Seal Off Retreat Route of Trapped German Sev enth Army.   Major Oil Sources

BLAST AT FOE RETREAT LINE      Allied Bombers Strike. « Nazis Back of Battle  Front in France

Allied Botnbers slike Behind Navi Baltle  ine  KMaavy Parrac Mi Af   Heavy Forces Hit 40 Miles Beyond The Falaise Front

KIEL, STETTIN BOMB TARGETS   Heavy Aerial Warfare Continues Against Germany

RETREATING NAZIS BOMBED BY FLIERS   Smashing Drive Aimed at Sealing Off Escape  Route  an

ALLIED PLANES BLAST FLEEING ENEMY TROOPS   Fighter Bombers Stak Deeper Inland Over France, Belgium And Into Germany  Itself

Hour Radio F Program Monday _ Inaugurates Fifth Bond = . Camnaioan

ENTIRE WESTERN FRONT 1S ABLAZE   Lines Before Cologne Plains Sway Before Attacks   HEAVIEST FIGHTING   Nazis Increase Robot Bomb Attacks; Drone Over as if Information

U. S. First Army 14 Miles In Reich   Germans Throw 10 to 12 Divisions Into Battle Against Three West Front Armies

Germans Fight Fiercely in Sector North of Aachen   ‘STRASBOURG BEING SHELLED BY NaZIc      Resistance Is’ Reported Sterner in Some Sectors

British Lose Two Towns, But Are Said to Have . Regained Them—Yanke Take Weisweiler.   ALLIED CROSSING . OF RHINE REPORTED   Germans Driven From All Save One Small Bridgehead in French City of Strasbourg.

Germans Using Up To 12 Divisions Against 3 Allied Armies Before Cologne   118 NAZI TANKS ARE DESTROYED IN 7 DAYS

(creat Battle Is  Raging on  Cologne Plain   Germans Throw In at Least 7 Divisions Against British Second Army and Recapture Two Towns North of Aachen

Greatest Battle Of Front Rages Before Cologne Plain; Nazis  Use Many Robot Bombs

French City Clear of Foe Except for  Small Group   Terrific Resistance Encountered by Ninth, Germans Recapture  2 Towns from British  U. S. FIRST ADVANCES

Germans” Hold:in: City-;Cut To Grip on One of ‘Three: BRetdeas eft Intact* ~

Future Holds Great Change:   Economic Club Glimpses Post-War Era

TYPHOON FAILS TO HALT YANK LEYTE MOPUF   Survivors Of Enemy Garrison Fall Back On West Coast

Yanks Threaten to Cut Leyte Island in Two   Are Within 10 Miles of Island's West Coast

GUAM CERTAIN > TO BE INVADED   U.S. Task Force Hits  : Island Again     i. _- 7 ® se Te,   Ss eeamenniameemmanel  Japanese Pacific De» fenses Waver

GUAM IS NEXT ~ OBJECTIVE IN ~—. PACIFIC ZONE   CARRIER TASK FORCE SOFTENING UP JAPS FOR LANDING +WEWAK BATTLE — RAGING

The War Tod Hitler Fully "Capable Of Carrying Out Threat Of Europe’s Destruction

COURAGE IN COP PLAN IS URGED   Kelly Speaks at lowa Republican Session

GOP Warned To Choose Wisely In Fateful Year   Nominee Must Have Public’s Confidence, Kelly Tells lowa Conclave.

m rel pire  Em  Ene  to  led Door  [le  Ca  [ls  ha  rs  >Ma      Jap Atolls Topple Swiftly To Advancing Marines

FINLAND STUDIES ARMISTICE OFFER   HELSINKI GIVES NO _ INDICA. TION WHETHER DECISION HAS BEEN REACHED.

Finnish Cabinet  Considers Offer   No Decision Yet  On Moscow's Terms

Finnish Cabinet Studies Russian Terms for Peace   Press of Helsinki Continues Attack On Red Proposals

Cycle Scientists Say Major Depression Will Begin In 1947   _ Best Way To Prepare For Future 1s Sink Funds Into War Bonds

WOULD KEEP ARMY-NAVY GAME "OPEN"   Congressman Suggests Possibility Of Victory Celebration

Hying Weather Better Normand   Bombers Stream Across Channel To Support Troops In Normandy.

FORCES HIT NAZIS ANEW   Strike Hard In Support Of Troops In Normandy

LARGE FORGES OF ALLIED BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS IN ACTION  BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS IN NORMANDY GIVEN AIR SUPPORT

Air Support Wins Praise   Helping British And Americans Advancing On Normandy Front.

Planes Blast Nazi Troops in Normandy   Large Force, With Improved Weather, Aid Land Troops

Airmen Back  Allied Moves   Northwest Paris Bombed By Allied Planes: Hit Lead. ing Railroads.

ALLIED PLANES BACK TROOPS IN INVASION   Large Forces af Bombers and Fighters Stream Across Channel Today.

BOMBERS AlD IN NORMANDY PUSH   Large Allied Planes, Fighter Forces Open Road to German Front

Planes Back Allied Push   Bomb and Strafe Nazi Troops Moving Toward Front

Planes Aid  In ‘Advance   Bombers «In Action: ‘On Normandy. Front

Planes Aid Troops In Normandy   RAF Mosquitos Range Deep Into France During Night

Paris Area Reported Bombed; RAF Night Raiders Pound Oil Plant In Germany

Planes Rip Nazi Lines   Foe Strafed From 10-Foot Altitude By Allied Airmen

Allied Bombers Blast Oil Plant, Support Troops   Mayor Of York Compels Residents To Harbor Refugees From Robots

Allied Planes  Hammer Nazis ‘inFrance   Keep Up Heavy Attack Ahead of Ground Forces

Nazi Trains Shot Up By Allied Planes   Pilots Stream Over Channel To Help Ground Forces

BOMB BRIDGES, - STRAFE TROOPS   85 German Tanks, Armored Cars Bagged by Normandy-Based Wing

—AERIAL—  ALLIED BOMBERS HELP INVADER   Large Forces Of Warplanes Support Troops In Normandy Battle   RAILROADS LASHED   Highway Convoys And Seine River Bridges Also Blasted

AIR BLOWS HELP GROUND FORCES   Trains, Railways, Bridges, Convoys Hit By Raiders

WARD RECORDS ARE WITHHELD   MAIL ORDER COMPANY OFFICIALS REFUSE TO GIVE BUSINESS BOOKS TO ARMY OFFICERS

FIRST RUSSIAN ARMY 73 MILES FROM LWOW   Other Soviet Forces Less Than Nine Mi): From Brest-Litovsk

CATTLEMEN GETTING FRANTIC   MAY HAVE TO KILL CALVES TO SAVE FEED

CATTLE MEN OF SOTHWEST BITTER OVER MEAT SETUE   CHARGE. BUNGLING OF PRO.  GRAM IS CUTTING MEAT SUPPLY AND RUINING THEIR BUSINESS

WAR ANALYST FINDS AT LEAST SOME SATISFACTION FOR ALLIES IN THAT CHIANG.-STILWELL FUSS

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Allies View Old Internal China Row   ‘Big Three’ Can Carry On Fight Against the Japs Without Aid of  Generalissimo

CHINESE POLITICAL UPSET HAS BROUGHT SORE SPOTS TO LIGHT AND ALLIES NOW CAN PROCEED

TODAY   nited Nations In Lo sition to Tighten Final Assauli Plans On Japan Without Further Pacify ing Chiang

SAYS DEWEY TO WIN-25 STATES      GOP National. Chairman Counts Ohio in Republican Camp

Leaves From The Note Book Of A War Correspondent   Me HEAL BOVILF

QUIZ SCHLESS IN DO-C SUIT   Testifies Navy Approved Equipment Rental Contracts

Mercury May Hit '15 Below Here ©   Continued Cold Is Forecast Saturday

Clark's Force Scores  Mile Advance   _ Bombers Continue Hiiting Nazi Communications

HARD-EARNED ADVANCE MADE   Tough Opposition Met By Allied Armies

YANK FLEET IN DARING ATTACK ON JAP PALAU   Truk Pounded For First Time by Land-Based  Planes

Japanese Ships. Withdrew as U. S. Forces Anproached   Allies Suffer SetBack in Burma 100 Miles From Imphal

Huge Naval Assault Openec  —_—ese ll Ttl!lUweDUlU KT TITYAMNM ye

Truk fs Heavily Hit: 118 Jap Planes Lost © In Dutch Guinea: Raid

CHALLENGE 10 FIGHT IGNORED BY NIPPONESE   Formidable Segment of World's Most Powerful Navy Sails Audaciously Past Fortress of Truk   ATTACK IS CONTINUING

Enemy Naval Units Again Flee As Yanks Strike 600  Miles From Philippines

Task Force Shells Jap  Sea Bastion   Generat MacArthur’s Land: Based American Bombers Assault Truk Island Group 

Yanks Blast Isle Within 600 Mis. Of Philippine:   Naval Formation Sails Past Jap’s Truk Bastion To  Hit Palan; Enemy Flees

Japanese Fleet From Palau As American Navy Invites Battle; Japs Gain Ground in India, Burma Sector

Huge Fleet Sails Past Truk; Nips Refuse To Fight   Enemy Bastion Only 600 Miles From Philippines Held By  Japs

Nip Fleet Refuses To Fight Within 600 Miles of Philippines   lruk Raided in Double Attack by U. S. Bombers, Dutch New Guinea Targets Hit by Fliers

FORMIDABLE UNIT OF  U. 8. NAVY INVADES  NEW JAPANESE AREA -PALAU, ONLY 600 MILES  FROM PHILIPPINES, ATTACKED WEDNESDAY

Enemy Fleet Flees From Great Force That Pounds Palau   American Vessels Sail Daringly Past Truk To Hit Foe; Truk Itself Raided By Heavy Yank Bombers As Sweeping Blows Rock Nipponese Bases

Strong Pacific Fleet Forces ‘Pound Palau:   Jap Navy Refuses to Come Out and Fight; Truk Islands Blasted by MacArthur’s Land-Based Bombers

Chavez Demands More Aid Be Sent To Gen. MacArthu   Asks Why Report On Jap Atrocities Was Delayed So Long

DEWEY, RUBBER CZAR, RESIGNS; ASKS ORD END  Says Rubber ‘No Longer Problem’; WPR Takes Over

Rubber Need Ends   Government Says 836,000 Tons Is Synthetic Kind

RUBBER CZAR RESIGNS POS]   HEAD OF ORD DECLARES PROB . LEM 18 MANPOWER IN SYN : : THEXIC RUBBER PLANTS 

Office Of Rubber Director First Washington Bureau To Reach End Of Its Job

RUBBER AGENCY FIRST TO FINISH ITS WAR JOB   Made U. S. Independent of Jap-Held Natural Rubber

INEFFICIENCY AND WASTE ARE CITED BY NAVAL LEADER   Yarnelt Claims Next. War Will Require National Organization On Big Scale

R, R. ROBERTSC RECEIVES SURPRISE ORDNANGE AWARL   Beverly Man is 159th in U.S.A. to Receive Citation

No Yanks In World Police Force - Dewey   GOP Candidate Faces Newsmen in Ist Quiz Session.

DEWEY SEEKS ADVICE OF ALL PARTY LEADERS   Rejects Worid Police Force

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN STORM KILL 22   DRIVING STILL HAZARDOUS IN MIDWEST — AIRPLANE SCHEDULES CANCELED.

22 Die, Victims Of Winter Storm   Snow Causes Mishaps In Several States

Bulgars Slow In Withdrawing  Not Quitting Greece, Yugoslavia Quickly

Strong Yankee Attack Reduces German Salient   Reds, Nazis Locked In Deadly Budapest Battle

25 Divisions Hit Shrinking German Salient   Enemy Forces Face Heavy Casualties Along Spearhead

Engaging 25 Divisions Enemy Says   Enough German Armor Poised for Another Blow.

Germans Now Outnumbered Is Belief   Radio in Germany ” Gives Estimate;  Belgium Bulge  Is Compressed

U. S. Soldier Held; Charged With Treason   Allegedly Helped 2 Nazi Prisoners Escape From Camp Hale, Colo.

Soviet Guns Pour Shells Into Warsaw   » Air Force Joins , * In Final Assault On Pole Capital

Within 30 Miles Of East Prussia; Take 1320 Town:   60-Mile Stretch Is Cleared on Vistula For Mass Crossing

Berlin Asserts. Fortress Secure  Nazis In AntiInvasion Manoanvar

REICH CLAIMS ALLIES FACE 7,700 BIG GUNS   Asserts That invasion Coast Bristles With Weapons

SEVEN CAMP HOOD SOLDIERS KILLED IN WRECK AT BURNET   Three Vehicles Collide Friday injuring Five Others, Three Seriousiy

ACCIDENTS FATAL ~ 10770 PERSONS IN PAST TWO WEEKS   Additional Manslaughter Warrants Have Been Issued in Circus Fire.

Accidents Take Big Toll In U.S.   Dead In Circus Fire Now Placed At 152; Other Big Tragedies

Legion Plan Is Before Congress   Program Encompasses Post-War Education, Demobilization Pay

LEGION OFFERS PROGRAM FOR VETERAN AID   Demobilizaiion Pay, Joh Insurance Credit, Educational Aid Urger for Servicemen

Bi-Partisan Group Enters Far' Reaching Discharge Financial Heip for Soldiers Before Lawmakers—Sponscred by

Legion Boosts sa Pay  a et ey fe ee   Measure Offered to Congress as Substitute For Other Proposals

Financial Aid Program For Veterans  Introduced   Legion-Sponsored Plan Covers Pay, Educational Funds, Unemployment Money

RESISTANCE BY “THE DEFENDERS. HAS STIFFENED   ' But Reduction of Germans  There Is Wow Merely Matter of Time.

SOVIETS READY FOR STORMING OF SEVASTOPOL   Nazi Resistance Grows Stiffer As Siege Nears End

Reds Force Last Mountain Passes  In South Crimea   Tanks, Mechanized Infantry Sweep Over Crumbling Defenses

Flames Se Pouring From City.        DECISIVE ASSAULT ON BLACK SEA CITADEL NEAR! RUSS PI BOMB GERMANS SEEKING Te

Russian Army Closing in On Sevastano!   Thousands Attempt to Escape On Barges

REDS FORGE LAST MOUNTAIN ROUTE TO REACH PLAINS   Decisive Assault Upon Black Sea Citadel Expected as Troops Move on From Burning City.   TRUK MADE TARGET OF TRIPLE ATTACK   Japanese Key Installations {n Carolines Are Bombed and Set on Fire in WeekEnd Raid.

Decisive Assault Underway   Scenes of Terror Reported Along City’s Waterfront

Other Forces Reduce Long . Prepared Defenses > In Suburbs   Germans Destroy Munitions Dumps   Planes Harass Enemy At tempt To Evacuate Sea Port

Balaklava Expected to Topple Soon   Artillery, Bombers Harass Enemy’s Evacuation Efforts

TWO ARMIES IN FINAL ASSAULT ON SEVASTOPOL   New Gains in Dnestr Area

RUSSIANS IN SUBURBS OF SEVASTOPOL   One Army Driving Toward Balaklava, East of Port

Leaves From Notebook  Americans Meet Old German Friends on Italian Frontier

Russians Now Within 138  Miles of Buda-  pest MANY TOWNS HELD  IN SWIFT ADVANCE Other Troops Move on  the Capital of Estonia

Russians Now Within 138  Miles of Buda pest  MANY TO IN SWIFT ADVANCE Other Troops _ Move on "the. Capital of   Estonia 

OUVIETS NEAR OLD HUNGARY BORDER   Reach Plains in Downhill Push Knock Hungary Out Of War; Nazi Retreat in North Declared a Rout

HUNGARY ONLY 17 MILES AWAY FROM RUSSIANS   Second Ukraine Army Is But 138 Miles Southeast  Of Budapest   WARSAW SECTOR IS STILL UNMENTIONED

KUSSIANS SWEEP TOWARD HUNGARY ON o0-MILE FRONT   Second Ukraine Army Reaches Point 17 Miles From Border of Big Axis Satellite.   OTHER SOVIET FORCES ADVANCE IN ESTONIA   Berlin Reports Reds Still Hold Positions on West Bank of Vistula Near Warsaw.

Red Army-Drives Within 17 Miles Of Hungary Line   Moscow Reports Other Wide Gains;  Silent on Warsaw

Yanks Advanee On Wide Front On Leyte Island   General MacArthur Sets Up Temporary Capital at TaclobanJap Supply Problem

LUNGE FORWARD ON LEYTE ISLE; JAPS RETREAT   MacArthur Announces Plans For Construction Great Bases For Future Operations.

Advance On Wide  Front   Captured Tacloban Becomes Temporary Capital of Islands; Jap Laws Are Voided

PUSHING JAPS BACK STEADILY   Great Philippine Base Will Be  Constructed

JAPAN FACES SERIOUS SUPPLY PROBLEM AS AMERICANS DIG IN AND PREPARE TO BUILD FIELDS

TANKS RIDDEN INTO BATTLE BY AMERICANS   NAZI LINE BROKEN; 14 FRENCH TOWNS ARE LIBEKATED

Gains Up to Five Miles Reported in Normandy Area   TOWNS ARE TAKEN      Renewed Attack of British and Canadians Slawed

Nazis Hurl British Back in One Area; Reds Keep Going  Soviets Now 57 Miles

4 MILE-WIDE CP TOK           Two German Division: Badly Mauled in Big: gest American Blow Since Cherbourg Drive.         BRITISH FOUGHT TO A STANDSTILE      Tommies Reported Hurled From Esquay and ‘Styategic Hill 112 itt Serious Setback.

Yanks Smash 5 Miles Through Breach 4, Miles Wide in Lines Near St. Lo

AMERICAN TANK, INFANTRY DRIVE SMASHES NAZIS   First And Second German Defense Crumbled On Four-Mile Front   BRITISH-CANADIANS ARE AT STANDSTILL

DRIVE QUTFLANKS LINE OF GERMANS   British- Canadian Offensive Bumped to Standstill   SERIOUS SETBACK   British Forces Said to Have Been Hurled From Town Of Esquay

“Two Vital Road Junctions Captured by Doughboys: Riding Aboard Tanks ©

At Least 14 Towns Taken  In Offensive   First Army Attacks All Along 20-Mile Front; Two Road Hubs Seized; British Drive Stalled

Americans Cut Highway From St. Lo To Coutanceg   eae St. Lo Making Their Deepest Pene ivatinam Simnen Fd. F tee

State Police Are Told To Enforce Law At Weirton   County Officers Said Depriving Citizens Of Rightful Liberties

SEND TROOPERS INTO WEIRTON   Instructed — by Governor To Protect Order After  CIO Arrests

__ INGAS BLACK MARKET DRIVE   Iowa OPA Officer Appeals to Consumers for : Help.

OPA Announces Gas Regulations To Be Enforced   mT Irregular ‘Coupons Held By Dealers to Be Rejected

SUPREME SUPREME COURT IN SESSION. WITH MANY CASES. BEFORE '   HIGH TRIBUNAL STILL SPLIT ON CONTISTUTIONAL I88UES _ AND PERSONAL QUARRELS

SECOND JAP DAYLIGHT ATTACK ON U.S. CARRIER TASK FORCE, FORMOSA   Prater Becomes Ace

CARRIER TASK FORCE CLOUTED BY JAP FLYERS   At Least 60 Planes Are Brought Down In Battle Off  Formosa

PHONE STRIKE STUDIED BY WLB   No Indication That Row Is Cleared at Hearing

NO SETTLEMENT IN PHONE ISSUE   MVLB Seeks Solution: To Present Situation In Dayton

Senate Group OK’s Bill To End Subsidies   Tosses Fight Now Now To Floor Of Senate After Acting To Reverse Itself

FDR's Subsidy Plea Rejected By Committee   Bankhead Bill Is Sent Back To Senate Floor

Uz S. Senate Committee Reports Out Measure To End Food Subsidies

Senate Group Votes to End Food Subsidy   Senate Banking Group Approves Bankhead Bill To Terminate Program

Group Rejects Subsidy System   Senate Committee Rejects \ppropriations; Favors  Bankhead Bill.

Subsidy Bil Dealt 2 Blow: In Committee   Fight Due in Senate As Fund Plea Loses, Benkhead Plan Wins

Banking Group Rejects Request for Use of $1 Bits lion for Subsidies.

Reject Bid For Funds For Subsidie:  Senators Report oF ges   Senators Report One Bill to "Om June 30

SENATE GROUP REJECTS FOOD SUBSIDY PLEA   Banking Commiltee, Reversed by Shift sf Two Republican Mem:  bers, GE's ankhead Bill   REBUFF FOR FDR   Bill Sent to Floor Similar to Measure Passed by House in Novemher

ADMINISTRATION REQUEST ON FOOD . SUBSIDY REJECTED   Senate Banking Committee * Turned Down Appeal for  $1,500,000,000.   BANKHEAD BILL OKAYED   While Issue Was Sent to the ' Senate Floor for Debate.

SULONS REJECT SUBSIDY PLAN   BANKING COMMITTEE OKAYS BANKHEAD BILL

Senate Group Approves Measure To Terminate All Food Subsidies By June 20 -

Controversy ‘Tossed Onto Senate Floor; Stimson Pushes Labor Draft

Would Lop Off Food Subsidies At End of June   Senate Committee Rejects Request For Use of Billion and Half.   Explosive Issue Sent  To Floor For Debate

Committee Would Drop Food Subsidy   Bankhead Measure Halts Price Support After June 30

Reject Bid For Funds For Subsidies   Senators Report _One Bill to “End Subsidies On June 30

Committee Acts To End Subsidy Plan; Question Goes to Senate   Group OK’s Bankhead Bill, Rejects Administration Request

Senate Committee Refuses to Retain Subsidies  Bitter Floor Battle Looms on Whole Controversial Plan

BANKHEAD BILL WINS APPROVAL   Senate Banking Committee Indogses Act to End Subsidies June 30

SENATE BANKING © COMMITTEE DENIES FUNDS FOR SUBSIDY   Billion and Half Subsidy Fund Sought by Administration Must Go to Senate Floor

BANKHEAD BILL IS SLATED FOR SENATE ACTION   SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE FAVORS LEGISLATION, 10-9

Turns Thumbs Down On Subsidy Request   Funds Not Available,  Committee Says; issue Goes ta Senet C1...

10-9 Vote for Ending Subsidies   Senate Committee Reverses Previous Action, Sends . Measure to Floor   LENGTHY BATTLE IS FORECAST   Two Republicans, Taft and Tobey, Swing Support ’ ¢9 Bankhead Bill

ITY FREED BY FAMOUS FRENCH UNIT   Deny Crossing Rhine Into Southern Germany 

Allied Guns Shell Germans  Across Rhine  Battle Rages For Three Bridges

Allies Liberate Strasbourg; Take 2000 Nazis   Push to Rhine Bridge Approaches As Ariillery Fire Spans River; Nazis Battle for Escape Routes

PULP PRODUCTION TN NATION LOWE!   WPB Expresses Concern: Lumber Production Down 14.9 Per Cent.

/6 Nurses Stilt Believed To Be Jap Prisoners   Army Files Show 66 Nurses Are Among Bataan and Corregidor Prisoners; 10 Navy Nurses Taken At Manila.

76 ARMY, NAVY WOMEN NURSES JAP PRISONERS   Little Band Captured at Corregi dor Among 50,000 American Filipino Captives

76 U. S. Nurses  Nippon Prisoners   Official Casualty List Shows 22,331 U. S. Soldiers  Taken at Bataan.   Captured 50.000

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U.S. SUBS SINK 15 MORE SHIPS   Knox Reports on Underseas Campaign Against Japs; British Bag Seven

U.S. Subs Get 15 Jap Vessel:   Planes Sink Another 5, * British Destroy 7

U.S. Golc to Help Rebuild   China Issues Appeal for Postwar Capital at Monetary Parley

Germans May Try to Save Followers by Placing Them in Prison Camns

‘Navy Refuses to Allow Mrs. Howe to Put All Her Eggs in a Single Basket

\Ne avy Team Broken Up  ‘Thr ee Husky Brothers Peeved  Ov er Order To Separate Then

Brothers No Longer Serve Together; No More Sullivan Cases For Navy

M'ARTHLR MAY LEAD. INVASION » OF PHILIPPIES   Acting Prime Minister of Australia Makes Suggestion

Philippines Due to Feel Blows Soon   MacArthur, Forde Sec Pathway Open To Yank Invasion

Sees Invasion of Philippines. In Short Time   Troops Close In On Airfield After New Landing On Biak Isle

BIAK ISLAND [5 LATEST JUMP BY  MPARTHUR’S MEN   Brings Allied Forces to Within 900. Miles of Philippine  lelande

Early Invasion of Philippines Seen:   Australian Chief Predicts Attack -

Early Drive To Liberate Philippines   Prime Minister Forde Declares Invasion Nearer

Island Blow Expected To Be Launched Soon   Australian Predicts Allied Action In Few Months

U. S. Jungle Troops Close In On Mokmer Airfield On Biak After Capturing Main Village Of Bosnek

Australian Official Suggests Allies May Invade Philippine Islands Soon

Yanks 900 Miles From Philippines   Early Arrival At MacArthur's Goal Predicted After Landing On Biak Isle In 200-Mile Invasion Jump

Aussie Premier Sees Invasion of Philippines   Predicts Allied Attempts Before Many Months

Finnish Capital Bombed   More Than 100 Russian Bombers Do Severe Damage To Helsinki Saturday.

Raid on Enemy Fleet Midway Between Luzon and Saipan May Develop into Decisive Pacific Battle Long Awaited by Admiral Nimitz

Action Probably Is Opening Phase of AwaitedShowdown   Nip Force Spotted Monday Midway Between Luzon Is. and Marianas

Tokyo Admits Losses in Engagement   American Warplanes Score Hits on Strong Enemy Fleet

American Carrier Planes Attack Jap Fleet Monday  Evening In First Action

Nimitz Communique Announces Decisive Battle Continuing; Midway Between Luzon, Saipan, Losses Unassessed; Entire Jap Navy May Be Massed for History-Makina Fight

Showdown battle Looms — As Yanks Hit at Enemy’s Sea Power in Full Force

Tokyo Admits Losses in Engagement  A es pn Vas Pe ae   American Warplanes Score Hits on Strong Enemy Fleet

AMERICANS AND BRITISH ADVANCE iN. PO VALLEY   Germ ans Resisting Stiffly Fall Back Aercss Apennines

Yanks Within 14 Miles of Bologna   Battle Through. Mud Toward Po Valley

bth Battles Through Mud on Italian Front   Two Salients Driven Toward Gnlanna

oTH ARMY 14 MILES FROM BOLOGNA   Gen. Alexander Appeals to Italians To Attack Nazis

Allies Battle Mud In Po Valley Push   Two Salients Driven Within 14 Miles Of Bologna At Gateway To Plains.

ALLIES STRIVE FOR BOLOGNA AS MUD BOGS ROADS   Troops Averaging Two Miles Per Day

Allies Battle Through Mud Filled Roads in Hills Before. Po Valley

SHARP CUT ORDERED IN TRUCK, BUS TIRES   Military Needs Slash August Quota To 60,000 Casings

Says 50 Divisions — Poised for. Invasiot   Paris Radio Declares 80, 000: Paratroopers Also Await Signal in Southern. England, ‘Where Allied Troop Ships Are Massed.

Link To Arnhem Again Reopened Is Allied Report   News Is Sparse On Situation Concerning Besieged Sky Troops   HOLLAND CORRIDOR IS BEING WIDENED

TWO TEENGIRLS RELATE PARTY DETAILS   Former Mevie Star Continues Defense Testimony

GIRLS DESCRIBE COOPER PARTY   ACTOR TO TESTIFY ON DELINQUENCY CHARGE

MUSTERING OUT PAY DISCUSSION IN HOUSE TODAY      , ‘Congress Heads Toward First Fight On Important  Question

Million Given For Promotion  Of Healing Arts   More Is Promised By Financier Baruch; Wauts To Aid Veterans

GOP Candidate Calls On All Americans To Join Him In Hoping For Success Of Nation With FDR Leading 398 To 133 In Electoral Votes.

Conferences On Postwar Planned   Controversies To Be Ironed Out By Groups

Local leacher Will Supervise Food Production.  W. M. Wichelmann To Assist In War Food Program

‘Wichelmann Chosen To Direct.» War Food Training Program   He's Assistant State Supervivor—Will Cover N.W. Iowa

MacARTHUR MEN TAKE ROBOT TANKS USED TO ADMIRALTY ISLE WITH BREACH ALLIED LINES; LITTLE FOE RESISTANCE MAIOR DRIVE RENEWED

'X-DAY’ PLANS MADE BY WPE   New Committee Would Function When Germany Gives Up the Fight

Make Ready For ‘X-Day’   WPB Forms Board to Handle Shift-Over to Civilian Output When Germany Collapses

WPB Prepares For Collapse Of Nazi Foe   Sets Up Planning Ahead Agency to Direct Reuse of War Plants

BOMBERS LASH JAP OIL CENTER OF BALIKPAPAN   Yank Flyers Have Only * One Air Base Left in Southeast China

American Fliers Battle To Hold Last Field In China; Jap Borneo Oil Center Hit

Planes in China Keep Attacking   Tokyo Forecasts Long War in Pacific

U.S. WARPLANES HIT JAPANESE IN CHINA TODAY   Cholera Breaking Out In Island  Near Liuchow

AMERICAN:-WARPLANES HAVE ONLY ONE BASE IN SOUTHEAST CHINA  JAPANESE BROADCAST TELLS OF THE DEATH OF SEVEN MORE ADMIRALS

Nips Lose 7 More Admirals   U. S. Planes Maintain  Attacks on Japs From Lone China Airfield

CONSTANT AIR DRIVE ON NIPS BY U.S. AIRMEN   Yanks Use Last Remaining Base in China to Continue to Pound Jananese   BORNEO’S OIL CENTER BLASTED BY BOMBERS

BOMB SORNED CENTER FOR Ol   U. $. Bombers Operating From Ever-increasing Number of Fields.   CROWD CHINESE BASE

Jap Oil Base Heavily Hit  By Bombers   Devastating Attack Carried Out On Borneo; Filipinos Will Not Fight U. S.

— & 4B Ee ee  War Takes Heavy Toll Of Admirals      Tokyo Reports Death Of 7 More Japanese Sea Commanders

U.S. ‘Bombers Hit Oil Center In Giant Raid  Over Borneo   ‘Seven More Nippon ‘Admirals Are. Dead.

U.S. Planes In Attacks On » Jap Target:   Blast Japanese Column: In China And Deliver Severe Blow Against Balikpapan Oil Center

Balikpapan, Japs’ Borneo Oil Center, Pitted With Bombs   74 Tons of Explosives Leave Huge Fires at Big Jap Refinery

U.S. FLIERS HIT ADVANCING NIPS IN CHINESE WAR   Yank Airmen in Pacific Rip Vital Jap Oil Targets in Borneo

OIL TARGETS IN BORNEO BLASTEL   HUGE FIRES SET OFF AT BALIKAPAN ~ BY U. S, BOMBERS

YANKS HAMMER JAP OIL CENTER   Balikpapan Gets Hard Blow; Chinese Raids Continue

Bombers Batter Jap Oil Center Of Balikpapan   Borneo Targets Hit; U.S. Airmen Striking From Last Base In Southeast China

U.S. Devastates Balikpapan Oil Center of Nippon   Yanks Reduced to One China Air Base to Fight Nips

U.S. Bombers Smash Borneo’ : Balikpapan Oi) Site   Called Most. Lucrative ategic Target n Pacific Area

U.S. Warplanes Crowd into Last Of China Bases   Yank Bombers Smash Borneo Oil Center At Balikpapan

Borneo Oil Center Hit by M’Arthur   With Only One Base in China ‘Left, Yanks Lash Out at Threatening Foe

LONE AIRPORT HELD BY YANKS IN SOUTH CHINA   Borneo Qil Center Blasted: Tokyo Reports Death Of Seven Admirals

U. S. Bombers Smash Borneo  Oil Center   Warplanes Operate From One Remaining Base in China,  Fields in Pacific

q :  JAP-OIL SOURCE IN BORNEO HIT   Meanwhile, Yanks Find Going In China Tougher

U. S. Planes Harass Jap Columns, Blast Enemy Oil Centerin Borneo

BORNEO'S OIL PLANT BOMBED, FIRES STARTEL   Meanwhile Japs Crowd American Warplanes Into Only Remaining Base in Southeast China.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN (AP War Fditor)

SOLDIERS ABHOR BOUNCING BETTY   Nazi Land Mine Called Public Enemy No. 1 By Americans

"Bouncing Betty,’ A Nazi Land Mine, Is PublicEnemy No. 1 To Our Troop

Strike Deeper {nto Poland From Newly Established Rakitno Base.   WEATHER AIOS TROOPS

Foe Apparently Unable to Halt Vatutin’s Drive  Into Old Poland   Bagramian’s Baltic Push Gaining Momentum   2-Mile-a-Day Gain by Reds Since Fahrunara

uermans Using Every Means In Attempt to Halt Russians   Spring Thaws Turn Ukrainian Soil Into Sea of Mud

NAZIS BATTLE. FURIOUSLY TO HALT SOVIET!   Rush Air Reinforcements and Counterattack Along Southern Sector,

Battles — Waged- Under Some of Worst Conditions of War   TARNOPOL PERILED   Soviet Vanguard Within 100 Miles of Czech Border

Reds Closing Ring Around Tarnopol   Germaus Try Desperately To Stop Russians in Ukraine

RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON TARNAPOL   Approach Border Of Lwow Province; Mud Slows Fighting

Reds Threaten Tarnopol, Key Railroad Junction   Encounter Stiffer Resistance; Thaws  Turn Roads to Mud

Reds Advance On Tarnopol. Lwow Borden   Batthe Rages In Worst Fighting Conditions Of War: Nazis Reinforced

SOVIETS REPEL DESPERATE NAZI COUNTER BLOWS   Steamroller Offensive Overwhelms German Attempts At Rallies

RED ARMY NEAR LWOW PROVINCE   Czech Border Is Less than 100 Miles from Front

Russians Close on Tarnapal   Spring Thaws Turn Soil Into Mud Pits; Fighting Confined To Main Highways

SOVIET TROOPS SWEEP THROUGH MUDDY UKRAINE   Close In On Key Junetion

Ukraine Reds Enforce Drive On [Lwow Province   Wage Running Battles On Germans To Push Enemy From Russ Soil

Reds Flatten Nazi Dri: 2s   Desperate Countirs Fail on East Front

Suspend Largest Sedition Trial —   G-Men Launch Search Missing Defendant

Biagest Sedition Trial Enters 2nd Day With One Defendant Missing

OHIO LEGISLATURE TO MEET IN APRII   Ballott for Armed Forces : Primary Purpose

QL FLAS Tit TO SCHOOL PUPILS   Judge Orders All Under 16 Cleared from Courtroom; to Test Youth’s Story

EE SEB Be BBN ATES  Arnall Oppeses: Poll Tax, Wants Soldier Voting

Germans Wigele tree   New trap Piaaned To Snare Germans, Allics Announce

Kluge’s Panzers Evade Allied Tray  In West France   High Command Must Fine New Means to Destroy Nazi Armored Forces

FIGHT FOR A PORT   Finns and Germans in Battle Near Swedish Border

RED PRESS DECLARES FINNS BROKE PLEDGE   Claims That Officials Aidec Nazi Troops In Escape

Moscow GlaimsArmistice Terms Broken By Finns   Changed Helsinki Cabinet Has Castren Replacing Hackzell As Premier

Declare Finns Break Promise   Leading Soviet Newspapers Charge Finland With Breaking Creed.

BOMBS LASH STUTTGART   Allied Raiders Also _ Blast Cologne   London Hit Again by Robot Bombs

REDS 14 MIL FROM PLOESTI IN RAPID DRIVE   Soviets Control Oil Pipeline With Port of Constanta Captured

U. S. LEAPFROG HOP CAPTURES WAKDE AIRBASE   Gen. MacArthur Foresees Re-conquest Of All Dutch N. Guinea

Conquest of All Dutch New Guinea by Amerians Seen   Seivure of Wakde Puts U. S. Troops Nearer to Philippines

Re-Conquest of All Dutch New Guinea Forecast   Western Tip Is Only 650 Miles From Philippines

WAKDE BASE CAPTURED BY U.S. TROOPS   Presages Reconquest Of All Dutch New Guinea

125- Mile Jump Presages Conquest Of New Guinea   ‘Gen. MacArthur Announces Conquest in i Jubilant Communique; Says Opposition Slight 

FALL OF WAKE SEALS. JAP OOM   MacArthur Predicts Qusting from New Guinea.

YANKS CLOSER TO PHILIPPINES IN WAKDE FALL   Amphibious Jump Seen Re-Conquest Of All Duteh Guinea

CONQUEST OF WAKDE. BRINGS OPPORTUNITIES   Recapture of Entire Dutch New Guinea Seen by General

Captured Germans Think Decisive Battle for Europe Still Remains to Be Fought

Combat Patrol Blasts Forward Qn Beachhead   American Group Improves Position Northwest Of Padighione At Anzio.   FIRST GAIN ON GROUND

Yanks Improve Beach Position   Grenades Carve Pathway  Rav Amertenn Anwanpa

hie whl. e eee Ta  Allies F Finally  Dent Geri "ail Line vat Anzio (merican: n Combat. Patrol  Makes Kirst Advance of Last. ‘Ny vo: Weeks  NAZI FLIERS BACK  \irmen Hammer . “Away at Nazi Supply’ Lines  Along Rome Route                 ‘AZI PLIERS BACK

Yanks Improve Their Position  Blast Way Forward   Blast Way Forward With Hand Grenades On Anzio Beachhead

AMERICANS IMPROVE POSITIONS AT ANZIO   First Gain in Two Wecks Scored as Patrol Slashes Way Forward With Grenades.

Yanks In Anzio Area Advance  With Grenades   Establish Position North. west of Padislione for First Gain in Two  _ .Weeks

Local Anzio Action Gains Some Ground   American Patrol Blasts Way Forward With Grenades

Allies Bolster Anzio Gains In Bitter Fightina   First Succeasful Action Seen Since Cassine Bottleneck

Yanks At Anzio Beachhead Score Slight Advance   Destroyers Offshore Aid In Drive 

Yanks Make New Gain On Anzio Beachhead Edge   Little Other Activity Reported On Italian Front

Americans Win Improved Position Anzio Beachhead:   Blasting Way Forward With Hand Grenades; First Gain in 2 Weeks

REICH BOMBED FOR 26TH DAY   U.S. Forces Wing Toward Paris German Radios Silent Again

Doughboys of Two Armies Are Eleven Miles From Gateway   Many Vicious Counterattacks Are Repulsed by Allied Forces

Large Scale Battle Develop ing for Rambervillers; Allied Gains Hard Won

TWO AMERICAN ARMIES MOVING FORWARD DESPITE REPEATED STRONG NAZI COUNTER DRIVES ©

82 NAZI TANKS WRECKED BY SRD ARMY   Capture 8 To 10 Villages In Southern Sector   Asked By Enemy At Calais; Push Westward From Salient In Holland

STIFF FIGHTING. ON SOUTH END   Yanks of Two Armies Ads vance to Within Sight of Famous Belfort Pass,   i BRITISH PUSHING AHEAD

: Third and Seventh Armies Make Advances of 3 to 5 Miles   KNOCK OUT 82 TANKS   British Second Army Closes Up to Maas on 20Mile Front

Famous Spot Within Sight Of 2 Armies   Other Gains Are Recorded As Allies Pound Nazis +

DRIVE WITHIN SIGHT OF KEY BELFORT PASS   Push Toward Rhine Gateway, British Close On Maas River

Two Forces Within Sight of Belfort Pass Which Is Near German Frontier in South.   PATTON’S MEN KNOCK OUT 82 NAZI TANKS

Other Gains  Recorded During Day   Third and Seventh Armies Fight Off Heavy German Counterattacks; Yanks Knock Out 82 Enemy Tanks in Desperate Fighting

Patton Advances  3 Miles   Germane Sacrifice Tanks, Other Armor In Slow Retreat

YANKEES FIGHT OFF ASSAULTS BY NAZI FORCES   Patton’s Men Knock Out 82 Tanks; Press Ahead 3 to 5 Miles

8? Nazi Tanks Knocked Out By Patton's Force  Enemy Assaults In Rattla Ear Ralfart   Enemy Assaults In Battle For Belfort Gap Area Broken B;  Yankee Troops

Forces Work Within 20 Ta 25 Miles Of Four Main Avenues To Reich   Ist Army Advances North Of Aachen   Large-Scale Battle Developing For Rambervillers, Southeast Of Nancy

GERMAN FRONTIER IS THREATENED ALONG SOUTHERN SECTOR  AMERICAN DOUGHBOYS WITHIN SIGHT OF FAMOUS BELFORT PASS

Calais Battle Resumes" After Nazi C ommander. Asks Surrender Terms

U.S. Third.and Seventh Armies Advance Five Miles in Alsace; Calais Commander Asks Terms

Palton and Paich Near Road Web      Large Scale Battle Is Developing in South; 82. Nazis Tanks Knocked Out   SMALLER GAINS IN DUTCH SECTOR   All Allied Forces Beat. Off Strong Counter Blows and Register Gains

- Counter E-ows Halted   To North, British Mass Strength ' Near Reich Border

First Army Makes Mile Gain in North   Patton’s Troops Fight Off German Attacks; Smash 82 Nazi Tanks

‘Nazis Strike Back In Effort Loosen Tight Grip On Entire Front   Large-Scale Battle Is Forming Near Nancy —Farther North British Troops Are Near Meuse—U. 8S. Cavalry Used In Making Gain Of Mile Smashing At German-Dutch Border

Patton’s Troops Alone Knock Out 82 Nazi Tanks   British 2nd and ’Chutists Close Up to Maas River for Threatened Offensive Erom Corridor in Holland

GERMANS MOUNTING POWERFUL COUNTER-ATTACKS IN ITALY; YANKS GAIN IN RESIGNANO

GERMANS COUNTERATTACK IN ITALY      Otr:er Most Bitter Resistance Yet Encountered - Since Start of Latest Alhed  Drive.

Ast Army Units Within 1 Mile Fortress City   Infantry Fights Out of Dank Hurigen Forest lo Seize 1000 Yards Roer Bank Area   Doughboys Fight Cellar to Cellar   Clearing Stiff-Resisting Germans From String Of Fortified Villages West of Duren

Revive Liberal Jnemployment  Benefits Plan  Senate Backers of  Murray-Kilgore Bill rT Mm.._... Ekhact

JOBLESS PAY BILL BEING REVIVED   Surprise Move Developing ir Congress for Postwar Benefits

Two Top Legislative Posts Likely To Go to Senators from the West

WEST TO GET 2 TOP POSTS IN CONGRESS   Sens, Thomas of Utah and Wheeler of Montana in Line for Important Committee Chairmanships.

AMERICAN AIRMEN "FIRE HENGYANG   YANKS BOMB CHINESE CITY AFTER ABANDONING AIR BASE NEAR BY. .

Stilwell Bombs Hengyang and (Nearby Abandoned U. S. Base 'As Japanese Encircle Key City

Figures for Shipping Sunk Made Higher   23 Nipponese Vessels Known to Have Been Sunk in Recent Raid

Jap Ship Losses At Truk Raised   Number Of Nipponese Vessels Sunk Raised To 23 By Navy; Six Others Probably Sunk And 11 Damaged In Raid

Nimitz Revises Figures on Truk Raid to Reveal 23 Ships Sunk; _ Six Probably Sunk and 11 Damaged

23 JAP VESSELS WERE DESTROYED IN TRUK BATTLE   Study Of Photographs Re veals Six Others Were Probably Sunk

23 23 Japanese Vessels Sent _ Down In Assault On Truk   Six Others Probably Sunk and Eleven Damaged, Ac“ cording to Revised Navy Figures—Ponape  . os Smashed by Bombers

37 Small Craft Damaged by  Carrier Fleet   Yank Losses Total 45 Planes: Bold Strokes Draw No Retaliation From Japanese Fleet

CONTROLS ON PRICES, WAGES TO CONTINUE   Byrnes Says Rationing Will Also Prevail After Fall Of Germany;  Stahilizatinn Fecesantial

Wage Ceilings Will Remain  Byrnes Advises   Control must continue until war is over; C. I. 0. warns WLB against “delay on plea.

Byrnes Sees Post V- Day Price Curbs  Advises Control Until Final Defeat of Japan

Price, Wage Controls Must Remain Until Tofal Victory, Byrnes Says

Wage Controls Must Remain. Savs Byrnes   Maintenance Of Price Freeze Also Held Necessary To Stability

Byrnes Urges U.S. To “Hold Line” After . War Until Inflation. Danger Is Over

BYRNES URGES PAY CONTROL CONTINUE   OPPOSES ABOLITION OF WAGE AND PRICE REGULATION UNTIL VICTORY.

BYRNES SAYS WAGE CONTROLS MUST BE HELD   Mobilization Director For No Relaxing Rules "Til War Won

CONTROLS MUST BE KEPT, BYRNES SAYS   Says Price, e, Wage Rates Should Stay After  Nazis Beaten

OTH ARMY IN GRUELING FIGHT NEAR FLORENCE   Small Gains Made by Yanks Near Historic City

Italian Front   By JAMES L. KILGALLEN mtarnational News Service Staff Correspondent

ALLIES GAIN IN FLORENCE AREA   Announce Methodical Advance  City Being Bitterly Defended

German Forces Seek To Defend City Of Florenc   Five Nazi Divisions Seek Desperately To Check Allied Drive On City

BATTLE RAGES NEAR FLORENCE   German Forces Are Offering Stiff Resistance

Allied Eighth Army Smashes Out Small Gains In Battle Before City Of Florence   Russian Armies Pound At Gates Of Warsaw; Troops Only 10 Miles From City

‘Nazi V-2 Rockets Have Been Pounding England at Nearly.1000 Miles an Hour

New V-2 Robombs Blasting England, Paris and Antwert   1,000 M.P.H. Rocket Fails to Cause Heavy Damage, Churchill Announces

B-29s Carry Heavy Bombs To Nagoya   Assault Is Third On Plane Plants In Nine Days.

B-29's Again Blast Nagoya Plane Plants   Mariona-Based Air Giants Carry Record Bomb Loads on Raid

NAGOYA KI THIRD TIME BY HEAVIES   Campaign Under Way to Demolish Plane Production

STATE TOURIST FUND MEAGER   Goy. Kelly Says $50,000  “Not Nearly Epeygh” For The Work

MARINES PUSH FORWARD ON PELELIU   7,645 Japs Killed There and on Near: by Angaur

Marines Drive Ahead Against Japs At Pelelin   Report Nearly 8,000 Japs Are Killed In Latest Island Invasions By U. S. Forces

LITTLE WAC FROM SOUTH GEN. CLARK’S SECRETARY NEAR FRONT IN ITALY

lhe War f oday— Sweden Takes Dig At Uncle Sam And Not Without Justification

SWEDISH NEWSPAPER TAKES SLAP AT UNITED STATES FOR DEMAND FOR CESSATION OF WAR TRADE   Suggests Also That United States Has Made Smallest Contribution to War and. That Britai And Russia Only Chimed in on Our Recent  Nemand

The War Today  U. S. Had Coat-Tails Stepped On By Swed Sah Naurcnanor

BIG SWEDISH NEWSPAPER TAKES  SLAP AT UNCLE SAM FOR HIS NOT LIKING AID SWEDEN GIVING NAZIS

The War Today   Ry DEWITT MACKENZIP Deas tiated BPrece Var Analwat

FULTON PRESIDES AS CHIEF JUSTICE   SUCCEEDS JUNE SMITH OF. CENTRALIA; STATE SUPREME COURT OPENS

Judge Fulton of Sycamore Presides _ as Chief Justice of Supreme Court

Big Thaw Hits State Today   Fear Livestock Losses Severe; Thaw to Continue

Stab Wounds Are Fatal Te Auburn Man   Employe Faces Murder Charge

Ground Fighting Below Rome Limited To Patrol Action By Americans and Germans.

RETRIBUTION TO LEADERS ONLY PART OF DUTY’   What Happened Can Determine Outcome Of Election Jurist Says

‘OOLONG IN QUAKERTOWN BAN LAWN SPRINKLING   Officials in Borough Take Steps to Conserve Water   APPOINT DOG CATCHER

HERE AND THERE IN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To All In The Various Communities

Bulgaria Asks Russ Chiefs For Armistice   Joint Peace Expected With Soviet Union, United States, Britain

BULGARS PLEAD FOR ARMISTICE TO AVOID ROUT   Appeal Handed to Soviet Of ticials Shortly After Reds Declare War

BULGARIA ASKS RUSSIANS FOR AN ARMISTICE   Result Expected to Be Joint Peace With Big Three and This Balkan Kingdom

Appeal Follows War Declaration By Soviet Govt.   Joint Peace With U. S., England And Russia Expected: Report Reds March [n

BULGARIA APPEALED HASTILY TO MOSCOW FOR AN ARMISTICE  DECLARES STRONG MEAS URES AGAINST GERMAN   FRUSSIA’S DECLARATION OF WAR ON BULGARIA IS OF FAR GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN IS INDICATED

 Joint Peace With Allies Is  Expected As Bulgaria Asks  Russia for Armistice Terms   Balkan State Orders Strong Measures Against German Forces Accused of Attacking Bulgarian Army Divisions

Bulgars Just Do Not Want To Fight Reds   Few Hours After Russia Declares War on Bulgaria, That Ex-Ally of Germany Appeals to Moscow for Armistice

QUICK PEACE BID   Bulgaria Asks Armistice Shortly After Russian Declaration

Russ Enter Bulgaria; Latter Asks Armistice  wT.* 4 We... .. WET*ib   Joint Peace With Moscow, London And Washington Expected To Foliow

Bulgars Request An Armistice   Joint Peace with Allies May Result From Red Declaration

Sofia Moves Speedily After Kremlin Declares War; Joint Accord Looms

BULGARIA ASKS FOR ARMISTICE      Joint Peace With Allied Nations Seen; Reds Cross Border

Bulgar Leaders Ask  Armistice Of Russia; a _ Soviets Cross Narew

Bulgars: Ask Peace. Terms From. Soviet  Union Heads   Russians Cross River  “North. Of Warsaw nh

BULGARIA ASKS FOR ARMISTICE FROM MOSCOW   Declares Her Government Has Ordered Strong Measures Against German  Le acini

Joint Peace Is Expected--Red  In New Drive   Soviet Armies Meet Heavy Opposition From Germans North of Warsaw

Bulgaria Asks For Armistice With Russia   Action Expected To Re sult In Joint Peace With The Allies

Bulgars Appeal For Armistice With Russians  Reds Marching Into Country, Says Oslo; Council Of Ministers Ceill le Saccian

BULGARIA ASKS FOR ARMISTICI   Appeals Few Hours After  Declaration of War

Bulgaria Asks Soviet Armistice   Action But Hours After War Declared

BULGARIANS ASK FOR ARMISTICE WITH RUSSIANS   Appeals Given Soviets In Sofia Today

Reds Reported Over Border Of Balkan Nation   Joint Peace ,Terms With U. S., Britain’ and Rue  _ sia Expected As Result  New Developments      Bulgarian Council Meeting All Night   Claiiti Made That Germans Attacked Bulgars Who Were Disarming Nazi Troops In Flight

Blast Halmahera In Heaviest Raid   Points Only 250 Miles From Philippines Hit

Reds Push Into Marshes Near Pinsk   Germans Drive Toward Saraievo

Ski-shod Reds Surging Deep Into Marshes   White Russian Forces Inflict Heavy Losses on Fleeing Germans

RED ARMIES SURGE DEEP INTO MARSHES AND THREATEN PINSK   Tremendous Losses Reported Inflicted On Fleeing German Troops   TWIN OFFENSIVES ON

“OLPripet Sector ‘Bifected By Reds   Advance Toward Pinsk ‘After. Taking, 2 Cities; ’ Cermian Losses Heavy

Only Weak Resistance By Germans   Trap at Seaport Narrowing as the Allies Make New  Gains

Assault Are ¢ Clamped On City As Gen. Bradley’s Yankee Forces Pound Nearer to Goal   Military Observers Feel Port May Fall Within Twe Days —~Allies May Crash Right Inte Cite

C NGTEISEINGET 7 VIIGUIES  Troops Fight Way To Within 4 Miles Of Big French Port

American Shock Troops Storming  Port's Outer Ring Of Arms—  Fighting Is Severe   EXPECT VICTORY AT PORT IN TWO MORE DAYS

REDS CONTINUE PUSH TO WEST   60 Towns and Villages Taken Including -Rail and Road Points

Soviet Fourth Slogging Westward After Seizing 60 Czech Towns, Villages

RED ADVANCE. NOT CHECKED      RUSSIANS CONTINUE ‘THEIR PUSH THROUGH GERMAN DEFENSES IN THE BALKANS

HEAVIEST BLOW OF AERIAL WAR   11,000 Tons of Bombs Hit Enemy Lines

FAVORS SMALL ARMY IN PEACE   GEN, MARSHALL SAYS LARGE STANDING ARMY HAS NO PLACE IN U. S.

Army Of Full Strength May Be Needec Long After Axis Quits, Marshall Says

NEED OF LARGE ARMY PREDICTED   Marshall Says Force Should Be “Smallest Possible’

SMALL ARMED FORCE IS PLAN   Youths’ Military Training Approved By Marshall

GENERAL CITES BIG ARMY NEED   Marshall Says” Strength Should Be Maintained After Axis’ Defeat

Marshall Against Enlarged Army  Universal Miltary Training Approved

se3 CANVASS, Page 5 Ae  MARSHALL FAVORS  OMALLEST POSSIBLE  NUMBER REGULARS EXPECTS, HOWEVER, THA’  UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING RE ORDERED

Larg e Peace Army ‘Favored ~ By Marshall   ‘But Staff Chief Opposes ‘Big Standing “Bilihtars  Force After War: -

Gen. Marshall Favors Compulsory Training But Opposes Big Standing Army After War

A Civilian Army Best   As Few Professional Soldiers As Possible In Peacetime Armed Forces, Says Marshall

Proposes Citizens Peacetime Army   Marshall Comes Out For System of Large Reserves for Small Standing Army

U.S. to Need Big Army, . Chief Says   Strength Must Be Maintained After War Ends

MILLION TEXANS SURGING TO POLLS NATIONAL ELECTION .  PRESIDENTIAL ISSUE OVERSHADOWS ALL OTH ER MATTERS IN STATE

YANKS BATTER RAIL TARGETS, PLOESTI AREA   Air Armada Lashes Enemy After Over-Night Smash By R.A.F. Bombers

KEY RAILROAD YARDS STRUCK BY U.S. BOMBS      1,200 Fighter Planes Ac company 500 Bombers In European Raids Today

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT RAIL YARDS IN REICH AREA   Over 1,200 Fighters Escort Raiding Force—Airbase In France Pounded

3500 American Warplanes Out; Big Ploesti Oil Refinery Fired   Waves of Medium Bomb. ers Continue Blows at Invasion Coast

‘Ruhr Rails, Rumania Oil Centers Hit   American Bombers Lash Out in Force Over Axis Europe

PALAU, YAP SHELLED BY U. §. FLEET   Pre - Invasion Peak Reached During Bombardment

900 Planes Raid Palau. Japs Report   Battleships Join In Bombardment Of Yap, Close To Japan

Reds Smash — Enemy Lines  OnWideFront   ‘Four Russian Armies Endeavor to Complete ‘Baltic Stalingrad’

Reds Advance 15 Miles in South Estonia   Key Junction of Petseri  Captured; 12 Divisions  Reported Thrown Into Push on Nazi Lines

Soviet Baltic Army Shatters  German Lines   Reds Hammer Out 15-Mile  Advance in New Drive hr. A *Lsdoa, Been

Red Forces Advancing On Riga Capture Fifty Localities Including Rail Station Of Sunakste, Near Tatvian Capital

 ar * Rocls Take Petserti,   Seek Annihilation  Of Trapped Germans

THIRD BALTIC ARMY PUSHES INTO ESTONIA   RED FORCES START ANNIHILATION OF 300,000 NAZIS

Historic old Pier No. 4 Destroyed   Used by American Army World War I for  Embarkation

Pier Blaze. Does Extensive Damage   Considerable War Material Lost

GANGSTER LEPKE AS PUT T0 DEATH IN ELECTRIC CHAIR   Racketeer and. Two Partners in Crime Executed at. Sing Sing Prison for Brook — Jyn Murder.   ISSUED ‘STATEMENT _. ‘PROTESTING INNOCENCE   Boss: of Murder Inc. Dies. After U. S.: Supreme Court Deities His Plea for a Stay.

F.R.’s Aid For Murray-Kilgore Bill Is Sought   Proponents Say Concession on Benefits May Be Made Soon

Reconversion  Vote Sought   Kilgore Backers Consider Askine FDR Soannoart

DEMOBILIZATION BILL FACES SENATE DEFEAT   Sponsors Seek Support Ot President

Plan Appealto EDR in Row Over Postival Payments  ‘Mui rray-Kilgore B_ cker: Want Help Ageinet?_

F.R.’s Aid For Murray-Kilgore Bill Is Sought  Proponents Say Conces  Proponents Say Concession on Benefits May Re Made Soon

George Bill On Idle Benefits May Be Passed   White House Endorsemen! Of Murray-Kilgore Measure Sought As Chances Fade

Jobless Pay Bill Backers Consider Plea to Roosevelt  Bitter Debate Over   Bitter Debate Over Post-War Program Continues in Senate

Murray-Kilgore Bill Hits Snac   GOP And Dixie Dems Seek Speedy Vote

May Appeal FDR (n Reconversion   Murray-Kilgore Demobilization Bill Backers Seek Roosevelt Pressure.

BENEFITS BILL BEATEN, CLAIM   Senate Compromise Sought On Murray-Kilgore Act

MURRAY-KILGORE MEASURE. APPEAK BEATEN IN SENATE   Senate Seems to Favor Georje Bill. On. Reecnversion .. -

SPONSORS HOPE PRESIDENT WILL ENTER BATTLE   Polls Indicate Support For ® George Plan, Guarantee Of State Systems   COMPROMISE SCORNED   Barkley Seeking To Force Vote But Murray Plans Extended Fight

COMPENSATION CUT T0.$25 IS PROPOSED   Move Made To Overcome Southern Opposition

Murray-Kilgore Backers Want fo Lower Payments   Reduction to $25 Might Help to Meet Criticism

Jobless Pay Limit of $25 Mav Be Fixed    Murray-ilgore Backers May Cut $35 Figure to Placate Foes

Jobless Pay Cut Urged To Save Bill   Concession Sought, Compromise Pressed By Measure Sponsors

Cut In Postwar Payments Looms As Compromise   Murray - Kilgore Bill Leaders Aim To Defeat  Cuanitian Kasra

_ftor Over Two Years  ~ § Hair Turned Grey eight. Rescued 10 Invaded the Island   “CONSIDER LOWER ENSATION FOR -IPLOYED PEOPLE

BENEFITS BILL   COMPROMISE MEASURE ApPPEARS LIKELY TO EMERGE \OUT'OF FIGHT. IN: — . THE SENATE . - t

MURRAV-KILGORE MEASURE. APPEARS BEATEN IN SENATE   Senate Seems to Favor Geor..e Bill On. Reccnversion

Reconversion Bill Leaders Need FDR Aid   Murray-Kilgore Face Defeat Without Support

MURRAY-KILGORE CONCESSION DUE   PROPONENTS MAY LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT PAY

Three Killed. Five Missing In Blast At  ‘Naval Depot   Those Unaccounted For Are Presumed To Be Dead After Blast At Hastings. Neb.

BLAST KILLS 3; 5 ARE MISSING   EXPLOSION OCCURS AT HASTINGS NAVAL ORDNANCE DEPOT

Three Critically Injured 35 Suffer Minor Eurts In Explasion of Mines and Depth Charges   Town Of Hastings, Nebraska, Rocked   Nearby Business Houses “Practically Collapsed;”” Houses Shaken, Windows Broken

Three Die in Blast at Depot   Five Persons Are Missing and Three Seriously Injured

Two Explosions Rock Navy Ammunition  Depot; Eight Killed   Windows in Stores 10 Miles Away Shatterec By Blasts; Business Houses in Near-By Village Collapses; Cause Unknown

AMMUNITION DEPOT EXPLOSION KILLS   Box Car Was Being Loaded  With Bombs and   . Mines   EIGHT PROBABLY DEAD

3 Die, 5 Missing © In Double Blast At Naval Depot   Report 35 Others Hurt As Ammunition Explodes Near Hastings, Nebr.

Explosion Kills 8 in — War Plan   Wide Area. of Nebraska Near. Hastings. Rocked “by. ‘Ammunition Blasts   FIRST OCCURS IN RAILROAD. CAR   Naval Depot ‘Cooling’ Shed Filled With Explosives :. . Also Blown Up

EE KILLED IN EXPLOSION   Five Others Missing in Blast At Ammunition Depot And in Box Car.

Three Killed Tn Ordnance Depot Blast   » Others Missing Afien $50.000 Explosion in Nebraska Plant

iS LED AND NE ARE MISSING      Explosion Occurs In Box Car Setting Off Another ~   MINE AND DEPTH CHARGES EXPLODE

THREE KILLED IN BLAST AT NAVAL DEPOT   ‘Five Are: Missing— 35 Others Are Injured

Ammunition Depot Blast Kills Three; Five Are Missing   Terrific Explosion  At Hastings, Nebr. Shatters Windows 10% Miles Distant

¥ ‘Dead, 3. “Missing In Naval Depot Explosion   Nearly Two Score Others: Jnjured When - Blast _ Touches Off Mines And Depth Charges h In Shed ’ Near ‘Hastings. Neb.

Three Die In Depot Blast   Others Critically Injured In Explosion At Naval Ammunition Depot   Started in Box Car

THREE KILLED IN DEPOT BLASTS   Also 5 Missing, 35 Hurt in Nebraska Explosion

RAILROAD BOX CAR [EXPLODES KILLING iTHREE IN NEBRASKA   Blast Explodes Shed Fill. ed With Mines and Depth Charges at Hastings Depot

Eight Believed Dead, 35 Hurt In Ammunition Depot Blasts  Area Within 50 Miles Rocked

6 FEARED DEA IN TWO BLASTS   Nebraska Naval Depot Torr By Explosions; 35 Hurt

Three Dead, Five Missing In Navy Munitions Blast   Explosion Injures 35 Civilian Depot Workers

Navy Explosion Kills Three   Five Others Missing; Accident Occurs In Railway Box Car. ,

Three Dead, Five Missing in Hasting: Ammunition Blast  35 Hurt, Damage Estimated al  550,000 Cansed Naval Depai—

Tragedy in Nebraska, Many Dead   Explosions Occur In Box Car and Shed Both Filled  With Ammunition

THREE KILLE IN BIG BLAST AT NAVAL DEPOT   Area Within 50-mile Radius Rocked by Explosion at Hastings, Neb.

3 Dead in Navy Depot Explosions   Ammunition Lets Go in Plant Near Hastings, Neb.

Two Explosions at Nebraska Ordnance  Plant Take 3 Lives   Five Others Missing at Hastings Presumed  To Be Dead

FIFTEEN KILLED, MISSING; 50-MILE AREA IS SHAKEN   Village ‘Practically Collapsed’ By Explosion   oTrTT fF wairrvar

Three Are Dead, 5 Missing In Ordnance Plant Explosion Which Is Felt 50 Miles Away   35 Injured, 3 Seriously; Buildings In Adjoining Village Demolished

Blast at a Naval Depot Kills Three    ws 8 . Five Others Missing in Ex 7   plosion of Mines and  Death Charges.

Three Killed In Explosion   Blast Occurs at Hastings, Neb., Naval

Plant Blast Kills Eight   Hastings, Neb., Feels Explosion; Many Hurt

Eight Killed In Explosion   Blast At Naval Ammunition Depot Injures Many More

Three Die In Blast   Explosion at Hastings, Neb. Naval Ammunition Dump Injures 35 Others

KILLS THREE      Ft. ee  SOUND OF EXPLOSION AT..AM “MUNITION LOADING PLANT.  ‘ HEARD 100 MILES ; AWAY a of

Speakers Bid For Illinois’ 29 Votes   Rep. Luce, Gov. Kerr To Deliver Talks In Chicago

‘Luce, Kerr Talk Tonight; Bricker In California: ‘Truman Heads West; FR, Dewey Plan Speeches

Ramirez Resigns From Presidency  Action Embarrassing to Farrell Reaime

Regimental Revolt Fails In Argentina   Woshington Believes Farrell Govt. Will _Not Be Recognized

U. $.-Argentine Nearing Crisis   Little Chance of Avoiding Rupture, Is Belief

ARGENTINA, U.  NEARING BREAK FOR THIRD TIME   Farrell Regime Incurs Displeasure Of Other American Nations

U. S,, ARGENTINA NEAR 3RD CRISIS   New Ruler Not Likely To Clean-Up Axis Agents

BUENOS AIRES QUIET AFTER NEW REVOLT   Policy of Non-Recognition By This Country and Other Allied Nations Is Being Considered   RAMIREZ OUT AGAIN   sy JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

Today In Washington  Debate On Army Vote  ls Resumed   GOP. to Delay Naming Senate Leaders; Map 44 Tax Plank; Dies Assails Winchell

Soldier Vote Bill To Pass, Connally Says   Rep. Dies Turks Broadside At Gonuneutators  On Radio

VOTE BILL DEBATE OPENS IN SENATE   Senator Tom Connally — of Texas Predicts Speedy Passage of Soldier Ballot

Germans Warn inland’ Points May Be Taker   Nazis Issue Gloomy Predictions on ‘Invasian

German People Given Warning   Told Invasion May Extend Far Inland

Berlin Radio Warns People  Germans Hint Invasion May  Hit Far Behind The Coas

GERMANS EXPECT BLOWS FAR INLAND   WARN PEOPLE INVADERS WILL NOT CONFINE ATTACK TO ATLANTIC WALL,

Germans Warn Allies May Hit Far Inland   Fresh Reports Picture Nazi Transport in State of Disorder

BERLIN RADIO WARNS PEOPLE   Predicts Inland Points te Fall Under Attack in Allied Invasion

Huns Stage Withdrawal  in Normandy   Yanks Capture Pastina, Italy; Bombers Renew Air War, Bomb Berlin

Ickes Would Give Veterans War Plants   Ownership And Conot By Veterans  ould Assure Full Operation, Secretary Asserts

‘Give War ~ Plants to ~~ Veterans’   Ickes Suggests Revised Edi “tion of Homestead Act May Be Emploved   MUST NOT RETURN , TO SCARCITY PLAN   Secretary Outlines Four Principles for Post-War America

Ickes Would Turn Government-Owned War Plants Over to Returning Vets  Interior Secretary Outlines Four Principles To Guarantee Full Emvplovment in Postwar Fra

Tekes Favors  Men in Service - Getting Plant:   Secretary Says Ownership and Control Should Be Yested In Those Who Fought For Country .

Bombardier Is Credited With Gallant Feats   Lieut. Robert M. Kempker of LeMars  Decorated for Bravery

Supporters Of Wailace Claim He is Gaining   Large Bloc of Votes in Six States Said to Have Responded Favorably  LIEUTENANTS ARE BUSY

Wallace Has Strong Vote   Vice President May Retain His. Ranking

RED ARMY GAINS ~~ INGZECH DRIVE   RUSSIANS PLOW THROUGH RAIN AND . MUD—SEIZE RAILWAY JUNCTION,

DRIVE IS RESUMED BY SOVIET. FORCES      Russians. Advancing it - €xechoslovakia Thru Rain

SLOVAKIA PUSH   Drive Through Rain, Mud For 16-Mile Gain on 25-Mile Front

With Virtually Continuous Active Front of About 55 Miles Along Frontier.   Surge In Latvia

DRIVE IS. RESUMED “BY SOVIET FORCES   Russians . Advancing ‘in - Cxechoslovakia Thru Rain

Reds Advance on 55-Mile Front   Fighting Is Reported In Slovakia, Hungary

Jap Naval Force Routed In Pacific   Destroyer Force Defeated by Americans

Jap Naval Unit Flees Allied Guns   Enemy Frustrated In Attempt To Reinforce  Troops On Biak

Navy Thwarts Jap Force Trying To Relieve Biak  U. S. Ships Wipe Out Abandoned Nip _ Barge-Borne Troops

Route Enemy  Naval Foree   Accurate Firing Routes Jap Destroyer Foree In Night Engagement.

Naval Guns Rout Jap Destroyers  Off New Guinea  Troops in Barges Abandoned by Fleeing

Red Cross Flying 1,000 Pints of Whole Bloed Daily Across Atlantic

RUSSIANS SMASH ALMOST TO GULF OF RIGA OFF BALTIC   Take Jelgava, Only 22 Miles Southwest of Riga on Gulf.   ON WARSAW OUTSKIRTS   Germans Not Expected to Make Determined Stand at Partly Abandoned Polish City.

Strong Red Army Nears Warsaw   Nazis Claim Sovicts Repulsed At Jelgava; Admit Kaunas Will Fall

Yanks in ran Without Agreement  Soviet Criticism of Refusal to Discuss Concreceinne Resawaad

STASSEN WINS NEBRASKA VOTE   STRONG SUPPORT GIVEN DEWEY BY WRITE-IN VOTES

STASGEN WING EABACKA VOTING   Strong Write- In Vote Is « Cast For Governor Thomas E. Dewey ¢

Junction With AlliForces Appears Near Believe Germans Will Retreat To Northern Italy.

GERMANS WITHDRAWING TO NORTHERN ITALY   GERMANS THEMSELVES ADMIT PLAN FOR SLOW RETREAT; AMERICANS NOW ONLY 23 MILES FROM JUNCTION WITH TROOPS AT ANZIO BEACHHEAD   (By the United Press)

Agents  Nab 55 for Plot   Workmen Accused of False Claims in War Production

94 WELDERS ARE ARRESTED IN NEW  WAR FRAUD CASE   Widespread War Fraud Racket Uncovered by Arrest of Boston Shipyard Workers.

Hingham Yard Clubs Cheated  Government   Welders, Counters Put in False Reports To Up Wages

Ship Workers Held In War Fraud Racket   Boston Shipyard Employees Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud Government.

Disclose Fraud  In War Plants   Falsification. of  Records Revealed

55 Shipyard Workers Are Arrested By FBI Todavin Gigantic Wer Froud Wage Racket

MICHIGAN FOR ROOSEVELT BY 19,756 VOTES   CARELESS ELECTION WORK UNCOVERED IN DETROIT

Ramirez Holds Argentine Seat   Report Work On Coming Liberal Government

GOP Heads to Chicago for Meeting   Prepare Convention Opening June 26; Cpen Headauarters

PARTY OFFICIALS MOVE ON CHICAGD   Preliminaries Leading up to Start of GOP Convention; Dewey to Open Headquarters Today

SOVIET SHIP IN DRYDOCK SINKS   DIVERS SEARCH FOR WOMAN CREW MEMBER

LAGAL MEN IN-UNIFORM LAUD -SERVIBES OF THE RED CROSS   MANY SERVICES. OF RED CROSS ON WAR FRONTS OF THE . WORLD ARE BIGHLY PRAISED

HILLMAN'S PAG... “FUTURE INK   Three Alternatives Face on Political Group After: Week's Election

Invasion of Marshalls Is Indicated   Air Activity Reported in Southwest Pacific—Down  Jap Planes

FIVE IAP VESSELS SUNK AS ALLIES SMASH AT RABAUL   iNavy Airmen Shoot Down 24 Enemy Planes in Same Attack

ELIZABETH MAN BACK IN NEWS   Inventor Who Stirred World In 1927 Is Mismated

Start Drilling In Forlorn Hope Of Saving 64 Trapped Miners PUBLIC LIBRAR

Highway Six Free of Shot and Shell aiighway six Tree of Shot and Shell  Road From Cassino To Rome  Alive With Allied Troops

‘Highway Six Free of Shot and Shell  Road From Cassino To Rome Alive With Allied Troops

British Turn Back Strong Attack By Germans Near Rome   Estimate Heavy Bomb Load Dropped on Berlin at 1,500 Tons; Raids Cost Allies 35 Planes

RAF Bombers Loose Fresh Berlin Blast   Huge New Fires Raging in Nerve Center of Reich

Continue Pounding Germans   Berlin Afire Again After the RAF Stages Big Mopping Uv Raid on Reich   RUSSIANS STILL MAULING NAZIS   And American Planes Again Soar Across Channel to Blast Enemy Centers

Berlin. Ablaze Again   1,500-Ton Bomb Load On Doomed City; Allies Beat. Back Fierce Nazi Attack Below Rome

Britons Beat Off Nazis 21 Miles From Eternal City   Berlin Is Burning Again Today From 1,500-Ton Bombing

1500 Tons of Bombs Fall on Nazi Capital   British of Fifth Army Beat Back Nazi Attacks 21 Miles from Rome; Reds Continue Advance in North; French Troops Gain

Fires Blaze In Tortured Nazi Capital      Allies Enlarge Rome Bridgehead As Russians Take Key Rail Junctions

* GERMAN CAPITAL »» WAS SET AFIRE AGAIN BY BRITISH BOMBERS  BRITISH TROOPS IN ITAL) . BEAT DOWN FURIOUS NATZI COUNTERATTACK

‘Russians Tighten Ring Around Sevastopol Alter Seizing Storied Balaklava

Siege Guns Are Hurling Blasts Into Sevastopo   Historic ‘‘Valley Of Death’”’ Is Taken Over By Rus. sian Forces   NEW ATTACK IS OPENED IN POLAND

“VALLEY OF DEATH’ CLEARED" BY RED ARMY TROOPS CLOSING) IN ON SE. VASTOPOL-

BED SIEGE GUNS HIT SEVASTOPOL “FROM MILE OFF   Nazis Open Counter Attack @ on Soviet Force Inside Pre-War Poland

Claim Germar Peace Feeler Given Allies      Little Prospect It Will Be Acted Upon By The “Big Three”

GERMAN ASKS: PEACE: REPORT   SAY FEELER SENT BY VATICAN AMBASSADOR

Great Bomber Fleets Clear Way for Invasion, ‘Continue Blasting Nazi

Goering Orders Airforce To Hold Line At All Cost   Despite Large Scale Airborne Sorties And Their Extremely Vulnerable Operations, Allied Losses Were Reported Small

SKIES OVER FRANCE RULED BY ALLIES   Ferman Air Force, Or dered to Repel Inva.  _ sion, Fails to Put Ur  a Fight as: Allied Forces Strike.

Allied Aircraft Rules Sky  In The Invasion Of France   Ten Thousand Tons of Bombs Clear Way for Invad_.._ing_Forees—11,000 Planes Sustain the Accaule

Allied Aircraft Play Big Part In Invasion   11,000 First Line Planes in Action

GOVERNMENT COTTON CROP ESTIMATE 1S HEAVILY RAISED  AUGUST IMPROVEMENT

Bigger Cotton Crop. Forecast. In Late Report     SEPTEMBER FORECAST IS FOR CROP”: OF  11,483,000 BALES, GAIN OF 461,000 BALES OVER AUGUST REPORT

GENTRAL DUTCH AREA WRESTED FROM NAZI GRIF   Germans Continuing Stiff ~ Resistance in Hurtgen Forest

KILLING BLAMED ON TAX WORRY   Detroit Police Claim Negro Got Gun, Used It to Pay Income Bill

AERIAL BLOW IS GREATEST IN HISTORY   Germany Smolders From Bombs Dropped Saturdav on Siegfried Line and Industrial Points,   Breach Dam

SIEGFRIED LINE IS BOMBED BY FLIERS      132. Heavy Gun Positions Destroyed in Air Attacks

SIEGFRIED LINE 1S: BOMBED BY FLIERS   132 Heavy Gun Gun Positions Destroyed in Air Attacks

SIEGFRIED LINE GIVEN BLASTING   132 Heavy Gun Positions Knocked Out; German War Plants Hit

Ninth Air Force  Gives Nazi Line Super ‘Bur Job  Fliers Destroy 132 Gur  Positions as Well as Supply Points

Allied Planes ‘Knock Out 132   oe Gun Positions   Big ‘Buzz Job’ Follows Saturday’s Greatest Aerial Blow in Flistory

Allied Bombers Blast at Guns Of Sieafried Line   Two of Germany's Largest Tank Plants Are Heavily Bombed

Huge Allied Air Forces Smash AtNazi Areas   8,000 Planes Batter Armies, Transport, Industry in 28 Hours

Record Blows Struck By 8,000 Allied Plane:   Five Air Forces Join in Vast Aerial Smash at Nazi Armies and Industry

Greatest Air Offensive in History Waqed   Five Armadas of More Than 8,000 Planes Hit Nazis

BITTER RETALIATION IF GERMANS USE GAS   Allied Aerial Superiority Would Work Hundred-Fold Against  I i

U.S. Favors Strong Foreign Advisory Group For Gap Between War sEndAnd WorldOrganization

ADVISORY BODY GROWTH URGED   Seen Bridge Between War's End, Security Agency

Plan Bridge Between War And Peace   Power Needed to Handle "Little Wars” Tha? Can Be Expected

Dewey Fight Re-election Of Rep. Fish   G.0.P. Congressman Raises Race, Religious Issues, Says Nominee

Dewey Is Opposed To Re-Election Of Hamilton Fish  Aide Says Congressmar Has Raised Issues Of Racial Prejudice

DEWEY RAPS AT HAMILTON FISH   Says He Will Oppose Re. election Of Republican Congressman

Gov. Dewey Against Fish For Election   Opposed to ‘Racial, Relig: ous Issues’ Posed By N. Y. Representative

Dewey Announces His Opposition to  Fish’s Re-election  Statement Says Anyone Who   Injects, Race, Religion in Petia We. Rearican Ari

DEWEY OPPOSES FISH'S FEECTION   Presidential Candidate Hits at “Race Issue.”

Dewey Calls For Defeat Of Ham Fish   Raising of Racial Issues Scored By Governor

DEWEY AGAINST HAMILTON FISH   TELLS OPPOSITION TO RE-ELECTION OF N. Y, CONGRESSMAN

Dewey Opposec To Ham Fish  For Congerss   Charges Representative Raised Religious, Racial Issues

Dewey Opposes Hamilton Fish For Congress   Opposition to Republican Based Ou Ground Fish Raised “Racial and Religious Issues

Dewey Is Opposed To Re-Election Of Hamilton Fish  AideSays Congressma  Has Raised Issues rer pm _*_ rm. .*.. pe

AMERICANS SEIZE LIMON, DEAL NIPS TERRIFIC LOSSES IN STRONG ADVANCE   Enemy’s Crack 1st Division Wiped Out

YANKS TAKE LIMON, NEAR ORMOC PLAIN   Jap Ist Division Is Destroyed In Limon Battle

Japs Report Ships Sunk Off Islands   Jap First Division Virtually Destroyed In Fall Of Limon

YANKS ADVANCE TO'ORMOC PLAIN   Stronghold of Limon Now In American Hands

LIMON POCKET CLEANED OUT   U. & TROOPS NEAR ROLLING ORMOG PLAINS

NORTH ANCHOR OF LEYTE LINE LOST BY JAPS   Yanks Capture Limon, Smash Nearer To Ormoce Plain

U. 8. INFANTRY REACHES ORMOC PLAIN TODAY   Capture Limon and Plunge Across Leyte River te South

AMERICAN -TANKS APPROACH ORMOG   Capture Limon, Move Near  Spoiling Plaine

Yanks Approach Ormoc Following Limon Capture      Destruction of Crack Jap First Division Virtually Completed

TANKS ADVANGE TOWARD ORMOC, LIMON CAPTURED   Destruction Of Crack Japanese First Division Has Been Completed

British Enter Athens; Quiet Prevails In City   Little Demolition By Ger. mans Is Reported By Ra dio News.

ARMY STARTS CARS GOING IN PHILADELPHIA   Strike Leader Orders Followers Back to Work at Point of Bayonet; Out on Bail.   35 for Grand Jury

BACK OF STRIKE Is BROKEN IN PHILADELPHIA   Workers Heed Army Orders To Return To Work Today; Grand Jury Called   FOUR RINGLEADERS PUT UNDER ARREST

Full Service May Resume Today in.  Philadelphia   Transportation Men Bow to’ Ultimatum  And Deadline Set... -Bv. General Haves --

U.S. Airmen ‘Softening Up’ Marshall Isles   Knox Hints Preparations Made for Invasion of Pacific Rastion

COLT & PONY SHOW HELD ON THURSDAY   A Colt.and Pony Show Will Be Held Here Last of August This Year.

COLT & PONY SHOW HELD AUGUST 31   A Colt and Pony Show Will Be Held Here Last of August This Year:

conn. cc cite colpspeaimrnuane usages GRIPSHOLM HEADS HOME WITH 711 INTERNEFS

711 Americans Leave Internment   Liner Gripsholm Leaves Lisbon in Exchange For German Internees.

REPATRIATES SAIL FOR AMERICA ON SWEDISH LINER   Many Former AEF Members of 1917 Who Remained in France Among 711 on Grips holm

Repatriates On Way Home  Most Of Those Aboard  Ship Are Very Happy

GRIPOHOLM HEADS FOR AMERICAS   Many--Deligious. ous. with Joy. but Some Are Sad at Leaving Adopted Homeland 

Exchange Ship Sails   711 North and South Americans Interned by Germans on Way Home

Gripsholm. Heads West   Sad; Faces Among Returning Americans Belong: to Those Leaving Faniily Ties in France

Gripsholm Heads Homeward With I11 Repatriates  Remnants Of 1917 AEF Leave Families In Occunied France

Gripsholm Sails With 711  Repatriates   Veterans of First AEF Leaving Families, Reluc: . tant to Return Here

711 SAIL FOR HOME ON EXCHANGE SHIP   Most Happy But for Some It Is Sad Occasion

Gripsholm Starts Across Atlantic  711 Americans on Their Way Home

Tito in Denial Of Yugoslavic All-Out Drive   Communique Makes No Mention of Naples An  nouncement

All-Out Partisan Offensive In Yugoslavia Is Reported   Slav Authorities In Naples Announce  Drive But Tito Doesn't Mentian }+

U.S.-British Oi Pact Is Seen as Peace Weapon   Agreement Signed Is First Dealing With Postwar Problems

U. S., BRITAIN SIGN ACCORD ON OIL POLICY   First Post-War Pact On Trade, Security Is Concluded

U.S., Britain Sign Compact On Oil Policy   Treaty Designed -as Prime  Weapon to Enforce Ww..3.1 WM...

BRICKER ENTERS NEW LAW FIRM   Tax Commissioner Evatt Resigns To Join Him

Death takes Dr. Bailey,  eivie leader  Funeral rites to be Thursday

Widow Must Pay $1,500 To Tenant  For Overcharge   Woman Guilty In Flat Rent Case

Find Wreckage Of Huge Navy Plane   Bodies of 19 Victims Sul in Craft on Rock-Bound Arizona Mesa

U.S. Forces Sweep Up 24 Villages   Big Armored Batile Declared to Be Impending at Caen

Hand-to-hand fights net tough half mile; ‘Lessay evacuated’  Other troops sweep thru 25 towns:

GAIN ANOTHER HALE AMILE: IN OT LO BATTLE   British and Germans Getting Set for Great Baitle in Caen Sector.

Hand-to-hand fights net tough half mile;  “Lessay evacuated’   Other troops sweep thru 25 towns; heavy action imnpnends in Caen area

Americans Ente! Lessay Base Reports Say   Advance Half Mile in Knockout Drive Toward St. Lo

Half-Mile Won In Hard Fight Toward St. Lo   Gains Scored Up To Four Miles Across 50-Mile Normandy Front.

BARRAGE PAVES WAY FOR ENTRY AT OUTSKRTS      Enemy Gathers Force For Tremendous Counter Blow

Attack (in St. Lo is Made   Halt- Mile Gain Toward Key Road Center Il, Won

Frankfurt Is Raided Again   Other Targets Given Pounding By Planes

COUNTY BOARD ADOPTS. STATE TAK PROPOSAL   Cities And Townships Instructed to Follow Recommendations

WORLD SERIES BASE BALL GAME TODAY   Game Started At 3 O’Clock This Afternoon. Play In St. Louis

U.S. TAKES OVER WARD PROPERTY IN SEVEN CITIES   Rooseveit Orders Seizure by Army to Enforce WLB Directives

ACTION TAKE BY ROOSEVELT IN WARD CASE   ARMY TAKES OVER OPERA: ‘TION OF “MAIL ORDER . FIRM’S PROPERTIES IN SEVEN CITIES

Big Force of Nazi Planes  Raids London   “Casualties Reported; Kight of German Attackers Downed

FIERCE BARRAGE GREETS GERMANS   Eight Nazi Raiders Are Shot Down in Raid on London; Only Few Planes Able to Penetrate Defenses

LONDON RAIRED BY NAZI PLANES   SOUTHEAST COAST ALSO HIT IN BIG AIR SHOW—EIGHT GERMANS DOWNED.

LONDON IS RAIDED BY GERMAN FLIERS   Eight Enemy Planes Shot Down During the Battle

10 Pet. More Food Advised   Greater Lend-Lease Need Snevesied by FDR

President Predicts Critical Food Year  Lend-Lease Needs Hiked 10 Per Cent

British Thrust  Deep Toward Rocket Coast   2 U.S. Armies Only 36 Miles From Belgium; Drive Toward Verdun. Metz and Argonne

Yanks’ First, Third Armies  Pursue Foe   British Make First) Deep Thrust Toward” Nagic? Rocket Coast. ~   IGOURNAY IS REACHED

British Hammer’ Deep” Thrust at Rocket Coast   Surging Americans Only 36 Miles From Belgian Border, Reach Laon .

Americans Now Are 36 Miles From Belgian Border; Germans Evacuate Rouen as Canadians Oulflank City

U. S. Troops Roll Through Cathedral City of Reims “ NAZIS FALL BACK _ TOWARD HOMELAND.   Gains Up to 20 Miles on  70-Mile Front Are  Reported

YANKS PLUNGE ON TOWARD BELGIUM   Yank Tank Units Within 36 Miles of Border   BRITISH BREAK-THROUGH   Makes First Deep Thrust Toward Rocket Bomb Coast; Nazis Evacuate Rouen

Hodges’ Tanks Drive Through City of Reims   Yank Ist Army Thrusts To Within 36 Miles OF Poletme. T%..

BEATEN NAZIS FALLING BACK TO HOMELAND   AMERICANS WITHIN 26 MILES OF BELGIUM

2 AMERICAN ARMIES MOVE ON BELGIUM   Country Only 36 Miles From Positions Occtipied by Patton’s Third and Hodges’ First.   GERMANS CONTINUB: HEADLONG FLIGHT   British Plunge Toward Nazis’ Rocket Bomb Coast in Deep Break: Through Above Seine..”

No Shots Fired As City Is Captured   Robot Bomb Area of Channel Coast Being Outftanked by Swift Allied Advances

Along 70-Mile Front to Within 36 Miles of Belgium; Germans Evacuate Rouen.

Thrust , macket Coast   Surging Americans Only 36 Miles From Belgian Border, Reach Laon :,

Cathedral City Of Reims Falls To Americans; British Advance   Armored Columns Pursuing Germans Who Are Falling Back foward Their Homeland

YANK TROOPS ROLL THROUGH CITY OF REIMS   British in Deep Smash Toward Nazi Rocket Bomb Coast

REIMS CAPTURED BY AMERICANS WITHOUT A SHOT   British Make Deep Thrust Toward Nazis’ Rocket Bomb Coast   STRIKE WITHIN 26 MILES OF BELGIUM

OPA Drafts Plans For Subsidy Program for Oil   Agency Recommends  $50,000,000.  Annual Payments

Ti Now Driving Gefmans From Banja Luka Base   Sixth Day of Bitter Street Fighting Now Rages In Croatian Base; Trapped Germans In Slovenia

Slavs Driving Nazis From Banja Luka   All Enemy Units Are Driven From Cetine Valley

lepion Demands Army Control of  j Fanner S.  Asks Depostution © For Subversive Actions -By Aliens ~~

Yanks Storm Nazi Lines At Cassino   Allied Bombers Pound Airfield And Rail Yards

Yanks Mass Spearhead to Take Cassino   Smash Through San Vittore Ruins to Streets  > of Ginsto   SEIZE: MT. PORCHIA   Peak Controls <All of Road to Cassino; Planes - Hit Yugoslavia

The Victorious Soldiers Massed Around Captured San Vittore Today Forming a Spearhead.      IS ONLY SEVENTY MILES FROM ROME   Fall of the Fiercely Defended Village Was Disclosed Yesterday by Don Whitehead,  A. P. Correspondent.

Cassino, 70 Miles From Rome, Now  Under Siege  U.S. Troops Storm   U.S. Troops Storm At Outer Defenses After San Vittore Is Finally Taken

ITALIAN VILLAGE OF SAN VITTORE FALLS 10 ALLIES   Fifth Army Troops Now Fighting in Streets of Giusto

FORTRESS TOWN  OF SAN VITTORE  TAKEN BY YANKS 5TH ARMY ADVANCES  ALL ALONG 10-MILE enAuT TAWARN ONME

AMERICAN TROOPS STORMED AT OUTER DEFENSES OF CASING  CAPTURE OF FIERCELY.  CONTESTED SAN VITTORE HAS BEEN CONFIRMED

Yanks Hammer Cassino Outer  Defense Works   Fifth Army Smashes On In Italy After Capture Of San Vittore.

J.S. Troops Form Spearhead for Drive On Rome   Enemy Bastion Seized After Long And Bloody Battle

Phone 5  for. Want Ads, Subscriptions,  All Advertising, Job Printing   Yanks Push Ahead ‘on RomeRoad   ”Progtess -Is- Made : Right in Face of Severe-Storm

Cassino Next Goal of Yanks   San Viterre Falls After 40-Hour Fick?

SIN ITORE TAKEN AFTER BITER. BATTLE BY YANKEE TROQPS   American Spearhead Storms at Outer Defenses of Cassino, 70 Miles From Rome   I WAZIS RETAKE MT. RAIMO

Storm Cassino Following Fall Of San Vittore   Yank Troops Victorious In Violent Forty-Hour ~isuse-Tollouse” Bane

CASSINO NEXT — OBJECTIVE OF AMERICAN ARMY   Capture of San Vittore, Tough German Defense Points Open. Way for New Advance

RED ARMY DRIVE ROUTS GERMANS IN DNIEPER BEND   Nazi Bigwigs Acknowledge Danger of Encirclement in Big Russian Battle

Defense Strong   Every House Fortified In Important Junction Village

SAN VITTORE TAKEN TODAY BY AMERICANS   Now Only Seventy Miles Fr.m Rome In Latest Push

5M TAKES SAN VITTORE ARTER 40-HOUR--FIGHT   U. S. Soldiers Continue Offensive Beyond Bloodily-Resisted Village on™ Road to Rome... -  ALREADY FIGHTING IN GIUSTO STREETS   Deep Snow Blocking All Large Scale Movements by Eighth Army; Sharp. Patrol Action Reported

Clark's Army Starts March Upon Cassino   San Vittore Falls and Troops Press Forward on Road Toward Rome

YANKS SMASt AHEAD FROM SAN VITTORE   Form Spearhead Storming Outer Cassino Defense

Outer Defenses of Cassino Stormed by Clark’s Troops   Americans Are Now 70 Straight-Line Miles From Eternal City

San Vittore ls Captured In Fighting   American Soldiers Are Massing For New Assaults

San Vittore Falls After #*, Stuff Battle   Yanks Drive To Mount Controlling Road To Next Objective; Foe Retakes Mt. Raimo

San Vittore Stronghold Falls to Yanks   Strong German Bastion Taken After Bitter House-to-House Fight

Violent Battle Ends With Fall Of San Vittore   Allied Troopers Now Attacking Cassine Defenses

OUTER  OF CASSINO 1S HIT BY YANKEES   San Vittore Captured After F'erce Houseto-House Battles

Form Spearhead Which Storms at Outer Defenses Of Cassino.   TOWN FELL THURSOAY

Yanks At Cassino’s Defenses   Drive Straight On  From Captured San Vittore

Spearhead Storms at Quier Defen. ses of Heavily Fortified Cassion on Road fo Rome   FRONT ADVANCING   Clark Reported  to Have Moved Headquarters, Bringing Up Reserves for Offensive

SAN VITTORE ON ROME ROAD   Advance Half-Way to Next Key German Defense Position

Yanks Mass to Storm Cassino  Fifth Army Attacks Outer Defenses After a 

Yanks Capture San Vittore And Press On Along Road To Rome.   Storm Outer Defenses Of Cassino, Only 70 Miles From Italian Capital, While Allied  Airmen Pound Rail Communications.

SAN VITTORE IS FINALLY CAPTURED   Other Fifth Army Forces Reach Mt. Porchia   In Italy And Yugoslavia Targets Of Air Blows; — Mt. Maio Taken

U. S. Troops Storming Italian City   San Vittore Captors Attack Outer Cassino Defenses

BITTER FIGHT FOR BASTION 1S EXPECTED   Nazis Reportedly Have Fortified Every House  Along Six-Mile Route to - Goal From Captured “Gan Vittore.

VILLAGE TAKEN ~ IN VIOLENT BATTLE   Every House end Village on _ Way to Road Junction & Heavily Fortifixd

Italian Mountain Village Falls to  American Troops   Yanks Form Spearhead at Cassino, 70 Air Miles  From Rome.   Deep Snow Blocking Allied Eighth Army

Yanks Pointing for Cassino   SAN VITTORE FALLS AFTER VIOLENT 40-HOUR BATTLE FROM HOUSE-TO-HOUSE; CLARK TELLS FIFTH ARMY SOLDIERS “YOU ARE BEST IN WORLD”

U. S. Forces "Start Drive -On Cassino   After Taking San Vittore Fifth Army Masses for Assault On Italian Kev -

HEAVY RAIN CLOSES ROADS BUT IS BOON TO FARMERS   Seathern Ubie Hit: Sciete River Goes Out of Beaks.

Hitler Credited With Conceiving and Planning Nazi Counterattack During Period He Was Reported to Be Dead, Insane or a Prisoner

DESTROY 2100 GERMAN PLANES      Hight-Week Period Toll Revealed -

General Doolittle Discloses Luftwatte ‘Has Lost 2,100 Aircraft In Eight Weeks

FLOOD EASING UP   Crest Passes Ottawa After One of City’s Greatest loods

PEACE MISSION EXPECT TO LEAVE BUDAPEST   May Contact Allies on _Fighting Front and

Istanbul Reports Hungarian Peace Missions to Request Allied Armistice Terms

Missions Expected To Leave Budapest —  Hungarian Peace Bid.          waited

HUNGARY IS READY TO MAKE PEACE   Peace Mission Expected To Leave Budapest Today

Hungary Set To Ask Alltec Peace Terms   Missions Reported Ready to Contact Sovicts. Vatican

TWO HUNGARIAN MISSIONS WILL BID FOR TRUCE   Istanbul Reports Peace Group Ready To Discuss Terms

Hungary Seeking  Armistice   Reports Say Panic Reigns In Budapest

Terms of Armistice Return Allied Rumania Property  Soviet Announces Agreement; Border Is Fixed

Terms of Armistice Return Allied Rumania Property  Soviet Announces  Agreement; p.t.ett. Ete.

RUSSIANS SEIZE LOMZA, GERMAN STRONG POINT   ‘Germans Admit .Town Given Up to Prevent Red Breakthrough

GEN, CLARK’S FIFTH  ARMY IS STEP NEARER  CASSINO AND ROME SAN VITTORE, ONE OF  TOUGHEST NAZI DEFENSE POINTS. IS CAPTURED

RUSS DIPLOMACY GAINS ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY   Bulgaria Asks Armistice 12 Hours After Soviet Union Declares War   NAZIS TAKE REPRISALS   War Leaders Imprisoned And People Are Advised “Germany Is With You”

BULGARIA ASKS MOSCOW FOR ARMISTICE   Acts Less Than Six Hours After Russia Declares War

Six Fortified Towns Fall to Patton Troops; Montgomery Army Plunges Seven Miles After 400-Gun Barrage

Sweep To Within 2 Miles Of City, Capture L’Yser   British Explode Tremendous New Drive On North Flank After 400-Gun Earthquake Barrage. French Break Into Action Too.

Turin Aircraft Factory Bombed   Damaging Blow Against Nazi Controlled Factory By U.S. Airmen

NORTH ITALIAN PLANT BOMBED   Aeritalia Factory and Turin Airfield Hit; Army Improves Position

Leyte Gulf Suits Airmen   Ideal Spot for Air Operations, Japs Have cat Least Four Airstrips There

LandingSpot Well Chosen   Suluan and Leyte Islands Ideal for Air Action Against Japanese On‘. Luzon

‘Peace Now Grout Called Seditious By Dies Probers   House Committee Condemns Organization In Formal Report

Dies Committee Charges Sedition   Attributes To “Peace Now  Movement” Encourage_ ment of Treason; Emphasizes Letters.

Small Advances Are Reported or German Front   British Troops Make : Three-Mile Gain In Holland Sector

2d Army Rips Into German Maas Salient   Yank-British Close Huge Pincers on Key Road Huh of Amerika

Allies Massing For Big Thrust On West Front   Twin Offensives Prepare Way For Grand  Assault

Late News Bulletins   Representative Curley Indicted for Second Time

Curley Indicted For Second Time   Massachusetts Representative Named in Mail Fraud Charges

CURLEY, OTHERS AGAIN INDICTED   One New Defendant Is Named In Mail Fraud Charge

INDICT CURLEY SECOND TIME   Massachusetts Legislator Again Found Guilty In Engineer Racket

CURLEY. Y INDICTED SEC      ‘ormer Governor and Six Others Named For Alleged Fraud  in Contracts

Rep. Curley, High Democratic Party Official In East, Is  Indicted By Federal Jurors

SUBS SINK 14 MORE SHIPS   Japs Claim Two Yank Battleships Sunk in Fighting

Knox Gives Accounting of Strike in Varolines; Sink Jap Ships at Atolls

HEAVY JAP LOSS ‘IN GAROLINES, KNOX REVEALS   Yanks Take 10 More Islets .

Armour Named . Envoy to Spain   Senate Approval of Nomination Expected

ARE BELIEVED DEVASTATING   Reports Indicate Jap Oil and Shipping Hard Hit : by Latest Superfortress  Raid—Fire Bombs Tend

Great Aerial Blows Struck At Japan   Superfortresses In Longest Mission Of The War

SUPERFORTS HIT JAPAN, SUMATRA   Incendiaries Rain On Nagasaki; Oi) Hit At Palembang

Nazis Losing Grip on Key Holland City  British Troops In Outskirts of ’S Hertogenboscl

British Enter  Nazi i Keystone In Holland   Battle in Streets Of.’°S Hertogenbosch. Take Factory District  NAZIS FACE TRAP

British F ight Into Streets of Hertogenbosch   Tighten Grip on Nazi Defense Key to West Holland: 4 Columns Form Junctions

British tighten grip on Hertogenbosch; close in from south   Germans still hold business section of kev bastion: foe rushing reserves

Nazi Defenses In West Holland Are Crumbling   lommies Fighting in Hertogenbosch; British Take Best

BRITISH FIGHT INTO STREETS 0° DUTCH CITY   Tommies Tighten Iron Grip On Defense Key To Western Holland   CANADIANS REPORT GAINS AT SCHELDE

Thousands Of Nazis Facing Entrapment In British Drive      Reds Plunge On Inv Prussia, Map New Series Of Attack:

Key Enemy City Now Under Seige   British Second Army Fights Way Inside ‘S Hertogenbosch

British Battling Nazis in Streets  ‘Of Holland City   iron Grip Being Tightened Around Germans Near Dutch Cathedral City of S$ Hertogenbosh

BRITISH STORM INTO STREETS OF KEY DUTCH TOWN   Rail Center of s’Hertogenbosch Brought Under Siege as 4 Columns Advance on City.   GERMANS RUSHING ' RESERVES TO AREA   Nazi Defenses Appear to Be Crumbling on 12-Mile Front —Bastion of Best Falls to Tommies.

PERIL LOOMS FOR NAZIS ON DUTCH FRONT   BRITISH PIERCE KEY DEFENSES; LINES CRUMBLING

Russians Press on Toward Capital of Lithuanian Republic   Germans Evacuate City * -ofPinsk* in“ Western » Pripyat Marshes

RED TROOPS PUSH ON TO WITHIN 28 ‘MILES OF KAUNAS   GERMANS EVACUATE PINSK IN WESTERN PRIPYAT MARSHES

Five Russian Armies Speed Westerward With Action Boiling Along 600 Mile Front

Nazis Lose © _Pinsk, Major. Rail. Center   Hard-Pressed.: Germans Fail to Stem Advancing Flood of Russians -

Nazis Lose Pinsk, Major Rail Center   Hard-Pressed Germans Fail to Stem Advancing Flood of Russians  nvwyrtrr pDYnrwar

WFA Will Recommend Food, Crop Goals To Be Reached During 1945, Need Beets

EXPECT WFA WILL SET '45 GROP GOAL AT RECORD LEVEL   Planting Of 363 Million Acres May Be Asked Of Farmers

Greater Acreage For 1945 Food  Production Seen.   Largest Recommen™ Boost Expected T ¢ Be In Sugar Be

ADVANCE MADE IN FORLI AREA   Bridge Before Ravenna Taken; Italy Has More Showers

ADVANCE MADE NEAR RAVENNA BY 8TH ARMY   Nazis Withdraw Positions To Canal Area

Important Gains Listed in Italy  Highway Bridge Falls to British

CAPTURE SAN TOME   Eighth Army Engages Enemy in Bitter Struggle North of Forli

8th Army Patrols, Secreted in Woods, Near Ravenna Goal   Record Advance of Two Miles; City Now Four Miles From Allies

PETRIGNONE IS SEIZED BY BRITISH   Florence-Forli Road Completely In Allied Hands

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS DRIVE ON IN ITALY    San Tome Falls As Men Advance Two Miles

EIGHTH ARMY MAKES GAINS TAKES TOWN   Advance Claimed Important; New River Crossings

Eighth Patrols Cross Canal   Two Mile Advance Scored by British  Forces

ALLIES MOVING AHEAD IN ITALY   Kighth Army Crosse: Ghiaia Canal In Drive On Ravenna

REASON FOR HOPKINS SLAM IS PUZZLER   Believe Outcome to Reboundin — His Favor .

REASON FOR HOPKINS SLAM PUZZLER   Believe Outcome to Rebound in His Favor

British ‘Torpedo Cowboys’ Ride Missile To Target, Race Away Before Explosion

UHURUHILL'S LIFE IS THREATENED   Ton Of Dynamite Found Planted Near Hotel In Athens

Assassins Put Cache Under Athens Hotel   Prime Minister and Eden There to Settle Greek Disonte

CHURCHILL AND EDEN IN ATHENS   Ton of Dynamite Found in Sewer  Near Their Hotel

DYNAMITE FOUND IN SEWERS NEAR SCOBIE’S HOTEL   Attempt On Life Of British Commander In Greece Blamed On Nazis   CONFERENCE OPENS BEFORE CHURCHILL

Churchill, Eden In Athens: Expose Plot To Kill Them   Find Dynamite In Sewer Opposite Hotel Of British Chiefs

Dynamite Found Near Scobie's Hotel in Athens   Explosive, Reportedly c German Make, Discoved in Sewers

BELIEVE ATTEMPT MADE 10 KILL CHURCHILL AT ATHENS; DYNAMITE FOUND IN SEWER UNDER HOTEL

N early Ton of Dynamite Is Found as.Churchill Prepares for Athens Peace Confarene

Churchill, ELAS  Confer   Expiosives Believed Attempt on Life of Prime Minister, Eden

Churchill, Eden Eseape Death Plot   Ton of Dynamite Found in Sewer  Beneath Hotel

Plot in Greece is Foiled   Churchill Is in Athens to Make Peace With Rebels

EXPLOSIVES DISCOVER ED BY BRITISE   Plot Believed Attempt to Destroy Prime Minister, Eden and Gen, Scobie.   BULLETIN

Bomb Plot or Churchill in Athens Bared   Ton of Dynamite With Nazi Labels Found Near Hotel

Ton of Dynamite Revealed Before Churchill's Hotel   Patrol Discovers Cache After Prime Minister Reaches Athens

Explosives Are Found Near Hotel   Are of German Manufac ture, Placed Near British  Headquarters

CHURCHILL TO DIRECT GREEK PEACE PARLEY   Dynamite Cache Discovered Near Hotel Housing Government Leaders

PATROLS PIGK UP EXPLOSIVE FRUM SEWEE   British Believe Attempt Was Planned to Blow Up Peace Parlev.

Dynamite Plot Believed Set For Churchill   Explosive Found In Athens Sewer Directly Before Conference Hotel.

Nazi Raid on London Hits Hospital:   OPERATION PERFORMED “IN SHATTERED ROOM DURING AIR BLITZ

Large London Hospital Hit During Raid   Patients Buried Under Debris When Four Explosives Land On Municipal Institution

2 DIE, 13 HURT AT LONDON IN TRAIN WRECK   Crew Members Victims: Injured Include 8 Soldiers

Train Derailed. in Ohio:-Two-Killed   F oreman Admits Switch Left Open

Dachel - Carter Case Nears End   Bookkeeping Methods Under Fire Today

Ball Wants Dewey, F.R. To Take Stand   Senator Says Neither Has Given Position Qn Two Vital-Pointe

Britain and U. S. Hiding Own Cruel Acts, Dispatch from Tokyo Asserts

County Sailor Among Missing, Navy Reports   SOLDIER VOTE ACTION URGED   House Leader Martin Alse Lists Muster-Out-Pay Must Legislation   Federal Agencies Burned Many Tons Of Paper, is Claim

Resolute Defense Stops Reds   Soviets Report Revival Of Fighting In Long-Static  Far North Front.

Sevastopol . Rear Guards Delay Reds   Russian Bombers Also Blast Refineries In Navzvi-Held Territory

Soviets Sink 18 Big Nazi Ships Off Sevastopol   Port Savagely Defended While  Russians Smash at Evacuation

DRAG RESERVOIR FOR THREE BOYS   Find Overturned Motor Boat on Lake Near Warren

AIR TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE BEGINS   President Indicates That United States Ready To Supply Planes After War

“Today's War Commentary   Twenty six years ago America ended its first war with Germany. ‘en it observes the occasion by fighting to end its second.

YANKS POURING THROUGH FIVE WALL BREACHES   Nazis Reel Toward Rhine; Americans Near Cologne

Troops Stream Through Holes im West Wall   Americans Smash Within 25 Miles Of Cologne As Germans Reel Back.

sliegtried Line Is Smashed   Americans Pour On Highway Leading To City of Cologne

Nazis Fall Back to East Rhine Bank   Luxembourg and Belgium Freed as Troovs Enter Holland

Berlin Says Siegfried ‘Lost’ as Defense Belt   Yanks Rip 3 Holes in Fortress; Arnyv Onlw 25 Miles From Coloene

Band Leader’s Assault Trial Is Postponed   MISSING WITNESS TO RETURN FROM PANAMA TO TELL HIS STORY

Retreating Soldiers Seek to Escape Annihilation  FORWARD PATROLS. NEAR VERSAILLES,  Allies Reach the Seine on Both Sides of Paris

Street Fighting Rages Between French Partisans and German Soldiers; Yanks Use Parachutists German Radio Reports.

ONE AMERICAN COLUMN NEAR CITY OF PARIS   Yanks Reach River at — Vernon and in Area Of Fontainbleau

PARTISANS AND GERMANS FIGHT INSIDE CAPITAL   Nazis Claim Allies Have Crossed Seine With Aid Of Paratroops   EISENHOWER CONFERS WITH GEN. DE GAULLE

Patton's Forces Reach the Seine On Paris Sector   Have Crossed River, Berlin Report Says

Americans Reach Seine 45 Miles Above Capital And Threaten To Encircle It; Drive Within Vicinitv Of Versailles

One Column is 10 Miles  From Paris   . Bulk of Seventh Army Believed Boxed Up _ For Annihilation  FOUTIPMENT LOST

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(Clever Trick Cracks Gustav Line  Kenneth Dale of Joplin Takes Part

Alabama Captain Given Credit For Breaking Of The Nazis’ Gustav Line

UPSETS NAZIS SINGLE - HANDED   Combat Engineer Finds ~ Way to Get Tanks  Across Valley

SCOUTS 10. CPEK PAIN PEBIOI   Tipton Scouts : Participate in Recent Camporee’

dLUUio 18 Grth CARING PERION   Tipton Scouts Participate in Recent Camporee

The War Today   International Flurry Cansed by Report Troops Invaded Yugoslavia.

 International Flurry Caused. 1Yugoslavia Invasion Report Retains Interest Despite Quick Denial

Today’s War Moves   Balkans Invasion Reports Raise International Flurry

The War Today.   Hy DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Vreas War Amalveat

BIG INTERNATIONAL FLURRY CAUSED BY REPORT TROOPS OF ALLIES HAD INVADED BALKANS

BALKAN POWDER KEG DRAWS NEAR EXPLODING POINT AS RED ARMIES DRAW NEARER BORDERS OF RUMANIA   Stockholm Rumors of Reported Amphibious Landing in Allies in Yugoslav Ports Maybe Prema: ture, But Tito’s Partisan Activities May Bring  a 2

The War Today   _ Report of Allied Landings . “In Yugoslavia Stirs Tempest

DUCK PXTENDED ; EIGHTY DAYS   But How Can You Shoot Ducks Withou Shotgun Shells?

Waterfowl Regulations Liberalized  More May Be Shot This Year; Season ‘Ts Run 80 Days

APPRERCNOUN IN VPB GROWS OVER RECONVERSIOH   Top-Notch Executives Are Both Absent, © Maybe ‘‘for Keeps”.

U. 5. SUB BAGS HUGE CARRIER OF THE JAPS   Mikado’s Ships Still Continue to Keep Out of Way of Pursuers

SAY HITLER AND     MUSSOLINI4N CONFERENCE   Spread Rumor of Ex: traordinary Events. Inside Germany

May Be Colder By Tuesday   Forecast Warns of Continued Sub-Freexing Temperatures Over Oklahoma

British Planes Wage War Upon Nazi Buzz Bombs   Patrols Detect Launching Craft

WELLES URGES ~ COUNCIL PLAN   FORMER! ‘STATE "DEPARTMENT “OFFICIAL OPPOSED TO FOURNATION. CONTROL. "AFTER WAR 00.

WELLED GIVto PEAGE WARNING   Global Rest Is Endangered by. Imperialism Trend

The War Today   Smashing of-Prussian War Mania _ ‘Seen Possible in Russo-Polish Pact

'RUSSO-POLISH TERRITORIAL DISPUTE MAY HELP TO SOLVE DIFFICULT PROBLEM FOR ALLIES

SOVIET DRIVE TOWARD PINSK GAINING SPEED   INCREASE PRESSURE  ON ROVNO, LUCK AND KOVEL IN SARNY AREA      Prussia Involved in Russ-Polish Dispute

Russo-Polish Territory Dispute May Aid Allies  .. Problem of Wiping Out Prussian

EXTERMINATION OF EAST PRUSSIA AND RETURN OF LAND TO POLES IS — SEEN AS AID TO POST-WAR PEACE   Polish-Russian Territorial Problem May Serve Useful Purpose of Getting Rid of Arrogant Prussian Military Caste in Post War Border Settlements

Warships Lash Bayonne Walls   ‘Three Allied Cruisers Find  Beant Nazi Onnnsition

Damage in Hub Fire   Three-Alarm Blaze in Downtown Shopning District

RFC Reveals War Plants To Be Sold   Hemp Plants at Wells, New Richland, Blooming Prairie Are Included

U. S. Will Sell ll Of Defense Works In State   Projects Will Be Disposed Of After They Have Been  Declared Surplus

Attacks Abuse of  Small Business —   Bricker Says Free Enterprise Threatened

PRESIDENT ON VACATION TRIP  Will Spend About Two   Will Spend About Two Weeks In South

FDR TAKES VACATION IN SOUTH FOR HEALTH  President to Spend Two Weeks Out-of-Doors, Statement Discloses

President Leaves For a Vacation   Roosevelt Goes South to Recuperate From Bron chitis and Cold,

ROOSEVELT GOES SOUTH   ‘Will Vacation and Rest for About Two Weeks

F.R. Leaves  For Vacation   President Will Spend Two Weeks in South, White House Announces

TWO-WEEK VACATION BEGUN BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Relaxes In South; Rest Spot Kept Secret

FDR Is Taking  Two-Week Rest In The South   President's Whereabouts And Time Of Departure Are Kept Secret

Roosevelt Goes South For 2-Week Rest Cure   Leaves Washington For Vacation, Says Announcement Made At White House

Roosevelt To South For Vacation   Trip Expected To Last Two Weeks; Place A Secret

FDR GOES SOUTH FOR VACATION   Roosevelt Plans .14-Day Rest Period

Roosevelt Leaves For Vacation and Rest in Southland  Whereabouts Not Disclosed as President Seeks Fresh Air, Snnchine for Two Weake

ROOSEVELT OFF FOR SHORT REST   President Spending Two Weeks Vacation In The South —

FDR Leaves For Vacation rip   To Be Away For About Two Weeks; Goes South For Rest.

Roosevelt Will Rest In South   Leaves Washington Today for Two Weeks; Destination Not Made Public

Roosevelt Is On Vacation In  South Today   President Will Remain Away From Capital For Two Weeks Untess An Emergency Arises

FOR IN SOUTH TO TAKE REST   But Back in Capital, Row Over Draft Goes On

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON FAENZA   Nazis Prepare to Defend Po Valley Junction House By House

Americans, Brilish ‘Close Pincer Movement -On Germans Ai Junction

Slav Partisans Reoceupy Jajce, Patriots’ Base   Nazi Treops Cleared From Area Said . Retreating To Dalmatian Coast

TITO'S ARMY fits RECAPTURED JAJCE   Headquarters of Patriot Troops in Mountains of Western Bosnia.

RUSSIANS CROSS BUG RIVER AS GREAT RED OFFENSIVE CONTINUES; GERMANS REPORTED READY TO EVACUATE ODESSA.

Cut Off ‘Several’ German Divisions; Capture 4000 Attempting Escape; Close In on Second Black Sea Port

Reds Encircle Nazi Divisions In S. Ukraine  10,000 Killed, 400¢   10,000 Killed, 4000 Captured; Soviets Near Nikolaev

Reds Drive to Point 21 Miles From Black Sea Port of Nikolaev, Kill 10,000 Nazis, Capture 4,000

U. S. Supreme Court Upholds Rent Control Program in Decision Today

Court Upholds Rent Controls   Claims Federal District Court's Decision Void

Jap New Guinea Drive Repulsed   Warships, Planes Hit Enemy Rear Positions

IS STOPPED NEAR AITAPE   268 Killed In Ist Four Days of Skirmishes

Not Campaigning, Merely. Answering, President Says   428 Government Agencies Counted   Citizens’ Group Issues Report on Survey

Finnish Nofe Sent To Reds   Terms Are Rejected; Swedec lecue Anneal

RCHILL PREDICTS VICTORY AND PRAISES RUSSIAN WAR EFFORT   NEWSPAPERS GIVE APPROVAL, BUT PUBLIC EXPECTED SOMETHING ELSE   COMPLETE ABSENCE OF GERMAN FIGHTER OPPOSITION TO SUNDAY ALLIED ASSAULTS SIGNIFICANT

COMPLETE, ABSENCE OF GERMAN FIGHTER OPPOSITION TO SUNDAY ALLIED ASSAULTS SIGNIFICANT

STRAIN STRAIN SHOWS ON LUFTWAFFE   Failure Of Nazi Planes To Rise to Meet Yanks Sienificant

Hawaii Still Vulnerable Say Officers   ARMY, NAVY CHIEFS URGE CONTINUANCE OF MARTIAL LAW

Americans Slug Their Way North  _ Germans Divisions  Are Pushed Back

Nearing End, 44 Campaign Grows ‘Dirty’   Party Candidates. Saving No Punches To. Win Voters

Presidential Race Looming As Roughest   Blockbuster Attacks Hurled by Two Sidee

Rude Log Church Stands in Rustic Simplicity Among Nazi Pillboxes

FRENCH PATRIOTS AID YANKS IN BATTLE WITH NAZI GROUP   CORRESPONDENT. TELLS ONE INCIDENT OF UNDEEGROUND ASSIBTANCE DURING SOUTHERN INVASION

DR. J. H. PRESSLY BEGINS 53RD YEAR AS A. R. P. MINISTER   Highly Respected Preacher Came To Statesville In 1892.

SUNDAY PROVES A RED LETTER DAY. ATFIRST ALR.   Dr. r. Pressly Enters 58rd Year Of Ministry   IN REMINISCENT  MOOD AT SERVICE

FRENCH STYLES MORE RESTRAINED   Women Impressed With First Showing Of Autumn Fashions

South France And Balkans Are Bombed  Americans Follow Up RAF Assault

American Heavy Bombers Hit South France, Yugoslavia and Northern Italy

Hitler Fails In New Sensation   Does Not Deliver Week End Speech Promised By Diplomats.

Hitler Silent As War Enters Sixth Year   ‘Sensational’ Appeal For Either Battle or Peace Not Forthcoming

Hitler Silent  On Anniversary   Report of Speech Proves Inaccurate

HITLER MEETS JAP ENVOY TO GERMANY      Acute Questions of Collaboration Are Discussed

Hitler Confers With Jap as  Invasion Nears   Channel Shimmers Under Summery Sun; British Jam Trains

Hitler Conters With Jan Envoy On Axis Effor!   Depeath of Invasion Fuehrer Info ; as & Gith Ally

HITLER TALKS TO JAPANESE AMBASSADOR   On Questions of Collaboration While Planes Fill Skies over Western Detenses. Speculation Rife   Nazis Guessing

Gen. Hieentonen Waiting For Fresh U. 8. Troops, German Radio Guesses

invasion Fever Mounts; Hitler Goes In Huddle   Britishers Say’ Weather's Ideal For The. CrossChanne! Blow

Cround Forces Aid Cavalry  On Los N egros   MacArthur Terms Admiralty Island Invasion “Complete Occupation” Move   Texans Take Airdrome

Cround Forces Join Cavalry   Land On Los Negros Island In Bismark Sea: As Reeon natssance.

ADMIRALTYS' ‘SCOUT TRIP NOW INVASION   MacArthur Sends Troops After Reconnaissance Landing Catches Japs By Surprise, Holds On.

Yankees Land More Troops On Los Negros   Calvary Detachment That Invaded Strategic Island Will Have Support

LOS NEGROS INVADERS ARE _ REINFORCED   Reconnaissance Developed Into - Occupation When Japs Taken by “Surprise, MacArthur Reveals

Jap Force Surprised by Allies   Heavy Ground  Reinforcements Landed in Admiralty Group to Back Un Invaders

ATTACK PUSHED ON LOS NEGROS   Ground Troops Join Cavalry In Clean-Up Job

ADDITIONAL U. S. TROOPS LAND ON LOS NEGROS ISLE   REINFORCEMENTS TO MAKE OCCUPATION OF JAP BASE COMPLETE

REINFORCEMENTS FO LANDING FORCES IN ADMIRALTY ISLANDS  INITIAL OPERATION   INITIAL OPERATION WAS LAUNCHED AS MERE RECONNAISSANCE

RUSH TROOPS TO 10S NECROS   Heavy Yank Ground Force Landed To Back Up  Invaders

Substantial Reinforcements Landed On Los Negros Isle   Several Thousand Japs Reported Entrenched In_ Islands; Allies Blast New Guinea Targets; Shipping Also Attacked

ISLAND FORCES GIVEN SUPPORT   Heavy Ground Reinforce. ments on Los Negros of Admiralty Group.   JAPS GREATLY SURPRISED

MORE TROOPS LAND TODAY ON ISLANDS   Enemy Is Taken By Serprise By Allies

Heavy Ground Reinforcements Reach Los Negros   MacArthur Explains Sudden Decision To Capture Island

Admiraltys Beachhead  Reinforced   Reveal Landing Operation was Reconnaissance

Admiralty Invasion Is Now Disclosed as Scouting Maneuver   Heavy Reinforcements of Ground Forces Land on Island   American Heavy Bombers Raid Reich Second Straight Day; RAF Is Active

JAPS SPOTTED ON ADMIRALTYS   About 45,000 Square Miles Retaken in Pacific

intorce ivision On Los N egros  iralty Offensive w Disclosed A: puting Expedition wuech Changed Plan.

Admiraltys  Beachhead Reinforced Reveal Landing Op  Reveal Landing Operation was Reconnaissance

Allies Reveal Early Raid Not  Real Invasion   But Japs Caught So  _ By Surprise, Allies  Y Turned Raid Into Major Drive

MACARTHUR LANDS HEAVY GROUND REINFORCEMENTS '   Supporting Troops Land On Recently Invaded Los Negros Islands in Admiralty Group

Nazi Troops in Baltics Face New Trap   Red Drive on Riga Halves Escape Gap, Radio Berlin Admits

Officials Seek to Prevent Spread of Epidemic of Infantile Paralvsi:

Polio Drive Is Launclied      . “Southern ‘Area Acts * To Smash Outbreaks.

POLIC OUTBREAK IN SOUTHERN STATES   Centers in No. Carolina With 270 Cases, 13 Deaths Renorted_

POLIO IN THE SOUTH   Health Officials Take Steps to Pre. vent Spread of Disease

feds Advance Only 30 Miles  From Suwalki   Is Wedge Of Old Poland Between East Prussia. Lithuania.   1HAVE 19-MILE GAIN   (l € Ll ra i : l

South Fights Against Polio   Health Officers Seek To Prevent Spread; Deaths Reported

Japs Tell About  Postwar Wonders  Babble of Trains Driven by Rocleate

TOWN and FARM ¢f * in WARTIME - [Ge  Prepared by OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION BNL            1944. GASOLINE SITUATION AMPS 1§ TIGHT

RESORT PARLEY SLATED HERE   West Michigan Operators Will Convene At Tabor Farm

NAZIS BATTLE FIERCELY AGAINST RED THRUSTS ON LATVIA, HUNGAR'   BITTER OPPOSITION CUTS DOWN RUSSIAN . GAINS ON EASTERN FRONT; RESERVES USED

800,000 Soviet Troops Battering Latvian Pocket   Massive Winter Drive _ To Pave Way For Push To East Prussia Opens

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW DRIVE ON LATVIA POCKET   Huge Offensive To Clear Baltic States Begun, Berlin Says

ADVANCE IN HUNGARY   Nazis Say Soviets Have Launched Drive In Latvia

Berlin Says 800,000 Russians Renew Offensive to Clear Baltic States

SEEK 70 CLEAR BALTIC STATES OF NAZI ENEMY      800,000 Soviet Troops Battering German Pocket In West Latvia

200,000 RED TROOPS POUND NAZI POCKET   Drive Would Clear Germans Out of Baltics

Soviet Army Batters al West Latvia   Clear Baltics for Winter Offensive Against E. Prussia

Rep. Robertson Asks Tax Delay  Opposes Haste Haste In Passing Bill

Aerial War Hits New intensity   Bombers Streak Across Channel in Great Numbers

ALLIES CONTINUE DANE ie ACROSS ITALY.   Fifth: Ts. at Heels , Of Germars: Take “Three More. Paws

ALLIES CONTINUE DRIVE NORTHVARL AGROGO TALY   Fifth Is at Feels of Germars; Take ‘Three More Towns

Young Vets Tell John L. Lewis What Boys Overseas Think of War Strikes

Forrestal To Be Navy Secretary  Current Policies Te  Continue, Belief

Advance Up ic Four Miles Threagh Main Enemy Delense Belt, Occupy Mills Deminating

GOP TO CONSIDER STATE PLATFORM   GOV, GREEN CALLS MEETING WEDNESDAY TO DRAFT PLANKS

How Clapper Lost His Life In Marshall:   Columnist Hoped To Get In On Showdown Fight With Japanese Navy, Reports Official

Mixed Fare Is Served Up By Nominees   Dewey And Bricker Talk On Taxes, Sen. Truman Gives His Views On Treaty Approvals

DEWEY RAPS DEM TAXES   Truman Backs Plan to Give} House, Senate Treaty Pow-: er by Majority 

Political Pot Pot  Begins’ To Boil   “Dewey Says Taxes Must Be Revised’

Reich Fuehrer Slightly Burned By Bomb; Aides Severely Hurt   DNB Announcement Fails to Tell Who Tossed Missile

Der Fuehrer Lives, But Is Badly Burned   Berlin Radio Reports That Staff Meeting Is Bombed; Generals Injured.   Assassins Escape; Police on Trail

Bomb Tossed At Hitler’s. _ Party Huits Eicht Aides:   Fuehver ‘Is: Burned, Receives. Bruises

GERMAN LEADER SUFFERS BURNS, OTHER INJURIES   3 MILITARY AIDES SERIOUSLY INJURED IN BOMB EXPLOSION

Battle of Arno Nears in Italy   Only Small Pockets Left West of River

Capture Of Tarnopot Emphasizes Menace To Lwow In Poland   Toll In Crimea Estimated at 60,000 By Russians; Over Half Of Nazi Losses Are Through Surrender

Fall Of Great Black Sea Port Imminent As Reds Close In   kvacuation Boats Sent Lo Bottom   Thousands Of Germans, Romanians Give Up Without Fight

SOVIETS WITHIN FOUR MILES OF CRIMEAN PRIZE   Sevastopol About to Fall; Many Nazis Surrender To Escape Death  By TOM YARBROUGH

Smash fo Less Than 4 Miles of Sevastopol   Staggering Losses Suffered by Nazis, Romanians

Slice thru bastion’s defenses   Axis resistance rapidly receding

Temperatures   Tarnopol Falls To Red Army In Old Poland   Soviet Troops Penetrate German Ring To Point Three and Qne-Half Miles To. Cetnean Citadel: Capture Near

Only 3 Miles To Sevastopol   Russian Fleet Sinks Evacuation Boats; Thousands of Trapped Nazis Surrender; Tarnopol, ‘Polish Gate to Berlin’ Taken j

Fall of Vital Sevastopol Appears Near   Another Red Army Crushes Big Axis Garrison at Tarnopol

Soviets Drive Ahead On 3 Major Fronts   Strategic Crimean Port Under Close Siege from Land, Ai

CUT THROUGH OUTSIDE RING AROUND CITY   Army in Poland Takes Tarnopol to End Long Attack

Canture Tarnopol And Crush Nazi  Garrison There   Crimean Citadel In Flames; Sevastopol Fall Expected At Any Hour

Tarnopol, Key To Berlin Roat Falls fo Reds   Russians Capture Lyubimovka, Above Chornaya Estuary, Near Sevastono]

Soviets Near Sevastopol, Fall Seen   Another Red Army Seizes Tarnapol to. Open Westward Gate

Soviets In Capture Of  + arnapol   Fall Of Sevastopol Appears Near As Red Forces  Intensify Drive

Reds Smash To Edge Of Sevastopol   Tarnopol Taken On Polish Front

TARNOPOL TAKEN AY RED FORCES   Attackers Crush 16,000Man Axis Garrison   SHIPS AND PLANES   Sink Evacuation Boats as Thousands of Nazi Troops Give up Without Fight

Sinash to Less Than 4 Miles of Sevastopol   Staggering Losses Suffered by  Neavic. Ramaniona

Tarnopol’s Fall Opens New Routes For Soviet   Nazis Making Wild Retreat; Many Die

SOVIETS CRUSH AXIS GARRISON AT TARNOPOL   Troops Smash Outer Defenses Of Crimean Citadel

Great Soviet Force Wipes Out 16,000 German Troops; Fall Of Sevastonol Near

Fall of City Near; Nazis  Giving Up   Evacuation Boats Sunk by Russian Warchins. Planes

SOVIET ARMY LESS: THAN FOUR MILES FROM GREAT POR’   Cornered Germans Within Ar tillery Range — Russians  Shatter Axis Evacuation Ships in Harbor.       ENEMY TROOPS MAULED ON THREE FRONTS   One Soviet Army Captures Tarnopol, Fortress.in Poland:  on Invasion Route to« Rarkin 

1000-Plane Fleet, 6 Army Divisions, Navy, Gathered In Alaska, Nippon Warned

SOVIET AIRMEN STEP a   May Be Paving Way for Gigantic New Offensive _

SOVIET AIRMEN STEP UP BOMB CAMPAIGN   May Be Paving Way for Gigantic New Offensive

U.S. TO EXPAND POLICY AGAINST WAR CRIMINALS   Will Include Punishment Of In dividuals As Well As Leaders

RESUME AIR ATTACK ON REICH TODAY   Weather Clears and U. 5 Flyers Follow Mosquitoe: That Struck Railroad: During Night.

HINT ALLIED RAID DEEP INTO REICH   British Pound Ludwigshafen, Rail Targets at Aachen

More Frenchmen Killed As Patriots and Nazi Police Continue Fights

YANKS GAIN 10 SOUTH OF CARIGARA BA\   Weather Tortured Soldiers in Ding-Dong Baitle to Clear Tortuous  ~ Read to Ormoc.   Fail To Report

U.S. Defied by Argentina  Official Declares Country Will Continue On Its Present Course

BERLIN ASSAULT ROARS ON; KIEL HIT BY YANKEES   pluenster Also Target for Raid by U.S. Fortresses and Liberators

Huge Air Raids  Upon Germany Are Continued   Felentless Day And Night Pounding Of Nazi Targets Is Increased   KIEL AND MUENSTER ARE AGAIN BOMBED

ROW HOLOING UP CHANGE Th POINT VALUES   Dispute Between WFA and OPA Over Shortages May Go Up to Vinson.

RATIONING FIGHT IS RAGING ANEW   OPA and WFA Clash Over Points on Meat — Vinson Will Act

OPA, WFA Disagree Again on Basic Policies of Food Rationing   Current Point Values May Be. Continued through December

POINT CHANGE HELD UNLIKELY   Vinson May Have to Settle Food Ration Argument In End

AGENCIES SPLIT OVER RATIONING   OPA and WFA Unable to  Agree on Policies

OPA And WFA Tangle Again   Result May Be Postponement of New Set of PointRation Figures

Disagree on Ration Policy   Current Food Point Values May Continue Through December

Ration Schedules May Be Postponed   Delay in Next Month's Valuation Comes From Disagreements of WFA and OPA.

Food point values may continue thru month as agencies disagree   WFA Obijecthd.

Agencies In New Wrangle Over Rations   Vinson To Act In OPA. WEA Pow

No Change Seen In Pomt Values   Current Values May Continue In December Due To Disayreerment.

NEW RATIONING TANGLE BREWS      OPA, WFA At Odds on Revisions for December Point Lists

In Rationing Deadlock   WFA and OPA Disagreement On Policy May Mean No Point Change for December

OPA And WFA In New Tangle Over Rationing   As Result, Current Fooc Point Values May Holc Through December.

IPA, WEA in Another Tangle Over Ration Policy; Vinson May Have to Settle Thing:

Bureaucrats In Dispute Over Rationing Policy   OPA Wants To Restore Unrationed Foods To Poin List But WFA Declares It Is Unnecessary; No Chance Likely In December

Alphabetical Agencies in Squahble Over Continuance of Point Values.

OPA, WFA ARGUE OVER RATIONING   Former Wanted Meat, Canned Goods Points Restored

Big Philadelphia Shipyard Closed   17,000 Employes Join in Strike

Cambridge Men In Fight Over Mayor’s Office  Councilman Is ray oe « ryve

‘Mayor’ Opens Branch Office In Gity Hall   Sullivan Barred From Corcoran’s Rooms by Police

DRAFT TO NEED 400,000 MEN   Thousands Under 26 To Meet Calls For Rest Of '44

PRAHL’S BID ON STREET WORK IS AOPROVED   City Project to Cost $5,453; No Bids on New Fire Station

TENSION IN HONDURAS   Civilians and Government Police Have Had Several Clashes

~ WAR GOODS BIL   All Receipts Must Be Applied to Retire National Deht

Senate Passes Surplus Properly Disposal Measure  Attaches Provision Al Recsipts To B- Used

Decides Receipts F rom Surpluses Be Used to Pay On National Debt

Government Surpluses — Bill Passed » By Senate _   “Attaches Provision  ~ That All Receipts  Go Toward. Retirement ” Of ‘National Debt   PROVIDES FOR BOARD OF FICUT MEMBERS ~

Senate Passes Surplus Goods Disposal Bill   Measure Opposes Action By House

Senate Ties String To Receipts From Sales of Surplus  Votes Entire Amount  Must Be Utilized i ane Dae BM etscamel Daeht

12-Hour Lu! In Robot Attack Ends At Night   Trench Shelter Collapses In

START PROBE OF COLLISIONS   Coast Guard Investigating Board to Investigate Lake Eris Ancident.

CHURCHILL ADMITS GERMANY'S V-TWO BOMBS HIT BRITAIN  Have eo in Scattered Part of The Cot intry,   CASUALTIES ARE FEW   Contains About the Same Amount of High Explosive

INew German “Ghost Bomb Is Faster Than Sound   Churchill Tells How “V-Two” Arcs High Into Stratosphere; Damage Slight

DENIES GERMAN CLAIMS FOR V-2   Churchill Says Stratosphere Bombs Soar 60 Miles High in Flight

CHURCHILL SAYS .NEW WEAPON, AGAINST ENGLAND NOT CARRYING MORE EXPLOSIVES THAN V-i

ADMITS HIGH SPEED ROCKETS BOMB BRITAIN   Prime Mhunister Says Missiles Landing at Scattered Points

GRIPSHOLM DOCKS WITH REPATRIATES   a  ‘Most Were Prisoners of War In Germany

Sgt. R.E. Lavoie  » Arrives: Today      First Fitchburg Prisotier _ Released. By’ Germans -~Jo~FakenTo--Hospital

Gripsholm Arrives With Repatriates   Sick And Wounded Pris. oners Exchanged

Gripsholm Back Again   Brings 218 Wounded American Soldiers From Reich Prisons

Fifth Enters Velletri In Stiff Battle   Ferentino Captured, Algiers Radio Says; Nazis Put Up Fight

NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE CUT BY FIFTH   Germans Sealed Off When'Via Casilina Severed

Allied Troops Moving Toward  Rome Sever Highway, Sealing OCVEE Main Carman Rernna DAuwétn

Fifth Army Reaches Casilna Highway, Drives Into Velletri   British, French Drive Nazis Back; Ger: mans Throw in Best Troop To Check Allied Advance

NAZI ESCAPE ROAD IS CUT BY AMERICANS   Highway Six Is Severed As Allied Troops Entex Velletri

ALLIES SEVER HIGHWAY 6, G0 INTO VELLETRI   US., British, French Units  Continue Their Advance In Smash For Rome

Americans Take Velletri After Encircling Move   Troops Fighting Pitched Battle Approximately Fourteen Miles From Eternal City, Seen In Distance

MAIN GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE > SEALED TODAY   Allies Gradually Closing-In On azi Troops

Via Casilina Sealed Near Valmontone   Allies Break Into Velletri Already Behind Spearhead

Churchill Tells Commons British Intervened In  ‘Belgium Under U.S. Orders   Prime Minister Blacks Review Of War And Strife In Greece

Churchill Defends Intervention Role in Commons Battle   Blocks Full Review of War; Enemies Scoff at Chief’s Version

Churchill Blocks Full-Scale Review Of War And Strife Current In Greece

GREEK STRIFE IS CAUSE OF MUCH CONCERN   Churchill Halts Review Of Late Athens Battle

CHURCHILL IN NEW CHARGES DEFENDS ALT!   Blames Americans for Use of Troops in Belgium; Temoers Hot.

[Belgian Riots Ended At American  ‘Request, Churchill Tells Commons

epecial debate on Greece tomeorrew, with Prime Minicter Churchill expected te speak.

CHURCHILL IN DEFIANT MOOD   Blocks Debate On Greece  Defends British Moves  In Belgium

Review of War Nipped in Bud by Churchill   Tells Commons That Situation in Greece Is Greatly Improved

Tells Commons “We Were Acting Under American Instructions,” In Last Month’s Riots   Challenges House To Confident Vote   Prime Minister Declines to Debate Greek Situation Except On Vote Of  Censure

Premier Blocks War Review   Forced Into Defense Of British Troops  In Belgium

Churchill Defends British Troops,  Belgian Policy in Commons Speech

BLOCKS FULL WAR REVIEW IN COMMONS   British Prime Minister Says Bri- tish Troops in Belgium Acted  Under Eisenhower Orders

Winne Defends British Troops In Duteh Row   Minister Savs Government Was Acting Under American Instructions.   HO T-TEMPERED FIGHT

INTERVENTION IN BELGIUM IS DEFENDED   Parliamentary Maneuver By Churchill Forestalls Full-Scale Discussion of Policy

Churchill: Sa Troops’ Aétion in Belgium. Approved by ' Gen, Eisenhower

Churehill Blocks. Official Review Of Athens Strife   Commons: Hears Premier Defend Intervention By Troops -In Belgium

Chiang Predicts An Early Victory   China Completes 7 years of War

Japs Given A Surprise Jolt At Sumatra   Attack Bases on Islands Guarding Road to Singapore

British Forces Make Surprise Raids on Sumatra  Pacific Island Bases Take New Poundings From I] S Planee

British Hi East Indies   Submarine Surfaces To Rescue Downed Pilot

CARRIER TASK FORCE BOMBS JAP BASTIONS   DUTCH EAST INDIES ATTACKED WITHOUT ONE SHIP LOSS

Jim Farley Quits N.Y. Chairmanship   Democratic Leader Resigns “For “Business Reasons”

F a yley y Qu ul t S As: Chairman ‘Of Party Group         Neg at Tay a og eae Says -Resignation~Made~For “ “Business Reasons And .  : Not Political: -

Move In Tanks Near Hengyang   Major Engagement May Be Expected In Area

Americans Hold All Vital Areas, Says MacArthur   Success Crowns Four-Day Drive

Hollingsworth Murder Story is Hoax Woman Claiming to be Wife Asserts   Police Say Olean Native Told Tall Tale Hoping He Would Be Executed for Slaying Estranged Bride of Five Months

Americans Are Getting Nearer To Philippines   Latest Invasion Succeeds; 600 Miles From Goal

U.S. Forces In Fierce Fight in The Palaus      Another Force Firmly Established in the Molucca Archipelago, 300 Miles From the Coast of the Phillnvines

errific Naval ombardment Laid Down   eports State Jap esistance Strong; other U. S. Force  nds on Morotai

Newsman Reveals German Casualties Have Caused Acute Manpower Shortage

Davis Leads in Louisiana   Brother of Huey  Long Wins Out for Sarand Placa

CEREMONY MARKS AWARDING OF “E”   Under-Secretary of War to Present Pennant to Sunflower Plant   COMMUNITY JS INVITED

peal MARKS . AWARDING OF “E”   Under-Secretary of War to ’ Present Pennant to Sunflower Plant ”   COMMUNITY. JS INVITED

RESUSGITATCR EXPLANATION ot!   Demonstration of New Machine Planned Friday at Elks Home

RESUSCITATOR EYPLANATIGN SET   - Demonstration of. New Machine’. Plazned : Friday at Elks ‘Home

Oo MARGE FU LFIVALE IN APRIL  Plans Completed for “Boys and Girls Church Sunday” April 30

@ MARCH TO CHURCH IN APRIL  Plans Completed for ‘Boys and Girls Church Sunday” April 30

Allies Have Plan Ready. For D-Day’s Casualties   Sick, Wounded Will Get. Speedy. Service

Strike Of Truckers Is Spreading   Estimate 50,000 Drivers And Freight Handlers Are Idle Today In Midwestern States

Small Nations Get Full Vote In U.S. Plan:   Five-Point American Idez For Post-War Planning Ready for Bie Four

NATIONS BELIEVED IN AGREEMENT CM POST-WAR SET-UF   Four Powers Said Seeing Eye To Eye on Many Points Of World Organization   PARLEY TO BE HELD IN THE LATE SUMMER   Tentative Plan Calls for United Nations Council Headed by Russia, Britain, China and UV. §&.; World Court to Act on Legal Cases

Peace Basis Agreed to, Leaders Say  Big Powers Plan To Give Voice To Small Nation:

 Nie - Jour Agreec on, “fa! ‘aor 2oin A 7 95-. "Nar Seu * Vici s: TESS O Acecuace /oice -o Qma” “a-ions

4 POWERS ARE IN AGREEMENT ON PRINCIPLES   Small Nations To Get Voice In Post-War World  Oreanizatinn   CONVERSATIONS TO BE IN WASHINGTON

Allies in Accord On Postwar Plans   Will Give Small Nations a Voice

Big Four Allied Powers Believed  In Agreement on World Peace Plans   Envoys to Meet in Summer or Fall To Perfect Post-War Organization

Big Powers Agree On Post- War Plan   Nations Reported Seeing Eye to Eye With Assurarice ‘of an Adequate Voice to Small Powers— eS Meeting Soon Planned

»SOLONS REPORT ON TEXTBOOKS   DP ‘No Crime Since 1937’, Is Verdict of 17-Man Investigation Group

RAIN AND MUD MAKING GOING EVEN TOUGHEI   Seventh Army Pushes Into Firs! of Vosges Barrier, Knocking Out 113 Tanks

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses In Defense Of Two Islands   Total of 747 Planes Destroyed, 31 Ships Sunk and 51 Damaged in Two Weeks of Fighting   im tha DParifiea

imitz Reports real Victory n the Pacific   American Plane losses Total 95

747 Enemy Planes And 13 Barges Lost In Defense Of Pacific Islands   95 U. S. AIRCRAFT, AND 49 FLIERS LOST

Air Forces Free 36,000 Soldiers for ‘Ground Duty   Unfilled Draft Quotas And Air Supremacy In Battle Theatres  Cscanak: Heacans   AAF ENLISTMENTS FOR RESERVES ‘OUT’   BM UFAL ARE et Th ON ed Air Force Casualties Lower Than Expected, Ceneral Marshall Savs

Army Transfers 36,000 Young Men Earmarked for  Air Trainin io Ground Forces as Tug-of-War  Develops for Services of Thousands Under Age of 27

Candidates. for Flight: ‘Training. ‘Transferred to Méet Short  _age—Enlistment of 17-Year-Olds in Air Corps Suspended—Official Reports Draft: Boards. for 18.Months Have Failed: to Meet Calis of Armed Services.

Army Cuts Dower Air Force Group   Transfers 36,000 Men Slated For Air Training To Ground Duty.

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MEN TAKEN QUT OF AIR TRAINING   Enlistments Suspended In Reserve: Induction Quotas Run Short

Army Transfers 36,000 From Ai To Ground Duty   Fighting Troops Needed as Draft Boards Fall Behind

Aerial Trainees Are‘ ‘Grounded’   Draft Deficiency Blamed Far Mova-

Transfer 36,000 Air Force Men; Quotas Lag   Farm, Industry Rap Army Youth Call; Reserve Enlistments Suspended; Boards’ Deficit Alarms

Transfer 36,000 trainees  from air to sround duties  Draft boards fail to meet quotas as need far camhat forees increases

36,000 IN AIR FORCE SHIFTED 10 LAND ARMY   Transfer Made as Big Lag in Draft Quotas is Cited

Any Cuts Down Nr Force Group          yenasfers 36,000 Men ated For Air Training To Ground Duty.

Draft Boards Far Behind: Army Transfers 36,000 Young Men From Air Service to Ground Forces

Transfer 36,000 Army Airmen To Ground Forces   Draft Boards for 13 Months Fail to Meet Their Calls

All but Eleven. Victims of Circus Fire Identified   More Arrests Expected as Prebes Seek to Fix Responsibility; Death Toll Revised to 154

Circus Death Toll Growing; Probes Begun  Count 154 Dead, 2 Critically Injured; Hartford Becomes «

CIRCUS FIRE TOLL STANDS NOW AS 154.   Medicai Science Now Doing Its Best to Save Lives Of 225 Others Injured

WILL FIX FIRE RESPONSIBILITY   Scores of Performers, Workkers and Spectators Are Questioned.

‘DEATHS REACH 154 INCIRCUS FIRE; PROBES LAUNCHED   Five Charged With Manslaughter and Scores of Circus People and Spectators Have Been Questioned More to Be Interviewed

Rep. Martin Dies Will Stump State For Texas Regulars   Claims New Deal Anti-Democratic, And Un-American

DIES PLANS STUMP TEXAS IN BEHALF OF TEXAS REGULARS  _ CONGRESSMAN DECLARES NEW DEAL ANTI-DEMOCRATIC. UNAMERICAN

Union Leaders Warn Workers  Say Public Opinion Turns Against Greups

Strikes Cause Bread Ration   President Of Union Says Public Opinion Inflamed In Detroit.

Fliers Slain hn Nazi Camp  : Britain Reports 35 Airmen Are Killed

Two Miles From Last  Open Road   Bakalovi Captured, Most Of Tarnopol Stronghold Taken By Driving Reds.

Reds Menace Retreat Route From Odessa   German Stronghold Of Tarnopol Is Captured BY Advancing Russian Armies After Battle ao. ouch Streets Of Town Germans Defended

Allies Force Way Toward Antwerp Port   Nazis on Run To Cross River And Escape

Apache Indian Maidens Prepare Fer Coming Out Party Over Tie Fourth

MKAY RE-ELECTION STILL UNDECIDED   Fight for Control of Michigan GOP to be Repeated at Detroit Convention

MCKAY’S FATE NOT DECIDED   County Conventions Leave Question of Ouster  Unsettled

Japs Gain Twelve Miles In Push On Canton Railway   Poise New Threat Over ‘Rice-Bowl’ Area; American Planes Of 14th Air Force Thrown Into Fight Against Advancing Nipponese

Central Sofia Is Destroyed  Heavy Damage From Axe Aé¢tannk Mawdiax:

REDS EVACUATE KOWEL SECTION OF OLD POLAND   Stage All Set for Soviet Pincers Assault on City of Warsaw

WARSAW ROAD OPEN IN GIANT RUSSIAN DRIVE   Hear East Prussia Being  Cleared Of Civilians By Germans

Sets Stage for Red Drive on Polish Capital   Reds Advance on Baltic States at Mile an Hour Pace

RED ARMY ONLY TEN MILES FROM LATVIAN BORDER   Lithuanian Stronghold, Wilno, But 55 Miles Distant; Soviets Advance at Rate of Mile An Hour.   U. §. SUBS SINK JAP DESTROYER, CRUISER   American Task Force Destroys 5 Ships and 65 Planes In Raid on Bonin and Volcano Islands.

NAZIS ABANDON KOWEL SECTOR IN OLD POLAND   Action Sets Stage For Soviet Pincers On Polish Capital

3rd Army -anks in New Attack Across Approaches To Sigfried Line  HAVE 11 MILE FRONT INSIDE SAAR BORDER  Other Allied Armies Are Slowed By Rain, Floods And Bad Weather

Third Army Opens Drive  Inside Saar   Nazi Troops Mass Before Cologne And Dusseldorf

FREED: PRISONERS. REACH GOTHAM   Yanks, Former Romanian Charges, to Get 30-Day Fyrlqughs

School of Mines Professor Dies Dr. C. H. Fulton  Nertlanelivy Wraaun

School of Mines Professor Dies  Dr. C. H. Fulton Nationally Known

Girls, Hoist Your Garters; They Save Hose   Placed on Welt of Stockings, Gadgets Would Save Wear and. mo '  ~ Waaw-

Nazis leaving  upper T iber  Allies find little  or no resistance

Germans (Quit Arno, Tiber Areas in Italy  Allies Meet Little Resistance in Drive MT. CAshin Tina

Nazis Withdraw Slowly As Eighth  Army Advances   Germans Approaching Vaunted Gothic Line Across Italian Front

HUGE AIR FLEET STRIKES NAZIS      Over 3,000 Bombers Smash Nazi Targets

IN 6,000 FLIGHTS   Gooli Weather Aids Air Troops Strike New Blows

\irmen Make 6000 Flights Over Germany; Bremen. Berlin, Dortmund Anc Hamburg Are Battered

Germany Kept Under Heavy Air Attack   Targets In Reich Pounded By Planes Day And Night

Allied Bombers Make 6,000 Trips to Reich  Oil, Industrial Targets in Reich   Oil, Industrial Targets in Reich Blasted; Berlin Struck Two Times As Protectine Nazi Planee Dawned

Planes Hurl Destruction  On Germany   Great Assault By Air Comes With Fair Skies

YANKS SMASH TANK ATTACK BY ORMOC FOE   Bazookas Break Attempt to Pierce Road Block; 1,000 Japs Die in Bitter Battle For Ridae.

Bitter Fighting Raging on Leyte   1,000 Japs Killed in 5-day Battle For Ridge; Heavier Action Expected

BLOODY BATTLE NOW RAGING ON STORMY LEYTE   Break in Weather Brings Resumption of Fighting On Intense Scale

PHILIPPINES FIGHTING IN BITTER STAGE   Shestring Ridge Battle Results in Death for Thousands of Mikado's Troops

BITTER FIGHTING ALONG STORM-SWEPT PHILIPPINES FRONT  ‘WARPLANES AND PT BOATS SANK 8 ADDITION AL JAPANESE SHIPS

Jap Drive to Break Out Of Ormoc Corridor Vise On Leyte Crushed by US.

THOUSAND JAPS KILLED IN NEW CPACIFIS FIGHT   Fight Japanese Ships Reported Sunk By U. S.

Japs Making Final Bid in Philippines   Bloody Battle Rages; Many Yanks Run Out of Ammunitian

Yanks Stay 1,000 Japs; Smash Tank-Led Attack   Americans Wipe Our Nip Destroyer, Seven Other. Ships

NT FOR RIOGE POSTLY TO JAP:   Bitter Fighting Still Raging In.Leyte; Enemy Loses 8 Ships

U. S. Troops Take Heavy  Toll of Japs   Kill 1,000 in 5-Day Battle For Ridge in Phil:  ippines

KILL 1,000 NIPS IN BATTLE FOR RIDGE ON LEYTE   Smash Jap Attack in Ormos Sector; Sink 8 More Enemy Ships

Bitter re Spark Campaign Tn Philippine:   Japs Bring Up Frest Troops To Offer New Resistance O; Leyte

1,000 of Foe Fall in Battle for Key Ridge   Indications Point to Heavier Fighting When Weather Clears in Philippines

Tempo Increases in Leyte Fighting   Japs Lose Sixty to Each American

AMERICAN TROOPS IN LEYTE SECTOR FORCED TO BORROW RIFLES-SHELLS FROM DEAD

MacArthur Gets DS Medal Frem FDR on Biorthday   South Pacific Head (4 Today: Roosevelt Praises His Record.

REDS WITHIN 35. MILES OF AUSTRIA   GERMANY REPORTS OFFEN: SIVE AGAINST BUDAPEST FROM THREE SIDES.

Russians RolkNear Austria,  Ring Budapest   Mighty Attack Carrie: To: Southern’ Shores. + OME Tabe Balatngy

Red Troops Drive Within 35 Miles Of Austrian Line   Moscow Reports Gair Up to 16 Miles in Area Near Budapest

Russians gain upto 16 miles  _ Narrow distance   to Austrian line

SOVIETS DRAW NEAR AUSTRIA AND BUDAPES!   NORTHWARD THRUST MADE UP DANUBE WEST BANK

Residents Called onto Take Work   Powerful Campaign Is Launched to Get Workers for War Industries and Civilian Business,

SvVVV VV VV TV FV ETP Orson Welles of Chile Causes Riot During ‘Invasion’

COLD, ICE, SNOW GRIP OHIO AND SNARL TRAFFIC   Country’s Holiday Death Toll Reaches 332 — Highway Accidents Claim Most

“ APECT NAZIS TO FIGHT HARD AT CHERBOURG   Understand Value of Harbor Facilities to Allied Forces

HEAVY. FIGHTING EXPECTED IN CAPTURING CHERBOURS   NAZIS ARE EXPEOTED TO PUT FORTH SUPREME EFFORT TO KEEP ALLIES FROM  . TAKING FRENCH PORT

Power r (Cabinet Planned   Be Next Move ort to Deal  International atic Problems

International Super-Cabinet Plan Under Study  Seen as Next Step Toward Post-War  Peace Organization

3 NATIONS PLAN ‘SUPER CABINET   United States, Britain, Russia Make Move to Handie  Postwar Points.

Super-Cabinet Of Big Three’  Powers Hintec   Winant, Halifax, Litvinoy Suggested as Denoting  Th chine vat Crank.

‘Rains Boom Plains Wheat Prospect:      Tri-Power 'Super Cabinet’ May Guide Peace After Victory

12 fo 40 Killed In Cleveland Gas Tank Explosions   200 Others Are Reported Hurt

MANY KILLED AND ~ INJURED INBLASTS   Cleveland Gas Explosions Wreck Many Properties

Terrific Blast Kills 28 In Cleveland  200 Others Injured  a oy ee   200 Others Injured In Holocaust as Liquid Gas Explodes

40 MAY HAVE DIED IN BLAST IN CLEVELAND   About 200 Injured as Liquid Gas Tanks Explode

Cleveland — Fire Causes Great Loss   Undetermined Number: Dead, 200 Injured, Much Property Destroyed

Fire Expected To Continue  Through Day   Scores of Fires Follow Blast; 150 Homes, 30 Business Places in Area Sad Wiped Out

STALEMATE SEEN IN ITALIAN ARE!   WRITER SAYS ONLY MAJOR EFFORT CAN ADVANCE ALLIED DRIVE ON ROME.

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Nazi Troops in Italy Active   Sector in Tyrrhenian Coast Remains Fluid; Drive Dies Down

NAZIS MASSING UNITS IN ITALY      Describe Serchio Valley Front as Fluid

ITALIAN FRONT REMAINS FLUID   Enemy Movements In Tyrr henian Sector Reported

INCREASED NAZI MOVEWIENT SEEt IN ITALIAN AREA   Situation In The Serchio Valley Still Fluid

Doolittle Takes Post. Britain   Twining New Head Of 15th Air Force

MAKE MERRY CLAss _ HAS SCHOOL ROOM PARTY   VIRGINIA CLAWSON ‘AND FRANK SHOUP TO WED OCTOBER 

TASK FORCES CONTINUE TO HAMMER JAP   Admiral Nimitz Reveals Authentic Box Score on Major Victory for U.S. Naval Forces   DESTRUCTION

GOVERNMENT FINALLY GIVES UP HOPE OF SENDING MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND FOOD  TO CAPTIVES ~

JAPS ALLOW NO PRISONERS’ AID   Tokyo Attitude Leads U. S. to Reveal Accounts -of Atrocities

Blue Announces for Governor   Republican Candidate Will Be In County This Week

Conference in Home of Nazi Envoy : Preceded Bolivian Revolt; Report

Secret Meet Preceded Revolution   Conference at Home Of Former Nazi Minister Reported

Marines Fan Out Beyond Airstrip On New Britain   U. S. Masses in Aleutians, Jap Reports Say

Marines Advance in New Britain   Seabees Repair Captured Airhelds At Cape Gloucester

Axis Insists American Land, Sea, Air Forces Massing In Great Strength in Aleutians to Attack Jap Isle:

Tokyo Hints Yanks Massing: for Attack   Land, Sea and Aix Units Reported Assembling in Far North Islands

COUNTER-ATTACKS BY JAPANESE REPULSED   Offensives. Launched With Tanks On Biak Island. Beaten Back; 16@ Nips Killed

French General Reports Germans it Disorderly Retreat Before His Troops

Allies Capture 1,000 More German War Prisoners in Italy   'rench Troops Seeking Revenge Wipe Qut Two Enemy Divisions; Americans Capture Spigno

Germans South Of Liri River Reported Crushed   Air Offensive From Britain Bases Slackens

Mountain Stronghold_ Of Spigno Taken  — By Yan Yanks  NAB MANY NAZIS  French Wipe Out Two  D . wren emits

ALLIES CRUSH NAZI DEFENSE SOUTH OF LIRT   Yanks Seize Mountain Base And French Erase Two German Regiments

YANKS SEIZE SPIGNO; 6,000 GERMANS SLAIN   Reduction ef Gustav Line Becomes Battle of Annihilation t

ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE TOWN OF SPICNO AND 3000 PRISONERS; NAZI LINES BEING WITHDRAWN   Other Strong Points Captured by Advancing Allied Armies With Destruction of German Forces Rather Than Gain of Territory As Their 1.  re 

Gustav Fight Is Battle of Annihilation   General Alexander Aims at Destroying German Armies Throughout Italy

AMERICANS SEIZE — SPIGNO   Advances Since Thursday from One To Eicht Miles

Cassino Bared To Flanking Movement   .. Germans Resisting Stubbornly and Skillfully

Father of Governor. F.C. Donnell, Diés   A Heart. Attack Was Fatal a His: Home in Kansas City Today.

Governor's Father Dies After IIIness Of Heart Disease   John Cary Donnell Had Been In Failing Health for Year

WORK OF FIGHT ORDER GOES QUT   MICHIGAN BOARDS TOLD TO DRAFT OLDSTERS

Takes Issue with Davis, Who Says Ward Affair Not Like Petrillo Case

CURB TIGHTENED AGAINST RISING FARM EXPENSES   Congressmen Seek To Clean Up Few Money Matters And Turn to Politics

“CROSSLEY POLITICAL POLL      _ Civilian Vote In Pivotal States 50% Roosevelt, 50%: Dewey  D.. Awahtheld WM Orneclay,

L he Crossley Poll  Vote Evenly Divided Un 23 Pivotal States   Service Vote Gives President Margin Of 2 Per Cent In Close Territory.

22 Lose Lives  In Frisco Fire   Small Hotel Burns, 27 Suffer Injuries

U5. IN POSITION 0 @lART DnWe ON PHILIPPINES    Allies Now Have Air Base on Noemtoor Island

PHILIPPINES .   1,500 Miles Fr. , Luzon, 900 Milet From Mindanao

U.S. SOON SOFTEN UP PHILIPPINES .   1,500 Miles Fy” a Luzon, 900 Milee From Mindanao

Naval Task Force Hits isles Hard   Attack Marshalls In Pre-Invasion © Numbers With Fury

Pre-Invasion Blows Aimed At Marshalls   Islands Hit From Air And Sea by Americar Offensive Forces

Americans Hit At Marshalls —   Surface Naval Ships Blast Installations Of Japs on Islands

Shells, Bombs Poured Into Enemv Base:   Jap Account Suggest: Landing Operation: May Have Been Started  Rw Americans

Warships and Planes Pound Five Atolls   Pre-Invasion “Assault ..on Bases Japs Have Had.25 ’ Years to Fortify   CARRIER FORCES DEAL OUT BLOWS   Mounting Attack Waged as Other Forces Strike Hard in. Other Sectors

Americans Bomb  Marshall Islands   Bombs Fall in PreInvasion Numbers on Japanese Stronghold

US Planes, — Ships Attack Jap Bases —   Marshall Islands and Other Central Pacific Islands Held By Enemy Gets Pre-Invasion Bombardment —

JAP STRONEHOLDS FARE HEALY FIRE   Strong American: ‘Naval Force Unleashes Terri. fie Assault   - DETAILS LACKING   Radio Silence Maintained As Protection For Men, Equipment

Yanks Attack Marshalls In Heavy Force   Shell and Bomb Bases, May Be Invading; Japs Lose Many Planes at Rabaul

Chinese Rail City Again Threatened   Japs Make Final Bid To Capture Hengyang

New Gaps Are Cut In Jap Lines   ‘Halmahera, Last Major Is. land Block to Philippines, Ts Neutralized   3 MAJOR AIR RAIDS COMPLETE THE JOB   Deeper Punching Coming, MacArthur Indicates in Announcing Gain

Some Crop Damage Reported in State As Frost Strikes   ‘Pretty Serious’ Losses Feared in Albany County, Western Enc ef State Escapes

‘Pretty Serious’ Damage Upstate As Frost Result   Weather Bureau Declare: Cold Area Extends South as Far. as  Poughkeepsie _

REV. 5. J. AHERN WILL. mt      To Show Color Photography of Gardens Taken By Speaker

REV. S. J. AHERN WILL LECTURE HERE SUNDAY   To Show Color Photogra. Phy of Gardens Taken _*. By Speaker — -

Is G. I. Joe a Wolf i in Olive Drab? The Brushed Off Girls Swear He Is

Dewey Choice Is Assured in  GOP Meeting   Bricker Forces Refuse To Concede Defeat As States Announce Intention   RBtlt?trrin

Senator Truman Spurts To Front In V.P. Contest   Missourian Reportedly Listed As No, 2 Choice Of President: FDR Will Address Convention By Radio Thursday Night After His Renomination

Byrnes Withdraws From Race; F.D.R. To Be Renominated Thurs. Afternoon, Will Address Convention That Night

Wallace Will Fight for Renomination   Byrnes is Forced Out of Contest By the President

Dewey-Pledged Vote Total Is Swelled To 539   First-Ballot Nomination Seems Sure As GOP Con vention Opens.

FDR Gives Nod To Truman as  Runnings Mate’   Deadlock Thought Broken for Second Spot as Meet Opens

EDS ADVANC ELEVEN MILES   Cut Railway Line in Rumania; 15 Axis Divisions Encircled.   \NEAR PLOEST! OIL AREA

REDS REACH NEW POINTS IN RUMANIA   Continue Advance On Soil Held By  German Troops

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE 11 MILES INSIDE RUMANIA   Reds Occupy 50 Rumanian Towns, Russian Troops Near lasi

Russians Press Advance Into Rumania   Rail Center In Line Of Red Drive; Many Points Occupied

yoviel rorces Push 11 Miles Into Rumania   Russians Reach Within Eight Miles of lasi, Important Rumanian Railroad Center

Reds Push On Info Rumania   Approach Iasi, Cut One Railroad; in 190 Miles Of Ploesti Oil Fields

90 POPULATE POINTS INSIDE RUMANIA FALL   Russian Armies Reported to Have Penetrated Eleven Miles Beyond Soviet Frontier   NAZI LOSSES MOUNTING

Russian Troops Are Near City of lasi   Drive 11 Miles Into Rumania to Point Eight Miles From Vital Rail Center and Former Headquarters for Germans.

AUSGIAN FORGES REPORTED NEAR TOWN OF Ig   Red Army Has Penetrated 11 Miles Beyond Soviet Frontier   RAILROAD CUT   Large: Enemy Force Tn Skala Sector Practically Wiped Out

REDS POUND CRUMBLING AXIS LINES   Germany Suffers Staggering Losses In Men, Equipment   Germans Using Italians In Lines Ringing Anzio Sector   Not Known If lt Means Nazi Troops Being Withdrawn: Fronts Are Quiet

REDS 8 MILES MANIA RAIL CENTER   Soviet ‘Troops Near Iasi, For.  mer Headquarters of Nazis"    Southern Armies.

20 Towns Fall To Red “Army: Nation Urged Get Out of War,   Moscow Broadcast Warns That Alternative Is Ruin

RED ARMIES 11 MILES IN RIIMANTA   Make Further Gains on Long Battle Front as Germans Try to Stiffen Their Resistance.

REDS PUSH 11 MILES BEYOND RUMANIAN LINE   \UTVIPNE UT bee ee  ESTIMATE GERMAN LOSSES IN MARCH AT 208.260 MEN

Reds 11 Miles  Inside Rumaniz  290 =Populated Point: Reported Occupied

URUER FLUPL TO ABANDON GERMANS   Report Rumanian Soldiers Desert By Thousands   NAZI LOSSES   Estimated At 208,260 Ir Last Month: Continue Drive On Odessa

Reds Menace lasi, Vital Rail Center   More Than 50 Populated Places Taken  By Russians

RIPPERS DOOM THOUGHT SEALED   Butcher Of Two Women Confesses, But Says He Was Insane

Jury Investigates Hopkins Letter   G-Men Refused Examination of Letter; No Subpoenas For Wilkie Or Hopkins.

ter Hopkins. vs Forgery to De Investigated   g0erias. To Be Issvec ' Willkie Critic ind College Head:

‘Drive Enemy Back on Lower Half of Line   Germans Forced to Third Defense Wall; Germans Admit Losses

AMERICANS WIN TRI, GAETA ON SOUTHERN LINE   French Punch Deeper in Middle; 8th Army Gains on North Flank

US. Troops Meet Only Slight ance On Way to Relief af Bearhhead; Enemy Faces Major Catastrophe Below Rome

LOWER HALF OF HITLER LINE SAGS   Allies Capture Itri and Gaeta Among a String of Strongest Fortifica< tions Along Entire Hit~  lev Syoetam

Nazis Fleeing North Before Allied Drives   Swept From Mountain Strongpoints Of Their Hitler Line, Foe Falls Back To ‘Switch’.

Allies Sweep Foe Fror: Strongest Mountain Fortifications Of The Hit ler Line.

WEA Seeks Huge Butter Reserve   Fights To Hold 20,000,000 Pounds  Roar Enrereency

BUTTER SITUATION BRINGING PRESSURE RELEASE RESERVES  WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION WAGING FIGHT TO

FIGHT RELEASE OF WEA BUTTER   Seek to Maintain 20 Mil.  lion Pound Reserve For Emergency

WEA Is in Battle (Over Reserve Butter Supplies  Agency Would Keep  Huge Amount  Ear Emoarnanrcies

WFA Is Holding Butter Reserve   WFA Fighting To Hold 20,000,000 Pound Reserve For Emergency; Pressure Made Release It.

WEA Battling To Hold Butter   Resist Pressure To Release 20 Million Pounds To Civilians.

Airmen Batter Nip Base   ALEUTIAN PLANES HIT KURILES; MARSHALLS, MADANG ROCK IN RAIDS

Five Rescued By Coast Guare   Sail Boat Capsizes Off  Hiqman Park

~ RESCUE FIVE   ‘Sailing Dinghy Capsizes In  Lake Off Hagar  Park

Fate Of Woman In Jury Hands   Life In Prison Demanded For Woman Who Killed “Cheating Mate.”

Petite Blonde Convicted of Death of Husband She Offered to Share

AT - N143..4 News benind  » The News      WASHINGTON Ry Rav Tucker

Congress Has Homing Urge   May Rush Through Major Legislation, Get Home For Summer Campaigning

Majority Of Congress Expected To Spend Summer Recess In Campaian For Reelection

CONGRESS MAY QUIT FOR JULY   Election Duties Helps Speed Legislation In Washington

Congress May Take Recess During 5  Summer Months  Majority of Members Seeking Reelection; Take Easter Vacation

Congress May Get Election Recess   ‘War Will Go Right Along.’ Savs Barkley

PROGRESS IN ~ “BURMA DRIVE 18 REPORTED   ALLIED TROOPS FIGHTING ON ‘TWO SECTORS ARE SUCCESSFUL IN BATTLES WwrrH JAPB

STARVATION OF INMATES 1S ALLEGED   Prisoner Sneaks Out Document of Torture

BRUTALITY CHARGES HURLED AT SPRINGFIEILD, MO. PRISON   New York Paper Publishes Smuggled Out Information Against Missouri Federal  Institution.

Senate Agrees On Conferees _   State Ballot Backers Protest First Choices

Cuban Coast In Path Of Heavy  Tropical Storm   Winds Approach Hurricane Force

Churchman Named by  King George   Will Endeavor To Bring Warring Factions Together

ARCHBISHOP MADE REGENT OF GREECE   Royal Proclamation byKing rge Announces Appointment  IN MOVE FOR PEACE

Regent of Greece Has Been Named   King: Geotge II Appointed  Archbishop Damaskimas to the Post.

APPROVES OF REGENCY PLAN   Assents To Establishment Of Archbishop Damaskinos As Regent

Greek King Agrees To Regency   Archbishop to Take Oath on Sunday; Churchill Victorious

Archbishop Takes Over Nation's Rule  Settlement orn vil War  Beiteacaal bie

Greek King George Agrees to Regency   Affairs of Strife-Torn Country to Be Put in Hands of Archbishop Damaskinos, Who Probably Will Take Office Tomorrow.

King Consents to Greek Regency   Oath Will Be Taken By Archbishop Damaskino; Civil War May Soon End

Quick ‘Settlement. of Greek Strife Hoped  For After Archbishop Takes Office Tomorrow

Archbishop To Become Ruler;  King Assents   His Grace, Damaskinos. Expected to Take Oath Tomorrow and Assume  Duties Immediately   George IT Hopes For End Warfare   ELAS Leaders Offer to  Place Countrv’s Political Squabbles in Churchill's Hands for Arbitration

ARCHBISHOP IS CHOSEN AS REGENT   Will Take Office Tomorrow-and Begin Efforts to Calm Greece

King of Greece Gives Consent To Regency Plan  ELAS Leaders Send Churchill Message Proposina Truce

King of Greece Agrees to Regency; Archbishop to Take Oath Tomorrow

King George Agrees To Greek Regency © Archbishop Damaskinos is Named  Regent; Right Wing Liberal is  Requested to Form New Government

Archbishop Takes Oath As Greek Regent Sunday; King ‘Consents And Truce Near

WAR FUND DRIVE BEGINS NEXT MONDAY   SOON TO BE SENT FOR INDUCTION

SELECYEES WILL-LEAVE . FOR ARMY: INDUCTION   The following Selectees will’ leay won for induction into the Army: Marshall Osborn Hill

Better File That Income Estimate   Expiration Date April 15: You Can Get Help At Revenue Office Here

Belfer File That Income Esf sate   Expiration C April 15; You Can Gei .ielp At Revenue Office Here

Axis Reports U. S. Battling for Guam   Broadcasts Declare Jap Garrison for Several Days Has Been Fighting to Stave Off Attacks by U. S. Naval Formation.

Navy Silent on Tokyo Report Violent Battle Under Way at Guam   Two Enemy Ships Sunk, Two Left Burning MacArthur Announces; Japanese Fleeing Rabaul, Americans Discover

Axis Reports — Battle Under Way For Isle   Nips Believed To Be Evacuating Rabaul, Kavieng; Warships Shell New Ireland

Kavieng Shelled By US Destroyers Rabaul Blasted   U. S. Navy Silent on Berlin Report of Battle for Base

Sink One Ship, Damage Others In Harbor Raid   Navy Department Offers Neither Confirmation, Denial Of Fighting.  DESTROY 10 PLANES

“A Violent Batlle In Progress’   Broadcasts From Tokyo Not Confirmed by UlS:, -But : ‘Attack on Isle: Revealed:         YANK OFFENSIVE =: BEING: ‘WIDENED   Russia Takes. Notice of. 1 “creasing Jap Losses to ~S. Naval Blows:

Guam Battle Raging, Say Axis Radios   U. S. Navy Department Offers No Confirmation

DENTON OF PARSE FQWED AckED   Congressional .Demands Rise ‘After Ward Seizure

DEFINITIGN OF PRESIDENTS eqWieR ACHE   Congressional Demands Rise After Ward Seizure

ONE INQUIRY ALREADY UNDERWAY. TO DETERMINE IF ROOSEVELT HAD - POWER TO ACT.

Congressional Demands Fo Action Increase As Result Of Ward Co. Seizure

DEMAND POWER OF PRESIDENT BE DEFINED   Clamor for Action Grows as Result of Seizure of Ward’s

BULGARIA COUP OUSTS CABINET, LONDON REPORT   Says A Badoglio Government Is ‘lo Suc ceed Bojiloy Revime

RUMORED FALL Of BULGAR CABINET DENIED BY BERLIN   Turkish Reports Declare Pro Nazi Regime Is Near Collapse

UPSET STAGED INREPORTEDLY PRO-ALLY COUP   Claim Badoglio-Like Government Is Due Now

Premier Ousted From Bulgaria   “Badoglio Government”  May Be Established:

SAY BULGARIAN RULERS QUSTED   Exact Situation Veiled By Broken Communication Lines

Pro-Allied Coup Hintec In Bulgaria   Nazis Vigorously Denying Reports Of Cabinet Fall

Government Of Bulgaria Seen Shaky   Fall Of Pro-Nazi Regime May Already Have Taken Place

Coup D Etat Reported in Bulvaria   Rumor Is That Bojilov Cabinet Has Been Overthrown

Swedes Report Bulgarian Coup   Pro-Axis Premier's Fait Rumored; Nazis ‘Strongly Deny’ It

Bulgarian Revol Reports Denied   Exact Situation Remains Obscured

NO CHANGES IN BULGARIA-NAZIS   Turks Claim Bojilov’s Cabinet May Have Already Fallen

CLAIM OUSTER OF PREMIER IN BULGARIA COUF   Germans Deny Report Reaching London From Sweden

BULGARIAN COUP HEARD IN LONDON   Premier Bojilov, Cabinet Are Reported Overthrown But Berlin Has Denial.

Pro-Allied Coup Claimed In Bulgaria   Axis Cabinet Ousted In Coup D’Etat,  Rumors Say

Say Bulgarian Cabinet Shaky   Nazis Deny Satellite’s Government Near Collapse; Situation Obscure.

Berlin Dismisses Reports of Coup D'etat in Bulgaria   Belief Persists. Cabinet on Verge of Collapse, Overthrow

Uprisings In Balkan Area Are Predicted   Organized Revolts Expected Within Next Two Months, Istanbul Says   LITTLE DEFINITE NEWS FROM SOFIA   Both Bulgaria a and Rumania on Edge as Russians Near Their Borders

E RISINGS INS. E. FRANCE   Order Underground to Begin “Total Action”

West Normandy Pulverized by Allied Bombers   Greatest Aerial Attack on Area

Allies Hurl 4000 Planes On Normandy   Open Way For Early Morning Advances, of Ground Forces. Hit Inslallatdions

PLANES BLAST PATH FOR YANKS ON FRENCH LINE   1,500 Warplanes Spearhead New Allied Advance  In Normandy   REPORT RAF PLANES IN NIGHT ASSAULTS

Italians Slay Former Roman Jail Director  Delay Of Caruso Trial Stirs Mob

‘Roman Mob Jalls Fascist ~ Jail Director   Dragged From Court, Slain by Beating, Strung Up From Cell Bars

Angry Italian Mob Lynches   Former Roman Jail Director Beaten to Death When Trial of Superior Is Delayed

See AERIAL, Page §. eo AERIAL, Dage   ANGRY ITALIAN MOB BEATS FORMER ROMAN JAILER TO DEATH

ITALIAN MOB HANGS JAILER BEFORE TRIAL   Had Given Fift; Hostages To Nazi Army

ITALIANS SLAY FORMER JAILER   Mob Acts As Allies Postpone Chief's Trial

ROMANS KILL KEY WITNESS   Mob Drags Dr. Carreta From Court Room, Beat Him And Throw Him In Tiber.

Roman Mob Beats To Death Former Rome Jail Directo:   Dragged Front Courtroom Where He Was to Have Testified Against Nazi  srulionist

Nazi Collaborator Dies at Hands Of Furious Throng  Mob Takes Vengeance Upon Officials Who Gave Hostages

EX JAIL DIRECTOR FOR ROME-MOBBED, BEATEN TO DEATH   Angry ftaliang Take Forme Officer From Courtroom  And Kill Him

Rome Lynching Halts Trial of Fascist Official   “Mob Storms Court Room, Prosecution’ Witness. Seized, Beaten to Death: .

Former Rome Official Slain By Citizens   Angry Mob Takes Him From Police, Beats Him te Decth in Tiber River

Rome Jailer, Hated for Crime, Killed by Angry Citizens   Demonstration Delays Allied Trial of ExPolice Chief Caruso

Former Roman Jail Director  Killed By Mob   Dr. Carretta, Charged with Liberating 50 Hostages to Germans, Taken from the Courtroom.

An Italian Mob Lynches Witness   Former Jail Director At Rome Is Taken From Courtroom

ITALIAN MOB BEATS COLLABORATIONIST JAILER TO DEATH IN STREET-RIVER RIOT

American Sergeant Shows Supermen How To Escape from Command Post

BOND SALE DRAGS   Tempo Must Be Stepped Up If County Is To Meet Its Quota

BOND DRIVE: LAGS   Clairman Hill Asks That  Those Planning to Buy “DoltNow °°

TOTAL [S$ $601,621   Rural » Divisions Starting Campaigns in War .  Bond Drive

TOTAL 1S $601,621   Rural : Divisions Starting - Campaigns in, War . *s Bond Drive

BOND SALES MOUNT   Total Sold in Fifth War Loan Campaign Is $1 316,827.50

BOND DRIVE SLOW   Total Is $666,167; Women Planning Sale of War  Stamp Corsages

BOND DRIVE LAGS   Chairman Hill Asks That Those Planning to Buy Do It Now

Siegfried Line Flanked at Trier   Wedge in Reich Territory Driven To Depth of More Than Six Miles

First Invasion OF Nazi Soil In Century Proceeds Strongly  RV VIRCIL PINKLEY

Predict Pre-election Lifting Of All Rationing - Then New Deal (7) Clamp

Aimee’s Death Blamed on Sedatives   CORONER'S JURY SAYS OVERDOSE OF TABLETS FATAL TO EVANGELIST

JAPS FIGHT WAY INTO LOYANG   Chinese Crack Nippon Hold on Vital Railway

Japs Swarm Into Loyang, Chinese Contest Railroad   Stilwell Army Surges Through North Burma

German Forces Recapture Monte Fortine; Heavily Shell Forli, Attack Fifth

REPEAL OF PRIMARY ELECTION LAW URGED ON TEXAS DEMOCRATS   ATTORNEYS FOR DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SEEK REHEARING

2,000 PLANES HEAP FURY ON NAZI CAPITAL   Greatest Daylight Aerial Assault Of War be Indicated

Nazis Admit Raiders Left Fires Raging   RAF Blasts Airframe Factory in Norway in Night Blow

Nazis Admit  Raiders Lek: Fires Raging   RAF Blasts Air ‘frame Factory in Norway in Night Blow . oy

lires Rage in Vifteenth Day Of Air Attack   American Bombers Make Raid After KAK Pounds Norwegian Plants

U. S. Must Bear ‘Bulk of Lending’ ‘by Proposed Reconstruction Bank

World Lending Burden Falls On Uncle Sam   Peer Calls on Aided Nations to Help  America Share Risks

).S. Warned Must Pay Post-War Aid   Lord Keynes Stresses & Needs at Conference

Allied Invasion Of Norway Urged By Nygaardsvold   Prime Minister Sees Def inite Necessity for Immediate Action   Other Pledges Listed

Invasion Of Norway By Allies Asked   Prime Minister Calls For Help To Crush Hitler’s Hold

ALLIED INVASION OF NORWAY URGED   Prime Minister A Asks Move to Break Hitler's Power

Returning Gl’s Will Be The Greatest Exponents Of Free Enterprise

U. §. Courts Packed by FR, Bricker Says   Now in Hands of New Deal Idealogists Is Charge of Candidate

Bricker Sees Change in U.S. Courts   Judiciary Packed From Top to Bottom, Says GOP Candidate

COOL NIGHT FORECAST   Temperatures Between 85 and 90 Expected Tomorrow

ONE PLANE EVERY FIVE MINUTES NOW   United States Will Make 100,000 Planes This Year

German Troops Flee North Finland Into Norway Under Attack by Norse Guerrillas

Norway Patriots Attack Germans Fleeing Finland   Helsinki Reports End Of Hostilities; Nazis Denounce Ex-Ally

Polish Compromise Reported Rejected by Premier Stalin   Poles’ Government - inExile Dissatisfied With British Plan

Want Anti-Russian Elements Purged. .  Latest Polish Offer Rejected By Soviets

REDS REJECT POLISH PLAN FOR BORDER   Finnish Envoys In Conference With Soviet Leaders

RUSSIANS REJECT POLISH BOUNDAR'   London Papers Publish Facts as Pole Officials Declared No Word Received.

REPORT SOVIETS REJECT LATEST POLISH OFFER   STRONG RESENTMENT IN POLISH CIRCLES OVER PRESS REPORTS

Russia Said Rejecting New Polish Offer   Exile Government Reported Dissatisfied With Way British Have Acted

RUSSIA REPORTED  TO HAVE REJECTED  POLISH PROPOSALS POLISH GOVERNMENT-IN.  EXILE RESENTS NOT REINGC INETOR MECH

REDS REPORTED REFUSING NEW POLISH OFFER   Kremlin Said To Have Reiterated Former Border Stand

Reds Reject Polish Offer   British Press Says Russia Insists Curzon Line Must Be Border

Soviets Reject Pole Proposal   Russo-Palish Boundary Dispute Hangs Fire As Russians Turn Down Offer,

Say Plan Was British, Not Theirs, Dislike British Handling of Negotiations

Chinese Bar Jap Advance  ~ Threat To Kweiyang - Temporarily Eased.

FUEL PLANTS TARGETS FOR BOMB LOADS   —EEEE7~E"  Dropped by 1,000 R.A.F. Planes in Unprecedented 24-Hour Assault; Invasion Protection Hit.   Military Depot

British Writer Warns Against Jap Appeasers   Charges Clique Working To Make Peace With Nipponese

Article in London Paper Accuses British Appeasers of Working for Compromise Peace With Japan

GROUP SUGGESTS PEACE WITH JAPS   London Daily Mail Publishes Article Charging Negotiations Under Way.

British Appeasers Report ted Active   Charges Made By Daily Mail

PRO-JAPANESE BRITISH GROUP AFTER PEACE?   London Papers Warns Nation Against Appeasers

GOUNGHL VOTES TO ALTER Gly ZONING LAWS   New Commercial and Industrial Districts Are to Be Added

COUNCIL VOTES 10 ALTER ci TONING LAWS.   New Comnmercial and Industrial Districts . Are to Be Added

Bowles Warns Ot Need for Food Subsidy   Money Necessary to Protect Low-Income Group, OPA Head Says

BOWLES CALLS FOR SUBSIDIES   Price Administration Tells Congress Higher Food Costs Threaten

Subsidy Bill May Get Veto:   Leaders Will Seek ‘To Override FDR. -

Long War Is Prediction Of Mr. Churchill   Prime Minister Tells Commons That Germany May Linger Into Next Summer, Japan Through 1946.

Parliament Should Be  Retained   Churchill Tells  Commons, Caution War May Continue Until End of 1946

Premier Fears Huns Will Hold Out For Months   Might Last Into Next Summer, He Says, In Urging. Retention Preseist * Parliameni   Sees Japanese War Lasting Into 194¢   At Same Time, He Declares, “Political Convulsion In Germany May Come Any Time’?

SERMANS MIGHT HANG ON UNTIL eo MIDDLE OF '4!   Prime Minister Also Fears Fight with Japs To Last a Through ‘46

Churchill Warns Long War Ahead   Premier Sees German Collapse Next Summer, 18 Months Later For Japan

COMMONS TOLD TO PLAN FOR LONG FIGHT   Says Pacific War Likely To Continue Into 1946   RETENTION   Of Coalition Government Without Election Goal Of Prime Minister

Calls for Retention of Nine Year Old Coalition Governmant.   END MAY COME SOONER

Churchill Sees Winter of War   Warns Germans May Not Collapse Before Early Next Summer

Churchill Asks Commons To Again Delay Election; Sees Long War In Offing

Churchill Asks Elections Delay   Less Optimistic On Victory Soon

» —CHURCHILL—  SEES NAZIS HOLD UNTIL NEXT YEAE   British Leader Says European Way May Last Inte Next Summer   NOT OPTIMISTIC   Asks Retention, Of -Brit ain’s Warborn Coalition  Of Government

War On Reich May Last Into Early Summer   —CHURCHILL. Prime Minister Expects Japan To Hold Out Until Late In 1946.

Long War in Europe Seen By Churchill   May Last Until Next Summer; Japan’s Fall Near End of 1946

Sees Nazis Holding ‘UntilNext Summer,  Ja laps’ To End Of 46   Commons. Told Views Subject. To . Changing Conditions In Asking:  9:Year Parliament Be Retained

GUESSES JAP DEFEAT T0 BE LATE IN 194t   Cautions House of Commons Against Early Optimism, Asks Retention of Parliament

LONGER WAR IS FORESEEN BY CHURCHILI   Says War In Europe May Last Into Summer, In Pacific Two Years

Commons Told War May Last Until Summer   And Another 18 Months Will Be Needed to Whip Japan, Churchill Says   BRITAIN URGED TO  FOREGO ELECTION   Continuance of Coalition Government for a Year Anvears Assured

sslU SSO  Churchill Cautions Britons   PREMIER TELLS COMMONS HITLER DEFEAT MAY NOT COMP $$RFEFFORE  £StIiMmmMrr

PREDICTS DEFEAT OF THE JAPANESE 18 MONTHS LATER   TELLS COMMONS THAT HIS PREDICTIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGES

Churchill Says War May Last Deep Into *45   Prime Minister Urges Exteusion of Coahiion Regime

Sees Japanese Conflict Lasting To End of 1946   Predictions Subject to Changing Conditions, He Asserts

War Outlook ls Described To Parliament   Prime Minister Wants No General Vote for 7 Months

Nazis May No! Be Defeated Before Next  Summer   Churchill Thinks 18 Months After That Before Japan Ts. Reaten

Prime Minister Calls For Retention Of Britains Coalition of Government

MAY NOT WHIP JAPS UNTIL END OF 46. HE SAYS   Prime Minister Asks No Vote Be Held But Coalition Be Extended

SAYS CONFLICT IN PACIFIC MAY END WITH 1946   Prime Minister Asks Year’s Extension Of Nine-Year Parliament

WAR MAY LAST UNTIL SUMMER, CHURCHILL TIP   Premier Also Declares That Fight Against Japs Could Go On Through *46

Churchill Warns Nazi War May Go Info Summer   Declares Javanese War May Last Through 1946

Asks War-Born Coalition Be Continued Until War Definitely Nearer to End

Doubts Hitler's Defeat This Yea  Churchill Asks Coalition Continue

2 MORE YEARS OF WAR SEEN BY CHURCHILL      Says It May Be Summer Before Germany Beaten

COMMONS TOLD GERMANS MAY HOLD OUT TILL NEXT SUMMER AND JAPAN UNTIL END 1946

Early End Of War Unlikely, Says Churchill   Germany Might Last Into Next Summer, Japan Until End Of 1946, He Tells Parliament

PRIME MINISTER PREDICTS LONG PACIFIC FIGHT   Urges Extension of British Parliament for Another Year

Churchill Warns Nazis May Not Be Beaten Until Next Summer   In Urging Extension Of Britain’s Nine-Year Parliament For Another Year, He Says It May Take 18 Months To Beat Japs.

CHURCHILL SEES WAR UNTIL 1948   Prime Minister Asks, and Will Probably Receive Retention of Parliament

THINKS JAPS WILL FIGHT THROUGH '46   Tells Commons Iron Con: ‘trol. Nazis “Hold Ove1 “Reich “Exceeds Any thing Previously Knows ~. Among Men.”

COMMONS TOLD WAR MAY RUN INTO SUMMER   Another 18 Months to Defeat Japanese He Estimates

Churchill Asserts German War to  Last Into Summer  British Leader Asks That Election Be Passed for Time

German Rail Junctions Hit      Nazi Transport Li Across Rhine Bambed

Labor Would Eject Girola, Of Argentina   All His Nation’s Delegates: Threatening To Bolt Ower *Ra a?

Allied Drives In Italy   Oil Project In Canada Called Mistake By Com

Would Halt Work on Canol Project   Truman Group Says Whole Thing a Mistake

Call Canol ~— Oil Project A ‘Mistake’   Truman Committee Hits Program; Somervell Bears Brunt Of Sting Bv Congressmen

Nazi Attaek Thrown Baek By oth Army   Third Thrust Repulsed By Americans Who Advance South Of Bologna

CAEN COMPLETELY LIBERATES OVER WEEK-END—NEW __BRIDGEHEAD ESTABLISHED:

British Drive Well Beyond Cantured Caen   American First.  Army Continues to A olepe men em Care

British Continue To Push Forward Following Fall Of Caen. Push Troops Across Odon River.

Allied Troops Are Still Improving Anzio Positions  Aircraft Factory   Aircraft Factory At Turin Blasted By Heavy Bombers

Allies Stir Up  Nazis at Anzio   Attacks Push Enemy Back: Talks Lure Deserters

ALLIED ATTACKS MADE AT ANZIO   FIRTH ARMY: ‘STRENGTHENS LINES. ‘AS’ GERMANS. MASS TROOPS AROUND ROME.

Allies Improve Anzio Positions   Make Limited. Attacks: Some.Germans Surren: dered After Being Ten dered Invitation Bs  * Loud Speaker.

Anzio anh ‘Gain Ground  In Assaults   Nazis  Surrender After  Frontline Broadcast:   Planes Blast Turin

POSITIONS AT ANZIO IMPROVED   Turin Aircraft Factory Blasted; Bridge Bombed

ALLIED UNITS BETTER LINES ON BEACH-HEAD   Heavy Bombers Hammer At Turin Plane Factory

ALLIED TROOPS ON  ANZIO BEACHHEAD  IMPROVE POSITION HEAVY BOMBERS BLASTE! AT VARIOUS OBJEC OVE? IM PrAry

ALLIES IMPROVE LINES AT ANZIO   Loudspeaker Propaganda Helps Bring In Naz’ Prisoners

Allies Improve Positions Upon  Anzio Beachheac      Bombers Blast At Nazi Points

Allies Improve Beachhead Stand Blast Turin Plant   Bombers Also Hit Rail Yards at Ferrara; 13 Planes Listed Missing.

ALLIES BREAK ANZIO LULL: NEW ATTACKS   Lash Out to Strengthen Lines as Fliers Report Movements on High ways near Rome.   13 Bombers Lost

Allies in Gain On Anzio Front   Bombers Blast Plane Factory at Turin; Position Improved

Allies Improve Positions On The Anzio Beachhead   Turin Aircraft Factory Blasted By Heavy Bombers

VETS PROMISED FEDERAL HELP   Bricker And Truman Say Soldiers Will Get Just Treatment

TWO CANDIDATES ADDRESS LEGION   Bricker and Truman Agree That America Did Not Do Well by World War  Veterans on Return Home

FLORENCE FIGHT HITS STALEMATE   Both Sides Reluctant To Launch Pitched Battle

Fighting Within City of Florence Stil limited   British Capture Dominant Height Lying to East

QS ’ Britist) ‘Tridops Bbttling ' “Stubbornly: Resisting . ‘Gérmans  — Some. of Sector, Hive, No Water  Sup ply. .

BRITISH TROOPS BATTLE STUBBORN NAZI RESISTANCE   To Capture Dominating Heights East Of Florence   ACTION INSIDE CITY DWINDLES   {In Central Sector Of Italy British Re-Take Mount Grillo

8TH ARMY MAKES MINOR ADVANCE IN FLORENCE SUBURBS   British, Nazis Still Try To Avoid Battle Inside City

BRITISH TAKE HEIGHT EAST OF FLORENCE   Activity In City Limited To Patrols

Eighth Army  Probes Florence   Both Sides Reluctant To Launch Pitched Rattle Near Arno

BRITISH CAPTURE FLORENCE HEIGHT   ONLY PATROL ACTIVITY: NOTED INSIDE CITY

BRITISH TAKE HEIGHT EAST. ~-»~-()F FLORENCE      Inch Forward in’ West: ern Suburbs of Italy City

Vital Height In Allied Control   Inch Forward In West Suburbs of Florence

RUSS LAUNCH NEW DOUBLE FINN DRIVE   Design to Liquidate Great Salient Near Rail

ONE KILLED IN CRASH OF BUS, TRUCK   28 Passengers Get Ducking In Roadside Canal

ONE KILLED, 28 DUNKED AS BUS RUNS INTO CANAL   Bystanding Fisherman Is Victim; Passengers Safe

House Passes Unanimously Bill Designed to Simplify Tax Returns; Senate Approval Seen

House asses Streamliner Tax Measure  Simplification Bill Passed On to Senate By Unanimous Vote  EARLY APPROVAL  IS EXPECTED THERE  . Bill Would Relieve 30,000,000 Taxpayer Qf Making Returns

House Adopts Simpler Form  Of Tax, 358-0   Old Victory Tax Scrapped; New Rates Keep Levy

TAX MEASURE APPROVED BY HOUSE, 358-0   Simplified Bilt Passes Without Dissenting Vata   EARLY PASSAGE BY SENATE EXPECTED   Doughton Denies Tax Burden Will be In-_  creased

TAX BILL PASSED. BY HOUSE, 358-0   SIMPLIFICATION ‘PLAN. GOES ‘TO SENATE WHERE APPROVAL I8 PREDICTED,

House Approves  Simplified Tax   Vote Is Unanimous First Time in History

House Votes 308 to 0, For Tax Bill   George Predicts Final Passage Soon by Senate

House Passes Streamlined Tax Measure   Bill Goes to Senate  By Vote of 358 to 0; Returns of Majority of Taxpayers Simplified

HOUSEPASSES BILL DESIGNED TO EASE TAXES   Measure Approved 358 To 0 To Eliminate Computation For  Millions

‘Husky Soldiers Bodily Throw Out ‘Company Head   Government Seizes Chicago Plant After ‘Refusal To Comply

German Invasion Alarms Continue As Increasing Numbe Of American Troops Throng Streets Of British Capital -

Americans Throng London: Growing Might of Yankee Forces Gives German Leaders Headaches

Americans Throng Streets of London Ace Germany Sounds Invasion Alarms

NAZIS SOUND NEW ALARMS   Say Invasion Coming Soon; Many Yanks on Streets Of London

NAZIS SOUND ~NEW ALARM   Say Invasion Coming Soon; Many Yanks ‘on: Streets ' "OF Lendon —~

More and More American Troops Throng Streets of London as Germans Predici Quick Invasion

U.S. Troops Throng London Streets as Germans Sound New Invasion Alarms

xiurry Up, UKE  ‘American Pre-Invasion Troops Aiait Etsenhoicver

INVASION REPORTS - SOUNDED BY NAZIS   Attack Will Come Sooner Than Expected, Broadcasters Savy —

Yanks Driving Beyond Meuse   First Army Pursues Germans Through Ardennes Forest, Battleground of 2 World Wars

Yankees Chase Nazis Through  Ardennes Area   Germany May Soon Be In Allied Artillery Range

Rail Town Recaptured By Chinese   Tuhshan Retaken and Troops Pursue Japs Toward Border of Province

Debt Limit Request Cuf  ‘Administration Leaders Yield to G. O. P. Opposition

Stilwell Army Traps Japanese Garrison In Northern Burma   ‘Satisfactory Progress’ Reported in Heavy Fighting in Kohima Region; Bombers Pound Nippon’s Island Bases Again

DEATH OF ADMIRAL KOGA BLOW TO FOE   American Planes Hammer Naval Base In Kuriles; Stilwell Troops Mogaung -—_—

Allies Trap Jap Garrison in Nortk Burma in Drive   General Offensive Launched by Britons In East India Sector

JAP GARRISON IS TRAPPED IN NORTH BURMA   MAJOR NAVAL BASE IN KURILES IS HAMMERED

General. Gains Are Made By Chinese aud. Yanks; Kuriles Bombed Again

Allies Renew ‘Kohima Drive   U. S.-Trained Chinese Trap Nip Troops In North Burma

Big Victory Reported by U. S. Navy   Planes—Only 550 Miles Planes—On!'y 550 Miles from Philippines

Brewster Seen As Test Case   WPB's Ability to Cope With Future Shutdowns Tested

LIFELINES JAPANESE PACIFIC EMPIRE ARE BEGINNING TO SNAP  ARMIRAL BAGLEY REVIEWS TREND OF EVENTS IN PACIFIC WAR

NAVAL AND AIR FORCES STRIKE JAPS ON PARRY   American Casualties In Operation Described As Light

‘Island Taken After Stubborn Opposition; American Naval, Air Forces Attacking Parry Isl   U.S. Casualties 150 Dead, 350 Wounded Nimitz Reports; Tokyo Announces Ousting of Heads of Army-Navy Staff; Admit Losses

U.S. invaders Suffer: 150. Dead, 350 Wounded in Attack.  PARRY ISLAND HIT .: BY NAVY AIR FORCE  Paramushiro end Shimu     Paramushiro and .Shirnushu Islands. Hit by. - Air Attacks

Parry Now Subjected To Attack   ‘American “Casualties In Island Conquest Repo: ted- tight -By Nimitz

Parry Island Also Attacked On Large Scale   Naval, Air Forces In Heavy Action

U.S. Invaders Suffer 150 Dead, 350 Wounded  in Attack.  PARRY ISLAND HIT BY NAVY AIR FORCE Paramushiro and Shimu shu Islands Hit by Air Attacke

Tojo Shakes Up Commanc As Jap Defeats Mount; Another Island Attacked

Six Jap Vessels Sunk Along N. Ireland Coast Trying To Flee Rabaul

Nimitz Reports Japanese: Resistance As Stubborn; 150 Americans Killed: And 350 Wounded in Battle -

Atcll Falls After Stubborn Opposition; 150 Yanks Killed; 350 Wounded   PARRY ISLAND BEING ATTACKED IN FORCE

ALLIED ARON         Tokyo Shelves Chiefs of Bott ‘Army and Navy. General Staffs on Heels of At-. tack on Bastion.             RAID COST FOE 19 SHIPS AND 201 PLANES                 Six Merchantmen, Two Gun. boats and One: Corvette Blasted to Bottom in Latest Onslaught. —

YANKS CAPTURE ENIWETOK ATOLL   Place American Losses at  150 Dead, 350 Wounded

Americans Take Eniwetok, Open Attack on Parry   Tokyo Announces Navy, Army Chiefs Qusted From Posts

Siege Laid To Parry. Island.   150 Americans Die And 350 Wounded In Stubborn Fight:

742 Jap Planes Smashed In Week; Nips Sight Big U.S. Fleet Below Mindoro

ARGUE VALIDITY OF CONFESSION   Sheriff Tells Of Collett’s Actions During Questioning

TESTIMONY OF SHERIFF NOT HEARD BY JURY   Icenhower Relates Method Used to Obtain Collett’s Confession at Toledo

Tells “Jury.  Of Collett  Questioning   Sheriff On Stand In Murder Trial Of Clinton  County Man.

EVEAL ROLE OF HERBERT HOOVER IN PEACE PACTS   Tried to Get Immunity for ood Ships as Granted Hospitals.

Hoover Sought Immunity For  Food. Cargoes   Made Suggestion: To. British Premier At Meeting _* In 1929 —

Loyang Cut Off, Capture Feared   Chinese Fear City Captured by Japs 

INVASION ROAD TO REICH IS FORCED OPEN   United States 3rd Army to North Destroys 82 Nazi Tanks In Forest Ambush.

82 Tanks Destroyed By Yanks   Battle Intensity Mounts All Along Long Battle Line

Cap Gris Nez Channel Guns Are Silenced   Germans Lose 82 Tanks In Furious Battle In Moselle Valley; Canadians Launch Final Assault Against Calais Port

German Trans-Channel Guns On Cap Gris Nez Coast of France Are Silenced; Several Gains Re~   ported   FINAL ASSAULT IS OPENED TO CALAIS

Navy Reveals 137 Dead or Missing Tn Powder Blasts   * Worst ‘Accident of War Injures 380 in Pearl Harbor Area

Unforgettable Sights as Americans Get Their First Glimpse of Rescued Paris

Nazis Claim Red Landing. Attempt Fails   Russians Within 33 Miles of- Odessa¢ Warsaw Railway; Fifth Army Wit thin Four Miles of Cassino; Fortresses Bomb Pola

Germans Claim Amphibious Unit Is Beaten Back   Japs Rally Forces And Plan Stubborn Battle: Aussies Are  Slowed Down

Russian Might Relentlessly Rolling Back Germans Along Whole Eastern Front—German Retreat In Danger of Becoming Rout  ewWAtILIIC AAFAL ABE ANAILCFADING THE RIIGC PBIVER   STALIN'S MEN ARE NEARING THE BUG RIVER

Reach Sarny 35 Miles in  Old Poland   Victorious Drive  Continues Despite Reported Repulse At Black Sea Port

BERLIN SAYS ATTACK FAILS ON BLACK SEA   Threat Revealed As Trap Closes About Fleeing Hordes

Red Advance Has Become Hot Pursuit   ‘More Than Half Million German Troops Threatened by Swift Gains   A HALF DOZEN KEY POINTS IN DANGER   Great Trap Forming and Steckholm Says Nazi Flight Ts Almost Chaotic

Landing Attempt Is Beaten Back, Germans Report   Meanwhile, Reports  Declare Flight in  South Has Become 1! Almost Chaotic’!

Russians Only 65 Miles From Dniester River   Berlin Asserts Outeome OF Whole War Depends On Battles In Russia.   ‘ORDER ROADS CLEARED

Red Army Reported Deep In Poland and Approaching Rumanians in Bessarabia

Reds Drive Toward Odessa-Warsaw Ry. Continue Pursuits   German Officer Says the Outcome of War is at  Stake There

Landing Attempt At Ochakov Is Reported by Berlir   Soviet Forces Are Now 30 Miles Past Old Polish Border

Berlin Also Claims Russians Reach  Polish City Of Sarny   Gi te-Seviet-Offensive—S Relentlessly Over The Ukraine;  German Retreat Seen Chaotic

GERMANS ANNOUNCE RUSSIAN LANDING ON BLACK SEA FAILED   TANKS AND COSSACKS STRIKING TOWARD LAST MAJOR NAZI ESCAPE LINE

“Beat Back Flank Attack  By Russians   Germans Report Attempted Landing By Red Forces Near Ker. son on Black Sea

GERMANS DECLARE OUTCOME OF WHOLE WAR HINGES ON BATTLES NOW IN PROGRESS IN RUSSIA   Nazi High Command Declares Russian Efforts to Outflank Germans by Amphibious Landings on Black Sea Have Been Repulsed

GERMANS ANNOUNCE RUSSIAN LANDING ON BLACK SEA FAILED  TANKS AND COSSACKS   TANKS AND COSSACKS STRIKING TOWARD LAST MAJOR NAZI ESCAPE LINE

ewe ee SSO ce SF See: a Seen: oe oe  He’s Oddest Casualty  ‘Of French Iivasion

Japs Claim Damaging 3 Transports, 2 Warship:  By the Associated Press

PUR IOR wEMiSciae eu artemis warms  Tokyo Entering Its Claims of Damage   Says Carrier, Three Big U. S. Warships Sunk

JAPANESE CLAIM SINKING OF FOUR AMERICAN SHIPS   One Aircraft Carrier and Three Big Warships Sunk February 227 ~   NO CONFIRMATION MADE   Broadcast Said Fleet Included More Than 10 Carriers, _8 Battleships.

{1 FEARED DEAD IN ARMS BLAST   MEN HANDLING WARHEADS MISSING AFTER EXPLOSION AT MALESTER, OKLA.

GOOD CROP WEATHER   5. D. Flora Predicts Mild Afternoons and Chilly Nights

GI's Destined For Continent  Eat The Best   Chicken and steak dinners’ are. frequently served soldiers waiting to cross channel. -

22 TONS OF ~ WASTE PAPER IS COLLECTED   Boy Scouts Assist Salvage Officials In Concord  Drive

— Ernie Pyle at the Front  DS idnd Soldier Disgusted When Ordered to Hospital  Shoot Them,’ Says Commander When : Asked What to Do About Advancing Foes

[Wath Ernie Pyle at the Front  Wounded Soldier Disgusted ‘When Ordered to Hospital   ' ‘Shoot Them,’ Says Commander When  Asked What te Do About Advancing Foes  RD. Dent. Del.   Sergeant Murphy Talks About Newspapers

2 Thurmont Persons Die As Trolley, Auto Crash   Mrs. Ray Keeney And Son, Ira, Killed; 4 Others Injured At Wect Chester, Pa.

2 Fleets May Be Locked in Battle   Japs and Americans. Fight for Supremacy of Pa-\ _ cific Ocean   REPORTED FROMBERLIN   Strong Japanese. Force Between Marianas and Philippines -

BEHIND ON MUNITIONS   Production ls Two Per Cent Linger March Quota

IN TRAIN WRECK   Open Switch Blamed For  New York Central Crash Near London, O.

Flyer Wrecked East Of London; Only 2 Killed   Eight Homeward Bound Soldiers on Furlough Among 1% Injured—Cause of Crash Unknown—Servicemen Help Screaming, Frightened Passengers Out Of Seven Overturned Cars

Rankin Confident Montanans Will Brook No ‘Red’ Influence in the State Capitol  _ Characterizes Gov. Ford’s Opponent   Characterizes Gov. Ford’s Opponent as Montana's ‘Political Opportunist No. l’in Campaign Talk

‘Rankin Confident Montanans Will Brook No ‘Red’ Influence in the State Capitel   Characterizes Gov. Ford’s Opponent as Montana's ‘Political Opportunist No. lin Campcien Talk

Alhed Raids On Front In Italy   Infantrymen Strike After Heavy Artillery Fire Had Paved Way

Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Nazi Defense Forces In Anzio Beachhead Raid   Truk Aerial Outpost Is Bombed Second Straight Day

RAID RESULTS IN NAZI LOSSES   Allied Infantrymen Attach Strong Position and Return Without Casualties.

STOREHAM E S. BEATS CONCO       Locai. Gridsters  Meet. First - Deteat of Season; Star. Players Missing

Allied Bombers Attack Enemy Fuel Supplies   Communications Also Blasted By Planes Over France — And Greece

Plenty cigarets for overseas troops, senators told as full inquiry begins

SUPPLY OF FAGS   BUT SENATORS ARE -ADVISED ‘SHORTAGE FOR ‘CIVILIANS . MAY. CONTINUE.  «’

Temperatures   Yanks in Aachen With Sector Almost Encireled   British-Canadian Amphibious Forces Land Behind German Lines on Schelde Estuary in Bid for Antwerp

Americans Are  ‘in Suburbs lof Aachen   Advance Four Miles Northeast of City of Nancy

J. §. First Army Narrows € dor At Aachen; Third Arn Locked In Violent Fightin Chenicourt. Sector   CLEAR ONE AREA OF GERMAN TRO

YANKS GAIN NORTHEAST OF NANCY   British Land Behind Nazi Lines On Schelde Estuary

Yanks Are Suburbs   FARTHER SOUTH, AMERICAN 3rd ARMY IN VIOLENT . BATTLE NORTHEAST OF NAN

PINCH AACHEN GAP DOWN 10 4-MILE WIDTt   Allies Reported Inside Aachen— Seventh Army Only Eight Miles From Belfort.

Narrowed German Escape Corridor Down To A Mile And A Half  VIOLENT FIGHTING NEAR CHENICOURT  Nazis Counter Attacking In Attempt To Prevent Springing Of Trap

BISENHOWER MAKES BID FOR QUICK VICTORY   American Ist Army Fights Into City of Aachen With Flame Throwers.   BULLETIN

American Forces Enter Suburbs of  Aachen; Troops Land Behind Nazi Line on the Approaches to Antwerp

Nazis Counter - Attack Fiercely As Yanks Cut Escape Gap To 3 Miles   Patton Resumes Offensive On 20 Mi. Front Between Nancy And Metz, Cantures 10 Towns

German Escape Route Narrowed By Latest Drive   -British-Canadian Units Land Behind Nazi Lines Along Schelde Estuary

Narrow Nazi Escape Route From Key City   British Land Behind German Lines on Schelde Estuary

Prime Minister Challenges American Hands-Off Policy; Draws Protests in Commons

Churchill Get Okeh on Greek Policy   Challenges U, S. In Speech Before Commons

UPA CATENOWK hitch YEAR OrEN PAUBADLE   Price Control Act Termed Necessity by fdministrator Bow es.

Administration Leaders Launch Drive For Early Extension Price Control

POWHATAN MINE  IS’ SEALED AFTER VAIN EFFORTS TO: ‘ ‘REACH MEN TRAPPED IN TUNNELS -'

Abandon Hone For Sixty-Four Miners In Qhic   Fire Traps Coal Miners In Powhatan Mine Near Bellaire, Ohio  Ter’'r ¥ eon Tre”

64 DIE AS FIRE SWEEPS LARGE BELLAIRE MINE   State Orders Shaft Sealec After Rescue Efforts Prove Futile

NAZIS SET UP  PUBLIC SLAUGHTER  HOUSES FOR JEWS   “Biggest Scandal in History of Hu man Crime,” Says Briton.

Strike at Nazi ‘Supply Lines to Southern Italy   Repulse Scale Attacks Made by Enemy Troops

Allies Batter German Supply Lines In Italy   Fifth Army Forces Repulse Small-Seale Attacks Against Anzio

Blast Aircraft Plants at Bernburg and Oschesleben = on Approaches to Berlin — Germany Radio Traces Course of Raiders.

NAZI ATTACKS REPULSED ON ITALY FRONTS   Fliers Strike At Axis Supply Lines In North Italy

Aiiied Bombers Blast Raii Lines   Hit Lines «f Supply fer German Armies in Southern Maly— Nazi Attacks Are Repulsed

NAZI LINES OF SUPPLY IN ITALY ARE BOMBED   5th Army Troops Halt Attacks at Anzio Reachhead

Bombers Blast German Supply Lines In Italy   Raid West Coast Ports And Railroad Lines Which Serve Troops Stationed Below Rome

NAZI ITALY RAID AND SEA SUPPLY HIT FROM AIR   Allied Bombers ~Raid as 5th Army Drives Back Small Ger man Attacekca

NAZI RAIL SEA LINES ARE BOMBED   Supply Lines in Southern Italy Hit By Bombers

Allies Pound German Supply Lines In Italy   RAF Planes Attack West — Coast Ports In Nicht Raid

NAZI SUPPLY LINES HIT IN ITALY   Allied Bombing Fleets Hit Rail And Sea Lines

German Supply Lines InItaly — Given Pasting   Small-Scale Nazi Attacks On Anzio Beachhead Stopped

Nazi Supply Lines In Italy Pounded   U. S. Planes Blast Rail, Sea Lines _

FDR Names Forrestal Navy Chief   Senate Assures Swift Approval Of Nomination

U. §. FIRST ARMY HOLDS ONTO BREAKS IN SIEGFRIED LINE   THIRTY-SIX ENEMY TANKS KNOCKED OUT, INFANTRY THRUSTS REPULSED

KNOCK OUT 36 GERMAN TANKS      Drive Back Repeated Nazi Counter-Attacks’

Hint Changes In Army Personnel   Two-Thirds of Forces Go Overseas During °44

Many Army Camps Will Be Abandoned; Much of Personnel Shifted Oversea:

Major Changes Affecting Army Officers and Enlisted Men Are in Prospect for This Year, Says War Dept.

FRENCHMEN SING MARSEILLAISE IN LIBERATED AIX   Henderson, N. C. Captain, R. B. Pridgin In Command Of First Troops To Enter City.

LIBERATED FRENCH SING MARSEILLAISE   Collaborationist Questioned a’ The Same Time

Fifth Army fs Making Progress On Italian Front   French Units Register Gain Half Mile Northeast Of Ranza   HEAVY ATTACKS BY ALLIED FLIERS

Court Contempt Proceeding Halts Sedition Trial   Defense Counsel Must Show Cause

SEDITION CASE STRIKES SNAG   Trial of 30 Halted Til Wed. nesday by Contempt Proceeding.

Sedition Case Attorney Cited For ¢ ontempt   Another Of Counsel Fined And New Jury Must Be Impaneled

Contempt Proceeding Broughi In Sedition Conspiracy Case   Defense Attorney Cited; Means Trial Must Start All Over With New Jury

Sedition Case HaltedPending Contempt Trial   Proceedings Against Defense Atlorney io Be Heard Tomorrow; New Jury Panel Necessary

VETERANS BILL DUE FOR ACTION BY LAWMAKERS   Bonus for Babies May Bi Included in Simplified Income Tax Bill

Battle-Hardened U.S. Troops Hack Away At Defenders Around Airdome

Yanks Meke Landing Under Cover of Bombardment to Imperil Last Enemy Resistance

Yanks Battle For Lorengau  Jap Airdrome   Capture of Airstrip On Manus Will Virtually Conclude Admiralty Campaign.

New Landing Designed To Wipe Out Enemy Resistance  U.S. Troops Hack Away At Japs On Manus Isle

U. S. Troops Hack At Foe After New Admiralty Landing   Yanks Break Light © Jap Resistance in - First Few Hours of Assault on Manus

Forces Are Within Half Mile Of Air Base At Lorengau   Nipponese Blasted In Trap On Bougainville By 145 Ton Bombing Raid; Rabaul Gets 16th

Manus Island, Largest In Admiralty Group, Invaded By Yanks; Near Airdrome

Yanks Blast At Lorengau   “Fixed Jap Defenses Delay Swift Action

Majority Of A. S. T. P. Students Will Be Callec To Combat Duty By April; Schools Face Losses

Drop Most Of A.S.’'T-P.   Army Decides to Stop All But Advanced Courses By April 1

ARNIY’S ACTION HITS COLLEGES   Specialized Training Stud. ents Are Transferred To Combat Duty

ARMY CURTAILS ASTP PRORAM   NATION'S COLLEGES FACE CRIPPLING FINANCIAL LOSSES

Colleges Face Drastic Cuts In ASTP Rolls   Crippling Financial Loss To Accompany Curtailment of Army Program

Army Drops Most Of AST Program   Retains Only Courses In Advanced Medicine. Engineering, in Plan

COLLEGES WILL BE AFFECTED BY ORDEF   Army Decides to Drop Most Of Specialized Training Program.

U.S, ARMY CALL HITS COLLEGES   Enrollment To Be Cut Under Transfer Of ASTP Units

Gov. Bricker Back in Ohio   Dewey’s Running Mat Ends 22-state Swing

Marshalls Are  Vengeance’ For Jap Atrocitie:   FD Tells Also Why Story Withheld

President Gives Pledge Bataan Will Be Avenged   Commander-In-Chief Tells Fighting Men Jap Beasts Will Be Punished For Atrocities; Tells India U. S. Not Imperialistic

AMERICANS ASSURED JAP TORTURERS 10 BE TRACKED DOWN  JOB OF AMERICANS IN AL! EASTERN AREAS IS TO DEFEAT JAPAN

Report Germans Pull Back From Mountain Aree   Attempt to Forestall Breakthrough By Brit. ish Eighth Army

GERMANS PULLING BACK IN ITALY   RETREAT BETWEEN BOLOGNA AND. FAENZA AGAINST BREAK-THROUGH THREAT.

Mustering Out Pay Approved   House Committee Okay: $300 for Veterans

COMMITTEE PASSES SERVICE PAY BILL   House Military Committee Approves Mustering Out Pay of $300. :

House Committee Approves $300 Discharge Pay   Legion Head Demands No ‘Dilly-Dallying’ in Soldiers’ Benefits

De Mille to Fight  Union Assessment   Producer Suspended By Radio Artists

Is “God! 8 Country” Says James Long, Back From Pacific   ant Merine and Wife ere On 21-Day . " Leave’

ESTIMATE OF. _-WAR LENGTH   NEW FEDERAL BUDGET “A8SUMES” WAR IN EUROPE WILL BE OVER BY NEXT IDLY

HVTLER PAGES ETH FRONT   Reich in Virtual State of Civil War, Lordon keporis Say

AITLER FACES FFTH FRONT:   Reich in Virtual State of Civil War, -Lordon Eeports Say

Hand-to-Hand Battle Raging Before Rhine   Germans Fleeing Pillboxes in Face Of Blazing Attack

Hodges’ Men Slug Forward   Penetrate Defenses  More Than Half-Way.

Hodges Troops Hold Initiative  : a  In New Drive   Break Through Fortified Belt  Carries Ten Miles Above Aachen

HODGES ARMY HALF THROUGH IN AACHEN CHAIN OF DEFENSES   Great Aerial Assault Backs Bid To Smash Through To Cologne; German Resistance Grows Stiffer

Southerners Draw Lines  On Wallace   Caucus Planned To Get Behind Southern Man For Vice-Presidential Post

Rep. Johnson Asks For Closer Co-Ordination Between Army And Navy

War Monger  Blame Seen   Ford Says. Hatreds ~ Must Be ‘Abolished

Ford Says Major. Postwar Task Eliminate: Hatreds  if Another. Hitler . Comes: Into. Power,

FORD RAPS ‘WAR MONGERS':  It Is They, He Coniends, Who Cause War. Uraes Exnosure

FORD SPEAKS HIS PIECE   Postwar Task Will Be to — Level Off World Hatred:

DANUBE MINED FOR 360 MILES   Traffic Halted On River To Romanian Oil, Grain Centers

Bombers Mine Danube River einem ota  Spectacular Blow Is Hit At  Communications Of Germans

Nazi Supply Lines Mined   Danube River Is Made Unsafe For Transport

Mining Of River Disrupts Nazis   Traffic Halted On  Danube Lifeline By NOLAND NORGAARD

Mining Of River Disrupts Nazis   “Traffic Halted On Danube Lifeline

British Mine 300 Miles of Danube River   All Traffic Halted on Great Waterway as Result of Action; Bad Weather Ends Raids

BRITISH MINE DANUBE FOR 300 MILES   Bombers Spend Several Nights Blocking Important Balkan Waterway; Nazis Get ‘Loot.   1,000 Sorties

Bombers Mine Danube River a ee  Spectacular Blow Is Hit At  Communications Of German:

DANUBE MINED TO BLOCK AXIS   German Communications (On Russian Front Badly Strained

U. S. AIRMEN DUMP BIG BOMB LOAD ON SOFTA   Opposition Over Bulgarian Capital, Following Heavy Night Blow By RAF, Is Fairly Strong; Big Force Raids

Sofia Railway Yards Hit by Allied Bombers   Bulgarian Capital Raided for Second Time in 24 Hours

SOFIA RAILROAD YARDS BLASTED BY HUGE FORCE   Record Flight Of Big Bombers From Bases In Mediterranean Lash Bulgaria

Sofia Target of Two Heavy Aerial Blows   Smashing American Raid Follows RAF Bombing Of Bulgarian Capital

4? GOVERNORS REPLY TO FDR ON VOTE BILL   Only Six Accept ‘Compromise’ Measure

DAMAGE SEVERE AS FIRES SWEEP REICH’S CAPITAL   Planes Attack at Low Level Beneath Clouds Hanging 200 Feet Over City —

Sioux Valley . Convention At Baptist Church  " Returned ‘Missionai - Gives Report On

Sioux Valley Convention At Baptist Chiirch  Returned Missionary - Gives Report On * Work In Assam

Gen. Patch Is New Chief Of The 7th Army   Patton Is Slated For Im: ‘portant Role With The Alfiac

Patton Slated For Major Role  In Invasion   General Relinquishes Command of 7th Army To Head New Outfit

BEACHHEADS SECURED BY AMERICANS   Advance Against Artillery Fire

One of Fierces' Battles of  Pacific Opens   Landings Continue as Yankees Fight for Possession of Bases Only Five Hours’ Flying Time From Japanese Capital

Anchorage Is Made On  Beaches   Nimitz Reports Good Progress Against Well Organized  Jap Defenses.

U.S. Blaeklists 36 Lrish Firms   Demonstrate Disapproval Of  Eire’s Refusal To Eject  Axis Officials.

Thirty-Eight Irish Firms Placed On U. S. Blacklist  Action Is First Taken ‘ By Government Since Eire Refusal

U. S. Blacklists 38 Irish Firms   Accuses Them of Moves That Aided Enemy

U.S. Blacklists 38 Irish Firms As Axis Aiders   Eire’s Refusal To Eject Enemy Agents Brings  RanwaAwiin Gannitnenc

38 IRISH FIRMS BLACKLISTED   Follows Eire Refusal To Eject Axis Officials

First Action Taken Against Eire’s Stand  Evidence Shows Firms Named Are Assisting Enemy; Sanctions To

38 Irish Firms Put on Blacklist As Aiding Nazis  _ United States Cracks  - Down Economically On Free State of Eire

IAlon FIRM ON BLACKLIST   Accuses 38 Businessmen and Concerns of Aiding the Enemy.

Coopera ation “With Enemy ' Ts Charged  Move Shows: ‘Disapprov al of Eire’ s Failure {o      Some ‘of ‘Firms Reported io Have German Language Names

U.S. Blacklists 38 Irish Business Firms As Axis Cooperators   Government Withholds Individual Reasons; Some Companies Blocked Have German Name

38 Trish firms on  blacklist   Failure to align brings sanctions

REJECTION OF ALLIED APPEAL BRINGS ACTION   Eire Rejected Recent Appeal to Remove Axis Officials

lrish Firms Placed Upon Black List   U. S. Moves to Punish Group Still Dealing With German Groups

38 Trish Firms Blacklisted By United State:   Accused of Aiding Enemy;  First Such Action Since  Eire Refused to Re  = feet Axis Diplomats

SAVE FOR THE Waste Paper Pickup Sundey, August 27  Paper is the war's No. 1 eriti  Heavy Blows Rake Balkans

CLOUDY SKIES HELP GERMANY   Planes Can't Get Off Ground In Britain; Balkans Battered

ate Of Germany May Be Decided In Holland Battle   Reinforcements In Unbroken Stream Follow Allied Air Landings In Holland   DETAILS MEAGRE UP TO PRESENT

HEAVY RAINS, SOME HAIL STRIKE DALLAS, FORT WORTH SECTOR  HIGH WINDS AND ELECTRICAL STORM SUNDAY CATICEN NAMACE

SEN. REED DOUBTS ROOSEVELT WILL RUN   Believes President Will Stay Out o Race Because of Chance : of Defeat.

Face-Saving of Jap Pilots Raises Havoc wtih Nip Military Strategy

JAP PSYCHOLOGY OF SAVING “FACE” IS FALSE REPORT BASIS   RECENT TOKYO REPORT OF GREAT SEA VICTORY HAD NO FOUNDATION

Gen. Arnold Says Strike Severe Blow   Foremen’s Group Votes Return to Work, After  Hearing General

Prisoner Aid Hope Revives   Hull Receives Note From Jap Authorities

Sentence Five For Espionage   Three Women, Two Men Confess Conspiracy, Draw Long Prison Terms

DETROIT SPIES ARE SENTENCED   Prison Terms Ranging From 5 To 20 Years Given 5 Persons

Five Sentenced ‘On Spy Charges   Three Women and Two ‘Men Get Prison Terms Of Five to 20 Years

5 Sentenced In Espionage ‘Ring Cleanur   Three Women, Two Mer Given 5 to 20 Years in Detroit Couri

Train Hits Bus At Camp {n Arizona   Eight Other Men   Eight Other Men Seriously Hurt In Collision

Olean Youth Among 27 killed in Crash   John H. Kubiak Dies When Kingman Army Air Base Bus Collides with Santa Fe Freight:  Six Pennsylvanians Are Among Victims

27 Soldiers Die in Crash   Freight Train Strikes Bus at Entrance To Gunnery School

27 Killed in Bus at Crossing   Gunnery School Cadets Are Victims of Crash At Kinoeman. Ariz.   WERE RETURNING FROM MISSION   Bus Appeared To Stop And Then Go Out of Control as It Neared Rail Crossing

27 Aviation Cadets Die When Bus Hits Train   Eight Others Critically Injured In Crash  At Entrance To School At Kingman, Ariz.

27 SOLDIERS DIE AT RAIL CROSSING   Freight Train Hits Bus In Which They Were Riding At Kingman, Ariz.

27 SOLDIERS KILLED: EIGHT [BADLY INJURED   Freight Train Hits Bus  - Loaded with Soldiers Returning from Gunner; Mission

11 Soldiers Die As Train Hits Bus   All but One Were Aviation Cadets

KINGMAN ARMY ATR BASE BUS AND TRAIN CRASHED LAST NIGHT  ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT ENTRANCE TO KINGMAN, ARIZ.. GUNNERY SCHOOL

TWENTY-SEVEN SOLDIERS DIE IN BUS CRASH   None From T’ i: Part Of State; Hits Freicht

27 AIR CADETS DEAD IN TRAIN-BUS CRASH   ; Others Hurt Seriously At Army Base In Arizona

97 Soldiers Die As Train Hits Bus in Arizona  More Deaths Expected Among Injured

27 AIR CADETS KILLED BY TRAIN   Servicemen Fatally Injured When Bus Collides With Freight in Arizona

Twenty-Seven Men Killed in Bus And Train Collision  Aviaton Cadets Are Victims While On Gunnery Mission

FREIGHT TRAIN COLLIDES WITH AIR CADET BUS   27 SOLDIERS DIE. AND 8 CRITICALLY HURT IN ARIZONA

27 Die In Bus Crash   «++ Nearly All Victims Were Ariation Cadets

Twenty-Six Victims Were Aviation Cadets On Way Back To Kingman Air Base In Bus

Twenty-Seven Die In Crash   Train-Bus Accident Claims 26 Aviation Cadet Lives

27 Soldiers Die in a Collision   Kingman, Arizona, Army Air. base Bus Was Struck by a Freight Train.

26 Aviation Cadets Killed In Collision   Bodies And Wreckage Of Bus Scattered 100 Feet Along Railroad Right Of Way: Another Soldier Also Victim

27 SOLDIERS IN BUS KILLE   Six Pennsylvanians Amen Victims of Arizona © Crossing Crash 

Arizona Bus-Train Crash Leaves 7T Soldiers Killed, Eight Injured

Train Goes Into Bus At Kingman   8 Injured  ' Cadets Returning  From Gunnery School Range

27 SOLDIERS DIE IN CRASH   EIGHT CRITICALLY HURT AT KINGMAN AIR BASE

26 Army, Airmen  Killed   Kingman, Ariz,, Base ‘Bus Collides With Santa Fe Freight

WAR LABOR BOARD'S FATE IS REPORTED IN BALANCE   CLO MAY FOLLOW LEAD OF AFL AND WITHDRAW ITS REPRE TATIVES FROM SE WEB co

DISSOLUTION OF WLB PREDICTED   CIO Expected To Withdraw Officials From Group

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bujleting on , Latest World News ‘loday,

PILOTLESS ‘FORT FLIES 400 MILES   Plane Crashes in Wooded Area 70 Miles Northeast of Duluth.

YANKS MURDERED IN JAP GANTLET   ‘STRUCK DOWN WITH STEEL  CLUBS AS THEY RAN BE-. TWEEN 2 ROWS OF NIPS,

Jap Sub Crew Forces 55 American Seamen to Brave Gantlet Of Steel Clubs, Others Drowned

Six New Men, and One “Regular” Appointed at Joint Meeting of Engineers, Selectmen and Firemen

gia   on be a ows          Six New Men, and One “Regular” Ap pointed at Joint Meeting of Engineers, Selectmen and Firemen __

JUDGE BALE HERE ON FRIDAY NIGHT   Noted Yoath Worker Is Coming Here to Discuss War Prob. lems and Delinquency.

REA HUNGER STRIKER ENTERS SECOND DAY   Wants Political Freedom; His Job Abolished

Commandos Raid French Coast Beach   Daring Britons: _ Wipe Out German Post, Take Mortar

mH DEFENSES ABOVE GASSINO ARE GRUMBLING   First Big ‘Offensive Is Launched Since: Landing At Anzio   ‘NEAR APPIAN WAY   Cisterna, Communica. tions: Center, “Threat: ~ ened In Latest ‘Drive

Allies Mount Mount Double Offensive i in Area Below Rome ard Near’ Cassino: Reds Surge On

Allies (Now 16 Miles From Gates of Rome   ath - Army Units Storm Ahead to Outskirts of Cisterna

New Gains Are Made  Near Rome   Strike Forward From Invasion Beachhead In An Attempt To Slash Communications Line

Twin Attacks Place Abies Nearer Rome   In Corridor Above Cassino Nazi Defenses Start to Crumble

New Gains on Cassino Front Are Reported   Twin Attacks Described As First Big Push Since Landings —

Allied Troops 15  Miles From City; Two Big Thrusts Hammer Germans

Nazi Defense In Corridor  Near Cassino Js Breaking.   Cisterna Outskirts Are Also Attained:,

Allies Are Nearing Rome   TROOPS PUSH FORWARD IN BIG OFFENSIVE; NOW IN CAMPOLEONE SUBURB:

Offensive By Allied Force Strikes At  Campoleone   German Defenses In Corridor Above Cassino Beginning To Crumble

ALLIES GAIN GROUND TODAY AT CISTERNA   Now Only Sixteen Miles From Rome In New Drive

Allies Drive To Outskirts Of Campoleone   They Also Reach Edge Of Cisterna, Rail Center on Appian Way Headquarters Says

Defense Near Cassino ls Crumbling   U. S. Units Striking North From Anzio Reach Outskirts of Cisterna and Are Only 16 Miles From Rome; Desperate Fight Rages

Appian Way ‘Now Straddled By U.S.-British   Large Air Base te Fall Into Allied Hands With Capture of Cis terna, Rail Junction   First Real Drive Since Sea Landings   Nazis Bringing Troops From North of Rome in Futile Effort to Halt Twin Allied Attack

TWIN OFFENSIVES ON ITALIAN FRONT THREATEN CAPITAL   British and American Troops Reach Outskirts of Cam poleaane and Cictarna

KEY OUTPOSTS TO ROME UNDER HEAVY ASSAULT   American Forces Advance To Within 16 Miles Of Capital

Troops Hit City Sixteen Miles From Capital: Also Move Northeast Of Anzio

TROOPS REACH OUTSKIRTS OF : CAMPOLEONE   Point Is Only 16 Miles From Capital — ‘Other Forces at Edge of Cis _ terna, Appian Way Communications Town.

Allies Launch Offensives On Italian Fronts  Reach Campoleone, 16 Miles From Rome And Fight In Outskirts

REACH EDGE OF TOWN WITHIN16 MILES OF ROME   Americans Hammer Ou! New Gains on Main Front North of Cassino

19 TO 16 MILES FROM ROME ON LATEST FRON]   German Forces Streaming Down From North to Reenforce Their Hard-pressed Comrades. 

Eternal City 16 Miles Away From Troops   German Defense Around Cassino About To Crumble

Germans Attempt To Block Advance; Bring Troops From North   Yank Forces Move Within Half-Mile Of Nazi-Held Cisterna; British Assault Campoleone In Northward Push

Bursting Forward in a Big Offensive From Their Invasion Beachhead, to Out-_  skirts of Campoleone.   HAVE ALSO REACHED EDGE OF CISTERNA   It Is a Communications Town on Appian Way, 14 Miles Northeast of Anzio, It Js Announced.

Allied Troops Open Offensive From Beachhead While Others Make Gains On Cassino Front

ALLIED TART Ble OFFENSIVE   Troops Push Forward From Beachhead to Outskirts Of Campoleone.   16 MILES FROM ROME

Allies Go © Forward in Big Drive   Co-ordinated Assaults Carry to Edges of Campoleone and Cisterna   GAIN ALSO MADE: ABOVE CASSING   German Lines in That Area Reported Crumbling; More Nazis to Rome Area

Gains Made On Cassino Battle Line   Big Attack Carries Fifth To Outskirts Of Campoleone

BIG OFFENSIVE BY  BRIDGEHEAD FORCES  SOUTH OF CAPITAL GERMAN DEFENSES IN  . THE CASSINO AREA RE- PORTED CRUMBLING

Allies Drive To Edge Of Campoleone   Town Is On Appian Way; German Defenses Above Cassino Begin to Crumble

SURGE FORWARD FROM BEACHHEAL SOUTH OF ROME   AMERICAN TROOPS SEIZE PRISONERS ON CASSINO FRONT

CAMPOLEONE CISTERNIA, , ARE GOALS   Nazi Defenses Above Casino Are Crumbling  nrrraiiciir   Heaviest Since Landings; Schooner And Tanker Sunk Off Split

ALLIES LAUNCH NEW ASSAULTS SOUTH OF ROME   Attackers Reach Town 16 Miles Southeast Of Capital City

Allied Forces Burst — Forth In New Attack — Fi rom Italy Beachhead

Gen. Clark’s Forces Only 16 Miles Below Italian Capital; Gains Made On Southern Front

ALLIED FORCES TANGLE WITH ENEMY TROOPS   First Big Offensive Puts Yanks, British Near Campoleone Today

New Drive Moves To Outskirts: of Two Key Towns   U.S. Troops Hammer Out New Gains in_ Cassino Area; Nazi , Defenses Crumbling

Allies Advance In Twin Attacks   Big Offensive Gets Under Way From Invasion Beachhead in Italy

British Within 16 Miles of Rome as Yank Forces Gain   U. S. Troops Hammer at Defenses Above Cassino—Allies Reach Outskirts of Campoleone in Drive to Take Eternal City.

American Troops Advance on Front North of Cassino   Start First Big Allied Offensive Near  Italian Capital Since Landings  Made at Port of Anzio

IGHTING AT UTSKIRTS OF AMPOLEONE   merican Troops Attacking On Main Front North of Cassino Hammer Out Gains, Seize Nazis   EFENSES CRUMBLING

Allies Attacking 16 Miles Southeast! Of Eternal City   Offensive Is First Major Drive Since Surprise Landing

LAWYERS END “BIERY TALKS ON MANN ACI   Giesler: ‘Kind Man’; ‘A Wolf, Says  Prosecutor

Jury Gets Chaplin’s Case Today   Opposing Lawyers Fill Court Day With Oratory And  Elaborate Sarcasm.

JAPS BEATEN BACK IN EASTERN INDIA; LOSSES ARE HEAVY   Allied Offensive to Wipe Out All Nipponese Forces in Area Is Now in Full Swing.   ENEMY OUTFLANKED \ WEST OF KOHIMA   Allied Column Moving Through Rough Country Threatens to Entrap Troops West of Base.

Allies Advance On All Sides In India Area   Jap Counterattacks Are Crushed With  Heavy Losses to Nips

ALLIES GOING FORWARD Ik ALL SECTORS   Of Eastern India Inflicting Losses on Enemy, Moun{batten Reports, Success at Kohima.   Situation Eased

Allied Offensive Makes Advances In India Sectors   Series of Japanese Coun — ferattacks Crushed with Heavy Losses

Japs Lose n Burma Sector   Developments Point To Jap Failure In India

Alfied Offensive Tn India   Scores Gains In Every Sector   jeries: of Japanese ‘Counter-attacks Crushed With ~——Heavy-kosses-asAllied- Troops Move Forward in Every Section

JAP ATTACKS IN INDIA FAIL   Allied Offensive Moving Ahead With Foe Suffering Heavy Losses

NIPPON’S CHIEFS OF STAFF FIRED MFTER HUGE TOLL      Foe’s Mid-Pacific Defenses Reel Under Staggering New Blows

Jap Mid-Pacite Defenders Reel Under US. Blows   Blows At Truk And Eniwe. f tok Are Partial Avenging Of Pearl Harbor   TRUK JAP LOSSES 26 SHIPS; 250 PLANES  Ry CLIN TON Cerew

New Invasion Stroke Cn Isle   Jap Ship and Plane Losses At Truk Are Heavy

Nazis Being Clamped in Steel Vise   Russians Press to Within 121% Miles of Bastion; Other Troop: 35 Miles in Poland

huss forces dozen miles from bastion  Snap remaining escape railways

Soviets Sever Rails Leading To Poland   Now Within 1214 Mile: Of Last Nazi Bastion In White Russia  PRESS INTO POT AND

THREE ARMIES CONVERGING ON MINSK   Snapping Two Railway Escape Routes of Germans Who Throw Reserves into Battle.   Salute At Moscow

Russians Smash Ahead in Grea! Drive for City   Important Railway Center Captured

 MILE GAIN Ii IHfVoT TOWARD ol. LO REPORTED   Capture Pont Hertert; Fighting on Odon River ‘Bridgehead Severe

New American Thrust Is Made Toward St. Lo   Yanks Driving Ahead To Attempt Capture Of Communications Center   ADVANCE BEHIND ARTILLERY BARRAGE

TWO SEPARATE . DRIVES OPENED — ON FRENGH LINE   Yanks Gain Toward St. Lo, British Attack North of Caen

OFFICERS ELECTED — BY CHURCH COUNCIL      Rev. G. ‘Aubrey - ‘Young _ Again Heads County Group

OFFICERS ELECTED BY CHURCH COUNCIL   Rey. G. Aubrey - Young Again Heads County Group

ALLIED GUNS POUR SHELLS INTO CASSINO   BATTLE FOR ENEMY FORTRESS RISES TO WILD PITCH

Allies battle Germans at close range  Advance against touch resistance

ARMS” PRODUCED FOR LONG WAR   Area of Which Ohio Center Turns Out Huge Piles

Remsen Man Is" Killed On D-Day  In Normandy   Former Laws Public - Service Employe In Le Mars

Remsen Man Is Killed On D-Day  In Normandy —   Former lowa. Public Service. Employe   In Le Mars

$125,000 More Found in Thompson's Cache, Making Total of $1,601,250

‘BIG BILL'S’ ESTATE KEEPS ON GROWING   More Thompson Assets Found as Securities Are Uncovered

Alarmed Germans Dig Trenches to Check the Soviet Advances      WEDGES DRIVEN IN. LINES OF GERMANS   Counter-Attacks Beater Off With Big Losses to Enemy

Soviet Forces Gain Despite Nazi Efforts   Nine to Twelve-Mile Advance Made in Battle of Latvia

Reds Gain Nine Miles in Battle To Seize Latvia   Soviets Preparing Link with Allies

Furious Counter-Attacks Have Slowed Down Soviet _ Armies On Eastern Front   ; Germans Fighting Desperately In Defense Of East Prussian Soil; Men And Women From 15 To 65 Are ~ Digging Trenches; Reds Hold Air Supremacy

Powerful Red Armies Grind (Out Advances   Desperate German Counterattacks Slow Soviet Drives

NAZI BLOWS FAIL TO STOP RED ADVANC   Russian Troops Drive Nine to 12 Miles in Latvia and Push Closer to Czech Border.   \EAST PRUSSIANS " DIGGING TRENCHES   very Able-Bodied Man and Woman From 15 to 65 Called Out to Help ‘in Defense Work.

SCARED NAZIS FEAR LOSS OF EAST PRUSSIA   RUSSIANS CONTINUE MARCH TO RIGA IN LATVIA

NAZI ATTACKS FAIL TO HALT RED ADVANCE   Russians Gain Miles In Fierce Battle For Latvia

Soviets Capture 280 Towns In Twin Drives Towards Riga And Latvia, Along Both Sides Of  Daugava River

YANKS BYPASS LIVORNO, PUSH TOWARD PISA   Clark’s Army Outflanks Seaport, Moving Down Arno River Valley

U. S. Forces Burst Thru Italian Hills   Livorno Outflanked And Northern Plains Entered

YANKS GAIN ON LIVORNO FLANK      'Natural Barrier to Gothic  Line Is Neutralized

Americans Break Intec Valley Before Livorno   Infantry Outflanking Movement Closing Steel Are on > Porivace

Pittsourgh Man Father Of Quads   Reveal Soldier From Pitts burgh Father Of Quadruplets Born In England   WIFE IN PITTSBURGH IS ALL BROKEN UP

BRICKER SWINGING INTO OHIO CAMPAIGN BOOSTING STEWAR]   Final Speeagh Planned Saturday Night At Cleveland

To Ration Sugar Through The Year   OPA Administrator Gives Picture of Rationing

OVER 9,000 PLANES MAD! IN MARCH   New Production Record Is Set, Says Air Chief

Plane Output In Mareh Hits All-Time High   Drain On Manpower May Curtail Production lu The Future

MARINE LAYS WIRE SO FAST HE BEATS ATTACKERS T0 JAPS   “ Got Back to Our Lines in a Hurry” Reveals L. J. Hobscheid

MAR: } WIRE SOFA. HE BEATS ATTACK? ‘S$ TO JAPS   “1 Got Back \ Our Lines in a Hurry’, %eveals L. J. Hobs eid

Dewey's Attendance at Negroes’ Party Draws Ire of South Carolina Governor

State Education Division Heads Asked Removed      Legislative Audit... Committee: Suggests Olsen, Walker Out...

Belgian Front Opposition Is Reported Light   Artillery Pours In From West For Big Attack

THIRD ARMY STARTS DRIVE, ALLIES CLOSE ON SIEGFRIED WALL   Germans Being Pressed Back Toward Home Soil On  Four Fronts; Capture Of Metz And Nancy a Oe

2,000 Allied Planes Go Into 13th Day of  Pre-Invasion Attack   Essen, “Pittsburgh of Germany” is Among Targets Bombed

MIGHTY AERIAL * FORCES ATTACK NAZI DEFENSES   "2,000 Allied Planes Blast Targets at Essen and Atlantic Wall

Essen Blasted In Night Raid By RAF Fleets   i 6,000 Tons of Bombs Hit Hun-Held Areas; Paris Railroad Yards Also Ripped in Altack  i

Nazis’ Atlantic Wall Hit: RAF Rakes Germany   Essen, Schweinfurt And Rail Yards Near Paris Also Blasted

ESTIMATED AT 6.000 TONS   Blow at Militar y Installa tions in Northern , _ France Follows R. A. F.  Night Assault on Two _. German Cities.

Germans Report Great Aerial Battles Raging   Vital Essen and Schwein~ fort Production Centers Among Targets Hit In Scourging Offensive By   RAF sand aiheriaap   Planes.

RAF Assault Hits Paris And Germany   Channel Skies Are Filled With Planes for Hours

000 TONS OF BOMBS STRIKE NAZIS IN DAY   tmercang Hit Atlantic Wail afer Night RAF. Raid on Fesen, Schweinfurth:

‘Atlantic Wall’ Is Under Attack Of Yank Airmen   Giganti¢ Pre-Invasion Ait Offensive Continued by American Forces,   2-Way Blow on Reich Made by U. S. Planes

SCHWEINFURT, ESSEN BLASTED IN RAF RAIDS   Huge Fires Rage In Krupp Works City; Paris Area Rail Yards Bombed 7

2000 Allied Planes Active On 13th Day Of Aérial Offensive   Yanks Pound German Atlantic Wall After RAF Blasts Schweinfurt, ’ Essen, Railyards Near Paris

6.000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Reich From 2,000 Planes   Essen Main Target Last Night While U.S. Airmen Hammer Objectives In France

SCHWEINFURT, ESSEN GET RAF NIGHT RAIDS   U.S. Planes Blast Objectives In Norther France In Morning

American Bomber: Pound Heavily at Ailantic Wall   Raids Fellew RAF Might Assaulis on Essen, Schweinturt and Rail Yards Mear Paris

TWO THOUSAND ALLIED PLANES STRIKE IN DAY   American Bombers Pound Heavily At Hitler's Atlantic Wall After Heavy RAF Assault On German City Of Es sen.

Aerial Smash On ~ German Targets   OVER. 2,000 ALLIED WAR PLANES IN NEW RAID.

U). §. BOMBERS POUND  NAZI ATLANTIC WALL  AFTER ESSEN BLASTED APPROXIMATELY 6,000  TONS OF BOMBS BLAST HITLER’S EUROPE

SIX THOUSAND TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON NAZIS   2000 Planes Roar Over Targets During Day

2.000 Allied Planes Pound Invasion Wall   Attack Goes Into L3th Day; 6.000 Tons Of Bombs Fall; 29 Raiders Lost

2,000 Yankee Planes Blast Atlantic Wall   Six Thousand Tons of Explosives Droped on German Targets

Yank Bombs Rip Invasion Coast Again   Hammer Atlantic Wall After RAF Assault On  Fssen. Schweinfurt.

Air Invasion Unchecked In Its 13th Day   RAF Drops 4,500 Tons On Essen, Schweinfurt And Paris; 2,000 More Planes Out Today

Raiders Povnd  Invasion Wall  6,000 Tous of Bombs Heaned on Nazi Centers

2000 Planes Batter at West Wall   Greatest. Air Offensive Enters anh Dav

U. 3+ POUNDS ATLANTIC WALL   2,000 Allied Planes Pour About 6,000 Tons of Bombs on Taraets.   \RAF IN NIGHT ATTACKS

2,000 ALLIED PLANES POUND DEFENSE WALL   Paris and Two Cities Inside Germany Hit By Air Raiders

Reich Cities, Atlantic Wall Key Targets   Essen, Schweinfurt Bombarded hy RAF; Yanks Over France

Allies Drop 6,000 Tons of Bombs On Nazi Targets Today   British Airmen Blast Essen, Schweinfurt, Paris Rails; American Force Raids Northern France

U. §. BOMBERS POUND NAZI ATLANTIC WALL AFTER ESSEN BLASTED  APPROXIMATELY 6,000 TONS OF BOMBS BLAST

German Industries Blasted By RAF in 4,500-Ton Raid; ‘. §. Planes Take Air Today   Crushing Round-the-Clock Attack On Reich Continues With Factories And Rail Centers Sharing Bomb Loads

6,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped   American Raid Follows Heavy Blow By British Planes

U. S. Bombers Pound German Atlantic Wall   Between 500 and 750 Flying Fortresses And Liberators Hit At German Targets

GREAT BATTLES HAGING IN OXY OVER GERMAN!   U. S. Bombers Resume Attacks After RAF Moonlight Raid on Essen.

Bombers Keep Up Assaults   Relentless Attacks Take In Essen, Schweinfurt, And Rail Yards Near Paris

NAZI TARGETS HIT HARD IN GIGANTIC OFFENSIVE TODAY   I'wo Thousand Allied Planes Dropped Perhaps 6000 Tons of Bombs.   RAIL YARDS ARE HIT   RAF Assault Made on Essen, Schweinfurt and Yards Near Paria.

Pre-Invasion Bombardment Continues   6,000 Tons Turned Loose On Nazi Targets by Allies

Schweinfurt, Essen, Paris Rail Region Are Targets   Pre-Invasion Drive Is Gaining Weight

1,000-Plane Visit by RAF Last Night Followed by 1,250 American Planes Today and Vital German War Centers Are Devastated by Explosives and  ° FESO

Essen, Rail Yards In Paris Area And Schweinfurt Torn      2,000 American And British Planes Keep Great Attack Going For 13th Straight Day; Reich Radio Hints At New Blows Today By Italy-Based Fliers

Follows Up RAF Assault on Essen Schweinfurt Areas   Twenty-Nine British Bombers Are Lost In Aerial Night Raid

Never-Ending Procession of  Allied Planes   Germans Believe Today's Daylight Raids Are Two-Fold

Mammoth Bomb Load Dumped on Fortress Europe   2,000 Allied Planes Slam 6,000 Tons at German Targets in Pre-Invasion Punch

Attacks Open 13th Day of Air Pounding  Essen, Schweinfurt and Rail Yards Near Paris Hit by RAF  29 BOMBERS LOST  U.S. Day Fleet Lashes at  German Atlantic Wall OW petivnac   U.S. Day Fleet Lashes at German Atlantic Wall Objectives

mM ee      ‘Around 6,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped On  Nazi Targets   HAMBURG AMONG ‘PLACES BLASTED

Bombers Pound Invasion Targets   2000 Allied Planes in Attack On Germans for 13th Straiqht Day

U.S. BOMBERS HIT COASTAL AREA TODAY   lows RAF Night Attack On City of Essen

THOUSANDS OF PLANES SLAM NAZI TARGETS   Over 6,000 Tons of Bombs Unloosed in Gigantic PreInvasion Assaults on Continent   DOUBLE BLOW RAGING

YANKS BLAST INVASION COAST   Essen, Schweinfurt, Paris Attacked By R.A.F.   AIR OFFENSIVE   Carried Into Thirteenth Day: Planes From Carriers Bomb Convoy

VOTES TODAY ON VOTE PLAN   House Near Final Action On State Program for Soldier Balloting

COLOGNE RAIDED THIRD TIME IN LAST 36 HOURS   First Anglo-American Direct Air Support Of Russian And Finnish Troops   SIX- TON BOMB LANDS ON BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ

COLOGNE BLASTED "BY BRITISH FLIER:      Mosquito Bombers Take Advantage of Bright - Moon

Yanks Liberate Six Leyte Towns   Advance Three Miles Beyond Tacloban

YANKS MOVE UP ON ENTIRE FRONT   Jap Counter-Attack Repulsed After Bloody Battle

FAST MOVING YANK FORRES. ~ DRIVE AHEAD   PHIAPFINE INVASION ARMY CRUSHING BYETRR JAPA. ©! NESE RESISTANCE ON’ ° BIRATEGIC ISLAND

According to Plan, Churchill Says   4 000 Ships Used For Early Landings

Churchill Says Plans Going On Timed Schedule   In Parliament Address Says Many Allied Surprises To Come.

Surprise in Invasion Seen By Churchill   Tells Commons Allied Attack Proceeding  As Planned

Surprises Qn Tap For Nazis ‘Churchill Say:   Battle Will Crow Constant ‘Jy In Seale, Prime Min-  ister Tells House  Of Commons   Assault Proceeds According to Plan   American - British Invasion Lines Sustained By 11,000 Firet Line   Planes

Invasion Proceeding, Churchill   Probably Greatest Fleet Ever Assembled in Use, He Says

4,000 SHIPS IN INVASION FLEET CHURCHILL SAYS   Thousands. Of Smaller Boats ea th What A~  Plen.”

Prime Minister Asserts Battle Will Grow in Intensity for Weeks—Shore Batteries Largely Quelled

Great Assault Going Ahead, Churchill Says   Britain’s Prime Ministei Speaks Today in Confident Tones

England Reports Coldesi Christmas Since 1872 As Ice Cream Sales Mount

YANKS SEIZE LAST ~ NOEMFOOR AIRFIELD   @apanese Withdraw Before Attack, Some Fleeing in. Boats and Others Hiding in. Hills. ©

nian: ESR eects aap ile r asec a camming atid  Anti-Saloon League Stays On Sidelines   Deesn’t Favor Congressional Action For Prohibition

NO LEGISLATION NEEDED TO DRY UP U.S. IS CLAIM  Anti-Saloon League Says FDR Can Do It by Presidential Order

Saloon: League Not In Battle   Wants FDR To Ordér All Drink Banned As War Time Necessity

Anti-Saloon League Stays On Sidelines   Doesn’t Favor Congressional Action For Prohibition

Prohibiton By Decree Is "Asked By Anti-Salooner:   League President Says FDR Ought To Issue Decree, Says Liquor Hurts War Effort

DRY LAW FIGHT FINDS LEAGUE ON SIDE-LINES   -AntiSaloon Organization  Is Not Taking Part In  _ Congress Battle to Curtail Liquor

Anti-Saloon’s Dr Crabbe Wants  President To Decree Prohibition   Adopts Hands-Off Policy In Congressional Fight To Outlaw Sale Of Alcoholics As Wartime Measure.

re re er ey  USO Clubhouses Will Be Open To Public Coming Weekend On Annivercarv

NATION RESPONDS 10 BOND SALES   Morgenthau Gives Facts And Figures Concerning War

‘War’ Is Used By Roosevelt For Politics   +.O.P, ‘Claims Quebec Conference Has Its Effect On Voting Public

Republicans Say Roosevelt Mixing  Politics With War      Charge Quebec Parley, Hawaii Trip, Armed at Fourth Victory

Charge FDR Is Using War to Play Politics   Dirksen Declares Quebec Conference 1s Campaign Trip

Both Parties Begin To Stir Over Campaign   Major Candidates Preparing To Make Appeals, Dewey Speaking Monday’ and FDR on Sept. 23.

Hannegan Says GOP Has Little Hope For Victory   Dewey Criticized For Playing Politics With War

INCREASED U.S. PRESSURE BROUGHT ON FOUR NATIONS   Sweden, Spain, Ireland and Turkey Must Stop Bolstering Axis War Machine. {   THIS WAS FORESEEN   Policy of Cracking Down on Neutrals Aiding Enemy Is Comparatively New.

U. §. 10 TRY 10 STOP NEUTRALS’ AID TO GERMANY   New Pressure Expected In Wake Of Hull Speech

Rail Unions Expected to End Strike   Senate Holds Saturday Ses_- sion in Effort to Approve New Tax Bill; To Request Seamen Musterimg Out Pay

DRAFT OF LABOR WOULD EASE UP FATHER DRAFT   That’s What Congress Told; Railroad Strike May Be Called Off for Duration

Halmahera Neutralized By Bombers   Jap Radio Reports Raic On Iwo Jima, 600 Miles From Tokvo

LIBERATORS HIT JAP FORTRESS   Volcano Islands, 600 Miles From Tokyo, Raided Aaain

U. S. BOMBERS STABBED AGAIN AT JIMA MONDAY   Twenty-Two Liberators Attacked Japanese Fortress Yesterday

Security Parley into New Phase  Chinese Delegates at Dumbarton Oaks

World Security Planners Wind Up Conference  Fail To Reach Full Agreement

Soviet Talks tn Post-War Plans End   Large Measure Of Agreement Reached—Chinese  Enter Parley

SECURITY MEET CLOSES TODAY   Big Three Nations Fail To Reach Hoped For  Agreement

Security Conferees Issue a Joint Statement Friday   Announce They Reach Largest Measure of Agreement on Plans

Russia, Britain,      Security Talks   Conferences Said Useful In Reaching Agreement On Wérld Organization

Second Phase of Dumbarton Meet Begins Friday   World Security Plans Wind Up Minus  Complete Aareement

First Phase Of Dumbarton Oaks Talks Finished   Complete Agreement On World Security Setup Not Reached.

PARLEY CLOSES SHORT OF GOAL   Big Powers Disagree Over Aggression Action

SECURITY MEET WINDS UP TODAY   Fail to Reach Full Agreement at Dumbarton Oaks

CHINESE PORTION OF TALKS BEGINS   Russian Phase Of Security Parley Achieves Results

No Complete Accord Made On Security   Dumbarton Oaks Parley Involving Three Big Powers Ends Today

RUSS SECURITY TALKS AT END   Agree In Most Instances Joint Statement Reports

SECURITY TALK SHORT OF AIMS   Dumbarton Oaks Conferees Fail On Full Agreement

Powers Partially Agree   Is Announcement From Dumbarton Oaks Security Meet; Conference Over Today

AUSSIAN PHASE OF MEET ENDS   ‘Conferees Reach Large Measure of Agreement on Security Plans.

SECURITY MEET ENTERS SECOND DHASE FOR CHIN   » Early Talks Concluded With ‘Large Measure Of Agreement’

Russian Phase Of Dumba rton  Uaks Rieet ends    “Large Measure of Agree ment” On Plans For World Security OrZanization Reached

FIRST PART OF PARLEY 10 END   Full Agreement On Postwal Security Not Reached

WORLD PEACE PARLEY ENDS, MINUS ACCORD   Tri-Power Officials Wind Up Sessions At Dum.barton Oaks

DUMBARTON OAKS CONFERENCE TO END SUMETIME THURSDAY  FAILED TO REACH COMPLETE AGREEMENT ON WORLD SECURITY

Large Measure of Agreement on Organization for World Security Reached at Dumbarton Oaks Meeting

OTHER TROOPS: TURN TO WEST TO MEET TIT0   Thousands of Germans Pocketed by Swift Red Advance

Fall Of Bucharest Is Third European Capital Freed In 89 Days  RUSSIAN ARMIES REACH BULGARIA  American Prisoners Are Freed In Liberation Of Bucharest

Russians Sweep Past Bucharest To Danube River   Nazis Pocketed By Reds Agains Bulgarian Border

Nazi Troops Take Control Of Budapest   Bulgarian Cabinet Reported Resigned As Balkans Seethe.

REDS SEEK 10 FORM JUNCTION WITH PARTISANS   Drive To Danybe River Border Of Bulgaria After Fleeing Nazis

ON BULGARTAN BORDER LINE   Red Armies Continue After Freeing Bucharest; Mass Attack Against Warsaw is - Expected Soon.

Russian Army Chasing Nazis To Hungary   Soviet Armor Stands at Danube River Crossing

Soviets sweep on to Bulgarian line  Other troops swing to junction with Jugoslavs

Armored Forces, Cavalry Sweep 35 Miles Beyond Bucharest.   ‘Danube Is Reached By Armored Group   Other Russian Armies Lash Out Northeast Of Warsaw

Soviets Push Nazis Across Danube Rive   Bulgaria Threatened As Reds Go 35 Miles Bevond Bucharest

SWEEP PAST BUCHAREST   Other Forces Head For Hungary and Jugoslavia

Soviets; 35 Mi. Sweep Past Bucharest Traps Thousands Of Germans Against Bulgaria

Soviet Troops  Push 35 Miles Past Bucharest   Relentless Pursuit of Germans’ Flying Legions Continues

All Enemy Warships Canght is Aucherages Sunk cr Damaged, Knex Says—Figares Lacking

Other Islands Attacked   Naval Task Force Hits Woleai and Yap During Palau Assault; Catch Jap Ships at Anchor

ENEMY SHIPPING BLASTED BY WARSHIPS AT WOLEAI AND YAP; SUBS -CLAIM 14 MORE VESSELS   Knox Doubts Nip Claims Of Attack On American Task Force; Allied Infantry Reports New Gains In Drive Thru Burma

American Task Force Drives Deep Into Nippon Territory In Palau Attack; Enemy-Held Manilla Has Air Ratd Alarm

3 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED, 1 NEAR PALAU; YANK SUBS BAG 14 VESSELS

Daring Raid fn Deen Carolines  Made By Yanks   Fourteen More Ships Sunk In Submarine Campaign; Planes Also Take Part

NAVAL OFFENSE GOES DEEP INTO ENEMY WATERS   More Atolls Captured and Nips Battered by Allied Jungle Fighters

American Task Force Attacks Palau, Woleai And Yap, Secretary Of Navy Knox Reports

U.S. Navy Sinks Al} Jap Ships Anchored At Palau; Submarines Sink 14 More

14 PAGES   ALL JAF OMIT O IN ANCHORAGE ARE HIT   Tokyo Claims 2 American Cruisers Destroyed   Get 14 More Nip Vessels; Speculate On Air Raid Alert In Manila

DISCLOSURE OF NEW ATTACKS MADE BY KNOX   Woleai and Yap Undergo  Shelling: U. S. Submarines Boost Toll

Secretary Unable To Estimate Number of Japanese Warships in Ports; Costs U.S. 27 Airplanes

American Warships Penetrate Deep Into Nippon Terri: tory in Western Carolines to Sink All Ships Caught at Anchorage.   Further Jap Reverses Announced  With Subs Sinking Fourteen Ships

U.S. Warships Hit Woleai to East, Yap to Northeast   Sink All Jap Ships Caught at Anchorage In Attack on Palau

Yap And Woleat liitc Too   ili Ships at Anchorage ire Sunk Or Damaged

Yap, Woleal. Also Hit’ in Palau Das  7 American ‘Planes Lost but First Reports List No Ship Damage  SYD Pp oe MTN   SUBS GET 14 SHIPS   Another Batch of Enemy Cargo Carriers Credited to Submersibles

[AMERICAN WARSHIPS  DESTROY ALL ENEMY  SHIPS AT ANCHORAGE PALAU, WOLEAI AND YAP  ATTACKED BY BIG U. S. NAVAL UNIT

Tokyo Claims Task Force He: wily Damaged, But Knox Says “No”   (.arolines Action (Continues 3 Davs   Navy Also Announces Sinking OF LL More Enemy Ships In Pacifie

Yanks Beat Up Ja aps at Palau   ep f8  at ‘Anchor ji in ‘Carolines.   Navy Reports 14 More Jap Vessels Downed “by American: ‘Subs; Japs Make Brash: Claims of Destruction to Task: Force; ‘Two:  ‘More Islands Fall in’ “Admiralties

Jap Ships Caught In Anchorages Sunk or Damaged   Tokio Broadcasts Large Claims; Subs Mark Up 14 More

Sink, Damage Jap Ships at Anchorage   One Jap Warship Sunk Near Palau, Two  Near Woieai

NO ESTIMATE AVAILABLE AS YET BUT ALL SHIPS IN HARBORS AT PALAU, YAP AND OTHERS SUNK:   Secretary Knox Reveals Operations During Past Few Days by American Naval and Air Fleet Deep In Japanese Territory with Disastrous Results to  r Noi annrinea

Yap and. Woleai_as Well 'as Palau” -Raided—Enemy Claims: Us 8. “Warships: Sunk; Planes Downed:

Yanks Wreak Heavy Loss In Caroline Raid   Knox Says All Jap Vessels At Palav, Woleai, Yap  Sunk, Damaged.   SUBS SINK 14: SHIPS

Several Nipponese Ships Are Blasted at Anchorage During Raids on Pacific Islands.   AERIAL ALARM GIVEN IN THE PHILIPPINES

Patriots Praised By Paratrooper Who Went 15 Days Before Invasion

May Lauds New Selective Service Order   Castigates Acency Over Failure to Act Previously

Alsace Kids Speak German Uncover Program To Germanize French Town

WAR STRATEGY INQUIRY ASKEL   Over-Ruling Of Militar Leaders Is Charged

DEWEY DELEGATES MAY ENTER RACI   Governor's Consent No Needed in Wisconsin

Americans In Advance At Cassino   Early Capture of Importan' Point on Road to Rome  Seems Likely

FrontBlow 3 On Stronghold  Scheduled   NEW WINTER CAMPAIGN I8 PUSHED BY REDS IN NORTH.

German Fleet Scuttled, Hint  Vessels Destroyed In Bay Of Biscay, Claim

Nazis Scuttle Fleet in Bay of Biscay   Decide Not to Risk Perilous Trip Through Channel

PART OF GERMAN ‘FLEET IS SCUTTLED   Torpedo Boats, Light U-boats and Other Vessels in Southwest . France Sunk by Crews.

CREWS SCUTTLE GERMAN FLEET   Naval, Merchant Craft Are Sunk In Bay Of Biscay

NAZIS SCUTTLE FLEET ON COAST OF BISCAY BAY   Light Vésselg From Bordeaux Sunk Few Miles At Sea

Germans Scuttle Warships, Freighters Off South France   Persons on Spanish Shore Watch Light Naval Craft and Merchant Vessels Being Sunk

BRITISH BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   NAZIS REPORT NIGHT RAIDERS HEADED TOWARD COLOGNE AND DUSSELDORF,

Based iders Hit yon Yards   » point for Nazi ves in Southern * me Attacked  Ry Bombers

British-Buseed Bombers Strike Again At Vital Installations At  Many Points In Mitler’s  Europe. Planes From Haly Blast Railyards Al Lyon and At Nice

Rail Yards ~ At Lyon Take Heavy Blows   35,000 Tons of Bombs Unloaded During Weel Qn Fortress Europe  TOSS RATIO SMALL

Warships With Hundreds of Carrier Planes Bomb and Shell Japan’s Mighty Base in Carolines

Japan's Mighty Naval Base Hit By U. 5. Forces   Pacific Fleet May Be Participating In Great Battle

Nimiiz Says Details Not Received   Assault Involves Great Risk for U.S. Fleet

Allies Tighten Their Blockade  Hull Prepares Foreign Policy Speech

HULL TO REVIEW FOREIGN POLICY   Detailed Discussion Of Program Is Expected

U.8.5. MISSOURI, GIANT WARSHIP, ~ LAUNCHED TODAY   Mary M. Truman Christen: Tremendous Battlewagon at Brooklyn

Huge Battleship Sent Into Water   Gigantic Hull Of U. 8. S Missouri, Mightiest Battleship Ever Built, Launched   WORK ON SHIP NINE MONTHS UNDER TIME

URGES LABOR 10 WORK IN CAMPAIGN   Hillman Says Union Can Be Decisive Factér in Elaction.

Labor Urged To Campaign   Hillman Pleads for Greater Participation in Election Campaigns

RAID INVASION  COAST OF FRANCE   'Hundreds of Bombers Attack Pas de Calais Area and Gnome-Rhone Factory.

25 Atlanta Felons Hold Guards  In Prison Strike   Convicts Threaten to Kill 4 Hostages If Warden Employs Tear Gas; Prisoners Control Entire Building

Convicts Rebel at Nazi Cell Mates   4-Guards Seized as Hostages in Revolt

First Army Beyond Liege   Within Striking Distance Of German Front

ENCOUNTER MOUNTING NAZI RESISTANCE AS DRIVE CONTINUES.   Close 18-Mile Gap   U. S. First Army Sweeps Beyond Liege—Five Bridgeheads Across Moselle.

BRITISH TROOPS WIN TWO PORTS IN GREEK DRIVE   Take Rion, Entrance To Gulf Of Corinth, After Earlier Seizure Of Patrai

British Capture Port Of Rion In Greece   Enemy Battalions Surrender At Several Points

British Take  Port Of Rion In Offensive Against Hun   Patrai. In’ Greece Also: Captured ~

BRITISH TROOPS IN GREECE TAKE IMPORTANT CITY   Germans Captured At Patrai After Hard Fighting

HIT NAZI SHIPS WITH CAPTURED GERMAN GUNS   1,500 Prisoners Taken b English Forces at Patrai

Rion, Greek Port, Taken By British; Nazis Flee  Own Guns Turned  ce, Bow 2. Clan nde   Own Guns Turned On Enemy Seeking To Eseape By Sea; Fighting In Albania

British Drive Ahead in Greece   Rion, Guarding Gulf Of Corinth Entrance, Overwhelmed

Allies. Vanquish Fortified Port On Cor inth Gull   Strike ‘Along: North ‘Shore Of -The Pelopontesus .. Fram ‘Captured “Patrai

British Forge Ahead In Greece   Capture Fortified Port, Many Nazis Surrender

YANKS CAPTURE LE HAYE, DRIVE TOWARD ST. LO   Concentrated Air Attack Clears Nazis For Tommies In Caen

Yanks Start Offensive © Along Vire   And La Haye   ‘Nazi’ Eastern Pivot ‘Is Drive Objective.

British Second Army Patrols Penetrate  To Dacks of Caen, Headquarters Says

British Reach Docks of Caen; Battle Rages   Bradley's Troops Open New Offensive Across River Eost of La Haye

Americans In New Attack Over Vire River; Report La Haye Taken By Yanks

BRITISH TROOPS ON CAEN DOCKS: BEGIN NEW PUSH   Germans Remain In City Today Despite Odds

Report La Haye Taken; British At Caen Docks   Offensive Threatens Enemy's Flank In Western France

Jap Guess Is Wrong Again      MacArthur’s Landing On Morotai Fools the Enemy Who Expected Attack. On' Halmahera

GEN. MAG ARTHUR LANDED ON MGROTAI - _JSLAND «TODAY   His Invasion Forces Virtually Were Unopposed in Their Landing.   WAS A 300-MILE STRIDE   Troops Traveled From Dutch New Guinea. Toward His Big Objective.

U.S. Forees  Invade Vorotai   Landings Place Yanks Only 300 Miles From Philippine Islands

MacArthur Landing On Morotai VirtuallyUnopposed   Move Isolates 200,000 : Jap Troops; New Air Races Forthcoming

MacArthur In Surprise Move On Morofai   Passes Up Halmahera Grabs Northernmost Of Molucca Island Group In Bia Push

Japs Caught By Surprise At Morotai   MacArthur Invading Forces Virtually Are Unopposed

Beachheads Established: Philippines Only 300 Miles From MacArthur's Troops

MACARTHUR IS IS NOW GN WAY TC PHILIPPINES   Lands On Morotai Islands During Invasion

Invasion Forces Land on Small Morotai Island  Virtually Unopposed

Wrong Guess Costs Japs Tiny Island   MacArthur. Seizes Morotai On Road Back To Manila

Yanks Take Morotai Island,.300 Miles Of Philippines,;By Surprise and Sweep Ashore’ With  Tittle Onnacitinn

Yanks Take Morotai Island, 300 Miles Of Phil: ippines,By Surprise and Sweep Ashore With Little Opposition.

JAPS CAUGHT IN SURPRISE BY MOROTAI ACTION   McArthur Says Last Point Barring Way To Philippines Dominated

Fifth Warship Damaged As American Airmen Meet Nin Convoy Near Biak; 5 Enemy Planes Downed

Bombers Trap 7 In Day Raid   Only Two Escape From Air-Sea Engagement Off West  Dutch New Guinea.

BOMBERS SINK 4 DESTROYERS OF JAP FORCE   Fifth Damaged In New Attack Off Dutch New Guinea

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4 Nip Destroyers Sunk, Fifth Hit By U.S. Bombers   Yanks Catch Enemy In Geelvink Bay, West Dutch Guinea

FOUR JAPANESE DESTROYERS SUNK OFF NEW GUINE!   Fifth Damaged, Two Other ' Enemy Warships Put to Flight by American Rombers.   YANKS DOWN 5 PLANES, LOSE 3 IN FIGHT   Nipponese Task Force Attacked While Trying to Reinforce Beleaguered  Biak Garrison.

Four Jap: Destroyers Sent _ ~ Down By Allied Bombers   Fifth Vessel Damaged in Attack Off Manokwari Dutch New Guinea, General MacArthur Reports

Four Japanese Destroyers  Sunk by Bombs   Enemy Attempt to Reinforce Garrison at Biak Broken Up

FOUR DESTROYERS i  BY YANKEES NEW GUINEA   grect Hits of 1000-pound fends Send Enemy Warehing to Bottom.

[Four Jap Destroyers Sunk And Fifth Is Damaged By Liberators Off New Guinea    Cruiser And Sixth Destroyer Flee After Failing To Rein force Biak Garrison; Strong Interception { Encountered Over Truk

U.S. BOMBERS MAKE ATTACK   Sink or Damage Five Destroyers in Fourth Attack in Six Days on Enemy Naval-Vessels Off Northwestern Dutch New Guinca,

Fifth Enemy Warship Is Damaqed   Five Nip Planes Are Downed: Three Planes Lost

JAMAGE FIFTH N MAST - HIGH AYLIGHT RAIL      core Direct Hits By 1000-Pound Bombs

Five Destroyers Sunk Or Damage By Allied Planes   Japanese. Task Force Intercepted Off Coast of Dutch New Guinea

rour Japanese Destroyers Sunk By Allied Airmen  Fifth Warship Damage   Fifth Warship Damaged As Reinforcements  For Biak Are Routed

Four Japanese Ships Are Sunk Off Manokwari   ’ Allied Planes Damage Fifth Destroyer as  Two Other Ships Flee

Bombs Sink Five  Jap Destroyers Attack Occurs Off  f, oe  er t a

Nazi Flight In Mid-Italy Grows Wild   Allied. Forces Chase Disorganized Enemy AQ Miles Post Ramee

FOUR ALLIED ARMIES IN HOT PURSUIT OF FLEEING NAZIS; POPE RECEIVES AMERICAN COMMANDER

German Retreat In Italy Rapidly Becoming Rout.   Four Allied Columns Push 15 To 40 Miles Beyond City of Rome

Nazi Italian Retreat Turns  Into Rout —       ics Plunge “40 ey Miles Above Rome, Sweeping Un Enemy

LIES CONTINUE CHASE IVITALY TO GET GERMANS   Enemy. Defenses,’ Including Hidden Fuel Depot Behind Invasion Coast, Bombed   By Raiders.   U. $. FORCES OVERCOME “JAPANESE AT MOKMER   German Radio Says Russians Have Launched Assault on Broad Front at lasi, Fierce Fighting.

KEY TOWN CAPTURED IN ADVANCE   German Units Thrown Into Disorganized Rout Up Coast

NAZI RETREAT. INITALY = BECOMES ROUT   Allies Pursue Them 15 to 40 Miles Beyond Rome

NAZI RETREAT NORTH OF ROME BECOMING RQUT      Four Powerful Allied Armies Now Sweeping Far North Of Eternal City

Allies in 40-Mile Italy Gain   Beaten Nazis Blast Highways, Bridges in Rout, Hit by Planes

Four Allied Columns Rout N azis   Low-Flying Planes Machine-Gun Fleeing Enemy; Blast Supply Lines

Nazi Retreat In Italy Becoming Disorganized Rout   Headiong Pursuit of Beaten German 14th Army Reaches 40 Miles Beyond Rome, . Dispatches Say

NAZIS FLEE IN DISORDER ABOVE ROME   Retreat Rapidly Degeneratiiig Into a Rout

FOUR COLUMNS CHASING NAZIS BEYOND ROME   Fleeing Germans Burning Bridges, hing Else Behind Them

Four Armies Chase Nazis Above Rome   Germans Put Torch To Italian Towns To Slow Pursuit.

Nazis Disorganized in Retreat North of Rome   ‘By ROBERT VERMILLION Tintted Peeace Coarrecnnndent

NAZI RETREAT FROM ROME IS DEGENERATING   Allies Sweep 40 Miles North of City in  Pursuit of Foe

Allied Columns 15 to 40 Miles Beyond Rome   Enemy Reported to Be Putting Torch To Everything

Retreat From Rome is Be coming Rout as Fifth Army Presses Fleeing Germans Back.

Allies Sweep 46 Miles Past Rome   Nazis Burn All in Retreat te North

Allied Forees Sweep North  MN sce I ae ee EUL FITCH   Four Columns in Pursuit of Fleeing German 14th Army

Allied Columns Pushing Far. Beyond Rome   Nazi Retreat Degenerates Into Disorganized Rout

LEYTE BATTLE HALTED BY RAIN   RAID ON LUZON SINKS 25 JAP VESSELS

25 More Jap Vessels Lost Near Luzon   Ground Activities In Philippines Halted by Rains

NO RESISTANCE LEFT IN GITY   Thousands of Insurgents Cross Vistula to Russian  linac.   CITY GREATLY DAMAGED

63-Day Battle In Warsaw Ends Without Relief   City ls Destroyed Like Stalingrad, Escaped Officer Says

Polish Force Gives Up In Warsaw   General Bor Believed Within City; Red Army Is Across River

REDS PREPARE 0 STRIKE BALKANS, BALTIC CLEAR   Soviets Gather Strength In Temporary Lull In Fighting

Resistance Of Warsaw Poles Ended   Moscow Indicates Patriots Have Been  . Crushed, Situation Apparently Confusec

Patriots Lose Heroic Battle te Take Warsaw   General Bor, Polish Commander-in-Chief, Gives Up Fight for Polish Capital

MERCY TRUCE ENDS BATTLE FOR CAPITAL   Russian Forces Still in Praga, Industrial Suburb, Separated From Main City by Vistula   WILL REMOVE CIVILIANS

General Bor Ends Fight In Warsaw   Underground Resistance In Polish Capital Ends After Struggle Of 63 Days

CITY INRUINS, UNDERGROUND OFFICER SAYS   All Supplies Exhausted In Struggle, General Says in Report

City Reported By Germans To Be Destroyed   Russians Move To Bring About End Of Hungary

POLES GIVE UP FIGHT TO TAKE ~ CAPITAL CITY      Resistance Forces Ir Warsaw Quit Struggle Against Nazis

Polish Patriots Give Up Their Fight Inside Warsaw  General Bor Forced to Capitulate; Reds Gather Strength for Big Blow

63-DAY FIGHT WITH NAZIS AT AN END   Escaped Officer, How ever, Says Thousands of Poles Defy Surrender Orders and Flee to the Gaviet Lines.

CAPITULATION REPORTED BY GEN. BOR   Vistula Still Separates Poles From Soviets   TiT0’S MEN   Join Russians For March On Belgrade: Landings Made On Hiiu Island

All Supplies Exhausted in 63-Day Fight   y City Reported as Greatiy Ruined as Stalingrad; No Word on Bor   BOTH RUSSIA AND , NAZIS SOUGHT HIM   Russian Forces Are in Praga Industrial Suburb of Polish Capital

General Bor 's Troops Forced Into Surrender  Report Some Troop:   Report Some Troops Escaping To Assist Reds; Fate Of Chief Sell lc Unknown

Great Capital In Ruins; ‘Gen. Bor’ Missing   Gallant 63-Day Stand Too Much for Poles; Some Join Russians

RESISTANCE IN WARSAW HAS ENDED   Gen. Bor Announces Af. ter 63-Day Struggle: City Destroyed Like Stalingrad.   250,000 Slain

Battling In City Ends In Nazis Triumph   Russians Unable To Get Across Vistula To Lend Aid

PATRIOTS FORCE SURRENDERS IN BATTERED CITY   Meanwhile, Indications Are That Russians Getting Set for Big Assault

Attempt To Take City - From Germans Ends  After 63-Day Clash   Patriots, Escaping Across Vistula To Join Russians,  Declare Capital Is As Greatly Destroyed As Qtolingrad +

Gen. Bor Forced To  Surrender   Destruction At Capital Of Poland As Grea As Stalingrad, Says Escaped Officer

POLES YIELD IN STRUGGLE FOR WARSAY   City Almost Complete ly Destroyed in 63-Day Fight

POLISH PATRIOTS GIVE UP FIGHT TO RETAKEWARSAW   THOUSANDS CROSS VISTULA RIVER TO JOIN SOVIET ARMY

CAPITAL IS REPORTED DESTROYED   63-Day Struggle Ends » As Gen. Bor Orders Firing To Cease

POLISH FORCES GIVE UP FIGHT AFTER 63 DAYS   Capital Comp!etely Destroyed, Thousands Defy Orders

Warsaw Poles Quit Fighting, Supplies Gone   City a Shambles Like Stalingrad, Says Pole Who Reached Red Line:

Poles Within Warsaw Quit Long Struggle   Gen. Bor Confirms Report That Battle Has Been Abandoned

-RUSSIAN FRONT—  Warsaw Patriots Give Up   Bor’s Forces Surrender; Capital Almost Razed

AESIOT ANGE IN CITY (9 HALTED   Ends After 63-day Struggle With German Forces   WARSAW A SHAMBLES   City Said Almost Completely Destroyed; Thousands of Poles Join Reds

PATRIOTS GIVE UP FIGHT AT WARSAW   Many Flee to Red Lines Across the Vistula; Fate of Bor Unknown

Polish Forces Quit At Warsaw  Germans Remain In Possession   Germans Remain In Possession Of Battered Capital, London Says

Poles’ Battle for Warsaw Ends With - Capital in Ruin:   ‘Patriots Inside City Cease Fighting Occupying Germans

SOVIET FORCES ARE IN PRAGA CITY'S SUBURB   Whereabouts of Gen: Komorowski (Bor) Not Revealed in Dispatches

OLES GIVE UP FIGHT TO SAVE WARSAW   Besieged and Battered Capital Is Still In German Possession

OT AUBBLE FOR TORN CITY 3 FINALLY OVER   Komorowski Confirms Reports Despite Claims of a . “Mercy Truce.”

POLISH PATRIOTS ABANDONED BATTLE INSIDE OF WARSAW   THOUSANDS INSURGENTS DEFY SURRENDER ORDER AND MAKE ESCAPE

Warsaw Poles Halt Struggle   City Reported Destroyed By 2?-Months Battle

POLES GIVE UP TO GERMANS IN POLISH CAPITAL   Ends Battle by Patriots to Recapture Warsaw From Nazis

Polish Resistance  Forces in Warsaw  Give Up Struggle Gen. Ber's Anncuncoment City Mas Fallen Confirms Berlis and Mescew Reperis

Polish Patriots Give Up 63-Day Warsaw Battle   City as Greatly Destroyed as Stalingrad, Officer Savs

FIGHTENDSIN WARSAW BY POLISH FORCI      Battle Abandoned by Patriots After 63 Days

POLES CEASE STRUGGLE TO TAKE WARSAW   Patriots Surrender To ‘Nazis As Position Becomes Hopeless

Poles Give Up Warsaw to German Forees   Dispute Between Polish Groups Is Intensified By Earlier Reports

Abandon Battle To Wrest Capital From Nazi Forces   Exhausted Supplies Cause Collapse Of Defense Inside Battered City

Patriots Give Up  In Warsaw   Hopeless Fight Ends: With Russian Forces Still Across River’ — From Rattered Citv

Polish Forces In Warsaw End Their Resistance   Moscow Says Polish Capital as Greatly Ruined as Stalingrad

Fight To Wrest City From Huns Has Collapsed   Terse Communique From ' Gen. Tadeusz. (Bor) -Koimorowski, Said ““Warpaw Has Failen”   Russian Forces  In Nearby Praga   Reds Driving On Belgrade; Lull Marks Other Fronts . »-OF Soviet Armies’ -t- Offensive

POLE PATRIOTS QUIT BATTLE T0 SEIZE WARSAW   Thousands Cross Vistula To Russian Lines, Defying Surrender Orders

WARSAW FAL TO NAZIS AFTER ~ 3-DAY BATTLE   Polish Patriots, Food and Ammunition Exhausted, Cease Resistance Inside Capital.   THOUSANDS KILLED DURING ENGAGEMENT   Fate of General Bor, Who Led Insurgents, Uncertain— City Destroyed by Shell Fire.

Hitler Refuses Surrender  for Trapped 175,000 Nazis;  Reds Grinding Them Up Great Red Offensive Hits New Peak  Tk te a eK NY Ad neko —— Sriatiete

Reds Near Final Victory In Clash On Ukraine Front   Five. More. Divisions Being Enveloped In Lightning Assaults,

Russians Try To Annihilate 175,000 Men   Three Mammoth Offensives Rolling Toward Germany

Reds Trap More Nazi Divisions  Five Enemy Units   Five Enemy Units Caught at Dniepe: Bend as 10 Others Face Annihilation

Men Up to 38 Will Continue To Be Inducted, Col. Stanwood Asserts

TO CONTINUE CALL OF MEN UP T0 38   State Draft Director Tells of Plans for inductions'

MEN TO 38 MAY YET BE GALLED   Most Inductees Will Com From Under 26 Group  Director Says

New Gable Shows Up in Hollywood  Reluctantly Leaves Forest Binesig itr  nmrovne

Parties to Name State Delegates At Helena Meet   Whetstone, Maddox, Senator Tom.Burke Arrive in Capital

PROGRESS ON ~ VETERAN BILL   COMPROMISE SEEN BETWEEN HOUBE “AND SENATE ON’ - LENGTH OF UNEMPLOY° +. MENT BENEFITS. =~

Germans Practicing Atrocities as They Flee Across Belgium Toward Homeland

Fleeing Nazis Burn Villages, Slay Civilians   Most Of Atrocities Carried Out By Hitler's Elite SS

Ith Advance Eight Miles InFrance   German Resistance Crumbling on Both Cologne Plain Rims

Yank Ist Army Drives Through 7 German Towns   U.S. Seventh Is Two Miles From Rhine River

Seven German Towns Passed In First Army Drive   Seventh Slashes Ahead Through Pillboxes To Reach Seltz Near Rhine

FIRST ARMY TAKES SEVEN MORE TOWNS   Yanks Now Half Mile trom Roer River Fortress

Yanks in Half Mile  of Duren   Seventh Army Slashes Through Maginot Pillboxes to Seltz

ALLIED FORCES GAIN ON LONG WESTERN FRONT   Near Last River Barriers

ALL ELEMENTS OF ALLIES IN CONSOLIDATION   Partisans Battle Germans in Town Along Swiss Frontier, Maquis Taking Full Control

SHIP SURVIVES 2 ASSAULTS   Bredeson of Decorah Is Critically Injured

ALLIED DRIVES WRECK HOPE FOR SOMME STAND   German Casualties Since D-Day 400,000; Yanks Now 83 Miles from Germany

‘AMIENS CAPTURED BY BRITISH IN DASHING SURGE UPON BELGIUM   GERMANS DECLARED BE PULLING OUT NORTHERN FRANCE AT TOP SPEED

Nazis Withdraw Hurriedly From North France   British Capture Amiens, Yanks Approach Belgium

Amiens Captured in Swift Drive Across the Somme; Yanks Push Into Argonne

DEMOCRAT LEADER NAMED FOR HOUSE      Patronage Committee Named By Galion Attorney

CIVILIAN ARMY OF BRITAIN-1S-ENDED   Home Guard,’ 2,000,000 Strong, Demobilized Sunday

CIVILIAN ARMY OF ‘BRITAIN: IS- ENDED   Home Guard, 2,000,000 Strong, Demobilized _—- Sunday

Big Stick Seen A Peace Guard   Marshall Says U. S. Powe:  Fag Yrnnraacesl Wart   2 Million Home Guards Demobilized by Britair

PAAAAANAAPAD AISA YS  Britain Demobilizes ; Courageous ‘Home Guar

HEMANS DECLARES . LIFE 1S THREATENED FOR GIVING EVIDENCE   State’s Star Graft Witness Says He Was Extortion Victim, Not Briber   ISSUES PRESS RELEASE

Defends His Position as  Lobbyist   Offered All the Money He Could Use if He “Would Clear Out?

OFFERED MONEY 10 ‘CLEAR OUT   Statement Says Its Because He Gave State’s Evidence In Probe.   WILL NOT CHANGE MIND

TOLD 10 LEAVE COUNTRY OR BE KILLED. CLAIM   ‘Attributes Threats On His  Life to Revelations   Of Slush Fund

2-TERM AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY OHIOAN   Jenkins Says It Wouldn't Keep FDR from Running

JAPS BELIEVED PREPARING FOR IMPHAL ATTACK   Enemy May Be Planning Desperate Steps To Halt Collapse Of  Invasion

All-Out Push By J apanese Is Expected   Dwindling Supplies Force Foe To Attack Or Abandon Campaign  ALLIES MAKE GAINS

Japs Prepare For All-Out. Imphal Push   Allies Say Enemy Must Attack Or Quit Burma Battle

ATTACK ON IMPHAL IS IMMINENT   Allies Believe, as Japanese Manpower and Supplies Decrease; Quick Move Necessary.   inflicting Casualties

Believe ELAS Force Checked  Most Dangerous Phase Past, British Opine

REPORT PEACE 10 DEPEND ON ELAS AMNESTY   Churchill Continues Firm on Control by Arms in Greece

FINLAND AWAITS MOSCOW REPLY   Clarification Of Soviet Peace Terms Asked In Helsinki

AERIAL SCOURGE RAVAGES NAZIS   Ploesti Oil Fields Are Pounded Again

Nazi Commander Admits Strain  ,' ? ee fy PU   Wants ‘Chivalrous’ Fighting Standards

DEWEY HAS RETURNED TO ALBANY   Will Give a 15-Minute Talk Tonight

ROOSEVELT BACK HOME AT HYDE PARK      Final Plea Is For Everyone  To Cast Ballot

Roosevelt to Urge Record Breaking Vote   Will Cast Ballot In Hyde Park Town Hall on Election Day

GAS EXPLOSION DEATH TOLL 114   Officials Expect Final Figure Near 200 Mark

“AT CLEVELAND         piarit hist GAs EXPLOSION STANDS” AT 114: AND’ 23 MCRE BODIES.IN RUINS

ORDNANCE DEPOT BLAST KILLS SIX   No Evidence of Sabotage, Plant Official Says

Six Killed In Ordnance Blast   Report No Sabotage In Explosion At Plant

BRITISH REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK ~ NEAR GARROGETO   Allied Airmen Destroy Fifty Enemy Planes in Aerial Battle

British Beat Off German Attack   Nazis Strike in Force At Beachhead on Italian Front

TEMPERATURES:   Fifth Army Girds For Rome Assault; ~ Foe Loses 50 Planes   British Troops Under Gen. Clark Repulse Furious German Counter-Attack 21  Miles South Of Italian Capital

Enemy Planes Are Downed In Great Air Fight   Germans Hit Back In Nettuno Area; Americans Advance

British Stop Nazi Drive At Nettuno   German Armored Trains Shell Allies From Near Rome

FINE HEL OFAVY BLOW   Over ©4 Planes Are Lost in Battle at . Beachhead

Lose 50 Planes in 24 Hours; Allied Wedge So Deep Rome Menaced; More Men, Supplies Ashore

Nazis Rushing Heavy Guns To Protect Rome   American Negro Air Squadron Shoots Down Eight Planes

British Whip German 10th Army Forces   50 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Single Day For Biggest Bag Of Italian Campaign

British Thrust Foes Back With  Heavy Losses   German Armored ‘Trains, Backed Up Almost to. Rome. Shell Allied  Troops to No Avail   Prisovers Taken:  Widen Bridgehcad   At Same Time Germans Suffer Greatest Air Defeat of Italian Campain; Lose 50 Planes

MORE THAN 93 NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN   Allies Victorious In Air Fight Over Beachhead   Taken By U. S. Fifth Army: American Units Under Heavy Shell Fire

Nazis Strike Fiercely at Beachhead   Enemy Loses 50 Planes Backing Tln Ground Assault

Furious Nazi Attack Hits Beachhead   British Repulse Drive To Break Allied Grip On Nettuno Area

ALLIES BAG FIFTY PLANES IN 24 HOURS   Furious Battle Rages At Anziate Way 21 Miles From Rome

Heavy German Armored Train: Backed Up To Rome To Shell Allies; Beachhead Is Widened   Fifty Enemy Planes Shot Down; Foe Musters 60-Ton Tanks; Italian Capital Menaced And Allied Troops Are Optimistic Of Vietary

Allies Widen. Beachhead in Rome Battle   American.Bombers Cripple Bases From Which ‘Enemy Raids Allied Shipping:      GERMANS SUFFER..* BIG. AIR DEFEAT.   Optimism Running. High: Among: Allied Troops; More: Men, Guns: Pouring’ In ’

Heavy Assault on Beachhead Turned Back by British With Tremendous Losses to Germans—Foe Battles Desperately to Keep Yanks From Rome.

STUNNING BLOW DEALT GERMANS IN SKY BATTLE   Allied Invasion Force Still Enlarging Beachhead as Squeeze Put on Enemy

British Beat Back Furious Nazi Attacks   Germans Lose at Least 50 Planes in 24-Hour Sky Battle Over Allied Italian Beachhead

Allies Smash New Nazi Push   GERMAN TENTH ARMY HURLED BACK BY BRITISH IN BATTLE NEAR CARROCETO; ENEMY SUFFERS GREATEST AIR DEFEAT AS 50 PLANES LOST

U. S. Bombers Hit South  French Coast   Furious German Attack on Allied Beachhead Positions Turned Back; Heavy Enemy Armored Trains Turn Guns on Americans

YANKS ASSUME INITIATIVE IN ITALIAN FIGHT   British Repulse Fierce Ger man Attack Below Rome

Germans Strike At Allied Lines   HEAVY COUNTER ATTACK REPULSED BY YANKS

RERMANS LOSE PLANES AS ATTLES RAGE   Tiger Tanks Assembled by Hitlerites on Fringe of Allied Territory —

British Beat Back Vicious Nazi Attack   At Same Time, Foe Suffers Greatest Air Defeat of the  lsealian Camnaian

NAZIS MUSTER 10TH ARMY IN ATTACKING ALLIED BEACHHEAL   British Parry Counter Blow 21 Miles South of Rome; Foot-hold Enlarged   LUFTWAFFE IS DEFEATED

Attack On Nettuno —     ‘Quickly Repulsed By British Forces   Germans Suffer. Greatest Aerial Defeat Of Italian. Campaign In Loss: 50 Planes In 24 ‘Hours.

GERMAN 10TH ARMY STRIKES BELOW ROME   Planes Support Blow at Nettuno Beachhead, but Enemy Loses 25 Craft, and Like Number in  Qnainthern Branca.

‘British Repel Attacks, Take More ' Than 100 Prisoners—Americans : Advance   ROME MENACED   Allied Warships Aid Troops by Shelling, at Least 2) Germar Planes Destroyed

GERMAN TENT ARMY STRIKES SOUTH OF ROME   Nazis Repulsed By Americans; Lose  Air Battle

New Victories Won in Italy  Counter-Attacks   Counter-Attacks Beaten Off; 50 Nozi Planes Downed

Fury Drives Fail To Get Beachheads   Nazis Suffer Their Greatest Defeat In Air Battle

Nazis Fail To Dent New Allied Line  ot      Counterattacks South of Rome Beaten Off With Heavy Lose   BIG AIR BATTLES   Germans Lose 50 Planes, Hight of Them Shot Down by Negro Pilots

GERMAN TENTH ARMY ATTACK REPULSED BY BRITISH AT NETTURNG  GERMANS SUFFERED   GERMANS SUFFERED AIR DEFEAT DURING PAST 24 HOURS

LOSE 50 PLANES IN BATTLE OVER FRANCE AND ITALY   BRITISH REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK ON NETTUNO BEACHHEAD

GERMAN 10TH ARMY STRUCK WITH FURY AT THE ALLIES   They Were Repulsed at the Nettuno Beachhead by British Forces.   SUFFERED AIR DEFEAT   Was the Worst in the Italian Campaign, Losing 50 Planes in 24 Hours.

—IT ALY—  Fail In Drive On Allied Beachhead; 50 Aircraft Lost   Waris In Desnerate Fight

War Bond Score   Planes Back Nazis In Furious Parry At New Beachhead

Heavy Nazi Attack Repulsed By British Near Carroceto  Wiehe: Be a. a amwrrree

GERMANS LOSE  MANY PLANES   At Least 50 Airships Are Lost in 24 Hours of Italian Sky Battle.

Nazis Attempt Counterattack But Repulsed   Germans Suffer Greatest Air Defeat: Lose 50 Planes In 24 Hours.   SOVIETS DRIVE ON

British Repel German Attack On Beachhead   Nazis Lose 50 Planes In One Day; Bases In South France Crippled.

Tiddim Lost  To Japanese   Allied Forward Base Below Imphal Seized

BRITISH FORCES GIVE UP BURMA FORWARD BASE   Position In Chin Hills of Burma, 100 Miles Below Imphal, Surrendered To Japan ese; Imphal Well Defended.

British Evacuate Tiddim Position In Burmese Hilk   Think Jap Jungle Parties Probe Deep Into India Over 200Mile Sector

British Surrender Tiddim, Base In  Burma To Japan   Invaders Press Deeper Into Indian Defenses

BRITISH LOSE TIDDIM TODAY TO JAPANESE   Imphal Strongly Defended; Army In Jungles

JAPS PROBE FAR INTO EAST INDIA   British Abandon Tiddim ir Burma Hills — Allied Forces in New Drive

Forward Base Of British in Burma Falls   Imphal Strongly Defended Reports Gen. Auchinleck

BRITISH QUIT "BASEIN BURMA   Tiddim Surrendered In Chin Hills Area

Tiddim Center In Chin Hill Given Up; Vital Manipur Communications Hit

Japs Capture Tiddin, India   Jap Jungle Parties Spread Over Front Of Nearly 200 Miles

Japs Take One Base In Burma   British Give Up Tiddin; Nips Also Reach Main Road From Imphal to Kohima

BRITISH SURRENDER  TIDDIM. IN BURMA,  AS ENEMY ADVANCES JAP JUNGLE TROOPS OVEF  200-MILE FRONT GRADTTATLY INVADING INDIA

British Surrender Tiddim, Their Base  in Hills of Burma   Japs Probe Deeper Into Jungles of East India; War News

British Retreat In Burma Battle   Quit Forward Base 10€ Miles From Imphal

BRITISH GIN PAT TIQDIN   Forces Surrender Forward Base in Chin Hills of Burma.   JAPS ON LONG FRONT

British Units Quit Tiddim In Burma   Surrender Forward Base— Japs Probing Steadily Deeper

BRITISH SURRENDER TIODIM   Japs Spread To Probe Deeper Into India

Nips Advance Into Eastern India Defense   Penetrate Main Communications of Vital Manipur  . Plain, Admiral Mount batten Announces   Imphal Defenses Reported Strong   Commander Auchinleck Says Jap Move Not Like  ly to Be of Major  Importance

Imphal Highway Cut As 4-Pronged Drive Nears India Bastion   Twin City of Kohima Also Periled; Allies Suffer Severe Sethacks as -Enemv Units Force Break-Throush

British Give Up Base in Burma   Tiddim Falls to Foe Who Also Cuts into Vital Indian Plain

BRITISH FORCES GIVE UP TIDDIM   Japanese Jungle Fighters Probe Deeper Into India’s Defenses

British Forces Give Up Imphal In Burma Hills   Jap . Jungle Parties ding Out On Fromt 200 iles  Long

British Lose Tiddim in Jap Advance   Enemy Forces Probinc Deeper Into East India Defenses

Tiddim Given Up By British  Burma Force:   Mountbatten Announces Japs Probe Deeper Into Inner Indian Defenses.   MINIMIZES DANGERS

BRITISH LOSE BASE IN BURMA   Tiddim, 100 Miles from Imphal, Lost As taps Drive Into India.

‘Japs Pushing Deeper Into India Front   Continue Advance on Imphal; Allied Troops Driving for Myitkyina

Japs Continue fo Advance on India Border   Jungle Parties’ “Penetrate Into Main Communications “of Manipur Plain.   IMPAL ‘REPORTED ‘STRONGLY “DEFENDED   Gen, Auchinleck Discloses “Enemy'Gains In Talk To India Lérislature °

SETBACKS IN BURMA, INDIA ARE REPORTED   British Surrender Forward Position. As Japs Gain In India

ALLIES SUFFER BURMA UPSET   British Surrender Forward _ Base of Tiddum to Japanese

British Surrender North Burma Base   Give Up Tiddim, Because Purpose of Allies Is to Attack, Not Merely Hold Points on the Map, Auchinleck Declares.

BRITISH FORCED TO SURRENDER BASE IN BURMA   Tiddim Falls to Japs, It Is Disclosed, But Imphal  Itself Is Strongly Nielannad

British Give up Chin Hills Base   Commander Announces Surrender of Tiddim— Minimizes Invasion

British, Greek Forces Enter City of Corinth   Report Liberation Of Peloponnesus Virtually Complete

All Ships Ordered Tc Seek Port   Special Parliament Meeting Today May Declare Break  With Hitler.

Native of Butte Back From Japanese Camp   Anker 3. Henningse! Declares

Native of Butte Back From Japanese Camp  Anker B. Henningser Declares Freedom Priceless

COLLETT IS PEN’S ‘LONELY OLD MAN   Convicted McCoy Family Slayer Has Had Only One Visitor

Collett Now ‘Lonely Old Man’   Condemned Triple-murderer Has Had But One Visitor, His Wife, As He Awaits Execution - Develops ‘Religious Streak’ in Death Row   Ry GWEN RIGGLE

ACADEMIC YEAR ENDS SATURDAY   Rev. Golden Thompson :T Give Baccalaureate Ad-  dress at W. U..C.:

Commencement  Week At Western  Union College Class of 35 To  Receive Diplomas And Certificates

Palisades Fire Brings Injuries  To Estimated 100   Third Major Fire In New York Area In Three Davs Ruins Amusement Park

New Irons at the Prices in 1942   One of First Consumer Durables to Reappear on the Market.

NAZIS ABANDON FLORENCE AREA   Withdraw North To Spare City, Officials Say

FLORENCE IN ALLIED HANDS   City Evacuated By Germans "  setae Rm  Commandos In Dares ing Raid

MacArihur's  Airmen Blas! Jap Bases   Biggest Smash Made In Madance Supply Area

Allied Bombers Raid Jap Bases In Madang Area   Big Supply Routes Heavily Alfacked

JAPANESE SUPPLY ROUTES ATTACKED   Allied Air Squadrons Roam Over a Wide  Area

JAPANESE BASES HEAVILY BOMBEI   ALLIES UNLOAD 168 TONS ON MADANG—EENDARI IN CELEBES BIT.

168 TONS BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON MADANG AIRBASE   Raid Is Expected To Ease Pressure Of Americans At Saidor   DAILY RAID STAGED ON RABAUL AIRDROMES

Former U. S. Senator J. L. Bristow Dies   Koanson Elected in 1909 Served Single Term; a Virginian Since Retirement

Short Program In Court * Yard At 11 O'clock Saturday.   STORES REMAINING OPEN

Lower World News Rates Could Pave Way fo Better Peace   Kent Cooper’ Says”: News Exchange: Stifled ‘By Censorship Also:

COOPER ADVOCATES REDUCTION PRESS RATES FOR NEWS  ASSOCIATED PRESS HEAD SAYS THIS WOULD STIMU

MORE LYNCHING REPORTS FROM BERLIN WIRES   Swede Paper Assails Violence Against U. S. Airnien

NEW WAR HARVEST CAMPAIGN IS SET   Recognition Certificates WII He (itv. en Combine and Corn Pleker Owners Who Participate

BOMBARDIERS TRAIN SIGHTS ON GROUNL   Life-sized Bomber Nose I: New Training Device

Turkish Break Not ‘Hopeless,’ Cairo Reports   Ottoman Dignitaries Hold Nazi Air Power Higher Than Allied Estimate

Turkey Retuses To Enter the War   Cairo Says Country Also Refuses to Grant Aerial Bases to the Allies.

TURKEY REFUSES TO HELP ALLIES   DEMANDS HUGE VOLUME OF WAR MATERIALS

Nothing Doing Turk Attitude   Won’t Enter War, Grant Bases Without Huge Supply of War Materials

Turkey Reported Opposed Outright To miles War  nly Gelive of Huge   Only Delivery ‘of Huge SUprIss Could Change  __Nation's Shiad

REPORT TURKS TO STAY OUT OF THE WAR   Cairo Sources Say Nation Also Has Refused to Grant Bases Without Material Which Cannot Be Supplied Now.

Turkey Reported Refusing Battle   Cairo Sources Say Demands Were High

Turks Refuse  To Cooperate   Cairo Sources Declare Turwey Demands Huge Shipment Of Materials

ALL GERMAN: INDUSTRIAL CENTERS ARE-NOW YUL-  _ NERABLE TO ATTACKS” BY ALLIED BOMBERS

EMPLOYED IN EXTENSION OF SHUTTLE RAIDS   New Fields Bring All Nazi Industry Under Allied Bombsights

Japs Lose Big Battle to B-29:  ‘Over Nasova       Many Nip Fighters Lost in Running Fight; Tokyo Nuisance Raid

JAPS GUT LOOSE ON SUPERFORTS   walt IN cLoupg FOR AMERICAN RAIDERS

‘Enemy Fighter Opposition To B-29’s Increase   Three Groups Attac’ Superforts In Latest Blast At Honshu Isle

Tough Fight Reported On ‘Nagoya Raid   Yanks Drive To Within 10 Miles of Escape Pork On Leyte.

United States Troops Land  in Asia Islands   Mopping Up Operations in Occupation of Mapia Group Completed: U. S. Losses in Philippines Total 5,691

JAP LOSSES ON LEYTE ISLAND EXCEED 45,000   U. S. Casualties 1,133 Killed, 126 Missing, 4,432 Wounded

FIGHTER PILOT FROM PIQUA TS LEADING AMERICAN AGE   CAPT. GENTILE NOW HAS 22 OF. FICIALLY CREDITED “RILLS" —FIVE CLAIMS PENDING

Ace Claims New Record   Ohio Flier May Have Topped All U.S. Marks

CLOSE GIANT — ALALF. CENTER  DPalaava tq MA ie “3   Release 139 Miami Beach Hotels

British Eighth Army Troops Forge Bridgehead Across Cosina River South Faenza

KONIGSBERG TARGET OF OFFENSIVE   Fighting Inside Belgrade Still Raving

Russians Kill or Capture 125,000 Nazis   Reds Are Within 43 Miles of Minsk, Reports Indicate

Tighten Pincers  On Minsk   Bobruisk Captured As Reds Close To Within 43 Miles Of Vital City.

All 6 Top State Dept. Nominees Approved Today   Committee Dwells On Policy of Dunn In Spain’s Civil War

Senate Committee -Approves Choice   Six State Department Nominations Get Okay

‘State Department Heads Are Okayed By Divided Vote ‘Committee Recommendations Go To Senate Friday —

DETROIT GIRL WORKERS 10 JOIN STRIKE   Ohio Unionists, Refusing to Go Back to Jobs,  , Appeal for Tie-Up Throughout Nation. '   WLB TO PUT CASE BEFORE ROOSEVELT   ‘Army Intervention 01 Presidential Appeal fo1 Uninterrupted Service Is Predicted.

CHURCHILL HINTS AT POSTWAR SECURITY ALLIED CONFERENCE   Will Make Statement On War Situation Thursday

Churchill Proposes United NationsSecurity Conference      Prime Minister On Return To England From Quebec Parley Reiterates War Criminals Will Not Be Permitted Sanctuary: Will Report To Commons Thursday

Churchill Hints Conference of  All United Nations   British Prime Minister Returns From Quebec Meeting With Roosevelt

Chinese Forced  Back at Kweilin   Jap Columns Launch Series of Attacks

Tobacco Prices Range To 44 Cents in Opening Sales Of Georgia, Florida Marts   Estimate First Day’s Sales Will Bring Average Of Around 4] Cents

GEORGIA TOBACCO AVERAGE OVER 40 CENTS LB. TODAY   Farmers Seemingly Well Pleased at First Day’s Average Prices

YANKS IN DUAL STRIKE CAPTURE CITY OF NICE   Riviera Resort Area Taken After Germans Reel Northward

GERMAN ARMY SENT REELING NORTHWARD INTO LYON TERRITORY   Battered Enemy Forces In Rhone Valley Sacrifice Huge Supplies In Des. perate Rear Guard Fighting.

YANKS CAPTURE NICE, DRIVE TOWARD LYON   Take French Resort City Unopposed; City Not Damaged

Capture The Resort City, Of Nice Today Without Opposition ’   NAZIS SACRIFICING MEN AND SUPPLIES   Enemy Activity Reported In The Alps, May Fight  To Block Passes

Yanks Take Nice; Nazis Break Out Of Trap in‘Rhone   Battered Germans ‘Reel Back Toward Vicinity of Lyon

RESORT CITY QF NICE IN U.S. HANDS   Battered Nazi Forces In Rhone Valley Suffer Heavily Under Pursuit.

NICE FALLS. TO AMER ICAN. ARMY TROOPS:   City Undamaged Except in Harbor Area

Nazi Remnants Reel Northward Into Lyon Area   Resort City of Nice On Mediterranean  Captured By Allies.

AMERICANS TAKE CITY © OF NICE   Pursue Remnants Of Nazi 19th Army Near Lyon

U.S. Troops Capture Niee   Allied Geachhead Within 12 Miles Of Italy Border As Resort Falls

Nice Is Captured Without Opposition   American Troops Strike Frem Both Ends Of Front In-Southern France.

YOF YOUN TAKEN FROM RIVER   Identify “Billy” Hunter, Drowning Victim, by Clothing, Ring

Recover Body Of Drowned Youth Near Riverside  Father And Son ' ‘Perish When _ Boat Is. Upset -

AUSTRALIANS TAKE TOWN IN MADANG AREA   Enter Bogadjim After Push Overland From  Base at Lae

5 Undecided Contests For.  U.S. Senate   Five Close Races Keep Size Of Demo ‘Majority In Doubt

CHICAGO ORDERS GAKG =ROUNDUP   Brother Of Capone Among Hoodilums Sought In Larkin Murder

Furious Battle Raging as  Nazis block Wav   Cologne and Dusseldorf, Standing at Gate of Ruhr Valley, Appear to Be Objectives in Largest of Three Main Allied Assaults

Americans Open Hard and Bitter Drive to Rhine   Hitler Holding Best Men Back

NDIAKA POSTWAR GOURGIL PLANS WORKS PROJECTS   Four Hundred Million Dollars Worth ef Public Works Needed in £iate

_ Four Hundred Million. ' Dollars Worth: cf Public. Works Needed in ctate

Nazi Diplomacy Hit By Soviet   Labor Journal Blasts Peace Attempts

REDS SEE PEACE EFFORTS 10 FAIL   Russian Trade Paper Claims Germans Active in Trying to Escane Complete Defeat

Soviet Paper Sees No Separate Peace   Nazi Diplomacy Doomed to Fail

SEE NAZI MOVE TO SPLIT ALLIES   Germans Use Peace Offers  Red Paper Claims

Separate Peace With Allies By Nazi Officials   Soviet Journal Predicts Failure Of All German Peace  Efforts.   PRAISES BOMBINGS

 Red Forces Strike Vigorously Into Shattered German Ranks:  No Separate Peace For Nazis

SHELP OF IN WRITING TING PEACE   mittee On t War Plans  red In House

American Fascism  Is Feared   Rayburn Says Peace Of Plenty Possible For Nation

Rayburn Warns Against Fascism   Urges Mayors To Aid In Post-War Planning

Central lowa Again Struck By Floodwaters   Rainfall Ranges Up To 6.51 Inches Recorded At Forest City.

Flood Waters Spread Over Central lowa   Forest City Registers 6.51 Inches of Rain; Rivers Overflow Banks

CENTRAL IOWA FLOODED AGAIN   Nearly Seven Inches of  Rain Reported

New Torrents of Rain Scourge Northern lowa   Precipitation Up To 6.5 Inches Is Forest City Record

Allied ‘Troops Fight to Eliminate Strong Nazi Position   Veteran Eighth Army Units in Italy Press Steadily Forward Around Florence in Face of Strong Resistance

INSPECTION OF SCHOOL BUSES BEING STUDIEL   Governor Trying To Fine Out. Whether State Can Enforce Checkups   SPECIFIC LAW PUTS BURDEN ON COUNTIES

JAP NAVY MAY BE FORCED 10 FINAL BATTLE   Naval Forces Too Weak to Give Adequate Protection to Shinpina   HEAVY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY ENEMY   Empire Defenses Wither~~ ing at Strategic -— Points

_-By John M. Hightower (4)   Japan’s Island Defenses Seen Witnermg-—  ‘Ty © Pacific Fleet Moves Bases Westward

Japan's Inland Empire Cracking   Lack of Transport Weakening Enemy

No Need for: MVA: Declare Congressmen   If Program Adopted, Reclamation Should Be Placed Firs?

CIVILIAN DRAFT PROSPECTS FADE WHEN SURVEY ON CAPITOL HILL SHOWS COMMITTEE OPPOSITION   Democrats Lay Plans for Renomination of President Roosevelt While Congress Worries With New Tax Bill, Soldier Vote, Mustering-out-pay and Subsidies at Start of Week

Allies Take 300,000 West Nazis  Statisticians Record Swollen Cantive

'‘Front-Line Men Beg for Shells   Eisenhower Sends 27 Veterans Home to Plead Spurt in Munitions

CIV SOUCTS SHES FOR POSTWAR. PLANS   Cards to Be Sent  ‘to Each Residence Asking Susgestions

GHY SULTS SUGGESTIONS FOR PUSTWAR PLANS   Cards to Be Sent to Each Residence Asking Su2gestions

General Outlook On War Duration   ROGER BABSON SEES NO CHANGE UNTIL WAR ENDS.

COURT FREES ~ TOM DORSEY   Also Dismisses Assault Charges Against Wife And Smiley

Dorsey Case Is Dismissed  Icaza Is Rearrested After Making Escape

DORSEY TRIAL ENDS SUDDENLY   Case Dismissed Because of Confusion - - leaza Jailed

Dorsey, Wife, Friend  Dismissed Of Charees   Judge Dismisses Assault Charges Growing Out Of *. Attack On Jon Hall: At Birthday Party, Brawl] Last August

President Leads Victory Prayer   ‘Lead Them Straight,’  Roosevelt Supplicates

FDR BESEECHES DIVINE HELP   Greatest Mass Prayer In World History

Tanks Wider °eleliu Grip; ink 7 Craft   Japanese Defentlers Herded Into Northern QneFaurth of Isie

Marines Resume Slow Advance On Peleliu Island   Japanese Attempt At Reinforcement Is Reported Smashed

Marines Gain in Bloody Palau Fightint   Three-Fourths of Peleliu Island Has Been Occupied

Americans Resume Peleliu Advance   7020 Japs Killed on Island up to Friday

MARINES WIN - MAJOR PART  OF PELELIC   7020 Japs Killed in Nine Days of Fighting

POPE SAYS VATICAN TO STAY NEUTRAL   Held Historic Press Reception  Last Night

3 Precedents Fall at Papal Audience, Informal Flash Photos Startle Pontif

INTRICACIES AND CAMOUFLAGE OF SIEGFRIED LINE PRESENT MANY IDIFFICULTIES TO ATTACKERS

STUDENT NURSE ” STRIKE BRIEF ONE   Federal Desertion Charge Inftuenoes Georgia Group 0

ODT Finally Makes It Official: Men And Women Have Basic Differences

ODT ANALYZES FEMALE MIND   Bulletin Admits Women Not Just ‘Small Men’

LEND-LEASE T0 BE CONTINUED   House Foreign Affairs Com mittee to Report Favorably On Plan's Extension

Danish Uprising Spreads Into _ Score of owns   Nazis Shut Off Food To Copenhagen; French Revolt Hampers Foes

Germans Admit Soviets At Banks of Wisla River   Preliminaries Begun  For Crossing To Flank City of Warsaw

AADIO GUNNER   Yesterday’s Battle Was Twice As Rough As Regensburg Raid.   ‘WAS HIS’ 13TH MISSION

Allied cunners tell of ‘rough’ Berlin raid   BY S. SGTS. EOWARD E. HUFFMAN AND REUBEN I. LEHTO.

SLAV PARTISANS  ABANDON JAJCE   Germans Threaten to En. velan Patriot Forres

Tito’s Forces Flee Capital as Nazis Gain   GERMANS THREATEN TO TRAP LARGE UNITS OF YUGOSLAV PARTISANS

Jugoslavs Flee Jajce Capital   Fear Breakthrough  of German Forces

Nazis Drive Yugoslavs From Capital   Germans Steadily Gaining Against Partisans

BULGARIA AND RUSSTA WIND UP BRIEF WAR   BIG PORT ON BLACK SEA NEAR TURKEY FALLS TO REDS

Soviets Now Only 80 Miles From Greece   Bulgarians Have 20 Divisions To Be Put In Action Against  Former Ally

RED ADVANCE SWEEPS NEAR TURK BORDER   Soviet Troops Ordered To Cease Firing in Bulgarian War

BULGARIA OUT OF WAR; REDS SEIZE BURGAS   New South Poland Of. fensive Aimed At Krakow

Soviets, 100 Miles Inside Bulgaria,  Announce Truce  Reds Only 30 Miles  From Turkey and 80  Miles From Greece

Reds Occupy. Bulgar Port. On Black Sea Near Turkey    End Of War With.  “Bulgaria Announced

FIVE-DAY-OLD WAR BETWEEN BULGARS AND RUSSIA ENDS   Reds Cease Operations Against Country—Occupy Port of Burgas 30 Miles From Turkey.   SOVIETS OPEN NEW _ DRIVE IN POLAND   Offensiye Aimed at Great Bastion of Krakow Guarding Invasion Path to German Silesia.

RUSSIA ENDS WAR WITH BULGARIA   Action Terminates One of Shortest Wars in History   OCCUPY BURGAS PORT   Bulgarians Said to Have 20 Divisions to Hurl Against Former Comrades

Burgas, Black Sea Port, Falls ToRed Troops   Russions End Their Wer With Bulgarians 3rd Ukrainian Army &0 Miles From Greece

Soviets Call Halt to War With Bulgars   Port as Moscow Gives t Sawn Weve? ahaa  es Take Big Black Sea

Russians Seize Black Sea Port Near Turk Line   Occupation of Burgas Made With Announcement That War Ageinst  Bulgaria is Ended

Reds Occupy Black Sea Port Of Burgas, 30 Miles From Turkey   Nazis In Greece Kace Entrapment   Berlin Says Soviets Begin New Offensive In Southern Poland

PORT OF BURGAS TAKEN 30 MILES FROM TURK LINE   One Of History’s Shortest Wars Ends; Soviets Deep In Transylvania

Russians Enter. Burgas Port, Only 30 Miles of Turkey  Strategic Occupation Also. Places. Them. .: 80 Miles From Goce,

Russians Occupy Port of Burgas In Balkan Sweep   Capture of Harbor Puts Red Army 80 Miles of Greece

REDS END WAR WITH BULGARS   Soviets Take Black Sea Port Of Burgos, 30 Miles From Turkey

Reds End War With Bulgaria   New Offensive Launched For Krakow In  South Poland

Krakow Goal Of New Drive   One Offensive in Poland Resumed; Reds Still Spreading Through Bulgaria

Soviets Hold Key to Cut Off Balkans   Reds Open Offensive On Krakow, Bastion of Silesia

Russians End War Against  Bulgarians   Red Army Holds Port Only 30 Miles From Frontier of Turkey

Russian Forces Within 30 Miles Of Turk Border   Soviets Occupy: Port Of Burgas In Drive Through Bulgaria

Tojo Opposes Axis Conference   Sees No Benefits, He Informs Diet

Four Strong Jap ‘Columns Closing  On Key Cities ©   90,000 Enemy Troops Reported Massing _ In Canton Sector

Major Battle For E. China Is Shaping Up   Japs Move Against Changsha, Changteh and Canton Strongholds

Jap Columns Close. In On  Chinese Cities   Threaten, Changsha, Canton, Changteh, And ‘Troops In. Eastern Area:

JAP FORCES CLOSING IN ON CHANGSHA   Chungking Says Jap Army Massing At Canton

A Jap Armies Pound China   Co-ordinated Drive Seeks to Clear East China, Take Railway

Jap Armies Threaten Tung Ting Citadels   Other Enemy Troops Reported Massing Around Cantm For Coordinated Drive

House Is Counted: Members Reject Roosevelt's Plea For Federal Ballot for Soldiers

House Rejects Roll Call on Soldier Vote   Action Called Setback To Administration's  Fight for Bill

Congressmen  Go on Record About Measure   Displays of Temper Mark Night Session  of Representatives

PRESIDENT’S DEMAND FOR ROLL CALL VOTE REJECTED BY HOUSE   ADVOCATES OF STATES RIGHTS BILL HELD UPPER HAND IN HOUSE

‘House Rejects Roll Call Vote On Bill for Soldier Ballot   Actior Represents Severe Setback To Backers of Unifarm Ticket for Servicemen.

House Kills Soldier Vote   State Rights Bill Is Only Chance Left

Soldier Vote Bill Blocked   “State's Rights’ Forces In House Prevent Roll Call Vote

“Will Not - Stand, Be Counted’   “House Refuses Roll Cali Vote on Soldier Ballot Legislation   “3EVERE SET-BACEK FOR ADMINISTRATION   Republicans Against Roll Call; Vote on Measure Likely Tomorrow

SENATORS CLASH OVER DELAY ON WAR BALLOT BIL!   Taft Charges Democrats it House Are Blocking

HOUSE VOTES “TO LEAVE SOLDIERS VOTE. WITH STATES   Acts Against Federal. Machinery on Roll Call Count Of 328 to 69   PREVIOUSLY REFUSED STAND UP, BE COUNTED   As President Suggested in Saying That Leaving Vote Responsibility to States a ‘Fraud’; Pointed Feeling Sprinfkles Long Session

Federal Ballot Given a Setback   House Refuses Roll Calf on Legislation For Uniformity in Soldier Voting

HOUSE REJECTS ROLL CALL ON SOLDIERS’ VOTE   _ Advocates of “States. ~ Rights” Get Upper *~  Hand as Debate Opens

House Turns Down FDR’s Soldier Vote   BEATING OF FEDERAL BALLOT ON ROLL CALL WORSE THAN ON TELLER COUNT EARLIER IN DAY. .   Stands For Count

FEDERAL BALLOT OPPONENTS KEEP ARGUMENT GOING   MOVE TO FORCE VOTE IN SENATE APPEARS LIKELY

PARTIES GLAGH ON VOTE BILL   Debate Responsibility for Delay of Vote on War Ballot Bill.   OPPOSE ROLL CALL VOTE

Federal Ballot Bill Is Beaten   House, 328 to 69, Backs State Soldier Voie

House Refuses   Roll Call Vote   President’s Suggestion Brushed Aside as Debate {5 Opencd on Service Ballot

House Refuses Roll Cali Vote   Decision Is Set-Back To Administration

New Verbal Clashes Over Soldiers Vote   Taft Blames Democrats for Delaying Action and Barkley Says Republicans Will Hold Up Vote Until 1972

Roil Call On Soldier Vote Bill Refused   Members Of House Turn Aside Request That They ‘Stand Up And Be Counted

House Leaves Soldier Vote Up to States   Rejects Federal Plan, Adopts ‘States’ Proposal On Rolk Call, 328 to 69

FDR VOTE MEASURE DEFEATEL   House Votes To Leave Soldier Balloting With The States

HOUSE REJECTS ARMY VOTE PLAN ~ BACKED BY EDR   ‘Turns Down Legislation, 215  to 164—Moves Toward  Passage of “States? ~ Rights” Measure.     TAFT COMPROMISE IS UP IN SENATE   ‘Test May Come Today—Ad_ ministration Trying to Save Some Sort of Federal Ballot Scheme.

HOUSE PASSES STATE BALLOT PLAN, 328-69   Federal : System for - Soldier Voting Is Defeated

House Balks On Roll Call   Setback Handed FederalBallot Forces; Decision Soon

FEDERAL VOTE BILL REJECTED   House Pushes Passage Of State Ballot For Armed Forces

House Ballot Gives States Vote Control   Roll Call Decides Soldier Issue by 328 to 69 Count

ROLL CALL BEATS FEDERAL BALLOT   Night Session in House Fav: ors State Hand inn

Lower Branch Votes T Leave Control in Hands Of States   ADMINISTRATION IS BEATEN 328 TO 69

House Refuses To “Stand Up And Be Counted’   233-160 Vote Rejects Roll Call On Federal Ballot

SLAYING OF THREE CONFESSED BY NEGRO   Navy Men ‘Aid Civilian Posse In Capture

BRITISH ELGHTH ARMY MOVES IN, NAZIS EVACUATE   German Military Spokesman Admits Allies Advance Up to 15 Miles, French Near + Hither Line.   FIFTH ARMY CONTACTS ° AT SEVERAL POSITIONS   Allies Learn From Prisoners That Next Defense Line Has Been Constructed in Three Months.

Allied Planes — Into Battle on Normandy Front   Bridges Leading to Nazi Lines Are Targets; Wide Raids Over the Continent

Clear Sky Sends Big Air Armada To Reich France   Support Of Ground Troops And Cutting Of Vital Nazi Fuel Supply, Aim

Bombers Blast Rails, Bridges  Targets Leading to Normandy Fron? Hit

Nazi Airfields Heavily Bombed   Eastern France Hit  By 750 Allied Planes

Bridges, Rail Yards Blasted   U. 8. Heavy Bomber Armada Strike Behind Normandy Front.

American Bombers In Heavy Force Hi Railways, Bridges  Italy-Based Airmen Strale Yugoslav Refinery, Others

70 U.S. PLANES — HIT RIVER BRIDGE!   Rejch Also Reported Under Attack As Weather Shows  Imnrovement

Belfort Hit. By Bombérs   River. Bridges, Rail Yards: Are Attacked.

Bombers Aid Land Attacks In Normandy   Raid Dozen River Bridges; Bomb Robot Supply Dump Near Rheims.   HIT FUEL SUPPLIES

Clear Skies Permit Full Use Of Overpowering Allied Air Power; Deliver Heavy Blows   Bridges Behind Normandy Front, Rail Yards, Robot Supply Dump Are Hit

Aerial Fleets Strike Hard As Weather Lifts   Give Heavy Support On Normandy Front, . AtTack Ow Plants In Ruhr And At Belgrade  . In Continuing Blows at Hitler’s Fuel Supply; 24 Planes Lost Over Ploesti.

U. S. Heavies Hurled Into French Fight   Bridges Leading To Normandy Battle Are Blasted

U. S. FLIERS BLAST NAZI AIRFIELDS   Oil Installations At Ploesti Are Also Attacked

GREATEST AIR ASSAULT SINCE D-DAY UNDERWAY WITH GREAT FORMATIONS OVER THE REICH   Attack by Americans Today Follows Heavy British Visitation Last Night. Planes Attacking from Both Britain and Italy Take in Many Targets

Reich fs Again Being Attacked By Yank Planes  Sweden Hinting At Bombing Of U. 5S.

BOMBERS BLAST FRENCH BRIDGES   Also Hit Railroad Yards And Flying Bomb Supply Dump

U. S. Bombers Blast Bridges In Their Raid:   Fifth Time in A Week Attack Made on Reich

—AFRIAL—   BRIDGES BLASTED AY 5. BOMBER!   Force Of 750 American Warplanes In Norman- dy Support Attack   WEATHER IMPROVES   Belfort Railroad Yards  And Rheims Also Bat- tered From Air

HEAVY BOMBING ON CONTINENT      Bridges, Railroad Yards, Robot Bomb Supply Dump Among Taraets.

U, S, BOMBERS BLAST SUPPLY DUMP-BRIDGES   Largest Scale Attack Since Invasion Day

BOMBERS POUND FRENCH BRIDGES   Attempt to Hamper Enemy Supply Movement

--ALLIED AIR WAR—~  750 Planes Hit France   U. 8S. Heavies Pound Belfort And Rheims

ROBOT SUPPLY DUMP BLASTED   U. S$. Heavies Also Hammer oat Rail Yards, Bridges In France

150 Bomber: Hit Bridges Behind Lines   Also Pound Flying Bomb Supply Dump Near Rennes

Bombers Hit Large Bridges   Up to 500 Fighter Plane: Escorted Four-Engined Bombers On Raid

Sky Clears and Planes Roar Qui   Air Cavalry in One of Big gest Actions Since the Invasion Started   RED PLANES ALSO ‘BOMB PRUSSIZ   Allied Air Fleets Give Support to Land Forces * in Normandy

BOMB BRIDGES IN NORMANDY   750 U. S. Planes Attack Dozen River Spans LeadPe ina:To Front

Up To 750 Heavies Protected By Fighters Bomb ‘Bridges     Rail Yards and Buzz-Bomt DPevots

Bombers Attack Many Targets   Normandy Bridges, Rail Yards, Flying Bomb Supply Dump Targets.

Fliers Bomb River Bridaes   Americans Make One Of Strongest’ Attacks Since Invasion Opened

GERMAN NORMANDY FRONT OBJECTIVES BLASTED BY HEAVIES  CLEAR SKIES GIVE ALLIEI AID tnpre CUANrPE aT

YANKS ATTACK BRIDGES LEADING TO NORMANDY   French Rails, Robot Ramps Also Under U. S. Air Assault

CONVICTS SPURN PLEA TO GIVE UP   25 Rule Five Floors, Hold Four Guards Hostage in Atlanta

CONVICTS HOLD FOUR HOSTAGES   PRISONERS AT FEDERAL PENI_ TENTIARY REFUSE TO SUR-: _ RENDER TO PRISON AUTHORITIES

BRICKER LEADING GOP SCRAMBLE TO PET WILLKIE AI   Ohio Governor to Intensify His Campaign After Titular Leader's Retirement.

Who Will Get Willkie’s Support? Republican  Leaders Argue Question

BRICKER FIRS IN 6.0. P. FELD   OHIO GOVERNOR TO INTENSIFY CAMPAIGN

Bricker Leads in GOP Race   Johnson, President C. of C. in U.S. Frojected as Possibl Dark Horse

BRICKER BIDS FOR WILLKIE FOLLOWING   Name of Eric Johnson Also  Comes to Front

Harder Campaign Plan Of Bricker   Ohio Governor First hl Seramble To Win ExWillkie Delegates

RAINFALL IS HEAVY   Traces of Snow Are Reported at Phillipsburg and Goodland

ENGLISH WRECK JAPS’ POSITIONS   Action Spearheads Allied Drive in Kohima Area of Eastern India

AAF Band Concert Each Sunday Afternon:  Civilians Invited to Hear Music in Theate:

Admn. Leaders Alarmed at Leftist Support   Fear Mounts from Radical Rally to  Ath Term Sunnort

Large Number Took Preinductior Kxam Saturday   Many Married Men Included In Latest Group Given Physicals From Gillespie.

1,000 BOMBERS HIT RHINELAND   Targets Around Mannheim, Mainz, Dusseldorf Pounded By Yanks

Mannheim, Mainz, Dusseldorf Targets Hit In Daylight Attacks By 1000 U. S. Bombers

NEWTON COUNTY OVER THE TOP   Quota of $585,000 Surpassed As Sales Mount to $593,804.50.

COUNTY'S LOAN QUOTA PASSED   Total of $19,964,000 Is Achieved on Eve of Close Of Four-week Campaign

GREENE AMONG FIRST IN STATE TO TOP QUOTA   First ‘E’ Honors Possible; Sales Mount To $1,979,916

Over The Top In Bond Drive   Chairman Hollyday Announces Goal Has Been Reached.

DESTROYERS ALSO POUND AT KAVIENG   Two Squadrons Dast Daringly Close, Escape Damage

American Warships, for First Time, ‘Pour Shells Into Jap Bases at Rabaul and Kavienc

Major Japan Bases Raided   Kavieng, Rabaul Get ‘Greetina’ Of Navy

FRIEND HAS FILED   Completes Formalities fo: Seeking G.O.P. Senate  Nomination

Babson Reports — On Conservatism   GOOD INVESTMENTS CHANGE WITH THE TIMES

Yanks Take Livorno   Nazis in City Manage to Effect Skillful Escape to North.

Navy Converts Rubber Uses To 75 Pet. Synthetic   Estiinated to‘ be 10% better than -achieved by industry of nation in veneral. 

NEW SHOE STAMP VALID NOV. 1ST   OPA SAYS NEW STAMP TO BE GOOD BUT DELAYS  STAMP DESIGNATION

Allies Complete Encirclement Of Big Naval Base Of Toulon  ADVANCE 60 MILES INLAND IN ONE DAY  The Enemy In This Area Is Perplexed And Stunned

Encirclement of Toulon’s Naval Base Completed   General Patch Says Stage Now Set For “Decisive” Victory

PATCH SPEEDS UP PUSH FROM FRENCH CORKS   Says Germans Stunned and in Full Retreat Except Along Sea.

U. S. Troops 6 Miles From Marseille   Stage Is Set for “Decisive Victory,” Says Patch   Aix Goes Wild Over Yanks Including Major From Adams

Allies Complete Encirclement of Nazis at Toulon  Patch Save Ria      Patch Says Big Victory Near in Southern France

DRIVE INLAND IN SERIES OF RAPID THRUSTS   Fast-breaking Advances Set Stage for Decisive Victory, Says Gen. Patch.

PATCH'S FORCES URGED ON FOR DECISIVE BLOW   U.S. Army In South Franc Neur Mar

Sage is Set For Decisive Victory: Patch   Says Enemy Is in Full Retreat Except For Coastal Forces

TOULON IS ENCIRCLED BY ALLIES   Gen. Patch Says Stage Set For Decisive Victory

Lightning Advance Heralds Decisive Invasion Victory   Unconfirmed Reports Put Toulon Under French Control

BIG NAVAL BASE AT TOULON HAS BEEN ENCIRCLED   Allied Forces Thrust Sixty Miles Inland, Nearing Marseitle

ENCIRCLED BY ALLIES   Allied Armies Also Only Eight Mi. from Marseille

YANKS PUSHING ON MARSEILLE, - 2 MILES AWAY   Allies 60 Miles Inland, Free 2,000 Sq. Miles Of South France

Steel Ring Encircles Toulon Base   Patch Proclaims ‘Decisive’ Victory Imminent In France

Whirlwind Advance Takes Gen. Patch 60 Miles Inland   ROME, (U.P) — Advanced AIllied patrols drove to within three miles of the outskirts of Marseille tonight.

Encirclement of Toulon Is Completed   Allies Within Eight Miles of  Marseille

ALLIED FORCES DRIVE 60 MILES INLAND IN SOUTH FRENCH PUSH   American Forces Drive Along Main Highway To Marseille.

STAGE SET FOR DECISIVE WIN, PATCH CLAIMS   Bridachead In Southern France Now Comprises 2,000 Square Miles

C. HH. Gallagher Is Named Director  of War Bond Drive   Civic Leader, Succeeding R, L, Ruhle, Urges Every Resident’ to Assist Campaign: Individual Invesimante Tl

RAF Skeeters Equipped With Heavy Guns for Attacks on Nazi U-Boats

INN PROPRIETORS — ~ WILL FACE CHARGE      Two Men Accused of Maintaining Disorderlv House

INN PROPRIETORS WILL FACE CHARGE   Two Men Accused of Maintaining Disorder- . ly House :

Official Box Scores: 934 Japanese Planes Destroyed In Air Battles in the Pacific

2 OTATES VOTE 10 BAN CLOSED SHOF   Proposal Adopted in Florida, Arkansas, Defeated in California.

Closed Union Shop Losing Two Votes   Florida, Arkansas Approving Amendments, Move Loses in California

AIR, SEA INVASION IS GREAT SUCCESS   Northwest France Fails To Put Up Stiff Opposition   ‘Parachute And Gliddermen Are Nine Miles Inland Now; Major Bridges Are Captured

Surge Inland In Appar  Drive Toward Paris;               ' Forces Fail To Halt

Troops Push 9 Milles Inland, Fight For Caen, Capture Vital Bridges

Allies Swiftly Sweep Inland   SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, (AP) —The allies landed in the Normandy-section-of northwest France early Tuesday and by evenina had smashed their wav inland on ¢

Take Beachheads In Giant Assault   4,000 Ships, Shielded By 11,000 Planes, Carry Troops Across Channel to Landings Along 100 Mile Front, Cherbourg to LeHavre.   PARATROOPS REPORTED IN BATTLE NEAR ROUEN

German Opposition Is. Unexpectedly Light; Paratroopers In Action

1000 Ships, Thousands of Landing Craft, 11,000 Planes Hurled Across Channel —Vital Bridges Seized Intact--Fighting at Caen 9 Miles From Coast--Paris Reports ‘Vicious’ Clash Near Rouen

Scant German Opposition Encountered In !nvasion Of Northwestern France   11,000 United Nations’ Planes Take Part in Opening Thrust; Dummy Parachutist s Explode

Unexpectedly Light Opposition Given By Nazis in France   Allied Forces Are Making Their Gains On Broad Front

Smashes Way tite European Fortress Along Broad Front   Gigantic Air and Sea Invasion Meets Slight Opposition: Losses Extremely Small

Allies Swarm Inland on 100-Mile Front From Cherbourg to Le Havre, Penetrate as Far as Rouen, 41 Miles Away, Nazis say. Battle Rages in Town of Caen.   H-HOUR 6A. M., JUNE 6 (11 P. M., CWT MON.)

4,000 Ships Carry Big Force American, Canadian, British Troops to French Beachheads   Greatest Offensive Ever Sent Against Hostile Shore Is Supported by Strong Fleet Units; Paratroops Landed Behind Enemy Lines

Opposition Surprisingly Slight in North France: Allied Casualties Small

Bridges Seized, Fighting in Caen; Thousands of Ships and 11,000 Planes Spearhead Drive; 100-Mile Front.

Surge Inland In Apparent Drive Toward Paris; Nazi  Forces Fail To Halt Push

11,000 Planes, 4,000 Ships Launch Gigantic Invasion Successfully; Opposition Proves Unexpectedly Light

11,000 Planes Protect 4.000 Troop Ships   Landings Take Place From Cherbourg To Le Havre; 100 Mile Front.   SEE HE AVY ~ FIGHTING

First Daily Whole Blood Shipment Arrives at Leyte   Rye RAT PH TEKATSORTH

GEN. MONTGOMERY SAYS.BATT OF NORTHWESTERN FRANCE ENDED IN GOMPLETE VICTO

North Franee Victory Won, Says General   10,000 Nazis Surrender In Day; Capital  wh. 2"...

ALLIED ARMIES BESIEGE PARIS FROM 3 SIDES   10,000 Nazis Surrender

End of War in Sight, Montgomery Declares   Allied Commander Hails ‘Terrific’ Destruction in Normandy Pocket

MONTGOMERY TELLS ARMY END OF WAR 1S IN SIGH]   Lauds Fighting Qualities of American and Other Allied Forces   Says German Armies Have Suffered Decisive Defeat In Northern France

Allied Chief Hails Great Nazi Defeat   10,000 Beaten Enemy _ Troops Surrender In Normandy.

End of European War In Sight, Says Montgomery   Allied Troops Lay Siege To Paris; Finish Off Seventh Army Survivors

HAILS VICTORY IN N. W. FRANCE   Monty: “Let's Finish Nazis in Record Time”

Monty Lauds Allied Troops   New Surprises Promised Nazis Fleeing in France

Steady Stream of Men and Armor Pouring Into Beachhead West of Paris; Nazi Troons Are Trapped in Pocket

End Of War In Sight, Says Montgomery To His Troops   Germans In France Have Suffered Definite, Decisive Defeat.He Says

Ground Forces Leader Make Statement as Armies Close Qn Paris from Three Sides

Says Victory ls Decisive In Normandy   10,000 Dazed Nazi Veterans Surrender Enmassce to Allies

BATTERED NAZI FORCES HERDED AGAINST SEINE   French Capital Rapidly Invested, Ecept From Fast

Allies Lay Siege to Paris From Three Sides   Finish Off Last Survivors of Nazi 7th Army

Parisians Rebel Behind. Gates; Thousands of Panicky Nazis Find Patton Has Cut off River Path

REBELLIOUS PARIS IS ISOLATED   Powerful American Tank Columns Menace Robot Bomb Bases.   BULLETIN

Allied Victory in France Has Been Decisive, Montgomery Tells Armies

Likes Blackjack For Killing Japs   Soldier Prefers Silent Methods

British Smash Nazi Shipping      Carrier-Based Navy Planes Score Hits On Ships, Installations In Norway. °

f. S.-MADE CRAFT ED IN ATTACKS HN NAZI SHIPPING   Hanes Connected With. British lame Fleet Scored in Raids Oli Norway

American, British Fliers Attack German Shipping  Shore Installations  In Norway Are Targets of Bombers

Talk Compromise In Polish Dispute   Exile Regime May Send Its Head to Russia

EXILED POLES ARE ~ BRAFTING PLANS   Lonely London Government Contemnicting Envoy for Moscow

irrange for such a service in each village at 7:30 P, M. No hymn books need be brought. Amana Church Society.

Disposiciones Sobre  El Racionamiento  RECORTE ESTE ARTICULO ¥ CONSERVELO

Americans Hack Way Closer To  Ormoc Fortress   Four Yank Divisions Tighten Siege Arc On Japanese Troops

YANKS PULLING NOOSE TIGHTER AROUND JAPS   Reduce Pocket On Leyte Holding 45,000 Enemy Troops

INFANTRY USES BAYONETS IN ORMOC BATTLE   Hacking Way Closer To Jap Stronghold On Leyte

CLOSING IN GN JAP POSITION   American Tanks and Bayonet  _ Wielding Infantry Hack Way Closer to Ormoc — Japanese Resistance Increasing Steadily.

Bavonet-Wielding Infantry Hacks Way Closer To Enemy Bastion  iniitaae i tetaianal inheaienilidinm tiie   Fighting Rivals That At Tarawa   Mnemy Resistance — Increases: Nimitz Tightens Blockade Against Leyte

AMERICANS ADVANCING ON ORMOC   U. S. Troops Tighten Siege Arc On 45,000 Japs

Yanks Hack Way Closer Ormoc Base   Savage Fighting Rages Near Port; Yanks Yield Hill

SIEGE CLAMP KROUND ORMOC DRAWN TIGHT   Enemy Resistance I: Increasing as U. S Forces Press In on Leyte.

Fight Toward Orme Against Strong Defense   Tanks And Infantry Are Tightening Siege Arc Around 45,000 Enemy Troops On Leyte

INFANTRY KND TANKS INCHING IN ON DRMOL   Enemy Resistance Increasing as Yanks Advance on 46-Mile Front.

Americans Hack Their. Way Closer To Jap Stronghold Of Ormoc In Bitter Fighting

‘ON LEYTE BUT YANKS PUSH ON   Tanks and Infantry Hack Three Mile Gain in Rough Jungle to Tighten Noose On Trapped 45,000.

45,000 Japs Pinned Along Leyte Coast   ‘Resistance Grows Mors Fierce; Yanks Sink 13 Destrovers

Yanks, Pushing To Ormoc, Encounter “Tarawa Fighting   Army, Navy Planes Keep Up Tight Blockade’ Of West Coast

Supertorts Hit 55 Jap War Plane:   One of Great Aerial Battles of Pacific Fought Above China

Great Battle in Air Revorted   Clash Over Kyushu and Occupied China

FORTS FIGHT BIG SKY BATTLE WITH JAPAN’S AIRMEN  Nips Make Claims Of Heavy U. S. Loss .

GIANT BOMBERS FIGHT ‘BIGGEST’ AERIAL BATTLE   B-29s Bag 55 Jap Planes But U. S. Losses Not Compiled

B-29’s Fight Greatest Air Battle of War   Japanese Gamble Dwindling Planes To Ward Off Blows

Every Unit Of Mediterranean Forces Swarms Into Ba Loaded With Explosives, F mentation Bombs   FIGHT RAGES WITH INCREASING Ft

Germany Hit For Sixth Straight Day In Row By Huge Allied Air Fleets.

Man Clubs fo Death Bear Which Leff Him for Dead After Ferocious Attack

Huge Animal Chibbed fo Death by Injured: Rancher — Animal Had Knocked Hint Down and Left Hin for Dead,

WOMAN SHOT IN CHICAGO HOTEL   Police Check On Confused Story Of Eyewitness

Jap Brutality Gives New Emphasis To Our Task  Governor Martin Says

Free French, U: Ss. Navy Warn Jap an Of Dire Days To Come.  In Contest Of Extermination

Charge Failure To Conserve Autos, Gas  Government Blasted For Waste

AS DROME USED   U. S. Bombers Now Use Tiny 'Islet’s Airfield to Harass Foe

Senate Delays 6 Appointments   Sen? Gulfey¥ “Seeks Missing Dinlomuatic Document

Clark Questions MacLeish About Poetry He Has Written and Clayton Is Asked About Cotton-Dealing Experiences— “Missing” Diplomatic Document Figures in Hearing— Action on Six Appointments Delayed by Committee.

STATE DEPARTMENT PARADE  Cotton, Poetry, Franco Report Worry Senators

Soviet Center 65-mi. From Axis Border; Left Within 37 Miles of Black Sea Port

6.0.P. Hones in 12 Border ‘line States   202 Votes There Could Swing 1948  Election Result

.0.P. SEES HO IN VOTE TOTALS   ANALYSIS OF ELECTION FIGURES KEYS 12 STATES

Final Count Gives FDR 53.14P.C.   FDR 25,429,583 TED 21,429,583 49,471,245 Cast

FINAL RETURNS NOV. ELECTION   BY LYLE ©. WILSON U. P. staff Correspondent

TOLEDO CLEANUP STARTED AFTER SUICIDE NOTE DECLARED VICTIM'S LOSSES  WERE. $20,600 °° +

SUICIDE BRINGS — GAMBLING RAID   Eight Arrested Near Toledo After Victim’s Note Tells of $29,200 Loss

Allied Destravere Sink German Submerinea   Yuaoslavs and Red>e Croce Danube

Roosevelt Signs Propaganda Bill   Relaxing Restrictions On News For Armed Forces.

From New Guinea To Northern Solomons Hit By U. S., Aussie Bombers

Aerial War Continuing   . Japanese Plastered In Pacific Bastions

AMERICAN FLYING FORTS RAID SOF!   Fifth Heavy Assault In Two Months Made On Capital

ALLIES ASSIST SLAV PATRIOTS WITH BIG RAIL   Forts Hit Italian Port, Main Supply Base Of Germans

ITALIAN PORT OF POLA ALSO BLASTED HARI   Flying Forts Strike at Main Sup ply Base of Germans Fighting Yugoslavian Partisans.

Sofia, Hit By ‘Forts’   Fifth Heavy Bomber Assault In Two Months ‘On Bulgarian Capital

FORTRESSES RAID SOFIA AGeaN: STH ARMY GAINS   Bulgarian Capital Hit Fifth Time; _Italy-Based Bombers Blast Pola Base

FORTRESSES HIT SOFIA, THE CAPITAL OF BULGARIA TODAY   A Heavy Force of Americar Ships Swept in About Noon.   FIFTH HEAVY ASSAULT   Raid Was Close Follow-Up to Yesterday’s First Announced Operation.

Big Bomber Attack On > Bulgaria   Eprtresses Blast Solia, Fol _ lowing Up Raid on Pola, d Big Support Port   ATTACKS SUPPORT YUGOSLAV FORCES   # also Upset Nazi Moves of Troops and Supplies to Pumania. Bulgaria

Allied Fliers Aid Tito With  Blast at Pola   Debris, Hurled Into Air as Great Explosions Rip Yugoslavia Port

Forts Swoop Down On Bulgarian Canital   Sofia ts Target for U.S. Bombs for Fifth Time in Two Months

Heavy Force Of Planes in Attack   Fifth Heavy Bomber Assault On Bulgarian  ‘ Capital

American Flying Fortresses Bomb: Bulgarian: Capital   Raid Follows Up’. ~ Forts Bombing. Pola From Italian Bases: :

SOFIA BOMBED BY FLYING FORTRESSES   Fifth Heavy Bomber Assault In Two Months on Bulgaria Capital.

BOMBER FORCE BLASTS SOFIA   STRONG FORMATION OF FLYING FORTS CARRY OUT ATTACK

Harbor Of Pola, Key Nazi Base, Hit By Forts   Garrison Taken By Surprise; Port Is Feeder For Balkans.

Heavy Force of Bombers Pounds Sofia   Bulggrian Capital Hit At Noon; No Details Announced

U.S. Planes Hit af Sofia   Flying Fortresses In Heavy Force Bomb Bulaarian Capital

Forts Attack Capital City Of Bulgaria   Packed Formations Raid Sofia For Fifth Heavy Romber Assault.   GREAT RAIL CENTER

Raid Fifth In 2 Months On Capital   Reveal Heavy Bombers Now Operating From Italian Bases; Hit Pola Naval Base

Doughboys Stand Their Ground Until Run Down by Tanks Rather Than Surrender. Retreat

LANDING VESSEL BLAST KILLS 5   Over 100 Injured, Some Critically, In Mishap At Los Angeles

Ship Blast Kills Five Injures 100   Docks Are Damaged In Los Angeles Harbor

Landing Craft Blast Kills 5  More Than 100 Hurt; Fire Reaches Dock

175,000 Planes Built in 3 Years, President Reveals      FOOTHOLD ON CONTIVEN TD

U. $. PRODUCED 175,000 PLANES IN3 YEARS-FR   Declares Craft Going to Allies at Rate of 338 Each Week

175,000 AIRPLANES MADE IN 3 YEARS   President Reveals Record of U. S. Production

175,000 Planes 3-Year Output   Allied Nations Get 33,000 U. S. Aircraft

175,000 PLANES 3-YEAR OUTPUT   Roosevelt Says 33,000 Sent to U. S. Allies; Average 338 Weekly

175,000 Planes  In Three Years   338 Delivered To Allies Rach Week

175.000 Planes Produced In U. S.  Nation’s Goal Topped  Tremendansilw—F. R_

Roosevelt Discloses 33,000 Planes Produced in U.S. for Allied Nations

F. R. Revals 175,000 U. S. Planes Produced Between Mar. 10, 1941, and April 1, 1944; 33,000 Sent to Allies

U.S. Turns Out 175.000 Planes   33.000 Of Them Go To Allies Over 3-Year Period

175,000 Planes Built Since *41   .FR Says 26,000 Sent  Overseas On Lend-Lease

PRODUCE 175,000 ~ PLANES IN 3 YEARS      Average of 338 a Week Sent To Allies First 91 Days Of This Year.

a~ WHAT OUR BOYS  i= ARE DOING TO No WIN THE WAR   ©. 0.0.0.8 2.8. 2 oO. @.

Set. North Completes      Attended: ‘School at’ an Air ’ Service’ Command Sta- : tion-in England.

Germans Threaten To Destroy Paris   Insist French Must Stop Street Fighting Against Nazi in Capitol Citw

Asks Dogged Resistance, As War Will Leave Only  Survivors, Annihilated

HITLER DECLARES SURPRISE AWAITS ALLIED INVADERS   But Grim New Years Message to People Warns Them They Must Fight for Lives.   BOASTS THAT REICH HAS LOST NO SOIL   Blames Setbacks in 1943 on “Italian Treason” and “Breach of Faith of French.”

Hitler Gives Grim New Year's Talk   Says Germans Fight For Very Existence

iigh Official Says Strike Threats Hike _ Nazi Morale, Add Many Months To War   Grim Adolf Has Little To Offer In New Year’s Plea

Hi itler Promises Determined Fight   Nazi Leader Predicts Surprise For Invasion Force Of Allies; Makes New Year Speech.

Tokvo Can't Find Any Optimism Now   Radio Reports U. S. Plane: Still Pounding Guam

Tokyo ls Still Pessimistic Over  Warln Pacific U. S. Attacks On  (Yesmwn Daneweie Tolan   U. S. Attacks On — Guam, Bonin Isles Continue

Relentless Yank Blasting of Guam Still Continuing  Bombers Also Sear Targets Only 750 Milee Fram lanan

Tokyo ls Still Pessimistic Over  WarIln Pacific   U.S. Attacks On Guam, Bonin Isles Continue

Building New Road To China  Pine Bebe] Planets   Gen. Stilwell Comment: On Progress Made

Progress Made . On Burma Route   Stilwell Praises Chinese Warriors

MARCUS IS. TARGET FOR HEAVY ATTACK   Admiral Nimitz Reporis: Big Guns of Warships Shell Objectives at Close Range.   Land Route

Yugoslavia ‘Invaded by Allied Army   Land Troops Penetrate Country From West, Try for Junction With Reds

COOPERATE WITh TITO'S PARTISANS   Strike Toward Junction With Red Army From East   DELAYED REPORT   Goal of Drive Is to Seal Off All Nazi Troops in Lower ‘ Balkan Peninsula

INVASION INTO YUGOSLAVIA BY ALLIED TROOPS   Land Forces Began Attac Week Ago From Adriatic Sea   JUNCTION PLANNED WITH SOVIET ARMY

Allied Land Troops Participating in ‘Yugoslavian Battle   Invasion From Adriatic Started Week Ago With Forces Penetrating to Join Tito’s Armies, It Is Disclosed

Allies Enter — Yugoslavia From Adriatic   Fight Beside Tito Men And Strike Toward  Tanction with Russians   STRIVE TO SEAL OFF ALL LOWER BALKANS

Penetration Made From Adriatic Sea and Troops Are Now Moving Toward a Junction With Russians Thrusting From East — All Germans in Lower Balkan Peninsula Will Be Sealed Off When and if Two Forces Meet.

FOUR IN FAMILY DIE IN CRASH   Victims Of Tragedy Are Kin - Of Lima Woman

Navy Carrier Planes Score Great Triumph, Rout Nip Fleet; Our Losses 49 Planes And 3 Ships Damaged   RY WILLIAM F. TYREE

American Fleet Bombards Saipan But Japs Fail To Accent Challenge

Destroy Or Damage I 4 Jap Units   AMERICAN CARRIER-BASED  PLANES DO HUGE DAMAGE  BETWEEN PHILIPPINES AND MARIANAS

Nimitz Reveals Losses in Great Battle at Sea   14 of Enemy's Units Are Sunk Or Damaged

‘Small Damage Is Inflicted On 1, S. Shins   Forty-Nine American Planes Downed But Number of Airmen Saved

JAPS ARE USING POISON GAS IN HENGYANG AREA   Chinese Trying to Dislé: cate Japanese Plans by;. Flank Attacks in the Rear

LOR SHOT IN HAND   Ray Vanderslice of Near Reno Was Going Hunting

Effective Foe Of Lice Found   Army Gains ‘Chemical To Get’ Rid Of Pests hy - Jungle Areas

New Chemical Eliminates Flies, Lice To Reduce Danger of Epidemics ‘Of Typhus, Other Dreaded Diseases

Furnace Linked in Infant Murders _   Ashes Examined at ‘Baby Slaughter House

51st Year .     Cd   catty Persons Out of Homes   Sections of Miami And Wyandotte Are Inundated and Some Highways Closed

Floods Worrying Northeast Areas   Wyandotte Being Inundated, Verdigris River Out

Caen Becomes Center for Major Battle   Nazis Draw Reserves From Central France  and Reich Homeland

Bold Nazi Bid Not Succeeding, British Assert   Showdown Battle Appears af Hand

Flank Assault Fails To Stem Allied Advance   Von Rundstedt Drives Hard With AW German Armor

Attempts to Blunt British Drive Fail   British Strengthen Position on Orne River After Alf German Counterattacks Repulsed

Nazi Effort To Save Caen Meets Failure   ir Force Prepares to Harass German  Reserves {Lhrown Into Showduwn Balttle. Gayrus Stormed

Drawn from Reich Itself As Showdown Develops Iu Battle of Normandy

Enemy Reserves Stream from Central France and Germany Itself for Showdown Battle.

BRITISH MAKE GAINS NORTH OF PORT CITY   ALLIED PLANES HIT TROOP TRAINS AND RAIL CENTERS

Germans Hurling Reserves  Into Fighting On Flank Of : Oden Bridgehead   LOCAL ADVANCES BY BRITISH NEAR CAEN

Germans Throw All Available Armor Into Bold Bid to Lop Off British Attack Near Caen

ECORD-PRICE— OR APRIL MILK EW YORK POOL   te of $3.18 Sets Record Surpassing Previous April Payments.

MILK OUTPUT TENDS TOWARD GLUT, FAMINE   'Blanford, Reporting Increased Re turn Though Reduced Volume,  Notes Production Shift

ALLIES LAUNCH DEVASTATING NEW AERIAL BLOWS ON NAZIS   Night Raiders Lose 41 Planes on Smashes at  ) Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg   Saturation Raid on Stettin—Day Squadrons Hammer Robot Launching Coast

SCRAP PAPER WANTED Ohio Paper Products Co Dial 3126 Aa   KARN TATLORING DISPLAY

LABOR DRAFT LAW IS URGED   Stimson Declares Penalizing Strikes Not Enough To Meet Situation

22 “Nar > ar~ Srises Las: Weex, Simson Savs, As<ing Wador raz   “a's +reec cm 0: ress aS: Db “aunc ing — onor'ng.+.? 2er0r-e%

Stimson Urges Service Bill   Says There Have Been 22 Strikes In War Plants In Last Week Alone.

22 STRIKES: IN WAR PLANTS IN SINGLE WEEK   135,000 Man-Days Of Production Lost, Stim son Declares   MAKES STRONG PLEA FOR SERVICE MEASURE

TRUMAN HOPES LIMIT TOUR TO STIX SPEECHES   May Invade Texas In Campaign

MANY CHANGES RECOMMENDED FOR SOCIAL SECURITY SETUP   FSA'8 ANNUAL REPORT INCLUDES OUTLINE OF PROGRAM TO EXPAND THE PRESENT PROGEAM

Capture Cernauti, Delyatin   Drive Within 15 Miles Of Hungarian Border, Tighten Noose On Nazis At Odessa.

Soviets Make Large Gains Into Ukraine   So Rapid !s Soviet Advance That In Numerous Places Germans Are Routed Before They Have Time To Deploy In Formations To Give Battle

REDS HAMMER FOE ALONG 500 MILE STRETCH   One Of 8 Soviet Armies Routs 180,000 Men In Sudden Drive

THREE RED FORCES TEARING GERMAN ARMIES 10 PIECES   Thousands of Dead Litter Fields—~Material is Captured In Great Quan bibles

RUSSIANS ADVANCING IN UKRAINE   Waging Battle of Annihilation On 535-Mile Front

WAR FRONT IS AFLAME   Huge Portion Of Foe’s Armor Destroyed By Soviet Assaults

Reds Wiping Out German Forces   Wage Great Battle of Annihilation on Long Ukraine hattle Front

Beat Nazis Along 550 Mile Front          THREE RUSSIAN ARMIES HAMMEI GERMANS BACK TOWARD POLA RUMANIA AND BLACK SEA

MAJOR PART OF NAZI ARMOR IS DESTROYED   Three Red Armies Are Hammering Enemy Forces Back Toward Poland.

Destroy Major Portion Of Germany'’s Armor East Of Vinnitsa; Three Red Armies Hammer Nazis Back Toward Poland   CLASSED 4S LAST SUPREME EFFORT

Russians Wage Annihilation On Ukraine Nazis   Surprise Thrust Puts Enemy In Flight Without Guns

Russians Push Annihilation of Enemy For   Reds Destroy: _ German Armor In: Ukraine Sectors

FIGHTING ALONG SSOMILE FRONT TO CLEAR UKRAINE   20,000 Germans Killed, 2, 500 Captured, 14 Divisions Routed and 300 Places Are Taker.   JAP SEAPLANE BASE AT PONAPE WRECKED   Marines Capture Talasea From Japs in Four-Day Conquest, New Spearhead Against Rabaul.

ARMIES HAMMER NAZIS INGREAT UKRAINE BLOW   Effort Seen To Sweep Germans From entire Ukraine

3 Soviet Armies in Smash   NAZIS HAMMERED BACK TOWARD POLAND AND SEA IN TRIPLE THRUST

Navy Forces Hit Westernmost Marshalls Atoll   Marines, Infantry Secure Beachhead In Face of Fierce Jap Resistance After Bombardment by Sea and Air

REPORT OF LANDING ON TRUK FALSE   Purely Carrier-Plane Operation, Claims Navy Secretary

Details Lacking On Heavy Aerial Blow   Landings On Northwest Marshall Islands Base Follows Truk Air Attack By 24 Hours

NEW NIP PREMIER MAKES REPORT   GENERAL ABE, ENDO NAMED TO OFFICES

Vitebsk Falls To Powerful Soviet Army   One of Last Big German Bases Taken by Storm, Says Stalin

45,000 NAZIS BELIEVED IN BIG BASTION   ‘Base Was One of Last Ma*jor German Strongholds East of Old Poland—4 Red Armies Gain on a 950-Mile Front.

S ea Port  eee      FIELD REPORTS TELL OF SHOVING      THE UKRAINE; NAZIS IN" PANICKY FLIGHT

NAZI FORCE IS ROUTED IN UKRAINE   German Troops Are Abandoning Rifles, Gas Masks

Russians Drive Nearer Odessa   Red Army Pushes Aheaa Through Ukraine Mile an Hour— Clormanc Flee to West

NAZIS THROW AWAY GUNS IN WILD FLIGHT   Russian Forces Smash Through Middle Bug On Steadily Widening Front.   BULLETIN

 Ukraine Army Slices Gaivoron Area In Drive   “Stalingrad Ghost” Haunts German Troops;  2,500 Nazis Killed

POLISH ARMY CORPS SENDS NEW DIVISION TO FIGHT GERMANS   Second Unit, Including Women, Is , Well Equipped

Dewey Charges FDR Administration With Chaos At Home, Abroad: Repeats Demobilization Charge

Governor Assails "Tired and Worn Out" New Dealers   Record at Home Called Failure

Dewey Lashes ‘Incompetent’  New Dealers  Candidate Finds Representation  Abroad ‘Chaotic’

Dewey Asserts Foreign Policy Nearing Chaos   Charges FDR Staff ‘Little Men Rattling Around

Roosevelt’s Words Sent Back ToHim   IDEA GENERAL HERSHEY ACCEPTED TO TAKE PRESSURE OFF BOSS WAS IN UNCLE DELANO’S REPORT.   Dewey Tells In St.Louis

Dewey Says Chaos Caused By Roosevelt   Refers to Long ‘List Of New Deal Failures

GOV. DEWEY NAILS FDR’s ‘PASSING THE BUCK? ON - DEMOBILIZATION DELAY   Says President Authorized Report It Would Be As Cheap To Keep Men In Army As Cope With Unemployment

New Deal’s. Record Is Lashed By Dewey   Governor Charges Administration With Chaos Abroad and at Home—Own House Must be Set in Order First, He Declares

DEWEY BLASTS NEW DEALERS IN ST. LOUIS TALK   U. S. Representation Said To Be On Brink Of Chaos In Vital Areas Abroad

ewey Condemns Strife, Inability’ In Administration  Says U. S. Can’t Bring  Peace to World, With ‘Conflict’ at Home

DEWEY SAYS NEW DEAL BUNGLING THREATENS JOBS   Declares in St. Louis Talk Work and Lasting Peace Depend on Outcome of Election.   CHAOS IN CAPITAL, AUDIENCE IS TOLD   Candidate Declares OfficeHolders Are Incompetent —Greeted by Large  Street Crowd. : °

"LITTLE MEN IN BIG JOBS"   CHEERING CROWDS GREET NOMINEE IN ST. LOUIS

Dewey Says FDR Himselt ‘Subscribed To Statement On Demobilization Plan   Declares U. S. Representation ‘In Vital Areas  Abroad Is On Brink Of Chaos’’

‘Freedom  And Future’ At Stake,  Dewey Says   U. S. Representation . In Vital Areas Abroad On Brink of Chaos,  He Says at St. Louis POUNDS NEW DEAL

DEWEY ATTACKS INCOMPE TENCE OF NEW DEALERS   Says Roosevelt’s Record At Home Is Long Chapter Of Failure   POST-WAR BUNGLING CANNOT BE AFFORDED

~ RAISES QUESTION   Hog ‘Support Ha Has Washing . ton Officials Pondering “hl New Statute -

PRICE CONTR ~ RAISES Ee      Hog ‘Support Has Washing: ~ ton Officials Pondering . New Statute -

NEW HORROR STORY IS TOLD BY SURVIVOR   Nipponese Cruelties Are Listed by Grashio

Japs Parade by Camp with Head on Pole   Surviving Captain Reveals More Details of Foe’s Barbarism

Big Problem Is Layoffs In Industry   All War Plants Facing Readjustment Headaches

Kimmel's Plea Denied By Navy   Told Findings On Pear Harbor Not Ready

Two of Triplets. Born in Motor Car And Third in Elevator of: Hospital

RED ARMIES RACE ACROSS. POLISH PLAIN’      Cross Vistula To Outflank Warsaw: Drive Into East Prussia And Nazi Home Province Readv.

RACIAL DISPUTE PARTLY TIES UP TRANSPORTATION   BY EDWARD S. TWARDY U.P. Stat Carresnannent   Russian Forces Racing Toward German Border

SOVIETS RACE THRU BREAK IN VISTULA LINE   Outflanks Warsaw, Br. uch Last Natural Defense Barrier Before Reich

REPORTED NOW 16 MILES PAST VISTULA RIVER   ¢, Breach Last Natural Nazi Barrier And Flank Warsaw

Occupation of Kwajalein Is Completed by US   Communications to War Zones Shortened Losses Disclosed

OCCUPATION OF KWAJALEIN IS COMPLETED   Admiral Nimitz Announces, “Major Obstacle In Pacific Not So Much Japanese As Distance,” He Says.   Hit Bangkok Plant

Nimitz Announces All Resistance Ends On Key Enemy Atoll   Marshalls Victory Will Speed Up Tempo Of Pacific War, Admiral Declares; Jap Plane Losses in January Set at 866

866 Jap Planes Downed In Month   Occupation Of Atolf Will Serve To Speed Up Tempo Of Pacific War, Nimitz Declares

Submarines Sink 33 More Jap Vessels  12 Warships Included in Latest Bag

SUBS SINK 33 JAP VESSELS   12 WARSHIPS IN NEW UNDERSEAS CRAFT BAG

S. Subs Bag 33 ore Jap Ships   Great Sweep Includes 12 Enemy War Craft

Pag IS LEADING COMMUNIST FRONT   “Charge Is Made as ’ Dies Committee Opens Public Hearings’ .

Hillman Group ‘Leading Communist Organization In U.S.) Solon Says

PAC ACCUSED BY DIES PROBER   Thomas Says Group Chief Communist Front In United States

STRIKES AFFECT NEARLY 13,000   Production At Standstill In Several Detroit War Plants

30,000 IDLE IN LABOR DISPUTES   Two Strikes In Bomber Plants Are Settled

Will Sue Officials  of Prison   McKittrick “Plans Recovery of Thousands:of Dollars, He Tells Governor   FAILURE TO-COMPLY. -WITH: LAW CHARGED   Says Officials. Used © Food, Services, They ‘Are Not .Lepally Entitled ‘To

Some Prison Officials Will be Sued   Attorney General Alleges Failure to Comply With Law

M’KITTRICK TO SUE STATE PRISON HEADS   Attorney General Tells Governor He Hopes to Recover Thousands of Dollars Allegedly Unlawfully Obtained.

Will Sue Prison Heads to Recover Lost State Money   Attorney General Alleges Officials Refuse to Comply With Laws.   Charges of 18 Law Violations Are Made

Roosevelt Sounds Plea for Strong World Peace Court In Attack on Isolationists

WORLD PEACE BUREAU URGED BY ROOSEVELT   TOUR OF NEW YORK MADE IN COLD DRIZZLE

WORLD POLICE FORCE BACKED BY PRESIDENT   U. S. Representative With Power to Act, Is Advocated

Roosevelt Calls for World Peace Force With Active Participation by U. S.

World Peace Organization  Asked by F.R.   Republican Victory, President Charges, Would Throw Leadership to Isolationisis Im World Requirins International Set-Up

Roosevelt Denies Any Agreements   Says G. O. P. Victory Would Throw Treaty to the Isolationists

Roosevelt Calls for World  Force to Preserve Peace   Urges American Representative Be Given Power To Act; Hits Republicans as Isolationists

Will, Power To Enifaice Peace Held Vital Need   United World Group ‘Urged By" Roosevelt

PRESIDENT AIRS FOREIGN POLICY VIEWS IN TALK   FDR Says World Organization Needed to Guarantee Peace at War's End

F.D.R. Calls For Enforced World Peace   ‘Authority to Act’ Demanded for U.S. Nations’ Delegate

SAYS U. 5. ENVO\ MUST HAVE POWER ‘TO ACT’   "EDR ‘Proud’ Not To  ‘ Have Support Of *‘McCormick-PattersonHoeoaretCannott Prace’

Gives Answer To His Rival   Reviews Two Decades, Charges GOP Victory Means Isolationists To Be In Saddle

Isolafionists loControl If — GOP Wins—F. R.   President Calls For World Organization To Enforce Peace; No Secret Commitments

Peace Plan Must Have Teeth--FDR  “Can't Keep Peace Without US Help”

ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR ORGANIZATION T0 ENFORCE PEACE   Declares Congress Should Cloak U. S. Representative in Agency With “Authority to Act.”   DEALS WITH CRITICISM LEVELED BY DEWEY   Speech on Foreign Policy Follows Campaign in Rain for Votes of New - York’s Millions.

President .Declares Republican Victory Would Place U. S. Foreign Affairs in Hands of, Isolationists

RUSSIANS’ GUNS POUND WARSAW   Troops May Be Moving Into Polish Capital Already

Soviets Battle On Rumanian Soil: Budapest Raided   100,000 Japs Caught In American Islands Noose

UH PATRIOT: CONTROL CAPITAL   Yanks Hammer Out Gains South, Southeast of Paris   CANADIANS ADVANCE   Armored Units Drive More That 15 Miles East of Sens. Evreux Freed

Americans Hammer Out New Gains On Fronts In Erance   Tightening  Stranglehold Clamped_ on Remnants of German Army—Main Battle Already ‘Over, ° ‘Correspondent Says. -

French Army Frees Paris From Nazis   Third Army Reported 125 Miles From Reich

Americans Drive Ahead on Both Sides of Paris   Clamp Stranglehold On Fleeing Germans

South Flank Of Germans Is Exposed.   Great German Retreat Toward Reich Continues Under Allied Pounding  er a Se ee em

ALLIES PRESS BEATEN NAZIS INTG TRAP   Along Seine; Secrecy Hides American Force Rushing Toward Eastern France.   Many Casualties

YANK TROOPS NOW PUSHING ON TO BERLIN   MAIN BATTLE FOR FRANCE OVER; NAZIS FLEE

Battered foe is clamped in stranglehold  Evreux is taken; nearinoe Canches

Enemy Tells of Bold Smash Only 700 Miles From Nip Mainland, Closest Approach by American Naval Forces

Chileaxi Officials Nab German Spies   Probe. Leads to 14 Alleged Members of Ring. Being Taken Into Custody

Gage County Draltees Off  or Induction   Some Leave For Navy Recruiting Station At Omaha: Others For Army,   SIDAY FURLOUGHS   Chile Arrests Members Of German Spy Ring

14 Held In Spy Ring Roundup   Chile Charges Ring Directed By German Embassy Attache.

Fighting Abates In Athens Today   Greek Leftist Resistance Fades Before Patrols Through City

British Patrols Subdue Leftist Group In Athens   Fights Continue On Lesser Scale

HOPES ToO ViSIT PARIS   Roosevelt. Will Visit Stalin and Churchill First

CHURCHILL, STALIN MEETING-TOPS LIST ROOSEVELT AGENDA   HOPE OF VISITING PARIS _ RELEGATED TO BIG THREE CONFERENCE

Meeting Of Big 3 Takes Priority Over-FDOR‘s Hope Of Visiting Paris

Air Attack on Japs Is Being Stepped up   Yanks Battering Out Ring of Bases from Which 1,000-plane Assaults Are To Be Launched Against Nip Homeland To Soften it for Invasion

Heavy Raids on Jap Homeland Are Forecast   Heaviest Blows Cente: In Philippines; Davao Hit Again

1,000 Plane Raids On Japan Forecast By U S Commande:   Allied Bombers Slash At Formosa Key to U. S. Potential Bases

Philippines And Formosa  Hit by Yanks   Davao Left Ablaze by U. S. Bombers: 1,000-Plane  Attacks Foreseen

JAPS WILL FACE GIANT AIRRAIDS   1,000-Plane Attacks Loom; Formosa Struck Again

1,000-PLANE RAIDS AGAINST JAPAN FORECAST   Bombers Slash At Fermosa While 4.000-Mile Area ls Under Fire

anne ieee  U. S. To Make 1.000-Plane Attacks On Jap Mainland   Gigantic Assaults Promised By Army As Allied Bombers Attack Formosa. Key To Area Named As Potential Bases For An All-Out Offensive :

Air Officials See 1000 Ship Raids OnJap Homeland   Philippines Given Blasting; . China-Based Craft Make New Hits On Formosa

1,000-Plane Raids On Japan Promised As Bombers Attack Formosa Off Coast Of China   U.S. Air Force Strikes New Blows Romanian King Proclaimed Armistice

PLANS CALL FOR THOUSAND PLANE RAIDS ON JAPAN   PACIFIC AIR CHIEF PROMISES HEAVIER BOMBING OF EMPIRE

FORECAST 1,000 PLANE RAIDS ON NIP HOMELAND   Tokyo Reports Attack o1 Formosa; Fliers Hit Davao in Philippines

1,000 Plane Raids on Japs Are Forecast   Allied Bombers Slash at Formosa; Davao Left Ablaze; Four Jap Ships Sunk or Crippled in Dutch Celebes

Air Commander Forecasts 1,000 Raids On lanan   Heaviest Air Blows Center Around The Southern Philippines

Allied Bombers Hit Formosa, Fringe Of Japanese Defenses   Army Air Command Sees Thousand-Plane Attacks

U.S. Air Leader Sees 1,000-Plane Raids On Japan; Formosa Blasted

GREAT BOMBER RAIDS PLANNED FOR JAPANESE   Thousand Plane Attacks Will Be Ordered

ALLIED BOMBERS LASH FORMOSA   THOUSAND-PLANE RAIDS PROMISED JAP HOMELAND

RAIDS ON JAPAN BY THOUSAND PLANES [5 BELIEVED IMMINENT  ALLIED BOMBERS LASHED   ALLIED BOMBERS LASHED AT FORMOSA, KEY TO POTENTIAL AREA

Allied Bombers Hit Key Japanese. Bases in Pacific Campaigr   Davao, Formosa, Bear Brunt of Wide-Spread Bombing Attacks

Mass Aerial Raids Agains Japs Hinted   U. S. Air Chief In Pacific Pledges 1,000-Piane Blows

ALLIES SEIZE DUGE’S VILLA   Polish Troops Spearhead Advance In Adriatic Area

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   POLISH TROOPS SPEARHEAD ADRIATIC ADVANCE

CARENTAN BACK IN OUR HANDS; OTHERS YIELDED   Montgomery Barrage Is Roaring Like Prairie Fire

Germans Retake Troarn; Caumont And Montebourg   Most Intense Struggle Since Leningrad Raging In Caen-Tilly Sector As Germans Go All Out With Five Heavy Counter Attacks.

Temperatures   Biggest Naval Force In Mediterranean ~ Includes 800 Ships

Airborne Troops Had Dropped Behind German Coastal Fortifications

ALLIES CUTTING UP DYING NAZI SEVENTH ARMY CAUGHT IN TRAP; ‘HUNDREDS. MORE ARE CAPTURED

Hundreds of Nazis Taken Prisoner   Still a Long Way from Rhine, Eisenhower  Warns

New Front  450 Miles From Trap   Proceeding Successfully Both in South and North in Gréat Operations   TWO FORCES WILL SEEK JUNCTION   Battle of France Doubles in Scope Overnight; Four Fronts Against Hitler

ALLIED NOOSE IS TIGHTENED   Giant Vise Clamped Upon France to Annihilate German 7th Army

Alhed Bombs Seal Nazis’ Escape Path  Yanks Clinch Control of Roads by Capture of   ‘TRAP NEARLY SHUT   Annihilation Battles Cut Dying German Seventh  A pinnae

Patton’s Forces Phun Ahead in Mud and Ri to Increase. Threat t Saar Capital. “          7TH ARMY JOINS »*  ae  IN DRIVE ON BASIN   Moves Forward on 3 Mile Front — Seizes Town Close to Old Mags inot Line Defenses,

Tanks Assault Outpost of Forbach, Seventh Widens 35-Mile Front; New Attacks Gain on Cologne Plain

pes Of aarbrucken Ara Shaken   Third Army Advances Through. Mud, Rain

Outer Defense Works of Saarbrucken  Shake Under Attack   Third Army Forges Ahead Despite Rain and Mud to Weld Its Saarlautern Bridgehead Solidly With One in South

700 Square Miles Germany In Allied Hands After One Month   SAAR WAR FACTORIES UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE

“/THARMY STRIKES ON G5-MILE LINE   Third Army Forges Ahead Despite Rain and Mud   ® WELDS BRIDGEHEADS   Month of Offensive Puts 700 Square Miles of Reich in Allied Hands

Saarbrucken’s” Outer Defense Works Shaking   Third Army Tank Assaults Made on Outpost of For‘bach—Seventh Army Joins Drive on Saar ae’ _ Basin With Fierce Attacks

YANKS STRIKE AT FACTORIES IN SAAR BASIN   GERMANS MAY BE FALLING BACK TO RHINE

REPEL JAP BLOWS ON NEW BRITAIN   TWO COUNTER-THRUSTS AT  CAPE GLOUCESTER REPULSED BY, MARINES. 

MARINES CRUSH 2 JAP ATTACKS   Airmen Blast Rabaul And Down 15 Planes; Enemy Warship Set Afire

Sen. Pepper Says Participation of — Russia in War Against Japs Depends On Re-election: of: F.R. in November '

Permission To Increase Shipment rates On Fruit Vegetables Is Denied

HIGH SCHOOL ELECTION WILL HAVE CONTEST   Three Seek 2 Member Posts; Grades Unopposed; Vote April 8.

EXPECT LIGHT VOTE IN ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION   Have Contest In One Position; Grade Members Are Unopposed.

HUGE FLEETS OF SHIPPING CONCENTRATE   Germans Say Allied Vessels Mass On Coast

Invasion Imminent Say Nazis   Concentration Of Shipping In British Ports Reaches Huge Proportions.

Captain, Who Atrempted To Overthrow Govt., Faces Dismissal In Disgrace

Battie For Kohima Reaches Climax As Allies Threaten Annihilation Of Enemy   Japanese Strongholds From Paramushire To Ponape Are Blasted By Allied Planes

Rail Yards At Budapest Are Bomb large   Heavy Night Bombing Attacks On Railroads At Hungarian Capital   SEEK TO SHATTER AXIS SUPPLY LINES

Temperature Climbs Above 100 in Parts of Ohio; May Drop Thursday

Clarence Streff Weds Phyllis Krier  Wedding Takes Place In Remsen Monday

COLOGNE TARGET OF MOSQUITOES IN NIGHT RAID   Blast Preliminary To Crunching T[woWay Air Attack On The Reich Today.

Germans Warn They Have New Type Plane  Allies In Heavy Assaults. On  Reich Taracts

HEAVY RAIDS ON REICH SHAPING   Strong Forces Of Bombers Reported Over Germany

U.S. Warships Shell Kuriles:   _ Marianas Also Pounded As ’ Planes Rake Guam And Rota

U.S. Warships Shell Japanese On All Sides   Not a Single American Ship Hit in Attacks; Enemy Plane Downed

Willkie to Talk On Foreign Policy   Promises That He Wil Have Lots to Say Durine Campaieon

10 TO 16 STILL MISSING IN BUS RIVER ACCIDENT   Bodies Of 14 Already Recovered; Vehicle Raised Fram Stream

Known Death Toll Reaches 14 In Tragic Bus Crash   Eight Bodies In Bus Raised From Icy River

RESCUE CREWS SEEKING BODIES   Are Now 1,000 Feet Back in Powhatan Mine

FEAL AID. f$: OPPOSED   BRICKER DECLARES IN: RADIO DEBATE STATES SHOULD — FINANCE. POSTWAR. -*. S PpROGRAME

SECRETARY OF STATE HULL OPENS HISTORY-MAKING TALKS ON POSTWAR SECURITY TODAY   Delegates Gather at Dumbarton Oaks, Historic Washington Estate Where All Their Meeting Will Be Held: Much Interest. Taken in Meeting

ARMED FORCES OF U.S, MAY BACK WORLD SECURITY   Postwar Peace Plan Meeting Opens With American Participation Offered

Peace Must Be Backed By Force, Avers Hull   Secretary Of State, Speaking For President Roosevelt As Well As Himself, Says Force Must Be Prompt And Adequate.

Peace Must Be Backed With Force---Hull   British Representative Calls for Organization of Four-power Group

PEACE MUST HAVE ADEQUATE BACKING SECRETARY DECLARES   HISTORY-MAKING POSTWAR SECURITY CONFERENCE OPENED MONDAY

HULL CALLS FOR STRONG POLICE FORCE   Momentous _ Security Parley Begins

Opening Peace Conference Hull Says Organization Must Be Backed By Force

FORGE, WITH SPEED HULL'S PEACE POLIC'   Tells Postwar Secretary Meet Small States Should Be Equal Partners.

Security After War Stressed By Secretary Hull   Postwar Peace Must Be Backed Up by _ Force, “Available Promptly and in Adequate Measure.”

Security Meeting Opens; Hull States U.S. View  All Leaders Pledge Consideration For Small Nations

Security Talks Opened in U.S   Hull Insists Certain Force Be Goal of Post-War  Allied Agency

OPENS 4-POWER SECURITY MEETING   Asserts That U. S. Will Make Armed Forces ‘Available Promptly’ to Ward Off War

‘Plea at Opening of Security Planning Indi cates U. S. Commitment to Long Use of Armed Forces to Enforce Peace.

FORCE MUST BACK PEACE, HULL STATES   Thus Secretary of State Opens Postwar Security Session, Act Quickly, Briton Urges

Allied Parley Opened By Hull   Lasting Peace Is Goal Of Conference

Hull Opens Post-War Conference   Russia, China, Britain, United States Discuss Plans 

Hull Declares Force To Back Peace Program   Opens Postwar Security Talks With. Pledge Of Strong Commitments

OFFICIALS OF 4 NATIONS PLAN FUTURE PEACE   Postwar Security Talks Begun After Sec. Hull Opens Meetings

Hull Says Peace Must Be Backed With Ample Force   Opens First Session Of Postwar Security Talks

Seen Pledging Use of U. S.' Troops In Support of Security for Generatious to Come   Speedy Action Is Asked by Britain   London Asks Framework Of Future International Cooperation Now As Peace Nears

Officials. of United: States, Great Britian And Russia Meet To Map Peace Plans; Hull Asks Continued Unity Of Nations

Allies Lock With Nazis At Aachen   Casualties “Are Reported fieavy’. On Both Sides. Americans and Hritish Move Slowly Forward. Patton Pushes Into Germany

French Smash Into Mulhouse In Rhine Drive   Patton Pushes Three Miles Into Germany; Reds Fail to Confirm  Offensive in Latvia

Yanks, British Meet Fiercest Resistance   Nazis Waging ” Life-or-Death Fight  On Cologne Plain in Area.

Nazis Whipped Badly on East Front and Are Hard-Pressed In Italy by Advancing Allies   Reds Take Kingisepp, Last Outpost of Hitler’s Baltic Defenses; Reinforced Germans Battle Hard in Effort to Save Roads Leading to Rome

Annual Cost Of Food, Clothing And Equipment Of Soldier Is $465.06

Stockholm Says Former Finn Premier Will Go  To Moscow For Meetinas

Paaskivi fo Go to Moscow   Former Finnish Premier to Discuss Armistice Terms

Russians Bolster Peace Offer With Rebuttals  - Finn Delegate Plans Trip to Moscow,  Swedish Paper Says

TO DISCUSS PEACE TERMS AT MOSCOM   Departure Date of Former Finnish Prime Minister Not Known.

Garapan Falls, Bag Jap Destroyers And Planes 700 Miles From Tokyo

US. Carrier Planes  Sink Five Jap Ships   two Jima and Hara Jima Attacked by Corrier Forée— 'Garapan, Capital of the Marianas, is: Captured by Americans.

THREE WARSHIPS SUNK OR BEACHED   Yanks on Saipan Capture City of Garapan   OTHER SHIPS DAMAGED   Ships Shell Iwo Jima in’ the Volcano Isles, Planes Attack the Bonins

3 JAP WARSHIPS OUNK OR BEACHED BY NIMITZ’ FORCE   Twenty-Five Enemy — Planes Downed in Air-Sea Attack, on Volcano and Bonin Islands.   YANKS WIN GARAPAN IN SAIPAN BATTLE   Sweep On to Tanapag After Capital Falls—Now Hold ‘Seven-Eighths of the  Island. :

Counterblows Stiff In Italy  British Bridgehead  Across River Lost

eee  NAZIS FAIL IN BID TO TAKE HEIGHTS   U. S. Troops Hold In Italy; British Gain Pinched Out

Nazi Counterdrive Has Wiped Out Italian Bridgehead  Fifth Army Defeats Second German Attempt to Gain

Heavy Fighting Rages in Italy  Nazi Counterattacks Pinch off Bridgeheac

FURIOUS GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS ——GHECK THE BRITISH   Nazis Pinched Out the Smal Bridgehead Across the Fiumcino River. —   NORTHWEST OF RIMINI   All Savage Efforts to Wrest Monte Battaglia From the Sth Army Failed.

Bridgehead At Fiumcino River Lost   Nazis Fail to Wrest Monte Battaglia from Fifth Army; Moderate Allied Gains Reported in Central Sector

COUNTERATTACKS BY GERMANS WIPE OUT BRINGEHEAN   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARM. IES STEADILY ADVANCE TOWARD PO VALLEY

Bridgehead Lost By Allied Army North Of Rimini   But Nazis Fail In Attempt To Dislodge Americans From Strategic Mount

NAZIS SMASH BRITISH HOLD ON FIUMCINO RIVER   Americans Repel German Attacks South of Imola

Germans Pinch Off British Bridgehead On Fiumcino River   Nazi Connier-Attacks Fail, However, to Wrest Monie Battaclia from Americans

GERMANS STOP BRITISH PUSH   Regain Bridgehead Acros: Fiumcino, Yanks Make New Italy Gains

MODERATE GAINS ON ITALIAN FRONT   AMERICANS SEIZE IMPORTANT ROAD TOWN OF GUIGNOLA

NAZIS IN FIERCE COUNTERATTACKS   Pinch Out Bridgehead Near Rimini—Allies in Gains

Nazis Smash Bridgehead   Force British Back North of Rimini, in Italy; Farther West — Allies Advance Slowly

NAZIS FIERCELY COUNTER ATTACK   Allies Lose Bridgehead  ~ Across Fiumcino River

NAZIS PINCH OUT BRIT BRIDGEHEAD AT ITALIAN RIVER   Furieus Counter Attacks Knock Qut 8th Army Hold Across Fiumcino River—Allies Make Gains Elsewhere In Po Areas .

NAZIS DRIVE BRITISH BACK NEAR RIMINI   Furious Attacks Pinch Out Bridgehead Across Fiumcino River, but the Yanks Cling to Their Sector of Front.

Germans Rally In Italy   British Spearhead Forced Back in Furious Fighting

FIGHTING IN ITALY INTENSIFIES   Nazis Pinch Out Small Brideehead Of British Eighth

New York ‘Apple- Knockers’ Led 165th in Makio Landing   Fired First Shots and Suffered First Losses in Gilberts, Army Discloses—Six Won Stars, Nine Purple Hearts

BRITISH ARMED FORCES CLASH WITH GREEKS   Showdown Fight For Control Of Government Appears Underway

BRITISH DRAWN INTO CIVIL WAR   FIGHT BESIDE GREEK GOVERN. MENT FORCES

CLAIM INVASION REPELLED ON MAPIA ISLANDS   Isles Are 100 Miles North of New Guinea Tip; Report Sumatra Air Attack

Allies Invade Mapias, Raid Western Sumatra. Says Japanese Report

Japan Says Allies Driven  Off Mapias   Attempted New . Island Invasion Reported by Tokyo; Mountbatten Returns to East Asia

Allied Invasion Claimed Nearer  To Philippines   Tokyo Radio Also Reports 28 Carriers Stage Raid On Western Sumatra

Tokyo Reports New Allied Landing in Mapias on Thursday   Islands are Nearer Philippines; Not Confirmed As Yet

U. S. LANDINGS ‘ON MAPIA ISLE ARE REPORTED   Western Sumatra Blasted As Tempo of Pacific War Quickens

TOKYO REPORTS ALLIEDLANDING ON MAIPA ISLAND  CLAIM ATTEMPT TO INVADE BEATEN OFF;  a an as = ee lr rl hl ehlUrhlUr

Tokyo Report of New Island Invasion Nearer Philippines Without Allied Confirmation

TOKYO REPORTS NEW INVASION   Jap Radia Also Tells Of Air  Raid On Sumatra

AMERICAN TROOPS MAY ATTEMPT NEW ISLAND INVASION   Japanese Report Allied Troops Preparing to Invade Near Philippines

Japs Report New Invasion   Stilwell Says 20,000 Japs Slain In Burma.

Troops Attempt New Invasion Near Philippine:   Gen. Stilwell Gives Summary Of His North Burma Operations

New Island Invasion By Yanks on Road to Philippines Hinted   Jap Radio Gives Evidence of Increased Tempo of War in the Pacific and Bloody Fighting in Burma and China

Allied Troops Attempt New Landing Near Philippines: Japanese Say

Invaders St. David Island Briven Off; Western Sumatra Also Raided; Alb Unconfirmed

Allies Land On Mapia, Tokyo Says   Troops Driven Off, Japs Say Unconfirmed  By Allies

WAR IN PACIFIC STEPPED UP   Action Reported Without Allied Confirmation

Tokyo Tells of Landings, Carrier Raid   Japs Claim "Invaders of St. David Islands Driven Off: Allied Confirmation Lackenn

PS HIT ON TWO FRONTS   eport Landing Attempt At Mapia; Sumatre Is Raided

Tokyo Reports Allied Attempt fo Land on Mapia  Tr... ff... LS oh. fr. Fs   Unconfirmed Report Says Land. ing Troops Driven Of With Heavy Losses—Sumatra Raidet

TOKYO CLAIMS AMERICANS IN NEW INVASION   Harder Blows To Be Given  Japan Soon

rN Quickening Tempo in the South Pacifi  New Invasion oe a Attempt Recorted .

Faw  JAD aEPORT NEW ALLIED INVASION   Attack On Island Near . Philippines Is Without  Confirmation   SUMATRA. BLASTED   New Developments Seéi As Mountbatten Re. turns To Asia

New U, S. Invasion Near Philippines: Reported   Tokyo Radio Claims Allied Attack On Island: And Aerial Raid On Western Sumatra; Nimitz Reveals New Aerial Blows

NAVY NEEDS HALF ~ MILLION MORE MEN   Expect to Boost Personnel to Three Million By End of This Year.

KNOX REPORTS NAVY "44 NEED 15 500.000 MEN   Fleet Expanding at Rate of Nearly 12 Seagoing Ships a Day

Says Navy Needs Half Million Men   Secretary Knox Declares They re Needed This Vear to Meet Goal Of 3,006,000 by January

N avy to Need Half Million - More in 1944   Fleet -Likely to Expand Average of-12 Vessels a Day. Knox Says

Knox Says 11 Ships Will Be Commissoned’ = Daily This Year; Wants Total 3,006,000 Men in 1944.

Navy Must Have 500,000 More To Man Bigger Fleet   Knox Thinks National Service Law Must Be Enacted

U.S. Navy Needs 00,000 More Men, Knox Says  To Man Newly Built Ships in °44

Jap Counter-Offensive “On Bougainville Smashed: C€arolines. Marshalls Hit

Manus Airdrome Seized, Enemy Drive Repulsed   Destroyers Aid Ground Forces

TWOTRIUMPHS OVER ENEMY IN PACIFIC   Capture Of Lorengau Airdrome And Breakdown Of Counteroffensive At Empress Augusta Bay.   land on Manus

Airdrome on Manus  Island Falls to Yanks   Japanese Counter-Offensive at Empress Augusta Bay Breaks Down; Destroyers Help Troops in Capturing Vital Airstrip

2-PRONGED LUNGE DRIVES JAPS FROM MANUS. AIRDROME   American Destroyers Support - Troops as They Advance— ‘Units Press On Toward ~  Lorengau, ,   NIPPONESE ROUTED . ON BOUGAINVILLE   Enemy Turned Back With Tremendous Losses After All-Night Battle in - Augusta Bay Area,

SISTER KENNY’S WORK ANALYZED   Medical Men Claim Her Treatment Does Not Decrease Paralysis

19 Jap Planes Shot Down in Rabaul Raid   Fires Visible 30 Miles After Bomb Atiack on Wewak Airdrome

50,000 Coupons Stolen From Court House Safe   Theft Occurred Sometime Between Friday and Monday; Gas Coupons Make Up Most of Loot

Eire Travel Limit Primary   Churchill Says Controls Set For Isolation Plan

Churchill Says Eire Peril to  Second Front   U.S., Britain Must Protect Lines of Men Going Into Battle

Lire Will Be Isolated, Says Mr. Churchill   Restrictions on Travel Only First Sten

CLOSURE OF BORDER INDICATED 10 GUARD SECRETS’ OF ALLIES   ‘British Leader Declares Southern Ireland Will Be Cut Off From Outer World To Prevent Invasion ‘Leaks’ To Axis

TRAVEL BAN FIRST STEP INPROGRAM   Undisclosed Moves To Quarantine Naiton To Guard Secrets

CHURCHILL REVEALS DECISION   Measure Planned to Prevent Information Leak to Axis

CHURCHILL SAYS EIRE ISOLATION TO BE COMPLETE   Every Effort Will Be Made. to Prevent Leaks In Invasion Sarrets.

Trish Agents Reported Knowing Operations Of Yank Forces In Ulster   Churchill Praises Large Numbers Of Irish Soldiers Fighting With British Armies

ALLIES PLAN TO ISOLATE SO. IRELAND   First Steps Taken Toward “Quarantine”  Of Eire

To Isolate Eire, Says Churchill   Britain Wapected to Take Strong. er Measures to Prevent Opcration of German Spies

Will Isolate Fire, Says Churchill   British Prime Minister De clares Allies Plan Stric Quarantine

TELLS COMMONS SHARPER BORDER CONTROL NEARER   Aims To Prevent Danger To U.S. Troops, Which Mav Re Maved

Allies Plan To Isolate Ireland   Churchill Declares Travel Restrictions Are ‘First Step’ in Quarantine Moves

W.-A. White Foundation Committee Selected   Four Emperiens Are on -Group Charged with Raising $250,000 Fund

PLAN WHITE FOUNDATION   Chancellor Malott i Named on Committee Today

Election Contest Ballot-Recheck in Progress Today  Only One Precinct Com. pleted at Noon in Gross:  ET msétose Titecenée

Election Contest Ballot-Recheck in  Progress Today Only One Precinct Com:  pleted at Noon in Gross: Leiting Dispute

Ford Top-Heavy  Favorite  in Local Wagers Steady Rise in the  Popularity of Tneumbent Noted

Ford Top-Heavy  Favorite  in Local Wagers Steady Rise in the Popularity of  Tenmciemkant Alataa

Torpedo Sinks U.S. Destroyer      Son Of Treasury Secretary Morgenthau Among Those Rescued.

U. $. and Chine Plan Final Blow Against Japan   Nelson and Hurley Hold Secret Mectings With Generalissimo

Berlin Broadcasts Tell Germans Zero Hour Approaching; Troops Watch Coast

Britain Halts All Travel   ALw<'- fl lete Dinmmac   Nazis Claim Plane Plants Undercround

New Secrecy ssteps Taken In England   Nazis Counter With Measures isolating Denmark

BRITISH TRAVEL BAN SEEN AS NEW INVASION MOVE   All But Most Urgent Overseas Travel Is Ban: ned, As Signs Point to Early Invasion

Britain Takes New Measures For Guarding Invasion Secrecy   All But Urgent Travel Overseas Halted As Germans Predict Invasion Zero Hour Near  At Hand: Boast Of Defenses.

Invasion Hour Near, Nazis Fear   Britain Tightens Secrecy Curb; Denmark Isolated By German Move

NAZIS EXPECT ALLIED BLOW AT ANY HOUR      Declare They Are Ready to Meet Assault as Britain Announces Suspensien of Travel to Overseas Destinations.

Sea Travel Out Of Great Britain Now Under Ban   New Invasion - Secrecy Step; Germans Gird For Early Assault.

Nazis Predict Invasion Near  Britain Halts All But Most Urgent Travel Overseas

Travel Overseas Halted by Britain  New Steps Taken to Prevent Invasion Leaks

BRITAIN BANS TRAVEL OUT OF COUNTRY   Germans Declare Zero Hour Of Invasion Near

GERMANS FEAR INVASION SOON   Seasoned Troops Await Assault: Britain Cuts Overseas Travel

Berlin Predicts ~ Invasion Is Near   Most Seasoned German Troops Reported Ready to Meet Allied Assault as Britain Halts All But Most Urgent Travel Overseas in New Secrecy Move.   BAN RUNS INDEFINITELY

Germans Predict Zero Hour Is Neat Declare Troops Ready For Allies

Another Invasion Secrecy Step Is Taken by Britain   All but Most Urgent ‘Overseas Travel Is Halted; Germans Say Zero Hour !s Near

Nazis Claim Troops Ready for Assault   England Bans Travel from , Island in New Security Move

Britain Takes New Measures to Guard Maneuvers Secrecy   Only Most Urgent Overseas Travel Permitted  Forthwith

All But Most Urgent Overseas Travel Prohibited; Germans Say Experienced Nazi Troops From Russian Front Guard Atlantic Wall

GERMANS BOAST THEY'RE READY FOR BIG DRIVE   Britain Slows All Overseas Travel—lInvasion Hour May Be Near

BRITAIN TAKES NEW STEPS 10 GUARD INVASION   Bans Overseas Travel Only in Urgent Cases; Nazis Predict Invasion Hour Near

Zero Hour Near. Nazi  Radio Says   New Measures Taken By Britain To Maintain Secrecy; Germans In Hunt For Saboteurs

Three German Airfields Are  Bomb Targets   Operations Follow 3.000-Plane Raids Monday—Sevastopol In “Final Assault”   Britain Halts All But Most Urgent Travel Overseas in Seereey Step

England Halts Most Travel As Nazis Declare Invasion Force Is Ready For Action

Travel Ban Is Imposed By British   New Restriction. Seen As Indication That Hour Of Invasion Of Continent Is Near

British Take New Measures To Tighten Invasion Secrecy   All But Most Urgent Overseas Travel Ordered Halted; Nazis See Attack Near, Again Boast Of Defense

BRITAIN LIMITS OVERSEAS TRAVEL   TAKE NEW SECRECY STEP; GERMANS SAY INVASION HOUR NEAR

Britain Clamps Ban on Travel   Germans Predict Invasion Near, Say They Are Prepared

Travel Ban Is Invoked By Britain   Drastic Measure Taken to Guard  Invasion Secrecy

Britain Takes New Step To Guard Secret   Sweeping Ban on Travel Overseas Will Become Effective Thursday

Invasion Tension Heightens   Britain Clamps Tight : Ban on Overseas Travel; Berlin Expects Invasion at Any Moment

Germans Boast Europe's Defenses Ready As British Extend Travel Restrictions

BRITAIN TAKES NEW INVASION SECRECY STEP   Germans Predict Hour Of Assault Against  Continent Near

Britain Takes New Steps To Guard Invasion Secrecy As Nazis Believe Hour Is Near

Yanks Again Hit  German Targets   Cologne, Saarbrucken  Blasted By Bombers

Doolittle — Forces Are  In Attack   Powerful Blows Struck By American Planes At Cologne And Other Saar Citadels

Pile Up Evidence In Mystery Death  Fail To Locate Body Of  Woman

URGE INCREASE IN BOND SALE TEMPE   Sales in Gogebic County 13.4 Per Cent of $525,000 Quota.

BUY 10 PER CENT OF COUNTY TOTA   Gogebic Bond Purchases By Individuals Total $53,574.75.

MUST: PUSH SALES IN COUNTY ORIVE   Still Have Time to Reach : Quota in Sixth War Loan Campaian.

Nazi Secret Weapon To Overwhelm Allies At Very Last: Domei      Hitler’s Paris Stand Is Proof He’s Not Yet Done

HITLER'S SHATTERERED FORCES CANNOT LONG DELAY COMPLETE RECLAMATION FRENCH CAPITAL   We Have Every Right to Be Optimistic Because It’s Apparent That He’s A Beaten Man and “The End of the European’ War Is In Sight

WAR TODAY    Hitler’s Situation, De.  ypite Brief Upsurges, So Critical, War Can End Any Day, Any  barr

MACKENZIE SATS—  Nazi Forces Still Ready For Battle   Stand At Paris Shows Battered Nazis Are Far From Defeated

Even Though It’s Plain He's A Beaten Man— wey See sea  =<Jant Thaf Hitler Means To Fight To Last

Britisher Gets Pacific Command   Admiral Fraser Becomes Commander In Chief of Royal Eastern Fleet.

FAST, FURIOUS VOTING BEGAN EARLY IN DAY   In Big Cities, in Country, it's the Same Country Over for Presidential Election.   DIVIDED

Cape Cod Town Gives Results   Dewey Gets 51, FDR 44 in First Block Of 100 Votes

Fifteen Die In Ship Fire   Workmen Suffocated In Norfolk Navy Yard

Fifteen Killed in Fire on a Ship   At Least Twenty Others Are Overcome in the Norfolk Navy Yard.

15 MEN DIE IN SHIP YARD FIRE   DEATH ATTRIBUTED TO SUFFOCATION; 20 INJURED AT NORFOLK

NORFOLK NAVY YARD SHIP FIRE FATAL TO (5   <U Others Overcome By Smoke And Fumes When Fire Breaks Out In Hold Of Naval Ship Undergoing Repairs

15 Suffocated In Ship’s Hold   Men Are 0 Naval V¥  come Making Repairs

13 Die In Navy Yard Holocaust   20 Others Overcome As Repaired Ship Catches On Fire.

15 Die, 20 Hurt In Fire Aboard U.S. Navy Ship   Civilian : Workmen. Stifled   at Nerfolk as Blaze   Sweeps Vessel: Cause Ta Not. Known

15 Men Killed As Fire Breaks Out in Vessel   20 Others Overcome By Smoke and Fumes In Hold of Naval Ship Undergoing Repairs

15 Men Smother In Fire in Ship   Caught in Navy Vessel Undergoing Repairs

FIRE AT NAY YARD CAUSES 15 DEATHS   20 Others injured When Fire Starts in Hotd of Ship Being Renaired.

FIFTEEN KILLED IN NAVAL YARD FIRE THURSDAY   Twenty Inimred; Cauce Of Fire  Is Unknown

15 Workmen In Navy Yard Die From Smoke   20 Others Overcome as Fire Breaks  Out in Ship Hold

15 WORKMEN DIE IN BLAZE   Suffocate in Fire on Naval Ship Undergoing Repairs

Naval Ship Fire Kilis 15 hy Suffocation  At Least: 20 Others Are Overcome by Smoke and Fumes

15 Perish By  Suffocation   Twenty Others Injured When Fire Breaks Out In Hold.

NAVY YARD FIRE IS FATAL 10 15   Workmen In Ship’s Hold Suffocate; 20 Others Are Overcome   The Roving Reporter

15 Men Die In Ship Hold Fire:   At Least 20 More  “Nolarrowly Fecane -

U.S. Air Might Falls Upon North Italy, Southern France; [Many German Planes Downed

First Time Florence Struck During War   Vital Rail Yards at Florence, Padua Wrecked In Terrific Assaults, Toulon Sub Pens Blasted

MOST VITAL RAIL TARGET BLASTED   Precision Shelling. Ss pares  Priceless Art Treasures te fide   SAVAGE RUNNING BATTLE FOUGHT IN PADUN ATTACK

U. S. Bombers Hit Naval Base of Toulon   Florence, Padua Also Are Blasted Heavily

OLD FLORENCE HIT FOR FIRST TIME IN WAR   MUENSTER TARGETS BLASTED WITHOUT OPPOSITION

Nazi-Held Naval Base In France Pounded   Italian Railway Yards At Padua Left In Smoke

‘Yank Planes Bombard Enemy's Sanctuaries In Both Florence, Toulon

Marauders Bomb Florence For First Time   Flying Fortresses Attack Railroad Yards at Padu, 22 Miles From Venice

Air Might In Italy Loosed   Historic Florence Lashed During Terrific Air Scran

Florence !s Hit By U. 5. Bombers In Newest Raid   Nazis Naval Base at Toulon, Railyards at Padua Blasted

U. S. Smashes Padua and Toulon Bases   Telling Blow Is Dealt; Historic City of Florence Is Lashed

Five Dangers Facing Nation   Governor Bricker Of Ohio Says Change Of Philosophy In Government Needed

Russians Lunge Oy Far Inside Poland   Nazis Lose Heavily In Vain Attempt To _ Grack Dnieper Trap Holding 10 Divisions

Red Forces. Continuing In Advance   Nazi Divisions Face Death  Or Surrender

Russ Steamroller  Plunges 50 Miles   Rail Centers of Lutsk, Rovno Fall With 200 Other Communities; 2000 Prisoners Swept Up in Gain

Slay 4,500 ~ More Nazis  In Red Trap   95 German Tanks Are ~ Knocked Out; More  Successes Announced By Stalin

Lutsk and Rovno Captured; 200  Prisoners Laken   Russians Are 85 Miles Within the Old Frontier; Advance Represents 50-Mile Gain From Last Red Positions

Russ 85 Miles in Poland: Dnieper: Trap Unyielding   Warsaw Rail Keys, 200 Other Communities Taken; Two Hungarian Divisions Routed

Germans Make Vain Attempt To Recover 10 Trapped Divisions   Red Army Now Only 290 Miles From Germany Praper; Stalin Issues Special Order of the Day

‘Soviet Forces 85 Miles Inside Old Poland Moscow Discloses   Nazis Unable to Crack Russian Trap Closing on 10 Divisions Facing Death or Surrender in Dnieper; Soviets Near 1939 Boundary

RUSSIANS SEIZE TWO KEY POINTS IN OLD POLAND   Stalin Announces Capture of Rovno and Lutsk—Nazis Lose 4,500 Men

Reds Deeper In Old Poland   Take Lutsk and Rovno; Draw Lines Closer Around Trapped Nazis

Russians Move         "Guts Victory:   Red Ring Tightens About Kiev Trar   190,000 Hans: Being  Squeezed To Death South  - ‘of Kiev; Nazi Air Rescues Futile

Soviets Take Lutsk, Rovno, - Rail-Centers   Two Hungarian Divisions Routed, 2,000 Captives Seized   50. MILE ADVANCE   Russ Tightening Trap on j0 Nazi Divisions in Dnieper Bend

New Drive Carries Russians Within 50 Miles of Russo-Germar Border of 1939

25 Million 25 Million Mark 4 Lumberton Marke      By Jasper C. ‘Hutto, Supervisé®: Tacckertan Tobaces Market:

25 Million Mark Passed Today On: Lumberton Market   By Jasper C. Hutto, Supervisor Lumberton Tobacco Market 3

Heckling and Booing Lasts 30 Minutes During Ad‘dress by Senator  O'’Daniel -

F ree-For-All Fights Feature O”Daniel Rally   Eggs Thrown, Noses Reddened And Eyes:

Reach Positions 20 Miles From Border of Lithuania  APES: CE pete SAG:      VIOLENT BATTLES   Fiesh German Panzer’ Units Thrown Against Russian Forees

Red Forces 20 Miles  Of Lithuania   Surge Forward on 350-Mile Front into Heart of Hitler’s Eastern Lines

Russians in Heart Of ‘Hitler’ 's Line   Gains Are Made by the So_ viet Troops on a'350° _  Mile.Front   APPROACH BUG RIVER   New Positions Put Reds in Striking: Distance of Lithuania <=;

RED ARMIES THREATENING BALTIC AREA   Push Back Nazis on Whole of 350-Mile Front and Free More Towns; Ten Miles from Wilno.

RUSSIANS REACH POINT TO DRIVE INTO LITHUANIA   Positions West Of River Viliya Are Captured; Stalin's Forces Move Forward On 350 Mile Front.

Lithuanian — Border Near As Russian — Drive Grows   “Large: Area Seized ‘On Widening, Front,

‘Soviet Army 10 Mis. From ‘Wilno, Key Baltic City   Reds Surge Ahead On 350-Mile Front In Very Heart Of Hitler's Lines

First Barrier To Warsaw Also Is Approached   Russian Forees Surging  Forward On 330-Mile  Front Inte Very Heart Hither’s Eastern Lines   Berlin Says Foes At Gates of Wilno   Soviets Bring War to Front Door of Capital of Lith. tania By Seizing River Viliva Positions

Soviets Lunge Into Heart of German Lines   Twenty Miles From Lithuanian Border; Neor Warsaw Barrier

NAZI DEFENSES SHATTERED BY SOVIET ARMIES   Baltic Railway, Essential To Germans Is Threatened

Russians Close In On Wilno   Within 10 Miles Of Key Point, Germans Report.

SOVIETS SWEEP FORWARD ON 390-MILE LINE   Reds Drive Into Center of Hitler’s Eastern Frontier

Germans Admit Large Gains By Russian Force:   Report Wilno, Gateway To Latvia, Lithuania Endanaered

Soviets Surge Forward   Russian Advance On 350-Mile Front Reported; Approach Warsaw Barrier

ih Before ied Onslaught   Cevelry And Tanks Breck Resistance § Faltering Huns

chedule of Conferences, Says  residential Candidate Begins Busy ricker To Be Full Partner in Drive

Dewey To Welcome All Advice   G. O, P. Candidate Holding Many Conferences With  High Party Leaders.

i Quotas for inuary Slashed   )PA Announces Cut in  var and Truck Casings

LATVIA PUSH BRINGS TOWN OF NOVORZHEV   Brunswick Is Targe! American Bombers

Reds Push Into Pskov Outskirts   Bombers Hit Brunswick Nazis Shell Beachhead

Threatening Nazi Port Of Livorno On West And Ancona On East  U. S. FORCES BURST OUT OF MOUNTAINS  Into Flatland Stretch 11 Miles Northwest Of Pica

Allies Threatéi Nazis af Livorno   New Gains Recorded In Two-Way Drive

Allies Close in on Livorno, Ancona   Yanks and British Gain on Bow Coasts of Italy and Threaten Vital Seaports

Allied Armies Peril Ancona And Leghorn   Forces Sweep Up Both Sides Of Italian Peninsula For Gains

Brenner Pass ‘Rail Viaduet Is Bombed   Planes Probably Close Nazi Key Supply Reute To Southern Italy  PART OF ALLIED PLAN

BRENNER PASS TARGET FOR . §. FLIERS   Three Separate Groups Hit Aviss Viaduct; Carries Estimated 75 Train Loads Daily for Nazis.   Hit Blogna Yards

F lying Forts Score Hits on Brenner Pass   Key Supply Line to Hitler’s Armies in Italy Believed Closed: Other Attacks Made

BELIEVE NAZI SUPPLY ROUTE TO ITALY CUT   Yanks Say Fortresses Smashed Key Brenner Pass Viaduct

Army ‘Gag’ On Mrs. Luce  ‘Ridiculous’   Legislator Not Held Incommunicado in Britain, Rep. Merritt Says

Army Official Tells Rep. Luce To Keep Quiet  Tours Britain  With Solons

WITH DEALER HELP FARMERS WILL GET 26 CENTS FOR EGGS   Minimum Price Will Help To Relieve Bad Situation Prevailing

(Clom ) ensation  Voted Workers   Senate Committee Asked To Break Jam On Demobilization

Russ Crash to Budapest Gates   Nazis Lay Waste to Hungarian Capital

RED OFFENSIVES MOUNT IN FURY   Germans Retreating Into Baltic States Leaving Finland to Shift For Herself; Reds Continue to Kill Germans in the  Ukraine and On Kerch Peninsula.

Russians Already Have Pushed Through Suburbs of the City.   DRIVE MOUNTS ALL ALONG NORTH AREA  Rebellions in Bulgarian  Be ee See

Nazis-Soviets Engaged ‘In Bitter Battle: Reds Capture Rail Junction

JAPANESE CABINET CALLED TO DISCUSS MATTERS OF MOMENT   TOTAL KILL OF NAVAL _ BATTLES IN PACIFIC NOT VET COMPLETE

Japanese Cabinet Called to Study Pacific Reverses   MacArthur's Land Forces Push Aheac In Philippines

Japanese Cabinet Meets To Discuss Philippines Losses   More Than Two Score Ships Sunk, Damaged

Full Story of Historic Figh Not Yet Tol¢       May Be Considerable Time Before Results: 0  Battle Are Known «

Gamble Almost Succeeded, It ls Now Revealed, When Nip Warships Actually Penetrated Leyte Gulf Where Yanks Invaded Philippines Before American Assault Turned into Stunning Defeat

32 Jap Ships Sunk, Crippled By U.S. Forces   Yanks Hunt Down  Remnants of Tokyo's Broken Task Forces

Full Story of Historic Fight Not Yet Told   May Be _ Considerable Time Before Results of Battle Are Known

Yanks on Leyte Control 40 Miles of East Coast '   Total of Warships Out of ‘Action May Reach 40, Officials Say’   NAVAL BOX SCORE

Three Dead After Gasoline Stove Blast   Cottage Near Pembine Is Destroyed By Fire Which Took Lives Of Two Women, Youth

Three Die in Stove Blast   Another In Serious Condition; Fire Destroys Summer Cottag

Yanks Slash Through Feeble Opposition on Way Across Brittany   Germans Rocked Fer Back By British Assault Which May Engulf Remaining Defenses; Yanks Aim at Rennes

Nazis Fail In Effort To Halt Yanks   They ‘Are Gambling Des perately To Last Out The Winter ,

Seventh Army to German Border On 17-Mile Front   FACED BY NEW PANZER DIVISION   Other Fronts Static As Hitler Throws All Into Effort to Hold For Winter.

MARAUDERS Hil OBJECTIVES IN NORTH FRANCE   U.S. Daylight Raider: Go Out as R. A. F. Formations Return

German Military Objectives Being Steadily Bombec   Day And Night Attacks On France And Western Germany Continue   INVASION COAST GETS NO RESPITE

S000 Nets  s Killed in Ge of Most cisive Raltiles of Winter. Othe  kusstatt Units Lxtudl Saliend fate Old Poland lo 80-ile runt.

Reds Beat Off Three Nazi Thrusts   Soviets Extend Polish Salient To 80-Mile Front

Nazi Attacks Beaten Off,  ‘Russians Say   Soviet Forces Advance In Offensives North And South of Pripets  4.500 NAZIS KILLED

FIERCE BATTLES RAGE ON ROAD TO RUMANIA AND IN WHITE RUSSIA; THOUSANDS OF GERMANS KILLED; EQUIPMENT SEIZED.

FRANTIC GERMAN ATTACKS HALTED BY RED TROOPS   Nazis Are Fighting Bitterly  To Prevent Advance  On Rumania   ODESSA-LWOW RAIL ‘LINE IMPORTANT GOAL

sermar s See<”/ain * <0.-.a.. Rec Surge owarc <ami ia; Russians %s1-9 20'n- 2* ‘78s in Po anc

Three Thousand Germans Killed in Decisive Battle  ADVANCES ON OTHER  FRONTS CONTINUING  Red Armies Continue Their March Toward Rumania

Extend Salient To 80 Mi. Front In Old Poland   Reds Victorious in White Russia; Many Nazis Killed

(ERMANS STRIKE BACK IN EFFORT TO HALT ADVANGE   Throw Large Forces Into Struggle That Sees Villages Change Hands Several Times.   SOVIETS 46 MELES INSIDE OLD POLAND   Capture District Center of Korets and Widen Front— Now Hold 2,000 Square Miles of Country.

Russians Repel Frantic German Counter Attacks   Extend Advance On Long Front

Nazis Unable ToCheck Reds   Fierce Counterblows Fail ‘As Soviets Lash Forward

Salient Into Old Poland Is Extended   : Large German Force  Fights to Halt  Drive on Rumania

Germans Fighting Bitterly to Halt ~ Reds Driving Toward Rumania; Gains Made in White Russia

DELAY IN PEACE _ ACTION BLAMED   600 Planes Saturday Ni Night Attack the Finnish Capital For 12 _  Lin te

Finn Capital Battered In 12-Hour Air Attack; Little Action in Italy

SIX MORF JAP SHIPS ga IN Pe AES   _ 4 ,hileYankDrive ..** emoc Slowed by Nip Counter-Attacks

Distillers Begin Working Holiday   Expect To Produce Yeor's Supply Of  Liquor In 31 Day Dest. d

Claims Jap Sub Submerged With 100 Americans Tied Upon Deck, Left to Drowr

American Legion ‘Bill Of Rights’ To Go To Senate  Miedo Wh wae EE YW ate

PSKOV BATTLE INLAST PHASE   Red Infantry Girds For Last Push  Desperate Nazis Hurl In Reserves

NAL TROOPS ~ LOSING FIGHT FOR BIG BASE   GERMAN RESERVES FAIL TO HALT RED ARMY'S ADVANCE ON GATEWAY TO. BAL. “TIC BTATES ©

Jap Fleet May Be Idle For Fuel Oil Lack   Shuns Showdown  With U. S Navy

Jap Navy Shortage of Fuel Oil May Be Reason For Evading Nimitz Fleet

OIL APROGLE OF JAP FLEET   May Be Major Factor in Determination of Enemy to Avoid Battle.

Japs Short On Fuel Oil   Lack May Ext Explain Reluctance to Send Fleet Into Action

Jap ‘Sea’ Fate Hinges on Oil   U. S. Forces Strive trea Curb Fue} Flow

SOVIET ARMY CUTS CENTER OF LITHUANIA   OTHER UNITS WITHIN 80 MILES OF WARSAW

Reds Deep Into Lithuania; Allies Advance InF rench Mud   Three Allied Columns Advance on Florence;  U. §. Bombers Make Heavy Ploesti Attack

Seek to Trap Thirty Nazi Divisions   Panevezys, Vital Nazi Defense Stronghold, Taken

Reds Capture Stronghold On Vital Highway   Chelm, 300 Miles To South, Falls, In Push Into Poland’s Center, Finn Border Reached

Russians Trying to Trap 300,000 Nazi Troops In  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

The Weather’   30 Divisions of Germans  Facing Trap Along. Coast   Soviets Within-80 ‘Miles. Of Frontier

Reds Race to Close Trap on 30 Divisions   Capture Panevezys, Only 85 Miles South Of Latvian Capital of Riqa on Baltic Sea

Top Leaders Missing From The Faithful   Reported Junker Gencrals Have Sct Up A New Regime, Himmler Wields Knife

Russians Capture Panevezys On Baltic Sea  Red Army. Racing. Into  ‘Lithuania T. Tran Cermans

PRUSSIAN CAPITAL SCENE OF CLASH   MOSCOW RADIO SAYS MARTIAL LAW HAS BEEN DECLARED IN KONIGSBERG.

Russians Seize Nazi Strongohid To East Prussia   Panevezys Only 85 Miles South of Latvian Capital

Russians Seek To Trap 30 Nazi Divisions   Lithuanian Drive Highlights Moves On Eastern Front

Konigsberg Placed Under Martial Law; Red Troops Sweeping Through Poland   Soviet Forces Driving Forward At Rapid Rate in Central Poland:  Oreman Franti Cracttucr ai Riany Parnia

RED ARMY POUNDS GERMANS BACK ON 800-MILE FRONT   Russians Seize Stronghold South of Riga as They Move to Trap 30 Divistons Along Baltic Coast.   ADVANCE 17 MILES IN DRIVE ON WARSAW   Muscovites in Large Numbers Pour Across Bug~-Nazis Believed Abandoning Brest-Litovsk.

Russian Baltic Army Races Into Lithuania   Advance Threatens To Trap Thirty German Divisions

SOVIET ARMIES NOW IN HEART OF LITHUANI/   New Victories Include Gains at FinnishRussian Border

Seeking Trap for 300, Nazi Troops   Russians Racing for Heart of Lithuania in Unchecked Drive

Soviet Spearhead Is 80 Miles From Polish Capital   Troops Enter Pskov; Chelm Falls As Reds Penetrate 17 Miles Inte Nazi-Held Poland

Reds Press To Heart of! Lithuania   Move To Trap 30 Divisions Of Nazis Along The Baltic Coast

300,000 Nazis Face Trap . In Red Thrust   Baltic Army Seizes Bastion Only 85 Miles South of Riga

Vin Important City 85 Miles From Capital   Race Into Heart Of Lithuania In Effort To Trap Nazi Divisions.

Huge Naval Force Aids In Assaults   Largest Group of Warships Ever Assembled Protects Landings

10 BEACHHEADS IN HANDS OF 30,000 YANKS   Major Assaults On 3 Islands

JAPS FIGHTING. - BACK FURIOUSLY, — LOSE 128 PLANES   Heavy Battle Reported After Landing on Strategic IsJand Chain.

Temperatures   Warships, Planes Rock Isles Like ‘Distant Thunder’

30,000 SOLDIERS TAKE PART ALONG INVASION ROUTE   Marines and Army Troops Swarm Under Protective Fire of Greatest Naval Striking Force.      AMERICAN CASUALTIES ARE EXTREMELY LIGHT   Japs First Stunned, Deci-’ mated By 14,495 - Ton Bombardment, Opposition   Given By Few Snipers.

Major Assaults Begun On Main Jap Strongholds   30,000 Marines, Army Men Involved In Large-Scale Drive

TEN ISLET BEACHHEADS ARE SEIZED   Major Assaults Begun on Main Strongholds In Bold Sweep Toward Tokyo.

10 BEACHHERD POSITIONS HELD AY U.S, FORCES   Major Assaults on Enemy’s  island ’Strongholds : Under Way.

30,000 Swarm Into Marshalls   Americans Assault Kwajalein and  Other Bases Under Naval Gunfire

AMERICANS SEIZE TEN BEACHHEADS FROM NIPPONESE   Enemy Forces Stunned by Terrific Bombardment by Giant U. S. Fleet

Start Drive On Major Strongholds   30,000 MARINES AND SOLDIERS LAND; MOVE PUTS AMERICANS 500 MILES NEARER TOKYO =

30,000 Marines, and Army Troops in Action   Japs Putting Up Desperate Defense   Americans Using New Equipment; Yank Casualties Said to be Light

Start Powerful Assaults Against Kwajalein. Roi And Namur Islands; Ground Action Intensified, More Air Raids Recorded   RESISTANCE OF JAPS SAID TO BE LIGHT

AIMED AT JAP STRONGHOLDS   Kwajalein Naval Base fs Main Objective In Assault Against Marshalls

‘Yanks Open Assault On Jap Defenses   Tremendous Naval Force Covers Action of Over  30,000 U. S. Troops.

AMERICAN SUBS HITTING ENEMY   Total Of 187 Jap Vessels Suak In Last Five Months

SUBS BOOST RATE ON SINKING SHIPS   Average s 37.4 Jap Vessels Monthly, Four Times More Than In 1942.

BLAME ON BROKEN RAIL   Cause Named for Derailment of Viking Which Killed One,

NAZIS RENEW PRESSURE ON POPE TO LEAVE   Move Hints Germans Are Preparing to Defend Italian Capital

POPE PIUS WILL ~ REMAIN N ROME   Nazis Urge Him to Go to Germany and Threaten Defense of Italian City

GERMANS PLAN TO DEFEND ROME STEP BY STEP   Pope Pius XII To Remain Despite Nazi Warning

Nazis Urge Pope To Leave Rome   Step-By-Step Defense Of City Planned

County War Bond Box Score   Pope Won’t Leave Rome In Spite Of Nazi Warnino

Nazis Threaten: ao Defend Rome To Destruction   Try To Persnade: Pope To Go To Getinany; 3 Pontiff : .Flatly :Refuses. Plea

Nazis Press Pontiff To  Leave Rome   Germans Indicate They Will Fight in Citv. Despite Vatican

POPE REFUSES TO QUIT ROME   REPORT NAZIS WARN PONTIFF OF PLANS TO DEFEND THE CITY

NAZIS RENEW PRESSURE ON POPE   Hint at Military Defense of Eternal City to Compel Move

FUND BILL -RIKES FORE WY PROM   Senate Hears 3-to-1 Ratio in Strength Due This  Summer

SCASUALTIES HEAVY, GOING TOUGH AS SEVEN ALLIED ARMIES HACK DEEPER INTO REICH’S OUTER DEFENSES

CASUALTY LISTS FROM WESTERN FRONT TO GROW, NEWSMAN WARNS   Seven Allied Armies Face Bitter Fighting

War Department Official Release Shows Allies Suffer Heavy Losses   200,349 CASUALTIES SINCE INVASION DAY   Or Approximately 1,333 Daily Allied Losses In Five Months

 OF CAETA TAKEN BY THE YANKEES   Germans Get No Respite. Itvi Also Captured—Enemy Faille Back.

VATICAN obtK TO AVE ROME DEGLARED OPEN   Proposal Received ty Washington Shows Fear of Sneak Aitack

VATICAN SEEKS TO HAVE AONE DECLARED OPEN   Proposal Received ; ky Washington Shows .. Fear of Sneak Attack’ -

DEWEY STICKS 10 OFFENSE TACTICS   CONTINUES TO BANG AWAY AT THEME OF NEW DEAL FAILURE

Dewey Keeps Up Offensive   Continues to Bang Away at F. R. and New Deal Activities

DeweyKeeping On. Offensive In Voie Battle   Scheduted For Ranch Conferences With Cattlemen and Politicians  Fit Neher

Tornado Rips Through Center of State   FIVE ACCIDENTAL DEATHS REPORTED IN STATE

WISCONSIN HIT BY WINDS TORN   Roaring West Wind Blows Across Central Part of State Yesterday.   MUCH DAMAGE REPORTED

STATE CONVENTION ‘PLANS ARE MAPPED   Formal Nominations of Tydings and Randall . to Take Place

Yanks Cross River Barrier Near Cassino   French Assault Turns Left Flank of Nazi  ‘Gustav Line’

French Mountain Troops Capture Last German Stronghold North Of That Rome Road Gateway

AMERICANS CROSS RIVER AT CASSINO   French Capture Town of San Elia, Nazi Line Anchor

FIFTH ARMY CROSSES RIVER aABOVE CASSING   While French Cavture Town of San Elia in Italy

RAPIDO RIVER IS FORDED BY U. §. TROOPS   French Storm and Capture San_ Elia, North Anchor of German Force.

Americans Cross Rapido Stream North of Cassino   French Troops Capture Town of San Elia, Northern Nazi Anchor

Yanks Advance ir Italy in Face of Howling Storm  Cross Rapido   Cross Rapido River North OF Caceing

Navy Lieutenant on Combat Duty Writes   Says They Have Direct Deteriorating Effect on Fighting Men

Navy Officer on Combat Duty Denounces Strikes-- Internal Enemies’

‘We Are Being Sold Our  ‘Work And Die Gladly For An  Ungrateful America, He Says   Naval Officer On Combat Duty Assails Strikes At Home: Says Men's Hopes Are Being Crushec

NAVY LIEUTENANT ON COMBAT DUTY RAPS AT STRIKES   DECLARES FIGHTING MEN HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT ON HOME FRONT

KClUCKK OOK ORK Navy Officer Denounces — Nation’s “Internal Enemies”

STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE VOTED DOWN RESOLUTIONS   FOURTH-TERM BACKERS LOSE FIGHT FOR CERTIFI CATION OF ELECTORS

Nelson to Speed Goods to China   Says Supplies Needed  In Serious Situation

HAVE 60 DIVISIONS   Germans, Caught Short on D-Day, Rush in Rein forcements

OPA Order: Price Cut On Clothing   Two-Fold Move Announced in New Crackdown

Bricker Says Issue of Campaign Is U.S. Republic Life   GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Declares Nation Must Prove Peoples’ System Able to Wage War, Stay Free

’ BRICKER LINKS PAC TO RIVALS   Governor Predicts Dewey Will Win — He Hits at Sidney Hillman

GOP, Will Free Nation, Says Bricker   New Deal Alliances With Bosses Termed New Low In Politics   (Text of Governor Bricker’s Speech on Pare 7)

Bricker Attacks The New Deal   In Acceptance Speech as Dewey Running Mate

New Deal Has Hit New Political Low, Bricker Declares   GOP Vice-Presidential Nominee Attacks FDR In Acceptance Speech

BRICKER OPENS CAMPAIGN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT   Says Issue of ’44 Is ‘Shall The United States Continue To Be a Republic’   LISTS FOUR STEPS IN CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM   Declares Government House Must Be Cleaned of Debris With Which it Is Now Cluttered; Must Get Rid of Needless Bureaucracy

Red Units Strike Out For Aegean, Adriatic Coasts   Balkan Offensive Touches Off General Uprising In Serbia

Red Armies Battling Way Across Approaches to Korsun, Last German Stronghold in. Encircled Pocket Below Cherkasi.

Nazis Waking Final Stand Near Korsun  RedyArmies ies Battle Way To Last German  Stronghold ‘ THOUSANDS DIE Attempt At Rescue Of  Bneircled Troops

Nazis Make Last Stand In Hills   Survivors in Hail of Shells; Reds Almost In Korsun

REDS FINISHING OFF TRAPPED NAZI DIVISIONS   Last of Battered Sur vivors Make Last Stand

Trapped Nazis Pounded by —  Russian Guns   Soviets Tighten . Circle Around Beleaguered Town

TRAPPED NAZI FORCE BEING ANNIHILATED   Soviet Armies Closing In On Enemy Troops At Korsun

Reds Shove On To Korsun In Encirclement. —   Battered Nazis Making Last Stand Under Crash of Soviet Shellfire

GERMANS DIE BY THOUSANDS IN RED POGKE}   Korsun, Last Stronghold In Cireled Sector, About To Fall

REDS RING LAST NAZI HOLD IN UKRAINE POCKET   Enemy In Final Stand Outside Korsun, Under Rain Of Shells

REDS REACH APPROACHES TO KORSUN   Last German Stronghold in Encircled Pocket

Lost U.S. Battalion Holds 4 Divisions  ae2'. Bt. Chelle Holding Medicine. Plasma to Besieged Yanks, Dive-Bombers Drop Food

U.S., French  Forees Crack Nazis Defense   Are Reported 20 Miles From Belfort: Opposition Strong

Administration “Has Broken Spirit of Americans’ Says Detroit Mayor

Detroit’s Non-Partisan Mayor Urges GOP To Select Presidential Candidate Who Can Re-Create Our Government

F.D.R. May Ask  For New League      Times Learns President Will Ask Senate For Power To Enforce Pacts.

Senate To Get New ‘League of Nations’ Plan   Roosevelt Reported Ready To Submit With Request For Powers to Enforce Treaties

Peace Agency to Be Sought First of All   Administration Hopes 10 Avoid Mistakes of the Last War   WOULD BE READY TO MEET DEMANDS   Would Have Machinery All Set Up for Settlement of Disputes

FDR To Ask Right To Enforce Pacts   New League To Be Separated From Treaties

Hit Bucharest. Budapest As Reds Surge on   Soviets Advance Kleven Miles Inte Rumania. Make Other Gains Across Prut

Bucharest Hit By U. S. Planes  For First Time   Twin Blows Made by Americans Behind Nazi Wavering Balkan Front.   Reds Advance Eleven  Miles Into Rumania

Bucharest sRaided by U.S. Planes   Reds Pressing Toward Rail City Of fasi in Rumania

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS HIT -RUMANIAN CAPITAL FOR FIRST TIME; RAF BOMBS BUDAPEST   Twin Blows Struck. at Balkan Capitals As Germany’s Wavering Balkan Front Is Being Steadily Pushed Back by the Surging Russian Armies

US Heavy Bombers Attack Bucharest, iL AF Hits Budapest   Support Russian Ground Drive Into Balkan Area

YANK HIT BUCHAREST FOR FIRST TIME   British Blast Budapest anc Russian Army Surges On Into Rumania

RAF Follows Yanks Attack Monday on Hungary's Capital   Hitler's Supply Line To Critical Russian Front Is Crippled

Budapest Hit Again By British In Drive To Aid Red Smash   Fortresses, Liberators Smash At Rumanian Capital In Considerable Strength; Moscow Reports Slaying Of 183,000 Nazi Soldiers During March

Bucharest, Capital of Rumania, Target of Yankee Bombers   Attack Follows RAF’s Night Assault on Bud apest in Hungary

AMERICAN HEAVIES ATTACKED BUCHARES! IN DAYLIGHT RAID   NEW ACTION FOLLOWED NIGHT RAF BLASTING OF BUDAPEST

Rumaniar Capital Blasted   Bucharest Attacked By Heavy U. S. Bombers; British Hit Budapest, Supporting Red Drive

Flyers Blast Jaluit, Eniwetek and Mili   Two Squadrons of Heavy Bombers Wreak New Havoe on Wake Island

Deblin On Vistula Captured   Great Baltic Movement Promote:  Entrapment Of 30  ‘German Divisions,

Soviets Storm Outer Detense  Ring Of Warsaw   Narva, Deblin Fall To Soviet  Armies

More Than 300 Are Overcome as Leaking Tank Spreads Chlorine Gas Over Brooklyn Area

Search for Escaped Nazi Prisoners Centers in Imperial Valley After Pair Asks for Food at El Centro

BLOWS SEEN AS PREPARATORY TO BIC DRIVE   Ist Army Reported Pouring Thru Siegfried Line Breach Near Aachen

HODGES’ ARMY TEARS HOLE Ih SIEGFRIED LINE   Series Of Nazi CounterAttacks Broken Or Contained

All-Out Assault On Reich is Near   Americans Tear Hole in Siegfried Line Near Aachen: Calais Taken

~*~ We eT eee aes  6 Counterattacks As Allies Gain 3'2 Miles  SUPPORTED BY 500 AMERICAN PLANES Hole Torn In Sier fried  Line Near Aachen And Force Eastward

Season’s Leaf Sales On Lumberton Market Totaled 32,668,736 Pounds   For $14,130,.271.98, Av. erage $43.25 Best Year in History of Market All Money Records Broken. . .   By Jasper C. Hutto Supervisor Lumferton Tobacco .). 

Season’s Leaf Sale: Qn Lumberton Market Totaled 32.668,736 Pounds      Kor  $14,130.271.98, cAvcrage $43.25 Best Year in’ Elistory of Market, AL Money Records  Peokon.   By Jasper C. Hutto  Supervisor Lumferton Tobacco RG. wks md

RUSS HAMMER NAZIS ON CZECH FRONT   Reds Seize Vital Communications Centers; Capture 14 Towns

MINER’S DEATH ~ NOTE IS FOUND   Bodies of 66 Men Trapped July 15 Recovered

Bodies Of Men Trapped In Ohio Mine Last July Are Reached---Scribbled Note Tells Of Fight Against Gas

NOTE REVEALS MINERS: FATE      Crews Come Upon Bodies of 47 of 66 Men Entombed Last July 5

47 Bodies Found In ’ Powhatan Pit      Penciled Note of Happennings Found; Local Man’s Relative’s Body Recovered

Anglo-American Parley s Expected To Consider Problems of World Trade

Try to Get Corn Stored on Farms   Food Officials Say 75 Million Bushels Needed For  Processing Plants.

CORN SUPPLIES RUNNING SHORT   Officials Would Avert Shutdown of Plants Using Grain for Products.

Another Serious Market Shortage Of Corn Develops   Officials Seeking Ways to Obtain 75,000 000 Bushels

Corn Processing Plants Facing Shutdown — Unless Farmers Market Corn More Freely

Seek More Corn  From arm Stock   Government Food Officials Say Plants Are Facing Shutdown

Seek Way to Get Farmers to Sell Corn   Supplies. Running Short a: Growers Hold On to Their Crops   CHANGE IN CEILING PRICE POSSIBLE   Hog Values May Be Lower. ed to Reduce Profit in Feedins

CORN SHORTAGE BECOMES ACUTE   Farmers Holding Grain To Feed Livestock, Claim

FOOD OFFICIALS SEEK TO AVERT CORN SHORTAGE   SEARCH FOR WAY OF MOVING 75,000,000 BUSHELS TO MARKET

COTTON TEXTILE PINCH FORESEEN   Concerted Action Urged To Head Off Shortage For Civilians

COTTON GOODS SHORTAGE SEEN   Government Officials Acting Swiftly To Head Off  Serious Situation

Hull Renews His Warning To Neutrals About Giving Asylum to War Criminals

TO BEAGHHEAN   Huge Stores of Booty, More Than 5,500 Prisoners Captured.   ITAKE ROAD JUNCTIONS

Nazis Being Pushed Back In Italy To  New Positions   Americans Capture Two Towns, French Punch Deeper Into Middle Of Italy And Eighth Army Carries Attack Into Liri Valley

Strong Points In Hitler Line Captured   Germans’ Backing Up on Lower. Hal Of -Front

Vigorous Advances Foree Nazis Back  To 3d Defense Wall   ftri Aad Gaeta Fall To Americans In Drive Gn Sagging Hitler Line:  Gains Made By “British. French

Nazi Forces Fall Back to ~ New Positions   Allies Seize Port Of Gaeta, Smash Ahead on tide rrent

Allies Capture Strongest Positions Of Hitler Line On Lower Italian Front

Driving Germans Back To 3d Line   Allied Troops Seize String of Strong Fortifications in Hitler Line — Huge Stores of Booty Enveloped — Yanks Take Itri and Gaeta

Oust Nazis From Main Fortifications In Southern Italy   ‘Prisoner Bag Increases To 5,500 Ger mans; London Says Troops Only 20 _ Miles From Anzio Beachhead

Giving Enemy No Respite at Any Point, Germans Unable to Stabilize Lines and Now Outfought, Outgeneralled and OutManeuvered, Whole Line  Jeonardizved

Huge Stores of Materiel Are Seized and More Than 5,500 Nazis Are  Prisoners        7] a 7s   Ports Are Raided   Aireraft. Attack Vital West. Coast Ports, Bridges in North

Drive Nazis Back to Third Line Along Lower Segment   Americans Capture Itri and Gaeta, French Advance at Center, British Attack Liri Valley Towns

ORIVE NAZIS BACK T0  ‘THIRD WALL   Americans Win ltri And Gaeta, Controlling Ports

Allies Driving Foe Back Along Entire Lower Half of Italian Front to Third Defense Wall; Both Itri and Gaeta Fall

‘Hitler Line Fortifications Smashed, Allies Capture Many Towns: 5,500 Prisoners Taken   Itri, Gaeta Fall To Americans; Nazis Admit Loss OF Campodimeie; Eighth Army Recobdins Gains In Liri Valley

HITLER WALL IS CRUSHED BY ALLIES   5,500 Men And Much Booty Taken In Advance   ITRI, GAETA   Captured By Yank Forces; Drive Smashes Closer To Beachhead

Third Defense Line Will Be Hit Next   Portions of Hitler Line Seized by Advancing Yankees

Nazis Lose Campodimele Near Ceriter As Yanks Take Itri; French Cuitflank Stronghold; Nazi Rome Army Jeopardized.

Yanks Capture ltri and Gaeta; Huge Stores of Booty Seized   La Spezia, Genoa, Livorno Bombed ; 5500 Pris oners Taken

NOW FALLING BACK TO WEAKER POSITIONS   5,500 Prisoners Are Taken, Much Booty is Captured; ttri. Gaeta Fall

GERMANS FACE MAJOR DEBACLE IN ROME AREA   Hitler Line Is Pierced; Name  Now Changed

Allied Planes Reported Over Western Reich   Apparently Following Up  5,800 Bomber Raid Stag ‘ed Over Cologne Area Yeslerday

CALL COLLETT TO TESTIFY IN OWN DEFENSE   Own Son Admits Father Told Him Of Killing Elmer McCoy

Capital Foresees Powerful Postwar Military Forces   Sen. Tom Connally of Texas Adds Voice to  Proposals

Connally For Nations’ League F0 Keep Peace ; Suggests Major Power:  @Should:Have Spheres’ Raelad Buy Dawar .

Retention of Big Stick by U.S. is Asked   Senator Connally Backs Move to Maintain Post war Force

POSTWAR STANDING ARMY ENDORSED BY SEN TOM CONALLY   State Depar!ment Dislikes Ide For International Police and Would Rely on Standing Army, Navy and Air Force

SENATOR CONNALLY GIVES BACKING TO STRONG ARMED FORCE  STATES MUST BUILD UP AND MAINTAIN

U. §. Moves Toward Strong Postwar Force   Connally Backs Views of Secretary Hull ond Selective Service

Connally Backs Strong Post War Military Force   State Dept. Considering Permanent Armed Force For International Safety.

Strong U.S. Army After War Sought  Senator Connally Backs   Senator Connally Backs Proposal; International Police Plan Dropped

Strong Postwar Standing Army Gains Support   Connally Joins Those Favoring Fighting Force

STRONG POSTWAR MILITARY FORCE SEEMS FAVORED.   Senator Tom Connally of ‘Texas Joins Ranks of — Those’ Opposing International Police Force —

Discard World Police Plans. ... . Connally Backs Clamor For A Mighty Military Force After War Ends

SEN. CONNALLY FAVORS POSTWAR STANDING ARMY   ADDS VOICE TO THAT OF STATE DEPT. AND SELECTIVE SERVICE

United States Must Maintain Strong Force After War, Connally Declares

U.S. Must Have Strong Post-War Military Force, : Says Senator Connally

CONNALLY NODS TO POST-WAR MILITARY PLAN   Texas Senator Adds Voice to Plea For Armed Backing on United States at Peace Conference.

Try To. Trap German 15th Army   American Forces In South  Of France Drive Ahead

U.S. CAPTURES’ FAMED CITY OF MEAUX   Huns Defeated in Second Marne Battle Near There in 1918

CAPTURE MEAUX SCENE OF VITAL WAR 1 BATTLES   Paris Mop-Up Continues; New Bridgehead Gained on Seine

Health Good, Gov. Goodland Plans To Run   Chief Executive, 81, Indicates He Will Become Candidate For Another Term

GOODLAND SAYS HE MAY BE CANDIDATE   Health Sufficiently Good tc Permit Him ta Seek ” Election.

12 Enemy Divisions Routed   SOVIET ARMY MAKES POWERFUL ATTACK ON UKRAINIAN BULGE

SOVIETS ROUT 12 DIVISIONS IN NEW DRIVE   Powerful Offensive in Western Ukraine Liberates 500 Communities and Liquidates 6,000 Nazis in Two Days.

ALLIES LIKELY 10 MEDIATE POLISH BORDER DISPUTE   Moscow’s Curzon Line Propo sal Rejected By Exile   ge eee 

HULL: CONFERS WITH POLISH AMBASSADOR   Poland Asks Brit. And U. S. to Mediate Dispute

Finns Peace Action Near   Indirect Contact Has Been Established Now

RUSSO-FINNISH CONTACT MADE IN PEAGE PLAN   Believe Third Party I: extending First Feelers

Red-Finn Contact For Peace   Germans Reported Ready To Quit Finland, Leaving Quisling To Raise Heck.

FINNS, RUSSIANS IN CONTACT ON PEACE FEELERS   Russians Seeking To Learn Just What Finrs Are Up To In Maneuvers

Finns Fee Reds Out  on Peace   COUNTRY REPORTED READY TO DISCUSS TERMS FOR ARMISTICE

Finns Put Out  Peace Feelers   Unofficial Report Of Meeting Heard

Reds Kill 4000 Nazi Troopers   Turn Back Repeated Efforts To Wipe Out Springboard  Across Dnestr River.

GITY ALDERMEN HOLD MEETING   Small Buildings at the Airport Are - Authorized

BOARD ALDERMEN AUTHORIZES MOVE FOR ADVANCEMEN} OF AVIATION HERE   City Fathers Also Order Cancellation Of Airport ond, Which Is Not  Necessary Now.

Japanese Are Weak Over Pacific Zone   U. S. Is Able to Deal Smashing Blows In Any Single Move

TODAY'S WARK ANALYSIS  Exiled Polish Government Is Facing Crisis

Pledge Sought Of Cooperation In War Effort   President Urges Determination to . Bring Final Victory

PRESIDENT ASKS WAR COOPERATION   Requests Pledge To United Nation’s Effort To Carry War To Its Final Victory.

FDR Requests Co-operation in War Effort   New Year's Message Tells of Plans to Carry on te Victory.

President Calls On People To Pledge Cooperation Looking Toward Final Victory In War   New Year's Statement Asks Continued Efforts To Insure Security In Future

US. Victory Pledge Askec By Roosevelt   Win War, Assure Aims Of Peace, President Soys From Sickbed

Roosevelt Asks Co-Operation To Win Victory   ‘Downfall of Axis Aggressors Promised; \Assistance Sought in Postwar Period to Maintain Peace, Security

President Requests All To Carry on Until Final Victory in Global War

President Asks Pledge From People To Assure Final Victory In War

PRESIDENT ASKS FULL COOPERATION IN FINAL VICTORY ASKS FURTHER THEIR  BACKING FOR PROGRAM MAINTAIN PEACE

34. Nations United For Good of World   President Says Many Pray Today That Just Peace Will Be Realized

FR. Asks  Victory edge   * PRESIDENT CALLS FOR U. S. CO-OPERATION IN POSTWAR GROUP

2000 U.S. PLANES BATTER GERMAN   Bombers, Fighters In Daylight Blow; Britain Warned of Robot’s Gravity.

2,000 ALLIED ~WARPLANES IN BERMAN BLO   Hit At Heart Of Reich, Veer Out To Blast Big Aircraft, Chemical Plants Nearby

YANK PLANES HIT HEART _ OF GERMANY   2000 Bombers and Fighters Take Part in Assault

Big Bombers Strike Heart Of Germany   Skirt Capital To Pound Vital War Plants.

2,000 Planes Hit s German Cities   > Aircraft And Chemical Centers Blasted In U.S. Day Raids

NEUTRALS’ AID ON LOOT SOUGHT   Asked To Refuse Haven For Axis Wealth

Neutrals Warned   AGAINST PROVIDING HAVEN FOR AXIS WAR CRIMINALS

Ask Neutrals Not To House Loot Seized  By Top Nazis   United States And Britain Send Notes; Say Axis Leaders Foresee Defeat

NOTES ARE SENT T0 NEUTRAL NATIONS   Requested to Prevent Axis Leaders From Retain- — ing Loot.

NEUTRALS TOLD TO WATCH STE?   Allies Request Nations Prevent Nozi Leaders From Hiding Their Money

Neutrals Warned About Criminals   Stern Orders Tells Them Not To Harbor Hitlerites

NEUTRALS WARNEE NOT TO TAKE CASE OF WAR CRIMINALS   Requested Not To. Accept Any Wealth of Axis Leaders or Offer Haven

Congress to Kill Subsidy on Food   Roosevelt Veto is  Likely to Follow

Food Subsidies Bill Nears End   Suggests FR Will Veto Law, Send To Congress

Subsidy End By Midweek Seen by Foes      Roosevelt Veto of Action Predicted;.CCC Act Ex’  nires Thursday

CONFEREES IRONING OUT SUBSIDY BAN   Final Action By Congress Expected By Middle of Week

REDS PIERCE NAZI LINES IN SIX-MILE SHASH IN UKRAINE   Advance Toward Korsun Ex* pected to Hasten Annihilation of Trapped German Force. .   SWEEP TO SOUTHEAST OUTFLANKS KRIVOI ROG   Stalin’s Troops on Northern Front Within Seven Miles of Rail Junction  nt Tuca

REDS HASTEN DOOM OF NAZI UKRAINE ARMY   FATE OF _ 100,000 GERMAN TROOPS AT STAKE

UMPIRE DECIDES IN FAVOR OF MEN   Two Ousted By Union ai Ford Plant Win at Hearing At Disputes Court.

Right Of Men To Work Fast Upheld--Union Expelled Them   Umpire In Ford Plant Dispute Rules Company Does Not Have To Discharge Two  Employes 

SEIZURE POWER MAY BE ABATED   House Defers Action Pending Ward Case Developments

Congress Pushes Seizure Prohe  House Defers Actior on Two Measures

FDR Pledge: Italy Free After War      Helped To Work Out Own Destiny

taly to be Free to Shape Own Destiny After Allied Victory, Roosevelt States

ITALY WILL BE FREE 10 WORK OUT OWN FATE   Every Possible Measure Will  Be Given

Germany Faces Panic Threat As Reds Gain   FDR Pledges Italians Opportunity to Work Out Own Destiny

FDR Speaks To Italians. Diplomats   Italy May Work Out Own Destiny After Military Operations By Allies Over He Says

Italians To Be Entirely Free   FDR Says Government and Counrtry’s Destiny To Be Placed In Italian Hands.

lfalians Promised They Can Work Qui Future After V-E   FDR Says United Nations to Do All Possible to Aid

F.D.R. Says Italy Free to Work Out Own Destiny   Declares American Army Entered as Liberators

Italy to Be Free To Make Destiny, Says Roosevelt  President Broadcasts To Italians, Sister American Republics

FDR Assures Italian People   “Free Fo. Work -Out. “Their Own Destiny

OLX ESCAPE FROM ARMY GUARD HOUSE   Two Fugitives Are Caught Within Few Hours After Escane.

BIG INVASION NOW AT DIFICULT AND DANGEROUS STAGE WITH BAD WEATHER HAMPERING ACTIVITIES   Good Progress Made But Rough Seas and Clouded Skies Have Prevented Landings of As Many Troops and As Much Material As Desired. Rommel Expected to Attack Soon

INVASION AT DIFFICULT STAGENOW      Weather Hampers Reinforcements, Favors Rommel

Invasion Forces At A Ditticult, Dangerous Stage Of Drive Into Nazi-Occupied France

The War Teday— . Unfavorable Weather Keeps Allies From Even Greater Invasion Gains

THE WAR TODAY   Words Actually Kill People, Doctor  Tells American Geriatrics Societ

GERMAN 'R ‘ROLLING - ; STOCK BEING WRECKED: AT (INCREDIBLE RATE.

Bombers Hit At Factories   Western Germany and France Are Targets

‘American Bombers Strike Nazi Targets In Western Germany And N. France

Sharp Fighting Continues in Ormoc Corridor   1,143 Americans Killed in Action

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT Struggle For A Group

Partisan Troops Battling Fiereely Against Nazi Defenders of Adriatic Key Point

YUGOSLAVIANS FIGHT NAZIS AFTER LANDING   Allied Warships Aid Assault On German-Held Island

Partisans Battle ~ Cermans For Isle  Report Tito’s Forces  hided Bv Warships

AMERICANS IN RHONE VALLEY, GAIN 200 MILES   50,000 Germans Knocked Out In  Southern France

50,000 Nazi Troops Lost   ‘Action Iv Southern France Costs‘ Eneniy

Germans Battle To Escape Trap   Line of Retreat of Nazi Forces In Southern France Being Cut Off

REDS PUSH ON SHIMSK, NEAR LAKE ILMEN   Also Battle Germans in Outskirts of Krasnogvardeisk

RATION POINTS OR BAYONET PTS.   Facts Regarding Them of Genuine Interest

OPA SAYS PRICES MUST BE POSTED IN PUBLIC PLACE    Citizens Urged to Continue Saving Coal, Oil, Tires And Gasoline

THERE'S NO DAY OFF FOR ARMY   Armistice Day Just Like Any Other Along World's Bottlefronts

HEAD OF MOSLEMS AND. NA FIONALIBT:.PARTY GETS  EEDOM—REPORTED IN.” . FAILING HEALTH 

GANDHI FREE AFTER 2 YEARS   Brit sh Release Mahatma Because of Ill Health

Nazis Battered In Naval Scrap   Sneak Blow Fails, Two Warships Lost  By NED NORDNESS  BRecnrimntat BDeaaece Staff Writer

ENEMY LOSES 2 WARSHIPS OFF BRITTANY   / Allies Sink One Destroyer and Chase Another Aground in Flames — Two Others Escape.   BRITISH SHIP. a IS DAMAGED   Vessels Dodge German Torpedo Barrage — One of Three Surface Actions Announced.

Nazi Destroyer Sunk by Allies   Second Runs Aground, Two Others Escape

Nazis Battered In Naval Scrap   Sneak Blow Fails, Two Warships Lost

Two Nazi Destroyers Are ‘Destroyed in Fierce  Naval Battle Off France

Battle Fought Off Brittany: One Ship Sunk   Two Other Surface Actions by Allied  Fleets Off Invasion Coast Are Reported

EIGHT ALLIE DESTROYERS IN CHANNEL FIGHT   Two Enemy Vessels Lost And Two Others Suffer Shell Hits   AMERICAN WARSHIP SUNK OFF NORMANDY

German Destroyer Sunk In Sneak on Coast Line   Japs Lose Four Vessels

Allied Warships Battle Germans  One Nazi Destroyer Sunk, 2nd Grounded,

5th Hits  Cassino;  New Red Assault   Americans Reach Rapido River and Begin Siege of Nazi Bastion in Italy:   POWERFUL NEW RUSSIAN DRIVZ   German Lines on Baltic Front Punctured;Heavy AL lied Raids Continue . 

Americans Reach Rapido River, Lay Siege To Cassino   French Press In From  North On Road To Rome

5th Army Lays Seige To Cassino   American Troops Capture Last Height Be‘fore Town; Reds Poise New Assault in North

Fifth Lays Siege To Cassino   Reds Open New Push In North; Proposal By Poles. Rejected

AMERICAN ARMY REACHES RAPIDO RIVER IN ITALY   Troops Capture Mt. Trocchio; Meanwhile, Reds Hammer At German Lines

5th Besieges Cassino; Drive On Baltic Begin:  Clark’s Troops Reach River; Heavy Bombers Hit Southern Austria

~—~IHE WAR TODAY-—~  Yankees Besiege Cassino   Rassians Kill 100,000 Nazis In Three Weeks

NEW RED DRIVE SMASHES NAZI LINES IN NORTH   Allied Bombers Blast Port In Yugoslavia in Support Of Guerrilla Forces

ANITA DIED IN VAIN   Job of Using Huge Body for Explosives Is Too Big

Roosevelt Backer Wins $10,000 on Election, Gives it to Strangers

Unidentified Backer of FDR Gives Away $10,000 He Won on Election -

Justice Dept. Official! Charges Three U. $. Firms With Helping Germany

Belgium, France Pounded by 3500: Warplanes in Round the Clock. Assault; RAF Hits Reich Again ~~

Army Hazard Pay Scales Revision Winning Favor   Provides Increase For Infantrymen

Hazard P: aly  Being Urge d   House To Act on Measure  To Reward Infantry.

Retreating Nazis Leave Much Equipment Behind; U.S. Bombers Hit Berlin   1500-Plane Attack Costs 26 Bombing Craft, 19 Fighters; Renewal of Aerial Assault Continues Into Nighttime

WITHIN 25 MILES OF PRIZE CITY, TAKING OVER 600 TOWNS ALONG THE WAY. TAKE AROUND 20,000 PRISONERS, ENEMY DEAD UNCOUNTED.

Reds Within 25 Miles  of Sevastopol Three Major Cities   Three Major Cities in Crimea Are Taken by Soviets

Reds Within 25 Miles of Sevastopol   Three Major Cities in Crimea Are Taken by Soviets

Big Ports of Feodosiya and Yeopatoriya Captured  MANY TOWNS TAKEN  IN DAY'S ADVANCE  Great Additions Made to the Bag of War Pris ArRArDE

MANY PLACES IN CRIMEA ARE ‘WON BY REDS   Nazis Yield Two Ports, Capital City to Russians

Nazis Herded Into Corner  Of Crimea   Three Big Cities Fall In Red Reconquest Of Southern Peninsula  SEVASTOPOTL TS COAL

Big Port Cities, Simferopol, Fall to Soviets   Shattered Axis Forces Herded Into Corner of Peninsula

Soviets 25 Miles From Sevastopol   Three Speedy Armies Capture 600 Other Towns

"Trapped Nazis Flee Madly   Reds Sweep Up Territory “And Take Many Prisoners

Heavy Raid Ends  Germans’ Respite   Furious Fighting Reported by Berlin

YANK BOMBERS IN BATTLE OVER CENTRAL REICH   Berlin Reports First Heavy Attack, After Week’s Lull

BOMBERS STRIKE DEEP INTO NAZI TERRITORY TODAY   Reconnaissance Pictures Show Terrific Damage to Rumanian Capital.

Vie McLaglen, Tibbett Murdes  Trial Witnesses   Actor, Young Corporal Called to Establish Alibi For Mate of Defendant

ACTOR WITNESS IN ANDREWS CASE   PROSECUTION DUE TO REST CASE WEDNESDAY

Jap Resistance Is Reported As Light   Continued Aerial Raids On Truk Atoll And Other Japanese Bases In Pacific Announced

Yankees Leap-Frog Nips Again   Spread Out In New Guinea With Landings At Torare Bay And Demta Village.

TANKS SWARM ASHORE NORTH OF HOLLANDIA   Split Tanahmerah, Humboldt Bay Jap Bases

New Landings Made West of Hollandia   Allied Planes, Hit Wewak With 183  Tons of Fxenlosives

Yanks Leap-Frog Farther Along  Coast of Guinea   Move Six Days After First Landing Puts Troops 16 Miles Ahead; Mopping Up Continues at Hollandi:

YANK TROOPS. BATTLE WAY INTO CASSING   Bitter Fight’ Waged In Streets; Town Near Capture

Yanks Force Their Way  Into Cassino   Prepare Another Assault on German Bastion

Suicide Squads Push Yanks Back From Streets   AMERICANS FORM   @For New Thrust at Totter. ing Stronghold; Beach. head Fight Grows

CASSINO FORT SHAKES UNDER ALLIED BLOWS   Fall of Base Imminent; Big Battle Shapes Up at Rome

YANK INFANTRYMEN THRUST INTO TOWN   Americans Engage German “Suicide Squads” In Bitier Street Fichiins For An Hour

YANKS CHARGE INTO CASSINO; CITY FLANKED   BEACHHEAD FRONT ENLARGED BY ALLIES

Yanks Form Line: For a Second Strike at City  Face Nazi Suicide   Face Nazi Suicide Squads; Fight Enemy in Streets

Yanks Stab Into Cassino, Take Prisoners From Hard Kiahting “Suicide Squads’

Germans Battle Furiously for Strategic City   Pushed Out Once, Yanks Try Again

Nazis Check One Assault ‘On Bastion   But Americans Form For Another Attack, Correspondent Says  REACHHEAD EXPANDS

YANKS AND NAZIS BATTLE FOR HOUR INSIDE. CASING   Americans Charge Into City Soon After Dawn and Take Prisoners Before Withdrawing.   LINES BEING FORMED FOR SECOND ASSAULT   German “Suicide Squads,” Supported by Tanks, fight Desperately to Save Tottering Bastion.

Officials Of State Laud Free Press   GOVERNOR MARTIN AND OTHERS PROMINENT IN PENN SYLVANIA GOVERNMENT PROUD OF NEWSPAPERS OF STATE   Precious Possession

Helping to Win Battle and Will Help to Win Peace Declares FDR: Newspapers Constitute First Line of Defense on Homefront, Says Martin: National Newspaper Week Opens

Soviets Reach Bulgaria, Open 2 Supply Route:   Constanta-Bucharest Rail Line and Danube Waterway Cleared by Russ   1,000 Yanks, Downed in Ploesti Raids,  Leave Bucharest Bearing Romanian Gift:

U. S. Reveals Futile Efforts To End Jap Brutality; 89 Protests Filed Since °42)

U. S. State Dept. Reveals Additional Chapters in Story of Jap Cruelties Against Allied Prisoners of War

New Chapter in Atrocity Story Is Published   State Dept. Says Japs Understand Only Force

JAPS DEAF 10 U, S. PROTESTS. HULL REVEALS   Civilians Tortured, Too

av D. Janssen Mem- ber Of Hospital In Africa      fiater Has Han. -Than 6,000  Patients

Congress Tackles Heavy Schedule   Important Bills on Pre-Convention Slate

JAP POLICIES — ~ ARE ASSAILED   BRICKER URGES: DEPORTATION OF DISLOYAL TAPANESE.        ~ CRITICIZES — RELOi" CATION AGENCY

Cherbourg Port To Be In Use Within 2 Days   Will be fully reopened for Allied shipping in two weeks; engineers are experienced,

Corp. Van Scoter Killed in Kentueky   Eldred Young Man In Fatal Accident

Jap Losses Announced By Nimitz   747 Planes, 30 Ships, 13 Rarges Accounted For in Recent ™ iplae

Jap Loss Set At 30 Ships, 747 Aireraft   Nimitzs Revises Toll Upward in Bonins, Marianas Battle

Japs Lose 747 Planes in Series  Of Sea-Air Fights   Enemy Also Lose 30 Ships and 13 Barges to Nimitz’ Forees

[Twelve Die In Ohio, 65 In U. S. As Storm Continues; ‘Predict Squalls Near Lake

SHIVERING OHIO GETS NO RELIEF   Traffic Still Tied Up With Cars Stalled in Drifts

COLD FOLLOWS RECORD SNOW   Mercury Tumbles To 18 Here: Colder Weather Predicted

No Rationing Of Cigarettes Contemplated   Poor Distribution, Reports. of Scarcities Blamed for Shortaces

Cigarette Rationing Not Planned Despite Some Acute Shortage Areas

COLLEGE T0 BEGIN FORTY-FIFTH YEAR   Four New Members on Teaching Staff—G. I.  Trainees. To Begin >

New. Teachers At Western Union. Are Announced’  School, Opens. On September 12 For. Academic Year _

U.S. General — Dies in Crash   ven. Newgarden, 5 Others Killed in Plane Wraek

GENERAL KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Armored Division Chief Meets Death On Way To Review Troops

INDICATIONS STRONG THAT BIG FINAL SHOWDOWN WITH HITLER ‘TO. COME SOON ON SECOND FRONT

OP AIN CURBS FLOW OF ORE TO NAZIS   Lifting of Embargo Restores Vital Oil Supply   PORTUGAL NEXT   Allies Attempt to Stop Supply Of Tungsten Ore for Nazi War Machine

Kansas GOP Likes Dewey   But 19 Republicans Go to National Convention Uninstructed

‘GENERAL RAIN FALLS   “Corn-Making” Downpours. Cover Northern Kansas

Yanks Moving Up Fast To Corner German Garrison On Tip Of Penin sula.

Final Phase Of Cherbourg Battle Near   Yanks Are Reported Less Than Five Miles From The Port   SOME OBSERVERS PREDICT THE CITY WILL SOON FALL   Allies Threw Powerful Air Blows At The Germans Today

Ohio Digs Way Out of Snow Storm   Traffi¢ Still Menaced by ley Roads

SEVERE STORM EASES IN OHIO   Highway Traffic Remains at Standstill; 12 Dead

Demand Pearl  Harbor Probe   Ask Special Committee Investigate Disaster

NAZIS ACT TO BAR DENMARK INVASION TRY   Divide Jutland Into Zones, Take Other Precautions

Nazis See Denmark Invasion   Fear of Imminent Attack Is Seen In Freparations

Four Invasion Adm n. Zones Set Un by Nazis   Enemy Fears Allies May Make Assault Through Denmark

Nazis Fear Denmark A llied Invasion Point   Germans Prohibit Alt Civilian Traffic at Nicht Over Bridoes

Germany, Fearing Invasion, Divides  Jutland In Zones   Prepare Martial Law For Dutch Pending Landing There

NAZIS CONVINCED DENMARK WILL BE SITE OF LANDING   Enemy. Takes First Steps Toward Complete Withdrawal from France.

Nazis Reinforce Denmark Coasts   Divide Jutland, Fyn  Into Invasion Zones

REDS PROMISE NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   INFORM ALLIES OF STARTING DATE OF BIG WINTER DRIVE

Reds Promise Harder Blows   May Hurl Tremendous Drive Across Polish Plain Directly Into Germany

REDS PROMISE WINTER DRIVE   Soviets Say Allied Chiefs Advised of Starting   Date of Attack

SOVIET RUSSIA TO MEET RISING ALLIED DEMAND   Will Hurl Three Army Groups Against Germans on the - Eastern Front.   THE DATE HAS BEEN SET   The Offensive Probably Will Involve Up to Six Army Groups.

REDS PROMISE LARGE WINTER PUSH ON NAZIS   Hint New Attack by Soviet Forces May Start in Poland

Three Army Groups To Hit Germans; Starting Date Said Given To Allies

REDS PROMISE 10 OPEN NEW DRIVE IN EAS]   Soviet Sources Say Dates Already Set for Offensives

Reds Promise Allies Mighty Winter Drive   o Hurl Some Three Army Groups Against Nazis On Fastern Front.   ALLIES WAIT DRIVE

Reds Promise Attack by 3 Army Groups   May Involve More—Say Starting Date Has Been Given

Russians Plan New East Front Attack  Date Has Been Set;  lin ta Siv Armv   Date Has Been Set; Up to Six Army Groups to Attack

Reds to Balance  German Threats,  Open Offensive Three Greaps te he Hurled  Against Nazis on Eastern Frant- Pale Plain Seen Ronit:

Rus.” Promises Allies They We Send 3 Army  Groups Against Germans

Reds Promise New Drive on Lastern Front   America and England Both Advised Abcut Starting Date

Russians Plan New East Front Attack  Date Has Been Set; Up to Six Army Groups to Attack

Russia Assures Allies It Will Launch Great Winter Offensive   Forthcoming Drive Probably Wil! Involve Six Army Groups And Its Route May Be Across Broad Polish Plain Into Germany.

Russ Promise  New Smash  Will Hurl Three Army Groups Into Action on  Eastern Battle Front

REPORT DATE 1 ET BY SOIET   At Least 3 Army Groups To Be Hurled Against  Germand   ALLIES NOTIFIED    Present Red Offensive In Slovakia May Seal Off Budapest

REDS TO HURL 3 ARMY GROUPS AGAINST NAZIS   Promise to Meet AHied Demand  For Intensified Offensive

SOVIET RUSSIA TO THROW MORE VEN IN BATTLE   Allies Depending On Red Action This Winter

Gr al Drive Promised By Russians On East Front   As Many As Six Big Red Armies To Be  Thrown Into Battle, Washington Hears

Russia Promises Allies Mighty Winter Offensive; Drive Expected In Poland   To Hurl Three Army Groups Against Nazis On Eastern Front

RUSSIANS WILL START ACTION   Promise to Meet Allied De‘mands With Red Army Offensive in East.   FORCES NEWLY ALIGNED

Russians Promise To Meet Rising Allied Demand For Action In East

Russia Promises Heavier Fighting Soviet Force Will Rise On Nazis’ Eastern Front

RUSSIA WILL BACK ALLIED TROOP NEEDS   Expected to Throw Three Army Groups Against Germans Position on Eastern Front

Soviet Promises To Launch Big “Offensive Soon   Expected Blow May  Fall in Poland; Red Armies Await  Freeringa Weather

P.T.A. PROPOSE SERVICE MEN WAR MEMORIAL   Recreation Center And Swimming Pool Also Suggested

P. T. A. PROPOSES WAR MEMORIAL FOR SERVICE MEN   DePue Group Hears Reports On Plan To Construct Either A Swimming Pool Or A Recrea-. tion Center In Village.

JAPS CAUGHT WITHIN TRAP NEAR ORMOC   ENTIRE ENEMY DIVISION CUT OFF WIEN PINCERS CL 3 MAIN HIGHWAY ON LEYTE,

BRITISH CROSS PIRAEUS IN ASSAULT GRAFT   Landing in Forme: Elas Stronghold Without Much  Opposition

BRITISH SEIZE PIRAEUS HARBOR   “Strong Man” Plastiras Declines Regency Offer

British Units Invade ELAS Port Bastion   Piraeus Attacked Through Harbor Im Acganlt Craft

“WDDINGI DAT   The Frank  Petersons Re. ceive Many Friends on. : Anniversary __

DEN WEDDING DATI   The Frank Petersons. Receive Many Friends on. Anniversary

Rainbow Men Hold Review   March Before Noted U. S. and Australian Military Leaders

8,000 JAPS DIE INIMPHAL PLAIN BATTLE ACTION   Stilwell’s Chinese Capture Two More Mogaung Valley Villages

Burma Japs Fallin Trap   Stilwells Forces Encir     ling KRamaing

8,000 J aps Have Died In Battle For ‘Imphal Plain   Stilwell’s Forces Capture Two More Villages in Drive On Enemy Bases

8,000 JAPS HAVE DIED IN IMPHAL KOHIMA BATTLE   Attempt to Invade India Has Proven Costly to Nips Who Also Have Met  Reverses in China

8,000 OF JAPS PERISH DURING INDIAN SMASH   Stilwell’s Forces Continue North Burma Advance

Allies Have Scored Heavily In India-Burma Battle. ....  8,000 Japs Die On Imphal Plain In Invasion Effort

ALLIES REPOR} STEADY GAIN * IN BURMA   Nips, However, Open Great ' Offensive In China   ENEMY ISLANDS   In Carolines, New Guinea Area Are Targets Of American Bombers

KILL 8,000 NIPS INKOHIMA AREA   Chinese Unit Under Stilwell Takes Two Towns in Burma

-  —ATR WAR—  INES BIS “FAS OE CALA  Italy-Baséd Bombers In      Italy-Baséd Bombers In Strong Attack On Genoa, Other Harbors   IN 19TH DAY   Hitler’s Transportation Problems Increase, British Report

Bombing Has Disrupted Rail Traffic   No German Lines Are Capable Now of Handling Full Loads

LEVEAKUSEN HIT BY 4000 POUND BOMBS   One of Largest Chemical Plants in Europe Employing 20,000 Workers Rlactad *

Rail Targets Crippled by Allied Bombs   Unable to Bear Peak Loads Germans Need  To Repel’ Invasion

ww +S Vv" Vv  Rail Targets kr West Europe No Longer Capable Of Carrying Load Needed To Repel Invasion

Liberafors Blast af Pas De Calais Ares   Americans Hammer Nazi Installations Blocking Shortest Route for Invasion

AIR OFFENSIVE — ISIN (STH DAY   Trains In France And Belgium Can't Carry Peak Loads   USING YOUNG BOYS

French Rail Lines Unable To Carry Peak Load To Repel Invasion, Claim

Raids Cripple German Rai Supply Lines   Unable to Handle  Load Necessary To Repel Invasion

British Say They No Longer Can Bear Load Needed To Repel Invasion

LULL TODAY IN AIR WAR   Rail Yards and Ports of Reich and Satalites Are Pounded Day and Night With Many Bombs...

German Rail Lines Mass  Of Wreckage   Allied Bomb Campaign Blocking  OM Coast Areas

Double Assault Launched From England, lialy   British Airmen Hammer Chemical Center During Night; Genoa Pounded In Southern Zone   F rench Rail Yard   Hit By Mosquitos   Two-Ton “Block Busters” Rained On Leverkusen; Heavies Stay Home For First Rest

Mosquitos  Drop Many Bombs Ove:  Leverkusen   Genoa And Northern Italy Also Blasted -»

Mosquitos Stage Half-Hour Raid ~ On Leverkusen   Ttaly-Based Planes Blast Communications Posts - Kid Vital Port Of Genoa

Four-Ton Bombs Plaster One Of Europe's Largest Piants; Genoa Struck; Rail Yards Hammered

Bombing Blasts Transportation   New Targets Hit As Allied Aerial  Warfare Continues

Pre-Invasion Air Assault Maintained   Nearly 100,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped in April

American Liberators Blast Pas de Calais Area Fourth Consecutive Day, Genoa, Leverkusen Bombed

Lines In Belgium, North France Said Not Able To Bear Anti-Invasion Load

Rails In Invasion Area NoLongerCan Handle Peak Load   99.800 Tons In April

Yards Wrecked, ~~ Many Cannot Form Trains   Enemy No Longer Capable ® of Bearing Peak Loads Needed for Defense   YANKEE BOMBERS OUT AGAIN TODAY      Nazi Installations . Aiong Coast Nearest England Hammered Hard 

LEVERKUSEN RAIDED BY BRITISH   Mosquitos Raid Western France; Genoa Bombed

AIR INVASION CRIPPLES AXIS RAIL CENTERS   No Longer Capable of Bearing Peak ~oad Necessary For Germans To Repel Coming Thrust   LEVERKUSEN IS RAIDED

Nazi Railroad Lines Smashed By Allied Bomb:   Routes Unable To Carry Load to Prevent Invasion

RAIL BOMBINGS ARE EFFECTIVE   Lines in N. France, Belgium Can No Longer Carry Peak Load.   GENOA IS HEAVILY HIT

Two Months of Allied Bombings Were Effective   New Offensive by Air Goes Through Its Nineteenth Day

Railway Lines in France, Belgium Hit Crippling Blow   No Longer Capable of Bearing Peak Load; U. S. Bombers Pound Pas de Caleic Aran

HAMMERED BY YANKS   Nazi Lines In Coastal - Area Incapable Of Handling Loads

ALLIED BOMBS CRIPPLE NAZI RAIL TRAFFIC   Freight Yard Losses Handicap Movement  Of Invasion Loads

Air At tlacks.  cose E ye  Crippie.N Jazi “Rail Tr affic  Briton Calls Li Tittes ‘No Longer Capable of Carrying Peak’ Loads  RAIDS CONTIN UED  Yanks Bomb Calais Area for 19th Straight Day  of Of fencive   RAIDS CONTINUED   Yanks Bomb Calais Area for 19th Straight Day of Offensive

Nazi Railways No Longer Can Bear Peak Load   Allied Bombs Effective. ly Cripple Foe’s Lines In France, Belgium.

Bombs Have : Stripped Off, Effectiveness      Can’t Handle Peak Load; Now Required Whe The Invasion Comes .

Briton. Says Bombin Have Made -It Impo sible for Nazi Line  — Carry Load ‘Neede  ~ Repel Invasion: .

REPORT SHOWS DAMAGE FROM HEAVY RAIDS   of Carrying Peak Load Needed by Germans

Ineapable Of Bearing Load for Invasion   Liberators Bomb Pas De Calais For Fourth Consecutive Day.   \HIT CHEMICAL CENTER

Railroad Lines in Europe Are Bombed Into Uselessness   Freight Yards Between Cologne and Biscay Can’t Form Trains

STUTTGART Hit BY 1,500 AMERICAN BOMBING PLANES  ns w Ce... ._ fre   German Air Force Offers Weak Resistance  Against Allied Flyers.

STUTTGART HIT. NAZI FIGHTERS OFFER BATTLE      Luftwaffe Offers Opposition But No Loss Results To Americans

Rainey Cooperated With Police In Investigating Homosexuality At University. Claims Garrison

Garrison Declares Rainey Was Co-Operative In Texas University Morals Investiqation

Montgomery Using African Tactics On Rommel’s Troops With Savage Thrusts; Prisoner List Steadily Growing.

BATTLES RAGE IN STREETS OF MONTEBOURG   Armored Attacks Outflank Caen And Push Beyond Carentan

Soviet Columns Now 40 Miles in Rumania; Heavy Blow at Germany   U. S. Loses 34 Big Bombers in Attacks On Ruhr War Installations; Patrol Advance Causes Only Stir on Italian Front

4.000 ALLIED PLANES BASED IN BRITAIN AND ITALY POUND POINTS IN GERMANY AND ROMANIA; NAZI LOSE 402 PLANES.

AXIS CAPITALS LASHED AGAIN IN 2-WAY RAID   More Than 4,500 Craft Take Part In One Of . Heaviest Assaults Of Campaign

Two Axis Capitals Are Shaken by Concentrated Assaults      OTHER TARGETS ARE  RAIDED BY AIRMEN   More Than 6000 Tons of Bombs Dropped by Fliers

RAF and Yanks Raid Berlin in Record Assaults   Buchares! Also Heavily Bombed

SHIFT MAY BE SWINDILE   Officials Warn Of New Military Moves By Japan

Jap Shake - Up May Be Sham. Observers Say   Crisis, However, Regarded As Reflection Of Serious Setbacks

CABINET OF RUMANIA SAID TO HAVE QUIT   Tokyo Radio Reports .Mass Resignation Without Other Details— ' “ Rumor Not Confirmed,’

HALDON SHEPHERD SEES EISENHOWER   General Visits Mustang Base Somewhere In England

NEGRO SHOT AFTER KILLING WOMEN IN TENNESSEE SECTOR   Taken From Jail and Killed by Mob;' Admitted Sashing . .. Women to Death

Women Slain  By. Houseboy   Negro Trusty Killed. ‘When Attack. Admited

TENNESSEE MOB LYNCHES YOUTH   SHOOT NEGRO BOY AFTER TWO WHITE WOMEN ARE SLAIN

NEGRO LYNCHED AFTER SLAYING   Wife And Daughter Of Penal Head Murdered

Negro Youth Is Lynched   Shot To Death In Tennessee For Killing White Women.

Millikan Challenges F. D.R. ; Questions Right of Congress To Override State Elections

DEMOCRATS SEEK VOTE ON FEDERAL SOLDIER BALLOT   BACKERS CONFIDENT GREEN-LUCAS BILt WILL BE APPROVED

Says Congress Can’t Override -State’s Rights   \dministration’s Contention Is Challenged by Colorado Senator in Fourth Day of Debate on Service Vote

REPUBLICANS FIGHT SOLDIER VOTE MEASURE   Millikin Doubts Constifuiional, Capper Hits af Centralizalion, Taft Fourth Term’

Seek Speedy Balloting On Soldier Vote   Several Senators Ta Leave For Weekend: F. R.’s Statement On lecnre Fwed

Uniform System Is Opposed   Rights Of States Again Emphasized By Senator In Debate On Plan Of Lucas And Green

Allies Advancing Toward Rome; Reds Trap Nazis   Appian Way Comes Under Fire of  American Artillery

Red Armies Closing Trap  On Germans   Berlin, Frankfurt Bombed by RAF American Planes

800 U. S. Planes Raid German City   Allies Enlarge Beachhead: Below Rome and Reds  Closing New Trap

LONERGAN, SLAYER OF WIFE, WILL GET LONG PRISON TERM   Flier - Playboy Escapes Death Penalty By Jury Verdict

Lonergan Gets Prison Sentence   Jury Spares Life Of Wife Murderer

London, March 28,—(4’)— Between 250 and 500 U. S. heavy bombers struck at German airfields in France avrain today.

GERMAN FLIERS POUND ENGLAND   Nazis Make Heaviest Raid in Last Two Years

Arguments for irrigation are presented   Gosper-Adams  necessity cited

Water  Battle  Renewed   Canaday Stresses Need Of Irrigation Program In Central Nebraska

BRITISH CROSS CHINDWIN IN NORTH BURMA   Strike New Blow at Japs Harassed on Several Fronts—Buthedaung Road Securely Held

British Cross Burma River To Jolt Japs   New Drive Threatens tc Clear Way for Supply Route to China

BRITISH STRIKE NEW BLOW IN NORTH BURMA   Chindwin River Forced In Several Places Near Tamanthi, Communi aque Declares   MAY OPEN NEW ROUTE

Allies Strike New Blow Against Japs In Northern. Burma   Enemy Faces Ousting In Sector Needed For Land Route Lifeline To Southern China

BRITISH MAKE BURMA ADVANCE   Cross Upper ‘Reaches Of Chindwin River In Northern Sector

Comm unists To Have Part  Tn Government   Chiang Reported To Have Agreed In Principle To Plan

Sixth War Loan Bond Box Score   Chiang Approves Communists Part in United Nations

Jap Troops In Sudden Thrust   Start Spearhead 46 Miles From Hengyang In Effort To Capture Rail.

KING REGIME IN CANADA IS OUT OF DANGER   Parliamentary Phase of Conscription Crisis Appears to Be Approach. ing a Solution   MORE DISTURBANCES

Canadian . Government Wins Out  But Troops. Resist Overseas Duty

Draftee Troops Still Resisting ‘Oversea Service   But Canadian Prime Minister Wins Support For Confidence Vote.

NATION IS TENSE   Canada’s Overseas Con scription Crisis Is Nearing a Solution

King Government Salvaged; Troops Still Rebelling   Former Defense Minister to Support Motion of Confidence; Newspaper Windows Smashed

SITUATION LESS TENSE IN CANADA; TROUBLE PERSISTS   Sclution Near in Parliamentary Phase cf Conscription Crisis  ', Today — King Government - Out of Danger But Rebel hons Continue

King’ s Regime Viewed Saved  From Downfall   Ralston With Government: . Canada Is Kept Tense By Rebellious Draftees

DEBT CEILING BOOST TO NEW HIGH IS VOTED      Administration Men, However, Agree to Shaying of Fiqure   ACTION PRELIMINARY TO FIFTH LOAN DRIVE   Legislation Will be Taken Up in House Wednesday —

New Debt Limit of 240 Billion Approved by House Committee After Shaving Off 20 Billion

Twenty Billions Slashed From _Administration’s Debt Ceiling Request by House Grout

CAOUP APPROVES DEBT INCREASE   Legislation to Hike Ceiling to New Record High of $240,000,000,000 Approved by House Committee

Public Debt Ceiling. Lifted   House Group Approves Move In Preliminary Step To Next Bond Drive.

Pfc. Elgin Schmidt Cited For Action Against Enemy Qn Bougainville

SUPPLIES POUR INTO FLORENCE   Sniping Contimues Sporadically On streets Of City Since Allied  Qecupatian

Revolution In Puppet State   Berlin Acknowledges Riots In Slovakia: Traced ‘To Partisans.

Garrisons Deserted. Nazis Say   Revolutionary Movement Breaks Out; Germans Blame ‘Tiso’

Uprising Sweeps Slovakia, Nazi Puppet State  Garrisons Desert; Outbreaks Laid to Tito’s Partisans

NAZI TANKS ASSAULT CZECHS   Underground Gets Hold on Most Slovak Area

BERLIN ADMITS SLOVAK REVOLT   Says Some Garrisons Have Deserted Posts

Slovakianis Revolt Agains' Nazi Masters   Russia Charges Bulgaria Still Helping German:

Serious Damage Done fo: Ploesti Oil Field Areas           ‘Civilian- Dresse Nazi Found Applying: Torch Right and: Left

Underground Of Slovakia Battles Nazis   Forces Have Seized Al. most All of Slovak Ter. ritory, Leaders Report

CLAIM MOST CZECH TERRITORY NOW IN PATRIOTS’ HANDS   Say Underground Holds Most All But’ Border: Regions of Nazi. Puppet. State —Ger .omans Admit Revolutionary Movement ‘There ‘

RevoltRocks Slovakia ©   Collapse of Hitler’s : Balkan House of Cards Seems Not Far Away

Slovak Revolt Against Nazis Told By Berlin   Reds Accuse Bulgaric Of Aiding Germans; Must Fight To Come Out Safely. Claim

PRICE ROLLBACK IIN CAROLINA MILK FICHT:-SUSPENDED   OPA Suspends Decision Reducing Prices 3 Cents Gallon Pending Further ‘Survey Production Costs

OPA Averts Grave Milk Crisis In N. C. As Roll Back Order Is Revoked

().P.A. Rescinds Milk Roll Back   Price Roll Back Order Removed Until February 23; O.P.A. To Survey Costs In Coble Plant.

Allied Forces Enter Perugia   Win Communication Center 85 Miles North Of Rome ; Elba Conquerec

Allies Take Perugia, Major ~ Italian Center   Eighth Amy Forces. Pres On Beyond City; Fifth: . Also’ Moves Up...

Perugia Has Been Seized In Advances Above Rome   Big Communications Center, Elba Taken

Ailies Enter — Perugia, Hub City Of Italy   French Crush Last Resistance of Nazis or Elba

Allies Enter Perugia, Italy. In March North   [German Position Weaken: ed By Conquest of Elba By French Colonial Troops

ELBA IS OUCUPICD BY FRENCH ARM   Swift Campaign Netted 1800 Prisoners, All But Small Part af Garrison.

Perugia Taken By Allied Army In Italian Push   Spotty German Resistance Encountered By British; French Victors At Elba

Fall Of Elba © Helped Allies   FRENCH CRUSHED LAST GERMAN DEFENSES ON ISLAND

ALLIED FORCES PUSH 85 MILES NORTH OF ROME  FRENCH PUT DOWN LAST RESISTANCE

Allies Gain Complete Control Of Elba Isle   Perugia Falls To Driving Eighth Army Troops; Nazi Resistance Seen Stiffer

Allies Enter Major Italian Communications Center Below Florence; Germans Weakening   Fall Of Elba Island Enhances Allied Drive; Fifth Army Gains Nine Miles

Allies Take  Perugia ©   German Opposition in Northern Italy Weakened By Fall of Elba

Allied Army Is At Point Far Beyond Rome Today   Perugia  Is Enterec As Nazi Position  Is Weakened

[PERUGIA FALLS IT ALLIES AND ‘ELBA CONQUERED   German Resistance in Northern Italy Further Weakened by French Conaquest of Elba

Allied Armies  Enter Perugia   French Occupy All Of Elba Taking 1.800 Prisoners

ALLIED TROOPS ENTER PERUGIA   Units 72 Air Miles Southeast of Florence, Elba Isle Falls

KEY ITALIAN CITY OF PERUGIA TAKEN AY ALLIED TROOPS   Big. Communications Center 85 Miles North of Rome Falls After Nazi Pesitions Are Weakened by Capture of

Allied Troops Of Eighth Army  Enter Perugia   French, Meanwhile, End Last German Resistance  On Elba Island.

‘ALLIED FORGES PRESSING FORWARD  ENTERED PERUGIA   Is a Major ‘Communication . Center 72. Miles South-east of. Florence:   ALSO NORTH. OF ROME   German Position in the North Had Been, Weakened: by Conquest -of -Elba.

Major Center Is Taken by Allies   Forces Are Pressing Northward in Italy; Perugia cupied   FRENCH HELPING OUT   Last Organized Resistance - on Elba Was Crushed —  Yesterday

Allies Advanee North In Italy   Enter Perugia, Major Communications Center: Resistance Crushed On Elba.

Eighth Army Enters Perugia   Elba Conquered by French— 1,800 Germans Captured

A Communications City in Italy Falls   ‘Eighth Army: Troops Enter: Major Center of  Perugia, 85 Miles North of Rome—Had   Been Troublesome Stronghold.

Alhies Seize Perugia in Italian Drive   French Drive on Elba Is Completed With Total Victory

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES PERUGIA   Capture Puts Allies 75 Mile: South of Florence; Elba Garrison Surrenders.

Allied Forces Have Advanced 85 Miles From Rome  Key Communications Center Taken; Nazi Position Weak

ALLIED FORCES ENTER PERUGIA   Troops Now 85 Miles North Of Rome; Elba Island Conquered.

ALLIES MAKE ADVANCES IN ITALY TODAY   French Occupy Elba Island, Rout Nazis

Enemy Resistance On Elba Collapses. ... .  Allies Take Perugia, Key Communications Center SS Miles North Of Rome

ALLIES EXTEND GAINS IN ITALY   Troops Enter Perugia, 85 Miles Above Rome—Elba in French Hands

ALLIED FORCES SEIZE PERUCIA   ‘German Resistance On Elba  Island Collapses

Allied Troops Take Perugia 85 Miles From Rome   French Campaign In Elba Nets 1,800 Prisoners; Nazis Appear Weaker.

Allies Making Steady Gains Beyond Rome   Colonial Troops Capture Elba Isle, aking Prisoners

Forts Blast Capital   BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS THUNDER AT REICH THIRD STRAIGHT DAY

NAZIS REPORT ATTACK ON CAPITAL   Action First On City By Big Yank Planes  TARGETS   Not Disclosed By Allies; Shortage Of Escort Fighters Removed

German Capital Tastes AroundClock Attacks   Siege of Pskov Is Tightened: Nazis Put Torch to Narva

Berlin Dealt Big Blow From Air   U. S. FLYING FORTS IN HEAVY RAID ON GERMANY

Blow at Capital Is First of War By U. S. Bombers   Allied Announcemen: Says Only That Planes Had Struck At Targets in Reich

Daylight Raid Made on Reich Capital Today   First Air Raids Made By Americans On Heart of Nazis

Second Blast Of Germany Shows Power  Of 8th Force   Mosquitos Also Get In Wallop At Nazis

Heavies Make First Raid Upon Capital   Fighters Accompany Big Planes on Foray Into Reich

U. §. Giants Fly Through Fiery Lane   Escorts Take Part In One Of War's Greatest Air Buttle:

U, §. HEAVY BOMBERS HIT BERLIN MONDAY IN “STRONG FORCE”  TARGETS NOT INDICATED BUT MANY BOMBERS

BERLIN HARD HIT BY U.S. PILOTS TODAY   Greatest Air Battle Of War Underway  Over Germany

Sky Contest Reported Raging Over 350  Miles Area from Netherlands Coast to ' Berlin—Heavy Fighter Escorts      GREATER BLOWS PROMISED   Liberators Strike Southwestern France While All-Day Offensive Carried Out  Against ‘Invasion Coast’

U. S. Bombers Hit Berlin Second Day   One of War's Greatest Air Battles Rages All Way From Netherlands to German Capital in New Bombing.

Follow-Up To. SaturdayRaid Shows Might   One of War’s Greatest Air Battles Fought All the Way In, Report Says.

SECOND AMERICAN BLOW LOOSED ON ~ GERMAN CAPITAL   Means More Intensified Bombing Is Beginning   PLAN TO WIPE OUT NAZI AIR FORCE

Flying Fortresses and Liberators Hit Capital First Time   Four - Engined Bombers Accompanied by Long Range Fighters

Protected By Large Convoy Of Fighter:      Berlin Report Says Onl A Few Actually Reached. The City .

American Heavy Bombers Return To Batter Berlin   Strong Forces Attack Capital

‘Yankees Raid Other Parts Of Germany   Berlin Radio Claims Capital Raid Failed; First Daylight Assault

U.S. Heavies Blast Targets in Berlin  In Surprise Attack, U. S. Airforce Says

Night And Day Assaults Made On Vast Scale   Record Armadas Cross Channel; Explosions Heard In England

CAPITAL IS HIT SECOND YANK BLOW   Big Bombers Make 7th Raid In Eight Days On Nazi Targets

YANK BOMBERS BLAST BERLIN N HEAVY RAID   Germans Report Terrific Resistance To Fly ~  ing Forts *

EAST GERMANY IS BLASTED BY YANKEE AIRMEN   Only 10 Nazi Fighters Seen Over District of Berlin Which Was Hit

lerrific Sky Baftle Fought Over Capita    Heavy Bombers, Escorted  By Fighters, Deal  Surprise Blow

RAID FIRST SUCH ATTACK OF THE WAR   Armada of Fortresses and Liberators Hits Other Targets in Eastern Ger many, Official U. S. Re nort Sava. 4

Fortresses and Liberators Escorted by Many Fighters; Fierce’ Battle Indicated

YANKS’ BIG PLANES OUT THIRD DAY   American Smash First Of War, If German Report Is True

Big American Planes Hit Nazi Capital In Daylight   Destruction Of German War Industry On Far xreater Scale Lies Ahead, Britisher Says

Air Fleets Plow Through Bitter Sub - Zero Cold In Day Assault   ‘Whole 8th Airforce Up There, U. S. Crewman Savs

Germans Report Few Planes Reach Capital   First Raid by Americans On Battered Nazi Target; Third Straight Day of Bombing Carried Out in Force. ~

HEAVY PLANES FIGHT WAY IN FROM HOLLAND   One of War's Greatest Aerial Battles Reperted by Germans Over 350-Mile Flyway

Bombs Shower City One Nazi  Sour ce Admits   Another Propaganda Agency Saye Not Single Explosive Hit Metronelis to Confuse Results   Hairsplitting On. CapitalBoundaries   Flight of Fortresses and Fighters Made Through Difficult Conditions;  Mercury 45 Below

Second American Blow Made Today Over Reich Capital   Surprise Follow-up to Saturday's "Icebreaker" Raid, is Striking Demonstration of Might of Eighth Army Air Force   DESTDUCTION AIMED AT SELECTED TARGETS

Nazt Propagandists Seek To Minimize Effects Of Assault Made Today By U.S. Air Force   Say Only Few Planes Got Through To Capital; Heavy Fighter Escort Provided; Bombers Go Through In Temperatures 45 Below Zero

Second  U. 'S.: Blow - Or Reich Capital Presum. ably. Aimed. at. Targets Missed In Saturation Bombings — Tarigets In France Hit.

OT RONG FORGE HUALS oe COND BLOW ON GT)   Medium and Fighter-Bombers Pound Invasion Coast for Fifth Bay.

GREATEST Alk HGHT RAGING » NAZIS CLAIM   Heavy Fighter Escort Pro vided For Formations   SURPRISE ATTACK   Striking Demonstration Of Eighth Air Force Might; Nazi Resistance Light

HEAVY FIGHTER FORCE MAKES 2ND AMERICAN ATTACK ON. BERLIN   Large Fighter Escort Travels Entire Distance of 1,100 Miles With Bombers   FRANCE ATTACKED SUNDAY

R.A.F. HITS AT GERMANY ON 6Tt STRAIGHT NIGHT.   All-Day Offensive Directed At Invasion Coast Of France

City Is Now Exposed To Day-Night Smashes; Big Aerial Armada Hammers Eastern Germany.

Second Large American Attack On World's Most Bombed City Demonstrates Strength of 8th Air Group

Great Air Battle On, Nazis Say   Heavy Fighter Formations Cover Big Bombers

GERMAN RADIO REPORTS BiG BATTLE IN AIR   Strong Force of ‘American Planes Follows Up Saturday Raid on Capital

Allies Throw Back 3. Weak \Nazi Thrusts   Reds Tighten Siege of. Pskov, Germans Reported Burning City of Narva = :

U.S. Bombers Pound Berlin In Stiff Fioht   Great Air Battle By Fighter Unita,  Germens Renort

HEAVY BOMBERS ABOVE GERMAN CAPITAL CITY   U.S. Eighth Air Force Takes Up in Daylight Where R.A.F. Mosquitos Left Off at Night

Big Fighter Eseort With U.S. Planes   German Announcement Of Raid Says Many Yanks Shot Down In Aerial Battles

Germans Claim One Of War’s Greatest Air Battles Raged Over Reich Territory

CANNES TAKEN EXPECT NICE TO FALL SOON   Drive to Within 20 Miles of Italian Frontier; Other Columns Drive Toward France.   Good Weather

Much Of South France Freed By Americans   Forces Of Patch But 20 Miles From The Italian Frontier

U.S. Forces In South France Capture Cannes   Thrust On To Within Less Than 20 Miles Of  Italian Franter

Resorts Seized On the Riviera   Gen. Patch Announces Fighting Continues at Toulon. Marseille.

Yanks Occupy Briancon, Near Italian Border   Other 7th Army Force: Take Avignon, In Rhon« Valley Delta.

U. S. Seventh Army ’ Occupies Avignon, Communications Hub   LARGE AREA FREED   Other Yank Columns Take Briancon, Near Italian Frontier

ALSO TAKE  NEARBY TOWN OF GRASSE      { Gen. Patch’s Move Thus ’ Extends Hold on Medi_: terranean Coast Eastward Toward the Italian  ' Brontier.

Two Forts ‘ in Toulon Capiured   Further Progress Also Re. ported at Marseille; Wide Allied Gains   SITUATION SIMILAR TO BRITTANY DRIVE   Allies Are Roaming Over Wide Area; Cannes Falls and Yanks Push On

AMERICANS TAKE BRIANCON, NEAR ITALIAN BORDER   OTHER UNITS DRIVE INTO AVIGNON, KEY TO RHONE VALLEY

Capturé 5000 Within 72 Hours Near Marseille   Allies Seize Strongpoints In City; Seize Cannes; 8 Miles From Rhone

‘Patch’s Forces Free Nearly All ‘Southern France   Occupy Alpine Tcwn Near Italy Border and Avignon, Rhone Valley Communications Center

AMERICANS ARE NEAR "KEY RIVER   Fighting Continues In Toulon Port Area And Marseille

Cannes Taken By Americans   Seventh Army Extends Hold Eastward Toward  Italian Frontier

Hold Extended Toward Border Of Italy   Drive Heading For ; Rhone Valley Makes Some Progress

YANKS SEIZE A TOWN IN THE ALPINE’   Invaders of South France Reach Briancon, Neax Italian Frontier More Than 100 Miles North of Cannes.

YANKS OCCUPY VILLAGES NEAR ITALIAN BORDER   Seize Briancon, 100 Miles North of Cannes; Others Enter Avignon

Briancon, French Alps Town, Taken   Avignon on Rhone Delta Is Captured

U.S. Columns Race for Italy Border  American Soldiers   American Soldiers Take Town of Briancon in Fight

Americans 100 Miles North Of Fallen Cannes   Other Sweeping Gains Reported By Allies, Patriots And Nazis Admit Even More

Americans Jecupy Alpine Briancon   Yanks Fight Twenty Miles From Italy. Capture Avignon

Smashing Attack On Enemy In Marseille   Seek To Wipe Out Four Strong Points  Of Foe; Two Generals, 5,000 Men Taken

Yank Troops In Briancon   Take Italian Frontier Town; Other Forces Move Into Avignon

ALPINE TOWN OCCUPIED BY ALLIED FORCE   United Nations Armies In Southern France Have Already Driven 100 Miles Past Cannes

ASTRIDE THE RHONE   Southern Invasion Forces Also Extend Gains Toward Italy ©

U.S. Columns Race for Italy Border   American Soldiers Take Town of Briancon in Fight

Cannes, Grasse Are Seized By Yankee Troops  French Interior Arm In Lyon; Fight Still Rages In Marseille, Taulon Racec

Cannes Falls To Yanksin Riviera Drive   Thrust. Fastward Less . Than 20 Miles From Italian Border

Avignon, Rhone Delta Key, Falls To Allied Troops   Anvaders Also Claim :: Progress: at Toulon: And in Marseille  -In Liberation Bottles

CANNES FALLS. AS AMERICANS TURN TO EAST   Other U. S. Columns Sweep Forward to Juncture -with North Armies.

Cannes Taken By American TroopsIn  South France   Fighting Continues In Toulon; Stiff Resistance At Naval Arsenal

Allied Troops Swarm Over South France   Seize Key Points, Seek Out Disorganized Ene. my Groups in Flight

Other Columns Reported At Swiss Frontier   Cannes Seized By Advancing Column; More Than’ 20,000 Prisoners Taken In Invasion of South France:

Yanks Near  Frontier   Spread Over Southern France ‘in Swift, ManyPronged Advance; Take Avignon, On the Rhone

‘Yanks Seize South France Key, Avignon   Occupy Briancon. 10 Miles North of Cannes, Freeing Bie Sector

South France Nearly Free   Americans Advance 100 Miles North of Cannes, Near Italy

Territory East Of Rhone Virtually Free   Southern France Campaign Makes Excellent Progress

Resort City Is Captured   “Cannes, Is. ‘Seized By. Seventh Force.

RIVIERA FALL   Briancon, Near Italian Border, Avignon Are Taken By Yanks

Yanks Smash On In South France   Extend Gains Almost To Italian Frontier

Patch Forces Speed Toward Italy Bordes   Allies Fivnily Astride Rlione Valley Communication Lines, Last Enemy  “ape Route

Yanks Capture Alpine Village   American Columns Approaching Italian-French Frontier.

AMERICANS HAVE OCCUPIED ALPINE TOWN OF BRIANC ON   It Is More Than 100 Miles North of Captured Sea. port of Cannes.   MOVE INTO AVIGNON   This Is the Key Center in the Delta of the Rhone  Faller.

U. S.-French *Troops Roam ,Widely In Search  Of Enemy   Situation In Southern France Is Now Comparable To That Of Breakout In Brittany With Advances

Foris Captured At Great Naval Base of Toulon   American Troops Continue Gains And Drive North

7th Army 5 Miles From 'talian Line   Alpine Town of Briancon Taken— Avignon, in Rhone Valley, Falls

Sriancon, Avignon, Captured in Newest Seventh Army Gaur   ’atch’s Troops Push For. ward Toward Key City of Nice

NEARLY ALL OF SOUTH FRANCE NOW LIBERATED   American Columns Occupy Alpine Town Over 100 Miles North of Can nes. Toulon Fall Near

Alpine Town Occupied By U.S. Seventh Army Troops   Avignon Also Taken; Americans Now Are Firmly Astride Enemy Communications Lines

U. 5. Soldiers Seize Resort City of Cannes   Americans Also Take Nearby Inland Town Of Grasse in Drive On French Riviera .

Yanks Drive To 8 Miles Irom Rhone  Fighting Continues it Harbor Districts of Marseille TOLLON ENCIRCLED 20.000 Prisoners Already  in Pens of South France 2oachhoads      TOLLON ENCIRCLED

Allies Extend Their Hold on South France   French Forces Reported in Lyon; Cannes Captured

Cannes, Resort City On French  Riviera, Falls   U. S. Column Smashing Toward Vital Road Seeking Juncture.

‘Off-Highway Users Of Gasoline Must Endorse E. R Coupons   Coupons Not Valid © For Transfer Of Gas tf Not Endorsed

BOND SALES TAKE SECOND BIG JUMP   Amount Subscribed Yester day Was $417,854.25 Bringing Total Thus Fa To $2,110,431

FIRST REPORT MADE ON SALES OF BONDS   Total Up To Close Of Business Last Evening Was $261,713—Plans Made To Entertain Show Cast

$3,257,828 Subscribed Here In Fifth Victory Loan Drive   Hanover Has Exceeded Quota By $639,578 With Subscriptions Of Today Still To Be Counted In

Dewey Starts  Fireworks  In Campaign Criticizes FDR  ‘Depression’ of 7.5 WS. tl.

Collecting On Cow Tricky Business   French Farmers Finding Lot Depends On Whether She Died in Battle

Pay for Bossy Depends on Whether She Dies in Battle or Afterward

Breakthrough On Wide Front Isolates Paris   Advance Menaces Nazi Robot Bases And Es ‘ape Routes For Beaten Army

 Americans Cross Seine In Great   Numbers At Mantes, Patton's Forces Fan Out On South Bank Of Seine   BRITISH LASH OUT : PROM CAEN SECTOR

U.S. Forces Now 32 Miles Inside Breton Boundary   Americans Thrust Deep Into Heart Of Brittany To Rennes Outskirts   OFFICIAL REPORTS ON DRIVE DELAYED   By RICHARD TREGASKIS   WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN FRANCF Aug.

MECHANIZED, SPEARHEAD NOW ON OUTSKIRTS OF _ (RENNES IN PUSH TO CUT OFF- BRITTANY PENIN...: _ SULA AND CAPTURE IMPORTANT PORT ciTy—. E FIERCE. FIGHTING REPORTED ALL: -ALONG FRONT IN NORMANDY —

Statements On Blood Tests Conflicting   Decision of Three Déctors Has No Bearing On Conspiracy Charge   TYPES ARE DESCRIBED

California Supreme Court Does Not Accept Blood Test in Paternity Suit

SHAN, WALLED CITY IN CHINA, HELD BY JAPS   NIPPONESE THRUST AIMS AT CAPITAL, CHUNGKING

Bayeux Folk Are Overjoyed   Pelt Allies With Flowers Even As Infantry Wiping Out Enemy Snipers

Berlin Claims Yanks Advance To Within 87 Miles of Paris   Canadian Forces Push Forward in Drive Against Capital of France; May Pocket Nazi Army

Le Mans Falls As Allies Rush Onward   Nazis Say Americans Are Charging Hourly Nearer Goal

TEMPERATURES:   Yanks, Canadians Threaten To Pocket Bulk Of Nazi Army

Germans Report Americans but 87 Miles From Capital   Canadians Break Second Defense Line Below Caen

Plunge Past Le Mans, Nazis Say   Canucks Smash Through Germans Second Line Below Caen

Allies Crack Second Defense Line of Germans  Goteway to Paris,   Gateway to Paris, 110 Miles Away, Taken by Yankees

Canadians Carve Out New Gains   American Troops Sweep Through Le Mans, Nazis Sey

Report U. S. Troops 87 Miles From Paris   Canadians Smash Through Germans’ Second Defense Line To Point 16 Miles Below Caen; Front 80 Miles Wide

Bulk Of 100 Vessels In Brittany Gone   . Motorized Yanks 87 Miles From Paris, Says Berlin

2nd Defense Line Toward Paris Falls  To Invaders   Decisive Contests’ Started In’ France

Allied Forees CurlingAround  German Army   Foe Still Holds All Five Major Breton Peninsula Ports

Yank Troops Only  87 Miles Out Of Paris, Nazis Say   Meanwhile, Canadians Crack Germans’ Second Defense Line, Reaching Point 16 Miles Below Caen — Le Mans 110 Miles From Capital of France.

CANADIANS PUSH ONIN CAEN AREA   Nazis Report Yanks In 87 Miles Of Paris;  Front Broadens

OTHER FORCES  MOVE CLOSE TO ANGERS   Berlin Says Yanks Within 87 Miles Of Paris   RESISTANCE LIGHT   in Loire Valley Offensive; Germans Still Hold Five Main Breton Ports

CANADANS BATTER FORWARD CRACKING THROUGH BARRIER GUARDING THE ROAD TO PARIS   8erlin Report Indicates That Nazi Garrison in North Breton Port of St. Malo is Yielding After Four Day Siege   ALLIES CURL AROUND ENDS OF ENEMY FRONT

“BY THEAMERICANS, GATEWAY TO PARK   Canadians‘ Sthashied Through the Germans: Second Defense- Line.   16 MILES. BELOW CAEN   Berlin Broadeast Said U. S   . Forces Were Within 87, Miles of Paris.

Le Mans Taken By Doughboys:  Canadians Hot   German Broadcasts Say Motorized U, S. Forces 87 Miles From Canital.   FRONT IS BROADENED

BERLIN ADMITS FURTHER GAINS BY AMERICANS   Doughboys Capture Le Mans, Gate. way To Paris; Smash Through Below Caen; Canadians Aid

Canadians Rip German Line In   Drive On Paris   Advance Ten Miles as U.S, Forces Enter Le Mans, L10 Miles Southwest of French Capital   Berlin Says Yanks Reach Loire River   British Units Battiag in Orne Sector. Threaten to Vrap Large German Foree in Wedge

Canadians Smash Through Sixteen Miles Below Caen      Berlin Reports. United States Troops ~ Race on Through Le Mans to Within 87 Miles of Paris

Allies Knock Out 14 German Tanks  In Counterthrust   Heavy Rain. Stalls British Drive Toward Capital of France

ALLIES BAG 14 GERMAN TANKS   RAINS STALL BRITISH DRIVE TOWARD PARIS

Photographs Show Vast Destruction Visited Upon Ancient Benedictine Abbey

Germans Dig In and Fight  Among Ruins   American Artillery Blasting Foe Back;  Ninvic Dacain Anrilia

Bombs Cause Great Damage To Monastery   Reconnaissance Pilots Obtain Photographic Evidence Of Results Of Aerial Attack

Reconnaissance Photos Reveal Monte Cassino Monastery Almost Completely Destroyed by Attack

23-DAY-OLD TWINS - ON LONG AIR TRIP   Babies to Be Flown by TWA Alr liner From Los Angeles to St, Louts Today,

MUSTANGS AND KITTYHAWKS WITH AMERICAN PILOTS MAKE ATTACK ON ITALIAN HYDROELECTRIC DAM ON ADRIATIC SIDE OF PENINSULA.

Brilliant Air Operation Threatens Chaos to Enemy Below Pescara; Bombs Batter South Europe Areas

Wall of Water Menacing Nazi Port of Pescara   Liberators Raid Invasion Coast   Biast Ratl Vards

PENPESCARA -DAM IN ITALY   Operation Threatens _ Chaosts Nazi -_ _... Defenses _

Brilliant Attack Menaces Axis Pescara Defenses   ‘Aerial Assault on French Invasion

Coup Threatens Nazi Defenses Near Adriatic   Sluice Gates Ripped Apart by Explosions; U. S. Fliers Blast Axis Railyards at Ploesti

Floodwaters Menace Nazi  Strongholds   Seen Rushing Toward Nazi-Occupied Cities Along Adriatic Sea  ee eae

Yank Bombers Destroy Huge Nazi Reservoir   Great Wall of Water Imperils Germens’ Seaport of Pescara

ALLIES SCORE NOTABLE COUP NEAR PESCARA   ROMANIAN RAILWAY YARDS BLASTED BY AMERICANS

Italian Dam Cracked by Allied Flyers   Nazi Strongholds and Lines of Traffic Menaced by Waters

Allied dive bombers smash giant Pescara dam, release floods   Waters threaten to engulf German strongholds alons Adriatic coast

FOUR MEN. DROWNED ‘WHEN BOAT CAPSIZES   Employes of M-K.T. Love Lives In Flooded Section’ of Missisalppi at St. Loulse

Senators Say Russians to Get Cruiser   Gilchrist Is New Prexy at Texas A. & M.   US Subs Sink 15 Nin Shios   Herbison Runs For Treasurer   Darina Admiral Halsey Soon To Acauire New Assianment

NEW POST FOR HALSEY HINTED   Forrestal Unwilling to Discuss Assignment . Change

Complete ‘Unofficial Election Returns Will Be Found On Page Two Of This Issue   More Young Men Are Accepted For Military Service

Raids Prepare For New Soviet Offensive   Seventeen Fires Started, Military Trains Loaded With Troops, Ammunition; Supplies Are Completely Wrecked ’

RED SOFTENING UP RAIDS ALONG INVASION ROUTE   Big Fires Started at Important Railway Junction, Troop Trains Wrecked by Bombs

GERMAN ARMY ROUT MOUNTING IN LATVIA   Reds Drive For Baltic Sea Coast To Cut  Nazi Escape

REDS DRIVE THRU RIGA APPROACHES   New Offensive a “Prussia ‘Reported

RUSSIANS ROUT NAZIS NEAR RIGA   Axis Sources Hint at “New Soviet: Drive On East Prussia

Russian Forces Smash Across. Danube River   Soviet Troops 4 At Junction W:. Marshal Tito’s Un ~

RUSSIANS ROUT NAZIS FIGHTING IN RIGA VICINITY   Axis Hints of Start of New Offensive Against East Prussia

RUSSIANS ROUT RAC-TAG ARMY EAST OF RIGA       Germans Throw Reserves Intc  Battle In Effort To Gain Pime

Russians Forge Across Danube Info Yugoslavia   Nazis Say Reds Seek Junction With Tito’s Army

Nazis Attempt Evacuation Of Latvian Seaport Capital   HUNGARY TRYING TO OBTAIN ARMISTICE   Germans Throwing Pilots Into Front Lines As Infantrymen

ROUT NAZIS NEAR RIGA   Axis Sources Hint at New Soviet Drive On East Prussia

RUSSIANS PUSH ACROSS BORDER OF YUGOSLAVIA   Rout Nazi Rear Guard On Northern Front In Riga Thrust

Report Hints Drive to Join Tito's Partisans   Soviets Smash Through Defenses Before Riga

East Prussia, Hungary Goals Of Red Drives   Axis Hints Offensive Begun; Says Soviet Army In Hungary

Reds Enter  Yugoslavia At Iron Gate   Crossing Believed Aimed At Junction With Tito’s Forces.

Reds Drive Nazis Back Near Riga   Tanks and Infantry Through Aproaches to Lat vian Seaport Capital

Soviet Army Carries War To Yugoslavs   Offensive Believed Aimed At Forming Junction With Tito’s Forces

Reds Reported In Yugoslavia After. Plunging Over Danube   Drier To TImnpapyv

Russians Cross the  Danube  Germans Report _ Brisk Fighting On Both Sides

SOVIETS ROUT RAG-TAG ARMY OF GERMANS   Russian Tanks and Infantrymen Driving Through Defenses to Riga.

BATTLE * SAIPAN NEARS CLIMAX   Three Powerful U. S. Divisions Moving Steadily Ahead

GHASTLY SAIPAN BATTLE AOARS TOWARD GLIMAX   Japanese Dead Is 6000 With Probably 12,000 Wounded   YANKS MOVING AHEAD

Great Raids Are Made by Allied Airmen  Nazi Ports and Robot Sites Hit

BRITISH AIRMEN SUPPORT SOVIETS ON BALTIC FRONT   GREAT AIR ARMADA BOMBS THE PORTS OF SETTIN, KONIGSBERG

Baltic Ports, German Cities Heavily Bombed   Berlin and Hamburg Among Nazi Cities Struck by Huge Fleet of Planes During Night.

a \ AERIAL—. Hs  U5. BOMBS HIT KIEL AND BREMEI   Baltic Ports Of ‘Kontigsberg, Stettin Hit By RAF Armada

Bombers Smash at Baltic Ports  Twin Assaults on Koniqsberg, Stettin

PLANES OTRIKE. HEAVY BLOW AT WO PORTS   Robot Platforms in North France Hit Despite Bad Weather.

U.S. Bombers Hit Robot Bomb Area, Other Sites  British Force Strikes In Support of  Rirecian Graiund Linite

Heavy Allied Raids Support Reds in North   Campaigns in West. and North France Cost Nazis 325,000 Men

Bombers Hit Nazi Ports in Heavy Raids   British Bombers Help Russians With Blow At Baltic Ports

Yank Bombers Slash At Ports Of Kiel, Bremen   Blast Robot Platforms; RAF Hammers Stettin And Konigsberc.

BREMEN, KIEL ROBOT RAMPS HIT BY YANKS   British Fliers Aid Soviet: in Baltic Raids; Smash Hamburg, Berlin

U. 5: BOMBERS HIT BLOWS AT KIEL: BREMEN   British Heavies Support Russian Troops in Raiding Baltic Ports

British Bomb Baltic Ports   Konigsberg and Stettin Battered in Support Of Russian Armies

Allies Give Air Support to Reds   Bomb Konigsberg And Stettin, Nazi Baltic Supply Bases

British Bomb Baltic Ports In Night Raid   Followed by U. 5. Heavies Teday In Atiacks On Stettiun, Hamburg and Konigsberg

YANKS BATTER PORTS AND ROBOT CENTER   Bombers c as t Explosives Through Cloud Banks

RAF Bomber: Hit Stettin, Konigsberg   Great Number o Planes Support Russian Drives  On Baltic Ports

BALTIC PORTS BOMBED; AID SOVIET DRIVE   Hamburg, Berlin Also Hit In Night Raid

Kiel, Bremen Smashed By ~ Allied Bombs   Robot Platforms Also Hit By U. S. Planes, Rus gians Aided

RAF ARMADA HAMMERS AT BALTIC PORTS   One of Greatest Masses of British Heavies Ever Dispatched Gives Support To Russians   BERLIN, HAMBURG HIT

BRITIANS BOMB 2 BALTIC PORTS   Konigsberg,-Stettin Hit; Others Raid Berlin and Hamhirg_

RAF Attack Backs Russ In North   Konigsberg, Stettin Heavily Assaulted By Many British Planes

Wide Areas Hit By British Planes   ‘Victory Near’, Germans Told As New Secret Weapon Primed

Objectives of U.S. Foreign Policy Given   Secretary Stettinius Informs Legislators; Pledges Trade Expansion

Stettinius Outlines  US. Policy   States Five Objectives In Appealing for Approval of Appointee:

FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVES TOLD   STETTINIUS ASKS SIX OF STAFF BE APFROVED

SENATORS HEAR FOUR NOMINEES   U. S. Foreign Policy Given Airing Before Solons

SEC. STETTINIUS AND HIS “TEAM” PASS IN REVIEW.   No Serious Challenge’ Heard From Foreign Relations Committee in Questioning First Four Nominees Called Ba Stand

Foreign Policy Is Outlined for Senate’s Benefit   Stettinius and His State Department Team Line up for Committee Qui,

*5 Aims of US. Policy Told By Stettinius   Secretary Makes Plea To Senate Committee For Six New Aides

FDR to Make Philadelphia Speech Oct. 27   Lawrence Announces Rally for Shibe Park; Edison Says Hague  Hurts Drive in Jersey

4th Termer Oct. 27 In Philadelphia   FORMER SECRETARY OF NAVY EDISON AFTER VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE PREDICTS JERSEY FOR DEWEY.   To Speak At Shibe Park

F.D.R. Will Speal In Philadelphia On October 2]   Former Governor Edison Believes Dewey Will Carry New Jersey

NAZI FORCES ARE FLEEING IN DISORDER   Fifth Army Troops Are Swarming Over Historic Tiber

LINES PUSHED BEYOND ROME BY 5TH ARMY   REMNANTS OF AXIS FORCES FLEEING IN DISORDER

Nazis Retreat Before Allied  Italian Drive   Little Resistance Offered Advance of  United Nations Force

Germans Retreat — In Italy   Give Up Another Five Miles to Allied Troops Noh ~ Of Tiber

Nazis Flee in Disorder North, West Of Rome as Allies Push Pursuit   German Attacks Against Reds Weaken On Romanian Front, Moscow Reports

GERMANS FLEE IN DISORDER ABOVE ROME   Fifth Army Swarms over Tiber against Weak Resistance as Battle Continues without Pause.   Abandan Positions

NAZIS FLEE IN DISORDER - ABOVE ROMI   Bag of Prisoners In_-ereased by Thow "sands as Allies Push -. 5 Miles Farther Beyond Tiber.

Nazis Fleeing Before Allies Beyond Tiber   “Another Phase of War In Italy Concluded

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY BALLOT   For President of the United States: (Vote for One)

Nazis May Quit Line At Cassino   Strong Point on Appian Way Is Reported Captured; Oppasition Mounts

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Wal) Veefend Rome.

EASING UP ON ~ CASINO LINE TO THE SOUTH   Shift of Enemy Strength Suggests That Climatic Battle for Rome About to Start.

Open City Status Is Violated   Frontier Dispatch Says Rome Placed Under Seige State

Marines Battle New Britain Japs in Borgen Bay Area For Vital Artillery Position

[Marines Battle for an Important Observation Point   Solomons-Based Bombers and Fighters Hit Rabaul and Southern End of New Ireland Island: Down 10 Janus

2 —————EE—————eEooOoreree ec  AAF Classes At U.N. To Be Closed Down

FREED COUNTRIES 10 RECEIVE “U.S  PROTECTION   Further Steps Are Being Made to Help Self Governments

STATEMENT CONCERNING GOVERNMENTS OF LIBERATED COUNTRIES REPORTED BEING PREPARED

AT INCAPACITY OF NEW DEAL   Sees it Unfitted to Make Peace That Will Stick

Gov. Martin Says New Deal Has Been 12-Year Failure   He Quotes Some ‘Unforgotten Words” Of Senator Truman, Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee

Physical Survey Of Public School  “Only Six Per Cent y ‘ Of Boys Have Defects

PHYSICAL STANDARDS FOUND HIGH   Only 10 Out of 168 Boys In L. H. S. Have Serious Physical Defects

PLANES CARRY RECORD BOMB LOADS   Railroad Yards in JapDominated Burma. Smashed Hard

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   SUPERFORTRESSES RAID RANGOON

F, -D:R« Declares Again Enemy Leaders Will Be Punished   President Tells Filipinos Their Freedom Is Drawing Closer

MURDER LEADERS 10 BE PUNISHED   Renews Determination, Men In England Get Hints of Action Shortly.

GUILTY WILL BE PUNISHED--FDR   War Refugees Of Europe, Asia Will Be Avenged

EEE aaa EE ToT,  Benefit Payments To Farmers Second Highest Since 1933

GTH WAR LOAN QUOTA IS SET   Berrien County’s Goal Is $5,738,000, Siegan  Announces

ee ae oS SAN MIGUEL AGENT WEDS ALRIOUVUEDOINIC mroi   DEWEY MAY ' SPEAK AT ” "GOP MEET

“DONT CHANGE LEADERS NOW,” URGES JACKSON   Shift Would Assist Enemy, Democratic Leader Charges

WAR EFFORT 1S STRESSED ~~ IN SPEECHES         CONVENTION CHAIRMAN SAYS  TION CANNOT AFFORD TO.  “TAKE CHANCE’—NOM-  ‘INATION TONIGHT

URGES JACKSON   Shift Would Assist Enemy, Democratic Leader Charges

Larry Allen ‘is Exchanged   AP Correspondent Is Returning Home; Prisoner 20 Months

Larry Allen Free Of Axis Clutches   Famous Correspondent Included in War Prisoner Exchange

Troublesome  Correspondent is Exchanged  Larry Allen At Barcelona With

Larry Allen Goes Free inNew Exchange   AP War Correspondent Is Released After 20. Months as a War Prisoner   VETERAN OF MANY =... i- WAR EXPERIENCES   Almost Escaped and “Almost Killed in-September When He. Leaped From Train

Larry Allen Is Released Ioday   Associated Press Writer Coming Home

‘Capt. Robert Johnson Tells How He Beat Rickenbacker's Record Monday

Top Fighter Pilot Wants Trip Home   Official Permission .  Still Not Granted

hose over 26 0 Be Deferred For fhe Present   Hershey Announces induction Speedup

Draft Rules Changed For. Younger Men  ’ Fastér Induction _Of Group Soucht

GROUP T0 ACT ON KEY DEFERMENTS   Intensifies Drive for Young Men for Services   FASTER INDUCTION   Railroading, Coal Mining and Other Industries May Get Key Men Deferred

CALL OF MEN UNDER 26 10 GET SPEEDUF   FEW INDISPENSIBLE YOUTHS TO STAY IN INDUSTRIES

» DRAFT OF MEN UNDER 26 WILL ” BE SPEEDED UP   Series of Sharp New Instructions Are  Sent to Boards

INDUCTION OF YOUNGER MEN BEING SPEEDED   Series Of Sharp New In structions Are Being Issued To Draft Boards      LISTS OF MEN UNDER 26 ARE TO BE COMBED

Orders Aim  At Speedier— Induction  Of Young Mer   To Leave Registrants 26 and Over Untouched Until Younger Group Has Been Cleaned Up TO GET ‘PHYSICALS’ DESPITE DEFERMENTS   Government Rushes Program To Save Few ‘Indispensibles’

fyshey Issues w Rules to rit Boards           sor Induction of  4 Under 26 Ordered Nutt Creates Unit Ration Deferments

DRAFT SPEED-UP. INSTRUCTIONS G0 TO LOCAL BOARDS   Series. of Sharp ‘Orders. Issued in Effort to Bring’ ‘About . Faster Induction. of Men Under: 26.   CLEANUP.OF YOUNGER GROUP TO. COME FIRST   Paul McNutt Sets Up Com _ mittee to “Ration” Defer-. ments Among ' Chosen “Key Industries.

Hershey Issues Instructions  Faster Induction of Young Men Sought

Hershey Issues Instructions  Faster Induction of Vound Man Saiuchi

Drive Intensified To Draft Younger Men   Sharp New Instructions Issued by Hershey as McNutt Announces Supreme Committee to Ratinn Dofeormonte

Draft officials aim at rapid induction of men below 26 years   Drive for able-bodied intensified with sharp instructions to boards

pe Plan Action ‘ Pacific   New Attacks Mapped At Recent Conference

U. S. Chiefs Map New Plans Against Japs   U. S. Naval Chiefs Plan New Moves Against Japs

Navy Heads Confer onWest Coast   Planning of New Moves ~ To Crush Pacific Foe is Believed Reason ‘ For Parley

Philippine Drive May Be Planned   West Coast Conference Seen as Prelude to Greater Pacific Action

PACIFIC NAVY PARLEY HELD   Forrestal, King, Nimitz and Others Plan New Moves To Crush Japan

TOP NAVAL OFFICERS CONCLUDE WAR TALKS   Strategy of New Attacks Against Japan Planned at San Francisco Conference.

American Naval Leaders and Pacific Commanders Plan Jap War Strateay

‘Navy Duplicates Truk Feat — In Marianas, Scores Heavily  Without Loss Of Single Ship   Disclose Details Listing Great Destruction Wrought At Jap Island

Naval Force Takes Heavy Toll Of Nin:   Duplicates Truk Feat In Marianas Without Loss Of A Warship: Smash 135 Jap Planes

CARRIER PLANES  BOMB GAUM FOR  THE FIRST TIME NIMITZ SAYS NOT  A WARSHIP LOST IN DARING FORAYS

NO WARSHIPS DAMAGED IN ACTION   135 Jap Planes And Much Shipping Wiped Out  Abies ATTRA M A Fa   From Carrier Task Force Only American Losses; Other Details

Enemy Isles Are Battered By U. S. Planes   Elusive Japanese Fleet Not Found At Important Bases

PLAY HAVOC T0 JAPANESE   Destroy 135 Jap Planes In Raid  On Marianas

Destroy 135 Nip Planes   Yankee Warships Are Undamaged; Jap Fleet Remains In Hiding   GUAM IS BOMBED

135 Jap Planes Are Wiped Out By U. S. Attack In Marianas   We Lost 6 Planes But None of Ou: Warships Were Damaged, Nimitz Reveals

Task Force Wipes Out 135 Planes   Admiral Nimitz Discloses Details Of Successful Attack By U, S. Ships On Mariana Islands

SAIPAN, TINIAN, ‘GUAM BOMBED BY TASK FORCI   Nimitz Reveals Deep Penetration - Accomplished Without Even Damaae io U. S. Warships   JAP FLEET ABSENT   135 Jap Planes Downed, Shipping Scored, With Loss of Only Six Out of Hundreds U. S. Planes

Marianas Cost  U.S. No Ships   Only Six Carrier Planes Lost in Suecesstul Attack

Yankee Task Force Wipes Qut 136 Jap Planes on Islands   Hits Enemy Shipping; Returns Without Loss Of Single Ship

Yanks Duplicate Truk In Marianas Against Japanese   Score Heavily Without Losing Single Warship

Nimitz Tells About Victory in Marianas   135 Jap Planes’ Wiped Out and Light Shipping Is Sent to the Bottom

Battleship-Escorted Task Force Ranged 3,800 Miles Without Loss Of Warship

 CARGO SHIP SUNK, ANOTHER IS BEACHEL   U. S. Carrier Force Detectec But Enemy Torpedo Planes Bea Drivan (Ht

PLANES IN RAID   American Task Force Scores Against Shipping in Mariana Attack.   iNIMITZ TELLS RESULTS

 — PACIFIC ~—  &,  No Warships Lost As Marianas And Guam Are Lashed

U.S. Warships Undamaged In Marianas Fight   Yankee Raiders Destroy 135 Jap Planes; Guam

DOWN 135 JAP AIRPLANES IN MARIANAS RAID   Nips Fail to Damage Even One U. S. Warship; Bomb Guam

Four Convicts Flee, Release Two Hostages   Reformatory Guard : Stabbed; Long-Tern Prisoners Head For Illinois Line

Four Stab Guard, Flee  Reformatory   Towa Prison Scene of Break; Hostages Set Free

TWO HOSTAGES ARE SEIZED IN PRISON BREAK   Chase Swings Toward Davenport as Trio  Wrecks Auto

Churchill Flen _ Will Soon Vist ~ Genera DeGaulle  British Officials to , Accept Invitution of  French Head

BUS LINE FROM CHARLEROI TO MILL PLANNED      Service Will Be Inaugurated Nex Monday, Report States

Rundstedt's Army Into Position  Dare Not Budge for Fear of Invasion

Germans Take Up Final Defense Posts In West   Norway, Denmark See Worst Wave Of Nazi Terror Yet As Germans Get Jittery 

Germans Take Final Position   Nazis Have Fears Allies Will Start Invasion From Scandinavia.

GERMANS TAKE UP FINAL POSITIONS TO MEET INVASION   Nazis Say They Will Not Weaken Western Front by Withdrawing Troops for Struggle in Italy.   FEAR ALLIED ATTACK THROUGH SCANDINAVIA   Terror Reigns in Denmark and Norway as Hitlerites Try to Curb Active Allied Sumopathizers.

Nazis Occupy Last Defenses For Invasion   Eisenhower Warns : Underground Allies To Keep Off Roads

Germans Set For Invasion  Crack Troops Held on   Crack Troops Held on Channel Despite Fears Of Russ, Italy Front

Nazis Take Up Anti-Invasion Defense Posts   Hold Haunting Fears Allies Will Strike Through Scandinavia; Allies Warn Underground

Germans In Final Defense Position:  Can't Budge To Stave Off Italy Disaster

Nazis Finish Preparations For Invasion   Take Final Positions te Meet Assault by Allied Armies

Nazi Forces Set To Face Approaching Allied Move   No Switch Planned Despite Italy Loss

GERMANS TAKE UF FINAL POSITIONS TO MEET INVASION   Army of the West Dares Not Budge Even to Avert Disaster in Italy   KEEP NERVOUS EYE ON FRENCH CHANNEL   Must Contend With Spectre Of Heavy Assault by Russia From the East. Fear Allies Intend to Break in Through Scandinavia

INVASION FEAR HOLDING NAZIo TO WEST WALL   Will Surrender Territory in Italy Before Sending ’ Troops East.

 Nazi Army Waits and Waits But Dares  Not Move Even to Avert Italian i Disaster in Daily Fear of Invasion

Nazis Take Up Positions fo Repel Asaulf   Dare Not Weaken Wes Wall to Avert Disaster In Italy as They Fear Allied Invasion

Nazis Admit They Dare Not Bulge From Wes Defensive Even to Avert Disaster in Italy

Nazis Mass Against Blow   Take Up Final Defensive Position, Admit Can’t Send Aid to Italy

Pre-Invasion Nazi Tension At High Pitch   History's Worst - Battle Foreseen

‘Germans Frepare People for Worst   History’s Greatest Batlle "Expected by Reich

Growing Invasion Signs Give  Nazi Hi igh Officers The Jitter:   Press Prepares People For Greatest Battle In History; Warns Allies To Strike With Overwhelming Force

NAZI TENSION OVER INVASION AT HIGH PITCH   PEOPLE PREPARED FOR WORST; BIG ARMY WAITING

PRE- INVASION FEARS AT HIGH PITCH IN REICH   Nazi Leaders Continue To Prepare People For the Worst

Germans Preparing Their People for  Worst in Invasion   Tension Grows in Nazi-Occupied Europe and Different Result Than at Dieppe Is Anticipated as Zero Hour Draws Closer

Greatest Allied Effort Seen: Along Atlantic Wall Many Divisious Ready

German. Newspaper Tells People Fight Will “Make Whole World Hold Ita ‘Breath” — Nazis Believed to Have 30 Divisions: at West) Wall. With . 60 Others ‘at Strategic  ‘Points in Reich, France and Central Europe.

Invasion Tension Reaches Pitch   Nazis Preparing German People For An Over whelming Invasion.

Tension In Germany  Reaches High Pitch   Nazis Warn That Greatest Battle in History Is Near -—Gloomy Account of Future Given in One Newspaper

NAZIS JITTERY OVER INVASION   Greatest Battle In History Of World Predicted By Newspaper

INDICTED AS NAZI CONTACT IN U.S,   FBI Charges Newark, N. J Man Sent as Aide of Saboteurs

EEE  CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY STARTS IN RATION PROBE   House Committee Sends Rep. Harris to Conduct Investigation

CCG HIRED PRESS AGENT IN TEXAS, ANDERSON STATES   ‘Claims Attempt Made to ‘Elim—_ so ;   inate’ Four Leading Demo ,  crats in Congress

WITH GROWING REVOLT   Guerrillas Have Assembled Large Force: in Pyrenees

REVOLT IN SPAIN RAPIDLY NEARING FULL SCALE WAR   Guerillas Fighting Franco Reported to Number Qver 20,000

Franco Worried As 20,000 Armed Guerrillas: Mass   Anti-Fascists Clash With Regular Troops; Movement Growing

BRISTOL ATTORNEY IS EXCHANGE CLUB SPEAKER   Hugh B. Eastburn, Esq., Tells of Service in World War    ENLISTED FOR YEAR

TELLS EXCHANGE CLUB HOW TOBACCO IS CURED   E. G. Beinhart Explains The Methods of Cultivation and Crop Harvesting

SERVICE CLUB HEARS HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR   Exchange Club Members Addressed Briefly By Capt. Leister  (ACCC vCOC ADC ALAAALCTY

TELLS OF MISSIONARY WORK IN THE CONGO   Dr. William Boyer Brings A Message of Life in Africa   TO EXCHANGE CLUB

Chiang Reports On Jap Future When War Ends   Nation to Decide On Government Says Allied Chief

CHIANG THINKS JAPAN TO FALL   Belicves 1944 To See ‘Be. ginning Of Decisive Stage’

Citation Given For Gallantry  Scott Langendorfer’s Unit Gets Award

Citation Given . For Gallantry  ‘Scott’ Langendorfer’ s  - Unit Gets Award

Surprise Attack Made By Nazis   Strike In Strength ‘In Serchio Valley

Nazis Open  Italian Push   Surprise Offensive Forces Withdrawal.

TEXANS WALK OUT; DROTEST DECISION   A Lot of Other Southerners “Sore” at Treatment

33 REGULAR TEXANS LEAVE CONVENTION   Walk Out In Protest After Half Of Rivais Are Ordered Sepatend

TEXANS WALK OUT; ~ DROTEST DECISION   A Lot of Other Souther. ners “Sore” at Treater Y-7.\

Revival Meeting at the Baptist Church Here To Be Held July 2-July 16

AMERICANS DRIVE, SWIFTLY AHEAD nN PURSUIT OF NAZIS   LARGE NUMBERS OF GERMANS BELIEVED TRAPPED  - SOUTHWEST OF ROME

FLEEING NAZIS BEING CHASED INTO NEW TRAP   Battering of Invasion Area Of Europe Continues by Big Forces of Bombers

Allied Troops Press Close on Heels of Fleeing Nazis After Rome Is Liberated   Fifth Army Enters Italian Capital Sunday Morning, Meeting Little Opposition, and Then Starts Pursult of Disorganized Germans

BERLIN TOOK BAD BEATING IN BIG RAIL   Aerial Stabs Made at Rome Today As Plane Offensive Continues Against Hitler's Reich.

Yanks Take Toll Of 176 Nazi Planes   > But Berlin Smash Costs 68 U. S. Heavy — And 11 Fighters.

Nazis Admit Yank Raid Catastrophe   Berliners Call Day Of Bombing ‘Bloody Monday,’ Oslo Says

CHARGES: MADE BY DAILY MAIL   LONDON PAPER AULEGES THAI . AMERICAN BUSINESS .. MEN . ARE EXPLOITING PARIS .

British Charge Yankee Business Men Engaged In Exploiting Parisians

NEW STATE DEPT. APPOINTEES FACE LESS OPPOSITION   PENSION PROPOSAL FOR CONGRESSMAN ATTRACTS INTEREST

On Capitol Hill Today   Opposition to State Dep’t Aides Fading; Probe Cigaret Famine

‘Soviets Trap 3 Nazi Divisions   Mighty Force Poised For Drive Into East Prussia

Reds Overwhelm West Bank of Vistula River   Soviels Prepare To Enter Germany

Soviets Trap 30,000 Nazi Soldiers   Russians Overwhelrr Sandomierz in Central Poland

FORTRESS ON VISTULA BANK   30,000 Nazis Trapped As Sandomierz in  Poland Falls

VISTULA RIVER STRONGHOLD IS TAKEN BY REDS   Sandomierz, In Central  Poland, Falls After ThreeDay Battle   3 GERMAN DIVISIONS ‘BELIEVED TRAPPED

RED ARMY TAKES NAZI STRONGHOLD ON VISTULA RIVER   Wins Sandomierz in Bitter 3Day Street Battle and Traps 3 Divisions of 30,000 Men.   FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES NEAR EAST PRUSSIA   7 One Border Town Reported Burning and Other Villages Inside Province Are in Flames.

Soviets Advancing ‘On German Silesia   Three Divisions of Nazis Reported Caught in Trap— Germans Reported Burning Own Vil. laces in Retreat

Stronghold — On Vistula Overwhelmed   ~ Powerful Red Forces Mass for Big Plunge . ‘Into Nazi Homeland

TIPTON SOLDIERS ARF WOUNDED   Sgt. Rebert Fischvogt, Pie, William Duncan Are on Casua‘ty List 

TIPION SOLDIERS ARE WOUNDED   Set. Robert Fischvogt, Pfc. William Duncan > Are on Casua'ty List

Nazis Lost  Heavily In Odessa Fight   They Were Literally Mowed Dewn By Victorious Russian Army, Reports State

NAZI EVACUATION OF ODESSA DEALT CRUSHING DEFEAT   Enemy Troops Literally Mowed Down By Vic torious Russian Sol oli mma

“Evacuation” Reported by Germans, Belied by Russian Reports; Nazis Fought Romanians in Mad Futile Rush to ——— Eecane a

Senator Harry S. Truman Named 1944 Running Mate  On Uproarious 2nd Ballot

Truman Named By Democrats  On 2nd Ballot   Delegates Drop Wallace, Stampede To Missourian as Vice Presidential  Nominee With 1,047 of 1,176 Votes

EXPECT ACTION THIS WEEK ON MUSTER-OUT PAY   $800 Discharge Pay Bill Has Been Advocated For 60 Days Service

See Completion  On Vet Pay Bill   Amounts To Depend On Length, Area of Service

RAYBURN SURE MUSTERING QUT PAY WILL COME   Expects Action Will Be Completed This Week in House. Two Groups Are Excluded

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   HEAVY FIGHTING ALONG ITALIAN FRONT

FDR LABORS ON MESSAGE TO CONGRESS   Budget Is Expected To Approach 88 Billion

Federal Budget To Take Sharp Cut Next Year   $11,000,000,000 Expected To Be Chopped From Expenditures; FDR Works On Speeches.

WAR TARGETS AGAIN HIT IN MUNICH AREA      ‘Americans Blast German City for Third Day. in Row”

3d Hammering Given Munich   1,000 Big U. S. Bombers Strike Rail Center

Yank Planes Raid Munich For 3rd Day   - Thousand Bombers. Hit City Thursday, Other ‘Targets Raided

American Heavy Bombers Plaster War Targets In Vicinity Of Munich

BOMBS RAINED AROUND MUNICH   Smoking Wreckage Left After American Raids By Over 1000 Planes

1,000 Heavies Pound Munich   City Hit Third Day in Row; RAF Forces Rip Germany and France

Allies Down 46 Jap Planes In Rabaul Raid   17 Gun Positions Of Foe Blasted; Large Fires Started

Germans Rust Reserves to»  Halt Drive   Americans Go Four Miles Into Reich Through Broken Lire

First Great Tank Battle Under Way  Jn Germany   Enemy Desperately Rushing Up Armor In Effort To Plug Hole in Defense Line  wer Bey TITY 6T4AAIIM Mt c

Beqgendorf Falls To Americans in Furious Advance   Tank Battle Ranes On Soil of Germany

Tank Battle Rages on German Soil  Nazis Rush Up Reserves as Breach Deepens

Hodges’ Army Drives Ahead, Takes Village   First Army Veterans Smash Through Bitter Resistance; Third Army Still Battles for Fort Driant

Yanks Engage In Tank Scrap Above Aachen  Biggest Armored Battle of Drive Now Underway

ROAD JUNCTION OF BEGGENDORF REPORTED TAKEN   First Big Tank Battle Ever Fought On German Soil Now Raging   FORT DRIANT SIEGE MAKING PROGRESS

Americans Capture Roac Junction of Beggendor'! in Blazing Advance Past Ubach; Genera Hodges’ Men Cras Emergency Defenses.

Great Armored Struggle Reported North of Aachen   U. S. Forces Push Four Miles in Reich Through Siegfried Line

Troops Push Four Miles Inte Reich   Tanks, Infantry Pour Through Hole In Siectried Line

HODGES’ MEN. IN FURIOUS ENCACEMEN   Germans Throw Armored Reserves Into Strugglé After Americans Slug Way Forward. &   YANKS CAPTURE FORTIFIED TOWN   Three Nazi Counter-Ats tacks Smashed — Pats ton’s Troops Fight On in Fort Driant.

Fortified Village Taken In Germany   Nazi Attempt To Anchor Second Defense LineBroken Up By Yanks’ Capture Of Beagendorf

Hodges Drives For the Rhine   Doughboys and Armor Slug Through. German Defenses Past Sieafried Line

Troops Locked in Great - Fank Clash on German Soil PILLBOXES WRECKED -IN FOUR-DAY DRIVE  Advance Is Made Through Curtain of German  Steel

Chinese Start Big Drive, Capture Los Honan Cities  e Mav Mean Ominous   Brief Communique May Mean Ominous Japanese Advance Has Been Stopped

MARIS RCTitay At agp. sedliintammrnnansaaiis REPORT CHINESE OPEN OFFENSTVUPE

NOMINATIONS MADE FOR MOVIE “OSCARS’   Ten Films And The Same Nombcr Of Actors And Actresses To  Compete For Awards

M’ARTHUR’S FORCE UNDER 250,000 MEN   Study Indicates 100,000 to 150,00 Went Ashore on D-Day in Philinvines.

CONGRESS WILL BE GIVEN PEACE DATA   Hull: to’ Maintain Close . Touch With. Key Members °

HULL MAPS PLANS FOR FOUR-POWEA TALKS ON: PEAGE   intends to Maintain Closest - Touch With Key Members Of Congress, Says   MEETS BEGIN MONDAY AT GEORGETOWN ESTATE   Russia Suggests World Air Corps to Back up Decisions Of Proposed World Council To Suppress Threatened Violations of Peace

Congress Will Be Kept Informed on Four Power Talks  Hull Intends to Kae p In Close Touch With Key Members

Hull to Keep Close to Key Law Makers   FOUR-POWER TALKS WILL NOT BE HELD SECRET FROM TOP SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.   Britons On Deck

Postwar World Security Talks To Begin Monday   Hull Will Keep Key Mem bers of Congress Informed of Developments

REPAIR AIRPORT ON ADMIRALTIES   ‘Airmen Bomp Kuriles, Jap Positions on Bougainville

Seabees Land on Los Negros With Troops   Repair Work on Airdrome . Slowed Down by Rain; Jap Counterattacks Repulsed

JAP ASSAULTS ON ADMIRALTYS ARE BEATEN OFF   New Air Field Being Put In Shane as Fight on Los Negros Goes On

  Major Struggle Impends On Adnmiralty Island:   American Invaders Consolidate Positions And Beat Off Jap Counter-Attacks; Enemy Brings In Reinforcements

Heavy Rains on Los Negros Delay Repair of Airport   Japs Are Getting Reinforcements Over From Manus Island

CAVALRYMEN FIGHT OFF JAPS ONLOS NEGROS   Seabees, Ready to Rush Repairs on Airstrip, Held Up by Inclement Weather   FOE 1S REINFORCED   Nava! Guns Blast Rabau! but Bad Weather Prevents Planes Making 16th Daily Raid

Japs Fail To Break Our Lines   Reinforcements Are Landed From an _ Island Nearby

Rain Holds Up Repairs on Airstrip   Torrential Rain and Deep Mire Keeps Both Sides Idle: Bomhard Rahau!

JAP DEFENDERS ON LOS NEGROS ISLANDS BEING PUSHED BACK AND AIRFIELDS MADE READY   Americans Work on Captured Momote Airdromes in Invaded Admiralty Islands Preparatory To Complete Occupation. Japs Get Reinforcements Also   Nazi Attacks Are Weaker; Damage In Rome Great

GREATEST PRECISION BOMBING OF THE WAR   GREAT MITTELAND CANAL BLASTED; WAS ONLY EAST-WEST WATERWAY IN GERMANY.

U. S. Bombers Breach Germanys Major East-West Canal, the Mitteland

Major Canal Into Germany Blasted   Send Water Pouring Over Reich Countryside

Rich Rhine  Farm Lands Inundated  Vital Traffic Line From Rhur Valley   Vital Traffic Line From Rhur Valley To Factories Cut

RAF FLIERS AGAIN RAID REICH CITY   Super - Blockbusters Rained On Doomed Rhineland Area

GOODLAND INVITES PROGRESSIVES BACH   ‘Have Nothing in Common With Democrats,’ Says Governor. .

NAZI TANK LOSSES , HEAVY IN NORMANDY   Officer Says 588 Have Been Knocked Out on British Front Since D-Day,

U. S. Air Force Hits Bologna In Heavy Blast   Delivers One of Most Concentrated Attacks of the War on German Barracks, Stores and Dumps.

Pound Nazis Near Bologna  Great Bomber Force Strikes Enemy Bases

BombGermans Near Bologna   One of Heaviest Attacks Of War Delivered on Enemy Defending Key City

Troops Smash fo Gallicano Vicinity   Another Unit Reaches Bargu in Objective To Outflank La Spezia

HEAVY AIR ASSAULT   Environs of Bologna Pounded as Land Forces Draw Nearer

Planes Blast At Bologna   Largest Single Raid of Italian Camnaion Te Stnaesl

Col. Bailey Leads Entry Into Rennes   Danville Tank Man In Action

Nebraskan assumes ‘Sergeant York’ role  Grand Island man slays six nazis, eantures 28 In fann davs at Rennes

Private Makes Good:  “Sergeant York’ of Brittany Kills Six Germans, Captures 28   Helped bw French   Made a Fight for it

Soviet army forces seize more places   Troops converge on Pskov gateway

Nazis Abandon Vitebsk, White  Russian Base   Soviets Sweep West As Foes’ Defenses Crumble

Nazi Yoke Is Lifted From Big Rail Hub   Allies Continue  *Round-The-Clock Bombing of Reich As Nazis Hit Back

White Russia Base Is Only 290 Miles From East Prussia   Intensified Air War Continues to Rage Over Europe

REDS SURGE ON TOWARD PRUSSIA AS NAZIS FLEE   Blasting of Nazi War Plants Continues While Ruins Are Still Ablaze

Vitebsk Falls to Russians   City Under Red Army Seige Since November; Nazi Aircraft Centers  Battered Again Today

Roundup Of All War Frents  Nazis Evacuate Vitebsk As Reds Sweep West From Dnxc   Allies Improve Positions On The Italian Beachhead; Jap Destroyer Is Sunk

Allies Send Many Planes over Germany      Allied Troops ‘Iriprove Posi‘tidhs at Rottie Beachhead ‘and at Cassino

Red Onslaught Drives Nazis From Vitebsk   - Berlin Admits Fresh Retreat in Northern Poland

, RUSSIAN FORCES REPORTED SWEEPING SWIFTLY WESTWARD  _ WAR PLANTS IN SCHWEIN. FURT BLASTED AGAIN LAST NIGHT

VON RUNDSTEDT MUST USE MORE RESERVES OR ABANDON DRIVE.   Gap Narrowed   ‘Observers Doubt if Nazi Com mander Can Knock Allies  Off Their Feet Again.

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN INITIATIVE IN MOST AREAS   Advances by Third Army Continue on 35-Mile Front

INVITE SERVIGEMEN TO ANNUAL PICNIC   Navy Veteran to Tell of Experiences; Farm-City Affair to be Held Wednesda)

LIST 2 SPEAKERS FOR COUNTY PICNIC   General [Picnic Committee to Meet in Scottville at 8 P. M. Saturday

R. A. F. Bombers Stage Night Raid on Essen   French Battleship Sunk in Brest Harbor by Planes

ALLIED FORCES GAIN IN BURMA   Contact Japs 18 Miles From Imphal On Ukhrul Road

NEW DRAFT PROGRAM TO BE ANNOUNCED   for Men Over 30 Said to Have Been Adopted.

MEN OVER 30 ESCAPE DRAFT   Employment In Essential Industry Now Only Requirement

NEW DRAFT POLICY TO BE ANNOUNCED   Broad Program, Affecting Men Over 30; Has’  - ” Been Formulated

DON GENTILE ALSO CLAIMS THREE OTHERS   When Victories Are Credited He'll Have 30

CROSS. RIVER INTO ACTUAL GERMAN SOI   Main Army Forces Approach Base Of Lomza

Red Troops Strike Into East Prussia   Official Report Comes as U.S. Invades Germany

Allies Improve Positions In Italy; Soviets Close Trap on 10 Nazi Divisions

BEACHHEAD'S GRIP 1S FIRM, ALLIES FEE   2,000 Prisoners Toll In Three Weeks ' Fighting

Postionat Bridgehead   Crisis at Anzio Being Weathered Russians Annouice Capture  ., OfKerun --

PLAN GONGERTS DURING SUMMER   Series of Music Programs By Four-H Band Scheduled By Retail Merchants

PUBLIC CONCERT THURSDAY NIGHT   County 4-H Band to Fresent First In Series of Four Music Programs

REDS AND JAPS SIGN OIL DEAL   Nips Surrender Leases Or Sakhalin Island

Tojo’s Gang The “Goats”   Regime Falls Because It Can’t Explain Away String of Jap Defeats

Heavy Price For Victory   Japs Prepared to Make Americans Pay For Every Step Won

Accepts Moscow Offer To Turn Against Nazis   Germans Attack Romanian Forces

SOVIET TERMS OF ARMISTICE ARE ACCEPTEL   LITTLE NATION WILL FIGHT ON SIDE OF ALLIES

Second Axis Satellite Withdraws As Drives By Red  Armies Continue

Shooting Develops Between Retreating Romanian And Enemy Soldiers   HITLER IS DEPRIVED  OF RICH OIL FIELDS

Aritonescu Government Ousted  _ As Satellite Turns on Germany Clashes Between Withdrawing Romanian Troops And Nazi Army Reported on Eastern Front

FIRST BALKAN NATION QUITS SIDE OF AXIS      Armistice Terms of Allied Powers Accepted

ROMANIA DESERTS HITLER 10 oWITCR TO ALLIES SIDE   Firing Breaks Out Between Romanians and Nazis on Eastern Front   KING ORDERS FIRING ON REDS TO CEASE   Proclamation -Announces the Acceptance of Armistice Terms Offered by Russians, Great Britain and United States Governments

Armistice Signed With ‘Three Allies   King Says Country Will Fiaht Germany

Big Attack On Rome ls In Making   Germany Report Alliec Concentration At Anzio; Gurkhas Abandon Hill.

Soldier-Vote Bills Studied by Ohio Legislators   Five in House, Two in Senate fo Special Session

SINO-YANKS HAVE TAKEN MALAKAWNG   “Center of Japanese Resistance” in Mogaung Valley Wiping out Enemy Force.   Blast Positions

Allied Troops Wipe Out Jap Force — -. In Burma, Seize Resistance Cente:

Yank-Chinese Forces Seize Japs’ Citade   Pincers" Grasp Singapore Division in Mogaung Walley Area

MEDAL FOR VALOR GIVEN LOCAL MAN   Sergeant Hutson Cited for “ Saving:Life of Crew ~ “Member ~~

MEDAL FOR VALOR GIVEN LOCAL MAN   Sergeant Hutson Cited for Saving Life of Crew os Member

PRESIDENT VOTES AT HYDE PARK   Will Receive Election Returns  In His Home

Dewey and Roosevelt Go To Polls and Cast Ballots; Make Final Election Talks

 BAA ADA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAT Discharged Youth  Is Given 8,000  Red Ration Points

WAS ALLOWED 25 WORDS   “And; Five of Them Were in Praise - of the Red Cross

‘Can't Stop Us Now,’ Say Wallace Men  Truman Backers Reported Ready to Shift to Barkley or Lucas  TEXAS IN REVOLT  Roosevelt Indicates Running Mate Will Have Big  we Lepmoo3ft       TEXAS IN REVOLT   Roosevelt Indicates Running Mate Will Have Big Job if Elected

Wallace Captures 20 of New York's 95 Delegate Votes  Big City Besses Deliver 76 fe Traman bat lowan’s Gain Givec Backers Confidence

Vice President Seems To Gain Before Vote;  Truman Confident —   FDR ACCEPTS 4th TERM NOMINATION

Wallace, Truman Forces Vie  ‘For Vice ‘President’ Laurels   RY JACK RELI,

Wallace Obtains Share of N.Y. Truman Ballots  Bankhead Looms As New Threat From the South

Vice President Broke Into Big City Strongholds fo Pick Up Strength: Trend fo Missourian   Favorite Sons Placed In Nomination And It Will Be Late Afternoon Before Balloting Starts: Galleries In Uproar

Wallace Is Given New Delegates   Cuts Into Votes of Big : Cities Crowds During Night

New York Splits Votes: Gains Made  By Truman   Names Of Hopefuls Are Being Put To Delegates

Wallace Gains As Showdown Battle Begins   Ohio Delegation Gives Him 21 Votes; Vote Due Teday

WALLACE GAINS AS CHOICE FOR RUNNING MATE   Truman Leaders Doubtful Big City Vote Can Be Delivered

NEW YORK VOTE AIDS IOWAN   Claims Total Of 36914 Votes With 589 Needed; Truman Next With 171

Wallace Captures About 20 of New York State Votes, Most of Which Will Go To Truman. Wallace Hold 36912 to 171 Votes for Truman at  . ae

Wallace Is Gaining Strength As Convention Heads Towards Decision On FDR Running Mate   Giio Delegation For Vice President; Truman Fighting To Overtake Him

PRESIDENT MADE TALK LAST NIGHT   Not To Campaign In Regular Fashion

WALLACE GAINS STRENGTH FOR SECOND CHOICE   Ohio Delegation, First Big One to Caucus, Split Wide; Lima Man in Battle

WALLACE GAINS: MORE DELEGATES   fowan Breaks into Big City Strongholds New York Gives Him 20

Roosevelt, Nominated for Fourth Term as President, Says He Will Not Have Time for Intensive Campaign—Platform - Based on Policies and Record of Administration

WALLACE GAINS MORE SUPPORT   Delegate Meet in Stadium For Climactic, Possibly Last Session.   FR ACCEPTS BY RADIO

Strength Of Wallace At Chicago Is Picking Up   Now Has 3374 Votes Pledged As Convention Prepares To Ballot This Afternoon

Wallace Picks Up Strength As Decision Nears   Iowan Gets Good Blocks Of Pledged Votes From New York And Ohio.

Vice Presidential Battle Sees Wallace Gaining  New York Delegates Throw Support Toward Incumbent

lowan Breaks Into Big-City Truman Vote   Roosevelt: Accepts Nomination Via Radic As Texans Stage Southern Revolt

Wallace, Truman Scrap For Demo  Party Nomination   Democrats Call Meeting After Convention

Wallace And Truman Wage Fierce Battle   Towan Gains Strength As Convention Assembles to Nominate Vice President Candidate   Roosevelt Says War Is Main Item   Declares He Will Not Run For Office In Usual Political Sense  Of Past . 

VICE PRESIDENT BANS IN EARLY POLL OF VOTES   convention To Name Running Mate for Roosevelt, Nominated Fourth, Time.

NY: DEREGATION   Captured © Support of ‘About .Pwenty Delegates: This. z - Afternoon. .   BULK GOES TO TRUMAN   Booes Made’ ‘When: ‘Arizona ‘Yielded. ‘to’ Missouri. For. “ : Nomination: of Truman: -

BUT BANKHEAD NEW THREAT FROM SOUTH   Names of All Three Placed in Nomination, With Wallace - 36914, Truman 171 Pledged ox Claimed Votac_

FDR INFERS RUNNING MATE TO CARRY LOAD   Declares Details of Global War To Be His Main Business

—FDR O  Wallace Picks _ Up New Backing In Final Round   Massachusetts Splits.

Vice-President Pulls Ahead Of Missouri Riva   Empire State Delegates Divide Support To Candidates

RAF BOMBERS AIT STUTTGART INHEAVY STORW   Other Targets Hil last Night; Bad Weather Attends Raids Today

Berlin Hit Third Time This Week   Bad Weather Hampers Air War Today.

STUTTGART AGAIN HIT HARD BLOW BY ALLIED FLYERS   Air Ministry Announces That 13 Heavy Bombers Were Lost In Raid.

Allies Send 5, ‘es Send 5,000 Tons Of Supplies To Datriots In European Countries

Fly Supplies To Patriots   For Past Two Years Allies Have Maintained Service to Balkans

AID TO YUGOSLAVS   Other Balkan Patriots Get Ams by an to Secret te!

Arms Flown To Yugoslav Army   Allies Reveal Over 5,000 Tons Reach Partisans By Plane.

MMC OPERATIONS HIDDEN IN SECRECY   Command Carried Guns, Ammunition, Supplies to Partisans.

Veil of Secrecy Lifted by Allies  Hidden Operations Finally Revealed

Fly 5000 Tons. of Annsanition. Guns To Slavs   Allies Land Material At ~ Seeret Sites, In. ‘Greece, °¥e-oslavia And Albania

5,000 Tons of Guns and Other Supplies Dropped To Yugoslav Partisans

Air Command Lifts Secrecy Veil Over 5,000 Tons of  Supplies Flown to Yugoslay Partisans

5,000 Tons of Guns and Ammunition Flown to Yugoslavs by American:

5,000 Tons of Aid Has Been Flown fo Europe's Patriots   Number of Secret Airports Would ‘Astonish Germans’

From Vehicles to Paper Clips Gun-Running Air Transports Supply European Partisans

FLOWN 10 PARTISANS   5,000 Tons Of Guns, Ammunition Reach Tito’s Forces

AID TO YUGOSLAVS   Other Balkan Patriots Get _ Arms by Air to Secret  Fields

Yugoslav Forces Capture Island  Gain New Toeholds for an Invasion

GET NAZI MAJOR GENERAL   Doughboys Shot Him When He Ran Instead of Surrendering

WAKDE UNDER U.S. CONTROL   MacArthur's Philippine Bound Offensive Registers New Gains

MacArthur Leaps 110 Miles On New Guinea   Ouster Of All New Guinea Japs Threatened By New Allied Move; Landings Unopposed

Important Air Base At Wakde Seized By U.S   Entire Picture Changed In Aerial Warfare Aaainst Japan

U. S. Gains Important Potential Base. ... .  Capture Of Wakde Isle Strategic Victory For The MacArthur Forces

MacArthur Takes Another Island   Philippines-Bound Offensive. ~* Accelerated by Drive on Wakde

CONQUEST OF WAKDE GIVES VITAL BASE   Lightning Stab by MacAr_ thur Provides PhilippineBound Forces Strateaic Airfield   WIDENING BEACHHEAD

Yanks Invade Wadkelsland Surprise Japs   American Troops Fight Their Way To Enemy Air Base

Allies Advance — Into Myitkyina   Jungle Fighting Americans and Chinese Infantry Battle Way Into Outskirts of Jap-Held City in Northern Burma After Takine Airfield.   ROAD BLOCK IS FIXED

MacArthur Moves Toward Conquest Of Dutch Province   Philippines Brenglit Nearer by Lightning Stab Aimed at Vite} Wakdo Birfold

Congress Moving Near Showdown  Asserts Right to Question Officials

Congress Asserts Independence In Queries; May Gte Two For Contempt As Dies Threatens

Congress Challenges Right Of Federal Officials To  Refuse Probe Testimony

Congress in Battle for Authority   Executive Officials’ Refusal to Testify Draws Solons’ Fire

Congress Backs Own Authority  Feels FDR Can‘t-Give Orders On Testimony

Federal Officials’ Right To Refuse » lo Testify Is Challenged By Congress

FEDERAL CHIEFS FACE CONTEMPT   Congress Plans Action Over Refusal To Testify

Conaress Scores Leaders Who Shy Investigations  Challenges U. S. Officials Refusing

Air Ace Gabreski Crashed in Germany Taking ‘One More Crack’ as Volunteer

ONE TOO MANY: Famous Ace Takes ‘One More Crack’ at Nazis, Shiv Falls

Col. Gabreski Captured In Final Raid   Ace Taking One More Crack At Germans Fails To Get Back

NEW RUSSIAN TRAP SNAPS ON 50.000 NAZIS   Circled Northwest of Odessa   BLOODY BATTLES   Reds Near Suburbs of Black Sea Port

SOVIETS LESS THAN 10) MILES FROM ODESSA   Reported in Control of Water Supply After Taking Suburb

Trapped German Force OF 50,000 Is Being Hammered   Russian Forces Now Only Nine And Half Miles From Odessa   “SUICIDE SQUADRONS’ OF NAZIS AID DEFENSE

GERMAN GENERALS APPEAL TO PEOPLE   Von Paulus And Von Seidlitz Urge Germans To QOusi Hitler And Himmler

Nobel Awards   5 American Scientists And Danish Author Won 1943-4 Awards

Avenging Assaults Started   Day of Doom Draws Near After Five Years of Suffering, Planning

satel  Second Batile Vir  Aemy Of Liberation Heading Toward Paris

AMERICAN DOUGHBOYS AGAIN LEAD LONG TRAIL OF BLOOD AND DEATH ACROSS FRENCH-BELGIAN SOIL   Allied Invasion Today Brings Great Avenging Force to Rescue of Down-Trodden France and. *  Hitler’s Mighty Armadas Are Dwarfed by Allie

Seer Of Gobbler's Knob Sees Shadow, More Winter   So Six More Weeks Of Winter Are In Prospect For People

London Puts Up Terrific Air Barrage as German Planes Again Make Raid

BOND BOX SCORE   REFUGEES REPORT GERMANS ALREADY EVACUATING ROME   Key. Sections Of Italian Capital Mined By Nazis

Nazis Retreat  In Greece British Take Kozane   British Take Kozane Southwest of Salonika After Sharp Battle

REDS STEP UP OFFENSIVE ON BUDAPEST AREA   Fall Of Big Rail And Highway Town Of Jaszberney Seen Imminent

RUSS DRIVE ON BUDAPEST ACCELERATED   Forces Converging On Capital From Three Directions

Soviets Step Up Budapest Drive   Threaten Communicatior Center of Jaszbereny

HARMON COMING TO ANN ARBOR   Flier Reported Missing In China Will Visit Aging Parents

THE WAR TODAY   By DE WITT MACKENZIE Aecencintend Press War Analwat

Today’s War Moves   Salutes Famous British Jungle General Killed in Burma

ae ane  TODAY   “urrender of Oil Leases to Russia’ Interpreted: as Sign of Weakness on. Tokyo’s Part

The War Today   By. DEWITT MACKENZIF  Rens inient Press War Smalls at

The War Today  War Analyst Pays Tribute To Britain’s General Killed In Action.

Wilson Grau of Ireton Was On Crew of “Memphis Belle”   Former. Ireton Boy Helped Keep Engines of Famous Plane Turning -

Nickel Cigar Almost a  Thing of Past   Like Wooden Indians They Are Hard to Find

OPA Officials Are Working on Plan  To Give Americans a Cheap Cigar

EIRE STANDS FIRM   Refuses to Oust Axis Diplomats but Promises to Protect U. S. Interests.

25 Senators Insist Upon Silver Money   Demand Aims for United Nations’ Finance Parleys

Nazi Seventh Army Smashes Futilely Against Americans In Effort To Escape Trap

Southern Invasion Foreseen  By An Order for Evacuation   Landings Followed an Intense Aerial Bombardment In Which Close to 3000 Allied Planes Participated — Favorable Weather Helps in Making the Invasion Successful

Leyte Yanks Speed Ahead   Philippines Schools * Reopened in Free Area; Nips Gloomy 

Countryside Terrorized by New Secret Night-Flying Weapon; Counter-Measures Being Taken   Flashéd Over Roeftops At Terrific Speed, Crashing inte ” Objects. And Exploding —Msy Be Radia Directed .

Hitler Looses Secret Weapon Against Allies   All Southern England Is Alerted: Immediate Counter-Attack Pledged

“PITTSBURGH OF JAPAN’ THOROUGHLY PASTED   Pilotless Nazi Bombers and Glider Bombs Loosed Over Eneland

FANTASTIC WAVE OF ROBOT PLANES ~ STRIKES ENGLAND   Yawata, “Pittsburgh Of Japan,” Is Target Of History’s Longest Air.  Raid From. China  Maimland

SECRET WEAPON SENDS MISSILES ACROSS CHANNEL   Casualties Believed Heavy As Rescuers Die In Debris

‘Nazis Hurl New. Pilotless Planes ‘Against England   British Officials Admit Gravity of Attack By Raiders

NAZI SECRET WEAPON HITS ‘AT LONDON   Believed To Be Rocket Torpedoes Or Robot Planes

Pilotiess Bombers Are Used   Germans Unleash Swarms of Rocket Gliders at England

Nazis Uncork ‘ Mystery Weapon’ err  Fantastic Air Robots Rain Bombs on Britair

DAMAGE GREAT FROM GERMANS’ SECRET WEAPON   Robot Planes Carry Heavy Explosives Across Channel

Pilotless Nazi Bombers Sent Acainst Enaland   Long-Heralded Mystery Weapon Put in Use

NAZIS UNLOOSE SECRET WEAPON UPON ENGLAND   Fantastic Stream of Pilotless Bombers Rain Fire and Explosions.

MORRISON SAYS COUNTER STEPS ARE UNDER WAY   Pilotless Aircraft Explode at Landing or Just Before Landing

First Use of Weapon of New Type   British Admit It Is Serious Menace — Places Hit Not Identified

Pilotless Nazi Bombers Make Raids Over England   Hitler Launches New Secret Wea. pon — Gravity Of Attack Admitted

New Secret Weapon Revealed In Attack Starting Some Fires; — Full Report Are Delayed Today

Pilotless Nazi Bombers Rain Powerful Explosives On Southern England

Death-Dealing Miniature Planes Or Rockets Loosed On Island In Constant Stream; Defanse Promised   RY WALTER CRONKITE

Three Billion Asked By FDR For Lend Lease   Reapportionment Of Unspent Funds Also Asked By President

PRESIDENT ASKS THREE BILLIONS FOR LEND-LEASE   New Demands Made As Congress Calls for More Details of Program

Asks Big Sum On Lend-Lease   Roosevelt In Call For $3,450,.570,000  In Funds

President Asks Over $3 Billion For Lend-Lease   Senator Demands Congress See Balance Sheet On War Ata

PRESIDENT Aan LEND-LEASE FUNG   New Appropriation of $3, 450,570,000 Requested: Amount Would Raise tc $28,000,000,000 Total

President Asks 3 Billion More  For Lend-Lease  Would Increase Total Since Aid Program Started to 28 Rillion

Also Would Use Unspent Funds To Make Sum Available Beginning July 

NEW BILLIONS REQUESTED 10 BACK UP WAR   ROOSEVELT ASKING $3,450,570,000 ON LEND-LEASE

Lend-Lease — Fund Asked:   FDR: Makes Request For. Huge Increase

LEGION LEADER  ADVISES. VETERANS   William E. Brown Discusses Insurance and Discharge Papers

SPECIAL COMBAT PAY MAY MEAN INCREASES FOR OTHER GROUPS.   SENATOR CHANDLER STRIVES TO INCLUDE OTHER, RAISES AFTER COMBAT PAY 19 PRACTICALLY " agBurep -

OENATURG TRY 10 NIGLUDE GRE IN PAY BAISE   Action on Combat Pay Before Concress Recess Is Doubtful

SENATORS TAY Td INCLUDE. MORE IN PAY BAISE   Action ‘on Combat Pay Before Concress ‘Recess Is Doubtful

Bullseye Shooting Stops Nazi   Crack Marksmen Break Up Anzio Attack Following Enemy s Heaviest Barrage.

WALL OF FIRE FROM OUR GUNS MEETS ASSAUL   Massive Artillery Barrage Prelude To Push

STORM IS MOVING ON CUBAN CAPITAL   Florida on Alert as Winds Sweep Western Cuba

Storm Threatens Serious Damage  In Cuba, Florida  Caribbean Hurricane Sweeps Isle of Pines; Warnings Sent Out

Isle of Pines Cut Off by Hurricane; Havana Boards Up as Storm Approaches

FLORIDA KEYS BRACE FOR STORM   HAVANA BOARDED UP AS DANGEROUS HURRICANE MOVES TOWARD CUBA.

DAWSON SPEAKS ON ROAD SYSTEM   GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Would Put State Highways On ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Basis; Speaks at Rupert

EARLIER PEACE SEEN POSSIBLE BY CHURCHILL   Thinks Nazi Home Front Woes May Speed End Of War

REPORT POPE SENDS OUT PEACE FEELERS   EARLIER PEACE 1S HELD POSSIBLE BY CHURCHILL MONDAY   Report Hitler Flees to Rhineland: Gestapo Continues Blood Purse

State Government Girl Disappears   Virginia Resident In Washington Missing

TENTH DIVISION JOINS GERMANS ON BEACHHEAD   Light Nazi Attacks Repulsed Both on Beachhead and at Cassino, Allies Improve Positions   TRANSPORT RAIDED   13 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed on Yugoslav Landing Field, 5,000 Ton Axis Merchantman Sunk

TEN NAZI DIVISIONS PECK AT BEACHHEAD AREA BELOW ROME   ALLIES, HOWEVER, STEADILY IMPROVED THEIR POSITIONS THERE

10 DIVISIONS OF nA mn      Fifth Army Takes Advantage of Lullin Fighting to Strengthen Defenses for Expected Third Major Attack.

NAZIS AT  ANZIO PECK AT ALLIES   Artillery Fire Stops Foe On Cassino Front

YANKS BETTER ANZIO LINES   Beat Off Limited German Attacks: Fighting At Cassino Flares

Light Attacks on Beachhead   Allies Stop Two Light Blows Germans Mass 10 Divisions.

LIGHT ATTACK BEATEN BACK AROUND ANZIO   Hitler Now Said to Have  Ten Divisions Facing  _ Americans and British  : on Italian Front   ENEMY LOSES HEAVILY

Nazis Test Anzio Lines   Increase Forces to 10 Divisions; Cassino Positions Improved

ANZIO BEACHHEAD STILL HELD IN FACE OF GERMAN ATTACK   Swollen to Ten Divisions ‘Germans Unable to Advance and Allies Improve Positions in Cairo Sector

GERMAN FORCES PECK FUTILELY AT BEACHHEAD 10 NAZI DIVISIONS  FACE ALLIED LINES IN ANZIO SECTOR

Yanks Inch Forward At Cassino In Snow   Beachhead Defenders Await Third Nazi Attack As Tenth Division Joins Action

Allies Repulse New Attacks ‘In Italy, Improve Positions At Beachhead And At Cassino   Germans Bring Strength At Anzio To 10 Divisions: U. S. Artillery Active

Enemy Assaults French Po. sitions On Cassino Front; Allies Better Their Positions; Nazis Lose Heavily In New Attacks.

Allies Throw 2 New Anzio Thrusts Back   5th Army Improves Positions; Now Faces 10 Nazi Divisions

ALLIES REPULSE ‘NAZI ATTACKS ON -ANZIO BEACHHEAL   ‘Germans SufferHeavy Losses in Futile Smashes Near Carroceto

Beachhead Force  Betters Position  ‘Two German Attacks Are  Fruitless

Nazis Get New Division, Make Futile Stabs   2 Attacks Turned Back— Germans Now Have 10 Divisions — Cassino Position Improves Despite Heavy Snow.

Germans Peck At Beachhead In Weak Jabs   Allies Steadily Imoprove Positions Along Whole Italian Front

Battlefronts In Italy Are Still InLull Stage   Germans Peck Futilely Ai   Americaii-British Lines; Fifth Army hiproves ~ + Its Positions

Nazis, Ringing Anzio, Peck At American-British Lines; oth Army Improves Position.

FIFTH ARMY'S POSITION IS NOW IMPROVED   Lull In Fighting Is “Calm Before  The Storm”

Two Companies In New Attacks  Germans Repulsed With Heavy Incesec

Repulse Light Nazi Thrusts At Beachhead   Fifth Army Steadily Improves Its Position On Cassino Front.

10 German Divisions Jab  At Lines Of Fifth Army   Destroyer, 2:Cargo Ships Sunk By U. S. Naval Units

Italy Sees A New Nazi Drive   AMERICANS PREPARED DEFENSES FOR ATTACKS 

Allies Drive Off ) German Attack Near Carrocefo   Enemy Hurls New Division At U. S., British Defenders

‘Allies Beat ‘Off Two Blows   Nazis, Reinforced By One Division, Fail to Gain

—IT ALY—  WIS REINFORCE TROOPS AT ANZIL   Germans Reported To Have 10 Divisions On  Beachhead Front

Nazis Increase ltalian Forces  Ten Divisions Facing Allies Before Anzio

German Raids On Aihed Beachhead Fail To Net Gains   Fifth Army Improves Its Positions Against Nazis

Attorney General Resigns Office   Says Wife's Health Requires His Absence

as RUSSIA—. ‘  SOVIETS UNLEASH: NEW-OFFENSIVES   Powerful Drives Are Un» der Way. In’ Ukraine And‘Old Poland +   GERMANS TRAPPED   Flaming Battle Is Reported. Along Entire 1200-Mile Front

ENTIRE RUSSIAN FRONT AFLAME AS REDS GAIN   Soviets on Move from Gulf of Finland To Shores of Black Sea

SOVIETS PUSH AHEAD ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Russia's Mighty Military Machine Advances With New Vigor Along Flam ing 1,200 Mile Line   50 PLACES LIBERATED

Soviet Army Keeps Going   Entire 1,200 Mile Battle Front Aflame Under New Offensives

TWIN ATTACKS TRAP 130,000 REICH TROOPS   Soviet Smashes Broadened On Ukraine, Old Poland And Estonia Fronts

MIGHTY RUSSIAN MILITARY MACHINE CURGING FORWARD   NEW POWER DRIVES IN UKRAINE AND OLD POLAND AND ALSO ESTONIA

Nearly 10,000 Germans Slain Trying to Break Through Steel Ring  WN ADU & TWYWM AMRATHRMN      NARVA THREATENED    Soviets on March From Gulf of Finland to Black Sea

REDS ADVANCE ON BIG FRONT   Score Gains All Along The Line From Estonia   To Ukraine

Eighth Ary Only [hree Miles From Navi Gothic Line  Polish Forces Capturs Town Six Miles From  Bint af Bawa

NAZIS AWAIT ATTACK ON GOTHIC DEFENSES   Poles Advance to Within Three Miles of Outposts of Strong German Line in Italy.

Poles Near Pesaro In Italian Push   Most of Nazis Now Behind Gothic Line

Sapulpa Publisher Taken By Death   Young Struggled Through ‘Bloody Creek County’ Days

Question of successor to  Knox debated  Harold E. Stasser  being mentioned

Sfassen May Be Navy Secretary   Selection by FDR Under Discussion

Within 1,000 Yards of Strategic Limon on Ormoc Road; 32nd. Division Deepens Wedge.   Remove Observers

ROAD BLOCKED BELOW ORMOC BY AMERICANS   J. S. 32ND DIVISION NOW IN ACTION ON LEYTE ISLAND

Road Block Is Established  in Ormoc Area   U.S. 32nd Division Drives Wedae Into Enemy Lines

ASK INDIVIDUALS BUY BONDS NOW   Don’t Wait for Solicitor Leaders Urge; Drive at 44 Pct. Mark

REACH 40 PCT, IN BOND DRIVE   $17,255 in Individual Sales Added in Today’s Report

SALE OF BONDS NOW $145,445   Subscribers Total 2,448, With 23 Pct, of Quota . Attained

COUNT E BONDS REST OF MONTH   $44,425 to Go, Leaders Urge County to Push Over the Top

$99,907 T0 G0 FOR ‘E’ QUOTA   County Now Has 73.21 Pet of Goal in Fourth War Loan   HELP PUSH IT HIGHER

STILL $341,994 SHORT OF QUOTA   Indivjdual Bond Sales 46.14 Pct., Corporations and Institutions 147.05

$89,032 NEEDED TO MAKE QUOTA      = Bond Sales Now 7 Pet. of County’s $373,39° Quota

NOW $135,232 FROM ‘E’ GOAL   Individual Subscriptions for Bonds Now 63 Pct. of Quota

Yanks Stab Into La Haye. Coil to By-Pass Bastion   Counterblows Force Canadians Back At Carpiquet Airport as British Lock in Swaying Battle Before Caen

French City  Expected to Fall Shortly   Allied Guns Dominate Situation, Pound Nazi Nests: Canadians Hold Firm West of Cacn

Capture Railway Station on Northern Rim of La Haye While Hundreds of Allied Guns Resound.

SHELL-RUINED “NAZI DEFENSE ~ ANCHOR FALLS   LA HAYE DU PUITS DOOMED; CANADIAN TROOPS ADVANCE

Nazis Fighting Hard to Block  Caen Assaults   Enemy Tanks Regain Strip  Captured by Canadians; UG. §S. Guns Lash Foes

Railway Station Captured in Drive of U. S. Troops  FIERCE FIGHTING IN CAEN SECTION Capture of La Haye Expected to Force Retreat of Nazis

Resistance Is Strong And Enemy Well Positioned On High Ground Near Western Side Of Cher bourg Peninsula

Capture Railway Station in Hard Fighting; Allied Guns Pound Nazis   German Tank-supported Counteratiacks Force Canadian Troops off Carpiquet Airport

Front Reports Tell of Fierce Resistance Both at La Haye and in Mont Castre Forest, South of That Stronghold

Fall of Town In Normandy ExpectedSoon   Carpiquet Airport Lost by Canadians’.  But Carpiquet Held RESICTANCFE STRONG

German Defense Anchor on West Shattered   Front Reports Tell of Fierce Resistance Both at La Haye and in Mont Castre Forest, South of That Stronghold

Germans Use New Multi-Rocket Gun   Allied Bag of German Prisoners Taken Rises Ta 50000: Americans Make Mact Cantures

Chase National Bank Is Indictec   Accused With Others Of Dealing With Enemy

CITY'S POPULATION ~ PUT ABOUT 38,00¢   Hagerstown Has Growr Rapidly Since 1900 ©

CITY'S POPULATION PUT ABOUT 38, 00¢      Hagerstown Has Growr Rapidiy Since 1960:

BRITISH CUT GERMAN LINE AT PERUGIA   Americans Take Italian Port Town Of Piombino

BRITISH BREAK NAZI LINE, 3TH OCCUPIES PORT   8th Cracks Defenses Ir Perugia Sector Of Italy

BRITISH EIGHTH BREAKS THROUGH IN PERUGIA AREA      American Forces Capture Town Of Piombino On West Coast

AMERICANS TAKE PIOMBINO PORT   BRITISH CUT NAZI LINES NEAR PERUGIA

Eighth Cracks East Italy Line   Americans’ Take Port’ of Pidmbino

German Line \sPierced by British Troops   American Forces on West Coast Take Piombino

British Sever German Lines   Americans Capture Piombino — Sweep Nearer German Control Harbor

Canada. Halts Meat Rafioning   Unlimited Purchase - Decreed Today

Canada Lifts Meat Curbs   Rationing Suspendec  To End Market Glut

MEAT RATIONS HELD NEEDLESS   Nat'l Executive Demands Rationing Be Ended  Immediately

Five Nazi Spies _ Given Sentences   Prison Terms Range  From 10 To 20 Years

Army Gags Laice On European Trip   Congressman Told  She Can't Talk

U.S. BOMBERS ROARING OVER WESTERN REICH   In Two Weeks First Day Raid

Western German Targets Hit In Daylight Assault   Swarms of Bombers, Fighters Strike Again At Invasion Coast

Bombers Go Out in Daylight   Swarms of Other Allied Bombers Hit Channel Area

BOMBS ON REICH IN DAY ASSAULT   Other Planes Strike Again At Battered

New Blow Struck By  Americans   Eighth Air Force Sent Over Germany After Allied Air Assaults On Invasion Coast

AIRMEN HIT AT COAST OF FRANCE   Mosquito Bombers Blast Targets In Western Germany

Bombers Hit French Coast In New Raids   Attack Follows Night Assault on Western German Areas

WEST GERMANY IS ATTACKED DURING NIGHT   United States 8th Air Force and RAF Cross Channel In Considerable Force.   BULLETIN

Big Allied Air Fleets  Hit Franee   200 Marauders, British Mediums In Channel Attack, None Is Lost

Blow Ts Struck For. Embattled China   Raid Acknowledged by Tokyo Reports Which Claim Damage by Anti-Ajreratt Fire —

Big Steel Center At Anshan Target of B-29 Attack   Giant Bombers Range. Over Vital Sectors —’ In Daylight Assault

‘SUPER-FORTS" HiT MUKDEN IN DAYLIGHT BLOW   Raid On Japan’s Puppet a Seen Helping Cause Of China

Superfortresses Hit Jap  Industrial Base At Mukden Nin Daring Daylight Attack

“Daylight Raid Hits Japanese Asia Arsenal   ® Area Studded With Heavy Industries to Support Jap Armies

MIGHTY BLOW IS LANDED ON MUKDEN AREA   Japan’s Arsenal of Greater East Asia Comes Under U. 8. Attack.

Super Planes Lash Mukden By Daylight   Daring U. S. Fliers Strike at Japs’ Jugular Vein of War on China   ANSHAN IS POUNDED   Bomber Arca Spawned World War 2; Sile of Giant Industries

Superforts Rain Havoc «On Mukden   Jap Industries Get Surprise Pounding By Acrial Monsters

Temperatures   Industrial Center At Mukden. Hit In Daring Attack

Are “No Indispensable Men, Dewey Says; GOP Candidate  Escapes In Railroad Wreck    Nation Cannot Be Dependent Upon Life Span And Friendship Of Two Or Three Individuals, He Declares; Derailment And Near Highway Crash Delay Arrival

‘No Indispensable Men, Says Dewey In Portland Talk   Peace Too Important To Depend on Three  Individuals, He Avers

War Contracts Bill Passed   To Assure Speedy Settlement of Contracts; To Help Small Businesses.

SURES te tence gmmengpaniangiinm PENNSYLVANIA MINERS MOVING BACK TO WORK

Victorious Soviet Forces Blast Through Nazi Defense To Drive Onto German Soil

Allies Bare Nazi Losses   200,000 German Prisoners Captured On Three Fronts

Allen Jauer Weds  Augusta Kanan - Will Make- Home  : In Sioux City  q

Jnion Squabble Threatens To Tie Up - The Whole Motion Picture Industry

Thousands Face Loss Of Jobs If Work Is Stopped   Jurisdictional Dispute Sends AFofL Union: Workers Out, With More In View

SPCA Members » Gather in 10th Annual Meeting   Farmers and Ranchmen of Eight Counties Celebrate Anniversary

Democrats Will Dine Tonight  Reservations Heavy Pee: Pt Roe pas Bt ta

Democrats Will Dine Tonight  Reservations Heavy for Finlen Dinner

House Group Votes Army Finance Bill; Totals 49 Billions   Appropriations Urged by ‘Committee;.Data on Army Reported   Jap Troops Hammer to Outskirts of Changsha, Vital Rai! Center

JAPANESE DRIVE INTO OUTSKIRTS OF CHANGSHA   Americans Extend Drive for Biak Airdrome; Chinese Gain Along Salween

NEW JAP GAINS MADE IN CHINA   Troops Reach Outskirts of Changsha

FIGHTING RAGES ON BIAK ISLAND   Jap Troops in Outskirts of Key City in China

JAP UNITS PUSH INTO CHANGSHA   Chinese Offer Fierce Resistance Around Rail Center

JAPS IN CHANGSHA AS AMERICANS GET NEARER PHILIPPINES   Japs Close Final Gap on Provincial Capital of China But Withdraw in  India Sector

Japs Smash Nearer to  Changsa   Reported on City’s Outskirts; Yanks Gain on Biak

JAPANESE CLOSE IN ON CHANGSHA   AMERICANS EDGE TOWARD AIRDROMES ON BIAK ISLAND

Japs at Edge Of Vital City   Changsha Menaced by Persistent Hammering Of Nipponese Forces

Japanese Push Into Outskirts Of Railway City   Foe Hammers At Changsha, Close 22-Mile Gap Against Batiling Chinese

Jap Troops Fight Way  To Outskirt Of Changsh:   Twenty-Two Mile Gap Is Closed In Fighting

Allied Artillery Hammers Nazis ~ OnItalian Front   New Zealanders Storm Two German Positions On Fifth Army Front

ALLIES POUND ~ CASINO AREA   Devastate Four Key Bastions  ee meet earn  No Enemy Interceptors Sighted

Allies Spread Devastation Among Enemy Installations On Three Italian Fronts

Hungarian Army Officers Go Over To Reds   Chaos Still Reigns In Hungary; Puppet Government Installed.

OFFICIAL GERMAN NEWS AGENCY SAYS HUNGARY CHAOTIC  DECLARES COMMANDER FIRST HUNGARIAN ARM  COES OVER TO SOVIETS

Hungarian Revolt Crushed by Nazis; Leaders Join Reds  Conditions Remain So Chaotic Thai Germans Now Can Expeci Little Manwar Aecictance

ARMY REVOLT IN HUNGARY IS REPORTED   High Hungarian Chiefs Go Over to the Russian Side

Hungary Army Chiefs Desert.  Join Russians   Revolt Appears Under Way as Germany Strives to Hold Her Ally in War at All Costs

NAZI REGIME IS INSTALLED IN HUNGARY   Conditions Chaotic With Inv ading Russians Fighting Within Fifty Miles of Rudarcest   TOP GENERALS FIRED

MAGYAR ARMY CHIEF DESERTS TO RUSSIANS   Germans Seize Control In Budapest, Revoke Armistice Plea

Hungarian Army Revolts Against Nazis Report Officers Have Joined Russians

OPEN REVOLT IN HUNGARIAN ARMY HINTED   Opposition to .Reich Attempt to Hold Its Allies ‘Revealed in Nazi Report That High Officers Join the Reds.

Hungarian Nazis  Climb Into Saddle   Count Szalasi Seizes Reins As Aciine Recent

Magyar Army Chiefs Go Over To The Soviets   Open Revolt Indicated As Hitler Attempts To Hold Ally By Force

Hungary In Political Chaos As Pro-German Leader Tries To Whip Country Into Line

Hungarian Army ‘Officers Join Up With Soviets   ‘Open Revelt Fiercs And  First Army Is Said  Marching On Belgrade  Against Germans.

HEAD OF ARMY IN HUNGARY HAS JOINED SOVIETS   Conditions Remain Chaotie In Country ; Todaviove

NAZIS REPORT NEW RED DRIVE   Twin Sided Offensive Aimed At Prussia

CHAOS REIGNS THRU HUNGARY   Nazis In Control With Peace Moves Crushed... -

Hungarian Army Men Join Reds   Nation in Chaos As Reds Advance; Herthy Is “Retired”

HUNGARY ARMY HEADS JOIN UP WITH RUSSIANS   Reds Mass Tanks For Drive To Liberate Budapest

SAY GENERALS GOING OVER T0 RUSSIAN SIDE   Budapest in Chaos a: Germans Clamp on Restrictions

Hu ngarian Army Chiet Goes Over To Russians   Conditions Remain Chaotic In Hungary After Germans Seize Government And Set Up Puppet Regime; Soviets Advancing Against Budapest

MAGYAR ARMED FORCES REBEL   1,300 Yank Bombers Rip Cologne; British Enter Venray

Hungarian Army Leaders Switch To Red Banner   Revolt of Military Deprives Germans Of Aid from Last Ally in Balkans

[Hungarian General Joins Soviets; [New Government Replaces Horthy

‘Hungarian Army Revolt Is Started !Ten Divisions March On Budapes

OPEN REVOLT IN HUNGARIAN ARMY RANKS   Berlin Reports Soldiers Have Gone Over to Russian Side as Conditions Remain Chaotic

Hungarian Army Revolt Appears To Be Gaining   High Military Men Reported Joining Forces With Russia

PUPPET REGIME RULES HUNGARY   CONDITIONS REMAIN CHAOTIC; SOVIETS 50 MILES FROM BUDAPES

HORTHY’S ARMY ISREVOLTING AGAINST NAZIS   Ten Divisions Reported Marching On Budapest; Situation Confused   SOME ARMY LEADERS HAVE JOINED SOVIETS

Open Revolt n Hungarian  Army Spreads   German Source Indicates Several High Officers Have Joined Russians

Hungary’s Army Rises Against Nazi Bosses   High Ranking Officers Go Over to Russians——Nazis In Tanks Patrol Budapest

Revolt Is Reported In Hungary   High Army Officers Deserting Nazis, Joining Reds, Report

Open Revolt In Hungarian Army Indicated As Leaders Go Over To Russian Forces   Huns Rebel Against German Efforts To Force Continued War Against Allies

Hungary Revolt Seems Crushed By Hitlermen  Chaotic sondinont Within Sate

Hungarian Nazis Form Regime To Replace Horthy   Berlin Proclaims Situation “Th Hand” While

HUNGARIAN WAR OFFICERS BREAK WITH GERMANS   Army Leaders Join Soviets; Reds Within 50 Miles of Budapest

Hungarian Army Leaders Go Over To Reds, Say Nazis  Revolt of Hard Pressed Country’s Armed Forces Is Indicated

HIGH OFFICERS IN HUNGARY 60 OVER 10 REDS   Army Revolt Indicated As Confusion Grows In Country

Revolts Grow in Hungary   wi Elements Desertion of Army Commander

Desert to Russian Army While Berlin and Buda. pest Radios Pour Out Explanations.   Refuse To Obey

An Army Revolt in Hungary   Berlin Breaks News That High Officers Are Fleeing to Join Russian Military

High Hungarian Army Officers Aiding Soviets   Two Commanders Go Over To Allied Side In Revolt Against German Setup

Szalasi Acting Regent Takes Over As Chaos Threatens; Try to Keep Country in Line.  Ques   Opening Gates

TOP HUNGARIANS DESERT 10 REDS   Open Army Revolt Indicated Against German Forces

NAZIS REPORT ‘OFFICERS GONE “VERTO REDS   Paris Radio Says 10 Divisions Marching on- Budapest “to Oust Germans.

Hungarians Join Reds To Drive On Budapest   Ry CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN

Revolt Reported Rampant Now in Hungarian Army   Soldiers Deserting

Army Chiefs of Hungary Quit And Join Reds   Germans Still Try to Subdue Erstwhile Ally Rebellion

Hungarian Army Revol Under Way   Paris Radio Says First Hungarian Army Joins Battle

TOP HUNGARIANS SWING T0 REDS   Berlin Tries To Hold Her Ally In War At All Costs

Open Revolt on Nazi Control in Hungarian Army   Berlin Reports High Officers Go ‘Over to Soviets’

Mungarian Army In Open Revolt _   fieds Sweep Through Balkans: Drive Within 50 Miles of Relarede

Horthy Ousted From Regency   Pro-Axis Forces In Budapest Remove Regen As Himmler Said Rushing To City

Open Revolt In Army Of Nazi Ally   Soldiers Believed To Be Marching On Budapest

PUPPETS TAKE OVER HUNGARY   Regent Horty Reported Ousted; Armistice Bid “Revoked”

Hungarian  revolt likely High officials  6: bd * 4 . joining reds

Hungarian Army Torn By Revolt   Berlin Admits That High Officers Have Gone  Over To Soviets As Conditions Grow Worse

Governor Plans to Call Arizona Legislature  To Pass Soldier Vote Bill

ALLIES GAIN AS GERMAN LINE IN NORMANDY GIVES   St. Lo Falls To Americans

St. Lo Falls: German Lines  Are Crumbling   Disputed Village Now Firmly Held After  Second Seizure   BRITISH ADVANCING   Breakthrough Scored Below Caen; Nazis Falling Back

Twin Win Is Scor:d By Allies   Yonks Pushed Ou Of Rail Hub, But Return to Stay

’ FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Teday.   ¥VYunits Acnuin Enter St. Lo.

STRUGGLE FAR INTO 45 SEEN BY CHURCHILL   Deletes “Early” From Prediction of Vic tory in Summer

But Discloses Antwerp Now Receiving Convoys Of Ocean-Going Vessels

PARLIAMENT OPENED = WITH CEREMONIES   Churchill Tells Both Houses His Prediction of Early Victory is Premature.   Not To Slacken

War In Europe May Extend _ Beyond Early Summer 1945   Churchill Says Previous Prediction of German Defeat "May be’ Too Optimistic—Addresses oo Hewee of Commane”

Churchill Warns War May Not End In Early Surinmer  Was Probably Too Ontimistic

FRENCH TO CET VESSELS BACK   Normandie Not Included In Pact To Return Merchant Ships

FRENCH VESSELS ARE RETURNED BY ALLIES   Ships Reqnuisitioned Br U. S. And Britain Will Now Sath Under French Colors

French Commitee to Get Some of Ships Seized By U.S. and Great Britain

One Good Road Leading Northeast From Falaise Remains in Nazi Control.

Allied Bombers And Fighters Rip Congested Columns Of Tanks, Trucks And Troops Falling Back  Along Road To Paris

Escape Highway To Paris Taken In Great Drive   Armored Columns Reach Argentan

Last German  escape hatch  to Paris is cut German Seventh sf withdrawal

Last Direct Road to Paris Ts Severed.   ’ Allied-Planes and Guns Smash at Fleeing Foe  - And Thousands Periled  ATROTTCRITAART OCATTVYVTIID OT

Yank Drive Beyond Le Mans Pushes To Within 18 Miles of British; Germans Are in Full Retreat

Seventh Nazi Army Retreating in Bomb-Rent Columns   CORRIDOR IN RANGE  OF ALLIED CANNON   Canadian and British Troops Press Deeper Into Lines.

Argentan Is Entered by U.S. Forees   Supreme Headquarters ‘Abandons Secrecy ahd Reveals Gains “ *

Yanks Seize Argetan, : — Cut Last Escape Roa              “Narrow 18-Mile Corridor Corvider Bomihors Rip Line for Frightfal Tell

FINAL DIRECT ESCAPE ROUTE CUT BY YANKS   Thousands Of Allied Bombers And Fighters Hit  Congested Columns   OPERATION HAD BEEN CLOAKED IN SECRECY

REDS PUSH ON AFTER TAKING CZERNOWITZ   Batter Down Defenses Of Axis Satellite  Countries

Soviets Open Balkan Door   Red Army Cops Czernowitz, Approaches Czechoslovakia

Batter down barriers of Hitler’s fort  Soviets poised an Prout river

KEY FORTRESS CITY ON PRUT RIVER SEIZED   RUMANIA RECEIVES WARNING TO TURN AGAINST HITLER

Soviets Take Fortress of Czernowitz    Advance to Withir 15 Miles of  Czech Frontier

Reds Within 15 Miles of Czech Border   Units of Two Balkan Countries Surrender: Reds Smash 11 Miles Beyond Czernowitz

REDS ROLL ON TO CAPTURE CZERNOWITZ   Guarding Path To Rumania And Hungary; Climb Up Prut River Banks Into Carpathian Mountains.   Near Gzecho-Slovakia

Russians Capture German Fortress Of Crernowitz   path fo Rumania And Hungary Open

Czernowitz Taken  In Wide Advances   Soviets Remain Poised Along Rumanian Frontier; Implied Bid Asks Satellites To Quit

Nazi Forces Continue 'To Retreat   Reds Poise for Blow At Hungary, Rumania, Bid for Surrender  CAIN AT ALL POINTS

“BATTER BARRIERS oF SATELLITES   Fortress Guarding Path to  _ Hungary, Rumania Falls   REDS RACE ONWARD   er” Hungarians Reported Surrendering to Reds; Others Are Routed

Hammering Nazi Defenses Below Rome   7 et =  : UNITED STATES FLERT HOLDS   BATTLE FENPTIATIVE IN PACIFIC.

Alban Hill Conquest Virtually Completed   ‘Troops Pour Through Lines; 8th Gains 10 Miles Overnicht

Nazi Troops  Flee Greece   Allied Airmen Harass Infantry Columns

TOP ORATORS Ot BOTH PARTIES TQ SPEAK IN STATE   Governor Dewey Definitely Scheduled to Speak in Charleston Oct. 7   TRUMAN IS SLATED TO ADDRESS STATE VOTERS   Major Campaigners on State Tickets to Oarry on Active Campaign; May End in Joint Debate by Gubernatorial Nominees

Allies Widen Italian Front, Forcing Nazis To Throw In Available Troops

Town Squire Roosevelt Presides  Cracker Barrel Is Only Prop That Is Needed.

To Match Country Store Chatter——  FDR NEEDS CRACKER BARREL FOR PRESS TALKS

Raiders Hammer Hitters Arsenal   Planes Strike Germans From Channel To Rhone

‘Mosquito Bombers Stab . At Berlin Again; Other ~ German Targets Raided

HUNDREDS OF HEAVY RAF BOBMERS BLAST AT GERMAN CAPITAL  THREE OTHER GREAT

RAF Mosquitos Stab Berlin; New Heavy Attacks On Coast   Large Formations Strike Invasion Shores; Berlin Catled ‘Dead City’

R. A. F. Again © Hammers Berlin   British Raiders Attack Other Targets In Western Germany

Bombers Raid Nazi Capital   Large Formations Of American Planes Renew Attack On French Coast.

Berlin Called A ‘Dead City’  Mosquito Bombers Sanh At Tt Acain *

Nazi Capital A Holocaust o Fire After Greatest Sus tained Aerial Offensive Report Frankfurt Is Mort ally Wounded.

Mosquitos Again Bomb Berlin   Large Formations Hammer French Invasion Coast

Berlin and French Coast Hit Again   U. S. Heavies Hit Military Objectives

Mosquitos Hit Berlin Again   Raid Fourth Ie Six Nights; 16,500 Tons of Explosives Dumped On Germany In January Sets Record.

Berlin Raid.  Sirens Howl   Mosquitos - Return To Nazi Capital -

MOSQUITOS IN NEW BLOW ON REICH CAPITAL   Invasion Coast of France Target for Today's Operation by Al- ~ lied Bomber Fleets 

Mosquito Bombers Slash Again At Burning Berlin  U. S$. Heavies Pound North France In Daylight Attack

RAF MOSQUITOS ATTACK BERLIN   Raiders Also Hit Other Targets in Germany——One Plane Lost

Berlin Hit — By Mosquito Fleet Again   Travelers Returning to = ‘Stockholm Assert ° City  Is ‘Dead’

Yanks Renew Air Blows at French Coast   Daylight Attack Follows Mosquito Stab at Ber lin  in aprnar — 4 * Cyn   Observers Say Five or Six More Raids Would Destroy City

BERLIN AGAIN 18 TARGET OF SWIFT MOSQUITO BOMBERS  ALLIED PLANES RENEW . ATTACK ON “INVASION COAST” OF FRANCE

TRAVELLERS SAY GERMAN CAPITAL IS. A ‘DEAD CITY  16,500 BOMBS TONS   16,500 BOMBS TONS UNLOOSED ON REICH BY RAF IN JANUARY

BRITISH BLAST NAZI CAPITAL   Hit Other Targets in Reich, Lose Only One Plane

mbers Lash erlin Again; Maurauders ttack Coast   German Capital in Ruins—Faces Com. plete Annihilation

MOSQUITOS HIT BERLIN AGAIN   Travelers Reaching Sweder from Germany Call Nazi Capital Dead City.

RAF OTABS AT BERLIN AGAIN   Mosquito Bombers Also At tack Other Targets in Western Germany.

Attack Made On Berlin By RAF Bombers   Night Raid On Capital Of Reich Followed By Allied Pounding Of  Invasion Coast

NAZIS MAKING. NEW ASSAULTS IN FOOTHILLS    MOSCOW HAYS FIERCE BATTLE,  IN FIFTH DAY ALONG  “CZECH BORDER NEAR” MOUNTAIN PASSES

DIVORCE IS ONLY NEW COURT CASE   Hold Hearing on Claim Due Defunct Sales Barn; PlainTakes Property in Action

Britain May Ask U.S. and Russian Political Aid  One Peer Warns That British Troons in

Britain May Ask  Help in Greece   U. S.-Russian Aid  Urged in Commons

[3 Japanese “Rips sunk By  U8. Bombers  Thwart Another Attempt To Land  an ()n,  avte

Disastrous Attempt Ic Land Help   Three Destroyers Among Vessels Sent Down By Bombers  In Camotes Sea.

[3 Enemy Ship: Are Sunk: 4,000 Nips Die   American Bombers, Fighters Turn Back Sixth Japanese Attempt to Land Reinforcements on Island of Leyte

RUSS GATHER FOR ATTACK ON EAST PRUSSIA   Parachutists Already Said in Junkers Homeland

Curzon Line Is Reached by Russians   Line Widened for “Direct Attack on East Prussia

Russians -Have Drive Within 70 Miles of Big Communication. Base . of Kovel ©   HUNS OVERRUN IN PRIPET MARSH AREA   Reds Pouring Through Enemy Line Toward Pinsk; Germans Unable  to Blow Up Bridges

Smash Toward City Of Pinsk   Tremendous Losses inflicted On Fleeing German By White Army

Reds Drive Within 70 Mi. Of Kovel   Chase Nazis Deeper Into Old<Poland; Companion Push On Pinsk.

35 U. §. Bombers And 11 Fighters Fail To Return   German Aircraft Plants Bombed

AMERICANS SHOOT DOWN 100 GERMAN ~ PLANES, LOSE 46   Beven Aircraft Factories in ~ Poland.and Reich Blasted —Oil Works Near 'Stettim Hit.   WIGHT FOLLOW-UP ' > ATTACKS INDICATED   ‘(Alarms Sounded in Berlin and Warning Issued in Buda pest — Vichy Radio -  ; Goes Off Air.

100 German Planes Blasted from Sky   U.S. Airmen Take Heavy Toll in Blow At Reich and Poland

PLANE FLEETS BOMB PLANTS N POLAND   West Germany and Vienna Scourging Face of Europe from West and South; 100 Nazis Down   One RAF Plane Lost

HITLER'S SKY POWER DEALT TELLING BLOW   U. S. FLIERS BAG 100 NAZI PLANES, RIP UP FACTORIES

Yanks Surprised to Find No Quaint Clothes or Windmills in Holland

Liberated Dutch Know How to Greet Gl Joes: It’s Good Old American Phrase, ‘Hello, Boys’

TRUMAN CHAIR ~ TAKEN BY MEAD   Senate War Investigating! Committee Berth Chang-   ac Hands

Wage Fierce Fighting To Oust Enemy   Rush Repair to Seriously Damaged Cherbourg Port.

British Advance Toward Germat Orne River Line   Units Push Forward In Attack North, Northwest of Orne

BRITISH OPEN NEW ATTACK NEAR CAEN   Surge to Within 3 Miles of Nazi Defense Line

Armies in Bitterest Type o Fighting—Other Prong in  Drive Forward

Capture Tourville And Clamp Siege Are Two- — Thirds Around Caen ,  SWEEP ACROSS THE ODON RIVER  FP -port The Bitterest Kind Of Fighting Above — Caen

British Drive Cracks Nazi  Line at Caen       Move; Gree niver  Liné Next

Tommies 3 Miles Of River   Montgomery's Men Begin New Flank Drive on Cacn

Siege Arc Clamped on Caen   British Troops Cross Odon River, Capture Tourville in Advance

Forees Surge Forward Within 3 Miles Of Nazi Orne River Line <      Germans Putting  Up Bitter F ioht   Americans Mop Up Cher. bourg; Campaign Costs Allies 40.549 Troops

Invasion Calls  For More Workers  Red Cross Quotas  Are Increasing

Invasion Calls For More Workers : ‘Red Cross Quotas  ” Are Increasing _

Reds Report 500,000 Nazis Knocked Out   Soviet to Strike Last Blow on German Soil, Moscow Declares

Half Million Nazis Erased In S. Russia   Reds, Now Attacking Sevastopol, Vow ‘To Take War Into Germany

TO CARRY WAR 10 SOIL OF GERMANY   To Coordinate Drive With Allies From West Front

Petain a Believer in Semi- Fascist France  “Collaborates” “to Make Dream Come Trite

PETAIN HAD DREAM OF AUTHORITARIAN STATE IN FRANCE  HAS BEEN FORCED, HO   HAS BEEN FORCED, HOW. EVER, TO ACCEPT LAVAL COLLABORATION POLICIES

Laval Forces Petain to Yield   Anti-Collaborationist Advisers Have Been Dismissed, Reported

PETAIN HAD DREAM OF AUTHORITARIAN STATE IN FRANCE  . - 9.e prea CAprren Lf   HAS BEEN FORCED, HOWEVER, TO ACCEPT LAVAL COLLABORATION POLICIES

Petain Seized Upon The Fall Of France As An Opportunity To Impose Semi-Fascist State

MAJOR BONG SHOOTS DOWN 31ST VICTIM   Leading War Ace Is Operating in Philippines

County Farm Bureau Will Install Plaut   DIRECTORS OF ASSOCIATION DECIDE TO BUILD SOYBEAN EXTRACTING PLANT

PRESS PINCERS ON GERMANS IN NORMANDY   Allies Herd Nazis Into Ever-Tightening Pocket

"PLACED UNDER ~ DEADLY: FIRE   ALLIED AIR. AND LAND POWER CRUSHING ENEMY. NEAR . ° NORMAND Y—EISEN. °  '  HOWER Issues — WARNING: —-

Allied Pincers - Steadily Closing Around Nazis   Pocket Between Argentan And Falaise In Normandy Is Drawing Ever Tighter   AIRMEN HAMMER ESCAPE ROUTES

BOOKS OPENED 10 LIST NEW VOTERS   Those Not ot Registered Have Three Weelis-

Bricker Backers Predict Victory   Claim 250 Votes On First Ballot

BRIGKER'S AIDES ANALYZE BALLOT   Expect Between 250 and 300 Votes on First Ballot   CONSERVATIVE GUESS   Dewey Is Credited With 391 Delegates With 529 Needed for Nomination

BRICKER READY TO STOP DEWEY   W orkers Give Estimates On GOP Convention Delegate Pledges

BRICKER MEN GIVE. FIGURES ON CHOICES   ‘Claim 174 With 285 For Dewev On First Ballot

Pietro M. ascagni, Author Of ‘Famed Opera, Hard Hit By War   : Maestro, Who Wrote ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’, Found In Poverty In Rome: Wife In Trouble. Tox

TRAINS COLLIDE AT NEW ORLEANS   1, C, LOUISIANNE HITS SO, PACIFIC LIMITED; NUMBER OF INJURIES

15 PERSONS ARE HURT IN CRASH      Two Fast Trains Collide ‘Near "New. -Orleans «in a!’ Heavy: Fag°

Will Ask Dismissal Of All Ward Suits Result Of WLB Ruling By Court

Court Decision Upholds WLB In Ward Case      Board's Orders Not Subject to Review, Rulina

U. S. WILL ASK DISMISSAL OF 5 WARD SUITS   Action To Reflect Ruling WLB Decisions Not Subject To Review

‘FLOOD TIDE OF POWER TO WIPE OUT LUFTWAFFE   Enough Airplanes, Service Facilities, Men On Hand To Assure Victory   BIG SAFETY SURPLUS   ® Humming Skies Will Make Hitler “Blow His Top”, Officer Declares

Slashing Offensive Has Now Brought Advance U. S. Troops to Seine River at Two Points.   GERMANS ON RUN, IS * ALLIED REPORT TODAY

TEMPERATURES:   Nazis, In Rout, Seek  To Flee Encirclement   Yanks Slash Northwest Of Paris In Attemp To Cut Off Vital Escape Roads Of Hitler's Battered ‘ Supermen’

Fires, Explosions _Reported In Paris As Officials Leave   Allied Headquarters Maintains Secrecy On Fast Patton Drive; Petain Claimed Departing From Vichy And Laval From Capital; Canadians Make Gains

Battle for France Reaches Final Stage of Pursuit and Destruction of German Army in Seine Pocket

IRerlin Places Yanks 12 Miles From The City      Other U. S. Units Reach Seine, Threatening to Close Off Retreat of Fleeing Huns   Vichy Regime In Flight, Nazis Say   Entire Western Front in  Last Stage of Pursuit and   Annihilation, Allied Headquarters Say’ 3

YANK PATROLS REACH SEINE AT TWO POINTS   Close Off Nazi Retreat Route, Cut Of Paris  From West France

Threaten to Cut Off Fleeing Nazi Troops   Battle of France Termed h earing Rout, With Fighting on Western Front in Last Stage of Pursuit and A

FALL OF PARIS EXPECTED ANY TIME BY ALLIES   Germans In Rout In Attempt To Leave France

Terrible Air Toll Is Taken   Thousands of German Trucks Smashed As Efforts Are Made  To Escape Pocket =

Battle for France Assumes Proportions of Rout; Fall of Paris Is Believed Near   Doubt Expressed ‘Whether Von Kluge’s Battered Army Will Be Able to Make Stand on Seine; German Officials Flee From Paris and Vichy

PARIS ROCKING TO DEMOLITION SET BY ENEM)   Only Escape Route Left to Reich Forces Now Siene River Which Has Shortage of Bridges

U. S. Troops Are Closing _ Second Trap   Drive 18 Miles Northwest Of Dreux; Now 5 Miles From Seine River

Yanks At Seine; Cutting Off Nazis Heeing En Masse  Battle of Paris Now Only A Rout; Cutting Off Paris

FALL OF CITY NEAR; PETAIN LEAVES VICHY   Battle Becomes Almos! Rout; Nazis Say Yanks 12 Miles From Paris

American Spearheads Have + Reached the Seine River, at Points 27 and 42 Miles Northwest of Paris.   MAY CLOSE, RETREAT OF FLEEING GERMANS   It Also Would Cut Paris Of From Western France; the ° Battle Assumes Proportions of a Rout.

FALL OF PARIS IS MATTER OF TIME   Battle Of France Assumes Proportions Of Rout   Place Allied Units Within 12 Miles Of Capital; Official Word Lacking

Fleeing Nazis May Be Cut Off In Trap   Fall Of Paris Now A Matter Of Time, it Appears

Yanks Cross Sure River’ In Relieving  Read Center   Entire Enemy Thrust Is Being Threatenéd

Southern Flank of Enemy Salient is  Slowly Yielding   Doughboys and Tanks Cross Sure River at Four Places and Throw Enemy Back Into Reich in Two Different Sectors   PART OF GERMAN SPEARHEAD IS ENCIRCLED

AMERICANS DRIVE INTO UNDERBELLY OF NAZI SALIENT   GERMAN ARMY HELD WITHOUT GAINS FOR MORE THAN 24 HOURS

Parts of Enemy Spearheads Are Caught in Traps   Southern Flank of Von Rundstedt's Offensive Is Forced Back: Yanks Cross Sure River at Four Placec.

Yanks Cross Sure River At Four Places; Troops Near Junction At Meuse

NAZIS SLOWLY GIVING GROUND AT SOME SPOTS   Yankees, Fighting Way Into Bulge Estab'ished by Enemy, Only 20 Miles From Junction

South Flank Of Enemy Sagging Back To Reich   Americans, Resuming Advance Into Underbelly Of Nazi Salient Cross Sure River   Holding Corridor To Bastogne Unit   Doughboys Within 20 Miles Of Junction to Cut OFF Enemy Head Few Miles From Mense

US. Forces Are Within 20 Miles of A Junction’      Relief Corridor to Bastogne eos Holds Firm Against Nazi’ ‘Attack

American Troops Within 20 Miles Of Junction As Bastogne Garrison Is Rescued; Third Amny Enters Action

Forces 20 Miles Apart; Whole Southern Enemy Salient Yields To Yanks Who Encircle Celles

‘Two Forces Near Junction  At One Point   Enemy’s Entire Southern Flank Yielding; Some . Units Being Surrounded

Yanks Cutting in from Both Sides Of Salient Are Within 20 Miles of Junction; German Spearhead at Its Farthest Point Falls into a Trap

Two Allied Forees Within 20 Miles of =: Forming Junction Which Would  Threaten Enemy’s Head Near Meuse River

Yankee Affack Menaces Bulge; Gains Scored  Sure River Crossed   Sure River Crossed In Three Places By Americans; Relief Gets To Bastogne

Allies Endeavor To Cut Off Foe Inside Belgium   Patrols Are Routed

Whittle Neck of German Bulge To Less Than Twenty Miles   Sure River Spanned at 4 Points; Bastogne GI's Relieved

Slight Gains Reported On Both   Corridor Cut To Less Than 20 Miles; Nazis Have Been Held For 48 Hour<

American Forces Hit Both Sides Of German Bulge   20 Miles Still Separate Troops From A Junction

U. 5. GARRISON AT BASTOGNE RELIEVED   Bold Nazi Bid Rushes Into : Serious Trouble   SURE RIVER   Crossed By Yanks In Four Places; Enemy Pocket At Beaufort Surrounded

Within Less Than 20 Miles  From Junctior   Doughboys, Tanks Cross Sure River At Four Places: Throw Foe Back.   RELIEF HOLDS FIRM

Yank Forces Bite Into NaziWedge   American Troops Seeking to Form Junction Now Are Less Than 20 Miles Apart; One Enemy Spearhead Has Been Encircled

U. S. Troops Are Within 26 Miles of Junction, Closing in on Germans Near  the Border.   BASTOGNE CORRIDOR HELD FAST BY ALLIES

Von Rundstedt Withdrawing Armor as Doughboys Pinch Escape Corridor to 20 Miles

ALLIED DRIVE REDUCES GAP TO 20 MILES   Threat to Sever Head Of German Thrust  Toward Meuse

TEMPERATURES:   Disaster Faces Germans After Daring Thrust Against First Army

Tank-Led American Attack Menaces Von Rundstedt’s Troops in Belgian Bulge   U.S. Forces Hold Open Relief Corridor to Bastogne; Germans Fail to Score Major Advances

TWO ASSAULT. FORCES NEAR ~_AJUNCTION   Corridor To Bastogne Held Open; Some: Ger‘man Pockets: Surrounded

Underbelly of Bulge under Attack By Gen. Patton’s Third Army as Eisenhower Tanks Hit Spearhead

U.S. Troops Hold Corridor To Bastogne; Doughbovs May Be Preparing To Close Trap;  Some Knemy Units tn Retreat

Clear Indications Bold Nazi Bid for December Victory  Has Met Trouble

U.S. Holds Narrow Relief Corridor To Bastogne Unit Open   American Forces Cross Sure River in Four Places, Hurl Huns Back Into Reich

An American Armored Attack Menaced the Belgian Bulge 35 Miles Back to the German Border.   AMERICAN INFANTRY CROSSED FURE RIVER   Were Holding a Narrow but Firm Corridor to the Garrison of Bastogne.

ONLY 20 MILES FROM SNAPPING TRAP ON NAZIS   Whole Southern Flank of von Rundstedt Yields Slowly to Hammerine

Yank Forcesgwithin a 20 Miles of Junction      Whole Southern Flank of Enemy Salient Yields Slowly to Hammering; Part Of Spearhead Deepest in Belgium Encircle

Yank Armored Attack Menacing Belgian Bulge   Doughboys Cross Sure River; Hold Relief Corridor To Bastogne

Yanks Menace Thinnest Neck Of Foe’s Bulge   U.S. Forces Are Reported Within 20 Miles Of Junction; Siege Of Bastogne Is Lifted; Sure River Crossed In Four Places

Hurl Enemy Into Reich at Two Places   Tanks, Doughboys. Cross River at 4 Points; Cut Neck of Bulge as

AMERICANS CUTTING INTO BOTH SIDES OF VON RUNDSTEDT DRIVE  WHOLE SOUTHERN ENEMY FLANK YIELDED SLOWLY TO AMERICAN RIOQWS

Yanks Batter Enemy Troops   Americans Drive Into Both Sides of Von Rundstedt Bulge, Near Junction; Other Large Forces Caught in Trap

Nazyv = Belgian Bulge Is Menaced By Strong American Attack   U.S. Infantry And Tanks, Resuming Advance Into Underbelly Of Enemy Salient, Across Sure Biver At 4. Places: Reach Rasteene Garrison

Enemy opearhead Sagging All Way Back To Germany;  Bastogna Garrison Relieved

‘GERMAN BULGE AT BASE BEING CLOSED TO LESS 20 MILES BY snd IN HEROIC STAND

_Big Guns Pour Withering Fire Into Retreating Germans; Narrow Relief Corridor To Bastogne Garrison Now Held.   Battle Tide Definitely Turned

YANK ARMORED FORCES SMASH INTO SALIENT   Von Rundstedt’s Troops Periled by Attacks On Flanks

AGES ARE 20 MALES APART   Doughboys and Tanks Cross Sure River at Four Placec.   1 HOLD FIRM AT BASTOGNE:

GERMAN ROBOTS NOW FLY FROM BELGIUM BASES   6,750,000 Sleep In London Shelters:

19,000 CHILDREN BEING EVACUATED TO ESGAPE ROBOTS   Germans Begin Launching Buzz-Bombs from Platforms: In Sefguim.

Londen Evacuates 15,000 More Children As Robots Start Coming From Belgium.

BEGIN CUYAHOGA RECOUNT TODAY   Expect to Finish Senatorial Recheck by Wednesday

a ss  Stettinius Delayed War Preparations, Sen. Langer Charges  mem mE wee,

NAZIS DUG 200-FOOT TUNNEL — IN MAKING PHOENIX ESCAPE   ' Many Months’ Labor Required To Bore Passage i Through Rock; FBI Watching Mexican Barder To Pre-'  vent Flight Across Frontier; Many Are Linguists 

WAR PRISONERS FLEE IN TUNNEL   Nazis Work For Month: At Pheenix; 25 Make Their Getaway

Russians Battle In Budapest’s Streets   Red Shock Troops Pouring Into FlameSeared Capital After German Garrison’s Escape Completely Cut Off.

Nazi Garrison Battles to Hold Budapest   Soviets Charge Upon City from  Hills Above River

‘Red Troops Storm City or Budapest   Fierce Fighting Breaks Out From Street To Street

Reds Press Attack — Against Budapest    Russian Shock Troops Charge  Down on Flame-seared _ Hungarian Capital Hills Above Danube River—Germans,  In Death Trap, Fight Savagely Inside the City

Reds Close In On  HungarianCapital   Russian T: roaps Charge City From -Hills Above  the Danube   GERMANS START FIRES   Soviet Soldiers Cut Off All Nazi Routes of Escape '

NAZIS BURN THEIR STORES IN BUDAPEST   Dynamite Utilities as Soviet Shock Troops Charge Upon the Capital From Hills Above “the Danube River.

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO BUDAPEST   Capital Completely Surrounded; Push For  Austrian Border

4th and 2nd Ukraine Armies Now Linked Up For Joint Drive Or Bratislavia and Vienns In Mounting Peril Te (germans.

UTILITIES ARE DYNAMITED IN AXIS CITADEL   Half Dozen Russian Spearheads Are Merging on Encircled Hungarian Capital From West  ESCAPES ARE CUT OFE

SOVIETS CLOSE On BUDAPEST'S TRAPPED NAZIS   Tanks Reported Deep In Western Half Of City

GERMANS RAZE SUPPLY STORES IN BUDAPEST   Six Soviet Drives Move in or Western Half of Hungarian Capital

SOVIET SHOCK TROOPS CHARGE INTO BUDAPESI   German -Hungarian Garrison Fights Back Stubbornly With Scattered Field Artillery.

Red Army Troops Charge Into Seared Budapest  Germans Are Burning Military Stores, Dynamiting Buildings

RUSSIANS STORM INTO BUDAPEST; CUT OFF ESCAPE   ADVANCE TOWARD TWO BRIDGES ACROSS DANUBE INSIDE CITY

Capital Doomed   With All Escape Roads Cut, Nazi Garrison _ Burns Stores As Reds Charge Into Budapest

Soviets Probe For Positions  In Budapest   Half a Dozen Red Thrusts Reported Making Headway Into Western Half of City

Upon Budapest   Russians Fight Way Into Western Half of City to Prepare to Dealivar Denth Rinw

\Reds Fight Into Budapest; Other Russian Forces Are Set for Drive to Vienna

Red Shock Troops harge Upon Burning Budapest Other Units Slash  y {ato Buda District on “Danube. West Bank

BUDAPEST SCENE. FBI RATT   Russian Shock Troops - And Artillery Hammer Hungarian Capital   GERMANS TRAPPED   Enemy Burns Military  Supplies, Dynamites  Public Utilities

Western Half Of. Budapest»  Being Entered By Red Army   Fnemy: Fseape Roads Closed By Russians

Russian Troops Charge On Budapest; All German Escape Routes Are Sealed

RUSSIAN ARMY SHOCK TROOPS CHARGE INTO CITY OF BUDAPEST  GERMAN GARRISON BURNS  STORES, WRECK UTILITIES AND EICHT®? RACK

Battles Rage By Streets in : Flaming City   German Garrison Burns Stores, Blows Up Utilities, Fights Grimly

Reds Circle Budapest   All German Escape Cuts Cut; Six Soviet Drives Under Way

RED ARMY CHARGES ON BUDAPEST   Escape Roads For Foe Reported Cut Off :

RUSSIANS ARE CHARGING CITY OF BUDAPEST   Armored Columns Deep Inside City Today

Russians Drive Into Budapest Strike for Positions From Which to Deal  ~ fo Pal Ble:

Budapest Is Charged Upon  By The Red:   German Garrison Burns Military Stores, Dynamite  Ped Rw Sea es   CLOSE IN ON CAPITAL

RUSSIANS CHARGE ON BUDAPEST FROM SNOWY HILLS   Lash at Flame-Scarred City From Above the Danube as Besieged Nazis Burn Military Supplies and Wreck Public Utilities

HUNGARIAN CAPITAL SCENE OF BITTER FIGHTING AS RUSSIANS CROWD GERMANS IN- CITY AREA

CAPITAL OF HUNGARY IS ENCIRCLED   Germans Are Burning eMilitary Stores In Flame-Seared City

Reds Charge  Budapest From  Danube, Hills   Nazis Burn Military Stores. Dynamite Public Utilities in  Grim Artillery Fight

Soviet Troops Poise For Final Push on Budapest   Reds Close In On Trapped Nazi Forces in City

Half Dozen Red Thrusts Pushed Toward Budapest  All Escape Roads Closed to Doomed Garrison; Joint Drive Bdvancing Anainct Anciria

Russian Columns Fighting Way Info City Of Budapest   Germans, With No Escape Route Left, Putting Up Stubborn Resistance: :

Red Army Troops Charge Into Seared Budapest  —— Are —   Germans Are Burning Military Stores, Dynamiting Buildings

Red Troops Charge on Budapest   All Roads Cut Off —Germans Burn Stores,  Battle Grimly

ALL ESCAPE ROADS CLOSEL BY RUSSIANS   German Garrison In Capital Of Hungary Doomed

Russ Army  Opens Charge On Budapest. Now Aflame   Trapped Germans Using Explosives And Fire To Wreck Hounvarian Capital

Soviet Spearheads Charge Encircled City of Budapes!   Trapped Nazis Defend Battle-Torn Capital With Savage Fury

"Germans Begin City’s Destruction *As Reds Pour In   Tremendous Nazi . Losses Reported by Russians; a Huge Garrison Trapped

Red Spearheads Fight Way into West Budapest   German Garrison Burns Military Stores, Dynamites Utilities.

TRAPPED GERMANS DEFEND GARRISON IN BUDA DISTRACT   Malimevek’s Second Agmy Inches Toward Austrian Border for Drive, Up Danabe.

Stimson Says Broad Purposes of Campaign Reached  Secretary Takes Note Of Criticism of Slow Italian Fight

War Secretary Takes Note of Campaign Crific   Stimson Says Broad Strategy Has Been Achieved

Stimson Says Objectives in Italy Gained   Secretary Says Broad Goals Have Been Attained

Stimson Says Allies Have Accomplishec Strateaic Goals in Halian Campaign

OBJECTIVES IN ITALY GAINED   Stimson Asserts All Broad  Strategic Purposes Achieved

ltaly Drive O.K.: Stimson   Secretary Tells Critics Campaign Is Doing What Was Planned

Strategic Purposes Are Accomplished   A Stimson Answers Criticism About  Tiahan Camnaion

DECISION NEAR IN BATTLE FOR CASSINO AREA   Yanks Plunge Into Ghost City, Make Steady  Progress

CLAIMS GOALS IN ITALY WON   Stimson Says Weather, Not Germans Slowed Pace Of Campaign

ITALY GOALS REACHED, SAYS SEC. STIMSON   Declares All of Broad Strategic Purposes of Allies Achieved

ALLIED GOALS ALL ACHIEVED, STIMSON SAYS   Secretary of War in Answer to Those Critical of S'ow Progress in Italian Campaign

Answers Critics In Italian Drive   Stimson Says Many Objectives Achieved Since the Southern Invasion.

U.S. Loses 12 ~ Planes to 116   ‘Stronger Jap Opposition Overcome jin Marschall

10 ZEROS BAGGE OVER MARSHALLS   STLIEF FIGHT PUT UP BY JAPANESE—SOME AMERICAN PLANES DAMAGED.

Tighten Vise on Guinea, Britain   FOUR ENEMY WARSHIPS BLASTED OFF KAVIENG, NEW IRELAND BY U. S. CARRIER-BASED PLANES; YANK BOMBERS STAGE NEW YEAR'S KURILE RAID

MID-PACIFIC ISLANDS HIT BY AMERICANS   Ten And Possibly 17 Jap Planes Bagged During Raid On Three Sir Bases

American Army Bombers Raid Three Atolls in Mid-Pacific Marshalls   . §. Planes Meet Heavy: Air Resistance; Ten Zeros Shot Down

Yankee Bombers Blast Japs Upon Marshall Atolls   Shoot Down 10 Zero Fighters

U.S. Bombers Attack Marshalls  Down 10 Zeros; No Yank Planes Lost

Soviets Drive to Within 55 Miles of Austrian Border   Axis Troops Fleeing in Disorder As Reds Almost Encircle Lake Balaton.

AMERICAN AMERICAN PILOTS MAKE FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR MAJOK GREG. BOYINGTON   Members Of Famous “Black Squadron” Seek Missing American Air Ace.

German Tanks. Infantry And Planes Attack   ‘Towers of Sevastopol In ' Sight « of »- Advancing “Reds: : :

Soviets Beat Back - Big German Drive   Repulse Tanks and Infantry Engaged i Large-Scale Assault Apparently Aimed at Saving Vital Base at Lwow, Poland.

Nazis Beaten Back In {Old Poland Today   [Moscow Communique Also Tells of New Gains at Sevastonol

Enemy Assault Sought to Save Big Lwow Base   Red Shock Troops Take Heights Guarding Sevastopol

Soviets Repulse German Attacks in Old Poland   Fierce Fighting Rages Along Roads To Crimean Port

Aussian Forces Push Enemy Back After SeeSaw Fighting;  Battle For Sevastonol Fierda

LARGE SCALE GERMAN TANK AND INFANTRY ATTACKS REPULSED »  BATTLE FOR SEVASTOPOI APPEARS BE DEVELOPING INTO SIECE

ANK ATTACK 101) POLAND FATEN BACK   pture By Russian Shock eops of Heights, Barrier To Savastopol, Is Announced  Zi OFFENSIVE STRONG

Soviet Shock Troops Capture Fedyikniny Heights Guarding Way to Sevastopol

Nazis Attack Near Stanislowow; Reds Gain at Sevastopol   German Offensive Is Apparently Strong, Well Coordinated

Red Shock Troops Capture Barrier. Of Fedyukhiny .          Nazis Throw. Heay: Counter Blows East Of Stanislawow Are

Reds Beat Back Nazis In Poland   Repel Large Attacks After Fierce Fighting Near Stanislawow

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS AROUND LWOW   See-Saw Fighting Reported: Soviets Take New Sevastopol Heights

German Threat Throttled In Fierce Combat   Huns Attempt to Disrupt Soviet Offensive To-  ward Germany [1-  self Fails   Crimea-Cornered _  Foe Fighting Hard   Being Pressed Step by Step Toward Sea; Enenw Being Cut Down In Trying to Eseape

LARGE SCALE GERMAN TANK AND INFANTRY ATTACKS REPULSED  BATTLE FOR SEVASTOPOI  BPPEARC RE NEVELOPING

Reds Beat Off Attack By Germans Near Lwow    Nazis Endeavoring To Save Vital City

GERMAN TANK ATTACKS ARE DRIVEN BACK   Soviets Announce Capture Of New Cities Today

German Attacks in” Poland Beaten Back   Nazis Strive Desperately To Save Lwow; Towers Of Sevastopo! in Sicht

Smash German Counterblows  In Old Poland   Reds Halt Foe In Lwow Area; Sevastopol Battle Develops Into Siege.

Nazi Attacks In Poland Beaten Back   Formidable Barrier To Sevastopol Taken by Soviets

REDS REPULSE LARGE-SCALE NAZI ATTACKS   Blows Struck In Old Poland: Sevastopol Battle Seen Turning Into Siege

Germans Iry Counterblow   Are Beaten Back in Old Poland Fighting, Seeking To Protect Lwow

NAZI ATTAGKS BEATEN BACK   Russian Troops Take Bartier Guarding Sevastopol Approaches.   HUNGARIANS TAKE TOWN

SOVIETS REPEL NAZI ATTAGKS IN OLD POLAND   Russian Forces in Crimea Push Nearer Sevastopol Sea Port

NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED INOLD POLAND   Russian Drive Toward Sevastopol Draws Nearer City

Hawaii Sull In Danger, Is Warning   Martial Law in Temtory Opposed By Civilians

HAWAII IN DANGER (F JAP ATTACK   MARTIAL LAW NEEDED, NIMITZ DECLARES

Hawaii Still In Danger,  Court Told   Army, Navy Leaders Seek To Continue Martial Law

HAWAII REMAINS IN DANGER OF INVASION ADM. NIMITZ SAYS   Requests Continuance Of Martial Law In Island Area

HAWAII STILL IN DANGER OF JAP INVASION, ADM. NIMITZ WARNS: SAYS MARTIAL LAW NECESSARY

PACKAGE MAILING HINTS ARE GIVEN   Must Bear Name Of Ship In Care Of Fleet Postmaster

U.S. Raids Jap Positions in Central Pacific   Ponape’s Airfields Bear Brunt of Attacks: Kuriles Also Blasted

YANK RAIDERS ‘SINK JAP SHIP   Ponape Blasted by Planes; Attack Also Made on Matsuwa in Kuriles

Ponape Islands Heavily Blasted  Bombers Strike Fror Nauru to Matsuwa

PONAPE AND OTHER ISLES ARE TARGETS   Nauru and Kuriles Also Had Strikes Reports EMtate; Tanker, Escort Vessels Sunk.   Bomb Marshalls

Temperatures   Bombs Halt Hitlerite Break-Through, Patton Wheels. Powerful Units Into -Lovemboure, Nazi Propaganda Now Grave

Mayors of All Towns in County Declare Holiday    Stores in All Towns to Close During Hours Designated . In Proclamations

Mayors of All — Towns In County ~ Declare Holiday   All. Citizens of County Asked to:.Remain At Home Until Minutemen Call

Stiff Clashes, Peace Moves Vie in Athens   Ultimatum to Rebel Forces to Surrender Arins Nears Deadline

ELAS Chief Claims Rule  Ot British   At Least 10,000 Anti-Government Troops In Athens.

THE GOOD FRIDAY WORSHIP SERVICES WELL ATTENDED   First Christian Church Was Filled to Capacity at the Close.   Was Sponsored by the Min: isterial Alliance of : Chillicothe.

THE GOOD FRIDAY _ WORSHIP SERVICES WELL ATTENDEL   First- Christian Church Was Filled to Capacity at the Close.

To Campaign With Kisses   Ensign Ready to Kiss Every Woman, Have Attractive Young Woman to Kiss Men

A Candidate Opens Kissing Campaign   Congressional Aspirant to Greet the Ladies and Feminine Assistant to Favor Men.

Ensign Benson Will Rest Up Before Beginning His Campaign on Saturday

TANK FORCES ADVANCE 30 MILES A DAY   Front Lines Report Nazis Not Organized

Enemy Is Trying To Escape From British - American * Death Trap   YANES MAY REACH COAST OF SOUTH BRETON SOON   American Bombers Again Are Active’ In Air Over Europe

FDR. FAVORS A STRONG POLAND   DECLARES. COUNTRY MUST BE ' “RECONSTITUTED. AS A GREAT NATION.”

POLISH LEADER CHEERED BY FOR   Declares Country. Must Be Reconstituted as a Great Nation

Roosevelt Sees A Greater Poland   Says World Will Back Up the Reconstitution Of The Nation.

President Says Poland Must Be Reconstituted   Sees World Opinion Support in Return As ‘Great Nation’

Roosevelt Sees  ‘A Great Poland’   Tells Inquirers World Opinion Demands It

Japs Short Of Supplies At Bangkok   Heavy Fighting For Changsha Also Reported

Voters Will Elect Mayor Monday, No Runoff Needed  Thomas F. Finnegan Is er  Ear Cammi 1eece1nanear

Voters Will Elect Mayor Monday, No Runoff Needed  Thomas F. Finnegan Is Unopposed  Cee Mme ee ImmMor

MAPS PLANS FOR TWO ADDRESSES   Gov. Dewey Accepts Invitatior to Speak in Kentucky Next Month.

British Advance 8 Miles in Italy   Railroad Point Seized; Yanks Nearing Junction

Lower Rail Rates Sought by OPA   ICC Asked to Revoke  ‘Inflationary’ Increase

New Dealers Top Florida, Alabama ‘Primary Ballot   South Dakota Dewey Supporters Lead Stassen Delegates —

Pepper and Hill Lead in Primaries   Returns Reflect Rooseeylt Strength

PEPPER AND HILL SEEM VICTORS   New Deal Supporters Win In Florida And Alabama

Pepper And Hill Win In Primaries   New Deal Candidates Hold Wide Leads In Florida  Annd Alabama Senatorial Nomination Rarac

PEPPER AND HILL WIN IN FLA. AND ALA.      New Deal Senators Easily Win Important Elections

Canadians Seek To Quiet Guns On Dutch Island   Invade Walcheren In Allied Drive Against Antwerp

ALLIES HIT as SPOTS IN   Canadians Aim for German Coastal Guns Near Antwerp

ALLIES LANDING ~ ON WALCHEREN   Fight on Concrete Causeway Connecting Islands in Scheldt

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   TRY TO SUBDUE BIG GERMAN GUNS CONTROLLING ANTWERP APPROACHES

LOCAL BOND SALES ARE ABOVE QUOTA   Some Parts of This County Unreported On Total Sales

BOND SALES IN CITY ARE NEAR QUOTA   Jackson County Men In Service  Buy Several Bonds

HER FSU Rane ae Aste Do  SCNT NEWS RUIEING   72.000 Russians Perish in Nazi Camp

Four From City. 4 Meadville Residents Hurt   All 8 Are Patients In Bradford Hospita After Accident Near Kinzua: 3 Serious

Kight Persons In Bradford Hospital  After Cars Crash   Pick-up Truck and Sedan Crash Near Kinzua Monday Night

52 TAKE OATH AS } §. CITIZENS IN COURT LAST WEEK   \Clearfield Contributes 19, DuBois 7 and Other Parts of the nice 26  ee lk See lee

Trocps Of 2nd And 4th Marine Divisions Push Ashore; Other Forces On Guam Seal Off Last   Escape Corridor   THREATEN TO CUT QROTE PENINSULA

Invasion Coast Heavily Lashed   Little Opposition Met By Americans

Pas-de-Calais Area Target Of Bombers   Germans Claim Defeat Of American Forces Attacking Yugoslavia  RAF HITS TOULOUSE

HUN GUN COAST GETS BLASTING   Liberators Packed With Explosives Cross Dover Straits

FRENCH INVASION COAST AGAIN-HIT      Nazis Also Report Amer. ican Formations Over Yugoslavia

Liberators Hit:  Invasion Coast   Calais Smash Follows Uj RAR Tew lawan: Bhi

PAS-DE-CALAIS AREA POUNDED BY U.S. PLANES   Nazis Report Another Yank Air Fleet Ov er Yugoslavia

U.S. Liberator: Batter French Invasion Coast   Berlin Reports Yank Formation Over North Yugoslavia; RAF Hits Plane Repair Plants

GERMAN DEFENSES ON FRENCH COAST HEAVILY BOMBED   Allies Hit Pas-de-Calais Area Second Straight Day—-Other Planes Reported Over Yugoslavia.   AIRCRAFT REPAIR SHOPS AT TOULOUSE POUNDED   Vichy Radio Reports 17 Persons Were Killed and 45 Others Injured in Acsanilt.

FRENCH AREA IS BLASTED BY BOMBERS   Liberators Cross Channel To Hurl 600 Tons Of Explosives On Pas-de-Calais Fortifications.   17 Killed

RED TAPE SLASHED FOR WOUNDED YANK   . Blind Veteran and Bride Sent Home by Plane

Capture Big Ports In Crimea   Driving Remnants Of Trapped Hordes Into Dead End  At Sevastopol

Nazis Are Fleeing Before Red Drive   Terminus Of Dnestr Ferry, Southwest Of Key Port Of Odessa Is Overrun By The Germans

20,000 German Prisoners Taken  By Red Armies   Soviets Push Within Few Miles Sevastopol]

Enemy Forces Land 25 Miles From Foochow   Marines, Soldiers Clean Up Last Pockets of Resistance on Peleliu

Tokyo Claims Chinese. Coast Landing  Made By Japanese   ~ Marines: ‘Mopping  Up. On Peleliu -

Tokyo Claims cena aom (China Coast   Threaten One of Few Ports Still Held By Chinese

TOKYO SAYS POR OF FOOCHOW IS MAIN OBJECTIVE   @ Nippon Seeks To  . Prepare Against Approaching Allied Invasions

Japs Report They Make New Landing On Coast of China   Chungking Critical Of Allied Aid as Enemy Advances

JAPS OPEN NEW CHINESE DRIVE   Seaborne Troops Aim At Con quest Of Foochow

New Jap Force Is In Ching   Landing Is Made Near Foochow, One Of Few Ports Still In Hands Of Chinese

Japanese Foree Landed On Central China Coast   Tokyo Says Troops Will Soon Capture Foochow And Thus Thwart “Enemy America’s Plans To Land On China Coast And Sever Qur Communications”

Japs Unleash Sea Invasion Against Chin:   New Force Moves To Capture Central Coastal Section

Japs Land on Coast of China   Complete Conquest Of Section Would Thwart Allied Plans

TOKYO REPORTS NEW NIP ATTACK ON CHINA COAST   Japanese Claim Invaders to Capture Port of Foochow in Near Future

Japan Reports Central China Port Invaded   Few Japs Holed Up in Caves on Peleliu and Augaur Being Cleaned Up: Six Enemy Freighters Sunk

JAP SEA-BORNE TROOPS INVADE CHINESE COAST   Marines Cleaning Up Japanese On Palau Isles

Amphibious Jap Forces Invade Foochow Area  Nipponese Move To Com plete Conquest Of Cen

JAPS LAND ON CHINA COAST   Move To Thwart U. S. Plans; Marines Mop Up Last Nips On Peleliu

‘TRYING TO COMPLETE CONQUEST OF CENTRAL CHINA AND THWART AMERICAN ADVANCESBY WATER

Sea-Borne Landing Near Foochow Aids Conquest of China   Japs’ Newest Raid is Prelude to Snatch of China Coast

Japs Invade FoochowArea  from The Sea   Seek to Block Allied Plan to Land on Central China - Coast

JAPANESE INVASION OF CENTRAL CHINA COAST 15 REPORTED  MARINES AND SOLDIERS STILL MOPPING UP IN PALAU ISLANDS

Shipyard Worker Killed, Bridge Burned As Car  Overturns In Front: Of "Tanker. :

TELEPHONE OPERATORS STILL OUT   AFL Business Mer. Says Strike Is Unauthorized

B-29's Hit Kyushu, Jap Home Island   Nagasaki and Omura Areas are Tarqaets

KYUSHU, HOME JAP ISLAND HIT «BY SUPERFORTS   Tokyo Radio Estimates 70 = to 80 Big Bombers - f in Raid ra

3.000 Allied Planes Blast Nazi Targets   Military Supply, Transports, Oil And Rail Centers Attacked

RAF Sends Top Armada On Duisbure   More Than 3,550 Allied Warplanes Attack Germany.

FRESH RAINS UPPING RIVERS IN THIS STATE   Farmers Turn Their Attention te Rehabilitation in Wake of Damage From High Water

STATE TURNS TO DAMAGE. REPAIR   Flood Danger Past, Official: Seek Assistance.

Mt. Avr Site of Teachers’ Schoo!   Summer Session To Begin May 31

Eighth Air Force Knocks Out 1,300 German Fighter Planes During April at a Cost of 503 Aircraft

GREEN WINS BY G0 MARITY.   Carries Most of His Running Mates Back Into Office -

FIRST BALLOT — “VICTORY SEEN   SENATOR. SAYS ‘SURVEY  RE'. VEALS DEWEY TO ‘HAVE MINIMUM OF 660 FIRST BALLOT VOTES

SURVEY SHOWS DENEY HAUGRITY FOR HIRST VOTE.   Minimum S:rength is 660 Votes,  fen. Thomas Says! 

O60 VOTES ARE SEEN FOR DEWEY   Bricker Reported Willing To Accept Second Place On Ticket

SUAVEY SHOWS  PEWEY MAUSHITY TOR Heo! ¥OTE   Minimum 5.rengtn is 660 Votes, cen, Thomas Says.

COMPROMISE SOUGHT ON SECURITY TAX   May Be Pegged Permanently at Two Per Cent

Pronazi Rule. In Bulgaria Believed Over   Phone Lines Dead; Street Crowds Clamor for Peace

Pro-Nazi Bulgarian Regime Said‘ Qusted   AM Communication Broken-Suddenly And > Details Unknown: Peace Calle Rennrtad

Istanbul Report Says Bulgar Cabinet t Falls   Wire Communication With Axis Nation Remains Severed

Telephone Communications Are Broken Off With Bulgaria: Government Believed to Have Fallen

Southwest Missouri Methodists Open _ Annual Conference at Joplin Church

R. L. ANDREWS COMING AS EVANGELIST WITH CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THIS COUNTY

Spain's Shipments of Supplies to Germany Not Curtailed Enough in Oninion of President Roosevelt

SPAIN DEALING — WITH GERMANY   President Says Franco Has Not Materially Reduced Volume Of Supplies

ROY BASKIN FOR DISTRICT JUDGE   WELL KNOWN ATTORNEY OF CAMERON ENTERS RACE FOR PLACE ON MILAM BENCH

DEWEY DRAFTS PEACE POLICY         NON-PARTISAN CONFER-ENCES: UNDERWAY— _ WILLESE MEETING  TODAY

ESSENTIAL MEN NOT AFFECTED   TIGHTER DRAFT RULE NEED NOT RESULT IN GREAT UNGERTAINTY

Saginaw Mother, Daughte Murdered; Son Is Huntec   Father Finds Bodies Hidden Under Burlap Bags In Woodshed When He Returns From Work; - Youth Last Seen At Noon Monday

MOTHER AND GIRL SLAIN   Bodies Found In Shed; Hunt 16-Year-Old ©  Son

MOTHER, DAUGHTER SLAIN, SEEK SOK   Boy Leaves Home Monday ‘to Hunt;’ Bodies of Parent, Sister Found in Woodshed

Drop in Pig Production   Fall Crop Totals 31,325,000 Head, U. S. Denartment Reports

Hurricane No Longer Threat To Virginia, Carolina Coast   Storm Which Caused Warnings To Be Raised Apparently Heads To Sea

NAZIS SMASHED AT NIKOPOL BY CHARGING REDS   75-Mile Bridgehead on Dnieper River is Eliminated

Nikopol Falls To Red Drive   Seven Nazi Divisions Defeated In Battles

Reds Take Big Manganese City   Vital War Materia  Source Recaptured _ By TOM YARBROUGH

Seven Nazi Divisions Defeated in Fierce Four-Day Battle for Big Manganese Center.   NEARBY BRIDGEHEAD CLEARED-OF ENEMY   Russians Capture 7,000 Prisoners and Much Booty— Drive Foe From 40 Other Towns.

GERMAN HOLD IN MANGANESE MINES BROKE}   SOVIETS SLAUGHTER TROOPS TRYING TO ESCAPE

COUNTY BOARD RELEASES LIST OF INDUCTEES   Also Includes Men Called for Their Physical Examinations

HARDIN MEN IN OCTOBER CALL   Sent to Fort Snelling for Induction, Examination

British Open New Offensive  Toward -Reich   Three American Columns  Converge on Doomed Bantenca nf VUric

Fight Two Miles From Fortress; Netherlands Push Gains as Pateh Renews Southern Assault

Walker Retires As Party Chiet   Democrats Name Hannecan Chairman

Walker Resigns As Chairman Of  Democratic Party   Robert E. Hannegan Is Unop - posed Choice To Succeed To Party Leadership

Allies Take Town Of Nettuno; Rome In Artillery Range   Effective Enemy Opposition to Landings Has Not Developed; Supplies and More Men Landed

Reds Drive Nazis From Iasi Height   Russians Turn Back Attacks in Poland

15 Delegates Are Pledged To Dewey  N. Y. Governor May Get Three More   Support For Dewey

Feverish Activity in War Department.  _ Offices This Mors   Key Offices Fully Manned When Invasion Operation Begins

WAR DEPT. STAFF IS HARD AT WORK  FZVERISH ACTIVITY _ IN NATION’S CAPITAL

Few British Casualties In Athens   Casualties Since War Started Heavy

CHINESE DRIVE ON SURROUNDED CITY   Attack Tengchung After American Bombing

Chinese Attack Tengchung Wall   American Bombers Set  Jap Strongholds Afire

CHINESE TROOPS BEGIN ASSAULT ON JAP TENGCHUNG   Drive Is Begun To Open Vital Burma’ Road; 2,000 Japs Trapped.

CURRAN IS PICKED FOR SENATE RACE   Manhattan GOP Leoder to Oppose Senator   . Wagner.

CURRAN IS PICKED FOR SENATE RACE      Manhettan GOP Leader to Oppose Senator . ~Waaner .

SCHOOL BOARD PLANS BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR      Millage To Be Set At Adjourned Meeting Scheduled For May 29

LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD HOLDS RESULAR MEET      Routine Followed; Resignation Of One Teacher Is Accepted

Laws to Crush Sth Column Urged By Dies Unit: Stress Jap Activity

Axis Began U. S. Invasion 10 Years Before Pearl Harbor, Dies Reports   House Committee Recommends Laws I. Stop ‘Foreign Penetration’ of Nation

\Dies Committee Asks Legislation To Prevent ‘Future Entrance To U. S. By Harmful Aliens

AXIS INVASION PLANS BARED   Dies Group Claims Enemy Be. gan ‘Moving in’ Decade Before Dec. 7, 41

Air Raids Smash At Krupp Works   Survey Shows Every Big Building Hit

War May Continue  In 1945   Official States Five Million Men Will be Overseas By End of Year

United States to Have 5,000,000 Fighting Men Overseas By End of '44

AMERICANS SMASH 3 COUNTER-BLOWS IN NORTHERN ITALY   Germans Suffer Heavy Casualties in Unsuccessful Attempt to Stop Advance on Bologna.   BRITISH TROOPS SLUG WAY ACROSS RUBICON   Second Force Pushes Through Heavy Barrage to Capture Bordonchic, 6 Miles Bevond Rimini.

BRITISH FORCES CROSS RUBICON   Yank Fifth Army Chops Up Gen. Kesselring’s Counterattacks

Heavy German  Counter-Attacks  Futile im Italy   Smashed -by Ameri icans  While ‘British pone

Nazi Blows Fail To Halt Italy Push   Fifth and Eighth  Armies Advance

YANKS SMASH THREE GERMAN COUNTERBLOWS   Action Takes Place 21 Miles From Bologna

Fifth Army Troops _ Advance In Italy   “Three German. Counter-Attacks Smashed as Forces Move on Bologna—British Troops: ‘Cross the Rubicon

YANKS REPEL NAZIS IN ITALY   Foe Counterattacks Near Bologna Fail; British Cross Rubicon

‘Fountain Grove  Boy Has Been Cited   Thomas A. Price and Five Other Men Were Members of Tank Crew.

Leaders Plan Big Campaign   “We Are Going the Limit,"” GOP Chairman  Taylor Declares

Party Leaders To Move Quickly For Battle That  Comes In November

State Parties Plan-For Nov.  “Begin Organizing For Fal] Election

HOUSE SE VOTES...  AN INCREASE   BILL TO BOOST THE GFFICE ALLOWANCE $3,000 A YEAR SENT TO SENATE

Says Philippines Can Be Freed at  Small U.S. Cost   Advocates ‘Brilliant’ MacArthur Strategy of Combatting Enemy

Says Philippines Can Be Freed at  Small U. S. Cost  Advocates ‘Brilliant’ Mac  Advocates ‘Brilliant’ MacArthur Strategy of Combatting Enemy

Small Losses By MacArthur Strategy Philippines May Be Liberated At   Philippines May Be Liberated At Low Life Coast

Order Nelson Back To China   Roosevelt Tells Nelson To Return At Earliest Date To Organize Board.

Nelson To Set Up China WPE  F. R. Directs Him To Return To Orient

NELSON TO CHINA   Will Organize a Chinese War Profluction ‘Board

Chiang Asks U. S. Chief  Assume Task   Will Leave at Earliest Possible Daie to Organize Chinese Industry

President Orders  Nelson fo China To Organize Chines   To Organize Chinese War Production Board, Aid Chiana

Nelson Ordered Back to China   Will Attempt to Speed Up China’s War Industrias

Americans Close on Carigara   MacArthur Forces Baile in Sireets Of Leyte Center

DONALD NELSON TO CHINA SOON   President Orders Former WPB Boss To Organize Production Board There

Nelson Back To China _—      FDR Says Former WPB Chief Will Aid Chiang to Increase War Industry Output

Hitler, in Exclusive Interview, Says Reds Trying to Put Finns in Noose

Hitler Denies Peace Move   Swedish Reporter Quotes Fuehrer in Interview by Phone

\Fuehrer Says Report He  Had Sought Terms  Through Sweden hing  ; “Absolutely False”

Hitler Denies  (Move for Peace   Soys Germany Has Not Approached King Of Sweden in Effort

SAYS HITLER DENIED GERMAN PEACE MOVE   Stockholm Paper Reports Fuehrer Branded as False Story Mediator Was Sought.

 100, 000 Prisoners of . War In U.S. Available For Labor On Farms.

De Gaullists To Rule Free  French Areas   President Gives Leader Authority For Civil Administration

De Gaulle Wins U. 5. Support for Committee   Group to Act as Civil Governing Body, FDR Says   Agreements Redrafated

U.S. Part Way on De Gaulle Issue   Accepts Committee As Authority for ‘Civil Administration In Liberated Een...

Accept De Gaulle For Civil Control   Not Recognized as Provisional Government  Of France

F. D. R. Accepts DeGaulle Group   To Grant It Power For Civil Authority n Liberated France

De Gaulle Okd by F.R.   General's Committee Accepted as Authority For Liberated France

U. 5. Recognize De Gaulle As De Facto Gov't   Precident Makee   ‘President Makes ‘Announcement Afte: ‘Washington Talks.

FDR Accepts French Group   DeGaulle’s Committee To Have Civil Authority, Not Recognition as Government

U.S. ACCEPTS DE GAULLE COMMITTEE   To Have Working Authority For Civil Administration

1G GAULLE —  F. D. R. Gives Approval ITo De Gaulle’s Group   President Announces He Is Accepting French National Committee As Authority Fer Civil Administration Of Liberated France

De Gaulle Committee To Administer Civil Affairs Of Free France With U.S. Approval

French National Regime Headed By Gen. De Gaulle ls Accepted By Roosevelt

De Gaulle Leaves For Canada After New York Acclaim   Half Million Cheer: ~ French Leader On Fifth Avenue

U:S. Recognizes De Gaulle’s Party As Civil Authority   French Leader Will Control Liberated Areas. FDR Save

De Gaulle Given U. §. Backing  Granted Civil Rights in Liberated Zones

FDR Accepts  French Group   Under Direction Of De (raulle, Committee Will Have Administration.

Accept French Group Headed  By DeGaulle   Considered as ‘DeFacto’ Body  By President

FDR Accepts De Gaulle As French Ruler   New Attitude Result Of Conferences  Last Week

Accept French Committee As Official Body   President Announces U. S. Will Give Approval to De Gaulle’s Leadership.

U. S. Accepts De Gaulle as Civil Leader   President Announcer New Attitude Toward France

DEGAULLE WINS OUT   His Committee Accepted’ for Civil Administration of France

F.R. Accepts De Gaulle Committee As Authority in Liberated France

FDR Says De Gaulle To Have Civil  Control in France  U. S. Not Recognizing Committee as Political Government

FDR TAKES NEW STAND TOWARD _ GEN. DEGAULLE   Will Accept His Committee as Authority for ‘Civil Administration

DE GAULLE GIVEN CIVIL AUTHORITY   EISENHOWER TO HEAD COMMITTEE, F. R. SAYS

De Gaulle Winsa Point   FDR Says He Will Recognize French Committee as “De Facto” Gov’t of Freed France

Recognizes DeGaulle As French Civil Authority   National Committee Will Administer Liberated Areas When Eisenhower Gives Word

Roosevelt Will Accept French National Group   ‘De Facto Authority’ To Be Given To De Gaulle

US. Accepts ‘Civil Power “By DeGaulle   But Committee Is Not! Recognized as Provisionui al Government

De Gaulle To Be Civil Chief  In Free France   But Committee Not To Be i Provi-——_—. sional Regime.

Fear 160 Dead      Secure Bridgehead In New Offensive After La Haye Encircled

Yankees Storm Across River   Good Progress Reported in New Campaign Today

St. Lo is Site of Third Offensive To Be Launched by Americans in Five Days

BRIDGEHEAD ON WEST BANK IS BEING WIDENED   First Army Elements Also Fighting Way Back Into La Haye

BRIDGEHEAD ON WEST BANK OF VIRE OBTAINED   American Forces Fight Way Back Into La Have Again

8,000 Surrounded Germans Killed Beyond _ Kirovograd  EFFORT CONTINUES TO -TRAP.- GERMANS.  Troops Within 21 Miles of   Troops Within 21 Miles of  Warsaw - Odessa Rail Line

8,000 Surrounded Germans Killed Beyond _ Kirovograd  EFFORT CONTINUES ~~ TQO-TRAP--GERMANS Troops Within 21 Miles of  Warsaw - Odessa Rail Line

Nazi Supply Lines Bombed By Allies   Italian Front Ground Fighting Stalemated.

ALLIES POUND NAZI RAIL LINES   ARTILLERIES IN DUEL AT ANZIO BEACHHEAD

Artillery Busy in Italy Stalemate   . 568,000 Rounds  BRired in 2 Daves

Ground Fighting Stalemated on Italian Front   Allied Bombers Hit At German Rail Supply Lines

ITALIAN LAND FRONT STILL STALEMATED BUT FLIERS ACTIVE   German Railroad Supply Lines Blasted By Our Airmen

Na azis azis Probe Anzio Lines -As Guns Duel   Ground - -Fighting Stalemate Broken Only by Patrol Actions

Bombers Hit Nazi Supply Lines in Italy   Stalemate in Ground. Fighting Continues

Ttaly’s Front Continues  In Stalemate   Allied Planes Continne To Strike At Ret] Lines

STALEMATE CONTINUES IN ITALY   Allied Bombers Raid Nazi Rail Supply Lines

Allies Rip Italian Rails   Hit German Supply Lines to the French Riviera

DEWEY SHIFTS HIS ATTACK 10 WORLD AFFAIRS   Demands Public Discussion of Fate of Poland

DEWEY SWITCHES LINE OF ATTACK   Carnpaign Discusses International Issues 4in Stretch Drive -

HIS ATTACK TO WORLD AFFAIRS   Demands Public Discussion of Fate of Poland

DEWEY: URLS. ~NEW. CHARGES   PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DE: CLARES FOREIGN AFFAIRS  BHROUDED.IN “DIM tL -eren eee

Store Personnel ‘Joins Bond Army Here On Nov. 2¢   Big Assembly Of Merchants : And Clerks~Planned At Fitchburg Theater

George Gallup Heads Merchant Bond Sale Drive   Each Store Employe Will Be Asked To Self $300 Worth Gf “E’s” In Drive

AKE MORE MINES   President Authorizes Sezzure of Workings in Pennsylvania =

70 MINES ARE LISTED BY WLB LETTER   Given Authority Over Mines Where Strikes Threatened

Penicillin To Be Placed In 1000 Hospitals   Ample Supply Will Now Be Available For Civ. ilian Needs

‘Pin Money’ to Aid in Sixth War  Loan, Says Larimer   May Be Counted On Next Drive  In Lucas County.

Officials Endorse ‘Pin Money’ Plan  Will Aid C County In 6th War Loan.

U.S. Railroads Go Back to  Private Owners Steel Workers Bring New  Labor Crisis

Railroads Back In Private Hands As Dispute Ends   Another Labor Crisis Faced: Steel Workers Seek To Break Formula

RAILROADS ARE GIVEN BACK T0 PRIVATE OWNERS      New Crisis Arises In Steel Cam paign To Break Wage Formula

RAIL CRISIS OVER WAGES {S SETTLEL   AGREEMENT ON PAY SCHED. ULE FOLLOWED BY RETURN OF RAILROADS TO PRIVATE HANDS

Railroads Are Returned to Private Owners   End Wage Dispute Steel Crisis Is Now Looming

We 88 Wa AH! SVGUS £UPRCG Back; Steel Crisis Looms   Stimson Ends-Control of Roads by Army at Midnight

Railroads Are Turned Back fo Owners; ‘Steel Workers Provide New Crisis, ‘Drive Against Little Stee! Formula

Rails Return To Owners As Non-Op Pay Ease Is Solved; WLB Gets New Steel Issue

However Steel Workers Wage Crisis Has  Developed   Non-Operating Rail Men to Get 9% to 11 Cents An Hour Raise

U.S, RAILROADS ~-BAGK IN HANDS OF THEIR OWNERS   New Stee! Workers’ Demand Now Confronts War Labor Board.

RAILROAD DISPUTE 1s ADJUSTED   Roads Back in Private Hands After Agreement

Railroads Given Back to Owners   Dispute Settled; Steel Union Next

ENDS LONGEST WACE DISPUTE FOR CARRIERS   Administration’s Little Steel Formula Left Intact

Drop Rail Reins as Battle Ends   UNITED STEEL WORKERS BEGIN CAMPAIGN TO BREAK LITTLE STEEL WAGE FORMULA; ASK LABOR SECRETARY PERKINS ACTION

RAILROADS BACK TO OWNERS; WAGE PACT IS SIGNED   Army Releases, Control On F. R. Order— Tinianse Got Now Seralo

HURLEY OFFERS PLAN FOR CHINA   Reports to President Two Factions Must Reach Settlement

PUSH THREATENS SUPPLY LINES TO CHINA, STILWELL   Great Losses To Sino-U. S. Troops Forces Jap Action

Major Battle Developing In  Burma Sector   Nipponese Cross Chindwin River In Force Along the Chin Hill  Frontier   Attempting To Cut ‘Off Allies’ Supply   Japs Advancing Through Jungles In Two Main Directions Toward Brit ish Base Of Imphal

Japs Strike Back In First Major Drive Upon India   Aim To Outflank Forces Of Stilwell In Burma

Great Burma  Battle On Way   Japs Cross Chindwin River In Attempt To Reach Allied Supply Line.

Japs Hit Back Against India   Start Drive on Imphal After Loss of Hukawng Valley; Stilwell Praised

Japs Cross The River In Force      Nips Apparently Trying To Reach Allied Supply Line   STUNG BY LOSS OF HUKAWNG VALLEY

Japanese Begin Drive On India; 4,000: Nips Die in Hukawng Valley

MAJOR BATTLE NEAR IN BURMA   Japs Attempting to Break Through Jungle to Make Up for Losses

Big Battle Developing In Burma As Japs Advance   Stung By Less Of Hukawng Valley, Enemy Attempts To Reach Stilwell Line

MAJOR DRIVE ON INDIA IS NOW UNDERWAY   Japanese Stage Major Offense Against U. S.

Japs Try to Cut Allied Line   Drive on Stilwell’s Forces and Battle Develops in Burma

Great Battle Is Developing Along India’s Frontier   Japs Launch 2-Way Assault and Cross  The Chindwin River At Several Points

Move To Outflank Allies   Apparently Aimed At Supply Base For China.

Japs Retaliate In Burma, Open Drive On India   Nips Move Across Chindwin River At Several] Points

Enemy Massed Mong Chin Hills --On India Border   ‘Biggest I Engagement! Since. _Alllies Were Driven’ Out:

Battle Develops On. Burma Front   Japanese Attempt Jungle Drive To Cut Off Supplies for Allies

AMPS STRIKING. BACK IN INDIA   First Major Drive Since Stilwell’s Victorious Burma Campaign.   OUTFLANKED BY ALLIES

JAPS ATTACKING STRONGLY ALONG FRONT IN BURMA   Stung by Recent Defeats And 4000 Casualties  They Launch Strong Attacks

Burma Battle Shaping Up As Largest Yet   Japanese Cross The Chindwin River In Major Offensive

OPEN MAJOR JAP DRIVE ON INDIA   Japanese, Stung By Loss Of Hukawng Valley And 4,000 Casualties, Strike Back In Force.

Allies Launch Major New Burma Fight   Japanese Attempt More Breaks After Heavy Loss

BIG BATTLE SEEN ON BURMA FRONT   Jap Drive In Two Directions Along Frontier Of India

Major Burma Battle Looms   Japs Seek to Wipe Out Allied Gains; Admiralties Taken

Japs Striking Back in Major Drive on India   Campaign Apparently Di rected Against Capital Of Manipur   4,000 DIE IN HUKAWNG

Biggest Battle in Jungles of Burma is Believed Developing   Japs Attempt to Reach Line Which Supplies  Stilwell’s Forces

MAJOR BATTLE IS DEVELOPING   Japs Try to Reach Allied Supply Line

ENEMY STARTS DRIVE IN INDIA   Japs Launch Major Attack, Cross Chindwin River

Japanese Advancing In Major Offensive In Burma Aimed At Capital City In Indian State   Enemy Drives Across Shindwin River; Allied Beachhead Behind Lines Expands

Major Burma Clash Looms; Japs Advance   4,000 Nip Casualties In Hukawng Valley; Fox Goes Across Chindwir River In Force

Japanese Strike  In Burma   Big Battle in Making On Chin Hills Front; Conquest of Admiralty Islands Now Complete

PEARL HARBOR ACTION TAKEN   ANOTHER SIX MONTHS EXTEN. SION FOR TRIALS VOTED DESPITE ARMY AND NAVY ANOUNCEMENT

House Ways and Means Committee Approves Plan for Simplification of Federal Tax Statutes

Simplified Income Tax Plan Adopter   Larger Withholdings, No Returns for Many, Featureof Program —

House Committee Approves Tax Simplification   Bill To Be Introduced For Passage By June On Monday

y For Conse ess   fouse “Gommntittce _ AD. proves ‘Draft ifor Withholding Total ‘Sum Due   IDS 30M TLLIONS

Simplified Tax Plan Approved By Committee   Decimal Jitters Approaching End

House UnitOkeh: Tax to End Return Figuring   Plan Eliminates Victory Item, Cuts Normal Rate to Three Per Cent, Computes Levy for 30,000,000.

Simplified Tax Plan Approved   Withholding May  Disnlace Returns

House Group Approves Bill Which Provides Full Deductions For Incomes Up To $5,000

Farmers May Soon Be Able To Bey Jeep, Trucks, Tractor   AAA Committees To Control Sales Surplus War Material

WITHHOLDING LEVY REVISED IN NEW PLAN   Uarger Cut in Salary Provided in Most Cases Under Act

Simpler Income Tax Is Approved   House Committee Would Relieve 30 Millions of Figuring Their Returns.

SIMPLIFIED TAX BILL APPROVED   Return On Income Levy To Be Eliminated For 30,000,000 Persons

Simplified Tax _ Plan Approved  Millions To Be Relieved Of Figuring Returns

\: “AS owe! £ yD eu uv - vine bE om Wo tee  { ‘ = at i , oe ; Neat Ss. an «~ wwe  q.  “0 Relieve 3 A. IL Whose  _

"HOUSE TO SCAN NEW TAX BILL   ‘Filing of Income Tax Returns Would Not Be Required Under Act

House Group Approves New Tax Program   Plan Would Start Next January 1; 30,000,000 Relieved of Tax Report

Withholding ‘System ‘Modified ba Take: Out: Full. Liabil ities for Wages Up. te $5,000.   RELIEVES 30 MILLION © ‘OF FILING RETURNS   Measure Abolishes Victory Levy and Makes Changes in Normal and ‘Surtax “Exemption Rates.

NEW TAX BILL WILL SIMPLIFY TAX RETURNS   House Ways and Means Committee Putting Fin. ishing Touches on New Measure

SIMPLIFIED TAX BILL APPROVED   Measure Would Eliminate Filing For 30 Million

New Simolified Wage Tax Bill Clears Hurdle   Passage Would End » Computation of Income Tax Return

Simplified Tax Bill Passed By House Committee Removes  Filing Of Form By Millions

SIMPLER TAX PLAN DRAFTED   House Committee Approves Proposal to Eliminate Returns by Millions

SIMPLIFIED TAX PLAN OUTLINED   House Seeks To Relieve Some 30,000,000 OF Income Returns

STREAMLINE TAX BILL WILL 60 10 HOUSE MONDAY   Committee Gives Go Ahead Sign to Simplified Measure

Would Relieve 30.000,000 of Nation’s 50,000,000 Taxpayers From Figuring Income Returns

House Grou Approves Painless Tax  Bill Would Free 30 Millions  Team Retires

House Approves Plan To Simplify  Income Tax Laws Relieve 30,000,000   Relieve 30,000,000 Of Taxpayers From Figuring Tax Returns

Simplified Tax Plan Approved by  ouse Committee  Would Relieve 30 , Million of Computing

MPLIFIED TAX LAN ENDS: FILING ON-UNDER $5000   USE GROUP APPROVES BILL, ENDS FILINGS  FOR 30 MILLIONS   } Mean Saving of. Time and a Great Deal of Worry: for Many Peopie.

FINISHING TOUCHES PUT ON BILL 0 FREE MANY FROM RETURNS  NEW WITHHOLDING

House Committee Approves Tax Simplification Program      Measure to Relieve Millions of Necessity of Comput, Ing Income Tox Returns Adopted—System to be Revised in January

Bill Drawn To Thin Out Tax Returns   Would Make It Unnecessary For 30,000,000 Taxpayers To Make Annual Return

House Okehs New Tax Bill   Makes It Unnecessary For 30,000,000 to Submit Returns

Legislation Designed te Simplify Income Tax Is Approved ByCommittee

Committeeapproves tax simplification   Nearly 30,600,000 taxpayers would he relieved of filins income forms

Legislation Designed to Simplify Federal Income Tax Laws.   AFFECTS 30 MILLION

Tax Proposals Offer Simpler  Income Forms   House Comniittee Ontline Makes Little Change  T.. A... TR

New Income Tax Plan Simplified   House Ways and Means Committee Approves Bill Here’s How It Works.

House Committee Approves Tax Sim plificatio n Bill   Measure, If Enacted, Would Make It Unnecessary For 30,000,000 Of The 50,000,000 Individual Taxpavers Ever To File Another Return

Nazi Army Takes To Flight under Fire of Allies   According fo Plan, Germany Declares

‘Allies Battle To Outposts Of Hitler Line   British, Indian Treops Capture Pignaiaro, French Near Esperia

Allied Troops Move Into Liri Valley   German Retreat Follows Heavy Bombing

DESTROYER AND CRUISER AMONG ENEMY LOSSES   Luzon Attack Also Nets 72 Nipponese Planes, Admiral Nimitz Reports

Heavy Cruiser and Destroyer Among Vessels it   29 JAP AIRPLANES ALSO SHOT DOWN   Fifth Raid of the Month Made on Island of  Luzon

Planes Sink Jap Cruiser, Destrover   14 Other Jap Vessels And 72 Planes Downed  In Navy Raid on Luzon  JAP TRUCKS STRAFED

Number Of Other Vessels Damaged And 72 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down   NIP RESISTANCE ON LEYTE DECREASING

72 Warplanes Blasted by Yankee Flver:   Attack Is the Fifth Made This Month on Island of Luzon

FATEFUL FORTNIGHT FOR ALLIES FINDS INVASION SITUATION MUCH IRETTER THAN WAS ANTICIPATED)

THE WAR TODAY   By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. « Cahhinge far DeWitt Mackenzie)

L. S. Protests Killing of LL5 Prisoners   First Atrocity to Americans Proved Acainst Germans

Jap Rabbits Hunted: by —  GuamYanks   By John R. Henry Representing the Combined Allled Press

PULVERIZING ATTACK ON CASSINO PROVES BOMBING AND ARTILLERY ALONE CANNOT DEFEAT GERMANS

The War Today   Destruction of Cassino Proves Rombers Alone Won't Win War

WAR TODAY   Tough Fighting Seen  2-3 fe ere sda GCIGTE Aiics  Abe  Smash Through Remaining Nazi Defoenses At Cassino.

BENEFICIAL RESULTS BLASTING OF CASSINO NOT IMMEDIATELY DISCERNABLE TO WAR’S LAYMEN

Ninety Billions For War; Slash Seen If Nazis Yield Earlier   $10.5 Billions in New Tax Levies Asked in Annual Message   Budget in Nutshell  Rw ASSOWTATEN frp ree

$90,000,000,000 Earmarked For War Activities   Budaet In A Nutshell]

Nine-Tenth To Be Spent ForFighting   income Estimated At $40 Billion; Debt To Mount   BUDGET IN A NUTSHELL

Sudden European Peace Considered   FDR Urges “Truly Stiff Fiscal Program”; Period Of Aggressive Offensive At Hand

VICTORY IN ONE THEATER HELD POSSIBLE THIS YEAR   Plans Must Be Made, However, For Total War For  Next 18 Months, Roosevelt States; Demands At Least 10 Billions In New Taxes   The Rudget In A Nutshell

FDR ESTIMATES  90 BILLION FOR  THE WAR ALONE DEMANDS AT LEAST  $10,500,000 MORE IN NEW U. S. TAXES   THE BUDGET IN A NUTSHELL

Here’s F. R. Budget Plan in Nutshell   ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE REVENUE FOR COMING FISCAL YEAR LISTED

Record Budget Is  Sent To Congress   Totals 100 Billion Dollars; President Bases His  Estimates On 18 Months More Of War In   Europe But Hints Victory May Come Soon   Budaet In A Nutshell]

POSSIBILITY OF EARLIER PEACE IS CONCEDED   100 Billion Dollars Asked For Fiscal Year: 90 Billions For War   BUDCET IN BRIEF

Second 100 Billions Is  Requesied   New Budget-Includes 90 Bil lions for War. in ‘Cruciak Vear’ -Ahead:   HOPES OF AN EARLY . VICTORY CONSIDERED   But President. Outlines. Safe Course: and. °:Provides for Any Sudden Developments.

PRESIDENT OUTLINES BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1: SAME AS LAST YEAR   Estimates $40,769,000,000 Revenue For Same Period; $258,000,900,000 Debt Expected At End Of Fiscal Yea

90 Billions For War Expenses   President Bases His: Estimate of Needs On Eighteen More Months of Hostilities

Forts Batter Turin Works   Flames Are Spreading Through Vital Plant

TURIN POUNDED BY FORTRESSES   Land Armies Locked In Hard Fighting

Democrats Dominate California   Four Republican Congressmen Trai In Late Returns

F.D.R. Lead in State Much Less Than in 1940   Wins by 350,000; Downey Winner by 100,000

Nazis Say Yanks Attacking Vienna  REA Representative Fasting In Protest

Senator Truman Probable Choice For Second Place   Missouri Senator Said To Have Roosevelt Approval For Vice President   WALLACE DROPPED BYRNES BLITZED   Barkley Possibility If He Can Stampede Delegates With Nominating Speech

SEN. TRUMAN FAVORED FOR SECOND POST   President to Get His 4th Nomination Over Token Opposition

‘ ‘ a IBYRD AGREES TO OPPOSE  ROOSEVELT FOR PROTEST  VOTE—"KEY NOTE": i. SPEECH TONIGHT

Truman Likely Running Mate   Barkeley Still A Possibility For Second Place

Democratic National Convention Opens To Nominate Roosevelt For Fourth Term

Plan Collection  Of Waste Paper  In The County Worth While Driv.   Worth While Drive To Honor Names °  ‘On Roll Board

Plan Collection Of Waste Paper In The County  ‘Worth While Drive To Honor Names   ‘On Roll Board

AT REQUEST OF COLLEAGUE WAR ANALYST MACKENZIE ATTEMPTS 'TO READ HITLER’S TWISTED MIND

Hitler Hangs on For One ReasonSelf-Preservation   AP Science Editor Asks Why Fuehrer Fights Lost Cause

WAR ‘ODAY   1 Not Fighting  Sake of Germany  t Is Responding to  rimary Hyman  otion — Self-Presvation

The War Teday— : Self- Preservation Is Hitler’s Only Reason For. Continuing Fight

Letter Writers Offered Cash Awards By Times    Bitler Frustrated Murderer Seeking a Reprieve

CONTINUE 2-HOUR AIR OFFENSIVE   ‘Last Night’s Raids on Europe  On Smaller Scale

RAF Makes Raids On Objectives In Reich   Targets Not Identified — Night Raiders Drop Bombs Near London

Bomb Route Stirs Reich   Shuttling May Cause Shifts in Luftwaffe

Pvt. Paul Connor Of E. Smethport Dies of Wounds   Died in Action in France on August 2, War Dept. States

REPORT DEATH OF VALLEY MAN FROM WOUNDS   Staff Sergeant Andrew Robich Killed In Action In Italy

@ FROM KISSES TO DEATH  Streets of Marseille Run Deep With Blood of Nazis, French

Churchill Confer: With Pope Pius   Pope Recognizes Justice Of Punishing War Criminals.

Second Lieutenant  Barnes Is Killed  Member Well Known Marcus Family

Well-Known Flier, Son of Mrs. John Power, Received Many Awards for Long Service on India-China Transport Run

Soviets Smash. AtNaziPocket In Baltic Ares   Southern Front Gain Made As Russians Hint Drive Doeten dl nt FEF. Preneain -

NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVEIS MAKING GAINS   Holes Ripped In Germar Lines In Czechoslovakia  And Hungary

Berlin. Reports New Russian Blow In Czechoslovakia, Moscow Silent

REDS TEAR HOLES IN GERMAN LINES   Offensive in Czechoslavia and Hungary Grows   TOWNS CAPTURED    Russians Rip for Third Day Into Germans Pocketed In Southwest Latvia

Red Offensive Tears Holes in German Defenses   Russians Capture Five More Towns

RUSSIANS RIP GERMAN LINES   Berlin Reports New Red At. tacks in Czechoslovakia, Northeast Hungary

Nazis Tell Of Gains by Red Forces   Report German Line: In’ Czechoslovakia, Hungary Breached  By Russians

REDS HANG UP NEW GAINS IN SOUTH LATVIE   BALTIC ISLAND OF SAARE CLEARED OF ENEMY

REDS LAUNGH NEW DRIVE IN HUNGARY    RUSSIANS IN LATVIA ATTACK POCKETED GERMANS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT DAY.

Battle of Aachen Near End   Big Nazi Counterblow Squelched; Garrison Reduced to 600 Men

Plant Armor Along North, South Line East of City as Sieafried Substitute

Nazis To Abandon Attempts To Relieve City As Doughboys Advance  AMERICAN PLANES AID LAND ARMIES  Heavy Bombers Dealt Heaviest Blow Of War At Cologne

RESISTANCE BY NAZIS IS STAMPED OUI   Battle for Completely Isolated Enemy Bastion Drawing Toward Close.   BULLETIN

Germans Appear Ready To Give Up Aachen As Yanks Blast Resisters   British Gain 3 Miles In Holland’s Meuse Valley; Nazis Counter Attack In Vosges Hills

Believe Nazis Have Decided to Abandon Aachen   Yanks Blast Out Nests of Dwindling Resistance

“ENEMY IS SQUELCHED   Yank Heavy Artillery Hammers Germans >» At Close Range

American Siege Line Holds Firm   More Than 1,300 U. 8. Botti ers in a Record Raid on Rhineland City ,

Big U. S. Guns Routing Out Last Defenders   Historic Battle for First German Bastion Near End

Yanks Blast Out Resistance Nests  With Big Cannon   Main Highway Near Venray Cut By Second British Army Forces

Nazis GiveUp Idea Of  Saving City      ABANDON ATTEMPTS TO RELIEVE GARRISON, WHICH. IS REDUCED TO 600 MEN

British Second Army Forces Hit   Southward Nearly Three Miles In Meuse Valley Of Eastern Holland   PLANES GIVE MUCH SUPPORT TO ARMIES

Doomed City Left To Fate   Germans Prepare To Defend Plains Betore Cologne

‘SAVE ARMOR TO DEFEND PLAIN EAST OF CITY   As Substitute Siegfried Line

UrrEOlVe MOPO UP JAPS NY BURMA   Monsoons May Delay Large Scale Actiin for Several Months

Monsoons May Delay Large Attack Until Autumn Mountbatten Indicates  a. VINCENT PD ATIVA

Heavy Nazi Armor Attacks Succeed At Two Points   Say Danish Prince Died of Heart Attack

NO (GUE BETWEEN WILLKIE, STASSEN   Willkie Says Stassen Is One Of Coming Young Men Of GOP.

ALLIED TANK SPEARHEAD IS ALREADY HALF WAY AGROSS THE PENINSULA   Germans May Soon Be Forced to Withdrav From Port, Which Is Needed by Allies For Landing Heavy Equipment

Reinforcements Pour in As Allies Smash Deeper Inland: Resistance Stiffens

Allied Troops Move Half Way Across Cherbourg Peninsula In Effort To Capture Great Port.

Air Offensive Has Fallen Off Sharply Because Of The Continued Bad Weather; Canadians Have Captured Twelve Towns

BALKANS READY TO OPEN ATTACK WITH INVASION   Desperate Germans Battle Savagely To Slow Drive Of Allies in Italy

Allies Score Advances all Along Fronts   German Resistance Re«~ ported ‘Deteriorating Minute-By-Minute’

DOUGHBOYS CRACKED VALMONTONE LINE IN SEVERE FIGHTING  ALLIES ADVANCED ALL ALONG MEANDERING _ FRONT TOWARD CAPITAL

Americans Crack Valmonfone Line to Come Within Sight of Rome, 15 Miles Away   British and French Also Make Advances Against Rapidly Detericrating Forces of Kesselring; Balkan Countries Stirred

ADVANCE OF 1 MILES BY THE ALLIES   Position of Nazis Deteriorating by Minute as They Fight Desperately to Save Armies.

Yankees Smash Nazi Line, Get Sight Of Rome   Fall Of Holy City Now Seems Matter Of Days

General Advance ls Scored Along 100-Mile Front   Capture of Eternal City Is Probably Matter of Days

Allies Crack Valmontone Defense Line   Nazi Position Grows Steadily Worse As Allied Armies Advance Along Entire Front

Tr ‘oops Fight Within F a Miles of Rome   Frosinone, Sora. Carpineto Fall to Allies By-Passing Ruined Velletri

Engineer ‘s Were Hotel Men For  Liberating Troops   I] Fannin County : Boys Helped  tama ee f mene

Culiman Boy One of. Engineers Acting as “Hotel-Men” To Liber ating Troops

local Soldier ‘Hotel Man” for Invaders   Corporal Felix Lamparella In New Role With Army Engineer Force

Buy a Bond, See ‘My Friend Flicka’   Llite Theatre Offers l*ree Show; Also Has Special Children’s Matinee

Dewey Flays FDR in ‘Sale’  ‘Of Privileges   - Traces $1,000 Club Idea to White House In Chicago Address

Dewey Wanis Honesiy in Washington  Charges FDR With  Selling Privileacc

Dewey SaysA dministration Selling Special Privileges   Presidential Candidate Charges Backers Of Fourth Term To Help Shape Policies Of National  Administration, Quotes Letter

“Special Privilege” Offered For Sale, Dewey Charge:   * OO Governor, in Vigorously- Worded New Deal Indict. ment, Quotes From Letter Offering Special Privileges to Roosevelt Contributors

Dewey Brings Campaign Back To Home Front   After Disposing of Foreign ‘Issues. GOP Candidate Charges FDR Offers Special Privileges.

Roosevelt Administration Offers Special Privilege For Sale, Dewey Declares   Republican Nominee, Given Enthusiastic Ac claim in Chicago, Hits New Deal's Fund Solicitation; Assails City Bosses

New York Governor in Chicago Speech Quotes From Letter, Purportedly From Democratic National Headquarters, Inviting Recipient to Join “One Thousand Club”

Dewey Char rges New Deal Sells ‘Privileges’   Quotes Campaign Letter Soliciting Members for ‘One Thousand Club’

Packing Of Federal Courts Assailed By Dewey Before Cheering Throng In Chicago      GOP Candidate Says Roosevelt Lent His Name To A Plan To Sell “Special Privilege” At $1,000 A Head To Finance Fourth Term Campaign

$1,009 Donors Would ‘Act As Liaison Between Public, Administration.

Dewey Charges Privilege Sold By Democrats  GOP Candidate Demands Honesty

GOVERNOR DEWEY INDICTS NEW DEAL IN STRONG WORDS   f Charges F. D. R. Lent Name to Plan to Sell “Special Privilege” to Finance Campaign.   20,000 HEAR SPEECH IN CHICAGO STADIUM   Candidate Says Hillman and  ' Browder Will Expect Re ’ wards for Support if President Wins. 

‘Reads New Deal Letter Con. cerning Formation Of “One  Thousand Club” At $1, f 000 Per Member —  Sneaks At Chicago

Selling of “Priv ileses” Hit by Dew ey   G.O.P. Nominee Discloses S1L.000Fund to Packed. Enthusiastic Crowd

Privileges Sold by F.R., Says Dewey   $1,000 Club Formed For Fourth Term; GOP To Restore “Honesty”

DEWEY MAKES CHARGE OF DISHONESTY   Remarks Drew Him Chorus of ‘Boos’  At Chicago

‘Dewey Accuses President Of Putting Policy-Making Privileges Up for Sale

DEWEY MAKES CHARGE  ROOSEVELT SEEKING  SELL PRIVILEGES REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE  ALSO DISCUSSED FOREIGN POTICY IN cHIcAarn

Dewey Says FDR Sells Privileges   Says President Disgraces Highest Office by Backing “One Thousand Club”.

—ON THE POLITICAL FRONT— ~~ New Deal $1,000 Club Is Assailed By Dewey   G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Declares Roosevelt Sponsored An Idea To ‘Sell Special Privilege To Contributors —

Privilege At $1000 Each Is FDR’s Offer   GOVERNOR DEWEY TELLS OF CORRUPT OFFER MADE BY NEW DEALERS TO 1,000 NEW DEALERS.   Brazen Piece Of Business

Dewey Scores Privilege Sale   Nominee Charges President Sponsored Plan to Sell Out to Contributors To Democratic Fourth Term Funds

Dewey Asks National Administration Founded On “Rudimentary Honesty”

Greeted By Great Crowd And Enthusiasm Calls For White  House Cleaning.

Dewey Charges Privileges ‘Sold’   Cites Democrats’ “Thousand Club’

NEW DEALISTS ARE INDICTED BY GOV. DEWEY   SPECIAL PRIVILEGES SOLD FOR $1,000, HE CHARGES

Attacks Proposal For The . Formation Of Alleged ‘One Thousand Club’

Demos Selling ‘Privilege’ for  $1000---Dewey   Reads Arkansas Letter Outlining ‘One Thousand Club’

CHARGES $1,000 BUYS VOICE IN F.D.R. POLICIES   Privilege - Selling Claim Made By Dewey At Chicago

Dewey Charges F. R. Sponsored Privilege Sale  Mt. £F.. Alas A che   Calls For New Adminis. tration Founded On ‘Ru dimentary Honesty.’

oosevelt Offers le of Privilege, Dewey Asserts  +> mie eR *   ‘One Thousand Club’ Letter Cited; Charges Needy Were Exploited

MIDWEST PHASE OF CAMPAIGN IS ENDED BY DEWEY   Hits At Privilege Selling As “Brazen Piece Of  Business” 

Dewey Charges New Deal Sells ‘Special Privilege’ toObtain Campaign Funds

Dewey Sees  Shakedown   Claims FE ourth: Term - Backed By. WPA Coin

DEWEY CHARGES FDR SPONSORED THOUSAND CLUB   Says New Deal Runs On Theory Of Who Gets What, When, Why

Dewey In Demand For ‘Honesty’ In U. 5. Government   Assails Alleged ‘Shakedown’ Fer Funds for Conducting Political Campaign

Dewey Says Privileges. Being Sold   Quotes Letter From Democratic Offices

‘Demo Privileges Sell for $1,000, Dewey Charges   One Thousand Club Contributors To Gel ‘Special Privileges  and Prestige’ From Party Heads:

Dewey Assails Thousand Club Of Democrats   Crowd Of 30,000 Packs Chicago Stadium For Gov. Dewey’s Talk Or “Rudimentary Honesty’

Dewey Charges Corruption in FDR Patronage  Cites Letter as Evidence of Payment   Cites Letter as Evidence of Payment By Elect for Special Privileges; Scathes Ties With Hillman, Browder

DEWEY TALKS T0 30,000 IN CHICAGO MEET   Says No Special Privileges To  Be Issued

Calls For Honesty In Government   Dewey Informs Chicagoans Roosevelt Is Selling Privilege For Campaign Funds

Dewey Charges FDR Sponsors Idea Selling Privileges  Calls for National Leadership Based on  a ae a: 2 ee, Tee

“One Thousand’ Club Attacked By Mr. Dewey   Charges Replied To By Hannegan And Arkansas Directors

COUNTERATTACKS OF NAZIS BEATEN BACK   Americans of 5th Army Cap ~~ ture Monte Cappela Af: ter Bitter Battle.

Fifth Captures New Heights   Pushes Back Fierce Nazi Counterattacks In Italian Sector.

OTH ARMY WINS MT. CAPPELLA   Yanks Beat Off Blows A’ Mount Battaglia

Fifth Beats Off Nazi Attacks   Take Monte Cappella After Bitter Battle Planes Aid

Yanks Seize _  Italian Height   Nazi: Counter-Blows Are Beaten’ Back.

Fifth Army Takes Another Height   Beats Back Germans On Monte Battaglia; Seizes Monte Cappellc

Fifth Army Beats Back German  Counterassaults Monte Cappella Taker After Big Fight; Retter Weather Seen

Fifth Army Halts Nazis   Beat Back Series Of Counterattacks on Monte Battaclia

Yanks Beat Off Counter-attacks By Mazis in Italy   Capiure “" ate Cappella After Bile: Battle, Allied Comme.id Says

Nazis Again Beaten Back   Clearing Italian Skies Favor Full-Scale Fifth, Eighth Army Attacks

CLARK’S TROOPS REPEL ATTACKS   ‘Skies Clear as British Gain on Adriatic Front

Counfer-Blows Of Nazis In Italy Stopped  Air Force Out As Weather Clears;  aime FF om wmbec wm

Prolonged Siege Of French Port Is Not Expected   Although Cherbourg’s Defense Formidable, Down fall Expected Soon.   Yanks and Germans interlocked in Fight

Peak Seized  Near Harbor To Speed Up Capture Day   Germans” Defenses Fairly Formidable

France, in First Celebration in 5 Years, Joins U.S. and Britain in Honoring World War! Dead

Embattled Nations Pause To Fete Armistice Day in Washington, Paris, London

Only in France ls Day Honored  — Otherwise Allies Take Little Time Off

ALLIES MARK ARMISTICE DAY   Legion Chief Says “It Shall Not Happen Again”

‘Lost Peace’ Is Recalled ©   “America And Allies Mark Armistice Day

ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAMS CUI   World Too Busy to Spend  Much Time in Ceremonies

Rampaging U. S. Armored Unit Roars 140 Miles North From Mediterranean Toward Lyons

Nazis Hold Out at Toulon; Amertiean Spearhead In Grenoble Perils Lyons

U8. VET BALLOT BLASTED BY DEWEY   ‘Defends New York State Pian of Controlling Vote af Garvicoeman

Dewey Bars Fake Ballot For Soldiers   REPUBLICAN NOMINEE DEFENDS STATE CONTROL OF VOTING BY ALL SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN.   Federal Ballot Void

Federal Solder ~ Rallot Scored  m soa  AVY Gh (of!)      Declares Advocutas Pluy Partisan Politics In ” Supporting Proposal

Soldier Voting Plan Defended By Gov. Dewey   New York Executive Says State Control of Ballots Is ‘Valid’

Full Jap Army Is Hurled Into Leyte Struggle   Philippines Battle Like ly To Be Longer Anc Harder Than Expected.

Churchill in Stand for Reds   Supports Territorial Wants in Abandoning London Government

Churchill Upholds Red Demands For Polish Territory   Poles Would Get Land Wrested From Germany

London Polish Government Is Abandoned   Churchill Says Russian Boundary Demands Are Reasonable; Poles to Get Part of East Prussia 3

Willing To Go Anywhere At Anytime For Conference Over Situations Plaguing Allies   Criticises Resigned Premier Of Poland For Quitting; Asks Acceptance Of Russian Border Demands ; Would Take Nazi Land In North, West

U. S. Bombers Hammer  Coastal Areas  Paris Radio Says Antwerp Undergoes Attack

STRIKES MENACE LUMBER OUTPUT   Sawmill Dispute in Pacific Northwest Largest in Nation’s Labor Picture; Other Walkouts Slow Progress   BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Strike Threatens Pulp Industry   Brewster Plane Worker End Demonstration

PULP OUTPUT IN DANGER AS 40,000 STRIKE   SAWMILL WORKERS REJECT PLEA TO RESUME WORK

PULP INDUSTRY IS AFFECTED BY LUMBER STRIKE   40,000 Men Are Idle In Pacific Northwest; Detroit Hard Hit   PIPEFITTERS LEAVE JOBS IN- BALTIMORE

STRIKE THREATENS LUMBER INDUSTR\   War Program Suffers as the Result of Walk rane

Subs Sink 14 Jap Vessels   War of Attrition Brings U. S. Results

YANK U-BOATS SINK 16 MORE JAPANESE SHIPS   Two Large Transports Included In War On Too Supply Line

‘SUBS DESTROY 14. JAP SHIPS   Reveal New Success Of » U.S. Undersea Craft

Berlin, Aachen, Frankfurt Also Hammered; Mystery Target And Robot Bomb Platforms Are Attacked

~ REACH MAFFIN   Capture ‘of 5,000-Foot Airstrip Believed Imminent

Americans Reach  Maffin Airdrome   Jap Retreat From — Airstrip Cut Off —

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE ON NEW GUINEA   Capture of Maffin Airdrome Believed Imminent

DEWEY SUPPORTERS ADVANCE WITH. COOPERATION PLAN.   Oblique Effort to. Bring Wendell - Willkie Into Dewey's €camp ‘Moves Ahead—Nom- inee Is Quiet Personally

DEWEY BIDS FOR WILLKIE FAVOR   G. O. P. NOMINEE INVITES WEEKS FOR CONFERENCE

DEWEY MAKES BID FOR WILLKIE’S HELP   Senator Sinclair Invited Te Campaign Conference

WANT WILLKIE IN GOP CAMP?   Supporters of Dewey Bid for Cooperation from WiHl-  kie’s Friends.   USE POLITICAL STRATEGY

SEEK TO DRAW WILLKIE INTO DEWEY CAMP   Backers Of Former Candidate Get , Invitations

Seek to Draw Willkie into Dewey Camp   Friends of 1940 Nominee Are Included as Guests. to Conference 

GOP Smiles On Willkie.   Effort ‘Being Maile -To Obtain Support:

BDYMBS ANU MYMNS, CANNON AND SANIA CLAUS  All This Was Christinat an i044

No Civilian Goods Boost Is Expected   Hardest Part of War Production Lies Ahead

New Job Control Program   Plan to Funnel Workers Into War Plants Where They Are Most Needed, in By July 1

All Men Seeking ~ Work Put Under Federal Control   Sweeping New Provisions Ordered Effective July  by WMC.   To Channel Workers  On a Referral Basis

FULL CONTROL OF HIRING PUT INUSES HANDS   Sweeping WMC Orders To Become Effective July 1 For Male Workers

_Dwindling Manpower Brings. Drastic Order; Farm Labor ‘Included:in New Setup

_Job-Seeking Men Required to to Apply to USES for Assignment to War Plant Where Most Needed

New Rules Placed On Male Workers   Require Job-Seekers To Apply to U.S. Employment Service

War Work To Be Mandatory   WMC Orders Sweeping New Controls for Nation’s Dwindling Supply of Men

Control Over Male Worker: Goes Into Effect July 1st USES Runs Employment

SWEEPING J0 CONTROLS HAVE BEEN ORDERED   Practically All Of Nation’s Male Workers Affected By Decree   FARM WORKERS GIVEN BLANKET EXEMPTION

New Control Over Nation’:  Male Labor   All Seeking Jobs Must Apply to USES For His Assignment

NEW CONTROLS PLACED ON U. S. ‘LABOR SUPPLY   Program. 1. Calls For Channeling Of Meri Worker   Plans Are Outlined Today By Paul V. McNutt ------

New Job Controls Decreed by WMC   Millions Placed Under Supervision

Tighten Control Over Workers   “WMC Attempts To Direct: More Labor Into War Factories

Every Job Seeker Must Ap ply For Assignment To  War Plant Where   Most Needed   Restrictions On * Employers Made   Men Must Accept Assignments For USES Regardless of Where Industry Is Located

New Controls Placed Over Male Workers   Available Men Must Go to Points Where Thev Are Most Needed

JOB OFFICES GET CONTROL OF ALL HIRING   McNutt Orders Sweeping Program To Conserve Supply of Labor.

New Job Controls Instituted By WMC   ‘Priority Referral Plan Provides USES »Muet Clear Alls-Men Except Farm Hele

NEW CONTROLS OF MANPOWER ARE ORDERED   Effective July 1; Will Affect War Effort

This Order Was’ Maile Todas oo hy War Manpower: : Commission.»         EFFECTIVE:ON JULY:1      Job-Seeking. Men Will: Be ‘Re. ‘quired to Apply to U.S. ‘Eimployment ‘Service.

WMC Orders Sweeping New Employment Rules   ‘Job-Seekers Will Be ‘Assigned -to- War. Pla Where They Are Most Needed; Over: Ontimism: Causing Lag:

WMC Order: Job Control Into Effect  Channels Labor   Channels Labor To War Work  Beginning J uly ]

JOB-SEEKING MEN REQUUED TO A THROUEH ACENC'   Farm Workers, Businesses Having Eight or Less Will Not Be ‘Affected Under New Regulation.   WMB HAS AUTHORITY BEGINNING JULY 1   Nation-wide Plan ts Similar to Program Operated In 12 Areas, War Ideas Most Seriaus.

WMC Applies Job Controls To All Male Workers   Agency Extends Plan Of ‘Priority Referral’ To Blanket Country,  Effective Next Month   SEEKS MORE LABOR FOR WAR INDUSTRY  Already in Effect In Several Critical Tahar Shartage Areac

New Manpower Rules Aimed af Filling War Jobs   Too Many Think War Is Near Its Ends; McNutt Says

JOBS MUST G0 10 U. S. OFFICE   To Be Placed Where Most Needed, Anywhere In Nation

MeNutt’s New Grder  Sweeping   Practically All JohSeekers Required to Apnly to USES

Job-Seekers Will Be Put In War Role, Says WMC"   New Controls Will Be Effective Soon

SWEEPING JOB ORDERS ISSUED   War Manpower Commission To Take Tight Control Over Dwindling Supply Of Male Workers By July 1; Plan Explained.

FEDERAL CONTROL OF JOBS WIDENED   “PRIORITY REFERRAL” PLAN. EXTENDED TO PUT MORE LABOR IN WAR WORK.

“ONLY WHERE “LS. DIRECTS   {imployers Can Hire Only , Those Referred to Them *. Under WMC. Order to . Be Placed in Effect by de Ante 1. ,

Drastic Controls  Ordered for Labor   Jobless Male Workers of Nation To Be Assiqned to Vital Industry

Sweeping Control Over Male Workers Ordered by July 1   McNutt Explains Order Extends Voluntary Referral Plan of Some Areas to Nation

USES Placed In Full Control Of Job-Seekers   Employers May Hire Only Those Referred To Them Rv Service.

DRASTIC LABOR —CONTROLIULY   WMG. Acts To Safeguard Dwindling Supply Of Male Workers

SWEEPING NEW CONTROLS OVER WORKERS PLANNED   New Regulations By WMC Will Affect Virtu ally Every Job Seeking Male Worker

New Controls Over Workers In Nation   Job Seekers Required To Apply To USES For Assignment

WMC LISTS NEW LABOR ORDERS   USES to Decide Where Job Seekers to Work

Federal Control Over Nation’s Job Seekers Announced   All: Must Apply to Employment Service For Assignment  To War Planés

Orders. Control Over Male Labor   War Manpower Commission Directs All Job Seeking Men in Nation to Apply to U. S. Employment Service For Assignments Where Needed After July 1.   SUPPLY DWINDLES

New Job Controls Instituted By WMC   Priority Referral Plan Provides USES Must Clear All Men Excent Farm Help   The Gallup Poll, In Survey, Discovers: Majority Favors Law To Draft War Job Quitters

Broaden Labor Supply Controls   Virtually All Male Job Seekers To Be Channeled Through U. S. Employment Service To War Plants Where Need Is Greatest.

Will Channel Male Labor Through U. 8. Job Service to Posts of Greatest Urgeney

Job Controls > For War Plants Effective July 1  > All Workers Placed ~ Under USES Directior

Nation’s Dwindling Manpower Will Be Taken Under Control Of WMC July 1, McNutt Says

USES TO HAVE FULL POWER TO SPOT WORKERS   Priorities On All Available Manpower To 8e Given War Plants

WMC TO PLACE NEW CONTROLS ON JOB SEEKER   Men Asking Work Will Be Assigned Where Most Needed After July 1

USES TO SEND LABOR WHERE NEEDED MOST   Voluntary Program I: Given Nation-Wide Application

U.S. Job-Seekers Will Be Placed In War Industries   WIC Orders New Controls to Speed War Effort

Drastic Action Ordered By WMC  Male Workers Will Be Channeled Into Jobs

Virtually Every Work-Seeking Male Will Be Required To Apply To L. S. Employment Service For Assignment To Post Where He's Most Needed

Sweeping New Rules Governing Workers Go Into Effect July 1   All Job-Seekers Will Be Required To Apply To U. S. Employment Service For Assignment; WMC Belittles Talk Of Early Peace

Male Labor To Be Faced By Stricter New Rules     Every Job - Seeker May Have To Go To U.S. Office

Male Workers ‘Given Tighter War Job Curt   ‘Priority Referral’ Ruling Extended To Blanket  Rates. Caiites

JOBCONTROLS TIGHTENED ON MEN WORKERS   MORE LABOR TO BE CHANNELED INTO WAR INDUSTRY

Job Control Order Issued   Moye Made to Channel More Men in Industry

Joh Seekers Must Apply To USES   To Be Assigned To War Plants; Ban Placed On Hiring

WILL CHANNEL MALE WORKERS THROUGH Woe   Program in Effect July 15  Affects All War Plants in Country.

Sweeping New Ma npower  Controls Ordered By WMC   Regulations, Effective July 1, Require Every Job Seeking Man To Apply To Employment Service For Assignment To War Plants

America Urges Ruthtess Curb Of Wehrmacht   U. S. Plans Would Abolish Reich hw ‘ar Ind

PLAN FOR GERMAN CONTROL STUDIED   Abolition of War: Industries Part of Proposed ‘Program

Wallace Stresses Better Jobs Theme   Republicans Say FDR . Forced to Abandon Role of Head Man

Wallace In Renewal Of Votina Plea   Emphasis on Roosevelt Better Able to Do Job; Campaign Heating Up

F.D.R. better job provider.  Wallace says ’ Chief is forced  from role~s.o.p.

Wallace Again Urges Roosevelt  But Admits May Not Be Jobs for All

Boosts Roosevelt As Job Provider   Wallace Talks As Candidates Rest

Domei Reports Japan’s Navy. Is Set To Hit Raiding Fleet   Radio Ban Prevents Receiving Of News

Japan’s “Invincible Navy Biding Time Until Very End.” Tokyo Radio Says

TOKYO ASSERTS TRUK ASSAULT NOT REAL THING   Report Powerful U. S. Mechanized and Air Power but Call Allack "Strong Reconnaissance’

Heavy Assault On Island Base ls Continuing   Mechanized Units Used by Americans Says Tokyo Radio

Army and Navy Units Engaged, Japs Declare   U. S. Carrier-Based Planes Attack Jap “Pearl Harbor” for Firet Time in War

Land Action Reported In Progress Now   Japan Still Saving Her ‘Invincible Navy’ For Payoff Fight ,

Mighty Cruiser, Battle Ship And Destroyer Escort   Nothing Yet. To Indicate Escorting Warships Have Moved In To Shell Fortress — Hundreds of Planes Make Attack.

Japan Still Saving Het ‘Invincible Navy’. For: Payoff Fight . pos

U.S. Attack On Major Nip Base Termed Fierce   Japan Refers to “Powerful Mechanized Units As © ” Well As Air Power” . Being Used   American Reports On Action Limited   Admiral Nimitz Confines : Himself to Fact Raid By: 7 “Navy and’ Airplanes:  _Is Underway

TOKYO REPORTS POWERFUL UNITS IN TRUK ATTACK   Japs Say Fighting With U. S. Troops Is ‘Now Going On’ at Isle

Fighting With Our Troops Now Going On, Broadcast  Says: U.S. Hits In Force   Brief Communique From Admiral Nimitz Says We ‘Commenced An Attack’ On Pewerful Base Of Enemy; Hot Fighting Now Raging

Mighty Base ls Target Of Yank Forces   Attack “Commenced” On Wednesday By Planes And Warships

MAMMOTH VISE CLAMPED UPON SLAVE NATION   Weak Resistance to Landing Forces. Naval Force Greatest to Ever Sail Mediterranean

KANSAS WET SPELL   Temperatures Toé Cool for Crop _ Growing Linger 

KANSAS: WET SPELL   ‘Temperatures : ‘Too Cool for Crop . Growing Linger. .

NAZIS MAY LOSE: TERRITORY — IN SETTLEMENT AFTER WAR   CONSIDER USE OF GERMAN LABOR TO REBUILD AREAS DEVABTATED 'BY NAZI INVABIONS

Farm Machine Qutput Raised   WPB Chairman Says Production To Approach 90 Percent Of Schedule.

Farm Machinery Production Gains   Lag Cited Because of Military Demands

Tokyo Claims Two Destroyers, Submarine Sunk   *Slight Damage” To Japs; Guam Beaches Firm

Allied Forces Lash Jap Bases   Tokyo Reports Blows by Carrier Planes, Ships; Nip Forces on Tinian Split by Yank Invaders; Marines Close Guam Trap

GRAFT TRIAL OPENS TODA   Charge Embracing Alleged Bribery in Case Is Struck From Warrant.

Yank Rescued After 31 Months of Eluding Japs   Radioman Escaped Into Jungled Mountains of Guam; Never Gave Up Hope of Rescue

Soviet-Sponsored Polish Government Offers Posts To Exile Representatives

UNIFIED POLISH RULE ADVANCED   RED-SPONSORED GROUP PLAN GOVERNMENT   3 Others Offered Posts

Joined U. U.S. Armies Cut Nazi Escape   Many Thousands Of Germans Isolated By Junction

Seventh, Third Armies Linked At Somerbernon   Fighting to: Yesoul Outskirts, Yanks. Reach Port-Sur-Saone

Seventh Army Blocks Enemy Escape Path:   Many Thousands of Ger.  mans Tselate.! From Homeland by Americans In South France

Seventh Army Cuts Escape Paths In South France  Enemy Resistance Near Belfort Gap Still Severe

SEVENTH U. 5. ARMY LINKS WITH THIRD ARMY FOR ACTION  SPEARHEADS SPED ACROSS ESCAPE PATHS

Junction Made 28 Days Affer Riviera Landing   Southern Forces 15 Miles From Belfort Gap

U, §, SEVENTH ARMY WIPING OUT GERMANS   Clearing Southern France In Path To Germany

Yank Armies Join Fe orees   In Big Drive. On Germany   Spearheads. Driven Across Escape Paths

SEVENTH ARMY AT 1S-SUR-TILLE BEYOND DIJON   Seventh And Third Army Now Joined Cut Off Escape Route Of Germans Left In France.

Roosevelt Texas Vote 81,366 Less. Than in 1940   Stevenson Polls More tn General Yote Than FDR-Pledged Electors

TOKYO ADMITS SEVERE QUAKE   Homes, War Factories : Osaka, Nagoya Are Damaged

TOKYO RADIO REPORTS LIGHT *QUAKE DAMAGE   Acknowledges Factories In Osaka And Othe! War Industry Sections Damaged But Says Destruction Light

dP  INDUSTRY HIT BY QUAKE   Damage ‘Light,’ Says Tok yo; Some Casualties Are Admitted.

Centers of Japan’s War Industries Hit by Thursday Quake   Tokyo Admits Damage  Suffered in Osaka and Nagoya Areas

WAR INDUSTRY SECTOR MAIN ISLE SUFFERS   Japs Claim Damage I: Slight; No Mention Of Tokyo Itself Being Shaken

Big Waves Add: To Devastation  Says: Nip Radio   Honshu’s" Main ‘Industrial Arcas ‘Heayily Rocked: » By Earth: Temblors-.

Tokyo Admits Damage Frorr Earthquake   Says Some Factories And Home Are Ruined

Damage Admitted   TOKYO CONCEDES OSAKA, NAGOYA SEVERELY JOLTED: CASUALTIES SUFFERED

QUAKE DAMAGED KEY JAP CITIES   War Industry Centers Hit By Severe Temblors

Tokyo Admits Heavy Losses In Earthquake   Revises -Radio ..  Story by Saying Industry: Hard. Hit

Destruction And Loss Of Life From Tidal Wave Minimized By Tokyo   HEAVILY POPULATED AREAS ARE AFFECTED

Japanese Admit Damage in Quake   Main Island Involed; Claim Little Damage

QUAKE DAMAGED JAP FACTORIES   TOKYO ADMITS WAR CENTERS WERE HIT--REPORTS DESTRUCTION  LIGHT.

JAP EARTHQUAKE RECORDED OVER ENTIRE WORLD   Factories Jolted; Japanese Admit Some Damage

Japan Admit: Damage From Quake   Tidal Wave Hits Homes and Factories in Nippon

Japanese Acknowledge Quake  Damage In Factory Sections   Plants and Homes Suffer From Tremors and Tidal Wave—Tokyo Says Destruction Light “On the Whole”

Britain's Continental Policy Brought to Showdown in Commons   Churchill Speaks Before Commons And Wants Vote Of Conlidence

Churchill Calls. — For Showdown   BRITISH CONTINENTAL POLICY TO BE TESTED

Rumania Confers on Peace   Russian Advance Puts Army Within 100 Miles of Yugoslavia Border

RUSSIAN ARMY RACING ALONG NORTH BORDER   Reds Apparently Trying to Make Contact With Tito’s Partisan Army of Yugoslavia.

Tracks Start Race Pleas   But Byrnes Refuses Tr, Modify, Hic Order

Byrnes’ Racing  Edict To Stand   War Mobilization Director Refuses to Modify Order Ending All Such Events

Byrnes Refuses to Modify Request That Animal Racing Cease Jan. 3re

Won't Modify Ban On Racing   Unfortunate More Advance Notice Impossible, Savs Brvnes.

Suspend Six For Censorship Break   Correspondents Reported In Violation Of Paris Code Laws.

6Reporters Suspended   Claim They Broke Army Regulations Aug. 25  Day Paris Fell

2,000 PLANES ROCK EUROPE AGAIN TODAY   Hammer Arteries To Saar Valley   BERLIN BLASTED

Australians Occupy ‘Madang Base   American Forces Meet Few Japanese Troops

2 Hollandia airdromes  are captured 6th army force closing on third

Two Threats Are F, acing China; Food Supply Low   Jap Forces, Drive Into Honan Areas

60,000 Japs Open Drive  On Chinese   New ‘Threat May Cause Famine Affecting 20,000,000

Crack Troops ~ Thrown Into New Assault   20 Million Soldiers, Civilians Confronted With Food Shortage Should Foe Succeed ,

Japs Poise New Threat To Chinese   Famine Feared as Enemy Drives Into Honan Province

Threat Aimed At Man-made Famine Affecting 20,000,000 Civilians And Great Army

Jap Offensive Menaces China  Nearly 60,000 Men   Nearly 60,000 Men In Drive Aimed At Railroad: Line

Japanese Open Drive Against Chinese Force   Success Of Offensive Would Mean Famine For Millions

NIPS HOPE TO CAPTURE VITAL RAIL LINK AND UNITE FORCES  IN CHINA THRU NEW LAND ROUTE   Possibility of Man-Made Famine As Result of Jap Drive Now Faces 20 Million Chinese. Japs Seek To Join Northern and Central Forces

New Jap Offensive In China Creates Threat of Famine   20 Million Civilians May Be Affected by Powerful Drive in Honan Province

‘Jap Drive Aimed , At Rail Section   Three Columns * Strive to Choke Off Strategic City

Strong Jap Forces in New Chinese Drive   Attack Seen As Attempt by Enemy to Unite Forces in China; Siege of  Kohima by Japs Relieved by British

I   Success Of New Drive Would Enable Japs To Rebuild Railway Leading To Hankow

‘Threaten to Seize Vital Crop of Rice   Crack Troops From Manchuria Spearhead Drive on Rail Line

Japanese Open New Offensive In North Honar   Drive Brings Possibility Of Another Famine For Chinese.

Japs Launch New Threat To Chinese   Drive Across Railway, May Trap Chinese Forces, Seize Rich Wheat Crop

NEW JAP DRIVE SERIOUS THREAT TO THE CHINESE   “ear Man-Made Famine Affecting 20,000,000 Civilians And Hundreds Of Thousands Of Chin ese Soldiers.

ANEW THREAT TO ~ CHINA DEVELOPED BY THE JAPANESE   It Includes Possibility of Man:  Made Famine Affecting 20,000,000 Civilians.   A JAPANESE OFFENSIVE      Spearheaded by Contingent: From Manchuria; Flower of the Army.

HeaviestFighting In Many Months Rages In Area   Powerfal Jap Forces Try To Push Chinese Troops From Northern Honan

Jap Offensive Poses Serious Threat to China  Railroad, Wheat Crop Objectives Of Nip Invaders

Enemy Seeks To Seize Rich Fields of Grain   Attempt Is Made To Link North, Central Ferces

OFFENSIVE WAGED BY JAPANESE      Strong Forces Drive Across Peiping And Hankow Railroad 

Enemy Strikes Hard Biow At Rail Line   Man-Made Famine Is Possible From Nip Attack

JAPS OPEN NEW DRIVE iN CHINA   BATTLE FLARES UP IN THE NORTHERN HONAN PROVINCE

Tokyo Employs Up To 60,000  In New Drive   Believed Making Bid To  Smash China’s Gri; On   150 Miles Of Pieping-  Hankow Railway   Man-Made Famine Also Threatened   Would Affect 20,000,000 Civilians and Hundreds — Of Thousands Soldiers _  In Wartorn Nation 

Japs Cut Vital Peining-Hankov Railway Line   Chinese Civilians Face Possibility Of Another Famine

Chinese Spokesman Says Group Embraces 50,000 To 60,000 Troops.   INEW THREAT TO CHINA

Japs Open Nev Offensive in Chinese Area   Fighting Flares in Honan Province, As Near Stalemate Stops Nipponese in Burma

Harmony Assured Says Hannegan   New Deal Chairman Issues a Statement

Democrats In Big Party Rally At St. Joseph   Sen. Truman: Boosts Speaker Rayburn for Vice Presidency

Russian  Finland,   Reds Offer to Oust Germans From Country   Finnish Parliament in Close Debate on Proposal

FINNS MEET 10 DECIDE PEACE OR WAR   Russia Submits Terms And _ Negotiations Are Under  Way; Britain and U. S. Be lieved To Have Influenced.   Position Endangered

BOTTLED LIQUOR PRICES BOOSTED   New Excise Taxes Add 50 To 75 Cente On Quart Of Whisky

Draft of Labor Urged ‘Quickly’ To Give Relief   Shortages Held ‘Desperate’  By Top Producing Mens 200 OOO Naoda tt

Production Men Urge Work Or Fight’ Measure   Nelson: Says Labor  Scarcity May Hust _Airplane’ Production

PLEA IS MADE FOR FIGHT OR WORK ACTION   War Production Experts Call for Legislation at Once

Nelson, Forrestal, Patterson Urge Action at Senate Group Hearing

WORK OR FIGHT LEGISLATION IS VITALLY NEEDED   Government War Production Heads Demand Quick Action By Congress   STRIKES IN WARTIME BITTERLY CONDEMNED

Japs Report Second Raid On Anshan   One Super-Fortress Missing After First Attack, Presumed Lesi. 20th Command Says

BILLION DOLLAR FLOOD CONTROL BILL SENT WHITE HOUSE  NUMBER OF TEXAS — PROJECTS ARE INCLUDED

Congress Sends Billion-Dollar Postwar 'Blaod Control Bill to President Today -

Flood Control Bill Goes to President   Carries Billion Dollar Appropriation for Use On U.S. River Proarams

FREE WOMAN 0 MURDER COUNT   Mrs. Hartley of Dayton Wins Acquittal in Soldier’s Death

Berlin Broadcaster Fails Of Sensation   Breathless Woman In Build-up, Then Announces Violin Solo

CARY GRANT LEAVING HIS HETRESS SPOUSE   Holiswood Siar Savs He And Former Barbara Hutton  Are Incompatible

Bombers Hit Muenster in New Assault   Hammer Calais Also in Ceaseless Blows  Against Reich

RAF Follows U.S. Fliers In Vicious Attack ‘Over Germany, France   Allied Planes Work Havoc on Strongholds At Muenster and Pas-De-Calais; Paris, Luxembourg Prepare for Trouble

RAF in New Night Raids On Nazi Europe   Bombers Plow Thru Snow Storms to Hit German Targets

U.S. Bombers Attack Muenster And French Coast; R. A. F. Foray Ends Week of Air Activity

RAF Bombers Follow Yanks In New Blas!   British Craft Roar Across Channel While Enemy Radios Quit

Yanks Blast af Pas-De-Calais Area of France   Forts Attack German City as Liberators  Hit Military Targets In Northern France

4Perishin 4-Da v Los Angeles Storm   7 Inches of Rain, Tornado, Snow Hit City

300 LEFT HOMELESS BY 4-DAY STORM IN LOS ANGELES AREA   Floods, Snow and Wind Are Climaxed by Tornado

END STRIKE AT CLARK PLANTS   Employes Return to Work At Berrien Springs And Buchanan

New War Loan Date Is Set   Fifth War Loan, June 12, Te Be Largest Yet, So Start Getting Ready

Fifth War Loan To Stari June 12  Sixteen Billion Will Br Sought During Campaign

Fifth War Loan To Open June 12   Largest Goal Yet Is $16,000,000,000

Feder Lists Ex-fight Commissioner As Army’s Top Circulation Man .      (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT Ss NOTEBOOK.)

SOCIALITE ACCUSED OF $27,000 THEFT   Mrs. Job Taylor II Held in Jail in Riverhead, N. Y., in Disappearance af Jewels.

Allied Fleets Combine To Swat Sabang — Japs Caught ‘With Kimonos Up

Fighting Marines iiake New Gains in Marshall Islands   British Won Important Victory in Drive to Akyab.

IMPORTANT ALLIED VICTORY IN BURMA   Mountbatten Announces Capture of Buthidaung.

U. S. Forces Gain In St. Lo Attack   British Retake Maltot; American Artillery Barrage Dazes Germans

Americans Capture St. Andre de Bohon As Well as Nearby Town of Gournay

Peninsula Yanks Make Advances Tn Seven Places   Eisenhower Headquarters Reports Largest Gains Made Below Carentan

AMERICANS MAKE LOCAI ADVANCE:   Major Gains Made Below Carentan, In St. Lo Sector

GREAT ARMORED BATTLE STILL RAGES IN EAST   Junction at Arnhem N ear

German Losses Mount at Trier   Paratroopers Shoot Way Through Nazi Death Battalion Attacking at Nijmegen to Relieve Sky Unit Threatened With German Trap

Air Troops Encircied By Nazis   Fierce German Counterattacks Are Beaten Back

First Army Loses Heavy In Hours-Long Trier Battle: Race to Sky Army's Rescue

Enemy Losses Soar; Berlin Hints Allies Reach Air Army   We're Month Ahead of Schedule, Says Man Back from Headquarters

Violent Fight! Flares _ \Across:Reich Doorway From Trier:to Rhine

Tank-Riding Doughboys Drive North To Aid Trapped Forces   Heavy Casualties Suffered By Germans In Hard Struggle Northwest of Trier; Enemy Tank Losses Over  00-Mark .

Paratroopers Drive  North With British  Armored Column to Relieve Encircled _  Air-borne Fighters   BULLETIN

ote  NEW SCIENTIFIC “TREE PAKMS” COVER 7,000,000 AC RES IN THE UNETEDSTATES

MAN SETS UP HOME IN VOTING BOOTH   Pot of Pigs’ Knuckles Found On Stove by Cop

VOTE CAMPAIGN ENDS IN STATE   Both Sides Predict Victory as Evidences Point to Heaviest Total Vote in History

SEE RECORD STATE VOTE   Rival Kelly and Fry Camps Voice Confidence of Victory

Soviets Cross Narew River In New Drive   Advance Threatens to Flank East Prussia, Menaces Wersaw

Baby Kidnaped From Hospital   Mother, In Hospital Undergoing Operation, Not Told Of Abduction.

Crowded Freight Yards and Synthetic Oil Refinery Bombed by RAF in Wintry W eather.  Wa ee ae

Far Target Reached and Battered After Fierce Running Battle; Subsidiary Attack Made on Guam

Heavy Jap Losses In Marianas   Nimitz Reports 135 Planes, ) Ships Destroyed; Guam Is Attacked.

Guam Island Also: Blasted In Attack   Desperate Enemy Attempts At Defense Fail T, Halt Attacking American Novy Task Force

Navy Force Destroys 135 Jap Planes  in Marianas Attack   1] Ships Are Sunk or Damaged, but U. §. _ Raiders Fail to Find Any Part of ‘Enemy's Phaniom Fleet: Six Planes Lost

REDUCING JAPS PARRY ISLAND T0 RUBBLE   Army Troops, Marines to Follow Air and Sea Bombardment

Jap Resistance On Parry Island Being Reduced   Last Pocket Of Enemy Re sistance On Eniwetok Atoll Being Eliminated   LANDING WILL FOLLOW SHELLING

PARRY ISLAND CAPTURE NEAR   Bombs Devastate Jap Stronghold  terete we ram  Restore Airstrip on Engebi Isle

PHONE STRIKE COES TO WLB   Union Operators Idle In 20 Ohio Cities Already

Big Fight Near In So. Pacific   Yanks, Japanese Mass In Admiralties -

U. S. Forces Are Boosted   Second: Los Negros Attack Is Expected

Evidence Of Eastward Move By The Enemy .. Reinforcements Poured  Onto Los Negros; Japs May Raid Momote Again

Land More Men On Los Negros   Enemy Also Reported Renewing Strength On Admiralties

LOS NEGROS INVADERS ARE REINFORCED   Rabaul Is Bombed Twice On Saturday

Japs Prepare New Attempt to Retake Airfield   More American Troops Poured Into Los Nearos

Troops And Supplies To Admiralties   Japs Also Sending Up Men To Indicate New Battle In the Making "

Los Negros Japs . Believed Shaping New Counterattack   Americans Pouring More Troops And Supplies Onto Admiralty  Island to Doom Enemy’s Push

Japs Prepare For an Attack At Los Negros   American Forces at Airdrome Reinforced; Rabaul Bombed Heavily

ALLIES POURING TROOPS INTO LOS NEGROS ISLAND   Japs Preparing to Give Strong Battle for Recent lv Invaded Islands

NEW TROOPS FILE INTO LOS NEGROS   American Reinforcements Arrive to Await New Japanese Attack

Nips Are Seeing Their Mistake   Enemy Renewing His Strength After Costly Defeat   JAPS NO MATCH FOR CAVALRYMEN

Steady, U. S. Reinforcements For — Los Negros Indicate Jap Move Next

NAZIS IN FIERCE COUNTER DRIVE FOR BUDAPES   Russians Fight Doggedly at Capital Gates After Kisalag Falls

BUDAPEST TWO-THIRDS SURROUNDED   Nazi Defenders in Fierce Clashes With Red Shock Troops

BUDAPEST TWO-THIRDS UND  UPRCUND      Nazi Defenders in Fierce Clashes With Red Shock Troops

Battle At Gates Hungarian Capital In Bitter Stage; Reds Fight To Gain Entry

30,000 of Enemy Killed or Wounded In Campaign Now Virtually Ended; Nip Evacuation Reported Under Way

Yanks Down 62 Jap Planes In Rabaul Battle   January Losses Of Foe Have Been 717 Planes, U. S. Announces

Yanks Thwar' Japs Building Air Strength   American Planes Raid Enemy Airfields Over Rabaul

JANUARY TOLL OF JAP PLANES 117 AT RABAUL   Allied Fliers Account For 62 More In 26th Raid

All-Out Battle May Annihilate German Forces   Nazi Are Out of One Trap Only To Be Caught in Jaws of Another

Futile To Fight, Say  Prisoner:   Battle Of Annihilation Is Started By Allied Troops Against Nazis In Two Great Pockets

Nazis Face Worst Loss  InFranee   Fighting Becomes Tremendous Battle Of Annihilation

Yanks Reach Outskirts. of Gothic Line   Nazis Battle Fiercely To Keep British Out Of Rimini, Gateway “o the Po Valley

YANKS FIGHT INTO PISTOMA   Americans Reach Outskirts Of City; Nazis Battle To Hold Rimini

oth, 8th. Lash - At Gothic Line   Nazis Hurl Counter-Blows As Allies Push North

13 Enemy Ships Sunk At Saipan   Japanese Efforts To Land Troop Bearing Barges Ends In  ' <n mlate C.:1, va

Poppy Day Saturday ©   Legion Auxiliary Plans Completed for Annual Event; Starts at 8 A.M.

Col. Paul G. Armstrong Denies He Has Resigned As State Draft Director

Planes Strafe Nazis Along Seine   Smatter Barges Trying To Escape Pursuing Allies.

RAF Planes In Action Up And Down The Seine   River Bank Troop Concentrations, Barges Attacked

RAF PLANES BOMB NAZIS SEINE RIVER   Destroyed 979 Locomo. tives, 8,500 Railroad Cars. 1.253 Vehicles

British Planes Blast Germans Alona Seine   Airmen Hammer Four Principal Crossings At Tree-Top Levels, Taking Heavy Toll

Allied Bombers Strafe Germans Crossing Seine   U. S. and British Planes Hammer Ceaselessly at Fleeing Foe

BOMB NAZI RETREAT   Air Forces Impede German Crossing of the Seine

ALLIED WARPLANES STRAF GERMANS AS THEY CROSS RIVER   RAF MOSQUITOES AND MITCHELLS RACE UP AND DOWN SEINE AREA

Airmen Pound Seine Crossing   Flare-Lit Attacks Sweep River, Escape Roads During Night

Fleeing German: Hit From Air  Allied Planes Range Length Of Seine

“Teaser” Dixey Gets Double Exposure—  Blame [t On Flying Bomb      Wilted Collars Only Damage in Theater

WILLKIE EXPECTED TO IMPROVE SOON   Former GOP Candidate Is in New York Hospital

WILLKIE TAKEN SERIOUSLY ILL   Heart Muscles Affected By Infection Which Began In Throat

KAVENG GETS 17TH BOMBING   New Ireland Depot “Softening”  quem   Raboul Submitted To New Blows

Jap Supply Lines Hit   30 Barges Sunk Or Damaged In New Brit ain Area

Big Three to Meet Soon After F.R. Inauguratior   F. K.-Churchill Parley?

No Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin Conference Before the End of January, It Was Learned Today

No ‘Big Three’ Conference Before End OF January, Topmost Officials Predict

ALLIED PARLEY SOON UNLIKELY      Meeting of “Big Three’ Before End of January Not Expected

NO MEETING OF BIG THREE DUE BEFORE FEB, /   FOR Will Be Busy Until Enc Of January With Reports To Congress

Peacetime Controls Still Not Planned  No Conference In 1944   For FR-Churchill-Stalin

Meeting of the Big Three Will Not Be Held Before the End of January

NO EARLY ‘BIG THREE’ PARLEY   February Seen Earliest Date for Reported Meeting

BIG THREE MEET SAID UNLIKELY UNTIL FEBRUARY   FDR Still Busy With Budget, Message  To Congress; Inaugural Follows

NO BIG THREE MEET POSSIBLE UNTIL JANUARY   FDR, Churchill May Confer Before Conference With Stalin

No Meeting of Big 3 Before Late January   High Officials Express Views; F. R. Has Many Programs for Attention

Big 3 Not Likely to - Meet Soon   February Probably the Earliest Date Leaders Could. Assemble   SOME: CHANCE OF A CHURCHILL VISII   But : ‘ Lesser ex. Officials . ALready * ‘Are at Work On Problems Vexing World

A MEETING ON TAP   Churchill and Roosevelt Will Convene After  Inauguration

MEET SEEN POSTPONED   Not Considered Likely Before End Of Januory

SCHEDULE BIG THREE MEETING   Time Set Definitely, Is Official Report

CHURCHILL, STALIN AND ROOSEVELT WILL MEET AFTER JAN, 20  CLAIM DATE DEFINITELY SET BUT MEEETING PLACE NOT KNOWN

Delay Seen In. Meeting  Of Leaders   Little Likelihood Big Three Will Gather Be’ fore February

BIG Tne TD GONEEH AGAIN AFTER JAN. 20   ‘High Officials Say Meeting  Arranged After FDR  Is Inaugurated.

Vebruary Is Probably The Earliest Date   Reports Contrast Sharply With London Talk Of Im minent Meeting.   ROOSEVELT IS BUS Y

Conference of Big Three Soon After January 20   Pressing Problems WANE Aled eae,

fala Probably arliest Date it Can Be Arranged       sident’ s Schedule. illed With Congress

Roosevel! Unable te Eeave Washington For At Least Six Weeks, Sinte Department Believes

See No Possibility of Meeting Of Allied Leaders till February   Pressing Problems Await Discussion By Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin

Meeting Sef For Big 3   London Pleas Fail To Move Up Date Before End of Jan.

Early Parley Held Unlikely   Britain, U. S. Agree On Italian Regime

February Believed Earliest Date For Second ‘Big Three’ Conference

No Conference Likely Before Late January  Roosevelt Unable To Get Away From  Hama Prehleme

Washington Sees ‘Big 3’ Parley Unlikely Before End Of January   Roosevelt’s Schedule Calls For Christmas Eve Broadcast, Messages To Congress And His Inaueuration In January.

Stalin Will Meet Churchill, ¥. R.Karly Next Year   Conference Slated Shortly After  Inauguration Event

No Big Three Confab Until February, High Ranking U.S. Official Discloses

NO MEETING SEEN BEFORE FEBRUARY   State Department, British Spokesman Reach Agreement

CAPTURE KEY JAP POINTS, POUND RABAUL   Marines Seize Hill 660, Vital Strategic Point

HILL 660 1S TAKEN BY YANKS, RABAUL 1S Hi   Bitter 7-day Fight Ends Ir Victory—31 fap Planes  fiawnen

POINTS ON NEW BRITAIN ARE TAKEN   Rabaul Given Pasting by Navy, Marine Planes

ALLIED FORCES TAKE St0, KEY JAPANESE BASE   Other Points On New Britain. New Guinea Are Taken, Rabaul Pounded

YANKS, AUSSIES WIN STRATEGIC LAND SUCCESS   Marines Take > Key Hill Aussies Capture Base At Sio

Allies Step Up Their Offensive In Pacific Area   Take Key Points On New Britain And New Guinea

ALLIES GAIN 2 KEY POINTS IN PACIFIC   Hill 660 Is Taken By Marines, Sio By Australians

Yanks Take Hill 660, Hit Rabaul   Direct Hits Are Made on Seven Jap Cargo Ships

Hill 660 Seized By U. S. Marines After Hard Fight   Navy, Torpedo Planes Score Damaging Hits  In Harbor At Rabaul

ALLIES TAKE KEY POINTS   Japs Hit on New Britain and New Guinea — Rahaul Pounded with Crushing Air Attack.

50,000 Germans  Crushed   CONVERGING SOVIETS HURL NAZIS FROM LOWER DNIEPER FOOTHOLD

Nikopol, Ukraine Mining Center, Taken By Soviets   Entire German Army of 50,000 To 75,000 Smashed In Assault

Triple Triumph Given   Germans Cleared From East Bank Ot Dnieper River

NIKOPOL IS CAPTURED BY RED ARMY   Nazi Force Of 75,000 Smashed In That Area

GERMAN BALTIC ARMIES FAGING DEFEAT BY REDS   More Than 500,000 Russian Troops Hurled Against Enemy Lines   POLE PATRIOTS ARE SUPPLIED BY PLANES

3 RED ARMIES HURLED ON AXIS LINES   In Estonia and Litvia in One of War’s Largest Offensives; Effort to Crush Baltic Armies.   50 To 60 Divisions

Reds Launch Baltic Drive   Nazis Say One Of War's Major Blows Onened To Crush Two Armies In Area

FIERCE FIGHT IN RIGA AREA IS REPORTED   Russians Hurl Big Forces to Crush Nazi Baltic Armies

One of Greatest Battles of War Raging in Baltic   200,000 Germans Face Annihilation

Huge Offensive Hurled Against Crumbling Axis   Campaign ls Called One Of Biggest Moves Of War

Half Million Reds Pound At Nazi Lines   Drive To Seal. Off. 0 Perhaps. 2003000 Nazis Tn: Estonia-and Latvia’   ‘GERMANS EXPECT - NEW PUSH AT NARVA   NEW ‘PUSH AP NARVA  Battle of Balkans Move To Yugoslav Frontier’ “To West of Sofia

00,000 RUSSIANS HURLED AGAINST NAZIS IN BALTIC   Berlin Broadcasts Report Great Offensive Is Aimed at Crushing Two German Armies.   ARTILLERY DUELS FOUGHT NEAR WARSAW   Reds Said to Be Bringing Up Reinforcements Along Vistula River Opposite Polish Capital.

REDS IN GREAT BALTIC DRIVE   Nazis Say Over 500,000 Men Hurled at Them In Estonia, Latvia

Three soviet armies lash  Baltic nazis Fierce fighting reported raging

Jones Gives Up Place As Head Of Tech  Action Accepted With Reluctance

Jones Gives  Up Phe As  Head Of Tech Action Accepted With Balictanee .

R. L, ANDREWS TO SPEAK AT FAIRVIEW, BAILEYTON AND HULACO, SUNDAY

INGOT. OUTPUT AT J-L MILL IS CUT BY STRIKE   Strike Called As 900 Other Work. ers Return To Jobs At Clairten Mil)

CANADIAN PILOT RUNS AMUCK IN BOMBER   Endangers Lives of Civilians and Soldiers for Four Hours—Final: ly Plunges to Death.

PILOT KILLED AFTER WILD EXHIBITION   Put Twin-Engine Bomber Tkroug! Sensational Paces Before Crashing Craft

‘Yank Assaull on Four German Towns Postponed \Because Time Mentioned

dirohito Unhappy On 43rd Birthday  After Reverses   Loses In China, India; Wadke Bombed

BOMBERS ROCK JAPANESE BASE   Enemy Sends Three Planes Over New Yank Fields

Allies Keep Up Attacks On Japanese  Over Pacific   Wadke Island Hit By Bomber Fleets

BOMBER BLAaT  WAKE ISLANE   Big Allied Planes Range West Of Hollandia   JAPS RETALIATE   Stage Night Raid on Aitape; Planes Keep up Incessant Attacks on Wewak

JAP INSTALLATIONS AT WADKE BOMBED   Nipponese Attack Allied Positione at Altape—Damage Troop Ship and Wound a Few Men.

Americans Hit Wake Island   Pour 79 Tons of Bombs On Jap Installations, MacArthur Announces

CORSET SUPPLY NEAR EXHAUSTION   WOMEN URGED TO FOREGO ‘STREAMLINING WITH NEW GIRDLES EASTER.

Stocks Of Rubber Fabrics Gone, U. §. Women Face Unsirdled Future

G.O.P. Accusec Of Fraud In F. R. Speech   President Opens Fourth Term Campaign By Charging Republicans of Attempt To Claim Credit for New Deal Progress

FDR Opens Campaign with Blast at Republican Oratory  Says GOP Speakers Make ‘Fantastic’

Roosevelt Lashes GOP In First Campaign Talk   President Accuses Republicans of Insincerity in Foreign Policies

Republicans Using  Bigger Lies, Repeating Them Often To Gain Belief

PRESIDENT HITS BACK AT DEWEY IN FIRST TALK   Claims GOP Orators Guilty of Froud — He Assails ‘Fala Story’

G. 0, P. BOTCHED PEACE PLANS IN WORLD WAR ONE   Roosevelt, In First Campaign Speech, Lodges Numerous Charges Against Re. publican Party.

eran: Charges  raud toG.O.P. In Fighting Talk   President Declares Republican Speakers Seek to Place Blame for Crash And Depression on Democrats

GOP Campaign Target of Sharp Attack by FDR   Democrat Chief Charges Opponent With Labor Baiting

FD. R. ASSAILS “FALSE? CHARGES OF REPUBLICANS   Answers Dewey Criticism Point by Point in Speech Opening Campaign for Fourth Term.   PRESIDENT CHEERED AS HE LASHES G. O. P   Denies Men Will Be Kept in Army After War — Says U.S. Must Not Let Opposition ‘Botciv Peace.

FDR Charges GOP Seeks False Credit   President Officially Opens Campaign For Fourth Term

Roosevelt Opens Fourth Term Driv  With Fiery Speech   Point-by-Point Replies to Opponents’ Charges Are Made

FDR Rips GOP In Opening 4th  Term Campaien   Point-by-Point Reply Made To Gov. Dewey —C! harges  BD anwmeckl?..... WM...

FDR Charges: Republicans —  Taking Credit For New. Deal   Campaign: Opened’ For: ‘Fourth Term:

FOR SAYS GOP CLAIMS CREDIT FOR NEW DEAL   President Replies to Charges Hurled by  Governor Dewey

FDR Alleges G. O.P. Aping Of New Deal   President Opens Blistering Attack Against Opponents

ROOSEVELT MAKES BID FOR SUPPORT   Accused Republican Opposition of Attempting to Claim Credit for New Deal: Addresses Teamsters’ Meet

President's Speech Opens the Door For Full Dress Oratory During 4th Term Campaign

Charges GOP Oruators with “Most Common or Gar.  den Variety of :  Fraud”?

F.D.R. Qpens Campaign With Blistering Attack Against Republicans

FR Strikes Back At GOP: Charges Fraud   Republicans Claiming Credit For New Deal,  He Says; Point By Point Reply Given Dewey

President Accuses Them Of Claiming New Deal Reforms As Their Own   Great Peacetime Epoch Promised   Labor Told Nation Wil! Not Forget Depression And *‘Hoovervilles’

Roosevelt Charges Republicans Claiming New Deal   President, in First Campaign Speech, Terms Opposition Imitation of ‘Common or Garden Variety of Fraud’   Montana Farmers See Grave Danger in Operation of Hillman’s P.A.C. in State   Grange President L. A. Sutherland Issue: Warning: Recalls California Bloodshed Over Similar Program There

FOR in First Speech Hits at Opponents   Speech Throughout One of Denials of Republican Claims

Roosevelt Says GOP Charges “Fantastic”    Republicans Botched Peace Plan After Last War, Charae

President Says Republicans Are Trying Even To Libel His Dog Falla

F.D.R. Launches Attack on G.0.P.   President Replies to Opposition Party Criticism Point By Point in Union Banquet Speech Broadcast to Nation

PRESIDENT RIDICULES GOP POLICY   Roosevelt Makes First Political Talk of Campaign

Use Of Big Falsehoods’ Held Typical   President Lashes At Republicans In First Speech.  Re WwEDRRAE && i ae“

*Falsehoods : Charged by President  Even His Dog Has Been Libeled, FDR Tells AFL Union   The complete text o

GOP ORATORS CALLED FAKES BY ROOSEVELT   PRESIDENT REPLIES TO CRITICISM OF GOV. DEWEY

FDR Opens Fourth Term Drive Charges GOP Guilty of Fraud   Republicans Trying To Claim Credit For New Deal, President Declares In Address Before Teamsters Union

CHARGES FOES MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS   Opens Campaign With Talk To Teamsters Union   REPUBLICANS   Must Not Get A Chance To “Botch’” Peace Plans, President Asserts

Dewey, Aides Lie Like Nazis, FDR Charges   Blames GOP for ‘Catastrophe Which We Inherited’

‘FDR FLAYS OPPOSITION IN ADDRESS   gRepublicans : Claiming Credit For Work Of New Deal, Claim

Roosevelt Asserts  Charges of GOP  Are ‘Fantastic’ Savz- Republicans ‘Botched’   Says Republicans ‘Botched’ Plan for Peace alter World Wa I, Brought On Depression

President Says Republicans Claim Credit for New Deal Reforms; Charges Dewey Lies

FDR Accuses Opposition Of Attempting to Claim Credit for the New. Deal.

RED FORCES SEIZE NARVA, DEBLIN; U.S. AIR FLEETS SUPPORT DRIVE   COSSACKS REACH WISLA RIVER IN PULAWY AREA, FIGHT BATTERED NAZIS 358 MILES FROM BERLIN

Inquiry Dropped In Labor Case    Truman Committee  Backs Down In Probe

Japanese Seek Lio Break Allied Lines   45,000 By-Passed Enemy Troops Trying for Escape

ISTH CONGRESS RECONVENES TODAY   Turbulent Sessions in Both House and Senate Expected

CONGRESS BACK AT WORK; FACES MAJOR ISSUES   Demands For Legislation Give Indications Of Turbulent Session   DEMOCRATS ENTHUSED   Official Program Of Party Awaits Conference With President

718th Congress Opens ‘Lame Duck Session   Social Security Payroll Tax Freeze Sought

American Paratroopers, Eager to Lana In France, Jest Over Invasion Chore

Encircled German Seventh Army ‘Ceases to Exist   More Than 50,000 Nazi Troops Believed Caught ; Brittany Mopup Goes On   Planes Dropping 14.000 U.S. Airborne Troopers Support Invasion

LONGEST ROBOT RAID YET OVER ENGLAND   Seven Hospitals Hit in Twelve Hour Bombardment

SEVEN HOSPITALS HIT IN HEAVY ROBOT RAID   Unbroken 12-Hour Assault Hammers British Isles

Robots Bring  Destruction _   Hospital Patients Victims Of Raids

Robot Assault Is Longest Yet      Flying Bombs Hit Seven Hospitals, Killing 10 Patients [In One.

POLISH GROUPS DISAGREE IN MOSCOW TALKS   Way Still Held Open For Further Conferences At Present

Two Pole Factions Remain Cleft On Soviet Problem  Exiled Government Is Accused of Dictator Methods

Germans Give Up Cruelties On Civilians   Stimson Says Enemy Fearful

ALLIES WIND UP BATTLE OF HUON   Major New Victory Costs Japanese 14,(000 Men Killed

MAC ARTHUR IN NEW VICTORY   Battle of Huon Peninsula Ends      Estimate 14,000 Japanese Killed

Argentina To Bar All War Criminals   Argentina Pledges That Any Person On United Nations War List Cannot Enter

Food Officials Planning Te Take 2 or 3 Million Head Beef Off Western Ranges

E'x-Dancer Is Mother of Quads   si —— me IN  ‘Bill ¥ Meet eers -s Dies Despite Nationwide Plasma Donations

The War Today   “Total Extermination” Extreme View on Punishing Germany

s Being Bled White In Desperate Stand— nd  Slice Plam To Fight Way Through Germany

WAR TODAY   Germans Are Entering Worst Punishment Period They've En‘dived In Modern  llistory; Defeats Crentest Ever

WANTS “TOTAL EXTERMINATION’ OF GERMANY’S POPULATION TO INSURE EVERLASTING PEACE   Practically Everybody Is In Favor of Our Allies Fighting Their Wzy Through the Reich So German People Would Get Overwhelming Punish am cen oe

Destruction Is Spread Over Germany   Enemy Claims 123 Allied Planes Shot Down

Ruin And Destruction Centers On Berlin, Scatters All  Over Reich.

123 AMERICAN PLANES DOWN, ENEMY CLAIMS   First U. S. Daylight Attack Upon Berlin

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE WILL BE BROADCAST   Senate Takes Tax Bill First

Roosevelt to Send Annual Message to Congress Tomorrow   Will Broadcast Short Version of It to the Nation at 9:00

Congress To Get F.D.R. Message  Tomorrow Noon   Tinesa Prevents Personal Delivery Before Solons; Plans Short Broadcast

FDR's Annual Message To Be  Read By Clerk   Physician Says President Must Stay In; Keeps Daily Conferences.   IBUSINESS PILES UP

Roosevelt To Send Message, Not Deliver   Physician Advised Him to Forego His Scheduled  Appearance

78TH CONGRESS IN 2D SESSION AFTER VACATION   F. R. Message Delayed Set For Tomorrow; Faces Policy Rap

‘Nation To  Hear President   Congressmen Canvass Sentiments of Home Folks

78th Congress Back In Session After Vacation   President Will Not , Give State of Union. Message In Person

FDR to Give Radie Talk  Tomorrow  State of Nation Address to be Pita: Lan Beata

Food Prices and Payroll Tax Need Solution Soon; Other Vital Issues Aris s en

CONGRESS IN SESSION; TO STUDY TAXES   Soldier’s Vote To Be One Of First Bills

He Will Speak at 8p.m. Central War ~ Time Tuesday; President to Send Message To Congress and Not Deliver It in Person

Roosevelt’s Message Due TuesdayNoor   President Decides Against Personal Delivery to New Congress Session   GOES ON AIR LATER   Broadcast of Resume Indicates Importance Atlached to Program

Congress Faces Pressing Issues As Holiday Ends   Food Subsidy Question Number 1 On List Of Senate, House

Roosevelt Message Tuesday   President Won't Appear Before Congress but Will Broadcast at 8 pb. m.

PRESIDENT WILL NOT READ HIS MESSAGE CONGRESS TUESDAY  LAWMAKERS FACED _ WITH COUPLE OF LEGIS LATIVE DEADLINES

FDR’s Message To New Congress To Be Read  Admiral Melntire Advises President Not to Appear

Members of Nation’s Lawmaking Bodies Face Two Legislative. Deadlines — Mark Time Until. After FDR's  Messicge

FLU PREVENTS PRESENTATION BY PRESIDENT   Clerks Will Read Report: Roosevelt Plans Radio Summary At 8 P. M.

PRESIDENT TO SEND MESSAGE TO CONGRESS   Will Make Broadcast At 9:30 P.. M. Tomorrow

F.R. to Send His Message To Congress   Iliness to Prevent His Delivery in Person At Noon Tomorrow

F.R. To Send His Message To Congress   Shortened Version Tx Be Broadcast Tuesday Night By President:  Solons Return

Flu Might Return © For Second Round   Will Broadcast Short ‘Version of Message —   To The Nation

Message Drafted By Roosevelt   President Will Deliver Resume Of Message Over Radio Networks Tuesday Evening

RADIO TALK TUES. 6P.M.   Clerks Will Read State of Union Speech At Noon

U, $. SENATE HEARS DEMAND FOR GURB QN LABOR LEADERS   Administration’s Foreign Policy May Also Be Due for Attack

Brief Talk To Be Made Over Radio   Final Touches Are Being Put On It Today

President's Message To Be Read To Legis slators   FDR, II, Not To Appear Personally; Will Broadcast At 9.30 Tuesday Night

PRESIDENT WILL NOT READ HS MESSAGE CONGRESS TUESDAY   LAWMAKERS FACED WITH COUPLE OF LEGIS-

Will Send  Message  To Congress   Illness Prevents Personal Delivery By FDR: To Broadcast Resume At 8:30 Tuesday Night

FOR TO SEND ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS   Will Broadcast Shortened Version of Message at 8 P.M. (CWT) Tuesday

PRESIDENT WILL SEND MESSAGE TO CONGRESS   Because of Recent Iiness Chief Executive Will Not  Deliver It in Person

Congress Meets As President Announces Tall   Roosevelt To Speak On Radio Tuesday— Problems Confront Returning Legislators

FDR Message Will Be Read  To Congress   Physician Asks President Not to Risk Recurrence of Influ ~ enza; Roosevelt to Broadcast Shortened Version

PROBLEMS OF WAR AND PEAGE ON CALENDAR   State of Union Message Tuesday Will Not be Delivered Personally by FDR,

FDR'S MESSAGE WILL BE READ TUESDAY NOON   President Advised Not To Give It in Person; Broadcast Planned

PRESIDENT 10 SEND ADDRESS 10 CONGRESS BECAUSE OF ILLNESS   His Condition Improved But Doctor Advises Against Unnecessary Exposure

CONGRESS CONVENED THIS NOON   President to Give Radio Talk Tomorrow Night

FDR Message fo Congress Tuesday Noor   Iiiness Will Prevent Him From Presenting Messace in Person

On Advice of His Physician President Will Not Deliver Message in Person Refore Congress   KEEPING ENGAGEMENTS

Congress to Hear President’s Report At Noon Tomorrow   FDR, I With Flu, Remains at Home: Clerks to Read Script to Lawmakers: - Budget:to Bé Submitted Thorcdav

GRITICAL ISSUES FACE CONGRESS I 78TH SESSION   Raosevelt Message Tuesday _to Follow Conference _ With Leaders

Will Hear From F.D.5.  Tomorrow   Annual Message Will Be Sent to Congress; Radio Tatr Also Announced   ADDRESS TO HOME FRONT AT 8 P.M   President Will Not Go Before Congress on Account of Tiness

Roosevelt To Broadcast To Nation   Annual Message Not To Be Delivered In Person To Congress

Congress Now Ready for Year’s Work   Members Reassemble; Face Multitude Of Heavy Problems

Roosevelt To Send ‘Message  To Congress   Takes Doctor’s ' Advice And Will Not .Read  It In Person   WILL GIVE RESUME   Half: Hour Summary Is To Be Broadcast A By President

F. R.’s Annual Message To Be Read To Solons   No Delivery In Person But He’ll Broadcast It  Tomorrow Night.

President Aba: ndons, On Advice of His Physician," Intention to Deliver  It In Person   TO GIVE SHORTENED VERSION OVER RADIO   Confers With Senate and House Leaders On Pending Legislation; Illness Described As Flu

Roosevelt Will Send Message To Congress   Not to Appear In Person; Congress Convenes

Roosevelt Message To Be Delivered to  Congress Tomorrow   Issues of Both War, Peace Faced In Cnitical Election Year Session

FDR'S ANNUAL REPORT 10 BE READ TUESDAY   Leaders Confer With Pres ident On Pressing  Legislation

WILL WOT APPEAR. BEFORE CONGRES:   President; “However; will Broadcast Shortened Version Tuesday Night   MEETS LEADERS   ‘Second’ Session Of 78th .., Congress: Gets Under - Way At Noon Today

Congressmen Gather Today   Resume Session; FDR To . Send Message Tuesday

Congress Reassembles And Ties Into Subsidies, CCC   President Roosevelt, On Advice Of Doctor, To Send Message To Solons, Not Speak

FR's Physician Advises Him Not to Deliver Speech In Person.   > PROBLEMS PRESSING

CONGRESS MEETS; F. RS MESSAGE TOMORROW   President to Broadcast in Evening; Clerks Will Read Paper to Assembled Solons

Roosevelt Speech Will Be Read   President Won't Go Before Congress

FDR MESSAGE WILL BE READ TO CONGRESS   Advised by Physician Not To Deliver Talk Personally Tomorrow

Clerk To Read FDR Message lomorrow  a en oe   President on Air fn Evening for Half-Hour Report

FDR Not To Read.  Message   Will Broadeast Summary to Nation Tuesday Night

CONGRESS ON JOB; TACKLES MANY ISSUES   Foreign Policy One of Problems  erm ss  AWAIT MESSAGE  ce  Face Budget, Taxes Labor Draft

‘President, Advised Against Delivering Annual Message in Per. son, to Speak at Night   Underscores Importance   Message Will be Read to Congres: at Noon—Important Legislatior on Schedule

Why Not Publish a Memorial Tribune  To Those Who Have Gone Before?

Nazi Losses Soar Tn Italy Fighting   Allies Drive Closer to Leghorn and Florence

Sth Army Moves Near Livorno  Enemy Losses Are Beyond Calculation

CONQUEST OF ANGAUR IS COMPLETE!   As U. S. Marines Fight Fiercely for Knockout on Peleliu to the North; Light Resistance.   Hold Ridges

YANKS FINISH CONQUEST OF ANGAUR ISLE   Davao is Given Heavy Blasting by Over 50 Liberators

iercely for eleliu Victory  re Fight   Doughboys of 8lst Victorious in Initial Operation Against Foe Kuriles Raided Again

NET ON FOE IN EAST PRUSSIE   Russian Bridgehead Across Vistula Holds An Equal Peril To Germans

SOVIETS NEAR RAILWAY LINE FROM WARSAW   Narew River Lines Scene Of Russian Gains  >. werapPaarieter uwaseagee

Red Jaws Closing — On Nazis   Threaten Thousands Massed To Defend East Prussia.

REDS TIGHTEN TRAP ON NAZIS INE, PRUSSIA   Russian Troops Advance in Lithuania, Northeast of Warsaw

—RUSSTA—  NEW RED GAINS AROUND WARSAN   German Positions North east Of Polish Capita! Are Wiped Out ‘   NET IS TIGHTENED   Soviets Only 20 Miles From’ Vital WarsawKrakow Railway

Massed Nazis In E. Prussia Facing Snare   Equal Peril Confronts Hit lerites By Extension Of Sovict Bridgehead Across Vistula   Russians Taking  Vital Objectives   Many Localities Are Being   Swept Up By Muscovites In Drive to Encircle   Ferries

PINGERS CLOSE ON GERMANS IN EAST PRUSSIA   Reds Extend Bridgehead Across Vistula Below Warsaw

Reds Tighten Jaws of Trap ‘On East Prussian Defenders         ‘Drive Sweeps Ahead In Lithuania; Nazi Positions Topple Neor Warsaw

BIG BATTLESHIP, ‘SUNK AT PEARL IHAPBOP. AFLOAT   U. S. S. Oklahoma Rides At Anchor Again, Navy Dept. Announced

T. Sgt. R. F. Harris Awarded D. F. C., Air. Medal With 3 Clusters

Steel AfterTax Profits Are Phew.   Or So Phil Murray Says In His Appeal For Wage Increases

BERLIN BLASTED AS REDS SURGE ACROSS FINLAND   Prisoners Captured in Italy Evidence of Weakening Defense of Germany

Cherbourg’s Fall To Yanks Seems Matter Of Hours   Press On Toward Port After Suburbs Battle

Allies Aim For Junction, War  Five Years Old   Advancing Armies  700 Miles Apart

Gap Between Allied and Russian Armies Cut in Half in Three Months

Germans, Facing Defeat, Review 5 Years Of War   Ambitions Of Hitler's People Shattered By Reverses

Fifth War Anniversary Today Finds Allied Armies Driving Closer To Junction, Pointing To Nazi Deteat

Opening of Sixth Year of War Finds: Nazis Trapped with Million and Half Casualties Suffered in Last 90 Days

Anniversary _ Of War Sees Nazi Defeat   Great Allied Armies Drive At Heart of Aggressor Nation 700 Miles Apart

Ohio County On Spot  Watts Agrees Meadows Is ‘Crown Prince ‘Jf I ‘2elyism  LLL LCL LLL AL LLL LOL ELT TT IE

‘Ohio County On Spot   Watts Agrees Meadows Is  ‘Crown Prince ‘Jf [ “eelyism

Mustering Out: Bills Complete   House Considering Pair Of .Measures; $300 Is Committee :Goal--

WB, OIUROEVANT, FORMER RURAL CARRIER, DIED   Burial Is Planned at Phoenix Ariz.; lilness Was Lengthy

W.B. STURDEVANT, FORMER RURAL GARRIER, DIES   . Burial Is Planned at Phoenix Ariz.; Iness Was Lengthy

oth Army Guns Begin Shelling  Outer Bolo ona   Infantry And Tank Units Creep Forward In Driving Rainstorm

NAVY KEEPS SAILORS OUT OF SACRAMENTC   City Declered Out of Bounds a Result of Fight Among Service Men and Civilians.

Foreign Policy May Not Be Election Issue   Republican Leaders Gather to Draft Compromise Plank

Foreign Policy By Austin   Senator's International Aspect Promises To Eliminate Foreign Policy Issue.

ENEMY FORCES RETREAT FROM WEST HOLLAND   British Use Flame-Throwing Tanks in Advancing Near Essen

U. S. And Japs In Fierce Battle Near Marianas   2y INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.

POLES IN WARSAW APPEAL FOR AID   Soviets Knock Out 478 Nazi Tanks in Three Days.

Polish Army In Warsaw  Needs Help   General Bor Appeals For Allied Aid; Russians Con. tinue To Advance

New Buildings And Ixtensions For Fairs And Recreation  Mapped Out.

FRESH ATTACK AGAINST NIPS   Stilwell’s Army Launches New Drive But Loyang Situation Js Still Grave   AVENUE OF ESCAPE CUT OFE BY JAPANESE FORCE

Stilwell's Forces in Big Aitack   His Chinese Troops Open Major Drive Against Three Japanese Bases   MODERN, WEAPONS. . ARE BEING USED   But in Chita, the Nips Are Pushing Hard Toward the Gateway of Chungking

Senator Fires Opening Shot At Peace Plan   Fights One-Man Authority for Use of Force

Ailies Gain Substantially Along 30-Mile Front South Of Florence Piercing Lines

Hull Deelares Dewey’s Fears  All Unfounded   Had No Intention Of Trying To Coerce Lesser Powers, State Secretary Savs

HULL ANSWERS GOV. DEWEY'S CRITICISM   Tells Governor His Fears Are Unfounded

Hull Describes Dewey's Fears As Unfounded   GOP Presidential Candidate Blasts Four-Power Plan

Nazis Admit Russ Breach in Prussia   Over 300,000 Men Pinching Off East Section of Reich

Soviets Hurl 300,000 AtGermans   Nazis Say Red Army Has Breached East Prussia Line

Soviets Advance 10 Miles In Jabs At German Soit  Pincers Movement Lau nched By Two.   Pincers Movement Launched By Two Big Russian Armies

Drive Against East Prussia Gains Power   Enemy Lines Breaking Under Heavy Blows Of Attackers

300,000 RUSSIANS MARCH ON PRUSSI! IN PINCERS NOVI   Ten-Mile Advance Imperils Two German Strongholds Guarding Province’s  Southern Border.   NAZIS LOSE 203 TANKS IN BITTER FIGHTING   Reds 100 Miles Below Warsaw Tighten Noose on Three Trapped Ene ° my Divisions.

Reds imperil East Prussian Nazi Bastions   Berlin Says Russians Have Cut Out Breach In Major Depth in  Western Lithuania

Russians Slice Hitler Defense Above Warsaw   Breach of ‘Major Depth’ Also Axed in Nazi Line In Weet Iishuania

10-MILE GAIN MADE BY REDS ABOVE WARSAW   Berlin Says New Thrust Toward Balkan: In Prospect

STRONG PLANE TANK FORCES SUPPORT DRIVE   First Soviet Crossing Into Reich In 30 Years Awaited

Soviet Forces Capture 80 Localities   Major Breach Is Punched Out in Western Lithuania

Soviets Move Up Ten Miles In One Seeton   Thrusts Lnperiling Lomza and Ostrow-Mazowiecki, Bastions Guarding Lower Prussia   300,000 Reds In  Pincer Movement   Germans Say Sovyicts  Punched Out “Breach of  Major Depth in Nazi Prussian Lines

Advance By Reds On All Fronts   New Drive On Between Warsaw And Border Of  East Prussia

Deep Breach Punched Out In Nazi Lines   New Drive Starts Between Warsaw and German Province   10-MILE ADVANCE   Soviets Tighten Hold on Three Trapped Enemy Divisions

Soviet Troops Continue Gains   Threaten Strongholds Guarding East Prussia

RUSSIANS ARE SILENT ON DRIVES   Red Smash Into East Prussia Still Is Not Confirmed

Soviets Score Major Breach In Nazi Lines  300,000 Red Troop: In Giant Pincers Or Germany's Troops :

Another Russian Army Advances On East Prussia in Pincer Move   RAF Flies Long, Dangerous Trips to Aid Warsaw Poles

Masthead-Height Bombings By U. S. Planes Wipes Out Full Jap 15-Ship Convoy

NAZI LEADERS AIM DEGREES AT REVOLT FORCES   Mystery German Radio Denies Elimination Of Hitler Foes   BIG BLOW IN’ MAKING   Himmler Orders Huns To Surrender Hunting Guns And Pistols

Stern Decrees Seek to Stem ‘Nazi Revo't    Mystery Announcer Says Revolution Still. Is in Full Swing

GERMANS FACE STERN DECREES ON HOME FRONT   One Report Says Rebellion of Officers Not Yet Stopped

NAZIS ISSUING STERN DECRERS  WHILE REVOLT SPOKESMAN. DECLARES REBELLION - 18 NOT QUELLED

Red Forces Are 50 Miles From Minsk   5,000 Communities, 25,000 Square Miles Of Territory Freed  LEPEL, OSIPOVICHI  FALL IN. BIG DRIVE _Five More Divisions Of Germans Trapped In Gobruisk Area

Russians Take Major Points  From Germans  Mogilev, Lepel and Osipovichi Captured  in Savier Drive

Reds Capture 9000 Towns To Minsk Pusk   Soviets Reoceupy 25,000 Square Miles of Homeland

LAUSCHE PLANS MAJOR ADDRESS   Republican Women Hold Annual Session Friday

Mystery. Army  Waging Campaign   May Go Far Toward Breaking Nazi Grip ~

MYSTERY COMMANDO ARMY WAGES WAR ON GERMANS IN ALBANIA   CORRESPONDENT LANDS WITH BRITISH ON ISLAND OFF YUGOSLAVIA, REVEALS OPERATIONS METHODS

NEW BASES ON EMIRAU ISLE TAKEN TODAY   Only 580 Miles From Truk; Met  No Resistance

DELUGE HITS MATTOON AND VICINITY   Many Basements Are Flooded, Some to Depths of Three Feet

NEW SHAKEUP JN ARGENTINE   ONLY TWO MEMBERS OF CABL NET EXPECTED TO REMAIN “IN OFFICE UNDER __  NEW SETUP Z

State Police Urge Motorists To Have Their Vehicles Inspected Now

Clerical Help Shortage Slows Processing of Absentee Vote Requests

Farm Machinery Ontput Hike Argued By WPB   Equipment Idle In Africa, Says Irate Solon

5) Butler Co. Farmers Jailed On Riot Charge   Accused of Inciting Tumult in Ejection of Negro families

What to Do With 55 Farmers Poses — Problem for Poplar Bluff Sheriff

FIFTY-FIVE FARMERS IN COUNTY JAIL  Held On Charge  On Inciting iXiot

Farmers In Mass Surrender Scoff Bonds, Overflow Jail   Charged With Inciting To Riot In Alleged Ejection Of Negroes

55 FARMERS PREFER PRISON   Ignore Bonds on Indietment After Negro Ejections

Says Illinois Will Be Called Upon for 12,000 Men Over 26   Deputy Selective Service Director Tells of Military Needs

Jap Air Parasol Covers Central China Invasion   By George Waig Tinited Press Staff

PLANES AID JAP CHENGHSIEN DUEL   ENEMY UNCHALLENGED IN AERIAL FIGHT

Control Of Air Helps Jap Attack   Artillery Duel Rages On Rim Of Rail Junction City As Battle For Central China Develops

JAP PLANES UNCHALLENGED AS THEY COVER ARMY OF 60.000 IN CHINA DRIVE

Woodring Offers Nine Democrats   Names Candidates To Beat Roosevelt

Yank Patrols Enter One Side of Lessay   SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,

ALSO REACH LESSAY TO MENACE ANCHOR BASES OF NAZI LINE   Report Indicates Early End Of Long Assault To Take Gateway To Heart Of Normandy; British Gain 3 Miles   (RULLETIN)

Mrs. A. Johnson Elected Regent Of D. A. R.   Other Officers Named At Meeting Held Tuesday Afternoon

Soldiers Serving Overseas To Get First Releases .   » Men With Dependents Also To Be -Demobilized. ‘Some. After: Reich’s Fall

Senator Reveals ~ Demobitization Proposal of Ariny   Says Men With Service “Overseas, Dependents,  Released First

Family Men, Those Serving Overseas Will Receive First Army Releases

SENATOR REVEALS ARMY'S PLAN FOR RELEASING TROOPS   First to Be Discharged Will Be Men With Dependents and Those With Overseas Service.   FORCE MAY BE CUT _ AFTER GERMANY FALLS   No Reduction Likely in OverAH Size of Navy Until After Japan Has Been Reaten.

First Discharges To Family Men,  Overseas Vets   Senator Thomas Talks Of Plan as Army  Prepares Statement

Muights of Pythias Cenfer Kirst Degree On Four Candidates Tuesday Evening

1ALAC OLE YS el cited «  ————_$—$<_———— \Boogy-Woogy Music Makes ‘Delinquents of Hepcats

Silence Of Loyang Radio May Confirm Jap Claim Of Fall Of Vital City

LOYANG BELIEVED TO HAVE FALLEN   About Only Sector Nips Having Anything But Bad Luck, However.

RESISTANCE STIFFENS ON SAIPAN ISLE   Indicate Japs Have Reached Spot Chosen For Stand

Fierce Saipan Battle Looms   Japs Believed Ready Behind Strong Defense Previously Prepared

Jap Resistance Strong On Saipan   Nips Make Defense  From Mountain Caves

Jap Resistance Stiffens Today In Saipan Fight   Enemy Prepares For Battle with American Forces

: Garapan, Peace-Time Capital Of Marianas, .Beins Attacked By U: S.Soldiers, Marines

Indications That Strong’ Jap Defenses “Are Ahead And Enemy' Numbering More Than 20,000 Troops Is Ready. To Begin Heavy Battle. 

Japs on Saipan Begin Last-Ditch Island Defense   Resistance Stiffens As Americans Reach Fortified Positions; Battle for Garapan

SAVAGE FIGHT FOR CAPITAL OF MARIANAS   Americen Artillery Rocks Garapan Several Hours With Heaviest Barrage of Campaign  FLEET ReMAINS IDLE

Japs Stiffen Defenses on Saipan Island   Bloody Battles Ahead Are Forecast as Foe  Fights Back

Resistance By Japs Stiffens  Mass Fighting On Saipan May Be Near

Capture of a Dozen Towns  By the British   Rommel is Forced Again on Run in The Caen Salient

STRONG BRITISH ARMORED UNIT NEARS VIMONT   Comparative Quiet Registercd On American Front In Normandy

British Armor Nears Vimont On Paris Road   Lieut. Gen. O’Connor Once Nazi Prisoner, Leads Successful Drive of British

TAKE TOWNS ON ROAD TO PARIS   REDS STREAM OVER BUG RIVER   AMERICANS ON BANKS OF ARNO

BRITISH DRIVE TOWARD SEINE   Comparative Quiet Reported On American Front

British Tank Units Near Vimont on Road To Paris, _ U.S. Patrols Cross Ay River

BRITISH DRIVES WIN 12 TOWNS ON NORMANDY   Push Eight Miles Southeast Of Caen; Quiet Reported On American Front

ALLIES NOW ON ROAD 10 PARIS: TAKE 12 TOWNS   American Patrol Crosses River Near Lessay

British Take 12 Towns In Caen Area Offensive   Major Battle Not Certain.

ITALIANS ARE MOVED INTO WAR PLANTS   Over Million Men , Women Taken Through Brenner Pass During Past Few Months  MEETS FOOD SHORTAGE

Over Million Men, Women To Germany   Tn the Past Four Months; To Be Used As Slave ‘Labor in Industry

oS I ea ee, See ee  AMMLLION FTALIANG TAKEN. 10 CERMIANY   Lack of Food, -Work in Italy “Forcing Exodu’* Trip: inté Raich  bo, 2 :

Drain Italy Of Workers   Million. Men and Wom. en Taken to Man Nazi War Machines, Says Underground Paper

Italians Sent Info Germany   1,000,000 Men and Women Moved to Work In War Factories

Nazis Snatch Million Italians   Placed In German Arma ment Industry; Movement Continues.

Shortening of War Seen if Nazi Drive ls Failure  Sec. Stimson Points To Comparable “ Condition in 1918

Failure Will Shorten War   Stimson Says If German Counter-Blow Fails, War Will Be Shortened.

NAZI DRIVE MAY SPEED VICTORY   Secretary Of War Stimson Says If Nazi Drive Fails, War Shall Be Shortened.

Stimson Says N azi Push to Shorten War   Defeat of New Assault To Bring Peace Much  Nearer, Is Claim

Failure Of German Offensive Will Definitely Shorten War, Is Claim

CLAIM FAILURE OF NAZI COUNTER-PUSH WILL SHORTEN WAR   War Secretary Stimson © Be‘lieves Collapse of Enemy Counter-Offensive Definitely Will Cut Down Length of fanntlict

Failure Of German Offensive Will Shorten War—Stimson   Build Up Force

STIMSON SEES FOE GAMBLING ON THIS DRIVE   Germans’ Defeat in Current Attack Will Shorten Wor, Is Belief

Sees Shorter War If Nazi Drive Fails   Ability to Launch Drive Significant, Stimson Says

NAZI DRIVE ‘SIMILAR TO 1918 PUSE   Stimson ‘Says: That If ft Fails [t Definitely Will Shorten War

Push Failure May I Be Help   German. Offensive Can ‘Shorten. War

Premium Awards At the Corn and Grain. Show’ Held Here Last Week   Exhibits Of Excellent Quality But Not As Large As Previously .

Chinese Push Into Burma Road Base   Offensive in Yunnan Gaining Momentum

Justice Department Rules Goverment Has Authority To Continue Mine Holding

ICKES BARES COAL REINS   RULE STRIKE THREATS PERMIT U. S. POSSESSION

Not Required To Return Mines   Biddle Rules That Possibility of Work Stoppages Exist

U.S. To Continue Control Of Mines  Return To Owners May Bring Trouble. Belief   Sieht Rrine Distasier

Justice Department Rules Government Can Retain Control Of Mines Despite Provisions Of Smith-Connallw Act. a

U.S. OCCUPIES 10 ATOLLS IN MARSHALLS   Most Of Them Taken Without Resistance And Light Opposition On Others Quickly Overcome.   Ja'uit Is Center

Jap Resistance Disappears in Late Action   Some Prisoners Are Taken, Nimitz Reports

NIMITZ EXPANDS “HARSHALLS HOLD   TEN MORE ATOLLS IN ISLANDS ARE OCCUPIED BY AMERICAN FORCES.

Japanese Driven Off of All but Jaluit in West   Little Resistance Reported by Nimitz

Yanks Occupy Ten More Atolls In Marshalls Leaving Japanese Holding One of Western Chain

U.S. Forces Take 10 More Marshall Atolls   Japanese Troops Cleared From Total of 14 Now; Most of Them Occupied Without Resistance; Some Prisoners Are Seized

Yank Forces Occupy 10 More Marshalls Atolls As Jap Opposition Wanes

Truk Hit Again From Our Bases In Mid Pacific   Resistance By Japanese Units Disappears As U.S. Forces Occupy More Islands; Big Nip Fortress Given Ninth Raid

More Atolls Taken  By American Force   Total of 14 in the Marshalls Group Now Occupied, Admiral Nimitz Announces—Little Resistance Encountered

New Revolt Frustrated In Argentina   Futile Effort To Reinstate Ousted President Is Renarted.

Pro Allied Revolt Fails In Argentina   Lt. Col. Tomas Duco Friend of Ramirez Leads Armv Fiasen

New Russ Offensive Launched   Reds Lash Out All Along Front Below East Prussia

NEW RED DRIVE AIMED AT EAST  PRUSSIA PIERCES GERMAN DEFENSE   Front Is Active After Short Lull

Soviets Repulse Counterattacks In East Prussia   Reds Consolidate Forces For Expected Drive On Konigsberg

RUSSIANS GPEN NEW OFFENSIVE INE, PRUSSIA   Fighting Breaks Out All Along Narew River, Is Nazi Report

EDS REGROUP FOR NEW EAST PRUSSIAN DRIV   Hurl Back Strong Naz Attacks On SnowCovered Fields

Nazi Lines Are Broken  Along River   Red Army Increases Pressure Of Pincers On East Prussia.

Gen. Eisenhower Broadcasts Message To French Border People That Their Territory Is In Theater Of Battle

ALLIES DRIVE FOR REICH ON 200 Mi. FRONT   German Troops Disorganized; Soldiers Hurry Te Quit France

FRENCH PEOPLE NEAR GERMANY PECEIVE ORDER   Gen. Eisenhower Sends Message To Patriots

Gen. Ike Broadcasts Warning to Citizens’ of Alsace-Lorraine   Supreme Allied Commander States Area Will Soon be Theater

Allied Chief Warns Alsace-Lorraine Of Coming Battles  Entire Area Is Seen As Possible War Theater by Leader

General Eisenhower’s Headquarters Advises French, Soon to Be in Thick of Fighting, to Stay Away from Germans, Roads, Military Installations and to Record Carefully Any Atrocities

French In Alsace-Lorraine  Area Told By Eisenhower They Will Soon Be ln War Theater   Warned To Take Refuge In Countryside; Spy On Nazis

War Nearing Alsace And Lorraine, Luxembourg   Eisenhower Warns People There That Allied Bombers Are Coming

Eisenhower Warns of Coming Battle Area      ‘ig! at for France Decided, He Asserts, Warning of Blistering Attack Due In Taking War to Germany.

Gen. Eisenhower Warns Alsace French They May Soon Be In Operations Area

Yanks Cross Seine; Advance on Rhine   Gen. Eisenhower Warns Alsace French They May Soon Be In Operations Area

Reims Entered, Report  Germans, But This Is  firmed As Yet  Not Conf

: French In Alsace-Lorraine Warned They Will Soon Be In Active War Theater

ENEMY FACES AIR POUNDING   Luxembourg Also Included In Order Urging Civilians To Quit Danger Zone

GEN. EISENHOWER WARNS PEOPLE OF BORDER STATES  TELLS OCCUPANTS IN   TELLS OCCUPANTS IN SPECIAL BROADCAST TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS

Tells French Bordering Reich They Are Already Tu “Rear Area of Military Operations”’   Battle of France Decided, He Says   ‘Remnants of Nazi Ariny Can Fight Only Delaying Actions In Retreat,  General] Declare

Alsace-Lorraine Warned War To Engulf Region   Broadcast By General Eisenhower They May Soon Be In Theater.

WARN FRENCH IN ALSACE-LORRAINE   Eisenhower Tells People to Move Out of Developing War Theater

Text Eisenhower  Order Broadcast  To Border States Citizens Warned to Keep Awa from Nazis, Communication Lines. Facteries. Darans

Russian Forces. “Sweeping Down On Sevastopo!   Tolbohkin’s 4th Ukrainian Army 46 Miles From Black Sea Naval Base

SOVIET TROOPS ROLL THROUGH LOWER CRIMEA   Russians Draw Trap Tighter Around. Remaining Nazis in Skala Pocket

:  SOVIET FLEET, AIR FORCE HIT NAZIS FLEEING   Bessarabian Capita Threatened With Encirclement By Russians

Sevastopol dess Than 46 Miles Away   Feodosiya Falls; Important Romanian Seaport Is Bombed

Russians Sweep Toward Sevastopo   Great Black Sea Naval Base Threatened by Advancing Reds

Russian Army Only. 46 Miles From Sevastopol   Soviet Air Force And Black Sea Fleet Blast Germans Fleeing From-Crimea;— Thousands Of Foe Face Annihilation.

Ath Ukrainian Army Closes in On Sevastopol   Another Army Is Advancing Steadily From Kerch Peninsula Toward Biq Naval Base

Roosevelt and Dewey Agree to Cut $10, 000 Off Inauguration Costs

INAUGURAL FUND CUT 10 $25,000   Nominees Agree This Is Good Year To Save Ten Thousand

Walkouts Spread Through Detroit   Area’s Labor Dispr'tes Involve 9000 Workers

Bahson’s Authentic Statement   ‘Copyright-—1944—Publishers Fimaucial Bureau, Inc. WHAT ABOUT GOVERNMENT BONDS?

Babson Tells About U.S. Bonds   GOVERNMENT DEBT TO BE SERVICED IN FUTURE

3,500 Workers Stage New "Walkout In Detroit; Truck  Drivers Strike Continues

AIR RAIDS HINT NEW INVASIONS IN PACIFIC AREA   Kuriles, Marshalls, Carolines and Rabaul Hit; 25,090 Japs Slain

ASSAULTS FROM ,KURILES To NEW GUINEA BY AMERICAN PLANES INDICATE NEW MOVES PLANNED

NEW PACIFIC DRIVE NEARS   Nimitz Delivers Softening Up Blows  Fleet, Planes Roam : at Will

Chinese Advance Toward Kamiang  Japanese Thrust at Mytikyina Repulsed

Chinese Advance Toward Kamiang  Japanese Thrust at   Japanese Thrust at Myvtikvina Repulsed

REACH CITY OF KRIVO! ROC   Red Army Races Over Approaches To City of Pskov

Russians Drive Into Krivoi Rog   Advance Toward  Pskov Continues

Victory Here Would Unhinge Entire German Hald In the South Area.

RUSSIAN ARMIES BID FOR QUICK VICTORIES; KRIVO! ROG STORMED   Battle Through Streets Of Great Mining Center, Race Nearer Pskov To Celebrate Red Armvy’s Anniversary   Ry HARRISON SALISRIRY

Nazis Put Up Stitf Resistance For Mining Town   Soviets Push Forward Toward Pskov In Drive  On Enemy Junction

Soviets Fight Way Through Krivoi Rog  Garrison of Ukraine Mining Center

Yanks and French Join in Attacks In Area Near Cassino   Advance of Six Miles is Reported With Seizure of Heights, Taking U. S. Units Within a Mile of Town of Terelle   BIG ENEMY COUNTERATTACKS THROWN BACK

: itish Fight nly 16 Miles Below Capital   rrman Counter Attacks ‘hrown Back, Allies Widen Bridgehead In Anzio Area ©   azis Mopped Up: th Cassino Zone   isoners ‘Taken by U. S$  d French Units In ~Terelle Drive North .  Of Vital Town 

TEAR GAPS iN GERMAN LINE   American, French Troops Advance Deeper Into Italian Territory

Allies Crack  Gustav Line   Yanks and French Advancing Deeper In Area North of Cassino

Yank-French Fighters Rip Gustav Line   Tear Away Miles of Nazi  Barrier; Beachhead  Troops Repulse Foe

Allies Break Through Nazi  Gustav Line   oth Army Comrades In Rome Bridgehead Gain In Some Areas Against Stiffening Defenses

NAZI DEFENSES ARE TOTTERING   American and French Troops: Are Converging North of Cassino.   OTHER FIGHTING HARD

ALLIED ARMY NEARER ROME IN NEW PUSH   Battle R-cing At Mt. Manna Today; Supplies Cut

Yanks Tear Big Holes in Gustav Line   _ American and French Troops Engaged in Grim Struggle; Hurl  Back Counter-Attack

ALLIES CRACK GUSTAV LINE ABOVE CASSINO   Forces Hurl Back Strong Nazi Counter-Attack South of Rome

SOME ADVANCE MADE IN DRIVE AIMED AT ROME   American And French Troops Converging North Of Cassino; Other Forces To The West Battle Enemy Within Few Miles Of Rome.

Nazi Cassino Defenses Totter As Battle Rages   Yank And French Troops Shatter Gusta Line In Advance, Which Now Threatens  German Lifelines To Rome:

Allies Throw Back Bloody Nazi Attack Below Rome   Reinforcements Continue To Pour Into Beachhead

Grim Struggle Raging in Italy   Allies Cut Through Gustav Line And Converge North of Cassino

NAZI DEFENSES SPLIT BY NEW ALLIED ATTACK   Repulse Bitter German Counter Attack On Rome Beachhead

Allies Dig Path Throug!  Nazi Defense   Half Million Men Fighting for Hilian Brideehead

yveral Miles Of Gustav Line In Italy Shattered, With American And French Troops Pressing Deeper Into Enemy-Held Territory—Beachhead Between Anzio And Rome Expanded As Reinforcements Arrive To Ward Off Possible German Counter-Attack

Fifth Breaks Gustav Line Near Cassino   Are Advancing Deeper in Grim Struggle—Nazi Push Driven Back

Berlin Estimates 250,000 Men Engaged on Each Side Girding for Battle for Rome   GUSTAV LINE IS CUT   American, French Troops Tear Away Several Miles of Deienses —Hitler Line Beyond

Yank And French Troops Sever Germans’ Strong Gustav Line; Fighting Bitter Below Rome

Allies Tear Into Strong Gustav Line   Allied Invasion Troops Hurl Back Counter-Attack on Anzio Bridgehead

ARE DESTROYED   -Allied Invasion Troops * Throw Back Counter . Drive Near Littoria

AMERICAN-FRENCH TROOPS JOINING NORTH OF CASSINE   Have Torn Away Several Miles of the Nazi Strong Gustav Line.   ARE ADVANCING DEEPER   A Strong German Counterattack West of Littoria Thrown Back.

CRUMBLE BIG SECTION OF GUSTAV LINE      Converging Americans and French Advance Deeper in Grim Struggle—Some Gains Made on Anzio Bridgehead. {

Expecting Heavy German Attack In. Beachhead Region   Allied Reinforcements Still Moving in; French, Yanks Side By Side in South

Several. Miles. of Gustav Ling. Ts Torn Away   ‘Important  Casualties: Are Inflicted‘on Germans, But French Losses ‘Are Higher          CASSINO ITSELF            Advance Made Near Ro - and Both: Sides "Prepare = for Heavier Action

GERMANS MASS FOR ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Battle Rages At Cisterna, Campoleone And Above Cassino >

NAZI ATTACK BELOW ROME IS REPULSED   Allies Tear Away Several Miles Of Nazi Cassino Line

Allies Break Nazi Line In Cassino Area  And Advance   Strong Counter-Attack By Enemy West Of Littoria Thrown Back; More Troops Landed

BITTER FIGH} RAGES NORTH _ OF CASSINO   Nazi Attack Beaten Back In Littoria Sector   BEACHHEAD   Now Stands 14 Miles Long, 8 Miles Deep; French Losses Are Heavy

U. S., French Shattering Famed Nazis’ Gustav Line   British Fighting ‘Closer To Rome

Americans and French Advance Through Break In Gustav Line   Allies Throw Back Nazi Counterattack Near Littoria

Allies Smash Deeper in Gustav Line   U. S., French Tear Miles From Germans’ Defense

Allies Tear Away Part of Gustav Line   Strong Counterattack Is Hurled Back in Liitoria Sector

Allies Break Gustav Line Near Cassino   Nazis Also Lose Ground in Sharp Fighting Near Rome

Allies Rip Gaps in Gustav Line   AMERICAN, FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCE DEEPER; INVASION TROOPS HURL BACK NAZI ATTACK WEST OF LITTORIA; CAMPOLEONE FIGHT RAGES

New Gaps Torn In Gustav Line   Reinforcements Pour Into Beachhead

SEVERAL MILES OF STRONG GUSTAV LINE HAVE BEEN TORN AWA)  EICHTING NEAR ROME   FIGHTING NEAR ROME STILL FAVORS ALLIED FORCES TODAY

Yanks, French Crack Gustav Line In Italy   Advance Above Cassino; Nazi Attack On Anzio Bridgehead Renpulsed.

Cassino Defenses Totter As Allies Step Up Assaults On Road To Rome

NAZIS BUILD UP STRONG FORCE NEAR BEACHHEAD   YANKS, FRENCH RIP SEVERAL MILES OF STRONG GUSTAV LINE

BRITAIN KEEPS FINGER ON RED-POLE DISPUTE   Eden Asserts Hope Remains For Favorable Solution

Eden Hopes For Polish Pact   Border Problem Is ‘Difficult and Delicate Commons Informed

Russian-Polish Border Problem           7% British Protest Is Sent Soain

ROME WELCOME FOR FIFTH ARMY TURNED CITY INTO CARNIVAL  GERMANS SLINKED FROM TACT wirur  PADITAT fL

Rome Gives 5th Army Warm Welcome of Near Carnival Style; Clark Lauds Troops

ETERNAL CITY TAKES ON AIR OF CARNIVAL   American Soldiers Respect Vatican Neutrality, Do Not Enter

Eternal City Spared by Fleeing Foe   Italian Partisans Join Liberating Armies In Routing Germans; Crowds Bestow Flowers, Kisses on Triumphant Troops

Victorious Fifth Army Drives Germans From Italian Capital   Fighter-Bombers Hammer Away At Demoralized Enemy Leaving Highways Littered With Dead And Wounded; Little Damage In Rome

Street Cars, Busses Halt   3,500 Operators On Strike In St. Louis

Trolley Men ain St. Louis “Out On Strike   Pacific Loggers Begin To Return; Only One Walkout In Detroit

SAINT LOUIS IS PARALYZED BY TRANSIT STRIKE   Motorists Aid In Carrying Stranded Workers To Jobs

St. Louis Walks as Strike Breaks  Street Car and Bus Drivers Go Out

3,50 Drivers Go On Strike In $f, Louis   Bread Deliveries Resumed At Detroit As Workers Return

Street Cars, Busses in St. Louis are Idle   Traffic Worse Than Before the War Policeman States

St. Louis Streetcars and Buses Idle As 3,500 Operators Go on Strike   STRIKE SITUATION EASES IN OTHER SECTORS

Sudden Strike Hits St. Louis   Street Cars, Buses Idle In _ Unauthorized Strike; Traffic In Serious Jam

Strike Begins In St. Louts   All Street Cars. Buses Idle As 3.500 Operators Go On Strike.

STREETCARS, BUSSES TIED UP AT ST, LOUIS   3,500 Operators Strike In Overtime Pay Dispute

ST. LOUIS TRA WORKERS STRIKE   Labor Troubles Eased on Other Fronts

St. Louis Bus Workers Strike   Labor Front Conditions Elsewhere Ease Somewhat

ST. LOUIS BUS AND STREET CAR WORKERS STRIKE   Motorist: Rescue People Stranded Going To Work

STREET CARS, BUSES IDLE IN ST. LOUIS   3,500 Operators Strike; Workers Are Stranded

Roundup On The American Labor Front... .  Strike Stops St. Louis Transportation; Labor Tie-up Generally Eases

Strike Halts Street Cars In St. Louis   Buses Also Tied Up As 3500 Operators Walkout; Private Cars Give Service

Strike Threat Eases; 50,000    : Return to Jobs   Latest Walk-Out at St.  Louis Where Transportation Workers Quit

5000 Go Back To Their Jobs   17,000 Still Idle  Over Labor Disputes

Taft May Be Unopposed for GOP Resolutions Committee Chairmanship

Taft May Lead In Drafting Of GOP. Platform   Republican Leaders ‘Assemble . . For Pre-Convention Conferences —

GOP May Pick Taft To Draft Party Platform   Bricker Supporters Deny Assertions Of Dewey Fans

BELL STRIKE   Operators, Maintenance Men ands Others from Canton, Akron Expected Out

‘Phone Operators’ Strike Spreads T’o 26 Ohio Cities, May Extend Through State   Dispute Closes Chrysler Plant Making Warplanes

More Operators Plan To Join Strike; 26. Ohio Cities Hit   Northeastern Industrial Section May Be Next To  Feel Effets Of Walkout; 4,000 Now Estimated On Strike

PHONE STRIKE FELT HERE, 26 OTHER CITIES   4,000 Operators, and 1,200 Other Employes Walk Out, Is Report

LOCAL SERVICE MAINTAINED BY DIAL SYSTEMS   Labor Board in Capital Is Studying Situation and Effect on War Effort

Phone Operator Strike Spreads   Service In 26 Ohio Cities Already Hit By Walkout.

Phone Workers ‘xpand Strike   Jnion Spokesman Says Walk-Out Will Hike *Lo Northeastern Cities.

Ohio Phone Strike Spreads   26 Towns AffectedWill Be Extended, Union Head Says

PHONE WALKOUT HITS 26 CITIES; 4,000 ON STRIKE   Predicts Phone Operators In Northeastern Ohio To Join Dispute

Democrats Face Party Control Ficht Saturday   — Pro-Roosevelt Forces Seek To Wrest Leadership From Regulars

COUNTY MEETS DUE SATURDAY   Contre’ 9° Demo Party In TexaS . .,,e At Stake

Guns And Planes Help Drive 2 Mi. luto West Wall   First Army Pierces Siegfried Line Three Mile Near Aachen In Biggest Offensive Since Break-Through In Normandy.

Yank Armor Storms Meuse Defenses, Take Overloon in Heavy Fighting; Enemy Abandons Shell-Battered Forts

GUNS, PLANES SET FIRE TO ENEMY FORTS   Cologne, Dusseldorf Are Goals of Offensive

Artillery Fire Follows In Wake of ‘Fort’ Raid   Merciless Shelling Drives Nazis From Shelter of Famcd Monastery

Nazis Had Used Shrine As Fortress   German Defenses on Hill side Receive Share of  High Explosives

Great Aerial Offensive  Under Way   Allies Attempt to Break Deadlock In Italian Fighting

U.S. Bombs Smash Into Monastery To Oust Germans  Leaflets Warned Monks to Flee

Move Knock: Out Germa Defenses        AMERICANS HAD SUFFERED   TO SAVE MONASTERY OF MONTE CASSINO

Christian Shrine Furiously Pounded   Allies Wreck Historic Building Which Has Been Talking Bloody Toll of Men

NAZI DEFENSES IN ANCIENT MONASTERY ARE KNOCKED OUT BY ALLIED FORCES

BOMB ANCIENT SHRINE, BAR 10 U.S, OFFENSIVE   Allies Move To Break Stalemate On Two Italian Fronts

BOMBING OCCURS AFTER AMERICANS HAVE BIG LOSSES   Allied Headquarters Say German Offensive Against Allied Beachhead €n-r In “Costly Failure.”   SEVERAL WAVES TAKE PART TO QUIET BASE   Monks Are Warned In Leaflets Before Steps Are Taken to Break Bloody Stalemate of Cassino.

2 Way Bombardment Ruins Nazi Defenses   German Offensive Against Allied Beachhead Below Rome Ends In Costly Enemy Failure

Vichy Arrests Men In Reprisal Move   Will Execute One For Every De Gaullist Execution

Pa. G-I Joe Needs Only Pen, Pencil, Crayon To  Mark Military Ballot

Piper Cubs “Sort of Clay Pigeons"  Say Fliers in Planes Over Lorient

SQUEEZE MADE FOR LORIENT   Shells and Bombs Fall  on German Sub Base

Defense Bases Blasted   SON OF PRESIDENT SUED FOR DIVORCE   Col. Elliott Roosevelt Now Serving Overseas

ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT  TO BE DEFENDANT IN  SUIT FOR DIVORCE MRS. RUTH GOOGINS  ROOSEVELT WANTS SEPARATION FAR COLONET.

Elliott's Second Wife Asks Divorce   Calls President's Son Harsh, Unkind

ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT SUED FOR DIVORCE   WIFE CHARGES PRESIDENT’S . SON WAS “UNKIND, CRUEL  - AND TYRANNICAL.”

ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT TO BE DEFENDANT IN SUIT FOR DIVORCE  MRS. RUTH GOOGINS ©   MRS. RUTH GOOGINS ROOSEVELT WANTS SEPARATION FOR COLONEL

Roosevelt's Son Sued by Wife  Cruelty Charged by Wife of Elliott in eee: BB oa es

Roosevelt's Son Elliott Facing Suit for Divorce   Second Wife Plans To Seek Freedom

Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt Asks Texas Divorce  —- if; » © @& £=%V? . sie

ELLIOTT WIFE ASKS DIVORCE   President's Son Named . ir  Suit Filed in Fort Worth

M. HARDIN-BAYLOR COLLEGE LAUNCHES $125,000 CAMPAIGN   Institution Participates In $3,000,000 Project By Baptists of Texas

JAPANESE BASE IN BURMA FALLS   Allies Capture Myitkyina After Long Battle

Mvitkyina Falls To Allied Forces In North Burma   Seizure Important Step in Reopening Of Old Burma Road; New Drives Exnected

Myitkyina, Major Jap Base In North Burma, Is Captured By American-Chinese Forces   Seizure by Stilwell Provides Point Vital to Reopening of Ledo Road

ALLIES CAPTURE MYITKYINA BASE   Burma Victory Comes After Fighting Since May 17

J apanese Base In Burma Falls To Allied Arms   American, Hinperial and Chinese Forees Capture Myitkyina After Long Siege

ALLIES CAPTURE BASE IN BURMA   Japanese Lose Myitkyina After Siege Thot Started Last May 17

Myitkyina In Allied Hands   Long, Bitter Fight Wins Allies Important Airfields, Road, Rail Junction

Myitkyina Captur ed By Allies   Take Major Jap Base In Northern Rurma

MYITKYINA IS TAKEN AFTER BLOODY SIEGE   American, Imperial, Chinese Forces Capture Major Jap Base in Northern Burma  30,000 NIPS ARE SLAIN

Myitkyina Falls After ‘Long Siege   Victory a Big Step  Toward Opening New Land Route to China; Control Two Airfields

Stilwell Army Captures Japs’ Big Burma Base   Myitkyina Falls After Bitter And Bloody Siege That Began May 17.

Myitkyina Captured By Allies in Burma   Fall of Major Japanese Base Gives Stilwell’s Men Two Airfields and Prospective . Link With Chinese in Yunnan.   By CHARLES A. GRUMICH.

ALLIED ARMIES NOW ON MOVE FOR BERLIN ON 500-MILE FRONT   FAN OUT THRU BREACH IN SIEGFRIED LINE OVER LIGHTLY DEFENDED PLAINS BEFORE RHINE DEFENSE LINES

YANKS 30 MILES FROM COLOGNE   Entire Allied Battle Line on Moye Eastward on 500-Mile Front Starting Below Relfort

Vaunted Sieg fried Line Gives Way at Strongest Point as Americans Fan Out  In Open Countryside

Americans Swarm Into Reich Along 100-Mile Front And Make For Rich Rhine Area

Ist Army Bursts Thru Strongest Defense To Straddle Main Highway   Patton Troops Drive From Nancy  Toward Juncture With 7th At Belfort Escape Corridor

Break Thi ru Siegfried — Line ‘Again      BREAK IS MADE AT LINE'S  STRONGEST POINT, NEAR~* . AACHEN; FAN OUT INTO open

Aachen Almost Surrounded: 3rd Nears Metz   Armies Press Eastward on  500-Mile Front

BREAK MADE AT STRONGEST DEFENSE POINT   Entire Battle Line Moves Eastward On 500-Mile Front

FIRST ARMY BREAKS THROUGH NAZI WALL INTO OPEN COUNTRY   Americans Drive Toward Cologne, 30 Miles Away; Entire Allied Line Moves Deeper  Into Germany   Ry VIRGI, PINKTLYPRY

GERMANS FLEE LYON AS YANKS CLOSE NOOSE IN SWIFT DRIVE   YANKS THUNDER UP RHONE AFTER FLEEING NAZI ARMY; FRENCH ADVANCE AT MILE-HOUR RATE

Allies Hold Virtually All Of S. France   French Within 50 Miles Of Spanish Border, Yanks Near Ltaly

GERMAN 13TH “ARMY FLEEING FROM FRANCE   Allies Seize Control of Whole French Mediterranean Sea Coast.

Germans Are Evacuating City of Lyon   Heavy Enemy Movements Are Reported

Report Nazis Evacuating Lyon Area   Heavy Nazi Movement On Roads Leading North Reported

Convention Of Legion Opens   American Legion Delegates Gather In Chicago For 26th National Sessions

LEGION OPENS MOST SERIOUS CONVENTION   Truman and Bricker Top Speaking Program of First Day

LEGION MEETS IN SOBER SESSION   First Day Of Convention Given Over To Talks By Bricker And Truman

Two Armie: Force Nazis To Barrier   Ninth And First Batter Out Gains On Western Front

BATTLE ALONG COLOGNE PLAIN STILL INTENSE   No Confirmation Great Nazi Water Barrier Is Foreed

LAST BARRIER BEFORE RHINE   Bitter Fighting Rages As First, Ninth Armies Aim At Cologne

Nazis Warn Listeners Of Large Scale Offensive  NINTH AND FIRST ARMIES TAKE PART  Men Fighting In Mud At Some Places Hip Deep

Battle For Poland Blazing Toward Climax   Doughboys Strike Deeper On Normandy. Front

RED ARMY STORMED  GERMAN DEFENSES ON VISTULA RIVER   CAPTURE RAIL CENTER OF BIALYSTOK AND ENTEI BREST LITOVSK

Nazis Plan Last Ditch Pisa Fight   British Stopped at Caen but Throw Back Countérattacks There and at Florence

FLEE TO EUROPE FOE URGES POPE   Washington Church Circles Believe Pontiff Will Stay in Vatican

POPE 13 BEING Pact) TU ABANDON ROWE   Move Is Urged to Nazis to “Protec.” Pontiff From Allies

Pope Is Pressed By Nazi Command To Flee To Safer Refuge In Europe

POPE URGED TO QUIT VATICAN   Nazis Exert Pressure As Allies Near Capital 

Nazis ARE URGING POPE ~ TO MOVE FROM VATICAN      GERMAN. RIGH COMMAND'S PRESSURE BEING RESISTED, ’ ACCORDING TO MES-  “GAGE FROM VATICAN

YANKS CARVE OUT 40-MILE INVASION FRONT ON LEYTE   "LIBERATE 15 MORE TOWNS, VILLAGES IN DRIVE INTO INTERIOR

40-Mile Front Is Achieved Or Leyte Island   New Gains Made; Counterattack On Samar Repulsed

.. —PHILIPPINES—   EXTEND INVASION FRONT ON LEYTI   U. S. Doughboys Carve Out Solid 40-Mile Long  Front

Yankees Hold 40-Mile Front On Leyte Isle      Surge Deeper Inland T Free An Additional Fifteen Filipino Connuunities

American Troop: Carve {0-Mile Front On Leyte  76 Jap Planes   76 Jap Planes Bagged During , Attempted Raids

Yanks Carve Out 40-Mile Front On Leyte And Surge Deeper Inland; Junction Made; Jap Resistance Increases In Palo Area.

AMERICANS IN STEADY DRIVE ON PHILIPPINES   Japanese Lose 76 Airplanes During Raid

Freeing of 15 More Villages Comes as Doughboys:: Drive Deeper Inland — CounterAttack Repulsed on Samar Vehaved ‘

Yanks Speed Up Drive On Leyte   Surge Swiftly Inland After Extending Beach Front to 40 Miles; Bag 76 Japanese Aircraft

Yanks Moving _ Ahead Faster in Philippines   15 More Communities Are Freed; 40-Mile Front Established on Leyte   76 ENEMY PLANES . ARE SHOT DOWN   Advance Made In All Sectors Despite Greater Jap Resistance

Yank invaders Move Faster In Philippines  American Troops Repulse Attack

Philippines See  Yanks in Gains   U. S. DOUGHBOYS CARVED OUT 40-MILE SLICE

Steady Gains Are Made On Leyte Island   Troops Liberate Fifteen More Communities In General Advance Along Front Of 40 Miles

40-Mile Fronf Secured in Philippines   15 Communities On Leyte Freed; Japs Put Up Stiff Fight

SOLID FRONT OF 40 MILES IS CARVED OUT   General Advance of MacArthur's Forces Continue Despite Japanese Resistance   CONTROL EAST COAST

Leyte invasion Front Extended To Forty Miles   Report Resistance Increases as Yanks Drive Inland; Jap Positions Encircled

40-Mile Front Set On Leyte   Two Beachheads Are Joined; 15 Communities Freed In Drive

General Advance Continuing Despite Increased Japanese Resistance   COUNTERATTACKS PUSHED BACK ‘BY AMERICAN FORCE

Yank Troops Form Solid Leyte Front   Make Rapid Advances; Free 15 More Towns; Encircle Jap Trenches

Yanks Hold 40-Mile Front On Leyte Isle  Jap Counterattack On Samar Is  en ee

Doughboys Carve Forty-Mile Front On Leyte Island  Fifteen Communities Freed   Fifteen Communities Freed As Americans Encounter Increasing Jap Resistance

Yanks Secure 40-Mile Front, Leyte Island .   Doughboys Surge Deeper Inland to .Free Additional 15 Communities

FIFTEEN MORE TOWNS FREED   American Doughboys on Leyte Carve Out 40-Mile Long Invasion Front.   RESISTANCE INCREASES

Americans Gain On Leyte Front   Free Fifteen More Communities Despite Increased Resistance

40-MILE FRONT HELD ON LEYTE   15 More Communities Are Freed In General Gain

Inroads On Enemy Fleet May Surpass Big Defeat Of 1942; Philippine Front Is Widened

ON 40-MILE FRONT   General Yank Advance Continues Against Japanese on Leyte ~

Yank Invaders ow Hold 40-Mil Front On Leyte   Free 15 More Villages While 76 Enemy Planes Shot Down.

Yanks Surge Inland in Island Drive   Doughboys Holding 40-Mile-Long Leyte Island Front

YANKS CARVE 40-MILE SOLID-FRON] QN LEYTE, FREE 15 COMMUNITIES   U. S§. GUNS, AIRMEN BAG 76 JAP PLANES DURING “HARASSING RAIDS”; SAMAR ATTACK SMASHED

Solid Front On Leyte Now   General Advance Continues, 76 Jap Planes Knocked Down During Raids

ADVANCE IN PHILIPPINES GOING AHEAD   Solid, 40-Mile Front Carved Out On Leyte Island With 15 More Communities Freed.

Yank Push On Leyte  Advances   MacArthur Force: Go Ahead 40 Mi Fake 15 More Towns

YANKS TIGHTEN GRIP ON LEYTE IN NEW GAINS   Americans Now Occupy Solid 40-Mile-Long Invasion Front

Communique Reports U. 5S. Infantrymen Have Cut Out Solid 40-Mile-Long Invasion Front.   EASTERN COAST OF LEYTE IS SECURED

ADVANCE IN PHILIPPINES   Yanks Free 15 15 Towns, Achieve 40-Mile Solid Front

Robots in All-Day Attack on Yanks   Flying Bombs Fail Against First Army

LES IN PALAU GROUP URED   Only Isolated Jap Forces Holding Out on Peleliu

PALAU ATTACK HAS GIVEN U.S, FOUR ISLANDS   WAY PREPARED TO -YROVIDE STRONG SUPPORT FOR MAC- ° "ARTHUR INVASION OF PHILIPPINES: .

CONTROL FOUR PALAU ISLANDS   Americans Develop Bases for Expected Invasion of Philippines

Eleven Cash In On Tanana River Ice   Some $125,000 Released To Winning Guessers Of When Ice Would Break

U. S. Armor Is Reported In12 Miles Of Paris   Enemy Believed To Be Preparing ‘Dunkirk Escape’ Across River; British Open New Drive Aimed At Le Havre

Nazis In Full Hight Toward Seine River ©  New Trap Set :  For German - Cavanth Army

Germans in Retreat Before Tank Attack And Aerial Scourge   Secrecy Which Veils Swift Movement of Allied Drive from Normandy Indicates Another Big Batch of Nazis Being Trapped—Southern France Invasion Forces Drive Toward Tooulon and Cannes

Berlin Reports Yanks In 12 Miles of Paris   Moving Toward Capital in 70-Mile Are; New Trap for Seventh Army Being ‘Shaped As Nazis Try to Cross River.

BANTA 10 fiEAD SALVAGE DRIVE   City-Wide Campaign Scheduled Satu: day for Paper, Metal

BANTA 10. HEAD SAVAGE DRIVE.   > City-Wide Campaign ’ . Scheduled Saturday for Paver. Metal .-.

EXECUTIONS AT RATIO OF FIFTY FOR   Meanwhile British Continue Their Advance Into Areas Abandoned by the Germans

NAZIS SACKED GREEK TOWN, SHOT MEN, BOYS   PATRIOTS ESTIMATE 1300 VILLAGES BURNED, PILLAGED; 2,000,000 HOMELESS, MANY STARVED

TELL OF NEW NAZI HORRORS   1,300 Greek Towns Pillaged, Burned During Longs Occupation

Greeks Tell of Nazi Cruelties  Thousands Murdered in Last Three Years

Nazi Horrors Carried To Greece;  People Killed By Burns, Torture   Austrian Who Prevented Wholesale Cremation Was Executed; Torture Chamber Discovered

Massacre of Greeks Revealed   Thousands Tortured And Slain in (‘50 for 17’ Nazi Reprisals   1,300 TOWNS BURNED . AND PILLAGED   Furniture, - Other Articles Taken, Shipped to Reich As “Gifts. From Greeks’’

Nazis Guilty Of Atrocities, Say Patriots   Wholesale Killings Are Reported; Peloponnesus Clear

Armistice Pronosed by Left-Wingers As Fighting Continues in Athens

BRITISH GIVEN ARMISTICE PLAN IN GREEK WAR   Flurry of Conferences Held, But Fighting Is Continuing In  Athens

Elas Keep bo Athens Struggle   Leftists Present Terms ‘Which Are Believed te.   Be Acceptable to  British

Eam Proposes Armistice Terms in Greece  British Declared Ready to Accept the Offer

Athens Still Baffle Scene   Armistice Terms Are Proposed to British

Nazi Planes Slap London   50 To 60 Raiders Hit Defenses Of London

BRICKER MAPS JOB POLICIES   Urges Stability In Gov’ Repudiation of ‘Alien Forces’

ON MARSHALS PUSHED TODAY   Believe Record Naval Foree Assaulting Telands   JAPS POUNDED   U. 5S. Vessels Blast Heavily-Defended = . Atolls  —

NAVAL TASK FORCE POUNDS MARSHALS IN INVASION THREAT   Hundreds of Tons of Explosives Loosed by Ships and Planes on Four Atolls   JAPS SAY FIGHT IS ON

HEAVY SURFACE FORCES POUND NIPPON ATOLLS   “Record Task Force Continues to Hurl  Shells at Islands

Naval Task Force Hurls Tons of Bombs At Isles Japs Prepared for War

SEA AND AERIAL BLOWS HAMMER JAP DEFENDERS   Nip Plane Losses Mount As Allies Push Attacks On All Pacific Fronts

isles Invasion  Close At Hand   .. + Scores Of Warcraft Pound Enemy Stronghold

Invasion Looms As Attack Goes Into Second Day  Shells And Bombs   Shelis And Bombs Pour Into Base Without Let-Up

FLEET REPORTED ONLY FEW-NILES FROM DEFENDERS   Air Craft Hammers Other Nearby Atolls For Second Day, Enemy 4s Probably Underaround.   TOKYO BROADCAST ASSERTS ENEMY 1S GREAT   American Brief Communique  Fails to Give Details, Sea ' Raiders Silent For Ship Protection.

HUGE U, S. NAVAL TASK FORCE HITS MARSHALL ISLES   Hint Invasion Soon as Ships Shell Islands With Explosives

Huge Naval Task Force Shells Japs   Surface Units Move Within 10 to 20 Miles of Shore Installations

American Fliers Continue Steady Pacific Assault   Halmahera, Philippines And Bonin Islands Get Attention of Rambers

Continue Raids On Bonin Islands    Halmahera, Volcanoes  Hit By Allied Planes ©

‘ AM AN AMERICAN’   Observance of Day Is To Be Nationwide Sunday

U. S. OBSERVES ‘AMERICAN DAY   Prominent Public Officials Scheduled to Speak

-- DUNNING BLAST —  One Killed, Three Burned In Explosion   Transport, Freight Collide; Railroad Station Destroyed

FUNK IS BEING MENTIONED AS FLOOR LEADER   Frederick County Senate: Considered For Lindsay's Post   SPECIAL SESSION OF ASSEMBLY IN MARCH

Floor Leaders To Be Elevated   Lindsay and White Due for New Posts

PATTON LOSES RUNOFF BALLOT   Two Other Incumbents Are Winners In Texas Vote

(METROPLITAN POPULATION OF SOUTH INCREASES   Savannah Leads Georgia Cities in Increase with 19.8 Pct.

AKRON HOME THE SCENE OF PRETTY WEDDING JAN’Y 5   Miss Eunice Finzen And Cpl. Clayton D. Howard Are Principals In Event

Akron Home Scene Of Gay Wedding  Cpl. Clayton Howard Weds Eunice Finzen

Fall of Sarny  Is Imminent   Points of Giant Pincers On Germans in Dnieper Bend  Only 70 Miles Apart.

Russians Drive To Trap ‘Nazis In Ukraine; Push 36 Miles Insid2 Poland

FLORENCE NOW SEVEN MILES FROM ALLIES   New Zealanders Are in Lead, Take  4 Towns

BYRNES BLASTS PAY HIKE HOPES   Says Wage, Price Controls Must Hold During War Against Japs

FARLEY ALONE. AT CONVENTION   Finds Little Assistance it Anti-FDR Fight

RAIN BRINGS DROP ‘IN TEMPERATURES   Cool Air From North Blew in About 8 o’Clock Last Night  GET .76- INCHES RAIN

Cool Air From n North Blew. i in About 8 o’Clock .”   Last Night '    GER .76- INCHES -RAIN

TROOPS MEET HEAVY GERMAN DEFENSES   Forces Advancing Up Po Valley Along Highway 9 Toward Bologna.

EIGHTH ARMY MEETS HEAVY NAZI DEFENSE   Rains Appear To Slow Troops In Bologna Area

Yanks Smash Tank-Led Nazi Assault   Fourth All-Out Blow Against Allied Beachhead Coming

British Stop Two Attacks   American Guns Knock Out Three Nozi Tank:

Yanks Turn Back Tank-led Assault At “Dead Woman's Corner’: Tommies Blunt Two Jabs: Planes Wreck Nazi Supplies At Rome

Nazi Tanks Smashed at Beachhead   Germans Believed Preparing Fourth All-Out Attack

BLOWS BLUNT ENEMY JABS   12 German Divisions Re-Group for New Major Attack

Yanks Smash Tank-Led Nazi Assault  Fourth All-Out Blow Against Allied

THRUST AT YANK LINES   Action Flares Up Again Along Beachhead Front

AMERICAN EXPERTS REACH CHUNGKING      Donaid Nelson and Others to Aid China Expand War Production.

NELSON ARRIVES IN CHINA 10 HELP CONVERT RESOURCES FOR WAR EFFORT

De Gaulle Unit To Join Group   Will Be Full Member  of Advisory Commission

FRANCE TQ HELP PLAN SURRENDER   FULL MEMBER OF EUROPE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

De Gaulle Group Will Have Word On Peace Terms   Government Of France Gets Full Membership On Allied Commission

FRANCE INVITED TO UNITE WITH ADVISORY GROUP      Big Three Asks De Gaulle’s Pro visional Government To Become Member

Refugees Coming To Ft. Ontario   HAVENS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THEM AT CASABLANCA AND ELSEWHERE ALONG MEDITERRANEAN,   To Expand Facilifies

1,000 REFUGEES TO COME T0 U.S   FDR Anticipates They’re Al That Will. Be Housed in Country

SEEK LIGHT ON PEACE ROLE OF SMALL NATIONS   REPUBLICANS CALL ON ROOSEVELT FOR CLEAR DEFINITION

Stormy Weather Seen Ahead For President’s  Proposed Peace Council

Republicans Make Inquiry  Into Council   Evidences of Storms Ahead for Security Plan

Russians Surge Forward Again   Score Large Gains Or  Vistula Front

REDS DRIVE OUT FROM VISTULA RIVER POSITION   Advance 30 Miles in Push to Split German Forces in Poland

Reds Threaten Vital German Intercourse   Soviet Army Strikes Out Afresh From Vistula—Spearheads Menace Kielce

Red Armies In New   Advances   Capture 60 Villages Beyond the Broken Vistula Line; May  Outflank Krakow .

SUPPLY LINES INSIDE POLAND AREMENACED   Red Spearheads Drive  Closer to Krakow in Silesian Thrust

Red Army In New Attacks   Threaten to Strangle German Communications In Heart of Poland

Soviets Keep Driving for  Germany  Moscow Reports Red Troops 30 Miles West  Far @T* 1. %. To?

SOVIETS DENT GERMAN LINES   Red Army Near Kielce In Push Toward Silesia; 60 Villages Taken

Soviets Drive 30 Mi. Beyond Vistula River   Capture More than 66 _ Communities West Of Stream

CAPTURE 60 OR MORE VILLAGES IN NEW THRUST  COMMUNICATIONS OF   COMMUNICATIONS OF NAZIS IN HEART OF POLAND THREATENED

SOVIETS ROLLING *TOWARD KRAKOW IN MIGHTY DRIVE   PReds Menace Vital German  Communities in Sweep Engulfing 60 Towns

THRUST MAY OUTFLANK THE LATTER CIT)      Striking Out Afresh From Vistula Bridgehead, Soviets Push 30 Miles Beyond River to Directlv Menace Kielce.

Russians Smashing Past Vistula River   Great Oil Center in Galicia Is Captured by Soviet Troops

Russians Push On From the Vistula   New Thrust Indicates Soviet Armies May Outflank  Krakow   PINCER MOVEMENT ON   Three Armies Converge on  t Prussia on 200 Mile Front

60 Communities Beyond Vistula In Soviet Hands   Threaten Strangle Of Communications Within Heart Of Poland.

New Russian Drive Threatens to Strangle Communications.   27 MILES TO KRAKOW

Red Army Has Taken 60 More  Polish Towns   Russians Gain 30 Miles After Breaking Through the Strong German Vistula River Defenses.

New Attacks By Russians ‘Beyond River   Capture 60 Communities in Drive that Threatens Communication Lines Between Warsaw and Krakow

Russians Driving Heavily Between Krakow, Warsaw   Soviet Forces Push  30 Miles West of Vietiila Rridacshanad:«

REDS CAPTURE OVER SIXTY C OMMUNITIES   New Eruption Carries Red Army Beyond Enemy's Broken Vistula River Defenses   CELEBRATE IN MOSCOW

Russian Gains Said toLeave Only Ploesti Oil Fields in Romania to Nazis. East Prussians Begin Digging in for Great Invasion by Surging Red  A eh gre Geren

VISTULA RIVER DRIVE NETS 60 TOWNS   Soviets Reach Points 30 » Miles Beyond River   MOSCOW GUNS   Mark Capture Of Boryslaw, Sambor: East Prussian Cities Are Bombed

SOVIETS PUSH ON BEYOND BERDICHEY   Probe Deeper Into Poland, Threaten: German Defenses

Soviet Army “Erupts Anew *In Poland   Cuts Rail Lines  Between Karsaw And Krakow; Oil Centers Captured

“Attack Aims To ‘Encircle Warsaw: Take Oil Center   Soviet Spearheads Within 37 Miles of Krakow, German Held Bastion

Threaten to Strangle Nazi Main Lines   Strike Out Afresh From Vistula Bridgehead

Germans Fast Losing Hold Upon Poland   Fresh Soviet Surge Hits Communications in Heart of Nation

Reds 30 Miles — West Of Vistula   Storms Curtail Action In Italy

Soviets Surge Beyond VistulaLine   Nazi Communications In Poland Are Threatened by Drive

VICTORIES IN POLAND ARE CELEBRATED   Red Armies Threaten Entire -Communications Between Warsaw And Krakow: Other Gains.

Enemy Faces New Losses  Near Krakow  And Warsaw   Communivations: Are Strangled By Soviet

SOVIET ARMIES CAPTURED SIXTY TOWNS MONDAY   1 Hour Of Revenge For Reds Near,  Izvestia Savs

REDS THREATEN REICH LINES IN POLISH CAPITAI   New Series Of Russian Attacks Captures 60 Communities Beyond Vistula River

Soviets Drive 30 Miles Wes! Of the Vistula   Threaten Germans’ Communication Lines Between Krakow and Warsaw in Poland

REDS SEIZE 60 TOWNS IN DRIVES   Foe’s Communications In Poland Under Soviet Threat

Reach Points 36 Miles West of Vistula Bridgehead, Take Oil Center of Beryslaw

Krakow is Threatened By Outflankine Drive   New Eruption Aimed At Strangling German Communications Between Krakow And  Warsaw In Heart Of Poland. ———

Reds Cross Vistula River, Take Sixiy  Nazi Communities   Communications Lines Between Krakow and Warsaw Threatened

Berlin Admits  Soviets Making Giant Thrust:   German Radio Says Lines Near Baranow aud In Latvia-Estonia Trap Penetrated   Soviets 30 Miles Nearer to Krakow   Drive Ahead From Cap. tured Szydlow to Menice Kiclee; Might Outflank Krakow

SOVIETS DRIVE JO MILES PAST VISTULA ZONE   60 Communities Gobbled Up Beyond Broken Defenses In New Red Attacks

Communications Are Threatened By Soviet Troops   Red Army Nearing Kielce In Push For German Silesia; Naz Lines Saqaina

REDS PUSH ON FROM VISTULA   Threaten Nazi Communications Between Warsaw  And Krakow

Report Russians Push Northward   Reds Threaten To Strangle Nazi Communications In. Heart. Of. Poland

GERMANS FACE NEW DANGER ON POLISH FRONT   Communication Between Kra kow and Warsaw Threatened by Red Advance.

REDS PUSH ON PAST VISTULA: NEAR KRAKOW   capture 60 Communities and Strangle Nazi Communication Lines.   il Center Capture  a. by Moscow

GALICIAN OIL FIELDS BELIEVED TAKEN BY REDS   Germans Now Only Have Ploesti Wells Left; Russ ‘ Advance Continues

ORDER TD RESUME WORK IS IGNORED   Approximately 6,500 Employes Remain on Strike Today.

6,500 Automotive  Workers Strike  In Detroit Area Walkout Affects  cite fr we

Strikers Ignoring Back-To-Work Order   Operations of Six Plants Affected By Strike

Hitler Announces “Mutual Agreement” To Assure Use Of  Resources For Victory.

‘DEAD’ VOTER PERMITTED TO CAST HER BALLOT EVEN IN FACE OF EVIDENCE

STAI’ AD SW” 48 LIMIT F A gSED   Legislators 8 to 1 in Favor of Holding for Post-War Needs

Clark's Army Nearing Leghorr  Armored Units Only Eight Miles Away

SLOWED IN ITALY   Yanks Run Into Determined German Opposition on  Inland Advance

STIFF NAZI RESISTANCE REPORTED   Castiglioncello Falls To Fifth Army In Two-Mile Gain

nN LS FROM LIVORNS   Stubborn German Resistance In Italy Is Being Crushed

GERMANS FIGHT HARD FOR ITALY   Stiffened Resistance Met On All Sectors By Allies

Fifth Army In New Advances   BITTER RESISTANCE FACED BY YANKS IN DRIVE

Allies Bearing Down On Ancona, Leghorn On Flanks In Italy   Americans On West, Italiaris On East Coasts Are Eight Miles From Important Nazi-Held Ports; Poles Capture Many Men, Supplies

Americans Capture Castiglioncello, Attack Lajatico   Nazis Continue Stiff Opposition in Haly, However—Italian Bersaglieri Lead One Advance

LEGHORN GOAL OF 5TH ARMY   Yonks Only Two Miles From Objective—Town of Castiglioncello Taken

5TH ARMY WITHIN 8 MI. OF LIVORNO   AMERICAN ARMORED ELEMENTS CAPTURE CASTIGLIONCELLO

Yank Troops Near Livorno Bitter Fight Raging  Eight Miles Inland

FIFTH WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF LEGHORN PORT   U. S. Gains Two Miles Agains Heavy Resistance, Takes Castiglioncello

SLOW GOING ON ITALIAN FRONT   Two-Mile Gain Made; Bitter Resistance

Castiglioncello. Is Captured  As American. Light. Forces — Gain 2 Miles On Italy Coast

FIFTH ARMY EIGHT MILES OF LEGHORN   Advance of Americans Along Italian West Coast Is Meeting Heavy Resistance of Nazis.

perations Keep For Next Blow   Americans Repel Attacks, Push 8 Miles Of Leghorn  pe =      Violent Resistance Encountered in al! Sectors.

NAZIS ATTEMPT ALLIED DELAY NEAR LEGHORN   Italian Troops Clear Way For Great Advance

Fifth 8 Miles From Livorno   Yanks Push Forward Two Miles Despite Nazi Resistance

Americans Gain In Italy  Fifth Army Eight   Fifth Army Eight Miles Of Leghorn

Slight Gains Made Toward North Italy   U. S. Armor Pushes Ahead, but Other Yanks Stopped

AMERICAN TROOPS PUSH ON AGAINSi  BITTER RESISTANCE   Fifth Army Now Within Eight Miles Airline of Livorno (Leghorn)

Yankees Drive 8 Miles From Leghorn Port   Meet Stiffer Resistance “Along West’ Coast, As Nazis Hold Town In Fierce Fighting

FIFTH ARMY EIGHT MILES FROM LIVORNO      Push Forward Two Miles Nearer Port in Face of ‘Bitter German Resistance, Taking City of Casticlioncello.

Yanks Advance Near Livorno   Push Within Eight Miles Within City in Face of Stiff Defense

AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE IN ITALY DESPITE GUNFIRE   Push Two. Miles Up Italian West Coast and. Take Castiglioncello — Livorno Now Only Eight Miles Away

Forces of U. S. Gain in Italy   Push Ahead in The Face of Strong  Nazi Resistance

NEAR LIVORNG   American. Light Armored Elements Meet Bitter Nazi Resistance.

US Units  Advance Two Miles in Italy   Castiglioncello Captured; Nazis Put. up Stiff Opposition in All Sectors; 8th Army Takes Two Towns

Yanks Make New Advance Near Livorno   Drive Along Coast Made Despite Hoard Resistance of Nazis

TRAITOR UNIT KNOCKED OUT, ADOLF CLAIMS   Order of Day Taken as Obvious Attempt to Reassure His Followers in Nazi Army

Big Plane Missing From Roswell Base   Japs Threw Grenades at U.S. Sailors Struggling in Sea, Say Survivors

REELECT SOLONS IN MISSISSIPPI   Rankin Renamed To Na. tional House By Four To One Maiority

MEDICINE AIDS HUMAN GROWTH   Soviet Discovery Used In Treatment “Of War Wounded

RAIDERS STRIKE IN TOKYO AREA   Enemy Planes Decline To Give Battle In Bonin Islands

LIBERATORS HI 615 MILES FRON ENEMY CAPITAI   Jap Cargo Ship Bombed In Bonins; Nips Decline  To Fight   10 FREIGHTERS SUNK OR. DAMAGED IN RAIDS

New Allied Drive _ _Is Opened in Burma   Chinese Strike Toward Bhamo and British Set Their Sights for Mandalay, 170 . Miles to the Southwest.

Revolt in Bolivia Declared Smashed   Sympathizers of Former President Are Blamed

aTEEL LEADERS HIT GIO DEMANDS   Declare Industry Unable To Absorb Any Wage Increases

IRON, STEEL HIT UNION DEMANDS   Producers Warn They Can’t Absorb Any Pay Boosts

Oppose Steel Workers Demands   Unable to Absorb Wage Increases,  WLB Panel Told

B.P.W.C. DISTRICT MEETING HERE   State President Will Address Dinner Meeting At Penn-Welle Hatel_

Supply Flow Gives U.S. Edge On Bougainville   With supply line praetically eliminated, the Japs suffer from lack of: equipment, 

Details of Yanks’ Supply Hijacking Will Unfold Soon   Second Batch of U. S. Black Market Dealers to be Tried by Army

Details of Plan Of Operation In France Termed . ‘Slimy’; Scores Already Sentencec For legal Sales

Black Market Slimy Details Will be Told   Ll. S. Servieemen Will go to Trial  In Fuleeary

Army Discloses More Details of Black Marketing of Military Supplies.

Startling Disclosures Forecast In Army Black Market Probe   Scores of American Soldiers Already Sentenced for Illegal Trafficking

Ten Divisions of Axis Troops Trapped in Budapest by Reds   ‘Slimy’ Details of French Black Market Expected to be Exposed

Soldiers From Carolinas Are Felons  Black Market In France  Reaches ‘Slimy’ Stage

U.S. Servicemen Accused Of Selling Military Goods ‘To French Black Market   Many ‘Slimy' Details Will Be Unfolded At Trial

Many Disclosures Will Be Made at Army Trials When Gs Take the Stand—Accused of Supplying French Black Market

Details to Be ‘Slimy’...  “U.S. Army te Try Soldiers Who Aided Black Market

Gigantic Scandal In Supply Thefts   Tanks Idle Without Gasoline as Soldiers Peddle Fuel Behind Lines To French Civilian Black Market

Americans Sold Out Buddies On  Front Line   Sold Stolen Gasoline, Cigarettes And Other Supplies Badly Needed At Front

Many ‘Slimy’ Details To Be Revealed In Trials By Army   American Soldiers’ Participation in Enormous French Black Market Sorry Tale, Even Affected Front Line War

“Slimy” Details Of Black Markets Th France To Come Out In Trials

OCANDAL DUE WHEN SERVICEMEN TRIED FOR PARIS THEFTS  SCORES OF SOLDIERS HAVE ALREADY BEEN TRIED AND SENTENCED

Forecast Explosive Disclosures In Trials Of Yanks in French Black Market Scandal

Red Army Thrusts Toward Rumania In Ukraine Drive   Swarms Across Severed  Odessa-Lwow R. R. Line

FAMILY WIPED OUT BY BLAZE   Flames Kill Five Persons  In Grand Rapids

TAX COLLECTIONS START ON MONDAY      County Treasurer Reports $23,000 in Collections '  Eiret Dav

TAX COLLECTIONS —START ON MONDAY   County Treasurer Reports $23,000 in Collections First Day

Body Lies In State, Final Rites Friday   World Tribute To Life’s Work

Labor’s Living Cost Ideas Hit  BLS Declares Report ‘Absolutely Wrong’

COST OF LIVING 1S SUBJECT OF LABOR DISPUTE   Thomas, Meany ChalJenge Bureau To Show Proof For Report

.abor Department Says Labor’s Living Cost Report Errs: Unsupported by Accurate Data

BLS Attacks Labor Living Costs Figures   Charges Data Does Noi Support Claims Made in Labor Report

COST-OF-LIVING DISPUTE FLARES   BLS Says Labor's Claims Are “Absolutely Wrong”

Attack Labor s Living Cost Claim   Report Is Wrong, Bureau Declares

Three Die, 50 Hur In Baltimore  Parish Blaze   Crowd Attending Party Made Rush For The Front Entrance.

GERMAN LINE. ‘S. E. OF CAEN ISPENETRATED   All Initial Objectives Taken2in- Offensive ‘ Which Bean With 1000-Plane: RAF: Pe Moonlicht Rombhardment: _ pe

NEW ASSAULT NETS 4 MILES IN CAEN AREA   Try To Blast Open Short Route As Americans Near Le Mans

STILWELL'S REGELL BARES CRISIS   Situation Described as Most Crucial to Generalissimo Chiang

CH SPLIT P= «TERNAL ~ OUBLE   Chiang Kai-Shek Subject to Criticism From Own Government

Chiang Kai-Shek Facing A Test   Condition Most Crucial Of His Career

FALL OF GOVERNMENT. OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK LOOM. ING AS IMSTINCT ’. POSSIBILITY «=. -

Reich Army Resources Failing Fast   Enemy Believed Capable of Only One Major Stand

CLEVELAND FIRE KNOWN DEAD 101   Official List of Missing 108 With Fifty Others in Hospitals

“ane “or " 07 ‘ing oe Bi aa ANC “ay rate: ca ine~ $0.ic on _ssue

Admiral Land Suggests Germany, Japan - Be Reduced To “Pastoral Nations’

Admiral Land Proposes Japan  And Germany Be Stripped of  Meese ge Foreign Trade, Heavy Industry

Admiral Land Favors Denying  Trade to Axis   Would Mean Foes* End As Industrial Nations: Cabinet Split Confirmed

Inter-Cabinet Peace Planners Still Far Apart on Economic Sanctions to Be Imposed in Germany

Adm. Land Favors Making  Germany Farming Nation, Taking Trade from Foes

LAND GIVES PLAN FOR AXIS NATIONS   Fleet Head Discusses Program for Making  Peace

Admiral Land Would Deny Axis Foreign Trade   Merchant Marine Chie Apparently Favors Morgenthau Policy

Verland Campbell Married Sunday To Alta Girl  Groom Exiploved fn   Groom Employed In Penney Store Here As Salesman 

Verland Campbell Married Sunday To Alta Girl  Groom Employed In Penney Store Here As Salesman 

Tommy Dorsey And Wife Indicted For Alleged Assault On Jon Hall -

Dorseys Indicted Hollywood Bout   ike Leader and A It Actor  re Mepis. '

TOMMY DORSEY AND WIFE ARE INDICTED   /Mevie Director Alse Cited By  Grand Jury For Assault On Jon   Hall And Eddie Norris

DORSEY IS INDICTED FOR FIGHT AT HOME   Wife and Friend Also Face Assault Charge

Seventh Army Units Span Vosges Raye Into Belfort ‘Funnel’   American Airborne Units Bagtle Within 3 Miles of West Wall Hub; British Beat Back Rhine Attacks

Planes Support Drive Al Cleve By Blasting Nazi Supplies   Canadians Fight — Way Into Calais   Series Of Hard-Hitting But Limited Attacks Made Along Front

Vosges Pierced, Germans Admit; Calais Entered   American Airborne Forces Battle To Within Five Miles Of Kleve, Siegfried Anchor;  Marauders Hit Arnhem Communications

Allies stab into gap: Germans say units pointed for Bavaria   European battle hits ominous lull; airhoeme farcea ansiroach Cleve

Nazi Anchor Threatened Near Vlevel   British And Yanks Beat Off Attacks On Rhine Delta Salient

YANKS NEAR WALL ANCHOR AT NORTH END   Canadians Battle Into Inner ~ Calais

Supplies Massed For Mighty Blow   U. §. Airborne Forces Near Cleve, Anchor Point of German Defenses

Troops Head *For Bavaria ,While Yanks  Press Cleve   Strong Forces Cross Vosges Mountains At Belfort Gap; Bombers Lash Nazis.

ALLIED ARMOR FIGHTING FOR SNOWY PASSES   ‘Ominous Quiet Prevails on Most Western Fronts; Suoplies Comina.

vosges Nits. Are Crossed   German Attacks In Holland Are Battered Back

Aitack Force Believed (War's Largest   Assaults Apparently Are Prelude to Actual Invasion

Gasoline Coupons Mus! Be Returned Upon Sale Of Vehicle   Buyer Must Obtain Duplicate Receipts To Receive Ration

Pescara Taker By Allies on  Italian Front   German Losses From Month’s Fighting Set at 70,000 Men ’

Pescara Falls In Allied Drive North of Rome   New Long Gains Scored; Battered Germans Lose 70.000 Men iv Month

Fifth and Kighth Armies Advance  10 Miles in Italy   Mauled Germans Have Lost 70,000 Men in Last Month: Pescara and Avezzano Are Captured by Allies

Nazis Lose 70,000  Soldiers in Italy;  Reds Open Drive Finns Lose 82 Towns,  Villages to Northern Russian Campaign

ALLIES TAKE PESCARA ON ADRIATIC   Scoring 10-Mile Gains North of Rome, Close behind Mauled_ Germans Who Lost 70,000.   Men-Of-War

Allied Forces ‘Fake Peseara, Score Gains Above Rome   Armies Press: Close Behind Mauled Germans, Whe ' Have Lost 70,000 Men in Month—Founeenth Nazi Army in Full Retreat

Allies Seore 10-Mile Gains North of Rome   Pescara on Adriatic Captured; Nazis Lose 70,000 Men in Month

‘Allied Troops In Italy Are Still Hotly Pursuing Badly Mauled Germans

ADRIATIC COAST CITY FALLS T0 ALLIED TROOPS   Pescara, Important Industrial Center, Captured By Eighth Army   70,000 CASUALTIES SUFFERED BY NAZIS

Fifth and Eighth Armies Chasing Germans in Italy   Nazis Losses Said To Be 70,000 Men

Congress to decide eight  major bills  OPA extension _ outstanding issuc

RUSSIA RENEWS JAPANESE PACT   Permission Given Nips To Fish In Nearby Soviet Waters

Accelerated Draft Rate Is In Prospect   200,000 Man Deficit in Army Inductions to Be Made Up

Occupational Deferment Check Expected To Accelerate Speed Of Draft For Next Few Months

Speeded-Up ral Seen  ~ For Nation   foards Advised To Pay ‘Particular Attention To Men Under 26 In SGeanting Deferment«

ROOSEVELT MORE MEN   President Says Deferments Have Been “Overly Lenient”

SPEEDUP BEGUN IN DRAFT RATE   Occupational Deferments Ordered Reviewed To Meet Shortage

FD. R. Orders Stepped-Up Service Call   Deferment Rules Tightened To Cut Deficit

Draft Rate to Be Speeded Up at Order of Roosevelt   President Directs Officials to Review All Occupational De ' ferments With View to Wiping Out 200,-000-Man Feficit  in Army Inductions—Cases of All Men 18 to 37 in Classes 2-A, 2-B, 2-C and 3-C Will Be Scrutinized.

Roosevelt Calls For Rapid Draft To Meef Quofas  Dlenntial Mamnaternc   Crucial Campaigns For 1944 Need More Men, He Declares

ro Boost ear; Status Review Sef   Industry-Deferred Face Service; Army Short 200,000 Men

PRESIDENT ASKS FOR REVIEW OF DEFERRED LISTS   Chief Executive Calls for Quick Action to Make Up Induction Deficit

Deferred Men To Be Seanned In Draft Plan   Roosevelt. Orders Speedy Making-up of 200,000

Asks Review  Of 5,000;000  Deferments  Army Already 200,000 Men Behind Schedule Set for Jan. 1  RULES TIGHTENED   All Determents Under 26 May Be Prohibited in Accelerated Drive

Speed Up Of Draft Rate  In Prospect   Roosevelt Orders Review Of All Occupation Deferments; Deficit Is 200,000

SHARP BOOST IK DRAFT IMMINENT   Roosevelt Calls For Review Of All Occupational Deferments

Upward Rise in Draft Rate Seems Likely   Immediate Review of Deferments Ordered by Pres. Roosevelt

REVIEW OF ALL DEFERMENTS 18 ASKED BY FOR   “very Draft Board te Receive Order for Immediate Action

Draft Heads Tighten Up Deferments  Roosevelt Airs  NB pee: Anon’

Draft Deferments To Be Reviewed   Roosevelt Tells Selective Service Heads Inductions Must Be Speeded

House Unit Okays New Draft Rules   Says Move Should .’ Have Come Earlier -..

Sky Clear Over Dover   Wind Moderates, There Is Some Haze At Sea Level

CHURCHILL RETURNS TO REPORT ON MEET   Conference ‘in Italy on Way Home Is Disclosed

18 CARS IN TRAFFIC SNARL   Tce and  Fog Caused Wrecks in ‘Kiangas. City Today

13 CARS IN TRAFFIC SNARL   Iee and Fog Caused Wrecks in  Kansas City Today

‘WALLACE MOVES OUT IN FRONT OVER TRUMAN   Poll Shows Vice President Has 513 Pledged For First Ballot Votes   FACTIONS WAGE BATTLE   ®Barkiey Remains  Aloof, But Angered By Flynn And Walker Tactics

South Carolina To Make Fight   Seeks to Prevent Negroes Voting in Democratic Primaries

Army Amazed at Ease New Landing Is Made   Second Day Sees No Counterattack By Nazis; Enemy May Be Bottled Up At Cassino If Surprise Can Be Exploited

Gliders Land New Troops  As Attack Forces Secure Positions on Beachheads

NaziAttack Beaten Off   Hundreds Of Gliders Carry T roops To Reinforce First Assault Forces.

Invaders Smashing Inland   Caen Counterblows Beaten Off, Rommel Speeds for Attack

strong Attacks Are Beaten Off By Allies In Vicinity Of Caen   Thousands of Troops Shuttled To Beaches By Allied Gliders

Airborne Troops Battle On Cherbourg Peninsula; Beaches Cleared Of Foe

GAEN SAFELY HELD, TOEHOLDS CLEAR OF ENEMY   Germans Rush nen EE Up Reserves

Allies Beating Way Inland, Attacks In Caen Area Repelled   Assault forces constantly reinforce: by hundreds of U.S. gliders shuttling thousands of troops into France

Enemy Reported Cleared From French Beachheads   First Heavy German Counterattack Beat Off By Allies In Caen Vicinity

60-Mile Stretch of Beachhead Is Being Secured as German Resistance Mounts

COUNTERATTACKS OF ANS BEATEN WN STIFF FIGHT   Initial Forces of Invasion Reinforced By Troops Who Are Moved By Planes and Sailing Craft.   TWO GERMAN FORCES REPORTED ADVANCING   Allies Occupy 50-Miles Along Channel and Extending to 12 or More Miles Into Country. -

Allies Are Battering _ Way Inland   FIRST GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK BEATEN OFF, BUT NAZI RESERVE ARE MOVING IN TO GIVE BATTLE.

250 Saved as Ship Burns   6 Eastbay Passengers On L.A, Vessel ag It Explodes Off Mexico

Attempt To Pass Absentee Ballot Bill Battered   Republicans and Southern Democrats Launch Attacks On Measure; House Postpones Action Until Tuesday.

Dramatic Play Al P.-T.A. Meel  Students Give Program At Grammar School

Paris Suburb Blasted With Heavy Bombs   Allied Planes Whipsaw ‘European Fortress’ From Two Sides

European Fortress Is Assaulted From Britain And Italy   Reds Take Sevastopol, Nazis Retreat In Italy

100,000 Nazis Knocked Out As Reds Advance   Berlin And Paris Are Raided By Planes From Italy And   German Retreat In Italy Continued; Today Anniversary If Nazi Drive

Terrific Bombing Goes on; Nazis Lose Sevastopo!   Germans Rolled Intc Low Countries Four Years Ago Today

WITH "FORTRESS IN FLAMES, MENACED FROM THREE FRONTS. WAR STORY’S DIFFERENT TODAY

OFFENSIVE 10 RID ITALY OF NAZIS STARTED   Heavy Fighting Reported Near Gothic Line

LAUNCH ATTACK TO DRIVE NAZIS OUTOFITALY   British Penetrate Gothic Line; Americans Cross Arno River

JAPS THREATEN IN KOHIMA AREA  CONTINUED PRESSURE  AI QAIN AZAAIIDIID DNAANR

Enemy Ships _   Counterbalanced By Claims of Japanese Successes in India; British Admit Pressure

5, KICK IN TROUSERS FOR ORIENTAL FOE   28 Shins Sunk, 18 Damaged in Raid on Carolines, Japs Claiming Victory in India

28 Ships Planes  Blasted   Others Wrecked in Three-Day Assault; 25 Planes Lost

Japanese Claim  Kohima Captured  In Drive in India Monnthatien Concedes Steady  Pressure Maintained—Truk Bombed Again Thursday

AMERICAN VICTORY IN PALAU AREA IS DULLED BY INDIA   FORTY-SIX JAP SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED; MANY PLANES DESTROYED

Jap Success in india Takes Edge Off Pacific Victory   28 Enemy Ships Sunk by U. S. Fleet In Raid on Palau

JAPS CLAIM AVITAL GAIN NEAR IMPHAI   Tokyo Says Nips Have  . Taken Kohima, Which Would Mean Severance of Road Linking Two Allied Bases.

U.S. Triumphs In Sea Fight: Loses In India   Powefful U. S. Forces Score Smashing Pacific Success But Japs Advance in Burma Drive

Japanese Claim Victory in India   Announce Capture Of City Near Allied Railway Lifeline

Allied Attacl of Palau Are             Battleship, 17 Ve Vessels. ‘Damaged, 160 Planes: Destroyed, 54 Others Probably: Wrecked

18 Jap Ships Sunk By Yanks; 18 Others Hit   Sea Victory Tempered By British Defeat On India Front

RAIDS HIT NAZIS’ FIGHTER OUTPUT   Production Capacity Down 40 Pct. WPB Official Reveals

NAZIS LOSING. AIR STRENGTE   WPR OFFICIAL SAYS: RAIDS ‘HAVE KNOCKED OUT, 40 PERCENT OF FIGHTER PRODUCTION

SMASH 40%. OF REICH FIGHTER PLANE OUTPUT   Even Greater Bombing Results Forecast by WPB Official

AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE CAPTURED  TOWN OF CERVARO IN CENTRAL ITALY   Today’s Communique An.nounces’ That British and Yank Troops Have  ‘Advanced All Along 10.Mile Frant.

YANKS CAPTURE CERVARO   Damaging Day and Night Bombing Blow Delivered by Yanks and RAF On Piraeus, Greek Harbor Serving As Port of Athens

Allied Troops in Italy Go Northward Along Ten , Mile Front.  AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT GREEK HARBOR  Germans Claim 136 Yank Planes Were Lost Yesterday.

Nazis Admit They Have Lost Cervaro   American Troops Are Reported Four Miles East of Cassino In Italy

Yanks-British Advance On All Fronts: Allies Raid Piraeus in Greece

GOVERNMENT TAKING OVER TWO FACTORIES   Action Is Taken By Roosevel : When Firms Kefuse Te Grant Ordered Pay Increases

FLYERS ATTEMPT TO DESTROY NAZI CHIPPING BY Ste   Three Italian Harbors Are Pounded Seven Hours After Destruction of Railroad Lines.   VERY LITTLE GROUND FIGHTING REPORTED   I British, Indian Troops Seek to Check Jap Advance at Imphal, Enemy Losses Arc Heavy.

RAMIREZ SEEKS TOSOOTHE ARMY   Names Three New Cabinet Members to Please Opposition; Crisis Is Stayed

MUENSTER AND KIEL BOMBED BY DAYLIGHT   ‘Fleet of 1,500 U.S. Air _ planes Drop Missiles In Northwest Germany

Muenster and Kiel Sub And Naval Bases Hit In Near-Record Air Blow

Allies Nearing  ‘Toulon, Cannes   Invaders Of Southern France, Spearheaded By  About 500 Square Miles.

Beachheads On 50 Mile Front 30 Miles Deep   Invasion Force Punches Way to Within 10 Miles Of Toulon; Another Penetrates Cannes   500 Square Miles In Allied Hands   Germany Says Airbarne Troops Landed and En.  - tered Caimes In Face   Of Bloody Fighting

Nazi Communique Says Allies Already Have Entered Cannes, East Of Their Beachhead

SOUTHERN WAR FRONT WIDENS   Invasion Forces Punch Out Area 50 Miles Wide, 30 Miles Deep.   TEN MILES FROM TOULON

NEW INVASION FORCES NEAR TOULON, CANNES   Hold Solid Front 50 Miles Broad, 30 Miles Deep in Southern France

Allied Troops Seize Towns  In South Area   Punch Out Solid Front 50 Miles Wide, 30 Miles Deep ;

Allies Punch 30 Miles Deep Into Southern France   Seventh Army Troops Expand Solid Front 50  Miles in France.   Germans Say Cannes Penetrated by Allies

Beachhead in South France Growing Fast   Allies Establish 50 Mile Front to Depth of Thirty Miles

SOLID FRONT OF 30 MILES NOW ALLIES   Invasion Fofces Push 36 Miles Inland In Southern France

NAZIS DECLARE ALLIED TROOPS ARE IN CANNES   Invasion Forces Drive Near Toulon Base; More Forces Are Sent Ashore

Front 50 By 30 Miles Punched Out In South   Tanks, Artillery, Flame Throwers Link South France Beachheads

Armies Move Swiftly As New Cities Are Taken   “Advance. Continues Along F rench Coast

ALLIED TROOPS HAVE BATTERED OUT WIDE FRONT SOUTH FRANGE  NEW INVASION FORCES WITHIN TEN MILES BOTH TOULON AND CANNES

ALLIES 30 MI. INLAND IN SOUTHERN FRANCE   Invaders 10 Miles From Toulon, Cannes As 9 Towns Fall on 50-Mile Front

American, French Within 10 Miles ‘Cannes, Toulon   Many Small Coastal Resort Towns In Allied Hands: As Reinforcements Continue To Pour Onto Beaches

Southern France Invaders Are Now 30 Miles Inland   50-Mile Front Is Consolidated as Resistance Grows

Solid Front, 50 Miles Broad, 30 _Miles Deep, Has Been Establishec

Southern Front 50 Miles Wide And 30 Deep   Germans Expected To Make Stand At Famous City

S TOWNS FALL DURING SWIFT SMASH INLAND   Allies Hammer To Within 10 Miles Of Base At Toulon; Forces Are Linked

Front In South France Extends Over 50 Mile:   Reinforcements For Invaders Landed Alona Riviera

SOUTH FRANCE INVADERS ARE NEAR TOULON   Also Appreach Cannes and Are Holding a Fully. Linked SBeachhead 5( Miles Broad and _ 30 Miles Deep. :

GENERAL PATCH’S SEVENTH ARMY HAS PENETRATED 30 MILES IN SOUTHERN FRANCE   Nine Coastal Town Taken As Allied Troops Smashed Onward; Enemy Reports Allies Have Entered Cannes After Bloody Fighting

Sush Inland 30 Miles Along Coast   . Within 10 Miles Of Toulon Nava! Base and Resort  « Town of Cannes

Nine Towns Held Inside Beachhead   Drive On Toulon, Nice Thought To Be Proceeding

SEVENTH ARMY PUNCHING 30 MILES INLAND   Invasion Southern France Continues With Thousands of Troops Landed and Ports Menaced.

Only 10 Miles From Cannes And Toulon   Allies Hold 500 Square Miles of Southern Coast and Rapidiv Expand It      FORCES IN CONTACT   TroopsFromBeachesLinking Up With Air-Borne Men Farther Inland

nt THREATENS ULON, CANNES   aders Occupy Area stimated At 500 Square Miles

Allies Close on Toulon   Southern Front Now 50 Miles Wide and 30 Ailes Inland

Forces Within 10 Miles Of Toulon   Assault Infantry And Airborne Units Reach Junction

Allies Have Captured  500 Square Miles Of Southern France   Troops Have Advanced Thirty Miles Inland On 50-Mile Front; One Force Nears  Taulan- Reinforcements Pouring Ashore

INVASION FORCES PUSH WITHIN TEN MILES OF TOULON   ADVANCE ON EAST WITHIN TEN MILES OF CANNES RESORT

Patch Reports Solid Front 50 Miles Broad   Beachhead Extends Inland 30 Miles with Nine Cities Captured—Germans Report Airborne Troops in Cannes   Report Cannes Entered

HOLD SOLID FRENCH FRON   Have Seized 500 Square Miles Of Southern France

SOUTH FRANCE FRONT NOW 30 MILES INLAND   Extends for 50 Miles Along Coast With Allies Cenverging on Both Toulon, Cannes Today   Ry NOLAND NOGAARD

Invasion Front in. South France 500 Square Miles Today   Extends 30 Miles Deep Along Coast; Nearing Toulon and Cannes

Invasion Force Drives Close to Port of Toulon   Front Carved Out 50 Miles Broad And 30 Miles Deep

Front Is Fifty Miles Broad,  Thirty Deep   Invasion Forces Drive Within Ten Miles of Toulon. Picturesque Canne:

YANKS PUSH 30 MILES INLAND IN LOWER FRANCE   Allied Invaders Near Toulon, Cannes on Strong 50-Mile Front

SOUTH FRANCE BEACHHEAD IS FIRMLY HELD   Germans Bracing Themselves For New Invasions

HOLD 90-MILE BEACHHEAD IN CANNES AREA   Assault on Toulon Is Seen Imminent If Not in Progress

Area 30 By 50 Miles Won In South France   Allies But 10 Miles From Toulon, Cannes; More Towns Captured By Invasion Forces

SENATORS ISSUE OPA ULTIMATUM ON “MEAT HOLIDAY’   Charge Thousands of Tons of Beef, Pork and Lamb Destined to Scoil

Will Launch Drive For Meat Holiday   Agree To Give OPA Until Thursday

BILL TO BE INTRODUCED MON. ‘DAY TO LIFT RATIONING TO STIMULATE MEAT SALES

Western Senators Demand OPA Lift Meat Rationing to Cut Down on Supply Waste

Western Senators Want Rationing Of Meat Lifted   Agree To Give O.P.A. Week To Act Before Starting Legislative Action

MILITARY STRATEGY  Nazi Failure to Develop New Tactics Helps Russians Drive Into Romania   Soviet General Reports Hitler's  Do-or-Die Orders a Big Flop

Germans Bring Up Fresh Reserves Including  Air Borne Troops   GERMANS SUFFERING ENORMOUS LOSSES   More Than 2,000 Nazis Killed. Tanks And Ve‘hicles Destroyed

Reds Hurl  Aside Nazi  Reserves Drive Within 25 Mi  Of Lithuania and 42 Miles of Wilno

REDS NEAR BORDER OF LITHUANIA   Hurl Back Fresh German Reserves Rushed to Front

Reserves fo Stop Red Drive   Russian Armies Only 25 Miles of Lithuanian Border

GERMANS RUSH FRESH RESERVES TO LITHUANIA   Onrushing Soviets Drive Within 25 Miles of Rorder

RUSSIANS 25 MILES FROM ‘LITHUANIA   _Red_Army-Driyes-. Thru Reinforced German Positions

GERMANS RUSH REINFORCEMENTS INTO LITHUANIA   Onrushing Soviet Hordes Sweep Nazis Aside, Drive Now Nearing Wilno

M4 MINERS DISCUSS NEW UNION PLAN   WILL RAISE HISTORIC wrean iw goMmEk

METZ RAILROAD YARDS BLASTED   Nazis Work on Newest Terror Weapon

U. S. Will. Take 1000 Refugees   Group From South Of Italy Coming To Osweco. N. ¥.

Will Return War Refugees To U. S.   C@mpus Being Built In Middle East, Africa

War Refugees Will Be Moved To U. S. Areas   Roosevelt Announces Plans For Bringing Up To 1,000  To Fort Ontario

Red Army Only 33 Miles From Hungarian Capital; Take Big Rail Junction

RAIL JUNCTIOK OF KECSKEMET FALLS TO REDS   Russians Also Drive Armored Spearheads Near er Budapest

Russian Army Gets Closer To Budapest   Railway Town 33 Miles From Capital Taken by Red Army

SOVIETS ONLY 33 MILES FROM BUDAPEST NOW   Over 100 Communities Are Freed By Advancing Reds; 5,000 Nazis Captured

BIG RAILWAY CENTER HELD BY RUSSIANS      Defense Bastion of Kecskemet Taken-by the Reds

Red Drive Rolls Within 33 Miles of Hungary Capital  Last Major Bast Falls As oe With 100  aw ( amminitipae

Soviets Drive to 33 Miles From Budapes:!   Germans Cleared From Petsamo Area of Finland

RUSSIAN TROOPS PLUNGE If MILES TOWARD BUDAPEST   Capture Great Railway Junction of Kecskemet in Heavy Street Fighting and 100 Other Towns.   GERMANS PREPARE TO DEFEND CAPITAL   Red Army Advancing Across Plain Between Danube and - Tisza Rivers—Control Road Network.

Soviets Stream Across Plain   33. Miles from Budapest’ As They Take. Keeskeiet, Large Railroad: Center

QUARTER MILLION GERMANS MAY BE TRAPPED BY REDS   Soviets Attempting to Surround Bulge On 165-Mile Front Below Leningrad..

Reject Dismissal Of Chaplin Suit California High Court  Upholds Decisions

Perrin Field Pilot Killed   Training Plane Crashes Near Pauls ‘Valley: One Saved

CHOKE PRESS IN: ARGENTINE   Brought Under Strict Con: trol Of New Gov't

ORMOC RIDGE IS DOMINATED BY AMERICANS   Limon, Key to Strategic Island Road, Within Graps of Yanks

Weather-Beaten Americans Take Virtual Coutrol Of Ridge Above Battered Yillage

Limon Within U. S. Grasp; Fleet Active   17 Jap Vessels Reported Sunk In Single Day

JAPS FORCED 10 RETREAT INTO VALLEY VILLAGE   Brig. Gen. Easley Wounded By Nip Sniper At Frontline

\Weather-Beaten Forces Get Within Grasp Of MajorKey 'To Ormoc Road In Fighting

Yanks Peri Key Point On Leyte   MacArthur Troops Take Control of Breakneck Ridge

TAKE CONTRO! OF VITAL RIDGE   “Neither Side Able To Use Key Ormoc Road   OCCUPATION   Of Pegun Isle Complete: Rains Slow Action; General Wounded

Enemy-Held Area Under Steel Hail   Limon, Key to Ormoc Road, Within Grasp of Amey ican Units   RAINS SLOWING ACTION   But Yanks Close in on Jap anese Positions on Leyte

Yankees Defy Rain; Close on Trapped Japs   Threat to Cut Off Enemy’s Spearhead; Brig Gen. Easley Wounded

Within Grasp ~ OLU.S. Division   Yanks Have Little Trouble Clearing .Mapia- Isles Of Enemy Remnants

YANKS MOVE IN ON LIMON, KEY TO ORMOC ROAD   Tropical Rains Slowing Advance; Jap Ship Toll Grows

Americans Blast At Japs on Leyte   Virtual Control of Vital Ridge Taken by Troops of 24th Division

LEYTE CAMPAIGN Ci WED BY BRI   Americans Hold Dominating Breaknéck Ridge ’ Near Island Village   JAP LOSSES MOUNT   U.S. Artillery Hammers Enemy Forces In 26. Mile Corridor

Key Leyte Ridge Falls to Yanks   American Units Advance to Within 100 Yards of Limon; Mapia Island Invaders Complete Occupation of Pegun, Mopping Up on Bras

Limon Within Grasp Of U.S. Troops In Ormoc Campaign  American Artillery Is Keeping Key Highway Under Fire

Yanks Capture A Height   Within 1,000 Yards Of Bitterly Defended Village of Limon On Bloody Road to Ormoc

Yanks Fight Mud To Near Ormoc’ Road on Leyte  - 2) ogden be fas MEE   Advance Threatens to Cut Off Enemy: Spearhead; Bains Slow Action: Gen. Easley Wounded

Limon Near Yank Grasp After Hard ~  Engavement   ‘Weather. And «Japs Delaying » Advarice

Yanks Within 1,000 Yards of  Ormoc Village   Units on East Side Held up by Japs in Ravines and Gullies

Enemy Shipping Dealt Smashing Blow In Pacific   Toll Increases; Tropical Storm Hinders Action By Ground Forces

LIMON WITHIN REACH OF THE LEYTE YANKS   Troops Take Control of Dominating Breakneck Ridge Above Village, Which Is the Key to the Ormoc Road.

Fall of Limon, Ormoc Road Key, Expected Soon   Yanks Are Reported  Within 1,000 Yords Of Village; Highway Now {ts Under Fire

YANKS HIT NEAR LIMON, JAP KEY TO ORMOC ROAD   24th Troops Win Control Of Vital Ridge; Gen. Easley Wounded By Sniper

Americans Closing in On Limon   Ormoc Road Key Now With. in Grasp of Weather Beaten U.S. Units   ENEMY LOSSES MOUNTING STEADILY   Rains Slow Pace, But Yanks Take Virtual Control of Breakneck: Ridge

JAPS PREPARE FOR RAIDS ON THOME ISLANDS   Form “Liaison Council” to Cope With Air Blows; Rain Slows American Advance on Leyte. }     1

Status of 1-4’ Over 26 to Be Pondered   91,000 California Men Eligible for Deferment Study

DEFERMENT MAY GO 10 91,000   STATE DIRECTOR SAYS NEW RULES ARE IN

‘Japanese, Advancing Across China, Seize Port Of Wuchow   Other Enemy Columns Capture Jungyun, 60 Miles To Southeact

Wuchow, Vital Chinese Port, Falls To Japs   Another Column Seizes Junevun

Americans 43 Mis. From 2 Big Ports   Most Of Brittany Peninsula Cut Off: Nazi Casualties 200,000

US ep     In Bitay :   Attack Virtually Completes Cutoff Of Brest Peninsula

American Blitz Sweeping Close To St. Nazaire   U. S. Armored Forces Engulfing Breton Peninsula At Tremendous Rate Of Speed

CUTOFF OF BRITTANY IMMINENT   Tanks And Infantry 27 Miles South Of Rennes

Americans Push Almost To Port, DriveUnchecked   Bypassed Port Of St, Malo Target Of U. S. Assault; Meet Little Opposition

DoughboysNow 43 Miles From  Saint Nazaire   Big Fort of Nantes on Loire Also In Path of Fast Advancing Aimeriean Troops   Most of Peninsula  Cut Off By Yanks   Eneireled But Fanatie German Garrison Still Fight ing In Streets Leading To Heart of Rennes

Believe Greek Leftists Will Accent Terms   Report That E. L. AS, Emissary toAnnounce Action Thursday

Beaten and Surrender: : Calm: Descends on. Athens ‘After Strife-Torn Week.

British Peace... Bid ‘Accepted: “By EAMParty   Revolting. Leftist” “Party  . Agrees to Mediation.” ‘Wet Om.

Report Elas to Accept British Terms   Formation of New Government to Be Asked by Leftists

Leftist Greek Forces Said  Seeking Peace   Emissary of ELAS Expected to Accept Terms of British

END OF ATHENS FRAY FORESEEN   City Quiet As_ Leftists Prepare To Accept British Terms

‘British-Greek Truce Rumored Near After ELAS Beaten Back With Heavy. Losses at Athens.

GREEK LEFTISTS TO ACCEPT PEACE TERMS, 15 REPORT   Rumor Circulated After Elas Town Criers Announce Fight Against British Will Go On.   REBELS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN STRUGGLE   Group Cornered and Captured After Entering English _ Barracks Compound in Pre-Dawn Attack.

British Repulse Leftists With Heavy Loss of Life In Bitter Athens Battle

REPORT ELAS WILL CALL ON SCOBIE   To Accept British Terms to End Civil War; Calm Descends on Athens After Heavy Fight.   Fire Slackens

To Onen Iu Des Moines Next Week   Pressure For Considering Income Tax Repeal.

‘Special Session Of Legislature Convenes Next Wednesday   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

State. ae tire + to’ Convene  Coming Week         Lots of Speculation Yet.’ About Income-Tax:’ ‘Suspenaibe

Second Flood In Des Moines  River Valley   Tracy, Eddyville Areas Inder Water as Heavy Rains Drench State

Dewey Promises To Fire Back At Roosevelt  Republican Plans To Answer President In   Republican Plans To Answer President In Speech Tonight; Ickes Lambasts GOP

bo WARNS “AGAINST WAVE OF OPTIMISM   Secretary Says War Is Not “All Over But the Shouting”

PETAIN READY TO FLEE VICHY   Laval Already Has Left Paris, German Sources Say

Montana Is First In Nation to Top Bond Quota  State Marks Pearl Harbor Day by Oversubscription

ee ae 8 ‘tn acca sani SCHOOL LAND COMMISSION TO INVEST IN WAR BONDS

U. S. Troops  Not Chat With  The Germans Must Treat The  Civilians There Ase Fnoamiac

No Fraternizing With Germans   U. S. Troops Expected To Remember Must Treat Them As Enemies

ARMY BANS TALKS WITH GERMANS   DOUGHBOYS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO FRATERNIZE WITH CIVILIANS,

Senate Also Overrides  Tax Veto   Only 14 Vote to Sustain F.D.R. In Bitter Row

TAX BILL 1S LAW DESPITE VETO GY VOTE OF SENATE   72 Senators Vote to Override Veto, 14 Favor Action, Roll Call Ordered Aiter Short Discussion. .   DEMOCRATS SPURRED BY BARKLEY INCIDENT   Republican Members Are More Pointed In Demands For Roosevelt to Clean House of Advisers.

‘Senate Completes  ‘Revolt By Voting Vetoed Tax Bill   IOWANS’ VOTE.

SENATE VOTES TO OVERRIDE TAX VETO   Tax Bill Becomes Law; Vote Was 72 to 14.

REVOLT BY CONGRESS EFFECTIVE   Tax Bill Made Into Law Despite Action Taken by President. Roosevelt.

New Tax Bill Now Is Law   Senate Action Follows Close on Hecls of House

Vote 72 to 14 Against President   Both Iowa Senators Oppose Sustaining Roosevelt Action Today

) Great Cities Prove Trend Of Allied Victory   Soviet Citadel Liberated; Reich Capital Almost Destroyed

Yanks Blast A aa faaliinn of Foe in France   Follow Up Yesterday's Smash Against Nine Fields And Tour's Freight Yards

RAF Mosquifo Bombers Blast At Ruhr Valley  Fleet Of American Craft Sows Ruin ge ta adit. a  oo

—AIR, WAR—  AMERICANS BLAST AREAS IN FRANGE   Between 250 And 500 U ’§. Heavy Bombers In Attacking Force   RUHR VALLEY HIT   British Mosquitos Spread Destruction In Industrial, Section

FRENCH AIR BASES AGAIN ARE BOMBED   Daylight Blow Undertak‘en by 250 to 500 American “Heavies,” Following R. A. F. Raids in the Ruhr Valley.

YANK BOMBERS POUND FRANCE   Nazi Aijrfields Blasted by Force of 250 to 500 Big Planes

Bombs Blast Nazi Airfields   Destruction Spread Across Europe by Day and Night Raids

YANK FLIERS ~ OVER FRANCE   ‘American Resume Raids  On Nazi Airfields; Eng land Has Alert

U. S. Bombers Hit Airfields In France   Follow Monday's Blows at Nine Airbases; Mosquito Planes Spread Destruction Through Ruhr Valley.

U. S. BOMBERS AGAIN ATTACK NAZI AIRFIELDS   Today's Raids Follow Pasting oi Nine German Air Bases in France, Tours Rail Yard Monday   RUHR TOWNS HIT   Mosquito Bombers Dea! Devasiating Blow io German Armameni Indusiry—Nazis Raid Britain

Bombers Rip “Airfields In France Again   Yanks Pound Chartrés, Other Nazi Bases; Mosauitos Lash Ruhr.

Allies Keep Up Destruction Of German Areas   Hard-Hitting RAF Mosyui  tos Batter Rubr Valley While American Fliers Raid Frenck Sec

AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE HIT BY AMERICANS   Installations at Chartres, Chateaudun, Reims and Dijon Targets in Follow up to Monday Blows

U.S. Bomb Fury on German Airfields  Betwean 22Nn ne- CAN   Between 250 and 500 Bombers Pounce'on Targets in France

U.S. BOMBERS RIP FRANCE   Between 250 and 600. Raic : , Pare Bases; RAF Blasts: Ruhr,

NEW RAID IN UHR VALLEY   Mosquito Bombers Spread New Destruction in Area Last Night.   OBJECTIVES NOT TOLD

U.S, HEAVIES OUT TODAY 10 BATTER REICH   Widespread German Raids Ona Wales, England, in Quest Of Invasion Concentration Points

Strike at Enemy Bases in France   Between 250 and 500 Heavy U.S. Bombers Attack German Airfields on Continent, Following up Heavy Raids Carried Out Yesterday.   NAZI PLANES HIT WALES

Yankee Attack Follows RAF Mosquito Assault On Ruhr Valley With  . on T ,. werner. To

Heavy Bombers Hit German Airfields In France Again.  Attack Installatio

Bombers Pound Invasion Coast In North France   Nazis Jittery Over Prospects OFf Allied Drive

Nazi Airfields ln France Bombed Again   Heavy Fortress Force At Work Again In Blasting Enemy

Ruhr Valley Target Of Mosquitoes’  RAF Attack   Night Assaults Follow Heavy Daylight Blows By U.S. Air Force At  Nitwan Gauamyu Airdrame

U.S. Heavy Bombers Hit Nazi Targets   German Air Bases in France Mauled by Yank Raiders

AIR BATTLE. CONTINUES AS 250-500 BOMBERS STRIKE GERMAN FIELDS IN FRANCE   Installations at Chartres, Chateaudun, Reims, and Dijon Hit in Follow-Up to Yesterday’s Blows. RAF Mosquitos Hit Ruhr Valley

Americans Hit At Air Fields   U. S. Bombers Blast At Installations At French Points

250 to 500 Bombers in Attack °   Follows Big Raid Yesterday At Nine German Air Fields

Nazi Airfields Plastered By U.S. Bombers   Installations At Chartres, Chateaudun, Reims, Dijon  Attacked.   POUND RUHR VALLEY

U.S. FLIERS HIT NAZI AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE AGAIN   RAF Bombers Attack Ruhr Valley; German Raiders Strike English Coast

U. $, HEAVY BOMBERS STRUCK AT GERMAN AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE  TUESDAY’S RAIDS FOLLOW-UP OF MONDAY’S

‘NAZIS FLEE BEFORE RUSSIANS IN BUCOVINA   Soviet Artillery Hammers Enemy Across Prut River: Nikolaev Capture Looms   Y Burma Showdown Appears Imminent;; As Allies and Japs Press Offensives%   Ruhr Valiey _ Blasted by RAF Bombs

RAF RAINS NEW DESTRUCTION ON GERMAN RUHR   U. S. Air Fleet Hits * France From Spain To English Channel

Willkie Discusses  Farm Problems   Says He s Against Reoimentation

Superforts Strike Tokyo, Near-By Japanese Islands   Enemy Radio Tells of Raid by American: Also Describes Naval Shelling; Yoakahama le Amana Airmen’s Chiectives

Tokio Reports Bonin: Islands Are Shelled By DozenAllied Warships

MANY NAZIS DIE AS STH CRUSHES COUNTER BLOWS   Four Attacks on Beachhead Near Rome. Fail: Cassino Area Flares

FOUR ATTACKS BY NAZIS IN ITALY REPULSED   American Forces Open Major Assault on Cassino

Soviets Push On Despite Nazi Stands   Russian Forces Are Driving Upon Latvia and Poland

REDS PUSH ON IN WHITE RUSSIA   Fresh Nazi Forces Can't Stop Advances

Russ Smash Nazi Effort To Seal Gap   Germans Throw Reserve: Into Futile Attacks in Rogachey Area   Soviets Converging on Pshoy rive Enemy Farther Westward

Reds Advance ~ On West Front Toward Latvia   Repulse Counterattacks Of Fresh Nazi Troops In Rovachev Territory

Reds Pressing Toward Latvia On Wide Front   German: Resistance Reported Increasing But Russians Report 14 Counterattacks On Captured Rogachey Are Thrown Back

SOVIET ARMIES SCORE GAINS IN WHITERUSSIA   Nazi Resistance Increases or Front Between Pshov, Rogachev

Soviets Advancing Westward in White  Russia; Near Latvia   Counter-Attacks North of Captured Rogachev Thrown Back

SOVIET ARMIES PUSH WESTWARD TOWARD LATVIA  2500 NAZIS KILLED   2500 NAZIS KILLED IN FIERCE BATTLE NORTH OF ROGACHEV

Soviet Arms Press Ahead Relentlessly   Sharp Counter-Attacks By Embattled Germans Fail to Halt Advance

Soviets Headed ° Toward Latvia  German Resistance’ Poutt. be Chan Adummen

Rogachev Battle Has To Date Cost Germans 6,000 Men; Situation Around Vitebsk Is Obscure; Take 54 More Towns.

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS   Frantic German Forces Seek to Plug Gap At Rogachev

Reds Press On Despite Resistance   Advance Toward Latvia and Northern Part Of Poland

REDS PRESUING TOWARD LATVIA   Russian Armies Are Massed Along 400-Mile-Long Front in Area.   RESISTANCE INCREASES

RUSSIANS PRESS TOWARD LATVIA, NORTH POLAND   Red Armies Drive Or Despite Increasec German Resistance Nazis Throw Ir Fresh Reinforce ments.

Reds Pressing Toward Latvin: Battles Stiff   German" Commanders Throw Fresh Reinforcements In Rogachev Area;  All: Attacks Repulsed

NATIONAL SERVICE POLITICAL ISclIE   Congress Expected To Delay Test On Bill Asked By FDR a

National. Service Legislation Looms As Campaign ‘Issue   No Congressional Showdown Expected Before ~November Election.

Labor Draft May Be Issue Of Campaign   Sponsors Let It Be Known They Will Not Attempt To Force Showdown   TEST VOTE IS DELAYED

LABEL NATIONAL SERVICE LAW AS CAMPAIGN ISSUE   SHOWDOWN REGARDED AS UNLIKELY BEFORE NOVEMBER ELECTION

National Service Bill to Be  Campaign Issue  Congress Will Not Force Showdown  Before Next Fall

National Service Legislation Is Marked To-Become Presidential Campaign Issue

OCAVICE ACT WILL BE CAMPAIGN ISSUE   Sponsors Will Not Force Showdown Before Naovember Election.

LABOR DRAFT TO BE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE   ‘Sponsors of National Service  Legislation Declare They  Wont’? Force a Showdown   Before November Ecicction

National Service Legislation Today Marked for Issue in Coming Election

SERVICE BILL TO ENTER CAMPAIGN   Congress. Opposed To Proposal, Delays Test Vote

CHARGES NEW DEAL BACK OF LAUSCHE’S CANDIDACY IN OHIO   Paul Herbert Lashes At Claim Stewart “Bossed”’

Say New Deal Picked Lausche   Lt. Gov. Herbert Is Keynoter at GOP Convention

BURMA ROAD I5 RE-OPENED BY ARMY JUNCTION   Two Chinese Forces Break Through Between Yunnan, Burma

RAF STAGES 3RD BUDAPEST RAID; RESULTS ‘GOOD’   Italian - Based American Planes Also Rain New Destruction On Austria; 2,250 Allied Sorties During The Dav.

U.S. Bombs Hungary, British Hit Industries   RAF Goes After Aircraft Plants in Axis Lands As Americans Help Current Offensive to Destroy German Air Force

U.S BOMBERS HIT GERMANY DOUBLE BLOW   Blast Aircraft Plants from Bases In Italy and Great Britain

Hungary Hit From Bases In Italy   British Based Planes Pound Plane Works  In Germany

Bombers Land Double Blow   Strike From Italy At Plane Plants in Hungary, From Britain Into Germany

Heavy Bombers of USAAF Strike From Italy and England   Highly Important  Targets Hit; Budapest Gets Blockbusters

Explosives Rain Down  On Plants   Italian-Based Bombers  Attack Targets In  Hungary—Others Raid  German Objectives

Budapest Gets Dose Of Bombs   RAF HURLS EXPLOSIVES ONTO HUNGARIAN CAPITAL

Temperatures   Bomb Hungary From Italy, Germany From British Ports

Budapest Target Of Yanks   Follow up Last Night’s RAF Raid; 27 Nazi Planes Destroyed by U. S.

Planes Strike At Hungary And Germany From Britain, Htaly   Car And Machine  Works Also Raided   Today's Attack Follow Night Offensive On Hungarian Capital

Pre-Invasion Raids Growing In Ferocity   Targets In Hungar ¥ aad   Reich Hammered By  Planes From Both Italy and Britain   Budapest Blasted Twice In Que Day   More Than £1700 Bombers and Fighters Rain De struction On Lechfeld and Sehweinfurt

Blast Enemy’s Aireraft Works In Double Blow   Great Air Offensive Roars Into Its Sixth Dav

LAND DOUBLE AERIAL BLOWS AGAINST AXIS   U.S. Bombers Strike From Italy at Hungary and Reich From England.   All Targets Highly  Important to Nazis

Rip: Into, Factories Near Budapest and in Germany in Continuing Of. “fensive to. Wipe. Out Nazi Airforces: Before “D-Day — RAF * Hits Budapest “With, Blockbusters Last. Night.

German Aircraft Production Dealt Double-Barreled Raids By Allies

U. S. Bombers Toss Double Punch at Nazi Production  Italy and Britain, a in   "Italy and Britain, .  _ Based Heavies Rip  Plants in Hungary And. Germany

Raiders From Italy Attack Factories in Hungary, Those From ’ Britain Hit Germany

Yanks in New Axis Assault   Planes From Two Directions Blast Targets in Europe

U. S. Bombers Hit Europe From Two Directions; RAF Blasts Budapest Rail Yards

Budapest Is Pounded By Big Bombs   Allied Objectives Are the Supply Lines Feeding Nazi Troops

Americans May Be Striking City Again   Aircraft Factories In Austria Pasted By U. S. Ships

American Airmen Blast Factories In Germany, Hungary   1,500 Planes Smash Three Reich Tar: gets Including Schweinfurt; British Hit Budapest in Night Attack

Allies Aim To Knock Out Luftwaffe   Batter Important Plane And Bearing Plant in Preparing for D-Day

HUNGARIAN CAPITAL HEAVILY BOMBED BY RAF WELLINGTONS   NIGHT RAID IN BALKANS FOLLOWED ‘DAYLIGHT AT. . TACK NEAR VIENNA

STRIKES FROM ITALY, BRITAIN   15th Air Force Hits Factory, Railroad Works Near Budapest.   BRITAIN DRIVE 4-BLADED

EuropeRocked By Two-Way U.S. Assault ©   Daylight Raids on Hungary Follow RAF Pounding

Yank Bombers Strike New Double Blow Against Nazi War Plants In Hungary, Germany

RAF Wellingtons Blast t Budapest  Hun n Capital Sane ad Tl rd Time

AT FOES FROM ITALY, BRITAIN      Budapest Struck By British; Great Aerial Offensive Goes Into Sixth Day

Nazi Targets In Reich, Hungary Hit   Aircraft Factories Draw Heaviest Assaults of Day

U.S, HEAVY BOMBERS LANDED DOUBLE BLOW AT NAZI PRODUCTION  EDMAN WAD DIaAnte far   GERMAN WAR PLANTS IN HUNGARY AND GERMANY HEAVILY RLASTED

Yank Planes Aim Double Blow On  German Industries   Fifteenth Air Force In Italy Hit Messerschmitt Plant Northwest of Budapest, While Britain-Based Bombers Visit Hungary   BLOCKBUSTERS POUND BUDAPEST FOR FiPST TIME

AN CAPITAL HEAVILY BOMBED BY RAF WELLINGTONS   NIGHT RAID IN BALKANS FOLLOWED DAYLIGHT ATTACK NEAR VIENNA

ALLIES HIT FROM ITALY AND BRITAIN   Foggia Crews Bomb Air: :, craft Factory and ar 4; Airdrome—Eighth Ait } Force Blasts Plane & Plants, Bearing Works.

U.S. Bombers Based On Two Lands In Raid   Britain. Ttalian-Based Planes  Hit Plants In Hungary, (* arin as1%   000 PARTICIPATE

R.A.F: FORCES HIT BUDAPEST IN NIGHT RAID   Nazi Plants Hit In Attempt To Wreck Luftwaffe Support

RAF Wellingtons ast Budapest In Third Assault   Big Blockbusters Rip Nazi Railroads On Soviet Front

DRIVE TO KILI LUFTWAFFE MOVES ON   Airmen From Italy Strike Messerschmitt Works   Among Targets Of BritainBased Planes; Budapest Rocked By R.A.F.

Attackers From Bases In Italy Strike At Factories In Hungary While Planes From Britain Pour Bombs On Important Installations In Reich — Aerial Assaults Aimed To Disrupt Repairs And Inflict New Damage — RAF In Night Raid On Budapest

Blast Nazi Plane  Factories Again   U. S. Heavy Bombers By Hundreds Strike From Britain, Italy; Lighter Aircraft Blas’ Belgian. French Coasts

Double Allied Blow-At Aireraft Plants In Reich, Hungary   British-Based Craft Over Germany - While Fliers From Italy Assault Factories Near Budapest Area

U. S. Bombs Hit Europe On 2 Sides During Day   Hungary Is Raided In Night Attacks

BUDAPEST'S RAIL YARDS HIT HEAVILY   Widespread Raids Made By Bombers Based In ltaly °

ALLIED AIRMEN STAGE A FOURBLADED ATTACK   Planes From Italy Strike At Hungarian Warplants; BritishBased Planes Blast  Important German  Works.

STREET FIGHTING  IN SEVASTOPOL   Soviet Armies Now Battering At Inner Gates of the City.

Nazi Drive to Be Hand  ion Nation   Length of War May Be Extended, Draft Changes and Production Shift Expected

Great German Offensive Due to ‘Prolong War; Russians Reported  Giving Assurance of Winter Drive

Bridges Evaded Censorship Rule Early Declares   Question of Whether Russia Got Warship From U. S. Unanswered

REGS MAY GET SEVERAL U. $. WARSHIPS   Bridges Accused By Early of Letting Out Military Info

Scolds Senator For Report of Shin Transfer   White House Is Irked by Talk of Deal With Russia

BRIDGES SHIP TRANSFER CHARGE CENSORSHIP EVASION: EARLY   REPORTED RUSSIA GIFT IN KEEPING WITH ITALY FEET DIVISION, SECRETARY STATES

AIRMEN GROWD TOWARD TOKYO   Two Islands In Kurile Chain Bombarded By L.S. Warplanes

Predict Over 100 Protest Votes   Says Democratic “Rebellion” Will Have Backing

Lack of Water May Turn Out to Be Fatal Weakness of Saipan Defense

\Surrender on Saipan Increases as  ‘Water Shortage Japs’ Weakness

Japs On Saipan Run Short Of Drinking Water; U.S.Lures’Em  American Voice, Speaking In Japanese, Gets

Organized Resistance Crushed, But... .  German Remnants Still Fighting Inside Metz

Only Snipers In Metz Now   No Formal Surrender Because Yanks Have Already ' Captured Commander

Large-Scale Resistance  In Metz Ends   Frontal Assault On Fortress City Declared Success

Blasts Rock Paris After Chief Talks   DeGaulle Just  Departs Scene

LeMars Public Schools Show Increase.  Over Last. Year's Enrollment. Fieures   Regular School Work Begun In All. -Denartment« ,

SLCHI GAIN IN ~ SCHOOL FIRES   902 Students F Register At _, Opening Day—12 Over ’ i Last Year

BIG NAVY GUNS HAMMER GUAM   Landing On Former U.S. West Pacific Base, May Come Soon

Moselle, Meuse  Crossed in Force   Blockbusters Rained on Nazis Defending By-Passed Channel Ports

37,000IdleBy Strikes in U.S., Canada   WAR INDUSTRIES CRIPPLED BY ADDITIONAL LABOR DISPUTES; CLOSEtidcN.aROxim ET ET ETT CHEVROLET STRIKE MAY MAKE OTHER PLANTS CLOSE,   Three Cities Walk

37,000 IDLE IN WALKOUTS OVER NATION   3 Cities Suffering Transportation Strikes

Fighting Is Picking Up In Cassino After Days Of Comparative Quiet

German Guns  Shell Cassino   Foe Also Reported. Active Tn Carieliange Valley

ALLIED TROOPS STRIKE NAZIS ON CASSINO FRONTS   Report Lull on Beachhead; Weather Checks Air Attacks

ACTIVITY GROWING IN CASSINO AREA; GERMANS ON MOVE  ALLIED TROOPS WITHIN ~ RUINS CASSING’ ARE

SHELLING OF CASSINO HAS STARTEDANEW   Considerable Movement Of German Troops And Equipment Noted In Garigliano Valley.   Hammer Railroad

New Action At Cassino   New Zealanders Attack Two German Strongpoints; Allied Troops Shelled

SHELLING OPENS UP AT CASSINO   American Troops Take Over Garigliano River Sector

Anzacs Raid 2 Na aZzi Posts Near Cassinc   Foe’s Guns Shell City as Troop Movements Bode New Attacks

New Zealanders Take German Toll At Sant ‘Angelo  Germans Renew Violent hati  et Pec: Bice x   Germans Renew Violent Shelling of Cassino, Reported on Move on GSaricliano Sector

ACTIVITY GROWING IN CASSINO AREA, GERMANS ON MOVE Au TROOPS WITHIN =." UING- CASSINO--ARE: Spt SHELLED

BLOWS TRADED IN CASSINO ARC   New Zealanders Hit Nazis. Germans Shell Town

Allied Troops In Cassino Get Fierce Shelling   New Zealand Forces Inflict Casualties On Nazis at 2 Points

New Zealand Troo ps Smash  Germans Back   Partially Destroy One En emy Strongpoint While Cassino Hit By Nazi Artillery

Allied Troops Score in Cassino Fight  Big Nazi Guns Shell Bt @ £=Peon.*a* oes   Big Nazi Guns Shell U. S$. Pasitions After Days of Quiet

Nazi Shells Jolt Cassino   Allies Subjected to Violent Battering

Zealanders Inflicting © Casualties Upon Nazis   Make Sudden Raids  On.2 Strengpoints

GERMANS STEP UP CASSINO ACTIVITY   MOVE TANKS, ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY = SHELL AL ‘ LIED POSITIONS.

New Attacks Inflict Casualties On Nazis South Of Cassino   Germans Renew Shelling Of Allied Troops In Cassino; Patrols Active On Beachhead

Cassino Front Is-Active Agair   New Zealanders Attack, Bombers Over Rome

Fierce Fights Hare in ltaly   Heavy Casualties Inflicted: Nazis Use Goliath Tanks

Allied Troops In Cassino  Are Shelled   Germans Open Up With Heavy Mortar And Artillery Fire

Action Flares Up Again On Cassino Front   Nazis Use Smoke Pots To Conceal Large Transport Movements; Heavy Shelling

New Zealanders Deal Heavy Blow At Cassino Point   Inflict Many Casualties On Germans In Sudden Thrust At Sant Angclo.

GERMANS ARE REPULSED BY ALLIED TROOPS   New Shelling Of Cassino Begins  After Lull

Russia- Visiting Priest Reinstated   Rev. Orlemanski Spared Month in Monastery

Joe C. Sapp Makes Contract With Voters   POLICH FORCE AND CITY EMPLOYEES   PUBLIC WELFARE

Dr. C. L. Bishop Is Candidate For City Council, Place 5   Joe C. Sapp Makes Contract With Voters

Germans Say Brest in Ruins   NAZL GARRISON FALLS BACK FROM COAST

Roer River Line Cracks Under Attack   Ninth Storms Into 2 Towns—  First Army Moves Ahead

Pressure Applied Near Roer, Shield For 2 Reich Cities   U.S. Ninth Army Captures Lindern, Storms Into Beeck In Violent Fighting As Allies Hit Toward Cologne And Dusseldorf; Yanks Burst From Forest

Allies Gain On 25-Mile Front In North Area   Germans Claim Eisenhower Has 70 Divisions In Battle; First Army Bursts Into Open From Hurtgen; Patton’s Men Advance

Ninth Army Forces Storm Into Lindern  . And Beeck. IST ARMY GAINS Creeps Forward To day On Approaches Ty ry Dwiren

COLOGNE LINE RACKING: NEW ALLIED DRIVE   Bitter Fighting Reported; New Gains Made

Nazi Report Claims Gen. Eisenhower  ~ Using 70 Divisions   Cologne, Dusseldorf Defense Gate Assaulted By American Forces; Yanks In Lindern And Beeck

YANKS OF NINTH ARMY STORM INTO BEECK AND LINDERN IN FLURRY OF VIOLENT FIGHTING   U. S. First Beats Through German Resistance of Unslackening Ferocity to Creep Forward On Approaches to Town of Duren   GAINS SCORED ON ENTIRE 25-MILE BATTLEFRONT

TEMPERATURES:   Smashing Blows Rocking Germans Back Along Western Front

Cologne Plain Sees Greatest Bitter Combat   Yanks Advance Along Saar as Frost Hardened Mudfields Give  Tanks Firmer Footing

Ninth Advances In Violent Fighting   Battle Of Attrition Raging As Americans Push Forward

FOR,. CHURCHILL: AND STALIN: MEETING: WILL. ‘COME EARLY IN: 1945:

American Army and Navy Leaders Close Their Secret Conferences With Nimitz

TOP COMMANDERS CONFER WITH NIMITZ   Future Attacks Against Japan Discussed by Army and Navy Leaders at Pearl Harhor.

Wellsville Pilot Shoots Down Two Jap Planes in Battle Above Truk

New Flyers Get 21 Zeros   None Had Ever Seen That Jap Plane Before

Colorful Career Of Alfred Smith Ended By Death   Former Presidential Candidate Dies Today In New York Hospital

Al. Smith Died Today In New York   Former Governor Had Colorful Career; Was Called  ‘Happy Warrior’

Mapia Landing Is Reported  Carrier’s Planes , oe come & Gee me, erence mremremn

Sth Army Now OQniv 8 Miles  From Bologna   Eighth Army Moves Up In Foree Against Outskirts Of Cesena

Allies Nearing Bologna Suburbs   Rainy Weather Stops Main American Drive

PACIFIC SERVICE GETS SKY GIANT ; Flying Boat Mars Arrives in Hawaii With Childress Man Its Navigator

Huge Flying Boat ‘Mars’ in Pacific   Nayysfakes Big Plane, Flies It to Hawaii on Way to vient

TANKS BATTER INTO CITY ON WESTERN COAST   Spearhead 20 Miles From Beachhead At Anzio

Yankees Drive Past City of Terracina   Beachhead Forces Cut Appian Way to Isolate Cisterne

Gaping Hole Torn In German Lines .   Two Allied Armies Rapidly Closing Trap Around Germans In Anzio Beachhead Area

Yankees Capture Terracina, Crack -Anxio Perimeter   German Lines Snapped Back Toward Rome On Every Sector Where Terrific Battle Roars; Appian Way Cut In Two Places.

Invaders Close In for Kull On 17 Trapped Nazi Units   Germans Battle Frantically to Escape Toward Rome as Terracina Falls, Yanks Cut Appian Way, Periling Rear

st. Lo Air Blitz Biggest Ever. Captive Nazis Say   Lixe End of World.   No Air Opposition.

Soviets Keep Up Slow Advance, Opposition Grows Pincer Move Toward  East Prussia Begun By Three Armies

Reds in South Shut Off Last Galician Well:   Wehrmacht Bolsters Front ‘In Last-Diteh' Struggle Near Soil of Reich

RICH NAZI OIL WELLS SEIZED BY RED ARMY   ROADS LEADING TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA HELD SECURELY

NAZI DEFENSE STIFFENS ON EASTERN LINE   Put Up Savage Fight As Soviets Smash At East Wall

Soviet attack sends enemy  reeling back  Russians retake Galician oil wells

GALICIAN OIL WELLS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   Last of 2,000 Which Have Been Feeding Nazi War Machine; Reds Grip Five Routes.   9,000 Daily Loss

Reds 25 Miles  From Kielce   Retake Last of 2.000 Galician Oil Wells as Boryslaw, Sambor Fall

REDS BEGIN PINCER MOVE ~ ON PRUSSIA   Three Armies Push Toward Savagely Defended German Province on 200-Mile Front.   SOVIETS APPROACH KIELCE IN POLAND   Seize Towns in Carpathians That Increase to Five Invasion Routes to Czechoslovakia.

Secure Grips Gained on Routes to CzechoSlovakia . ANOTHER DRIVE IS — AIMED, AT SILESIA Many Localities Swept Up in Swift Offen sives

MAY NOT GROW HEMP AT LADD COMING YEAR   Announcement Is Made That Several Hemp Plants Will Close

MAY NOT GROW HEMP AT LADD COMING SEASON   Director Of State Projects Says That 28 Plants In Mid-West Will Be Closed As Imports Of Materials Open Up.

DONNELL TO ENTER RACE FOR SENATE   ANNOUNCEMENT INDICATES GOVERNOR PLANS VIGOR. OUS SPEAKING DRIVE.

Red Cross Meeting Friday Important   Every Member Invited; Involves Reports On Past Work, What Is Ahead

Red Cross Meeting Friday Important  Every Mamber lavisad:   Every Member Invited; Involves Reports On Past Work, What Is Ahead

Jap Dominated Puppet Rulers of Philippines Declare War On Allies

JAP PUPPETS -DEGLARE WAR ARTER ATTACK   PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENT ‘FORMED BY JAPAN TAKES FORMAL ACTION—PELELIU DRIVE STALLS

Crowder to Be Host to Civilians Thousands to Visit Camp Thursday

Japanese School Girls Give Hair To Be Used In Bomber Manufacture

‘North End of Siegfried Line \s Turned   Dutch Transport Hub of Eindhoven ls Captured

Allies Continue.  Advance Into. Eastern Holland   Dutch Transport Hub of Eindhoven Taken By American Troops

Aerial Invasion Of Holland Going Exactly As Planned According To FElated Spokesmen; Commanders Pleased   INAZIS DEFENSES FALLING APART

Eindhoven, Big Transport Hub, Falls to Allies   Germans Admit Loss of Brest; Armies Sweep Northward in Drive to Turn Corner of Nazi Siegfried Line; All Landing Objectives Gained

Nazi Defenses Falling Apart In Holland   German Garrison Abandons Brest to American Forces

Allies Beyond Rhine   Junction Is Made With British in Dramatic Move

NO IMMEDIATE HOPE FOR ENDING RUSSO-FINN WAR   Finland Expected To Offi cially Reject Russiar Peace Term.

Plymouth County 4-H Clubs Hold ‘Rally Dav In LeMars Thursday, June 1   About 235 Have Part in Program Full of Interest

RALLY DAY HELD HERE THURSDAY   Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of County Elect Officers , For Year

Work Corps For 4-F Men Proposed   House Group Would Put Physically Unfit to Work

WAR SECRETARY OPPOSES PLANNED LF LABOR CORPS   Voices Objection Despite Approval of High Army and Navy Officials   HOUSE COMMITTEE SUGGESTS INDUCTION   War Production Board, Army And Navy Maritime Commission Announce List of Industries for Which They Will Urwe Deferments

PLAN FOR 4-F LABOR CORPS IS APPROVED      Immediate Induction of ‘Men Recommended by Committee   PROGRAM OPPOSED BY SEC’Y STIMSON   Special. Legislation Will be Offered by House . Group

Would Defer Ones Engaged in Industry Or Agriculture as Long As They Remain There  SECRETARY STIMSON OPPOSED TO IDEA Drafting of All Men, Women for War Work © Called Taeiral Way

Immediate Use Of 4-F Work Corp: Urged on Army  House Committee Says Legislation

Group Advises Immediate Use Of 4-F Labor   House Body Offers Plans To Put Rejected Group, Older Men to Work

Induction of 4-F Men for Labor Urged   House Subcommittee Makes Proposal Over Stimson’s Protest

PLACING OF 4-PS. INTO ARMY WORK CORPS ADVOCATED   House Group Calis for Their Immediate Induction Despite Stimson’s, Disapproval of Idea.   POSTPONES RECESS: _ TO DRAFT LEGISLATION   Bill Will Apply to Physically Unfit: of Every Age and . ' to Non-Fathers. Between 87 and 45.

New Offensive Opened by Russians   Soviet Armies Are Hammering at Crumbling Nazis

BREAK UP NAZI CELEBRATION IN PRISONER CAMP   25 GERMANS ESCAPE IN DEMONSTRATION AT PAPAGO PARK

GERMAN PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM CAME   Guards Resort to Force ir Ending Demonstration Saturday.

Nazi Celebration Cloaks Bolt from War Prison Camp   Recapture Six of 25 Who Escape From Papago Park; ‘Hold German Hero

19 German War Prisoners Still At Large After Escaping Camp Through 200-Foot Rock Tunnel

25 Germans Escape Arizona Prison Camp   PRIEN HAD BEEN LAUDED Ww OPRATANY

Bombers Hit Targets in Nazi Reich   "Many Point?” in Fortress Europe Blasted, Foe Hints New Shuttle

Blast Vital Military Targets In Nearmoandv. Reich, Italy And Austria

Admiral Kimmel’s Counsel Asks Data On Pearl Harbor Findings Be Released

KIMMEL ASKS NAVY TO RELEASE REPORT   Admiral’s Counsel Calls on For restal to Make Public Findings on Pearl Harbor Raid.

KIMMEL’S ATTORNEY SEEKS VINDICATION   Forrestal Requested To Release Findings Of Board Of Inquiry Into Peart Harbor Disaster  *

3 FOUND DEAD IN JOWA TRAILER   Mother, 2 Children Asphyxiation Vietims

Swarm to Topeka For Kansas Day  G. O. P. Celebrates State's Birthday; The Climax Tanjahe

GOP Has Its Day _   Harmony Marlis Gathering of Party: Faithful In Topeka Todéy

WHILE AMERICAN AND BRITISH TROOPS FIGHT STUBBORNLY TO HOLD THEIR BEACHHEAD; AIDED BY ARTILLERY SUPPORT.

Slashing German Attacks Halted   Nazi Counterblows  Grow In Intensity By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

YANKS BATTLE IN SIGHT OF ETERNAL CITY   AMERICANS GAINING FOOTHOLD INSIDE CASSINO

ERMANG MAGS TANKS, INFANTRY   Allies Battle Growing Storm From Staunch Foxholes   AMERICAN TROOPS   Gain Toe-hold On Cassino, Occupying Streets, Build. ings: Airmen Grounded

Invaders Block Nazi Attacks On Rome Front   American Infantry Encounters Strong Resistance at Cassino  But Manages ‘A Good Toehold’

Massed German Troops Launch Counter Offense   Fight in Shadow of Eternal City; Gain a Toehold

Massed German Troops Used In Battle Of Rome   Tanks And Planes Launch Fierce Counter-Attack Against Allies

Storm of German CounterOffensive Growing in Intensity  CASSINO TOE-HOLD ___ REPORTED GAINED  Artillery on Both Sides Belches Forth Many Shells 

Allies Hold Nazi Attacks at Rome      Great Battle Rages Within Sight of Holy City; American Troops Gain Foot- hold in Cassino

Terrific Attack Beaten Off in Close Fighting   Americans Hold Part of Cassino

Bitter fight in progress near Rome   German offensive mounting in fury

Yanks and British Hold Off Fierce Nazi Attacks: 90 Miles South of Rome

Four German Smashes Are Repulsed   Americans Improve Positions West of Cisternag

Nazis Seek ‘To Wipe Out ‘Allied Hold   Good Toehold Gained _On Town of Cassino By American Troops  FIGHTING SEVERE

Slashing German Attacks Halted   Nazi Counterblows Grow In Intensity

REDS ‘SAY 13 000 POLES WERE SLAIN BY NAZIS: AT SARNY   Hundreds of. Girls. Deported to Germany Before Arrival of Red Army Say Soviets

CEILING PLACED ON STRAWBERRIES   Maximum Of 38c Per Pint May Be Charged Till Further Notice

Admits She Offered To Share Mate She Is Accused Of Slaying   Testifies At Murder Trial Everything Became Blank When School Teacher Husband Told Her He Wanted Divorce To Wed Brunette.

Three ( olumns Moving Against Cit y OF Cesana  Yanks Drive 4   Yanks Drive § Near Vital “% Bologna

Nazi Resistance  Weakens in Italy   Three Allied Columns Drive Toward Cesena

Nation Observes Labor Day With Production  Spreading Strike in Coal Mines Is Major Problem

Ma jority at Work On Labor Day   U. S. Takes Over More Soft Coal Mines

AOMP_ MEMBERS’. DEMANDING + INVESTIGATION OF STATEMENT ATTRIBUTED TO  GENERAL MARSHALL :

GEN. MARSHALL UNDER FIRE AS MYSTERY MAN   Anonymous Com: ments Rouse Unions  CONGRESS RILED  Union Heads Resent War Delay Charge

REOEH IMENT GYcE  ANON OUD TALA HITS HIGH PUL   Green fays Marshall Responsible; S 1 ns Elime Mr. Roosevelt

Airport Built Under Fire in 14 Hours   U.S. Crewmen Write Thrilling Chapter in Enaineering History

Vice President Also Calls for Re-Election of Senator Wagner, but Makes No Reference to Senator Truman—Declares Governor Dewey Will Be Under Necessity of Placating Isolationists if He Wins in November.

Wallace to” Support FDR  In Election   Says America Must Ge Forward in the Light Of Liberalism, Asks Votes for Waaner

ATHEATON DECLARES ‘THERE IS FEELING AMONG TROOPS AMERICA NOT WORKING AS IT SHOULD

WORK OR FIGHT’ MEASURE URGED   Legion Head Tells Congress It’s Never Too Late . to Admit Mistake

Nevada Holds Primary Election Today; Chief  Interest In Demo Race

3 Killed, 5 Hurt When Navy Plane  Dives Into Town  Plows Through Group Of Houses, Store - fn assile Orvac

PLANE SHEARS HOUSES; CRASH IS IN OREGON   3 Navy Fliers Die, Five Civilians _. Iniured ;

LAADAAAA4 654445606101 dD  Lord Keynes Pleads England Be Allowed Ta Solve Own Debt

British Ask Own Solution  Of War Debt   Keynes Informs Monetary Group

Hitler's Purge of the German Army Reaches Swift and Deadly Climax; Fight Hanged

8 Executed In German Amy Purge   Frenzied Fuehrer Hangs Officers Soon After Trial

Famous Doctor Found In Well   Authority On Deafness Dies of Spinal Meningitis.

PHYSICIAN, FOUND IN PIT, EXPIRES   Dr. Walter Hughson Disappeared on Monday _ WNight

Mine Workers Meeting Ends In Pistol Play   Three Injured, One Critic ally, When Grievance Hearing Breaks Up ‘In Chicago

a ARE WOUNDED IN SHOOTING AFFRAY   Shooting Takes Place in Union Office During Grievance Hearing.

3 Wounded In Union Office  One Man Reported Ir Critical Condition

Yanks Reinforce Troops on Biak   Bombers Continue Attacks on Japs

Bill Indictment Charging Meadows (f Embezzlement Given Grand Jury

AMERICAN TROOPS “NEARING BOLOGNA   Doughboys Drive Forward ‘In the Rain and Mud

WIDER SECTOR NEAR BOLOGNA MADE BY U.S.   Westward Push Cuts Road: Nazis Prepare New Defense

ANKS WIDEN ITALY FRONT   Doughboys Broaden Sector Threatening Key City Of Bologna

§. Troops. ush Near Vital City   ks Broaden Fron enacing Bologna To Twelve Miles

STEADY PROGRESS IS _ REPORTED IN ITALY   American Troops Have Broadened Their Front To Threaten Bologna; Weather Is Bad

AMERICAN TROOPS NEARING BOLOGNA   Coughboys Drive Forward ‘In the Rain and ~  NAued

SUBSIDIARY OF WARD COMPANY TAKEN BY ARMY   War Labor Board Turn: Matter Over To White  House For Action   FIRM MANUFACTURES “PLANE EQUIPMENT

Army Seizes  Hummer Unit Of Ward’s on F. D.R. Order   Action Announced From White: House. . On Eve of Inquiry: Tnto Parent Firm Case   PLANT MAKES PARTS FOR ARMY AIRCRAFT Defiance by Company Of Labor Board Order  Te Civen as Reason

Factory Making Airplane Parts ls Strike-Bound   Hummer Plant Closed Two Weeks By Labor Dispute

Ward Company Subsidiary Is Seized By The Army   Hummer Manufacturing Co. Taken Over for Defi. ance of War Labor Board—<Action Announced From White House

YUMMER C0. PLANT TAKEN OVER BY ARM}   “overnment Acts After Defiance of  WLB Order

ROOSEVELT IS CRITICIZED BY GOP CHAIRMAN      Said Roosevelt Didn't Think Himself Immature As Ass’t Navy Sec'y

COAL DEALERS CURTAILED ON FUEL DELIVERY   New Order Goes Into Effect In One Week

Col. Roosevelt Weds Actress AtGrand Canyon   Probably Most Beautiful Wedding There Ever Was, 27-Year-Old Bride Says 

Elliott Roosevelt Marries Actress At Grand Canyon   President’s Son, Bride Plan Week’s Honeymoon In Arizona Mountains

SON OF PRESIDENT ~ MARRIES ACTRESS   Col. Elliott Roosevelt Wed to 27-Year-Old Faye  Emerson

U.S. PREPARED TO ‘QUARANTINE BOLIVIA AND ARGENTINA   Hull Considering Move to Stop Fascist Troublemakers

STABILIZING PLAN FORMED   . Morgenthau ‘Invites Congressional  Aid At World  Conference

World Monetary Plan Is Outlined   Congress Likes Proposal Already Approved By 30 Nations

Proposed International Plan Of Monetary Stabilization Involves 2 Billion US Dollars

Senate Leaders Approve Plan for Congressional Participation in Parley - On World Monetary Stabilization

Berlin, Madgeburg Also Hard Hit   Huge Armada Pounded the French Coast Yesterday With Little Opposition.

Parade Starts To Cemetery At 10 a.m.   Rev. J. T. Bloom, Christian Pastor,  Gives Address.

Memorial Services Scheduled for City  Sunday Evening and Tuesday Morning   May 28 Program at School Auditorium; Memorial Day Ceremonies at Cemetery.

GERMAN SHELL KILLS 5 MEN IN ANZIO HOSPITAL   Area Hit By 40 Shells Was Plainly Marked By Red Cross

State Candidates  Will Be Named At Primary Tuesday   Few Contests Mark State. Wide Voting In Pennsy]vania At Election   DEMOCRATS WILL SUPPORT ROOSEVELT

MARA AAAADAAAAAAAAAAAL Italions Afraid Americans Would Staiaghten Tower

Chinese Open Offensive in  South Hupeh   Gains Made Against Japanese Troops on Yunnan Front

Chinese Open ~ Maior Attack   Southern Hupeh Province Y . Seene ‘of Big. Push

WHEREABOUTS OF BIG JAPANESE FLEET IS QUESTION THAT NONE (ABLE TO ANSWER ABSOLUTELY

The War Today   nC war s0day Mystery Surrounds Whereabouts Of Big Jap Navy.

T ODAY   Truk’s: Value, While Net-Eatirely Nullified, Is Being Made Impotest By Nearby  sl pgs

Belief Growing That — Adolf .Hitler Is Either Dead Or Entirely Out

Strange Proclamation Read By Himmler May Have Beer Written by Someone Else

Hitler Dead or Crazy   Mystery Over Silence Deepens. as ‘Himmler Cal Is $s on Germans To Fight to Death in Role Fuehrer lised To Love

Hitler Missing Rumors Gain As Himmler Reads Appeal To (Germany In Hitler’s Name

Hitler Under Care Of Four Doctors, Report   London Hears Nazi Chief’s Strange Proclamation Of Sunday Commemorating Munich Beer Cellar Putsch Written By Somebody Else

Hitler Under Care of Four Physicians in German Hideout!   Origin of — Yesterday’s Manifesto Questioned  by Reliable Source

Belief Hitler Is Dead Gain: New Credence   Appeal to Nazis, Read by Himmler, Has “Phony Ring”

FOUR DOCTORS CALLED IN T0 TREAT SLLNESS   Berlin Source Says Pro. clamation Not Written By Fuehrer

REPORT HITLER UNDER CARE OF FOUR DOCTORS   Somebody Else Wrote Proclamation, Say Many Observers

REPORT HITLER IS DEAD GAINS STRENGTH   SOLONS ATTACK GERMAN CARTEL SYSTEM

Mystery over Adolf Hitler’s®  Whereabouts Is Deepening  bimmslar Rande Proclamation Calliaa’

Hitler Sick, Proxy Radio Plea Reveals   Fuehrer Under Care Of Four Doctors, Report To London Discloses

FOUR DOCTORS TREAT HITLER?   Strange Proclamation May _ Have Been Written By Someone Else.   BERLIN DENIES RUMORS

‘Strange ‘Hitler’ Message Casts Doubt 'On Feuhrer’s Condition; Sounds ‘Phoney’

Hitler Mystery Deepens When ‘Himmler Speaks   Urges Germans  Ficht To End

—IS HITLER DEAD?   Heinrich Himmler Reads ‘Fuehrer’s Proclamation’

Himmler’s Broadcasting Of Hitler Speech Spurs Belief Adolf Is Either Dead Or Ill

BROADCAST TO REICH HAS ‘PHONEY RING   Recurring Reports That Hitier is Dead or Sick Gains Weight With Proclamation

Nazi U, Unable. Stop Rumors   “Reports Of Hitler's Death. Gains: Weight

Hitler Mystery Deepens   Der Fuehrer Reportedly Under Care of Four Doctors; ‘Phoney Ring’ To Radio Proclamation

Ask Nation To Resist until Death   Nazis Explain Chief ‘Too Busy Guiding Destinies of Reich to Appear’

Hear Doctors Attend The German Fuehrer   Himmier’s Broadcast In Name of Hitler Increases Soeculation

LONDON HEARS REPORT HITLER UNDER CARE FOUR DOCTORS; PONDER HIS FAILURE TO SPEAK

Fight to Death, German Appeal   Mystery Over Hitler's Whereabouts Continues To Grow

BELIEF GROWING HITLER IS DEAD OR INCOMPETENT   RADIO PROCLAMATION READ BY HIMMLER ON BEHALF OF FEUHRER

Himmler Speech Calls Forth Hints Of Hitler’s Death   ont  Proclamation Calls Upoi.:i Germans To Fight To The Last Ditch.

IDEA OF SOMETHING WRONG WITH HITLER GAINS ADDED WEIGHT   FUEHRER’S ALLEGED PROCLAMATION READ OVER AIR BY HIMMLER

Belief Grows Hitler ls Dead Or Dyins   Strange Broadcast Sunday, Read By Himmler And Demanding Last-Ditch Fight By German People Adds To Belief Fuehrer No Lonaer Lives

HIMMLER READS HITLER'S PLEA FOR FANATICISM   Reports Say Fuehrer I: Under Care Of Four Doctors

SPECULATION GROWS AFTER PROCLAMATION   On Other Hani, Nazi Chiefs May Be Perpetrating Hoax to Keep German People “Blind”,   Rye TOHN F. CHESTER

HIFLER REPORTED UNDER CARE OF FOUR PHYSICIANS AS REPORTS OF ILLNESS OR DEATH STILL PERSIST

IN MASON ciry      \Dritish Claim Hitler Proclamation Has *““Phany Rp: ?

Fuehrer Mystery Deepens   GLOOMY PROCLAMATION TO GERMANS IS READ BY HENRICH HIMMLER   “Phoney.” London Says

Doubt Strange Proclamation Made By Hifler   ‘Fight To The Death’ Statement Studied; Report Fuehrer Under Care Of 4 Dactore

Hitler Is Under  Ph ysicians Care   Speech Given Sunday Probably Was Written By Some One Else

Hitler Statement Has Phoney Ring   Proclamation Read for Fuehrer Believed Aimed at Death Rumors

British Hear  Nazi Feuhrer Seriously III   Four Leading Doctors Are Called In on Case; Speech ‘Ghost-Written’  RY TIOHN FF. CHESTER

Hitler's Death Rumors Increase After Phoney Talk  Heinrich Bimmler's Broadcast Lends Weight to Theory, Said Aimed io Halt Fears in Reich

Hitler Under Care Of Four Doctors, Claim   Unusually. Reliahle Source _ Reveals Information After Listening to Queer Proclamation:

Ft i Ste Nowe Net eed STD  CIRCUMSTANCES SUCCEST HITLER MICHT BE DEAD

Hitler Under Doctors’ Care State Sources   Strange Proclamation Might Have Been Written” By Someone Else.   HAS ’PHONEY RING’

Report Hitler Under Care Of  Four Doctors   Strange Proclamation Read Yesterday  Causes Comment

 Mystery Over Hitler’s Whereabouts Deepens  As Himmler Urges Germans To Fight To End

Report in London Today That He Was Under Care of Four Doctors Last Week

ALLIED FORCES “JUST 40 MILES APART IN WES}   Attack on Cassino Is Halted by Heavy  Enemy Barrage

Allies Break Gustov Line   Americans Reach Area Of Cassino Defenses

U.S. HEAVIES RANGE SKIES OF NORMANDY   1,500 American Bombers Pound Nazi’s Ebbing Oil Supplies In New  Powerful  Raids

Allied Planes Attack Axis Oil Centers   Synthetic Oil Plant, Ploesti Field Raided: Fighter Bombers Aid Troops Below Caen

B Defendants In Bribe Plot On Trial Today   Conspiracy Charges Tc Be Aired In Mason County Court

REDS PLUNGE INTO PRE-WAR GERMANY   Stabbing 19 Miles Into FE. Prussia On 87 Mi. Front Trapping Axis Garrison In Memel   Take Nickel Mines

Reds Are Pressing Into East Prussia  Trap Garrison In Baltic Port

RUSSIANS ADVANCE — IN PRUSSIAN DRIVE   Many Towns and Villages —— Overrun—by_Red Forces

Reds Thrust  Deeper into  East Prussia  Marshal Stalin Confirms Drive  On Reich Soil

REDS TAKE 1,400 TOWNS IN 2-WAY DRIVE INTO REICH   Russians Stab 19 Miles Into East Prussia From East ' and Overrun Memel Areas to North.   TANKS, PLANES AID IN HUGE OFFENSIVE   German Garrison in Baltic Port Trapped—Long Stretch of Niemen River Cleared of Enemy.

MANY VILLAGES ARE TAKEN BY SOVIET TROOPS   Two-Way Plunge Has Pen etrated 19 Miles Into Eaét Prussia   GERMAN GARRISON AT MEMEL SURROUNDED

Soviets Seize 500 Villages  In Germany   Trap Axis Garrison _ In Memel on Baltic, Moscow. Announces  LARGE AREA FREED

NAZI GARRISON AT MEMEL TRAPPED   Soviets Push 19 Miles Into East Prussia   OVERRUN 1,400 TOWNS   Clear Entire North Bank of Niemen River From Lith. uania to the Baltic

33,000 State Men  usted in Army   446 New Mexico Women Rey iorted

Wallace’s Future Still a Mystery; Mavhe He'll Replace Jesse Jones

NEW POST OF V. P, WALLACE STILL MYSTER   President Has Promised Former Mate Important inl  ment

Cultists Support Plea With Death Penalty Citation   Brief Now Goes tc Tenth Cireuit Court of Appeals

Nazi Radio AdmitGain   Steady Advance Of Invasion Armies Reported Off icially From London

Gov. Dewey Assails Administration Public Relations  Candidate Declares   Candidate Declares People Deserve To Lead Own Lives

Gov. Dewey Assails Administration Public Relations  Candidate Declares People Deserve To Lead Own Lives

No Superforts Lost (On Manchurian Raid      Results of Anshan Bombing Officially. De - gseribed as “Good to Excellent”—Six Enemy Fighters Shot Down.   By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH.

Many Hits - Scored on Jap Plant   Large Fires Siarted by B29s Attacking Major En_emy Industrial Center   ONE -SUPERFORT LOST ON: MISSION   India-Based Bombers Out Again Today in Raids on Thailand and Burma,

SMASHING ATTACK ON NAGOYA, JAPAN, ONE PLANE MISSING   A 8-29 Superfortress Failed to Return and Must Be Presumed Lost.

Ones B "29 Is Missing  JnRaid-On Manchuria      U.S. Gunners Down 7 Enemy Fighter Planes And Damage 11 Others In Successful Mission: Over Jananasce TNarritary .

LOSE ONE B29 IN RAID ON ANSHAN   ALL OTHER PLANES IN LARGE ATTACKING FORCE ACCOUNTED FOR

Thailand Hit In New Raid   India-Based Big Bombers Rip Bangkok And Rangoon Port

One Superfort Lost in Raid   Seven Jap Ptanes Shot Down, Prabubly 10 Mara Dectenwad

Jap Aircraft Factory Hit By Bombers   Industry Dealt Heavy Blew; Big Explosions Followed by Fires

ONE SUPER-FORTRESS LOST ON LATEST RAID   Others Now Accounted For, 20th Air Force Reports

Pang - Ys oF len U pa local ae mre  wi Ga 90-0 e dia   Vee yar Gaas te oy NT

Sugeest $605.1 100 For Airport   Citv Included In Billion Dollar Postwar Program For Airports

HANOVER INCLUDED IN AIRPORT PLANS   Billion-Dollar Post-War Program Of Construction And Improvement Recommended By CAA

Sedalia in y -ngine Plane Class   Table Shows How Sum Recommended For Aviation is  To be Broken up

Fighting ‘Hogan's Task Force,’ GivenUpas Lost, Keeps Enemy at Bay, Loses Only 20 of 400 Men

"Hogan's Task Force,” Given Up For Lost, Returns To U. S. Lines. -

Lost Task Force Beats Way Back   ‘The Fighting 490,” Given Up as Lost, Fought Through No-Mans-Land.

"Task Force” of 400 Gallant Gls Has Come Back   Group Explored Behind Nazi Lines In Six Days of  Se  :. ne

Group Given Up as Lost After Six Days Fights Way Back to Own Lines

Fighting 400 Return From Enemy Lines   ENCIRCLED TASK FORCE DEFY THREE DIVISIONS, MAKE CHRISTMAS ESCAPE

HOGAN'S TASK FORCE ESCAPES GERMAN TROOPS   Four Hundred Men Fight Nazis For Several Days

WEW TORK COTTON   'Honans Task Force’ Of 400 Yanks Escapes Thru Nazi Lines 

Hogan’s Force Escapes Trap   400 Men, Led by Texan, Cause Trouble Inside Enemy Lines

'Hogan's Task Force,’ 400 Strong, Escapes From Behind Nazi Lines

HOGAN'S TASK FORCE CAME BACK THROUGH 10 MILES ENEMY LINES  ISOLATED AND ENCIRCLEL BY GERMAN DRIVE THEY WACE CREAT FICHT

RAILROAD TRAVEL BECOMES QUESTION   New Federal Order Permits “Bumping” of Passencers

Confesses To Two Murders   Police Search Snowdrifts For Body Of One Girl He Attacked.

Big Blows Are Struck In Italy   Gen. Clark’s Army Shows Signs Of Resuming Offensive Below Cassino.

Allied Guns Hit Cassino   Outflanking Drive Is Boaaed Down By Snow

Nazi Positions Under Fire of Huge Guns   Artillery Centers on Seven-Mile Front in Italy

LONG ROAD AHEAD BEFORE WAR ENDS, OWI REPORT WARNS   Only Small Part Of Axis. Territory Has Been Liberated

NO HOPE SEEN FOR EARLY END OF WORLD WAR      OWI Warns Of Over-Optimism In Expecting End of War Soon

Brunswick In Central Reich Again Raided   U. S. Heavy Bombers Ham. mer German Aircraft Plants: Berlin Says Air Fight Savage

U. §, HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACKED BRUNSWICK AND OTHER POINTS  BERLIN REPORTS SAVAGE AIR BATTLES OCCURRED DIIRINC RAINS

U.S. Planes Bomb Nazis Incessantly In Daylight   Great Fight Start: As Fortresses Get Over Brunswick

BRUNSWICK HIT BY -YANK BOMBS   Aircraft Center Blasted; Fighter Base Neutralized

U, 5, BOMBERS HIT TARGETS IN GERMANY   Brunswick Aircraf! Plant Bombed In Latest Attack

BOMBERS SMOTHER NAZI FIGHTER BASE THEN Cf) RAINING   Probably. ‘Knocked Out Many Planes On Way To Brunswick   TENTH MAJOR RAID {IN THIRTEEN DAYS

PLANE GENTE POUNDED AFTER * 450-MILE HOP   Germans Claim Fierce Fight Occurs as ‘Forts’ Rip Foe Targets

Yankee Heavy Bombers Slash A Brunswick   Fortresses Blast At German Aircraft Center; Liberators Hit in- Holland

BOMBS RAINED GN BRUNSWICK   U. S. Flying Fortresses Pound German Aircraft Factory Center

AT BRUNSWICK   Berlin Says Savage Fighting Developed at Manufacturing Center.

Big U. S. Bombers Hit Brunswick In Assault Today  Savage Fight Reported As Fortresses Fly Over Central Germany

Forts Hit German Factories   UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PLANES ACTIVE IN HOLLAND AND FRANCE

Yanks Bomb  Brunswick  Heavy Bombers Raid Central Germany and  Peints in Holland

U. $. HEAVY BOMBERS HIT BRUNSWICK   Berlin Radio Says Savage Fighting Developed in Attack — Frahce and Holland Also Are Raid a 

FLYING FORTS  LASH TARGETS  AT BRUNSWICK LIBERATOR BOMBERS  SMOTHER NAZI AIR PACE IN HOLLAND

NAZI FIGHTE BASE OBJEC OF AIR RAI   Savage Fights Develops a: U. S. Heavy Bombers Attack Targets at Brunswick   LOSS NOT ANNOUNCE!

Brunswick Hit; Berlin Reports Big Air Battle   Big Nazi Airbase In Holland Smothered By Our Liberators.

Brunswick, Germany, Is Yank Target   Other Raids On  France. Holland

Allied Forces Are On Defensive in Fighting at Cassino   Russians Deepen Their Thrusts Into Poland. Bessarabia

Yank Bombers Raid Brunswick ‘And Dutch Base   Losses On Brunswick Attack Not Yet Available; Tenth U. S. Operation On Continent In Last 13 Days.

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST TARGETS ~ IN BRUNSWICK   Fortresses Raid Aircraft Center, Liberators Hit in Holland, Marauders in North France

BLAST AIRCRAFT PLANT CENTER AT BRUNSWICK   Berlin Radio Claims Fierce Air Battle Develops Between Forces

Brunswick I Is. Attacked: ‘By U. S. Heavy Bombers   German: Aircraft ‘Manufacturing Center Target’ ‘In  “Heavy. Raid; Berlin’ Radio Reports Savage Air Be hd: 

Brunswick Plane Plants   Nazi Fighter Base  In Holland Pulverized By Liberators As Part Of Attack

Brunswick Attacked by Yank Planes   Liberators Hit  _ Fighter Base in Holland—-Others Attack France

Bertin Says Savage Fighting Developed— At Industrial City   Allied Bombers Also Blast At Holland, France, ‘Atlantic Wall’ In Missions During Last Twenty-Four Hours

N avy Bombers Hit Germany   Brunswick Attacked; Battle Is Claimed

U. S. Airmen  Hit Brunswick   Berlin Radio Declared Savage Fighting Develops; No Plane Losses.

U. 5. Bombers Hold Pressure On Axis Areas   Brunswick Blasted In Attack, Dutch Fields Are Hit

Hit Enemy © Plant and © «Air Center   U.S. Raiders Smother: Fight “er Base*:in Holland : as: ‘Forts’ Bomb Brunswick~   SAVAGE BATTLE, .. BERLIN: REPORTS   Marauders Again Take Up _ Assault on Installations “in Frante °°

U. S. HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK BRUNSWICK. OTHER OBJECTIVES FEEL AIR POWER

.iberators Also Hammer A Vital Nazi Plane Base In Gilze-Rijen, Holland

Heavy Bombers Attack Targets  __At Brunswick   Savage Fighting Develops . Over German Aircraft Manufacturing Center

LIBERATORS SMOTHER DUTCH FIGHTER BASE   Aircraft Parts Assembly Plants Are Believed Tarente nf Daid

BAUM IS AERIAL GUNNER; HEFNER SERVED ON ANTI-AIR-  CRAFT BATTERY

Finn Payment  Tu rned Down  State Department Says O. K.; Treasury Balks

REJECT FINNISH DEBT PAYMENT      Treasury Refuses to ‘Thaw’ Frozen Funds

Treasury Spurns Finland’s Offer To Pay War Debt   J. S. State Department is Willing, But Axis Partner’s Funds Are Frozen.

SIR WILLIAM GOODE DIEFS   Finland’s Offer to Pay Debt Installment Gets Cold Shoulder

GOLD SHOULDER GIVEN FINLANG   Offer Tio Pay Installment On World War Debt - Turned Down

American Fleet Is Free To Roam Pacific at Will Seeking Enemy Targets

THIRD OF JAPAN'S FLEET DESTROYED   PROBABLE SNKING OF AIRCRAFT CARRIER JS LATEST BLOW TO ENEMY,

Gestapo Tries Trickery on Underground   Seeks to Weaken Resistance Movement in Europe

Nazis Try Tricks (Qn Underground   Attempt To Smoke Leaders and Patriots Out With False Orders.

17 Signed Service Ballots Fo State Have Been Received At Annapolic

Federal Ballot Backers Stumped   Group To Seek Defeat  of Compromise Vote

BEGIVEN NEW COMMAND  RA <r T pada Ona   May Lead One Of Operations In Invasion

Patton May Lead Yanks Over Channel   Former 7th Army Chiet - Seen Logical Man to Assist Eisenhower

PATTON GIVEN NEW COMMAND   Patch Assigned As Chief Of U. S. Seventh Army

PATTON 1S HEARD AS ARMY LEADER   “Mainspring” In Italy Probable Commander For Invasion of France.

600 Americans   In Prisoner Swap   KK OCUC KKK Germans Must Be Beaten 

WOUNDED AMERIGANS NOW HEAD FOR HOME   a mE  Fliers To Be Sent Back on Exchange Ship

hight Over Flood Control Poses Threat To Congress   Battle Over Controversial Amendments May End Hopes On Completing Other Important Legislation Before Recess For Christmas Holidays

YANKS INVADE LAST ~JAP-HELD ISLAND IN SOUTHERN MARIANAS   MacArthur Fast Moppmg Up Entire Mariana Area in Plans to Get Set for Philip.  pine Invasior.

Mexico Is Studying New Order On U.S. Soldiers Allawed Ta Enter Ineare-

Official Canvass Leaves Donnell Margin at 1966  Count Is Complete Except for Three Counties, St. Louis

CIVILIAN GOODS RUNNING SHORT   Not Enough To Keep The Children Warm, Mothers In North Complain

HEAVY LOSSES BY ENEMY IN ROME REGION   Fierce Fight Surges Through Streets Of Cassino

Nazis Launch Drive To Sea   Allied Invaders Are Holding Beachheads

Socialite Jailed on Murder Charge   Motion for Bail Denied After Arraignment

Wartime Swine Industry Council Charges Government With Leaving Farmers on Limb

Mt. Vesuvius On Rampage   Inhabitants of Two Villages Are Fvacuated

INVESTIGATION NOT HELD   German People Told Promises Of Ample Food Supplies Cannot Now Be Kept

 Reinf orcements Rushed in  Before Japs Could  Counter Attack.  ONLY 250 MILES FROM NEW GUINEA  Four Jap Airfields Are Smashed in the Marshalls.

IMPORTANT AIR STRIP GAINED ON LOS NEGROS ISLE   Was Damaged Very Little During American Admiral. ty Invasion.

American Units On Los Negros Advance Inland   Construction Crews Repairing Captured Momote Airfield

But Sales of E Bonds Lag,  Leader Says   County’s Total Sales Are $1,286,911.50; E Bonds $60,000 Behind

Enemy Flees As Reds Speed Ahead   Strategic Towns Fall; Russians Seize Roadways, Rail Lines

Nazis Fall Back in Northwest Russia; . Hitler Makes Personal Investigation

Nazis Retreat Fast On North  Russian Line   Germans Suffer 15.006 Casualties On Beachhead At Anzio.   SEig& 2. KAIL CIirlEes

NORTHERN RED ARMY CLOSING INFOR PSKOV   FRONT LESS THAN 70 MILES FROM LATVIA

Germans Apparently Are Retreating Krom All Northwestern Russia   German Losses Are Set at 15,000

Germans Appear To Be Retreating  Northwest Russia  Moscow Says. Reds Take Rail Stations

Nazi Retreat In Northwest Russia Gains   Evacuation of Entire  Area Under Way, Is Russian Report.

ussians ' verrun 318 Ocalities   Germans Rertreat Along 175-Mile Battle Front

Nazis Taking Army Out of North Russia   Red Army Driving on Pskov From Three Different Angles

Reds Batter Nazis Hard Ir Pskov Drive  _ Evacuation OF - Ae CA lhA: Per? 4 a 

PRE-WAR POLE RAIL JUNCTION SARNY SEIZEI   Odessa- Warsaw Line Approached by Russians

Trapped Nazis Are Slain By Russians   Germans Faced With Most Decisive Defeat Of War As Soviet Forces Continue Advance

Roosevelt For Strong Poland After Victory   Expvessés Views as Churcliill and Stalin Prepare * fo-Bring:Rival’ Fac. . -tions Together —

PRESIDENT FOR STRONG POLAND   Rival Polish Leaders Prepare To Meet

FDR Calls For: Strong Poland  Sees World Opinion Supporting Objective

Roosevelt For Strong Poland   Churchill, Stalin Prepare To Bring Rival Polish Lead ers Together.

FDR Wants Poland Built On Solid Base   U. 8. Opinion Voiced As Stalin, Churchill Wieeusc< New Sctup

‘AS British Hurl Germans  Back And Extend   Bridgehead LAST OBSTACLE To ANTWERP APPROACH  German Guns And 26 Miles Of Docks Have Al. ready Been Captured

BRITISH WIDEN BEACHHEAD ON DUTCH ISLAND   German Garrison Hurled Back; Most Of Foe’s runs Silenced

EARLY USE OF VITAL SEAPORT IS INDICATED   British Lead Assault To Wipas Out Nazi Forces In Walcheren Island

BRITISH HURL GERMANS BACK IN FLUSHING   German Guns That Have Barred Allied Ships From Antwerp Captured or Neutralized

WALCHEREN FAST BEING CLEARED   Most of Guns Barring Shipping From Antwerp Already Silenced.

Nazi Artillery On Dutch Isle Is Silenced   British Commandos Hurl Nazis Back In Flushing And Along West Coast.

Louis Grady Writes. From Amarillo, Texas   Service Salutes  ~~ a :

SEEK TO WIPE OUT THE JAP FROM SAIPAN   U.S. Marines and Army Troops’ Launch Attack

Americans Launch  Major Attack to  Conquer Saipan Aslite Airstrip Put in Service

BACKS YANKS IN CLEAN-UP DRIVE   Veteran Forces Push Ahead Along Front Extending Across Island   MARINES MOVING FAST   20,000 Japanese Offering Stiff Resistance, But Doom Is Sealed

SAIPAN CAMPAIGN   Situation Forces Grim Chat lenge ‘on Elusive Japan- . ese Grand Fleet.

Saipan Airdrome Ready For Use By American:   Marianas Island Base, Only 1,500 Miles Fron Tokyo, Repaired And Enlarged By Seabees In Single Week

TROD BEGIN TO WIPE QUT ~ SAIPAN JAP   Force on Island Left to Fate When Nip Naval Succor Fades in Fight,

REPORTS NIPS REFUSE TO FIGHT U.S, TASK FORCE   Seabees Have Airfield Ready for Operation on Saipan

Airdrome Or Saipan Ready For Use By U.S. Forces   Most Valuable Site In Marianas; Japs, Without Air, Sea  Sunnort. Fall Back

Jap Fleet Ignores Saipan Defenders   Shielded by Great Sea Force Yanks Launch Bia Attack

Saipan Field Now Ready For Planes   Yanks Launch Major Attack On Japanese  On Island

Yanks Drive To Wipe Out  Saipan Japs   Invasion Forees See Vietory Ahead No Matter What Enemy Fleet Does

Avoiding Clash With Our Fleet Guarding Saipan   Best Airfield On Island Now Ready For Operation By Us.

Eyewitness Story Of The Fierce Marianas Battle  Valuable Saipan Airstrip Is Already In Operation

AMERICANS AT SAIPAN EXPECT TO HOLD ISLAND   Jap Fleet Failing to Give Battle, Island Garrison Is Faced with Ultimate Defeat

Vital Saipan Airfield Falls   Yanks Operate Base After Week Of Bitter Fighting

YANKS ARE USING ASLITO AIRSTRIP ON SAIPAN ISLE   U.S. Troops Advance On Magicienne Bay Shores

Oregon Hanatics Strike : Names of Jap-Aimerican Soldiers from Rolls‘

AL Roll Rejects Names Of U. 8. Born Japanese: Now Serving In Army

Battle of Seille Becoming Costly   Germans Digging In Along Tiny River

Schedlier Looks to Return To Manila With MacArthur  ots» + oe ae ok oe Be ak me

ONLY BAIN WILL SAVE GORN CROP    Worst Drought Since  1936 Also Endangers Beans, Hay, Pasturage

UXLY GAIN WILL OME CORN CROP   Worst Drought Since 19365 Also Endangers Beans, Hay, Pasturage

Nation’s Corn Needs A Rain   Dry Weather Damaging Crop In Several States

Six-Mile Gap Ripped by First Army   U. S. Tanks, Infantry, Artillery Supplies Pour Through Big West Wall Hole Where German Resistance Collapses

German Resistance Ena Suddenly Near Ubach As’  Bites Surgee  Farward

SIECFRIED LINE » DEFENSES ARE PIERCED ANEW   © Americans Plunge Through 6-Mile-Wide Gap—Second Attack Rips Foe

FIERCE STREET BATTLES BREAK OUT IN ATHENS   Report Premier Resigns As Civil War Spreads

Civil Clashes In Greece Spreading   Churchill Says Allies Will Make Effort To Quell Fighting

CHURCHILL SAYS ALLIES WILL USE FULL WEIGHT TO RESTORE ORDER THERE

FIGHT BREAKS OUT ANEW IN FREED GREECE   Death Toll Stands At 27, Allie Will Help Restore Order

\Fierce Fighting Breaks Out At’ Points In Athens   Premier Papandreou Reported Unofficially To Have Yielded Post

Hitler Executes More Key Men   Number 2 Jew-Baiter Among Top Leaders Killed In Latest Purge.

Seven More To Hang iit Hitler Plot   Former Leipzig Mayor, Ambassador, Five — Others Receive Death Penalty

~—INAITLER PILOT   EX-AMBASSADOR TO ROME AND NO. 2 JEW-BAITER AMONG CONDEMNED,

COMMUNICATION LINES OF ENEMY TOTTER IN EAST   Reds Reach Latvian Border, Take Polish Hub and Fight in Wilno

Soviet Advance Takes Forces To Latvian Border   Lida Is Captured—Street Battles Raging In City Of Wiino   FIVE MAJOR THRUSTS BY RgDS DEVELOP

REDS ENDANGER GERMAN LINES IN BALTICS   Reach Latvian Borde at Druya and Occupy Lida in Poland

TRUK ATTACK  ~IS REPORTED   AMERICAN HEAVY PLANES POUND CALAIS: AREA WHILE FIGHTERS AND FIGHTER-BOMBERS STRIKE AT RAILROAD YARDS TO DISRUPT TRAFFIC TO ‘ COAST—RAF BLASTED TARGETS IN THREE COUNTRIES   By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

YANK ASSAULTS FOLLOW RECORD ATTAGKS BY RAF   Ludwigshafen Blow Precedes Strike at LeMans and Tergnier

YANKS STRIKE NORTH FRANCE IN FORCE   1,000 British Planes in Heavy Raid on Ludwigshafen

SENATE VOTES BILL FOR DAMS   Huge Flood Contre! Plan Expected to Provide Jobs After War

Flood Control Measure Passes Senate   Postwar Building Authorized to Cost $1,000,000,000

$0. PACIFIC AIRMEN TAKE HUGE TOLL   Have Destroyed _ 891 Jap Planes ” Since Nov. 20

WAR DEPARTMENT EXPLAINS REASONS WITHHOLDING NEWS  GEN. SURLES ADMITS MAN’ ‘THINGS AND EXPLAINS - COME AT SAME TIME

War Department Letter Explains Lag in Release of Battle Information

38 MEN ADRIFT 16 DAYS RESCUED   LIFEBOAT OF. SURVIVORS OF ‘U, 8. FREIGHTER MACHINEGUNNED BY JAPS.

German Invasion  Jitters Mounting  Blow Expected Soon, People Are Told  _ _ we, > ws @- we we. oe ag ee on on oa 2 Go © ee   Bristol Raided

German Press Seeks To Prepare Reich for Attack  ~ Imminence of Assault Cited; Air Raids : Seen as Indicative

Nazi Newspapers Prepare Public  For Invasion   Berlin Press Says Final Steps Being Taken In Britain For Attack

‘Final Steps’  For Invasion   German Press Would Prepare People; Cite Intense Air Attacks.

German Press Seeks To Prepare Reich for Attack  Imminence of Assault Cited; Air Raids.

Germans See Invasion Soon   Expect British and Americans to Throw All They Have In

Reich Public Is Bolstered For Invasion   Germans Say Allies - Must Hurry to Share Glory With Stalin

‘Germans Fearful Stalin Will Be Only Conqueror   Press, Preparing People for Invasion from West,  Says Allies Must Hurry or Miss. Bus   Peace Strike Reported

Bride Of Father Of Unmarried En glish Girl's Quadruplets Will Not File Suit For Divorce

Nimitz Reveals Revised Totals Favoring Yanks   Two Battleships Of The ~ Yamasiro Class Are : Destroyed

WAR MINISTRY OF FRANCE GIVES NEWS TO. WORLD   Thrust Aimed. at German Communication Center of Stuttgart; Ninth Reaches Roer River, Last Barrier to Rhine

20,000 Workers Out on Strikes  : Total Increases  With Detroit Walkout

New Disputes Lift Idle to 14,000   3000 CIO Men Return To Work in Cleveland

STRIKES CLOSE MOTOR PLANTS      Nearly 20,000 Workers Idle in Wave of New War Plant Strikes

20,000 Idle as Labor Strikes In U. 8. Grow   Five Detroit Plants Close - When 7,000 Workers Quit in New Dispute

20.0100 Idle When Strike Hits Detroit   Five Detroit Plants Produeing Wlane Parts Virtually  =e Peeler Joawn.   ONE CILAIMS ABUSE

STRIKES CAUSE 70,000 WORKERS TO BE OFF JOBS   Airplane Engine Plant Virtually Closed Today

20,000 Workers Idle Throughout Nation as Disputes Mount   CIO Unions Involved in _ Most of Strikes Reported Today

Labor Disputes Keep 14,000 Idle   Strikes Reported From Large Plants

20,000. Workers Idled by Strikes Throughout Nation  5 Chevrolet Plants Virtually Shut Down—809 on Strike at Buffalo. Kenmore Walkout Endex

7.000 Allied Planes Smash Nazi Defenses   Nine Enemy Airfields, Eight Bridges Hit in Heaviest Day Blows

1,000 Warplanes Hit Hard Blows   Help Allied Armies Enlarge Beachheads

Heavy Air Blows — Support Allied lnvasion Forces   Nearly 7,000: Plane: Deal Invasion’s Hardest Blow

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OF INVASION FRONTBOMBED   American Marauder and Havoc Bombers Range from Paris to Bay of St. Michel.   Main Blow

American Planes Blast Entire . Invasion Front   Airfields, Bridges and Coastal Batteries SGmached

Heavy Daylight Blows Hit  ~ By 1000 American Bomber:   Enemy Airfields, Bridges and Other Targets Blasted in Series of Daylight Blows—Five Nazi Planes Wrecked

AK Adala TANCE AGAINST SOVIET   German Troops Rush Into Finland’s Cities, Towns in Response to Plea.   SOME AT EAST FRONT?

GERMAN TROOPS TAKE OVER IN ALL OF FINLAND   Baltic State Becomes Complete Nazi Satellite

FINNS CHOOSE CONTINUATION OF SOVIET WAR   German Troops Or Finnish Front; Move In Fast

Finland On German Side   Germans Occupying All Parts Of Country After Plea For Help Against Russians

Nazi Troops Move in to Help Finns Against Swift-Moving Soviet Troops

TEMPERATURES:   Baltic State Completely Occupied By Nazi Troops   German Regular Army And SS Troops Rule All Cities And Towns At Invitation Of Finnish Puppet Government

Finns Committed To Fight ‘Beside Germany; Nazi ‘Troops Take Over Helsinki

GERMANS RUSH AID TO FINLAND   Finns Permit Nazis Forces to ’ Occupy Country

Germans Occupy Finland's Cities On Plea for Help   Helsinki Finally Commitied tc Fighting On Beside Germany, Ending ‘Separate War’

German Troops Move Into Finland in Force; Take Possession of Helsinki

GARAKAYO ISLET IS  INVADED BY YANKS   Elements Of 81st Infantry Divisior Quickly Established Beachhead Last Sunday

CARRIER FORCE IN BIG RAID ON RYUKYU ISLES   89 Foe Aircraft De. stroyed, Nimitz Reports

U.S. CARRIER CRAFT KNOGK OUT 58 SHIPS   Blast 14 Planes From the Skies and Wreck Another 75 on Ground in Ryukyu Islands. .. ws   DESTROYER AMONG VESSELS SUNK   Complete Surprise Is Achieved in Assault— Raided Area Is Doorway to East China Sea.

ISLET INVADED BY AMERICAN FORCES   Admiral Nimitz Reports - Landings on Tiny ‘ Garakavo

ISLAND CLEANED UP IN 24 HOURS   Garakavo Is Tenth One In Palaus Invaded By Americans

U. 8. WARSHIPS SHELL JAPANESE: ON MARCUS ISLE   Part of Coast Defense Batter_. fes on Vital Outpost Silenced—Installations : “Damaged.   12,238 NIPPONESE KILLED IN THE PALAUS   American Troops Continue to Gain Against Enemy,Still Holding Out on Peleliu Peak.   RUITLLETIN.

Dewey Girding For His Second  West Invasion   Urged by His College Alumnisto “Keep Punching;” Reported Pointing. Toward Sharper Attacks .

Dewey To Mount Heaviest Guns In Campaign Finale:   Nominee To Go All-Out In Attacks During Western Trip

‘KEEP PUNCHING,’ DEWEY IS TOLD      Only Way to Win, His Back ers Say; Nominee to Sveak in St. Lonis

Dewey Preparing To Make New Invasion of West  Heavier Barrages Are Expected in His Attack an Naw Daal

Dewey Preparing To Make New Invasion of West  Heavier Barrages Are Expected in His Baioe. ee 2 mp Ff

British Planes Hit Sumatran Center   Carrier Task Force Lands Heavy Blow, No Jap Interception Tried

British Carrier Force Attacks Sumatra Base   light Jap Opposition Promises Extension of Action in This Area -

Seek Law to Limit Term Of Executive   FR’s Precedent ‘Must Be Ruthlessly Killed,’ Sei. Butler Says

Hurricane Said Worst In Years   Danger Passes Florida, Moves North

SPEARHEAD REPORTED WITH“IN 90 MILES OF FRONTIER. " —RERLIN REPORTS BUDAPEST EVACUATION

ETS OUTFLANKING BUDAPEST   Russian Legions Only Ninety Miles From Austrian Frontier

Riga Reached By Red Troops  Nazis Report   German Troops In Baltic States Trapped By Russian Entry Into Largest City of Area   Soviet Forces Near  Ploesti Oil Fields   Two-Pronged Ata: * -‘oes Well In Low. ° viune and Beyo:..: :.3i On Romanian Front

Russians Reach Beaches Of Riga  Another Tran Sprung On Naz;   Another Trap Sprung On Nazis As Reds’ Ukraine Drive Gains

German heport Would Indicate New Nazi Peri   Fresh Russian Offensive To Knock Out Romania Said Surging Forward

Russians Reach Long - Besieged Riga Beaches   Twin Offensives Aimed At Taking Oil Fields, RumaniaOut Of War.

NOW LESS THAN TWO MILES AWAY   Munich, Toulon and Berlin Pounded; Robot Bombs Still Batter Britain.

DuBoisite Crewman  On Turnet   Seaman Wiley Dawson Not Believed lo Have Been Aboard At  lime Of Blast.

ROMMEL DEAD GERMANS SAY; PLAN FUNERAL   ‘Accident’ At Front L Fatal, According To Nazi Version

Nazis Confirm Rommel’s Death   Prepare State Funeral For Famed -‘Dessert Fox

DEWEY PLANS TO  SAVE POSTWAR JOBS IN SLUMP   Raps FR. Depression With 10 Million idle; In Pillsburgh Today

DEWEY MET BY CHEERING CROWE IN PITTSBURGH   Makes First Stop On Opening Campaign Swing In Three Siates

Dewey Opens Campaign by Sharp Attack   Warns Against Another “Roosevelt Depression”’

Dewey To Stress Post War Plans   ‘Hits Administration “For Failure to “Prepare for ~  Coming Problems

Dewey Launches Campaign Today At Pittsburgh   Raps Roosevelt For Failure to Halt Depression

Men Of Draft Age Placed In Three Groups Under New Rule   Local Boards Told to Go Eosier on Those in the 30 to 38 Bracket, Following Policy Laid Down by Selective Service Director

Ease Draft on Mer In 30-38 Bracket   Registrants Divided Into Three Groups

Inited States Will Contribute 1,350,000,000 to World Relief   use Approves Legislaion after Overriding Sharp Objections

HOUSE HITS G.OP. BY UNRRA OKER      ‘Sharp-Objections-Overridden ——fAig-“Kitty”? Bill  Forwarded

House Passes Bill Carrying UNRRA Fund:   $1,350,000,000 for Relief Of War Stricken People Of Waeld Authaxwtce]

House Overrides Republican Objections to Approve Measure, 338 to 54

RELIEF BILL GETS - HOUSE'S APPROVAL   World Rehabilitation Bill is Passed by 338-54 Vote

House Approves Postwar Relief   Votes to Contribute $1,350,000,000

FOREIGN AID BILL PASSED   House Overrides Republi. can Objections to Approve Measure, 338 to 54

House Approves - Legislation to_. __ Perinit: Outlay   Shar p Objections To = UNRRA Ex,-~nditure --Overridden

CLAIMS CHINESE JM WILL OPEN BIG OFFENSIVE   Hinges on Action of Allies At: tacking Hong Kong, Canton. Burma.

SENATE BOOMS TAFT FOR POST   Ohio Legislator Expected To Head Republican Directorate

GREEK CONFLICT SPREADS ENTIRE COUNTRY LENGTE   Rival Sides Battle _ As British Protest Unprovoked Attack

ELAS Troops in Greek Revolt  Estimate 20,000 in Storm Aaains? Gov't.

LEFT-WING ELAS STORM RIGHTISTS   Stretches Civil War Clear Across State From Embattled Athens; British Say Agreement Violated

20,000 ELAS Hit Rightiest; War Spreading   Still Fighting Erupts North Of Athens Port Of  Piraeic.   INDIAN FORCES FIGHT

British Ships Cover: Landing Against ELAS   Greek Civil War Spreads; foannina: Attacked;

GREEK REVOLT IS SPREADING   ELAS Forces Launch Drive Against Loyal EDES

ELAS Storm Stronghold   ‘Civil Strife Spreads Across Balkan State

CIVIL WAR CUTS ACROSS GREECE   Rebel Warriors Storm Rightist Stronghold 2 O00 Strong

Civil War in Greece Is Spreading   British and Indian Troops Land With Navy Support

About 20,000 Elas Storm Rightists   Civil War Spreads Clear Across Greece; Moan land at Pirneue

Second Session Is Opened by [8th Congress   Many Problems of War and Peace Face Solons

CONGRESS MEET AFTER 3-WEEk HOLIDAY SAP   President’s Annual! Message Expected Tomorrow or Wed necdav

0 RETURNS 10 WORK   New Session Faces Ambitious Program In Year Of Presidential Election, Only Routine Confronts Members Today   ANNUAL MESSAGE IS DUF TOMORROW

FIND SECTION OF MAGINOT LINE INTACT   Had Been in German Hands For Four Years

Maginot Line Left Intact By Nazi Army   Allies May Be Able To Use Big Guns Against Retreating Foe

FORTIFICATION LEFT BY NAZIS STILL USEABLE   INVASION OF GERMAN TERRITORY ADVANCES

Returns to Wasnington Insisting That There Will Be Only Unconditional Surrender for Enemies.

FDR Back to ‘White House   Says Neither Japan Nor Germany Are Near Collapse.

President Back - In Washingtor   Occupation Of Germany, Japan Assured

Roosevelt Says Reich, Japan Will Not Escape Occupation By Armies

FDR Wants Axis Lands ‘Taken Over   President Returns From Pacific Trip To Nippon’s Gates

Allies Will Occupy Nazi  Germany  Declares F. D. R. Home After Trip to Pacific Islands

To Occupy Homelands  Of Enemy   Troops Will Take Over Even If Resistance Collapses At Borders, Asserts President

Roosevelt Calls For Preparedness Against Japanese  Speaks From Destroyer After Pacific Tour; Visited Hawaii, Alaska

FDR BACK FROM 15,000-MILE WAR TRIP IN PACIFIC:   DECLARES ALLIES WILL OCCUPY BOTH GERMANY AND JAPAN

Allies Plannin; To Occupy Japan, Reich   Will Be No Repitition Of 1918 Situation No Matter How Surrende: Comes, Says Presiden

PRESIDENT DECLARES GERMANY AND JAPAN WILL BE OCCUPIED   ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO WASHINGTON FROM 15,OOO-MILE WAR TRIP

‘Axis to Get * No Chance to EvadePenalty   Not Even Unconditiona Surrender to Prevent Allies Movine In   35-DAY TRIP ENDS   President Denies Any Tinge of Politics in Latest War Journey

NO Toe oclPaTON FDR ASSERTS   Surrender Won't Halt Alies This Time, He  Declares

Berlin and Tokyo to Be In-   vaded Even Should Resistance Collapse Short of Borders   Chief Executive  Y Ay EFS. Feet. Back At His Desk   Warship Skirts Within 900 Miles of Japanese Territory During Trip to Aleutians

ENDING OF AXIS RESISTANCE NOT TO HALT ALLIES   Germany Not To Be Spared Invasion; Will Know They Lost

Germany Must Be Occupied   President, Home from Pacific Jaunt; Says Surrender Will Not Prevent Occupation

President Home From 15,000 Mile Trip Into Pacific   He Asserts Germany, Japan Can't Keep  Alhes From Homelands.   To Discuss His Trip With Military Aides

Allied Occupation _ of Enemy Lands ig Coming: Roosevelt   Capitulation Not to Prevent United Nations Moving in

Allies To Occupy Enemy Lands Even  War Ends Short Of Borders—F. R.

FDR, Back From War Trip, Says Surrender Will Not Prevent Allied Occupancy

Roosevelt Returns to  Washington   Visited Hawaii And Returned by Way of Aleutians, Absent 35 Days

To Occupy Both Axis Homelands   Germany Will Not Dodge Military Occupation This Time. Roosevelt Says   JAPAN WILL BE SEALED OFF   President Returns From 15,000-Mile War Trip In-° to Pacific Areas

PRESIDENT BACK IN WASHINGTON   Germany Will Not Escape ‘Occupation . oo Dodged In 1918, He Declares; Same Fate In Store For Japan

FDR SAYS U.S, MUST STOP JAPS FOR ALL TIME   Outlook For Permanent Peace in Pacific Excellent

Allies to Occupy Germany Says FDR   President Returns to Capital After 15,000 Mile Trip Into Pacific

OCCUPATION OF ENEMY LANDS, FOR PROMISE   Says Early Collapse Won't Halt Driving Allied Armies

ROOSEVELT BACK FROM 35-DAY TRIP   Declares ‘Unconditional Surrender’ and Military Occupation Still Allies Goal.

Germany. Japan Will Be Occupied By Allied Forces   . Even If Surrender Comes Short of Border

President Says Japan,Germany  To Be Occupied   Says Collapse of Enemy Resistance Will Not Deter Allied Intention

FAVORS UNITY OF ACTION 10 RESTRAINNIPS   President Returns to  Country After Tour Of Pacific

ALLIES WILL OCCUPY REICH, JAPAN-FDR   Will Not Repeat 1918, President, Back in Capital, Says

FDR Declares Allies Will  Occupy Japan And Germany   President . Returns After 35- ‘Day Trip.

Will Be Occupied:  President Says Reich and Japan V “Even Though They Quit Before Borders Are Reached 

Doesn't Matter When Surrender Comes, F.D.R. Says   Germany Will Not Escape as She Did By 1918 Armistice

F.D.R. Returns From Tour Of PacificFront '   Sees Chance for Permanent Peace There—Once Jap Aggression Impossible

Says Enemy Can’t Dodge Occupation   We Won't Stop This Time, Says FDR, At Borders

Ale Will Occupy Foe  Lands: F.D.R.   No Unconditional Surrender Concession, Says Returned Chief

FDR Declares Enemies Will Be Invaced   Says Allied Armies Will Drive Into Beth Germany and Japan

Says We Must Occupy Foes’ Lands   President Pledges No Repetition of 1918 Mistakes, Would Seal Off Japanese

PRESIDENT MADE 30-DAY TOUR; WENT FISHING   Broadcast Made From Destroyer; ‘World Cannot Trust Japan’

FDR Says U.S Must Watch  Japs in Future   Excellent Outlook for Permanent , Peace in Pacific Area, President * Declares in Speech at Puget Sound

Japan and Germany Will Be Occupied   Roosevelt Says Germany Cannot Escape Military Oc - eupation by Surrendering Short of Border

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS RETURNED TO CAPITOL FROM -15,Q00:MILE TRIP IN PACIFIC   Declares That Allied Armies Will Drive in ond Occupy Germany and Japan Even Should Resistance Collapse Short cf Enemy Borders

F. R. Reviews Pacific,  Alaskan Tour   Nation Must Be Permanently Prepared Against Future Jap Aggressions,  Chief Says In Report From Destrover

FDR Promises Occupation Of Berlin, Tokyo   Miles Will Drive In To Occupy Germany And Japan Even Should Resistance Collapse Short Of Enemy Borders, Says President   Unconditional Surrender Will Not Keep Our Forces Outside   This Time. Roosevelt Says, Germany Will Not Escape The Military Occupation Which She Dodged By Armistice In First World War

GERMANY, JAPAN WILL BE OCCUPIED   President Asserts on Return To Washington; No Repetion of 1918 Situation,  Narlarac

ALLIED FORCES * TO PUSH INSIDE ~ AXIS COUNTRIES   ~ FDR, Back From Trip, Says Armies to Occupy Germany And Japan

SAYS ALLIES WILL OCCUPY COUNTRIES   Roosevelt, Back From Trip, — Says Japan and Germany to be Occupied

Mr. Roomevelt Declared Today Thin Will He Done Kven If Reonintanee Collapses Mhort  of Knemy Norders,   THEIR SURRENDER WILL NOT SAVE THEM   Maya Germany Will Not Ka. cape Military Occupation Which She Dodged by Armintice in World War I,

To Occupy Japan and  Germany   Surrender Can't Keep Allies Out, Says FDR Upon Retucn

FR Returns, Schedules  Conferences   Allied Plan for Occunation of  Axis Lands Told

Surrender Nof To Save Enemy, He Asserts   Military Occupation Certain This Time, President States

SURRENDER WON'T SAVE AXIS COUNTRIES FROM OCCUPATION PDR SAYS ON RETURN TO CAPITAL

President Declares Not Even Unconditional Surrender Will Keep Troops Out of Two Enemy Countries — Asserts Nippon Must Be Ostracized Until She Proves Herself Willing and Able to Live With Peaceful Nations.

PITTSRIIRGH DOCTOR DIES   TNHOVER ON FISHING: TRIP   E.D.R. Says Germany and Japan Can’t Escape Full. Occupation

FDR Says Allies Will Smash Axis Even If Collapse   Germany and Japen Will Not Escape Military Occupation By Dodging.

ALLIED TROOPS WILL OCCUPY REICH, JAPAN   FDR Returns to Washingtor After 15,000-Mile Pacific Tour

Roosevelt Points Out Importance of Preparation Against Future Attacks

FOR GAYS JAP MENAGE MUST AE KEPT OWN   World Cannot Trust Japan Until Years of Proof, . President Says.

Declares Japs Must Be Held Unable to War   President Speaks on Return From Tour of Pacific

ASSURES AXIS WONT ESCAPE BY ARMISTICE   President Says Armies Will Occupy Both Even Should Resistance End First

Roosevelt ‘Returns To Washington   Calls For Permanent _ .Pacifie Defenses ,

Axis Nations Will Not Escape Allied Occupation, Says F:D.R.   Dewey Raps Four-Power Rule: Hull Denies Coercion’ Planned

Resistance Collapse Not to Prevent Enemy People From Knowing  _ They Have Been Beate:

ENEMIES WILL NOT ESCAPE OCCUPATION   Roosevelt Says Allies Are To  Occunv Germany

NIPPON CALLED PEACE MENACE   Roosevelt Says Prospect Bright For Permanent Security In Pacific

Cannot Escape Invasion Even By Surrendering   F. D. R. Pledges Allied Troops Will Take Over  Bus Bete Elawalacn de

Allies to Occupy Germany, Japan, Says President .   Roosevelt, Back in Capital Discloses Policy Toward Enemy Countries

Military Occupation Will Fallow Even If Resistance   Ends Short Of Enemy BRardare

GERMANY AND JAPAN 10 BE OCCUPIED-FDR   WILL PAY PENALTY FOR HEINOUS CRIMES

Says. Germany Not To Eseape Military Entry   Collapse Of Resistance Short Of Enemy Border To Make No Difference

China Puppet Ruler I Passes   Wang Ching-Wei Dies In Japan of Piabctes

Jap Puppet Head Of China Dies  Tokyo Radio Tells Of Wang's Death

Calling Of Younger ~ Droft List Soeedec   Loca! Boards Will Determine Deferments In Th - Pennsylyania-West Virainia Coal Field

NEW INDUCTION PROCEDURE IS NOW IN EFFECT   Action by Boards Var. ies in Different Parts of State

RED BOMBERS START FIRES IN FORTRESS   Brest-Litovsk Which Germans Captured in 1941 for Aerial Blows; Axis Fails to Gain Ground.   Wings in Poland

Russians Fire Brest-Litovsl   Soviet Conimunique Again Reports Front Statice

» Mony Fires Are Started At Rail Junction As Y sop Trains Prepared To Leave The City

RUSSIANS BOMB FORTRESS CITY IN OLD POLAND   Score of Fires Set in BrestLitoysk by Mass Attack —Enemy Troop Trains  Loft in Flames.   POSITION OF ARMIES REPORTED UNCHANGED   Reds Say They Kilied 1,500 in Local Clashes—Nazis Report Bitter Fighting on Unner Dnestr.

SOVIETS BOMB KEY RAIL CITY   Numerous Fires Started by Reds in Nazi Fortress Of Brest-Litovsk

SOVIETS BLAST FORTRESS CITY IN HEAVY RAID   Score Of Fires Started Ir Brest-Litovsk; 1,500 Germans Are  Killed

Russians Bomb Brest-Litovsk On Large Scale   Score of Fires Started in City

BREST-LITOVSK FORTRESS AFIRE   Russians Report 1,500 Germans Killed In Local Actions

BREST - LITOVSK IS RAIDED BY FLIERS   Scores of Fires Are Start-ed by the Soviet Bombers

Red Bombers Batter Nazi Fortress City  Brest-Litovsk Is wpeasg fy Rod Pet s+.

BOY PIANIST WILL BE HERE THURSDA\   Richard Korbel To Give Concert That Evening—Sponsored By Junior Chamber Of Commerce

Kuriles Blasted   Hold On Cassino Weakens   NAZIS ARE SUPPORTED BY FIRE FROM NEARBY HILLS

a's Pleate (Payment of yes Criticized   ary Morgenthat ; Act Smacks of Disloyalty

TAX REVOLT HIT BY MORGENTHAU   ACTION OF WOMAN “SMACKS OF DISLOYALTY,” TREAS- . URY CHIEF SAYS. 

Woman Stirs Up Capital Furore When She Advises Skipping “Confiscatory” Taxes

Woman Stirs Up Capital Furore When She  Advises Skinnina “Canfiscatoyy? Troe

WOMAN'S STAND DKS. SECRETARY   Morgenthau Says Tax Example in Wartime “Smacks al Nietavaliv”

Allies Check Nazi Drives   Raiders Routed From Seized Halian Point

NAZI PATROL THRUSTS ARE SMASHED   Artillery Duels Flare Up Along italian Fronts

Strong German Patrol Thrusts In Italy Stopped   Allied Aerial Offensive Pounds Axis Communications

Smash German Patrol Thrusts.   Allied Troops Engage Nazis Hand-To-Hand

Allied Troops. Smash Germar Patrol Thrusts   Anglo-American Planes Batter Nazi Lines in Italy  By Reynolds Packard

BITTER SKIRMISHES ALL ALONG ITALIAN FRONT CONTINUING   Strong German Patrol Thrusts Smashed By Allies

Vital Supplies Follow Armies  Fast-Moving Troops Will Get War Goods   Dattarcan Save

Oil Is Piped Across France For Patton   Bridges Built in England Put Over French Streams

Flow of Supplies Will Keep Up With Allied Forces, Patterson Predicts -

America Honors Unknown Soldier   ‘Nation Observes 26th Year of End of War

Honor U.S. War Dead   1T SHALL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN,” AMERICAN LEGION COMMANDER PLEDGES

FR. Joins in Homage fo Baffle Dead   President Braves Chill Winds as Tribute to Unknown Soldier Poid

ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVED IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO , DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY

‘TT SHALL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN” IS KEYNOTE OF ARMISTICE DAY TALKS BY LEADERS AT HOME AND ABROAD

PRESIDENT VISITS LUNKNOMN SOLDIER'S ‘TOMB AT ARLINGTON   rANRRATULATES FDR

“It Shall Not Happen Again’: Once More Pledged at Tomb of World War 1] Unknown Soldier

Nation Locked in Grim Fight Pauses to Honor War Dead   PLEDGE THAT “IT SHALL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN” KEYNOTES OBSERVANCE OF ARMISTICE DAY

In Tribute To War Dead   Armistice Speakers Emphasize Pledge Of Lasting Peace

QUIT NAZI LABOR TO BE GUERILLAS   Poles Leave Coal and Stee! Works; Silesia Sees Peace Riots

“BLOOD BATHS" ARE CONTINUED   Peace Demonstrations Reported To Be Spreading

Court Restrains Australian Censor In Action by Suspended Newspapers

Palau Islands, Philippine Guardian Bases For Japs, Pounded By Fleet

Invasion Ring Snapped Shut   Marines Seize St. Matthias Islands, Complete Loop Around Vast Area

Marines On St. Matthias Sealing Trap   Kavieng Is Shelled By Battleships; Japs In India After Crossing From Burma

SAINT MATTHIAS ISLANDS INVADED SOUTH OF TRUK   Warships Erase Ka vieng With Hour Bombardment

Jecupations in St. .Matthias: Islands Shuts Trap On Kavieng, Rabaul and Solomons. And Places Yanks In Bombing Range of Truk — Bombers Almost Wipe Out Kavieng.

U. 5. Seals Trap on 50,000 Nippons  Copture of St. Matthias Island Important One

Nips Trapped At St. Matthias   Emirau. Elomusao Islands North Of New Treland Occupied By Allies.

Trap Is Sealed On 50,000 Japs  Inthe Bismarck   Allies Invade St. Matthias and Occupy Two New  Zealand Islands.   U. S. Now in Bombing Range of Japs’ Truk

BATTLESHIPS BLAST KAVIENG TO IMPOTENCE   Landings, Virtually Unopposed, on Two of St. Matihias Islands, Ad. vance Threat io Truk   ‘Will Provide Airbase   Batileships Join Other Warships in Blasting Kavieng in First Advent Into Bismarck Sea

SPELLS DOOM FOR JAPS IN TRUK REGION   50,000 of Enemy Believed Still Fighting In Bismarck Sector

Allied Move Trap: 50.000 Jans   (Further details of Pacific fighting on Page 6-4.)

Marine Invasion Of St. Matthias Isles Seals Trap On 50,000 More Jap Troops

Noose Closed Around Japs In Bismarcks   Allies Take Over Islands 580 Miles South of Truk Base

Ring Snapped Shut Around Japanese Army   Light Opposition Encountered on St. Matthias Group

Trap Is Sealed On 50,000 Japs In S. Pacific   Invasion Of Emyviau, Elomusiwo Places Allies Within Bomb Range Of Truk

Marines Close Noose Around  Japs At Rabaul   Invade St. Matthias To Snap Shut Ring Around Thousands.

JAPANESE FORCES  SOUTHWEST PACIFIC  ARE BEING TRAPPED NIPS, HOWEVER, SCORE  SLIGHT SUCCESSES PV CENTERING INDIA

Trap Snapped On 50,000 Japs   Allied Forces Take St. Motthias Islands, MacArthur Announces

Closing In On Truk From Two Directions; U. 5. Ships In Bismarck Sea.

Seal . Off - Island Forces of Enemy   U. S. Marines Land in St.  Matthias Group, Near . - Admiralties   BAR ROUTE FROM TRUK   Town of Kavieng, on New Ireland, Erased by  mbardment

Potential Air Base Occupied Easily  Marine Landings On St. Matthias Island Shut Off Thousands Of Japs

NODE GLOGED BY FALL QF ISLANTS   Ring Of Stee! Forged Around Nips In Southwest Pacific   KAVIENG BLASTED   Japanese, In Major Offensive, Penetrate Into India

Enemy Raiders Drive Across Indian Border   Allied Communique Tells of New Turn Of Events; Meanwhile, Nipponese MeetNewReversesinPacific  — -~

Marine Landings on Matthias Islands Snap Ring Around Thousands of Japs at Rabaul

MARINES TAKE ELOMUSAO AND FMIRAU ISLES   Battleships Shell Kavieng  And Wipe Out Major Jap Stronghold

JAPS TAKE A NEW SETBAGK      Allied Invasion of St. Matthias Islands Seal Trap on 50,000 Japs.   SCORE BURMA SUCCESS

50,000 Japs °. ane in ~ New Move   U2 3S: Marines’ Take. Over Two ‘More. Islands, :Trapping Big Enemy Force   _KAVIENG BLASTED “INTO WRECKAGE   Invasion -Provides. New y Bombing Strip: Only. 580 Miles From: Truk

St. Matthias Occupation Places Ring About Japs   Rabaul And Kavieng Valueless. To Nippon

NEW BASE 580 MILES OF TRUK IS CAPTURED   Marines Land on St. Matthias Islands and in Other Areas Snapping Shut Great Trap

Air Invasion ‘Ring Closes ‘On Japanese   New U. S. Landings In the St. Matthias Group Isolate _ Foe’s Island Bacec

‘Marines Invade St. Matthias To Clamp Ring Around Rabaul ‘Solomons; Kavieng Is Shelled   Yanks Land On Islands Only 580 Miles From Truk; Seals Trap On 50.000 fans

ISLES SEIZED: KAVIENG TORN   New Pacific Conquest Put: Allies Within Bombing Range Of Truk Base

Allies Land on Two Islands in St. Matthias Group   Japs Drive Across Indian Border in Burma Offensive

SEAL TRAP ON 50,000 NIPSIN NEW INVASION   Allies Invade St. Matthias Isles Below Truk; Japs Cross Indian Border

Occupy Matthias Islands    Allied Invasion Seals Trap on Japs in Southwest Pacific; Japanese Cross Indian Border

Allies Seal Trap on Over 30,000 Japs   Nipponese Score Success. However. By Driving Across Indian Border

20,000 JAPS ENCIRCLED BY NEW SEIZURE   MacArthur Announces 2. Islands Taken in Closing Trap in Pacific: Some Gains in Burma.

Allies Capture Two Islands To Seal Off Enemy on Bismark Archipelago and Bring Truk Within Bombing Range

JAPS SUFFER SETBACK ON ST, MATTHIAS   90,000 Japanese Facing Allied Island Trap

St. Matthias Landing Seals Fateof50; 000   Heavy. Bombardment . Levels Kaviérig, Jap Base” in’ New Ireland Pa

Third Spearhead Stabs Reich  In Aachen Sector   U.S. Ninth Army Goes Into Action As Invasion Begins in Force; Patton Rins Nazi Moselle Flanks

CLOSING IN ON AACHEN, GERMAN CITY   Invasion of Reich Under Way in Force

First Town on German Soil Seized; U.S. Tanks, Infantry Close in on — Aachen in Third Frontier Crossing .

Rotgen Is First Nazi Town Taken  By Americans   First And Third Armies Pounding Defense Wall On 100-Mile Front; Patton’s Tanks Rip Into Flank On Moselle, Take Charmes.

Many Germans Slip Through Lines, Give Up   Cacophony Warning To Germany What's In Store For Cities

‘Demolishment of Aachen Opened ‘But German Troops Want to Desert

OFFICERS FORCE MEN TO FIGHT ON   Only Germans To Appear At ‘Spot’ Were Fugitives

S S Men Keep Huns  in Aachen   Few Soldiers Slip Out, Civilians Fly Sheets---to no Avail as Gestapo Rules

Doughboys Make Important Gains  Clark's Army Pushes in Sight of Leghorn

GERMANS FALL BACK IN ITALY   Americans Push to Within Three Miles of Seaport of Livorno

Yank Forces Advance to Outskirts of Livorno as Nazi Resistance Dwindles

Drive Pushed To Three Miles ()f Seaport   French Punch Ahead In Flanking Move And Direct Assault

Yanks Less Than 4 ‘Miles From Livorno   Fifth Army Forces Draw Up Before Big Port in Wake of Suddenly Melting German  Resistance—Enemy Falling Back.

‘American Drive Within 33 Miles Of Livorno   Capture Chianni to Come Within Artillery Range of Seapor!— French, British Also Advance

Americans Sweep Ahead In Italy In Wake Of Suddenly  ‘Melting German Resistance   Drive Within 342 Miles Of Important Port Of Livorno, 9 Miles Of Arno

Yanks Close  To Livorno   Within Three and Half Miles of Vital Port; Nazi Resistance Melts

American Army Nears Livorno   Germans Driven From Strateaic Paints

AMERICANS NOW ON OUTSKIRTS OF GREAT PORT   Nazi Resistance Melting; Offer Little Fight

Nazi Lines Give Way   Fifth Army Forces Score Gains Along Whole Italian Front

Gains in lialy Are Best in 2 Weeks   Yanks Now 3/2 Miles From Livorno

YANKS WITHIN FOUR MILES OF ITALIAN PORT   U. S. Gains Fast Toward Leghorn as German Resistance Weakens

U.S. COLUMNS NEAR LIVORNO; NAZIS WEAKEN   Drive To Within 31/2 Miles 0 Important Italian Port: Seize Inland Town

AMERICANS AT LIVORNO GATES   German Resistance in Italy Appears To Be Melting

US. TROOPS NEAR = “SEAPORT OF WORN   Germans ‘Seen Building New Line in Italy

Americans Make Strategic Cains   Yanks Drive Close to Livorno As German Resistance Weakens

Fifth Driving Nearer Livorno   German Resistance Melts Suddenly Before Advance

CHIANNI TAKEN BY FIFTH ARMY   AMERICAN TROOPS PUSH WITHIN 3% MILES OF LEGHORN

AMERICAN TROOPS. ARE WITHIN THREE MILES OF LIVORNO   Have Captured Chianni 13 Miles Inland from a he West Coast

Leghorn’s Fall To Americans Growing Near   Yanks Drive to Within Three and a Half Miles of Important Malian Seaport

Resistance By Germans On Italian Front Weak   American Troops Now 3% Miles From Leghorn; Gains Are Most Significant

Nazi Stand In Italy Is Melting   American Drive Upon Leghorn Records Success

Americans 34 Miles  From Livorno   Capture Town of Chianni; Eighth Army Pushes Nazis Back at Most Points; French Take Pogvibonsi

MOVE UP IN ITALY   American Troops Are Within 3 Miles of Italian Seaport

Yanks 3 Miles From Leghorn   42,000 German Troops Seized Since Start Of Allied Drive Up Italian Peninsula

Allies Breaking Nazi Resistance In Livorno Area  Americans Less Than Four — From City Neher Gainc Seared

FDR Prayer  Dramatically Closes Day   ASKS EARLY VICTORY IN WARK UPON “UNHOLY FORCES” OF ; KOK,

PRESIDENT CLIMAXED DAY OF PRAYER      Led Nation In Service Last Evening

President Keosevelt Ueard Over Radio Tuesday Night — Ends Day of Prayer for Millions of Ameried

Nation Joins F. R. In Prayer for An Karly Victory   Ninety Million Yank: Throughont U. S. Silently Bow Heads

90 Millions In U.S. Utter ‘V’ Prayers   FDR Leads Nation In Record Appeal #4 Invasion Day

HODGES STRIKES BACK AS NEWS IS BLACKED OUT   No Details Released On New ‘V’ Weapon; Fierce Battle Rages

BATTLE MAY PROVE 10 BE DECISIVE ONE   Situation on West Front Fluid, Leading to Blackout of Reports on Battle's Progress

MUTINY BLAMED ON JAP PRISONERS   Followed Concerted Plans For Suicidal Combat With Guards.

Japs Blamed In Australian Break  231 Of Foe Died In Mass Escape Attempt

23 Japanese War Prisoners Die in Suicidal Combat With Australians

Japs Bombed As They Get Planes Massed   Allied Flyers Strike to Keep Enemy From Resisting Drive

JAPAN INCREASES AIR STRENGTH ON * WARTHUR’S PATE   Reinforcements Sent to Dutch New Guinea to Block Push Toward Philipnine Islands.   AREA IS BLASTED BY ALLIED FORCES   Planes Smashed On Ground and Interceptors Routed— Isolated Nips Concen- . trate at Wewak.

JAPS MASSING AIR FORCE IN SCHOUTEN AREA   Allied Planes Intensify Campaign To Offset Enemy Moves In New Guinea

Allies Step Up Air Drive on Schouten Isles   Japs Are Reported Massing Noval Air Strength in Area

Campaign of Neutralizing Area Is Intensified   ENEMY IS MASSING TO CHECK ADVANCE   Other Air Strikes During Day Noted by Headquarters

ALLIES SMASH AT JAP BASES IN SCHOUTEN   Raid Made to Break Up Jap Massing of Reinforcements

Japs Reported Massing Naval Aerial Strength   Hope To Block Westward Drive   Jap Fliers Reinforced

Allies Attempt To Neutralize Schouten Isles   Japs Massing Naval Strength in Area; Wadke Bases Blasted: Rabaul Is Hit Again

War to Cost U.S. 90 Billion During This Fiscal Year   $5 Billion Increase In Net Receipts Seen By Budget Director

Los Angeles Health Authorities Deplore Foul, Conditions in ‘Little Tokyo’ District

DISMISSAL ORDERED FOR A.A.F. OFFICERS   Court Martial Finds Three Guilty Of Neglect Of Duty

Ramirez Quits As President Of Argentina   Succeeded By Vice Presi dent In Sudden Political Upheaval Shielded By Censorship

Argentine Head Qusted In New Coup   Ramirez Successor Believed Friendly ‘To Military Clique

JAPS CLAIM NAVAL BATTLE IS UNDER WAY      Wake Island Blasted In Surprise Raid By Seaplanes

Reports From Pacific Indicate Nimitz Is Battering Enemy Island Bases On 2,000 Mile Front Navy Silent On Enemy Report Of Fleet Action.

SOLONS FAVOR KEEPING NAVY UP AFTER WAR   Approval of Appropriation To Build Biggest in World Matter of Routine

KEEP BIG NAVY, HOUSE ADVISES   Record-Setting.Supply Fund Due For Passage Today

Opposition Seen To Junking Navy   Appropriation Bil] Brings Comment

No Post-War Junking Of Our Navy   Sentiment In House Today Is Preservation As They Meet to Pass $32 Billion Bill

Nazis Suddenly Give Way To First. Army Pressure . 4nd Tank: Rumble Through Enemy Lines

Nazi Stand- -Or- r-Die Defenders Crushed In New Yank Push   Infantry Fans. Out Behind. Tanks To Overrun Five. Communities;  _ Major  Br eak Comes Suddenly

AMERICANS HIi IN FOREST LAND BELOW AACHEN   First Army Rolls On At Two Other Points; Battle For Fort Driant Rages

MEAL PRICES TO BE FIXED JULY 31   This Announcement Made Tsday by the OPA, at Kansas City.

Widely Known New Castle Industrialist Fatally Stricken In Florida

Walter W. Dutt Dies Suddenly   Widely Known New Castle Industrialist Fatally Stricken In Florida

ORDERS TOLEDO PLANTS SEIZED   President Says War Effort Impeded by Strikes

‘Complete Victory Aims Will Only Prolong War, Pope Pius Warns   Pontiff Expresses Hope for Early Peace  And That Rome May Be Spared by Powers

Pope Counsels Moderation Of Vengeance   Complete Victory Idea Prolongs War, He Says: Expresses Hope for  Early Return to Peace

EARLY PEACE HOPES VOICED BY POPE PIUS   VENGEANCE ONLY PROLONGS WAR, SAYS PONTIFF

Pope Appeals For Early End To Great War   Declares Whoever Hits Rome Will Be Guilty of Matricide

Father Pushed Two Sons into River Because He Had No Home for Children

Father Held For Murder Of Small Son   Admits Dropping Two of His Four Children From Bridge Into the River; One Drowned

DROPS BABY IN RIVER. DROWNS   Second Son Escapes Water, Two Others Abandoned By Crazed Father

Second Boy Saves Self In Creek   "Machine Shop ' Worker Planned ” Death of 2 Others

FATHER ADMITS DROWNING BABY   Dropped Two Children Into River Because He Had No Home for Them.

Father Drops Two of Four Sons into River; One Drowns, One Wades Out, Two Left at Road

Adult Evening School Begins Monday, Nov. 27 At LeMars High School

Adult Evening School Sessions Soon To Begin  Group Will Hold First Meeting At High School Nov. 27

DEMS, REPUBLICANS MEET IN COLUMBUS   Gather This Week To Map Campaign Plans, Draft State Platforms

Martin Nissen — Reported Killed  ‘Remsen Youth Loses Life In Service

MARTIN NISSEN REPORTED DEAD   Former Remsen Boy Was Among First Plymouth County Draftees

MARINES ADVANCE ~— ON PELELIU ISLE   MOVE SLOWLY OVER DIFFICULT TERRAIN AGAINST STIFF JAP RESISTANCE,

DRAFT POLICY. -[$ PROTESTEL      PRODUCTION. OFFICIALS CRITI CIZE WHOLESALE DENIAL OF DEFERMENTS IN MANY WAR PLANTS - °

DRAFT CHIEFS DEFERMENT BAN BRINGS PROTEST   Less Than 1) Pe. Of Requests Honored Mor Key Workers. Is Repor'

ARAWE IS. FIRMLY IN ALLIED HANDS      Deny Tokyo Report That Japs Have Recaptured Base

COMMISSION ON  POST WAR PLANS  MAKES REPORT      New Tas Palicy, Less Fed. eral Interference Among  Recommendations   200,000 UNEMPLOYED IN STATE AFTER WAR

Hershey Orders Tightening Of Deferments   Designs Edict to Stem Plant Exodus; Demands Prompt Draf ling  Of Men. 18-37, Who Quit Vital Jobs

ROTARY 10 HEAR LANCE . BOGHER   District Governor To Advise Local Club Officers

London Again Sees Lights   City Still In “Dim-out™ Due To Lack of Master Switch System.

SIXTH WAR BOND SALES NEAR TEN MILLION MARK   Faith Says Workers ‘Must Put Heat On’ To Make Quota

BOND SALES IN COUNTY ATTAIN 23.6 PC. OF QUOTA   Campaign Here Is Running Ahead Of Average In State

Legislative Commission Urges Simplification Of Pa. Tax Structure

Munich Bombed For Third Day  Saarbrucken Also      Saarbrucken Also Hit by Heavy Force

Munich Sector Blasted Again By Allied Bombers   Saarbrucken On French Border Also Hit By Large Plane Fleet

U.S. FLIERS AGAIN SMASH AT MUNICH   Northern Ttaly Points Raided By Other Bombers

MUNICH DOOMED TO OBLITERATION BY ALLIED BOMB!   Third Straight Raid. Indicates City Will Meet Same Pate As Hambura.

RAID ‘BLITZ ON MUNICH “IN SRD DAY   > Hamburg Treatment For Vital German Rail City Likely

AGAIN SMASH AT MUNICH   Northern Italy Points Raided By Other Bombers

Saarbrucken Also Target Of Bombers   Three-Day Attack One Of Heaviest Ever Reported.

Worst Yet To Come, OW! Warns Nation  Says It Is Time To Face  Facts

SOBERING REPORT IS GIVEN ON WAR      OWI! Reminds Nation We Are Still 3,000 Miles From Tokyo

DEMOCRATIC WOMEN NAME WORKERS FOR ANNUAL FALL MEETING   MINDWELL C. WILSON IS HEAD OF RECEPTION COMMITTEE; PARTY IS OCT. 25

Spangler Raps New Deal in Talk to GOP   Declares Nation Needs Young Men at the Capital

HENKE NAMED ON GOP COMMITTEE   Succeeds Glen Smith From 3rd District

GOP GOVERNORS OUTLINE PLANS   Six-Point Statement Made On Postwar Policies

GOP CALLS FOR QUICK FACTORY RECONVERSION   Republican Governors Issue Six-Point Statement of Policy

GOVERNORS MAP POST-WAR ACTS   Ask Quick End Of Contracts To Speed Reconversion

LEADERS AGREE ON GOP POLICY   Governors at St. Louis Call for Prompt Post-War Contract Termination

Governors Call For Industrial Postwar Backing   Republicans, Led By Dewey, Set Forth 6-Point Plan For  Nation

In Reconversion Of U.S. Industry   Prompt Postwar Contract Termination Asked By Republican Governors

Governors for Early Return to Peace Pursuits   Six-Point Policy   Statement Urges Early Reconversion Of U. S. Industry

STATEMENT OF POLICY MADE AT ST. LOUIS   G.O.P. Governors Headed By Presidential Nominee Call for Prompt PostWar Contract Plan   COVERS SIX POINTS

26 GOP Governors Lay Policies For Peacetime   Headed. By Thomas E. Dewey, Presidential Candidate, State Executives Propose Speedy Recon’ version Of Industry After War

HARMONY MARKS MEETING OF 26 GOP GOVERNORS   TAKE FINAL ACTION TODAY ON PROGRAM TO END CONFUSION

GOP Governors Headed by Dewey Call For Post-War  Reconversion Measures

Republican Heads Offer Plans For Peacetime  Convention Delegates Say States Must Share in Leadership

Peace-Time Conversion. Haste Urged   Governors Fashion 6-Point Republican Poliev Statement

6.0.P. Governors List Post-War Contract Policies   Issue Statement At Conference With Governor Dewey

Germans Burn French Village of St. Die 'To Deny Shelter to Advancing 7th Army

Big Freighter Sinks In Gale   25 Members of Crew Lost With British Vessel Off Maine

Result Of 1944 Presidential Election Migh Not Be KnownFor Weeks, AP Survey Disclose:

Delayed Count on Soldier Ballots May Leavy Doubt Nov. 8 in Outcome of the Election

Soldier Vote May Delay Result Of Presidential Election For Weeks

Election May Be In Doubt For A Month   Defer Soldier Ballot Count

Outcome Of Election May Be In Doubt For Week Until All Absentee Ballots Can Be Tabulated

Soldier Vote May Hold Up Results   Outcome Could Be In Doubt For Several Weeks

Canvassins Of Service Vote May Delay Quteome Of November Election ~

ELEVEN STATES WILL NOT COUNT SOLDIER VOTES   This Will Cause A Delay In Presidential Election Returns Results

Soldier Vole Count May Delay Election   Presidential Election Winner May Be Decided By Canvass

Delay in Count of Soldier Votes May Hold Up Final Election Totals

NOV. 7 VOTING WON'T TELL ALL   Some States Will Count Sol dier Votes After Regular Election Day   By EDWARD CREAGH (Copyright, 1944, By the Associated Press)

Election Results “On Presidency Seen Delayed   Halted Soldier Vote Total In 11 States May Hold Up Outcome Until Dec. 7

Election . Outcome  May Be Delayed For Weeks   Eleven States Will Not Count Their Soldier Votes On Election Day; Nebraska Will age Tabulate Until Dec. 7 .

Result of Election May Not be Certain for Days Afterward      Delayed Tabulation — of Soldiers Votes May Hold Up Outcome

ABSENTEE VOTES MAY DECIDE THE NEXT PRESIDENT   POSSIBLE FOR THE OUTCOME TO REMAIN IN DOUBT FOR WEEKS

SvVVVIV Ty VIET Tere Wife of General Clark Now Tends To Her Chops

Bomber Fleets from Italy and Britain: Dump Bombs Over Wide Area of Reich

HEAVY AERIAL ATTACKS MADE   Fleets From Britain, Ttaly Strike Blows 

U. S. Heavies Plaster Nazi Rail Targets   ‘Multiple Blows from Britain and Italy Hit Industrial Areas

TEXAS DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS BATTLE ARGUED WEDNESDAY  CHARGES OF UNCLEAN HANDS HURLED BY BOT  QIMmewe UES OH Fk ETT £a.E Pee

Arguments Begin On Pro-FDRs’ Powel fo Replace Electors   Group Sets Aside May Electors for New Nominees

Fall of Gumbinnen Seems Near   Reds Beat Back Heavy Nazi  Counterattacks In East Prussia

FRONT IN ITALY AT STANDSTILL   Stiff Enemy Resistance And Bad Weather  Slow Up Allies

MUD HELPS SLOW ALLIES IN ITALY   Fierce German Resistance Another Factor in Bringing Drive Almost to a Standstill.

RAIN, MUD AID NAZIS IN ITALY   Weather and Fierce German Resistance Slow Ad vance of Allies

Mud, Rain Bog Drive in Italy   Weather Bars Pe Valley Assault hy Allie<

HENRY HAYNES IN-W. ACTON   Was Former Tax Collector Assessor for Many ‘Years

SERVICE FOR HENRY HAYNES IN-W. ACTON   Was Former Tax Collector and Assessor for Many — Years

OPPONENTS RAP TAX AMENDMENT   RENEGOTIATION VS, WAR PROFITEERING, SAYS LA FOLLETTE

Thousand Per Cent Takes Cited As Group Fights War Contract Changes

WAR CONTRACT CHANGES FOUGHT BY U.S. GROUP   Solons Must Decide Between Renegotiation, War Profiteering

Senate Group Fights War  Contract Changes, Cites  Profiteers’ Huge Benefits

SENATE GROUP FIGHTING WAR PACT CHANGES   1,000 Per Cent Take By Profiteers Cited

War Contract Plan Fought  By Senators   Link War Profiteering With Renegotiation Law Liberalization

Profiteers Exposed In Tax Battle   Minority Report: Made In War: Contract Dispute , Cites Some Firms "   LA FOLLETTE HITS ‘POWERFUL GROUP’   George Asserts His Views - In Majority Report to: Be Made Known In Floor Debate

CONGRESS Tf DECIDE ISSUE?   Difference Between Renegotiation, War Profiteering Must Be Defined.

Amendments Fought By Senate Minority  Tax Bill Riders Likely To Pave Way For WideOpen War Profiteering

ROTATION PLAN FORT, ARN   Alaska ‘And - Caribbean - Soldiers To Return “After Two Years

Rotation Plan Adopted for Yanks’ Return   Men Two Years in Alaska and Caribbean Will  Come Back in "44.

ARMY PLANS ROTATION OF SOME TROOP!   Expects to Return, by Midyear, All Those Who Have Spent Two Years in the Alaskan or Carshhean Sactors.

Troop Rotation Policy Adopted   Soldiers Overseas 2 Years by Mid-1944 Should Get  FB sviniuch.

Plan New Soldie Rotation Policy  Two Years Overseas Wins Return Home

Men in Caribbean, Alaska to Be Given Furloughs  Troop Rotation Plan To Return Those Overseas Two Years

ARMY ADOPTS ROTATION PLAN FOR ITS TROOPS   Limited Number to Return Monthly from Africa, System Being Worked Out for Pacific Areas

RATION TOKENS   Troop Rotation Policy Adopted  Two-years Service TT. hhnnrn Trin Hama

Rotation Of Troops Policy Now Adopted  Will Bring Some Men Home From Overseas Sectors

OVERSEA YANKS TO GET CHANGE T0. VISIT HOMES   ‘War ‘Department’ ’ Adopts  Schedule to. Furlough _ " Troops With. Two  Years’ Service

Adopt Rotation ’ Plan To Bring Soldiers Home   Will Return Men From Various Overseas Thea tres Of War.

Men in Caribbean, Alaska to Be Given Furloughs  Troop Rotation Plan To Return Those

SPEEDY ACTION ON TWO MATTERS BY LEGISLATURE SEEN   Second Special Session Of Assembly Opens Tuesday Night

Special Assembly Sessions to Open   Expected to Last Only Three Days

ONE UNIT   Main Body Not Ye. Relieved; Germans in Artillery Range

FOR UNHITCHING PRES, ROOSEVELT   Increasing Friction Between Congress, Chief Executive Seen By Landon In Veto Pight

Landon Urges F.R. Defeat   Able Democrat or Republican Should Be Placed in Presidency

Landon Would Unhitch Congress  And President   Decloras Congress. Should Hove “Willing  And Able“ Team Mate

seen eeamentainnaeeannieneeantimmaaie meena  LANDON PROPOSES NEW PRESIDENT OF EITHER MAJOR PARTY   One-time GOP Candidate Says Harmony Needed

UNHITCHING OF FDR SUGGESTED   CONGRESS NEEDS A NEW TEAMMATE, SAYS A. LANDON

Holds Roosevelt Has Lost Touch  La ndon Comments on ‘Breck With pas ess

Condemns Pearl Harbor Secrecy   Sen. Ferquson Demands Facts Be Made Public

Stimson Predicts ‘Heavy Battle  South of Rome  Germans Are Expecte we Wiewmesas Temes   Germans Are Expected To Draw Troops From North Reserves

Stimson Predicts  Heavy Battle South of Rome  Germans Are Expectec  To Draw Troops  Erom North Reserves

Heavy Action Is Predicted ‘by Stimson   Every Reason: to Expect ‘Violent German Reaction, War Secretary Says. ~   ALLIED' POSITION * IS. ‘FAVORABLE?’   Reviews Strategy Employed and ‘Explains: Current Situation in Italy. ~

_ STIMSON SEES FIERCE BATTLE   War Secretary Expects Germons to Hit Bock in Area Near Rome

COMMITTEE TALKS OVER PAY RAISES   Lower Wage Scale Of State Found Critical

Employes Of State May Get Higher Bonus.   Matter Discussed By Legislative Finance Group

‘Says U.S. Will Emerge From Waras Intellectual ‘Center Of The World

Truce Foiled, ‘Reds Pouring Through Pest   Eimissaries Bearing Offer to Nazis Slain; Pensaian Lall Ends

Senate Given U. S.-Mexico Water Treaty   Division of Rio Grande, Tijuana Flow Provided

SETTLE IaollEa AT GOP MEET   Site of Party’s Nominating Convention, Control of Committee.

N.Y. BIDS FOR GOP CONVENTION   Republicans To Settle Two Issues at Chicago

Moving Pictures Are “The Flicks” In Britain; Gin, ‘““Mother’s Ruin”

A FOR ° MOST OF STRIKES   Says November Election Will » End Bickering, Mix-up   TELLS LABOR PRAGRAM   irst Act Would Be to Name Active Secretary of Labor; Speaks in Seattle

Dewey Blames FDR For Strikes   Hits At Administration's Labor Policy In Hampering War Effort.

DEWEY FLAYS LABOR POLICY OF NEW DEAI   Blames FDR for Most Of Serious War time Strikes

Seeseeeeeseeeeeeseeseeeae Verdict Leaves Joan Speechless— Almost

Seven Attain 18th Birthdays      Youths Register With Selective Service

PLANTS INTERESTED. ~ IN RECONVERSION   Moller Co. Has. Has Plans for Limited Organ Pros duction

PLANTS INTERESTED IN RECONVERSION   Moller Co. » Has Pians for Limited Organ Pro~ duction

Fighter Plane Plants Smashed   Bombers Based in Britain, Jialy Meet Over Target

Allies Stage First Two Way Bombing Smash on Reich: Plane Centers Hit

REGAIN NEW POSITION ON MAIN RAII   Burma Headed Grour 80 Miles From Myitkyma

BREST FALLS AFTER 46-DAY ALLIED SIEGE   PORT’S FACILITIES WRECKED, CITY IN FLAMES

PORT OF BREST FALLS.T0 ALLIES   ALL RESISTANCE ENDS AFTER 46-DAY. SIEGE — CITY RE_ PORTED IN FLAMES.

dreds of Navy Planes; Martial  emy Tells of Second Assault by v Declared by Puppet Government

Marines Inch Forward in Peleliu Drive   Fleet Blasts Manila Second Time in  Two Days, Japs Say

NAZIS ABANDON FIRST CITY OF TINY ALBANIA   Enemy Flees After Street Battle With Partisans

FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE DIES   John W. Kephart Succumbs To Burns at Apartment In Philadelphia

J.W.Kephart Dies From Scalding      FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE SUFFERED SEVERE BURNS IN ACCIDENT WEEK AGO; FAMILY AT BEDSIDE.   Born in Wilmore

Huge Air Force Blasts Nazi _ Airfields And Six Bridges   Greatest Blow Since D-Day Delivered by the Allies— Fifty-Three Enemy Fig hters Destroyed; Nazis Unable to Check Assaults

ALLIES BLAST COLOGNE AREA INNIGHT RAID   RECORD 1,400 U. § BOMBERS BACK UP INVASION

Cologne Rocked In Aerial Blows   10,000 Sorties Hit Targets In France  wm. BTS SVTAS BDREBT se i Se

Cologne Is Hit As Sequel to  Invasion Raid:   Allies Make 10,000 Sorties Against Nazi Targets in France; Airfields, Bridges Hit

Cologne Rocked (n Aerial Blows:   10,000 Sorties Hit. Targets In France’

REPORT FINNS MODIFY REPLY TO RUSSIANS      CHANGES MADE IN NOTE. IN HOPE OF KEEPING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS GOING DIPLOMATS ‘HEAR

FRANCE HOPES TO GET MOST OF RHINELAND   Final Decision On Demand By De Gaulle Up To ‘Big Three’

FRANCE MAY ASK FOR RHINELAND   Allied Parley May Determine  Reich Occupation

Japs Report New B:29 Tokyo Raid   Confirmation Given By Americans; Fourth of Attacks

Jap Situation On Leyte Serious; Sea Line Cut   American Planes Bag Three Freighters; Blast Airfields, Shipping

JAPS REPORT U. S. PLANES OVER TOKYO   Nipponese Radio ‘Says No Bombs Were Dropped on American Reconnaissance Flight.

Myth of Truk As Jap Pearl Harbor Is Exploded by U. S. Pilots Who Made Raid: It's Just a Staging Base

WARSHIPS AN BOMBERS POUND ENEMY ISLES   Paralyzing Surprise Blow Pressed Past 72-Hour Mark By Navy   JAPANESE CRAFT FLEE   Yanks Hit Through Center Of Nip Line Close To Philippines

350 Planes Hit Palau, Japs Say   Worried Nips Predict Early‘Yank Landing

300 BOMBERS RAID PALAU   Early Allied Landings Indicated in Western, Carolines Area. 

French Ready To Hit Hitler Line In Italy   Bad Weather Curbs Allied Air Operations On Eu. rope’s Western Front

German Armies Retreating As Three Thousand  ‘Nazis Taken Prisoners.

Record Load of Bombs Dropped On Duisburg —  Bombers Active      Bombers Active In Support of Ground Forces

German Over: Running 0 Of Balkans Would Doom Early Peace Hopes   Nazi Military Occupation Will End Independent Civil Governments In Rumania, Bulgaria And Hungary, Say Experts.

German Occupation Of Balkans Would Doom All Hopes For An  E arly Allied-Satellite State Peace

End of Civil Government Seen: Near   German Military Forcing Vassals To Hold Aniance

Rumania And Bulgaria Face Similar Fate   Bright Side of Picture Is Thinning of Hitler’ § Policing Armies ©

Peace Ties With Balkans Now Out   German Occupation  Ends Allied Chances

GERMAN OCCUPATION OF BALKANS WILL ENE HOPES FOR ALLIES  IT HAD BEEN HOPED THAT . SATTELITE NAZI STATES

German Occupation Expected To Hold Satellites in Line and ‘Prevent Separate Peace with Allies

Nazi Military Rule Expected For All Balkans   Civil Government Faces Early End; Peace Hopes Fade

ALLIED PROBLEMS. ENLARGED BY NAZI INVASION, HUNGARY   Predict, Nazi Military Occupation of Balkans Will End Independent. Civil Government in Rumania, Bulgari, Hungary :

See End To Balkar Self-Rule.   Observers Believe Hitler Will Order Military Occupation Of Rumania, Bulgaria

Foresee End to Civil Rule in the Balkans   Hope for Peace Bid by One of Satellites Fades With Nazi Occurcation

NAZI HOLD ON BALKANS IS SETBACK   Occupation Would Dash Hopes For An Early Peace

Nazi Over-Running Of Balkans May Doom  Mones Early Peace Between Allies, Satellites

‘Warships Blast 13 Nip Barges ‘Loaded With Mer   Japanese Attempt to Reinforce Peleliu Is Failure

13 ENEMY BARGES ARE DESTROYED AT PELELIU   American Cruiser Also Bombard, ed Two Camoufiaged Jap Ships In Harbor

U. S. Troops Seize Wards   Company Executive Makes Exit When 40 M. P.’s Arrive

UNION LEADERS BREAK DETROIT STRIKE; 60,000 IGO BACK TO JOBS   Stoppage Was Threat To War

Vote to End Walkouts in Detroit Area   Maintenance Worker: Heed Appeal by Union Official

Ask Strikes Be Halted At Once   26 Vital War Plants Slowed Down Or Halted

5 SPEAKS AT DEMOCRATIC RALLY HERE   Senator Greeted by Overflow Crowd at Masonic Temple

4-F Control Wins Drait Office Favor   Keesling Says Hershey Ready to Implement Proposed Program

FOR ENDING STRIKE   Danish Council Orders Workers to Returh to Jobs

Women Held as ‘Slaves’ Tell of Life In Mystery House  Kept Under Strange, Hypnotic Influence Thev Tell Court

MANY JAP BEETLES — CAUGHT LAST YEAR   2,949 Quarts Taken From Traps, County Agent  Reports

MANY JAP BEETLES: CAUGHT LAST YEAR   2,949 Quarts arts Taken From   Traps, County Agent Reporgs

Tokyo Calmer After Raid Scare   No Bambs Dropped On Enemy Capita!

INew Yankee Raid On Kuriles Leads To Nippon’s Fear   By LEONARD MILLIMAN Asrociaied Press War Fdaline

Jap Reports Boiled Down   Americaris Silent ,  - Upon’ Tokyo Raid

Say B-29’s Just Looking   Tokyo Radio Agrees  Big Bombers On Reconnaissance Flight Only

Superfortress “Raid” ‘Still Is a Mystery  Tokyo Jops May Hove Been Over-Excited by

TOKYO ALERTED BY SUPERFORTS   No Bombs Dropped, Japs Say In New Report

Anyway, Japs Were Panicked   Finally Get Reports Melted Into One Account That B-29s Reconnoitered Tokyo

Japs Revise B-29 Reports   No Bombs Dropped, They Say—20th Air Force Says Nothing

Tokyo Reports Superforts Reconnoitered Over Capital But Dropped No Explosives   Japanese People Reprimanded For Losing Their Calmness

Resistance Of Nazis Fails In Normandy Fight   Opposition Continues Stiff But Americans Punch Ahead; Brehal Under Artillery Fire

Tank Duels Smash Foe In Normandy   Germans Talk-of Whole sale Withdrawal on Entiie Western Wing   DECISIVE BATTLE   Twin American Thrusts Gain 21 Miles Since Opening of Drive

YANKS CAPTURE COUTANCES IN 21-MILE GAINS   Bradley Forces Near Hinge Of Brittany Peninsula

Bradley's Men Forcing Nazis To Withdraw   Brehal Under Allied Guns In Greatest Offensive Since Invasion Beaan

Yanks Smash Nazi Tanks In 100 Duels   Allied Column Reaches Coast Sealing Off Land Escape Routes

DRIVES THREATEN JEFEAT OF ENEMY   Assault Progresses 21 Miles Since Tuesday   RESISTANCE STIFFFENS   German Radio Begins Talk of Wholesale Withdrawal Along Front

Nazi Lines Crumbling In France      American Assault Gains 21 Miles Since Tuesday

Yankees Are Driving Deep Against Nazis   Clean-up Process Brings Prisoners Into Allied Bag

FIERCE NAZI TANK BLOWS ARE SMASHED   Americans Push 11 Miles Below Captured Coutances and Threaten to Entrap Fleeing Units.   MORE THAN 6,000 PRISONERS IN BAG   Fields and Lanes Littered With German Dead as Major Defeat Looms for Rommel’s Forces. -

MAJOR DEFEAT THREATENS 10 ENGULF ENEMY   American Units Drive 11 Miles Beyond  Coutances

Yank Officer Declares ‘If These Guys Were Well Enough Organized They Would Surrender: None Will Be Left Soon’

TURN BACK HUGE TIGER TANKS IN ARMORED DUELS   Twin Thrusts Approach ‘Junction at Important Brehal

knemy Appears \V irtually Disorgan ized   Yank Officer Declares ‘If These Guys Were Well Enough Organized They Would Surrender; None Will Be Left Soon

Bradley’s Precision Offensive Cuts Through Germany's _  Cavan. rm A TTY) V7

Yanks Unleash One Of War's Greatest  Drives in Europe   Nazis Turned Back in at Least 100 Thrusts With Tiger Tanks As Americans Push 11 Miles Below Captured Coutances—Major Defeat for Hitler's Legions Indicated.

In France   Nazis Face Major Defeat In : Greatect U S. Drive Of War

Germans Face Defeat Threat In Withdrawal   Americans Beat Off Fierce German Tank Counter-Attacks and Advance 21 Miles

Progress 21 Miles Since  Last Tuesday   Thrust 11 Miles Below Captured Coutances; 13 Bevond St. Lo.   STIFFEN RESISTANCE

‘Yanks Plunge On In France   Nazis Face Major Defeat In Greatest U.S. Drive Of War

Greatest Yank Offensive Since 1918 Underway   100 Tank Duels Rage in France as Nazis Begin Withdrawal

Yanks Smash German Tiger Tanks, Race 11 Miles Below Captured Coutances; Berlin Talks of ‘Necessary Withdrawal’

Final Battle For Warsaw In Progress; Tons Of Red Shells Fall On Capital

Final Battle For Warsaw Is Now Looming   Soviet And Polish Forces Are Closing In On City Says Moscow Report   TONS OF SHELLS FALLING ON CITY

E FOR WARSAW IN PROGRESS   Soviet-Polish Army Engages Germans in Artillery Duel

Second Group of U. S. Fliers Shot Down by ‘Friendly’ Allied Fire

(U.S. Planes - Were Downed #(ver Sicily  Second Incident MP tei 8 ade

Army Contirms Second Mistake Death Of Yanks  U. S. Guns Kill 44 In Sicily

Allies Hit Sumatra In Start Of Drive To. Regain Malaya   Loss Of More U.S. Planes To Allied Fire Revealed

Mistake’ Downs  More U. S. Planes   473 Men, 34 Planes Now Is Total

Shot Our Own Planes Down By Mistake   War Dept. Announces Mistaken Identity Cost 473 Men, 34 Aircraft

U. S. CONFIRMS LOSS JULY 13:14   10 TRANSPORT PLANES DOWNED WITH LOSS OF 44 MEN IN SICILY

Mistake Downs More U. 5. Planes   Total Losses From Such Incidents 473 Men and 34 Planes

Although Many Officers Had Estimated As~ sault Would Move More Rapidly Than It Has, They Don’t Term Situ- - ation “Unsatisfactory.” .

U. S. Officers Declare ‘Invasion Is Not ‘Up to Expectations   Planners of Assault Had Believed It Woul« Progress More Rapidly Than It Has; Bad Weather, Nazi Fanaticism Are Reasons

Invasion Progress Slow: Fanatical Resistance of Germans Delays Advance of Allied Forces

Invasion Going Slower Than Was Hoped By Allies   Definite Information Divisions Diverted From Russian Campaign.

Ww orst W eather in 25 Years ‘ Tnvasion Progress Not as Fast  As Hoped for When Mapped

Invasion — Progress Disappoints   Slowness Caused By ‘Fanaticism of Nazi Defenders, and By Unfavorable Weather

Invasion Progress. Though Retarded. ie ae = Regarded As Not “Unsatisfactory

Invasion Didn’t Reach Hopes ‘Of All Planners   No Secret Made lade Of Fact That -Assault~ Not: Progressing As’ Estimated

ALLIED INVASION DISAPPOINTING TO SOME OF PLANNERS   Many Officers Feel Assault Should Have  Progressed More Than It Has—However, Declare It Cannot Be. TP ed SE Ty end selantnre”.

Invasion Not Living Up To Expectation; Weather, Nazi ; Fanaticism Slows Progress

ADVANCE MILE IN LOWLANDS, CAPTURE TOWN   Terrific Artillery Barrage Laid Down Before Yankees Went Over Top Today at Dawn   NISAPPOINTED

Invasion Moves Along Slowly   ALLIED PLANNERS SAY 3AINS COME TOO SLOW

White House Gets Anti-Subsidy Bill   Congress Waiting for Measure To Be Tossed Right Back Into Its Lap; May Override Veto.

Congress fo Send Anti-subsidy Bill slo White House  Roosevelt Expected  To Veto Measure  AAIRAe

ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL GETS 10 FD   Feel Certain Roosevelt Will Veto Measure

Anti-Subsidy Bill to F.R.   Measure Certain to Meet Veto; Leaders Confident of Victory

Veto Of Anti-Subsidy ‘Bill By FDR Expected   Administration, Leaders-Voice Confidence Veto Of Measure Will Be Sustained; Break In Inflation Battle Feared

CONGRESS 10 TOSS SUBSIDY BILL TO FOR   Expect Presidential Veto; Senzte May Override Bill

nti-Subsidy Bill Due To  Bounce Back  ee ean tei   BIVULILY BAUR  residential Veto Of  Measure Believed Certain; Future Of Program Uncertain

SUBSIDY REPEAL BILL HEADED FOR THE WHITE HOUSE   BELIEF FXPRESSED LEGISLATION SURE OF ROOSEVELT VETO

ANTI - SU BILL EXPECTED TO REBOUND   Congress To Toss Measure To White House Today And Then Wait For It To Be Vetoed   AGENCY ENDS TONIGHT

CONGRESS TOSSES  ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL  AT WHITE HOUSE WILL THEN AWAIT ITS  RETURN THROUGH EX. PECTED VETO ROUTE

Anti-Subsidy Measure ts Due Cerfain Veto   Leaders Disagree On Whether Action Can Be Overridden

SUBSIDY BILL VETO EXPECTED   Congress Predicts President Will Turn Down. Measure Barring Payments,

CATCH OF BEETLES ~ NEARS 2,750,000   Final Report. Made by Committee on Monday Evening

CATCH OF BEETLES ~ NEARS 2,750,000   Final ‘Report  Made “by ~ Committee on Monday — Evening ~~. --

Overcome by  — Chlorine:-Gas   Brooklyn Residents’ Drép Like Flies When Tank. Rolls from Truck and Breaks

BOMB THAT COULD BEDROPPED ON NEW YORK IS IMPRACTICAL         Cumberland Scientist Says Weapon Would Require Initial Weight Of 2,500 Tons To Carry One Ton Of Explosive And Would Cost 10 Millions

Gigantic Pincers Being Closed On Fleeing Germans   1200 Nazi Tanks Reported Destroyed Since D-Day; 300,000 Enemy Troops Put Out Of Action In Furious Allied Assaults

Yanks Are Driving Down Seine River Behind Germans   1,200 Nazi Tanks 300, 000 Men Out of Action Since D-Day

U.S: Forces Strike  Down Seine River   Other Allied Armies Wheel Inland From West as Disorganized Germans Flee to Bridgeless River of Seine ‘n   1,200 Enemy Tanks Destroyed and 300,000 Nazis Put Out of Action

Smash Or Damage 1,200 German Tanks In Western France   Estimate 300,000 Nazi Troops Killed, Captured or Wounded Since Start of French Liberation

Grinding Down What's Left of Germans in Vast New Trap; Enemy Surrendering Now in Greater Numbers After Forces Disorganized

Allies Fashion New Trap For Nazi [th Army  2 ON Delen nance   30,060 Prisoners Taken Out Of Falaise Pocket

1,200 Tanks, 300,000 Huns Out Of Action   Germans Fleeing To Bridgeless River; Allies Striking Eastward Report Gains Up To 10 Miles

Falaise Pockef Yields 100,000 German Troops  Report Heavy Battle Near Paris; Reveal 1 900 Enemy Tank<

DISORGANIZED REMNANTS OF GERMAN ARMY FORCED INTO TRAP BY ALLIED OFFENSIVES   Canadians, British and Americans Strike Eastward in Enveloping Push, With Third Army Driving Toward the Sea   ENEMY REPORTED SURRENDERING BY PLATOONS

Four Allied Branches Have Wheeled Inland to Trap Germans in Fleeing to Bridgeless River.   ‘PORT OF TOULON IS   NOW FULLY CIRCLED

Yanks Strike Powerfully Down Seine   Others Go Inland: 300,000 Germans Out Of Action

Badly-BledHun Army Struggles To Flee Noose   U. S. Columns Strike Pow. erfully Down Scine As Three Other Armics Wheel ta Pincers   France Trap Yields 100,000 Prisoners   Heavy Fighting Reported In Paris Areas Yanks Meet Neavy Resist  ance At Etamnes

Battles Rage  Near Paris;  Shell Orleans   ‘Back of German Army Is Broken,’ British Officer Declares wi

Heavy Fighting Reported in Paris Area, Orleans Under Shell Fire, Nazis Say Etamps, Malesherbes Evacuated

Four Allied Armies Push Disorganized Germans Back Upon  Bridgeless Seine

d ARMIES IN # PINGERS MOVE   1,200 Enemy Tanks Destroyed; 300,000 Nazis  Out of Action.   'BATTLE IN PARIS AREA

Yanks Swing Down the Stream in Pursuit While Other Columns From West Close in To Annihilate Hitler's Legions — Enemy Finds No Bridge To Cross.

Disorganized Enemy Fleeing Toward Seine  Heavy Losses Are Sustained

ARMY FLEEING ALLIED PINCER   Germans Pinned To Seine  River; Casuals Hit Record Highs

Smash Toward The Sea   Allies Wedge Germans Into Narrowing Area; “Back of German Army Broken.” Says Officer

THREE ARMIES ARE DRIVING DOWN SEINE   Germans Lose 300,000 Men Since Invasion Started   1,200 TANKS   Destroyed In Same Period; Back Of Enemy Broken, Officer Declares

Allies Are Selting Up A New Trap   300,000 Germans Already Put Out of Action, 1,200 Tanks Destroyed   ‘HEAVY FIGHTING  IN PARIS AREA   Four Allied Armies Are Pounding Fleeing Remnants of Battered Foe

Forming Pocket Between Falaise, U.S. Bridgehead   PATTON'S TROOPS THERE   Maquis And Germans Are Fighting Inside Belfort

Gigantic New Pincers Threatens Nazis Along Seine;  . More Than 300,000 Germans And ae Enemy Tanke Knarkad it

Loss OF 1.200 German Tanks  Since D-Day   Field Estimates Say More Than 300.000 Germans Put Out Of Action.   GAIN TEN MILES

Mop Up Operations in France Keep Allied Units Busy; Nazis Contirm Fall of Toulon   100,000 Germans Killed or Captured in Normandy Trap; 1,200 Tanks Damaged or Destroyed: Spearhead Points at Marseille

Claims Junction Made In Kwangsi   Long-Sought Bisection Said Completed By Japs

Kwangsi Invaders Join Northbound Force 4 3 Bisect Nation, Report

A-13 GAS COUPONS WORTH 4 GALLONS   Dees Not Increase Ration; Coupons Good Until Dec. 22

Use of American Forces To Keep Peace Endorsed   Senators Would Place Troops at Disposal of World Organization

Senate, House  Battle On Vote   Suspect Propaganda In Service Ballot Support

G. . BILL OKAY FOR VETERANS DUE IN HOUSE   Senate Sends Four Other Benefit Measures To White House

G.I, BILL NEAR HOUSE PASSAGE   Fight Looms Over Provisions For Vets’ Education

War Veterans’ Benefit Bill Near Passage   Other Similar Measures Sent To White House

HOUSE STUDIES “B. .” MEASURE   Debate Looms Over  Education Provisions

House to Speed G.1. Bill Action   Provides Extensive Veterans’ Benefits

Veteran Benefit  Bill Nears Okay   Passage of Measure  Expected This Week

GI BILL NEARING HOUSE PASSAGE   Approval of Benefit Plan Expected This Week

RUNNING MATE CONTROVERSY AT STANDSTILL   Contents Of Reported Roosevelt Letter On Wallace Being Awaited

F. D. R. May Give Wallace Chance On First Ballot      His Chances Fade When Roosevelt Withdraws Aid

EXPECT FDR LETTER WILL AID WALLACE   President Will Not Insist That Convention of Demo ‘ crats at Chicago Nominate Him.

Wallace Will Get Ballot to Show Strensth   F. R. Letter, Picking New Choice, Will Await BKiret Vata

WALLACE TO HAVE CHANCE AT CHICAGO   ‘Roosevelt Wants _ Him to Have First Ballot Chance

ONE-BALLOT CHANCE FOR WALLACE SEEN AT DEM CONVENTION   Proposed Party Platform Nearly Ready As Delegates Gather For Battle Over F. D. Runnine Mate

One-Ballot Chance Goes To Wallace   Long List Of Candidates For No. 2 Job On Hand

President Reported Planning to Give Wallace One Ballot Chance Before indicating Preferences

Wallace Will Be Given One  Ballot Chance   Moment FDR Suggests Another Name Vice President Is Through

WILL HAVE TO WIN ON FIRST BALLOT OR LOSE CHANCES   So Is Described Vice-President Wallace’s Campaign For Re-Nomination.

First Ballot Chance Seen For Wallace   Vice President: Has 250 Votes, Backers Strive for 589 at Opening   PRESIDENT WAITS   May Submit “Surprise” Name, If Running Mate’s Strength Fails to Show

Wallace May Be Given One Ballot Chance   After That F.D.R. Will Pick V. P. Candidate

JAPS NOT YET READY FOR U. S. FLEET CLASH   Tokyo Reports That !ts Navy Won’t Come Out and Fight Just Yet

Jap Fleet Not Ready fo Fight Tokyo Asserts   Awaits Golden Moment When It Has Opportunity To Wipe Out U. S. Fleet, Radio Statement Says

There’s No Place Like H ome— .  Jap Fleet Is N ot Readv For Battle

JAPS SAY “TIME NOT RIPE” FOR FLEET TO ATTACK TASK FORCE IN MARIANAS

Heavy Aerial and Wership Bombardment Preced ed Landing in Which Casualties Were Light. Situa tion Considered Well in Hand. Guam Invasion  Deanceeding

Japanese Fleet Still _ Sidestepping Clash _ With U. S. Forces      Tokyo Radio, Reporting Activities Of American Task Force In Marianas, Says Time Not Yet Ripe For Nips To Come Out And Fight

Tokyo Radio Admits Great Fleet Is Waiting For Japs But Says Time Is Not Ripe

Jap Fleet Is Not Impulsive   Won't Strike Until ‘Cool Reasoning and Certainty’ Agree It’s Time

‘Time Not Yet Ripe”   Tokyo Says Fleet Will Choose Own Time to Knock Out U.S. Navy

Japs Admit Inferiority of Own Fleet ‘In Air Support and Say Time Not Ripe For Attack ow Americans Off Marianas

Several U.S. Task Forces Are Now Off  Marianas   Jittery Japs Report Powerful Concentratior Of American Carriers; Nip Fleet Hiding

Japs Claim U. S: Task Forces Are Lurking Off Marianas; Inferiority Of Nips Admitted

Fear Of American Fleet. ; Admitted By Japs While Yanks Mop Up Islands

Jap Fleet Awaits Opportune Moment Before Striking at U.S. Naval Might

Enemy Apparently Plans To Wait Until United States Strikes Directly at Japan

Makes Admission After Stating “Time Is Not Yet Ripe For Navy To Attack Enemy

Japs Afraid To Risk Navy Against U. S.   Enemy May Await Attack On Japan; Tinian, Guam Invasions Progress

Time's ‘Not Ripe’ to Come Out and Fight, Jap Admiral Says In Defense Of Tactics

Japs Say U.S. Fleet Roving Off Marianas   Tokyo Radio Says Time to Sink American Task Force Has Not Arrived

Kaiser Envisions Vast Technological Future: Urges Foundations Be Laid Now

KAISER FORESEES NEW ECONOMY IN POST-WAR WORLD   SAYS LABOR MUST INVEST MONEY IN RISK CREDIT POOL

HENAY KAISER SEANS FUTURE   Foresees Era of ‘Courageous And Truly. Competitive Economy,’   PLAN TO AVERT CRISIS!

Production Genius Airs Views Of Future  Build Foundation Now For New Economy After The War, Kaiser Urges

Kaiser Envisions Capital, Labor Going Hand In Hand; Foundations Favored Now

Six Destroyers, Four Other Ships Are Sunk   Nipponese Have Lost 19 Destroyers and Seven Transports With Thousands of Men in Attempts io Raininrra Ormac

Six Destrovers, Four Transports Fail to Reach Levte Harbor   Caught by Halsey’s Carrier Planes In Early Morning — Bring Total Losses to 20 Ships in Three Days

4A Transports, 6 Destroyers Sunk, Report   Estimate 8,000 Nips Aboard; Yamashita Throwing Everything Into Levte Battle

Yank Carrier Craft Smash Four Transports Ana Six Destrovers In Ormoc Bay

6 Destroyers Sent Down By Naval Airmen   Four Transports Sent To Bottom As Entire Convoy Is Wiped Out; Personnel Losses Estimated 8000 To 25,000 Troops

6 DESTROYERS, { TRANSPORTS ANNIHILATED   Enemy Loses 8000 Men in Carrier  Plane Strike   By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent

PLANES ERASE 4 TRANSPORTS, 6 DESTROYERS   MOVE TO REINFORCE NIPPON ARMY ON LEYTE CRUSHED

Warships Included In Toll   Six Destroyers, Four Transports Sent to Bottom

Fleet Estimates Foe Losses As High As 25,000 During New Ormoc Bay Landings

NIP ATTEMPT 10 REINFORCE TRAP IS FRUSTRATED   Four Transports, Six Destroyers Carrying 8,000 Troops Blasted

Temperatures ~   Carrier Planes ‘Smash Ind Try Ty Bolster Levte   Four Jap Transports, Six Destroyers . Sunk in Dawn Battle

b DESTROYERS, { TRANSPORTS ARE WIPED OUT   Carrier Based Planes Blast Enemy Aitempting to Reinforce Leyte.

4 TRANSPORTS, 6 DESTROYERS SUNK   Smash Second Attempt ir 3 Days to Land Troops   13 PLANES DOWNED   Yank Ground Forces Make New Gains; Planes Attack Other Shipping

U.S. War Prisoners of Japanese Driven Insane; 3 Were Buried Alive, AP Reporter Reveals   Bvy RAYMOND P. CRONIN

Red- Headed Lass, Smuggled Out —  Offretand InCoffin, U.S. Problem   Te ERATE ANOY

STOWAWAY GIRL HELD BY POLICE   Irish Lass Hoped To Wed An American Soldier

NIPS SAY RAIDS MADE ON BONINS   Tokyo Says U. S. Task Force Is Operating There

JAPS REPORT U. S. TASK FORCE PROWLING IN WATERS 630 MILES FROM TOKYO

AMERICAN TASK FORCE ONLY 630 MILES FROM TOKYO   Japs Expect Attack On Bonin and Volcano Islands.

Powerful Task Foree Strikes Bonin Islands   Japanese Report Fleet Seen Off Bases Only 630 Miles From Tokvo

Tokyo Fears Mitscher Fleet Ih Nearby Seas   Japanese: Jittery Over Safety of Home

Task Foree 58 Raids Jap Isles  Close To Tokyo   Radio Believes ‘U. . Fleet Prowls Waters toa To Homeland

Russians Reported Fighting In Pskov Outskirts As Fury Of Battle Reaches New Pitch   Moscow Claims Resistance Is Being Overcome, Army Advancing Swiftly

—RUSSIA— —  REDS AND NAZIS BATTLE IN PSKOY   Fierce Fighting Rages For Control Of Important Baltic Base   TOWNS LIBERATED   Russians In Determined Bid To Force Germans From Key City ~

RUSSIAN TROOPS  REPORTED FIGHTING  IN PSKOV OUTSKIRTS RED ARMY FORCES CON.  TINUE ADVANCE IN OTHER SECTORS ATCO

ATTLE RAGES ROUND VITAL ALTIC BASE   ssian Troops Reported to Be Fighting on Very Outskirts of City Of Pskov  KE PEIPUS CROSSED

RUSSIANS ON OUTSKIRTS OF PSKNV TODAY   Communication Base Threatened: Key To Baltics

Soviet Troops Fighting in Pskov Streets   Red Forces Advancing Despite Tough German Resistance

RUSSIANS FIGHT WAY TO EDGE OF PSKOV BASE   Communique Declares Red Forces Continuing  With Swift Advance

Reds Close  In on Pskov   Forces Reported to Be Fighting in Stronghold’s Outskirts

Soviet Troops Battling at Pskov Gates  Troops ‘Advance Swiftly Despite Swift Nazi Resistance  NEW RUSS” DRIVE  Offensive Opens in Ukraine South of Mine Conter of Krivoi Ror   NEW RUSS DRIVE

BATTLE RAGES FOR RED CITY      Soviets Enter Outskirts of Pskov: Open New Drive In Ukraine

Reports Through Helsinki Say Russians Have Driven Across Lake Peipus to Estonia   NOVORZHEV TAKEN   218th German Infantry Divisio: Smashed, New Threat Poised i Polotsk Railway

Russians Now On Outskirts Of Pskov   Battle For Great Baltic Key Base Rages Unabated

Reds Battle In Pskov Outskirts  Swift Russian Advance Takes 250 Villages

Soviet Army Is Fighting At Edge of Pskov   Bridgeheads Established On Estonian Shore of Lake Peipus

SOVIETS FIGHT OUTSIDE PSKOV   Russians Reach Very Outskirts of Vital German-Held City

RUSSIANS KNOCK ON PSKOV GATES   Battle for Nazi Key to Baltic Rages—Reds Gain on Other Fronts

Soviets Fighting on Outskirts of Pskov   Battle for Great Base Rages on with Unabated Fury

Report New Russian Drive Across Lake Peipus; Establish Bridgeheads On Estonian Shore; Now 26 Miles From Latvian Border.

Soviets Fight In Outskirts Of Baltic Base   Fall Of Pskov Believed  Near As Russians  Storm City   Germans Lose 900 Men In One Engagement To Stem Tide

REDS FIGHT AT PSKOV GATES   Russians Reach Outskirts of Great German Base in Baltic Area.

Reds Battling To Enter Pskov  Key Nazi Base   Russian Forces Advance to Outskirts of City, Big Baltic Bastion; Take 250 Towns

Soviets Reach Outskirts of City of Pskov   Battle for Gateway  to Baltic States at New Stage of Fury

Soviet Forces Attack Pskov   _ Fight in Outskirts For Base and Key to Control of Baltic .

SOVIETS FIGHT ON OUTSKIRTS OF PSKOV BASE   Battle For Key To Baltic States Control Rages With Unabated Fury

RED TROOPS 0 EDGE OF PKC   Baitle for Conimunications Base Rages With Unabated Fury.   IMAKE SWIFT ADVANCE

Report Reds un Suburbs Nt Pskov   Troops Are Advancing Swiftly, Soviets Say

Baltic ‘Objective -OFGreat Battle Outside Pskov    Reds Claim Resistance Of Germans Overcome In  Swift Russian Advance

[Soviets Fight On Outskirts Of Pskov With Vietory Near   250 Villages, Towns Are Reported Seized

‘Phone 5.  ‘for Want: Ads, Subscriptions, All Advertising,  Job Printing .   Reds Battle Furiously at Pskov Gates   Lake Peipus Crossed To Flank Key. Base From Estonia

Fighting At Pskov Continues   German Resistance Stiff; Russians In Ukraine Drive

FURIOUS BATTLE RAGES AT PSKOV   Soviet Troops Reported Tc Be Fighting On Outskirts

NAVY CURTAILS PILOT TRAINING   Aviators Will Spend More Time in V-12 Program

Navy Curtails Pilot Training   ‘Emphasize Quality Rather Than Quantity

MODERN JOA  F ARC FOUND   Pretty French Girl, 23, Goes Sniper Hunting, Draped Over Car Top

FRENCH “MAMA” PACKS A PISTOL   Woman Warrior Kills Two Germans, Wounds Others

TRUNK MURDER MYSTERY ENDS IN CONFESSION   Mexican Admits Killing Bride, Shipping Body To Los Angeles

SCYLO VILLEGAS’ CONFESSION ENDS MURDER MYSTER\   Admits He Was One Wh Stuffed Body of Woman Into a Trunk.

MAN CONFESSES TRUNK MURDER   Says He Killed Three-Weeks Bride in Drunken Quarrel

CRYSTAL CITY MAN NABBED FOR SLAYING   Mystery Solved With Fingerprints By FBI Agents

SLAYER ADMITS TRUNK MURDEF   Killed ‘Bride’ of Three Weeks in Drunken Fight

Husband Guilty In Trunk-Murder   Mexican Admits Killing His Bride

No Opposition — _ do Latest Air ~~Raid-on-Japs   Enemy May Be Holding Back in Anticipation of Greater Blows   THEIR DEFENSE COSTS RUN HIGH   Crippling of Supply Line Also May Be: Reason for Weakened. Resistance

Allied Bombers Blast Japanese Pacific Bases   Madang and Marshall Islands Hammered By Large Flights

ALLIED AIR FORCES  STRIKE REGULARLY  AT JAPANESE BASES TONS OF BOMBS HURLEI  IN SOFTENING UP PKOCESS IN PACIFIC

Allies Blast Jap Bases As Prelude To Invasions; Little Aerial Opposition

BOMBS SOFTEN JAP BASES FOR NEW LANDINGS   Fighter Opposition Weakens as Americans Continue Pounding of Madang and Marshall Islands.

Allies Planes Hit Jap Bases On Time Table   Lack of Enemy Fighters Is Indication Japs Holding Back Strength

Bombings of Jap Bases Are ‘Continued   Planes Lash Out on Time Table Regularity to Soften Up Strategic Enemy Posjtions: Hit Invasion Points

ALLIES ASSAULT INVASION POINTS IN SOUTH PACIFIC      Raid ‘Targets in Northern New Guinea, Marshall Islands

HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS ON JAPS IN THE PACIFIC   Time Table Bombing of Enemy Positiéns May Presage New Landings

ALLIED PLANES SOFTEN UP JAP LANDING AREAS   Vieet No Resistance Ir Air From Enemy As They Prepare New Invasion Points In Pacific.

SOFTEN UP NIPPON BASES   Flyers Blast Madang and Marshail Islands  By MORRIE LANDSBERG  geoermntnatinal Weace Uae Wiltiar

Bombers Pounding japanese With Great Regularity   Madang, Marshal! Islands Appear to Be Invasion Taraets

Tank Forces Battle At200-Yard Range   Ste. Mere Eglise Taken In New Allied Advance

Allies Gain West And Southwest Of Bayeux   Germans Acknowledge American Capture Of Ste. Mere Eglise, Five And One Half Miles Inland

Two lines breached. by Yanks   Fighting rages © Athrno all sectors

+   More Gains Made West, Southwest Of Baveux   Fighting Is Heavy, Especially at Caen, As Weight of Armor Rises on Both Sides   NAZIS ADMIT GAINS SOUTH OF CHERBOUR  Hint Secondary Roads From Great Seaport Cut by Parachutists

Airborne Troops — Swoop, Capture Ste.Mere Eglise   Both Sides Increase Weight of Beachhead Armor; Enemy Strong Points By-passed, Eliminated;  Weather Deteriorates Rut Allies Cain

Attacks on Press Arouse Bricker   Freedom in Peril, Governor Asserts

BRICKER SCORES NEWS CONTROLS   Freedom Of Press And Speech Endangered, Governor Says

Quadruplets Born to 118-Pound Mother In Unprecedented Caesarian Delivery

REORGANIZATION OF SOVIET UNION INTO COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS MAY BRING OTHERS INTOGROUP   Moscow Announcement Leaves Many Diplomat Dazed As. They Contemplate Vast Potentialities Of Russian Scheme of Sovereignty for Its 16 Renuhblice

SOVIET UNION'S EXTENSION OF  SOVEREIGNTY TO 16 PROVINCES TS MOMENTOUS POLITICAL MOVE

The War Today   a0C War rudy Reorganization May Result In Others Joining Saviet Union.

THE WAR TODAY   By DE WITT MACKENZIE AccaniateAd Prace War Analyst

TODAY   Kremlixi ”s Extension of the. Sovereignty of lis 16 Component Republics Has Many Possibilities —  “By DeWitt Mackensic”

The War Today   16 Autonomous Soviet Republics Could Control Learue of Nations

MAY KEEP POLLS. OPEN UNTIL 10   Legislature Grants Electior Officials Right: to Keey Booths Open

Legislature Makes 10 O'clock Optiona   Law Changed In Special Session Friday; Rural Republicans. Charge Change Is ‘Selling Tom Dewey Down The River’

FALL NEARS AS RUSSIANS PUSH ‘ON FROM PLOEST   Other Army Units Press Toward Pre-Wat Reolearian Rarder

REDS IN SUBURB NF BUCHAREST; PLOESTI FALLS   Romanian Capital’s Capture Expected Hourly; Some Refineries Intact

S-SGT.E. LOWRY “ WITH. GROUP CITED + : BY: MAIOR   Local Serviceman Is Cook On bit : ' Liberator in ; _ Knetand. -

Set. Geoffrey Gayland Wright Is Cited For Bravery on B-24 Liberator Bomber

BOMBER GROUP CITED FOR PERFORMANCE   Sgt. Philip Mannherz, Bristol, is Member of Outfit  To Be Commended

3 To 4 Million Service Votes Expected ‘To Play Ton Role In Presidential Election

Soldier Vote to Be Major Factor  Between 3 and 4 Million Eligible

Soldiers Vote For First Time  Since 1864. War   Every Indication Points To . Their Ballots This Year Playing Major Pert

Frisco Area  Shaken by Twin Blast   Hundreds Injured, Immense Damage Done When Ammunition Vessels Explode; Port Chicago Navy Depot Area Leveled

Explosions, Of Undetermined Origin, Felt Within Radius Of 50 Miles; Additional Hazards Caused By Floating Bombs.   Man Mile Away Blown 100 Feet

Blast Of Ammunition Ships One Of Worst Disasters In History   Port Chicago Is Wrecked By Detonation One Mile Away; Injured List Expected To Reach 1,000; Explosion Felt Over 50-Mile Radius

Port Chicago Dock Area Levelled   Two Vessels Blown To Bits, and Two Coast Guard Ships Sunk; Shock Felt 50 Miles

California Town Razed By Blasts Of Navy Vessels   ‘Cause Of Explosion Of Ammunition Craft Is Unknown; Impact Felt 50 Miles Away;  Victims Mostly Naval Personnel

HUNDREDS HURT ” AS AMMUNITION SHIPS EXPLODE   Port Chicago, Calif., Depot Area Levelled — Two Vessels Destroyed

Ammunition Shi; Lets Go; Scores Are In Hospital   Heavy Losses In Personal and Material Result From Tremendous Blast ;

Death Toll MayHit650   Explosion of Ammunition Carrier Wrecks California Town, Breaks — Windows 30 Miles Away

Explosion Kills Kills 200 To 650 Men California Port   Two Navy Ammunition Ships Blown To Bits At Port Chicago, Hundreds Jojured; Most Victims Naval Petsonnel.

Hundreds Are Injured, Town Wrecked.in Explosion Which Spreads Chaos Near Frisco —

Estimate 200 To 650 Die In Navy Boat Tragedy At Port Chicago, California

Two Ammunition Ships Blow Up At Port Chicago; Barrack Walls Cave In; Homes Knocked Askew   Chaotic Scene As “Biggest Barrage Of War”? Leads Residents To Fear Jap Air Attack; Man Mile Away Blown 100 Feet; Wounded',Walk Streets

2 Ammunition Ships Blow Up; Toll ls Heavy   200 To 650 Dead, Estimates Of Injured Range To 1,000 In California Disaster

Heavy Damage Caused Af Port Chicago   Two Coast Guard Vessels Sunk In Suisun Bay

(FBI Joins Navy Investigators iln Search for Disaster Cause; ‘Civilians, Sailors Suffer Together

Hundreds Injured In Explosions Of Two Naval Ships   Port Chicago, Calif., Dock Area Wrecked, Town Badly Damaged; Victims Mostly Men In Armed Services

Explosion Kills 200 To 650 Men California Port   Two Navy Ammunition Ships Blown Te Bits At Port) Clhicago, Eun. dreds Injured; Most Victims Naval Person ee al

Buildings Mile and Half Away Wrecked—Earth Shakes for 50 Miles—Debris Fills Skv

Port Chicago Dock Area Levelled By Blast; Hundreds Injured   Medium-Sized Cargo Vessel Being Loaded With Ammunition Explodes, Followed By Second; Ground Shaken Fer Miles Around   Four Gther Boats Renoried Missing

CALIFORNIA VILLAGE. ‘WRECKED BY BLAST   Skyrocket of Flame a Mile High Lights Sky; Red Cross.  Giaee Intro Action

Dead and Injured Are Chiefly Naval Personnel; Explosions Level Dock Era of California Port, 35 Miles of San Francisco

Explosion Levels Port Chicago Dock Area; Damage High in City 35 Miles From San Francisco

AREA NEAR PORT IS DEVASTATED; MANY INJURED   Explosion Rocks Country for 50 Miles Around - - Flames Shoot Mile Into Sky

Naval Tragedy One of Worst In U.S. Files   Uncounted Dead Believed To Number Between 200-350 On California Coast

Navy’s First Estimate Is 300-650 Dead   Port Chicago Depot Town Wrecked; Hundreds of  Civilians Hurt   FELT FOR 50 MILES   “Mile-High Rocket of Flame” Marks Disaster on Pacific Coast

50-Mile Area Rocks; Small Vessels Lost   Hundreds Repor ted Inj ijur ed: Dock Area Leveled; Origin:  Unknown In Coast Disaster

TWO NAVY SnIPS BLOW UP, GREAT MANY DIE, HURT   Probably 300 Killed, 1000 Injured In Explosion of Vessels Being Loaded With Ammunition.   CONCUSSION FELT OVER AN AREA OF 50 MILES   About 200 Homes Wrecked In California City as Flames Shoot Mile and More Into Air.

a a ea  Germans In Normandy : Strangling For Want OF Sunplies---Rrereton

GERMAN GUNS POUND ALLIES BELOW ROME   ANZIO BEACHHEAD FIGHTING SLOWS UP FOR RAINS

ANZIO SECTOR   German Artillery Blazes Away at Whole Area Held by Allies

Nazi Artillery Sprays Allies On Beachhead   Fierce Barrage Shot At Installations and Troops; Yank Fliers Wreck Three Airfield

Nazi Ariillery Opens Up Fierce Atfack on Allies   Troops and Installations a Anzio Beachhead Are Heavily Shelled

Nazi Artillery Roars Into Action on Anzio Beachhead   Air Aleris Are Sounded in Region as Enemy Ajircratt Participates in Battle Accinst the Allied Forces

German Artillery. Opens Up Barrage On Anzio Heights  Allied Troops Spraved   Allied Troops Sprayed By One of Heaviest _ Enemy Shellinas

NAZI ARTILLERY RAKES BEACHHEAD SOUTH OF ROME   Allied Troops Throughout Anzio Area Undergo One of Heaviest Bombardments Since Landing. .   GERMAN AIR FORCE RESUMES ACTIVITY   Ground Operations Restricted by Rain and Mud—Americans Bomb Airfields Near Capital.

“SNK SIX SUBS   Five Sloops Score Greates Single-Patrol Action Of War in 20 Days

VICTORY {5 SCORED BY BRITISH SLOOPS   Six German .U-Boats Are Sunk Within 20 Davs

British Sloops Sink Six Nazi Subs Within 20 Days   War's Greatest Single-Patrol Victory Scored, Admiralty Declares; Crewmen Of 6th Victim Captured; Sloop Lost

British Sloops Make Big Haul   Five Patrol Boats Sink Six Nazi U-Boats in Twenty Days.

6 NAZI SUBS DESTROYED BY NAVAL SLOOPS   Of British, To Score War’s Greatest Single-Patrol Victory Over U-Boats; Only One Craft Lost.   Stalking Conveys

AMERICANS DANCE FOR POLIO FUNDS   Roosevelt Birthdoy Affairs Slanted far Tonicht

Some Stories of Dionne Quints  Being Debunked   Five Little Sisters Not Backward; Happy Normal Children

Speaking of the Quints.  Writer Thinks It Time to Debunk Some Stories Told A  out Tham,

Dionne Quints Celebrate 10th Birthday Next Sunday   Living In $50,000 Home With The Rest Of their Family, They Enjoy A $30,000 Yearly Income

Dionne Quints Not Prodigies Nor Backward   Writer Debunks Tales as Famous Five Near Tenth Birthday

HERE IS THE TRUTH Debunking Some Stories About Dionne Quintuplets   They Have English Lessons Every Day; Earning Power Has Not Diminished

Debunks Fables About the Dionnes As Canada’s Quints End First Decade

Lightning Drive By Russian Army Takes 40 Towns   Sensational Gains Stir New Rumanian Peace Overtures

Germans Evacuate Big Base of Vinnitsa in the Ukraine.   10 TOWNS TAREN IN OLD RUMANIA  Rumania May Try This Week to Get Herself  Out of the War. :

NAZIS ADMIT FALL OF VINNITSA; KEY TO GERMAN FLANK   Fantastic Drive Rolls Onward Into Rumania, As Peace Rumors Fly.

Russians Used Famous Squeeze Play To Force Germans From Strong: hold.

Reds Use Famous Squeeze Play To Force Germans Qut Of Defense Bastion   Nearing Prut River

Great Britain Awaits U. S. Move   RECOGNITION. OF FREE FRENCH HELD UP } BY FDR

Allied Stand On Recognition Of French  Groun Awaits Great Britain’s Reaction

U.S. Opposed To  French Nationals As Sole Authority   Government Awaits British Reaction; President Reaches Decision.

Stron gly Opposes Recognizing  DeGaulle As Sule French Leadei   Final Determination Of Allied Policy Waits On Brilish Reaction To U.S. View

U.S. Opposes. : Recognizing  FrenchGrouy   Final Determination of Al  lied Policy Regarding   National Committee Awaits British

Compromise’ Considered   British, UL Ss. Differ Over reneh Poliey

New Blows Finish Off Tirpitz   Second Attack Of Carrier Planes Is Victory Equal To Scharnhorst Sinking

PROMISE NEW BLOWS FOR JAPANESE   Rabaul, Kavieng, Nerve Centers For 100,000 Troops “Next On Our List” Says Rear Admiral Carney.   Well Entrenched

The 35th Is Cited    Commended for ‘Action In Normandy; Former K. N. G: Men in Outfit

Cheadle Takes Justice Post In Close Race   Casey Renamed Rail Commissioner; Ford Increases His Lead

All Contests in State Decided   Casey and Cheadle  Win Their Races

Red, Naz Pressure Grows   RUSSIAN ADVANCES IN ESTONIA TO GIVE BASES FOR ATTACK

Danish Patriots Fight Germans In Copenhagen   Rebellion Flares; Nazi Machine Guns Turned on Crowds

DISCHARGE PAY NEARS DECISION   House Moves Closer t  Showdown on Bill

CLUB MEETING NEXT MONDAY   Mrs. Houghton Speaker at Lutheran Church Luncheon.

Soviets Slash  For Riga Gulf  To Form Trap   Estonian, Latvian Drives Threaten To Seal. Fate ©  mrt oOnn Oh RK...

Russians Crash Seven Miles tn East Prussia   Powerlul Offensive Js Launched by Third White Russian Army Under Gen. Ivan Cherniakhoveky

Jew Leads Red Troops Into Reich   Great Sw eeps Made By Soviets in-Poland, Latvia and-fithuania.

Capture Town Seven Miles Inside ‘Territory Taken From Poles; Baltic Army Races Across Latvia

Overrunning 300 Towns and Villages in 15-Mile Gains on 68-Mile Front: Push in Lativa.   Take 1,144 Towns

Soviets drive thru Suwalki triangle area  300 towns freed by long advance

PARIS STORY, ISTERMED PREMATURE   Report Street Fighting As Still Going On

Call For Help From Allied Armjes Which Began Moving On City Yesterday After Nazis Repndiate Pledee Of Truce   GERMANS RESUME FIGHT FOR PARIS

Patriots Cry Out For Aid   Germans Change Mind After Brict Truce Is Granted

NAZIS. VIOLATE VOW; PATRIOT CALL FOR HELE   Resumption of Fighting Dims Premature News of Liberation.

PATRIOTS TRICKED BY NAZIS   Patton’s Tanks Push In 130 Miles Of  German Border

Capture of Paris Called Premature   Bordeaux Captured as Allied Land, Sea and Air Forces Complete Toulon Circle

Nazis Trick With Appeal To Koenig   lighting French Make Urgent Call To Allied Troops

FIGHTING IS RESUMED IN PARIS   French Appeal to Yanks For Aid As Nazi Trick Revealed

Germans Still Resisting in Paris  As Patriots Call for Yank Help

FLASH URGENT CALL FOR AID TO ALLIED ARMIES   Street Battles With Patriots Flare Anews Call Is Weeded

Yanks Seize Seine Port, Approach Le Havre, Troyes   Breekthru To Elbeuf Brings Battle Of  Seine To Climax

FRENCH, NAZIS ARE BATTLING INSIDE PARIS   Street Fighting Flares  Up After Germans - Trick Patriots on  Armistice.

Patriots Tricked By Nazi Appeal For Armistice   Urgent Call For Help To American, French Regulars Sent Forth

CONGRESS HAS KEY TO PRICE OF FOOD   Administration Seeks Favorable Attitude on Sub eindiae

New Congress To Be More Friendly To Food Subsidies   WFA Seeks Ways To Make Good On  Promise To Farmers.

Superforts Take   New Congress Holds Key To ~ Reduced Prices Food Items

Congress Key  For Price Cut   Lay Groundwork For More Favorable Attitude To Farm, Food Subsidies.

Chinese Still Holding As Fierce Battles Rage On Outskirts Of Changsha

SOLDIER Now CITIZEN   Boy May Die Before Christmas,  Cards, Presents, Trees Pour In

Nubbins Hoffman To Celebrate Ilis Christmas Earl  Sunday Will Be Holiday For Him;

TLER ATTAURING  AS AIS WOOED   REDS PUSHING TOWARD PLOEST AND BUCHAREST

Romania’s Capital Under Nazi Attack   Uitler Struggles To Fend Off Balkan Disaster

BLAZING OIL HURLED UPON GERMAN GUNS   American Troops Cut Deeper Into Nazi Siegfried Line Toward Cologne.   BULLETIN   Hit New Defenses.

Foothold Atop Key Metz Outpost Seized By Yanks   Enemy Resistance  Appears Weakening, Says UP Writer

Foothold Seized at Fort Driant  for Metz Push   Capture Expected to Speed Fall of Metz, Opening Gates to Saar; Americans Lunge Against Strongpoints in Rhineland Drive

Sherman Tanks Charge Into Front Lines   Prod German Defense Beyond Sieafried

Tank Riding Infantry Crashes German Lines Above Aachen, Fan Out Into Open Country

CRASH THROUGH ENEMY LINES ABOVE AACHEN   Metz Fortress Still Untaken

Americans React Rhone North Of Marseille   Mystery Surrounds Column Reported In Grenoble Region

A TEST OF SENTIMENT   Langer and Murray Sa ha vd Will Demand Vote on MVA Soon

Dewev is Given  95.000 Margin   Wilson’s Lead Is Boosted to 13.517 In Complete Count

Allies Set for Headlong Drive IntoRhur =‘   Northern End of Siegfried Line Is Threatened

British Shoot ~ Across Holland In New Thrust   Airborne Troops Holding Gateway To Ruhr Valley

ALLIES SPEED ACROSS SOUTH NETHERLANDS   Heavy Fighting Rages On Southern Sectors Of Front

Allies Race — To Outflank. German Line  In Holland ©   -Air-Borne Forces . Doggedly Hold Open Gateway to Valley)”  Ase British: Annroath   GERMANS AT BAY —ALONG WHOLE FRONT]

TROOPS MAKE 37-MILE GAIN IN NETHERLANDS IN EFFORT TO ROLL UP SIEGFRIED LINE

TURKEY DAY TO BE AT OLD DATE   Congress Decides To Keep Hands Off Of Holiday This Year At Least

Chinese Repulse New Jap Altacks  Nips Again Charged With Using Gas

Chinese Repulse New Jap Thrusts   Air Leader Predicts Invaders’ Withdrawal

WHAT OUR BOYS oa A RE DOING TO “WIN THE WAR  2 se fet ee hee hls hoe Es fe ee

U. S., Britain Recognize Italy,  Raise Nation to France’s Status

ACE TO OBTAIN. ~ SCOTCH: WHISK)   RICKENBACKER HAS TWO OF. FERS OF SCARCE LIQUOR: -1O PAY HIS DEBT,

Attack Aimed At Paris, Swede Says   Stockholm Dispatches Report Allies Land at Twelve Different Points.

Says Invasion Day Ahead Of Schedule Plan   Germans In France Seem Definitely On Toboggan Says Acting Secretary Of War

SENATE MILITARY COMMITTEE TO PROBE BACKGROUND TWO  TWO MEN NAMED ON SURPLUS WAR PROPERTY BOARD BE INVESTIGATED

CAR OWNERS: MIST We      Marly Haye N eglected To ‘Get Them, - Says Birmingham — .

. G. Wodehouse Angrily Denies Pro-Nazi Sympathies; But He May Be Tried Upon Charges of Collaboratio1

Air Offensive Hits New Peak   Paris Area, South France, Attacked

THREE - WAY \ AIR BLOWS  HIT GERMANS   Armadas from Italy and Britain Blast France, Joined by Russian Raids o’er E. Prussia.   Launching Sites

THREE - WAY AIR BLOWS HIT GERMANS   Soviet Attacks Into East Prussia Opens New Aer ial Raids On Reich

THREE-WAY AERIAL ~ BLOWS: HIT NAZIS   Heavy Blows Struck From Britain, Italy and Russia —

WAY AIR BLOWS STRIKE AT NAZIS   Air Offensive Reaches Peak As Yank Bombers Strike From Britain, Italy; Russians Attack Prussia

THREE-WAY AERIAL ~ BLOWS HIT NAZIS      Heavy Blows Struck From Britain, Italy and - Ruceig

Town Building at Crawfordsville   Community Raising Funds to Secure Structure to House New Fire Truck

New Retail Price System Prepared   Bowles Says Plan Will Be Better

Dewey Will Be Nominee, Sen. Wheele:   Thinks President Roosevelt Is Sick Man and Will Not Run

Sen. Wheeler Says Dewey Will Be Next President  Montanan Thinks Ill Health to Keep FDR Cut of Contest

AMERICAN ACE IS DECORATED   Allied Chief Rewards Pilots For Shooting Down 30 Nazis

SLATE HUNTED BY DEMOCRATS   Move On Foot To Draft Prentiss Brown To Run For Governer

shh 4M SEARO AN fiVaoe LUN tO rage lwo  FATHER “AND SON “REUNITED : AFTER 14-YEAR SEPARATION; FORMER WIFE WON’T SEE HIM

 Person Per Bomb is Killed   “Churchill Makes Long Awaited Talk to Commons

ROBOT BOMBS KILL AVERAGE OF 100 DAILY    Figures Released By Churchill  Show 2,752 Dead In { Three Weeks

2752 Killed, 8000 Injured in \London by Robot Bombs in 3 Weeks, Churchill Reports

REPORT PLENTY (OF OIL IN U.S.   PEW SAYS NATION HAS SUPPLY FOR MANY GENERATIONS

There’s Oil Enough, Says Committee   RESERVES DEPLETED ONLY 18,641,000 BARRELS IN 1943

HEAVY BOMBERS ONCE MORE HIT INVASION COAST   No Nazi Fighter Oppositiox Encountered; Flak Reported Heavy   GERMANS CONSERVING FIGHTER STRENGTH

Heavies Pound Invasion Coast   Liberators Strike Nazis Alone Catate Sliaec

Liberators Smas! French Targets  No Enemy Fighter  Opposition Met

Liberators Hit At Nazi Rocket — Gun Territor   No Fighter Opposition Encountered by U.S._ Bombing Forces -

Yanks Follow Brifish Raids On Continent   Round-The-Clock Bombing Under Way As Weather Clears

Nye Retains Slight Lead   Stambaugh Chances Rest on Soldier Vote

Absentee Vote May Decide Race   Nye Holds Shim Lead in North Dakota

ALLIES HOLD EDGE IN INDIA AND INBURMA   SETBACKS SUFFERED BY CHINESE ON HOME FRONT

SAIPAN INVADERS ~ SEIZE AIRDROM’   Chinese Meet Reverses On Thei Home Front; Sea-Bees Working on Aslito Airdrome

Victory Garden On Harvard Campus   Groundkeepers Re-Seed Get Crop of Radishes

Army Tires For ‘A’ Card Holder:   lires Rejected for Militar Use Will Be Sold to Civiliaus

MISS BUNIES WEDS LIEUT. G. MORFITI      To Make Home in Texas Where Groom Is Army "Test Pilot

aaah iiiatiaateteiniinianeiiai i Taal  MISS BUNIES WEBS LIEWT. 6. MORFITT      To Make Home in Texas Where Groom Is Army Test Pilot

TWO KANSANS LISTED   Navy Announces 718 Men Missing - jn Ammunition Explosion

EXPLOSION DEATH TOLL REACRES 322   Special Court of Inquiry wil Meet to Consider Mishap.

PRESIDENT (5 IN SECLUSION AT —(INKNOWN PLAGE   jl Not I But Physician Or   ders Him to Take a Baet

FOUR WOMEN PERISH IN FORT SMITH FIRE   Flames Sweep Plant of the Wort: Biscult “Company Following an Explosion. :

ISLAND BATTLE RATIO 15 (I  Americans Killed on Peleliu and Anguar Totals 1,022; Japs Lose 11,043.

OPEN WAY FOR MVA   Senate Rejects Propo Proposed Advisory - Commission

Solons Reject - River Project  ~ Commission   Defeat Is Triumph For Missouri Valley Authority Advocates

HINT FOES HAN IN TRAM WALKOUT   Enemy Agent Activity Fear. ed at Sudden Stoppage in Philadelnhia

War Work Hit As Trolleys. Buses Halted   Enemy Agents Blamed For Tieup of Entire Philadelphia System

ISSUES CALL TO ALL YUGOSLAVS   Tito Aske Men, Officers To Join Partisan Forces Now

sneer leader  Calls for Men  Urges Officers Aid In-Guerrilla Battle

New, High-Frequency Radios Are Being Installed in Military, Civilian Planes

Sedalian Downs  Jap Plane   Ens. Richard Werts, Member of Squadron Taking Part in Raids at Formosa

Missing Planes Sought in State   Transport and Trainer Craft Are Lost

Allied Bombers Blast German T areels In Day  Heavy Damage Is Done To  Factories

KELLY HERE TOMORROW   Rally At B. H. Armory To Highlight Berrien G.O.P. Drive

RABAUL SUBJECTED TO HEAVY ASSAULT   39 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Base; Australians Continue Advance In New Guinea

150 Warplanes Blast Japs af Rabaul Base   Down Seven Enemy Aircraft to Loss Of Four by Allies

150 Allied Planes Blast Rabaul Base   Aussies Continue Advance Toward  Saidor Forces

RABAUL IS RAIDED BY ALLIED FLIERS   Hard Blow Hit at Enemy Base in New Britain

FARMERS’ CLUB TAKES TOUR OF INSPECTION   Approximately 75 Members Visit Warden Farm and Fordhook Farm  HEAR FINE SPEAKERS

FARM CLUB IN SOLEBURY MAKES INSPECTION TOUR   Warden and Fordhook Farms Are Visited by the Club   TALK ON HYBRID CORN

Planes Based On Peleliu Join Fight In Philippine Area   Gen. MacArthur Sends Bombers On 3,000 Mile Java Raid

PELELIU-BASED “ALLIED PLANES RAID MINDANAO   Java Also Attacked In 8,000 - Mile Round Trip Flight

JAVA FEELS MIGHT OF AIR FORCE   Amer. Bombers in 3000-Mile . Round: Trip Raid

AIR FIELD ON PELELIU IS NOW IN USE   Planes From This . Field Participating In Palau Campaiqn

INTENSIVE RAIDS ON PHILIPPINES   Newly Conquered Peleliu Used As Base For New Raids

Fighters From Peleliu Field  Join Missions   Planes From Captured Airbase Active In Pacific Raids   JAP POCKETS HOLD

U.S..Planes Use Peleliu Airfields   Australia-Based Bombers Hit Java

Fighters Join Air Campaign In Philippines   Land-Based Planes From Peleliu Attack Mindanao And Raid Java.

Planes From Peleliu Hit Philippines   U. S. Bombers Expand Aerial Orverations To Java Capital

Planes Thrust Out From Bases On Peleliu Isle   Operations Begun From Main Airdrome, Communique Reveals

Peleliu Used as Base for Plane Operations   New Air Blows Are Rained Upon Mindanao

ALLIED AERIAL DRIVE GROWING   Land-Based Fighter Blancs from Nearly-Conyuered = Pclvlia doin Campaign in Philippine ‘Theater.

YANKS USE AIR BASE ON PELELIU   New Bomber Blows Hit  Japs on Mindanao

BIDDLE CALLED TO DEFEND SEIZURE OF WARD PROPERTIES   Inquiry Before Special Congress Committee Warms Up

COMMITTEE ‘ASK BIDDLE ABOUT WARD SEIZURE   Expect. “Warm” Hear ing in: Today's In‘auiryv

Dewey Broadcast  Set.for Monday   2 Networks to Carry Next Major Address

REPORT DELUGE AT SHELDON   3.29 Inches Causes Flooding in Fields

TERRIFIC HOUSTON BLAST   Gasoline Barges and a Tug Are Sunk; Death Reports Conflict

Big Drive Into France Is Near   Nazi Resistance Ends on Cherbourg Peninsula; Artillery Barrage Opens

Allies Point Steamroller Into France   Last Resistance Ceushed on Cape; Giant Push Brews

Artillery Thunders Over Front   Rommel Again Faces Montgomery In Fight For Vital Position.

Rommel Leads Germans   Monty and Old Desert Fox Meet On Battlefield

ANTAGONISTS CLASH AGAIN  Panzer Divisions Mass; Artillery Thunders  NEW LANDINGS  Allied Battleships Are Shelling

7 ee  TOW-BOMBS ARE AGAIN TRIED AS GERMAN AERIAL DEFENSE   ATTEMPT .MADE TO BLAS! FORTRESSES OUT OF SKY DURING LATEST RAID  ON KIEL ‘

Seek Safe Trip  of Repatriates   Argentina Wants Proof of Passage For Nazis

Safe Passage For Diplomats Of Axis Asked   Argentina Indicates Germans Are Going Home

AAR EXPRESSED ON WILSON ACTON   “Urge FDR to Crack Down on Dissidents as Cificial Khesizns

ROOSEVELT IS AGAIN FACING  TURMOIL IN. FEDERAL BUREAUS   RESIGNATION OF WILSON MAY “BE FOLLOWED BY MORE FLARE-UPS IN ADMINIS ’ ‘RATION SETUP - ~

ASK PRESIDENT CHASTISE WPB   Naval Officer Summoned to Take Wilson Post

Govt. Jealousies   Wilson Resignation Brings Suggestion To End Back-Biting

U. S. Fliers Attack Jap Bases Along 4000 Mile Front in 2 Day Offensive

JAP BASES IN WIDE AREA HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS   Strike In Kuriles, Truk And Many Other Vital Points In Pacific

Japs Blasted From Kurile To N. Guines   Allies’ Growing Ai Might Rakes Foe in Pacific

Jap Bases Feel Sting Of Raider:   Americans Strike Within 1,100 Miles Of Tokyc In Continuance Of Offensive In Pacific

U. S. Planes Range Far In Pacific   2-Day Offensive Carries to Within 1,100 Miles of Tokyo Kuriles Bombed

J aps Feel ‘Wank Wrath   Bombess Blanket 4,000 Mile Front With Explosives

U.S. Bombers In 4, 000- Mile Blast at Jans   Attack From Kuriles to New Guinea Only 1,069 Miles From Tokyo

HOME ISLANDS OF JAPS TAKE NEW POUNDING   Widespread Two-Day Air Drive Hits Bases On 4,000-Mile Front

15 More Nippon Ships Are Sunk   Knox Says Situation For Japs Acute

642 VESSELS OF ENEMY ARE HIT TO DATE   Latest Haul: Two Transports, Two Tankers and Eleven Freighters.

NAVY SECRETARY REVEALS  U.S. SUBMARINES. HAVE  , BOOSTED THEIR TO. -~ TAISTO 642 -

U. $. Subs Sink ik More Ships   11 Freighters Are Included in Toll

U.S. SUBS SINK 15 MORE SHIPS IN JAP WATERS   Yank Total Now 642; British “Now Help Cut Enemy Shipping

Bix z Blow To eb saps ship ping      Sink Twelve More Cargo And Supply Ships

15 MORE NIP SHIPS SUNK BY U.S. SUBS   Knex Reveals Bag Now Totals 492 Sunk, 114 Damaged

American Submarines Sink 15 More Japanese Ships In Pacific   Two Transports, Two Tankers and Eleven Freighters.

JAPS HIT HA BY AMERICAN, BRITISH SUBS   22 More Cargo Ships Destroyed  a   SINK JAP CONVOY

Two Transports, Two Tankers, 11 Freighters In Latest Bag; U. S. Subs Have Now Blasted 642 Jap Ships

Millionaire Hasn’t Left His Lonely St. Louis Hotel Room in Six Y ears

Millionaire i in Seclusion Six Years  Never Leaves St. Louis Hotel Room

JAPANESE ‘HURT’ BY ARGENTINA'S BREAK   ‘Friendly Policy’ Cited Toward Neutrals

IMPHAL PLAIN HIGHWAY Is BEING USED   With Evidences. of Still More Withdrawals. of Japanese; Steady Slugging Must Continue.   Badly Mauled

Cherbourg Line Cracking Under Allied Attacks    Forces Encircling Caen, Where Nazis Put Up Bitter Fight

Gen. Bradley’s Flank Within 14 Miles of Cherbourg; Street Fighting Reported

ALLIES GAIN FOOTHOLD ON FRENCH Sil   Germans Unable To Halt Drive In Any Area

BRITISH THREATEN CAEN ENCIRCLEMENT   Invasion Beachhead Regarded As Secure; Montgomery  Conocratulatae Troanne

Allied Air Armada Pounds German Reserves Being Rushed Up From As Far Back As Paris To Meet Mounting Menace.   Germans Fear Blows Elsewhere

Explosive Notice Served on Finns It is Time for  Them to Quit War

RED BOMBERS, RAID HELSINK   Explosive Notice Served o' Finns It is Time for  Them to Quit War

Mother Guilty of Assaultine Baby   Chicago Woman Convicted Of “Socking” Her Child In the Eve

40 Patrolmen Hunt Slayer Near Warsaw   Sheriff Killed in Jail by Shots From His Own Machine Gun

TEMPERATURES:      Army And Navy Journal  Claims Britain, Russia Are Delaying Victory

RAPS BRITISH, RUSSIAN AIMS   Defeat of Germany Sec: ondary Army-Navy Journal Charges

British Casualttes in Italy Hit Total of 73,122   Churchill Says Losses For All of War Have Reached 667,159

BRITISH LOSSES IN ITALY   Casualties From Landing Until Fall of Rome 73,122 

Bulletins   Loridon, Jane 27. (UPI—Berlin (Rerigd said Atied bombers at tacked Budopest “capital of Hungary today.

Casualties of Allies Mount   More Than 70,060 Brilons Are Killed, Wounded and Missing in Campaign in Italy

73,122 British  W ar Casualties   Figures Include Killed. Wounded, Missing Until Fall Of Rome.

BRITISH LOSE 667,159 MEN IN FOUR YEARS  Churchill Tells   Churchill Tells Commons Today  Of Casualties

BRITIOH CASUALTIES IN ITALY 73.422   4 Years of War Show 667,. 159 Dead, Wounded, Missing. Prisoners.

U.S. Atiack OnTruk Cost Japs Heavily   U.S. Navy Sinks 19 Japanese Ships; 210 Planes Hit By Carrier Force   Sank 19 Ships

Japs Themselves Admit, the Loss of 120 Planes and 18 Boats.   AMERICAN MARINES LAND ON NEW ATOLL   Jap Chiefs of Army and Navy Removed From Their Posts.

OHIO FIGHTS SNOW, SLEET   Highways are Ice-Covered; Motorists Advised To Stay At Home

COATING OF ICE COVERS OHIO AS MERCURY RISES   Traffic Virtually Paralyzed When Rain Freezes as It Falls - - Some Snow

Bountiful Harvest Is A Problem   WHEAT PILED ON GROUND IN KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS

WHEAT MOVES SLOW   Millions of Bushels Piled on Ground in Grain States

ELAS READY 70. END FIGHTING.   REPORT GREEK LEFTISTS WILL ASK FOR PEACE

Report Leftists In Greece Will. Conclude Battle   Amnesty Guarantee . Asked; Claim Battle  Over Is Unconfirmed

BRITISH SLOW UP ATHENS FIGHTING   Reported That The EAM Decided To Accept Terms And Evacuate

Peace Rumor Heard As Truce Halts 11-Day Street Battle In Athens; Say British Terms Accepted Conditionally

Polish Leaders  Confer in Russia   Exiled Premier, Rival Group Talk Unity

BAiTIOH GUT PULD CHS MOVE 10) BAN STRIKES   Wave o: Etoppaces in Vital War Flin‘s Viorries Parliament.

Hallanan May Head G.0.P. .   Senior Vice-Chairman Of Executive Committee Seems Choice of All

GOP Takes Up Sole Concrete  Policy Stand   Mackinac ‘Declaration Hailed ‘As Having Influence On. . Moscow Agreements

MORE. ‘THAN. THREE THOUSAN! _ OF THE ENEMY ALREADY ‘KILLED IN WEWAK. ~ AREA

Soviet Forces Only 50 Miles From Border:   Advance Dozen Miles a Day in Some Sectors

Reds Within 55 Miles of E. Prussia   Germans Worried as Enemy Neafs Borders of Their  Homeland

Red Mobile Units Within 55 Mi. Of  German Homeland   Soviets Open 3 Great New Battles In Swift Advance

Germans Braced For Defense of  Their Homeland   Soviet Mobile Forces Slash Into Nazis Lines Below Wilno

REDS 50 ML. FROM EAST PRUSSIA   Germans Prepare For Defense  Of Homeland

Soviet Planes Carry War To East Prussia   Germans Brace For First Defense Of Homeland Against Russian Forces.

Yanks Resume Push Toward St. Lo As Russians Strike Near East Prussia Border   Suff Enemy Resistance Reported Ais Normandy Battle Approaches Climax; Germans Gird For Homeland Defense

NAZIS BRACE FOR DEFENSE OF HOMELAND   Report Panics In Border Area

SOVIET DRIVE CONTINUES IN DIRECTION NAZI HOMELAND FRONT   Highest State Of Alarm Exists In East Prussia; Germans Close

German. Reports Put Advancing Soviets Only 30 Miles From - Kaunas, Capital of Lithuania

NAZIS BRACED FOR DEFENSE OF HOMELAND   Red Armies Surge on Many Sectors as Much as 12 Miles a Day.

APPROACHING EAST PRUSSIA   Soviet Forces Within 50 Miles Of 1939 Frontier

REDS ALREADY BATTLE 25 MILES FROM BORDER   Half-Way From Wilne To Kaunas; Soviets Push 12 Miles A Day

BUT 25 MILES FROM BORDER, GERMANS SAY   Nazis Close Border, Brace For First Defense Of Homeland

Japan’s Fate In Preview   Brilliant Air Tactics Used Over Luzon in Store for Home Isles

Badoglio Reports Nazis Killing Women, Children  Mass Murders Are Reprisal for Assisting Allies

Crack German Tank Division Being Moved Up   Famous U. S. Force In City Proper; Enemy Is Staging Counterblows In Vicinity

German Counterattacks Intended to Relieve City ' Smashed   Escape Gap From City Has Been Narrowed to Half Mile

See Friction by Russians, Poles   Soviet Not Willing to Deal With Polish Government in Exile, Is Reported at Moscow

PARE RETAIL COST ON FISH, SEAFOOL   OPA Orders Reductions By Sunday: Shrimp tnrelided

PRICE CEILINGS ON SEAFOOD ARE REDUCED   Drop Of From One To Three Cenis A Pound In Cost To Hoxse~ ‘wives Announced Br OPA

‘COING MY WAY’ VOTED BEST FILM   Barry Fitzgerald, Leo McCarey, Tallulah Bankhead Cited

Reds Race Unchecked In Rumania   Troops Crack Nazi Lines Before Lwow; Vinnitsa Fall Near

RATE FENAKES TNVABE TOUWK   Final Nazi Stand Against Reds. May Be Made on Oder River Line

Allied Circles, Citing Power And Scope Of Red Drive. Doubt Nazis Can Ston It. -

LOOK FOR REDS TO ENTER GERMANY   LONDONERS PREDICT NAZE STAND ON ODER 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF BERLIN.

YANKS MOP UF NAZI DIEWARDS IN PORT CITY   Terrific Barrage Laid Down As British Launch Second Phase of Invasion

Nazi Losses In Invasion May Total  70,000Men   Toll In Prisoners Alone Is 32,000 British Drive

British Topple Three Towns to  Widen Holdings   Allies Say Nazi Casualties Since D-Day Are Over FO O00   To Funnel Supplies Through Cherbourg

Montgomery’s Forces Only 3 Miles From Stronghold   Meanwhile, Doughboys in Complete Possession of Cherbourg, Surrendered  Early This Morning

Gen. Montgomery Drives Within 3 Miles of City   Germans Have Suffered 70,000 Normandy Casualties

Big Cherbourg Port Captured By U.S. Troops   Nazi Casualties Since D-Day Reported ‘Not Less Than 70,000, Including 32,00 Men  Taken Prisoners,’ Headquarters Says

Salvage Experts Begin Repairing Docks For - - Use Of Allies      Germans Lose Greater Part Of 4 Divisions And Numerous Other Forces As U. 5. Doughboys Seore Smashing Vietoryvy

32,000 Prisoners, As Cherbourg Finally Seized   British Lash Out in Major Drive at Caen As Allies Prepare Big Port for Funneling Troops, Supplies Into France

British Launch Terrific Drive Against Caen  Nazi Casualties Since D-Day Set At 70,000 Men

Temperatures   German General, Admiral Seized; ‘Ammunition, Booty

Montgomery’s Forces On 3 Miles From Strong}        Meanwhile, Doughboys in Complet session of Cherbourg, Surrenc if  Early This Morning

Within 3 Miles Of Caen   Tommies Strike Powerfully On Broad Front; Allies Speed Repairs  . On Cherbourg Harbor

BRITISH DANE AGAINST CAEN   Nazi Garrison Commander And Sea Defense Commander Prisoners.   3 MILES FROM BASTION

Montgomery Attacks as Americans Complete Cherbourg Mop-Up      “NOW A BRIDGEHEAD”   Port and Airfields for Allies; Eight U. S. Divi sions in France

Montys Men In Assault   Follow Terrific Artillery Opener; Engineers Rush In to Put Cherbourg Docks Into Shape

Casualties On Foe Not Less  Than 70.000   Cherbourg Falls To Allies; Caen Is Savagely Defended By Nazis.  ‘MAGNIFICENT JO B?

BRITISH OPE MAJOR DRIVE IN CAEN AREA   Advance to Within Three Miles of Bastion on the Eastern End of Nor mandy Front — Nazis Are Resisting Fiercely.

NAZI CASUALTIES ESTIMATED AT 70,000 INCLUDING 32,000 AS PRISONERS IN CHERBOURG AREA   As Allied Experts Rush in to Make Cherbourg Port Ready for Greater Invasion Landings British Set About to Clean Up Opposition in Caen Sector

Caen ls — Goal of . Attackers   Montgomery Looses Heavy Drive with Announcement of Cherbourg's Fall

BRITISH DRIVE AGAINS) CAEN; 3 MILES OUI   High Nazi Officers, Thousands of Troops, Much Material Captured at Cherbourg.

70,000 Nazi Casualties Estimated   Allied Experts Bushed In Jo Make Cherbourg Invasion — Funnel for Big Pash

Nazis Suffer 70,000 Cas. ualties In Normandy Fighting   392.000 Prisoners Reported Captured   Experts Begin Putting Cherbourg In Shape To Funnel Supplies

Shells, Men Are Seized . After Fight   Experts Preparing  Harbor For Allies

NAZIS LOSE PART OF 4 DIVISIONS IN PORT DEFENSE   SALVAGE EXPERTS RUSH OPERATIONS ON HARBOR REPAIR

Nazi Casualties Sine; D-Day Estimated at 70.000 Men; Port City Yields Much Booty.     SOME NAZI SOLDIERS STILL HOLDING OUT

TYDINGS’ RECORD IS ATTACKED BY JONES   New Dealer Says He Made Grave Mistake In Supporting Senator In The Past

Jones Sorry He Backed Tydings   Hopes To Defeat Maryland Senator

Red-Finnish Peace Talks Hit Snag   However Russian Rejection Note Not Entirelv Negative

Annihilation of 2 Allied Battalions  Claimed by Nazis   Report of Casualties  “In Anzio Beachhead  Is Not Confirmed;  Battle Ternpo Mounts

TAKE POY ASK, BUT 10 MILES FROM BORDER   Germans’ Whole Line From Korosten To Berdichev Appears Crumbling

SAY MONETARY CONFAB DATE NOW DECIDED   Meeting to Consider ~ Stabilizing World .  Binances

Nazi Dead Are Piled Up Like Cordwood   Enemy’s Plans Are Said Dislocated

Nazi Casualties On, Beachhead Set at 24,000   Bodies Are Piled Up Like Cordwood as Pressure Eases Off

IN ANZIO AREA TOTAL 24,000   Bodies of Foes ‘‘Piled Up Like Cordwood” On Beaches

NAZI LOSSES IN ANZIO AREA TOTAL 24,000   Bodies of Foes “‘Piled Up Like Cordwood" On Beaches

24.000 NAZI CASUALTIES ON BEACHHEAD   Creating Serious Dislocation Of Plans For Opposing Allied Invasion From Great Rritain.   Bad Weather

German Casualties Mounting At Anzic  Say 24,000 Nazis Killec At Beachhead

Nazis Piled Up On Anzio Lines   Bodies Stacked Up. “Likee Cord Wood"

GERMANS LITTER ANZIO BEACHHEAD   Bodies of Nazi Dead Piled up Like Cordwood   HEAVY CASUALTIES   Crack Nazi Divisions, Slated For Action on Invasion Coast, Pinned Down

Anzio battle detains crack defense corps   Invasion lines are weakened

Heavy German Casualties _  Reported In Anzio Fighting   Bodies of Soldiers “Piled Up Like Cordwood” on the Beachhead—Crack Divisions Have Suffered Big Losses, Communique Says

EBBING OIL SUPPLY “OF NAZIS BLASTED   More Than 1,500 Heavy Bombers Take Part in Raid

OIL SUPPLY TARGET FOR PLANE RAIDS   Luena Synthetic Oil Plant At Merseburg Blasted By British Based Fort wrHoccvncd   Railway Junction

BOMBS CASCADE ON OIL CENTERS   Hitler's Ebbing Supply Given Another Blow By U.S. Planes

¥¥Y¥PTONION METER TuWhT   YUGOSI.AV ROYALISTS DEMAND 'TERRITORWT. EXPANSION AFTER WAR

Patton s Army in Advance   Thrust Across Saar Will Sink Knife Into Industrial Districts

Patton Troops Charge Forward Up to 4 Miles   In Acstillery Range of Saar Beistions

Bastions Of Saar In Range   Resistance in Saarlautern Is Being Mopped Up

SAARLAUTERN CLEARED OF NAZI TROOPS   Germans Recognize Growing Menace for Rich Saar Arsenal, Strike Counterattacks

PATTON SWINGS ARMY AGAINST VITAL RIVER   First Army in Julich Mop-Up

NNER CIRCLE? ” PASSING WORD   DEMOCRATIC. LEADERS. TOLD ROOSEVELT KAS DECIDED  YO RUN-~SPLITON  JRUNNING-MATE,

“INNER CIRCLE” SAYS. ROOSEVELT WILL BE CAKDIDAT   Vice Presidency Nomination Causes Considerable Talk

Reds ‘Seek To Trap  Germans 250,000 Nazis in   250,000 Nazis in Bulge Below Leningrad Face Disaster

British Widen Wedge "To Trap Nazis in Holland   Yanks Lose Toehold in Fortress Before Metz but Burst Through Six-Mile-Wide Forest Toward Cologne 

200,000 Nazis Being Cut Off In New Action   American Troops Fail to Hold to Latest Positions

Hopes for Early Victory Shattered With Loss of ‘Vital Arnhem Bridgehead

.oss Of Arnhem Dispels Hopes Of Guick Victory; U.S. Third Army Thrown Out Of HardWon Position Near Metz; First Army Lunges Through Powerful Defenses.

Allies Launch Drive To Smash 200,000 Huns In Netherlands   Nazis Push Yanks Back in Metz Drive; First Army Battles To Open Road To Cologne

German Threat To Corridor !s Now Eliminated   Loss of Arnhem Bridgehead Delays Knockout Drive

HOPES OF QUICK WIN DISPELLED   Third Army Is Thrown Back In Furious  Fight At Metz

Nijmegen Salient Is Widened Into Offensive Wedge   Americans Smash Out From Aachen But Are Driven Back In Metz Area

Offensive Wedge Menaces 200,000 Germans; Third Army Forced To Retreat

Drive Within 25 Miles Of Cutting Off Possibly 200,000 Germans In Western Holland — Nazis Throw Third Army Americans Out Of Toehold Near Metz — 2,000 Survivors Of Ill-Fated Arnhem Expedition Trickle Back To Allied Lines

Fight To Hem In 200,000 German Troops   Third Army Pushed Back Near Metz In Stiff Engagement

Assault Setup Seen Enclosing 200,000 Nazi   Yanhs Push Into Forest _._In._Move._To, Tear Open  Blocked Cologne Road

Alines Push Wider Nijmegen Wedge; May Trap Germans   Germans Fighting Desperately Drive Forces of American Third Army Out Of Entrance to Fort of Driant

2,000 BRITISE SKY TROOPS RESCUED   Nijmegen Lifeline Widened Into Offensive Wedge   AMERICANS   Thrown Back From Position Near Metz; Other Units Gain In Aachen Area

200,000 NAZIS WALLED OFF IN NUMECEN AREA   Allied Attack Is Increasing In Force Today

‘ALLIES EXTEND LINES PUSHING INTO HOLLAND      Nazis Battle With Frenzied Desperation On All  Fronts

LOSS OF BRIDGHEAD ACROSS RHINE AT ARNHEM DISPELLS HOPES OF A QUICK VICTORY   American Third Army is Thrown Out of Toe-Hold at Entrance of Fort of Driant Guarding Approaches to Metz on Moselle   CANADIANS ATTACK THROUGH CANAL LINES

ALLIES WIDEN WEDGE ACROSS LOW COUNTRY   Loss of Arnhem Bridgehead Dispels Hopes for Early Victory, Churchill Tells Commons.

Allied Defeat  At Arnhem Bars Early Vietory   German Force About Sealed Off As Allies Widen Nijmegen Lifeline lists  Offensive Wedge   U.S. Army Thrown Back In Metz Area   Meanwhile Yanks Burst Through Hurtgen Forest In Effort to Open Door Into Cologne

Foe Fights Everywhere With Skill   Hopes Fade for Quick Victory First Army Makes Gain

200,000 Nazis In Trap In Western Holland As Allies Menace Cologne   Bitter Gun Duel Indicates Possible New Allied Attack On Metz; U.S. First Army Bursts Through Hurtgen Forest In Effort To Open Way To Rhine  Rv JAMES M. LONG

Reams Appointed Welfare Director   Is First Aide Named By Governor-elect

Japs Ring Kweilin   Inte Suburbs On Three Sides; Another Column Drives Toward Liuchow

JAPS PENETRATE OUTER KWEILIN   CHINESE COMMAND REPORTS FIGHTING IN CITY'S SUBURBS

Economy Of Nazis May  Crack Scon?   Japs Can Still Expesdl  Economic Estimate

German Home Front Trails   Can’t Match Growing Allied Production; Japs Strong

Nazi Economy  Hard Pressed   (Japan Reported Prepared "To Expand Preduetion

Cannot Expand Nazi Keonomy       Survey Shows _ _ Increasing Strength. PFessure United Nations, :

Japanese May Boost Output .   Shipping. Shortage . May Handicap Getting Captured Goods

Rennebohm To be His Running Mate In Fall   Senator Wiley Polls More Votes Than His Three Foes Combined. Dan Hoan Victor

GOODLAND WINS EASY VICTOR   Oscar Rennebohm, Madison To Be Lieutenant Gavernor Candidate. <

Vaudreuil Is Leading A. O. Benz   Oscar Rennebohm Chosen By Republicans To Run For Office Of Lieutenant Governor

OUVEANMENT BY ° DEGREE SCORED   Gov. Bricker Says President Has Declared Existence of ‘National Emergency’ 59 Times to Uphold Acts

Deen co aie one ae ee eS  Bricker Assails ‘Crisis’ Government   Reminds ‘National Emergency’ Declared 59° Times to Back Actions

Nazis’ Flank In Normandy Endangered   Germans in Middle ol “Squeeze Play” By Allied Forces

Chain Of Normandy Towns Is Captured   . « Yankees Gain Steadily On A Seven-Mile From

Hit In Typical Montgomery’s Smiting Style   Plunge Eastward From Odon Bridgehead Behind Embattled Germans,   AMERICANS ADVANCE

British 2nd Army Fights Ceaselessly Below Caen      Americans Making _ Steady Progress In Fighting

Americans Take La Haye, Open Smash Along Center   British Establish New Bridgehead Across Orne While Advancing Yanks Capture Sainteny

PUT SQUEEZE ON GERMANS IN NORMANDY   British Close Door on Captured Caen, Taking Addi tional Towns.   Yankees Smash Ahead » Scven-Mile Front

Enelish Seize Hill, Three Towns East Of Captured Caen   Americans Advance on Seven Mile Front in St. Jean Sector, Take Sainteny

BRITISH THRUST 4 MILES FROM CAPTURED CAEN   Yanks Score Two-Mile Advance in Push On Vive River

CHAIN OF TOWNS IS CAPTURED   American Forces Gain In La Haye Sector; Caen Is Taken

ADVANCE WITHIN  LESS THAN MILE  OF RIVER ORNE AMERICAN FORCES  OCCUPY LA HAYE AND DRIVE AHEAD

Germans Again Fail To Stop Assault Led by Britain’s Famous General Montcomervy.   PROGRESS ALSO IS MADE BY AMERICANS

Strike Below Captured Caen; Yanks Advance From La Haye   Monty Seeks to Push Foe From Artillery Range of Port

PUSH AHEAD IN ATTACKS FROM CAPTURED CAEN   Strongpoints Guarding Germans’ Imperiled Flank Are Seized

IGEN, MONTGOMERY'S ‘TROOPS STRIKE HARD BLOW EAST OF CAEN  AMERICANS MAKE PROG.  RESS IN DRIVE AT WEST:

Nazi Strong Points Captured In Push to Cut Off Enemy; Yanks Gain in Bitter Battle

Forces Move on After Capture of Caen, LaHaye   British Seize Chain Of Strong Points — On Enemy’s Flank; Yanks in Saintenyv

CAPTURE CHAR OF NORMANDY VILLAGES   Last-Ditch Stand Of Nazis Threatened By Squeeze   AMERICANS SMASH   German Lines From Vire River Bridgehead To Depth Of One Mile

Yanks Pushing Southward Below La Haye   Tommies Now Attempting To Put Caer Docks Out Of Reach Of Artillery Fire

Driving On From Caen, Montgomery Units Widen Gains   Three German Strongpoints Grabbed by Hard-Hitting Troops; Americans Smash Into Nazi Lines From Vire_ River, Scoring New Advances.

CAEN VICTORY FOLLOWED UP BY MONTGOMERY   American Smash Into German Lines From Vire River Progresses.

‘Monty’ Applies _ Squeeze Near Fallen Cae   Chain of Towns on ' Flank Take in Drive to . Clear Threat to Port   BRADLEY’S FORCES POUND AT CENTE!   Germans Suffer ‘Severe Re verse,’ But. No Major De-feat in-Field So Far: -

‘CHAIN OF TOWNS CAPTURED AND MANY GERMANS TRAPPED OVER ORNE RIVER IN CAEN SUBURBS   British and Americans Widening Their Hold on French Soil As Stream of Allied Materials and Reinforcements Begin Pouring in from Britain

Seize Chain of Towns and Strong Points Guarding  Nazi Flank   “AMERICANS IN GAINS   Germans Lose Ground in East and Center of Nor ‘mandy Line

Seize Chain Of French ‘Villages   Montgomery’s Aim To Break Through Nazi  Lines Into Open Coun. trv: Yanks Gain Mile

La Haye Falls lo Americans In Fast Advance   Caen Captured, Normandy Towns Taken By Allies

Montgomery Is «* Sweeping Around German Flank   Americans Move Southward Mile On Central Front

Bridgehead Forces Also Push Forward; Americans Opening Exit From Peninsula ©

British Take Towns On Nazi Flank   Yanks Make Steady Progress On Seven  Mile Front

First British Dash Sweeps Up Villages   Montgomery Lashes Out From Captured Caen—Eisenhow er Warns of Bitter Fichtine Ahead

Enemy - Lines Are Cracked By Advances At La Haye.   . Fire of A rtillery “Being Maintained:

Enemy Forces Are Facing Allied Trap   U. S. Troops Advance Along Seven-Mile Front in Stiff Fight

British Army Making Gains  In Caen Area   American Forces Capture Sainteny; Germans Faced With Squeeze Offensive

New Blows Struck At Nazis’Flank In Fall Of Key Bases   American Units Also Make Good Progress After Taking La Haye Du Puits; Germans Suffer Heavy Reverse in Losing Important Inland Port To British

STRIKE NAZI FLANK; NEAR ORNE RIVER   Tommies Take Chain of Towns and Strong Points in Move to Block  Enemy Still in Suburbs af Inland Paywit..- >.

Chain Of Towns Taken By Monty In Stiff Fight   Artillery Giving U. S. Troops Support In New Gains; German Force Badly Mauled

Maltot, Bretteville Taken By British; Yanks In Sainteny   ‘Long And Bitter F ighting Before Final Victory” Is Prediction Of Gen. Eisenhower In Broadeast

New Offensive By Montgomery Sweeps Forward      Strikes At Germans Hurled From Caen; ‘Americans Make Steady Gains In Center

BRITISH FORCES CIRCLING CITY TO SET BIG TRAP   Yanks Smash Into Center of German Defense Line—Port To Be Open To Allies Soon

More lowns Captured In New Attack   American Troops Seore Gains is Mud and Rain

NAZI DEFENSES IMPERILED BY RAPID ADVANCE   Yanks Capture Sainteny;' Push From La Haye Gains Ground

BRUSSELS RADIO REPORTS BROTHER OF LEOPOLD WAS NAMED AS BELGIAN REGEN

Detroit Child Recovered Unharmed; Negro Woman Arrested as Kidnaper

DETROIT BABY IS RECOVERED   Ciues Still Lacking To Missing Dayton Child

MISSING KING BABY RECOVERED IN HOME OF DETROIT NEGRESS   Woman Says Child Hers Although Parents Identify Him

Police Recover ‘Missing Baby   Negro Nursemaid Held By Detroit Officials

DEFENSES OF TOULON ARE CRUMBLING   Yanks Reach Swiss Border Today _From_Grenoble —__

TWO AXIS PRIZES FALLIN SOUTHERN FRANCE URIVE   American Units Reach Swiss Frontier This Morning   ALL-NIGHT DRIVE FROM GRENOBLE   Armored Spearheads Swept 30 Miles Beyond Marseille

Southern France _ Is Cut Off, Claim   Bordeaux Reported Captured By Allied And  French Forces; Toulon’s Fall Imminent

Last Defenses Of Toulon Collapse  ia. Ff were ses eS   **¢*  OCCUPATION OF NAVAL BASE NEARLY COMPLETED; YANKS 30 MILES PAST MARSEILLE

Yanks Seal Nazi Escape Path to Italy   Lightning Advance Made From Grenoble to Swiss Frontier

Americans Sweep Past Marseille To Capture Salon In Rhone Delta >   Bordeaux Reported Liberated By Allied And Partisan Troops; Russia Reports Landing

ARMED COLUMNS IN ADVANCE TO SWISS FRONTIER   Last Defenses Of Toulon Are Broken Down By Big Assault

SOUTH FRANCE POCKET CLOSES UPON GERMANS   Last Enemy Defenses of Encircled Naval Base of Toulon Broken.

Americans Reach Swiss Frontier Close Mountain Escape Routes  Into North Italy Eor Tranned Naris

REPORT YANKS AT SWISS LINE IN NIGHT MARCH   Passes Into Italy Closed

Paris Liberated: French Patriots Hunt Down Nazis   Americans Knife 23 Miles Thru Germans in Seine River Pocket   ese FOO lM aS SSS eS  Toulon’s Fall Near: Marseille Taken

Last Defenses In  Naval Base of  Toulon Shattered   Official Confirmation of New Thrust Awaited: March From Grenobles

Allies Crush Foe in Toulon   Americans to West Reach Rhone Valley

French Tanks And Armored Cars Race Through Paris  REMAINING NAZIS TRYING TO ESCAPE  American 3rd Army Pounding Into The Outskirts Of Troyes °

YANK THRUST REACHES SWISS BORDER   Another Group Has Completely Encircled Toulon

Troyes Thrust Cuts Last Exit To Reich   Seal Alpine Passes, Occupy Toulon, and Smash Le Havre Evacuation ‘Try

U.S. TANKS REPORTED IN ADVANCE 68 MILES 10 SWISS BORDER   ALLIED FORCES CRUSH GERMAN TOULON DEFENSES, FRENCH HERD NAZI GARRISON INTO PORT AREA

Advance Seals Franco-lItalian Alpine Passes   Mechanized Columns Pass Grenoble: Last Nazi Defenses Broken In Toulon

Report Yanks Advance to Swiss Border   68-Mile Gain From Grenoble Seals Escape

OF TOULON ARE BEING. BLASTED   ‘Armored Forces Sweep Be. yond Marseille. Some Reported At Swiss Border

Toulon’s Fortifications Breached and Occupation  Of Port is Imminent

Eastern Front Battle Flames   Great Struggle Begun That May Liberate Warsaw, Take War into East Prussia

Nazis Dying But No Longer For Fuehrer   Name Not Mentioned In Obituaries; Drop Pagan Gods, Too

REICH WARNED MORE TERRIFIC BOMBINGS DUE   Premier Says America Must Send Bulk of Troops lf War Prolonged

Churchill Tells ‘Of Air Destruction   U. S. May Furnish Large Share of Manpower

U.S. Guam Forces Push Japs Back Two More Miles   New Suicidal Enemy Attacks in New Guinea Reported Crushed

‘Siflwell's Forces Take Myitkyina, Largest Town In North Burma, From Jap:

GOP Policy Aids Track Plans Here   Home Rule Trends Emphasized in State Legislative Caucus

Mystery Cloaking Loss of Submarine   Either Went Down in Action or Destroyed and Crew Taken By Japs

MYSTERY HIDES FATE OF SUB   U. S. S. Flier Lost In Re. cent Action; U-Boats Sink 29 Jap Ships

‘Woman Fate lly Beatén With Ax By Stepf athe1   James Riley Gillman, 46.  Admits Marder: Tells’  . Bizarre Story They Were Sweethearts

War Fund-Community Chest Goes Over Top By $24,782   Final Reports Show Total of $148,082 Contributed— Victory Meeting Held in Franklin Cae’ Awd batnicn

War Fund-Community Chest Goes Over Top By $24,782   Final Reports Show Total of $148,082 Contributed— Victory Meeting Held in Promiktin  faust Aurditarium

Little Guys'll Talk Tuesday   He’s Been on Receiving  End of Millions of WordsHe’ll Do His With Vote

AMERICANS SIX NEW ISLANDS   Pacific Atoll Only 85 Miles From Important Enemy Air Base

Assault Forces Take Six Islands In Ulithi Atoll; News Kept Secret From Japs

New Landings In Pacitic By U.S,  Forces Revealed   Continued Attacks On Jap Installations In Philip pines Also Disclosed

U.S. Forces On Ulithi Islands   Landings Kept Secret For a Month.

—$IX DEAD— Release Names Of Fliers Killed In Iowa Crash  cs... ££ Ba Bee awe

Opposes Blanket Draft Deferment   Patterson Says Army Is 200,000 Men in  Arrears of Needs

INDUSTRY REFUSED BLANKET DEFERMENTS   Patterson Says Army Is Already 200,000 Men Behind Foduction Requirements

Radio Book Reviews To Feature Meeting   Farm Women to Meet at Courthouse. April 21

Farm Women Meeting ln Pocahontas Friday   Miss Hargrave Reviews Books   United Nations Theme of The Day; To Include an Afttarnann Taq

Victoria Hargrave Book Reviewer, Feature of Mee   United Nations Theme Will Be Carried Out. Afternoon Program Starts at 1:00

Illegal Parking Notice Sent'to Sailor Now on  Duty in South Pacific

a a i a Ni a a nae cee ie big a  $2,000,000 Plant Destroyed By Fire Wednesday Night

Capt. Forrest D. Annen, Overseas Veteran, Is Promoted At Ft. Benning

ILLINOIS CROPS CRACK 23-YEAR RECORD   Value Estimated at $805,000,000; Yield Above Average

PRE-INVASION AIR WARFARE AT NEW HIGE   More Than 6,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Europe In 24 Hours.

Hundreds of U.S. Planes Drop Bombs   Strong British Force i Attacks on German In. dustrial Centers

U.S. Bombers Hit Nazi Air Dromes, French Rail Hub   Resumed Raids Rival Earlier Campaign Of Softening

PRE - INVASION BOMBING GOES INTO STH DAY   Yank Heavy Bombers Follow Up RAF Night Attack On ~ Rail Centers

NINTH DAY OF AIR OFFENSIVE   Americans Smash Air Bases in Northeast Franee — Strong Bettish Forces Hit German Kall Huh; During Night.

Planes Hit Airdromes. Rail Hubs   New Offensive Sees Bombers Strike at France; Berlin Bombed

American Planes Blast Three Big  Nazi Airdromes   Raid Follows British _ Attack On Important _ German Rail Centers

‘Set Pace On Ninth Day Of Preinvasion —  Bombing R.A.F. NIGHT RAIDS ON GERMAN RAILS  103 German Planes Sho Down Yesterday In Combat

6,000 Tons of _ Bombs Released Within 24 Hours   125 German Planes ~ Shot Down In Clash Over Nazi Targets

U0 YANK PLANES GIVE ENEMY NINE DAYS OF BLASTING   Many Fires Started at Karlsruhe and Munich With Other Bombs at Chambly and Dusseldorf.   FINAL SIEGE OPENED UPON SEVASTOPOL   Americans Drive Forward at Anzio Beachhead, Three Positions Are Recaptured From Germans.

Heavy Bombers Resume Offensive   New Blows Batter. France, Germany

9000 PLANES OVER EUROPE IN 24 HOURS   Yank Bombers Alone Hit 3  German Airdromes

U.S. FLIERS RAID NAZI AIRDROMES   Resumed Aerial Assault Pressed At Increased Pace

Hard Blow           LONDON DAILY EXPRESS FERS TO REGULATIONS GARDING “INVASION KV

5000 Planes Blast Europe  Tons Dumped   6000 Tons Dumped On France ond German Targets

Raid TempoMounts   Three Nazi Airfields And Rail Hub Blasted In France

Atlantic Wall Gets   Paris, Champagne Bases Ripped, Rheims Rail Yard Bombed

Pre-invasion Raids in 9th Straight Day   RAF Planes Hit German Rail Hubs

Three German Airdrumes and One Ratt Hub in France Smashed — Continued New Pre-Invasion  Offensi

BEALL IS CARRIED IN BY TIDAL WAVE   Moijuvity for Congressman Goes to Over 17.000. .7

BEALL IS CARRIED IN BY TIDAL WAVE   Majority for Congressman ' . Goes to Over 17000

B. H. Gunner Tells How His Ship Was Torpedoed  3 Times In Mediterranear   Boatswain’s Mate Ross W. Tarantino, Survivor Of Submarine Attack, Praises Ship Which Remained Afloat Despite ‘Tin Fish’

B. H. MAN IN WAR THRILLER   Ship Takes Three German ' Torpedoes But Makes ) Port Safely

One of 16 Survivors Relates Story of Mediterranean Experience, -

Snatch Girl Shoot Father Steal 5 Cars   MISSISSIPPI BANDITS LEAVE FANTASTIC TRAIL AFTER BREAKING JAIL IN HINDS CO.: OVERPOWER JAILER.   Tin Daggers

Dorothy Lamour Denies She Hurts War Production   “Speed It Up, Actress Asserts

DOTTIE ALMOST BREAKS A SARONG Pin-Up Actress Fumes Over War Plant Visit Charges

Had Own Way   ‘Hoffman Says €10 Leaders, Communists, New Deal, ‘Commentators Join In Efforts To Smirch Conaress

SAYS “SMEAR” CAMPAIGN ON   Rep. Hoffman Charges CIO, New Deal, Others Try to Smirch Congress

C.1.0. Blamed in Hampering  of War Effort   New Deal Is Also Flayed by Michigan Solon

SAYS SMEAR’ CAMPAIGN ON   Rep. Hoffman: ' Charges CIO, New Desl; thers Tes te Smads Congress

Smear Plot Alleged: Hoffman Charges New Deal Joins Communists To 'Smirch’’ Congress

Program To Smear Congress  Charged By Michigan Solon   Representative Hoffman Names CIO Leaders, Com. munists, New Deal Itself and “Smear Campaign” Commentators in the Plan

C. 1.0. Blamed in Hampering of War Effort  New Deal Is Also Flayed b

Radical Pack Seeks Grip On Congress   REP. HOFFMAN CHARGES JOINT EFFORT TO SMIRCH CONGRESS AND UNSEAT SOME MEMBERS IN NOVEMBER   Totalitarianism Objective

CIO Leaders, Communists, Winchell Hit By Haffman   Congressman Charges ‘Smear Campaign’  To Unseat Members Wi. nm... Be Thee]   INCLUDES PEARSON, CHICAGO SUN. PM   Winchell Challenges Dies, Hoffman To Cail .. Him for Interrogation

RESISTANCE COLLAPSES   Japs Have Been ‘Cleared _Frowe West Bank of Chindwi

A TOPEKA CONVENTION   First District Meets Today to Choose Two More Delegates

5,000 Planes Blast German Key Positions   American Heavies Take Major Part

9,000 Airplanes Pummel Europe  1,300 U. S. Heavies Lead Attacks Over Widespread Targets

Daily Temperature:   Army Authorities Say They Will Continue to Enforce Martial Law 'n Hawaii Despite Court's Decision

Russian Steam Roller Takes Kirovograd in Drive That Threatens Disaster to Nazis   Assault Mest Powerful Yet Seen on the Soviet Front; German Position in the Whole Dnieper Bend Is New Believed in Jeopardy

New Soviet Offensive Scores Victory Quickly; Allies Edge Nearer Rome   Night Aerial Blows on Germany Indicated As Radios Leave Air; Rumanians Reported Fleeing Border Area as Russians Near

CLUE TO CAUSE OF VIRUS PNEUMONIA REPORTED TODAY   Members of Calif. Health Dept. Report Discoveries To Society of American Bacteriologists

GUATEMALA HAS INDIAN RIOT   Allegiance to Deposed President Proclaimed by Red Men

INDIANS RIOT IN GUATEMALA   Invade Village And Massacre 20 Inhabitants

Flying Bombs Batter British   Flaming Bomber Kills 50 In English Village

Gen. Juin’s Troops Capture Three Strategic Peaks Overlooking Cassino, And Town Near Nazi Stronghold

CAPTURE KEY TOWN IN DRIVE      Three Strategic Peaks Taken Com man Zug Slopes Leading Dawn to assino — Americans Face Widespread Allied = Aerial Assault With Heavy Attack.

FRENCH TAKE TOWN NEAR CASSINO   U. S. Troops Push On Toward Nazi Stronghold

Yankee Tank Drive Splits Nazi Center   Periers And Lessay, En emy Anchor Points Ir Weet Cantured.

BIGGEST TANK _PUSHTHROUGH ‘SINCE INVASION OF NORMANDY   By GLADWIN HILL

YANK ARMORED FORCE SPLITS GERMAN LINES   Drive In Normandy Gains Momentum. Patrols Enter Periers

Tanks Batter Ahead   AMERICAN ARMORED FORCE SPLITS GERMAN DEFENSES IN NORMANDY WIDE OPEN

American Tanks Gain More Miles On French Front   Advance Continues In New Offensive Against Germans

SEIZE ANCHOR POINTS ALONG WESTERN END      Also Split Central De: fenses ‘Wide Open in Biggest Tank BreakThrough of Invasion— Nazis Falling Back. ..

Yankees Push Deeper into German Lines   Powerful Armored Offensive Rolling Forward in France

NAZTo FALLING BACK AG TANK GAINS WIDER   Advances Begin Closing Trap on Germans in Bend of Vire River.

BREAK THROUGH NAZI DEFENSES   Tanks Fan Out East and West, Cut Highway St. Lo to Avranches.   PATROLS REACH PERIERS

U. S. Tanks Tear Enemy Lines Wide Open in Normandy; Yanks Capture Periers and Lessay; Encirclement of Torn Nazi Divisions Now Threatened

Yanks Gain Nine Miles in Two Days, Fan Out East and West and Cut Highway from St. Lo to Avranches   Cut St. Lo Percy Road

TWIN ALLIED DRIVES PUSH ON STEADILY   Nazi Counter-Attacks Retake Town on Flank of British at Caen

Armored Offense Gains 3 Miles in Six-Hour Battle   Allies Fan Out East and West to Advance Nine Miles in Two Days.   Biggest Allied Break  In German Defense

Capture — Normandy Anchors   Periers and Lessay Fall As Swift Moving American Tanks Score A Major Breakthrough

U.S. Tank Forces Gair 3 Miles in 6 Hours; Periers, Lessay Fall   Nazis? Whole Western Flank Threatened; Enemy Retakes Strongpoints on British Secior; Doughhovs Dronlen Attack

AMERICAN ARMORED FORCE SPLIT GERMAN CENTRAL DEFENSES  TANKS AND DOUGHBOYS GAIN NINE MILES AND FAN OUT IN NORMANDY «©

American Armored Force and Infantrymen Fan Out East and West for Nine-Mile Gain.   HIGHWAY FROM ST. LO CUT DURING DRIVE

Yank Armor Splits Foe’s. Central Defenses Open;  Take Periers And Lessay

Tanks Smash Main Nazi Defense Line   Germans Retreating In Normandy in Face of U. S. Drive

Center Of Nazi Line Gives Way: Front Widenec   Powerful Attack Adds Two Miles; British Thrust Blunted

SCORE BIGGEST SINGLE THRUST SINCE INVASION   Machines and Infantry Advance Nine Miles In Two Days

Nazi Line ‘Split Open in Center   Anchor Points Smashed and Yanks Start Closing Trap on Germans   FRONT BROADENED TO FORTY MILES.   Enemy Rear Disorganized, _Many Prisoners Taken; British Drive Stalled

U.S. Tanks Break Through Foe Center, Force Retreat; Periers, Lessay Captured

GERMAN CENTRAL “DEFENSES ARE SPLIT ~ OPEN BY AMERICANS   It Was Biggest Tank Break. through of Normandy Invasion.   MAKE GAIN OF 9 MILES   Cut Highway From St. Lo ta Azranches, Southern Base of Normandy.

Successful Fair To End Today Largest Attendance Of Week On Fairgrounds Last Night

Successful Fair To End Today a :  Lar gest Attendance Of Week On “Pair srounds Last Night

TWO SERIOUSLY INJURED WHEN CARS COLLIDE   Mount Hope Woman And Charleston Man In Hospitals

Two Youths Badly Hurt  ‘When Auto  Hits Pole   Sustain Concussion Of Brain. Possible Skull Fractures; En Route To Dance

3 SERIOUSLY HURT IN A MOTOR CRASH   Woman Has Compound Fracture of Leg; Possible Skull Fracture

Air Raid Alarm Sounds Forth In Bern Section   U. S. Minister Offers Apology To Swiss For Accidental Bombing. .

SWISS STIRRED UP BY ATTACK   Americans Are Involved In Fights: Official Apology Submitted

AMERICAN APOLOGY IS PRESENTED SWISS   Conditions Are Stil! Tense In Been: Warned To Guard Against Tocidents

200 Said Killed” In Bayer Plant. By Blockbuster   Liberator Bombers Attack Military Objectives In Pas-De-Calais District

{1,000 BERLINERS DIED IN LAST TWO AIR RAIDS ‘ON THE GERMAN CAPITAL

11,000 Nazis Die In Raids Upon Berlin   Bombs Destroy Bayer Concern

11,000 Killed in 2 Raids on Berlin   This Announcement Made Today by Swedish Newspaper Aftonbladet.

Report 11,000 Die In Two Berlin Raids   Swedish Paper Says One Blockbuster Destroyed Medical Concern, Killed 200

11,000 Killed In Berlin In Last 2 Raids   Ribbentrop Moving His Foreign Ministry To Vienna. Report

Greek Battle Rages; Peace Move Starts   Battle Continues Unabated; Rebel:  Angle for Terns

Kiwanians Elect W.C. Hammond   Closing Session Picks Him for Governor

“Ghost” of Eastern Passage Resumes Pranks By Lockine Outhouse Door From the Inside

_&7ef LOS as ours 0: tay22¢ ‘Finers WV 10 eris 1e¢. in ct.v 5 “ire

Miner Who Gave Life in Effort To Save 65 Others Leaves Letter   Story of Last Hours in Ohio Fire Indicates  All of Victims Died of Fumes First Night

Allies Plan. To Push the Production ~. OF High- Speed Planes Of Rocket Type

New U. S.-British Rocket Plane Purports to Completely Revolutionize Air Warfcre

ALLIES HAVE SECRET PLANE   Rocket-Type Fighter Announced  cee ere  Propeller-less and  Vawd GnoaaAlw

Burrell and Curtis Run Neck and Neck   GOP State Treasurer Election Will Be Recounted

Burrell And Curtis State Treasurer Race Photo-Finish   1786 precincts out 1805 gave:  Republican freasurer:  Burrell 91,089,  Cnurtie 90.108.

Block Busters Blast Hitler's Big Chancellory   1,000 More Tons Of Bombs Dropped

Bombs Rip and Sear Berlin in 10th Bie R.A. F. Attack   Hitler’s Proud Chancellery Is Wrecked by Blockbusters, With Hundreds of Persons Reported Trapped Inside

BLAST HITLER CHANCELLERY   British Bombers Drop 1,000 More Tons of Bombs On Berlin

Block-Busters Smash Hitler’s Chancellery   Travelers Say Traffic In Berlin Paralyzed: Big Airport Also Hit

Hitler’s Proud Chancellery Made a Shambles by Fliers  TRAFFIC iN REICH CAPITAL PARALYZED  7. ae ee Mende Tonsh   Attack on Monday Tenth Mammoth Raid Since Nov. 18

1,000 More Tons Land on Berlin   R. A. F, in Second Attack in 24 Hours

DOOM RAINED ON BERLIN BY RAF BOMBERS   REICH CHANCELLERY OF ADOLF HITLER IS SHAMBLES

ANOTHER 1000 TONS RAINS ON BERLIN   Hitler’s Chancellery Made Shambles By Block-Busters; Hundreds Believed Trapped.   Alert In London

Hitler's Proud Chancellery Made a Shambles  by Fliers  TRAFFIC 1N REICH CAPITAL PARALYZED  Attack on Monday Tenth Mammoth Raid Since : Nov: 18 

RAF Repeats Crushing  Raid on Berlix   Block-Busters Lay Hitler’s Proud Chancellery in Ruin

TWO RAIDS HALT BERLIN TRAFAC, SET NEW FIRES   Hitler’s Chancellery Reported Hit With Hundreds Believed Trapped in Its Shelier.   HEAVY R. A. F, ATTACKS MADE 24 HOURS APARI   Bread Deliveries in City Cease British Met by Reinforced Swarms of Fighting Planes.

RAF BOMBERS DESTROY ~ HITLER’S CHANCELLERY; _ HUNDREDS ARE TRAPPED   Another Block-Buster Raid Rips Berlin; Traf. fic Within City Paralyzed; 27 Bombers Are Lost Over Capital City

Berlin Ripped, Seared Again   Hitler’s Official Ouarters Wrecked

Rennes Wastes No Time In Handling Collaborationists   Nazi Sympathizers Dragged By Hair, Spat Upon, Beaten, Kicked Down Steps: Lined Against Wall

Rennes Cheered Yank Entry By Beating Collaborationists   Civilians Offered To Kill Traitors So That Photographers Could Take Action Pictures, If They Cared To

U.S. Photographer Helps Persuade Enragea Frenchmen Not to Murder Collaborationists

People Of Rennes Rage At Traitors On Yanks’ Entry   Offer To Kill Collaborationists ‘To  Make Picture for  Correspondent.

Rennes Folk Cheer Yanks   Offer to Kill Collaborationists in  Streets for Pictures

french Cheer Americans in Rennes; Offer To Kill and Beat Pro- Nazis

WAITED A CHANCE   French Turn on Collaborationists at Rennes as Yanks Appear

REDS SLASHING AT NAZI ROUTE INTO S. POLANL   4th ‘Ukranian Army Drives Through Mud Against Presov and Kassa

onr ENSIVE IN CZECHOSLA WAKIAL AIMED AT KNOCK-"  ING OUT MAIN SUP' PLY ROUTE

Yankees Enter Saareguemines, Span Saar River   Russians Near Austria, British Advance In Italy

Casualties on      Russion Forces Now Only 40 Miles from Border of Austria

Probing Arrest Of Joan Berry   Grand Jury To Hear Girl Who Accuses Charlie Pes es oe

Tells Farmers Escape From Federal Rules, Subsidies Their First Task

MARTIN URGES STATE RIGHTS   Tells Farmers Escape From Federal Rules, Subsidies Their First Tast

German Elect to Fight In What May Become Showdown   New Government

Returns Far From Complete Leave Results of Tuesday’s Voting Up in the Air.

[House To Rehash Soldier Vote   Group “Came Near” To Settlement In Deadlock

Nazis Mass to Hit England   Plan Airhorne Invasion When D-Dav Comes

Jittery Nazis See An Early Renewal Of Russian Drive   Germans Say Mighty Offensive Will Be . Coordinated with Western Invacitan

GERMANS EXPECT THRUST FROM BOTH EAST, WEST   Enemy Massing Gliders, Transports Along European Coast Says Landon

Nazis Expect  New Offensive   Heavy German Bombings Of Communications Behind Russian Front.

NAZTO EAPECT NEWRED Poh FROM POLANL   Hammer Concentrations on Eastern Front; Continue Invasion Guessing.

Nazis Think Soviet Offensive at Hand   Germans Indicate That Belief in Heavy Bombings Behind Russian Front Lines—Simultaneous Blow From West Expected.

Nazis Expect Early Renewal  Of Red Drive   Possible Attempt to Land On Britain as Invasion Counter Seen

RENEWED RED OFFENSIVE   Bombing of Russian Communication Lines it Poland and Elsewhere Reported Underway

Red Communications and Concentrations Behind ”~ Polish Front Battered

GERMANS FEA REDS ATTACKS   Bomb Soviet Concentrations; Hint Air Invasion of Britain

Huns Raid Rail De pots Behind  (Russian Front   Concentrations Also Hii: Attacks Indicate Ger. niany Expects Renewal Of Red Offensive

Nazis Fear _ Red Blows ~ Imminent   Make Heavy Air. Raids ot Communications Behind Russian Lines   MOSCOW AND BERLIN E TALK OF ACTION   Hitler Air Troops May Try to Upset Allied Nerve Cen- ter: Holland: Flooded

AXIS BOMBING INDICATE FEAR OF OFFENSIVE   Nazis Believed Anticipating Mighty Thrust By Russians In Coordination With Drive From West   ENGLAND IS ON GUARD

GERMANY FEARS NEW RED DRIVE   Soviets Reported Massing ir East to Strike When ‘D-Day’ Arrives

Nazis Expect Fresh Drive by Russians   Believe It Will Come With Allied Invasion on Western Front

Nazis Expect Red Drive to Aid Invasion   Propaganda Guessing Continues in Effort  To Locate Attack

Eire Withholds War Criminal Ban   Pledge to Turn Away Axis Leaders Refused

Sweeping Raids Bash Naziland   20 Nazis. Downed In Forays By U. S..

BOMBER RAl MADE AGAINST 9 NAZI TARGETS   Sweeping Attacks Staged In Follewing Un RAF 3,360 Ton Blow On Frankfurt

U.S. BOMBERS FOLLOW RAF TO GERMANY   Carrying Out Sweeping Series Of Daylight Attacks Against Five Targets; 27 Bombers, Six Fighters Lost   Attack Cieit

Five German Targets Hit In Daylight   American Airmen Follow Up RAF’s Heavy Raid And Luftwaffe  Gives Battle _

Five German Targets Hit   U. S. Bombings Follow Heavy RAF Assaults

U.S. Bombers Hit at Five Nazi Targets   33 Planes Are Lost as Gigantic Air Offensive Continues

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST AT FIVE AREAS IN REICH   Yanks Follow Up Rec. ord RAF Assault On Frankfurt

Strong Forces Make Daylight Attacks on. Military Targets  ys) AIDDITANIEC ENACT   33 AIRPLANES LOST ._. IN FIERCE FIGHTS   Assaults Follow Record Bombardment of Peankfurt

“OF ATTACKS MADE   a, azi Airforce Comes up ir Strength te. Battie   33 PLANES LOST   Vy. S. Airforce Uses 1,500 Planes to Hit Vital Targets In Northwest Germany

5,000 Planes Pound Reich In 24 Hours    Yank Attack Follows 3.360-Ton RAF Raid On Fiery Frankfurt  37 BOMBERS LOST

DAYLIGHT RAIDS CONDUCTED ON 5 NAZI TARGETS   33 American Planes Lost 20 Enemy Aircraft In Widespread Attacks   FRANKFURT BLASTED BY 3,360-TON LOAD

1,900 PLANES TAKE PART IN FIERCE RAIDS   27 BOMBERS AND SIX FIGHTERS LOST

33 U. 8. PLANES ‘LOST OVER REICH: QO NAZIS DOWNED   Railroad Yards, War Factories and Air Bases in Northwest Germany Bombed.   HUGE FLEET TAKES © PART IN ATTACK   Enemy Airmen Give Battle for First Time Since March 18—R. A. F,  ’ Blasts Frankfurt.

U.S. Bombers Blast  Northwest Germany   Fighters Shoot Down 20 Nazi Planes In Raid Following Big RAF Attack on Frankfurt; Raid Warning Sounds

Strong Forces Make Daylight Attacks on. Military Targets   33 AIRPLANES LOST IN FIERCE FIGHTS   Assaults Follow Record Bombardment of Fronkéfurt

HOUSE MILITARY  COMMITTEE CLASHES  WITH HIGH COMMAND ARMY OFFICER DISCIPLIN  ED FOR TESTIFYING WITH OUT ORDERS 16 CLAIM

Flyers Strike Deep Into Enemy Defense Ring  MacArthur Warns Nipponese Army Must Be Crushed

Nip Gibraltar surprised in heavy attack   All American aircraft return

JAPS’ GIBRALTAR ININNER DEFENSE RING IS BOMBED   American Airmen Carry War to Caroline Islands, 410 Miles From Truk, to Blast Ponape.   MIDDAY BLOW CATCHES ENEMY BY SURPRISE   Daring Attack Made Without Loss of a Single Plane— Cargo Ship Sent Down in Harbor.

Shore Defenses Of Ponape Hit By Liberators   8 Aircraft Shot Down in Raid on Kavieng

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST PONAPE IN CAROLINES   Daring Raid Made By LandBased Army Bombers In “Considerable Force e” Without Loss of Planes.  Ciret Attark

Carolines ‘Bombed By      Heavy Planes in Daring Raid_on Ponape Base “ Of Japanese to _— Extreme West ——-

Jap Island Is 410 Miles East of Truk   Deepest Strike Made By Land-Based Planes All of Which Return  CARCO VESSET SINK

‘First Bombs Hit Jap Base ‘In Carolines   Planes Under 55 Tons Cf Explosives; Sink Cargo Vessel

Move To Keep Payrolls Up, Unemployment Low, Begun By Two Federal Age :cies

Nelson Attacks Unemployment   Make Plans For Period Following Fighting

Flanks of Nazi Lines Slashed By U.S. Forces   One Phase of Big Attack Carries Foe Three-fourths Of Wav Across Luxembourg

Upwards of 150,000 Men Hurled Into Desperate Offensive by von Runstedt, Badly Upsetting Allied Time-table for Conquest of Germany. .

Germans Drive To Within I8 Miles of Liege   One Enemy Column Three-Fourths of Way Across Luxembourg; Yanks Check Foe Forces on Flanks

ONE DRIVE ONLY 18 MILES FROM LIEGE, ANOTHER AIMS “AT FRENCH FRONTIER TOWN

Enemy Cuts Allied Road From Liege To Bastogne   Germans Claim Bag Of 20,000 Prisoners, But Americans Smash Hard at Nazi Flanks  ALLIED PLANS UPSET

TT ae ee a  ee  “New spapers Are Hewing To Line, . Price Declares

Carrier Planes Destroy 440 Jap Planes, Sink Or Damage 26 Ships In Manila Attack   _ Eleven Enemy Warships, 15 Cargo Vessels Amona Losses Inflicted

Tuberculosis Test Program Shows 700 Many fCncoe mn Kaccith Caunty

153: CHEST X-RAYS TAKEN IN COUNTY SEARCH FOR TB.   Public Health’ Nurse Took History of 508 Patients During’ First. Three Months of Year. ~~

GIRL MURDERED IN WASHINGTON   17-Year-Old Government Worker’s Body Found On Golf Course

Man’s Belt Is  Clue in Murder   Washington Clerk Strangled With Snood

Young Government Worker Slain 17-Year-Old Girl Killed By Own Snood On Golf Course

Gil Strangled With Own Snood. "On Golf Course   Man's Belt Furnishes Possible Clue to —— Clerk's Slayer

MAN'S BELT IS MURDER CLUE   17-Year-Old War Department Employe Raped, Strangled

ee  ‘19,005 Soldier Votes Cast In Wisconsin‘s Primary, Totals Show

PRISONER SLAUGHTER PROTESTED   Mass Assassination Of 115 American GI's Charged

U. S. Protests Nazi Killing  Of Prisoners   Indictment Scores Violation of Geneva Agreement

 ~ Raid On Steel Works Made At Night  Bombers Choose Jap Weak Point

Bli’my! She’s Havin’ a 13th Prowl—  The Bloomin’ Witch Is Loose   Crickey, It's a Matter for Mr. Svkes, No Less

Conferences Show U. S. Speeding Ahead in Pacific  Twin Drives Advance Far Beyond Time Tahle Set hv Heads

Foe to Be Given no Chance To Recover Breath; Tokyo ‘Mobilizes All Students

Twin Pacific rives Ahead f Schedule   Burma Campaign Holding Back Speed Up Offensive Against Japs

Conferences Show U. S. Speeding Ahead in Pacific  Twin Drives Advance Far Beyond Time

FOUR BILLIONS VOTED FOR EC0NOMIC OPERATIONS   All Will Be Spent Abroad For United Nations Activities, Including Lend-Lease.

VITAL BELFORT GAP SAID 10 BE OBJECTIVE   Censorship Blackout Fogs Fluid Developments On Flaming Battlefields   BRITISH POUND AT ELST   Second Army Reported In Doorn Area—Liberation Of Estonia Near

Committee Drafts Dem. Platform —   Foreign Policy i is Under Study Today

Demo Platform Group Turn To Foreign Policy Issues  CIO President Murray Urges Plank Condemning Racial Discrimination

TREMENDOUS DRAIN ON NAZI MANPOWER SEEN AS RESULT ROMANIAN COLLAPSE

Btcacx 7 ’s "Wart Seizure : as, Jour, Zeview ‘ncs: ~ec'sion “‘oncav_

No Law for Roosevelt's Ward Action   COUNSEL SMITH SAYS PRESIDENT VIOLATED ARTICLES 4 AND 5 OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS.   Court Ruling Monday

Lawyer Flays  Ward Seizure   Federal Judge Will Rule Qn Tesure Mandav

Murray Seeks Peace, Asks  Wage Boost   Urges Cooperation With Business; Mrs. Roosevelt Talks

Finns Stage Mass Raids   _All Roads Leading From Helsinki Biocked By Finn Police.

Finn Police  Block Roads   Stage Mass Raids In Helsinki; Reason For Action Unknown

FINNISH POLICE RAID HELSINK!   Block All Roads Leading from Capital of Finland

Allies Aim Two  Offensives at  Japs in Pacific Tokyo Hints All  Not Well   On Home Front

Push Within 51 Miles Of Japanese Base At Akyab; Tojo Chides People For Production Slump, Charging Lack Of Fighting Spirit

T0JO MAKES CRY FOR MORE PLANES   Hints of Lag in Japanese Production as Allies Keep on Pounding Bases

PRODUCTION IN JAPAN CAUSES NEW WORRIES   Tokyo Radio Reports Premier Tojo Finding It Difficult to Stimulate Fighting Spirit

Cracks In Jap Home Front Are Bared By Tojo   Nipponese War Leader Reveals Drop In War Production

Japanese Forces In Two Sectors Of The Pacific Under Allied. Offensives

Allies Keep After Japs   Apply Pressure to Two Sectors; Tokyo Reveals Home Production Lag

ALL NOT WELL ON JAP HOME FRONT, CLAIM   Troubles in Production Indicated. Allies Press Offensive in Two Pacifie Areas

 Tojo Tells Japs “Lack Of ‘Fighting Spirit On Home Front” Hits War Output

Allies Blast Jap Shipping   Attack Enemy Defense Bases in Northern Area of New Guinea

Jans Pushed Back On Two Fronts   Burma Offensive Gaining Momentum  Ry Accociated Prece

Tojo Implies All Not Well   Chides Lack of Fighting Spirit in Plane Output Plants

Push Japs On Two Fronts   Heap Destruction on Bases in South Pacific, And Gain Ground in Drive on Burma

Planes, Naval Craft Blast Japs Bases   Fierce War Situation’ Admitted By Tojo In Plea For Nipponese To Speed Aircraft

Tokyo Radio Hints Allis Not Well in  Production Circles   Premier Charges ‘Lack of Fighting Spirit” on Home Front

OFFENSIVES PRESSED IN PACIFIC SECTOR BY ALLIED FORCES   JAPS INTIMATE HOME FRONT PRODUCTION NOT MEETING REQUIREMENTS

Allies Push Two  Pacific Drives   Tekvo Radio Hints All Not Well on  Production Front

TOJO CALLS FOR GREATER EFFORT ON HOME FRONT   Plane Production Is Worrying Japs No Little, Broadcast Hints

Allies Press 2 Pacific Drives   Speedy Increase in Plane Output Needed, Tojo Tells Japs

Tokyo Hints Home Front Is Lagging   Allies Press Offensives in Two Sectors of the Pacific War

Allies Move ® into Burma ~  toward Abesk   Tojo Says Bottleneck in Munitions Producton ts ‘Lack of Fighting Spirit’

Uneasiness In Tokvo Produce   Allies Press Offensives In Two Sectors Of War In Pacific.

ALLIES PRESS OFFENSIVES IN PACIFIC AREAS   Planes and PT Boats Blast Barges, Alexishafen and Rabaul Heavily Bombed   DRIVE INTO BURMA      Tokyo Blames ‘Lack of Fighting Spirit’ for Production Lag — Arawe Well in Hand

TOKYO HINTS ALL IS NOT WELL ON JAP HOME FRONT  wnmin 16 ALTIATER AC   TOJO IS QUOTED AS RAPPING BOTTLENECK IN WAR PRODUCTION

Tokyo Squirms As Allies Punch Hard In Two Sectors   Tojo Admits ’‘Fierce’ War Situation; New Destruction Heaped On Defense Bases

Allies Press _ Offensives i in ‘Pacific War   Enemy Shipping aud Defense Bases Blasted; Tokyo Hints All Not Wall aa House Pe: duction Front

BLAST MALL JAP SHIPPING      Allies Press Offensives in Two Sectors of War In Pacific,   HINT JAPS ARE UNEASY

460,000 Men Will Be Called to Army Duty   Youths, 18-25, May Be Called for Induction Immediately Without Change in Status

NEWEST MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT GIVES PLENTY FARM LABOR  MORE THAN 300,000 ME! WAVE RECENTIY Teer

Cassino Battle Still Indecisive; (Guns Moved In   Very Heavy Fighting Continuing, Says Allied Communiqte

Allied Big Guns Fire on Germans  In Cassino Area   Tanks, Large Field Pieces Used to Break Stalemate

Move Up Big Guns To Jolt Cassino Area   Allies Seek To Break Weeks-Old Stalemate In Ruined City.

FIERCE FIGHTING STILL RAGES IN CASSINO; ALLIED FIELD GUNS, TANKS MOVE UP TO AID 5TH ARMY

ALLIED TANKS ATTACKING IN CASSINO   Heavy Fighting Rages In Ruins Of Italian City

TANKS TRY 10 DRIVE GERMANS FROM CASSINO   Allies Attempt To End Long Stalemate In Ruined Town

F.D.R. Tells Reclamation Group Nation Must Make Place on Land for Returning Servicemen

Reverses Own Rule Made In’35   Southern Leaders Are Aroused By Decision Affecting Most  Dixie States.

Court Backs Negro Vote  In Primaries  Roberts Assails Tribunal’s Reversal Ruling

WEEK-END WAS GRATIFYING FOR ALLIED ARMS ON EVERY BATTLE FRONT SCATTERED OVER WORTD

THE WAR TODAY - - By Dewitt MacKenzie   Battalion Lives In Tanks For 19 Days

BATTALION OF TANK MEN LIVE.IN SHERMAN TANK IN FRONT LINE  DO LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING INSIDE CRAMPED AND

Syria And Lebanon Join ‘In Protests Against ICongress’ Suqaestions

STATE GUP MEET Doe] FOR TODAY AT PARKERSBURG   Young Republicans Meeting Is Prelude to Party Convention   FEDERATION CHAIRMAN PROPHESIES VICTOR)   State Group to Draft Party Platform, Choose Eight Republican Electors, Hear Addresses; Kay to Make Keynote Speech

U. S. Steps Into Major Phone Strike   Possibility Of Strike Spreading Arose As WLB Demands Full Explanation

New Grand Jury ‘Break’ ls Hinted   Investigation Of State Government Resumed

CARR RETURNS TO PROBE OF GRAFT CHARGE   22 Are Bound Over Fon Conspiracy Trial After Hearing

GRAFT DEFENDANTS MUST FACE TRIAL, {UDGE CARR RULES   Grand Jury Investigation Swings Back lito Action As Examination Ends   SIGLER TAKES VACATION

NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLE ON ALL WESTERN FRONT   Air Armada Blasts German Oil Plant - - Gen. Eisenhower Pleads for More Supplies

ROWANIA GROUP GOES TO MOSCOW   Balkan Sources flint That Peace Is Sought

ne i hater a ren Roman iaASks Soviet: Peace,      Mission: Reported on Way 10 Moscow, “Headed by. Antonescu -

ALL-OUT ASSAULT ON BREST BEGINS   Medium Bombers Blast Port for Gen. Bradley.

American Bombers Assault Nazis Besieged at Brest  Bradley Asks Support  For Orive on Pat. ota © nee tae Dao

Airmen Smash Port of Brest  Go to Aid of Troops Investing Stronaholds

AIRMEN BLAST NAZIS IN BREST   British Pound Targets in France Without Loss

An All-Out U.S. Attack on Bres!   Bradley Sends Bombers Against Port and Then Troops Attack   AIR SUPERIORITY ALL ALONG FRONT   Wave After Wave of Our Planes Pounding Enemy at Many Points

American Bombers Assault Nazis Besieged at Brest  Bradley Asks Support For Drive on Divisions in Port

Planes Pace New Drive to  Take Brest      Asks Air _ Aid Before Troops Be «6s gin Final Assault

AMERICAN MEDIUM BOMBERS BLAST PORT OF BREST ON FRIDAY  AMERICAN AND BRITISH WARPLANES RANGED OVER WIDE AREA TODAY

ALL OUT ATTACK 10 CAPTURE. PORT OF BREST BEGUN WITH GREAT AERIAL ATTACK TODAY

Air Fury Turned On Port of Brest   Bombs Aid Troops In All-Out Effort To Capture Port

Spanish, Russian Unit Is Waging War Against FFI  Organization Hopes To Strike at Franco’s Regime

Spanish Republicans, Reds Join Forces For Private War Against Free French

WILLKIE TO TALK — TO DEWEY ADVISOR      Foreign Policy Views to be Exchanged at Conference

Dulles to Meet With Willkie   Dewey Arranges Exchange Of Post-War Wevws

WILLKIE AND DULLES PLAN CONFERENCE   Dewey's Foreign Policy Adviser To Meet 194¢ GOP Nomince Before Secing Hull

Dulles to Talk With Willkie on Foreign Policy   To Get Views Of 1940 Nominee

Willkie, Dulles To Hold Conference   Dewey Proposes Internationalization  Of Ruhr Valley.

Threat of Socialism   lf Government Control Of Business, Industry ls Continued

GOP Groups Unite  On Foreign Policy   Union Contrbutions  To Be Investigated

MRS. R. WILDER KILLED NEAR DANVILLE   Former Mattoon Woman Victim of Hit-Run Driver

Army and Navy Planes Blast At Marshalls   Attack Six Atolls In Damaging 2-Day Series of Raids

PLANES LASH AT MARSHALL ISLEt   Army and Navy Airmen Attack Six Atolls in Damaging Two-day Raids; Small Cost to Attacking Forces

ECAMER oENATOR MOSES PASSES   GOP Leader, Who* Served Three Times in U.S, Senate Dies in New Hampshire; Ill More Than Year’

Administration Leaders Accept » Vote Amendment  Would Confine Use Of Federal Ballot To Overseas Soldier:

Soldier Vote Bill Pushed   Leaders Favor Amendment To Confine Use to Armed Forces Overseas

Revised Vote Amendment Is Proposed   Use of Federal Ballot Would Be Limited By New Plan Oo

COMPROMISE - REACHED ON SOLDIER VOTE   Would Confineuse of Fed. _ eral Ballot For Those Overseas

AGREE TO SPLIT SERVICE VOTING   Administration Senators Will Accept Amendment Largely Confining Federal War Ballot To Fighting  Men Overseas; State BalLanda. ete Dien Ba set eS

FEDERAL WAR BALLOT MAY BE GUT DOK   Senate Proposal to Confine Ballot to Gverseas Men Gains Favor.

ADMINISTRATION  SENATE LEADERS  MAKE QUICK SHIFT AGREE INFORMALLY TO   ACCEPT CERTAIN AMEND. - SErArre THA UNTE PITT

Federals Change Stratesy   Won't Oppose State Ballot Within U. S.

Soldier Vote Bill Backers Yield Point   Alternative of State Or Federal Ballots May Be Adonted

Vote Bill Change is * Agreed On   goenate Leaders Make Q. ck Change of Strategy; * Contest Is Close   DANAHER PLAN = TS ACCEPTABLE   It Will Confine Use of Pr« posed Federal Ballot Largelv to Men Overseas

SENATOR OFFERS COMPROMISE ON SOLDIER BALLOT   PROPOSES BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL BALLOT FOR HOME, OVERSEAS

Coalition Has. New Vote Bill.   Republicans Join Southern Democrats

New Switch On Federal Ballot   Senate Administration Leaders Shift Strategy

Shift Strategy    — OnService Vote  ‘Plan Federal Ballot For Men Overseas

AMENDMENT 10 SOLDIER VOTE BILL FAVORED   Administration Leaders say They Will Accept State Ballot’s Use in U. S,

ADMINISTRATION SENATE LEADERS MAKE QUICK SHIFT  AGREE INFORMALLY TO _ ACCEPT CERTAIN AMEND RACAHITC TH WATr Nes

Senators Offers Vote Compromise   Substitute Plan Put Forth by Senator Taft; To Give States Some Control.

AMENDMENT T0 WAR VOTE PLAN   Senate Leaders Agree te Change Limiting Ballots To Overseas Vets

Senate Favors  Federal Ballot   Senator Lucas Says He Would Not Oppose Adoption Of Amendment.

Amendment To Vote Bill Ts Accepted   Senate Administration Leaders Try Shift In Strategy

Senators Rearrange Strategy in Army Vote Battle  Leaders May Accept Amended Measure Egor Saldier RBalln¢

[1 NAZI SHIPS SUNK OFF ITALY   Little Activity Is Reported By Ground Forces

Two Destroyers Of German Force Suffer Damage   Nazi Corvett Sunk In Air And Naval Clash Off Italian Coast

Enemy ‘hints at full seale retreat north  ‘Some Germans quittins capital’

American Forces Smash to Edge Of Genzano, Threaten Town Thirtecn Miles Below Eternal City

NEED $7,000,000 TO PUT COUNTY BOND DRIVE OVER   Only Four Days Left As Sales Lag Behind $18.480.000 Quota

BOND SALES ARE LESS THAN 60 PC. IN FINAL WEEK  County Total Passes Ten Million Over

NEARLY $500,000 OVER GOAL HERE WITH DAY TO GO    Chairman Peoples Lauds Workers For Siueeess OF Drive

INFANTRY, TANKS ARE THROWN IN CENTER OF FRONT   American ‘Tank Columns Pound Four and: a Half Miles East From Bracey Along South ern Itaad to Parjc

U. S. Third Army Troops Hold Positions North And South Of Merzig—Field Dispatch Says /.ine Has Been Lengthened To Ten Miles—Ninth Army Forces Hammer Way Back Into Roerdorf And Flossdorf Outskirts—Roer Struggle Severe

Third Army Dominates West Bank   Berlin Radio Describes Battle Near Cologne as  “Death Mill’

British Infantry, Overcoming All Obstacles Reach Surrounded Sky te Just In Time’

British Rescue Forces Establish Limited Contact Across Rhine Near Arnhem; Cross Into Reich In Nijmegen Area

NIMITZ THINKS JAP SURRENDER _ MAY BE NEAR   Gives: ‘Réport: After Return From: Cap‘tured. Marshalls,, *Marianas

Nimitz Believes Japan Will Fold   Admiral Insists Occupation Will Be Necessary But Invasion Probably Unlikely; Defeat New “xperience For Nips

MIGHT NOT BE NECESSARY TO INVADE JAPAN   Admiral Nimitz Thinks Japay May Capitulate Before Invasion

‘Nimitz Predicts Jap Capitulation ‘Without Invasion   Believes Occupation Of Japan Necessary To Keep Peace

Nimitz Believes Japan May Capitulate Before Americans Invade Her Home Islands .

Admiral Nimitz Says Japan May Capitulate Before Americans Invade

Japs May Yield Before Invasion of Home Islands   Nimitz Believes  Occupation Necessary  To Win the Peace

Nimitz Foresees Capitulation of Japanese   Invasion of Home Island May Not Be Necessary

ADM. NIMITZ THINKS JAPS MAY GIVE UP   May Not Be. Necessary to Invade Islands

Japs Mav Fall Before Home Isles Invaded   But Nimitz Thinks Coun. try Must Be Occupied. By U. S.

Admiral Nimitz Predicts Japan May Capitulate Before Invasion   But Believes Occupation Will Be Necessary To Win The Peace

Nimitz Says Japan May Be Knocked Out of War Before ‘Invasion of Home Islands

Seal Money May be Turned in Now   Reminder Cards Were Sent to Persons Who Had Not Responded

SENATE AVOIDS TAX BILL VETO   Treasury Loses Millions Through Delay In New Revenue Measure

ZENK-JEWETT NUP. TIALS SATURDAY   Father of Bride Marries Young Couple; To Make Home In LeMare

J. Frank Jewett Weds Alma Zenk At Hull, lowa —  . Popular Le Mars  Couple Pledge Vow

President Asks 76 Millions for Post-War Jobs   Fund Is Proposed To Help Employment Get Rapid Start

Start Is Made In Assuring  Post-War Work   F.D.R. Asks. $75,900,000 To Be Spent on Plans For Puhlie Projects

Public: Works Bill Advanced   FDR Asks 875,900,010 Bae Doct Woe The

Adninistration ‘Asks Cash For Postwar Planning  Large Sum to Be Spli Up Among Counties, Cities States

Roosevelts Plan  Traditional Snack  Election Day at FDR Home Arranged Way Deacitan?t I ibewe 1

‘Commander of 8. A. F. Sends Congratulations To Eighth Air Force Chief

WAR TODAY   Three Outstanding Events In Widely Separated Pheatres Of War Enhance Al lied Cause

The War Today—  Three Solid Victories For Allied Cause Found In W ednesday's News

YESTERDAY WAS GOOD DAY FOR ALLIED CAUSE, WITH PROBABLY BEST NEWS COMING FROM HOME

ALLIED CAUSE RECEIVED THREE MAJOR ‘VICTORIES WEDNESDAY, IN EUROPE, IN NORTHERN BURMA AND ON HOME FRONT

FALL OF CASSINO AND MYITKIYINA AND END OF DETROIT STRIKE ARE PROGRESS MARKS FOR THE ALLIES   Forced Withdrawal of Hitlerites from Italian Stronghold and Capture of Strategic Japanese Airdrome in China Great Victories. End of For men’s Strike Great Patriotic Victory

Unable To Refuse Hillman Millions, Governor Asserts   Appeals for Truth In the Campaign

BRITAIN, RUSSIA - RAPED IN SENATE   j oO hy PLANS TO PUSH POL AND FARTHER WESTWARD DRAW  ' SHARP CRITICISM.

Japs Pressing Chinese on Four Fronts   Enemy Making Dangerous Drive Toward Changsha

Asiatic Fighting Ominous Monday  Japs on Hankow-Canton Line Now 80 Miles From Changsa_

Jap Offensives Pose Serious Threat to China   Americans Near Mokmer Field On Biak Island

Japs Press Four Great Offensives   War on China Fronts Overshadows Other Pacific Fighting

Chinese Waging Desperate Fight On Four Fronts   Jap Armies Press Theit Most Ambitious Offen. sives Of War.

Situation Called “Most Critical” Oi 7-Yr. Conilict   Yanks Active At Changsha; Stilwell In Myrtkyina; Pacific Gains Reported

Chinese Battle On Four Fronts   Fight Desperately To Thwart Ambitious Jap Offensive

China Enters Critical Period of War   Chinese Armies Fight Desperately On Four Fronts

CHINA FACING MOST CRITICAL PERIOD OF WAR   Armies Meet Japs On Four Fronts; Bitter Fighting

Desperate Chinese  Battle Japanese  On Four Fronts Nips Launch Most   Nips Launch Most Ambitious Drives In Seven Years of Warring in Acie

Chinese, Beset on Four Fronts, Face Most Critical Ere   Asiatic Fighting OverShadows Every Other Pacific War Front

Japs Striking On Four Fronts  U. S. 14th Airforce In Changwcha Rattle

Chinese Fight Against Japs Biggest Drive   China Enters Most Critical Period  As Allies Advance On Schouten Isles

ISATIC WARFARE HiTSNEW PITCA   Nips Launch Most Ambitious Offensives in 7 years Of Strife   U.S FLIERS AID   Chungking. Authorities See China Entering Most Critical Period

CHINESE FIGHT ON 4 FRONTS   Batile To Halt Most Ambitious gpanese Campaign in 7 Years of War.

Chinese ‘Armies Fight On Four Fronts To Thwart Greatest Japanese Onslaught

Japan's Drive in China Greatest of War's Seven Years   Americans Advance After Invasion of Schouten Islands

SITUATION ON CHINA FRONT 1S DESPERATE   Kai- Shek's Forces Fighting Violently to Thwart Ambitious Japanese Offensive

CHINESE FIGHT HEAVIEST JAP ATTACK OF WAR   4 Nip Columns Push Toward Changsha; Americans Gain in Schoutens

China Fights — Desperately on Four Fronts   Their Battles Overshadow Other Pacific Fronts, Even U.S. Blow. at Schoutens

China Fights On 4 Fronts   Nation Faces Crisis As Japs Push Toward Main Rail Centers

CHINESE ARMIES FIGHT FOR LIFE   Battles Raging on Four Fronts As Japs Try for Knockout Blow

Chinese Fight On Four Fronts Against Worst Jap Drives In 7 Years

Chinese Resist Jap Offensives   Asiatic Fighting OverShadews Pacific Fronts By Ominous Aspect.

u Offensive In China Worst ~ In Seven Years   Chinese Holding On Four Fronts With Aid Of Chennault’s  Airmen

CHINESE ARMIES IN DESPERATE FIGHT T0 DEFEND COUNTRY   JAPS MAKING MOST AMBITIOUS DRIVES IN SEVEN YEARS OF WAR THERE

Japs Step Up 4. Offensives Anainat China   Oriental Republic Faces Most Critical Period of War

Battlé. of China Nearing Crisis  Chinese Fighting on Four Fronts

Chinese Seek To Check Japs   Battle Desperately To Prevent Sealing Off of East China

Allies Smash Makeshift Nazi Line in Italy   West Shore of Lake Bolsena Seized as Foe Again Is in Retreat

ALLIES CAPTURE SHORES OF LAKE BOLSENA IN RAID   Remnants of German 14th Army Dig in Before Road Junction on Northeastern Tip of Lake, Offer  ~ Stiff Resistance

1,000 PLANES HIT INVASION COAST   Air Base Of Chateau Bernard Put To Ruin   Waged By Fortress Fleet, 50-75 Nazi Fighters Over Brest Area

Year End Missior Successful One  Defense Plants in Paris Are Blasted

Yanks Hammer 2 Ball Bearing Plants At Paris  . #2. 85.  fe Oe   Airfields And Invasion Coast Also Get Deluge Of Allied Bombs.

PARIS RAID COST ALLIES 25 BOMBERS   Fortress and Liberator Guns Downed 17 Enemy Aircraft and Fighter Planes Account for an Additional] 11.

PARIS AREA RAIDS SAID. TO BEHEAVY   Two Ball-Bearing’ Plants Attacked, Coast Also. Hit .

NAZI PLANTS NEAR PARIS CET BOMBED   29. American Bombers Lost in Raids: Near Pari:  Yesterday on Munition Diente

29 Bombers Lost During Paris Attack   Big American Planes Take Toll Of Enemies

BALL - BEARING FACTORIES IN FRANCE BOMBED   American Planes’ Targets Revealed; Other Allied Planes Rake ad Invasion  oOaet.

War Plants, Air Bases Are Raided   29 Bombers, 3 Fighters Lost In Assault On France

AMERICAN BOMBERS  BLASTED VITAL WAR  PLANTS NEAR PARIS OTHER ALLIED PLANES  POURED EXPLOSIVES ALONC FRENCH COAST

U. S. PLANES HIT PLANTS NEAR PARIS   Ballbearing Plants Hit At Ivry, Bois De Colombes

MAILS BULGE WITH LETTERS FROM REICH   Byron Price Believes German People Have Launched Campaign of Correspondence Witt Nazi Captives in U. S.

‘Quake Wrecks Turkish Town   Many of Its 25,000 Residents Killed Or Iniured. Renorted

CARRIER TASK FORCE STRIKES GUAM ISLAND   Nearby Bases In Mariana Group Also Attacked On Saturday   22 JAP AIRCRAFT ARE DESTROYED AT PALAU

JAP-POSITIONS IN. GUAM ARE RAIDED   Carrier Borne Planes Strike in the Mariana Islands

Yank Planes Batter Guam, Saipan, Tinian   Carrier Task Force Pounds Three Islands In Mariana Group   LAND-BASED PLANES RAID PALAU FRIDAY

Carrier force strikes Guam   Carrier force hits enemy positions at Guam in Marianas   Saipan, Tinian also hammered as navv duplicates February attack

Great Carrier Task Force Pounds Guam   Aircraft Strikes Japanese Positions In Southern Marianas Islands; Also Blasted by Planes Are Saipan, Tinian

RED ARMY IS MARKING TIME   Kill Thousands of Nazis, However, As They Beat Themselves Against Invincible Soviet Defenses.

Most Of Jap Plane Output Is Turned To Fighters   Bombers In Pacific Becoming Fewer And Fewer: Raids Diminish In Size And Number

Japan May Be Turning Largely To Making Fighter Planes Getting Ready for Defense of Island Empire

Japan Bomber Force Shrinks  Over Pacific   May Have. Turned Aviation Production ‘Almost En-. rely To Fighters For Defense

Spanish Asked To Tell . Who Planted Bombs in_ Cargoes of: Oranres

RUSSIANS CUT NAZIS’ ESCAPE FROM ODESSA   Key Ukrainian Rail. way Junction is Taken by Red Troops

IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTION FALLS TO RED FORGES   Capture Of Razdelnaya Cuts Escape Route For 200,000 Germans   BITTER FIGHTING IN STREETS OF TARNOPOL

Fast-Swinging Russian Crescent Slashes Closer Towards Black Sea Port; Razdelnaya Captured

Reds Sever Escape Route From Ukraine   Rail Junction Captured And Estimated 900 000 Nazis Menaced In Odessa Area

Razdelnaya, key junction,  iS captured . Russ within 18  miles of Odessa

Control of Port Area by Russian Fleet Makes Water Flight Unlikely for Doomed Enemy Hordes

Razdelnaya Rail Junction  Is Captured   Russian Gain Severs Main Escape Route From Odessa Pocket

‘Capture of Razdelnaya Is Announced by Stalin  RUSSIANS DRI DRIVING CLOSE TO ODESSA  Fierce Fights Raging in      Fierce Fights Raging in the Streets of Tarnopol

Russians Cut Main Nazi Escape Route   Razdelnaya Taken by Red Army, Stalin Reports

REDS BOTTLE UP. “200,000 GERMANS IN ODESSA AREA   Nazis’ Main Escape Route Cut Russian Fleet Prepared _ to Block Flight ~ The Ran, o   ‘TARNOPOL BATTLE ~ ' RAGING IN STREETS   Nazi Defenders Put Up House-to-House Struggle —Fight Now in Elev “enth’ Day. °

Capture of Razdelnaya Is Announced by  Stalin  RUSSIANS DRIVING __ CLOSE TO ODESSA  Fierce Fights Raging in. the Streete of

NAZI ESCAPE BLOCKED OFF ON BLACK SEA   ESTIMATED 200,000 GERMANS STILL IN BIG TRAP

Soviets Close In on Odessa;  Get Rail Center   Capture Razdelnaya To Cut Main Escape Of 200,000 Nazis Grouped Near Odessa

200,000 Germans Believed Trapped   Dniester Ferry, Sea Lanes Only Route for Enemy

AS RED CAVALRY SLASHES DOWN TOWARD BLACK SEA PORT OF ODESSA; STALIN ANNOUNCES CAPTURE OF RAIL JUNCTION.

BRITISH “CHUTISTS DROP IN RUMANIA TO REVEAL HITLER DUPLICITY, REPORT

Britons Are Said To Have Told Rumania of Trick  Paper States Trio Warns Nation Alavie Dilan Dani

Strange Story of Nazi “Dicker” With Russia Heard in Diplomatic Circles —

NAZIS OFFER PART OF RUMANIA TO REDS   Trade in Offing If Reds Stop War, Rumor

Has Lead in Early Returns From 35 States; Election Conceded by Gov. Dewey   New York Governor Leads In 13 States — Popular Vote Lead 2 Millions

sixty. Five “Men Reported Drowned > After Liberty Ship Breake Intwc

FEAR SINKING — -COST.65: LIVES   SURVIVORS OF MUNITION: SHIP. THAT SANK IN ALEUIANS SAY EXPLOSIONS HEARD

DEDICATE PLAQUE AT SEA FIGHT SITE   Iron. Bottom Bay Memorial Erected: _First_One_in__. Salamane Area

Big Bombing Raid Centered On Hollandia   Jap Fuel and Supply Dumps Fired; 6 Vessels Destroyed Off Timor

ENEMY DUMPS ON HOLLANDIA SET ON FIRE   AERIAL OPPOSITION MISSING; COASTAL VESSELS SUNK

Yank Bombers Of Sth Air Arm Hit New Guines   Series: Of Heavy Raids Made On Strategic Jap Areas

japanese Fuel enter Blasted y Yank Fliers   Six Coastal Ships Reported Destroyed

YANKS STRIKE HOLLANDIA IN HEAVY ATTACK   Great Smoke Columns Rise from Fuel, Supply Dumps

fandia Under le of Heaviest 1S. Air Attacks   bers and Fighter: ‘ Fitth Army Force Hit Jap Dumps

JAPANESE BASE HEAVILY BOMBED   GREAT FIRES STARTED IN FUEL AND SUPPLY: DUMPS  ON HOLLANDIA,

COURT SESSION — OPE  NS APRIL 3   Judge Rodman Issues Two Divorces In Court Here Saturday

LIBERTY SHIP CHANGE URGED   CHANGES RECOMMENDED TO REDUCE PLATE. FRACTURES— . TREE WENT DOWN ..

G.0.P. Sentiment Looks to Maine And Connecticut  Draft-MacArthur ' Movement  Gains Momentum

Maine, Conn., Wilke States, Pick Delegates MacArthur Support.  Believed Too Late ~ To Head Off Dewey

MacArthur Boom Gains; Too Late To Halt. Dewey?   Maine And Connecticut Primaries May Throw Light On Question; General Proposed For Secretary Of War

Willkie’s Heirs May Be Revealer At Conventions   MacArthur Urged For War Post in Next Cabinet

NEW ENGLAND VOTING TODAY ON CANIDATE   Politicians Watch Outcome; May Be Final Factor

Maine, Connecticut, Fallow: ing Generally Conceded To Willkie.   MACARTHUR IN FAVOR?

LETTERS FROM GENERAL PEP UP SUPPORTERS   OPPOSITION CLAIMS THEY CAME TOO LATE TO STOP DEWEY MOVE

Appropriations For War Needs ‘To Show Decline   U. S. Has Passed Peak Of War  Expenditures

HITLER’S WARNING THAT ROME WILL BE DEFENDED PUTS WARM POTATO IN HANDS OF ALLIES

Hitler Seen r Another of He Colossal Gambles ‘im Warning’ to Make Rome Battlefield

The War Today  What Will Happen If Hitler Installs Suicide Divisions in Rome?

Today’s War Moves   Hitler Gambling on Allies, Hopes Invaders Will Not Shell Rome  Bey Mui?’ Alen te CATS

The War Today   Hitler Plots Colossal Gamble In “Suicide Defense” of Rome

; The War Today— ae weg  Will Rome Be. Destroyed If Hitler ‘Orders Troops Not To Leave City?

All lowa Men Under 26 Except Farm Workers to Take Tests During Aprii

SUFFICIENT MEAT, EXPERTS DECLARE   Housewives, Ho w ever Cannot be Choosy - » About Cuts -

ENOUGH MEAT TO GO AROUND   Housewives, Howeve I, Cannot Be Choosy About Kinds Of Cuts

Nazis Plan New Air and Sea Assaults Soon  Reich Is Preparing to Fight a Long War

Autos For All Stage Still Quite Remote   Twenty Million Remain On Road

Car Supply Dwindles    Number of Useable Passenger Vehicles Nears Dangerous Low; Relief Far Distant

PRODUCTION RECORD   June Output by Nation’s Hens Totals 5,437,000,000.

RED SOLDIERS SMASH WEDGE INTO SLOVAKIE   KASSA STRONGHOLD OUTFLANKED ON WIDE FRONT

REDS DRIVE OVER “THE CZECH BORDER   Soviet. Forces” Near East Slovakian Strong- ... - hold

Reds Threaten Stronghold  in Heavy Drive   Assault Takes Russians Over Mountains

ANAMOSA GIVEN OKEH BY PROBE   No Changes Needed, Says Governor's Report

Anamosa Report Shows No Need of ‘Drastic Change’   Governor Says Some Long-Range Policies May Vary

BRADLEY MAY RANK EQUALLY WITH ‘MONTY’   American General’s Status as an Army Group Commander Reportedly Is About Ready for Announcement.

NEW BRADLEY COMMAND SEEN   Americon General Expect. ed To Be Made Equal To Montaomery

Status ‘With Gen: Sir Montgomery.   HEADS ‘ARMY GROUP   Change Was Reported by Cor. respondents - at. Eisenhower’s Headquarters.

Lt. Gen. Bradley to Get Promotion In New Set-up For War in France

Bradley Put On Equal Status ‘With Montgomery, But British Are Critical Of New Commance   Complaint Said Unjustified; Chinese Necessitated by Growing U. S. Forcess

GEN. 0, BRADLEY GETS NEW POST   Yonk Commander Now Has Equal Status With Britain’s Montgomery

Bradley and ‘Montgomery -~To Be Equals   American to Become Head of Army Group. Despite British Protest

Name Bradley To New Group   Command Post   American General Promoted to Post of Equal Rank With General  Montgomery

Gen. Bradley, Montgomery To Get Equal  Ranks Soon”   British: Are Critical of Announcement -

BRADLEY MAY SOON BE GIVEN EQUAL STATUS WITH ‘MONTY’   British Criticisms of Previous Change Unwarranted; New Set-Up Scheduled for  Incuaguration

Bradley Will Have Rank Of Montgomery   American Heads New Command

Gen. Bradley Expected T'o Receive Equal Rank With Gen. Montgomery

Gen. Bradley Will Equal Montgomery   Proposed Change Mects Opposition In England

BRADLEY-MONTY STATUS EQUAL   YANK NAMED ARMY GROUP HEAD IN FRANCE

NEW COMMAND FOR BRADLEY   Gen. Bradley To Be Placed On Equal Status With Montgomery

Bradley Given Equal Status With “Monty’   Need For Deputy Commander Is Less With Eisenhower on Scena.

Bradley Given Standing Equal To Montgomery   British Criticism Of New Command Organization Is Deemed Unwarranted

Gen. Bradley Due for Hoist   Yank May Get Status Equal to Montgomery

Central Italy Will Be the _ Scene of Powerful  Thrust.  :  FRENCH GENERAL  LED THE ATTACK  New Gains Threaten the Main Supply Road Into Cassino.

Germans In Italy Face New Peril   They Are In Danger of Being Flanked By Allied Fifth Army Troops

ROOSEVELT MEETS TOP COMMANDERS OF PACIFIC WAR AREA  JAPAN BOASTS HENGYAN( CAPTURE MAJOR DISASTER FOR AMERICANS   GENERAL ALLIED OPINION IS THAT GERMANS SHOULD BE GIVEN TASTE VERY ROUGH TREATMENT

Chinese Defenders Of Hengyang Said Almost All Slain   U.S. Guns Fire Point-Blank on Jap Sites in. Sungshan

- ‘WE ARE GOING BACK T0 THE PHILIPPINES’ HE SAYS AFTER 3-DAY STRATEGY CONFERENCE   President Meets with Nimitz, MacArthur, Halsey And Other Top Commanders at Scere of Jap Sneak Attack on U.S. Goal Is Unconditional SGiirvrender Save FDR

Question Nelson In Whiskey Probe   WLB Head Asked If “Whiskey Holiday” Would Be Possible.

PEACE OR WAR PROBLEM AGAIN UP TO FINLAND   Helsinki Counter-Proposal Held Unacceptable At Moscow   DOOR IS STILL OPEN   Parliament Will Meet Next Tuesday To Consider Armistice Terms

HULL REPEATS PLEA TO FINNS   Secretary Says U.S. Not Told Peace Talks Have Been Terminated

Last Jap Airbase In New Guinea Hil   50 Nipponese Planes Destroyed

NAZI PROVINCE 91 MILES FROM SPEARHEAD   Krakow Threatened By Force 58 Miles Distant

RUSSIANS, CROSSING VISTULA. DRIVE WITHIN 91 MILES OF SILESIAN BORDER; NEAR KRAKOW

POUR ACROSS THE VISTULA   Forces Are Now 91 Miles From German Silesia— Other Units Shell Vil.  _lJages and Towns ir Bact Prissia.

Soviet Forces Shell Towns ir East Prussia   Drive Toward Silesia; Another Force Pushes Within Five Miles. Of Czechoslovakia

Silesia Is Goal of New Red Thrust   Advance from Vistula Swift; Russian Poised For Dash into  East Prussia

Reds Are Within 91 Miles Of , German Silesia   Shelling of East Prussia Continues With Reds 3 Miles From Border

Russians Aim New Attack Toward Silesia   Soviet Army Units Within 58 Miles of Krakow In Poland

REDS SHATTER VISTULA RIVER POLISH LINE   Triumphs on All Fronts Are Scored By the Swiftly Advancing Russian Forces   NEAR CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Fast Prussia . Under Fire. Of Red Army  Siege Guns a   “Forces. Within Miles Of Czecho- Slovakia:

Vistula River Line Smashed By Russians   Advance Swiftly To 91 Miles From German Silesia   HELL PRUSSIANS   Carpathian Fight Five Miles Inside Of Czech Land

EDS ADVANGE  IN ALL AREAS   One Group Pushes Ahead to Within 91 Miles of . Sitacia_

Russians Advance On German Silesia   Triumph in Carpathians Carries Reds to Borders of Czecho-Slovakia

SIEGE OF WARSAWIS CONTINUED   Reds Smash Vistula Line; Guns Shell ® East Prussia

SHELLS SHAKE TOWNS INSIDE EAST PRUSSIA   Moscow Silent On Siege 01 Warsaw; Germans Rush Reserves To Fronts

Reds Crash Toward Silesia   Other Army Groups Pour Shells On East Prussia, Near Pass  Into Czecho-Slovakia

SOVIET FORCES NEARER GERMAN BORDERS TODAY   Only Three Miles From Frontiers  Of Prussia

Reds Shatter Enemy’s Lines Before Warsaw         ‘ Within 91 Miles Of German Silesia, While Towns And Villages Inside East Prussia Being Shelled; Underground Strikes.

Reds Within 91 Miles Of Silesia   Poles Claim Underground Holds Buildings  In Warsaw

Soviet Troops Shatter Nazi Vistula Line   Smash Within 91 Miles of Silesia; Other Troops Advance

RUSSIAN FORCES ONLY 58 MILES FROM KRAKOW   Soviets Push on After Smashing Vistula Line—Victories Pile Up

RUSSIANS SHELL EAST PRUSSIA   Moving Within 58 Miles Of Polish City Of Krakow

Russians Dror Shells Inside East Prussia   Another Army Pushes to Within 91 Miles of German Silesia

Reds Continue Their Advances Against Nazis   Russian Armies in Several Places Report Heavy Gains Against Fast Crumbling Germans.

Russians Smash Germans Vistula Line; Forces In   North Shell East Prussia

Nazi Line On Vistula - Is Smashed   Reds Rolling On Toward _ German Silesia; Maintain e Drive On Prussia   NO OFFICIAL WORD ON WARSAW BATTLE   “Vistula Breakthrough May Be Start of a Serious German Rout

Russians Sweep Forward To New Triumphs Today   Reds Three Miles From East Prussia, 91 From German Silesia

Russians Moving Closer to Krakow   Now Within 91 Miles of rman Silesia West  of the Vistula —   NEARER BALTIC SHORE   German Move Reserves Up To Defend Their Short ened Lines

WEATHER   other Triumph Takes soviels 5 Miles From Czechoslovakia  sENT ON WARSAW   d Army Shells Towns and Villages Inside East Prussia

Towns, Villages In East Prussia Shelled Heavily   “Report Other Russian Units Now Only Five Miles From Czecho-Slevakia

Victory Scored In Carpathians By Russians   Soviets To Within Five Miles Of Czecho-Slovakia

Russians Shel Towns Inside East Prussia   Reds Three Miles From Frontier In Some Positions

East Prussian Towns Shelled   Russians 91 Miles From Germar Silesia And 58 From Kracow

Russians Shell Prussian Towns  At Close Range   Reds Move Within Fifty-Kight Miles Of Krakow, Over Hill Country

RUSSIANS NOW STAND ALONG CZECHO - SLOVAKIAN BORDERS: TIGHTEN SIEGE ABOUT WARSAW   From Baltic to Carpathians Russians Move Up with Succession of Blows, and Early Invasion of East Prussia and Czecho-Slovakia Is Now Certain

Reds Shelling Towns Inside East Prussia   Below Warsaw Russians Have Advanced to Within 91 Miles of Germtan Silesia; Soviet Troops Near Krakow

Russians Only 9{ Miles From Germany Proper   Polish Patriots Capture Buildings In Besieged Capital

CARPATHIAN VICTORY WINS MOUNTAIN PASS   Soviet Forces Within 5 Miles of Czechoslovakia; Nioscow Silent About Warcaw

NAZI DEFENSES STIFFENED AT EAST PRUSSIA   Soviet Forces Advance In Other Sectors Of Long Line

Drive Nears Czech Border   Russians Smash German Vistula Line, Push Ahead In Old Poland

Report Orlando Slain By Nazis      Former Premier And Son Of Badoglio, Reported  Mazsacred.

~—NO EXECUTIONS— . 7 No German Hostages  Executed By French   Allies’ RegardIssue Closed Despite Protests. From 7 “Enemy Over Gen, Leclere's: Strasbourg: Anti-

SOLDIER VOTING BILL APPROVED   House Backs States’ Rights Version Despite FDR Opposition

HOUSE COMMITTEE REEETSUNIFOR SOLDIER BALLOT   Amended Version of Senate “States Rights” Vote Approved

Japan Retuses To Discuss Third  Prisoner Trade Demands Details   Demands Details Of U. S. Treatment of  Japanese First

TOKYO DELAYS THIRD TRADE OF NATIONALS   Refuses to Discuss Exchange Until It Gets Report on Treatment of Interned Japs.

Today's War Map   ‘Airman Falls 3, 000 Feet: “When Parachute Fails;: But Trees Break Shock, Save Him

He Should Have Stayed in the Medics  Gunner Falls 3.000 Feet and Lives

PRIZES ARE ANNOUNCED   Dates For Annual Event . Are January 27, 28 and 29

January 25, 26 and 27 Are Dates: For Plymouth County's Grain Show   Classes For Corn, Grains And Other Farm Products

Annual Corn and Grain Show On January 27, 28 and 29 At Armory   Official Premium List For Event — This Year

LYMOUTH COUN. TV'S CORN SHOW   Will Be Held January 25, 26 and 27 At LeMars Armory —

U.S. Air Sweeps Add Destruction To Jap Shipping   Three Vessels Sunk; Six Others Badly Damaged

FLIERG oMfAGK JAP POWER TN PACIFIC AREAt   Sink Three Ships and Damage Six as Battle Drags  on Leyte.

Hal Boy le Finds Scotland “F resh As Page Out of Bobby Burns”  > “TE FAVES PROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK.)

Hodges’ Men Invade Germany North Of Trier;-3rd Army Launches New Drive as British Sweep Into Holland

Hit Siegfried Line From Luxembourg  North, South Forces Join in Central Franee

Leads Day Full Of Spectacular Allied Triumphs   North And South Armies Join In Middle France To Solidify 600-Mile Front. Hodges Tanks Smash Five Miles Into Siegfried Line,

Jap Attack On Imphal Repulsed   Chinese Divisions . Advance Near Mogaung

REPULSE JAP ATTACK ALONG IWiPHAL FRONT   Palel Area, South of Town in India, Scene of Heavy Fighting, Communique Reports.

Island Of Yap Hit By Bombers   U. §. Fliers Battle Way Through Tropical Storm To Blast Enemy Base  os. CoOaAAT EH WAWL Pedy

Vital Highway Severed And Enemy Being Driven To Meuse, Broadeasts Say

German High Command Announces Axis Troops Have Cut Great Liege-Bastogne Highway on Broad Front

REPORT ALLIES - FLEEING 10 MEUSE   GERMANS SAY LIEGE-BAS: TOGNE HIGHWAY HAS BEEN  CUT “ON BROAD FRONT? -

Five Allied Divisions Broken Up, Seven Others in Flight, DNB Says

NAZIS CLAIM HIGHWAY CUT   Berlin Radio Says LiegeBastogne Road Severed “On a Broad Front”

CHURCHILL TO TEST SUPPORT   PRIME MINISTER - ASKS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE AFTER SET_..__ BACK_ON-SeHo00L-———  , PAY ISSUE

New Japanese Offensive in China Opens  . Nips Seek to Free   _ Nips Seek to Free ' Hankow-Canton Railway in Drive

Japs Launch New China Offensive   Nips Drive to Clear  Hankow-Canton Line

New Japanese ‘Offensive kin China Opens   Nips Seek to Free Hankow-Canton - Railway in Drive

13 Larger Cities Expect Big Vote   Registration Sets Record, Compilation Shows

Arnold Says Aeriat Drive Not At Peak   Report Shows 20,174 Enemy Planes Are Destroved Against AAF Loss of 6.154

20, 174 AIRPLANES OF ENEMY DOWNEL   U. S. Losses Only 6,154 During Two and a Half Years of War

20,174 Planes Downed by Army   Air Offensive Still Growing, Arnold Says

ENEMY WARPLANES NUMBERING 20,174 BAGGED BY ARMY   Figure Compares With 6,154 Craft Lost By Americans in Two and a Half Years of War.   DRIVE AGAINST NAZIS STILL TO REACH PEAK   ‘General Arnold Declares Defense Forces Encountered in Raids Have Dropped Nearly 50 Pct.

Bombing Attacks Not Yet af Peak   Gen. Arnold Hopes For Major Success

U.S. Army Air Forces Destroy  20.174 Planes   Arnold Says Sustained Offensive Over Europe Hasn't Reached Peak

10,000 Nazi, Jap Planes Downed By Yank Forces   U.S. Loss Since Pearl Harbor Only 6,000, Arnold Says

Romhing Peak Not Vet Reached, Arnold Declares; Opposition Dwindles {0 ail

Armed Forces a  Peak: See Cut In Draft Calls   ‘Navy: Announces It Has 3,650,000, Seek Young Men

Navy Strength Reaches Goal Of 34 Million   Army-Navy Expected to Take 100,000 Selectees Monthly

Desired Strength Reached By Navy   Future Induction Calls Te Be For Replacements

U. S. Armed Forces Reach Peak Strength   Future Induction Calls To Be Made On Replacement Basis, 100,000 Monthly.

BABY BONUS IS PROPOSED      Senate Fathers Urge Lower Taxes for Large Families

BARGAINS FOR BABIES  SEVERAL SENATORS SUGGEST TAX REDUCTIONS FOR LARGER FAMILIES.

LARGE FAMILIES. ~ MAY RET BREA   Bargain Tax Rates Gain ing Some Support Frort “Senators i

FDR ILL WITH BRONCHITIS BUT -HE FEELS FINE   President Says Ailment No Cause for Alarm or Headlines

Roosevell Has Bronchitis Now   Aside From That He Feels Fine, He Tells His Press Conference

Oklahoma Governor Demo Meet Speaker   FDR-Truman Mass Meet Scheduled In Wichita Falls

PATTERSON IS SURE ITALIAN LINE 1S. SAFE   ‘War Official Declares _ That Troops Are Firmi ly Established, Even  Though Worst Attack ' Te Yet to Come.

Beachhead at Anzio Is Firmly Established Now, Robert Patterson Says

Firm, Says Patterson   But Enemy Threat Is Not To Be Minimized Assistant Secretary Of War Adds  ?

SAYS ALLIES HOLD -BEACHHEAD FIRMLY   Patterson Warns Main Nazi Attock Yet to Come

Allies’ Firmly Stationed At Anzio Is Claim   Undersecrétary of War Patterson Says German Offensive Failing to Gain Objective

Allied Beachhead  ~ Well Established  But Threat Cannot Be Minimized — Patterson

TROOPS CHECK ASSAULTS BY NAZI FORCES   “Our Men Firmly Established,” Secretary Patterson Declares

Patterson States U. S. Holds Firmly in Italy  War Chief Expects More Pressure But Is Confident

Beachhead Is Threatened By Strong Force   Greatest Weight Still  ' To Be Felt, Although Allies Are Firmly Established At Anzio

WAR AID SAYS ALLIED FRONT FIRMLY FIXED   Patterson Reveals Weather Has Hampered U.S. Air And Sea Operations

Even Greater  “Nazi Atfacks ~. Are Expected   Allied Troops: Are.’ Firmly Established, But. Threat Is -Not to. Be Minimized   PATTERSON. GIVES REPORT ON SITUATION   Germans Not.Likely to Challenge. -Our .Superior: Power for Long

Jap Positions Being Eliminated   Yank Forces Expand Perimeter Around Field

PARATROOPS AID ASSAULT ON NOEMFOOR   Yankees Take Island Airdrome With But Little Opposition From the Jap-

YANKS TAKE AIRFIELD ON NOEMFOOR   Expand Perimeter Against Weak Jap Opposition

De Gaulle May Be Delayed In Leaving For London For Conference With Churchill

De Gaulle Parley Off   No Transportation for Franch Committee Head

Marseille ‘in Path of New Allied Drive   Ships in Toulon Harbor Pounded by Bombers

On The Political Front   Governor Dewey Calls Roosevelt Man Of Worthless Promises And Senator Truman Rips Qué Charges Of Republican Bigotry

FIERY WINDUP FOR  CAMPAIGN PROMISED.  FOR BOTH CAMPS ROOSEVELT HAS TWO AD   DRESSES LEFT AND NEWEV WAC THREE

Fiery Windup Marks End  ‘of Campaign   Dewey Terms FOR ‘Man of Worthless Promises;’ Truman Countercharges

Campaign. Talks Become Bitter  F.D.R. Castigated; aa hanes Seanad

LAST DAYS OF CAMPAIGN ON BITTER SCALE   Charges Fly in Major Talks by Candidates of Both Parties.

Dewey Again to Have Last Word In Radio “Duel”   Roosevelt Talks Thursday, Dewey Saturday Night

DEWEY CHARGES PRESIDENT WITH WORTHLESS PROMISES AS TRUMAN CHARGES REPUBLICAN BIGOTRY

Bitterness Marks Final Campaign Of Both Parties   Fiery Wind-Up Is Expected in Last Major Addresses

Bitterness in campat gn is more marked  Dewey attacks F. D. R. promise:

‘Fiery Windup Of Campaign Is Promised   Truman Charges Republicans With Bigotry: Dewey Says Roosevelt’s Promises aire! Worthless

MANILA AREA UNDER ATTACK   44 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Clark Field By U. S. Fliers

Manila Bombed For Third Time In as Many Days   Forty-Four Tons of Explosive Dropped on Clark Field

Bombers: Raid : Manila Sector   Bombers Meet Determined Resistance Fror & Enemy Interceptors; 44 Tons Of Bombs Drop On Clark Fieid

Raiders Meet Determined Jap Resistance   Escort Fighters Down 39 Nip Planes in Attack

30 JAP PLANES. ARE SHOT DOWN IN MANILA AREA   Fifty Interceptors Rise to Give Battle to Americans Making Third Attack in as Many Days.   MOPUP OF NIP UNITS ON LEYTE CONTINUES   Yanks Count 899 More Enemy Dead, Bringing Foe’s Casualties in Campaign to 114,120.

Results Of Labor Talks Undisclosed. ... . Lewis And Green Talk  Of Peace Possibilities ~ After Eight-Year Fight

Lewis-Green Met Secretly  Results of Meeting Remain to Be Disclosed

Lewis, Green  Hold Session   Return Of C1O.To AFL’ Fold Is Discussed By ' " Eabor Leaders

UNION LEADERS MEET IN FLORIDA   Hold Secret Conference or Taking Back UMW

LEWIS, GREEN HOLD PARLEY   Mecting On Question Of Readmitting Mine Workers ToA. F.L.

Labor Chiefs Talk It Over   Lewis and. Green Meet Secretly to Discuss Question of UMW’s Readmission t06 AFL

Lewis, Green Near Peace After Parley   Labor Leaders Hold Secret Session on U.M.W. Joining A.F.L

GREEN MEETS LEWIS IN NEW PEACE TREATY   Mine Workers May Again Come Back To AFL Fold

Secret Meeting Reported Held. By Lewis, Green   Washington Parley First In -Which Pair Joined ~ Sines licenticn Of CIO

LEWIS AND GREEN RAPPROCHEMENT IS BELIEVED MAKING   Two Labor Leaders Estranged for Eight Years Said to Have Met Secretly Recently

UNION LEADERS MEET SECRETLY   D iscuss Readmission of  Miners to AFL

‘Two Estranged Labor Leader: Meet In Secret   John L. Lewis and William Green Air Question of  Readmitting Miners to AFOL   Ultimate Results  Are Not Disclosed   Conference, Held In Washington, Not Sought By Green; Pressure In  Behalf of Lewis

LEWIS TALKS 10  GREEN IN MOVE  FOR AFL RETURN RESULTS:OF SECRET  PARLEY NOT TOLD; PRESSIIRE EVIDENT

Meet Secretly on Issue of Readmitting Latter’s Group to AFL.   PARTED COMPANY IN °35

Lewis, Green Hold Secret Conference   Discussed Readmission of UMW Into AFL; First Meeting Two Leaders in Eight Years ~

GREEN, LEWIS HOLD SECRET PEACE PARLEY   Result Not Disclosed, May Be Development of Executive Meeting at Miami

LEWIS, GREEN ~ PARLEY HELD   Disclose Labor Leaders Met Secretly On Lewis’ ReAdmission to AFL

LEWIS AND GREEN IN SEGRET PARLEY   Labor Unity Not Achieved Yet, However, Belief

Lewis and Green Meet   Come Together After 8- Year Estrangement ; Miners Seek AFL Return

MOVE UNDER WAY FOR SETTLEMEN   Lewis Holds Conference With Green to End Strife Between AFL and CIO.

LEWIS, GREEN TALK REUNION   UMW Readmission To AFL Is Discussed Secretly

410 US Paratroops, 13 Transports Lost  in Sicily Invasion  Nazi Ruse Raid Believed Responsible

Nazis Tricked Allied Navy Gunners ‘To Shoot Down Own Planes At Night

CENSORSHIP IS LIFTED.ON TRAGIC STORY   U. S. Planes Loaded With Paratroopers Shot Down By Fire From Own Ships In Sicilian Campaign.   Nazi Trick

Nazi Trick Seen as U.S. Planes Shot  By Own Forces   Army Confirms Report, Says 410 Paratroopers 23 Transports Lost

Union Leaders Expect To End Store Walkout   Montgomery Ward Com pany Officials Give no Hint of Answer to Request From Roosevelt

Ward Employes Cancel Strike   Vote To Return To Jobs In Mail Order Firm

Ward Union To End Strike   Vote to Return in Compliance With Request Made by President

0B ‘PADDING’. CHARGE MADE   BRICKER. DECLARES : IN “SPEECH THAT NEW DEAL. “- ERS"ARE. BOOSTING ~  *) FEDERAL PAYROLE -

Air Casualties ‘Declared Low   U.S. Has Abundance of Trained Flyers

“SUPERABUNDANCE” OF TRAINED FLIERS   Air Forse Casualties Below ExPectations; Many Training Schools Are Closing

Yank Marines Take Important Airfield      Low Air Force Casualties. Stopping Pilot Training

 PRISONER OF WAR BEATEN   Fellow Nazis Object to His, Writing  to His Father Hi

Soviet Armies Move Within 25 Miles Of Dniester River; Enter Saburbs Of Vinnitsa

REDS DRIVING INTO SUBURBS Ot KEY VINNISTA   Cily Is Anchor OF Nazi Defense Salient; Nearer Dniester

Reds Driving Last Nazis From Ukraine   London Says Soviet Forces Have Reached Dniester Across Which Germans Are Fleeing

ONLY SMALL PART OF UKRAINE YET 70 BE LIBERATED   ‘Hard Pressed Germans Reported Is Struggling to Reach Comparative Safety of Dniester.   YANKEES MAKE LAND {NG ON MANUS ISLAND   ‘Liberators In History-Making Attack on Truk Is Taken as First of Series Upon Mystery Base.

LIBERATION IS NEAR FOR ENTIRE UKRAINE   Soviet Armies Fast Clearing Last One - Eighth Drives Reach To Within 25 Miles Of Dniester; Vinnitsa Periled

Hard Pressed German Forces Are Struggling Desperately To Disentangle Themselves -—— OneEighth Of Ukraine Still To Free   ESCAPE CORRIDOR NOW VERY NARROW

HARD PRESSED GERMANS SEEK DEFENSE LINE   Russians Driving Within 25 Miles of Dniester River In Rapid Push.

Russians Tn Suburbs Of Vinnitsa   Drive to Within 25 Miles of Dniester Boundary Line

PATTON TAKES NEW COMMAND   Leader Of Sicily Drive Believed Assigned To European Post

HALSEY’ DOESN'T CARE WHETHER OR NOT JAPS HIDE   “If We Have fo Dig ° Them Out, We'll Do Just That.” Save Haleav

Nazis Quit Section Of Italy Line   Allies Pour Into Breach For 11 Mile Gain Toward  Sulmona Junction.

Germans Retreat  11 Miles in Italy   Allies Press Closer To Vital Rail Junction

STREET FIGHTING   Brest, In Allied ‘Hands, To Afford Great Supply Funnel

Brest Is In Full Control Of Americans   Port To Be Used As New Funnel To Supply Armies

YANKS BEGIN 10 REPAIR BREST AS SUPPLY PORT   Third Army Gains 20 Miles Beyond Nancy Toward Strasbourg

SHELL-TORN BREST CAPTURED BY AMERICANS AFTER FIERCE FIGHT FOR BIG FRENCH PORT

—COLLETT—  CONFESSION g HELI EVIDENCE   State Wins . Major . Vic tory In Trial Of Jame: "W, Collett é

JUDGE GRANTS STATE RIGHT 10 USE CONFESSION   Collett Claims Toledo Police Guaranteed Short Term in Asylum

CONFESSION TO BE . INTRODUCED   Prosecution Gains Victory tn Collett Trial

PANIC REPORTED WITHIN NORWAY   German News’ Source Announces There Is “Something Afoot”

RENEGOTIATION — CHANGES SCORED   Four Senators Air Fears in ’ Their Minority Renort

WAR PROFITS BILL CHANGES OPPOSED   SENATORS CONTEND AMENDMENTS WOULD CREATE NEV CROP OF MILLIONAIRES.

RED TAPE SLAG OK BY BOWLES N GPA BATTLE   Makes Conciliatory Gesture to Aid Fight for OPA Extension.

‘No More Hardings Can Be Risked  Says Sen. Truman  Th. BAYMONT TAB

FederalAgencies Jump on Surplus Property Bill   ‘Measure Destined". For Sharp Revision: Before Final Passage

Surplus Profits Bill Condemned   Measure Appears Likely To Be Rewritten Before Submission to FDR

Surplus Property Bill Changes Likely Measure Scored By Federal Agencies. And Georgia Salon

Surplus Property Bill Cheiiges Likely —  Measure Scored By Federal _ ~ Agencies And Georgia Salon

Japs Try to Delay Yanks On Peleliu   Shackle Rear _Guards To Posts-to Cover  _Retreat in Grim  7 fighting —— -

JAPANESE FORCES ARE DRIVEN BACK      Defenders of Pelelin Is land Fight Fiercely in Retreat

BATAAN RELIEF PLANS MAPPED   Ciubs Propose Action Ti Rescue Heroes Of Philippines

ONLY 7 MILES TO GO BEFORE FOE ISOLATEL   Last Main Escape Routes For Thousands Of Nazis Cut

Heet Pounds Guam 15th Day  “Island Feels. Weight. Of Great Barrage

Warships, Planes Pound Japanese Base Upon Guam  MacArthur Closes  New Guinea Trap

Record-Breaking Ballot Being Cast In Many Sections   Millions of Citizens Indicate Choices For  White House Leader

Patton Leads Third Army in French Sector   Center of Many Disputes Heads Motorized Units

General Patton Commands Third Army  ‘Blood and Guts’ On Road Back

Gen. Patton Revealed Head of U. S. Third Army Closing Trap on Nazis

Patton Leads Paris Drive   Old ‘Blood And Guts’ Quits Dog-House To Win New Fame

LUTHER WARD DEAD IN FRANCE   Son ‘of Mr. and Mrs Mike Ward in This City Killed July 30

FLORENCE RUNS SHORT OF FOOD   Looting Aad Civil Strife Break Out; Armies Lock City In Vise

FLORENCE IS FACING WATER, FOOD SHORTAGE   Looting In Many Sections Of City By Germans And Italians Reported

Florence Faces Looting, Shortage   City Now Cut Off From Food and Water Supply

Food, Water Shortages inFlorence   City Also Suffars From  Looting and Outbursts  - Of Strife Among Rival Grouns

FLORENCE SHORT OF FOOD, WATER   BATTLE LINES CUT SUPPLIES FROM COUNTRYSIDE—CITY BESET BY LOOTING.

Also Outbursts o: Civil Strife in City As British and Germans Are Blocked in Vice.   Beat Counterattacks

FOOD IN FLORENCE. ~ REPORTED SCARCE   City Also Lacks Water as ~ Opposing Armies — -—sStifle City

FOOD IN FLORENCE. REPORTED SCARCE   City Also Lacks Water as Opposing Armies Stifle City —

KIDNAPED BABY IS RECOVERED   Anonymous Telephone Call Leads Police to Scene

U.S. Planes Knock Down 21 German Fighters During Raid Into Nazi Territory   U. S. Bombers Make Nine’ ‘Raids On Marshall Islands

NINE AIR BLOWS — DEALT MARSHALS   FIVE ENEMY SHIPS DAMAGED AND SIX PLANES SHOT DOWN IN RAIDS.

King Peter Asks Coalition Cabinet   CUGIIIVEE LGNtivi  Subesic Named To Head it: Asks Peoples to law Acide Differences

KING PETER NAMES OUBASIC TO FORM YUGOSLAV CABINET  MARSHAL TITO REPORTED SLATED TO SUPPLANT MIHAILOVIC

King Peter Forming New Setup   Tito Warns Partisans Final Blows Are Coming for Germans

GRAFT EXAMINATION BOGS DOWN IN STUDY — OF BILL HANDLING      Sigler Uses Unusual Methods in Maintaining Secrecy About Subject Matter   069 EXHIBITS ENTERED

Grand Jury Trials Are Slowed Up   Defense Seeks to Prove That Block of Dem Senators Were Powerless

Prt. CLOVIS OWEN INJURED IN FRANGE   Former Bloomfield Man Was Serving With Gen. Patton

LOCAL SOLDIER INJURED BADLY   Sgt. Ralph E. Randall Is Wolnded In Reich

Legislature's Extra Session ~ Starts Today   Neely’s Message Expected To Devote Most Time To Ballot Board

Pres. John R. Smith Says Statements By Ross Not True   Says Records Will Show County Will Have Ne — on July 1, Except Road, Schoo! Bonds

Yank Officer Outdoes Paul Revere  General Flies From U. S. to France to Join Trapped Men

Mines Released  ToFormer Owners   Disputes Ended In Bituminous Branch "

COAL MINES TAKEN FROM GOVT. OF U. $   Most of Bituminous Shafts Being Restored to Private Management by Ickes’ Orders

Both Sides Paying Frightful Toll In Greatest Conflict   Froni Dispatch States Drive Has Slackened Slightly in Violence, Indicating Enemy May Be Consolidating Gains   GLOOMY PICTURE PAINTED BY SUPREME COMMAND

Offensive Carries’ Far into Belgium   Losses Heavy an Roth Sidac

TWO GREAT WEDGES DRIVEN INTO U. 8. FIRST ARMY (LINES  GERMAN COUNTEROFFEN. SIVE THREAT REMAINED UNCHECKED THURSDAY

‘Thrust ‘Toward Sedan   First Army Foices Stem Northernmost Prong of Offensive; Fog Grounds Planes

Browns Win 2-1 From Cardinals In Series Opener   Rout Mort Cooper On Only Two Hits, Bunched in Fourth

MeQuinn Blow Gives Brownies  2-1 Series Win   Galehouse Hurls Victory ; Cooper, Loser, Allows _ Browns Only 2 Hite

Turn 2 Hits  Into Runs on  VeQuinn Clout   (ards Tap Galehouse for Seven Hits But dre Unable to Score lptil Final Inning

BROWNS WIN WITH HOMER BY 2-1 SCORE   Blast Off Bat of McQuinn Sews Up First Game

Illegal Liquor Business Brisk   Police Take Over Luxurious Quarters And Catch Customers.

JESTER URGES QUICK ACTION T0 RESTORE STATE REGULATION  TEXAS RAIL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN SPEAKS AT

WPB Turns Down . ~"ypicauon. of ~ Chieago Tribune   : ‘owsprint Pap er. for Use in. Wisconsif - . Nat Av ilable

LINK UP WITH BRITISH 2ND   Germany Throws Crack Troops From Russia and Swarms of Planes Into Battle in West. —   ALLIES PUSH ON RELENTLESSLY,   Forces on Dutch Soil Threaten to Drive Around Siegfried Line and Invade Reich.

Veteran nazi units thrown into fighting  Luftwaffe rises  tn atid dafanco

With Allied Airborne Army in Holland; Nazis Bring Reinforcements From Russian Front to Protect Siegfried Line.

HEAVY BLOWS AIM AT HEART OF REICHLAND   AIRBORNE INVASION PRESAGES QUICK END OF WAR

Nazis Cail Troops From Russian Front to Stem — Advance   BATTLE IS BITTER IN AACHEN REGION   Americans Fight Inside Duren, 20 Miles From — Coloane 

Allies Weld Firm Junction  Inside Holland   Germans Throw Crack Troops From Russian Front, Swarms of Planes Into Fierce Battle for Reich

AIR INFANTRY IS PROTECTING DUTCH BRIDGES   Germans, Reinforced By Troops From Russia, Fighting Desperately   SPEARHEADS BUT 20 MILES FROM COLOGNE

British 2nd — And Air Army Join Hands . In Holland —   - Germans Rush Troops From Russian Front ‘And Use Many Planes. Tn Snresadine Rattle   NAZIS ALSO STEP-UP ©. ARTILLERY DEFENSES   AKIILLERY DEFENSE, But Allies Threaten. ° . To Flank -Foe’s Line : And Head far Berlin

NVASION BATTLE GROWS IN FURY   Germans Bring up Reinforce. ments From Red Front   SEND IN PLANES   Other Yank Columns Feel for Weak Spots in Line of Siegfried Fortifications

Germans Draw Soldiers From Russian Front   Long-Dormant Enemy Airforce Thrown Into Battle in West

Germans Taking Veteran Troops ~ From Red Front   Massive Thrusts Smashing Nazis In Northern Areas

Germans Launch Fierce Attacks East of Aachen   Crack Nazi Units Called from Russia

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Dewey Urges Major U.S. World Role  Cautions Nation To Prevent Central Power

Dewey Warns on Danger of U.S.  Totalitarianism   Governor Lauds Army, Navy Leaders, Hits Home Front Bungling

(Roar of Battle Ts E hi  Through the Gity’ [ Outskirts:   MANY SURRENDERING   Storm Troopers and Gestapo  Trying to Create:Order’O: ‘of Frightened. ‘Defender

BATTERED NAZI ARMY. DRIVEN BACK TO MINSK   Roar of Battle Echoes Through Streets of Quiflanked Russian City.

REDS QUTFLANK REMNANTS OF GERMAN ARMY   Demoralized Nazis Pouring ‘Into Minsk: Russians Close Behind

TEMPERATURES:   Russians Surround Minsk, Seizing Rail, Road Routes To Warsaw; Nazis Routed   Hitler’s Most Important Eastern Front Defense Bastion Scene Of Panic And Defeat; Gestapo : And Storm Troops Try Ta Halt Flight

Demoralized Nazi Army Attempting To Defend Minsk   Germans Outflanked as Russians Battle Into Edge of Capital.   Captives Crowd Roads To Hinder the Attack

Baffled Nazis Pouring Into City of Minsk   Efforts Being Made to Restere Order Amona Nazi Remnants

SOVIET CAVALRY UNITS OUTFLANK MINSK BASTION   Battle Sound Roars Through Capital of White Russia

Remnants Of Demoralized German Army Pouring Into Ca pital Of White Russia      Roar Of Battle Echoes In City; Three Soviet Armies Rapidly Converging; Nazis Surrender By Hundreds; Enemy's Situation Hopeless

German Army Pouring Into Minsk   City Now Outflanket; Soviets Claim 183,930 Killed or Captured

Demoralized Nazis Pour  Into Minsk   Roar of Battle Echoes At Russian City’s Outskirts

Russ Circle Minsk, Trap. Big Garrison   All Retreat Routes To Warsaw Cut os German Rout Grows

Roads To Warsaw — Tn Hands Of Reds; Nazis. Demoralized   Report Great: Namber.Of Captives . Gowding: Area Hinder Soviets; Stalin Allows Polish Citizenship

BEATEN NAZI ARMY POURS INTO MINSK   Capital City Of White Russia Said Surrounded

Demoralized Nazi Army Pours Into  Outflanked Minsk   Three Russian Armies Converge Rapidly on Battered City

Reds Pursue Broken Foe To Minsk   Three Triumphant Russian Armies Converge on White Russian Capital

MINSK 15 wl03T VITAL BASTION   Storm Troopers, Gestapo Try to Create Some Order Among Men.   REDS HAVE 3 ARMIES

Nazi Forces Straggle Into Minsk   Russian Troops Have Ouiflanked City; Big Battle Expected

GERMAN ARMY REMNANTS IN MINSK TODAY   Men Demoralized As Russians  Drive On

German Defense Cracks   Reports Picture Nazi Soldiers Surrendering In Droves to SwiftlyMoving Russian Armies

Reds Closing In On Vital White Capital   Gestapo Attempts To Create Order Among Defenders

Battle's Roar Heard In City Germans Hold   Soviets Pour Through Forest Near Capital In Rapid Advance

BATTERED NAZI LEGIONS FALL BACK INTO CITY   GERMANS SURRENDER BY HUNDREDS; SLOW UP RED ARMY DRIVE

Minsk Surrounded By Russian Troops  Soviet Armies Prepore to Take  # gg BSF.   Soviet Armies Prepare to Take City and Drive on Against Warsaw

183, 930 NAZIS DEAD, SEIZED, RUSSIANS SA\   Confusion Sweeps Big Base As Demoralized Troops Pour In From Front

Red Armies Flank City From Three  rong Directions   Frightened Nazi Legions Are Demoralized

ENEMY FLEES INTO MINSK BEFORE REDS   Demoralized Germans In City Threatened By Flanking Movement

VITAL: HITLER BASTION FACES GRAVE DANGER   Demoralized Germans Pouring Into Capital Of White Russia as Storm Troopers and  Gestapo Attempt to Restore Order.

NAZI LEGIONS ‘DEMORALIZED BY RED DRIVE   » Gestapo and Storm Troop ' ers Try- to Organize Frightened Troops for  _. Defense of the White Russian Capital.

MINSK INSIDE ARC OF SOVIET ARMIES TODAY   Battle Roar Heard in White Russian City Streets.—Great Disorder in German Ranks.

Confusion Reigns in Minsk Area   RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO MAKE GAINS IN FrAGcT

City Flanked; Germans in Hasty Retreal   Three Soviet Armies Converge On Enemy 8astion

German Forces Demoralized by Losses at Minsk   White Russian Capital Already Is Outflanked

Nazi Remnants Pour Into Minsk   Fighting Reaches Outskirts of City As Captive Toll Mounts

[White Bread for Yank Armies Amaze (European Civilian Populations

Fresh Bread for Yank Soldiers _ Good as Caketo European Civilians

ALLIES BESIEGE ISLAND OF CRETE   STRONG FORCES SAID TO HAVE LANDED ON HEELS OF  NAVAL BOMBARDMENT. _

Allies Open Major Drive On Cassinc   Massed Cannon Spray Town With Deadly Barrage

Cassino Assault Is Opened " : ~ By Allies; Brideehead Hold:   Powerful Attack on Nazi Defenses ta nched Before          *_ Germans Hurled Back.at Anzio

MAJOR ALLIED ATTACK MADE UPON CASSING   ARTILLERY SMASHES DEFENSES; ANZIO LINE UNMOVED

Nazi Defenses Take 6-Hour  Gun Barrace   . On Beachhead to North __ Allies Hurl Back More Savage Nazi-Assaullts  LINES HOLD FIRMLY —

CLARK'S MEN OPEN ASSAULT UN CASSING   Hundreds Of Allied Guns Belch Steel Into Battered Streets Of Town: Some Guns Red-Hot.   Air Support

Hurl Back Great Nazi Onslaught At Beachhead   Ground Troops Smash Against Powerful Cassino Defenses

Battles Raging In Cassino and Rome Beachhead   Germans Repulsed In Anzio Attack

Cassino Assault Is Opened __ — By Allies; Bridgehead Hold:   Powerful Attack on. Nazi Defenses Launched Before Dawn After. Six-Hour Artillery Borrage— Germans Hurled Back at Anzio 

Allies Smash at Powerful Naz Fortress of Cassino in Major Effort to Capture City   Hundreds of Guns Fire Steel Into Battered Streets in One of Deadliest Artillery Barrages of Mediterranean War

Nazis, Americans Mount Full-Scale Attacks In Italy   Fifth Army Opens Mighty Offensive Against Cassino Bastion; Allies Throw Back Heavy  German Blows At Anzio

Allies rain telling blows against nazi fortress at Cassino   Continde hurl back savage attacks in six hour earth-shaking barrage

NAZI THOUSANDS ~-FALL INBATTLE FOR BEACHREAD   Violent Attacks by Emeny Forces Are Hurled Back by Americans and  British. °   ASSAULT ON CASSINO OPENED BY ALLIES   Troops Move Against Strong Enemy Defenses After Six-Hour Barage is Laid Down.

am RR a aa mm a  Nazis Hurled Baek In Italy      Fierce Barrage Laid Down As Fifth Starts Big Push

Nazis Hurled Back In. Italv   Fierce Barrage Laid Down ‘As Fifth Starts Biq Push

Allies Launch  Cassino Drive   Heavy Barrage Paves Way; Resch Tennnse F.

HURRICANE MAY HIT AT TAMPICO   85-Mile Winds Headed For Middle Mexican Coast

YANK AND JAP INFANTRY MEE} IN NEW GUINEA   Stiff Fighting in Both Hollandia and Aitape Regions

Three Buildings Destroyed; Damage May Exceed $50,000  New Concord Man Sustains Broken

British Bomb Last Hideout Of Nazi Fleet   500 Planes Attack Scheer and Lutzow At Gdynia. Poland

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BOMB KAIRENG NEW IRELAND; 4 SHIPS Hil   Attack Made Early New Year’s Morning In Face Of Anti-Aircraft Fire, Duplicating Christmas Attack      13 Jap Planes

Yanks Blasi Jap Ships At Kavieng   Sixth Army Moves In To Capture Saidor Air Strip

Carrier l'orce ‘Ifits Enemy’s Kavieng Base   Bombers and Fighlers Leave Two ~--Cruisers-in Flames, Strafe All” Eaeur tan Vocecole

Two of Foe Warships Set Afire By American Bombs; Troops Secure Objectives in Saidor Area

U.S. BOMBERS SCORE HITS ON JAP WARSHIPS   Two Cruisers, Two Destroyers Attacked At Kavieng

Two Japanese Heav y Cruisers and ‘Two Destroyers Are  Blasted by U.S. Carrier Planes

JAP WARSHIPS HAMMERED IN KAVIENG RAID   AMERICAN CARRIER FORCE FIGHTERS SCORE VICTORY

2 JAP CRUISERS ARE SET AFIRE IN ALLIED RAID   Bomb Hits Scored on One of Two Destroyers in New Ireland Harbor-—-All Four Ships Strafed.   ENEMY RESISTANCE AT SAIDOK OVERCOME   Phirty-Second Division Troops Secure All Objectives on Northern Coast of New Guinea.

Bombers Fire Two Cruisers.   At Least 32 Nips Downed — In Two Separate Air Raids

Monsoon Rains Slow Battle for Myitkyina      Chinese Troops Establish Solid Lines Northwest O} City to Prevent Japanese From Retreating

Monsoons Hit North Burma   Battlefield at Myitkyina Sea of Mud as Allies Seek Control of City

BURMA BATILE IS © SLOWED BY RAINS      Allies Prepare for Final  Assault on Jap Stronghald

Monsoon Rains Delay Fight For Myitkyina; Chinese Take Rail Junction

BLOODY BATTLE RAGES IN BURMA   ALLIES AND JAPS FIGHT INSIDE MYITKYINA AS MOONSON. -RAINS FALL,

ALLIES MAKE FINAL LUNGE AT MYITKYINA   BURMA BECOMING SEA OF MUD AS MONSOON HITS

MONSOON IS SLOWDOWN ON BURMA. FIGHT   For Mytkyina, But Allies I'ly in Reinforcements; Block Key Roads; Inside City’ Bloody Fight.   Harder On Japanese

Rainy Season Slows Action In Burma   Chinese Overcome Mud, Japs To Take Road Junction

Threaten Reich At Three Points 0n200-Mi. Front   Greatest. Nazi Opposition Since Normandy Faces  Allies Along Moselle’

TEMPERATURES:   Allies Closing In On Liege, Metz   Patton’s Third Army 20 Miles From West Wall; Germans Battie Desperately To Hold Approach To Sieafried Line

Patch’s Seventh Army Storms Northword Toward Belfort Gap; Patton’s Yanks .— Forced to Withdraw From Nancy

Close Up ToLiege And Metz   Patton’s Arm; Stabs Within 50 Miles of Belfort Gap

Forces Make Way Close To German Border   Heavy Battle Being Waged As Fighting Nears The Reich

ALLIES MEET STRONG NAZI RESISTANCE   Getting Ready For Big Push  In Germany

Nazis In Fiercest Fight Since Normandy As Allies Close Long Assault Front

Nazis Coneede Prestige Hurt By Rome's Fall   Great U. S. Army and Canadians Prepared For Invasion Blow

HALT EXAMS FOR MEN 30 OR OLDER   General Grahl Instructs on Pre-Inductions

Third Army Forcing Way Deeper Inside Saar Siegfried Line   Month’s Campaign Has Made Worthless to Germany Rich Coal Region; First, Seventh Armies Grind Out Advances

Exit King George   Despite Relationship To English King He Looks Like a Loser

GREEK KING ON WAY DUT   DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES SAY KING GEORGE HAS NO CHANCE OF RETURN.  ING TO. THRONE

UFTIGIALS SAY GREEK AING WiLL NOT SE THRONE   Forecast Is Made in View of Recert Events end Expected Rezency

SOVIETS PLUNGE NEARER GERMAN PSKOV BASTION   Russ Column Now Only Five Miles From Baltic Pivot

SOVIETS CLOSE TRAP ON PSKOV   Russian Troops Reach City’s Outskirts In Two Directions

Red Column Drawing Close  To Key City   Force From East Gets Within Five Miles of Vital Junction

Reds Reach Point 5 Miles From Pskov   Soviets Moving in 2 Directions: Enlarge Estonian Bridgehead

RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVE RAPIDLY TL PONOV OUTSKIRTS   Reds Move Along Two Railroads, Sweeping up Towns And Railway Stations   ESTONIAN BRIDGEHEAD POSITIONS IMPROVED   Unofficial Moscow Reports Say Narva Is in Flames With Nazis Setting Torch to Nearby Estonian Villages; Thaw Cuts Roads

More Reds Hit. Edge Of Pskov   Two Columns Now * Closing On City  AE Dee eee eae

REDS MOVE ON PSKOV; SEIZE MANY TOWNS   Four Railway Stations Are Taken in the Swift Advance   TROOPS ARRIVE IN CITY'S OUTSKIRTS   Six Mile Gain-in the Area _ Announced by  Maccow

Reds Press In On Pskov from Two Directions   Three Railway Stations On Pskoy-Polotsk Road Swept Up in Advance

Soviet Forces Drive to Within ‘Five Miles of Pskov   Russians Move Along Two Railroads to Sweep Up 17 Towns and Four Railway Stations Near Vital Center

2 RED COLUMNS: NOW FIGHTING IN -PSKOV OUTSKIRTS   One Closing on City From East, Another From North - ~-800 Germans Killed in Struggle.   NARVA IN FLAMES; ‘MOSCOW REPORTS SAY   Nazis Apply Torch to Nearby Estonian Villages—Offer Stiff Resistance to Soviet Drive.

SOVIETS DRIVE NEARER PSKOV   Russian Army Advances Six Miles to Point Within Five Miles of City

@ PLENTY ROUGH  Texas Pilot Makes and Loses Friends on Berlin Raid

Pilot Of American Fortress ‘Describes Experiences During: Daylight Bombing Raid On Berlin Yesterday

Ickes Calls For End to P&R Strike      DEMANDS THAT JOHN L. LEWIS AND R. E. TAGGART HALT FIVEWEEKS WILDCAT WALKOUT.     rr. Tv. Sf®.._. ff... ..

Soviets Advance Against Nazis In Wilno Drive   Take Two Important Railway Junctions Along Minsk Line

Kowel Base Abandoned By Germans   More Than 330 Place: Freed by Soviets in Day’s Fighting; Two Rail Junctions Fall

Russian Troops Head For Latvia And Lithuania   Soviet Forces Smash Closer To Qilno And Capture Two Imortant Rail Junctions On Line From Minsk

Russians Take Railroad Keys’ On Minsk Line   Germans Hint New Thrust By Soviets, Relating  Kavala: Betiiciatiicn.

Nazis Violate Promise To Treat Florence ‘As Open City; Beautiful Palaces In Ruins

Allies Threaten to Quiflank Nazis in Italy   Germans Evacuate Florence, Patrols Renort

DEMOCRATS SEE BID BY GOP 10 USURP POWERS   Party Fears Republican Effort To Gain House Leadership by Fall

Levy On Enemy fs Heaviest Since Schweinfurt Raid   Toll Of Tuesday’s Battle Continues To Grow As Additional Pilots Report; American Losses Increased To 60 Heavies, Five Fighters.

News Blackout Screens Extent of German Push; Enemy Reserves Pour In

Yanks Still in Retreat   German Drive Is Greatest Since Egyptian Campaign

Yermans May Expand Drive t Entire Front   ‘Penetrations by Enemy Panzers Still Hidden by Blackout

ANTWERP IN & DAYS GERMAN ALG PUSH GOAL   Yank Reserve Troops, Tanks Go Inte Aciion en Fluid 70-Mile Line.

Three Ma jor r Battles A re Now Raging ra      FIRST ARMY STAFF OFFICER ~ SAYS NAZLONSAUGHT HAS ...... - BEEN ‘DENTED’ AFTER FIVE: ‘DA ‘fs

Battle Tide  Chanaes Io U.S. Favor   Bitterest Fighting Of War Raging in 2 Belgian Sectors

Suggest New ‘Work or Be Drafted Bill’   Sen. Brewster to Ask War Department to  Back Measure

DRAFTED BILL 5 SPONSORED   New Order Being Dicussed, May Be Put Into Operation

WORK-DRAFT SUPPORT IS. AGAIN ASKED   SENATE SPONSORS OF PLAN AFFECTING MEN IN ESSENTIAL” WORK “SEEK” ~ ARMY BACKING -

(Two Artificial Harbors, Built in Secret and Towed ‘Across Channel fo Normandy Beaches, '/Made Possible Liberation of Western Europe

Extra Agents To Help With Rush   Two Added To Interna Revenue Office Here Today.

Tokyo Radio Hints Luzon May Be Goal   Supers Pound Jap Aircraft Center In Twin Raids  Sunday.

Philippines Liberation Gains Speed   Americans On Leyte Split Yamashita Line Into Three Segments

Americans Drive 12 Miles Inland On Mindoro Isle   Yamashita Line On Leyte Island Divided Into Three Segments

Splitting Yamashita Line On Leyte Into Three Segments   WITHIN 130 MILES OF ISLAND CAPITAL   Tokyo Speculates Another Amphibious Landing, Perhaps On Luzon

YANKS GAIN ON MINDORA AND LEYTE   Engineers Building Air Strips On Mindora Island

Philippines Drive Speeded Up by Capture Of Mindoro   Yamashita Line on Leyte Island Split Into Three Seoements

“U.S. FORGES *FAR INLAND ONMINDORO   Split Jap Lines 3 Ways On Leyte; Tokyo Fears New Landings

Foe Reports Strong U.S. Fleet In Sulu Sea As Yanks Rush Mindoro Base:

AMERICANS ADVANCING ON LEYTE   Yamashita Line Split By Yanks; Airfield Repairs Rushed

Yanks Drive 12 Miles Inland On Mindoro Island   Tokyo Reports Anca U. S. Fleet Sighted — In Sulu Sea

LIBERATION OF PHILIPPINES IS GAINING SPEEL   Americans Drive Twi Miles Inland on Newly - Invaded  Mindoro

AMERICANS PUSH INLAND IN NEW PHILIPPINE DRIVE  _ an RAo I.   Yanks Gain 12-Mile Beachhead On Mindoro

YANKEES GAIN MORE GROUND IN MINDORO BATTLE   Drive Further Inland, Also Split Yamashita Line On Levte

Entertainment For Italians’ Is Cancelled   ‘War. Department Denies Soliciting of Parties — ‘For Fornier’ Prisoners

Prisoners Party War Dept. Idea   JEANNETTE LEGION AND VFW SAY ITALIANS WERE SOLICITED TO ORGANIZE PARTIES FOR PRISONEKS OF WAR,   Italians Misled

Cooperate In  World Relief   Senate Calls On Hull To Aid Allies In Feeding Starving Europeans,

Fire Consumes. Tent Top45 Seconds  After Woman Screams First Alarm

Fire Swept Over Tent in 45 Seconds Spectator Says  - Crowd Calm at First owt Panic ht My  a mesenee am mawana

Fire Chief Makes  Grim ‘Discovery   ‘Steel Runways from Animal Cages "Barr ed Exit ai Panic-Stricken Audience

PRESIDENT MAY SHAKE UP HIS CABINET   Biddle, Stimson and Perkins Mentioned in Latest Rumors

THREE CABINET CHANGES HINTED   Biddie, Stimson, Perkins Said on Way Out

HINT E.R. PLANS CABINET SHIFT; 4TH TERM RUSE   Whispers Involve Names of Stimson And Labor See Parkins

CAPITAL RUMORS HINT AT PENDING CABINET SHAKEUE   Attorney Gereral, Secretaries of War and La har Invalved

President May ~ Shake Cabinet   New Reports Are Heard That Some Changes Are Now Pending

REPORT ROOSEVELT PLANS. SHAKEUP IN HIS CABINET   SECRETARIES OF WAR AND LABOR AND ATTORNEY GENERAL SAID TO BE IN VOLVED IN PLAN *

RUMOR SHAKEUP OF F. D. CABINET   Stimson and Perkins on Way Out?

RUMOR FOR MAY SHIFT CABIKET OFFIGERS SOCN   Claim Pres dent -Seeks More Stréngth on Inner Council

Russ Break Up Axis Attacks   Claim 800 Killed in Stanislawow Area; No Change in Battle Line

Moscow Reports Attacks Broken   Adds “No Substantial Changes” On Eastern  Renanrté

Axis Repulsed In Old Poland Battle  Russians Remain Silent On Romanian Fight

Reds Break Axis Attacks In Poland   No Substantial Changes On Eastern Front, Moscow Says

FRESH AXIS ATTACKS CRUSHED BY SOVIETS   Russians Continue Silence On Romanian Fighting

Russ Smash Poland Drive   Germans, However, Claim Defensive Victory Along Dnestr

Russians Break German Attacks   800 Nazis and Hungarian: Killed at Stanislawow in Former Poland

Russia Says ‘No Substantial Change   Germans Claim Defensive Victory

Peace Proposals Invited by Pope Pius XII  Issues Warning Against Perpetual Burdens

Pope's Christmas Message Hails  ‘Allied Plan To Prevent Aggression

Whole Countryside Around Carentan Is Littered With German Dead   YANKS AT CHERBOURG PENINSULA SAID TO HAVE SCORED GAINS   Nearly 1,000 American Heavy Bombers Pound Nazi Supply Routs

Biggest Struggle Of Normandy Is Centered At Southeastern End Where Nazis Fight Desperately To Hold Caen.

ELEVEN DEAD IN ACCIDENTS IN THE STATE   Memorial Day Observed With Fitting Ceremonies

11 VIOLENT DEATHS REPORTED IN STATE   16-Year-Old South Carolina Youth Drowned Near Eliicoti City  Tuesday

REDS HURDLE DANUBE 10 SPLIT NAZI BUDAPEST DEFENSE FORCES   GERMANS DESTROY AMMUNITION DUMPS, RAILWAY YARDS IN FACE OF POWERFUL SOVIET ASSAULT

FOOD SUBSIDIES WILL CONTINUE   Administration C ontends Congress Cannot Override Presidential Veto

FDR NOW FEELS SUBSIDIES SAFE   Administration Believes Repealer Veto Will Stick

LEADING ARMY IN BRITTANY   Gen. Eisenhower Discloses Latest Military Setup

D Wares errr ee eee ree  Parmonent Rank of ‘Mai. Gen. for Patton

Selective Service Prescribes Guide To Peemployment Of Vets In Former Jobs

Selective service guide is provided for re-employment of war veterans

VET RE-HIRING GUIDE PROVIDED      Seniority Rights Accumulate ‘But Qualification Neraseary

HC CONVINCED FEDERAL TRUST LAWS ARK BROKEN XN CIGARETTE SHORTAGE

Claim Violations In Cigaret Issue.   Says F: ederal Antitrust Laws Have Been Broken

ENEMY VESSEL SET AFIRE BY RAIDERS   Attacks Madé by U. S. Airmen on New Guinea Conct

ENEMY VESSEL SET AFIRE BY RAIDERS      Attacks Made by U-S. Air. men on New Guinea Coast

MacArthur's Airmen Blast Jap Shipping In Attacks on Wewak and Near Timor

ST. PAUL'S  EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH, KNOKE Viroll PRP Waine PRaatnr.

DORSEY S HIT BY TESTIMONY   WITNESS IN BAND LEADER'S YRIAL SAYS DORSEY, “STRUCK “HALL WITH. & BOTTLE °

NAZIS CLAIM . _ ALLIED PLOT   ‘BERLIN SENDS OUT WORLDWIDE RADIO REPORT :. THAT FUEHRER SUFFFERED “SLIGHT BURNS AND ©. CONCUSSION” AND HIS “COMPANIONS. .WERE “INJURED BY DYNAMITE BLAST IN AN , " ASSASSINATION EFFORT.

Report Uprising In El Salvador   Opponents Of Martinez Regime Have Seized Public Buildings.

“‘SGOVERNMENTAL PALACE SAID HELD BY REBELS   Insurgents Thought To Be Against United Nations

REVOLUTION FLARES IN SALVADOR, REPORT   Action Feared Unfriendly To United States

Salvador Revolt Under Control   Nature Of Uprising Is ‘Not Clear’

British Capture Savignano, Italy  Throw Germans Back on Fiumicino River

Sth Puts Grip ‘On Vital Road   Savignanoe on’ Main Road In Htaly Is Captured

Malian Town Taken "In Heavy Fighting   British 8th “Army Captures Savignanc on Rimini7 Baleate Highway—-Germans Reported . Thrown Back

WINS TOWN IN FIERCE FIGHT   Throw Nazis Back Ai Some Points Along Fiumincino River

British Eighth Army Troops Take Savignane   City Falls After Several Days of Bitter Fighting

atk Town Taken  Tn Heavy Fighting   ‘British 8th ‘Army Captures’ Savignano on Riminii. snl Highway—Germans Reported . i Thrown Back

SAVIGNANO CAPTURED BY BRITISH TROOPS   Eighth Army In Possession Of City 1@ Miles From The Adriatic; Hard Fighting Continues

STH CAPTURES SAVIGNANO IN ITALIAN DRIVE   British Also Throw Boche Back At Points On  Fiumicino Line

M’ARTHUR’S MEN IN 200- WED HOP   LAND ON NEW. GUINEA’S VOGELKOP PENINSULA—ISO' LATE 15,000 JAPS.

In Surprise Attack Py MacArthur Making a Last Operation in New Guinea Campaign.   Conquests Imperiled

Enemy Forces Taken By Surprise As Americans Establish Beachheads 600 Miles From Philippines

Americans Land On Dutch ~ New Guinea: Area Seized   Amphibious’ Operation Places Americans 200 Miles _ Beyond American-occupied Noemfoor — Island in Geelyink Bay .

Landing Made On North Tip Of N. Guinea _   Beachhead Secured On Vogelkop Peninsula 60 Miles from. Sorong  ENEMY STIRPRISED —

Surprise Attack Takes Beachheac And Two Islands   Now Only 600 Miles From Philippines

Allied troops land on Vogelkop peninsula; establish beachhead   Pacific force meets light resistance as Sansapor and 2 islands-are taken

BRITISH OFFENSIVE SURGED FORWARD IN THREE-MILE ADVANCE  ENEMY CITADEL OF TILBURG REPORTED BYPASS ED AND DOOMED

Nazis Face New Trap In Holland   British Offensive Surges Ahead For 3-Mile Gain

British Heap Fire On Enemy   Beachhead Widened To Drive to Clear niwerp Approaches

ENEMY FORCES RUN INTO WALL OF FIRE, STEEL   VON MODEL’S TROOPS BATTLE DESPERATELY AS PINCERS TIGHTEN

Nazis Face Prospect of Debacle   3-Mile Gain Undercuts Tilburg, Doomed Foe Citadel

Offensive Rolls 3 Miles, Beyond Tilburg Citadel   Main German Escape Route In Holland Cut; Enemy Is Seen Facing Debacle

GAIN 3 MILES T SHASH TOWARD TILBURG'S FORT   Long Columns of Allied Troops and Tanks Put New Drive in Campaign

British Trap German Force In Holland   Disaster Faces Defenders After British Cut Main Escape Route

British Advance On Maas Dooms Tilburg, Holland   Nazi Escape Cut; Enemy Faces ;. Grave Consequences

GERMANS FACE BRITISH TRAP   Advance Beyond Tilberg Wedges Von Model's Battered Army

British Drive Threatens To Cut Off and Annihilate Nazi  Units in Maas River Salient

Doomed City Of Tilburg  Is Undercut Schelde Campaign  Gaine Mamentam

Drive Toward Tilburg Made By British   Enemy Citadel Undercu' By Three-Mile Gair Of British Force: Operating In Holland

GERMANS FACE DEBACLE WIT  PROSPECT OF ESCAPE (i BY FAST MOVING ALLIED

British Cut Main Nazi Escape Road   Trap in Holland Made More Certain By 3-Mile Gain By Dempsey’s A4an

DANE SURGES TOWARD MAAS   Advance Undercuts Doomed Enemy Citadel of Tilburg in Holland.   SCHELDE FIGHT BRISK

British Gain 3 Miles In Push  Toward Meuse   German Stronghold O: Tilburg Is Doomed By Drive In Holland.

British Maas Drive Gains  - Three-Mile Advance   * Three-Mile Advance Dooms Big Enemy Citadel of Tilburg

Tilburg, German Citadel, Is Doomed By Flanking Thrust   Canadians Speed Up Clearance of Schelde Estuary

British Tanks Smash Nazi Escape Path   Another ‘Failaise Gap Debacle Possible on Dutch Front

Nazis Face Prospect  Of Debacle   Enemy Citadel of Tilburg Is Doomed by Swift Advance of Allied Forces; Amphibious Tanks Are Employed for First Time in West

Three-Mile Advance Undercuts Doomed Enemy Citadel Of Tilburg   Nazi Rearguards Chopped To Bits   Canadians Step Up Operations On Both Sides Of The Schelde

BRITISH CUT” MAIN AVENUE OF ESCAPE      Drive Toward Meuse and Undercut Tilburg, Setting Stage for Sequel to Enemy’s. Falaise Gap (Byanpa) DNahacla Loe

SCHELDE ARE  HEE ON FINFORCED   Allies Who Landed on  South Beveland Island Establish Beachhead Seven Square Miles   SEVERAL TOWNS TAKEN

British Gain 3 Miles On Western Front   Nazis Put Up Counter-Blows; Face Debacle

British Troops Bypass Tilburg; Gain 3 Miles   Confront Von Model With Grave Debacle. Germans Report New Landing Attempt

Not A Single Man Lost In Latest Raid..... Japanese Fliers Refuse To Challenge A 52-Ton Bomb Attack On Rabaul

Japs Refuse To Rise to Rabaul Attack   Washington Thinks Enemy Fleet Whittled Down

U. S. Planes Bomb Rabaul   “Movement Of Enemy Cargo. Ships Noted

NO CHALLENGE BY DEFENDERS INSIDE RABAUI   52 Tons of Bombs Poured on This Keystone Japanese Bastion on New Britain Island

52 Tons Bombs Pound Jap Base On New Britain   Start Large Fires At Launai Airdrome At _ Rabaul; Enemy Planes Refuse To Challenge Allied Planes.

Rabaul Base Again Blasted   Japs Fail to Fight Back in Air; Ships Fleeing Great Base

Enemy Refuses To Challenge Says WArthur   Allied “Troops Seize Initialive On Arakan Front In   Ae pene   FEW SHIPS SIGHTED

GABUMI TAKEN IN NEW GUINEA ALLIED ADVANCE   Jap Ships Noted To Be Fleeing Rabaul Harbor

Hull Proclaims U.S. As Champion of Liberty For Aspiring Peoples —

HULL NEEDLES NATIONS WITH VAST EMPIRES   Secretary Emphasizes U S. Traditions In Support Of Freedom   - AIMED PRINCIPALLY AT BRITISH, DUTCH

U.S: To Assist Small Nations, Hull Declares   Dutch, Poles, Belgians Get  - Assurances as Equals if Et. Fd.q.

U.S. Wants All Nations F ree---Hull   Secretary Of State Declares Nations Preaches Liebert

Gives Virtual Promise of U. S. Recognition to All Peoples  ' Who Free Themselyes—Declares Small Nations Are to  Be Treated Equally With Great Powers in Rreponed World Organization to Maintain Peace.

25 IN FEDERAL PRISON REVOLT   Protest Incarceration in Building at Atlanta With German Spies

SOLONS STUDY MCKAY OUSTER   Detroit News ews Poll Fails to Pin Down Congressmen On Issue

The Word “Senate” In Latir Means ‘An Old Man”: Are We Old? Asks McKellar

THE U. 5. SENATE, MADE UP OF OLD MEN, ROUNDLY DEFENDED  SENATOR M’KELLAR SUSPECTS DEWEY MAY HAVE HIT AT AUGUST BODY

THE U, §. SENATE,  MADE UP OF OL MEN,  ROUNDLY DEFENDED SENATOR M’KELLAR SUS PECTS DEWEY MAY HAVE It AT ANCHCT RONY

Four Killed In Fairmont Wreck   Lincoln Man One of Victims As Freight Rams Into Rear of Zephyr

LER'S LAST HOPE IN SOVIET  1S BLASTED.   Whole Initial Invasion ‘of North Russia Pivoted on City .

HITLER MUST NOW RETREAT INTO POLAND   Stalin Troops Catch Nazis off Balance   ROGACHEV FALLS   Reds Also Take Rail Point of Dno

Sea, Air Troops Smash Ashore Across Adriatic   Invasion on Big Scale After Long Series of Raids

STRONG FORCES OPERATING ON BROAD FRONT   Move Aimed At Closing Gap Between Adriatic And Soviets To East

Invasion Forces Sweep Ashore In Great Strength   Hit Dalmatian Coast And Islands Off Yugoslavia

Nazis Report Major Forces Knife Inland   PowerSul Landing Aimed at Closing Gap for Russians

Nelson To Set Up Chinese WPB  Steel And Transport Are Maior Problems

TO BOLSTER CHINA   A War Production Board Is Planned for Ally by Donald Nelson

REDS CUT RAIL T0 BUCHARES!   Army at Outskirts Of Balkan Gateway

Russians Cut ‘Rail Line Of ‘Nazi Retreat   _ Western Spearhead Of Same Army Smashes * {nto German Flanks In Foothills Of Mountain Defense Barrier And Capture Railway Junction

Soviet Forces Cross Prut River; Moscow Reveals Series of Crushing Defeats Over Wehrmacht

Spearhead Cuts Lwow  Railroad   First Ukrainian Army Fighting In Third City Of Pre War Rumania.

Dallas Buses, Streetcars Resume Schedules   Army Heads Intervene, Breaking 12-Hour Transportation Strike

YANK FLIERS Hill SIMPSON HARBOR   Surprise Attack at Rabaul New Britain; Ten Planes Lost.

Eisenhower. Headquarters Warns People, However, To Do Nothing Active Now

General Hints That Invasion Is Imminent  Moscow Joins In ~ Eisenhower Plea —

SPIES T0 SUPPORT INVASION SOUGH   EISENHOWER CALLS ON UN. DERGROUND TO FURNISH ACCURATE INFORMATION.

German Editors Get War Warning   Invasion Sunday Hinted by Berlin

Mass Attack On Coyotes   More Than a Thousand Men and Dozen Planes Join in Oklahoma Hunt

OKLAHOMA COYOTES  FACED BY THOUSANDS  AVENGERS SATURDAY PLANES AND GROUND MEN  CONDUCT NATION’S FIRST MASS ATTACK

Senator Guffey Is Under Fire   Barkley: Plans To Replace Demo As Chairman Of 1944. Campaign

BRITAIN 10 PULL FOR MORE EXPORTS   R elaxing Regulations o Foreign Trade Asked

Nips Fear Assault On Guam   Report Strong U. S. Task Force Attacks Former American Isle For 9th Straight Day

Jap Admiral Who Led Pearl Harbor Attack- Killed   Died In Defeat At Saipan; Island’s Capture Is Hailed As Fall Of Hawaiian Base In  Reverse; Guam Attacks Continued As Tokvo Shows Annrehension

Leader Of Pearl Harbor Sneak Attack Is Listed Among Enemy Dead On Saipar

Adm. Nagumo Killed Amidst Humiliating Defeat at Saipan— Jap ‘Pearl Harbor’   Guam Again Shelled   Take Nearby Island

Jap Who Led Pearl Harbor Attack ‘Dies With 16,000 On Saipan Island

SAIPAN STAND LAST ONE FOR ~VIRE ADMIRAL   Tokyo Worries Over New U. S. Fleet Attacks on Guam.

Naval Leader Who Raided  Pearl Harbor Dies AtSaipan   Adm. Nagumo Among Thousands Of Enemy Casualties; U.S. Is Pounding Guam Again

Jap Admiral Who Lead Pearl Harbor Attack Is Killed   Vice-Adm. Nagumo One Ot Two. Jap Admirals To Meet Death At Saipan: Extensive Attacks Continue On Guam.

Jap Who Led Pearl Harbor Sneak Killed      Among Saipan Island Casualties

DEATH OF JAP ADMIRALS ON SAIPAN © HEIGHTENS NIP REVERSES IN PACIFIC

Mrs. Charlie Lamb Dies Suddenly .        0 ‘Porch Funeral ‘Saturday ‘4 P. M. :

NEW RATION PLAN STARTS ON SUNDAY   One Point Stam Stamps it in Book May be Given ‘as ‘““"Chanae”! :

NEW RATION PLAN— STARTS ON SUNDAY   One Point Stam Stamps ii in Book 4 May be Given as — "Chanae”

Clamps Lid on  Ammunition WPA Halts Manufac  WPA Halts Manufacture of Cariridges For Civilians

AMMUNITION MAKING HALTED   WPB Moves To Conserve Stock For Essential Uses

Navy Films A Thriller   “The Fighting ing Lady” Is Gallant Story of . An Aircraft Carrier And Crew in Pacific

SAIPAN LOSS AND OTHER BAD WAR TRENDS FORCES CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP   Tojo Government Which Stabbed U. S. in Back At Pearl Harbor Is Out and Efforts Being Made to Form New Cabinet. Japs Admit Crucial War  Develonmente

Nimitz Continues toSoften UpGuam   Former U.S. Island Outpost Hit 15th Consecutive Day; Emperor Names General Koiso and Admiral Yonai to Form New Cabinet

Ponea Blast Kills Trucker  Aeocident Talze>se Place   Accident Takes Place During Severe Flood

Yanks Intensify Softening Up on China Coast   Japs Have Occupied Seven U.S. Air Bases in the South

NATION FACING LONG CONFLICT   ‘War Workers Have Big Job; Shortages Held Army  Back, Claim.

HELP BY STICKING   Homefronters Help Fight_ing Men Best by Staying on Jobs

President Tells All to Stay on Job   Can Best Help Fighting Men by Maintaining Steady Output of Suppjlies

Stick to Your War Job and Give Yanks  Best Present Ever   FDR Urges Workers to Maintain Steady Flow of Needed Supplies

PRESIDENT SAYS STAYING ON JOB IS URGENT NOW   Home Front Can Best Aid Soldiers By Toiling in Production Lines

 F.D.R. Urges Holiday Work, Says Charter Aims Still Valid      Army Favors Universal Training Strictly for Military Purposes

STICKING 10 WAR JOBS BEST HELP   Roosevelt Gives That Reply To Questions On How ~ To Help Soldiers

Stick to Jobs, President Urges   Best Way Fighting Men Can be Aided By Home Front

STICK ON JOB IS YULE PLEA -OFPRESIDENT   Turn. Out Supplies Needed, Roosevelt Asks in Messaae

PRESIDENT URGES HOME FRONT FOLK STICK TO WAR JOBS  ROOSEVELT, HOWEVER, SAYS HE HAS NO INSIDE NEWS ON WEST FRONT

President Urges War Workers To Remain Upon Job   Best Way To Help Fishters

Best Way to Help Is Stay on the Job   This Is the Advice Given by President Roosevelt to the Home Front.

Stay on Job, Is Roosevelt's Advice For the Nation  Best Way to Aid Fighting Forces   Best Way to Aid Fighting Forces He Says; Longer Wear a Possihilitv

-WAR PRODUCTION:  FOR ASKS STEADY QUTPUT FOR WAR   Appeals To Workers To Aid Fighting Men By Sticking To Jobs   NO BUDGET CHANGE      Nazi Offensive Gives Americans Grim Prospect Of Long Strife

TIGK ON JOB At PRESENT TO YANK‘   Urged by FDR as Christmas Gift for Fighting Forces; Grilled on Atlantic Charter At Press Meet

STICK TO JOBS AD MONITION OF PRESIDENT   Greatest Need Now, Chief Executive Says, Is to Maintain Steady Output  of nang  nen ities gine iia ai ail. lat ia ee

STICK 10 JOB, BEST GIFT 10 FIGHTING MEN   ROOSEVELT URGES NATION TO TURN OUT SUPPLIES

‘Stav On Job’ States FDR   President Savs Financial Budget For “46 Coming Along Fine.

riome Fronters Urged To Stay With War Jobs   ‘isis on Western” Front Miakes It) Necessary for Those at Home To Deliver the Supplies.

FAIL T0 SOLVE PHONE DISPUTE   Company And Operators Remain Deadlocked

ONLY DEATH, TRAPS REMAIN IN CASSINO   There Is Not a Sign of Life in Rubble Where Armies Fought for Months,

GERMAN U-BOAT SUNK IN ATLANTIC   CREW CAPTURED BY AMERICAN DESTROYER AS THEY - TAKE TO SEA.

ities) U-pOtit Site iit Atigniic;   Crew, Taking To Sea, Captured

Charges New US Jax Bill Designed To Aid Profiteers   ) Treasury Counsel Tells Indiana Bar of Tragic Failure

Treasury Charges Tax Bill Will Aid  War Profiteers   Counsel Rips Into Measure Approved By Senate Committee

Marshall Islands Hit Hard   Plans And Ground Installations Are Dest royed  And Damaged.

) Antonio Demands $40,000 For Ear Battered At Dorsey-Hall Cut-Up Party

Group Discusses Plans for Mt. Altor Airport Buildings   Earl Wheeler Submits Architect's Drawing Of Proposed Buildings

Seven from  Area Die In Battles   ‘Five Other Men Listed as Wounded; War Dead from Southtown Now   Total 393.

Seven Men Killed, One Lost in War   Two Die in Pacific, Others in Europe; Another Southtowner Is Missing in Germanv.

Former Minister Is Indicted   Told to Establish Himself in U.S. as Nazi Spies’ Contact

Ex-Minister Is Indicted   Charge Carl Kreppe: With Violating Sabotage Laws

INDICT MINISTER AG SPY CONTACT   investigation Following Saboteur Trial Ends in Charges by FBI in Newark

Ex-Minister Taken as Aide Of Nazi Spies   Carl Krepper Indicted On Several Charges Following Complete FBI Investigation

Indict After Two Years of Investigation   Allege Former Minister Was Contact For German Spies

Former Minister Indicted With Sabotaae Charae   Justice Department — Arrests Newark Man After lana Senrch

Contact Man For Spies Is Indicted   Former Minister Faces Federal Charges Of Assisting Germans

FORMER MINISTER ARRESTED BY FBI AT NEWARK. N. J)   Carl Emil Krepper With Violating the Sabotage Censorship.   CONTACT GERMAN SPIES   Onfe Indictment Alleges He Conspired With Walter Kappe.

Faces Charge  Of Espionage   Former Minister Accused of Having Established Himself as Contact for Spies

For mer Pastor Indicted by FBI ‘As Nazi Agent   Cart Emil Ludwig Krepper, Newark, Was lo Provide Lodging For German Spies, Bureau Charges

EX-MINISTER IS UNDER ARREST   Newark, N. J., Man Accused Of Acting As Contact For Nazi Spies

Former German Pastor Indicted as Spy On Information From U-Boat Saboteur

AERIAL BATTLE RAGING OVER PHILIPPINES   200 Japanese Planes Destroyed; Chinese Capture City Of Tengchung

Air Battle Rages Over Philippines   Carrier Planes Meet Stiffening Resistance

MAJOR AERIAL BATTLES OVER PHILIPPINEX   Adm. Nimitz Reports Operations Meet With Strong Jap Resistance.

ATTACKING PHILIPPINES   Major Aerial Battle Developing Over Island Area

ce WOT Aue F a:W ay AUAaCK Continues on  Lost Islands      Jane Put Up Stiffer Re sistance as War Nears Lifelines

BIG. AIR FIGHT IS. DEVELOPING IN. PHILIPPINES   Japs Apparently Make First Definite Effort to Halt Heavy Blows

AERIAL BATTLE IS DEVELOPING AT PHILIPPINES   Japs Report Attempts To Kai Several Islands Today

Majes* S sal Bay pevelops ("ef “hilippines  &   er 200 Jap Planes, Sy Cargo Vessels Keported Destroyed

MAJOR AIR BATTLE OVER PHILIPPINES   American: Carrier ‘Planes. Attack: Center of Islands 

Aerial Battle Develops Over Philippines   Air Operations Are Believed Continuing

U.S. Carrier Planes Raid Philippines   Halsey’s Third Fleet Concentrates On Cebu, Negros And Panay Islands

200 JAPANESE PLANES BAGGED —IN> PHILIPPINES   U. S. Task Force Fliers Still Attacking Three Islands

FRONTS FACING ROER, SAAR RIVERS ABLAZE WITH HEAVY ACTION   Germans Dig In On East Banks With Massed Artillery For Last Ditch Stand To Save Vital War Industries   Ry 1 FDWARTD MIRRAY

Americans Press. Along Roer Line   Ninth and Third Armies Lunge Ahead Despite Losses—German: Hurl Fierce Counterattacks

Hoffman's Attacks on Wincrell Throws House in an Uproar   Radio Commentator Draws Renewed Five of Representative and Inquiry Request

WALTER WINCHELL AGAIN ATTACKED; HOUSE IN UPROAR   Charges of Hoffman Against ‘Radio Broadcaster Bring - ‘Near ‘Free-for-All in . ‘Chamber,   YELLS AND APPLAUSE  AS GAVEL POUNDS   Plea Made for Investigation Of. Two Women, Formerly Employed by Winchell’s  :  Snonsor.”

Attacks Renewed on Winchell  House In Uproar As Hoffman Lashes Out At Commentator

House in Uproar as Attack Upon Winchell Is Renewed   Near Free-for-All Develops as Members Yell at Each Other, Galleries Applaud; Broadcaster Enjoys Row: Prob- Sought 

48 Jap Ships Sunk, Damaged In Devastating Attack By Planes:‘On Manila Bay Area   Total Is Revised Upward By Nimitz To Include 23 More Vessels; Heavy Cruiser And Three Destroyers Lost; 87 Aircraft Downed

At Least 48 Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged  in Attack  VESSELS ADDED TO.  wr Freee FEAR         Airdromes on the Philippines Hit by Rombers

DESTRUCTION IF SHIPPING  -OR JAPANESE    In Manila Bay Area FriDay Serious for Jap Navy; U.S. Third Fleet Inflicts Damage.   Fires In Palaus

Revision increases  Jap loss   48 ships struck  inraid on Manila

Nip Losses At Manila Hiked   Friday's Ship Toll Reaches 48, And November Total Is Brought Up To 151

BlG JAP CRUISER AND 3 DESTROYERS SUNK AT MANIEA   Toll in Devastating Attack Friday Raised to 48 Vessels Sent to Bottom  . or Damaged,   87 ENEMY PLANES BLASTED FROM SKIES   Nipponese Supply Lines to American-Invaded Leyte Dealt Heavy Blows in Recent Weeks.

NIMITZ GIVES OUT NEW SCORE ON LUZON RAID   Communique Lists Two New Ships Sunk And 23 More Damaged Last Friday

At Least 48 Enemy Ships , Sunk or Damaged _in Attack      VESSELS ADDED TOTHE FIRST FIGURES   Airdromes on the Philip. pines Hit by  Bomberc

Report 48 Jap Ships Sunk Or Damaged in Friday's Carrier-Plane Manila Raid

TOLL OF FRIDAYS BATTLE REVISED   At Least 87 Planes Knocked Down in Air Combat   NOVEMBER TOLL JUMPS   Japs Attempt Fighter Sweep Over Saipan; 13 Enemy Planes Destroyed

48 JAP SHIPS HIT IN FRIDAY MANILA RAID   Nimitz Revises F igure: On Carrier Plane Attack

New ‘Bluebeard’ Slays 25 Women   Parts of Bodies Found In Paris Basement

New Bluebeard Mystery: 15 Women Reported Slain in Paris: Bodies Dismembered in Rented Villa

25 WOMEN KILLED; BLUEBEARD SOUGHT   Victims. of Slayer Believed to Have Been Lured ta Villa 5

Red Armies Over-Running Crimea Race Toward Sevastopol From Two Captured Cities

Germans’  To Flee                ARE HIT BY HAIL OF SOVIET BOMBS; THREE-FOURTHS OF CRIMEA IN RUSSIAN HANDS

AXIS TROOPS IN SOUTHERN CRIMEA SEEK AN ESCAPE   Enemy Defenses Burst Like Punctured Balloon as Russian Army’s Whirlwind Campaign Nears An End.   YANKS BOMB NUMBER OF JAPANESE BASES   Shashikotan Gets First Bombing While Matsuwa Has Fourth In Month, Rabaul Raided Twice.

EVACUATION I$ BEING THWARTED BY RUSSIANS   Believe Smashing ‘of Escape Craft Will Result in a Slauohter.

Red Armies Now Occupy Four-Fifths Of Crimea, iINear Big Naval Base

Nazis Try To Flee by Black Sea   Russian Flanes Bombing Ports As Germans  Try Evacuation

Soviets Hammer Enemy Along Black Sea Escape Route   Defenses Crumble Before Red Drive   German Says Russian Tanks “Turned Us  Into A Herd”

EFFORT MADE TO EVACUATE BEATEN UNITS   Reds Regain Four-Fifths Of Peninsula In Six Days

End Of Red Army Drive Is Nearing      Dispatches Claim Axis Defenses   Of Crimea Burst Like Punctured Balloon; Sevastopol Believed Near Shelline Pange   SECOND DUNKERQUE APPEARS DOOMEL

AXIS DEFENSES ARE SHATTERED IN CRIMEA AREA   Reds Race Toward Sevastopol! With Early Fall Of City Seen

Second ‘Dunkerque’ Evacuation Attempt ReportedUnderWay   Flight of Br oken Tr oops ‘Doomed’; Red Vanguards Nearing Sevastopol As Gener nals Step Up Tanya of Drive

DEFY TO JAP FLEET IS NEAR   Service Paper Sees Siberian Air Bases Possible

TOKYO FORCED TO USE FLEET   Naval Base At Ponape May Be Next Step After Marshalls

NECLARES JAPAN MUST RISK FLEET   ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL BELIEVES JAPAN MAY BE BOMBED FROM SIBERIA.

Canadians Push Ahead In Drive To Free Antwerp   Russians Reported 18 Miles Inside East Prussian Border

TWIN BRITISH AND CANADIAN DRIVES IN ACTION ON MONDAY   SEEK TO DRIVE GERMANS FROM LOWLANDS TO OPEN PORT ANTWERP

Canadians Seize Three Strongholds At Schelde Mouth   East Prussian Highway. Center Of Goldap Captured By Russians; Allies Hold Large Aegean Island

Canadians And British Push Ahead   Soviets Launch Two Invasions of East Prussia, Germans Say

ALLIES ANXIOUS TO PUSH NAZIS FROM HOLLAND   Use of Antwerp as Major Sup ply Base Purpose of Twin Offensive

 Nazis Say Reds Start New Push   Anticipate Big Yank Offensive in Aachen Sector; Aegean Island Seizec

Twin Allied Armies Push  Back Nazis   Moscow Still Silent on Eastern Front Developments; First Army Ready to Attack

WHEAT JAP DAM tA It RUBBLE   Smashed By Bombers 7 Straight Days   OPPOSITION = NIL  23 Japanese Ships Sunk at Truk

Victory Seems To Be Shaping Up In Pacific   Final Elimination Of Major Jap Garrison At Rabaul Believed Nearing   OTHER ALLIED GAINS IN NEWS OF DAY

WILLAIE'S FATE AU STAKE TODA fy WSCONSLY   1346 Noricce Stazds to Los2 Most li lie is De

Wisconsin Is  Willkie Test   Primary Election In State Today May Be Large Factor In Candidacy

4 MORE TOWNS ON GUAM FALL   Nimitz Reports Organizec Resistance on Tinian Ceases

Rapid Advance Being Made !n Guam Conques!   Yanks Move Speedily Northward—Resistance On Tinian Has Ceased  BR. FPTC PEARED Lb STATE BB

RAINS HAMPER DRIVE IN ITAL)   British Troops Gain Mil South Of Key Highway

OPERATIONS IN {TALY STALLED   Few Gains Made as >  Heavy Rains Continue

ai RnR a ieiy, mm i ea nia  Summers Condition Still Critical   Former Adan Shot By Hijacker at Ft. Worth

Summers Condition Still Critical   Former Adan Shot By Hijacker at Ft. Worth

FLIERS REPORT ENEMY RUNNING TOWARD RHINE   Four Allied Armies in Le Havre Drive Hit Shattered Foe

NAZI REAB GUARD ~ AND THE ROMANIAN, ARMY IN A GEASH   ide-Spread. Local Eagage —< Reported by Mos  NOW WITH THE ALLIss   Russian Armies Drove Swiftly Through the Oi and  Wheat Country.

SOMME ALSO REPORTED 10 BE HIS GOAL   Such a Move, Said to Be a Headlong Retreat, Would Mean Abandonment of Much of the Channel Coast.

Whole Front Of U.S. Army Is On Move   Big Gains Reported Northwest of Lessay

SCORE GAINS ALONG ENTIRE DAT TLE LINE   Advance Averages 1,000 Yards — Germans Appear to Be Carrying Out Orderly Retreat.   LESSAY’S HARBOR IS LOST BY ENEMY   Road Linking Nazi Front Menaced — Americans, Stalled Before St. Lo, Swing to North.

Ist Army Drive: South; Cais Up to3 Miles   Takes 10 French Tewns And Pins Down the Coastal Stronghold of Lessay: Move on St. Lo

GERMANS ARE HURLED BACK IN NORMANDY   LESSAY STRONGHOLD PINNED DOWN WITH ARTILLERY FIRE

Artillery Fire Smashes German Counter-Attacks   Whole U. 5. Front Reported on Move

Allied Guns Pour Shells Into Lessay   Whole U. S. Army Front From St. Lo to Sea Declared on Move

Invaders Gain Three Miles, Ten Villages   Salients Driven in Enemy Defenses of Important Road

Coastal Stronghold of the Nazis Under Heavy _ Fire  ENEMY ASSAULT IS oA QUICKLY CHECKED Whole U. S. F Front From  St. Lo tothe Seaon the Move

Pin Down Coastal Stronghold of Lessay with Artillery Fire; Hurl Back Stubborn Germans.

Navy Chiefs Map Pacific Campaign   JAPS REPORT INVASION ON COAST  Ry SPENCER MOORA

NAVY OFFICERS CONFER IN S. F.   STRATEGY FOR ATTACKS ON JAPANESE MAPPED

—_—_—ESESESESE~_—E—_—_______ NAVAL CHIEFS MAP STRATEGY   Admirals King, Nimitz, Spruance Meet With ~ Sec’y Forrestal

Naval Leaders Wind Up Meet  Strategy For Pacific Attacks Discussed

Both Presidential Candidates Praise _ Free Press of U.S   Recognized Essential to Democracy; Political  News of Today

Press Freedom Wins Support Of Candidates   Political Pot Simmers Quietly During Weekend

Free Press Is Lauded By Both Party Leaders   Dewey and Roosevelt Give Statements as National Newspaper Week Observance Approaches.

Both Candidates Back Free Press   Roosevelt, Dewey Issue Statemen}<

BOTH CANDIDATES GIVE ASSURANCE OF A FREE PRESS   STATEMENTS ISSUED BY DEWEY AND FOR FOR NEWSPAPER WEEK

Both Candidates For Free Press   Value to Democracy Is Recognized by Party Nominees

HEAVY SMASH AT STELTIN; BERLIN FIRS]   Germans Acknowledge Conditions On Russian Front Are Serious; Imply Worst News Yet To Come.   Crew Safe

RAF Feints Nazis Out of Position In Great Bombing Attack on Berlin

‘Tactics work as air forces pound Stettin   Nazis feinted out of position

RAF Bombers Roar Toward  Europe Again   New Attack Comes 24 Hours After Nazi Capital, Stettin Hit

RAF Feints Germans Out of Position by Berlin Raid   ROUTE LEFT OPEN FOR HEAVY ATTACK   Broad Areas of Stettin Are Left in Fiames by Fliers

Wallace, in Russia, Uses Russian Language To State His Peace Plan

Execution to Two More of  Nazi Generals   Another Awaits Trial in Bomb Plot on Hitler

3 Generals Named in Bomh Ploi   Two Are Dead and One Awaits Trial, Goebbels Reports   Other Two Mentioned Are  Not Widely Known; Served in Russia

3 General: Named as Plotters   peck n Suicide, Says Berlin Radios Another Executed

BERLIN RADIO NAMES NAMES IN ADOLF PLOT   Three Generals, Two From Russian Front, Reported to Have Been at Bottom of Bombing

More Generals In Bomb Plot Designated   Beck Suicide. Olbricht Shot Berlin Reports

3 More Nazi Generals in Hitler Plot   One Ends Own Life, One Is Shot, Other Faces Courtmartiol

Beck, Olbricht And Hoepner Were. Leaders   Two Have Been Shot and Third Held for Trial

TWO GENERALS IN BOMB PLOT ALREADY DEAL   Third Awaits Trial, German Radio Says, Revealing . Their Names.

Two Have Been Put To Death:and Third Has Been :Arrested, German Radio Says

PARTICIPANTS IN BOMBING PLOT NAMED BY NAZIS.   Two Are Dead anda Third Is - Held. For Trial Berlin De-clares—-Say. Col. Gen: Beck Conimitted Suicide ‘When  Fae yeoney Wea bee

THREE GERMAN GENERALS NAMED IN REVOLT PLOT   Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck Said to Have Committeed Sucide When Accused

Berlin Says Two Nazi Generals Leading Hitler Plot Are Dead   Third Awaits Trial for His Part in Attempt To Kill Hitler; Former German Chief Of Staff Said to Have Committed Suicide

NAME LEADERS OF 'NAZ! BOMB PLOT   BECK AND OLBRICHT HAVE PAID PENALTY; HOEPNER ARRESTED

THREE OFFICERS IN BOMB PLOT   Ludwig Beck, Two Others  Nemed in Recent Attempt On Hitler's Life

Four More German Generals Added to List of Casualties   Russians Capture One, Another Meelis Fatal Accident, One Shot and One Under Arrest

3 Generals Named In the Hitler Plot   Goebbels Blames Beck,. Alleged Suicide; Olb-richt, Reportedly Shot, and Hopener, . Said to Be Held, Awaiting Trial.

EIRE’S STAND HAS TANGLED ALLIED HOPE   IRIGH HAVE NOT GIVEN ASSURANCE THEY WILL BAR AXIS WAR CRIMINALS

Bishop E. L. Haines Pays Initial Visit To LeMars Church  Conducts Services cay Wa De eC   Conducts Services:  And Attends Dinner “Held In His Honor

Bishop E. L, Haines  Pays Initial Visit  To LeMars Church Conducts Services  And Attends Dinner ‘Held In His Honor

Airmen Balk Nazi Attack  Accanlt TI. aunched   Assault Launched On Italian Front

AERIAL ATTACK HALTS GERMANS   STOPS NAZIS IN ITALY AFTER THREE MILE AGSVANCRE

Yankee Air Raiders Bag 133 Germans   Two-Way Assault On Reich Costs 53 Heavy  A mance wr Bnenhaes i

Germany Raided From Britain  And Italy   Southeastern Reich And Brux Are Targets

HIT NAZILAND PLANE PLANTS   Thousands of Planes Take Part In Massive Attacks

2,000 Bombers Again Hit Reich   Planes Fly Round Trip From Points In Italy

3,000 AMERILAN PLANES  UA   2,000 Planes From Italy And 1,100 From England Pound Germany

Exeeute \  War Tax Act   Postal Rates Up: Taxes Up Next Saturday On Movies.  Phones. \ hiskv.

War Tax Increases Go Into Effect Today; Postal Rates Up: Luxury Costs Boosted

POSTAGE BOOST GOED INTO EFFECT   Third Wartime Tax Act Be‘gins Dipping Into Public’s Pocket; Other Increases Effective Next Saturday

New Tax Rates Now Effective  _ Wartime Act Begins ee © re eee ae  eee ep

IMMINENGE OF “AA DRIVES TOLD   President, Stimson Confidarit Victory Is Near

GREAT ASSAULT FORECAST -SOON BY ROOSEVELT      President And Sting li  New Year Statements, i Stress Imminénce ‘Of   _ Allied Attacks i

Offensives by Allies Viewed   President Rooseyelt, Secretary Stimson Tell of New Blows

LEADERS HAIL PROSPECTS OF COMING YEAR   FDR Looks Forward To Post-War Era

President And  Stimson Stress New Offensives   Predicts Casualties Now, ’ Economic and Social - Distress After the War.

Imminence Of Invasion Told   FDR, Stimson Emphasizes United Nations Offensives In Statements.

President, Stimson Emphasize Imminence of Great New Attacks in New Year Statements

ROOSEVELT AND STIMSON PLEDGE MIGHTY THRUSTS   ‘Greater Assaults’ to Bring De. feat of ‘Axis Aggressors,, FDR Avers

‘44 OFFENSIVE IMMINENT, SAY FDR, STIMSON   President Sees Great Task Ahead After Fight Is Won

LIEUT. D. FORBES KINGSLEY. MISSING   Directed Artillery Fire On Front .Lines In Germany

Car Shortage Report Denied   N.Y.C. Official Says All Needs Are Met

DENIES PEACH CAR SHORTAGE   Meeting Demand, Declares New York Central’s  Trainmaster

Japs Repelled _ Despite Tanks   Imphal, Kohima Clashes Roll Foe Back .

APS HURLED BACK IN INDIA   Foe Puts Reinforcements With Tanks Into Fight For Imphal, Kohima

JAPANESE USE TANKS FOR INDIA FIGHT   First Appearance Reported at Edge of Imphal! Plain Where Indian and British Troops Fight.   Bomb Installations

New Nip Troops Hurled Back In Imphal Sectors   Jap Tank Forces Halted By Mountbatten Allies

Allies Beat Off Japanese   First Tanks Appear In Battle Of Imphol

Japs Throw In Reinforcements  Allies Gain Around Tievesboeel TackcP secs

Allies Knock Nips Back Near Imphal   Mounibatien’s Men Make Progress In Counter-Drive

French-Russian Accord Pleases  British pies Hail  lAnReC eA karma

Russo-French Pact Praised  Pledges Mutual Aid Over 20-year Period

FRENCH-RIISSIAN PACT APPROVED   British Press Praises New European Alliance

French-Soviet Alliance Pledges Mutual Military, Economic Assistance

French-Soviet Pact Praised   British Press Warmly Prais ed Agreements Made In Alliance.

JESTER ADVISES  RAIL BROTHERHOODS  TO BAR WAR STRIKES MEMBERS BIG FOUR TOL!  THEY CAN GET WHAT IS RIGHT OTHER WAYS

DEWEY MEN IN EARLY LEAD IN ‘WISCONSIN VOTE   Willkie Delegates Running Fourth; Cities Are Unreported   STASSEN TICKET IS IN RUNNERUP SPOT

Wisconsin Convention Choices Made   Candidates Pledged To New Yorker Run Despite Disavowal

French Meeting Heavy German Resistance   Troops Fighting 36 Miles, From Border Of Naziland

7TH ARMY IS IN BITTER BATTLE ON BELFORT GAP   ~Units Are 16 Miles From City: 36 mallee From Reich 

BATTLE FOR BELFORT GAP IS STIFFENING   French Troops Penetrate Outskirts of Dijon, 150 Miles Southeast of Paris

FRENCH HIT NEAR IMPORTANT BASE   Push To Outskirts Of Dijon; Nazis Fight To Hold Gap

French Units Slash Way To Dijon Suburbs   Ca pture OF City Would Seal Trap On Nazi 19th Army

German Opposition Bitter at Gate To Southern Reich  French Troops Pierce Important Nazi  Communications Citv

Belfor t Gap  Trap Closing  On Germans   French 16 Miles Away as Americans Drive in From Southwest

FRENCH ENTER DIJON SUBURBS   Heavy Battle Underway for Belfort Gap

‘French Tr oops Fi ght Way Into Dij on Suburbs   Other Frétich Units Meet ing Bitter Opposition  In Battle For Belfort Gap

Expect Vetoed Tax Bill Soon   Veto Will Be Sustained Says Speaker Rayburn; Expresses Opinion,

Rayburn Says FDR Will Put Veto On Taxation Bill  Me eicc c fl   Speaker Expects Move To Be Sustained, Security Levy Raised

FR. TO VETO TAK BIEL: TUESDAY:   Rayburn Says President Will Be Sustained

To Veto Tax Bill Tuesday   Rayburn Predicts Veto Will Be Sustained; Ne Action Till Wednesday

Roosevelt To Veto Tax Bill Rayburn Says   Speaker of Housé Announces Bill Will Be Returned: Tomorrow: + Predicts. Veto Will Be Upheld

TAX VETO MESSAGE DUE TUESDAY SAYS OPEAKER RAYBURN  HOUSE SPEAKER ALSO ASSERTED THAT VETO WOULD BE SUSTAINED

VETO OF TAX BILL LOOMS TOMORROW   Rayburn Predicts President Will Be Sustained

FOR TAX VETO SEEN TUESDAY   Speaker Rayburn Says Congress Will Sustain President’s Action

PRESIDENT TO VETO TAX BILL   Message Will Be Sent To Congress On Tuesday

Tax Veto > Expected . Tomorrow   Speaker Raybum Says That It Will Be Upheld; To *. “Vote Wednesday   TREPUBLICANS TO “HOLD CONFERENCE   Social Security Taxes to Be ~Doubled Unless New Measle -yre Is Passed

F. D. R. fo Veto New Tax Bill   Speaker Rayburn Says House Will Sustain President's Action

Rayburn Says FDR Will Put Veto On Taxation Bill   Speaker Expects Mov:   Speaker Expects Move To Be Sustained, Security Levy Raised

TAX VETO MESSAGE. DUE TUESDAY SAYS SPEAKER RAYBURN  HOUSE SPEAKER ALSO ASSERTED THAT VETO

Solons Viewed Sustaining Veto Of New Tax Bill   Rayburn Says President Will Send Message To Congress Tomorrow

‘Louisiana Farmers Gel Big AAA Pay For Cooperation   Soil Building. Program Brings Cash To Aid In Other Improvement:

Bricker Assails Hull’s Speech  As Incomplete   Campaigning Ohioan Says ‘Many Questions: - Were Left. Unanswered

(Reporter Claims Nazis Deliberately Fire on Own Men Taken Prisoner

New “Anti-Invasion” Leader Sent By Hitler Throws Heavy Reinforcements Into La Haye And Carentan Sectors. Yanks Press For Mont Castre.

Russians Knife Toward Prut In Mighty Surge   Reds Within 30 Miles Of Rumanian Border, As Other Forces Push Ahead In South   Advance On Lwow  In Polish Sector   Huns Trapped In Qdessa Area, With Red Troops Encircling Black Sea Port Of Nikolaey

Russians Drive For Prut River   Other Forces Within 48 Miles of Escape Road From Odessa

Reds Knife Near Last Escape Line   Vast German Armies  Threatened

RED ARMIES 30 MILES FROM PRUT RIVER.    Retreating Nazis Near Panic, Soviet Report Says, as Lines Broken in Every Quarter.

SOVIET ARMY KNIFES CLOSER TO THE PRUT   Forces Striking Southward Reported Within 48 Miles of Major Escape Road of Large Boche Force   LIBERATE 330 CITIES

Reds Within 30 Miles Of Rumanian Line   Russians Liberate 330 More Towns Along 500 Mile Front

Nazis Fear Entrapment In Odessa Bottleneck   Russians Near Prut River, Starting Line For Southern Wing Of German Invasion In “411

Soviet Armies Are Near Prut River   Major Escape Road For Nazis From Odessa Is Target

Soviets Only 30 Miles From New  Rumanian Front   Russian Army Smashing Through Bessarabia In In Mighty Surge

RUSSIANS NOW IN 30 MILES. PRUT RIVER   Smashing Through Bessarabia with Reinforced Masses of Tanks and  Guns They Plunge For ward

RUSSIANS TAKE 330 VILLAGES IN SWEEPING DRIVE   Nazis Admit Soviet Troops Only 500 Miles From Berlin

Reds Press Within Few Miles Of Old  Border Line   Drive Upon Odessa Nearing Objective

Soviets 30 Miles  From Prut River Drive On Lwow Gaining In Momentum

Enter Province © Of Lwow On Short Route To Germany   Fierce Fighting Reported at’Kowel, Rail. Junction Above Lwow 500 Miles From: Berlin — ‘Strike Close: to‘ Odessa Escape Railwav In South,

Russian Drive Info Rumania Gathers Speed   30 Miles From Prut River; Thousands Of Foe Facing Trap

Reds Press Still Closer  To Rumania   Other Forces Are Within 48 Miles of Odessa Es' eanpe Route

RED ARMIES SLASH TRUNK BAILWAY LINE   Fierce Fighting Reported Along Kovel Front

PROGRESS MADE IN ADVANCE ON © FOF-HELD PORI   . 2.  Yanks Driving Across Normandy Peninsula — CounterAttacks Beaten Off

9,000 Germans Forced Into Prison Cages   Leaders Are Satisfied With Progress by Growing Allied Army

U. S. Wedge Cuts Third of Distance  Across Normandy   Allied Planes Fly From Three Airfields Established in Beachhead Region; Last Big Ploesti Refinery Is Blasted

3000 Allied Planes Take Part in 16th Day of Assaults  359 American Bombers, LAA Biehteawe I nck   359 American Bombers, 144 Fighters Lost In April Operations

3-HEADED DRIVE  AIMED AT NAZIS   Ideal Weather Conditidns Bring Results As As Atanite Wall Is

More Trouble for Sidney: Hillman Resigns as Forum Speaker As Chairman Says He's Irregular.

SCHOOL HONOR ROLL ANNOUNCER   Eighty-one Junior and Senior Students on Fourth "Period List 

ANNOUNCE HONOR POLL. HIGH SCHOO   Recognition 1 To: Pupils Hav ing A or B In Major -  SQubiects

British Leader Enroute From East Coast Port For ‘Victory Parley’; Difficult Planning Ahead For Chiefs   (RITTLITLETIN)

REACH AGREEMENT IN SEGURITY TALK   Three Powers Said Receptive _ ‘to Ideas Proposed By  United States

REACH ACCORD QN PEACE PLAN   Delegates of Three Powers At Dumbarton Oaks In Virtual Agreement

Stalled Before St. Lo, Yank Troops Sweep Around Northern End Of City And Thrust To Outskirts Of Le Mesnil Durand

U. S. Bombers Blast Six Nazi Key Air Fields   Flying Fortresses And Liberators Fly To Outskirts of Paris And Tours in France

1,000 Tons Of BombsDropped On Six Targets   Fields Had Been Used by  Nazis Flying to Britain  and Challenging Reich Bound Allied Airmen   Enemy Op position  Is Generally Weak   Huge Formation of Medium Light Bombers. Smash at Coast Install alianse

YANK B MBERS AIT FRANCE IN HEAVY ATTACK   Outskirts of Paris and Tours Pounded—Six Airfields Are Blasted

American Bombers Smash at Nazi Airfields in France to Wind Up Two Weeks of Raids   Six Fields in Different Parts of HiHer's Domain Hammered into Smoking Wreckage; Air Interference Light, But Flak Very Heavy

PRIZE GERMAN AIRFIELDS ARE LEFT IN RUINS   MARAUDERS BATTER INVASION COAST OF FRANCE

U.S. Armada In Operation  On France   Allies Lose 12 Planes in Heavy Attack

1400 Planes In One of Greatest Raids on Enemy   Pound French Channel Coast; 10 Aircraft Lost

U.S. Bombers Blast Airfields In Paris Area   Attacks Aimed At Halting Raids Across Channel

FORTRESSES HIT AIRPORTS NEAR PARIS, TOURS   R.A.F. Joins Yanks To Blast Invasion Coast Of France

BOMBERS WRECK 6 NAZI AIRFIELDS   ALLIES LOSE 12 PLANES AND DOWN 10 GERMANS IN RAIDS ON FRANCE.

Raids Made On Airfields   1,400 U. S. Bombers  Hit Invasion Area -

FORTS WA NAZI AIRFIELDS   Wind Up Two Weeks Of Terrific Aerial Assaults

NAZI AIRFIELDS BATTERED INTO SMOKING RUINS   Paris and Tours Areas Targets of Great Air Armada

Bombs Rain On Nazi Airfields   Six Bases Pounded In Day-Long Blows

Yankee Bomber: Destroy 10 Jap Carao Vessels   Also Down 8 Enemy Planes in Latest Hollandia Attack

Yank Bombs Rip Invasion Coast Anew   Hit Pas-de-Calais Area After Night Attack On Bristol By Germans.

U. S. Heavies Deliver Blow After Germans Carry Out A_ Night Assault On Britain

U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS BLASTED NORTHERN FRANCE BY DAYLIGHT  GERMAN STAGE SHARP RAID AGAINST SOUTHERN ENCTISH COAST

Heavy Yank Bombers Hit Calais Area   Day Attack Follows Sharp German Smash On British Coast

American Bombers Smash Invasion Defenses On Channei Coast   RAF HITS COLOGNE   Italy-Based Planes In De structive. Attack Or Brenner Pass .

All Bombers Return From Mission Today   German Raiders Lose 15 Planes Over England But Cause Small Damage

LONE FIGHTER PLANE LOST IN MORNING RAIL   German Night Assault On Port of Bristol Cited by Nazis

Calais Area Pounded by Big Bombers   No Bombers Lost But One Mustang Shot Down by Anti-Aircraft

NAZI BOMBERS HIT BRITAIN _ BYNGHT   Famous Brenner Pass Virtually Sealed  BRITISH   Stab At Cologne, Unspecified Targets In France, Low Countries

Brenner Pass Is  Sealed By Raids   England Heavily Hi By 300 Planes

BRITISH COAST IS VISITED BY NAZI FLIERS   Maximum of 250 Fortresses and Liberators Center Assault on Installations in France   BRENNER PASS SEALED

NAZI BOMBERS DO DAMAGE TO BRITISH AREA   Allied Aerial Offensive Goes into 31st Consecutive Day ‘on invasion Coast Defenses

U.S. Bombers Rip Nazi Defenses on “Invasion Coast”   Attack on Pas de Calais Area Follows German Night Blow At British Canes

ALLIED BOMBERS VIRTUALLY SEAL UP BRENNER PASS   ATTACK INVASION DEFENSES ALONG THE FRENCH COAST

Nazi Invasion Defenses Raidec By Big Bombers   Great Aerial Offensive Goes Into 31st Day -

NAZI INVASION DEFENSES HIT   German Bombers Raid English Coast; Yanks Attack Calais Area.   ATTACK INTO 31ST DAY

Yank Bombers Return Safely FromDay Attack   Blast Invasion Defenses In Pas de Calais Area; Germans Over England

American Bombers Return to Blast Pas de Calais Area   German Airmen Sharply Altack British Coast—Brenner Pass Reported Virtually Closed

YANK BOMBERS, LIBERATORS IN HEAVY ATTACH   Pas De Calais Area of France Struck in 31st Day Of Air Raids

SKY OFFENSIVE HITS 31ST DAY: BRITAIN RAIDED   130,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Europe In Month

31st Day of Giant Aerial Softening Up   Brenner Pass Found To Be Virtually Sealed Off By Allied Bombardiers

“ROCKET GUN” COAST HIT BY U.S. FLIERS   Heavy Bombers Again Attack Pas de Calais Area of France, Following Sharp Nazi Raid on English Coast.

North France Targets Hit by Americans   Thunder Over Chanrel After Night Raid by Germans on England

BOMBS POUND NAZI DCFENG INSTALLATION!   Germans Stage Heavy Aerial Attack Buring Night on Port of Bristol.

Nazis Blast Coast Area; Bombs Close Famed Pass   15 Enemy Aircraft Bayged By English

NAZI DEFENSES BATTERED 31ST STRAIGHT DAY   “rench Coast Attacked Again; German Bombers Do Some Damage In Britain; Allied Planes FI 2,500 Sorties In bats  ian [ heater.

ATTACKED BY U.S. BOMBERS      German Planes Hit English Coast: Brenner Pass Is Hit Hard

HEAVY PLANES AGAIN TEAR AT COAST DEFENSE   Pas de Calais Area Is Battered by Flying Fortresses, Liberators

BRENNER PASS USELESS AFTER U.S. ASSAULT   RAF Blasts Cologne; Down 15 Nazi Raiders Along English Shore

250 American Planes Engage  In Day Attack   All Bombers Return; One Escorting Mustang Miss ing: No Interceptors _  . Encountered   British Coast Hit By Nazi Bomber:   Fifteen Shot Down: Bren ner Pass Believed Closed By Sunday’s Attack of Ttaly-Based Raiders

U.S, BOMBERS BOMB INVASION CENTERS TODAY   Report No Loss Of American Airplanes

British Coast Pounded By Germans   15 Raiders Downed In Blow Nazis Say Was On Bristol

U.S. Heavies Again Aftack Bas de Calais   All American Bombers Return to Home Base, But One Mustang Fighter Is Missing

North France Is Target On 31st Day   Brenner Pass Has Been Sealed By Allied Bombs

Enemy Is Sacrificing Thousands; Yanks Now Have Wiped Out 7 Convoys

SEVENTH JAP LEYTE-BOUND CONVOY SUNK   American Fliers Add 5,000 More to Enemy Toll; Will Continue Raids on Tokvo.

Jap Convoy Wiped Out By  Dive-Bombers   Yanks’ Low Bombing Of Leyte-Bound Ships Raises Nips’ Convoy Losses to Seven

ANOTHER JAP >VONVOY SUNK PRY AMERICANS   Attemnted Landing On Levte Foiled By U. S. Flyers

YANKS RIP BIG NIPPON CONVOY   Four Transports Sunk Off Leyte, 5,000 Japs Spilled In Sea

LATEST ATTEMPT BRINGS TOTAL 47 SHIPS AND 26,000 TROOPS LOST IN WATERS ABOUT LEYTE

Japs Lose Another Convoy in Futile Effort to Bring Aid to Nipponese.on Levte

4 TROOP SHIPS SUNK OFF LEYTE BY YANK FLIERS   American Doughboys Push Through Tropical Storms: Tokyo Raids Planned

U. §. PILOTS HAVE WIPED OUT 47 SHIPS AND 26,000 TROOPS TRYING TO REACH LEYTE ISLE

U. S. Planes ' Sink Another Jap Convoy   5,000 Troops:on Way. to Leyte Drown; Toll Now 47 Ships, 26,000 Men

Nipponese Lose Another Convoy -JoUS. Bomber:   Toll Is 4 Ships, 5000 Men; Doughboys Press On Despite Leyte Storms

Seventh Leyte Convoy Ripped: 5000 Japs Die   4 Heavily - Loaded Transports Sunk by U.S. Dive - Bombers

Yanks Smash 4 More Jap Troopships  Losses Pile Up In Philippines

Dive Bomber: Sink 4 Ships; Drown 5900   Japanese Continue To Try To Reinforce Leyte Island

Americans Sink Seventh Nip Convoy Off Leyte   - Enemy Sea Losses ( Reach 47 Ships And 26,000 Soldiers

Another Convoy  Sunk by Yanks   Intimate Around-The-Clock Raids by Superforts May Be in Store for Tokyo

JAP CONVOY IS DESTROYED OFF PHILIPPINES   Pilots Hint B-29 Strikes At Tokyo Soon On RoundThe-Clock Schedule

Commanders Ruthlessly Sacrifice Men to Reinforce Levte Troops.   YANKS CONTINUE PUSH:

ANOTHER JAPANESE CONVOY BLASTED BY U.S. DIVE:BOMBERS  FOUR TRANSPORTS AND 5,000 MEN LOST IN SEEK

U. S. AIRMEN BAG FOUR TRANSPORTS OFF PHILIPPINES   BOMB AT MASTHEAD HEIGHT, FREIGHTER AND DESTROYER HIT

Another Jap Convoy Sunk By Americans  Total Reaches 47;  Estimate 26,000 Of Enemy’ $ Troops Lo:  of » £8 _ a

JAPS CONTINUE SACRIFICES 10 RETAIN LEYTE   Another Convoy Fails To Reach Trapped  Men on Island

Japs Lose Convoy To Dive Bombers   Wipe Out 47 Ships And 26,000 Soldiers

5,000 Troops, 4 More Ships Added to Toll   Night Flight over Tokyo Successful; Yanks Maintain  13-1 Casualty Ratio

SINK FOUR J AF SHIPS EN ROUTE TO PHILIPPINES   Gen. MacArthur’s Infantry Continues Pressure on Enemy Positions

26,000 Soldiers, 47 Ships Trying to Gei to Leyte Destroved   Latest One-Sided Air-Sea Battle in Philippines is Reported

Heavy Mortar Fire In Cassino   Allied And German Held Posts Raked

Fighting in Cassino Flares Up Again  Allied Machine-Guns Rake German-Held

Yanks Rake Nazi Forts At Cassino   German Positions in Two Hotels Strafed. By Machine-Gun Fire

Fighting Flares In Streets Of Cassino   Report Turkey Halting Chrome Export To Nazis

Norman Youth Dies of Burns   Father, Mother and Brother Seriously Burned in Home

DEWEY SAYS F.R. REGIME FAILED TO PREPARE AMERICA FOR WAR   SPEECH IN TRADITIONALLY REPUBLICAN IOWA CITES ELECTION OF BOURKE HICKENLOOPER

No War Defenses Made, Savs Dewey   Republican Says Democrats Failed To Prepare

Dewey Claims War Caught U.S. Napping   Says New Deal Failed To Prepare Nation Against Attack

Dewey Charges FR War Failure   Says He Did Nothing to Prepare U. S$. for It

Yanks Gamble With Death--And Sing As Barrage Rocks House In Italy

TWO V-DAYS ALREADY   False Alarms Brought on Premature Celebrations in San Diego

TRAIN KILLS 29 FLYING CADETS   Fast Freight Hits Bus At Kingman Arizona, Aviation Base

25 FLYING CADETS © DEAD IN ACCIDENT   Two Others Also Killed When Bus and Freight  Collide

27 ARE KILLED IN COLLISION   25 Army Aviation Cadets " Among Those To Lose  Lives In Arizona

15 Cadets Killed On Rail Crossing   Eight Mere Men Critically Hurt

PHONE CREWS QUIT IN 4 MORE TOWNS   STRIKE SPREADS TO NORTHEAST. OHIO — CLEVELAND AREA IS AFFECTED.

Phone Strike Extends in Ohio   Cleveland Workers Vote to Walk Out

Ohio Phone . Strike Grows  Unions in 25 Cities Out, More Voting or

Dewey Accused Of ‘Double Talk’   Stand Is Ambiguous, Hillman Declares

Strike Closes Ford Company Canada Plant   Workers Protest Grievance Procedure;. Company Terminates Union  Contract .

Pickets Appear At Ford Factory In Windsor, Ont.   Plant Operations Reported At Standstill As 14,000 Employes Remain Idle

(4,000 AFFECTED BY FORD WALKOUT   Picket. Lines Ring Huge Canadian Plant At Windsor, Ont. _

State Assemblymen Wage Campaign for Leadership Posts   Rep. Brydia Mentioned For Vacant Speaker’s Role in Hotise

BATTLE BREWING IN LEGISLATURE FOR LEADERSHIPS   ROBERT J. BRANSON IS A CANDIDATE FOR GOP WHIP IN HOUSE

Red Multi-Pronged Advance Crushing Nazis’ Winter Line   Million Troops Periled in Duieper; 4,000 Killed.in Drive Into Poland; Deserted Berdichev Rail Hub Falls

ESCAPE ROUTE — FOR MILLION NAZIS CLOSES   Reds Within 20 Miles at Enelosing Dnieper Bend Trap

HIROHITO SEES TROUBLE IN WAY YANKS ADVANCE   Emperor, However, Happy Over Way Troops Fight “Bravely, Strenuously”   URGES ALL-OUT DEFENSE   Koiso Advises People 0! Fierce Drives Against Sons Of “Heaven”

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Hirohito Sounds Grave Note of Warning to ‘Jap’ Diet

JAP EMPEROR «  ~ GIVES SPEECH      AIROHTTO “DELLS: DIET ‘THAT ALLIED. GAINS HAVE. MADE -). SITUATION “MORE, - 2) N= TENSE? OW”

TRAPPED JAPS. ATTACK YANKS   ‘SCORES KILLED AS THEY TRY IN VAIN TO BREAK WEWAK NOOSE.

5,000 ALLIED PLANES HiT NAZISTODAY   Battered Nazi Army in France Is Also Target

Germans Hit By 5,000 Allied Planes   Blast Forces in Northern France, Raid South Coast

NAZI SHIPPING OFF BREST HIT, CITIES RAIDED   Allied Planes Roam Almost Un  opposed Over Europe, Today

Warplanes In Triple Assault   5,000 Bomb Nazi Fortress Europe;  Pound Targets In Germony, France

AUGUST RAINS AID OHIO CROPS   Corn Production, However. 30,000,000 Bushels Under Figure For 1943

Willkie, In Magazine Article, Scores Both Parties For Evasive Platforms

TAIL GUNNER TAKES PART IN 65 MISSIONS   Staff Set. M. J. Demusz, Doylestown R. D., ‘To Have Rest Period  wre srrre PLIiscwvan Ar Cracrvrnt

OD MISSIONS AGAINST GERMAN HELD TARGETS   ‘Won D. F. C. and Air Medal In : Many Bombing Raids

REDS CRACKED GERMAN LINE IN NEW PUSt   VITERSK (8 FIRST MAJOR OB: _ JECTIVE OF OFFENSIVE © » LAUNCHED ON EAST. ERN FRONT

Growing Power Seen In Pacific   Forrestal Views U.S. Increasing Strength

GOP Has 2024 Edge In County   Outregister Democrats Despite Urgings Of PAC And FDR

Rommel Takes Over French System in Move Against Invasion      Rail Targets in Balkans and Italy Also Hard Hit by RAF Last Night.

Temperatures   Rommel Takes Over Bomb-Crippled Lines, Rail Yards

Liberators Spearhead Non-Stop Assault On German Defense Areas   Attack Follows RAF Destruction Of Trunk Railway As Budapest  Receives Air Blows

TRANSPORT HUBS RAIDED BY BOMBERS   RAF Strikes At Targets In France And Hungary

BASES BACK OF INVASION COAST STRUCK   Campaign to Crush Nazi Transport System, Is Continued In 25th Day.   BULLETIN

Bomb Thre  In France            SOUTHEAST COAST OF ENGL: TREMBLES UNDER IMPACT: O  EXPLOSIONS ACROSS THE™ * CHANNEL

Liberators Continuing Blitz Raids   Invasion Coast Hard Hit on 25th Day of Big Air  Offensive

Circle on Toulon Complete   Allies Drive to 3 Miles From Marseille; Victory Proclaimed

Leyte Japs Prepare for Final Stand   Yank Troops Form for - Large Scale Drive On Key Position

AMERICANS DESTROY 67 JAPANESE PLANES   Ten Shot From Alr, 57 Smashed on Ground in Raids on Islands West of Leyte.

Yanks Advance In Leyte Push   Veteran American Soldiers Push Forward Against Tough Jap Resistance; Nips Land Troops for Last-Ditch Stand

67 Japan planes destroyed  as Pacific tempo is boosted  Veteran Yank troops advance against newly nrenared Tan lines at Ormoc

Yanks Destroy 67 Jap Planes In Philippines   Gen. MacArthur's Mer Open Assault Against Pinamopoan, Key Carigara Bay Town

Yankees Press Assault on Pinampopoan   Japs Prepare Hasty Defenses in Hills Near Ormoe

Jap Terminus  U.S. Objective   Veterans Of 24th Division Drive Full Foree On Pinamopoan.

American 24th . Division Opens : -Land and Over: It Against   Pinamopoan         Enenty Girded For Last-Ditch Stand   Entrenched in Hills Fronting Plains North of ’ American-Encircled  Ornioe Port

Empire State _ Holds Primarie: Tomorrow   Big Psychological Push For Dewey Cannpaigs ‘Expected by His Backers

Politicians Watch Week's Elections   Oklahoma, New York Voters to Polls

New York To Highlight Politics   Dewey Backers Expect Greatest Push In GOP New York District.

Jones Appeals For Prisoner Labor   WEA Chief Cites  Farm Shortage

East Prussia Shakes With  Gun Barrage   Soviet Forces Mass For Breakthrough as Wars saw Siege Continues

FIGHTING RAGED WITHIN 3 MILES OF PRUSSIAN BORDER   Third White Russian Army Surged Forward a Drive From Dydvizhe.   NEARING GERMAN SOIL   Russian Armor Charged Savagely Upon German Defenses.

Veteran of Stage and Screen Dies  Death Comes at His Home in Los Angeles

WILLKIE GETS. BALLOT SNUB N PRIMARIES   Stassen and MacArthur Tied with Three Each from 2 2N6 Precincts.

Stassen and MacArthur Tied for Second With Willkie in Last Place

New York Governor Sweeps Ahead With Possibly 18 GOP Delegates.   ‘NONE FOR W. WILLKIE

Dewey Has 15 Delegates And May Get Three More — Willkie Fails To Obtain Supporters

Dewey Badly Beats Willkie  In. Wisconsin   Draft of N.Y. Governor Appears  Well Under Way

Dewey Leads, Willkie Trails “In Wisconsin   Former Candidate's Poor Showing Comes As Surprise; Results Boost N. Y. Governor

DEWEY LEADS IN WISCONSIN WITH WILLKIE FOURTH   First Returns Give New York Governor 95,773, Two Others Far Ahead of Willkie With 34,192.   DEWEY GETS 14 DELEGATES, WILLKIE NONE   Willkies’ Poor Stfowing Comes as Big Surprise After Speaking in 25 Cities In Two Weeks.

Dewey Men Win In Wisconsin —   Stassen Was Second, MacArthur Third and Willkie Fourth

Dewey Victory In Wisconsin Impressive One   Willkie Fails To Win Single GOP Delegate In  Primarv.

Dewey Sweeps Wisconsin Vote For Delegates   Willkie Fails To Win Place for One of His Men

Dewey Takes Lead In Wisconsin Presidential Vote   Stassen Second Lead, Willkie’s Poor Showing Greotest Surprise

“Dewey Tops Fi eld In Wisconsin; *Willkie is Last   New York Governor Sweeps Toward a  Possible 18 of 24  - GO. P. Deleaates

WISCONSIN VOTE SPURS DEWEY CAUSE   Willkie Fails To Get Delegate In Presidential Primary - 4

Dewey Victor  In Wisconsin   New York Governor Expected To Have 18 of State's 24 Votes in GOP Convention

Willkie Men Badly Beaten In Wisconsin   Dewey Captures Bulk of State's 24 Delegates

New York Governor Given 15 Delegates, Stassen 3, MacArthur 3, Willkie, None

None for Willkie in  Wisconsin   His Poor Showing the Big Surprise as Dewey Gets 16 of 24 -Delerates   FOUR FOR STASSEN, FOUR FOR: MacARTHUR   Decisive: Boost ‘for New Yorker,- Supporters Claim; . Dewey Still Silent

Dewey Sweeping  Willkie Out Of  Wisconsin Race  Indications Are That Willkie Will ‘Not Win A Single ,  elecate

Supporters Claim Boost For “Draft Dewey” Drive As His Lead Increases In Wisconsin   Overwhelming Triumph Is Indicated; Wiltkie Has Yet To Win Single Delegate

Willkie Goes Down To Stunning Defeat In Wisconsin Primary   Dewey Delegates Take Growing Lead, With Stassen Running Strongly Second And MacArthur Third. .

DEWEY DRIVE GIVEN BOOST IN WISCONSIN   New York State Governor Builds Up Widening Lead In Returns From Presidential Primary   WILLKIE IS TRAILING

New Yorker On Top With 14 Delegates   Stassen’s Clique Gets Second Place, MacArthur Is Third

Dewey Wins In Wisconsin Willkie Is Poor Fourth   Indications Are That New York Governor Will Receive An Overwhelming Triumph

Dewey Sweeps Aheac In Wisconsin While Willkie Far Behind   Willkie Unlikely To Get Any Delegates in Key Presidential Primary; MacArthur, Stassen Far Back

Dewey Leads In Wisconsin Race   Stassen, MacArthur Running Next In Wisconsin Presidential Primary.

WISCONSIN VOTE FAVORS DEWEY; WILLKIE TRAILS   NEW YORK GOVERNOR WINS 15 DELEGATES IN PRIMARY CONTEST

MISSOURI AMONG 11 KEY STATES   residential Campaign Centers in Ones Where Vote Was Close in 1940.

GOVERNOR DEWEY IS  FAR IN LEAD TODAY  WISCONSIN PRIMARY HAS CHANCE FOR EIGH - TEEN OF 24 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION DELEGATES

DEWEY AHEAD IN WISCONSIN DELEGATE VOTE      Stassen Second With Willkie Fourth In Presidential Primary

Dewey's Margin” Grows Steadily; Willkie Fourth   Wisconsin Primary Picks 18 Delegates Pledged To New York Governor

Dewey Sweeps Wis. Primary   Willkie Tags A Poor Fourth In GOP Race

DEWEY TAKES HUGELEADIN WISCONSIN RACE   Willkie Fails to Win Ever One Delegate; Stassen, MacArthur Tie

Might Obtain 18 of 24 Delegates; Willkie Is Last in Field of Four

DEWEY LEADS TIGKET TUES, IN WISCONSIN   Willkie Trails Entire Field  In Primary

DEWEY SWEEPS AHEAD IN VOTE IN WISCONSIN   New York Governor Ahead of Field and “Draft Dewey” Drive Now Definitely On

NY Executive May, Geis of “24 Delés                      sen and: ‘Macs With’3 Eachin wise

Dewey In Front, Willkie Trails In Wisconsin   Stassen, MacArthur Second And Thrid In Primary

Dewey Landslide Wins Wisconsin   Scoreboard: N. Y. Governor, 14 Delégates: Stassén 4: MacArthur 4; Willkie——-None

WILLIE TS END MAN IN GOP'S PRIMARY RACE   Stassen and MacArthur Second and Third To New Yorker

Dewey Scores Big Victory in Wisconsin   Willkie Makes Poorest Showing of Four Men Entered in Primary

WHELKTE LAST IN WISCONSINVOT INE   Dewey Deleg ates Running Well In Front In Republican Test

WISCONSIN PRIMARY IS PACED BY DEWEY      Willkie Trailing So Far Back He Can’t Catch Up

Willkie Chances Slim As He Fails To Get Delegate   Other States Lining Up With Governo: Of New York; Draft  Move Grows

RETURNS GIVE DEWEY BIG LEAD IW WISCONSIN   Suns . Poor ‘Fourth, Trailing Stassen. and Ger. MacArthur:

Dewey Sweeps Ahead In Wisconsin Presidential   Primary; Willkie Trails

DEWEY PILES UP WISCONSIN LEAD   May Capture 18 Delegates: Willkie Last In Field Of 4

WILLKIE IS BADLY BEATEN IN WISCONSIN   Despite Active Campaign, May Not Get a Single Delegate, Representative Returns in Yesterday’s Primary Show.

The ‘Draft Dewey’ Move Boosted by Wisconsin Vote   New York Governor Is Assured of 15 of 24 Dele yates in Wisconsin.   Delegates For Willkie Fail in All Districts

-—Dewey Sweeps Far Ahead In Wis  Wendell Willkie Fails To Capture Single Delegate   Indianian Meets Stunning Defeat In Badger State Primary; Trails Stassen and MacArthur

DEWEY LEADS IN WISCONSIN RACE   RETURNS INDICATE NO DELEGATES FOR WILLKIE

Dewey Wins Over Willkie In Primary   Stassen, MacArthur Are Runners-Up in Wisconsin Election

FIND CORN BORER IN MOST COUNTIES   Only Nine Northwest Counties in lowa Now Free from the Corn Borer.

Bear Lake’s Record Cold ‘Snap Mild Compared With Armv’s Arctic Test Room.

County's Record Cold Snap Mild  Compared to Army's Arctic Test Room

COUNTY'S RECORD COLD SNAP MILD COMPARED WITH ARMY'S cacTIC TEST ROOM CLIMATE

Compromise Seer Possible On Civil  Production Issue   Navy Only Fears Harmful Diversion Of Manpower

WFA SUPPORTFOR PRODUCTS PLEDGED      Announcement. Made. at Meeting.of State Farm 7 Leaders ~

PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM IS SET   Government Plans For Maintaining 1945 Farm Prices Outlined

Knox Advocates Year in Camps For Boys 17-18   Military Training Necessary, He Says

KNOX ADVOCATES YEAR'S TRAINING   Navy Secretary Suggests Pe~ riod of Compulsory Military ~ Service for Boys at Age 17  - Or 18: Addreses Scouts

YEAR’S COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING FAVORED BY KNOX   Navy Secretary Tells Cleveland Audience That Such A  Step Will Be Necessary To Safeguard Nation’s  Freedom And Build Healthy Individuals

Knox Advocates  Compulsory Army  Training for Boys ‘No Safety or Peace  In Unpreparedness,’ Says Navy Secretary

Athens Police Kall 15 Rioters   148 EAM Demonstrator: Reported Wounded

‘Pitched Battle Breaks. Out “Between ‘Royalist Group “Aud ‘EAM:-Army Members

19 ARE KILLED IN GREEK RIOT   Battle Breaks Out Near Athens Between Leftists And EAM Army Members

EAM, POLICE MIX. AS TOLL MOUNTS   15 Die, 148 Wounded As Left Win; Demonstrators Charged With Civil War Preparations

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15 Killed When Athens Police Fire on Crowd   148 Wounded During Royalist-E, A. M. Army Street Battle

Prime Minister Hits at Leaders of EAM  Charges They Are   Charges They Are Leading Nation Toward Civil War

1) ARE KILLED IN GREEK RIOTS   Pelice Fire On Crowd Of Leftwing Demonstrators In Athens

Greek Police Kill 15, Wound 148 Leftist Leaders   Dispute Results From Premier's Order  Disarming Guerrillas

Greek Police Fire on Crowd To Smother Rebellion   15 Reported Killed, 148 Wounded in Athen: As Shots Pour Into Left-Wing  Group Protesting Guerilla Demobilization

Police Fire On Leftists In Athens   Rattle Breaks Out a Guerrillas Protest Disarming by Government

FIGHT WAGED IN ATHENS; 15 PEOPLE DEAD   Greek Police Fire on Crowd of Leftwing Demonstrators

Open riot is raging in Athens   15 are dead, 148 wounded by fire

(Germans Offer Fierce  Resistance   Keystone of Nazi Defenses Seized In Bitter Fighting

Face New House-To-House Struggle For Small Village 1,000 Yards From Captured San Vittore In Italy

Yanks Batter Forward Mile On Italy Front   \San Vittore Left in Ruins Nazi Resistance Desperate

‘Stalingrad’ Fight Rages Near Vittore   Germans. Strive to Hold Approaches To Roman Plains

NEW BATTLE DEVELOPING WITH GERMANS   Another House-toHouse Struggle Ahead Rivalling Fight Just Finished.

YANKEE FIFTH ARMY SMASHES INTO GUSTO   Advance From Captured San_ Vittore in Italian Mountains But Germans Desverately Resist.

MURDERED WOMAN FOUND IN TRUNK   Body Shipped From Chicago To Los Angeles

Woman’s Body Packed in Salt Found in Trunk   Shipped From Chicago to L. A.: Blood Leakage  Bares Seeret

Body of Woman Found In Trunk   Police Investigate  Case In Los Angeles

SALTED BODY IS FOUND IN TRUNK   Sent From Chicago, Say Los Angeles Police

HUN GARRISON “AT BELGRADE NOW CUT OFF   Russ Seize Suburb Eight Miles From City

1750 U. S. Heavies Hit Nazi Bases  Clearing Weather Promises Ground  en . a   Clearing Weather Promises Ground Forces Strong Aerial Cover

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT AT FRENCH FIGHTER BASES   — }Norman Battlefields Are Given Strong Aerial Cover Bry Planes

HEAVY AIR ASSAULT AIDS INVASION   Weather I Permits Over 4000 Planes To Enter Action

Planes Swarm Over Invaders On Battlefield   Strongest Air Cover Since D-Day Given Under Rapidly-Clearing Sky

MacArthur’s: Troops Open New Drives Against Japs  ft TITS sVY PF

 Examination Not Induction eee  ‘Supreme Court Rules G. I. Life ‘Bevsins on Takine Army Oath

Yank Forces Make Small  Saipan Gains   Carrier Bombers Blast Rota, Navy Shells Tinian

Make Small Gains In Saipan Battle .   Yanks Push Ahead In Bitter Fiaaghting

Now Fighting Way Inland   Covered By Heavy Air, Warship Bombardment, Expecting Hard Struggle

Yanks Invade Wednesday After 17-Day Bombardment, Meet Light Jap Resistance

Island Was First U. $. Territory Lost to Japanese   Landings Follow Days of Naval and Aerial Bombardment

Troops Fighting Way Inland Covered By Pulverizing Bombings   Japs Putting Up Moderate Fight   Landings Not As Difficult As At Saipan Where We Lost 15.000 Men

Americans Invade Guam, Battle Japs On Inland Drive   Make Land Attack Under Ship, Plane Bombardment

Invade First U §. Territory Seized By Japs   Fight Wey Inland Under Cover of Heavy Bombing

MARINES, ARMY TROOPS FOLLOW BOMBARDMENTS   Rv CHARLES H. MeMURTRY

Landings Are Follow-Up Of Saipan Victory   First American Territory Seized By Japs; Moderate Ractatonca   EASY RANGE OF TOKYO

right Way Inland Under Ships’ Guns  Moderate Ground   Moderate Ground  Opposition Met, Communique  ’' Declares

Yankee Forces Battling Inland   . » Moderate Ground Opposition, Nimitz Reports

Battle Goes Far Inland UnderCover  Of Bombers      Landing Is Quick Follow-Up To War Over Saipan

UNDER COVER OF HEAVY AIR AND WARSHIPS. FIRE AMERICANS ARE FIGHTING WAY INLAND   Landings at Guam, Former U.S. Owned Island, Seized by Japan at War’s Outbreak, Are Quick Follow Up to Saipan Victory. Beachheads Bein Fetahliched

American Forces Pour Ashore In Guam Battle   Pulverizing Aerial, Warship Bombardment Aids Ground Fighting Which Climaxes Spectacular Preliminary Invasion Moves

VETERAN U9, TROOPS OMAGH JAP OEFENSE:   Anticipate Another Bitter Struggle; Terrain Like That of Saipan.

Marines And Army Make Beachhead To Retake *  Tl GQ Ppapnceanecainn

ANOTHER BLOODY DIT EEA   Admiral Nimitz: Reports Americans Have Established Beachheads    WELL DEFENDED   FirsfU. 8. Territory Seized By Japanese After _ Pearl Harbor ‘

U. S. Forces Pouring Ashore On First American Territory Seized By Japanese And Fighting Forward Under Cover Of Aerial And Warship Bombardment— “Operations Continuing Against Moderate Ground Opposition,” ‘Nimitz Reports

First American Territory Seized By Japanese Under Marine, Infantry Attack

American Troops Invade Guam and Fight Way Inland   U. S. Marines and Infantry Follow Up Softening Up Shelling With Move to First Island Japs Seized From U. S.

Opposition By Japs Moderate, Nimitz Reports   Rugged Marines And  Infantrymen Bent On  Wresting From Japar First U. S. Territory

Heavily Bomb Jan Defenses   Reconquest Of American Naval Base Captured By Japs On Dec. 10, 1941 Under Way After 17 Days Of Softening Up. —   Believed Heavily Garrisoned

Beachheads On Jap-Held Area Established   American Marines aud Ins faniry Pouring Ashore: On First U. S, Terri. tory Seized By Nips   Opposition Of Enemy Moderate   Yankees Fighting Way Inland Under Caver Of Pulverizing Aerial, Wars ship Bombardment

Against — Moderate Opposition   Marines and Infantry ‘Fight Way Inland Under Heavy Cover of  Air and Warship Fire

Marines, Infantry Invaders   Establish - Beachheads With Support of Air and Navy Planes

Navy Shelling Backs Invasion   Landings Continue Against ‘Moderate Ground Opposition,’ Says Admiral Nimitz Close-Range Bombardment Continuing

YANKS IN BATTLE FOR GUAM   Landings Are Effected Af. ter Pulverizing Aerial, War. ship Bombardment -;

U.S. Forces In Pacific StormGuam   Marines, Infantry Fight Way Inland With Support from Alt end Bio Gung

YANKS EXPECT BLOODY BATTLE   Guam Invasion Follows Majo Victory At Saipan

ON GUAM: JAP HELD IS1 AND   Fighting Inland To Establish Beachhead

First American Island Seized By Japs Invaded   Landings Continue Against Moderate Enemy Opposition

BEACHHEADS ARE ESTABLISHED BY MARINES, ARMY   PUSH INLAND UNDER COVER OF TERRIFIC AIR, SEA ASSAULTS

Largest Of Marianas Was First American  Isle Seized By Japs   Marines And Infantry Pour Ashore Under Cover Of Planes, Ships After 17-Day Terrific Bombing

Yanks Pour Ashore on Guam Under Air, Warship Barrage   Landings Continue ‘Against Moderate Ground Opposition,’ Nimitz Reports

Fight Way Inland Under Heavy Air, Sea Attack   Many Of Defenses Of Foe Believed Knocked Out; Is Largest Of Marianas Groun

MARINES, ARMY « POUR ASHORE   Fighting Way Inland On Island, First American Territory Seized By Japs

Marines, Iniantry Swarm — Ashore Under Umbrella of Air, Warship Bombardment

AIR-WARSHIP SUPPORT PULVERIZES DEFENSES   Action Begun Yesterday With Marines and Army Troops Participatine

Bitter Fighting For Island Looms   Marines and Soldiers Make Landings After Bombardment By Shins and Planes

U.S. Troops Are  Landing on Guam   Marines and Infantry Are Pouring Ashore on Jap eld Island   WITH HELP FROM AIR   Battle To Regain First American Territory Seized by Enemy :

Beachheads Established Under Fire   Begin Reconquest Of First American Base Taken by Japs

Troops Still Pouring Ashore Against Moderate Ground Opposition; Island Believed As Strong As Saipan & Bloody Struggle Ex.  nected.

Marines, Infantry Fight Their Way  Inland on Island   Landings Are a Quick Follow-Up to Great Victory on Saipan.   Invasion Made Under Aerial Bombardment

Fighting Way Inland Under Cover Of Guns   Territory First Seized By Japs In The Pacific

ACTION FOLLOWS TERRIFIC 17-DAY SHIP-PLANE HITS   Successful Landings Made To Recapture U. S. Island Territory

LANDINGS MADE UNDER BARRAGE BY SEA AND AIR   Assault Troops Pour Ashore After Island Stolen by Japs Blasted for 17 Days

Troops Pouring Ashore Against Moderate Fire      Invasion Launched Under Cover of Terrific Bomb and Shell Bombardment

Terrific Air-Sea Bom bardment Covers Yank Landings To Regain Key Pacific Outpost.

Defenses Hif By Warships And Planes   Ground Opposition By Japanese Said To Be Moderate

Berliners Not Exeited—Nazis   German Propagandists Say People In Capital City Re main Normal.

Supreme Court Ruling Expected Today On Fight Ot Texas Pro-Roosevelt Electors

La! “Fe... WrHo...,,4.,-1 lM. -1..~- —_ oipreme Court Ruling Expected Today Cit Right Of Texas Pro-Reosevelt Electors

Sen. Tydings Wins Nomination ‘in Maryland   Politicians of Both Parties Watching Today's Elections

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BIG BARRAGE PAVES WAY AS BRIDGE LAID      Allies Still Repulse German Attacks At Beachhead

Terrific Smash In South Aims To Breakthrough And Help Beachhead.

Beachhead Fight Raging   Repeated Nazi Drives Fail To Gain Ground

Acquisition of Holdings By Minneapolis Man Presages Vast Development In Area

Allied Prisoners of War Die Horrible Deaths in Disease-Infested Junales

Britons Held By Japs Were Forced To Build Railway In Siam, Report

JAVA PRISONERS OIE HORRIBLY   British Persecutet While Building Railroads for Janan

Says Fifth of British Prisoners Captured by Japs at Singapore And Java Died in Siam Jungles

Prime Minister’s Wife Says U. $.—Australian Weddinas Only Natural

Cawt Curb Cupid  ‘Aussies Not Peeved At Yanks Who Mav Take Brides To U.S.

RESUME AIR ATTACK ON. AXIS EUROPE   Stuttgart Hit By’ R.A.F., Americans. Take Day Shift

J. §. BOMBERS FOLLOW RAF'S NIGHT ATTACK   Stuttgart Hammered By 1,700-Ton Assault Of British Air Force

Air Drive Against Axis: Stepping Up.   RED ARMY TRAPS GARRISON OF NAZIS IN ESTONIA STRONGHOLD AREA, -

YANK BOMBERS PRESS ATTACKS ON AXIS EUROPE   Daylight Forays Follow RAF Blasting Of Stuttgart in Night Raid

Resume Bombing Of Axis Europe   Aireratt) Engine Center of Stuttgart and French Coast Are Blasted Again }

ALL-OUT AIR OFFENSIVE RESUMED: .   Amer, 4-Engine Bombers Take Off From Brit. Coast

Stuttgart, Nazi Plane Center,  Blasted By RAF   American Bombers Roar Out Following Devastating Attack

Air Offensive Against Axis Europe Picks Up   German Aircraft Engine Center of Stuttoart Raided

Heavy Ail Blow Hits Factories   YANKS, R. A. F. JOIN IN POUNDING NAZIS MILITARY OBJECTIVES

ROUND CLOCK RAIDS RESUMED FROM G. BRITAIN   Stuttgart Latest “Main Target, Being Blasted in Big Sca‘e Attack by the R.A.F.

WASHBURN HEAO OF PRE-FLIGHT   Successor to Hanrahan Now on West Sea Duty

Democrats Pick Young Chairman   Freshman, Jackson, to Head Convention

INTERESTING LETTERS FROM ARMY BOYS TELLING MUCH ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES

U. §. First Army Locked in Battle East of Aachen   Slow Progress  Made by Yanks Inside City

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   FIERCEST BATTLE ON GERMAN SOIL RAGES EAST OF AACHEN

More ‘B’ Gasoline Will Come First   OWI Announces  Policy on Rationing

Trucks. Buses. “B’ Gas Drivers to Get First Break After Nazi Fall

Senate Heads Into Debate    Decision ‘Unceriain “On. State. Nominees

Fight On State Dept. Appointees Collapses   Roosevelt Says He Will Send Same Names To New Congress If This One Rejects Them

FDR Insists On State Nominees  Senate Opposition Promptly Collapses

FDR Will Reappoin' Nominees If They Are Rejected  Opposition to Six Secretaries Is Nearing Collapse

Roosevelt To Return Names   Senate Fight Against Six State Department Nominations Near End.

ROOSEVELT TAKES MOST FIGHT OUT OF NOMINEE OPPONENTS  TOLD SENATOR PEPPER,  LEADING FIGHT, THAT HI WOULD RENAME MEN

E.R. Standing Firm On State Office Nominees  Will Send Names To Next Congress Shoul. They Be Rejected At ee Oe

FDR Demands Confirmation Of Nominees... . State Department Issue Is Entered By Roosevelt

Fight on New State Aides Near Collapse   President Assures Senate Names Not To Be Withdrawn

Senators Drop Fight on Six  Nominafions —   Senator Pepper Says President Hold Him  If Nomination Failed © ‘He ‘Would: Renominate

FDR Firm On Six Nominees   Back in Washington, Makes ‘it Evident He Isn’‘ Changing His Mind

Roosevelt Stands Firm for State “Department Team   Senate Fight on Appointment Seems To Be Collapsing; Expect Vote Tadayv

STATE DEP'T FIGHT FADING      FDR’s Pronouncement Will Force Senators to Capitulate

Senate Fight Against Nominees Nears Collapse   FDR Says Will Send Same Names Back. If Confirmation Blocked

PRESIDENT BACKS SIX APPOINTMENTS   Senate Opposition to the Confi imation Is Near ing Collapse PEPPER LEADS FIGHT

Roosevelt Not To Submit New Appointment:   Insists On Confirmation of Six Aides to Stetlinius; Senate Fight ColJansing

F.D.R, Cracks Whip   Rebellious Senators Fall Quickly Into Line On Nominations After Calls from President

Senate Expected To Confirm Six Appointees Today   FDR Tells Opposition He Would Only Send Same Names Back In January If Confirmation Is Blocked

Latham To Act Soon On Rival Claims Of Electors For Places On Ballot

TEXAS’ BATTLE OF ELECTORS ENTERS  INTO LEGAL PHASE SECRETARY OF STATE  LATHAM MAY MAKE HIS NECICION TONAY

ath Army Drives Bil Miles Above Belfort Gap   Seeks Cut Last  Escape Route For Nazi Forces

7th Army Perils. Nazi Escape Gap   Yanks Race 36 Miles Northwest of Belfort

CONSIDER SPAIN‘S ‘NEEDS‘ Claimant to Spanish Throne Asks Franco To Sten Bown

Disarmament Issue Blocks Peace in Athens   British General Replies to Offer By Rebel Faction

ELAS FORCES OFFER TRUCE WITH BRITISH   Agree To Evacuate; Scobie Asks Arms Be Given Up

TRAP CLOSED   Sensational Withdrawal of 50 Miles Inside Old Poland Is. Announced By Berlin.   RETREAT SUGGESTS SHORTENED LINE   Russian Leningrad Army, Converging on Narva in Estonia,’ Overruns 50 More Towns.

CONVERGE ON TRAPPEL DIVISIONS   Drive Forward In Ukraine, Poland And In Estonia

WHILE BERLIN REPORTS SURPRISE 50MILE WITHDRAWAL INTO OLD POaw REDS ALSO SMASH INTO ESTO  (Rv TAMES M. LONG)

Red Armies Spring Greatest Trap Since Stalingrad   BERLIN ANNOUNCES   Evacuation of Rovno and Lutsk in Poland; Reds Push Into Estonia

AZIS REPORT DEEP RETREAT IN OLD POLAND   Soviet Army in North Smashes Over Bord er of Estonia

ol0 German Divisions Trapped by Twin Red Army Drive in Ukraine: “Nazis Retreat Deep Info Poland   Leningrad Armies Smash Across Estonian Frontier to Take Four Towns; Entire German Regiment Wiped Out; 10,000 Enemy Die

Stalin Reports Reds Trap 10 Nazi Divisions; Berlin Tells Of Deep Retreat Into Poland

‘Nearly 150,00C Men Face Annihilation   Berlin Announces Sensational 50-Mile Retreat

Berlin Reports Retreat Of 50 Miles in Poland; Ukraine Enemy Pocketed

‘Ten German Divisions Are ‘Trapped By Soviet Troops; ‘Nazis Acknowledge Reverses   Between 120,000 And 150,000 Axis Soldiers Encir. cled In The Ukraine; Berlin Announces Evacua tion Of Strongholds Deep Inside Poland

10,000 Nazis Die Trying 'To Break Out   Nazis Admit Fleeing Two Towns 85 Miles Inside Pre-War Poland  50-MILE RED GAIN

Nazis Draw Back 50 Miles in Old Poland   Greatest Red Trap Since Stalingrad Sprung by Stalin: Russo Spearheads Officially in Estonia

TEN DIVISIONS ARE TRAPPED BY RED ARMY   GERMANS EVACUATE ROVNO AND LUTSK IN OLD POLAND

FIREMAN IS KILLED IN AIRFIELD BLAZE   Signal Corps Building Razed : At Patterson Field

GERMAN RETREAT IN SOUTH RUSSIA VERGES ON PANIC   Keystone of Nazi Defenses in Upper Dnieper Bend Collanses

KEYSTONE OF NAZIS’ UPPER DNIEPER LINE   Berlin Gloomy In War Comment

U.S. BASES IN CHINA ALMOST IN JAP HANDS      Kweilin and Liuchow Taken Enemy Reports; AliOut Offensive Launched Against Walled City,   Mopping Up

Japs Threaten U.S. Supply  Line to Orient   Bombers Destroy 13 Jap Planes In Wewak Attack

American Flyers Hit Wewak Again Smash 13 Planes   Japanese Drive Deeper Into India,  Peril U. S. Railway

New Triumphs Are Reported For Air.Forces fa The Pacific  Japanese Air Bases Are Heavily Bombed And hdane Planse Mectrnved In New Acrial Attack

MISSING PLANE FOUND IN MEXICO   ONE DEAD, 10 INJURED AMONG 23 PASSENGERS ABOARD HAVANA CLIPPER,

Coast Guard Prepared For Possible Flare-Up of Rum-Running Activities

COAST GUARD READY TO ENFORCE ORDER   Spokesman Says Rum Runner Won’t Have a Chance To Get By.

Coast Guard Will War On  Rum Runners   Patrol Waters And Coastline

U.S. Naval Units Bombard Shore in Ormoc Bay   Remain Hour and Half, Draw No Answerina Fire

Bombard Shore Installations For An Hour And A Half   WITHOUT DRAWING ANSWERING FIRE   Drenching Rains Stalemate Ground Activities On Leyte

U. S. Ships Sail Into Ormoc Bay For Bombardment   ~ Shore Installations Blasted Without Any Answering Fire

NAVAL FORCES SHELL ORMOC SEA, AIR BASE   Bombardment Draws No Answer For Japs In Leyte Trap

U.S. Naval Units Boldly Sail Into Ormoc Bay   Bombardment Fails To Draw Enemy Fire; Levte Fight Stalemated

U.S. Naval Units Enter Ormoc Bay   Bombard Shore. Installations Without Drawing Enemy Fire

U.S. SHIPS SAIL INTO ORMOG BAY TO SHELL SHORE   Meet No Resistance As They Bombard for Hour and a Half

Fleet Units Join Attack On Leyte Japs   Destroyérs Enter Ormoc ‘Bay And Shell Enemy Works For Hour, Half

DESTROYERS SHELL JAPS AT ORMOC   Draw No Answering Fire; No Aerial Opposition

BOMBARD NIPS’ BASE   Enemy Airmen Attack American Shipping 8 In Leyte Gulf

INSTALLATIONS ON LEYTE SHORE ARE BOMBARDE!   Rains Hamper Ground Operations; Camotes’ Sea Searched for. Enemy

Ormoc Bay Blasted By Destroyers   Bold Attack Is Made On Jap Installations By Naval Units Operating In Leyte Area

Shore Guns Are Silent During Raid   Large Fires Reported Started At Ormoc; Planes Refuse Fight.

NAZI RADIO HINTS AT MORE RETREATS   Commentators Stress Allied “su periority of Material” in Giving Gloomy News From Italy,

‘lied Strength larms Germany   Nazi Radio Admits Retreats in Italy

FIND JOB TOO BIG   Planned Nazi Mass Evacuation of Rhineland Civilians Given Up

British Red Tape   When a Britisher Has House Blown Up By “Experimental Missile”

Polish Exiles Invited To Join Talks _   London Group To Ge To Moscow; Stalin Praises Allied Aid

Polish Premier To Visit Moscow   Accepts Invitation  From Churchill. Stalin

GERMANS IN COSTLY ‘AND BLOODY BID FOR SENS: COASTAL TOWN   Recklessly Throwing Men and Materiais Into the; Battle.   Heavy Losses Being Inflicted on the Invader, a Com- !  munigque Says.

AMERICAN UNITS CLOSING IN TO CLAIM AACHEN   Enemy's Only Chance To Evade Capture Through Gap 112 Miles Wide

Nazi Gap Now Only 11 Miles   Hitler’s Forces Driven From House ta House

The Gallup Poll—  [Wallace Continues Popular Choice for Vice President  i Among Democratic Voters

Rank and File Of Democrats Want Wallace   Gallup Declares Vice President Has Big Following

5 Of 8 Escapees Are Recaptured   Two Of Three Still At Large At Buffalo Accused Of Murder.

‘Pair Captured Following Syracuse Holdup + Among Right Who Assaulted Guards  -.. and:Eseaped: Five Caught. . --

FOUR GENERALS BEST MEN AS YANK SERGEANT WEDS BRITISH WAAF SERGEANT

Gas Allotted “B” and “C” Drivers Is Made  Pailitie Record Matter

Nazis Unable To Hold Reds   Escaping Troops Tie Up Communications; May Los: One Escape Railway

Hitler's Army Unable To Hold Mounting Red Drive On Odessa and Nikolaev   RAIL LINE IS SEVERED

Red Troops 70 Miles From Odessc   Germans Seems Unable to Hold Mounting Red Army Drives

TEMPERATURES:   Defeated German Army Caught In Muddy, Bloody Trap

NAZIS APPEAR UNABLE 10 HOLD RED DRIVES ON ODESSA, NIKOLAEV   Fleeing Germans Jam Miles of -Communications in Ukrainian Mud   REDS REACH ODNIESTER

NIPPON FORCES DRIVE ON CHINA FROM 4 FRONTS   Chinese Authorities Believe War May Be Entering Critical Phas.

ARMED SERVICE BALLOT REVIVED   Federal Control Needed To Get Voting Blanks Through Mails

Soldier Vote Being Pushec   Revised Action Seen In Senate Proposal

Disaster mi case mane Avmty   Service Vota Legislation Brings Kew Row in

Revive Federal Ballot Proposal In U.S. Senate   ‘g Democrats Override GOP Objection, Force Consideration

NEW SOLDIER VOTE BILL UP   Democrats in Senate Force Consideration of Revised War Ballot Measure

Four Rea Armies In Field   Reds Ride Down On Rear Guard of 200,000 Germans

NIJMEGEN SPAN TAKEN INTACT, B.B.C, DECLARES   Capture Of Bridge Opens Way For Quick Relief Of Trapped Units   PATTON FORGES AHEAD   Clark Moves Ahead In Italy, Russians Advance, Japs Are Pounded

Victory Near in Baltics, Soviets Say   Russians Storm Suburbs of Riga; Rush at Tallinn   BULLETIN

Four Red Armies Chewing Up Nazi Forces In Baltic   German Defenses Collapsing On 200-Mile Front; Berlin Says Soviets Across Vistula At Several Points   (RULLETIN )

Heavy Thunderstorm   Accompanied:.By. Hail. “At Several Places :

J apan Boasts Of Readiness Rat Air War   Plancs Now Exceed Anierican First Line, Saye Tokvo’s Racio

Paper Fears Jap Leniency   Daily Mail Says Group of Appeasers Working Toward Jap Compromise.

AMERICANS BOMB GERMANY’S NAVAL BASE AT TOULON   Port Installations, Factories, Submarines and U-Boat Pens Pounded by ~ Liberators.   HISTORIC FLORENCE  HIT FOR FIRST TIME   Great Air Battle Develops Over Padua in Northeastern Italy With Nazis Losing Heavily.

‘U.S. Bombers Hit Toulon, Florence   Important Railway Center of Padua in Italy Also Blasted

Allies Stage . Raids On 2 Enemy Ports   Toulon, Florence's Base, Railways Hit

Bombers Also Smash at Railway Facilities of — Florence for First Time

Liberators Raid U-Boat Pen: At Toulon As Forts Blast Vital Rail Center at Padua

ltaly-Based Heavies Blast Big Naval Base   Marauders in Precision Attack on Ancient City of Florence

rlorence and Toulon Hit by Bombers  Ground Activity in   Ground Activity in Italy Confined to Work by Patrols

Toulon Target Of Liberators Based In Italy   Marauders Pound Railway Installations At Florence For First Time.   IFORTS BLAST PADUA

lfalian-Based Planes Raid Toulon, Florence   Activity on Front South of Rome Limited to Patrols

BRA . r HEADS ARMIES ~ OF AMERICANS   EISENHOWER REVEALS . NEW BETUP OF GROUND FORCES IN FRANCE--SEES 8UR-”  - RENDER IN 1944

GEN. BRADLEY PROMOTED BY EISENHOWER   American Placed on Par With Britain’s Gen. Montgomery

City Reported Entered by _ French Armored DiVision  AMERICAN UNITS TO  _ SEAL THE VICTORY  French Capital Liberated After Four Years of Bondage

WAR HERO LEAD: MEN INTO PARIS   Gen. Le Clerc Heads Victorious Troops: Fighting as Bloody as That of French Revolution

Yanks Help Occupy City; Nazis Use Armistéce For Withdrawal of Units

UL S, FRENCH UNITS HELP LIBERATORS   Bloody Four-Day Street Fighting Comes to End

Bradley Sends American Units into the Capital   Germans Defeated In Street Battles

Capital Freed By Action of Its People   French Troops Under Gen. Le Clere Head for Great City

Soldiers Occupy Capital; Residents Beat Down German Garrison In City

Nazi Counterattack East of Aachen is Heaviest of Front   Siegfried Line Bends Under Increasing Allied Pressure

BIG NEW DRIVE FEARED BY NAZIS   Hub of One Road to Ruhr Is Seized in Holland—Planes Rock Cologne With Bombs

SMAGH ENEMY COUNTER HITS   Great Armada of Bombers: Give Cologne Worst Attack of War.   PLAN NEW OFFENSIVE?

Night-long Battle East of Aachen; Berlin Declares U. S. Plans New Offensive

UJ. 5. TROOPS HAVE TIGHTENED PINCERS ON CITY OF AACHEN  NAZI COUNTERASSAULTS   NAZI COUNTERASSAULTS SMASHED AND COLOGNE TERRIBLY BATTERED

Yanks Clamp Tight Ring Upon Aachen   Nazis Assert Allies Are Mounting Big New Offensive

Allies Are Increasing Pressure   Berlin Says Great New Assault Is Being Prepared By Eisenhower’s Forces   BRITISH TROOPS  STEP UP ATTACK   And Cologne, 40° Miles Te The East of Aachen, Is Heavily Pounded”

Air Blows Reduce  Cologne to Ruins   1,300 U. S. Bombers Give City Worst Hammering of the War   HOLD LINE AT AACHEN   All German Counterattacks Fail; Nazis Expect New Drive

AMERICAN RING AROUND DYING CITY UNBROKEN   BRITISH FIGHT INTO VENRAY, DUTCH CITY, 50 MILES NORTHWARD

SMASH FRANTIC NAZI ATTACKS EAST OF CITY   High Hungarian Officers Join Red Army; Chaos Reigns In Budapest

Ring Around Aachen Drawr Still Tighter   Germans Rest After Costly Attacks, Predict Big New Allied Offensive

Siege Holds Fast   YANKEE.BRITISH PRESSURE MOUNTS ON 50-MILE FRONT; TOMMIES PUSH INTO VERNAY

Germans Report Allies Preparing Great Offensive   1,300 U. S. Bombers Give Cologne Its Worst Pounding Yet

Stronger ‘Yank Hold On Aachen   Counterassaults Beaten Off and Germans Say Cologne Pounding Hint of Major Drive

Yanks Cling To Positions Around City   Enemy Says Allies Planning Big Push; Artillery Is Rushed Up By Germans

‘Smash Heavy Counterblows ‘By Germans   Yank Bombers Give Cologne Worst Air Pounding of War

Allies Building Up Power for Drive in West,  Nazis Declare   Foe Rests Before Aachet After Futile Counter Assaults

Break Up Series Of Assaults   German Supplies Appeai To Be Much Large In Besieged Aacher Than At First Believec

Lines Around » Dying City of Aachen Intact   German Assaults Intended to Delay . Expected Offensive By Allied Armies

U.S. Troops Tighten Ring . On Aachen; Hurl Back All  German Counter-Attacks

Nazi Thrust At Aachen Hurled Back   Biggest Counter-Blow Of War in West Repulsed by Yanks

NATION URGED BY ROOSEVELT TO BUY BONDS   War Costing $250, 000,000 a Day,  He Declares

War's cost is 250 millions dalvy—F.D.R.   Urges response to 6th bond drive

War Costing 250 Million Daily, Says President, Urges Nation To Buy Bonds

 War Costs $250,000,000 A Day, President Reveals; Asks People To Buy More Bonds

War Costing  $250,000.000 Each Day, F.D.R. Says   President Stresses  High Cost of Conflict  On Eve of Opening  Of 6th War Loan Drive COAT TS 14-RINTION

COST OF WAR POINTED OUT BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Says $250,000, « 000 Is Spent - Daily

6thWarLoan Drive Opens  TodayInU:S.   MONEY IS NEEDED TO FINANCE EXPENDITURES OF QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS A DAY FOR FIGHTING,   Army Te Show It’s Stuff

President Urges Buying of Bonds   War is Not Over, Roosevelt Says, Telling of High Cost

Roosevelt Asks Public Support Of Bond Drive   President Opens Sixth Big Effort

WARIS COSTING HUGE SUM DAILY   Roosevelt Says War Is Far From Being Over In  War Loan Plea

F. D. R. Appeals for Support of 6th War Loan   War Is Now Costing United States $250,000,000 Daily

STRESSED IN FOR APPEAL   Says Loan Campaign More Than’ Cash Raising Affair

Paris Bombed By German — Planes; Many Fires Started   Nazi Raid Staged a Few Hours: Before General Eisen . hower and Field Commanders Re- } ceive City’s Acelain —

110 Are Killed 719 Hurt in Paris Air Raid   Suburbs Are Bombed By Nazis; No Estimate Of Damage Available: Also Reported Shelled

Nazi Planes Start Fires Tn Suburbs Of Paris ©   110 Killed, 7.19 Injured  ’ Few Hours After: Visit By General Eisenhower And Some Field Chiefs   CITIZENS: ‘“ANGERED BY DAMAGE TO CITY.   “Germans Also Shell City Sunday. Morning, “Paris Radio Asserts:

Germans Return to Bomb Paris   Several Fires Are Started in Suburbs

NAZIS BOMB AND SHELL PARIS SUBURBS OVER THE WEEK-END   Skies Are Aglow From The Light Of Fires; No Estimate Of Damage Or Whether Historical Buildings Or Monuments Were Hit; French Are Enraged

Paris Suburbs Are Bombed By Nazi Planes   Extent af Damage In Night Attack Is Not Yet Known

No Report on Extent of Damage; Grim Reminder That French Capital Is Still War Zone.   Roundup Of Traitors

J-MILLION FUND SOUGHT BY CI0   Leaders Map Plans To Aid  Democratic Ticket

c. I. O. GROUP -BEGINS _ GATHERING BIG FUND FOR F. D. R. CAMPAIGN

Parley on World Peace Plan Hinted   President May Call Organization Meeting

Daily Temperatures   RFC Pilot Who ‘Downed Richtofen Dies In Canada

World Mourns Death   Untimely Passing of  Wendell Willkie Comes As Shock to Thousands Of Persons Over Globe

SUDDEN DEAT OF WILLKIE IS: SHOCK TO ALL      Former GOP Standard Bearer Only 52, Heart Attack Proves Fatal

Willkie Dies ; Ih: Sleep: From Heart Attack:   Body Ao. Lie! in. State in  ‘..Ghurch Before. Being  _.."Paken .to. Indiana for‘ Buriat

Many Tributes To Willkie After Death   Funeral Tomorrow At New York Church; Son To Come Home

Funeral For Willkie To Be Tuesday   Death Takes National Leader; Burial Later In Family Plot in Indiana

Willkie Dies Unexpectedly After Three. Heart Attacks   Colorful Republican ' Nominee of 1940  In Hospital. Month,  Had Throat Infection  COURAGE IS HAILED

Services for Willkie Tuesday   Body to Lie in State In New York-——Dies Sunday Morning

‘40 REPUBLICAN NOMINEE HEART ATTACK VICTIM   Messages of Sympathy Received From Many Parts of “One World”

WILLKIE’S DEATH STIRS POLITICS   Support of 1940 Candidate Claimed by Both Parties

WENDELL WILLKIE TO LIE IN STATE NEW YORK CHURCH MAN WHO TOOK VITAL IN  TEREST IN “ONE WORLD’ Nich RARITY CUNNAY

Willkie, Great Liberal, Dies; Rites Tuesday   Body Lies in State in New York; Burial To Be at Rushville é

Nation Mourns Willkie _  as ‘Forthright American’   1940 GOP Presidential Candidate Dies at 2:20 A. M. Sunday

Willkie Funeral Set for Tuesday  Republican Party Leader Expires

Wendell Willkie Dies Suddenly Of Heart Attack   Republican Presidential Nominee In 1940;  Internationally Known.

Wendell L. Willkie Taken by Death In New York   Roosevelt, Dewey Join In Mourning Death of 1940 GOP Candidate

REMAINS WILL LIE IN STATE   Funeral Services to Be Held For Willkie in New York Tuesday.   DIED EARLY YESTERDAY

Wendell L. Willkie Succumbs at 52   Coronary Thrombosis Takes Life Of 1940 Republican Nomince; Funeral Services Set for Tuesday

Willkie Funeral Tuesday, Burial To Be In Indiana   Nation Mourns Unexpected Death

WENDELL WILLKIE TO LIE IN STATE NEW YORK CHURCH  MAN WHO TOOK VITAL IN. TEREST IN “ONE WORLD” DIED FARLY .SUNDAY

Willkie’s Body To Lie In State In New York   Remains Will Be Taken To Rushville, Ind., For Burial In Family Lot.

WILLKIE FAMILY   Death Leaves Politicians - Wondering Who Had His   Preference   BURIAL IN RUSHVILLE

U.S. MOURNS SUDDEN DEATH OF WILLKIE   America’s Foremost Private Citizer Passes Away In New York City Hospital

WILLKIE WILL BE BURIED IN ‘OLD HOME TOWN   Body To Lie In State In New York Church

Willkie Rites Tuesday P.M. in New York City   End fer Republican Leader Came Sunday Burial Will Be in Rushville. Indiana

Tributes Pour In To Statesman Who Died Yesterday Of Heart Attack.

WILLKIE DIES: WORLD - WIDE TRIBUTE PAID   Body Lies In State In New York; Funeral At  2 P.M Tuesday

WILLKIE'S BODY INSTATE; RITES TOBE TUESDAY   Former G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Dies Sunday; Indiana Burial Set

WILLKIE DIES ‘SUNDAY FROM HEART ATTACK   Body Lies In Staté In Church In New Vork City   ILL SHORT. TIME   Death Of World Famous Figure Comes Aa Ghork

Willies Body Lies in State   Funeral Services to Be Held Tuesday

PLAN WILLKIE RITES TUESDAY IN NEW YORK   World Leaders Mourn Passing of 1940 GOP Pres idential Nominee

Nation Mourns  Willkie   MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY POUR IN; BURIAL IN INDIANA; FDR AND GOV. DEWEY PAY TRIBUTE

WILLKIE WILL BE BURIED AT INDIANA HOME   Body Lies in State in Church Until Funeral Set for Tuesday Afternoon.

Willkie’s Death af 52 Shocks Nation: Had Brief l!Iness   Throat Infection Weakened Heart of Former Candidate

Willkie’s Death in Sleep Sunday Morn Mourned General;   Funeral* of 1940 GOP Presidential Nominee Tomorrow

Wendell Willkie  Will Be Buried In Home Town   Presidential Candidate In 1940 Dies In His Sleep, Body Lying In State

Willkie Dies, Many Messages of Sympathy   Roosevelt and Dewey Join Thousands In Tribute To GOP 1940 Nominee   FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TOMORROW   Question .of< Whom. He Would Support This Year Is_ Left Unanswered —

Willkie Lies In State at NY. Church   One-Time Presidential Candidate to Be Buried In Indiana: Son at Sea

Willkie Rites toBe Tuesday af 3 O'clock   Thousands Pay Tribute to Notable American Following His Death

WENDEL WILLKIE et SUNDAY IN ~NEW YORK: HOSPITAL   Republican Nominee For ‘President in 1940 Had Been in the Hospital Stice September 6th.

NATION MOURN! SUDDEN DEATH OF WILLKIE   Funeral Services To Be Held In New York Tomorrow Afternoon

Death Leaves Politicians Wondering Who Had His  Preference   BURIAL IN RUSHVILLE

Body Of Willkie To Lie In State \Until Funeral Services Tomorrow

NATION MOURNS SUDDEN DEATH OF WENDELL WILLKIE   GOP NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT IN ’40 DIED EARLY SUNDAY

Wendell L. Willkie Dies Axiter Brief [lness; His Career A Spectacular One

THE WORLD MOURNS LOSS OF WILLKIE   Death Sunday of the 1940 G.O.P. Presidential Nominee Brings Messages of Sympathy From Many Places.

Willkie Death Stuns. Nation;  Delay Burial   Awaits Return of Son; Funeral To Be Tomorrow

Willkie To Be Buried  In Indianz   Body Will Be Taken To Rushville Following Funeral Services In  New York Tuesday

Death Caused By Coronary Thrombosis   Ex-GOP Presidential Candidate Dies in His Sleep Sunday; Suffered 3 Attacks

NATION MOURNS WILLKIE DEATH, RITES TUESDAY   Messages of Sympathy Come From Many Parts of World

Colorful Leader Victim of Heart Ailment  TRIBUTES PAID BY NATIONAL LEADERS  1940 Presidential Nominee in Hospital for Month

Strep Throat — Infection Affects Heart Muscles   Burial Will Be Made In Family Plot at Rushville. Ind.

Presidential Candidate  In 1940 Dies   Funeral of Wendell L. Willkie Will Be Held Tuesday

Infection Stills Willkie’sHeart   °40) Presidential Nominee Dies in N. Y. Hosnital

HIS HOME STATE   Willkie’s Death Early Yesterday Morning Shock To Nation  FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE TUESDAY  Burial Determined By The Return Of His Qnilv Son

TAKES WILLKIE DURING SLEEP   Expires Unexpectedly After Suffering 3 Heart Attacks

Willkie Funeral Tomorrow: GOP Leader Dies Unexpectedly In New York Hospital Sunday   _ Body To Lie In State Today; To Be Buried At Rushville, Ind.

Willkie Funeral Rites Tuesday: Burial To Be In Indiana Family Plot

U.S. Mourns — Willkie Death   Political Figure’s Funeral Tomorrow

Nation Mourns Wendell Willkie   Heart Attack Ends Colorful Career Of Republican Leader

WORLD MOURNS WILLKIE’S DEATH   Funeral Rites Tomorrow, Burial In Rushville

Willkie Dies Of Infection, Heart Attack   Fermer Republican Presidential Nominee Paid Tribute By Leaders

NATION PAYS TRIBUTE TOWILLKIE   Ex-Presidential Candidate Died Early Sunday

START DRIVE ON HILL   Students Solicitors Are Collecting Funds for Two Groups _:

‘STOLEN-CHILD’ MARRIAGE LS AFTER-SCHOOL LOVE 14-YEAR-OLD BRIDEGROOM, BROKE, TELLS POLICE

Child-Stealing ‘Char ge Placed Kennet Bride   Girl, 21, and Her Bride groom, 14, Being Held In Deriver Jail; Profess Love for Each

Boy Professes Love for Wife   14-Year-Old Says He Can't Live Without 21-Year-Old Woman

21-Year-Old Wife Satisfied With Bridegroom, 14   Story Of AfterSchool Courtship Told In Denver Jail

13- Year-Old Bridegroom Tells Of Romance With His 21-Year-Old Wife

Large Area Shaken By Dynamife Blast   No Fatalities Reported In New England Area

Dynamite B last  Rocks Wide Area   Explosion Causes Panic: Many Are lojured

Dynamite Blast Creates Panic   Thousands of Windows Shattered in 70-mile Area in New Hampshire

MEETING OF BIG THREE IS IMMINENT   Due to Ebb in British-U. S. Relations; Problems At Stake are Diverging Allied Policies.

PROBLEMS CALL FOR BlG-d MEET   Swift Solution Draws Roosevelt, Churchill and Possibly Marshal Stalin Closer te Another Meet

Tri-Power Conference kx pected   German Robots Are Drawhack to Conference Bein g Held in England

Meeting Of Big Three Is Being Uraed   Strained Relations May Speed Session

BIG THREE TO SOON MEET, IT 1S REPORTED   Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin May Have Early Conference

MEETING NEAR FOR BIG THREE   At Least 5 Major Problems Needing Settlement

Many Signs Hint Early  Conference   Need To Co-ordinate Policy of. Allies ‘In Europe Is Urgent  PCT aTTANe MOCTIAGC

Big Three Meeting Soon, Is Forecast   War, Peace Decisions Becoming Urgent

An Early Meeting » Of Big. Three Is London Belief   Decline in U.S... ’ British Relations  Given as Reason * For the Canfaranc,

Big 3 Meeting Sions Multiply   Anglo-American Relation: Canetitiie New Tesues

Big Three Expected he Meet Before the End of the Year      Co-ordination of Apparently Diverging Allied Policies in Europe: Need for Speeding Plans for Germany at Stake

Meeting of Big Three ; Anminent   Sharp Decline in U.S. British Relations - Calls for tarly, Conference .

Big Three Talks Expected To Ease Strain In British - U. ‘S. Relations

Ib THREE HINTED SHORTLY   Signnosts Point to Meeting of , Allied Chieftains Be_- Jere Lona

RILLER SENTENCED TO DIE IN KANSAS   ERNEST KOEFGEN ORDERED HANGED MARCH 10 FOR SLAYING COLLEGE STUDENT.

American Tanks Continue Push Toward Germany   Marne, Aisne River Lines Collapsed By Triumphant Allies

Drive      CAPTURE SOISSONS AND _  CHATEAU-THIERRY IN MARC TOWARD BELGIUM, NAZI FRONTIER

wOWEee yy RR AUA PREG EEO EY Across Battle Fields Of World War One Today  TAKE SOISSONS AND CHATEAU-THIERRY  Furious Fighting In Progress 15 Miles East Of Soissons

Nazis in Full Retreat Under Aerial Blows   Patton's Progress Is Spectacular in Marne Breakthrough

Tanks Cross World War  Battlefields In Fast Push   Marne And Aisne River Lines Broken In Mile-An-Hour Allied Advance

Rampaging Tank Army Plunges Mile An Hour Onto German Frontier   Break Thru Marne And Aisne Lines Toward Forest Of Compiegne, Site Of 1918 Armistice

DOISSONS Aisa Is Cantured   Americans Drive Mile and Hour for Germany's Border

SOISSONS ALSO FALLS 0 U. S. TANK COLUMN   Yanks Drive For Belgian Border At Mile-AnHour Clip

Historic Chateau-Thierry, Soissons Taken in Rapid Sweep Toward Reich Border

Enemy Fought Hard For Aisne River Crossing But Was Ridden  Down And Dispersed By Gen. Pation's Wild-Riding Armor   BELGIAN BORDER NOW ONLY 54 MILES AWAY

Sweep Across Battlefields of World War 1   ‘Germans Report Furious Fighting Near Aisne River

Germans Reel Back On Belgian Border.   American Tanks Cross Aisne And Sweep Over Historic Battlefields of First World War

Sight is Disgusting Civilian Nazi Official Writes in His Diary   General, Who Set Up Overnight Headquarters in His Home While in Flight, Advises Him Not To Return to Germany: People Amazed When Americans Go to Church After Entering Aachen

German Retreat in Holland Marks the Decay of a Great Military Machine, Says Nazi

—————————aaa————————————aaaEeEeEeE——EEeeeeoerrrorre  NAVAL CADET DIES IN AIR CRASH NEAR PEMERVILLE

Truman Going After Pennsylvania Votes   Formal Closing of His Speaking Tour Is Tonight

Truman Carries Campaign Into Pennsylvania   Tells Reporters “Io Think People Feel It Unwise to Take Chance On Inexperienced Leadership”’

BATTLE FOR PO VALLEY GATE RAGES   Heavy Casualties Suffered By Eighth And By Germans

Germans Unleash Desperate Attacks On Gothic Line   Both Sides S~ter Heavily but British Eighth Army Absorbs Thrusts, Extends Greand

Savage Battle for Po Valley   HEAVY CASUALTIES FOR BOTH SIDES AT REMINI

Nazis Battle Desperately ~ For Rimini   Launch Fierce Thrusts to Prevent Breakthrough in Gothic Line

alee Te —AAGESAN ITALY   Rimini And Gateway To Po Valley Are Fighth Army. Goals :

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN ITALY   Casualties Heavy As Yanks Fight For Po Valley Gate

Savage Battle ‘Is Raging ‘For Rimini   : British Troops Seize and Hold  Croce; Battle for Gemmano, ; Continues for Third Day :  Unabated Fury

FIERCE BATTLE IS RAGING FOR KEY CITY OF RIMINI   Nazis - Desperately Defyins City and Gateway to the Pr Valle y— Breakthrougt  Would Permit Allies. - te Rush Into Northern Italy

Nazis Wage Fierce Fight   Battle Desperately To Hold Italian  Line Against An Allied Breakthrough

Bitter Fighting is Raging in Battle at Po Valley Gateway   Americans and Germans Suffer Heavily; News From South France

BOTH SIDES LOSE HEAVILY — AT RIMINI   Savage Battle for: Gate way to Po Valley Rages in Thunderstorm, With No Material Changes in  Pacaitioan 

NAZIS HOLD ON ITALIAN FRONT   Heavy Battle Rages for Po Valley Gateway, Rimini

Battle Rages For Rimini In Po River Valley   Heavy Causalties Reported By German ard Eighth Armies.

Nazis Fight Savagely To Defend Gothie Line   Bitter Battles Raging in. ltaly With Losses Heavy on Both  Stdes. Headararters Sav

Savage Battle For Rimini   British and Germans Suffer Heavy Losses; Gothic Line Still Held

Van Hunter Seeks Reelection   Minter Files For Democratic Committee Post

Blake Announces For Magistrate  David Ashworth Seek:  , Ses Sees eS

JUNCTION OF U.S. ARMIES TRAPS NAZIS IN FRANCE:   Last Retreat Routes to Enemy in Western, Southern France Cut Off as Third and Seventh Armies Join at Chatillon

Seventh, Third U.S. Armies Form United Front   Forces Joined On Seine River At Chatillon; Escape Route Cut

Nazi Retreat Route Closed  Full-Scale Juncture Ils Made In France

THIRD, SEVENTH ARMIES EFFECT SEINE JUNCTION   Potential Retreat Route From Southern, Western § France Closed Against Germans,

Seventh and Third Armies Meet To Seal Off Trap  Full-Scale Juncture Cuts Off 20,000 Germans in France

ENEMY RETREAT ROUTE CLASEN   Seventh and Third Armies Meet in Force on Seine Rivar.

]  ‘Belfort Gap Shut Tight as 2 Armies Join   Chatillon Juncture Cuts Off Big Nazi Force in South France

7TH, 3RD ARMIES MEET IN FORCE   CLOSE LAST GERMAN RETREAT ROUTE FROM SOUTH, WEST FRANCE

Seventh and Third Armies Meet, Trap 20,000 Germans   Janctore Made in Force on River Seine at Chatillon, Blocking Nazis Retreat

7th And 3rd Armies Meet In Strenth —   _Juneture: Cuts Off ‘Thousands: OF. ‘Huns

3rd And 7th Armi ces Meet At Chatillon   Full-Scale U. S. Juncture Bottles Up Many Germans

SEVENTH AND THIRD ARMIES AT GHATILLON   Meet On Seine And Cut Off Considerable Number Of Germans Still In France.

ENEMY RETREAT CLOSED BY 7TH ARMY ON SEINE   Planning Great United Drive  On Germany

Third, Seventh Meet On Seine Closing Escapes   Put Stopper On Last Encmy Escapes Routes From South and West France.

Civilian’s Complaint Being Investigated By Military Authorities.

Links Son Of FR In Braul Over Taxicab   Civilian Charges Col. Elliott Roosevelt Helped Four Soldiers '

YOUNG ROOSEVELT      Civilian Complains Colonel Took Part of Service'Men in ~ : Argument

Dewey To State Fundamental Issues   ee eee  Greeted By 25,000 Persons At Philadelphia

DEWEY 10 GIVE MAIN ISSUES   First Speech Will Reveal De : tails Of Campaign

Dewey Issues Labor Statement   Says Wartime Rules Could Totally End Collective Bargaining

URGES END 10 GOV'T CONTROL OF ALL LABOR   Says Continued Restric tions Will End Collec tive Bargaining

Dewey Says Control Of Labor by Government Is Peri  GOP Nominee Delivers Labor Day Message In Reply to AFL Head

‘Dewey Woulc Lift Limits From Labor   Not Necessary  When War Ends

Labor Warned By Dewey of Loss of Rights  War Ractrictiance   War Restrictions If Continued to Nullify Progress

Dewey Issues Pr oclamation  PRoactrictiane On Tahor   Restrictions On Labor Must End After War

Dewey Visions  ‘Labor Harmed =  By Government   Sees Collective Bargaining Right Lost After War Through Interference

DEWEY ISSUES LABOR APPEAL   G. 0, P, CANDIDATE SAYS GOYERNMENT RESTRICTIONS . ON LABOR COULD DE"=" eR OY FREE LABOR"

Dewey Issues labor Message  Opposes Post-War Fed   Opposes Post-War Federal Labor Restrictions

Shift of Montgomery’s Old Army to Cassino Front Catches Enemy Unawares; Germans Flood Rapide to Hinder Advance

FIRST OBJECTIVES IN DRIVE UPON GUSTAV LINE ACHIEVED; HUNS OFFERING STRONG RESISTANCE   Regrouped Fifth and Eighth Armies Take Germans by Surprise and Laynch Attack Over Wide Front. Wedges Driven into German Lines Over   gmerercr J: i a

RULING DECLINED ON O'DANIEL GASOLINE; NO APPLICATION YET  QUESTION OF GASOLINE -FOR SPEAKING TOUR RAISED BY BOB CALVERT

Russ Drive 27 Miles  To Invade Transylvaniz   Danube Ports, Black Sea Base Seizec In Sweep Toward Ploesti, Bucharest

Reds Invade Transylvania,  Take 3 Ports   Bretcu, Nine Miles Inside Border, Falls to Soviet Arms

REGISTRATION INDICATES A HEAVY VOTE  Detroit, Chicago      Detroit, Chicago Both Show Good  Increase Over ’40

VOTE REGISTRATIONS HEAVY  Survey one Increases In War hides Areas Except St. Louis, Pittsburgh

RECORD VOTE IN PROSPECT FOR FALL ELECTION      Thousands Of War Workers,,To —~ Cast Ballots At New Homes

NEW ADVANCES MADE IN ITAL!   Battle to: Destroy Nazi   Armies Continues

BATTLE OF ITALY THUNDERS AHEAL WITHOUT PAUSE   5TH ARMY CROSSES THE TIBER RIVER IN MANY PLACES

Tarnopol in. Peril of Red Flank Thrust   Zhukoy Armies Pressing On Toward Rumania a 20-Mile Rate

Vital Nazi Road Cut By Russians   Odessa-Warsaw Line s Severed In 2 Places

OUTFLANKING OF TARNOPOL NOW LOOMS   Russians Move Nearer © Junction City on OdessaWarsaw Railroad Today

RUSSIANS MAKE GAINS DESPITE MUDDY TERRAIN   Overpower Nazis With Threats to Outflank Junction of Tarnopol

Reds Threaten To Outflank  Junction City Of Tarnopol   Igrovitsa Captured In General Advance

RUSSIANS ARE PUSHING AHEAD TAWARD BORDER   Outfianking Nazis Near Railway Junction

REDS OVERRUN NAZI DEFENSES   Mop Up 200 Settlements In Drive From Ukraine Toward Rumania

Reds Advance in Ukraine in  Spite of Mud   Germans Leave 1,000 Deod on Field When Counter Attacks Fail

Reds Close In On Tarnopol In Rumania Drive  May Outflank Strategi Rail Junction; Repulse Nazi Counterattacks.

RED ARMY REPULSES ASSAULTS   Spearheads  Capture Town Nine Miles  From Tarnopol

Ruesians Advance Through: Mud In Ukraine; Seize 200 Localities and Strategic Area !

Reds Menace Tarnopol in Swift Drive   Strong Counter-Blows By Germans Fail to Stem Advance

Forces Under Marshal Zhukov Driving Toward Rumania May Outflank Vital Tunction City

Russians Driving ‘ Toward Rumanian Border Threaien to Ouiflank Junction City of Tarnopol   MOVE ON LWOW   Germans Throw Strong Infantry and Tank Forces Against Soviets in Effort fo Halt Advances

Tarnopol May Be Outflanked By Red Forces   Russians Nearing Two Important Junctions On Severed Rail Line In Push To Rumania

Important Junction City — Of Tarnapol Threatened By Soviet. Flanking Move

Soviets Drive On Tarnopol   Overcome Heavy German Counterattack; Threaten To Ouiflank Junction

COUNTER-ATTACKS BI NAZIS OVERPOWERED IN CONTINUED DRIVE  RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVING   RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVING TOWARD RUMANIA MAY OUTFLANK STRONGPOINT

Soviets Crush Harsh New Nazi Attack   Troops Are Continuing Drive to Rumania, Take Railroad Center

LAND BOMBERS ~~ BATTER GUAN      RECENT ADVANCES IN PACIFIC "EMPHASIZED BY RATDS MADE  a a _ BY LAND-BASED 5 - AIRMEN ~ v

Land Based U. S. Planes Hit Guan   First Attack On Jap Instal ~ Jations By Land Based American Planes

P RESS WINS. PRAISE FROM _ GOV. BRICKER      Says: Publi¢: ‘Owes ‘ Debt'of:Gratitude” = oe nt Hd itors<" aie

BRICKER PRAISES NATION’S EDITORS   GOP NOMINEE FOR VICE PRESIDENCY ON RADIO TONIGHT

MOUNTBATTEN BACK ON JOB   Commander Tells Of Bitter Fighting In Jungle Terrain

Mountbatten Returns to Asiatic Post  S‘East Asia Is Foraotten Front

Russian Army On Shores of Lake Balaton   Germans, Hungarians Reported in Flight  in Some Sectors

Soviet Spearheads Thrust to Shore of Lake Balaton   WEDGES CUTTING OF F— BUDAPEST WIDENED   Russians Move Closer to the Capital of Hunaary

SOVIET ARMY ADVANCES ON DANUBE RIVER   GERMANS REELING BEFORE SWIFT RED ATTACK

Foe flees as Russ reach  Lake Balaton  Units drive near Budapest hastior

Today’s War Moves   Spies, Underground Gives Allies New Problem In Reich

IALLIED ADVANCE INTO GERMANY ‘BRINGS DANGERS FROM NAZI -UNDERCROUND UNITS AND SPIES

The War Today   Allied Advance Into Rhine land Meets New Problems of Security.

[NEW PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED — FROM NAZI UNDERGROUND UNITS 1BY ALLIES IN RHIYELAND DRIVE

WOMEN SEEK BAN ON SHOW   Massachusetts Group Pro. tests Against Political Music Revue

Full Blown Musical Comedy Gets Ready To Take To Road To Plug For FDR; Boston Club Protest

Roosevelt Road Show, Slated For Troy Presentation, Faces Ban in Boston Debut Tonight

Latest in Politics: "FDR Victory Bandwagon’, Musical Show, Backed by Democrats, PAC

U.S. PATROLS SCOUR JUNGLE FOR JAPANESE   Liquidating Groups Who Survived Air, Land and Naval Fire after Invasion of Hollandia.   3 Pianes Damaged

U. S. patrols liquidating isolated Japs  677 dead since . April 22 landins

Yankees Start Liquidating Hollandia Jans   Isolated Groups Mopped Up; Report 677 Bodies Counted

Japs Lose 677 Dead to Hollandia  Invasion Forces  Tokyo Troops Extend Hold on China; U. S.  Tanks Used in Burma

ISOLATED JAPS ARE MOPPED UP   Americans Count 677 Enemy Dead Around Hollandia Base

War Expert Points To Mass Russian Offensive As Maneuver To Cut Escape Route

Conference  Faces Work   -Monetary Gathering Meets, With Success:

Monetary Conference Opens Today   Task “Better Than Half Finished,” Stated One Member

FARMERS URGED T0 SIGN COMPLIANCE   County Chairman R. L. Weidauer Says To See Towushin Committeeman

4. Jap Planes Shot Down Over Rabaul   Nips Caught by Surprise as Allies Sweep Over Airdrome; Six Ships Blasted in Admiralty Isles; Bitter Battle in Burma

IAP PLANES. ON HI/QN WRECKED   Nimitz Soon to Mcve Headquarters to Forward Area

 FISHING’S GOOD, COL. HAYS SAYS   Former OSSO Head Tells Of Landing Big One Off Munda With Jap Feather Bait

Nelson Gets KickInTeeth From FDR   WAR PRODUCTION BOARD CHAIRMAN 18 ASSIGNED TO CHINESE MISSION ON EVE OF PEACE PRODUCTION

Nelson's Trip Stirs Capital   WPB Chief’s China Mission  Gurnrises Washinctan 

Nelson Mission To China Stirs Much Surprise   : WPB Chief Needed. Here During Reconversion;. Nebraska Senator: Says

Roosevelt To Send Nelson fo China For Several Months of Conferences

NELSON MOVE BIG SURPRISE   Sending of WPB Chairman To China Held “Kick in Teeth” by Associate

South of Metz Troops Pass Fina!  1918 Battle Line   Russians Approach Budapest From South In New Campaign

vance  Beyond Armistice Day: Batlle Line. Split German Defenders Sonth of Metz.

Germans Setting Fire To Vehicles In Celles Sector   Freeing Of Bastogne Troops And Fierce. Yank Push Menaces Whole Nazi Salient:

3 OF TR'S SONS DIE IN SERVICE   Lt. Quentin, M Maj. Ker mit and Brig-Gen, TR, Jr., Give Lives

Hagerstonian About Italy 7  Men Overseas Order Yule - Gifts For Folks At Home

Hagerstonian About Italy Z _—— . 7 Men Overseas Order Yule _ Gifts For Folks At Home

Wind And Hail Play Havoc In Easton Area   Cannery Wrecked, Home: Damaged And Fields Of Crops Wived Out.

Storm Sweeps Eastern Shore   Wrecks Cannery, Store, Damages Crops And Utilities

Three Injured When Car Crashes Post   Brighton Residents in Automobile Wrecked Saturday Night on Fast Washington

 Warning Cites Responsibility  For Prisoners   MacArthur Bluntly States Case Against Japanese Im “March af Desth*

Flings grim atrocity warning at Japanese   To be held liable, MacArthur says;  disclose 82 officrers..men rescued

MacArthur in Warning to Japanese  Will Be Responsible   Will Be Responsible for Tortures After Bataan Conquered

Many Bombs Dropped on Eternal City By Allied Raiders. Germans Report

SOMERVELL LAUDS ANIL NANACENENT   Arm Turns Roads Back; We rt Take Any Credit Jor Thair Record

Harvard Base Ship Crashes   Seven Men Killed As Plane Cracks Up After Collision In Mid-Air

PLANE CRASH TOLL REACHES 7   2 Parachuted Safely Fyom Second Crait

Clean Up Resisting Pockets   Gen: Von Schleiber Believed Captured As Tanks Smash  Through To Docks

: Development of Revolutionary New Fighter Plane,  of 5      “Usine Jet Propulsion. Announced bv U. S.. Britain  2d d

‘Development of Revolutionary New Fighter Plane. :Usine Jet Propulsion. Announced bv U. S.. Britain

U. S. Army and RAF Announce Brand New Type Rocket Plane With Jet Propulsion Is Ready

Big Plane Fleet Hits Nazi Rail, Airfield Centers   Dortmund, Brunswick Blasted By RAF Planes In Night Raid

Number to Set Record, Is Reported   American Raids Today Follow Big British Attacks Last Night

1750 U.S. Planes Hit  France   Resumed Bombings Soar to NearRecord Heights in Sth Straight Day

Thousand Fighters In Escort   Largest Fleet in History Rumored As Air War Rages

Nazis Get Record Air Punch   Huge American Plane Task Force Lashes Germany, France

DEFIANCE OF WL DROPPED   THIRTY THOUSAND ME. CHANICS AND TOOL MAKERS * RETURN TO JOBS AFTER .  ~ FOUR-DAY STRIKE

TRUCE REACHED IN MESA STRIKE      44 Ohio and Michigan War Plants Return to Full Production

‘Stepped-Up Raids On Cologne, Berlii  Alhec Sealing Off Men   Allies Sealing Off Men On Fighting Front

Enemy Believed Leaving Southern Italian Front As Supply Lines Falter   Germans Bomb Hospital Ships in Anzio Bay; Russians Take Rail Center Below Leningrad ; British, U. §. Bombers Hit French Coast, Holland

Missouri River Flood  Stage Critical   Some Local Levees Gc Out; Snow Impedes Re pair Work

~FLOOD FEARED—  Missouri Up After Deluge   Blair Is ‘Trouble Spot’ In Nebraska

Axis Forces Withdraw From Entire Coastal Sector To ‘Shorter’ Line In Mountains Northeast Of Appian Way      EARLY FALL OF ROME ; IS FORESHADOWED

CD HEAD GUILTY OF BLACKMAIL CHARGES   Lorain Official Awaits Sentence in Jail

SWEDEN IS GIVEN NOTE BY NATIONS   Representations: Ma de € Against Trade With  Germany 

Send Protests to Sweden,  Spain, Turkey   Adopt ’Get Tough’ Policy as Invasion Nears

Joint . Anale Aiea 1 Deniands Showdown ‘on : Neutral’s Export. of ‘War  <>. Supplies:to.-Foe: ©.        OF EIRE TIGHTE! , uD      ridon Announces Steamship “Service With Ireland Will: : + “Be Cut Drastically Aft-. .  : > “ep April 24,       BEILLETIN.

Send Protests to Sweden, — Spain, Turkey  Adopt ‘Get Tough’ Policy as  Tee matianm Alacre

London Evacuees Face Hardships   Buzz Bombs Cause Serious Situation

Balkan Capitals Attacked as Reds  Intensify Siege   Allied Aircraft Strike Railroad Yards in the City of Belgrade.   Sevastopol in Flames As Russians Advance

Attack Balkan Capitals   Sofia and Belgrade Blasted By American Bombers; Sevastopol Reported in Fiames

Russians Intensify Sevastopo! Siege; Casualties Mount   Many Targets in Balkans Attacked By Allied Bombers

Reds Pour Fire, Steel into Pocket   {talian-Based Allied. Planes Pound Budapest, Close {ron Gate in Rumania

Sofia and Belgrade Blasted   Strike Widely at Balkans; French Coast Attacked.

POLIO CASES SHOW SHARP INCREASE   Health Department Officials Confer on Situation; 124 Cases Reported in State

Polio Outbreak ’ In State, Nation Worst Since ‘If   117 New Cases Occur In Michigan Since First OF July

POLIO SWEEPS ACROSS STATE   Fear Worst Epidemic Since  716; Report 117 Cases Since July 1]

NAZI TROOPS GETTING OUT OF FINLAND   Report All Germans May be Withdrawn From Country

Reds Open Up New Drive   Wheel Northwest Between “Warsaw and Lower Border Of East Prussia :

SOVIETS SMASH NAZI DEFENSES IN NEW DRIVE   80 Localities Seized by Reds Between Warsaw, East Prussian Border

Soviets Break Through Lower Prussian Line   German Counterattacks. In Siauliai. Section Beaten Off

REDS BREACH GERMAN LINE NEAR WARSAW   RESUME POWERFUL DRIVE FORWARD ON 6 FRONTS

AMERICANS AGAIN BOMB GERMANY IN 3RD STRAIGHT DAY OF ATTACK   Allies Officially Hit Number Of Points In Nazi:  land. Fighting In Italy - Slows Down.

ALLIED BOMBERS REPORTED ATTACKING GERMANY AGAIN IDUTCH AIRFIELD POUNDED   COORDINATED ATTACK

Roosevelt Urges Authority for Peace Delegate   Tells Nation Advance Power Needed If Postwar Organization Isto Function in Curbing Aggression

Delegate To Council Must Have ‘Advance Authority,” He Declares      There ll Be No  secret Treaties   President Promises Punishment Of Nazis, Scores GOP Isolationists

‘Roosevelt  «Asks Power In ‘Advance’ “On Council   President Declares World Organization Without Reality On Other Basis.

GIVES OUTLINE OF POLICY ON PEAGE PLANS   Says Advance Power for U. S. Delegate to Council {s Necessary.

FDR Wants Free-Handed Leacue Agent   New Yorkers Hear Demand for Congress To Delerate Powers

FDR Urges U. S. Delegate To United Nations Meet Be Given Power to Act

» ADVANCE’ AUTHORITY ADVOCATED   President Hits GOP’. ‘Isolationism’ In Foreign Policy

TREATIES ADVOCATED   President Asks For Advance Power For Council Member

DEGAULLE GAINS FRENCH CONTROL   Falis Heir To U. S$. Aid Pledged To Giraud

-RENCH EXILE GOVERNMENT NOW IN DEGAULLE CONTROL   GIRAUD. LOSES HIS ATTEMPT TO BECOME HEAD OF FRENCH ARMY AND TEMPORARY GOYERNMENT

Recheck On — City Airport  Is Promised   F. R. Assures Congress Committee Original Suspension Order I: To Be Reconsidered

Appointee _ Rift Is Seen   ‘Hurley ‘And: Heller 2 Draw ‘GOP. Attacks

BUARD CHOICES DRAW CHALLENGE   Prediction Senate Will Ap prove Surplus Board Ap pointees as GOP Leader: Raise Objections

Senate Fight in Offing on Surplus Com.   House Has Own Scrap on Continuing Social Security Collections

WALKOUT ENDS AT CHEVROLET   Strikers Vote Return To Work Monday After WLB Edict

OPA Plans To Peg  Some Food Price: Hopes To Prevent Shar  Increases

Carrier-Based Planes: Carry Out Raid on Yan   13. Enemy Areas Hit “In Philippines to “Bougainville Aerial

BORNEO RAIDED BY U.S, AIRMEN   13 Jap Sirongholds Raked In Widespread Blows

Russians Neat Slovak Rail Junction City  Berlin Reports New Offensive Aimed at Budapest

Russians Open New Offensive, Berlin Reports   Continued: Advances In Slovakia Revealed In Soviet: Communique

Red Army He In  On Lucenec   Berlin Reports 100,000 Russians Head For Budapes

Soviets Drive Close to Big Slovak City   Berlin Says Russians Also Make Gains in Vicinity of Budapest

RedsDrive Near Slovak Rail Center   Troops Only 14 Miles  From Losonc; Nazis  . Soy Soviets. Make Budapest Gains

Chinese Press Burma DriveTo Get Land Route   Reopening of Road For Heavy War Material Will Permit Showdown With Jap Forces

SEARCH FOR MAID AND BABY SPREADS   Housemaid, Child Disappear Saturday Night

DEWEY CONDEMNS NEW DEAL ABUSE   Makes Sensational Charge That R. R. Workers Had To Pay to Get Raise

NE-MAN  GOVEEN “MENT RESULTED IN-FLYNN ~  GETTING FAT FEE. FROM.’ RATS UNIONS 5

Political Bosses Benefit At Expense of Labor Under New Deal, Charge

inids ‘alstorta i ikon One of Ten Mets ‘bers of Education! Comniission' 

e ‘ ¥ cif e { Say  eo ey Miss Etiswortn is One of Ten Mem bers of Education Commission

Car Is Stolen Here Monday Night   Six Cars Broken Into Same Night of Theft

U.S. 79th Division Was First to Enter Cherbourg  Details of Battle Are Made Public By Allied Command

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  B-29s Deliver Body Blows To Jap Naval Power

Japs’ Lifeline Is Dwindling  Half of Shipping Tonnace Is Sunk   Montana Prepares to Lake Care  of [ts Own When the War Ends

Russians Contact Polish Partisans Inside Warsay   Strong German Resistance  Pushed. Aside. By Reds In Advance On Tallinn

Contact Established In Zoliberz and Mokotow  Districls; Five Nazi Di  «6s visions Pinned Down

ARNHEM HEAVILY SHELLED  Mees a   Reds Cross Vistula, Enter Warsaw, Establish ‘Cantact With Embattled Partisans   Other Soviet Armies Score Gains At Opposite Ends Of Eastern Front

j NAZIS RETAKE, ARE STILL LOOSE   Three Hiding Near Fremont; Two More Escape, From Sodus Fruit Exchange

War Prisoners Found Hiding On lonia Farn   Come Out Of Foxhole When They Peer Into Shotgun Muzzle

First: Group to Report for Duty ~~ at Fort Snelling   Sibley Legion Post Entertained Boys During Long Wait Between Trains There

DEWEY-BRICKER MEETING TODAY TO FORM PLANS  Will Meat Nawt   Will Meet Next Week With GOP  Governors

CHINESE STRIKE AT ‘LAVISH’ AID   Press, Official Spokesmar Charge Weak Allied Help

Chinese Préss Protests Lack Of Allied Aic   Churchill’s Use of Word “Lavish” to Describe America’a Help Draws Stern Reply

CHURCHILL CENSURED IN CHINESE PRESS   USA, Britain Not Free from Responsibility for China

CONTROVERSY HOLDE UP PLAN FOR PEACETIME   Disposal Of War Proper. ties Awaits Action; Surplus Property Vote Set

CONGRESS FACES WEEKS OF WORK   Legislation to Shift U. S. to Peacetime Basis Bogced Down

Congress Enter: Ath Week With Little to Show   Major Reconversion Issues Still Before Both of Houses

DISPUTES BOG MEASURES ON RECONVERSION   Final ‘Congressional Solution Believed Weeks Away

AMERICAN COLUMNS STEP UP DOUBLE INVASION OF REICH, MAKING ADDITIONAL THRUSTS   Berlin Radio Declares Yanks of Third Army Have Pushed Across Moselle River Below Nancy, Advancing on Luneville   MULTI-PRONGED THREATS ARE DEVELOPING

Rotgen, Southeast of Aachen Stronghold, Taken. by Yanks   THIF) ARMY PUSHES ON   Offensive Aimed at Forcing Moselle Line on Broad Front

Berlin Admits Reich Invaded By Americans  Several Threats Ar   Several Threats Are Aimed Against Line With 2 Penetrations Already Announced

AMERICANS HAVE CAPTURED ROTGEN, MILES OF AACHEN   Also Stormed Against Pillbexes and Anti-Tank Obstacles Today. '   6 MILES EAST OF AUTEN   Froops Quickly Penetrated “Primary Enemy Defenses.”

DOUBLE INVASIONS OF REICH GAINS AT NEW THRUSTS ARE MADE ALONG SIEGFRIED LINE   RECENT ALLIED VICTORIES OVER GERMANS DUE LARGELY TO GREAT GENERALSHIP OF COMMANDERS

TAKE ROTGEN, ACROSS BORDER FROM, BELCIUM   Patton Tanks Flush ‘ Nazis From Woods Into Sights of Airplanes

New Invasion Thrust Carries Close To Rhine   Offensive Tempo Rises Along Approaches To  Western Germany

NAZIS REPORT BiG ATTACK IN MOSELLE AREA   Multi-Pronged Allied Threat Seeks Points To Crack Defenses

PRESS ATTACKS AGAINST NAZI SIEGFRIED LINE   Berlin Admits Outpost Loss: Moselle Front Being Extended

Smash Inio Rotgen and Storm on   Germans Acknowledge Loss of Base Near Aachen, Tell of Fluid Fighting   PATTON’S FORCES IN HIGH GEAR   Yankees Reinforced for Big Push, But Little Is Told of Developments

Patton © On Move Again   Advance Eight Miles  In Two Hours; Orficial Secrecy Cloaks Moves; Ninth Army Into. Fray

Siegfried outpost lost nazis admit to invading allies  Americans crash onward at Moselle bridaehead

STORM AGAINST NAZI DEFENSES   Berlin Acknowledges Loss Of ‘An Outpost of the West Wall.” .. ~ ;

BERLIN REPORTS LINE IS DENTED   Twin Invasions Of Reich Stepped Up As Yanks Near Border At Other Points

Dispatch Says Our Troops Quickly Penetrated Primary Defense Lines of  Enemy Forces.   INVASIONS INCREASE WITH REINFORCEMENTS

Blacklist Motorman ForDuration   GOVERNMENT DENIES PHILApierntA STRInEK KIGHL ‘10 ANY KIND OF JOB WHILE THE WAR LADSAs.   Father Of Two

Blacklisted In Transit Controvers)   Matarman Penalized for Duration “for Failure To Return fo Work After Strike

Army Blacklists Trolley Striker   Barred From Any Work  For the Duration

STRIKER PUT ON BLACKIST   Philadelphia Motorman Fails To Obey Army Orders

BREAK UP NAZI ITALIAN ATTACK   Shell Allied Lines Over Two Hours Near Cassino

NAZIS INTENSIFY THEIR ACTIVITY 1N _ UPPER GARIGLIANO   One Area Was Shelled’ for More Than Two Hours- iy Yesterday.   ATTACKS FRUSTRATED   Was Concentrated in-a Sector About Eight Miles of Cassino.

GERMANS TRY TO BREAK U, S. ITALIAN LINE   Viterbo Airfield Blasted In Raid During Day

NazisShelling Fails ‘to Dent Cassino Line      Troops of Sth Beat Back Attacks After 2-Hour Enemy Barrage

German Attacks In Italy Blocked   Allied Patrols Active On . . All Fronts

Nazis Intensify   Artillery Fire  Infiltration Of Allied Lines In Italy Fails

Allied Sector On Front In Italy Shelled   infiltrations Of Lines Frustrated By Ground Troops

CHINESE STORM TOWN IN BURMA HELD BY JAPS   Important City of Bhamo Is Partly in Hands of Attacking Units

CHINESE IN NORTH BURMA STRONGHOLD   Town of Bhamo, 175 Miles Northeast of Mandalay, Penetrated With Aid Of Dive-Bombers  CHECK COUNTER DRIVE

REDS SCORE. DECISIVE... BREAK-THRU   Blast Thru. Center Of LeningradNovgorod Line

~ CASSINO ABANDONED: "AED BREAK- THROUGH ‘REPORTED IN NORTH   p Allied Capture Of Appian Way Town 19 Miles From Italian Capital Claimed; Nazi Lines Weaken Near Novgorod

REDS DRIVE INTO CHUDOVO LIMITS, NAZIS RETREAT   Decisive Break Through Aimed At By Soviets In Len ingrad Area.

Red Army Takes Krasnogvardeisk  In Rolling Drive   Stalin Hails  Captors of Key Junction In German Defenses

STALIN PRAISES -RED FORCES FOR CAPTURE OF CIT}   Victory at Krasnogvardeisk, City of 42,000, Initial Step For Campaign Into Baltic States.   ALLIES INFLICT HEAVY DAMAGE AGAINST JAPS   Soviet Atrdvity Body Formally Charges Germans With Causing Murdet Among 19,000 Poles.

Way Open For Drive In Baltic   City of 42,000 Falls to Russians  On Tuesday Night

RUSS GAINS MOUNT NEAR LENINGRAD   Break-Through Threatens to Cut Nazi Army In Two

RUSSIANS PERIL CHUDOVO NAZIS   SOVIETS FORCE VOLKHOV AS GERMANS FACE TRAP

Reds Threaten To Split German Army Of 250,000   Expect Withdrawal Of Enemy From Lake Area Toward Baltic States

42 U.S. Bombers  Lost in Assault   Five Factories Blasted; Channel Coast Hit   Full-Scale Italy Onslaught Held Prelude to Invasion

YANK OKY FLEET DOWNS 130 NAZI FIGHTING PLANES   Mows Through Swarms of Fighters in One of War’s Greatest Battles   BOMBERS STRIKE FIVE BIG NAZI OIL PLANTS   Fleets of More Than 3,000 Planes Based in Britain Hammer Nazi Targets;  _ RAF Night Shift Apparently   Gontinuing Assault

caechoslovakia Ceechoslovak Hit From Air For First Time   Returning Pilots Say Enemy — Resistance Strungest Yet Eneountered. 150 German Planes Shot Down In 2th Day of Assault

BLAST FIVE ° LARGE ENEMY OIL PLANTS   ! Roar Into Czechoslovakia for First Time and Engage in. Fierce Battle  ° With 250 Fighters...   _EXPLOSIVES HIT VITAL REFINERIES   Blow-to Luftwaffe Heaviest Since March 6—Airfields Behind Atlantic Wall Also Attacked.

Synthetic Oil Plants Hit hy U.S. Flyers   52 Planes Are Lost as 150 German Fighters Shot Down

Luftwaffe Sends Up Greatest Air Defense As Fortresses Hit Synthetic Oil Targets

7,000 Bombers Blast Big Nazi Oil Refineries   Terrific Aerial Battles Reporfed

o Vital Synthetic Oil Factories Hit “By Yank Planes   Nazi Fighters Resist Desperately in Effort To Protect Plants

AMERICAN SKY FLEET DOWNS 150 GERMANS   FIVE BIG SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS HIT IN AERIAL BATTLE

150 Nazi Airplanes Downed In Air War   Americans Smash Through Swarms of Fighters to Hit Five German Oil Plants—Forty-two Bombers and Ten Fighters Are Lost

Vain Blow Delivered in Leipzig Area Where One of Fiercest Aerial Battles Of War Is Fought; 3.000 British-Based Planes Keep Offensive in 28th Day

Yanks Send 2,000 Planes  Against Nazi Oil Plants   Plants in Leipzig Area And in Czechoslovakia Object of Great Raids; 3,000 Sorties Flown  42 YANK BOMBERS,  TEN FIGHTERS LOST RAF's Night Shift  - Carries Aerial Blitz Tnto Sth Straioht Week

42 American Bombers And 10 Fighters Lost; Synthetic Oil Plants Raided   U.S. AIRCRAFT OVER OLD CZECH TERRITORY

Czechoslovakia Suffers Initial Bombing By Allied Planes In Continued Aerial Assaults

GERMAN OIL PLANTS HIT IN FIERCE FIGHT   Swarms of Nazi Planes Defend Targets from 2,000 Allied Planes; Air Campaign Continues.   Hit Airfields

Remsen Board   Elects Teachers  Earl Stephenson  Returns as Sunt.

TEXANS MAY GO 10 MEET "FREE MEN’   Precinct Action Over State Proves To Be Very Varied

DEMOCRATS TO MEET TUESDAY   Fourth-Term Issue To Come Before Texas Party

800 BOMBERS RAID GERMAN RAILROAD HUB   Record Number -of Four-Motored Craft Sent Against Industrial City in S.W. Reich

FRANKFURT HIT BY 800; BERLIN POUNDED AGAIN   Force Of Yank ‘Heavies’ Largest Directed At One Target

DAYLIGHT TRIP 1S. MADE.AS FLYERS OF NIGHT RETURN   2000 Tons of Bombs Drop< ed By Americans While RAF Unload Nearly as Much on Berlin.   YANKEE RIFLE FIRE REACHES APPIAN WAY   American Gains Nullify Effectiveness of Cisterna Airport Built By Benito Mussolini In 1937.

MIGHTY BLOW ' IS LANDED ON REICH CENTER   British Planes Carry, Out New Devastating Attack on Berlin.

Blast Frankfurt Today  In History’s Biggest. Raid; RAF Hits Berlix

800 BOMBERS IN RAID ON FRANKFURT   U. S. Fliers Drop Over 2000 Tons On Industrial Hub

Berlin Blasted Into Burning Ruins By 2nd Blockbuster Raid In 24 Hr      RAF Heavies Concentrate Attack On Center Of City; Lose 47 Bombers In Assault

So ot RS Can Be Retaken Wilh light loss   Military Obses ver Says MacAuthur's Steutegy Should ®¢ fallow:d

German Defenses Pelow Leningrad Appear Toppling   Three Massive Russian Offensives Score Large Gains In Five Days   GERMAN REPORT SAYS NOVGOROD EVACUATED

RUSSIA POURING MASSIVE FORCE INTO NORTH LINE   Fall of Key Northern City Weakens Foe’s Entire Defense Belt   BULLETIN

Our Nurses Are Ready For D-Day Over There: .. Dainty Things Are Out   American Girls Are WellTrained As Complete Factor

FOREMAN WALK OUT CALLED OFF   Leaders Terminate Strike In 13 Detroit War Plants After Arnold Cites “Serious Setback” To Air   BKorce.

DETREMT- WAR ‘PLANT FOREMEN GO BACK TO WORK WHEN TOLD THEIR STRIKE ENDANGERS AIR FORCE   Gen. Arnold, Chief of Air Force Tells Foremen If Strike Continues, It Might Enable German Ai Force to Recover from Blows Dealt by Allies

ARNOLD WARNS OF THREAT 10 UR AIR WAR   Says Detroit Strife Could Give Germans Chance to Recover

War Strategy Affected, Says Gen. Arnold   War-Time Strike Against Government Cannot  Win, wi B Chairman  7" ts FF”

Strike Is Called — Off by Foremen   Association’s Leadership Acts Today After Gen. Arnold Termed Walkout. One of Most Serious Setbacks Met by Air Force Since Its Inception.   TIME TABLE AFFECTED

GEN. ARNOLD HITS COSTLY STRIKE   Testifies Detroit Walkout Has Cost 250 Fighter Planes

»General Asserts Detroit Strike Serious Blow to Airforce   BULLETIN

Gen. Arnold Tells Officers Strike Serious Setback to Air Force, Might Enable Nazis to Recover When Reeling

‘Action Follows Testimony Given By Army Air Chief   One of Most Serious Setbacks of Wor  For U. S. Air Force, General Arnold Save

STRIKE ORDERED ENDED AFTER ARNOLD REPGRTED AIR ATTACK WIGHT BE THROWN OFF STRIDE

Gen. Arnold Lashes Strikers and Walkout Is Halted   Association of Foremen Calls Off Strike In Detroit War Plants, Termed 1 Most Serious Setback’ to U. §. Air Force

Foreman Strike Deemed Danger By Gen. Arnold   Tells WLB Production Cut May Affect Invasion, Stop Bombing Of Reich

ACTION COMES AFTER GENERAL ARNOLD SPEAKS   Chief of Army Air Forces Had Told Foremans Association Strike Might Affect Invasion.

‘OF FOREMEN IN DETROIT ENDED   Leaders Act After Arnold Cites Setback to U. S. Air Forces

FOREMEN CALL END TO STRIKE   Association Heeds Plea of Gen. Arnold; 13 Detroit Shops Involved

Foremen Cail Off Strike Following Arnold's Criticism   General Says Work Stoppage Was Worst Blow to Air Force

Foremen Seek Showdown At  Board Session   Gen. Arnold Terms Strike Serious: Blow to U.S. - At Force, May Peril “Invasion Plitis

Detroit Strike Called Off: Might Have Affected lineastan   Foremen Ordered Back to War Plants Following Gen. Arnold’s Assertion Walkouts Could Change Aerial Offensive Timetable. 

Work Stoppage is Declared ‘Serious’ Blow to Air Force   Gen. Arnold Says Loss of Plane Output May “Affect Invasion”

Foremen End Strike In 13 Detroit War Plants   Action Is Announced After General H. H. Arnolc  Calis Walkout Serious Setback To Americal Air Force Plans In Europe

Leaders Cancel Foreman Strike After Blast by General Arnold   Stoppage Could Enable Luftwaffe to Recover, Air Chief Says

Foremen’s Strike May Enable German Air Force To Recover From Blows, Arnold Declares   Detroit Walkout Called Most Serious Setback Yet To Americen Air Force

Foremen Call Off Strike Which Was Said Dangerous To Blows at Europe

Production Involved Is Essential and Strike Might Even Affect Invasion Operation, Chief of U. S. Air Force Says

FOREMEN TO END STRIKE ACTION   Board Acts After Accusation  By Air Force Chief

Seen As Threat To Plans For Invasion   General Arnold In Plea For Plants To Be Reopened   Fighter Planes Essential

Foremen Strike Serious Setback For Air Force   Gen. Arnold Warns Of Dangers

Strike Is Ended On Plea of Army   Foremen’s Dispute Called Setback To U. S. Air Force by Gen. Arnold

END FOREMEN'S DETROIT STRIKE   Arnold Says Plane Delay Serious Setback

Foremen’s Union Calls Off Strike in War Plants  Angry Air Chief Warns Labor Leaders Eliare’ Livec Pav Price of Dicnute

FOREMEN’S STRIKE AN AIR SET-BACK, SAYS GEN. ARNOLD   Worst Blow Suffered Since Inception of Air Command,  Says Its Chief.

Gen. Arnold Testifies At WLB Hearing   Sufficient Planes Of Fighter Type Running Short

REACH DECISION  AFTER TALK BY  ARMY AIR CHIEF TERMED STRIKE AS  SERIOUS SETBACK TO THE AIR FORCE

Detroit Strike Comes To End; Work To Resume   General Arnold Says Continuation Would Mean Ruin

Strike In Detroit Is Called off   Union Acts Within Hour After Talk ~ By Arnold

F oremen in Detroit Call Off Walkout   Strikes That Idled 13 Plants Attacked By General Arnold

Leaders Act After Gen. Arnold's Warning That It May Affect Invasion

DECISION ENDS TIEUP OF VITAL FICHTER PLANES   Will Send 50,000 Back to Work In 13 Detroit Plants

Strike a Setback To U.S. Air Force   Foremen’s Strike Called Off After Arnold Speaks —  ; at Hearing   ICOST 250 P-51 PLANES   Might Affect Invasion Plans, Says Chief of ©  Air Forces

2,000 Warplanes Pierce Fog to Hit Germans  ll Aircraft Are Missing in

2,000 Planes Hammer Nazi  Supply Line:   Railroad Bridges-On Line Leading Directly From Berlin, and Freighityards Targela

U.S. Planes Pound Nazi Supply Lines  8th Consecutive Day of Attacks

German Supply Lines to Western Front Pounded   Eight Bombers, Three Fighters Are Reported Missing

2,000 Warplanes Pierce Fog to Hit Germans ll Aircraft Are Missing in Day’s Operations

REICH POUNDED THROUGH MISTS   American Planes Pierce Fog To Blast Nazi Supply Lines

Japs Capture Changsha, Key Chinese Rail Center After Bitter Fighting

Changsha Falls, Dealing Severe Blow To Allies   Japs Report Victory At China's Key City; Wallace In Chungking

all Of Changsha Appears Probable   Jap Whirlwind Offensive Threatens To Isolate China From Her Allies.

Changsha Taken By Japs, Belief   Threat to Divide China Increases

Picked Troops Crash Into Strategic City in Aliempt To Cut China in Two and Stop U.S.

Changsha Falls To Japs After Bitter Battle   Enemy Victory Threatens To Cut China In Half, Isolate Her From Allies

OUTER WORKS COLLAPSE AT MANY POINTS   U. S. First Army Makes General Advance On 85-Mile Front

NAZIS ADMIT FALL OF ROME   Declare, However, Violent Fighting Rages Northeast of City

‘MAGIC EYE’ IS USED BY BRITISH BOMBERS   That’s Nazi Explanation for Loss of Night Fighters

Hitler Planned U. S. Invasion Fairchild President Says ~~ Plans Formulated In 1940

Hitler Plan. To Invade U.S Is Disclosed   Details Prepared”. As Far Back as 1940,  Senate Groun Te Told.   WAR DEPARTMENT  KNEW OF IT THEN Aircraft Firm Head Urges Preparedness In Post-War Era

Witness Tells Senate Group of Hitler Plan for Invasion of United States

Hitler Plot Revealed:  nn arn nee tenn ter inp rt  Fuehrer Planned Invasion of U. 5., J. Carlton Ward Tells Committee

Hitler Had Detailed Plan for Invasion Of U.S., Senate Subcommittee Is Told

In 1940 Hitler Had Plan For Invasion of U. S.   State Department Had Complete Knowledge of Situation At Time.

TEXANS CRY OUT AGAINS! 'BU77 SAW’   Deiegates Claim They Ran into Power Politics

STRIKES PUT   Montgomery Ward Is Back In Labor Picture As U. S. Disputes Grow

LABOR DISPUTES SHOW INCREASE   22.000 Workers Idle As Trouble Spreads

NEARLY 22,000 LABOR DISPUTES   Montgomery Ward Involved in New Wage Disagreement ©

22,000 NOW IDLE IN LABOR STRIFE   Eastern US. Hit Hardest Ir Nationwide Walkouts

22,000 IDLE IN STRIKES TODAY   Nation's Labor Troubles Center Principally in East, but All Areas Affected.

*OUITLEN “LIGOR DISPUTES   2,200 Montgomery Ward Employes ‘Out’. In De troit Area

FIVE VICTIMS STILL MISSING   Officials Seek to Determine Cause of Explosion

Navy Begins Inquiry Into Huge Blast   Authorities Do Not Expect to Find ‘Traces of The Missing Workers.

HOPE ABANDONED 10 RECOVER BLAST DEAD      Little Likelihood Five of Eight Killed May Be Found

NAVAL BOARD IS INVESTIGATING HASTINGS BLAST   No Trace Of Bodies Expected To Be Founc In Wreckage

Major Trys To Extricate Trapped Texas Gunner From Wrecked And Burning Bomb Laden Liberator To No Avail

r \ 5     ‘So Long, Fellow, Sorry!’ Bomber Blows Up With Hapless Gunner

Presidential Veto Is Expected fo Nullify Subsidy Snub by Conaress

VETO LAST HOPE OF SUBSIDY BLOC   Senators Vote End Of Food Price Controls, 43-28

QUICK VETO OF  REPEAL BILL BY  FDR PREDICTED 25 DEMOCRATIC  SENATORS VOTE NO ON PAYMENTS

Roosevelt Expected to Disapprove Bill w Ending Subsidies   Administration Leaders Confident His Veto Will be Held up

Senate Votes To End Food Subsidy Plan   Backers Look for Speedy Presidential Veto of Measure

Bank On Veto For Rescue Of Subsidy Plan   Senate Votes To Stop Federal Payments; Believe Rejection By F.R. Would Be Upheld

Senate Blasts Food Subsidy; Veto Expected   Advocates Believe President's Action Will Be Sustained

FR Veto of Subsidy Bill Is Predicted   Administration Hopes to Sustain Presidential Action

QUICK VETO   Administration Men Confident President Will Be Sustained

SUBSIDY BAN VETO EXPECTED   Administration Leaders Say President Will Nullify Congressiona! Action.

EXPECT FDR TO VETO SUBSIDY REPEALER BILL   Measure Passes Senate Late Friday by Vote of 43 to 28

SENATE VOTES 'TO PUT END TC FOOD SUBSIDIES   . But Administration  , Leaders Hope Roosevelt Veto Will Be Sustained

SENATE GUIS OFF FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN; VETO 1S EXPECTED   Bankhead Bill is Likely Tc Reach House Monday; Democrats Split   ANTI-SUBSIDY VOTE 43-28

SENATE VOTES FOOD SUBSIDY BAN 43 TO 28   Quick Presidential Veto Expected to be Sustained and Program to be Continued   DELAY PERILS CCC   Bankhead Bill Passed by Senate: Extends Program to June 20, Provides Milk Price Increase

SUBSIDY VETO BY PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED   Quick Action Is Sought To Keep Prices Down

PRESIDENT’S VETO OF ANTI-SUBSIDY BILL LOOKED FOR   Administration’s Congressiona! Leaders Hope Overwhelm ing Vote to End Subsidies Will Be Nullified

OVERWHELMING VOTE TO END SUBSIDIES EXPECTED BE VETOED   ADMINISTRATION BACK- ERS CONFIDENT VETO WILL BE SUSTAINED

MAY EXTEND DRAFT PLAN   VIRTUAL BAN ON DEFERMENTS EXCEPT FOR. KEYMEN MAY © BE EXTENDED TO 30.  ' VEARS +

Hull Asserts Fate Of Rome Up To Nazis   Attack Based On Military Uraency

Hull Reluctant To Attack Rome   But He Leaves If Up to the Nazis

Fate of Rome Will Be Decided by  Military Necessity   If Holy City Becomes Battleground the Blame Will Rest With the Germans, Hull Asserts in Reply to Pope Pius XII

HULL SAYS BLAME RESTS UPON NAZIS   Secretary Makes Response to Appeal of Pope to Spare Rome

Hull Says Germans Will Be to Blame For Destruction of Shrines of Rome

FATHER THROWS SONS IN RIVER   Broken Home Is Blamed;  Mother Is Arrested  For Abandonment  

F ather, Burdened with Care of Four Small Boys, Drops Two In River, Leaves Others in Field

OITY.WIDE  ‘ Serap Paper Collection  ee bm see vam   PRIEST INDUCES “FIREBUG OF 18 10 SUIRENDER TODAY

YANKS: SMASH: INTO KEY STRONGHOLD or VELLETH UIN‘ONE SECTOR AND “CUT MAIN £SCAPE HIGH... _ WAY. OF: BULK OF GERMAN. DIVISIONS BY): SAE Gee “THRUST. ‘IN ANOTHER AREA OF " 3THE ITALIAN. FRONT:

5, TROOPS SMASH WY WT VELLETEI   Cu: Gcrmans’ Man riseape Route to .he Scath :

OMAGH WAY KT) VELLETRI   Cui Gcrmans’, Main raseapé Route   to he Scuth =: ..

YANKS SMASH INTO NAZI KEY DEFENSE AREA   Cut Off Main Escape Route for German Hordes in South

Americans Are Aided By Weather   Spread Into Open Country _.Dive-bombers Blast Enemy Tanks

Blazing Oil Burns Nazis From Citadel   Forces At Aachen Fan Out Into Open Under Sunny Skies.

American Troops On Aachen Front Driving Forward   Stubborn Nazi Counterattacks Beaten Off By First Army; Burning Oil Is Poured Into Ancient Bastion By Patton’s Men

IST ARMY TROUPS CUT THROUGH GAP IN SIEGFRIED BELT   Americans Beat Off Nazi Counter: Attacks And Dash Into Open Country—Heavy Air Support

JAD ARMY STORMS MEDIEVAL FORTRESS, VITAL DEFENSE COG   First Army Troops Batter Slowly Through Pierced West Wall Despite Furious German  TS aan   Ry. VIRGCIT, PINKLEY

Powerful Works Fall for First Time Since Hun Invasion— First Army Strikes Deen

Ties Of Allies. secure   British Premier Admits Russian - Polish Dispute Scill Mwaits Setution

Lover Girl Like Clay Pigeon for Nazi C unners  Ohioans In Tank Unit Which Invaded Reich

6-DAY ASSAULT PUTS GERMANY IN SMOKE PALL   RAF Follows Yank Daylight Attacks With Night Raids On Key Industries

AIR OFFENSIVE CARRIED INTO SEVENTH DAY   Over 17,000 Tons Dropped In Last Week   Also Hit, Germans Report; 31 American Bombers Lost Friday

CRUSH GERMAN PLANE CENTER AT AUGSBURG   17,000 Tons of Bombs Are Rained On Reich In Six Days

AUGSBURG HiT IN RAF RAID   British Bombers Carry Air Offensive Against Nazis Into Seventh Day

2 AMERICAN FORCES LOSE 70 BOMBERS   120 Enemy Fighters Shot  Down: Regensburg Target _ of Italian-Based Ships

Augsburg Hit By Two Great Bomb Cargoes  Another Cycle Of Huge Air Offensive Carried Theangh: Navi«c Claim

RAF Makes Assault On Augsburg   British Planes Build Up Total Of Explosives Dropped On German Cities During Week

Aerial Engine And Chemical Centers Targets Of Latest Assaults, Piling Up Total Of Over 17,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Enemy’s War Industries In Unparalleled Six-Day Offensive—British Lose 24 Planes, Americans 69, Nazis 142

Unparalleled Blow At Aireraft Plants;. Bomber Loss Big   ‘Two-Way RAF Raids Augmented By Heavy American Attacks On Nazis Industrial, Chemical Units

New Havoc Heaped on Germany   Massive British Air  Fleet in Crushing _ Attack on Augsburg Frankfurt Also Hit

Frankfurt Is  Secondary Night Target   British Bring to 17,000 Tons Bomb Load Dropped on Reich in Six Days; Augsburg Night Raid Follows Day Atfack

RAF Bombers Hit Augsburg Terrific Blow   Two Raids Friday Night Follows Smash by U. S, Alr Force

Six-Day Air Offensive Continues   17,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Reich In Week

70 American Planes Lost In Attacks   Two Way Assault May Have Been Made on City

HUGE BOMBER FORCE BOMBS NAZI CITIES   Allies Lose Several Large Bombers In  Raids Today

Augsburg, Burning, Is Pounded by RAF in Crushing Attack   Reich's Chemical and Engine Production  Centers Bombed

MASSIVE RAF FLEET FOLLOWS IN WAKE OF AMERICAN RAIDS ON MANY GERMAN WAR PLANTS   Burning City of Augsburg Further Devastated by Latest Attacks As Part of Continuing Air Offensive. 17,000 Bombs Dropped in Past Six Days

NAZIS TELL OF HEAVY ATTACKS ON FRANKFURT   Fast, Furious Blows Continue to Fall on Reich Plane Industry

More Than 17,000 Tons of Bambs Dropped on Germany in Six Days.   FRANKFURT TARGET TOO

Augsburg Aifacked Twice During Night in Follow-Pp io Fortress Raid Yesterday   FIRES LIGHT WAY   Americans Hit Regensburg in TwoWay Stab, Flying from Both Bri. fain and Haly

RAF Makes Crushing Attack on Augsburg         Germans Report Atta¢ék On Frankfurt And Possible Joint Raid From Italy indicated; Enemy Craft Destroyed.

Fliers Reset Fires At Augsburg, Blast Frankfurt Plants   Over 17,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazi Aircraft Industries Since Last Sunday

Heavy Blows Rained Upon Nazi Aircraft Center In Wake of Fortress Attack

BRITISH BOMBER ATTACK MADE ON — GY OF AUGSBURG   :Piled~ Up a Total of More  Phan 17,000 Tors of Bombs Dropped on Germany.   iA SIX - DAY OFFENSIVE   German Radio Said Large Seale Attacks on Chemical Center of Frankfurt.

Chemical Area Of Frankfurt Also Plastered   ‘Center of Germany’s Aerial Engine Production Attacked Twice During Night   24 Planes Lost In Both Assaults   Luftwaffe Puts Up Furious  Defense; 93 Opposing Planes Are Shot © © Dawn

Augusburg Is _ Hit In Large Scale Attack      Week’s Bomb Total Now. Estimated at  17,000 Tons

MASSIVE FLEET OF PLANES USED AGAINST NAZIS   “rankfurt Raided At Same Time, Germans Report; Over 17,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On  Germany In Last  Six Days.

Turks Cling to Hope Of Averting Warfare   Anti-Aircraft Guns Move Past Streets Of Ankara as Turkey Breaks Diplomatic And Economic Relations With Germany

TURKS BREAK WITH GERMANY   Sever Diplomatic, Economic Relations But Hope to Avoid Actual War

Turks Break With Nazis   Berlin Says Move is Very Danaerous Phase

Turks Break Off Relations With Berlin   Whether Move Wilt Lead To Wer Up to Nazis,  Save Pramior

TURKEY HOPES TO AVOID WAR WITH GERMAN]   Istanbul Police Round Up More Than One Hundred Germans Considered Dangerous

Turks Break With Nazis But Hope To Avoid Warfare   Berlin Radio Voices Threats as Diplomatic, Economic Ties Are Cut

Nip Casualties Set at 3,000 Dead, Wounded   Yank Losses Toial 61 Killed and 244 Wounded

Nip Casualties Set at 3,000 Dead, Wounded  Yank Losses Total   Yank Losses Total 61 Killed and 244 Wounded

aR sae,  _, Seinneenemenmmnenememene  OKLAHOMA CASUALTIES TO TOTAL OF 6,240

Granite State  GOP Stages  Annual Session Speaker Raps  Para on Palhicy

Budapest Seeks Armistice; Reds In Major Drive   One Of Biggest Machine Battles Of War Rages In Hungary

Russians Take Petsamo Por   Germany Hints Soviet: Rinw In Fae Praia.  See

Nal SEA ESCAPE ROUTE 1S SEVERED      Amphibious Soviet Forces Capture Port of Petsqmo

REDS CONTINUE BALKAN DRIVES   Twin Offensive Nears Ploesti Oil  nme atta  Also Gain In Battle  \

RUSS SMASH AHEAD IN ROMANIA   Thousands of Nazis in Country Continue Resistance

QUAKERTOWN GURO. DADS PLANNING NEW PROJEG)   Community Skating Pond May Be Furnished for the Town   ONE BUILDING PERMIT

QUAKERTOWN HOPES FOR SKATING POND   Will Become Reality Provided Elements Can Be Overcome   ‘BILLS ARE PRESENTED

American Forces Drive Within 32 Miles of Leghorn   U.S. Troops Smash Ahead After 18-Hour Tank, Infantry Battle

Americans Move Toward Leghorn  8th Army Recaptures Town of Chiusi

Superfortresses Raid Japan Again   Good Results in Nagoya Bombings

Nation Starts New Year With Its Industrial Might Roaring al the Highest Level in History

Factories Throughout Nation Point To Conversion As Trend Toward War Victory Increases

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaper eRe   WASRINGTON Rs Ray Tocker

NAZIS FEEL BLOW NOW DUE IN FALL   Churchill Speech Construed By Germans As Poetnaneamant

Allred Recommended © As Permanent Demo. Convention Chairman   Anti Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

DEMO CALM URGED:   DALLAS, Sept. 13 (AP)—Myron G. Blalock, Democratic Nationa! Sommitteeman from Texas, today counseled pro-Roosevelt forces to vaae a''calm and deliberate campaian in Texas and not drive party mem-

Pepper and Hill Appear Victors In Primaries   GOP Names Gurney In South Dakota

SENATOR PEPPER: - LEADS IN FLORIDA BY WIDE MARGIS   Strong Roosevelt Supporter Fighting to Avoid RunOff in His Bid for Renominatien.   TABULATION SLOWED BY LONG BALLOT   For Delegate Places, Four Candidates Piedged to President and Two to ‘Byrd Are Ahead.

Pepper and Hill Hold Leads  In Senate Races   Florida New Dealer Has Chance To Avoid Runoff Contest; Alabaman Piles Up Sizable Edee

STATE SALES TAX REPEAL IS RECOMMENDED   Ohio Tax Head Says Revenue Lost Could Be Raised By Subdivisions

COOLER WEATHER IN   Relief From Scorching Heat May Be . Temporary

JAPS PRESSING ON ASSAM FRONT   ALLIES HIT FROM AMBUSH ALONG THE ROADS NEAR \MPHAL

Three Bright Spots in Asia Battle Scene   Japs Ambushed, Chinese Armies Push South: Rabaul Bombed

APS PUTTING RESSURE ON ASSAM FRONT   ountbatten Says Casualties Have Been Inflicted on Enemy on Roads Leadina to Imphal   >HINESE ADVANCING

Allies Fail to Halt Nip  India, Drive   Japs Pile Up Casualties but Continue Advance; Commandos Wreck 24 Planes

JAPAN KEEPS UP INDIA PRESSURE   Three Bright Spots Appear For Allies, However

ALLIES KILLING MANY JAPS ALONG FRONT IN INDIA   Despite Heavy Losses in Dead and- Wounded However, Nips Still Exerting Pressure

JAPS SUFFER LOSS IN INDIA   Enemy Caught..in Ambush While Continuing’ Heavy Pressure on Imphal,”

Continue to Slaughter J aps in India   Despite Strong Enemy Pressure  North of Imphal

Jap Pressure Felt in India   Allies Inflict Heavy Casualties On Enemy at Assam

ALLIES KILL JAP TROOPS NEAR IMPHAI   Enemy Suffering Heavy Losses  In India

Pacific Sector Sees New Action   JAPS MAKE NEW GAINS IN INDIAN OFFENSIVE

Slay Japs In Burma   Brt Enemy Pressure Still Strong North  Of Imphal; Bag 13 Jap Planes at Wewak

“Enemy Is Still Exerting Pressure Along Assam Front   13 Japanese Planes Destroyed in Bombing Of Wewak by Allies

BRIGHT SPOTS IN PIETURE IN NDI   Japs Sustain Heavy Cas: ualties In Ambushe:s Near Imphal   CHINESE ADVANCE   Twenty-Four Nip Planes Destroyed In Air Commando Attack

Fighting Bitter In India. Burma   Enemy Still Exerts Pressure Despite Heavy Casualties

NIPPONS. PRESS DRIVE ALONG ASSAM FRONT   Despite. “Mowuntin g Casualties In Lead,” And Wounded.

Japs Continue Indian Pressure   Allies Inflict Casualties in Ambushes  Near Imphal

Three Bright Spots in indiaties : Picture; Japanese Lose Many Planes

Threat Has Not Yet Halt ¢-.¢d' Flow. Of Supplies To  =tAllies':-Heavy-Casualties Inflicted On Enemy —Bomb Loads Dumped On Pacitic Bases.

NIP LOSSES HIGH AS THEY PUSH AHEAD IN INDIA   Allies Down 24 Jap Planes, Hurl Japanese Back in Burma

IN BURMA ARE!   Still Exerting Pressure Along Assam Front, North Of Imphal.

ALLIES CONTINUE KILL AND WOUND JAP: IN INDIA INVASION  ' ENEMY, ‘HOWEVER, STILL  EXERTING PRESSURE ALONC ASSAM FRONT

TROOPS HOLD. MOST OF THE ALBAN HILLS                 Crash Through 1 Nazi Pe tions in ‘Many Plac Including Lanuvio, O of Strongest: Points Enemy Defenses. -

Maine Needs 10,600 Volunteer Farm Workers To Reach Production Goals

Speed Drive in Burma   Allies Clear Enemy Snipers From Kohima Highway Sector

KURILES ARE AGAIN BOMBED BY YANKS   Second Raid on Northern Japanese Bases by Liberators Reported’ By Admiral Nimitz,   St ike Marshalis’

Reports Health of President Satisfactory After Checkup   Adm. Melntire. Puts Executive Through Annual “Physical Examination; Finds General Condition Good.

THOROUGH CHECK-UP GIVEN CHIEF EXECUTIVE  Personal Physician of President Says Examination Is Satisfactory

Roosevelt’s Health O.K. Says Melntire   Was Given the Naval Examination For Officers, and Passed Satisfactorily

After Annual Exam, Melntire Says  ‘FDR's Condition ‘Satisfactory’

FDR Needs. Sunshine, Exercise   Physical Condition Found ‘Satisfactory’ in New, Thorough Check-U   RESPIRATORY ILLS CLEARING RAPIDLY   Dector Adds a Vitamin Boost, Will Have President Resume Swimming

EDRs Condition Held Satisfactory   Bronchitis And Sinuses Ave Clearing Up Rapidly

President ‘Passes’  Physical Checkup   Outside of Head Cold, His Examination Satisfactory, McIntire Says.

FDR Undergoes Physical Check  In Good Shape After Noval Officers’ Test

i DEFERMENTS   To Double Requirements and Induct 125,000 Under 22

FACE CALL IF PRODUCTION I$ NOT DOUBLED   Non-Fathers Under 22 In War Work Also  Face Induction

DEFERMENTS FOR FARMERS   Announce Drastic Policy Today   Policy Today NEED MANPOWER  ee  Scan Non-Fathers In War Plants

ORDERS BOARDS TO INDUCT FARM DRAFT CLASES   U. S. Officials Say Reopen 1,7€3,259 Agricultural Deferments

PRODUCTION STANDARD DOUBLED FOR FARM WORK. ERS—-NON-FATHER INDUS. tera GROUP Is HIT

Tito Forces Take Dalmation Port   Dubrovnik Now In Hands of Partisan Units

LEADER TELLS COMMONS “IVE G000 REPORT   Premier, However, Warns Against Any Relaxation Anywhere

Negroes Contro! Texas Precinct   Name White Delegate  To Houston Convention

Texas Negroes Organizing:     retirement  Colored Democrats Plan To Hold ‘Precinct and County Conventions

SUGGEST WORLD OIL COMMISSION   ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL TALKS NOW IN SECOND DAY

NO BREAK IN SIGHT   But Fosecaster Saya Folks May “Look Forward to Fall’.

ALLIES STAGE STRONG 2-WAY AIR ATTACK   Batter Rail Lines in France and on Yugoslav-Romania Border

WO-WAY BLOW Y AIR BATTERS AZI TRANSPORT   AF in Another Shattering Assault ‘on German ‘West Wall’

2-WAY ASSAULT HAMMERS NAZI RAILROAD LINES   French Coast, Yugosiav-Romanian Border Areas Are Main Targets

97 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Assault Tuesday By Bombers From _ Iitalian Bases; Seine Area Hit

NAZIS BATTLE FOR VITEBSK   Fresh Assault Troops Poured Into Fight by the Reds

Fronts Separated By 20 Mile Gap; S 000 Planes Used   Nazi Liri Valley Position Imperiled By Our Advance

Twin Offensives Close Trap On Foe   Less Than 20 Miles Separate Anzio And Cassino Armies: Reme Railroad Cut

Allies Drive Gaping Holes  In Nazi Lines   Americans at Anzio Beachhead Take More Than Mile of The Appian Way

AMERICANS OCCUPY TERRACINA AS CANADIANS SMASH THRU IN LIRI VALLEY FOR NEW BREAKS   Anzio Beachhead U. S. Troops Seize Mile Long Chunk of Appian Way Highway Below Cisterna. Whole German Position Worsens Hourly

Allies Drive Gaping Holes in Nazi Anzio Beachhead Lines and Part of Appian Way Falls   Double Trunk Rallway From Rome Cut Four Miles South of Velletri; Fortifications of Vaunted Hitler Line Crumbling Fast

One Large Nazi  Army Seament  Appears Trapped Germans Made  Miserable by Air Power's Greatest Day

Crash Victims All Identified  Army Officials Probe Transport Plane Crast

ENOUGH VOTES TO WIN ON FIRST BALLOT CLAIMED   23RD NATIONAL GOP CONVENTION OPENS IN CHICAGO TODAY

9 MISSING FLIERS OUT OF WILDERNESS   Search Resumed in Maine For One Not Yet Found

GUAM INVASION LEADERS STUDY MAP   AIR ACTIVITY NOTED IN PHILIPPINES AREA  Concerted Action Reported Near de a: . o£ re ae ie * Fi gp... gg.

Philippine : Action Near:   Sinking of Jap Ship Near Mindanao a Hint Of Impending Attack

ATTACK HINTED BY MACARTHUR   Reports American Pianes Sunk Jap Vessel Off — Mindanao.   HALMAHERA !S BOMBED

Aerial Paralyzation Slated To Hit Philippine Islands At Southern Point Shortly

MACARTHUR HINTS AT AERTAL ATTACKS DUE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS  AMERICANS PLANES SANK TADANECE VUECCRI 70   AMERICANS PLANES SANK JAPANESE VESSEL 70 MILES OFF MINDANAO

MacArthur Hints Softening Up Of Islands To Begin   Air Forces Wait Order Jap Vessel Sunk Off Mindanao

British Forces Plunge Deeper Into Netherlands; German Gar _risons Seek Way of rc  a ee

British Armored Forces Plun; Deeper Irtto Netherlands Mo Than 30 Miles Beyond Antwer Strengthen Trap   CANADIAN TROOPS NEARING BOULOGN

Allies Deep in Holland   Reports States Fighting Going On in Germany

Patton Reaches. Moselle River. in Force: Between Metz, Nancy; Allies 30 Miles Past Antwerp

Army Engages German Force Along Frontier   Unconfirmed Reports Say Fighting In Progress Around Saarbrucken.

Yanks Drive North from Antwerp   Report of Invasion of Germany Is Not Confirmed Officially

Allies drive thru  Holland, Belgium;  enemy stiffens South side of pocket for  thaucande af fne caves in

British Plunge 30 Miles Beyond Antwerp, Trap Nazis Against Channel   Canadians 3 Mi. From Boulogne As Patton Army Reaches Moselle; Luxembourg Gets Orders

‘Frontier Reports Say  Doughboys Fighti ig Around Saarbrucken   British Advance  Deep In Holland   Lower Side Of German Channel Coast Pocket Is Collapsing

British Forces Plunging Deep Into Netherlands.   Unconfirmed Reports Say Allies Have Reached Strasbourg On Nazi Border

British 30 Miles Beyond Newly Captured Antwerp   ‘TRAP 100,000 NAZIS ON CHANNEL COAST  ' Americans And Germans Fighting In Strasbourg On German Border

UNCONFIRMED REPORT _. SAYS*FANKS HAVE REACHE. STRASBOURG ON GERMAN:

FDA'S DECISION {5 NO SURPRISE   Fourth-term Statement Is  — Greeted With Expressions Of Delight Also Prediction He Will Fail of Reelection

Workers Continue Soliciting in Red Cross Drive  Many Help to Speed Canvass; Total  Of $16.396 Reached

Workers Continue  Soliciting in  Red Cross Drive Many Help to a Speed   Many Help to Speed Canvass; Total Of $16,326 Reached

SOVIETS FORCE FINNISH, GERMAN DEFENDERS BACK   Finns Fear: Compiete. Tussian ° -Breakth ough; “Byacuate ‘Two Tpwas .

RED ADVANCE ~ GOES DEEPER ~ INTO FINLAND   FINNS REPORTED: STARTING _ EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS ‘FROM TWO LARGE ~~ Cries.

VETS FORGE rINMoH, GERNAN DEFENDER BALK   Finns Fear Complete fussian Breakthrough; Evacuate Two Towns

G-Men Vs. "The Devil''   Wait Hoover Solution to Dancing Coal, Smoking Book

‘Haunted’ School Closed   G-MEN PROBE JITTERBUG COAL AND SMOKING DICTIONARY

Senate Sets Anti-PollTax Bill Aside   OPPONENTS DEFEAT CLOTURE RULE 44 TO 36. DEFERRING ACTION ON MEASURE ITSELF INDEFINITELY ,   May Take It Up Later

Anti-Poll Tax Bill Dropped By Senators   Effort to Prevent Filibuster Fails to Get Two-Thirds Vote

Anti-Poll Tax Bill Shelved  By Senators   Packed Galleries Look on as Opponents Defeat Measure

ANTI-PULL TAK MEASURE PUT ON THE SHELF  Effort to Limit Debate De  Effort to Limit Debate De- feated by 44 to 36 Vote   GALLERIES PACKED AS SENATORS VOTE

Anti-Poll Tax Bill ls Shelved   Cloture Petition Defeated in Senate

ANTI-POLL TAX MEASURE PUT ON THE SHELF   Effort to Limit Debate De_ feated by 44 to 36— Vote   GALLERIES PACKED AS SENATORS VOTE   Bill Believed Dead Unti! After National Con ventions

ANTIPOLL TAX BILL SHELVED   Opponents in Senate Down Cloture Petition by 44-to-36 Vote

Ant-Poll Tax «bil on: Shelf, ~ Cloture ! nses   Attempt to Restrict Debute on Measure Fails in Senate

Senate Shelves Anti-Poll Tax  Legislation   Votes Against Cloture Aimed at Filibuster By Southern Democrats

Anti-Poll Tax Bill Is Shelved   Cloture Rule Voted Down in Senate, 44-36

JAP CONVOY IS SMASHED NEAR WEWAK   U. S. Fliers Sink 5 Ships, Damage Others, Kill 1,500

ESTIMATED 1,500 JAPS LOSE LIVES  IN CONVOY SINKINGS   Nipponese Were Making Attempt to Reinforce Wewak

Smash Attempt At Reinforcing Wewak Garrison   Two Loaded Transport Ships, Three Armed Corvettes Destroyed

U. S. Fliers Sink Five Jap Ships  vith TSO Tenaanc   Kill 1500 Troops in Largest of Any Sea Engagements Since Bismarck

U.§. Bombers, Fighters Smash Enemy Convoy   Two Transports, Three Corvettes Are Sunk

Reinforcing Attempt By Nips Blocked   GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR TELUS IN COMMUNIQUE, ie BLOW STRUCK JAPS,’ ¥

Planes Sink Two Jap Transports   1500 Troops Die - Toa CSnvov Attack

FIVE-SHIP JAP. CONVOY SUNK; WEWAK BOUND   Estimate 1,500 Enemy Troops Go Down With Vesveis

Gov. Broughton Is Candidate For Vice Presidency   Makes Formal Announce: ment in. New York — Says F. R. Will Be ReFlected.

CHURCHILL IS AGAIN ASKED ABOUT GREECE   FRIME MINISTER SAYS ALLIES AGREE: ON .GENERAL . AIMS BUT NOT ON ALL DETAILS

Allies Continue Burma Advances   Stilwell Forces Gain In Heavy Fighting

RECENT TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS . INDICATE. ENEMY WAS. NOT _- WET PERFECTED ITS“, “NEW WEAPON ~

Radio Crooners, Pistol Packin’ Films, Bad For Children, Says Senator

Canadians Take Calais: Austrians Get Warning   German Counterattacks Broken Up; Russi Deeper

GERMANS MARCH THROUGH HELSINKI   MOVE TOWARD FINLAND'S EASTERN FRONT TO RESIST ADVANCE OF REDS.

Allies Race On Gothic Line  Eighth Army in Advances Along East Italy Front

Sth Within Three Miles of Gothic Line   Advance Made Along En. tire Eastern Half of Italian’ Front

8TH PUSHES 10 WITHIN 3 MILES OF GOTHIC LINE   Nazis Fear New Allied Strike Across Arno River

ALLIES CLOSE TO GOTHIC LINE      Only Three Miles From Formidable Concrete Fortifications

‘Eighth Army  Scores Gain   Germans Are Pushed Nearer Gothic Line

Patrols Probe lo Gothic Line   Nazis Apparently Are Preparing for Stand

BRITISH HIT NEAR NAZI GOTHIC LINE   Push To Within Three Miles Of Italian Fortifications

Allies Within Three Miles of ‘Gothic Line   Nazis Settle in Prepared Defenses; Polish Forces Occupy Fano; Fifth Army Has Captured 47,000 Germans

Gothic Line.  Much Neare ‘er   8th Army Pressing Nazis, Cross: “Haly

th Army Pushes Within 3 Miles Of Gothic Line  Germans End Voluntary Retr in laaly ac Brenayed Nefencas   Germans End Voluntary Retrea in Italy as Prepared Defenses Reached—Arno Bridged

Elements Of Sth Army Draw Near Hun Gothic Line  Allies Establish Arno Bridashend

Nazis Stand. InIitaly    Withdrawal Apparently Ends As Enemy Reaches Strong Gothic Line

British Eighth Near Gothic Line  Makes Advances Alon Eastern n Holl ef Fer”

RED FORCES ARE MAKING + SWIFT BAIN   THREE BPEARHEADS IN DRIVES TO NORTH WHILE . NAZIS BATTLE VAINLY.TO. BREAK. TRAP:

THREE SOVIET FORCES DRIVE TOWARD PSKOV   Advance at Rate of 15 Miles Daily     NAZIS CRACKING  Mannstein’s Troops Desperate

U.S. Blacklists 38 Additional Swedish Firms   Action Follows Warning  Companies Must Stop Aes’     ae, ae ae

U. S. Blacklists 38 Swedish Firms For Aiding Nazis   Believe Action Taken ..To Reinforce Drive ‘On Ballbearing Trade.

SWEDISH WAR PLANTS GO ON U.S. BLACKLIST   FIRMS WARNED TO CEASE TRADING WITH HITLER

38 Swedish Firms Placed On Blacklist   SKF, However, Left Off Oddition to Allied Compilation

38 Swedish Firms Added to Blacklist   U. S. Drives to Cut Off Ballbearings to Nazis

Additional Swedish Firms Are Blacklisted By U. S.   Charge 38 Additional Companies Are Assisting German War Effort-——Move to Halt Bearing Shipments «

British Move To Challenge Japs in India   Invaders Converge In Three Columns On Manipur Capita

DEFERS HEARING FOR CONTEMPT   Sedition Defense Attorney Given Time to Prepare His Case

DR. ROSS B. MAYS DIES      Was Iniured November 6 in Colfiston With Convict Car

DR. ROSS B. MAYS DIES   Was Tniured November 6 in Col  lision With Convict Car

TROOP MORALS ARE GRITICIZED   British Official Refutes Laxity Charge Among Boys In England

Yanks Behave in London: Morrison Tells House of Commons Their Moral Conduct Is Very Good

“Broadly Speaking, It is Exceedingly Good,” Home Secretary Herbert Morrison Declares, in Reply to Statement That All Women Need Escorts at Night—He Adds That Law Violations Bring Severe Disciplinary Action.

WLB IN SECRET CONFERENCES ON WAGE QUESTIONS   Entire Week Set Aside For Dis cussions On Little Steel Pormula’®

HICKENLOOPE RESIGNATION TO BE ON JAN: 3RD   Will Be Able to Take. Gath as Senator When Congress Convenes.

OWA GOVERNOR PE SIGNING JAN. d   Hickenlooper to Assume New Duties at Noon.

Gov. Hickenlooper To Resign Jan. 3; Blue to Take Over   Senator-Elect to Report In Capital; Blue Will Act Until Inauguration

Dewey Beams Confidence as He Casts His Vote for President in New York

Win Important Heights And Penetrate Into) Heart Of Defenses In. Bloody Fighting.

YANKS BREAC GOTHIC FORTS   Smash Italy Defense Line On Six-Mile Front; - .  Near Rimini

Yanks Breach Gothic Line   British Battle To Within Rifle Range Of Gatewav To Po.

Gothic Line Breached by Fiith Army   Americans Break Through on Six-Mile Front

U.S. FIFTH ARMY MAKING GAINS   Breaches Germans’ Gothie Line On Six Mile Front;  Overcome Strong Defense Aptian

CLARK'S TROOPS CUT GOTHIC LINE   Penetrate German Defenses on Six-Mile Front

YANKS CUT NAZI GOTHIC LINE   DEFENSES STRONGEST FOUND IN ITALY FIGHT

Gothic. Line Ripped On Six-Mile Front   , Americans Shove To Within Three Miles ” Of Firenzoula, Main Highway Junction.

Yanks Force Gothic Line   Control of Heights North of Florence Threat to Nazi Hold

Win Important Heights “And Penetrate Into \« Heart OF Defenses. In -Bloody Fighting. °°

U.S; TROOPS CUT GOTHIC. LINE   Drive North of ‘Flor- ence on Six-Mile Front

Yankees Breach Gothic ine in Florence Sector   ALLIED ARMIES PUSH TOWARD SAAR VALLEY

Yanks Breach Gothic Line   Uncomfortable Number Of U. S. Losses in Gain, Paper Says

Yanks Breach  Gothic Line German Defense Is  Pierced on niin Mile  eam wh Blawmnmn

AMERICAN OTH ARMY BREACH GOTHIC LINE   Rugged Mountain Gains Cost U. S.  Great Losses

Yanks Breach Gothic Line   British Batter to. Within Rifle Range Of Strategic Rimini

Americans Smash Thru Gothic Line   Allies Advance in Northern Italy

ENTIRE ENEMY POSITION IN ITALY MENACED   Gothic Line Breached On Six Mile Front; Heights Taken

NAZI GOTHIC LINE RIPPED BY YANKS   Wall Breached In Six-Mile Front Above Florence

boinc Breachec By American 5th On 6-Mile Front  Correspondent Says Gains Are Costly

FIFTH ARMY STORMS NAZI POSITIONS   Pierces Defenses On 6-Mile Front Above Florence

Move Forward On  Six Mile Front —   Push ToWithin Three  Miles of Firenzuola

Yanks preach Nazi Defense  In North Italy In Hard Drive   Gothic Line: Is ‘Broken Open

LOSSES HEA’ IN AMERICAN OFFENSIVE   Two Important Mountains Taken By Yanks   EIGHTH ARMY   is Within Rifle Range Of Rimini: Entire Enemy Position Menaced

Nazis Gothie Line Breached By Americans   Troops Pierce Defenses On Six-Mile Front North Of Florence

Allies Threaten Gothic Line from ‘Hill Positions   ’ Yanks Reach German Defenses on Six Mile Front, Storming Steep Mountain Slopes

Americans Breach Nazi Gothic Line   Break on 6-Mile Front Follows Week Of Heavy Fighting

N avy Strikes Double Blow at Wale Icland   Liberator Lost to Heavy Flak; Garrison in Trav, Belief

Navy Heads Map Blows at Japan   Forrestal, King, Nimitz Confer in California

U.S. Navy Chiefs Map New Blows   King, Nimitz Strategy Conference Revealed

Jap Fleet {s Defeated in Philippines   Enemy Seriously. Damaged and Routed at Sea

buntbatten’s  padquarters win Ceylon   Keep Firm Grip Imphal Valley in  ; Jap Offensive oke by Advance

Allies Operate Near Mandalay  Are Astride Jap   Are Astride Jap Communications

LANDS BEHIND JAPS IN BURMA   Mountbatten Moves Headquarters to Kandy, Ceylon

Mountbatten Moves His Headquarters Nearer Future Campaigns   JAPANESE LOSSES REPORTED AS HEAVY   Fighting Around Imphal Confined. to Skir michec

GLIDER FORCE LANDS BEHIND TAPS IN BURMA   Mountbatten Moves - Headquarters to  Kandy; Ceylon

Mountbatten moves allied  headquarters  Chinits operate nearer Mandala;

Glider Troops Threaten Japs Near Mandalay   Report Mountbatten Nearer Front; !mphal Lines Hold Firmly

Allied Glider-Borne Troops imperil  Japs in Burma-India Offensive

COMMANDER WANTS TO BE CLOSER TO SCENE OF OPERATIONS. SERIOUS SITUATION CONFRONTS JAPANESE AS TROOPS OPERATE NEAR MANDALAY.

Allied.Glider. ‘Troops Operate Near Mandalay  Adventurous Forces fSranta Carns —   Adventurous Forces Create Serious © Situation

EXAM FOR MAIL -GARRIER GIVEN   Yacal Post. Office in Need of Clerk

CIVIL SERVICE EXAM ANNOUNCED   Applicants Being Sought lor War Service Appointments

HULL LOOKS 10 FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE   Joins President in Pledge to Promote Interests of U. S.

Mrs. McBride Dies Suddenly   AGED WOMAN FOUND DEAD AT HER HOME NEAR CARTHAGE

ip wpe ‘Allies On 'Walcheren Pinned Down   Hidden German Artillery Opens Fire On Beaches

Reds Push Across Prut River To Fight On Axis Soil; Jassy Threatened

‘Initial Invasion Thrusts Made By Second Ukrainian Army In Drive Through Bessar ahbia.

First Time in This War. Army Crosses Own Border.  PURSUE THE ENEMY UNTIL HE QUITS  Finland Considers New Russian Peace * Terms.

SOUTHEAST ON THE ALERT   Tropical Hurricane is Lurking Near yman Islands

Florida On Alert For Severe Tropical: Storm Lurking In Caribbean   Future Movement Of Hurricane Uncertain

South Florida Put On Alert For Hurricane   Future Movement Of Storm Uncertain

WRECKAGE CLEARED ON B. AND 0. LINE   Traffic to be Resumed Early Today, Officials State

WRECKAGE CLEARED ON B. AND 0. LINE   Traffic to be Resumed Early Today, Officials  Lae ape Gd

ROMANIAN PEACE ENVOYS IN RUSSIA   ARMISTICE TALKS TO STARI SOON-—FIGHTING FLARES IN SLOVAKIA.

Rival Electors  Named in Texas  Pro-Fourth Termers Start Purge of Antis

Pro-Roosevelt Demos Plan New Electors   Convention Acts to Oust 15 Officials Appointed at Austin

BRITISH FIGHT BESIDE SERBS   “Successful Operations” on Hvar Isle Reported

BRITISH FORCE AIDS PATRIOTS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Small Commando Group Landed To Harass Nazi Operations

BRIT. GROUND TROOPS IN JUGOSLAVIA   Have Landed On Jugoslav Territory For First Time

British Aiding  Jugoslav Troops   Join Partisan Forces  On Hvar Island

BritishTroops Battle Nazis In Yugoslavia   Tilo Reports Land Force in Action, Implying More to Come -

6,000 Allied Planes Drop 10,000 Tons of Bombs on Reich -- 10 Tons Per Minute

ALLIES = HURL 10,000 TONS ON GERMANY   In Four Devastating Raids; Greatest Air Attack in History Between Berlin and Siegfried.   Prisoners Dazed

OF BOMBS HIT NAZI TARGETS   ‘Carpet Bombing”’ At tack Made by Over 5,000 Planes

Monastery Hill Reoccupied By German Troops   Air War Flares Anew  With Strong Raid  - Blasting Bulgarian Capitol

GERMANS TAKE HILL POSITIONS QUIT BY ALLIES   65 Hurt On Anzio Beachhead As Nazis Hit Allied Hospital

‘GERMANS ACTIVE 'AT MONASTERY ‘HILL, CASSINO   Allied Air Operations, However, Overshadow Ground Activitics—65 Casualties at Anzoo hospital Bombed by Germans

Nazi Successes  At Cassino Told  Take Positions Given Up By Allies

BAVARIAN CITY BURNED AND j EXPLODED BUT VIOLENT AIR 4 BATTLE COSTLY TO BRITISH   GERMAN PLANES BOMB HOSPITAL BASE AT ANZIO   65 Casualties Reported As Result Latest Attack.  Cassino Front Quiet   Great Armada of RAF Bombers, Numbering’ Probably in Excess of 1,000 Does Great Damage But Germans Inflict Heaviest Loss Ever Taken Of Aliied Air Fleet ae

‘Nazi Forces Occupy Monaster Hill Positions Evacuated By Allies: Air Activity Is Heavy   Enemy Attacks Inside Cassino; Report 56 Casualties In Anzio Hospital Attack

Nazis Take Over Cassino Posts  Allies Abandon  Air .Operations  On Huge Scale

Nazis Occupy Hills Taken From Allies At Cassino   Air Activities Mark Fighting Over faly

Nazis Assume Offensive on Cassino Front   Assaults Within Town . Driven Back; Sofia Bombed by Americans

Nazis Move Into New Posts Upon Monastery Hill   German Planes Hit Allied Hospital For 65 Casualties

Huns Move Into Cassino Areas  ‘Allies Gave Up   Take Positions On Monas tery Hill; Attack Inside Of Town; Air Activ i ity Overshadows

Air Operations Spotlight Fight Around Cassino   Nazi Planes Bomb Hospital Area At Anzio Beachhead

Nazis Attack At Cassino   Germans Regain Two Hill Positions; Bombs Fall in Hospital Area

Enemy Troops Take Two Abandoned Hills at Cassino  Sixty-Five Casualties Result From Hits Near Allied Hospital

Germans Take Two Positions   Take Monastery Hill Points Abandoned by Allied Forces

NAZIS IMPROVE CASSINO HOLDS   German Fliers Bomb Hospital Area on Beachhead

NAZIS GAIN IN CASSINO AREA   Monastery Hill Positions Occupied by Germans

NAZIS TAKE OVER 2 CASSINOPOSTS   65 Killed As German Planes Hit Beach-Head Hospital

GERMANS MOVE INTO HILL POSITIONS IN CASSINO SECTOR  AMERICAN AIR ATTACK ON SOFIA HELD SPOTLIGHT IN AIR ACTIVITIES

GERMANS OCCUPY CASSINO HEIGHTS   GROUND ACTIVITY OVERSHADOWED BY AERIAL OPERATIONS

NAZI TROOPS HIT ALLIES IN CASSING   German Airplanes Bomb Hospital; 65 Injured

Germans Move Into Monastery Hill Positions At Cassino Allies Renulse Enemy Thrust:

Germans Take Over Positions Above Cassino   Now On Monastery Hill; Also Make Two Small . Attacks on Town

NAZIS IN ITALY TAKE 2 PLACES   Move Into Positions Evac: uated By Indian, New Zealand Troops

Nazis Back On Monastery Hill  Hold Positions Given Tre Der Aldt2.] 1)...

CASSINO RECESS ENDED BY NAZIS   Fifth Army Stymies Foe Thrusts Inside City—Enemy On Monastery Hill

afte  Na aZis Ocetipy Two: Cassino Hilltop Posts      Fifth Repulses ‘Thrusts ‘Inside City: Beachhead Raids Balked

Nazis Filter Back to Hill Positions Evacuated by Allied Units at Cassino

GERMANS REGAIN ~THILEPOSITION:   Air Operations. Oversha * dow Ground. Activitie: In Italy 

Finnish Leaders Withdraw from Pro-Nazi Regime   Cabinet Ministers May Quit President

Politicos Say ‘Willkie Not Out ‘Of Running Yet   Wisconsin Defeat No Death Blow to Hopes but Dewey's Stock Sears With Victory

Willkie Chances Hit by Vote   Wisconsin Result Serious But Not Fatal Blow to Hopes

[Regard Willkie Defeat in Wisconsin as Serious But Not a Fatal Blow

Wisconsin Deals  Blow To Willkie   Defeat Seriously Impedes Chances— Dewey Stock Up

Hard Blow To Willkie   But Defeat in- Wisconsin: Not Believed Fatal To Nomination Chances

Willkie Defeat Serious Blow  Not Necessarily Fatal . But Dewey Gets Lead

Nazis Roman Police Chief To Be Killed   Caruso Is Sentenced To Die For Acts Of Collaboration

SHOT IN BACK” FOR CARUSO   Former Rome Police Chief Sentenced To Death

REDS SMASH ACROSS. DANUBE   Now Within 50 Miles or Less of Lake Balaton, Historic Invasiou Gate to Austria — Russians Capture Fortress City of Pecs.

TAKEN BY RED ARMY   Russians Near ‘Gate To Vienna; City Of Pecs Captured

RUSHING REDS RAISE DOUBLE DRIVE THREAT   ‘Soviets Overrun More Than 330 Towns in Sweep Toward Historic Lake in New Offensive.

REDS OVERRUN 330 TOWNS IN SUDDEN DRIVE   Smash Across Danube, Head For Invasion Gate To Austria

Reds Swarm Toward Gate To Austria   Pecs Is Captured With 330 Towns On Wide Front.

REDS BREAK ACROSS THE DANUBE RIVER      Troops Spread Out Thru Southern Hungary

Troops Nearing Austria   Hard-Driving Forces Capture City Of Pecs

Reds Thrust At Austrians   Great Break Perils German Underbelly.

NEW SOVIET DRIVE BEGUN IN HUNGARY   “Reaches ‘to Within: 50 Miles of Invasion Gate to Austria <

RUSSIANS CROSS DANUBE, SPREAD OUT IN HUNGARY   Offensive Carries To Within Fifty Miles Of Lake Balaton

Soviets Pushing Toward Austria With Sneed   Fertress City of Pees Captured; Newest Drive Launched Wed.

RAP at RE FORCES BURST ACROSS DANUBE   Fast-Breaking Offensive Car ries Toward Austria On 93-Mile Front

Allied Drive At Anzio Is Reported   But German Explosives Have Stopped American Advance At Terracina

Pre-Invasion Aerial Offensive Grows In Intensity Over Naziland Europe. _

HATE DOODLE BUGS  YANKS IN SMALL PLANES SPECIAL TARGETS FOR NAZIS IN ITALY.

GOODRICH PLANT CONTRACT MADE   Miami Tire Unit to Be Constructed by George A. Fuller Company

CONTRACT FOR MIAMI. _ JIRE PLANT IS LET   Work. ‘to ‘Start t Immediately  on ‘Bite ve of B. F. odrich Company's 100 . Ractory..

Cream Of Green Devils’ Is Wiped Out In Cassino Drive   French Colonial Troops Capture Out; t Of Famous Adolf Hitler Line Acrace vee

Twin Anchors Of German Main Line Are Smashed Under Allied Pressure      Cassino And Formia Crumble Under Powerful Onslaught Of American Troops

TAKE FORMIA, WEST ANCHOR OF DEFENSES   Gaeta Point Under Bombardment — Masses of Nazi Equipment Falls to Gen. Clark’s Army.   ALLIES ASTRIDE — HIGHWAYS TO ROME   British and Poles Capture 1,500 Prisoners in Shattered Cassino and on Monastery Hill.

Troops Reach Point 35 Miles  From Anzio   Masses of Abandoned Nazi Equipment Fall To Clark’s Forces: Prisoner Toll 6.000

Yanks Only 35 Miles: From Anzio Beachhead; Massés Of Nazi Equipment Seized

Cassino, Formia Fall Before  Great Offensive   Clark’s Troops Stab Along Coast Only 35 Miles From Anzio; Take 6000 Captives, Vast Materiel

British, Poles Take Cassino, Monastery Hil!   Much Abandoned Nazi Equipment Is Reported Seized

ADOLF HITLER LINE ATTACKED BY AMERICANS   Many Prisoners, Huge Amounts of Equipment Taken

VICTORIOUS AMERICAN TROOPS RIP INTO NAZI LINE AT POINT 35 MILES FROM ANZIO BEACHHEAD,

Gustav Line Now Ceases Lo Exist   Nazi Defense Belt Anchors Of Formia And Cassino Fall Before Allied Onslaught In Italy

Nazi Prisoner Total Mounts Above 6,000   Masses of Abandoned. German Equipment Captured by Allies  CAFTA TS SOTTIFETNY

Americans 35 Miles From Anzio Lines   Allies Declare Gustav Line Now Out Of Existence

Americans Now Only 65 Miles Away from Rome   6,000 Prisoners Taken by Allies

Hollandia Raids Continue, Truk  Assaulted Again   Attack On New Guinea Supply Base Made _ Without Interception

Hollandia Is Blasted Again By {!.§. Bombers   Australians Press Japanese Back Through Minttim Vallew

Enemy Supply Base Attacked at Hollandia   Follows DoublePronged Assaults Made on Truk

HOLLANDIA, NEW GUINEA IS BLASTED   Attacks Continue On Truk, Wotje And Ponape

‘Cotton Ed’ Is ° Nearing End Of  Senate Career   Defeated In S. Carolina Primary; Hattie Caraway Loses In Arkansas.

OPA Suspension Orders Upheld   Supreme Court Rules Against Retailer

nsion Mer Upheld   me Court Rules eacy Holds Power Rationed Goods

OPA Given Power To Suspend $$ ees  Court Also Rules Ballot Stuffing Federal Offense

UPHOLDS OPA SUSPENSIONS   Supreme Court Rules, 8 to 1, in Case of Washington Fuel Oil Dealer

COURT UPHOLS POWERS OF OPE   Says Bureau Has Power to Issue Suspension Orders, Withhold Rationed Materials; Rules in Election Case

Court Upholds. OPA Penalties   High Bench Also Finds Law On Ballat Rax Sinffine

DIPLONATS okt WEAN OFUT IN ALLIED POLITICS   Identified as Unsett'ed Situations in Poland, France and Yugoslavia

DIPLOMATS: SEE WEAK SPOT (N ALLIED POLITICS   Identified as Unsettied Situations in- Poland, France and Yugoslavia

Decision in FDR’s Seizure of Ward’s Put Over by Court   Judge Holly Explains Delay in Ruling on Two Petitions

Ward Challenge: Right of FDR To Seize Plant   Investigations Of Government Act Under Way

Chicago Firm Challenges Seizure Right   Attorney Says FDR Had No Power In Taking Wards

Ward's Test Case Arqued   Company Invokes Constitution, Biddle Says Emergency Powers Enough

CHALLENGE F. R. RIGHT 10 SEIZE WARD'S STORE   Company Presents Arguments as U. S. Seeks Injunction

Further Probe Of ‘Battle’ of  Chicago Front   House Committee for lnvesjigaion of Mont gomery Ward Incident

Challenges FDR Right Of Seizure   Ward Attorney Says Act Violates Bill of Rights; Judge Will Make Decision Monday

Ward Attorney Chal lenges  FDR Authority   Arguments Heard In Court: Judge Will Decide Monday

Seizure Illegal, Says M-W Counsel  No Provision In Law. Attorney Declares

FDR SEIZURE 0! WARD FIRM 1S CHALLENGED   Chicago Court Hearing Underway to Determine Case. Justice Holly to Render Decision.Monday

Right to Seize Ward Firm Is Challenaed   Action Contrary to The Bil of Rights; Attorney Mainteoins

Historic Naval Battle Probable In Marianas Philippines Sea Lanes   United States 5th Fleet Anxious To Engage Entire Jap Fleet In Decisive Struggle

NIMITZ 1S READY TO MEET JAPAN'S FLEET IN BATTLE   Announcement That Enemy Had Deployed For Action Near Marianas Indicates He Has “Caught Up.”   AMERICAN FORCES ON SAIPAN IN STRENGTH   Red Army Out In Pursuit o! Fleeing Finns Retreatine \n Disorderly Fashion Toward Helsinki.

Jap Radio Flashes Word Of Showdown Engagement Raging Near Marianas

Major Portion Of Japs’ Fleet May Be Caught   American Officials Confident Of Victory If Enemy Navy Can Be Brought Into Battle

Nimitz Hints Entire Jap Fleet May  Be Drawn Into Scrap Near Marianas

Greatest Naval Fight in History Seen in Making   Outcome Likely To. Determine. Fate of Japan 

Japanese Radio Says Engagement Is Under Way; Report Unconfirmed   ADMIRAL NIMITZ ADMITS BATTLE MAY BE SHAPING UP   He Warns That We Cannot Expect To Get Any Details For Some Time

Jane Churchill To Tell About Hollywood Brawl   Dorsey Trial Is Underway

Hall-De Dorsey Trial Opens   Feminine: Fireworks ‘Are Promised Jury:

FDR'S Movements Outside Capital to Be "On Record" for Time Being

Arrange For New York Trip Of Roosevelt   President's Movement: Will Be “On Record’ During His Visit T: New York Saturday

ENGLAND FREE OF-ROBOMBS .       More Laune g Sites” Ate Seized by Allies”

Unconfirmed Reports Place British in Antwerp, Yanks in Reich   ROCKET COAST SEALED   Third Army Spearhead Near Nancy; Intensified Attack on Brest

FEDERAL COURT RESTRAINS AP IK ANTITRUST SUIT   Today’s Decision Clears Way for Appeal in Su preme Court

Three Judge Court Rules Against AP   Says Newsgathering Agency, However, May Restrict Membership on Grounds Other Than Competitive

CERTAIN BY-LAWS ASSOCIATED PRESS OUSTED BY COURT  CANNOT CONSIDER CON PETITIVE EFFECT IN

AP IS RESTRAINED FROM OBSERVANCE OF SOME BY-LAWS   Admission ta Service “May be Curtailed by Other Means. Federal Judges Rule

HOUR-LONG RAID SHAKES LONDON   eet  Nazi Bombers Fly High, Use Powerful New High Explosive

LONDON IS RAIDED _ AGAINBY GERMANS   Casualties . Rep ‘Reported tr Fourth Consecutive’ - Attack

FEAR GROWS OUT OF LAKE KILLINGS   OZARKS WOMEN BOLT DOORS ’ “AS SEARCH IS MADE FOR HATCHET-SLAYER.

Ransack Lake... Region For New Clues in Slaying   Terrorized Women Bolt Doors as Killer Remains at Large

Nazis Led by Rommel Fail in Attempt To Capture Yugoslav Partisan Chief

ROMMEL TRIES TO CAPTURE TITO   Field Marshal Thwarted As Yugostav Escapes

TITO NARROWLY AVERTS CAPTURE BY NAZI TROOPS   Glider-Borne Germans Raid Partisan Center; Leader Gone For Hour

Rommel-Directed Attempt Capture Tito Is Failure  aed... Dennen With Mei Churchill

GERMANS FAIL TO GATCH TITO   Raid on Headquarters of Guerrilla Chief Too Late

REPORT GERMANS TRIED 10 TAKE THT   Partisan Sources Disclose Their Leader Fled An Hour Before.

Tito and Churchill Escape Capture By Troops Personally Led by Rommel

OVER 1,200 FIGHTING SHIPS IN WORLD’S GREATEST FLEET   American Navy Four Years Ago Consisted Of 380 Units, Admiral Reports; Millions Spent In Expanding Building And Repair Facilities

1,200 Fighting Ships Now Carry American Flag   Rear Admiral Cochrane Says Fleet Had 480 Units ig 1940

Navy Now Has 1,200 Fighting Ships in Fleet   Admiral Cochrane Tells NAM 760 Craft Added  During Past Four Years

‘OF OVER 1.200 FIGHTING SHIPS   Jump From 380 Units Four Years Ago is  Told by Admiral

U. S. Fleet Exceeds 1,200 Combat Ships   In Disclosing Size of Navy, Rear Admiral Cochrane Also Reveals Nation Had Only 380 Fighting Units Four Years Ago.

EC. STIMSON RGES PUBLIC 0 KEEP COOL   ief of War Department Narns Against Current Nazi Propaganda on Coming Invasion

Stimson Warns Of Propaganda   Nazi Effort Designed Only to Confuse Allied Peoples

TRANSFORMED INTO ROUT   Hitlerites May Not Make Stand Before Reaching Own Soil

SOVIETS TAKE ‘LUKOW, GREAT RP TINCTION   Russians Thunder : Across Poland   NAZIS HELPLESS      Lose Heavily In Men, Materiel

POLES IN LWOW ” JOIN WITH REDS — JO FIGHT NAZIS   Even Women and Boys Help Clear City; Soviets Drive ey Nearer Warsaw

NAZI RETREAT TRANSFORMED INTO ROUT   Hitlerites May Not Make Stand Before Reaching Own Soil

MLUE Ss a “STILL ‘MUM   NO. STATEMENT”. OF HIS’ SUP. ‘PORT’ OF, DEWEY FOLLOWING  POSTWAR. ‘PEAC “CONFERENCE.

Morelock and Burgess On Trip To Westex Towns  Advertising S.R. College

Shun Task Of Forcing 4F Service   War Department And Congress Invite Each Other To Authorize Use In Industry.

G. 0: P. IN KANSAS   Early Partial Returns Show Good Leads for the Republicans

DECIDE TODAY ON U. S. LEADERSHIP FOR NEXT 4 YEARS  BOTH FDR, DEWEY PLENGE EFFORTS

Unprecedented Forenoon Rush  Hints A Record   Heavy Balloting In All Sections Points Toward  50-Million Total.

Noted European Tenor Dies While Singing in Opera in San Francisco

Dewey Seeking ‘More Support i  In New Jersey   Recent GOP Victories in State Spur Hopes of Party Leaders; Gives  O. K. to Curran

DEWEY CENTERS ON NEW JERSEY   Candidate Satisfied Curran Will Strengthen New York Bid

Gov. Griswold Calls for Strong GOP Leadership   Nebraskan Address Lincoln Day Banquet In Kansas City

Prison Sentences For Struble Post Office Robbers  Admit Guilt When  Arraigned In QT. we tft. g

Prison Sentences For Struble Post Office Robbers  Admit Guilt When Arraigned In Federal Court

FRITZ WHIPPED IN AIR BATTLE   Americans Destroy 175 Navi Planes, Lose 48 Bombers

YANKS KNOCK OUT 175 NAZI PLANES IN FIERCE BATTLE   Lose 48 Bombers and 29 Fighters in Combats Over Reich—Luftwaffe’s Loss Greatest in Year.   ENEMY AIR FORCE COMES OUT OF HIDING   Germans in Large Formations Attack Americans:as Latter Speed Toward Oil and Industrial Plants.

175 German Planes Bagged ‘In One Of Fiercest Aerial Battles Fought Over Europe   Loss Is Heaviest Suffered By Luitwaffe In More Thar A Year; 48 American Bombers And 29 Fighters Lost In Attacks On Germany

ROPELLED MACHINES USED AGAINST YANKS   American Fighters Knock  Down 117 In One Of © Fiercest Fights Over Germany

Air Battles Cost Nazis 175 Planes   U.S. Forces Meet  Heavy Opposition

{75 Nazi Planes Destroyed in Record Battles   48 Uj. §. Bombers, 29 Fighters, Lost

L735 German Planes Downed Over Reich   United States Air Force Fighters Trap and Beat Naz  Airmen i in One of the Fiercest Air Battles ae Ever Fought Over Europe

DROP 174 TONS OF BOMBS UPON ENEMY BASTION   Battle Way Through 60 Fighters Over Rabaul

HINT BERGDOLL RELEASE SHORTL'   World War One Evader Saic Due to Leave Federal Rarracke Soon

Bergdoll, Noted Draft Dodger, To Be Released   Scion of Philadelphia Family Has Served Nearly Five Years

Berydoll to Be  Released From Army Barracks   Draft Dodger of Worlc War One Due To Be Discharged Soon”

rover Bergdoll 0 Be Released, nokesman Says   Draft Dodger Soon ‘To Join His Family

Early Release Of Bergdoll  PlannedbyArmy   Famous Draft Dodger Of Previous World War Served About Five Years

Bergdoll to Get Release Soon   Served-Almost Five Years in Prison

VIENNA AREA HIT ~~ BY ALLIED FLIERS   Planes Roar From Italian Bases to Hit Nazi Taraets

BOMBERSROAR FROM ITALY TO VIENNA   [hrough Heaviest Opposition in Weeks, Attacking Oil Refineries, Railvards and Factory.   Rocket Bombing

ALLIED PLANES RAID VIENNA AREA   FLY FROM ITALY THROUGH HEAVY OPPOSITION—DOWN ~ MANY GERMANS.

BOMBERS HIT VIENNA AREA   Weather Halts Pounding Of Supply Lines From West

U. S. Bombers Blast Vienna ‘War Plants   Big Fleet Attacks Refineries, Rail Yards, Aircraft Plant

Wedges Carved In Soviet Lines By Nazi Forces   1000 German Planes Said Battling Over Romania; Reds Silent On Subject

NAZIS GAIN IN IASI ASSAULTS   Two Small Wedges Driven Into Soviet Lines

Two Wedges In Red Lines   Moscow Admits German Gains But At Heavy Cost for Successes

Marine Jungle Fighters Take Vantaae Point   200 Japanese Fall Under Leatherneck Determined Drive

NEW GAINS MADE BY U. 5. MARINES ON NEW BRITAIN   Leathernecks Advance in Face of Machine Gun Fire and Kill 200 Japanese Troops.   AUSTRALIANS SLOWED ON HUON PENINSULA   Ten Nipponese Planes Shot Down Over Rabaul-—Enemy Air Base on New Guinea Bombed.

MARINES KILL 100 JAPANESE, GAIN 2 MILES   Reach Important Hill On New Britain

200 Japs Slain  As Marines Gain  U. S. Forces Make Way To ‘Hill 660°

GAINS EXTENDED BY U.S. MARINES      Japanese Pushed Back Two Miles From Borgen Bay

HILL SEIZED AS MARINES GAIN GROUND   200 Japanese Are ‘Slain; Aussies  Advance

U.S. Marines Take Hill In Borgen. Area   Fanatical Japs Pay Heavy Toll.

Marines Reach Observation Hill In New Britain   200 Enemy Troops Reported Slain. In Jungle Fighting

Army Takes Over Utility Operation   Strikers Vote To End Walk-Out

IN-LOS ANGELES   Munic:pal Water Power Act Under Presidential Order

Missouri River Plan Does Not Have Approval of FDR  Governor Ford Says New Report Is “‘Most Encouracina”’

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ODD DEVELOPMENT IN ABDUCTION CASE   Grieving Roommate Of Babe’s Mother Tries To End Life

Enemy Air Fields In  France Hit   American Bombers Follow Up Assault Made By Royal Air Force

Nazis Face First  Big Food Shortage   So Says American  Survey Institute

NAZIS SUFFER FIRST FOOD SHORTAGE; HUNGER MAY CUT CIVILIAN OUTPUT

CROYDON SOLDIER WOUNDED AT WADKF   Staff Sgt. John C. McGowan Seriously Wounded In Southwest Pacific   WIFE RECEIVES WORD

Hard-Hit Reich Target Of 8000 Tons Of Bombs   Mosquito Planes Continue Unbroken Pounding Of Areas In Germany

Fighter Pilot Reports  Germans Are Fleeing   French Peninsula   One Yankee Column Within 4 Miles Of La Haye du  _,Puits, Nazis’ Last Main Road Junction; Enemy  Attacks Beaten Off East Of Caen

GERMANS’ LAST ESCAPE ROUTE HAMMERED   French Railway To Port Cut Off By Yanks   MONTEBOURG AGAIN   in Allied Hands; Strong Enemy Attacks Are Repulsed East Of Caen

Senate Vote On Tax Bill Due Today   Provisions on  Renegotiation of Contracts Modified

MESA LEADER GOES TO CAPITAL   pene ah  Call Off Strike, Group To Appear Before WLB

W.L.B. May Give Penalty For Strike  MPRQA Tandavwe ‘Ta   M.E:S.A. Leaders To Testify Today

BERLIN ADMITS LOSS OF GROUND   SAYS RUNDSTEDT’S SPEARHEADS HAVE WITHDRAWN . “ACCORDING TO PLAN.”

“According to Plan”: Berlin Radio Announces Troops Are Withdrawing as Yanks Gain

Nazis Admit Big Offensive Is Stopped   Announce Spearheads Now Are Withdrawing ‘According to Plan’  CLAIM NO GAINS

DEATH SENTENCE PASSED ON NOXON   ATTORNEY IS FOUND GUILTY OF SLAYING SIX-MONTH OLD SON

Noxon Sentenced To Die For Slaying Infant Son, Again Asserts Innocence   Seeks New Trial

SENTENCED FOR MERCY SLAYING   Charged With Killing Mentally Deficient Son

Sentence Noxon To Die In Chair For Son’s Death   Prisoner Again Insists He Did Not Murder Child; Execution Is Stayed

MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL NEXT STEP   Court Stays Execution of Sentence in Case of John F. Noxon. °*

Invasion By Air Splits Defense   Threat To Germany At Poin Nearest Berlin

Stimson Reports Invasion By Air  Split Nazi Flank   Secretary Of War Reports On Recent Air-Borne Attack In Holland   CASUALTIES ARE AGAIN REVIEWED

Say FD Failure To Trade Views Costly To States   26 Republican Governors Plan Full Co-operation Jf Dewey Is Elected

Govertiors to Work Closely With Dewey   Charge Administration Out of Touch With State Heads a

G.0.P. Plans State, Federal Co-operation   Tax Simplification, Reduction Proposed At Governors’ Meet

GOP’S LEADERS STRESS ISSUES   New Deal's Home Front Pollicies Assailed as Dewey's Meet Ends

FDR’s Attitude Toward State Executives Causes Misunderstanding, Claim

Governors Charge Asserted Failure Of FDR To Exchange Views Causes Rift

ROOSEVELT SNUB IRES GOVERNORS   Move To Work Closely With Dewey If He’s Elected

Governors Say ‘Unity of Thought’ Achieved with Candidate Dewey  Close Collaboration Promised Dewey, If Elected, By State Chiefs Who Criticise  Rookevelt. Make Recommendations

GOP GOVERNORS, DEWEY AGREE   Republicans Charge FDR With ‘Misunderstandings’

Challenge Offered hy GOP Chiefs   Claim ‘Unity of Thought’ In Program of Home Front Manarement   SAY THEY WOULD WORK WITH DEWEY   Assert Roosevelt Has Not Invited Their Cooperation; Policy Outlmed

Governors Pledge Unity To Dewey   Republicans Say FDR Ke. fused To Exe hange Views

26 GOP GOVERNORS PLEDGE CO-OPERATION IF DEWEY IS .WINNER   Charge Consfarit Grasping for Power on Part of Federal Government  ~   14 CONCLUSIONS REACHED

GOP: ‘Governors. . : >. Aehieve: Unity         In Accord: of” Though With . Thorias‘E. Dewey, Presidential. Candidate. 

Republican Governors In Harmony   Charge FDR Failed To Exchange Ideas With State Heads, Misunderstanding

FEDERAL POWER CHALLENGED BY GOP GOVERNORS   Conference Ends With Plans Laid To Fight New Deal Domestic Policies

Governors End GOP Conference With Candidate   Executives Pian To Work Closely With Nominee Dewe:

GOP Governors Charge FDR With Disunity Outlines States’ Position On Problems

Governors Say State Rights Are lenored   Republican Heads Assail Lack of Cooperation From  The White House

NEW DEAL HIT IN GHIRGES AT “DEWEY PARLE   Governors Assert Failure to Exchange Views Caused Misunderstanding.

Governors Reach Unity of Though  Will Work With Dewey. If Elected

Governors To Work In Unity With Dewey   Charge Rooseve't Witk Failure to Exchange Views With State Executives

Meet Pleases GOP Governors   Have Achieved “Unity of Thought” With Dewey

Truman Emerges as Serious Contender For Vice Presidential Nomination

Yanks, British May Beat Reds Into Germany  Nazi Leaders Fear Russians

Nazi Surrender Talk Questioned   Germans Outfought Or Western Front

YANKS EARNING FRENCH GAINS   Nazis Flee Before Superior Foe, not According To Plan

Germans Not ‘Letting’ Allies Enter Reich   Writer Disproves Theory Of Amateur War Strategists

If Yanks Enter Germany Before Reds It Won't Be Through Choice of Nazis

Supplies, Plasma Dropped To Gl's   Cub Planes Get Aid to Units Temporarily Cut Off

Eisenhower Over German Lines on ‘4th   Praises Yank Fliers, fo1 Fine Support, Returns to British Base

Eisenhower Flies  Over German Lines   Allied Supreme Commander Observes Action On European Invasion Front

“Tke” Flies Over  Nazi Front Lines   Eisenhower Said To Be Pleased With Observation

ALLTED AIR FORCES SEE RUSH AT NIGH]   Robot Bomb Launching Places Being Hurriedly Left With Roads Jammed Ry Vohicleac.

Germans Quit Line On Seine And Robot Sites   Disorganized Rabble Of Hither Army Pulls Out Of All Southern France

Seine River Line, Robot Bases On Channel Yielded   Germans Appear To Be Moving Out For Fight. ‘On Rhineland Borders

German Armies in Full Flight for Rhineland   Abandon Seine River Line and Robot Bomb Bases

Leave Robot Bases Along Channel Coast   Nazis Appcar to Be Pulling Out All Northern France

Le Havre Expected to be in Allied Hands Soon; Progress of Patton’s Armor Toward German Rorder is Unreported

Aviator’s Report Roads From Northern France AreJammed With Rushing Nazi Vehicles

ROBOT COAST OF FRANCE EVACUATED   Roads Leading East and South From Area Are Jammed With Traffic.   BULLETIN

Nazis in Flight to Rhineland   Nazis Reported To Be Pulling Out Of Seine Line

‘Bomb Bases   ALSO GIVE UP THEIR SEINE RIVER LINE FROM PARIS,” TO THE SEA; HEAD FOR BORDE

Americans Capture Carentan, Drive 18-Mile Salient Through Front; -. Germans Rush More Troops to Port’

Long Toms Pound Nazi Positions  Around Big Port   Germans Rush Reinforcements To Cherbourg As 18 Mile Salient Driven Into Center Of Beachhead Threatens Loss Of Whole Left Flank.

All But Few Recalcitrants Concede Nomination For Dewey: Warren is Speaker

Delopates Becoming Tired or Oratory — Will Hear Former President Herbert Hoover and Rep. Clare Beoth Luce Tuesday Night.

Dewey's Nomination Conceded By All But Recalcitrant Handful Of Delegates, Hoover, Booth Speak Tonight   MARTIN IS NAMED PERMANENT CHAIRMAN

DELEGATES WANT “DEWEY’S WORDS ADDED 10 PLANK   His Declaration For Keeping Peace By Military Force Demanded — Willkie Attack Has No Effect.   DEWEY MAY FLY T0 CHICAGO. TOMORRON   Martin Tells Delegates Vital  “ggue of Convention !s ‘Creation of Wealth By Free Enterprise.’

Willkie Takes Pot-Shots at Plank Writers   Clare Luce and Hoover Scheduled To Talk Tonight

GOP Slates Revamping Of Congress   Expect Control; Set Cleanup of Legal Cobwebs

GOP MAPPING ‘STREAMLINE’ FOR CONGRESS   Looks to Control. of House, Majority in Senate, After Fall Election   WOULD JUNK IDLE DEM. GROUPS, OUTMODED RULES

GRANGE SEEKS EFFECT OF NEW REGULATIONS   Drafting Of Farm Workers Wu Work Hardship On Smali Properties, Official Belicves

Grange Checking Effect OF Draft   Seek Find What Effect New Draft Rules Will Have On Farm Work.

SIX KILLED IN STOVE BLAST   Kitchen Explosion Wipes Out Entire Ohio Family

FARLEY 10 VOTE FOR NOMINEES   FOURTH TERM OPPONENT AN. NOUNCES HE WILL SUPPORT F.D.R. IN ELECTION,

FARLEY BACKS UP ROOSEVELT   Fourth Term Opponent Accepts Decision Of Convention

Wins 80 Per Cent of Ballots Cast Monday   Green Light Is Given Project  For Carroll   Council Now Empowered To Issue Not More Than $60,000 in Bonds.

Green Light Is Given Project For Carroll   Council Now Empowered To Issue Not More Than $60,000 in Bonds

RED ARMIES OPEN BATTLE FOR RIGA   Tighten Ring About Nazi Armies In Baltic States

Reds Strive  To Capture Port of Riga   Germans Unable To Break Out Of Baltic Trap

 neal cece enna anemones  Reds Smash Powerf~1 Nazi Thrusts, Lunge Toward Riga

Two Red Armies Open Battle for Latvian Capital   Seek to Tighten Encirclement of Nazi Divisions

Like Chess Players  IREDS OPEN NEW NORTH OFFENSIVE   Drive Hard For Latvian Capital of Riga on Gulf of Same Name; 20 to 30,000 Ger mans Trapped.

GERMANS HELD IN BALTIC TRAP SMASHED BACK   Latvian Capital Under Threat From Two Directions —

TWO RED DRIVES POINTED TOWARD LATVIAN CAPITAL: NAZIS FIGHT DESPERATELY

Struggle for Riga Is Opened by Red Armies   Twenty or 30 German Divisions Are Caught by Converging Moves   Powerful Hun Attempt to Break Through Is Halted; Foe Will Continue to Fight on Land

RUSSIANS SMASH “BIG NAZI ATTACK JO ESCAPE TRAP   First and Second: Soviet Armies Knock Out Three  ~ German Divisions 65 Miles Southeast of Riga.   BRITISH TAKE HEIGHT CAST OF FLORENCE   Yanks Close In Rapidly or Japs on Guam; Last Mess: sage to China Says Heng: vank Js Lost

WO RUSSIAN ARMIES OPEN X16 BATTLE    Br eak Nazi , Counter: attacks

Russians Driving Qn Rig2   Trapped Germans Make Futile Effor' To Break Through

Smashing Most Powerful German Attempt To Break From Trap  NAZIS CONTINUE TO HURL RESERVES  See-Saw Battles Continue Without Decisive Change In Warsaw

Red Armies Open Battle For Riga   Russians Smash Powerful German Attempt To Break Out of Baltic Trap

German Remnants In Baltic States Are Encircled   Converging Drives Made Through Swamps and Massive Forests on Southern Ap} proaches to Latvian Capital !

Win First Round By Cracking Nazi Break-Out Try   Germans Continue To Hurl Reserves Into. ~  Luban Plains Battle

Win First Round By Smashing German Attempt To Break Out Of Baltic Trap; Nazis CounterAttacking In Some Sections   NAZIS ATTEMPT ESCAPE BY LANI

Nazis Still Batiling to Defend Riga   Contest Every Yard 0 Ground on Approaches to  Latvian Capital

SOVIET ARMIES LAUNCH HEAVY ASSAULT AGAINS1 LITVIA CAPITAL   Russians Tighten Encirclement of 20 To 30 German Divisions.

Activity in Pacific Is Preparation For U:S: Invasion of Philippines

Blows May Be Prelude To Invasion   . Recent Attac Attacks On Jap Islands Seem Designed To Isolate Philippines From Reinforcements «

ALLIES ARE NEAR A PRIZE ITALIAN POR}   Forces 32 Miles From Ancona, Which Kanks Next to Venice in Har _ bor Facilities Along the Adriatic.

Allies Drive To Take Prize  ItalianPort   Troops Reported In 32 Miles Of Ancona: Eighth Army Near Camerino

Rachel Hill, Beckville Enters Special Training  School For Waves

Sees Problem In Post War’s Ignorant Youth   America will, face big ‘task in coping with ‘unintelligent new cit-jzens coming on.

Black Market Ga Drive Is Opened   Emphasis Placed on Common Violations

Jury Acquits County Motorist   John Patrick Freed of Second Offense. Drunk Driving—Other Action

Victory May Come to Allies Soon, Churchill Says in Review of War   Tells Commons That German, Japanese Are  Recoiling on All Fronts; Praises Red, U. 8. Valor

Churchill Asserts Victory May ComeSoon; Views War Approaching Closing Stage

SEES EARLIER END . OF JAPANESE WAR   Perhaps Soon” Commons Told American, Red Troops Lauded

Churchill, In An Optimistic Report, Says War “Perhaps Approachina Final Staqes’’

OPTIMISTIC WAR REPORT GIVEN HOUSE   Churchill Declares Victory “hay Come Perhaps Soon”

‘Churchill Tells Commons Viclory May Come Soon  Over Germany, Then Japan

VICTORY MAY BE SOON SAYS CHURCHILL   Tempering Optimisni With Caution; Predicts  Earlier Cessation of Jap War.   House Adjourns

Churchill Sees Earlier Victor y Tn Pacific War   “Cites: Speed. of Advances, “Says Reds “Tearing Guts’ -Out-of Germany's Army

Karly Allied Victory Seen By Churchill   War Approaching Closing State, He Claims in Review;  News Held Very Good

FRONTS GOOD, BRITAIN TOLD   WHIPPING JAPS TO BE SHORTER JOB THAN EXPECTED

NEED CLOTHING FOR RUSSIANS   Millions of Destitutes Face Russian Winter

Russian War Relief Drive Next Week   Asking for for Used Clothing of All. Types. Sizes.

The Home Front To Back The  Fighting Front  Three War Drives   Nlaw Th Pracrace

Russians Need Much Clothing  faem A wept, and   Drive Announced Bere Sent, 24-30

Atlantic Residents Urged To Contribute Clothing In __ . Drive For Russian Relief

Washington People Asked to Share Their Clothing with Destitute People of Russia; Campaign Headed by State, Fox Thantets

Suspect Held In Slayings  Sheriff And Son   Sheriff And Son Shot To Death

JAP STRENGTH AT RABAUL LOW   Kightceuth Consecutive Day of AL Jied Air Raids au New Britain Base — Enemy Continues to Lose Supply Ships and Planes,

Enemy Strength Al Rabaul Hits “All- Time Low”   Report New Ireland, Kavieng Bases Now  Completely Blockaded

JAP AIR AND SHIPPING STRENGTH AT RABAUL IS AT ALL TIME LOW AS ALLIES CONTINUE AIR ATTACKS

AIR BLOCKADE OF RABAUL IS NEARLY TIGHI   U.S. Fliers Unopposed In 18th. Consecutive Raid On Base

Japs’ Rabaul Strength Cut  By Bombings   few inem Vessets Seen  _ ‘as 52 Tons Plummet - ~ on Airdrome

Jap Strength At Rabaul At ‘All-Time Low’   Mitchell Bombers  Unopposed on Newest Assault

Jap Forces Reduced By U. S. Raids   Few Small Cargo Vessels, Warships Seen in Harbor ‘After Attacks

JAP STRENGTH AT RABAUL AT ALL-TIME LOW      Only Few Small Cargo Vessels, Three Smal] Warships Observed

Jap Strength at Rabaul Reported At All Time Low   Air Raids Staged For 18 Days in Row on Base

U. S. WARSHIPS SINK THREE NAZI BLOCKADE . RUNNERS IN ATLANTIC   Holds Loaded With Thousands Of Tons Of War Materials From Jap-held Ports Of  Pacific; Some Salvaged

LS ee ne  Warships Sink 3 Nazi Ships   Sunk In South Atlantic.  ~ Holds Loaded With Rubber, Tin, Fats And Strategic Ores.

3 NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNERS ARE SUNK BY U. 5. WARSHIPS   Ships Caught Sneaking Through South Atlantic With Vita! Cargoes Obtained in Japan.   CREWS TRY IN VAIN TO SCUTTLE RAIDERS   tiundreds of Tons of Baled - Rubber and Other Materials - Salvaged—Many Prisoners Taken.

NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNERS SUNK   Guns Of U.S. W arships Send Pi C argoes To Bottom

Warships Sink 3 German Ships In S. Atlantic   Blockade Runners Filled With Vital War Cargo And Some Is Salvared

GERMAN SHIPS RUN BLOCKADE FOR JAPANESE   Sent To Bottom Of South Atlantic By Blazing Guns Of U. S. Warships; Held Valuable Cargoes.   Sighted By Planes

3 NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNERS ARE SUNK   American ‘Warships Catch Trio, Fully Laden,  In Atlantic

House Refuses to OK U.S. Coal Regulating Plan  , Recommendation of  . F. R. Snubbed By

OPEN TAX HEARING   Committee To Consider Freezing of Social Security Rate

Another Scrap Is Lined Up   House Committee Will Consider Measure to Freeze Social Security Tax

Solons Agree To Discuss Security Tax   Bill to Regulate Coal Industry Opposed By Groups in House

Education Week To Be Observed At Public Schools  Several Interesting F Features Planned

Education Week To Be Observed At Public Schools  Several Interesting   Several Interesting  Features Planned For Annual Event

Democrats And Republicans Each Gain House Seat In  Missouri Servicemen Vote

Strategic Targets Hit -ByBombers   Warplanes and Railway Yurds Juninngd - Wal. Supplies B!.-stzd By Americus -

Air Fleet Blasts German Targets Over Wide Ares   Northwestern Germany, Channel Coast Are Pasted

Big Air Fleet  Smashes Reich   Nazi Warplants, Railroad Yards Blasted Avain

3,500 TONS DESCEND ON NAZI TARGETS   Warplants and Raiiway  Yards Jammed With - Supplies With no Opposition From Air.   Osnabruk - Hamm

Disturbances Among 800 Prisoners in Waupun Penitentiary in Fifth Day

6,000 PLANES STRIKE   One Of Heaviest Blows Of War Is Dealt the Germans

Second Air Fleet Of -800 Join Attack On German Targets From Bases In South

6,000: 6.000: Allied Planes Hit German. Targets in One  Of Heaviest‘Aerial Blows

HEAVIES POUND REICH   Second Largest-Force From. England Rained Destruction ©

ATTAGK DOZEN REICH TARGET!   Second Largest Force, More Than 2,000 Pianes, Out From Britain.

Allied Planes Hit Ruthlessly at German Objectives  Large Fleets Strike Again at Core Of Nazis’ Industry

APPROXIMATELY 6,000 ALLIED PLANES DEAL GREAT BLOW TO NAZIS  HEAVY BOMBERS FROM BRITAIN AND ITALY BLAST

eae  Sf TERPS ERED TRE TTR oa ES SEN NEWS BULLETIN      German Genera! Killed

GUERILLAS AID ALLIES IN BALKANS   Military Secrecy Veils Albania Invasion

GREEK FORCES  JOIN ALLIES AS SECRECY VEILS ALBANIAN DRIVE   Balkan Nations Are Aiding Offensive

Secrecy Veils  New Invasion of Albania  Greek Troops Are   Greek Troops Are Out Under Orders of Allied Chiefs

Greek Guerrilla Factions Unite And Will Operate Under Supreme Command Of Allied Headquarters

Guerrillas . Of Greece Under Wilson   Join Fight Against Nazis as Allics Invade Albania

CONCORD HOLDS A S DAY      Time - Honored Custom Draws Throngs to Historic Town for Para®e

CONCORD HOLDS PATRIOTS DAY CELEBRATION   Time - ‘Honored 3 ‘Custom Draws Throngs to Historic Town for Paratte.

RUSSIA GIVES FREER RIGHTS 1016 STATES   REPUBLICS TO DEAL INDEPENDENTLY IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SUPREME SOVIET GIVES 16 KEPUBLICS WITHIN: ~- UNION OWN AUTHORT''Y

Russia Grants 16 Republics  More Freedom   Seen as Move Toward Drafting New Europe After War

Soviet Republics Given New — Rights Under Molotov Plan   Sixteen Units Get Own Commissariats of National De fense and Foreign Affairs With Rights to Deal With Foreign Powers

Each Has Foreign  Affairs Division By HENRY C. CASSIDY Associated Press Staff Writer

Each Republic “May Negotiate Foreign Pact:   Right To Have Own Army And To Seeede Is Given Tn News Satna

SOVIET RUSSIA RECONSTRUCTED BY GOVERNMENT   16 Republics Within Nation Given Right To Raise  Own Armies   UNION LEADER NEW VICE PRESIDENT

Reconstruction Of Soviet Union Given Approval   Parliament Votes History making Reform Proposed by Molotov

Red Parliament Adopts Molotov Reform Program   To Give 16 Individual Republics in Union Greater Rights

RED REPUBLICS GIVEN POWERS   Permitted to Have Armies And Right to Act in Foreign Affairs

British Seize Burma Town In Strong Thrust   Opening. Move Clearing Area In Readiness For Offensive:

ALLIES TAKE IMPORTANT BURMA PORT   Mountbatten’s  Men Recapture Maungdaw

ALLIES CAPTURE VITAL VILLAGE ON BURMA COAST   Preliminary To Big Drive

British Captre.  Manngdaw, Key  Jap Burma Port Nips Lose 78   Planes Over DN .ha-] A Bw ch

BURMA PORT IS CAPTURED BY ALLIES   Immediate Goal Of Drive Believed Port of Akyab

BURMA THRUST OPENING MOVE OF OFFENSIVI   Capture Strategic Port; Allies Bag 21 Planes Over Rabaul

Railroads Lose  Case In Court   Must ‘Make Reasonable’ Effort To End Trouble

RAILROAD LOSES INJUNCTION CASE  '   Supreme Court Sets Aside Lower Bench Ruling

ANTTHITLER: RIOTS REPORTED IN REICH   CROWDS SAID TO HAVE DE MANDED PEACE ON MARCH IN SEVERAL CITIES.

RSG aah aa anti lial  Riots i in German: Cities Reporied from Sweden

TOKYO REPORTS INDICATE MANY NEW AIR BLOWS   Nanking Rocked In Most Widespread Blows Of Paeific

Big Forts Also Blast Shanghai And Nanking   Tokyo Admits Damage Done or Kyushu, Saishu

McKean County Observes 140th Anniversary  F. D. Gallup Out  F. D. Gallup Outlines History Of McKean County

McKean County Observes 140th Anniversary   F. D. Gallup Outlines History Of McKean County

SOFT DRINKS BY PLANE FOR AIR ACE MAJ. BONG   American Flyer with Tally ‘Of 27 Enemy Planes Destroyed Gets Message Alsc From Gen. Arnold

AIR BATTLES. ~ ARE RESUMED ~ OVER EUROPE   ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE STILZ IN HIGH GEAR—NAZIS LOST 133 PLANES YES*TERDAY

BOOST TOLL LAST THREE DAYS TO 330   New Type of Attack Aimed/at Germany’s Fighter Factories.

REICH REELS UNDER HEAVY AIR ATTACKS   Nazis Lose 310 Planes In Three Days

CHINESE ATTACK ON HONAN FRONT   213 Jap Planes Ten-Weel Toll in Burma-india Theater

 Receive Purple Heart  Awarded Posthymously lTo Paul Thimke. Jr.

U.S. Announces Its Proposal for  Aviation Control  Terms Will Be Given At Conference Of Several Nations

PRE-INVASION AIR RAIDS Go INTO 18TH DAY   U. S. Bombers Blast German Installations in Northern France,

BIG FORCE OF B-29'S SMASH JAP AIR BASE   Important Installations On Enemy Home Island Blasted By Our  Fliers

SUPERFORTS BOMB OMURA AIR BASE   STRONG AIR FORCE ATTACKS VITAL INSTALLATION ON JAP HOME ISLAND,

4-F Work  Battalion Rejected   » House Committee Kills Plan To Force Class Into [ssenUal War Jobs.

QUINTUPLETS ElGHT MONTHS OLD NOW   Buenos Aires Couple Kep Event Secret to Avoid Public Excitement.

Quints Born In Argentina   Well-to-Do Rancher And Italian Wife Parents of Five

Kept Secret to ‘Avoid Excite  BIRTH OF QUINTUPLETS N ARGENTINA REPORITEL

Quins Born To Argentine Pair”  Father Shows Photos. Of & Months Old Babe:

3irth of Quintuplets in Buenos Aires Eight Months Ago Revealed; All Living

Quintuplets Born Eight Months Age   All In Excellent Health, Weighing From 20 to 25 Pounds :

SAY QUINTS BORI EIGHT AAUNTHS AGO   Buenos Aires Rancher Reveals Birth of 3 Girls, 2 Boys hut Kept Event Secret

Zealously Guarded From Publicity. —  Quintuplets Reported in Argentinc

GANDHI'S WIFE DIES IN INDIA   Nationalist Leader's Mate Lived Retiring Life

MRS, GANDHI. DIES AT POONA   Wife of Indian Leader Suffered Heart Attacks

Gandhi's Wife Passes Away   She Dies From Heart Attacks at Poona, It Is Announced

WIFE OF INDIAN LEADER DIES   Heart Attack Fatal to Mrs. Mahandas Gandhi

MRS. MOHANDAS GANDHI, WIFE OF INDIAN LEADER, DIES IN POONA PALACE

Date for Filing Income Estimate Postponed Month   Gandhi's Wife Dies Today

Mrs. Gandhi Dies At 74  Wife of I ndian Leader   Wife of Indian Leader Detained With Husband

LANA TURNER FILES DIVORCE SUIT; CHILD'S CARE ASKED, ALIMONY SPURNED

British Magazine Blasts Churchill   Decision to Support Italia Regime Declared “Not Honest Politics”

Bombs Cover Nazi Cities   Vienne, Gelsenkirchen, Coblenz and Hamm Take Heavy Pounding

Rationing’s Breathing Spell Held Indefinite   Status To Depend On Supply System

RATION RECESS IS INDEFINITE   No One Knows How Long It Will Last, Asserts ' OPA Director 

Says Food Crisis  Over, For Time  OPA: Official: Sees _-Relaxed=Rationina:..

National Union: - Officers Order Strikers Back  17,000 Idle Employes   17,000 Id.iie Employes Of Cramp Shipyard — Receive Message

KNOX WARNS STRIKERS AID THE ENEMY   WLB And Naval Secretary Send Strong Messages Te Union Officers Who Denounce Strike.   Cramps 17,000 Sent Back

Shipbuilders Are Ordered Back to Work   Told by Union Heads Strike Continuation  Will Be Aiding Foe  DELAYS VICTORY, SEC. KNOX ASSERTS  Men Vote To Strike Until Demands Met Or Navy Takes Over

ORDER CRAMP MEN TO JOBS   National’ Union’s Officers Tell Them Strike Aids Their Eriemies

WAKDE SEIZED BY U.S. FORCES   Reconquest Of All Dutch New Guinea Predicted Soon By MacArthur

‘ Found A Rose.. And A Man..   Vortex of Mechanized Warfore Crushes Countryside

TRAFFIC STILL TIED-UP TODAY IN ST, LOUIS   Draft Boards Send: Out New Status To Workers

[Strikers Voted. ° :: to Go: Back to Work   Street Car and Bus Operators  Expected. to Return Late i Today.

VOTE TO END LATEST STRIKE   Street Car and Bus Operators Make Plans to Return to Work.

Strikers Face 1-A Status in St. Louis Tieup   Kight Draft Boards Or. der Immediate Reclassification of Workers

Strikers Face  1-A Status in St. Louis Tieur   Eight Draft Boards Or ~ der Immediate Reclas wafieatinn af Warkere

STREET CAR AND BUS OPERATORS CALL OFF STRIKE   VOTE 630 TO 399 TO END TRANSPORTATION TIE-UP IN ST. LOUIS

Strikers Vote to Return to Work In St. Louis Tiewy   Street Cars, Busses Stalled, Residents itch-hike to Work

Striking Street Car and Bus Operators Vote to Return to Their Jobs

aT. LOUIS TIEUP HALTED BY. VOTE   Bus, Street Car Men Decide to End Strike.

LIQUOR PRICE LAW VIOLATIONS GROW   OPA SAYS OVERCHARGES ARE SPREADING — SENATOR WOULD JAIL OFFENDERS,

WACS Are Bomhed  From Ttaly Home   None of American Service women Injured During Nazi Attack —-

LARGER STATE POLICE FORCE IS REQUESTED   Legislative Council Asked Tp Consider Raising Number Of State Troopers To 359

JAPS IMPRISON U. S. MISSIONARIES IN PHILIPPINES ON SPY CHARGES   Ry RAY CRONIN

Japs Round Up All Religious Workers In '‘Philinnines Under Sensational Charaes

Japs Round Up — U.S. Missionaries   Charge Religious Workers With Sabotage, Propaganda Activity.

Deny Withdrawal Planned By Nazis  Berlin Raps Story Of Finnish Setup

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CITY HELD BY NAZIS SINCE OCT. 16. 1947   Number of Troops Removed to Safety by Hitler Unknown

HIV FALL ANNOUNCE BY BERLIN   Knormity of Defeat Admitted  DETAILS WAITED  Russians In Tartar Pass Vicinity

Dewey Bids For 119 Electorals.   To Stump Five States For Deciding Votes

DEWEY VIEWS COLUMBUS DAY. PARADE INN. Y   Bricker Campaigns. in Oregon; Truman in. New Orleans

Dewey Centers on Five States  ; Dnvce anaaee Meee   Reviews Parade in N. Y¥. Today

MURRAY PUSHES PAY JUMP ACTION   Says Steel Boost Possible Without Price Increase

Steelworkers Deliver Demand For- Action on Wage Requests   Outcome of OPA Study of Situation Are Made Public by Union President

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   SERMANS BREAK OFF ATTACK IN SERCHIO VALLEY

NAZIS. ATTACK RED ARMY. IN ROMANIA   DENT RUSSIAN “RINE WITH LARGE FORCES: OF TANKS AND: INFANTRY.°

Germans Dent  Russian Lines   Moscow Admits Nazi Push Near Iasi, Romania

OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY GERMANS AT IASi   Large Forces Of Tanks And Infantry Thrown Into Action:  Soviet Lines Dented

Nazi Forces Dent Lines Of Red Army   Six Weeks Lull in East Broken By Germans Who Lose Heavily to Make Unirmportant Gains

CONGRESS PLANS 70 WRING WATER" FROM NEW BUDGET   President's Proposa Is or Non-wer Spending To Get Attention

Budget Proposal Studied Closely   Legislators Seek to “Wring Out Water”

PLAN-TO-GOMB WAR BUDGET   Economy Advocates in Congress Promise to “Wring Water” Out of President’s Proposals for NouWar Expenditures.

Economists Will “Wring Water” From Proposals   War Financing To Be Scanned Carefully  For Unnecessary Items

BUDGET T0 GET CLOSE S(DIITINY   Solons To Fight Excess Spending By Government

Seek fo “Wring Water’ Out of FDR. Budaet   Amount Sought for Non-War Purposes Is Criticized

FDR’S BUDGET SCRUTINIZED BY CONGRESSMEN   Peszome: Advocates  Promise to “Wring  Water” Out of   } BRarh- Pranncal

‘Promise Cut In Non-War Expenditures   Economy Advocates tc “Wring the Water’ Out of Budget

Aim New Punches At Other Targets In the Marshalls   Secrecy Veils Latest Air and Sea Blows; Organized Resistance On Kwaiafein Ends

Secrecy Shrouds Targets of Fleet, Air Attacks of American Fighters

Conquest Of Kwajalein Finished; Look To Ching   Hope To Get Our Ground And Air Forces Into China As Early As Possible For Showdown Against Nippon.

Use Kwajalein as Base for New Assaults on Jap Forces   By CHARLES H. McMURTRY U.S. Pacific Fleet Headovarier

JAPANESE STOP ALL RESISTANCE ON KWAJALEIN   Airfields On Captured Roi And Kwajalein Being Swiftly Repaired As Ships And Planes Move To New Conquest; Talk Of A Showdown Against Japan.

Admiral Nimitz, At Scene Of Action, Says Victory Will Serve To Speed Up Tempo Of Pacific War; Jap Aerial Strength Far Below Peak

Bombards Japs Near Kwaialein   Navy Tums 1 to Atolls Around Key Base’ Taken From Japanese   NEW TARGETS NOT DISCLOSED   ‘Getting Our Ground Forces ‘Into China Soon as Possible,’ the Goal

Yank Warships Divert Offensive To Other Atolls   Kwajalein Conquest Paves Way For Bombing Of More Marshall Iles

Yanks Wind Up Japanese Isle Battle   Kwajalein Fight Is Over; Other Plans Made

OTHER ISLES IN MARSHALLS ARE BLASTED      Navy and Airmen Divert  Fire Power to New, as . Yet Unspecified Atolls, i Now That Kwajalein Is ' Opnanered.

Allies Aim At Other Jap Isles ©   Switch Planes and Ships from Kwajalein *As Resistance Ceases; New Targets Secret

Nimitz Hints at Drive on— Japan from Bases in China  i  To Get Ground and Air Forces in China  As Early as Possible for Showdown

Jap Resistance On Kwajalein Comes fo End  Strategists Hope _ Early Move Will Be from China Base

ENEMY OPPOSITION ON KWALAJEIN ATOLL BEEN WIPED OUT  ALLIED STRATEGISTS TALK OF GETTING FORCES

JAP RESISTANCE ON KWAJALEIN HAS ——- BEEN SNUFFED OUT   American Warship and Plane Fire Power Diverted: to Other Islands. -.   NEW DEVELOPMENTS   Allies Hopeful of Getting the Ground and Air Forces into China for Showdown. .

RESISTANCE SNUFFED OUT AT KWAJALEIN   Warships and Planes Diverting Fire Power From Nerve Center of the Marshalls   AIMING TOWARD CHINA

Conquest of Kwajalein Paves Way For Pounding Other Marshalls Islands

Yank Bombers And. Warships Hammer Atolls   Jap Resistance. Ceases On : Kwajalein, Center. OF : Marshalls; Other. Areas Blasted:

U.S. Forces Crush Foe on Kwajalein   Conquest Complete; Way Paved for Pounding of Other Marshall Islands

 Nimitz Goal to Get Ground Forces Into China as Quickly as*Possible—Necessary To Victorv

U.S. FORCES SPREAD ATTACK IN MARSHALLS   All Organized Jap Resistance Ended on Kwajalein—New Targels Keot Secret   NIMITZ SUMS UP   Admiral Speaks Hopefully of Transferring War Soon to Japan Proper from China

Marstate Fall -ToU.S. Hands   NO FURTHER - JAPANESE RESISTANCE FOUND > ON ATOLLS

New Attacks Occur Sunday and Monday; Nimitz Believes Japan Cannot Be Defeated From Sea Alone; Wants To Get Ground and Air Forces Into China Soon.

@ “BRAVERY’—GERMAN STYLE  1,200 Innocent Persons Slain by Nazis in One French Town

MASSACRE OF 1200 PERSONS STAGED IN FRENCH VILLAGE   EIGHT HUNDRED WOMEN ANI CHILDREN BUBNED TO DEATH IN CHURCH ‘BY GERMANS”

Reds Moving Up Reserves To Polish Central a ront; Airmen Mit Invasion Pa

TAFT ELECTION PROBE PLANNED   Senator Asks Hummel Save Ballots After Pickrel Plans Contest

Jap Stronghold Of Tenachung Falls fo Allies   Last Enemy Fortress Blocking Union of Forces “Tumbles

CHINESE TROOPS REGAIN KEY BASE   Tengchung’s Fall Will Speed Burma, China Union

TENGCHUNG, JAP HELD FORTRESS TAKEN BY U.S.   Garrison Without Food For Four Days, Japs Say

CHINESE OPEN SUPPLY ROUTE   Take Tengchung; Yanks Down 200 Nips Over Philippines

SPEEDY STATE SOLDIER VOTE ACTION IS SEEN   Martin to Speak As Legislature Opens Session Today

State Assembly. Meets Today On Soldier Votine   Speedy Enactment Is An. ficipated; Politics ‘Is Ruled Out

Extra Session Of Legislature Opens Today   Quick Enactment of Soldier Vote Bill Is Seen: Martin to Talk

HEART ATTACK FATAL T0194 PO. LEADER   Polled Greatest Popular Vote Ever Given Republican for President.

WELLES OUTLINES HIS VIEWS — ON GERMAN POSTWAR SETUI      FORMER HIGH STATE DEPART MENT OFFICIAL ADVOCATES PARTITION INTO ~ THREE STATES

PARTITION OF GERMANY URGED   Welles Says Plan Only Way To Kill Militarism

Troops Are Still Reeling From Bitter Attack   NAZIS FAN*OUT BEYOND BASTOGNE   Desperate Attempt Made To Stop “Last Great Offensive”

Patton Shifts Mien To North, Berlin Claims   Drive By Enemy Carries Within 20 Miles Of _ French Border, Half Way Across Belgium, And Nears Famed Sedan Invasion Gate

ENEMY VANGUARD IN ARDENNES MAY BE CUT OFF   American Blow Is Struck During Blackest Hour of Battle With Panzer Spearheads 20 Miles From France

+ THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER = GOVERNOR THEATRE        WATER NOTICE

IMPORTANT RUMANIAN RAIL JUNCTION APPEARS CERTAIN TO FALL TO REDS   Whirlwind Drive Into Balkan State Netting Thousands of Prisoners and Throws Germans Into Panic; Supply Lines  to Ploesti Oil Fields Likely to Be Cut Soon.

RUSSIAN ARMY ROLLS ACROSS RUMANIA PLAIN      Capture Of Vital Iasi Rail Junction Now Appears Tmminent

Key Def Base Ne   ASSAULT FORCES REPORTED FIGHTING WAY INTO CITY OF IASI THIS MORNING

REDS DRIVE ACROSS PLAINS OF RUMANIA ON 70-MILE FRONT   First Thrusts Over Prut River Engulf 50 Towns; 14 Nazi Divisions Caught In Pocket Being Annihilated

RED ARMY NEAR BIG VICTORY OVER DISORGANIZED ENEMY IN RUMANIA   Marshal Konev’s Second Army Now Reported Within Artillery Range Of Jassy.

Red Motorized Troops Widen Bridgehead Over Prat River; Cut Railroad

Reds 15 Miles Inside Rumania; Push Through Disorganized Resistance

Red Units Roll Across  Rumania   Copture of lasi Defense Base Seen Imminent As Russians Advance

Capture of Iasi, Rumanian Rail  Junction, Looms   Russians Approach First Big Prize in Enemy Terntory

NAZI DEFENSE BASE ALMOST WITHIN GRASP   Soviet Armies 12 Mile Over Border; Circle 192.000: Neor Odessa

FALL OF CITY IMMINENT. OTHER COLUMNS MOVE ON   Say Rumanian Officials Attempt to Prevent Nazis fram Blasting.

FORD REQUESTS STATE TROOPS   Dearborn Police Protec:  tion Inadequate,   Kelly Told

STATE POLICE GUARD ASKED AT FORD PLANT   Union Chief Raps Leaders Of Wildcat Strike At Rouge Factory

Gates At Ford Plant Blocked By CIO Grou   UAW Head Condemn: Move By ‘Outlaws’: Reason For Dispute Unknown, Conrpany Says

Ford in Request For State Police   Rouge Plant Production Curtailed 75 Per Cent by Picket Line.

TEMPERATURES:   Company Asks Kelly To Send State Police   Charges City Police Of Dearborn Refuse To Perform Duty

SENATOR BUTLER INSISTS HE WAS $5.5 PER CENT RIGHT IN REPGRT OF GOOD NEIGHBOR EXPENDITURES

U.S. Spending Total In Latin America Given   Butler Reiterates Earlier Assertion Of Extravagant  ce  eo   ITEMIZED STATEMENT

BUTLER SHOWS EXTRAVAGANCE   Asserts $5,733,953,543 Channeled To Latin America

CHARGES WASTE IN SO. AMERICA   BURLER REPEATS HIS ASSERTION OF EXTRAVAGANCE

ASSAILS.U, $. AND TO LATIN AMERICI   Senator Butler Places :/Financial ‘Assistance At ” Over Five Billions: -.

Butler Repeats Latin America Waste Charges   Senator Holds To His Figures On Extrayagance

US. Accused Anew of Rast Extravagance   Senator Butler Again Lambastes Our Lotin-America Policy

Butler Puts Latin Spending Over 5 Billion   Nebraskan Says Time Here to Stop Playing Role of Rich Uncle

Senator Offers Itemized Statement Showing §835.133.933.543 Spent to Refute Denial

Butler Offers Second Report OnBoondoggle   Attacks Administration’s Denial of Validity of Earlier Report

ItemizesSums U.S. Spends in Latin America   Senator Butler Returns to Attack With Data. From Official Sources

Repeats Charge Of ‘Waste’ In  Latin America   Butler Itemizes ‘Extravagant U. S. Spending’ Of Nearly 6 Billions.

CITES FIGURES IN SUPPORT OF WASTE CLAIMS   Answers ‘95 Per Cent Wrong’ Claim by Sen. McKellar

LATIN AMERICA SPENDING HIT   Senator Butler Reiterates Claims of ‘Extravagant’ Administration Funds

Red Army’s Full Scale Attack On E. Prussia Smashes To Frontier      Russians Clamp Blockade On Foe Trapped Against Baltic; Cut Belgrade-Athens Railway —

‘Russ Release Big Attack on  Prussia Border   Other Forces Storm Inte Outskirts of Memel, Close Tran

PRELIMINARIES. FOR DEMOGRATIC STATE CONVENTION OPENED  CLAIMS OF PRO-ROOSEVELTS AND ANTI-ROOSEVELT DELEGATIONS

BIG JAP BASE AT KAVIENG HIT BY AMERICANS   United States Soldiers and Marines Kill 7,000  _ Japs That Fought At Bataan.

New York Stocks   New York Cotton   U.S. Warships Again Hit Kavieng, Tokyo Says

Sixth Army Units Crack Resistance  On Mokmer Ridge   Reinforced U. S. Troops Mopping Up Pockets Controlling Plateau

50 Against 1,200  MP’s Captured Hun General--But It Took A Lot Of Doing

Noose on Warsaw  Closed   Russians Cut Railway Serving 20 Trapped German Divisions

Nazis Say Soviets  Already Over Prut   Another Great Army Swings For Black Sea in Attempt To Tran 100.000 Enemies

NAZIS FLEE TOWARD ODESSA AFTER THEY LOSE NIKOLAEV   Soviets Ready to Cross Prut River Into Rumania in Mighty Advance

THIRD OF EAST BANK   Official’ Report Of Smash Into Rumania Eagerly Awaited

WORD S AWAITED   Moscow Has Not Yet Confirmed German Statement. Ukraine Crumbling.

NAZIS’ GUDERIAN NAMED OVER ALL RUSSIAN FRONT.   Von Rundstedt’s Command Over West Front Is Confirmed

Tank Expert  Given Charge Of Red Front   Nazis Name’ Guderian as Commander-in-Chief of All East Armies

Guderian Takes Command Of Naz Forces In East  Von Rundstedt  Chief In West

Seek Conmromise In Freezing of Social Security  Un less Legislation Is Passed, Increase” wil

SEEK COMPROMISE ON PAY ROLL TAX   - *: BARKLEY SAYS THERE ARE PROSPECTS A NEW RATE WILL BE WORKED OUT.

CHIEF GIVES LIE TOFOE’S CLAIM OF SEA BATTLE   Two Small Craft Damaged by Aerial Bombs Now Leaving Zone

Units of Enemy Fleet Sighted in Formosa Area   Superforts Hit Island Airfield, Ships in Harbor

Enemy Ships Turn Away   Sighted by U. S. Forces In Week of Action

SENATOR BALL FOR ROOSEVELT   38-Year-Oid Minn. Republican Likes Dem. Foreign Policy

Americans Make New Landings On New Guinea: Madang Now Yuinerable

New American Landings On New Guinea Threaten Key Jap Base   Jap Base at Madang Now Squeezed Between Two Allied Forces.

British Troops Battle in Venray Near Dutch Border   Flying Fortresses Hit Cologne Heavily in Attack on Supplies

IST ARMY PROBED UORTH OF AACHEN   Nazis Roll up Heavy Concen®@ tration of Tanks, Guns   BRITISH SECOND   @ights to Center of Dutch Town of Venray, 8 Miles From German Frontier

Deal Repeated Bomb Smashes At Advancing German Army; Yank Infantry Stiffens Front Against Enemy

Reveal Enemy Columns Only 29 Miles From Sedan Thursday Noon.   YANK TANKS SPLIT FOE

Some American Battalions ‘'Wiped Out To Last Man In Fighting Which Also Takes ‘Terrifie Toll Of Nazi Foe

Deals Effective Blows To Halt  German Surge   Weather Gives Allies a Break at Last; Germans Only 29 Miles from Sedan After 40-Mile Breakthrough 

Hundreds Of U. S. Bombers Strike Effective Blows   German Offensive Has Reached  Within 29 Miles Of Sedan

Break in Weather Brings Allied Ai        Air Forces Into Action FAR INTO BELGIUM Enemy Tanks and Vehicles  Targets of Fierce Air Boe DV.

Allied Planes Lashing Out. Against Enemy As Weather Improves Along West Front   Effective Blows Delivered Aqainst Von Rundstedt's Forces, Surging With 29 Miles of Historic Sedan

Germans Within 29 Mi. Of Sedan; Enter Belgian Road Hub Of Bastogne.

Patton’s Third Army Wheels Northward , And Beats Against Flanks of Nazis  In Luxembourg, Slowing Von Rundstedt

Boche Offensive  Closes on Sedan   Teffific Tank Battle Rages Near St. Vith as Planes Mounted at Crucial Moment: Wedve Senarated

Nazis Reported 79 Miles From Historic Sedan   U.S. Tank Force Holds Out Three Days At St. Vith

ALLIED AIR FORCE HITS FOE’S ARMO:   German Offensive Drives Within 29 Miles Of Sedan

Events of Past 48 Hours Still Were Cloaked in the Security News Ban; Plunge to St. Hubert Marked Deepest Penetration. :

Bombers Deal Smashing Blows To German Thrust; Nazis Approaching Sedan

BREAK IN WEATHER  PUTS NAZI ARMORED  MIGHT IN BAD SPOT REPEATED BOMB SMASH  ES DEALT AGAINST POW ERFIL CERMAN DRIVE

UL S. PLANES DEAL BLOWS TO. OFFENSIVE   Preliminary Reports Indicate Bombers Effective Against Nazis

ENEMY 29 MILES FROM SEDAN   Break In Weather Permits Planes To  Return To Action; Cut Luxembourg

Break in Weather Brings Allied Air Forces Into Action   FAR INTO BELGIUM   Enemy Tanks and Vehicles Targets of Fierce Air Attacks

Germans Push 29 Miles  From Sedan >   Break in Weather Gives Hundreds of Bombers And Fighters Chance to Pound at Foe In Belgium; Effective Air Blows Delivered

SMASH AT NAZI TROOPS MOVING TOWARD SEDAN   Von Rundstedt’s Columns 29 Miles From Historic City

Weather Permits Bombers And Fighters to Hammer At Nazi Armored Columns

Nazis’ Offensive Reaches Within 29 Miles Of Sedan, Seizes Belaian Road Hub

Weather Break Enables Use Of Bombers   Ettective Blows Are Delivered Onrushing Huns

Roosevelt Reported Ready To Activate Some Of Baruch Plans   Master Blueprint For Swinging America’s “Arsenal Of Democracy” Back Into Peacetime Production Announced.

Baruch Plan May Get Early Action   Economic Victory Goal of Report

POSTWAR PLAN GETS APPROVAL   Baruch, Hancock Draw Up Program Aimed to Avoid Economic Chaos.

FDR Expected To Act Soon on Barueh Plan .   Sweeping Blueprint Devised for Returin to Peacelime Ouinut

PRODUCTION ON NORMAL SCALE 1S NOW HINTED   Roosevelt May Issue Order Immediately

Post-War Plan Given By Baruch   Blueprint For Swinging   Nation Into Peacetime Production Is Placed Before Government

May Start On Baruch’s Boom Program Soon   New Industrial Era Envisioned In Changeover Toa Peacetime Rasis.

ER. to Act Soon On Baruch Plan   President May Order Into Effect at Once Many Features for Converting ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ to Peace Need:

New Industrial Era Envisioned; Calls for Private Enterprise to Assume Gigantic Job

FDR Moves To Implement: Baruch Post-War Plan   Blueprint For Transition Of U. S. Industry To. Peace-Time Basis Given; Provides For Strict Demobilization Control

Blueprint for PostWar Prosperity is Outlined by Baruch   President Reported on Verge of Putting Part of Plan at Work

RECONVERSION CF INDUSTRY MAY Bt STARTED SHORTLY   Roosevelt Gets 10,000 Word Report on Baruch Plans With 10 Major Recommendations.   SOME LEGISLATION WILL BE NECESSAR’   “Adventure In Prosperity” To Be Sought at End of War to Avoid Chaos During Readjustment.

Begins New Era For U.S.   Constitutes Strategy For Economic Victory

BARUCH BARES PLAN TOBALK PEACE CHAOS   Lists Recommendations For Swinging U.S. Back Into Post-War Production

Master Blueprint For Postwar Era Into Effect Soon?   Roosevelt Reported Ready to Launch Baruch’s Economic Victory Proaram

Baruch Postwar Plan to Get Off To Early Start   President Ready To Order Part of Program in Effect

RUMOR PRESIDENT MAY PUT BARUCH PLAN INTO EFFEC   Program Visualizes New In dustrial Era for PeacetHima Amarirn

Roosevelt Reported Ready To Invoke Some Of Baruch  Recommendations At Once

F.D.R. Reported Ready te Activate Some Issues  Of Baruch Post-War Plan

BARUCH MAPS MASTER GUIDE TO PROSPERIT\      Reconversion Plan Seeks to Give All Employment, Congress Con: troversy to Be Expect: ed   ROOSEVELT

BARUCHS MASTER PLAN FOR AMERICAN POSTWAR ACTIVITY  PRESIDENT REPORTED READY TO PUT PARTS PLAN INTO EFFECT

Roosevelt Reported Ready To Activate Baruch Plans   Blueprint for Converting Economy from War to Peace Drafted by Baruch, Henderson, Urges ‘Adventure in Prosperity’      INSISTS ON NO LET-UP ON WAR   Would Take Government Out of Business, Draft Peacetime Taxes Now to Permit Industry to Prepare Own Plans

‘For Victory On Postwar Homefront’   FDR Reported Ready To Act on Some Phases of Baruch Economic Reconversion Program

PRESIDENT REPORTED READY TO ORDER INTO EFFECT SOME OF RECOMMENDED POST-WAR PLANS   Baruch Report Said to Provide Master Blueprint for Swinging America’s “Arsenal of Democracy” Back Into Peacetimie Production in Short Order

FDR Moves to Prevent Chaos at War's End   Baruch-Hancock Plan for Reconversion {s Given to the Public

Blueprint For Swinging Back Into Peacetime  President Preparing To Activate Baruch Report

oO NR PE AAAS £ RSLRL ED  Baruch, ‘Hancock Draw U; - Master Blueprint For Postwar Production —        Roosevelt: ‘Reported ed ady. "To der  Into: Effec - Some Recommendations To" Swing ‘Arsenal 0 Democracy’ Into Peacetime. Efforts 

FD. R. MAY ORDER PRODUCTION FOR PEACE VICTORY AT HOME   MASTER BLUEPRINT SIGNALS NEW ERA FOR GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS, WORKERS AFTER WAR

Yankee Glider Forces Land On German Headquarters, Enjey Nazi-Prepared Meal

Glider Crashes (On Roof, Yanks ‘Canture Nazis   Find They Came Down Right On Nazi Field Quarters In Lucky Mishap

GLIDER CREW HAS SURPRISE   Landing Made on Yop of Nazi Headiquirrters Building — German Gar ‘yson Surrenders,

Invasion Troops Land Glider on Top Nazi Headaquarters--Capture Enemy

Merchant Seamen Shortage Threat To War Sailings   McNutt, Land  Seek Recruits

«MOVE PLANNE AS SAFEGUARD TO WAR EFFORT   Non-Fathers Under 26 May Be Included In Some Instances   EXPECT HOUSE ACTION

NEY WORKERS 10 GET DEFERMENT: DADS 10 Gurren   FDR Expected to Act to Safeguard Vit:l Production in Factories.

DRAFT T0 CALL MORE FATHERS   Key Workers Must be Deferred  seein sane  Roosevelt Mav Take

Allies Open Drive on Nazi Defense Line   Fifth Army Attempts to Crack German Trans - Peninsula Defanse Rilwark

ALLIED ALL OUT AGAINST NAZI CENTEF   1,400 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Italian Town Which Germans Have Tanaciously Held

Huge Air Raid, Ground Forces, Hit Stronghold   Allies Make Bid To Join Beachhead As Reds Threaten Port of Odessa

ALLIED FIFTH ARMY HAS OPENED ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE IN ITALY  CASSINO ABANDONED BY

SHATTERING AIR ATTACK LEADS ALL-OUT DRIVE TO GUST NAZIS FROM THEIR DUG-IN POSITIONS   1,400 Tons of Bombs and Curtains of Artillery . Fire Directed Against Germans in Supreme Effort to Affect Junction with Anzio Beachheac

Japs Make Plans To Arm Civilians  Against Invasion Allies Make Further  Gains in Pacific  Theater Battles

Richardson's Army  Command of  Pacific Extended Stretch Westward  To Jap Mainland,  Ravand Save Pannrt

New Order Reflects Nips Fear of Island's Invasion   Army Authorities Disclose “Breakdown’ of Marauders

a * s Decree Indicates Fear Of Imminent Invasion Of Homeland   Imperial Soldiers Fleeing Outpost:   Thousands Trapped  New Guinea, Guam And China

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WAR LOAN GOAL SET AT $832.30   Total Is Lowered ” ‘From Previous Drives Held in County

Martin’sAim Is Votes for Servicemen   WIRES PRESIDENT HE DESIRES PENNSYLVANIA TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TOWARDS THAT END.   Fxtra Session Needed

IS PLANNED ON SERVICE VOTE   Martin Assures FDR Necessary Steps To Be Taken

Pearl Harbor  Facts Sought  F. R. Suggests That Data Be Given Solons

FDR Expects ~ Much Talk on Pearl Harbor   Says Anybody Whe Has Information Should Give tT to Investigators

Roosevelt Urges All Having Faets About Pearl Harbor To Offer Them To Persons Investigating Jap Raid

by President. Rooseevit Announcement Made end garding Pearl Harbor. *

Pearl Harbor Agitation Hit By Presiden   Says Anybody With Undis closed Information About Attack Had Bet jer Tell Commitiee

Superforts Start Fires in Tokyo in New Night Strike   Rv FRED SCHERFF

B-29s Start New Fires in Jap Capital   Shower of Incendiarie  Drepped; Enemy Says  Three Hit

Indict Society  Woman as Slayer   California Farm Youth  Found Shot to Death

Churchill Sips Water To Please Lady Astor; Tells Red To ‘Shut Up’

At Least 6,000 Allied Planes Blast GermanHeld France   23 ALLIED PLANES REPORTED DOWNED   Time Robot Bombs Sent Over Southern England by Germans

SUBMARINES SINK 18 MORE JAP VESSELS   Yank Ships, Planes Continue to Hunt  Battered Craft

Atleast 2,594 planes  ruined in 2 months   Yanks lose about 300 craft in same period; Leyte invasion progressing

TOKYO'S AERIAL POWER CLIPPED   U.S. Carrier Planes Wipe Out 2,594 Jap Aircraft In Two Months

American Carrier Planes Destroy 1,594 Jap Aircraft in Two Months

U. S. Carrier Planes Blast Jap Air Force   Enemy Loses 2,594 Aircraft in Two-Month Period

STAGGERING JAP AIR LOSSES BARED   ENEMY PLANES NUMBERING 2,504 DESTROYED BY YANKS IN TWO MONTHS.

SUBS SINK 18 MORE VESSELS OF JAPANESE   High Naval Officer Avers  ~ Navy is “Dead Bird”: 974 Enemy Ships Accounted for.   Six U.S. Ships

JAPANESE AIRCRAFT HIT SEVERE BLOWS      Total of © 2,594 Planes Wiped Out-in Two Months

Alabama Ships I ight E nemy In Atlantic ia Pacific   Led By Giant Battleship, Alabama. Cruisers Mobile. Birmingham And Tuscaloosa, Play Prominent Role In Maintaining Best Tradition Of The Navy

BLACKOUTS DROPPED EXCEPT FOR COASTS   Pennsylvania Among States Not Affected By Ruling

HUGE ASSAULT LAUNCHED ON NAZIS AT DAWN   Allies Have Taken 54,000 German Prisoners Since D-Day

U. 8. Troops Have Path Blastec Out by Heavy Guns; Germans Fight Back Desperately

Yanks Blast ‘St. Lo Lines In New Push   Thunderous Shell Barrage Launches Stunning Assault

NEW THRUSTS SPREAD OVER FORTY MILES   First Armp Jumps Off As Artillery Lays Pulverizing Barrage

One Unit Now Two Miles From St. Lo   Pulverizing Artillery Barrage Paves Way For Doughboys’ Advance; Four Other Towns Fall; All of Peninsula Threatened

St. Lo is Goal Of New Drive   Yanks Launch All Out Offensive At Dawn Today.

KEY ROAD HUB IN NEW DRIVE   Fall of City Would . Force Nazi Withdrawal From Last-of Peninsula

Force Nearer To Saint Lo   British-Canadian Forces Advance Mile East of Caen; SS Troops in Battle

SUDDEN ATTACK HURLED AGAINST MAIN DEFENSES   Pulverizing Barrage Blasts Path for Doughboys—Mud Slows British Drive

SMASH ENEM\ ALONG FRONT OF 40 MILES   iH tish-Canadian Forces Also Push Ahead   ST, LO ENDANGERED   Bastion’s Fall Would Force German Withdrawal From Cherbourg Peninsula

YANK THRUST MOVES NEARER JUNCTION CITY   British-Canadian Unit Strikes Mile Ahead On Orne River

British Campaign Bogs Down ir Face of Fierce Enemy Resistance Around Caen,

U.S. Troops Begin A New Offensive   Orne River Is Crossed by British and Stretch on West Bank Held   NAZIS RESIST HOTLY   Combined Drives Seem to Be Forcing Germans From Peninsula

New Offensive Opened by U.S. Army in France   Americans Drive Through German Lines in Normandy

Allies Advance on Ends of Cherbourg Front; Hard Fights   Seek to Force German Withdrawal from Norman Peninsula

Within Two Miles From Junction   Rip Through Nazi Defenses In 2 Sectors To the West

Sweep Within 2 Miles Of St. Lo In Great Smash   City’s Fall Would Force Nazis To Quit Peninsula; Artillery fs Heavy

NEW OFFENSIVE THREATENS FOE HOLD ON ST. LC   Yank Columns Seize Fow Towns—Now Two Miles From Objective

Rip Through Defenses In Two Sectors   British - Canadian Forces Burst Ahead Mile Across Olena Bican   CAPTURE FOUR TOWNS

Drive Within Two Miles Of Key Bastion   British-Canadian Forces : Strike East of Caen at Stubborn Foe

Towns Captured West OfSt. Jean, Near Sainteny   Successes Are Credited To Canadians Near Caen, » British In Orne Area

YANKS PUSHING TOWARD ST. LO IN NEW DRIVE   Rip Through Nazi Defenses In Two Other Sectors Farther West

Fall Of City Would Force Germans From Cherbourg Peninsula   Attack Opens After Hundreds Of Field Guns Bellow In Pulverizing Barrage, Doughboys Advance Elsewhere

Americans Only Two Miles from St. Lo; British Advance Slowly from Cap tured Caen.   MIGHTY ARTILLERY BARRAGES IN USE

Powerful Blow, With Massive Artillery Support, Is Aimed at Nazis’ Central Defense Bastion in Normandy, but Fighting Is in Progress All the Way to the Sea—Bradley’s Men Drive to Within 2 Miles of St. Lo as British Advance Near Caen.

BRADLEY'S MEN PUSH WITHIN 2 MILES OF ST. LO   MONTGOMERY SAYS 54,000 PRISONERS TAKEN SINCE D-DAY

Yanks Slug to Within 2 Miles Of St. Lo Under Heavy Barrage   Gain 2-3 Miles; Four Normandy Towns Fall in Few Hours

Move Ahead In Big New  Offensive   Rip Through German Defenses in Two Sectors; British Gain

Barrage Numbs Nazis   Rip Through German Defenses in Two Sectors Along 40-mile Front in Normandy

Yank Troops Only 2 Miles From St. Lo   Fall Of City Would Force Foe To Give Up Remaining Part Of Peninsula

FURIOUS OFFENSIVE SPREADING   Pulverizing Ms Artillery Barrage Precedes New Assaults

Americans Slug Forward Within Two Miles St. Lo  British-Americans Gain Mile Across Orne River, Occupy West Bank East af Caen—Vanke Seize Four Towns

U.S. Troops Drive Forward 2 Miles From St. Lo; British Hammer Across Orne River

[AMERICANS MAKE GAINS OVER AQ-MILE FRONT AS BRITISH ‘AND CANADIANS ALSO MOVE UP   Ripping Through Nazi Defenses in Two Sectors Americans Are Within Two Miles of St. Lo, Junction-Bastion of Ceatral Normandy. May Force German Withdesaval Sro-; Cherboure Peninsula

Doughhoys  ‘Slash Way  Forward. In 3 Sectors   Americans: Drive Within 4 1 Miles of St. Lo, Nazi « Base:.in Center   BRITISH.CANADIAN "= BORCES:- PROGRESS   Heavy: Resistance Along Entire Line; ‘Great’ Barrage ~.. From. U.S, Field: Guns

Latest Hard Fight Rages Two Miles  From St. Lo   Flaming 40- Mile Front Reaches New Fury

U. S. Forces Launch Drive Toward St. Lo   Movement Aimed at Forcing Germans From Cherbourg Peninsula

Rip Through Nazi Lines on 40-Mile Front   Crushing Artillery Fire Precedes the American Attack

Gain Recorded In Normandy Near St. Lo   Hub City Doomed; 54,000 Germans Taken Since D-Day

U. S, WITHIN TWO MILES OF ST, LO IN NEW ATTACK   Americans Penetrate German Defense Line on Wide Battlefront

« Smash To Within 2 Miles Of St. Lo—  Yanks Open Power Drive   .Rritish-Canadian Fighters Gain Mile, Caen Aree

YANKS SLUG WAY TO WITHIN TWO MILES OF ST, LO   Rip Through Nazi Defenses in 2 Other Sectors Farther West

U.S. Drive Spreading Over. Forty Mile Front   Luzerne Outskirts Reached In Attack

—INV ASION—   U.S. Troops And Tanks Less Than 2 Miles  From Road Hub   Furious New American Offensive Spreads Attack Over 40-Mile Front And Threatens Germans’ Central Fortress In Normandy

PUSH AKERD IN NEW OFFENSIVE   City Is Junction and Enemy Stronghold of Central Normandy.   HARD FIGHT NEAR CAEN

Americans Advance Under Heavy Artillery Barrage; English Forces Make Gain

Americans Rip Nazi Defenses  ~ On Wide Front   Yanks Burst Forward in New Offensive to Point Two Miles of St. Lo.    British Strike Ahead  _ Across Orne River

Americans Slug To Within Two Miles of St. Lo   British Push Mile East of Caen and Occupy Orne’s Bank

RECORD OUTPUT OF FOOD ASKED   Roosevelt Proposal Eliminates Major Crop Benctit Payments

>  SHOWERS IN EAST   Forecast Along With Cooler Weather for Tonight

Allies Land Behind Japs in Burma;  Truk Open to Land-Based Air Attack

Convoy Escore Beats Off Submarine And Glider Bomb Attack Off Azores

Nazi Convoy  Raid Fails   Allied Ships Beat Off U-Boats and Planes Using Glider Bombs

Leyte Assault  Quick Decision Army Corps Was On Way To Yap Island

BITTER FIGHT FOR GOVERNOR   BATTLE FOR NOMINATION. FoR GOVERNOR IN OHIO TAKES . MUD-SLINGING TURN AT... ‘LINCOLN DAY DINNER

Battle for Aachen Like Jungle Warfare; Snipers Hide in Houses Instead of Trees

“Better Days Are In Sight,’ Says Bricker   ‘Republican Minority In Congress Has Saved Taxpayers Millions In Unnecessary Expenditures

BRICKER CITES GOP ECONOMY   Dewey Praises Start Made On Security Plan

BETTER DAYS. ARE IN SIGHT, BRICKER SAYS IN SPOKANE   Claims GOP Minority in Con  gress Has Broken Back of New Deal’s Program

Better Days Are in Sight, Says Bricker   ee How GOp In Congress Has Saved Tax Money.

Bricker Sees ‘Better Days’ For Country   Declares GOP: Minority’s Fight ‘Broke Back’ of New Deal’s Spending

Bricker Recounts Achievements Of GOP Minority  Candidate Describes Group’s Success In Stopping Waste

German Escape Gap Is Cut   Celles Pocket Is Wiped Out; Other Spearheads Fight Death Struggle; 12 Towns Taken

LAUD-STATEVILLE HEAD, PERSONNEL   ALERTNESS FOILED BREAK, SAYS GREEN; PLANS PRISON PROBE

Stateville Prison — Officials Praised; Inquiry is Planned   Warden Joseph Ragen, Guards Commended for Their Precautions

CONGRESSWOMAN IS IMPRESSED IN ITALY   ‘ Wish Every American Could See What I’ve Seen’

GERMANS DEFY HITLER AUTHORIT'   THOUSANDS STAY IN RHINELAND HOMES AFTER BEING TOLD TO LEAVE,

Spanish Chief's Troubles Multiply  Franco May Face Growing Opposition

ASKS STATEMENT (F WAR GOALS   GILLETTE SAYS ALLIED BOND DISINTEGRATING

BYRNES’ PLANS 70 HELP FARM PRICES BACKED   Other Proposals For Reconversion Not  Well Received

Publishing Names of All 4.Fs Proposed   Would Place Star After Names of Those Working in War Plants; New Taxes Effective Tomorrow

Annual JuniorSenior Banquet  At High School —  Chief Social Event Of Year For These Student Grouns 

Annual JuniorSenior Banquet  At High School  Chief Social Event Of Year For These  Qtedant Cenunmo 

IS HEARD BY HIGH COURT   Rival Slates Of Texa: Democrats Swap Accusations

British Also Mowing Ahead In the Mérthern Flank of the Former Anzio Beachhead.

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES (2 MILES IN 24 HOURS   NOW ONLY 2’ MILES FROM VALMONTONE—ON VIA CASILINA—LAST ESCAPE ROUTE FOR GERMANS SHORT OF ROME.

NELSON IS GIVEN GUIDING ROLE IN CHANGE TO PEACE   WPB Chief Expected to Name Committee Soon to Govern Reconversion of  ~ Industry.   GROUP MAY DECIDE UNSETILED QUESTIONS   Actual Choices of Plants to Be Canceled Out of War Program Is Left to Agency.

WPB Expected to Set Up Committee  Unit Will Plan for Reconversion

HULL FIGHTS FOR POLICIES   Meets Challenge of Critics With Campaign to Defend His Work

HEAVY DAMAGE 15 CAUSED BY FLOODS   Said to Be Most Severe in  Oraha Area Since 1019

M’Arthur Promises Big Drive To Reconquer Philippines   General Ignores Politics in Pledging Filipino People to Return and Free Them—Speaks to Parliament Dinner Party

General Declares in Address at Australian Parliament Dinner Party That Greatest Offensive of Pacific Wilt Be Launched at Appropriate Time—Expresses Belief It Will - Be Decisive and Isolate Enemy From Conquests.

Favors Single Authority for the Missouri   Montana Senator Asks Unified Control of All River Projects

Offers Missouri Valley Authority As River Contro   ~ Montana Senator Proposes Commission Patterned After TVA

MURRAY PROPOSES A MISSOURI VALLEY AUTHORITY   Would Give Three-Man Commission Control Over Power, Navigation and Flood Control Projects Along the Huve River System

CARGO VESSELS  TO OPEN LOCKS   Ice-Breakers To Convoy Freighters Down From Superior

Grand Jurors — Are Drawn for Present Year   Petit Jurors Also Drawn fo Next Term of District: Court

German People Warned Peril Mounts, Nazi Lines Smashed   Gen. Dittmar, Leading Commentator Of Reich, Admits Situation Desperate

HOUSE VOTES MONEY FOR GRAND JURY   45 Bills Already Introduced by Legislators

Postwar Problems  Will Be Discussed  ‘Dr. Lloyd Réeves. To ‘Address Fc orum

Postwar Problems Will Be Discussed  Dr. Lloyd Heeves To Address Forum

BOND SALES ARE + OVER TZ MILLION   Fourth War Loan Over Goa 53 Per Cent According to Final Figures.

$44,500,000 Spent On Two Coast Airfields, $215,000,000 in State   Expenditures for Construction of Keesler Field $24,000,000; Gulfport Field $20,500,000, Mobile Engineers’  Office Announces

SEIZE RAIL HUB AT PETROVGRAD   New Advance Carries Reds to Within 3.8 Miles of Belgrade

SOVIET FORCES ARE 38 MILES FROM BELGRADE   Lunge Beyond Danube To Sever One Escape Route For Nazi Hordes

RED ARMIES. DANE NEAR RAIL ROUTE   ‘ADVANCE: ON BELOBADE ‘AND  ) RAILROAD LINKING HON:   GARY WITH YUGOSLAVIA  MOVING RAPIDLY

HARD-DRIVING SOVIETS TAKE PETROVGRAD   38 Miles From Belgrade; One Nazi Escape Route Cut

SAYS STRIKE CAN END IF WLB CO-OPERATES   MESA Officials Ignore Sub' poenas From Washington

25,000 ENTER FOURTH DAY OF MESA WALKOUT   Union Executive Board Issues Call for Strategy Meeting

Heavy Offensive To Capture Metz Is In Full Swing   Gen. Patton Throws Ir 3 More Division In . Big Attack

Patton’s Infantry Jabs Into Nazi Line at Four Places   ATTACK IN METZ AREA   1,300 Heavy Bombers Carpet Enemy Positions With Explosives

PATTON BACKS DAWE WITH 9 NEW DIVISIONS   German Radio Says Attack   Prelude to Big Third  Army Offensive.

Bombers Aid Patton's Drive   1300 Heavy U.S. Planes Blast Germans Front Line Positions; Nazis Yield in Four Places on Snowy 50-Mile Sector

Six Yankee Divisions in  New Smash   Germans Call Move Prelude to Big Drive; Rombers Aid Assault

1,300 PLANES IN SUPPORT OF DRIVE   German Defenses Yield In Vicinity Of Metz   ATTACK CALLED   Prelude To Big Offensive; Antwerp Is Cleared By Montgomery’s Men

ATTAGKS ALONG AQ MILE FRONT   1,300 Heavy Bombers Lay Explosives on Enemy. Tj. Lines at Metz. #.0/   MOVING TOWARD RHINE

U. S. Planes Aid Drive In Aerial Attael   Throw In Three More Amer. ican Divisions In Move Toward Rhine.   SNOW BLANKETS AREA

vo 50-Mile Front Assault Opens Behind Heavy Bomber Support; Enemy Is Yielding

THIRD ARMY ATTACK IN METZ SECTOR WAS DOUBLED THURSDAY  THREE MORE AMERI.   THREE MORE AMERICAN DIVISIONS MOVE OUT TOWARD RHINE

THIRD ARMY ATTACK IN METZ SECTOR WAS DOUBLED THURSDAY   THREE MORE AMERICAN DIVISIONS MOVE OUT TOWARD RHINE

1,300 BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN FRONT POSITION   Patton’s 3rd Army Attacks Along 54 Mile Snowy Line

Supported — hy Heavy Air Raids      /1,300. Bombers Blast the  Metz Area Ahead of Troops on Snowy Line.   3 MORE DIVISIONS GO INTO BATTLE      Prelude to the Big Otfensive, Germans Say; First Army Moves Up

Aerial Units  Help in Europe Fight   Infantry Jabs at Four Places in German Line, Which Sags Under Pressure; 1,300 Heavy Bombers Co-Operate in Strong Attack

Jabbing Into Enemy Lines   Doubles Forces in Move Toward Rhine; First Army Regaining Ground

Third Army Pierces’ Line Along a Snowy 50-Mile Front, Being Aided With Air Foree.   BOMBERS LAY VAST SCREEN OF SHELLS

Heavy U.S Bombers Hit Hard   SNOW IS FALLING ALONG SO0-MILE BATTLEFRONT

RIP NAZI LINE IN FOUR SPOTS ON WIDE FRONT   1,300 U. S. Heavy Bombers Support Push ke Metz Area

The Big Push   Strikes From Below Lux embourg Border to the Rhine-Marne Canal

Patton Opens What May Be The Big Push   Strikes From Below Laxembourg Border to the Rhine-Marne Canal

Patton's Men Supported By Aerial Attack   3 More Divisions Hurled into Drive Aimed at Rhine

Gen. Patton’s Yanks Launch 4-Way Attack   Germans Yield Along Snowy 50-Mile Moselle Front In Offensive Supported By Heavy Bombers; Six Divisions In Action

Three More Divisions Thrown Into Push Toward The Rhine   Air Force Helps  Land Offensive   Planes Lay Carpet Of Explosives On Foe Front Positions

GERMAN LINE YIELDS AT FOUR PLACES ON 50-MILE FRONT IN WHAT MAY BE NEW OFFENSIVE

Patton Doubles Attack   Germans Claim Americans Making Preparations for New Offensive

Patton Third Army Helped by Bombers, Moves Toward Metz   Doubled Force Rips Into Nazi Defenses; Pilots Pinpoint Area

THIRD ARMY SMASHES INTO VIFLDING NAZI LINE AT FOUR PLACES ON FIFTY-MILE FRONT   Fortresses and Liberators Synchronize Attacks With Hundreds of Dive-Bombers Attacking Positions in Metz Area   MAY BE PRELUDE TO GIGANTIC OFFENSIVE

3 More Divisions Thrown Into Push Toward Rhine   Ist Army Slowly Regaining Ground Lost to German Counterattacks

PATON EXTENDS ATTACK TO BOTH SIDES OF METZ   CALLED PRELUDE TO BIG OFFENSIVE BY NAZ COMMENTATORS

‘Gumbinnen, East Prussian Center,  Attacked By Reds   German Army Admits Evacuation of All Civilians In City

Transport Hub Evacuated  Of Civilians   Germans Fight Hard To Retain Hold  On Gumbinnen

NAZIS EVACUATE CIVILIANS FROM PRUSSIAN CIT}   Soviets Push Drive Into Hungary.

Beightler Asks Respite for 37th   Ohioans Deserve Rest, Leader Savs

SEIZE PORKHOV, RAL CENTER, IN RAPID PUSH   Nazi Losses In Beachhead Battle oe At

Twenty-Three Hur’ In Derailment Of Train Near Falls  Soldiers Are Victims Of Accident at Swift This Morning

Papandreou  Resignation  Is Rejected   Churchill Pledges Allied Intervention To Restore Order

NEW VIOLENCE FLARES UP IN ATHENSTODAY   Churchill Says Law and Order Must Be Restored

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Insurance Is Business in Interstate Commerce, Hence Antitrust Laws Applicable

UNDERGROUND 1S WELL ORGANIZED   Polish Patriots Are Ready For Action, Exiled Premier Says

Poles Are Ready To Take Reins   Underground Headed By Deputy Premier

SAYS UNDERGROUND GOV'T OPERATING      Premier of Poland Says ’ Body Answerable to “'"" “Eyited Cabinet

Polish Preiiier.... Says Government. __ Fully Organized   Regards Soviet Advance As Means of Nearing Nation's Liberation

Poles Organize To Fight Nazis   Underground Group Reported in Action

Harvests Hard Hit by Drought      West Virgiaia Condition: Worst S » FORA

Pho COMPROMISE VERSION OF BIL!   Senate Passes G. I. Mea sure and Sends It to House Today.

Senate Passes Compromise G. I. Bill   HOSPITAL, LOAN AID INCLUDED IN BENEFITS OF $6 BILLION PROGRAM

Red Cross Drive Is Now Past Halfway Mark  No Outlying District Are Heard From  aw OO ES. PP pccember

Red Cross Drive Is Now Past Halfway Mark  No Outlying District Are Heard From Yet in This County

SIMPLER TAX LAW MOVE IS STARTED   CONGRESSIONAL ACTION UNLIKELY, HOWEVER, TO GIVE RELIEF THIS YEAR.

Solons Seek Tax Simplification  Drive Opens in Both Sides of Congress

Drive To Assist Taxpayers Opens   Simplified Plan Goal of Leaders

Planes, PT Boats Disperse Enemy Attack   Three Destroyers Sunk; Others Ships Damaged

Enemy Destroyers Sunk, Battleship, Cruiser Hit When Japs Shell Mindore

INSURANCE RULED UNDER TRUST LAW   75-Year Old Decision Re. versed by the Supreme Court

Court Upsets 79-Year Rule  On Insurance           sree —— Strong ’ Often

TRADE UNDER SHERMAN AC)   75-Year-Old Decision Reversed By Trimal

Nazi Troopship Is Torpedoed   British Twice Hit 14.000-Ton Ex-Liner

CORN RETURNED TO RATION LIST   Action Taken to Preserve Retailers’ Stocks

Canned Corn Put On Ration List   OPA Frees Grape Jam, Tomato Marmalade

Canned Corn  Back On List   Grape Jam. Tomato Preserves, Tomato Marmalades Are Ration-Free.

Patton Arrives In Great Britain   Joins Eisenhower invasion Forces

GEN'L PATTON IS IN BRITAIN IT IS REVEALED   Tough Tank Specialist Goes on Duty in Euronean Theater   OUT OF PUBLIC EYE SINCE LAST FALL   Disclosure of Presence in England Permitted by Censors

Patton Confers With Eisenhour On Invasion Pos   Tough Tank Specialist To Be One of Chief Lieutenants for Invasion.

Pattonand Eisenhower _ Re-united   Tough Tank Specialist Arrives in’ England _ To Take Place on — Invasion Stuff

Soldiers in Red Cross Car Escape   assenger Train Deriler and Crashes Into Side. tracked Freight

‘47 Persons Killed When Train Carrying Battle Casualties Leaps Rails

IN GEORGIA TRAIN WRECK   Car Bearing Wounded Soldiers Is Derailed

PARIS DRIVE LOOMS   47 DIE, 32 INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK AT VALDOSTA, GEORGI

Atlantic Coast Line Train Jumps Tracks In Isolated: Section Of South Georgia

32 INJURED IN GEORGIA; ALL 6 CARS DERAILED   ‘Hospital Car Leaves Tracks; Men Escape Added Hurts

Accident Caused By Broken Rail, Official States   Wounded Troops On Special Car Unhurt In Southern Mishap

At Least 47 Persons Killed In Train Wreck   Mishap Caused By Broken Rail; Number Injured

Atlantic Coast Line Train’ Jumps Track In Isolated Flatwoods Section Of South Georgia   32 PERSONS ARE REPORTED INJUREL

AAZIS STEP UP ATTACKS IN CARPATHIANS   Hurl Hourly Waves of! Tanks, Motorized Infantry and Planes

Bitter Armored  Battle Is Raging In Old Polanc   Nazi Forces Attack Furiously In Carpathian Foothills Against Russians   SERIES OF HEAVY ASSAULTS MADE  (RITTTWTIN)

FORTRESS IS SAVED   Master Sergeant Also Bags Nazi Fighter on First Flight

HOPKINS ENTERS MAYO CLINIC FOR CHECKUP   Presidential Advisor Has Been In Florida Atiempting To Regain His Health .

MARINES, WITH AIR AID, CRUSH 2 JAP ATTACKS   Bombers And Naval Units Blast 48 Barges, Many Loaded

48 BARGES, SOME WITH JAP TROOPS, SUNK BY ALLIES   2400 Enemy Bodies Counted At Cape Gloucester Area Since Landino.

Two Japanese Attacks at  Cape Gloucester Beaten Off  By Marines   Spokesman Says 2,400 Nip Bodies Counted Rinean IT andine af Dac

MARINES REPULSE JAP ATTACKS ON GAPE GLOUCESTER   Allies’ Air and Naval Units Sink 48 Enemy Troop  Baraac

NIP ATTACKS REPULSED ON NEW BRITAIN   '48:Jop Barges Are Sunk Or Damaged -By.-Allied. Forces

MARINES BEAT OFF ATTACKS   Aas Af{tempt Counter-Attacks in Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Area Monday and Tuesday,

U.S. Marines Kil  300 Nippons  On New Britain 48 Jap Barges Smashed By ‘Allied Forces   By Don Caswell United Press Staff

Jap Attacks on Cape Gloucester Are Beaten Off   U.S. Marines and Heavy Bombers Renel Attempts

Marines Thwart Two Jap Attack: ‘On Gloucester   Allied Air, Naval Units Sink or Damage 48 Nipponese Barges

HILL TOWN IN ITALY SEIZED   Yanks Take Livergnano, ..10 Miles South of Bologna, Allies Report

Yanks Take  Livergnano   Strongly Defended Hill Town 10 Miles South of Boolena

LIVERGNANO [5 TAKEN BY YANKS GAINING IN ITALY   Fanatically Defended City Below Bologna Cantured

FIFTH CAPTURES ~LIVERGNANO   Ousts Fanatic Nazis After Long, Hard Battle

Sth Army Takes Key Hill Town In North Italy   Livergnano,DefendedF rantically By Nazis Guards Gateway To Bologna

AMERICAN TROOPS TAKE LIVERGAANC   Guards Approach to Escarpment on Which Enemy Defends Bologna.

Three Power Parley Urged By Churchill   United Government For Balkans Plan Proposed at Moscow

WEEK-END "BRIGHT: ~ AND SUNNY” HERE   Thermometer L Lingers  ir the 80's. During:  : Cundavy.

WEEK-END_"BRIGHT. AND SUNNY" HERE   Thermometer Lingers _ in the 80's. During ) Sunday

Japanese Navy Suffers Heavy Losses in Two-day Assault on Truk by Sea and Air Forces’   Adm. Nimitz Places Enemy. Losses at 19 Ships Sunk and 20] Planes Destroyed as Well as Severe Damage to Installations

Truk Score: 19 Enemy Ships And 201 Planes Destroyed   Tokyo Admits Great Naval Defeat; It’s Partial Repayment, Says Nimitz

Sinking Of 19 To 26 Jap Ships Revealed; Over 200 Planes Destroyed.

19 Nip Ships, 201 Planes Are Truk Toll   NO MENTION OF TROOP LANDINGS IN TWO-DAY RAID

19 Jap Ships.  201 Aircraft Toll At Truk   Nimitz Says Atoll May Be Shambles After the American Attack

Truk Attack Sinks 19 Jap War Vessels   201 Enemy Planes Destroyed; Land Installations Damaged

Over 200 Planes * Also Destroyed In Mighty Blow   Damage to Nip Naval Base Is ‘Partial Payment” for Pearl Harbor. Nimitz Save

JAPS’ LOSSES AT TRUK ARE NOW ADMITTED   Nineteen Ships and 201 Planes Are Destroyed

Nineteen Jap Ships Sunk In  Sea Encounter      even Others, Including  Many Warships, Believ- , ed Finished Off lu  Two-Day Attack   201 Nippon Planes Also Destroyed   Land Installations On Truk Also Demolished; U. 5. Suffers No Ship 

19 SHIPS, 208 PLANES IS TOLL TAKEN AT TRUK   Pearl Harbor Raid Said Partially Avenged

Blow at Truk © Part Pay for: Pearl Harbor      Nimitz Says Terrific  Damage Was Done to  -‘Truk Installations

Japan Loses 19 Ships, 201 Planes In Attack On Truk   Heavy Damage To Ground Defenses

2 Light Cruisers and 3 Destroyers Sent te Bottom; Pearl Harbor Is Partially Avenged

Crushing Blow to Jap Base   Blast Shore Installations and Knock Out 201 Enemy Aircraft at Loss of 17 U.S. Planes

AT LEAST 201 PLANES LOST   Damage to Land Installations Also Included in U. S. Raid.   NO REPORT OF LANDINGS

U. S. Planes Sink 19 Jap Ships, Destroy 201 Planes In Truk Raid   Nimitz, Fleet Commander, Calls Destruction Wrought By Carrier Planes A “Partial Settlement” For Sneak Attack At Pearl Harbor.

Pincers Move Applied To Chop Off Top Of Cherbourg Peninsula As Battle For Prize Port Rages In All Its Fury.   Airmen Battle Enemy’s Rear

House Passes 1.5 Billion Highway Bill   Utah Share Would Be 15 Millions Of Federal Funds

HOUSE APPROVES HIGHWAY PROGRAM   VOTES $1,673,000,000 TO MODERNIZE NATION'S ROADS AFTER WAR.

Federal Highway Bill Approved   Completion of Blue Ridge Parkway Is Inchaded In Measure.

ceemm a ae inane nnn  Quads, Mother Reported “In Good Condition”

aaa '!'!  @#§;«7«#7#7+7»>D  Quads, Mother Fine After ‘History-Making Operation

QUADRUPLETS DOING WELL IN PHILADELPHIA   Mother Of Three Girls And Boy Also Te Bina   T  rm  TS NORMAL   No Physical. Defects Are Found On Four  TW a san oeinwe

Quadruplets In Good Shape   Mother Also Survives Operation That Gave Her Three Daughters and San

Japanese Offer No Resistance  To Yank Attacks   Raids Imperil Marshalls Pastc   Bombard Atoll.

GERMAN BLOWS SMASHED; ROAD BATTLE LOOMS   Third, Seventh Armies Pick Up 3 To 5 Miles; British Tighten Holland Net

British Massing On North Front   Americans Meet Fierce Counterblows; Reds Develop 3-way Offensive

U.S. UNITS GAIN 3 TO 5 MILES; VILLAGES HELD   American Forces Slash Enemy Defenses in Western Front Advances

Holland Salient Is ‘Widened Despite Stiff Resistance   Berlin Broadcast, Indicating Enemy Nervousness About Situation, Expects New Offensive In Low Countries   PATTON'S DOUGHBOYS ARE SURGING FORWARD

82 NAZI TANKS KNOCKED OUT IN ONE YANK FIGHT   Germans at Calais Want To Surrender - - Corridor for Escape Being Closed

THIRD AND SEVENTH ARMIES FIGHT WAY FORWARD IN SOUTH  HALF DOZEN STRONG GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS HURLED BACK

Dougliboys Punch Out Wide Gains   Third and Fourth U. S. Armies Beat Back Nazi Attacks East of Nancy; Calais Surrender Near

Great Battle Developing Near Nancy   British Expand Flank in Holland— Calais Commander  Asks for Terms

“Maryland for Dewey”: Governor's Visit Clinches State,  France Says, but Lane Doubts It

Probably the Largest Submarine Base in Germany.   DRAWING TO CLOSE  Violent Fighting in Our - Enlarged Beachhead Relow Rome.

U.S. Bombers Raid Big Nazi  Naval Base   Hundreds of Airmen Participate In Attack On Wilhelmshaven

HUGE FLEET U.S. BOMBERS RAID WILHELMSHAVEN   More Than 600 Big Bombers and 500 Fighters Take Part In Heavy Raid On German City.

DRAFT QUOTAS TO BE FILLED BY YOUNG MIEN   Boards to Take. Under-26 Registrants Before Older Ones   ORDER DOES NOT AFFECT THOSE ALREADY EXAMINED

Boards Ordered To Fill Quotas With Young Mer  To Call Under-26 Grou   To Call Under-26 Grour Before Drawing Upon  Older Registrants

Call Up Men Under 26 to Fill Quotas      PENNSYLVANIA'S 422 LOCAI DRAFT BOARDS RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO LEAVE OLDER MEN UNTIL LAST.    Does Not Affect Men Called

Aerial Attack Cuts Jap Line   Worth-Borma® Rail’ Supply Rincked be Alles

JAPANESE RAILWAY UNDER AIR ATTACK   Allied Airmen Pound Line Feed. fing Enemy’s Beleaguered Bases tn North Rurma.

Soviets Reach Memel   TWO RUSS ARMIES HURL STRENGTH AT TILSIT, EAST PRUSSIA FORTRESS

Escape Routes Of Nazis Cut By Russians   Enemy Using 1,000,000 Men, Berlin Asserts

East Prussia’ Under Attack By Red Army   Big Guns Fire on Memel-——Budapest In South Bynassed

Soviet Guns Pound Memel: Reds Drive Toward Tilsit   Russian Forces in; Hungary are Within 50 Miles of Budanest

Advance Takes Russians Into Kast Prussia   Soviets Armies Hurl Strength in Drive On Prussian Tilsit —Gain in Hungary

Red Artillery Hurls Fire On Besieged Memel   Two Armies Throw Full Power Against East Prussian Tilsit.

PRUQUIAN UTI OF TILSIT _BESIEGED   Russians Within 50 Miles Of Budapest   PROSPECTS GOOD   For Bottling Up Nazis In Transylvania. Ukraine Area Of Hungary

RUSSIAN GUNS HIT MEMEL IN BALTIC THRUST   Spectacular Success of Reds Continues on  All Fronts

Reds Launch Attack On Gate to Prussia And Bombard Memel   British and Greek-Forces Capture Corinth in Drive Through Greece To Cut Off Nazis and Disorganize Germans in Balkans

MEMEL UNDER THE FIRE OF SOVIET GUNS      To Southward, Two Red Armies Wheel and Hurl Ball Weight Into Drive wm East Prussian City af lett.

German-held Baltic Port Put Under Heavy Fire by  — Soviet Forces   OTHER RED FORCES ARE . DRIVING ON EAST FRONT

USSIANS HIT MEMEL PORT IN RAPID ADVANCE   Reds Use Million Men In Effort To Trap Enemy

All Landward Escape Routes From Latvia, Lithuania Cut   Artillery Fire Pounding Meme!   Prospects Good For Bottling Up All Germans In Transylvania

Armies Move For Push On City Of Tilsif   Rail Routes Behind Enemy Cut By Reds In Transylvania

Russian Artillery Pounds Memel: Twe Armies Hit Tilsit   Twin Drives Bip Delenses Into East Prussia, Hungary; Malinovsky Flanks Belorade

SOVIET FORCES LAUNCH HEAVY FIRE ON MEMEL   Other Russian Armies Oper Attack on Tilsit in East Prussia

Reds Score Smashing Successes —   Baltic Armies Besiege Memel,. Drive On East Prussia and to South  Surge Toward Budapest

SOVIET UNITS NEAR MEMEL   Russians Begin Shelling Baltic Port, Advance On Tilsit

Russian Artillery Pounds Besieged Seaport of Meme!   Budapest Threatend From Three Sides By Soviet Drives

Russians ‘Launch A Baltic Offense   Attack by the Reds Ripping _ Apart German Coastal Flank   TWO ARMIES IN DRIVE   Prospects Are Good for Bottling Up Nazis in Transylvania

I I ee et ee ee eee  Memel Under Storm Of Artillery Fire   Farther South, Two Red Armies Hurl Weight Into Drive On Tilsit

Drive . Upon. Germany From North Matched By Spectacular..Gains In South . Through Northern Hun¢garv.

AED ARTILLERY HITTING MEME   Two Soviet Armies Also Hurl Weight Against East Prussian City.

(ther Russians HurlFull Weight Against Tilsit   Report Continued Success Of Malinoveky Sweep _ Inte-Nerthern.Hungary.

Drive Upoi Germany Krom North Matched By Spectacular (Grains In South Through Northern Plungary.

Russian Artillery Fire Breaks On Besieged Memel.   Southern Units Storm Tisza River Barrier In Budapest Push

Russians ‘Launch  A Baltic Offense   Attack by the Reds Ripping rt — Coast an   TWO ARMIES IN DRIVE   Prospects Are Good for Bottling Up Nazis in Transylvania

2 Red Armies Drive on Tilsit In East Prussia   Soviet Forces in South Within 50 Miles of Budapest

Solons Cool To EDR. Vote Bil   House Committee Takes Up   Measure Leaving Vote  System In Hands of the States.

SOLDIERS VOTE MEASURE GETS  MORESUPPOR   States’ Rights. ‘Champions Still Hope'to Defeat . . Federal: Bill When -It Comes to Vote . —

BRADLEY'S MEN BLASTING OPEN BRITTANY ROAD   Western Half of Another Key Road in American Hands

US. Tanks Smash German Resitance   British Meet Opposition On East Sector

BLAS OPER WALI ROAD TO BRITTANY   Americans Advance Over 12 Miles  rate ay  BRITISH ON MOVE  semen nr  German Morale Deteriorating

FEEDING OF CATTLE CURTAILED, REPORT   Shortage of Feed and Price Given as Reasons

SCHOOL BILL TO SOLONS   Council Has Worked on Reorganization Plan for Two Years

\Season’s Coldest Weather \Hits Midwest; No Relief In iSight; Zero Tonight In Ohio

UNIFIED COMMAND URGED BY SENATOR   Alabama Solon to Intro duce Bill in Congress Today

Bill Proposes Merger of  Armed Forces   Hill Envisages New Department With Single Head

Senator to ffer Bill to Merge Armed Services   Hill of Alabama Wants Post-War Actior Planned at Once

Bill To Merge Army, Navy, Air Forees  To Be Offered   Would Consolidate . Services After War  Under Direction  OW Stwnale Sanectace   ALABAMA SENATOR TO OFFER MEASURE

Hill Sponsors One Secretary,  Air, Army, Sea   Alabama Senator to Offer Unifying Bill Today ax Wine ATE Awaise

PEACE FEELERS FROM JAPS MAY BE RECEIVED SHORTLY   PECTS TO  ADMIRAL HALSEY  E  ENEMY INDUSTRIALIS'  MAKE MOVE TO SAVE THEIR PLANTS

Japs Admit Damage On Ground   Report 80 B-29s _ Hit Two Japanese Home islands

SUPERFORTS RAID JAPAN HOME ISLES   Eighty Planes In Attack; Damaged Nagoya Area

Supertorts Hit Japanese Home Islands   About 80 Bis Ships Drop Bombs, Jap Radio Says

NY VIOLATIONS LAID TO WARD'S   NLRB Official Appears Before Special House Investigating Group

Montgomery Ward Has Long Record - of Violating Labor Laws, Board Member Tells House Inquiry

Ward Company Charged With Many Labor Law Violations   _Has Long Record Of Unfair Practices NLRB Member Tells House Committee

WARD RECORD IS ASSAD”   Reilly of NLRB Claims Many Labor Violations

Ward's ‘Record Influenced Actton   NLRB Mernber Cites Violations

ASSERTS WARD'S VIOLATED LAWS   NLRB MEMBER SAYS COMPANY TO BLAME FOR LABOR TROUBLE

WARDS CHARGED WITH VIOLATIONS   NLRB MEMBER TESTIFIES ON LABOR RECORD

ERIE DISASTER IS INVESTIGATED   Deckhand Describes How Cook On Reed Stayed To Die With Wife

HEARING WILL BE HELD IN PRIVATE   Action Taken Because Officials of One Company Cannot Attend.

Tell Civilians Leave Tallinn  Fi eo i oe   Capital Of Estonia May Be In Flames

RETURNS BACK QW DRAFT GALL   Four Accepted ‘For Navy and Six For the  Aum

RNS BACK ~-ON-DRAFT CALL   Four Accepted For Navy and Six For the  Arm

MacARTHUR STARTS SOFTENING UP THE APPROACHES TO JAP-HELD PHILIPPINES

12 Men To Leave Next Week For  Armed Services:   ‘Board Continues To Reclassify All Men Deferred For Agvicultural Reason:

Ten Men Leave Kerr For Duty  In Armed Service:   Board Continue ReClassification of Men Under Latest Rulings From Headquarters

Kerr Sends 20 Men to Army and Navy This Week   Draft Board Continues Re-Classification of Older Groups; Eight  - Placed in Class 1-A

Badoglio Names Cabinet Members   All Six Opposition Parties Included

All Opposition Australian War Parties Now in Bride Shocked Italian Cabinet At Short Skirts

WLB Holds  ToFormula  Dawvic Save Renort   Davis Says Report Reaffirms Stand

LITTLE STEEL FORMULA STILL HOLDS      WLB Report Shows No Intention To Relax Terms

LITTLE STEEL FORMULA WILL NOT BE BROKEN   mall Hourly Increases Are Granted To Night Shift Workers

WLB Give: Fringe Pay  Demands   Board’s Week-End Decision Disposes Of Year-Old Union Demand

PROGRAM OUTLINED FOR SERVICE MEN      Capt. Rickenbacker Calls for Plan for Lasting World Peace

Another Contingent of Men Leave For Induction into Military Service   August Oall Is Larger Than For Recent Months

Send Twenty-Six  Recruits To Army  From This County Three More Groups  To Leave Within Next Few Days -

Reds Crumble Main Defense Of Budapest :   Establish Bridgehead On Tisza West Banks

German Bombers  Hit Naples, Allies  Return to Romani: WACS' Billet Among Buildings In Htalian Port Damaged—  Bp .L...-s3 Pie.” Céieafkad

GERMAN BOMBERS STRUGK SHARPLY AT NAPLES LAST NIGHT   Raid Came in Wake of Great Co-Ordinated Attack by  Alec   STRUCK IN THE BALKANS   Nazi Communieations and  ‘Aireraft Plants Were Objectives.

NAZI BOMBERS ATTACK NAPLES   Little Damage Results, How ever—30 to 40 Planes In Raiding Force

NAZI BOMBERS ~ POUND NAPLES   Raid Follows Big Attack By Allied Air Forces

GERMAN BOMBERS STRIKE AT NAPLES ON MONDAY NIGHT LIGHT NAZI BLOW FOL.  LOWS BIG ALLIED ATTACK QW PAIRANC ITATY

Nazi Planes Strike Naples After Heavy Allied Blow  Enemy Thrust Fails To Cause Much Damace to Taraet

German Bombers Make Night Raid On Naples Sector   Unofficial Estimates Figured Formation About 30-40 Planes

Nazi Raiders Strike Sharply At Naples In Wake Of Great Attacks By Allied Aircraft   German Communications And Factories In Italy And Balkans Heavily Bombed

Nazis Strike Naples While Allies On Raid   Little Damage Reported From Sharp Raid By Enemy

Americans Press For St. Loin Blow On 40-Mile Front   Fall of French City of 15,000 to Yanks Would Force German Withdrawal Fror Remainder of Cherbourq Peninsula

BUSINESS MAN : IS WINNER AT DENVER POLLS  Defeats Wor Ter c in   Vietory Of Foe Of New Deal Seen Sionificant

GOP Captures Denver Seat In Congress   Republican Beats Democrat Vet Of Present War

Denver Seat. in: Connie to Republicar   ‘Business. Man’s’ * ~Wictory ‘Over. War ‘Hero Seen as.                 ARTY’ S FIRST WIN: ‘THERE “SINCE. 1932      Democratic: Margin in House cos Narrowed: to: 216% + “Avainst 210:

Elect New Deal Foe To Congres:   Denver Goes GOP First Time Since 1932

BUSINESS MAN WINS DENVER’S CONGRESS SEAT   Dean M. Gillespie, Republican, Defeats Maj. Wueriele, Democral and World War Il Hero

Republican Victor Over Hero of War at Colorado Polls   Business Man Wins in Normally Democratic Congressional Dist.

War Hero Lost Colorado F ight  In Denver Vote   Business Man Is. Elected To Congress, First GOP ‘Candidate To Win In Last 12° Years

COLORADO ELECTS FOE OF NEW DEAL   DEAN M, GILLESPIE, REPUBLICAN, WINS SEAT IN CONGRESS

Republican Business Man Wins Congressional Seat Over World War !/i Dem.

Surgeons Hail “Fibrin Foam”   Hemorrhage-Controlling Material May Be One ot War's Greatest Finds.

Great Panic Sweeps Trapped Nazis Inside Budapest   Russians Drive on’ - City 7 Miles North, Five Miles South

Red Troops Driving on Budapest   Panic Sweeps Nazis in City, Moscow Advices Declare

Prongs of Red Pincers Close Upon Budapest   Frontal Assault on Hungarian Capital Is Said Imminent

PANIC SWEEPS BUDAPEST Al REDAPPROACI   Russians Drive on Hungarian Capital From Positions 7 Miles Merth 5 Miles South of City   ADVANE DOW.'s DANUBE

Yanks Advance on Merken, 17 Miles Inside German Border   Panic in Budapest _ As Soviet Troo Drive Nearer ity

Broadeasts Say Red Vanguards Enter Capital   Come From Paris. Algiers Radios: Great Panic Sweeps Budapest.   FORTY PLACES SEIZED

Budapest Panic Reported. as. Red Pincers Close   Pressure fs Applied North and South of Capital; Nazis Fear A Drive in Poland

Panic In City Among Nazis Reported   Frontal Assault May Come Soon; Other Red Forces Advance

GREAT PANIC SWEEPS NAZIS N BUDAPEST   Russians Enter City; May Not Be Battle Arena

Vanguards 0! Soviet Army In Budapest.   LONDON. (P) — Paris and Algiers broadcasts said tonight Red Army vanguards had . entered the . flaming . Hungarian  Rete ei pe Mee

Reds Launch Alltout Drive. On Budapest   Russians ‘Hamimering ‘At Hungarian Capital -From 3 Sides

Budapest N. azis Swept By Panic  As Soviets Neat   Red Troops Advancing From North And South; Puppet Leaders Flee

Reds Into Budapest, Paris Told   Great Panic in Hungarian Capital as Russians Ring the City   HOPE NAZIS WILL NOT MAKE STAND   But Armies Are Poised for Frontal Assault If They Do Not Yield

REDS DRIVE ON CITY FROM NORTH, SOUTE   All-Out. Frontal Assault Expected At Any Hour

REDS REPORTED IN BUDAPEST   Unleash New Attack Aimed For Cracow In Poland,  Reach Czech Border

Soviet Drive. Causes Panie Among Nazis In Budapest.   Ukraine ‘Army Poised ‘For. Frontal -Attack 

eds Say Panic ows Among rmans   Berlin Reports Large Scale Russian Offensive Is In Making In Poland

Red Army Driving On Budapest From Two Sides  Moscow Says Panic Is Sweeping  Oorici

Panic Sweeps Nazis At Hungarian Capital As Russian Pincers Close Assault.

Soviets Close On Budapest  Moscow Advices Say   Moscow Advices Say Nazis Inside Hungarian Canital in Panic

SOVIET FORGES TIGHTEN GRIP ON BUDAPEST   Reports from Inside Capital of Hungary Say Nazis in Panic

Red Army Driving (On Budapest From Two Sides  Moscow Says Panic Is Sweeping Nazis in Capital

Fall of Budapest Seems Imminent  Reds Near City From North and South

Nazis In Panic  As Reds Close 'In On Budapest   Russians Drive On Hungarian Capital From North And South.

Budapest Neared As Nazis Panic   Russian Troops Drive From Three Sides in All-Out Frontal Stab   Rulletin

Soviet Troops Start All-Out Budapest Push   Battle into South Suburbs of Capital City of Hunaary

Russ Army Closing In On Budapest From 2 Sides   Moscow Hears Nazis Are In Panic Inside Hungarian Capital; New Drive Brewing

—®y Kirke L. Simpson (  Allies Failed To Exploit Landing At Bome

Allied Failure To Exploit Surprise Landing below Rome Causes Criticism

ASKS EXPLANATION OF HALT IN ITALY   ANALYST SAYS FAILURE TO EXPLOIT LANDING DEMANDS OFFICIAL ANSWER.

ap Fleet Takes squint At Third Fleet And Flees   Nimitz Reveals Army Occupation Of Ulithi Atol In Carolines; Luzon Invasion Coast Is  Only Target Mentioned; Two U. S. Ships Hit.

Nimitz Reveals Yanks Occupied Western Carolines Atoll Without Opposition on Sept. 21

FLEEING NAZIS LEAVING MUCH BOOTY BEHIND   YANK SOLDIERS PUT ON PRESSURE, FIND WEAK OPPOSITION

Hitler Line Sags UnderHard Blows   Vigorous Advance Drive Nazis Back-on Lower  Half of Front   TAKE ITRI AND GAETA   Steady Smashes Reduce the Distance to Anzio  Beachhead

Mead er Hatch Seen as Truman Successor   Official Resignation of Defense Committee ‘Head Expected Soon

‘New Japanese Atrocities Are Revealed   ITALIAN SOLDIERS TRAINING TO SERVE WITH U. 5. UNITS

US 70  . Frees 7 Enemy Prison   Jap Atrocities Revaulid As American Inv--4are"* Release Captives On Hoallandia

More Jap Atrocities: Chinese Prisoners Nailed to Trees With Spikes, Allied Report Says

ATROCITIES OF JAPANESE ARE. RELATED   By Prisoners Released Following Capture of Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. Half Sikhs.   Two Cups Water

IRON SPIKES DRIVEN THROUGH  CHINESE HEADS BY JAPANESE   Sikhs, Natives Of India, Treated Like Cattle On 18-Day March From Singapore To Kuala Lumpur, Australian Department Of Information Relates

Stories Of Jap Atrocities Related By Gen. M’Arthur   Chinese Nailed to Palm Trees by. Driving Iron Spike: - Through Foreheads, It Ils Reported— Enemy Prisoners Freed———-

Rescue 707 captives, bare fresh atrocities   Liberated Sikhs indict Japanese  treatment; ‘Chinese nailed to trees’

Jap Atrocities Are Disclosed By Freed Sikh:   Chinese Nailed to Palm Trees With Iron Spikes, Men Claim; Other Actions Told

CAPTIVES SET FREE TELL OF JAP HORRORS   Yank Invaders of Hol. landia, Aitape Rescue 707 Prisoners

,More Japanese Atrocities Are Reported By Those Who Were Freed From Concentration Camps On New Guinea

707 Prisoners Released In Hollandia Campaign, Include 462 Indian Sikhs

Liberated Men Recite Cruelties At Nips Hands   Chinese Nailed to Trees With Spikes Driven Into Heads

U.S. Men, Filipinos Are Liberated At Hollandia  9 a Ao Alii.   China’s Fate as Allied Belligerent Hinges On Two Battles

CHINESE. VICTINS OF JAP OUTRAGES NAILED 10 TREES   New Atrocities Disclosed With Freeing of 707 Prisoners of Nipponese in Hollandia Area.   IRON SPIKES DRIVEN THROUGH THEIR HEADS   Liberated Captives. Include Americans, Filipines, Dutch and Sikhs—Later Indict  “Wiles races Wreantenant

Landing on Tiny Isle Reported   Blow Falls on Eastern Flank of Group; Leyte Bombarded by Fleet, Tokyo Radio Announces; No Confirmation From U.S.

U. S. Attack Aimed At Vulnerable Eastern  Flank Of Islands      No Confirmation From American Sources But Japanese Declare U.S. Ships And Transports Have Penetrated Levie Gulf

MACARTHUR APPARENTLY ON WAY BACK   Tokyo Announcement Of Leyte Gulf Assault Awaits U. 8S. Confirmation

Expeditionary Forces, Navy Strike Vulnerable Leyte in Central Archipelago—Domei

As Climax  To Ten-Day Pounding    If Report Is True, MacArthur Has Hit Where Enemy Least Expected—On the East

Enemy Communique States American Forces Have Entered  Gulf of Leyte

Japs Tell of Landing By Yankees   Naval Fleet Under Command of MacArthur Said to, Be Supporting Action   INO CONFIRMATION  ‘GIVEN. TO REPORTA   Stories of Drive Indicate.  Big Operations Are Going Forward

Americans Strike  At Vulnerable East Flank af Islands: ”   Powerful Units of Pacific Fleet and  China-Based Planes Support Inyasion, Japs Claim; Chinese Rejoice Over News

STRONG NAVAL FORCES BACK UP INVASION AT LEYTE ON EASTERN FLANK OF ISLAND

Claim Landings In Gulf of Leyte   No Confirmation By U. S. That Invasion Of Islands, Pro. mised By MacArthur, Is Underway; Sea Forces Have Paved The Way.

MANILA REPORTS 270-PLANE STRIKE AT LUZON ISLAND   JAPANESE REPORTS OF INVASION HIGHLIGHT EVENTS IN PACIFIC

Manila And Clark Airfield Attacked By 270 Carrier-Based Planes Today; No Con firmation Of Invasion From Allies.   May Herald MacArthur Return

Report Landing on Suluan Island As Naval Forces Enter Leyte Gulf; Assert Fleet, Troops ‘Intercepting’

REPORT ACTION IN LEYTE GULF AREA TUESDAY   Invaders Strike Heart Of Islands, Tokyo Story Claims

Philippines to Be Invaded Next   BO TOKYO RADIO BLARES ! FORTH STORY OF  { U. S. MOVE

Although American Confirmation Is Lacking, Domei Declares Flatly That Reinvasion of Islands Begins, Supported by Powerful Units of the Pacific Fleet and China-Based Aircraft, With Landings in Layte-6 Gulf Area.

Yank Headquarters Silent, But Great Air Armada Strikes At Manila Area Again

UJ. §. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE REPORTED BE LANDING AT LEYETE  TOKYO RADIO REPORTED AMERICANS STRIKING AT JAPANESE FLANK

Leyte Gulf Declared Point of U.S. Blow   Reports Unconfirmed by Nimitz; Tokyo Says Powerful Task Force Battering Shore Defenses After Bold Move

Tokyo Reports Suluan Landing  Announcement, Two Days Late Tells OF Mar Arthnr’e Ratirn tn Sean   Announcement, Two Days Late Tells Of MacArthur’s Return to Scene Of Earlier Defeat by Japanese

Tokyo Radio Says Fleet And China-Based Planes Strike In Leyte Region —

Powerful Navy Forces Stream Into Leyte Gulf   . Jap Radio Reports Beginning or Reconquest of Territory, Softened for Invasion _ by Unprecedented Raids of Past 10 Days

Leyte Gulf Is Scene  Of Invasion   Tokyo Broadcast Asserts American Forces Have Struck Into Heart of Islands; Heavy Bombardment Screens Allied Drive

Move In On Leyte Gulf Area, Claim   No Immediate Allied Confirmation-— Allied Naval Forces and Transports Penetrate Leyte Gulf Region on Tuesday, Foe Declares — Plane Action Continues, Nimitz Says

ENEMY REPORTS YANKS’ LANDING ON SULUAN ISLE   MacArthur Said To Be Driying At Eastern Fiank Of Archipelago

Japanese Declare Attacks Hit Center Of Eastern Flank   Say U. S. Fleet Under MacArthur Command Escorted Transports  Inte Gulf Of Leyte 2 Days Ago

American Force Said Attacking li Leyte Gulf   Domei Reports Yanks ‘Seem To Have Landed On Suluan’

CANADA'S CRISIS APPEARS IN HAND   RESTORE DISCIPLIN AMONG REBELLIOU DRAFTEE SOLDIERS.

Conscription Crisis Cools  Off In Canada   Order Restored Amone Draftees

ORDER RESTORED AMONG CANADA’S REBELLIOUS DRAFTEE. TROOPS. TODAY.

Yanks Didn’t Believe In Signs, Captured Twenty Nazis On Mount Cassino

GOVERNMENT MAY STEP INTO TELEPHONE STRIKES   Fear of Strike’s Spread to Mid-West Expressed.

Telephone Strike Spread To Other States Feared   Ohio Mamtenance, Plant Men Join Walkout Of Operators

PHONE COMPANY STRIKE SPREADS   Government Action Seen Soon In Dispute In Ohio

Drastic Government Action to Prevent General Midwest Telephone Strike Expectcd—Maintenance and Phint Men doin Striking Women Operators in Ohio Cities,

SIX TON BLOCKBUSTERS BEING USED IN EFFORT T0 DESTROY CAVE PROTECTED HOT SPOTS   U. S. Bombers Follow Up RAF Attacks on Robot  Bomb Supply Depots in France While Rail Lines  And Other German Military Installations Under ttack

Bombers Smash Robot Bomb Nes  Americans Follow Up Night Raid by RAF

BUZZ-BOMB BASES, NORMANDY AREAS BOMBERS’ TARGETS   U. 5. Heavies From Italy Alsc Carry Out Strong Attacks On Naiz Oil Installations ir Vienna Region

Air Forces Intensify Raids On Robot Sites, Hit Depot; Bombings Are On Vast Scale   Heavy Raiding Supports Offensives In Normandy: Many Taraets Pounded

Robot Bomh Depot Bombec   Allied Craft Hamter ‘ Cayes North of Paris

Bombers Hit Robot Depot Near. Paris   U.S. Fliers Continue Day. light Assault After RAF Nicht Péunding

Robot Launching Sites Under Fire Of Allied Planes   American Bombers Give Heavy Support to Offensive in Normandy.   Troop Concentrations  Of Germans Attacked

‘Bomber Fleets Smash Robot Depots ‘As Others Support Normandy Tro ops

Robot Supply Bases Pounded By Big Bombs  6-Ton Explosives Are Dropped By British; Yankee Ratter Nazi’

Heavy Bombers Support Normandy Offense, Blast at Robot Sites   British Forces Smash Huge Flying Bomb Depot In France With Six-Ton Blockbusters; Roads and Rail Lines Included in Targets

Hit Sources of Nazi Robot Ships   United States Heavy Bomb ers in a Raid on Launch"ong Sites“ ;   STRIKE SUPPLY DEPOT   American Marauders Headed An Attack on Nor- © ' ‘andy Front . . 

Smash Nazi Robot Sites    Heavy Bombers Hit Seven Launching Depots and Supply Cave

U.S. Planes Pound Rocke’ Bomb Region   Other Planes In Support of Ground Troops  In Normandy

Robot-Bomb Supply Depot Smashed hy American Bombers  Launching Sites Also Attacked by U.S. Heavies, Refineries  in Vienna Remon Riacted

Night-flying Planes Search Out Launching Sites Located in France, and   Attack 7 of Them.   DRIVE TOWARD CAEN IS BEING RENEWED

Fail To Reach  Tax Agreement   Two Disputed Amendments To War Contract <Aet Prevents Approval.

JAPS FLANKED ON LEDO ROAD   British Parachute Units Drop Behind Enemy Lines In Burma

DROP BEHIND JAP ~-TINES IN BURMA   BRITISH LANDING PUTS ALLIES CLOSER 20 HUB OF  JAP DEFENSE SYSTEM.

Nazis Threatened With New Pocket   General Patton’s Tanks Reported Probing Paric Area Almost Unmelested By Germans

Plunge To Seine Seals Doom Of Nazis’ 7th Army   Fall Of French Capital Imminent, Vanguard Of American Armor Believed Inside City; Air Forces Grinding Panicky-Fleeing Germans.

Germany’s Reeling 7th Army Caught By U. S. Drive to Seine; Violent Outbreaks in Enemy Ranks Renorted

The War Today Paris Radio Thinks Ital jan Upheaval Closely Related to Invasion.

THE  WAR TODAY   Hitlerites Doig Some Frenzied Guessing When They See Italy Offensive As Opening of D-Day

BIG ALLIED DRIVE SEEN AS PART IN GREAT -INVASION MOVE BUT DOES NOT MEAN D-DAY HAS ARRIVED   German. Controlled Paris Radio Thinks “The Gong Has-Sounded for the Curtain to Rise—lIf In Fact It Has Not Alreadv Risen

;BELIEF OF NAZIS THAT OFFENSIVE IN ITALY HERALDS OPENING OF INVASION ‘OF WESTERN EUROPE MAY BE CORRECT

Large-Scale Air Attack On Germany From Britain And Mediterranean Reported

DRAFT RULE IS CLEARED UP BY ‘STATE DIRECTOR   All Registrants. Under 38, Not Making War Contribution.’ Subiect To Draft

TEXAS DEMO CONVENTION MAY BE SPLIT   Rivalry Bitter Between Pro-Roosevelt Group and Supposed Anti-Fourth Termers Favoring Uninstructed Delegation.

Survey Is Made in Order To Take Care of Crops of County This Year

Texas Democrats May Split Over FDR’s 4th Term      Bricker, Dewey Aide Before GOP

Texas Democrat Near Split Over {th Term Issue   Party Convention Opens Today with Fireworks Forecast

(Continued on Page 9.) —Saye Your Tin Cens—   Texas Democrats Slit on Roosevelt

State Convention Opens Teday In Austin; 1s Hol   Strength Of 2 Sides To Be Revealed By First Test Votes Today

The Democrats of ' "Fexas in Split   Group of Pro-Roosevelé: Democrats. Walked Out.of . Austin Meeting. i

FDR ADVOCATES BOLD IN TEXAS   Leave Convention After Adverse Ballot

Three Red Armies Drive To Within 50 Miles Of Minsk   British Widen Salient  In Nazi Lines Near Caen

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTER   (By County Extension Director)   Enod Front Alert Meeting Renorts

Conciliation Sought for OPA Question   POWER CONTINUANCE PURPOSE OF NEW WHITE HOUSE MOVE

HARMONY 1S SQUGHT QN PRICE CONTRI   Central. Pacific Command Reports Bloodless Occupation of Majurc

TO) FIGHT PLANS TH EXTEND OPA      Bowles to Gather informally with Senate Banking Committee to Discuss Agency

Bowles To Meet Party: Leaders  In Peace’ Move   ‘Conciliation. Towards Congress. Seen Tn Action

MOVE TO RETAIN OPA‘ASIS’SEEN   President May Seek Closer Bonds Between Leaders

Seek Harmony For Continuing Pri ice Contr ‘ol   White’ House Is Reported: Making Moves to Keep OPA In Effect: Due   -To Expire June 30 i

Dewey Calls for Slash In U.S. Income Taxes   Taxes Pay For Waste.

DEWEY IS FOR REDUCTION OF INCOME TAXES   COMPLETE REVENUE OVERHAUL NEEDED, SAYS NOMINEE

DEWEY FAVORS LOWER TAXES TO MAKE JOBS   Nominee Outlines Program To Remove RoadBlock To Progress

Dewey Proposes Individual, Corporation Tax Slashes; Outlines G. 0. P. Program

Governor Offers hix-Point Plan [o Help Nation   Would Remove Block In Way of Progress

Lower Income Tax Rates on  Dewey Docket  GOP Candidate Would Absolve $11-Week Earner

Dewey Hits New Deal Tax System   GOP Nominee Offer: Six-Point Program To Reduce Levies

FULL REVISION OF GOVERNMENT T AX STRUCTURE   Dewey Offers 6-Point Program For Reducing Na tion’s Tax Burden   REVENUE IS WASTED BY THE NEW DEAL

British Ask Terror Raids Qn Germans   Newspaper Pleads For Re prisals Against Robot Attacks

Painless Extraction Of Income Taxes Is Aim of Solons  Measure Is Presented To Relieve Many  Benen ECilienn Deaturre

U.S. To Work Out Your Tax   ‘Painless’ Extraction   ‘Painless’ Extraction Bill Before Committee

Painless Tax Collecting Is House Topic   Auto Concerns Can’t Start Reconversion Until Enemy ls Beaten

HOUSE LEADERS MAP ‘PAINLESS’ TAX PLAN   Bill Would Free 30 Million From Filing Of Returns

Today In Washington  Begin Work On Painless  Income Tay   No New Autos Until Germany or Japan Falls; Problem of Estimating Army Needs Explain-

House Leaders to Go Over First Draft of Simplified Lenisiation.   ‘OTHER ISSUES STUDIED

SIMPLIFICATION OF INCOME TAX LAWS IS SOUGHT   Variety of Other Problems, Including Draft Estimate, Claims Capital Interest

Simpler Tax Bill Is Put Forward   Passage Expected Within Three Weeks

Senate Democrats Unanimously Re-elect Senator Barkley As Floor Leader

HOUSE OVERRIDES ROOSEVELTS VETO OF TAX BILL   Senate Also Expected To Vote In Favor Of Making The Bill Law.

Oklahoma Panhandle Has Dust Storm Stirred By 55-MilePer-Hour Winds

NEBRASKANS DIG OUT FROM 19-INCH SNOW   Midwest Livestock Periled By Unseasonal Storm

WINTER HITS BACK AT WEST   Brings Snowfalls Up Te 19-Inches; Fear For Livestock

ONOWGT ORM IN TWO STATES   Nebraska, Kansas Storms Threaten Livestock, Halt Farm Work.

SNOW HURTS STOCK   Storm Covers the Plains And McCook, Nebraska * Has 19 Inch Fall

Winter Backfires With Snow, Cold fc Threaten Livestock   Raging Unseasonal Storms Nearly Halt Already-Late Farming

‘Unseasonal Snowstorms Strike West Nebraska And Kansas Last Night

LATE, UNSEASONAL SNOW STORM HITS HARD IN MIDWEST   Heavy Fall cf Snow Threatens Some Livestock and Halts Late Farming Opcrations— Kansas, Nebraska Hardest Wet

West Is Blanketed  By Heavy Snow   Iinseasonal Weather Threatens Stock, Crops

Heavy Fall Ot Snow In Kansa:  And Nebraska   19 Inches At MeCook; Livestock Men Fear For Cattle And Sheep

SNOWSTORMS SPREAL OVER HIGH PLAINS  POINTS IN NEBRASKA ah. WARIC AG VICIT oH BW  EXTREMELY SEVERE      POINTS IN NEBRASKA AND KANSAS VISITED BY COLD WEATHER

Unseasonal Snows  Hit Plain Areas   Livestock Losses Expected to Be Large With Tem peratures Low.

HEAVY SNOWS COVER MIDWEST      Report 19 Inches Falls at McCook, Neb.

18 INCHES OF SNOW BLANKETS NEBRASKE   Fear for Livestock and Halting of Late Farm Operations Its Reported

Near Main Airdrome In NewGuinea;  Yanks Move 150 Miles Nearer Truk

Otfensiv re Is Kept Rolling  Against Japs   Island of Ujelang Yakev Day After Capture of Hollandia, 1600 Miles Away   CENTRAL PACIFIC FLEET AIDED BOTH   U.S. Now Holds 22 Mar. shall Atolis With 1] Left In Jap Possession—No Real Opposition

Americans Seize Ujelang Island Near Truk Afoll   Invasion Forces Keep Offensive Over Wide Areas

Ujelang, Marshalls Island, Captured by American Forces     Invasion Against Weak Jap anese Oppesition Pats Yanks  158 Miles Nearer Truk

Yanks Move Still Nearer To Truk Isle   Seize Ujelang, Westerr Marshalls Atoll, Tc Bring Total to 22

DEATH TOLL IN ATHENS’ RIOTS MOUNTS 10 27   Violence Continues As Reports Are Heard Premier Papanderon Resigns

Churchill States “Troops Acting Tc Stop Bloodshed   British Chief Says Law, Order Must Be Maintained In Nation

Allies to Keep Order in StrifeTorn Greece   Troops Act to Halt Bloodshed, Churchill Says

GHURCHILL MAKES BLUNT STATEMENT   Allies Will Throw Full Strength To Prevent Civil War

CENSORSHIP TIGHT, BUT SHAKEUP DUE   Opposition Leaders Want Regime to Seek Peace

Marshal Mannerheim Becomes President of Finland ‘as Risto Ryti Resiens. the Result of Political Crisis

DRIVERS FAIL TO WORK TODAY   Detroit People Without Bread, Baked Goods

DETROIT BAKERY TRUCKERS STRIKE   HALT DELIVERY OF BREAD TO STORES AND RESTAURANTS

Bakery Truck Drivers Latest To Join Strike Ranks In Detroit Area

Bakery Drivers in Detroit on Strike; Results Uncertais   Union Says 90 Percent of City’s Bread Has Been Cut OFF

Bakery Truck Drivers Strike   Deliveries of Baked Goods to Restaurants And Stores Halted

Tulsa Geologist Is Found Slain   Police lavestigate Bespite Purported Suicide Mate

Nanking Raided By Superforts In Force   Japs Report Home Islands Also Under Attacks

Nanking, Two Jap Home Islands     Dealt Blows By Our Superforts   Docks And Warehouses Battered, While Tokyo Reported 80 Of Our Big Bombers Raided Islands Of Kyushu And Saishu.

Superforts Hit Japan Islands, Bomb Nankinc   Daring Daylight Attacks Carried Out Against Strateaic Areas

Superforts  Bomb Islands Of Japs, Says Tokyo Radio   80 Big Planes Attacked -Kyushu And Saishu; Blow At Nanking Also Thahvered Rv IT <.

JAPS REPORT NEW RAIDS ON HOME ISLANDS   Giant Bombers Hit Docks, Warehouses At Vital Chinese Port

REPORT RAID ON JAPANESE HOME ISLAND   Tokyo Declares Superforts Hit Kyushu And Soishu And Raided Shanghai

Nanking Raided by Superforts   Also Attack Kyushu, Saishu, Jap Islands, Tokyo Says

No Details of Damage Given   Japanese Reinforce Leyte, But Landing Operations Hard Hit

SUPERFORTS IN NANKING ATTACK DURING DAYTIME   Japanese Also Claim Huge Sky Weapons Strike at Two of Their Homeland Islands

SUPER-FORTS RAID NANKING   Enemy Claims 80 Planes Carry Out Aitack On Two Jap Isles

PIERCE NAZI LINES WITH ” TANK ATTACK   Axis Drive Collapses With Tremendous Casualties

Germans Lose ltalian Gain   Beachhead Advance : Wiped Out By Allies

BRICKER RAPS FDR POLICIES   Small Business Stunted, Candidate Claims In Missouri Talk

YANKS LOSE 12 PLANES AT RABAUL   Heaviest Loss Yet Suffered In that Area

RABAUL HIT BY RECORD. AIR RAID   18 Planes Downed 3 Ships Sunk, 5 Others Damaged

Rabaul Raided Heavily by UJ. S. Planes   U.S. Losses Among Highest Received in Southweet Pacific

Rabaul Hit By Severe  Air Attack   12 American Flanes Downed As 100 Strike at Japanese Base

U. S. Airmen Brave Strong Jap Force To Shatter Rabaul   3 Tokyo Ships Sunk, 18 Planes Shot Down by American Airmen; Attackine. Yanks Lose 12 Graft

ALLIED AIRMEN RAID SHIPPING IN RABAHL AREA   Twelve American Planes Are Shot Down—Three Japanese Ships Explode

PLANE LOSSES OF U.S. HEAVY OVER RABAUL   Twelve Shot Down <But Yanks Destroy 33 Enemy Craft

LOSSES HIGH IN HUNDRED-PLANE RAID ON RABAUL   At Least Three Jap Ships Sunk

RABAUL HEAVILY HIT BUT LOSSES FOR U.S. WERE HIGH   12 American Planes Oowned. Bombing Attack Was Devastating.

Yank Losses in Raid on Rabaul Unusually Heavy   12 Planes Lost; Jap Resistance Ie Angressive

American Plane Losses High In Raid On Rabaul   Devastating Attack Made On Southern Hub of Nippon Defenses

U.S. Losses High In Devastating  Raid On Rabaul   Marines Kill 126 Japs Trying To Retake Hill 660 Seized Last Fri.

U. S. Losses ‘In Rabaul Attack Reported High   12 Yankee Planes Are Shot Down As Japs Hit Back Hard

AIRCRAFT PLANTS AND FIELDS OBJECT OF GREAT ARMADA OF AMERICA PLANES OVER [EUROPE   -Nosing -Through German Fighter Opposition Probably 2,000 Planes Smash at Many Targets As Part of Campaign of Extermination of Nazi  Induetry

NAZI FIGHTER OPPOSITION HEAVY   Allies Say Attack Made Ir Very Great Strength   22 BOMBERS   Lost In Vienna Operation, Vichy Radio Claims; Other Action

VERY STRONG FORCE  SMASHED THROUGH  FIGHTER OPPOSITION HEAVY BLOW TODAY FOL.  LOWED ATTACK ON VIEN WA AND NICHT RAINS

Strong Force Assaults South Reich   Airdromes and War Industries Are Targets for Today

Airmen Over Europe Today In Big Force   Follow Friday—Raids On Vienna and German Communications

Raids On Hans Kept Going By Allied Airs men       ‘Strong Forniations Roar ' to Targets During Day After  Series of Attacks Yesterday

NAZI TARGETS NOT DISCLOSED   American Planes Smash Through German Opposition in South Area.   /RAF HITS WEST SECTOR

STRONG FORCES BOMBERS WING INTO EUROPE   American and British Airmen Continve Strafing of Hitler’s Forces Despite Haze Today   BLAST TRANSPORT      Rail Center of Creil, Near Paris, Among Friday’s Targets in France, Germany, Holland

Fierce Sky Battles Mark New Foray :   American Forts and Liberators Penetrate To South of Reich

Heavy Bombers Batter Again At Nazi Bases   1090 or More Planes Reported Engaged in Raids

A HEAVY RAID ON THE REICH   Very Strong Forces of Heavy Bombers Smash Through Fighter Opposition to Hit Southern Part of Nation.

"VERY GREAT’ U. §. FORCES HIT GERMANY      Battle Way Through Fighter Opposition To Deliver Blows

U: S: BOMBERS HIT IN SOUTH CERMANY   Strong. Yank Force Said To Have Smashed Thru Big Fighter Group   AIDED BY LIGHTNINGS

—AIR WAR—  MORE THAN 1,000 PLANES IN BALD   Strong Forces Of American Bombers Smash Southern Germany   LARGE ESCORT   Battle Way Through Strong Fighter Opposition To Reach Targets

‘Batter Way Through Nazi Air Fighters   Between 1,500 and 2,000 Planes in Raid Against Aircraft Plants

STRONG AIR FORCES HIT OVER EUROPE   The Americans in Great Strength Smash at Plane Factories in Reich.   Follows Heavy Smash At Vienna Yesterday

Yank Bombers Rip Targets In South Germany   Heavy Daylight Blow Follows Night Raid By RAF Mosauitos.

Rirfields, c “Industries ~ Pounded       Southern Port’ of. Germany “Attacked; ‘Berlin: Report ‘Great: Air’ Battles      4HOUR. PROCESSION: = OF ALLIED PLANE               13th U.. S. Mission’: of” 11 Month: Follows, Heavy. Blow -at: Vienna-*:

sritish and \.§. Bombers Yenew Attack   Daylight Forays Fellow Mosquito Raids on Reich

MORE THAN 750 HEAVY PLANES MAKE ASSAULT   Smash Through Nazi Fighter Opposition to Bombard Factories

NOMINATIONS FOR “OSCARS’   Ten ‘Films, Five Actors. Five Actresses Listed for Movie Votes

2 ‘Children. Die “As Fire ‘Razes. - Home In Maine      Parents,. Several Others tn _- Family: Of 13- Seriously -. Burned-- At - Lewiston

FRANCE WANTS PART IN POST-WAR PLANS   De Gaulle Says Arrangements Governing Germany Should Include Full Participation Of Nation

De Gaulle Asks Full Status AtPeace Table   Wants Participation In Talks Deciding Fate of Germany

BIDDLE UPHOLDS POLITICS OF Ci0   Political Action Group Within Election Laws, Senator Informed

7500 Planes Rip Air, Rail Centers   Hurl Estimated 6500 Tons On Hitler Europe

OF BOMBS HIT ENEMY   éRaider s Concentrate On Rail Centers And Airdromes

EVANGELIST’S DEATH CAUSE UNDETERMINED   Pathological Tests Will Be Made In Attempt To Learn Cause; Sleeping Tablets Found

BELGIAN BORDER 1S CROSSED SATURDAY BY AMERICAN FORCE  OTHER ALLIED TROOPS A’

CHURCHILE MAKES BID FOR SOVIET FRIENDSHIP ON CONTINENT BY HIS \CONCESSIONS. ON POLISH QUESTION

WAR ANALYST GIVES CONCLUSION AS TO WHAT CHURCHILL MEANS IN HIS SWITCH TO SIDE OF RUSSIA

HITLER WEST WALL ROCKED AGAIN TODAY   Berlin Broadcasts “Cry” Terror Raid as High Explosive, Fire Bombs Rain Down

Canadian Pacific Airlines Plane and Three Men Drifting Out te Sea — All Contact with Men Lost When Bad Weather Keeps Other Planes ‘on Ground.

War Chest- One Day Drive Is To Be Held Thru. County Tuesday   County Quota Set At $16,844.38; Funds Are To Supplant All Of Other Appeals For The Year Except The Red Cross

trikers Will - Return to Work _{n Seized Mines   Strikes at Other Pits To Continue Until Conditions Met

STRIKERS WILL WORK MONDAY   Men at 10 Pits ‘Seined by Government Say They  Will Return to Jobs

Strike Threat Ends At Mines By U.S. Action   Pit Boss Leaders, How. ever, Hint At Other Walkouts

OEE PEALE Ih ATHENS WHITE NEW REGENCY   Under British Pressure King  George Il Appoinis  Damaskinos.

SOLONS WANT “IKE” GIVEN ENVOY POST   Overseas Visitors _ Claim General _ —__—-Diplomat——_ —

4,000 Bombers Blast German Rail Center, French Coast Forts   Allies Activate 23,000 Planes Against Axis On Continent During Past Seven Days Of Pre-Invasion, Balkan Bombing Sorties

Army Rushing Supplies for Allied Invasion Forces in Great Quantities

Army Rushing Supplies For  Invasion Forces   Shipments ordered to ports “sooner than possible;”” officers: on night shift...

Seltlement of Dispute Up to ~~ Polish Leaders   Next Move in Border .. Controversy Up... so Tg Poland = sy

POLISH BORDER DOOR’ OFFERED   Agreement on Frontier May be Worked Out Soon

Willkie Files In Siate Primary  Will Go On. Republican Ballot On May 1

Men On Transport Sing and Swelter On Deck in Black. Equatorial Night

Jap Submarine Attacks Transport And Misses---But Everyone Jittery

PETER RUPPEL SHOOTS SELF   Royalton Township Man’s Body Is Found By Daughter

Hits Bungling of FCC Monitors   Says Actions Caused Trapping of Task Force

Soviets Adv: .2s Within Ar’ ge ; y Range of £ ged   Rapid-Fire Drive Aimed At Knocking Balkan Satellite Out of War

REDS POUND OUT GAINS IN HUNGARY   Ate Less Than 100 Miles From Budapest

Reds 100 — Miles From Budapest   Russion Tanks And infantry . Within Artillery Range of Szeged

Russian Troops Press Campaign Thru Hungary   Soviet Forces Aim Offensive At Budapest

RUSSIAN ARMY SWEEPS INSIDE HUNGARY LINES   Red Troops Now Only 100 Miles From Budapest, Pour  Across Plains

NEAR SZEGED IN HUNGARY   Red Army Is Less Than 100 Miles From Budapest

Red Army Units Deep In Hungary   Advance Into Third Balkan Satellite On 96-Mile Front Within Gun Range Of Szeged, 00 Miles From Budapest

‘Russian Forces \Are Fanning Out Over Romania   Columns Head West Toward Yugoslavia And Transylvania; Pressure on Bulgars

ALLIED VIEW OF ANZIO IS SOMBER ONE   Beachhead Operation Has Been Patrol Action Since Unsuccessful Attempt to Expand Holdings a Week Ago.

German Guns Harrass U.S. Supply Line   Artillery In Hills Bombard American Communications

FARMERS OFFER PARTY PROGRAW   Government by Law Urged At Republican Meeting

Farmer Co-Ops Council Urges Less Government   Proposes GOP Plaiiorm Pledg:  te Eliminate ‘Geverament

GOP Makes Strong Bid  For Farmers   Favors Less Government  Participation in Life of  Nation

Farmer Groups Call For Fewer  Govt. Controls   GOP Committee Continues Search For Strong Agricultural Plank.

NAZIS BOMBED HOSPITAL SHIP   Sank Vessel During Allied Landing South of Rome

Germans Sink  Hospital Ship   Defenseless Vessels  Attacked In Landing

RY BENNY raAgCaInY   German Bombers Sink \Allied Hospital Ship iDurina Italian Landina

GERMAN BOMBERS SINK HOSPITAL SHIP, BLAST 2 OTHERS. ALL PLAINLY MARKED

Invasion Jitters Are Just Beginning.....  Pre-Invasion “Battle Of Nerves’ Is Under Wav

Channel Coast Jitters Flare: Invasion Near   Rumors Will Flow Fast - From Now Until the  Fateful Hour

Invasion Jitters Are Just Beginning;  Churchill Hints Of Strange Maneuvers

INVASION JITTERS It HIT BOTH SIDES   Germans Will Try to Learr Underground Plans with False Alarms

Allies Break Up Attack at Cassino            INVASION JITTERS GETTING UNDER WAY; MANY FEINTS MAY PRECEDE ACTUAL ALLIED BLOW

Invasion Jitters Begin   Allies to Feint For Surprise, Use Underground Aid; Germans Work Desperately

WAR OF NERVES INCREASES OVER INVASION PLANS   False Alarms, Feints and Reports Break Out on Both Sides of Channel

INVASION JITTERS JUST BEGINNING; CHURCHILL WARNS OF FALSE ALARMS

Invasion Jitters Just Beginning; Flood of Tricks, Feints Expectea

Invasion Jitters,  Deceptive Rumors  ‘Just Beginning Churchill Appears  .. Giving Notice of bg i Eaimnte En tea Alarm:

INVASION JITTERS  ARE JUST BEGINNING  WASHINGTON REPORTS BATTLE OF NERVES EX PECTED TO BE WAGED IN] COANNEE NICTRICT

Invasion Jitters  Are Just Beginning   Surprise Is Deadly Weapon On Each Side; Underground Elements Big Help To Allies

Jitters Over invasion Are Growing Daily   Greatest Battle of Nerves Being Waged From Both Sides Of English Channel

Jitters Just Beginning False Alarms, Dress Rehearsals  To Precede Invasion Of Europe

INVASION TALK GROWS ON BOTH CHANNEL SIDES   BATTLE OF NERVES REACHES NEW PEAK AS RUMORS INCREASE

Ladies Night Will Be Held by Rotary   Dr. Armstrong of St. Bona Will be Speaker

Plenty of Meat, But Not to Eat   ‘ Capon Club Displays Birds to Retarians

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3,000 PLANES LASH FLYING BOMBS BASES   Bombers Smash German Aircraft Center Of Friedrichshafen

Knew It All, Nazis Claim   Goebbels Says Knew Date All Along; He and Generals Promise Victory

GOEBBELS SAYS HE KNEW ALLIES INVASION PLANS   Larry Allen Tells ot Boasting of Propa. «ganda Minister " «

GERMANS PUT” UP STRONGEST RESISTANCE   General Situation, However, Still Satisfactory to Allies

Draft of Men 26. 37 Slated ‘Amid Stepup   Sweeping Action Aimed to Relieve Labor Shortage

Praise Men Who Bring the Bills--Mailmen Get Salary Raise   Representatives Are Eloquent ‘In Action

Tojo Gravely Concerned ver Pacific Reverses:  India Fighting Picks Up

Flattop Lost In Atlantic   Navy Reveals Escort Carver Went Down In Battle With  Light Casualties.

Former Al Capone Aid Slain as His Auto Radio Plays Soft Dance Music

Merrill’s American Marauder: Capture Shaduzup By A Swift End Run Trappine Manvy Tans

Yankees Cut Off Japanese Threat Imphal Fighting   Imphal Fighting Reported Bitter

Yankees Cut Off Japanese Threat  Imphal Fighting Reported Bitter

Marauders In North Burma Take Shaduzup   Merrill’s All-Stars Link With Chinese In End-Run Maneuver

Allied Raiders Take Town In North Burma   Resistance to Jap India Offensive Reported Increasing

waeayvrn Ste SVeviiniveaw VF SV leas  LAVAL MAY TRY TO MAKE PEACE

THREE-PERSONS KILLED IN TEXAS EXPLOSION   Sparks From Engine Ignite Butane Gas Leaking From Truck After Collision With Car

Autopsy in Starvation Death Due   MOTHER OF CRIPPLED CHILD HELD IN GARDNER, KAN., JAIL

Assembly Meets To Enact Soldier Vote Legislation   ‘Administration Appropriation Bill Would Set Aside $750,000 for Cost of Providing Ballot For Armed Forces   PARTY LEADERS AGREE TO SIDETRACK POLITICS

State Assembly In Special Meet   Leaders Agree On Putting Politics Aside In One-Week Session

CHURCHILL AND FDR MEET FOR PARLEY ON WAR   British Prime Minister Jn Quebec After Boat Trip From England   TO PLAN PACIFIC SHIFT   Mrs. Roosevelt May Be On Hand For Part Of Strategy Parley

SEVENTH MEETING OF PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER ‘15 BEING HELD.AT. + QUEBEC”

CHURCHILL AND * FDR IN QUEBEC ,. FOR WAR TALKS   Britain’s Prime Minister Declares ‘Victory Is 3 Everywhere’

WarConference  In Quebec:   Roosevelt and Churchill Arrive Today

NATION IN CRUCIAL PRODUCTION PERIOD   McNutt Predicts More Complex Manpower Problems

‘Crucial Days’ In Production  Problems To Continue Even When Nazis Fall

5,000 Warplanes Shower Bombs On Nazi Factories  In 2-Way Attacks

Aerial Armada Blasts New Road   D-DAY HASTENED BY ALLIED BOMBING FORAYS.

U. S. Heavy  Bombers   Total. of 8500 ‘To Bombs Dropped  24-Hour Period .

2000 U.S. Craft Raid Germany Second Time in  Past 24 Hours   Cathedral at Rouen Damaged, Vichy Radio  Saves

RECORD BOMB RAID IS MADE AGAINST AXisS   RAF Hurls 4,480 Tons on French Rail Targets in  Night Missions.   Americans Blast at Plants in Germany

Allies Blast Enemy Targets Across Europe   Invasion Day Draws Nearer as Result of Raids

R.A.F. Blasts French Rail Facilities; U.S. Bombers Strike At Germany Today

Allies Blasting New Road Toward D-Day; Drop 8,500 Tons of Bombs.   OBJECTIVES SCATTERED!

RAF Sets Record With 4.480 Tons   1,000 British Bombers on Raid — Largest RAF Operation — Sandwiched Between Two Big American Attacks — Little Fighter Opposition to Yanks

1, OU Ton Of Bombs Dropped In 24 Hours   More Than 5,000 Aircraft Strike German Targets

Daylight Offensive Follows Giant RAF Frankfurt Assault   German Air Force, Which Avoided Battle When 600 or More Fortresses and Liberators Blasted Berlin, Engages Armada   ESSEN, OLDENBURG AND HANDORF ARE VISITED

U.S. Heavy Bombers Out In Force, Too   Total of 8500 Tons of Bombs Dropped a 24-Hour Period

More Than 7,000 Tons Shower Over Feuhrer’s Europe   early 2,000 U. S. Bombers and Fighters Join In Smashing Reich Industries Similar to Armada's Visit of Tuesday   RENCH CITY OF 15,000 IS REPORTED IN FLAMES

Greatest. Tonnage Ever Used In One Operation Is Unloaded During Night In France

Big Bombers Hit Reich Again Today   RAF Rains 8,500 Tons of Bombs on Continent In Heaviest Single Operation of War; French Cities Are in Flames After Attack

BOMB WEIGHT IS GREATEST IN HISTORY   Two Thousand U. S. Planes Hit Reich Today   AIRFIELDS   Main Targets Of Offensive; 8,500 Tons Dropped In Last 24 Hours

Record Attack Paves Way For _ Invasion Move   German Plane Factories. Rail Junctions Pounded By Huge British and  s Air Fleete      7.000 Tons Hurled In Bombing Forays   French Cities Hanunered and One Set Afire. Says Viehy Radio; West * Germany Is Hit

British Blast Rail Targets in France, Renew Raids Today   English Smash Nazi-Controlled Railways With 4,480 Tons of Explosives; Mosquitoes Hit Berlin

AERIAL ATTACK IN SECOND DAY   Laval Warns French Against Invasion Cooperation

1,500 U.S. CRAFT TAGE      Airmen Blast Aircraft Park East of Essen, Aix Force Station in Olden:  burg and Bomber oa at Wandarft

New 2,000-Plane Yank Attack On Reich; RAF In Heaviest Blow Yet At French Rail Lines.

h000 Planes Pound Europe   R.A.F. Hurls 4480 Tons of Bombs on French Rail Targets in Greatest Single Operation; Yanks Blast Germany Twice

RAF Hurls 4,480 Ton Bomb Load On Rail Targets   5,000 Warplanes Out In 24-Hour Period; U. 5. Bombers Again Wing Over Germany

Massive Blows Hit Rails, Nazi  Invasion Posts   Red Marins Pressing Into Sevastopol;  ‘Allies Attack In Imphal Area

9,000 PLANES: HAVE STRUCK IN 24 HOURS   Bomb Load in Period About 8,500 Tons — Attacks Include 4,480-Ton Assault in France, Bigvest on Record.

8,000 Tons of Bombs Hurled On Continent!   British Bomb. the.. French Railroads, Americans Go After Plane Factories   THREE BIG RAIDS IN SHORT.ORDER      Several Targets. Hammered as Air. Force Blasts Out’. Road Toward D-Day ©

Showers 4,480 Tons of Explosives on French Rail Lines   U. S. Heavy Bombers Attack Germany Second Time in 24 Hours

5,000 British And American Warplanes Drop 7,000 Tons Of  Exynlacivee On Hitler’e Fiuirone

2,000 Plane Raids Made  Upon France ‘And German}   New Paths Blasted For D-Day Attacks

Unrivaled Rain Of Bomb Hits Europe   English and America Planes Join in Roun The-Clock Blows on Nazi Fortress

RAIL TARGETS ARE STRUCK BY RAF   U. S. Heavy Bombers in Heavy Raid Into Germany

Allied Fliers Drop 7000 Tons Of Bombs --On-Hitler-Fortress:   Report Nearly 2000 U. S. Bombers And Fighters Smashing Today At German Aircraft Factories

TEMPERATURES:   Sky Offensive Speeds D-Day, Foe’s Plane Centers Battered

Allied Fliers Blasting Way for Invasion   5,000 Planes Drop 7,000 Tons of Bombs in Last 24 Hours

MORE THAN 5,000 PLANES LASH AT NAZI FORTRESS  DROP MORE THAN   DROP MORE THAN 7,000 BOMB TONS IN LAST 24 HOURS

5000 BOMBERS BLAST GERMANS LAST 24 HOURS   Largest Armada Of War Bombs Enemy Today

AECORD LOAD OF BONS DROPPED   U.S. Bombers Attacking Germany For Second /Time In 24 Hours   ROUEN HARD HIT   Allied Warplanes Unload 8,500 Tons Of Bombs On Nazis

AERIAL BLOWS UPON GERMANY HIT NEW FURY   8,500 Tons of Bombs Are  Dropped In 24 Hours3   No Letup Today

RAF HURLED 4480 TONS LAST NIGHT AND 2000 U. S. PLANES DROP 4000 MORE TONS TODAY   Greatest Agrial Operation on Récord for 24-Hour Period Includes French Railways, German Aircraft Plants in Dozen Cities and Vital Possible Invasion Points

American Air Fleet Out Again Today Blasting At Nazi Fighter Plane Plants

British Drop 4,480 Tons on Rail Targets   Americans Return to Batter Germany; French Area Hit During Night

4.480 TONS OF BOMBS USED IN NIGHT ASSAULT   Allied Airmen Blasting New Road Toward  Invasion Day

American Attack On Hitler’s Europe Keeps Air War Going With British Airmen

NEARLY 2,000 U. S. PLANES OW RAIDS   Drop 7,000 Tons Of Explosives Within 24-Hour Period

ALLIES HAVE SENT OUT MORE THAN S000 RAIDERS IN 24 HOURS  NEW ROAD TOWARD  _ D-DAY BLASTED BY OVER “ANN TONS EXPLOSIVES

France's Railway System Battered In Major Attack   Nazi Europe Pounded By 5,000 Planes In 24 Hours Of Unprecedented Fury

Greatest Weight In Single Operation Unloosed by Over 1,000 British Bombers — Americans Meeting Little Opposition Today In New Assault On Reich—Heavy  ’ Damage On Aircraft Works.

Aircraft Factories, Key — Transportation Points _ Flying Fields Are Hit

4,480 Tons Bombs Strike French Targets   5,000 Allied Planes Hurl Down 8,500 Tons of Bombs in 24 Hours in Effort to Blast Road Into Reich.

Rail Targets, Plane  Plants Blasted With New Fury of Attacks   Allies Send 5,000 Planes Out in 24 Hours, R.A.F Drops 4,480 Tons for Night Record; Little Nazi Fighter Opposition Reported

Allied Bombers Drop Over 7,000 Tons in 24 Hours   Blast New Road To D-Day in Night, Daylight Aerials

R.ALF., YANKS DROP 7,000 TONS WITHIN 24 HOURS   Pre-Invasion Bombings Resumed With Greater Ferocity

9,000 Planes Drop 7,000 Tons Bombs In 2:4 Hours   2,000 U.S. Aircraft Resume Assault On Hitler's Europe; Plane Factories Attacked

TWO WESTERN STATES STRUCK BY TORNADO   Zen Lose “ives And Nearly 160 Injured In South Dakota And Minnesota Twister

TORNADO HITS 2-STATE ARES   Eastern South Dakota, West Minnesota Farm Houses Are Leveled

OREATES DAY ATTAUh IN HISTORY   800 Bombers Part of Air Armada   A  BERLIN BLASTED  Ste tn a ea  R.A... Loses 47 Boms hers Last Night

Nearly 1,800 U. S. Planes Share In  Frankfort Raid   Greatest Daylight Operation Of War Is Carried Out By U. S. Fliers   BRITISH HAMMER BERLIN AT NIGHT

TO BE PASSED. ONLY IF STRIKE WAVE LOOMS   Favorable Action on F. D. R.’s Plan Unlikelv in Either House

Navy Arranges For Sha recropper Family ‘To Assist With Christening Of Vessel Named For Son Who Perished In Pacific

Britain Becomes Virtual Fortress   Civilians Unable To Leave Island

Crushing Blows In France And In East Smash Nazi Europe At Startling Pace

AT ORMOG SHELLED BY U. 8 DESTROYERS   Yank Ships Pound Nip Shore Defenses Along 40-Mile Strip

WARSHIPS HIT JAP POSITIONS AT ORMOC BAY   DESTROYERS MOVE IN CLASE TO BLAST STRONGHOLD “PLANES ATTACK U, 8. SRIPS

Jap Garrison or  Leyte Shelled By Destroyers   Enemy Warplanes Attack American Vessels in Gulf

Leading Citizen  Dies Following  Brief Sickness  John Cooper Held  Many Positions of "Teyiet Tr ¥ Mave

Leading Citizen Dies Following Brief Sickness  John Cooper Held Many Positions of Trust In l.eMare

AGADCHY. WILL GRADUATE NINE   Exercises to Be Held Sunday at 2:30 O’clock

ACADEMY. WILL GRADUATE NINE   Exercises to. Be Held Sunday at 9°30 O'clock -

EDSON DEPICTS HIGHLIGHTS OF CONVENTION   Daily t Saptsprit evendent y it -oftNYeouth Lackine

World War Ill Plans Captured   Urge Germans to Save Key Officers

HITLER PLANS NEW WORLD WAR   Secret Order Discloses His Terse Terms To Generals

CHURCH PICNIC HELD SUNDAY   St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Enjoy Day at New Deal Park

St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Enjoy Day at - New Deal Park

ADVISE PROTESTANT CAOUIP NOT TO FEAR   Catholic Paper Takes Issue With Opposition to Va- ¢ tican Observer. fy

U. S.A.- Vatican. Diplomatic Tie  Raises Issue   Boston Pilot Answers Op posilion Voiced by Federal Council Churches  Of Chiist

HOPE TO CUT TOOTH DECAY   RESEARCH INDICATES ADDING OF FLUORINE TO WATER MAY REDUCE DECAY 40 PER CENT

Soviets Tear hy, rn Gans! m  LLUESYL NAMA  Nazi Fl Flanks   Red Army Surges Toward  Germans’ Last Escape  Rail Line   THOUSANDS IN TRAP.   All but 11 Miles of Main Moscow-Leningrad Railway Cleared

Reds Rip Holes in Nazis’ Lines   Encirclement Nears for German Forces

REDS NARROW ESCAPE AREA   Are Now Within 34 Miles of Estonian Border

Reds Drive on Last ‘Rail Line to Baltic   Encirclement of 250,000 Troops Tmminent as Exit Path Narrows

Trap Is Closed By Reds   German Army O 250,000 Is  Disintegrating

RUSSIANS CLAMP TRAP ON 250,000 NEAR LENINGRAD   Disintegrating German Army Has Great Chunks Torr Out In Surging Toward Escape Railroad.   ADMIRALTY ISLANDS BOMBED BY ALLIES   Tokio Radio Admits Situation Is Serious, Japs Lose 22 Planes In One Attack, 44 Lost By Allies.

RUSSIANS CLOSING TRAP ON GERMANS   Near Nazis’ Last Escape Railroad Below Leningrad

Soviets Narrow German Escape Route To 65 Mi.   Capture Of Nazi Town Clears LeningradMoscow Line

3 YANKS WIPE OUT 58 GERMAN TROOPS   Annihilate Nazis With Grenades and Machine Gun—Capture Command Post.

Lieutenant and Two Parachutists Kill 58 Nazis, Take Command Post

GREATEST ATTACK   Robot Bombs Came Over England in Salvos for  4 Hours

HEAVIEST ROBOT ATTACK OF WAR SHAKES LONDON   Invesion Leeders Opine Germene Tryine te Slow A lice d Air te'de

BUZZ BOMB ATTACK BEING INTENSIFIED   Attempt Seen To Divert Air Attacks on Normandy

Londoners Get Greatest Raid   24 Hour Robot Bomb Attack Hits Southern England  With Big Force.

Germans Launch Greatest Robot Blow On Britain  Tal —   Plan To Divert Allied Air Might

Jap Reinforcements Rushed To Manila   American Planes Meet Air Opposition On Increasing Scale In Philippines.

JAPANESE RUSH REINFORCEMENTS TO MANILA AREA   Believed To Be Bolstering Their Faltering Defenses Of Manila

Japanese Rush  Aerial Aid To Bolster Manila   U. S. Planes Meeting Increasing Opposition In Philippine Attacks

JAPS RUSHING MORE TROOPS TO MANILA   Seek to Bolster Faltering Defenses of City

PLANES T0 LUZON ISLE   39 Nip Fighters Are Downed Over Clark Field

Jap Fliers Fight Back At Manila   Reinforcements in Air Strengthen Defense Of Capital City

Production Of Vital ‘Engines At Ford Plant ‘Falls Behind Schedule

Production of Vital Plane Engines Behind Schedule at Big Rouge Plant

PRODUCTION BEHIND AT FORD COMPAM   No Specific Reasons Given By AAF Spokesman for This Becline.

RAILROAD STRETCH CAPTURED BY JAPS   Nipponese Forces Increase Pressure in India Fighting

Japs in Burma   Peril Key Rail   Foes Piercing Naga Hills, Menacc U. S. ‘Lifeline’

INDIA INVASION FRONT GLOOMY   Nipponese_ Increasing Pressure On Allied Supply Lines

Japs Seize Part of Vital Road  Are Within 80 Miles - of Allied Lifeline

JAPANESE MOVING ON VITAL LINE   NIPS) INCREASE PRESSURE ALL ALONG 200-MELE INDIA INVASION FRONT,

15 MILES OF HIGHWAY IN INDIA TAKEN   Japanese Increase Pressure On Invasion Front, Alarming Feature Being Concentration At Manipur Road.   Terrific Gamble

Japs Seize Part Of Imphal Road Supplying Allies   Enemy Believed Engaged In Big Gamble  In Burma

11 ARMY MEN KILLED WHEN SHIP HITS MINE   2 Others Missing From Elihu Thompson In South Pacific; Fighting Rages On Peleliu

An Autopsy on  Aged Woman’: Battered Body   Funeral Home Instructed to Send Body to Boonville

MORE FATHERS TO FACE DRAFT   Hershey Orders Boards Tc Step Up Dads’ Induction

Roads Strewn With Wreckage   Great Piles of German Equipment  On Via Casilina

Stalin Calls For Twin Allied Blow To Vanquish Hitler   Premier Praises Allies For Aid, Asserts Italian Front Diverts Nazis from Russia

Jap Carrier Is  Believed Sunk   Hit By British Sub Torpedo In Straits Of Malacca— Cruiser Damaged

Probe Boys’ Sabotage Secret Group   MEMBERS WIPE FEET ON FLAG, PLAN GOVERNMENT CONTROL

BIBLE-STABBING CLUB IS NABBED   Secret Society of Teen Agers To Control Government

Begin Work On Polish Question   Utmost Discretion —  Used On Vital Issue

Poles Chief Problem of  Conference   British Delegation At Moscow Gets ._ Down to Work

SECURITY PACT TALKS DELAYED   Session Postponed Until Aug. 21 At Request Of -Russia

POST-WAR SECURITY TALKS POSTPONED AT REQUEST OF RUSSIA  ANGLO-AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN PHASE OF FOUR  TST erA wTe!AT PFN FAM 4 ft

Fire Does Damage To Palmer Home   Early Morning Blaze In Kitchen Extinguished

KILLED IN PLANE CRASE   Parents of Matthew Allen, 20, Receive Word From  War Department

Nimitz Credits Japan’s Naval Plight to Subs   Admiral Says Undersea Cratt Have Crippled

U. §. Submarines Force Jap Fleet Into Retirement   Supplies May Be Kept from Truk

.  'U. S. Sub Operations Promise to Reshape Pacific War .Course   Admiral Nimitz Asserts Early Encounter With Jap Fleet Would Be Welcome and Disastrous to the Enemy's Defenses

SUBS FORCED JAP: RETREAT, NIMITZ SAYS   Declares General Situ- ation in Pacific ts “Very Favorable’

JAPAN CRIPPLED BY SUB ATTACKS, NIMITZ-DEGLARES   Admiral Credits U. 8. Submersibles With Forcing Retreat of Mikado’s Fleet  in Pacific.   RAIDS MAY CHANGE COURSE OF THE WAR   Commander, in . Washington _ for Conferences, Says Nip  . Air Power Has Passed _ Peak Strength. 

Nimitz Claims Subs Force Jap Fleet's Retreat   Cochrane Indicates U.S. Forces Plan Occupation of Trule

Americans Make Speedy Drive On Gothic Line   Fight in Torrential Rains Within Sight Of Town of Pisa

YANKS SMASH AHEAD ALONG ITALY FRON]   Germans Race Back Toward Vaunted Gothic Line

Germans Fleeing Yanks’ Lightning Advance in Italy   Fast-Charging Fifth Army Take Big Area Between Pisa, Florence

FINNISH PARTY DMANDS PEACE   Reported Exerting Pressure Bh Geintenennd 18 ee

Finland’s Chief  Political Party,  Seeking Peace Helsinki Waits for  Result of Leaders’ Trip to Stockholm

Finn group wants peace with Russia   World waiting  for agreement

Badly Mauled Japs Give More Ground   Evidence Of Mass Burials Un Bougainville Githctantinte Heavy Tall: 12 Barges Stink

JAPANESE TROOPS ARE FALLING BACK AT: BOUGAINVILLE   Mass Burial of Dead Indicates Nipponese Suffered Heavy Losses in -Fierce  '- Fighting,   LARGE FIRES SET IN RAID ON TRUK   Big Liberators Strike Naval Fortress at’ Dawn—U. 5S. Admiralty Drive Approaching End.

Reports Further Jap Withdrawal At Bougainville   MacArthur Also Tells Of Big Fires Set During Raid on Truk

Badly Mauled Japs Give More Ground   Evidence Of Mass Burials On Bougainville Substantinte Heavy Toll: 13 Boraqes Sunk

Air Forces Blast Path For Armies   Planes of Alf Types Range Ov- Wide Arc, Hitting Many Targets

U.S. Bombers Hammer Nazi Cities   Fliers Hit Railways, Bridges, Roads In Sweeping Attack

French Threatenins To Outflank  German Defenses  - British Warships Go Into Action on West Italian Front

French Menace Nazi ‘Gustav  Line’ Offense   Russian’s Northern Armies Attempt To Complete Entrapment Of Nazis.   WEATHER IS. COLDER

French Drive’ Menaces Nazi - Linei in Italy  Seizs Mt Il La Il Lago Posi     Seize Mt. Il Lago Positions as Dritish, Aided by  Navy. Sweep Ahead   MINTURNO FALLS   300 Prisoners Taken, Twin Villages Under Allied Attack

French Move Up to Cassino   British Cruisers and Destroyers Pour Shells On Embattled Nazis

British Navy - Opens Up On Appian Way   Cruisers © and © Destroyers Shell Coast in Support: : _ of Great Forces   FRENCH, ADVANCE NEAR CASSINC      Hitler ‘Line Back of Gustav Line Now Being-Attacked by Allies. 2°

Frenchmen Threatening Gustav Line   F ifth Army Drives  Ahead Along Appian Way

Threaten Nazi Flank in Italy   French Troops Cross Rapido River to Capture Foot of Mount Il Lago.

FRENCH TROOPS MAY OUTFLANK NAZIS IN ITALY   British Navy Helps Fifth Army Advance Within 76 Miles  Of Rama

Flanking Move in italy « Menace to Foe’s Gustav Line   French Capture Hill Position and British Troops Smash Ahead Along Appian Way

FRENCH ADVANCE UP MT. IL LAGO   Threatened To Outflank Nazi ‘Gustav Line’ In Italy  pe eRI@MIIPaIM CADTIIDER

British Forces Sarash Forward. On Appian Wa)   Allied Fliers Concentrate On Enemy Air Fields For Fourth Siraight Day

Allied Diive Is  Nearing Cassino   French Forces Threaten ‘To Outflarik Germans’ ‘Gustav Line’. In Italy As British - Smash -On - After Capturing Minturne..  o

FRENCH TROOPS CAPTURE NAZI MOUNTAIN PASS   Allied Forces Are Closing In On Cassino Today

Push May Allow Cassino Capture  From Rear Flank   But Captured Germans Say Another Strong Fortified German Linc Lies 6 Miles Behind Gustav Belt. — British Assault Twin Defense Villages.

French Forces of 5th Army Threaten  Nazis’ Gustav Line   Gen. Clark’s Troops Are Smashing Ahead Along Appian Way Today

French Capture Foot Of Mt. Il Lago, Threaten To Outflank “Gustav Line”

FRENCH TROOPS SLASH THROUGH NAZI DEFENSES   Allied Forces Seize High Ground, Threaten to Outflank ‘Gustav Line’

Gustav Line In Danger of Outflanking   German Prisoners Reveal ‘Adolf Hitler’ Line Is 6 Miles Behind It

French Take Foot of Mount Near Cassino; British Advance on Road.   WEATHER GETS COLDER

FRENCH TARE POINT BEHIND NAZI TROOPS   Capture Foot of Mt. Il Lago North of Cassino As Allies Advance

FRENCH ADVANCE MENAGES GERMAN DEFENSE IN ITALY   British Smash Forward or Appian Way, Supported bu Warchin Guns

F rench Troops Movi ing Closer  To Nazi Force   Capture Foot of Mt. Il Lago, North of Cassino, Threaten 10 Outflank — *“Custav Line”?   British Smashing Along Appian Way   Capture 300 Germans: Americans Carry Out. Probing Expeditions ‘Across Rapido River

British Smash On In West   Warships Help Batter Way For Fifth Army Attack

FRENCH CROSS RAPIDO, CAPTURE FOOT OF HILL   May Outflank Gustav Line, Navy Aids British in Advance

FRENCH TROOPS CAPTURED FOOT OF MOUNT HL LAGE   They Also Are Threatening tc . Outflank the German’s “Gustav Line.”   BRITISH FORCES BUSY   Smashed Forward Along the Appian Way, Capturing Minturno.

Attack Twin Villages   French Take Foot of Mount Il Lago; British Take 330 Nazi Prisoners; Germans Say Weather “Worse Than Leninerad’’.

British Of Fifth Army Smash Ahead Under Support Of Cruisers And Destrovers

CAPTURE FOOT OF MT. IL LAGO IN CASSINO SECTOR   BRITISH FORCES SMASH FORWARD ON APPIAN WAY

Move to Qutflank Gustav Line Begun   French Units Already Have Captured Foot of Mountain North of Cassino—Britons Drive Ahead Along Appian Way.

French Troop: Gain in italy   German’s “Gustav Line’’ In Cassino Sector

NT, (LAG AREA TARE FROM NAZIS   Rapido Is Crossed By French: Try - Flank Move

French Troops Seize Foot Of Strategic Peak   May Outflank Nazi ‘Gustav Line’ In Italy; British Drive Ahead.

French Menace “Gustav Line’   Cross Rapido River To Threaten Outflanking Or Ti toaneme.

French Troops Captured Area   ALLIED FORCES TAKE NEW SECTOR IN ITALY

French Threaten To Outflank Gustav Line; Warships Shell ‘Appian Way; Air Blows Struck   French Move Into Position To Take Cassina From Rear: Air Fields Hit

Nazis Driven Back Along Appian Way   Skips at Sea Hurl Shells Ahead Of Infantrvmen

FRENCH TROOPS OF FIFTH ARMY CAPTURE FOOT MT. IL LAGO  BRITISH FORCES ADVANCE TOWARD ROME AND CAPTURE MINTURNO

Lonergan Hears State s Charges   Prosecutor Tells Story of Attack

ATTACK REICH OIL REFINERIES   Planes Strafe Fleeing Nazi Army, Sink Cruiser in Harbor at Brest

OIL SOURCES HIT -INDAY'S ATTACKS   Big ‘Day-time . ‘ime Operations Follow RAF: Night. i: ” Aecgults

OlL SOURCES HIT IN DAY'S ATTACKS   Big ‘Day-time . ime. Operations Follow RAF. Night  "Assaults

Nazi Synthetic Oil Sources  Are Smashed   Allied Planes Also Hit Fleeing Units of Hitler’: Once-Mighty Army; German Cruiser Sunk

Frank Diederick © Answers Last Call  Manager of Granville Telephone Association

Abbey Atop Mount Under Fire, Report   Nazis Claim Monastery Shelled by Allies; Soldiers Occupy it.

Monastery Shelled: Rome   Bombardment of Old Abbey Likely But Not Confirmed

FINLAND IS HOPEFUL PEACE TALKS WITH REDS MAY CONTINUE   Fate Of Negotiations Up To Moscow After Terms Rejected

FINNS WILLING TO NEGOTIATE   Only Shght Hope Held for Peace With Reds  Bee. OEYITRS ECE S? Pherae eiy F

NEW INVASION DUTIES ASSUMED BY TEDDER   lakes Over As Allied Deputy Supreme Commander

PASS QUOTA IN OTHLOAN DRIVE   Final Day's Sales Put Salem Over Goal By $130,733.60

SALEM'S BOND QUOTA PASSEL      Sales Exceed $2,235,900 Goal by $115,177 With One Day Remaining

RAIDERS’ BOMBS MISS DE GAULLE   Attack on Paris Appears Aimed at Chief and Diplomatic Corps

De Gaulle Has Narrow Escape Bombs Fall During  ‘or rrmur otrelCUM cease

RURAL GROUPS  R HELD MEETINGS   SEVERAL GROUPS HEI.D REGU LAR MEETINGS DURING THE PAST WEEK

niIRAL GROUPS HELD MEETINGS   SEVERAL GROUPS HELD REGULAR MEETINGS DURING THE PAST WEEK

Foreign Policy Now Paramount Campaign Issue   Roosevelt’s Pre - Pearl Harbor Record Dewey’s Tarocet For Tonight.

~-DEWEY TO ANSWER FDR Foreign Policy Is Big Issue   GOP NOMINEE THROWS ASIDE FARM TALK TO NIT RACY AT PRESIDENT

Dewey Maps [-R. Foreign Policy Atfack   Candidate Drops Farm Talk Plans To Answer President

SPEECH ON THE AIR   Governor Dewey to Assail Roosevelt's Foreign  Policy Record

Dewey to Fill in Gaps in Roosevelt Foreign Policies   Shipments Of Scrap Te Japan Expected Te Be Considered In Candidate's Minneanclic Talk

Two Climaxes — Approached In  French Battle   Fall Of Paris And Final Destruction Of German Seventh Army May Be Reached This Week

ALLIED FORCES BLAST SABANG, * PALAU AND YAF   Japs Report Triple Blows Off Sumatra and West End of Carolines

 —WORLD SERIES— Lanier Faces Browns ~_In Sixth Series Duel   Portsider Gets Call As Cardinals Hope To Win Fourth And Deciding Victory; Nelson Potter On Hill For Browns

Lanier, Potter Starting Pitchers   Chilly Weather Expected To Lower Attendance at Game

F ooiball Weather Hits Chilly Note  In Series Sixth  Browns Te Stage Last Ditch  ” Stand With Polier Hurling

MRS. HOOVER DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT 68   Gracious Wife of 31st President Succumbs in New York

MRS. HOOVER --$-STRIGKEN   WIFE OF FORMER PRESIDENT SUCCUMBED ‘SUDDENLY LAST EVENING FROM —  HEART AILMENT. .

HERBERT HOOVER MOURNS SUDDEN DEATH OF WIFE   Former First Lady Spoke Five Languages; Circled Globe Monv Times

4-WAY SOVIET ATTACK PERILS KEY RAIL HUB   Doubt: Germans Can Make Stand At Dno, East Of Pskov

DNO THREATENED BY ENCIRCLEMENI AS REDS ADVANCE   Soviet Saves Up Victory An: nouncements for Anniversary on Wednesday.

Reds Continue Steady Gains; Hitler Orders Killing of German Wounded?

Junction of Dno Threatened By Encircling Drive   Russians Advance Steadily Toward  German Rail Center

U.S. Takes Control of Ward Plant With Help of Troops   Action Taken After Company Official Rebuffs Previous Efforts to Enforce Presidential Order; Crowd Looks on

Troops have taken over  Ward firm  Roosevelt orders  . TELeVepreetapisy SOrxvsFrreirs

Montgomery Ward’s Chicago ‘Properties Are Taken Over -By Troops On FDR’s Orders   President Of Mail Order Firm Leaves Office After Holding Out Against Governmental Order For Seven Hours; Calls Move Illegal; Crowd Boos And Cheers Soldiers

Firm President Defies Order  From Roosevelt  ' 1500 Watch as Army  Detachment Is Called In Labor Dispute

(GJovernment Seizes  Mail Order House   Troops Aid in Taking Possession of Chicago Units o Montgomery Ward and Co.—Dramatic Controversy Reaches Climax

AVERY REBUFF SENDS TROOPS TO TAKE OVER   Executive Officer Delays Giving Up Conteol]

U.S. Takes Over Units of Huge Company  Montgomery Ward Head Gives Up Before Troops

Army Helps Government Seize Units  Of Ward Co.   Firm’s Executive Head Bows After. Balking Efforts To Carry Out Presidential Order REFUSES TO EXTEND EXPIRED ClO PACT 32 Military Policemen Equipped with Guns Take Over Offices

U.S. Government Seizes Ward’s  Chicago Plants   Military Police Called Out as Head Of Mail Order Company Stands Pat in Defying Roosevelt

Army Steps In On Ward Fight   MP’s Take Over Facilitie: Of Mail Order House

ARMY SEIZES MONTGOMERY WARD PLANT   Big Merchandising Firm Is in Hands of Secretary of Commerce, Agent of the Military.   Firm’s Course in Doubt

Soldiers Take Possession Of Ward’s Chicago Units " After President is Defied   gfirm’s Chief Executive Officer Yields As Troops Back Undersecretary of Commerce in Assuming Control in Labor Dispute

CE Al NEW PEAK FOR 4 DAYS IN ROW   Wednesday’s Highly Pleased Crowd Estimated at 15,000

Chinese Launch Drive, Rout Japs   Rail City Captured; Nips Enter Suiping

SOVIET IMPLIES RECOGNITION OF NEW POLE GROUP   Direct Conflict With London Exile Government Appears Certain

Rus-Pole Dispute Takes New Turn  National Council Sends Delegation

Poles Confer  With Russians   Re ‘prese ntatives Of Pro-Soviet National Couneil Arrive In Moscow.

REDS DEAL WITH POLISH COUNCIL   Moscow Apparently Has Abandoned Hope Of Reconciliation With Polish Government-In-Exile,

RESERVE TIRE THEORY REFUTED   Certificates Issued for Entire Number—Wholesalers Sup-: ply Retail Trade *

RAISE BERRY PRICE CEILING   OPA Pees Peach Prices In All Growing  Areas

Nazis Make Most Widespread Raids On England in Nearly Three Years

Chinese Press Hochih Attack  U. S. Fighter Planes Giving Support

Doughhoys — Crack Last Nazi Stand   Cap De La’ Hague, “NorthWest of Cherbourg Falls in New Assault   BRITISH REPULSE ROMMEL’S ATTAACKS   Night-Long ‘Barrage ot Heavy Guns; Germans Bring Troops From Russia

Fighting In North Part Of Cherbourg  Peninsula Ceases   Odon River Bridgehead Is Scene Of Furious Fighting With Rommel Reported In Personal Command Of Germans In This Sector

Cherbourg Cape Seized as Nazis  Smash at Odon   Last of Germans Cleared From Jutting Peninsula  Near Port by Yanks.   7 Nazi Divisions Sent To Battle the British

German Death Stand on Peninsula ls Cracked Today   Nazi Attacks on British Forces Near Caen Thrown Back

Germans Trying To Wipe Out British Bridg ep On Oron River in Battle for Caen. Rommel Apt parently Seeking Quick Decision with Massed Tanke

Berlin Radio Reports Fighting for Cape Ended ~ Last Night,   2000 MANNED POSITION

YANKS HOLD MOST OF CAP DE LA HAGUE   Doughboys Crack Through Last Enemy Death Stand on the Land Finger Jutting Northwest of Bis Port. ;

British Artillery Stops — Nazi Armored Spearhead   Rommel, with Heavy Armored Reserves, Throws Parts of Seven Tank Divisions Into Battle for Caen   Artillery Stops Nazi Tanks

Berlin Reports Fighting Over On Peninsula   Montgomery’s Troops Stand Up Against Big Blows By Rommel In  Armored Force Battle

YANKS TAKE LAST FOE REFUGE ON PENINSULA   Big British Guns Hurl Back,Mighty . German Tank Assault in Caen Bottle

German Resistance Virtually Over on Cherbourg  Peninsula   ALLIES STANDING FIRM   Nazis Throw Armored Units Into Battle; ———  ‘ Near

British Smash Enemy's Tank Attack on Oden River Wedge   Some German Units Recently Transferred from Russia

Last German Death Stand Has Fallen   Massed Artillery Breaks Up Drive On Odon River

Nazis Admit Loss of  2,000 Men   British Artillery Batters Back Determined German Armored Attack; Rommel Throws Heavier Tank Forces Into Battle

LAST GERMAN STAND CRACKS ON LAND POINT   British Batter Back Nazi Attempt to Breach Spearhead, See Rommel Hand in Campaign

Nazi Attack on Bridgehead Turned Back   British Artillery Turns On Tank Division Trying to Cut Flank

HE SHOT CHUM ACCIDENTALLY   Too Scared to Tell Anyone, He Says; Faces Inquest Tonight

Niles Lad Tells How He Buried His Companion   Lee Johnson Insists To Officers Shooting Was Accidental

14 Men, One Woman Arrested in Draft Evasion Conspiracy  Navy Chief Petty Officer and Two Army Men Among Accused —Other Arrests Likely

Fifteen Seized In Draft Probe   Hagerstown Man Among Those Charged With Aiding Draft Evasion.

Rags @4 Naxcic   FBI Seizes 15 on Charge of Psychoneurotic Draft Fraud

14 Nabbed in Draft Fraud   Charged With Helping Inductees to Obtain Service Deferments

FBI Arrests 14 In Plot To Evade  Induetion   Number Of Employes Of Induction Station At Fifth Regiment Armory Accused

pcused: ‘Them: ‘of Evading the ‘Draft or Assisting” ‘Indue* tees to Feign Ailments. -

Hot Battle 2 1-2 Miles From City   Foe Hurls Two Armies Into Attempt To Block British Encirclement.

British Forces, Backed by  Heavy Artillery Fire,   Seize More Ground   Around Caen.  “ALLIES NOW HOLD 125   ALLIES NOW HOLD 125 MILES OF COASTLINE

NAZIS BRINGING INNEW TROOPS   Montgomery’s Infantry and Armor Widens Brigehead  Across Odon.   SEIZE IMPORTANT HEIGHT

‘Nazis Bring More Troops ‘Into Battle   Montgomery’s Troops Have Widened Bridgehead; Big German Attack Expected

GAP WIDENED IN NAZI LINES BEFORE CAEN   Allies Smash All Counterattacks as Germans Toss in Two Armies.   Fierce Armor Fighting Rages Around the City

Gen. Montgomery  Widens Breach   .. Allied Fighters Stream Across Odon River

GERMANS THROW  2 ARMIES INTO  FLAMING BATTLE MONTGOMERY’S MEN  SMASH NINE ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS

Heavy Fight Is Raging Near Caen   German Tank Losses Mount to 292; 44 Planes Downed

Use Two Armies In Defense of Key City of Caen   Montgomery’s Men Widen Bridgehead  Across Odon River; Stop Counter Blaw<

British Smash Nine Counterattacks in 24 Hours, Widen  Breach in Nazi Line

Caen Is Defended Fiercely by Nazis   Nine Counterattacks Made In 24 Hours on Montgomery’s Men   HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT   Planes Support Romel’s Attempt to Drive Back British

Montgomery's Men Smash 9 Counter Attacks; Push On   Germans Send Strength of Two Armies fata, Battle for Caen

Enemy Brings Out Reserves From German   214 Miles From Caen; British Widen Bridgehead Across Odon River.   DESTROY 44 PLANES

Goebbels Claims  monilization To  Turn Ba’ fe <$"de Ent! vA .gainst  shed In & Assertion

Wives Account Of Attempt or ‘Life of Hitler   Says Entire Plot Smashed in Hour After Bomb Exoloded

Germans Abandon Attempt T Crush Beachhead At Anzio— Soviets Advance To Within 2   Miles Of Latvia. Is Reported   INTER DEFENSES OF PSKOV ARE STORMET

BRENNAN DEFERS ACTION ON WARD!   Firm and Government Appear Headed for New Presidentiaj Seizure.

Sirike On Brussels Street Cars Today   Workers Demand Resignation of Pierlot Cabinet

Registration Past 800 By Sunday Evening   Legionnaires Come and Go; Other Notes on 26th State Convention   Nazis Pinched Off at City of Mons Surrender to Allies by Hundreds

AF of L Council in in Protest Against Wage Veto Power  To Mobilize. Unions. to. ‘Support. Federal

FINNS REEL. UNDER HUGE ~ RED ATTACK      Soviet Army in High Gear on ~ 25-Mile Front; inflict Severe Losses   PART OF ALLIED STRATEGY

Red Drive Rolls on Tn Finlanc   General Govorov's Forces Capture 82 Towns and Villages

RUSSIANS GAIN OVER 25-MiLE ISTHMUS FRONT   Aim Seen To Put Finns Out Of War, Trap 100,009 Nazis

Russians Crack Finnish Defense; Threaten Nazis   Sovieta Take 82 Towns; 160,000 German Troops Face Trap At Karelia

Major Offensive To Knock Finland Out Of War ls On   ‘Soviets Crack Defenses On 25-Mile Front In Drive Up Karelian Isthmus

Seek To Trap 100,000 Nazis In The North   Soviet Offensive Ev dently Coordinated Closely with Allied Operations

Major Russian Offensive Aimed  At Knocking Finland Out Of War —   Moscow Reports Heavy Losses Inflicted On Finns As Drive Supported By Baltic Fleet And Masses Of Planes.

SOVIETS LAUNCH DRIVE TO MATCH SECOND FRONT   Russians Gain 12 to 25 Miles in Karelian Isthmus, Take Many Towns

Oftensive Aimed At Isolating Huge Nazi Force; Reds Capture 82 Towns

Reds Roll On In Karelian Isthmus Drive   Crack Finnish Defenses On 25-Mile Front; Advance  18-25 Miles.   CAPTURE 82 TOWNS  Fixe Planrey C' Caccidv

Russians Crack Finnish Lines on Karelian Isthmus  Launch Offensive te Knock Finland Out Of War and Trap 100,000 Germans

Russian Troops Smash at Finland   Roll Forward on 25 Mile Front Along Karelian Isthmus Above Leningrad After Cracking Foe’s Defenses— Seek to Isolate Germans in North.   STEADY ADVANCE SEEN

‘Dormant Front in East Bursts Open In New Offensive   Soviets Plan to Knocl Finland Out; Isolate 100,000 Nazi Troops

Russian Troops  Drive On Finland   Attempt Launched to Isolate 100,000 Nazis in Battle Region

Russia Drives To Get Finland Out Of The War   Offensive Would Cut Off 100,000 Nazis In  Kerelian Area.

Red Troops Are Rolling Full Blast  In Finland   First Objective Is To Isolate Nazi Army On Soil -

NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE Of   Soviets Crack Finnish Defenses On 25-Mile Front Above Leningrad

Soviet Drive Aimed At Knocking Finns Out of War  Success Would Isolate 100,000 German  Traane in Finland

Finland Target Of Russian Drive   Action Flares on 25-Mile Long Front

Advance On Broad Front    Plunge Forward 15-25 . Miles in Karelian Isth mus Sector; Planes And Ships Aid Push

100,000 Nazi Troops Face Isolation   Soviets Chalk Up Advances of 12 te 25 Miles, in Offensive Ce-erdinated with Invasion

Russ Pour Into Broken Finland   Red Army Advances Through Big Break In Mannerheim Line

SOVIETS BEGIN GREAT ATTACK AGAINST NAZIS   Attempt To Knock Finland Out Of War Started

Reds Advance in Drive On Finland   Rolls Along Karelian IsthmusCrack Defenses On 25 Mile Front

RUSSIANS CRACK FINN DEFENSES   Red Army Launches Major Offensive To Knock Finland Out Of The War.

GOAL IS TRAE FOR 100,000 * GERMANS   Drive On Karelian Isthmus Gains 12 To 25 Miles   Heavy Losses Inflicted On Enemy: Fleet, Planes Support Troops

AEDS LAUNCH MAJOR DRIVE   Pian to Knock Finland Out Of War and isolate Nazi Troops There.

RED BATTLE WAGON AGAIN ON THE MOVE   Major Offensive Just Started Aimed at Knocking Germany Out and Isolatine 100.000 Nazis

Russians Start Offensive To Knock Finland Out Of War And TrapNazis There

FINNS POUNDED IN NEW SOVIET ARMY ATTACKS   Russians Advance 12 to 25 Miles in Offensive to Knock Out Finland

—RUSSIA— — Russians  Turn Guns On Finlanc   Karelian Isthmus Drive Designed To Knock Finns Out Of War

New Drive Launched by  Red Forces      Designed to Knock Finland Out of War and _ Isolate 100,000 of Adolf Hitler’s Troops

Russians Aim New Blow At Finnish Front   Red Army Rolls Aheac On Karelian Isthmus Advancing 12 To 25 Miles In Offensive

Soviet Drive Against Finns Moving Fast   Effort Being Made to Seal Off 100,000 German Troops

Red Army Opens New Offensive In Finland   Drive Represents A Step In Grand Allied Strateay

Federal Ballot Bill Is Finally Passed by Senate   Will Now Go to House Where Rejection s in Prospect

WATERED - DOWN VOTE MEASURE PASSES SENATE   House Rejection of Green: Lucas Bill In  Prospect   Make-Shift Affair

WATERED - DOWN SERVICE VOTE BILL ADOPTED   Joint Senate-House Committee To Try And Work  Comprémise   DOUBLE-BARRELED ACTION IN SENATE

SENATE VOTES US.SOLDIER BALLOT PLAN   Green-Lucas Bill Put “Through in Two Different Ways

Watered-Down Federal Ballot Bill Passed  To Be Used If e State Ticket Is

Senate Passes Bill for Federal Soldier Ballot   House Expected To Reject Measure; Conference Next

Senate Passes — Federal Vote Bill, 47-38   Modified Green-Liras Bill Okayed After Being Put * On ae Rilo

Senate Passes Green-Lucas Bill   Ex;# * House Rejection of Splaier-Ballot Bill; Sen@'te Action Was Doublebarreled.

Senate Approves Altered Measure For Service Vote   House Rejection Is Anticipated

SOLDIER VOTE ISSUE IS SENT TOTHEHOUSE   Senate Passes Watered Down Version of GreenLucas Bill   QUESTION TO GO TO JOINT CONFERENCE   Double Barreled Action Is Taken at Session of Senate

Red Army On Way To Warsaw   Red Army Makes Greatest Advance Eve:  Registered On The Eastern Front.

Enemy Fleeing in Disorder on Every Sector, Moscow Reports; Russ Only 14 Miles From Fortress of Przemysl

Hitler Message Summons Nazis  To Fight to Death   Himmler Reads It, Renewing Rumors  Fuehrer Dead, or Mad

Hangman Chief Himmler Summoning § Germans to Fight to Death; Promises Victory.   Many Take Oath

GERMANS TOLD 10 BATILE 10 DEATH   Proclamation in Name of Long Silent Hitler. Read.

Appeal in Hitler’s Name To Germans to Fight to Last is Read by Himmler

FIGHT TODEATH HITLER URGES NAZI PEOPLE   Proclamation Is Issued By Himmler, Warns of Threat of Annihilation

Hitler pledges final victory  to nazi people Himmler talks in place of fuehrer

Proclamation Read in Name Of Fuehrer   High Nazi Officials Seek To Pledge People To National Suicide  r Attra Yrmur mMmruwsras~tarmrn

Hitler Summons Germans To Fight  To Death, Promises Allied Defeat   Three Weeks Without Food Is Too Much—So German Officer Quits

Proclamation by Hitler Summons German People  To Fight to the Death   Manifesto, First From Hitler Since July 20 Attempt on His Life, Marks Swearing In of Men in Volkssturm, People’s Army

HIMMLER CALLS UPON GERMANS TO DEFY ALLIES   Proclamation, Read In Name Of Absent Hitler, Demands Fight To Death   REICH IS PLEDGED TO NATIONAL SUICIDE

Himmler, Hitler's Hangman Chief, Calls On Germans To Fight To End

Fuehrer Promises icory against llied Nations   His Proclamation Read by Himmler

BLOOD DONOR UNIT ~ WILL RETURN HERE   Donations to - be Taker Here Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.2.3 and 4

BLOOD DONOR UNIT WILL RETURN HERE      ‘Donations to be Taken  Here Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.2.3 and 4

: Lashes At tish Minister   ittelion Says U. S. ovoked Nips to War

WLB Sustains  Wave Formula   Subsidies Needed To Hold It. Says Chairman

WAGE FORMULA TO BE RETAINED   Abolition Of Subsidies Would Be Fatal Blow, Says WLB Chief

Allies Shoving Ahead in Great Attacks All Along Germanys West Wall

Attacks Apparently Are Designed To Push Nazis Back To Great Waterway   AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY ROLLS FORWARD ON FORTY-MILE FRONT   German Forces In Italy Have Retaken Town UF Monte Fortino .

Senate Passes Soldiers V ote Bill, 47 To 3]   Measure Accepted Despite Denunciation Of Aet By Barkley

Senate OK’s Comp. Soldier Vote Bill   Measure Passed Despite Opposition Of Sen. Barkley

House Approval Now Considered Virtually Sure   Barkley Says Bill Wouldn't Allow All Servicemen To Vote

1,300 WARSHIPS TOOK PART IN INVASION   Forrestal Sars Germans Missed Great Opportunity To Strike Before Attack Was Launched

1 JO WARSHIPS JOIN IN INVASION   Despite Great Size of U. S. Fleet Pounding European Shores, Offensive in Pacific Has Not Diminished

Heaviest Toll Ever Taken By U.S. Warplanes   1700 Allied Aircraft In Smashing Victory; Oil Facilities Hit

GERMANS KILI Gl INNOCENTS IN REPRISALS   Executed As Families Watch In Italian Town

Gang Warfare At Chicago Is Fatal To Two   Lawrence Mangano Of Old Capone Gang Is Killed And Bodyguard Fatally Wounded

Two Fatally Shot In Gang Slaying   Ex-Members Al Capone Mob Killed In Chicago

Yankee - Trained Chinese Forces  Take Mingru Ga   Allies Gain In  Northern Burma

CHURCHILL SEES JAP END SOONER THAN EXPECTED   fells Commons All Enemies Recoil Before Growing Allied Might

ALLIED UNITS IN OUTSKIRTS OF MYITKYINA   Stilwell’s Men Attacking Jap Base in Northern Burma Under Artillery  Fire— Wadke Invasion Prnorvaccad

Yanks Control Wakde Isle Area   Sixth Army Troeps Hop 100 Miles Up  New Guinea Coast

Amphibious Conquest of  Wakde Island   Chinese Working To Open Supply Route to Troops

Anti-Jap Drives Take Allies Into Wakde And Outskirts of Myitkyina

Allies Advance Into Myitkyina; U.S. Holds Wadke   Stilwell’s Troops Drive On Burmese Stronghold Under Artillery Fire

Wadke Island Base Taken by MacArthur  is Surprise Drive   Gives Allies Valuable Airstrip; Other War News From Pacific

Allies Seize Wakde Area   Hop 100 Miles Up New Guinea Coast, After Important Airbase Site

Japanese Suffer Serious Setbacks  Americans Win in New Guinea, Burm

WAKDE ISLAND “AREA NOW IS HELD BY ALLIES   Powerful _ Offensives - Smash Dutch New Guineas   GAINS -IN: BURMA   Allied Veterans Advance Into Myitkvina

Allies Control Wakde Area.  Cain in Burma   Wakde Offers Big Air Base to Speed Attacks on New Guinea, Philippines

Yanks Grab Wakde   AMERICANS TAKE AIRSTRIP ONLY 1,100 MILES FROM DAVAO IN _ PHILIPPINES

Bring Control To Wakde Isle   Allies Send Jungle-Hardened Vets Into Myitkyinan Main Base.

Allies Close Tighter About Jap Territory   100-Mile Hop in New Guinea—Burma Campaieon Goes Well

ALLIES CONTROL WAKDE AREA IN SOUTH PACIFIC   American Sixth Army Drove 100 Miles In Day

AMERICANS TAKE WAKDE ISLAND IN NEW INVASION   SPEEDY CONQUEST EFFECTED IN HOP UP GUINEA COAST

100 - Mile Gain By WArthur; Stilwell Fights Into Myitkyina   6th Army Strikes Far up New Guinea Coast, in Wakde Area

Americans Seize Wakde Region Of Dutch New Guinea   Allies Drive Into Big North Burma Jap Base

Wakde, Burma Airdrome _ Fall to Yanks in Sudden Double Offensive Thrusts

ALLIED DRIVES MAKING GAINS   Sixth Army Troops Hop More Than 100 Miles to Seize Jap Base.

YANKS CAPTURE WAKDE ISLES IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Another Vital Step in Gen. MacArthur’s Return to Philippines

ALLIED DRIVES EXTEND BURMA, PACIFIC GAINS   Wakde Area Seized: Jungle Troops Enter Jap Base At Myitkyina

Yanks Seize Vital Wakde Island Area   In Burma, U, S.-Chinese Forces Fight Way Into Myitkyina Outskirts.

Wakde Island Captured By Allied Foree   Yanks Gain Air Base In Range Of Numerous Enemy Bases; Gain In Northern Burma

Holds In Pacific Enlarged   Take Control of Wakde Area, Troops Thrus In Myitkyina

Allies Control Wakde; Enter M’kyina Base   Powerful Offensives Sent Into’ Southwest ‘Pacific Sectors

Gains Are Made In Pacific Ares   Allied Offensives Win Important Area of Dutch - New Guinea   UP COAST 100 MILES   Chinese Battling To Clear Portion of Enemy Held Burma Road

YANKS HOLD THE BULK OF LEYTE ISLE   Two-Thirds of Territory in American Hands and Liberation of 1,500,00( ‘Filipinos Virtually Is Completed.

STRONG YANK HOLD   MacArthur Reported _1,500,000 Filipinos Are  Liberated

STRANGLE HOLDS GAINED ON TWO ISLES INVADED   Leyte Valley’s Only Possible Reinforcement Point Eliminated

Yanks Hold Two-Thirds Of Leyte   } Routed Japs Take to - Hills'Or Seek Escape By: ‘Barge Before ReJeniless IJ. & Advance

Two: Ehirds Of Leyte Freed  Stranglehold Clamped On Isle Of Samar

‘MacArthur Has Strangle Hold  On Leyte, Samar ' Remaining Jap Garrisons Can  . Be ‘Wiped Ont Ai Will.’ New '  Panune Beaded For Philinpine

Over Million Filipinos — ‘Liberated By MacArthur On Lavte. Samar Islands

JAPS STAGING RETREAT ON TWO ISLANDS   MacArthur Forces Have Occupied Two-Thirds of Leyte With Stranglehold on Samar

Liberation Of 2 Centra! Philippine Islands Nears Completion; Tokyo Reports Mors Transports Headed For Levte.

 U. Ss. Troops ~ = Free 1,500,000 In Philippines   Two-thirds’ of  * Leyte Conquered ; Samar Under Control

Two-Thirds Of Strategic Leyte Isle —  Is Captured   Jap Naval Losses. Prove Major Slap

Two-Thirds Isle Of Leyte Under U.S. Control   MacArthur Announces Liberation of 1.500.000 Filipinos.

Japs Retreat Into Hills of Leyte Island   Others Trying to Escape by Barges Through. Waters Patroled by PT Boats   MILLION AND HALF FILIPINOS FREED   Enemy Garrisons Isolated Helpless; Can Be Destroved at Wil

Jap Units Flee to Leyte Hills   1,500,000 Filipinos, Freed by Macarthur, Resnme Daily Roynd

Liberation Of 2 Cent: Philippine Pstane  Nears Completic:  Tokyo Reports \Vfo Transports Headed ! 4  Leyte.

Yanks Control Two-Thirds Of Leyte Island   Also Have Strangle Hold: On Adjacent Samar As  Retreating Japs Take  To-Philippine Hills — 

Retreating Enemy Forces Iry To Escape Leyte  Central Philippine Liberation Is Virtually Complete

Many Filipinos Freed by U.S. Army in \slands   Americans: Hold Two-Thirds of Strategic Leyte

Japs Take to Hills Or Seek to Escape Patrols In Barges   Filipinos on Leyte, Samar Return to Normal Life; P-Ts Attack Enemy Barges; Organized Resistance Ends

Japanese Take To The Hills   MacArthur Controls Two-thirds of Leyte Island, Has Strangle Hold on Samar

Browns Win 2-1; Geo. McQuinn’s  Homer Does It!   33,242 Fans Pack Sportsman’s Park to Watch Galehouse Pitch Brownies to Victory in Opener of World Series      12345678 9RHE Browns 60020000 OW 2 0 Cardinals 0 0 00 000 0 1—1 7 O

Browns Win The Opening Game, 2-1   McQuinn Hit Homer With Man On Base

BROWNS WININ OPENER 2 10 1   McQuinn Hits Homer Over Right. Field Stands in Fourth Inning.   HIT BRINGS TWO RUNS

McQuinn’s Fourth-Inning Homer Good For Win  Over National Leaguers

McQuinn, Browns’ First Baseman, Knocks Ball Over Right Field Pavilion

HomerbyMcQuinr Gives Browns First Series Win   American League Champions Defeat Cardinals On Two Hits; Galehouse Pitches Mates To Victory; Cards Give Ninth-Inning Thrill

Browns Defeat Cards In First Series Contest  Americans Outhit But Win 2 To 1?

HOMER GIVES BROWNS FIRST SERIES GAME   Cardinals Go Down 2 to  as St. Louis Rivals Make Every Hit Count   GEORGE McQUINN IS HERO FOR AMERICANS

‘AUTONOMISTS’ SQUARE OFF FOR FIGHT IN U.M.W.   Edmundson Followers To Hold Early Caucus Today

Miners’ Union Eyes Self Rule  District Autonomy Is Sought at Meet

Dewey Meets  Governors  COD Oandidata   GOP Candidate In St. Louis Parley.

DEWEY WILL OFFER 15-POINT PROGRAM TO GOP GOVERNORS   Strategy Conference In St. Louis Under Way; Bricker There

Swedes Reject Plea On Trade   National Security Claimed Involved

SWEDEN REJECTS. ALLIED REQUEST   COUNTRY TO CONTINUE TO SEND SUPPLIES TO GERMANY, PAPER SAYS.

Sweden Rejects Requests To Halt Export Of Ball  Rearinecs To Germany

BEARING EXPORT ~ BAN PLEA FAL   Swedish Paper Claims Request of Allies Shunned By Government

Sweden Not To Comply  Reject British and U. S. Requests to  , ee “ee Se Bey Seren

Sweden To Keep On Giving Help To the Germans   Will Continue Export Business

Sweden Also Plans To Protest British Action Quarantining Diplomats.

Winter Gales Hamper Unloading Of Supplies Stall Ground Fighting      Allies Stand Ground Waiting For Weather Favorable To Allied Air Superiority

CHARGES FILED AGAINST JAPS   Lodge Formal Protest for ‘nh. man Cruelty” of Japs in Dealing with U. S, Prisoners of War, .

V——_— ee   Ernie Pyle’s Slant on the War: Wounded Fight to Return  Early to Battle Fronts  Exhausted and Wounded GIs Carry On Beyond All Human Endurance

Eras Pyle’s Slant on the War: Wounded Fight to Return Early to Battle Fronts  Bvehaietond and Wounded (le Cowon,   Exhausted and Wounded Gls Carry On Beyond All Human Endurance

German Prisoners Tell Revolting Story Of Horror And Death At Nazi Murder Encampment In Poland

Thousands Brutally Killed By Germans In Three Years At Majdanek Prison Cam   Four German Prisoners Tell Russian-Polish Atrocities Commission Of Gassing, Hanging, Shooting, Burning And Starving To Death People Of 22 Nationalities

NAZI PRISONERS CITE ATROCITIES AT LUBLIN PROBE   Report People of 22 Nations Murdered in Six Different Ways

Nazi Captives Calmly Relate Horrible Tale Of Mass Atrocities   Prisoners Tell How Thousands Were Gassed, Shot Or Burned in Majoanek, Poland, And Bodies Stripped Of Clothes, Used For Fertilizer

German Prisoners Tell of Murder. Mill In Poland; Half Million Met Death

Nazis Testify Before Atrocities Commission  In Mass Murders Of Men, Women, Children

J Men, Women And Children  Drugged, Hanged, Starved, * Gassed Or Burned To Death

PRISONERS TELL STORY OF MAJDANEK   Atrocities and Horror; Men, Women and Children of 22 Nationalities Done Away With.    Kill 2000 At Once

600,000 MEET DEATH IN NAZI ‘HORROR’ CAMP   Stolid Germans Tell Of Mass Executions At Lublin Trial

Writers See Nazi Slaughterhouse Where Throngs Were Put to Death   Thrifty Germans Save Garments of Victims From 22 Nations, Use Bones for Fertilizer

Atrocities Of Lublin Concentration Camp Described By German Prisoners; Estimate Half Million Killed

Atrocities In Poland Are Pictured By War Prisoners   Assert Men, Women And Children Gassed Hanged, Shot, Burned Or Starved To Death In Lublin Camp

Nazis Tell Of Horrors At Lublin   Four German Prisoners Relate Details Of Atrocities At Prison Camp

Nazi Prisoners Tell of Ghastly Lublin Fantasy   Majdanek, Established for Mass Murder, Took Half Million Lives

Russians May Take Polish Citizenship   Privilege Granted Soldiers for Freedom

Edict Enables Russians To Be Polish Citizens   Patriots Flay London Recime

White Russians May Become Polish Citizens   Soviets Decree Right fo Those Who Help Against Nazis

News Commentator  Lauds Larry Allen   Robert $1. John Calls Returning Reporter’s Stories ‘Brilliant, Graphie’

Canadians In Retreat From Nazi Ambush   Artillery Duels Are Believed Forerunner Of Impending Drives

CanucksLose  tartan Hold   Escape Ambush at River Mouth, British Menace Escape Hatch

Canadians On Schelde Retiring   Three British Column: Squeeze Dutch  Escape Hatch At  ’S Hertogerbosh.

Germans Recapture Breskens; 20,000 Enemy Troops Face Trap in Holland

‘Seize Vital Town to Crack Gustav Line   Americans Drive Enemy From Two Points; Take Strong Mountain Posts

FRENCH ARMY UNITS DRIVE BREACH INTO NAZI GUSTAV LINE   AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCES ALSO CONTINUE TO GAIN GROUND

Allied. Offensive Has Gained 7 Miles In Italy   AMERICANS HAVE GAINED 4 MILES

Gustav Line ls Breached; 2,000 Nazis Taken Captive In Early Stages of Drive   Gains Registered Ail Along 25-Mile Line in Italy as Allied Offensive Rolls Forward Alona Road +6 Reme

Major Gains Force Nazi  Withdrawal Along Coast   U.S. Troops Seize Mountain Defenses

Capture of Ausonia Perils Hitler’s Wall   Allies Register 5-Mile Advance; Eighth Tanks Stteam Across Ranijdc

FIERCE FIGHTING MARKS ADVANCE ON ROME ROAD   Pre-invasion Air Assault On Europe Continues and Big Red Drive Looms

U. S. Troops Driving Ahead   Over 2,000 German Prisoners Taken in  Allied All-Out Drive

In Bloody Fight Americans Drive Past Santa Maria, Take San Pietro

French Lead Advance, Gain As Much As 7 Miles: "Take Important Towns, Heights

Allied Offensive Advancing From Cassino fo Sea   Elsewhere Tension Grows as Europe Awaits Invasion

Yanks Smash Foes Out Of  Santa Maria   ‘French Take Important Town Of Ausonia In Southern [taly,   i'CASUALTIES HiIG#

U.S. British Troops Punch Out New Gains   ‘Significant Break’ In - German Positions Is  Reported; Cassino Mav Be Outflanked

Nazi Headquarters Of Ansonia Taken In Allied Drive   French Troops Make Break-Through; Adolf Hitler Line Is Next Defense Belt

CUT IMPORTANT BREACH IN NAZI “GUSTAV LINE”   Allies Take More Than 2,000 Prisoners With Heavy Attacks

Breach Gustav Line   French Advance Seven Miles; Americans and British Drive Forward In Bitter Fighting

.xis Driven From ‘stall Mountain leaks and Towns   ach Troops Advance as Much as Seven Miles Fron Take-off Point on Fifth Army Right Wing in All-Out Campaign   ERICANS PRESS ATTACK ON CITY OF SPRIGNO

TEMPERATURES:   Allies Rolling Back  Germans In Italy   First Main Enemy Defense Positions Fall Under  Terrific Assault; Americans Drive Cawisererd Vitek Nlaw Dawor

REBORN FRENCH ARMY SVLISHES INTO CRUMBLING GUSTAV LENE ALONGSIDE YANKS AND BRITISH

Ausonia Falls To Allies In Main Bid   Mountain Positions Are Captured Near Ausente River

NEW ADVANCE IS REPORTED   German Headquarters Town of Auzonia and Six More Villages Captured — Make  Sigalificant Breach in Gustav Line.

CREATE BREACH IN NAZI LINES   Americans Smash Enemy Out of Two Towns, Capture Mountains.   BRITISH MAKE ADVANCE

American Bombers - Attack Targets in France, Virtu ly Close Brenner Pass

French Gains Drive Breach Into Nazi Line   Yankees, British Push Against Foe In Italy

Americans Smash Nazis Ont : Tws Villages, Take Mountain Positions, Assault Spigne

BREACH CARVED OUT BY FRENCH; RECORD FIVE- MILE ADVANCE   French Units Capture German Headquarters Town, Six Other Villages, Drive To Within Range Of Hitler Defense Belt   Rw REYNOLDS PACK ART)

German Prisoners Begin Streaming  To Rear.   By RICHARD McMURRAY AP War Editar

ALLIES SMASH AHEAD ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Yanks Attack Spigno, Key In Nazi Defense; Pound Invasion Coast

Allied Troops Drive Deep Wedge Into Nazis’ Gustav Line   British, Indians Extend Bridgehead Across Rapido River; Americans Capture Two More Italian Towns

Allies Plunge fn Liri Valley  Toward Rome   British-Based Bombers Hit France As Nazis Strike Back at England

Allied Offensive on Fourth Day Makes Good Pr ogress Despite Fierce Nazi Bocictance

FRENCH PUNCH HOLE THROUGH GUSTAV “WALL   2.000 Germans Are Prisoners as Allies Continue Successful Major Offensive in Italy

Advances Made On Wide Front By Allied Army   French Troops Capture Town of Ausonia in Drive

REBORN.ARMY OF FRANCE MOVES FORWARD 7 MILES FOR GAINS AGAINST CRUMBLING NAZI LINE   More Towns Fall to Allied Forces and 2,000 German Prisoners Reported Captured. Heavy Bombers Attack Italian Railroads to Aid Ground Forces

CAPTURE SIX VILLAGES, NAZI HEADQUARTERS   French Fifth Army Troops Within Striking Range  Of New Defenses

Reborn Army Of France Captures Town Of Ausonia   Vital Mountain Area Taken By Yankees; British Crossing The Rapido River

Gustav Line Cracks Under Sledgehammer Blows by Yanks. Britons and French

ALLIES REPORT. “GANS IN THO BATTLE-AREAS   Americans and French Take Many Nazi Prisoners on Italian Front.

Advance 7 Miles To Create Breach In Gustav Wall   Yanks Throw Enemy Out of Two Towns And Capture Vital Mountain Pocitiane

ALLIES GAIN GROUND TODAY AGAINST NAZIS   Several Positions Captured By U. S.  Ground Forces

ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN ITALY MAKING SIGNIFICANT GAINS   FRENCH BREACH GUSTAV LINE AND AMERICANS CAPTURE STRONGPOINTS

Bitter Fighting In Cassino Area   Rapido Bridgehead Deepened To More Than Mile

French Troops Breach Gustav Line And Advance Seven Miles; Vital City of Ausonia Captured:

Ausonia Is Taken _ In 7-Mile Advance © _ By French Troops   Americans Seize Vital Mountain Positions In Southern Italy; British, Indians Also Advance

/-MILE GAIN IS REPORTED BY REBORN ARMY   American and British Troops Also Achieve  New Successes

French Breach Gustav Line at Ausonia Town   Americans Capture Important Hills on Ausente River

Breach Driven Into Foe’s Line “Significant”   Meanwhile, Americans Have Smashed Germans Out of Santa Maria Infante and San Pietro   French Dominate  San Giorgio Area   British and Indians Deepen Rapido River Bridgehead to At Least 2.000 Yards

AMERICANS GAIN 4 MILES; PRESS SPIGNO ATTACK   BRITISH, INDIANS DEEPENING RAPIDO RIVER BRIDGEHEAD

Americans Take Positions From Enemy Forces   British And Indians Deepen Bridgehead; Prisoners Held

Allies Report Other Gains On Southern Line   Heavy Casualties Inflicted Along Whol Italian Front; 2,000 Prisoners Taken

French Forces Drive Through Nazi Defenses   Gains Of Seven Miles Reported On 5th Army Right Wing; Americans Have Advanced At  Least Four Miles In Minturno Area

AUSONIA TAKEN IN 7-MILE ADVANCE   Enemy Driven From Heights By American Units   Over Rapido Is Extended More Than Mile: Heavy Casualties Inflicted

German Gustav Line Pierced by French Troops   Allies Puncture Lateral Supply Road to Cassino

Yankees Drive Foe From Two Towns; Launeh  Blow at Spigne   More Than 2000 Prisoners Seized: More Pouring In

Hard Fighting - From Cassino ‘Yo the Sea   But. Significant: Breach Has - Been Made’ in. the. ~: Gustav. Line: ~   2,000 PRISONERS TO: ALLIED CAGES   Germans: Hastily  Reinforeing’ Front; Allied Supply. ~ Route a Difficnlt: One.

Seven Miles From Take-Off Point   Americans Drive Foe Out of Two Towns on Lower Garigliano Front —British and Indian Troops Deepen Rapido River Bridgehead

British, Yankees Also Make Gains   Prisoner Cages Filling As Allies Overrun Several Towns; Attackers Closing On Ausonia

Yanks Press © On Spigno In4-Mile Gains   British and Indians Are Also Deepening Rapi River Bridgehead

Americans Drive Enemy Out of Santa Maria Infanta and Also San Pietro

French Breach Gustav Line   Americans and British Also Advance in Drive on Rome

French {roops In Striking Distance Of 2nd Nazi Line   8th Army Pushes 2,000 Yards Into Valley Below Cassino

French Troops Cut Nazis Gustav Line in Southern Italy   Americans Take Vital Position in Drive Along Ausente

French Drive Into  : « Gustav Line   Advance Seven Miles in Italy; Germans Aim at Invasion Shipping

SEARCH POINT MUGU FOR BODY   OFFICERS FEAR L. A. HOUSEWIFE KILLED

U.S. Takes Fort Driant In Attack With Fire   Doughboys Chase Nazis Out When  ‘Phey Fire Crude  Oil In Tunnels

Bastion Near Metz Falls To American Unit   Escape Route North Of Aachen Cut By Third Army

Gen. Hodges’ Forces Fight Along And Cross Main Road From Aachen To Gladbach, Reported

Capture Of Driant Result Of Assault  _ By Patten’s Army   Hodges Continues Big: ‘Drive In “Nor ‘th With Deep: Penetrations. ‘Of Rhine, Cologne Defenses

Bone May Cling To Senate Seat  Would Block Selection OF GOP Snecessor

Legislators Problem: ‘How To Handle The ‘Overseas Soldier Vote   - State Capitol News Letter _ Ad Reviewed by Beaters -- Special’ Correspondent 

Lots:of Is For Lawitukers  'at Special. Session   Startet — Cantopped Again? 

Planes Pound Rocket Bomb Release Area   Other Groups Support Troops In Invasion  Sector

U. 5. Bombers Blast Targets Again Monday   Allied Airforce Now Engaged in Three-sided Battle

U.S. Heavies Hit Launching Area Of Rebot Planes   Report Lighter Attacks As Rocket Craft Continue Raids Aeainst Britain

U.S. Planes Blast Hitler Rocket-shir Bases  oday   F ighter - - Bombers Are Attacking One-a-Minute

Air Power Centered on Robot Piane   Allies Blast at Launching Areas; Germans Tone Down Propaganda Claims

Three - Way Air Assault Hits Paris, Cherbourg   Bomb Pas De Calais; Nazi Rocket Ships Continue To Pound England; Concentration of Germans Destroyed.

German Rocket Center Pounded   Hundreds of U. 8. Heavy Bombers Attack Pas-de-Calais Area in France, From Which Point Robot Planes Are Launched at England.   ATTACKS CONTINUED

U. 5. Heavies: Blast German Rockei Bases   Other U. S. Planes Strike at Bases in Southern France;  Hit Foe Near:Cherbourg

500 PLANES HIT “ROCKET COAST®   Increased Nazi Use of  Horse Vehicles Observed

FLIERS POUND ROCKET-B OMB LAUNCHING AREA   Other Allied Planes Hit Air Bases in Lower France

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK CALAIS   Bomb Rocket Plane Instal. lations; Nazi Airfields Also Blasted

Allied Fliers Blast Trapped Nazis  As Pilotless Planes Hit England

American Heavy Bombers Blast Rockets’ Bases   Other Allied Planes Strafe Naz Air Bases, Assault German Troops to Back Up Invasion

Allies Attack Rocket Bases And Air Fields   Great Armadas Brave Bad Weather To Pound Germans Across Channel

Bombers in  3-Way Smash   Pound Rocket Coast, German Airfields and Trapped Cherbourg Troops

BETWEEN 500 AND 700 HEAVIE HIT CALAIS AREA AND OTHER VITAL TARGETS HARD HIT   German Air Bases in Southwestern Frayce Bom ed and Little Fighter Resistance from Germans — # Encountered. Rocket Installations Get Attentios

CALAIS AREA. TARGET OF 50¢ U5. BOMBERS   Other Heavy Planes Batter Air Bases In Southwestern France

ee ee a ee  BOMBERS BLAST NAZI AIRBASES   Hitler's Robot Plane Area Cracked by 700 U.S. Forts

ROBOT PLANE LAUNCHING AREA BOMBED   Blow Is Staged by 500 to 700 “Heavies” as Pilotless Explosives Continue to. Hurtle Over Into  Bn oland.

Yank Airmen Lash Rocket  Coast Sector   Rip Buzz-Bomb Launching, Area in Pas-deCalais, France

Robot Craft Continuing To Explode In England   Concentrated Army Movements Strafed

Airmen Pound Rocket Areas, Other Targets   Heavy Bombers Raid Pas-deCalais: Pilotless Planes Qaell Kteik a   NAZIS PLAY TRICS

Roosevelt Leaves Vice Post Open; Byrnes Apt Choice   By LYLE C. WILSONON

WALLACE 10 DIRECT OWN CAMPAIGN IN CHICAGO: ASPIRANTS INCREASE   INDIANA LEADER SAYS McNUTT TO BE NOMINATED; SCORE OF POTENTIAL CANDIDATES IN RACE

LACE COMING TO CONVENTION TO LEAD FIGHT   Vice-President Called To Chicago As His Campaign Lags

G.O.P. Convention Had A Definite fowa Flavor      ; . State Capitol News Lette: As Reviewed by Sentinel’  Slmantal Mnwrannandan?t

Jowans Prominent al G. O. P.  National Convention   See Deferred To Wishes Of Mr. Spangler

Russians Bomb Dvinsk Trains   Rei Fliers Also Touch Off  Fires in Fstania

FRESH RUSSIAN DRIVE STARTED   Attacks In Latvia And Romania Indicate New Offensives

Red Bombers Hit Supplies In New Drive   North Offensive Seen As Soviet Troops Advance in Rumania

RUSSIANS CROSS RIVER IN ROMANI!   RED AIRMEN BOMB GERMAN MILITARY TRAINS IN LATVIA AND ESTONIA,

‘Red Northern Drive Looms   ' Soviet Air Force Is Active Near Latvia

REDS RAID NAZI BASES IN NORTE   Enemy Positions in Latvia and Estonia Feel Might of Soviet Planes

Prelude to New Russian Drive Seen   BombersPound Enemy Targets i in Latvia —  And Estonia

Heavy Naval Bombardment Cleared Way for American Capture of Roi And Namur Islands in the Marshalls

NORTH BURMA JAP BASE IN GRAVE PERIL   British Strike Back From Kohima, Imphal

Allies Closing Tn On Nip Base Of Myitkyina   Japs Increase Efforts To Take Imphal

Allies Close In on Jap Base Nips Open Attacks  BRacinst TImynhe)]

Canal Funds Available   Congressional Action On Bill Is Completed

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF Aeessinted Press War Analvet

The War Today   *Cross-Channel Armageddon Near, Allied Successes Show

Forthcoming Speech of Winston Churchill Sunday, Troop Movements and Other Significant Trend Give Emphasis To Early Climactic Events

Today’s War Moves—-  Final Showdown for Hitler Is Near, Invasion Come ing Soon

Mine Union Urges Clements to Get  In Governor Race  UMW Cites Record As Worthy of High Recognition

Clements Urged to Seek Governor Post   Candidacy Endorsed in Resolution by United Mine Workers

Five Key Isles Off Truk Bombed   Nimitz Reports Heavy Attacks   Fleventh Truk Raid

Opposition ToRaidon Truk Light   Five Key Islands Hit By Big Bombers in ' ~ 20th Attack on  “Jan Race -

AIR RAIDS ON LUZON INDICATE THAT ISLAND NEXT ON SCHEDULE. AS LEYTE BATTLE NEARS. AN END

New Powerful Allied Convoy Sails West Threugh Central Philippines   Tokyo Says The Tide Of The War Can Not Be Predicted

Irish Stand Confuses  Allied Plan   Removal Of Spying Agencies Delayed

trish Stand Complicates Invasion Plan   Reveal FDR Advised De Valera Long Ago Not +0 "Stand Alone’

Dublin Rebuff Held Sharpest Blow to Allies   U, S. Plea Tied in General Stage-Setting Policy For 2a Front

SEE DANGER IK IRISH REBI   Nation’s Refusal To Break With Axis Creates Serious Situation   MAY HURT ALLIED PLANS FOR OPENING 2ND FRONT

IRELAND'S STAND BLOW TO INVASION PLANS OF ALLIES   Grave Military Situation Created by De Valera’s Refusal to Oust Alleged Axis Spies.   SERIOUS SETBACK FOR U. S. DIPLOMACY   Envoys Setting Stage for Attack on Western Europe May Fail to Achiev All Objectives.

Fire Refusal ls Serious   Dangerous Rebuff to U. S. Foreign Policy; Balks At Break With Axis

Invasion Is Going Just As Planned   Military Men Elated Over Success——-Turn North End of Siegfried Line

Truman Doubts There Will Be Many Speeches   Says President Is Busy Running the War and He Has  Job to Do in Senate   WILL NOT DISCUSS KIMMEL STATEMEN'!   Desnt Want Pearl Harbor  to Become a Political  Controversy

Truman Too Busy For Speech-Making   Says Republicans Can’‘t Do Anything But Throw Bricks

Bulgarian  Cabinet Quits   Failed to Win Easy Way Out of War by Pleading Neutrality

BULGAR PEACE TALKS HALTED   NAZIS TAKE MEASURES ON BALKAN UPRISING.

BULGAR GOVERNMENT OF IVAN BAGIANOV REPORTED AS FALLEN  FAILURE FIND EASY WAY OUT OF WAR CAUSE; ARMISTICE TERMS READY

THE BULGAR GOVERNMENT 1S TOPPLED   Regime of Ivan Bagrtianov Falls After Its Failure to Win From the Allies an Easy Way Out of the War.

Cabinet Quits As Bulgarian ‘Unrest Gains      Report Finland Also Is Trying to Get Out of War With Allies

Russ-Raid-Finns: Nazis Repulsed      Reds Kill 800 of Foe In Southeast Poland

Finnish Port of  Kotka Bombarded   Russian Naval Planes  Carry Out Assault

SOVIET REPORT ON MASSACRE HANDED TO POLISH OFFICIALS   EXECUTIONS IN SMOLENSK AREA AGAIN BROUGHT RE_FORE POLISH GOVERNMENT IN EXILE

FDR to Lead The Country In Prayer :   Calls Upon Nation to  Join in Plea for  Battle Strength

Chiefs Meet  On Invasion  TD. oot et TH 6FlCUpe   President To Lead Nation In Praver

President Ready To Lead Entire  Nation In Prayer   Marshall, Arnold, King Called Into White House Session

Roosevelt. War Chiefs Hold Parley   FDR To Address Nation Tonight And Read Praver Written During Attack

Daniel De Luce Pulitzer Winner   A. P. Correspondent ls Highly Honored

AP CORRESPONDENT PULITZER WINNER   Daniel DeLuce Honored For Distinguished Reporting Of International Affairs

Correspondent Winner of Award  Correspondent Winner of Award  Daniel DeLuce Given Prize For Outstanding Reporting

AIRMEN SINK SEVEN SHIPS IN PACIFIC   _ Kavieng. Is Smasheg By Heavy Raid, ‘Left In‘ Flames...

NEW IRELAND BASE BLASTED BY BOMBERS   Heavy Damage Is Done to Equipment Jap Installations

JAP BASE IN NEW IRELAND IS SMASHED   Allied Planes Work Havoc at Kavieng; Town Left in Smoke

JAPS" BASE AT KAVIENG GIVEN HARD POUNDING   Allies Lose 8 Planes But Bag 50 And Sink Many Knemy Vessels

Allied Attackers Smash Jap Base On New Ireland   Damage Airdrome At: Kavieng, Sink Big Cargo Ship

AIRMEN SINK SEVEN SHIPS IN PACIFIC   Kavieng Is Smashed By Heavy Raid, Left In Flames

Big Jap Base at Kavieng Smashec In Air Attack   Heavy Toll in Raid by Bombers Is Reported

ALLIES SMASH KAVIENG BASE   Brave Intense Anti-Aircraft Fire ‘to Hit-Strong Japanese Base on New Ireland — Heavy Damage vaused by Acrial

Allies Smash Jap’s Kayieng BaseFrom Air   Destroy Enemy Planes, Sink 7 Vessels; Troon  - -Clear Borgen Bay

REDUCTION IN “CROPS FEARED   LACK OF MOISTURE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS EXPECTED TO HAVE EFFECT ON  PRODUCTION oot

APO HIT ARDEA THAN IT APPEAR:   Developments Point to Nipponese Attempt to Repeat Sea Strategy Which Won Russo-Japanese War

GAINS IN PACIFIC ~ FIGHTING “HAILED   Roosevelt: ‘Says. Japanese Hurt. Worse Than Ie  -Apnneare:

GAINS IN PACIFIC FIGHTING HAILED   Roosevelt Says Japanese Hurt Worse Than It Appears -

Japs Badly Hurt By Heavy Allied Blows   FDR Believes Damages In Nip Shipping Losses Worse Than Appears On Surface  Ss... BRPausee? Sa aF CaF FBT Ae

Jap Supply Lines Badly Crippled, Roosevelt Says   Ninety-two Ships Sunk This Month

President Estimates Enemy Has Lost at Least 1,000 Barges Used to Transport Men and Supplies—Knox Predicts Nippon Will Try to Lure American Fleet Far From Its Bases and Then Deliver All-Out Attack.

AMERICAN ATTACKS HAVE HURT JAPANESE   Roosevelt Says War Of Attrition Has Successfully Dented Enemy  Supply Lines

CONSOLIDATION OF WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS IS BEING STUDIED BY U. S. JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

SingleBureau For Defense Under Study   Consolidation of War and and Navy Departments Is Provided

BUTTER ALLOCATION SET BY GOVERNMENT   Civilians Will Be Permitied A Pez Capita Supply Of 121 Pounds For 1944

LESS BUTTER S FORECAST      TENTATIVE ALLOCATIONS WOULD PROVIDE THIRD, LESS POUND PER PER~ _ _§0N EACH MONTH

12.1 Pounds Per Capita  WF A Slices 44 Civilion Butter  Quota Thinner Than Last Year

JAN. SMUTS SAYS FREE WORLD IS ALLIES’ GOAL   South African Pretier Says Victory Is Not Enouvh

Smuts Says Free World Is Objective   is Objective  Premier Backs UP Campaign  Far Frae Pracc

NEGRO GIVEN TWO YEARS FOR ATTACK   Lincoln Jackson, 17, Con. -yicted in Police -. +» Court -

NEGRO GIVEN TWO YEARS FOR ATTACK   Lincoln Jackson, 17, Con. victed in Police Court

No Violation Of Law, Granc Jury Reports   Recommendations Made in Salary  Kickback Inquiry

GAS RATION HIKE. PLANS HIT BY OPA   Third Quarter Increase Out; Agency Officials. = Disclose my

Weather Hampers Morning Raids in Clock Round Trip   Focke-Wulf Plane Plant Damaged in Yesterday’s Raid

Allied Raiders Return To Continent After U,   Hundreds Killed  In Nazi Capitals   Photos Shew German Plane Plants Heavily Damaged

Poland Gropes for New Life After  Serving as German Slaughterhouse

Poles. Work For New Life   Unbroken in's in‘ Spirit, Army of Half Million Is Being Raised Now

eB Pc ae cn Poland.  ormer Nazi Slaughterhouse, (ropes Courageously For A New Life

Texas Demos Meet To Select State Parley Delegates   County Conventions Held Tuesday After S.C. Denies Rehearing

TEXAS ROAD SYSTEM CAN ABSORB MILLIONS DOLLARS PROFITABLY  EXAMINATION REVEALS $768,229,777 NEEDED FOR POST-WAR WORK

UNIFORM JOBLESS BENEFITS SEEN AS COMPROMISE PLAR      OPPONENTS OF $35-PER-WEER BILL PREPARE PROPOSAL TO BAISE. PRESENT . BATE PFAYMENTS

Yankee Secret Weapons Will End Pigeon Loafing, Tangle Up Nazi Red Tape, End War

F. D. R.’s Altitude to Vets Flayed  Bricker Winds Up Montana Tour

FDR’s Mean Treatment Of Sodiers   GOV. BRICKEKR READS THE RECORD OF ROOSEVELT's ECONOMY AT EXPENSE OF FIGHTING MEN.   Congress Overrode Him

F. D. R.’s Attitude to Vets Flayed  Bricker Winds Up  Moantemnea Tawy

Bricker Charges F.D.R. Opposes Vet Legislation   Declares President's Veto of Bills Shows Violent Antagonism

Rome Bombed; Flying Forts Rout 300 Nazi Soldiers From Historic Italy Abbey

MANY 10 ATTEND POST-WAR EVENT   Gov. Bricker to to Speak at eeting—O. D. Donnell _to Preside

16 JAPANESE PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Knocked Out in Aerial Attack at Wewak.—Marines Occupy Another Atoll in Marshalls.

Remnants of Jap Airforce at Wewak Heavily Blasted   Rabaul Also Plastered With Bombs; Land Forces Consolidate Holdings

TWENTY-SIX ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED IN ATTACK ON WEWAK  MARINES HAVE LANDED ON ANOTHER MARSHALL

Yanks Battered Jap Air Force   26 MORE PLANES ARE DESTROYED IN PACIFIC

26 JAP PLANES DESTROYED BY U.S. BOMBERS   ey  Yank Airmen Score in Wewak Attack; Marines Invade Wotho Atoll

26 JAP PLANES DESTROYEDIN WEWAK BLOW   Marines Seize Wotho Ato Unopposed; 23 Enemy Vessels Are Sunk

Are Shot Down   Fifth U. S. Air Force Drops 120 Tons of Bombs in Raid on New Guinea Base; Marines, Encountering No Opposition, Seize Another Marshalls’ Atoll

YANKS SEIZE ~ WOTHO ATOLL   No Opposition Was Encountered; Other . ‘Bases Raided

Jap Air Force Dealt New Blow   26 Planes Shot Down In Wewak Battle

YANKS STRIKE WEWAK HARD   Twenty-Six Jap Planes are Destroyed In Heavy Bombing

26 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   U. S. Airforce Makes 120Strike at Wewak, Vital  Baca.   ANOTHER ATOLL’ TAKEN

Allies Down 26 Jap Planes   Marines Take Wotho Astoll in Pacific Without Opposition

MARINES TAKE WOTHO ATOLL   Seize Island 67 Miles Northwest Of Kwajalein Without Opposition  SMALL VESSELS SUNK

U, S. FLIERS BAG 26 NIP PLANES IN WEWAK RAID   Marines Capture Another island in Marshalls Without Opposition

Warplanes Smash at  Wewak   Destroy 26 Japanese Planes in 120-Ton  Pounding of Enemy Base on New Guinea

TWENTY-SIX ENEMY  PLANES DESTROYED  IN ATTACK ON WEWAK MARINES HAVE LANDED  ON ANOTHER MARSHALL ICANT ATOIT

JAP PLANES AT WEWAK BLASTED   Marines Take New Atoll, Gain in New Britain

Destroy 26 Jap Planes   Remnants of Enemy's Once Powerful Force in Southwest Pacific Gone

Japs Suffer New Setback In Pacific   26 Planes ‘Destroyed AL Wewak; Marines Land On Wotho Atoll

JAP PLANES DESTROYED BY ALLIES   Marines Land On Wotho Atoll In The Marshalls

Wewak Pounded  By Allied Bomb:  Wotho In Marshalls I: oe ae i ae

26 JAP PLANES AT WEWAK ARE DESTROYED   120-Ton Bomb Attack on Main Jap Base in New Guinea.  U. S. Hold or Marshalls Tightened

Yankee Airmen in Southwest Pacific Get Planes, Barges   Allied Activities on All Pacific Fronts Are Successful

U. S. AIRMEN DESTROY 26 JAP PLANES   Pemnants of Enemy's OncePowerful Force Eliminated in 129-Ton Strike at Wewak   WOTHO ATOLL TAKEN

STRONG SLANA RIVER DEFENSE LINE CRACKED   ‘Russians Report Advance: Up To Five Miles In Czechoslovakia   MOSCOW IS SILENT REGARDING KASSA

13 CZECH TOWNS SEIZED BY REDS   GERMANS’ STRONG SLANA RIVER LINE CRACKED IN 5MILE SOVIET ADVANCE.

Soviet Troops Advance Up to Five Miles   Russians Seize 13 More Towns in Drive on Losonc

RUSSIANS TAKE 43 TOWNS IN ADVANCE   New Drive of Reds Aimed at Citadel of  t neane

Will Probe Conditions At Anamosa   Governor Orders Investiga tion After Escape of Four  More Qonvicts

Red Offensive Circles sudapest   Soviet Army Junction Imminent as Ukraine Units Push Up Danube

Red Army Nov A() Miles From Austria  Germans Admit New   Germans Admit New Budapest Threat; Russ Plunge Ahead

Russians Get To 35 Miles From Austria   Soviets Driving Up West Bank Of The Danube River

NAZIS REPORT REDS CLOSING IN ON BUDAPEST   Soviets Continue Fast Gains Toward Austrian Frontier

POWERFUL RUSSIAN  OFFENSIVE CLOSING IN ON BUDAPEST  . RED ARMY VANGUARDS  REPORTED WITHIN 35 MILES OF ATISTRIA

Powerful Red Forces Close On Budapest   Russian Vanguards Cut Distance to Austria to 35 Miles

SOVIETS SWEEP NEARER AUSTRIA   Germans Admit New Threat to Budapest

German Litie Northeast Of Budapest Is Breached   Russian Army Now Within 35 Miles  Of Austrian Border; Ercsi Abandoned

RED PINCERS ARE CLOSING ON BUDAPEST   Russian Vanguards Sweeping Around Lower Lake Balaton Within 35 Miles  of Austrian Frontier   ERCSI IS ABANDONED

New Threat ~ Faces Nazis ~ At Budapest   Drive Toward . Austria Aims to Open Southern - Door to- Germany

WITHIN 40 MILES OF FRONTIER   Berlin Admits New Threat To Budapest

RED TANK FORCE BREAKS GERMAN LINE NEAR BUDA   Berlin Reports Powerful Russian Offensive Closing In On Budapest From Three Sides.

NAZIS REPORT SOVIET DRIVE ON BUDAPEST   Berlin Says Soviets Open Powerful Offensive on Three Sides of the Hun -garian Capital— Other Troops Near Austria.

New Threat Faces Nazis At Budapest   ‘Drive Toward Austria _ Aims to Open Southern  Door to Germany

Soviets Closing Budapest Trap  Second and Third Armies Near Junction

SOVIET TANKS BLAST NAZIS NEAR AUSTRIA   West Ban Of Danube Teken By Russians

Red Vanguards In 35 Miles Now of Austrian Frontier   Qther Forces Pose Grave Threat to Budapest, Driving Up Danube Banks

REDS 40 MILES FROM AUSTRIA   ae : Soviet Advance Beating at - Southeast Door to Reich

Pow erful Red Drive Closing  {n On Budapest   Russian Army Vanguard: Sweeping Around Lower Lake Balaton Within 25 Miles Austria

Reds Are Closing in On Budapest from 3 Sides  ’. Other Soviet Forces Drive to. Within 25 Miloc ~~ Awcha

Fierce Battle In Hungary ms Pe   Bdapest Under Large Scale Attacks From Both Sides

REDS NEAR AUSTRIAN BORDER   Nazis Acknowledge New Threat To Budapest

RED SURGE FROM REAR THREATENS BUDAPEST ANEW   Third Prong Of New Menace Threatens Zagreb In Yugoslavia

REDS WITHIN FORTY MILES OF AUSTRIA   Soviet Sweep Beating Through Final Defense Zone Before Gateway to Reich—Budapest Under a New Threat.

SOVIET TANKS HAVE PLUNGED TO WITHIN AQ) MILES AUSTRIA - GERMANS ALSO ADMIT  NEW THREAT BUDAPEST,  HUNGARIAN CAPITAL

RUSS 40 MILES FROM AUSTRIA LINE; BERLIN ADMITS PERIL TO BUDAPEST

Red Forces Race Close to Austria   Russian Tanks Swee? On Pas; Lake Ralaton, 40 Miles From Border   A DOUBLE DRIVE ON BUDAPEST   Lines of supply for Some 100,000 Germans Troops Are in Jeopardy

Red Patrols 35 Miles From Austria   Berlin Reports Drive Closing In on Budapest From 3 Sides

Soviets Nearer Frontier   Only 35 Miles From Austrian Border.—Also Closing in on Hungary From Three Ways,

Reds Knife Closer to Austria   Within 40 Miles of Border; Other Units Seize Town Only 20 Miles Frora Budapest

Soviet Tanks Plunge Within AQ Miles of Austrian Border   Germans Admit New Russian Threat As Budapest Is Heavily Attacked

Soviet Tanks. Sweeping Pasi Lake- Balaton   Within 40 Miles Of Austrian Line; Threaten Budapest

udapest Is proached rom 3 Sides   Russian Army Now 35 Miles From Austria

Soviets Close On Budapest From 3 Sides   Red Army Vanguards Are Only 35 Miles From Austria

Russians 40 Miles Of Austria Border   Germans Acknowledge A New Threat to Hungarian Capital

Red Armor Now Only Forty Miles From Austria   Russian Advances Threaten to Trap Nazis in Yugoslavia; New Danube Crossing

Reds C losing  In on Budapes'   Are Now Within 35 Miles of  Austrian Border

Reds. Oal;..40 Miles From Austrian Bo: ders Nazis Admit Threat 1: Budapest

REDS WITHIN FORTY MILES OF AUSTRIA   Soviet Sweep Beating Way Through Final Defense Zone Guarding Southeast Door to Germany   RAIL LINE IS BLOCKED

Russians Are Now Only 40 Miles from Austria  Germans Acknowledge, a New.

Red Army Now AQ) Miles From Austria   Germans Admit New Budapest Threat; Russ Plunge Ahead

 Russians Batter. At Final Defense ~ Of South Reich   Report. Reds But 40. Miles ~ From Austrian:-Border; - New Threat To. Budapest

REDS 35 MILES FROM AUSTRIA   Close In On Beleagured Budapest From Three Sides

Russian Tide Now 35 Mile: From Austria   Nazis Admit Enemy Squeezing Budapest From Three Sides

Austrian Border Is 40 Miles Away   Advances Are Made by Soviet Tanks East of ’ Lake Balaton:   NEW BUDAPEST THREAT   Russian Forces Beating Thru Defenses of South east Germany

Berlin Says Reds Starting New Offense   Soviets Declare Amny Is Nearing Austrion Border

RUSSIANS NEAR AUSTRIA TODAY IN NEW DRIVE   Germans Abandon _ Ercsi In Face  Of Red Force

Reds Within 35 ‘Miles Of Border ‘Of Austria   Russians Closing Is On Budapest From Three Sides, Berlin Reports.

AED VANGUARDS NEAR FRONTIER   Berlin Reports Powerful Soviet Offensive: Against Budapest.

RUSGIANS NEAR AUSTRIAN LINE   Red Sweep Beating Through Final Defense Zone to Germany.

Reds Nearing Anstria Border   Tanks Sweep Around Loke: Balaton Toward Sautheost Beor ta Germeny

Russians Sweep Past Lake Balaton   Nazis Admit New Threat To Budapest

RUSSIANS NEARING AUSTRIA; BUDAPEST IN SOVIET PINCERS   Red Patrols Pushing Around Lower End of Lake Balaton New Only 35 Miles From Austrian Line

Germans Admi NewRed Threa For Budapest   Russians Cross to West Bank of Danube From Cspel Island, Berlin Radio Says

Berlin Reports «Ring Is Closing ‘Around Budapest   . Capital Is Under  . Attack from Three "Sides; Continue  * Push Toward Auctrie

New Threat To Budapest By Russian Move   Bridgehead Formed On West Bank Of Danube River

Reinforced Invasion Armies Storm Deeper Into France: Aim At Cutting Peninsule   German Resistance Shows Signs Of Stiffening As Allied Forces Hammer At Communications And Transport Hubs Held By Enemy

Gigantic Air Raids On Nazis  Are Continued   Huge British Night Raid Follows U.S. 2,000 Plane Attack Of Sunday   AIRPLANE PLANTS OF GERMANY TARGETS

AIR WARFARE REACHES NEW ~~ ATTACK PEAK   ANOTHER 2,000-PLANE ARMADA  . OVER. GERMANY TODAY AF TER TERRIFIC WEEK-END ©  BOMB ASSAULTS ;

BOMBS REDUCE FIGHTER GRAFT OUTPUT 25 PCT   New Destruction Wrought in Northwestern Germany

RAF. FOLLOWS UP RECORD U.S. AERIAL ATTACK   Americans Knock Out 25% of Nazi Fighter Plane Capacity

“STUTTGART "1S BLASTED + LAST IH   * Yanks, RAF Get 126 Nazi Fighters   @ CONTINUE RAIDS   Destroy Fourth of Plane Output

Dewey Picks. Up More Delegates   Speculation Rife On GOP Keynoter

LEADERS OA PROSPECTS FON PARTY KEYNOTE   Connecticut Committeeman Urges Rep. Clare Boothe Luce Be Chosen   WEST AND SOUTH ADD TO DEWEY’S STRENGTE   New Yorker Picks up Pledged And Olaimed Delegates in Arizona and Virginia; Boom For MacArthur Spurts ir California 

DEWEY GAINS IN WEST AND SOUTH   New Delegates Are Pledged tn Arizona, Virginia

DEWEY STRENGTH GROWS; KEYNOTER TALK ENLIVENEL   Glare Luce Put Forward to Sound G. O. P. Battie Ory — -—Vandenburg and Hal- — leck Mentioned.   PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WINS 44.-MORE VOTES   fowa and Minnesota Groups - Instructed for Him—Former State Also Supports Wallace. 7

DEWEY PICKS UP STRENGTH IN DELEGATES   REPUBLICAN CHIEFS WEED OUT LIST OF KEYNOTERS

Dewey Picks Up New Strength In West, South  Gains Delegates In Arizona, Virginia; ‘Kevnoter’ Talked

Dewey Gain: Strength in West, South  GOP Narrows Candidates For Keynote Pos!

South And West Throw Support To Gov. Dewey   Arizona And Virginia Del. egations Pledged ‘To Vote For New Yorker

Dewey Gains Support in West, South   Clare Boothe Luce May Be GOP Choice For Meet Keynoter

Pvt Harry Mower And Miss Mary Chapman Wed  April .Wedding ‘Fakes: Place In ‘Le'Mars Saturday

Pvt Harry Mower  And Miss Mary  Chapman Wed ‘April Wedding  -'Fakes:-Place In T a: Mane Ca trened acy

Controlling Interest — In Chicago Daily News IBought By Knight Papers

INVADE A DUTCH ISLAND   Amphibious Landings Were Made by British and Canadian Troops

U5. FORCES ADVANCE ON NOEMFOOR   Strongly Bolstered by Paratroops; Take Kamiri Airfield

U. S. Forces Drive Rapidl\ Ahead On West Coast Of Dutch New Guinea Isle   KAMIRI AIRSTRIP QUICKLY OVERRUN

No-Strike Law Urged Instead Of Draft Plan   Allorney General Probes  Election Law Charges Titeantadd «t CIO

Head of C. . 0. Faces Inquiry   Charge Union Gave Funds to Politics

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News ‘Today.   Tr. Tnveestirnte Chare

Biddle Orders Probe of (10 Political Acts   Anti-Strike Law Declared Broken

genate Votes Extension of Price Contro!   Amendment Approved After New Rebuff Is Given Food Subsidies

Food Subsidy Bill Beaten  Gamate Tasemese Acide   Senate Turns Aside Pleas of F. R. Passage Of Bankhead Bill Seen

Senate Passage Of Bill To End  Subsidies Near   ‘Antis’ Reveal Strength; May Be Able To Over: ride Expected Veto.

Subsidy Program  Fading   Opposition In Senate Gaining Victory For Expected FDR Veto

Believe Food Price Subsidy Plan Doomed   Senate Rejects Plar To Appropriate Total Of $1.5 Billion For  FE ederal Dengram

Extend Price Control Policy   Approve Anti-Subsidy Bill Amendment Allowing Continuation Of Program.

FINAL VICTORY AT BAILYSTOK IS ANNOUNCED   Stalin Reports Army Has Driven Into Brest Litovsk   BULLETIN

TROOPS TAKE BIALYSTOK, STANISLAWOW   ‘Btill Other Forces Storm  Into Streets of Brest\ Litovsk— Virtual Col‘ lapse of Central Front ‘ Indieated.

Reds Span Vistula in Big Push   Five German Fortress Cities Taken and Another Is Entered   VIRTUAL COLLAPSE OF CENTRAL FRON'   * Moscow Victory Guns Roar _ Out as Armies Near German Soil

DOUGHBOYS ARE WITHIN 15 MILES OF BOLOGNA   Floods, Germans Offer Stiffer Resistance

\IN SLIGHT GAINS   Fifth Army Infantry Ad. vances on a 20-Mile  Italian Front

Deep Mud Slows Yanks’ Progress Toward Po Valley   Americans Reach Area Just South of Boschi Near Bologna

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION MAIN *44 ISSUE   Democrats Still Uncertain As To FDR Running Mate; Choice of Wallace Opposed.

*Youw’re Surrounded’ Nazi  Prisoner Tells British  But Says ‘War Is Over For Us’ When He Gane Pasitions OF Allied Troops On Maps

Yank Smash Hinted Near   Islands Deep in Jap Ring Being Softened

PUPPET LEADER OF CHINA DEAD   Biote Funeral Planned for Wang Ching-Wei—Diabetes Takes Him

Forts Raid Southern France, Italy’s Creaking Rail Lines   Strike In Widespread Operations, Soften Defenses For New Landing

AT COST OF 59 BOMBERS AND FIVE FIGHTERS; 100 ENEMY CRAFT DESTROYED; ONE OF GREATEST AIR BATTLES OF WAR.

U. S. Lost59 Bombers, Five Fighters ‘Raaaed 100 Planes In Raid On Reict

YANKS BLAST MORE THAN 100 GERMAN PLANES FROM SKY   Lose 59 Bombers and Five Fighters in One ot Fiereest Aerial Combats of War.   HAMMER AIRCRAFT PLANTS DEEP IN REICH   Losses Less Than Half Record 1386 Claimed by Enemy in Day-Long Propaganda Broadcasts.

Yanks Down Over 100 Nazi Ships   Greatest Aerial Assault Of War Thrown At Nazis

Yanks Battle Across Island   Repel Jap Tanks, Landing Craft, Drive on Principal Saipan Naval Base

FIGHT TOWARD CHIEF BASE ON SAIPAN ISLAND   U. S. Warships Bombard Guam; Destroy 50 Jap Planes in New Guinea

Yanks Repel Jap Tanks and Landing Craft   Push Halfway Across Saipan Island; Shell  Guam for First Time

Yanks Are Halfway Across Saipan Isle   Move Toward Chief Harbor After Repelling Nip Tank.and Landing Craft Assaults,— Naval Blasting of Guam Reported.

Yanks Close on Jap Naval Base   Drive to Saipan’s Principal Harbor At Mogicienne Bay

U. S. Forces Plug Way Toward Saipan Harbor   Guam Bombarded In Surprise Blow; Bombers Neutralize Last New Guinea  Base; Nab 50 Jap Planes; Sink 5 Ships.

YANKEES 60 AHEAD AFTER JAP ATTACK   Barges ‘Sunk When They  Attempt to Land At American Beachhead on Saipan Island.

Soldiers And Marines Battle Through Hot Canefields  American Forces Driving Toward Main Saipan Port

Yanks Punch Toward Main Saipan Port   Jap Counter - Attacks Fail to Dislodge Invading Units

Drive Toward Saipan Harbor   Yank Warships Bombard Guam, 100 Miles to South

U.S. Forces Battle Hard In Assaults In Marianas   Great Jap Harbor And Naval Base Is Approached

JAP TANK, SEA ASSAULTS ARE FASILY REPULSED   Tokyo Reports Attack On Kazan Isle By Bombers, Fighters

YANKS DRIVING TOWARD JAPS’ SAIPAN HARBOR   Soldiers, Marines Beat Off Tank Attacks, Jap Landing

Guam Bombarded Heavily In Possible Prelude To Invasion; Yanks Battle Halfway Across Saipan In Hot Canefields, Repulse Tanks And: Landing Craft:

Guam Bombarded By Naval Guns   Meanwhile U. S. Soldiers  Fight Way Across Saipan Island.

Yanks Closing In On Jap Naval Base On Saipan   Repel -Enemy- Tanks And Landing Craft; Guam Heavily Shelled.

SAIPAN ISLAND STILL SCENE OF FIERCE FIGHTING   More Than Score of Enemy Ships Smashed and Attack By Sea Beaten Back

U.S, REPELS NIP TANK, LANDING CRAFT ON SAIPAN   American Warships Blast Guam Hard for First Time in War

:  Saipan Drive Aimedat Naval Base   Hot Cane Fields Scene Of Repulsed Jap Blow in Marianas

Americans Advance on  Saipan Island   T €&  Warships BYinbard Guam for  First Time in War

Yanks Drive On Garapan;  Guam Shelled   Jap Landing Atiempl on Saipas Beteaied, 50 Jap Planes, 11 Vessels Sunk af Sereng, MN. 6.

Yanks Rush On To New Bases   JAP ASSAULTS HELD ' BACK IN SAIPAN AREA

Jap Landing Attempt Hurled Back As Yanks Gain Half of Saipan island

Americans ‘Advance In Marianas   Half-Way Across Island of Saipan—Jap .Counterattack Stopped

SOLDIER VOTE BILL IS PASSEL   Ohio Legislators Approve ' Measure Unanimously In Special Session

SOLDIER BALLOT SET FOR OHIOANS   All-Inclusive Form Passed During Special Session

VOTES ASSURED FOR OHIOANS IN ARMED FORCES   Legislature Gives Speedy Approval To Bill and Sends It To Governor

Anticipated Request For ‘Special Emphasis’ On Hiring Of Veterans

Halt Doughboys In Fiercest of Ubach Fighting   Americans, However, Push Forward Mile At Siegfried Breach

Deepen Break-Through At Ubach While British Extend Arnhem Salient   Germans Counter-Attack 3rd Army Embroiled In Hand-To-Hand Struggle For Fortress

American Tanks Strike Against Hastily Built Nazi Defenses   SLOGGEN AHEAD ONE MILE DEEPER TODAY  For A Change, Weather At The Front Described As Perfect

U.S. ARMY WIDENS  AND DEEPENS GAP IN SIEGFRIED WALL   Battle For Ft. Diraut Develops: Into Bitter Hand-To-Hand Fight— Nazis Lay Down Heavy Artillery Attack

 Germans Lay Down Rain Of Shells Which Slows Americans; Yanks Persist In Ferward Drive And Advance About One Mile   BRITISH CROSS RHINE SOUTH OF WAGENINGEN

Gain a Mile As Weather Improves   German Artillery and Coun ter-attacks Slow Advance by Yanks

NAZIS LOSE GROUND TO U.S. TANKS   American Ist Army, Forces Strike Eastward on Edge of Cologne Plain.   BULLETIN

Germans say battle raging  close to Iasi Russ 19 miles  from Odessa

IASI OUTFLANKED; wie’ DISPATCHES STATE   DISPATCHES STATE  No Confirmation of Axis Reports of Rumanian —  e Bee ee

WHERE THOUSANDS OF GERMANS AND RUMANIANS ARE PINNED AGAINST BLACK SEA; FINEST TROOPS OF RUMANIA BURIED OR BOTTLED UP.

Bucharest Under Martial Law; Pante Prevails in Country as Reds Bid Foe Satellite to Desert Hitler

Soviets Surging Over Prut River   Russians Invade Rumania, Stab Tarnopol, Kovel

Soviet Army Only 19 Miles  From Odessa   Martial Law Ordered In Bucharest; People Thrown Into Panic; Nazis Facing Trap

Nazis Locate Fighting as Near Iasi   Report Martial Law Proclaimed in Capital City

Reds Cross Prut To Axis Soil At Iasi Rail Hub   Southeastern Soviet Forces Drive — Within 19 Miles of Odessa, Pinning Enemy Hordes Against Sea

Red Capture Of Odessa  Imminent   Moscow Still Trying To Force Rumanians To Break Hitler Ties  BUCHAREST PANICKY

Axis Territory Occupied First Time in the War   Prut River Crossed At Several Points

COLUMBUS BISHOP TO BE CONSECRATEL   Ceremony Will Be in St Matthews’ Cathedral

Governors Open Conlerec With Post-War Theme   Emphasize Rights Of States Against Fed. Control

STATE LEADERSHIP POSTWAR PLANNING THEME OF PARLE)   Governors Open Annual Conference; F. D. Sends Message

CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS UNDER WAY   Dewey, Bricker Both Present at Hershey, Pa.

> >  TRANSFERRED TO SAIPAN ISLANDS   JOHN IRONS HOME FROM PACIFIC AREA

Witnesses In Voting Probe Being Heard   Two Senators Conduct Hearing Which Will Be Limited in Indianapolis to Couple of Davs.

2 Witnesses ‘Testify In. lVote:-Probe   Senators Late. Hearing Gets Slow. Start

BOMB RAIDS CAN RAZE JAP CITIES   Grew Warns Morale May Not Crack Because Used to Earthquakes

WARNS BOMBS MAY NOT HURT JAPS’ MORALE   Former Ambassador Asserts _dJapan Used to Quakes . and Disaster.

Burn Jap Cities With Air Offensive. Grew Urdges   Yanks Take One Fourth Of Cassino

Foe Defeated In Tank Battle On Main Front   Clarks Troops 124% Miles from Beachhead Starting Point   RULLETIN

\Co-ed Expelled tor Writing of Sex and Campus Kissing. So  Louisiana State Students Talk Strike

Student-Faculty Row Over Kissing Results In Strike Threat At LSU

Student Strike Threatened After Co-ed Expelled For Writing Sex Leaflet

ROSEMARY RUFFING IS BRIDE ON JUNE 3 OF THOMAS S. HANNELI   CAMDEN TEACHER WEDS RADIO TECHNICIAN AT C. E. BAK- + \ ER HOME

Labor Draft Plan Again Is Advanced   May Be Necessary To Replace Young Men. is Claim

-Draft Plans Are Studied   Limited Service Plan ls Favored By Solon

Wide Front Solidified In Holland   Virtually All Of Water Barriers Held By Allies

Allies Squeeze Germans To Maas Banks: Russians Puncture Budapest Ring

HODGES’ TROOPS FIGHT WAY BACK TO THREATEN SCHMIDT AGAIN   Walcheren Battle Costly To Allies

Herding Last. German Rear Guards into Two Tiny Pockets—Attempting Frantically ts Evacuate by Barge Under Rain of Allied Bombs and Shelia.

Herding Last German Rear Guards Into Two Tiny Pockets   ALLIED CAMPAIGN TO CRUSH GERMANY   Cleared Sea Approaches To Antwerp And Freed Remainder Of Belgium

BERLIN RAID  “ STUNS NAZIS   OEM ICE L-.- PLANE “PLANT ‘(AMONG FACTORIES LISTED AS WREC KED-—THOUSANDS‘ REPORTED KILLED

THOUSANDS DIE IN BERLIN RAID   City’s Famous West Kind Destroyed

COLLETT TRIAL MAY WIND UP IN FIVE DAYS   State Likely To Finish Its Testimony By Tuesday

ALABAMA RUN-OFF TESTS GIO POWER   Activities of Political Committee Denounced as ‘Flagrant and Bold Violation’ Of Corrupt Practices Act

ELLE OAR  Remaining Three  Germans Captured  All Five Nazi War Prisoners Now Back  De 2 cece We ce

LAST OF ESCAPED GERMAN  ~~. . - tare. th Ws ee oe OG BE eee ke al

Reds Shatter Nazi Defenses Near Warsaw   But Admit Reverse In Western Latvia;  Reopen. Romanian Fight

Nine-Mile Gain s Made Through Enemy Defenses   Romanian Front Again in Action

BUT RUSSIANS RETREAT FROM BALTIC AREAS   Germans Use 400 Tanks In Western Latvia; Romainian Front Active

SOVIETS SUFFER SLIGHT SETBACK NEAR RIGA GULF   Germans Have Regainec Contact With Their Two Stranded Armies   INACTIVE ROMANIAN FRONT IS REOPENED

Soviets Drive Northeast Of Warsaw, Shatter Wide Section of Nazi Defenses

Nazis Hurled Back In Plunge. Of Soviets In Warsaw Area   Other Red Forces Lose Ground Near Gulf of Riga— Long Quiet Romanian Front Reported Aaain in Action

Says Crystal Gazing ‘Pied Pipers Leading ‘U.S. Toward Bankruptcy

Nazis Throw All Available Reserves Into Fierce Counteroffensive; Yanks Yield City, Gain in Hills

NAZIS STRIVE FURIOUSLY T0 CHECK ALLIES   Retake Terracina From Yanks, Put Up Desperate Fight

Nazis Force Yankees Out Of Terracina   Americans Continue to Gain Through Inland Mountains

Fi ierce Fighting Raging Along Entire Front; Last Of Nazi Divisions In Possible Climactic Battle For Italy

NAZIS BRING UP RESERVE FORGED   Fierce Fighting Rages Along  The Entire Front   AMERICANS INLAND   Advance Through Mountains, Poles Reach Piedimonte, Near Oassino

Fierce Fighting Rages, along Entire Front a 7 Divisions of Nazis; Battle near Rome. ©,

Batile For Italy Heads For Climax   Germans Throw All Available Reserves Into Counter-Drive :

American Troops Forced Back by errific Attack   Fierce Fighting On Entire Front

Nazis Throw All Reserves Into Struggle   Fierce Fighting Rages Along Entire Length Of Front in Italy  GAINS ARE GENERAL

YANK PATROLS THROWN BACK AT TERRACINA   CLIMACTIC BATTLE RAGES ON ROAD TO ROME

Americans Retire From. Coastal Gateway to Rome   Fierce Fighting Rages Along Entire Front. U.S. Troops Inland Continue Advance Throvah Maunteine

Premier of Greece Spurs Peace Try Of Armed E. A. M.   Leftists Continue To Riot, Ask Change  In Government

Japan's 4-Day Losses In U.S. Raids   35 Survive Torpedo Sinkina Of Freighter

Formosa, Base for Reinforcements, is Bomb-Ravaged Isle   140 Jap Ships ‘and 525 Planes Knocked Out by Carrier Raids   In Four Dave

‘Have Cut Off All Railway And Main Highways From The City —  ‘ONLY HOURS BEFORE ‘MINSK ENCIRCLED Soviet Shells And Bombs  Fall Into Capital And   Its Suburbs  / BULLETIN

SOVIETS OPEN ALL-OUT SIEGE AGAINST MINSK,   Encircle City After Cutting All Railways And Main Highways

Big Smash "al Robot ~~ Centers      ‘Both R.A-P. and AAF Laut Shatiering . Blows; Also Aid Troops in Normandy

Hal Boyle’s Pinch-Hitter — Runs Into a Beautiful Spy ‘in the Magic City of Paris —

Hitler’s Worry. Pile   Guerrillas Also Harassing Nazi Leaders; New Command Established.

German Unrest Mounts in Path Of Red Armies   Drastic Measures Taken to Deal With © Saboteurs, Guérrillas

Prussia Unrest High As Reds Sweep Near  Hitler’s Vaunted German Youth  XY * ye Ooo, KY gt ED... Ta

HEAR GESTAPO SETS UP NAZE ‘YOUTH’ CAMPS   Act To Quell ‘Latent Revolt? Among Boys, Girls

SWEDEN SAYS GERMAN YOUTH ARE IN REVOLT   Report Comes Few Hours After Goebbels Speech

Unrest in Kast Prussia and Germany Forces Hitler to Establish Unified Command to Deal with Saboteurs and Guerrillas,

UNREST IS MOUNTING IN EAST PRUSSIA   Hitler Names Command to Deal  With Saboteurs

UNREST CAUSES MORE TROUBLE FOR A, HITLEF   Reported'y Has to Establish New Unified Command to Deal With Saboteurs, Guerillas

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Rocket-Firing Planes Sank 66 Enemy Vessels

ON VOTING AGE   sea Year’s High School Debate Question Announced

SEE GERMANS IN NEW DRIVE AT BEACHHEAL   Allies Keep Pouring Artillery Fire at Enemy, Fighting Quickening at Cassino

ON FIFTH ‘ARMY FRONT   ' Movement Behind Nazi Lines Hints Of Bie Push

Duels Rage In Torn Cassino On Fifth Front   Movements Behind German Lines May Mean Another Push

4TH NAZI OFFENSIVE INDICATED   Toulon Naval Base In France Raided By Yank Bombers

SEVERE FIGHTING CONTINUES T0 RAGE INSIDE OF CASSINO  BELIEVE GERMANS REGROUPING FOR ANOTHE! REACHHEAD DRIVE

Nazis Regroup For New Attack   Apparently Prepare For Fourth All-Out Push Against Allies

Nazis Regrouping Force Below Rome  Stiff Gun Duels Raging In Cassino Area

New German  Attack Seen   Enemy Massing Forces For Fourth Attempt To Crush Beachhead

Gunfire Duels Continue For Cassino   No Position Change Recorded on Any Italian Front

NEW NAZI OFFENSIVE SEEN ON BRIDGEHEAD   Considerable Enemy Troop Movements Reported

‘Fourth Attack On Beachhead By Nazis Is Predicted   Reds Overpower Big Nazi Counterattacks

DUELS CONTINUE IN CASSINO AREA   No Change in Military Lines on Beachhead

Gun Duels Raging in Cassino   Believe Nazis Regrouping Men For Attack on Anzio Beachhead

TOULON RAIDED AS DUELS RAGE FOR CASSINO   Movements Noted Behind German Lines May Indicate Preparations for New Beachhead Attack   SNOW AND MUD   Hits Noted Around Decks, in Munitions Faciory Area at Toulon —Rail Yards Bombed

Germans Seeking Weak Line Spots  Believed Preparing for Fourth Assaul¢

Nazis Prepare For New Drive  Heavy Gun Duels Also Rage Through Cassine

Fourth All-Out — German Drive in Haly Is Indicated   Regrouping of Nazi Forces is Spotted; Heavy Duels Are RPaaing in Cassinge

Fighting Flares _ At Cassinc   Gunfire and Grenade Duels Rage in City; Await 4th Nazi Blow At Rome Beachhead

FIGHTING RAGES ON IN CASSINO, ALLIES REPORT   Fourth Enemy Drive Against Beachhead Indicated by Recent Nazi Moves

EXPECT NEW GERMAN PUSH AT CASSING   Fighting Reported Fierce In Many Italian Towns

For Second Night Gun Duels Rage On Cassino Front   Nazis Regroup For a Fourth Possible Push on Anzio  Beachhead.   Make a Futile Effort To Get Through Lines

Cassino Guns’ Duel; Anzio Foe Regroups   ith Beach Attack Mav Be Near. Allied Spotters Report

Gunfire Duels Continue For Cassino  Br. mo.’ 2%2 . Pheer   No Position Change Recorded on Any Italian Front

EXPECT FOURTH ALL-OUT TRY BY NAZIS AT ANZIO   Gunfire, Mortar And Grenade Duels Rage At Cassino; Notice Regrouping Of German Forces For Possible New  Beachhead Attack.

New Activity In Nazi Anzio Units Seen Below Rome   Indicates A Possible Regrouping for Fourth All Out Push Against Allies.

BELIEVE GERMANS REGROUP. FOR NEW BEACHHEAD DRIVE   ARTILLERY DUELS STILL RAGING ON THE CASSINO FRONT

NEW ATTACK BELOW ROME IN PROSPECT   Movements Behind Lines Indicate Another Assault

AXIS BELIEVED PLANNING FOR FOURTH PUSH   Observers on Beachhead Spot Movements Behind German Lines South of Rome   POSITIONS UNCHANGED

Germans May Be Forming  For New Blow   Beachhead Observers See Movements Behind the Nazi Lines

Nazis Expected To Try Another Atfack At Anzio   Troop Movements Indicate Germans Are Rerroupine

NAZIS REGROUP FOR ATH PUSH?   Ghbservers Spot Mavements Behind German Lines Below Rome.

Gun Duels Rage Again At Cassino   Heavy Fire Also Exchanged at Beachhead —Nazi Movements Appear to. Indicate Re. grouping for Another All-Out Push.

FOURTH NAZIANZIO ATTACK IS EXPECTED   Observers Spot Troop  Movements Behind En — emy’s Lines Below Rome  . —Gunfire Still Is In’ tense at Cassino.

HEAVY DUELLING CONTINUES IN CASSINO SECTOR   Allied and Nazi Forces Dwel Back and Forth for Second Straight Night With Grenades, Mortars and Small  Yn

ROME RADIO REVEALS NEW ALLIED RAID   LONDON, March 8,—(U.)—Rome vadio said Allicd bombers raided Rome aryain today.

Cassino Seat of Fierce Battle Spread in Italy   Movements in German Lines Below Rome Indicate Imminent All-Out Effort to Dislodge Allied Hold

Nazis Mass For Attack Upon Anzio   Duels Continue Inside Cassino

Movements Behind Line: Indicate Huns Prepare For Fourth Push In Zone Below Rome

HULL TO KEEP UP FIGHT FOR WORLD PEACE   Pleads for Non-Partisan Attitude and Interest of People

CHURCHILL, TITO CONFER IN ROME   Italian Government Crisis Appears Imminent

Eindhoven, Holland's 7th Largest City, !s Captured      JUNCTION IS MADE WITH AIR TROOPS   Airborne Reinforcements Poured Into the Battle

Reach Last Large Pocket of Air-Borne Soldiers at Nijmegen — New Junction Puts Two Forces Four Miles From Germany— Allies at Other Points Hold as Flanking Move Takes Shape.

ls Now Fighting On the Banks of Waal Rhine River Eindhoven Taken   Dempsey's Armored Units Advance More Than 37 Miles in a Day; Nazis Fighting Stubbornly

FIGHT RAGES ON BANK: OF WAAL RHINE RIVER’   Dempsey’s Forces Joined Last Parachutist Units On Edge Of Nijmegen; Eindhoven Taken;  Resistance Stiffens

GREAT THRUST IN HOLLAND {5 AT THE RHINE   CITY OF EINDHOVEN CAPTURED; BRITISH DASH 37 MILES

Troops meet  just outside  of Nijmegen Smash 37 miles  a Psy cotn cla Pas

S227-: ~ a ae r= ie  VO ee Ree Voted ae Tay-TF 3a, wee ley  “+= oe ye’ Brag Vengs

CLAIM SOLUTION IN KNIFE MURDERS   ‘Ohio Police Report Suspect Confesses Slayings In Vehicle

Dead Pair Found On Seat of Car   Night Club Party Ends in Tragedy

BRADLEY GETS RANK EQUAL TO MONTGOMERY'S   Divide Field Command Of Allied Armies In N. France

DIVIDE FIELD COMMAND IN NORTH FRANCE   Bradley Given Rating Equal to That of Montgomery

DARING OHIOAN CITED AGAIN  OWI! Aide ‘Rises A Few Tanks, Captures Luxembourg Radio Station

Attention of Nation Js om Demos iH Chicage   Wallace and Gillette Are In Iowa Spotlight

Deniderns Tike Spotlight for = Next Two Week:   ‘Meet in ChicagoS Stadiuni dn National Convention

U. S. Casualties Top Entire Figure For World War ; General McNair Loses Life in Battle for Normandy

Famed’ Fighter War Victim; Casualty List Now Exceeds Last World War

‘Casualties Now Exceed World War One Figures; Include 63,000 Dead ©

General McNair Killed in Action; U. S. Céeralties Exceed First World War

MeNair Killed As Casualties Top First War   General Dies in Action In France: U.S. Toll Exceeds 313.000 Men

RECEIVE GOODS SHIPMENT RED CROSS SEWING   Any Organizations Interested May Contact Chairman, Make Articles.

Banks Report Many Cashing Small Bonds   Government Asks Holders Not to Cash  Unless Necessary

CASHING SMALL BONDS   Kansas City Downtown Banks Are Swamped Today ©

Russian Troops Go Into Finland Today to Enforce Stern Armistice   Obtain Little If Any Softening Of The Soviet Demands

FINNS BOW TO HARSH’ TRUCE; TERMS LISTEI   Contplete Red Control Isolates Nation For 2 Months

Stern Terms Call for Large ‘Territorial and Cash Reparations -— Jomplete Isolation for at Least Two Months Demanded,

Finns Sign Stern Armistice Terms; Territory ‘Cash To Russians; Soviet Troops In Country

Soviet Troops March Into Finland To Enforce Stern Armistice Terms

TERMS OF FINN © ARMISTICE ARE WiGHTY STIFE   Russian Troops March in to Enforce Stern ’.. Canditions

Russo - Finnish Peace Terms  Called Severe   $300,000,000 In Cash Payments, Demand;  Karelia To Reds   TOTAL ISOLATION   Soviets Ask Hold Or Activities; Areas  For Allied Use

PREMIER URGES FINNS TO MEET HARSH’ TERMS   Reds Given Mulitary Domination Through Grant of Bases

BRICKER TO CALL SOLONS 10 RAISE OHIO TEACHERS’ WAGE   Session May Convene Next Week — Issue Won’t Be Ohio Political Football   Other Measures Suggested to Governor Not Likely to Be Given Consideration

German Rail Centers Hif Aerial Blows   Freight Yards Clogged With Traffic Pounded By Fiahter-Bombers

aiRait tities Hit By Allies   hg Freight Yard: ‘ad With Traffic Tasted by Britain sed Warplanes

FREIGHT YARDS OF GERMANS POUNDED   At': Least 2,500. Planes _. Take Part in Day's Raide

2,900 ALLIED PLANES BOMB WEST GERMANY   Explosives Rained on Freight Yards Filled With Supplies for Von Rundetedt'’sa Drive.

VON RUNOSTEDT CUPPLIES BLASTED   Allied Warplanes Shower Explosives on Freight Yards Clogged With Supplies for Nazi Offensive «   Bv CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN

REICH FREIGHT YARDS BLASTED   Jammed Enemy Supply Lines To Western Front Disrupted

ISSUED GALL LAST NIGHT   Carbondale To Be Headquarters For Regiment

LONG: PROCESSION BRITISH BCMBERS CONTINUE INVASION   Raiding Planes’ Approach ‘Western Germany to Drop More Lesircc.ion, ©

LONG PROCESSION BRITISH ECKBERS CONTINUE INVASION   Raiding Planes Approach Western Germany to Drop More [Les.r-.c ion.

Patch Racing ~ Toward Reich   Yankees Sweep Up Doubs Valles tn Chase of Fne

YANKS 70 MILES FROM BELFORT GAP   GENERAL PATCH’S ARMORED FORCES SWEEP UP DOUBS VALLEY IN FRANCE,

Within 70 Miles of Belfort Gap Only Frontier Area With No Mountain Bar rier   Repeated Attacks

POWERFUL FORCES. NEAR BELFORT GAP   ‘Americans’ ‘Sweep. Up’ Valley East of Chalon- : ee Sup @aane::

Yanks Near South  France Escape Gap   May Prevent German 19th Army From Going Through Mountain Passages Into Germany

American Troops Are Four Miles From Harbor City   Coordinated Attacks Along Entire Front Are Under Way

All-Out Drive Gains In Fury; Valognes Taken   Americans Driving Relentlessly To Destroy 50,000 Trapped Germans

All-out Offensive for Great Guif Port Mounts with Fury as Americans Advance Rapidly.  NTFAWYV DE NOATUH DHKCk ut

Germans Fall Back To Inner Defenses   Bradley Moves More Troops Into Area For Surging Thrust North From Corridor Toward Port — Americans Take Valognes And Occupy Montebourg

Push on Cherbourg Sliced to 4 Miles   In Furious Fighting Americans Seize Valognes, 10 mile Southeast of Great Harbor in French Normandy.   Germans Are Demolishing Port on : Atlantic as Americans Close in

American Forces Capture Valognes And Montebourg   Veteran 9th Division Spearheads Deepest Drive To South Of City; Big Offensive Mounts In Fury

Yanks Seize Valognes In  All-Out Drive   Death Pocket For Perhaps Up To 50.000 Nazis; No Major Stand Tried.   OCCUPY MONTEBOURG

GREAT AIR OFFENSIVE UNDERWAY   Air Reconnaissance Shows Nazis Busy Demolishing Port

Push Within 4 Miles of Cherbourg   All-Out American Offensive Swallows Valognes; a Death Pocket for 50.000

VETERAN NINTH DIVISION LEADS DEEPEST DRIVE   Nazis Leave Valognes Without a Battle, Says Writer

‘Troops Only 4 Mil - From Great Port   All-Out Offensive Mounts in Jury; Valognes Captured

Americans « Miles From Cherbourg   Navy Declares Nasi ‘Dunkerque’ By Sea Impossible

VALOGNES FALLS TO U. S. TROOPS > IN MIGHTY PUSH   Veteran Ninth Division Leading Drive—Montebourg Retaken — Nazis Trapped

Valognes, 10 Miles Southeast of Great Harbor Seized As Montebourg Is By-Passed. Up to  50,000 Nazis Believed Doomed in Peninsular TR. ssl.   KEY FINNISH SEAPORT SAID TO HAVE GIVEN IN AFTER HEAVY SHELLING BY RED ARTILLERY   Swedish Reports Not Immediately Confirmed by Russians Indicate Finnish Stronghold Surrenders After Shelling fram Massed Artillery

!Port City Only Four Miles Away   Valognes and Monteburg Topple in Rapid Advance; British ‘Take Town South of Tilly

Sudden ‘Coordinated’ Drive Sweeps Beyond Valognes, Montebourg   Nazis As Yet Unable To Swing Great Sea Defense Guns Inland; Port’s Capture Appears To Be Imminent; 50,000 Trapped

Berlin Reports Allies Nearing Peninsula Port  Battle For France Mounts in Fury; More Towns Taken

All-Out Drive Penetrates Nazi Defense   Valognes, Montebourg Fall as Battle Reaches New Fury

ALL-OUT DRIVE TO TAKE CITY IS LAUNCHED   Valognes And Montebourg Occupied By Allies   ONE OF THREE   Nazi Defense Lines Around City Is Pierced; Port Being Demolished

Other U. S. Forces Advance to St. Martin, Only Four Miles From Cherbourg; American Troops Occupy Montebourg

Bradley’s Troop Seize Valognes, Advance To St. Martin Le Grand; Predict 50,000 Germans in Death Trap

ATTACKS FLARE ALONG ENTIRE NORTH FRONT   Reinforced Troops Hammer Port In Full-Scale Offensive

Americans. ‘Sinash Closer To Great: Harbor “Of Cherbourg —- Up To 50,000 Germans ‘Are Believed Trapped I Jn’ Death Pocket On Peninsula :

Offensive of Mounting Fury Pierces the Outer a , tifications  4 MILES FROM CITY      Germans Fall Back Without Attempting Major Defense Stand

Yanks Push Within Four Miles Great French Port   Valognes Is Taken ~ In All-Out Fire   e  Of Americans

Yanks Within Four Miles Of Vital Seaport   Valognes Is Captured In Smashing American Drive; Peninsula Corridor Widened To  16 Miles; Montebourg Is Seized

4 MILES AWAY DRIVING YANK POUNDING GITY   Germans Falling Back Insite Their Last Defenses; Montebourg Falls.

OWI SAYS JAP WAR T0 LAST MUCH LONGER   Plane Losses Are Offset By Big  Production

B-29 Attack Is Carried Out Without Loss   Allies Must Learn They Can’t Win, Says High Nazi

Summary List: Factors in  Favor of Nips   Jap Successes in China, Manpower. Geography. Ability To Produce Cited

Government Forecasts Dark Outlook in View of Reverses in Southeastern China Area

Japs Threaten Southeast China Base af Kweilin   U.S. Announces No B-29s.Lost in Raid On Manchuria. Ching

Long War In Pacific Seen  By Olficials   OWI! Declares War Against Japanese Will Last at Least Year and Half After Fall of Germany.

OWI Sees Conflict Lasting 18 Months After Fall Of Reich   Enemy Aided By Manpower, China War, Production, Geography; No Superforts Lost In Raid

PACIFIC. WAR TOLAST LONE   OW! Says It Will Last at Least Year and a Half After Germany Falls.   SEVERAL ITEMS IN FAVOR

Lengthy War W ith Jay yan Seen By OW]   Batthe OF Pacifie Will Just Begin When Germany Beaten, Says Report

REAL BEGINNING FORESEEN WHEN GERMANY FALLS  REFLECTS MILITARY   REFLECTS MILITARY VIEWS OF OBSTACLES IN PATH OF VICTORY

WAR AGAINST JAPAN WILL LAST YEAR AND HALF AFTER GERMANY  THAT IS DEDUCTION oF Cc  WACLIINGTANW OLCCir   THAT IS DEDUCTION OF WASHINGTON OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION —

Rev. Orlemanski Tn Seclusion AfterSuspension   Penalized for Failure To Obtain Permission For. Journey to Moscow

Priest Accepts His Suspension   Papal Delegate Backs Bishop's Authority

PRIEST PENALIZED FOR MOSCOW TRIP   Bishop Imposes Canonica Penalties on Springfield Mass... Priest —

PRIEST PENALIZED FOR MOSCOW TRIP   Bishoo Suspends Fr. Orle“mane pets Return from

Priest Stays In Seclusion   He Seems Reconciled To Suspension Order Of His Bishop

Orlemanski Fails To Hold Masses   Polish-American Priest Suspended

PRIEST SECLUDED: IMPOSE PENALTIES   Rey. Orlemanski Charges His Church Has Crucified Him

Orlemanski Is Suspended By Bishop   SPRINGFIELD PRIEST WHO VISITED STALIN FAILS TO APPEAR IN HIS CHURCH FOR MASS ES,   Suspension Indefinite

Father Orlemanski Obeys Bishop’s Order And Does Not Say Mass   RETURNED SATURDAY FROM STALIN PARLEY

Paratroopers Land Behind Siesfried Line   Three Allied Armies Grind Defenses Before Duren, Roer River. Cologne

SKY FORGES DROP BEHIND NAZI DEFENSES   Air-borne Groups Said to Have Cut Important German Supply Line.   BULLETIN

REPORT AIRMEN LANDED BEHIND SIEGFRIED LINE   Swiss Say Small Groups Of Paratroopers East Of Rhine

Assault Made By Ist Army   Paratroops Land Behind Siegtried Line, Swiss Say

Showdown May Be On Cologne Plain  STORY ON PAGE   Swiss Report Paratroopers  Land Behind Siegfried Line

West Front Troops in Small Gains   Tighten Assault Arc at Dur en—Dive-bombers, Para troops Active

TROOPS THREATEN DUREN; PATTON'S MEN DRIVE DEEPER INTO SAAR BASIN   Limited Gains Are Reported In West

Yanks Also 3 [-2 Miles From Duren   SWISS DISPATCHES INDICATE:  AMERICAN PARATROOPERS LAND BEHIND SIEGFRIED LINE AG

Lt. Gen. Patton’s Third Army Pushes Mile And Half Deeper Into Saar On 19-Mile Front Inside Germany   PARATROOPERS CUT . LINE TO BORDER

Planes and Artillery Rain Bombs on the City -MANY NAZIS-SLAIN-— _ DURING THE MONTH Yalta and 40 Other Vil lages Fall to the Russians

Crimean Fortress May  Be Taken in Few Hours   Artillery Hurling Shells Into Heart Of City; Capture Of Yalta On South Coast Announced

YANKS TIGHTEN HOLD ON JAP MOROTAI ISLE   1,400 Japs Are Slain In Hot Battle For Palau Airfield

Business Women Hold Initiation Tuesday Night   Add Sixteen New _ Members To Number This Week

Business Women Hold {nitiation Tuesday Night  Add Sixteen New Members Toa Nirmmbe

2,000 _ Reported Rescued   British Doctors Stay Behind to Attend 1,200 Wounded

British Withdraw Remnants of ‘Lost Division Across the Rhine, Expand Other Dutch Holdings 

Survivors Pull Back To South Bank Of River   Epic Of Heroism Is Written By British ‘Red Devils’; Leave Wounded Men Behind

OPA Balks at. Ration Change   Refusal to Heed WFA Meat Order. Indicated

U.S. AirLosses In European Bombings Small   General Hunter Says Over-All Total Is Only 3.1 Per Cent

Hitler Brats Want To Be Good Nowas They See Nazi ‘Chieftains Cringe In Fear

: ’ ee ‘Hitler Brats’ Come Under Parents’ _  _ Control as Yanks Occupy Germany

In Liberated Areas, Papa Hans Can Spank ‘Em  Now Gestapo Not There to Back Them Up

Demo Leaders Study Plans   HANNEGAN ASSEMBLES COMMITTEE AFTER TALK

Gov. Kerr May Be Keynoter Ot Demo Meeting   Governor of Oklahoma, a Staunch Backer of FDR for Fourth Term, Looked on as Convention Speaker.

DEMOS NAME KERR KEYNOTER   Choice Is Made By Party’s Convention Arrangements Committee.

KERR SELECTED FOR DEMOCRAT KEYNOTING JOB   OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR 1S-ADVOCATE OF 4TH ‘TERM FOR ROOSEVELT

WOMAN THROWS BABY IN RIVER   TELLS OF WATCHING STRUGGLE OF HER DROWNING DAUGHTEF

Woman J ailed For Drowning Baby Daughter   Mother, 18, Accused of Dropping Infant Into River and Watching  While it Died

War Labor Board Not Police, Says Chairman Davis  Public Opposes Wartime Strikes

Heavy Bombers Blast Defenses of Southern France  Attacks on Military Installation Along Coasi Follow Attacks by Tactical Air Force

COASTAL AREA  TARGET TODA\   15th Airforce Bombers Deliver Heavy Attack in S France.

Bi¢- Caen Pocket: Said Tightened By Allies Today   Vital German Targets On Mediterranean Coast Suffer Heavy Pounding

Three Famous U. S. Divisions Engulf 16-Towns In Three-Mile Advance; Germans’ Seille River Line Smashed

Advance 3 Miles, Free 16 Towns In  Major Outbreak   Patton Pulls Trigger On Six-Weeks Accumulatior Or Power; Three Divisions Cross Flooded Sielle, Outflank Metz Fortress.

Admiralty Island Tr oops  Are Given Reinforcements   Work. Is Launched: ‘to: Put Momote Airfield on Los Negroes: tsland in Condition: for Use- eby So" a ANS.

Units Push Momote Air Base  Yanks Bolster Cavalrymen  On Los Negros

Fresh Yanks Land At Momote Field   Important Airfield On Les Negros Island Being Re conditioned By Americans; Nipponese Barges Are Sent Down

Admiralty Island Troops  Are Given Reinforcements   Work Is Launched to Put Momote Airfield on Les _ Negroes-tsland in Condition for Use by thea Alliec

Reconversion Holds Increasin g Interest   Two Phases Of Problem Cited As Tolan Outlines 10-Point Program For House

Aspects of reconversion to civil economy get attention   Will Attract Management.

Leaders Stud Industrial  Reconversion  WPB Head Warns Shift Presents Complex Problems

Officials Discuss ~ Reconversion   W.P.B. Official Warns That Haste Makes Waste; Discusses Dual Phase.

Reconversion Problem Gets Increasing Attention   WPB Official Sees More Serious Job  Than That of Shift To War Production  FEARS EARLY ACTIO® MAY BE TOO DRASTIC  Ten-Point Program Le OT one Raamnn Racitc

I'wo Aspects of Reconversion to Civilian Economy Absorb an Increasing Share of Public Attention

FACE COMPLEX PROBLEMS OF RECONVERSION   Batt Warns Against too Hasty Action; Broad Program Offered

Yanks Encircle Japs Holding Peleliu Sector   Marines, Infantry Speed Up Efforts To Capture Island

NAZIS ENTER CAPITAL CITY OF PARTISANS   Serb Reinforcements Rushed to Aid  Jajce

114,700 TONS OF BOMBS ON GERMANY   Allied Warplanes Drop That Many in November

NAVY REPORTS 11 SHIPS LOST   2 Mine Sweepers, Harbor Tug, 8 Landing Craft Are Listed

Liberalism Js Advanced, Wallace Says   Ticket Will Receive His Wholehearted Support, He Asserts  HAPPY AROMT TT?

Wallace fully behind ticket  ‘Big start toward  wital Theraliem’

STRIKE MAKES 50,000 IDLE IN DETROIT AREA   Maintenance Workers Peril Production At War Plants

C.1.0. STRIKES TO DENY ARMY MATERIEL   Approximately 50,000 Workers Idle in Detroit Challenging War Labor Board’s Decision.   Officers’ Plea Disregarded

STRIKES CLOSE NINE FACTORIES   War Material Production is Threatened With Complete Stoppage

90,000 WAR WORKERS IDLE IN DETROIT   Plane Engines, Truck Parts Among Items  Hit By Strike

6,000 Strike At Detroit; 50,000 Are Rendered Idle   Maintenance Workers  Involved in -Dispute  Over Wages; Aircraft . Production Hampered  BRIGGS HIT HARD

50,000 Workers Idle in Detroit   Maintainers’ Strike Closes Nine Plants

Strike of 6.000 Forces 50,000 From War Jobs   Nine War Factories In Detroit Area Are Closed; Production in 15 Others Is Reduced

RECIPROCAL CARE   Eight United Nations Agree to Aid Nationals Within  Their Borders

Nations Plan Means To Feed  War Refugees   Each Country Asked To Assist Nationals Of Other Lands

Eight Countries of Europe Promise to Care for Refugees   UNRRA Tells of Multilateral Agreement; Russia Silent

23 PASSENGERS HURT . IN FLORIDA WRECK   Advance Section Of Northboune Havana Special in Collision Wih Suiich Engine

 In Florida.  Train Wreck   Northbound Tourists in  * Car Which Met With Switch Engine — wwe. .. At Pamnane cu:

HANNEGAN HAS A TALK WITH F, R.   Democratic Chairman Calls On President, But Has No Comment On Fourth ‘Lerm Question; Roundup Of Political News.

Hannegan Makes Convention Plans   14 Vote Margin Separates Idaho's Close Senate Racc.

FDR Refuses to Break Silence  President Meets With Democratic Chairman

FAAININEGAN JOCKE To:  Dem Chairman Meets With Party Members In Chicago

HANNEGAN “GOES TO CHICAGO FOR CONVENTION TALKS   Democratic Chairman in ‘Windy City to Complete Arrangements for Conventinn

County Bond Purchases Up to $7,092,718   6th War Loan to Bring Randolph Total for Year to $3,221,301 -

SINGAPORE. RADIO “REPORT BELITTLED   Jap Broadcast infers Airmen Executed After Cap tora

RED WARSHIPS IN BALTIC SEA   Troopships Of Escaping Nazis Shelled; Finns Fight In Forests

HEAVY GUNFIRE HEARD IN HELSINKI   RED FLEET SAID TO HAVE ENTERED BALTIC TO BLOCK NAZI] EVACUATION,

WALTON DECLARES  A, AND M, COLLEGE  15 FACING CRISIS FORMER PRESIDENT  . CHALLENGES BOARD DIRECTORS TO RESICN

OHIO LAGS IN DRAFT ORDERS   So February and March Pre-Indutcion Quotas Are Boosted 20 Percent

HEAVY TOLL TAKEN BY MEXICAN FLOOD      Rains Continue to Drench Big Part of the Nation 

Mexican Flood Toll Expected to Reach 100 Mark: Property Damage Said High

FBI Identifies Trunk Murder -Victim’s Body   Chicago Police Earlie: Claimed Body as That Of Mrs. Villegas

Fingerprints Of Woman Victim Of Trunk Murder Identified By F. 8.1. ,

Arrested Many Times in South  FBI at Washington Reveals Identity

Trunk Murder Victim is Identified As Woman With Jail Record in South

Bricker Starts . 9000-Mile Swing   Campaign Trip to Begin in Kentucky

‘Major Speech By Hitler Likely Next Thursday   Fuehrer Expected To Attempt To Bolster Revolt-Shaken Nation

GHY SCHOOLS PUPILS WILL FABOIL FRIDAY   . Schedule Provides © ‘for Registrat‘on ~ Starting at 8:50 A. M.

CITY SCHOOLS PUPILS WIL  HHRILL FRIDAY   Schedule Prov-des for Registrat on Starting at 8:0) A. M.

SENATE BACKERS OF FEDERAL SOLDIERS’ VOTE ENCOURAGED   Seek Showdown Vote Saturday With Opposition

Senators Play Hookey; Soldier Vote Act Delayed   Further Action On  * Measure Postponed Until Monday Morning

Senate Lacks Quorum; Action Delayed On Soldier Vote Bill Until Monday

CHINA-BASED B-29'S STRIKE WAR ARSENAI   Meanwhile, in Philippines, MacAr thur’s Campaign on Leyte Practically Concluded.

Fierce Street Fighting Rages In Subrubs Of Lwow, Poland’s Third Largest City

-Reds Continue Swift Drive Before Germans Can Make Stand on Plains of Poland

Soviets Approach Last Big Barrier Before Germany   Forces Break Into Outskirts Of Lwow After Surrounding The City And Trapping Germans

D Red Armies Nearing Wisla, N Surround Lwow; Cut Escape 1] Route Of German Soldiers   Now Within 50 Miles Of Warsaw, Russians Employing  Cavalry And Tanks For Greater Speed; German Gen- , eral And Staff Surrender In Stubborn Lwow Fight’

U. S. Seize: Heights in Leyte Drive   Three-Mile Gain Made Against Reinforced Foe

Bitter Fighting Features   Despite Strong Counter Attacks By Japanese U, S. Forces  Continue Advancing. -

Rommel Directs Assault by German Paratroopers and Glider-Borne Infantry — Yugoslav Leader, Together With Churchill’s Son and Other Allied Officers, Flee Into Mountains—Assault Leads to Bitter Fighting.

Germans Atfemp' To Capture Tito   Yugoslav Leader And Staff Flee

QUARTERS UF TITO ARE CAPTURED   By German Paratroopers, but Wily Marshal Escaped; Supposed to Be Directed by Rommel.   Four Givisions

Tito Escapes As Nazis Capture Headquarters   Attempt Frustrated   Nazi Troop Train Blasted

Marshal Tito Escapes After  Germans Seize Headquarters   Yugoslav Leader and Major Churchill Go to Mountains After Paratroopers Swarm Down, lt fe Announced

 German Paratroopers Capture Tito's Headquarters, But Wily Yugoslav Leader Gives Them The Slip

Tito Barely Misses Capture   Nazi Gliders Capture Headquarters of Slav Leader.

TITO ESCAPES GERMAN GLIDER TROOP LANDING   Planes of the Fifteenth Air Force and RAF Sweep Out to Aid  Partisans

TITO BARELY ESCAPES FROM NAZI RAID ON HIS HIDEOUT   Gennan Paratroopers And Glider-Borne Infantry Swooped Down On Bosnia Base On May 25 Hour After Wily Yugoslav Leader Fled To Hills

Germans Fail To Capture _ Marshal Tito   Invade Headquarters. But Yugoslavian. Leader And Maj. Churchill Flee

CHURCHILL ON TOUR OF PARIS   FLIES TO FRENCH CAPITAL FRIDAY AT TERNOON

CALIFORNIAN ON WIRE TO INVASION H. Q.   DISPATCH FILED DIRECT FROM LONDON TELLS OF VETERAN WAR CORRESPONDENTS

Dispatch Direct to Courier Teletype From London First Test of Plan to Cover D-Day

BADOGLIO HEADS A WAR CABINET TO RULE ITALY   Marshal Serves As Premie And Foreign Minister in New Government

Badoglio Heads A New Italian War Government   Men Who Held Military Ministries to Remain at  Their Old Posts.   Six Parties to Hold Posts in New Union

Badoglio Seis Up New Cabinet   Four Outstanding Leaders Ministers Without Portfolio

Badoglio Forms New Governmen For Italy   Remains As Premier, Foreign Minister; Officials Chosen

Radgolio.. . Forms New Cabinet   He Will Take Position As. Foreign Minister As Well As Premier

Coalition Cabinet Named by Badoglic Submitted to King  Marshal Retains Posts af Pre mier and Foreign Minisier—Sir Junia Parties Represented

Badoglio Heads New War Setup Formed In Italy   Marshal Submits Names Of Office Holders To King Vittorio Emanuele

Badoglio Forms New Cabinet   Marshal Remains as Premier and Foreign Minister

Badoglio Heads New Italian War Government   Submits Slate To King Victor

Badoglio Forms A New Italian War Government   Is Premier and Foreign Minister; Posts Divided.

FOR NEW COVERNMENT   Italian Parties Finally Agree On Badoglio’s’ Cabinet

Government Is Formed By  Badoglio   Count Carle Sforza And Benedetto Croce Are Included

New Government Under Badoglio Formed In Italy   Key Men In Old Cabinet Remain, Few Changes Made

Badoglio Heads New italian Government   Holds Fosts of Premior And Fereign Minister; a Renraecsentative Cabine?

Badoglio Announces Government  Marshal Is Preimie: Many Liberals

Badogiio Announces Coalition— Cabinet   Sforza, Croce Are Made Ministers Without Portfolio

ITALIAN WAR REGIME FORMED BY BADOGLIO      Marshal Stays As Premier; Six Parties Represented

NEW CABINET ‘S FORMED BY BADOGLIO   Keeps War, Navy and Air Ministers and Assumes for Himself Role of Premier -and. Foreign  ' Minister. .

Marshall Retains Posts Premier and Foreign Minister: War, Navy, Air Ministeries Remain

Price Jump Cuts Cost   ~ Sounds Paradoxical, But Rule Will Bring Back Cheaper Cigars

Soviet Forces In Latvia Drive Nearer To Riga   Other Russian Troops Surge Up Vistula Toward Polish Capital   THIRTY THOUSAND NAZIS WIPED OUT

REPORT NEW SOVIET DRIVE. OPENED ON SOUTHERN FRONT   NEW THRUSTS TOWARD R0MANIA BEING MADE AS REDS - STEP UP. RIGA : OFFENSIVE

SOVIETS PRESS FOR CAPITAL OF LATVIA   55 Miles From City: New Drive Aimed at Oil Area Reported

* SOVIET ARMY UNFOLDS NEW DRIVE ON RIGA   ¢ Wipe Out 30,000 Nazis Near Warsaw  ad   *% MOVE IN BALTIC   Report New Offensive In Bessarabia

GOV. DEWEY SAYS NEW DEAL FAILURE IS COSTING LIVES   Declares Nazis Fight Fanatically Because U. S. Lacks Program for Dealing With Germany.   RAPS ROOSEVELT’S “SECRET DIPLOMACY”   Declares It Has Led to Chaos in France and Hunger and Degradation in  * Italy.

Dewey flays demo failure to provide adequate reich plan   Says “personal secret diplomacy’ of E.D.R. accounts for chaos in Furone

‘Personal, Secre' Diplomacy’ Hit By Gov. Dewey    Says Policies-of F.D.R. . Causing German Display Of Fanatical Resistance

Dewey Says U.S. Lacked Plan to Deal With Nazis   Charges Failure Incited Germans Into Fanatical Resistance; Hits Roosevelt’s ‘Secret Diplomacy’

“Secret Diplomacy” Rapped By Dewey In Forum Speecl   Governor, Discussing Foreign Policy, Says no Intelligent Plan for Dealing With Invaded Germany Has Yet Been Formulated

Dewey Raps FDR’s Mess Diplomatic   SAYS FOURTH TERMER HAS NO PLAN FOR GERMANY; MISSED OPPORTUNITY TO SETTLE POLISH QUESTION,   Can’t Stand It

Two Escaped Nazis Taken    Germans Were Aboard Spanish. Merehantman

sneer  THEY DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT TO HITLER   Nazi Prisoners, Escaped Since July, Nabbed on Board Ship

Service Vote Measure in Hands of FDR   President Queries Governors Before Taking Action

Compromise Provides Governors Must Certify If Federal Ballot Valid

President Asks. States Position On Soldier Vote  Congress Approves   Congress Approves Compromise States’ “Rights Measure

SERVICE VOTE BILL APPROVED   President Checks States To See If It Is Practical

F.R. Polling Governors on Service Vote   Seeks Information Before He Makes His Final  Decieclan an Measure

F. R.’s Approval Being Forecast  Measure Heavily Laden With State Controls

SERVICE VOTE BILL IN HANDS OF THE PRESIDENT   Some Predictions Made That Compromise Measure May Be Given  Annroval

SERVICE YOIE  BILL HEADS FOR WHITE HOUSE  Some Py edict. Tts Ap     Some Pr redict. Its Appr oval By: Presi- dent .  FINAL... DECISION   May. Rest. On .Presidential Poll Of ‘Governors.

GOVERNORS TO DECIDE SERVICE BILL   If State Laws Are Such That the Service Boys Can Vote, There Will Be No Veto

SERVICE VOTE UP TOF. D.R.   Final Decision May Rest On Presidential Poll Of Governors

GOVERNORS MAY DECIDE SERVICE VOTE BILL ISSUE   PRESIDENT POLLS STATE EXECUTIVES ON ELECTION LAWS

SOLDIER VOTE BILL WAITS 0} GOVERNOR POLI   Replies of State Execulive’s May Determine Whether Presiden Signs or Vetoes Measure

President Asks Stand of States On Ballot Bill   Compromise Plan’s Fate May Rest on Governore’ Replies

PREDICT FOR 10 PASS SOLDIER'S BALLOT BILL   Final Decision May Rest on Presidential Poll of Governors

SOLDIER VOTE BILL *~BOES TO PRESIDEN   Governors Are Polled on Their Reaction tn Meaciura

Governors To Study Vote Bill   PRESIDENT MAY POLL ' EXECUTIVES OF STATES

Ser vice Vote Bill Goes to - White House   Approval May Rest on Poll of Governors by President

Can't Use New ‘Soldier. Voie, .  / Donnell Says   Governor Makes Reply. -ic President on the Missouri Situation      BRIGGS PROPOSES ANOTHER PLA   Suggests. Unorthodox: Method: But Says. It Would Save Time and Money

SERVICE VOTE BILL GOES TO WHITE HOUSE   President Polls Governors To Decide (on Veto Of Measure

Final Decision on Service Vote Bill Up to Governors?   President Asks State Ex: ecutives Status of State Laws

STATE CONTROL ON VOTE LEFT IN AGT   Approval By Roosevelt Anticipated, Governors to Get Final Decision.

SERVICE VOTE BILL 0. K. SEEN   Congressionally -Approved Measure Awaits President's Signature

SERVICE VOTE BILL NOW UP TO PRESIDENT   Final Decision May Depend On  Governors

Flood Threat Mounts in Texas, Missouri   Mississippi Loss Is Cut by Planning, Evacuation

All Spillways On Lake of Ozarks Open   Some Highways In State Are Still Closed

Upper Mississippi Recedes; Heavier  Rains Flood Texas   Eight Are Killed, 33 Injured As Neches River Overflows; Osage Rampages In Mo.

FLOOD WATER DANGER STILL VERY SERIOUS   Some Points Seem To Be Out Of  Danger Now

Butte, Fully Aware of Red Cross Work, Digs Into Its Purse  Tater] af 6 998 Ticetad ie Fiect Ranar?   Total of $5,226 Listed in First Report on Drive: Competition for Honors Is Close Amona Groups

butte, Fully Aware of Red Cross: Work, Digs Into Its Purse   Total of $5,226 Listed in First Report on Drive: Competition for Honors Is Close Amona Groups

JAPO KILLED BY THE THOUSAND   Invaders of Palaus and Pele liu Islands Take Heavy Toll; Big Planes Range Over Islands

Kall 12,211 Jap: In The Palaus Since Sept. 15   Raid Is Made On Babelthuap With Heavy Damage

12,211 JAPS KILLED IN PALAU INVASION   Nipponese Still Cling to One Pocket on Peleliu, Where 11,082 Have Meat Neath,

Mighty Storm Moves Toward Carolina Coast   Hurricane, With Winds  140 Miles An Hour, Ex :   pected To Strike

Five Jap Cargo Ships Sent Down By Torpedo Planes   Two Others Damaged in Rabaul Attack on Monday— Raiders Follow Up Air Strokes Sunday on Enemy Planes

ALLIED BOMBERS SINK FIVE CARED OnIPO AT AABAU   Two Others Beached in Sustained Air Raids on Big Japanese Base   24 OF 60 JAPANESE FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN   Marks More Than 90 Nip. ponese Planes Shot Out of Sky Over Rabaul in Three Days; Airmen Strike Four Atolls of Marshalls

NIPPONESE AIR LOSSES MOUNT   Five Cargo Ships Sunk At Rabaul; 90 Planes Shot Out Of Sky

) CARGO SHIPS REPORTED SUNK IN 2 HARBORS   Allied Torpedo Bombers Attack Jap Shipping; Two Vessels Hit   RAIDS ON MARSHALLS GROW IN INTENSITY

Allies Sink 5 Jap Vessels at Rabaul   Ywo Others Badly Damaged by Bombers: 24 Enemy Fighter Planes Knocked from Pacific Skies

Five Jap Cargo Ships Sunk in Raid on Rabaul   Two Others Hit In Bomb Attack

Jornedo Planes: . Sink Five Cargo ~ Ships at Rabaul  Two Others. Beached as Allies Continue to Attack Jap Base

ALLIED RAIDERS SINK 5 JAPANESE - SHIPS AT RABAUL   Shoot Down 24 of 60 Planes That Rise to Give Battie and Probably Bag 2 Others.  se   NEW ATTACK MADE ON ADMIRALTY ISLANDS   Small Freighter Destroyed and Three Parked Planes Wrecked—tThree U. S.  ~ Craft Lost.

Allies Sink 5 Jap Vessels in Rabaul Harbor   Raiders Shoot Down 24 Fighters; Admiralty Isles Also Attacked

SAIPAN FALLS, GUAM DOOMED   Fate of Japanese Garrisons of Tinian and Roto Also Sealed

FATE StALeD FOh SMALL ISLANUD   Landings on Tinian, Rota and Guam Expected Soon

YANKS SPEARHEAD MIGHTY ATTACKS   Explosives Drop at Two-tonPer-Minute Clip   KEY JUNCTIONS   Smashed at Rate of One an Hour; RAF Takes Attack Into 19th Straight Day

Invasion Coasts Struck as Nazis Keep Guessing   Germans Forecast Three-Way Smash On Europe Fortress

‘Bomb-Rain Enters 19th Straight Day   Concentrated Hammering Given Lille Sertar

Allied Air Armadas Fill German Sky   Coast Defenses, Rail Feeder Lines Pounded By Yank:

INVASION COAST DEFENSES AND RAIL FEEDER LINES BOMBED BY ALLIED ARMADAS FOR 19TH STRAIGHT DAY.   (Ro WITTTAM SMITH WHITE)

Sustained Hammering of German Coast Defenses Almost Unchallenged

AIRMEN HACK AT RAILROADS ON GUN COAS!   ARMADAS FILL SKY TO SHOWER RUIN ON NAZILAND

Explosives Are Hurled at Terrific Clip   Key Junctions and Rail Feeder Lines Are Blasted

Allied Air Armadas  Smash Nazi Invasion Coast, Rail Points   Onslaughts Include Mass Dive-Bombing At Low Level With Little Interference: RAF Carries Assaults Into 19th Day

Rail Feeder Lines Also Blasted During Assaults   ATTACK INDICATED > BY NIGHT BOMBERS   Allied Sorties Running Daily Into 2,000 and 3.000 Brackets

Nazi Rail Centers Smashed at Rate 0 One an Hour  Reds Raid Lwow Agait   Reds Raid Lwow Again; Scant Ground Fighting On East, Italy Front

Air-Filling Allied Armadas Hammer At Invasion Coast Defenses Along Channel

[Ere-dinvasion Raids Increase In Violence   Jittery German Radio Says Great Allied Land  Invasion “Imminent? DIVE-BOMBERS TISEN

BRICKER WANTS FACTS ~~ ABOUT PEARL HARBOR   G. O. P. Candidate Speaks To Big Audiences In Pennsylvania  INV ANE MARYI AND

BRICKER ASKS FOR IMMEDIATE PEARL HARBOR COURT- “MARTIAL   VICE PHESIDENTIAL _CANDIDATE CALLS FOR CLEARING UP OF DISASTEOUS =~ . BUBPRISE

BRICKER SAYS PEARL HARBOR FACTS HUSHED   Data Kept Concealed Due To Fear Of Harm To New Deal, Governor Claims   QUICK HEARING URGED   Candidate Speaks To Cheering Assembly In Eastern Coal Field

Supreme Court Backs Up, Starts Anew in Contempt Proceeding   By Its Order Filed Today Tribunal Dismisses Suit Against Niewoehner; Hearing Oct. 30 on New Action Filed by H. C. Hall

ON FRANCE CONTINUED   Furious Battles Over Eastern Alps Cited By German Radio

iRAF HITS BERLIN AND PARIS   Marauders Smack Rail Yards And Airfields In France

Heaviest Aerial Beating of War Severs Rail Lines   West Wall Breached by Steady Shuttle of Allied Airmada

Mosquitos Hit German Capital In Night Foray   Two-Ton “Block -Busters” Rained In City, Heavy Bombers Pound Paris Suburban Zone   Planes Lay Mines In Enemy Waters   War Factories On Fire In Wake of Widespread Pre-Invasion Raids By Allied Forces

FRENCH COAST, RAIL LINES ARE ALLIED TARGETS   Nazi Defense Plan Upset

U. S. Heavies Take Up Pre-Invasion Offensive Over “European Fortress”

4000 Bombers Blast Coast   7000 Tons of Bombs Rained on Nazi Anti-Invasion Defenses in Twenty-fifth Straight Day of Huge Air Offensive

SKY BATTLES RAGING OVER EASTERN ALPS   Four-Engined U. S. Bombers From Italy Take Up PreInvasion Offensive On  European Fortress   SEEK AUSTRIAN TARGETS

U. §. Bombers From Italy Hit Hitler Europe   U.S. Thunderbolts And Marauders and R. A. F. Planes From England Strike

Paris And Berlin Goals Of Heavies; Alps Battle Rages   Boot On Other Foot Today; Allies Press Home Attacks In Contrast ‘+ To Defeat In Dark Days Of 1940

PARIS, BERLII RAF TARGETS IN NIGHT RAIDS   German Radio Says Davlight Attacks Resumed from English Bases.

BRITISH FLIERS REHIT GERMAN CAPITAL, PARIS   American Airmen Rip Defense Targets in France, Belgium

4,000 Plane Blows Reach From France To German Heart As Raids Continue

Four-Engined Planes Believed Aiming At Targets In Austria After RAF “Heavies” Blast Berlin And Paris Objectives At Night—American Fighters Stream Out Of Britain To Hammer Rail Yards And Airdromes On 26th Consecutive Day Of Aerial Offensive

1 700 Planes Hit Vital Cogs of  ‘German Defenses   Huge Allied Fleet 7 Carries Preinvasion ~“.  Drive Into 25th Day

U.S. BOMBERS GIVE EUROPE NEW BLASTS   Aim at Austrian Target: After Berlin, Paris Assaults by RAF

NETWORK OF RAIL LINES TARGET IN HEAVY BLASTIN(   Heavy Bombers Return te Action After One-Day Layoff; Americans Strike Western Germany.   AXIS ITALIAN BASES HEAVILY ASSAULTED   Rommel Takes Over France’s Bomb-crippled Railways to Keep Supplies Moving to Western Line,

YANK BOMBERS BASED IN ITALY ACTIVE AGAIN   1,000 Mile Roundtrip Flown By R.A.F. On 26th Day’s Attack

AERIAL BLOWS ARE STRUCK FROM 2 SIDES   ‘Railyards, Airfields Hit; Berlin And Paris Suffer New Damage

Allied Air Forces Out Again To Attack Nazis   Targets In France And Belgium Hit After RAF  Carries Bomb Load  TR PRs © ced Dic fe

BOARD WARNS MEN TO STICK TO WAR WORK   Selective Service Director Says Men Of Draft Age Who Quit _Essential Jobs For Higher Wages Are Subject To Induction.

Report Good Receipt: For Heart Tag Day   Jane Whitehead Sold Most Tags ——Response Was Very Satisfactory in Washington

TEN VICHYITES ARE CONVICTED   Four Will Be Put Te Death For Beating Prisoners

TEN CONVICTED AT TORTURE TRIA   FOUR GIVEN DEATH SENTENCES AT FRENCH “PURGE HEARINGS” IN ALGIERS.

CHINA'S DELEGATES EAPECTED TO DROP POLITICAL: BOMB   _ Group May Ask Release of As-atic Imperialism . at Dumbarton Oaks: ._

CHINA MAY TOSS BOMBSHELL AT PEACE PARTY   Relaxing Of Imperialism In Asiatic Area May Be Demanded   READY FOR’ BARGAINING   Drastic Changes Urged Before Supporting Security Plan

CHINA'S DELEGATES EXPECTED 10 DROP POLITICAL BOMB   Group May Ask Release of As-atic Imperialism at Dumbarton Oaks

Russians Surround  Odessa   Herd German and Rumanian Troops To Approaches  Of the Black Sea

Germans Fight To Save Forces In Red Trap   Allied Bombers Hit Zagreb; Hamburg Also Pounded

NAZIS BATTLE TOHOLD PORT ~ ONBLACK SER   Special Troops Hurled Into Line With Orders To Stop Soviets At Any Cost

Russian Troops Prepare To Take Odessa By Storm   Zero Hour Is Awaited; Thousands Of Enemy Appear Docmed

200.000 Nazis. Rumanians, Are Caught in Trap   Desperate Attempt Of Nazis To Lift Siege Failsx—Allied Bombings Aid Reds

_ Skala and Tarnopol Fall to Russians and Germans Making Desperate Efforts to Save Remnants Of 15 Divisions in That Area. Rumanian Front Unchanged

Odessa’s Zero Hout Is Near    Russians Mass for Siege of Port City; Balkans and the Reich Blasted By Bombers

Soviets Press New Assault on Odessa;  Yanks Bomb Zagret   U.S. Air Force Rounds Out Attacks on Capitals of Balkans

RUSSIAN DIVISIONS HERDED GERMANS AND RUMANIANS NEAR SEA  AMERICAN HEAVY BOMB. ERS HIT NAZI AIRPORT AT ZACRED IN RED SUPPORT

Truman Gives Dewey Last Chance To Repudiate Taft, Nye And Six Other Isolationist Senators

 Soldiers Awarded Combat  Decoration for Fighting in Italy   e Badge Is Something at Is Hard To _” Get

Sgt: Van de Steeg Cited For Bravery ‘F ather And Son  In Service

infantryman Badge to Pfc. Ray R. Haley   Awarded for Participation in Combat With Enemy on the Fifth Army Front, Italy.

Naugatuck Soldier In — Italy Is Awarded Combat Infantryman Citation

wZOCAL SOLDIER AWARDED  COMBAT DECORATION FOR  FIGHTING IN ITALY

‘So veeuuseueee   WHAT OUR BOYS \2S ARE DOING TO “ 4 WIN THE WAR  L a el et et et et et tt

PVT. WALTER C. CHANDLER RECEIVES COMBAT AWARD FOR FIGHTING IN ITALY

. WHAT OUR BOYS S ARE DOING T0 4 WIN THE WAR   RPI AI A AACA SACI N

Decoration For Combat For Perkins   AWARD IS ANNOUNCED AFTER SERVICE IN ITALIAN THEATER.

Pfc. Sears Cited On  Italian. Front   Fifth Army Member Award. ed Combat Infantry Badge For Worth In Battle

Three Alpine Men With 36th Division In Italy Awarded Combat Badges

sof {News About al, Pato n Serving U.   LOCAL SOLDIERS AWARDED compar DECORATION FoR

TRUMAK ROLE _ INCAMPAIGN NOT DECINFD   Expect Parley Soon in Washington   ® WAIT F.D. RETURN

STRATEGY FOR JEMOGRATS. MAY aE SETTLED SOCN   Roosevelt, Truman and hannegan Will Confer at the White House 

2 American Tourists net Following Assassination  Of High Mexican Official

CASE HAS NEW JURY PANEL   Defense Hopes to Subpena Ford  And Lindbergh

March 17 Js Deadline For State Candidates Te File      Democrats Are Lagging In Number of Entries

Have Two Candie’  dates For Governo!   Knowlton of  Décorah - i dieiyit Decides to Stay-Out ‘of: ate

Only Three Weeks © Until F iling Deadline  F or State Offices   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Politics Pops As Final Filing Nears   Whether Thornburg Will Seek Governorship Is Still Open Question

PLANES SINK ~~ JAP VESSELS   DESTROYER. AND ‘TWO CARGO SHIPS SENT DOWN BY AMERICAN AIRMEN OFF NEW GUINEA. -

THREE MORE JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK   U, $. Fiyers Get Destroyer and Two Cargo Vessels Off New Guinea

Herbert Cuts Stewart’ s Lead In Late Returns   Cincinnatian Has Only 3,692-Vote Marain of Safety

WAR TODAY   ritish Press Sees ‘Too Timid? Allied Moves sAs Handicap After Landing In Area Belaw Rome

The War Today   By DE WITT MACKENZIE Asecactated Proc War Analyv«ct

The War Today   ee EE ee Oe eee London Papers Suggest Allies May Have Been  Man OCantinis.

New US. Raid Rips Germany  Flying Forts, Liberator   Flying Forts, Liberators In Strong Force Blast Targets in Southwest

BUMBERS MAUL NAZI INDUSTRY   YANKS HIT GERMANY, FRENCH INVASION COAST

Big U.S. Bombers Raid Industrial. Reich and French Invasion Coast

Americans Hit Targets in Europe Again   Round-the-Clock Raids Are Maintained By Allied Airmen

New Smash at Targets” in Germany   Round - The - Clock Raids Kept Going By Fortresses And Liberators   MAY HAVE BOMBED POISON GAS PLANTS   Sweeps Into France Anc Mosquito Raids Continue; Other Action Hinted

AMERICAN HEAVIES POUND INDUSTRIES INS, W. GERMANY   Is Third Heavy Qperation in Seven Days—Invasion Coast of France Battered by Marauders

U. S. Bombers Scorch  Northern France   Return from Sweeps Without Loss; RAF Hits Western Germany

Allies Raid  Nazi Areas   Americans Stab Into Northern France Today; RAF in Night Smash

Campaign Urged to Build State  Governor Addresses   Governor Addresses Crowd at Fair

Gov. Ford Calls For Campaign to Put State on Man   Montana Should Have New Industries After War, He Says at Billings

Government Seizes. Montgomery Ward Chicago Property.   “Business as Usual” Carried’ on.as Steel: Helmeted Soldiers With Gas Masks Patrol Firm That Wouldn’t Accept CIO

GOP SET FOR STATE SESSION   Ferguson Raps Democrats’ Civil Service Plank

GOP MOVES IN FOR STATE MEET   Dems End Convention With Approval of Platform

OHIO GOP OPENS. STATE MEETING   One-Day Convention Will Open Thursday; Leaders Gather

We Want More Supplies, Says  Kisenhower   Course of War Upto The PPR Hand Sow

‘Nazi Industries Raked By Biggest Daylight Attacks   Over 3,000 Bombers And Fighters Smashing Hitler's Aerial Strength Down More Than 100 Aircraft

RAIDERS AGAIN BLEED HITLER AERIAL POWER   WARPLANTS HIT BY 3,000 RAF AND U.S. PLANES

OVER 100 NAZI AIRCRAFT AND INDUSTRIES RAKED BY BOMBS OF AMERICANS AND RAF PLANES BASED IN ENG - LAND AND ITALY.

Yanks, RAF Bleed Nazi Air Strength   3,000 Bombers Hit Factories: Over  100 Planes Downed

300.000 Nazi Troops KO'd Since D-Day   1200 Enemy Tanks Either Destroyed or Dam aged

Allied Units Within Eight Airline Miles of Port of : Le Havre   HASTEN NAZI RETREAT   Third Army Pounds Northweet From Bridgehead 2. at Mantes

Russians Reject Polish Border Compromise Plan   BRITISH REVEAL BREAKDOWN IN NEW PLANS AS EXILED WARSAW OFFICIALS VOICE RAPS

lee ra CAMP PLANE CRASH   TWELVE DEAD AND 21 INJURED - WHEN .. PLANE. SMASHED THROUGH WAR WORK.  ERS’ CAMP

Finns Reject Soviet Terms Again   Parliament Votes Confidence in Government

Thief Steals Woman’s Dearest Possessions— 24 Pairs of Nylon Hose

HOU USE V: OTES — 887-0 FOR.  “Oo VETS. BONUS      Woul Provide $300 For All Men omien. Who Served 6 60        ‘Days. in Service.”

*Servicemen s Discharge Pay Bill to Senate   Passes Without Major Amendments by Record 387-0 Vote

HOUSE FIXES MUSTERING OUT PAY FOR VETERANS AT $300   By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST

HOUSE PASSES  VETERANS BILL   Senate Gets Mustering Out Measure Calling For $300 Pay

House Passes Bill Setting $300 as Top  Discharoe Pay   Measure OK’d, 387-0, Amends Senate Bill With Sliding Scale From $200 to $500   MAJOR AMENDMENTS ALL TURNED DOWN  Maximum Is $300 For 60 Days Servi ice,

DISCHARGE PAY OF $300 VOTED   House Bill Is Passed 387 To 0 And Sent To Senate

$300 TOP VOTED FOR WAR VETERANS UPON DISCHARGE    House Passes Bill for Mustering-Out Pay After Re jecting All Major   Amendments.   MAXIMUM TO THOSE IN SERVICE 60 DAYS   Cost of Measure Estimated at $3,600,000,000-—Legislation Now Goes to Sonate.

House Passes Mustering-Out Pay Bill [Providing Rates of $100 or $300

VOTE $300 PAY ON DISCHARGE   Representatives Amend Senate Measure; Action Is Unanimous

House votes muster-out  pay of $300   Allow $100 for under 60 days

House Fixes. Pay At $300 On Discharge  $100 Is Set For — 60-Day Service .

HOUSE GIVES NOD 10 $300 VETERAN PAY   Bill Provides for $100 to Men With Less Than 60 Davs Service   =STIMATED COST PLACED NEAR $3,600,000,000

House Passes Muster-Out Pay With $300 Top   Trims Senate Bill By 387 to 0 Vote,  Rejects Amendments

POLISH TROOPS STORM PESARO   Outpost Of Gothic Line Falls; Foglia River Crossed In Italy

Poles Take Pesaro in ~ BigBatth   Use Infantry and Tanks To Storm Into Nazi  : Stronghold on  Adriatic

Poles Take Pesara Base From Nazis   Adriatic Base Was Gothic Line Outpost

TO COMBAT ILLITERACY   Chinese Government Has a New Public School Law

BRICKER HITS = ~ NEW DEALERS      BRICKER ‘PLAYS ADMINISTRA“TION POLICY OF CENTRALI (ZATION IN’ SPEECH AT   QOF CONVENTION *

2,900 Warplanes Batter Germany  4,000 Tons of High Explosives Dropped

26 ARE HURT IN TRAIN ACCIDENT   Derailment Of Olympian Is Mystery To Officials

EIGHTH ARMY allie ON. - BROAD. FRONT   AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY ALSO OPENS OFFENSIVE AGAINST  GERMANS IN NORTH‘ ERN ITALY

British Eighth Spearheads Sweep Into Concrete And Steel Defenses North Italy

Gothic Line Breached by  ‘8th’s’ Attack   ‘Polish and Empire Troops Slug 1 Miles Inside  Nazi Italy Front

GOTHIC LINE IS BREACHED BY BRITISH ARMY   American Troops Start LargeScale Offensive In Pisa Area

WLB IS DEFIED IN THREE CASES   Presidential Action Awaited As Firms Refuse To Comply With War Labor Board Orders.

FIRMS DFCY WLB ORDER ON LABOR   Roosevelt Action Awaited, “Montgomery Ward Seizure  For Failure to Act.

WLB Faces Test Of Its Authority   Three Cases Of Employer Defiance Await Action Of President.

If You Want to Live Happily Married to Ripe Old Age, Your Chances Are Better in Texas

Kive Jap kreighters Sunk by U.S. Planes   Two Other Ships Damaged by MacArthur's Bombers; Nip Attempt to Counterattack On Saipan Repulsed; 13 Barges Blasted.

First Army Drives in Five Miles   Third Army Also Thrusts Forward  To Siegfried Line; Le Havre Surrenders

Berlin-Bound Yankees Point To Goal After Crossings At Points 70 Miles Separated

One 5 Miles Inside Reich From Luxembourg; Other Enters From Belgium. 3   BRITISH TAKE LEHAVRE

THIRD ARMY TROOPS BREACHED GERMANS’ LINE ON MOSELLE  ‘BREAK THOUGH ENGINEERED BY AMERICAN

AMERICANS PUSH FIVE MILES INTO SIEGFRIED LINE   PATTON’S 3RD ARMY LINKS UP WITH 7TH OF PATCH AT AUMETZ

See Russian  Demands on Turk Straits   Reds Reported Ready to Ask Demilitarization of Dardanelles

Train Is Shelled, Cook Deac   Army Probes Explosion At Side Of  Speeding Train  In California.

Poles Have Eye On Eastern Reich   ' Expect to Annex ‘Territory to Oder River Near Berlin

PERRO, learnt or enciinianeaeeri a uca.d  Poles Expecting To Get Nazi Territory   Anticipate Expansion to Oder River, to Include Port of Stettin

POLES ok LANG CLEAR 10 ODER   Lublin Group Would Annex German Territory. :

Intend Taking Areas From _ Nazis--Poles   Would Annex Land to Oder River and Baltic Port of Stettin .

India Leader Ghandi Was Freed Today   Condition of Health, the Reason for Unconditional Freedom

GANDHI GIVEN RELEASE TODAY   indian Leader, Critically Ul Taken from Palace of Aga Khan.

Gandhi Now __ Free ‘After.  Two Years   Health of Indian Leadei Is Believed Reason Fo His Release —

GANDHI FREED   INDIAN NATIONALIST LEADER UNCONDITIONALLY RELEASED DUE TO CONDITION OF HEALTH

Gandhi Released By Brifish Today   Condition Of His Health Given As Reason

GANDHI FREED; GETS GREETING OF FOLLOWERS   Released 21 Months After His Confinement by British

Gandhi Set Free’ By British Today   Indian Nationalist Leader Released From Aga Khan’s Summer Palace in Poona Where He Has Been Detained Since August. 1942.   ACTION DUE TO HEALTH

British Free Gandhi From India Prison   Mahatma Gains Liberty Uneconditionally Due To Broken Health

GANDHI, ILL IS RELEASED FROM PRISON   Release Is Unconditional Because of Health. Had Been Detained Since August 1942

British Release Gandhi   Condition of Indian Leader’s Health Inspires Decision; Act Boosts Wavell Prestige

Gandhi Released . After Detention Of Nearly 2 Years   Condition of Indien Nationalist Leader's Health Prompts Move By Government

NATIONALIST LEADER ENDS LONG TERM   Condition Of Health Given As Reason For Unconditional Freedom

GANDA! 1S RELEASED FROM INTERNMENT   Action Is Taken in View of Condition of Leader’s Health.

GandhiFr eed; Indian Press Hails Action   Prompt Move Increases _ Prestige of Viceroy Lord Wayell

BRITISH RELEASE GANDHI BECAUSE OF POORHEALTH  NEWSPAPERS OF ALL   NEWSPAPERS OF ALL SHADES OF OPINION WELCOME THE ACTION

Gandhi Is Released Unconditionally as Result of Illness   Indian Press, Both Nationalistic aad British, Hails Wavell's Action as Wise

Gandhi's Detention in Hindu Palace Is  Ended; Leader Is Ill   74-Year - Old Mahatma Had Been Virtual  Prisoner There

BRITISH RELEASE INDIAN LEADER   Free Gandhi Due to Health Condition Friday

History Surely Can‘t Let Nazis Lose, Gloomy Dr. Goebbels Tells Germans

SUBS CRIPPLE JAP SHIPPING   Nimitz Says Size Of Pacific Is Major Obstacle

BRAVES JAP SHORE FIRE TO SAVE FLIER   Nathan Gordon of ‘Morrilton, Ark, Lands Four Times Off Kavieng to Pick Up 15. Alrmen. —

New Italian: Government  Is Approved   British Minister Law Hurries to Washingto: To Iron Out Policies  CHURCHILL FIRM

MOVE TO END DIFFERENCES   Agreement on European Policies Being Sought

Britain And U.S. Salve Old Sores      LONDON SENDS MINISTERS OF SiaAde LAW TO COME TO WASHINGTON FOR POLICY CONFERENCE   Bless italian Government

U.S. and Britain Approve New Italian Cabinet °  Apparently Seek to Patch Up Their Differences

Britain, U.S: Move  For Policy Accord   British Minister. of State: Richard K. Lew Sent to _ Weshington te Iron Out Rifts—Agree- _ * . ment Reached on Italy

Island People Cut Ties With Crown In Overwhelbnine Independence Poll

Japs Repuised In Attack on Myitkyina Base   Chinese Advance Five Miles in Push Against City From Northwest

REPULSE JAPS ON FRONTS Ct BURMA-INDIA   Fight Desperately to Hold Slipping Grip on Myitkyina; Five-Mile Advance for Chinese.   Fruitless-Costly

Vocal Concert  Here December 7  Soprano To Appear At High School

BRITISH MAKE FURTHER GAINS IN PO VALLEY      Drive Beyond Captured Rimini Establish Beachheads Over Marecchia

Eighth Army’s Po Valley Hold Widened   Bridgeheads Seized Over River— Vanks Take Hille -

British Secure Beachheads On  Marecchia River   Eighth Army Troops _ Continue Drive Beyond Captured Rimini

Nazi Blows _ Seem To Have Snent Fury      Many Tanks Knocked Out; Hundreds Of Prisoners Captured

H itler’s Legions Lose 124 Tanks in Offense   Reich Panzer Regiment Destroyed In Bitter Fizhting by Britons

TELLS OF DESPERATE CONDITION OF WORLD   Dean Carl W. Ackerman, Columbia U., Speaker At Kiwanis Meeting  FREFFDOM OF NFEFWS

Germans to Blow Up, Destroy Principal. French Cities When Allies. Invade France

Yank Bombers Smash At Cologne   Rhineland Stronghold Again Gets Blasting

BOMBERS AGAIN SMACK COLOGNE   8,000 Tons Of Explosives Hit City Since Saturday 

New York Stocks   Chicago Rye   Helpless Swiss Watch Nazis Slay Civilians

Marines Are Advancing  Qn Talasea   Willaumez Peninsula Cut in Half by  Amartean Richt ara

MARINES HAVE CUT PENINSULA iN RABAUL AREA   /Fighting Their Way Down To  Eastern Side Toward  Talasea

Marines Cut Off Willaumez Base ‘In Talaseas Drive   Hazardous Landing Completed Under  Japanese Resistance

MARINES OPEN ANOTHER NEW BRITAIN FRONT   Cut Peninsula in Two Af. ter Hazardous “Leap Frog” Landing ‘58 Mile: Down Coast. ;

U.S. MARINES GAINING ON NEW BRITAIN   Troops Expand Positions On Los Negros

U.S. Marines Halves Peninsulz  ;  On New Britain   Execute Hazardous Landing, Fight  Down Coast

YANKS REPULSE JAP ATTEMPT 10 LAND ON NEGROS   Americans Rapidly Convert ing Admiralties inte Base for New Advances.

Clapper Gets High Praise   Roosevelt, Gen. Marshall, Patterson Express Their Feelings of Loss

RABAUL IS RAIDED; 2 PLANES ARE LOST   -Ulicd Motor Torpedo Boats Starcd Hit and Run Attack On Base Recenil<:

Heavies Rake ‘Rabaul Again   Some Casualties Result As  Yanks Fire At Each Other.

Two Planes, Two Boats Fail To Reconnize Each ‘Other As Friends In Pacific: Allies Lose Men

Rabaul Area Again Attacked By Airmen   New Britain Section Blasted at Cost of Two Planes General MacArthur Reports——Torpedo Boat Attack Reported

Ul. 5. AIR FORCES BATTLE OWN SEA UNITS AT RABAUI   Mist: ien Identity Leads te Leis of Two Planes and ‘£wo Torpedo Boats - With Casualties.  V   109 MORE JAPANESE KILLED AT-HOLLANDIA   MacArthur Reveals Allies Have Destroyed 1,727 Small Enemy Ships in Area in Two Years.

RABAUL 13 RAKED BY   With Cost of Only Two Planes, Two Torpedo Boats Due to Failure to Recognize Each Other.   Japanese Slain

RABAUL GIVEN HEAVY RAKING BY AMERICANS   Two Planes, Two Patrol Boats Destroyed By ‘Friendly’  Forces

Allied Bombers Stage Heavy Raid on Rabaul   Mistaken Identity Results in Loss of Two Boats. Two Planes

Some Casualties Result; Mishap Occurs Saturday During Attack on Kabaul

nd GOES OUT SMILING  Irvin S. Cobb Leaves Orders for Disposal of Body

COBB TO HAVE SIMPLE RITES   AUTHOR DIRECTED BODY BE WRAPPED IN SHEET AND  CREMATED-ASHES ‘TO FERTILIZE - TREE

Master Wit Quits Life With Smile   Document. On __ Disposition Of Mortal Remains Typical Of Cobb

Ammunition Train in London Explodes   Gripsholm Due in U.S. Next Tuesday

Laird Cregar Dies Of Heart Atfack   28-Year-Old Actor Underwent Operation After Losing 100 Lbs.

SALINAS SLAYING TRIAL BEGINS   MRS. ANDREWS CHARGED WITH MURDER OF BOY

Finn-Reich War Looms   Nazis Thwarted In Landing on Suursaari Isle

Finns May Declare War On Germans   Reds Attacking Nazis in Finland German Radio Indicates

Unconditional Surrender and Punishment of Hitler ‘and His Henchmen, Only Terms for Nazi Germany

MULL AESTATES  SURRENDER FORM   Unconditional Surrender Only Terms for Germany; Evident Nazis Desirous of Neaotiated Peace, Declares

U.S. FIRM ON UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER AIM   Hull Says Hitler And Gang Must Not Es cape Punishment

U.S. Resolute On Surrender Terms for Nazis   American Government Does Not Intend to Soften or Permit Hitler, Aides to Escape

HULL FIRM ON PEACE PLANS FOR GERMANY   Secretary Says Policy Calls for Unconditional Surrender

Reorganization . Of British Coal Industry Sought   Tory Reform Committes Proposes Guarantee - Of Minimum Wage

Would Revise Coal Industry To End Strikes  Tory Group - Has   SEE)». es

Jon Hall Says He Wouldn't Like to Be  Convicted on Testimony Such as His   Dorsey Hit Actor With Bottle, Sailor Testifies; Trial of Band Leader Recesses Over Week-End

Nazis Plan Argentinian Haven, Newspaper Says   Report Declares State Department Knows Germany Engineered Tatin Amertean Revaluton

‘Last Days of Escape Through Jungle Related ‘By Dyess-- And How He Returned to War

Roosevelt Career Is Marked By  Breaks With Closest Associates   GOOD FOR ENEMIES   ASKED NG: TO QUIT   Upheld

PRESIDENT HAS HAD LAST WORD IN LOSS OF MANY FRIENDS  BARKLEY MAY NOT FOLLOW OTHERS INTO COMPARATIVE OBSECURITY

Many Have Broken With  Roosevelt    Barkley Lands In Distinguished Company Of President’s Foes

Sen. Barkley Will Be in Distinguished Group If His Break With FDR Is Clean

$1,400,000 in Currency Found in Safety Boxes  Of ‘Big Bill’ Thompson

Japan Is Preparing For Major Assaults By Air; Council — Of Disaster Being Oreanized

LARGE SCALE ATTACKS ARE ANTICIPATED   Meanwhile Americans Fighting Yellow Men in Philippines Slowed by Rainfall

Japs Prepare For Large Air Assaults   Heavy Damage On Okinawa May Have Prompted Cabinet Action

Local Temperatures   Inevitable ‘Large Scale Air Assault’ Expected In Japan

Japan Preparing For “Large ‘Scale American Air Attacks, Acts To Cope With Disasters   Tokyo Reports Attack On Jap Patrol Ship Off Bonin. Also Borneo Raid

Japan Preparing For Large ,Scale Enemy Assaults, Radio Tokyo Broadcast Discloses

JAPS PREPARE FOR BIG SCALE AERIAL RAIDS   Cabinet Acts To Solidify Cities  In Homeland

PICKS COUNCIL 10 COPE WITH RAID DISASTER   Cabinet Decided Move At 4-Hour Meeting, Radio Reports

Liaison Council To Cope With Disasters Caused By Air Raids Is Set Up In Home Ministry

Japan Prepares Self For Large Seale Attacks   Liaison Council! To Cope With Air Raid Disasters to Be Established — Tokyo Reveals

JAPS PREPARE FOR ATTACKS FROM AlR   Action Taken to Cope With ‘Air Raid Disasters’ in Homeland.

Tokyo's Home Front Officials Face Raid Threat   Heavy Damage in Jap Cabinet Action Ryukyus Prompts

VADEN MADE CHAIRMAN Of WAGE PROBE   Named Chairman 0: Investigation Of ‘Starvation’ Pay

Vaden Heads Group To Aix State Wage  Scale Set-Up   Adjustment Needs Will Be Studied

Leyte Action Seems Designed Primarily To Obtain Airfields   Able to Dominate Entire Archipelago; Tacloban Base in View

GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR CONFUSES ENEMY AND STAGES  GOOD SHOW ABOUT PHILIPPINES

WAR ‘TODAY   Gen. MacArthur ByPassed Strong Eneny Bases to Obtain Immediate Objec lives Al Minimum Cnc

War Today   MacArthur Brand  , Of ‘Triphibious’  ~ Warfare Exhibited

See Menace To  Farm Output   Farm Organizations Oppose Draft Changes

FOUR FARM GROUPS OPPOSE DRAFT PLAN   i sland  Induction of More Workers Would Hurt, They Say

Protest Farm  Draft Changes   County Board Begins Review Of 2-C’s As Farm Groups Warn.

raft Rules o Curtail rop Outpul nate Agriculture  roup to Probe ; rm Draft Rules

MUSSOLINI’S HONOR!   Like Jap Warrior in Sending Count Ciano To Death

Red Army in ‘Swinging Advances Closes in Toward Old Polish Border and Wins Other Areas. :

KILLER OF FAMILY FACES SANITY TES]   Guilty Plea Is Made ir Quintuple Slaying

SEN. GILLETTE CHANGES STAND ON RESIGNATION   Willing to Allow lowa Ballots to Decide On Question

Gillette Changes Mind, Decides fo Be Candidate   Senator Advised by Jake More 24,000 Signed Petitions

Guy Gillette Will Again Make Race  nee ae oh elds to e From State

NELSON, HURLEY LAND IN CHINA   Visit of U. 8. Einissaries Subject of Speculation

WHEELER TAKES SWING AT LEAGUE OF NATIONS IDEA; PROMISES FIGHT   Isolationist Is Up To Old Tricks Again

Ring Around Japs Becomes  Much Smalle:   Secretary Knox Uses  Maps To Show Extent  Of Progress Made Since  Fall Of 1942

Knox Says Allies Will Hold Japs’ New Indian Drive  Holt Opens. Campaign With Sneech Fridav

KNOX SEES GOOD GAIN IN PACIFIC   Secretary Says U. S. Air Forces Steadily Enlarging Their Control In Pacific Theater; Points Out Suecesses On Map.

Air Forces’ Control In Pacific Grows   Knox Uses Maps To Detail To Newsmen Progress By U.S.

KNOX DEPICTS PACIFIC GAINS   Newsmen Shown Maps of U. S$. Progress Since Pearl Harbor Attack

PACIHC CONTROL ENLARGED-KNOX   PREDICTS BRITISH WILL HALT THRUST AT IMPHAL

U.S. CONTROL IN PACIFIC EXPANDING   . Believes British Able To Stop Jap Drive Into tndia

Child Bride On Stand In Utah Trial   Reveals Details 'n Polygamy Case

Girl Tells of Honeymoon in Canyon With Polygamist As Wife Stands By

HEAR TESTIMONY OF CHILD BRIDE '   17-YEAR OLD GIRL WITNESS IN TRIAL OF MARRIAGE CULT

Clark Visits Allied Armies South of Rome   Says He’s Delighted With Progress of American British Troops Pushing Inland

EXPERTS MEET ~ ON FINANCING   8 a REPRESENTATIVES OF a“ NA TIONS OPEN CONFERENCE _TO CONSIDER POST.— WAR TRADE PROBLEMS -

AA NATIONS TO TALK FINANCES   Envoys Arriving For Major World Monetary Parley

Leyte - Samar Campaign  Nearly Ended   Jap Casualties on Two Islands Are Over 30,000

Two U.S. Forces Meet at Carigara  As Japanese Flee  12,000 Enemy Dead On Leyte; Ormoc Under Heavy Attack

ON LEYTE ENDING —   Death Trap Set For Japanese At Port Of Ormoc

Leyte-Samar Battle Near End as American Forces Are Linked at Carigara

Leyte Campaign : Near Last Phases   MacArthur Says End Is In Sight As American Invaders Pursue Withdrawing Jap Troops

Americans Join Forces Ai Carigara   MecArthur Says End Of Leyte-Sama Campaign In Sight

JAPS WITHDRAW 10 LAST ESCAPE PORT ON LEYTE   Give Up Carigara and Move _ . Toward Ormoc, Which Is _. Surrounded ‘on All Three Land Sides.   NIPPONESE LOSSES - MOUNT TO 30,006   End of American Campaign in Sight as Yanks Tighten Gigantic Clamp on  BKRnamy_

American Forces Complete Juncture at Carigara on Coast of Leyte; Japs Withdraw.   Sink Tanker

oth War Loan Drive Quota Is Set For County   $1,063,300 WILL BE GOAL FOR BOND DRIVE STARTING JUNE 12

DRAFT BOARD GALLS 63 Rich FAUM GOUNTY   Croup Is Largest to Report From Here in Many Months

DRAFT BOARD GALLS #5 MEN FPOM COUNTY   - Group Is Largest to Report From Here in Many Months

F aenza. Ring Draws Tight   Ridge Is Gained   -Dominating: City.

Strategic Faenza Steadily Encircled  Widen to 3,000 Yards Allied Bridgehead  wav Kinatadin fecul

HEAVY FIGHTING FLARES IN ITALY   NEARLY HALF OF FRONT ABLAZE — RING DRAWN AROUND FAENZA.

Draft Boards To Reclassify Men Under 2¢   Director Lt. Col. Richard Mellon Halted All Inductions Over Age

Tw vv Vv vv? oe ©  Over 1,400 Believed Dead In Argentine Earthquake

DISASTROUS QUAKE  WIPES GUT CITY OF  SAN JUAN IN ANDIES WORST EARTHQUAKE Ih  83 YEARS TAKES TOLL IN ARCENTINE CITV

Karthquake Toll  High in San Juan   City Plunged Into Total Darkness. As Over Thousand Die

San Juan Is Wiped Qut by Earthquake   Thousands Killed and Injured; 90% of Buildings Destroyed in Argentina’s Worst Quake  _ in 83 Years

IN ‘QUAKE   San Juan Cut At Roots As If By Scythe, Declares  Survivor

EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS CITY   Temblor Levels Andean City of San Juan; Dead Up to 1,600

Quake Strikes  One Great Blow _ In Andean City   1600 Deaths May Be Totaltheses Went  Temblor In. 83 Years

Earthquake Wipes Out City In Argentina   Thousands Killed Or Injured in San Juan; Relief Rushed From Many Points

City Wiped Out By Earthquake In Argentina  One Mighty Blow Struck ot Area Accarte Survivor

‘Quakes Raze Andean City Of San Juan; 1600 Killed   13,000 Feared Injured in Argentine City of 30,000 Population — Help Mobilized as Amusement Places Close in Respect

QUAKE STRIKES MIGHTY BLOW   Survivor Tells How Andean City Was Struck with Casualties in Thousands.

Quake Toll [s Placed Ai 1600   RESCUE WORK STARTED IN ARGENTINE CITY

FEAR THOUSANDS KILLED IN HEAVY ARGENTINE QUAKE   Andean City of San Juan Demolished by Terrific  +, Lane

Srurvivor Says  Tremblor Came Without Warning; City Is Wiped Out.

1,400 Are Estimated Dead As 4 Earthquakes Destroy City Of 30,000 In Argentine

City Wiped Out By An Earthquake   Picturesque Andean City of San Juan Death Toll May Reach 1.600.

Hundreds Dead or Injured in South American Temblot   San Juan, Argentina, Leveled by Quakes Over Weekend

Argentine City Of San Juan Is Left In Ruins   Thousands Are Injured; Hundreds Of Victims _ Trapped In Debris

Quake Deaths May Total 1600  City ‘Cut ot Roots As if With Scythe,’ Survivor Relates

City Is Crumbled In One Blow By Record Quake  Death Toll May Hit 1,400; Aid Is Rushed to Andes

Argentine Community Devastated    Provincial Ca pital Of San Juan Is Razed By Severest Quake Ever To Hit Argentina

HUNDREDS DIED IN ANDEAN QUAKE IN ARGENTINA   Estimates of Dead Range As High As 1600 with 13.000 Believed Injured

QUAKE LEVELS SAN JUAN, CITY IN ARGENTINA   Thousands Killed, Injured in Town of 30,000 Population

Quake Wrecks City in Andes   Fear Thousands Dead In Leveled San Juan

500 Bodies Counted In Andes Earthquake   Toll of Tremor Which Wiped Out Ancient City of San Juan Is Expected to Reach 1,400 to 1,600 Dead, However.

DEATH TOLL IN SAN JUAN EARTHQUAKE ESTIMATED AT BETWEEN 1400 TO 1509

HUNDREDS DIE IN EARTHQUAKE IN ARGENTINA   City of 30,000 in Mountains Destroyed - - Shrieks of Injured Rend Night

ARGENTINE CITY WIPED OUT BY AN EARTHQUAKE   THOUSANDS KILLED AND INJURED AT CITY OF SAN JUAN

Many Killed tn San Juan Quake   Total Number of Dead May Run From 1,400 to 1,600

san Juan Wiped Out By Quake   Thousands Dead And Injured In Argentine City.

GENERAL STRIKE SWEEPS. GREECE   British Tanks Patrol After Guerillas Protest Disbanding

ALLIES LAUNCH SACAT OFrthallt AGAUSS CHANNEL   New Day Attacks Follow Night Blows 0a France, Belzium

U.S, BRITISH BOMBERS PUSH AIR INVASION   Stage One of Greatest Cross-Channel Assaults of War .

SAYS 3 ARE ON JUDGESHIP LIST   Choice of Mitchell Not Decided Unan—_Cillett.

Eighth Army At Frosinone   Allies Grind On Against Strongly Fortified Defenses Stoutly Held By Nazis   Germans Admit Fighting Now In Velletri, Road Junction 18 Miles of Rome

On Coastal Flank  onc Advancing  f 5th Army Line   \llied Communique Declares "It Is Now Clear That Enemy's Intent Is To Hold Passage To Eternal City at Any Costs"   ANKS FIGHT YARD BY YARD NEAR CROCETTA

Eighth Army At Frosinone   Allies Grind On Against Strongly Fortified Defenses Stoutly Held By Nazis   Critical Area Reached   Germans Admit Fighting Now In Velletri, Road Junction 18 Miles of Rome

ALLIES MAKE GAINS ONLY ALONG COASI   Nazis Report Bitter Street Fighting in Velletri— British Advance SwiftJy in Area North of  Cladacatnn .

Allies Attempt To Flank Enemy From Southwest   -All-Out Battle — Pressed by Fifth ‘Army in Italy

YANKS HALTED BY DESPERATE NAZI DEFENSE   Coastal Flank Attack Still Able ‘to Force Enemy Retreat

FIERCE BATTLE NEAR VELLETRI   Advance Swiftly Against Withdrawing Germans; Take Six Towns

At Pescarella Nuova 14 Miles South Of City; Six Miles From Pone’s Home

Fifth Army Is Stymied By Defense  Resistance   Germans Fighting  Until Last Diteh

Nazi Defenses Prove Stubborn In Critical Area   Dramatic Street Fighting Reported In Junction City

Now Stand 14 Miles South Of Key City   Fierce Street Fighting Is Reported Inside Town Of Velletri

‘Nazis Report Street Battles In Velletri   Germans Putting up Greatest Battle in A Critical Sector

Allies Press Still Closer To the City   Rout Germans trom Trenches and Gullies —  Nazis Counter-attack 4

Nazi Resistance Grows But Yanks Push On In Face of Attacks; Enemy Admits Fighting Is Fierce   Radio Berlin Says Battle Has Reached “Gates { Rome”; Alexander Warns Of Heavy Battles . Bhead Far Alhes

ASSAULT AIMED AT NAZI FORCES IN ALBAN HILLS   Main Weight Of Fifth Army Shifted To Western Haif Of Front

bth Army A Mile Nearer Eternal City; Pound Along Appian Way Toward Albano, Key To Highway Defenses

Germans Intend to Hold Line South of Rome at All Costs, Allies Declare

Nazis Routed From Trenches With Bayonets   Main Weight Of Allied Offensive Shifted To Western Half Of Front.

Street Fighting Raging In Velletri, 18 Miles From Eternal - City   British Troops Reported 14 Miles From Italian Capital At One Point As Nazis Stage Fierce Defensive Battle Against Fifth Army

British Also  Advancing Upon Capital   German Forces in Italy Fight Stubbornly To Keep Allies Out of Eternal City; Guns, Tanks, Flame Throwers Being Used

British Troops Advance Slightly   Farther Away, Allies Move Ahead As Nazis Retreat

‘Allied Advances Carry Into ValmontoneCampo Jemini Line   Action Taking Place Only 15 Miles From Eternal City

Nati Defenses South Of Rome — Said Stubborn   Report Dramatic Street Fighting Inside Velletri, 18 Miles From Capital

TEMPERATURES:   Germans Yield Yard By Yard As Allies Press On   British Spearhead Now 14 Miles From City At One Point

YANKS BATTLE FOR TRENCH WITH BAYONET   Violent Fighting with Heavy Casualties Reported on All Fronts.

U.S. Hits Ploesti Oil Fields, Germany, France in Dual Raid   German Radio Admits Street Fighting in Velletri; Nazi Resistance Stiffens  Along Entire Italian Front

ALLIES ONLY 14 MILES OUT OF ITALO CIT)   Casualties of 40,000 for Nazis as They Throw in Everything on Irregular Front

Nazis Resist Stubbornly On Last Line Below Rome   Yanks Battle Forward Yard by Yard Into Villa Crocetta, British Meet Stubborn Defense on New Nazi Line

Provincial Capital of Italy Is 43 Miles From Rome {s Tottering.   ‘OTHERS CLOSER To ROME

British Only 14 Miles From Eternal City   Dramatic Street Fighting Is In Progress Inside Alban Junction.   STUBBORN OPPOSITION

Stuff Fight Rages For Vital Village   Enemy Holds Strongly in Center Of Armies Moving on Eternal  Citv—Tank Battles Fousht

STREETS IS REPORTED   Germans ~ Stubbornly Resisting Drive Against Rome

Do-or-Die Attempt to Hold Rome   British Troops Advance to Point Fourteen Miles South of City

BRITISH TROOPS PUSH WITHIN 14 MILES OF ROME   ELSEWHERE 5TH ARMY HAMMERS AT STIFF WALL OF RESISTANCE

Germans Mass Infantry, Tanks And Guns for Do-or Die Stand   Foe ‘Intends to Hold Line At All Costs,’ Allied Headquarters Say   RiptLLeTIN

Distance Between Fifth and Eighth Is Only 23 Miles   One Force Fighting Within 14 Miles of  Rome; Anather into Frosinone Outskirts

All-Out for City Sending Nazis Back   GERMANS ARK BEING ROUTRD FROM TKENCHES Wit RAYONETS,

Eighth Rolling; Fifth Is Stalled       Highest Tribute Yet To the 100th Infant

Gains Are Slow In Hard Fighting Near Efernal City   Eighth Army Moves Swiftly to Follow Retreating Germans

Fifth Army Batters at Nazi Lines   Dramatic Street Fighting Rages In Velletri, Berlin Says

Enemy Plans To Hold Now At All Costs   Fierce Battle Raging In Vellitri; British Punching Forward In Central Italy

Axis Offers Resistance In Main Line   Retreat Disorderly In Some Sections; Street Fighting

Allied Drive 14 Mi. From Rome   8th Army Reaches Outskirts of Frosinone, On Vital Highway; Street Battle Rages In Velletri, Another Important Junction

BRITISH PUS BIT CLOSER TO CAPITAL   Allies Cross Moletta River, Take Ardea   GERMANS THROW   All Available Troops Into Defensive Fight: Yanks Shell Highway

‘Routing Germans From Trenches And Gullies — With Bayonets  GERMANS TO HOLD LINE AT ALL COST Nazis Evacuating City After Taking All’ / Food Available

Enemy’s Intention Is To Hold Line  At Whatever Cost, Communique Says

Allies Edge Closer to Rome; Increased Resistance Is ‘Met   British Reach Point 14 Miles From Capital; Dramatic Fighting

Germans Resist Assaults Of Allied Armies On 25 Miles Of Critical Front

Street Fighting Reported In City; Swift Eighth Army Gain On Right.

STREET FIGHT BEING WAGED FOR VELLETRI   Stiffest Enemy Defenses Lie In Fifth Army’s Sector; British Troops Gain

U. S. ARMIES SWEEP TO OR ACROSS BORDER OF BELGIUM IN THE VICINITY OF SEDAN   Swift Stab Through Argonne Forest Where Doughboys Fought and Died in 1918 Carries Yanks Across Meuse River   GERMANS DESCRIBE THE SITUATION AS HOPELESS

NAZI E-BOAT FORCE CHASED IN CHANNE!   Two Ships in German Convoy Set Afire by British

Nazi E-Boats Scattered   Strong Force of Nazi Boats in English Channel

Strong Force Of Small Nazi Boats In Channel Dispersed      One Is Sunk, Others Escape At High Speed After Attack By French Warshin

MacArthur's Land-Based Bombers Damage En“emy Light Cruiser  In Mindanao Sea’

Jap Disaster Stemmed From An Amazing Gamble  Nips Actually Penetrated Leyte —   Nips Actually Penetrated Leyte — Gulf and Attacked US Transports

Japan Is Taking A Capital Defeat   List of 27 Warships Sunk  or Damaged Will Increased   Remnants of Fleeing Im~ perial Fleet Still Under Air Attack

U. S. Airplanes  Still Pursue the Remnants of Proud Imperial Fleet

Nips Thought To Have Lost About 40 Ships   Naval Struggle Continues With Yanks Pursuing

Magnitude of Japan's Naval Defeat Grows.   Three Carriers and 10 Battleships Are Definitely Listed  As Sunk or Damaaed

US. DISCLOSES LOSS OF 6 SHIPS IN GREAT CLASH   Toll Of Enemy Vessels May Go Past 35 Mark; Foes Drove Inside Gulf

Japan’s Losses In Sea-Air Battle Ma’ » Surpass Big Nip Defeat a” Guadalcanal   U.S. Navy Observes 169th Anniversary  Today: Jubilant Over Victory at Sea

Enemy Forces Get Close fo Invasion Bases   Nip Losses Expected To Be Larger Than So Far Reported

Yanks Bag yA Nip Ships-Viore Unlisted      Amazing Gamble Took Jap Ships  Close to Invasion Beaches on Leyte   Kinkaid Splits Fleet.

U.S. Fleet's Amazing Gamble May Have Taken Toll Greater Than Record 35-Ship Loss

Disaster Averted By Smashing Enemy   Toll of Known Enemy Losses Upped To 27 by Plane Strike; Fight, Plus Several Destrovere Sambi

On March Along All of Wide Front   Near the Gateway to Buch  arest and the Ploesti. Oil Fields :  :

Dewey Charges Roosevelt Will Ruin Hopes For World Peace If Reelected

Heavy Political Radio Schedule Foreseen Tonight   Speakers to Include Hollywood Actors, Labor Leaders, Others

CHARGES AND COUNTER CHARGES FLY THICK AND FAST AS DEWEY ROOSEVELT FIGHT NEARS END

Ist Army, Pacing Huge Offensive Vs. Germany Captures Gressenich   Nazis Counter-Attack 9th; Patton Advances Toward Saar; French Batter Way To Upper Rhine

Patton's Tanks Engage Nazis In Great Battle   At Least 130 German Tanks Smashed In First Phase Of Monster Fight.

Whoopee-Hungry Country Division’ Parades Through Back Alleys of Europe

Couniry Division is Sidetracked From Raising Whoopee in Big Towns

Lament of Doughboy of Fightin’ Ninth\  In 6 Countries But Never in Town to Raise Whoopee 

‘Oth Infantry Mad: They've Fought in Six Countries, But Haven't Yet Seen a City

JAPS LOSING — BURMA-INDIA STRONGHOLD   ALLIED FORCES MAKE FRESH GAINS IN ‘FAR EAST—ENEMY CASUALTIES REPORTED  “HEAVY

6,100 Japs Die Before Allied Guns   Stilwell’s Chinese Troops Take Two Villages In Mogaung Valley

Lausche Bids for Farm Vote; Stewart Points to ‘Forgotten Man   Democrat Candidate Insists Opponent Is Only ‘Nominal Ceremonial Mayor’

‘Lausche Stumps For Rural Vote As Stewart Needles Foes About Davey Regime

NORTH BURMA GETS 100 HOT FOR JAPANESE   BATTLE AT HONAN NOT LOST YET, CHINESE SAY

Chinese Gains Threaten Japs Along Burma.   Invaders Continue to:Smash Ahead. in ‘Honan, However

Japanese Pushed Back On3 Fronts   China Picture Dark As Foe Develops Trap In Loyang Offensive  MONSOON IMPENDS

Chinese Gain On Three Fronts In North Burma   Japanese Closing Huge Loop Around Forces at Loyang

Nazi Attacks Taking Heavy Toll of Lives   British Threaten to Break Across Rhine for Hish Road Into Berlin

Hitler Directing Nazis’ Strategy, ‘Monty’ Reports   Tommies And Airborne Troops Threaten To Split Netherlands; Capture Of Brest Is Confirmed; Siegfried Flank Menaced

“Enemy Now Directed By a Lunatic,” Say Top Leaders; Yanks Continue to Advance

Allies Thankful Hitlet Has Taken Charge Of Operations   MEANS LUNATIC IS COMMANDING ENEMY   Montgomery’s Belief That War In Europe Will lind Before End Of Year

British Tanks Reach Rhine in AQ-Mile Dash   Open Country Lies Ahead on Way to Berlin

Siegfried Line Flank Turned In Holland   Hitler Hurls Troops Recklessly Into Ineffective Counter-Attacks.

 Montgomery Announces Fuehrer’s Role Similar to That Which He Assumed With Dis: astrous Results on Russian Front: ~~

HITLER LEADS REICH DEFENSE; BREAK FOR ALLIES, MONTY SAYS   Fuehrer’s New Role May Shorten War; Allies Threaten To Break Across Rhine Barrier T,, Rarylin

Havoe Reigns  In Warsaw fe Reds Hit Praga   Great Artillery Concentration Rips German Defenses As One Division Routed

REDS DRIVE ON WARSAW THREE WAYS   Fighting Reported In Industrial Suburb Of Praga

Russian Troops Drive Against Polish Capifal  Nazis Put Torch To City to Cheat  FO a i

Soviet Army Lays Siege To Warsaw   Seize Vital Latvian Rail Hub of Jelgava; Other Advances Made

Nazis Blowing Up Buildings In Polish City   Russian Fliers Report De molitiong Exploding As Reds Pound Capital’s Suburban Praga   Soviet Artillery Ripping Foe Apar   At Least One German In fantry Routed; Others Falling Back On Stopes  - OF Carpathians

Hitlerites Are Using The Torch   Believed Preparing to Evacuate City Now Under Siege by Reds   EASTERN SUBURBS UNDER ATTACK   Russians Also Forcing Nazis Back Along Hast Prussia Frontier

Warsaw Reported In Flames With Reds at !ts Gates   Germans Admit Russians Crossing Vistula 60 Miles Sout

Warsaw Reported Burnins As Reds Attack Suburbs   Praga Goal of Three-Pronged Attack, Nazis Pushed Back Toward East Prussia. Rede Advance Into Carpathians

SOVIETS POUR HEAVY SHELLS INTO SUBURBS   Polish Capital In Flames As Nazis Prepare To Evacuate City

Suburb Of Warsaw Under Heavy Attack   Flanking Maneuver Threatens City; Three-Pronged Drive On East Prussia   Warsaw In Flames

Soviets Push On to Warsay On 3 Fronts   Suburb of Praga, Across Vistula River, Attacked by Russians

Germans, in Their Fury, Are Burning and Blowing Up Many Buildings in Warsaw, Russians Say

Nazi Infantry Unit Routed By Reds   Great Drive Opened On Polish Capital By Russians

Pole Capital Blasted by Planes, Guns   Red Army Presses Near Old Border Of East Prussia

Reds Ripping - Tato Praga, On ~ Edoe Of Warsaw   Nazis Ready To Make Last - Ditch Stand Defending Polish Capital

Russian Fliers Rerori: Germans Demolishing Many Buildings, Reds Also Make ‘Big Drive Against East Prussia on Wide Front. Entire Nazi Front Imnerilled

Reds, Nazis Fight In Suburbs Of Polish Capital   Nazis Prepare To Flee As Russians Invade  City’s Suburbs

FROM 3 SIDES   Hundreds of Red-Starred Planes Give Russian-Polish Troops Support.   MANY BUILDINGS AFIRE

TROOPS POUND CITY'S SUBURB FROM 3 SIDES   Three-Pronged Smash Also Pressed In East Prussia By Soviet Columns

City Put To Torch By Nazis   Three Russian Columns Assault Praga, Suburb Of Polish Capital; Push Ahead in East Prussia

POLISH CAPITAL "IN FLAMES; RED ARMIES NE ARE!   Germans Driven Beck Alon: Wide Front — Enemy Starts Great Fires

Smoke Cloud Seen Rolling From Capital   Sovieis Press on Suburbs Behind Deluge of Shells, Bombs   LONG BATILE SEEN   Ine of Greatest Artillery Concentrations Rips Nazi Defenses

REDS PUSH IN ON POLISH CAPITAL IN 3-PLY DRIVE   German Troops Start Burning City in Preparation for Retreat

Believe Nazis Putting Torch To Polish City   One Enemy Division Already Routed As Russions Open Big Assault On Praga

Warsaw Battle Is Flaring In Nearby Praga   Industrial Suburb Across the Vistula River Being Attacked With Great Fury by Red Armies.

NAZIS THOUGHT PREPARING 10 EVACUATE CITY   Russian Troops Within 13 Miles Of Czechoslovakian Border

Hitlerites Burn,  Blast Building:   German Command Reported Under ‘Orders Issued By Hitler To Stand Without Retreat; Drive Ahaad Tn Bact Priesa

Flames Roar In Warsaw as  Reds Move In   19 Soviet Division Smash At Nazi Positions in Baltic Regions Today

ASSAULT MADE ON SUBURB OF VISTULA CITY   Soviet and Polish Troops Carrying Battle to Industrial City of Praga  5 1AA TRACLAIC PA BTIIDCHR

Red Army Lays Siege To Warsaw By Triple Drive   Hitler Charges Men To Stand Without Retreat

PRAGA ATTACKED TODAY BY REDS: IN WARSAW AREA   Hitler Orders Troops Not To Retreat

Fighting Begins In Praga, Industrial  » Suburb Of Capital   Red Armies “Mopping Up” In Suwalki Triangle

NAZIS ROUTED FROM DEFENSES EAST OF RIVER   Retreating Enemy Columns Choke Bridges Leading Into City

Warsaw In Flames; Reds Press Ahead   Believe Nazis Putting City to Torch, Preparing To Evacuate

Smoke Rolls. From ‘Ancient Polish City — As Nazis Flee.   Thiee: Pronged. Red ‘Army Nears’ Prussia

RIP AT GERMAN  ENTRENCHMENTS EAST OF CAPITAL  OTHER RED UNITS PLUNGE 31 MILES

EVACUAT CITY BY ENEMY SAID IMMINENT   East Prussian Drive Within 1 Miles Of Old Border

Pall of Smoke Hints Germans  Prepare Flight   Nazi Defenders of East Prussia Driven  Back

MANY PLANES ARTILLERY LEAD WAY   Fhree Armies Bearing Down On East Prussia   Overrun By Soviets In Day; Jelgava’s Fall Hailed By Premier Stalin

Poland’s Main City Besieged   German Defenders of East Prussia Pushed r ~, Back by Reds

Soviets Open Siege on Pole Canital   Attack on City Moves At Terrific Speed; Suburbs Are Stricken

U.S. Warships Shell Ormoe Harbor Monday   Torrential Rains Slow  Land Fichting

Japs Fail To Reply To Attack   First Surface Bombardment Sets Big Fires; Artillery Rakes Corridor.

ATLANTA CONVICTS STILL BARRIGADED   AGREE TO SURRENDER IF GRIEVANCES ARE PUBLISH' ED—HOSTAGES UNHARMED.

PRISON INMATES HOLD BARRICADE   Atlanta Convicts Want Grievances Aired In Newspaper Story

Barricaded Convicts Offer To Give Up If Newspaper Tells Their Story

Convicts pledge to yield if grievances printed: paper to comply with requesi

barricaded Georgia Felons Pledge Surrender If Newspaper Man Will Publish Their Complaints

Nazi Flank Threatened By Sweep   105 Mile Arc Thrown Across Base of  Peninsula

U. S. ARMORED FORCES GAIN 18 MILES TO TAKE AVRANCHES. NAZI ANCHOR

U.S. Armored Unit Surges To Avranches   Fall of Nazi Anchor May Bring U. §. Drive Into Central France   GAIN OF I8 MILES   Allies Now in Position to Cut Off Brest Area or Swing Toward Paris

U, 5. ARMORED COLUMN GAINS 18 MILE AREA  Central France   Central France May Be Next Allied Step

MORE BRIBE INDICTMENTS   Charged With Conspiracy To Corrupt 1941  Levislature

Author of Nuts Reply Is Known As "Old Crock”   General McAuliffe Leads Tough Fightinc ‘Men of U. S. 101st Airborne Division

No Change in Positions of  Forces in Italv   Nazis Cling Tightly to Foot- hold in Hills South of Arno : River; Stormy Weather -. Curtails Action : ‘

IN ITALY UNCHANGED      Germans Clinging . To Hills South Of Arno Near Florence

STUBBORN NATIS HOLDING TIGHTLY  FOOTHOLD IN #4LLS   Both Sides Suffered Heavy Casualties When Germans Counterattack

GERMANS HOLDING ON   Positions of Contending Forces in Italy Remain Unchanged

GERMANS OFFERING STRONG RESISTANCE   Counterblow Against Indian Troops Near Florence Heavy.

Arno Positions Remain Same   Nazis Still Control North River Bank; Little Action On Fifth Army Front.

Nazis Cling To Footholds Tn Hills On Arno   Regain Section of River’: South Bank After Sharp Counterattack On Indians

Nazis Cling To North End Of Florence   Bad Weathei Slows Fighting. Yanks Repulse  Jab at 5th Arms Line

F oes Cling ig To Foothill   -Region: Near’ Arno Taken In” Attacks -

Nazis Cling to Italian Centers   Fighting Continues in Florence and Pisa; Rain Hin ders Allies’ Units.

BOCHE CLINGS TO AREA SOUTH OF ARNO RIVER   Stormy Weather Curtails Action Aleng Front on Both Sides of Florence; Alexander Patrols

GERMANS HOLD FIRMINITALY   Bad Weather Checks Actior on Italian Front

Ralph Bard Nominated   . » » Undersecretary of) Navy By Roosevelt

Nominate Bard Navy Post       Now Assistant Secretary Of Navy Chosen To Take Undersecretary,

FDR Nominates Bard As Navy Undersecretary  Fills Post Left By Forrestal

Bard Is Made Undersecretary  Nomination Sent To Senate By Roosevelt

Bard Nominatec For Naval Post  Assistant Named To Get Position Of Undersecretary

Signs of Panic in Germany  Are Multiplied   Berlin Makes Last Appeal to Hungary to ‘Hold’

AUSTRIANS DIG IN AS INVASION FEAR INCREASE:   Prospect of Hungarian Collapse Opens Possibility of Attack on Backdoor of Germany.   NAZIS ARE WORRIED BY PLIGHT OF ALLY   Hitter’s Storm Troopers Pledged to Home - Front Tasks, Are Reported Deserting.

Panic Signs Seen In Reich   Hungarian Collapse and Austrian Invasion Seen Next.

Germans Fear Soviet Assault ‘On Austria —   All Able-Bodied Men And Women Put to. Work In: Vienna Rezion. 3

Weak Hungary  -Seares Reich   Germans Beg Their Ally To Hold Fast

TANKS CLING TO BIAK POSITIONS   Americans Shatter Savage Japanese Counter-attacks   FIERCE COMBAT   Invaders Fight Veteran Japanese Armored Division To a Standstill

FIGHTING ON BIAK ISLAND SUBSIDING   Yank Forces Still Blocked  From Enemy fir. _ drame

FIGHTING ON BIAK ISLAND SUBSIDING   Yank Forces Stil Still Blocked From Eriemy Air Spe 86s

FURIOUS FIGHTING ON BIAK SUBSIDES; 679 JAPS KILLED   Enemy Troops, Perched On Ridges,- Hold Americans Two Miles. Away From  .Mokmer Airifeld,   THREE-HOUR TANK BATTLE DESCRIBED   Engagement Began at Dawn and Nipponese Struck Time and Again Before They  Withdrew. .

Americans Are Thwarted in  Biak Fighting   Action Subsides With Japs Holding on  to Island Airdrome

FIGHTING ON BIAK ISLAND HAS SUBSIDED   lo Patrol Action and Artillery Exchanges; Report Heavy Enemy  , see ae   Raid Other Islands

Union Unhappy About Time In Ward Election   NLRB Orders Limit Of Seven Days For Workers Decision

ClO Workers at Wards Hit NLRB Order   Calling of Election Within Seven Days Called "Dirty Deal"

Union Objects To Limit For Ward Election  Decision Monday  On Tl S. Semwnre

‘Mail Order Workers’ Union Protests ‘NLRB Edict for Election Within Week

TIME ELEMENT   Union Says NLRB Order for Election Within 7 Days Unreasonable.   WORKING OUT DETAILS

Ward Union Raps Early Voting Date   7-Day Notice Called A ‘Dirty Deal’; Violation Of NLRB Precedent. Says Official

Protest by Ward Union   Ask 21-Day Delay In NLRB Ruling for Election Within Week

UNION OPPOSES HASTY ELECTION   Will Seek 21-Day Postpone. ment in Ward Balloting

Ward Plant Workers to Vote May 9   Election Date ‘Stands. Al though - Union First “o.) Made -Protest.   7-DAY NOTICE NOT “ NORMAL IS CLAIM   ‘Dirtiest Deal Ever . Dished Out. by. NLRB,’ Says One . Union Spokesman

Union Fights Time Klement  In Ward Vote   Protest Seven Day Period For Holding Election At Chicago Mail Order House   TURN DOWN EXTENSION

REFERENDUM AMONG 4 %, COMPANY’S NEARLY. 6,000 ELIGIBLE WORKERS $L.” ) FOR TUESDAY, MAY 9, NLBR REGIONAL DIREC} %, _ ANNOUNCED TODAY— UNION CALLS IT A “DIRTY AL”

Union Objects To Vote Date   Says Seven Days Too Early; NLRB Director Insists Date Is to Stand

Election Ordered at Ward’s; “Dirty Deal” Says Union   NLRB Tells CIO Union to Take Poll Within Seven Days

Election at Ward Plant On Tuesday   CIO OBJECTED, SAYING TIME WAS TOO SHORT, BUT NLRB AND WARD AGREED TO THE DATE   CIO Confident

YOUNG. SLAYER. UNDER ARREST   jpox WHO KILLED MOTHER AND  . SISTER CAUGHT IN OHIO  2  SAPYER STEALING AUTO

Congress Sets Up Office ToGuide ThroughJungle Leading Back ‘To Peace

Dover Celebrates: Liberation of Calais Ends Days And Nights of Horror for Many

HAMMER DENTS INTO NANCY LINE   One Stiff Nazi Counter Blow and Series of Minor Jabs Repulsed

Saipan Army Chief ‘Fired’ After Quarre!   Military Silent As Marine Leader Ousts Gen. Smith

 INTRIGUING MYSTERY DEVELOPS OVER OUSTER OF ARMY GENERAL ON SAIPAN 

Heavy Fighting Rages On 25 Mi Front, From Cassino To Tyr henian Sea; Germans Resistii Fierce. Regain Some Ground   BATTLE DEFENSES OF GUSTAV LIN

FOOD INQUIRY BY ANDRESEN    MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN SAYS HE WILL MAKE INVESTIGATIGN INTO RATION ORDERS

PROBE OF FOOD RATIONING MOVES S PROWSE)   Fep. Andresen Eyes Clamp-Down in View cf Createst Crop Harvest

CALL ANYWAY, BUREAU FEARS   Apprebensive Policy Aiding Older Ones lonored —

Fellowship Meeting. 2. . -- Of The Three Score  And Ten Club Sunday

Superforts Hit Jap Home Island From China Bases   No Details Available On Losses of Bombers  In Kyushu Raid.

‘Western ° EK: yushu Island Is Target For B-29 Planes . USE BIG FORCE Assault On Industrial Points Made From

Superfortresses Hit Kyushu Hard  B-A9’s Renew Attacks On Industrial Targets

Superforts Hit Jap Island Of Kyushu   Large Task Force Of Big Bombers In Attack

JAP ISLANDS BLASTED BY SUPERFORTS   Large Task Force of B-29's From China Bases Raid Industrial Targets On Kyushu  DreiiiiTtc ARE CTiIiIrmirnr

B-29°S ASSAULT JAPANESE HOME ISLE OF KYUSHI   Industrial Targets Pounded b Superforts Flying From - China Bases

TOKYO REPORTS NAGASAKI BASE, OMURA ARE HIT   Enemy Claims Toll Of 80 B-29’s In ‘Fierce Air Duels’

Russians Rin g Lwow, Push On Toward Silesia   Panic Grips East Prussia With Reds Only 2 Hours March Fram Rardec

RUSSIANS WITHIN TWO-HOUR MARCH OF GERMAN SOIL   Panic Said to Have Developed in East Prussia as Hour of Invasion Draws Near.   REDS ROLL FORWARD IN NEW MAJOR DRIV}   Storm to Central Bug River Only 50 Miles From Rail City of Lublin in Heart of Poland.

Eighth Major Soviet Drive Reaches Bug   New Red Push Menaces Rail Center of Lublin In: Heart of Poland   OTHERS EIGHT MILES FROM EAST PRUSSIA  Reds Continue Gains On All Other Sectors ” Of Long Eastern Front

First White Soviet Army Shatter Nazi Lines Along A 94-Mile Front And Is Heading Straight For Lublin And Warsaw

PANIC RAGES AS REDS NEAR EAST PRUSSIA   RUSSIANS GAIN  3: MILES IN HEART OF POLAND

SOVIETS SET FOR DRIVE TO GERMAN SOIL   Red Armies Smash Thru Tottering Nazi  Lines

AFL-CIO Join To Demand Prices Be Firmly Fixer   William Green Submits Statement To Senate  Cammitaa

AFL and C10 Demand Wages, Prices Be Restored to Their ‘42 Levels

AFL, CIO Ask Price Rollback   Labor Organizations Agree ‘Woonc Divwsaltcrceed

Nomination Hold-Up Nearly Halts Work _ Of State Department   Imposing Policy Problems Pile Up For Stettinius As Hearing Continues

U.S. BOMBERS STRIKE DEEP INTO GERMANY   French Airdromes Also Bombed In Daytime

Fortresses Pounc French Coast   New Record Tolls 2,100 Nazi Planes Shot Down In Last Eight Weeks.

FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS HIT AGAIN AT REICH   Forts Drive Deep Into Central Germany While French Pas-De-Calais Coastal Targets Receive Liberator Bombs

[Stet oe yg Whe oe eg SN Naot " Shy  ee eae rT   Aim Campaign At Luftwaffe   Flying Fortresses Go Deep Into Germany While Liberators Attack in France

AIM AIR BLOWS AT LUFTWAFFE   DOOLITTLE REPORTS BAG OF 2100 NAZI PLANES IN 8 WEEKS

Doolittle Reveals 2,100 German Planes Destroyed In Last Eight Weeks; Yanks Drop 37,000 Tons Of Bombs On Reich Since February 1   Air Force Takes Leading Role In Fighting On Burma Front

Double-Barreled Bombings ‘Hit Germany, France; Nazis Report Violent Air Battle   Forts Plunge Deep Into Central Reich; Blows Aimed Chiefly Against Luftwaffe

RAID ON REICH FOLLOWS BLOWS AT ALL FRANCE   Is Month’s 24th Assault By American Air Forces

Yank Fliers (et 2100 Nazi Craft _In_ Hisht Weeks   U. 8. Bombers Pound French Coast In Drive Againa'}The Luftwaffe

U.S. Bombers Make 24th Raid of Month on Reich  - Central Germany Hit And Coast Area Of France Attacked

rortresses Plunge Deep Into Germany   Liberators Hit Coastal Area— Berlin Reports Violent Battles

AMERICANS POUND REICH AND FRANCE   Flying Fortresses Continue Attacks to Knock Out Luftwaffe on Ground and in Air.

French Coast Is Also Hard Hit; Airfields Target   Doolittle Announces 2,100 Nazi Planes Destroyed In Last 8 Weeks

U. S. Fliers In Two-Way Day Attack   Germany and French Coastal Areas Bombed

New Monthly Record Made By Major Doolittle's Fortresses and Liberators  VIOLENT AIR COMBATS

COAST OF FRANCE IS ALSO HIT   24th Heavy American  Assault Of Month Made On Europe

Yank Bombers Pound Central German Citie:   Gen. Doolittle’ Announce: -2,100 Nazi Warplanes Destreved In Eight: Week Raid Report

Fortresses Plunge Deep In Germany   American Liberators at Same Time Pound Pas-defalais Coasial Ayea of France   DOOLITTLE SPEAKS   In Broadcast Address Says 2,100 German Planes Destroyed by U. S. Airmen in Last Eighi Weeks

FORTRESSES HIT GERMAN CITIES   Liberators Hammer Calais  In Twin Assault

Bombers Batter  Nazi Luftwaffe  Forts Strike Germany Liberators Lash Coast

YANKEES WAR ON NAZTEVFTWAFEE   Flying Fortresses Plunge Deep Into Central Germany Today. :   HIT PAS-DE-CALAIS   Doolittle Says 2,100. Ger“man Planes Destroyed  In Two Months

SLAVS SEIZE VITAL BASE FROM NAZIS   Tito Announces Capture of Gradina in Central Yugoslavia, During Which Heavy Casualties Were Inflicted.

SLAVS CAPTURE GERMAN BASE   Partisans Rout Nazis from Yugoslavia Hold

Slavs Capture Major German Base; Nazis Rushing Fresh ‘Troops To Bosnia And Serbia   Tito Reports Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Enemy In Seizure Of Important City

SMALL ARMS AMMUNIFION PRODUCTION TO BE DOUBLED OWING TO HEAVY FIRING ON WESTERN FRONT

Americans Smash Siegfried Defense In Coblenz Push   Other Spearheads Are Aimed Toward Rhine

County Has Started On Its Bond Buying   Pace of Campaign Picking Up After Formal Beginning; Two Districts Above Quotas; Three Auctions This Week

MICHIGAN MUDDLE SLOWS VOTE COUNT   Republican “Lead Being Cul By Late Returns

GAY. v ai  8 ON   Soviet Troops Take 330 Towns Along Nev 93-Mile Front

GIAY «cD 0” SNE 1S ON   Soviet Troops Take 330 Towns Along New 93-Mile Front

AXIS DESPERATE ~ AT GOTHIC LINE   Kesselring  Throws All He Has Against Fifth And Eighth Armies

Allies Hit Heavy Going in Italy   Kesselring Attempts To Hold Gothic Line

GERMANS BATTLE TO HOLD GOTHIC LINE   Kesselring Reported Throwing Combined Weight of All His Arms Into Struggle.

Bricker F lays New Deal for ‘Waste’ Policy   Calls for Balancing Of Budget, Cut In Federal Taxes

First Army Stops Germans Cold in Effort to Push Northward   IN HEAVY ENGAGEMENT   Drive Carries Fourteen Miles From Frontier Town of Vianden

U.S. Tanks Halt Advance Today   Field Marshal Von Rundstedt’s Massive Winter Offensive Slashes Across Allied Lines of Communication

2 DEEP WEDGES REPORTED WITH ENEMY’S DRIVE   Allied Communications Lines Menaced—Road Cut Near Liege Fortress

American Troops Locked In Death Grip With Huns   Clouds And Fog  Pravant Actinn ~

Penetration Reaches  35 Miles in Belgium   Germans Halted in Effort to Move  Northward, But Turn South and West Where Greatest Threat to Allies Looms

Nazis Stopped Cold And Tank Units Mauled   Veteran First Army Troops Figure in Heavy Enegagement With Nazis, Reports Say Today.   FOG AND CLOUDS BENEFIT THE ENEMY

Yankees Stop Nazis Driving Up Northward   Drive To A Point About 14 Miles South Of Fortress Of liege.   FOES REACH MALMEDY

German Drive - Aimed Toward _/Liege Bastion   00,000 Enemy Troops Push Beyond Malmedy And Cut Vital Highway; Fog Hampers U. S. Forces; Sedan Breakthrough Threatened

Other Americans Chop Nine Miles Into Base of German Salient; Rundstedt Using Two Massive Wedges; Drive Not Likely to Be Checked This Week

ALLIES EXPECT NAZIS TO GAIN ADDED GROUND   Can't Stop Enemy This Week, Frontline Officials Say

Deep Thrusts into Belgium and Luxembourg Threaten Liege and Sedan; Yank Resistance Stiffens On North Side of Nazi Salient

NAZIS THROW UP TO 200,000 MEN INTO COUNTER BID   MOST POTENT ENEMY THREAT DEVELOPS IN THE ST. VITH SECTOR

Drive Within 14 Miles of ‘Liege Fort   First Army Stops Northtrn Salient Cold; Heavy Fighting Continues

Road Severed Below Liege: 2 Deep Wedges Driven Into Allied Lines

_American Troops Blunt. Attack  At North Flank By Using Tank Destroyers; U.S. Seventh Pushed Out of Bundenthal

STOPPED COLD   First Army Veterans Badly Maui Large Tank Units ‘in Bia Battle.   CASUALTIES ARE HEAVY

Other American Units Chop Nine Miles Into Base of German Salient —- Germans’ Deepest Thrust 14 Miles West of Malmedy —- Yanks Maul Tank Units

LIEGE-BASTOGNE ROAD CUT. IN DEEPEST ENEMY PLUNGE   Drive Not Likely To Be. Stopped This Week; Planes Still Grounded; Heavy Losses.OnBoth Sides

German Armor, Infantry Pours Into Wide Breach; Advances In Luxembourg

Dash Thru Belgium Exceeds 35 Miles; Vital Road Severed   rat RK. KR Chop Up ‘Trapped Nazis   xK K KK KS Hell of Fog and Mud

GERMAN FORCES ROLL FORWARD AGAINST ALLIES   Americans Fight Back But Fail To Check Nazis

Drive Two Wedges Deep Into Allied Lines, Cut Highway   Enemy 14 Miles South of Fortress of Liege, Three - Fourths Way Across Luxembourg

GERMAN ARMOR AND INFANTRY ROARING ACROSS BELGIUM  VETERAN YANK UNITS   VETERAN YANK UNITS BEING RUSHED UP IN EF FORT TO STOP DRIVE

Near Liege Tuesday; Effort To Push North Is Stopped Cold By First Army; Maul Enemy Tanks

Germans Drive 35 Miles into Belgium, Three-Fourths Way Across Luxembourg

Wedge Is Driven Halft-Way Across ‘Luxembourg   Liege-Bastogne-Arlon Road In Belgium Cut By Germans

Meeane Stop Enemy in  Tank Fight   Two Deep Wedges Driven Into American Lines; First Army Rushes Reinforcements Into Raging Conflict; Liege Road Is Cut

Reinforced Yanks Contain Malmedy Flank; American Communications Are Cut

TANK COLUMNS CUT LIEGE HIGHWAY   German Northward Advance Halted By First Army   TWO DEEP WEDGES   Driven Into Allied Lines; 200,000 Enemy Troops Thrown Into Fight

GERMAN ARMY DRIVES 35 MIL. INTO BELGIUM   Liege - Bastogne - Arlon Road Cut 14 Miles South Of Liege

GERMAN MINES. ONLY FICTION   HUNDREDS: OF - MINE - SIGNS . FOSTED ‘BUT. NO. EXPLO. SIVES WERE INSTALLED -

{200 Germans Die on Tirpitz  Ben ns Banve   Enemy Fears Norway Landing

GERMAN BATTLESHIP IS SUNK BY BOMBS   Giant Tirpitz Is Caught in Norwegian Fjord

Atlantic Charter Myth; No Document Was Signed, But Principles Approved

Atlantic Charter INever was Written   Roosevelt Reveals That Memorandum to Press Was Only Written Form Document Assumed

Beat Off Nazi Air Attacks   Enemy Fails in Determined Effort Over New Beachhead to Halt Supplies

GERMANS HURL BEST RESERVES AGAINST YANKS   Allied Units Race to Resewe of Encircled Airborne Units

BATTLE F IN MOSELLE VALLEY   Important Holland Bridge Taken Intact By Allies   WAY CLEARED   To Airborne Units Locked In Fight Near Arnheim; Fighting Is Bitter

Seize Key Holland Bridge in Push To Aid Arnhem Units   American Armored Losses Highest in Single Day in Fierce Moselle Battle With Nazis

Seize Vital Bridge   Second Army Forces Capture Span in Drive To Relieve Sky Troops; ‘Moselle Losses High

PATTON’S THIRD ARMY DESTROYED 105 TIGER TANKS IN BIG FIGHT  HITLER REPORTED ‘TO _BE SENDING HIS BEST. ARMOR INTO BATTLE

Patton's Men Destroy 105. Fremy Tarks   ’ Allies Break Path Toward Encircled Airborne Troops:

-NAZI ARMIES BELIEVED NEAR "BREAKING POINT   Smashing Winter Drive Providing Too Much Pressure For Huns   STEADY GAINS SCORED   Observers Think Speed Of Push To Increase instead Of Decrease

Grewing Optimism About Offensive      German Armies May Approch Breaking Point

PLANE. PLANTS. ~-LAUD WOME)        NEARLY HALF OF AIRCRAFT FACTORIES’ EMPLOYES ARE ” “WOMEN, SURVEY HAS - .. OREVRALED :

Allied Airpower Maintains Non'-Stoy German Invasion  Blows Carried: Out   Blows. Carried: Out With Losses of. Less Than Four Per Cent

Allied Airpower Continues Non-Stop Blasting Of German War Industries

SIEGFRIED DEFENSES, RAIL YARDS POUNDED   Saarbrucken, Goldern Torr In U.S., British Raids

Medium Bomber: Hit Germany In Prolonged Raids  Nazi Fortifications And Railyards Are Prime Targets

AMERICAN, BRITISH MEDIUM BOMBERS IN ACTION ON FRIDAY  RAIL YARDS AND SIEG_ FRIED LINE DEFENSES HEAVILY ATTACKED

Red Advance On Rail Line Slows   Russians Roll On In Pripet Mashes; 2,000 Nazis Die Trying To Stem Plunge T'o Rumania

Reds Open Far Northern Drive:   ‘troops Slashing On. West From Ukraine

RED FORCES IN -UARAINE KILL  ~— 2,000 NAZIS   Germans Claim Soviets Open New Drive Near Leningrad

Russians Open Big New Drive   Start Push Near Leningrad To Renew Northern Front

Many Nazis Siain in Red  Offensive   Caunter-Offensive In Ukraine Costly: Reds Attack in North

Major Push Is Mounted In 3 Sectors   ‘Long Inactive Leningrad Front Reawakened by Soviets .   GUERRILLAS ACTIVE   Nazis Suffer Enormous Losses in Ukraine Fighting

LOSSES TO HUNS ARE DESCRIBED AS “ENORMOUS”   ‘One Russian Unit Dashes  Westward Toward Old  Polish Border from  i Kalinkovichi      ENEMY UNABLE TO. _  REORGANIZE LINES      Berlin Claims Reds Have Launched New Offensive.  Near Leningrad in Two Other Sectors

2000 DEAD “MRELISTED. WV UKAAINE   Mohile Outfits In South Striking _ - At Border

OPEN OFFENSIVE ON LONG-INACTIVE FRONT IN NORTE   Other Soviet Columns, Pushing West From Kalinkovichi, Slash Through Pripet Marshes.   GUERRILLAS GIVE AID IN OLD POLAND   Unexpected Blow Dealt Retreating Nazis — Enemy ~ Suffers Heavy Losses in Day’s Fighting.

Major Offensive On Idle Front”   Soviets In White Russia Make Dash For Polish Border

Soviet Mobile Units in Dash Toward West   Leningrad, Other Northern Sections Flare, Berlin Reports

DEALEN REPORES Soviet Mobile Units In White  Russia Advance   Gen. Rokossovsky’s Forces Fight Way Forward Through Marshes.   FIGHT FOR RAILWAY

Soviets Open Attacks i in Leningrad Are   Southward, Russians Drive Wedges Into Pripet Marshes

Dash Toward Old Polish Border; Berlin Says Reds Open Major  Leningrad, North Sector Drives

Nazis Reveal Attack Under Way In North   Soviets In Southern White Russia Smash Near Border; Ukraine Force Batters Foe

In the South Russian Cavalry Drives Through Pripet Marshes in Bid To Rout Beaten Nazis

Germans Lose Keenly In Ukraine   Nazis Are Expecting Major Campaign In Leningrad Area

UPPER ANCHOR OF GERMANY'S LINE TOTTERS   FLYING WEDGES ARE DRIVEN FARTHER INTO POLAND

Germans Struggle To Maintain Last Rail Escape Line   Mobile Red Units Fan Toward The Old Polish Borders; New Attacks Expected

RUMANIA GROWS   Soviets Inflict Heavy Losses On Nazi Enemy   WAR BOOTY TAKEN   Guerrillas in Old Poland Aid Reds Now 46 Miles Inside Border

Mobile Units Race Toward Old Border   New Front Opened By Russians In Leningrad Area

NAVY PLANES MAKE ATTACK ON CAROLINES   “Our Pacific Offensive Extended Hundreds of Miles Westward to Reach Jap Islands

Yankee Fliers Extend Raids  To. Carolines   Strike For First Time Into Caroline Islands With Raid On Kusaie

Caroline Islands Undergo Raid By U. S. Navy Planes   Unprecedented Attack On Kusaie Monday Revealed By Nimitz

BASE NEAR TRUK HIT   American Planes Invade Japanese Empire Waters

Caroline Islands Are  a ~ Raiaged ror First Tir   Central Pacific Offensive Is Extended — No American Planes Lost

YANKS RAID CAROLINES: FIRST ATTACK OF WAR   Navy Bombers Deal Blow After Flight Of 700 Miles

NAVY PLANES : INRAIDON CAROLINES    Jap-Held Islands Had Been Beyond Reach of Fliers 

Navy Airmen Blast at Japs In Carolines   Attack Made on Kusaie, on Sea Route to Truk, Nimitz Discloses

LEANING TOWER OBSERVER POST   Famous Building At Pisa Being Used By Nazis, Feder Reports

Army, Navy Report In. crease in Casualties of 65,973 in Two Weeks

CASUALTIES UP 68,973 IN 2 WEEKS   FIGURES DO NOT INCLUDE LOSSES IN CURRENT GERMAN COUNTER-DRIVE.

Russians Angry Over Discussion Of Postwar Line   American Views Not Considered

Russia Invites . No Discussions: “About Frontie   Soviets - Regard Borders As Own Business and Resent Comment

Russians Resent Border Discussion   Poles Pessimistic On Reconciliation

WARREN SEEKS NO HIGH OFFICE   California’s Governot Out Of Running For Vice Presidency

Californian Says Seeks No Office  ~ Doubts If His Name Would Help the GOP

WARREN SHIES AWAY GOP Keynoter Declares He's Not Seeking Federal Office

Governor Warren Declines White  House Aspirations  GOP Keynoter Make: Formal Statement  On Vice Presidency

MAY SEE CLASH ON WAR SURPLUS   Colmer Will Insist on Single Head of Agency on Property

DANIEL ROPER’S WIDOW PASSES   Husband Was Formerly Cabinet Member

Lord Faringdon Say: Mutiny of British Troops Is Possible  Greek Intervention Is Attacked in Parliament Today

British Lord Fears Mutiny In Greek Fight   Cries of ‘Monstrous’ Greets Statement Soldiers Might Refuse Continue Battle

BRITISH OPPOSITION LOUD TO GREEK WAR; SURRENDER DEADLINE FOR ELAS TODAY

Lord Faringdon Declares British Forces Fighting Greeks May Rebel

Commons Has Heated Debate   Greek King, Armistice Conditions Assailed, Defended in Bitter Words

Faringdon Flavys  Athens Policy   Lords Member Cites Mutiny Possibility Among British Troops

TROOPS MAY REFUSE WAR ON GREEKS   House of Lords Hears Prophecy In Greek Rift

Fears Mutiny Of British in ‘Athens War’      Tommies Unwilling to Fight Greeks, Says Lord Faringdon

Peer Voices ‘Mutiny Fear; House Upset   Cry of ‘Monstrous’ Greets Faringdon’s Warning on Greece

GIVE  Tt viel   DeGaulle Is Invited Tc  Take Place On Europe  Advisory Comish

Full Membership  To DeGaulle Group  In Europe Council Main Russian Forces Holding City Under Siege Withstand Desperaie Mazi Counteratiack:

Europe Advisory Commission Place Offered Nation in First Step of ‘Comeback’

Fr anee Ins ‘ited To Join Europe Advisor -yGr roup   Conmission To Study Cer iain Questions Including Surrender Terms for Gerniany

FRANCE INVITED TO WORK WITH BIG 3 IN EUROPE   FULL MEMBERSHIP ON EUROPEAN ADVISORY COMMISSION OFFERED

INVITE FRENGH TO JOIN GROUP   DeGaulle Government Asked To Assume Full Membership.   MOST ADVANCED STEP

Recognition To DeGaulle   His. Government Giver Full Membership On Advisory Commission

Grant Greater Recognition Te French Regime   De Gaulle Government Is Invited To Assume Full Membership In Allied  + Advisory Commission 

DeGaulle Regime Gets More Support   Government Granted Membership On European Advisory Commission

France Invited To Join Others  On Commission   U.S.. Britain and Russia Invite DeGaulle Government to Membership in Council. .

Three Powers Invite France Into Council   DeGaulle Regime Asked to Join Advisory Body

Allies Take Nation Into Commission   Announcement Made as Paris Cheers Churchill

~ FULL MEMBERSHIP   DeGaulle Government Invited Into European Advisory Commission

France Is Invited To Join Big Powers   U.S., Britain and Russia Offer European Advisory Commission Membership in Long Step Toward Helping Nation Rise Again.

‘France Gets New ‘Powers   Granted Place On Advisory Commission For Europe’s Affairs.

France [s Invited To Join ‘Europe's Advisory Commission   United States, Great Britain And Russia Extend Right ‘To Full Membership In Group

Ask De Gaulle  J oin Parley on Peace   Invitation Recognizes Return of France as Member of World’s Great Nations

Big Three Ask France to Join  Advisory Group   Action Aimed at Restoring Nation as Great Power

France Invited to Join Big Three  Offe-ed Membership on Advisory Greup

270,000 Soviet Troops Attack  Foe in Latvia   Berlin) Reports Russians Massing for Another

LATVIA DRIVE. NAZIS REPORT   Soviet Force of 270,000 Attacking in New Offensive

[Reds Launch New Drive:  Russia Hurls 270,000 Men at Nazi [Divisions Pinned against Baltic

REDS LAGH OUT ON NORTH SIDE   Attack Suddenly in Latvia in New Offensive   NAZIS REPORT PUSH   Reds Drive in Double Effort To Surround Budapest, Open Route to Vienna

Germans Report Russian Drive It Latvia To Crush 30 Nazi Divisions

Nazis Report Reds Strike ‘Hard in Latvia   . Say Grand Red Army Winter Offensive To Be Started Soon  NO EARLY EFFECT

New Offensive Aimed at Crushing Nazi Di_ visions  STRIKE LAUNCHED BY UKRAINE ARMY  Two Great Operations Not Confirmed by Moscow

Hundreds, of All Creeds, Mourn O’Connell’s Death; Funeral Set for Friday

Cardinal O'Connell  Funeral On Friday  Dean Of Catholic Hier. archy Dies

Welfare of Every County In District Is Dependent or Agriculture, Kleberg Says  Congressman’s Place on Important Agricultural Committee Permitted Him to Render Service to District

Local Fortress Gunner Missing   Staff Sgt. James C. Hussong Was Graduate Of Local High.

TOKYO THREAT BRINGS ADDED YANKEE RAIDS   Japs’ Anti-Aircraft Fire is Reported Meager: Two Superforts Lost in Attacks on Capital.

Tokyo Was Hit Twice  Wednesday   Nips Threaten to Kill Any Fliers Who Bail Out

Tokyo Getting Taste of Air Campaign   General Arnold Says . Heart of War Machine Is Doomed

Superforts Unscathed In ‘Latest Raid On Tokyo   Not One American Plane Shot Down In Third Strike At Capital In Week

JAPS VOICE NEW THREATS AGAINST AMERICAN FLIERS   RETURNING AIRMEN REPORT DEFENSE OF CAPITAL WAS MEAGER

Superforts Blast Tokyo Third Time; All Return Safely   Defenses of Japanese Capital Penetrated Twice in 5 Hours

CE OE Eh RE  Superfortress Bombs Start Raging Fires In Japan Capital      All B29s Participating In Strike At Heart Of Enemy War Machine Return Safely; Mipponene Threaten Yank Fliers.

All Superforts In Tokyo Night Bombing Safe   Returning Airmen Report Anti-Airereft Fire Was Meagre and Inaccurale

NO PLANES LOST IN 3RD RAID ON TOKYO IN WEEK   B-29’s Blast Capital Twice in Five Hours; Japan Threatens Fliers

Tokyo Hit Twice Within Five Hours   All Superforts Engaged in Raid On Japan Wednesday Home Safely

Tokyo Raiders Escape Losses   Third Super-fort Blow on Tokyo Costs No Planes

Tokyo Getting Foretaste Of U.S. Aerial Campaign Against Its War Machine

ALL SUPERFORTS RETURN SAFELY TO HOME BASES   Third Raid On Tokyo Resisted Very Little

Superfortresses All Return From 3rd Tokyo Attack   Jap Premier Summon; Cabinet To Discuss New ‘Bottlenecks’ In War Production

Over Enemy Capital Twice in Five Hours Wednesday, All Planes Return

All B-29s Return To Base   Note of Big Bombers Lost in Third: Raid On Tokyo in Week; Strike in Two: Waves

No Superforts Lost In Third Tokyo Raid   All Planes Participating in Wednesday Night Strike at Capital Return to Base—AntiAircraft Fire Meager and Inaccurate.

NO SUPERFORTS » LOST IN THIRD RAID ON TOKYO   @Anti-Aircraft Fire Light in Nig Capital — Arnold Promises More Bombings

All B-29s Return From Tokyo Raid   Ack-Ack Light— Airmen Bailing Out Will Be Killed, Japs Declare

ACK-ACK FIRE IS REPORTED MEAGER   » Arnold Hails Drive To Destroy Jap War Machine   YANK FLIERS   Landing In Japan Will Be Shot, Enemy Announces; Fires Rage In City

Superforts Make Third Raid In Week On Tokyo   Japanese Voice Threats Against American. Fliers —

~ BAD ARE SAFE   Tokyo Given Foretaste of Campaign to Destroy War Machine.   JAPS THREATEN FLYERS

All Superforts Survive Third Strike at Tekyo   Two Skirs Lost in Three Raids; Japs Threaten Death to any Yank Airman Captured

NOSUPERFORTS LOST ON RAID   Bombs Fall On Nipponese Capital Despite Reprisal Threats

ied scarred Tokyo Getting good Taste of What Air 6 6War Will Bring   SAPS ARE AROUSED AND THREATEN DOWNED AIRMEN

ALL B-295 SAF AFTER STRIKING AT TOKYO AGAIN   Angry Japs Warn Any Yank Flier Captured Will Be ‘Killed On The Spot’

BOMBS ON JAPAN DRAINING MIGHT   Tokvo Reports Still Another. B-29 Raid ‘Did Little Damage’ To War Production Areas. 

No Planes Lost in Night Raid on Tokyo   Fliers Report Clouds Obscured Results of Attack on Nip Capital

Naval Leaders — Urge Bond Buying   Says Purchases Will Speed Pacific Victory

ODT Cracks Down On Government Travel, Junkets  ‘Public Relations’ Trips, War Bond Rallies to Be Cut

oPEGIAL TRANS BANNED BY O07   Tiavel Rules Tightened To Take In Public Relations Trips

Ban. Placed On Car Use      ODT Cutting Travel By Federal Groups 

Air Armada Racing To Smash Nazis’ “Dunkerque” Attempt   German Air Force Strikes In North France But Receives Jolting Setback

BOMBERS BLAST ESCAPE ROUTES   16 Nazi Fighters Downed In Effort To Check Attacks

Allied Planes Rain Death   On Germans Attack of Nazi Airmen Smashed _

German Air Comeback Fails  As Allies Crush 23 Of Planes   ‘Raiders Scourge Nazi Troops Both West, East Of Seine  Escape Barrier; Enemy’s Bases Take Pounding

AIR ATTACK MADE AGAINST NAZI BARGES   Germans Attempt Mass Retreat From France

Planes Scourge German Troops In Seine Sertor   Twenty-three Enemy Planes Shot Down By Allied Airmen

Allied Airmen Scourge Germans Escaping Trap  Shoot Down 23 Enemy Planes When Nazis Stage Aerial Comehack Attomot

Germans Plan A ‘Dunkerque’   Across Seine   Great Fleets Allied’ Bombers and Fighters Move In To Destroy Barge  ~ . Concentration

Allies Strafe Seine River Escape Route   Bridges Wrecked, Troops ‘Killed: Ploesti and Reich Blasted Again

ALLIES BUSY IN AIR   Planes Strike German Troops and Win Over Nazi Planes g

Allied Planes Pound Troops  Along Seine   Shoot Down 23 Enemy Planes Attempting To Stage Comeback For German Air Force

Escape Route Of Germans Is  Hit From Air   Allied Warplanes Sweep Over Nazi Troops Both East and West of Seine River Barrier.

Planes Rain Death On Nazis Caught In Seine Pocket   German Barges on River Are Targets; Industries and Airports Bombed

Nazi Planes  Offer Battle   Stage Eleventh Hour Attack Over France; Bombers Smash Barges

ALLIED PLANES BLAST GERMANS TRYING ESCAPE   Twentv-Three German Airplanes Shot Down in Bic Air Rattle in France

Allied Bombers Hit Battle Area   Frantic Nazi Air Attack ~ Over Front Fails

Germans Reported Trying ‘Dunkerque’ Seine Escape  Attempted Comeback Of Nazi Air Force Meets With Jolting Setback

Seine Escape Port Riddled by Fleet of Yankee Planes   Germans Retreating From Argentan Are Strafed Yesterday

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT BREST, ROVE   British Mosquitoes Attack Western Germany; Halmahera Raided.

FLIERS POUND NAZI TARGETS   German Airmen Attempt To Make Comeback In France

NAZIS SUSTAIN HEAVY LOSSES » IN AIR FIGHTS   American and British Fliers Bag 23 Planes in Duels Over France

ALLIED PLANES SMASH AT FOE   Attack Germans Trying to Escape Across Seine in Fleet of Barges.

Bombers Hanmer Nazis In France   Planes Smash Comeback  Attempt Of Luftwaffe

Capture Two Principal Airdromes Immediately   Gen. MacArthur Bypasses Rabaul to Seal Bismark Area; Many Japs Face Capture or Death; General Points to Philippines: Only 1,300 Miles Away

Bismarck Campaign Nearly Over Allied  Commander Declares   Goes Ashore Shortly Af ter Landing His Sixth Army

American Troops Capture Airport in Admiralty Islands   New Landing Puts “Yanks in Bismark Sea Contrd! Position

Capture Major Airfield;50,000 Japs Enclosed By New Attack   Resistance Is Negligible; M’ Arthur Directs Blow From Warship

JAPAN LOSES AIRDROME TO UJ, S. FORCES   Admiralty Islands Are Invaded By  Americ2ns

Yanks Land In Admiralty Islands, Capture One Of Two Airdromes: Little Opposition

TWO-AIRDROMES TAKEN TUESDAY   Americans Land on Admiralty Islands; Enemy Opposition Negligible.   END OF DRIVE IN SIGHT

AIRFIELDS ON AD MIRALTIES ARE CAPTURED   Americans Land on Importand Islands in Bismarck Sea Against Negligible Opposition   MACARTHUR A WITNESS

NEW PACIFIC ~ ISLANDS FALL   MacArthur Directs Suc cessful Attack On Ad miralty Group

MacArthur Directs Attack From Warship, Follows Troops Ashore   Knd Of Bismarck  Campaign In Sight   New Landing Gives U. §. Strategic Position To Attack Japs

AMERICANS LANDED ON ADMIRALTYS AND CAPTURE AIRDROME:  END OF BISMARCK CAM  END OF BISMARCK CAMPAIGN CLEARLY IN SIGHT MACARTHUR DECLARES

AMERICANS SEIZE AIRDROME — WITH ADMIRALTY LANDING. AS MANY JAP TROOPS CUT OFF

Land In Admiralty Is. lands, ..Capture Airdrome LITTLE FIG ; FIGHTING MacArthur Goes Ashore After  Troone land

Americans Take Airdrome on Admiralty Isle   MacArthur. at Site. Says Invasion is knd of Bismarck  Supply Campaign

Republicans Flay Roosevelt Tour   “Inspection” Trip Declared Political

‘Vote Tests Fail *To Show Trend   . Presidential Election Still : Rated Tossup By Observers

Predict Close Contest for Popular Votes   GOP Pleased with Maine Returns; FDR Wins Texas Skirmish

Marshall Mannstein Appears Powerless to Rally Fleeing, Demoralized Troops For Stand Against Southern Wing of Vatutin’s Army. Nazis Surrendering By Bhundreds. -

PREWAR LINE SMASHED WITH FALL OF OLEVSK   ‘Moscow Silent On Crossing  Because Border No Long er Recognized As Inter - national Boundary      SOVIETS ADVANCING  IN OTHER SECTORS   Nazis Faced With Threat of Being Trapped In South and West Areac

Nazis Driven Back Across Old Border for First Time. Since Their Attack on Russie   Nazis Surrendering by Hundreds; Many of Them Going Over to Reds By Entire Companies, Moscow Says

Two Columns     Are Driving Toward West   Olevsk and Novograd-Volynski Captured; Spearheads Are 300 Miles From Warsaw; Von Mannstein’s Army Broken

Reds Move Toward Warsaw About 300 Miles From Front   Soviets Retake 170 Towns; Claim Germans Leaving Large Amounts of Materiel Behind

Soviets Push Over Terrain of Old Poland   Von Mannstein Unable to Rally Demoralized Troops in New Stand

Olevsk Taken By Vatutin’s Conquerors   ‘Other Centers Are Falling Rapidly Before Heavy Red Forces

Southern Wing of Vatutin’s Army Is Plunging Southwest From Dzerzhinsk, In Drive Which Nazis Fail to Stop

Russian Vanguards Cross Polish Line   Red Army Rolls Over Flat Terrain of Old Poland, Capturing Former Frontier Towns of Olevsk and Novograd.   German Rearguards Unable to Stop Onrushing Southern Russian Wing

170 Villages Retakenin — Swift Drive   Soviets Advance Rapidly From Former Frontier Town of Olevsk   HUGE BOOTY TAKEN   Other Spearheads Push Steadily on Rumanian Border

Whole German Defense System Reported Crumbling   Invasion Council: Gathers i in London   Air Action In Italy ~

German Generals Unable To Mass Defenses To Check Growing Offensive

RUSSIANS ON POLISH SOIL; PUSH FORWARD   Report Half Million Germans Encircled  By Red Forces

Towns Fall As Russian Army Drives   Villages Surrender To Onslaught Of Reds

RED ARMY FORCES WERE ROLLING OVER OLD POLAND TODA)   This Followed Capture of the Former Frontier Town of Olersk.   CROSSED THE BORDER   Total of 170 Villages Have Been Recaptured in Swift Soviet Advance.

Russians Roll To New Ground   MORE TOWNS CAPTURED ON SOVIET. FRONT TODAY

FRONTIER CITY OF OLEVSK FALLS   170 Villages Recaptured In Russian Advance   NAZI TROOPS   Reported Quitting By Thou— gands: Other Units 45 Miles From Latvia

Olevsk, Novograd - Volynski And 170 Villages Recaptured  In The Swift Savier Advance

RUSSIANS ROLLING ACROSS BORDER IN PURSUIT OF NAZIS  GEN. VATUTIN, LIBERA}  OR OF KIEV, SMASHES  SIRTHER WESTWART

VATUTIN'S ARMY evi ATVANCINE   Red Forces Rolling Forward Over Flat Terrain Of Old Poland   MANY SURRENDER   Three Spearheads Reported Fighting Way. Toward Rumania

Soviet Avalanche Crosses Border In Smashing Drive   Three Towns Fall To Russians; German Forces In Retreat Across Polish Flats; 6.000 Nazis Reported Killed

Olevsk, on Frontier  Is First To Fall .   Vatutin’s Spearhead Crosses Line About 300 Miles From Warsaw With Sunport 28 Miles Awav

Second Wing Plunges on Unchecked   Drive Carries to Less Than 150 Miles from Point Of Nazi Invasion

TEMPERATURES:   Russians Surge Across Poland In Great Drive   Germans Abandon Huge Stores, Surrender  By Hundreds

Fleeing Nazis  UnableToRally   ,. Russia Silent On Pre-War Frontier Crossing

Nazis Fleeing fn Disorder As Reds  Press Advantage   Olevsk Is Captured; Demoralized Nazi Troops Unable To Halt Advance

RED SOLDIERS PUSH ON FROM PRE-WAR LINE   Former Frontier Town of Olevsk Taken; Novogradvolynski Also Falls

Red Army Meets Stiff Resistance   / Soviets Capture Town og Kannel-Jaervi

UP STEADY ADVANCE IN FINLAND   Soviet Lines Are Brought to Within 32 Miles of Viipuri

RUSSIAN ARMY WIDENS BREACH IN FINN LINES   Advarices On Karelian Isthmu: Against Stiffening Resistance

Soviets Gain Against Stiff Finnish Lines   Red Army And Aerial Forces Advancing On Karelian . Isthmus ‘Today

REDS CONTINUE ADVANGE DESPITE STIFFER DEFENS    Gaveray’s. Army. ‘Supported..B: Heavy “Concentration ¢f Soviet Planes..

ELMER VOSS GT FD FOR BRAVERY   He Stayed With Blezing As Ship Is Torpedoed  In Convoy...

Commendation F or Elmer Arthur Voss  Cited For Bravery When Ship Is Sunk

CLOSEST RACE “SINCE 16 OF WIDE CONCERN   Service Vote is Big Question, War Big Issue

Wewak Area Gets Bomb Battering   Grounded Jap Planes At Base Destroyed

BY-PASSED WEWAK AREA IS BOMBED   Every Jap Plane Based There Is Destroyed

WEWAK RAIDERS DESTROY EVERY PLANE, REPORT   Thwart Any Attempt To Ewacuate Jap Garrisons

U. S. Bombers Destroy Every Jap Plane In Wewak Area  188 T. Of Bombs Ble Blast Airdromes

Ath Term Faces Test Tuesday — In Massachusetts   Dewey Drive Continues as Six States Prepare to Select Convention Delecates This Week

Dewey Gaining Many Delegates   Likely To Increase His Lead This Week

Deweyites Seek 173 More Votes   Six States Will Name Delegates This Week

Dewey Mapping New Attack On smobilization  May Reply On Issue Tonight In Address At St. Louis; Holds  Political Confab

Dewey’s Theme To Be Honesty  In. Government   Republican Candidate Will Make Major Campaign * Speech In St. Louis Tonight

DEWEY ASSAILS FOR'S REGIME   Charges Incompetence On Arrival In St, Louis For Talk Tonight

DEWEY PLANS HONESTY PLE/   Truman and Bricker Plan California Speeches

Dewey Will Not Speak At Army, Navy Stations   Carries Appeal By Radio Talks

Dewey to Missouri, Will Speak Tonight   Both Vice-Presidential Candidates in California Now; New York Times for Roosevelt, Dallas News for Dewey

DEWEY ON WAY TOST, LOU   GOP Presidential Candi_date- Plans Major Radio Address Tonight

Pros and Cons of Election Campaign  Highlighted by AP   Dewéy Speaks Tonight at St-/Louis: N.Y. Times Favors FDR

DEWEY ON AIR AT 9 TONIGHT   New York Times. Comes Out for President Roosevelt and His Foreign Policy

Dewey Says Nation Has Choice  On Regimentation Republican Party Leading Way to Freedom, He Says

DEWEY TO TALK FROM ST, LOUIS   Vice Presidential Candidates Touring California

Dewey, Truman Speak Tonigh   St. Louis, Los Angele: To Hear Nominees

Dewey Likely To Drive For Service Votes But  Will Not Visit Camps

DEWEY TO PUS ‘HONESTY’ PLEA   Will Deliver Major Speect At St. Louis Tonight

Dewey Charge: Labor Rights —  Undermined   Candidate:to Give Union Views in Talk Tonight

St. Louis Cheers Dewey   Candidate Declares Kew Deal Record ‘Most Incompetent

Dewey To Call For ‘Honesty’   GOP Candidate Calls Administration "Most Incompetent’

Dewey Plans Talk Tonight   Candidate Stresses Need: For. Honesty

Dewey To Avoid Personal Pleas To Servicemen   But GOP Candidate Shows Interest In Reaction To Attacks Qn New Deal

New York Times Comes Out For Roosevelt; Was For Willkie 4 Years Ago

Dewey Plans Reply to Hershey Letter in St. Louis Talk   GOP Nominee Plans New Attack Upon “Evasive” FDR Associates.

STRONG GOP BID SEEN FOR SOLDIER VOTE   Dewey Will Shortwave Major Speeches Overseas

Dewey Aim: Free Society,  Jobs for All   Gives People Choice of New Deal Regimentation GOP. Freedom

Dewey Jabs At ‘One-Man_  Depression’   ‘Incredible Record’ Saya Governor in New Deal Atlack

MAJOR SPEECH AT ST. EOUIS   Dewey Tells Crowd at Train FR Regime Is Most Incompetent Yet.

DEWEY T0 STRESS NEED OF HONEST, COMPETENT GOV'T   GOP NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT SPEAKS IN ST. LOUIS TONIGHT

ve Flays rR. Regime For Failures   G.0.P. Nominee Cites 10 Million Pre-War idle; in St. Louis

Dewey fo Speak In St. Louis on Honesty Tonight   Vice Presidential Candidates Now On Pacific Coast

To Fire Political . Broadside Tonight   Dewey, Bricker and. Truman Moka Major Campaign Addresses

GOV. DEWEY 10  SPEAK TONIGHT IN ST. LOUIS   Both Parties Have Candidates On  Western Tour

New Russian Drive Begins  Above Warsaw   Announcement Comes From Berlin Which Suspects Foe Seeks to Outflank All East Prussia

Norwegian Port Of Kirkenes Is Quit by Nazis   Evacuation May Meat Invasion by Reds; Berlin Reports New Soviet Offensive

Germans Quit Base Athwart Convoy Route   Destroy Installations A Port Of Kirkenes I: Arctic As Advance 0; Russians Continue

Capture Port of Kirkenes   In Pursuit of Germans Fleeing Finland; New Soviet Offensive Reported Along Narew

Norse Port, Capital East Prussia Fall   New Red Offensive on East Front Augurs Badly for Nazis

Germans Pull Forces Out Of Kirkenes   Norwegian Fort In Arctic Served as Sub and Air Base   London, Oct. 25. — (4) — The Russian army has crossed the frontier into Norway, Marshal Stalin announced tonight.

Nazis Quit Norwegian Arctic Port   Leave Kirkenes Soviets Launch " New Offensive,  Rerlin Save

Nazis Evacuate Arctic Stronghold   Soviet Advance in Prussia Is Slowed

Germans Pull  Forces Out of 2 Main Bases   Kirkenes, Athwart Important Murmansk Convoy Route, Is Evacuated   NAZIS ALSO FLEE FROM KONIGSBURS   Tell of New ww: Soviet . Drive Along Narew River; Push Is Being Widened

REDS CROSS ~— INTO NORWAY   Germans Flee Kirkenes After Blowing Up Installations

Nazis Evacuate Sub and Air’ Base in Norway   Berlin Reports New Red Drive Along  Narew River, Poland

Evacuate Kirkenes On Arctic   Broadcast Indicated New Russian Invasion Across Norwegian Border

RUSSIAN INVASION IS IMPLIED   Berlin Admits Loss Of U-Boat Quarters On  Murmansk Route

NAZIS HINT RED PUSHIN NORWAY   Norwegian Port On Arctic Route Is Evacuated

Red Drive In East Prussia Gains Ground   Germans Reported Evacuating Great Capital City of Konigsberg

Soviets Drive Into Norway. Capture Port      Moscow Also Reports With. drawal At Konigsberg; Narew Drive Opens

Germans Quit Norwegian Port As Reds Advance   Berlin Report Implies Invasion Across Border

Germans Get Out  Of Kirkenes Port   Announce Destruction of Installations in Norwegian Town   FEAR RUSSIAN DRIVE   Pressure of Red Armies Continues in Poland and ans

Russ Capture Norway Port Of Kirkenes   Soviet Navy Helps Army in Operation; New Drive in Poland

Nazis Quit Kirkenes   Leave Norwegian Port; Evacuating E. Prussia Capital

Russian Army Crosses Over Into Norway   Kirkexfes Seaport Taken In Norway; Last:-Nazi-Held Romanian City Falls

RUSSIANS START NEW OFFENSIVE ALONG THENAREN RIVER FRONT NORWEGIAN INVASION FORECAST

Germans Evacuate Submarine, Air Base in Norway  Last Rumanian City Held by Nazis  fe Taban hy Gauiate

DECLARE THEY GIVE UP PORT OF KIRKENES   Evacuation of Vital Arctic Base Follows Destruction of All Mili _ tary. Installations, Berlin Radio Announces,

 RUSSIANS OPEN NEW "OFFENSIVE ALONG - THE NEREW RIVER  BERLIN SAYS REDS STRIKI HARD BEHIND ARTILLER' AND AIR POWER

Reds Seize Norse Port Of Kirkenes   Key Sub And Air Base Captured By Invading  Bevectan Fe cman

Artic Port Of Kirkennes Being Evacuated By Germans After . Reds Reach Norway Border On Broad Front.

High Commands of Both Sides Throw Fresh Armor, Infantry Into Fight.

Russian Invasion Tn North Indicated   - Port Across Murinansk Route ’ Eliminated—New Drive : - Around Warcaw Tz Rannetad 

Hitler Turns Most Of His Power Over To Three Leaders  rpretat  Viele) Gane

RUSSIAN TROOPS SURGE SWIFTLY OVER ROMANIA   German Forces in Italy Are Beginning To Assume More Aggressive Spirit

SCHEDULE OF AIR ATTACKS. 1S CONTINUED   CHANNEL INVASION COAST POUNDED IN DAYLIGHT RAIDS AFTER NIGHT  “RAIDS INTO REICH’

HEAVY AERIAL FLEET BLASTS FRENCH COAST   Pounding Follows Night Stabs  HUGE SQU. ADRONS  6 Ate ee  Explosions Heard In England

FRENCH COAST. UNDER STEADY AERIAL ATTACK   Continuous Pounding of Pas de Calais. Follows Night Raids 

Japs Compressed Into Pocket On  Guam Island  Marines Make Another 2-Mile

Japs Driven Into Guam Pocket; 7,893 Killed   Enemy Faces Annihilation After U.S.  Forces Smash Forward Two Miles

Yankees Push Forward I wo Miles on Guam   Compress Japanese Into Pocket of Seven by Ten Miles

10-TQN ROCKET MAY HIT SOON   Allied Commentator Sees Possibility Germans Will Use Greater Robots

RED ARMIES CONVERGE ON CITY OF MINSK   German Troops In Chaos Retreat In Wrong Direction As Russians Continue Powerful Drives Northeast

Germans in Minsk Cut Off by Rail by Reds   IMPORTANT TOWNS — SEIZED DURING DAY   Entire Position of Nazis _in White Russia En danaoered

LAWMAKERS OVER   CONGRESSMEN TO BE _ INVITED TO BE GUESTS OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

Parliament To Invite Congress To Visit Britain   An Effort to Promote Closer Association Between Two Nations

Majority, Minority, Are Words Which Have Suddenly Taken New Meaning

U. S. FLIERS STRIKE AT MUNICH AREA   Strong Force of Bombers Blasts Nazi Targets

MUNICH TARGET AF GREATEST ¥S. ATTACK   ) Little Fighter  Opposition

Munich Area Bo mbed 2d Straight Day   Greatest American Raic on Single Target During War

Second Raid Within Day Blasts City   Mediterranean-Based Liberators Attack Southern France.

Record Raid By Bombers Hits Munich   Mediterranean-Based Flee? Pounds So. France Rail Yards. -

Greatest U.S. Raid on Single Target Made   More Than 1,200 Heavy Bombers Sirikea Vianich Area

Liberators Based In Mediterranean Area Hit Southern France Targets

‘Eastern Offensive Foreseen  Stilwell Made Full General By Nomination By President

Move to Promote Stilwell Forms Basis For Prediction of Early Asian Drive

U.S. Grand Jury Completes Work   Body at Santa Fe Returns 41 True Bills

‘Morgenthau Reporls Wal ‘Bond Loan Six Billion Over Top, Still Going

Super-Forts  Bomb Tokyo Third Time   Details Are Withheld; _ Jap Naval Aviation Crushed, Expert Says RAINE TO INCREACR

SAIPAN ISLAND B295 IN THIRD RAID IN WEEK   Threats Against Yank Flyers Made by Tokyo Radio

SELF-HELP PROGRAM READY FOR VETERANS   Plan Designed To Get Them Set Up in Business

STRIKE ACROSS FRANCE 10 HIT AIRCRAFT PLAN   Thousands of Bombs Rained Down  on One of Few Remaining Un- ‘ damaged Plane Ractories

YANKS GAPTURE PORT OF CERVIA   Other Allied Forces Enlarge Savio Bridgehead

YANKS OCCUPY JOTH ISLAND IN PALAUS   Also Deliver Blows on Borneo Oil Resources

Bombers Again Blast Borneo   Occupy: 10th Island On Way To Philippines

LIBERATORS BLAST NIPS Ih EAST INDIES   16th Island In Palaus Occupied By U. S.. Forces

Deliver New Blow at Japs Oil Resources   Tenth Island in Palau Group Is Occupied

Rebuke Action Or War Censorship   » Inform Commons Nation  Will Not Take News Cut

Baltic Gateway Under Russian Artillery Fire   Within 12 Miles Of Lative: Fifth Improves Positions In Teale   FREE 650 VILLAGES

Nazis Open Heavy Gun Attack on Allies In Anzio Beachhead   British Radio Claims Soviet Troops Penetrate German Defenses of Baltic Gateway City

RED ARMY WITHIN 6 MILES OF BALTIC GATEWAY CITY AND NEAR BORDER OF LATVIA —   Swift Advances by Russians Now Gravely Imperil : All Territory Held by Germans in Northwest Russia, Nazi Transportation System Being Disorganized - *

Nazis Stiffen In Last Stand Before Pskoy   Russian Troops Nace to Within 6 Miles af Prize

PSKOV UNDER SIEGE FIRE OF RED ARTILLERY   British Radio Says Russians Have Fought Within Six Miles of Baltic Gateway City   650 VILLAGES TAKEN

Yanks Improve Position In Anzio Sector   Beat Back Attacks; Russians Shell Baltic Gateway

Soviets Close in on 3 Sides  of Rail City      Russian Officers Participate in American Invasion Preparations in Britain

SOVIET MOVES UP CLOSER TO BALTIC CITY   Russians Strike Within 12 Miles of Latvia in Swift Advances.   Allies Improve Their Positions in Italy

Russians Within Sight of Vital Transport Hub   Soviet Officials Witness American Invasion Training

Russian Guns Open lire on  4  Kneircled City   Flying Fortresses Bomb Brunswick-— Allies Make Slight Advances in Italy

Report Psko Under Red Shellfire   Forts Strike  Into Germany— t Fifth Troops  Better Positions  Re RECHARD M’MURRAYS

Russians Bombard Pskov   Red Army. Within Six Miles of. Baltic City; “Forts” Bomb Aircraft Plants in Brunswick

RUSSIAN ARTILLERY BOMBARDING BALTIC GATEWAY TO LATVIA  ANE BPEPORT NECLARES   ONE REPORT DECLARES RED ARMY BATTLING IN EDGE OF PSKOV

Red Guns Bombarc Pskov, Push Close To Latvia Border   Attend Invasion Parley, Finns To Act Upon Peace

Fierce Battle Still Rages in Arnhem Sector  PLIGHT OF HEROIC ALLIES “CRITICAL”  Last Resistance in. Port  of Boulogne Is

UNITS HOLD OFT FURIOUS NAZI CHARGES   British Push Forward Yard by Yard in Rescue Effort — Still Six Miles From Men.   ENCIRCLED TROOPS DUG IN AT ARNHEM   Town Aflame as Battle Rages—Coastal City of Boulogne Freed by Canadian Soldiers.

Fierce Battle Still Rages in Arnhem Sector  PLIGHT OF HEROIC  ALLIES “CRITICAL”      Last Resistance in. Port  of Boulogne Is Crushed

Heroic Airborne Force Holding Arnhem Ruins In Face of Heavy Odds

MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE HITLER WAS KILLED BY BOMB EXPLOSION INSTEAD HIS “NOQUBLE” BERGNER   However Actions of German People Since Explosion Signify That Fuehr er Is Still Very Much Alive And Continues to Rul e with Iron Hand

Hitler Killed By Bomb?  ¢*¢+¢+ 4  Americans Go Out Of Way To i To ieee It

Nazi Official Report Says Hitler Is Alive-—— ae DY CVV AL NaCl  Did Hitler's Double Die In Bomb Blast?

~ WAR TODAY   Events Since Attempted Assassination Indicate Hitler Still Lives Despite SpecuJalion He Is Dead

CHINESE CROSS SALWEEN RIVER   Japs Annihilated After Breaking Through At Loyang

SING PLUNGE VER SALWEEN IN. OFFENSIVE   First in Seven Years Announced by High Command; 20,000 Troops Move from 12 Points.   Heavy Casualties

Chinese Open Big Offensive  ON NNN Crace Bivar   20,000 Cross River at Dozen Poinis

Big Offensive Started With  River Crossing   Breaking of Japan’s Blockade Objective for Attackers

Offensive Launched  By Chinese Troops   More Than 20,000 Plunge Across Salween River at a Dozen Points—Casualties on Both Sides Reported Heavy

Chinese Army Drive For Route To India   20,000 Troops Plunge Across Dalween River Open. ing China’s First Real Offensive in Seven Years

E BEGIN DRIVE TO OPEN BURMA ROUTE   Casualties in Yunnan Battle Are Heavy On Both Sides

20,000 Chinese Launch Big  Offensive Across Salween   Casualties on Both Sides Are Heavy as Troops Seek Junction With Stilwell’s Fore... 14th Air Force Strafes Japs

Drive To Meet Stilwell Gets Off Favorably   20,000 Men Cross The Salween River

China Begins Offensives   Cross Salween River In Face Of Jap Fire

Berlin and London Under Heavy Aerial Attacks; Losses Big   U.S. Bombers on Fifth Mission Over Berlin  During This Month

U.S. BOMBERS HIT BERLIN FOR 5TH TIME THIS MONTH   Daylight Atiack Made By Liberators and Forts Accompanied by Fighters—1,500 Tons Bombs Dropped

1500 TONS OF BOMBS AGAIN HIT BERLIN   Strong Forces of American Planes, Probably 500 To 750 Raid Reich Capital

U. S. Planes Lash Anew At Berlin   Between 500 and 75( Bombers Shower New Destruction  On Nazi Capital

Hundreds Of Yank Planes Lash Berlin   Probably 1,500 Tons Of Bombs Add To Destruction In Capital.

OVER BERLIN AGAIN   As Many As 1,700 Planes May Have Taken Part Tn Daylight Raid

Bomber Force Accompanied By Fighters   500 To 750 Heavies In Assault; Hundreds Of Protecting Aircraft On  Mi<sion

AMERICAN HEAVIES RETURNED T0 HEART OF HITLER'S REICH  FIRST DAYLIGHT BOMBIN   FIRST DAYLIGHT BOMBING OF BERLIN SINCE MARCH NINTH TODAY

1,500 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED IN NEW ATTACK   AMERICANS DESTROY 25 GERMAN PLANES IN RAID ON FRANCE

Yankee Airmen Again Hit Berlin  More Than 1,000 Planes Raid Capital

Berlin Hit Again by Bombers   Daylight Raid Finds Flak But Little Fighter Opposition.

STRONG FORCE OF LIBS AND FORTS MEETS LITTLE NAZI FIGHTER OPPOSITION

BLAZE TURNED Ble TOP INTO ‘DEATH ARENA’   Resembles Giant Skeleton Stripped Of Flesh, Writer Says

TONSILS REMOVED   WWI KM KK KK KK   cause WHAT OUR BOYS WES ARE DOING TO P44 WIN THE WAR

STATES 10 WATCH ~ IN TODAY'S VOTE   TREND IN 'N. Y., PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, ILLINOIS MAY POINT TO WINNER.

TREND WATCHED IN KEY STATES   New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio And Illinois Needed By Dewey

Ickes Calls Dewey's Attack on Soldier-Release Plan ‘As False as Goebbels’: Claims. Deceitful Double Talk

CHRISTMAS. MALL FOR OVERSEAS  MEN QUE SEPT:   Gift Package Period - to. Last One Month; Careful Wrapping’ rezd

CHRISTMAS. MILL OR OVERSEAS MEN DUE SEPT. 1   Gift Package Period to Last One Month; Careful Wrapping Urged

BALE LECTURE SCHEDULED AT LOCAL CHURCE   Juvenile Delinquency Is Subject Evening of Mar. 14.

WILL GIVE LECTURE ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY   Hon. Fred @ Bate, Colamhus, Ohtoy Booked to Speak at Methodist ~~ Church Here, Dec. 7

17 B-29’s Rock Jap Industrial Center:   Seventeen Superfortresses Lost In Raid On Kyushu; Five Cities Are Targets; Nips Report Secand Raid

Official Story Awaits Filing of Fliers’ Reports   77 Planes on Raids, Says Jap Radio; 13 Shot Down, Is Claim: Industrial Centers Hit

B-29 ATTACK AGAIN ROCKS KYUSHU IS.   Superforts Take Another Crack at Jap Homeland; Tokio Reports Heavy Losses.  Similar doh

Superforts Strike Japan Twice in Day   Tokyo Reports 2d Raid As War Department

Yanks 38 Miles From Florence   Next Six Weeks to Answer  When Will Reich Crack Up‘

TREND INNEXT SIXWEEKS MAY DECIDE WAR LENCTI   MILITARY OBSERVERS NOW BE. _ LIEVE CRACKUY OF GERMAN ARMY MAY COME THIS.  . SUMMER

NEXT 6 WEEKS HOLD FATE OF WAR ON NAZIS   To Determine When Allies Will March Into Berlin—Huss

Marines Repel Five Jap Charges, Seize Ridge   Story Of Fiercest Battle On Cape Gloucester Now Told In All Detail

Marines Stop 9 Charges on Walt’s Ridge   Fanatical Attacks On Weary Yanks Detailed in New Britain Struggle

Japs Told Marines to Prepare for Death, But They Answered With Bullets to Win New Britain Battle

Leathernecks Defeat Nips At ‘Bayonet Point   Batile For Walt’s Ridge On Cape Gloucester Fiercest of War In South~ west Pacific

Marines Stop Five Atfacks   Leathernecks Hurl Boasting Japs Back From Walt’s Ridge

Screaming Japs Who Told Marines to Prepare to Die Hurled Back In Bitter Cape Gloucester Fight

Battle of Walt’s Ridge  Marines Hor! Japs Back In Fiereest In Fiercest Battle-of Cape Gloucester Campaign.

“Prepare to Die, Marines;” Then the Japs Charged—and Were Crushed

Weary Marines Stop Five Charges By Chanting, Shrieking Bataan Veterans

Walt’s Ridge Battle Won By Marines   Fiercest Fight Repelled Five  Charoes hy Tans

Prepare to Die, Japs Tell Marines: ‘But Leathernecks Trinaph Acain

WALT'S RIDGE EPIC OF WAR   Fiercest Battle Of Cape Gloucester Campaign  Described

Marines Stop 5 Charges on Walt’s Ridge  Detailed in New Britain Struggle

Five Times Japs Repulsed   Marine Bayonets, Grenades Win Fierce Gloucester Fight

Five Strong Jap Charges Failed  Battle Of Walt’s Ridge Fiercest Battle In The Cape Gloucester Fight

Japs Charged Marines In Vain Five Times At Cape Gloucester   Nips Shouted And Chanted, But Their Methods Failed; Battle Was Vicious And Bitter

“PREPARE TO DIE, MARINES!”  Five Jap Charges Halted On Walt’s Ride

‘Prepare to Die, Marines,’ Japs Chant; Five Fierce Onslaughts Hurled Back

Russian Language Teacher Gives Lesson In Russian; Names Are Easy He Says

Russian Names Bothering You?  = . 7   ‘Melit’ Is Something Sweet Like Honey... Melitopo

Battle of NW France Is Ended   ‘The Victory Has Been Definite,’ Montgomery Says

NORTHERN REDS DRIVING TO TRAP PSKOV GARRISON   Spurred by Annihilation of 82,039 in Pocket on Dnieper

STARAYA RUSSA EVACUATED BY ROUTED NAZIS   init Broadcast By Berlin   anes  TOTTERS            83,000 More Germans Eliminated

Stimson Favers One Command   Unifieation of Army, Navy, Air Foree Advocated

OF ARMY, NAVY   Stimson Says Duplications, Disagreements Cut Power, Speed in War

UNITED COMMAND AFTER WAR URGED   Secretary Stimson Says Despite Best Cooperation in History Disagreements and Duplications Have Occurred

UNIFIED COMMAND URGED BY STIMSON   Army and Navy ‘Merger After War Advocated - by Secretary —

Big Daylight Raid Against Europe Seen   Bombers Require Hour And a Half to Pass Over Coast

U. S..Bomber-.. Fleet Hits Nazi Targets   Formations Thunder Out Over Coast for 90 Minutes

Many American Bombers and Fighters Raid  Western Germany   Enemy Makes Two Small Scale Thrusts A¢ Reritich Canital

Bombers Blasting West Germany   British Fighters Stab Germany In New Raids

RAIDED AGAIN BY BOMBERS   Retaliation Bombing on London by Germans With Dozen or More Persons Being Killed.

‘Yank Bombers Again Roaring To Germany   Nazis Send To Planes To London, Killing  12 Persons

BIG DAYLIGHT RAIDS OVER GERMANY   Round Out Week of Attacks; 20 Nazi Bombers Hit London

90-Minute Parade Of Bombers And Fighters Crosses Channel Today; London Raided At Night.

Many Women, Children Trampled by Spectators Stampeding for Exits From Flaming Ringling Brothers Tent

Hundreds linjured As Big Top Burns   Death Toll Mounts Rapidly as More Bodies Are Recovered From the Burning Wreckage

80 of Disaster Victims Are Children   Death Toll Continues to Mount as Rescuers Extricate Bodies From Smouldering Remains of Tent

Loss of 2 U.S. Subs Disclosed   Golet, Herring Reported ‘Overdue on Patrol’

STREETS ARE FILLED WITH JOYFUL CROWDS_—DETAILS ‘OF MILITARY. OPERA ; TIONS ‘REVEALED 

British Units Of Eighth Army Continue Advance In Face Stiff Nazi Resistance

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   GERMAN RESISTANCE STIFFENS NEAR FORLI

Finns Say Russian Armistice Offer Received; Report Nazi Troops to Be Evacuated to Norway

See Early Action In Finnish Case   Nation Said Ready To Work For Peace

FINLAND READY FOR PEACE ON SOVIET TERMS   Withdrawal Of 100,000 German Troops To Norway Likely

Developments In Finnish Peace Move Exnected Soon   German Commander Prepares to Evacuate Troops Savs Paper

FINNS, REDS 0 ‘VERGE OF PEACE, NAZIS MIST MVE   Germany Reported to Have Asked Swaden’s Attitude on Permitting Troops to Prace Nation.   DEVELOPMENTS POSSI=SIBLE WITHIN 48 HOURS   Hitler and Advisers Discuss“ed Gloomy Finnish Situation During an Extended Conference.

FINNS STUDYING PEACE TERMS   Concrete Developments Expected In Next Few Days

FINNS EXPECT TO ACT SHORTLY ON PEACE PLANS   Believe Effort To Bring Abou Peace Will Develop In 24.48 Hours

NAVY UNGOVERS ROGKET PLAKS   HAS NEW SFIIP WHICH CARRIES ONLY ROCKETS

‘Small rocket-carrying ships have twice fire power of big battleships

ADVANCES MADE NORTH OF FORL   Eighth Army Reaches Montone River In Eastern IItaly

EIGHTH ARMY NEARS GAENZA   British Reach Montone River in Italy Along Wide Front

BRITISH GAIN "INFORLI AREA   Drive Ahead From Bridgeheads Pushed Across  Montone River

NAZIS SLACKEN FIGHT IN ITALY   Eighth Army Advances West Of Forli, Gains Foothold On Road

ELAS Challenges Right of British To Act in Greece   Leaders Seeking Early Agreement

The hight of British to Restore Law and Order in Greece Is Challenged by Elas; Fighting Continues

Greek Leftists HoldSelf-Rule  Peace Prelude   British Reported Drafting Reply to ELAS. Demand

ELAS Demand Greek Regime   Challenge British Right To ‘Restore Order’

BUNS QUIS   Father Says Children Have Been Registered; Won’t Let Anyone See Ther

“DRAFT CHANGES ~ SLATED JULY 1   "Men Passing Physicals to Get No Service Preference, New Ruling

Army and Navy Will Have Pool  Men to Not Know Branch Until They Are Called for Duty

Selectees to Go Into Common Pool Upon Which Army, Navy Will Draw

Draftees Here To be in Pool After July 1   Both Army and Navy Will Draw from Men  Passing Pre-Induction Physical Examination

DRAFT PROCESS REVISED AGAIN   ARMY AND NAVY TO DRAW FOR COMMON POOL AFTER JULY 1

Draft Pool Created for Army, Navy   NEW ARRANGEMENT EFFECTIVE JULY 1 TO EQUALIZE CALLS

DRAFT RULES REVISED AGAIN   Men To Be Placed In Common Pool for Army or Navy Draw

The Gallup Poll Oregon Sentiment Shifts ‘Slightly Toward Roosevelt

British Bombers Strike From Italy At Hungarian Capital   NON-STOP RAIDS IN TWENTY-FIFTH DAY  Waves Of American Planes Left London Late Today For Day Raid

BRITAIN BASED BOMBERS HIT AT AIRDROMES   Hungarian Capital Of Budapest Smacked By Planes From Italy

NAZI AIRDROMES STILL BEING IT BY ALLIED BOMBS   Yank and British Planes Move In from the West and South.

HIT GERMAN  AIRDROMES ALONG COAST   American Bombers Over France Carry Bombardment Into 25th Day: British Bomb Budapest

Navy Blasts 26 Jap Ships In Historic Pacific Battle —   Mighty Three-Pronged Sea Fight Ends as Battered Nippon Remnant Flees; Victory May End Foe's Power to Meet American Forces in Future Attacks on Islands, Homeland

Two Carriers, Two Battleships Definitely Sunk   Wreckage Strewn Waters Of Philippines Mark Possible End Of Imperial Fleet A: Major Obstacle In American Drive Te Coasts Of Japan And China

PHILIPPINE WATERS SCENE OF CRIPPLING BLOW TO JAP NAVY   MORE THAN TWENTYSIX WARSHIPS OF ENEMY LOST IN BATTLES

PHILIPPINE WATERS SCENE OF CRIPPLING BLOW TO JAP NAVY  MORE THAN TWENTY  MORE THAN TWENTYSIX WARSHIPS OF ENEMY LOST IN BATTLES

BIG ENEMY BATTLESHIPS AND CARRIERS SENT DOWN. INH VICTORY FOR: AMERICAN FOR              Japanese Navy Takes Terrific Beating When Units are Cang -Hard-Hitting Allied Force; Action May Have Shortened ” j Pacific War ie Several Months

26-30: Nippon Vessels Are Hit, 12 Definitely Sunk; Losses May Shorten War

DEMOCRATS IN TEXAS SPLIT UP OVER 4TH TERM   TWO DELEGATIONS CHOSEN TO ATTEND NAT'L CONVENTION

DEMOCRATS IN TEXAS DIVIDED   Two Delegations, One Pro-Roosevelt, At Conventions

Texas Splits, ~ 2 Delegations of Democrats   One: Definitely Is For Roosevelt and. the Other Is ‘Uninstructed’   RECOGNITION UP. TO NATIONAL MEE’   Pro Group Says the. Rival Group Is:Made. Up of ‘Republicans’

TWO DELEGATIONS OF TEXAS DEMOS FOR CHICAGO MEET   Pro-Roosevelt and Anti-Roose. velt Delegates Selected After Session ‘is Split

TEXAS DEMOS SPLIT SUPPORT   One Delegation Named Yesterday Pro-Roosevelt, One Uninstructed.

Germans Repelled In Attacks at Anzio, Cassino  Allied Beachhead Now Veritable Fortress.  iammeme Lhanlamne

NAZIS BEATEN. BACK IN ITALY   Light Geeman . Thrusts in Cassino Sector Repulsed by Yanks

Filth Army Repulses Nazi Aitacks   Germans Report Anzio Beachhead Becomes Fortress

Allies Repulse Light Thrusts At Beachhead   14,000 Nazis Captured Tu Italian Campaign, Headquarters Reports

Fifth army repulses two nazi thrusts   Anzio beachhead veritable fortress

FIFTH ARMY REPELS PUSH OF GERMANS   Against Anzio Beachhead; Many Nazis Captured; Heavy Casualties; Great Hardships Suffered.   Bad Weather

Gothic Line Defenses Are Penetrated   But Germans Put Up Strong Resistance Om Ttalian Front

Allies Want Strong France, Churchill Tells De Gaulle   French Will Participate In Discussion Of Controls For Germany And Will Give Ail Possible Arms; Churchill Sees War's End In Six Months

SEE VICTORIES BY DE GAULLE   Churchill Promises France Greatest Possible Role

COLLETT WINS POINT IN TRIAL   Prosecution Must Quit Mentioning Slaying Details

COLLETT WINS FIRST POINT IK MURDER TRIAL   State Told Not to Mention Slaying During Examination of Jurors

Collett Wins Point in Trial   Court Sustains Objection to Prosecutor’s Questioning of Prospective Jurors.

Marines Gain 3,000 Yards On Peleliu Island   Japanese Report More Air Raids On Manila Bay Area

Strong Points of Japs Are Flanked   Marines Advance 3,000 Yards in Peleliu Battle

Will restore England to a  strong level  Potent economic Britain important

New Jap Assault on indian Base Looming   Foe Continues to Exert _-Pressure on Kohima; . fe Sharp Clashes Near: Imphal:

Japs Press Allies In Kohima Sector Of Eastern India  Menatkatien Reports Fee Bepulsed Seutheasi ef Impkal— Chinese Casture Wakawnae

Second Jap Attempt To Take Kohima Is Now in Making  Foe Continues Fight But Faces Loss As Allies Move In

Japs Massing To Press New  CC OCPE tears  Kohima Drive   Indian “Air Commandos” Spread Deep Behind Enemy, Cut Lines

Japs Mass For Stab AtKohima   ‘May By-Pass Key City In North India If Attack Fails; Fighting Draws Close to Imphal

New Jap Push Due in India  Fresh Attempt to Toke Kohima Looms; Sharp

Japs Continue Pressure Aimed At Kohima Fall   Sharp Patrol  Clashes Reported Near Impha] Base

Japs Drive For Kohima   Second Attempt by Enemy to Take Strong Point Seen

Japs Prepa re For New Second Thrust Kohima   Meanshile. Sharp Patrol Actions Infliet Casualties On Nips Near Torphal

A NEW JAP KOHIMA STAB IS EXPECTED   Enemy Continues Pres. sure on Northeast India Base as Allied Patrols Inflict Casualties Nea Imphal.

ALLIED SUPPLY LINE IN BURMA UNDER SIEGE   Jap Drive Into India Is Unabated As Enemy Gives Up More Than Half of New Britain   IMPHAL HOLDING OUT

Japs Continue Pressing Hari At Kohima Base   Make New. Effort: St Take. Important. Po and May Attempt. By-Pass ‘Town—Indi— Troops Land Bebre  Jan Lines.

JAPS DRIVE ON TOWARD IMPHAL   Enemy Prepares Assault on Kohima to Cut Allied Supply Lines

Thieves Again Active in County   Bradford Filling Stations, Garage Entered

RAPID CONVERSION “OF INDUSTRY SEEN      WPB Chairman Predicts - Great Civilian Pro- © duction Soon

Early Production of Civilian Goods After Nazi Defeat, Without Hamperiny Jap War, Forecast

Civilan Goods Tb Be Abundant “After Navi Fall  Krug Says Civilian and _ War Needs Can Then ~~ Beth Ra Mat

Consumer Goods Output to Peak At ter Hitler Falls   Won't Delay War rr ave Arig

Latest Drive Aimed At Essen; Germans Throw More Tanks   Americans Among Forces That Press Onto Enemy Soil In Smash Southeast Of Nijmegen; Hitler’s Men Continue Bitter Stand Along West Front

Essen, Vital Steel Center Objective Of Invasion Blow   Air Power Aids Move. Relief For Paratroops

British Speed  Relief Forces   Help on Way to Trapped Chutists; ‘Pittsburgh’ of Germany Menaced

RUSSIAN TROOPS ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS; GERMANS GOTHIC LINE IS BROKEN

Christmas His Fright Turned To Joy, After Police Fin-.  ished With Him. _

Seven Japs In Four Minutes   Hellcat Fighters ‘Splash’ All Seven Enemy Planes

Seven Planes Of Japs Downed   Battle Lasted Less Than Four Minutes, But Was Thrilling

Storm Halts Many Plantings; Menaces Fruit Crop, Compels ‘Use of Radio to Guide Trains

Joday's War Commentary         itler has lashed Bulgaria to Pee German bandwagon to make Pere it doesn't fall off again.

French Colonials Take Elba Capital   Crushing Nazi Resistance, End of Struggle For Island Due Today

Nippon Admirals Don’t Relish Test Of Power   No Bold Courage Motivated Japs, Insteac They: Blundered Into Area Dominated By Americans And Scrammed

PILOTLESS PLANE FLIES FIVE HOURS   Causes Grave Concern Through Mid-west States

Flying Fortress Crashes In Minnesota Hours ‘After Crew Abandons Ship

PLANE CRASHES WITHOUT CREW   Ten Fliers Escape From  Fortress Wrecked Near  Isabella, Minn.

Crewless B-17 Imperils Big Midwest Cities  ea: eS  Oe   Plane Flies Alone On 400-mile Route Over South Dakota

SEEKS GREATER WATER SUPPLY FOR MATTOON   Water Board to Ask Engineers to Bid on Survey of Sources

WATER SUPPLY FOR MATTOON   Water Board to Ask Engineers to Bid on Survey of Sources

Der Fuehrer Stocks Up: Hitler Fortifying Berchtesgaden For a Last Stand against Allies

Nazi Robot Planes Are Found To Be Simple Winged Rockets   Projectiles Fired Off Tracks In Pas-De-Calais Area; Compass Keeps Weapon On Rough Course, Disclosed,

Nazi Robots Continue To Hit England   Germans Teil Of Growing Disorder

Robot Planes Are Simple Rocket Wing   Secret Nazi Weapon Disclosed to Be Highly Inaccurate

Flyi ing Bombs Poundial oland  By Dav, . l Nig      Mystery Weapon Revealed As Death-Dealing Overgrown Rocket

Nazi Robot ‘Planes Hit ‘Britain Agair   Winged Bombs Keep Coming as Allies Seek Defense

NEW ROBOT BLOWS DEALT ENGLAND   PILOTLESS PLANE DISCLOSED TO BE A ROCKET EQUIPPED WITH WINGS.

Nazi Robot Planes Are Overgrown July 4th Skyrockets, Very Inaccurate

Nazis Mystery Robot Planes Merely ‘Fourth of July Rockets   With No Radio Control, Missiles Become Chiefly Weapon for Attacking Civilians  at ola ©. a gee «aetsee? 6 oe Oe or oe em Pa pen age ra or eR nn ans

British Take Measures  To Counter Robot Plane Shifts Ack-Ack Defenses to Battle

Politics   Warren GOP Keynoter; Aussies Want General To Clarify His Stand

Rep. Martin Indicated To Repeat As Permanent Chairman Of Convention.

Americans Smash Across Historic Battlefield to Attack Two Barriers   Three of France's Cities Are Ripe for Early Liberation: General Montgomery Tells  Troops Victory Will Be Definite and Decisive

WFA ASKS THAT FUNDS BE MADE AVAILABLE TO PRO. TECT FARMERS’ PRICE LEVELS

Reds Widen Front In Karelian Isthmus   FINNS MAY BE DEFEATED + IN MONTH, LONDONERS SAY

Red Mobile Units Move Deeper Inte Karelian Isthmus   Raivola Falls in 40 Minutes; Surrendering Finns Appear Dazed by Offensive Rush Reserves to Isthmus

Russian Forces In North Drive » Toward Viipuri   Push Beyond Raivola In Offensive Against Finns On Karelian Isthmus.

Reds Smashing Toward Viipuri In Finnish Push   London Quarters Say Nation May Be Out  Of War By End Of ThLic Adantkh

Russians Press Drive on Finns   Steady Advance Into Karelian Isthmus Is Aided by Terrific Artillery Fire— Red Troops Push Beyond Raivola, 36 Miles From Viipuri.   PRISONERS CLAIMED

SOVIETS MOVE DEEPER INTO GERMAN FRONT   Finland May Be Out Of War This Month

Russians Cuf Info Finland   Make Rapid Advance On Karelian Isthmus Beyond Raivola

DEEP INTO FINLAND   Moscow Reports Red Army Troops Exploiting Break  ru Lines

Red Mobile Units Move Deeper Into Karelian Isthmus   Russian Army, Backed by Terrific Gun Fire, Drives  Toward Viipuri.   Many Finns, Dazed by Offense, Surrender

Red Army Presses Drives to Deliver  Finns Death Blow   Surrenering Finns  Appear Dazed by Rapid Advance

Dazed By Red Advance   - Finns Fail To Apply  - Torch to Cities in Face of Rapid Russian - Drive; Near Viipuri

Finns Offer Opposition To Red Drive   Russians Continue Gains on Karelin Isthmus

Finns Unable To Halt Red Power Drive   Soviet Forces Push Deeper into Karelian Isthmus; Offensive Bazes Enemy Troops

Raivola Falls; Reds Increase Action On. Litss   Finns Hurry Reserves  To Karelian Isthmus; Rains May Delay Drive

RUSSIANS SURGE AHEAD IN DRIVE AGAINST FINNS   London Believes Country May Be Knocked Out of War by Month’s End

FINNS DAZED BY RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE   Red Mobile Units Move Deeper Into Karelian Isthmus

REDS HOPE TO CRUSH FINNS IN THE NORTH   New Offensive Would Break-Through Aimed a! Knocking Finns Out of War

Russians Drive into Finland   NEW SUCCESSES REPORT. LD AS REDS MOVE FORWARD

RUSSIAN FORCES  NEAR VIIPURI ON  KARELIAN FRONT ADVANCE DEEPER INTO  ISTHMUS WITH AID OF HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE

Reds Advancs in Drive On Finland   Reach Points Beyond Raivola, 36 Miles  From Viipuri

RUSSIANS TURK GUNS ON FINNS   Sehind Heavy Barrage Reds Advance Within. 36 Miles of Viipuri.

Soviets lake Raivolain 40 Minutes   Push Rapidly Into Karelian Isthmus Backed by Terrific Gon Fire: Finns Appear Daze

  Superfortress Pilots Encounter New Fighters at Tokyo   Slick Twin-Engined Japanese Planes Rise To Meet Raiders; Yanks Say Nips Show Little Zest for Close Action

LOMBARDI NEW REHABILITATION AIDE AT PLANT      Michael Lombardi Named By Vice President Connors To Aid Veterans

2200 U. S. Planes Stage Record Attack on Nazi Plants, Lose 47 Craft   Three Columns Advance Against Axis Forces Defending Rome; More Towns Captured; Russian Front Remains Calm

Nazi ‘Phantom Patro? Dog Irks Yanks  Fritz Proves Hard Enemy to Down

Yanks Rate Wily Nazi Dog S Scout As Enemy's Most Intelligent Agent

NAZIS INCREASE ~ ROBOT BOMBING   Heaviest 24-Hour Assault ‘Reportedly in England

ARGENTINE: PLAN FOR MEETING ve! BE REIEGTED.   Proposal Cells for . Ministers to Discuss Case Avainst Argentina

Argentine Plea Received Coldly   Proposed Meeting Due For Rejection

ARGENTINA CASE PARLEY SPURNED   Attitude Of Mexican Government Is Big Factor

ARGENTINE. PLAN FOR MEETING MAY BE REJECTED. —   Proposal Czlls for Ministers to Discuss Case Against Argentina

PREDICT NO ACTION WELL BE TAKEN ON PROPOSAL TO DISCUSS “FASCIST”’  COUNTRY

Navy Boys Will Have To Stay In Until Japan Is Defeated, Says Forrestal

Navy fo Expand Until Japs Go ‘Down in Defeat   No Demobilization To Take Place When Germany Is Defeated, Forrestal Announces

U.S. Navy Will Continue To Expand   Cannot Demobilize Until Japan Is Defeated

4 Factors Will Determine Which* Men Will Be Sent Home When War In Europe Ends; Bulk Will Go To Pacific.

Navy To Continue Expansion Plans   Authorized Strength Goal, Says Forrestal

Limited Release Of Troops From Service Studied   Demobilization After Germany's Defeat Being Planned   No Demobilization For Men In Navy

Dems To Pick FDR July 19th   Convention Date Announced; Selection Of Running Mate Biggest Problem.

Nazis Admit Allied Gains In Normandy      Claim Heavy Casualties On New Reserves  Of Allies

Lava Flowing  From Vesuvius   Ancient Volcano at Naples Erupts Violently

REDS EXPECT THEIR FOE T0 ACCEPT SOOK   United Kingdom’s Agreement on Soviet Armistice Offer in Line With Russo-British Ban on Separate Peace. .

Britain Backs Red Demands   Agrees to Peace Terms Submitted to Finland; Reds Say Delay Means Harsher Terms

Porter Named To FCC Post   President Picks Publicist: *Sennte Confirms Ryrnes

Byrnes Gets: Tributes in U.S. Senate   Appointaent Approved Unanimously; Former Colleagues Voice   Appraciation

Approve Byrnes For Wartime Job   Former Senator To Continue In Post As “Assistant President’’.

Senate Okehs Byrnes for  WMR Director   Hines Receives Job As Veterans’ Retraining Officer

Neely Asks Head’ Dismissal, Says It's Not Personal   Students Petition Board Of Governors _To Reject Request

Big. Turnout Of Students Broken Up   Governor in Talk To Board Demands Better Institution

Soviet Paper Assails Pope’ §  Peace Moves  Challenges.   Challenges “Sinister Shadow”  Of Vatican

Mikolajezyk to Negotiate With Soviet-Sponsored Committee of National Liberation

Polish Heads In Moscow For Parley   Report Tito Leaves for Russia to Take Part in Meet

Premier Joins In Parley Of Polish Group   Expect Issue Settled Soon

Pole Premier Arrives I: Moscow; FDR Asks Strength For Nation   Apparently Improved Harmony, Pressure For .Exile-Government Make Early Settlement Of Issues Between Factions Appear Likely

Moscow Poles, _Envoy-In-Exile_ To Hold Parley   Expecting Polish Question To Be Settled Before Charchill Quits Russia

Premier Of Poland In Moscow For Showdown   Troublesome Question Expected To Be Settled White Churchill And Stalin Confer

RATIONLESS SHOES ON WAY IN JULY   National ‘Odd Lot’ Sale To Benefit Men, Women

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Seven Armies Pound Line, Losses High. On Both Sides   Estimated Germans Are Being Eliminated At Rate of 9.000  A Day in Great Battle

YANKS SMASH _ ACROSS SAAR IN FRESH THRUST   Allies Eliminating 9000 Germans Daily; Casualties Of U. S. Units Also Heavy

ALLIES HAVE 2 ARMIES ON GERMAN SOIL   YANKS HOLD SOLID 10-MILE FRONT INSIDE REICH

) ALLIED ARMIES FIGHT IN GERMANY   2 Others Hammer at Reich’s Rhine River Boundary   HEAVY FIGHTING COSTLY   Nazis Say Part of Saarlautern Occupied by Allies, Part by Germans

Seven Allied Armies Boost Nazi Casualties to 9000 Daily; Patton’s Wide Front Gains 3 Miles

Claim 9,000 Germans are daily victims Battle pitch slows  wrhactann natrancsh

Allies Eliminate 9,000 Nazis Daily   First Army Seized Four Towns West Of 95th Division In Newest Penetration Of Siegfried Line; Allies Take 3,000 Prisoners Each Day

Five U. S. Armies Now Fighting on German __. Soil  ADVANCES SCORED. BY THE 7TH ARMY  Heavy Losses Suffered by  Both Sides on the  Fronts

FIVE ARMIES IN ACTION INSIDE REICH BORDERS   Two Other Allied Forces Are Hammering At Rhine  River Boundary   THIRD-ARMY MAKES NEW SAAB CROSSING

Second Wedge ls Pushed Into Siegfried Line   Patton’s Forces Push to Within Six Miles of Saarbrucken; First Army Repels Tank-Led Counterattacks   Re ALISTIN REALMFAR

Patton Makes Gains Up to Three Miles—Heavy Fighting Proves Contiy to Both Sides. ‘4   ENEMY LOSSES PUT: :       First Army Slashes Ws Into Village of Bei stein—Beats Off T Counter-Attacks. ©

Japanese Cruiser Sunk by British   Royal Navy Units Now in Pacific

HOPE ABANDONED FOR 66 ENTOMBED MINERS   Contact Fails as New Shafts Are Sunk

NONE LOST ON RAID IN FRANCE   No Fighter Opposition Met On Trip Of About 400 Miles  NEW RAID STARTED

ALL PLANES: RETURN FROM TWO ATTACKS   Liberators Without Escort All Return; New Assault Is On

Flying Forts Hit Targets In North Franee   British Mosquitos Attack Undisclosed Installations In West Germany.   ITWG BOMBERS LOST

Forts Attack Calais Area   Two Big Bombers Lost; No Opposition From Enemy Aircraft

Fortresses Attack In Northern France   Although No Opposition Is Encountered, Two Bombers Are Lost From Small Formation —Mosquites Hit Western Germany.

Nazi Targets In France Hit   No Enemy Planes Encountered But Two Forts Are Lost

NORTH FRANCE HAMMERED BY U.S. BOMBERS   British Raid Western Reict In Follow-Up To Blows By Fliers On Sunday

FLYING FORTS HIT TARGETS IN NORTH FRANCE    Encounter No Opposition from Enemy Aircraft, but Two Bombers Reported Lost   RAID CALAIS AREA   Liberators in Sunday Raid Without Fighier Escort and All Return: Safely

Two Bombers Lost in Raid Today   Small Formation Is Successful in Assault on France

NAZIS GFFER NO OPPOSITION TO U.S, RAIDS  Night And Day  Bombings Are ' «= Ree = Far

Yankees Shift ‘Air Blitz to Tnvasion Coast      Germans Refuse To Risk Combat In Newest Raids

All British Planes Return From Raid On Western Reich   Germans Refuse To Attempt To Defend Targets Against American Attack Qn France Sunday

FORTS ATTACK NORTH FRANCE WITHOUT LOSS   Pas-De-Calais Area Battered Yesterday

R. A. F. PLANES AGAIN POUND GERMANY   No Escort For Americans On Sunday Attack   Changed In Favor Of AllOut Drive To Wreck Nazi Air Force

FORTRESSES PAY VISIT 10 NORTHFRANCE   Although No Opposition From Enemy is Encountered, Two Bombers Fail to Return   BRITISH OVER GERMANY

Flying Forts Tn Assault On French Coast   Two Lost Though Nazis Send No Fighters Into Air; Liberators Get Back Without Loss

Allies Reach Western Edge Cologne Plain   7th Army Pushes Near Roer River, Last Natural Barier

U.S, DOUGHBOYS 10 MILES FROM RHINE CROSSINE   Armored Units Drive South To Join Forces Moving From Colmar

Smashing Attack Made On Rabaul By U.S. Bombers   Eight Jap Merchantmen Are Sunk Or Damaged In Latest Reid   HEAVY AERIAL DUEL DEVELOPS

WARSHIPS OFF WEST WALL   To Sear and Blast German Defenses Swarms of Landing Craft Could Close in for Assault.   Airforce Missing   Run Throuch Gaps

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4,000 SHIPS JOIN —INNAZI ASSAULTS   ‘Powerful Armada Partici pates in the In yasion

1,000 Vessels In Invasion Armada   -Pour 2, 000° Tons Of Shells Into Coast ‘Every 10 Minutes 

Allies Cover 100 Mites Of Coast; 4,000 Naval Vessels Bombard Shore

2 UL. 8. WARSHIPS ~ LOST-OFF FRANCE   COAST DRENCHED. WITH FIRE AS ALLIED TROOPS STORMED ASHORE.  4

4,000 Ships Blast Nazis  Before Men Hit Beaches   U.S. Battleship Nevada 2 Cruisers Take Part, Allied Naval Losses Called ‘Very Light’  U..S. LOSES ONE LST © AND 2 DESTROYERS  Blasis Tear Big Gaps In Nazis’? West Wall For Assaulting Troops

Duane Dewel to’Run for. State Senate   Algona publisher is district candidate on Republican ticket.

Legislature To Meet Aud Amend Election  Laws   Session Expected To Last Only Jan 26-27

Administration Loses Fight on Job Payments  States’ Rights   States’ Rights Proposal Gaining Support in House

DEMOS PONDER REVIVED DOLE   Murray-Kilgore Bill Supporters Stunned by Defeat

States’ Rights Bill Appears House Favored   Measure Passed By Senate To Give Aid To War Workers

DEMOCRATS ARE HANDED BEATING   Sustain Crushing Reverse In Murray-Kilgore Postwar Plan

OUTLOOK DARK FOR ‘NEW DEAL DEMOS’ BENEFIT PAY PLAN   Chances Slim cf Reviving Bill In House as Sates’ Rights and Southern Democrats Favor Gecsrge Bill Which Was Paased hy Senate

Democrats Try to.Save Jobless Bill   Senate Defeats $35 Weekly Dole 55 to 19; House Fizht Seen

Kilgore Bill Down To Defeat   Senate Turns Down  Measure Giving High Unemployment Doles During Reconversion

WORKERS END STRIKE AT 4 WRIGHT PLANTS   More Than 55,000 Remain Idle In Other Walkouts

58,000 Now Idle In Strike Wave   Government May Intervene in Major Plants; In Eight States.

Wright Strike Brought To End   Government May Crack Down On Midwest Truck Drivers Strike.

END STRIKE AT PATERSON FIRM   Over 55,000 Remain Idle in U. S. Walkouts

STAIKE TOLL 18 CUT: 55.000 OUT   Employes of Four New Jer— sey Wright Plants Vote to  Return to Work

Labor Strikes Dwindle Away   Truck Drivers in 12  Midwestern States To Vote on Strikes

WALKOUT IDLE LIST DWINDLES   Central ‘States Truck Drivers To Vote On Protest Strike

Major Labor Disputes Fade   Only 10,000 on Strike As Week Closes

BLAST-FIRE PHOTOS STUDIED FOR CAUSE      Cleveland Disaster Toll Is 121 Known Dead

Russians Launch   Far-North Drive   Besieged Leningrad Army Bursts Forth With Tremendous Attack on Nazis

Nazis Beaten Back In Desperate Fight   Attacks In White Russia Move Red Army Tc New Positions To West Of Prinet Marshes

'Wee Mother Bears Quads In 2 Minutes   FIRST CAESARIAN OPERATION QUADRUPLE DELIVERY IN MEDICAL HISTORY; EVEN FATHER’S IN GOOD SHAPE,   Mother Will Name Them

4 BABIES BORN TO MOTHER, 30   QUADS ARRIVE BY CAESAR_ EAN OPERATION--HOSPITAL SAYS THEY WILL LIVE.

QUADS ARE BORN TO PHILADELPHIA WIFE   Former Government Girl Is Moth er Of Three Girls And Boy In Caesarian Operation

QUADS BORN IN PHIL ADELPHIA   Mother, Three Girls, Boy Doing Well After Caes arean Operation

QUADRUPLETS BORN TO PENNSY COUPLE   Babies Are Doing Well After Caeserean Operation

May Run Into Thousands As  - Yankees Gain  t More Nip Warplane:s Destroyed; Marshalls

JAP LOSSES RUN INTO THOUSANDS ON NEW BRITAIA   American Marines Count Enemy Dead at Cape Gloucester—Enlarge Hold on Invaded Area.   NIPS ARE HIT HARD  JIN AIR ENGAGEMENTS   Ewenty-four Planes Downed at Rabaul and Arawe— Aussies Score Advance on Huon Peninsula,

THEIR HOLD ON JAPANESE BASE   Thousands “Of Enemy Slain. ape- Gloucester, "As Rabaul Is Battered By US. Ajemen

Allies Capture Vital Highway Towns in Italy  German Delaying Actions Become Weaker

Valmontene, Ferentino and Vercli Also Fall to Onrushing Yanks and British.     ALLIED AIRPOWER  MATIT’S NAZI POSTS

Scores of Italian Towns Captured   Two Vital Junctions Fall in Allied Sweep

Big Industrial City Already Is Under Fire   Fertile Palantinate Is Directly in Front of Americans   The War in Europe

YANK ARMIES RIVER HOLDS   Allies Forge Ahead As New Threat Develons

Americans Enter Western Suburbs Of Battered Duren  Germans Apparently Will Defe ad Somayeet TT.  act Roam Bad

Taft Would Clear ~The Draft Muddle  Ohioan Proposes Definite rogram :

New Draft Plan Asked: Sen. Taft Offers Proposal To End "Muddled and Confused Situation’

Taft Criticizes  Draft Muddle   Urges Definite, Permanent Policy

Senator Taft Proposes Long Range Draft Program Which Will ‘Put an End to Present Confusion

[Senator Taft proposes clear-cut ‘long range permanent draft plan

TAFT SAYS DRAFT BADLY CONFUSED   Suggests Long-Range Basis as Means For Clear, Permanent Classification.

Near Riot Develops Among Holiday Travelers In Chicago Rail Station

NEAR RIOT IN RUSH TO TRAIN   30 Policemen Sent to Chicago R. R. Station

Armored Battle Raging on Open Plain Near City  30,000 to 40,000 Nazi Prisoners in Cherbourg Area

GREAT BATTLE UNDERWAY IN CAEN SECTOR   Germans Unable To Halt Drive  To Take City

FATE OF GERMAN 15TH AND 17TH : ARMIES MAY BE DECIDED IN GREAT BATTLE NOW RAGING IN NORMANDY           Germans Have Four Armored Divisions Grougeg About Caen in Open Country. Allied Casunltigl In First Two Weeks of Invasion Totalled 40,548 Of Which 24,162 Were Americans ‘

Attackers Win Open Terrain   Allied Tanks Batter Way To Open Country, Smash Backdoor to Ceen  YANKS MOPPING UP  Greatest Armored Battle Of Invasion Mey Decide  ye «  i-— _ >

‘Montgomery’s British Veter- ans Smash German Lines   Only 120 Miles from   Paris.   CHERBOURG PRISONER BAG ALMOST 40,000

British Units Crack Nazi  Defense Line   Outflanking § Maneuver Cuts Road; Threatens Last Lines

BIG BATTLE OF ARMOR WAGED IN CAEN SECTOR   “Estimated 30,000 Prisoners Taken on Cherbourg Peninsula

Hole Six Miles ) Wide Ripped in ‘Nazis Defenses  By Montgomery   Clash May Decide Fate of German 15th, 17th Armies

GREAT TANK FIGHT RAGES NEAR CAEN   British Are Smashing Open Backdoor to Normandy Stronghold.   Americans Mop Up Nazis in Cherbourg

BRITISH MAKE BREAK THROUGH GERMAN LINES   Fate of Large Portion of Two Nazi Armies May be Decided In Mechanical Monster Battle.

British Crack  Rommel’s Line   Kx KK AAF Gives — Fritz The Works      In 2 Weeke In France

British Score Break-Through In Caen Area   Two German Armies In Jeopardy As Oden River Line Crumbles, Ate Stunnnrt Effanticcn

Attackers Win Open Terrain   Allied Tanks Batter Way To Open Country, Smash Backdoor to Caen

Greatest Armored Fight During Invasion   British Break Caen River Line and Plunge Two Miles Beyond; 30,000 to 40, 000  Prisoners Taken on Peninsula.

Armored Battle At Caen   British Tank Columns Burst Through Germans’ Odon River Line

Greatest Armored Battle Of Invasion-On:Near Caen As Brit Tanks: Push Ahead

STAGE BREAK THROUGH NAZI RIVER LINE   Crashing Out Into Open ” Terrain Near Caen, Tommies * Locked. in ‘the Greatest Armored Struggle of Campaign.

Industrial Targets Blasted By B-29’s Operating From Bases In Mariana Island Group   GREATEST FORCES TO ~RAID JAP HOMELAND

TOKIO TARGET 32 JF ATTACK OF JA YANK B - 29’S A)      Probably Largest Air Fleet Yet To Bomb Japan Conveys§ Thanks. giving Message.   Yokohama, Kobe Blasted

Sizeable Task Force De« livers New Blow  DAYLIGHT MISSION MADE BY _BY BOMBERS  Planes Are Launched  From Mariana  Islands

Big B-29 Task Force Attacks Nippon Capital   American Planes Fly from Saipan te Blast Jap Industrial Targets; Raid is Made in Daytime

Super-Forts Bomb Tokyo In Daylight   Probably Biggest Force Ever -To Attack Japan; Industries Are Target  DETAILS: WITHHELD

20,000 Workers Are Still Idle    Seven Chrysler Plants In Detroit Closed

Red Planes Raid Convoy   Claim Three Transports Sunk Off Norwegian Port of Kirkenes

Russians Sink German Ships  Three Transports Sent to Bottom in Hoarhor in Norway

RUSSIAN AIR BLOWS DAMAGE GERMAN FLEET   Forty-One Nazi Ships Caught In Bombing

SOVIETS BOMB GERMAN SHIPS   Convoy of 41 Vessels in Norwegian Port Blasted By Red Airmen

MES’ UN-AMERICAN   Hnouncement of Retirement i Taken to Mean Committec  Will Fold Up

Committee Has Fuurnished Many Sensational Headlines in Recent Years.   CHAIRMAN’S HEALTH BAD

Dies Committee May Terminate  ‘As He Retires   Investigations Of Un-Americans

DIES RETIREMENT PROBABLY MEANS COMMITTEE END   Robust Texan Has Headed Committee on UnAmerican Activities for G6 VYeare

FIVE BELIEVED DEAD   Million. Dollars Estimated Loss From Winfield Flood

Winfield Emerging From Worst Flood   Five Persons Dead, Million Dollars Damage

Dulles-Hull Meeting May . End Bickering   Dewey Representative Ha: Talks With Senators Before Session At State Dept.

Ground Troops Get More Men   GEN. BEN’ LEAR TELLS OF CHANGES IN POLICY

Shift Men to  Ground Forces   Radical Change in Mission of AGF Respon:  sible. Gen. Lear Exninine

GROUND GROUND FORCES RCES RECEIVING SURPLUS TROOPS FROM VARIOUS ARMY BRANCHES

Ground Forces Get Men From Other Branches  65,000 Shifted TT. Bak Meade

GROUND FORCES IN MAIN ROLE, LEAR REPORTS   General Stresses Importance Of Infantry — 65,000 Airmen Shifted

Allied Bombers Continue Drive Against Truk   Admiral Announces Attacks Part of Plan To ‘Soften’ Jap Base

MONASTARY 9 SMOKIN RUI   Ancient Abbey Of St. Benedict Target For Guns Of Fifth Army After Nazis Had Made It A Fortress.   Damage Positions

Ancient Abbey Barring Road to Rome in Ruins After Fortresses Leave

TANK-PACED COLUMNS   Inflict Heavy Casualties on Enemy; Allied Lines Intact

RINES AT ANZIOINTACT DESPITE *NAZI ASSAULTS   Allies Inflict Heavy Losses @ on Foes’ Massed Tanks and Troops

Enemy Sulfers Heavy Casualties  South Of Rome   Three Days Of Violent Nazi Attacks Fail To Break f Allied Line   COUNTER-ATTACKS BY FIFTH ARMY BEGUN

ALLIED FORCE ON BEACHHEAD REPELS NAZIS   Germans Continue Vicious Assaults   CASSINO WEAKER   Americans In Small Advances

Allies Launch Terrific Drive Toward Interior  After Cherbourg Falls   Caen-Avranches Trunk Road Cut, Severing Base Of Normandy Peninsula; Germans Lose 70,000 Men Since D-Day, Including 32,000 Taken as Prisoners

Byrd Group Plans Third Party Slate   Leader Predicts ‘Real  Democratic Ticket’

ROBOMBS USING LONG GLIDES   New Strategy Makes Them Hard to Escape

Silent Robot Newest Peri  Projectiles ‘Drop Like Feother’ After Lona.

BUZZ IS DISCARDED ~ FORFLYING BOMBS      Silent Missiles Harder Tc : Escape in England

England Gets  Respite From  Flying Bombs Only Scattering Reported Today

Decisive Naval Battle May Now Be In Progress   Powerful Battleship And Destroyer Force Spotted Venturing Toward American Invasion Coast  In Mid-Philippines; No Details Of Action.

Decisive Battle Of Pacific War Believed Raging   Powerful Enemy Forces Steam Out For Showdown in Philippines; U. S. Planes Strike Swift Blows

Sea Battle May Be Raging Near Leyte   Swarms of Carrier Planes Attacking Jap Fleet Steaming Toward The Philippines

Russian Asp Sonashes.12 Mites: Ahead  <d brough City's Outshi.s. Seizing by Storii Two Key For (ress Towns and Blasting Through Maze of Steel and   Conerete Fortifications. .

Reds Pierce  Powertul  \Nazi Defenses   But Run Up Against Strong Second Line; Two Towns Captured  THREE RAILWAYS CU"

AIM TO CLEAR GERMANS FROM NORTH HOLDS   Soviets Take 2 Towns in-t2 Mile Advance Despite Opposition   NAZI DEFENSES OF STEEL FAIL TO STOP RED ARMY

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KEY FORTRES TOWNS FALL TO SOVIET FORCES   Moscow Report Says 20,000 Germans Killed In Five Days’ Fighting   NOVGOROD GARRISON IN SERIOUS PLIGHT

Cut powerful nazi defense  at Leningrad   20,000 Germans killed in 5 days

Reds Free Big Northern City, Gain in South   Permanent German Defenses Smashed

DEFENSES ARE BROKEN DURING O-DAY BATTLE   Germans Lose 20,000 In Furious Battle; New Fortifications Encountered

ADVANCE 12 MILES, CAPTURE: TWO KEY FORTRESS TOWNS   Gains Made Over Front 25 Miles Wide Through Strong Fortifications of Conerete and Steel   2ND DRIVE OUTFLANKS CITY OF NOVGOROD   Seven Nazi Divisions Reported Smashed and Many of Big Guns Used in Shelling City Taken,

Russians Seize Two Forts on Leningrad Front   Terrific Twin Thrusts to Free City Carry Reds Through Outskirts, Against Strong Permanent Defenses

Co-Ordinated Drive Made South of City   Russians Encounter Second Series of Defenses, However

‘Soviet Offensive To Free ‘Leningrad Cosis Germans 20,005 Dead In Five Days

Two Fortress ‘Towns Seized In Great Drive   20,000 Nazis Killed In Five Days: Second Drive Rips 19 Miles Across Three Railway:

Reds Lash Forwarc In Leningrad Area   ‘Troops Storm Through: Intricate Maze ~ Of Nazi Fortifications. Take K4y. Tawne

Soviets Seize Key Fortress Towns In New All-Out Offensive to Break German Semi-Circle at Leningrad   20,000 Enemy Killed in 5 Days; Troops Now Face Second Strong Fortification Line; Novgorod Left Isolated by Metetskov’s Forces

Soviets Push Ahead to Capture Two  Key Fortress Towns; Also Smash ' Forward in Volkhoy Region

Soviets Seize Two Key Fortress Areas   Smash 12 Miles Ahead in Leningrad Sector

Two Key Fortress Towns Captured by  Storm  ADVANCES SCORED  IN UKRAINE AREA  German Counter- attacks in the Section Renulsed

TWIN THRUSTS TO FREE CITY FROM TWO AND HALE YEARS SEIGE PUTS RED ARMY 12 MILES AHEAD. 

BRIT. GAIN ALONG FAMED APPIA NWAY   Nazi Prepare for General Retreat In Western Italy

NAZIS PREPARING WITHDRAWAL 10 NEW HITLER LINE   British Advancing Northward on Appian Way from Caotured Minturno.

NAZIS SET UP NEW DEFENSE LINE TO REAR   General Withdrawal on 5th Army Front to “Adolf Hitler” Fortifications.

oth Army in Steady Gain In Italy   Germans Prepare For General Retreat As British Forces Drive Hard

GERMANS MAY QUIT CASINO REPORTS STATE   Britishers Lunge Along Appian Way mn 10 Mile Front

wav jStrve SF ve witty Wed” A awww.  FINNISH FIRMS ON ‘BLACKLIST

Clare Luce Wins, Gloats Over PAC   Just Squeezes In By Margin of Ahont LOOO

LUCE WINS IN CONNECTICUT   ‘Stil! Political Glamo1 Girl for C.0.P.

‘CORN FOR WAR’ SHOW PROVES GREAT INTEREST   Members Of Armed Forces Tell Of Use Of Corn In War Materials.

Free Movies at Meeting Friday Night   War films to be shown at high school, veteran of African campaign is the speaker: all welcome.

Army Speaker Tc Talk To Farmers Friday Evening  Important Meeting At Emmetsburg

ARMY MAN TO URGE FARMERS TO SELL CORN ©   County Mass Meeting At Hubbard Gymnasium Friday Evening, May 12

CROWN PRINCE SUCCESSOR 10 ITALIAN KING   Effective When Allies Enter Rome   DECISION FINAL   Should Further National Unity

KING'S FADE-OUT UNITES ITALIANS   Son ‘Lieutenant General’ When Allies Enter Rome

Japanese Cut Off Loyang   City and Defenders Completely Surrounded ; Determined to Fight

DECLARE CHINESE FORCES IN LOYANG ARE SURROUNDED   ‘Defenders Hold 80 to 90, Per   Cent of City Despite Being Cut Off—Japs Make Gains ‘At Other Paints

DEFENDERS OF LOYANG ARE SURROUNDED   Chinese Army Spokesman Concedes Ancient City Is Completely Cut Off But Fight Continues   LUNGHAI RAIL SEVERED

Chinese Concede Loyang Encircled, Defenders Cut Off  Chinese, Holding 80 PC of City ‘Delermined to Hold Oui'—Ja; Forces Unite

DEFENDERS OF LOYANG CUT OFF      Chinese Declared Determined To Hold To City

Chinese Are Surrounded   Ancient City of Loyang Still Held—Forces In South Doing Better

‘ Japs Close Ring About Defenders; Chinese Advance West of Salween

5th Army Battles To Within 14 Miles of Leghorn   Nazi Reinforcements Rushed Up in Effort To Block U. S. Advance

Americans Smash Ahead in Italy  Minefields, Artillery Fail to Halt Troops

CIVILIANS — EVACUATING FRENCH PORT   Expected To Fall Shortly Following Cessation Of Truce

48-HOUR TRUCE AT DUNKERQUE   Delay Battle to Evacuate Civilians From Port

TRUCE CALLED ATDUNKERQUE   20,000 Civilians Leaving Channel Port: Hostilities to Resume

Truce Stops  Fighting at  Dunkerque 20.000 Civilians   20.000 Civilians Allowed To Leave Refare Ascantt

THE EVACUATION OF DUNKERQUE CIVILIANS BEGUN   20,000. Haggard Residents _» Left.in the Cold, Gray i” Dawn Today.   “TRUCE: UNTIL FRIDAY   The Canadians and British Will Then: Resume ‘Their © Attacks.

Truce Is Declared At Dunker que   Armistice Signed To Permit Civilian Evacuation

Dunkerque Is Silent Today   Battle Noise Stilled While 20,000 Civilians Move Out; Will Resume Friday

20,000 CIVILIANS QUIT DUNKERQUE   Truce Allows Evacuation Of Port’s Weary Residents

USE OF FORGE NOT BARREDIN FIEHT ON SPIES   State Department Makes It Clear Message of '42 Not Holdina Now.

Dublin Bluntly Informed U.S. Under No Obligation Not to Oust Axis by Force

Eire Facing Armed Proc For Rebuff   U. S. Ready te Take Strong Measur: és To End Axis

‘America Is Not Committed To Abstain From Force Use   ' Text Of Roosevelt Message Published: Eire Leader Refuses Request To Oust Axis Agents

FDR MESSAGE IN 1942 IS RE- PRINTED   De Valera Misquoted U.S. in Answering QOuster Demand

US. Clears Record for Eire Action   State Department Hints That Strong Measures Impend

U.S. Cancels  Security  Vow to Irish Drops Committal To Abstain From Arms Use

Attorney Quits Joan Berry Case   Chaplin to Face Court on Monday

Engel Accuses FDR Withholdin: Vital War Facts   Asserts Detailed Reports On Germany Kept From Congress.

FDR Deliberately Withheld Vital Information From Congress, Rep. Engle

Roosevelt Charged with Suppressing Report. on Growing Nazi Air Power

Engel Bares Suppressed! 1937 Report   Blame for Nation’s War Unpreparedness Taidin President _

Says FD Withheld Information and ‘Deprived Armed F orces of Equipment

Rep. Engel Charges FDR Withheld War Information  Reports on German Air Power Were Kept Secret, Said

MASS ACCUSES ROOSEVELT. . OF FAILING T0 COMMUNICATE WARNING TO PEARL HARBOR

Vital Information Withheld by FDR, Rep. Engel Asserts   President Received Detailed Report in 1937 Of Expanding German Air Power {%s Charse

FDR Accused of Suppressing Repor' On Nazi Airpower   Stimson Given Army Board Data of Pearl Harbor Attack by Japs

Roosevelt Accused Of Witholding Vital Information Before ‘The War

WAR FACTS ‘HID’ 6.0, P. DECLARES   Roosevelt Claimed To Have Concealed Nazi Power

The War Today  Believe Anzio Drive Launched With 3 Objectives In View.

POLIGE TRACE SLAIN WOMAN THRU PICTURI   Cab Driver and Handyman at Hotel Provide Clues to Identity.

Russian Tank Columns Sweep All Ahead of Them in Drive; 6,000 Germans Killed

Russian tank unitsreported  in old Poland   Biggest debacle since Stalinsrad

RUSSIANS ON POLISH -LINE; NAZI DEBACLE   Reds Capture Novograd-Volynski In Widening Offensive; Report 6,000 Germans  - Killed.   Total Blackout

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM 170 TOWNS; MANY SURRENDER   ‘Stronghold of Novograd-Vo+  lynski and Pre-War Cus  toms Station of Olevsk   Fre to Soviets.   ‘REDS ADVANCING ON 60-MILE FRONT   Farther South, Other Muscovite Units Moving Toward Rumania Cut Railways  oarvineg Fname,

Germans Surrender In Large Numbers   Soviet Communique Describes German Defeat Ac Warct Debacle Since Stalinarad Rattle

SOVIET TANKS CARRY FIGHTS OVER BORDER   Russians Slay 6000 Germans Cross Polish Border, Take Many Towns   VICTORIOUS COMMANDER WINS MUCH WAR BOOT)

HEAVY BOMBERS RAKE FRENCH INVASION GOAS)   More Than 13,000 Tons of Explosives Rained Down in * Four Davs

BOMBERS BLAST COAST FORTS AND RADAR STATIONS   Non-Stop Assault Thunders In Wake Of Wide Nicht Raid

1250 U. S. Heavies Hit  West Wall   Flying Fortresses Make Third Raid On Pas de Calais  Area, Bomb Paris

13,000 T. Of Explosives Rake Axis West Wall: Yanks Hit Coast Today   Aerial Barrage Nears Crescendo Required By Eisenhower To Land On Continent

Allied Planes  Blast German Radar Points   Other Great Fleets Pour Bombs Upon Coast Defenses

Non-Stop Raids Pass 100th Hour   13,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Nazi Defenses

Radar Stations In Europe Giver Hard Pounding   Atlantic Wall Again Shellacked By Allied Bombs

COAST AREA GIVEN HEAVY RAID TODAY   Typhoons Seek Radar Stations in Northern France

British General Reports Further Progress After Smashing Through Ger a nn: jo

Major Break-through Scored by British Who Race Towards Paris And Heart of France

British Premier  Agrees With Hull   Claims Topic Should  Be Well-Considered —

CHURCHILL GIVES APPROVAL 10 PARI - OF HULL'S POLICY   Prime Minister Refuses, However, to Speculate on Postwar Peace League.

Censors Jamming  El Paso Bridge   New Ruling Causing Traffic Snarl

YUGOSLAV GUERRILLA  LEADER ANNOUNCES  BRITISH RECRUITS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,  HOWEVER, SILENT ON AN} SUCH LANDINGS

British Units Join Yugoslavs   Partisans Now Hold Strategic Island, Bridgehead To Balkans.

MARSHAL TITO'S FORGES JOINED BY BRITISH UNITS   United on Hvar, Strategic Island Which Forms Bridgehead Into Balkans.   NO OFFICIAL REPORT   Naval and Military Quarters. in London Has No Word of Landing Operation.

‘Report British Units Have _ Joined Slavs On Hvar Isle, Bridgehead To The Balkans   Tito Announces Arrival But London Minimizes Move As Not Of Larae Scale

BRITISH UNITS JOIN TITO'S GUERRILLAS?   Announcement Is Made From Broz’ Yugoslav Headquarters.

BRITISH TROOPS JOIN WITH TITO   Units Merged on Strategic Island in Adriatic

Yugoslays Are Given Help By British Units   Tito Discloses Landing Of British On Hvar Strategic Island Off Dalmatian Coast

BRITISH JOIN PARTISAN UNITS   Tito Reports Landings a Hvar, Threatens Balkans

FAIR NOUGH   WESTBROOK PEGLER   RITISH UNITS ASSISTING TITO   ported Aiding Yugoslav Guerillas On Hvar Island

YUGOSLAV GUERRILLA LEADER ANNOUNCES BRITISH RECRUITS  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HOWEVER, SILENT ON AN}

British Join Yugoslavian  Guerrillas   Tito Says Allies Fighting on Adriatic Island

[Reds Rolling Nearer Pskov: Berlin Claims Minsk Drives   114 Villages Taken, 2,200 Germans Slain

Russians Move  Closer Pskov; Open New Push   Berlin Reports Reds Oper Powerful Offensive Toward- Minsk In White Russia

RUSSIANS ROLL TOWARD PSKOV BALTIC GATEWAY   _ Germans Declare Reds Have Thrown Another 100,000 Men into Big Drive

USH TOWARD  EW RUSSIAN INSK STARTS   rlin Broadcast Claims ed Army Has Thrown  Thrown 100,000 More Men Into Offensive   4 VILLAGES TAKEN

Reds Roll Toward Baltic Gateway   New Push Toward Minsk in White Russia Reported

Driving Reds Start A 100,000-Man Push Toward Minsk; Nearing Pskov

Russians Capture 114 Towns In Offensive Toward Pskov; Launch New Drive On Minsk      ’ Berlin Reports 100,000 Reds Thrown Into Offensive Aimed Toward Minsk

Krivoi Rog, Ore City, Assaulted  Dade Ara Onlw 20   Reds Are Only 30 Miles From Dno

SOVIETS CLAIM SWEEPING GAINS   Communique Reports 114 Villages Seized in Mighty Drive for Pskov

SOVIETS PUSH TOWARD PSKOV   Berlin Reports Powerful New Orive On Minsk

BERLIN REPORTS NEW RED SMASH   Says 100,000 Troops Push On White Russian Base

Russian Forces Close on Pskov   Berlin Says Soviets Have Thrown 100,000 Men in Drive on Minsk

Red Army Driving On Nazi Bases At Pskov, Minsk  New Push Started By Big Force In White Russia

Reds Capture 114 Towns In Pskov Drive   Berlin Reports New Minsk Push

Start Big Push Toward Minsk   Furious Assault Also Started Toward ' Krivoi Rog   114 VILLAGES ARE CAPTURED BY REDS

Soviets Roll Ahead on Way Toward Pskov   Throw 100,000 More Men Into Minsk Push, Berlin Says

Reds in Drive Toward Minsk   Also Continue Move Toward Pskov Farther North

Berlin Reports 100,000 Soviet Troops Thrown into White Russia Campaign.

Reds Rolling Forward in Two Drives   Drives Pointed at Pskev and Toward Minck. White Russia

Russians Drive On Pskov, Minsk And Kravoi Rog   Soviets Claim 114 Villages Captured In Smash Toward Baltic Gateway

REDS CONTINUING 10 ADVANCE IN ‘THRUST ON PSKOV   Draw Nearer to Baltic Gateway City—Berlin Declares Russians Open New Drive on Minsk in White Russia-

RUSSIANS TAKE 114 TOWNS IN DRIVE ON PSKOV   Berlin Announces New Soviet Push of 100,000 Troops in White Russia

Russians Head For Baltic Cit   More Men Thrown Into Push Toward Minsk

Reds Continue To Roll Toward Baltic Gateway   Powerful New Push Launched Toward Key White Russia Point

SOVIET FOR FORCES ATTACK PSKOV   Fall Of Baltic Gateway Imminent; Assault Krivoi Rog

100,000- MORE MEN THROWN INTO NEW PUSH BY SOVIET   Russians Continued to Rol Over. Frozen Ground Toward Pskov Today.   114 VILLAGES TAKEN   In a Drive Sunday More Than 2200 Germans Were Killed.

Russians in  Pskov Drive   Soviets Rolling Over Frozen Ground; Germans Report Minsk Attack

Reds Roll On Toward Pskov Drive Opened   Offensive Started Toward Minsk In White Russia.

Reds Drive Ahead Through  Snow Stor ms        Take 114 Villages In-A: vance On Pskov-—DINNB Says Powerful. .New  Dead Mick.

County Planning Board Appointed   Supervisors List Eight For New Project

NAME COUNTY POSTWAR BODY   Patrick J. McMullen To Represent Board of Supervisors

DEATH TAKES IDA M. TARBELL   Pneumonia Fatal to Dear of American Women Writers

Ida Tarbell, Author, Dies At 86 Years   Wrote of  LineoIn and Rockefeller

IDAM. TARBELL NOTED HISTORIAN, DIES AT AGE OF &   Pioneer Woman Journalist Expires of Pneumonia  , ae ee

WALLACE MAY BE CENTER OF CONV. FIGHT   Many Democrats Believe FDR Will Insist on Iowan’s Renomination

Aim Opposition at Wallace   Dem, Conservatives Want New Candidate

NEW ENGLAND CROWDS HAIL DEWEY TODAY   Demands End To Abuse And Vilification OF Conaress

Dewey  Asks End of Abuses   Says Administration Unable to Create Jobs for. War Veterans

Dewey Trains Heavy Guns On Hillman’s PAC   ‘One Thousand Club’ Al so Will Be Target Ai Boston Tonight.

End Smears On Congress. Dewey Asks   Calls for ‘Decent, Friend. ly’ Relations in National Government

bring End To Name Calling At Congress   Dewey Speaks To Springfield Crowd On Way Into New England States,   SET SIGHTS HIGHER

Dewey Calls For Refurn Of US. Faith   G.O.P. Head Pledges End of Name-Calling, Smear in Government

House Appropriations Committee Believes Agency Has Made “Valuable Contrihution.”*

OWI! Wins Praise Of Committee   Total For Agencies Cut $37,955,058 Below Requests.

OWI Gets Praise of House Unit, Boost of Funds   20 Millions More — ‘Money Granted To  _Government Agency

Appropriations Group Finally Approve OWI   Allows 20 Million More to War  InformationOffice

HOUSE COMM. APPROVES OWI WORK   Changes Attitude From Year Ago}. Adds To ““*™  Appropriation

‘OW! Is Given More Money By  House Committee   Billion Dollar Supply Bill Is Approved

Americans Break Fixed Positions South of Aachen   Line ‘Completely Penetrated’

Westwall Pierced  Ath Time   Tomled Defenses Stiecd in 24 Hours, Headquarters Reveals

Yank Units Dash Aheau Dozen Miles In Germany   Whole Previously Prepared Line Is Invaded

Americans Reach Coloaqne Speedway   . +. Allies Make Fourth Crossing of Frontier

PUSH 6 MILES DEEPER INTO GERMANY   Fourth Invasion Of Reich Is Accomplished   Reach Highway To Cologne; Fighting Is Reported Inside Aachen

Merchants Group Hears Reports on War Loan Drive, USO Activities; Joe Conway on Soldier Vote Pian

Coconino County Reaches Quota in Bond Drive. .   Merchants’ Group Hears Repotts on War Loan Drive, USO Activities; Joe Conway on Soldier Yote Plan

SLIGHT RELIEF IN LIGHT RAIN   Misses Some Sections of Southwest Michigan Entirely

Senate's Postwar Planning Group Says Employment Will Be Greatest Problem

POST-WAR JOB CHALLENGE SEEN   Employment For 56,000,000 Is Estimated Need

More Jobs Are Seen  Necessary After War   Senate’s Special Postwar Planning Group Says U.  S. Must Employ From 8 To 10 Million People When Peace Comec

SENATE GIVES PROGRAM FOR POSTWAR JOBS   Committee Offers 16-Point Recommendation for Recovery After Victory

Increase In Employment Is Major Problem Facing Senate Post-War Plans

POST-WAR ERA PLANS LAID BY SENATE GROUP   Committee Says U.S. Must Employ 8 to 10 Million More Than Previous Total.

PLANNING GROUP PRESENTS REPORT ON POSTWAR JOBS   LISTS 16 WAYS IN WHICH CONGRESS CAN SOLVE PROBLEM

Plan For Post War Employment   Committee Says U. S. Must Employ 8,000,000 .More Than In Peace. .

POST-WAR JOBS FOR 54 MILLION TOBE U, S, NEEI   Senate Report Says Full Employment to Present Grave Challenge.

Lull FIGHT. IS LOOMING   SOUTHERN SENATOR SAYS TWO-TERM ISSUE WILL-BE  BROUGHT BEFORE DEMOCRATS

Vitebsk Being Evacuated Says German Repor!   German Forces In North Russia Are Retreating   Complete Defeat For Hitler Troops In Northwestern Russia Is Forecast   Loss Is Grievous Blow Tc Hitler—Key German Point Since 1941   CAPTURE IF DNOIS HARD BLOW TO NAZIS   MEANS NAZI DEFEAT IN RUSSIAN WAR   Means Complete Defeat

New Red Offensive Threatens Entire German Defense Line In Upper White Russia

BERLIN BASTED AGAIN MAY Bt HEAVIEST RAIL   German Broadcasts. Report "Violent Air Battles Over Germany.

2,000 PLANES HIT BERLIN IN DAY ASSAULT   Huge U.S. Bombing Fleet Ends 4-Week Respite For Nazi Capital

Full Weight Of Air Fleet Hits Capital   Attack Is First Made On Berlin  Since Invasion. Re. WAITER CRONKITE

9.000 PLANES SWARM OVER NAZI CAPITAL   Full Weight of Great Striking Force Concentrated = on Reich.

BERLIN HIT TODAY BY 2000 PLANES   First Blow At German Capital Since Invasion

Battle of Cherbourg Is Terrific   20,000 NAZIS APPEAR TO RE ENTRAPPED NOW NRAR cITy, é

2,000 American Planes Attack — German Capital   First Bomber Raid Made’On Berlin Since  Invasion of Europe

STH ARMY TAKES SIENA AND CECINA   CLARK’S WEST COAST FORCES _ ONLY: 15 MILES FROM PORT OF. LEGHORN. © :

Allies Thrust  Toward Liverno   Push Within Fifteen Miles of Prize After Taking Siena, Cecina

Allies Occupy Siena in Italy   Armies Draw Closer To } lorenc eo. Livorno

Allies Nearing Gothic Barrier Built by Nazi:   Cecina Conquest Bititerly Opposed by Retreating ©  Foe an Iralien Timo

Siena, Cecina Fall to Fifth Army's Troops   Yanks Thrust to Within 15 Miles of Port of Livorno

FIFTH ARMY TAKES SIENA AND CECINA   Lt. General Clark’s Troops Are Within 20 Miles Of Nazi’s Vaunted Gothic Defense Line From Pisa To Remini

CITY OF SIENA IS BAGGED ON ITALIAN FRONT   FIGHTING CLOSES IN ON PRIZE PORT OF LEGHORN

Woman Slain As She Works ‘In Church   Secretary to Pastor In Detroit Is Beaten And Stabbed tu Death

Police Seeking Detroit Slayer   Pastor’s Secretary Murdered As She Worked At Desk.

Clue Sought In Murder of  Pastor's Aid   40-Year-Old Woman Found Slain in Aisle Leading to Altar  Of Detroit Church

Find Pastor’s Clerk Slain Near Altar   DETECTIVES REPORT NO CLUE TO MURDER OF MRS. JEAN LONG IN piTROIT CHURCH,

PASTOR'S SECRETARY IS BRUTALLY SLAIN   Mrs. Jean Long, 40, Stabbed and Beaten in Detroit

Byrd‘s Crops Come First: Senator So Busy Picking Apples He Cannot Take Stump for F.D.R.

Yanks, French Move up Rhone   Four Allied Columns Converge on Lyon

Allied Spearheads Push Beyond Lyon   Fleeing German 19th Army Threatened By Newest Advance Alona Rhone River Vallev

Fast-Moving Spearheads Menace Lyon   U.S. and French Troops Advance Along Rhone Valley

Escape Lane From South Threatened   Allied Spearheads Close In On Lyon From Three Sides.

ALLIED ARMOR NEAR LYON IN P4-MILE PUSH   Escape Route of German 19th Army Threatened on Three Sides.

Allied Armies Only 14 Viiles Out Of Lyon   Advance Of 34 Mites Up Both Sides Of Rhone Made In 24 Hours

Nazi Sought Fugitive Offers Reward of 10 Marks for Hitler’s Head

DESPITE EFFORTS OF TOJO TO CAPITALIZE ON JAP INVASION ‘OF INDIA THREAT IS MINOR ONE

The War Today:  Tojo Hopes To Get Revolutionary Aid By India “‘Invasion’’

The War Today   Tojo Trying to Make Capital Ont af “Tnvacian” af India

The War Today   By DeWITT MachENZIE (Associated Prese War Analyst)

The War Today   oae  Tojo Trying to Build  Political Sensation Out Of Indian Tnvasion.

Three Yank Armies Prepare Lines For Roer-Saar Assaul   Key Towns Along 'Roer Line Hammered, Rhine Defenses Threatened

Added Pressure Applied Against Nazis as Ninth, First, Third And Seventh Americar Armies Move Up

NAZI DEFENSES IN EAST BREAK   Hodges’ Men Gain Up to 400 Yards in Assaults — : on Villages. t   REACH SIEGFRIED LINE

4 YANK ARMIES CONTINUE WITH STEADY THRUST   Germans Thrown Across Roer and Saar, Chief Barriers to Rhine

Tighten Grip Along Roer, Saar Rivers   General Patch Pierces Enemy Defenses At Eastern Tip Of France.

Bolt Through Defenses In Eastern France; Growing Pressure Upsets Germans

NAZIS THROWN BACK ACROSS ROER AND SAAR   Gen. Eisenhower Increases, Pressure On Thinning German Forces

apt tenerr ere  LONDON, Dec. 1 p—The German radio said tonight that the eastern section of beleaguered Budapest was being evacuated,

Americans Push Them BeBeyond Roer and Saar,  Rhine Barriers    HIT OTHER KEY POINTS   Pressure Increases as Attacking Allies Press New Gains

Four U.S. Armies Strike at Rhine ‘River Barriers   Pressure Grows on Weakening Line of German Defenses Before Coloane

Nazis Said Losing 3,000 Men A Day in Prisoners Alone: : ‘Dead and Disabled Total More

PRESSURE OF FOUR AMERICAN ARMIES THROW NAZIS BACK  GERMANS FORCED ACROSS ROER AND SAAR RIVERS;  DEFENSES BROKEN.

Pressure on Germans Increasing   Americans Break Through Enemy Line In Eastern France 

Enemy Troops Driven Across Roer and Saar Rivers, North and South Bar riers to the Rhine.   NAZI STRENGTH SOON WILL GET REAL TEST

PUSH THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE IN EAST AREA   Hold 1i5-Mile Sectors On Banks of Roer And Saar Rivers

Mount Threat To Rhineland, Ruhr Sectors   Hard-Won Gains Are Punched Out Along  Entire Front; Enemy Losina Heavily ©

Four American Armies Advance   _. Eoe'’s Defenses In Easterumost France Broken

Seventh Army Breaks Key Defense Line   Increasing American Pressure Pushes Foe Back on Several Fronts; Ninth and Third Armies Mark Up Gains; Welz Falls

Pressure on Enemy Lines  Increasing   German Drive Across Roer and Saar; Crack Northeast France Defenses

Patton’s Troops Stand Before Siegfried Line   Enemy Shifting Strength Desperately to Halt 7th Army

Keep Pressure ‘On Nazi Lines   Germans Pouring Final Strength: Into Struggle for Winter Lime -

BREAK THRU GERMAN DEFENSES ABOVE STRASBOURG TO MOUNT PRESSURE OF ENENY FORCES

LEGION HEARS HEAD OF NAVY   Forrestal Urges Mainte nance of Big Navy, Military Trdiuing

124th Field Artillery Battalion Returns From The Southwest Pacific

GREAT NUMBER OF HOUSES NOT USED   New York Paper Makes Survey on Conditions In Some Eastern Cities.

AMERICANS GAIN 2,000 YDS. IN FOUR HOURS AS 5TH, 8TH ARMIES LAUNCH OFFENSIVE

Armies Advance Toward Rome Along Broad Front   Southwest End of German Line Bent;  Slow But Steady Progress Reported

Pre-Invasion Blow  Is Struck by Alllies Along Entire Front; Three and a Half Month Lull Is Ended

PLANES, GUNS COVER GENFRAL ALLIED ADVANCE   Battle Dwarfs E] Alamein

Allies Open—Up All Across The Peninsula In Greatest Attempt To Capture Rome

Allies Drive on Toward Rome in New Offensive   Troops Advance Beyond Their First Objectives

General Offensive On 85 Mile Italian Front Drives Toward Rome   Yanks At Garigliano Push 2,000 Yards Ahead As British 8th  Advances At Cassino

SUFTEN NAZIS BY ARTILLERY, AERIAL BLOWS   Drive Wedges into Gustav Line With General, Offensive Smash.

Yanks Advance Mile  in March on Rome   First of 1944 All-Out Blows to Crush Nazis Begins on 85-Mile Front, Germans Step Up Artillery, Machine Gun Fire

Dewey Says Nation Must Have Full House-Cleaning  Declares There Is No Limit to Future of   Declares There Is No Limit to Future of the United States With an Administration Thot RelWievec in Rrnavines

Dewey Calls for G.0. P. Congres: To Fffect Full ‘House Cleaning’

Malaria Danger  After War Seen   Predicts Over Million Returning Soldiers Will Be Carriers.

Million Troops May Be Malaria  Carriers, Says   Surgeon General Outlines Steps Needed For Control

STILWELL PROMOTED TO FULL GENERAL   Frederick Army Officer Is Also Confirmed As Brigadier General By Senate

STILWELL IS ELEVATED   Commander of American Troops _ Given Rank of General

More Strikes In Coal Pits Forecast   SUPERVISORY OFFICIALS — DEMAND RECOGNITION BY OPERATORS; SIXTY STRIKE VOTES SCHEDULED WITHIN 3 WEEKS.   WLB Refuses Jurisdiction

MINE STRIKE MAY SPREAD   11,000 Out as Supervisory Workers Demand Union  Recognition

Bucharest Feels First American Assault of War   Heavy Bombers Fly 60( Miles To Attack Capital of Rumania   Capture of Emirau Brings War In South Pacific fo Dead End

NEW YORK TO ELECT DELEGATES TUESDAY      ‘Complexion of Delegations Will Be Pro-Roosevelt, Pro-Dewey,

New York to Vote On Delegates   They’re Uninstructed But Pro-Roosevelt, Pro-Dewey

‘French Forces Aid In Battle  Taking Cervaro   Some Yanks Under French Command Aid In Cervaro Capture Wednesday   WINTER THAW HOLDS UP SOME ADVANCES

YANKS ADVANGE FROM CERVARD   U. S$. Forces Under Frencl Help to Consolidate New Positions

1 States Favor Federal Ballot   President Studies  Action on Measure

STATES DIVIDED ON SERVICE VOTE   MINORITY FAVORS SUPPLEMENTARY USE OF FEDERAL BALLOTS

Smugglers, Making Millions in CBI War Theater,  Include American Flyers and Red Cross Workers

Congress Gets FDR's Request For 100 Billions   President Submits Gigantic Budgel

$100 BILLION BUDGET GIVEN T0 CONGRESS   Figures Indicate Decline in War Costs In Fiscal Year

Budget Calls For Cut of 2 Billions In War Spending   President Asks Total of $99,769,000,000, With Upturn In Contemplated Post-War Costs; Estimates Are Tentative

Budget Asking 100 Billions Is  Sent Congress   Roosevelt Figures Call for Downturn in War Spending and Upturn in Post-War Costs-—Request Renewed for Hicher Taxes

Budget Hints Downturn In War Spending  Hike In Post-War Expense Asked In

Contemplates Downturn In Spending for War And Upturn in Costs Of Post-War Affairs  MAY TURN OUT LAST BIG WARTIME BUDGET  Fiscal Year Deficit Of 59 Billion Scen, Debt of 258 Billion

budget Of $99,769,000,000 Presented; President Asks $10,500 000 000 Tax Hike

9 Billion War [ime Budget Before Congress  ™Calle far Raductian   “@ Calls for Reduction for War Spending in Current Year

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100-Billion Budge Contemplates Cut In War Spending  Roosevelt Discusses Expected Downturn;  a

Two Billion Cut In War Spending  For Fiseal Year   President’s Request Shows Upturn in Post-War Costs: Total Amounts to Average of $726.07 for Every Citizen

Post-War Costs’ Rise Also Is Contemplated      Budget Assumes War In Europe Wil Be Going On in 1945; Total Ig $99.769.000 000

WAR SPENDING CUT FORESEEN BY ROOSEVELT   REQUESTS RENEWED BY PRESIDENT FOR HIGHER TAXES

Roosevelt Seeks Nearly 100 Billion Budget; War Spending Drops, Postwar Figures Hiked

Recommendation to Congress Hints Reduction in War Spending, Increase in Peacetime Expenses

FDR Asks 100 Billion For Budget   Request Shows Less War Spending, Rise In Postwar Costs

F.R. Submits Budget for Fiscal Year   $99,769,000,000 Is Asked, 90 Per Cent to Be for War

Budget Hints Downturn In War Spending  Hike In Post-War  Expense Asked In KHinher lay Annan!

Flames Sweep Hofel in Heart Of Kansas City   One Woman Dies From Effects of Smoke and Two Men Are Carried t Safety by Firemen

SMOKE TRAPS 11 INK, G. HOTEL   ONE DIES, TWO OVERCOME— 45 OTHERS FLEE BUILDING BY FIRE ESCAPES.

Nazis “Declare” Athens an “Open City, Abandon It   Reuters Dispatch Carries Declaration; Nazis In Greece Bombed.

FIERCE FIGHT NEAR KOHIMA      Stiff Opposition te India Invaders

British, Japanese Locked In Bitter Battle In India   Strong Enemy Column Attempting To Break English Resistance And Establish Road Block On ~ Allied Route To Maniphur

JAPS BEING WIPED OUT AT KOHIMA   7590 Killed In 3 Days By British Tanks, Artillery

Allies Rip Jap Lines at Imphal   Chindit Raiders Cut Jap Communications in Southern Burma

India Invaders Cracking Under Allied Attacks  Hollandia Victory Claimed Last Easy One for U. 5.

India lirvasion  By Japs Shows Breaking Signs   RAF, U. S. Bombers Rake Siege Lines ~ South of Imphal

Full Weight Aerial Attack Thrown Against the Nazis; Break Up Jap India Invasion

Climax Near In Andrews  Murder Case   Defense Accused of Con. fusing Issue; Case to Jury Tomorrow

HIT 19 JAP PLANES IN RAID ON RABAUL   Surfaced Submarine Struck as 129 Tons of Bombs Are Dumped on Air, Sean Base,

DAILY ASSAULTS JOLTING RABAUL   Allied Airmen Wreck 19 More Nipponese Planes At New Britain Base

Allied Unity {s Strengthened By Red Premier   Speaks As Foe Flees Towards Bug River And Carpathians

Nazi Effort To Split Allies Doomed To Fail, Stalin Says   Red Leader Awaits Day When Full Power of United Nations Strikes at Hitlerite Germany.

Hitler On Edge. Of Catastrophe, Declares Stalin   Efforts To Split Allies Doomed To Failure, Says Russian Premier.

GERMANY'S DOOM PREDICTED BY STALIN   Specialt Order of the Day Praises Red Army on 26th Anniversary

CLAIMS REDS BEAR BRUNT OF EFFORT   Believes All Attempts To Break Up Allies Doomed   RUSSIANS   Win Back Three Quarters Of Territory Taken By Germans Since 1941

Allied Coalition Firm, Stalin Says; Repeats Reds Bear War’s Brunt

Coalition To Be Maintained,  _ Says Stalin   German Efforts To Bring Disharmony Will Fail Asserts Premier Or Army's Anniversary

NAZIS ATTEMPTS FOR DISHARMONY ~ WILL BE FAILURE   Premier Stalin Discusses Ties Between Three Nations on 26th Anniversary of Red Army.   PRAISE ARMED FORCES FOR: GREAT SUCCESSES   Declares Nation Is Bearing Brunt of War Effort Fighting Alone to Very Edae of Castastrophe.

HITLER’S END IS NEAR ~ STALIN   Declares Nazi Chief I: Facing Imminent Catastrophe

STALIN DECLARES HITLERITES ARE DOOMED TO FAIL   Soviet Premier Says Ger. many Stands in Brink of Catastrophe and Hour of Retribution

Stalin Asserts All German Efforts To Put Disharmony In Allied Camps Will Fail

EFFORTS 0 SPLIT ALLIES ARE FAILURE STALIN TELLS PEOPLE   SOVIET PREMIER SAYS HITLERITES ARE NOW IN HOPELESS POSITION

Hitler Facing Catastrophe, Avers Stalin   Says Nazi Attempts To Divide Allies Doomed To Failure.

‘Says Nazi Hope For Disharmony Alrenily Doomed   Germans Retreat Toward Bug River Following Defeat At Krivoi Rog

GERMANY WILL COLLAPSE IN NEAR FUTURE   Stalin Tells World That Fatal Hour Is Approaching

HITLER FACING CATASTROPHE, AVERS STALIN   SAYS NAZIS HAVE FAILED TO CREATE ALLIED DISHARMONY

Stalin Says Allied Unity Unbreakable   Nazi Efforts to Bring _ Disharmony Failed,  Premier Claims

Nazis To Fail In Move To Split Allies, Stalin Says   Hopeless Situation For Hitlerite Germany When Allies Launch Offensive. He Declares

Nazi Efforts Sure to Fail, Claims Stalin  Soviet Leader Declare: Disharmony Attempts Cannat Succeed

Mustangs Sweep As Far As Peiping   Destroy Railroad Facilities Along 600 Miles

Daily Temperatures   REPORT TURKISH TOWN DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE

Jas. E Hamlitor ~  Gets Air Medal   Former Teacher Is  Decorated for Work

SEE LIMITED SERVICE CUT   Returning g Veterans Caure; Medics Advised

PREDICT MORE RAIN   Most of Kansas Receives Light Showers; 59 at Goodland

Downs 205 Planes, 37 Ships In Visit To Manila Harbor   Nimitz Surprises Japs In Great Force: Cavit And Airfields Blasted; No U. S. Vessels Hit, Only Fifteen Planes Lost.

Fliers From Adm. Mitscher’s F. amed Armada Catch Enemy by Surprise; . Clark and Nichols Airfields Pounded

Kaunas Is Engulfed by Soviet Tide   Other Red Forces Storm Across East  Prussian Border; Battle Near Warsaw

AMIMUNIQUE STATES SOVIE. %, 4,“ TTACKING PRAGA  WHICH LIES ACROSS THE VIST. % >, RIVER JUST EAST oF THE POLISH CAPITAL OF WAR.” _—SAY KAUNAS,  FORMER LITHUANIAN CAPITAL, Ti. 4 BY REDS

9-Hour Baitle With Japanese in Ormoc Bay      Enewy Attacks 80 American Ships After Surprise Landing of Troops

Large Forces From Sixth Army Land on Western  Leyte Island 4  SURPRISE THE JAPS      United States Heavy Fighters Give Support to the Battle

Japs Caught Flat Footed in Ormoc Bay   Large Task Force Landed at Gates of Strongest Garrison

Greek Rebels Act To End Civil War   Elas Sends Proposals To British General

ELAS TERMS ARE OFFERED TO BRITISH   Demand Both Side: In Civil War Disarmed

Badoglio Forms New Government   All But One Of Six Opposi tion Parties Included

Hifler's Now Desperate fo Point of Madness   Mackenzie ‘Says Vow Repeated Providing More Secret Weapons

Fuehrer Will Have to Retreat Toward His Own Frontier and A Bloody Business It Will Be With -Our Allies Waiting to Pounce on Them from the

WAR © TODAY   Hitle Yr, Desperate lo Point of Madness, May Yet Loose More Frightful Secret Weanon Than Robats

MACKENZIE SAYS—  Yank Army Closing In For “Kill”   Hitler May Unleash Poison Gas In Frenzied Act, Writer Believes

The War Today   Cornered, Desperate, Hitler May Trv Poisan Gas ton Stan Allies

THE WAR TODAY   ann ESE eece: RUNS Mena a  Hitler Again Promises People Secret Weapons

 Gems Retrieved  All’s Not Gold Thai Glitters on Park Avenue—May Be Pearls

Must Not Pull Punches Now In War With Germany   Sir John Dill Says Allies Must Strike Hard From Land, Sea And Air

Says Nazis Still. Can Strike Hard   Says German Propaganda Knows  Alan A wstastmbiak

8TH ARMY SINKS SALIENT DEEP IN GOTHIC LINE   Steady Fighting Continues In Pesaro By Polish

Gothic. Line  Penetrated ©   Nazis ‘Are. Offering Opposition In Ttaly

Crack Outer Gothic Line   Meeting Strong German Resistance; Report of Pesaro’s Fall Premature

Outer Gothic Line Defense is Penetrated   Montecchio= Is - Captured; Strong Germah Resistance Met North of Foglia River; Pesaro Fighting Continues

Gothic Line In Italy Piercec   8th Army Slashes Nazi Defense Barriers

OUTER COTHIC LINE PIERCED   Eighth Army Penetrates De fense 1,000 Yards, But Meets Stiff Opposition

Eighth Breaks Gothic Defense   Penetrate Outer Line At One Point; Nazi  Resistance Increases.

GERMANS OFFERING STRONG RESISTANCE   Nazis Hur} Tanks in Repeated Counterattacks Near Fodlia.

Eighth Army Breaks Through Gothic Line Defense 1,000 Yards Deep As Steady Fighting Continues in Pesaro

th Army Break in 0 to Gof hic Line   New Battling for Monte Della Groce

NAZI GOTHIC LINE TORN BY BRITISH   Eighth Army Penetrates Tt Depth Of 1,000 Yards

Report Penetration Of Gethic Line   ‘Eighth Army Has Gained 1,000 Yards Resistance Strona

Outer Gothie Line Cracked By Sth Army   Strong German Resistance Met, However, North Of Foglia

THRU GOTHIC LINE   Eighth Army Troops Have Penetrated Outer  Defenses

EIGHTH ARMY FORCES BREAK OUTER GOTHIC LINE NORTH ITALY  STRONG GERMAN RESISTANCE IS BEING MET NORTH

Yank Bombers Pound at Jap Kuriles Bases   Three Enemy Planes Downed; Americans Lose Medium Bomber

YANK PLANES HI] KURILES AGAIN   Three Nip Craft Downed In Furious Battle at Top of Japanese Empire

Yanks Smash Along Rhone To Trap Foe   Nazi High Command Says Fighting in Valley Severe

South France Struggle Near Closing Phase   Americans Now Deer In Rhone Valley And Hold 9,000 Square Miles Of Territory

Yanks Race Up Rhone Valley   Seek to Cut off Fleeing Germans, Already Hold 9,000 Square Miles

Americans Slash Deeply Up Rhone To Cut Off Nazis   Patch’s Fast-Rolling Forces Now Control 9,000 Square Miles

Nazi High Command Reports Heavy Fighting in Direction of Lyon—General Patch’s Army Now Controls 9,000 Square Miles of Territory—Enemy Troops Fight On at Toulon and Marseille With Allies Making Progress.

Allied Armies Herd Fleeing Nazis Toward Reich Frontier; Race to Halt Germans at Lyon   Enemy in Northwest France "Waiting to Be Cut Down,” Army Spokesman Says; Patch's Army Now Controls 9,000 Square Miles

ARLES, AVIGNON TAKEN IN NEW AMERICAN GAINS   Only Resistance Remaining Is In Toulon, Marseille

Yanks Drive Ahead in Rhone Area   Forces Are Within Five Miles of Italian Border and Move to Cut Off Fleeing Enemy Forces

GANDHI'S RELEASE TODAY IS ORDERED      Indian Leader to be Giver Freedom Due to His Health

GANDHI BEING FREED BY BRITISH OFFICIALS   Action Is Being Taken Because  Of The State Of Health Of 75¥ear-old Indian Leader

Tanks of U. §. Third Army Charge Five Miles East to Within Two Miles of Saar Industrial Basin in Surprise Thrust Against Germans

NEWS SOON OF LA GUARDIA   President Did Not Elaborate On Assignment of Mayor to Italy

STEAK MAY GO OFF RATION LIST   MEAT CHANGE FORECAST FOR END OF YEAR

Leaping Lignite  Case Now Solved  It Didn't Leap but Was Thrown Say Case Investigators

“Leaping” Coal Mystery Solved   Pupils Staged Hoax On Near-Sighted Teacher

Case of "Jitterbug" Coal in North Dakota Rural School Solved Today

Case of Leaping Lignite a Hoax   Pupils of Dakota School Admit Fooling NearSighted Teacher.

“Verhexed’ School Is ‘Un-Verhexed’; eav-Sighted Teacher Is the Answer

Berlin Mass OF Flames  And Ruin After Heavy Raid; Yanks Hit Rome

RAID LAST NIGHT MAY HAVE BEEN WORST GERMAN © ‘CAPITAL EVER HAD   Only 35 British Planes Lost In Giant Bombing Mission. American Bombers Active In Italy.

British Hit Berlin Hard In Air Raid   Another Huge Section of Much-Bombed City Is Believed Obliterated

R.A.F. Lost 35 Planes in Twenty Minute Raid Last night.   ‘ELEVENTH RAID IN PAST TWO MONTHS   American Bombers Are Out Across Channel in Daylight Raid.

SATURATION RAID IN ALL HISTORY   AMERICAN BOMBERS OUT AGAIN TODAY   Second Consecutive Daylight Assault Also Made On  Rome,

ENEMY DEFENSES IN CASSINO CORRIDOR BEGIN TO CRUMBLE  AMERICANS DRIVE WEDGI THROUGH “IMPREGNIBLE’  AUTO WTA’ TInt

Some Nazis Surrendering Voluntarily   Foe In Positions Two Days Without Food, They Report

Outer Defenses Of Rome Broken By Fifth Army   Doughboys Are Pursuing Fleeing Foe; Many Prisoners Taken -

Tanks Broke Nazi Defense   Yanks Pursue Nazis After Cracking ‘Impregnable’ Line

“Impregnable” German Gustav  Line Cracked   American Doughboys Pur. sue: Retreating Nazis Through Hille North Of Cassino.

N azi Morale Increasing, Writer Says   _But Can Be Defeated On Field of Battle, Held General Opinion  FIGHTING STRENGTH

Repatriates Believe Nazis Must Be Whipped on Field of Battle   By TAYLOR HENRY

GERMAN MORALE REPORTED HIGHER   EX-INTERNEES SAY IT WILL TAKE ACTION IN FIELD  TO CONQUER REICH.

2000 Yank Planes Hammer Nazi Faetories, Airfields   Second Straight Daylight Attack Smashes’ Fighter Plants at Brunswick, Hannover; U.S. Loses Total of 20 Craft; Germany, 33

‘tuttoart Is Hit Sunday   Bomb Total In Raids Reaches 10.000 Tons

Brunswick And Hannover Socked; Six Dromes Out   Continue Terrific Air Pounding Of Key Reich Cities, Knock Down 33 More Planes; Only 20 Lost In Doolittle’s New Strategy.

RITES PLANNED FOR FORMER GOVERNOR FERGUSON FRIDAY  VETERAN OF TEXAS POLITICS BE BURIED IN STATE CEMETERY

Nazi Soldier Deterior ating, Says Yugoslav General Tito   Enemy Not Planning Offensive, Marshal Says in Interview— Headquarters Visited in Yuaqoslay Mountains

Correspondents visit Marshal Tito in incredible mountain headquarters

CREWMEN OF RETURNING FORTS REPORT HUGE FIRES BURNING: ORMOC JAPS BEING KILLED

B-29S ATTACK JAPANESE WAR PLANTS TODAY   Nagoya Burning From U. S. Raid; Biggest To Date

Thailand Hit by Superforts Based in India   Action Follows Raid on Nagoya Left in Smoking Ruins

Thailand Hit by India-based Superforts; Nagoya Is Aflame   Think Railroads Target in Jap-held Country; Continuing Mop-up on Leyte

Fly From Saipan Acrosd Bay Of Bengal; Fires Still Race In Naonva

One of Nigpen's Largest AMacraht Factories Smelders After 8-29 Raid

NAGOYA PILOTS REPORT FIRES STILL RAGING   Death Continues To Reap Full Harvest Of Japs Trapped On Leyte

JAP TARGETS IN THAILAND HIT BY B-29 BOMBERS   Nip Losses High on Leyte; Hint Superfort Bases Ready in Aleutians

Thailand Given A Bombing   Big Nip Plane Plant At Nagoya Smolders

 Death Reaps Full Harvest of Enemy in Leyte Island Traps.   CHINESE ARE ADVANCING

3 TROOP SHIPS SUNK AT ORMOC BY SHORE GUNS   Chinese Chase Enemy Back And Superforts Hit Thailand While Japan Plant Burns

Yankee Bombs Rip Thailand At Jap Isles   Effective Blasts Delivered by Big Superfort Groups

Japanese-Held Thailand Goal Of B29 Bombs   Superforts Rain Havoc on Siamese Section as Nagoya Factories Smoulder

ADDITIONAL RAIDS , BY SUPERFORTRESSES IN PACIFIC SECTOR  ‘ THAILAND OBJECTIVES BLASTED AS FIRES SMOLDER IN NACOVA

Giant Bombers Raid Thailand: Chinese Gair   Fires Still Burning In Ruins Of Big Nagoya Aircraft Plants

Jap Plants Blasted by ~ Superforte   ‘nemy Feels Force of New Air Blow and Results of Biggest Raid on Nipponese HomeJand Are Surveyed

India-Based Superforts Raid Thailand   Japs Retreating On Leyte; Nagoya Afire After Bombing

Force Nips Out of Key  Province   Superforts Raid Thailand; Fires Rage in Nagoya Plane Factories After Raids:

Re-elected Head of Keating Grange   Other Officers Elected For Coming Year

Berlin Says Red Winter Offensive Opened in Latvia   More Than 400,000 Men Hurled into Battle Against Nazis

Hatvan Falls To Red Army   Hungarian Rail Hub Is Key To Budapest.

405,000 MEN HURLED INTO LATVIA FRAY   Berlin Admits Fight Spreads to East Prussia

405,000 Men Gain Nine Miles   101 Tanks And 68 Planes Destroyed, Fighting Spreads Into E. Prussia.

Berlin Reports Opening of Red Offensive   Moscow Announces Advances in Czechoslovakia

NOW 23 MILES ABOVE SEDAN   Weather Gives Yank Planes a Break:  4,500 in Action

Allies Hurl Big Airfleet Acainst Foe   4,500 Planes Take Air on West Front As Weather Improves

Front Is Scene Of Terrible Carnage   Allied Headquarters Release Discloses Eneniy’s Southern Wedge Only 23 Miles Northeast Of Historic Sedan

Destruction Is Rained on Enemy -From Ait   Germans Leave More Than 1,000 Dead on Field of Battle; News From Front Is Encouraging

U.S. RELIEF TROOPS SENT ACAINST FOE   Von Rundstedt’s Forces Reach Libramont, Only, 23 Miles Northeast of Historic Sedan.   ENEMY DIVISION. MAULED IN NORTH   Yanks Forced to Yield Stavelot— Announce Americans Have Had Time to Reform Forces.

CLEAR SKIES AID YANKS ON SEDAN FRONT   NAZIS ROLL TOWARD FRANCE 15 MILES A DAY

Nazis Reach Libramont; 23 Miles from Sedan      Enemy Columns Are Heavily’ Pounded by Allied Air Force,

A elief ColumnsRush IntoSouth Edge of Penetration; 4500 Air  Sarey ac Stra fe Qa

Mighty Aerial Armada Blasts German Forces   178 Planes Downed; Reveal Enemy Within 23 Miles Of Sedan; Highway Is Cut

U. S. Forces Score at Southern Flank of Enemy Penetration; Our Forces Still in Possession of Libramont, Road Junction 16 Miles From Northeast French Frontier.

Relief Troops Dent Flank Of Enemy Salient   Clearing Weather Permits Allied Airmen To Fly 4500 Sorties In Support Of Assault By Yanks In Belgium And Luxembourg

INE DENTED TO NORTH OF LUXEMBOURG   Germans Now Only 23 Miles from Sedan; Allied Air Strikes Hard Blow.  Hy

Temperatures   Air Forces Cut Bloody Swaths. In Enemy Ranks   But Nazi Legions — Reach City 23 Miles From Sedan

Argentine Ships Ordered to Port  Phone Service Cut to Berlin. Tokvo

German Retreat Plans Go Awry   Russian Army Speed Disrupts Strategy

Soviet powel shatters nazi retreat plans   Speed amazes hich command

Soviet Power Turns Retreat Into Disaster   Gloomy ‘Germans Confess  Planned Withdrawal TT. Beene Beat

Nazi Retreat Termed Chaotic   Slow and Organized Retreat Prepared But Plans Went Haywire Before Red On slaught.

‘German Military Spokesmen Admit Their Armies Are Fleeing During Decisive Hour

German Plan For Retreat Said Upset   Reich Military Men Take Gloomy Tone, Swedes Report

Nazis Lose 113 Tanks in 2 Days; First Army Cuts Siegfried Line; Holland Battle Nears Climax

Smashing Blows Are Struck by Three U.S. Armies   British Also Hit Hard in Holland; Report Rain Has Enveloped Front

YANKS REPULSE MANY GERMAN ATTACKS   At Least 113 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out In Fight   CALAIS GARRISON   Refuses Surrender Offer; Bad Weather Reported On Entire Front

Enter First Two Barriers Into Rhine   Third and First U. 5. Armies Advance; Battle For Holland Near Climax

Toward ine    Breakslate Two. Vosges: Passes; . Cane Gris’ Nez Falls

Struggle For Holland Nears Its Climax   First Army Cuts 8 Fortifications Of Siegfried Line

7TH ARMY WINS TWO PASSES IN HEAVY FIGHTING   BATTLE FOR HOLLAND NEARS CLIMAX; YANKS CUT THRU SIEGFRIED

Strategic Arnhem Bridge Approaches Blown Up by Nazis   Battle for Holland = is Sweeping to Climax; Other Front News

Knock Out 113 Nazi Tanks In Past 24 Hours   ‘Slug Way Into 2 Passes  In Vosges Mountain  Barrier to Rhine .

Patton's Third Knocks Out 113 Tanks in 2 Days   Mud Handicaps Action on_ Whole  ye ear Ty

Hitler Hurls Air Power At Nijmegen Strip; 3rd Army Wrecke [13 Tanke

‘Germans Lay Down Murderous Barrage In Path of Seventh   Reich Patrols Yield Foothold Across Rhine Opposite Arnhem; Batile of Calais Lulled by Truce

Seventh Army Troops Push Forward Through Rocket And Mortar Fire In Drive Toward Rhine—Third Army Knocks Out At Least 113 Enemy Tanks In Two Days—First Army Cuts Through Eight Siegfried Fortifications—Holland Battle Near Climax

Nazis Battle Fiercely to Stop Advance   Entire Length of the Siegfried Line Ablaze With Heavy Gunfire

Third Army Wrecks 113 Nazi Tanks in Two Days   Battle for Holland Nears Climax With British Holding Nijmegen Bridge and Fichtine for Arnhem Croscing

Gain Despite Very Heavy Fire of Enemy   Germans Plan to Fight to Last Man At Fuehrer’s Demand

American Ist Army Gains in Siegfried Line Below Aachen   Patton’s Forces Increase Tank Bag To 113; Holland Battle Near Climax; Renew Calais Fight

3d Smashes 113 Tanks In Two Days   First Cuts Through Defenses Of Line  Below Aachen

EIGHT FORTS IN SIEGFRIED LINE BROKEN   Savage Battle Raging For Arnhem; Calais Battle Resumed

ith Army Reaches _  First Two Passes In Vosges Sector   Armor-Wrecking 3d Army Bags 113 Tanks In 2 Days Of Beating Back German Counter Blows

Americans Daring Rockets To Blast Passes In Vosges   Seventh U. S. Army Pushes Into Barrier To Rhine, While Third Beats Back Vicious  Counterattacks By Germans

Climax Near in Holland   Fighting - Along Western Front Grows More Furious Despite Rain; Truce at Calais. Ends

Seventh Army Pushes on Through Rocket and Mortar Fire into Barriers on Rhine River.   GERMANS LOSE 113%  TANKS IN TWO DAYS

SEVENTH ARMY CUTS BARRIER TO THE RHINE   First Army Drives Thru Eight Siegfried Line  Fortifications

Yanks Push Inte Vosges Passes   British Renew Fight for Arnhem Crossing; Battle for Calais Resumed After Truce; Dover Free of Shelling as Guns Silenced

Third Army Repels Nazi Counter Blows: British In Toe-To-Toe Struggles

ALLIES SMASH 113 NAZI TANKS IN 2 DAY FICHT   Beat Back German Counter Blows in Hard Slugging Battle

Pacts Are Made With Exiled Governments   Belgium, Holland, Norway Announced By U.S. and Britain

INVASION ROUTE HINTS SUPPLIED   Agreements To Govern Holland, Norway And Belgium Disclosed

Allies and Governments In Exile Agree on Rule Of Lands to Be Set Free

3 AGREEMENTS ARE ANNOUNCED   U. S. And Britain Tp Administer Homelands For  Exiled Governments

Three Nations To Get Civil Rule   Exiled Governments Of Norway, Belgum and Holland To Rule.

Agreements Reveal ‘Hints On Invasion   Decisions Reached On Administration Of Netherlands, Belgium And Norway  Re INN BA MICNWTAWER

Allies Complete Pacts for Ruling Liberated Lands   Agreements Hint at Possible Direction of Invasion Drives

8 RECOMMENDED FOR CHIEF JUDGE   Bar Association Recommendations Sent to Governor

AIR ASSAULTS ON GERMANY ARE RENEWED   Planes From Italy Destroy Transports Awaiting Nazis

Americans In Series Of Offensives From Holland To Nancy; Cross Moselle

GRIP TIGHTENED ONKEY SECTORS INSIDE GERMANY   Allied Warplanes Pounding Enemy Positions - - Tough Advance Made in Italy

Flanking Attack Menaces Aachen. Patton On Move   U.S. Third Army Sweeps 30 Miles; Yanks Smash Way Into Besieged Brest

German Villages Near Captured Rotgen Fall; Nancy Is Threatened   U. S. First Army Drives Into Dragon-Tooth Barriers Of Siegfried Line While Patton’s Third Army Sweeps Ahead Toward Rhine

U.S. 1st Army Smashes Into Siegfried Line   Aachen Virtually Surrounded; Rotgen Falls To Doughboys; New Crossing Into Holland Made; Patton’s Troops Plunge Forward

Yanks Push Toward Aachen in Drives From North, South   Patton Advances To Charmes on Moselle River in Fast 30 - Mile Advance; U.S. Enters Brest

Germans Admit Allies Advance In Large Offense   Capture Several German Villages; New Cross Holland

Several Reich Villages Taken By Doughboy:   Localities Captured Near Rotgen Include Lammersdorf, According to Paris Radio   Huns Admit Yank Drive Is Full-Scale   American Troops Lashing Into Dragon-Tooth Sieg: fried From Maastricht to Eupen

 :  Big-Scale Smash  Achieves Progress In Aachen Sector   American Third Army Breaks Into Open Once More Near Nancy; Hodges’ Troops Invade Netherlands At New Spot; Resistance Reported Slight

Patton Breaks Into Open With Gain of 30 Miles   Americans Reported Beating Forward In New Offensive

Yankees Also Batter Way Into Brest—Patton Threatens To Surround Nancy

Germans Admit American Gains   In Big Offensive   Patton Advances 30 Miles; New Threat To Nancy; Doughboys In Brest

Japanese Radio Indicates Heavy Damage   Nip Premier Claims Residential, Shopping Areas Hit

Heavy Damage tc Tokyo Indicated   All Superforis Return From Latest Attack

Revolt Quelled  In Colombia   Seized President  Escapes, Is Safe

Allies Move ‘(On To North [Past Lyon   Yanks Beat Off Rearguard Attack, Keep Up Advance

PUSH 15 MILES NORTH.OF LYON   “Alhes: Continue: With  Pursuit of Germans

19th Nazi Army  Runs For Home  cg ee i eT ee   Battered Remnants Chased Ry Allies

THE NAZIS   Allied Troops Pursue Germans Fleeing From Southern France —

French Units Have Reached Villefranche   US and French Patrols Enter Lyon from Three Directions; City Not Immediately Occupied

Allied Patrols in Lyon, Take Big Airfield   Nazi Rearguard Make: Stand as Main Body ‘Flees Up Rhone

Yanks Beat Off ‘Counterattack North Of Lyon   Batered Remnants Of 19th Army Evacuated From Besieged City

Battered Nazis Seeking Escape  Battle for Southern France Nears End

Allies 3 Pussic Nazis F leeing South France   Lyon Occupied And Troops Press 15 Miles Northward

French Troops Reach City Of Villefranche   American Forces Beat Off Nazi Rearguard Counterattacks At Montrevel.   FIGHT IN FULL SWING

South France Struggle In Final Phase   Allied Troops North Of Lyon; Nazis Flee In Disorder As Air Blows Are Handed Ou

FRENCH UNITS ARE 15 MILES ABOVE LYON   Yanks Beat Off CounterAttacks at Montrevel in Pursuit of Nazis Fleeing From Southern France.

Packards Re-Enter Rome In ‘Triumph’; Writers Well Kissed During Jeep Tour   By REYNOLDS AND ELEANOR PACKARD

U. P. Rome Bureau Chief With First To Enter City; People Kiss Profusely

Correspondents Greeted With Kisses by Romans; City 95 Percent Intact

American, British Flags Fly Over Italian Capital   Reporters Say Rome Changed Little

BOTH PARTIES SAY, CAST VOTES EARLY   Officials. Expect Influx of 5.0.W. Workers in Late  Afternoon    MANYREGISTERED HERE,

BOTH PARTIES SAY CAST VOTES EARLY   Officials Expect Influx of S.0.W. Workers in Late  — Afternoon

20 JAP BARGES ARE SMASHED BY ALLIES   Crait Ate Caught Flesine Wewak And Abape ; Scouten Islands Are Attacked

Jap Supply Units Are Destroyed  Barges Attempt to Flee From Weweclr

Orders Trial For Captain Of Boston Police   Commissioner Files Chareves

Nazi Escape Route. Brought Under Fire By Yankee Artillery   Rundstedt’s Armored ‘Spearheads. -Are- Digging : In To Meet Mounting American: Blows: *

Big Air Raids Qn Philippines Japs Are Near   U. S. Engineers Completing _ Half Built Jap Airdrome Only 300 Miles Away   HALMAHERA BASE WITHIN EASY RANGE

Army Engineers Rushing To Complete Morotai Airdrome To Strike Against Japanese

AMERICAN ARMIES ATTACKED GERMANY AT THREE POINTS    CAPTURE ROTGEN AND DIG IN ON HEIGHTS OVERLOOKING AACHEN

West Wall Outpost Loss Told In Radio Broadcast; Yanks Drive Deeper Into Rhineland

Battle Is Carried to Main Line   Primary Defenses Of Siegfried Are Penetrated by U. S. First Army Troops

Third Army Moving Again   Goes Eight Miles in Two Hours; Artillery, Planes Batter Defenses   British Expand Break   Americans Develop Multi- , Pronged Assauit, Each A Breakthrough Threat

Yanks Drive To Aachen As Famed “West Wall” Comes Under Attack At 3 Points

TERROR REIGN IS UNDER WAY   Foreign Workers Virtually  Quarantined — Germon Government Prohibits Travel on Railways Without Special! Permission.

Reign Of Terror Begun In France   3,000,000 Laborers, A Little Better Than Slaves, Forbidden To Travel Without - Permission

Act to Prevent Uprising When Invasion Comes   Vichy Militia Aids Gestapo in Wiping Out Towns, Report

Pre eihvasion Loops Tigk   Bar Travel of Reich Slav Labor, Launch Reign ' of Death in France

NAZIS START TERROR REIGN IN FRANCE   Seek to Prevent Revolt Coinciding With Invasion

AgentsMove ToEliminate Revolt Plots   3 Million Laborers Under Quarantine In German Plants

Germans Begin Reign of Terror In France   Enemy Fears Revolt At Time of Coming Allied ‘Invasion

Terror Reign In France Begun By German Troops   Three Million Foreign Workers Quarantined In Reich By. Nazis

Nazis Impose Terror Grip  On France   Germans Act To Prevent Revolt In Oecunied Lands

NAZIS TIGHTEN WORKER RULES   Reign of Terror in France fs Reported

Charge German Reign Of Terror Begun In France   ew To Prevent Any Revolt By Patriots, As Invasion Day Nears

LENIENT TERMS OF PEACE ARE OPENED FOR AXIS POWERS   Satellites, However, Must Be Prepared To Get Out of War Quickly ~~

DENY REQUEST FROM DEFENSE   Asked That Prosecution Be Required to Furnish List Of Witnesses.

DIES 10 RETIRE, BLAMES HEALTH   Withdraws from Race for Roalastinn.

Martin Dies To Withdraw From Politics, Quits Race   Ill Health Said Reason For Not Runnin; Again; Throat Trouble Is Serious

SOLON MAY UNDERGO OPERATION   Congressman For 14 Years To Return To Private Business

Rep. Dies Reveals   Plans:To Retire  Will Not Seek Election In Texas

Dies Will Nof Offer Again For Reelection   Texas Congressman, Head Of Committee, Retires From Race

SURPRISE STAB AIMED AT REDS   Germans Claim Soviet Bridgehead Wiped Out—-Sevastopol Damage Pictured

NAZIS REPORT GAINS ON LOWER DNESTR RIVER   Germans Claim Axis Troops Still Fighting West of Sevastopol

Nazis Claim Bridgehead In Fighting  Near Dnestr   Say Surprise Raid Netted Large Area

Nazis Claim Victory (ver Reds   Soviets Counter Story With Account of Lashing Enemy Army

GERMANS CLAIM CRIMEA BATTLE STILL GOING ON   Nazis Report Victory Over Reds On Lower Dnestr; Soviet Reports, However, Say All Crimea Cleared Of Enemy  Forces.

Nazis Claim Red Bridgehead On Lower Dnestr Destroyed; Soviets Clean Up Sevastopol   Moscow Reports Recaptured Black Sea Port Suffered Tremendous Damage

NAZIS CLAIM VICTORY OVER RED FORCES   Germans Continu To Fight Near  Sevastopol

NAZIS CLAIM ‘SUCCESS ON THE DNESTR   Berlin Declares a Sizable Bridgehead Is Wiped Out in Surprise Attack —Says Germans Still Kioht in Crimea. .

Reds Handed Setback. Nazi Report Says   Enemy Claims Succes: On Lower Dnestr Anc Indicates Troops Are Sull In Crimea   Reds Report No Changes

Germans Claim Vieter ry Over Russian Force   Say Bridgehead On Lower Dnestr Wiped Out: Also Reports Nazis Sill Fighting In Crimea

TWO SHIP LOADS OF SEVASTOPOL SURVIVORS SUNK   GERMANS TELL OF SURPRISE ATTACK ON LOWER DNESTR

NAZIS: REPORT NOT CONFIAMEL   Germans Say They Wiped Out Soviet Bridgehead on Lower Dnester.

cr <x a ana  UNREST STIRS DUTCH PEOPLE   German Ministers Seek To Dispel Rumors of Al lied Invasion

Resourceful Yanks   When Hydraulic Fluid Failed; They Use Orange Juice, Coffee

J NEST Nil su   Conservative Action Draws Comment at Allied Monetary Chat

Strikers End Detroit Layoft   Dispute Settled With Return Of War Production Workers To Michigan Plants.

Detroit Workers Begin To Return To War Plants  3,300:-Foremen-Decide To Resume Work ALeae wi oe ancien

SPEED RETURN OF WORKERS TO PLANE PLANTS   Prevarations Made For Earlv Resumption of Production

Workmen Begin Returning To 13 Detroit Plants   Foremen’s Strike Ends But No Full Production For Some Time Yet.   Warned BRv WLB Head.

FOREMEN GET CALL TODAY 10 GO BACK TO JOBS   Michigan’s Major Labor Dispute Ap neagre Sattar

Detroit Men ‘Back At Work      First of 72,000 Michigan - War Workers Report; Strike Settled

Striking Foremen Return To Plants  Heed Government Call ~ To Resume Work

Michigan ~ Labor Row Is Settled   92,000 Workers Begin to Return to Jobs After Foremen’s Strike

FOREMEN STRIKE APPEARS SETTLED   WAR PRODUCTION WORKERS CALLED BACK TO PLANTS

FOREMEN STRIKE COMES TO END   52,000 Idie Workers Called Threat to Country at War

FOREMEN HEED GOVERNMENT'S WORK ORDERS   Detroit Workers Being Called To Jobs

STRIKE ENDS IN DETROIT: 57,000 IDLE   Manufacturing Of Plane Parts To  Be Resumed

DETROIT WORKERS RECEIVE CALL TO RETURN TO PLANTS   Early Resumption of Praduetion at {3 Factories Ex pected, Strike Ends

52,000 Returning To Work As 3,300 in Foremen's Union   Call Off Strike.

Call Workers Back to Jobs   Detroit Foremen Vote to Call Off Strike

CLAYTON WILL HAVE FINGER IN FARM PIE   To Have Charge of Foreign Economic Relations

BRICKER ATTACKS GOV'T BY SECRECY   Says No One Knows How Deeply Nation Is Invalved

Gov. Bricker Is Fearful Of Secret Pact:   Contends Administration Does Not Believe That American People Are Able To Govern Selves

SECRET AGREEMENTS  ATTACKED BY BRICKER   GOP Candidate Says People Have Been Kept In Dark On International Conferences

Bricker Hits Secrecy in Government   Says No One Knows How Deeply Nation Is Involved

RUSSIA TELLS ROMANIA HOW TO WIN PEAGE   Must Fight With Allies Until End Of War

Cotton Men Carr Fight to House  Predicted President Will Veto Measure

Submits Letter On ‘Shakedown   Hoffman Declares It Proves His Charaes

General Advances Of About A Mile All Along Normandy Front  STRAIGHTENING OUT THE AMERICAN LINE  Germans Still Show No Signs Of Any Large Scale Withdrawal

FIGHT RAGES IN BLOODY MILE’ FOR CITADEL   Soldiers Bayonet Path To City; Gain In Other Seelions

ASSAULT FORGES BATTER FORWARD AT SEVEN POINTS   Last “Bloody Miles” Inte Heart of City Shook Under Blast of Artillery Barrage and Infantry Fire.   BRITISH FORCES HOLD OFF 90 ENEMY TANKS   American Bombers Rock Munich Third Day In Row~ Drop 6,300 Tons—Robots Hit Roval Hospital,

Artillery Barrage Covers Vanguard: On City's Fringes   Last Mile And Half To Citadel Looms As Bloodiest Yet

General Advance of Mile Made On  Normandy Front   Nazi Keystone Bases of Lessay, Periers  Threatened By Drive

righting At St. Lo is Bloody   Key Transport Center of Lessay Now Under Fire

Stage Is Set For Assault On the Town   Americans Make Gains Ail Along Battle Front in  Normandy

Yanks Push To Edge of City of St. Lo   “Last Mile” t to German Defense Hinge; Make Genera Advance.

First Army Blasts Way Into Position For Charge; German Key  Defense Bases Of Lessay— Periers Threatened   LEFT WING Now CLOSING ON ST. LO

FIRST ARMY ADVANCES IN NORMANDY   General Gains of One Mile Made All Along Front

Gains Threaten Lessay, Periers Keystone Bases   Fortress City Outflanked in Push to St. Pierre; First Army Advance Nears Periers, Lessay; British Recapture Maltot, Beat Off Attacks

Sheep & Goat Raisers  Directors To Meet  June 3d at Junction Governor To Be Guest  Of Sheepmen At  Ouarterly Meetina

WORLD SERIES TO BE PLAYED IN ST. LOUIS   Browns Finish In First Place By  One Game

Airplane Deer-Spotters Have More Respect for Deer Than for Hunters

Finnish City Is Raided By Reds   Seek To Hasten Exit Of Finland From War

* —FINEAD N LAN D— FINNCITY HIT “AY RED BOMB:   Kotka, Industrial City Near Helsinki, Is Bombing ‘Target

150 RED PLANES ASSAULT KOTKA   Second Raid of Week To Oust Finland from War

RUSSIANS BLAST FINNISH TOWN   Kitka, 70 Miles East of Helsinki, Attacked by Large Aerial Force

ANOTHER. FINNISH cry BOMBED BY RED AIR FLEET ©   Industrial City of Kotka, 70 Miles East of Helsinki Bombed for Two Hours

Soviets Bomb Finn City   Kotka on East Coast Of Gulf Undergoes Two-Hour Attack

KOTKA ATTACKED FOR TWO HOURS BY  RUSSIAN PLANES   This Announcement Made. To day in a German Broadcast.   70 MILES OF HELSINKI   Anti-Aircraft Fire Kept Most of Raiders From Center of the City.

‘Kotka Bombed  By Russians Tinwiol: fit Ts  Tmrnic   Finnish City Is Attacked Two Hours

BRITISH ENTER TROARN, FIGHT SLOWING DOW!   Weather Clamped Stalemate on Battle

New Guinea Bases Take Heaviest Pounding as Jap Air Power Weakens

Wakde Area Of New Guinea Hit  Terrific Blows   Raid Heaviest Since PreInvasion Softening Up Holiandia; 334 Tons Bombs Drepned

BOMBS CRASH INNEW GUINEA   Wadke Island Section Un. dergoesHeaviest Attack Since Hollandia

SIX SEPARATE BLOWS STUCK INNEW GUINEA   Heaviest Hammering Since Per-Invasion of Hollandia Designed to Immobilize Jap Air Power   334 TONS ARE DROPPED

VITIATING JAPS IN NEW GUINEA   Six Separate Blows Struck In Offensive To Immobilize Remnants Of Jap Air Power In Islands.

‘Americans Hit Wakde Island   MacArthur Attempts To Immobilize Jap Airpower

HIT WAKDE ISLE WITH 334 TONS   Heaviest Raids Since Hollandia Pre-Invasion Assaults

JAP AIR POWER ON NEW GUINEA ALLIED TARGET   40 Nip Troop Barges Sunk By Yank Fighters

LUBBEN-SITZMAN WEDDING HELD   Young Couple To Make heir Home in  LeMars

Today’s War New: On All Fronts Of the Continent   (DY te AMssoelarea Fess!  Strike Aqain Across Alps

U.S. Flyers Bomb Two More Germar War Plane Plants  Reds Reach Dno, Near Pskov; Nazis Prepare New Beachhead Attack

Manpower and Draft Status   Tighten Deferments For Men Within 18-25 Age Group

Picture of Draft ls Drawn to Date   No Job Deferments For Youths Between 18 and 26 Unless They Are Endorsed as Key Men, With No Consideration Provided as Fathers.   OTHER GROUPS LISTED

Current Draft Picture! Older Fathers Granted Liberalized Deferment   Induction To Concentrate on Men Between 18 and 25 Years Of Age - - Men in 4-F To Take Jobs Essential to War

New Draft Policy will Be Easier on Fathers Over 30   Boards Told to Give Oider Group More Consideration; Tough On Those 18 ta 25

Job Deferments For Men 18 Through 25 Are Limited; Deferments Less Strict On These Above 30 Years

New Draft Dictum Gives Fathers Above 29 Break   More Liberal Consideratior For Deferments Ordered, But Strict Requirements Hold For Younger Age Groups

Age Is Draft Status Key   Dependency. a Factor Only in Older Group; 4-Fs Are Warned Again

Fathers Over 30 To Get Consideration in New Draft Rule   Non-Essential 4-F’s Are Warned To Apply for  Necessary Places

Local Boards Get Rulings On Manpower   Requirements on Men Over 30 To Be Easier, - Say Top Officials

Draft Less Strict On Older Dads  New Dictum Goes  To Local Boards

Draft Problem Now Ticklish   Following Is A Resume Of The Draft Picture As It Stands At Present.

Draft Picture Rapidly Nears tts Final Form   Three Age Groups Established; 4-F Men Given Warning

New System For Drafting [Men Appears   Fathers Over 30 to Get More Liberal  Consideration in Future

Dads Over 30 Get Deference By New Dictum   Other Brackets Tightened; Strong Warning Given Non « Essential 4-5.

eUratt Emphasis Now LaidOn *Age And Work  . 4-F’s War ned Again   4-F’s Warned Again @ To Seek Essential - War Work Jobs. ~

MANPOWER AND DRAFI PICTURE SATURDAY; YOUNGER MEN FIRST  THOSE 4-MEN NOT ALREADY IN WAR WORK WARNED APPLY AT ONCE

JAPS ARE PUSHED BACK IN INDIA   Allies Slice Through The Jap Road Blocks

Allies Pound Japs. to Lift Kohima Siege   Dimapur Force Batters Road-blocks; Stilwell Seizes Warazup

Allies Slice Thru Jap Blocks In Eastern India   Nipponese Ring Around Garrison Is Now Threatened

Allies Slice. Through Jap  Positions Ringing K chien   Relief Column Joins In Offensive To Clear Enemy From Bases Threatening Kohima-Dimapur Road; Additional Gains Made On Imphal Plains

ALLIED TROOPS IN KOHIMA AREA SLICE THROUGH JAP LINES   FURTHER ALLIED SUCCESSCESSES REPORTED ON PLAINS: OF IMPHAL 

Allied Troops Slice Through Kohima Ring   Relieving Column Joins Drive to Dispel Jap Threat to Vital Road

CHINESE TAKE VILLAGE, TRAP NIPS IN BURMA   Allies Prepare Offensive To Clear Enemy From India

BRITISH LIFT JAP SIEGE OF KOHIMA BASE   Advancing From Dimapur, Troops Slice Through Road- Blocks and Positions Ringing City in East India.

Japs Being Cleared From Indian Base.   British, Relieving Kohima—Battle Rases in. Ching

Allies Cut Japs’ Lines Eneireling Kohima Base   Enemy Pushed Back In Bitter Fighting; Heavy Guns Trained On Foe'’s Rear

Jap Inva sion ‘India Suffers Fresh Setback   British Score Against En  emy Ringing Besieged Kohima; Push Against Nips In Imphal Sector

     Allies Slice Jap Roadblocks Ringing Kohima   British Forces Push Ahead In Imphal Fighting

Break Road Blocks; Push From Imphal   ‘Tanks and Infantry, Also Heavy Guns Are Being Used in Drive

SUCCESSES ARE REPORTED FROM EASTERN FRONT   Slice Through Japanese ositions Ringing Besieged Garrison At Kohima; Enemy Driven Back Northeast Of Imphal.

Allied Troops Register New Smashing Gains In Drive To Clear Japanese From India   Smash Through Enemy Positions Ringing Besieged Kohima; Advance At Imohal

ALLIED TROOPS IN KOHIMA AREA SLICE THROUGH JAP LINES  FURTHER ALLIED SUCCESS.

Allies Make More Advances in  Burma Campaign  Japs Being Cleared From Positions  week ee

Allies Advance Against Japs In India   Break Through Enemy Positions Ringing Kohima Garrison

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN GROUND IN INDIA CAMPAIGN   Efforts to Relieve Besieg ed Garrison at Kohima Show Progress, It Is Claimed

British Relief Column Lifts Kohima Siege   Japanese Invasion Force Driven Back Northeast Of Imphal.

JAPAN'S CAPITAL 5 DREARY SPOI   Japanese, Particularly Those In Tokyo, Don’t Have Much Fun Anymore; Even Newspapermen Get Lost

LIFE IN TOKYO IS GEARED 10 WARTIME BASIS   All Food And Drinks Are Rationed And Blackout Is Really Black   GOOD STAGE SHOWS AND BOOKS ARE RARE

ASSAULT AIME AT TRAPPING NAZI ARMIES   Germans In Utter Confusion; Paris Action Cloaked In Secrecy

PUSHING ALONG SOUTH BANK OF SEINE   Seeks to Trap Rest of 7th Nazi Army and Part of 15th

ITALIAN PARTIES WORK TOGETHER   Communists Not Against Marshal Badoglio (,overnment

COMMUNISTS TO SUPPORT KING   Pledge Collaboration For New Italian War Government

ABANDON FIGHT TO OUST MONARCH   ITALIAN COMMUNISTS TO SUPPORT EMANUELE AND BADOGLIO TILL WAR ENDS,

Reds Join the Badoglio Regime  King May Abdicate in Faver of Son

Pretty Wedding Celebrated At Preston Chirch  [ ‘Arlene Helmrichs   i Arlene Helmrichs _And Clarence ; ‘Kallsen Are Married

Pretty Wedding Celebrated At Preston Chirch  ‘Arlene Helmrichs And Clarence  Fy . ff... Re _ a

PRESTON CHURCH SCENE OF PRETTY WEDDING FEB’Y 12   ‘ Arlene Helmrichs And Clarence Kallsen Are Principals In Event

Postwar Jobs For Veterans   %0GER BABSON URGES ACTION NOW FOR LATER

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  Allied Bombing Technique Now Highly Developed

VU. Doit Says That He Didn't Do It   LOS ANGELES JUDGE GAPES AT APPARENT MUTINY OF CLERK

Nazi War Prisoner Again Escapes,   Others Captured In Maine Woods

SILENT COMIC DUE ON STAND FOR AN IMPORTANT ‘TALK   Chaplin Hopes To Prove To Jury He’s No White Slaver

RED CROSS MEETING.   Prairie Township Women Invited To Take Course.

Nebraska Storm At A Glanee   Snow Slows Up  Motor Trattte   Began Falling Late Wednesday Night: Side RoadImpassable.

WOMAN'S CLUB TO FINANCE SCHOOL PROJECT   Vitamin Capsules Will Be Given To UnderWeight Children

Great Mass Aerial Raids Made on Berlin, Hamburg By 1,700 Yank Bombers

HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK BERLIN   German War Plants Hit By Over 7000 Tons Of Explosives

Nazi War Plant Hit by 7,000 Tons of Bombs   1,300 Yankee Heavy Bombers Blast Berlin And Hamburg Areas

1,800 Bombers - Blister Reich   Berlin, Hamburg, ' Othe: War Centers Ripped

Makes War On Former ~ Nazi Ally   Romanian Government Calls on Soldiers And Citizens to  Fiaht Germans

furncoats Go To War With Reich   Bulgaria Hunting Refuge; Crisis Rocks Hungary, Batlivwn dada. Mack

Bucharest Said to Have Been Liberated From Nazis in Heavy Fighting—Enemy Planes Bomb Capita!—Hitler’s Balkan Structure Collapsing — Bulgaria Appears Ready to Desert Fuehrer and Join Allies.

BERLIN ADMITS BIG RETREAT UNDERWAY   Russians Reach Key To Balkan Plains; Bulgaria On Verge Of Joining Allies; Germans Reshuffle Puppet Hungarian Government; Rucharect Freed

Romania Declares War On _  Nazis; Bucharest Is Bombed   King Mahai Calls. on Nation “To Rise and Fight the Germans”—Berlin Acknowledges Big  Retreat Is Underway

5TH RACES ON IN: PURSUIT OF FLEFING NAZIS   No Indication When Foe . . Turn _ Give

Germans in italy Still in Full Retreat   Getting Out of Adriatic Coastal Line, as Well as  Area Above Rome

Nazis Begin Retreat on Adriatic   Americans in Wes Are 40 Miles Above Rome

Along Broad Front Now Extending 40 Miles _ _ Above Rome os   RETREATING ENEMY LEAVE EQUIPMENT   General Retreat From Adriatic Coast South Of Rome Highway

zArR BRERA A   GENERAL NAZI RETREAT FROM BEYOND ROME   Allies, Now More Than 40 Miles North of Rome. Hard After Retreating German Army

Nazis Retreat Along Adriatic Italian Coast   Allies Broaden Front 40 Miles North of Rome

FINDS DIVE IS EGG      NAZIS BEGIN RETREAT FROM THEIR  ADRIATIC COAST LINE; FIFTH ARMY POUNDS AFTER GERMANS ON 3 ROADS

Weather Forecast:   Nazis Begin Fall Flight On Adriatic   Allies Pursue Army Along Broad Front 40 Miles Above Rome

JAPANESE HAVE ONLY THREE z FOOTHOLDS LEFT. IN IS- LANDS FOLLOWING NEW. AMERICAN LANDINGS

3. TARES 11 AORE ATOLLS IN MARSHALLS   Only Three Major Points Still Held by — Japs in Island Group

«AMERICANS NAB 11 MORE ATOLLS “IN MARSHALL IS.   Light Resistance by Enemy » . Is Quickly Overcome Says Nimitz

Vice President Wallace Urges Workers Be Given Raise in “Real W ages”

Wallace Asks for Higher Real Wage For Prosperity   Says Post War Welfare Depends on Greater Buying Power

URGES CHANG IN AMERICA? CONSTITUTION   Political Professor Suggests New Parliamentary System

Did J. L. Get Punched?  AWOL Soldier Says He Poked UMW Chief, But Lewis’ Aide Denies Story

AW. O.L. SOLDIER PLANTS FIST IN JL LEWIS EVE   Says He Fulfilled Agreement With Overseas Buddies; Staff Denies Story. 

28 JAP SHIPS SUNK, 66 HIT OFF LUZON   Nimitz Says 8-Day Toll of Naval Assaults Also Includes 462 Planes Downed.

28 Ships, 742 Planes Lost   66 Other Ships Damaged In Three-Day Blows On Luzon: Mindoro Drive Gains

FLAMES KILL FIVE DANCERS   FORTY OTHER PERSONS. WERE BURNED AS FIRE SWEEPS ¥ DANCE HALL IN — ' CANADA

ENEMY TRIES EVACUATION FROM PORT   Flee in Small Craft Under Hail of Allied Bombs

Will Take Rome Soon Says Gen. Mark Clark   In Brief Memorial Day Address at Anzio, Commander Promises ‘We Shall Carry on the Task Which They Began’

‘Rome to Fall Soon, Says Gen. Clerk In Services at American Cemetery

FIFTH ARMY HONORS QEAL   Servicemen Scattered in Other Parts of World Aiso Pay Tribute.

Rome Soon tc  Fall in Hand: of 5th Army  eoClark  Commander Makes Memorial Address  ps £ oO. wm... ibe... Bs

ko Saniaiiennl 2. “alaneiihh o. “aacabamie «. ‘einin Countless. Crosses, Row on Row 

Clark Says 3th Will Take Rome  Within Few Days   Peatth Nemoy Dead tlonorcdot) Miaeriortl Dry NServiec wt Vaio.

Clark Seés Rome’s Fall:   Commander Predicts An Early Nazi Defeat

Yanks Meet Savage Nazi Resistance   Progress ‘Satisfactory;’ Eighth Army Drives Up  Sacco Vallev.

Predicts Fall Of Rome In  Near Future   Gen. Clark Speaks At Memorial Day Service In U.S. Cemetery

Gen. Clark Predicts: Rome Will Be Seized Before Many Days Have Passed

Commander Certain Of  Liberation   Tells Troops Rome Will Be Captured Before Many Days

General Clark Promises Rome   Commander Speaks at Memorial Services of Fifth Army in Italy

WTAL AIL LINE CUT BY NPS   Bar Main Retreat Line For Several Hundred Thousand Chinese :   HEAVY'FIGHTING   Japan’s Large-Scale Offensive Turns Ominously Toward Chungking

CHINESE ESCAPE LINE IS CUT OFF BY JAP FORCES   Several Hundred Thousand Chinese Troops Bottled Up As Japs Cut Rail Line In Two Places; Heavy Fighting Reported.

Japanese Battle Loyang Defenders Tn Outskirts City   Cutting of Lunghai Railway Feared To Have Isolated Chinese Troops in Honan Province

Chungking Is Alarmed At Turn Of Tide   Several Hundred Chinese Cut Off By Jeps; Course of Battle Is Alarming

RETREAT CUT OFF   Chinese Armies in Honan Province in Precarious Situation

Japs Are Employing 200 Tanks in Assault on Loyang  More Railway Towns Fall as Enemy Increases Attacks

China’s Plight ~— Is Desperate   Three Japanese Columns Moving Forward

HEAVY VOTE IN MANY CITIES OF IOWARFPORTED   State Interest Is Centered in Senate, Governor Contests

IOWANS het PLEAD TU bt OUT THE VOTE   Dozen Cities Report “Heavy” or “Brisk” Balloting Up to Noon.

BRITISH TROOPS PUSH ALL NAZIS FROM FLUSHING   U. S. First Army Pushes Nearer Cologne From Hertgen Forest

Lent Regulations Most Liberal  Starts February 23, Leo, Reantl O

Allied Submarines Send 26 Jap Ships To Ocean Bottom   Nipponese Suffer Setbacks on Many Fronts in Pacific

Japs Suffer Reverses on  Every Front   Yanks Getting Set ‘or Final Blow on Saipan; Allied Subs Sink 26 More Nippon Vessels

Jap Reverses Are Reported in Most Pacific Theaters   American ond British Submarines Account eae 26 More Japanese Vessels Destroyed

eeteunneneeniememaes i ae  Train Strike In Second Day   _.. AS CHICAGOANS PREPARE TO PETITION PRESIDENT

73 GERMAN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Yankg Post Gains In Offensive  Around St. Lo

75 Enemy Planes Bagged By Nazis In Air Battles   Over 1,000 Bombers Sweep Over Channel To Strike Germany

Fighting Flares on Italian Froni  Patrols Are Active  Inside Florence

Fighting At Florence In New Flareup   Eighth Army Captures Hill On Bend Of Arno

Italy Allies Take Strategic Hill   Fierce Fighting Rages Along Entire Front

SGT. J. J, GIBSON DIED IN HOSPITAL IN FRANCE, AUG, 2   Son of Mrs. A. L. Gibson of Near Chula Wounded on Sixth of July.   IN INVASION OF FRANCE   Had - Received Many Markmanship Medals; First to Leave This County.

Service Vote Bill Passed By Senate   Martin to  Sign Méasure At Joint Session Of Two Houses

PLAN SUGGESTED TO PLACE AS IN WAR FACTORIES   « e HAIRMAN OF DEFERMENT COMMITTEE ADVOCATES WORK OR LIMITED SERpi VICE PLAN

Warren May Be GOP Keynoter Many Names Up  Re ins Fag OER, ogee <a e

Warren Tops Rep ublicans’ Keynoter List   Californian ‘Urge d Without Prejudice. to Possible Choice on Ticket

Claim Warren Choice Of GOP For Keynoter   Report Committee Asked By Leaders To Name California Governor

Warren Named Keynoter   California Executive Had Previously Been Slated As Vice Presidential Candidate

CALIFORNIAN MAY BE NAMED GOP KEYNOTER   Was Considered as Vice-President  Candidate

Gov.Warren First Choice As Keynoter   Republican Leaders Want Californian. To Address Party

Warren Urged As Keynoter   Republican Leaders Agree on California Governor, Reported

Republicans  Will Control  State Senate Two Additions, Now 18 Members  Tt . 1¢ Pine a emeta

GOP Wins Senate in Missouri   ‘Tuesday's Election Gives Them Control There for First, Time Since 1921   19 REPUBLICANS, 15 DEMOCRATS   G.O.P. Wins in the 17th and Qth Districts; . One Race Is Close

CHURCHILL PLANS ~~ AN EARLY MEETING       tie Minister Ex. “pected to Confer-” With FDR °°

FDR, CHURCHILL MAY CONFER SOON   BBC PREDICTS TALKS WILL DEAL WITH GERMAN ARMISTICE TERMS.

FDR, Churchill May Meet Soon   Signs Point To Arrangement of Another Meeting In Near Future.

Boost Gillette      Senators Want Him Made Chairman Of Surplus Property

Pay Rise Asked For 20 Million      ‘hite Collar. Low Tneome. Grouns Said Sufferine

REMOVAL OF LIMITS URGED BY COMMITTEE   Millions Of White Collar Workers Living In “Borderlane Between Subsistence And Privation™

Removal of All Wage Control of ‘Low Group Urged   Senate Committee Cites “Very Narrow Margin of Living”

WHITE COLLAR AID SUGGESTION MADE   Would Remove Controls on Low Income Group in Nation 

Recommendation Made to Remove Govt. Control on Small Income Wages

Solons Hit Curbs On Low’Incomes   Committee Proposes Removal of Controls

NATIONAL, LEAGUE   President Leads in Mourning Death of Secretary Knox

‘Nation Mourns Secretary of Navy Frank Kno}   Roosevelt Traces Growth of Fleet; Rites Set Monday

NATION MOURNS DEATH OF KNOX, NAVY SECRETARY      Is Given Credit For Building Mightiest Seagoing Force In World

DEATH OF KNOX IS ‘HEAVY LOSS’ F.D. R. DECLARES   President Leads Nation Mourning Passing Of Navy Chief

President Gives Sec. Knox Credit For Mighty Navy   Knox Indefatigable In Efforts To Put U. S. Navy On Top

SERVICES FOR SECRETARY NEXT MONDAY AFTERNOON   Undersecretary F orrestal Now In Charge of Navy Department.

FALSE REPORT OF INVASION IS BROADCAST   Nazi Fake Exposed; Claim New Planes  Held in Wait

Park Makes Flaming Attack On Utilities, Wins Approval’ of Majority Vote Proposal

: By Majority Yote Now \Former Gov. Park in Bitter Attack on the Utility Lobby

WORKERS ENDS   Settlement of Dispute Announced in Pittsburgh; Service Resumed

7 OHIO COMPANIES ARE RECONVERTED   Civilian Goods To Be Made Include Vacuum Cleaners

Hillman Appeal to Clergy Is Called ‘Insult’  Churchmen’s Group Holds P. A.C. Plan Communistic

Hillman Appeal to Clergy Is Called ‘Insult’  Churchmen‘ é Group Holds P. A  Plen poms

Kuriles Are Heavily Hit   Poramushiro Is Given First Majer Bombing

Small-Scale Nazi Attack Is Repulsed At Anzio Bad Weather Again Closes  Down Central Deieet me Hele

BAD WEATHER SLOWS BATTLE OF BEACHHEAD   Smail-Scale German Attack  Broken Quickly By Artillery Fire

NAZI PILOT BOMBS AU. 5, HOSPITAL; 27 DEAD, bo HURT   Three Nurses, Two Officers and Six Patients Among Those Killed Near Italian Beachhead.   PLANE SWOOPED LOW TO UNLOAD EXPLOSIVES   First Reports That  Attack Was Deliberate Contradicted by Stories of Eyewitnesses.

German Bombs  U.S. Hospital   Could Be Accident,  Officer Declares

NAZIS BOMB HOSPITAL; 22 ARE KILLED   Wounding ae. Including Nurses; Couldn’t Have Been Taken For Anything  DWlca   Kick in Teeth

GERMAN BOMB HITS HOSPITAL   Nurses Among 27 Killed In Evacuation Center  On Anzio Beachhead

27 Killed, 68 Wounded; Two American Nurses Four Doctors Among Deat

Beachhead Hospifal in Italy Is Bombed By Nazi Plane: Report 27 Dead, 65 Hurt

JAPS ADVANCE ON AMERICAN AIR BASES IN CHINA   Chennault’s Great Systen of Air Fields at Kweilir Destroyed.

JAP. ADVANCE IN CHINA THREATENING TO ENGULF US AIR BASE AT WUCHOW

GESTAPO TRIALS HELD IN PRISON CAMPS   Merciless Beatings, Tortures and Starvation of Germans Held in Canada Reported.

U. S. Airmen Smast Again at Nazi Targets in Reich  Air Force Continues Harsh Pounding Through Sixth Day

US. Bombers Over Reich Again Today   Raid Germany For 4th Time In Six Days

Yank Air Fleet ~ Plasters Nazi:   Showers Southwestern Reich With Bombs

J. §. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Allies Drop Total Of 20, 000 Tons Of Bombs In Six Days

AERIAL DRIVI GOES INTO . 6TH DAY   20,000 Tons Of Bombs Fal On Reich In Week   Lost By Nazis In Attacks Of Week-End: Targets In France Also Hit

U.S. Planes Continue Non-Stop Offensive Or Adolf Hitler's Empire

Non-Stop Air War Smashing Germany  In Two-Way Attack   Reports Indicate 300 More Nazi Fighter Planes Knocked Out While Allied Losses Steadily Diminish - - - Bombers Fly from U. S. Factories in Ten Days

‘U.S. Planes Hit Germans During Day; RAF Is Busy   250 To 500 Bombers Form Aerial Armada

‘cK IN IR OFFENSIVE   merican Bombers Carry Forward Against Hitler's Continental Fortress Today   TTACK FLEET IS SMALL

U. S. Bombers Attack for Sixth Day   Big Fellows Follow Up British Night Raids

DUMP BOMBS ~ ON GERMAN)   Blast Reich Targets, Sweep Qver French Coast in  New Attacks.

U.S. BOMBERS HIT SOUTHWEST REICH TARGETS   Carry on Offensive in Which 20,000 - Tons of Bombs Dropped on Europe in Six Days   TWO-WAY ATTACK   American Bombers Hit Targets i: Germany, France, Austria, Yu goslavia, Northern Haly

Non-Stop Air Offensive. at  ~ 20,000 Tons   Two-Way, Six-Day Blows Continued Today With U. S. Day Blows

Reich Again ‘Battcred By Yank Bombs   No Break In Day-Night Hammering; RAF Blasts From Two Sides.

U.S. BOMBERS RAID REICH AS DRIVE GOES ON   Southwestern Germany Hit R.A.F. Strikes At Nazis From Italy, Britain

ALLIED FLEET IN SOUTHWEST GERMANY TODAY   Bombs Dropped on Reich For Fourth Time in Six Days, Two-Way Offen ° eitva

Yank Planes Again Over Germany   Medium Sized Force Dumps  Bombs for 4th Time in 6 Days

Aerial War Over Europe Continued  For Sixth Day   Attack Today Fellows Two-Way Weekend Assaults From Italy And England

Bombers Blas! Nazi Targets Again Monday   Enemy Suffers Loss of 479 Aircraft in One Week of Fighting

U.S. BLOWS FOLLOW RAF DUAL ATTACK   Southwest Germany Hit Today Following Heavy Night Attacks

S, Bombers Push All-Out Air OHHensive   argets In Southwest Germany Raided My “Medium Size Fleet’ Of Planes,   TTACKS WIDESPREAD

20,000 TONS OF BOMBS HIT NAZIS SINCE TUESDAY   Maj. James Stewart Bags Two Planes in Bad Weather; RAF Rips German Dock

YANK BOMBERS «POUND GERMAN TARGETS ANEW   Wrtacking Force—of 250 tc 500 Planes — Strikes Southern Germany

HIT SOUTHWEST GERMANY WITH NEW ASSAULTS   Allied Bombers Drop 20,000 Tons on Nazis in Period of 6 Days

Yank Planes Hit Frankfurt Area   21,000 TONS OF BOMBS BLAST GERMANY IN FIVE-DAY AERIAL OFFENSIVE; R. A. F. ATTACKS SHIPBUILDING BASE OF MONFALCONE

U.S. Fortresses From. Britain Follow Up Night: Raids by R.A.F.   a  FOE’S LOSS MOUNTS  179 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed in Week of 4s OG Cancivn

Hitler’s Continental Fortress Battered By 20,000 Tons Of Bombs in 6 Days.   A TWO-WAY OFFENSIVE

German Areas Again Rocked By U.S. Bomb:   Attackers Fly Through Bad Weather and Encounter ‘Spotty Opposition In .. Daylight Attack -

American Heavies Hit Southwest Germany   Continuing Non-Stop Aerial Offensive, Allies Batter Airfields in France, Hit Targets in Austria, Yugoslavia, Italy

Southwest Reich Is Raided Again By Yank Bombers  Allies Continue

Americans Hit Nazi Targets   Carry on Aerial Offensive by Blow At Southwest Germany

NAZIS LOSE 300 PLANES IN TWO DAYS   American Bombers Blast Munition Plants Today

Allied Air Blows Into Seventh Day   Airmen, Who Have Dropped 20,009 Tons of Bombs on Continent in Last Six Days, Attack Targets in Southwest Germany.

U.S. Bombers Smash Reich Again Today   Two-way Assault. From  _ Britain and: Italy’ Batters Targets In South. ern Germany In Non-Stop Offensive.

Allied Bombers in Britain, Italy Join in Smashing Blows   Continue Non-Stop Assault on Reich and Occupied Europe

American Bombers Again Lash Reich   Medium Size Fleet Pounds Targets in Southwest Germany

I am mm am NS cc   American Bombers Continue Non-Stop - Raids On Germany

YANK BOMBERS PUSH FORWARD AERIAL BLOWS   Southwest Reich Hit As Follow-Up To Extensive Raids Over Week-End

POOR WEATHER FAILS TO HALT STRONG DRIVE   Little Opposition From Nazi Planes Met by American Crews

Yanks Again  Hit Germany With Bomb:   20,000 Tons Droppec On Reich In 6 Days: 300 Enemy Fighter: Believed Downed _

I ere Se re eR ee ea ae eee ee ee  CHARGE THREE HUNTERS WITH THEFT OF CANINE   Pointer Belonging to Mr. Myers Missing Several Weeks   HUNCH LEADS TO FIND

Suicide Rate Hits New Low Senne oie ge  Full Employment And Anger  Diversion Given As Reasons

TOKYO FLEET _ 1S GUT DOWN IN CAROLINES   MORE SHIPS SUNK; U. S. PLANES USE TINIAN AIRPORT

10 JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK IN-ASSAULTS   Total: of 26. Nipponese Planes Sent Down at Palau

Ten Jap Vessels Sunk in Palau Blow, Says Nimitz  Tinian Invaders  Ocecuny North Third   Tinian Invaders Occupy North Third Of Strategic Island

INTO SECRET SESSION   House of Commons Discuss the German Flying Bombs

Robot Problem  Before House Believe Flying Bombs Dropping Incendiaries

Yanks Engaged In Close Battle South Of Aachen   Claim .Fuehrer Examined By Brain Specialist;_ Stalin Sees Victory Near’

Ihe War loday  Reich State Of Nerves Aggravated By Dangers Of Russian Battle.

Reich Tense as Invasion Nears   Grave Danger From Russian Offensive Adds to Nervousness

RUSSIAN REVERSES AND IMPENDING ALLIED INVASION PLUS BIG AIR ATTACKS NOW HARASSING NAZIS   Hitlerites Now Forced to Stand Guard on Many Fronts in Europe as Red Armies Press Forward And Date for Allied Invasion Draws Nearer

UNHAPPY REICH’S STATE OF NERVES OVER INVASION BEEN ACCRAVATED BY RED OFFENSIVE

Tanks in 46 Miles of Paris   Armored Forces Storm East to Outskirts of French Capital

Yankees Near. Outer Forts of French Capital   Advancing Columns Fold Around Behind Nazis_  Fee Kl eiveemeareser

Bulk of Germans Facing Death, Says Montgomery   American Infantrymen, Tanks Push 70 Miles Beyond Sarthe Line

American Tanks, Infantrymen Drive 70 Miles Beyond Huns Shattered Sarthe River Line

TROOPS ST EASTWARD ON B0-MILE FRONT   French Capital May Be Cut Off

Yanks Storm to But 46 Miles From Paris   Bulk of Germans Face Encirlement and Annihilation

NEW OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED WITH AERIAL BACKING   Ground Forces Advance Southeast of Belgrade to Menace Nazi Hordes

Air And Land Assault War’s Greatest Yet   Terrific Aerial And Artillery Fire Precedes Drive At Aachen

Stalemate Of Two Weeks Is Finally Ended   One Of Greatest Air And Land Assaults Of  European Campaign Gets Under Way After Furious Nazi Attacks Are Repulsed

SIEGFRIED LINE BLASTED BY AIR BEFORE ASSAULT   Offensive Smashes German Defenses in Aachen Area; Fight Rages in Holland

Ist Army Hits Siegfried Line In Aachen Area   Combined Aerial And Land Attack Biggest Of War

CRISIS NEARS IN BATTLE ON COLOGNE ROAD   Fight Rages In Hurtgen For est; Resistance In Schelde Is Ended

SCRAP FOR KEY POSITIONS 10 COLOGNE   Americans Lose Town of Vossenack, Only to Regain It

New England Fires Destroy Six Children   Death Toll Of 21 For Past 10 Days

Fourth Term Move Launchee  Tn California   Democratic Leaders Pick Slate for May 16  Drimariac

JAPAN'S INNER DEFENSES HIT BY YANK PILOTS   Bombers _ Neutralize Enemy Bases 250 Miles From Manila

STEADY AIR ASSAULT ON JAP BASES   Action Extends From Kuriles to  South Pacific

American Airmen Continue to Hit Japanese Bases   Innermost Defense of Nip Empire Get Consistent And Heavy Assaults

NEW ITALIAN CABINET IN THE MAKING   Leaders of Six Anti-Fascist Parties Seek Formula for Entering Coalition Regime Under Premier Badoglio.

Italian Chiefs Seek Coalition   Sing Vittorio Emanuele Ready To Retire, Name Umberto Deputy.

KING VICTOR I5 WILLING T0 QUIT IN SON'S FAVOR   Six Anti-Fascist Parties Seek To Form Coalition  Ra eet EE AGT!

Antonio Says It Was Mrs. Dorsey Who Tried to Chop Off Hall's Nose; Mysterious Gambler Smiley Didn‘t See Any Knife, Not Even Antonio:

Bombers Hammer Iwo Jima      Twenty-First Straight Day of Attack On Isle Used By Japs As Base For Raiding Saipan

Iwo Jima Hit For 21st Day   Important Jap Plane Base Battered; No Planes Lost in Raid

BOMBS ON IWO FOR 21ST DAY   But MacArthur Says Japs Can Repair Coral Airfields In Half An Hour With Bulldozers.

Iwo Jima Again Hernnered By U. S. Air Force   Attacked for 21st Straight Day in One of Most Intensive Neutralization Campaigns

FLIERS HiT ITALY WEST COAST PORTS   Ground Fronts Are Quiet Save For Patrol Activity

ITALIAN PORTS HEAVILY BOMBED BY RAF PLANES   Americans Smash Them in Day and British Followed Up At Night.

Italy’s Coastal Ports Bombarded   Drive On Supply Lines Reaches New Pitch

Allied Planes Step-Up Bombing Raids in Italy   West Coast. Ports Under Heavy Attack; U.S. and RAF Bombers in Alternate Flights

Pinchot Urges FDR’s Election   Clare Luce Booth on State Wide Radio Hookup Tonight

4 Jap Columns Closing In On City Of Changsha   Reinforcements Moving To Front On Biak Island

MAJOR JAP EFFORTS SEEN TO TAKE ALL OF EASTERN CHINA   Nips Throwing Everything They Have Into Efforts to Push Chinese Beyond Bombing Range of Tokyo.

Invasion Due In May Say Nazis   Drastic Tightening Of Shipping Moves Zero Hour One Notch Closer.

Britaiit Suspends Channel Traffic  Invasion Base Is Virtually Isolated

Shipping To Lire Stopped By Britain   Germans Say Moves By England Foretelt Invasion Is Coming

(CUT SHIPPING FROM CORK IN  SOUTH IRELAND   ‘Nazis Say Zero Hour Set Some Time In May

FLIERS RENEW FRENCH RAIDS      Airmen Report German 7th Army in Rout

a Ee  BETTER WEATHER AIDS AIR FORGES   Allied Aerial Bombers Resume Blasting Of Retreating Nazis

SERVICE BALLOT DEADLOCK ENDS   Federal Absentee Plan Available To States That Want It

Administration Has New Snag in Soldier Vote Bill  State Right Faction Wins Point by Restricting Scope

Compromise on Soldiers Vote Bill Effected   Provides Use of U.S. Ballot If States Are Without Absentees

SERVICE VOTE COMPROMISE IS ACCEP TEL   Federal Ballot Plan Is Agreed Upon by Conferees

Block Use OF Federal Vote   Available Only To Service Voters Overseas On Eleetion Day.

Sirstise Compromise Sc-cier ¥ ye rye. ck ~ od 'o7> 44. Gives:S-azes JON+TO.

Conferees End Long Service Vote Deadlock   Federal Ballot Is Second Choice to State

compromise on Soldier Ballot Seen as Jictory for Backers of State Ballot Plan

COMPROMISE PLAN FOR SOLDIER VOTE ON DOORSTEP STATES  FEDERAL BALLOT UNDER

COMPROMISE SERVICE VOTE BILL DRAFTED   Advocates of State Ballots Put Another Crimp In Proposal of Administration   COMING UP NEXT WEEK

Compromise Ends Long Deadlock On Service Vote   Use of Federal Ballot for States That Want It ls Authorized

Compromise Service Vote  Bill Approved   Conferees Authorize Use of Federal Ballot For States Wanting It

COMPROMISE VOTE PLAN IS APPROVED      House-Senate Conferees Agree on Bill for Soldier Balloting

Block Service Ballot in U. S.   House Members Win Approval of Use Only Overseas

Compromise Service Vote Bill Drafted   Measure Left to States for Approval; Primary Vote Eliminatec

Administration Has New Snag in Soldier Vote Bill  State Right Faction Wins Point by  [ee ee Om st ee eed

Conferees Agree On Compromise Service Vote Plan  States That Want It Could Use Disputed

Ban Federal Ballot for ‘Home Forces   State Ballot Advocates ~ Win Another Victory In Leng Battle

Federal Ballot Use Only Oversea   Another Crimp Put in Administration’s Proposal by House Members.

STATE’S RIGHTERS PUT NEW CRIMP IN FEDERAL VOTE BiiL   Block Use of the Administration’s Federa] Ballot Plan Within the U. S.—Compromise Bill io Go to Senate

Proviso Limits Use of Ballot  To Overseas   States’ Rights Group Wine Point On Camnramica Bill

ANOTHER BALLOT PLAN SUBMITTED   CONFEREES LEAVE PROPOSAL UP T0 STATE ACCEPTANCE

Bobtail Yet Bobbed by Conferees   SERVICE BALLOT COMPROMISE PROVIDES FOR FEDERAL BALLOTS IF STATES WAIVE THEIB OWN RIGHTS   “Fight Has Just Begun”

Disaster Seen For Japanese In Mountains   Koiso Predicted Outcome To Decide Greater East War

Yanks Smash Jap Leyte Line   Battle for Island Drawing Near an End; Mindoro Drive Unopposed

Leyte !sland’s  Drive Nears — ‘End; Mindoro ‘Activity Quiet   ‘Tokyo Says Yankees  Covering’ ‘Reverses

Leyte Battle Almost Over   No Organized Resistance Left As Yanks Cut Defending Units to Pieces

Conquest of Leyte Near   Battle Rapidly Drawing To an End, MacArthur Declares

Battle Of Leyte ~ Draws To Close   -M‘Arthur Announces Complete Destruction of Japs’ Yamashita. Line; ¢ Only Small Remnants Remain

NO YAMASHITA LINE IS LEFT SAYS M ARTHUR   Battle Of Leyte Rapidly Drawing To An End As Japs Arein . Broken Lots

Struggle  For Leyte Nears End   Yamashita Line Pulverized By Advancing Yank Divisions; No Jap Action On Mindoro

Japanese Break, Flee As Yankees Near Conquest  Mindoro Isle Drive Still Unopposed By Nipponese; Bomber

Leyte Conquest. Near Conclusion; Yanks Mop Up   _ Little Organized Resistance by Japs, MacArthur Reports; Huae Stores Seized

Battle of Levte is  Near End   Outcome Will Decide Fate of Greater East War, Says Jap Premier

YAMASHITA LINE DESTROYED ON LEYTE ISLAND   Battle In That Sector Of Philippines Rapidly Drawing To End   SIX-MONTHS SUPPLIES LOST TO AMERICANS

M’ARTHUR SAYS FIGHT ON LEYTE IS NEARING END   General Reports Complete Destruction of Former Strong Japanese Yamashita Line.   ENEMY FORCES BROKEN INTO ISOLATED GROUPS   Units Flee Toward Port on Island’s Northwest Coast —Foe Loses 6 Months’  Supplies.

FATE OF EAST WAR HANGS ON LEYTE BATTLE   Japanese Premier Tells People Of Many Reverses

U.S. Conquest Leyte Island About Complete   “Battle” Rapidly. Drawing To End,” MacArthor Announces, After Two  Months

Battle Of Leyte Moves Toward End   Japanese Forces Broken Into Units Scattered Over Isle

CONQUEST OF LEYTE ISLAND IS SEEN NEAR   MacArthur: ssays. Battle Rapidly. Drawing Ms yd   “MINDORO ~ QUIET   No- -Eneniy — Ground Activity Repor téd On Oraex Tala naA

Leyte’s Conquest About Completed   MacArthur Says Bout for Strategic Island Is Near ‘Close:   AFTER 2-MONTH FIGHT   The Island Campaign to Decide Fate of Far East War, Jap Said

US. Conquest Of Leyte Nears Compi*‘ion Today; Is Costly Blow ““o Japs

Yank Battle For Leyte Is Near End   Jap Yamashita Line Completely Destroyed Gen. MacArthur Says  SUPPLY ROUTES CUT

M'ARTHUR SAYS LEYTE ISLAND FIGHT NEAR END   Jap’s Premier Has Admitted Outcome to Decide Fate of Greater East War

LEYTE ISLAND FIGHT DRAWS NEAR ITS END   MacArthur Announces Yamashita Line Is Destroyed

JAPS SCATTE BEFORE PUSH OF YANKS   Advance On Mindoro Still Faces No Opposition   YAMISHITA LINE   No Longer In Existence; Enemy Losses Placed Around 90,000

Japanese Yamashita Line Completely Destroyed  SUPPLY ROUTE OF ~~ ENEMY WIPED OUT  Cohesion of the Nipponese Broken, Communiaque Save

Disaster Seen For Jap Forces Left On [sland   Little Activity Reported ‘In Mindoro Island Campaign

SAN JACINTO DAY  OBSERVED BY MANY  TEXANS IN SERVICE OTHERS ON HOME FRON’  . CELEBRATED EVENT BY TD ANITIONAT CEREMONIES

LOCAL OFFICER 1S PRISONER OF WAR      First.:Lt. Elmer L. Myers Is in German Prison Camp

Lieut. Myers Is Prisoner Of War   Another Brother Recovering From Wounds, Parents Learn.

LOCAL OFFICER IS ~ PRISONER OF WAR   First.-Lt,. Elmer’ Li. Myers Ts in German Prison Camp

SWING TO G. 0. P. SEEN BY BROWNELL   Republican Chairman Cites Gallup Poll Figures in Predicting Klection of Dewev.

LEGION PLANS BANQUET   Dr. John B. Oman Scheduled to Speak Refore Post in Newtown

STRONG FORCES BEING ENGAGED, CLAIM OF JAPS   Planes Batter Strongho!d and Anchored Ships; Convoy Also Hit

Mighty Sea-Bérne: Air Assault Continues® ih Over Enemy Bastion .

JAPS REPORT LANDINGS BY AMERICANS   Mighty Sea-Borne Air Assault Continues Over Enemy Bastion

Japan Tells Of Fighting   Truk Is Strong Pacific Outpost of Japs

Reuters Reports Toko Breadcast « Claiming Invesion   Japs Maintain U. S. Troops Engaged in Landing Attempts

'Close Chinese-American relationship lin future seen by Chiang Kai-shek

FASCISTS AT ANZIO WITH NAZI TROOPS   Comparative Quiet Continues All Along Italian Front.

Fascists With German Troops  On Anzio. Front   Coniparative \-. Trariquility Continues All Along Ital. jan Front; Cassino Lull Continues

Italian Fascist Troops Aid Nazis Around Beachhead   Rome Radio Says German Troop:  Have Regained All of Cassino  Most of Suburhs

Use Italians At Beachhead   Fascist Troops Of Italy Sandwiched In With Nazis In Sector Below Rome.

FASCISTS JOIN GERMAN FORCES ON BEACHHEAD   Comparative  ranquillity Reported All Along Italian Front; American 240 mm. Howitzer Proving Its Worth In Italy After 50 Days Of  Shooting.

Italians on Anzio Front   Fascist Troops and Germans Form Line Against Allied Forces

Some Italians Help Germans   Fascist Troops Appear on Beachhead To Oppose Allies

Fascists Aid.  Nazi Force   Help To Ring Allied Troops At Beachhead

Fascists Are Being Used In Rome Battle   Germans Sandwiching Them In With Their Troops on Beachhead

U.S. PILOTS HIT BUDAPEST EARLY TODAY   Italian Troops In Line With Nazis On Beachhead

Some Italians In Nazi Lines   Fascist Troops Put In Line by Germans  At Beachhead

Nazis Using: Fascist: Units ‘OnBeachhead   Sandwich be Italians  ‘ir With Germain Troops: “Guns Duel in Cassino

Italian Fascists Help Nazis Hold Allies At Anzic   Rome Says Germans Retake Cassino

Fascists Are Said Fighting in Germans’ Ranks  Speculation Arises From New Niove By Enemy Leaders

ITALIAN FASCIST  TROOPS BEING USED  AGAINST BEACHHEAD GENERAL QUIET PREVAIL  ALL ALONG ITALIAN CROUND FR

Bulgarian About-Face  Reported And Denied   Berlin Radio Retracts StatementAs Exact Status Remains Uncertain.

Germany Gets War Declaration From Bulgaria   Russia, Britain and U. S. Also Are Notified

berlin heports, Retracts War With Bulgaria  earlier Broadcast Said      Earlier Broadcast Said Balkan Nation Had About-Faced   CORRECTION GIVEN   Ankara States German Minister Received Declaration

BULGARIA HAS DECLARED WAR AGAINST REICH   Radio Berlin Says Declaration Of War Has Been Received

Bulgaria Deserts, Radio Berlin Says   Claims Satellite Makes Declaration of War

War Declaration Report Retracted   Nazi Radio Corrects Original Statement.

HITLER LOSES BALKAN RAMPART TO ALLY CAMP   Satellites Crumble Around Germany

BULGARIA. BREAKS WITH BERLIN GOVT   May Have Actually Declared War  On the Reich ’”

G. 0. P. “NOT LICKED”   Must Keen Un Ficht for Picht Sort of DU. S.. Says Bricker

CONTINUE TO FIGHT BRICKER TELLS GOP   Maintenance of Two Party System Is Urged

Await Details of Aerial Smash   Communique Discloses 18 ed Ships Sunk

LUZON RAID SENDS MORE SHIPS DOWN   EIGHTEEN JAP ‘VESSELS, - IN.  CLUDING CRUISER AND DE » STROYER, SUNK IN LAT. EST AERIAL BLOW

U. 5. FLYERS DESTROY 118 JAP PLANES   Also Smash Three En: emy Ships in New Raid on Manila Area

Carrier Planes Bag 18 Jap Ships   Luzon Area Blasted During November

Only Obligation Is To American People—Dewer   Asserts’ "We Shall Not Make Secure Peace By Mere Words"

———— ne en ee 7 ‘Republican Nominee Calls On Party To Face UP Boldly I. Twin Tack Of Winning War, Making Lasting Peace

Bricker Named For Vice-Pres.   Convention Finishes Work In Three Days

Dewey Accepts Great Task Amid Cheers At Convention   Calls on Party to “Face Up Boldly” to Twin Tasks of Winning the War and Making Lasting Peace

GOP Honor ds Accepted By Nominee   Thomas E. Dewey Tells Republicans To Boldly Face Twin Tasks of Winning War and Making Lasting Peace 

Dewey Pledges Strong Fight   New York’s Governor Accepts Nomination

Only Two Survive Huge 'U. S. Tanker Explosion ‘In Atlantic Recently.

“WORK OR FIGHT” MEASURE URGED   Forrestal Endorses Bill Now Before Senate

FORRESTAL 18 FOR “WORK OR FIGHT’ LAW   New Navy Secretary Testifies for BaileyBrewster Bill

AGAIN URGED "AT HEARING   SECRETARY FORHESTAL ADVOCATES LAW DESIGNED TO “GIVE MEN “WORK OR FIGHT’ CHOICE

FOR “WORK OR FIGHT’ LAW   New Navy Secretary Testifies for Bailey- . Brewster Bill

THURMONT AND KNOXVILLE MEN FACE CHARGES   charles H. Clarke, Jr., And Joseph Himes Identified With Fake Ration Coupons   THREE OTHERS HELD BY FEDERAL AGENTS

MORE ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED BY OPA   Five Arrested and Two Cited Here on Sugar Ration Charaes

NEED RAIN FOR CORN   But Forecaster Sees Only Slim : Chance for it

BRITAIN’S COAL STRIKES SPREAD   Walkout Leaves 10,000 Miners Idle; Weekly Wage Protested

9-Ft. Channe Attacked by Westerners   Again Demand That Irrigation Be Given First Consideration

Fight is on For Missouri River Water   Irrigation Proponents Claim Amendments Are Necessary

TENTH EARTHQUAKE ROCKS ARGENTINA   More Than 1,500 Killed and City Destroyed

GIANT OMRY HERD AN AUCTION BLOCK   Kansas City Longview Farms to Dispose of 757 Fine Grade Cattle

Vital Areas in Admiralties Are Occupied  Nip Strongpoint Falls to

Vital Areas in Admirallties Are Occupied   Nip Strongpoint Falls to  Brmaricem Fareae

Lorengauon Admiralties Overcome   Occupation of Vitel _ Areas in’ Islandé**  _ Complete, Says MacActhur

AMERICAN TROOPS CAPTURE JAP BASE      Lorengau, Enemy Head. quarters in Admiralties, Seized

Lorengau is captured by U.S. forces  . Cavalry repels  . Jap resistance

Jap Lorengau . Base Captured   All Admiralty ‘Vital Areas’ Now in U. S. Hands

Yanks Take Lorengau   Admiralty Islands, Vital Area, Now Controlled by U.S.

YANKS CAPTURE LORENGAU BASE   Stiff Pillbox Defenses Overcome In Taking Jap Headquarters

MANUS ISLAND STRONGPOINT WON BY YANKS   Lore ngau Township, Key to Control of Admiralties, Taken

STRONGPOINT WON BY YANKS   L ore ngayu: Township, Key to Control of Ad: miraltica, Taken

DIPLOMAS 70 G0 TO SEVENTY MORE   Children of Country Schools to Go On Up.

EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATES T0 GET DIPLOMAS   Dr. I. J. Lubbers Will Give Address in Hubbard Gymnasium

Bomber Raids Are Made In Force On  Central Germany   U. S. Fortress Bombers Make Heavy Attacks On Vital Targets In Reich   NAZI REPORTS SAY AIR BATTLES RAGE

PURTO BLADT Al GERIMAN TARGETS   L b:rators Ht Mlitary Cb ec:ive; on Irarch Ccast.

Seven Seated on Patterson Jury   Ashland Machinist Goes on Trial in Local Court For Drowning Infant Son

Billiard Shots Fired From Bazooka and Small Arms in Wierd Fort Driant Wer

FIRST HINT OF BISSENSION AT ASSEMBLY MEET   Question Of Abernathy Confirm. ation As Member Of Labor Board

TROOP VOTING BILLS PUSHED IN STATE ASSEMBLY   Bi-Partisan Plans Adhered Te; Board Ap pointment Sidetracked

Democrats  To Block Abernathy  * £8 Sees Se i oe   ’ Unity Threatened By Opposition to Abernathy as State Board Member

LEGISLATURE HAS HINT OF — DISSENSION   Special Session Acting on Soldier Vote May Block Some Confirmations.

ADVANCE IS GENERAL ON WIDE FRONT   Germans Says Battle Is ‘Most Terrible of War’

American Armies Plunge Across Cologne Plain; Jungersdorf Is Occupied; Hurtgen Cleared; Julich Falls To Ninth Army   PATTON HITS ALONG SIXTY MILE FRONT

Yanks Plunge Across Plain  in Fierce Fight   American Armies Crack Nazi Hold On Hurtgen. Jungersdorf And Koslar

Eschweiler And Headquarters At Mulhouse Taken   Sixth Army Captures Saverne Fortress Opening Gap 17 Miles From Strasbourg. Patton’s Fichters Pounding Closer To Saar.

Gen. Devers’ Sixth Army Also Takes Saverne Fortress, Key to Rhineland; Eschweiler Captured by U. S. Troops

Armies Knock Out Forts In New Advance   Speed of New Drives Leads to Optimism For Quicker Victory

MARTHUR. NEN FREE PRISONERS HELD RY JARS.   American Listed in Small Group Found:  jin Admiralties ._

MARTHUR ME FACE PRISONERS HELO BY dAPS   American Listed in Small Group Found in Admiralties

AMERCIAN PATROLS FIGHTING IN STREETS OF ST. Ld AS BRITISH SECOND ARMY LASHES OUT FROM (CAEN SECTOR AND SCORES :ADVANCE—OF.,) FICERS IN NORMANDY-OPTIMISTIC © * . ©. OVER LENGHTH OF WAR - Me

MONTGOMERY'S ARMY BLASTS INTO EVRECY   Vendes Also Now In Allied Hands   GAINS ADMITTED   Hundreds of Germans Captured

St. Lo Entered By Yank Patrols   Bulk Of American Forces Only Mile From Center Of Town

VIOLENT QUAKE  RECORDED TODAY MAY CENTER IN JAP HOME ISLES   Tremors So Severe Instruments Broken

TREMOR HITS JAP HOMELAND   Violent Earthquake Is Recorded At Bromwich Observatory

President Expects Take-Home Pay To Hold War Level   Straight Time Increases Expected When 40-Hour Week Is Resumed

Wartime Level : Pay May Hold   General Wage Increase Now Tinhkkely. Uints FDR -

Jurors Drawn For November   Judge Joseph D. Mish Selects Citizens For Service At Court Term.

Jury Is Drawn For May Court   Judge Joseph D. Mish Selects 48 For Jury Service.

February Court Jurors Drawn   Judge Joseph D. Mish Selects Panel For Jury Service Next Month.

Knox Warned Japs to Watch Kurile Isles   The Bases “Have Been Bombed Repeatedly Lately

Predicts Kuriles Invasion   But See. Knox Gives  No.Hint of When; Japs Claim Forces Close in On Key India Railway

Knox Adds To Nip Nervousness by Saying American Invasion Of Kuriles ls Coming - - Jap s Order Draft of Chinese in Formosa - - Battering of Enemy Island Bases In Pacific Continues

Knox Warns Japs To Watch For An Invasion Of Kuriles   Islands Have Been Repeatedly Bombed, Shelled By Allies; ‘Troops Make Progress Against Enemy On India And Burma Fronts

Knox Hints at Invasion of Kurile Islands   Allies Advance Against Japs To India Fight

ISLE WITH GREATER REGULARITY   Tokyo Claims Nips Closing On India Rail Line   Tells Of Allies Successes In Burma: Australians Gain On New Guinea

Knox Says Kuriles To Be Invaded   Adds to Nerve War With Vagueness As to Time

First Strafing Attack On Batavia Is Made By Allied Bombers In 3,200-Mile Trip   Buildings On Java Island Hit And Three Jap Freighters Are Sunk By MacArthur’s Airmen; Conquest Of Peleliu Is Nearly Complete

Batavia Strafed By MacArthur's Pacific Bombers  Nearly All of Peleliu Island Now Held By U. S. Invaders

Clean-Up On Palaus Near   MacArthur's Planes Strafe Batavia; Three Nip Ships Sunk Near Celebes

BATAVIAIS RAIDED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Sensational : 3 200. “Mile Mission Made to: Dutch © “East Indies .

U.S. FLIERS STRAFE JAVA   Batavia Is Target; Peleliu Capture Near; China War Grave

PELELIU CONQUEST ABOUT COMPLETED   OWI Predicts 2-Years. Needed to De feat Japan After Germany Falls; All Super-Forts Return

Court Grants Graft Appeals   17 Defendants Giver Right To Hearing

TO TELL AXIS THE TRUTH   Short Wave Stations Will Broadcast News and Entertainment

ALLIES PRESS FORWARD INTO NORTH BURMA   Japanese Captured In Ruins Of Myitkyina “In Shocking State”   ADVANCES CONTINUE DESPITE MONSOONS

ALLIES ADVANGE DEEP IN BURMA   Jap Plan For Conquest Fails; Tokyo Troops In Sorry State

Nerve Center Of German War Effort Suffers Heavy Blasting. Other Nazi City Hit.

U. S. Airmer Hit Berlin Again Today   Twid Thousand Heavy Bombers And Their Fighters Make Attack

Amerieans Hit At Remainder  Of Marshalls   Victors Over Kwajalein Aim At Setting up Bases in China

YANKEES DRIVE ON NEW AREAS IN MARSHALL'S   Nimitz Aims To Push Across Pacific To Establish Allied Bases In China

Yanks Smash At Jap Bases  In Marshall:   Sea, Air Forces Assault Re. maining Enemy Positions: Mop Up Kwajalein.   AIM AT CHINESE BASES

Marshalls Now Being Mo, >ed Up   Bombardment of Tiny Atolls Continues as Jap Suicide Fliers Attack Rabaul

Clean-Up Pushed In Marshalls As  Resistance Sags   China Bases Will B Used To Smash A Jap’s Homeland Says Nimitz

Nimitz Looks Toward Chine As New Base   Sees No Hope of Defeating Japan From Sea Alene

MAP AIR BASES IN CHINA FOR BOMBING JAPAN   New Attacks On Remaining Marshalls Step In  That Direction

Air, Sea Fleets Crush Isle Nips   SHIPS, PLANES BOMBARD ATOLLS AS MARINES, SOLDIERS SLAY LAST JAPS ON KWAJALEIN; NIMITZ SAYS “WE’LL EXAMINE OTHER ATOLLS”

OTHER ISLANDS ARE ATTACKED   American Sea and Air Forces’ Aim Is to Drive Across Pacific.   IWANT BASES IN CHINA

Yank Sea And Air Forces Hit More Marshall Bases As Nimitz Tells Of Plan

Kwa jalein Conquest Paves Way For Pounding Of Other Marshall Isles

SMASH ANEW AT JAP POSITIONS IN MARSHALLS -—-Y. §. MARINES AND  SOLDIERS MOPPING 11D ON KWAIAELIN

COMBINED UNITS HIT JAPS ANEW IN MARSHALLS   Nimitz Wants to Set Up Bases in China for Drive Against Nips

US To Drive Through to China Bases   Nimitz Says Allied Forces Will Cross Pacific and Strike at Japan from . Mainland; Strike at Jap Positions

American Sea, Air Forces Smash Anew in Pacific Fighting   Allied Bases in China Aim of Commander of Pacific Operations

AMERICAN SEA AND AIR FORCES SMASH MARSHALLS BASES  WARSHIPS, PLANES BAT. TER OTHER ATOLLS AS      LONDON? NEWSPAPERS LOOK WITH JAUDICED EYES AT APPARENT ROME INVASION SHORTCOMINGS

U. S. Forces Carry Further Assaults On Jap Positions In The Pacific

U.S.RAIDJAP HELD MINDANAO   Carrier Planes Destroy Five Airfields; 52  Vessels

Dratt May Slow. Down Productio:   Seek Deferment of Young Technicians

WAR FACTORIES MANPOWER NEED SECOND TO ARMY   Factories May Have To Slow Down To Free More Men For Service

Advoeates Peacetime rqy ie eee lraining   Director of Selective Service Says Unpreparedness Courts Disaster

Peacetime War Training Urged  Say Unpreparedness Invites Disaster

Hershey Advocates Peace. time Military Training of Nation’s Youth.

3,200 Planes Hit Europe On Holiday   Channel-to-Yugoslavia Targets Are Shattered In Two-Way Assaults  1l BOMBERS MISSING

3,260 Heavies Tit Airplane Factories And Railway Yards   Shoot Down 66 German Planes ‘Trying to Block Attack. Amertcans Lose Twenty Bombers and Fighters

BOMBS RAINED ON EUROPE BY 3,200 PLANES   AT LEAST 66 NAZIS SHOT DOWN BY AIR ARMADA

‘About 3,200 Heavy U. 5. Bombers and Fighters  Thrown Into Battle

Bombers Hammer German Defense:   3200 Heavy Bombers And Fighters From Bri. tain And Italy Rain Destruction On Plane Plants And Bases

Yanks Rain Havoc On Nazi Lines   Two-Pronged Air Raid Sweeps From Sea To Yugoslavia

3,200 ALLIED PLANES RAIN  DESTRUCTION ON DEFENSES   "Germans Are Pounded From Channel Invasion Fortifications To Yugoslavia; 66 Enemy Aircraft Shot ‘Down To Loss Of 20 American Bombers And Fighters

ALLIES. DOWN 66 NAZI PLANES IN RAIDS ON EUROPE   Attacks Made on Enemy Defenses From English, Channel Invasion Defenses to Yuvoslavia.   AMERICANS LOSE 11 BOMBERS, 9 FIGHTERS   Targets Include Factories and _Airdromes ‘in Germany, Rail Yards in France and Belgium,

3200 HEAVY BOMBERS HIT ALL DEFENSES   From Channel to Yugoslavia; RAF Shoots 66 Planes Trying to Block Pathway.   Many Factories

Giant Yankee Fleet Sears Nazi Fortress   Bases From Channel To Yugoslavia —  Hit by 3200 Planes

Dual Air Blows Pound Naziland   66 Nazis Downed;  Americans Lose 20 By W. W. HERCHER

Reds Move fo Trap Nazis In Baltic Area   New Offensive on 175-Mile Front to East Prussia Gateway

Leaf Average For Season To Date 36 Cts. Above Ceiling   Lumberton ‘Market is Runomg Higher ‘Than Most ‘Upstate Centers.

Leaf Average For Season To Date 36 Cts. Above Ceiling      Lumberton Market is Running Higher Than Most Upstate Centers.   By Jasper C. Hutto Superviser Lumberten Tebacce  Bf a ote mA

Soldiers Not the. Only Ones Marked For Death as War Ravages Italy

Cradle to Grave, a Short Trip...  Italian Youth Will Be War Victim

Will Get Review Of Classing   To Fill Draft Quotas With Younger Men Providing Older Ones Are In Vital Work.

NEW POLICY — OF DEFERMENT JS ORDERED   No Change in Status  Of 18-25 Age Group

Induction OF All Men Over 26 Is Stayed   Classifications Will Be Reviewed By Local Boards

Meeting To Consider Proposed’ School Legislation In LeMars Next Friday   Chairman School Code Commission ‘To Be Speaker

Captured German Prisoners Disclose Generals  Want To Get Rid Of Hitler, End War Quickly

Captured Nazi Prisoners Report Long Quarrel Between Hitler, High Command  One Youth Reports Strong Feeling Against Continuing War, Another Stoutly Asserts

Captives Say They Knew Of Bitter Rift      Captured Germans Claim Soldiers Eager For Peace

Temperatures   Hitler Appeals For Loyalty   In Revolt Crisis   Nazis Sick to Death of War, But Still Believe In Hitler —

German Prisoners Tell Of Quarre! Between Herr Hitler, High Command

Fewer Gls Vote in President Election   Only 2,800,000 of Expected 3,392,000 Send in Ballots

SERVIGEMEN’S VOTE SET AT 2,800,000   Less Than That Estimated b) Election Officials

SERVICE VOTE Who AROUND 2.800 O00      Far Below the 3,392,000 Estimated Likely to Re Cast.

Service Vote in November Election  About 2,800,000: Far Below Estimate

US. AIRMEN HIT VIENNA AREA   Hungary ‘and Slovakia Pen Penetrated by Ameri.  can Bombers, Fighting Way Through ~ : German - Planég

ALLIED BOMBER FORMATIONS HIT VIENNA SECTOR   Also Targets In Germany And It Northern France Are Bombed

Allied Bombs Strike France And Vienna   Bad Weather Restricts Air Activity; British Bombers Strike From Italy

URGES — ~~ LABOR DRART   EX-AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN TELLS COMMITTEE THAT _NATION HAS TOO MUCH °  “WISHFUL THINKING” .

Planes and Guns Blast Nazi City   Attack Commences After 24-Hour Ultimatum Is Ended.

Germany’s 37th City Te Fall Soon As Yanks Pound With Artillery  NAZI ANTIAIRCRAFT DEFENSE BEGAN TO WEAKEN IN 4 HRS.  Lightning Dive Bombers Dive At Doomed City In Relays

DIVE BOMBERS SMASH AACHEN THIS MORNING   Great Demonstration Of Allied Air Might Given For Four Hours

Eyewitness Account of Attack On City  Di £*-Bombers Smash At Aachen

County Is Short  on E Bond Quota   A Shortage of Approximately $70,000 Was Reported Today.

LIVINGSTON CO, ~ OVER.THE TOP IN WAR LOAN DRIVE   Today’s Total Shows Sub. scriptions Totalling $508,635.93; Short on E Bonds   TOTAL SALE $128,981.25   The E Bond Is the Most Widely Distributed Security in the World.

Death-Express Will Fly Dawn-to-Dusk  Eisenhower Tells Airmen Their Invasion Duties

Warns Fighter Pilots They Will Haye Tough J ob  -Lu' Invasion of Enuképe

Big Job Assigned To Airmen er ere rege  Kisenhower Tells Great Role Fliers Will Play In Invasion

Gen. Eisenhower Visits American Fighter Pilots   Airmen Told They Wil Knock German Air Force from the Sky

“lke” Prepares Pilots for ‘D’ Day   Says: Dawn to Dusk Death Express Will Play Great Invasion Role.

Eisenhower Tells Plan Of Invasion   American Fighter. ’ Pilots Told Role In Eurovean Thrus'

Fighters to Fly Dawn-to-Dusk Death Express   Lisenhower Tells American Pilots  Of Task Ahead

Death-Express Will Fly Dawn-to-Dusk  Eisenhower Telis Airmen Theit Tageasianw Thies

Capital Under Alert From 5 to 10 P. M. During First Attack —Second Raid Begins at 11 and Ends Shortly Before Midnight—Onslaughts Come as Rumors Circulate of Efforts on Part of Finland to Make Separate Peace.

SOVIET PLANES RAID HELSIN!   Second Attack in 11 Days Causes Heavy Damage; Another Town Hit

HELSINKI REHIT BY RUSSIANS   Second Attack on Capital in 11 Days

RUSSO PLANES BOMB HELSINKI   Peace Rumors Continue To Eminate From Finn Capital

RUSSIAN PLANES ATTACK HELSINKI   FINNISH CAPITAL DAMAGED BY RAID. OF 400 BOMBERS

Finn Capital Again Bombed   Waves Of Russian Planes Raid Helsinki As Peace Talks Rumored.

beta BOMBED BY SOVIET FLIERS   Great Damage to Capital of Finland Is Re narted

HELSINKI BOMBED BY SOVIET FLIERS      Great Damage to Capital of Finland [s Reported

Soviet Planes  Raid Helsinki   400 Bombers Batter Finnish Capital; Peace Terms Being Sought

Russian Planes Again Blast Helsinki Area   Rumor of Armistice Of Reds and Finns Continues in Sweder

RUSSIAN PLANES BOMB HELSINKI   Separate Peace Rumor: Still Emanate From Finnish Capital

Soviet Planes Bomb Helsinki  Second Time   Foreign Sources Believe No Deadline Set For . Finn Capitulation

SOVIETS BOMB HELSINK! AGAIN   Fires are Started as Rum. ors of Peace Moves  Are Continued   Attack Called Medium

HELSINKI IS BOMBED TODAY BY RUSSIANS   Damage Done As Peace Terms Are Underwav

Red Bombers  Raid Helsink   Spread Damage Through Much Of Finland’s Capital; 400 Planes,

Reds Heavily Bomb Helsinki   Send- 400 Bombers Over Finn Capital in Nine Hours

400 Red Planes Smash Helsinki In Second Raid   Also’ Sirike” At Asbo On  Southern Coast; Peace  Negotiations Clouded

Shaw Says De Valera Will Tell FDR to Go to Hell and Get Away With It

Argentina's Action Happy Development for the Allies Hitler Trying to Cause UN Disunity

ARGENTINA’S ACTION SEVERING RELATIONS WITH AXIS NATIONS HAPPY DEVELOPMENT FOR ATLIES

BRITISH WARN OF INTENTION TO ATTACK ELAS   Athens Citizens Told To Beware After 9 A. M. Tomorrow

CHURCHILL SAYS BIG 3 IN ACCORD ON GENERAL AIMS   SIDESTEPS QUERY ON DIVIDED INFLUENCE IN DEBATE ON GREECE

Churchill and Eden Stand on Greece Policy: Athens Civilians Are Warnec

GREEK FIGHTING MUST CONTINUE   Britain's General Scobie Announces Determination To Carry Fight To ELAS.

COMMONS HEAR SPESIAL DEBATE ON GREEK ISSUE   Churchill Says Nations Agree  With England

Scobie To Throw All Arius Into  Greek War   To Use Aircraft, Naval And Rocket Weapons In Athens, Commander Says

ELAS Forces Are Warned To Stop Shooting   Athens Civilians Told British Will Act to End Strife;, Churchill Assailed

Scobie To Carry Fight To ELAS   Warns That Leftist Guns Firing Upon Athens Would Be Attacked.

SCOBIE WARNS GREEK LEFTISTS   WILL ATTACK WITH ALL ARMS AT HIS DISPOSAL

ALL-OUT ATTACK ON ELAS PROMISED   Hint Archibishop Will Be Accepted as Regent

British Will Attack ELAS   Lt. Gen. Scobie Determined to Carry Ficht in Athens

COMMANDER OF BRITISH GIVES GREEKS NOTICE   Leftists Firing on Athens Tomorrow To Be Given Heavy Barrage

Scobie Warns ELAS to Prepare Forces for Showdown Scrap      Commander Determined ito Carry. Fight... to ~Eeftist Weorescoré

Scobie Warns Civilians He'll Sfart Thursday   Big Three Agree On Main Aims, Commons Told By Churchill In Talks On Situation

Full-Scale Attack On Elas Threatened   British Commander Says Aircraft, Naval Guns and Rocket Weapons Will Be Used Against — Leftists: After 9 A. M. Thursday.

Scobie Reveals .  Determination fo  Subdue Partisans Athens Civilians Warned  Leftist Guus Will Be Hit With ‘All Arms ai Dicposal’

FINAL VOTE NEAR ON POSTWAR BIL   Charge Measure Will Set Up ‘‘Dictator” to Dispose of Surplus Material

NATION TENSE WHILE TROOPS STAND GUARI   Trolley Worker Strike Heightens in Brussels. Gov't Will Not Resign

CHAMBER BACKS BELGIAN PREMIER   British Tanks Guard Belgian Parliament

Pierlot Given Chamber O. K.  British Guard Belgian Parliament Session

Peterson Advocates ‘Harmony’   Stable Water Policy Is Termed ‘Essential’

Dewey Far Out In Front for GOP Nominatior   Stronaly Backed In Larger States

Dewey Leads In Pledged And Claimed Delegates   Governor Far Ahead In G.O.P. Scramble Despite His Insistence We le Nat Candidate   WISCONSIN PRIMARY SCHEDULED TUESDAY

Dewey Tops List of GOP Candidates   BUT NEW YORK GOVERNOR SAYS HE IS NOT A CANDIDATE; HAS 166 CLAIMED DELEGATES IN THE BAG   Willkie Claims 10

106 DELEGATES ARE FOR DEWEY   New York Governor In Lead For Republican  Nomination

Dewey Leads In Delegate Pledge   Secures 82 from N. Y., 20 From N. C.; Midwest Strength To Be Tested.

Nazi Shells Kill 2 More U. S. Nurses   (By REYNOLDS PACKARD). (Representing the Combined American Press). (Distributed by the Associated  race )

Shells Kill Two Nurses   Clearly Marked Hospital Tents Hit By German Artillery Fire

"We're Staying,’ U.S S, Nurse s Say After German Shells Kill Two

Another U.S. Hospital Hif   More Nurses Killed In Nazi Bombardment

Two Red Cross Nurses Killed As Nazis’*30mb Another U. S. Hospital

NAZI SHELLS KILL TWO MORE NURSE   30 Now Are Dead Fron Hospital Shellingcs

TWO RED GROSS PURSES KILLED BY NAZI SHELLS   Six American Women Have Met Death in Italian Beachhead Zone

TWO RED CROSS NURSES KILLED BY NAZI SHELLS   Four German Shells Hit Carefully Marked American Field Hospital at Anzio

GERMANS AGAIN BOMB HOSPITAL   Two Nurses Killed, Medics Wounded   oo = eae Fe ae eee  (Representing the Combined United States Press)  Distributed by International  P. Witepperiosps) Geren

Second Field Hospital Hit By Nazi Shells   Two Women Nurses Are Killed In Latest Bombing Outrage In Italv

Two More Nurses Killed; Refused To Leave Posts   Four German Shells Smash Into Center Of Field Hospital On Rome Front; “We Are Here To Stay.” Declare Plucky American Girls

Two U. S. Nurses Slain by Nazis   Field Hospital Struck by Shells

4 HUGE SHELLS HIT HOSPITAL KILL 2 NURSES   Crash Through Carefully Marked Receiving Tents

Two Nurses Killed In Second Atfack On UJ. §. Hospitals   Six Shells Plowed Into Marked Field Medical Center

ENEMY IGNORES "MERCY MARKS” A SECOND TIME   Two Red Crosses Killed by Shrap nel.—Have to Evacuate Patients From Field Hospital.

Two More American Nurses  Killed in Beachhead Hospita   Four German Shells Hit Carefully Marked Red Cross Hospital near Anzio—Nurses Refuse  to Leave Wounded Soldiers

Germans Shel Hospital, Kill Two Nurses   By REYNOLDS PACKARD Representing th the c ombined Amer

ALLIED FIFTH ARMY FIGHTING TOUGH BATTLE; STIFF RESISTANCE   British Tommies Have Broken Over the Lower Garigliano River.

Allied 5th Army In New Offensive   British Troops Have Cross ed Lower’ Gariglianc River In Italy

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  Antwerp Port Would Speed Supplies To Front

ROOSEVELT SEEKS LEGISLATION FOR BENEFIT OF VETS   Would Designate Federa Employment to Allow  . Them First Chance For Five-Year Period.   THREE SUGGESTIONS INCLUDED IN HIS PROGRAM   President of U. S. Civil Service Gets Letter, Memo on Placing Veterans In Federal Inhs.

Japanese Area Taken In Face Bitter Battle   Victory in Schoutens Places U. S. Forces Less Than 900. Miles From Philippines   U.S. Losses Light M’ Arthur Reports   Ends New Guinea Cam paign; Yanks Fighting  Way Toward Three Airfields

Bringing M’Arthur to Withir 900 Miles of Philippines In OO Mileleanfroo Advance

American Troops Invade Biak Island To Move Within 900: Miles Of Pl

YANKS MEETING TOUGH DEFENSE ON BIAK ISLAND   New Guinea’s Fate Is Sealed, MacArthur  Declares

FIGHTING HEAVY 900 MILES FROM PHILIPPINES   MacArthur’s Men Hammer Way Toward Three Airfields On Biak

Americans Land  On Biak Isle In The Schoutens   Yanks Invade Island Less Than 900 Miles From Philippines; Meet Strong Enemy Resistance

Biak Isle Is Invaded By Allies;  Bases Taken   Drive Brincs Army Nearer Philippines

"A" Ration Books Can Be Renewed  Old RanaLle Ev   Old Books Expire Sept. 21; Make Application Now

"A" Ration Books Can Be Renewed   Old Books Expire Sept. 21; Make Application Now

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO SUBURBS OF BUDAPEST   British Near Success In Campaign To Clear Antwerp Area

HOLLAND DRIVE BEGINS TO TURN SIEGFRIED LINE   German Resistance Grows Stiffer; Himmler Claimed To Have Made Plea

Hitler's Forces Beaten Back on Holland Front   Ground Troops Make More Contacts with Airborne Units

Brest and  Boulogne Cantured   Glider Troops Gird For Strike Around West Wall

GOP Blames Speech Ban On Roosevelt   Army Cancellation of Socialist Broadcast Stirs Protests

GOP Blames White House ‘For Not Allowing Socialist Broadcast to U.S. Troops  

British Guns Within Range Of Pescara   Allied Bombers Attack Italian Riviere Rail Yards

: Today In Washington: Some Facts Which Mr. Roosevelt Conveniently  Forgot In N. Y. Speech

YANK FORGE Al CASING ALSO GAINS   Nazis Bomb Another Hospital  BOMBERS ACTIVE  Fight Being Carried To Enemy

REPUBLICAN WINS DEMOCRATIC SEAT   First GOP Candidate To Be Elected From New York District In I5 Years

GID JUD ETON CHALLENGED BY SFL   Claim Employes of Two of the Four Detroit Ward Stores Not on Strike

Moscow Joyous As News Breaks   Demonstrations Held After Announcement Of Allied Landinas

Filing Deadline At Midnight nn RTE  Candidates File For Senate And House With Sec’y Of State

TYDINGS FILES FOR DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY   Seualer Says His Position On Xay tional And Internation! Policies I. Well Bnown

Japs Make Stab at Protecting Last Foothold on Leyte, Around Ormoc; Twin Assault on Pinamopoan Bequn

American Forces Hurl Land and Sea Offensive Against Defending Japs   U. S. Planes Take Heavy Toll of Tokyo’s Convoys in Battle on West Central Leyte Coast; Japs Continue Advances in China

Jap Counterattack on Leyte Bloodily Repulsed   Desperate Nipponese Troops Battling To Retain Foothold

Shock Troops Spearhead New Attacks   Enemy Supply Lines Knocked Out By Fighter Pilots

 Two Young Men Apprehiended Here —  Wednesday By Local and State Police iAlso Wanted by Police in New Jersey   Crime Wave Ends for Young Men Wearing Stolen Army Air Force Officers’ Uniforms; Stolen Articles Found in Car Used by Youths

Two Posing as ers Arrested             {pprehended in Smethport W earing Air Force Officers’ Uniforms and  Wembers of Armed Forces: Stolen  + Found in Car Used by Youths

CAPITAL TAXI STRIKE ENDED   } City Promises To Consider New Rate Ordinance

One Dead, Nine Hurt In Crash   Accident Near Greensburg May Gost Another Life

Business Seizure Orders Extend To West Coast   Navy to Take Over Five Concerns In San Francisco

> West Coast Plants Seized On FDR Order   AFL Ban on Overtime Above 48 Hours Brings  page acre ecmcrn patie

Russ Officers See American  Landing Drill:   Preview Invasion ‘Planned For Western Europe— Interest Is Keen

Soviet Military Mission Observes Joint Army-Navy Games in England

Russian Army And Navy Officers View  U. S. Preparations For Invasion Move

Red Chiefs In  Invasion Plan   Russians Army, Navy Officers Witness, Participate In Landings.

TAKE PART IN U. S.  PREPARATION FOR  EUROPE INVASION EXERCISES ARE HELD  JOINTLY BY ARMY, siaAUY If, CNC! AND

Reds Active In Invasion Moves   Observe Training In Amphibious Programs Planned For Operations Again the Continent.

RUSSIANS OBSERVE 1), S, PREPARTIONS   See Exercises Held By Army, Navy in English Coastal Area.

Reds See Drill For Invasion   Army and Navy Officer Witness Americans Train in Enaland

Red Military Men WatchUSS.  Invasion Plans   Army and Navy Officers Participate In Preparations; Peo ple O£ France Warned

Reds Inspect)U.S. Bombe: Channel Plan Raid Target For Invasion At Brunswic

CHINESE ON OFFENSIVE   Are- ‘Attacking Jap St ‘Stronghold of Siangs!

Chinese Force Attacks Japs  At Siangsiang   American Planes Hammer Changsha, Causing Great Fires

CHINESE ON OFFENSIVE   Are Attacking Jap Stronghold of Siangsiang

Chinese Attacking Japanese Stronghold  U. S. Air Force Fighters  Attack Heanavana

Canadians Attack Above Falaise To Seal Death Trap   Length Of War, Fate Of! Paris Depends On Battle’s Outcome

Battle For Warsaw Has Been Raging For Several Days   BERLIN SAYS BALTIC SITUATION CRITICAL  Ce Driuntiae  Thieiartnnwe

Drop Supplies To Poles In Warsaw   Arms, Ammunition Sent To Fighting Patriots

Nazi Spy Testifies Against Thomas   Woman Describes Undercover Work

Negro Confesses Murder of Pretty Wife of Cadet in Alabama June I5

Negro Admits Attack-Murder  AtM ontgomery   Police Say Worley James Confesses Slaying Young Wife Of Cadet

Urge Early  Campaign   Necessary If Soldiers Are To Be Given Vote

Early Start Of Campaigns Is Advocated   Parties Must Select. ‘Their Candidates Soon, Says _ Sen. Vandenberg

Early Opening Of Campaigns   June Conventions Urged To Speed Absentee Voting

RUSSO-POLIS CRISIS FEARED   Prohlem Considered  Acute   Tension Mounts as Reds Advance

Polish Border — _ Crossing Brings New Question:   \Political Significance Of Re-Entry Of Russians Into Poland Stressed   POLISH CIRCLES RELY ON ATLANTIC CHARTER

POLES ASK U.S, AID IN HOLDING OLD TERRITORY   Envoy of Refuge Regime Meets Hull as Reds Cross Border

GOP Calls For ‘Free  Society’   Dewey Assured of 792 of Convention’: 1057 Votes in Tomorrow’s Bailot

Battle Expected On Adoption Of Platform Today   Despite Speeches For Tonight Delegates Are Restive

Republicans Have Trouble With Platform   Resolutions Committee Tries To Assemble Acceptable Planks

REVOLT OF SOUTH IS APPLAUDED   Dewey Is Assured O} @ 792 Of Conclave’s 1057 Ballots

Rep. Martin Again Named Permanent Chairman, Calls For ‘War’ Between ‘Free’ And Regimented Society

REPORT IS DELAYED   G. O. P. Convention Hears Chairman Flay New Deal

NAZIS KIDNAP PETAIN; TAKEN TO WIESBADEN   Report Also States German Massing 300,000 Troops To Defend Belfort Bastion

TAKE PETAIN FROM VICHY 10 WIESBADEN   Aging French Leader Whisked Away By Gestapo; Laval Flees With Retreating Germans.   Protect Rhineland

Report Petain Was Kidnaped By Nazi Gestapo   Apparently Carried Off When He Would Not Flee With Laval

ALLIES IN ITALY "REACH 79-MILES NORTH OF ROME   Fifth Army . Maintains It: - Lightning Sweep; Nazi » __ Rout Continues

Allies pursue  battered foe Make25 mile gain  along Italian line

Fleeing Nazis In Italy Give Up ‘In Droves   Americans on Coast Road Capture Grosseto, 100  Miles Fram Rame

ALLIES GAINING 15 MILES DAILY   Disorganization Of Nazi Forces Becomes More Vivid

Allies Advance Rapidly in Italy  Nazis Abandoning   Nazis Abandoning Much Equipment

NAZIS STILL = IN RETREAT   GERMAN ARMY NOT YET REORGANIZED AS ALLIES” REACH POINT 79 MILES. : * ABOVE ROME

Yanks in Italy  Seize Grosseto  In Swift Gain   Allies Reach Points Within 85 Miles of Enemy's Defense Line

Germans Setting Record in Italy   Retreat 15 Miles Within 24 Hours

ADVANCE 20 MILES TOWARD ENEMY LINE   Allies Approaching Pisa, Florence, Rinini = in Drive Up Italian Peninsula.   18 Planes Lost

Allies Keep Up Advance Above Rome   Gain As Much As 25  Miles In Drive Up Ital ion Perithsdla, Meur~ ing Defense Line

ALVIES ADVANGE 20 MILES IN ITALY   BEATEN NAZIS ARE THROWING AWAY GUNS AND SURRENDERING IN DROVES.

Lightning and Mustang Fighters Blast Five Enemy Airfields Near Avignon in Southern France; Planes Hangers, Locomotives And Tank-Cars Were Primary Ohiectivee

ALLIES MAKE LARGE GAINS -INITALY PUSH   Disorganized Nazi Troops Surrendering in Droves

ALLIES NOW 70 MILES NORTH OF ROME   Advance at Average Rate of 15 Miles Per Dav

Nazis F leeing In Disorder  Through Italy  American Troops in Th nem Naanler 100   American Troops in Town Nearly 100 Miles From Rome

ALLIES JUMP 29 MILES ON [TALIAN FRONT   DISORGANIZED NAZIS TOSS EQUIPMENT AND SURRENDER

OUTLOOK IS BRIGHTER FOR RAILMEN   Chances of Settlement Appear Better

RAIL WAGE SETTLEMENT BRIGHTENS   18 Railway Unions Schedule Sessions To Consider Case

SEE HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT OF RAIL DISPUTES   Leaders Of 48 Unions Again Are Seeking To Untangle Problems

Rail Pay Issue Tackled Anew   Unions Consider Late ‘Developments

OUTLOOK BRIGHTER FOR SETTLEMENT OF RAIL WAGE DISPUTE   Leaders Of 18 Unions To Review Latest U.S. Moves

Dewey Terms Hillman Influence on  New I Peal “Unhealthy”   i we rn... =F wel ea: Lwewsare   GOP Nominee Pays High Tribute to Farmer: Of West While at Billings; Says Government Has Accumulated Too Much Wool

Dewey Terms Hillman Influence on  New Deal “Unhealthy”   GOP Nominee Pays High Tribute to Farmer: Of West While at Billings; Says Government Has Accumulated Too Much Wool

MORE JAPANESE SHIPPING SUNK BY THIRD FLEET   85 Vessels, Including War ships, Hit By Halsey’s  Carrier Planes   ACTION CONTINUING AROUND PHILIPPINES

Third Fleet Makes Tremendous Blow In Philippines   Attack Is Directed against Islands and Shipping in Visayan Sea

MacArthur Also Reports New Attacks On Enemy Vessels in Island Area; British Submarines Report New Successes in Pacific

Another Powerful Blow Hit by Carrier Aircraft   JAPANESE AIRFORCE I$ REPORTED BROKEN   Attack Saturday Followed Raids in Manila  Arca

FLEET PLANES” DAMAGE 85 JAP VESSELS   ‘Halsey Strikes Blow At Philippines Sent. 23

85 Jap Vessels Are Blasted By Carrier Forces   Another Tremendous Setback Is Delivered By Halsey Unit

DESTROYED BY HALSEY'S MEN   Two Vessels Hit Off Mindanao by MacArthur's Pilots

Three Thousand Japs Killed in Admiralty Islands   Total From Time First Cavalry Unit Londed February 29

3,000 JAPANESE KILLED BY YANK UNITS ON ISLES   Heavy Losses Inflicted on Enemy Since Admiralty Campaign Was Begun

Attempted J ap Attack On U.S. Base Repulsed   ‘Enemy Fails Te Put Over Raid on Eniwetok: Yanks Succeed in Bombing  Nin Kurile   3,000 Japanese Killed In  Admiralties Since Invasion

Nips Pay Dearly On Admiralties   3,000 Slain Since j eee, . 50 Yeeeah acal

3000 JAPS KILLED IN ADMIRALTIES   ENEMY TROOPS SLAUGHTERED BY AMERICANS IN BATTLE FOR AIRDROMES,

3,000 Japanes: Are Killed  in Admirallties   Allied Air Force Again Hits Nip Base at Wewcalk

3,000 Ja ps Die In Admiralty Isles Battles   U. S. Fliers Hit Kavieng. Wewak and Rabaul in Wide Sweeps

I House - To-House Assault Rages In Aachen, yAs Yanks Beat Back Nazi Counter-Aftack<

GERMAN TROOPS BATTLE FOR LIVES -IN RUSSIAN TRAP   Moscow Says Nazis Have Begun Forced Evacuation af Ectanie

RUSSIANS STOP NAZI RESCUE   Germans Trapped in Pocket — Eneireled Reds Driving in For Final Aull.

Ten Nazi Units Packed Into 35 Square Miles  Half of 100,000 In Pocket Are  aie 7.

Nazis Foiled At Rescuing circled Unit   «Soviets Close in For Kill After 7 . Tank Attacks Fail

[Russians Halt Final Attempt — ‘At Nazi Rescue   Enemy Toll Reaches 33,000 In Bloody Race Against Cherkasi

REDS CLOSE: IN FOR KILL IN UKRAINE   Surviving Germans Packed into'35 Sq; Mile Pocket

RUSSIANS FOIL NAZI ATTEMPT TO OPEN TRAP   Seven Attacks To Widen Rescue Wedge Are Hurled Back

Reds Close in on Ukrainian Pocket   jen Divisions of Germans Trapped

Red Army Closes in  For the Kill   Soviet Forces Are Converging on Pskov; Nazi Rescue  Atiamnitc Fail

Nafional Committee Sponsors Nationwide Bible Readina   Suggested Scripture Passages Selected by Pastors, Chaplains

Yanks Spear Into Naziland   Secrecy Still Cloaks Movements Of Two, Possibly Three Spearheads On Frontier.

U. $. Forces Said To Be in Aachen And Saarbrucken   Two Cities Five Miles Inside Reich Reported Taken; Americans Stab at Strasbourg; Resistance Stiffens

Unconfirmed Reports Say Aachen and Saarbrucken Taken  NAMUR AND LIEGE - TAKEN IN BELGIUM      Nazi Resistance Reported in Moselle River Section

Unconfirmed Dispatches Declare Americans Have Occupied Saarbrucken and Aachen.   ALLIES SILENT TO MYSTIFY ENEMY   U. S. Troops Also Said te Be Stabbing at Strasbourg, French Border Town on Rhine.

PATTON'S TANKS ARE BLOCKED ON MOSELLE RIVER   Governments Of Holland And Luxembourg Wel come Allied Armies   INVASION OF REICH STILL UNCONFIRMED

‘PORT OF FALL OF AACHEN  ND SAARBRUCKEN TO YANKS ‘OT CONFIRMED BY COMMAND

Two Nazi Cities Are Reported Taken by Yanks   Governments of Holland, Luxembourg Proclaim Entry of Allied Armies of Liberation: Headauarters Silent

Americans Said To Have Seized Two Keystones  Inside Germany   Governments of Holland and Luxembourg Proclaim Entry of Allies; Resistance Stiffens

Headquarters Still Silent On Position. Of 3rd Army   But Confirms Capture Of Namur in Advance Through Belgium  PDN Wine: Apne Tennec   RESISTANCE STIFFER AT. SOME POINTS   AT. SOME POINTS.  _ Aachen, Saarbrucken In American. Hands, Boarder Renoartc Sav

Capture of Two Cities Inside  Reich Reported   Armies of Liberation Welcomed By Holland and Luxembourg; Resistance Stiffens Along Moselle

Lay Poll Taxes  To Politicians   Southern Editors’ and Authors’ Session Blames Office-Holders.

Bergdoll’s Mother Finally Gets Wish   Past 80, She’d Lived Only To See Son Free Again

Mrs. Bergdoll’s Wish Fulfilled   Draft Dodger, Having Wiped Slate Clean, Visits Aged Mother.

FIGHTING BELOW BORDEAUX ENDS   All Resistance Cleared Up In Southwestern France Region

BATTERED HUNS YIELD TO YANK, FRENCH FORGES   Resistance in Southwestern France Ends——Bulgaria Breaks with Germany

Ten Thousand Surrender   In Capitulation To The South Of Bordeaux

BATTLE OF SOUTH FRANCE NEAR END   Americans Advance Up Rhone Valley To Cut Off Fleeing Germans

Avignon and Briancon Fall as Allies Free Southern France  East of the Rhone

10,000 ENCIRCLED NAZIS SURRENDER   FRENCH ANNOUNCE CAPITULATION OF FORCE TRAPPED SOUTH OF BORDEAUX.

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTER   (By County Extension Director)   SOIL LOSSES AND CANSERVATION

MUCH TOP SOIL LOST DURING HEAVY RAINS   Extension Director Wangsness Reports on Observations Made After Heavy Rains

Senate Group Hails GI Bill      stly Veterans’ Program Weld “Teun Bene

TO CLEAR WAY FOR BiG PUSH WITH BRITISH   Important Test of Nazi Strength to Come in Few Days

‘Nazis’ ‘Fight For Soil Of Reich Futile   ‘Utter Chaos Marks  German Koule in  France, While Inner ' Walls of Nazidom’s  Citadel Are Quaking

Southern  Votes Go To Senator Byrd   Angry Delegates Protest Against Roosevelt.

REDS PREPARE FOR ENTRY INTO WARSAW   Polish Capital Is “Outflanked” by Soviet Troops

Allied Attack On New Britain Is Disclosed   Texas Cavalry Units Fights As Infantrymen

PRESSURE ON JAPS GROWING   Attack Foe’s Positions On New Britain —

U.S. TROOPS ATTACKING ON ARAWE   Pressure On Japs Around Beachhead is Increasing

FOE'S POSITIONS NEAR ARAWE ARE BEING ATTACKEE   Enemy Defenses East of Am: erican Beachhead Hit By Land and Air.

PUBLIC WILL GET SOME PENICILLIN   Limited Distribution of Wonder Drug Announced by WLB

Civilians To Get Penicillin   WPB Announces Limited Distribution of Drug For Nation.

Turkey Yields to Allied Demands  Will Stop Shipments of Chrome to Germany

TURKEY BOWS TO ALLIED PRESSURE   Cuts Off Chrome Ore Shipments t¢ Germany As Gesture to Allies.

ITS CHROME SHIPMENTS      Official Announcement of       That Effect ‘Reported by Reuters, British News Agency. Lae

Turkey Stops Chrome Export   Terminates Sending Munitions Materials To Germany, Announcec

CITY'S FIFTH BOND GOAL UP 18.6 PER CENT      Quota of $2,235,900 Given Salem For Loan Drive Opening June 12

TOP - ROOSEVELT ADVOCATES ACTIVE   Move in the South and in Other Primary States   SURVEY SHOWS   FDR Already Has Promises of Sufficient Votes Needed For Nomination

‘Stop-Roosevelt Movement Finds Going Is Tough   President Already Has Near Majority Of Convention Vote

VOTES LINED FOR ROOSEVELT   Only Miracle Can Stop Fourth Term, Party Leaders Claim

BACKERS LINE UP VOTES FOR F.D.R   TOTAL OF 476 TENTATIVELY PLEDGED, 589 NEEDED FOR NOMINATION.

"Stop Roosevelt” Move Spreading   Bul He Seems Sure To Be Nominated

ALLIES SMASH FOR BELFORT   Armored Columns Hammer Defenses Guarding South Germany

YANKS NEARING BELFORT GAP   Dispatch Says Nazi Troops Seem Determined to Defend Gap.   ENEMY ESCAPE ROUTE

AMERICANS PUSH ON BELFORT GAP   Drive Only 25 Miles From Route Into Germany

7th Army Less Than 25 Miles From Belfort   Americans And French Pound .Fleeing Nazis Along Entire Front

Yanks Nearing Belfort Gap   Enemy Appears Ready To Defend Route To Southwest Germany.

Allies Storm Toward Nazis In Belfort Gap   Streak For Pathway To Southwest Reich; Report Hints City Under Artillery Fire

Allies Near Belfort Gap   Marks Pathway Into Southwest Germany; Vital Industrial Area

SEVENTH ARMY DRIVING NEAR GERMAN BORDER   Nazis Determined To Defend Gap  Into Germany

Yank Troops Drive Closer To Belfort   Motorized Column Re. ported Only 10 Miles From City

ALLIES TOWARD THE BELFORT GAP   Troops Officially Reported 25. Miles Away, ‘but Frontier Dispatch Says Distance Is Only 1¢ Milea

Allied Armies Smashing in Against Siegfried Line for the Great Battle of Germany   Three American and One British Army Being Employed in Operation; Supreme Headquarters Keeping Exact Positions Secret From Germans

American Forces Put Belfort Under Artillery Fire   Three Motorized Columns Reported Approaching Gap Into Southwestern Germany

AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY FORCES DRIVE AGAINST BELFORT GAt  FRENCH TROOPS IN COMPANION DRIVE OVERRUN INDUSTRIAL AREA

U. S. 7th Unit Nears Belfort   Gateway City Into Rejehi Under Peril

MOVE TOWARD ~ BELFORT GAF   7th Army 25 Miles From Gateway to Reich

Nazis Throw Fresh Armor Into Battle   Furious Tank Battle Enters Fourth Day

Tank Battle Goes Into Fourth Day   Germans Throw  45 Mark Vs Into Struggle Move Up Through Mist

Germans Throw Fresh Armor Against Patton’s Third Army Which Was Ready And Furious Tank Battle Is Raging

Sheriff Slain;  Hunt Prisoner _ Officer Killed With Own Machine Gun

IMPORTED FARM HANDS IN RIOT AT WILMINGTON   One Injured As ’Teen Age Whites, Negroes Clash; Cause Unknown

Dykstra May Accept Provost Post On Coast   President Of University Of Wisconsin Likely To Be Named Provost Of Los Angeles Branch

OTH ARMY YIELDS MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS iN ITALVAN AREA   Improved Weather Increases Activity

BATTLE RESUMED   Ist Army Antiaircraft Gunners Get More Than 500 Nazi Planes -

First Italy War Criminal Is Executed   CARUSO SHOT AFTER TRIAL FOR TURNING HOSTAGES OVER TO NAZIS

Solons May Frown On Money Pact   Illinois Representative Doubts Approval For Stabilization Plan

HITLER THOUGHT —— [NOAPACITATED   Himmler Again Broadcasts in Fuehrer’s Name te Country

SOUTH FRANCE POUNDED FOR THIRD TIME   Mediterranean Raiders Deliyer Punishing Blows

FINLAND FINALLY DECIDES IT IS GOOD TIME DESERT SHAKY HITLER CRAFT AND OUITS WAR

The War Today   Finland Must Expect to Pay for Tragic Error of Backing Hitler

GERMAN TROOPS IN FINLAND REPORTED WITHDRAWING INTO NORWAY TO AVOID RED ATTACK   The Hiterites Are Repor'ed to Be Pulling Out Without Protest Because Their Services Arc Needed In Germany Where the Fig Fight Starts Soon

OHIOANS IN SERVICE — HOLD VOTING RIGHTS   Registration To Apply Only To Civilians Now

Carriers Lost  By Both Sides   Nip Battleships Damaged; Action Continuing—Nimitz

Crushing. Defeat to One Force    Admiral King Reports Practically All Japanese Stipe } Are Booared   REPORTS SO. FAR ARE FRAGMENTARY   One Large Jap Carrier: } Sunk; U.S. Loses Light 7 Carrier Princeton

DRINK-CRAZED JAP SOLDIERS KILLED SELVES AT MOMOTE  STRANGE, GORY SLAUGH _ TER HARD-FOR U.S:

Drink-Crazed Japanese Soldiers Kill Selves With Own Hand Grenades

Texas Cavalrymen Send 350 Japs to Their Ancestors in Oray of Blood

Charging Into Deadly American Fire  Drunken Japs Commit Heri-Kiri

kussians re Close To  ld Poland   ey Are Threatening To Push Germans Over Border Before Nightfall

Germans Said To Be Fleeing In Demoralized State. Fall Of Vitebsk In White Russia Is Im-

Nazis Fleeing in Panic Be. fore Steady Stream of Soviet Tanks.   PRESENT ADVANCE WILL REACH BORDER   With Motorized Infantry and Cavairy Before Nightfall.

County Over Top For Fifth War Loan  109 Per Cent Of Quota Subscribed,  Chairman Renorits

County Over Top In War Bend Drive   Attained 112 Per Cent Of Quota Of $1.750.000

County Over Top In 4th War Loan By $200,000   Goal Exceeded, Says Chairman, With Additional Reports Yet To Be Heard

Bulgars Move to Break With Axis   Diplomatic Relations May Be Ended Today

ISOLATIONISM IS DEAD, SAYS GOV. DEWEY   G. O. P. Presidential Nominee Travels to Michigan

DEWEY SAYS POSTWAR PEACE ~-]S A NONPARTISAN. PROJECT      DECLARES . IN LOUISVILLE SPEECH  THAT EESPON“SIBILTY RESTS ON THE  “ “BIG FOUR”

Republican Presidential Can. didate Speaks to Large Crowd in Louisville   ISOLATIONISM IS DEAD

Non-Partisan Peacea ‘Must’ Dewey Warns   “TIsolationism Is Dead"— “U.S. Does Not Intend to Have Third War”   DISARM ENEMIES   Favors General Assembly of All Nations to Enforce Final Terms

SOLATIONISM 1S DEAD, SAYS FOV, EWE   LOUISVILLE SPEECH STRESSES NON-PARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY.   Can’t Buy Good Will   Warns Against Internal Strife— Asks Full Publicity in Orranizinge Peace.

DEATH TOLL OF MUNITIONS BLAST 377   Injured Reported 500 to 1,000 In Coast Disaster

U.S. Subs Score Biggest Kill, Sink 29 Ships.   Disclosed as“Americans Press Palaus.. Campaign; Minesweeper Is: Lost :

Marines Press  Conquest of Palau Islands   117 Nip Planes Found Wrecked by Yank Flyers

Dewey To Work On 4-Year Plan:  Governors May Define Federal-State Lines 

Dewey Plans GOP Program   Stiesses Ruur:Veur ~Basis:, At Parleys

Quachita Valley Scouts Celebrate Boy Scout Week   ‘Organization Marks Third Anniversary Of Movement In U. 5

See Compromise  On Renegotiation  Will Be Considered In Senate Today

New Tax Bill on Home Stretch In U. S. Senate   Proposals to Ease War Contracts Law Are Abandoned

Senate Agrees On Revised  Contract Law   Committee Abandons Proposals to Ease Renegotiation Act

No Allied Bombers Were Lost In ' Day And Night Attacks Over . Enemy Territory; Targets In  France Are Bombed On Foray   FORTRESSES BLOW UP SHIPS, PIERS

Jap Chief Sees Yank Surrender  Leyte Army Head To Stand for No Nonsense. He Savs

Yamashifa To Be Stern To Our Doug   Will Demand Unconditional Surrender of MacArthur

ISOLATIONISTS IN CONGRESS FEWER   G. O. P. HAS CHANCE FOR ONE MORE SENATE SEAT

Democrats to Have Comfortable ‘Majorities in Senate and House ‘When 79th Congress Convenes

Voters Reject lsolationists  Senators Nye and Fish Lose Seats; Democrats Win Bia House Maiority

HEAVIER EDGE IN CONGRESS FOR DEMOCRATS   Tally Discloses That There Will Be Fewer Isolationist Members.

Several Isolationists  “Go Down To Defeat  ‘In Congressional Race

DEMS GAIN 21 SEATS IN HOUSE   Will Have Good  Majorities in House and Senate

Forrestal Takes Secretary's Oath   Enlisted Man of World War I Heads World’s Greatest Navy.

HELLDIVER BOMBERS GET IMPROVEMENTS   More Speed, Climb, Ceiling And Range Provided

20 Per Cent Cabaret Tax Cut Predicted   George Approves Reduction, Report; Many Clubs Closing

BERLIN BLAST COSTS ENEMY 170 AIRPLANES   CAPITAL BATTERED FOR 90 MINUTES BY BOMBERS

YANKS ATTACK NAZI AIRFIELD   Marauders Raid Conches ir North France; Fires Rage in Berlin

FRENGH TARGETS BOMBED ON HEELS OF BERLIN RAI   Airfield Attacked by Americans Without Loss—Railroads Near Paris Blasted by British.   FIRES STILL BURN IN GERMAN CAPITAL   Yanks Over. City 90 Minutes —1%76 Planes Lost by Gerinans in Great Air Battle That Developed.

Big Fires Stull Sura’ Berim From U.S. Raid   Marauders Hit Nazi Airfield After RAF Bombs Paris Railway

NAZI AIRFIELD PLASTERED BY MARAUDERS   In Daylight Raid Following RAF Night Blow On Railroads Near Paris; Two Enemv Planes Destroyed.   90 Minutes

Nazi Centers In France Pounded   German Toll From Berlin Raid Ricee

Heavies of RAF Hit Railroads ‘In Paris Area   176 German Airplanes Downed in Big U. §. Raid On Berlin. Check Shows

Nazi Centers In France Pounded   German Toll From Berlin Raid Rises  By W. W. HERCHER  Recnriatanh Deaees SKitntt Writer

176 Enemy Craft Shot Down During Attacks   Bordeaux and Paris Radios Leave Air Tuesday Nicht

RAF in Heavy Night Raid on Paris Railroads   176 Nazi Planes Down After Berlin Raid; Radios in France Off Air

RAF, AMERICANS HAMMER FIELD, RAILROAD LINES   Attacks Follow Up Big Raid On Germany In Which 176 Planes Were Downed

Rocket Gun Coast — Raided By Airmen   U. S. Marauders Attack After Pounding of Paris Rail Yards and Mass Attack Monday on the Reich Capital

U.S. Forces Slowly Smash Way Forward   Doughboys Storm Heavy Defenses; Vise Tightening

Pope Sends Specia Special Blessing  Message to Carding] O?Cona al

HURRICANE BATTERING FLORIDA   Storm Kills at Least Seven and Injures Hundreds in Cuba

Officer Sets Child’s Mind at Ease By Issuing Pass for Santa Claus

Santa Gets 1-Day Pass in Germany     Bullet Hits Doughboy and Lodges at Very Appropriate Verse in Bible in His Pocket

Islands Hit. Northwest Of Marianas   Task Force Aircraft, Guns Attack Bonin ‘And Volcano Groups   25 JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED IN COMBAT

Yanks Sink Five Ships On Fourth   Celebrate Independence Day By Damaging Raid On Vottuie Ibhund Objectives

Senator Ball Refuses to Campaign For Dewey; Raps Foreign Policy Stanc

JAPS MAY HIGHT IT OUT IN CHINA   Is Impression Gained By Observers From Many Command Shifts in im paired Army.  Jerk Hata Out

JAPS BOMB 4 U. 5. CARRIERS IN PHILIPPINES   NIPPONESE CONVOY BOUND FOR LEYTE IS DESTROYED

ANY IDENTIFIES: GARRIERS SUNK   Put up Gallant Fight in Battle of Philippines   1,400 MEN RESCUED   Sprague Says Losses Low: Airmen, Short of Ammunition, Stage Dummy Runs

BIG NIP TASK FORCE TURNED BY BABIES   Little Flat Tops Lose Two Of Number: Men Of Crews Saved By Destroyers

Nazis Expect Offensive by Gen. Patton   German. Radio Declares New Army Unit Being Readied

Nazis Expect Patton Move   See General's Army Group Opening Offensive In Near Future.

Japs Express Surprise Over Stalin Speech   Propagandists Reiterate Theme That Japanese Are Fighting War To Free People Of Asia

JAPANESE OFFENDED BY STALIN'S SPEECH   Brand of Aggressor Nation Tor Topic in Nippon

Nips Express Surprise At Stalin’s Talk   Must Adopt a ‘Realistic’ Attitude, News Agency Reports

JAPS OFFENDED BY SPEECH OF STALIN   Address Branding ‘Aggressors’ fs Chief Topic of Discussion.

1st Phase Ends In Guam Fight   Marines Stand Firm on Mountain Top

BRITISH COLUMNS SLASH GERMANS’ ODON RIVER LINE  TANK BATTLE MAY DECIDE FATE OF

British Burst Through Germans’ Odon River Defense Line In Powerful Armored Smash; Cut Peninsular Base Road.

Burst Through German Line On Odon River   Armored Struggle Going On 4 Miles Southwest of Caen

GIGANTIC TANK BATTLE SHAPES IN NORMANDY   Greatest Armored Fight Of Liberation Campaign Begins Near Caen. As British Tank Columns Engage German Units.   U.S. Lost 24,000 Men In ‘Two Weeks Of Invasion

Greatest Tank Battle Of Invasion Is Raging in Normandy  Montgomery’s Forces Affack Four German Armored Divisions Near Caen; Allies Drive Deep Into Enemy Defenses  Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, June 28

CLASH HOLDS FATE OF TWO NAZI ARIES   British Veterans Tear Breach Six Miles Wide in Enemy Lines.

‘Greatest Tank Battle Since Invasion Now Raging Near ‘Caen: River Defenses Crushed   Base Road From City Cut; Germans Must Block Thrust Or Have Large Forces Trapped; 25 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out Yesterday

Break-Through Precipitates Big Armored Battle   Clash Blazing In Open Country After British Tanks Roll Through Defenses

Clash May Decide Fate of Germans’ 15th, 17th Armies   6-Mile Wide Breach Torn in Nazi Defenses by Montgomery’s Troops; Reich Troops Resist Stubbornly

British Tanks Burst... Miles Through Gee Odon River Line  Engage Enemy  .,. Great_Armorec  "Tear Breach 6. “Mile  Wide In Nazi Defenses,

River Lines Shattered  By England’s  Armor Units   Fate Of 2 Somes Is Held Ato Stake

Mammoth Tank Battle Rages In the Open   Montgomery Hurling 100,000 Toward France Proper

British Forces Break Nazi Lines   .Bv WES GALI AGHERetao By WES GALLAGHER

Allies 4 Miles From Caen; Monty Breaches Defense:   Fate Of Two Nazi Armies May Be Decided _y In Battle Today; 2nd General Taken

Burst Through Nazi Defenses  For Two Miles   Greatest Armored Battle Of Liberation Campaign Raging Four Miles  From Caen ~*   May Decide Fate  Two Boche Armies   Meanwhile, Americans In Cherbourg Capture See  & Lar   oud Germen General;   Last Defense Stormed

sritish Break Through Odon Rivers Lines Four Miles —  Southeast Of Caen

British Tank Columns Drive Against Germans   Clash May Decide Fate of Part of Nazi Army at Caen

TANK COLUMNS GAIN 2 MILES ON RIVER LINE   Blazing Battle Now in Progress in French Open Country

Big Armored Battle Rages Near Caen   Clash May Decide Fate of Large Part of German Forces

BRITISH ENGAGE NAZIS IN GREAT ARMORED DUEL   Breach 6 Miles Wide Ripped in Enemy Defenses—Odon Line Is Smashed

British Columns Push Two Miles Through nen   Armored Clash May Decide Fate Of Major Part Of Nazi 15th, 17th Armies

Greatest Tank Battle Of Invasion Is Raging in Normandy  Montgomery’s Forces Attack Four German Armored Divisions Near Caen;   Montgomery’s Forces Attack Four German Armored Divisions Near Caen; Allies Drive Deep Into Enemy Defenses

Monty's Tanks Break Through German Lines   Greatest Armored Battle Raging in Environs of Caen

British Burst Through Odon  River Line   Montgomery Thrust Threatens German Held Highways  Leading Into Caen

NAZI LINES BREACHED BY BRITISH   Montgomery’s Forces Smash Across Odon  River Barrier

Meaigemery Breaches Germans’ Gdon River Line So Reach Open Country fer Showdewn

LONDON STRUCK BY PLANE RAID _- DURING NIGHT   BELIEVE LONDON HIT BY MOST DETERMINED. ATR RAID LAST NIGHT SINCE BLITZ -

NAZIS IN HEAVY RAID ON LONDON   Fail to Set Capital Ablaze, British Pound Bases Across Channel

London Target For Night Raid Of Nazi Fliers   Most Determined Thrust Since Days Of ‘‘Blitz’’ Reported Last Night   BRITISH PLANES POUND AT NAZIS

Government Soon to Permit Increase In Production of Consumer Goods

Union Yields to Navy Crackdown   Overtime Ban Lifted After Draft Sanction

SERVICE MEN ARE WOUNDED   One Is In The Pacific And The Other  In France

Sgt. Jos. Timmins Home From Italy   Kingsley Youth Honored On. Return

Sgt. Jos. Timmins Home Fr rom r Italy      - Honored: fi-Return.

RE ica See te  Battle Against ‘U-Boals Wins Decoration for Squadron

NON-STOP RAID AGAINST TRUK'   Hit Dublon Five Times In Four Days

[Attack On Truk Base Intensified   Fifth Attack In Three Days Is Made ‘Against Key Naval Base Of Dublon Island

Southwest Moving Into Wheat Harvest   Manpower And Equipment Shortages Big Problem: Production Outlook Is Bright

WHEAT BELT SET FOR ITS HARVES!   WORK BEGINS IN SOME FIELDS—OUTLOOK BETTER THAN EARLY FORECASTS.

Fleeing Germans. Slaughtered — By Strafing Planes Which Cut Disheveled Columns. to Ribbons

TRUST VOTE IS DEMANDED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Stakes War Leadership on Single Issue of Amendment to Education Bill   ISSUES GRAVE WARNING

CHURCHILL ASKS FOR CONFIDENCE VOTE IN HOUSE   Educational Act Causes Debate  By Members

Prime Minister Seeks Vote Of Confidence   Churchill Putting Leadership in War to Decision

CHURCHILL ASKS VOTE. CONFIDENCE   Demands Support “All Down Line” For Wartime Program

TULL OUFFUI OF HOUSE ASKED   Government Given One-Vote Defeat On School Bill   AMENDMENT   fo Education Issue Must Be Deleted, Prime Minister States

rrime iViinister Otakes Leadership Jn Vomestic issue  Vote Of Confidence Is Demanded By Churchill

Churchill Calls for Showdown   ‘Vote.of Confidence. Is. Asked ~ Following Defeat On-a Domestic Issue:    FIRST: SETBACK IN FOUR YEARS   Refuses. to. Distinguish. Between Home Question and : General Policy

REBUFF FOUGHT BY CHURCHILL   Vote of Confidence Demanded By Prime Minister

Churchill Seeks.  Confidence Vote   Support for ‘Government Program Demanded by British Prime Minister

Churchill Asks Confidence Vote i in Rebellious House   Issue Is Whether. Men and Women Teachers Shall Receive "Equal Pay and Prime. Minister. Asserts. Government Will _ Step: Down Unless: ‘It Obtains Adequate Majority—Pros. pect of: Its Defeat Is Declared Slim,

Premier Stakes War Leadership On Single Issue   Demands Vote Of Confi-- dence On Education Bill By Striking Out Clause

CHURCHILL ASKS COMMONS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE    Accepls Challenge of Opposition  After One Vole Defeat on Educa: ' tion Measure   EQUAL PAY ISSUE   Setback, First in Four Years, In volved Only Third of Hous: Membership

Churchill Stakes Office on Vote   Deletion of Amendment for Equal Pay for Men and Women Teachers Asked by Prime Minister of House of Commons

Winston Churchill Demands He Be Given Vote of Confidence   Texas Demos Seem To Favor Roosevelt

Churchill Demands Vote Of Confidence   @ Prime Minister Snatches Challenge From Commons

CHURCHILL OUT FOR SHOWDOWN   Prime Minister Demands Vote Of Confidence Or He'll Quit

Demands Full House Backing   Churehill Insists On Complete Support By Commons For Government.

CHURCHILL CALLS FOR AN OUTRIGHT CONFIDENCE VOTE   DEMANDS HOUSE OF COMMONS SUPPORT OF HIS PROGRAM

Stakes Leadership Upon  _ Issue Of Amendment To Education Bill and   Seeks Support   Fiery Speech Has  Conmons Arousec   Unless Adequate Majorit Is Given Gn Vote, He And Cabinet Members Mav Ouit Posts

Teacher Pay Amendment Vote Causes Ansry Scene   Domestic And Basic Issues Being Linked

Churchill Calls For Contidence Vote In Commons  rr   Follows Reverse  Qn Teacher Bill

CHURCHILL, TEST VOTE DEMANDED   British Prime Minister Orders Government Be Upheld

Churchill Demands Full Support From: Commons For Government Program

CHURCHILL ASKS FOR CONFIDENCE   Acts To Overcome Defeat On Teacher Pay Meas@re

DEMANDS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE   Churchill Meets Challenge By Insisting Full Leadership Be Accepted

Churchill Asks  Showdown Vote   BRITISH PREMIER WILI STAKE POLICIES ON BILL ,

CHURCHILL DEMANDS  VOTE OF CONFIDENCE  IN HOUSE COMMONS ONE-VOTE DEFEAT BY  ONE-THIRD OF MEMBERS BRING ON CRISIS

” Churchill Demands ‘Support and Asks :  Confidence Vote ,   ' Prime Minister Puts War Leadership on the _. Line After Defeat on ‘Education Meacure

Churchill Demands A! Vote Of Confidence, Stakes His Leadership   4-F’S MUST ENTER ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY ORLABOR BATTALIONS

Churchill Asks Confidence Vote From Commons   Government Bill Is Amended By Foes Of Administration By One Ballot

Ignores Fact That Issue Is Unimportant   Stakes War-Leadership on. Amendment to Domestic Education Bill

Allies Push 120 Miles  Above Rome   Fifth Army Traps Ger. mans In 225-Square Mile Pocket Near Grosseto

German Force Trapped in Italy   ee gee = eee  5th ‘and 8th Armies Advance Standily

RAID NAZI RAIL YARDS, PLANE REPAIR SHOPS   Scope of Attacks Indicates New Record May Be in Making

"NAVY REVOLT JS REPORTEL   ACTUAL SITUATION WITHIN REICH OBSCURE AS RE PORTS COME FROM GERMANY AND ‘NEUTRALS AS  “TO EXTENT. OF PLOT TO OVERTHROW CON.’  TROL.OF HITLER AND OTHER NAZI. LEADERS —

FUND ALLOTMENTS ROW SPLITS HOUSE   Approoriation Slash Efforts “Made By Reoublican  Cohorts

Fears German  Destruction ©  Pell Sees Nazis Wreckina All In Pat}

‘WILL DESTROY EUROPE   Representative Sees Destruction Before Nazis Surrender

Nazis May Try To Destroy Occupied Europe To Set Up Preliminary To Third War

Pell Fears German Destruction Flare   Believes Will Try to Destroy Occupied Europe Before Defeat

Pell Fears Germans Will Devastate ‘Occupied Europe to Prepare New War

Desperate Nazis May ~ "Torch   Deliberate Plan to Wreck Occupied Europe Believed In Makines   IN PREPARATION  FOR-NEXT WAR   Germany Would Be Beiter “Off Than Countries Left To Rebuild

Germans To Try To Destroy Occupied Europe As Allies Advance; Vow ‘Whiripool’   Threaten To Blot Out Everything As Preparatory Step For Another War

Meritorious Work Done' U nder time Conditions Recognized gram at Colonial Inn, Concor:

Meritorious Work Done‘ Under Wartime Conditions Recognized at Program at Colonial Inn, Concord

Russian IT hrust Widens Bridgehead Across Dnestr; Red Airmen Blast German Bases

Russians Make Gains on Dnestr    Bombers Blast Ploesti Oil Field

REDS EXTEND DNESTR RIVER BRIDGEHEAD   Pierced Enemy Lines at Several New Points

Reds Make Gains Near Tiraspol   Take Advantage of Heavy Enemy Losses

REDS ADVANCE, MAKE GAIN IN SOUTH POLAND   Expand Month-Old Bridgehead On Western Bank Of Lower Dnesir

SOVIETS WIDEN BRIDGEHEAD ON LOWER DNESTR   Long-Range Bombers Hit Behind Nazi Lines Sixth Night

ADVANCE ON TWO FRONTS   Bridgehead Near Tiraspol Expanded; Gains Made in Poland

RUSSIANS PIERCE ENEMY POSITIONS ONDNESTR RIVER   Aerial Attacks Are Made on  “White Russian Capital of Minsk, Seven Fires Merge Into One,   THREE CITIES IN BALKANS HEAVILY BOMBED   Japs Caught By Surprise at  . Myitkyina By Merrill’s Marauders, City Probably Cantured. -

4TH DIVISION OUSTS GERMANS INMONTEBOURG   Medieval Church Tower Was Used By Nazis For Observatior   BY LESUEUR CBS Correspondent Distributed by the Associated  Whee mea

Church Tower Knoeked Out   By Larry Leaver CBS Correspondent, Distributed By The Associsied Presse

Navy Guns Aid Ath In Taking Montebourg   Medieval Tower, Nest For Nazi Spotters, Ts Destroved

12 Ships Sunk - By Red Fliers   Land Attack Being Pressed For Sevasiopol Port

 ° °  ‘Russians Sink   Nine More Nazi  Ships In Black Sea:   F-nemy Attacks Purned Back On Two Sectors

Red Armies Killing Lots Of Germans   Racing Toward Borders of Estonia, in Pursuit of  Fleeing Nazi Army

RUSSIANS SINK 4 AXIS VESSELS   Land Front Unchanged: Flight In Progress At Sevastopol

Soviet Planes Sink Nine More Enemy Troop Ships   Russ Smash Sevastopol Evacuation,  Hurl Back Nazi Attacks in Poland

Russians Sink  4 More Ships      ‘No Essential? Land Change Reportedl by Moseaw

12 German Ships Sunk by Russians   Nazis Die Trying To Flee Sevastopol

12 ENEMY VESSELS SUNK BY RUSSIANS   Ships Sent Down in Ef forts to Evacuate Men at Sevastopol

Soviet Airmen Sink 12 Enemy Ships  Evacu atine Crimea   Thousands of Germans and Romanians Perish in Effort to Escape by Sea From Giant Trap Closed by Russians

TROOP - LADEN ~ VESSELS SUNK   Nazis Mass Fleet To Rescue Garrison

Russ Sink 4 Ships  In Nazi Convoy   Planes Blast Vessels; Ground Lull Continues

Reds Sink Four : More Axis Ships In Crimea Sector   Three of Them Were Transports Trying... To Save Garrison“:

ussians Sink 4 Nazi Ships ! Vessels Are Hit in ( Gulf of Finlend

Russians Blast 12 Nazi Vessels Near Sevastopol   Transports Seeking To Evacuate Troops Sunk in Black Sea

RUSSIANS SINK 12 NAZI SHIPS   Red Planes Catch Craft Evacuating Germans From Sevastopol

Extend Front Into Rich  Saar Basin   Overrun Outpost of Soarbrucken In Rapid Sweep

Pattons Troops Cross Border at Several Points   3rd Army Front Extended in Rich Saar Coal Basin

Gen. Patton Forces Cross  ‘Nazi Border   Saarbrucken Near Fall; Last Barrier to Rhine Reached

Carriers Destroy 214 Jap Planes In Luzon Raids   Most of Enemy's 100 Airfields Are Swept By American Attacks

Carrier Planes Destroy 224 Jap Planes And Batter 90 More In Two-Day Luzon Lashina.-

DESTROY 224 JAP ~ PLANES ON LUZON   YANKS BOMB AND STRAFE 90 OTHER CRAFT ON GROUND _IN 2-DAY SMASH.

ALLIED AIR CREWS POUND JAP TARGETS      Are Seeking To Neutralize Enemy Bases

Montana Farmers, Stockmen Alarmed Over C. . 0. Farm Labor Unionization

Farmers, Siockmen Alarmed ‘by C.1.0. Plan to Unionize All Farm Labor   Warning Against Political Action Group and Its Candidates Sounded by Prominent Stockman

‘Church at Village of Oradour-sur-Glane Reported Dynamited and Burned After Women and Children Had Been Locked Inside—Men in Groups of 20 Said to Have Been Marched to Barn on Fairgrounds and Shot.

CLAIM GERMANS MASSACRE 800   Shoot Men, Dynamite Women, Children in French Church

FRESH ATROCITY OF HUNS BARED   Women And Children Are Locked In Church And Burned: 800 Perish

Flood Drives 1000 From Homes   Mississippi State Guard Stands By

FOMBIGBEE FLOOD ROUTS RESIDENTS   Columbus, Miss., Suffers Heaviest Blow in Southern Area

LAVA SWEEPS ~~ INTO TOWNS   TWO VILLAGES ON SLOPES OF VESUVIUS WIPED OUT ' BY ERUPTION OF ' . YOLCANO

THREE TOWNS BURIED UNDER LAVA IN ITAL!   Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius Worst in Decades, Added to War’s Destruction

Patch Heads Seventh Arm   Guadalcanal General Has Replaced Patton

ROOSEVELT BACKED BY OFL DELEGATES   State Labor Convention Ends Thursday

OFL Favors 4th Roosevelt Term   Endorsement Given By Two-to-One Vote

3,000 U.S. . PLANES RAID NAZI PLANTS      “And: ‘West Gertiaiy ‘argets Are“ Hit

Great Air Fleet Bombards Dozen  Nazi War Plants   Two-Way Onslaught From Italy, Britain Made By U. S. Planes

HEAVY BOMBER ARMADA RAIDS NAZI GERMANY    Drop Explosives On Aircraft. Motor. Synthetic Oil, Other Objectives

3,000 U. S. PLANES RAID NAZI PLANTS   Central, Southern And West Germany Targets Are Hit

‘Two-Way Assault Pounds Germany   13 Prime Targets Plastered by Air

WEATHER CURBS ANZIO FIGHTING   Patrol Clashes Only Activity; Planes Curtail Raids

New Story Told InM. C. Murder   Man Under Arrest in Niles Involved

Congress Faces Service Ballot Measure Action  May Go To FDR Or Be Delaved

See Deadlock On Soldier Vote  Senate Has Several Bills To Act On

SENATE BATTLES OVER SOLDIER VOTE MEASURE   House Has Passed "State's Rights” Bill

Photos Show Much Damage To Nagoya   Four Large Assembly Buildings Damaged

Nagoya Is Hit Again  ‘By American Superforts   Photos Show Jap Plane Plants Were Badly Damaged In Previous Attacks

Nagoya, Nippon Industr ‘ial City, Target Of Raid   Attacks, By Same Number Of Planes In Damaging Raid December 13, Lasts Two Hours   Hatsudoki Plant Badly Wrecked   Photographs of Previous Assault Shows Four Assembly, Buildings Gutted

Pearl Harbor Charges Urged   Japs Find Kenton’s “One Man Gang” Tough Customer

COURT MARTIAL CHARGES ASKED   MICHIGAN SENATOR PLANS MOTION PEABL HARBOR  CHARGES BE FILED BE- .” FORE SEPR 7TH

‘Comets’ Coming From Belgium   Hitler’s Weapon Still Wreaking Destruction On British Landmarks,

Robot Bontbs NowHit-London-Area _ During Dayligtt  Nazis Bul eved to He nk Blow: Effec mat  act

CITY'S LANDMARKS... DAMAGED BY BOMBS   Flying Robots C Continue to Blast Sections of Britain

CONTINUE TO ROCK LONDON   Increasing Number Of! Robots Coming From East Appear To Be Launched From Bel gium Coast

Buzz Bombs Hit London Hospital   Houses and Shops Reported Damaged

Hitler’s Comet Bombs Continue to Take Toll of Life in London, South England

TO HOLD HUGE REPUBLICAN RALLY, SALEM COURT HOUSE, ON FRIDAY, FEB. 4, AT 8 P.M.

Regular Republican Candidates to Visit Dixon Next Tuesday   Men on State Ticket in Primary Election on Tour of Illinois

i n.Asks ee ncdcetan to Civil Liberties   Will Speak at Republican Rally on March 7, County Court House; Other Speakers of Note  -

GOP CANDIDATES TO VISIT SALEM   REPUBLICAN RALLY PLANNED AT COURT HOUSE ON FEB. 4TH

- RALLY FEB. 15 AT PRINCETON   Caravan Headed By Gov. Green To Be At  Court House

ANOTHER FEDERAL INCOME TAX REPORT IS DUE APRIL 15.   Many Taxpayers Will Be Required To File An Estimate Of 1944 Income

 Many Taxpayers Must File  Estimated Income Declarations (Gn Or Before April 15th

Churches Join In Protesting  Draft Ruling   Loss of Deferment Said to Imperil Supply of Ministers

ARMY WILL REVIEW VERDICT OUSTING 3 AIR FORCE OFFICERS   Trio Found Guilty Of Neglect Of Duty At Wright Plant

Hourly Temperatures   Three Army Inspectors at Wright Plant Convicted of Neglect

A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA   Mitchell Heads Slate Selected by Democrats

Jemocrats Slate ‘leaded by Mitchel   Chairman More Announces Names

Demos Tell . Candidates _ For Primary   Former Justice Mitchell Will Head Or ganization  Ticket

Japs Slay, Torture U.S. Ship’s Crew   100 HOSPITALIZED AFTER PLANE RESCUE, BROADCAST TELLS

JAPS SLAY CREWMEN ON LIBERTY SHIP   23 of 100 Saved, American in China Reports

Liberators Blast Volcano Islands.   Softening Campaign On In Jap Home Waters

FIRST RAID ON VOLCANO GROUF BY LIBERATORS   Indications Point To Softening Up Of Islands In Jap Home Waters

SONTACT WITH -XILES VITAL, IPLOMAT SAYS   Calls Mission Real Success

Mass Murders of War Prisoners By Nazis Revealec   Eden Discloses Proof Of Slayings, Vows Guilty To Be Caught

1 Captured Airmen Slain i in Nazi Prison Camp, Eden: Tells Commons

Nazi Murder Allied Air Officers In Cold Blood   Secretary Eden Tells Commons Undisputed Proof Is  Obtained ;

Chaplin Has Big ‘No’ For 34 Questions   Physicians’ Testimo ny About Blood Tests 1s Due Today

Doctors Testify On Blood Tests Ih Chaplin Trial   Comedian Calm During Lawsuit

WILL TESTIFY ON BLOOD TESTS   Physicians to Aid in Defense of Chanlin

Slavs Routing Nazi TankArmy   German Adriatic Defense Renn Tacnnetlaad

Yugoslavs Report New Successes  Fall of Banja Luka Expected Gann

Slavs Expect Nazi Defeat   Fall Of Banja Luka Stronahold Predicted

Yugoslavs Say German Tank Unit Menaced   Strong Blow Struck By Guerrillas At Nazi Defenses

BARONESS SLUGGED BY ZOOT-SUIT NEGRO   Robbery Attack Is Made o1 New York Avenue

arker Offers : Service Movie       Will .Be Presented at State ep ; -- Wheatre,. February 2. -

John ieere Day is Tuesday, February J   trought to Laurens by Johnson Implement Ca.; Worth Seeing

Implement Service  Show to Be Given   “Food Fights for Freedom” to Be Presented by Stone Plummer.

Capture Verdum, St. Mihiel, Sweep Across Lorraine   Third Army Streaks 80 Miles Forward On Wide Front; Another Army At Belgian Border; Key Point At Sedan Is Reported Captured.

Prisoners Tortured By Japanese en et PETES E:  60,000 White Men Forced To Toil Under Brutal Conditions

Most Excellent Tribute: Japanese Erect Memorial fo 25,000 Men Tortured to Death on Railway   Japs Erect Memorial

JAP CRUELTY TD PRISONERS TOLD   Put Into Worse-than-slavery Conditions to Speed Construction of Burma Railway and Road

60,000 White Prisoners Forced To Help Build Thailand-Burma Railway

Prisoners Tortured By Japanese rer ey ng  60,000 White Men Forced To Toil Under Brutal Conditions

Germans Cleared From Florence   Treasure City Now Firmly In Allied Hands

NAZI SETTLERS STRUGGLE WEST   Flee From Southern Ukraine to Poland

Super Fortresses Strike At Nanking And Shanghai, Omura On Foe Mainland

Forts Hit Nip War Machine ‘On 3 Fronts   ‘Yanks Roam Over Jap Home Island and Bases In Occupied China

Superfortresses Deliver Other Blows At City Of Nanking And Storage Plants At Shanghai

CHINESE TROOPS PURSUE ENEMY   chiang’s Forces Push On Toward Monten After Taking Rail Town

Chinese Troops Move Southward   High Command Intends to Be Prepared For Jap Assault On Kweichow.

1943 Sales tax lopped 20 Million  A a eel Ne wi i ee bo om   Last Quarter Also Set New Record

Greatest Aerial Assault of War ls Continuing   Invasion Planes Blast Nazi Areas

Allied Planes Rip Battered Nazi Fortress   Furious Assaults Continue Withcut Letup

SUSTAINED AIR ASSAULT RAGES AGAINST AXIS   Aircraft Centers In Austria Pounded By Hundreds Of Bombers   FRENCH AND BELGIAN AIRFIELDS ATTACKED

Huge armada strikes vital  installations  Week long attack mounting in fury

NAZI FORTRESS LASHED AGAIN BY HUGE FORCE   Pre-Invasion Blows Are Delivered From West And South; Fresh  Raids Indicated

Air Foree ‘w Knocked of Contlict   Up of Hitler Continued - Like This’ in Says Observer

PRE-INVASION DRIVE WIT 1,000 PLANES   RAF Hits Hitler’s Fortress Mighty Blow from All Directions; Plane Factories near Vienna.   42 Bombers

Allied Planes Push Terrific Aerial Attack   Week-Long Assault is Continued in Great Fury Against Germans’ Anti-Invasion Defenses

Battered European Fortress of Hitler Again Blasted  DAYLIGHT BLOWS AT AUSTRIA ARE HIT  An All-Day Cross-Chan: nel Offensive Is Staged

Allies Continue Furious Air . Drive on Nazis   Huge Airplane Force Rips at Hitler’s European Fortress

‘Thousands Of Planes Over Europe   Pour Across Channel Throughout Sunday,  RAF Out at Night   AUSTRIA, HUNGARY RECEIVE NEW BLOWS

500 to 750 U.S. Bombers Hit Capital   —RAF Follows Attack With Raid on Frankfurt And Other Targets  LUFTWAFFE ABSENT

Yanks Hammer Berlin as RAF Hits Frankfurt   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Capital At Cost of 13 Heavy Planes, Nine Fighters

AT FRANKFURT MADE BY RAR   1,500 Tons of Bombs _ Hurled on Capital : Of Reich

U.S. bombers push thru big Berlin attack  13 bombers and 9 fichters lost

)) Planes Lost in Great Raid On Nazi Capital   Frankfurt Bombed By British Fliers

2 U.S. PLANES LOST IN DAYLIGHT ~ RAID ON BERLIN   Americans Set Hundreds of Fires in City—Meet. No Fighter Opposition but  Flak Is Heavy.   ATTACK “SEVEREST” MADE ON CAPITAL   R. A. F. Follows Up Onslaught by. Smashing Frankfurt and Other Enemy Targets at Night.

RAF Follows Up With Assault on Industrial City  13 Heavy Bombers, 9   13 Heavy Bombers, 9 Fighters Lost by Americans

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NAZI FIGHTERS FAIL TO SHOW UP IN ATTACK   HITLER CAPITAL HIT BY 1,500 TONS OF BOMBS

Militia Officers To ‘Attend Instruction ‘School At Fort Sheridan

‘Town Hall’ MeetingFriday   Open Discussion of Form Of Government, Proposed Changes Planned

Public Forum Here Tonight   Citizens Invited To Attend Take Part in Discussion On City Government

Chinese Escape Corridor Drawn Closer By Japs  Invaders Paying Heavy Penalty In  Blonan Offensive

Jap Columns — Narrow Chinese  Escape Corridor   Chinese Forces*Threaten‘ed. With Entrapment Southwest of Chenghsien.

Japs Advance In China Drive   Cutting Escape Corridor And Threaten Entrapment Of Big Chinese Force

Assert Chinese Escape Corridor Cut To 10 Miles   Report Allied Forces Move On Kohima Preparatory To Major Offensive

r Pete —  For ‘Rescue’ o   Jugoslav Military, Political Situation Out of Hand, Word

FINNISH TROOPS SCORE VICTORY   Port In Petsamo Area Occupied By Strong Soviet Forces

Comm  For $9800 O. uote      e Solicit Business Firms And Corporations, Professional  Men And Women

Local War Chest Committee Aims  For $9800 Quota   To Solicit Business Firms And Corporations, Professional  Men Asad Women

Germans Give Their Version Of Operation   Report Stiff Battle Raging Between Caer Isigny; Probable New Action Is Foreseen

Germany’s Version of Invasion   News Agency DNB Reports Air-Borne Troops Landed First

MIGHTY THRUST IS PICTURED BY GERMAN AGENCY   Enemy Tells Its Story of His: tory’s Greatest Assault On French Coast

Germany’s Version of  Invasion  News Agency DNB Reports Air-Borne

MORE FORCES ARE LANDED IN HOLLAND   Lower Rhine Knocked Out As Defense Line   EINDHOVEN   Captured By Allied Units; Main Weight Of Attack Pointed At Cologne

Lower Rhine Defense Is  Knocked Out   Air-Borne Army May Open Way Into Northern Reich; British-American Troops Take Eindhoven, Cutting Off Main Dutch Cities

British Advance 16 Miles to Form Junction With American Paratroop And Glider Forces in Holland

Eindhoven Captured By British   Battle of Rhine Begins on Broad Front—Yanks Rip Into Defenses

Threaten to Break Into Northern Germany Around Flank of Siegfried Line.       British Troops Link With Sky Forces: Capture Eindhoven

Seventh Largest Dutch City Falls As British Army Links With Airborne Troons

BRITISH CAPTURE EINDHOVEN AFTER JOINING WITH GLIDER FORCES DROPPED IN HOLLAND   Three American Armies Rip Deeper Into Enemy Crossriver Defenses Shielding Cologne, Strasbourg and Mulhouse   HEAVY ARTILLERY USED TO HALT SKY INVADERS

‘Threaten to Roll Up North Flank of Nazis   Rhine Battle Opens On Broad Front; More Airborne Troops Landed

Join Parachute And Glider Forces Across the Rhine In Central Holland

Sensational. Advance Made by Sky Troops in Descents Around Arnhem. Niimeaen

oe River fenses Of ri Ripped   Airborne Hook Through Holland Threatens Huns

BRITISH SEIZE MAJOR DUTCH WIRE CENTER   New Airborne Landing Above Rhine Delta Hinted by Nazis

Battle Of The Rhine Gets Under Way   American Armies Push Way Into Nazi Defenses

Eindhoven Falls To British And U.S. Paratroons   American Armies Rip Deeper Intec Nazi River Defenses Shielding Cologne, Strasbourg and Mulhouse.

Eindhoven © Captured By British   Growing Army of Sky  Troops Battling Germans  on Both Sides of River    THREATEN FLANK OF SIEGFRIED LINE   Nazi Reserves Blocked Out; Rotterdam. Virtually Cut Off

British Take Eindhoven, Link Up With Sky Troops   Northern Dutch Cities Virtually Cut Off as Air Army Moves to Turn Flank of Sieofried Line

British Join Sky-Borne Unit To Get Dutch City   Eindhoven Is First Communications Center Taken

Rhine Fight Begun By 3 Yank Armies On Front To South   English Join Hands With Vast Sky-Borne Force In Bid To Break Into Northern Germany; Americans Rip  Cologne, Strasbourg, Mulhouse Defenses

EINDHOVEN IS CAPTURED BY ALLIED FORGES   Charge Forward And Link With Air Troops

Junction With Air Troops   Combined Forces Pose  Immediate Threat to  Nazi Flank; Yanks Rip Deeper Into Westwall

TEMPERATURES:   Entire Enemy Flank Menaced By Alllie:   Drive Points Toward Cologne, Strasbourg And Mulhouse; More Airborne Troops In Battle; Fight For Aachen Nearing Climax

Yanks Rip Deeper Into Nazi Lines   Joint Sky, Ground Attacks Threatening German Flank   An About Face.

Airborne Unit And 2nd Army Troops Linked   Germans Report Some Invaders From Skies  Have Crossed Rhine In Threat To Nazi    _ Flank; Yanks Smash Into Enemy Lines

Lower Rhine Knocked Out As Defense Line   Seventh Largest Dutch City Falls To Allied Forces

Sky-Borne Forces Plunge Across Rhine; Eindhoven, Dutch City, Is Captured

More Troops Plunge From Skies—Many Armies Batter AL Reich—Brest Falls

More Air-Borne Troop Landings © Reported North Of Water Barriers   - Raiders — Pour It On   Kk «* Ke OX Reds Chew Up Nazis In Baltics

THREE ARMIES MOVING FORWARD AS ALLIED SKY TROOPS VAULT ;  ACROSS RHINE IN HOLLAND

Lower Rhine Is Knocked Qut As Reich Defense   British Capture Eindhoven In Junction With Paratroopers

Troops And Supplies Pour Into Holland   Eindhoven And Geldrop Swept Up In Advance

Allied Forces. Capture City Of Eindhoven      New Air Landings. Made Along Lower Rhine Near Arahem

Invasion Army Is Growir * 7 Threat To Break Throw  into Northern Sector  of Germany.   MORE DUTCH TOWNS REPORTED CAPTURED

Push Cuts Off Lower  Rhine   Berlin Reports New Landings in Heart of Holland

Allied Might . ‘Smashes Lower Rhine Defenses   A Break-Through Into North Germany Now Is Imminent; Capture Eindhoven

BRITISH SEIZE EINDHOVEN, KEY NAZI RAIL HUB   Yank Troops Push Toward Industrial Cities Of Cologne, Strasbourg

Join Airborne Units. In Thrust To Break  Into NorthGermany   Think Paratroopers. Cross. Rhine; -. 3.U.S. Armies Dent Defenses Of -. Cologne, Strasbourg, Mulhouse

Lower Rhine Sector Knocks ed Out As a German De foenea fine,   BRITISH. AIR UNIT UNITE:

British 2nd Army, New Sky Unit Join, Capture Eindhoven   Identify Attack Areas in Netherlands: Yanks Repel Germans, Seize Three Border Towns

‘POWERFUL AIRBORNE ALLIED FORCE MAY FLANK GERMAN LINE  GERMANS DESPERATELY RESISTING ADVANCE INTO RHINELAND AREA

Growing Sky Army Battles F orward Across Rhine in Holland  *   EINDHOVEN IS TAKEN   Germans Are Outfought in Battle for Key Roads and Bridges

Block Out Nazi Reserves: Virtually Cut Off Large Cities of Holland

British Ground Forces Battle Forward, Link up With Airborne Troops  Leap Lower Rhine Defenses  Germans Fight Desperately As Americans Grind Ahead On Other Fronts

New Russian Drive Surges Along Baltic For 62 Miles   Bi German: Divisions Virtually ‘Cut off.

Truk Given Another Blastine By MacArthur's Fliers In Massive Two-Way Blow

Nazis Defending Rumanian Border in Fight  Nikolaev Expected to Fall to Soviets Shorily

REDS DIVIDE NAZI TROOPS ON BORDER   Of Rumania By Capturing Rail Junction On Trunk Line In Lower Ukraine; Expect Fall Of Nikolaev.   Reach Upper Bug

Reds Hurl Foe Into Retreat in  Lower Ukraine   Black Sea Base of Nikolaev Expected To Fall Shortly

Nazis Defending Rumanian  Border Divided By Soviets   Russians Hurl Enemy Back and Cepture Junction or  Odessa-Zhmerinka Rail Line—Fall of Nikolaev Is Imminent

BLACK SEA BASE OF NIKOLAEV IS BEING MENACED   Sealed Off On Three Sides Port Is Expected To Fall Soon   NAZIS SURRENDERING, RUSSIANS DECLARE

Soviets Divide. Hur! Germans Into a Retreat  Splice Rail Trunk   Splice Rail Trunk Line Near Odessa; Seal Off Nikolaev

NEAR RUMANIA   Split Nazi Border Defenses  : In Capturing Key Rail. road Junction

SOVIETS BREAK LWOW- ODESSA RAILROAD LINE   Capture Of Vapnyarka Junction Divides Retreating Germans

Crack Anchors of German Line Guarding Rome   American Forces Blast Their Way Into Velletri

Big Strongholds of Velletri, Valmoniane Fall; Nazis Cut Off   Rumble of Gunfire Is Plainly Heard in Rome as Allies Near

Escape Route . of German Units  Cut By Allies   Velletri, Valmontone Seized By Americans In Push Toward Rome

Two Anchors Smashed And Via Casilina Escape Highway Slashed   oth Army Attacks On 26-Mile Front   German Defenses Break After Week Of Pressure By Americans

Cut Escape Route for Nazi Army   Capture Anchor Bases of Rome Defense Line in  Fierce Battles

YANKS TAKE VELLETRI, VALMONTONE AND cur  RAAF mA AM  GASILINA ESCAPE RUAD

‘Velletri and Valmontone Are Captured   However, Germans Continue to Put Up Stiff Fight

ROME DEFENE WALL TOTTERa BEFORE YANKt   Velletri and Valmontone Are Seized as Allies Cut Escape Route,

FOR Backers Campaigning For Soldier Votes:   150,000 Letters Sent Out; Poplar Bluff. Publication Reveals

DEMOCRATS CAMPAIGNING TO GET SOLDIER VOTE BY SENDING OUT SPECIAL LETTERS OVERSEAS

JAMAICA STRUCK BY SEVERE. STORM   60-Mile an Hour Winds Reported on Island

Price Control  Bill Is Passed   Murray Attacks Measure Savas OPA ‘Handeunffed’

Congress Passes OPA Extension  In Recess Rush  Both Houses Hope To Adjourn for ~ Party Conventions

U.S. Lroops Near Lessay, Coast Ancher  Rommel Loses 124 Tanks  fe ftarntarattaphka Slane   BRITISH FALL BACK   Germans Regain Lonvyigny in Hard Fighting in Caen Sector

Nazi Attacks Cease Around Caen, Allies Destroy 144 Tanks   American Troops Inch Nearer Provincial Capital of Cherbourg Peninsula in Heavy Mud

Americans Within Sight Of St. Lo; Enemy Thrusts Around Caen Beaten Back

DIG OUT NAZIS FROM CRITICAL ROAD CENTERS   Ferocious Enemy Counterattacks Thing of Past Around Caen; 124 German Tanks Destroyed

YANK DRIVE FORT. LOON A-AILE LINE   German Regiment Wiped Out in Attempt to Capture Crucifix Hill.

Repulse German . Efforts To . Split Bradley's Forces, Close in On St. Lo After New Dawn Attack; British Hold In Caen Sector Despite Violent’ Attacks of 11 German Divisions.

124 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out In N ormandy Area   Violent New Assaults On West End of Front Made By American Forees: Huns Drop Back        5S   Offensive Around Caen Is Stalled   Heavy Fighting Reported Near Fortress Town Of Si. Lo; Nazi Flank Is Endangered

Now Within Sight of Road Center   Ferocious Foe Attacks Peter Out Around Caen Area

FIERCE ATTACKS TURNED BACK WITHHEAVY TOLL   Caen Sector Quiets Down But British Hold Firm’ in Captured City’s Ruins

Yank Troops Atiack Again Near St. Lo   124 German Tanks Smashed On Two Fronts

Commencement Speaker Veteran Of Present War   Was Awarded. Silve Star For Bravery Te Range mF

Commencement — Speaker Veteran Of Present War  Was Awarded Silve:  Star For Bravery wv gy ge

National Convention Is Told Must Not Change Leadership During War

RACE EQUALITY PLANK LIKELY   Jackson Says Roosevelt Must Be Renominated And Reelected   SOUTHERNERS BALK

HALMAHERA I$ NEUTRALIZED IN ALLIED ATTACK   Stepping S.tone to Philippines Is Tar-. . set of Raid

HALMAHERA NEUTRALIZED BY ALLIES   Stepping-Stone To Philippines Is Battered

IEP I0 PHILIPPINES   Once Strong Bastion Of Halmahera Virtually Neutralized   DUMP BOMBS ON BARGES AND TRUCKS  Tons Of Enemy Deep Sea

Halmahera Base Neutralized By Allied Assaults   Great Base No Longer Remains Feeding Point For Japanese Drive

Halmahera s Neutralized i in Allied Attack   Once Was Strong Bastion of Javanese

JAPS’ BASTION ON PHILIPPINES ROUTE BOMBED   Halmahera Neutralized By Heavy Assaults By Liberators

FDR EXTRAVAGANCE SCORED BY BRICKER      Governor Speaks to Large Audience at Bangor, Me.

FDR Called Extravagant President   Expenditures“ Aggregate $360,000,000,000, Bricker States In Sncech

Bricker Says F.D.R. Most Extravagant   PRESIDENT COUNTRY HAS EVER HAD; EXPENDITURES TRIPLE THOSE OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED.

SAYS FD. Re HAS SPENT 360 BILLION   BRICKER ASSERTS TOTAL IS 3 TIMES EXPENDITURES OF ALL PREDECESSORS.

Draft Boards To  Re-Examine 4-F'’s  Between 18-23  New Series Of Tests In Use Since fune 

halt to Resift F Registrants   Treatment Restores Once Diseased Men

PEACE NOTES ‘ARE DENIED   FINNISH. GOVERNMENT. DE‘CLARES THERE HAS BEEN NO. EXCHANGE OF . PEACE PROPOSALS

ROCKET COAST PLACED UNDER HEAVY ATTACK   BOMBERS BLASTING WINGED BOMB INSTALLATIONS— MANY EMPLACEMENTS IN NORMANDY

SUIT THREATENED OVER GIY DAM IN CIGERD GREEK   Farmers File Notice of Injury Because of Alleged High Water

SUIT THREATENED IN CICERO CREEK   ‘Farmers File Notice of Injury Because of lAlleced. Hich Water

REPORTED READY TO ABANDON CITY; REDS BATTLE IN SUBURBS   Soviet Bridgehead On West Bank Of Vistula Revealed By Berlin; Crossing At Deblin Indicated

NAZIS REPORT SOVIETS CROSS VISTULA. RIVER   Assault Forces Launch Power. ful Attack Against Suburbs Of Warsaw

Russian Troops Battle Through Warsaw Suburbs   Bridgehead on West Bank of Vistula Reported

Republicans Bid For Service Ballots In. Post-War Foreign Policy Proposal Today

German Oil Center Merseburg Bombed  Yanks Drop 3 000 Ton:  Evel gi ee eg ueegan ~~ mere me

2,000 Warplanes Hit Oil City of Merseburg   Only Few German Fighters Offer Opposition

BEDS ADVANCING OVER NAZI DEAD, WRECKED TANKS   Plight of German Divisions © Caught in Dnieper Bend Trap Hopeless

SALES TAX GAINS FOR THIS AREA   Ottawa County 12th Highest in State — Total of $23,827.98 Turned in

Storm Fatalities In Garrett County   Many Injured; Roads Blocked By Slides And Lines Between Cumberland And Oakland Down

Toll Reports Vary Widely In Maryland   Estimates On Dead Range Up To 15 With Many Others Hurt

Eleven Lost Fliers Are Rescued   SEVERAL AIRMEN HUDDLE 36 HOURS ON ICY SLOPE OF TALL NEVADA PEAK

FOUR APPEALS DENIED   Employees of S.0.W. Were Given Hearings Last Night

Terrifying Phenomenon  In Mexico  Resembles Birth of — Paricutin Volcano

Nation- Wide Drive Planned By Democrats      Gospel Of Party Will Be Carried Into Every State

Missouri School For  _ Deaf To Open On © ’ Wednesday, Sept. 20th.

NAZIS USED NEW TACTICS DURING BIG AIR BATTLE   ROCKET BROADSIDES AND SOME SCREENS FOR FIGHT‘ ERS AMONG NEW DEFENSIVE METHODS

NAMES ARE ADDED TO CASUALTY LIST   One Soldier From This Area Killed, Another Dies From Wounds, Others Are Hurt In Action

‘Russians Advance In Ukraine Area   ” German Prisoners Tell Of Being Ordered To Held Vital Railway Supply Line At All Cost

Senate Asks WhiteHouse REA Files   CLASH BETWEEN CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT ENTERS NEW PHASE AS PROBERS HEAR JONATHAN DANIELS.   Slattery Refused to Resign

Senate Demands  White House File   Committee to Ask Roosevelt for Data

WHITE HOUSE FILES ASKED BY PROBERS   Senate Unit _Ir REA Plans putea Unueual Call

White House Files Will Be Asked \by Senate Committee Probing REA

PROBERS ASK WHITE HOUSE FILES ON REA   Unusual Call for Data Raises Possibility of ' New Clash   DANIELS TALKS TO. HOUSE COMMITTEE   Roosevelt Aide Answers Questions Concerning Slattery

KNISLEY WITHDRAWS FROM GOVERNOR RACE   State Treasurer To Support Donahey’s Son-in-law

Methodists Face  Decision on War   Negro Equality, Womer Preachers Also Issues

POLITICOS TURK ATTENTION T0 CONVENTIONS   Size of MacArthur’s Vote Most Striking Result of Primary

INJURIES FATAL TO PVT. WEISHAAR   Bonneauville Soldier, Veteran Of Invasions Of Africa And Sicily, Had Been Hurt In Accident

CIVILIANS ORDERED ‘TO EVACUATE MANILA   Japanese Fear Of An Air Attack Motivates Action; Severe Penalties Are Decreed

REPORT NAZI OFFICIALS PREPARING TRIALS OF U.S. BRITISH PRISONERS

Germans To Try Allied Prisoners   Claim Yanks, Britons Made “Terror” Attacks

Jap Resistance In. North Burma Believed Crackec   Stilwell’s American And Chinese Sweep Mogaung Valley

Japs Defeated In North Burma   Resistance Broken By Gen. Stilwell

Jap Resistance Appears Broken  Stilwell's Forces Rauwaernce«n CM). n

JAPANESE UNABLE TO HALT STILWELL   Resistance in Burma Appears Faltering as Troops Gain

Allies Break Back Of Jap  Resistance   Infantry, Tanks Sweep Over Jungle: Into Manpin Town

Jap Resistance Appears Broken  Stilwell’s Forces Advance 6 Miles

ANIERICAN AND CHINESE UNITS GAIN 6 MILES   COUNTER - INVASION OF INDIA NEARS BLOODY CLIMAX

JAP DRIVE IN BURMA BROKEN   Enemy’s Counter Push Into India Nears  Bloody Climax

FOR STILWELL   Back of Jap Resistance in North Area Appears to. Have Been Broken

Jap Battle Looms On Kohima Front   ‘Uncle Joe's’ Infantry Are Hall-Way to Burma Road

USE PATHFINDERS   Trained Crews Mark Ob. scured Targets for ~ Bombers

RAIN AIDS. WEAR SILI TROOPS.   Weather Halts New Landing Operations; British Push Ahead

RAL Allo WEAR GERMAN TROOPS   Weather Halts New Landing Operations; British Push Ahead

RAIN HINDERS — PUSH TO Paris   Furnishes Respite To Weary Nazis   Secondary Skirmishes Reported

RAIN CURTAILS YANKS’ ACTION   Weary Nazis in Western France Given Brief Respite

Finn Paper Considers Peace ‘Terms   EDITORIAL DISCUSSES POSSIBILITY OF SEPARATE PACT

She Should Have Educated George _  “Valgar”’ Irish Blast Mrs. Shaw

Five Armies On March to Free Baltics   ‘One Soviet Column Only 26 Miles From East Prussia Border   PINSK IS STORMED   ‘More Than 7,000 Germans  Killed in First Day of New Offensive

U. S. Bluntly Denounces Argentina as Having  ‘Deserted Allied Cause’   Citing Continued Acts of Support for Axis, Hull Urges United and Associated Nations Adont Policy of Diplomatic Isolation

HULL DENOUNCES ARGENTINE POLICY   CALLS FOR DIPLOMATIC ISOLATION OF COUNTRY FOR “DESERTING ALLIES,”

ARGENTINA 1S GIVEN A BLAST BY U. 5. GOV'T      Nation Accused of De. serting Cause of the Allies

U.S. Assails Argentina For Actions   Diplomatic Isolation Suggested to United, Associated Nations In Strong Language

NO RECOGNITION FOR ARGENTINA   Nation Is Denounced As Deserter To Cause Of Allies

U.S. Denounces Argentina, ‘Asks Diplomatic Isolation In Blunt, Strong Statement   ‘Denunciation, Apparently Without Precedent, Urges ‘United. And Associated Nations To Follow Policy Con demning Farrell Regime’s Desertion Of Allied Cause

Germans Say Russ Opened New Attack Tn Latvia   Breaches Opened In Enenty Lines; Soviet Army Drives Across Slovakia Threshold

Report Russians Launch Drive in Southern Lotvia   Another Port on  Baltic Is Objective Germans Believe; Slovakia Overrun

NEW RED OFFENSIVE 5 WELL PREPARED   German Military Commentator Tells of Latvian Drive.

NEW OFFENSIVE BY RUSSIANS REPORTED BY GERMANS TODAY  » RED MOUNTAIN TROOPS DRIVING ACROSS FRONTIER OF SLOVAKIA

Russ Launch Baltic Smash   Line Breaches Opened, Seys Nazi Spokesman, But Drives Repulsed

NEW RED DRIVE IN LATVIA TOLD   OPEN BREACHES IN GERMAN LINE, SAYS NAZ COMMENTATOR   et ne ie ieee *  LONDON, Oct. 28 A—The Moscow radio announced today that the Bulgarian delegation had accepted Allied armistice terms,

SUBSIDIARY OF WARD'S SEIZEL   ‘Action Ends 16-Day Strike At Hummer Plant

WARD'S HUMMER PLANT IS SEIZED   Soldiers Take Control To End 16-Day Strike

SECOND WARD PLANT SEIZED BY U.S. ARMY   Subsidiary Taken Over To Enforce WLB Order ) And End Strike

Budapest Is Target of Allied Bombs   German Aircraft Factory Is Hit in Latest Attack

Great Bomber Force Makes Journey From Italy to Strike at Hungarian Capital

Budapest Is Target of Allied Bombs  German Aircraft  al ee Cn Pe   German Aircraft Factory Is Hit in Latest Attack

Large Force Hits Capital Of Hungary   Smashes at Railroads Linking Germany With Balkan Front  TTS OF ACT MAaAITC IEP

Americans Slash  ~ Balkan Rail Link   Vital German Troop Route TT. Piawsanta Ginnaliasl

BLAST RAIL HUB, AIR FIELDS AND FAC. TORY MAKING MESSERSCHMITTS; BOMBERS MAKE 1000 MILE ROUND TRIP FROM !TALY.

Budapest Given Another Bombing   American Planes Attack Railroads

\J.S. Heavies From Italy Hit Budapest  . Atun pre ht Cactary.   ‘Aircraft Factory, Railroads Struck

NAZIS FEAR VIENNA'S FALL -=RUSSIANS   Reds Say Germans Order Machinery Moved From City

FEAR VIENNA'S FALL RUSSIANS   Reds Say Germans Order Machinery Moved From City

Red Army Drive Into Budapest Slowed by Rain   Downpours Aid Nazis in Defense of Hungarian Capital

RAIN SLOWS RUSSIAN DRIVE   German Step Up Delaying Action at Hungarian Capita!

Pope Pius Urges Justice For All In Post-War Plan   Personal Property Must Be Protected, Says Church Official

5 Years Of War Finds Germans  In Full Retreat   Armies That Sought To Conquer World Now Fleeing Homeward

da Army Renews Offensive In  Heavy Snowstorm   Fierce Fighting Rages Along American Sector

Fighting Unusally Violent   Third Anniversary Of Germany's Declaration Of War Sees  Spirited Struggles.

AXIS POWERS PLANE LOSSES ARE REVEALEL   WAR DEPARTMENT ISSUES "SUMMARY SHOWING 17,984 ENj EMY PLANES DESTROYED . On ‘DAMAGED iN 1943

L TAKEN BY U. 5. FLYERS AT RATIO OF 33-1   Astounding Figures Show Extent of Relentless Air War

TOLL TAKEN BY U.S. FLYERS AT RATIO OF 33:1   Astounding: Figures Show Extent of ReJentless Air War. -

Red Cross in Press Praise On Fund Aid.   NEWSPAPERS  DEGLARMD. TO HAVE HAD BIG PART IN SUCCESS,

GENERAL RAIN FALLS   Minor Overflows Reported in. Blue and Solomon Rivers

TT TAKING ARMY TESTS   Big Contingent of Twin  City Draftees Goes  To Chicago

ili Selectees Go To Chicago   Nine Fail To Appear, Authorities Sav

Senate Approves Penalty Clause On Hobby Losses  Amendment Cuts Deficits to $20,000 Total

Senate Writes Penalties Into New Revenue Bill   Amendment Hits Operators of ‘Hobby’ Enterprises, Such as Horse Racing Stables, Who Claim Consecutive Losses

Penalties Fixed Against Individuals Who Operate Hobbies at. Loss: for‘Five Years   TERMED “MARSHALL FIELD?» AMENDMENT   Restricts: to $20,000 Sum Deductable in ‘One Year ‘For An Enter % nrica

HOBBY - LOSs CLAUSE ADDED   Senate Votes Marshall Field Amendment To Tax Bill

Tax Limit Put OnHobby Los:   So-Called ‘Marshall Field!  Amendment Adanted

Tax Penalties In Hobby Loss   Individuals Operating Such Enterprises Must Pay Penalty If Loss.

Hobby Deficits Are Penalized      Senate Adds Amendment To New Revenue Bill ‘As Vote Nears —

Senate Writes New Tax Provisc  Hits Individuals Operating Hobbies

SENATORS EYE TAX SOURCES   Men Who Operate Racing Stables As ‘Hobby’ Won't Escape for Good

Senate Amends New Tax Measure  ‘Hobby’ Enterprises   ‘Hobby’ Enterprises Covered by Clause

REVISED RATES CEFECTIVE JAN.    Applies To Wages Paid Regardless Of When Earned

Revised Rates Employee Witholding Tax Made Clear By Rey. Collector

Revised Tax on  1945 Paid Wages   Withholding Is on Wages Paid, Regardless of When Earned

DETROIT PATCHING ACE. EXPECTED 10 TOSS 20 VICTORIES   Trout) Harls 19th Win and Rated as One of Best in Major Leagues

Jap Cruiser  Hit by Bombs   Liberators Drive Past Fighter Protection; Drop Two 500-Pound Bombs

JAP CRUISER, 2 DESTROYERS HIT BY YANK PLANES   Repairs Rushed On Captured Mokmer Airdrome On Biak Island

Large Crowd At Annual Reception  C.D. A. Sunday  Fifty-Three New Members Initiated Into The Order

Large Class of Candidates Initiated as Members of Court Santa Marie

Bong Downs 31st Plane  Scores Victory 4 Hours After Reaching Leyte

London Papers See Roosevelt Win   British Market “Takes 1 Fer Granted” President Will Be Recelerted

LONDON PAPERS SEE FOR SWEEP   Most of Those Commenting Predict President Will Be Re-elected

Dewey Repeats Declaration He Is Not Running   New York Govetno:   Declines Comment Mn Balitice

DEWEY STILL INSISTS HE'S NO CANDIDATE   WILLKIE FOLLOWERS SWING TO SUPPORT OF GOVERNOR

Dewey Declines To Talk Politics   Repeats He's Not Avowed (Candidate

Plane Production Board Dissolves, Its Mission Over  68,000 Machines Built This Year

Needed Plane Output for War Achieved, Aircraft Production Board Dissolves

ALLIES HOLD NEARLY TENTH OF BURMA AREA   Communication Lines To India Also Almost Completed

Vital Jap Supply Route Abandoned   Disorganized Remnants of Nips Surrendering

Japanese Give up India Supply Line   Enemy Troops Split Up by Allied Drive

Nips’ Attempt To Invade India Ends   Enemy Being Hunted Down And Wiped Out

Earth Splits Open, Swallows TwoYear-Old Girl Walking Along Street

Earth Splits Open and Swallows Up Little Girl; Body Being Sought

Earth Opens And Swallows A 2-Year-Old   Grim Miners Dig for Body of Tot in Pennsylvania Town Cave-In.

EARTH OPENS AND SWALLOWS CHILD   3-YEAR OLD GIRL BURIED ALIVE IN CAVE-IN OF STREET

One Report ort Says] s Lt: Lama Rojas Is. Fatally Wounded Trying to Escape .

Assailant of Camacho Is  Renorted Killed   Mexican Army Officer Evidently Tried to Escape from Custody

‘Would-Be Assassin Of President Comacho Dies of Wounds, Reported

Pro-Nazi Lieutenant Attempts Assassination of Camacho But is Himself  —Shof Trying Escape.

They Lived, Fought, Died Together But Rites Are Held in 3 Religions

TRAIN WRECK   Toll Includes 24 Air Force Veterans; 40 Others Injured

TRAN COLLISION DEAD SET AT 27   “Dead Aviators Were Veterans of the  15th. Air Force

Stockmen Favor Herd Reduction   Birney Rancher Is National Official

RAF Delivers  Heaviest Bloy,   Four German Rail Points Smashed hv Acsanlic

RAF Pours Oui Greatest Bomb Load of War   American Heavies Are Reported Carrying Out Major Attacks  On Bucharest Targets

RAF Batters Cologne And Other Areas  - Supply Lines To Coast Plastered

1,100 AIRCRAFT RIP INTO FOUR RAILWAY HUBS   Stabs Made Behind Nazi Invasion Front; Yanks Stage Attack On  Bucharest

1,100 Planes Take Part in Record Raid   Berlin Reports Yanks Make ‘Major Attack’ On Southeast Europe  BUCHAREST TARGET

Over 5,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Cologne, French Areas; Foe Reports Yanks Hit Bucharest

Mightiest RAF Blows Are  Struck At German Targets More Than 1,100 Airctaft Batter Nazi Roil  fCantare: la Deanccneng C.. AIP.

Railway Centers Behind Invasion Front Attacked   Bucharest Bombed By Yankee Fliers

Other Targets in Southeastern Europe Are Attacked   COLOGNE ASSAULT 1S STAGED BY RAF   More Than 1100 Aircraft Blast Four Railway Centers

BRITISH AIRMEN STRIKE AT NAZI ~ RAILWAY CENTERS   More Than 1,100 Planes Biast Cologne and Three Other. Keys — Sixteen -Bombers ‘Lost   BLOW IS HEAVIEST DEALT FOE 80 FAR   Americans Raid: Bucharest a Other Cities — Lose  __ Five Ships in French. “Coastal Area.

THREE OTHER AXIS RAIL CENTERS ALSO BOMBED WHILE AMERICANS ATTACK FRANCE AND BUCHAREST. PRE-INVASION BOMBS HIT “ATLANTIC WALL.”

Register 72-14 Vote In Favor of Legislation .   Verdict Follows Up Action of House Giving 299 Approval

New Law Means Higher Excise Taxes April 1   Congressional Revolt Complete As Senate Rejects Veto, 72-14

Climaxes Revolt On  Roosevelt   Worst Defeat In 11 Years Brings Strained Relations  With Congress.

Senate Passes Tax Bill Over Veto ]2 to 14   Another Slap AY President Seen in Vote

Senate Rejects Tax Bill Veto By 72 to 14 Vote   Only 13 of 52 Democrats Uphold Roosevelt, Joined by But One Republican—Lancer of North Dakot:

Upper House, 72-14, Takes Slap at F. R.    Friends Desert. President: Bill to Raise Tax Pavments

FEW DEMOCRATS BACK PRESIDENT IN 72-14 VOTE   Langer of GOP Backs Roosevelt, Blasts ‘War Rich’

Senate, In Revolt, Overrides Veto 72-14, E nacting $2,315,200,000 Tax Bill Into Lan

Army Calls For Hospital Aides   Red Cross Group Recruiting Starte

Dewey Jumps into Work Of Campaign   Confers With Bricker— To Meet With  Committee

 Dewey Accepts Nomination With Appeal To All Parties; Works On Campaign Strategy:   Republican Dissension Melts Away; Bricker No. 2 Man On Party Ticket

Dewey Sets Face Toward  Biggest Job   Meets Committee Today To Map Campaign Strategy

Drive Launched By Gov. Dewey   Republican Standard Bearer Loses No Time in Getting Campaign For Presidency Under Way in Chicago ~—Holds Breakfast Conference With Bricker.   SPEECH IS PRAISED

INTER-PARTY -DISSENSION * FADES   Candidates Stay In Chicago To Map Campaign   FOREMOST JOB   Is To Win War, Says New Yorker; Compliments His Running Mate

}  Dewey Goes To Work On Committee Organization   News Conference And Talk With  ’ Hoover Also Are Scheduled Today

Dewey Planning All-Out Campaign      (Personality sketches of Deweys and Brickers on Page 9-A).

Dewey Organizes White House Drive   Republican Nominee Charts Party Campaian as Convention Concludes

Presidential Choice Of GOP Wildly Cheered   Promises Cabinet Of Ablest Men, Women In America, Young Enough To Do Tasks   For Middle Road Foreign Policy   Says Men Who Founded  Nation Really Knew Three Terms Were Too Many:

Nominee Maps His Campaign   Nominee Appeals for All Parties’ Aid in Acceptance Talk

GOP Candidate Jumps To Unite Party Backing   ... Meet__Haaxer. And Nat'l. Comniittee;  Will Return Saturday

GOP NOMINEE CHARTS WHITE HOUSE COURSE   PROMISES CABINET OF ABLEST MEN AND WOMEN IN AMERICA

HAWAIIAN JAPANESE WOMEN, CHILDREN LEAVE CAMPS: WILL RETURN TO ISLANDS

BATTLE NORTH OF AACHEN RAGES UNCHECKED TODAY   Other Allied Forces Extend Drive to Oust the Enemy Out of Holland   HODGES ADANCES   Advance Spearheads of American Armor Battle  4 Miles Inside Reich

ARMORED COLUMNS _ IN STIFF ENCOUNTER NORTH OF AACHEN..   Try Breakthrough    Other Units Cross Dutch Fron tier North of Antwerp—Metz i . Assault Continues. ;

U.S., Britain Cut Off Shipments to Turkey in Stiffening Attitude Toward That Country

Beachhead Is Secure   U.S., Britain Cut Off Shipments to Turkey in Stiffening Attitude Toward That Country

NO RECOGNITION FOR DE GAULLE   President Says French Mus’ Choose Own Leaders After Liberated

Here's How National Service Would Work Under Austin-Wadsworth Bill

Rocket Guns Are Used On Nips In Burma Campaign   Japs Forced To Back Up In Face Of Hard Chinese Attacks

JAPS RETREAT IN BURMA FICHT   Rocket-Firing Planes Break Up Nip Thrusts

GOP Victory Is Heralded   Buck Wins Congress. Post Over Cantwell

GOP Victory In Democratic Precinct Won   Republicans Hail Victory Of Buck For House Seat

REPUBS WIN SEAT IN CONGRESS IN _ NEW YORK VOTE   Unseat Democrat. in’District Which Has Gone * Democratic for 25 Years

ELEPHANT ‘FEELS HIS OATS’ N.Y. Congressional District Breaks With Past--Goes COP

[¢. 0. P. JUBILANTLY ‘HAILS VICTORY IN NEW YORK TODAY   Win By Nearly 4,000 Votes in New York City Congressional District That Has Voted  Preemnecwntin Car 92 VWYeare

Democrat Loses Congress Seat From New York   Republicans Win District For First Time in 25 Years

DARING ATTACK MADE ON BASE   Japanese Radio Says Allies Using ‘Heavy Mechanized Units’   BIG FLEET POUNDED

‘China Jubilant Over New Blow  Drive Across Pacific  Under Way, Belief

Gen. DeGaulle Welcomed Back   French Chief Reviews Allied Troops on Bastile Day

DEPUE CHILD FALLS INTO A ——-25.FOOT WELL   Youngster Uninjured At Farm Home Sunday Afternoon

CHILD UNHURT DURING FALL IN WELL ON FARM   Four Year Old Youngster Is Rescued From 25-Foot Well After Breaking Through The Rotten Planking Over Top.

U.S. Airmen Battle Nazis; Blast Berlin   Great Air Invasion of Hitler Domain Resumed in Force

“BERLIN REPORTS AMERICAN BOMBERS STRIKE AT BERLIN IN RENEWAL OF ALLIED AIR ATTACK

Development of West Is Future of Nation, Says Dewey   GOP Presidential Candidate States Electior Of Administration Pledged to  Eynancian Ie Ecsential for America

\Nation’s Future 'Lies in West, Dewey Declares   Says Statements by Pepper Are Misrepresenitations

Development of West Is Future of N ation, Says Dewey   TRAD BDeeecelantimnt Candidatasn Cértae Elactiar   GOP Presidential Candidate States Election Of Administration Pledged to Expansion Is Essential for America

Developments For West Are Aim of Dewey   Terms Sen. Pepper Charge Worst Misrepresentation Ever to Come From Administration

Dewey Asserts Future Of Nation Lies In West: Ickes, Perkins High On Purge List

Germans Turn Peaceful Village of St. Gingolph, on Lake Geneva, Into Another Fiery Lidice

French Patriots Wound Von Stulpnagel, Maquis Attack Garrison at St. Gingolp

RUSSIANS DRIVE NEARER RUMANIA. HOUR BY HOUR   Second Ukraine ‘ Army Now Is Less Than 22 Miles From Dniester “River Roundarv. .

Smashes to Within 28 Miles of Line   Also Continue Relentless Liquidation of Nazis in Kherson Trap.

Germans May Withdraw Forces From the Entire Ukraine.   MORE THAN 100 TOWNS ENGULFED   Finland Considering New Soviet Armistice Terms,

Willkie Flays — Foreign Plank   Plan Called — ‘Ambigious,’ Leading to New War

Argentina Recalls Her Ambassador To U.S, Reported  Action Follows Hull’s Denunciation of

Ration Blues, Reds Coming   Period of Use of Both Stamps and Tokens

RATION BLUES RETURN FOR HOUSEWIVES OF U.S.  Rationing Complications Mount With Two Sets of Values Comina

Housewives Heading For Storm Of Food Ration Complications   Will Wrestle With Two Sets Of Values For Three Weeks Beginning February 27

Rationing Grows More Confusing   Rainbow-Stamps, Plus Tokens Will Add To Your Misery

Token System Brewing Food Rationing Storm This Month   JAMES MARLOW AND GEORGE TIFTLKE

FDR LAUDED AT DEMOS’ RALLY   Credited by Armory Speakers With Curing Depression

Japs Land On Peleliu   Tokyo Report Says Assault Troops Reach ll @ Canterolled Iceland

SEAT IN HOUSE   Much Interest in Election in New York’s 21st District.

‘Democrats ‘Keep NY City ' House Seat   Major Parties Differ on Bearing in Presidential Campaign

ELECTION IN NEW YORK IS DEMOGRATIC   Politicians Study Results Of Poll Made Tuesday

Democrats Have Slight Edge In New York Resutt Congress But At   RP. I. _. j.: pe

Democrats Win  N. Y. Election   Tammany Leader, Who Supported F.D.R., Elected To Congress.

— Win Out in New York   James H. Torrens, Supporter of F. D. R. Named to Congress

Fighting Around Cassine "and Below Rome Slows ed Up For Time Being Due To Bad Weather.

l). §. Bombers ver Germany Again Today   Rerlin Admits Targets In Northwestern and Central Areas Were Battered

Nazi Column Strafed:  West Virginia Pilot Helps Kill 100 Germans Trapped in France

Battles Rage Near Li Livorno   Three of Four Main Outposts Are Taken

Allies Close On Livorno, Florence   Storm 3 Outposts of Nazi Gothic Line

Gothic Line Main Bases  Are Smashed   Bloodiest Battles Of Italian Campaigr Are Reing Fought

HOUSE VOTES ~FEPG FUNDS         R 8 EE 8. ARLIER STAND ‘AND. APPROVES APPROPRIA-  - ‘TION DESPITE SOUTH:   ee ERN OPPOSITION

GUADACANA! VETERANS ARE USED BY U.S.   City of Davo in Philippines Is Being Evacuated

NORMAN H. DAVIS RITES WEDNESDAY   AMERICAN RED CROSS CHAIRMAN DIED EARLY SUNDAY IN VIRGINIA

Davis Dies At Age 66   Former Ambassador Was Chairman Of American Red Cross

NORMAN 1. DAVIS EXPIRES SUNDAY   Chairman of Red Cross Died While at Hot Springs, Restina After Drive

Flag Of Glory, 7 Flag Of Victory   Norman H. Davis Taken By Death   Head Of American Red Cross Buried Today

Former Brooklyn Patrolman More Trouble To Nazi Tanks Than Russian. Battalion

Brooklyn Boy Cuts Loose: Former Policeman Stages One-Man War, Kills Eight German Officers

Bold Navy Attack On Jap Base   Destroyers Enter Hanse Bay To Shell New Guinea Center  Under Air Attack.

U. 5. Destroyers Shell Jap Base Of Hansa Bay   Large Bomber Force Also Attacks; Gains Made at Bougainville

HREE ARE KILLED IN MISHAP THESDAY   Five Others Inj Injured When “Hoist, Used By Window Cleaners, Falls.

Chinese Cut Burma Road;  Isolate Japs   Salween River Drive Goes OQn— Stilwell. Stalled

Chinese Open Big Counter Offensive In Honan Province   New Drive Succeeds In Regaining Several Strategic Points;  Old Burma Read Cut

Chinese Cut Old Burma Road, Severing Supply Route From ‘Mandalay To Main Jap Base   Forces Striking From Salween River Sever Vital Line 28 Miles From Border

Chinese Report They Have Cut  Burma Road   Victory Isolates Main Enemy Base At Lunling

Jap Garrison Destroyed By Chinese Force   Burma Road Driven Close To Frontier, Communique Says

Chinese Open Big Drive Against Japs   Counteroffensive Takes Several Strategic Points From Invaders

ROAD IS CUT BY CHINESE   Troops Striking From Salween River, in Cutting Supply Route, Have Isolated Main Jap Base at Luniins.

Chinese Army Cuts Old Burma Road In Drive   Heavy Rains Continue To Delay Operations Around Myitkyina

Chinese Lash Out In Honan   Retake Several Points In Big Counter-Offensive; Cut Jap Supply  Route from Mandalay

Chinese Troops Cut Burma Road Near the Frontie1   Move Isolates Base At Lunling; Chinese Lose City of Lushih.

GERMANS HURRY NORTHWARD “AS ~ YANKS PRESS ON   Prime-Ohbjective of Allies ts to ' . Destroy Armies of the . - Enemy.

France Also Is Hit Hard In The South   Forts From Italy Smash Marseille, Montpellier Area

GERMANS TRY TO RESCUE LEGIONS TRAPPED ALONG CHERKASSY AREA   Severe Fighting Taking Place Between Nazi Troops and Russians.

Battle Mounting in Fury; 7vermans Strike in Strong Attacks.   400 RUSSIAN PLANES RAID HELSINKI AGAIN   Attempt to Hasten Decision of Finns to Get Out of War.

U.S. Army Air Forces Develop Robot Bomb To Use ‘if Needed’   Weapon Modeled after Nazi V-1 Launched against English Cities

U.S. Discloses ‘Good’ Robot Bomb Developed   Can Be Used “If We Need It,’ Army Air Forces Reveal; Secret Weapon In Test Flight Since October 11 .

AAF Duplicates, Improves Upon Robot Bomb In Month For Use ‘If We Need It’

We've Robot Bomb, Also   If Need it Have a ‘‘Géod One’ With Better Ramp Than Germans Use

U.S. Army Makes Better Robot Bomb   WEAPON IN TEST FLIGHT SINCE OCTOBER WILL BE USED IF NECESSARY

U.S. PERFECTS C000’ ROBOT   Flying Bomb Ready For Use When Needed, Army Says

AAF Perfects Copy of German V-1 Bomb For Emergency Use   Sky Weapon Reproduced in Two Months, Tests Termed Successful

AMERICANS NOW HAVE ROBGT AS G00D AS NAZIS   Can Be Used As Soon As Needed  Against Enemy

ARMY ROBOT BOMB READY   ATSC Takes German Weapon, Perfects It, Probably Won’t Use It

Army Develops ‘Good’ Robot Bomk   Deadly Weapon Is Ready for Use Whenever “We Need It” Says Expert

U.S. Army Has Robots Ready,  Just In Case   Test Flights, First Made Over Month Ago, Reveal Our Robots Superior to Those of Germany.

PROBE BRAWL ON BROADWA)    U. S. Has Good Robot Bomb “If We Need It,”  Air Force Says In Disclosing Test Flights _

Army Air Forces Report ‘Good’ Robot Bomb Now Built; Used If Needed

Air Forces —  Make Robot   F lying. Bomb Ready For: Use If. Needed.

U. S, HAS GOOD ROBOT BOMB “IF WE NEED IT.” ARMY. AIR FORCES REVEAL.

U.S. Develops Robot Bomb inRecord Time   Test Flights Show It to Be Better Than German Bombs

U, §. PRODUCES ROBOT ROCKET   Was Designed From German Weapon; It Flies 300 Miles Per Hour On LowTest Gasoline.   —RY EDWIN BB. GREENWALD—

‘Good’ Robot Bomb Ready When Needed   U. S. Discloses New Weapon Developed Along Lines Nazi Projectile

U.S, AIRFORCES »HAVE DESIGNED A ROBOT BOME   Rimilor to Germany's V-1. Weapon Ready for Use ‘If Needed’

verisn Mays A  dray fins Own ‘Robot Bomb That Can Be Used I f ‘Needed

Army Air Force Develops a “Good” Robot Bomb to Be Used if Needed

‘Army ‘Air Forces Develop “Good”: Robot Bomb for Use Against Enemy If Needed; Weapon in Test Flight Since October —   Fwart Canyv Waniaed

U.S. Develops « Good Robot For Use ‘If Needed   Army Air Forces Disclose Jet, Bomb In Test Flight Since Oct. 11.

‘Good’ Robot Bomb Ready When Needed   U.S. Discloses New Wea  ~pon eperg oo Along _ Lines Nazi Projectile

U.S. Develops Robot Bomb To Use ‘If We Need It;’ Test Flights Completed

Jap War and Navy Ministers Say Suicide Tactics of Nip Flyers Will Win War; Claim Big Successes

 Big Jap. Bases From      remy Resistance Weak   American Planes Strike Over 1300 Mile Front in Series of Attacks; Battered Ponape Again Target

Big Base Aim of Smash   POWERFUL AIR-SEA FORCE LAUNCHES BIG ATTACK AT JAP BASE

Orders Raids In Kighteen Mo. Contiatinin   Governor Has Been Investigating Gambling Conditions

Soviets Smash To Within 23 Miles Wilno  Kowel Occupied By Advancing

Soviets Drive 24 Miles in 24 Hours   Are Within 33 Miles of Wilno, Lithuanian Capital

George Declares Taxes Must Come Down After War  Work Now Under Wav In Senate

Legislators Start Plans to Cut Taxes After War  Senator George Sees  Corporate and bescliestialivnl! ties Srise

Legislators Start Plans to Cut Taxes After War  Senator George Sees Corporate and Individual Rate Cuts

NAZI ROBOT BOMBS ~ KILL 9 IN ENGLAND   Five Children Among Dead—Seven Houses Wrecked, Three Flying Missiles Shot Down.

LONDON SHELLED BY BUZZ-BOMBS   Report at Least Nine Persons Killed

More Robot Bombs Strike England   Believed Launched From Specially-Equipped Bombers Over North Sea

Bricker’s Home Town is Disappointed Presidency Wanted For Favorite Son

Desire Record - Of Food Stored By Housewives   Would Aid Federal Group In Mapping Program For Postwar Supplies

Yank Planes Attack Palau   22 Jap Planes on Ground Destroyed in First Daylight Raid

Smashing Drive Puts Deep Dent In German Line   22 Jap Planes Destroyed On Ground In Raid On Palau  Open Aerial Prelude To Battle Of Philippines

U. S. Planes Attack Palau   Liberators Fire Opening Gun in Battle For Philippines

PALAU RAID AIR. PRELUDE TO PHILIPPINE FICHT   MacArthur’s Land-Based Bombers Smash 22 Jap Planes on Ground at Island Stronghold Guarding Philippines on the Soulheast ~~

Newly-Taken Nev Guinea Base Is Source Of Raids   22 Nipponese Planes Destroyed On Ground Buildings Hit

BOMB PALAU BASE   Aerial Prelude to the Battle Of the Philippines Opens

HULL IS GIVEN GREEN LIGHT ON ARGENTINE COLD SHOULDER   FDR Spikes Rumors Of Disagreements

SOVIETS DRIVING FOR INSTERBURG OVER FOE TANKS   Nazi Counter Blows Costly: 300,000 Civilians Quit Koenigsburg

END SARANAC PLANT STRIKE   Men Return to Jobs Pending Arbitration of Dispute

NAVY FLYING BOAT LOST, 14 MISSING   CRAFT GOES DOWN AT SEAH. P, BOOTH OF NEOSHO ONE OF THOSE ABOARD.

Flying Boat Lost At Sea With 14   Ship Rescues 14 Others in Caribbean

4 Planes Lost In ‘Yirpitz Raid   Admiralty Gives Details Of Raid On Big German Battleship.

AIRMEN SILENCE GERMAN WARSHIP, SET VESSEL AFIRI   Four Planes Lost by British in Attack on the Tirpitz in Her Norwegian Hideout,   BOMBS DROPPED ALONG FULL LENGTH OF CRAFT   London Reveals Blow Was Delivered at Dawn With Fliers Diving Through Heavy Fire.

HURRICANE, MAY. ‘BWEEP. OVER ., FLORIDA LATE TRIS, AFT : ERNOON, WEATHER-.  ee OE MEN GAY

FLORIDA COAST GIVEN WARNING OF HEAVY BLOW   Winds 140 to 160 MPH Due to Strike Mainland Late Today

Sgt. H. W. Russell Wins Air Medal  Decorated For Combat Missions Over Oceupied Europe :

CROP PROSPECTS BOOSTED IN MAY   Grain And Fruit Yields To Hit High Marks

Allies Scourge ~ Japs At Rabaul   Down Large Number Of Enemy Warplanes

Allies Bag Heavy Toll Jap Planes   Between 43 and 61 Planes Shot Down Over Ra baul Sunday.

One Of Most Effective Raids American, New Zealand  Planes Get 46-61 Japs In Fierce Rabaul Fight   

RABAUL'S JAPS LOSE 46 1069 MORE PLANES   U.S., New Zealand Fighters Hammer Enemy’s Base In Great Air Blow

JAPAN LOSES MANY PLANES IN NEW BAIN   American Airmer Shot Down 300 Shins In Month

SUNDAYS ALD GIVEN PRAISE   Allies Made One of Best Coordinated Raids Since Pacific War Began.   ENEMY’S LOSSES HIGH

LL DLE LDL LLL LL LLL LL LLL ALL OL:  DOWN OVER 46 JAP PLANES IN RABAUL ATTACK   Smash Eight More on Ground; Sends January Total Above 300 in Area

Japanese Lose 300 Planes In Single Month   Allied Airmen Destroy  Between 46 And 61 - During Operations In - Rabaul Area

Japanese Air Loss Mounts Over Rabaul   Coordinated Assault Of Allied Warplane:s Knocks Down 46-61: Enemv Base Blasted

Destroy Over Forty Jap Planes   Allied Fighters. Bombers. Successful In Coordinated Raid

Jap Air Disaster Rises At Rabaul,  Mitchell Reports   Allies Smash At  Admiralty Isles

BOMB GERMAN INDUSTRIES AND ROBOT SITES   R. A. F. and U. S.’ 9th Air Force Raid Reich and North France

HUGE ALLIED BOMBER FLEETS SMASH NAZIPLANTS, ROBOTS   1,000 Heavies Hit Enemy In Germany and France—Shatter Communications  a ee aN te   RAF Loses 27 Ships—Claim Enemy Losses Staggering—Lull In Robots

ANGLO-BRITISH LOVE-FEAST ONE OUTSTANDING POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THIS YEAR

Evrope On Verge Of New Epoch; AngloFrench Love-Feast Has Far-Reaching Implications .

The War Today  Anglo-French Talks Have Important Sianificance Now

NEW EUROPEAN HISTORY IN MAKING AS BRITAIN PLANS FOR STRONGER FRANCE AND DEGAULLE VISITS STALIN

Anglo-F rench Love Feast Epochal  ‘Britain Moves to Keep ‘Red Sphere in Bounds

Lungling Is Recaptured By Chinese   Town Is Vital Point on Road Between British and China

CHINESE TAKE BURMA ROAD KE   Lunling Finally Recaptured After Four Months Fight

SOLONS PLAN TO RECESS BY SEPTEMBER 15   Reconversion Agreement Is In Sight—Probably After Election

Rome Still In Chaos   Inflation and Black Markets, Lack of Ade. ‘quate Public Utilities Plague Capital

Rome Still Beset By Chaos 6 Weeks After Occupation   Shortage Of Power Big Handicap; Black Market Thrives: Nazi, Fascist Paper Money Accepted

Yanks Tighten Death Trap on Japs at Leyte   Americans Near Ormoc; Planes Lash Nip Fleet

DELEGATES FROM MANY SOUTHEEN STATES TO DE_CIDE ON STRATEGY THIS EVENING

House Passes Tax Bill; Early Senate Approval Looms   Measure Will Spare 30,000,000 from Compiling Returns

Simple Tax Bill  Is Passed   House Approves Measure Eliminating Computation For  30,000,000 Persons

PLEA “POLITICS”   War-Spending Investigator Calls for Continuing Present Leadership

MORE ITALIA TOWNS TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Only One Strong Barrier Left To Germans

BITTER FIGHT RAGES IN ITAL   Yanks Break Through German Defenses in Upper Era Valley.

Fifth Army Takes Lajatico   Described as Bitterest Fighting in Italy In Some Weeks

Hard Fighting Wins Ground  For Americans   Lajatico Captured in Bitterest Warfare Of Campaign

YANKS ENCOUNTER BITTER FIGHTING ON ITALIAN FRONT   U. S. Fifth Army Forces Take Lajatico After Smashing Through Defenses In Upper Era Valley 

Americans Flank Livorno; Seize New Italian Town  T aratian Balle in Rittaract   Lajatico Falls in Bitterest Fighting in Italy in Recent Weeks

AMERICANS IN ITALY SURGING TOWARD NORTE   Fifth Army Captures Lajatico in  Bitterest Fighting of Recent  Weeks; Livorne Ahead.

Yanks Flank ltaly Nazis   Fifth Army Makes Swift Advance and Breaches Defenses

CUT NAZILINES IN ERA VALLEY   ‘5th Breaks Through, Seizes Lajatico in Bitter Battle

AMERICANS INCH AHEAD IN ITALY; LAJATICO FALLS   Gains Made In Bitter Fighting; Florence Now 25 Miles Away

U.S. Forces Break: Nazi Line, Seize  Coast Town   ‘Vifth. Army Moving Over. Valley “Aréas

Allies Crack Nazi Italian GriplnHard  Encounters   Lajatico Captured As Battle Gets More Bitter

Americans Flank Livorno: Seize New Italian Town   Lajatico Falls in Bitterest Fighting in Italy in Recent Weeks

Allied Progress in Italy Slowed  Small Gains Made in Fierce Fighting

AMERICAN TROOPS BREAK NAZI LINES IN FLANKING MOVE  SLIGHT ADVANCES BY ALLIES ALL ALONG ITALIAN FRONT

bth Army Gains In Inland Flanking  Move On Livorno   Take Town Of Lajatico After One Of Bitterest Battles In Weeks And Drive Ahead Within 12 Miles Aroo Valley.

YANKS BREAK INTO STRONG NAZI DEFENSE   Flanking Movement Gains Ground In Fierce. Fighting

Lajatico Falls In Fierce Stab By Doughboys  Fighting Bitterest  OF Past Few Week:

FIFTH ARMY GETS TOWN IN FIERCE FIGHT   Troops Capture Lajatico, in Flanking Move Against Livorno, After  - the Worst Struggle in Recent Weeks.

Americans Capture Lajatico, Moving To Flank Livorno   Bitterest Fighting in Weeks Marks Smash Through German Defenses in Upper Era Yalley

Yanks Advance After Capture Of Italian Town   French Troops Carve Path Through Nazi Defense To Seize San Donato

“TAL LY- RITTER FIEATING “ARCESIN ITAL   Fifth -Army In Flanking . Move Against Import ’ ant Livorno -

MOVE TO FLANK LIVORNO MADE BY FIFTH ARMS   Capture Lajatico In Sweep Toward Arno River

LAJATICO FALLS © AS YANKS DRIVE TOWARD LIVORNC  6TH ARMY BREAKS   5TH ARMY BREAKS GERMAN LINES IN UPPER ERA VALLEY

Americans Win Ground In Italy   DOUGHBOYS MOPPING UP GERMANS IN DRIVE

Yanks Break Nazi Defenses   Capture Lajatico In Flanking Move Against Livorno

French Division [Now In Normandy   Famed Veterans of Africa Fighting Nazis

‘SHAME’ OF SUNDIAL TO BE AIRED AT OSU   State of Undress of Co-ed in Picture Starts Argument

Allied Armies Are lorging Ahead on All Battlefronts   American, British and French Pin Nazi Armies Down With Important Cities About to Fall Under Bitter Assaults

Long Advance Menaces Nazi Army on Rhine   Sixth Army Group Beyond Saarebourg

Twin Advances Draw Strangle hold Around Nazis—Other Allied Forees Gain

19th Nazi Force Threatened By Giant Pincers Movement As Front Becomes Fluid

Money Power In New York Is Assailed By Wallace   it Must Be Broken  If South Is To Have Economic Equality, Vice-President Says   SOUTH’S GOVERNORS HEAR HIS ADDRESS

British Blast. Magdeburg But Lose 55 Plane:   2,200 Long Tons Fall On Industrial City; England Raided

MAGDEBURG  CRUSHED BY RAF BOMBS   German Industrial City Suffers From Assault of  Over 2,000 Tons.   British Suffer Heavy Loss in Two Attacks

RAF Bombers Renew Assault On Megdebure   City On Left Bank O: Elbe River Is Bombec For Second Time Ir Week By British

Magdeburg, Berlin Targets of “Heavy Attacks” From Air   Germans, - Goaded Into Counter Blow, Loose Bombs on London

Magdeburg Is Added to RAF Target List   2000-Ton Raid Follows Up Massive Blow at Ber lin

RAF BOMBERS HIT MAGDEBURG DURING NISHT  Invasion Coast ft «   Invasion Coast Also Struck By British

Magdeburg Is Hit in RAF Attack   Fifty-Five Bombers Lost; London Has Night Assault

Magdeburg in Saxony Is Target, Major Objective in a Great Aerial Operation Which Costs British 55 Bombers.

Magdeburg Hit By Gr eat Bomb Load In RAF Raid   British Lost 55 Planes Last Night; London Js Sharply Attacked And Casualties Result

2000 Tons of Blockbusters Smash Magdeburg; 90 Nazi Bombers Stab at England

MAGDEBURG CRUSHED UNDER TONS BOMBS DROPPED BY RAF   FRIDAY NIGHT RAIDS COST FIFTY FIVE BOMBERS BRITISH STATE

BRITISH LOSE 09 BOMBERS IK NIGHT ATTACKS   English Follow Up Raids in France; 1,000 U. S. Planes Hit Rocket Coast

MAGDEBURG IN 2000-TON RAID   Saxon City of 300,000 Tar get for New Block-Buster Assault; Nazi Bombers Hit London.

MAGDEBURG IS RAF OBJECT OF HEAVY ATTACK   Saxony Manufacturing City Feels Weight of 2000 Tons of Bombs Last Night

England Feels Reprisal Blow   British Bombers Also Attack Berlin In Campaigr To Flatten Enemy Industrial “Targets -

RAF Loses 55 Planes in Raid On Magdeburg: London Bombed   2000 Long Tons Dropped on City in Saxony; Berlin Hit

55 PLANES LOST BY RAF IN NEW BLOWS ON REICH   90 NAZI BOMBERS STAB AT ENGLAND IN 2 SHARP RAIDS

I'wo Thousand Long Tons Fall in Saxony, Smaller in Berlin—Anglo-Americans in Sea-Borne Hop Behind Lines—Red Drives Bite Deeper—Allies Lash  at Jan Basec

Hu ge Airforce Used In Night Blow On Reich   Lancasters and Mosquitos, Meanwhile, Stab at Still Burning Berlin; 55 ‘Planes Lost   Both Cities Left .Flame-Enveloped   Germans, Goaded Into Mak ing Counter-Blow, Raid Britain, Inflicting  - Fatalities, Damage

British Lose 55 Bombers In Night Attack:   Heavies, Mosquitos Hit Berlin; 1,000 Allied Craft Assault Coast; Rritain Has 2 Raids

RAF Bomb Fury on Nazi City   Industrial Center of Magdeburg Crushed In Great Assault: 55 Bombers Lost

LESSER ATTACK MADE ON BERLIN AT SAME TIME— NAZIS RETALIATE BY RAIDING LONDON AND SOUTHEAST ENGLAND—RAF LOSES 55 BOMBERS   By TOM YARBROUGH

CITY OF Mi W SAXONY RUSHED -BFRAE CAMPAIGH   More Than 2000. Long Tons of ‘Bombs Were Dropped;. Berlin Is Again Attacked.   RAF LOST 55 BOMBERS      This Was One of the Heaviest  Losses Suffered by In- .  vaders ina Year.

 Magdeburg Crushed By RAF —   2,000 Long Tons of Bombs on Industrial City in Raid Which Cost British 55 Ships

Drop 2,000 Tons; 55 Planes Lost   Smaller Attack Made on Berlin— Germans Stab At London

MAGDEBURG 1S TARGEI OF RAF'S BLOW: NAZ PLANES HIT BRITAIN   Industrial City in Saxony Crushed Under 2,000 Tons of Bombs; Berlin Raided   GERMANS ATTACK TWICE

RAPS TARGET 5 MAGDEBURE   Saxony City Is Hit in Campaign to Flatten German Industry.   SMALL RAID ON SERLIN

95 RAF Bombers Tost. In Smash Ot Key Nazi City   Terrific Blow: Launched . orhint-IndustrialSite In Quick: Followup’

Another Nazi City Crushed   Madgeburg, an. Industrial Center in Saxony Hit by’. 2.000: Tons of Bombs   BRITISH RAIDERS ' LOSE 55 PLANES   Lighter Raid-Is Made or Berlin; 90 Nazi Bombers Attack England

BRITISH BOMBERS HIT MAGDEBURG “IN HEAVY ATTACK   Nazis Retaliate With Raids on London and Southeaact Enaland

RAF Lashes At Maadeburg In Night Raid   British Airmen Lose Heavily In 2,200 Ton Assault

RAF CRIPPLES VITAL GERMAN RAIL JUNCTION   Nazi Bombers Do Minor Damage In Sweeps  Over England

RAF Bombers Wipe Out City of Magdeburg   Nazis Retalicte With 90 Planes Bombing the British Isles

Rail Center In German Saxony  Ts Dealt Blow   German Airmen Strike Back With Two Heavy Raids On England.

RAF Delivers Crushing Blows to Magdeburg; Germans Send 90 Bombers Against London

2,000 Tons Smash Nazi War Center   90 German Bombers Stage London Raid, Causing Casualties

Heavy Bomh Load Rocks Magdeburg   Over. 2,000 Tons Blast  Nazi Rail “Center: BritLm  ae cE Di.wnac

2000 TONS OF BOMBS PLUNGE  ON MADGEBURG   Berlin Also Hit Again in Raids Costing Allies 55 Bombers—Oi Which 14 Canadians   NAZIS RAID LONDON      Night Raids Follow Daylight. Blasting of Pas de Calais Area by Americans, Briish

Manufacture Of Civilian Goods Okehed   But Order Is Limited By Supply of Labor And Materials

Consumer Items  Now Can Be Made   WPB Head Says Production Can Go on If Workers Not in War Work.

Labor. Swing Over Talked.   “Ketion: Will Permit: ’ Civilian Production

PRODUCTION OF FEW CIVILIAN ITEMS ORDERED   Some Articles To Be Put On List At Once

New Civilian Goods Soon   WPB Order Opens Way for Manufacture of Prohibited Items

Ban Liffed On Civilian lfems   WPB Takes Final Step In Re-Conversion Plan

EASE CIVILIAN GOODS OUTPUT   WPB Lifts Ban On Hundreds of Needed  Itame

Production Ban *Lifted On Many  Consumer Items   Conversion-Easing Rules Ordered Into Effect By WPB Chief Nelson.

Move Toward Production Of Civilian Goods   Manufacturers Enabled To Begin Production When War Contracts Are Curtailed

heh RULES EASED BY NELSON   Aim to Allow Manufactures Swing into Civilian Output After War Needs Filled

Nelson Moves fo Change to Peace Goods   Announces Rules for Return to Making of Civilian items

Civilian Production  Allowed   WPB Curtails Rules That Cut Manufacture; Preferred List Given

Civilian Goods Production To Be Resumed Soon  WPB Fixes Rules Qn Nelson Order

Yanks Take Bastion in. North Italy   Capture Monte Belmonte One of the Key Points Guarding Roads To Boloana

YANKS CLOSING IN ON BOLOGNA   Germans Must Readjust Their Defenses In Northern Italy

GERMAN BASTION IN ITALY FALIS   EIFTH ARMY CAPTURES MONTE BELMONTE, GUARDING BOLOGNA APPROACHES,

Capture Bastion  Before Bologna   New Allied Gains Reported in Italy

BASTION WON BY STH ARMY   Yanks Take Monte Belmonte Near Bologna After Week of Fighting

Ickes Miffed At ‘Muzzling’      PV Says Secretary iv Resign Office  N

Dewey Gives Talk Against Centralization  New Yorker Sounds Warning, Says U.S. Must Awaken

DEWEY WARNS ON WAR LORD PERIL   GOVERNOR DISCUSSES FOREIGN AFFAIRS

DEWEY OUTLINES FOREIGN POLICY   GOP Leader Declares Nation No Longer Can ‘Sit on The Sidelines’

U. $. Must Curb War Lords Says Governor Dewey   Nation Can’t Sit On Sidelines Any More He Declares

Holds We Cannot Sit on Sidelines  Dewey Warns Against Commentator Stace

MUST PREVENT  FUTURE WARS   Dewey Says U. S. Must Not Again Sit on Sidelines As Observer,

MINGLE NAMED PATROL CHIEF   INSPECTOR. FOR STATE HIGHWAY PATROL SUCCEEDS . LYNN BLACK AS SU. - PERINTENDENT

Yankees Battle With Jap Force In Aitape Area   250 of Enemy Found Dead in Abandoned Bougainville Hospital

SOVIET DRIV DRIVE MOVES AHEAD   FINNS PUSHED STEADILY BACK  AS RED ARMY PUSHES FoRWARD IN OFFENSIVE.

Germans Massing  At Anzio   Twenty Fresh Division: Rush To Help  Badly Battered Beachhead Army.

Fourth Drive Set Against Americans   Enemy Spars For Openings Through Which Te Launch Fourth Drive: Cassino Fiahtinag Roaes

RESUMES AIR" RAIDS DESPITE DRIVE IN ITALY   Allies Gain Four to Six Miles in Assault on Hitler Line

H. G. Wells Would Confine Him To Asylum: De elares Hess Should Have Been Shot

T14  Great “Tug of War’ To End In Victory   Two Leaders Express Their Conviction

HINTS GIVEN ~ INVASION IS COMING SOON   CHURCHILL ACCOMPANTES KIS; ENHOWER TO SPECTACULAR REVIE W—MONTGOMERY SEES MONTHS OF BATILE AHEAD —

TRIUMPH NEARS. SAYS CHURCHILL   British Leader, Eisenhower Review American Bases in England

CARRIER PLANES BOMBARD LUZON   Navy Reports 91 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed Wednesday

91 JAP PLANES ARE BAGGED IN ATTACK   14 Shot Down In Acrial Combat And OQthers Destroyed On  Ground In Luzen Raids

ALLIES MAKE PROGRESS ON IMPHAL LINE   Turning Defense Into Offense; Hold Japs

Allies Take Offensive At Imphal]      Many Thousand Japs  Slain in Past Six Weeks; . Allied Planes  Control the Airways

“i ES SCORE INDIA GAINS   Take Offensive  Northwest of Besieged City of Imphal

ALLIES NIP JAP DRIVE IN INDIA   Enemy Casualties Mount As Foe Loses Offensive in Imphal Campaign

TIDE OF BATTLE IN BURMA TURNS   Meanwhile, Yank Warplanes Blast More Island Bases

ALLIES ARE CN DEFENSIVE NOW   Defenders of Imphal Reported Making ‘Satisfactory Progress.’

Allied Offense Rolling   DEFENDERS OF IMPHAL PUSHING JAP5S BACK: 4000 NIPS KILLED

Allies Take Up Offensive in India: _ Satisfactory Progress’ Reported

ALLIES GO T0 OFFENSIVE IN IMPHAL SECTOR   4,000 Japs Said to Have Been Killed in Six Weeks Fighting i in fonts Campaion

Imphal Campaign Costs Japs 4,000 Men In 6 Weeks Satawan Island Airdrome In Carolines Is Rendered Useless By American Bombers

DEFENDERS OF IMPHAL TURN TO OFFENSIVE   WAR CORRESPONDENT PREDICTS COLLAPSE OF INDIA INVASION

ALLIED DEFENDERS  OF IMPHAL GO OVER  TO OFFENSIVE SIDE JAPS REPORTED SUFFER  ING HEAVY CASUALTIES IN INNDTA CAMPAICN

Japs Stopped Before Imphal   Allied Forces Take To Offensive; Enemy Casualties Are Heavy

ALLIES REGAIN OFFENSIVE ON BURMA BORDER   Estimate Nip Dead at 4,000 in Past Six Weeks of India Invasion

Lack of Air Power Dooms Jap Notions   Solomon - Based Bombers Blast Strategic Satawan Island Airdrome

Defenders Of Imphal Strike Out At Japs   ‘Satisfactory Progress Made In Offensive: Nip Losses Put At 4A O00 Far & W eekec

Nippon Invasion Of India Halted By Allied Forces   Many Japanese Killed In Attempts To Take Imphal

Allied Offensive. Achieves Gains On Imphal Plait   Report Nipponese Forces Suffer Heavy Losses Trying To Reach Area

Allies Now on Offensive in Imphal Seetor   Japanese Suffer  Heavy Casualties Defending Plain Surrounding City

Allied Troops At Imphal on The Offensive   Writer Predicts Jap India Invasion Will Collapse

INDIA OFFENSIVE TAKEN BY ALLIES   Japs’ Dead Placed At 4,000 During Last Six Weeks

Allies Take Offensive in Imphal Area   Japs Have Lost 4000 _ Dead in Six Weeks of Drive  

Naval Task Force Raid On Truk Reported By Japs; Shore Installations Hit

TRAP JAPS ON INDIAN FRONT   , Caught By Low Flying Allied Planes Nip Invasion Plan ) Gets Setback

ALLIES SLAS  JAP ra   Catch Enemy Troops in Open Hore east, of Imphal

Clearer Picture Emerges of Burmese-indian War - * An Attempted Nip Baild-Up.

ALLIES SLAS JAP COLUMN IN INDIA   Catch Enemy Troops in Open Northeast of Imphal

ALLIED TRAPS BEING SPRUNG IN FAR EAST   JAP INVASION COLUMN IN INs DIA SUFFERS HEAVY -LOSSES .—STILWELL'S TROOPS IN BURMA MAKING PROGRESS

NAZI FORCES LAY SIEGE TO COPENHAGEN      People Threatened With Starvation as Strikes Spread

Nazis Threaten To Starve Danes In Copenhagen   General Strike Reported Spreading To Famed Dairies

LAND, AIR ASSAULT IS STUBIED NOW   Preparations Being Made to Hit Japan Hard

Saipan Capture To Provide New Bomber Base   U.S. Timetable  For Ensuing Months Outlined

Superforts ” Shadow Ominous Cy  ; Devastating Air Blitz On Program for Japan

SOVIETS: POUND BUDAPEST GATES   Nazis Offer Fierce Resistance In Battle For Capital

Nazis Stop Soviet Drive At Budapest   Red Troops Unable to Smash Through Enemy Lines

Titanic Battles Raging In Suburbs 0f Budapest Against German Defenses

Terrific Allied Aerial Assault on Reich Continues  tnhTA Oo.wt i.e   1000 U. S. Bombers Smash Oil Plants; Raids Set Record

326 NAZI PLANES LOST IN TWO DAYS   American Heavy Bombers Attack Synthetic Oil Plants In Germany

COUNTESS CLANO ESCAPES GERMANS   Stockholm Reports Mussolini Offspring Has Reached  Switzerland.

Earth Shocks Felt In U.S.  Cornwall, Ont., Has Meanviect Damacae

, Quake Rocks NE States, *Hits Canada   Ontario Town Suffers $750,000 Damage; Only 1 Person Injured

EARTH TREMORS IN U. S., CANADA   SHOCKS FELT AS FAR SOUTH AS VIRGINIA, WEST TO MICHIGAN

Severe Earth Shock Hits Eastern U. S., Canada Early Today   Heavy Damage Caused to Cornwall, Ont.;  Two Others Follow

Quake Felt From Virginia  To Canada   Heavy Damage Caused Near Cornwall, Ont., People Flee Into Streets

Pennsylvania Coal Mines Are Seized   Interior Secretary To Operate Property

Order Men To Resume  By Monday   Presidential Order Calls For Quick End Of Interrupted  Coal Production.

FOUR FACTORS RULE SENDING HOME OF MEN   Releases Will Be Slow Anc Small At First Because Of War With Japan   Explanation on Page 10

TROOP RELEASE METHODS TOLD   Pian Limited Start at Demobilizing Soon After German Defeat.   JAP WAR 187 PRIORITY

LIMITED DEMOBILIZATION OF TROOPS TO COMMENCE AFTER DEFEAT OF NAZIS

Army Reveals  Its Plan For  Demobilization Discharges To Come Slow At First With bale nent Japan  swam Aln, 1 Deiarity

Army Reveals Plan For Demobilization  After Nazi Defeat   Plan Calls for Partial and Orderly Demobilization From Present Peak; 4 Factors to Determine Discharge

DEMOBILIZATION OF SOLDIERS TO START WHEN NAZIS BEATEN BUT JAP WAR WILL SLOW IT

NEW ORLEANS COTTON   Plans For Limited Start In Demobilizing U. $. Army ‘When Germany Falls Are Set By The War Depariment

Demobilization Pian Announced   WAR DEPARTMENT HAS PROGRAM FOR VICTORY

Demobilization Plans Listed By War Chiets   Program To Start After Germany’s Defeat—Releases To Be Slow, Small

Point System To Determine Discharge  Priorities   : Length « of Service, Combat, Dependents . And Time Overseas: Will Be Considered   RELEASES, HOWEVER. ‘LIKELY TO BE SLOW   . No Demobilization Planned by Navy. “After Germanv: Falls

Atter Germany Falls, Priority Goes To Pacific   War Department Making Plans That Will Shift Men and Equipment Against the Japanese.

TO MOBILIZE TROOPS SINGLY   Limited Start on Demobilization Will Come After Victory over Germany

LENGTH OF TIME, OVERSEAS DUTY, PRIME FACTORS   Combat Credits And Number Of Dependents Also To Be Considered — Pacific  Veterans First.

‘BULK OF ARMY'S STRENGTH WILL BE SHIFTED 10 PACIFIC AREA AFTER GERMANY IS DEFEATED   Release of Troops Inte Civitian Life After Victory In Europe Will Be Slow And Small in Number

Priority To Govern Releases   Men From Pacific Included In Plan  For Damahilicertinn

Release _ Of Troops To Be Slow   Needs of War Against Japan First Consideration; Demobilization. Ona ’Priovity System

Plans for Limited - Demobilization of Great Army Ready   @eleases After Nazis’ Fall Will Be Slow, in  Smal! Numbers

War With Japan Will Take “First  Priority,’ Millions of Men Will Be Sent To Pacific, War Department Says

WAR DEPARTMENT OUTLINES LIMITED MUSTER-OUT PLAN   MUST ER-OUT PLAN  DEMOBILIZATION STARTS  WHEN GERMANS QUIT; NAVY TN EYDANN

DEMOBILIZATION PLANS-—   FATHERS AND OVERSEAS VETS WILL BE RELEASED FIRST AFTER DEFEAT OF GERMANY   Four Main Factors.

ITS PLANS TO RELEASE MEN   Prepares for Nazi De feat; No Navy Demobilization Soon

Bulk of Army WillBe Moved To the Pacific   Nevy, However, Will Continue Te Expand   For list of questions and answers on army’s demobilization plans after defeat of Germany, see Page li.

Army Releases Few Until Japs Are Defeated   Partial Demobilization to Start Soon After Germany Is Conquered

Four Factors to Govern Decisions On Men Army to Demobilize First   Limited Start Planned Soon After Germany’s Defeat, Based on Length of Service, Overseas  Time, Combat Credits, Dependent Children   Syma: Snectalista Stae

Army Announees Plans For Demobilizing Men   Program Is Based In Part On Solicited Suggestions Of Fighting G. L. Joes: Some Will Be Released From Both European And Pacific War Theaters   (TEXT ON PAGE TWO)

Release of Soldiers to Be Slow   Jap War to Have Priority on Men And Ships After  Germany's Whinonpe:

Demobilization Will Be Slow After Nazis Lose   Four Factors Wil Guide Release of U. S. Veterans

DEMOBILIZATION STARTS AFTER GERMAN DEFEAT   Will Also Release .Men ir Pacific Based on Length of Service, Dependents

Army Tells Plans for ‘Muster Out’  Adopts Program Favored by Troop Personnel

Army Sees Slow  Demobilization   ‘Trickle’ to Start Home After Hitler's Collapse

NEEDS IN JAP WAR T0 GAUGE G. , RELEASES   Greater Provortion of Demobilizatien Will Be in Ground Forces Rather Than Air   Re WILTLTAM FRYPF

German Defeat Will Be Signal  For Discharges   Army Reveals Plan ta Start Reducing Ground Force Soon After War’s End In Evrepean Area   Four Factors Will Govern Releases   Continuing War With Japan Wil Take ‘Priority’ In Calculations, Leaders Say

ARMY EXPLAINS HOW SOLDIERS TO DEMOBILIZE   Few To Be Released Immediately; Navy Has No Plan ‘Til Nips  Beaten

Some Demobilization Contemplated, - However, Soon After Reich Is De_ feated, and Discharge Priorities " Will Be Based on Length of Service, Overseas Time, Combat Credit and - Number of Dependents Battle -- With Japs Comes First.

Demobilization Plan Disclosed _ By Army Heads   Only ‘Trickle’ Of Soldiers To Start Home After Nazi Defeat

Suggestions Of G. I. Joes Will Be Followed In Demobilization   Four Essential Factors, Gleaned From Solicited Suggestions, Will Guide Priority System Of Releases After Germany Quits.

PacifieCampaign Restricts Total To Be Released   Number Of Dependente, _._.Yime Served, Combat "Credit All Vital Factors

Releases To Be Slow and Few Until Japan Falls   Priority System To Guide Discharge Of Fighting Men

J ap ahnese War Has  Priori ly   Release of U.S. Troops at Nazi Defeat Will he  Slow at First

Mustering Out To Begin Soon After Nazis Fal!   Four Factors to Be Considered for Release Priority

Tells How US Forces To Be Demobilized   Troops Will Be Returned on Individual and Not Unit Basis; Many Will Be Sent to Pacific Theatre of War

Plan Slow Release of  U.S. Troops   ‘Limited Demobilization On an Individual Basis Announced by Army   WILL START WHEN NAZIS SURRENDER   But Pacific War Take First Priority When Germany Falls

Army Priority System Outlined For Releasing Men   Takes in Service Time, Dependents, Overseas Time, Combat Credit

PLANS DRAFTED FOR DISCHARGE OF ARMY VETS   Length of Service, Other Factors Govern Releases on Germany's Fall

War. Department Plans Limited Demobilization After Germany’s Defeat

Demobilizing Will Be Slow. Tedious Task   War With Japan . Gets ‘Priority’  On All Troops

Army Asserts Bulk of Forces To Face Japan   GI Votes Help Determine Priority of Releases After Nazi Defeat

int Plan r Army ischarges                ly Trickle Will me Home After  is Quit; Pacific roops to Be Eligible

Bulk of Men In Europe to Go to Pacific   Length of Service and Family Responsibilities to Govern Discharge   G. 1S AID IN PLAN   War With Japan Takes First Priority in All Calculations

DemobilizationPlar Is Outlined By Army Leaders  End of German War Will See Few Men Get Releases

Army Reveals Priority Plan On Limited Demobilization When Germany Collapses   By WILLIAM FRYE Acenntiatald Peace Staff U'ritar

DEMOBILIZATION QUTLINED TODAY, WAR DEPARTMENT   Soldiers To Be Dismissed In Small Numbers

POINT SYSTE TO BE USED, ARMY SAYS   Dependents, Combat, Service To Be Considered   To Get Home Immediately After V-Day: Same Plan Holds For Pacific

King Vitlorio Emanuele of lfaly ls Believed To Be on the Way Out

‘Americans, French Gain Firm Hold On 70-Mile Stretch; Men, Equipment Continue to Pour Ashore   French Partisan Forces  Link Twin Allied Drives

NAZIS SUFFER ‘GREAT LOSSES. “DURING WEEK   RED ARMY SPEARHEADS DRIVE AHEAD IN FLANKING MOVE AGAINST KEY OBJECVE OF MINSK.

T00_Axis Agents Arrested Recently By Chilean Police  POS EE SET Te

Police in Chile Arrest 100. Axis  Espionage Agents  German Embassy ir

Dew ey May Leave Tonight For Chicago   ACCEPTANCE TENTATIVELY SET FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Canadian Army Lands on Dutch Island, Bevelanc   200 Prisoners Taken in First Hours of Drive

LAND NEW FORGE ON DUTCH ISLAND KEY TO ANTWERP   Canadians Fast. Mopping Ur @ Area Needed to Permit Use of Vital Port

Churchill Hopes For New Meeting   Says Moscow Parley Results Satisfactory

GOOD RESULTS ACHIEVED AT MOSCOW MEET   Churchill Makes Report Today To Commcns On His Recent Trin

Churchill Asks Meeting Soon Of Big Three   Assures Commons That Relations With Reds '. Better Than Ever —

Churchill Tells Commons New Meeting With Stalin, U.S. Leader Needed Soon

Allies Believe They Are On “Last Lap” Of The European War Says Churchill Today

FRENCH WAR PLANTS BOMBED      Several Faceries Hit Within 18 ilexs of Paris—American Planes Following with Daylight Raids.

Nazi Aircraft Plants in  France Raided   Some Factories Hit Within 18 Miles of Paris

REGISTRATION ROLLS IN STATE GROWING   Several Cities Have Report: ed All-Time Records, Survey Shows. _

VOTERS RUSH 10 REGISTER   Many Cities In State Are Setting Registration Records

Seize Papers of Nazi Spies   Arrest Two Men For Aid In Espionage Work

Probe Uncovers Spy Activities   Papers Said To Link German News Agency With Espionage Setup

Muddle of Riddle and Ruddell Just Too ‘Much When Riddle Gets Ruddell’s Shots

Patton's Drive On Old Fortress Narrowed, 2 Mile   BY WILLIAM L. RYAN  mata dad ence Ulan Valine

Resistance To Patton Drive Is Stiffening   List Gains Made By Various U.S. Army Divisions

British Capture Chiusi In Italy, Yanks Take Montieri; U. S. Fliers Raid Budapest

Nazis Reported Fleeing From Budapest, Dismantling Machinery In Czechoslovakia For Transport To Reich As Puppet Nation Totter

Hungary Asks Peace, Ankara Radio Claims      Delegation Reported En. route to Moscow For Terms, Is Report; Budapest Appears Doomed

Hungary Sends Delegation io Seek Peace   Ankara Radio Scays Group Already En Route to Moscow

Two Tots Saved From Home Fire   Children Are Alone Ir Burning Dwelling

JAP PASSENGER SHIP SINKS, 500 MISSING   German News Agency Reports Vessel Foundered Off Southernmost Jananese Island.

Finnish, Soviet Parley Rumored   Presence Of Leaders In Stockholm Significant

something Apparently Is Afoot Preliminary Contact By  Russians And Finns On Peace Talks Indicated

Soviet, Finn  Parley Leoms   Preliminary Moves , Are Being Rumored

First Contact Made By Finns In Peace Move   Leaders Gather In Neutral City For Negotiations

REPORT FINNS CONTACT REDS IN PEACE MOVE   Finland Fears Nazi Reprisals; Three Finnish Leaders in Neutral Capital

FINNS PUT OUT PEACE FEELERS   Helsinki Reported Attempting To Make Contact with Russians.

TOP SOVIET MILITARY LEADER REPORTED IN FAR EAST ARM)   VOROSHILOV SAID TO BE ON MISSION CONNECTED WITH RELATIONS WITS JAPAN

Receptive to vice presidential nomination: Dirkson completes tour

i Ca Oi li th hi te it  Dirksen Reported Open To Second-Place Bid

Dirksen Anxious To Run withDewey; Tours Nation, Finds GOP Gaining

teel Capital Manchuria  - Attack   q VERN HAUGLAND Jaiad Prese War Editor

Superforts From China Drop Big  Bombs on Anshar   Manchuria’s Mukden Area of War Industries Suffers Heavy Damage.   Japs Remove Citizens From Formosa Island

Jap Industrial City of Anshan Heavily Bombed   B-29’s in Third Major Raid Strike By Daylight Today

JAP INDUSTRIAL CENTERS ROCKED BY YANK BOMB:   Anshan, Penhsihu in Mukden Area Hit With Japanese Admitting Latest B-29 Raid

Boy Locked 6 Days in Tool Box Says He'll Dunk Kid That Did It   David Bourbonnais, 9, Without Food or Water Six Days, Had Been Sought All Over Long Beach

Flaherty Describes Plans for ‘Move to Convince East That ilis Best Market Is in the Wesi

Welles’ Plan Urges Three German States   Reveals FDR Peace Proposal in 1937 Was Opposed by Advisers

Russians  Pour. Through. Nazi Lines Into Lublin   Emash 25: Miles : From the Vistula River cn Wide Front

Nazi Escape Gap Is Cut To Halt Mile   German Tank Columns Seeking to Relieve City Of Aachen Battered as Doughboys Gain Slowly in Job of Routing Enemy From Town

American Infantry in Slow Gain Against Defenders, Nazi Counterattacks Beaten Back

SMASH GERMAN EFFORT 10 GIVE HELP TO CITY   Escape Gap Narrowed to Half Mile; 60 Tanks Lost by Hitlerites

FAMOUS AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION FIGHTS WAY INTO CITY  GERMANS WHEEL UP REIN. FORCEMENTS OF ONE OF

Suburban Schlachtof Captured   U. S. Infantry Fights Nazis Hand-To-Hand  _ Amid Smoking Ruins Of Ancient City

Germans Put Up Street te Street Defense in City   Nazis Rush Armored Division to Bolster  ' Garrison; Cut Escape Gan to Half Mile

Surprisingly Weak Opposition as the Infantry Walks Patl Blasted by Artillery

Enter City Proper Along Path Blasted _— by Heavy Artillery      Escape:Route, Now Only “Half Mile Wide, is ~~ Being. Closed

Escape Gap Slashed to Half Mile   Strong German Columns. Forming for Counter Blows Are Smashed   BITTER BATTLE IN THE RUINS   Infantry Digging gging Out Dirty, Bearded Germans House br. House

Temperatures   Doughboys Find City’s Resistance Weak As They Enter Town, Fight Fires; Nazis Lose Sixty Tanks in Two-Day Battle

Infantrymen Move Cautiously Inside Wrecked City, Fighting Against Enemy Counterattacks.   GERMANS HAVE ONLY SLIM ESCAPE CHANCE

FAMOUS U.S. DIVISION NOW INCITY PROPER FIGHTNG ON STREETS AND HOUSE TO HOUSE

ADMIT LIUCHOW LOST   Chinese High Command Also Says Chienkiang Fell Same Day

Gestapo On Hunt And Generals Who Engineered Coup And Attempted Asaassination Executed.

HITLER OPENS TERROR REIGN WITHIN REIGH   Perpetrators of Bombing Plot to Be Arrested or Shot on Spot.   BULLETIN

‘Sinatra. Fans Storm Theater   Bobby-Soxer Rips Off Cop’s Shirt.

ENEMY DRIVEN FROM: LAKONE   Allied Troops Cleat Stretch of FaenzaFlorence Road

CHAPLIN STILL FACES CHARGES   U. S. Case Unchanged by Paternity Decision

3 DOCTORS DECIDE CHAPLIN COULD NOT BE BABY’S FATHER      By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood

Joan Barry’s Claim Is Upset By Physician:   Charlie Chaplin Is Not Father Of Her Child. Reports Medical Board After Blood Tests

Wallace to Fight For Renomination  With C10's Help   Opposition Grows, With Party Chiefs Claiming He Would Hurt Ticket

FOUR-YEAR-OLD NOT AWARE DEATH NEAR   Child Chatters as Deadly Blood Disease Advances

G-HR. BARRAGE PRECEDES BIG CASSINO PUSH   Beat Back Head-On Nazi Attack Against Rome Beachhead

Barrage Signals Drive.   German Assault On Our Beachhead Is Smashed.

Beat Back Mighty Attacks Against Anzio Beachhead      Troops Moving Qn Cassino Under Cover Of Thundering Artillery Barrage

Allies Launch  Cassino Drive,  Repel Frontal  Blow at Anzio   Huge Air Cover Helps to Smash All-Out Nazi Beachhead Blow

Artillery Prepares Pathway   Beachhead Repels Assaults, Heavy, Medium and Light Bombers Strafle’ German Positions   CRUISER_IN ACTION   Deadly Hail of Steel Switches Across Cassino and Mount for Six Hours Before Dawn Atiack

Mammoth Bombardment Precedes Atiack—Germans Strive Acnainst Beachhead

Heavy Attack Launched By Americans On Cassino And  Slopes Of Nearby Mountain

BIG GUNS LEAD YANK DRIVE 10 TAKE CASSING   6-Hour Bombardment Precedes Assault Against City

Enemy Raids On Anzio’s: Bridgehead _ Beater Back   Heavy Rombardment Covers Many Hours

BESIN ATTACK BEFORE DAWN   Allies Move on Cassino and Slopes of Mt. Cassino Early Today. .

Gun Barrage  Aids New Bid For Cassino   Nazi Pillboxes in Hills Shelled; Yanks Repel Beachhead Attack

Desperate Enemy  Thrusts Fail In F ight Near Rome   Meanwhile, British and American Troops Move Up on Cassino Under Cover of Heavy Barrage—Nazi Pillboxes on Monastery Hill Blasted by Rain of Steel.

BIG GUNS ROAR FOR SIXHOURS TOCLEAR WAY   Allies Beat Off Nazi Attacks On Beach-Head With Aid Of Great Air Force

ARTILLERY BARRAGE FOLLOWED BY ATTACK (IN MAIN ITALY FRONT   ALLIED TROOPS, AIDED BY AIRPOWER, THROW BACK BEACHHEAD ATTACK

6-Hour Barrage: Covers Advance Tn Early Dawr              ; Troops At Beachhead Beat Off German Asiault 7th ‘Aid ‘From Planes

Ali Troops ... Move Up as ~~ Barrage Ends      Deadiy Hail of Steel One of ~.. Most Intense of Medi_terranean War   WAZIS BEATEN BACK FROM BRIDGEHEAD      “Creat Air Assault Aids British Engaged in Bitter Battle on Beachhead

ALLIES ATTACK CASSINO REPEL NAZIS AT ANZIO   Town and Mountains Being Stormed After Intense Artillery Fire

GERMANS BEATEN OFF IN ATTACK ON ROME BEAGHHEAD   Allies Report Battlefield in Waly littered with Enemy Dead

ALLIED TROOPS RAID CASSINO AFTERBOMBING   Move Under Cover of SixHour Barrage; Beachhead Still Secure

Part of Cassino to Allies in Hard Tilt   Third of City Reported in Allied Hands As Germans Put Up Fierce  Resistance Throughout War Area.

FLIERS AID LAND UNITS TO HOLD ON BEACHHEAD   Ground Troops Follow Up Heavy Artillery Assault at Cassino

Nazis Beaten Back In Effort to Drive Allies Into the Sea   Six-Hour Barrage From Hundreds of Guns, One of Most Intense of Mediterranean War, Precedes Dawn Aftacks in Italy   FORCES ON ANZIO BEACHHEAD HOLDING FIRM

Move Under Six Hour Barrage   Head-On  Attacks on Beachhead Beaten Off

NAZI ASSAULT BEATEN BACK BELOW ROME   6-Hour Artillery Barrage Precedes Offensive  AIR FORCE   Gives Tremendous Support At Anzio Beachhead; Fleet In Action

DEADLY BARRAGE LAID ON ENEMY   Head-on German Attack on Beachhead Beaten Back

Yanks Move Up Under Cover Of Heavy Gun Barrage; Nazi. Attack Repulsed On Beachhead

Americans Storm Cassino Heights   HEAVY BARRAGE PRECEDES BIG DRIVE TO CLEAR OUT NAZIS; (GERMAN BEACHHEAD DRIVE FAILS   Deadly Hail of Steel Prepared Way for Attack at Cassino, and with Aid of Great Air Umbrellas Along Rome Beachhead Allies Repulse Nazi At tacke Frontally

Allies Launch New Assault Upon Cassino   Troops Move Forward Under 6-Hour Sarrage of Hundreds of Guns

Enemy. Stopped ‘in Desperata Effort.  To. Drive: Directly. Down Road to Anzio

Move Up After Big Barrage   Troops On Anzio Beachhead Repel German Attack  PLANES HELP DEFENDERS  Artillery Lays Down SixHour Shelling of Cassino

Allies Open New Attack On Cassino   Assault Follows a Terrific Barrage;  Nazis’ Bridgehead Attack Beaten Off

MOVE UP AFTER HEAVY SHELLING   Mighty Air Assault Made On German Troops In Anzio Area  ENEMY THROWN BACK

Hundreds Of Allied Guns Hit Cassino  For 6 Hours   Deadly Hail Of Shells Poured Into Enemy; Terrific Air Blows Dealt By Our Farcec

Thundering 6-Hour Gun Blast Opens Up Pathway   Attacks Centered Upon Beachhead And Cassino

Doughboys Go Info Assault Under Barrage   American-British Troops Aided by Huge Air Force and Naval Guns Stop Germans

Allies Open Maj jor Attack  For Cassina   Staunch Troops And Air Power Beat Off Big German Offensive To  Reduce Beachhead

NAZIS CHECKED IN BEACHHEAD ORIVE   Infantry Attacks Cassino After. Six-Hour Artillery Barrage   LINES HOLD FIRM   Two Desperate German Attacks At Awzio Are Beaten Back

Six-Hour Artillery Attack Opens Drive on Cassino   Beachhead Forces Repel Heavy German Drive With Help of Great Air Umbrella; Battle for Monastery Hill Grows Fierce

Yanks Attack Cassino After  6-Hour Barrage By Artillery      Major German Attack Repulsed At Anzio; Fortresses Used To Aid Troops

GREATEST OF BOMBARDMENT! LAID ON TOWN   Germans Attack At Cisterna; Are Thrown Back

Allies Unleash Dawn Attack In Cassino Sector   Intense Barrage and Record Air Cover Accompany Blows on Town And Mountain .

Attack Launched To Seize Cassino   Thundering 6-Hour Barrage Precedes Onslaught against Nazi Stronghold

Nazi Attack on Anzio Is Ineffective   Allied Air Fleets in Spirited Action; Better Germans

TROOPS MOVE UP UNDER COVER OF 6-HOUR BARRAGE  OCaACULCAN ATTACKS   BEACHHEAD ATTACKS REPULSED WITH AID OF AERIAL UMBRELLA

ALLIES GAIN AT CASSINO; ROUT NAZIS   American Heavy Guns Shell Mt.  Cassino Again

German Blows South Of Rome Are Beaten Off   Offensive Against Cassino Opens As Hundreds Of Guns Belch Forth Hail of Steel   Town and Slopes Allied Objectives   i Nazis Stopped In Their Desperate Attempt to Drive U. S. and Brit  ish Into Sea

icture Looks Brighter On Italian Front.  Allies Attack Cassino. Beat Back Germans In New Beachhead Fight

Court Refuses To Reconsider On Negro Vote   Ruling Admitting Them To Primaries Stands: AP Case To Be Reviewed

Court Refuses lexas Review  Decision on Primary Ruling Must Stand, Pleaders Informed

COURT REFUSES RECONSIDER GAGE   Declines to Budge From Decision Negroes Have Right To Vote in Texas; Agrees Hear Jap Case Appeal

VOTE DECISION PLEAS REFUSED   High Court Rejects Texas Rehearing Appeals

U.S. Bombers Wipe Ou Five-Ship Jap Convoy; Warships Shell Mili Atol:   Hundreds of Tokyo Troops Die in Sea Off Wewak; Part of Heavy Nip Burma Attack Repulsed by Allied Forces

NAZIS MIGVING IN UN HUNGARY FAST   150 Thousand German Troops Crossed Into Hungary.

Naval Strength Doubled in Year   More Than 1,100 U.S. Fighting Ships Afloat

Sarny Falls As Reds Roll Unchecked   Germans Lash Out In Counterattacks To Hold Positions

SOVIETS TAKE SARNY, REPEL FOE NEAR BUG   Over 5,000 Germans Killed in 24 Hours. - OF Fighting

Russians Open New Offensive In Mozyr Area   Railway Bastion of Sarny Falls to Reds; 5,000 Nazis Killed, Many Tanks Wrecked

Reds Launch   eR TE Pac B SE  ~ Moryr Area   New Drive in White Russia Tears 17 Mile Gap Ihrough Elaborate _  weiman vefense Lincs   Ruasians Advance Up-to Nine—Miles-

NEW VICTORY IS SCORED IN WHITE RUSSIA   REDS FORCE ENEMY TO FALL BACK 135 MILES

Nazi Losses For Day Set At 5000 Men   Latest Offensive of Reds Begun in Mozyr Part of White Russia

OTHER COLUMNS CAPTURE SARNY IN OLD POLANE   On Third Front Enemy Counter-Attack Against Forces Advancing on Bug River Is Repelled.   5,000 NAZIS KILLED IN DAY’S FIGHTING   Hitler’s Commanders Reported Bringing Up Troops From Rumania for Door-Die Stand,

Frantic Counterattacks Beaten Back In Third Action at Ukrainian Bug River

Russians Open New Offensive in Mozyr Area   Kill 5,000 Nazis, Wreck 144 Tanks

‘Reds Open New Drive in White Russia;  \Forces in Poland. Capture Sarny

Capture Sarny: Fight Off Frantic Attack Near Bug   New Offensive Tears 19 Mile Gap Through Nazi Defense Lines.

New Offensive Opened i in Section of White Russia  COUNTER-ATTACK OF NAZIS 1S" REPULSED  Latest Drive Tears Gap Through German De bEanea  imac

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE IN MOZYR AREA   Savage Nazi Counter-Attack Near Bug River Repulsed By Reds   5,000 GERMANS SLAIN IN 24-HOUR PERIOD

REDS CAPTURE SARNY IN NEW CFFENSIVE   Railway Bastion 35 Miles Inside Old Poland Prize After Fierce German Counter-Attack Is Repulsed.   New Divisions

New Offensive Opened i in Section of White Russia ©  COUNTER-ATTACK OF “NAZIS IS” REPULSED   Latest Drive Tears Gap Through German Defense Lines

19-Mile Gap Torn in Nazi Defense Line   Frantic Counter-Attack In Bug River Sector Of Ukraine Thwarted  5.000 NAZIS KILLED

‘Big 3’ Meet Announced By Churchill   Early Conference Set as Greeks  Move for Peace

emands Tokyo Keep Terms of eneva Accord   Cruelties Listed in Formal Notes

HULL PROTESTS TO TOKYO OVER JAP ATROCITIES   State Department Blasts Treatment of Yanks By Barbarians

State Department Protests Brutal Atrocities Of Japs   Note Sent to Tokyo Government on January 27, It ts Disclosed—Numerous Protests Filed — Since Start of War

Jap Atrocities iAre Protested By United States   State Department Says Enemy Refuses To Permit Inspection

PROTEST FILED WITH JAPANESE ‘OVER CRUELTIES   Action Was Taken January 27, State Department  : Distloses   ENEMY SPOKESMAN CRITICIZED ALLIES

JAP CRUELTIES DRAW PROTEST   War Prisoner Treatment Condemned In Note Sent To Tokyo

‘Father Is 100 But Has Plenty of Time To Postpone Birthday Party ‘Until Son Comes Home From Italy

JAP REINFORCEMENTS POURING ASHORE IN DEFENSE OF LEYTE    Enemy Making Desperate Attempt To Replace Estimated 35,000 Men Lost In Campaign Thus Far; Weatherbeaten Yanks Gain Around Carigara

Original Leyte Jap Garrison  Wiped Out   Yanks Register Gains In Face of Continued Enemy Reinforcement:

Yankees Make Big Gains Against Japs   Seize Commanding Terrain on Important Hills

AMERICANS PUSH FORWARD ON WIDE FRONT ON LEYTE   Smash Through Jap Ridge Positions in Drive Toward Ormoc Over TyphoonSwept Roads.   ENEMY STILL POURING TROOPS ONTO ISLAND   Nipponese Force Is Estimated at 35,000 — Outnumbered More Than Two to One bv Yanks.

Yanks Shatter Japanese Line In Leyte Drive   M’Arthar Reports Japanese Sending Tn New Army  ee eee eee Ge

GAINS ARE SCORED IN LEYTE FIGHTING      Doughio Drive Over --Rain. Lashed _ a+)

American Forces Pound Out Extensive Gains On Leyte, Japs Reinforced   Estimated 35,000 Enemy Lost In Campaign Thus Far; Japan’s 16th Division Completely Smashed

Americans in Philippines  Achieve Gains   Stalemate Broken by Veterans of U. S. 24th Division

GAINS ARE SCORED IN LEYTE FIGHTING      Doughbors Drive Over Rain... beshed "Ridgee,

Japs Pour Fresh Troop: Into Batile   Doughboys Fight Weather, Enemy Fo Gains At Carigara

MIGHTY OFFENSIVES ARE IN THE MAKING   Eisenhower Gives Glimpse Of Coming Invasions in Report to FR.

New Blows Promised by Eisenhower   Tells President Germany To Feel Smashes From East and Mediterranean

Eisenhower Pledges New  Offensives   Roosevelt Reveals Message Promising Smashes into Nazi Europe on All Fronts

Yanks Bomb Swiss City: By Mistake   Daylight Raiders Attack‘ Town Near Border of Germany

AMERICAN PLANES DESTROYED BIG SWISS TOWN   City of 20,000 Reported By Germans to Have Been Devasted, Apparently by Mistake

“Yanks attack P Swiss city’  Error in bombing  kills 50, hurts 10(

30 to 50 Dead, Hundred Hurt, Witnesses Say   Industrial Center Lies Just Below German Border

U.S, Bombers Drop Their Bombs On Swiss City In Raid Intended For Southwestern Germany

A SWISS CITY HEAVILY HIT BY MISTAKE   Paper Says American Bombers Partly Destroy Schaffhausen, Killing 30 to 50 and Wounding 100  Parcons.

ACTION MAY BE START OF DRIVE ON SINGAPORE   lap Invasion Into India Given Setback; Planes Smack Carolines

BRITISH EASTERN FLEET BOMBARDS DOCKS AT SABANG   RIP UP AIRFIELDS NEAR SINGAPORE; BAG 22 JAP PLANES

Nip Harbor _ wi and Fields oS Are Pounded   Sumatra Is Scene of Attack Fields Are at Satiang: anc Lhonaa

Hot HARBOR AND AIRFIELDS   Allied Naval Might Thrown Into Blow at Northern Sumatra.

AIR-SEA BLOW TEARS PLANE, SHIP CENTERS   Allies Escape Without Naval Loss; Tojo, Aids Confer On Urgent Problems

ALLIED VESSELS SHELL SUMATRA IN NEW ACTION   Two Jap Airfields and Harbor Attacked by Big Naval Forces

Navy Smashes Key Harbor, Jap: Airfields  AT.a<-   1 Oe   May be First Blow To Regain Malaya And Singapore

Japanese Invasion of India is Given Setback at Kohima   British Lifts Siege of Base; Pacific War  News Summarized

Naval Forces Shell Vital  Jap Positions   Smash Two Airfields And Key Harbor In Northern Sumatra

Hit Sumatra In Big Raid Against Japanese >  FLEET IS ACTIVE  Move Seen Prelude To Drive On i  Singapore

Huge Ailted Fleet Smashes Jap Base at Sumatra   India Defenders   India Defenders ” Score Gains  Against Nippons

Blows Are Struck At Singapore and Malaya by Allies   Allied Naval Might Hits at Jap Airfield and Key  Harbor in Sumatra.   Nippon Invasion Into  India Suffers Setback

POWERFUL AIR-SEA BLOW HITS JAP HELD AIRFIELDS AND KEY HARBOR IN NORTHERN SUMATRA   Saban, Small Island Near Head of Narrow Straits of Malacca Is Object. May Be First Blow In Battle to Regain Singapore and Malava

Two Enemy Air Fields And Key Harbor Smashed By Naval Force In What May Be Opening Blow Of Battle To Regain Singapore And Malaya—Carrier Based Planes Hit Shore Installations—Nipponese Suffer Another Setback In India Invasion

Carrier Based Planes Hit Jap Bases on Sumatra   British Fleet Had No Losses From Shelling Harbor

First Blow Struck To Regain Singapore   Concerted Attack on Sabang, Lhonga Brings Heavy Losses to Japanese; Allied Strength in Pacific Grows

ALLIED NAVAL MIGHT SHOWN TO JAPANESE   Smash Two Jap Airfields In New Attack

NAVAL MIGHT BEING BROUGHT 40 BEAR ON NORTHERN SUMATRA   JAP AIRFIELDS AND KEY HARBOR SMASHED BY AL. LIED SEA-AIR FORCES

Jap Airfields, Harbor, Ruined  By Naval Might   Allies Smash Sumatran Targets With Planes And Ships. Repulse Japs in India

Tojo Calls In His  Vice Ministers   Growing Allied Wight tn ithe Pacific Ciearly Demonstrated

Suicidal Resistance By Japs on Saipan   But Civilians Respond ’ To Surrender Appeal; Seize Noemfoor Drome

AMERICANS CAPTURE LAST AIRSTRIP_ ON NOE MFOOR  itn Aba ie aa ar eRe ——.— . . s

SAIPAN BATTLE NEAR VICTORY   Japs Only Hold Four Square Miles on Island

COAL SUPPLY —T0-BE-LOWER   LESS: FUEL IN PROSPECT FOR NEXT WINTER AS QUOTA SYSTEM BEING: ARRANGED

Japs Deeper Into India   By Leonard Milliman Ascoctated Press War Edilor

PHILIPPINE INVASION AREA SECURED   MacArthur’s Forces Out of Danger From Jap Rescue Fleet

GHICAGU SIREC! MURDER COGURS   Louis Heller Member’ Of International Cleaners Union

Democrats — Win Control Of Congress  We: BR Be.   Have Safe Margin In Senate, Add 16 in House

Take More Seats in Conaress   Democrats Clinch Majority in Treaty-Making Senate; Gain in House   HAM FISH LOSES; CLARE LUCE WINES   Sen. Nye Loses; Danaher 0 Connecticut. Unseated by Democrats

DEMOCRATS GAIN CONGRESS SEATS   SNATCH 16 FROM REPUBLICANS IN THE LOWER HOUSE

Pattonss Army Leaps Into Action   Democrats Tighten Grip in Senate and House Victories

Democrats Sure Of Senate Majority; Fish Trounced; Nye Runs Far Behind

Party Control Stronger in  Both Houses   Many Republicans of Prominence Lose Places in Congrese

EXTRA!  Demos Grab Congress   Demos Gain In Congress; Fish Loses; Nye Trails

Democrats Take ‘A Firmer Hold On U.S. Congress   House Majority Is  : Upped Substantially While Control of Senate Is Maintained

MAJORITY IN BOTH HOUSES IS CERTAIN   187 Democrats Elected, 104 Republicans

CONGRESS GOES TO DEMOCRATS   Administration Also Leads House Races

Democratic Party Snatches Control of (9th Congress   Nab ‘Certain — Contre ‘of “Senate, Add 15 Seats” in House Tuesday

Democrats Gain Power In Congress   Clinch Majority and Hold Stronger Control Over Lower House

Democrats To Retain Control In Congress   Gain 21 Seats In Lower House While Losing Only Two Of Own To Republicans

DEMOS CLINCH SENATE, WIDEN HOUSE CONTROL   Administration Gets Stepped-Up Power in Treaty, Peace Plans

Dems Hold “arority In Senate   Take Tighter Control of  House—Luce Is Victorious

DEMOS PICK UP 19 SEATS IN THE HOUSE   Now Hold Numerical Majority—In the Other Chamber, Republicans Hamilton Fish and Ger ald Nye Are Beaten.

Captured Doughboy Sees German General Killed: Marshal Rommel’s Death Reported   Rommel! Slain?

Claim SS General Killed In Raid    Doughboy Tells of Bomb Hitting Leader

Luftwaffe Now Used Only In Emergencies— —By Elton C. Fay   Nazis Still Have Planes To Meet Invasion

Elton C. Fay Says: Weakened Luftwaffe Still Capable  Of Putting Up Strong Opposition

Army Kits Detect Poison Gas Presence   500 VOLUNTEERS COMMENDED FOR TESTING PROTECTIVE OINTMENT

US. Tanks, Troops Regain Initiative And Drive Deep Salient Into Enemy Lines

Setback Occurs ds Yanks Drive Deep Salient Into Enemy Lines; Fold Back Germans Near Meuse

AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE THROWN BACK GERMAN COLUMNS   FRONT DISPATCH REPORTS YANKS ARE RECAINING THE INITIATIVE

GERMANS NOW APPEAR TO BE STALLED BY DOUGHBOYS AND FEW LATE GAINS RECORDED

STOP GERMANS JUST SHORT OF MEUSE   Enemy Units Thrown Back From Celles, Ciney   NEXT FEW DAYS   May Bring Greatest Battle Of War, Correspondent Writes From Front

Attack Spearhead Blunted at Celles As Americans Put Stronger Forces Into. Offensive Role Against Nazis

Doughboys Gain 2 Miles In Regaining Initiative   Nazi Advance 57 Miies.

UNEASY QUIET PREVAILS ON LONG FRONT   Virtually No German Gains In 24 Hours Up To Tuesday Morn

YANKo HCTAKE GELLEO, DANE IN NAZI FLANK   Germans Punching on North Flank, Hunting Hole for New Thrust.

Nazi Columns Pushed Back  In Slow Gain   Tanks Sent to Celles By Germans in Fluid Battle With Infantry To Reach Meuse Rivet

U.S. Troops Slowly Regair The Initiative   American Units Are Supplied By Parachute  —~s e288 «ff? 

NAZIS, FIFTY MILES INSIDE BELGIUM, HURL MORE MEN INTO FIGHT: PARIS BOMBED

Deal Nazis First Real Set-Back   Though Possibly Temporary, Allies Have Gained Initiative in Breakthrough Sector

Troops and Tanks Reported by Allied Headquarters Today as Now Taking  the Initiative.   EXACT SPOT, HOWEVER, IS MILITARY SECRET

Von Rundstedt Suffers First Major Reverse   Tons of Supplies “Chuted to Troops Cut Off  at Bastogne

Slowly Regain Initiative On German Flanks   Believe German Offensive Has Some 250,000 Troops In Its Power.  NO GAIN IN 24 HOURS

Stab Into Salient Told in Dispatch From Stavelot Area  TIVE TO YANK      Germans Go on the Defensive With Infantry Replacing Tanks

Front Dispatches Today Declared the Doughboys Were Slowly Regaining Initiative on Other Fronts.   NAZIS HELD WITHOUT GAINS IN 24 HOURS   Enemy Suffered His First Serious Setback Since the German Offensive Began 11 Days Ago.

U. §. TROOPS AND TANKS HAVE DRIVEN INTO GERMAN LINES  GERMAN OFFENSIVE DEALT ITS FIRST SERIOU

Major Setback Handed Nazis In Stavelot Sector  Weather Clear, Alliec Planes Batter Enemy

nEPAININE LEAD   Make Gains in Meuse Are in Bitter Christmas Day Battle. ff

U.S: Troops Are Slowly Regaining the Initiative   But Nazis Stiffen Against the U. S.. Push to Relieve Bastogne Garrison

First Serious Setback Hitson Northern Front   Germans On Defensive On One Flank; Enemy Thrown Back Near Meuse And Yanks Reported Gaining Initiative:

Temperatures   Main Rail Artery From Berlin Smashed;  Favorable Weather Permits Attacks By Thousands of U. S. Planes From Britain

—WESTERN FRONT—   U. S. Forces Regaining Initiative On Flanks Of Von Rundstedt’s Drive Into Belgium

US. Regaining Initiative In Bloody Belgium Fight   Great Enemy Offensive Slowly Grinds  To Halt as Doughboys Retake Ciney **

NAZ OFFENSIVE SUFFERS FIRST REAL SETBACK   Salient Driven Into Lines of Germans, Now on Defensive

DROP SUPPLIES TO DOUGHBOYS IN BASTOGNE TRAP   American Troops Slowly Ree gaining Initiative in Belgium

Von Rundstedt Suffers His First Big Setback as Yanks Drive Wedge Into Nazi Lines   German Offensive Rolls to Step Short of Meuse River; U.S. Planes — Set Pace in Furious New Assault

Yank Forces’ Still Helce Celles. Four Miles from Meuse. Christmas Night

Stab Into Salient Told in Dispatch From Stave' Jot Area’   INITIATIVE TO YANKS   Germans Go on the Defen. sive With Infantry Replacing Tanks

Enemy Lines  Dented by Yank Tanks   American Soldiers Regain Initiative; Nazi Armored Columns Folded Back; Foe Employs 2,000 Spies Wearing U. S. Uniforms

Rolled Back In Hot Fight   Doughboys Slowly Regaining Initiative on Flanks of Drive Into Belgium   Main Drive Shifted   Turns Toward Antwerp Supply Line; Rescue Column Nearing Balogne

Enemy Fails To Gain In 24 - Hour Period   Ominous Silence Hovers Over Battlefields as Armies Test Lines

Doughboys Slowly Regain Initiative   Armor, Infantry Locked in Sharp Battles; Ominous Quiet Engulfs Front, Enemies Probe Tentatively

SLASH DEEP INTO GERMAN LINES TO CHECK OFFENSIVE   FORCE NAZIS BACK ON DEFENSE ALONG NORTH RIM OF PUSH

Three Killed: and 13 Injured as Paris Gets Bombed   Battle Rages Only 4 Miles From Meuse; 50 Miles of Brussels.

Frontline Reports Indicate Tide © Of Battle Turning Against Nazis

2 SPEARHEADS HALTED, CELLES IS RECAPTURED   Christmas Day Assaults Les: sen Danger Of Break Across River

Location Of Thrust Not Given; Foe’s Meuse Push  Also Folded Back. 

Regaining Initiative, U.S. Troops Drive Deep Wedge into German Lines; Nazis Drive Is Halted  By American Attack East of Meusé

German Armored Columns Thrown Back From Meuse   Americans Repulse Germans In Christmas Day Counterattack

CANDIDATES UNDER WAY   Wallace Still In Running for Vice-Presidency

FINNS MAY NAME ~ NEWGABINET SOON   Most Likely Successor Friendly to Russia

Accepts Call To  Become Pastor Baptist Church  Rev. Earl Dale of Humeston To Take  fl =™ #F

Accepts Call To Become Pastor Baptist Church   Rev. Earl Dale of Humeston To Take Charge February 15

Japan Pulls in Her Air Defense   MacArthur Reports Dromes in Moluccas Are Being Abandoned

Japs Leaving Molucca Isles   Taking Planes Away, Ripping up Airdromes; U. S. Air Attacks Continue

Japs Pr Pull Out Of Moluceas:   Abindon , -Nirdromes To: Advancing Foes’

JAPAN PULLING AIRCRAFT OUT OF MOLUCCA ISLANDS   Remove Planes and Demolish Airdromes on, Halmahera and Other cf the ‘Spice Group—Paves Way For Al. lied Invasion

ALLIED ARMIES HEAD TOWARD RHONE VALLEY   Toulon Naval Base Outflanked In Swift Drive

Toulon Base Outflanked By Allied Forces   American 7th Army Heading For Wide Rhone Valley; Toll Of Prisoners Gains

Second Nazi General Taker By Invaders   American Seventh Army Last Reported Only 25 Miles From Marseille

French Tanks Lead Drive (On Marseilles   Toulon Is Outflanked . By Advance on Rhone River Valley

10,000 Nazis ‘Captured in South France   Allies Speed Toward ' Rhone and Junction Forces in North   TO SPLIF FRANCE   Strongpyints Boxed and By-Passed as Beachhead Spreads Out

Americans Advance 10 Miles a Day and Take 10,000 Prisaners Headauarters Says

South Front {s Expanding Fast  French Tank Corps Leads in New Drive

Opposition to Invaders in  South Light  Rhone River Vallev   Rhone River Valley Appears One Goal fer Allied Forces

Toulon Naval Base Outflanked in South France  Less That 350 Miles Separate Two Forces; Capture 10,000 Nazis

U. 8. 7th Drives On Rhone Valley, Outflanks Toulon   French Tanks Lead American Forces  Into St. Maximim

U.S. Sevehth Pushes On To  Marseille   North and South Forees tush to Union to Swit lrance In ‘Two. 10,000 Germans Cap;   ee

Seventh Army Outflanks Big Base Of Toulon   French Tanks Lead Ameri. eans Into St. MaximinLe-Ste Baum, Northeast of Marseilles      Rhone Valley Coal Of Whole Advance   Less Than 350 Miles Sep. arate Forces in Southern Franec From Those in North Areas —

FRENCH BASE AT TOULON 1S QUTFLANKED   ALLIES SWEEP ON TOWARD RHONE VALLEY

Yanks Flank Toulon Port   Seventh Army Heads for Rhone, Juncture in North

Allies: Storm. Toulon Base   Seventh: Ariny Rolls Toward Rhone. River

LESS THAN 350 MILES DIVIDE ALLIED FORCES   \0-Mile Gain Against Foe Announced in Toulon Area

YANKS Zo MILES FROM MARSEILLE; OUTELANK TOULON   U. S. Seventh Army Sweeps Into St. Maximin-le-Ste. Baume In Drive Toward  Rhone Valley.   OTHER FORCES MOVE INTO CANNES AREA   Nazi Opposition Stiff at Some Places and Weak at Others — 10,000 Prisoners in Bag.

French Tanks Lead Into St. Maximin   Allies Outflank Toulon Noval Base, Head Toward Rhone River Valley; Tanks Relieve Tired Infantry

ALLIES OUTFLANK BIG NAVAL BASE   Enveloping Move Heads To:wards Rhone Valley   FORCES SEEK UNION   Invaders Make 10-miles-a. Day Advance in South; Prisoners Taken

NAVAL BASE IS ‘OUTFLANKED BY RHONE THRUST   Allies 25 Miles From Marseille; Enemy Abandons Cannes

Southern Push Flanks Toulon, Aims at Rhone   Invaders Menace Marseille While Fast Attack Nears Route to North Franco

Naval Base Of Toulon Is Out Flanked   Nazis Unable To Carry Out Usual Demolitions

SPAIN “ON FENCE”; AMERICAN OILS ‘ARE DENIED HER   Is Now Faced With Task of Redefining Her Attitude Toward Germany and the Al hae

UNITED STATES MOVES TO BRING SPAIN TO TERMS   Oil Shipments to Franco Ordered Stopped and Profound Crisis Is Created

OIL SUPPLIES T0 “SPAIN SUSPENDED   Nation Must Redefine Position on Germany and Allies, Raise Three Points.

Spain’s Status May Change   Country Must Redefine Position As Result of Supply. Cut.

OWL SHIPMENTS TO SPAIN ARE HALTED BY U.S.   Franco Faces Decision On Allied - Axis Relations

U. S. Suspends Shipments Of Oil To Spain  Franco Credits  Reich For Goods

U.S. Cuts Off Oil to Spain   Nation Must Redefine Position Toward Allies And Nazi Germany

Loss Of] U. Ss. Oi “Demands Spain Clarify Position   Must Redefine Her Stand ~ Toward Germany And ” “Allies In Global. Conflict

U. S. Stops Oil Supply For Spain   Pressure Brought “To Make Franco Behave

SPAIN FORCED TO SHOW HAND   His Main Oil Supplies Cut Off Franco Will Have to Make Move

Spain Faces Redefinition  Of Policies   American Suspension of Oil Shipments May Cause Move ~

Spanish Oil Held Up Because of Her Credit to Germany   U. S. Stops February Shipments to Spain, it is Learned

Spain On Hot Spot After U. S. Move   Caribbean Oil Shut Off Be cause of Aid to Germany

U. S. Has Stopped All Shipments Of Oil to Spain   Franco’s Government Must Redefine Position in War

SPAIN FORGED TO RE-DEFINE HER POSITION   Suspension Of Oil Supplies Causes Much Speculation

U. S. Has Stopped All Shipments Of Oil to Spain  Franco’s Government   Franco’s Government Must Redefine Position in War

NAZI AIR FORCE * DORMANT DURING ATTACK IN ITALY.   Goering’s Once Vaunted. Aerial Defense Fails to Offer Resistance to In- © vaders

Not A Single German Fighter Plane Rises In Italy Against Raiders Supporting New Push   Allied Fliers Pound Communications, Roads, Airfields Throughout Nation

ITALIAN RAIDS—  NAZIS OFFER NO AIR OPPOSITION   Not A German Plane Challenges Allied Fliers In Italian Drive.   BOMBERS ACTIVE   Communications, Roads  And Airfields Blasted Despite Bad Weather

Ground Forees On Italian Front : Get Air Support   Allied’ Planes Fly Ont In 3000 ‘Soriies Without Challenge Fron Nazis

3000 Planes Join in Offensive   Luftwaffe Fails To Challenge  Command of Skijac

NAZIS REFUSE TO RESIST AIR RAIDS INITALY   Allied Fliers Protect Lan Offensive Without Any Enemy Opposition

/Planes Fly Nearly 3,000 Sorties   In Support of Ground Offensive

Reds, Tito’s Forces Driving Through Belgrade Outskirts   Fall of Yugoslav Capital Imminent; Last Strongpoint Above City Seized

Utah Under Heavy Blanket Of Snow   Northern Section of State Has Heaviest: March Storm Since L884

Oden Digs Out Of Heaviest Snow Since 1940  Many Cars Stalled, Planes Grounded And Trains Slowed

Jap Position Said Serious   ‘' Yanks Continue Leyte Advances And ’ Chief Nip Supply Line Is Severed

Jap Position in Leyte Is Now Serious   Resistance Increases As Americans Advance

Americans in Leyte Making Good Progress   MacArthur Declares Enemy’s Situation Is Now Serious One

) Yanks Continue Leyte Advances And Chief Nip Supply Line Is Severed

British Wedge Outer Defenses Of Gothic Line   German Commentator Reports Serious British Attempt to Rreak Inio Po Plain

US. Bombers Raid France   U.S. Sweep Follows Heavy R.A.F. Night Raid on Krupp Works

Heavy Bomb Load Dumped On Essen Area   British Raiding Force In Great Strength Thunders Over German To Continue Assault

oF OE AIRDROMES ARE ASSAULTED » BY U.S, FORCES   Fortresses Shower Bombs 0: Military Objectives In France Today

Yankee Planes Blast German French Areas   Airdromes In Central And Southwest Part Of France Are Goals

BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS STRIKE IN GREAT FORCE   High Explosives And Incendiaries Rained On Germany; Only One U. S. Bomber Lost In Latest Attack On France.

ESSEN AND BERLIN RAIDED BY FLIERS   More’“Than 1,000 RAF Bombers—Garry—Out— Night Attack

ESSEN HIT WITH 2,000 TONS OF BOMBS BY RAF   Estimate Over 1,200 American Planes in Attack on French Targets

Nazi Airfields Are Main U.S. Targets   RAF Night Assaults Fall on Essen, Hannover Factories

RAF Batters Essen During Night Smash   2,000 Long Tons of Explosives Dropped; Hannover Also Attacked

Krupp Works Blasted Along With Hannover, Coastal Ports. French and Dutch Installations

Krupp Works at Essen Hit Sunday Night   RAF Drops 2,000 Tons of Explosives an Armamen? Plant

OT RONG FORCES OF AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT NAZI AIRFIELDS   HEAVY NIGHT RAF RAID ON ESSEN AND KRUPP WORKS REPORTED

RAF Bombers Blast Essen And Hannover   Other Western Reich Targets

KRUPP WORKS AT ESSEN ARE RAIDED BY RAF   Strong Forces of American  Planes Reported Over  France Today

Yank Planes Biast Bases In France   Follow Up Heavy RAF Night Raid On Essen

OBJECTIVES IN GERMANY AREHAMMERED   As Well As Czechoslovakia In Daylight Raid Following RAF Attack By Night On Munich.   Bad Weather

Krupp Works, Hannover Are Pounded  Last Night   Concentrated Blows  Are Dealt To Knemy

Western Germany Included In Night Forays; Americans Hit French Coast

RAF BOMBERS POUND NAZI KRUPP WORKS   2,000 Lone Tons Of Bombs Hit Large Plant   THE WAR  THHAY

SMALLER FORCES BLAST HANNOVER   POUND TARGETS IN BELGIUM AND WESTERN GERMANY

BOMBERS BLAST REICH TARGETS   Daylight Raiders Blast Munich Area; No Enemy Aircraft Met

perhaps 700 cr more fighters engaged in the strike at the Nazt air bases.

Nazi Bases — in France Hit Again   Americans Send More Thax 1,000 Planes Into France for-Second. Day   ESSEN HAMMERED > INRA. NIGHT RAID   Hannover Also: ‘Blasted; Rubber. Plants and Krupp Works Are Targets

Airdromes In France Hit By U.S. Bombers   Liberators And Forts Strike Following RAF Assault On Essen;  Pound Krupp Works

NAZI AIRBROMES IN FRANCE HIT BY U. §. BOMBERS.   Attacks Today Made By Strong Forces of Heavy’ Bembers —~ Fallawed RAF! Assault Last Nieht on Essen!

BRITISH DRO 2,000 TONS ON KRUPPS   Hannover, Belgium Points Also Hammered   MOSQUITOES   Hand Berlin Light Attack; 1,700 American Planes In Action Sunday

ESSEN AGAIN BATTERED BY BRITISH FLIERS   Over 2,000 Long Tons of Bombs Dropped Upon Sprawling Krup Arm ament Works

Essen Site Of Crushing Assault By RAF Planes   British Return To Raze Construction Accomplished Since Their Last Attack

21st American Foray Staged During March   Hannover, Other Towns Also Covered in RoundThe-Clock Sweep

U.S. BOMBERS STRIKE FRANCE; ESSEN BLASTED   (ther Unspecified Targets in Ger many Attacked, American Bomb ars, Fighters Raid Invasior Coast

U. §. Bombers Hit Airports in France   RAF Gave Essen 2 000-Ton Raid

2,000 TONS RAINED UPON KRUPP WORKS   RAF. Thus Ended &-Month Lay off — Strong U.S. Air Fleet Over Occupied France

U. S. Bombers Pound Again at Nazi Targets   New Daylight Foray Follows Heavy Night Blast by RAF: Americans Attack 21 Times During Present Month,

Rebuilt War Factories Blasted; Yanks Rip Nazi Airfielde In France.

KRUPP ARMOR WORKS HIT T0 HINDER REPAIR   Other West German Targets Attacked; Mines Laid

BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS MAUL NAZI TARGETS   F'ssen Rocked by 2,000 Long Tons of Bombs During Night Raid

HIT AIRDROMES IN FRANCE WITH STRONG FORCES   Heavy U. S. Bomber Day Attack Follows RAF Attack on Essen

Essen Target Of Shattering Night Assault   Heavy Force of U. S. Bombers In Air Today

U.S. Heavies Strike af Air Installations   Liberators, Flying  Fortresses Blast at Airdromes in South And Centra! France

RAF Undoe: Nazi Work   Smashes Desperate Rebuilding Done at Vast Krupp Works at Essen

21st American Foray Staged During March         Hannover, Other Towns s Also Covered in Round: The-Clock Sweep  ‘

RAF BombLoad Is Hurled Upon Battered Essen   Possibly 2000. Long ‘Ton: of Explosives And In cendiaries Unloosed Or City — Hannover Rub. ber Center, Other Tar. gets Hit.

Hit Air Bases In Southwest. Middle Frane   RAF Pounds Essen In Crush. ing Night Raid; Courtrai  Yards Attacked,   FIGHTERS TAKE PART

—AIR WAR—  )  GIANT RAF RAID BATTER Line  a Than ONNN nt. ce NV"   More Than 2,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On German City   Krupp Armament Works . Is Target For British Bombing Fleet

Krupp Works Hit In Big Essen Raid   RAF Bombe Rebuilt Area In City

ESSEN RAIDED BY BIG FORCE OF BOMBERS   R. A. F. Believed to Have Dropped 2,000 Tons on German City, Site of the Spyawling Krupp Armament Works.

U. S. Planes Hit Nazi Airdromes In France; RAF  Plasters Essen   ‘Very Strong’ Fighter Es. cort Accompanies Yank Heavies

RAF Bombers Deliver Crushing Load To Essen   Raiders Pound City Of Hannover and Blast Belgium Railway Targets.

HUGE AMERICAN BOMBERS MAKE DAYLIGHT RAIDS   Attacks Follow Heavy RAF Night Blow On City Of Essen

Jack Greenberg  Killed In Crash  While Flying Former Officer   Employed At  Basanan A Swimnere

Jack Greenberg  Killed In Crash  While Flying Former Officer  Employed At  Reacon Airwave

WILLKIE. REMAINS ~— ARRIVE WN INDIANA   Unlikely That Body Will Lie In State at Indiananniic_

Willkie’s Body Arrives at Home  Casket in Crypt  Until Son Returns

WILLKIE'S BODY GOES TO HIS INDIANA HOME   150 Mourners Meet Train With Casket From East

NILLKIE'S BODY BACK IN-INDIAN:   Group Of Mourners Meets Train As It Arrives -rom New York

Willkie Body Arrives In Native State   Funeral Cortege Reaches Indiana to-be Held Until Son’s Arrival From Convoy Duty

Palisade Dam Engineering Cash Okehed   Roosevelt Sanctions $250,000 Appropriation To Further Work on Proposed Idaho Project

Fort L’Yser Falls Without Resistance; Second of Nine Main Defense Bastions to Be Taken

TAKES L'YSER AND PUSHES ON   Pation’s Troops But 3¥2. Miles From City Cut Off. By U. S. Guns; Gains inf:  Moselle, Vosges Areas. ©

British Open New Drive In Holland   Fifth Division Takes Fort I'Yser Without Opposition

Americans Cut Behind Ft. Driant   Doughboys Within 314 Miles of Metz

Doughboys Capture Fort Orny, Push to 3% Miles From Metz   Fourth Fortress Guarding Gates of Besieged City Falls to Sth Division

Germans May : Abandon Town   No Stiffening of Enemy Resistance Reported at Front

MOVE WITHIN CLOSE RANGE OF CITY   Indicate Entire Town May Be Forfeited   With Pommerieux, Verny, Liehon: 5,600 Prisoners Taken In 6 Days

Fort I'¥ser Described as Strong System South of City.   BRITISH START A PUSH   American Attack Spread: Into Snow-Covered Hills of Vosges

NEW BREACH IN METZ OEFENSES      Doughboys Plow Through Break to Within 3 1-2 , Miles of City. rf   GERMANS PULLING BACK

Foe May Yield Stron ¢ Point Without Fight   All Escape Roads are Now Within U.S. Gun Range

Resistance {s Weak as Germans Withdraw fo East   Gains Also Scored Farther South by Patch’s Seventh

YANKS PLUNGE THROUGH NEW GERMAN BREAK   Americans Now ’3': Miles Out of Metz.—Indications Enemy May Yield Without Battle.

Fourth In Chain Of Fort resses Captured By Patton’s Men   NazisMay Abandon Metz To Save Army   Troops Strike At Bastion From South Along Nine-Mile Front

Yanks Seize Fourth Great Fort Before Reich Bastion   Elaborate Underground System Falls To Allies Without Resistance of Foe

Seize Powerful System Of Underground Works And Reach Point Only Few Miles From City

Fort L’Yser Latest Prize For Yankees   Pile Through Newest Breach In Foe Defenses Within 314 Miles Of Metz.   LITTLE GPrOsITioON

Fifth Division Within Three Miles Of City   Germans May Pull Out, to Avoid Encirclement of Bic’ Garrison   ALL ROADS NOW IN  ARTILLERY RANGE   American” Front Widened, One Force Nears Border in Luxembourg Corner

Surge Through Breach   Third Army Troops Within 314 Miles of City; Garrison May Yield Without Fight

ESCAPE ROUTES UNDER FIRE OF AMERICAN GUNS   Withdrawal of Nazis from Key City Raises Several Important Questions

Fort Orny Captured By Yanks   Troops Push on Into Hospital Woods in Closest Approach To Besieged Metz

YANKS WITHIN 31-2 MILES OF BESIEGED CITY   All German Retreat Routes Brought Within Artillery Ranae

‘MILES OF THE CITY ITSELF   As Fourth Fortress Falls, Yanks Bring All Metz Roads of Reinforcement or Retreat Under Arti lery Fire.

Nazis Offer Only Light Opposition   Fort L’Yser Described As Powerful System of Underground Defense

Fourth and Powerful German Fortress Is Captured— Troops Are Within 3!,  Miles of City.   FORTS FALL WITHOUT ANY NAZI RESISTANCE

Germans May Quit  Bastion      Enemy Fails To Resist Quward Drive

Pile Through Breach To 33 Miles of City   Germans Yield Powerful Fort Without Resistance, May Forfeit Metz Now That All Roads to Retreat or Reinforcement Now Under Range of Yank Artillery

PUSH TO WITHIN LESS THAN 4 MI. OF BESIEGED CITY   THREE OTHER FORTS FALL AS AMERICANS EXPAND THEIR FRONT

ALL ROADS OUT OF CITY WITHIN RANGE OF GUNS   Fort Orny Seized as Yanks Push Nearer To City Proper

POWERFUL DEFENSE POINT IN GERMAN LINES FELL TODAY   UNITED STATES TROOPS PILED THROUGH NEWEST BREACH IN NAZI LINES

Yanks Push to Within Three Miles of Doomed City; Other Units Approach Nazi Border

Fourth Fortress Captured As Patton's Army Presses Forward on 70-Mile Front   Americans Only Three Miles From Metz, Approach German Border at Luxembourg Corner in Sweeping Drive in Moselle Area

U. 5. INFANTRYMEN  TAKE ANOTHER NAZI  FORT IN OFFENSIVE ALL REINFORCEMENT  OR RETREAT ROADS NOV IW ADTITTCDY DANCE

Nazis Give Up Four Bastions Without a Fight   Germans Apparently To Forfeit Entire Stronghold to Avoid Yank Encirclamons

MANY FATHERS DEFERRED HERE   Number Reclassified in 2-A As Essential to Civilian Activities

DRAFT BOARD'S ACTIONS LISTED   Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Deferred——Some Placed in 1-A

26 DADS GIVEN 1-A TAGS HERE   Draft Board Also Decides 6. Fathers Are Entitled To Deferments

COUNTER-ATTACKS ON FORCES OUTSIDE. CITY, WHILE -HOUSE-TOLHOUBE BATCONTINUES Be

Hurricane Hits Central Florida Moving North   Post Warnings Along Atlantic Coast To Virginia Capes

HURRICANE. MOVES NORTH INFLORIDA:   Damage to Citrus Crop Estimated « In Millions _

HURRICANE MOVES NORTE IN FLORIDA   Damage to Citrus Crop Estimated In Millions

Tropical Storm Moves Up Florida West Coast At 100 MPH Rate; Thousands Take Shelter In Refugee Buildings

St. Petersburg, Tampa in Center of Hurricane   Florida Cities Struck by 100 Mile Hour Storm

STORM DRIVES OVER FLORIDA   Heavy Damage’Reported in Wake of Hurricane

Destructive Path Is Carved’ Through Central Part Of; State; Warnings Ordered North To Cape Hatteras

IN FRUIT BELT WILL BE HIGH   Trees Mowed Down by Storm Winds; Coast Tewns Being Evacuated.

Hurricane Rips Citrus Fruit Belt in Florida    Big Blow Heads for J acksonville; Shipyards Shut Down

Hurricane Damage to Florida. Fruit Crop Estimated in -Millions..

Heavy Loss Is Caused To Property   Hurricane Warnings Ordered Hoisted To Hatteras.

Hurricane Rips North In Florida   Heavy Damage To Crops— Hatteras Alerted

Damage High As Hurricane Races North   Much of Citrus Crop Ruined; High Tides BRatter-Coast Cities

Willkie Plans March Campaign in Wisconsin   State Primary ‘Major Test,’ Candidate Feels

Allied Troops Capture Mapao   Inflict Heavy Losses On Invading Jap Forces

GET 4 NEW BUSES HERE   Put Into Immediate Service to Handle Holiday Crowds

Four New Buses Go In Service   Larger Coaches Placed On City Runs

Sen. George Says 54. Million  Jobs Necessary   Georgian Urges Speeding Of Plans For Re-Employment Now

Notices For Large Call Put In Mail By Board One   Pre-Induction Tests  To Be Given Soon In Baltimore; Board May ‘Reorganize Office Force

Bricker Bids For Texas Vote  Attache ClO Geaun      Attacks CIO Group In Houston Speech

Fisenhower Announces Lt. Gen. Omar N Bradley Senior Ground Commander Of  American Forces In European Theater

Bradley Given A Top Post   Senior Ground Chief For Yanks In United Kingdom Appointed

BRADLEYNAMED   Made Senior Ground Commander of Yank Forces in That Area

Gen. Eisenhower Reaches London   Reveals Lt. Gen. Bradley To Be U. S. Ground Com. mander In European Area

ARGENTINE ROCKED BY BIG EARTHQUAKE   Heavy Damage Is Expected In San Juan Province

Senate Calls Up Daniels To Clear REA Argument   FR’s Assistant Agrees To Answer Questions In Ousting Case

President May Be Asked To Act In Truck Strike   50 Drivers, Freight Handlers Reported Ou In Midwest States

TRUCK STRIKE INTERVENTION IS CONSIDERED   Believe President to Act to End Stoppage In Middle West

Flash Flood  Results From Heavy Rains   Norfolk’s Business District Under Water; Reach 7-5  lvanhed   REPORT NO DEATHS

Norfolk's Business District Inundated   Waters, I To 3 Feet Deep Downtown, Receding: Many Residents Evacuated

Japs Desperate. Attempt Escape From Wewak Area   Americans And Aussies In Squeeze Play On Entrapped Nips

JAPS CAUGHT  > IN NEW TRAP AFTER BREAK   ELEMENTS OF TROOPS WHO GOT THROUGH LINES NEAR WEWAK ARE NOW SURROUNDED IN JUNGLE .

OLD ESTABLISHED GRAIN FIRM GOES OUT OF BUSINESS   T. L. Burnight And Son Operated Elevators In Several Different Towns

Old Established Grain Elevator  Out Of Business  Burnight Family Associated With Belpre Bifexr Vaanc

Old Established Grain Elevator  Out Of Business  Burnight Family Aeanriatard Wish

TAFT BUSINESS PLAN OUTLINED   Six-Point Program Stimulus Offered: Wallace Speaks in Columbus

Six-point Program for Postwar Employment Is Advanced by Taff   Claims and Counter Claims Fly as Candidates Intensify Campaign Drives

‘Quit Now,’ Hull Tells Romanie   Declines Comment Or Reported Terms

German Factories, Bucharest, Ploesti Targets Of Assault   10th Straight Day Of U. S. Bomber Operations Marked By Heaviest Co-ordinated Air Attack Of War

3,000 Planes In     Daylight Attack  Italy-Based Craft Hit   Ruocharest. Ploesti

“American Bombers Strike Two-Way *Blow at Europe   3,000 Planes Lash Germany, Romania In Follow-up to  Miahty RAF Smash

3000 American Planes Assault Nazi Targets in Two-Way Raid   2000 Fly from Britain, 1000 More from Italy

‘Strike Nazi Plane Plants And Romania   Heaviest Coordinated Attack of War; Good Weather Aids Bombers

3,000 Planes Strike From Britain, Italy   Friedrichshafen, Munich Blasted; Bucharest And Ploesti Also Targets.

Bucharest, Ploesti, Friedrichshafen Are Targets For Today   Increasing Pre-Invasion Blasts At Hitler’s ‘Festung Europa’ Enter Tenth Straight Day

Factories, Rail Yards Plastered   ‘Attacks Are Made On Germany And Romania By Huge Formations Of U. S. Planes

German Radio Tells Of Simultaneous Blows by Americans At Romantan Taraete

Explosives. Rained On Nazi Air Force And Balkan Rails   2,000 Britain-based Planes Attack Plane’ Plants, Other “Factories and Aurdromes in Germany —Another 1,000 Planes Strike From — Italy At Bucharest and Ploesti Rails. -

Double Blow Struck by 3,000 Ships   Bucharest, Ploesti, Friedrichshafen, Munich Are Targets

Plane Plants And Airport Areas Scenes  Of Bombings   Drive To Wipe Out Enemy Force Grows

Record Set; In 10th Day Of Offensive   Pilots ,Retur ‘ning From The Forays Report Success in Balkans

U.S. Hits Nazis From Italy, England   Early Destruction Of Luftwaffe Seen

Acrial Offensive. Seen “as Invasion Prelude, Enters Eighth Day With More Raids   Lille Evacuated.  Due To Bombings   Warplanes From Italian Airdromes Hit. Austria While RA® and Yanks Hammer Coast

Huge Sky Force Smashes at Axis   Three Thousand Planes involved In Raids on Germany and Romania

Strike From Britain, Italy   Mighty Air Fleets Smash Plane Plants, Other Hit Bucharest, Ploesti

Bucharest, Ploesti  Pounded By Planes From Italy; Others Swatm From Britain

Friedrichshafen ‘And Munich Among The Points Blasted   RAIDS MADE IN - GOOD WEATHER

TWO-WAY BLOWS BY  APPROXIMATELY 3,000  AMERICAN WARPLANES WESTERN AND SOUTH EASTERN AREAS BLASTED ACAIN MONDAY

BRITAIN - BASED AIRCRAFT HIT PLANE SHOPS   Thousand From Italy Stab At Bucharest, Ploesti   Carried Into Tenth Day: Vichy Says Lille Rail Center Evacuated

Bavaria and Balkans  Shattered by Bombs   Greatest. Aerial Offensive of All Times Goes Into Eighth Day Cermans Sav Invasion Close

American Ships Stage Two-Way Blow On Huns   Friedrichshafen Factories And Dromes Near Munich Suffer

AIRMEN HIT FROM ITALY AND ENGLAND   Almost 2,000 Bombers and Fighters Attack Reich’ Plane Plants as 1,000 Other Craft Raid Buch«  araot and Plaact? tf

Twin Blow Struck At Germans From  England And Italy   Air Plants, Other Factories Torn At Friedrichschafen_ By Big Bombers; Important Rail Yards Battered At Bucharest And Ploesti In Heavy Attacks

Strike from England, Italy .   Nazi Air Plants, Bucharest, Ploesti Targets of Armadas

AIR INVASION SMASHES NAZI PLANE PLANTS   Germany Is Hit From Several  Air Bases

Pre-Invasion: Raids Smash. Nazi Plants ©   2,000 Planes Hit _ Germany Today; Romania Attacked

Believe Heaviest Attack of War Rips Nazi Rails, Balkans   Bombers Based in Italy Blast Bucharest, Ploesti Railways; Others Assault Air Targets in Reich

WAY HAIDS HIT GLAMANY AND BALKANS   Heaviest Coordinated Attack of War Smashes at Nazi Airpower,

3,000 Bombers Hit Nazis From 2 Angles Today   Is Heaviest Bombing Of The War

GERMAN PLANE PLANTS TARGET   Another Armada From Italy Strikes at Two Cities in Romania.   3.000 PLANES IN RAIDS,

U. S. SKY FORCE OF 2.000 PLANES LASH AT EUROPE   SIMULTANEOUS BLOWS STRUCK AT TARGETS IN REICH, ROMANIA

Airmen Blast Plane Plants in Germany   Strong Force of Americans Continue Great Air Invasion

Force of 3,000 Planes Strikes Two- Way Blow   Friedrichshafen, Munich, Bucharest, Ploesti Targets in What May Be War’s Heaviest Co-ordinated Attacks

Vital Targets Of Nazis Given Record Pasting   3,000 American Planes Participate In Heavy Assault

Fierce Fighting By British-Canadian Forces Now In Progress At Tilly-Sur-Seulles; British Sixth Airborne Reported In Action

Annual County Event to Be Held Here Friday and ~" Saturday   COME FROM 10 TROOPS

SCOUT CAMPOREE AT CLINTON PARK   Annual County Event to Be Held Here Friday and , Saturday   COME FROM 10 TROOPS

Cutter Is Sunk Off Portsmouth   Collides With Sub During Foul Weather, One Sailor Killed

Accident Occurs Early Today Near Passenger Depot   Army Shifts In Prospect   Hopes for More Liquor Vanishes   Stewart Now Moaior

NIPS TO START MILITARY CONSCRIPTION IN FORMOSA  meee ame Omi i, _ i a ei

Town Meeting Lasts But Single Hour; Tax-Rate Tentatively Set at $33.30; Nearly $1.00 Increase

Concord Voters es      Town Meeting Lasts But Sin gle Hour; _Tax-Rate Tentatively Set at $33.30; Nearly $1.00 Increase _.

Perfect Weather For Invasion of Europe Forecast   Germans Say Russia Ready for Offense; Air War at Climax

Perfect Fighting Weather   London Sunday Express States That Weather This Summe: Will Be Very Fine.

Nazis Declare Allied Air Attacks Have Reached Climax; Report ‘Russians Set for Eastern Strike

MRS. E. B. LANE DIES TN AGLANIA   Death Follows an Illness of Several Months

MRS. EB. LANE DIES IN ATLANTA   Death Follows an ‘Tness of ‘Several Months

Front Line Newsmen Develop “Sixth Sense” That Warns Them of Danger

LEAVES FROM A WAR: CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK  he Wel Bavlo..........

M’Arthur Spikes Tokyo Radio Lies   Bares Falsity Of Japs Claims Of Success

Soviets Continue Push; Bulgarian Revolt Reported  All Communications  With Turkey Cut;

NAZIS FAIL 10 STEM ADVANCE OF RACING FOE   Crossing Old Frontier Merits No Official  Soviet Comment   Reannrt Canture

Nazi Stronghold of Novograd-Volynski Is Captured  STALIN ANNOUNGES—FALL OF KEY BASE  Russians Advancing at the Rate of Ten to Fifteen _ Miles Daily .

NAZI DEBACLE GROWS HOURLY AS LINES FOLD   Hundreds Of Germans Go Over To Russians In Company Lots As Sweep Goes On

FORCES PUSH INTO POLAND   Reds Kill 6,000 Nazis As Drive Rolls on Unchecked

RUSSIAN TANK FORCES SWEEP ACROSS LINE   Patrols Reported In Old Poland; Hundreds Of Ger mans Surrender   IS BIGGEST DEBACLE SINCE STALINGRAD

Entire Companies Lay Down Arms: Towns Topple   Worst Nazi Debacle Since Stalingrad, Soviets Declare

POWERFUL ORNE GOES UNCHECKED   Red Forces Take NovogradVolynski and Olevsk   BIG BOOTY TAKEN   ‘Russians Press Toward Rumanian Frontier in South; Nazis Face Trap

Nazis Reported Surrendering by ‘Companies’   Huge Quantities of War Equipment Taken

Vast Quantities Of Goods Taken   Reds Say Debacle  Rante Stalinarad

GERMANS LOSE TOWN OF VAGS TO RUSSIANS   Soviets Throw In New Troops For March On Nazis

Germans Lose Vac, Near Rudanest  Soviets Throw  SS gf ee   Soviets Throw Fresh Troops Into Battle, Nazis Say

Red Pressure On Budapest Is Stepped Up   Capture Vacs, 15   Miles to Northeast; Hungarian Forces Surrender Wholesale

River Town Captured By Reds   Russians Increase Pressure On Budapest With Fall of Vac, 15 Miles North

Nazi Army Quits Magyar Town  After Stiff Fighi   Berlin Declares: Russians .. Using. Reinforcements  _ In Battle Foi ; ‘Budapest

BUDAPEST CAUGHT IN RUSSIAN. TRAP AND GOVERNMENT FLEES TO SOPRON ON AUSTRIAN LINE

Reds Take Vae Near Budapest   Soviets Increase South Pressure As North Attack Starts

Soviet Forces Push 13 Miles Fr om Budapest   Hungarian Troops Give Up in Large Numbers As Russians Sweep Toward Capiial

REDS ADVANCE ON BUDAPEST   Reach Danube To North. Threatening Encirclement of Germans

Berlin Radio Admits Loss Of Town Ot Vacs   (cermans Also Contend That Russians Have Put Reinfourcements in Battle for Ludapest. ,

Russ Drive to  Close Circle At Budapest   German Radio Reports Loss of Vac; Pull Back Defense Lines

SAY REDS REACH DANUBE NORTH OF BUDAPEST   Germans Admit Loss of Vacs in. Hungary After Hard Battle

Budapest is Sealed Off From North by  Nazi Loss of Vacs   Berlin Says Reds Have Thrown Fresh Troops Against Nazi Lines

Good Fellows Fund   Berlin Admits Loss of Vacs Near Budapes:   Soviet Victory Cuts Hunganan Canital’s Sunply

own Is 15 iles From udapest   Capture Would Seal Capital Off From The North

‘Two Women Killed, 25 Hurt When Runaway Bus Crashes Into Crowd At Terminal

en nee ANG ee aE TE a ES  ery ATTAGKS-ON CELEBES  ARE STEPPED-UP BY M’ARTHU   AUPFLY AREAS BLASTED AND JAP VEASEL§ STRAFED AS  MBSAULTS ARE

American Aircraft Step Up Tempo Of Air Blows Against Jap Positions In Celebes

- Berners Plane Shot Full oO >, Holes; Crew Threw Out .caEverything: To. Save Ship      m Guns and Flak ‘Suits ad To Be Thrown  Into Sea

t. ‘Berners Plane Shot Full  Of Holes; Crew Threw Out wae versthing: To, Save Shio

Allies Place Future Of Rome In Hands Of German Militarists   Say Responsibility Lies In Position Of Defense Of Eternal City By Nazi Army

GERMANS CLAIM NO TROOPS ARE DEFENDING CITY   But Allies Declare Necessary Action to Be Taken If Nazis There

Germans Declare  Rome Is ‘Free  of Armed Forces Responsibility Is   Responsibility Is Placed Upon Nazis by Allies

Rome’s Fate Up to Nazis   Allies Repeat Stand, Germans Insist City Free Of Armed Forces

Germans Declare Rome Is ‘Free of Armed Forces’   Responsibility Is Placed Upon Nazis by Allies

Allies Leave Kate Of Rome  Up To Germans   Nazis Counter Quickly By Saying Italian Capital Is An Open City

FATE OF ROME IN NAZI HANDS   ALLIES TO MAKE CITY A BATTLEGROUND IF FOE FAILS TO WITHDRAW.

Fate of Rome Up fo Nazis   Allies Will Spare Italy Capital If Germans Withdraw

Allies Check Rome s Fate il. T.. kliw'. UP 10 WdZis  City, Is Claimed  Free OF Soldiers

Allies Check Rome's Fate Up To Nazis  City Is Claimed Free Of Soldiers

French Military Authoritie: Report Offensive In Area Of Bordeaux   NO CONFIRMATION BY HEADQUARTERS

COAST AREAS HELD BY FOE ARE SHELLED   French Military Authori ties Tell of Attack by  Third Allied Invasion  BKorce.   GERMANS BELOW ‘CITY SURRENDERING   Planes Fly Low Over Area — Bombardment by Warships Lasts Well Over Hour,

Attack Made On Bordeaux. French Say. .   ~ Germans Stranded : In Southwest: France © - Said To Be Giving Up

PLANES, SHIPS MAKE GREAT BOMBAR DMENT      French Say Landings Coincide With Start Of U.S., French Drive An Big Base

French And U. S. Troops in Attacks   Military Authorities in France Make Report, Rep Allied Hiah Command Remains Silent

Say Hitler Underwent Operation   Report Throat Tumor Removed And Fuehrer Now At Berchtesgaden

NAZI INFORMANT SAYS OPERATION WAS PERFORMED   Throat Tumor Cause; May Explain Long Official Silence

Fuehrer Has Operation for Throat Tumor   \Chaos Reported in Ger. many; People Begin Run an Ranks

SAYS HITLER UNDERWENT OPERATION   Swiss Report States He Had Throat Tumor

Mysteriously Absent Hitler Now At His Berchtesgaden Retreat In Bavarian Alps After Submitting To Operation ’   AUTHENTIC RING TO REPORT, CLAIM

Sweden Reports Hitler Cancels All Audiences   Allied Officials Aloof on Status of Nazi Ruler’s Health

Operation On Hitler Told By High Source   Removal Of Tumor From Throat Is Claimed By “German Personality” In Switzerland

Hitler Reported Under Knife For Throat Ailment   Now At Berchtesgaden Following Operation, ‘High German’ Says

Dangerous Tumor Develops, Says “High German” Figure  Report Hitler Underwent Op   tion

Tumor Cut From Hitler’s Throat, Zurich Reports   Fuehrer Reported Now At Berchtesgaden After Dangerous Operation; Hlness May Explain His Long Silence; Chaos Is Reported In Germany

(LAIM HITLER HAD THROAT OPERATION   Accounts for His Silence, It Is Explained

REPORT HITLER TUMOR REMOVED   Had Threat Operation, Says ‘High Personality’

HITLER UNDERGOES OPERATION FOR THROAT TUMOR, NEW REPORT SAYS   FUEHRER AT BERCHTESGADEN RETREAT IN ALPS, DISPATCH STATES; CHAOS RUMORED IN REICH

Hitler is Victim Of Bum Throat   Hitler Operated On, Report Says

LABOR NEWS HELP OFFER REFUSED   Army Raps Charge Troops Overseas Are Being ‘“Micinformed”

Army Refuses To Censor Labor News Going to Troops in Field   Trovps ow Guadaleanal Reported Demonstrating After Hearing of Strikes

ALLIED PILOTS CREDITED  WITH SAVING MANY LIVES TN 1TH ARALAN CAMPAICON

Japs Battling To Save Saipan   But Yanks Punch Thru Resistance On Bloodiest Battlefield.

Saipan Battle Bloody   Yanks Punch Ahead Despite Increased Japanese Resistance

LOSSES EXCEE GUADALCANAL, TARAWA   . More Than 4,951 Japanese Troops Are Killed   ENEMY BATTLING   With Increased Tenacity: Yap Island Raided Again By Libs

BLOODY SAIPAN HAS COST US. 9752 TROOPS   Japs’ Resistance Intensified in Bitterest Fighting Of Pacific War To Date

RESISTANCE IS STIFFENING = AS PUSH CONTINUES   Enemy Losses Several Times Higher, Reports ' Disclose

AMERICANS AT SAIPAN MAKING COSTLY PROGRESS   -Pacific’s Bloodiest Battle“field Witnesses Gains But At Heavy Cost in Men -

Saipan Fight Is Bloodiest   Battle Costs Lives Of LATA Amerinan.

THROUGH STIFF LINE IN SAIPAN   - Gain in Most Bloody “Campaign Yet Staged in Pacific Section

0.P.A. Is Asked To Crack Down  Ciata (CTO Chargase   State C.1.0. Charges Flagrant Violations

0.P.A. Is Asked To Crack Down   State C.LO. Charges Kagrant Violations

ClO DEMANDS OPA TAKE PRIGE ACTION   State Council Wants® Something Done About Violation Of Meat Price Ceilings Excep Issue Warnings

SHOW STAGED BY AIR CHEE   ‘Hush-Hush’ Exercise ‘Held Last Week  im England

Americans and RAF Siage Greatest Night Landing of Parachute Troops

100-Mile Push Yo Put Yanks On Reich Soil   mF Bie  * Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg Public Reeeive Warning

Nazis Retreat Toward Rhine; Vichy Liberated   Americans Open Land-Sea-Air Attack on Brest

REDS NEAR HINGE OF THE GERMANS’ SLOVAKIAN LINE   Troops Drive Through Strong Defenses to Within Nine Miles of Communications Hub of Kassa.   THROW A SIEGE ARC AROUND VITAL ANCHOR   Thrust Toward City Is High Spot of Day of General Advances on Front of More Than 80 Miles.

KASSA BESIEGED ON ALL SIDES BY RED TROOPS   Important Communica. tions Center Is Already Untenable   BUDAPEST REPORTS SKIP DEVELOPMENTS

HUB OF KASSA ENCIRCLED BY SOVIET ARMY   REDS CROSS INTO SLOVAKIA AT NEW POINTS

Gap Of Escape Narrowed Down By Canadians  Yanks Chop Off Entire West End Of German Pocket

General Patton’s Third Army Captures Four Key Cities in Arc Only 40 to 65 Miles From French Capital, Headquarters Say

Hopkins Lends Aic In Letter Mystery   Appears Before Grand Jurors To Help Solve Political Thriller

JURY HEARS HOPKINS TALK   CHARGES NAME FORGED TO LETTER ON WILLKIE

Harry Hopkins At Jury Claims Letter Forged   Reeently Hl With Influenza. Hopkins Voluntarily Ap.  ime eS   CASE 1S SIMPLE

Hopkins Goes On Stand   F. R. Confidante Makes Voluntary Appearance Before Grand Jury

Hopkins Goes Before Grand Jury Today   Adds Testimony to Maze Of Facts in Famous Letter Mystery

HOPKINS APPEARS BEFORE PROBERS   Leaves Hospital To Testify In Inquiry Into Mystery Letter

Hopkins Before Grand Jury in Letter Mystery  Witness Leaves Hospital to Cive Testimony

Ohio Disaster Kills- 98, Leaves ~ Many Homeless  Totals Show .110 Stil   lotals Sho'w s110 Stil Missing as Probe Continuec

FIND 112 DEAD IN CLEVELAND FIRE   Dozens Of Persons Still Missing. Toll May Reach 150 Lives

Bodies. Sought  In Fire Ruins   97 Ave Dead. 107 Missing In Cleveland) Blast

Damage ‘Over :7 Million, 680 Without Homes, 172 Still in Hospitals

Cleveland Fire Deaths Up to 97   Many Are Still Listed as Missing

Blast Death Toll. Mounts Over 100   Workers Still Search For Accident Victims ©

Death Toll Of Gas Fire Reaches 98   Residents Return To Charred Home As Others Seek Missing

DEATH TOLL IN BLAST NOW 98   104 Persons Still Missing In Cleveland ExplosionFire Disaster

97 Are Dead. 107 Missing in Cleveland Fire   172 Injured Treated; Fires Still Burn Over 50-Block Area as Result of Gas Blasts

SEARCH CREWS SEEK BODIES IN CLEVELAND FIRE   Debris Yields 112 Bodies But : More Are Believed Dead

STILL SEARCH FOR BODIES AT CLEVELAND  112 Alr ently Found; Toll May

CLEVELAND BLAST DEATHS REACH 112 AND MANY MISSING   Final Toll Of 150 Termed Likely; Search Debris For Victims -

DEATH TOLL IN CLEVELAND EXPLOSION NOW TOTALS 98   110 Other Victims Are Missing And 680 Made Home less By Blast; Property Damage Is Estimated Up To $15,000,000; Cause Is Undetermined

DEATHS MOUNT IN EXPLOSION AT CLEVELAND   680 Are Made Homeless By Fire And Blast On Friday

TOLL MOUNTING IN CLEVELAND BLAZE   At Least 97. Dead and ‘Over One Hundred ~ : Missing

98 Dead in Cieveland Explosions   SOME OF THE MISSING MAY BE UNIDENTIFIED DEAD AT THE COUNTY MORGUE; 7 VICTIMS CRITICAL   104 Yet Missing

llies Strike “Three-Way Blow   Planes From Russia Bomb Polish Refinery, Land in Italy

3-WAY SHUTTLE BOMBING CLICKS   U. S. Heavies, Based in Russia, Hit Polish Plant, Then Go to Italy

SHUTTLE RAIDS STRUCK FROM THREE POINTS   Avowed Purpose of Night and Day Assaults Is To Flatten Every Nazi Air drome In France   BUCHAREST IS TARGET

Three-Way Shuttle  Bombings Initiated  By Yankee Airmen Planes that Blasted Berlin on  Britain-Eussia Run Hit Polish Refinery on Way to Italy

HEAVY BOMBERS ~~ SMASHED POLISH OW. REFINERY   it Was the First’ Three-Way Shuttle Bombing of the War. .   FLEW ON TO ITALY   Massive Offensive Was Aimed at Flattening German Airdromes.

 U.S. Raids France, Romania, Bulgaria Hard; First Triple Shuttle Attack Is Announced   Planes From England, Based In Russia Go On Raids, Fly On And Land In Italy

U.S. BOMBERS GIVING ENEMY TERRIFIC BLOW   Airdromes Near Paris; Damage  Rail Yards

U.S. BOMBERS HIT NAZIS HARD ON WIDE FRONT   First Three-Way Shuttle Bombing Takes in Targets in France, Romania  And Rulvaria

BOMBERS BLAST NAZI AIRDROMES   HEAVIES SCATTER OUT IN FIRST THREE-WAY ASSAULT OF THE WAR

Planes Blast Path Of Ruin  Over Kurope   France, Romania, Bulgaria Bombed As 3-Way Shuttle Attacks Opened

Three- Way Shuttle Raid Ts Carried Out First Time As Allies Open Up Attacks

Mass Attacks Seek Te Flatten Every Nazi Airdrome And All Ral Junctions In France; Oil Plants Hit In Bul. garia, Rumania; Shut tle Raiders Fly From Russia To Italv.

3-Way Shuttle Blasts Revealed   Europe Now Being Hit From Russia, Britain, Italy.

Nazis Under Three-Way Aerial Smash   France, Romania and Bulgaria Battered in Creat Shuttle Assault

Vay Shuttle nbing Made Americans   t Air Force plays Might er Europe

Airmen Raid Nazi Targets   France. Romania, Bulgaria Hit In Mass Attacks From Italy. Britain,

3-Way Shuttle Bombing By 8th Air Force   Take Off In Russia, Bomb In Poland And Then Land In Italy

Bombers Fly Three-Way Shuttle   Britain, Russia, and Italy Are Points of First Such Triangular Bombing Operation

Three-Way Shuttle Bombing   Bombers From England _ Land In Italy Via Rus: sian Bases

Three-Way Shuttle Aerial Attack on Nazi Installations Is Revealed Toda,

JAP CONVOY . BROKEN UP   THREE SHIPS CARRYING ABOUT 2,000 TROOPS HEADED FOR LEYTE WERE SUNK

Berlin, French Targets Hit In Great Assault   U.S. Smashes at Kiel and Muenster Included In Great Daylight Raids.

Invasion Coast Again Assaulted By RAF Fliers   3000 Tons of Explosives _ prepped By 3000 Planes

RAF Bombers Pound Berlin During Night   Raid Fellows 3,000 Plane Assault Over Germany on Tuesday

Berlin Hit Again; Kiel Damage Is Very Heavy   Mosquitoes Stab At  - Wrecked Capital; New Assault Made Today On Invasion Coast

Berlin Again Under Attack By Mosquitos  Follows One of ' Oe test Dav

Bombs Rock Reich Cities   Allies Attack Berlin; Muenster and Kiel

HEAVY ALLIED BLOWS RAINED ON FOE AREAS   RAF Mosquito Bombers Hit German Capital—Targets Pounded in France

RAF Strikes Devastated Berlin Again   Targets In France Blasted By Other British Planes

Bombs Rock  Reich   Allies Pound Berlin ~And French Coast in Follow-Up of 3,000-Tor Assault Yesterday

Muenster, Kiel And Berlin Hit   Not a Single Plane Lost on Big Night Operations

Aerial Assault on Hitler’s Fortress History’s Greatest   Berlin, Kiel — Shipyards, Muenster Railroads Targets of Fliers

FIERCE AERIAL RAIDS AGAINST NAZIS CONTINUE   RAF Hits Berlin-and. - France After 3,000 UL -S. Planes Attack

ALLIED RAIDS CONTINUING DAY, NIGHT   Night Assoults Follow Forays By 3,000 Warplanes

BERLIN, MUENSTER AND RIEL POUNDED BY ALLIED FLYERS   American Daylight Raid on Germany One of War's  frantact

3,000 Planes Take Part in Day Raid   RAF Follows Day Attack With Night Bombing on Wrecked Berlin and Not a Single Plane Is Lost.   American Bombers Drop Explosives At Kiel and Targets at Muenster

RAF MOSQUITOS HIT BERLIN AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT   Other British Planes Pounded ' Targets in North France, It Was Announced.   Fortresses and _ Liberators Poured Explosives on Shipbuilding at Kiel.

THREE THOUSAND PLANES IN DAY RAID, NO LOSSES   Berlin Hit; Many French Targets  Are Bombed

3,000-PLANE ASSAULT LED BY AMERICANS   Aerial Offensive Hits Invasion Coast Again  Wednesday A. M.

Allies Make  Record Raids On Continent   Three Thousand Planes Pound  Berlin, Northern France in Attacks

3,000 Plane "hir Assault Rocks Reich   U. S., British Planes Stage One of War's Greatest Shows;  Pound Berlin Anew

DAY ASSAULTS GREATEST OF WAR   3,000 Aircraft Smash At Kiel And Muenster      Target Of Light Bombers; Continue Hammering Of Invasion Coast

Allied Daylight Air Assaults On Fortress Europe Hit Peak   Mosquitos Lash At Berlin Without Single Loss Following Blasting Of Kiel And Muenster Bv Great Aerial Armada.

Kiel and Muenster Pounded By Americans; Invasion Coast Blasted by Allies in Greatest Bombing.

RAF Bombers Again Blast Berlin: 3000 Allied Planes Hammer Nazi Targets In Day

Raid Cn Berlin Follows Up Great Daylight Assault; Fires Sweep Kiel

Raid Berlin, Rip French Coast Anew   R; A. F. Attacks Follow Great Yank Air Assaults On Kiel. Muenster.

YANKS BATTER MUENSTER AND KIEL TARGETS   RAF Mosquito Bombers ~ Return to Flay Berlin,  Invasion Coast

3000 Planes Batter at Fatherland  Berlin as Well As Invasion Caact Accailed

Nazi Targets Again Pounded By Allied Plane:   3000 Raiders Take Part in Daring Forays

BERLIN, KIEL AND MUENSTER BOMB TARGETS   3,000 Allied Planes Take Pari ir Record Operations, 1,500 Hitting Port, Rail Center   25 PLANES LOST   Invasion Coast Again Heavily Strafed Together with Targets in Western Germany

Important German Cities And Northern France Hit By Three Thousand Planes

FIERCE FIRES LEFT RAGING AT KIEL BASE   Great Shroud of Smoke Is Reported Over German Port and Submarine Rase   BUT 28 SHIPS ARE LOST

100 Miles Of Planes Used —   Fleets of Bombers Strike Kiel, Muenster, Coast

—AIR WAR—  BERLIN HIT BY ARF MOSQUITOS   German Shipbuilding . Yards, Railway Targets Attacked In Daylight   DAMAGE IS HEAVY   Military Objectives Along ‘Invasion Coast’ Also Are Bombed

AIR ASSAULTS ON CONTINENT HIT NEW PEAK   Kiel Sub Pens, Muenster Rail Yards Wrecked

Berlin Nicked After Heavy Day Attacks   Americans Batter Kiev and Muenster In Giant Raids

MOSQUITO BOMBERS HIT IBERLIN AGAIN   Some 3,000 Planes Take Part in Raids on Axis Targets

MOSQUITO BOMBERS STABBED AT WRECKEL BERLIN LAST NIGHT   _ GREATEST DAYLIGHT ASSAULT OF WAR MADE BY THREE THOUSAND PLANES

GREATEST AIR ATTACK OF WAR ROCKS GERMANY   Kiel And Other Targets Hit In Sweeping Davlight Assault; No Planes Lost In last Night's Raids.

New Attack ‘Follows Big Daylight Blow   Kiel and Muenster Left Blazing After 3,000-Plane Assault

RAF Again Hits Wreckec Berlin; Also Blast At “In. vasion Coast” Objectives: Nazis Report Heavy Dam. age At Kiel.

Poles Advance Within 12 Miles Of Pesara Port   Germans Pull Defense Behind Matauro:River Poles Taking Ceraosa

Alhes Are Within 12 Miles of Italian Port of Pesaro, Gothic Line

GOP Landslide In Maine Hailed By Gov. Dewey   Nominee Says Result Au gurs Election of Republican National Tickef

Nebraska Hails Governor Dewey As Next Leader   Candidate Pleased With Maine's "Greatest Republican Landslide" __

DEWEY PREDICTS BALLOT VICTORY   Maine Landslide Called Favorable Omen For Republicans

10,000 Nebraska Folk Greet Dewey   Tells Them Maine Vote Shows Victory Trend

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DEWEY HAILS GOP VICTORY IN MAINE VOTE   Nominee is Greeted by Colorful Gathering In Nebraska

Dewey Says GOP Victory Good Omen   Hails Maine Landslide As Auguring Well For Republican Ticket This November

Eire Winner by Neutrality, Says — Noted Observe   George’ Bernard Shaw Refers to FDR Move “As Stupid Mistake

George Bernard Shaw Credits Eire With Decisive Victory Over F.D.R.

Sen. Pepper Leads Race   Floridan Appears to Be Winner Over Four Without Runoff Vote

FLA. SENATORS LEAD LENGTHENS IN LATE RETURNS   Possibililty That Pepper May Win Without RunOver Seen in Increasing T ead

PRO-ROOSEVELTITES RESISTING EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE PLAN   APPEARED MONDAY THAT TUESDAY'S CONVENTION WOULD BE SHOWDOWN

PRO-ROOSEVELTITES RESISTING EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE PLAN  APPEARED MONDAY THA} _ TUESDAY’S CONVENTION wees nh or CLINWhHhAWN

Texas Demos Bring Grass Roots Troubles into Focus, Battling for Convention Rule

FOOD SUBSIDY DEBATES UP IN CONGRESS TODAY   Three Major Changes in Food Subsidies Sought By Anti Administration Forces

Red Army Battering At  Gates Of Kalinkovichi and Mozyr From Three Sidee

Allies Down 42 German Fighter Plane:   19 Allied Craft Are Lost in Widespread Altacks

ALLIED PLANES STAB AGAIN AT NAZI TARGETS   42 German Fighters Are Downed With Loss of Seven; Northern France Hit

Allies Lose 12 Bombers,  7 Fighters   Southwestern Germany And Northern France Pounded by Bombers  OPPOSITION LIGHT

Allied Planes Shoot Down 42 Nazi Craft   Targets Attacked By Daylight in Southwest Reich

4) NAZI PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN OVER GERMANY   Allied Bombers Make Effective Use Of New Secret Navigational Device

YANK AIRMEN DESTROY 42 GERMAN FIGHTERS   American Planes Smash Deep Into Southwest Germany; Big Force Delivers Day-Long Blows At Invasion Route

U. S. Airmen Smash Deep Into Southwest Germany  19 PLANES LOST BY AMERICAN FORCES  Allied Planes Reported Over Hungary During Day

U.S. Pilots Destroy 42 Nazi Fighters   American Planes Smash Deep into Southwest Germany as More Than 750 Allied Planes Hit French Coast

Terrific Blows Dealt Southwest Area of Germany   12 Bombers Lost, One Pilot Safe

42 Germans Fighters Shot   Down In Raids Over Europe   More Than 750 Allied War Pianes Deliver Dav_Lona ‘Series OF Rlawe At Coast Line

FIGHTERS ARE DESTROYED      As Hundreds Of Fortresses And Liberators Smash Deep Into Germany And Other Planes Hit France.   Eighth Raid

Nazis Lose 42 Fighters In Air Duel   Hundreds of American — Planes Smual: Qeep Into Southwest: Germany

Big . G. Farben Chemical Works Is U.S. Target   12 Bombers and 7 Fighter Planes Is American Toll

NELSON IS ON WAY HOME      Has Report On Chinese Conference To Give’ President

Nelson To Return To U. S. Shortly   Will Report On Talks With Chiang Kai-Shek

Nazis Fail To Retake Cervart   Enemy Beaten Back By Fifth Army Units

with greatest air assaults  Blast Europe   British bombers in follow-up blow

TWO STATES 10 ALLOW FEDERAL BALLOT VOTES   Texas And Vermont Agree. able 3 Roosevelt Studying Replies

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CHANGE IN PRODUCTION   North American To Make P-51 Mustang, Fighters

ENEMY ADVANCES IN LUXEMBOURE   Yanks, British Involved ir Greatest Battle of War   THRUSTS HALTED   On Two Sectors in Luxembourgh; Bulk of Panzer Division Ground to Bits

Drivers Strike  Called For July 1   Will Affect 20,000 Truckers In 12 States

TRUCK STRIKE CALLED FOR THE FIRST OF JUL!   WALKOUT WILL AFFECT 250,00¢ MEN IN EIGHT TO 12 MID.WESTERN STATES

Truck Drivers Call Walkout for July 1   STRIKE VOTE AFFECTS 20,000 MEN EMPLOYED IN 8 MIDWEST STATES

ALLIES ADVANCE STEADILY ALONG 250-MILE FRONT   Savage Nazi Resistance Fails To Halt Three Determined Armies   PATTON DRIVES AHEAD   Reds Reach Point 26 Miles Inside Greece On Turk Frontier

200,000 NAZIS IN BALKAN TRAP * CAIRO REPORTS   rison or Probably Futile Attempt to Break Out Alternative

BOND SALES HERE TOTAL $796,047    Miltion Dollar Show Feb. 10 Will Feature Last Days of Fourth Drive.

Soviet Front Lull Bodes Joint Blows   Russians Make Ready New Assaults Timed for Invasion

President Takes Hand in Strike   Montgomery Ward Told To Deal With Union

President Sets Ward Deadline   tion, Company Are Urged Te, Booed WIR Order

WPB Says Plants Freed For Production Of “Drinkin’ Liquor’ During January

HOLIDAY 10 BOOST ~ SUPPLY OF LIQUOR   Distilleries Freed to Make Whiskey During January

AXIS GETS BLAST (F 4500 PLANES   AIRCRAFT FACTORIES, OIL REFINERY LASHED

Fortresses, ‘Liberators, _ RAF Fleet Hit Central  Germanv Today 

4,500 Warplanes Blast Deep Into — Central Germany   Four Plane Plants, Oil Refinery, Other Industrial Sites Hit

Nazis Hit Hard $v 4.500 Planes   Huge Allied Acriai Armadasin Vast Sweeps of Western Europe

RUSSIANS "ALSO TAKE »MISKOLC   Red Army Advances On Csepel Admitted By Berlin Reports

SOVIETS CAPTURE NAZ STRONGHOLL   Also Push Foe Back in Out: skirts of Budapest   HATVAN CAPTURED   Reds Conquer Nearly All of Miskole, Hungary's Fifth City, Nazis Report

SOVIETS SMASH ONTO DANUBE BUDAPEST ISLE   Most Of Miskole Held By Russians To North

Germans Admit New Russian Gains in Hungary   Enemy Reports Not Confirmed By Moscow Sources

NAZI STRONGHOLD -INHUNGARY FALLS      REDS. CAPTURES: es é PRESS) ENEMY BACK: IN ‘SUBURBS ‘OF BUDAPEST.

Reds Seize Key German Stron g hold   Berlin Says Russians Take Hatvan, Conquer Miskole, Drive Into Budapest

Capture Iwo French Towns InNew Push   Third Army Armor Exploits Soft Spot Near Chateau Salins

U.S. 3rd Army Nearly 3 Miles From Germany   Advance Made by Left Flank of Gen. Patton

PATTON ARMY LOOSES FULL BLOWN SMASk   10-Mile Advance Swallows up Dozens of Towns, Villages in 55-Mile Are Around Metz.

Bastion of Chateau Salins ‘Is Captured   Louvigny Also Falls To Doughboys; Eight Vank Thivicinnae Antiva

Eight Divisions Hurled Into Offense; Patton— Left Flank Advanées

Chateau Salins Anchor Bastion Taken By Yanks   Patton’s Left Flank Takes Koenigsmacher, Near German Frontier

SAAR MENAGED BY NEW GING OF AMERICAN   Patton’s Left Flank Rolls Across Moselle Within 2 Miles of Border.

AUSTERITY OF WAR TO MARK INAUGURATION   First Lady Serves Notice That Frills Will Be Missing

iMaverick Sees Unemployment   Says U, S. Heading  Toward Inflation

WORLD HAPPY OVER ELECTION OUTCOME   Enthusiastically Received By World Nations Except Germany. Japan

Allied Nations Salute Victory By Roosevelt   All Welcome His Re-elee: tion: Japs And Germans Regret It

NORTH CAROLINA GOP-EYES DEWEY      STATE CHAIRMAN » SAYSSSENTIMENT FOR NEW YORKER

N.C. Republicans Approve Dewey   - Lieut. Gov. Hanley of New York Addressed Charlotte G.O.P. Meeting.

G. 0. P. DELEGATE SELECTING ON IN NORTH CAROLINA   Job of Choozing Convention Delegates Shifts to South After New Hampshire Selection—~Dewevy Popular

DEWEY HAS STRENGTH IN NORTH CAROLINE   Willkie Supporters. Claim. 6  Riiviadl to mneiitve Pinlewatew

Southern GOP Favors. Dewey For President   May Pass Resolution Seeking New Yorker’s

SOLONSHOME FOR CHECK-UP WITH VOTERS   Congress in Recess for the Spring Fence  Checking   Final Gavels Fall in Both Houses on Saturdav

2,000 LINCOLN DAY MEETINGS SET NEXT WEEK   THREE CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT TO START CAMPAIGNS

BRICKER TO SPEAK AT GOP CELEBRATION   Three Potential Candidates on Lincoln Day Slate

G. 0. P. to Start On Lincoln Day   Leading Members Of Party to Speak At Many Banquets

Republicans Ready fo Open 1944 Campaign   Party Leaders Will Gather at Lincoln Day Fetes

State Soldiers Fighting at Front toGet ‘Dream’ Christmas at Home

COMBAT TROOPS GET HOME LEAVES   PICKED VETERANS WITH PATTON’S ARMY RECEIVE UNEXPECTED REWARD.

MISSING GIRL'S BODY FOUND NEAR HOME      Police Say Ten Year Old Had Been Attacked

Find Violated Body Of Missing Bay State Girl  Week’s Search Ends On Farm

Fin; ! Plans To Be Set Up At Session Monday Night;  be sephus Daniels To Be ain Speaker.

Committees For “N” Day Named   Final Plans To Be Set Up At Session Monday Night; Josephus Daniels To Be Main Speaker.

BELIEVE MOVE IN TIME WITH WESTERN FRONT    Mediterranean Fleet Near Greece, as : Troops Gather

Invasion Of Balkans  Imminent   Nazi High Command Fears Result Of Heavy Concentration  Of Allied Power.

serman High Command Fears Invasion in Balkans to Be Timed With Opening Assauli on Western Front

Balkan Invasion One bie Fear OF  Corman Leaders   Germans Make Plans To Fight Uprisings

COLONIALS AT ADVANCE POST BACK IN LINE   Indians and New Zealanders Fal! Back to Main Line Under Artillery Barrage Cover   Failed Three Times Ry ASSOCIATED PRESS

EMPIRE FORCE HELD HILLS. IN CASSINO ARER   Food, Water Brought by Air

Abandon Effort To Drive Nazis From Defenses   Detachments Slip Out of German Net To Reach Main Lines

TROOPS TAKEN OUT OF 10-0 BAIN CF DEAT   Half-Starved Men Stumble Back: to Lines Under Gun Barrage.

‘Allies Withdraw From Slopes Above Cassino   Halt Temporarily Effort to Drive Out Nazi Force

Retire from Advanced Positions   Leave Upper Slopes 0 Mcuntain Under Cover of  Heavy Barrage

Truman Boomed As VP As Byrnes  Bows From Race   Missouri Senator And Justice Douglas Said President’s Second And Third Choices.

‘Truman And Douglas Reported FDR’s Next Choices As Demo ‘Conclave Meets; Byrnes Out   President's Preferences Said To Have Caused Byrnes To Withdraw

Brynes’ Name Is Withdrawn at Convention   President Roosevelt Lists Second and Third Choice Behind Wallace

DEMOCRATS MEET TO FORMALLY OK FDR NOMINATION   WALLACE BATTLES FOR RENOMINATION; TRUMAN IS BOOMED

TRUMAN AND DOUGLAS ARE FDR CHOICES   President Enters Vice Pres. identia] Scramble as Byrnes Withdraws

LEAVES ONLY 2 OPPONENTS FOR WALLAGt   Report Says Truman, Douglas First and Second Pick cf Roosevelt

Byrnes Take Self Out Of Fight With Wallace   Letter To Convention Says He Defers To Wishes Of President; Move Unexpected

Truman Second Presidential  V. P. Choice   Byrnes Bows Ont At Roosevelt's Request

FDR Proposes TwoMore Aide Choices   Bourbon Conventior Opens; Outcome Is Still Nebulous

FDR TAKES HAND BY PERSUADING BYRNES TO QUIT   Platform Makers Are Making Progress in Unraveling Many Problems

President OlNers Second, e ; 6S gn’ @ immrad Crowes; Byrnes Cur  ‘As Wallace Tries Again

JAMES BYRNES DROPS OUT OF POLITICAL RACE   Labor Backing Gives Wallace More Support; Barkley Remains Silent

Sen. Truman Is Seen As F.R.’s Second Choice   Byrnes Quits V. P. Race ‘In Deference To Presi dent’s Wishes.’

Byrnes Out Of Contest: FDR’s Wist   Action Excites. Delegates to Democratic Convention Today

Roosevelt Places Truman, Douglas Second and Third   James F. Byrnes, War Mobilization Director, Withdraws as Candidate fo Vice-President in Deference to F. D. R.

Wallace Gets N od; Truman, Douglas Next   Byrnes Withdraws His Name; Democrats Open National Convention Today

FDR EFFECTS WITHDRAWAL OF BYRNES IN UNEXPECTED MOVE TO GET WALLACE RENOMINATED   Unexpectedly Entering Democratic Vice Presidential Scramble Today He Inspires Withdrawal of Byrnes. Favors Truman and Douglas As Second And Third Chaices

fc Retires From Vice President Race at. His  Direction   TRUMAN NEXT CHOICE   President to Accept Nomin.~ ation From Point Out- side of Capital:

Truman Seems To Have Inside Track In Race   Wallace In Chicago To Take Command Of Campaign

Byrnes Withdraws from Vice-Presidency Race in 'Deference to FDR’s Wishes

Fight Faced ‘By. Wallace.   Demos Convention  ‘As Started) Today -

FDR Enters Scramble For Vice Choice   29th National Convention Siarts Today; Wind Up Probably Thursday.   BYRNES WITHDRAW

TEMPERATURES:   Byrnes Withdraws From Vice-Presidential Race   Wallace Campaigns In Person For Renomination; F. D. R. Lists Truman And Douglas As Second And Third Choices

Byrnes Withdraws From Race ‘In Deference To Wishes’ Of F. D.; Wallace Captains Own Forces   President Reported To Favor Truman And Douglas As His Second And Third Choices; Tense Fight nm Cl ssue Wow Gomg Un Be cenes

BYRNES NOT IN AACE FOR POST   Some Believe Word From President Caused His deen Action. «   DOUGLAS IS MENTIONED

‘Truman, Douglas  OK’d, Demos Hear   Roosevelt’s Second And Third Choices Listec  As Democrats Begin Opening Session

Byrnes Scratched At Chicagc   FDR Names Second And Third Choices  For Wallace's Job

Byrnes Pledges Votes to Truman   (Qther convention highlights on Fares RA, GA.)

«Byrnes Quits Heated Running Mate Contes: “At Roosevelt Behest   Sen: Truman of Missouri Becomes Top Contender; Roosevelt Silent; Wallace Takes Charee of Campaien

President Reportedly Has Listed Senator Truman and Judge Douglas as Second and Third Choices After Wallace.

President's Wishes Made Known When Byrnes Withdraws Name   Action Taken In Deference To FDR   Wallace Arrives To Fight For Nomination: Roosevelt Taiss Tomorrow

Steps Aside In Deference To FOR   Truman and Douglas Reported President’s 2nd And 3rd Choices

Delegates Sing, Chat, Cheer Greeting Speeches Praising President; Wallace On Hand Fighting to Win Another Nomination

Douglas And Truman Listed By Roosevelt   Are His Choices After Wallace; Speaks Tomorrow

Senator Truman, Justice Douglas Get F.D.R.'s Pat   Byrnes Withdraws Shortly Before Convention Opens

BYRNES QUITS; MISSOURI MAN GAINS GROUND   Truman and Douglas. Said to Be FDR's  Favorites

Byrnes Out; Truman Has FR Smile   Douglas Listed Third As WMC Heed Quits At Wish of President

Truman to Front at Chicago Convention   Missourian Is Second Choice Of President   Byrnes Drops Out In Deference to Roosevelt’s Wishes; Wallace Fighting

‘Truman Given Presidential  Nod For Office   Missouri Senator. Justice Douglas Choices For VicePresidency at Meet

Truman and Douglas Reported As FDR's Alternate Choices   Byrnes Requests That His Name Not Be Pleced In Nomination

Demos Still In V. P. Turmoil   Director Byrnes Withdraws From Race, Leaving Sen. Truman and Wallace as Likely Contenders at Present.

BYRNES WILL NOT BE A GANDIDAT!   Truman And Douglas Are  President’s Second  Phird Choices   WALLACE ACTIVE   Spirited Fight For Vice Presidential No mination Forecast

BYRNES LEAVES RACE AT WISH OF ROOSEVELT   Douglas Reported to Be President’s No. 3 Man for Vice President

Wallace Still  Mo. 1; Douglas Is No. 3 Man   .Many Delegates Awaiting Definite Nod From the President   ROOSEVELT SURE ”  OF NOMINATION      ' But Some Are Determined I Will Not Be Unanimous; Quick Finish in-“View

BYRNES OUT OF RACE AT FDR’S NOD   President Indicates His Choices as Either Truman or Douglas.   Democrats Whoop It Up For Renomination

Roosevelt For Truman If  Wallace Fails   President Is Said to Have Put Judge Douglas In Third Place: Convention Convenes

Normandy Campaign at Climax   Opposing Forces Maneuver for Position for Major Baitle -

MAJOR BATTLE DUE IN FRANCE   Huge Concentrations of Men and Weapons Assembied by Both Sides.

ALLIES POISE FOR BIG DRIVE   Spar For “Opening As Huge Stores Of Materiel Are Coliected

Allies Girding ” For Big Battle Over Normandy   Yanks Suffer Setback After British Gain; Nazis Successful In Counter-Attack

Major battle Believed Near in Normandy   Allies and Germans Both Maneuvering for Coming Showdown

PREPARING FOR MAJOR BATTLE   Allied, German Manpower And Firepower Gathering In Normandy.   SETBACK. GAIN REPORTED

ALLIED TROOPS AVANGING ON ROAD TO PARIS  Take Emieville   Take Emieville In Hard Battle With Enemy

Allies and Germans Prepare For Major Normandy Battle   Huge Concentration of Manpower and Firepower Built Up by Both Sides — Meanwhile Front Remains Relatively Quiet.

BIG BATTLE DUE FOR NORMANDY   British Make Small Gains, Yanks Handed Setback

Germans Likewise Have Been Massing Manpowe And Firepower and Both Sides Maneuver for  Position As Weather Improves and Major Battle RAlaxy Shank Wann

British Gain Slightly, As  Americans Lose   Bradley Salient Is Shoved Back by Nazi Counterattack To River Bank

Allies, Germans Mass Power For Normandy Clash  Tommies Score Sligh Gains While Yankee: Are Handed A Minor

Major Battle Nears in France   Both Sides Prepare For Showdown Battle, It Is Indicated

Americans Hold Part of Pisa   Normandy Defenses Intact  Despite Yankee Setback

Nazis Drive Yank Force From Seves   Allies and Germans Now Maneuvering For Major Battle

Major Battle Appears Near In Normandy   Americans In Minor Setback As Nazis Counter-Attack

Prepare for Major Clash In Normandy   Maneuvering: For Position In Improving Weather

Both Armies Prepare for  Major Battle   Allies and Germans Mass Troops In Normandy

Major Battle For Normandy Expected Soor   Campaign Enters Crucia Phase As Allies, Nazis Mass Manpower

AUSSIANS CRACK TWAIN MAL LINE EAST OF BUDAPEST   Strike in Northeast to Within Five Miles of Miskolo, j Fifth City   BATTLE ALONG ROADS LEADING TO AUSTRIA   Second Ukraine Army Units Capture Rail Station in What Appears to Presage  @ Early Battles Inside Budapest. Tisza River Crossed

MAIN GERMAN DEFENSE LINE BEING UNHINGED   Russians Are Battling Along Roads Into Austria And Czechoslovakia   BERLIN IS UNEASY . OVER EAST PRUSSIA

RED ARMY IS CLOSER 10 BUDAPEST   Striking to Within Five Miles of Miskolo, Hungary’s Fifth City; Also Cross Railway.   Berlin Uneasy

Soviet Tanks Crack Lines At Budapest   Hungary’s Fifth City Now Exposed to Artillery Fire

Soviet Army Drives Closer To Budapest   Troops Cut Into Rear Of Nazis, Hungarians Northeast of Capital; Tisza Crossed Again

MISKOLO NOW UNDER ATTACK   Moscow Says Capital I: Doomed; Other Red Troops Outflank Prize Goal

Russians Unhinge Nazi Lines   Ulraine Army Crushes Pivot Of Budapest Defenses

BROKEN EAST OF BUDAPEST   Russians Report Gains In All Drives For Hungary Capital

RED ARMY DRIVES ~ NEARER BUDAPES   Rail Station Taken in Advance on Hungary's.  . Capital

REDS TAKE RAIL TOWN 10 MILES FROM BUDAPES!   Fall of Pivot in German Defense System May Lead to Early Battles Inside the Capital.   MOSCOW DISPATCHES - REPORT CITY DOOMED   But Big Mine Fields, AntiTank Ditches and WellPrepared Artillery Still  Face Besiegers.

Reds Break German Line  Near Budapest   Rail Supply for German and Magyar Troops Is Severed

Reds Unhinge Main Nazi  Defense Line  Are Within 10 Miles of Hungarian Capital on the East

EIGHT INDICTED BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY   Acting Under 3rd Prosecution Of Smith-Connally Dispute

ALLIES MAY CHOKE OFF AXIS SUPPLIES   Neutrals Expected to Be Told it Strong Language to Cease © Shinment of Materials.

Allies Moving To Get Tough With Neutrals   Churchill, Stettinius Talk; Siiffer Policy Resolved CW Petes: Weg

Five Known Dead, Thirty Are Injured   Pocahontas County Farms Are Swept by Latest Storms Reported

Damage In Iowa Tornadoes Heavy   Series of Storms Continues To Strike

HIGHEST HONOR ACCORDED KNOX      CAPITAL nf wounxtve AS FINAL RIVES ARE HELD FOR “LATE SECRETARY _ ‘ OP NAVY —'

FINAL TRIBUTE IS GIVEN KNOX   Navy Secretary Is Buried In Arlington Cemetery

CONTRIBUTIONS . BY MALL'SQUGHT FOR WAR: FUND   Persons Not Solicited Asked to Send Donations to Campa‘on Center.

CONTRIBUTIONS BY MAL SOUGHT tUR WAR FUND   Persons Not Solicited As’ed to Send Donations to Campa‘gn Center

Nazi Armies Split hy Soviets   Railroad Towns Captured by Advancing Reds

SOVIETS SPLIT GERMAN ARMIES   Destroy Eight Trains Carrying Troops

Reds Split Nazis Deer In Poland   Capture Railroad Centers 39 Miles Over Border In  New Campaign.

Nazi Armies Split By Russ Advances   Tottering Forces Of Ukrain Now Cut Off From Those In White Russia By Red Drives

WLB Demands Ward Compliance   Give Company Until Monday To Obey Directives On Wages and Security.

shting Rages in Montebourg and rentan Street; Ground Yielded ring Fierce Nazi Countex Attacks

Giving Ground At Montebourg And Carentan   Fierce Counter Attacks By Defenders Fail To Slow Up Time Table Set One Year Ago; Skytrain Opens Shuttle Run To France.

“housands Of Troops, Supplies Flown To Relieve Those In Arnhem Area ©

President Red Cross Appoints County Officers   Prisoners of War New Service For County Chapter

IF. OBrien, New Red Cross Head, Names Chairmen    F Prisoner of War Committee  Is Added to County Chapter

‘COLLEGE’ VOTE FIGHT LOOMS   SENATOR . GUFFEY PROPOSES . AMENDMENT TO ABOLISH ELECTORAL PROVISION OF CONSTITUTION ©

Senator Would Abolish Electoral College; Ruling Of Texas Supreme Court Hotly Debated By Solons

Defying God’s Plan Deplored   ROGER BABSON PLEADS FOR NATURE’S WAY OF LIVING

ARTICLES ON NATURE MORE INTERESTING THAN ECONOMICS   Bird Protection Would Save Millions Spent In Spraying Fruit Trees, Vegetables to  Evtoryminate Incecte.

IT TAKES ANOTER LIE TO COVER UP FIAST LIE      That’s Babson’s Characterization Of What Results From Attempts At Artificial Economic Controls.

Allies Stab Stull Deeper In Germany   Germans Report : Fall Of Maastricht In Holland.

Yanks Stab Deeper Into Reich, Big Transport: City Of Nancy Taken

Biggest Transport And Military Hub In N.E. France Captured   OPENS PATH OVER FINE HARD ROADS   Resistance Increasing In The Aachen And Prum Areas

TROOPS STAB FIVE MILES DEEPER REICH   Negis Have Not Quit’ Finland On Schedule

Transport Hub In France Falls To Third Army   Other American Forces Close In on Aachen

Little News Comes from Front Lines   Security Blackout Contin ues—Artillery in Action  Around Aachen

Nancy, France.   DUTCH FORTRESS CITY OF MAASTRICHT TAKEN BY AMERICAN TROOPS

Allies Closing In On Aachen From Three Directions   Stab Five Miles Deeper Into Germany To Se _ Of Stolberg, Nazis Report Loss \ Of Maastricht

1 CHARGED & N GASBEACK oy MARKET ACTION,   Case Of Mumps Halts Job - Huni By Plucky Mother

OPA Fights Gas Robbers   Vigorous Prosecution Of Ration Rule Violat. ors Halts Spread of Black Market Dealing

Navy Lists Its 213 Dead   Nantes Officers and Mer Killed at Port Chieago

LOUISIANIANS DIE IN BLAST   Many From This State And Mississippi Explosion Victims

BALKANS ARE GIVEN CHOICE BY HITLER   After Quisling Premier Is Established In Hungary: London Believes Pressure Will Not Prevent Collapse   British Broadcast

Report Germans Are Taking Over Rumania Nazis Seek to Stem  Rising Tide of Peace Sentiment

OCCUPATION OF RUMANIA IS STARTED BY GERMAN TROOPS   Istanbul Hears Hitler’s Forces Have Taken Possession ; Of Every Balkan City On Black Sea In Campaign To Hold Southeastern Europe Against Soviets

Nazis begin occupation of Rumania  Hitler summons Ruleavian chief

[Nazi Occupation of Rumania \Under Way, Ankara Reports   Officials of Bulgaria Said To Have Been Called To Hitler Headquarters

Hitler Launches Drive Against Balkan Peoples   Germidns Reported-* Occupying Rumania, Calls in Leaders

Witler Continues Subjugation Of. Balkan States   Orders: Bulgarian Officials tr Meel Hine At Headquarters  Monday, Nazi s- Given Choiec of Aiding Germany Or. Being Orecimied

Two Bulgarian Leaders Called Before Hitler   Germany Trying to Stem Rising Tide of Peace Sentiment in Southeastern Europe

GERMANS BEGIN FORMAL OCCUPATION OF RUMANIA   Hitler Continues Campaign Of Bullying South: eastern Nations Into Stand-Or-Perish Position With Germany

Satellites  Told. “The            Against Onrushing Rade Oo        PURGE OF ENEMIES REPORTED UNDER   London ‘Predicts. } 3       States: Despite Dict tor’s Pressure.

Ankara Says Nazis Moving Into Rumania   Hitler The Bully Extends Campaiar

HITLER GRABS SEEN ATTEMPT TO GAG PEACE   Desperate Demonstration in Southeast Europe Recalls German 1918 Downfall   ‘KIDNAPING’ OF RUMANIA IS PREDICTED IN LONDON

Report Germans Are Taking Over Rumania  Nazis Seek to Stem   Nazis Seek to Stem Rising Tide of Peace Sentiment   Army, Navy and WPB Agree on ‘Tough’ Policy for Granting Men Under 26 Occunational Defermenis

BOY MOVIE STAR OUT OF ARMY   Victim Of. Practical Joker Is Now Disabled

FIFTH ARN CAPTURES  LIVERGHANO   Vital Italian City of Bologna Only Ten Miles to North

, BEACHHEAD ON ISLAND "EXTENDED   . Repairs Are Rushed On Airfield In  Halmaheras

‘Jap Attacks Are Repulsec  With Losses   More Than 1,400 Japanese Dead Counted On Field.

1400 Japs Slair In Yank Attack   Marine Veterans of Guadalcanol Beat Off Counter Thrusts and Close Trap; Installation Vital to Philippines Drive

Nimitz’ Men . To Strike at ' Philippines   Mariaes — Repel Strong Counterattacks, Killing 1.100 of Enemy   CAINS ON MOROTAI   Macirthur’s Engineers Rush Work on Airfield to Hit Mindanao

GUADALCANAL MARINE VETS WIN AIRFIELD   Warships Bombard Enemy Positions  On Peleliu

Marines Mow Down Japanese In Palau Drive   8.000 Enemy Trapped On Island Apparently Willing To Die

Slash Neck of Island in Palaus   Allies at Halmahera Rush Construction of Pitu Airfield

BRITISH CHURCHMEN PROTEST BOMBING OF GERMAN CITIES   Former Archbishop Of Canterbury And Bishop 0 ‘Chichester Deplore Tendency Among Britons 1: ! “Gloat And Exult” Over Destruction Accomplished

Criticism Of Bombing o Policy \Is Voiced In House Of Lords   Obliteration Of German Cities Declared Not Justifiable Act Of War; House Leader Defends Aerial Destruction

ALLIED POLICY OF. BOMBING SCORED   Former Archbishop o Canterbury Makes Attack in House of Lords

Reds Capture Town 6 Miles  From Pskov   Ukraine Army Opens Offensive Below Krivoi Rog

REDS BELIEVED POUNDING QUTER FORTS OF PSKOY   Moscow ‘Tells of Swift Advance on Stronghold With  Germans Fighting Desperately in Retreat.   RUSSIANS OPEN DRIVE IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE   Seventy Towns and Villages Overrun in Advance Below Captured City of Kriyoi Rog.

Soviets Battle Nazis In Pskov’s Outskirts   Stockholm Says Russians Have Crossed Lake Peipus Established Beachheads; Reds Begin Drive South of Krivoi Rog

Germans Driven From 250. More Localities in Area   TOWN NEAR BORDER “OF LATVIA SEIZED   Soviet Troops on March Again in the Ukraine

Reds Close in on Pskov Despite Frantic German Efforts to Defend City

ADVANCE ON PSKOV; STAB INTO ESTONIA   Despite Desperate Attempts At Defense Made By Germans; Capture 70 Towns In Ukraine.   New Offensive

Reds Tear Nazis From 250 Locales In Pskov Drive   Make New Stab Into Estonia, Reports Say; Launch New Offensive

Americans Plow Ahead For Miles Into Reich, 55 Miles —  ~ From Coblenz

First U.S. Army Drives 5 Miles Inside Reich   Doughboys Meet ‘Heinies On Own Soil North O Frontier Town Of Trier, Fifty-Five Miles From Coblenz

Americans Plew Ahead For Miles Into Reich, 55 Miles —  Ream Cahlons

fitler’ s Inner E ortress Is Penetrated   Artillery Barrage Chews Up Enemy’s Positions Before Doughboys Strike Long Awaited Blow on Reich

Yanks 5 Miles Beyond Border In Trier Area   Third Army Seizes Part of Maginot Line Intact; British Army Breaks Across Frontier of Holland

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Third Army Under Patton Seizes Great Part of French Maginot Line Intact and Blasts Fortifications Across Border—Nazi Posis tions Along Moselle Crumbling — British. Move Toward Link in West Wall. ee

Allies Go Ahead On 300-Mile Bristling Front   Large Part of Maginot Line Taken Intact ; British Enter Holland   SUPREME HEADQUAR. TERS ALLIED EXPEDI. TIONARY FORCE, Tues: daw Sent 12 (AP).—The

Artillery Barrage Chews Up Nazi Positions Before Doughboys Smash Onto Reich Soil; Other American Troops Seize Great Part of Old Maginot Line

Advances five miles in Rhineland; Third  cracks Maginot line   Artillery barrage smashes enemy defenses: British move into Holland

Artillery Barrage’ Proceeds Attacks’   Americans Battle Nazis Five Miles Beyond Border North Of Border Village Of Tricor

First Army Drives Five Miles Into The Reich; British Enter Holland   OLD MAGINOT LINE IS CAPTURED INTACT

First Army Goes 5 Miles Into Reich  Near Trier   Americans Probably Penetrating Deeply Into Siegfried Line  Tn Trier Vicinite   YANKS GRAB PART ‘OF MAGINOT LINE.

Gain Five Miles In Great Drive Against Nazis   British Second Army in Holland

FLOODS Galt OF 2 DEATHS   Overcast Skies Hold Threat Of More Rain in Midwest Today.   CROPS ARE WASHED OUT

More Rain -in Flooded  Sections   Weather. Conditions Bring Threatof Even Greater Damage to Midwest   RIVERS FALLING . IN-K: C AREAS   ‘Bui. New. Downpours Are Expected; Several Cities Are Hard Hit

More Rain Threatened   Little Hope Offered _For Quick Subsidance Of Flooded Streams

More Rain  Threatenec In Midwest   Rampaging Rivers Caused 12 Deaths, Force Thousands  From Their Homes

5, TROOPS: BLAST NAZIS FROM HOUSES   Twenty-four Hours Pass With Mauled Relief Units Failing to Strike Counter-Blow. an   ESCAPE CORRIDOR ” VIRTUALLY CLOSED   Mile-Long Column of Cle vilians Streams Out—= Germans Report Seventh Army Attack.

Aachen ‘Left ‘To Its Fate   German Relief Columns Too Maulec For Counterattack; Corridor Closed

Forces Inside Aachen Being Badly Mauled   Americans Converging Upen Center of City from Three Directions

U.S. Infantry Digs Nazis From Cellars   Crack German Outfits Lay Bleeding In Near-By Fields

Crack German Divisions Sent to Relieve City — Have Been Badly Mauled   Half-Mile Wide Corridor Leading From Aachen is as Good as Closed

TO WTS FATE BY HUN ARMY   YANKS DIG NAZIS OUT OF RUBBLE IN LOST CITY

YanksWorkWayInto Burning German City   Would-Be Rescue Forces Mauled So They Can‘t Mount Any Counterattacks; Civilians Stream From Ruined City

GERMAN RELIEF FORCES UNABLE TO REACH CITY   Counter-Attacks End In Bloody Failure Outside Town

Germans Fail To Launch New Blows        fufantrynen Battle Way Into Nazi Strongholt From Three Direetions, Canadiuns Push Forward

Battered Nazis Abandon Iry to Save Aachen   Civilians Stream To American Lines To Seek Safety

GERMAN RELIEF FORCES MAULED OUTSIDE OF CITY   Corridor Constricted To Half-Mile Width Civilians Flee

From Three Directions Yanks Dig Garrison From Houses, Moving Slowly To Hold Down American Casualties

Relief Columns Mauled As First Army Moves On City’s Center From 3 Directions   Bnitish Gain South Of Overloon As Canadians Close Trap On Schelde  Civilians Crawl Out Of Burning Ruins To Surrender;

Repulse German Counter Blows  As Civilians Flee   Three Columns Slowly Probe Ruins Of Besieged City as Nazis Rush Reserves From Holland Front

3U. 8. Columns Longe Toward Aachen’s Heart   Infantry Digs Nazi ‘Garrison From Houses and Cellars

House-To-House Battle Blazing; Civilians Leave  Dwindling German Garrison Routed earn Midina Places

German Relie’ Units Maulec At City’s Door   American Attacks So Furi ous Enemy Is Unable To Muster CounterAttack   Yanks Moving In From Three Point:   German Tanks Rushed Fron: Arnhem Smashed By Air Power; British Hammer Out Gains

German Tank Assaults Are Thrown Back   American Troops Converge On Heart Of City From Three Directions; Civilians Flee  Ruins Of Town; Escape Gap ‘Closed’

Nazi Forces So Badly Mauled Unable To Muster:  tod     2  Another Counterattaél

STRIKE SLOWS WAR PRODUCTION   ‘Detroit, Cleveland and Toledo Factories Affected

DETROIT STRIKE STILLS PLANTS   Workers Quit in Sympathy With Toledo Strikers

20,000 IN MESA OUT ON STRIKE   Parley of Federal Agencie: Hints Drastic Action Considered

18,000 Walk From Detroit War Plants  Sympathy Strike   Sympathy Strike With Toledo Union Is Called

18,000 Idle as Detroit Strike Grows   WAR PRODUCTION IN 23 PLANTS CURTAILED BY “SYMPATHY” LAYOFF

Strikes Plague Nation As Presidential Candidates Go Into Home Stretch

STOP PRODUCTION AT AIRPLANE PLANT   At Least 12,000 Idle Following Transfer of Negro Workers.

Discrimination Strike Starts In Plane Plant   News of Invasion Fails To Halt Wrieht Walkout

ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR ORGANIZED NONCOMBAT SERVICE   MORE THAN DOZEN COMPANIES BEING TRAIN. ED FOR SERVICE

6TH WAR LOAN DRIVE  HEADS PLAN RAISING OF $620,000 QUOT:   6TH LOAN DRIVE OPENS NOV. 20. CLOSES DEC. 16; SHIRAR IS CHAIRMAN

BUMBSIGHT SHOWN 1) PUBLIC TODAY   Without It Precision Bombing Would Be Impossible

‘Little Steel’ Formula Revision in Prospect As Living Costs Go Up   Roosevelt Is Suggested as American Delegate to Proposed International Security Conference - - - Congress Still in Low Gear

Little Steel Formula Seer  on Way Out   Special Report on Living Costs Brings Senatorial Comment

HIN. JHINA— ;  GHANGES ADE IN CHINESE GABINE]   Shakeup Announ ed:       Government Posts

F.D.R. May Revise Wage Formula   Vinson Pledges Vigilance To Keep Living Costs Down.

Senators Urge Elimination of ‘Steel’ Formula   Presidential Committee Paper Shows Thirty Per Cent Raise in Living Costs; Over Formula

Senators Urge Abandonment Of Wage Formula On Basis Of Special Report On Living Expenses

SENATORS FAVOR EASED PAY CODE   Change Or Scrapping Asked After Living Cost Report

SOLONS ATTACK WAGE FORMULA   ‘Little Steel’ Pact Is On Wa) Out, Aiken Claims

WAGE FORMULA CHANGES URGED   Senators Voice Opinions 01 Living Costs Increase

DROPPING OF LITTLE STEEL FORMULA URGEL   Figures. Show Costs Of Living Up 29 To 20 Pereent

I2 BOMBERS BOMBERS LOST      But Yanks ks Accounted For More Than 40 Nazi Planes

MUD AND SNOW FAIL 10 SLOW BATTLING YANKS   No Reports from Holland Sector — Advance Made In Fighting in Italy

Americans Capture F irst Fort   Four Towns Also Taken As Third Army Driver Rhaca

Patton Gains A bridgehead  Across Moselle   U. S. Armored Columns Swing Around Metz, Punch Forward On Twenty-Mile Front

4 TOWNS TAKER AS DOUGHBOYS CONTINUE PUSH   Above Metz Yanks Expand Holdings, Shorten Escave Routes

Warships Range Inshore ‘To Shell Nazi Positions; Gains Made at Cassino

WARSHIPS AID IN REPULSING GERMAN ATTACK; SUPPLIES LANDED AS BATTLE TIDE TURNS   Soviets Fight In Suburbs Of Luga After Clearing Second Rail Center; Rabaul, Kavieng Bases Smacked: Bombers Hit Coastal Area

WarshipGuns HelpRepulse _ German Attacks; Supplies Are Landed Despite Heavy Sea

KILLER REPORTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION      Prisoner, Trying to Escape, Is Shot By Tower Guards.

Reports On State Of Nation   Will Send Message To Congress Today And Supplement It With Broadcast.

ILL PRESIDENT CANT ATTEND JOINT SESSION   Budget Message on Thursday May Ask 95 Billion

‘US Planes ‘Bomb Manila, Jap Islands   3,500 Nipponese Soldiers Wiped Out While Trying to Reinforce Enemy Troops oa Leyte Island -

YANK CARRIER PLANES BLAST MANILA AREA   Land-Based Bombers Hit 20 Jap Ships Off 3 Island Groups

REPORT YANKS RAID MANILA   20 Nipponese Ships Are Sunk or Damaged

Bomb Manila   FOUR-SHIP JAP CONVOY DESTROYED; DOZENS OF OTHER VESSELS ARE HIT

CARRIER PLANES ATTACK MANILA AREA AIRFIELDS   Raids at Borneo and Celebes Smash More Nip Ships as Leyte Battle Slows

U. §. Airmen Roam Seas in Ship Attacks   Yankee Air Raiders Follow Up Superfort Attack Upon Tokyo

U.S. Carrier Planes Continue Scouraing Of Japanese Shipping   Tokyo Propogandists Minimize Effects Of Superfortress Raid On Nip Capital

Carrier Sweep Over Manila Adds To Toll; Leyte Planes Sink Canvoy, 3.500 Die _

Manila Again Under Attack ByU.§. Planes   Jap Convoy Hit; B-29 Raid Starts Biq Fires in Tokyo

Yankee Planes Attack Manila, ‘Lokyo Reports   Japs Minimize Damage From Daring Air Raids

U. S. Planes Wreck 4-Ship Jap Convoy   Sink, Damage 20 Ships Carrying Reinforcements to Philippines

AMERICAN CARRIER PLANES BLASTED AT MANILA SATURDAY  LAND BASED U. S. PLANES ACCOUNT FOR 20 JAP SHIPS AND 68 PLANES

8,500-Ton Load Falls on Reich   Siegfried Feeder Area: Blasted by Rombers

En 2 Sectores Rompieron E] Cerco Nazi   Radio Berlin. Dice Que Los Rusos Se Empenan Por Toma Budapest

Arrecian Los Asaltos Para  Cruzar El Rin   Despachos Suizos Aseguiran Que Estar Estableciendo Una Cabeza De Puente

OFFENSIVE ON NEDER RHINE      10,518 Prisorers Fall to Russians in Hungary

Soviets Roll Into Budapest. Cut Off Big Enemy Force  Five Reich Cities at Cost of 53 Planes

Mt. Alton Airport Will Rank With  Largest in Penna.      State Aeronautical Leaders Met With Bradford City Council

State Officials Confer Here on Port Opening   Bradford Airport to Rank With Pittsburgh, Philadelphia; Group To Take Prompt Action

Four Red Armies Launch New Offensive in Latvia   Germans Admit New Russian Penetration in Fast Prussia

Russians Pouring Into Slovakia  On Broad Front  Berlin Tells of Big New Red Offensive Opened in Latvia

Reds Launch New Drive  Kor Latvia   Offensive Aimed At Wiping Out Thousands Of Nazis Pinned On Baltie

Reds Driving Into Slovakia  Nazis Report Four Other Major Actions

Russians Invading Slovakia   Berlin Reports New Thrust Against Trapped Nazis  In Latvia

Nazis Claim Reds Launch New Offensive   Aimed at Clearing Out Germans Pinned Against Baltic Sea

Four Soviet Armies Open Latvian Push   Berlin Reports Gains In Early Assaults By Red Forces

RUSSIANS ATTACK ” NAZIS IN LATVIA   DRIVE TO WIPE OUT GERMANS PINNED AGAINST BALTIC SEA OPENED. —

Slovakia Invaded On Broad Front By Soviet Troops   New Latvia Drive  Opens to Wipe Out Baltic Pocket

4RED ARMIES LAUNCH DRIVE   Latvia Offensive Aims At Pocketed Nazis

Huge Offensive StartedBy Red: In Baltie Arez   Berlin Reports Mountain Tr ops Invade Slovakia On Broad Front; Hun Forces Menaced   Moscow Is Silent ~. On Soviet Moves   Russians Penetrate Nazi Lines In East Prussia; Heavy Fighting Near Ebenrode Cited

MAJOR BAOTIONS ARE NEUTRALIZED   Yanks By-pass Fort Driant; Move to Edge of City   BITTER WEATHER   Supplies Most of Opposition To British; Quickly Merge Three Bridgeheads

British Make Good Gains in  East Holland   First French Army Also Launches Attack  on Western Front

Bypass Key Forts In New Advance   Germans Believed To Be Abandoning Famous Fort Driant, Which Held Up Yank Advances

U. $. Doughboys By-Pass Bloody Fort _-Driant -—      [ATTACK LAUNCHED BY FRENCH TROOPS   More Forts Taken in Bat; tle of Great Fortress City

U. S$. Doughboys By-Pass Bloody Fort Buant —   ATTACK LAUNCHED ~~” BY FRENCH TROOPS   More Forts Taken in Bat tle of Great Fortress City ra

TWO MORE FORTS KNOCKED OUT» IN DRIVE AHEAD   —AmericansApproach CityFrom Three Sides; Nazis Offer Strona Resistance

FORTRESS CITY HAS DOUGHBOYS ON THREE SIDES   English Troops Forge Ta Within 37 Miles Of Key Center Of Duisburg

METZ MENACED ON THREE SIDES BY AMERICANS   Great German-Held Fortress City Clamped In Death Grip By Patton   REICH BEING PREPARED FOR FALL OF BASTION

Patton's Army Pushes on City On Three Sides   Fort Driant By-Passed in Drive for City; French Launch Assault on  Wide Front in Belfort Area

ALLIES MAKE ATTACK ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   BRITISH GAIN FIVE MILES; FRENCH GO INTO ACTION

/Fort Driant Is Bypassed ByDoughboys   Most of Western Front “In Action as French Attack in Doubs Arca  2 FORTS CAPTURED

Allies Are on Offensive on Whole Front   American Doughboys By-Pass Bloody Fort Driant and Boil In Close to Suburbs of Fortress on Three Sides

Doughboys Close In on Fortress On Three Sides   Major Bastions Are Neutralized

Danes Rise Against ! Nazi Masters Ac Covernment Offices Are Seized

CALM FOLLOWS DANISH REVOLT   Council Asks Continuance  Of General Strike

WFA Heads to Probe Sugar Beet Program   Growers Expected to Get $12.50 Per Ton in 1945

MARINES FIGHT STEP BY STEP FOR HILL 660   Battling Through Condi tions “Worse Than Guad alcanal’”’ for Cape Gloucester Objective

Cape Gloucester War Conditions Worse Tha -At Guadalcanal, Declares Marine Officer

FINNS SEND ANSWER T0 RUSS OFFER   Believe Reply Rejects Armistice Proposal Terms

Finland Reply To Russia Is Sent to Moscow   Rejection of Terms Believed To Be Imminent

Finns Reply To Moscow Terms   Believe Rejection of  Rules Now Evident

RENEWAL OF GERMAN RAIDS ON LONDON FAIL FRIGHTEN PEOPLE AND HELD AS MERE NUISANCES

GERMANS SEEKING AIR PRESTIGE IN WANING CONFLICT   MacKenzie Sees Hitler As Seeker for ‘Compromise Victory. Stalin Wants Invasion Soon: ©

TODAY   Raids On England Causing. Lot: ef Pro miscuous Destruction Which. Have Little Military Value

The War Today   New Nazi Blitz on London Answer to Bombing of Europe

Russian Forces Pursue Germans Toward Warsay   Push Well Beyond Captured Kowel As Nazi Flight Continues   RED TROOPS ARE NEARING WILNO

SOVIETS SPEE ALONG ROAD TO WARSAW   Spearheads Reported 30 Miles From Vital Base of Wilno

SCRAP BREWING OVER PLANS TO DRAFT 4-F MEN   Honor Sought in Congress For Ohio—Knox Analyzes War Against Japs

Renomination Of Fish Highlights Interest In N. Y. Primary Tomorrow

LAUSCHE CANDIDATE ~ FOR OHIO GOVERNOR   Cleveland Mayor Is_ Sixth Democrat in Race

Forced Back 100 Miles; British Capture High Ground Overlooking Caen Battle Area Infantry, Tanks Stream Across River In Widenina Beachhead

1,300 German Tanks Out SUPREME HEADQUAR.  jeictcsas dae © lewiwk. eee caries ehete ue

MONTGOMERY FORCES SMASH NINE COUNTER ATTACKS 10 WIDEN BREACH IN NAZI LINE   Field Dispatches Say German Command Has Sent Virtually Entire Strength of Two Armies In Fierce Tank Battle   LITTLE CHANGE OCCURS IN FRONT POSITIONS

Widen Break In Germans’ Caen Lines   Desperate Nazi Command Throws 2 Full Armies At Montgomery

TODAY   Strategic Value of  Rome.Confused by Desperate Fury of Nazi Defense of Eternal City.

Interpreting the War   Fury of German Resistance Indicates Rome Is War. Prize

BYRNES REPORT CALLED ‘START   Dewey’ Says Change Is Needed to Shift Over to Peacetime Efficiently.

New Group Needed to Shift Industry After War: Dewey   Calls for GOP Victory From Train Platform at Des Moines

Byrnes Report ‘Start'—-Dewey Candidate In lowa For Labor, Farm Talks

DEWEY ARRIVES IN DES MOINES   GOVERNOR OF IOWA PREDICTS 100,000 G. 0, P. MAJORITY.

Dewey Says Change Needed in Washington for Smooth Conversion to Pearce Work

Dewey States FDR Unready For War’s End   GOP Nominee Declares Administration Is Still Unequipped

DEWEY PRAISES BYRNES REPORT   Republican Candidate Says Change In Administration Needed To Shift To Peace Krom War

Crowds Cheer Dewey Arrival in Des Moines   In lowa Monday to Confer With Leaders; to Nebraska Tuesday

Dewey se sees need for change toshift U.S. to peacetime  Telle Des Moines crowds new

Dewey Asserts Present Interest Is lo See Improvements In Washinato!

Gov. Dewey  Has Parley   Goes To: Pittsburgh. To Meet Colleazues

Need Of Change Cited By Dewey At Des Moines   Byrnes Reconversion Re port Called Mere Star On Vital Job.

(Efficient Change-Over Of Industry Dependent On New Administration, Dewey Feels

GOP Nominee Confers With  lowa Leaders   Arrives at Des Moines Today; Calls Byrnes Report ‘A Start’

Gov. Dewey in Des Moines For Parley   New Administration Needed for Postwar Pursuits, He Asserts

Dewey Classes Reconversion   Plans A Stari      Tells Des Moines Change Of Administration Needed toe Provide Smooth Peacetime Efficiency

Need a Change in Administration   This Is What Gov. Thoma: E. Dewey Told Hearers at Des Moines Today.

The Middle West Is Battleground   Dewey Plans Second Campaign Swing In Early October

Dewey Declares Washington Slow On Reconversion   Says Bymes’ Announcement is ‘Start’ but Change in Regime Needed for Smooth Shift

Dewey Declares Change Needed fo1 Shift to Peace   G. O. P. Nominee Is Greeted by 4,000 In Des Moines Today

NEED CHANGE, DEWEY ASSERTS   Calls Byrnes Reconversion Report ‘A Start’'; Drafts Farm Talk

“(;uinea Pig” Hospital Staff Finds Realistic War in Wales Cow Pasture

New Government, Headed by Pro-Nazi Leader, Takes ‘Over in Chaotic Hungary Budapest Radio Reperts

tNazis Try to old Hungary on Side of Germany  { Invasion, Armies Press Closer to Biibsnnad

Hungary Is Reported In Chaos    Pro-Nazi Leaders Said To Have Taken Control of Country  BERLIN. HAILS COUP

Hungarian Pro-Nazis Form Regime   Neutral Sources Say Nation Falling Apart

Seize Radio in Budapest and Announce Establishment of New Government—Issue Proclamation “Revoking” Plea for Armistice Addressed to AHies—Neutral Sources Say Nation Is in Turmoil With Free-for-All Fighting.

FDR ASKS MORE U.S, ARMY FUNDS   Seeks Over 15 Billion for New Appropriations

15 Billions For Army Is Requested   President Would Raise War Spending To 49 Billions

NEW FUND FOR ARMY ASKED BY ROOSEVELT   15 Billions More Sought Tc Maintain 7,700,000 Men

F.R. Requests More Money For Military   Congress Asked for $15,676,652,700 to Meet Contemniated F«nenditure<«

FR Billion New  Army budget   und Needed To Supply 77 00,000- Man Army Cntil June 30, F945; Large Carryover.

Fifteen Billions Sought for Army  Deacidan# Acke far New Fundc   President Asks for New Funds To Carry on War Aaainst Axis

FDR CALLS FOR +1 BILLIONS TO SUPPORT ARMY   President Tells Congress Vast Sum Required for Over 7 Million in War

19 BILLION. MORE ASKED FOR ARMY   President’s Request, if Granted, Would Bring to 49 Billion Contemplated Outlay for War in Next Fiscal Year. *

15 Billions Requested. for Army   New... Appropriations, . Will Bring Total... Planned ‘for: Year io: 49° Billions   FORCE OF 7,700; 000 -1IS CONTEMPLATED:         Outlay of. Funds. Will Be Smaller Than Estimate; In- crease:in WAC Planned:

F. D. R. Asks $15 Billion Army Increase   FUND WOULD BRING YEAR’S MILITARY COST TO $49,000,000,000

President Wants  Large Sum  For Army’s Use Executive Is Asking  $15,676,652,700 To Maintain Forces

FDR Asks 15 Billion For Army   New Funds Would Bring Year's Total To 49 Billion

Army Asks For  15 Billions   Strength Of 7,700,000 Sought By War Dept.

NEW ARMY FUNDS   Roosevelt Asks Appropriations and Announces  a 1944 Balance

CONGRESS ASKED TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR ARMY   Cash To Be Needed To Care for Army of 7,700,000 Offi.  cers, Men and Women

15 Billion More Asked for Army   Strength on Jan.  Was 7,481,925 Men

$15 Billion More Sought For Army Use   Would Dring Year's Military Expenditures Ty $49 Billion

JAPANESE PLEAD FOR INCREASED WAR PRODUCTION   American Fliers Average Knocking Out Five Jap Ships Daily

Jap War Lords Demand Planes And Munition:   Nation’s Speedy Aid Sought To Stem U. 5. Offensive On Island Highways

Tokyo Alarmed Over Weakness Of Nip Airpower   More Planes Sought To Stem Growing U. Ss. Air Offensive

Jap War Lords Appeal for More Planes   US Air Offensive Pounds Island Highways to Japan; Lishui Threatened by Nip Ground Forces

More Planes Is Plea” Of Japan’s Warlord:   People. Are Told More Munitions Needed To Stem _American Air Offensive Now Dangerously Near Tananese Homeland:

UNEASY JAP WAR LORDS ASK FOR MORE MUNITIONS   STRESS NEED OF MORE PLANES IN WORKER APPEAL

JAPANESE WAR LORDS APPEAL FOR MUNITIONS   Suffering From Loss Of Ships  In Pacific

Allied Planes KO Five Jap Ships A Day Nips In Desperate Need of Planes

ALL INDUSTRY   Japanese War Lords Want Mere Planes, Munitions Produced.

More Planes Will Be Needed if Tokyo's Innermost Defense Lines Are To Be Made Impregnable, Leaders Say

Japanese War: Lords Inform Populace That Defense Ring Will Only Hold Out as Long as Planes Do; Bombers from Aleutians Smash Again at Kuriles; Eleven More Jap Ships Lost in Southwest Pacific

Japs Urge More Planes  To Stem Yanks   American Bombers Strike Kuriles From -Aleutians

JAP WAR LORDS URGE MORE PLANES, ARMS   Warn Air Support Required To Hold Inner Defenses

Planes Needed Tokyo Warns   Allied Bombers Keep Up Average of Bagging Five Japanese Ships a Day; Koiso’s Government Drafts Production Plans as Blows Delivered

TODAY on the HOME FRONT   PORK SUPPLY WON’T  BE BETTER TILL NEXT MONTH

9 ell soon ANnow How MUCK Backbone Nazis Have-— a—Dy Nussell Drines (st  This Looks Like The Bia Moment In Europe

MacKenzie Says— Big Moment Arrives On W est Front   Eisenhower’s All-Out Push to Break Nazi Backbone Under Way

The War Today   Breakthrough to Rhineland Seen as Goal of Giant Push

 lhe War loeaday— , ie ‘Nazis Have Many Factors That ‘Balance Our Huge Edge In Men

WAR TODAY   Eisenhower’s Offe‘nsive May Prove AllOut One to Adminis. ter Coup de Grace to Hitler’s Armies

ALLIED ARMIES AIDED BY GOOD WEATHER IN ALL-OUT DRIVE TO (CRACK GERMAN RHINELAND DEF

PRESENT WESTERN FRONT DRIVE MAY BE BIG MOMENT FOR WHICH WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR WEEKS

res tem teen  REP, BROWN CLASHES WITH CIO-PAC BOSS   Ohioan Challenges Hillman  Non-partisan Claim

ClO POLITICAL GROUP UPHELD BY HILLMAN   Head Asserts Law Obeyed, Denies ‘Raid’ On Party

HILLMAN TELLS AIM OF CIO-PAC   DENIES INTENTION TO CONTROL ANY : POLITICAL PARTY

PAC Obeying Election Law, Says Hillman   Denies CIO Group Has Plans To “Capture” Any Party—Main Goal Is To Get Out Vote

Hillman, C1O-PAC Chief, Tells Story to Capitol Group   Appears Before Ander. son-Investigating Committee Today:

Asserts it Isn't Trying to Capture Any Party, Just Wants to Get Out Vote

HILLMAN DENIES PARTNERSHIP   CIO-PAC Doesn’t Wish To “Capture” Any Party

~<SAMPAIGN INVESTIGATION   WITNESS DECLARES CIO-PAC DOESN'T SEEK TO CAPTURE ANY POLITICAL PARTY

Hillman Holds PAC Is Within  Election Laws   Getting Out Vote and Electing Roosevelt Two Pur poses of Action, He a

HILLMAN GROUP OBEYING LAWS?   Leader Says CIO-PAC Doesn’t Wish to ‘Capture’ Any Party.   TO ‘GET OUT THE VOTE’

Republicans Name Delegates To Next State Convention  To-Be Held.In an  Des Moines Last * Day Of: Maych &, .

Plymouth County Democrats Name State Delegates  Laud New Dealers And Select Dorothy K ramer Ts aleat Linge

Republicans Name Delegates To Next State Convention   To-Be Held In . Des Moines Last Day Of March.“

Plymouth County Democrats Name State Delegates  Laud New Dealers   Laud New Dealers And Select Dorothy Kramer Ticket Head

Big Drive By Reds Opened,  Germans Say      Russians Reported Attack. ing In White Russia Along 100-Mile Front

Four Soviet Armies Shatter German Lines, Race 22 Miles Toward Minsk After Capturing Vitebsk and Zhlobin

Current Break in Hog Prices Held “Uncalled For": Decline Continues

[Detroit Man ‘Gives Life’ to Arouse Sentiment Against (Toledo ‘Gambling Racketeers

LABOR PRAISED BY M’ARTHUR   Pacific Commander Enters Current Controversy

GEN. M'ARTHUR LAUDS LABORS PATRIOTISM   Says Workers “Neve Have Failed” in A. F, L. Statement

SPAIN SCORED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Promises Sharp Crackdown On Wiae-Criminale——__—.

Parliament Debates Fate Of Germany   LORD VANSITTART URGES CLARIFICATION OF UNDERSTANDING THAT ALLIES ENTER GERMANY AS CONQUERORS,   Bishop Draws Distinctions

Pledges Pursuit Of War Criminals   Chrarchill Returns To [open Parliament

MATTOON POLICE SEEKING PROWLER   Sprays Mysterious ‘Poisor Gas’ Through Open Bedroom Windows.

Patrols Search For Terrorizing Night Prowler   Sprays Mysterious ‘Poison “Gas Through Windows Of Homes in Illinois Town.

New Landings Made on New Britain   Momote Airstrip Ready to Receive Planes

CONTROL ISLE OF LOS NECROS   Marines Land on New Guinea North Coast, MacArthur Reports

Marines Gain On North Coast Of New Britain   Momote Airdrome Is Now Ready to Receive Planes, W’Arthur Says; 1,200 Japanese Slain

Marines Land Near Talasea, New Brifain   Momote Airdrome Ready for Action

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Airstrip at Momote Is Ready for Use by Americans  LARGE NAVAL GUNS TAKEN IN ASSAULT  American Air Units Continue to Hit Enemy Positions

MarinesMakeNew Landing on Island   Fresh Stab Made On North Coast Of New Britain Af. ter Control Of Los Negros Is Gained; 1,200 Dead Japs Counted

LOS NEGROS CONTROLLED BY AMERICANS   Clinching Possession Of Momote Airdrome Which Gen. MacArthur Says Is Now Ready For Allied Planes.   Shore Targets

AMERICAN TROOPS WIN CONTROL OF LOS NEGROS ISLE   Momote Airdrome Made Ready for Use by Allied Planes — 1,200 Japs  os Buried by Yanks.   U. S. MARINES INVADE WILLAUMEZ PENINSULA   Leathernecks Meet Light Opposition as They Go Ashore at Point 170 Miles  From Rabaul.

Conquest 0} Los Negros Isle Ended   American Marines Land On Peninsula On New Britain

“AMERICAN TROOPS COMPLETE OCCUPATION OF LOS NEGROS   Japanese Naval Guns In Concrete Emplacements Cap‘tured By Cavalry Division; 479 More Dead Nipponese. Discovered; Airfield Is Ready For Service

Marines Invade Another Sector Of New Britain   Mave Closer to Jap Rabaul Base; Clinch Los Negros Control

TROOPS OF U.S CONTROL ISLE OF L05 NEGROS   Marines Land on New Guinea North Coast, MacArthur Reports °

Airstrip at Momote Is Ready for Use by Americans  LARGE NAVAL GUNS TAKEN IN ASSAULT  7 Ce eee a oe .            American Air Units Continue to Hit Enemy Pacitiane

Not a Laugh in a Carload  Probe Sad Fate of Freights   Utter Confusion Prevails in Capital

Budapest Next On Russian List  Fall of Belgrade Insures New Drive

TITO'S MEN JOIN RUSSIAN ADVANCE THRU HUNGARY   MOVE TOWARD ZAGREB AND BUDAPEST AFTER CAPTURE OF BELGRADE

Tito’s Army Joins Reds InNew Drive   Zagreb and Budapest Are Targets in Balkan Campaign

Yugoslav Partisans Join Russian Army  After Belgrade Falls; Debrecen Taken

Tito Raises His Tricolor  Over Belgrade   Zabreb Appears Next Objective of Russ- Yugoslav Forces

Partisans Join Russians in Bia Push   Zagreb and Budapest Objectives of Drive By Advancing Reds

NAZIS PUT UP RESISTANCE AT ROAD JUNCTION   Yugoslav Forces Driving Ahead For Budapest

Belérade's Fall Frees Tito Army For Great Push   Official Russian Silence Yeils_ Soviet Activities On East Prussian Front

Red Army Combines With Tito’s Troops For Balkan Cleanup     Zagreb and Budapest Are Listed as Objectives After Belgrade Win

CAPTURE BELGRADE FREES PARTISANS FOR OTHER SERVICE  OFFICIAL RUSSIAN SILENCE STILL ENVELOPS EAST PRUSSIAN FRONT

Join Red  Army Drive   Yugoslav’ Partisans Add to Strength of Forces Pushing Toward Zagreb and ‘Budapest

Belgrade Won and Reds Turn Into Hungary   Reinforced by Tito's Partisans Soviets Move on Zagreb, Budapest

Partisans Join Drive on Zagreb   Ruins of Belgrade Under Tito’s Flag

YUGOSLAVS JO RED PUSH FROM FREE BELGRADE   Armies Drive For Budapest And Zagreb; Soviet Silent On Prussian Action

SOVIET ARMIES TAKE BELGRADE   Zagreb, Budapest Next Targets for Rampaging Reds

Tito’s Banner  Raised Today In Capital City   Fall of Belgrade Releases Red, Yugoslav Units for Push on Zabreb

SLAVS JOIN REDS IN PUSH “ON BELGRADE   Croatian Puppet Seat of Zagreb Also an Objective, Now That Forces Have Been Freed From Belerade Campaign.

eds May Use elgrade As dvance Base   Russians Drive Toward Puppet Seat Of Zagreb

Yanks Advance Across Germany   Reds Press Drive in Balkans After Yugoslav Capital Freed

PARTIOANS JOIN RUSSIAN ARMY   Drive Toward Croatian Puppet Seat and Hungarian City.   19.000 GERMANS TAKEN

Tito's Partisans Join Russians In  Drive for Sagreb  Capture Of Belgrade Frees Vanacley Fayere Par Addsty

Partisans Jom In T riumphan' Soviet Drive   German Captives Swell in Number As Equipment  Falls to Reds

[Drag Lake for the Heads of Two Women   Officers Secking Identity. of Women’s Bodies Found in Lake of Ozarks.

No Reason For Uneasiness Over India Invasion. Savs Mountbatten   Jap Drive Has Failed To Dislocate Allied Strategic Schedule, Says Statement; Admit Enemy Has Strong. Land Force.

Allied Strategy Not Dislocated By Jap Drive, Mountbatten Says   No Justification For Uneasiness In America, Headquarters Savs, Answering Questions Ry AP   AXIS REPORT DENIED

Mountbatten Denies Effect Of Jap Drive   Hard Fighting Is Ahead in Burma,  CnmmrAmAAar Save

British Chief Says Japanese  Being Checked   Mountbatten Asserts no Basis for Uneasiness in U. 8. Over India.  Burma Sitnation

Mountbatten Gives Reassuring Report On War in India   Declares Japanese Drive Has Not Dislocated Plans Nor Delaved Completion of Lede Read

MOUNTBATTEN SAYS  INVASION OF INDIA  NO CAUSE FOR WORRY ALLIED “OMMANDER IN  BURMA AREA ANSWERS SERIES AP. OUERIES

Allied Schedule Not Disrupted By Japs in India   Mountbatten Gives Views on Campaign In Burma District

Jap Invasion Into India s Not Alarming   Has Not Disclosed Allied Strategy or Delayed Ledo Read

Allied Schedule Not Dislocated... .. Mountbatten Declares  There Is No Cause For  Worry Over India War

Raise Poultry Ceiling Price   OPA Increases Price at All Levels 1.8 Cents Per Pound Through April

To Hike Ceiling On Poultry Price   Ration of Butter May Be Reduced Four Points  Next Week :

Carrier Among 4 Vessels Sunk By Bombers Near Philippines; — Nips Flee Before Yank Attact

Real Victory ChalkedUp;  Fourteen Hit   Third' Great Blow Is Struck Since Pearl Harbor

‘Was Inflicted by Carrier Planes of the United States Fifth Fleet, Headquarters at Pearl Harbor Said,   FOUR SHIPS SUNK, TEN WERE DAMAGED   The Victory, the Third Great Blow Since Pearl Harbor Against Jap Nayy, Follow ed Great Air Battle.

Plane Carrier and  3 Tankers Sunk   Yen Other Ships Damaged in Third Hardest Blow at Enemy Fleet; No Engagement Between Ciofeace Mleste- 493). S. Planes Lost

14 SHIPS LOOT AND DAMAGED IN AIR BATTLE   Jap Carrier Force Caught by Surprise Crippled by Plane Ilnseps.

—PACIFIC—   Formidable Nip Naval Force Is Handed Crushing Defeat      Enemy Ships, With Little Plane Protection, Trapped Off Philippines; Battered Japanese Ships Plep Refore IT. S. Fifth Fleet

Carrier Aircraft from U. S Fifth Fleet Sink Four Ships, Including Jap Warship.   ENEMY VESSELS FLEE AFTER FIERCE BATTLE

Enemy Avoids Naval Engagement; Only Handful Of Planes Sent Up From 5 or 6 Jap Carriers; Only 49 U. S. Planes Downed.

Enemy Loses One Carrier, 3 Tankers In Great Blow   Other Warships Hit Heavily as Fleet Turns and Flees From Powerful American Units

Tojos Fleet Runs Away   Americans Lose 49 Planes But Suffer No Loss of Surface Ships

Report 53 More Jap Planes Shot Down in Sky Battles Sunday Near Saipan

Sink 4 Ships, Damage 10 Off Of Philippines   a Escapes Under Cover  Of Night; Third Great  Blow Against Foe.  ‘Gieeteniee,   YANKS LOSE 49 PLANES

U. S. Carrier Planes Inflict Smashing Blow on _ Large Force   Fleet Flees With All Speed Toward China Sea Aft-. . er Attack

Down IDO Japanese Aircraft   U. S. Carrier Force Suffered no Ship Losses; 49 Planes are Missing

LOSSES INCLUDE PLANE CARRIER AND 3 TANKERS   JAP DESTROYER POSSIBLY SUNK, NIMITZ REPORTS

U. S. Fliers Also Damage 10 Others Before Enemy Fleet Is Able To Escape

Nimitz Reports No American Warships Lost, Only Superficial Damage to Battleship, Two Carriers—Japs Flee

Yank Carrier Planes Sink Four Vessels   Ten Others Are Damaged Off The Philippines

Nips Lose 4 Ships Before They Flee   Third Greatest Victory Since Pearl Harbor Stems From Sunday's Great Air Battle Off Saipan When 353  Planec Were Dawned.   Aircraft Carrier, Three Tankers Are Among the Japanese Losses

Yanks Sink Four, Damage 10 Others, Down 353 Planes   Report Smashing Defeat Inflicted On Strong Japanese Naval Force When Cornered Off Philippines

Show-Down Fight Passed Upas Nip Heet Runs   Blows Were Struck Before Nightfall By Carrier Planes

Four Ships Sunk by U. S. Force   One Enemy Carrier and Three Tankers Sent Down; 10 Other Vessels, Including Three Carriers, One Destroyer, Damaged

‘DAMAGING BLOW DEALT JAPS IN PACIFIC BEFORE NIPS FLED FROM SCENE OF BATTLE   Smashing Defeat Adirinistered on A Formidable Enemy Naval Force Trapped Monday Night Off Philippines. Followed Sunday’s Air Battle Off  Sainan Ialand

Nip Fleet Runs Again After Victory Virtually Wipes Out Carrier Planes

Enemy Loses One Carrie 3 Tankers In G       Other Warships Hit Heavily as as Fle  Turns and Flees From  Power American I Inite a

Naval Bombers Sink or Damage  13 NipponShips   Que Jap Aircraft Carrier and Three Other Vessels In Elusive Enemy Ficet Destroved   Nine, Including Destroyer, Afire   UL 8. Suffers No Ship Losses: Two Superficially Damaged: Fortynine Planes Lost

Enemy Flees After Loss of Plane Carrier  Nightfall Saved Warships of Foe  Bram Wine 1 nce

U.S. Planes Sink Carrier and Three Tankers and Damage 10 Other Vessel: Before Enemy Fleet Runs for Cover

DAMAGE NINE OTHER BOATS IN SURPRISE   Aircraft Carrier Among Ships Sunk, a Battleship Among Craft Damage in Sea Battle

Naval Victory Stems From Sunday’s Great Air Battie. Off Saipan (sland.   ENEMY FLEET ESCAPES

SEA VICTORY IS THIRD LARGEST SCORED BY U.S   Caught by Surprise, Nip Vessels, Including Carrier, Blasted in Pacific

U. S. Planes Damage 1( Other Ships; Foe Flees To Avoid Showdown In Surface Battle.

One Enemy Carrier and Three Tankers Sent Down; 10 Other Vessels, Including Three Carriers, One Destroyer, Damaged

U.5. Bombers Rouf Enemy   Sink Four, Damage Many More Before Jap Ships Escape; No Naval Battie

NIMITZ REPORTS 14 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK, DAMAGED   Nightfall Saves Foe From Additional Heavy Blows

Former Western Union College  Students Wed.  Capt. Gillespie — And Bride Visit : * Wass This Waelk

Former Western Union College _ Students Wed.  Capt. Gillespie And Bride Visit :  a © ee. 2) Me ot ee Oe

JAPANESE SEAS ARE GRAVEYARD   Yankee Navy Bags 1110 Ships And 3080 Planes Since June

JAP SHIPPING  HIT BIG BLOW NAVY STATES   1,100 Ships Sunk or Damaged and 3,080 Planes Wrecked

U.S. Navy Blasts 1110 Jap Ships in Last 4 Months   3,080 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed During Same Period

U.S. Navy Blasts 1,110 Jap Ships In Short Period   Secretary Forrestal Says 3,080 Nip Planes Have Been Destroyed During Past Four And One-Half Months

1,110 SHIPS 3,080 PLANES ARE BLASTED   By U.S. Navy in Pacific; Japs Crowded Back Into Own Corner, Secretary Forrestal Reports.   Small Vessels

Japs Lose ast Planes, 905 Ships Since June   U. S. Subs Report 32-Ship Bag In Recent Forays

3,080 Jap Planes Bagged by Navy   U. S. Subs Add 32 Ships to Huge Toll

Forrestal Reveals Subs Sink 32 More Jap Ships: Tells of Huge Enemy Losses

Navy Lists 1,110 Jap Ships and 3,080  Planes Destroyed in Advance of Fleet

3,080 Jap Planes Destroyed by 2 U. S. Fleets Since June 1, Also 905 Ships, Forrestal Reveals

JAPANESE LOSSES DISCLOSED TODAY   Enemy Ships And Planes Lost Since Last June Are Told

Oregon May Add To Dewey Total   Last Presidential Primary Is Today

Dewey Supporters Hopeful As Oregon Holds Last Of Presidential Primaries

Latest Goebbels Peace FeelerIs An-Effort To Split Allied Forces Again

~—NAZIS WANT EASIER TERMS—  Label Article By Goebbels ‘Propaganda

Goebbels Tries To Split Allies  Appeals To Britain, U_S. To Soften Terms

SOFTEN TERMS, GOEBBELS ASKS   Magazine Article Interpreted As Bid For  Peace

PEACE AND CALN NEEDED BY ALL GOEBBELS SAYS   Interpreted As Appeal To U. S. And British

GOEBBELS PLEA SEEN FOR ‘SOFTER’ TERMS   Declares Both Reich, Foes ‘Want Peace And Calm’

Nazi Withdrawal Through Mountains Toward Po Continue   Indian Troops Seize Albereto, Capturing Hundred Prisoners

Allies Advance in North Italy  Germans Withdraw From One Salient

ENEMY PULLING BACK IN ITALY   Positions Near Faenza Menaced By British Flank Attack

Bologna Becomes Underground City As Allies Oust Germans Through Passes

GERMANS GIVEN NEW SETBACKS   American Fifth Army Scores Advence in Heavy Fighting in Italy

BRITISH PUT RESISTANCE: ININDIA   Fight Against Jap Invaders Stiffens

British Troops Resisting Japs In Kohima Drive   Surprisingly Strong Nipponese Forces _  _ Involved In Campaign:

JAPS IN NEW THREAT T0 KOHIMA   Stiff Resistance Being Put Up By British Forces

Japs Drive on Kohima im India   New Attack Perils Big British Force

Mattoon Citizens Experience Third Straight Night Free of “Gas Attack’

DEFENSE HINTS STATE'S      'rredman Seeks to Convince Jury Lovett Was a Suicide

TEXAS DEMOCRATS KILL PROPOSAL BINDING DELEGATES TO SUPPORT OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE OF PARTY

TODAY'S WAR ANALYSIS—  Allies Seek To Outflank Strong Siegfried Line

LABOR ORGANIZATION OPPOSES NEW DEAL   Carpenter's Union Says “Labor Wanis A Change” In Next Presidential Election «

New Turn In Pacific War Is Apparent   U, S. Course May Now Be Directed Toward Tokyo Hiself

Guam Liberated, Japs Flee Trap On New Guinea   MacArther's Airmen Blast Da vao, Jap Base in Philippines Suner-Forts Raid Nagasaki

Yank Offensive Stepped Up as Guam and Saipan Conquests Completed and New Naval Base Set Up Closer to Nippon

Air Fleet Lashes at Davao Base   B-29's Batter Other Targets On Jano Homeland

PACIFIC WAR REACHES NEW POINT TODAY   Philippines And Japan Bombed In Duel Raid

Triphammer Blows Against Japanese Include Bombing Philippines, Attacks ‘By B-29’s, Headquarters on Siapan ~   Heavy Damage By Fortress Blasts

Raid on Japan Coupled With Island Attack   Big Industrial City Hammered— Davao Is Bombed

Philippines Bombed by ‘Allied Planes   Superfortresses from China Attack Jap Home. Island; Nips’ Trapped 18th Army  - Crushingly Defeated -

COURSE SET 10 TOKYO; BOMBS PACE STRATEGY   Historic Roosevelt - MacArthur Nimitz Meeting Hinges New Offensive Blows At Nippon

Pacific War Has Reached Another New Turning Point   Bombing Offensive Greatly Expanded In Latest Attacks

YanksBomb Jap Navy Base In Philippines   Allies Strike At Nipponese On Island For First Time Since Fall Of Corregidor On May 6. 1942

Sky Giants Hit - Big Oil Plants: Tokyo Worried   Nagasaki Is Bombed; Nips Preparing Home Defense Program

HOUSE-TO-HOUSE STRUGGLE RAGES ~ IN WEST CASING   Germans. Surrender Ho te l-. Fortress, but Continue Fight From Other Strong Entrenchments,   FIFTH ARMY LOSES IMPORTANT HEIGHTS   Holds Initiative on Slopes of Monastery Hill—Reinforcements Reported Reaching Enemy.

Yanks, Nazis Trade Blows In Cassino   Allied Officer Paints Harsh View Of Savage Fight

FIERCE FIGHT INCASSINOIS STILLRAGING   British Press Forward in Furious House to House Battle   5th ARMY FIGHTING ON MONASTERY HILL   Allied Officer Paints Hard Picture of the Situation

BATTLE RAGES ON RIM OF GASSING   British Blast Germans Out of Ruins of Hotel   NAZIS REINFORCE   Fifth Army Retains Initiative In Death Struggle on Monastery Hill

British force is fighting on into Cassino  German troops are reenforred

Hand-to-Hand Battle for Cassino Rages   Germans Surrende: Hotel but Hold Cther Heights

FIERCE FIGHT CONTINUES ON CASSINO EDGE   With Germans Attacking On Nearby Heights; Fifth Army Retains Initiative In Monastery Death Struggle.   RAF Busy

CLOSE QUARTER BATTLE RAGES   British Press Forward In Cassino After Taking Hotel

Nazis Hold Fast To Cassino Rim   Reinforced Foe Captures Monastery Hill Point :

Nazi Force Recaptures Vital Hill   Strategic Point Falls  After Gernsans Yie!d In Fight from  ~ Hotal- Ruins ~

Nazis Blasted Out of Ruins o! Hotel-Fortress   Germans Recapture Hill 165 Just West Of Town; Fifth Army Men Hold Initiative

ALLIES. BLAST RUINED HOTED   Enemy is Reinforced, . Recaptures Hotly ' ” Contested Hill

Nazis Blasted Out of Hotel  In Cassino   But Germans Recapture Hill 165 West of Town, Bitter Battle Continues

Sportsmen Hear Of Park Plans   Lake. Shore Recreation Area Will Be Finest

Roosevelt to Proclaim Fall of Rome in Broadcast Over Networks at 8:30 P.M.

President to Address Nation   Four Major Networks To Carry Rome Comment On Monday Night

FD. TO SPEAK MONDAY NIGHT ON ROME FALL   Expected To Tell Pope Historic Shrines Will Be Safeguarded

F. R. to Speak Tonight on Fall of Rome   PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO WARN SATELLITES

Fleemg Enemy Pounded From Air on Jammed Escape Routes   Ancient Seat of Civiliza: tion Falls After NineMonth Drive   President to Discuss Diwse'e Pall Danian

FR To Speak On Fall of Rome   Will Ask Satellites To Withdraw From War

PEPE APLPPPPPP PP EES SSO OE  F.D.R. To Discuss Rome On Air This Evening

President Will Go On Radio   President Will Discuss The Fall Of Rome And The  Implications Thereof.

MORE RAINS ADD TO FLOOD IN 5 STATES   Rivers Out of Banks Flood Farmland and 8 Deaths Are Reported in Swollen Waters.

MORE RAINS ARE SEEN BY BUREAL   Two Coastguardsmen Are Among Number Losing Lives In Swollen Streams.

Four Persons Lose Lives in Missouri Beea‘fie of Floods, Three Drown in Indiana and One = in Kansas,— Five State of Mississip. pi Watershed Having Floods.

Fear More Ram In Flood Areas      Five Statés Suffer . Life,- Property Loss

Rain Is Forecast For Mississippi Area As Waters Continue To Rise

Americans Capture Strategic Hill in Western New Britain   Marines Capture Hill 600 in Bloodiest Battle of Southwest Pacific

Allies Capture Hill 660. Sio   Fight Is Bloodiest Of Southwest Pacific. Reports Indicate

Aussies Clean Up Coast To Prepare Way For Offensive In Inland Region

Marines Have Taken Hill 660. In Bloodiest War Of Pacific, Dominating Borgan Bay Area

AMERICAN MARINES HAVE CAPTURED HILL 660 IN BLOODY FIGHT  NAW NOMINATOC DOADCAN   NOW DOMINATE BORGAN BAY AREA OF WESTFERN NEW RRITAIN

“Hill 660" Is Taken After Fierce Fight   General MacArthur Reports Americans Now Dominate Borgan Bay Area

Marines Open Way For Drive Upon Madang   Big Jap Shipping Base Next Goal as Capture of Hill 660 Gives Allies Domination vf Borgen Bay Area of Western New Britain Only 50 Miles Opposite Huon.

Fighting — ‘Termed - The Fiercest:of Southwest Pacific   NOW DOMINATE THE BORGEN BAY

MARINES RULE BORGEN AREA   "Hill 660’ Captured by U.S. Troops After Bloody Battle With Japs

MARINES SEIZE HILL FROM JAPS   Dominate Borgen Bay Area After Bloody Fighting

Marine Fighters     Capture Hill 660 In New Britain   Australians Also Sweep To Sio New Guinea Northeast Coast Port

U.S. Marines Take Hill 660 After ‘Bloodiest Battle’   Aussies Occupy Sio; Marines Now Dominate Borgen Bay Area; Yank Invasion Toll Is 400.

Marines Seize Hill 660 In Bloodiest Fight of War   Yanks Now Dominate Borgan Bay Area of Western New Britain. MacArthur Renarte

J aps ‘Overcome In: Bloody: New Guinea: Battle   Yanks - Capture Hill. 660; Airmen Blast: Nip Ship- ping At Rabaul; De‘stroyer Sunk

CAPTURE VITAL JAP HELD HILL   AUSTRALIANS PUSH THROUGH SIO IN NEW GUINEA DRIVE

Expect Big Allied Push On Madang... .  Marines Take Hill 660 In One Of The Pacific War’s Bloodiest Fights

Marines Take Hill;Thrust at Borgen Bay   Aussies Sweep Through Sio; Clear Coast for Attack on Madang

MARINES WIN BLOODY FIGHT FOR HILL. 660   Allies Dominate New Britain Beachhead

AMERICAN MARINES  HAVE CAPTURED HILL  GoD IN BLOODY: FIGHT NOW DOMINATE BORGAN  BAY AREA OF WESTERN NEW RRITAIN

HILL TAKEN IN -FIERGE BATTLE   Veterans Say Fight in Borgen Bay Area More Bitter Than Guadaicanal.   JAP SHIPS HIT AGAIN

Marines Take Hill 660, Dominate Borgen Bay Area: Rabaul Again Hit Hard

American Marines Capture Hill 660 During Bloodiest Fighting In South Pacific

Marines Seize Hill 660 After Bloody Battle   Fighting Said To Have Been Even Fiercer, - Than Guadaleanal

Judge Landis. Baseball’s Czar, Dies   Entered Hospital for Treatment of Cold October 2

Death Claims ‘ 18-Year-Old Kenesaw Landis   Known as Baseball’s ‘Indispensable’ Man For Nearly 25 Years

JUDGE LANDIO Ii TAKEN BY DEATH   Baseball Czar Succumbs of Heart Ailment; Ruled Game Rigidly for Nearly Quarter Of Centtry

Senate Opens Investigation Of Farm Machinery Situation   Solon Charges ges That U. S. Equipment Gathers Dust in Africa

FDR-Churchill Fall Conference Seen Probable   “Need to Discuss Problems That Will. Arise From. War

Koiso Made New Premier  Of Japan   Other Experienced Men Named To Rally Nation

Japan Names Conservative Cabinet Ta Succeed Tojo's Extremist Regime

CONSERVATIVE LEADERS TAKE CABINET POSTS   Second Of Axis Dictators Falls; Moiso Former Korea Governor

GIVES OIL PROCESS RIGHTS T0 PUBLIC   Newly Incorporated K. U, rch Foundation © Makes Donation >   IKEEPS OUT THE WATER

GIVES OIL PROCESS RIGHTS TO PUBLIC   Pete Incorporated K. U.  Research Foundation — Makes Donation ,

G. 0. P. Chairman Says Ford Will Lead State Ticket to Record-Breaking Win

Ford Victory Due By Over 32,500, GOP Chief Finds   Montana Trend to Republican Column Assures Dewey Triumph; MVA and Ceiling on Beef Major New Deal Threats, Chairman Declares

U.S. CARRIER FORCE 500 MILES FROM JAPAN   Attack: Islands With “Several Hundred” Naval Planes

Powerful Task Force Stull Hits ‘At Bonins   Tokyo Radio Report: ‘Severe Fighting’ 500 Miles Of Japs’ Southeast Homeland

Avery Takes Removal in  Good Humor   ‘Fired Before But Never Carried Out Feet First, He Says.

‘First Time Out Feet First,’ Says Executive   Labor Contract at Case Company Certified to War Labor Board

Seven Farm Groups Attack Food Subsids   Wisconsin Organizations Issue Statement In Which They Oppose Continuing Program

India-Based Superforts Bomb Thailand   Nips Say Another B-29 Appears Over Tokyo; New U. S. Raids Planned

BOMBS DRIVE JAP INDUSTRY UNDER GROUND   Tokyo Radio Admits Damage Serious in Tuesday Strike at Plane Plant: B-29s Raid Thailand.

Lwye 8 oa lee ' . afaik Ticious ~ ani. sunges See  LS <omme_ =. AES — Tivibic ns * ains” Be Spe Whe oo -

Rommel’s‘Strength Is Being Bled by British Who Are Battling to Take Caen.

Nazis Suffer Large Losses In Assaults   Fail To Gain Ground Against British Wedge Southwest of Caen  A TANKS SATASHED

Panzer Corps From Russia Now in France   Nazis Baltered By British Fire

Enemy hurls 11 divisions  at Tommies _ Transfer tanks   Pie BDewcotn Bae

American Rush Work On On Cherbourg Port For Use As A Funnel To Receive Supplies And As An Overpowering Allied Battering Ram

Vain Drives Cost Enemy 40 Tanks   11 German Divisions Thrown Into Defense Of Caen; Foe Unable To Stir in Area Sunday

Rommel Suffers ‘Bloody  Crack on No:      Torrents of British Fire Battered the Nazis so Badly in Costly Attacks Saturday They Were Unable to Stir Sund

Nazis Throw Eleven Divi~ sions Into Caen    Defense   BLOWS OF ROMMEL ~~ FORCES REPULSED  Americans on Cherbourg  Front Freed for New Operations 

February Costly Month  To Japanese   Campaigns Completed That Kill 35,000 Japs And Isolate 30,000  RABAUL HIT AGAIN

Allies Advance On 3 Fronts In Burmese Drive   February Proves Cost: liest Month Of War Ee. Tha Nine

Is Major Victory For Allied Forces   Allies Complete Campaigns In February That Cost Lives Cf 35,000 And [solated 30,000

SAIPAN-BASE PLANES LAUNCH SOFTENING-UP   First Since Doolittle Raia

Hundred B-29s Blast Capital  From Saiman   Battle for Japan Begun Says General Armold  Annatinreament

Two Hour Air Aitack Made on Toxyo by U.S.   100 or More B.29s Reported to Be in Raid   By UNITED PRESS

Saipan Based Superforts Sweep Japan   Start Two-Pronged Air Offensive To Soften Mainland

EAST, CANADA FEEL TREMOR; DAMAGE LIGHT   Shocks Rout Sleepers; ‘Quake Lasts 15 Seconds

Earthquakes Felt In Eastern States   Only Slight Damage Caused by Tremors

Earthquakes Rock Fastern States: Property Damaged   Tremor, Occurring Soon Atter Midnight Felt West To Chicago

TWO QUAKE © TREMORS FELT IN THE EAST   Centered in New York State; Termed Not Severe

EASTERN AREA OF U.S, SHAKEN BY TWO QUAKES   Hundreds Of Sleepers Are Routed From Beds — Slight Damage Recorded

Quakes Felt In  Eastern States   Scattered Property Damage Reported

LAND BASED PLANES STRIKE JAP FORTRESS   Airborne Landing Also Made by American Troops Behind Jap Line: In North Burma

Trak Being Liquidated   ’ Land-Based Bombers Visiting Jap Fortress

ALLIES ARE HOLONG ON All FRONTS      INFANTRYMEN FIRM IN THE FACE OF ATTACKING NAZI HORDES.   Stem Drive      Determined Nazi. Push on Four, Parts of Italian Fronts _— Stonped. s

» TWO ITALIAN FRONTS HOLD   ? Beat off Determined Nazi Attack   ® ‘Allies Make 1,400 Aerial Sorties

ALLIES CHECK NAZI ATTACKS IN ITALY   Beat Off 3 Thrusts in Anzio Area, One Outside Cassino

300 Jap Ships Sunk in a Month   Southwest Pacific  Waters Are Deadly

Train Crash Toll Of Dead Mounts To 29   Most Victims Are Servicemen

Twenty-nine Are Dead in  Train Wreck   Twenty-six Were Air Force Veterans Back from Overseas

Vet Death Toll High in Wreck   Air Foree Veterans Had Completed Many Missions in Combat

Train Wreck Death Toll 28 Persons   Meadville Boy One of Victims;.Those Killed Mostly Combat Air WON

ESTATE ADMINISTRATION AND _ All Fiduciary Services, Tha Ohio-Merchants Trust Co.—Ad   EREr eTNranrer

ANPA Criticizes WLB Machinery   Said Dominated by Outsiders Whose Findings Are Unjust

NOVES REELECTED PRESIDENT OF ANP!   WLB Arbitration Machinery Criticized at Publishers’ Meet.

Gives Warning To GOP About Over-Confidence  Mrs. Smith Talks To N. Y. Women

Sales Drive $340,000; Quota Was $295,800; Allocations Aid.   CHAIRMAN LAUDS WORK

Individuals Exceeding Quota Of $265,000; Companies Aid.   HAVE $364,000 IN DRIVE

Judge Hale Among Three Renominated   Judge Hays Attacks Fourth  Tem DY

Meanwhile, Demand Made In Congress. For Summary Action Against Vivian Kellems

Woman Who Urged ‘Tax Revolution’ Faces Congress’ Demand For Action

TIGHTEN GRIP ON VITAL LINE   Reds: Press. on Through Mud “Toward Junetion To: Grab “40 Miles of Road

Russians Take Chern-Ostrov   Battle Rages Inside Staro-Konstatinov, Vital German Base

Soviets Drive Ahead in Ukraine Push   Important Junction On Rail Line Is Next Objective

GERMANS TRY TO SALVAGE ALL SUPPLIES   Russians Continue Relentless Drive  On Rail Center

Reported Less Than Nine Miles From Tarnopol   Nazis Claim New Offensive In Dnieper Bend Area

REDS DRIVE FORWARD DESPITE MUL   Important Junction Of Proskuroy Is Threatened

GERMANS UNABLE TO STEM TIDE OF RED ARMY   Marshal Zhukov’s Troops Move Toward New Junction of Proskurov on Rail Line

»  . Soviets Drive OnProskurov  Thru Deep Mud   Capture Of City Would Give Reds Firm Grip On. Odessa-Warsaw Railway Line

Russian Army — Drives Toward Proskurov Base   Capture Would Give Red: Firm Grip On OdessaWarsaw Rail Strip.

CAPTURE WILL FORCE ENEMY TO FALL BACK   Soviet Forces Plow Thru Mud After Nazis Retreating in Disorder

Reds Driving Through Mud For Junction  Of Proskurov   Seeking Fresh Grip Upon Railway Lines

Reds Advance On Muddy Front   important Railway Junction Is Taraet

Build up Strength for Drive on Port; Estimates Say from 25,000 to 50,000 Nazis Trapped

Yanks Shell French City 6 Miles Away   Stranglehold On Port Strengthened By 100-Mile Smast

Big American Guns Begin Siege Of France’s Third Largest Port   LOCAL ADVANCES BY "ALLIES ANNOUNCED

Big French Port Shelled by Navy In Final Attacks   Biggest Victory Of Invasion Looms

Headquarters Communique Reports Nazi Attacks Repulsed Near Tilly-Sur-Seulles And Increased Enemy Shelling At Caen On British-Canadian End

NET TIGHTENS OM WAZI DEFENDERS   25,000 to 50,000 Germans _ Apparently Trapped   STRANGLEHOLD GROWS   American Spearheads Within 8 Miles of Port; Invasion Victory Looms

Spearheads ‘Fight Miles From Harbor   German Defense Line Reached by Americans

Spearheads Are 8 Miles From Big Port   Thousands of Nazis Hurled Back as Trap On Peninsula Tightens  BRICOQUEBEC TAKEN

Doughboys Appear to Have Trapped From. 25,000 to 50,000 Germans by Spectacular Advance—Fate of City Expected to Be Decided on Defense Line Which Yanks Have Practically Reached.

Troops Within Fight Miles Of Prize Port   Trapped Nazis Hurled Back to Main Defense Line as Americans Make 10-Mile Gain

TRAPPED NAZI TROOPS TOTAL ABOUT 50,000   BIG GUNS HAMMER FRANCE’S THIRD LARGEST PORT

U.S. Forces Take Harbor And Airport   New Landing on Nev Guinea Announced —  Dooms Large Jap Force

AMERICANS SEIZE BASE NEAR MADANG   Japs In This Area On New Guinea Ars in Allied Trap

YANKS CAPTURE SAIDOR HARBOR SOUTH OF MADANE   Landing on New Guinea Coast Cuts Barge Supply Route to Rabaul.

Yank Force Captures Air Field And Harbor To Doom Thousands Of Jap Troops

Americans Take Harbor,  Airfield In New Guiriea   Now Only 55 Miles Southeast Of Madang; Invaders Widen Reachhead

Yank Blow Traps Huge Jap Force   Americans Invade Saidor, New Guinea, Capturing Airfield

_ Surprise Landing Brings Downfall of Saidor Harbor   Thousands of Japs To East Doomed,  MacArthur Declares

U. S. INVADERS SEIZE NEW GUINEA AIRPORT   New Landings By Sixth Army Trap Thousands Of Jap Troops 3

JAPS DOOMED BY LANDINGS INN, GUINEF   Harbor, Ajrfield Near Madang Captured As Swarming Americans Surprise Defenders

Surprise Landing Gives Yanks Control Of Entry  Info Bismarck Sea Lanes

HEAVY SOVIET ARTILLERY BLASTS STREETS OF POLISH CAPITAL.   Liberation Imminent   Transylvania Offensive Moy es Forward — Russian Air Ferce Bombs Budapest. 

RED ARTILLERY HITS STREETS OF WARSAW   Polish Capital’s Liberation Appears Imminent

THINK GOERING NEAR INSANITY   Report Air Chief Following  Hitler Into Dementia

Discusses Sale  Of Federal Land   Ickes Urges Interior Department Be Given Control Over Sales

PROPERTY DloPOSAL LAW 1S SUGGESTED   Ickes Asks Prevention of ‘Speculator’s Paradise’ After War.

Lt. J. D. Rose Is Awarded Air Medal   Reported Missing in Action Since May 24 Officer Cited for  ‘“Weritorious Action’

Good News For Hay Fever Victims  Good News For Hay Fever Victims  Composer Suggests Music To Alleviate Annual Sneezing

Good News For Hay Fever Victims Composer Suggests Music To Alleviate Annual Sneezing

Soviet Troops Battle Nazis In Sevastopol   Kussians Kill Enemy In Hundreds In Attempt Te scape By Sea: Harbor Is Graveyard Of Sunken Craft; Base May Fall In 48 Hours

SOVIET ATTEMPTS : “TODESTROY ANS ~ BLACK SEA BASE   Sevastopol Bay is “Graveyard of Sunken Trans. ports, Power Barges,” Many Sunk With Men On.   TRUK, OTHER BASES BLASTED BY YANKEES   Japs Send Up Night Fighterc But MacArthur Reports Enemy Opposition Was Ineffective.

THOUSANDS OF PANIC STRIKEN HAZIS ARE DYING   Slaughter of Troops in Barges Is Tremendous—-Masses Surrender—Base i 3 ~ Doomed.

He enry y A. Wallace May Be Demo’s Presidential Candidate in 1948

3 Escapees, Captured in Memphis   ARMED TRIO TAKEN WITH $5000 IN CASH AFTER MISS. ROBBERY

Three Youthful San Quentin Convicts ‘Who Escaped Dec. 26 Are Captured At Memphis After Series of Robberies

1,250,000 Voters Likely To Cast Ballots In State   Occasional Light Rains Forecast But  Heavy Poll Seen

Two Killed In Riot At Mexican University   School Head Asks President Camacho To Step h To Halt Disorders.

BLAMES ‘DEVIL’ FOR 2 KILLINGS   Boy, 16, Bares Diabolical Pinning’ of Double  Murder

Boy Confesses Killing Mother And His Sister   Boasts Of Cold-Blooded Crime After Capture In Greenville, O. —

VOTERS WILL PASS ON 6 AMENDMENTS   Washington Co. Citizens Also to Pass on Beer Referendum

Marines, Army Smash Ashore, Cloaked by Air And Sea Power   Meet ‘Moderate’ Opposition in New Marianas Landing   ——eeO rr —™  Himmler Can’t Hide Generals’  ~ Defeatism from People---Hull

GERMAN PEOPLE WILL KNOW   Hull Says Himmler Will Not Be Able to Conceal News

EIN ALL OCEANS, SAYS SECRETARY   Landing Craft Program Exceéds All Expectations

DESCRIBES U.S, ‘WORLD FLEET’   Forrestal Declares Vessels Now Carry Offensives to All Oceans

ACTIVE IN ALL OC   Landing Craft Program Exceeds All Expectations

BIG AIR BATTLES FOUGHT OVER ITALY   ALLIES DOWN 87 MORE GERMAN PLANES, BRINGING 2DAY TOTAL TO 87.

T0J0 TELLS JAPSPOSITION GRAVE   Empire Now Facing Decisive Battles, Diet Told

Congress Sees Labor Draft As ‘Hot Potato   Idea Considered By Leaders . Prior to War

National Service Legislation May Prove Difficult Task for Congress   Labor Opposes Compulsory Work; President's Request May Be Linked To Strike Situation

Entire Front At Caen Turns East; New Trap Sprung   ‘Allied Patrois Shoot Completely Across Falaise-Argentan Gap

Patton’s Lightning Smashes Have Nazi Army Disorganized   German Seventh Army “Groggy”; Destruction Thought Near

20. O00 Nagie Die “Trenches in Paris   De Not Want to “Snare City Horrors of Siege Or Pitched Battle?’

47-CENTS CEILING ON LIVE TURKEYS IS SET   Birds Bought Alive And Sold Dressed May Retail At 52 Cents, Official States

REINFORCE BASE   In Three Attacks Allied Bombars. Destroy Total of 18 Enemy. Vessels.

Allied Bombers Smash Another  Japanese Convoy   Third Enemy Attempt In Four Days To Aid ‘Wewak Thwarted

Jap Destroyer, Cargo Ships Sunk   Bombers Continue Assaults on Wewak

Allies Blast o2 Jap Craft Near Wewak   123 Enemy Barges Among Vessels Smashed: New Dav Raid on Rabaul

AIRMEN BLAST 9 NIP VESSELS   23 Enemy Barges Also Sunk Off Wewak, New Guinea

Several Jap Vessels Sunk Off Wewak   Foe’s Third Attempt To Reinforce Teolated Rase Fail«

U. S. Bombs Sink 18 Jap Vessels   Destroyer, Three Corvettes in Bag

Another Nip Attempt to Reinforce  Wewak Fails   Allied Bombers Sink Destroyer,  Tw Caron Shing

N. W. Part Brunswick Hit Today   BOMBING TODAY ARTER { RAF BOMBERS © $71 GERMANY IN NIGHT. .

JAP DESTROYER, TWO CARGO SHIPS SUNK OFF WEWAK      Allied Bombers Smash Japanese Attempt To Reinforce Battered Base

FLIERS SINK 32 VESSELS OFF WEWAK   Include 23 Barges, 7 Coastal Vessels, 2 Freighters

3 NIP SHIPS SUNK OFF NEW GUINEA   Were Attempting To Reinforce : “Base At Wewak.

Another Nippon Move To Bolster Wewak Thwartec   Destroyer, Tv wo Small Cargo Ships Sunk By Allied Bombers.

Jap Effort to Reinforce Wewal Base ls Smashed   Destroyer and Two Cargo Ships Reported Sunk

SMASH A NEW JAP ATTEMPT AT N, GUINEF   Freighters, Other Vessels Sunk by Bombers in Waters Adjacent to Base at Wewak

EUROPE SPARED ~ BOMB SHOWERS   New Aerial Offensive Due To Break Soon On Naziland

Weather Holds Up Allied Air Raids As Crews Prepare for New Altacks

Russian. Airman Blast Nazi Transportation   Big Bombers Grounded By Weather

West Coast Ot ltaly Bombed   Allied Fliers Smash At Nazi Holding In Ports Along Coast   REPORT NAZI PLANE LOSSES IN SECTOR

PARTY THURSDAY FOR COUNTY LIONS CLUBS   JEFFERSON CLUB TO BE HOST   Ltons and Ladies From Churdan, Paton, Grand Jct. and Rippey Will Be Guests

Resistance Is Still Weak —   Engineers, Rush Air Bese 155 Miles From Manis, 900 From China Coast

GAIN SWIFTLY AGAINST WEAK ENEMY FORCES   Engineers Rush Work On Airfield to Shorten Manila Route

ADVANCE SEVEN TO NINE MILES   Town of San Jose, 5 Miles Inland, Captured   REPAIR AIRFIELDS   Planes Sink or Damage 17 Ships, Destroy 235 Planes In Three Days

TOWN 5 MILES INLAND SEIZED BY U.S. ARMY   Yanks in Advance of 7 to $ Miles Against Defenders of Island

AMERICAN TROOPS ‘DRIVE INLAND 10 MINDORO ISLANI   Seize San Jose, Five . Miles From Beachhead, in Broad Advance Against Weak  Resistance. P   ROCKET-FIRING CARRIER PLANES ATTACK LUZON   Tokyo Reports 4 Transports in U.S. Invasion Fleet Were Sunk, 2 Battleships, 3 Cruisers Damaged.

Gains Of Seven To Nine Miles Inland Scored      Americans Take Town of San Jose in Drive From Beuchheads 155 Miles From Manila   Only Negligible Resistance Met   Meanwhile, Rocket-Firing Planes From Carriers Blanket Luzon [staud  For Third Dav

Engineers Speed Work on Airbase For Manila Blow   Aircraft Firing Rockets Claim Heavy Jap Toll

Yanks Push Ahead Seven-Nine Miles; Resistance Weak   U. S. and Australian Engineers Rush Work on Air Field, Which Will Base Planes Within 155 Miles of Manila

Meet Little  Resletance: , “Rush Work  On Airfield:   17. Japanese - Ships. Sunk In Three Days

Japs on Luzon hit Hard Blow by Americans   17 Ships and 373 Planes Destroyed or Damaged in 3 Days

PRESIDENT Ot MEXICO FOILS NAZI ASSASSIN   Seizes Man In Mexican Army Uniform Who Fired Shot That Missed, Questions Him.   Cause Not Announced

Mexican President Escapes Assassin's Bullet and Captures His Assailant

Nelson Party In chungking   Industrial Experts Accompany Emissary

Penelec To ReduceRates October 28   MOVE HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTI. DERATION FOR PAST THREE ‘YEARS; WAR CONDITIONS CAUSE DELAY.   Rate , Adjustments

British News Agency Reports  Advancing Red Army Troops  Have Reached Dniester River

Red Army Reaches Dniester   Nazis Streaming Into Bessarabia; Americang Bomb Vienna; Allies . Hold Most of Cassino

Russians Reach umanian  Border Friday   Ukraine Dealt Severe Blow By Advances:  Dniester River ls  Crossed

Reds Cross Old Border ‘Of Rumania   German Forces Retreating Into  Roacesenhia

Nazis Flee Into Bessarabia As  Reds Close In   Russians Cut Anew Key Rail Line, Wipe Out 45 000 OFf Foe.

German Army Unable fo Half Advancing Foe   Nazi Forces Attempt to Flee By Rail and Sea

RUSSIANS REPORTED AT DNIESTER RIVER AT SEVERAL POINTS  ALL CASSINO EXCEPT STRATEGIC CORNER IN ALLIED HANDS

Red Army At Dniester River, Says  London   Odessa-Lwow Rail Line In Southern Ukraine Cut; Closing In On Stronzholds

Reds Drive > to Border of Rumania   Dniester River Reached at _ Several Points; Nazis Retreat. Into Bessarabia .   “UNABLE. TO CHECK RED ONSLAUGHT   Miles. of . Communications ¢ Tied Up as Germans -, = Seek to. Escape

WEATHER   Russian Army Already Is Battering at Defenses of Nikolaev  CLOSE ON ODESSA Russian Units Only 70   Russian Units Only 70 Miles From Black Sea Port

SOVIETS REACH -DNIESTER RIVER AS NAZIS FLEE   Germans Weaken in Effort to Slow Red Advance on Odessa, Nikolaev

Reds Closing Trap Around Nazi Troops   Claim Liquidation of 45,000 Men in Net Near Nikolaev

Reds Crash Into Border Of Rumania      Report-Says Nazis Crossing Dniester, Taek ine Bessarabia

RUSSIANS HAVE. ATTAWNED DNIESTER RIVER'S BANK OW OLD RUMANIA BORDER

SOVIETS PLUNGE RAPIDLY TOWARD RUMANIAN LINE   Final Liquidation Of German _ Divisions Trapped Near Nikolaev Announced By Russians; Closing In Steadily On Enemy Strongholds.

SOVIET FORCES EXTEND DRIVE TO DNIESTER   Other Troops Push Toward Odessa, Batter At Defenses Of Nikolaev

Red Army Cuts Rail  Line Anew   Plunges Rapidly Toward Border of Rumania

Nazi Troops Retreat Into Bessarabia   Russians Reach Dniester River At Several Points

Reuters Reports Russian Army On Banks of Dniester   Fast Soviet Advance Places Stalin’s Troops Within 50 Miles of Prut River

SECOND UKRAINIAN ARMY ADVANCING ON OLD BORDER AREA  GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE BEGUN RETREAT INTO BESSARABIA

‘Russians Now Within Fifty  Miles Of Prut   Several Trapped German Divisions Above NikoJaev Are Liquidated, Moscow Says   ‘Many Huns, Facing Death, Surrender   Fierce Fighting Rages In Pruskurov Sector Near Old Polish Border: Repulse Counter Blows

BITTER FIGHTING IS STILL RAGING AROUND CASSING   Germans Hold Out Stubbornly In Blasted Abbey — Fight Flares on Beachhead

Reds Reach Dneister River And Nezis Are Relreating Into Bessarabia; More Vital. Rail Lines Cut, Trapped Divisions Slain

RED CAPTURE OF VINNITSA SAID 10 BE IMMINENT   Encircled Nazi Divisions Said Completely Liquidated

/ ~-_RUSSTA—  GERMANS FLEEING INTO BESSARARI!   Report Indicates Russians Have Reached * Old Rumanian Frontier   PORTS THREATENED   Moscow Says Nazis Will Not Be Able To Hold ' Odessa, Nikolaey

Heds Closing On Vinnitsa  And Nikolaev   Odessa-Lwow Rail. Line  ~ Cut Again — Several Nazi Divisions . Liquidated Near Nikolaev.

Nazis Begin Retreat Into Bessarabia   Konev’s Army At Several Points On Dniester River

Says Red Units Reach Dniester   London Gets Reuters Dispatch That Russians Advance to Old Rumanian Border at Several Points With Germans Retreating Into Bessarabia.   VINNITSA IS MENACED   Clase In an Vinnltea

River 's Boundary Between Pre-War Soviet and Rumania   German Resistance Remains Bitter in Vicinity of Cassino

ed Ukraine rmy Forces ttain Dniester   ters Says Konev’s Seeond Army Reaches River At Several Points.’   RMANS RETREATING

Nazi Forces Flee to Bessarabia   Soviets Have Reachec Dniester River At Several Places

Report Says Soviets at Old Rumanian Border   Reuters Dispatch Indicates German: Retreating Into Bessarabia; Three Nazi Divisions Liquidated in Trap.

Reuters Says Germans Already Beginning Retreat Into Bessarebia   VINNITSA GIRDED   Jdessa-Lwow Rail Line Cut Ageis, Liquidation of Several Nazi Divisions Compleied

IREDS REACH DNIESTER RIVER ” CUTTING NAZI LINES: 45,000 — GERMANS REPORTED LIQUIDATED   Fierce Fighting Rages on Long Front in Southern Ukraine with Russias Everywhere Crowding Germans Back Toward Rumania and Into Polanc

GERMANS DEALT HEAVY BLOW BY SOVIET ARMIES   Reds At Rumanian Border; Close In On Vinnitsa

Grand Juy Indicts Foe Of Communists   Charged With Failure To Open Records of Contributions to Leach,

Hollandia’s Three Airdromes May Be Taken Soon   Torrential Rains And Mud Slow Up Allied Advance

Yanks Drive Toward Three Jap Airports   One Airfield Already Being Used by U. S. Fliers

Jap Base ~ Toppling * to Yanks   Sapture of Hollandia’s ® Threo Airdromes Impinent, Mar Arthur Says   TROOPS MAKING STEADY PROGRESS   Rains and Mud Slow Out Troops More Than Enemy Resistance

Capture of Jap. Base Seen Neat   Fall Of Three. Airdromes At:Prized Nippon _Base‘In Dutch New Guinéa.Expected. . ~ MacArthur's Forces Continug Attack

Laud 36th . Fighters   Fall Of Important Jap Base Of Hollandia, New Guinea Near

CLOSE PINCERS ON HOLLANDIA   Japs’ Prize Base In Dutch New Guinea Toppling Rapidly

THREE MAJOR AIRDROMES GOAL OF ALLIED LANDING FORCES IN[NEW INVASION IN NEW GUINEA   Hollandia Town Lies in Utter Destruction, With Small Loss to Allies. Thousands of Invading. Troops Slosh Through Mud and Mountain te  ward Now Priva

HOLLANDIA IS FALING UNDER VANKEE ATTACK’   Forces Push Against Two Airfields; India-Burma Border Fight Slackens

Hollandia, Prize Base  Toppling   Capture of Three Major Airdromes By MacArthur's  Forces -_Imminent

ONE AIRSTRI NOW IN USE OF ALLIES   Wrecked Town Falls Without Serious Opposition   COUNTER MOVES   By Enemy Are Anticipated: Destroy 101 Jap Planes In New Guinea Action

Japan's Prized Hollandia Base Is Near Capture   Fall of Three Airdromes of Dutch New Guinea Ap pears Imminent.   Two-Way Squeeze Put On by 2 U.S. Forces

Allies Driving” Toward Airports Near Hollandia  Little Resistance: To MacArthur's: Forcés : “In North New: Guinea.

Jollandia Ruins Taken Without Serious Opposition as Nips Flee To Jungle When Yanks Storm : Ashore After Terrific Bombardment—Dutch Officials Take Over Administration of First  Liberated Territory While Troops Push on To Get Airfields from Which To Continue

First Of Dutch Territory Taken Back From Japs   No Counter - Attacks Reported Yet As Allies Continue Advances

Yanks Close Pincers On Jan Fields   Troops Being Held Back by Heavy Rains And Mud

Jap Base Totter: Under U.S. Raid   Hollandia Has Fallen and Lies in Utter Destruction   A TWO-WAY SQUEEZE   Allied Forces Have: Caught Enemy Off-Balance in Southwest ;

ALLIED NEW GUINEA ACTION REPORTED BE MOVING IN HIGH GEAR  HOLLANDIA CAPTURED AND THREE AIRDROMES ARE NEXT OBJECTIVES

Hollandia Base to Allies, Japs Weaken   American Conquerors Meet Little Enemy Opposition at Stronghold; Allied Air Attacks on Widespread Pacific Bases

Close on Hollandia Airdromes   American Advance on Fields Slowed By Mud Enemy Resistance Is  Light, Casualties Few

Fall of Jap Air Fields Is Near   One Enemy. Air Field Operated by Americans In 48 Hours After Taken

Japan's Prize Base of Hollandia Appears Toppling   Capture of the New Guinea Base’s Three Airdromes lmminent

Japanese Resistance Broken in 25 Days of Fierce Fighting —Strips Occupied After Yank Enveloping Attack That Forces Nipponese ‘on Ridge Overlooking Fields to Fall Back With Heavy Losses.

German Railway Lines in Italy Are Bombed   Ground Fighting Is Confined to Patrol Action

Cleveland Death Toll Reaches 7]   Predict Higher Toll As Area Devastated By Explosion Of Gas Tanks Is Searched

Ohio Holocaust Toll Set at 100   Death Toll Expected to Reach 120 in Fire Started by Gas Storage Tank Explosion; Blaze Lays Waste 50 Blocks, Many Homeless

Montana Legionnaires Will Open 26th Annual Meet Today   Memorial Services, Public Initiation, Banquet Will Be Feature of American Legion Sessions: FB] Official to Address Veterans

Story Told of Strange Naval Battle Where Victors Fled from Defeatec

va Jobs Reach Peak, It Is Said   Progressive Decline May Be Expected, Says Secretary Perkins

GERMANS SEEK TO WIDEN GAP IN IASI FIGHT      ‘Insignificant?’ Wedge Driven In Red Line—Russians Are Holding Firmly

NAZI TROOPS HIT AT REDS NEAR IASI   Seek to Wipe Out Springboard for Russ Offensive

DRIVE WEDGE IN RED LINE   Germans Attempting to Wipe Out Possible Springboard for Russian Summer Drive Toward Bucharest.

Nazis Strike To Break Up Massing Reds   Heavy Tank and Infantry Attacks Made at Iasi

Germans Attack Red Army At Iasi   Attempt Made To Widen ‘Wedge In Soviet Line

NAZIS TRY TO WIDEN WEDGE   Hurl Masses of Tanks  Against Russian Line

GERMAN DRIVE AT IASI FAILS, MOSCOW SAYS   Nazi Thrust Ends 49-Day Lull On Romanian Battle Front

Jap Civilians Given Chance To Surrender   Single Highway Open Into U. S. Lines; Troops Pocketed

Close In For Kill On Saipan   Japanese Civilians Bottled Up With Nip Troops On Isle’s Tip Given Chance for Life

Trapped Japs Given Chance To Surrender   Pacific Drive Rolls Ahead at Terrific Pace

CLOSE. IN’ ON  JAPS   Japanese Civilians Are Given Chance to Surrender : to U; S..

Yanks Closing In For “Kill” On Saipan; Trapped Civilians Afforded Chance To Surrende:   Pacific Offensive Rolls On With New Invasion And Sinking Of 5 More Ships

SURRENDER OFFER GIVEN CIVILIAN JAPS ON SAIPAN   Believe 10 to 15 Thousand Are Crowded . Together  With Jap Troops in North End of Island—Yanks Closing In

Saipan Japanese Doomed To Deatt As Yanks Close Island Bottleneck

Americans Cut 9-Mile Swath. In Enemy Line   Allied Spearheads Driving Toward Ntalian Capital. Alano Renand Feant 

Yanks Capture Valletri, Valmontone In Double Triumph Cutting Main Escape Route for 8 Enemy Divisions

Chinese Remove Sinkiang Governo!   New Appointment Is Gesture For Russia

China in Friendly Gesture to Russia \Removes Governor of Sinkiang Province

Manpower Control Will Be Relaxed   McNutt Sees Change When Germany Falls

Mountain Captured In 51 Minutes ee enn a  Pvt. Wm. Wolfe Took Part   In Record Setting Assault

Mountain Captured In 51 Minutes  Mountain Captured In 51 Minutes  Pvt. Wm. Wolfe Took Part In Record Setting Assault

SOUTH PROTESTS COURT DECISION   States May Change Primary Laws After Ruling to Permit Negro Voting.

Southerners Angered at Court Ruling   Negroes Will Be ‘Kept From Primaries. Senators Sav

Bombers Sink Or Damage 9 Japanese Ships   Fliers Leave Fires Blazing in Davao In Philippine Area

9 JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED   Average For August Has Beer Four Ships Every 24 Hours:  Davao Is Set Ablaze

BOMBERS SINK NINE JAP SHIPS   Foe Convoy is Attacked in Bonins Area; Heavy Raid Is Made on Davao

If You Can’t Get Turkey, Why Not Try Chicken In Two Or Three Languages?

French Armor Penetrafes City Of Strasbourg  British Thrown Out Of Hoven by Fierce

Allies Meet Most Savage Resistance Since D-Day on Western Front—Bad :Weather Slows Drive In South — Strasbourg: Is Entered—3,000 Prisoners Taken—Gains Made In Italy and On Russian Front ;

ADVANCE UNITS CROSS RHINE IN AREANEAR CITY   German Forces Offer Their Fiercest Resistance On Front Since D-Day

LIGHTNING DRIVE BY AMERICANS TOWARD HEART OF FRANCE   UNITED STATES TANK FORCES ADVANCE 45 MILES IN TWO DAYS

INVADERS HOLD FRENCH COAST FOR 20 MILES   Indications Mount That Major Battle Is Now in Progress   BULLETIN

ALLIED LEADERS ARE EXPECTED TO CONFER SOON   Churchill Reported .To Be Already In Conference With His Ministers   QUEBEC CONSIDERED SITE OF MEETINGS

AMERICAN AIRMEN REPORTED BEATEN      French Underground Chief Says : Manacled Yanks Were Pa raded by Nazis in Elbeuf.

. ae ON ROAD TO MANDALAY   Allied Troops Take Town Southwest of Mogaung

Believe Reds Form _ New Trap in Baltics   Nazis Admit Soviets at Riga Beaches—Great Southern Offensive Carries Russians Forward on a 150-Mile Front.

GERMANS SAY ~ LONDON UNDER V-2 BOMBARDMENT   Second Secret Weapon Not Recognized by British, However.

B-29s Batter Japan’s Big Mitsubishi Aircraft Plant   None of Saipan-Based Raiders Lost; 5 Nip Fighters Destroyed, 4 Damaged

Few Casualties  In Breakthrough East of Aachen   Chain of Fortresses In Sector Taken Almost Without Fight

Legion Group Offers Program   Employment, Postwar Taxes, UL. S. Foreign Policy Dealt With

LEGION OFFERS POST-WAR PLAN   11-Point Setup Embraces Employment, Foreign Policy, Taxes

Postwar Program Offered   11-POINT PLAN _ STRESSES EMPLOYMENT, TAXES AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

Post-War Plan Of Legion Has  Eleven Points   Embrace Employment, Post-War Taxes, U. 5S. Foreign Policy

Legion Presents Postwar Prograrr  Covers Employment, Taxes, Foreign Pelicy

\Legion Plans (For War’s End   Against Depemlence On Public Funds

11-Point Plan Born Of Legion Postwar Study   Proposed Program Cov: ers Employment, Taxes And Foreign Policy.

DEWEY AND Fh FAVOR PROJECT   Vermont Senator Tells De: troit Leaders of Proposed Waterway.

Schoolmasters To Meet Saturday   Harvey Black to Be Speaker At Delayed Program

Schoolmasters To Meet Saturday   Harvey Black to Speak On Teacher Retirement Plan

Protests Made To OPA Probe In This Area   “Unfair Practices” In Inquiry Charged; Complaints To Hal!

WAR PRODUCTION IMPEDED AS STRIKES SWEEP NATION   ’ 16,125 Workers Lay Down Tools In Crucial  Plants—Detroit Leads   * Chevrolet Employes To Appeal WLB Order; Truckers Idle In West   RILELETIN.

90,000 TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE   War Cargoes Wait Shipment as Walkout Threatens to Spread

CARGOES GOINC 10d STATES ARE TIED UP   Walkout of Drivers and Handlers Brings Serious Situation

GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TC TAKE ACTION TO END “ WALKOUT OF. 50,000 PRIVERS AND HANDLERS

States Give Approval To Water Treaty   Organization Perfected Unanimously to Carry Out Intensive Campaian for Measure

Truman charges republicans trying  ta turn erisis of -war to own benefi

114 Ships of U. S. Navy Lost in War   Rises to That Figure Witl Anncuncement of Loss  Destroyer

wr —_—_———————  CONGRESS Ri TO LABOR DAY SEEN   House Leader Sa\ Says Vacation Exterision Due; Work Apnears Light

Congress Away  Until Labor Day   Few Will Return to Capital Aug. 

SANTA ON HIS WAY   Will Be on the Air Tomorrow Night and in the Parade Friday

FOO0 FOR WAR NEEDS EXPLAINED   MILLIONS OF CANS USED DAILY IN ARMED SERVICES OF COUNTRY

Say Value Not Worth Cost In Casualties  Yanks Withdraw FromF ortDriant

Patton’s Men Quit Fight  For Driant   Promised Reward Not Worth Cost In Casualties *

YANKEES HAVE WITHDRAWN FR DRIANT BATTLE   Promised Reward Is Not Cost In Casualties Is Report

eAliies Pull Out After 3 Weeks OfHeavy Fighting; "Nazis Attacking Aachen

American Casualties Are Placed at Only 10,409  MANY-ARE-KILLED. — . IN CONVOY RAID.  77th Division Advance: Mile North of . Ormoc

JAP CASUALTIES ON LEYTE REACH TOTAL OF 82,554   At Least 30,000 Enemy Troops Killed Or Drown ed From 10 Convoys   AMERICAN LOSSES PLACED AT 10,409

American Loss Reaches 10,409 On Two Islands   33,801 Jap Dead Found Abandoned

Samar, Leyte Fight Costs Japs 82,554   Estimated 30,000 Enemy Troops Died In Ten Convoys

Soviet Contacts Japan for Allies   Supplies, Sought for Far East Prisoners

Russo-American Club Expells Mischa Auer   Says Attacked Russia By Supporting Dewey

Yanks Drive Inland Half-Mile, Crushing Nazi Beach Thrusts   Baitle- Weary Germans Falter After Major Blow at Sea Line: Two-Thirds of Losses Revained

YANKS REGAIN INITIATIVE OF ANZIO FRONT   Win Back Most of 1,500 Yard Salient Lost Tuesday

German Flank Unhinged Near  Swiss Frontier   Nazis Show Signs of Retreating in Duren,  Julich Areas   RULLETIW

FRENCH TROOPS AND ARMOR REACH RHINE AT BERGUNDY GAP  FIVE OTHER ATIIFN ARM   FIVE OTHER ALLIED ARMIES HIT SAGGING GERMAN LINE MANY POINTS

Swiss Report Frenchmen Throwing Bridge Across Rhine In Belfort Sector

Sweep Behind Belfort   German Line Along 400-Mile Front Sags Under Pounding of Six Allied Armies

ALLIED TROOPS REPORTED THROWING BRIDGE ACROSS AHINE NEAR SWITZERLAND

UNHINGE ENEMY: LINE IN SOUTE   Third Army, Crushing Metz, Draws Up to Border of   Cnanr   GAIN ON AACHEN FRONT

Nazi Line — Unhinged On South   ist French Army - Surges Through Burgundy Gap at Belfort   GENERAL GERMAN... RETREAT POSSIBLE:   Defense Begins to Waveron Other Sectors; Yanks to Saar. Border

Allied Armies Smash Sagging German Lines   Sharp Advances Are Recorded on Front in Europe

FRENCH TROOPS AND ARMOR REACH RHINE AT BERGUNDY GAP  ~ FIVE OTHER ALLIED ARM. IES HIT SAGGING GERMAN LINE MANY POINTS

German Southern Flank y Unhinged by Plunge  to River.   SEIZE VOSGES PASSES   Allies Bulge Thru on Cologne Plain Northeast of Aachen

Defense Showing Signs Of Crackup   French Unhinge Nazis’ Entire South Flank; Metz Being Crushed By American Third Army: Four Main Passes Through Vosges Captured   A Week Of Great Promise For Allies

Fighting of Rising Fury Follows Nazis’ Stand at Frontier   Patton’s Forces Gain Foothold on Eastern Bank of Moselle

Goes Forward For Battle Of Siegfried Line   First Army Also Smashes Ahead; Nazis Resisting

Nazis Place 14-Year-Olds In War Work   Goebbels Also Issues Decrce Sending Red Cross Workers Into Armament Plants—Bul. gavia Breaks with Reich   U. §. THIRD ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN

THE  WAR TODAY   Fall of Odessa One of Most Important Vietories of Entire Rus. so-German Conflict

 AUSSIES HAVE PULLED THEIR WEIGHT IN THIS WAR ON ALL FRONTS DECLARES WAR ANALYST

FARMER DRAFT PLAN OPPOSED   Direct Appeal Made To FOR By Farm Bloc

Farm Labor  Pleas: Seen   Lack: Of Deferments To Hurt Production

Farm State Bloc Plan FDR Appea To Modity Draft  petite Of Food ‘eared  If f Manpower

Farm Organization Asserts About Half of 1 ,770,000 Farm Workers Subject To Induction :

SENATORS FROM FARM STATES TO APPEAL DRAFT   FDR To Hear Delegation Discuss Situation Affecting Food Production

Farm Solons Seek Modification — Of Draft Ruling  Fear Induction of   Fear Induction of Farmers Will Cut Food Output

Eisenhower Says Progress” Made; Vast Forces Brought Up in Night to Give Support

Nazi Troops Forced Civilia ns To Remain Inside Cassino Monastery D uring Attack

REDS OVERRUN PORTS ALONG DANUBE RIVER   Swarm Over Lands Seized During 40 Confab

CIO Demands Hard Peace For Germany   Sidetracks Resolution Against Wage Freeze to Ask Destruction Hitlerite Germany and Japan

HARD PEACE FAVORED BY ClO LABOR GROUP   Wage Freeze Tossed Over for Peace Table Request

12 Killed as Iwo Boubers Collide   Masai une  Liberators Crash ir

Big Bombers Collide, Fall   All Aboard Reported Killed in Arizena

Accord is Reported Near At Dumbarton Oaks Parley On World Security Plans

ACCORD NEAR ON SECURITY REPORTS SAY   Tentative Agreement on Several Points Already Reached

DELEGATES ARE IN AGREEMENT   Few Details Of World Security Organization Yet  To Be Worked Out

SECURITY TALKS ~ HINT ABREEMEN   Dumbarton ~ Oaks Delegates Said to Have Reférred Plans to Canitals

Security Planners Refer Proposals To Their Capitals   Complete Draft at Dumbarton Oaks May Bi Ready This Week

Delegates Near Accord At Parley   U.S., British, Russian Conferces Approach  _.._Agreement_on  Security

STATE ATHLETIC HEAD DIES OF HEART ATTACK   H. R. Townsend, 60, Stricken En Route to Farm in Clinton County

einai  H.R, TOWNSEND DIES OF HEART AILMENT   Death Comes Unexpectedly to Ohio Sports Boss

Fall of Paris Probable This Week — Battle Nears Two Great Climaxes

Battle Of Normandy May Eventually Turn. Qut To Be Real Battle Of Western Europe.

HIT ISOLATION, DANIELS URGES   Asks Crystal Clear Stand On Peace Planning

Daniels Seeks Crystal Clear Demo Platform   FDR’s Boss In World War  Wants Condemnation Of Isolationism.   AWAIT HANNEGAN

Negro Policy Of Democrats Is Considered  Questions Parried As Planks Outlinec

Daniels Asks Clear Platform   Former Secretary of Navy Calls for One to Condemn Isolationism

‘Crystal Clear’ Platform, Plea  Blast Isolationism, Daniels Urges

ilitary Night ‘As¢ Observed By ~ Concord Elks   Lieut. Colonel Otis M. Whitney, o1 Medical Leave Here After Two Years in Action Overseas >

Lieut. Colonel Otis M. Whitney, or Medical Leave Here After Two  Years in Action Overseas

Hitler’s Third Secret Weapor Is Scheduled   Projectile With Explosive Radius  Of Two Miles

Hitler May Use New Exploding Projectile against Allied Armies   14-ton Radio-directed Shell Called Successor to Nazi Flying Bomb, Rockets

New Nazi Vengeance Weapor ts Giant 14-Ton Projective   Shot Into Air Vertically, Then Levels Off, Controlled By Radio

V-3 Weapon  Has 2-Mile ' Blast Radius   Third in Hitler’s Vengeance Series Is 14-Ton - Projectile.

Germany’s Newest Death Weapon, A 14-Ton Bomb, Staggers The Imagination

Vengeance Weapon Told   Reported V-3 Weighs 14 Tons, its Blast Damaging Buildings 2 Miles Away

REICH’S 14-TON ¥-3 DESCRIBED   Giant 60-Foot Projectile s Latest German Weapon

14-TON BOMB IS NEW WEAPON   Third Army Learns About Nazi Vengeance Tool

14-Ton Projectile Scheduled as Next      Third Army ‘Data Shows V-3 Has Nearl °2-Mile Radius

14-Ton Nazi Vengeance Bomb Reported Capable of Blasting Radius of 2 Miles

Third Secret Weapon Told   V-3 Is Said To Have Power To Wreck Buildings Within Two Mile Radius.

It’s 14-Ton Projectile With Explosive : Radius Of Nearly Two Miles

NEW HITLER: VENGENCE WEAPON IS 14-TON PROJECTILE WITH EXPLOSIVE RADIUS TWO MILES

NEW SECRET WEAPON OF GERMANS WAITED   V-3 Projectile Of 14 Tons Covers Two-Mile Radius

V-3 May Have 14-Ton Bomb   Yanks Get Data on Secret Weapon— Not Yet Used

Hitler's 3rd Secret Weapon 14-Ton Projectile Blasts + Everything In 2-Mile Radius

Coup Staged Tn Ecuador   Dr. Del Rio Remains laside U.S. Embassy

REVOLUTIONISTS SEIZE CONTROL IN ECUADOR   Dr. Carlos Arroyo Del Rio, After Resigning Presidency Takes Refuge In American Embassy

FIRE DESTROYS FULTON HOUSE   Woman Guest, 76, Missing After Blaze at McConnellsburg

Next Step is to Destroy Nazi Armies Moving into Assault Areas, Then Hit Real Defenses   Germany's 21st Panzer Division Which Was Wrecked  In Africa Has Been Reformed And Is  Opposing Advancing Allies .

U.S. AIRMEN BOMB CAPITAL OF JAVA   Two Australian-Based Planes Strafe Buildings in Batavia— Raid First on City.

O2ANH GLAlida  risa LINDLEY   xemp_.on Man Dies This Morning at ercy Hesp.tal

0: ATH CLAMS! AMR LINDLEY   Ramp! on Man ‘Dies . Phis Morning at. iwercy “Hesp.tal

Venray Taken, Allies Prepare For New Drive  Progress Reported  Ati 6 At.   Progress Reported All Along Front In France

ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE VITAL NAZI RAIL HUB   Venray Taken; Cologne Faces Heavy Attack, Berlin Says

U. S. First Army Is Spueezing Aachen Into Submission   German Radio Acknowledges Fortress City Encircled and Describes Fighting There Surpasses All Other Battles   HINT ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE ON CITY OF COLOGNE

BRITISH TAKE VENRAY AFTER TWO-DAY SIEGE   Yanks Continue Mop Up of Aachen; Drive Four Miles From Metz

Yanks Preparing For Assault To Take Cologne   British Capture Rail, Road Junction As Aachen Being Squeezed.

Cologne May  Be Objective Of New Drive By Alltes   Eisenhower Preparing For New Assault, Says Berlin; British Take Venray. Near River

Venray is Taken by British   Progress Is Reported All Along Western Front

Invasion Coast Is Lashed   Thunderbolts Pound Two Areas As Bad Weather Grounds  Fortresses.

Red Army Driving Through City Suburbs;  Nazis Leaving E. Prussia

RUSSIANS SWARM THROUGH WARSAW AND ACROSS THE VISTULA RIVEI   WILL BE IN BERLIN “VERY, VERY SOON,” SAYS MOSCOW RADIO

Soldiers Go To Jerusalem To Celebrate Peace   Journey by Airplane From Battlefield To Site of World’s Greatest Miracle.

AMERICAN SOLDIERS GET RESPITE FROM WAR IN JERUSALEM  CAME TO PALESTINE BY PLANE DIRECT FROM

KILLING OF FLIERS > IS DENIED BY JAPS   Nipponese > Say ’ ‘Erroneous Interpretation” Put on Broadcast

War Question Put Dewey on Narrow Path   Reporter Questions Consistency in MacArthur Remarks

Coal Men SeekToEne Foremen’s Union   Supreme Court Asked To Stop Organization, Strike Balloting Of Supervisors

Challenge Two  Labor Agencies Mine Operators Go To Federal Court

Southern Operator: Go Into Court to Fight NLRB, WPB  Board Jurisdiction Over Foremen of Mines Challenaed

NAZIS OPEN FIRE ON BERLIN CROWD   Report Says Riot Reported In Nazi Capital

ROOSEVELT IN CHICAGO FOR TALK TONIGHT   “Inducement Tax”’  Outline Will Be Main Subject

FDR Takes Credit For War Victories Wonin 27 D-Days   ‘Inducement Tax’ Prepesed To Help Private Industry . Have Fall Pecitwar Emslovmes

Roosevelt To Talk On Post-War Plan   President On Way To Chicago Following His Philadelphia Address In Which He Accused Some Republicans Of Putting Political Advantage Above Efforts To Guarantee Peace

FDR Expected To Outline . New Tax Plan   ..President May Back ‘hiducement’ Levy For Postwar Pectot

F.R. Drafts  ‘‘Inducement Tax’’ Policy   Intended to He!p Out Private Industry In Post-War Era

‘President Roosevelt May Outline "Inducement Tax" Policy Tonight

PRESIDENT AIRS ACHIEVEMENTS OF WAR RECORD   Chief Executive Expected Tc Offer ‘Inducement Tax’ In Chicago Talk. Tonight  os... EIAPRLATAMT Pm FFP tere ee

Inducement Tax To Be Outlined By Roosevelt   Philadelphia Hears Democratic Candidate Speak

INDUCEMENT TAX T0 BE OUTLINED   F. R. Goes to Chicago for Major Address

PREPAREDNES! PROGRAM IS DEFENDED   ’ Business To Be Discussed In Chicago Tonight   MEN IN SERVICE   To Be Discharged As Soon As Possible, President Says In Philadelphia

FDR May Seek — Business Vote Tonight’s Speech  May Offer An  “Inducement Tax’”’ , =  ye » @ ry Wy

F.R. May Offer Tax Adjustment As Business Aid   Chicago Address Tonight Follows War Policy Tall In Philadelvhia.

POSTWAR AIDS T0 BUSINESS SLATED AS F. D. R.’S TOPIC   PRESIDENT TO BID © FOR ILLINOIS VOTE © IN CHICAGO TONIGHT

F D.R. To Outline Postwar Tax Policy Tonight   Shibe Park Jammed Last Night To Hear F.D.R. Ran G.O.P. Politicians.

Roosevelt To Make Bid For  Susiness Vote   Philadelphia Crowd Hears President— “Inducement Tax” May Be Outlined

FDR Readys Speech on Post-War Taxes for Chicago Crowd   President Invades Chicago for Sequel to Philly Address

German Resistance Crumples Before Americans Drive Toward Positions : Four Miles from Big French Port

Yankees Only 7 Mi. From City   American Hurricane Rushing Toward Positions Four Miles From Big Port

Nazi Resistance Dissolves in Hurricane Drive   Germans Attempting to Set Up Siege Line as Americans Race to Within Four Miles on Vital Port; 30,000 Enemy Troops Doomed

’? ' . a Who Gets Out of the Army When Germany Falls? Answer Is Complex

6 Inches of Snow Reported at Fort Dodge; Near Blizzard Conditions Forecast in Towa.

IN SERVICE 3 WEEKS, KILLS NAZI PRISONER   Weisel Youth, Pvt. Reuben Strawn, Prevents His Escape   STRUCK THRU HEART

WEISEL SOLDIER GETS NAZI TRYING TO FLEE   Shoots War Prisoner One Week After He Enters Service   WHILE ON GUARD DUTY

Memorial Services For   Pfc. Albert Christensen   Held at Nain Lutheran Church,  : July 23

Commiftee Fails To Apportion Convention Votes   Chairman Will Name Sub-Committee for State Gathering

Reds Kill 500,000 In Less 2 Months   German Losses On Eastern Front Include 5,000 Tanks and 10,000 Guns.

Soviet Troops Regrouping for Final Assaults   Nazis Lose 500,000 Within Two Months   Soviet Task Outlined

Forces Regrouped  For New Assaults  By TOM YARBROUGH Racarinated Drase Rtaltf Weitar

REDS TO BATTLE WAY INTO REICH   Will Fight in Close Collaboration With Allies   CITES CASUALTIES   Soviet Troops Still Regrouping for Resumption of Drives Against Foe

NAZI LOSSES OVER 300 000 IN 2 MONTHS   RUSSIANS PREPARE FOR FINAL DRIVE ON BERLIN

SOVIETS PUT  - AXIS LOSSES. AT 500,000      Review Says Number Killed or Captured Since December   ARMIES TO BATTLE WAY INTO GERMANY   Close Collaboration With Allied Armies Is Promised

Reds to Invade Germany at Proper Time  Have Facilitated Invasion for

Reds to Invade Germany al Proper Time   Have Facilitated Invasion for U. S. and Britain

Nazi Losses To Russians Running Higt   Berlin Says Soviets Still Attacking In The Crimean Sector

Reds Put Axis Toll at 500,00 In Two Months   Soviet Crimea Armies Still Attacking in Sevastopol District; Drive on Berlin Seen

GERMANS MOVE IN 130,000 MEN, CUT COMMUNICATIONS   Budapest !s Cut From Outside World, Move Indicates Possible New ‘A xis Stand Against Reds.   GERMANS IN CONTROL OF ALL CONVENIENCES   Last Official Communication Reveals Three Leaders Have Gone to Germany Under Arrest.

ASK FDR MOVE TO SPARE ROME   Creation of Commission Is  Suggested by Bridges

FDR May Name Allied-Enemy Commission ‘Headed By Pope To Demilitarize Rome _

New Hampshire Senator ‘Proposes Commission iTo Demilifarize Rome

FDR Asked to Name Allied: Enemy Office Headed by Pope   Take Lead in Move To Demilitarize Rome by Commission

Demilitarizing Rome Proposed   Sen. Bridges Suggests FDR * Take Lead In Protection Eternal City.  5

Reds Narrow Ring About Korsun Foe   More Communities Freed As Soviels Drive On

U: S. Bombers Strike Deen Into Germany   Running Fight With Foe Carried on for Hundreds of Miles

WILD DOGFIGHT AS LUFTWAFFE ATTACKS YANKS   Aerial Battle Inside Reich

U.S. FLIERS HIT CENTRAL GERMANY   250 Flying Forts  in Raid; Nazis Say  Battle Violent

 Withdraw From Slope Under Screen of Artillery Fire; Doo little Says 2,100 Nazi Planes Destroyed in Past Eight Weeks.   (By the Untied Press)

250 BOMBERS OVER GERMANY AGAIN TODAY   Small F orce Hoped To Draw Nazi Planes intc Combat

15th Raid By Daylight This Month   Germans Claim to Hawe Shot Down Several  American Planes

YANK FLYERS IN EXTENSIVE BATTLE   Germans Seal Victory Ir Cassino Area By Regaining Control of Slopes.

ee  Yank Airmen Engage In Violent Runni ing Batt ‘le  With Nazis Over ¢ sermany

FORMATIONS MAKE ATTACK   Berlin Broadcasts Indicate 8th Air Force Has Lashed Again at Reich.   BULLETIN

Germany And France Hit Hard Today By Powerful Forces Of U.S. Bombers

U. S. Planes Strike Deep  In Germany   Berlin Reports Fierce Running  Battles for Miles Across Reich

CHINESE TAKE MOGAUNG STRONGHOLI   Base Falls, Kamaing Faces Death Trap By Allies

Chinese Tighten Death Trap on Japs at Kamaing   Death, Surrender Seen Only Choices -For Nip Division

Kighth Army  Pushes Across   ‘The Rubicon   Strean Made Famous By Julius Caesar Flows Into Adriatic Sea Above

British Eighth Army Crosses Rubicon; Major Victory Seen  Other Advances Have Been Recorded In Italian Campaigr

EIGHTH ARMY PUSHES ACROSS FAMED RUBICOR   May Lead to Decisive Victory for Allied Forces in Italy.

Eighth Army Smashes Across Historic Rubicon River After Counterattacks Slow Drives   Allied Commander Hopeful Crossing Will Lead To A Decisive Victory

British Cross Rubicon River   Flows Into Adriatic North Of Rimini .

Eighth Battles Way Across Rubicon   Hopes For Victory In Italy Expressed By Allied General

Allies Cross Rubicon; See Victory Near   Italian Campaign Draws Closer to End After Gothic Line Bursts

“Eighth Army Has Crossed Rubicon “In italian Drive    Advance May Pave .Way for Decisive  Action; Counter-Blows : Stopped by Yanks

TH ARMY DRIVES ~ ACROSS. RUBICON   Allied: Commander Hopes 11 - Will Lead to Another Decisive Victory.

Allies Sweep Onin Italy   ~€rossfamed Rubicon; ~ Eighth and Fifth Armies Fight Steadily Ahead

Rubicon Is Crossed by Eighth Army   Commander Hopes Crossing  “Y Will Lead to Destruction of German Army in_ Italy; Bordonchia Captured

Allies Push Across Historic Rubicor   Bordonchia Captured; Fifth Army Advances Toward Boloana Area

EIGHTH ARMY FORCE  HAMMERED ACROSS  HISTORIC RUBICON CROSSING OF LITTLE STREAM  MADE FAMOUS  CAD 12 DODADTCH

Eighth Pounds Across Famous  Rubicon River   Historic Crossing By Caesar Repeated By Yank Troops; Alexander Congratulated

Eighth Crosses The Rubicon   Fifth Driving Down Valley Relaw Rologna

RUBICON RIVER CROSSED TODAY IN NORTH ITALY   Muddy Roads Are Slowing Fifth To Standstill

Kighth Army Drives Over  The Rubicon   Allied Commander Hopes It Will Lead To Decisive Victory In Ltaly

Eighth Army Crosses Famed Rubicon, Takes Bordonchia   Town Falls in Night Tank and Infantry Attack After Nazi Counter-Thrusts

Kk ighth Hammers ion ‘ross Rubicon   Hope Expressed For Decisive Victory For Allies in Italy

BRITISH THRUST ‘ACROSS RUBICON   Allied Leader Hopes to Win Decisive Victory

8th Crosses RubiconIn Hope To Duplicate Days Of Caesar’s Victory   Seven Bridgeheads Won As Wilson C ongratulates Alexander On Destruction Of ‘Gothic Line’

Allies Driving Over Rubicon   Attacks by Germans Slew Sth, 8th Units

EIGHTH ARMY UNITS CROSS THE RUBICON   Crossing of Stream Caesay Made Famous Raises Allied Hopes of Destroying Nazi Forces in Italy.

BRITISH TROOPS CROSS RUBICON   Stream Which Caesar Made Famous Enters Picture

British Cross ‘The Rubicon   But Allied Advance In Italy Is Slowed By Nazi Counterattacks

Allies Push Drive in Italy   Eighth Army Crosses Rubicon and Fifth  Advances on Rologna

8th Army Forces Rubicon Crossing  May Lead to Final Defeat in Haly

EIGHTH ARMY GETS ACROSS THE RUBICON   Prediction This Will Mean Decisive Allied Victory as With Famed Commander of Past   Re NOLAND NORGAARD

a a se  BRITISH CROSS HISTORIC RIVER ABOVE RIMINI   8th Army Forms Bridgeheads Across Rubicon: Yanks Repel Attacks

Rubicon Crossed By Eighth Army; Yanks Drive Nori!   Swift Allied Action Catches Germans in Italy by Surprise, Promises Early Victory

BRITISH 8TH TROOPS CROSS THE RUBICON   Decisive Victory for Allies Believed Near As Result of Advances Made By Tommies  HALT COUNTER-ATTACK

CROSSING VIEWED AS VICTORY SIGN   FIFTH ARMY DRIVES NORTHEAST AFTER GOTHIC LINE BREAK

Historic Rubicon Crossed  In New British Offensive   Drive Down Valleys

JAP DESTROYER, FIVE FREIGHTERS SUNK BY AIRMEN   Vessels Sent Down in Philippines Area—Planes Bomb Enemy Airdromes at Manila.   NIPPONESE ATTACK NEAR ORMOC REPULSED   Americans Clear Foe From By-Passed Mountain Positions and Strongpoints ‘on Levte.

American Infantry on Leyte  Blocks Enemy Tank Assaults; Destroyer Goes Down Off Bata

Warplanes Hit Enemy in Philippine Area   Nip Assault on Ground Fails as Flight Resumes

LEYTE-BASED PLANES SINK JAP WARSHIP   ADVERSE WEATHER RETARDS BATTLE AT ORMOC

Wake Island Blasted Again by Navy Planes To Nip Counterattacks   American Forces Gain Firm Control Over Vital Areas of Kwajalein Atoll; 13 Enemy Planes Downed Over Rabaul

FIRM CONTROL ESTABLISHED, NIMITZ SAYS   Planes Strike At Wake Island, Rabaul And Wewak

3 More Islets Taken As Navy  Blasts Jap Base   Yank Invaders Now Hold 19 Of 32 Isles, Including All Big Ones

Forces Control Vital Sections Of Kawajalein   United States Forees Now Hold 19 Of 32 Islands In  K tueatninin.   26 JAP PLANES DOWN

Three More Islets Are Captured By American Forces   19 of 32 Islands Now in U. S. Hands; Gain Air Base, Harbor

Forces Hold 19 Out Of 32   Other tslands Given Pounding From Air

wajalein Is nder Control s Bombers trike Wake   Naval Planes Strike Enemy Supporting Positions In North

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REP, BROWN, OHIO, IN NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST OWI TODAY  DECLARES FOURTH TER} AND POLITICAL PROPA. GANDA DISTRIBUTED

OWI ATTACKED BY REP BROWN   Ohioan Declares Agency I: Disseminating Fourth Term Propaganda

Ohio Congressman Launches New Battle on OWI   Representative Brown Says Political, 4th Term Matter Sent Out

Rep. Brown Renews His Battle 'To Force OWI Investigation   t Ohioan Charges Federal Agency Used To Distribute Fourth Term Propaganda to Troops.

Yanks Gain in Italain Push   American Tanks Tear Into Pillboxes and Machine Gun Nests

Uv. S. Troops Advance In Italy Despite Maze of Gunfire   Infantry, Tanks Through Foe’s Defens To Enter Cassino Plain After Winning Strategic German Strongholds

U.S. INFANTRY FORGING AHEAD AGAINST NAZIS   ‘Driving Through Maze of German Fire From Every  Conceivable Fortifica' tion Toward Cassino

Americans Punct At Cassino On Road to Rome  5th Army Forges Forward After Vittore Victory 

Yankees Puncl Way Into Cassino Plain   Fall of Mt. Porchia and San Vittore Is Officially Noted

5th Army Makes Breaches In Outer Rim Of Cassino Defenses   Tank Action Reported

Two Of Nazi Strong Points * Now Captured By Americans   Approaches To Cassino Cleared By Victory aa Coe VUittines And Manunt Porchia Friday

Carry Advance Thru German Fire Inte Cassino Plain   Area in Gun Range; Americons Battle in Giusto Streets

DEFENSE RING ON ROUTE 10 ROME PIERCED   AMERICANS ADVANCE BEYOND CAPTURED SAN VITTORE

MT. PORCHIA SAN VITTORE GAINS HELE   Tanks ‘Giving Help To Land Forces — "Furn Tide 

Americans Gain Toward Cassino   Bitter Battle For San Vittore Ends; Cassino Under Fire Of Big American Guns

Infantry, Tanks Win Foothold On Cassino Plair   Nazi Strong Points Fall After Bitter, Prolonged Fighting

Allies Reach Cassino Plair   Tanks Help Fifth Army Smash Ahead From San Yittore

Tanks, Troops Take German Strongpoints   American Planes Pound Vital Defense Areas Of Enemy

Yanks Advancing On Cassino Plain After Hard Wins   San Vittore, Porchia Offered Defenses Of All Conceivable  Descriptions

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY FIGHTS WAY TO CASSING PLAIN   Moves Through Heavy German Fire to Village of Giusto After Capture of San Vittore.   U.S. TANK UNITS THROWN INTO BATTLE   Bombers Strike at Nazi Supply Arteries—Deep Snow Bogs Down British on Adriatic,

Pitth Forces Advance Into Cassino Plair   San Vittore. Mt. Porcha Fall After Bitter Hand-ToHand F ighting.  a   TANKS JOIN ARMIES

Yankees Enter _ Cassino. Plain   5th Army Punches Way Thrangh Nazi Line

MORE SHIPS ON WAY T0 LEYTE SUNK   Planes Tighten Guard Against Reinforcements

J ap Landing Vessels Sunk   U. S. Planes Thwart Levte Reinforcemen!

YANKS BLOCK AID TO LEYTE ISLAND -JAPS   Smash Group. of Ships Bringing in Nips and Tighten Precautions Against Further ‘Reinforcement Attempts.

Major Jap Stand At Limon Bastion   U. S. Planes and Naval Craft Fend Off Enemy  Reinforcements   SINK TROOP CARRIERS   Enemy Tries to Send Forces to Leyte in Small  Groups

Japs Using  Light Craft In Landing Upon Leyte   Losses In Big Ships “Causes: Plan. Cc hange

Jap Reinforcement Attempts Are Being Thwarted   Limon Bastion Will Be Scene of Major Stand on Levte Isle

AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANES AND NAVAL CRAFT BLAST ENEMY  TDAADTAREN CDoriIrurT .   TROOP-LADEN FREIGHTERS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN LEYTE SECTOR

U.S. Planes Tighten Precautions on Lending. Reinforcements on Leyte

Jap Reinforcement Attempts Are Being Thwarted  Limon Bastion Will Be Scene of Major

JAPS EXPECTED TO PICK LIMON FOR BIG SCRAF   Fighter Pilots Foil Nip Attempts To Help Force in Philippines

Airmen Smash Enemy Attempt To Land Troops   Japanese Try To Send Help to Forces on Leyte

Major Jap Stand At Limon. Bastion   U. S.. Planes  and Naval Craft Fend Off Enemy  Reinforcements   Enemy Tries to Send  Forces to Leyte in Small  Groups -

AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANES AND NAVAL CRAFT BLAST ENEMY  TROOP-LADEN FREIGHT. ERS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN LEYTE SECTOR

Germans Already Reported To Be Withdrawing from Some Sectors in Holland.  RPRINDCRFHEFAD LOSS

200,000 GERMANS MENACED BY NEW BRITISH OFFENSIVE. AS ‘ALLIED ARMY NEARS 3,000,000

Eisenhower Has 3 Million Set For Battle   Canadian Forces Take Calais Citadel On Channel

Drive Threatens 10,400 Nazis ‘in. Holland   Three-Million Force Ready for Battle; Calais Fall imminent

Allies Prepare For Invasion Of Reich   Off-setting Successes Third Army Is Forced to Back Up At Metz As Big Guns Boom Prelude to Full American Attack

British Second Army Drives Eastward to Meuse on 14-Mile Front From Nijmegen Corridor, Forming New Offensive Arc Below Slegfrieg hower Shaping’ 2,000,000 to 3,000,000-Man Striking Force, os

NUMEGEN LINE THREATENS 10 TRAP 200,000   Germans Thrust Yanks From Position “in  Mozelle Area

¢'Form New Offensive Arc 11 to 14 Miles South west of Kleve    ALSO SPREAD TO WEST   Are Within 25 Miles of Walling in 200,000 Nazis in Holland

BRITAIN’S SECOND ARMY DRIVES NEAR GERMAN FRONTIER  ALLIES HAVE TWO TO THREE MILLION MEN ON

Fall of Calais Expected At Any Hour   British Forces Are Forging Trap Around 200,000 Germans in Holland; New Offensive Is Aimed at Taking Kleve

Wide Wedge Into Heart Of Holland      But Loss of Foothold On Rhine at Arnhem Causes Hope of Early Victory to Dwindle

[4-MILE FRONT   Eisenhower Builds Up 2 to 3-Million Man Force for  pavers   ENEMY BEING WALLED IN

Stepping Up Attacks On All Frents   But Germans Are Fighting Everywhere With Skul and Determination   FIRST ARMY MAKES GAIN NEAR AACHEN   Third Army Loses Toehold Near Metz; Big Gun Duel Near Fortress City

BRITAIN’S SECOND ARMY DRIVES NEAR GERMAN FRONTIER  ALLIES HAVE TWO TO THREE MILLION MEN ON WESTERN FRONT

Burst Out Of Their Salient   Eisenhower Masses Huge Forces; Germans Fight With Skill, Fierceness

ALLIES TRYING TO WALL OFF WEST HOLLAND   But Nazis Are Fighting Everywhere With Skill, Determination, Fury

Threaten Foe By Walling Off West Holland   Loss Of Bridgehead Across Rhine Dispels Hope Of Quick Allied Victory Over Nazis

New Gains Threaten to Seal Off 200,000 Germans in Western Holland; Eisenhower Builds Tremendous Force For All-Out Invasion of Germany

‘Jap Fleet Sent to Bottom,’ Nimitz Hoaxes Writers in History Lesson

NIMITZ COMMUNIQUE HAD CORRESPONDENTS AS HISTORY CLASS  BUT STORY OF 1592 BATTLE ALMOST WENT NUT AC CONT NEW

History We'd Like Repeated   Nimitz Startles Correspondents with Story— Reveals Jap Navy Whipped In 1592

Nimitz Had Correspondents Agog With 1592 Communique   Told Of ‘Powerful Allied Naval Forces’ inflicting Heavy Losses On Japs’ Fleet

DAVAO RAIDED: FIRES STARTED   Bombers Clear Way For Invasion Plans In Philippines

Czech Forces Make Contact With Russians   Russians And Poles, Besieging Warsaw, Reputse- Counter zAttacks-—

Czech Forces In Contact With Reds   Russian Units Across Slovak Border; Heavy Fighting Continues

Reds-Tito  Armies Contact   Russians Gain Around Warsaw; Heavy Artillery Shells Polish Cap tte}

UNITS LINKED IN EAST SLOVAKIA   Red Troops Cross Border; Other Soviet Columns Scout At Warsaw

Red Army Patrols Cross Vistula River To Seout Enemy Positions In Warsaw

General Court Martial Continues  Former Ordnance  Official Alleged

New Hampshire Opens Primary   Seek Preferences For 1944 Nominations

Presidential Preferential Primary Season  Has Opened   New Hampshire to Vote Today for  Conv. Delecates

NEW HAMPSHIRE OPENS PREFERENTIAL PRIMARY SEASON   VOTING FOR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION CHOICE IN 18 STATES SLATED THROUGH MAY 19

Americans Open Drive to Expand Los Nearos Hold   U. S. Troops Also Push Westward From Saidoer Base

Landings Made Behind Jap Positions   Destroyers Join in Attacks on Manus Island

McCormack to Heac New Democrat  Resolutions Group  _. Majority Leader Will Write Platform For Bourbon Party

REP. M’CORMACK MAY HEAD DEMO PLATFORM BODY   Selection Expected To Be Announced

DEMOS PLAN SESSION      McCormick Slated To Head Resoln : _ tions Sub-Committee

McCormack May Draft Platform For Democrats   House Leader Is Reported Choice

Late Report Says Allies Have Captured Saint Croix; They’re Pushing Forward All Along The Front; Gen. Montgomery There

Fifth Drives  Into Enemy’ Last Defense So. Of Rome   Savage Resistance  Offered By Nazis; Valmontone Threat Is Staved Off

ALLIES SMAS AT GERMANS’ LAST LINE   Progress Is Satisfactory, Headquarters States   EIGHTH ARMY   Starts Move Up Sacco Valley; New Zealand Units Gain In Apennines

Goering’s Panzers Hold Off Mounting Threat To Entrap Tn South Sector

Tank-Led Nippon Night Attack On: Leyte Repulsed   Destroyer, Seven Other Jap Vessels Are Reported Sunk

U. S. Troops Repel Night Attack On Ormoc Road Block   Japanese Utter More Threats Against U. S. Airmen

YANKS SMASH JAP TANK-LED LEYTE ATTACK   Another Destroyer And 7 Other Enemy Ships Are Sunk

AMERICAN TROOPS STOP JAP ATTACK ON ORMOC POCKET   Nip Destroyer, 7 Other Ships Sunk

American Treops Beat Off Jap Night Attacks on Leyte Island   White Warships And Planes Add E ight Jap Vessels To Enem y Toll

REPULSED ON LEYTE   Nip Destroyer And Seven Other Vessels Are Sunk

Boost Toll Of Japanese Ships Sunk   Yanks Beat Off Jap Night Attack on Leyte—Rains Slow Fighting

Jap Tank-Led Attack on Leyte ls Beaten Off   Enemy Destroyer and Seven Other Vessels Sunk by Planes, Ships

Yanks Beat Off Japs In Heavy Ormoc Fight   Planes And Warships Add Destroyer And Seven Other Ships To Pacific Toll.

Night Drive By Nip Tank Unit Beaten   Rain Curbs Fighting On Leyte; Navy Adds To Foe’s Ship Toll

BEAT OFF JAP ATTACK ON ORMOC   Jap Destroyer, Seven Other Ships Are Sunk

Night Attack of Jas Beaten Off On Ormoc Pocket   Destroyer and Seven Other Ships Destroyed

Seize Suspect Tn California  Slaving Probe         Kentuckian Held In Con. nection “Gardenia Murder” of Woman: Convicted Of Crimes

HITLER ARMS ~ HOME CUARDS   Mex 16 To 60 Get Guns For Reich Defense

Home Guard Is Set Up By Hitler Order   AH Civilian Men Betweer 16 and 60 Drafted For Military Service

Germans Put All Civilian Men In Army   Aves Include: Those. Between 16 And 60.

Firm Action To Halt Coal Strikes   No Official Indication Given As To What Meas ures Would Be Used.

British to Act To Halt Strike   Government Prepared To Take Over Mines If Tieup Continues

BRITAIN PREPARED TO TAKE OVER MINE!   90,000 Now Are Idle in Coal Pite

BRITISH GOV. “MAY TAKE OVER MINE. FIELDS   90,000 Strikers Have Refused to Go Back to the Pits; Wage Increase Net $80,000.000

England Will Act To Halt Welsh Coal Mine Strike   Walkout Spreads To Scottish Pits Where Seven Thousand Additional Workers Stopped Yesterday Britain Losing 80,000 Tons Of Coal Daily

Britain May Take Over Coal Mines  War Cabinet Warns Firm Action Likely

BRITISH 16 TAKE ACTION ON STRIKES   Government Wil! Intervene In Coal Disprte

Western Front Is Focal Point For Defense— mney SRLS bee wees  Nazis Ready To Swap Space For Time In East

STATE DEMOS ARE URGED TO BACK F.D.R.   Sen. Truman Asks Party Convention for Democratic Congress, Too, to Win War and “Protect the Peace.”

Calls for a Rally to Roosevell   ‘Keep Government in Triec and Proven Hands,’ Urges Sen. Truman   KEYNOTER AT DEMOCRATIC MEET   State’s Delegation Will Be for F.D.R:; Unity. and Harmony the Program

Roosevelt Urges Nation to Pledge All-Out Effort      President Issues New Year's Plea Fyrom Sick Red

Roosevelt Calls On People To Pledge Selves To Victory   New Year's Statement From President Seen   New Year's Statement From President Seen Optimistic: Maintaining Of Peace Is Uraed

Women Are in There Pitchitig Behind Scenes at Republican Convention

WOMEN BUSY AT GOP CONVENTION   LADIES ARE WIELDING POLITICAL BROOM FOR 1ST TIME IN 92 YEARS

Attrition Campaign ‘Expanded   MacArthur’s Bombers Add Five Ships to August’s Total

DIF ARR   Liberators on Saipan Open Campaign Against Volcano Islands.   JAPS LOSE 5 MORE SHIPS

U.S. Planes Hit Isles Near Japan   Americans Sink Five More Enemy Ships For August

ISLANDS SOUTH OF JAPAN HIT BY AMERICANS   Deadly Accuracy Reported; Enemy Feels Strength

U.S. Bombers Open Campaigr Of Attrition South Of Tokyo   Heavy Blow Dealt Volcano Islands In Which Five Jap Ships Are Sunk

U.S. Fliers Chalk Up New Toll in Drive Near Japan  Enemy Is Suffering Attrition War In Southern Isles

Islands Close To Tokyo Feel  Yankee Powe)   U.S. Liberators Open Same  mpaign of Attrition As  That Blasting Philippine Approaches

Raid Made On Islands  Near Japan   U. S. Liberators Based On Saipan Carry Out Heavy Attack Against Volcano Islands

Saipan Planes Smash af Japs  More Ships Sunk  Ry American Rambh:

New Air Attack Thrown at Nips   Liberators Strike From Base on Captured Saipan: No Planes Lost.

POUND AT ISLANDS   Nimitz Hits South of Japan, MacArthur Near  ilippines

WALLACE SAID ‘TO ‘HAVE _ WITHIN 74 VOTES OF NUMBER NECESSARY FOR THE NOMINATION _ -

OKLAHOMAN. RAPS DEWEY AS “UNTRIED’   Intense Battle Continues for VicePresidential Honors

RAPS DEWEY AS “UNTRIED’   Intense Battle Continues for VicePresidential Honors

Raiders Are Already on German Soil   Patrols Operating Acros: Border in East Prussia, Say Reds

FORTRESS OF LOMZHA UNDER SOVIET ATTACK   Russian Drives Threatening Te Roll Into East Prussia Territory

RED WAVE HITS LOMZHA IN MOVE 10 ROLL INTO EAST PRUSSIA   PATROLS ENTER EAST PRUSSIAN AREA ON RECCO MISSIONS AS YANKS CROSS OVER INTO NAZILAND

Soviets Drive On E. Prussia, Already Raided By Patrols   Tanks, Infantry Attack Lomzha, Last Vital  Border Bastion

POWERFUL RED FORCE POISED ON REICH LINE   Patrol Already Inside Germany

RED PATROLS CROSS OVER ENEMY BORDER   Full-Scale Offensive Foreshadows Big Drive Into Reich Eastern Province.

Thrust Into East Prussia Thot Imminent   Reconnaissance Patrols Enter German Soil

SOVIETS SEND PATROLS INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Open Full - Scale Attack On Lomzha Below Nazi Province

Reconnaissance Raid Made As Infantry, Tank Waves Hit Fortress Of Lomzha   Armored Forces Close Assault Arc ‘Along 20-Mile Front; Furious Fighting Continues In March Across Central Romania

East Prussian Bastion Under Soviet Attae’x   Tanks and Infantry Assail Lomzha Near Border

Red Army Vanguards In Germany   Tanks And Infantry Attack Lomzha, Fortress Town.

Germany Invaded In Kast   Nazis Counter-Attack Vainly Against Reds

Sacred German Soil Already Invaded by Soviet Patrols   Two-Wav Invasion  Hinted By Attacks   Drives Aimed At Reich Through Lomzha And Lithuanian Front

Drive Threatens To Roll Into East Prussia  Reds Attack Fortress of Lomzha

ENTER EAST PRUSSIA   Reveal Raiders Have Roamed Nazi Soil Since Aug. 17

~ Mar dest Shooting, Easily Mandled.  ‘iNew, Deadly Arms Goin U.S. Planes

New Weapons  For Aircraft Hardest Shooting And Rect Defended Of All

(Town Rubble Handicaps ‘Allied Push   Allies Also Concentrate On Capture of Hill Surmounted by Abbey  CITY MAY FALL SOON

Allies Holding Most of Cassino   Wreckage Delays Advance of Tanks

POCKETS OF NAZIS BEING MOPPED UP   Devastation Wrought by Bombing Handicaps Advance

ALLIES CAPTURE. PART OF CASINO; NAZIS SHELL CITY   Three-Fourth of Wrecked _ Stronghold Occupied - by “Fifth: ‘Army-—Germans Hold Out in South.   ADVANCE UNDER WAY. UP MONASTERY HILL   rea Says Anglo-American. Troops “Engaged in Undertaking Seem to Be Near Summit.

Troops, Tanks Poke Way Into Wrecked Town   Some Germans Still Entrenched in South End of Vital Point: Gunners Batter Abbey

COMBAT UNITS CLIMBING HILL TO TAKE ABBEY   Pockets of Germans in Demolished Town Being Mopped Up

Allies Mop Up:  Cassino Wreck   Sth Forces Germans Back Vou Wet 2k WE

Claw Their Way Toward Abbey; Hold Cassino   Dispatehes Report Ger. mins, Clinging to Strategic Position, = Are Fighting Fiercely But Are Being Mopped Up ‘Lown In Ruins

GERMANS ARE BEING MOPPED UP IN CASSING   FIFTH ARMY TAKES OVER MOST OF RUINED TOWN

ALLIES HOLD MAJOR PART OF CASSING   rhree-Fourths Of Strategic Town Is Occupied After 5th Army Sappers Open Pathway.   Wreckage Retards Advance

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Most Of Ruined Cassino Occupied   Pockets Of Nazis Rainn Cleaned Out

Fifth army takes nearly all of Cassino  Wreckage slows up infantry, tank:

Allies Push Into Town Fool-By-Foot   German Soldiers Still Hang On To Battered Posts

Three-fourths of Strategic City Is Now Occupied  DArUrTe AC NATIC   POCKETS OF NAZIS BEING MOPPED UP   Devastation Wrought by Bombing Handicaps Advance

Allies Fight Through   Cassino Ruins   German Parachute Troops Cling to Ghost Town

Most Of Ruined Cassino Occupiec   Packets Of Nazis Being Cleaned Orit

Brother of Local  Folks Killed   S.S¢t. Gayle Raught Serving in Army

44 JAP SHIPS, BARGES SUNK   Many Planes Destroyed as Yank Bombers Strike New Heavy Blows

PLANES, SHIPS, AND BARGES DESTROYED   By Air and Naval Activities Over Pacific Area; Bonin and Volcano Islands Blasted.   Burma Battle

Thundering Series Of American Air And Naval Actions Over Widespread Area Has Alarmed Tokyo; Enemy Convoy In Davao Gulf Is Smashed

Yank Guns Hit 107. Planes, 44 Vessels   Steady Relentless Push of Pacific Warfare .

T g Battered  iNT Dilenec AA Chine And BRaranec Ara   107 Planes, 44 Ships And Barges Are Pounded In Widespread Pacific Blows

4 JAP SHIPS, 107 AIRPLANES ARE HIT   American Air and Naval - Actions. Continue Against Enemy

U. S. Sinks 17 Ships In Region of Philippines   107 Planes, Many More Surface Vessels  Destroyed in Series of Pacific Blows

Jap Shipping Is Battered   107 Planes, 44 Ships And Barges Are Pounded In Widespread Pacific Blows

Service Letters .  “ Addressed Wrong   Urge Proper Names  On Mail To Soldiers

GIRLS RUN FOURTH.       Maite’ ‘Milk Is-First Desire of South . Pacific GI's, Pall . Shows.

CASSINO FIGHT IS REINFORCED   Foe Resisting as Desperately as Ever Amid Ruins

Germans Throw Fresh Men into Cassino Battle   Terrific Bombing Of Little Value

Nazis Fight Savagely At Cassino Terrific Air Assault Gave  Little Help To Allied Forces

Nazis Reinforce Desperately Held Lines at Cassina   Last Week's Terrific Air Assault Did Little To Open Roman Vallevs

NAZIS STIFFEN CASINO. DEFENSE   . t ‘ THROW ARTILLERY AND AERIAL REINFORCEMENTS INTO — “ BITTER STUGGLE,

Nazis Throw Heavy Guns Into Cassino   Last Week’s Air Attack Did Little To Aid Progress

NAZI FORCE IN CASSINO FIGHT 1S REINFORCED   Foe Resisting as Des: perately as Ever Amid Ruing

Nazis-Gain Power Daily At Cassino   Germans Have New Air Support, Artillery As They Resist Desperately

ClO Loses In Battle vs Gawronski      REP. WASIELEWSKI, BACKER OF SMITH-CONNALLY ANTI STRIKE BILL TAKES EARLY LEAD IN PRIMARY   Wiley Far Ahead

Fire Traps 50 Miners!   Rescue Workers Fight Against, Time to Reach Entombed Men’

Rescurers Battling Fire, Dust   150 Others Escape From Deep Powhatar  Shaft, Return  As Rescuers.

CONGRESSBACK ON JOB AFTER EASTER RECESS   Faces Issues Which May Stir Up Bitter Controversies =

SOLONS FACING BITTER FIGHTS   Senate, House Reconvene With Heavy Program Of Vital Issues

EASTER RECESS   laces Issues Which May Stir Up Bitter Controversies

CONGRESS ENDS “FASTER RECESS   MANY CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES  -FACING MEMBERS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL .  > CONVENTIONS ——

Yanks Drive Back Jap Resistance  On Los Negros   Kurile Islands Again Raided By Navy Bombers

YANKS EXTE GAINS ON LOS NEGROS ISLANI   Plane Support Helps: New Jap Attacks Repulsed

Japs Land Fresh ‘Troops on Negros; Yanks Inch Ahead   U.S. Bombers aud F ighter Planes Support Advancing Ameri icans; Nips Lose 8 Planes in Air Fieht

Forces Repulse Counter Drives By Jap Troops   Yanks Continue Raids In Southwest Sectors, Smash Four Barges

REPULSE JAP ATTACKS IN ADMIRALTIES   Yanks Push Lines Forward on Los  Negos Island

ADVANCE ON LOS NEGROS   New Japanese Counterattacks Are Repulsed

U.S. Submarines Sink Japanese Carrier, Six  Warships, 20. Others

SEVEN ENEMY COMBAT SHIPS REPORTED AMONG LATEST VICTIMS OF TU. 8. SUBMARINES

Jap Carrier, 26 Other Ships Sunk   U. S. Submarines Take Additional Toll

Subs Sink Large Aircraft Carrier   Seven of 26 Vessels Were Combat Sitips

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eee ee Ass'n. to Meet rey #4 ob 0 ee $ 7H ae      CLOVER AND FARM SUPPORT PRICES AMONG TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED.

YANKS PUSHING UP THE. LEYTE VALLEY      Troops Reported Within  Eight Miles of Cariaara Bay

YANKS ADVANCE UNCHECKED UP LEYTE VALLEY   Trapped Nipponese Force Estimated At 2,000 Troops Reported Wiped Out

Prison ‘Gag’ Hides Status Of Mutiny    Four Guards Held As  Hostages In Prison By i 25 Convicts.

Truckloads of Soldiers Arrive At Atlanta Prison   Guards Held Hostage By 25 Desperadoes Believed Alive

TROUBLE AT ATLANTA FED. PRISON      25 Felons Are Holding Four Guards as Hostages

mur “ore Saar Crossings   _ Felons Continue To Hold Four Hostages °  Mystery Shrouds Prison Mutiny

Intimate View Of Conference With Roosevelt Given By Hollywoodite 

MISS HASSLER OF LADD DIES AT HOSPITAL   Passed Away At Moline Friday After A Long II Iness

WINTER SCENES—NORTH AND SOUTH   BRIDGEHEAD BATTLE MAY-TURN ON AIR POWER; CAPTURE OF LUGA SOUNDS TRAGIC KNELL FOR FINNS   Americans May Bs Forced to Bombard World’s Oldest Monastery, St. Benedict, at Cassino, in Order to Oust Germans. Finns Seeking Peace

BEACHHEAD SITUATION BELOW ROME BETTER, BUT CRISIS MAY NOT BE PASSED FOR ALLIES

Zee Ee ee  American-British Force Regains Beachhead Initiative. In Part.

ANZIO FIGHT MAY TURN ON AIR POWER      Situation ‘Better But Crisis May Not Yet Be Passed

‘WAR TODAY   Reggining Initiative In Italy Does Not Necesaarily. Mean the Crisis Has Paseed.

United States Begins Fourth ‘Year: Of War; ‘End lh Sight. But: It Will Be Costly ys.

STRUGGLE ENTERS FOURTH YEAR YITH VICTORY STILL FAR OFF   Dark Spots Cloud War's Most Successful Year

ded on Page Ten) en)  Cicadas oe —“(‘“‘i™éOSOSCSC*COCOCO GHClUdEd ON Pag  United States Begins Its Fourth Year of the War on Thnreda

U. S. Begins 4th Year of the War   Allied Armies Have Gone a Long Way to Crush The Axis: Now in Reich, 1,200 Mi. from Japan

‘550,000 Casualties And 229 Billions Spent  Three War Years Costly For U. S.

Review of Three Years of War Shows Great Strides With Much Yet to Be Done

Japan's Steel  Center, larget OF US. Bombers   Yawata, 550 Miles Southwest Of Tokyo Blasted By Super-Bomber Raid   BOMBERS OPERATE FROM CHINA BASE

Jap Attacks on Hawaii Held Possible  Military Leaders Support Martial Law

See Possibility OF Oahu Attack   Nimitz and Richardson Say Japs Are Constant Menace To Island.

Threat Of Attacks: On Hawaii Stressed   Nimitz And Richardson Say Jap Blow By Carrier Force “Constantly. mpendina”

Jap Atiacks on Hawaii Held Possible   Militery Leaders   Military Leaders Suppori Martial Law

24 Pilots; 4 Of Crew Lost   Plane Destroyed Near lowa-Dakota Boundary

THINK 24 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Army Transport Falls: Five Die in Bomber Mishap at Dayton

Congress Agrees On High Tax   New Revenue Bill To Increase Excise Taxes For All  Individual Payers.

Britain Supplies Crude Rubber   Gives 78,000 Tons, Receives Synthetic

Nazi Supply Boats Are Sunk   German Attempt To Supply Troops In Italy By Boat Comes To Grief   ALLIED PLANES PUT QUICK END TO MOVE

Soviets Threaten German Silesia   Advance 31 Miles  In New Drive

GERMANSBURN § VILLAGES INE FAST PRUSSIA    \s Russian Army Prepares to Invade German Soil; Reds Advance 31 AASlae   Surender To Poles

Russians Reported Within Ceventy-Five Miles O; German Silesia, And Thirty-Five Miles  From Krakow

DESTROY OWN VILLAGES AS REDS ADVANCE   GERMANS BURNING BORDER TOWNS IN PRUSSIA

Reds Advance 31 Miles West Of Vistula   Axis Warsaw-Krakow Line Is Threatened; Nazis Burn Own Town: In E. Prussian Retreat

Perry Township Farmer Stricken  While At Work  Norris F. Ernst Lived On Farm .  rR. Ci fe.. VU...

Perry Township Farmer Stricken While At Work  Norris F, Ernst Lived On Farm , For Fifty Years

CHAPLIN SAYS BERRY’S SUIT IS SHAKE-DOWN   Says Fatherhood Charge Made In Hope Of Settlement Out Of Court

SIEDLCE LOST BY GERMAN ARMY TQ RED FORCES   Nazi Defenses A Across Polanc Have Fallen Completely Apart

SOVIET FORCES SPEED ACROSS POLISH PLAINS   Berlin Reports Siedlce Lost; Russians In 35-Mile Gain

Nazis Lost Big Rail Junetion 50 Miles East Of Warsaw   Red Army Making Sweeping Advances On All Fronts

BIG RAIL HUB NEAR WARSAW LOST TO REDS   Russian Mobile Forces Racing Toward Nazi Frontier at Rapid Pace.

Nazi Defenses Across Poland Fall Completely Apart, Says Radio   Lwow Garrison Is Compressed   Soviets Say Germans Unable To Impede Rapid Advance On Reich

BERLIN ADMITS FALL OF SIEDLCE; LWOW ENCIRCLED   Red Armies 50 Miles From Warsaw As Nazi Defenses Collanse

Germans Admit Imminent Threats To Mogilev And Polotsk   Soviets Say Orsha Ripe For Capture   Stronghold In Center Of Enemy Defense Line Is Encircled

Siedice Falls ToSoviet Army RacingToWest   German Defenses All Across Poland  Reported Fallen Completely Apart

RAIL JUNCTION 50 MILES FROM WARSAW FALLS   Soviets Race Across Poland

35 Miles Gained in One Dav   Russian Drive Shows No Siqn Of Slowing Down

Soviet Says All Fronts Speed Pace   Germans Admit Jarowslaw, Rail Hub, Has  Been Evacuated.

Germans Admit Siedlce Loss —  East of Warsaw   Capture Leaves Way Open For Soviet Spurt Across Poland

RAIL JUNCTION 00 MILES EAST TAKEN BY REDS   Opens Clear Path for Final Rush Into Capital City

Also Evacuate Jarowslaw, North of Lwow   @ Nazi Defenses Fall Before Sensational Red Armies’ Advance

Mogilev, Polots! Doomed to Fall Before Russians   Orsha Also Ripe For Capture, Moscow Claims

GERMAN DEFENSE WEAKENS ALONG ALL FRONT LINE   Russians at Siedice Beyond Brest Litovsk; Pskov Is Freed In North; Riga 77 Miles Away.   U. S, MARINES STORM INLAND ON TINIAN   Yanks Seize Pisa Section Below Arno; Jap Base In Hunan Under Big Chinese Ati ark.

NAZI LINE IN WHITE RUSSIA IS CRUMBLING   Soviets Making Pace of Nearly Mile an Hour Against Germans In East.   BULLETIN

SiedIce Falls in  Sensational Gain   Nazi Admission Hints Defense Lines Across Poland Fast Falling Apart

Siedlee Falls to Soviets   ‘Indicate German ‘Defenses Across Poland. Falling. ‘Completely. Apart

Best Known Minister In Valley Dies   Rey. J. E. Lovett To Be Buried on Sunday

STH WAR LOAN ONLY 2 WEEKS AWAY, MACHINERY BEING SET UP FOR CAMPAIGI   Union County's Quota Of $836,000 Means Average ‘Of $100 Per Adult; Activity Roster Is Prepared   4H COUNCIL PLANS YEAR’S PROGRAM AT MEET. WITH ROBINSON, PALMER MONDAY)   _ Important Dates Are Assigned By County Group  With Officers’, Leaders Training School. Slated June 7

EVERYTHING SET FOR TAKE-OFF   IN 5TH. WAR LOAN DRIVE TO BEGIN MONDAY, JUNE 12 CHAIRMEN ANNOUNCED

McNutt Thinks Increase In Foundry Wage Scales Would Be Justitfiable

CHIT D DIES IN FLAMES   ALLIES AHEAD IN PACIFIC? Developments To Give Answer

Allies Ready To Take Over Pacific Islands   More Direct Military Maneuvers Against Jap-Held Sectors Seen: Truk [s Principal Oblect

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Clare Luce ScoresPolicy Of Roosevelt   CALLS HIM “NOT ONLY UN. TRUSTWORTHY BUT ALSO IN. COMPETENT; AVERS HISTORY WILL NOT FORGIVE HIM.

Luce Says FDR © Not to Be Trusted   Declares President Is Also Incompetent In Field of Government.

Clare Luce Assails  Roosevelt Policies Refers To ‘Tired, Shaking  Hands’

Roosevelt Lacks Ability and Truth, Says Clare Luce   Hannegan Accuses GOP Of Whispering About President’s Health

MRS. CLARE LUCE SCORES PRESIDENT   Woman Congressman De. ‘clares Roosevelt Incompetent

Three Kinds Of Pensions  For Veterans  Pn tees   All Pensions Are Free of State And Federal Taxes

Fly Clashes With Miller In FCC Quiz   Points Out Cables Not Censored Before Pearl Harbor, Open te Weather, Military Information

Pearl Harbor Attack Is Investigated   FLY OF FCC SAYS JAPS GOT WEATHER REPORTS FROM CABLE CHANNELS

werent SSS SVS YESSY Se EO OV ewe  SELGIUM’S KING. HELD BY NAZIS

Late Bulletins   Danish Saboteurs Sink Four Nazi Vessels   Germans Move Kina Leopold From Belaium

Stilwell’s Removal  Requested   U. 8. General At Odds With Chiang Kai-Shek

CHIANG FORCED STILWELL OUT   Chinese Official Urged That Yank Leoder Be Relieyed of Command

New Job For Joe Stilwell   Hinted He and Chiang Fell Out Over Strategy, Chiang Asked Withdrawal

Chiang Asked Stilwell Removal  bas " Did Not Agre - on Defense of zhina

Strong Support for Roosevelt ts in Nebraska; Gillette Denies That  He Urged Hull to Make Race

Fleets of U.S. Marauder Bombers Renew Battle Against Northern France— Yugoslav Partisans Defeat Axis Near Sarajevo

Woman Held In Baby Kidnaping   Confesses To Taking Day-Old Infant Of Army Sergeant.

Kidnapped Baby Returned Today   Stolen From Hospital Crib By War Worker's Wife When Day Old.

Mother and Sister Shot By Bible-Reading Youth; Confession Blames Devil

YOUTH (6 HELD IN FATAL SHOOTINGS   Courts Deliberating Disposition of Murder Charges Against Boy.

NAZI PLANES POUND YANKS   LUFTWAFFE MAKES SHOW OF STRENGTH iN ITALY

WAU mein sieauNty tesa mi cama at cone Weather Helps Germans Patch Battered Railroads

SOVIET OFFER TO POLES SEEN   Want Leader of Government in Exile Ousted

REDS WOULD GIVE POLES LWOW, WILNO   Willing to  Return Two Towns Under Certain Terms —

REDS EASE TERMS ON POLISH LINE   Reported Ready to Release Wilno and Lwow if Exiles Oust President.

FARLEY PLANS . ~~ NOT REVEALED      FORMER NATIONAL CHAIRMAN  SILENT ON STRATEGY TO, ~ ° BE USED AGAINST ~ . ROOBEVELT -

PERSIAN COATS DISRUPT PROBE   Small Deposit Box Of Victim Still Is Missing

BONG SHOOTS DOWN 34TH ENEMY PLANE   Ace of Aces in All War Theater Bags Nip in One Pass During Pight Over Ormoc.

Repatriates Tell of Experiences   Opinions Vary On German  Morale and War’s End

Repatriates With Stories Of Nazi Inquisition Trickle Off Liner Gripsholm In Jersey City

REACH THE U. S: A.   Non - Official Repatriates Waiting to Set Foot On Free Soil

REPATRIATES TELL STORY GF PRIVATIONS   Swedish Liner Gripsholm Unloads Americans and Others Returning From Germany

VARIED STORIES ARE RECOUNTED BY REPATRIATES   Returning Americans Continue To Trickle Off The Gripsholm; Tell Of Nazi Inquisition, Bad Food, Des peration of Germans

Gripsholm Arrives; Disembarkation of Repatriates Begins   Tales of Mistreatment and Privations Told by U.S. Citizens

PASSENGERS GET OFF GRIPSHOLM   Service Men And Officials First To Disembark, Others Follow

RESTRICTION ON WHEAT SHIPMENT   Permits Will Be Required for Dispatch to Kansas City

Walker Upheld In Esquire Case   Court Cites McGuffey, OK's Higher Mail Rate

150,000 GERMAN TROOPS SURROUNDED BY RED ARMIES   Another 250,000 Face Same Fate in Ukraine; Fifth Army Repulses Four Counter-Attacks in Rome Area

JAPS SUFFER HUGE LOSSES IN AIR RAIDS   440 Planes Destroyed and Seven Vessels Are Sunk

ARE DESTROYEL IN MANILA AREA   Two Enemy Warships Sunk And Eight Others Damaged By Carrier Planes   THREE OIL STORAGE AREAS ARE SET AFIRE

WARSHIP LOSS OF NIPPONESE JUMPS 10 72   HEAVY DESTRUCTION SPREAD ON LUZON INSTALLATIONS

Japs Lose 249 More Planes   Five Ships Also Sunk, 24 Damaged In Carrier-Based Manila Bay Raid

‘Five Ships Also Sunk, 24 Damaged In Carrier-Based: ‘Manila. ‘Bay Raid

Third Probably Sunk ana Nine Damaged in Third Fleet Raid in Manila  Araa.   Running Battle

() Japanese lanes Wrecked y Americans   Two Enemy Warships Are Also Destroyed

“NIMITZ REPORTS e TWO-DAY ATTACK   440 Jap Planes Destroyed, 2 Enemy Warships Sunk   THIRD PROBABLE   Yanks and Japs Lock in Ori. p tical Fight in Ormoc Valley on Leyte Isle

THANKSGIVING DAY THURSDAY, NOV. 23   lowa People Observing Nation. al Holiday on Fourth Thursday of This Month.

THANKSGIVING DAY OBSERVED NOV. 23   lowa People Observing National Holiday on Fourth Thursday of This Month.

Daniels Supports United Army, Navy   Says Pearl Harbor Should Be a Lesson

UNIFIED COMMAND URGED BY DANIELS      Army and Navy Consolidation Approved by . ‘Former Official

GAS BOOKS EXPIRE FIRST OF JUNE, RENEWALS. NEEDED   Rationing Calendar For Ma For Food, Shoes, Gas — \ And Tires Is Given

TIRE QUOTA CUT AS APPLICATIONS SHOW INCREASE   Rules Issued By The Union County Ration Board For Current Period

CANNING SUGAR RULES ARE GIVEN BYRATION BOARD   People Reminded There Are Price Ceilings On Most Major Apphances 

SEED PEA PEAS BEANS NOT RATIONED, BOARD ANNOUNCES   Can Be Bought Without Sacrificing Any Stamps; Play Shoes Exempted

ALLOW NEW TIRES ONLY IF OLD ONES BEYOND RECAPPIN(   Board Clarifies New Ruling For “B”, “C” Drivers Procedure Is Outlined

On. The Ratio ning Front nt  NEW SERIES OF RED STAMPS FOR MEAT BECOME GOOD EACH WEEK, FOR ALL APRII      ' Revised Point Schedule Reflects Nation's, First-Month Shopping Preference; Ride, Sharing Program Is Booked

TIRE SHORTAGE OF GRADE ONE 1S CONTINUING   Delay Of Thirty Days Is Predicted By  The Rationing Board

JUNE TIRE QUOTA MUCH CURTAILED BY SHORTAGE   Applications On File For 150 More Tires Than Available

Longer Range Fighters To Accompany The Huge Super Fortresses Are Being Made

State Returns Give . Fourth Term, i         Only a Few Ely-Pledged Delegates are Expected to “Squeeze” Through; Mrs.  Wallace Lost in Close District Race _  LIGHTEST VOTE IN VEAP.      LIGHTEST VOTE IN YEARS—

Only a Few Ely-Pledged Delegates are Expected to “Squeeze” Through; Mrs. Wallace Lost in Close District Race .   LIGHTEST VOTE IN YEARS

Nazis Expect ‘invasion Now   Thrusts May Be Expected From Many Sides, Newspaper Says

Delegates Hear the Keynote Speech of Rep. Ray Madden Who Assails Recent Republican Convention.

State Demos Attack GOP  In Meeting   Fifteen-Member Ticket Chosen by Avclamation As Delegates Named

1,000 Bus Drivers  On Strike   Greyhound Tieup At Pittsburgh Spreads As Far As Lima, Ohno.

NORTH ITALY ~ WEATHER BAL   en Den: Se f FIFTH AND. EIGHTH, ARMIES CONTINUE SLOW: GAINS’ DE “SPITE MUD AND COLD: ~

Social Security Tax Freeze Given Congress’ Approval: Veto Expected

CHAPLIN FREED ON MANN ACT CHARGE   Two More Charges Are Held Against Him.

13 JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK IN MARIANAS   16 Others Damaged; 141 Airplanes Destroyed

Jap Defenses in Pacific Crippled  Task Force Sinks Thirteen Vessels

Senate Holds Brief Parley   Action ‘On ‘Soldier Ballot Thwarted _

SENATE DELAYS SOLDIER BALLOT   Federal Vote Forces Win Recess Until Monday

Delay Service  Vote Decision   Senate’ s Administration Backers. Outnumbered. Foree Adjournment.

Stave Off Show Down Vote On Federal Ballot   Administration Backers in Senate Force ‘e Surprise Adjournment

Soldier Vote Bill [Too Few Senators Show Up To Settle iSoldier Vote Issue And It Still Drags On

War Ballot Put Off by Senate   Barkley Ia Outnumbered, Slaves Off Showdown

Adjournment Stave: Off Showdown On Soldier Vote  States’ Rights.Men Shout for Attention

Soldier Vote Test Delayed   Administration Bill Backers, Outnumbered, Forced to Adjourn

MOUNTBATTEN SETS OFFICE IN CEYLON      Headquarters Move Indicates Action Directed at Singapore; Naura Blasting Resumed

American Planes Hit Both Ends Of Pacific Front  Mountbatten Moves Headquarters From New Delhi to Ceylon

Students Stick By Ousted Head Of University  Charge Politics In Education

JAPS’ FLANKING MOVE IMPERILS INDIAN HIGHWAY   Maneuvers Seen as Grave Danger to Allies in Wide Area.

NEW JAP MOVE HURTS ALLIES   Manipur-India Highway In Danger   Also Menace BengalAssam Railway

~ REIERTS POLICIES   Godbout Government Loses Provincial Election on War Issues

Revolt Ended By Prisoner:   Five Ringleaders at Atlanta Give Keys of Stronghold to Newspaper Columnist

END PRISON STRIKE   Convicts Bargained to Quit  If Grievances Were   Published

DECAPITATION FLIER GUILTY   Given Life Sentence by Court Martial

Army Flier Draws Life Imprisonment   Convicted Of Decapitating Motorist With Plane

RETURN MINES . TO OPERATORS   ALL EXCEPT TWO COAL MINES HANDED BACK TO OWNERS AFTER GOVERNMENT  =o CONTROL ,~

U, $, RELEASES COAL BUSINESS   Pits Returned To Owners After 13 Months Of Federal Control

Close Many Army Camps   Twenty-Two Army and Airforce Installations Put on Stand-By Basis

CORN FROM HARDIN FARMS T0 BE USED BY WAR INDUSTRY   201,250 Bushels to Be Deliv. ered to Processors.   Corn Enters Into Production of Textiles, Drugs, Starch, Sugar, Syrup, Foundry Work,

FARMERS SEND LOTS OF CORN TO PROCESSORS   Hardin County Pledges 246,100 Bushels of Corn To Aid War Industries

Nazis Maintain Robot Attack   More Information On Rocket Bombs Sought By Parliament Members.

Flying Bombs Raise Anxiety  Hatred For Weapon Growing In Britain

Winged Destruction Hits England 16 Straight Days  Blind Bombardment. Brings Pressure  _ For Entire Story

Nazi Robot. Rocket Bomb: Stir England   Eerie Blitz Seen as Move to Force a Negotiated Peace

RESISTANCE ON TINIAN BROT TO END   Only Isolated Nests of Japs Left on Island

All Organized Resistance On Tinian Ends   Americans on Guam Smash Forward Three Milac ta Clace Tran

TINIAN ISLAND CAMPAIGN AT MOPUP STAGE   Yanks On Guam Advance 3 Miles To Tighten Trap On Japs

Isolated Nests of Jap Troops On Tinian Slain   Organized Resistance On Guam Smashed By Allied Assault

Allied Patrols Said to Have ~ Crossed River   Germans in Big Attacks Recapture Two Towns North of Aachen; Driven Out of Weisweiler

Robot Attacks On First Army  Lines Continue   Foe Shells Strasbourg After Fast Withdrawal  Across River Barrier

NAZIS RETAKE TWO TOWNS ~ FROM BRITISH BUT GIVE UP _ WEISWEILER IN OTHER AREA

Yanks Extend Bridgehead South of Rome   Nazis Withdraw Units From Cassino Area to Protect Rome Arteries

3 HOSPITAL SHIPS BOMBED BY GERMANS   Vessels Attacked in Anzio Bay as Their Vights Burn—One Sent to Baotiom,

PUBLIC SCHOOLS REOPENED SEPT. ¢      Registration, Book Sales, To Be Handled Week  ~Before  \

LeMars Public Schools Will Start New Term on Tuesday, September 5   All Vacancies In Instruction Staff. Are Now Filled

ALLIED NAVAL-AERIAL ASSAULT ON SUMATRA BASES WHILE INVASION OF EUROPE IMPENDS REFLECTS STRENGTH   That Britain and America Have Sufficient Power To Carry on Distant Offensive at Time of Great Need in Europe Indicates Armament Strenoth

Today’s War Moves   Threat of Two Invasions Shows Power of Allies

WAR TODAY      bang Heartening in Face of Pending  Enropean Inv:

The War Today   aiew VaR AVuGay Sumatra Attack Requir ed Strength But Was  Not Maior Oneratian.

INAVAL-AERIAL ASSAULT AGAINST: SUMATRA AND SABANG BY ALLIES IS HEARTENING CIRCUMSTANCE

The War Today        vale Air Blow at Sum alia: . are s Allied Might i in Far East

ENEMY REPRESENTATIVES BE CONFRONTED WITH RECORD OF MISDEEDS AFTER  > WAR ENDS.

DEPENDS ON STATES   Compromise Measure Born After 2 Years of Arrument

Soldier Voting Up To States» Conferees. Approve ~ State Agreement Plar

Congress Ready To Toss Service Vote To States   Compromise Provides States Must Approve Federal Ballot Use.

BALLOT BILL IS STILL UNCERTAIN   Senate and House Make Changes in Plan as Compromise Measure

NEW FEDERAL  BALLOT PLAN  ~—TSPRESENTED   Act Given 'To SenateHouse Following ‘Conference :   DOUBT OUTCOME   Compromise Woulc ' Put Responsibility - On States

FEDERAL VOTE BILL GIVEN 10 STATES   Leave Ballot Plan Up t States, Can Take It o Leave It

FEDERAL BALLOT ISSUE HANDED OVER TO STATES   Compromise Approved at Capital To Permit Service Men to Vote

ELIMINATION OF SLOT MACHINES, NUMBERS ASKED   Governor In Address Calls For Ridding State Of Rackets

WAR PRISONERS AID OF Y.M.C.A. MOVES INTO PHILIPPINES   Delegates are Ready tb improve Lot of Boys in Jap Prisons

SEA BATTLE JAP TOLL UP TO 60 SHIPS   Carrier Planes Raid Manila Bay, Hit Cruisers

Congress Undecided Whether To Loaf Or Buckle Down As Short Recess Ends

Congress Ends 5-Week Recess   Lawmakers To Start Session On Tuesdav

Congress Ends Its Five - Week Layoff Tuesday   But Only Activity Likely Is Committee Work On  Dereanvaracan Plans

 No Recess Planned ‘Congress Reconvenes After 5-Week ‘Campaign’ Holiday

AFTER FIVE WEEKS VACATION SOLONS MAY GET TO WORK   Most Congressmen Up to Their Necks in Election Campaigns

Pvt. Leadbetter Dies of Wounds  Warndodl Sante 17      Wounded Sept. 17, Youth Dies Oct. 5

YOUTH DIES OF WOUNDS IN HOSPITAL   €@ Pfc. William M. Miller, Jr., Aged 21, of Hollidaysburg, Expires Oct. 16.

Powertul Seviet Forces Smash Ahead In All-Out Drive On Nazis In Baltics

Soviet Forces Drive Ahead Toward Riga   All-Out Offensive Against ” Nazi Armies In Baltic States Makes Progress  LATVIAN CAPITAL ONLY 8 MILES AWAY  RR. NA TAT YT4 De® EB

CITY WORKERS CAN AID ON THE FARMS   Labor Shortage “Again to  Make Saving of Crops A Big Problem   MEXICANS ARE COMING

Labor Shortage yvigain ‘to Make Saving of Crops © ABig Problem   MEXICANS ARE COMING

U.S. IGNORES ARGENTINA UNTIL AXIS CREW OUSTED   Italian Government Protests Division of Fleet by Allies

Badoglio Rumored tn Mood to Resign li Reds Share Navy   Both Premier and King of Ttaly ‘Flabbergasted’ by F DE: s Action Wild Tall of Seuttline Ts Heard

Jap Cruiser,  20 Ships Sunk   British Sub Bags Warships; Yank Bomber: Destroy Cargo Ships

JAPANESE CRUISER AND 20 MERCHANT VESSELS ARE SUNK  BRITISH SUB SINKS - CRUISER AND THREE SUPLY SHIPS

21 Japanese  Vessels Sunk By Sub, Planes   One Light Cruiser and 20 Merchant Ships Go Down; New Air Raids on Marshall Islands Announced

Jap Cruiser; 20 Merchant Vessels Sunk   Tojo Tells Japanese Diet _ Shipping Losses Cannot  Be Minimized

Jap Cruiser and 6 Freighters Sunk As Allies Batter on Supply Line

‘Allies Take Big Toll of Jap Ships —   Light Cruiser and 20 Merchant Vessel: Sunk by Torpedoes And Aerial Bombs

BRITISH U-BOAT SINKS 5,100-TON JAP CRUISER   Sub Also Sends Three Supply Ships To Bottom in Indian Ocean

ALLIED SUBS AND PLANES TAKING TOLL   Navy Department Announces Naval: Activity In Pacific With Heavy  Losses to Jans

JAP CRUISER ~ LOST T0 SUB   British Undersea Raider Also Sends Three Supply Ships to Bottom

UNDERSEA BOATS  ADD TO TOLL OF  ENEMY SHIPPING 20 MORE JAPANESE  CARGO SHIPS SUNK IN AIR, SEA FIGHTS

JAP SHIPPING   Submarine Torpedoes, Aeriat Bombs Cause Sinking of 21 Ships,   [IAPS WANT LONG WAR

ALLIES BLAST 21 JAP SHIPS   Yank U-Boats Sink 12 Nip Supply Boats; British Account for Six

Japs Suffer More Losses In Shipping   Subs and Planes Cut Into Shipping; Japs Refuse Aerial Fight Over Wewak

Exact Heavy Toll of Jap Shipping   Enemy Cruiser and 20 Merchant Vessels Sunk By Allied Action; Wewak Pounded from Air

British Sub Sinks Light  Jap Cruiser   stiff Air Blows Are Rained On Nipponese Ships, Bases; Enemy Supply Vessels Sunk

Allies Sink Seven More  Jap Vessels   British Account For Four, U. S. Two, in Most Recent Sea Raids

700 RAF Planes Rain Bombs on Berlin; Japs Lose Merchant Ships and Cruiser in Pacific   Great Fires Set in Nazi City as Reds Press Advantage in Leningrad Offensive; Fifth Army Advances in Italien Areas

Jap Cruiser 20 Merchant Ships Sunk   Submarines Exacting a Heavy Toll Fror: Foe in the Pacific

Bl CZECH ROAD HUB 15 CAPTURED BY RUSSIAN ARM)   Reds Sweeping Through Hungarian-Annexed Ruthenia Take 18,000 Prisoners in Week.   FIGHTING VIOLENT IN EAST PRUSSIA   Troops Battle Hand-to-Hand in Burning Villages—Four Fortified Towns Fall to Soviets.

Reds Capture  ‘18.000 Nazis   Russians Sweep Forward On Four Frants

REDS CAPTURE MUNKACS; JOIN OTHER FORCES   Cutting Across Corner of Hungary;Violent Fighting in Prussia; Driving Nazis Into Norway.   Move Tirpitz

Russians Get Czecho-Slovak Road Center   Fierce Fighting Now in Progress for Eastern Prussia

Might Effect Junction at Caen   Air Forces Blast At Communications,  Airfields at Paris

FINNS STUDYING RUSSIAN TERMS   Stockholm Press Reports Little Modification

FINLAND GETS — ~ SOVIET TERMS   RUMORS . CIRCULATED THAT RUSSIA HAS MODIFIED ORIGINAL REQUIREMENTS ~~ FOR: PEACE

Jap Troop Barge Sunk at Rabaul   Enemy Base Raked Daily by Fighters; 100 Killed, Wounded

Troop-Laden Jap  Barges Are Sunk Allies Using Fighters To Attack Rabaul

Allies Sink Two  Troop Barges   Fighter Planes Hit Japs in Blanche Bay, Off Rabaul

Barge Sinkings Are _ Estimated To Have Cost The Enemy 100 Dead and Wounded Soldiers; Humil iating Blow.

Allies Reduced to  Straling Barges   Big Rabaul Targets Gone Fliers Rip Small Ones

French Roll Up Southern knd Of Long Line   German Defenses OF  pper Rhine Fall Spart Before Heavy Assault.

SPEEDY FRENCH FORCES REACH MULHOUSE AREA   3 Ally Armies Hammer Line

U.S. Driving Into Reversed Forts of Creat Maginot Line  Beyond Fallen Metz

French Roll Up Collapsing Nazi Flank   Germans Pull Back to New Defense Line

Nazis Put Up Bitter F ight To Save Oil   2.350-Plane Armada Rakes German Supplies Over Wide Area

French Thunder North Behind Routed Foe To Mulhouse Fort Region   Yank 7th Breaks Into Sarrebourg; 3rd Drives 23 Miles Into Saar Basin Past Seized Metz

BREAK INTO MAGINOT LINE; GERMANS FALL BACK TOWARD RHINE    Nazis Fight Hard On Own Soil But Give Ground Rapidly In Kastern France; Foe FPlanked In Santh   CRITLITLETIN )

Upper Rhine Defenses   Fall A part _   FRENCH FORCES CAPTURE. COLMAR; ENTIRE GERMAN” LINE PULLED BACK TO EAST

East of Aachen Germans Retreat To New Defenses   Enemy Forces Reported In Full Flight All Along 125-Mile Front

FRENCH MAY ALREADY GE IN MULHOUSE   a Rearguard Resistance ening as U.S. Armies ConContinue to Smash Fastward

FRENCH FORCES PLUNGE INTO MULHOUSE AREA   German Defenses Deteriorating Rapidly In Upper Rhine Valley

TAKE GOLMAR, Patt ABOAULT ON MULROUSE   German Defenses Crumbling and Troops Fall Back from France.

Entire Front Ablaze   Germans Admit Allies Aiming for ‘Decisive Blow’

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Name McNarney Deputy Supreme Commander in The Mediterranean Theatre

Changes In Mediterranean Staff May Be Forecast Of New, Undisclosed Operation

VELFZ FUNERAL RITES MONDAY   Reproached Lover Stays In Seclusion; Native Of Vienna

9 Killed, 20 Hurt, 1 Lost In Battles   Three Slain in Pacific Invasions; Six Give Lives in European Theaters of War.

Nine Men Killed, 17 Wounded and One Lost in War   Latest Casualty List Bring: Southtown War Dead Toll to 334,

9 Killed, 1 Missing, 21 Hurt in War   Seven Give Lives While Fighting in Europe, Two Others Fall in Pacific Area.

Hugo Man Gof Numerous Japs   Tucker Credited With More Than Any Other On Kwajalein

27 GI's Home For More Shells   Artillerymen Teil Of Ammunition Rationina at Front

27 ENLISTED MEN COMING HOME FROM FRANCE TO TELL ABOUT RATIONED AMMUNITION SUPPLY: CHRCHILL SAYS BRITISH WILL NOT BE SHORT

To Complete Peace Plan   SEND FRONTLINE TROOPS HOME TO INSPIRE OUTPUT

Soviets Leap Ahead Again In Old Poland   Capture Stronghold Of Dubno and Advance On All Major Fronts.  MENACE. ZHMERINKA.

Reds Capture Dubno: Advanes  Near Rumania   Soviets Draw Tighter Semi-Circle Around  Nikolaev: Ikva River Crossed in New Push

REDS CAPTURE DUBNO AND OTHER POINTS   Now Only 11 Miles From PreWar Border Of Rumania; Draw Semi-Circle Around Black Sea Port.   Take Rail Point

REDS CAPTURE DUBNO, PRESS TOWARD LOW   Ankara Dispatches Say Rumanians Fleeing Border Région

Strongpoint in Poland Is Captured   Soviets Draw Net Tighter Around Nikolaey

REDS CAPTURE DUBNO, PRESS TOWARD LWOW   Ankara Dispatches Say Rumanians Fleeing

Now Are 11 Mile: From Old Border Of Rumania  ANON Cammunitiac in   400 Communities in Pre-War Poland and S.W. Ukraine Taken

Grocer-Consumer Anti - Intlation Drive Endorsed   To Safeguard Future of Food , Dealers

6 Hurt in Wreck On Penn Railway   Two Freight, Passenger Trains in Collision

nee gt Seay lie... agp OrammnennN THREE-TIME GRANDPA PASSES ARMY EXAM

U.S. Army Troops Capture Second Noemfoor Airfield; Marines Mop Up on Ssinan

2d Airstrip Is Captured ~OnNoemfoor   Naval Experts See Jap War Effort Slow Down  Soon.

NINTH PUSHES DRIVE AGAINST JULICH BASE   Extensive Gains Recorded By American Seventh And French First Armies

MVA Unlikely at This Session  Congress Cool to President's Wishes

SURPLUS DISPOSAL PLAN PAINLESS TO U.S. TRADE NOW BEING BLUEPRINTED

Democrats Take First Steps To Nominate F.D.R.   Delegate Roundup ls Well under Way

VOTES LINED UP FOR ROOSEVEL'   Steps Taken To Pledge Convention Delegates For Fourth Term

Fourth Term Move Gets Under Way  Seek to Pledge 236 Deleaates to Drive

FOURTH TERM TALK GROWS IN CAPITAL   Steps Are Taken to Piedge Delegates to the Precident

Democrats Are Lining Strength For President   WwW ith Selection of Convention Delegates Far Off, FDR Has 236 Votes Already Pledged.

GH AUTHORITY CLAIM SUPPORTED BY WHITE HOUSE   Name of Person Making Statement Is Not Revealed, Authority Was Military Official.   MORE INFORMATION "PUBLIC ON STRIKE   President’s Secretary Issues Additional Facts About Recent Labor-Wage Controversies.

Roosevelt Warns Against Thinking War Soon Over; Says ‘Buy Lots of Bonds’

Quick Denial ls Presented To Moscow   British Press Indignant Over © "Insulting Story

FDR Likes Wallace As Running Mate  Expected to Endorse.  Viea_Peracidant Sann

ROOSEVELT MAY WANT WALLACE   Not Expected to Dictate Choice of Convention

Jap Troops Drown By  Thousands   Planes Account for Five Transports, Four Destroyers

Thousands of Nips Drowned Off Leyte   Enemy Fliers Put Up Stiff Defense; U. S. Convoy Attacked

Many Thousands More Japs Drown-Off Leyte — When Planes Hit Convoy

TOLL OF NIPS DROWNED BY YANKS 30,000   Latest Addition to Total in Nine Attacks on Convoys Trying to Reinforce Leyte Comes in 9 Ship Sinkings.

NINE VESSELS SMASHED BY PLANES   Losses Believed In Excess Of 30.000 Jans   GROUND FORCES   Maintain Pressure On Men Of Yamashita In Area North Of Ormoc

BY THOUSANDS   Yank Planes Sink Five Transports and Four Destrovers.

Thousands of Japs Drown in Fight On Philippine Sea  U. S. Planes Blast Many Vessels In Bomb Attacks

Bombs Blast Jap Troops in Convoy   Thousands of Enemy Soldiers Drowned in In land Seas   IN 36HOUR ATTACK   Japan Lost Over a 1,000 Planes in Fight for Leyte

Jap Casualties In Thousands As Convoy Sunk   Ton Ships Sent is Betiom as Drowning Toll Exceeds 30,00

Bag ‘Ten Ships Off Levte   Enemy Losses to Over 30,000 in Effort to Bolster Dwindling forces: 36-Honur Battle

30,000 Japs Have Been  Sent to A Watery Grave In the Philippine Seas

Leyte Planes Sink 10 Ships   Thousands of Japs Perish in Assault

THOUSANDS OF JAPS DROWNED IN U.S, TRAP   MacArthur Says 30,000 Perish At Levte

Jap Convoy Off Leyte Blasted   More Thousands of Jap Troops Drowned Of Island

JAP TRANSPORT DEATHS COSTLY   Thousands Of Enemy Soldiers Sink With Doomed Convovs Off Levte Island.

Ninth Jap Convoy Sunk off Leyte By U.S. Airmen   Losses Include Five Transports, Thousands Of Troops, and Four Escortina Warchine

Spilled to Death From: Reinforcement Convoys Sunk Monday and Tuesday

Thousands of Nip Soldiers  Are Drowned      Five Transports Sunk by , Our Planes in 36-Hour Battle Ending Yesterday  50 ENEMY PLANES ABR SHOT DOWN   We Lost Bight Fighters; U.S. Torpedo Boats Also Score in Battle

U.S. AIRMEN SINK FIVE TRANSPORTS, FOUR DESTROYERS   ONLY ONE DESTROYER IN CONVOY ESCAPES, 6TH TRANSPORT HIT

THOUSANDS OF JAP TROOPS DROWNED   Lost Their Lives in Philippine Seas Which Have Claimed 30,000.

NIPS DROWN AS CONVOYS SINK   Enemy's Losses Mount In Attempts to Reinforce Leyte Garrisons

Thousands of Enemy Troops Perish at Se:   5 Transports, 4 Destroyers Blasted in 36-Hour Fight

THOUSANDS NIP TROOPS DROWN   Five Transports, Four Destroyers Sent To Bottom

CONVOY, BAG 'OF 11 VESSELS   iSink Six Transports and  ’ Four Destroyers, Kill Many Troops Bound for Action on Leyte.

Bombs Blast Jap Troops i in Convoy   Thousands of Enemy .Sol diers Drowned in In  IN 36HOUR ATTACK   Japan Lost Over a  ,000 Planes in Fight for Leyte

2 CADETS AT PILOT SCHOOL DIE IN CRASH   Wrecked Plane and Bodies Found After Intensive Search Last Week

Recent Crashes Cost Life of Three Men of Pilot School   California Cadet Lands Safely, by Parachute, in Accident Monday Mornine

AIR ATTACKS CONTINUE AT RECORD MARK   Action Opens Up On Long Dormant Russian Front

Ickes Proposes U. §. War Plants  Be Given to Service Men and Women   Would Incorporate $15,000,000,000  Industrv, Give Veferans Shares

“GE PLANTS AS VET BONUS      War Factory Shares Distribution  Proposed

De Gaulle in U.S. This Week   Optimism Prevails In Washington on Easing of Strain

De Gaulle Will Arrive In U. S. Late This Week   Final Arrangements Complete For Visit To Talk On ‘General Policy’

McKean County Well Prepared to Combat Possible Polio Epidemic   Rotarians Hear Inter esting Article from Seerctary of McKean Crippled Childrens Societ

12,086 Planes Downed By Yanks   Ratio of Jap-U.S. Losses Five To One

Pacific Losses Heavy For Japs   U. S. Flyers Nab More Than 12,000 Planes Since Pearl Harbor.

————————————_ee  12.086 J ap Planes Destroved By U.S. At Cost Of 2.726 Craft

GCAIMANT'S FAMOUS GUSTAV DEFENSE GEASES 10 EXIST   British Forces Take Monastery Town, Ime fiicting Heavy Losses on Nazis   ATTACK LAST BARRIER BELOW ROME   Poles and French Fight Brilliantly —Kesselring Outmaneuvered

ALLIES LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE AT HITLER LINI   Americans Capture Formia, Important Rail Town in Coastal Sector

Labor Board Under Fire of  House Group   Accused of Violating Constitution by Union Clauses in Contracts

Report Slams —  WLB   Committee Accuses Agency of Violating Constitution, and Exceeding Authority

House Committee Accuses Labor Board Blistering Report Says WLB Has Violated The Constitution Of U. S.

NWLB Violated Constitution In Union Dealings   Special House Committee In Blistering Report

HOUSE COMMITTEE SCORES WLB FOR “HLFBAL” ACTIONS   Requiring Union Membership Clauses in Contracts  gee 

House Committee Files Caustic ‘Criticism of War Labor Board   Agency Accused of Violating Constitution in. Ruling on sii Maintenance of Membership Contracts.

SPECIAL HOUSE GROUP ASSAILS WLB IN REPORT   Maintenance Union Mem bership Demand Held  Unconstitutional

Labor Board ls Accused of Violating Laws   House Inquirers Say Constitution Has Been Ignored

War Labor Board Blasted By House Committee For “Unconstitutional” Policy

WLB DENOUNCED BY HOUSE GROUP   Special Committee Charges Violation Of Constitution

Blistering Report Says Policies Are Highly Dangerous   Says Constitution Can’t Be Suspended Just Because State of War Exists

 WLB Is Charged With Violation of The Constitution   Union Membership  Clauses in Contracts Draws Fire of House Investigating Group

—WLBE RAPPER D—  WEB LAMBASTED IN HOWSE REPOR   ‘Special Committee Aeccuses It Of Violating Constitution

SPECIAL HOUSE COMMITTEERAPS WAR LABOR BOARD FOR EXCEEDING ' AUTHORITY GRANTED BY CONGRESS   Majority Report Declares Constitution Violated  By Activities of WLB and Entire Economic System of Nation ingest by Its Autocratic Onerations  U

WLB Accused of  Violating Laws   Special Committee Reports War Labor Board Acts Beyond Authority.

House Group Accuses WLB Of Violation   Constitutional Rights Overstepped By Board The Committee Claims

 MAINTENANCE OF MEMBERSHIP CALLED ILLEGAL  ‘WLB Accused Of Violating Constitution

WAR LABOR BOARD ACCUSED VIOLATING U. 8. CONSTITUTION  RPIICTERING YBOTICE   BLISTERING HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORT SCORES ILLEGAL ACTIONS

WLB Charged With Violating Constitution   House Committee Assails Union Membershin Clauses

Contends Mointenanceof-Uniion’ Membership Vioeletes Conctitution

N.L.B. Accused Of Exceeding Power By Requiring Union Membership   House Investigating Committee Charges Clause In Contracts Between Workers And Employers Violates Constitution.

Accuse WLB Of Violating Constitution   House Group Questions PDR War Powers; Inves. tigate Agencies.   MAINTAIN CONTRACTS

CHARGE WLB VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION   House Investigators Declare Neither Board Nor President Can Sus pend Document Just Raranca War Kwiecta

Special House Inquiry Group Blisters WLB   ‘Unconstitutional Policies’ Charged In Contract  Reoiirements.

ACCUSES WAR LABOR BOARD OF VIOLATIONS   House Committee Says Board Is Out Of Sounds

NLB Is Is Flayed By Committee   Iegal Practicea Charged To Federal Body;.FDR  “Power Challenced

War Labor Board Scored in Report   Acts Are Called Unconstitutional

WILB Policies Criticized by House Group   Practices Hit As Autocratic Challenge to the Constitution

Congress Hits Labor Board's  {  Dictatorship   Committee Charges Practices Violate Constitution

LABOR BOARD IS CONDEMNED FOR UNION ACTIONS   House Committee Assails WLB, Charging Violation Of the Constitution

WLB Accusex Of Violating Constitution   House Probers Cite Series of Abuses Against Citizenry

Labor Board Accused of  Unlawful Act   Special House Committee Says It Has Been Acting Beyond Its Authority; Other Developments in Washington

WLB Violates  Constitution,  Group Charge:   House Committee Files Blistering Report In Capital

U.S SEVENTH ARMY PUSHES OVER BORDER   Other Units Slowed by Nazi Tank Attacks ~ and Artillery Fire

Tonsilitis Vs. Sulfa Drug   yy) In. Small Doses Cures Quickly, Saves Many - Man-Hours, Says Dr. *

Burning Industrial City Is Penetrated Atter Bomber Raid   U. S. First And Ninth Armies Hit Roer Defenses as General Paton’s Troops Smash Into Saar Basin Fortress—Other Gains Along Western Front.

U. S. Seventh Army Troops Wipe Out Last Remnants af German Bridgeheod At Rhine Bridges in Strasbourg

GREAT FIRES RAGE WITHIN NAZI BASTION   SAARLAUTERN CITY FALLS IN 3-MILE ADVANCE

Seventh Wipes Out Pocket In Strasbourg; First —Facinge Bloody Battle

Third Army Fights Into Saarlauten   Germans Resist Along Entire Western Front; Rundstedt in Charge

Yankee {st In Bitter Battle With Germans   U.S. Forces Pay High Cost In Struggles On Ist, 9th Fronts; Saar  Basin Gouged ‘

First Army Halted By German Defense   Saar Basin Fortress And Industrial City In Flames as Patton’s Men Crash Defenses

BEDFORD TRI ESCAPES JAIL   Saw Through Four Bars; Drop 12 Feet From Window

STOLEN DETROIT BABY FOUND IN HOME OF NEGRO   Fake Birthmark, Sun-Tan Coloring Almost Fool Investigators   ‘NURSE’ PROTESTS CHARGE   Accused Woman insists Recovered Child Is Her Own Son

SOVIET FORCES ARE 19 MILES FROM HUNGARY   Advance Guards Climb High Into Passes Of Carpathians

DISORGANIZED -BNEMY FORCES PUT T0 FLIGHT   German High Command Predicts Further Withdrawals on Eastern Front.

Red Advance Is in Sight Of Hungary   Russians Push Into Carpathians— Germans in Flight

Red Armies At Border Of Hungary   Enter Approaches of Stra. tegic Mountain Passes,  Is Reported

Surging Soviets Advance Within Sight of Hungary   Strive to Seize Mountain Passes  Guarding Border

Russ Smash To 15 Miles : Of Hungary   Hungarian Officers Reported Forming To Stop Nazis.

CUBA DEALT LETHAL BLOW BY SEVERE TROPICAL STORM   ‘Preliminary Reports From Havana Indicate Seven  Deaths And 400 Others Injured; Florida To Feel Force Of Hurricane Today; Cape Hatteras Alerted

Airmen Report German Armor Is Driven Back   Early Collapse Of German Resistance At St. Lo Is Indicated   NAZI FORCES ARE BADLY BATTERED

YANKS ADVANGE T PLAGES ON FLARING ST. LO FRONT   British Forced To Withdraw Slightly on Important Caen Sector   BIG ALLIED DRIVE FOR PARIS NEAR   German Resistance at Peak While Allied Power In Normandy Increases

GERMANS FAIL TO PUSH UNITS BACK INTO SEA   Allied Capture of Cassino, Gustav Line Stronghold Imminent

Hurl Back Nazi Attacks   Germans Make Repeated Drives Against Allies

BRITISH BLOCK NAZI ATTACKS SOUTH OF ROME   _Another “Bloody Salerno” May Be  in Making

French Battleship “Dunkerque” Blazing Furious!y   Britich Troons Hurl Back Nazis South of Rome

Jap Truk Base Left Blazing By Record Raid  Of Burma Fighting In Sharp Conflict

Dublon Island Left Blazing And Blanketed By Smoke After Raid   Reports In Conflict On India Fighting   laps Say Kohima Captur. ed, But Allies Deny Major Engagement There

Truk Target Of Heavy Night Raid   Jap Base Hit For Fourteenth  Time in One Weck

TRUK IS LEFT ABLAZE AFTER NIGHT ATTACK   ALLIED POSITIONS ARE IMPROVED IN BURMA

Truk Pounded In Heavy Raid   American Raiders Emphasize Aerial Dominance  With Damaging Blow.

Raids on Truk Show Air Supremacy   Dublon Island Ablaze After Americans Make Night Attack

Truk Raided In Heaviest  Night Attack   Dublon Island Is Left Blazing; Stories Of India-Burma Battle Are Canflicting

Heavy Night Raid on Truk By U.S. Airmen   Dublon Island Is Left Blazing; 13 Jap Planes Downed

Truk Left Blazing After Heavy Attack   Sharply Contradictory Views Shown As Japs Claim-Heavy Advances !n India

American air foree dominant  fj, eee eee ee eee.   Truk night raids indicate power

German Navy Men Commit Sabotage Acts   Oslo Scene Of Ship Dartiage

Nazi Morale In Norway Drops  Naval Crews Trying To Escape Sea Trips

Tenchung’s Fall Clears Highway ~For Burma Allies   Newest Philippines Assault Proves Deepest Move Into Jap-Held Territory

Warships Pound Rabaul, Kaviena   Much’ Damage Left After Bold “Attack 

Jap Base on New Britain  Heavily Hit   Batteries on Shore Silenced; Enemy Vessels Damaged

DOCKS IGNITED, INSTALLATIONS BLASTED IN RAID   Numerous Jap Ships Reported Sunk, Allies Have No Losses

DESTROYERS IN DARING ATTACK ON ENEMY BASE   Rabaul Pounded From Sea; Kavieng Also Shelled; Nip Shipping Hit

AAVIENG ALSO HIT IN BOMBARDMENT   Ships Move to Within Four Miles of Jap Bases   FIRST SEA ATTACK   Warships Duel With Shore Batteries, Silence Them; Daring Raids

Rabaul, Kavieng Blasted By U. 5. Destroyer Force   Warships Dare Shore Batteries In Bold Attack

Shell Rabaul And Kavieng   First Time U. S. Warships Have Ventured in That Close; Destroyers Unhurt

Warships Shell Rabaul, Kavieng  Daring Attack Follows Stiff Bomber Blows

Yank Destroyers Shell Rabaul. irs Time i in Mar  Connon ates coe   Supplementary. Base Of Kavieng Also. Hit in Bold Attack

American Destroyers Daringly Shell Once Mighty Rabaul and Its Supplementary Base of Kavieng

Kavieng Base Also Blasted; Enemy Ships Get Pounding   Rold Blows Proves U. S. Sea Strength

U. 5. Warships Blast Rabaul,  Also Kavieng   Shore Batteries Are Silenced and Large Fires Started At Simpson Harbor

WARSHIP GUNS SHELL RABAUL KAVIENG BASE   SHORE BATTERIES SILENCED; DOCKS ARE SET AFIRE

New Hampshire Test Vote Today   Willkie and Dewey Men in Contests

SEEK TO SAVE. ARMY CAUGHT IN RUSS TRAP   Bloody Armored Engagement Develops on Middle ' Dnieper Front.

MID-DNIEPER FRONT BLAZES WITH ACTION   One of Bloodiest Armored Battles of Russian War Raging

GERMAN TANKS IN FIERCE FIGHT TO CRACK TRAF   Russians Repuise Dozens of Counter Attacks on Middle Dnieper

SOVIET ARMOR RESCUE ATTEMPTS   Bleedy Engagements In Twenty Mile Pocket Aleng Middle

TANKS TRY 10 RESCUF YAZIS   Bloodiest Battle In Dneiper Bend  ce  Reds Approach City

Says Nofary Altered Vote   Stilwell JP Admits Erasing Name, Writing in Another On Absentee Ballot

NIMITZ TO BE GOVERNOR OF MARSHALLS   Plans for Rule of Jap Territory Already Worked Out

ANKEES P GREAT BATTLE TO A CLIMAX   U.S. Assault Units Make Good Progress, Says Headquarters

CORN WARKERS TO RETURN HOME   Camp..at Pioneer ‘Plant to Close -on Saturday

CORN: WJRKERS T0 RETURN HOWE   Camp at Pioneer Plant to Close on Saturday

TEAMSTERS END BRIEF WALKOUT   Woul dHave Tied Up War Plants in 48 Hours

Nips On Guam Doomed ‘American Marines Avenged As  110,000 Japs Are Exterminated

Americans Dealing Clincher Blow to Small Force of Jap Defenders on Island of Guam

TIME IS ABOUT UP   Americans Herd Last Japs on Island of Guam Into  Small Area

Japs’ Rule on Guam Over   Extermination of Garrison Herded Into Corner Started

Guam’s Story Is About Over   Last of Nipponese Being Exterminated; New Guinea Japs Cut Into Groups

Japs on Guam Face Extermination   Remnants of Enemy Force on tsland te Cut to Bits

N et Tightens on Guam [As Total of Jap Dead Soars to 10,000   American Marines Hopelessly Trap Nips On Island Outpost Where Garrison Was Overwhelmed in December of 1941

Battle for Guam Nearing a Finish  Remnants of Defenders  Dtuned in Small Area

JAPY DRIVEN INTO TRAP ON GUAM ISLAND   Yanks Split Them Three Ways For Extermination; Raids On Islands Get Nip  Planeac.

Guam Fight Nearly Over   Last Japs Being Exterminated In Corner of Island

Last Japs Being Exterminated In Guam Coast Trap   New Air Blows Wipe Out Planes At Halmahera, Destroy Yap Power  Hiouse.

Close In On Japs On Guam   Last Ditch Defenders Herded Into 15 Mile Square Area

FALL OF LAST JAPS ON GUAM NOW IN SIGHT   Enemy Troops Cornered is Small Area of Fifteen Square Miles.

EXTERMINATING NIPS ON GUAM      Counted Enemy Dead Already Exceeds 10,000, Others Doomed   JAPS WIN 1 VICTORY

Guam Campaign 1s Nearing Its Successful End   MacArthur Men Cut Up New Guinea Trap Into Three Groups.

SPLIT JAPS IN GUAM VICTORY   MacArthur's Troops Cut Up New Guinea Trap Into 3 Groups

Extermination Of Last Jap Underway On Guam; Total Dead Exceeds 10,000

YANKS MOP UP LAST TRAPPED JAPS ON GUAM   Campaign Declared All But Over; Enemy On Guinea Cut Into Three Parts

Guam Defenders Squeezed Into Suicide Corner   MacArthur Tells Of 48-Ton Raid On Halmahera

Yanks Trying To Split Japs In Guam Trap   Warships Aid in Mop-up  of Fanatic Garrison; Halmahera Blasted

Guam’s Japs Facing  Sure Death Blows   Extermination. Has ‘Begun: Over. Island

Guam Campaign All But Over   Last Ditch Group Of Jap Defenders Herded Into Small Area.

Guam Fighting All But Over; Japs Trapped   Gen. MacArthur Men Cut Up New Guinea Trap Into Three Groups.   DESTROY 13 PLANES

Conquest of Guam is Now  All But Over   Counted Enemy Dead Already Exceeds 10,000

Edwards Gets Big Navy Post   Vice Admiral May Relieve King To Spend More Time In Pacific.

Two Suicides At Kansas P.O. W. sCamp Caused Bv Nazi Persecutions

Bombers Again Attack Ploesti   Bomb Romanian Oil Center Through Dense Nazi Smokescreen

Planes Make 12th Raid On Ploesti   1,000 Fortresses Smash Targets In Central Germany Today

BOMBERS LASH PLOESTI AGAIN   Romanian Oil Center Hit by Italy-Based Raiders

Strike Anew “At German *Oil Sources   Great Fires Set By 500 Bombers; Nazi Plane Toll 200 in Four Daves

More Than’ 200. Ené - Planes - Des royed In     “lied Planes; Berlin Ra. . dio Reports. ‘Aerial Battles “Over: ‘Germany

U.S. Hurls More Than ‘3.000 Planes At Targets   Synthetic Oil Plants  At Merseburg And Rich Ploesti Field Objects  Of Bie Attacks

U. 5. Planes Again Make Ploesti Raid   Bomb Oil Center; Many German Planes Shot Down

2,000 PLANES BATTER HEART OF GERMANY   Ploesti Oil Fields in Romania Also  Blasted by Allies

ROMANIA WITHDRAWS, BULGARIA AND HUNGARY SPEED EFFORTS — TO GET QUT OF CONFLICT =   Allied Mechanized Armies Plunge Ahead in France; Yanks 150 Miles From Reich and Reported at Swiss Border

"ALLIES RUSH _ AID TO HELP OUELL ENEMY   Threaten To Destroy Capital City

Insemination Program At Legion Hall February 28   All Dairy Farmers Should Attend

Enemy Reports Red - Drive North of las      Romanian Communique Declares the Russians Are Pressing a Determined Offensive and That Fierce Battles Are Raging.

CLAIM SOVIET DRIVE PUSHED   Determined Offensive it Romania Reported

RUSSIANS PUSH NEW OFFENSIVE NORTH OF IASI   “ierce Battles Raging In Romania For Second Day; No Important Changes Re ' ported Along Broad Front.

Soviets Drive Toward last. Romanians Say   Russians, However, Report There Are No Important Changes In Fronts

Reds Driving On North Of lasi: Delete Regiment   German and Romanian Attempts To Break Through Dnestr Repulsed.

RUSSIANS SILENT ON REPORTED NEW OFFENSIVE MOVES   ROMANIAN COMMUNIQUE REPORTS RED ARMY PUSHING DRIVE NEAR IASI

Red Army Presses Fierce Fight For Rumanian City  Attacks Continue Raging for Two Entire Days

Russ’ Thr ust. In Iasi Area  Led bi V Tanks   Penetrations Reduced by ‘Enemy Counterattacks, Bucharest Claims

Russians Say Little Change   However, Romanians Report Soviets Pressing On Iasi.

Soviet Forces Driving Ahead In Carpathians   Powerful Tank-Supported Armies North of Iasi  Press Offensive on  Romanian Soj} 

Romanians Say Reds Attacking North Of Jasi    Moscow Makes. No Men tion of Reported Offen  sive. Reds Attack INazi   Escape Boats Off Sevastanoal,

Russians Push Against lasi   Heavy Battles Rage In That Romanian Area, Bucharest Says

Russians Press Romanian Drive  North Of Iasi   Fierce Tank Battle Rages

AXIS CLAIMS SOVIET ATTACKS MADE, REPULSED   Soviets Say Siege Of Sevastopol Continues Unabated

Troop Train Toll Increased to 33   Believe Other Bodies Pinned in Wreckage

Villages Devastated By ‘Lava  Molten Mass From Vestrvitis Destroys Two Italian Town:

Avalanche Spills From MM. Vesuvius   Two Towns Covered By Molten Rock; Italians Flee Homes

Japs Already Smell Defeat, Says — Halsey in New Year’s Statement

16 Soviet Republics Granted Right To Handle: Their Own Affairs With Other Nations

Sixteen Republics of Soviet Union to be Given Autonomy   Will Handle Their Own Foreign Affairs and Maintain Armies

Soviet Republics Made Aturttonomous   Russia Seen Prepari ing To Hold Own Against Allies at the Peace Table

16 REPUBLICS OF SOVIET GIVEN AUTONOMY   U.S.S.R. Moves To Solve Problems Of  MY andi numanletiag

REO REPUBLICS GIVEN POWERS   Empowered to Deal With Other Countries, Raise Own Army Units.   CALLED STEP FORWARD

RUSSIA APPROVES PLANS 10 CREATE T6NEW REPUBLICS   Each Group Is Permitted Army Units, May Handle Own Foreign Affairs Molotov Announces.   GOMMISSAR SAYS IDEA -WILL SOLVE PROBLEMS   Molotov Outlines Plan Before Russian Parliament ‘and Obtains An Unanimous Approval.

Soviet Republies Increase Power   Will Deal Directly With Other Nations. Have Own Army Units

Russia Made Into Federation Of 16 Individual Republics In Drastic Political Upheava

Sixteen Soviet Republics Given Right To Handle Own Foreign Affairs, Have Armie:

CAN RAISE ARMIES, DEAL WITH NATIONS      Molotov Says It's Step in Solving Problems of Many Nationalities

SOVIET STATES GET AUTONOMY   Right To Handle Own Foreign Affairs

SOVIET UNION IS SPLIT INTO 16 ~ REPUBLICS  History- Making. Plan Is Adopted: By     Russians     ON TUES.: NIGHT  Action Raises Many Questions By Othe:      Action Raises Many Questions By Other Nations... -.

SOVIETS GIVEN OWN FOREIGN AFFAIRS RULI   Drastic Change Also Permits lt Separate Republics to Maintairz Own Army Units   Action Regarded by Some as Bid for More Power in Peace, Others as Stimulating Democracy

16 Separate Republics Are Set Up   Plan is Adopted Following Debate Lasting 4 Hours

Each To Raise Own Army Units And Deal Directl With Other Countries; New Step In Nationality Problem, Molotov States

Soviet Union Remolded Into  Commonwealth  16 Republics To Hand  Own Foreign Affair

Russia Splits Self Into 16 Independent Republic   Move Would Allow Russia To Have 16 Votes At Peace Table; Similar To Britain 

16 REPUBLICS IN RUSSIA GIVEN ADDED POWERS   Can Deal Directly With Other Countries and Raise Own Army Units

FDR’s Aide Set To Face Senate  Probers Today   Sen. Smith Denies Aiming At President Through Confidential Man

DANIELS 10 GIVE _ TESTIMONY TODAY   Senate Committee Delays Contempt Action Pend‘ina Hearing

Stott's Prosecutor Returns to Trial After Withdrawal  Defense Witness Recalled and Re: Ba.   Defense Witness Recalled and Case Nears Close Atter Conference With Judge

U. S. CASUALTY LIST ADDS UP 10453375 NOW   62,000 Added Since the Invasion of Normandy

EDR. CERTAIN OF 4TH NOMINATION   Only Question Remaining Is Does He Want It?

French Seize Road Center, Patch Gains   Chalon-Sur-Saone, Communications Center Is Taken

FRENCH SWEEP UP SAONE VALLEY IN PURSUIT OF NAZIS   Seize Key Communications Center of Chalon-Sur-Saone From Which Leads Highway to Germany—-Only 90 Miles From Third Army

CHASING NAZIS OUT OF SECTOR   French Troops of 7th Army Approaching Units of 3rd Army.

French Occupy Chalon-sur-Saone Driving Up Valley   Advance Places Patch's. Treops Within 90 Airline Miles from American Third Army

Advance Dowr Homestretch Toward Rome   Savagely Fighting Nazis Seek to Stave Off Collapse

VALAMONTONE VELLETRI IN YANKS HANDS   Americans Fighting Up Via Caslinia Toward Rome

Valmontone And Velletri Taken In Swift Drive   Yankees Smashing Down Home Stretch On Appian Way Toward Rome Against Battered But Desperately Fighting German Army.

GEN. CLARK UNDER DIRECT GERMAN FIRE   Fifth Army Commander Drops tc Ground and Escapes Injury— Several Men Near Him Hit.

U.S. HEAVIES BOMB BERLIN SECOND DAY   In Succession As Daylight Assault Reaches Highest Pitch Of War; Hannover Also Raided.   No Utilities

Ships May Not 60 to Russians   Churchill Announces That Ultimate Disposal of ttaliun: Ships 4s---—Urisetled

British Balk At Handing Russia Ships  Roosevelt Move Criticised . In British House

SOLDIER BALLOT PLAN IN TANGLE   Home Rule  Compromise Bill Tossed In By Senators

Second Attempt to Get Service Vote Bill Through Congress Faces Trouble

Parliamentar y Snarl Looms On Service Ballot   Stimson. Says Soldiers -Mail May Be Endangered by Vote Handling; Compromise Offered

See Snarl In  — Service Vote   House Expects To Take Up Amended Version Of Senate-Approved Bill,

Two Flying Fortresses Collide in Air. North of Hinton Tuesday Morning   Nine Fliers Killed And Eight Parachute To Safety In Crash

RED ARMIES CLOSING TRAP   “Tighten Encircloment—ot. Tens. of Thousands of German Troops — Russians Plunging Through Nazi Defenses Seemingly at Wil.

REDS TIGHTEN NOOSE AROUND TRAPPED NAZIS   Tens of Thousands FEncircled in Ukraine. Reds Break Through to River Defense Line

RUSSIANS DRIVE TO WITHIN 21 MILES EAST OF NIKOLAEV   Enemy Counterattack in Attempt to Escape From 300-Sq.-Mi. Trap Fails

Reds Tighten Trap On Nazis In Ukraine Area   Russ Move In Abov: : Kherson, Cut Off  Thousands of Germans

DEPARTMENTS ‘OVER TOP’ BEFORE DRIVE      Western. Maryland Em? ployes. Subscribe . to. ‘Red Cross Fund.

DEPARTMENTS ‘OVER TOP’ BEFORE DRIVE   Western Maryland Employes Subscribe to. Red Cross Fund .

British Land on Beveland   Hundreds of German Prisoners Rounded Up in Amphibious Attack

Nazis Report Assaults Spread Along 125 Miles of Coast; Two Islands Near Naval Port of Toulon Captured

SAIDOR FALLS IN DRIVE UP GUINEA COAST   Allies Advance 100 Miles Nearer  Madang

29 Nip Planes  Downed: Warships  ‘Sunk In Raids   All Resistance At Saidor Is Wiped Out

RED FLIERS HIT SEVASTOPOL BY DAY AND NIGHT   Step Up Aerial Blows To Soften City For Final Drive

Speed Air Attack on Sevastopol   Prepare for Big Ground Offensive

Step Up Attacks On Sevastopol —   Waves of Red Planes Hit Black Sea Port

SEVASTOPOL PUSH IS RESUMED BY THE RUSSIANS   s All-Out Attack to Reduce Black Sea Stronghold Held by Nazis,

RUSSIANS STEP UP ATTACKS ON SEVASTOPOL   Ground Offensive to Smash Germans in Crimea Indi¢eated

Soviets Step Up Sevastopol Attack   Planes Batter City By Day and Night

Plea Backed By Detector Test ~~ Frees Accuset Appeal Upheld After  Conviction, Woman Accuser Held -

 Justice Prevails . Convicted Man Escapes Prison 'As Aceuser Admits Pertury

Turkey Promises To Submit Allies Any Request for Peace by Bulgaria

CAPITAL onJGNEL AT EXPULoIO OF FINNISH (RISTER   Action Removes A‘l Top Finnish Lipicmats From Waz-zhinston

LSION OF FINNISH ENVOYS STIRS CAPITAL   Does Not Mean End of Relations, State Department Insists

CAPITAL SHOCKED MT ante OF FINNIGH RHIRISTER   _ Action EKemoves. AM Top "hms Diplomats

Red Army Forces Smash Into Budapest, Cut Off Large Group Of Germans   Chaotic Condition Is Reported Inside Hungarian Capital; ‘On To Berlin’ Is Motto Of Soviet Troops

FE ak tee Sg me ES  BRIGKER SAYS NEW DEALERS  ATTEMPT TO BUY. ne   OHIO GOVERNOR CHALLENGES ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRA. TION ON THREE CAMPAIGN ISSUES

RESIGNATION IS ACCEPTED   Oswaldo Aranha was Brazilian Foreign Minister

Island Stronghold Hit, Raked Seven Times In  48 Hours  ‘   Bastion Is Reduced To Ruins By Forts   Eleven Out Of Forty Jap Fighters Shot Down Over Base

CHINESE CUT _REGIMENT OF JAPS TO PIECES   Gen. Boatner, Stilwell’s Chief of Staff, Comes Out of Burma Jungle with Tales of Fighting

Jap Regiment Wiped Out By Chinese   Ledo Road Fighting To Result in Second Massacre

JAP REGIMENT S ELIMINATED   Hacked to Pieces By Chi. hese Troops Fighting on Ledo Road,

Jap Regiment “€ut-To Pieces By Chinese Unit   American Officer Reports Stilwell Troops Push 100 Miles Into Burma

JAP REGIMENT IS WIPED OUT   Chinese Troops Score Brilliant Victory on India Side Of Front

% Killed. 43 Wounded 1. %,, thless Attack   Nazis Bomb Evacuation Hospital

Casualties In Hospital Raid Now Total 85   Dozen Nurses, Some In Grave Condition, Among Sixty-Three Injured In Dive-Bombing   Tented Places Of Mercy Well Marked   Huns Fly In At 500-Foot Allitude to Drop Bombs: One Bursts In Midst Of Operation

TWO NURSES INCLUDED IN 26 PERSONS KILLED IN LOW- . LEVEL DIVEBOMBING ATTACK    By REYNOLDS PACKARD .  (Representing the Combined Amerinan Pree)

UNIT LOCATED NEAR ANZIO IN ITALY   Casualties Total 26 Dead, Wounded   FIRST NURSES   Killed By Enemy Action; Doctors And Injured Men Also Victims

JNurses And Wounded Die FromGerman  Plane Attack   Nazi Dive-Bombs U. 8. Evacuation Hospital;  Operating Tables, Tents And Equipment Ripped

By REYNOLDS PACKARD .  United Press War Correspondent Representing the Combined U.S Press.

AMERICAN NURSES SLAIN   German Plane Divebombs U. S. Evacuation Hospital

German Airplane Dive-Bomb Yank Field Hospital   26 American Nurses Reported Killed In Evacuation Center

YANK HOSPITAL BOMBING KILLS TWENTY-SIX   Fourteen Nurses Are Included Among 69 Casualties

NAZI PLANE BOMBS YANK HOSPITAL   26 Dead Include Two Women Nurses And Four Doctors

U. S. Hospital Hit: 26 Killed, 43 Hurt   Attack by Dive-Bombing Plane on Italian Beachhead Evacuation Unit Deliberate— Two Women Nurses Among the Dead.

GERMANS RAID HOSPITAL TENTS SOUTH OF ROME   Kill 26 in Attack, Including U. S. Nurses, Doctors; Wound 43

Germans DivebombAmerican Hospital Tents, Killing 26   43 Injured in Evacuation Hospital Set on Naked Plain on Anzio Beachhead — Two  Nurses, Four Doctors Dead

U.S. Nurses Are Among Casualties   26 Persons Killed, 43 Wounded As Tent Hospital Is Raided

Nazi Plane Dives, Bombs Hospital   26 Killed, Including  2 Women Nurses

26 Killed: 2 Nurses in List of Dead   4 Doctors, 4 Wounded Men Dead; 12 Nurses Among 43 Wounded

DEMOBILIZATION PLANS TACKLED   Congress Bows to Demant for Work on Peace Economy

CONGRESS RETURNS 10 OKAY MOBILIZATION PROGRAM   Plan Speedy Action To Put Nation In Economic Readiness For Peace   Few Members Respond to Call to Reconvene Today—Battles Indicated

Chicanery Is. Accusation By Harry Truman   Senator Asserts GOP Leaders Garble Reports

Demago guery And Chicanery Laid To Dewey   Senator Truman Tell: Legionnaires It Would Be Dangerous To Elect Inexperienced Leader

Truman Says GOP Candidates Guilty Of Demagoguery  Serious to Create Allied Distrust, Canntar Darlarac

YANK BOMBERS DEFY WIND 10 PROLONG RAIDS   Pound Invasion Defenses: Romanian Oil Fields Hit By RAF

20th Day of Bombings On Naziland   Worst Spring Storm i: Years Fails to Stop Limited Attacks Today

Storms Are Bucked By Liberators        CARRY AIR OFFENSIVE THRU: ©: ITS 20TH DAY WITHOUT STOP, AS OTHER PLANES ARE GROUN

Liberators Fight Spring Gales To Lash Calais Coast   Return Of ‘‘Winter’’ To Straits Halts Air Activity

Complete Paralysis of Enemy's Communications Up to 210 Miles Behind Fight Fronts Rovereled— Supplies to Italian Front Reduced to Mere Trickle, ‘

JAP INTERNEES » MAKE DEMANDS   PETITION FROM JAP-AMERI-CANB AT RELOCATION CEN- TER, DISCLOSED BY OF.  - FICIAL OF WRA

Downey Leads Houser With Margin of 132,000 Votes   PRESIDENT’S MAJORITY IN STATE STACKS UP; FIVE DEMO, ONE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN NAMED

FR. Lead in State Mounts   President Sweeps In Downey; Havenner 1000 Ahead of Rolph

Reds Less Than 10 Miles From Yugoslav Capital   Partisans Reported Fighting In Pancevo, ‘Key Above Belgrade

Soviet Army In Outskirts Of Belgrade   Yugoslav Capital's Capture Expected In Matter of Hours

Tito’s Men Stage Fight  In Pancevo   Yugoslav Capital Within Range Of Field Guns.

Swiftly-Advancing Kussians Now Ten Miles From Beigrade; ‘Nazi Escape Route Threatened

REDS TEN MILES FROM BELGRADE   Yugoslav Capital Now Within Artillery Range

RED ARMY 19 MILES FROM BELGRADE   Expected to Free Yugoslav Capital By End of Week

‘Soffening-up Raids on Halmahera 'Presage Early Drive on Philippines

RESUMES MINDAY   Conscription Row Strengthens Prime Minister’s Hold . in Parliament

Bride To Be Says Career To Continue   Marriage to Col. Roosevelt Set for This Week

Faye Emerson To Continue Career   Planning to Marry Col. Elliott Roosevelt; She Still Has Job.

DEMOCRATIC CLASH IN TEXAS FORECAST   Fourth Term Bandwagon to Get Bump in Primary Today

Turbulent Texas Convention Today   Fourth ferm Seen As a Major Issue

4th Term Due For Bump In Texas Meet   Democratic Conclave Today Faces Three-Way Clash

TEXAS DIVIDED OVER 4TH TERM   Republicans Can't Agree On Dewey; One Group Prefers Bricker

TEXAS TO GHOUot DELEGATES TODAY   Fourth-term Bandwagon : Due to Hit Bit of Bump   CLASHES LOOM   Texas Republicans Also Far From Agreed; Some Favor _ Dewey, Others Bricker

Texas Democrats Split on 4th Term  Clash Is Expected  In Convention Tedav

FRENCH FORCES CROSS RHONE, TAKES NIMES   Fighting Ends In Most Places

STATE BOARDS ONLY TO INDUCT MEN UNDER 26   Some Selective Service Groups May Only Send Volunteers This Month

Finland Is To Quit sient War  Pe ane tsa_s oh ae es   Germans Have Decided To Make A Withdrawal

Finland Quits War As Germany Withdraws Army  Russians Are Asked To Grant Bled Nation Armistice

Military, Political Situation Forced It  Germans Agree to Withdraw from Finland; Finns Not Yet Sure What Terms Russia to Impose But Must Accept

Premier Claims Nazi Troops To Be Withdrawn   Report A ‘Complete’ Break With Germany With Terms To Be Issued By Moscow

Finns Quit: Nazis to Go   Soviet Terms Asked; Germans Reported Leaving in 2 Weeks

Armistice Asked, Finnish Premier Tells His People   Germany Agrees To Withdraw Its Troops, He Says

PREMIER SAYS REQUEST MADE FOR ARMISTICE   Nazis No Longer Able To Give Assistance,  Hackzell Explains

NAZI PLIGHT CITED BY FINN PREMIER   Russia Is Asked To Grant An Armistice

Finland Quits War Germans to Leave   Russians Already Asked to Grant Armistice, Premier Reveals -

FINLAND T0 QUIT WAR: ASKS RUSSIA FOR AN ARMISTICE   Premier Hackzell, Announcing Decision, Says Nazis Have Agreed to Withdraw From Country.   TERMS MOSCOW WILL  IMPOSE UNCERTAIN   Statement Says Germany Needs Forces for Defense of Homeland and Can- — not Give Ample Aid.

Finland Getting Out Of War With Nazis Agreed To Leave  Territory. Reports Premier.

Germans Agree jo Remove Armed Forces   Enemy Requires All Forces to Defend Homeland

Premier Tells Nation Ger mans Have Agreed io Withdraw from the Country

Terms Too Good To Refuse Chief Of Finland Declares   Unconditional Surrender Not Part Of Demand; Report Nation Breaks With Germany As First Step Towards Peace

Germans Agree To Withdraw  From Finland   Russia Is Asked Ti Grant Armistice To Finns

Finland Is to Quit; Germans Agree to Withdraw Troops   Finnish Government Has Already Askec ~ Russia for Armistice Terms, Says Unconditional Surrender Not Asked

Nazis Agree To Withdraw From North   Finns Accept Soviet Terms With Approval of Both United States and Great Britain

Finland Forced To Withdraw From The War   German Troops Are Leaving, Russian  Terms Are Sought

Peace Must BeMade,Says Finn Premiet   Declares Russia Has No Asked Unconditional Surrender   EXPECTSSACRIFICES   Germans Can No Longer Protect Finland, Is Conclusion

Gestapo Acts ToNipPloton — Hitler’s Life   Stockholm Dispatch Tells of Widespread Arrests : of Nazi Officers

DEFENSE PEAK OVER CITY IN ALLIED HANDS   Prolonged Siege of French Harbor City Believed Unlikely as Battle Rages on Today

President Osmena Invites BRO to Send Group to Philippines as Soon as Japs Are Routed

SON AND DAUGHTER ARE TO BENEFIT BY ERDMAN ESTATE   Howard H. Erdman Leaves Personal Property of $6,348   REAL ESTATE, $5,000   3 Sons, 3 Daughters Share Under Will of Ide H. Cook

SEVERAL WILLS ARE FILED FOR PROBATE IN THE COUNTY   Included Are One from Briatol and One from Bridal Township   1 FROM TINICUM TWP.

Circus Blaze Is Fatalto 4), Scores Are Hurt  Tons of Canvas  Fall Down on

SOLDIER VOTE PLANS PUSHED    Congress Studies Compromise, Providing State Control

War Correspondent, Wounded, Goes IntoCherbourg With Assault Force.

RAIDERS SET LONDON FIRES   Two of City's Best Known Areas Hit by Thousands  Of Incendiaries

Capital Gets First Heavy   March Raid   Pre-Midnight Assault Compares in Intensity  To Great Raids of 194: MANY HOUSES BURN

LONDON IS BOMBED BY GERMAN FLIERS   Short But Concentrated Attack Made on City

ACQUIT CONNORS IN MURDER CASE   Favor Not Guilty Verdict or First Ballot

Occured In n- : Bay At San Francisco —      TWO 6500-TON SHIPS INVOLVED; MOST OF DEAD ARE-NAVY PERSONNEL; 650 INJURED

2 AMMUNITION SHIPS EXPLODE IN FRISCO BAY   Heavy Casualties Re. sult; Red Cross Workers Take  Charve

Terrific Blast Rocks Bay Area: Visible 100 Miles   650 to 800 Reported Injured; Town ‘Wrecked; Two Loading Ships Vanish

Hundreds Injured As Explosion Blows Two Vessels to Bits   Port Chicago, 35 Miles From San Francisco, Disaster Scene; Several Smaller Ships Destroved

Ist Reports Are 300 Killed; Ships  Blown To Pieces   Cause OF Blast, Heard 50 Miles Distant, Not Determined

Navy Reports Hundreds Of Persons Hurt   Vessels Blow Up During Loading At Port Chicago, Calif.

Approximately 300 Dead With Between 650 And 800 Persons Injured; Not A Sign Remains Of Two Vessels   PORT CHICAGO TOWN WRECKED

Two Ammunition Ships Explode Last Night In San Francisco Bay   6,500 Ton Ships Being Loaded With Ammunition For Pacific War  SSTIMATE 350 NAVAL  PERSONNEL KILLED  Believed Between 650 And 800 Persons Have  Been Injured

ESTIMATE 350 PERSONS KILLED IN EXPLOSION  AT SAN FRANCISCO   Believe 650 To 800 Per_ sons Injured In Explosion Which Did Exten sive Damage.

ARMS SHIPS EXPLODE IN ‘FRISCO BAY   g Most Victims Are Navy Personnel; Up To 800 Injured

Blown Up at Wharf on West Coast   Nothing Remains of Two Ships After Explosion— Many Injured

Shock Felt 100 Miles Away; Naval Personnel Victims AtPortChicago

SCIENTISTS IN PRE-INVASION LANDING IN FRANCE PAVE WAY FOR BATTLE

Stamp 40, Ration Book No. 4, Worth 5 Pounds Sugar Feb. I, OPA Says

DEADLY RADIUM VIALSRETURNED      Everyone Han dl ing Parcels Endangered

SOVIET ARMORED UNITS. REPORTED WITHIN 4 . MILES OF PoLisu CAPITAL AS: RUSSIANS SMASH GERMAN DEFENES ALONG CENTRAL FRONT. a , ‘MORE OUTBREAKS ‘ARE REPORTED IN):  .. REICH AFTER: GOEBBELS SPEECH              Lage .

BRITISH FOREIGN . SECRETARY “Says HITLER ONLY SYMBOL: i ‘OF .GERMAN . THEORY  ‘ OF CONQUEST

EDEN REJECTS ANY GERMAN PEACE HOPE   Rebellion and Purge Cannot Now Lead to Negotiations

Butane Truck Collides ~ With Auto; Four Dead And 30 Others Burned

Car And Gas Truck Crash Starts Fire   Thirty Others Injured, 12 Critically When Fire From Explosion Envelopes City Block

EXPLOSION KILLS 5, 30 OTHERS INJUREL   Flames Engulf Victims More ‘Than Half a Block From Scene of Blast in Denison, Tex.

Blast Kills 5, Injures 29 After Car-Truck Crash  Rutane Gace Tank   Butane Gas Tank Explodes on Street In Denison, Tex.

PLANS FORME FOR CRUSHING OF JAPANESE   War Strategy Conference Of Staffs Draws To Close At Quebec   AGREEMENTS REACHED   Definite Grand Strategy Worked Out And Shift Of Troops Planhed

PRESIDENT AND CHURCHILL END CONFERENCE   Signs Point to Highly Successful Completion of Plans

CONFERENCE ON "WAR: STRATEGY TO END TODAY   ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL EXPHRCTED TO ISSUE STATE--— ‘MENT THIS AFTERNOON” “ON QUEBEC MEETING’!

PACIFIC STRATEGY TALKS CONCLUDED   Leaders Expected to Confer Elsewhere, ; Possibly Washington

BIG PLANES MEET HEAVY ACK-ACK   Raid Follows On Heels of Big Raid Thursday

Conquest Of Saipan Completed, U.S. Forces Now Within Bombing ‘Range Of Japan And Philippines

Bloody Conquest of Saipan Island ls Completed   New Springboard Opened for U. S. Moves Westward

Saipan Battle Costly to Both Sides   U. S. Wins Important Airfields Within Range of Japan

Victory In Pacific Gives U.S. Bombers Open Road To Japan And Philippines

Bloody Battle of Saipan Ends in U.S. Victory; Two Big Airfields Gained

SAIPAN FIGHT OVER: JAPAN WITHIN RANGE   U. S. Bombers May Attack Tokyo, The Philippines From New Island Bases Won After Bloody 25-Day Battle

Yanks Complete Saipan Conquest      Control Of Island Gives U.S. Airbases It Range Of Japan; 11,300 Japs Buried

U. S. Forces Within Bombing Range Following Capture of Saipan Of Japan and the Philippines

5-Day .  fampaign 3 Costly   American Forces Within Bombing Range of Japan And Philippines

Operations From Saipan Start Soon   Island Conquered In Bloodiest Fight Of Pacific War

"New Sea-Air Blows At Japan in View As Saipan Isle Falls   Seizure of Island Puts Yanks Within Bombing Range of T. ‘okyo: Nivpponese Lose 11.200 Traans

Opens Way for Drive Against ‘Chinese Coast   Philippines and , Japan in Bombing Range U. S. Forces

CLAIM NAZIS TRY TO BOMB 1S. CITIES   Would Fire Robots from Submarines

Nazis Said Planning To Robomb U. S.   Stockholm Reports German Subs Set Sail For America.

GERMAN PLAN TI BOMB AMERICA FROM SEA TOLD   Rumor from Neutral Source

‘Nazis Outfit Robot-Firing U-Boat Fleet   Norway Activities Believed to Presage Atteck on America

GERMANS EQUIPPING SHIPS TO ATTEMPT RAIDS ON U. S.   Pian To Launch Jet-Propeiled V-1 Robot Bombs From Ships’ Decks

Stockholm Report Says Nazis Plan V-1 Attacks from Subs on U. S. Cities

1ST, STH ARMIES FORM SPEARHEAD APPROACH RUHR   GERMANS PLANNING ROBOT BOMB ATTACK ON UNITED STATES, USING SHIP. PLATFORMS, LONDON HEARS

Nazis Ready to Bomb U.S., Says Dispatch   PREPARE ROBOT BASES IN NORWAY FOR ATTACKS FROM SUBMARINES

Report Nazis Mass Subs For Attack   Gotham, Philadelphis And Other Centers Declared Targets

Claim Robots From Subs To Hit U.S.   Nazis Massing Vessels For Proposed Attacks, Stockholm Reports

ROBOT ATTACKS BY NAZI SHIPS OR SUBS TIPPED   Say Shipping Massed In Norway For Attempt To Raid U. S.

May Send Robot Bombs Against U.§. From Subs   German Plan ls Reported From Stockholm

RAIDS ON U, S. - WAS NAZI PLAN   Subs and Surface Ships Gathered in Norway

Americans Hit 8 Miles Into. Outer Defenses of Siegfried Wall, Aim at Second Line

U.S. DOUGHBOYS AND ARMOR SMASHED DEEP INTO FAMED DEFENSE  ALONG 150 MILE FRONT AMERICANS HAMMERING HOME POWERFUL BLOWS

First Army Drives in Two Miles   Four Mile Breach Carries U. S. Armour Through First Line Of German Defenses

Series of Offensives Is in Progress on 150-Mile  Front      PLUNGE IN LORRAINE   Americans Force Way Inside Long-Besieged Port of Brest

TROOPS PLUNGE BEYOND AACHEN AS LINE FOLDS   Five Other Penetrations « Foe Positions Scored By U. S. Forces

FURLOUGHS URGED FOR MEN OVERSEAS   SENATORS BELIEVE SHORT LEAVES WOULD NOT HINDER WAR EFFORT.

Rail Union Hearings To Star! Monday   Take More Prisoners   Furlough System for Batfle-Weary Soldiers Urged by Senate Leaders

Dog Dog With 501 -Hours in. Air” Home on Leave   “Sniffer,” Naval Plane Mascot, Has. Seen Overgeas Duty.

M'CORMICK SAYS HE WON'T RUN   Asserts Roosevelt ‘Brow beating To Overthrow Constitution’

Publisher Not to Allow Name On Primary Ballot: Can Serve Nation Best As Editor

Informal’ Demo Electors Parley Next Wednesday   Will Consider Letter From Committeeman Myron Blalock

Stevenson Plans No Special Session Of Legislature   Governor Says Only. Constitution Change Can Get Soldier Vote

STEVENSON HAS NO  PLAN FOR CALLENG  OF SPECIAL SESSION TEXAS GOVERNOR SAYS  HE’S RUNNING STATE RY CONSTITIITION

GREAT ARMADAS OF PLANES ROAR OVER CONTINENT   RAF Blasts Northern France and Western Germany in Night Raids

NAZIS REPORT BERLIN WAS OBJECTIVE   May Have Been First All-American Bombing of Reich Capital

Jap Killer (2614 of ’Em) Coming Home   Tomball, Tex., in.a Dither Over Its Mustached: Native Son.

Argentina Wipes Out All Pro-Axis  Diplomatic Ties   Commercial Relations Severed With Japan And Germany

Argentine Ministers Resigning   Strong Measures Taken To Wipe Out Axis Tnfluence

FDR May Ask For Universal  Service Bill   Army, and Navy Journal Is Editorially Urging Its Acceptance

Army-Navy Journal Expects FDR to Ask Universal Service   Says Prompt Institution Only Way to Counter Nazi Propaganda Strikes Evidence War-Weariness in U. S.

Says FDR Will Ask Universal Service Bill   Service Publication Expects Congress To Enact Legislation

Decrease in Taxes ls Forecast by Committee Leader  Reduction in Cost Of War Gives Chance for Cuts

LOWERING OF TAX BURDEN PREDICTED AS RESULT OF WAR   Big Army “Kickback” in: War Department Appropriations Should Ease Taxes Snyder Feels—Battle Victories Are Helping

“Kickback” Lessening  Tax Burden   Nearly 34 34 Billion Dollars Returned in War Dept.  Annroanriations

Cut In Burden Of Taxes Seen   Turn of War in Allied Favor Requiring Much Less in War Expenditure:

Army ‘Kickback’ May Cut Taxes   Snyder Sees Tax Burden Reduction in Army Savings :

TURN IN WAR HAS MEANT SAVING TO TAXPAYING PUBLIC   Huge Army Fund ‘Kickback’ To Be Reflected in Amount of Taxes Levied

Turn Of War May Lessen Tax Burden   Army Kicks Back $33.607.263 800

Wool Men Urge  Imports Cease   bernan lez Added to Congress Committee

RUSSO-POLISH TREATY SEEN   Restoration of Relations Is Expected by Diplomats

Russ-Polish Relations May Be Restored   Possibility That Boundary Dispute May Be Settled  le Expressed

Repeal of High Business T ax  Urged By Byrd   Would ‘Eliminate Excess Profits Levy to Permit Free Enterprise: System After War

 How Much Exemption Can State’s Tax ~*  Structure Stand?      State Canitol News Tatter

INCREASING ‘TAX — EXEMPTIONS BRING NEW HEADACHES   ‘About 360,000 Persons. . ‘Tax Exempt After War

FOUR VESSELS IN COLLISIONS ON LAKE ERIE   SARRIER REED GOES DOWN QUICKLY OFF ASHTABULA, O.

At Least 10 Lost As Ore Freighters Sink In Collisions On Lake Ene

Zond Drive Quota Is $2,924,000 For Lewis, Clark —  Governor Ford Starts Girl Scout Work  Bae Besesteam Dacabba

Rond Drive Quota Is $2,924,000 For Lewis, Clark  Governor Ford Starts Girl Scout Work By Buying Rosette

Invasion Assured This Summer by Chief Executive   Approximate Time of New Allied Drive to Free Europe Hinted

Invasion This Year, Says FDR   Major Military Operations In F Europe This Summer To Liberate Oppressed.

ABSENTEE VOTE BECOMES LAW   President Asks Easing Of Restrictions On Service Ballot

FDR Permits Army Ballot Bill to Pass   President Requests, However, That More Legislation Be Made

F.D.R. Asks Amendments To Soldier  Vate Meacira   ~ President Allows: Federal Ballot Bill  To Become Law Without His Sienature   WANTS RESTRICTIONS TO BE LIBERALIZED   TO BE LIBERALIZED Response to His Plea’ Generally Favorable Amone Canorescsmen

FDR Lets Service Vote Bill Become Law, Bat Asks Congress Ease Its Provisions

Roosevelt Asks “Amended Laws «On Federal Ballo!   Rights of Service Men Nullified by ‘Conditions’ He Says

New Service Vote  Effort Planned   Bill Becomes Law Without Signature

Roosevelt Lets Vote Bill  Become Federal Law   President Refuses to Sign Measure, Terming It ‘Wholly Inadequate’; ‘Asks Amendment for U. S. Ballot Use

Blow Dealt Winter Line Of Germans   Powerful Forces Establishing Beachheads

RESISTANCE BY SURPRISED NAZI ARMIES SLIGHT   Air Blows Knock Out All Airfields Except One in Rome Area

Opening Push Is Sucecessiul   -.. Allies 30 Miles From Eternal City, Berlin Says

POWERFUL AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCES IN COASTAL ACTION  FIRST LANDINGS CLOS.

Resistance Slight on New Front   American-British Assault Catches Germans By Surprise; Troops Drive Inland From Lenathy Beachhead Near Tiber Mouth

RESISTANCE BY ENEMY SLIGHT   Indications Are Troops Are Pushing Inland Toward Nazi Lifelines.   COMPLETE SURPRISE

Germans Say Landings Made Near Mouth of Tiber River, Sixteen Miles to the Southwest of Rome, Occupvino Harbor.   Bold Thrust on Coast Supported By Heavy Naval, Air Bombardment

Heavy Attack Aimed to Turn German Flank   Troops Land at Dawn On Western Coast Of Central Italy

BOMBERS BLAST PATH IN FRANCE   Fleets Of 4,000 Planes Hurled Against Enemy Positions

Three Nazi War Centers Blasted   1,500 American Planes Strike Triple Blow

36 American Bombers, 12 Fighters Lost  Heavy’ Ack-Ack  Encountered Over

Great Plane Fleets Blast  German Rear   Three Cities in Rhineland Attacked Ry Airships

Bombs Blast Nazi Cities  Allied Planes Strike   Allied Planes Strike Ahead Of Troops

U. 5. AIRMEN STRIKE AT 3 NAZI CITIES   2,009 Warplanes Smash at Cologne, 2 Saar Citadels

Allied Airborne Forces T ake Firm  Hold on Holland      Eindhoven, Dutch Communications Center, Falls to British Second Army; Glider-borne Artillery Blasts Nazis

BRITISH GAIN 16 MILES, CAPTURE TOWNS IN PUSH   Germans Admit Port of Brest Evacuated — Battle At West Wall

AIR INVASION FORCE REINFORCED AND HOLE VITAL WATER LINES  ’ BRITISH SECOND ARMY JOINS UP WITH GLIDER AND PARACHUTE TROOPS

New Zealanders Shot and Bayoneted Their Way Into New Positions In One Of the Bloodiest Clashes Of Campaign.

Hitler Gives Stand-Or-Die Order To Men      But His Defenders of Cassinn Are Being Pushed Back By Allies

No Indication That the Italian Battle Is Slackening,   HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT IN CITY   125 Nazi Fighter Planes Were Shot Down Yesterday.

Nazi Escape Is Cut Off In Italy   HITLER ISSUES ANOTHER “LAST DITCH” STAND PLEA

Evacuee Trains  Reach Lisbon   124 U.S. Citizens To Board Gripsholm

WARD'S FIGHTS UNION BALLOT   Questions Legality Of Vote By Federal Employes

TEXARKANA JURIST FOUND DEAD EARLY MONDAY BY JANITOR   CORONER SAID JUDGE GEORGE W. JOHNSON DIED WITH HEART ATTACK

Congress Will Forget Taxes I FDR Vetoes Bill   House Committee Puts Restrictions On Subsidies

NAZI TROOPS. ORDERED OUI ~ OF COUNTRY   Balkan State’s Formal  Withdrawal From War Expected . Hourly — Seeks Allied Terms.       PRO-ALLY REGIME HOLDS BUCHAREST   German Leaders in Romanian Capital Reported Interned — Nazis Shell City.

CARPATHIAN PASSES SEIZED BY ROMANIANS   Bulgaria’s Formal With» drawal Expected ourly

Romanians Seize Carpathian Mountain Passes and Battle Their Former Allies

Bulgar Withdrawal From War Due Soon As Adolf’s “Balkans House” Collapses

Russians Take 61,000 Men In 24 Hours   Formal Withdrawal Of Satellite Is Expected Shortly

Nazi Troops Irdered Out Jf Bulgaria   Broadcast Says German Forces Reine Disarmed

HAS QUIT WAR ALREADY, RED REPORT HINTS   Carpathian Mountain Passes Seized by Romanian Troops

SEEKS TEAMS OF ALLIES FOR QUITTING WAR   Russ Say Antonescu Under Arrest and Bucharest Firmly Held.

Order Nazi: Get Out of Bulgaria   Latest Move As  The Baltic Front Caved In Before Allied Advances

Bulgaria Orders Nazi Troops Out of Country   Nation Seeks Truce, As Balkan Front  Caves in on Hitler

Bulgaria’: S Withdrawal Is Expected.  Momentarily   General. Antindseal  As ‘Reported. Killed

Report Nation Seeking Terms To Quit Battle   German Troops Are Disarmed; Romanian: Fight Former Allies As Reds Advance

Bulgars Desert Side Of Nazis: Berlin Alarmed  harest Firm  He id by y Prowl,

Antonescu ArrestedIin Bucharest   Germans Said Already Disarmed As Bulgars Ask U. S., Britain  Rav Tarme

Balkans Quit Nazi Fold, Seek Peace  Bulgaria Orders Germans Out;  Rp s ta a as 2 ee

Germany's Balkan Front  Caves In .  Bulgaria Orders Nazi Troops Out

LRAN FRONT OF AZIS WIPED OU   anians Seize Carpathian ‘Passes in Battle With Germans   pGARIA SAID ALREADY HDRAWN FROM WAR

Bulgaria Asks All Nazis To Withdraw   Hungary Is Expected To Be Haven for Retreating Germans

Daylight Attack And Paratroops Are Now Hintec   Eve Of Invasion’ Bomb. ings Again Pulverize Continent

F.D. R.'S RACE COMMITTEE HIT   Senator Russell Starts Move To Stop Organization’s Funds

Suspend Action In 126 Cities   Acute Labor Shortag Classifications Declared To  Handle Situation.

Move To Suspend Reconversion   Orders Affect 58 Labor Shortage Areas and 45 Other Areas.

Reconversion Suspended  Ih 126 Cities   Civilian Goods Sidetracked  For Munitions

BOND SALE IN COUNTY OVER SIX MILLION   Final Report Tomorrow May Put Campaign $1,000,000 Over Original Goal.

BUILDINGS AT RABAUL HIT BY BOMBERS   Warehouses, Shops And Barracks In Supply Areas Targets For 70 Tons Of Explosives And Incendiaries.   Blast Shipping

145 Structures Damaged or Destroyed in Raids  RAIDS ARE STAGED FRIDAY, SATURDAY  Small Japanese Built Dam  Is Also De stroyed

145 Buildings — - Hit-at-Rabaul   American Destroyers Shell Village in Admiralties

145 Enemy Structures Under Fire   Allied Bombers Launch New Phase of Aerial + Centar. to Kaack~ Out Rabaul

Reports Place Americans On  Edge Of Aachen   German Broadcasts Admit Large German City Is Near Capture   YANKS REPORTED 2 HALF MILE AWAY

Amercians Dig Deep to Buy One For Boys of Bataan as Horrible Saga of Suffering Arouses Fury

OND SALES VEN SPURT   Nation Aroused to New Heights of Fury - By UNITED PRESS

Forts Kill Yank Troops   Bombs Fall Short In Narrow Target; U.S. Soldiers Victims

Allied Bombs Kill Yanks in Normandy   IMPOSSIBLE TO HIT WITH PERFECT ACCURACY GENERAL BRERETON SAYS

fanks Die From Sombing Mistake   Planes in France Miss Nazi Taraets

Gen. Brereton Reveals Some Bombs Fell Short, Killed U. S. Soldiers

AEDS CONVERGE OW GERMAN-HELD BASTION OF LWOW   Whole German . Line: Outside City. Is Crumbling’

THOUBANDS: OF GERMANS TRAPPED AS RUSSIANS BREAK THE BUG.  PRIVER LINE ~~

REDS GONVERGE ON GEAMAN-HELO BASTION OF LWOV   Whole German Line Outside City Is Crumbling

POLISH BASTION OF LWOW IN SIGHT OF RUSSIAN ARMIES   German Line Outside Great Hitler-Held City Declared To Be Crumbling  Ai cam 9 a ame   ‘ Other Red Columns In Suburbs of BrestLitovsk—Seven Armies Strike

Bay State Delegates Break. Truman-Wallace Deadlock; » 'N. H. Group Votes for Winner

Germans Speculate On Hitler's Escape   Nazi Leaders Now Enjoy Little Respect

PEACH CROP 10 REACH 85% OF NORMAL YIELD   Only Three  Points Below That of Last Year, Report Says

SPRING PLANTING ~ SAT DAYS LATE   Crop Reporting Services Reports Some Bumper Crops Expected.

WILL SUCCEED STILLWELL   Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler Is New Deputy Commander in Asia

Survey Discloses Democrats  Stull Hold Salt Lake County   Ry O. N. Malmaquist

RAGING BATTLE TOPS ANY IN NORMANDY   Front Dispatches Say Yanks Operating in Area of Paris

EDOUARD DEGRELLE SLAIN   Germany Blames British Secret Service Hirelings

Must Follow EDR's Policies, Group Is Told   President Savs He Will Fire Anv Member of State Department Who Offers Disagreement.

DADE STATE QEPT. TAKE LIBERAL VIEW   Senate Confirms Appointment of New Assistants with Orders to Follow Liberalism   FDR TO PURSUE LEFT-CENTER POLICY

INSIST NEW STATE DEPARTMENT HEW TO LIBERAL LINES   SOME NEW DEALERS REGARD APPOINTEES AS TOO CONSERVATIVE

ATLANTIC CHARTER DOES NOT EXIST AS FORMAL DOCUMENT   President Says He Still’ Believes In Principles Of State  ment, However; Straddles Questions On Foreign Policy At News Conference

FDR Says Atlantic Charter Does Not Exist. As Document   President Returns From Vacation at Warr Springs; Meets Cross-Fire Of Questions On Foreign Affairs

Formal copy of charter is  non-existent F.D.R. declares  faith in principle

Charter Not Formal Paper F. D. R. Says   SERIES OF MEMORANDA SIGNED BY PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER

President Stands On Principles of Atlantic Charter  Says It Was Signed ‘Ir   Says It Was Signed ‘In Substance ;’ Declines Comment on Greece

ATLANTIC CHARTER © DISCUSSED BY FOR   President Says He Still Stands on the Charter’s Principles

Charter Not Formal Document,  F.D.R. Says   But He Still Stands For Its Principles; Silent on Plan for Stabilizing Greece  TACTIC ON PIC TORT

eee nn ne tet  SYNTHETIC GASOLINE DEVELOPMENT URGED      Government Asked To Back  Experimental Plants

REDS CARVING DOWN SECTOR FOE OCCUPIES   Huge Quantities of Hitler Planes, *Tanks Being Destroyed in “Red Vengeance”

LIQUIDATION OF GERMANS GOES Oh   Reds Get; Possession of Equipment In Condition for Use on Enemy,

Reveals Red Capture of Vital Towns   Great Break -Through By Vatutin’s Army Cited by Stalin

RUSSIANS TIGHTEN TRAP ON 100,000   Ukraine Armies Moving In On 10 Nazi Divisions

Reds Down Scoresof Rescue Planes for Trapped Foe; Reduce Dniener Pocket

Big Junkers Transports.   Shot Down When They Try To Bring Help To Trapped Troops

DOOMED NAZIS QUIT ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT   German Rescue Planes Downed By Scores In Ukraine

RED ARMY CLOSES TRAP ON NAZIS IN DNIEPER POCKET   Stockholm Reports 50,000 German Troops Already Annihilatad

REDS CARVE SLICE OUT OF NAZI POCKET   Take Over 100 Sa. Miles of Area in Which Foe is  Trapved

REDS GAIN 100 SQUARE MILES IN ONE DAY   Destroy Nazi Ai Transports

Ukraine Armies Clamp Pincers On Nazi Troops   Down Supply Planes, Cut 100 Sq. Mi. In Trap Area

Ukraine Armies Determined To  Kill All Captives   Germans Abandon Posts In Desperate Flight Before smashing Drive ¢

ANNIVERSARY OF GERMAN BLACK DAY OF WAR ONE   German Command Decided War Lost In 1918

German Army’s ‘Black Day’ of First World War Came 26 Years Ago Today

Anniversary Of Germany's ‘Black Day’   Just 26 Years Ago Today, German High Command Decided War Was Lost

26 YRS. AGO TODAY GERMANS REALIZED THEY HAD LOST: ‘BLACK DAY’ RECALLED

Japanese News Agency Broadcasts that 1. 8. Invasion Task Force ts Severely Beaten in, Attempt to  Land on Istand in Marianas,

TRAIN WRECK” ~IN-COLORADO   FIFTY PERSONS REPORTED ‘IN. JURED AS  RESULT . .OF  PASSENGER TRAINS SEIDESWIPING

CONFINE TROOPS TO AREA   Exchange of Shots Between White and Negro Soldiers

German 6th Army Given Bad Beating By. Russians   ‘50,000 Casualties Claimed By Stalin

Reds Pushing Through Break   Nazi Front Broken In Ukraine, German Sixth Army Almost Destroyed

Red Army Pours Unchecked Into Dniester Sector   Rumania Is Warned To Get Out Of The War; Successes On 3 Fronts

TAKE YAMPOL ON ONESTER RIVER BORDER   North of Nikoleay Nazi Sixth Army Routed, 36,800 Germans Killed.

Russians Seize City  On Dniester   Nazi Sixth Army Nearly Wiped Out: 50.000 Casualties

Zhmerinka Taken As Nazis’ Entire Front Is Broken   German Sixth Army, Reconstituted After Annihilation at Stalingrad, Nearly Destroyed With Over 50,000 Casualties

Soviet Forces Wipe Out 6th German Army   Kill 36,800 German Soldiers and Capture 13,859 in 11-Day Battle,  Moccow Declarac

Announce Nazi 6th Army Nearly Annihilated   50,000 German Casualties in 11 Day Ukraine Battle

Germans’ 6th Army Routed, 36,800 Die, 13,859 Surrender   Major Disaster Confronts Foe.as Russians Split Nazis, Pursuing 40-50 Divisions Over Ukraine; ~ Zhmerinka Falls. Rumania Warned To Quit .   Planes Scatter Leaflets — In Calls for Reich Revolt

Dniester River Town Captured In Surging Push  ported Virtua Bestroved Rv nally

REICH SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES AGAINST REDS   Russions Report 55,000 Nazi Casualties in Nikolaev Fight—Yampol Taken

Russ Troops Cross Border Old Rumania   Report Near Destruction OF German Sixth Army  Northeast Of Nikolaev.   YAMPOL IS CAPTURED

NAZI OIXTH ARMY © BADLY GUT UP   Russians List Nine Germar Divisions Liquidated   SERIES OF SUCCESSES   British Broadcast Warning To Rumania to Get Out of The War ‘at Once’

Win One of Most. Nota . Victories of War in Day Battle—Take 18, 859 Prisoners:       OTHER RUSSIANS  RUMANIAN: BORDER   Moscow Warns’. Balkan Nation to Get Out -of War as Soviet ‘Troops Reach Dniester.

Russians Pour Through Foes Almost At Will   Near Destruction of Reconstituted Army of Stalingrad Announced by Moscow   30,000 Casualties Inflicted On Hun:   Russians List 36.800 Ger mans Killed and 13.859 Captured in ElevenDay Battle

Russians Thrust Forward With Pace Unchecked   Moscow Claims Thousands Killed, Captured in Past 11-Day Drive; Announces Lone Series of Successes

36,800 Nazis Slain in Rout Of 6th Army   Germans Face Disastet ‘as Soviets Gain on All Three Ukrainian Fronts   ZHMERINKA FALLS   Speedy Doom Predicted for Trapped Axis Forces

NAZIS PREPARE GREEK DEFENSES   Establishes New Defense Line in Preparation for Expected Allied Invasion

Nazis Set Up Defense Line In Greece Against Invasion   Stage Mock Defense Of Athens, Take Other Steps To Cope With Attackers

SWEDEN REFUSES CHIP INSURANCE   Action Virtual Embargo on Ore Shipments to Germany

McHugh Announces  Committee for Aug. 1-2 Rodeo  Chairman Picks Many  Prominent Legion Deedee Ene Weactarn

McHugh Announces Committee for Aug. 1-2 Rodeo  Chairman Picks Many Prominent Legion Leaders for Western

British Use Guns on Rebels   Battle to End Resistance of 10,000 in Athens

British Turn Guns Agains! Greek ‘Elas’   Planes Spraying Lead Into Lincs On Kev Hill Post

ATHENS IS PLUNGED INTO CIVIL WAR   Brit. Artillery Opens Fire on. Greek Iregulars

British Artillery Fires on Rioters in Athens; RAF Blows Aid Land Troops

British Planes, Artillery Join In Greek Battle   Premier Says Peace Cannot Be Made Until Rebels Turn In Arms >

BATTLE 10,000 GREEK REBELS NEAR ATHENS   Artillery, RAF Fighters Support British Ground Troops

BRITISH STRAFE GREEK IRREGULARS   Fighting Centers On Historic Hill

FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ATHENS   British Artillery, Planes Battle 10,000 Irregulars

RAF FIGHTS RAGE OVERHEAD ~ ATROOFLEVE!   Ground Forces ;Battle Nearly 10,000 Elas ‘Trrerular’ Troops

British Guns And Warplanes Strafe Greeks   Ten Thousand ELAS Irregulars Battle Government Forces In Athens.

Wedding: Takes Place At' Leeds  Sylvester Nemmers ‘Marries Jean Cass

Wedding: Takes Place At'Leeds ©  “Sylvester: Nemmers ' Marries Jean Cass

Prices Are Sky Rocketing In China   By United Press War Correspondent Darrell Berrigan

Americans Seize  Tiyan Airfield  In Guam Advance Allied Troops Find Many More Jap Dead  On Pacific Fronts

TOMMIES CROSS GARIGLIANO UNDER NAVAL SUPPORT   Alfied Warships Pound Adriatic Coast Regularly During Last Five Days.

BRITISH SMASH - THREE BIG GAPS "IN ITALIAN LINE   ®Waval Guns Blast Adriatic Coasts as Planes Hit Rails, Shipping

LANDING IS REPORTED Al ARCACHON ©   Germans Quitting Spanish Frontier Posts

Naval and Aerial Blasting Opens Bordeaux Attack   Americans, Driving 170 Miles  from Nantes, Reported Taking

Allies Open New Line Of Invasion by Landing at Bordeaux   Operation Is Co-Ordinated With Ground Actior Of American, French Forces Near City; Nazis Claim Partly Successful Counterattack

LATEST INVASION LANDING WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE SOUTHWESTERN COAST OF FRANCE 'ANNOUNCED FROM THE SPANISH FRONTIER—BERLIN ADMITS ALLIED FORCES PUT ASHORE :

‘French Make New Landing At Bordeaux   Word of Advance Come From Spanish Frontier

JOIN YANKS IN BATTLE   Headquarters Silent On Invasion; Nazis  List New Blow

REPORTS FROM SPANISH AREA. DECLARE ALLIES HAVE MADE LANDINGS NEAR BORDEAUX   Berlin Reports Also State New Invasion Forces Have Been Landed in France But No Confirmation Yet Made bv Allied Headauarters

xK K& KK Ke Bordeaux Invasion Landing Reported   Marseille Fallins

Seventh Army Eaters Grenoble in Surprise Move  Report Allies Now 11 Miles  r..m Italy Front

New Invasion In Bordeaux Area, Report   Operation Started Under Intense Air, Sea Assault, Says  Newsman’s Report

FRENCH REPORT NEW LANDINGS NEAR BORDEAUX   Allied Official Refuses to Confirm Invasion of Southwest France

THIRD INVASION THRUST TOLD BY FRENCH SOURCES   SUPREME COMMAND DECLINES TO DENY OR CONFIRM REPORT

Third Allied Invasion Reported Today Striking Near Bordeaux In Southwestern Part Of France

New Allied Landing Near Bordeaux is Reported by Spain   SHAEF Mum on Story by Chief of AP’s Madrid  Bureau

Argentina Severs Jap, Nazi‘Relations, ‘Reveals Discovery of Spy Network

Diplomatic Ties with Axis Are Severed By Areventina   Axis Spy Activities Blamed by President And National Scandal May Be Involved   SOME OF AMERICAS SKEPTICAL OF MOVE  Hull Applauds It, But Says Other Steps Must Follow Break

SENSATIONAL’ SPY RING TALE EXPECTED SOON   Argentina Breaks With Axis; Blame Is  Put On Spies

Argentina Snaps Ties With Axis   Neutrality Policy Reversed Suddenly

AXIS CUT OFF BY ARGENTINA: SPIES BLAMED   JAPS AND GERMANS TOLD TO RECALL DIPLOMATS

ARGENTINA BREAKS WITH AXIS POWERS   President Ramirez Blames _ Axis Spy Activi bhiae

Argentina Ends Axis Ties: Spy Action Blamed   Ring Traced to Nazi And Jap Diplomats; Hull Indicates Other Steps Must Be Taken

Argentine Break With Axis Takes Foe by Surprise   Germany and Japan Dealt Hard Blows

ARGENTINA BREAKS WITH JAPS, NAZIS   Discovery Of f Extensive Espionage Network Reason Assigned For President Ramirez’ Renouncement.   Police Raid Spy Ring

Argentina Cuts Ties With Axis   Last American Nation Breaks Relations With Japan and Germany; Spy Hook-ups Are Blamed   RUSSIA REJECTS U. S., PROPOSAL TO MEDIATE POLISH LINE DISPUTE   Reds Seem Determined Not To Deal With Exile Set-up

ARGENTINA ENDS HER NEUTRALITY   BREAKS RELATIONS WITH GERMANY AND JAPAN BECAUSE OF SPY ACTIVITIES.

Argentina Breaks With Axis, Starts Round-Up of Spies   Many Persons High In Society Believed Involved in Ring

Allies Mum About New Landing At  Bordeaux   French Military Authorities Say Operation Covered By Navy, Air Forces

NEW LANDING MADE TODAY AT BORDEAUX  Warships Shell City Steadily

NEW ALLIED LANDING IN FRANCE, SAY   supreme Headquarters, However, Has Nothing to Say About Rumors of Bordeaux Area

Lepke Puts Last Hope in Plea for Writ   Reprieved Until Saiturday: Reported Telling Murder. Inc.. Story

ALLIED UNITS JOIN FORCES AT BEACHHEAD   Nazis Plan to Defers Rome; Air Raids Cantinuea

Anzio Forces Clean Out Cisterna After Breaking Long Beachhead Siege   More Than 6000 Planes Hit Nazi Rail and Plane Centers in Day Attacks; New Italian Drive Nets Over 10,000 Prisoners

MILITARY LAW IS APPLIED TO REICH   Gen, Eisenhower Piang To Exterminate Naziism As Allied Troops Advance Into Germany

Extermination of Nazism Decreed By Eisenhower in Law for Germany

SOUTHWESTERN LIMITED SIDESWIPED BY FREIGHT IN: OHIO. ENGINEER DEAD

*Big Russian Drive Begun,  to. =6n oays DETLUEA   Heavy Attacks Under Way On Rumania Front,  , Declare Nazia

Reds Start Attack on Broad Front in Romania, German Agency Claims

Heavy Fighting On Iasi Front   Nazis Say New Russian  ' Attacks Launched -

U.S. Air Ace Ties All-Time Plane Score   MAJ. “PAPPY” BOYINGTON BAGS TWENTY-SIXTH ENEMY CRAFT AT RABAUL

MARINE FLIER FQUALS RECORD   26th Jap Plane Bagged Ir  Raid On Rabaul

Major Boyington Downs 26th Plane, Equalling Rickenbacker, Foss Records

JAPANESE BASE IS SEIZED BY ALLIES   Capture of Bogadjum, South of Madang, Is  Announced

BOGADJIM FALLS: ~ TO AUSTRALIANS   TROOPS IN CONTACT WITH JAP _PATROLS ON ROAD TO “BASE OF MADANG.'

Stettinius Anpointees Anproved   Senators. However, Indicate Fight Over Some on Floor

FOUR NEW AIDS NAMED IN STATE DEPT. SHAKE-UP   SWEEPING CHANGES BY NEW SECRETARY STARTLES CONGRESS

State Department’s Four Nominations Approved By Foreign Relations Group

New Appointees Are Approved   Senate Committee Poll Favorable to Nominations for State Department

Major Shakeup Hits State Dept   Stettinius Names Four New Assistants

‘Stettinius Names Surprising State ‘Denartment Aides   Steriled Coneress Exnected fo Anpreve Plan to Reshape Foreign Policy Adsministratior

for State : Department —  Nominations Oked   Direction of American Foreign Policy is Almost in New Hands

President Studies New Appointment For State Dept.   Overhauls Diplomatic Office In First of Cabinet Changes

Senate Group Split On Aides  F or Stettiniu:   Grew Approved Unauimously; MaeLeish and Clayton Meet Opposition In Committee

STETTINIUS [8 TAKING CONTROL   Replacement Of Under-Secretaries Of State Will Put Foreign Relations Into New Hands.

OK Four Nominees.   Sweeping Change in. State. Departinent Personnel: Three Quit

Committee 0.K. On Nominations To State Dept.   Grew Approved Unanimously; Some Opposition To 2 Others.

Committee Endorses Grew   Senate Fight — Imminent in State Department Appointments.

NEW SECRETARY GIVEN SUPPORT   Changes in State Department Startle but Please Congress.   OKEH 4 NOMINATIONS

Fight Over FR’s  Selections Seen   Unanimous Senate Vote Endorses Grew For Post.

Air Fury On Rabaul   Allies Carry on Knockout Campaign With 100Plane Assault; Score Gains in New Guinea

Japanese Lose 78 Planes in Defense  of Battered Rabaul   Air War Against New Guinea Base is _ Intensified Today

WILL TRY FOR RABAUL KNOCK OUTBY AIR   Intensified Air War Against Jap Stronghold Started by Allies

NEW SUCCESS FOR ALLIES IN §, W. PACIFIC   Gains on Ground in North New Guinea.—Air Atacks Against Rabaul Intensified.

JAPANESE HAVE LOST. 78 PLANES IN DEFENSE SHATTERED RABAUL  MORE THAN 100 PLANES SENT AGAINST HARASSED

Japs Lose 78th Plane ‘At Rabaul   AMlies Score New Successes in Battle for Northern New Guinea; Jap Destroyer Hit Off Kavieng

THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC AREA OF BATTLE   BY MORRIE LANDSBERG ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR FRITOR.

NEW GAINS OVER JAS MADE BY AR LAN! FORCES   Nips Have Lost 78 Planes at Rabaul Since January 1-Fresh Successes Scored ir New Guinea Battles  e.. MeeeeReie oe ReRceES

IAPS LOSE 7TH PLANE IN FIGHT   That Many Lost it Defense Of Shattered Rabaul Since Jan. 1.

21 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Yank Bombers Also Blast Destroyer in Convoy

Allied Planes Attack Rabaul   Ground Forces Score Fresh Successes in New Guinea Battle

SEN. PEPPER MAKES CHARGE   Speech Opens Who-Dun-lt Mystery in Capital — Involving Recent Nominations to High Office — in Stato Department.

Who-Dun-It?  Pepper Believes FDR Had Nothing To Do With State Dent. Nominations

Pepper Hints T here’s Boss Behind FDR   6 State Department Nominations Viewed As Actof Dictation

PEPPER CLAIMS FDR ‘DECEIVED   Senator Implies President  ‘Taken Advantage Of’

C10 INDORSES BIG BOOST IN MINIMUM PAY   Rate Of 65 Cents An Hour Seen As Step Toward Sound Wage Structure   RIEVE OUTLINES PLAN   Union Chief Appears Before Hearing Of Senate Committee

GIO ENDORSES ‘G5-CENT RATE AS MINIMUN   UNION SPORESMAN TELLS 8ENTE COMMITTEE 65-CENT PER + HOUR IS “VALUABLE FINST STEP" -

ClO ENDORSES PAY PROPOSAL   Backs 65-Cent Minimum as : Valuable ‘First Step’

BiG POST-WAR ~ ARMY PLANNED   Hershey Sees Heavy Draft Calls  Agriculture, Industry Warned

Nazis Plan To Hurl Bombs Against USA   Aim Attack On Eastern Cities

Germans Retreat From Baltic State of Latvia  . Reds Near Border Of Hungary; Nazis Shell Warsaw

Germans Quit Latvia After Estonia Falls   Moscow Says More Russian Troops Entering Waraaw

CAPITAL OF ESTONIA CAPTURED; INVASION OF HUNGARY NEARING   Red Columns Press On From Tallinn; Early Liberation Of All Baltic States Is Predicted « By Soviet Paper

German Retreat In Central Latvia  Hinted By Nazis   Red Flying Columns Strike South, West of Captured Tallinn   Attempt To Reinforce Jap Peleliu Garrison Blocked

Vanguards Near Appian Highway   ‘Clark’s Forces Take Nettuno; Big Nazi Armies Facing Entrapment

Al Jolson Reported In Fair Condition After New Attack Of Malaria

PLANES SINK ENEMY SHIPS NEAR ORMOC   ESTIMATE 4,500 JAPANESE SOL. DIERS WIPED DUT AS RESULT OF ATTACK ON CONVOY

CUT ENEMY SUPPLY LINE   Sink Nip Destroyer, Two Troop Transports and Set Third Afire

‘Way Flying Fortresses Line Up is Their Cocret of Success in Raids Over Europe

Formations Bombard City With More Than 350,000 Incendiary Bombs.   10,090 EXPLOSIVES USED

Yanks Hammer Berlin In Greatest Day Attack   Forts and Liberators Shower Tons of Fire And Demolition Bombs on German Capital   3, GLADWIN HILL

‘Heavy Load Of Explosives Hits Capital   New Assault Follows Big Smash on Monday; RAF Pounds Rail Lines

DROP 350,006 INCENDIARIES: 10,000 BOMBS   From Those Officially An« nounced Figures, British Press Estimates at Least 1,100 Heavies Stacved Dav Assault. ;

360,000 BOMBS SHOWER DOWN FROM PLANES   Fourth U.S. Daylight Operation  Over Reich Capital. Other German Areas Pounded    Rw ASSOCTATED PRESS

350,000 Fire Bombs Fall on Reich Capitol   Is Fourth USAAF Operation over Berlin in Six Days

Hit Heavy Blow   Americans Rain 350,000 Incendiary And 10,000 Explosive Bombs On City   Bio Fires Kindled.

STRONG FORCE OF BOMBERS I ATTACK TODAY   350,000 incendiaries, 10,000 Explosive Bombs Dropped on Nazi Capital.

U. S. Heavies Spread Havoc In Daylight        Fourth Attack in Eight Days Drops In cendiaries, Explosive

Great Aerial Bombardment Fires Capital   More Than 10,000 Explosive Bombs, 350.000 In. cendiary Blast City.   RAF BLASTS RAIL CITY

10,000 Explosives, 350,000: Fire Bombs Ravage Capital   Weather Limits Action In Italy

THIRD ATTACK BY AMERICANS WITHIN WEEK   Planes Drop 350,000 Incendiary Bombs  On Ruined City

HugeFiresAre  Started in Daylight Raid   American Heavies Make Fourth Visit to Nazi Capital, Dropping 350,000 Incendiary, 10,000 Explosive Bombs; Sky Battles Rage

205 Jap Aircraft Destroyed And 11 Enemy Vessels Sunk In Attack   MILITARY OBJECTIVES _ SEVERELY DAMAGED

Luzon Hit First Time By Yank Naval Might Since Corregidor Lost   Two Destroyers Sent To Bottom With Probably 37 Other Ships

AMERICA’S WAR MIGHT IS CARRIED  _ BACK TO MANILA   Hundreds: of- Carrier Plane: Shot Down 110 Japanese Aircraft.   THE U. S. LOSS, 15 PLANES   This Was the First Massive Blow at Manila Since Fall of Corregidor.

VengetulCarrier IF ianes Destroy 205 Aircratt; Sink Many Jap Vessels

Japanese Say Air Attack Was Continued Today   205 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed and 37 Ships Are Bombed

Third Fleet Batters Area   26 Others Probably Sunk, 205 Planes Destroyed As Carriers Strike Harbor

Bag 205 Planes, 37 Enemy Ships In First Assault   Important Port Of Wichow la Kwangsi—-Province Captured By Japanese

Sink 11 JapShips. Destroy 209 Enemy Aircraft   Probably Down 26 Mcre Vessels; Wipe Out Floating Drydock; Much Damage Done to Airfields

Yankees Wipe Ou 205 Planes, 37 Ships at Manila   Americans Strike First Heavy Blow at Philippines’ Capital Since Fall of Corregidor in May, 1942

TEMPERATURES:   205 Jap Planes, 37 Ships — Destroyed By U. S. Force

Heavy U.S. Raids Strike Philippines   Carrier-Based Planes Hit * Airfields, Shipping at Manila   GO INTO: SECOND DAY   Marines Battle Japs i Tough Strongholds on  alelui .

205 ENEMY PLANES ARE WIPED OU}   Bay Area and Clark and Nichols Airfields Are Pounded by American Carrier Aircraft.   FLOATING DRYDOCK BELIEVED WRECKED   Blow Is First Dealt Seetor Since April 15, 1942 —Fifteen U. S. Warplanes Are Lost.

205 Enemy Planes Reported Knocked Out in One of Greatest Pacific War Air Victories; RA avtial T aw Pracleimed in Philinnines

First Mass Attack on Philippines ‘Since Fall of Bataan, Corregidor Sends Jittery Japs into Martial Law

Frenzied Japs Fear Invasion Day at Hand   Enemy Loses 205 Planes, 37 Ships Th Firat Assault by Task Fleet

3] Jap Ships Probably Sunk By Nimitz’ Men   205 Planes Lost By Sons Of Heaven

205 Planes 37 Vessels Bagged   Assault Continues Today; Our Losses 15 Planes:

Fleet Batters Philippine Base   Carrier Force Wipes Out 205 Enem Planes, Pounds Naval Base And Two Airfields

110 Planes. Destroyed 11 Enemy Ships Sunk, 26 Others Damaged      Hundreds Of American Aircraft’: From Giant Pacific Carrier Fleet Wreak Destruction On Airfields, Naval Base And Harbor Installations

Japanese Declare All Of Philippines Under Martial Law As Huge U. S. Fleet Stands Unchallenged Off Islands — Gaicrige Planes Blast Manila ;

Huge U. S. Fleet Unchallenged by Surprised Enemy   Yanks Knock Down 110 Aircraft; Sink Or Damage 37 Ships Including Destrovers

205 NIP PLANES ARE DESTROYED INCARRIERRAID   Americans Sink or Probably Sink 37 Jap Shins in Michtv Blows

Big U.S. Fleet Unchallenged Ott Philippines While Raids Smash At Pacific Stronghold

MASSIVE BLOW IS STRUCK AT MANILA BAY   Planes Shoot Down 110 Japanese Aircraft and Sink or Damage Probably 37 Ships

Wipe Out 205 Planes 37 Ships   Huge U. S. Fleet  Off Philippines Unchallenged By Japs; Peleliu Stand Bitter

Japs Report Yank Carrier Planes Return to Manila   U. S. Fliers Wipe Out 205 Japanese Planes Blast 37 Ships in First Day of Attack; All Philippines Placed Under Martial Law

Carrier Planes Continue Attacks Against Manila   Nimitz Reports 110 Jap Planes Downed, $5 Sirafed on Ground, 37 Ships Sunk er Damaged

Exacts Heavy Toll Of Foe’s Planes, Ships   Tokyo Puts Islands Under Martial Law; Invasion Fear Spreads

Carrier Planes Sink 11 Vessels At Manila Bay   Carrier Planes Also Destroy 205 Jap Planes in At. tack—-Powerful Blow Delivered Against  thea Pusey

200 Yank Carrier Planes Return To  Smash At Manila   Destroy 205 Jap Planes, Sink Or Damage 37 Ships

Martial Law Established — In Philippines   Wipe Out 95 Planes On Ground: Sink 37 Ships; Fleet Unchallenged.   LOSE 15 AIRCRAFT

, 110 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down   95 More on Ground Are De. } stroyed; 37 Ships Sunk or Probably Sunk   BIG CARRIER FLEET IS UNCHALLENGED   Only 15 Planes Lost in Massive Blow Believed Forerunner of Invasion

Hundreds Of Planes Hit At Japanese   Enemy Aircraft And Naval Losses Heavy Under U, S. Fite

I! Jap Ships Sunk, 26 More Probably Lost In Bomb Attach   Floating Drydock, Two Barges and 205 Jao Planes Destroyed in Raid by American Fliers

Great Armada Makes Spectacular And Superlatively Successful Attack In Apparent Prelude to Early Invasion;   Raid Continuing.

G MERCHANT SHIPS AELEASED BY SPAIN   Three Other Italian Vessels Have Saited From Spanish Ports.

Capture Of Yuhsien Claimed By Japs. .... Japanese Narrow Hold  Of Chinese By Pushing ~ UpHankow Railway Line

Jap Forces Narrow Chinese Hold On Main Rail Line   Nips Making Attemp  To Knock China  roast ndee fat wl Wer

Japs Gaining In ‘Drive Into China   Seck To Knock Chincse Out of War Before Aid Comes

Japs Ne arrow Chinese Grip On Railr oad   Enemy Jah From South Reaches to 10 Miles From Loyang

Japanese Narrow  Chinese Hold on  Vital Railway Several Units of Exemy Score  Advances, Appear Beni on Eifort ta Muack Chins Bui af W

Jap Forces Narrow Chinese Hold On Main Rail Line  Nips Making Attempt To Knock China Entirely Out of War

CHINESE HOLD ON PEIPING-HANKOW RAILWAY NARROWED   gap Forces Driving Up Vita! Rail Line Cut Defenders’ Grip to About 40 Miles— Loyang Threatened

Several Persons Reported Killed In Plane  Crash   Army Transport At Presque Isle

300 OTHERS HURTINGA., $. C. STORM   At Least 147 Homes Destroyed, 103 Are Damaaed

38 Killed, 300 Injured In Ga. And S. C.   Twister Destroys 147 Homes as It Bounds Through Two States

Tornado Kills 38, Hurts 300   Storm Hits Georgia, South Carolina

TORNADO KILL? 21 IN GEORGIA   TWISTER CLAIMS 77 VICTIMS IN SOUTHERN CARGLIN®

TORNADO SWEEP TAKES 38 LIVES   300 PERSON INJURED, 147 HOMES DESTROYED

Tornado Leaves 38 Dead, Over 300 Hurt jin Georgia and South Carolina Sunday

- 38 Dead, 300 Hart In Tornado   Fire Destroys . Shemper Warehouse

South Tornado Death Toll Mounts to 38   Huge Death Dealing Ball Also Injures  About 300 Persons; Property Loss Heavy

38 DIE IN STORM, 300 ARE INJURED   147 Homes Destroyed Sunday as Tornado Sweeps Over 2 Southern States.

21 DEATHS IN GEORGIA WITH 12 AT ROYSTONAND OTHERS ACROSS IN SOUTH CAROLINA   Weary Rescue Workers Still Digging into Wreckage Left by Twister Which Caused Great Deatruc: tion of Life and Property Early Sunday .

STILL DIGGING = QUT OF WRECKAGE   Tornado Boun ced _ Around Like A Huge Ball

Tornado Kills 38 In South; 300 Injured   South Carolina And Georgia Hit By Violent Storm

Tornado Kills 38, Injures Over 300 In 100-Mile Are:      Georgia, South Carolina Hit Sunday B; Storms Like ‘Express Trains’   & Houses Levelled

Bit Puce de. f aslaic   At Least 38 Dead. Over 300 Injured in  Georgia Tornado

38 DEAD, 300 HURT IN TORNADO   Hits 100 Mile Strip in Georgia\ S. Carolina.

TORNADO KILLS 38 IN GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA   Over 300 Persons Injured as Wind Levels or Damages 350 Homes

Roars “7 Area Two States   4 Kiled, 31 310 ia iat In Aad South ae

Tornado Rips Way Over Two States; Kills 38   More Than 300 Injured In Storm That Sweeps 100-Mile Area

Tornado Kills 38, Injures 300 In Jumps Over South   Georgia, South Carolina Houses Smashed As Storm Hops Communities In Disastrous Sweep

STORM DEATH TOLL NOW 38   Rescue Workers: Dig Through . Wreckage i in Search for -Vistins:

TORNADO KILLS 38 IN SOUTH   Storm Leaves More Than 300 Injured In Georgia, South Carolina

THIRTY-EIGHT KILLED SUNDAY BY TORNADOES   Three Hundred are Injured; Many Areas Struck

Tornado Death Toll In South Mounts To 3   300 Persons Injured In South Carolina, Georgia

Southern States Tornado Results In Death of 38   300 Injured Midst 100-Mile Sweep Ove: Areas Early Sunday

N TORNADO THAT HIT 2 STATES   Georgia and South Carolina Record About 300 Injured From Sweep of Wind on 100-Mile Sirip.

Tornado Takes 38  Lives in South,  Injures Nearly 300 * Storm Roars Mit aad Miss Ove: 100 Miles al Mertheasiern  [ or ee

Scores Killed, 300 Injured by LState Twister   North Carolina, Georgia Areas Hit By Violent Tornado

TORNADO KILLS THIRTY -EIGHT   Section In Georgia And South Carolina Struck By Sunday Morning Storm; Much Damage; 300 Injured.

Tornado Hits In Deep South   Kills 38 in 100-Mile Sweep In Georgia and South Carolina Early Sunday

Tornado ills Thirty ‘Hight: In Georgia And 8. a   Three Hundred Injured And Heavy Property Dam age Caused As Storm Sweeps Across LO00-Mile Strip In Two States

38 Are Dead Southeastern Storm Area   Northeastern Georgia and Western Seuth Carolina Are Ravaged

38 LOSE LIVES, 300 INJURED IN DIXIE TORNADO   Georgia, South,Carolina Hit Hard; Patients Evacuated From Torn Hospital

38 Killed By Tornado   More Than 300 Hurt In South Carolina And Georgia Areas

38 Are Dead, 300 Injured, _ ByTornado   Twister Razes Homes In Georgia, 8. Carolina; Path 100 Miles Wide

SUNDAYS TORNADO COST THIRTY-EIGHT LIVES; 300 INJURED  PARTS GEORGIA AND  _ SOUTH CAROLINA SWEPT RV CGTORM

Find 38 Dead In Southern Tornado Area   Georgia First With 21 South Carolina Has 17 on Death List

AT LEAST 38 KILLED AND 300 WOUNDED IN TWO STATES. PROPERTY DAMAGE HEAVY.  - STRUCK AT NIGHT

U.S. Armored Columns By-Pass Nazi Stronghold   Smash Through Enemy's Hill Defenses Five Miles Beyond Orbetello

Enemy Base By-Passed by U. S. Armor   Stiffening Germans Fail To Halt Ttalian Drive

Report Heaviest Fighting Since Fall of Rome   Allies Hit Into Hastily Set Up  German Lines

ALLIES CUT NEW GERMAN LINE IN ITALY   Armored Columns Gain 2 Miles In Heavy Fighting

Fighting 70 Miles Above Rome Today   Americans Break Through German Defense Lines Near Orbetello

NEW NAZI LINE ABOVE ROME !S HIT BY ALLIES   Armored Columns Punch Into Hastily-Established German Line

Yanks Bypass Orbetellc   U. S., British -Armies Advance Two Miles in Plain Above Rome

,Allies Penetrate Both Of Makeshift Lines Of Germans   ‘Heavy Resistance Is Met At Cisterna Where @ Enemy Communication Lines Are Threatened

British 15 Miles  FromRome   Americans Reach Cisterna As Kesslering Rushes Troops From North Italy.

BRITISH UNITS ARE 15 MILES FROM CAPITAI      Nazis Rush Troops From North Italy To Rome

 Nelson May Take Further Trips As Roving Ambassador for — President: WPB Status Obscure

HELP FOR CHINA BEING OUTLINED   Nelson Returns To Make Report To President; WPB Post Retained

Nelson May Be Roving Statesman   Reports To Chief Today On Successful Trip To China.

Regain Part of Lost Territory   British and Yanks Hold Fast in Bloody Battle: Weather is Better

Regain Part of Ground   Churchill Says Battle to Take Rome to Be Won

U. S., British Absorb German Blows  Allies Then Attack to Drive Nazi Forces Backward

Convoy Arrives With Stream Of Men, Supplies   Invaders Appear to Have Absorbed Successfully First Great Nazi Effort to Drive Them Back Into Sea

U.S., SPANISH SIGN RECIPROCAL ‘AIR AGREEMENT   Pact Is Made After 18 Months Of Negotiations

Cassino Battle Toughest _ One Of Mediterranean War  American Soldiers Report

Capture Vernay, Vosges Pass, For Winter Attacks   Canadians Break Into Heart Of German Pocke On Schelde; Yanks Clean Up Aachen, Turn Guns On Emergency Rhine Defenses.

British. Forces Capture City of Venray   Lunge for West Wall on 30-Mile Front * While Americans to South Wheel Suddenly Into Bonhomme Pass

Germans Clear Out Italians   All Civilians Removed Before Fifth Army Front For 20-Mile Depth

Nazis Evacuate Civilians From Italian Front   People Forced To Move Back About Twenty Miles

NAZIS CLEAR STRIP FACING FIFTH ARMY   All Civilians In Belt Twenty Miles Deep Are Removed

STILLWELL'S FORCES GAIN IN N. BURMA   Chinese and U. S. Troops Advancing Toward Myitkyina

Continue Advance  In North Burma    Second Anniversary of  _ Allied Retreat Marked

NORTHERN NEW GUINEA COASTLINE IS BOMBED   Steady Pace is Kept Up By U.S. Forces on Base

Ward Co. Workers Vote Today About  Union's Proposal   Basic Issue in Plant Seizure 1s Being Answered  Today

Ward Employes Balloting Today  Vote In Issue Which Led To Plant Seizure

WARD WORKERS VOTE ON UNION REPRESENTATION   ELECTION ORDERED AND HELD UNDER NLRB SUPERVISION

EMPLOYES OF WARD'S CAST VOTES TODAY   Election To Decide Basic Issue That Led To  Seizure

Employes at Ward Plant Deciding Union Issue in Today's Election.

ELECTION HELD ‘AT WARD STORE   Balloting Held Under Supervision of NLRB

Ward Employes to Vote on Collective Rargaining Policy   Basic issue Which Led to Government Seizure of Plant

Ward Employes Vote On Union Representation   Election Today Decides Whether CIO Group Is Choice Of Workers.

To Determine Union Choice  in CIO Vote   Federal Judge to Render Decision Wednesday; NLRB to Count Vote Tonight

GERMANS IN BIG RETREAT FROM CHANNEL   Von Kluge Taking Beaten Armies Back to Somme, Marne River Lines

May Retire To Somme And Marne   May Abandon Much of Channe! Coast and  Paris Region

\luge’s Beaten Army In  _Headlong — Retreat Lack Of: Armor, May Force Retirement Yo German. Border; Bloody Seine Pocket Whittled Down.

Allies Press In To Keep  Foe On Run   Germans Abandon Mech Armer a Hasty Flight, Pocket Belew Seine Appears Near End

~-WESTERN FRANCE-~  Battle Ending   BEATEN GERMANS APPEAR MAKING A MAD DASH FOR SOMME AND MARNE LINE

Headlong Rout Of Nazis From Seine Claimed   Enemy Abandons Channel Coast And Vicinity Of Paris; French Armored Forces Enter Capital City; Patton’s Moves Secret

'Nazi Forces Retreating to ‘Somme Line   Battle in Pocket Below Seine to End Soon; Nazis Slaughtered

Von Kluge Retreats Hurriedly to Reach  Somme, Marne Line   Abandons Seine Pocket, to Swing War to Former Battleground

Retreat Would Abandon Much. Of Channel Coast, Paris Area   Battered Enemy Legions Flee Toward Battle Lines of First World War as ‘Wholesale Slaughter’ Continues

May Give Up Much of Coast, Paris Vicinity   Seine Pocket Whittled to Small Area, Cream of Von Kluge’s Armor Slaughtered in Trying to Escape

SOMAME-MARNE 5 NEW LINE?      Battle in Pocket Below Seine Expected to Be Over Soon.   KEEP GERMANS ON RUN

Enemy In Full Flight Toward Somme, Marne   Headlong Retreat On A Allies Close Trap On Beaten Foe

GERMANS FLEE TOWARD MARNE   Allied Armies Tighten Seine Trap, Battle “Virtually Over”

Von Kluge Pressed on All Sides   May Attempt New Stand in World War I Battle Area; Mad Dash Under Way   IROADS ARE LINED WITH WRECKAGE   Normandy Pocket Slashed : to Less Than 15 Miles Deen and 20 Longe

Yanks Seize Cannes in Move Toward Italy; Battle Along Seine Reported Virtually Over   Allied Command Reticent to Reveal Location of All Troops in Southern France; See Hope Rocket Bomb Coast May Be Taken Shortly

Allies Rapidly Clearing Seine Pocket of Foe   Remnants Pressed Into Area 20 Miles Long,  15 Deep

BATTERED NAZIS STRIVE TO CROSS RIVER IN FLIGHT   MANAGE TO GET MANY OVER BUT LEAVE THOUSANDS

Kluge Swings Nazis From Coast, Paris   Somme, Marne Line Thought Goal of Battered Germans

Channel Coast Is Left Abandoned   Pocket Below Seine Narrows And Battle Virtually Over; Rocket Coast Not Affected By Retreat

To Abandon Much Of Channel Coast, Vicinity of Paris   Battle For Pocket Below Seine Likely Will End in  24 Hours. sm   Best of Enemy Armor Slaughtered by Allies

German Troops In Swift Retreat   Attempt May Be Made by Enemy To Make Stand on Line of Somme

Beaten German Armies Reported in Full Retreat  Today  POCKET IS CLOSING  isidieetiatiiemsiatanitemmainmeciensetincal      Enemy Forces South of Seine Trapped in Losing Battle

Von Kluge May Withdraw from Channel Coast   “Seine Pocket Is Virtually Reduced, With Destruction Of Armor ‘Terrific

Soldiers Fight To Finish VonK lug’ s Army   With the Canadian First  on the Seine river at Louvies south of. Rouen.

JAP ATTEMPT TO PUT MEN ON ISLE SMASHEL   Devastating Fire Keeps Foe Barges From Los Negros

JAP LANDING » STAB SMASHED   Attempts To Run Troops Ashore on Los Negros Frustrated

JAP ATTEMPT TO LAND IS FRUSTRATED   By United States Troops Headquarters Announces, Try To Put Troops Ashore On Los Negros Island.   Allied Lake

Jap Attempt fo Land on Isle Smashed   Marines Hold Their Positions in New Britain Area

LABOR RECORD “JS ASSATLED   BRICKER CHARGES ADMINIS‘TRATION HAS SHOWN Dis: :—“— ORIMINATION-IN-RAND=—  “YING DISPUTE:

Finns Obtain Milder Terms   Helsinki Sources Say Parliament To Consider Russia’s Moderations.

Parliament To Meet Monday In Helsinki   “Important Government Announcement’ Promised Legislature

Huge Black Market Rife In Textiles   One Of OPA’s Greatest Enforcement Problems

EVACUATE. SOFA HISPATGHES SA   Claim Third of City Destroyed by Allics

Report Sofia Is Beng Evacuated   Residents Said To Be Fleeing City Result Of Allied Plane Attacks

BLAST AT HERCULES POWDER PLANT ROCKS COUNTRY OVER 12-MILE AREA   At Least Three Killed, Many Wounded: Red Cross Making House to House Canvass to Treat Injured.

TWO KILLED BY BLAST AT CALIF. PLANT   Explosion At Powder Plant Iniuries 25

Powder Plant Explodes; 3 Workers Die   WIDE AREA SHAKEN BY TERRIFIC EXPLOSION eOF HERCULES FACTORY

Philippine Fighting Rapidly Approaching Climax Ou Occupied Islands  eee PR ear ee ET   Jap Fleet Losses Continue To Mount   Last Of Two Highway Out. lets For Enemy On Leyte Seized

Tokyo Says. U.S.Fleet On the Move   Enemy’s Losses -More Costly Than First Reported.

GREAT VICTORY AT HENGYANG BY — CHINESE TROOPS STANDS OFF JAP THREAT TO CHINA FOR THE PRESENT   Breaking of Seige on Vital Railway Line Made Pe sible by Chinese Heroism and Valuable Assistanc Provided by America Air Force

The War Today   By DPWMITT MACKENZIF Mesovinated Press War Analvat

Nazis Bombard Britain With ¥ Buzz Bomb     , .May Be Capable ', Of Crossing Sea

Paper Shorlages May Be Eased Soon   Newsprint Has Chance To Increase After Midyear

Democrats Present Double-Barreled Answer to Clare Luce’s Speech . . Helen Gahagan and Quent Reynolds

Demos Answer Claire Luce's G. . Jim Talk   Quentin Reynolds Says No Onc Can Talk for Soldiers

STRIKE IN KURILES   U. S. Task Force Bombards Japanese Base on Matsuwa Island

U.S. Land, Navy, Air Forces. Push Big Offensive   Battle For Saipan Is Like Guadateanal And: Tarawa

Ships Bombard Base on Kuriles   Matsuwa Island Battered by Shells As Yanks Attack Japs in New Area

SHOWDOWN WITH SPAIN IS NEAR   Allies Resent Nation's Continued Aid To Nazis

DEMAND SPAIN STOP AXIS AID   Oil Shipments Suspended After U. S. Decides on Showdown

SPAIN DENIED  OIL-SUPPLIES   FRANCO" 8 CONTINUED: AID TO GERMANY RESULTS IN OTL SHIPMENTS BEING SUSPENDED

MacArthur Moving To Outflank Rabaul Base   U. S. General Watches Invasion Of Islands; Important Airfield Taken Only 700 Miles  From Truk Bastion

Troops of Cavalry Regi. ment Overcome Enemy Resistance  GRIP ON RABAUL IS   Strangulation of Rabaul and Kavieng Soon Expected

Enemy’s East-West Chain Of Bases Cut; No Opposition Encountered   MOMOTE AIRSTRIP IN °  EXCELLENT CONDITION

Surprise Move Outflanking Rabaul — Is Directed By MacArthur From Bridge of American Warship

Destroyer-Borne Troops Strike Boldly Across Bismarck Sea   MacArthur Directs Surprise Maneuver Which Tightens Envelopment of 50,000 Japs

MacArthur’s troops make bold assault   Cut off supplies to 50,000 Japs

Troops of Cavalry Regiment Overcome Enemy Resistance  GRIP ON RABAUL IS TIGHTENED BY U. S;  Strangulation of Rabaul and Kavieng Scon Expected

ALLIED FORCES REGAIN CONTROL CE JAP SEGKEN]   Two-Month.. C Conquest of ‘Western New Britain Reaches  Danclincian

WESTERN NEW BRITAIN ISLAND CLEAR OF JAPS   2 - Month Drive Ended; 7,000 Enemy Troops Slain In Area

Two Forces Are Joined In  New Britain   Troops Operating From Base At Arawe Form Junction With Marines From Cape Gloucester

Yanks Seize West End of New Britain   Troops From Arawe Base Contact Gloucester Marines in Jungle

Allies Complete Conquest of Western New Britain Within Two Months

Allies Complete Conquest of Western Hew Britain Within Two Months   33 Nazi Fighters’ Downed in U.S, Raid on Plants at-Steyr; Austria

lowa Convicts Are Recaptured   Lang Termers Give Up Without Struggle

Four Escaped Convicts From lowa Reformatory  Caught Within 24 Hours

CAPTURE FOUR D ESP ERADOES   Police in lowa Retake Longterm Convicts 31 Hours After Prison Break

ESCAPED CONVICTS SEIZED BY POLICE   Four Who Escaped From Prison Are Recaptured Withcut Struagle

Da; ain le Deadietac HUH 1b PbulvEY  For Valley Area laté Tomorrow.

Naval Base In Kuriles Is Hit Again   Paramushiro Bombed anc at Least 20 Barges Sunk  On New Guinea Coast

Flames Trap 18 Men In Kentucky Soft Coal Mine  No Details [n      No Details [n First Reports

Americans Make Gains on Entire Saipan Front  Troops Penetrate   Troops Penetrate Island Capital; Hengyang Battle Rages

Yanks Advance: Saipan Front   Island's Capital Entered In Ceneral Surve

Infantrymen And Marines Sweep Island   6,015 Japs Killed In 16-Day Battie

Japs Cut Of at ‘Big Burma Pasa By Yanks, Chines¢   Allied Trap Closing On Thousands of Nips Around Myitkyinz

Air Borne Troops Lan¢ Near Le Havre, Says Nazi Broadcast   Italian King Surrenders His Powers to Son; Pope Expresses Thanks for Preservation of City; Pre-Invasion Blows at Atlantic Wall Continue

U. S. Officialdom Sees 1944 as Year of War Disappointment   Nation’s Leaders Admit Unjustified Optimism About Military Progress; Now Convinced Germany Will Fight to Berlin

U. S. Officialdom Sees 1944 as Year of War Disappointment  Natian’s landere Admit Uniustified Optimism   Nation’s Leaders Admit Unjustified Optimisn About Military Progress; Now Convinced Germany Will Fight to Berlin

American Officialdom Winds Up 1944 Wishing It Hadn‘t Been So Optimistic Earlier in the Year

House Approves  Tax Bill Report   Senate Okay Will Send Act To FR

House Gives ‘Approval to New Tax Bill   Compromise Accepted, Sent to Senate for Expected Passage

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   House Anproves Report.

200,000 SOLDIERS GIVEN FURLOUGHS   American Ships Are Serving Double Duty In Eeturning Men From Battle Zoncs

Furlough Plan In Full Swing,  Stimson Says   Alveady 200.000 Men Have Returned to U. §. From Service Overseas

JAPS PUSHING. INDIA DRIVE   ENEMY GAINS REPORTED  IN COUNTER-PUSH DESIGNED TO DISRUPT COMMUNI.  _ CATION ROUTES

Would Impound Surplus Goods   Sen. Johnson Offers  Post-War Program

ON SURPLUS ASKED   Proposal Made in Congress to Give Private Industry Chance

Two Former (10 Local Heads Quif   Rather Than Engage in Political Activity or Take Communist Leadership

THINKS WARREN WILL TAKE JOB   Martin Predicts Governor Will Take Runner Up Post Hf Ht ls Offered Him.

Dewey Is Early Favorite   Martin Predicts That Warren Will Accept Vice-President Job

Ve  Warren In Line For 2nd Place   CALIFORNIAN WILL ACCEPT IF NOMINATED AS RUNNING MATE, MARTIN’ PREDICTS

Says Warren Will Accept 2nd Place   Joe Martin, GOP Convention Chairman, Also Says Dewey Will Accept.

Says Warren Will Accept ‘Second Place   Martin Believes Callfornia Governor Will Ron for Vice Presidencs

TALK OF SECOND PLACE ON TICKET   Representative Martin Predicts Governor Warren Will Accept

MARTIN PREDICTS WERREN WILL TAKE VICE PRESIDENCY   Martin, Who Will Be Convention President Next Week, Also Believes Dewey Will Accept. the Presidential Nomimation

Total Off-The-Job Workers Cut to. 18.000: Several + Walkoute Ended

CRUMBLING NAZ LINES FACE LOSS OF ROTTERDAM   @iearing Of Antwerp Approach Awaits Fall Of Trapped Germans

Germans: . Disintegrating Below Maas River Under Heavy Air Attack; Allied Armies Race For Escape Bridge Six  Miles Awav:

DEFENSE LINES DISINTEGRATING UNDER ATTACKS   German Forces Cut into Four Dwindling Pockets—Yank Sectors Relatively Calm

Allies Smash Nazi Pockets In Holland   Columns Crash Through Thin German Rearguards; Planes Strafe Enemy

NAZI DEFENSE SYSTEM SPLIT INTO 4 PARTS   i‘nemy Troops Fleeing Northward to Avoid Being Captured

RACE FOR NAZI ESCAPE ROUTES ON MAAS RIVER   Allied Troops Enter  Roosendall; Germans Admit Withdrawal

DRIVE TO CUI ONLY BRIDGE OF ESCAPE   Canadians Open Offensive To Take Dunkerque   DESPERATE FIGHT   Rages Around Roosendaal: Slight Gains Reported In Southern France

German Armies Disintegrating Under Pressure  Nazis Admit Many - Artillery Pieces - Deluged In Water

ALLIES RACE FOR BRIDGES ACROSS MAAS   Troops, Breaking Inte Last of the Chain of Strong Points Befor River, Enter the City. 0  Dancandadaal .

Germar Stand Slashed Into Four Pockets   British Drive to Clear Approaches. to Antwerp Nearing a, Conclusion   MANY OF GERMANS’ GUNS. UNDER WATER   Remnants of Enemy Force 40,000 Strong Being Pushed Avainust the Maas

Nazis Lose Roosendaal, Their Last Stronghold In Southwest Holland.

TANKS AND PLANES PACE ALLIED FORCES IN HOLLAND SECTOR  _ GERMAN ESCAPE BRIDGES OBJECTIVES OF MAD - DACE ON MONDAY

Allies Driving Nazis Across Waterways Web  Enemy Counterthrust Too Late To Rescue  German Troops North Of Antwerp But Gains

Nazis Fall Back  Below Amsterdam   Drive Across Flooded Lowands Reported Approaching Conclusion

British Seize Village 3 Miles South of Maas   LONDON. — (®) — Allied troops entered Roosendaal, last link in the German defense line below the Maas, tonight.

FOUR DWINDLING POCKETS NAZI FORCES TRYING TO GET THRU ALLIED PINCERS ‘AND ESCAPE

Antwerp Fall Moved Nearer by New Gains   German Forces in Lowlands Cut Into 4 Dwindling Pockets

Allied Columns 5 to 12 Mi. From Escape Bridges   Nazis Cut Into Four Pockets; Roosendaal, Oosterhout Fall

Air Attack Tells  OnGermanForces   Allies Cut Nazi Stand in the Lowlands Into 4 Pockets   Drive Towards the Harbor of Antwerp Is Gaining _ Momentum

Berlin Admits Retreat   Remaining Enemy Pockets Steadily Disintezrating

Nazi Line in Holland Is.“ Near Collapse   Allies Have Pinched Foe Into Four Pockets; 20,000 Prisoners Taken

Battle for Holland is Near -End   Germans Admit Many of Their Guns Are Under Eight Feet of Water

Allies Storm into Roosendaal; Berlin Savs Retreat to Rotterdam. Underway

4 Dwindling Gr oups Left: Escape Span Much Nearer   Islands Are Being Cleared OF Troops

Swiftly Advancing Allied Forces Dre®,:. Nearer Nazi Escape Bridi%: Over Maas

Retreat In Full Swing   ‘Allies Enter Last ;Nazi Strong Point,  “Qn Maas As;Enemy’s Dutch Line Crumbles

German Forces Below the Maa: Breaking Up   Allies Drive Across Flooded Lowlands To Clear Approaches To Antwerp Harbor

‘Allies Race 'To Cut Nazis’ Escape Lines   Berlin Admits Major  Withdrawal Across Maas; Alliae Frier Rancondal

--WESTERN FRONT—   MAJOR GERMAN WITHDRAWAL TO ROTTERDAM IS IN FULL SWING; ENEMY POCKETED   Cut Into Four Points.

Menace Nazi Positions In  Holland Area   Cut Enemy Into 4 Poe. kets: Germans Below Maas ‘Disintegrating”..

Allies Within 6 Miles Of Hun Escape Bridge   German Stand In South. western . Lowlands Has’ Been Cut Into Four Dwindling Pockets   Enenry Forces Are Disintegrating   Allied Drive Across Flooged Lands to Approaches Antwerp Harbor Is Gaining Momentum:

Courfer-Blow Turns Into A Full Attack   Germans Gain Some In Dutch Area; Planes Active

Tanks, Planes Pound at Heeing Foe   Allied Troops Slash Ahead in Attempt To Capture Bridges

GERMAN STAND IN LOWLANDS DISINTEGRATES   Allies Advance Along Entire West Front

ALLIES SPLIT NAZIS INTO FOUR HOLLAND TRAPS   Troops Race for Moerdijl Escape Bridge; Open Heavy Dunkerque Attack

German Line In Holland Cut To Bits   Nazi Defenses Disintegrating Under Concentrated Air, Land Attacks

German Pockets  Being Wiped Out   _ Enemy Battles in Water With Guns Eight Feet Deep; Freeing _ Of Antwerp Appears Near

Germap.Stand In Southwestern Lowlands Out To 4 Dwindting Pockets; Nazis Below Maas River “Also Breaking Un + 3

Allies Storm Into Roosendaa   Allies Race for Moerdijk Escape Bridge as Planes Pound Four Dwindling Nazi Pockets of Resistance; Schelde Gains Made

Dewey Favors Later Closing OfN. Y. Polls   Calls Legislature Info Extra Session

LONGER VOTING HOURS LIKELY   Dewey Calling Legislature To Consider. Matter; Will Aid Democrats

Dewey Calls N.Y. Legislature Into Session to Consider  Keeping Poils Open to 9 p. m.

INEW YORK POLLS > MAY GLOSE LATER   DEWEY ACTS TO EXTEND VOT. ING HOURS TO 9 P. M. — _ WILL SPEAK TONIGHT.

Dewey Calling Extra Session Of Legislature   Speaks In Syracuse Today; May Change Voting Hours

Dewey To Talk At Syracuse. Today at 12:30   Calls State Legislature To Consider Extension _Of Nov. 7 Voting Hours

Dewey Quits As Rubber Director   Office Will Be Liquidatec By Setember 1, He Says.

DEWEY RESIGNS AS RUBBER HEAD   DIRECTOR PREDICTS GOOD SYNTHETIC FUTURE

RESIGNS POST AS RUBBER DIRECTOR   BRADLEY DEWEY SAYS INDUSTRY PRODUCING AT RATE RECOMMENDED

Rubber Director Dewey Reports ‘\Liquidation Of Office, Predicts 'Svnthetic Industry .Will Survive

Rubber Director Dewey Resigns Post With ‘Declaration Objective Has Been Achieved

Confident Of Synthetic Rubber Future   Dewey, Liquidating His Office, Says Natural Rubber Can't Compete   Chemists Always Win

U.S. Synthetic Rubber Industry Will Survive War, Says Dewey, First Agency Head To Liquidate

Dewey Predicts Big Future For Synthetic Rubber   Says Industry To Survive War

Sees Synthetic Boom  Rubber Director Ends Work, Fir et Ta Clace Was Ruy +> nT

RUBBER CHIEF 70 END BUREAU   Dewey Asserts Synthetic Industry Is Meeting Full Quota

JOB IS COMPLETED   Rubber Director Dewey Says Synthetic Industry Will Survive

MEET FIRST © BLOW AT NEW BEACHHEAD   Americans and_ British Meet Elements of Hermann Goering Armored Division South of Rome and Kill 120 of Enemy,

Moscow Indicates New Russian Drive Inside East Prussia   Red Army Opens Up New Offensive Against 30 Baltic Divisions

SOVIET GUNS BREAK LULL. HERALD DRIVE   2 . Front Bombardment Believed Prelude To Offensive

East Prussian, Baltic Fronts Bombarded   German Resistance Near Budapest Te Racamine Stiff

REDS BOMBARD PRUSSIAN, BALTIC FRONTS IN WINTER DRIVE PRELUDE   RUSSIANS BEGIN NEW OFFENSIVE FROM TISZA BRIDGEHEAD AGAINST BUDAPEST FROM EAST

RUSSIAN BIG GUNS OPEN UP BOMBARDMENT   East Prussian and Baltic Fronts Caught In Soviet Attacks.

Two Fronts Set Ablaze With Shells   Paris Radio Reports Offensive Launched Below Warsaw.

RED ARMY OPENS NEW OFFENSIVE   Large Scale Bombardment On East Prussian And Baltic Fronts

RED ARTILLERY OPENS ATTACK   Large Scale Bombardment Hits East Prussia Front

SEE PRELUDE TO FRESH RED ARMY ATTACK   Big Guns End Silence On East Prussian, Baltic Fronts

RUSS DRIVE IMMINENT IN LATVIA.   Bombardment Also Started On East Prussia Front

Soviet Guns Open Against Kast are   Russians Also Begin Shelling Baltic Front Preparatory To Offensive

REDS OPEN NEW DRIVE IN PRUSSIA   Bid to Outftlank Polish Capital Is Also Commenced

Lull On Northern Front Broken As Big Guns Open Uy   Bombardment  Believed Prelude To Major  Drive In Two Areas

RUSSIANS OPEN BOMBARDMENT   Artillery Shells East  Prussia. Baltic Fronte

REQ ARTILLERY ENDS (ULL I FACT PRUSSIA   Big Guns Boom; May Pre Sage Major Offensive on  Two North Fronts.

Western War Is Compared With: Tunisia   Supplies Built Up For. Battle: To Come

Decision On Huon I: Expected   Show-Down Battle Believed Near As Jungle Fighters Use Artillery On Sito.

AUSSIE CANNON SHELL ENEMY AT S10 BASE   5975 Japanese Slain Since Gloucester Drive Opened

Showdown Battle on for Japanese Base  ‘of Sio Is Under Way   Veteran Australian Jungle Fighters Are Using Artillery to Shell Enemy Barge and Supply Center, Communicue Savs

Corridor Narrowed To But 13 Miles —   General Patton's Third Army Pounds Ahead Ta German. Border in Northwest Luxemboura

Many Planes Pound Nazis Through Day As Fog Lifts   Two Allied Armies  Strive for Junction;  Third Reaches Border - Of Reich at 3 Points  NO CTRAIAN CAINS

DRIVE BACK NACI WEDGE IN BELGIUM   Enemy Escape Corridor Narrowed to 13 Miles ‘as Patton and Hodges Score New Gains.   INFLICT FEARFUL SLAUGHTER ON FOE   Third Army Pounds té Reich Border at Three Places and Shatters Sure River Line.

Enemy Escape Corridor Cut By Third Army   Nazis Digging in at Rochefort For Stand Against First Army; Foe’s Spearhead Forces Shattered   Rv EDWARD KENNEDY

DEWEY FAVORED FOR NOMINATION   Poll Among GOP Convention Delegates For New  York Governor

Dewey Far Ahead In Poll of GOP   1940 Delegates Favor New Yorker

DEMOCRATS 10 RENEW SEARCH FOR CANDIDATE   Fry’s Actions Indicate He Wen’t Run For  Governor

BOARD OF STRATEGY MEETS TOMORROW   Demos to Renew Efforts to Draft Candidates for Two State Offices.

PLANE FACTORY AT MARSEILLE FIRED BY RAF   British Heavy Bombers Hit Undamaged Nazi Aircraft Plants

Allied Bombers Hit Southwest Germany Today   ‘British Planes Bomb Aircraft  Plant in France

AIRCRAFT PLANT NEAR MARSEILLE HEAVILY BLASTED   Tourist To Sweden Says “Many Are Fleeing From Berlin, Latest Raid Was Carried on Two Hours.   FURIOUS BATTLES ARE PROGRESSING IN ITALY   German Skirmishes Strike at Allied Defenses, Brisk Exchanges Occur Around Cassino Area.

Plant Near Marseille © Is Victim        HIT BY BRIT. PLANES LAST’. NIGHT; TODAY’S RAIDERS ARE, BOMBING SOUTHWEST GERM¢

RAF Lancasters Smash Aircraft Plant In France   Berlin In Chaos Since Americans Began  All-Out Raids

Younger Men, Experienced In Fighter Defense, Reported In Charge   Air War Switched ToSouthwest Reich   Berliners By Thousands Continue Flight From Ravaged Capital

50,000 Truck Drivers Freight      Demand Seven:Cent Wage Increase Granted by WLB

54,000 Transport Workers Strike In Eight States   Walkout Comes as WLB-Ordered Wage Raise Denied

Estimated $50,000 Truck Drivers and Fieight Handlers in Midwest Refuse to Work — Attempting to Keep Vital ‘War Materials Moving.

90,000 TRUCK DRIVERS STAGE NEW WALKOUT   Eight Midwestern States Affected; G. M. Dispute Flares Anew

Allies Hold Bridgehead Lines Firm   Desperate Close-Quarter Fighting Rages In Cas aina Streets.

Desperate Battle Rages In Italy   ’Enemy Attack on British Forces Below Rome Repulsed; Bitter Fight In Streets of Cassino

ENEMY SUFFERS  HEAVY LOSSES  IN APRILIA BATTLE DESPERATE BATTLE  CONTINUES TO RAGE IN CASSINO STREETS

TRAP TIGHTENED BY REDS ON BIG FORCE OF NAZIS   Big American Bombers Hit German Positions in Anti-invasion Wall

NAZIS LAUNCH ~NEW ATTACKS   British Report They Repulse Enemy At New Allied Beachhead

Crack Armored Division Leads German Attack   Desperate Struggie Raging In Streets Of Cassino; Most Of Town In Enemv Hands

Nazis Aprilia Push © ‘Is Costly Failures”  Reds Near Navora   Street Battles Rage In Cassino; Russians Tighten Ukraine Grip; Yanks Pound French Airfields

GERMANS ARE REPULSED BY ALLIED ARMY   Americans Make New Gains At Mt: Maiola

Desperate Fighting Reported on Fronts in Battle of Italy   Germans Launch Heavy Attacks in Effort to Dislodge Allies

SECOND COUNTERATTACK BY GERMANS AGAINST BEACHHEAD IN ITALY SMASHED BY ALLIES

Mighty Battle Is In Progress South Of Rome   Nazis Repulsed In Drive On Beachhead But Clina To Cassino

Furious Battle ls Raging in Streets of Cassino   Russians Tighten Trap Around Ten German Divisions

HEAVY FIGHTING STILL RAGES IN CASSING STREETS   Germans Making Suicidal Defense of Town in Cnautharn Italy

GERMAN EFFORTS T0 OMASH BEACHHEAD OF ALLIES ARE RENEWED  _ ANOTHER DETERMINED _ STAB ON BRITISH FRONT

Desperate Fighting In Cassino   Nazis Hang On Despite Heavy Blows by Yank  Tr widens

British Hold Nazis Back in Area 20 Miles Southeast Of Rome.   CASSINO BATTLE RAGES

Nazi Attack. Thrown Back Below Rome   Cassino Changes Hands Twice, Nazis Report

—ITALY—   Fierce Fighting Is ReportedRaging In Cassino’s Streets

GERMANS FAIL IN NEW ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD   Fifth Army Repels Heavy  Assault Below Rome; Yanks Battle Nazis in Giraats of Cassino.

Nazis Launch New Assaults South of Rome   Other Forces BatHe Fiercely in Street Fighting in Cassino

GERMANS IN A NEW ATTACK TO SMASH ~ ALLIED BEACHHEAD   This Time Striking at British Troops in the Area of Atrilia.   IS SOUTHEAST OF ROME   On Main Sth Army Front Desperate Fighting Raged Unabated.

Naia Try Desperately To Smash Beachhead And At Same Time Keep Grip On Cassino

Throw Baek Nazi Thrusts Below Rome   Fight in Streets Of Cassino, As Russian Allies Tighten Trap

BITTER BATTLE RAGES THROUGH CASSINO TODAY   Heavy Losses for Germans in Their Latest Attack Against Allied Forces at Bridgehead

NAZIS STAKING  ALL IN FIGHT FOR BEACHHEAD   Nazis Hold Positions At Cassino Despite Heavy Allied Assaults

BRITISH INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES IN u-RMAN ATTACK   ‘azis Launch Violent Drive To Force Allies from Beachhead.

STRONG NEW GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS IN ROME AREA DEFEATED   FIERCE HOUSE-TO-HOUSE FIGHTING UNDER WAY IN CASSINO TODAY

'GERMANS LAUNCH NEW ATTACKS (TO CRUSH ALLIED BEACHHEAD = BUT EFFORTS MEETFAILURE =:   Spearheaded by Veteran 26th Armored Divisio Nazis Desperately Seek to Oust Allies, and Bitter Fighting Rages in Streets of Cassino

New German Attack Beaten Off   Enemy Is Attempting To Drive Allied Troops From Beaches

Nazis Launch New Assault On Beachhead   British Troops Attacked Drive Off Germans With Heavy Losses

DRIVE HALTED BY BRITISH 10 SOUTHEAST   Enemy Suffers Heavy, Losses in Latest Thrust, Made 20 Miles From the Capital—Cassino Battle Still Violent. ge.

FIERCE BATTLE IN CASSINO CONTINUES   Yanks Held In Outskirts Of Ravaged City   Rushed Into Savage Fight By Nazis; Aprilia Scene Of Action

COUNTER BLOW SOUTH OF ROME IS THROWN BACK   New Attack By Enemy In Effort To Smash Beachhead Ends In Failure; Fighting Rages Unabated In Streets Of Cassino.

BRITISH THROW BACK ASSAULTS MADE BY TANKS   Positions in Cassino Change Hands Several Times in Close Battle

Battles. Are . = Feait” Th Streets   Positions: Change’. .Hands Several Times in. House= to-House: Conflict.      NAZIS:STILL HOLD: oo. MOST. OF CITy                Best German Armored Unit Are Probing Allied Lines in Battle on Beachhead-.

FIGHTING RAGES IN CASSIND   Americans’ Held In Outskirts Of Italian City

Americans North of Gusiav Line  Strongpoint Push West to Cap ture Mi. Meaicla   FORTS HIT TOULON

Bloody Battie ls Raging At Aprilia: Yanks Stab Cassino   Germans Claim Allie Encircled, Admit Fierce Fighting

British Stop  Fierce Enemy Driveon Anzio New Attack Costs Enemy  Heavily; Crack Panzer Units Beaten POUND CASSINO Yanks’ Sledgehammer Blows Pierce Fiercely Held Outskirts

British Repel Newest Attack: Yanks Fight in Cassino Streets   American Infantry, Artillery, Armor in Assault North of Town

House-To-House Battle in Cassino Bastion Continues   Allied Bag of German War Prisoners Since Start of Italian Campaign Totals Over 10,000

Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses  Near Aprilia   iMore German Prisoners Are Seized in Fighting Below Eternal City; Captives Total 10.000   sth Army Battling  In Cassino Streets   Huns Still in Possession of Main Part of Ancient City; Positions Changing Frequently

British Hurl Foe Back Below Rome With Heavy Losses   Germans Cling to Cassino Positions Despite Jolting American Punches

BOSTON MAYOR WINS GUBERNATORIAL RACE   Maurice J. Tobin, Backed by ©. ] O. Political Action Committee, Defeats Francis Hurley,

DRAFT SETUP CHANGE MADE ~~ FOR FUTURE   NEW REGULATIONS PROVIDE FOR FINAL. PHYSICAL EXAM 2t DAYS BEFORE INDUCTION

New System, Effective February 21, Gives All At Least 21  Days lo Prepare.

CHANGE D EXAM METHOD   Men to Get Pre-Inductior Physical Test 21 Days in Advance

Big Game Season Arrives in Idaho and Hunters Are Heading for the Mountains

Forest Fire Sweeps Along 5-Mile Front   Soldiers and” Yolunteers Battle Disastrous Blaze

Ban On Food Against Spair Allies Plan   Further Economic Actions Considered Against Franco

Spain Faces Pressure From U.§., Britain   Protesting Aid to Axis Allies May Cut Off Oil Food Shipments

Nimitz Opening Route to China   Central Pacific Action Accentuates Statemen By Admiral That Japs Must Be Whipped From Bases In Asia

Rapid Action In Pacific Accentuates Nimitz’s  Kim To Ohiain Air Bases In China To Hit Janan

YANK SUBS SINK 17 JAP VESSELS   Cruiser, Destroyer Included in New Bag, Raising Total to 791

Latest News Flashes By IL N. S.   Submarines Get 18 More Japanese Ships   Eisenhower Returns

SUB  S SINK JAP CRUISER AND DESTROYER   Also Send 15 Enemy Supply Vessels to Bottom

Delay Action On Veteran Pay Bill   Suggest Ruling Out of “Crazy Amendments”

PRESENT CERTIFICATE   Miss Etta Meten Is* Honored  by University Alumni. Association

Butte Contribution to Red Cross Rises to $30,242  Keen Competition Between Men's Divisions Continues;  Tae  , Ft... _

Butte Contribution to Red Cross Rises to $30,242  Keen Competiiion Between Men' 3 Divisions Continues:   Keen Competition Between Men' 3 Divisions Continues: Group F Sweeps Into First Place

Japs Hamper Exchange Of Prisoners U. S. Holds Policy   U. S. Holds Policy Of Enemy Delays Return of Captives

JAPS CHARGED WITH DELAYS OF EXCHANGES   Enemy Doubts Right: Of Yanks From Islanels

Dewey Charges Roosevelt With Mud Slinging; to Deal with Issue Tonight

Pearl Harbor Seen Issue In Campaign   Dewey Probes Investigation

Dewey: Reported Gathering Data . On FD Handling OF Pearl, Harbor; °N.E., Pennsylvania Seen For GOP

JAP BLOW MAY ~ ENTER IN RACE   ‘Dewey Reported Gathering Data On Dec. 7 Attack

According to an Aunt Eisenhower Is as Good As a Cook As a Genera!

Believe It or Not, Family of Three Has Never Bought Rationed Article

4 DIVISIONS STOPPED BY. U.S. TROOPS   Enemy Runs Into Heavy Fire and Planes at Avranches Corridor —  ' Loses 135 Tanks.   AMERICANS PUSH ON TOWARD PARIS   British and Canadians Also Press Toward Capital Which German Officers Are Evacuating.

GERMAN TANK ATTACK FAILS TO DENT LINE   HIGH NAZI OFFICERS FLEE FROM FRENCH CAPITAL

135 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out by Allied Planes   Furious Fighting Reported at Brest

Enemy Driven Back Out of Mortain After Fierce Attack —    THRUST IS HALTED, -REPORTS INDICATE   Far to the West. U. S. Forces Run Through  Brittany

Planes Smash  135 German Tanks in Day   Hard Fighting Reported at Brest and Close to St. Malo; U. S. Column Reported With Nine Miles of Lorient on Brittany Coast

Planes Assist In Eliminating Enemy Wedge   Americans Fight for Held On Main Breton Ports; British Advancing

THRUST IS HALTED, ——REPORTS—INDICATE   Far to the West. U.S. Forces Run Through Brittany

Big German  counterblow  is repulsed 135 nazi tanks  ava dactenwvad

Allied Planes Destroy 135 Enemy Tanks   Other Americans Push To Within 120 Miles Of Capital of France  LORIENT MENACED

135 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out By Allied Planes In  Avranches Corridor   AMERICANS ARE 120 MILES FROM CAPITAL

Big Guns, Warplanes Stop German Blow to Split Allied Armies; Continue Brittany Mop-Up

Mortain Regained By Allied Troops   Germans Lose Initictive After Attempting To Close Narrow Corridor In Avranches Area

frohsinn Holds Picnic   It Happened This Week. .  Yanks Drive Within 120 Miles Of Paris

Four Tank Divisions Try to Split in Half Three Allied Armies;: Planes Aid in Sicuning Thrust.

SIFT CHARGES OF COERCION IN RAISING FUNDS   Investigation Echoes CIO  Fight to Defeat  Hoftiman

PAC ASKS OHIO SOLDIER VOTE LAW BE EASED   Bricker Requested To Ask Special Session of Legislature To Act

Slavs Rout Nazi Forces From Base   Run Garrison Qut, Repulse Reserves Sent To Their Aid

WARD CO., UNION DEADLOCK SEEN   Company’ Expected to Again Defy WLB

\EW DEADLOCK XPEGTED IN NARD-UNION Cot   Impasse Looked for When Maintenance of Memtership Comes Up

26,413 Surgical Dressings   Small Number Of Red Cross Volunteer Workers Turn Out Big Job In Month.

Fresh Forces Are Landed  in Admiralties  Original Invasion Was Intended

FIRST FORCE OUTUNMBERED BY JAPANESE   Invaders Outsmart Enemy Garrison in Admiraltys

Fresh Forces Are Landed in Admiralties   Original Invasion Was Intended  as Reconnaissance

Negros I. Started As Feeler   MacArthur Reveals Tha Cavalry Project Was Planned Only As  Reconnaisance.

WARNS ‘SLAVE’ LABOR TO FLEE   Gen. Eisenhower Appeals tc Workers in Germany

Eisenhower Calls Upon Workers to  Flee Nazi Manhunt Warns They Are  In Danger; Asks Aid for Allies

Allied Aircraft Damage Five More Japanese Ships   Situation ‘in British ‘New Guinea Remains ' Unchanged ~~.

Trapped Japs Probe Yankee Lines   Enemy Attacks Repulsed in Southwest Pacific

FIVE JAPANESE SHIPS FIRED BY ALLIES   While Nipponese Attacks Are Repulsed in British New Guinea; Trapped Enemy Tries Break   Two Liberators Lost

JAP MERCHANT SHIP _ SUNK, 4 DAMAGED   Allied Ground Forces on New Guinea Repulse Probing Attacks of Enemy.

FIVE JAPANESE SHIPS ARE SUNK   attacks By Trapped Japs Forces At Aitape Are Repulsed

78th Congress Bows Out; Senate Okays State Department Nominations   By WILLIAM S. NEAL

END SESSION OF CONGRESS   SENATE CONFIRMS STATE DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS-— - SEVERAL SENATORS WILL  , NOF RETURN

“SILENT VOTE" MAY DETERMINE NEXT PRESIDENT   Willions Refuse To Tell How They Will Mark Ballots Nov. 7   S&LAIMED BY BOTH SIDES   New Dealers, Republicans Both Voice Confidence But = Entertain Fears

PRESIDENTIAL RAGE IS CLOSE IN FINAL: WEEK   “Uncertainty of Winner Is Due-to ahe Si ent Vota”

PRESIDENTIAL RAGE 1 CLOSE IN FINAL WEEK   Uncertainty of Winner Is Dve-to ‘‘the Li ent Vote”

ELECTION RAGE ENTERING HOME STRETCH   Huge “Silent Vote” Apparently Will Determine Outcome

Germans Retreat Towards  Reich on 170-Mile Front   Yank Tanks Lash Out Beyond Sens, 150 Miles From German Border: Allies Press Nazis Into Shrinking Seine River Trap

Allies Pursue Germans Along 170-Mile Front   American Tanks Lash Out for Kill 150 Miles From Border

BRICKER SPURNS SECOND PLACE   Counts On 257 Pledged Delegates On First Ballot

PENALTY OF DEATH IS RECOMMENDED   Lt. Swancutt Found Guilty ~ of Slaying Four — Persons

Swancutt Found Guilty of Murder   Military Court Recommends Death

OFFICER TO DIE FOR 4 KILLINGS   Courtmartial Sentences Lieutenant To Hanging For Pistol Foray

Swancull Gets Death Sentence For Killings   Board Finds Officer Guilty of Murder of Four Persons

TALK OF INVASION STRICTLY AVOIDED BY ALLIED LEADERS   Boys in Brass Shun All. Talk About Anticipated Cross ~ Channel Drive

“Brass Hats’  Won't Talk   Men Who Know Most About Invasion Never Even Mention the Word

ALLIED OFFICERS FEAR TO MENTION “INVASION”  Everybody Wary of Interpretation That Might Be Given to Remarks

GERMANS DROP EQUIPMENT IN THEIR FLIGH   Reds Bearing Down on Nazi Base  at Kherson, Sweeping in Another 210 Communities

[RUSSIANS CLAIM 60,000 NAZIS ‘SLAIN IN 8 DAYS INMASSIVE — DRIVE IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE   5,000 Germans Slaughtered Sunday As Soviets Battle to Within 22 Miles of Important City in Dnieper River. 210 More Towns Freed

2 German Generals Ramoved   Trusted Nazis Are Given Command in Russia as Red Tide Roars, Forward   GERMAN DEFENSES . ARE CRUMBLING   Air Assault Continues and Hitler Passes Up. the German Heroes: Day.

Red Advance Only 30 Miles  From Nikolaey      Soviet Ferces Push Toward Major Southern Russian  4 SY pee ©-o5) ray   TARNOPOL FIGHT GRIM

60, 000 Nazis Slain in 8 - Day Drive in South  By Russ Army   Soviets Capture Town on Bug River, 50 Miles  from Rumania

Reds Capture German Base  At Kherson   Vital Base Up River From Black Sea; 60,000 Nazis Slain

MOSCOW CLAIMS  MORE THAN 60,000  KILLED IN 8 DAYS RUSSIANS SWEEP UP 210 MORE VILLAGES  a — = = =. 

   Engulf Big German Base In S. Russia   Seizure Of Vital Port Opens Path Toward Nikolaev And Odessa.

SEAPORT BASE   Kherson on Lower Dnieper River, fs Short Way From Black Sea. é   REPRESENTS GOOD GAIN

City’s Fall To Red Army Is Announced   Earlier Reports Had Placed Red Troops 22 Miles From City; Move On Nikolaev

Opens Way For Drive fo West   Big River and Seaport Base Near Mouth of Dnieper River Valuable Prize

Red Paper Also Says Ger« man Ranks Becoming Disorganized in Black Sea Zone, With Russians Near Coast.

Reds Take Base In 22 Mile Drive   Reds Capture 210 Communities On Way To Rumania

IMPORTANT GERMAN  BASE ON DNIEPER  RIVER IS OVERRUN ONWARD SWEEP OF RED  ARMIES CONTINUED UNCHECKED MONDAY

BULGAR PREMIER READY FOR PEACE   CALLS ON PEOPLE TO HAVE PATIENCE — SAYS CHAOS EXISTS IN COUNTRY.

Mexican Airmen May Enter Fight   Camacho ‘Ready Ta Set Date’ Now

Veteran Of 16 Missions Is Killed In Road Crash   M 8gt. Frank Beroes Of Courtney Was Riding Back To Camp When Killed

150 Bombers Hit Nazis in France  Robot Dumps. Rail      Robot  Dumps, Rail Yards Are Taraets

Coordinated Allied Attacks on Germany's Dwindling Oil Supply   1,000 Allied Warplanes' Hammer Nazi Targets In Germany

U.S. Bombers Hit French Rail Network   Daslight Raids Follow R.AF. Attack on Nazi Oil Supplies

Supply Centers F or Robot Bombs Given Blasting   Marshalling Yards of Railways In France  Also Hit By Bombers

TOWN CHANGES HANDS TWICE IN 12 HOURS   Barrage Reduces Town To Pile  OF Broken Stones

Village Changes Hands   Americans Are Driven Out, But Surge in Again

OTH BLOCKS 4 NAZI ASSAULTS ON BEACHHEAD   House - To - House Battle Rages In Streets Of Cassino

Daily Temperatures   By UNITED PRESS   Americans Driven Out of Cassino This Morning, Storm Back Into Town; Battle Nazis in Streets

VILLAGE CHANGES HANDS TWICE IN 12-HOUR FIGHTING   Fifth Army Troops Smash Four Heavy German As~ -saults Against Beachheads South of Rome.   ENEMY REINFORCED BY TROOPS, ARMOR UNITS   ‘Strong Formation of Ameri- ¢an Bombers, Fighters Raid Western Germany  Second Straight Day.

Burma Jungle Baftle Nears Crucial Stage   Jap Troops Threaten Allied Supply Line In  Latest Move

WAR IN JUNGLES OF BURMA APPROACHING SHOWDOWN STAGE  - JAPANESE AND: ALLIES” BOTH PRESSING SEP-

Fighting in Burma Nears: Showdown   “allied: ‘and’ Japanese _ Forces Are Pressing Separnte Offencivac

Burma Drives Aim At Supply Lines  eS   Japs Renew Thrust Toward Imphal

SHOWDOWN IN ‘BURMA. NEARS   Japs Push Toward Im phal; Allies Tighen Pinch On Myitkyima

Burma Campaign Nears Showdown  Allies and Japs Press Mietecaninad Tistwes

NIP THREAT TO IMPHAL IS REVIVED   @apanese Are Taking Beating On Other Pacific Fronts

3 Allied  Forces in Squeeze   Japs Renew Imphal Threat in Separate Border Offensive

War in Burma  Vor Supplies     Nears Crisis   laps Revive Threat To Lnphal—Allies  Tighten Trap Near Enemy Stronghold

BURMA WAR NEAR SHOWDOWN IN JUNGLE ACTIONS    Japs and Allies Press Determined Attacks Toward Supply Facilities

Burma Jungle War Near Showdown   Japs Revive Threat to Imphal While Allied Forces Squeeze Trap In Myitkyina Sector

Stiowdown Nea In Burma, Rival Drives Pushed  ‘Thiee Allied Forces Thréaten To Trap ‘Japs: On Burma’ Road

SHOWDOWN IN BURMA JUNGLE WAR NEARING   Supply Facilities of Enemy Goals for Separate Offensives of Japanese and Allies   Rey ASSOCTATED PRESS   Put on Squeeze

~ =PACIFIC— cHOWDOWN NEARS TNBURMA GLASH   Both‘Allied And Japanese _ Forces in Determined * "Tieigas   NIPS-IN INDIA.   Threat To Imphal, 5 Miles Across, Frontier, Revived By Japs.

Japs Revive Land Drive into Imphal   War in [Pacific fic Clearer: Yanks. Simply Pasting Jap ° Bases with High Explosives .

FIERCE ATTACK NEAR IMPHAL IS CONTINUED   Battling in Ukhrul Area Place Japs 32 Miles From Kohima Approaching Another Spearhead   PACIFIC BASES BLASTED

Burma Action Draws Near ‘To Showdown   Japanese Attack Fiercely In Ukhrul Area Above  Threatened Lnphal,   RABALL BOMBARDED

JAPAN'S TROOPS RENEW ATTACK TOWARD IMPHAL   Allies Tighten Myitkyina Trap as Burma War Nears Showdown

Showdown Nears on Burma Front  Separate Offensives Are Being Pushed

Burma Jungles War Is — Heading To Showdown As Japs Are Advancing

BURMA JUNGLES WAR DRAWING NEAR SHOWDOWN   Fierce Fighting Reported Near Imphal Line

Japs, Allies Push Drives  In Burma   United Nations Forces Close In on Nip Base At Myitkyina While Japs Drive on Imphal

CIO Drops OfficersWho Led Strike   STEEL WORKERS- PUNISH PRO. MOTERS OF SHUTDOWN AT ROBERTSHAW THERMOSTAT PLANTS.   Also Five Others

oviets Race oward Rich ustrian Area   Motorized Units Also Racing Up West Bank Of Danube Toward Budapest

Russians Race Closer to Rich Styria   Berlin Admits Tragic’ Break-Through By Soviet Forces

Russians In Break On 110 Mile Front  Speed Up Right I>. J5¥Ygrt.frrTrr ¥   Speed Up Right Bank Of Danube Nearer Budapest

-AKE BALATON: CUT RAIL LINE   Troops Also Register Gains In Czechoslovakia

eRUSSIANS CRUSH THROUGH LINES   @led Forces Within 47 Miles Of Budapest—Austrion Province Menaced

Russians Race Toward Hungar Capita   3rd Ukraine Army Scores Record 21-Mile Advance

SOVIET TROOPS SPEED TOWARD RICH PROVINCE   Attack From South Is Within 47 Miles of Imperilled Capital

Reds In Big Breakthrough   Troops Speed Toward Styria, Up Danube, Berlin Says Breach ‘Almost Tragic’

REDS SCORE GREAT BREAK-THROUGH IN WESTERN HUNGARY   Smash Nazi Lines on 100-Mile Front and Race Toward ' Budapest and Austrian Province.   OVERRUN 300 TOWNS “ SOUTH OF CAPITAL   Nital Strongholds Captured in\ Lightning Sweep—Ber: fn Describes Gains > \ ag “Tragic.”

SOVIETS NEAR -AKE BALATON; CUT RAIL LINE   Troops Also Register Gains In Czechoslovakia

Russians Make Break-Through In West Hungar   Motorized Units Are Within 74 Miles of Austria

Reds Break Nazi Lines  In Hungary   Germans Admit Situation “Tragic” As Soviets Advance

Other Red Army Forces Push 30 Miles Up Right Bank of Danube Within 47 Miles of Budapest

Red Armies Surge Along Blue Danube   Move Toward Rich Styrian Province of Austrian Country

Russ Army Breaks Line In Hungary   Onrushing Troops 47 Miles From Budapest With 300 Towns Taker

‘Russ Tide Surges: Toward Budapest   Berlin Radio Terms. Smash Ry Soviets ‘Tragic’ 

Soviets Race 46 Miles in Single Day   Are Within 46 Miles of Sevastopol, Red's ‘Sacred Goal’

ENTIRE KERCH PENINSULA 5 FREE OF AXIS   ENEMY IN SWIFT FLIGHT TOWARD SEVASTOPOL

Axis Forces Drawing Back To Sevastopol   Other Red Army Units Make Progress in Mainland Fighting

Red Army Races 46 Miles in Day Toward Big Naval Base  KERCH-PENINSULA CLEARED OF ENEMY.  Nazi Forces May Put Up Stiff Defense at Seyastopol

Loss Among Nazis Is Reported High   Speed Of Advance Indicates Germans Might Retreat To Sevastopol For Fine) Defense

Three Red Armies In Rapid Drive Through Crimea   Clear Enemy From Kerch Peninsula Soviets Announce

Russians Advance 46 Miles in Day On a Wide Front   Sevastopol Next Goal of Soviets

Clear Kerch Peuinsula of Enemy; Storms Tiraspol in Ukraine; Push Toward Romanian Oil Fields

RED ARMY 46 MILES FROM ‘SACRED GOAL   Of Three-Way Offensive To Liberate Peninsula; Germans and Romans  Fail to Stand   liberate 140 Towns

Raiders Hit Plane Plants in Reich; Meet Opposition   Yugoslavs Win Gradina; Germans Lose Nineteen  Planes, the Allies Ten

Reds Shatter Second Zone  Of Defense   One Column Advances To Within 46 Miles Of Sevastopol Bastion  OTHER DRIVES GAIN

ALL OF KERCH PENINSULA IS NOW LIBERATED   Soviet Forces Maintain Multiple Offensive; Crimean Defenses  Are Shattered

Reds Race 46 Miles In Da y Into Crimea   Thrust From East Clears Germans From All Kerch Peninsula; Ukraine City of Tiraspol Stormed by Advancing Soviets

Thrust From East Clears Nazis Out Of Kerch Peninsula; Soviets Also Storm Tiraspol in Ukraine

60 DEAD JAPS   18-YEAR-OLD MARINE FROM NORTH CAROLINA TAKES CARE ALL OF ‘EM

One American Made Big Deal   Talked German General Into Surrendering 20,000 Men Without ‘Token Battle

Yanks Abandon Eastern China Base at Kweilin   Japanese Advance: Threaten Structure Of U. S. Military Effort in Country   ‘Surrender of 20,000 Trapped Germans iWas Engineered by an Ohio Lieutenant

24-Year-Old Yankee Lieutenant Captures 20,000 Nazi Treops   Final German Forces in South France Give Up to Smooth American

20,000 Nazis Are Captured  ‘Young Officer Leads To Their Surrender

ARMY BOMBER FALLS IN ARKANSAS; 7 DEAD   Plane Catches Fire in Crash and Heat Prevents Woodsmen From Reaching Trapped Men.

Eniwetok Now Repair Base  Nimitz Congratulates Crew Of The Tennesse

Japanese Take Poundings in Philippines   General Landings Looked for in Near Future.

Weather is Factor Invasion Experts  Eye With Anxiety   ‘Storm On D-Day Would  Cost Thousands of Lives

Dry, Sunny Spring Helps   Puts Terrain of Western Europe in Good Condition For Invading Forces

Dry And Sunny Spring Helping Expect Good Weather Through Mav. lune

Best of Invasion Weather Will Last Two Months  Europe Experiencing Sunniect and

Dry, Sunny Spring Puts Western Europe In Good Condition for Invading Troops

WEATHER NOW IDEAL FOR BIG INVASION MOVE   Terrain Now In Perfect Shape For Armies

DRY AND. SUNNY SPRING AIDS INVASION PROSPECT  Terrain in Good Shape for Drive Of Allies into Western Europe

Lack Of Rain InEurope Aid For Invasion   Allied Treeps Would Vot Be Boqged Down

Good Weather For Invasior   Driest, Sunniest Spring Puts European Terrain In Good Condition.

Good Weather Expected To Continue Through June  Europe’s Ground In Fine Shape For The Invasion

Best of Invasion Weather Will Last Two Months   Europe Experiencing Sunniest and Driest of Springs

Pray for D-Day Weather Break   Driest and Sunniest . Spring in Years Has West ‘Europe in Shape For Allied Invasion

Assassin Kills Two Americans, Mexican Governo!   Mazatlan Carnival Suspended After Tragedy

WAR IS NEARER TO HOMELAND, JAPS WARNED   New Aerial Blows Fall As Tokyo Appeals For More Production

Tokyo Says War  Nearing Islands   Warn Japanese People To Increase Outputs ©

TOKYO PREPARING FOR MORE RAIDS   Warns Japanese People War Steadily Approaching The Homeland

Japs Told War Nearing Homeland   Allied Air Power Felt in New Blows

TOKYO WARNS JAPANESE WAR COMING ‘HOME'   Bombers Strike Blows From Kuriles To East Indies

3 Jap Islands Slugged Again By U.S. Airmen   American Fliers Continue Softening Up Job of Marshall Group for 22nd Straight Day; 73 Raids In  Two Months.

NIPPO ISLANDS TAKE POUNDING   ADMIRALTY BASES ROCK; 22 ENEMY PLANES BAGGED

YANKS KEEP UP RAIDS ON DAVAO   Three Coastal and One Cargo Ship Sunk as Hunt for Foe Continues

ALLOCATION IS MADE FOR THE BIG BEND PARK   $17,170 Appropriated For ‘Custodial Purposes’ The Coming Year.

OF TAVELOT  Antwerp Is Objective of Drive; Americans Counter-Attack

REACH TOWN OF STAVELOT   Antwerp Is Objective of Drive; Americans Counter-Attack

Former Beauty Contest Victor, Widowed Grandmoth> gp. Wine in East >

TAREE PERISH Ih CARSWELL BLAZE   Flames Destroy Clubhouse of Koppers Coal Company   WAR VET VICTIM   Dougas Crowder, John W. Bragg, George Washington Lowery Lose Lives

De Gaulle Here, Recognition Not To Be Discussed  Tew k: Oia cet Sx Pini   French Gaiueral To Get Royal Welcoms in — Washi..wion

Plan Royal Welcome To De Gaulle   QUESTION OF RECOGNIZING FRENCH NATIONAL COMMITTEE AS GOVERNMENT IS WRITTEN OFF, NEWSMEN SAY.   Outcome Momentous

Take New Actior on Kimmel, Short  Senate Group Favors Year's Postponement

Favor Extension Of Trial Period  Would Allow A Year For Filing Of Charges

Po AOKED TQ INVESTIGATE   Senate Committee Resolution Concerns Peart Harbor Military Debacle.

8th Army Meets Strong Foe South of Florence   British Prepare for Final Assault on Ancient City

LIFE SOES:ON IN FLORENCE DESPITE BATTLE   Alli? Patrols Cross Arno in Advance of Impending Fight

BRITISH FACE STRONG GERMAN LINES IN ITALY   Nazis Fight Desperately Against Being Pushed Back On Southern Bank Of Arno River.

YANKEE TROGPS FIGHT GERMANS ON ARNG BANKS      British Prepare For Final Assault Against Old City Of Florence ¢

FIGHT RAGES SOUTHEAST OF FLORENCE   British Prepare For Final Assault On Ancient City

Allies Locked In Fierce Battle   Nazi Positions ‘On Arno River Strong

VIOLENT BATTLE NEAR FLORENCE   Nazis Fight Hard At Edge of  Arno River

100,000 REFUGEES IN FLORENCE CARRY ON BUSINESS AS USUAL   Ignore Battle Threat As British Prepare For Assault

British. Nazis Fight Savagely Near F bali   Kighth Army Preparing For Final Assault Against City

Furious Battle On at Florence   Germans Defending City Put Up Desperate Kesistance Against British Forces

FURIOUS BATTLE NEAR FLORENCE   British Prepare For Final Assault On Ancient City

CHINESE CHASE JAPS 40 MILES   U. S. Airforce Blows Up And Abandons Field Menaced By Enemy

JAP POSITIONS HIT AT ARAWE   Allied Bombers Keep Up Their Hammering Of Enemy Bases

American Forces Open New Drive In Arawe Area  Japanese Destroyer, Two Other Vessels Bombed in Raid

YANKS ATTACK IN ARAWE AREA   Advance Under Support of Artillery; Jap Bases Heavily Bombed

YANKS ATTACK FOES: BEYOND THE PENINSULA   Strong Air Support Evident Along weat

HOLD ARAWE: AIR SUPPORT   Rain Bombs On Cape ‘St. George And Rabaul, Jhpanese Stronghold; Attempt To Evacuate Madang.   Bomb Formosa

Yanks Drive ‘For Leghorn; ~ Peril Arezzo   French Troops Fan Oui Above Siena as Nazi Resistance Stiffens

NAZI ATTACK AGAINST REDS SIGNIFICANT   Balkans Are Seen Headed Toward Giant Eruption

HITLER ATTACHES MUCH IMPORTANCE T0 BALKANS WITH BIG ATTACK ON FRONT AS INDICATION OF NAZI DETERMINATION

The War Today-—— . ‘Hitler’s New Offensive In Russia Shows Concern O ver Balkan States

WAR TODAY   German Attack On East Front In Roma nia Seen As Move To Forestall Russian Of.  fonsive

ROOSEVELT COY ON FOURTH TERM    Ducks Reporters’ Question:  Regarding His Possible Candidacy

FOURTH TERMER QUERIES EVADED   Roosevelt Ridicules Old Story That Elections Will Be Put Off

PRESIDENT EVADES _ CANDIDACY QUERY   Roosevelt Resorts to Old Story in Answer to 4th  Term Ouestion

President Roosevelt Says There's No News — ‘In The Matter Of A Fourth Term Nomination

 Gov. Ford Declares  Montana’s  Fu ture Is Bright   Tells Meeting on Use of State’s Natural Resources We Must “Have Vision and Courage to Make Use of Opportunities’

Governor Ford Views Bright Future If Resources Are Used   Chief Executive Says Vision, Courage Will Bring Montana Opportunities, in Address Before Kalispell Conference

Japanese Warned Of Trouble Ahead   Tokyo Now Admits Allies Are “A Worthy Enemy”

JAP ADVANCES IMPER IL POSSIBLE BASED IN CHIKA   Chinese M_litary Expert Warns of Hengyang Loss

PHINESE GENERAL DECLARES JAP DRIVE MAJOR PROBLEM   MILITAKY EXPERT SAYS HENG¥ANG OFFENSIVE MAY DIBRUPT STRATEGY OF  CHINA LANDINGS

AAP ADVANGES   i  INPERIL POSSIBLE  BASES IN CHINA:   Chinese Military> Expert Warns of Hengyange Loss °

‘ashington Roundup  WLB Upholds Management In Norge Case   Employer Granted Right to Discipline Striking Employes

House to Vote on Crop Insurance   Congress Labors on Important Legislation

FFI Tricked By Nazis; Allies Fighting Way Into Capital,  Savs Supreme Headquarters   Enemy Asked For Armistice, Then Failed To Keep It; Wanted To Move Retreating Army Through City: Help Is Sent

Allied Troops Fighting Way Into City, Part Of  Which Is Held By Resistance Groups

Allied Troops Fight for Paris  French Hold Only Part of the City

ROUEN IS NINE MILES DISTANT; LE HAVRE NEAR   _Canadian Across Estuary Of Seine Being Shelled From Port

Monetary Experts  Plan to Create  ‘Prosperity Fund’ Nine Billion Dollars  Designed to Aid In Trade Promotion

“Prosperity” Fund Urged For World   8 Billion Doliar Pool Proposed by Monetary Conferces

ALLIES ADOPT — PLAN FOR FIRM WORLD MONIES   U.S. To Contribute Most To Post-Victory ‘Prosperity’ Fund

Parley Agrees To Pool Fund Of 8 Billions   World Bank Plan Put Before Nations for Approval

eRe. “smentatcenmeeenemmenil DEMO HOUSE EDGE NOW ONLY NUMERICAL MARGIN

U.S. Bombers In New Attacks On  Fortress Europe   Bombing Continues Despite Heavy Losses Reported In Latest R. A. F. Attack   ESCORTING FORCE GOES WITH BOMBERS

8TH AIR FORCE PUSHES AERIAL RAIDS ON REICH   S. W. Germany and Invasior Coast, Targets in New Bomb Attack

BRITISH UNITS NEAR JUNCTION   Imperials Drive From Kohima, Imphal

Japs Fall Back  From Kohima.   British Troops Push  Ahead 14 Miles

U.S, Casualty List 453.375   Numbers 174,780 for Land Forces an Westert Frout Sinee ‘LD? Day

CASUALTIES SINCE D-DAY ARE 174,780   Air Force Casualties Are Nol Included in Figures

Casualties Mount In German Drive   200,349 Totalled From  Invasion To November 

WAR CASUALTY LIST REPORTED   War Dept. Announces Total Figure at 174,780 On Western Front

War Casualties of U.S. Now Total 453, le  eile hess osses   Army Losses Since D-Day Are 174.780

Casualties Since D-Day Are 174,780   29,842 Of These Have Been Killed, War Dept. Says

U.S, CASUALTIES REACH 174,780   29,842 Listed Killed From DDay Thru Oct. 3

GOVERNMENT GIVES CASUALTY FIGURES ‘OF WESTERN FRONT  LOSSES DO NOT INCLUDE THOSE OF THE AERIAL  NHERDADTUCAIT

Casualties on West Front Total 174,480 to Oct. 3  More Than 29,800 Yanks Killed to Date in Campaign

i. S, Lessee Sinee D-Day Total 174. 780   These Are Exclusive Of Air Force Casualties, Says War Department

U. S. Casualty List Climbs   Army Toll on West Front From June 6 to Oct. 3 Numbers 174,780

U.S. LOSSES ON WESTERN FRONT   CASUALTIES FROM D-DAY TO OCT, 3 ADD UP TO 174,780

GOVERNMENT GIVES CASUALTY FIGURES OF WESTERN FRONT  LOSSES DO NOT FiCLUDI THOSE OF THE AERIAL DEPARTMENT

U. 5. CASUALTIES STAND AT 453,379   All Theaters Include d Through October 6th 33,602 Increase

Army Casualties  Total 174,780   Release Includes From  D Day Until October 3

1 Months Work for American Factories After Hitler Seen in Needs of Europe

WILL KEEP U. S, MILLS RUNNING   Relief Demands Of WarTorn Countries Will Guarantee Factories Twelve Months Oneration.

Allied Factories Seen Busy Year  On Relief Good:   Allocation Of Supplies For  European Consumption Already Made By Group

Relief Demands Keep Factories  Busy After War   UNRRA Announces Supplies Needed

ATTACK FARMER DRAFT CHANGES   Farm Groups File Protest As Hearings Are Opened

Roosevelt Member Of 1000 Club   ADMITS HIS SUGGESTION MAY HAVE STARTED PROPOSAL ON WHICH ARKANSAS NEW DEALERS ACTED.   Some Republicans In It

President Adds Thursday Nigh!  Radio Speech   ‘One Thousand Club’ May Have Stemmed from His Suggestion. He Says

FDR Admits Suggesting Thousand Clul   Idea Was Scaled Down From $100,000, He Chuckles: On Networks Thursday, Saturday

FB. RTO MAKE, NEW ENGLAND TOUR   ADMITS ‘ONE THOUSAND CLUB’ MAY HAVE STEMMED FROM ' “HIS SUGGESTIONS.

FDR Tells Origin Of Thousand Club   Admits Suggestion “May Have Started The Movement. s

SHARPSBURG MAN ~-BATALLY INJURED      Webster Zimmerman Be lieved Victim of HitRun Driver

WILL COLLECT WASTE PAPER   Salvage Collection Scheduled For Thursday

U. S. FLYERS DROPPED 63,000 TONS OF BOMBS IDESTROVED {.968 PLANES

U. S. Strategic Airforce Showers 63,000 Tons Of Bombs On Europe In May

Three Soviet Armies Drive For Warsaw   Big Battles Rage In New Push to Outflank Capital

S.F. Police Kill 17 Year Old Boy;  Three Arrested  Oakland Lad Deac After Wild Chase ©

Franco May Withdraw To Prevent War   Spanish Republicans Massing Along Border

ANTI-FRANCO FORCES SET FOR INVASION   Dictator May Restore Monarchy, Avoid Civil War

Nazis Pour Out Defense Stories   Scorched Earth,  Floods Promised By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

Nazis Propose ‘Scorched Earth’ For Invasion  Warns ‘Underground’ To Be Prepared

REP, SABATH SAYS PEARL HARBOR IS “POLITICAL BUNK”  WILL NOT CALL HIS COM. MITTEE TOGETHER FOR AN INOTIIRY NEMAND

Pearl Harbor Inquiry. Demands ‘Pure Bunk’ — Says Sabath: Refuses Aid

AAA Committee — Ready to Offer ~~ Corn Contracts   Shelling and Transportation Service Guaranteed Even After Freeze Order Lifted

Sub Building  Program Cut   Loss Of Fewer U-Boats. Need For Other Types Attribute To Reduction.

Orde 5 Cutback in Sub Construction  Need Greater for Other Types of Shin<

Navy Reports Drop in Need for Submarine Craft  War Progress, Lack Of Other Ships Are Reasons Given

Cutback Is Ordered In Sub Building Program Since Losses Less Than Expected

DUCTION IN SUB PROGRAM   Loss of Fewer Subs, Need For Other Ships, Weapons Is Cause.

DIG TO BEAT DROP   Growers Hope to Get Spuds Out of Ground Before Ceiling Lowers ..   BUILD FEWER SUBS   Losses Fewer Than Expected; Other:‘Equipment _. Urgently Needed

Sub Program Slashed; Navy Bares 8 Needs   Assault Ships And Tankers Among Items Which Will Receive Attention

Navy Cuts Submarine Building Program, Shifis to Other Types Ships, Weapons

NAVY REDUCES U-BOAT BUILDING   Need of Other Types of Ships, Weapons Reason

Navy-Reveals Cutback in Sub Program   Losses Under Figure Estimated: Need Other Ships

NAVY TO SLASH ‘SUB’ BUILDING   Fewer Submersibles Needed Since Losses Licht—Other Craft Required

DIG TO BEAT DROP   Growers Hope to Get Spuds Out of Ground Before  Ceiling Lowers _   BUILD FEWER SUBS   Losses Fewer Than Expected; Other Equipment Urgently Needed      VOTE TOMORROW

Navy Announces Cutback }n Submarine Building Program; Other Type Vessels Needed   Loss Of Fewer Subs Than Expected Also A Factor In Production Curb

Losses of U-Boats Have Been Lower Than Anticipated  Eight Other Types Ships and Weapons

Navy Plans  Cutback In  Sub Program Portsmouth Yard   Portsmouth Yard To Be Affected

NAVY REDUCES SUB PROGRAM   Cutback Attributed Ta Fewer Losses Than Expected

NavyCutsSub Output for Other Vessels   Undersea Construction to Taper Off, Over-All Ship Inerease Urgent   TANKERS NEEDED   Bombardment Shell Schedules ‘Barely Keeping Up’ to Fierce Gunfire

NAVY CURTAILS CONSTRUCTION OF SUBMARINES   Need for Least Right Other Types of Ships and Weapons Greater.’

U. 5. CUTS BACK SUB PRODUCTION   Navy Says ‘Submersible Losses Have Been Light: Other Ships Needed

CHINESE PUSH DRIVE TO MEET STILLWELI   Forces Near Tengchung North Of Burma Road

Italy May Pile Up Balances To Acquire Supplies  Civilian Goods Ta Roa Qnaaded

Italy Accumulates Dollar Balances  For Civilian Goods  Army Purchases, Gift: And Exports Are Aiding Beaten Nation

U.S. Permits Italy to Build Up Dollar Balances to Buy Needed Civilian Goods

ITALIAN KING AND BADOGLIO T0 BE-OUSTEL   Only Slow Military Progress Has Stayed Their  De act   BOMBING OF CASSINO DUE TO HASTEN FALL

ITALIAN CHIEFS FACE SHAKE-UP   Ousting Of Emanule And Badoglio Depends On Allied Success

Dies Committee Blasts Peace Nov  Claims Organization Is Clearly Seditious

“PEACE NOW” MOVE SEDITIOUS, DIES COMMITTEE CLAIMS   Gives Justice Department Evidence It Feels Seditious and Tends Toward Encouragement of Treacon

‘PEACE NOW" PLEA CALLED TREASON IN DIES’ REPORT   Justice Department {s Given Evidence That Movement is Seditious, Prosecution Being Urged.   CHAIRMAN 1S MEMBER OF HARVARD FACULTY   57 Prominent Religious Leaders Get Communications Asking Christians te Lay Down Arms.

DIES REPORT ON PEACE NOW MOVE,   PLANS TO RECOMMEND PROSECUTION UNDER THE SEDITION LAWS

‘Peace Now’ Is Seditious, Dies Reports   Committee Declares Letters Advocated Wholesale Treason

Dies Committee Pointing Finger At Peace Now Group In Report To Justice Unit

‘Peace Now Move  Seditious -- Dies      Solon Says Movement Encourages [Treason

Aussies Near Yank Linesin Huon Attack   Union of Forces Likely to Lead to All-Out Smast \-at Madang

Huon Peninsula Drive Nearing End   Australian and American Troops Expected to Meet in New Guinea

Victory Near on Huon   Aussies and Americans Near Contact in New Guinea; Japs May Have Abandoned Madang

G reat Allied Junction Near On New Guinea   Aussies Push Up Northeast Coast. Toward ~ Union With Yanks For Drive On. Madang — Japs Said Beaten, Withdrawals Indicated.

Aussies And Yanks May Join Soon, Ending Huon Battle After 5 Months

YANKS; AUSSI NEAR JUNCTION OF NEW GUINEA   Japs Are Reported To Have Abandoned Base At Madang

AUSSIES EXPECT 10 CONTACT AMERICAN TROOPS SHORTLY   Pushing Up the New Guinea Coast, Australians Only 7 Miles From U. 8S. Troops.   END HUON CAMPAIGN?   Elements of the American 2°nd Division Are 15 Miles Below Saidor.

Japs May Have Left Madang   Aussies, Yanks Seven Miles Apart; Japs Die Of Starvation, Disease

HUON CAMPAIGN IS NEARING END   Australians Pushing Up Coast Soon Will Contact Americans

JAPS ABANDON MADANG BASE   Enemy Reported To Have Left Coastal Headquarters As Allies Near

AUSSIES SCORE IN NEW GUINEA   Huon Peninsula Campaign  Near End—'‘Jap Is Thoroughly Beaten’

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS EXPECTED CONTACT AMERICANS SOON  WILL VIRTUALLY END HUON PENINSULA CAM. PAICN ON NEW GUINEA

Allied Drive on Madang in Prospect Soon   5-Month . Campaign On Huon Peninsula Now: Virtually Ended   YANKS AND: AUSSIES ONLY 7°MILES APARI   Meanwhile, Evidence. Ap: pears Enemy Already Has. Abandoned .Madang .” ~

Aussies Near  U. S. Contact   Madang Is Claimed Deserted By Nippon

Aussies Expected To Meet Yanks  On New Guinea Contact Wound End Five Months’ Fight ‘For Huon: Peninsula

Yanks Slash At Remnants Of Nazi Army   Germans Are Pinched In Triangle Formed By River Junction.

YANKS FLANK NAZI FORCE AT RHONE   Fierce Battle Rages North Of Montelimar

Americans Pinch Nazi 19th Army In Rhone Valley   Nazis Retake Briancon With Troops Moved In From Italy

Nanks Slash “German Army ‘nS. France   Battle Rages at Conflux of Rhone  - And Drome Rivers

ATTEMPT MADE T0 PREVENT ENEMY’S CROSSING RIVER   Nazis Pinched Into Triangle Formed by Two Streams, Put Up Fieree Ficht

Rhone Nazis Fight Fiercely To Balk Trap   Severe Battle Rages At Confluence of Rhone, Drome River:

SLASH NAZIS IN FIERCE FIGHT IN RHONE VALLEY   Allies Attempt To Cut Off German Retreat Across Drome

DRIVEIN SOUTH FRANCE BY YANKS 1§ MOVING AHEAD   Germans Pinched Into Triangle of Rhone and Drome Rivers As Yanks Move North.

Americans Slashing At Remnants Of 19th Army   Crack Nazi Parachutists Dislodged In Italian Drive

GERMANS ARE PINCHED INTO TRIAMGLE   Number of Enemy Prisoners in South France is 45.000

FIERCE BATTLE RAGING NOW IN SOUTH FRANGE   American Troops Slash At Straggling Remnants Of German 19th

Attempt To Cut Off Enemy Trying To Flee North Across Drome   MANY CASUALTIES FOR BOTH SIDES   Germans Losing Equipment And Many Men In Desperate Fight

YANKS SLASH FOE GROSSING ~ ON PONTOON:   Heavy Fighting Reported “Near Loriol Near Apex of Pinch Triangle.

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES ALONG DROME RIVER   Germans Cross Over From Italy and Capture Town and Americans Are Driving Them Again.

HARD BATTLE WHERE FRENCE RIVERS MEET   Junction of Rhone and Drome - Scene of Action

Fierce Battle Rages On Rhone  Drome Rivers   Allied Troops Attempt To Cut Enemy Units Heading Northward

Bialystok Is Evacuated By German Forces   Heavy Fighting Continues, Berlin Says; Russians Storm Across Wisla River

SOVIETS PUSH 53 MILES INTO PRIPET MARSH   Advance Almost Without Opposition in White Russia; Threaten Nazi Rail Center Near Lenincrad.

RED ARMIES ADVANCE ON TWO FRONTS   Menace Railroad Junctions Near Leningrad

REDS FORGE AHEAD IN 3 KEY AREAS   Anchors Ripped From Nazi Line Southeast Of Leningrad

REDS CLOSING IN ON GATEWAY TO ESTONIA   Nearing Krasnogvardeisk; Sweep Inte Heart Of Marshes

Attacks Rip Out Anchors Of Nazi Lines  ‘Approach h Last 30 Mile:  of Main Railroad Held - by Germans  ADVANCE AT AT WILI  New Soviet Beac Beachhead Is « Reported in Crimean Peninsula

Plunging 15 Miles, ‘Reds Close in On Gateway to Estonia   White Russia Army Rolls Forward Through Heart of Pripet Marshes; Cavalry Units Slay 300 With Sabers

RUSSIAN ARMIES ADVANGE 15 MILES ‘BEVOND VOLKHW   Reds. Smash Through LongPrepared Defenses,. Overrun Many. Places In-. Advance Toward Railroad.   NEW THRUST AGAINST JAPS NOW IMMINENT   Australians Break Long Lull In Opening Phase of An Assault on Crumbling Jap New Guinea Army.

Strategic Road Junctions Taken By Rokossevsky   Pravda Expresses Confidence of Red Hich Command

Red Armies Closing in on Gateway to Estonia   Russians Drive Nearly 15 Miles Beyond Volkhov River in Frontal Assault

Japs Hurled Back At Chinese Base   Hengyang’s Defenders Regain Strongpoints

No Resumption Of Distilling Whiskey Seen   No Encouragement For “Holiday” Hopes Of Senate Group

WHISKY MAKING CAN'T START FOR SOME TIME YET   President Asks $800,000,000 For U. S. Participation in United Nations Relief

Nelson Says No Whisky To Be Made   No Prospects Seen By Production Chief This Spring

No Prospects Of Whisky Making  Resumption Soon   WPE Chief Sees. No “Holiday” From Industrial Alcohol Making.

Little Prospect For Distillers To Make Whiskey   War Production Board Head Sees Delay of Months

N elson Says No Prospect For Whiskey Distilling For Three or Four Months

Dewey Wins Ohio As Democrats Elect Lieutenant Governor. Auditor:  Weygandt In; Taft Lead Holds

Lausche Elected Governor Although He Carried Only 18 of Ohio's 88 Counties

108,436 EDGE FOR LAUSCHE   Returns On Governor Complete: Taft Beats Pickrel by 12,947

Cleveland Vote Wins for Lausche   Stewart Carries 70 of Ohio's 88 Counties but Loses by 107,000

BiG CLEVELAND VOTE ELECTS FRANK LAUSCHE   Stewart Carries 70 of 88 Ohic Counties But Fails  to Win

AIM STATE AOS 10.3 GROUPS   Advertising Program Which Would Sell Industrial Workers Is Advocated

PLAN TO ‘SELL MICHIGAN’ 10 ITS RESIDENTS   State’s Recreational Ad. vantages to be Told To Workers

TWO ANAMOSA CONVICTS FLEE   Escape in Darkness While On Milking Detail

TWO CONVICTS FLEE ANAMIOSA PRISON DAIRY   Third Escape in Five Weeks Takes Place Thursday Night; No Trace,

Third Break At Anamosa  Last Night   Two Prisoners Dash Into  Darkness Before Guard Can Fire at Them

Anyway, State Had No Snow   Get Rain, Dust, One Small Twister, Hail in Variegated Weather Saturday

RAINS DAMAGE STATE WHEAT   Weatherman Promises An End To Showers Today; Woodward Soaked

FRENCH LINER NORMANDIE BECOMES WHITE ELPHANT   Navy Finds No One Who Wants One-Time Famous Luxury Craft

Leaders Urge Five Stars for Generals   LEGISLATION FOR NEW RANKING FOR ARMY, NAVY HEADS PROPOSED

5-Star Generals To Be Named By Act of Congress   Measure Placed On Top of List Of Legislation

i STAR GENERALS MAY BE CREATED   Title of ‘General of the Army’ and ‘Admiral of the Fleet’ Expected

Five-Star Rank For Oificers Sought in Bill   Law Would Create ‘Super Rank’ for Generals Admirals

‘ongress Puts 5 Star Chiefs Bill Up Front   resident Roosevelt Would Like To See It Enacted Saye Ravburn.   PINIONS DIFFER

War Chiefs To Get Five Star:   Legislation Creating  ‘Genevals and: Admirals: Given. Top Ranking by Congress

TWO COLUMNS THRUST INLAND BELOW CAPITAL   Germans Rush Troops And Supplies From North Italy

BATTLE SPREADS. AGAINST 90,000 I INVASION ARMY   Gen. Clark’s Forces Drive Inland. In Two Columns-as British Reach Outskirts of Campo Leone. :   REDS DECLARE SPAIN - IS HELPING GERMANY   Russians In Sight of Estonia With Germans Fleeing to Peatbogs, Forests To Be Annihilated.

Allies 15 Air Miles Of Rome   Germans Hurled Back After 48 Hours Fighting

Nazis Make Main Stand At Railroad   90,000 Allied Troops Push Inlan In Two Columns

Nazis Rush Armor To Stov Offensive   Whole Italian Line Breaks Into Fierce Fighting— Cascing Bene ” Abandoned

Crash Into Main Nazi  Defenses   GERMANS POUR MEN AND ARM DOWN FROM NORTH TO BATTL 90,000 ALLIED TROOPS .

54 PLANES DESTROYED ON NEW BRITAIN   In Most Recent Raid Bringing Total For Week Up To 130; Vessel And Freighters Wit.   Hit Hong Kong

54 Jap Planes Downed in New  Rabaul Attack  in Enemy Rapa iamaecan Se + Abire   Six Enemy Ships Damaged, Set Afire By Allied Bombs

Poles Advance on West Italy Coast   Yanks Drop Out of Official Reports

Yankees Drive Ahead on Saipar   Advances Continue On Disputed Island

Yanks Batter Way Up Slopes In Savage Terrain on Saipan   TAKE LAST BIG GUNS IN NORTH BURMA

Yanks Take 2 Saipan Towns   Troops Cut Through Jungles; Meet Slight Resistance From Japs

Guam Attacked {2th Day in Row   Jap Naval Base and Rota Heavily Bombed

Two Detroit  Strikes End   Chrysler, Chevrolet Employes Returning

CHRYSLER CORP. PLANT IS BACK IN PRODUCTION   Strikers Decide to Work Again, Chevrolet Dispute Virtually Settled

TWO DETROIT STRIKES ENDED   Parke. Davis And Bakery Workers Still Out

Auto Workers To End Strike In Detroit Area   Chrysler Plant To Be Reopened; Warning Heeded

Quick Conquest Of All Brittany Now Expected; GermanResistance Weak

Second Ukraine Army Captures Fifty Villages   Thousands of Nazi Soldiers Killed

Soviet Radio Sounds Call, Adds Threat   Second Army Drives 13 Miles into Country Captures 50 Villages  183.310 NAZIS DIE

Thousands of Nazis Re: ported Dead on Ukraine. Front :      MANY ENCIRCLED-BY— RUSSIAN ADVANCES   Forces Strike to Within Nine Miles of Center” of lac

[Russians Pour Into Rumania, Vital  (Rail Hub Threatened   Enemy Lines on 450-Mile Front Said Crumbling Before Onslaught: German Losses in Ukraine Are Hich

BRITISH INVASION COMMANDER ‘ALSO HINTS TIME NEAR   Speeches Made Yesterday But Only Revealed Today.

Price Deplores ‘‘Sub-Standard” Wage Paid to Average Teacher in Kansas

AVIATION AVIATION COMPANIES PLACE $50,000,000 PLANE ORDER   FOUR-ENGINE SUPER AIRLINES TO BE BUILT FOR POSTWAR. COMMERCIAL LINES 

WRIGHT FOREMEN ANSWER WLB CALL   Five Plants Making B-29 Engines Idle; Supervisors Union Claims Downarading

Workers To Go Back To B-29 Engine Making   WLEB Chairman Tells Supervisors Work Must Be Resumed Thursday Morning

Union Agrees To End Wright Plant Strike   Resume Production O Motors Tomorrow: Action Taken Under Proddina By WLR

WRIGHT WALKOUT TOEND THURSDAY   Workers Agree To Call Off Strike After Washington Parley

Union Leader: Agree to Go Back on Job   Wright Workers Convinced By WLE to Work

WRIGHT PLANT STRIKE ENDED   Union Orders Supervisors Back to Work On Sup erfort Engines

Labor Heads Answer Call   Leaders, Summoned ‘Tv. Aircraft’ Strike

To Return fo Jobs in - War Plants   Independent Union. Will Call Off Strike in Five New Jersey Plants   PRODDED BY WAR LABOR BOARD   Plants Produce Engines for B-29.- Superfortress Bombers

Wright Aircraft Union Heads Are Before WLB Pane’   Five Plants Halted In Production Of B-29 Motors

Five Plants To Resume Production   Supervisory Employes At Wright Aircraft Plants Accept Order Issued By WLB

STRIKERS PLAN WORK THURSDAY   Labor Officials Will Urge Men Back to B-29 Engine Plants

Engine Bomber Plant Strikes Are Called Off   Officers of Supervisors Union Agree -to End Walkout After Being Prodded hy WLB

AGREE TO CALL OFF B:29 STRIKE   SUPERVISORS OF FIVE WRIGHT PLANTS HEED LABOR BOARD ORDER

BOARD ORDERS STRIKE TO END   B-29 Engine_Makers Agree To Call Off Strike at Five Plants.   39.000 WORKERS IDLE

Dene ie  “AWE Letin (oa ae RAF   ‘Oklahoma Governor Will Deliver Main . Talk at:Convention

KERR T0 DELIVER KEYNOTE SPEECH   OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR CHOSEN TO SOUND BATTLE CRY OF DEMOS EN CHICAGO,

Kerr Named as Demo Keynoter   Oklahoma Governor Will Deliver Main Talk at Convention

FDR Reveals Plans for Postwar Organization to Maintain Peace   Kerr Chosen Keynoter for National Demo Convention

Satellite Stampede To Quit War Is Seen As Nazis Hint Fear Of Revolt Inside Reich

Axis Satellites Tr emble As  ~ Romania Joins With Allies   Bulgaria and Finland Move for Peace as Hungary Dis solves Political Parties—Naxis Fear Re-  - valt-Incide the Reich.

Hitler’s Satellite Nations Appear to Beon Verge of Stampeding to Allies

Old Projects Get Post-War Priority   Reclamation Chief  Outlines His Policy

Priorities for Uncompleted Projects Urged  Commissioner of  Reclamation Penraccac Viaure

Salida Rotary Offers $100 for Anyone Killing Hitler by September 10

Plane Factory Changes Planned   Future Production Under Consideration

Marine Flyers Damage Two Enemy Vessels   Jap Barges, Trucks Are Destroyed by Corsair Raiders

Red Forces Are Nearing Sevastopol   Lend Support to Russian Armies in Their Invasion of Rumania

Soviets Reported Only Ten Miles  From Sevastopol   4th Army Advances 53 Mi., Liberates 507 Towns

DESCRIBE 250-SQUARE Mit AS ‘DEATH POCKET’; 31,00 PRISONER; AS MANY MOR’

Lightning Advance By Russians Nets 31,000 Prisoners.   Germans Surrender En Masse After Soviets Balk Escape: Sevastonol’s Fall Imminent

LOADED ESCAPE SHIPS ARE SUNK IN BLACK SEA   London Says Reds tO Miles from City—Oeath Toll Already High.

bermans ant Romanians i in Russian Trap.   Red Navy and-Air => Force Blocks Escape: Over Black Sea

With Ernie Pyle at the Front Ordnance Keeps Army in . Trim by Repairing Parts **  ’ LST Personnel From All Parts of . Country Prove They Can Take It  Bee Weani. W.-T. ee

With Ernie ryte at ine front  Ordnance Keeps Army in  Trim by Repairing Parts LST Personnel From All Paris of Country Prove They Can Take It

POWERFUL FOE FORCES POUND AT BEACHHEAD   Bitter Battle Continues In Streets of _ Cassino

Allies Shorten Line in Italy   Bridgehead Generally Held Despite Fierce Attacks by Germans

British Lose Two Miles Below Rome   Bitter Fight Continues Inside Cassino: ‘Himmler’: Own” Shock Troops Sent to Italian Front

Yanks, British Shorten Lines In Rome Sector   Heaviest German Assault Reported

FIFTH ARMY FORCED TO “ADJUST POSITION” BELOW ROME; HOLDING FIRM NORTH OF CARROCETO. °

Cassino Reported ©  Cireled by Allies      (Elite German SS ‘Troops Envaved in Assault

oth Army Has ‘Adjusted’  Its Positions   Reports Indicate Cassino Is Virtually Encircled

British Lines ‘Shortened’ Below Rome   Savage Counter-Blows Continued by Germans At Anzio and Cassino  POUR IN MORE MEN

Strong nazi force thrown into fighting   ‘Himmler’s own’ hit bridgehead

Germans Attack New Bridgehead With Big Force   Claim Allies Set Back Ir Growing Battle Near Eternal City

Copenhagen ‘Inan Uproar, Reports Say   Danes Demand Ouster of Schalburg Corps; Troop Train Derailed

Riots Reported In Copenhagen   Danes Are Demanding Withdrawal Of Nazi Troops From Capital

Say Copenhagen “Tn An Uproar”   Demand Nazis Lift State of Emergency

REPORT GERMANS BOLSTERING THEIR DEFENSE IN DENMARK   STOCKHOLM HEARS MORE TROOPS SHIFTED TO JUTLAND AND DANES UNDER STRICTER RULE

‘STAUNCH TROOPS AND  AIR POWER BEAT DOWN SECOND MAJOR DRIVE  ALLIED ARTILLERY POUR THOUSANDS OF SHELLS

Fifth Beats Off Second Nazi Thrust   Intense —Six-Hour Shelling Paves Way for American Troops to Dig Out Germans   Associated Press War Editor) (By RICHARD MceMTIRRAYV

Repulse Second Big Nazi Drive   Allies Make Supreme Bid at Cassino—Reds Deal Biggest Blow

LATEST NAZI WITHDRAWAL MAY PRESAGE GENERAL RETREAT OF INVADERS FROM NORTH RUSSIA   Stalin Announces 52,000 Germans Killed in One Place, 21,900 in Another and 11,000 Prisoners Taken from Ten Trapped Divisions Beside Much  Rootv

Beat Back Nazi Attack   Rome Beachhead Firmly in Allied Hands; 1,000 Yanks Lost At Sea

Second Major Attack Fails  In Beachhead   Hundreds Guns Pound  Cassino On Main Front

Bulgars call  on soviet for  an armistice Red armies near Yugoslav border

MOSCOW ASKED FOR ARMISTICE BY BULGARIANS   Appeal for Truce Issued Few - Hours After Russia De  clares War and At  tacks Balkan State.   REDS CRACK NAREW RIVER LINE IN POLANLI   Launch Big Offensive to ByPass Warsaw—Other Colums Speed Toward Yugoslavia.

JAPS ATTACK BRITISH AT IMPHAL LINE   Four Columns Drive For Key Supply Center

Indian Campaign Battle Rages  Pressure Increased by Enemy Forces

JAPANESE RAID UL SeHELD ISLES   STRIKE AT SAIPAN AND TINIAN IN MARIANAS--3 PLANES ’ SHOT DOWN.

JAP PLANES RAID SAIPAN AND TIRIAN   Without Inflicting Damage Or Casualties Three Shot Down By Anti-Air opa tt   Neutralizing Raids

BRICKER DEMANDS FDR TELL OF PLANS   Military Leaders Should Run War, He Says

Heavy Bombers Blast Formosa   Takao Harbor Damaged In U. S. Air Assault Jap Freighters Sunk

Stalin's Attitude Encourages Hope  Of World Peace   Red Premier, Churchill Invite Rival Polish Groups to Conference

STALIN PLANS SHOWDOWN ON POLE PROBLEM   Friendship Note Set in Talks With Churchill

Book parley between rival  Polish chiefs  Stalin, Churchill  cet dicnnte stave

Optimism Felt As Result of Moseow Talks   Conference to End Dispute Concerning  Poland Planned

STALIN SETS KEYNOTE FOR PEACE PLANS      Premier Marshal Calls for Future Allied Collaboration

Rival Polish Leaders to Confer Again   Stalin. Churchill Arrange for Shawdown Meet

Meeting of Rival Poles Is Arranged   Conference At Moscow  _ Progresses in Air  : Of Friendship, Co-operation

Stalin, Churchill Arrange Showdown Conference of Two Rival Polish Groups   President Roosevelt Declares Poland Must Be ‘“‘Reconstituted as a Great Nation;’’ Says  World Opinion Backs Idea

Rival Polish Factions Due  To Confer   Meeting Is Arranged By Churchill, Stalin, Moscow: Radio Says  E.D.R. TELLS: AIMS

Amity Marks  Moscow Talks   Anglo-Russian Discussions a] Bearine Fruit

POLISH LEADERS TO CONFER AT KREMLIN   Rival Factions Will Get Together With Stalin And Churchill In Attempt To Settle Bisout.

STAGEIS SET TO PATCH UP POLISH RIFTS   STALIN, CHURCHILL CALL LEADERS TO MOSCOW

Yanks Pushing Ahead   Town After Town Falls to Patton's Veteran Troops

3-Mile Overnight Gain Threatens to Unhinge Nazi Line on South   Town After Town in Chain of Nazi Defenses  Covering Fortress Falls to the Americans

Smash Ahead Three Miles To Take German Stronghold Of Chateau Salins   POINTS BELOW METZ ARE CAPTURED   Town After Town In Chain Of German Defenses Taken By Yanks

GAIN STEADILY, DRIVE ON EACH SIDE OF METZ   Nine Towns Overrun In 3 - Mile Advance Overnight

strong Points Seized   Chateau Salins Falls To Third Army Attack

Ad Least Nine Nazi Bastions  Kall To Yanks   Three-Mile Overnight Advance Threatens Lines In Seille Valley.

ERVICE F HRS, JAQUITEH   Was Former Head Hostess at Colonial Inn, Many Years

COMMITTAL — SERVICE FOR MRS. JAQUITH   Was Former Head Hostess at —_ Inn, oy?

T DIES OF BULLET WOUND   ‘Mexican, Who Fired on Camacho, Despite Attention

Atlantic Wall Said Wars Biaagest Blutt   Prisoners Declare Task Of Building Coast Defenses Too Vast: Realize Their Cause Is Up

West Wall Biggest Bluff Of 'War---Doesn’t Exist, Writer With Invasion Forces Says   Captives Say Nazis Tried Frantically To Complete Defenses—Task Too Great

‘Atlantic Wall” Too Big A Job For Nazis   ‘Biggest Bluff’ of War; French Tell Newsman Nazis Losing Courage, Knowing Defeat Near   Representing the Combined Allied Press Distributed By The Associated Press

REPORTER VIEWS ENEMY ‘Atlantic Wall,’ Says Writer, Is Biggest Bluff of the War

Atlantic Wall Is Just A Bluff, Eyewitness Writes; Wine And Flowers Given Yanks On Entry Into Bayeux

West Wall A Myth?   Correspondent With Allied Troops Says It Simply Doesn’t Exist

ATLANTIC WALL JUST A BLUFF ; DOES NOT EXIST   Task Too Great To Complete, Prisoners Say

ATLANTIC WALL JUST A BLUFF, SAYS WRITEF   Troops Push Far Inland Without Encountering Serious Opposition

Newsman Says German Atlantic Wall at Normandy Just Bluff   Captured Nazis Admit Attempts Were Made To Complete Defenses But Task Was Too Great; Enemy Morale Said to Be Weak

Atlantic Wall Declared Myth   It Simply Does Not Exist as Germans Fail in Biq Job

VAUNTED SO-CALLED ATLANTIC WALL CONSTITUTES BIGGEST BLUFF OF WAR—FOR IT DOES NOT EXIST

Resignation Offer Made By Greeian Premier   Disorders Diminish: Churchill Says  Britain Will Use  Army To Maintain Law

Greek Premier Offers fo Quit As Strife Rages   Leader of Britain's Troops Threatens Athens With Force

Premier of Greece Offers Resignation  To Avert Civil War   Suggests Formation of Coalition Cabinet to Include Other Groups

OFFERS 10 RESIGN NS GREEK PREMIER   Suggests Formation of Coal ition Cabinet, with Libera  at Helm

Premier Said To Have Quit His Position   Troops Leaving Some Stations Seized In Athens

British Ready To Use Force:  In Greece   Disorders Decrease; Premier Papandreou  Offers To Resign

Athens Riots Subside After Bloody Clashe:   Coalition Ministry In Prospect As Premier Offers To Resiqn

Greek Premier Offers to Quit To End Crisis   Strike Persists; Disorder Ceases; Sugadest Coalition

Greek Premier Has Given Resignation   New Coalition Cabine’ Led by Liberal Leader Is Suggested

EE PAE ~ OFFERS TO.QUIT   Formation. ‘Of ‘Coalition Cabinet, Suggested To ‘End Crisis !

Coalition Rule Suggested By Nation’s Chief   Might Be Led By Sophoulis, 82- Year-Old Liberal Leader fe

Premier Offers to Quit To Further Greek Unity; Fewer Clashes Reported   Ready to Put Down Revolt In Greece, Churchill Says

FIGHT MOVES CLOSE 10 ATHENS HEART   As Harassed Premier Papandreou Offers to Resign As Head of Greek Government.   Throw Grenades

Greek Premier Offers To Quit, Disorders Wane  Coalition Cabinet Panandreou Plan

T. Sophoulis Su ggested As Greek Premier   Present Government Head Would Have Elder Liberal Form Coalition Reginic

Leftist Greek Partisans Defy Order to Disband   Disorders Continue as Elas Members Attack Navy College Where Briiish are Quartered

CALMER AS PREMIER OFFERS TO RESIGN  PAPANDREOU SUGGESTS  FORMATION OF COALITION CABINET FOR NATION  nh SITUATION

Churchill Takes Stand Behind Papandreou Rule   Britain Will Resist Communist Dictatorship For Greece By Armed Force.

Athens Quiet; Premier Offers His Resignation   Churchill Warns British Will See That Law, Order Maintained.

Papandreau Offers To Resign As Head Greek Government   General Strike Persists In Athens But Disorders Fewer

Greek Premier Offers to Step Out of Cabinet   George Papandrecou Suggests Coalition Cabinet of Center and Right Wing Groups

Coalition Cabinet Is Proposed For Greece; Britain Seeks Order   Disorders In Athens Diminish; Churchill Says Troops To Restore Law If Necessary

Premier of  Greece Quits   Suggests Coaliation Cabinet Be Formed To End Difficulties

Greek Premier Offers To Quit: Strike Goes On  Churchill Declares Britain Will Resist Red Dictatorship In

Greek Premier Suggests Rule y Coalition   Offers to Resign ir . Effort to Restore  Order in Nation;  Strike Continues

SOVIET TROOPS TRAP NAZIS IN NIKOPOL AREA    Russian Forces Mark Up Gains Along Entire Front, Stalin Reports

SEAL DOOM OF 75,000 NAZI ~ INSTEEL TRAP   Soviets Stage Daring Advance   THOUSANDS DEAD

NAZIS SUFFER ANOTHER BLOW. “FROM SOVIET   NEW DRIVE CUTS THROUGH GERMAN LINES:.TO TRAP 75,000 MORE ENEMY ¢° * yROOPS —'

Russians Trap 75.000 Germans In Nikopol Area   Daring Advance Cuts Off Another Section Of Nazis On Russian Front   REDS CLOSE IN ON MANGANESE AREA

SERVICE HELD FOR MRS. MABEL (JONES) KNIGHT   Former Cambridge Resident Died at Home of Her Dauchter Here

FOR MRS, ABE (JONES) KNIGHT   F ormer Cambridge Resident ~ Died at Home a aes ae Daughter H —

FEDERAL TRIAL   MEMBERS « OF: CREW  "TRANS: "PORT CHARGED WITH STEAL: ING RIFLES OF SOLDIERS

TEMPERATURES:   Tokyo Claims Fleet Engaged Off Formosa   Nippon’s Warships Said To Have Emerged For Showdown; Nips Assert Americans Destroyed; Gunartarte Strike Acanin

IMPERIAL FLEET REPORTED OUT TO MEET ALLIES   No Confirmation, However, From Admiral Nimitz; Furious Fighting Goes Into Its Third Day.

Americans Have Shot Down 487 Japanese Planes And Sunk Or Damaced 63 Shins

Nimitz Confirms Furious Attack From Air Only   Fight That Began Friday Continuing Through Third Day

Japs Claim 35 American Ships Sunk, Damaged   No Confirmation Te Nip Claims Issued In Communiaue

Jap Fleet Reported In Action   But Admiral Nimitz Has Not Contirmed Report Issued From Tokyo   RADIO SILENCE STILL IN FORCE   , Navy So Far Tells Only of Jap Aerial Attacks in Mountines Battle

Nipponese Claiming Tremendous Victory; Americans Confident Enough to Divide Forces; Formosa Again Is Attacked and Luzon Assailed for Sixth Time Friday

Second B-29 Raid Made Without Loss   Tokyo Radio Claims U. S. Fleet Suffering Heavy Defeat; Nimitz Holds to Silence 

SAYS NAVY HAS JOINED BATTLE   Nimitz Reports Strong Jap Air Attacks On Carrier Forces

Furious Naval, Air Fight Goes Into Third Day   dbuisal Nimitz Announces Strong Jap ConnterAttucks Started Engagement      Japanese Jubilant Over Battle News   Presence of Nip Fleet As ‘Yet Unconfirmed In : 5 eke American Pacific Conumuniques

Japs Say Their Warships Attack Our Naval Force:   Superfortresses Strike Vital Formosa Targets Second Heavy Blow

Report Fleet Joins Battle Off Formosa   Nimitz Says Nothing Of Surface Vessels Engaging in Fight

Air-Naval Battle Ott Formosa Is in Third Day   Tokyo Asserts Imperial Japanese Fleet Has Gone Into Action; New American Raids Are Made on Island Fortress and on Luzon

IN THIRD DAY MONDAY; WILD TOKYO CLAIM   Japan Reports Nipponese Navy Has at Long Last Come ut of {idding to Battle U.S.

Tokyo Says Air And Sea Fight Rages   No Confirmation Yet Given From U. S. Nay}

Bricker Declares Providing Jobs Vital Problen  Says New Deal Unable To Furnish Work in -

Business Must Be Freed From Its Shackles   Bricker Says Government _ Must Be Taken Out Of  Private Industry

GOV. BRICKER SEES JOBS AS BIG PROBLEM      New Deal Unable to Pro. vide Them in Peacetime, He Asserts

14.000 FORD WORKERS IN CANADA RESUME STRIKE   REPORTS OF BAD MILK HALT WEA SHIPMENT‘

Three States Would Be Free At Conventior   New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania GOP Lead-ers Aim For Unpledg_ed Delegations

Pledge Delay Seen by Bloc   New York Delegates Dominated By Dewey

REPUBLICANS OF NEW YORK, JERSEY, PENNYSLVANIA TO VIEW THE “FIELD”.

IN EVANGELICAL AND EFFORMED CrHIRCU   ore a? soe a aed if AMERICAN FLYERS CHRISTEN AIRPORT

British Bombers Again Hit Reich   Blast Coblenz, Ruhr Valley Oil Refineries

YANKS SLUG IT QUT-WITH NAZIS NEAR SOLOSNE   Blazing See-Saw Pre. liminary Battle Is on

TAXICAB ISSUE IS DUE FOR HEARING   Delegation Exp Expected Appear at ‘Counei  Mest.

TAXICAB ISSUE IS DUE FOR HEARING   Delegation Expected tc  Appear at CouneH © MA anb®

PARTISANS GAIN ALLIED SUPPORT   Tito’s Group Emerging As Leading Party In Yugoslavia

Tito Emerging as No.1 in-Favor of Three War Powers   Former Minister ‘Uses BBC Facilities. to Back Partisans

Allied Bombers Hammer Borneo After Long Trip   Make 2,500 Mile Round Trip To Hit Oi] And Shipping  Facilities   MACASSAR ALSO UNDER ATTACK

DEWEY FINISHES SATURDAY TALK   CANDIDATE LEAVES FOR WEST VIRGINIA VISIT

Dewey ToResume Campaign Tour   Will Pay Respects To Late Governor Smith

OCD, War Finance Group to Press Drive   To the People of this Community

Racial Issue, Main Root Of “Southern __. Revolt” Before Demo Platform Framers

Demand Negro  Right To Vote   Spokesman Goes Before Democraiic Platform Committee With Urge.

Negroes Demand Equal Rights Plank of Demos  v F Committee Works On Southern  Racial Question

Democratic Platform Framers Study Plank Dealing With Race Equalitw

Race Issues Fast Moving   Southern Democratic Delegates Meeting Tonight To Plan Action.  Rr. WRPANCIS WA «PO UAT AY

Negro Organizations Put Democratic  Platform Makers On Spot, Demanding Plank To Permit Voting In Every State

Race Problem At Issue at Convention   Southern Democrats _ And Negroes Clash Over Planks

NEGRO GROUPS DEMAND RIGHTS   Insist Upon Platform Assuring Voting Rights   TEXAN CALLS MEETING   Urges Southern Demos te Plan Strategy Opposing Racial Equality

RACE ISSUE UP 10 DELEGATES   Parades In Full Dress Be fore Democratic Platform Framers   IS CAUSE OF ‘REVOLT’

Organizations Claiming 6,500,000 Members Call on Platform Builders to Write Planks Assuring Voting Rights for Blacks, in North and South, “Unrestricted by Poll Taxes, White Primaries or Lily-White Party Conventions.”

Equality Issue Is Pondered By Democrats   Battle Between Negroes And Southerners Poses Platform Problem

RACE ISSUE BEFORE PLATFORM BUILDERS NEMACRATIC PARTY   SPOKESMEN FOR NEGRO, ORGANIZATIONS DEMAND EQUALITY PLANK

States GOP, Will Carry - Northeast   Candidate for Maine Governorship Says Party Will Win In  Most of Section

PLANE WRECKAGE FOUND; 4 DEAR   TRANSPORT, MISSING SINCE MONDAY NIGHT, FELL IN KANSAS WHEAT FIELD.

Tells Shocking Story Of Alleged Corruption In Building Army Camps

CAMP SHANKS GRAFT CHARGED  BYN. Y. NEWS   House Mililary Committee Calls Hearing on Charges of ‘Shocking Story of Corruption’ .

Corruption In Building Army — Camp Charged   N. Y. Newspaper Claims to Have Uncovered ‘Shock: ing Story’ At Camp  ' Shanks N.Y. .   House Committee:  Has Ordered Probe   High Army Officers Linked With Civilians In Alleged Squeeze of Graft Out of War Effort

Order Investigation of Army Camp As Result of New spaper’s Charges

Charges Graft At Army Base   Says Army Officers Worked In League Wh Civilians.

BLUE STAR MOTHERS WANT PEACE VOICE   Called Only Organization With No Hindrances

NAZIS FIGHT DESPERATELY FOR CASSINO   U. S. Artillery Works Overtime  ALLIES ADY ANCE  German Ranks Being Depleted

ar Struggle For Cassino ontinues With Furious Hand‘o-Hand Street Fighting

NAZI COUNTER BLOWS HALTED BY ARTILLER   Barrages Mow Down Enemy ‘on Mount Castellone Near Cassino.

BEEMAN COUNTER ATTACKS BROREN   Artillery Forces Nazis Back After Desperate Attempt.

By? UNS HALT Nal ATTACKS AT CASSINO   Lay Down Curtain of Fire for Advancing Allied Infantry

iRequirements for Navy Air Pilots Reduced For $944, 1945 and 1946

MOST OF ATOLL TAKEN BY U.S   Three More Islands Are Captured From Resisting Japs.   OTHERS NOT DEFENDED

AMERICAN FORCES  HAVE TAKEN ALL BUT  TIP OF KWAJALEIN OCCUPATION OF MAR SHALL ISLANDS IS NOW ALMOST COMPLETE —

More Islands Fall to U.S. Forces   Seabees Begin Work Of Rebuilding Captured Airfields

Seabees Working On Atoll   Uhree More Islands _ Taken By Yanks “In Marshall Drive

Kwajalein Is Practically All Occupied   Invaders Met. Very Little Opposition From Jap Airmen

Seabees Begin Repairin; Huge Airfield and Instal lations at Roi and Namur Bombarding Five Jay Held Atolls.

Planes Hammer Five Additional Atolls — In Security Mission   Allied Occupancy Of Former Japanese Bastion Places Truk, Wake And East Caroline Islands Within Bombing Range

U. S. Conques! Of Kwajalein Nears Finish   Americans Capture Three More Islands Of Strategic Atoll In Marshall Islands

Three More Isles  Taken in Marshalls   Occupation of Kwajalein Atoll Nearly Complete Reports Navy

U.S. Flag Flies  Over Kwajalein   Nearly All of Marshall Islands Atoll is Occupied

Three More Islands Taken   Yanks Rush Airfield Construction on Kwajalein Atoll

Kwajalein Occupation  Now Almost Complete; Pat Airfield Into Shape

Conquest of Kwajalein Is Almost Complete   Three More Isles of Atoll Captured After Brief Fighting— Truk Within Plane Range

AMERICAN FORCES HAVE TAKEN ALL BUT TIP OF KWAJALEIN OCCUPATION OF MAR_ SHALL ISLANDS IS NOW  [ALBSAST CHORADI ets

U.S. Occupation Of Key Kwajalein Atoll Now All But Complete   Three More Islands Of Marshall Group Are Captured; Powerful American Airfield Being Rushed-On Captured Islands. °

3 More Isles Taken From Japanese   Capture All But Small Part Of Kwajalein From Nips

—MARSHALLS—  More Islands Are  Taken By Yanks   Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’ Communique Says Occupation Of Once Formidable Jap Plane And Naval Base ‘Nearly Complete’

AMERICAN FORCES NOW HOLD NEARLY ALL OF KWAJALEIN   Seize Three More Islands From ‘Jap Defenders and Take Over Other Unoccupied Islets—Resistance Is Moderate

Ameriean Units  Nearly.Conirol. Kwajalein Atoll   Tokyo Report On Sinking ~~-Of Two U; S; Destroyers Without Confirmation

Kwajalein Atoll is Almost Completely United States Flag   Three More Islands of Marshalls Captured; Repair Airfields

Almost All Of Kwaialein Now Under U. S. Flag   Seabees Add Help To Reconstruction Of Pitted Airfield

Three More Isles Taken By Yankees   American Occupation Of Kwajalein Atoll All But Complete; Prepare Airfields

Americans Seize Three More Isles in Pacific Push, Nimitz Reports

Engineers and Seahees Work on. Airfields   Most Allof Kwajelein and Other Islands Now In U.S. Hands   TRUK IS 938 MILES “. AWAY BY AIRPLANE   Heavy Aerial Powndings Keep Most Japanese Planes Grounded

U. S. Occupation Of Kwajalein Is ‘Nearly Complete’   American Capture of Other Islands Leaves Only a Small Part of Atoll in Jap Hands ©

U.S. Flag Now Over Jap Bases   ONLY FEW AT ATOLLS ARE ‘LEFT TO NIPS IN  MARSHALLS.

ATOLL NOW IN OUR HANDS   All But Very Small Part Of That Sector in Marshalls Now Under U. S. Flag

Big Kwajalein Airfield Being Pushed as End Of Fight Nears   Seabees at Work as U. §S. Troops Mop-Up Last J aps on Atoll

Truk Now In Range  American Bomber:               Seabees . Begin Repairing Huge ield and Instal lationgg#t Roi and Namur  Bombarding Five Jay Held Atolls.

Truk Now In Range   With Marshalls Under Control, Truk Is In ‘Range of Bombers

Occupation Of Kwajalein All But Completed   Jumping-Off Place For Extension Of U. S. Drive In Pacific Assured.

AMERICANS TAKE THREE MORE ATOLLS   U. S. Flag Waving On Islands Won  From Japanese

U. S. Has Nearly All Of Kwajalein Atoll   Yanks in Possession of 21 of Its 32 Principal Islands—Now in Bombing Range of Eastern Carolines and Truk Base.

Success Seen On Kwajalein  Sy rac a 2   Most Of Jap Atoll Has Been Captured

Kwajalein Occupation  Completed   Last Three Strongholds Seized By Americans— Mopping Up Operations Are Continued

3 More Islands In Marshalls Taken By U. S.   Occupation Of Atoll Almost Complete

Occupation Of Alb “Kwajalein. Atoll Certain   Three More Islands Taken, From Resisting Japs-and  . Others, Not: Defend-   ' °. ed: Are Seized 

SEABEES BUILD NAVY, AIR BASE ON-ROI, NAMUR   ‘Occupation of Kwajalein Atoll - Nearly Complete, Three More Islands Taken in Fichting   TRUK IN RANGE   21 of 32 Principal Islets in Atol in American Hands — Warships Anchor in Lagoon

U §. TROOPS REBUILD MARSHALL AIRFIELDS; OTHER ISLANDS TAKEN      Virtually All of Kwajalein Now is Under Control; Naval Base in Use   TRUK 938 MILES AWAY

REPRESENTATIVES OF TEXAS EXES REQUEST FIRING ALL REGENTS  GOVERNOR TELLS COMMITTEE HE IS WITHOUT POWER TO DO THAT

REPRESENTATIVES OF TEXAS EXES REQUEST FIRING ALL REGENTS  GOVERNOR TELLS COMMITTEE HE IS WITHOUT

RUSSIA RUSSIA HOLDING UPPER HAND IN POLISH BORDER DISPUTE   DIPLOMATS BAY NOTHING CAN BE DONE BY EXILE Govern.’ MENT, TO BLOCK 1921 BOUNDARY

Indicate in Washington That Poland May Accent Russ Offer on Boundary Dispute

TEMPERATURES:   Fitzsimmons, McKay, Rep. Green Indicted   Trio Accused Of Conspiracy In Connection With Horse Racing Bill; Arraignments Scheduled In Lansing Tomorrow

HINT FURTHER SENSATIONS IN BRIBERY PROBE      Evidence Against McKay,  Fitz and Green Is Kept Secret

Hint Carr’s Charges to Be Sensational      Nature of Developments Secret; Charges Against Mckay to Wait Hearings

WIFE OF INDIA’S LEADER IS DEAD   Broadcast Announcement To Nation

Missing Man Is Seized By  FBI Agents   Defendant In’ Sedition Trial Is Placed Under Arrest At Albany —Court In Recess

Government Still Hunting ~ For Witness   Prosecution Asks Recess In Trial for Seditious Conspiracy

ONE DEFENDANT STILL. MISSING   Inability of Government to Locate Man Causes Recess in Trial.

Sea Invasion Force Dodges Waterspouts   Not A German Seen For Two Days; Find Ammunition Dump

Germans . Withdrawing As British Advance Ivland; Greek Populace In Pitiable Condition, Give Invaders Emotional Welcome.

Base Set Up  For Invasion Even Mail Was There When British Landed

British Begin Pouring Forces Into Greece   After Establishing Beachhead in One Province, Tommies Are Laying Siege to Nazi Garrison.

Patton Is Driving Beyond Saarlautern In Bid to Crumble Nazi Defense Line

BEAGSTEIN IN DAG OF Flhal ARMY'S PUSE   Allied Offensive Takes Heavy Toll of Germans on WeSt Front.

Bergstein Taken By Tanks From Hurtgen Forest   Patton Units Rip Into Crust of Siegfried Defense In Saar Basin

3rd Rips Into Sieatried  In Saar Basin   Ike Says German   Ike Says German Casualties Equal To Loss in Russia

Bergstein Is Taken by U. §. First Army   Within Less Than Mile of Upper Roer

hin ARMY  IGHTING DRIVE  TOWARD RHINE   Enemy Losses Heaviest Yet

EMPIRE TROOPS BREAK THROUGH NAZI CAEN LINE   Swift Advance From LeMans

(CANADIANS BREAK THRU 2 GERMAN DEFENSE LINES OVER 715 MILES BELOW CAEN

Le Mans Is Captured by Americans   German Lines Break Wid Open Beyond Le Mans Is Reported

YANK ORIVES NV NEW ASH BET LEMANS   British and Canadians Cras Another Five Miles in Caen Area.

ENEMY DEFENSE LINES CRACKED BELOW CAEN   Sarthe River Barrier Rroken With The Fall Of Le Mans

Capturing Communications Hub Of Le Mans In Dash From Laval  CANADIANS MAKE GAINS BELOW CAEN  Enemy Counter Attacks Appear Collapsed After Losing 200 Tanks

Le Mans Captured In Mammoth Sweep   Canadians Break Two German Lines in Center. Unhinging Nazi Defense of City ‘

Le Mans Falls as Bradley s Forces Race Toward French Capital in Sensational Drive

Temperatures   Allies Roll Ahead At Pace Rivaling  Peacetime Maneuver.

Americans Are Only 87 Miles From Paris   Canadians Pierce First and Second German Lines

Nazi Radio Says Foe Within 87 Miles of Paris —   Canadian Troops Push Through German Lines 15 Miles Below Caen

Canadian Shock Troops Smash First, Second German Defenses   Main Nazi Lines  Breached In Day   German Reserves Reported Streaming To American Front

Le Mans  Of Yanks   AT OTHER END OF FRENCH LI CANADIAN TROOPS BREAK, TE 15 MILES BELOW CAEN 

Le Mans Seizure Gives Yanks Control Of 31 Roads, Cuts Nazi Force   Canadians Push Ahead 15 Miles In Caen Sector As U. S. Fan-Out Threatens Vital Ports

Knox Successor  Applauded by All   Prompt Approval of Forrestal Due

Forrestal Choice Draws Plaudits From Congress   Undersecretary Named To Succeed Knox In: President’s Cabinet —

FORRESTAL WILL LIKELY BE GIVEN QUICK APPROVAL   Nomination of Undersecretary By Roosevelt Gets Favorable Comment From Both Major Parties.   CONFIRMATION 1S POSSIBLE NEXT MONDAY   Acting Secretary Interestec in Production, Made Two Extensive Trips to Pacific Battlefronts.

SENATE T0 BACK FORRESTAL AS NEW NAVY CHIEF   Both Parties Applaud lV. R. Appointment: To  Knov Vacancy

Forrestal Choice Lauded By Solon:   Nomination Of New Navy Chief By FDR Is Expected To Receive Prompt Approval

FORRESTAL 10 SUCCEED KNOX AS NAVY HEAD      Approval Expected When Senate Committee Acts On Wonday

Forrestal Named Navy Secretary, Succeeding Knox   Roosevelt Choice Applauded by Both Parties in Conaress

100 Jap Planes Downed in 10 Hour Attack on U.S. 3rd Fleet Off Formosa

Reporter lelis Story of 1 erntc pattie  Great Aerial Struggle In Paci

PWIGHT D. LISENHOWER   Four Meet Death in Two Crashes Near. Greenfield

Vandenberg For Force lf Necessary   of Future Must Be Restrained, Says Senator

‘Big 3° Discuss League Home   United States, Britain, Russia Agree on Outline for World Security Organization; Objections Arise to Locating Headquarters in Geneva

Parisians Delirious With Joy as Yanks Roll Into Capital ‘All Emotions Sunpressod Four Years Surge Through People

FRENCH FORCES ALSO IN FIERCE CAPITAL SCRAP   Parisians Welcome Mighty Al. lied Units—Foall of City Neor at Last

FRENCH AND AMERICANS MARCHING IN   sen. Dwight Eisenhower's Headquarters Declares Liberction of City "Is ga Fact"   FIGHTING DYING DOWN

Parisians Go Wild as U. S.-French'  Forces Break In to Rescue Citv

HALF OF GUAM IN HANDS OF AMER. TROOPS   Now Drive Against Northern Half  Of Island

Yank Patrols Range Over  Half Of Guam   Encounter Only Sporadic Opposition; Thought Japs In North

YANKS TAKE ONE HALF OF GUAM ISLAND   Marines Hold Nine-Tenths Of Tinian Isle

Guam Returns as U.S. Naval Base As Ships Steam Into Aora Harbor’

Only Sporadic Opposition Met In Guam Battle   Japanese Defenders of Island Believed To Have Withdrawn

Berlin Battered By 2.000 Tons Bombs Thursday   RAF Loses 35 Planes In Series Of Operations

RAF Hits Germans’ Capital   Doomed City Nearer Complete Destruction After Latest Bombing.

MIGHTY FLEET “SHOWERS TONS UPON CAPITAL   Heavy Explosives, Incendiaries Dropped

O'DANIEL BLASTS NEW DEALERS   Fourth Termers Accused 0! Borrowing Platform Of Communists

NEW DEALERS . “ARE ASSAILED   ANTLF OURTH TERM. DEMO‘CRATS HEAR CHARGE NEW  DEALERS HAVE RED.” , PLATFORM 2

OVER A THOUSAND AMERICAN PLANES BATTER GERMANY   Targets in France Are Blasted By Other Forces Numbering in the Hundreds.

Yugoslav Patriots Are Maintaining Newly Gained Initiative In All Ratel. Sartnre

Germany And France Again Hit By Bombs   American Airmen Are Also Busy On The Italian Front

GIRLS GO BACK TO BOARDS IN 29 OHIO CITIES   Union Officials Weaken as Labor Board Takes Firm Stand for Negotiation

British Gain Eight Miles in Holland Push   20,000 Germans in Trap; Nazi Transport Center Totters

British Race to  Tilburg   30,000 Nazis Pinned in Trap Against Maas River, North Sea

Brilish Eighth Army Drives Germans Back Through Tuscan Hilis  ~ —American Siege of Pisa Bogged Down in Temporary Stalemate.

British Are Near. Florence in Italy   American: Siege. of Pisa Boas:Down .

Drive Germans  Back In Italy   Within Five Miles of Famed Treasure City

British Army Now 5 Miles From Florence   German Line on Central Front Sags Under 8th Army Drive

GERMAN LINE SAGS AS BRITISH DRIVE NEARS FLORENCE   Outposts of Gothic Line City Falling Rapidly.

BRITISH NOW 5 MIS. FROM FLORENCE   American Siege Of Pisa Bogs Down Tempcrarily

BRITISH DRIVE NAZIS BACK THRU TUSCAN HILLS   Assault Aré Is Tight_ ened on Historical Ylorence

British Converge On Florence City   Eighth Army Drives Within Five Miles Of Town; U.S. Siege Of Pisa Bogs Down

Nazis Are Forced Out Of 3 Towns   Enemy Rushes Fortifications On New Line As Bombers Return To Action.

ALLIED TROOPS REACH PLATEAU   Follow in Wake of Retreating Nazis

Allies Drive Past 3 Italian Towns As Germans Flee   Nazis Rushing Work On Fortifications South of Cassino

PONAPE IS BOMBED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Fliers Also Blast Kusaie Island, Navy An nounces

U.S. Bombers Pound Jap Island Bases   Both Army and Navy Planes Take Part In Hammering Foe

Base Request on Increased ‘Cost of Living; Effective January ist tis

TEACHERS ASK SALARY RAISE IN CONCORD   Base Request on Increased ‘Cost of Living; Effective January 1st .

Roosevelt Tells Plan For Nazis   8 Basic Points Listed for Postwar €antrol of Germany

FD Lists Points For Controlling Postwar Reich   Would Prevent Germany Becoming Menace To Generations Of

F.D.R.’s 8-Point Postwar Plan  For Reich OK'd   Favors International Trade On Full And Free Basis As Possible.

Fight Basic Points Given By. President  As s Necessary   €abinet.. Split Over Proevram Denied .-

FDR Outlines 8-Point Plan To Control Postwar Germany  President, at News Conference,

Nazis Thrown Back Against Carpathians   Soviets Only _ 60 Miles From Old Czech Border

REDS STRIKE AT TARNOPOL FRONT TODAY   Russians Hurling All Available Men In Fight

yssians Reported Exploiting Broad Break-Through In - Southeastern Corner Of Old Poland Into F ull-Scale Smash Aimed At Hurling Germans Back To Carpathian Barrier—Capture Of Byeltsi, Moldavian Control Point, Imminent

Reds Turn Breakthrough Into Rout   Russians in Sight of Rumanian Gateway

MIGHTY THRUST OF RED FORCES GROWS IN FURY   Soviets, Striking Hard In White-Hot Hour Of Victory, Drive To Smash Germans Back Past Czernow itz To Carpathian Border.

Soviet Tide Is Gaining Momentum   Big Breakthrough Near Tarnopol Is Exploited; Many Key Cities Falling

REDS EXPLOIT LATEST GAINS   Soviets Attempt to Hurl Germans Beyond Carpathian Barrier

Soviet Army Capitalizing OnTarnopol Gains Today   Full-Scale Smash Is Being Aimed At Germans

Nazi Forces Tn Southwest Russia Are  Torn Apart   Red Army Now Only 60 Miles From Old Czech Border; Enemy’: Tlhkraine Loaccac 940 O07

Seek to Hurl Nazis Back To Mountains   Capture of Byeltsi, Rail Center, Seems  Imminent

Intensify Drive” To Thrust. Nazis Past Czernowitz   Say Major Smash Between Tarnopol, Proskurov Js Gaining Momentum

Reds Smash Nazi Lines At Tarnopo!   Expand Breakthrough Into New Smash Throwing Germans Back on Carpathian Defenses   DRIVE ON BALKANS   Reds Hold Aimosi Complete Cen: trol of Dniester, Battle Into Suburbs of Nikolaev   RLILELETIN

EXPLOIT BREAR IN NAZI LINES IN OLD POLAND  ainuTY TWBIICT IN   MIGHTY THRUST IN TARNOPOL SECTOR GAINING MOMENTUM

Retreated Back Past Czer mnowitz to the Carpathian  Barrier.   GAINING MOMENTUM   Capture of Byeltsi, a Traffie Control Point, Appeared Only a Matter of Hours.

20,000 NAZI ARE KILLED . WA DAYS   Tarnopol-Lwow Rail Line Severed By Soviets   in Old Poland Gains Momentum; Outskirts Of Nikolaev Reached

FINANCIAL PANIC SWEEPS GERMANY   In The Wake Of The Gestapo Arrest Of Two Prominent Bankers

Reds Within 60 Miles of Reich Itself   28-Mile Advance on Way to Baltic Sea Is Achieved

Soviets Take Two Major Rail Centers   Germans Suffer Huge Losses: Wilno Now Completely Encircled; Troops Near Pole Cities

important Highway Cut By Russians   Well Inside Lithuania And Only 120 Miles’ From Baltic Sea ,

Reds Sweep Within 60 Mile: Of East Prussia as Germans Plan Evacuation Southward

GREAT SOVIET THRUST NEARS EAST PRUSSIA   RED TROOPS POUR INTO LITHUANIA, AIM AT RIGA

Two Important Railway Centers Are Seized     NAZIS FALL BACK IN MANY SECTORS  Capture of Utena in Lithuania Is Also Announced

Soviets Encircle Lithuanian City In Northern Drive   Russion Army Wiping Out Remnants of Corman Troops Trapped by Big Offensive

Entire 350-Mile Front Advances As Nazis Flee in Disorder; Russ Wiping Out Enemy in Wilno

MUSCOVITES ADVANGE ALL ALONG FRONI   Plunge to Within 60 Miles of E. Prussia— Nazis Prepare to Evacuate  Women and Children.    500 MORE TOWNS ARE ENGULFED   Powerful Thrust Puts  Russians Closer to Big  Polish Cities of BrestLitovsk and Bialystok.

FR To Complete Poll By Monday   Vote Survey Shows 15 States Want Own Ballot

Lett-Wing Greeks Seize Many Police Stations In New Uprisings in Athens

GREEK LEFTISTS DEFY BRITISH, CIVIL WAR NEAR   General Strike On in Athens

THREATENED iN GREECE   Leftists Call General Strike; 16 Die In Athens Riot

Guerrillas Marc on Center of Athens   Civil War Near; British Stand By to Aid Government

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN ATHENS   Greece Is On Brink of Civil War

Greek Capital ls Placed Under Martial Law   Left Wingers Are Blamed for Riotina

CIVIL WAR IN GREECE   Proclamation of Martial Law Defied As Factionists Riot in Athens.

GREECE TOTTERS ON VERGE OF CIVIL WAR   Left-Wing Leaders Proclaim Strike After Athens Riots

Left Wingers Stage March In Capital   Casualties Added To 16 Killed In Sunday Clash

Strife-Torn Greeks Gird For Civil War After Riots Take Heavy Toll

Violence Breaks Out Once More In Greek Capital   Left Wing Elements Seize Police Stations  Push On Center of City

Violence in Greece Carrying the Nation to the Brink of Civil War   16 Persons Killed And 150 Injured In Yesterdays Outbreak

Civil War Threatens As Left-Wing Chiefs ‘Call General Strike   Work Stoppage Ordered After Police Kill 16 Demonstrators; Athens Public Utilities Close

GREECE VERGES ON CIVIL WAR; 16 RIOT DEATHS   Athens Disorders Injure 150 More; Leftist Call Strike

FREED GREECE NOW ON VERGE OF CIVIL WAR      General Strike Proclaimed By Left-Wingers, 16 Pergons Slain

Declare Martial Law In Athens To Avert Civil War   British Tanks, Infantry Ready To Support Greek Officials

New Riots Break Out In Athens   City Under Martial Law; 16 Killed and 150 Are Injured

Points Lower on Pork and Beef   New Values Become Effective Sunday

Finns Turn Guns Against Germans   Fighting Reported In Northern Section

State To Close Pinecrest Dea   $25,000 Fund Released For Its Purchase

APPROVE NEW SITE FOR WMC   State Releases Funds For Pinecrest Sanatorium Purchase

Czechs Call for Resistance  Request Is First by Fyviled Government

Czechs Told To Start Open Fighting   Time for Action Has Arrived, Exiled Leaders Say

Dewey Will Speak Tonight At Charleston  Will Go On Air At 9.4 Over CBS Network

DEWEY TO HIT NEW DEAL PLAN ON CONVERSION   Assault On Groups For Fourth Term Also Expected

Dewey Planning New Attack FDR   To Link Criticism of Administration and 4th Term Backers.

Dewey Speaks Tonight In West Virginia   Continues Attack Qn Roosevelt

RECONVERSION TO BE DEWEY'S THEME TONIGHT   Plans Attack On Groups Supporting FDR In Charleston Talk

Dewey To Air Postwar Plan Of Roosevelt   To Link ‘Attack on Backer: With What He Calls Administration  Unpreparedness

Report Germany About To Pull Out Of Russia And Other Occupied Nations

Soviets Close to Rumanian Border   Thousands of Germans Captured; Alhes Gain in Italian Mountains

See Result “Decisive”: Reds Roll on   Push Deeper into Poland, as Allies Score Advances In Italy

ARMIES IN INDIA BATTLE FOR ROADS   JAPS SUCCEED IN BLOCKING HIGHWAY FROM. BASE OF KOHIMA TO DIMAPUR.

Dimapur-Kohima Road Is Blocked  Japs Also Hold Part Of Rail Line From Imphal

Allies Admit Enemy Gains (On Indian Front   Japanese Block Road Linking Dimapur and Kohima

Japs Bar 2 Key Roads in India   Allies Battling in Jungles Te Clear Vital Links

Japs Aise Still Hold Stretches of BishenpurSilchar Track Out of admphal

Allies Tangle With  Jape In Jungle War  To Ease Threats To Vital Strongholds

nD  APS ‘and Imphal Exits   Allies Wage Dead] Jungle Battle to Clear Key Links in Burma

Japanese Block Ditiapur Road  RKrise~ ODesthle be   Allies Battle to Clear Connections

JAPANESE BLOCK ROAD TO DIMAPUR   Enemy Still. Holds Stretches Of Track Out of Imphal; Allied Fight Jungle Battles To Clear Lines

Enemy Blocks Dimapur Road  Alliae Fiaht JInunale   Allies Fight Jungle Battles in Efforts To Clear Roads

House Votes 300 to 60 to Probe Ward   DEMOCRATIC LINES BREAK AND 118° JOIN REPUBLICANS — TO PASS JUDGMENT OF ROOSEVELT PROCEDURE.   Hummer Plant Struck

House Resolve: To Investigate Ward Seizure   Vote Is 300 to 60 After Sharp Debate On Authority of President in War

HOUSE ORDERS A PROBE OF WARD CASE   Votes, 300 to 60, to Create Committee to Inquire Into Government’s Right of Seizure at Chicago Plant.

Ward Seizure Investigation Is Authorized Rv Honse   Republicans Joined By 118 Democrats To Pass Resolution By Vote of 300 to 60 GROUP TO PROBE ROOSEVELT POWER (450 Workers Strike To Speed Contract At Ward Subsidiary

House Votes Probe Of Word Seizure   Yote Is 300 to 60; Committee to Make A Separats Inauiry

Group Probes Ward Seizure   Authorize Investigation Of Taking Over Chicago Mail Order House.

House To Probe Seizure Of Wards  Committee Created To Make Inquiry

OEVZURE PROBE 1S AUTHORIZED   House Committee ‘to Make Investigation of Govern. ment’s Right.   SENATE INQUIRY BEGUN

HOUSE VOTES WARD INQUIRY   Resolution Calling for In vestigation is Adopted, 300 to 60

DISMISSALS VOID UNLESS APPROVED BY FEDERAL GOV'T  NEW RULES POSTED AFTER ARREST OF

HOUSE VOTES WARD PROBE   Creates Seven-Man Committe te Investigate Seizure

Vote Ward Case Probe   House Creates SevenMan Board to Question Right of U. S. Seizure

HOUSE APPROVES . > A WARD INQUIRY   COMMITTEE OF SEVEN TO DETERMINE WHETHER F. D. R, _ EXCEEDED AUTHORITY,

WARD SEIZURE INQUIRY VOTEL   House Investigation I: Ordered By Decisive 300 To 60 Margin>

House Votes Overwhelmingly To Investigate Ward Case   Resolution Creates Seven-Man Committee To Determine Government's Right Of Seizure

House Probe Of  Seizure Voted   Solons Severely. Criticize Action

HOUSE ORDERS PROBE OF WARL PLANT SEIZURE   Only Small Opposition ta Resolution Which Auth: orizes 7-Man Investigatmae Committee

House: Votes Authorize. . Ward Probe   -7-Man'Committee “Assigned ToyTest '' “FDR’s' Leaal:Péwer:

PROBE OF SEIZURE _OF PLANT ORDERED      House Orders Inquiry ir Ward Case by 300 to 60 Vote

House Inquiry In Ward Case Voted, 300 to 60   Democrats Back Move for Probe

House Favors Ward Seizure  Probe, 300-60   118 Democrats Join GOF In Approval, as Strike Thits Ward Plant

‘Hershey Sees Little Prospect for  ‘Rapid Demobilization   National Selective Service Director Says All Eligible High School Boys Eventually Will Be in Service

Hershey Sees Little Prospect for Rapid Demobilization  National Selective Service Director GCauwe All Flieihlae Miah Sehaao!l   National Selective Service Director Says All Eligible High School Boys Eventually Will Be in Service

ARMY TAXES OVER STRAE-BIIND TRANSPORTALON   Posters Notify Workers ‘they Are Government “mployes

Philadelphia Transit Strike Broken ‘With Lines Under Control Of Army

STRIKE CRISIS NEARLY ENDED, JARMY REPORTS   PARTIAL SERVICE. RESTORED IN PHILADELPHIA WALKOUT y + OF Cry TRANSIT  . WORKERS.

ARMY TAKES ‘i STRIKE BIND TRIASPORTATHN   ‘Posters Notify . Workers They Are Government “moloves

SEIZURE BREAKS CAR-BUS STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA   Service Resumes as Arm Takes Control Under FDR’S Orders

New Shutdowns By Truckers In Iowa Predicted   Omaha Faces Threat O: Gasoline Shortage; Mer Are Ordered Back.

‘Drivers Will Not  Resume’   Krupinsky Says Statement By Lewis Subterfuge

TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE LOOMS   Walkout By 40,000 In 12 States Threatened

Air Fleets Hit  From Two Sides   Some of Raiders Fire Deadly High Velocity Rockets; Pound Coast

” Bombs Blaze Trail of Destruction From Shores of Dieppe to Germany And From Marseilles to Yucoslavia

Two-Way Air Blow Batters Germany   7,500 Planes From Italy and Britain Make Second Huce Raid on Reich in Two Days

Pilot Ed Nelson Is Missing   Local Airman Fails To Return From Mission To Czecho slovakia Sept. 12.

Another Pilot Is Missing   Lt. Phil Hergenrothe Fails to Return From Austrian  Mission May 29.

DRAFT APPROVED   Women’s Club Group Favors Me thed for Filling Quotas

Finns Study New Terms by Russia   Parliament to Act On Armistice Bid

FINNS NEW PEACE TERMS   Finnish Parliament Slated to Give “Them Consideration

Finns Studying Modified Terms kor Armistice   Parliament Reported = Ip Session To Discuss Russian Proposal

Finn Peace Discussion Scheduled   Parliament Gathers to Study New Proposals  From Russia

FINLAND HAS NEW RED PEACE TERM   Finnish Parliament Scheduled to Meet at Helsinki to Consider Offer.

DEWEY ACCUSED IN VOTE FIGHT   LUCAS BLASTS BALLOT FAILURE AS POLITICS

WLB Hands  age Issue To President   'Board’s Failure ‘To Recommend  ‘Changes Assailed

Steel Pay Case ls Sent To FDR By Labor Boarc   Highly-Contested Issue s Tossed Over To The President

Wage Ceiling Issue Dumped  In FDR's Lap   War Labor Board Votes & to 4 to Turn Question Over to FD Without  Recommendation

LITTLE STEEL - PAY ISSUE UP TO PRESIDENT   War Labor Board, 8 to 4, Passes Question To Roosevelt

Roosevelt's Wage Baby In His Lap      WAR LABOR BOARD VOTES 8 TO 4 TO LET HIM DECIDE FATE OF LITTLE STEEL FORMULA,   Labor Members Dissent

Sec. Stimson Lists Items In Cutbacks Of 27 Billion   Message to Byrnes Reflects Improvement In War’s Outlook At Home and Abroad  $20,000,000 SAVED IN COAST DEFENSES Other Savings Range ' From Alcan Highway To Rifle Ammunition

‘Army ltemizes Heavy Cutbacks   27 Billion Savings l icted Ry Stimean

Stimson Lists Items in Army  27 Billion Cut   Canada Highway Reduced, Mexieo Road Stopped, Aire Fund Gleched

STIMSON ANNOUNCES ~ LARGE ARMY SAVING   War Secretary Lists Cutbacks in War Projects and Other. Expense Totaling $27,000,000,000.

Army lfemizes Heavy Cutbacks   27 Billion Savings l jected Ry Sttrsca.

New Damage Is Caused By Robot Bombs   Britons Fear More Secret Weapons to Strike Homeland

Port Of Kherson Being Threatened   Three Ukraine Armies Score Advance Along 500-Mile Front: Raii Junction Fell Near

Reds Near Black Sea And Poland   Three-Way Soviet Drive Threatens Many Nazi Troon

U.S. And Chinese Fliers Hit Japs   Report Japanese Cargo Ves. sel Sunk And A Second Probably Sunk

NEW CEBREAKER: 70 BE LAUNCHED   Available For Duty Next Fal -- Best in World -- Coast Guard Says

, Depression Or Progress “ssue:’ Dewey   G.0.P. Chief Opposes Post-War €.C.C.; in Phila. for Address

Dewey Departs Upon Extended Campaign Tour   Speaks Tonight In Philadelphia

Army Training Decision Must  Wait: Dewey   GOP Nominee Against CCC; Says Problem  For Postwar

OPPOSES ANOTHER CCC   Dewey Says Decision on Military Training Must Wait

Dewey Starts Campaign Trip ~ Of 6700 Miles   First Talk At Philadelphia Will Be Heard On Air At 10 O'clock Tonight

DEWEY CHEERED IN PHILADELPHIA   _ Declares He’s Opposed to Settne Un New CCC

Dewey Opposes Another CCC, Newsmen Learn   GOP Candidate In Philadefphia For Speegy Tonight

Dewey Tells Opposition to ~ Military Plan   Is Against Peace-time Service; Doesn’t Want New CCC

‘Dewey Would ‘Delay Decision on Military Training   Opposed to Establishing New CCC, He Says at PhiladelphiaOpens Camoaign Toenish?

Dewey Goes on Record Against Another CCC   But Sidesteps Military Training Issue; Goes on Air Tonight, 9 O’Clock

Dewey Against Establishment Of New C.C.C.   Also Tells News- €onference _Contpulsory Military  Await War's End

Opposed to Another CCC, Dewey Asserts   Will Discuss ‘Fun. damental Iesues' of Campsign Tonight

DEWEY BEGINS CAMPAIGN TRIP   Would Postpone Decjsion On Military Training

Dewey Opposes CCC   Believes Decision On Universal  Military Training Must Come Later

Gov. Dewey Opposes Any New CCC Setup   Says Decision on Universal Military Training Must Wait Until After War

Dewey Starts  Campaign Trip   GOP Nominee Tells Newsmen in Philadelphia Decision on Youth Training Must Wait.

Dewey Against Another C.C.C.   Says Decision On Universal Military Training Must Wait

DEWEY VISIONS VOTE TRIUMPH   Nominee Asked If FDRChurchill Parley Timed To ‘Steal Show’

DEWEY OPENS GOP CAMPAIGN   Says Youth Training : Peace Issue In Pretalk Conference

Essen Scene:  Of Bombing   Night. F ighters Of .Nazis Encounteréd

Big Bombers Challenged   German Night Fighters Attack Fleet in Snowstorm Over Essen

Luftwaffe Turns Out in Defense Of Ruhr Plants   Night Fighters Rise To Intercept Swarm Of RAF Bombers;  Fight in Snowstorm

Nazi Planes Give Battle  Strong Night Fighters   Strong Night Fighters Swarm Over Esen to Meet RAF Bombers

COLLETT GASE. HEARING HELD   ‘JUDGES " TO GIVE DECISION LA TEE IN ‘TRIPLE-MURDER CASE. ) LPROSEQUTION CITES PROFIT’ <6.)

Philadelphia Walk-Out Is Broken   Transit Strikers Return to Work After Harsh Army Threats and Orders

Transit Strike Comes fo End; Workers Back   Practically Normal Conditions Restored in Philadelphia

Government's  Might Breaks Transit Strike   Service In Philadelphia Near Normal After “Nightmare” Week.

Philadelphia Transit System Restored As 6.000 Return To Work   Army Patrols Transportation Lines Ready To Take Over Operation; 100 Per Cent Operation In Effect; Toll Is 14 Injured

Philadelphia Strike Ends   Strikers Return After Government Invokes Full Wartime Power

MY CRUSHED TRANSIT STRIKE   Philadelphia Transportation System Operates On Normal Schedule

POWER BREAKS TRANSIT STRIKE   Service Nears Normal After Wild Week

STRICT RULES BREAK STRIKE   Army Throws Book at Striker; Threaten Induction, to Cut Off Gas. Loss of Jobs

Wildcat Transit Walkout Ends In Control By U. S.   Quiet Restored In Philadelphia

Philadelphia's Strike Crushed By Federal Govt   Service Is Restored With Regular Transit Employes Working

ARMY BREAKS PHILLY STRIKE   All Vehicles Moving On Schedule; Soldiers Stand By

Philadelphia Wildcat Strike Ended Today   Transit Workers On Jobs After Army Ultimatum

ARMY SETTLES PHILADELPHIA'S TRANSIT STRIKE   Workers Back on Job Under Soldiers’ Eyes and Order To Work-or-be-fired

FEDERAL MIGHT CRUSHES STRIKE   Controls Over Jobs, Food, Invoked To End Philadelphia Walkout

ARMY TROOPS CRUSH PHILADELPHIA TRANSIT STRIKE, WORKERS RETURN      WALKOUT BRINGING RACIAL FIGHTS, HALTING VITAL WAR PRODUCTION ENDS, TRAVEL RESTORED

Wildcat Walkout At Philadelphia Crushed Today   95 Per Cent Of Strikers Reported As Registered For Return To Work

Workers Lose Dispute As Negro Trainee: Are Recalled; Army Stands By ‘In Case’

CALL VICTORSON DEATHSUTCHDE   End Two-Day Probe, Take Body To Bellaire, 0.

Another Ward's Plant Is Seized   Springfield Factory To Resume Under Army

Battle on at Edge of Rome Plains; New Offensive Gains on Rumania

SOVIET ARMY RAGES OVER OLD POLAND   Crumbling of German Defenses Seen as Prelude to Major Fallback.

Allies Hit Reich on Hitler Birthday; Reds Blimt Nazi Blows in Lwow Area

F leet Of Allied Bombers Greet Hitler On. Birthday With Shower of Explosives

Yankee Bombers Hit in Bulgaria   Powerful Allied Air Offen. sive Over Europe Continued by Yanks.

Bombs for — Hitler on ~~ Birthday   Au Evening Bombardment of Unusual. Strength Is ~ "Made. by Allies *”  OCCUPIED COAST: PLASTERED AGAIN   Steady: Roar.: of . “Planes Heard for Three’ Hours.’ as‘Raiders Go Out: :

Allied Troops Capture Islands Nearer Rabaul   22.000 Japs Face Extermination, Says  General MacArthur

ALLIES SEAL FATE OF FOE IN SOLOMON   Occupy Green Islands To Outflank Japs On Bougainville

Allies Seize . ‘Green Isles; ‘Rabaul Next   000 Japanese Troops In Solomon Islands  ! ‘Isolated And Allied Noose Drawn Tighter Around Rabaul: Six Japanese Vessels Sunk

For Strategic Purposes. Campaign for Solomons Over, MacArthur Says

Five Million Drop Seen for Election   Wartime Dislocations, Service Vote Make Computation Difficult; Guess Rancee Exvam Forty to Fifty Million

State Officials Expect U.S. Vote Of 44,102,000 to Be Cast Nov. 7

More Than 44,000,000 To Cast Ballots   _ Estimates Range _ As High as. ~-§5.000.000 —~

DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE: Officials Estimate More Than 44 Million Persons Will Vote

State Officials Figure on Vote Beyond 44 000,000   Presidential Election To Include 3,392,000 Service Men, Women

Lashes New Deal Financial Policy   Bricker Delivers Talk in Wyoming

Indians Part In War Effort Is Lauded   Gov. Ford Speaks At Browning Memorial Dedication

THOUSAND BOMBERS POUND FRANCE, RUHR IN NIGHT ASSAULTS   Aerial War Continues At Dawn; Rail Center Of Dijon Hit

12,000 Plane Umbrella Covers Invasion on 100 Mile French Bridgehead

‘Leaders Confer With President On Deferments   Administration Will Consider Tightening Up On Draft Policy

DEMOBILIZATION BILL IN FINAL SENATE STAGES   Phase Of Unemployment Gompensation May Come Up For Vote Tomorrow

SENATE VOTE MAY COME THURSDAY ON JOBLESS VET PAY   Indicate State’s Rights Bill Gets Priority For Ballot

EARLY VOTE TERMED GOOD   New Measure Submitted to Solidif Opponents of Rival Bill

Broad George Bill On Demobilizatior Uses Baruch Plan   Taft, Southern Dems And GOP Backing  New Measure

WARPLANT FUMES BLAMED FOR SCARE   State Officials Claim “Madman Of Mattoon” Is Non-Existent

ARSE APRA NS AISLE ROS Re I ee ee  War Plant Fumes Blamed in Town’ ’g Hysteria

HITLER SUMMONS LEADERS, PLANS BITTER FIGHT   “Important Talks” Set; Slovakia May Be Occupied

NAZIS REPORTED. TAKING: OVER IN. SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE PREPARED 10 MAKE STAND:AGAINST RED ARMY

Ruinanian Chiefs Summoned For: Important Talks   Slovakian Occupation Rumored; Railxoads Said Seized By Nazis

GERMANS NOW REPORTED IN SLOVAKIA   -Have Summoned Rumanian Premier To Hitler Headquarters

Say Reich Occupies Slovakia   RUMANIA OFFICIALS SUMMONED FOR TALKS; BULGARIA MOVE TOLD

Rumanian Officials Called — To Hitler’s Headquarters For Very “Important Talks”

Leaders of Both Major Parties Admit Interest Is Running at Low Ebb  4223.60! ARE ELIGIBLE

LABOR BOARD HEAD TO QUIT   WILLIAM DAVIS ASKS TO BE RELIEVED OF DUTIES AS ‘CHAIRMAN OF WLB- ,

HEAT ON EIRE   Virtual Economic Blockade Imposed by England and U. S. for Harboring Axis Agents.

Observers Believe Shipments Of Food, Oil, Machinery Will Be Greatly Reduced

Gerhard Lucken’s  Golden Wedding  Day Observed Have Spent Half  ‘Century Of Married Life In County

BRITISH FIGHT ELAS FORCES   Aid Greek Regular Troops In Attempting to End Athens Disorders

BRITISH BATTLE ARMED LEFTISTS IN GREEK CAPITAI   English Troops Clean Out Eam Headquarters and Capture Communist Party Building.   INTERMITTENT FIRING IS HEARD ALL DAY   Aid Reported on Way to Rebels From Rural Districts— Outbreak in Salonika  Threatened. ‘

NEAR-CIVIL-WAR SHAKES GREECE   All-Out Assault On City Of Athens By Armed Elas Feared

British Battle Leftists in Athens   Police Fear All-Out Assault on City

British Battle Elas Leftists _ Again in Athens   Elas and Communists Plan All-Out Assault, Police Chief Declares

Greek Leftists May Attempt Drive on Athens   Police Chief Says Measures Taken To Meet Situation

Police Prepare To Repel Attack By Communists   Brifish and Greek Regulars in Action

Soviet Forces Drive Nearer East Prussia   Capture Nazi Bastion Of Osowiec—Smash 16 Miles West Of Pskov   GERMAN ATTACKS ARE BEATEN BACK

SOVIETS SCORE L IMPORTANT ADVANCES   Take Osowiec Near Prussia, Gain 16 Miles Beyond Pskov

E FLAG GOES BACK IF ANOTHER STRIKE      Seiberling Says He'll Return Army-Navy Award

Senate Votes To Stabilize Security Tax   Measure Was Opposed By The Administration

SON OF PRESIDENT TO RETURN TO SEA   Lt. Franklin, Jr., To Command Patrol Craft

12 Ohio Towns Turn Clocks Back   27 More to Go on Slow Time Next Week-end

MORE BLOWS ON GERMAN INDUSTRY   Especially Oil Producing Plants Despite Bad Weather; RAF Loses Four Bombers.  Feean le Tarot

Our Neighbors Panama Suspends Constitution;  Mexico to Send Allies Air Aid

 Decree Suspending Panama Constitution ‘Has Opened Way for De La Guardia ‘To Retain Presidency: Cabinet Quits

POLITICAL UNREST SWEEPS BALBOA   1941 CONSTITUTION SUSPENDED BY DECREE

NAZI ATTACKS THROWN BACK   Probing Assaults Near Stanislawow Reported

Nazi Attacks Thrown Back   Russians Reveal Two Stabs in Area of Stanislawow and Tiraspol

Reds Repulse Nazi Attack   Lull Continues on Most of Russian Front, Moscow Declares

RUSSIANS STEM ENEMY ATTACKS   Nazis Leave 800 on Field After Attempts to Pierce Soviet Lines Fail

Italy Drive Gains In Fierce Fighting   Allies Push Two Miles  Closer to Florence

ALLIES ADOPT NEW POLICY      Churchill, FDR Give It Home Rule Powers

Italians Granted Greater Control  Of Own Affairs   U. S. and England To Send Ambassadors; Would Aid Industry

Home Rule for Italy Planned By U.S.-Britain   FDR and Churchill Announce New Policy Toward Former Foe

Per-Capita Share Of New Budget Is Fixed At $726.07   Will Increase If War Lasts Long

Hf President Is Right Your Share of National Debt Will Be $1,877.59

Your Share In New Budget   Is $726.07 Unless War Spending Ups It to $1,877

Your Share of New Federal Budget Is $557 More Than You Had on New Years

Germans Claim Reds Breach Lines  As Drive Resumed North of Warsaw

Stalin Ready To Capitalize On Defections   i, Nazis Continue to ‘Flee as Russ Forces Drive Near Bulgaria

REDS CAPTURE  ‘OIL REGION OF PLOESTI   Victory Estimated to Mean Immediate Loss to Nazis of 2,000,000  _ Tons of Annual Producing Capacity.

Nazis Flee Black Sea Strongholds   Reds Capture Constanta, 23 Miles from Bulgarian Border, Reund Up Nazis in Ploesti Ares

REDS CAPTURE PLOESTI IN DRIVE LIBERATING ALL RUMAINIAN OIL   COSSACKS TAKE HALF OF RUMANIA, RACE TOWARD BUCHAREST, BULGARIAN BORDER

NAZIS FLEEING STRONGHOLDS ON BLACK SEA   Capture of Constanta Appears Likely To Be Followed By Complete Mop-up in Ploesti Zone   FIND LITTLE SABOTAGE

First Army Troops -Hale Grimly to Their . ~, Breaches     NAZI RESERVES IN: ACTION ON FRON? British Armies Fight: Bridge at Nijme- :  gen 4

British Battle to Cra is Rhine in Holland to!         fect Rescue of Largé Force. _ =       HODGES’ SOLDIERS REACH GRESSENIC)            Nazi Resistance Stiffeng All Along Front — Pat ton’s Army Locked ‘ip Furious Struggle.

british Fight Desper ately To Rescue —  Air Tr oops  2 Creat Battle: Raoze   ~ Great Battle Rages  As 2nd Army Seeks  To Get Across Rhine  At Nijmegen, Holland GERMANS STILL. HOLD STRATEGIC BRIDGE. .  German Resistance ; Stiffens All Along Western Front

BRITISH TRYING: TO SAVE UNITS INSIDE HOLLAND   Huge Pocket Of Air Infantrymen Under Slashing German Attack   NAZIS ARE HOLDING IMPORTANT BRIDGE

Nazis Battle To Hold Gate To Ruhr Area   Yanks of 1st Army Repel Repeated Fierce German Attacks; Patton’s Force Also in Heavy Combat

British troops race to aid units trapped in the Arnhem area   First army reaches Gressenich as Yankees hane to Siegfried breaches

Sky Troopers Are Pocketed Near Arnhem   Yanks Crush Enemy Armor In Westwall Struggle; 24 BPinncese 2 Milac

British Battle To Save Bridge Across Rhine   Sky Soldiers Pul Up Desperate Fight

BIG AIRBORNE ALLIED TROOP UNIT ISOLATED   YANKS HANG GRIMLY TO BREACHES IN WESTW ALL

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British Fight Desperately To Cross Rhine In Swirlina Battle For Rescue

Farther South General Hodges’ Men Hang Grimly to Breaches in Siegfried Line and Repel Fierce Nazi Attacks.

A Card Holders Lose: Tire Hopes   WPB Slashes Output of. Tires For 1945

Dim Hopes Of ‘A’ Drivers For New Tires   WPB Cuts Output For Production of Military Needs

OWN IN TURKEY RAZED IN QUAKE    Nation Rocks as Man) Are Reported Killed or Injured

Reich Readied  For an Invasion   Nazis Whipping Together Army of Young and Old, Bolstering Defenses

ROBOMBS AGAIN STRIKE ENGLAND   Some Relaxation of  Censorship Predicted

Wallace Ahead in  Claiming   “Convention Boos and Cheers Leading Contenders for 2d Plave

Presaging Aerial Assaults for November That May Outweigh <Any Ye! Hurled on Germany.  Lose 34 Bombers

NaziCiti Hit Hardin. Air Attacks   Five indushial Towns  Pounded in One of Allies’ HMsuvicet Assaults

2.500 Heavies Hammer Five German Cities   Fliers Brave Bad Weather, Heavy Flak: Many Planes Lost

‘Allied Bombers Hit Five German Industrial Cities   Americans Lose 30 Bombers and 23 Fighter: From Big Air Fleets Roaring Over Reich: Not One Enemy Plane Encountered

Over 2,500 Planes Blast Reich Cities   Five Industrial Cities Rocked as Enemy Refuses Com. bat for Second Straight Day—Railway Centers Are Plastered

2,500 Bombers Blast 5 German Industrial Areas   64 Allied Planes Reported Missing

31,360 Tons Of Explosives Unloaded On Germany During March By Allied Fliers

TURKISH BREAK WITH GERMANY EXPECTED SOON   Germans Leaving Istanbul Today For Ankara

TURK, GERMAN BREAK AWAITED WEDNESDAY   Germans And Families Flee Istanbul For Ankara

Nazis Flee Inland In Turkey Rather Than To The Balkans   Believer To Prefer Internment By Turks To Return To War-Torn Land

Nazis Fear Turk Break: Wednesday   German Families Move Inland By Train, Plane From Istanbul  -

Allies Hurl Air Power at Nazis   Send Everything They Have Against Robot Bomb Installations

Bombs Smash Rocket Caves   Allies Hurl Full Air Might = At Western Front

Huge Air Force Hits Robot Area Crushing Na7i Storage Depot   Allies Also Blast At- Caen Area In Close Support Of Montgomery’s Attacking Forces

Huge Aerial Forces Hit * German Bases   Flyers Attack Robot Ramps, Also Support Armie

Raid Robot  Storage Cave   Allied Planes In Heavy Attacks From The Air

Allies Strike Twin Blows On  Robot Caverns   Hit Savagely In Support Of Montgomery s Troops Around Caen,   RIP BOMB STORAGE

Every Type Plane Hurled at Germans  On Western Front  Allies Pound Robot  Ramp, Give Aid to

Army, Navy Rioting Is New Rumor   Hitler Reports to Troops; _ Says Smali Group Responsible; Now Wiped Out

Siege State In Reich As Nazis  Fight Revolters   Hitler Appeals To Army For Obedience, Loyalty

Nazi Rocket Planes Climb At Terrific Rate Of Speed   Pressure Said Greater Than That Experienced By Diye-Bomber Pilots

German Rocket Plane Climbs at Swift Pace   Fighters Soar Into Sky at More Than Two Miles a Minute— New Machine Gun Beine Made

Hamburg And Zagrek Battered   Mosqutio Bombers Deposit Block Busters On Ruhr And  Rhine Targets.

Gains Put Nippons Ir Bad Hole   Drive Forward On Ormoc Corridor After Stalling By  Tropical Rains.

Americans Resume Offensive On Leyte; Isolated Japs Now Facing Serious Situation

Yanks Resume Offensive [n Ley te Section   Substantial Gains Made On All Sectors

Yanks Resume Offensive on Leyte Isle   Isolated Japanese Forces Face Serious Situation

Speaker Outlines Needs of Educational Program to Meet Post-War Conditions   Dinner To County. School Superintendents. Preceded Address

Al Li ies Poised lor Major Blow  Around Imphal   Attacks On Jap Supply Lines Hint Offensive Is lnminent

JAP SUPPLY LINE UNDER ATTACK, INDIP   Major Allied Counter Offensive Being Formed to Drive Foe Back Across Burma Line

OPEN ATTACK ON JAPANESE SUPPLY LINES   Major Courtter-Offensive Immi nent In Imphal-Kohima Sectors

COUNTER-DRIVE IN BURMA SEEN   Attack on Enemy’ Supply Lines Is Started

Coordinated Push Started on Burma Jap’s Supply Line   Major Offensive to Regain Lost Ground Imminent

Jap Supply Lines Into Imphal Hit   Major Counter. Offensive In Burma Said Imminent

Ship Crack Ups Hint At Politics   Maritime Union Head Suggests Dirty Work In Liberty Ship Accidents.

Work To Resume  This A. M   President Roosevelt Orders Action To End 16-Day Sirike In Vital War Plant.

Government seizes Ward  subsidiary Hummer strike apparently over

Race Program For Wednesday   JAMAICA IN PATH OF TROPICAL STORM   Hurricane Center Now Ove! Caribbean Off Florida

AWAIT LONDON AIR DECISION   PROPOSAL CALLS FOR REGULATION OF WORLD TRAFFIC

AWAIT LONDON'S DEPLY OW AIR PLAN   Draft of Rules Informally Introduced to Members at Aviation Conference

COMMISSION IN TALY REVSES. SCHOO SYSTEM   Allied Pattern to Substitute idpalony of Nazism ~

COMMISSION IN TTA REVISE SCHOOL SYSTEM   Allied Pattern to Substitute sceology of Nazism

Hijack “Gas’ To Black Market   Large Number Of Americans Being  Held In Frauds

Officials Declare Black Market Is Rife in France  Allegations Accuse _ Soldiers of Stealing Fortunes

Yank Soldiers Supply French Black Market   Gasoline Hijacked, Cigarettes And Other Post Exchange Goods Stolen By Carloads

ARMY GASOLINE BEING HIJACKEL   French Black Markets Fed By Thefts Of U.S. Soldiers “

GASOLINE SENT ABROAD FOR WAR BEING HIJACKED   Thousands of Gallons Stoten ' Daily in France and Sold at High Prices to Black Market.   CIGARETTES, SUPPLIES TAKEN BY CARLOAD   Pilferage Is Work for Most Part of U. S. Soldiers, Hundreds of Whom Are Under Arrest.

['hieving Soldiers Make Fortunes In Gas, Cigarets in French Area   Hiundreds Arrested, Army Reports, But Protests Light Punishment Given to French Civilian

MOUTH "EXCEEDS ND QUOTA      igures. Show Pur. , Were 106Per  ent of Quota” -—

MOUTH EXCEEDS. ND QUOTA   igures  Show Pur: Were 106 Per ent of Quota = -

 Argentina’s Military  . Attache Denied Visit To Front; Is Recalled

Argentina Aide Quits London Post   War Front Visit Bid Withdrawn

ARGENTINA RECALLS MILITARY ATTACHE   Invitation To Visit Western Front Withdrawn

CALL ATTACHE TO ARGENTINA   Invitation to Visit Was Front Withdrawn

JAPS REPORT FLEET ENTERS LEYTE GULF, SHELLS COAST AREA   U. S. Invasion Troops May Have Swarmed Ashore On Tiny Suluan Island; Manila Again Attacked

Tokyo Says American Fleet Attacks Leyte In Apparent Effort To Cut Island Chain   American Officials Silent On Jap Announcements As Carrier-Borne Planes Raid “Every Locality” In Pacific Bastion

‘Ade, Noted Wit, Dies in Indiana   Ill Nearly Year Followina Stroke

ADE, CELEBRATED HUMORIST, DIES   HEART ATTACKS CAUSE OF AUTHOR'S DEATH

GEORGE ADE, 78, DIES OF ILLNESS   Humorist Suffered Heart Attacks Saturday   Wealth From Play

PLANS TO KEEP BANK OUT OF POLITICS   Senator Wagner, Chairman  of Banking Committee, to Bring Up Matter Later

Wagner Asks  World Bank Be  Politics Free Wants Action  Af. ee at

GERMANS PUSHED BACK IN ITALY   CANADIAN TROOPS DRIVE WEDGE THREE MILES DEEP INTO NAZI DEFENSES.

CANADIANS DENT LINE AT FAENZA   Wedge Three Miles Deep Driven Across Lamone River In Italy

Study Plans For  Peace Structure  State Department “May Call In Legislators

Move Toward Peace Plans   Hull Asks for Congress Committees to Help Draft International Organization

Allied Attack, Aided by F rench-Based Planes,  s Power     NIATINC TOMSE TICnsc   As Weather Clears, Sky Fleets Rip Enemy Roads  and Positions

U.S. Planes Fly From  French Soil   Powerful American Attacks Slash Railway Near Cherbourg, Seize Two Key Towns; Germans Admit Shortening Lines

Allied Plans Are Now Operating From French Soil   Germans Release Flood Waters to Protect Cherbourg

Cherbourg Battle Under Way Lowlands Flooded by Nazis To Hamper Allied Advance   Twe More Important Towns Captured; Chutists Force Germans to Falt Back; _  Baamu Cuffare Neval Laccec in Channel

Yanks 15 Miles From Cherbourg  Invasion Forces Smash Ahead, ~ Capture Several More Towns

GRAB THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS IN ADVANCE ON PORT   ANOTHER COLUMN SMASHES SOUTH IN DRIVE ON CARENTAN

‘Nazis Flood Battleground Tn Effort to Save Port   Allied Invasion Forces Backed by Planes Flying from Airfields Located in France For First Time Since 1940   Within 15 Miles of Cherbourc   Large Areas Flooded

ALLIED PLANES OPERATING FROM FRENCH SOIL AID BATTLE FOR ' CONTROL OF CHERBOURG AREA      Flood Waters Up to 7 Feet Deep Hamper A But Americans Cut Railroad Below Port in Sever Places and Seize Two Important Towns on : Peninsula

Expeditionary Force Is Hampered by Flood Waters to Depth of Seven Feet, Loosed by the German Defenders in Normandy,   Allied Airplanes Are Operating Their Missions From French Soil

Yanks Capture 2 Vital Towns   Isigny, Trevieres Seized as American Troops Drive Through Nazi-Flooded Battleground Toward Port of Cherbourg

Germans Flood Battlegrounds   Allied Warplanes Operating From French Bases for First Time Since 1940; Germans Withdraw as New Parachute Troops Land

Germans Loose Flood Waters, Hamper Yanks   Rail Line From Port Is Cut By Allies In Several Place:

BELOW TOWN   American Troops Take Two Important Towns; Airforce Gives Support.   FLOODS SLOW ADVANCE

Two Columns Ramming Across Narrowest Portion of Peninsula Below Port   Violent Fighting Reported Only 15 Miles Below Prized Port; British and Canadians in Great Tank Battle for Possession of Caen

RAILWAY BELOW CHERBOURG CUT   Americans Take Isigny And Trevieres; Push Ahead Despite Nazi-Created Floods; 5,000 Captives Taken

Hoeven Sees Near East Oil  As Cause For Future’ Wars   Roosevelt Has Not Proved Need For National  Slavery Law

FD. R. Approves Plan To Permit Nominations Of Men in Armed Servic

World Peace Body Outlined By FDR   All Nations Would Be Rep. resented On Council

Roosevelt Reveals Administration's World Peace Ideas   International Council and Court Plan Is Favored

FDR Gives Views On World Peace   President Asks Council Of All Nations

President Outlines Postwar Plan For World Peace  Council of Nations, International Court Are Proposed

International Council Is  U. S. Plan   President Gives Hint of Postwar Peace Proposal

Administration’s International Peace Program Is Discussed By Roosevelt

F.D.R. Tells Of Peace Plan After Parley   Would Include an [nternational Court of Justice

LEAGUE PLANS   Favors World Council Wit’ International Court  Of Justice

hoosevelt s Peace Plan Has Proviso For Court   All Nations Would Vote On Council Every Year

Outlines Postwar Peace Organization   U.S. Plan Would Include Council Of All Nations

we ROAR BAAS.  Postwar Peace Is Outlined   Administration’s Plan Calls For Council Of World Representatives

A Frank Statement Of ‘My Views Upon City Issues And Improvements

Soviets Reach Sea *South of Memel, Moscow Reports    Red Forces Now Smashing Toward -Tilsit, East Prussia; Closer to Budapest

SOVIET VANGUARDS..  HAVE NOW REAGHED THE BALTIC SEA   All Landward: Escape’ Rautés for Some 150,000 Ger      SOUTH. OF ' MEMEL   This Would Constitute: am lavasion of East Prussia,. London Reports. .

Russians IDrive to Baltic Seq   Sever Landward Escape Route For 150.000 Trapped Hur.      (See Map on Pare 3.)

BLOGK EotAPE FROM PORT IN EAST PRUSSI   Other Soviet Armies Throw Troops at Fortress  City of Tilsit.

REACH BALTIC SEA   Russians Cut Off Land Escape Routes of 130,000 Nazis

Red Drive on Memel and Tilsil   Smash at East’ Prussia Severs All Land Routes tor 150,000 Enemy Troops   ANOTHER FORCE GAINS IN HUNGARY   Spectacular “Snecesses Are Reported On Both Fronts; Battles Are Growing

REDVANGUARDS ROLL TO BALTIC IN MEMEL AREA   Escape By Land Cut Off For Some 150,000 Germans  In  atvia. Lithuania

Russians Reach Baltic, Trap 150,000 Germans   Soviet Shells Fall On Prussian Seaport of Memel

Red Thrust Traps 150,000 Nazis in  Latvia, Lithuania   Breakthrough South of Memel Actually East’ Prussian Invasion

Soviet Troops Reach Baltic South of Meme   Russian Drive Severs All Land Escape Routes For 150,000 Germans in Latvia and Lithuania

Say ‘Soviets At Baltic Below Meme   Sever Land Escape Routes For 150,000 Nazis In North   Me PANTPL. Pee tia &

RUSSIANS DRIVING AGAINST HEMEL PORT IN EAST PRUSSIA  FARTHER SOUTH TWO RED ARMIES HURLING “FORCES AGAINST TILSIT

RUSSIANS CUT ESCAPE ROUTE FOR «150,000   Vanguards Reach Baltic Sea Below Prussian Port Of Memel

Russ Reach Baltic,  Sever Escape Route   150,000 Germans Trapped As Soviet Army Spears South Of Meme! In Lithuania And Lunges At Enemy Territory

REDS FIRING SHELLS INTO BALTIC PORT   Storm of Russian Artillery Breaks Over Memel While While Southern Armies Drive on Tilsit   RAILWAY RETREAT CUT

Soviets Reach Sea South Of Memel: E. Prussia availed   Russians Sweep Through Hungary; Are Within 50 Miles Of Capital At Budapest; Strikes Reported Spreading Throughout Puppet Nation

German Units At Memel Are Trapped   All Landward Escape Routes Are Cut For 150,000 Nazis

Soviets Close Escape Route Out of Baltics   150,000 Germans in Latvia and Lithunia Encircled by Reds

Soviets Enfer East Prussia South Of Memel  Land Escape Cut Off For 150.000 Germans   Land Escape Cut Off For 150,000 Germans; Offensive Gaining On  Hiunanarian Frant

Reds Shelling Port. Of Memel. Held By. Boche   All: ‘Gandward: Escape ‘Routes for 150,000 Huns  ) in ’Latvia aud Lithu ania Severed   Constitutes Jab Into East Prussia   German Communique Says “Gigantic Struggle _ Continues With: Grow: ing Ferocity”?

Four Days Of Blows Wreck Jap Defenses   Details Lacking On Latest Aerial Assault By Yanks; 227 Ships And 530 Planes Are Blasted By Famed Naval Task Force 58

American Attack  Still Going On   227 Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged, 530 Planes Destroyed— Japs Claim U. 8. Warships Wrecked

227 Ships, 530 Planes Are Wrecked In Drive To Clear  —Phillopine Defenses

FOUR DAY TOLL 300 PLANES, 227 JAPANESE SHIPS   Allies Knock Out Enemy Defenses In Series Of Raids

B-29 Bombers Join Assault Against Isle   Powerful Blows Weaken Japanese Philippine Defenses

Attempt To Kayo Guardian Bases of Philippines   227 Ships, 530 Planes Reported Destroyed Or Damaged In Raids

B-29s Rain  Destruction On Formosa   Superforts Take Ur Offensive Against Burning Jap Island

4  227 Enemy Ships And 530 Planes! Destroyed Or Damaged In Four Days Of Raid On Japan's Inner Bases   DETAILS OF RAID TODAY UNAVAILABLE

B-29 PLANES ARE LOOSED ON FORMOSA   Follow on Heels of  Carrier Planes

Formosa Hit By Superfort Fleet of 100   Jap Losses in 4-Day Assault Reach 530 Planes. 227 Ships

SUPER-FORTS JOIN ATTACK ON FORMOSA   Americans Destroy or Damage 227 Enemy Ships and 530 Planes In 4 Days.

EIN Y AOE  French Train Service Cut  Is Ordered      France’s Transport System To Play Important Part’ In Invasion

IMPORTANCE FRENCH TRANSPORT SYSTEM GIVEN EMPHASIS   ALLIES U~GE FRENCH STAY OFF HIGHWAYS; SERMANS TO CUT SERVICE

Nazis to Cut Rail Travel On Monday   Alfies and Germans Seck Right of Way For Troop Mavement

Allies Warn French To Clear Roads For Invasion; “D-Day” Monday, Nazis Say

Allies Warn French Stay Off All Roads   Fiendish Nazis P Plant SharpShooters to Pick Off Invading Officers

Both Sides Warn People of France  Transport System to - Play Large Part

French Warned  To Clear Roads   People Urged to Keep Off Highways When Allied Invasion of Continent Is Launched as Importance of Transportation Is Stressed.   TRAIN SERVICE CUT

French Transport  - System Important  Allies, Nazis Paying Particular Attention

Allies Warn French To Keep Roads Clear; Nazi Astrologer Savs Invasion lo Open Monday

French Warned: ‘Keep Off Roads’   Latest Invasion Guess (By Berlin) Is Monday

French Rail Traffic Cuf   Germans to Need Highways Railroads When Invasion Blow Starts

Instructions Given French  AsTo ‘D-Day’   Keep Roads Clear, France Is Warned As Invasion Nears

Keep Roads Clea France Is Warned   Germans Pick Monday as D-Day As Railway Traffic Is.Reduced

Allied Warning to French to Prepare For Invasion Biow   Civilians Urged to Keep Off Highways; Nazis to Cut Train Service Monday

Warn French Off Highways   BBC Stresses Need To Keep Roads Open After Invasion Starts

ALLIES TELL THEM TO STAY OFF ROADS   Invaders To Need Highways For Troops Civilians Are Told

Transportation Of French To Be D-Day Key   British Put Up Emergency Units; Belgium and Netherlands To Sign Pact.

Quit Roads At Invasion Time, BBC Tells Freneh   Allies Want Highways Clear; Germans Now Guess All-Out Attack Will Come On Monday

GERMANS PREDICT INVASION MONDAY   ALLIES URGE FRENCH TO KEEP OFF ROADS AFTER ATTACK STARTS

ALLIES GIVE FRENCH D-DAY INSTRUCTIONS   Warn Them to Keep Off  Highways When Inva_ sion Comes— Germans - Now Say Drive Will Be ' Launched Monday.

Allies Warn French To Keep  Highways Clear For Invasion   Germans Cut French Rail Travel And Pick Monday As Latest D-Day Guess

FRENCH WARNED TO STAY AWAY FROM RAILROADS   London Radio Warns of Impending Dangers and Germans Profess to Sce Date of Invasion

French Told to Keep Off Roads   Allies and Germans Stress Importance Of Transport System

French Railways Play Vital Role In D-Day Plans   Importance Emphasized B Both Allies And Nazis; To Cut Service Monday

Allies Warn Frenchmen Ov Invasion Aid   Tells Public To Keep Roads Clear: Germans Cut Rail Travel.   DATE SET FOR MONDAY

FRENCH URGED 10 CLEAR ROADS WHEN INVASION STARTED   Germans Also Pay Particular  Attention to Travel $ystems in France

Transport’s  Use Planned   Both Germans, Allies Eye Railways, Roads

SPECTACULAR AERIAL ESCAPE NETTED ONLY SHORT LIBERTY   EX-OFFICER WHO TGOK PLANE AYTER ESCAPING GUARD. HLOUSE NARBED IN NEW ORLEANS

WFA Works On Conserving Milk   Propose Restriction of Cheese Manufacture

Disagrees With Views of Clergy   President Answers Clerical “Obliteration Bombing” Protest

President Disagrees With Clergy Protest   “Obliteration Bombing” of Enemy Occupied Europe Ye Military Necessity to Shorten War — Must Force Nazis and Japs to Change Philosophy  . Based an Avereccinn

BRITISH-GREEK FORCES SWARM INTO CAPITAL   Warships Surge Over Aegean to Pound Nazi Forts

Allies Occupy Athens; Greek Island Invaded   Warships Aid Drive on Capital, Breiticsh Land on Corfa Shores.

Athens Taker By British And Greeks   American Planes and Royal Navy Give Aid

Regular Army Units Enter Greek Capital   Britons and Greeks Also Liberate Port of Piraeus

ATHENS FREED BY GREEK AND BRITISH DRI   U. §. Planes Carry British Air  Troops and Warships Aid Action.

@ WPB HAS A HEART  Dream Girls, Not Gravel Gerties, to Greet Returning G. I.’s

Here’sa Daddy Who Won ’t Be Back But He Will Live in This Letter

Proud Soldier Father Killed On Palau After Penning Letter To Baby Daughter

Ags Allied Troops Fight Inland on Expanding Battlefront in Normandy; Enemy Fights Fiercely.

Moy Cen Dec  a ere he - -.G  eet ~   ‘Cne ivision Dad ires _,. . “azis; Caen 3a-e Grows -n ~quee--n-- anse ineavemen-s

Drive Threatens to Cut Off Cherbourg Peninsula—One Division Captures 1,000 Prisoners—Fresh German Reserves Thrown Into Struggle — Canadian Troops Free Dozen Towns.

INVADERS TAKE — MANY PRISONERS   Single Division Bags 1,000 Captives While Canadians Sparkle by  Freeing Towns

Fighting Fiercely, Allies Push Ahead  E ver-Widening Advance  Thyantane Dantnentio

Close-Quarters Fighting Marks Opening of Second Phase of Great Invasion   Expanding Normandy Offensive Threatens To Cut Off Cherbourg Peninsula; One Division Caplures 1,000 Nazis; Canadians Free 12 French Towns in Caen Area; Allies Reinforced

first Fhase Ot Invasion 'Announced As Success  Second Phase Calls   Second Phase Calls For Defeat of Nazi Tactical Reserves . Naw Beino Rattled   ONE DIVISION TAKES THOUSAND PRISONER:   Better Weather Helps ° Invaders Catch Up — With Supply Schedule

Terrific ‘Air Battles Take Toll: Liberators Put Airstrip Into Use

Bitter Fighting Reported Raging Inside of Caen   Americans Enlarge Beachhead as British’ And Canadians Make Steady Progress; Threat Develops to Cut Off Cherbourg Peninsula: 1,000 Nazi Prisoners Taken

Dozen Towns Captured By Canadians; Fierce Battles Raging at Bayeux, in Caen

Allies Thrusting Ahead In Drive To Cut Off Cher bourg Peninsula   CAEN IS TENACIOUSLY DEFENDED BY NAZIS

Vote Squabble Thrown Into Circuit Court   Sullivan County Stumped on Who Can Cast Absentee Vote

Delay of National Concern   May Hold Up Electoral Col lege Action; Candidate Asks Court Order   A LOCAL DISPUTE CLOGS CANVASS   Controversy Centers On Absentees Which May Decide Race for Sheriff

100,000 PLANES "44 OUTPUT GOAL   U. S. SCHEDULE CALLS FOR 50 PCT. MORE COMBAT CRAFT THAN IN 1948,

CENTRAL STATES’ TRUCK DRIVERS POSTPONE STRIKI   WLB MOVES TO BRING ABOUT SETTLEMENT OF TWO LABOR DISPUTES

WLB oEEKS 10 END 2 MAJOR STRIKES.   Truck Drivers in 12 “Midwest States on Verge of Walkout

WLB Moves To Settle 2 Strikes   ..+ Postpone Walkout Of Truck Drivers

TRUCKER STRIKE PENDS HEARING   OHIO WAR EMPLOYES ORDERED BACK TO WORK

WLB STUDYING TWO DISPUTES   Settlement Of Truck Drivers Controversy Sought

Judge Charges Chaplin Jury   Must Find Him Guilty If He Transported Girl For Immoral Purposes,

Chaplin Mann Act Case Goes To Jury Today   Judge Defines Berry Charges

Judge Issues 5,500 Word Instructions to Tury in Mann Act Case Against Chaplin

Judge Tells Jury Chaplin Guilty If He Moved Joan Berry To New York For Immoral Purpose:

—CHAPLIN— Comedian’s Case Before Jury Today   Federal Judge Gives Final Instructions To Jurors

Court Instructs Jurers In Trial Of Charlie Chaplin  Federal Alisrney lasists Mean Ast Charge Gniy Issue, Beleas

Jury Instructed In Chaplin Case   Judge O'Connor Sets Forth Law in West Coast Trial

U. S. Officers Say Nazis Violating 'Geneva Convention by Misuse of ‘American Uniforms, Equipment

Re eee EE — — ——eee,rl te a.  Traditional Bird Will Carry Yule Cheer To Servicemen Evervwhere

CLAIM GERMANS USE AMERICAN » UNIFORMS. TANKS   Flagrant Violations Of Geneva Conference Alleged Against Nazis

7,000,000 in Holland Face Worst Disaster   Prime Minister Says Germans Plan To Flood Half of Country Before Being Driven Out. —

Report 7,000,000 Dutch Men, Women And Children Are Facing Utter Want

Situation Is Serious  In Hollanc   War Ravages, Retaliatory Measures By Germans Bring New Crisis To 7,000,000 People ~

Tito Opens Big Drive in Yugoslavia  Part of Allied Onslaught Against Hitler’s

Tito Partisan Forces Launch  Drive On Nazis   Yugoslav Marshal Says His Troops Are Battling German Invaders; Silent on All-Out Campaien

Tito Offensive ‘Reported Keyed With Allied Drive   Yugoslavs in Naples Report All Out Drive Against Vardar and {bar Valleys

Cattlemen Fearful Of Catastrophe   TEN MILLION HEAD OF CATTLE BEYOND NORMAL ON RANGES  YET MEAT CONTINUES ‘RATIONED,   Dewey Lauds MacArthur

Dewey Blames OPA for Large Surolus of Beef   Charges 10,000,000 Cattle Above Norma Are on U.S. Ranges

GOP Candidate Favors Lifting Beef Rationing   OPA Regulations Create Bottleneck Between Range, Market

Dewey Flays lgnorantly Conceived’ Regulations Ruling Cattle Industry

BOYS’ TRAILER STORY RIDDLED   Admits School Attendance Prompted Yarn; Was Locked Dav Only

FLOOD PROJECTS GIVEN TES]   U. 8. Engineers Watch Results of 24-Hour Rainfall

BRITAIN ARMS 4,900,000 MEN   White Paper Says 500,000 Women Now Serving in Forces

WAR EFFORT BY BRITAIN. 18 OUTLINED   REPORT DISCLOSES MORE _ HAN ONE-THIRD OF MEN BETWEEN 14 AND  ’ G1 IN SERVICE™ ©

BRITISH FORCES TOTAL 4,900,000   World War To Date Costs Nation $100,000,000,000 White Paper Says

 So You’re Going Yule Shopping ?  It Won't Be An Easy Task To Fill That Christmas List

Gustav Line ‘On Verge of ‘Collapse   Yanks Within 500 Yards of Doomed Cassino; Enlarge Anzio Bridaehead

Yank Troops Push to Edge Of Cassino   Battle With German Suicide Squads; Menace Strong Gustave Line

ARE WITHIN 300 YARDS OF NAZI BASTION   Other Americans, Meanwhile, Open Frontal Assault on Gateway to Rome—Core of Enemy Line Seriously Menaced.

Cairo Radio Says Allied Tanks Today Forced A Break-through at Cassino

BATTLE NAZIS AT CASING   Only 500 Yards From City; New Rome Threat

Yanks Hit Germans On  Two Sides   Front and Rear Assault: Roaring on Ancient City; Nazis Fight From Ruins   MUST BE CLEANED . OUT OF DUGOUTS   Desperate Counter Attacks Near Rome; Eighth Army Mex Strike Soon

ALLIES CRASH INTO CASSING   Tanks Batter City; Bitter Street Fighting In Progress

TANKS FORGE BREAK-THROUGH AT CASSINO   Infantry’ Pour Into Nazi Stronghold; 1,100 Planes Raid Reich   RIV YEQTIN

Yanks Enter Cassino   REPORT CORE OF NAZIS’ GUSTAV LINE “SERIOUSLY THREATENED” IN DRIVE

Ten Nasi Divisions Trapped   Allies Storm Cassino From Front And Rear

Battle Raging Inside Cassinc   Some Of War's Hardest Fighting -Reported

American Troops Batile to Within 500 Yards of Cassino.   BRIDGEHEAD ENLARGED

AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHT WAY CLOSE. TO NAZI STRONGHOLD  FRENCH AND UNITED STATES TROOPS TEAR CADC IN CIICTAV TINE

AMERICANS PUSH TO WITHIN 500 YDS. OF CASSINO  TEAR WIDE GAPS IN   TEAR WIDE GAPS IN THE GUSTAV LINE UNDER HEAVY FIRE

Yankees Battle to Within 500 Yards of Cassino Stronghold   Core of Nazis’ Gustav Line in Italy Seriously Threatened

Allies Storm At Cassino In Heavy Attacks  City Is Outflanked By oth Army; Beachhead

New WPB Move Puts Aluminum Into Civilian Use   Limited Reconversion Starts With Pots, Pans, Cigaret Foil on Agenda

U. S. Bombers Score Success  Only Four Are Lost ir Wilhelmehoavan Retic

Bombers Smash At  Naval Base   Yank Fortresses Drop 1680 Tons On Wilhelmshaven Without Opposition.

Dewey Calls For Economic Security   Must Be Free From Regimentation; Backs More New Deal Acts

DEWEY HITS AT RIGID CONTROL   Asserts New Deol See: Only Regimentotion Or Reaction

Dewey on Air This Evening   GOP Candidate Speaks Tonight At Los Angeles

'Dog-Eat-Dog’ Ended—Dewey  Maps Social Security Speech For Tonight

Dewey Draws Big Crowd In  San Francisco   GOP Candidate Stresses Importance of Regulation Without Regimentation After the War.

Regulation Without Regimentation Is Need Of U. S., Dewey To Tell Nation Tonight

REGULATION NOT REGIMENTATION IS DEWEY THEME   G..O. PL. “Candidate Goes to 'Lios:Angles For Address

Dewey Opposes  Regimentation   G.O.P. Candidate Says Regulation Necessary In West Coast Address

DEWEY SAYS DAY OF DOG - EAT - DOG ECONOMY IS OVER  LL ss =<« << .- =< =    PREDICTS REACTION ON REGIMENTATION UNDER THE NEW DEAL

Dewey Prepares Security Speech   Has Endorsed Severa New Deal Aaqnecies

Broader Social Security Plan Dewey Theme For Los Angeles; Bricker Sees PAC Demoerat Axi

GOV. DEWEY 10 TO MAKE RADIO TALK TONIGHT   Social Security Problems Will  Be Discussed

‘Dog-Eat-Dog’ Ideas Oui, Dewey Says, Regimentation, Too  Declares for Mid-Read Policy Protecting Jobs, Farm Prices, And Enconraging Business

ATH SPEECH I WEST TONIGHT   Dewey Insists ‘Nation Needs Regulation Without Regimentation.

DEWEY BLASTS REGIMENTATION   Expected To Ask Broadened Security Plan Tonight

DEWEY TO MA FOURTH SPEECH ON WEST COAS)   Accepts More New Deal Innovations in Frisco Address

Dewey Maps Social Security Speech  Says Dog-Eat-Dog Economy Days Are

Dewey Assails Regimentation  Of Free People   Promises to End New Deal Practice Before 15,000 In San Franciséo Talk

og-Eat-Dog conomy Never oming Baek  DEWEY   ‘phrasing Speech On Social Security Problems For Los Angeles.   ECEIVES APPLAUSE

Dewey To Make Fourth Speech On West Coast   Will Broadcost At 11 P. M. Over NBC— Bricker In Maine— Wallace Speaks

FR. TOOK 100 MANY POWERS   Favors Regulation “Without Regimentation in Campaign Talks

Dewey Speaks at Los Anaeles Friday Night   Expected to Plead for Expanded Social Security Legislation

Ohio, Detroit And Washington Operators Out   White House Expected To Get Problem;  Long Distance Is Tied Up

Washington Is Hit By Phone Strike Spread   Crisis Brings Prospect Of Immediate Presidential Action.

Phone Strike Spreads to U.S. Capital   Big Production Centers In Michigan Also Affected by Walkout

SEES PROSPECTS OF STRIKE’S END   24 pt Sees ke Leader of Ohio Strike Saye Walk out May Be Settled .

(Government May Seize  Properties   Capital Operators Join In Walkout As Trouble Spreads

Phone Strike May Call for FDR Action   Sympathy Walkouts Extend to Washington and Other Centers

IELEPHONE STRIKE MAY TIEUP PHONES   {1 Unions Asked To Fall In Line. White House Action Threatened

SEES PROSPECTS OF STRIKE’S ENI   24 pt Sees .. a a ae Leader of Ohio Strike Gade Walkout May Be Settled 

Phone Workers Tieup Spreads To Washington   White House Action Expected in Strike  Which Threatens to Become Nationwide

REPORT SPREAD OF OPERATORS WALKOUT MOVE   National Significance Is Assumed; Washington Is Hit by Strike

“HELLO GIRLS” OF CAPITAL WALK OUT   Phone Strike Spreads to Washington, Threatens Other Cities   WLB ORDER IS DEFIED

MICHIGAN PHONE WORKERS START WALKOUT TODAY   Believe Government To Take Over Ohio Lines Soon

STRIKE 5 SPREADING   Washington and Detroit Operators Join in Ohio Walkout.   OTHER CITIES IN PATH

Str ike Grows As Operaiors Leave Posts’ Over Nation:   Roosevelt Is-E xpected ‘To Take Action Soon

WAOHINGTON, DETROIT nll AY WAL KAIITS   See Federal Seizure Looming Uniess Spreading Tieup of Lines Ends.

Washington And Other Key Cities May Be Engulfed By Operators Action

FOR MIGHT ACT TO HALT PHONE  STRIKE IN EAST   Bell Operators in Washington Walk Out — Michigan Women Also Quit

WEB IS DEFIED; SEIZURE LOOMS BY GOVERNMENT   Situation Getting No Better In Ohio - - Many War-busy Centers Are Affected

‘CUPITAL WALK OUT   Phone Strike - Spreads. tc Washington, Threatens © + "Other Cities    WLB ORDER IS DEFIED

700 Bomber: Hit Fields Below Paris   RAF Planes Smash Suspected German Field  Headquarters

U.S. Planes Pound Nazi Airdromes   Fields Near Paris And Central France Are Today's Targets

TARGETS BELOW PARIS BLASTED   About 1,700 U. S. Planes Smash at Enemy Airfields Today

1,700 American Planes Assault German Airfields South of the French Capital

Nazi Bases Near Paris Are Raided   1.700 American Planes Used In Offensive

NAZI AIRFIELD NEAR PARIS I$  BOMBED TODAY   1,700 American Planes Attack Other Targets

RAF Steps Up Raids To. Wipe Out Hun Robots   Disclosed Officially Germans Have Been’ Able to  Give Some Degree of Silence to Bombs’

POWER SYSTEM SEIZED BY ARMY   U.S. Takes Over Los Angeles Functions With Strike in Ninth Day

DRASTIC ACTION TAKEN BY PRESIDENT AFTER STRIKE AFFECTS INDUSTRIES — AND: HOMES

Murray Charges Aitempt to Make Politics of Wages  - Reveals OPA Siudy Holding Steel Increase Wonld Not

OFFICER KILLS 3, WOUNDS 5 OTHERS   Jealousy Believed Cause of Sunday’s Shooting Orgy.

FORMOSA HIT BY BOMBERS FROM CHINA   Is Gateway To China; 300 Miles From Philippines

rmosa: Bombe Off China, By American Planes   Saipan Toll Set At 9;752 Yanks

Liberators  From China ‘Hit Formosa   Shipping and Docks at-Takao Attacked; Japs Fight Stubbornly on Saipan

Bombs Dropped on Shipping Driven From Saipan Where Japanese Fight Desperately

" §. LIBERATOR BOMBERS HAVE BOMBED FORMOSA   Shipping, Docks and Har bor Installations in Jap  Held Area Under Amer ican Attacks

Jap Bastion Blocks Drive To Mainland; Yank Loss On Saipan Totals 9,752

China-Based Yank Bombers Smash At Formosa Shipping   American Casualties On Saipan Approach 10,000

Formosa Bombed By B=24s.   China-Based Planes Deliver Attack; Toll ©  Of Fighting on Saipan : Mounts to Record High

U.S. Bombers  Hit Formosa   Jap Bastion Of China Coast Liberators’ Target  ss. Ow... Owe we

YANK BOMBERS RAID FORMOSA   Guam Garrison Raided By US. Ships; Hengyang Battle In Doubt

Formosa Bases Are Bombed By Yank Heavies  Bloodiest Battles Of Pacific On Saipan; U. S. Casualties Now  T2141 f FSF AA.

Planes Blast Jap Shipping Off China Coast   New Strike at Takao Harbor Installations Softens Enemy for Nimitz’ Drive to Mainland 2000 Nips Fight to Retain Saipan Hold

Important Navy Base ~~ Alfacked   Must Be: Reduced to. Carry Out: Plan to Reach the . . ~- Ghing. Mainiand: :   SAIPAN BLOODIER EVEN THAN TARAWA   But Americans Remain’ On The Offensive; Heavy Battle Also Roars in China-

Japanese Fight Desperately For Island Bastion   Struggle Worse Than Guadalcanal, Tarawa; Enemy Losses Mount

Formosa, Japs’ Fortress Off China, Is Bombed   Saipan Revealed To Be Bloodiest Pacific Battlefield

Formosa Bombed By China-Based Yankee Bombers   Liberators Attack Shipping on Important Base on Jap Bastion.   U.S. Casualties on  Saipan Isle 9,752

Island “Bloodiest Battlefield” of War Against Nipponese   1,474 Yankees Killed, 7,400 Wounded, 878 Missing in 13 Days

China-Based Yank Planes Hit Formosa   Attack Docks, Shipping at Takao, Important  Island Base

China-Based Planes Bomb formosa Isle   Saipan Disclosed As The “Bloodiest Battlefield in  The Pacific”

FLIERS RAID THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA   Liberators Based in China Attack Jap Shipping, Docks and Harbor Installations at Vital Takao Base.

BLAST SHIPPIN%=  DOCKS, HARE: = AT TAKOA BA : —   NIMITZ DISCO : 9,752 YANKS FECLED IN SAIPAN INVASION

Casualties on Saipan  Are 9,752   Tokyo Radio Says Naval, Air Attack on Guam Friday Is Repulsed

HIT OBJECTIVES ON VITAL BASE      Bastion Must Be Reduced For Nimitz to Carry Out . His Plans.   SAIPAN BATTLE RAGES

Break Out Of Normandy And Send Two Armored Units Over Selune River Below Avranchesc

Speed Of Advance May Mean Yank Seizure Of Bridges Across Selune   U. S. Forces Gain 41/2 Miles Against Sporadic Resistance In Race Toward Heart Of France

ALLIES EXTEND AMERICAN FLANK WITH NEW GAINS MADE IN 24 HOURS   Germans Said To Be Surrendering By Hundreds To Advancing Amer icang.

“Yanks Span Normandy, Gain 4 Miles   Tank Spearheads In Open Terrain, Enter Brittany

Drive Aims At Heart Of France   Another Possible Nazi Defense Line Is Ruptured.

GERMANS IN FULL RETREAT   Armored Forces Push Across Selune River into Briltany — Only Sporadic Resistance Being Met,

U.S. Patrols Range Over South Guam   Berlin Admits Russians  Storm Over Vistula In Big Drive

Press Subsidies  On Food Costs   Attempt To Regulate Farm, Consumer Prices

STIMSON REPLIES 10 DRAFT CRITICS      Error Between Estimates — and Strength Small, "He Asserts

Draft Changes Defended   Army's Requisitions Consistent With Job,  Maintains Stimson

REQUISITIONS BY ARMY HAVE BEEN EQUITABLE   Stimson Replies To “Im. plied Criticism” Of Draft  Tlawavisintiae   SERVICE NEEDS MEN WHO CAN DO THE JOB

TO DRAET CRITICS   DECLARES ARMY'S CALLS FOR MEN “CONSISTENT WITH JOB” BEFORE IT,

Simson Answers Critics   Requisitions Consistent With Job Army Has To Do, Explains  ear

Stimson Replies To Criticism of Army Draft Plan   Defends Method Of Calling Men

70 Villages In Maquis’ Hands  French Police Join Resistance Movement

MAQUIS OCCUPY 70 VILLAGES   All Police in Area Join French Patriots

PATRIOTS RULE IN 70 VILLAGES   Maquis Seize Communities In Area Near Troyes

REVOLT ENDS AT ATLANTA PRISON   MUTINOUS CONVICTS SURRENDER; HELD 4 GUARDS AS HOSTAGES

Convicts Put “Tn Solitar y”  AtAtlants  i   Will Be Tried Promptly On Charges Of Violating Security Regulations’ Of Prison

OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED OF DEATH ‘OF THEIR SON   Cpl. Wilford Dixon Killed Septem ber 20th—Message Was Received Today.

Killedin  Invasion   Pvt. Paul Murringham Dies on Los Nearos {sland

SGT. EBERHART KILLED   Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Eberhart Was in Italy

LOCAL YOUTH LOSES LIFE IN FRANGE   Pfc. Peter J. D’Orfice Aged 24, Is Report: ed Killed on Aug  ng

‘ohn Hoaglin Of Hillsboro Killed      Killed In Action In France On Nov. 19

TROOPS ARE PRAISED   General Bradley Says Men Did a Magnificent Job

REICH CITIES HIT BY AERIAL FORCES   Coblenz, Schweinfurt and Mainz Heavily Bombed

AIR LOSSES Hil ALL-TIME LOW   Only 8 Planes Missing Out Of 2,000 Raiding Nazi Supply Centers

KNOX REVEALS” NAVY GROWTH   NEARLY 12 VESSELS PER DAY BEING . COMMISSIONED— PERSONNEL TO NUMBER  ' - REE MILLION

U.S, GETTING 12 SHIPS PER DAY   Overall Strength Will Be 3,700,900 Men by End of 1944

Bottle Of Scotch And Case Of Beer Offered  yVrie rr @& Fe  Car Ta mrmanrneac Qa D,.;

Aerial Armada Clamping Seal On Beachhead   Smashing Bridges, Airdromes And Railways Behind Battlefield.

Protect Invasion Forces  From Air   ‘Umbrella of Panes ee tinues: Sweep   Beachhiead   LOSSES. ABOUT EVEN   Low Level’ Bombing .Gets Targets Beyond the © Front Lines

Forts, Liberators Hit Targeis 100 to 150 Miles Behind Front— Mediams Leave Caen in Flames

Bombers Hit Hard Beyond Invaders   22,000 Sorties Flown in 48 Hours

OVER 750 PLANES HIT BEHIND LINE   Vigorous Effort To Clamp Air Seal On Beachheads

1,000 AMERICAN BOMBERS SWEEP OVER NORMANDY   22,000 Sorties Flown By Allied Planes In Last 48 Hours

Stream of Reinforcements By Sea, Air Strengthens Big Spearhead on French Coast

BLAST TARGETS BEHIND BATTLE LINE IN FRANCE  ‘AMERICAN HEAVIES  ” SWEEP WIDE ARC OF $0. NORMANDY

Paris Rails Burning From Biggest Air D-Day Operations   Air Cover Trying To Clamp Seal On Beachhead: Marauders Attack Caen After RAF Hits Paris; Nazis Lose 114 Planes.

American Bombers Blast Nazi Forces on French Beache:   Installations Behind the Front Are Also Heavily Pounded

POWERFUL FORCE OF AMERICAN HEAVIES HIT INVASION AREA  BRIDGES, AIRDROMES, RAIL YARDS, JUNCTIONS RATTERED THURSDAY

PLANES oWEEP OVER WIDE ARC   Allies Smash Bridges, Airdromes, Rail Yards in Normandy.   BIGGEST AERIAL ATTACK

Planes Hit Coast Area   Forts Bomb German Airfields ‘and Bridges

CLAMP AIR SEAL OVER BEACHHEAD   Powerful Forces of Allied Bombers Smash Bridges, Railroads Along Coast.   Fly 22,000 Sorties In the Last 48 Hours

Big Bombers Hit Normandy   Seek to Seal Off Beachhead Battlefield; Air Forces In Constant Action

U.S. bombers Hit Junctions  In Normandy  Marauders. -s_ Attack: Caen On Main Railroad’. To Pari is  AIR WAR R MOUNTS  23, 000° Sorties Flown In Last 48 Hours      ATR WAR MOUNTS   23, 000. Sorties Flown In Last 48 Hours — Of Invasion 

BIG AIR ARMADA CLEARING WAY FOR INVADERS   Over 750 Bombers Pound German Targets in South Normandy

CAEN IS LEFI BURNING BY AIRMEN   Rail Targets Around Paris Raided By R.A.F.   22,000 SORTIES   Reported In Last 48 Hours;  Seek To Clamp Air Seal  Over Beachhead

Planes Smash Bridges at  German Rear   Great Fleets of: Bombers Cut Are Around Battlefield

ett IT AT FOE   8000 Sorties Flown In 24-Hour Period; 174 Planes Destroyed

Planes Battle For Air Seal On Beachhead   Heavy Bombers Sweep Wide Arc to Stop Aid to Enemy

Planes Pound Battle Areas In Normandy   Bombers Smash Bridges, Airdromes, Railroad Yards, Junctions

U.S. Planes  Lash Out At  Invasion Area   750 to 1000 American Heavies Blast Targets In French Sector

GREAT FLEET OF HEAVIES SWEEP ARC IN FRANCE   Planes Clamp Air Seal . on Beachhead Battlefield

Allied Planes Hit Wide Area In France  Bridges And Air Fields Among Taraetc Struck

GREAT FORCE OF BOMBERS POUND ENEMY   From 750 to 1,000 Heavies Sweep Wide Arc Smash. ing Bridges, Airfields and Rail Yards   FOLLOWS NIGHT RAIDS

‘Heavy Yank Planes Bomb  Enemy Areas   Vigorous Effort Made to Claim Air Seal Over Beachhead

Protect Invasion Forces From Air   Umbrella cf Planes Continues Sweep Over achhead   LOSSES ABOUT EVEN   Low Level Bombing .Get: Targets Beyond the Front Lines

AMERICAN BOMBERS SMASH ALL FORMS OF INSTALLATIONS OVER 150 MILES BEHIND FRONT LINES   American Attacks Follow RAF Strikes at German Transport Lines During Night and Allied Planes Have Flown 22,000 Sorties During Past 48 Houra

Appointees of Democrats a      Lausche To Name Nine New Heads of State Departments.

NEW FACES IW STATE CAPITAL   Gov-Eleet Lausch @. To Name 9 New. Department Heads Soon

Kenneth Ray and 8 Others To Lose Key State Positions  Democratic Victory Also Means Loss Os Jah<« for Many State Emploves Here

U. 5. EXTENDS ISLAND RAIDS   Other Atolls in Marshalls Group Feel Force of U.S. Air Attack.

US Provided More Spots To Hit Japs   Kwajalein Furnishes New Jumping Off Places for Attacks on Other Islands Extending to Powerful Truk

EXPECT U.S, 10 PUSH ATTACK 10 CAROLINE GROUP   Isles in Range of Bombers; Kwajalein Atoll Under American Control

ATTACK ON JAPS IN CAROLINES MAY BE NEXT ON YANK SCHEDULE ~ ASMARSHALLS MOP-UP NEAR END   Bases on Captured Kwajalein Atoll Being Put in Shape by Seabees for Bombing and Blockading Other Pacific Bases of Enemy—New Guinea Defenders Being Battered for Knockout Blow

Dads over 30 Are Subject to New Rules   Divide Age Groups jnto Three Divisions, Younger Men Face Draft Calls:

NEWEST DRAFT PLAN  GIVES FATHERS OVER  30 CONSIDERATION SENATE DEMOCRATS PRAISE REPORT THAT  TIT ATTAR DOOR LCR

AMERICAN BIG GUNS HAMMER NAZI BASTION   Troops Seize Half a Dozen  Outlying Villages as  ‘They Drive Toward West Wall Citadel.   OFFENSIVE EXTENDS 90 MILES TO SOUTH   Siegfried Line Penetrated  - for Two Miles Near Trier—New Invasion.of Reich Made.

Siegfried Line Is Pierced a Depth Of 4 Miles By Yanks Against Light Oppositior   American First Army Launches Full-Scale Assault Against Aachen Citadel; Defenders Fight Like Fanatics Northwest Of Trier; Moselle Crossed In Force

German Radio Reports Siegfried Line Had Been Penetrated by “Far Superior Forces” ; Gen. Patton’s Third Army Continues to Slash East and West From Its Bridgeheads

Yanks Smash To Within One Mile of City   Towns Near Great Siegfried Bastion Taken; Border Crossed at Various Places on Front of 90 Miles

First opens new assault on fortress   Foe admits crack in Siecfried line

First Army Troops Drive to Within Mile of City  NEW PENETRATION  AT ANOTHER POINT  Yank Infantrymen Fight. on Siegfried Line Near Trier

Americans Pounce Siegfried Line In Aachen Area   Great Offensive On 90-Mile Front

ATTACK BEGUN ON SIEGFRIED LINE CITADEL   AACHEN ENCIRCLED; NEW INVASION IS MADE AT PRUM

Full-Seale _ Assault Made On Aachen ©   “Americans Only Mile From City in Drive -On Siegfried. Line .:   GENERAL OFFENSIVE EXTENDS 90 ‘MILES.   EXTENDS 90 “MILES. Planes Report Seeing  ’ American Vehicles  16 Miles Inside Reich

Tanks, Infantry Pour Across Nazi Frontier   Yanks Make New Penetration of Germany 40 Miles to South, on Main Road to the Important Reich City of Coblenz

Gateway to Nazis’ Prized Ruhr and Rhineland Regions Partially Ringed From West, South; Tanks Roll Ahead.

Allied Move Over Border  Now General   City Is Industrial Center and Citadel of Siegfried Line

Launch Great Offensive Extending Southward  For More Than 90 Miles

Aachen Is Battered By Artillery Fire   Americans Make New Crossing Of German Border South Of Aachen In Prum Sector

Invaders Push Thto Germany On Wide Front   Siegfried Proves Lightly Armed, Thinly Manned At Many Poinia

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DIES COMMITTEE SENDS. SUBPCENAS   , Group Prepares to “Tivestigate Alleged. Communistic Tie. Uns:

4) SUBPOENAED FOR PAC PROBE   ‘Government Employes, Labor People’ May Be Called Before House

SUBPOENAS BEING PREPARED FOR INQUIRY INTO. THE:PAC   INVESTIGATION TO CENTER ON CHARGES OF COMMUNIST: HOOKUP WITH LABOR  -: GROUP

Die COMMITEE  SENDS SUBPOENAS   , Group Prepares to “Investigate Alleged Communistic Tie-Ups

GERMAN PLANTS, INNORTHERN ITALY BOMBED   Turin Railway Yards Also! Hit; Ground Action   Limited by Soggy Terrain 

Robot Bomb Launchings Have Ceased   Allied Occupation Of ' Sites Stons Raids

Frightened Natives Inspect Damage  San Vittore Turned Inside Out

U.S. and Japan Each Lose One Destroyer   Engagement in “Gulf of Ormoc Is Reported

Enemy Loses Two Ships, We Lose One   Planes-Sink Three Freighters, Tanker In Philippine Area

JAP WARSHIP IS SUNK IN ORMOC GULF   Another Damaged; U. S. Destroyer Is Lost In Action

UYER IN FIERCE BATTLE   United States Vessel (oes Down With Guns Blazing   ACTION TAKES PLACE OFF LEYTE COAST

JAP DESTROYER  SUNK IN ACTION IN ORMOC GULF   American Destroyer Also Lost, But Most Of Crew Saved

Americans Sink Jap Destroyer But Lose Vessel   Most of U. S. Survivors Saved By Flying Boats In Daring Rescue Move

N.S. DESi ROVERS WREAK” HAVDL IN ORMOG CULT   First. Naval . Engagement Since Battle of Philippines in Oct. -

Japs Sink American Destroyer   Most of Crew Rescued—Jay Destroyer Also Sunk in Naval Battle

Another Warship Of Enemy Damaged In Engagement; U. S. Vessel Lost; Yank Airmen Pound Jap Bases

Response To Call For Funds Brings Initial Replies  . Report Good Start  - In Campaign F or:  re ee eee a

Response To Call  For Funds Brings Initial Replies Report Good Start  - In Campaign For Fifth War ‘Loan

OVERCOME STIFF RESISTANCE TO SCORE NEW GAIN   German Forces Cross Roer

F irst Army Slugs Out Advances Up To Two Miles   Major German Forces Withdrawing Under Delaying Action Cover

Yanks Storm River Line Near Duren   Hodges’ Army Puts Assault Arc Around Nazi Key Bastion

Ist Army In Gain of 9 Miles   Yanks Battle Sthowstorm After Heavy Rainfall

Record U. S. Air Flee Of 2400 Planes Hits: Front Line Rail Base °

AMERICANS MAKE DRIVE FOR DUREN   Offensive Resumed to Wipe Out German Forces on West Bank of Roer.   BULLETIN

Slugging HKastward Up To Two Miles On A Ten Mile Front  MAJOR NAZI FORCES WITHDRAW TO EAST  1,600 Heavy Bombers From England Bomb German Rail Network

Pounds Out * Gains Up To Two Miles    ACTION IS ALONG TEN-MILE FRONT AGAINST ROER RIVER LINE BEFORE COLOGNE ~

YANKS TIGHTEN ARC; CAPTURE THREE VILLAGES   Ground Forces Get Heavy Support Of Roeard Atr Fleet

No Counter-Attack In 36 Hrs. Against First Army Smash   Threat To Duren Gains As Hodges’ Forces Seize Villages

Withdrawal Of German Forces Across Rosr Established, No Counter Attacks During Past 36 Hours Reported   THREE VILLAGES TAKEN BY YANES

FIRST ARMY ADVANCES ON ROER FRONT   Nazis Withdrawing Across River In Face of Attack

TRIPLE-THREAT PLAN OF ACTION CHARTED BY STATE COMMITTEE  BIG ROOSEVELT VOTE,  DAICING EINK ARN fr   BIG ROOSEVELT VOTE, RAISING FUNDS AND CONTROLLING PARTY AFFAIRS

Demo Executive Committee Maps 3-Way Program   Poll Million Votes, Raise $150,000. and Give Party. Power

Nation’s Rubber Director Resigns   Government Advised To Abolish Agency

Given By Mayor Appeals Sentence To District Court Says Official  Erred in Police

Given By Mayor Appeals Sentence  To District Court Says Official  Erred in Police Case Decision

Private Maynard R. Reiner Is Seriously Ill, Result of Injury   Washington Soldier, Ree entls Sent to England — Jn Army  Service for Last Year

NEW STEP TAKEN IN CAMPAIGN TO SIMPLIFY TAXES   Plan To Eliminate Or Base Fil ing Of Quarterly Estimates

Tax Simplification Plan Progresses; Personal Exemptions May Be Same

Threaten To Unhinge Nazi Ba Lines In Seille River Va South Of Metz; Many To   Fall To Allies   GAINS CARVED OUT IN MEURTHE VALL

Willkie Submits Postwar Views  Denies Link With F. R.. Criticizes Policies

Germans May Be Leaving Finland May Be Trying to  Awvnid Intoarnmant

FOUR JAP SHIPS ARE SENT DOWN   Davao Waterfront Is Battered; 41 Nip Planes Wrecked

CIVILIANS CUT FROM RECONVERSION BILL   Re-employment Program Left Untouched by House

Pay for Idle U. S. Workers Stricken   House Committee  Trims Senate Bull

House Group  Slashes Bill   Postwar Retaining and Reemployment of Civilian Workers Turned Down

RED SHIELD LODGE SALE AUTHORIZED   Co. Commissioners Sell Property to' Colored Elie

RED SHIELD LODGE SALE AUTHORIZED      Co. Commissioners Self  Property to‘Colored Fike

INVASION AREA LASHED IN 11TH DAY OF RAIDS   Essen And Paris Suburbs Hit By 1,000 British Night Fliers

Liquidating Enemy in KohimaArez   British Start Battle of An nihilation to Clear Nips  from Region

750 JAPS DEAD IN KOHIMA AREA   British Start Battle of Annihilation in Region

‘Robot Bombs Hit London   Allied Troops Near Bomb Launchine Sites

Score Favors Yanks, 122 to 50  German Fighter Planes Are Giver Terrific Beating Over Misbura

37 American Bombers And 13 Fighters Are Reported Missing From Operations   AIR BATTLE FOUGHT IN SUB-ZERO WEATHER

122 NAZI PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE   Fifty: American -Aircraft _ Missing After. Combat

BAG 122 NAZI CRAFT IN RAID   Lose 37 Bombers and 13 Fighters in Oil Refinery Attack

{22 NAZI PLANES DOWNED IN BATTL   Fifty American. Aircraft Missing After. ' Combat’ _

122 GERMAN PLANES LOST AT MISBURG   During Raid Over Large Oil Refinery by American Fleet of Fighters and Bombers.   Shoot 20 Trains

122 German Planes Shot Down in Combat by Yanks   American Heavies Strike at Nazis’ Largest Natural Oil Refinery at Misburg and Meet Approximately 200 Enemy Fighters on Way

Yanks Down 122 German Planes In Oil Plant Raid   Fighters Blast 110, Bombers 12 of 200 Enemy Defense Craft

122 Nazi Planes Bagged by Yank: In Misbursg Raid   37 Bombers, 13 Fighters Lost by Americans Jn Attack on Refinery

Hurricane To Hit Coast At Port Arthur   Storm Warning Issued East From Galveston

Advance Beyond Airdrome On (Cape Gloucester   dapanese Loses Reported tu ave Run Into the ‘Thousands. Move ‘Considered A Detensive One Lo Offset Jap Coun{urnitaeks In Future

Marines Push Further Out From Airstrip  Widen Defense Perime- ters as Seabees Rush Airfield Repairs  1,000 JAP BODIES  Hundreds More Killed in Bitter Fighting; Planes : Pound Madane

Marines Maul Japs, Take Strong Post   Blitzkrieg in Jungle Quickly Reduces Defenses to Ruins

pines Count ‘N0Jap Dead New. Britain  -AacAsthur,  JS. Ey an Hold Fyn Coase Gladcectar-

JAP LOSSES AT GLOUCESTER TO BE VERY HEAVY   Americans Enlarge New Britain ET aT? a cenvgs:

Nip Counterattacks  Repulsed As Marine Forces Inch Ahead; 100 Planes Downed

JAPANESE DEAD 15 ANNOUNCED   y Aerial Forces Blast Madang, Rabaul And  Arawe

JAP LOSSES AT GLOUCESTER 10 BE VERY HEAVY   Americans Enlarge New Britain Hoaldinges

Americans Advance On New Britain   Air Action At Rabaul, Arawe Costs Japs 24 Warplanes

Soviets Drive On Toward Big  Railway Town   Dive Bombers Tangle Rail. road Yards Of Rome For Second Day.   2500 N AZIS KILLED

Germans Fling Armored Units At Bridgehead   Fierce Tank Fight Rages But Allies Say Lines Holt

GERMANS THROWING FULL FORCE AGAINST ROME INVASION LINE  VIOLENT TANK BATTLE  DEVELOPS AFTER HEAVY ARTILLERY RARRACE 

Germans Hurl Full Weight  at North End    Romé Railroad Yards: Pounded for Second Successive Day as Allies Fly: Sorties ©

American, British On Rome Beach Are Holding Firm   Violent Battle of Tanks and Artillery Continuing Today

NEW ALL-OUT ATTACK BEGUN BY GERMANS T0 DRIVE ALLIES OUT, BUT DEFENDERS HOLD   Germans Throw Full Force of Infantry, Tanks and Cannon into Determined Effort to Break Lines Bu -All Evidence Points to Failure

Allies Holding Firm As Nazis  Counter Attack   Violent Tank Battle Develops; Russians Drive Closer Ta Pskov Area

Hold Firm Against  New Blow      Violent Battle Rages At Rome Beachhead As Nazis Try Again to Drive Allies Into Sea

Cary H. Wagner To Address Texas Chemists   Subject of Speech Will Be ‘Chemicals From Petroleum’

Soldier Vote  Action Nears   Both Senate And House Set For Ballot. Today a Roll: Call Is Taken

Senate May Call Roll Today Over Soldier Voting   Meets Hour Earlier Than Usual To Tackle Bill To Give Overseas Soldiers a Vote.

Campaign Is Still $6,906.75 Short   One Week to Push Subscription Quota Over the Top: Five Sections Now Over

Successful Drive Closes Today   Sixth War Loan Subscriptions, Civilian Personnel, Reaches Total of $63.658.46

3,700 OHIO WORKERS IDLE WHEN PLANTS CLOSED BY STRIKES   Labor Difficulties Acute in Other Sections

3700 IDLE IN 3 OHIO CITIES   Output Checked by Strikes at Kent, Norwood, Ironton

3,700 Quit Work In Ohio Factories   Kent, Ironton and Norwood Hardest Hit

ZEROS BAGGED OVER PONAPE IN CAROLINES   WEAKENED RABAUL LEFT IN RUINS BY BOMBERS

Hershey Halts Drafting Of Men Over 26   Army, Navy Seeks Younger Males, Director Reports

Induction of Men 26 Delayed   Army and Navy Are Eager to Get Youths, Pass Up Older Men

Officials Seek To Speed Draft Of Younger Men   Inductian of Those Over 26 in War Jobs Is Postponed

Selective Service Halts Draft of Men 26 Years or Over   Delay Is Ordered Even for Those With Induction Papers Nov

DRAFTING MEN 26. ~AND OVER IN WAR JOBS POSTPONEL   Drastic Action Taken by. Se‘lective Service to Speed Induction. of Younger Group.   LATTER TO BE TAKEN  - .. KN MASSE IN APRIL   Delay in Calling Older Regis. Arants to Continue Until Those‘ in Lower Age Brackets Are In.

ARMY AND NAVY STRESS NEED OF YOUNG GROUP   Postponement Only Tem. porary, Officials Point Out

HERSHEY HALTS DRAFT OF MEN 26 AND OVER IN WAR-SUPPORT JOBS   Order. Applies To Those Already Ordered To Report; Workers In Certain Key Coal Mines Many Be Deferred

Postpone Draft Of All Men Over 2€  In Essential Jobs  Selective Service Orders Young Men Inducted First

Delay To Some Over 26 In War Vital Jobs   Postponement Is Ordered By The  Selective Service

CALL FOR MEN OVER 29 YEARS IS POSTPONED   New Deferment Lists To Be Sent to All Draft Boards

Drafting Of Men Over 26 Postponed   Changeover To Be Made Immediately

Boards Must Reclassify — Entire Lists  Under Order   New Interpretation Placed On Industry

Draft Rushing Men Under 26   Drafting of Older Men In War-Important Jobs Delayed Till Young Men Gleaned

Delay Drafting of Men Over 26 in War Work  Army and Navy Are Badly in Need of Youncder Men

Men Over 26 In War Work Get Respite   Services Will Postpone Their Induction By Taking Younger Men

Dratt Chief Halts Calling of Older Mer   Drastic Steps Taken to Hasten Delivery of Younger Men

Selective Service Halts Draft Of Men 26, Over, In Essential Work

British Second Army Hits Enemy Flank Above Aachen Sector   SLOW GAINS AT HINGE   Patton Advances on_ the Saar; French in Sight of Belfort   Rulletin

Lisenhower’s Armies Smash Toward Rhine On 400-Mile Front: Drive Is Unchecked   Nazis Say Focal Point Of Attack Is North Of Aachen; British Sweep Through Maas River Bulge: French Fight Into Belfort Gap

U.S., Foe Armor Fight To Death   Germany Throws in Great Tank Forces, To Block Allied Drive for Reich Vitals; Saor Border Pierced: Coloane Wedae Wide

47 Allied Officers Die in Escape Try   GERMANS KILL MEN ATTEMPTING TO FLEE NAZI PRISON CAMP

Nazis Shoot 47 Allied Air Officers After Mass Escape From Prison Camp

Swiss Reveal 47 Allied Air Officers Were Killed Mar. 26 While Trying to Escape From Nazi Prison Camp

NAZIS KILL 47 INMASS BREAK   News of Slaying Reaches Relatives in Britain

GERMANS SHOT {7 ALLIED PRISONERS   Killed After Making a Mass .. — Escape; No Americans Included

Congressmen  Back at Desks After Recess   Next Adjournment Will Come Shortly Before GOP Conv.

Important Bills Before Congress   Expect Session To — _ Adjourn In Ten Weeks

GHURKAS WIPE OUT NIPPONESE   Knife - Swinging Troops Clear Out Burma Raiding Party

Bomber Hits  Five Houses  Three Crewmen Killed After I thaeratay (Cracheoc

Bomber Hits Five Houses   Kills Three Crewmen, Injures Three and Three Civilians

Lincoln Plane Rips Through = Houses Near Kansas City  mek oe. Bitied TWTheeow Reale Seateewadis

BOMBER PLOWS ACROSS HOMES   Five Damaged and One Burned; Three Killed and Six Injured

LIBERATOR PLOUGHS THROUGH 5 HOUSES   Three Crewmen Killed, Fliers And Civilians Injured

GOP Candidate Has Kept His Eve on the Ball   Keeps Plugging, Has Mixed Luck With Perseverance

5] Pct: of Bond Quofa Subscribed   County Sales to Date Total $1,226.871

Hurricane Is Moving Northeast   Warning Is Issued Along Atlantic Coast After Storm Strikes Florida In Tampa District

Florida Citrus Crop Ruined by Terrific Storm   Two Dead in Miami; Many Leave Homes

‘Florida Hurricane Toll'Germans Are In Retrea'  Two Dead, Millions Loss After Defeat At Venray

HURRICANE HEADS TOWARD CAROLINA   GALES KILL 2 IN MIAMI $20,000,000 DAMAGE TO CITRUS CROP REPORTED.

Russian Column Attacked by U. 5. Fighter Planes   Washington Sends Regrets to Moscow

RUSSIAN TROOPS HIT BY MISTAKE   Allied Fighter Planes Strafe Soviet Soldiers  In Yugoslavia

Yank Plane: Strafe Reds. By Mistake   Happens. ii Yugoslavia: Closer Co-operation; With Russians: Sought

BOY, 16, SHOT; FRED VINES OF ODD POSTS BOND   Harsley Mann In Hospital; Shooting Took Place At Ghent

VICE CHAIRMAN RESIGNS   Charles E. Wilson Quits War Pro. duction Board

WILa  ONQUITS POST ON WE   Cites ‘Unfair Attacks’ B) Nelson Aides As One Of Reasons.

WILSON QUITS WPB IN HUFF      Charges Unfair Attacks Inspired By Chairman Nelson

WILSON RESIGNS HIS WPB PLACE   Assistant to Nelson Soys ‘Unfair Attacks, Criticisms’ MAaue ‘pen Hom

Wilson Resigns. ; as WPB Executive  Charge Unfair Attacks By Nelson's Staff

Wilson Quits © WPB >   “Unfair Attacks and  Criticiam” By Nelson Staff Members Given Ag Reason for Action

Charles Wilson Resigns WPB Job   FR Accepts Resignation ‘of Vice Chairman

CHARLES WILSON QUITS WPB POST   LETTER TO FDR SAYS HE HAS BEEN VICTIM OF UNFAIR ATTACKS

DECODING CLERK CEN SENTENCE   Tyler Kent Issued Confidential  Matters to Nazi Agents

DECODING  CLERK PIVEN SENTENCE   Tyler Kent Issued. Confidential: Matters to Nazi Acents .

Goal Reached in Vicious Battle  ‘Bloody Nose Ridge in Marine Hands

Goal Reached in Vicious Battle ‘Bloody Nose Ridge  eS ee a ch SN ae

BERLIN BOMBED, NAZI AIRFIELDS NEAR PAPIS HIT   2,000 Planes In Raids. Vienna Area Also Under Attack

3 U.S. Air Forces Hit Vital Axis Centers As British Hammer Coast   Largest Fleet Ever In Operation Rocks Europe From France To Alps; Luftwaffe Out

SKY BATTLES FOUGHT ABOVE REICH CAPITAL   Other Allied Warplanes Spread Ruin Across Hitler’s West Wall.   BULLETIN

Next Move In Rail Figh Up to FDR   Byrnes Accused After -Achitration Failure s-in Deadlock

BYRNES IS CRITICIZED BY UNIONS   Next Move Is Up to Roosevelt Unless Organized Men Change Stand.

U.S. Waits F.R. Dispute Action   LITTLE PROSPECTS OF FURTHER PROGRESS IN WAGE FIGHT SEEN UNTIL NEXT WEEK; UNION HEADS ADJOURN UNTIL THURSDAY

NEW ZEALAND TO CUT ARMY   Plans to Follow Move of   Australia, ls Report

NEW ZEALAND TO CUT ARMY   Minister Says Move Aims At Real Increase In War Contribution

NEW ZEALAND T0 REDUCE ARMY   ‘Move Follows Similar Action Taken By Australia

NEW ZEALAND © TO CUT ARMY   REDUCTION IN STRENGTH TO  MEET MANPOWER SHORTAGE ON PRODUCTION ~~ “” pRONT i

Japs Push on to Impahl but Allies Win Other Areas   Severe Fighting Continues in Tracts East of Kohima

Japanese Push Toward Imphal   Allies Battle Enemy To Standstill in Other Sections

Japs Extend India Advance Nearer Imphal   Allies Batthe Enemy To Standstill In Other Sectors: Of Burma Front.   POUND TRUK AGAIN

JAPS STOPPED COLD IN BURMA   Berlin Radio Declares British Have Given Up Imphal

Japs Advance [At Only One Point in India   Communique Says Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Enemy

Japs Advancing In India Drive   Allies Holding Own  In Some Areas

Japs ips Battle Tor In mphal; Losses: Hears   Claim. ‘Gains® in. Vicinity “of Ukhrul i in ‘Lunge at Manipur Road

Jap Losses Mount in Burma War   Drive Toward Imphal Is Able to Gain Only From Northeast

ENTERS. EIGHTH YEAR OF JAP WAR   Eight More Japanese Ships Sunk by Yanks

ALL ZEELAND IS CUT OFF FROM WORLD   Latest Anti- Invasion Move Guards Path To Antwerp

Germans Mark Off Invasion Zone in Holland   Swiss Report Allied Raids Have Wrecked Nazi Transport Setup

Plan New Blows At Jap Island  Bases In Pacific   Guam And Rota Are Undergoing Softening Up Attacks Is Report   SAIPAN BATTLE CASUALTIES HIGH

BELIEVE GUAM NEXT U.S. GOAL   Naval - Air Power Dominates Pacific  2,359 Yanks Killed on Saipan

Superforts Unload Bombs On Singapore   Military Targets Plastered In Longest Daylight Strike; Sumatra Oil Refinery Hit:

B-29's Get In Heavy Blows   Smash at Singapore Naval Base, at Giant Oii Refinery in Sumatra

Singapore Base Blasted by Big Superfortresses   Longest Daylight Strike Reported By U.S. Communique

Superforts Hit Singapore In  Record Flight   Sumatra Oil Refinery Also Blasted; No B-29s Revnorted Lost.

B-29’s Plaster Singapore and Sumatra Bases   20th Air Force Bombed Strategic Points On Malaya Peninsula.

Hit Military Objectiv es. Oil Refinery   Not One Superfort Lost to Enemy Actior In Two Actions

Plaster Military Targets In Daylight Strikes; No B-29 Forts Lost

Superforts Plaster Singapore   Second Group of. Giant B-29’s Strikes at Oil  Refinery in Sumatra; Longest Daylight Raid

Allied Armies J oin Forces   Weld Unit In Italy After 60 Mile Drive

10,000 GERMANS TAKEN IN 14-DAY DRIVE BY ALLIES   Nazis Now in Panicky Rout on Coast Sector South of Rome

OU-MILE DRIVE IN 14 DAYS ENDS IN ROUT OF GERMARS   Dramatic Junction of Great Forces Wipes Out Anzio Beachhead  a a  Titi GLAS SITAR A Rw OAC sg mT TI Pect U0 tC A POOR Pe   10,000 GERMAN PRISONERS CAPTURED   Yanks Take Cisterna and Straddle Appian Way—Enemy Roads Wrecked

TYRRHENIAN COAST MERGER CLIMAXES 14 -DAY, 60 - MILE DRIVE HEADING TOWARD ROME   ‘Dramatic Scene Enacted As German Forces Are Sent Flying In Panicky Rout; New Battle Lines Being Formed Rapidly

Japs Cut Off East of Aifape   Two Counter-Atfacks Broken by Americans

Britain Brands Peace Rumor ‘As Insult To British People  Russian Newspaper Prints Report England mA? §. hdas thftak Albee? tVlan Dibhanmtenn

Pravda Account Denounced as ‘Insult, ‘Lie’: Charge Said Ludicrous

Communists Dominate Our ~ Government   According To Spe Speech By Col. Robt. McCormick, of Chicago Tribune

Col. McCormick Charges Roosevelt, Country Is Dominated by Communists  Opposes Super World Government, Declares America Should Manufacture Her Own Rubber:

POINT FREE MEAT IS AGAINST WALL   OPA Claims Pork Scarcities Are Now Developing on Two Coast Lines.

aiierenmmmmemunmet., “ity sae mmmese seca  COURT MARTIAL TIME EXTENDED BY COMMITTEE

REDS MASSING FOR NEW BLOW   News From France Gives Boost To Morale Of Soviets

Reds Massing Army for Blow On East Front   Soviets Welcome News Of Allied Invasion as Dream Comes True

RUSSIAN ASSAULT. ~~ BELIEVED NEAR   RED ARMY SAID TO BE MASSING TO LAUNCH NEW DRIVE . AGAINST NAZIS.

Reds Report Nazis Taking Heavy Losses   Russians Celebrate D-Day, Said Massing Troops BFar New Attacks

MAKE PEARL HARBGR REPORT   Army and Navy Journal's Report Indicates that No One will be Court-Martiallod for Pearl Harbor

Believe Short And Kimmell Wont Be Court-Martialed   Army And Navy Journal Reflects Feeling Of Naval Officers

NO COURT MARTIAL FOR PEARL HARBOR DISASTER FORECAS   Army And Navy Journal Doubts Kimmel, Short Could Be Convicted

WHOLE GERMAN NORMANDY LINE IS THREATENED   Yanks Break Thru Two Enemy Sectors; Advance Is Continuing

NEW JERSEY GOING INTC DEMO LISTS   Outcome in Michigan, Ohio Still Uncertain. —Demo Position in Congress Strengthened.   Boone County Vote Table on Pace &

‘Hickenlooper Unseats Sen. Guy Gillette   Robert D. Blue Electec Governor As Whole State Ticket Wins.

Explosion Kills Three At Depot   Dozen Missing, Many Injured In Blast Near Hastings, Neb.

19 Year Old Veteran Of Free Polish Army Whu Lost Both Hands Is Given $13.000

[linois Campaign Nears End in High Gear; Vote Tuesday   4,000,000 or More of State’s Voters Ex. pected at Polls

ALL SIGNS POINT TO ILLINOIS VOTE OF OVER 4,000,000   STATE CANDIDATES ENGAGE IN FINAL SPURT OF ACTIVITY

CHALLENGE SENT TO CONGRESSMAN   TAX FOE SAYS COFFEE SHOULD BE HORSE-WHIPPED FOR HIS CHARGES.

She Invites Coffee Out To Fight   Vivien Kellems Says He Ought to Be Horsewhipped

Woman Accused As Sweethear' Of Nazi Scores Rep. Coffee, Declares FBI Knows Full Facts

Woman Challenges Congressman Who Accuses Her of Being ‘Sweetheart’ of German Acent

Vivien Kellems Wishes She Was A Man So She Could Put Representative Coffee In Hospital

“When” Will Dem: Release Business,  Asks Gov. Bricker   Calls Govt.-Owned War Plants Nucleus Of  State Socialism

Text Of Roosevelt Letter To Hannegan Announcing He'll Accept Nomination

ROOSEVELT LETTER   Text of President’s Notice of Intention to Accept Nomination

Further Steps Are Promised By Churchill   Defines Irish Problem As One of Security For Eisenhower Forces  “AFT IDT Fe MOON CCL NH

SOUTHERN IRELAND — -WILL-BE ISOLATED   Churchill Says Allies Go‘ing. Full Way to Stop Legks :

ALLIES INTEND 10 ISOLATE $0. IRELAND   Prime Minister Churchill ArMounces In Commons; Virtual Suspension Of Travel Into Eire But First Step   Safeguard Troops;

lrish Facing Isolation af Critical Time   Semi-Blockade s Under Discussion

Allies to Isolate Eire, Churchill Tells Commons  “ish Citizens Take Gloomy View; See

Lire to Be Isolated For Invasion Period   Churchill Reveals Allies’ Intentions In Commons; Border May Be Closed and Semi-Blockade Thrown Around Country

Churchill Announces Allies Will Isolate Eire During ‘Critical Time Approaching

FURTHER EIRE STEPS IN VIEW   Churchill Says Travel Restrictions Only First Measure

SOUTH IRELAND TO BE ISOLATED   Further Steps May Be Taken To Safeguard Allied Invasion

BE TAKEN T0 ISOLATE EIRE   Chirchiil Saya ‘Halt of Traffic Just First Step in Plan

Blockade of trish Coast Indicated   Briton Declares Military Secreey Must Prevail

Amphibious Operations Only Lightly Opposed By Enemy; Heavy Bombing Attack Made on Truk Base

Amphibious. Landings ‘Made by Yanks .. At Two:Points.West of Hollandia

Yanks Aim At Cutting Off Jap Escape Routes   Nips Surrender As Mopping Up Forces Continue Activities

Yanks Make 2 Landings or New Guinea   Move Designed to Cut Off Jap Coastal Retreat Routes

Action Serves To Consolidate  U.S. Position   Invaders Go Ashore At Two Points in New Move to Cut Off Jap Retreat; Truk Blasted

Amphibious Operations Completed   American Forces Make Landings at Points Near Hollandin,......  ie“ toew Guinda

Black Market In Radio Tubes Expected To Be 'Wiped Out By Early 1945

Yanks Gain In March  On Cologne   NINTH AND FIRST ARMIES CLAMP ASSAULT ARC ON ©— = BASTIONS OF ROER RIVER LINE

Six Anchor Towns Are Captured — by U. §. Armies   German Lines On Way to Coloane Yield

Make Slow But Steady Advances   American Armies Have Tak. en 53,000 Prisoners in  Offensive

Germany's Projected Win ter Defense Line Before Cologne  WITHIN 8 MILES OF SAARBRUCKEN  Roer Front Battle Was Most Terrible And Ferocious Of All Wars

Advance Steady on 16-Mile Front   Yanks Eight Miles From Saarbrucken, Key to Saar Basin; German Dispatch Terms Fighting “Most Ferocious in History of All Wars”

First, Ninth Clamp ArcOn Duren, Julich   Patton's Third Army Within Cannon Shot of Saarbrucken

Steady Gain Made Along 16-Mile Line   Patton’s Army — Slugs Through Germany’s Saar Region.

Nazi Strongholds On Approaches to Roer River Taken By American Armies

SIX ANCHOR TOWNS ARE CAPTURED   734,216 Prisoners Taken By Allies Since D-Day

Five Other Nazi Towns Before  Roer River Fall   ‘Direct Threats Posed To Duren, Julich After Desperate Fight

Yanks Crack Nazi Grip On Roer Strongholds In “Ferocious Battle”   Occupy Jungersdorf, Koslar - Clear Hurtgen Of Foe In Plunge Across Cologne Plain

Big Town West of Diiren’ Captured.   Steady Gains. Made an Cologne: Drive °

Allies’ Ardennes Front NofCoherent  Berlin Says Allied Trpops Forced to

lke Jittery, Says Berlin   Allied Chief Unable To Mount Coherent Defense, Says Radio

BRITISH SECOND ARMY ENTERS EINDHOVEN   Allied Reinforcements Continue to Pour Into Holland

ESLIMATE WOMEN WILL CAST 65 PER CENT OF THE VOTES DURING TODAY'S ELECTION

MAY INCREASE BEEF SUPPLY   PROPOUAL FOR SLAUGHTER OF . MILLION MORE CATTLE IN... 1B 18 STUDEED

HEAVY CATTLE. Gi AVCHTER SEEN   Recommendations on 34 ‘ Million Head Considered; Pig Crop Equals 1944 One

US AND JAPS EACH LOSE DESTROYER   Battle Fought in Ormoc Bay; Most of U.S. Crew Rescued

—BURAMA— :  BURMA INVASION SETLAST AUGUST   Airborne Attack Planned At Allied Conference In * Montreal   TONG PREPARATION   Nearly Eight Months Required To Train, Equip Invaders : ‘

Air Invasion Of Burma Is Detailed   Planned at Quebec Meet — Yanks Delivered Wingate’s Men

BLUEPRINT OF LATEST MOVE IS OUTLINED   Plans for Airborne Invasion Of Burma Mapped At Quebec Conference Last August  iDEAS COORDINATED

AINDORNE ORE SET AT QUEBEC   Plans for Invasion of JapHeld Burma Made at Meeting in August.   8 MONTHS PREPARATION

ALLIED CHIEFS PLANNED BURMA DRIVE AT QUEBEC   War Department Reveals Strategy Mapped Eight Months in Advance   Glider Troops Battle Deep Behind Nip Linesin Burma

Mount Vesuvius Area Evacuated   U. §. Army Trucks Save Thousands

ACRYTEO VA AAO rr  Army Evacuating Towns in Path of Vesuvius Lava Flow

Evacuation of villages on northwest slope of Mount Vesuvius is under way

PATTONS ARMY ~ PUSHES THRU —ENEMEY LINES   Chateau Salins, German Stronghold, Taken’ by Americans Fighting Through Snow and Rain

Allied Fliers Raid Enemy Bases From New Guinea To The Caroline Islands   Polish Troops Wipe Sut Pillbox On 5th Army Front

Record Attack On New Guinea  Base Of Aitane   Three-Way Blow Also Hits Truk In Carolines And Rabaul Base

Typhoon Season Slows American Operations in Pacific, Nimitz Says

Typhoon Season Slows Americans   China Situation Serious; Must Make Landings China Coast.

POWERFUL BID MADE FOR QUICK CAPTURE. OF CITY      Hanks and. Infantry Ride Eastward F rom  Brittany on 50-Mile Front; Take Five. Reid iros ~

Bankruptcy Business Is Bad ea  Decrease Due To The War, Referees In State Agree

Bankruptcy. Businets Is.Bad  (Decrease Due To The War, ~ Referees In State Agres

More Yanks Land On Biak Island   Warships and Guns  Protect New Forces

CANADIANS IN ARMY DISPUTE   FRENCH-SPEAKING BLOC IN QUEBEC OPPOSING CHANGE IN OVERSEAS SERVICE POLICY

Soviets Resume Blows At Sevastopol, Nazis Say; Red Order Indicates Imminence Of Drive   RELIEF SOUGHT FOR PRISONERS

NIGHT SANDBAGGING WAR PLANT   To Begin Illinois River Levee Patrol Duty This Afternoon

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Dewey Told Pennsylvania  Now ‘Safe’   GOP Nominee Home As FDR Warns of *‘Trumped’ Charges

DEWEY IS BACK HOME IN ALBANY   Will End Campaigr With Rally in New York Saturday Nicht

OPA Cattle Ceiling Plan Is ‘Overall   Affects All Grades; Producers Critical

SOLONS WILL START FINAL ~ MEET TODAY   78th Congress Expected to Extend War Powers of FDR

8TH CONGRESS CESSION RESUMES   Extension of President’s War Powers Indicated; Lively Debate on War, Peace Problems Loom

Congress Set  To Extend FD’:  War Powers   Martin Knows of No  Opposition to Action: Solons Gather Today

WILL EXTEND WAR POWERS   Congress Expected to Take Action on Question Without Controversy

Congress Set To Extend  War Powers   Republican Leader Pledges Fuil Support of Program

Believe FDR Powers Will Be Extended   Serious Controversy Not Expected on Question in Congress

ROOSEVELT WAR POWERS EXPECTED TOBEEATENDED   No Serious Party Scrap Over F. D. R. Authority Indicated as Congress Convenes Today.   BIG FIGHT LOOMS ON SECURITY TAX FREEZE   Final Session of Solons to Clear Way for War and Peace Debates Next  Woaoar

78TH CONGRESS TO CONVENE FOR FINAL SESSION   Extension Of President’s War Powers Will Be Considered; To Meet Today

Numerous Vital Issues Faced.  By Congress   Lawmakers Believed . Ready To Extend F.D.R.’s War Powers

F.D.R. Powers t Be Extended  Little Controversy on Bill Forecast

CONGRESS BACK ON JOB TODAY   Extension Of — Roosevelt War Powers Expected; Solons Mark Time

‘Lame Duck’ Session Of Congress Meets: Today; FDR War Powers To Be Extended

Gov. Bricker Says Cl0 Driving Democrats to GOP  Republicans Gaining Votes by Millions, Party Leader Asserts

Russian forces make deep penetration into Yugoslavia  Unconfirmed reports put red units 99 wiles in Hunearv in swift thrust

New Nazi Weapon Said Completed   Not Variation of Famed Robot Bombs

New Secret Weapon Ready, Says Nazis   Long-Range Firing Power Claimed in “V-2" Report

BRICKER SAYS NEW DEAL LABORATORY   Turns Americans Into Guinea Pigs, Assertion

Final Session Forum April 19  Speaker Will Talk On Orient Situation

YANKS REPEL. NAZI ATTACK ON CERVARO   Now Threaten Last Nazi-Held Height Before Cassino

Germans Fail In Counter-Attack Against Cervarc   Desperate Attempt To Retake Italian Town Repulsed By Americans   ALLIES DRIVING NEAR CASSINO

AMERICANS GAIN AT SEVEN POINTS ON ST. LO FRONT      Yanks Three Miles South @ of La Haye, in Fringes of Lessay

Lauds Signing Of Declaration   President Roosevelt W itnesses Adoption International Labor Document.

lu. S. E. 5. Staff Trained To Serve Handicapped Applicants For Jobs

GERMANS REPORT 400 YANK PLANES ASSAULT: MANILA, OTHER TARCETS   MacArthur’s Men. Push Leyte Battle

Bombing of Manilla Is Reported   Japs Say 400 Planes fron Carriers in Raids on Phil ippine Bases

Clark Field, Legaspi And Cavite Hit   Troops On Leyte Threaten To Cut Japanese Front

TOKYO RAID THE WORKS’   Importance of Mission Ex. plained to Pilots Before Attack

Subs Sink Nine More Jap Ships   U. S. Subs Have Now Sunk Total of 732 Jap Ships.

American Subs Trim Nine More Vessels From Rapidly Dwindling Jap Tonnage

‘Reorganization Of China’s War Effort Sought To Avoid ‘Allied Collapse Inside Asia   Chiang Kai Shek May Be Asked To Step Aside In F. avor Of Coalition Government, Including . Representatives Of Communist Groups; Hope Pinned On Stilwell

CHINA WAR EFFORT FACES REVAMPING   Stilwell May be Assigned to Reorganize Chinese © Forces

United States Seeks Reorganization Of China's Efforts To Defeat Japs

‘Chiang’s Leadership in Balance  iU. &. Seeks to Reform China’s War Structure

U.S. Seeks To Aid China War   Will Attempt To Reorganize Chinese War Effort To Prevent Collapse.

U.S. Seeks Reorganization of Chinese War Effort to Keep Allied Flank In Asia Intact

FERGUSON ASKS SENATE INQUIRY   Suggests Calling Kimmel And Short In Pearl Harbor Probe

SENATE PROBES: INTO PEARL HARBOR SNEAK   Senator Ferguson Suggests That Two Military Commanders Be First Witnesses Summoned

We Have 23 Battleships Now Operating; At Least 17 Are Roaming Pacific

Japs Harass With Raids   17 of Nation’s 23 Battleships Fight in Pacific Waters 

Hull Supports  Seaway Project On St. Lawrence   Plan Provides Flectric Power

Seaway-Plan Has Support Of Secretary Hull   Recommends Enactmend Of LegislationTs Authorize Start Of Project After War

HULL SUPPORT (3 FOR SEAMAY   Behind Move to Win Congressional Favor for St. Lawrence Project.

STILWELL: REMOVAL SEEN AS FACE SAVER FOR CHIANG AND SITUATION IN CHINA STILL SOMEWHAT CLOUDY

Chiang “Saving. Face” In Asking General  ' Stilwell Be Recalled; Muddled. Situation In China Revealed By Action - ”

The War Today  Chiang Kai Shek Gambles Heavily With Prestive Of China.

The War Today  ‘More Is Back of Stilwell Removal Than ‘Face Savina’

MACKENZIE SAYS— Civil Strife Is Basis of  China Crisis   Chiang Gambles Heavily On World Relations To Keep His Gov’t  From Breaking Down

CAPTURE SAN MARTINO   Polish Troops Were Active Today; Rest of Italian Front Static

Poles Make Long Advance In Italy   Number Of Hills And One Town Captured

City Swelters In 93- Degree WeatherToday   No Relief In Sight From Heat Wave: Low Of TO In Anniston

FEDERAL CONTROLS SCORED BY BRICKER   Repudiation of Government Management Demanded

BARKLEY ASKS CO-OPERATION WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS   Senate Majority Leader Urges All Branches Of Government Work With Confidence.

BARKLEY ACCEPTS HIS RE-ELECTION   Rumpus Expected to Bring Closer Co-operation Between Legislative and Executive Branches of Government.

JAP RETURN 1 APPROVED   ARMY REVOKES EXCLUSION ORDER THAT OUSTED JAPA NESE FROM WEST COAST

VOICE RETURNS AFTER 3 YEARS   Woman, Speechless Fo lowing Illness, Sudden"Ty Talks

Nazis Moan That Allies Missed Best Time For Blow, Wish It Would Come Quickly

Nazi Broadeasts Are More Tense   Commentators Say Germans Want Invasion To Come Soon

Germans Tense ‘Awaiting Blow From the West Defenses. Reach Nerve:  r acking Peak of Alertness 

German Radio Reveals Strain Nearing Break   Summer Heat Prevails Over Channel Today London Reports

CLAIM ORIGINAL INVASION DATE ALREADY PASSED   BERLIN SPECULATES WILDLY AT REASONS FOR ALLIED DELAY

Germans Show More Tension   Nazi Commentators Assert Eisenhower Missed One Date

Tension Grows Among Nazis Over Invasion  Germany Trying In Vain To Advance All Wlwwla C48 Benne

YANKS RIT VITAL   The Railroads Ant Oil Plants Are Mai Targets   LARGEST ARMADA SENT OUT SUNDAY   Germans Think This Is Bound To Be Invasion Day And Are Frantic

INVASION FRONT TENSION MOUNTS   Allies Missed One Chance, Nazi Radio Declares

NAZIS GETTING NERVOUS OVER DELAY IN INVASION  Channe! Weather Remains Good As Orders to Strike Are Awaited

Berlin Broadcasts Claim Allied Leaders Found They Were Not Quite Ready for the Great Event But That Germany Is Ready. Nazi Nervous waes Awmvieawswtd

Germans Show Growing Tension  ‘Perfect Day’ Passec Up. Nazis Claim

Weather Hot: Nazis Tense   German Broadcasts Bare Jitters; Burning Skies Over Dover Strait

Nazis Showing Wear On Expectant Alert Daily For Invasion   Declare British Missed First Good Invasion Chance Yesterday; Express Wish Openly That Strike Would Come At Once; Weather Perfect

German Nerves Getting Viore And WViore On Edge  Nazis Want The Invasion To Be Launched At Once

INCREASED TENSION ON INVASION FRONT AS WEATHER PERFECT  NERVE-WRACKING ALER1 NESS OF GERMANS INDICATED BY BROADCASTS

Heat and Tension to > New Highs   Mercury +o 100 at Dover and Germans Show New.  oe : “Bears of Invasion   FEAR FRENCH RAIL WORKERS’ STRIKE      ® claim Allies Missed One Fa* orable. Time to Strike; Nazis Guessed Wrong

Tension on Invasion Front Mounts As Heat Wave Moves into Channel

Nazi Commentators Say Eisenhower Has Missed One Good Invasion Date

Germany Wants Tnvasion Now, Nerves on Edge   Nazi Commentators Complain Eisenhower Missed One Chance, Suerecting They Guessed Wrong

Allies Miss  Invasion Date  ~—NAZIS   German Broadcasts Reflect Increased Tension On In . 1 cmatnes ieee

NAZIS MISSE INVASION DATE NERVES TENSE   Germans Failed To Make Great  Announcement

Jitters Attack Nazi Defenders  Uncertainty About Invasion Worries

BROADCASTS HINT AT NAZI TENSION OVER INVASION   Allies Detect New Note of   Nervousness in German High Comand Radio Talks as Chanel weather Improves

Nazi Apprehension Grows As Summery Weather Prevails Over Channel

Jittery German High Command Says Allies Missed Good Invasion Chance

Nazis Say Allies Miss Best Date For D-Day   Warm Week-End, Glassy Seas Reported: Nazi Troops Alerted; Nerves On Edge

eee. eee     NLL 8 LENG LAE LIL: CL TENE  Germans Dow t W ant to Wait Any Longer for Invasion, Assert Nazis. Saying One D-Day Set Already Passed

RIVAL NAZI SPIES BUSY IN ARGENTINA   Investigation Pressed After Break With Axis

RIVAL NAZI RINGS BUSY IN ARGENTINA   Government Promises Full Report on Spy Activities Soon,

BERLIN AGAIN ISBLASTEDBY U.S. BOMBERS   Heavies Also Attack Oth er Industrial ‘Targets.

U.S. HEAVIES HIT TARGETS IN GERMANY   Flying Fortresses And Liberators Continue To Smash Robot Bomb  Bases

U.S. Heavies Bomb Berlin. Rhone Valley   Plants and Refineries, Submarine Pens and Robot Bomb Bases  Undergo Stiff Attacks

AUDIT COMMITTEE  RECOMMENDS THAT  JOHN D. REED QUIT FIRST RESULT OF IN VESTIGATION OF STATE TARNR NEPARTMENT

Stimson Says Pacitie War Is Not Over   Americans Must Meet Stiffening Resistance

WARNING: GIVEN BY STIMSON   Philippine Resistance Will Be Stubborn

ANNIHILATION OF ENCIRCLED NAZIS NEARING   Thousands of German Dead Cover Fields Outside ‘Pocket’

Extermination Battle Nears Tis Close   Russian Guns, Hub to Hub, Pound  German Pocket

Reds Within 3 Miles of Last  Nazi Survivors   Tighten Trap Shielding Remnants -of German  ‘Army of 100,000 Men

TetLSS ATES Close In on Trapped Nazis  Rattle of Annihil Annihilation jy   Battle of Annihilation in Ukraine Is Near- : ing End   THOUSANDS SLAIN      Soviet Artillery Lines Up Hub to Hub Around Death Pocket ©

German Pocket In Ukraine Is  Becoming Thin   Battle Of Annihilation Is Believed Near As Russians Penetrate Germans’ Defenses

REDS SAY GREAT BATTLE NEAR END   Most of 14,000 Japs at Huon Peninsula Destroyed In 18-Week Campaign.

Slaughter Is Similar to Stalingrad   Russian Artillery Pours Shells Into Ranks of Panicky Nazis

Reds Close In on Nazi Survivors   Artillery Fire Rakes Panicky Germans in Pocket Trap

SHELL NAZIS IN POCKET   10 Trapped Divisions Being Annihilated in Cherkasi Area

Political Announcement   Democratic Candidate For Councilman, 3rd Ward: ROBERT DoRr

Marines At Palau — Fight Inch By Inch   _ First, Seventh Casualties Heavy Japs Entrenched Behind Steel '

Marines on Peleliu Find Best Jap Fortifications Since Tarawa and Worst Terrain in the Pacific

Their Wheat Crops Not a Total Loss   Trade Flooded Crops For Shave and Haircut

NEWS FROM TWO FIELDS OF SERVICE      jt. Tne) C, Thine Giradaates As Pitot and Don Shafer Passes Exam To He Futare Aylation Cadet

STRIKES ENDED IN TWO PLANTS   Briggs And Norge Union Disputes Halt Vital Arms Production

Navy’s New Task Force, Called Strongest, Most Destructive — Unit In History, Has Entire Pacific As Stamping Ground

TASK FORCE 58 ROAMS PACIFIC   Washington Reveals Existence of Giant. U. S$. Naval Armada in Far East.

“Task Force 98° Revealed by Nav)  ' Stamping Ground Is Entire Pacific Ocean

‘In Pacific Waters   Big Super Fleet Is Greatest Naval Unit in His . tory; Can Strike At Jap Homeland.

Task Force 58 Now Has Entire Pacific For Stamping Ground   Has Reversed Direction of Traffic in Huge Ocean; Has Newest, Biggest, Fastest Ships

Huge Navy Task Force 58 is Revealer Jap Nemesis in Battle of Philippines

U. S. Task Force, Most Powerful In History, Has Whole Pacific As Its Stamping Grounds

Most Powerful, Destructive Task Force In All History Has Pacific For Operations

Enemy Now Outnumbered By U. S. Force. ...  20,000 Japs Abandoned To Death On Saipan As Yanks Overrun Island   ‘Task Force 58 Revealed As Most Powerful Naval Unit In History Of War

British and Yanks Win Six Villages   Germans Retreat to Escape Trap; Heavy Rain Limits Fighting

638,880 Tons  Bomhs Hit  Nazi Targets 15,210 Enemy Plane   15,210 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed Since August, 1942

638,880 Tons Bombs Hit Nazi Targets  7TrT ATA eC! ba)   15,210 Enemy Plane: Are Destroyed Since August, 1942

Air Raids Cut. Ploesti Output   Production Said . Under 25 Per Cent Normal . —

REDS PROPOSE PEACE TALKS WITH FINNS   Suggest 12-Day Consideration Be fore Offensive Is Resumed on Karelian Isthmus.

BLONDE ROBIN HOOD USES PILFERED CASH TO SWELL ‘OTHERS’ PAY ENVELOPES

Three More Kwajalein Atolls Fall to Yanks   Americans Now Control 21 of 32 Islands of Invaded Group; Seabees Already Rebuilding Air Fields

Three More Islands Taken In Marshalls   21 Out of 32 Islands In Kwajalein Group Now in Yanks’ Hands  SEFARERS ARE RIISY

TAKE 3 MORE ISLANDS IN KWAJALEIN   Completing American Occupation Of Vital Japanese Plane and Sea Base; Sea Foec RUSV.   No Planes Lost .

Nimitz Tells Of Fail O13 New islands   Seventh Army Now Holds 21 Poinis In Marshall Group

THREE MORE ISLANDS FALL TOU. §. FORCE   Other Places Seized Without Enemy Opposition

American Occupation of Kwajalein Atoll Virtually Complete ©  CAPTURE OF THREE ISLANDS ANNOUNCED  Japanese Vessel ‘and lit stallations Hit on New Guinea

JONES REVEALS 44 FQQD PLAN   SUPPORT PRICES SUBJECT TO OKAY BY CONGRESS

Continuation of Subsidy Program Up To Congress   Understanding Believed Reached On Major  Portions og Proposal

37th HOLDS FAST   OHIO’S DIVISION IN PACIFIC SLAUGHTERS HUNDREDS OF JAPS IN BATTLE.

37th Division Avenged The “Rape Of Nanking” General Beightler Says —

DUTCH FLANK CLEAR, NEAR ROTTERDAM   Allied Armies Drawn Up For Big Push Along Front

Smash 3 Miles Thr ough Wester n Hollanc   U.S. First Army Relinquishes Village of Schmidt, 15 Miles Southeast of Aachen, Under Heavy German Attack

Hungry Allies Withdrawn From Hill Without Loss As Cassino Fight Given Up

Half-Starved Troops Full of Fig! i & _  Gurkhas Quit Har ‘aan ’s Hilt

Dr. T.S. Painter Named Acting President With Full Powers of Office

BAD WEATHER HURTS CAUSE   Fighting Of Do- or-Die Nazi Attacks Against Fifth Army Beachhend Below Rome Allied Planes Grounded by Itai a Gales.

Most of Japs American Captives Victims of Cruelty, U. $. Charges

US CHARGES JAPS WITH ‘CRUELTY’   Nationals Are Victims of Jap Inhumon Cruelty

INHUMAN CRUELTY ACTS PROTESTED IN NOTE TO JAPS   Orientals Sent Lengthy Note With 18 Specific Violations of Treatment of War Prishners.   THOSE WHO COMPLAIN SEVERELY PUNISHED   Swiss Representatives’ Handling American Affairs ‘Not Permitted Full Inspection of Prisons... 

Votes Approval Ot Intervention  By 279 to 30   Britain to Persist in Present Policy in Greece and Italy   U.S., British Achieve — Arnened Halitas Cause

Halifax Talks After Calling on Stettinius   Believes Current.Clash Will Result in Strengthening Unity of U. 8. and Britain   MAKES NO REPORT OF AN AGREEMENT   But Says Understanding Has Been Achieved; Defends British Action

INTERVENTION IS NECESSARY TO SECURITY   Prime Minister Says Britain Acted to Prevent Gangsters From Installing Themselves

Accord Reached On Italy, Greece   Anglo-American Unity Claimed By Halifax

HALIFAX SAYS ULS., BRITISH REACH ACCORD ON ITALY-GREEK SITUATION

Revolutionist Leader Lt. Col. Tomas Duco Is Reported Under Arrest

Argentina Has An Unsuccessful Abortive Revolt   Farrell Government Remains In Control; Leader Is Arrested

CLAIM ROMANIA SEEKING PEACE   New Government Working On Acceptable Program

Romanian Political Chiefs Reported ‘Forming Provisional Peace Government

Report Peace Government In Romania   Peasant Party Chief Heading Movement Toward Surrender

Peace Group In Rumania Formed   Movement Seen As Preparing Regime Favorable To Allies.

Romanian Provisional Peace Government Reported Formed   Antonescu Said Powerless To Interfere; Leaders Contact Former Ministers

Report Romania Looks to Peace   Turks Claim a New Government Has Been Formed

PROVISIONAL * GOVERNMENT BEING FORMED   Peace Movement Said to Be With Full Knowledge Of Present Nazi Dominated Premier

ROMANIAN PEACE MOVE   Former Ministers to Moscow and Berlin Will Have Posts 

Troops Attack In Huge Semi-Circle   La Haye Du Puits, At End Of Blazing 25-Mile Front, Almost Surrounded; Enemy Machine Gunners Dazed

Yanks Leap Across Vire   Germans Fall Back Under Fiercest Artillery Barrage Yet Seen On The Fields Of Normandy

Yanks Take Airel In Dawn Drive Over Vire River   ‘Americans Ready To Cut Only Nazi Escape Road Leading From La Haye’

TOWN OF AIREL IS CAPTURED   La Haye du Puits Is Surrounded; Caen Docks Reached

Doughboys Hit Enemy At Dawn Over VireRiver   Stab More Than a Mile Across Stream and Capture Village Of Airel   Shower Of Shells Stuns Hun Gunners   iGerman Artillery Ohsery. ers Sent Scampering; British Patrol Reach Caen Docks

Our Forces Stab Through More Than a Mile Across Vire River, With Big Guns Paving Way.   AMERICAN OFFENSIVE IS NOW ARC-SHAPED

New Drive Through Normandy Lowlands Melts German Grip   Offensive Around La Haye Du Puits is Pressing to Encirclement

DOUGHBOYS JUMP OFF NEW ATTACK IN LA HAYE AREA   CROSS VIRE RIVER TO THREATEN ENEMY FLANK IN NORMANDY

U.S. Troops Cross Vire River, Capture Village  Artillery Barrages Daze Enemy in  Action Near St. Lo

Doughboys Jump West Across Vire   Widen Otfensive Front Across Cherbourg Peninsula to 35 Miles   CAEN IS HEMMED IN   Brilish Reported in Dock Area Without Meeting . Any Germans

aye Reported Captured, » ‘Almost Surrounded’; ish Reach Caen Docks   Fadley’s Doughboys Take Hamlet Eight les from St. Lo, Drive on Westward in ret‘Hour of Newly Launehed Offensive

YANKS ADVANCE ONE MILE ' NEW NORMANDY PUSK   Cross Vire River, Capture Village in; [Attack. on -Bottle-necks

YanksCross Vire River in New Attack   Gain Bridgehead Mile Deep in  A Dawn Attack;  La Haye Surroundec

‘Bradley’s Men Spring New Aitack ‘Near St. Lo, Advance More Than Mile

Airel Is Captured In Surprise Dawn Stab   Heaviest Barrage To Date Precedes  Advance

Yanks Launch New Attack In Normandy   Stab Forward More Than Mile And Capture Village of Airel

Advance More Than A Mile In Normandy   Americans Now Attacking Along Semi-Circular Front

‘Attack Toward the West Above St. Lo Gains New Ground      PATROLS ENTER CAEN   But Nazis Show No Intention of Abandoning  Eastern Pivot.

NAZI DEFENSES SAGGING UNDER BRITISH ATTACK   Americans Maneuvering Tr Entrap German Forces in Anchor of Line

Assault Nazi Bottlenecks On Peninsula   La Have Du Puits Nearly Surrounded As German Pressure Melts Under Attack

GAIN A MILE ACROSS THE — VIRE RIVER   Attack Sprung: From East, Above St. Lo, as Nazi Grip Weakens Un - der Pressure to West  ‘ -Near La Haye.

Nazis Fall Back Before Yank Attack   Americans Drive Mile Across Vire River, Take Town

Yanks Open "New Attack ain Normandy   Thrust More Than Mile Across Vire River, Take Village Or Airel.

May Trap  Nazi Force al La Haye   Doughboys Advancing on Huge Semi-Circular Front; Heavy Artillery. Barrage   NO MAJOR ACTION IN CAEN SECTOR   Both Sides Apparently Are Preparing for’ New Clashes. However

YANKS SPRING NEW DRIVE ON ST. LO FRONT   Cross Vire  River In Rapid  Push: British Reach Caen Docks

STRIKE AT GERMAN BOTTLENECKS IN MARSHY LOWLANDS   Village of Airel Seized A: American Ground Forces Advance Over a Mile and Cross Vire River  By WES GALLAGHER

‘Attack Toward the West Above St. Lo Gains New Ground  PATROLS ENTER CAEN  T coeenteeanetenettiiahiiaemamaenael   But Nazis Show No Intention of Abandoning Eastern Pivot

Stab Ahead Mile Across  Vire River   Concentrated Hail From Big Guns Paves Way; Battle Around La Haye

Village Captured After U. S. Troops  Cross Vire River   Yanks Push Ahead More Than Mile to Seize Airel—German Machine Gunners Pounded by Big Guns — Heavy Fighting at La Haye, Western End of 25-Mile Front.

Yanks Capture Airel in New French Attack   Russians Advancing On Wilno, Key Rail, Road Center

YANKS LAUNCH NEW ASSAULT: ADVANCE MILE   Concentrated Hail From Big Guns Dazes . Nazi Machine Guaners

Yankees Smash At Nazi Lines In New Attack   Gain of Mile Or More Made By American Troops

German Grip Slowly Melting Around Pivotal Point, LaHaye.   NO BIG ACTION AT CAEN

Yanks Cross Vire River,  Take Airel   Dawn Atiack Carries Mile Unde:  Heavy Barrage—Americans Nearly Surround La Haye

U. S. Troops Lunge Ahead  In Normandy   ‘Terrific Artillery Barrage Sparks. New Drive Across ‘Bottleneck’

Yanks Spring New Drive To  Cross Rive   Attack Toward West Above St. Lo Started At Dawn; Advance Mile.  ~~ a 7 a. . ee . a rwTrt yy reer Aa T rt

New Offensive Below Carentan Broadens Front   Doughboys Jump Off Across River, Gain Mile; Artillery Blazes Fiercely

Bradley's Yanks Launch New Drive On Normandy Front   Offensive Blazes On 25-Mile Wide Semi-Circular Front

Byrnes Moves Up In Race To Shelve Wallace   Barkley Also Challenge: In Tightening Demo Vice Presidential Derby.

ENDORSEMENT OF WALLAGE BY FOL EXPECTED [ODAY   -Three Other Names Still At Top of List

BYRNES LOOMS AS CHIEF FOE OF WALLACE   Senator Berkley Also Has Backing

Byrnes Seeking Vice Presidency  Job For Himself   65-Year-Old Ex. Justice In °40 Was F, D.’s Chief Booster For Wallace

Byrnes Rises on Horizon in Puzzling Race   Given Strong Support as Running Mate for Eranklin D. Roosevelt

Telephone Appeal to FDR in Behalf _ of Wallace Likels   Byrnes and Sen. Barkley Loom Formidable Foes of Vice President

RACE TIGHTENS FOR DEMOCRAT SECOND CHOICE   J), BYRNES PULLS UP EVEN WITH WALLACE AND SEN. BARKLEY

Byrnes May Be Wallace’s Rival   President's Chief War Aid Seen as Main Challenge to Vice-President; Letter From F. R. May Be Key to Nomination

DEMS BOOMING JAMES BYRNES   War Mobilization Director Urged As Second Man

CNDOROEMENT OF WALLAGE BY F.0.n EXPECTED (QDAY   ‘Three Other Names Still At Top of List

Byrnes Moves Up Into Contender’s Spot In Vice-Presidential Derby _   F.D.R.’s Letter, Soon To Be Announced, Said To Contain Very Strong Appeal In Behalf Of Wallace, But Leaves Door Open For Another.

May Appeal To Roosevelt To Back Wallace  Talanhana Moaccaca   Telephone Message To President Being Considered

Platform Committee Hears Requests Byrnes Seen As Wallace Challenger

JAMES BYRNES, BARKLEY LOOM AS CONTENDERS   Feeling Runs High Among Demo Delegates On Second Choice

Byrnes Seenas Strong Challenger For Vice Presidential Nomination

SEE “LIMITED HELP BY FDR FOR WALLACE   Dark Horses Hopeful As Convention Days Get Underway

DRS LETTER TO GLEAR WAY FOR Ble FICH   Barkley, Byrnes and Minton Lead Anti-Wallace ‘Candidates. ~

Strong Moves For By mes anc  Alben Barkley   Vice Presidency Has Democrats Maneuvering

Demos May Ask F.R. To Back Up Bid For Wallace   Byrnes And Barkley Gaining Strength In Vice-President Plans For Convention

Seek President's Personal Aid   Wallace Backers  - Want More Direct Assistance; Byrnes’ Star Is Ascending

Byrnes Gaining for Second Place As Delegates Gather   War Mobilization Director Moves Into Challenging Position; Word From Champ On Wallace Believed To Be In Chicago

Buy War Bonds and Sta  BYRNES PULLS UP P10 PLAC E IN VICE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

MANY DELEGATES WILL RESPECT FDR’S WISHES   After President’s Letter Is Read Wallace May Be Nominated Vice-President

May Make Appeal To the President   Wallace Backers Seeking Blessing of Franklin  Roosevelt    CONSIDER PHONE CALL   Decision on Vice President May Rest With Dele gates

Wallace Backers May Phone FDR For Support   Letter Reportedly Too Luke Warm For Renomination

BYRNES GAINING GROUND IN THE RACE FOR ‘V-P   Barkley Also Strong Contender—Wallace’s Aides May Telephone FDR

WALLACE BACKERS SEEKING ROOSEVELT PERSONAL APPEAL  STRONG MOVEMENTS DE. VELOPING FOR BYRNES

ROOSEVELT LETYER GIVING ‘QUALIFIED ENDORSEMENT {TO WALLACE 18 STILL, AWAITED

FLD.R. MAY BE ASKED TO AID WALLACE   Backers Consider Requesting President for Personal Indorsement of Vice: President as Runnings Mate.

Byrnes May Be Running  Mate of F.R   Contest Possible For Ticket’s Second Place; F. R. Letter Due

Democrats To - Battle For Post   VICE - PRESIDENCY FIELD SEEMS TO BE GROWING

Roosevelt May Be Asked To Appeal For Wallace   President May Be Requested To Make Up Personally A Letter Expressing Preference For Vice President, As Byrnes And Barkley Strength Gains

RUNNING MATE PRIZE STILL ANYBODY'S RACE; JACKSON HAS ROOSEVELTS LETTER

Byrnes Makes A Third in Close Race   Wallace Will Probably Get President’s Support

Ask Baeking For Wallace   Vice President's Supporters Request Personal Appeal From Roosevelt.

Wallace's Friends Plan Phone Appeal To White House As Rivals Appear

AWAIT RELEASE OF FOR LETTER   Vice President Sentiment Expected to Crystallize Quickly

Burns In Spotlight With With Wallace And Barkley   Rival Sets Of Demos Entrain ror Chicago

Vice Presidency Races Confused, Letter Exnected   Platform Builders Busy At Pre-Convention Sessions Of Democrats

Former Senator Byrnes Also In V. P. Running   War Mobilization Director Is Reported to Have “Go Ahead” Signal from President.

DEM) WAITING F.D. LETTER ON RUNNING MATE  ‘ 4 maAAwnroaaA   To Be Endorsement of Wallace   WILL CLEAR AIR

May Appeal io FDR for Wallace      Vice President’s Backers Consider Asking for ‘Strong Fersonal Appeal’   BYRNES AND BARKLEY, GAINING SUPPORT      They Are ‘Now Considered the Men to Beat in Race for V. P. Nomination

Vice- Presidency sil Wide Open At Convention   Byrnes, Sen. Barkley Threat To Wallace Candidacy

VICE PRESIDENCY HAS DEMOCRATS ALL IN DITHER   Wallace Not Counted Ouf But Several Others in Contending Position

Byrnes Moves Up In Democratic  Vice Pres. Derby   Roosevelt Letter Due,  Start Work On Platform

Byrnes Support Grows in Chicago   Contest for Vice Presidency Growns Tight as Convention Nears

Kimmel Attacks  Truman’s Claims   Statements on Pearl Harbor Declared False

UNION CHIEF ORDERS SHIPYARD WORKERS BACK   Says Union Will Not Condone Delay in War Effort.

Failure Of Hitler To Hurl Adequate Reserves Against Soviets Indicates Weakness   Lack Of Material Reinforcements At Old Polish Border Shows Lack Of Forces

Russian Success Shows Germany's _ Lack of Sufficient Reserves to Meet Growing Need on All Fronts

Inability Te Shift: Tr To. Vital: Spots: Hurts Po” German: Chane

RESERVES HELD NAZLNO, 1 NEI   Lack Of Troops For Defense Called Reich Weakness

Germany's Great Weakness Cited   Slowness of High Command In Hurling Reinforcements Against Russians Looms As Potential Basic Factor  For Defeat.

Reich Lacks Reserves For Defense   Slow Movement Hint: At Plan Allies May Have for Rout

German Lack Of Reserves Spells Doom  Allies Count   Allies Count On Inability To Shift Armies

WEATHER FORECAST   ALLIED STRATEGY SHOWING RESULTS AGAINST NAZIS   ‘Germans Failure to Bols ter Defenses Along Old ' Polish Border Is Sign of Wealnece x

Eleven Sd School Age Children Victims   Oklahoma Traffic Accidents Include Youngsters

State Epidemic Of Polio Feared   Dr. De Kleine Says He’s ‘Seriously Concerned’

POLIO OUTBREAK FEARED IN STATE   Report 106 ‘Cases This Year,  82 in July, 17 in August, 8 ! Thursday

HELMETS DESIGNED FOR U.S. FLIERS TO PREVENT WOUNDS ON FACE. NECK

Senate Opens Inquiry Of Hotel Battle   Teamsters, Navy  Fight Over FDR

QUESTI  ONS WITNESSES   Senate Pokes Tentatively Inte Battle of the Statler

Investigation of "Statler Battle" by Congress Waits Counsel's Repor:

ORDER TELEPRONE BILLS BE REDUCED   Michigan Bell Telephone Co. Must Cut Charges by $3,500.000 Before Dec. 31

ORDER PHONE BILLS REDUCED   Company Told to Discount Or Refund $3,500,000  To Customers

Phone Charge Rebate Ordered   $3,500,000 Benefit Tc State Customers

Order Consolidated Gas Co. Cut December Bills   timated $1,000,000 charges fo feders)] evreads nynfit tavec.

SRO UTILITY’S CHARGES CUT   Order 31 Per Cent Slash In Gas Company’s December Bills

LEGION ASKS FOR SECURITY PLAN   BOOSTS ARMED ISLANDS IN POST-WAR WORLD

FIRST STEPS ARE TAKEN IN BARUCH POST-WAR SET-UP   Clayton to Handle Disposal of Surpluses; Hines to Head Reemployment Group

8 Maryland Weed Houses to Reopen   OPA Makes Price Adjustment With Growers Association.

Leaf Markets In Maryland Reopen Friday   Maximum Prices Adjusted; Means 62-Cent High

NAZI SUBMARINE BASE 1S BOMBED   ALLIED RAIDERS HIT MAR‘SEILLE, FRANCE—BELGIUM, HOLLAND BLASTED, —

Bombers Slash Marseille Area   Radie Sifence on Continent Indieates Other Raids

Allies Sink Jap Ship; Burn Nine   200 Bombers Hit Hollandia, Rake Island With Gun:

U.S. Airmen Sink Jap Freighter, Fire Nine More  Big Bombers Hit Within 450 Miles Of Enemy Homeland

Sink Freighter and Set Nine Vessels Afire   322 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Base at Hollandia

200 Heavies, Fighters Hit At Hollandia   Dutch New Guinea Bases Experience Terrific Pounding

JAP FREIGHTER IS SUNK: 9 SET AFIRE   Americans Blast ‘Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, in Big Raid

HOLLANDIA {3 TARGET FOR 200 PLANES   Dutch New Guinea Base Receives 322 Tons Of Bombs, 89,000 Rounds Gun, Cannon Fire   Madang-Hansa Bay

Will Japanese Fight for the Philippines?   If They Block Yanks Their Navy Must Come Out

Any Attempt Of Japs Is Watehed   REINFORCEMENTS MAY ", BE RUSHED TO BIAK.,

ANTI-NEW DEALERS TO MEET IN CHICAGO   Doors To Be Open at Time of Democratic Convention

Muskogee Plant To Furnish Steel   For Miami’s Big New Synthetic Rubber Plant

YANKS MEETING STIFF RESIST ‘ANCE IN DRIVE TO KNOCK OUT MAIN ENEMY  STRUNGHOLD .

LEYTE BATTLE NEARS GLIMAX   Yankees in Furious Comba‘ With Reinforced Japs; Ridge Taken

Seek to Simplify  Income Tax Form   Legislators Warn “No Relief Now”

Simplification, — of Tax Returns  Too Late For ’44   Finance Heads Blast Hopes For Reduced Taxes In Postwar

ul RAINS      MARINES AND ARMY INFANTRY  “HAVE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED “ {SEACHHEADS ON.PACI- -  FIC ISLAND

LISH TWO BEACHHEADS IN GRIM FIGHTING   Early Casualties Are Light, But Resistance Is Stiffening

50 Tons of Explosive: Dropped Per Minute; City Flaming; Smoke - Reaches 4 Miles High ©

RAF Fliers Set  New Record In Mass Bombings   Airmen Shatter Brunswick in Central Germany; Drop 2,000 Tons of _ Bombs in 23 Minutes

2,000 TONS OF BOMBS RAINED ON BRUNSWICK   Big Industrial City --sevelled By RAF

RAF Blasts German City With Terrific Bomb Concentration   Brunswick Hit by 2,000 Tons in 23 Minutes To Set New Mark; Mosquitos Pound Away at Berlin

2.000 Tens Of Bombs Rained On Brunswicel   RAF Leaves Industrial City In Central Germany  — Ablazed By Bombs.   ATTACK ROCKET COAST

R. A. F. Blasts  Brunswick  in Heavy Raid   Prime German Industrial City Producinc Vital War Materiel Is Shattered; Berlin, Madgeburg Also Are Attacked

HUGE AIR FLEET BLASTS GERMAN AIRCRAFT CENTER   Two Thousand Tons of Bombs Rained Down on Brunswick in 23 Minutes by British Planes.   BERLIN 18 POUNDED BY 100 MOSQUITOS   Luftwaffe Sends Up FastClimbing, Rocket-Propelled Fighters to Defend the Capital.

Blockbuster Fleets Smash At Brunswick   Set Concentration  Of Bombing of 87 Tons Per Minute, London ‘Announces After Raid

RAF Braves Rockets: for. Night Attack   Si Tons.of Bombs Hurled Each Minute al Great Nazi War Arsenal   LASH BERLIN AGAIN   ~Mosquitoes Hit Capital in Feint; Magdeburg Also Pounded by British

Bombs Loosed  On Brunswick   Central German Industry  ee Is Hit By RAF -Blockbuster-Fleet:

Bomb Record Set In Raid By British   Concentration Of 8 Tons Per Minute Hit Brunswick; Defens Setup Weak

RAF Bombers In Shattering Raid   Industrial Brunswick  Has Record Attack

Coast Attacks. Follow Record Brunswick Raid   R. A. F. Drops 87 Tons Per Minute On German Center

Brunswick, Nazi Industrial City, Pounded As Feints Confuse Luftwaffe

Ankara Declares Hitler Has  Been Arrested   Self-Styled German Officer Purportedly Broadcasting From Frankfurt, Insists Full-Scale Revolt Is Continuing

Nazi Civil War aging, Swiss Reports Claim   Mass Arrests and Executions During Widespread Revolt Announced in Dispatches Reaching Neutral Natians

Thousands of Persons Suspected of Conspiring Against Hitler Arrested; Powerful Army Group Goes Underground fo Get Support for Revoll

BRITISH AERIAL COMMANDER IS REPORTED LOSI   Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory Was En Route To Southeast Asta Post

ENGLAND’S AIR CHIEF LOST ON FLIGHT 10 ASI   Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory’: Plane Missing — Widespread Search Reveals No Trace of It.   WIFE OF MARSHAL ‘ WITH HIM ON TRIP   Officer Was En Route to New Command to Direct Stepped-Up Offensive Against Japan.

Leading Allied Air Officer Missing On Flight to Asia  7 Ht. Pines Meow Daol

Sabotage By Dim-Wits In War , P] ants   FBI Reveals Pranksters Cause Great Damage To Production

Carrier Based War Planes Batter ‘Atolls in Pacific   Battleships Also Take Part in Attacks Designed to Knock Out Enemy Bases in Eastern. Marshal]! Islands

Bombers Strike At Paramushiro   Navy Says Two More Raids Conducted

JAPANESE NAVY BASE BLASTED   Bombers From Aleutians Hammer Paramushiro, 720 Miles Away

US Aleutians ‘Planes Bomb -Paramushiro   American n Control of North Pacific Indicated by Length of Flight   IMARSHALLS RAIDED   Attack in South Damages Five Enemy Positions and Equipment:

Daily Temperatures   Wallace Says U. S. Will Win Peace Only If People Are Kept at Work

Inefficiency Costs People   Byrd Says U. S. Needs Bureaucracy Freedom

BYRD ACCUSES GOVERNMENT OI WILD SPENDING   War Is Costing Twice Amount That It Should

ALLIED TROOPS ARE CLOSNG IN ON JAP ARMIES   Co-ordinated Offensive to Regain Use of Burma Road Staggers Enemy

CHINESE SEIZE THIRD LINK ON RAILROAD LINE   Thundering Aeriai Blows Hit Two Important Jap Bases In Pacific

Allied Troops Hammer Japs   Coordinate Drive To Reopen Burma Road Gains Power

Pacific Drive Gains For Yanks   JAP FORCES OPPOSED _ FIERCELY BY CHINA'S ARMY.

POUND NIPS IN PUSH TO REOPEN OLD BURMA ROAD   Drive Japs From Part o Peiping-Hankow Railroad in China

Aerial War  Quickens in Pacific Area   Co-Ordinated Drive For Burma Road Increases In Intensity

GAIN IN PUSH FOR BURMA RD.   Chinese Recapture Third  Peiping-Hankow Rail  road Position.

Peiping-Hankow Railroad Taken By China Army   From Burma To The Salween, Allies Or Advance: Air Raids  Intensified

Alhes Hammet Away at Japs In Offensive   Shouten Islands West of Wakde Hit 12th Straight Day

Allies Fight For Break to Burma Read   Hard Battles Being Fought on Land And in Air

Intensify Joint Push To Reopen Old Burma Road   Chinese Retake A Third Position On _ PeipingHankow Railroad.

Allies Advancing In Offensives to ‘Reopen BurmaRoad ' Japs Make New Break Into  Loyang in North China— Air.  men Pound Foe's Pacific Bases

Chinese Retake Third Position ~ On Railway Line   Nipponese Invaders Meet Furious Opposition In Ancient City Of Loyang

ALLIES HAMMER JAPS IN EFFORT TO OPEN ROAD   Jungle Fichters Slice Through  Enemy Lines

FROM BURMA TO SALWEEN AIR AND GROUND FORCES HAMMER AWAY AT INVADING JAPANESE.   Chinese Offer Stiff Resistance in Ancient Loyang And U. S. Air Force Pounds Enemy Concentrations Blocking China’s Drive from Yuannan  Draneciw ft   GEN.. STILWELL’S. ARMY CLOSING TRAP ON JAPS

Press Attack To Reopen Burma Road   Air Raiders Give Help To Ground Forces in  Chinese Effort

THRUST IN BURMA   Allies in Coordinated Offensive to Reopen Supply Road

Invaders Make 140-Mile Dash ‘Across Alps   Dozens Of French Towns Liberated: Lower Rhone Valley Outflanked

 AMERICANS DRIVE INTO GRENOBLE IN SPECTACULAR 140 MILE ADVANCE   Yanks Now Only 240 Miles From Allied  Armies Below Paris.

Two Allied Armies In France Now Only 240 Miles Apart  30 MILES OF THE  SWISS BORDER  Outflanked Heavily Defended Lower Rhode Valley

American Tanks Lunge 140 Mi. Over Alps To Free City Of Grenoble   Sensational Thrust Inland Carries Invasion Forces To Within 58 Miles Of Rail City, Lyon

Yanks Gain 140 Miles: Cross Alps in France   Grenoble Taken In Spectacular American Drive

Yanks Sweep To Grenoble, Menace Lyon   Marseille Ringed By Other Columns In Swilt Advance

AMERICANS ONLY 58 MI. FROM LYONS   Make 140-Mile Advance Across  French Alps

ALPS IN DRIVE OF 140 MILES   ' Sensational Push Inland Bared; Marseille Encircled

GEN. PATCH'S MEN CAPTURE GRENOBLE   Make Spectacular 140 Mile Advance Across Alps

Governor Offers Plan on Election  Demo Consultation Of Constitutional

SKELTON’S FIANCEE GIVES HIM GO-BY   Blond Model Says Interest  Shifts To Rich Mexican

Faculty Changes At Western Union Are Announced  Roster Of Teaching Staff Nearly Complet: For Coming Year

US. Obligated -In Case Turkey ~ Enters Shugute   Rebuilding of Eco. sinic - Structura to Be Our sd Rasnansibility

Former Educator Says Turkey May Prove Liability   U. §. Must Assume Obliga tion Entailing Industrial Rehabilitation

TREMORS SHAKE EASTERN STATES   Quakes Fett As Far West As Detroit, Mich.

REGIONS FROM NEW ENGLAND  . 10 WISCONSIN FELT TRE-.  MOR—LITTLE DAM-(- - AGE REPORTED

Plans For Revolt Made Years Ago   Claim Nazi Army Heads Hatched Plot In 194]

Effort To  Whitewash Is Charged   Resignation Is Submitted By Committee Counsel After Decision To Hold Closed Hearings

"Secrecy of FCC Inquiry Draws Protest   Counsel Resigns As Public Banned From Hearing

KCC Hearings Will Be ¢ i d To The Public   Action Of Investigators Prompts Counsel To Resign Post

FCC HEARINGS ELOSED IN ROW   Counsel Quits Afte: ‘House Committee Votes To Ban Publie

PUBLIC BARRED AT FCC HEARING   ‘House Committee Counsel _ Tenders Resignation In Protest

FOC INQUIRY MADE SECRET   Committee Counsel Quits; ‘National Scandal’ Seen By Member.   ACTION CALLED MISTAKE

GOP Candidates Hold Edge In Uintah, Survey Shows   Shift to Republican Party Noted In Two Eastern Counties; Close Vote Predicted in Duchesne

Claude Scott Is Wounded In Italy Wife Is Informed  Was Member Of 36th Division  LAM  adnnia

Funeral Services Held Thursday Morning For Marcy S. Martin In Jehn Rowland Sr. Home.

‘Last Rites For Marcy S. Martin To Be Held Thursday At 10 A. M. From John Rowland Sr. Home

.., and Incendiaries Unloosed and Yawata, “Pittsburgh of  +, stack Week Ago Believed to Be Nicht Raid by Giant Bombers

Madam Chiang Is In U. S. Hospital  General's Wife In New York City

Secret U. S. Air Bases Built in China by 400,000 Chinese Workers

MISSISSIPPI FLOOD SPREADS   Families Evacuated As Indi. ana Rivers Overflow

THREE STATES FACE THREAT OF FLOOD   Mississippi, White, Wabash  Rivers on Rampage

Mississippi Spills Over Lowlands   Large Area in Immediate Danger

Allied Planes — ~~ Blacken Skies   General Hammering Given - Enemy in France:

Heavy Bombers Hit Germans Smashing Blows   Skies From Belgium to Brittany Blackened by Planes

[ANKS OF BRITISH _ ATTACK LEFTISTS   Assault. Launched - After ‘the Expiration of . Wstsatuny

TANKS OF BRITISH — ATTACK LEFTISTS   Assault. Launched - After ‘the Expiration of  Ultimetum

TANKS ANU PLANES ATTACK LEFTIOTS   British Forces Shell, Strafe Concentrations North of Athens Upon Expiration of Ultimatum

IAPS PUSH AHEAD IN CHINA ATTACK   Appear To Have Seized Rai Junction At Chenghsien

Canada’s House Debates Draft Tn Secret Session   Appeal To French

Canada Weighs Conseriptions For Overseas   Prime Minister Staking Government On Demand  That His Program Be Apnroved

SECRET SESSION OF COMMONS IS CALLED BY KING   Prime Minister Fears Disunity May Lead To Anarchy

Canadian House Of Commons In Secret Session   Prime Minister King In Move For Showdown On  Canecrintion lesue.

SECRET SEOSION CALLED ON DRAFT   Canada’s Prime Minister May Resign In Face Of Opposition-

PRIME MINISTER MACKENZIE KING FEARS ANARGHY   Reasonable Unity Needed On Late  Conscription Plan

CANADA FACES CRISIS OVER CONSCRIPTION   Commons Called Into Secret Session on Dominion- Splitting Questior of Forced Military Servjeo Overseas.

SECRET DRAFT HEARING HELD   King’s Gov’t Tottering Or Conscription; Canada Troops Riot

Canadians Rebel Against Draft   Prime Minister Move For Secret Debate

Mackenzie King Voices Plea For Canadian Unity   Fears Anarchy Unless Draft Dispute 1s Ended

CANADIAN DRAFT DEBATE RAGING   Prime Minister Calls for Support As Demonstrations Spread Out

Split Over Conscription Might Lead To Anarchy,  Canadian Premier Warns

Canadian House Of Commons Calls Secret Session Over Conscription

Premier Warns Canada Faces Anarchy If Split On Conscription Gains   War Powers Fight Seen  House Group Pins On Disputed Amendment

Commons In ‘Session Over Draft Issue   Anti-Conscription Demonstrations Sweep Canada Today

CANADA’S HOUSE OF COMMONS IN SECRET SESSION   Study. Controversial Conscriptien Issue that. May Divide the Dominion—King Fears Lack of “Reasonable” Unity May Lead to Anarchy  pee ETAUDY ' BFONTOCOMERY

PAEMIIEH oft DNoUNION WAY BRING ANARCHY   Commons Meets in Secret as Defense Troops Stage Demonstrations.

Canada Faces Trouble Over Draft Order   Prime Minister Seeks Secret Session of  Commons far Dehate

Canada Calls Secret. Meet.   "MacKenzie King May ‘Resien As Minister ,

Parliament Called in Secret Session In Canadian Conseription Issue

Confirmation Of Stettinius Expected Soon   Acclaim For New Secretary. Plus Pressing Problems  Cause Rush.   ONLY 44 YEARS OLD

CANADIANS CALL SECRET SESSION   PARLIAMENT MEETS TO HEAR KING ON OVERSEAS DRAFT

whee Whee ieee  Vote On Unity Is Awaited   HOUSE OF COMONS MEETS; OVERSEAS CONSCRIPTION DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE

Canada Nears Stormy Crisis   Demonstrations Reflect Opposition to Prime Minister’s Conscription Bill

selenide TAX BILL MAY BE MORE EXPENSIVE        Injustice to Certain’ Fax: , Payers Seen As Resak Proposed New Tax .  RA wae or

DS MAY BE ON OFFENSIVE ~~ IN-ROMANIJ   LONG AWAITED RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE MAY HAVE BEEN - BTARTED IN ROMANIAN DRIVE

NAZIS LOSE HIGH GROUND TO REDS   DNB Says Russians Advance Several Miles in Drive On Broad Front

New Air Borne Landing Made   Allied Forces Extend Holdings Along Front

Bombers Give Japs No Respite   Seventh Air Force Grounded Only 12 Dave in Five Manthe

Nazi Italy HO Lauds Allies   Captured Document Praises Brilliant Campaign in South

Ailing Hopkins Brands Sparks Letter Forgery   Hints He Told Jury Name of Suspect in Writing of Mystery Letter About Willkie

Hopkins Testifies On Mystery Letter  Hints He Told Jury Of Alleged Forgery

LETTER FAKED, HOPKINS SAYS      Leaves Hospital Bed ‘to Go Before Jury in Probe Of Alleged Forgery

HOPKINS TESTIFIES ~ IN LETTER MYSTERY   Presidential Adviser De clares His Name Was - Foraed

Hopkins Knows “Forger”’: Hints He Named Writer of Letter About Willkie to Federal Probers   Mav Know Forger

Air Official Tells Of Navy Blow at Southern Luzon   Principal Town of Pala   Principal Town of Palau Islands Captured; Japs Raid Morotai Isle

South Luzon Attacked by  Naval Planes   Official Reveals That Northern Isle of Philippines Hit

SOUTHERN LUZON RECENTLY HIT.   First Mention Made Of At tack On Northern Philippines

FALL OF IL DUCE WAS YEAR Ago   Last 12-Month Era “Hard” on Chieftains of Ayis Powers

BENITO MUSSOLINI DEPOSED YEAR AGO   Many Changes In War's Outlook Since Grand Council Deposed Dictater

Oregon’s 15 votes go to  Gov. Dewey  Senatorial races hotly contested

GOVERNOR DEWEY WINS IN GREGON   STASSEN SECOND, BRICKER . THIRD—MORSE LEADS IN SENATE CONTEST.

Dewey Wins In Oregon Primary Test   Morse Amasses Big Lead in GOP Senate Race

Allies Massing  For Showdown   Reds Lay Seige To Budapest; Yanks Erase Bulge In Nazi Holland Lines

Nar's Greatest Battle Looms On West Froni   Allies Seek Soft Spots. As Russian Troops ° Attack Budapest

Three-Way  Assault On West Front   Reds Besiege Budapest, Greece Cleared Of Nazis

Great Battle Predicted By Germans   First Army Units Deploy on Heights Commanding the Roer River

Allies Jah Ai German Defenses   Bitter Actions’ In Severat Areas, But All Are of Local Nature   GERMAN PREDICT BIG ALLIED PUSH   Severe Counterattacks: On American Front; Yanks:  Forced Out: of Schmidt.

Soviets Lay Down Siege ‘to Budapest   Several American Ships Damaged by Jap Planes in Raid on Carrier. Fleet

Falling Back Toward Valley Of Marne And West Borders Of Reich   ALLIED PLANES OVER CROWDED HIGHWAYS   Germans Ignore Planes In Frantic Haste Of The Evacuation

Germans Evacuate Robot Bomb Coast: of : Northern France at Top Speed -.

Roads Leading From Channel Coast Jammed   U.S., Canadian: Troops Close in On Le Havre

Frantic Flight Jams All Escape Highways   Hitler Hordes Ignore Presence  Of Allied Airmen to Race Away

MASS RETREAT REPORTED BY ALLIED FLIERS   Four Armies Push Battle Of Seine Toward Its Final Hours

Retreat From Channel Rocket Coast Area In North I’rance: Battle Of Seine Near End; 4 Allied Armies Crushing Foe

Allies Capture Cannes in South France; Armies Move For Blow at Reich Border

Fight Opening Over Muster Out Pay Level   House Military Affairs Committee Seeks to Hold Ceiling At $300

House Holding To $300 Bonus   Fight Over Mustéring ‘Out Pay. Of Troops Nearing “Ballot Today:

$300 CEILING ON DISCHARGE PAY MEASURE   House Faces New Hold-The-Line Fight

Mustering Out ‘Pay Will Be Set   Military Groups Seeks to Retain $300 Ceiling

Popular Vote Edge Smallest One Since 1916   F. R. Gets 413 Electorai Votes; Nation Returns To Its War Job.

CAMPAIGN TEMPOIS STEPPED UP   Dewey Speaks Tonight At Buffalo, N. Y.

Y TRAINS GUNS AGAIN ON N. YORK VOTES   * Speaks Tuesday Night At Buffalo; List Other Major Talks

Pincers Drive Is Widened   New Offensive By Third Army Gaining Ground

Third Army Attacks On  Broad Front   Great Air Force, Naval Units in New U. S. Offensive

Police Find First Trunk Murder Clue   Possible Victim Named By Hotel Clerk as Suspect Is Held

Suspect Arrested In Trunk Slaying   First Clue To Identity  of Victim Uncovered

Police Grill Man onTrunk Murder   Police Find Clue to Identity of Woman’s Body Found Packed in Salt, Shipped From Chicago to Los Angeles Last Sunday

GERMANS CLAIM THRUST SLOWED   Allied Move to Cut Off Cherbourg Described by Enemy Command

Nazis Throw Reserves Info Heavy Battles   Foe Claims Progress In Counterattacks Or Flanks Of Beachhead; Tell Of Landinas

Invasion This Week Nazis Say   "We Are on the Eve,"' German Radio Reports

sStrixing From britain And Itlay On Germany And Romania  AXIS LOOKING FOR INVASION THIS WEEK  Allied Thunderbolts Heading lor France This Afternoon

GERMANS WARN INVASION WILL COME THIS WEEK   Apparent Attempt Made To Draw Informative Statement From Allies

THE INVASION IS NEAR’ SAYS GERMAN RADIO   Envoys of 43 Nations ‘Quarantined’ by Britain

BRITAIN BANS ALL TRAVEL T0 POINTS ABROAI   Nazi Spy Planes Fls Over England for Information

6 CARS OF NO. 1 ‘LEAVE RAILS AT DEPOT PLATFORM   ONE COACH TURNS OVER, HUNDREDS ESCAPED INJURY

VITAL RAILWAY LOSS TO JAPS, FEARED   Japanese Troops Advance on Kwangsi-Kweichow

Seem ee ae eee oe Tee FARMERS CAN GET AT LEAST 26 CENTS FOR EGGS

FINLAND PAYS HEAVY PRICE TO GET PEACE   Must Pay Reds $300,000,000 and Cede Large Areas

BOWLES LISTS 11-POINT PLAN FOR PEACETIME   Can't Go Back To 1940 Production Levels Or Tolerate Unemployment

Bowles Offers ‘{1-Point Postwar Economic Plan   OPA Administrator's Pro gram Insures ‘Stable, Full Employment’

Bowles gives 11-point plan for economy  ‘Toinsure output, full employment’

POST-WAR. OF PRODUCTION IS SUGGESTED   Chester Bowles, OPA, Director, Offers 11-Point Program   CANNOT RETURN TO LEVEL BEFORE WAR

OPA.CHIEF-OFFERS — 11-POINT PROGRAM   Chester Bowles Gives Plans for Post-war Employment —

GOP Hits New Dea Solicitation of Funds for Election  Soldiers, Contractors Are on Democrat Preferred Listing

Bricker Turns Political Guns On East Area:   Denounces Democrats For “Brazen Attempt” to Solicit Campaign Funds From Soldiers

EUONDARY ROAD AD (5 PLEDGED   Dawson Says Party Intends Do Something About Roads So Farmers Will Have Better Access to Markets

IMPROVED FARM ROADS PLEDGED BY D.B. DAWSON   GOP Gubernatorial Nomi nee For Pay-As-YouGo System

Kohima Siege Is Now Broker   Tank And Artillery Rein forcements Stream Along Dimapur Road For Allies   JAPANESE FORCES NOW FACE THREAT

JAPS SUFFER. “SETBACKS IN ~~ INDIA-DRIVE   SIEGE: OF KOHIMA BROKEN AND, WARSHIPS BOMBARD ENEMY'S SUPPLY PORT OFF SUMATRA

AMERICANS INCH AHEAD IN ITALY   By-Pass Lajatico in Drive Toward Leghorn

Yanks Battle Northward In Fierce Fighting Toward Leghorn; British Smash Forward In Siena Arena

YANKEES DRIVE NORTH IN ITALY   Employ Encircling Tactics Against German Strongholds

AIM AT KEY POINTS   Despite Strong = Kg American Army Work ing Way North

WORK WAY TO LEGHORN AREA   Battle Is Slow But Allies Gain Ground

Yanks Work Northward   Use Encircling Tactics Against Stubborn Foe In Italy

Slow Going In Italy      Tactical Situation Virtually Unchanged As Nazi Lines Stiffen

AMERICAN TROOPS STEADILY CLOSING CN ITALIAN PORT   Using Encircling Tactics Against Heavily Fortified German Strongholds

Yanks Circle ltaly Nazis   Fifth Army Byposses Lajatico in Steady Drive on Leghorn

Fifth Works steadily North   Employ Encircling Tactics Against Defended Points

Yanks Uriving Steadily Ahead  ToLivornoPort  Use gEncircling Tactics Against Stubborn Defenses  era   RAF Planes Attack Milan With Blockbusters In Heavy Raid

ENVELOPING MOVE. AIMED BY YANKS AT LIVORNO TODAY   American Troops Using En. circling Maneuvers Against ’ Strong Nazi Defenses as) They Push North Toward: Key Port City

US Troops Advancing On Livorno   Encircling Tactics Used Against Heavily Fortified German Strongholds; JapAmerican Troops Advance

Doughboys Move In Wide Circle, Aim At Livorno  Hun Strongholds Are Encircled By Advancing Allies

Americans Inch Toward Livorno  In Hard Fighting   Fierce Resistance Indicates It Will Be Many Days Before Main German Defenses Are Con . tacted.

FIFTH ARMY “MANEUVERS FOR LIVORNC   Troops Employing Encircling Tactics Against Stubbornly Defended and Héavily Fortified Nazi Strongholds.

Americans Advance In Broad Encircling Movement Aimed At Leghorn; By-Pass Town   Yanks Stab On Ahead Against Fierce Nazi Resistance: Battle fs Arduague

ALLIES ADVANCE SLOWLY IN ITALY   BEAT BACK STUBBORN GERMAN RESISTANCE IN LIVORNO DRIVE

YANK AIR FLEET BLASTS TARGETS AROUND MUNICH   Big Bombers Are Forced By Foul Weather To Drop Loads By Instrument; Ber lir Has Another Slcep less Night.   Allied Move Aimed At Key Italian Port

—ITALY—  LIVORNG 1S GOAL OF ELE TH ARM   Encireling Tactics Employed Against Stout Nazi Fortifications

YANKS SEEKING TO ENCIRCLE. ~ NAZIS INITALY   Towns By-Passed As Ailies: Drive On Northward

AIM MOVEMENT AT KEY ITALIAN PORT   Americans Use Eneircling Tactics in Drive Toward Livorno.

Allies Encircle  Nazi Defenses 100th Battalion In Violent Struagle

YANKS MOVE TO TAKE LEGHORN   Americans Start Encir,  cling’ Move

Fredonia Youth Meets Death In Bomber Crash  Sgt. Vernon Miller Instantly Killed At Fairfield Air Race

Fredonia Youth Meets Death In Bomber Crash  Sgt. Vernon Miller Instantly Killed Al  Ct. * fe. te pe

Drafting of Men Over 30 Halted   Pierce Issues New Order To State Boards

15,000 German and Fascist Troops Bottled Up in Northwestern Crete

Administration Building At Huge Douglas Plant Is Destroyed By Fire

PLANE PLANT FIRE   Administration Building at Douglas Works Burns

2 Killed in P.R.R. Rear End Crash   CORONER BELIEVES ENGINEER OF SECOND TRAIN DIED BEFORE COLLISION OF FREIGHTS NEAR DOYLESTOWN.   Three Others Hurt

CLAUD JAMES DIES; FORMER WATER CHIEF   Superintendent of Department for 26 Years

Squeeze Leaves Nazis Only Tenth of Crimea; 31,000 Prisoners Taken   U. S. Fighters Make Daylight Raids On German Airfields in France; Turkey Promises Support of Allies

DEWEY CALLS FOR ENDING OF SECRET DEALS   Nominee Talks Before Maryland and Pennsylvania Crowds

 Climax to Six Days of Attacks  U. S. Air Forces Fling 3,000 Planes at Targets in Germany

Aerial Death — Strikes Nazis   6-Day Pounding Qimaxed By 3.000 Plane Bata

3,000 PLANES HIT _ TARGETS OF ENEMY   High Priority rity Plants Are Blasted by Huge Armadas

REICH TARGETS GIVEN BLASTING   Over 1,600 U.S. Bombers In Armada Of 3,000 For Air Assault

U. 3. AIRMEN HIT AT VITAL TARGETS   3,000 Planes Flung at HighPriority Nazi Centers in Greatest Sustained Assault In Aerial Conflict

U.S. HEAVIES RANGE SKIES OF GERMANY   RAF Bombers From Bri tian Smash Ballbearing Works at Sche winfort and  Ebelsbach

3,000 Warplanes Attack Germany   Greatest Sustained Air Raids Continue

WIND KILLS 10 AND HURTS 50   Tornado Rips, Through Two Counties in Wisconsin and Illinois

10 KILLED, 40 HURT IN TWO STATE TORNADO   Twister Roars Through Parts Of Wisconsin And Illinois   FIVE DIE IN ONE TOWN   Storm Rips Path Several Miles Wide And To Length Of 30 Miles

Allies Invade Historic Elba, West Of Italy   Isle Where Napoleon Was Kept In Exile Scene Of Fighting

DUCTION ON FARMS MEETS EXPECTATIONS   Co. Agent Wm. F. Greenawalt Tells Upper Makefield Club   HOLD ANNUAL EXHIBIT

Congressmen debate presideni’s trip. ‘Fala’ and Mrs. Luce in political set-to

Cassino Is Obiective.   3-Year-Old Finally Accepts ‘That Man' as Her Daddy

3-Year-Old Martha Finally Accepts as Her Dad Strange Man Who Came in '43

DeGaulle Announces Postwar Program,  Planned Economy for French Economy.

Gen. MacArthur Says Enemy Plight Soon May Become “Acute”    PALO STRONGHOLD FALLS TO AMERICANS  Two Airdromes Taken To Give Air Support In The Islands

Drive Japs From Palo In Attacks   Engineer Crews Converting Captured Airfields to Landing Field Use

Enemy Loses Town Of Palo To Americans   Nip Resistance Is Wilting Under Powerful Blows Of Invaders; Last Stronghold On Coastal Highway Falls To Doughboys

STRONGHOLD ON LEYTE IS TAKEN BY U.S   Enemy Driven to Hills and Jungles Under Hail of American Shells, Bombs.

Nips Flee To Hills, Jungles   Philippine Attacks Net Palo, Tacloban

Are Driven From Palo, Coast Town   JAPANESE DEFENDERS WILT UNDER POWERFUL BLOWS OF AMERICANS ON LEYTE

GAS FIRE. RAVAGES EAST CLEVELAND   61 Die and Hundreds Are Injured in Mile Square Devastated Area

Property Loss Estimated at 5 Million Dollars   Large Area of City Evacuated; Many Homeless

‘Canadians Are Near Boulogne  ‘And Bomb Sites   French Are Sweeping Up   Saoue Valley Against Ineffeelive Resistance; Yanks Pursning Huns

Russians Crack German Defenses  On Polish Front   Capture 440 Additional Towns In Drives In Baltic States   OVER 7,000 GERMANS SLAIN ON TUESDAY   Torpedo Plane Of Baltic Fleet Destroys 10,000 Supply Ship

SOUTH FRONT “LINE BROKEN - BY RUSSIANS   GERMAN DEFENSES CRACKED  N 14-MILE STRETCH OF   SOIPREAS TEEN SECTOR NEAR LWOW

Roger Gardner, Sought in Connection With L. A. ‘Crushed Gardenia’ Murder, Nabbed in New York City by FBI

Hail Bricker’s Indiana Victory   G. 0. P. Declines To Instruct Delegates To Support Dewey.

Senate Passes State's Rights Vote Measure   Service Men’s Ballot Bill Goes to House for Final Action

te Passes see Ballot f7to31   ye Absentee Cards  Preferential  ing: Bill Goes to for Last Action

Senate Passes Service Ballot Bill, Acceptance By House Is Conceded

Senate OK’s Conference Ballot Bill   MAJORITY LEADER BARKLEY VOTES AGAINST MEASURE, ONE OF TEN UNEXPECTED OPPONENTS OF BILL.   Vote of 47 to 31

Ser rvice Ballot Passed, 47-31, By Senate   Heated Controversy Over Bill Continues: Final Action Due in House

SERVICE VOTE BILL IS GIVEN SENATE'S O.K.   Soldier Ballot Measure Is Passed by 47 to 31 Vote   FAVORABLE ACTION BY HOUSE EXPECTED   Majority Leader Barkley Recorded Against Bill

SERVICE VOTE BILL = APPROVED BY SENATE   23 Democrats And 24 Republicans Voted For Conference Com Promise: House To Concur

Senate Passes Service Ballot   Barkley Calls It Inferior To Present Vote Law

Fifth Army Is Widening Gap In Gothic Line   Gen. Mark Clark’s Army Smashes Savagely Through German Defenses   FIERCE RESISTANCE BEING BEATEN BACK

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   5TH ARMY SMASHES THROUGH STUBBORN GERMAN DEFENSES

GOTHIC LINE GAP WIDENED   Mark Farthest Allied Gains In Northern Italy

Clark’s Fifth Army Smashes Ahead In Vital Futa Pass Region, Gothic Line Center

GOTHIC LINE _CRUMBLING N ~ ALL SECTORS   ALLIED ARMIES WIDENING WEDGES DRIVEN THROUGH " DEFENSES AND GOING : DEEPER     By JAMES L. KILGALLEN Tndernetinnal Mawe Ratreuics .

CLARK'S YANKS WIDEN BREACH “IN GOTHIC LINE   neavy Fighting Develops as Allies Peril Nazis’ Po Valley Units

MAY OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE TO TAKE BALKANS   Spearheads of Rus: sian Army. Crossing Prut River popes

War Production Board Action to  _ Permit Distillers to Manufacture Whisky During August May Prompt Action.

BAN OFF IN AUGUST ON WHISKY MAKING   May Lift Rationing In Ohio Next Fall

MACK COVENEY IS A PRISONER   In Germany — He Had Been Reported Missing In Action,

GREEN TO LEAD ELECTION PROBES   SENATOR PROMISES TO ACT PROMPTLY IN CAMPAIGN FRAUDS

Americans Advance Des pite Deep Mud And German Steel   Two Villages Fall Before Offerisive   Allies Pound Along Hitler Highway Only 26 Miles From Cologne

WILLKIE NOT IN CALIFORNIA RAGE   Statement Made as Warren Announces He Is Not Candidate For President.

Willkie Not To Run In California   vi Be Candidate In ‘co iential Primary; De Pin Poll Test.

Willkie Will Not Be a Candidate In California   Warren To Run As Party Leader

Willkie Out of Calif. Primary  G.0.P, Leader Issues Statement as Warren , 2 or) ) oe. re ,

Opposition ‘Stiffens As Russ Hit East Wall   Nazis Chased Deep Into Carpathians As Drohobycz Falls; Warsaw Sieve Still On

Eleven Red Armies Hammer At Steel Foundations Of East Wall Based On Krakow

POLISH OIL CENTER IS CAPTURED   Resistance Of Enemy Stiffening Along * 1200-Mile Front

_Russians Capture Oil And Communications Center of Brohobyez On Southern Front

Soviet Runs ‘Into Solid «East Wall   German Line Stiffens From East Prussia South to Krakow; Rout Further South

Nazi Resistance  Slows Down Reds   Russians Loose Barrage on Krakow; Capture Oil Custer is Se

Hit Germany's East Wall For  Minor Gains   Desperate Reich Troops Are Forced To Give Ground But Fight Grimly

Soviets Meet More Bitter Nazi Fighting   Russians Hammer Steadily at Vital Krakow Site

Reds Hammer On Nazi Wall   Capture Oil Center, Drive Into Carpathians; Poles, Germans Fight in Warsaw

REDS SWEEP UP OIL CENTER ON CZECH BORDER   Six Troop, Oil Trains Destroyed As Nazis Flee Drohobycz

Russians Blast At Nazis With 11 Groups   Drohobycz Captured On Approaches To Czech Border

Nazis’ Stiffen All Along East Front   Battle Desperately To Keep Russians From Home Soil

Russians Find Opposition Is Stronger Today   Two Carpathian Slope Strongholds Taken, However

SOVIETS MEET RESISTANCE ON PRUSSIAN LINE   Street Fighting Reported Today In Warsaw

MEET TOUGHEST OPPOSITION OF BIG OFFENSIVE   RUSSIANS CAPTURE DROHOBYCZ, POLISH OIL AND RAIL CENTER

Soviet Forces’  Bid Toward Foe Land Checked   Russian Artillery Tammering At Enemy Base In Krakow and Bor: der of Prussia   Big Oil Center Of © Drohobycz Seized   Germans Chased In Bloody Rout Deep Into Carpathian Mountain Approaches

Reds Encounter Heavy Opposition OnEastern Front   Russian Army Groups Hammering At Krakow, Warsaw, East Prussia

Soviets Pound at German East Wall   Eleven Red Army Groups Encountering ough Opposition    A STAND ON BORDER   German Resistance Stiffens + to Save Reich From  Invasion

Russian Drive Points  At Nazi Bread Basket   Eleven Russian Armies Hammer At Ger-. many’s East Wall Based On Krakow And  Warsaw As Enemy’s Resistance Stiffens. —

Nazis Stiffen Resistance As  Reds March On   Eleven Russian Army Groups Hammer at Numerous Places Along 1.,260 Mile Battlefront.

Resistance To Russians Stiffens   11 Army Groups Hammering at Germans on Several Fronts

11 Russian Army Groups Hammer Away   Capture Oil Center, Drive Germans In Bloody Rout

REDS HAMMER GERMAN GATES   11 Armies Hit Smashing Blows At Krakow, War saw, East Prussia

German East Wall Under Heavy Red Gun, Bomb Attack   Nazi Resistance to 11 Soviet Army Groups Grows

Nazis Take Stand Against Russians   Toughest Opposition of Summer Reported as Reds Hammer Enemy

Sambor Falls” {0 Advancing Soviet Army   Strong Point 42 Miles South- ' west of Lwow Captured, Stalin Announces; Nazis. Stiffen in Other Sections 

Russians Moving on Eleven Fronts  German Resistance Shows Stiffening

Russian Offensive Slows Down   But Reds Still Hammer All Along Front. Shells Hit  In German. Territors

Reds Hammer East Wall; Find German Resistance.   ; Drohobyez. Sei zed ‘In Mountain Area

Duisburg Bombed Unmercifully  By Allied Fliers   R. A. F. Bombers, 2,700 Strong, Take Up Where Americans Left Off. Railroad  Junctions Hammered Hard.

GANDHI 10 DROP HIS DISOBEDIENCE   Pledges War Aid to Atet Cause and Proposes a Viceroy Leader,

Better Get Them Some Spotter Cards   BRITISH CREW SLAYS AMERICAN TRANSPORT PLANE PERSONNEL

British Planes Shoot  Down U.S. Transport ‘Over Atlantic By Error

~— buy War Gonds -—  British Fighters Mistakenly Down Yank Transport

British Planes — Down U.S. Plane   Fail to Identify Army Transport Nearing Convoy

U3, CARGO PLANE {a SHOT DOWN IN ERROR   British Fighter Planes from Carrier Mistake Transport for Nazi Craft

Confidence ‘Vote Given Churchill   Parliament Defends Nation’s Intervention in Greece and Italy

Use of British — Army in. Greek Revolt Upheld   Acted Only To Avert Gangster Rule, Prime: Minister Says In Hot Debate   TO CONTINUE SUCH ACTION, HE DECLARES   Opposition To . Sforza’. Of Ttaly Is Restated; .House: Approves Stand, 279-30

Wins 0. K. On Policy In Greece, Italy   Commons Backs Inter. vention To Balk ‘Gang:  ster’ Rule Seizure.

Churchill In Firm Stand On Infervention.   Seys AH Britein Wants i: Governments Thot Will  Goargntze Commnication eS euad: ss

Confidence Is Voted 279-30   Prime Minister, In Fighting Mood, Declares Britain Acted In Greece To Avert Gang Rule   Not Force Greece Alone.

Churchill In Firm Stand On Intervention   Seys All Britain Wants is Governments That Will  Guerantee Commnication Lines

PRIME MINISTER COASTS, 279-30, INHOUSE VOTE   Britain Supports Leader's Acts in Greece, Italy — His 9th Victory

Churchill Gets Confidence Vote   House of Commons Gave Him a Vote of 279 to 30 Today.

Churchill Ruling Backed By House   Greek Leftist Resistance Fades

DENIES BREAKING AGREEMENT WITH THE U.S. ON ITALY   DECLARES BRITISH PLACE NO TRUST IN COUNT SFORZA

British Acts: Are’ Debated   ‘Churchill May Ask Vote Of Confidence

Churchill Demands Greek Policy Vote   Stakes Fate of Government on Defense of Intervention There and in Italy—Says Security for Communications Only Aim

Churchill Defends His Action   Declares Britain  Wants Security for Communications in Liberated Countries

By Churchill   Britain’s Leader  Stands Pat on Policy In Greece, Italy and Belaium in Address

 /INTERVENTION— Britain’s Intervention In Greece, Italy Is    Prime Minister Churchill Stakes Fate-Of His Goy. ; ernment. ‘In -Defense iOf “Action; _ Expresses Views In House Debate

PREMIER WINS 279 T0 30 VOTE IN COMMONS   Calls Greek Leftists Gangsters; Sforza  Not to Be Trusted

Churchill Wins House Vote 270-30   In Fighting Mood Prime. Min _ ister Defends Britain’s Intervention in Greece and Italv :

‘Churchill is Given Vote of Confidence For Greece Action   Defends Interference Pol- icies in Greece, Italy Before Commons

Intervention ls Defended By Churchill   Wins Confidence  Vote Of Policies

Prime Minister Churchill Defends British Action In Greece, Italy

Wins Vote Of Confidence In Commons Talk   Prime Minister Declares Britain Acted In Greece To Avert Gangster   noe Rule   Says Britain Does Not Trust Sforza   Makes It Clear Tha Policy Will. Be Extended To Other Liberated Countries

Churchill’s Policy In Greece Upheld   Wins 279 to 30 Vote of Confidence in House of  Commons   ‘STOP GANGSTER RULE’   That Is Object of Policy in Greece, He Tells ' Commons.

CHURCHILL WINS CONFIDENCE VOTE IN HOUSE ON QUESTION OF POLICY IN GREECE-ITALY   GREEKS STILL RIOTING IN ATHENS AS LEFTIST LIBERATION GROUP (REFUSES TO LAY DOWN ITS ARMS

GIVEN VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. ON GREECE ITALY   Prime Minister Says Intervention Made ta Avert Gangster Rule

Churchil To Defend Stand Or Foreign Policy   Wins Resounding 279 To 30 Vote of Confi dence From Commons.

Backs Actio Of Troops it Greek Cri        Stands By Governmétit: Attitude Toward Itallt : Government L

Churchill Gets Confidence Vote on Greek Policy After Being Under Fire from Left Faction

House Backs Churchill in Greek Stand   Prime Minister Wins Vote of Confidence After Firey Speech

Churchill’s Policy lh Greece ece Uphel  Wins 279 to 3¢ to 30 Vote of - Confidence in House of  Commons ‘STOP GANGSTER RULE That Is Object of: Policy  in Greece, He Tells + Commons      ‘STOP GANGSTER RULE’

BACKING FOR GREEK, ITALO INTERVENTION   Prime Minister Declares Britain Stepped Into Greece to Head Off Gangster Rule.

CHURCHILL DEFENDS POLICY   Upholds British Use Of Force In Greece

Commons Backs Stand ®y Big Vote   Britain's intervention Is Defended

Churchill Given Vote of Confidence by Commons   Prime Minister Demanded Vote on His Policy in Greece and Italy

Churchill Wins Confidence Vote in Commons   Briton Upholds Intervention in Greece and Italy

British Stand ls Defended by Churchill   Stakes Fate by Demanding a Vote of Confidence

Upholds Use Of Troops And Tanks   Opposition Challenged To Confidence Vote By Prime Minister

Churchill Wins Vote of Confidence   Commons Backs Prime Minister 279 to 30 After Defense of British Intervention in Greece and Italy.

COMMONS BACKS CHURCHILL MOVE   GREEK STAND WINS ENGLAND APPROVAL

Move In Greece To Avoid Rule By ‘Gangsters   Backs Up Opposition To Count Sforza In  Italy; Ire Aroused By Left-Wina Opposition

Churchill Defends Britain’s Intervention in Greece, Italy;  ‘Wins House’s Confidence Vote

Churchill Stakes Fate On Action In Greece   Says Great Britain Acted To Insure Gangsters Not Taking Over Government

Captain Tells Of Jap Hell   Details So Cruel That Women Have To Be Ushered Out

Experienced More Than a Year in Jap Prison Camps In Philippines.

HUNDREDS OF BODIES SEEN ALONG HIGHWAY   Captain Grashio Weighed Only 90 Lbs. When He Escaped Fram Jans

Atrocity Tale Stuns Hearer:   Nipponese Revealed As Inhuman Fiends

Army Air Force Captain, Who Escaped. Tells How Nips Beat U. S. Troops Across Face With Gun Butts if They Tried To Get Water, and of Seeing One Bayoneted When He Collapsed

STORY OF STUDIED  JAPANESE CRUELTY  TOLD BY ESCAPEE CAPT. GRASHIO IN HAR ROWING DETAILS OF ENEMY ATROCITIES

JUST _A PLAIN AMERICAN BOY  He Didn't Want Comrades. To-See Him “Die Like Rat”   Pitiful Story of Jap Atrocities Told By Another Who Fled Prison Camp

Dying American Soldier Naked, Covered With Flies, Is Left Near Garbage Pit

BELLE VERNON SOLDIER DIES IN AIR BATTLE   S Sgt. George Amoroso Dies Of Wounds, His Family Ts Told

BRITISH POLICY IS OPPOSED BY GREEKS   Editor Says Monarchist Forces Wanting Keiurn Of King Behind Present Revolution

Rev. E. J. Johnson To Attend Pastoral Institute at Boone   Annual Conference Lutheran Pastors at  Boone Sept. 11-13.

Russ Guns Roar At Memel, East Prussian Port; Drive © Toward Tilsit Fort Gains

Yanks Drive To Isolate Guam Harbor   Fierce Fighting On Tinian for the Ushi Point Airstrip

AMERICANS GAIN MILE ON TINIAN   Seek to Isolate Apra Harbor On Guam Island

DRIVE INLAND ON TINISIAN   Army Troops on Guam Seek to Isolate Apra Harbor Naval Anchorage — Marines Now Fighting for Usht Poin Airstrip.

’ MARINES, JAPS IN-BATTLE “FOR ” TINIAN AIRBASE   U. S. Forces Mile Inland, Try To Cut Off Apra Harbor On Guam

MARINES SHOVE JAPS ONE MILE BACK ON TINIAN   Troops On Guam Seek To Isolate Arpa Harber

Marines Battle for Tinian Airstrip, After Invasion Carries Mile Inland

Fierce Fighting Is Reported on Tinian Island   Orote and Its Airfield on Guam Cut Off

OPPOSITION BITTER ON GUAM ISLE   Situation Considered Well In Hand, Is Nimitz’ Report

,Plunge More Than Mile Inland On Tinian Island LA  TROOPS ON GUAM  , MEET OPPOSITION    ‘Heavy Shelling Sends  Japanese Civilians  Underground

YANKS PLUNGE MILE INLAND ON TINIAN   Troops On Guam Have Cut Off  Orote Peninsula

TELEGRAM FROM DE GAULLI   French General Sends Message to Genera! Eisenhower

Rumania Lose:  Its Will to Do Battle  But Can't Quit Because of  tan Bon fa no seateoce

Rumania Held Ready To Quit   Antonescu’ Reported Set To Ask Allied Terms

RUMANIA LOSES WILL TO FIGHT   German Troops Hold All Key Points; Nation Apathetic

TWO DROWN AS BOAT CAPSIZES   One Man Still Missing, Rescue Two Other Fishermen

2 DROWNED AS CRUISER UPSETS   Coast Guard Searches For Body Of Boat Owner

COLUMBUS MEN LOSE LIVES AS BOAT CAPSIZED   Survivor Tells of Long Hours of Prayer Before Being Rescued in Bay Sunday Afternoon.

BiG BATTLE REPORTED IN E. PRUSSIA   Russians Have Not Confirmed Nazi Reports on Drive

‘SNEAK’ PICTURE ANGERS WALLACE   REPORTED SCUFFLE WITH PHOTOGRAPHER AMICABLY ADJUSTED

WALLACE, NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER HAVE SCUFFLE   Differences Over New: Film Are Settled After Hotel Incident

Wallace And Photographer In Scuffle   Washington Incident Is Later ‘Amicably Adjusted,’ Report

DISORDERS ARE ~ CITED IN REICH   ‘Anti-Nazi Activity Listed In City Of Cologne

Losses to Enemy Grow in Mighty Naval Victory   Carrier Planes Believed Chasing Remnants of Battered Nip Fleet

U.S. FLEET CONTINUES TO ENEMY   Present Total of Nip Ships Lost Subject to Revision

SOVIET FORCES TRAP 164,000 GERMANS   Russians Drive to Within 18 Miles of Danube

TRAP 12 NAZI DIVISIONS IN DANUBE AREA   180,000 More Sur rounded   TARTU IS TAKEN   Poles Seek Aid Inside Warsaw

Reinforcements Pouring Ashore On Biak Bolster ‘Drive On Three Airdromes

American, British and Russian Delegates Nearing Agreement on Role of Small Nations in Peace   Secrecy Rapped

County Again Goes “Over Top” War Bond Sales In Excess - Of Quota By Over $100,000

JAPS TRAPPED ON LEYTE, END NOW IN SIGHT   AMERICAN FORCES MAKE JUNCTION IN CARIGARA

MacArthur Says Leyte-Samai Campaign Near End Despite Reinforcement of Japanese

JAPANESE DRIVEN TO SMALL SECSE   American ferces Score Great Gains in. the Phiiippines 

MOTORISTS STRANDED BY DRY FUELTANKS   Hundreds Of Washington Drivers Abandon Cars When Dealers Run Out Of Gas

Cars Lack Fuel In Washington   Doctors Worried; May Appeal for Help

FLOOD WATERS RETREAT WITH LIGHTER RAINS   Rivers Recede in Bartlesville And Kingfisher—Three Storm Victims

Death Toll Remains At Thrée, Reports Tell of Mounting Damace to ‘Property

Robot Planes Fall Like  Clay Pigeons British Gunners   Have One of  TW. Mew

Robot Planes Fall Like Clay Pigeons  British Gunners Have One of Their Busiest Days

Robot Raids Diminishing   Britain Has Anewer To ‘Mystery Meteors’

Jagged Holes Rippec in German. Plane Industry by Bombs   American Air Force Loses 64 Bombers and 16 Escorts in Most Savage Aerial Attack Made on Eurove

Great Day Raid Costs 64 Bombers, 16 Fighters: Soviets Capture Kerch   Russians in Crimea Now Only 85 Miles From Sevastopol on Black Sea; Action In Italy Confined to Sharp Patrol Clashes

Air Forces Rip Another Jagged Hole in Germany's Aircraft Industry   Sixteen Escorting Fighters Destroyed in Most Sayage Aerial Battle Since Raid on Berlin

in German. Plane  Industry by Bombs   American Air Force Loses 64 Bombers and 16 Escorts in Most Savage Aerial Attack Made on Europe

Savage Air Battle Rages In Day Raid   U.S. Airmen Struck at German Plane Producing Centers

Huge U.S. Bomber Force Hits Nazi  Plane Factories   Fleet Of Nearly 2,000 Follows Up Record RAF Night Attack As Pre-Invasion Drive Passes Fourth Day

Savage Air Battles Fought Over Europe   American Flying Forces Also Suffer Heavily With 64 Planes Being Lost In Aerial Attack

Bomber Loss 2nd Highest For One Raid   Nazi Plane Factories In Germany Targets  Of 2,000-Plane Raid  PaALrerre VPreronnren

Yank Fleet of Nearly 2,000 Craft Smashes at Nazi Aviation Plants: 64 Bombers, 16 Fighters Lost

64 American Bombers And 16 Fighters Lost In Reich Raids   “TANK-BUSTING” GUNS EMPLOYED BY NAZIS

SAVAGE FIGHT IS STAGED BY UJ. §. BOMBERS   ATTACK ON GERMAN FACTORIES COSTS 80 SHIPS

126 Nazi Aircraft Downed in Attack  of Woinewenws Avetven] CStatnc

SMASH 300 MILES INTO CONTINENT WITH LOSS OF 64 BOMBERS, 16 FIGHTERS, IN MOST SAVAGE BATTLES U. S. FLIERS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN.

Savage Aerial Battle Costs U.S. 80 Craft   German Plane Plants Assaulted by Nearly 2.000 Planes: RAF Makes Record Flight

SOME SECTIONS GET NO TURKEY   Crop Bigger, But Armed Forces Double Their Last Year's Needs

SAIPAN CUTS TOKYO INNER DEFENSE RING   POUNDING OF GUAM CONTINUED BY TASK FORCE

BOMBS ROCK GUAM ISLAND   Continued Pounding Sug. gests Impending Developments Against For mer U. §. Outpost

Americans Blast Island of Guam   Battleship Takes Part in Attacks

Bombers rip Guam tenth straight day   Sustained blows suggest impending action: Mitscher’s planes lash Rota

GUAM 18 BOMBED (OTH DAY IN ROW   RAIDS SUGGEST IMPENDING DEVELOPMENTS AGAINST FORMER U. 8. OUTPOST.

USH FORWARD AFTER HALTING NAZI ATTACK   Enemy Offensive at One Time Threatened to Split Allies

Stimson Gives  U.S. Attitude   Religious And Cultural Targets To Be Bombed If Used By Germans For War   EVERY PRECAUTION BEING TAKEN BY U.§

U. §. Bombers Blast Berlin   Air Battles Mark Day Raid on Capital; Cologne Hit by R.A.F.

Heavy Aerial Battle Reported   Communications in Balkans Again Hit By Allied Planes.

STRONG FORCE IN ATTACK ON BERLIN   Operation Is First All-Out Raid In 5 Days   INVASION COAST   is Listed Among Targets; Planes From Italy Hit Balkan Supply Lines

Heavy Aerial Battles Raging Over Reich; France Is Blasted      First American Attack In Force On Nazi Capital Since March 22;. Rhineland City Of Cologne Raided By RAF Monday Night

2,000 Planes Dart Through Opposition   Losses May Be Heavy In Daylight Raid— Nazis Swarm to Battle

2.000 U.S. Planes Hit Berlin And Other Areas   Widespread Battles Fought As Nazis Send Up Planes To Give Americans Battle

1,000 Bombers and Equal Number _ of . Fighters Swarm Over Hitler’s Fortress In Great Daylight Blow.

1,000 BIG SHIPS IN ATTACKS ON REICH TARGETS   Probably 2,000 Planes Took Part in All Daylight Raids

WIDESPREAD AIR BATTLES OVER REICH   About 2,000 U. S. Bombers And Fighters Attack Berlin and Other Objectives on Continent   BALKANS ALSO VISITED

Furious Aerial Battles Raging Over Continent   2,000 Planes in Force Attacking Reich Capital and Other Nazi Taraets

Liberators Hit Again at Pas-de-Calais   Strong Forces of Fighters Accompany Bombers and Battle Luftwaffe in Skies

1,000 PLANES ON MISSION   Berlin. Radio Tells of Widespread Air Battles Over Germany—Amertcans Also Attack the Pas-de-Calais Area.

APPROXIMATELY 2,000 HEAVY BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS MAKE RAID  BRITAIN-BASED FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS STRIKE IN STRENGTH

Aerial Armada Assaults Reich; Berlin Blasted   Two Thousand American Bombers And Fighters Smoke Out Luftwaffe.

NAZIS FORCED INTO BATTLES   German Capital Has Its First Daylight Bombing Since March 22.    BALKAN CITIES ATTACKED

GERMANS REPORT VIOLENT AND PROLONGED AIR BATTLES WITH RENEWED OFFENSIVE UNDERWAY   More Than 750 Fortresses and Other Bombers Included Among American Planes Raking MuchBombed City and Other Strategic German Points

2000 Planes Raid Berlin In Daylight   Great Aerial Battle Is Said Raging Above Nazi Capital

Other Points In Europe Are Pounded   1,000 Heavy Bombers in Day Raid,  Is Belief

Berlin Is Targel Of Allied Bombs   About 2,000 -American Heavy Bombers and Fighters in Attack   IN A DAYLIGHT RAID   Germans Report Seeing A Great Many Parachute Landings

2000 Planes Attack Germany   Great Aerial Battle Reported by Noxi Radio, With Claims That Many American Airmen Were Shot Down by Luftwaffe

Mosquitos — Stage Raid Over City Of Cologne   Balkan Areas Dealt ‘New Blows By Air

Force Nazi Planes Into  Air Battle   Bombers Under Strong Fighter Escort; Other German Areas Assaulted

BERLIN ATTACKED "LAST NIGHT BY U.S, “HEAVY BOMBERS   Other Objectives in. Hitler's ' Continental Fortress Were Targets.   ‘HEAVY AERIAL BATTLE   Was the First Daylight Blow * at the Capital Since March 22.

American Bombers Affack Berlin Other Objectives   Attack on Berlin Marks First Daylight Blow Since March 22

FURIOUS AERIAL BATTLES RAGE ORER EUROPE   AMERICAN ARMADA FORCES GERMAN AIRMEN TO FIGHT

BOMBER AND FIGHTERS RAID OVER EWROPE   German Radio Reports Great Air Battle With Heavy  Alliad  neepae

R.A.F. Hits Cologne In Night Raid   Romanian Capital Said Without Water Lights; Being Evacuated

Raid on Nazi Capital Is First There Since March 22 — Liberators Strike at ‘Invasion Coast’ of France — 1,000 Heavy Bombers in Foray.

Air Struggles Rage as Yanks Attack Berlin   2000 Bombers, Fighter: Hit Capital and Other  Objectives

2,000 Planes Lash Targets On Continent   First Heavy Blow In 5 Days Sets Off Furious Skv Battles.

Big Bombers Lash at French Coast   Berlin Is Among Day’s Targets of Fortresses As Heavy Aerial Battles Rage; Other German Cities, Pas-de-Calais Area Bombed

RAID SUPPORTS BROZOVICH’S -PARTISIAN ARM}   Planes Italian-Based; Allied Bombers From Mediterranean Hit Rome, Nazis Report 

FORTRESSES BOMBS ITALIAN PORT OF POLA   Port Is Supply Base for Germans _In Jugoslavia -

German Supply Base of Pola Shattered by Fortress Bombs   Factories and Dock Areas Suffer  Much Damawe

Italian Port of Pola Blasted By  Fortress Units   Main Supply Base For © Nazis In Jugoslavia Receives Heavy Blow.

- Japs Gain in India:  British Supply Lines to Imphal ‘Cut by Determined Enemy Atfack

DEADLOCK IN ELECTORAL VOTE — ~ NOT.REGARDED AS IMPOSSIBLE   POLITICIANS SAY SOUTHERN BLOC MIGHT BE ABLE TO PUY PRESIDENCY UP TO HOUSE

REVOLT IhAY CAUSE ELCGTION BY HOUSE   Electors Could Keep E.tler Cand date From Getiing Majority

1,000 U. S. Troops Lose Lives in  Ship Sinking   Disaster Worst of Kind in American Militarv History

1000 YANKS DIE WHEN TRANSPORT IS SUNK BY NAZIS IN ATLANTIC   SIMILAR NUMBER OF SOLDIERS SAVED IN TRAGEDY ON HIGH SEAS AS “ENEMY ACTION” COSTS FIRST TROOP TRANSPORT IN TWO WORLD WARS

REVEAL AMER. TROOP SHIP WAS SUNK   1000 Men Lost; Occurred in European Waters

1000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS LOST IN SHIP SINKING   Worst Tragedy In U. §. Military History Revealed By War Department

1000 AMERICANS LOSE LIVES WHEN TRANSPORT SINKS   War Officials Issue 90-Word Statement, Ship Is Sunk By Enemy Action, Nearly 1000 Are Saved.   ALLIES PROGRESSING IN ITALIAN SECTORS   Marshal Brozovich’s Veter: ans Make Surprise Cross   ing of Sava River, Pene:  trate North Italy,

Transport Sunk; 1000 Men Lost   Tiaygedy Occuis iii Evropean Waters

Sunk in European Waters Durin, Enemy Action But Few of Details Are Given Out

Seven In Liquor   Black Mart Fined   Penalties Heaviest  For OPA Violations

ELAD-BnITIoH BATTLE. RAGES ABOUT PRISON   Greek Rebels Use Dynamite and Grenades Against Defense Unit.

Capture Rebel Units In Athens   ELAS Forces Storm RAF  Headquarters, Prison

BRITISH THROW TANKS INTO ATHENS FIGHT AS E. L. A. S. REACH PRISON   600 REBELS ATTACK R. A. F. COMPOUND; NEW OFFENSIVE FAILS TO DRAW DEFENSE FIRE

JAP NAVY BASE IN JAVA RAIDED   Airmen Of Five Nations Join In Assault On Soerabaja

UKRAINIANS MOVING INTO CARPATHIANS   After Routing Defenders of Czernowitz, Forces of  Marshal Zhukov Push 15 Miles Nerth   eee  ONE UNIT ANNIHILATED

DEFENDERS FLEE AS REDS TIGHTEN SIEGE OF ODESSA   COLUMN LEAVING CITY CAUGHT BY RUSSIAN TROOPS

Rumanians and Nazis Reported In Flight From Port of Odessa   5000 Germans Slain in Trap 45 Miles to Northwest

Soviet Armies Are Held On Prut Except In North   Russians Sweep Nearer To Odessa; Are Within 47 Miles

Soviet Army At Rumania,  Czech Border   German And Rumanian Troops Fleeing From Odessa With Russians 9.6 Miles Away

Reds Move Into Carpathians After Crossing Prut River   Fas¢-Moving Russian Forces Drive . Toward Hungary's Eastern Border

IGHT SIEGE ARC ENCIRCLES CIT    Soviet Forces Reported Less Than 10 Miles From Port   DEFENSE BROKEN   Panic. Prevails In Out: _ skirt Villages As Reds Forge Ahead ©

Germans And Rumanians Are In Flight  From Odessa   Another Large Enemy Group North Of There Encircled; Transport Plones Are Ragged

Zhukov Now Moving {nto Carpathians   Konev Army Is Remaining Poised on East Bank Of Prut River

Red Forces Reach Gzech Border Line   Lunge To Tatar Pass In Carpathians; Sweep Across Rumania.

SOVIETS NEAR THE FRONTIER OF HUNGARY   Vanguards Roll Through Delatyn, 15 Miles From Border Where Pass of Tatars Leads Into Old  Cyzyachacloavalkia.

ALSO FORCE PRUT RIVER IN RUMANIE   Establish a Front of 124 Miles in Carpathians and One of 106 Miles North of Iasi—a Total of 230 Miles.

RUSSIANS MOVING  UP INTO CARPATHIAN  MOUNTAINS SECTOR RED ARMY SURGES ACROS:  PRUT RIVER ON THROUGE C7ERNOWIT7Z

RUSSIANS PUSH INCARPATHIANS   Move Up ‘Into Mountains _ In Drive To Hungary

Massive Red Drive Reaches Czech Border   Russians Also Gain  In Rumania and Draw Tight Siege Arc Around Port of Odessa

SOVIETS FORCE PRUT CROSSING   First Ukranian’ Army’ Drives Toward Rumanian and Hungarian Border.

Soviels Move For Rumania And Hunaary   First Ukrainian Army Goes Through Delatyn At Pass of Tartars  In Carpathians

Marshal Zhukov’s Vanguards Advance Through Delaytn 15  Milee Frara Wi:noarian Border

AXIS TROOPS IN RETREAT AS RED ARMY DRIVES IN   Rumanians And Nazis Take To Heels As Russians Draw Tight Siege Arc Around Important Black Sea  ort.

REDS MOVE UP TO CARPATHIAN MOUNTAIN LINE   Press Forward Toward Hungary and Rumania, Smashing Nazi Defense

REDS ADVANCE IN MOUNTAINS   Ukrainian Army Surges Across Prut River Toward Hunwary

Panic Grips" Millage   Reds Potting” Planes Which. Nazi Are Evacuated. -

NUERENBERG IN FLAMES AFTER AERIAL SMASH   Reds Press Toward Hungary, Rumania; Italian  Deadlock Holds

Russians Push  Far Beyond Nikolaev Port   Other Red Army Forces Continue to Gain In Assaults on Hungary, Rumania; Ochakov Captured in 32-Mile Advance

Zhukov Moves Upon Hungary and Rumania   First Ukrainian Army Pressing Forward Into Carpathian Mountains

Red Army Moves Info Carpathian Mountain Pass   Russ Advance Steadily Toward Hungary And Inner Rumania

REDS PUSH ON BEYOND CZERNOWITZ   Enter Carpathian Mountains Toward Hungary, Rumania

Russ Take Ochakov  Located 40 Miles East of Odessa; Marks 32.Mile Cain

“RUSSIA   ee ee        it . ious Russians “Be. _ gin Advance’ Into’ Car. ‘ pathian’ Mountains: 

City Residents Don’t . Hear Nazi. Propaganda Minister's s Broadcast

Zhukov’s Forces Reported Moving On Carpathians   Ist Ukrainian Army Said To Be 15 Miles North - Of Hungarian Border

Reds Moving On Borders Of Rumania  And Hungary   Carpathian Region Next Russian Goal

Reds 15 Miles From Hungary      Russians Rush To Grab Vital Mountain Passes: Black Sea Port Of Ochakov Is Captured

Force 15 Miles From Hungary  North Bessarabia Being Mopped Up By Soviets

ENEMY TROOP! SAID 10 BE TN FLIGHT   One Defense Line After Another Crumbles   FIVE DIVISIONS   Trapped Around Razdelnaya: Nazi Attempt To Counterattack Fails

SOVIET UNITS -BATTLEINTO CARPATHIANS   Zhukov’s Vanguards Drive Through Delatyn; Other Army Waits Go Sign

REDS NOW AT CZECH BORDER STALIN SAYS   Russian Military Machine Rolling Westward Through Carpathians on Broad Scale

SOVIET ARMY MOVES TOWARD NEW FRONTIER   Troops Only 15 Miles From Hungary

RED ARMIES MOVED UP TO TARTAR PASS IN THE CARPATHIANS  HAVE REACHED CZECHOSLOVAKIAN BORDER ALONG WIDE FRONT

FLEE ODESSA AS REDS DRAW A SIEGE ARC   Russians Press as Close as 9.6 Miles of the Black Sea Port.   Throw Back Hundreds  To Dniester Swamp

RUSSIANS NEAR RUMANIA AND HUNGARY   Ukrainian Army Moving Up to Carpathian Mountains and Strategic Passes

Reds Capture Ochakov Base   Roll Westward Along Black Sea to 40 Miles of Great Base of Odessa  CRUSH TRAPPED NAZIS  Zhukov’s Men Push On After Occupation Of Czernowitz to North

RED VANGUARDS ONLY 15 MILES FROM HUNGARY   HEAD FOR TARTAR PASS THROUGH THE CARPATHIAN MTS.

Ochakov, Last Key City Before Odessa, Taken By Reds; Port Is 40 Miles Away

RUSSIANS NOW ONLY 15 MILES FROM BALKANS   Near Romania and Czechoslovakia   TAKE OIL FIELDS   Germans Abandon War Materials

Red Armies Drive Ahead Unchecked   Zhukov's Ukrainian Army Moves Uu Into Carpathian Mountains; Konev Poised on Prut

Press Toward Hungary And Rumania   Second Army Still Poised  On East Bank Of Prut River

Soviets Take Ochakov In 32-Mile Advance   Third Ukrainian Army on Westward March Following Crossing of Bug River; First Army in Carpathians.

Reds-Advance Into Carpathians Within 15. Miles of Hungarian. Border: Also Threaten Odessa

  Red Forces Moving On Hungary Anc Rumania   Zhukov's 1st Ukrainian Army Surges Across Northern Prut River; Put Pressure On Odessa

Soviet Troops Push Advance In Carpathian:   First Ukrainian Army Surges Across Prat Toward Hungars, Rumania,   15 MILES OF BORDER

Enemy Flees ‘Odessa as Trap Closes   German Elferts ts Believe Skala Tarnepel Fail, Mere Troops in Trap Above Razdelnava

Reds Advance To Within 40 Mi. Of Odessa   Capture Ochakov; Other Soviet Forces Driving Toward Hungary.

Reds at Border of Czechoslovakia; Noose Tightens on Nazis at Odessa

AUSGIANG MAKE TWO BIG GAINS   Roll Up Before Tatar Pass In Carpathians; Advance in Rumania.   REACH STATE FRONTIERS

Advance Toward  Antwerp   British and Canadian Forces Hurl Nazi Troops Out of City On Walcheren Island

Launch Blow = In Forest On* Cologne Road   Advance One to Two Miles; Over-run Two German Viiiages val

GRIND SCORED NEAR AACHEN   Doughboys Attack Through Gloomy Forest of Hurt-  : gen Todav.   PUSH ONE TO TWO MILES

Approaches To Antwerp Being Cleared Of Foe   Stubborn German Defense Troops Hurled From All But North Outskirts Of Flushing   Schelde Estuary Nearly Hun-Freed   German General Com: manding Pocket And 250,000 Of His Men tn Seclor Captured

Dense Forest Southeast of Aachen Is Penetrated in New Attack Made by U.S. Forces.   GROUND GAINED ON ROAD TO ANTWERP

TROOPS SURGE AHEAD THRU DENSE FOREST   British Overrun Walcheren Isle, Win Battle for Antwerp

BRITISH - CANADIAN CONAKDOS IN HOLLAND IN LAST PHASE OF OPERATIONS FOR ANTWERP

Barrage Precedes Assault   Overrun Two Villages In Advance Through  Hurtgen Forest; Mop Up On Walcheren Isle

Battle to Clear Antwer p isin  Its Final Phase   Yanks, Poles Yield Bridgeheads Over Mark River

NAZIS BEING FLUSHED OUT OF FLUSHING   Allies in Last Phase of Battle to Make Antwerp Usable for Bringing in of Supplies.

British And Canadian Troops Are In Final Phase Of Battle To Uncover Antwerp

Open Assault To Overrun 2 Reich Villages   Allied Drive To Open Antwerp Sea Nearing Goal; Germans Admit They've Lost Battle

British Roll Up Fresh Gains In Counterattack  Stubborn Resistance All Bu it Er osed  in  Schelde Ectuary

YANKS TAKE. 2 VILLAGES, GAIN 2 MILES   Troops Strike Through Dense Hurtgen Forest Southeast of Aachen  - Following a Heavy Artillery Barrage. :

FIGHT THROUGH FOREST IN NEW DRIVE ON NAZIS   _ British, Canadians in Last Phase of Battle to Open Up Antwerp

Advance One To Two Miles Into Forest   British Troops Winding Up Antwerp Battle; Silence Big Nazi Guns

American Forces Score Gains of One to Two Miles   Battle to Clear Antwerp Passage ls in Final Stage

Battle to Uncover Important Port Now in Its Last Phases   Yanks Launch Daylight Attack Into Dense Hurtgen Forest

GAIN RAPIDLY IN DRIVE TO CLEAR SEA APPROACHES   NAZI COMMENTATOR ADMITS BATTLE FOR PORT HAS BEEN LOST

AMERICAN INFANTRY MAKE GAINS ALONG AREA NEAR AACHEN  BRITISH AND CANADIAN ‘FORCES NEARING SUBJU. GATION OF WALCHERN

American Doughboys Advance In Forests Southeast Of Aachen   British Smash Most Organized Resistance on Island Of Walcheren, Shipping Ready to Move Up River to Antwerp

Advance Made By ist Army on Hurfger Forest  Last Phase Nears   Last Phase Nears In Conflict to Uncover Antwerp

Smash Through Hurtgen Forest. In New Attack   British, Canadians Make Progress in Walcheren Island Battle for Antwerp

Other Allied   : Troops in  Holland Gain   Hurtgen Forest Is Scene of Latest Assault On Reich; Battle to Uncover Antwerp Progresses Despite Some Small Reverses

Two Villages Are Overrun   Believed in Last Phase of Battle to Open Antwerp Port

NEW OFFENSIVE PUSHES DEEPER INTO GERMANY   British and Canadians Gain in Effort to Open Antwerp

AMPHIBIOUS FORCES RAPIDLY CLEARING WALCHEREN ISLAND OF STUBBORN DEFENSE UNITS   Reuters Field Dispatch Says German General Commanding Pocket and 2,500 Men Have Been Captured By Invading Armies   GAINS MADE IN AMERICAN SECTORS IN SOUTH

In Last Phase Of Battle To  Uncover Port   Advance One To Nearly Two Miles In Dense Hurtgen Winenat.   GIVE UP BRIDGEHEAD

British Drive Upon Antwerp, Russians Gain In Hungary   100 Miles Of Yugoslav Coast Cleared Of Nazis

POLISH CRISIS PRECIPITATED   Liberation Group Repudiates Refugee Government

Poles Set Up   New Government   Say Polish Army Fused With Underground Force

POLISH CRISIS PRECIPITATED   Polish Committees on National Lib eration Issies Manifesto — Repudiates Government in London,

RIVAL POLISH GROUP CLAIMS RIGHT TO RULE   Complicates Situation With Attack on London Regime

POLES SET UP NEW RULE, GET SOVIET BACKING   Government In Exile Ignored; New Crisis Is Threatened

DEPT, OF LABOR MAKES AWARDS TO P&H. STEEL   George Gabrik, Inspector For Pa Department Announces Types Of Awards

The Weather   Great Team of MucArthur, Nimitz & Co., At Last Set For Inyasion of Philippine Islands

MACKENZIE SAYS—_  U.S. Set for Landings on Philippines   MacArthur, Nimitz Team Going All-Out, Will Be Aided by British

Last Barrier To Philippines Is Invaded   MacArthur Goes Ashore On Small Landing Craft   THE WAR TODAY ------ - By Dewitt Mackenzie

The War Today  MacArthur, Nimitz Operations Menace bannanece Pacitian

MACARTHUR, NIMITZ AND CO. NOW SET FOR FULL INVASION OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ~

w—LilC War .  M’ARTHUR AGAIN OUTSMARTS FOE   General Hits Where He Was Last Expected To

MacArthur, Nimitz & Co. Now All Set For invasion Of Philippines; Brifain May Aid

PILOT BREAKS RICK’S MARK   Capt. Don Gentile Downs 27th Enemy Plane .,

Ohio Fighter Pilot Who Destroyed 27 Enemy Planes Seen as No. ! Ace

Young War Ace Bags 27 Planes   Captain Don Gentile of Ohio May Take Lead In European Theatre.

OHIOAN REPORTS “97 PLANES IN BAG   IF CLAIM 18 ALLOWED CAPT. GENTILE WILL BECOME LEADING ACE IN EUROPE.

U.S. Scores Big Diplomat Victory   SWEDEN AGREES TO END : SHIPMENTS TO GERMANY

Russ And Finns Contact Again  Peace Discussions BRanartod Danawael

Reds; Finns: Seen Renewing: Plans  For Armistice   eed Announcement  Expected. To Be:.Made “> At Helaink? ‘Next Week

Desperate Jap Attempt to Hall U. S. Invaders   Terrain Problems Slow Building of U. S. Airfields on Leyte; Blockade Slapped on West Coast of Island; Small Craft Sunk

Japs Mass Air Force Defenses:  _ Will Try Stop MacArthur Smash -

Orbetello Taken As Fifth Army In taly Pushes On      NEW YORK COTTOS   Cuh Plane “Lil Ole Red” Is Nemesis Of Nazis

—RUSSIA—~  0s MASSED FOR RIVER GROSSING   Soviet Plunge Into German Homeland Expect‘ ed To Come Soon   BORDER REACHED   Szeszuppe River Crossing Will Take Russians Into Fast Prussia

ALLIES DROP SUPPLIES, GUNS INTO WARSAW   Germans Burning Own Towns Along East Prussia Frontier; Russ Armies Close In

Yanks Close in on Cherbourg   Yanks Peril Nazis’ Last Railway From French Port, Bradley’s Men Expand Gains Above Montebourg, Street Fighting Rages

Drive fo 3 Miles of Last Escape Routes from City   Artillery Hits Lines; U.S. Forces Fan Out in Three Directions   BULLETIN

Hungarian National Assembly Elected  fTYnan Warb at   Open Work at Debrecen to Establish New Government

Aircraft Production Program Cut To 75,000 Big Planes For Next Year

Aircraft Production  Has Been Cut   New Schedule Calls for Decline Spreed Over Year  ee ~~ = oe ree cae es 7 in» te, te te ane

Production Of Aireraft Cut Five Percent   New Schedule Calls for About 75,000 Planes — Compared With This  Year’s 100,000

Nation’s Holiday Death Toll Rises   Traffic Fatalities Lead As Total Increases

Hengyang Still Holds Off Japs   Enemy’s Severance Drive Gains Un Railway

CAST OF BABY IS PRESENTED   Offered as Evidence  in Trial for Noxon

Joint Navies  Aided Landing   American Commanded Large Sea Forces

3 ALLIED NAVIES PARTICIPATED IN NEWEST INVASION   British, American and’ Greek Vessels Had Pa In New Amphibious — Attectl-

EXGISE TAXES IN EFFEGT SATURDAY   Public Will Spend Over Five Billion In Meeting Higher Selling Prices.

NEW TAXES GO IN USE SATURDA)   RATES RAISE REVENUE BILLION DOLLARS YEAR

EXCISE TAXES GO UP SATURDAY   Nationwide ‘Beat The Tax’ Buying Wave Reported To Escape New Levies

Increased Excise  +  Taxes Go Into  Effect Saturday   Nationwide Wave of Buying To Beat Levy Reported In Nation

Excise Taxes Advance Saturday   Wave of Buying Reported in U. S.

New Excise Taxes Go Into Effect Sat.   Revenues Expected To Bring Over 5 Billion Yearly

NEW EXCISE TAXES START TOMORROW   New Rates Affect Nearly All  Luxury Items

New Excise Tax Rates Cause Wave of Buying   Government Will Collect Bigger  Revenue Saturday

DIED AT HOME ” OF HER SO!   Service for. Widow of Former President of Williams College

TWO KILLED IN WAREHOUSE FIRE   Costly Cincinnati Blaze {: Fought By 24 Fire Companies

WAREHOUSE BLAZE S BELIEVED TO KILL TWO   Fire Burns Out in 81 -year-old Cincinnati Building

Boston Cardinal Is Seriously Hl With Pneumonia   Prayers Of Priest And Faithful Are Asked For Cardinal O'Connell, 34

FIRE LOOTING SIFT ORDERED   B. H. Auxiliary Firemen Defended by Chief  Clauser

inquiry Voted After Looting Charge ls Made   Chief Clauser Defends Auxiliaries, Calls Accusations False

Chaplin Facing Paternity Suit   Judge Drops Indictment Of Conspiracy Against Famous Comedian.

CHAPLIN TO FACE JOAN IN COURT   Federal Actions Dismissed But Civil Suit’  Imnandinn

CHAPLIN FREED ~~ OF CONSPIRACY   CRIMINAL CHARGE INVOLVING JOAN DEOPPED_—PATER: NEFY-SOIT. STANDS, ~ .

Nazis Reinforce ‘Troops in ‘Vital Seaport   Critical Battle Rages Through Second Day as Trip-Hammer Counter-Attacks Driven Off: Tanks Duel on City Streets  Srpanagn War ote) Mlanca

LReR eR ERR ERR RE REE EE EES EE  So You’re Worried About Inflation

WARD WORKERS CAST BALLOTS IN VITAL TEST   Eleven Polling Places Taking Ballots Today On NLRB e Bargaining Vote

Ward Employes Vote-on Union Representation   House, Senate Prepare for Twin Probes of Seizure

Orson Welles Urges CIO on Ward Workers   Employees Voting Today—Both Sides Advertise

CORINTH FALLS, SEE LIBERATION OF ATHENS SOON   Air Fields Hit as Allies Try to Block Flight of Army Chiefs

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   CORINTH IS CAPTURED BY ALLIES

PAVES WAY TO ATHENS   Germans Evacuating Key Personnel From Greek Capital

Mass Selling Of Livestock Under Way   State Agriculture Chief Paints Gloomy Picture of Farms

Marshalls Reports Said Favorable   Patterson Tells Of Heavy Resistance, Moderate Casualties

Favorable Progress in Marshalls   Yanks Meet Heavy Resistance—-U. S. Casualties Called Moderate

Operations. In Marshalls Progressing  On Schedule   Japanese Are Faced With Harbor’s Loss

Japs Are Getting A Real Challenge   Tokyo Might Be Next After Marshalls Conquest   WIDENS CRACK IN JAP DEFENSE RING

Resistance Heavy But Casualties Moderate   Undersecretary Of War Believes Capture Of Islands Opens Way To Manila And VWokva

Many Japs Isolated On Atolls   Americans Progressing Favorably in Brilliant, Bold Assault   JAPS SURPRISED, DEFENSES UPSET   Enemy Fleet Evidences Timidity as Tokyo's War Strateoyv Is Disjointed

Jap Resistance Grows  In Invaded Marshails   Enemy Airfield Seized. and Important Harbor Threatened Ry Attarking Amepriopans”

AMERICAN TROUPS ARE 6 MILES FROM LIVORKO   Take Important Hill Positions PRetween Rivers

AMERICAN ines ARE 6 MILES. FROM WORNO   Take Important Hill Positions Pelween Rivers

MARRIES BEAUTY   Film Actor Saturday Weds “Miss Birmingham” in Alabama

£TS SEIZE ” UR GERMAN sTRONGHOLDS   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Marks Reds’ Advance in East Prussia

AED AIRMEN HIT BIG RAIL CENTER   Soviet Bombers Blast Lwow In Old Poland; No Changes On Land Front After 11 Days of Sparring

Soviet Bombers Hit Nazi Trains   Lwow Rail Center Raided by Reds

REDS BOMB LWOW; © DESTROY SIX TRAINS   Thirty Fires Started by Raldérs— ’. Moscow Reports No Changes. - Qn Land Front.

LWOW BLASTED IN RED ATTACK      Six Axis Troop Trains Destroyed; Fires Rage At Rail Junction

Pilot’s Hunch Locates ‘Two Lost Bombers   Planes Missing Since Wednesday Found in Wreckage on Shores  Of Great Salt Lake By CAP Flyer

Heavy Landslide Blocks L..A. to ‘Frisco Highway; Quakes Rock Southern California Early Today

INTENT TO OPEN NEW FRONTS IS MASTER STROKE   Keeps German Strategists Off Balance In Distribution Of Defense

CONCENTRATION OF AIR FORCES IN SMALL AREA WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR NIPS TO HOLD ON:

Hard Fight Faced Before Japs Beaten, - Forrestal Believes   ‘ Indications That American Submarines Have Shelled Tokyo Given in Report That High Nip Officers Killed in Action

Japanese Can Now Concentrate Remaining Planes   Forrestal Sees Long Fight; Six Nip Admirals Dead

Six Japanese Admirals Are Killed Near Tokvo   Radio Attributes Deaths To “Enemy Action” In Home Waters; Announcement Made As Diet Goes Into Extraordinary Session To Study Situation

Japanese: -Now €an-Mass Air Power ‘In Defense Of Philippines, Tokyo

Nancy Falls, Patton Loose   Hodges’ First Army Topples Vaunted Defense And Sweeps On Toward Rhine

é  Hodges Defense And Sweeps On Toward R      First Army Topples Vaunted:

First Army Plows  ade  fenses East of Aachen and Moves on Cologne, *   PATTON’S FORCES © CAPTURE NANCY         Tanks Race 10 to 15 Miles Beyond City — Sweep Imperils Germans Defending Metz. 

Strongest Point Broken East of City of Aachen   Assault Launched To Take Cologne

Nazi Westwall Is Cracked In  Aachen Sector   German Stand in Northern France is Broken as Americans Take Nancy; Maastricht is Also Captured

First Army Drives Down Last 30 Miles Toward Indus- , trial City Of Cologne   HITLER’S WEST WALL BUCKLED IN 3 PLACES

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Hurtle Toward Cologne and the Rhine   Hitler’s Last Stand in France Is Broken as Lt. Gen. Patton’s Tanks Capture Nancy, Once Nazi Headquarters

Aachen By-Passed, Maastricht, Nancy, Charmes Captured      Hodges’ Army Finds Faked Defense. Positions  Weakly Manned as New Surge Carries Amerieanc 10 Milac Neanen '. BY

West Wall Cracked af Three Points as Yanks Race 10 Miles Through Shredded Fortress; Patton's Army Takes Nancy and Aachen Fall {s Imminent

Climaxing Grand Assault, General Hodges’ Infantry Batters “Impregnable” Defenses of Germany; Uancy.. Falls to Patton.

SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE ASKS BENEFITS FOR FEDERAL WORKERS   COMPENSATION EQUAL TO THAT IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY SOUGHT IN POSTWAR PROPOSAL

Hot Argument Faces Solons   Between State Control and Broad Federal-Aid Unemployment Compensation

COMPENSATION BILL BEING PUT IN SHAPE   Committee Approves Pians Based on ‘States’ Rights’

Allies Ambush  Japanese Units  Nip Threat Fails to Halt Supplies

Our Jungle Troops Ambush Jap Units  Nip Threat On Supplies  Lessens

JAPS AMBUSHED IN BURMA DRIVE   Nipponese Thrust Fails To Halt Supplies For Jungle Armies

ALLIES ANDUSH ENEMY TROOPt   inflict Heavy Losses on Japanese Forces on Roads North And South of Imphal; Japs Continue Pressure

AMBUSHED BY ALLIES   inflicting Losses On Enemy Forces Which Are Continuing To Exert Pressure All Along Assam Front.   Destroy 24 Planes

22 Jap Planes On Yap Are Destroyed   C. S. Liberators Hit Area Southwest of Marianas Second Time in Week

AMERICAN BOMBERS STRIKE FROM RUSSIA   Synthetic Oil Plant One of Targets in Poland

U. S. Bombers ts ‘hae Railway Yards   Russia-Based Planes Smash Oil Supply In Poland; RAF Bombs France

ByU. S, Air  Force Today   Russian Fighters Give Protection To American Planes Leaving Base There

500 Bombers Hit Budapest   U. S. Planes From Russian Bases Blast Oil Plant in Poland

U.S. AIRMEN HIT BUDAPEST, BROD   BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST TARGETS IN NORTHERN FRANCE

300 Bombers ~ Hit Budapest   Yugoslav Railroads At Brod Attacked; Polish Oil Plante Raided.

U. S. Bombers Attack’ Today On Wide Front   Lash Budapest, Brod, in Yugoslavia; Oil Refin. ery in Poland

Doak Qiiee ent ne  aE ree eT ee  Takes ‘em to Area Needing Attention   Paris Shows Commissioners Need for Work in Grand River Dam Region

OFFICIALS TOUR GRD AREA TODAY   France Paris and Colleagues On Trip—Former Proposes Road Improvements

550 NIPS KILLED IN FIGHTING   Chinese Regain Vital Rail Town; Fall Of _ Myitkyina Looms

Wakde Battle Ends in Yank Victory   Resistance Smashed As Engineers Prepare Airstrip

Oil Commission To Be Set Up By U.S.. Britain   First-Formal, Agreement + On First Post-War Pact To Be Signed This. Week

OIL PACT SIGNING - DUEDURING WEEK      Britain” and Uy! UTS. to’ Sea First Formal Postwor Treaty

U.S, BRITAIN: TO AGREE ON POSTWAR Oil   First Formal Pact On International Trade Dve This Week

REACH ACCORD ON OIL POLICY   Formal Agreement to Be Signed This Week by Britain and VU. S.

OIL PACT SIGNING ~ DUEDURING WEEK   Britain and U. id U: S: to Seal First Formal Postwar Treaty

America, England Draft Oil Pact   First Post-War Trade Agreement to Be Signed

[Anglo-U.S. Oil Pact to Be Approved   First Formal Postar Agreement to Set Up Commission To Helo Trade

RELATIONS RESUMED WITH ITALIAN REGIME   U.S. And Britain Announce: Diplomatic Recognition

U.S. Resumes Diplomatic Tie With Italy   Alexander C. Kirk Due To Be Ambassador: Britain Joins Action

U.S. NAMES ENVOY TO ITALIAN POST   Diplomatic Recognition By London Is Given Bit

ToResume.. Relations With Italy   Diplomatic Contacts With Forner Enemy  . State Restored   By U.S.

U. S. Diplomatic Relations With Italy Resumed  Kirk to Be Ambassado As First of Recent

ALEXANDER C, KIRK IS ENVOY TO ITALY   Diplomatic Relations Are Being Established With Former Enemy Of United States *

U.8. 10 APPOINT ENVOY 10 ROME   WASHINGTON AND LONDON RESUME DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ITALY.

CLAIM SEVENTH OPENS BIG PUSK   Say 15 Infantry, Several Tank Units Attack

Third, Seventh Push Foe Back In New Drive   Yard-By-Yord Advance Recorded As German Power Weakens

Nazis Report New Major Offensive   Berlin Says Seventh Army Opens Drive

SIRT N NT Coney Rae ea ae ee ea ot aa na cnn incall  New Sweet, Apple Syrup, Develoned in Uncle Sam's Laboratory, on Market

FISHERMEN IN EUROPE WARNEL TO STAY HOME   Allied Headquarters Knows Nothing Of Ultimatum To Nazis

RUSSIANS AND THOS FORGE LINKED UP   (‘ombined Armies  Assaulting German Stronghold Southeast of Relerade.   Battle In Warsaw

SOVIETS LINK UP WITH TITO IN YUGOSLAVIA   DANUBE BASTION OF GERMANS IS ASSAULTED

Russians, Linked With Tito Forces, Drive on German Stronghold on Danube Rive

REDS JOIN TITO; ? FORCES STORM NAZI STRONGHOLD   Attack Danube Bastion 80 Mites From Belgrade—Another Column Threatens Copper Mines.   CHANCES OF TRAPPING GERMANS DIMINISHES   Moscuw Reports Enemy Is - Making “Masterful Withdrawal” From Yugoslavia and Greece,

SOVIETS REACH TIT0'S TROOPS IN YUGOSLAVIA   United Forces Make Assault 80 Miles From Belgrade

Soviets weld junction with Tito’s troops Bor production area threatened

U. S. Refuses To Recognize Bolivian Rule   Recalls Envoy in Blast Against Anti-Allied Plot

U.S. REFUSES RECOGNITION OF BOLIVIA   Call Home Our Envoy To La Paz; May  Freeze Funds

United States Refuses to Recognize New Bolivian Regime and Recalls Ambassador in Double Barreled Diplomatic Action

YANKS MARCHING ON ORMOC BATTLE JAPS IN STORM   Tropical Hurricane Lashes Leyte as Heavy Fighting Rages in Densely Wooded Ridges.   CROUCH IN FOXHOLES FILLED WITH WATER   Wind and Rain Impede Operations—American Artillery Blasts Nipponese at Rear of Lines.

FIGHT RAGES IN HURRICANE   24th Division Battles In Slime and Mud On Ormoc Road

Savage Battle Still Under Way ‘North of Ormoc   Hurricane Turns Leyte Front into Quagmire, Yanks Make No Gains

HURRICANE RAGES ON LEYTE ISLAND   Yanks Fight Through Mud And Slime on Ormoc Road   FAIL MAKE GAINS   Fresh Jap Troops Guard Ap. proaches to Foe’s Port Of Lost Hope

No Advance for 24-Hour Period,, With Heavy Fighting in Storm Through Which it Was Difficult, for Doughboys to See Enemy Ahead.

Closing China Seas To Japs   14th Air Force Hemming In ~./Nipponese Ships; Using A Psychological Warfare.

Us. U.S. BOMBERS OPEN UP NEW AIR FRONT   Virtually Driving Japanese  From East And South China Seas; Cargo Ships - Bottled Up In Harbors.   Much on Little

Hull Considers — ~ Spanish Policy   Says Reconsideration Caused By Recent Trends In Spanish Policy.

SPANISH POLICY © DISPLEASES U. 8,   STATE DEPARTMENT RECONSIDERING RELATIONS BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES.

U.S. Assumes New Attitude Toward Spain   Cutting of Franco’s Supply of Oil Is Officially Announced

Washington Puts Spain on Carpet   Showdown with Franco Looms as His Oil Supply Cut Off

Suspend Oil Shipments For Spain   SECRETARY HULL ANNOUNCES ACTION RESULT OF UNSATIS‘FACTORY RELATIONS WITH FRANCO REGIME   Long List of Grievances

Spain {s Hit For Policies   Loadings Of Tankers Are Ordered Cut Off

United States Reconsidering Its Relations With Spain   Pending That Study, Loading of Tankers With Oil Products  wm «6 t*®..,— Oe   SPAIN RELUCTANT TO SATISFY QUERIES

Nazi-Leaning Spain Feels U.S. Pressure  Oil Shipments To Country Stopped

SPANISH ACTS ‘BEING STUDIEI      State -Department~Recon. sidering Relations With Madrid Government

Action Against Spain Is Taken  U. S. Reconsiders General Relations

State Department Recon sidering Relations With Madrid Government

Friend Of FDR In GOP   Minority Leader Dies Unexpectedly In  lorida

SLENDER THREAT COOPERATION PA GONGRESS, TAUT   Death of Minority Leader  Charles McNary Yesterday May Change Situation.    <A NEUVERED THE BILLS   Compromised Many Legislative Measures Originated By Administration.

Senator McNary Is Dead   Ability As Compromis er Made GOP Leader Vitally Important Figure in Senate -

Death of Minority Leader McNary Is Mourned in Capital   Little-Known Link  Between Congress and  FDR Imperilled

MNARY'S DEATH SEVERS SENATE, WHITE HOUSE LINK   Republican Minority Leader Was Close Friend Of President Roosevelt

McNary Death New Factor In Senate Unrest   Another Congress-White House Link Snapped By Oregonian’s Passing.

Death Of Minority Leader McNary Strains FDR - Congress Relations

SEN, MONARY DIES IN FLORIDA   Taft Among Candidates te Replace GOP Leader

MeNarv’s Death  Raises Problems   Minority Leader Was Friendly Toward President Roosevelt

McNary Dies, . Senate Again: Facing Unset   Veteran GOP. Leader, ‘Long a Personal Friend of FDR, . Helped Pass Many Bills   REPUBLICANS ARE LEFT UP IN AIR   Minority ‘Chief, Who'-Often Was. Criticized: in. Party, Kept Wheels. Moving

Solon’s Death Severs GOP Link toF DR   Senate Minority Leader to Be Buried in Salem; Was Fast Friend of President

CHAS. L. M’NARY, SENATE MINORITY LEADER, IS.DEAD .   WESTERNER HEADED SENATE REPUBLICANS FROM 1933 TO DATE

McNary Death Serious Blow to Roosevelt   «Draws Taut Slender  Thread Between — President, Congress

McNary, GOP Leader, Dies   Death lrinperils Little Known Link Between White House-Congress

McNary’s Death a Jolt to Cooperation   Minority Leader Formed A Link Between White  MDimi<n went ChmhiAwwKaRce

69 Year Old McNary Dies   Death of G.O.P. Leader Comes As Shock To Many; Leaves Post Open.

MeNary Death Imperils Link To President   Little- Known Hookup Between Senator And F. R. Told; Minority Leadership Unsettled

COP. Leader ‘In Senate Succumbs      Charles L-McNary, ‘Close - Friend “Of. F.. D. R., Dies In Florida: :

Worn Thread Of Cooperation Between Legislative And Executive Branches — Drawn Tichter By Sen. MeNary’s Death

M’Nary Death Draws Thread Much Tighter   Great Compromiser Will Be Missed  In Congress

SEN. M'NARY 69 DIES IN SOUTH   Funeral Tuesday for Republican Minority Leader, Friend of F.D.R.

Sen. McNary’s Death Is Blow To Colleague:   Senate Minority Leader Dies In Apartment In Florida Where He Went After Operation

MINARY, SENATE LEADER OF GOP, DIES IN FLORIDA   Had Compromised Many Roosevelt Bills Into Acceptable Forms

McNary Death Cuts Link With White House   Majority Leader Dies in Florida After Operation

McNary Friend Of President   Oregon Republican Consulted By Roosevelt On Many Bills.

Sen. McNary Dies Friday In Florida   GOP Minority Leader Was ~ White House Link With Congress —

McNary’s Death Breaks Link To White House  ‘Republican Leader Ruled’ Minority” Races tll

McNary’s Death Snaps  Link With White House   Senate GOP Leader, Close Friend of Roosevelt, Wallace, Byrnes, Accused of Being ‘Too Soft? on New Deal

SEN. MCNARY'S DEATH IS BLOW TO ROOSEVELT   Funeral Services Will Be held Tuesday

DEATH OF M’NARY MAY CAUSE FURTHER RELATIONS STRAIN  REPUBLICAN LEADER WAS REAL WHITE MATIC? caNCPECE TINW

Creator. of “Gibson Girl” In 90’s Began Career as Messenger Boy in Wall Strect

-amous Artist Yank Supp s Claimed By Find Way Yeath In N. Y. Black Mar

‘GIBSON GIRL” CREATOR DIES   HEART ATTACK FATAL TO WELL-KNOWN ARTIST

Charles Dana Gibson, Creator of Famed Gibson Girl, Dies in New Yor!

TARNESS GIVES AEOULTS OF POLL   Industrial Workers Oppose Socialistic Trend in Business

LABOR SURVEY "1S ANNOUNCED   CONGRESSMAN SAYS POLL REVEAL8 LABOR, OPPOSED TO’ FEDERAL OPERATION . OF BUSINESSES

B-29’s Assault Tokyo Again, Radio Reports   Report Nimitz Transfers Headquarters to Guam For Future Offensive

The War Today      Nazis Placed in New Peril By Three-way Soviet Thrus

MASSACRE OF 100,000 GERMANS IN DNIEPER BEND UNDERWAY AS PART (OF RUSSIAN WAR OF ANNIHILATION   Hitler’s World Gradually Shrinking Up As Vengeance Begins to Close inon Him. Dang Of German Military Disaster in South Grows  Mara lmmminant

The War Today Hiding Places for Fuehrer Are Gradually Melting Away

ae The War Today <=  World of Hitler Fast Shrinking  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE

HITLER'S WORLD SHRINKING SO RAPIDLY HE WILL SOON HAVE NO PLACE IN WHICH TO HIDE AWAY

Hitler's Army in Jeopardy In Three Russian Sectors [Nazi World Shrinking Fast"

Allied Landings Declared ‘Bluff’   Japanese Explain Island Invasion

No Time To Cry  About Blunders   Army, Navy Journal Criticises March

No Time to Cry Abou Blunders and Errors, to Denounce Failure of  American Intelligence

Certain Now Red Forces In Estonia      Reach Positions Near Narva: Well  Across Border

PREAH LAA ON FLEA ISLAND   ‘Allies Advance to Within 75 Miles of Florence

FRENCH LAND ON-ELEA ISLAND   aes ‘Advance « to) Within 735 Riles of Wore nea

Reds Place Wilno Under Heavy Fire   Westward Sweep on 350-Mile Central Front Is Continued; 800 Places Liberated

Eight Hundred Towns And Villages Fall To Fast Moving Soviet Armies As German Forces Retreat In Disorder

REDS AT WING'S OUTER DEFENSES; CITY BOMBARDET   Sweeping Advance Continues on All Fronts With Germans Losing 800 Towns and Villages.   4,000 MORE NAZIS SLAIN NEAR MINSK   District Center 38 Miles From Pinsk Taken by Russians —Enemy Forces Still Disorganized.

JAP MAINLAND BOMBED BY B-23 SUPER-PLANES   All Aircraft Return From Long Flight

Super-Forts Back Safely  From Japan   Strafed Five Targets, Two Laoyao and Hankow in China, Besides Three Jap Cities

Not A Bomber Lost In Raid On Jap Mainland   Shattering Blow Struck At Enemy’s Naval, Industrial Nerve Centers:

5 Jap Targets Hit By B-29’s In Recent Raid   Superfortresses Return To Bases Without Loss, 20th Air Force Reports

AIlU.S.Bombers  Return From 2nd Nip Bombing Attack   Reveal Superfortresses Strike Enemy Military Positions in Japan, China; Meet Weak Resistance

Super-Forts Hit 5 Enemy Targets In Japan, China   Every One Of Giant American Planes Is Back At Base; Little Opposition Encounterec

America: Holds Qut.. Against World CAB   Aeronautics Conference Stalemates Over Compromise On Air Authority

Dirksen Denies Saying At Old Orchard FDR Running  “Under False Pretenses”’

Marines Occupy Three More Palau Isles, Blast Airfield   Nimitz Reveals Quick Victories, Total Of 9,772 Japs Killed, 150 Captured

YANKS TAKE ISLE NORTH OF PELELIL   Ngesebus Secured; Marines Mop Up On Kongauru

‘SERVICEMEN KEEP ~ $1,500 EXEMPTION IN NEW TAX BILL   Change - Over Next Year To Simplified Plan To Be ‘Easy’

SERVICE MEN TO HAVE $1500 TAX EXEMPTION   New “Simplification’ Plan Makes Other - Radical Changes _

Members of Armed Forces Will Continue To Enjoy $1500 Income Tax Exemption

3 Nazi Divisions Repulsed; Berlir Admits Reverse   Russians Establish Bridgehead Across Narova River

Yank Fliers Rain Bombs on Nazis at Anzio     Americans Reported Still Advancing After Sethacks

Battle Nears Crisis   Americans Regain 1,000 Yards Lost to Nazis At Start of 3rd Ma jor Counter-Atisck

€ vritical Struggle Nearing A Climax   . . Russ Secure Bridgehead Across Narova River

ROME BRIDGEHEAD  THRUST BY NAZIS  WAS TURNED BACK BRITISH BOMBERS HIT STUTTGART AND  BSETAIV sr? FAaPIrerare BIST YT

Allied Troops Are Regaining Ground Lost to Germans   Other U. S. Planes Pound Reich Today After Stuttgart Raid

ROME BRIDGEHEAD THRUST BY NAZIS WAS TURNED BACK   BRITISH BOMBERS HIT STUTTGART AND MUNICH DURING NIGHT

INVASION DAY NEAR, ALLIED RADIO REPORTS   Weather Is Now Ideal; People On Alert

NEARS FOR INVASION   Allied Broadcast Says Blows Coming From West, South

Pre-Invasion Nerve War In  Fresh Impetus   U. S. Broadcast Tells Occupied Countries Allies  Will Be There.   FOES TRY TO JAM AIR

Patriots Warned To Await ‘Signal’   West, South Assault Is Planned In Co-operation With Red Drive

War Nerves Bother The English, Too  New U.S. Radio Station In England Adding To War Jitters Of Enemy

Nerve War Giver Fresh Impetus  New U. S. Station in Britain on Air

Europe Told Allies Will Strike Soon   U. S. Radio Station in Britain Informs People in Occupied Lands of Invasion Coming ‘From West And South.’

Invasion War Of Nerves Nearing Breaking Poin’   American Radio Tells Europeans Twin Blows Will Come From West, South; Underground Warned To Be On Alert ‘Against Trickery

Step Up Nerve War   New Radio Station Tells Underground to Be Ready to Strike ©

Pre-Invasion Nerve War ‘Given Shock   U.S. Radio Says Blow To Land Soon From  ‘Two Directions

Day of Liberation Is Near, U. S. Broadcast Tells Conquered Peoples

New U.S. Broadcast Station In Britain Hits European Ears   O. W. I. Overseas Director Tells Underground Of Allied Plans To Use Cooperation Of Anti Nazi Elements; Warns Of German Deception

‘New U.S. Radio Station in Britain Tells Occupied Nations Twin Invasion Is Near

Radio Says Invasion Is  In Offing   Tells Europeans  To Be Prepared

Drives Due From West, South, New U.S. Radio Tells Europe; ‘Be Ready,’ Underground !s Told

Pre-Invasion Nerve War Stepped Up As _ New U.S. Broadcasting Station Opens Up

Nerve War Stepped Up U. S. Broadcast Says Liberation Day Is Closer

w U. S. Station in England Tells Occupied Nations Invasion Is Nea;

Attempt To “Jam’ U. S. Broadcast Is Tried By Germans Without Success

LIBERATION DAY NEAR, ENSLAVED EUROPE IS TOLD   Russians Massing for New Drive Into Germany as Multiple-assault Looms

Liberation Day Nears, Europe Told   Powerful Allied Blows From West And South  Are Promised.

'ABSIE SAYS TWIN INVASION WILL ICRUSH NAZIS   Germans Soon to Learn “What Overwhelming Force Can Be” Conquered Peoples Are Told

KEY ROAD TAKEN IN ITALIAN DRIVE   British Eighth Scores Vital Gains North anc West — of Forli

Vital Florence-Forli Road In Allied Hands; Eighth Advances North, West Forli

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   VITAL ROAD ENTIRELY IN ALLIED HANDS

Federal Loans For Wind, Flood  Farm Damage   $12,000,000 Available for Pocahontas County Farmers

BYPASSED JAPS PUZZLE ALLIES   More Than 500,000 Left Behind in Pacific

Berlin Radio Hints Raids on Brunswick, Hannover Targets   Germans Report Large Sky Battle in Fourth Straight Day Attack; British Blast Belgium, France

AIR BATTLES OVER GERMAN AREAS TODAY   Americans Drop Bombs Over War Plants

Air Battles Are Raging Over Europe,  Says Berlin   American Bombers  Join RAF Attacks

DEWEY'S CLAIMED VOTE BOOSTED ONE ~ TO TOTAL OF 133   ‘Backers Say Nearly. Half of Delegates Chosen to Date  - Will Support Him in .. Convention. —_   GOV. WARREN BOOMED FOR SECOND PLACE   Bricker and Stassen Hope Willkie’ Followers Will ; March Inte Their Camops.

Dewey-Warren Ticket: Easterner for President, Westerner For Running Mate, Get Wide Support

Dewey-Warren Ticket Talked By GOP Leaders   Willkie Is Silent On Plans as New Yorker Picks Up Strength

DEWEY GAINS WITH WILLKIE QUITTING RACE   Talk of Slate of New Yorker and Warren Is Increased

Dewey Gains As Willkie Fades Away   NEW YORK WILLKIE DELEGATE TRANSFERS TO DEWEY CAMY TALK OF WARREN FOR SECOND PLACE   Bricker on Speaking Your

Dewey Gains From Withdrawa “Of Willkie   Picks up New York Delegate to Raise Claim to 83 Votes

Foresee DeweyWarren Ticket   “Dewey For President’ Talk Rises As Bets Placed On Warren for 2nd Place.

DEWEY GAINS BY WILLKIE'S WITHDRAWAL   Another New Y York Delegate Gives Support to Governor   WILLKIE'S FUTURE ROLE IS MYSTERY   Governor Warren, of California, Buoried for Vice-Presidency

Allied Troops Preparing For New Jap Moves   Report From India Says Al lied Position Has Been Improved

Japs Open New Drive on Kohima   Bsitish Claim the Situation in Hand Nips Claim Moirang

Warn. ‘West’ To Be Alert’   Bricker Declares Eastern Industry May Seek ‘lim’

BRICKER SEEKS WESTERN VOTE      Indicates East Should Not  Be Favored In Re conversion

Bricker Says East Should Not Be Given Preference  Republican Nominee   Republican Nominee Favors Nationwide Reconversion Plan

Bricker Says East Should Not Be Given Preference  Republican Nominee Favors Nationwide Reconversion Plan

Ore Center RetakenBy -Red- Forces   Russians Claim 190,000 Germans on Eastern  _ Front Captured  2 “Or Killed ~~

Nazi Factories Are Pounded By Record Assault   Yanks And British Making Progress in Drive To-: ward Rome

GERMANY SMASHED WITH 6-10N BUMBS   ‘Destruction Is Enormous’ ot Factories, Say Reports

Giant Weapons Have Enormous Destructive Effects—A Few Bring Down Greater Part of a German Aircraft Factory.

6 TON BOMBS NOW USED ON NAZI TARGETS   Britain Announce New And More Destructive Bombs Now Crashing or Germany

6-l'on Bombs Hurled   RAF Now Raining 12,000 - Pounders On Reich Targets

THREE POWERS TO MEET AGAIN   Presence Of U.S. Needed For Final Decisions, Churchill Says

REPORT GIVEN BY CHURCHILL   Says Moscow Parley Satis. factory, Sees Need of Talk With FDR

POLAND ISSUE NOT SETTLED, SOLONS TOLD   Churchill Calls for “Big Three” Meeting This Year

Churchill Wants Three-Power Meet   Reports to Parliament On Moscow Parley

Red Tie Tight, - Churehill Say:   Arrangements With Stalin ~ Pleases Prime Minister

CHURCHILL CALLS FOR NEW PARLEY   To Settle “Urgent and Burning Question” of Poland; Miss Roosevelt in Moscow.   Abandon Hene

RD ARMY BATTERS ITS WAY DEEPER INTO THE REICH   Veight of One Column is Hurled Against The  Sieofried Line   ‘REA IS MENACED

THREAT TO BASTION OF SAARBRUCKEN   Patton Forces Push Further Into Reich, Rolling Nazis Back Steadily

THIRD ARMY STAB CLOSER TO INDUSTRIAL CITIES .OF SAAR REGION AS FIRST ARMY CAPTURE LANGERWEHE IN ITS DRIVE TOWARD Co. LOGNE—FRENCH ARMY IN SOUTH CLOSES “TRAP iN VOSGES MOUNTAIN POCKET

TEXAS SPLIT S IN COURT   THE PRO-ROOSEVELT FACTION HOPES. FOR RULING TO’ PLAGE DELEGATE NAME  ON. THE: BALLOT

TEXAS DELEGATE FIGHT IN COURT   Pro-Roosevelt Group Seeks  Ballot For Primary

NAZIS LOSE 208 BATTLING 2,900 PLANES OF U. S.   Yank Toll 69: 1,000 RAF Heavies in Night Attack on Arms Plants

Allied Relief Group Ready For Action   Aids People Of War-Torn Lands

British, Chinese Roll Back Japs   Supplies Massed for Drive to Clear India

Nomination Paper Deadline Nearing  File For Judicial And Delegate Elections

Operation Cures  Hiccuping Woman   Surgery Performed on Her Phrenic Nerve Which Controls Diaphram

Drought Conditions Still Threaten Parts of Montana  Situation in Numerous Sectors Shows fm . __ SDRAM: ARN NEAR eC eee

Drought Conditions ‘Still Threaten [Parts of Montana  Situation in Numerou:   Situation in Numerous Sectors Shows Great Improvement

Iowa Governor Urges Tempering of Jubilation Over Defeat of Germany

Smethport Man Dies of Wounds In Battle Zone   Pfc. G. McDermott Succumbs Same Day He Was Reported  Wounded in France

Geo. McDermott Dies of Wounds  Received in France   Local Young Man Succumbs Same Day Reported Wounded

MORE ROBOMBS STRIKE ENGLAND   Following Respite of 4 Days From Attacks

NEW GERMAN GAINS REPORTED ALONG 60-MILE STRETCH   American Reinforcements Thrown into Battle in Huge Numbers. Savs Report   HOLDING A NEW LINE   Reinforcements Swarm Into Line in Front Positions in Belgium, Luxembourg

NATIONAL SERVICE LEGISLATION WILL MEET OPPASITIAN   POLL OF TEXAS DELEGATION IN CONGRESS INDI. CATES ROAD BE ROCKY

NATIONAL SERVICE  LEGISLATION WILL  MEET OPPOSITION POLL OF TEXAS DELEGA TION IN CONGRESS INDI.  fsttre DMhRihit PEF DAMrYVU

Heavies Hit Reich Rails  Strike Under Clouds Grounding Nazi Plane:

THIRTEEN HUNDRED UJ. §. HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST AT GERMANS  RAIL YARDS AND BRIDGE! BOMBED UNDER CLOUD COVER SATURDAY

Bombers Keer Pounding At Germany   Air Offensive Goes Into Eighth Consecutive Day

Railroad Yards and Bridges Main Targets for  Eighth Day  oh eee 2. oe e Oe [ le ees ce ee ee ee ee

SECRETARY RESIGNS FROM LIQOUR EROU   Implies It Is Result of New Policy Installed By Koliv.

Liquor Control Official Quits   John Richardson Irked By New Kelly Policy

“We Will Accept Nothing Less Than Full Victory,” Exclaims Eisenhower—Nazis Say Allies Are Aiming To Seize Cherbourg Port And Normandy Peninsula

German Radio Reports Landings Along 100 Mile Front Between Cherbourg, Le Havre

Japanese Troops Renot led Nearing Kweichow Border  At Same Time Enemy's Forces Move Toward Indo-China

Border, While Other Groups Already Are Close to  Kweichow Rarday   Cripple Air Support

Cut in Passenger Car Tire Output Ordered at Once  Large Army Needs Call for More of  Current Production

U.S. Planes Rain Bombs On Calais —   ‘Secret Weapon’ Base Sought By Flying Fortresses

Berlin Bombed In Widespread Allied Raids   Bombers Probe Secret  Bases of German Rohat Plana

15 Vessels Out Of 17-Ship Japanese Convoy Are Sunk In Bismarck: Archipelago   36,500 Tons Of Merchant Shipping And Three Wat ships Victims Of Masthead Attacks; Heavy Losses To Japanese Personnel Reported By MacArthur

Three Warships Sunk in Attack Off New lreland   MacArthur Reports New Raid on Rabaul

3-DAY ATTACK DISASTROUS TO SHIPPING   Of Japanese In Bismark Archipelago; Liberators Score 30 Direct Hits On Runways At Airdrome.   Cut off 22,000

Allies smash 36,500 tons Jap shipping   Sink 12 merchant and 3 war vessels

Possibly: Ouly Two” “In. 17-Ship Formation Escape Planes’ Bombs’

ALLIES DESTROY 15 OF 17 SHIPS IN JAP CONVOY   Vessels Totaling 36,500 Tons Send DoWn  In Pacific

Bombers Take Heavy Toll of Enemy Ships   12 Merchantmen and Three Warships of  Nipponese Destroved

31° STATES 10 PICK GOVERNORS   Heated Battles Are Indicated In Several Regions

J] STATES DECIDE PARTY STRENGTH   Edging Toward Republicanism In Recent Elections. Indiana Doubtful

WLB Unit Sees Cutback Killing Inflation Peril   Steel Wage Panel Report Viewed as Preliminary To Scrapping Formula

Ground Laid for  Little Steel Wage  Ceiling Crack-Up WLB Panel Says Pay Raise Is Not Likely  To Cause Inflation

PATROL BOATS HARASS JAPS   FAST TORPEDO BOATS ACTIVE IN WATERS OFF LEYTE—@IG FREIGHTER LATEST VICTIM

PT BOATS PLAY GREAT WAR ROLE   Little Craft Doing Much Te Hamper Jap Shipping In Philippine Area

PT Boats Play Havoc With Jap Ships at Leyte   Invade Enemy Waters as Rain Hampers Troops

Unauthorized Holiday Gives Mexican Railway  Workers Just Half Dav

China Menaeed As Site Allied Air Operations   Swift-Moving Jap Offensive Reaclies. Outer Defenses “<5 Strategic City Of “ Hengvang

China Menaced As Potential Allied. Base; Japs  At Hengyang          : T hr ough Ten ane.  . Thireatened as Fast Jap  Columns Converge On City.

China Bases May Be Lost      . Japan’s Offensive Grows In Strength

Radio Contact With Kweilin Is Shut Off   Japanese Troops Claim Capture of Kweilin, Liuchow

CONCORD GIRL [S BRIDE OF NAVY ENSIGN   Miss Alice T. Bisbee Weds David. Potter Zamore, U.S. NoR. of Montclair, N. J.

val V ENSIGN      Miss Alice T. Bisbee Weds David Potter Zamore, U.S. N.R. of Montclair, N. J.

$6,000 BLAZE AT BUCHANAN   Woman Accidentally Kicks : Over Oil Heater and  Fires Home

ARREST YOUTHS IN “WOLF PACK” IN COAST CIT)   Girls Admitted to Membership  Provided They Yielded to Intimacies With All Members.

75 Arrested In ‘Wolf Pack’ Probe   Mass Immorality Discovered Among Youthful War Plant Workers.

75 Face Arrest in ‘Wolf Pack’ Orgies Disclosed Among Youthful War Workers

YOUTHS’ ORGIES COME TO LICHT   “Wolf Gang” Of Boys And Girls, Aged 15 To 21, Broken Up In_ Seattle With Startling Revelations

‘Wolf Packs’  Discovered   75 Arrests Likely _ In Seattle Region

Wave Of Vice  Uncovered In Seattle Area   Girls Disclose Orgies With Youthful ‘Wolves’  In Housing Projects.

UNCOVER YOUTH “WOLF PACKS” AROUND SEATTLE  ORGIES EXPOSED BY AUTHORITIES WHO

Seattle ‘Wolf Packs  Smashed By Police   Seventy-Five Facing. Arrest As Authorities Take Steps To Wipe Out Delinquent Juvenile Groups In Federal Housing Projects

SEVERAL AMERICAN WARSHIPS DAMAGED   Vessels In Action In Recent Naval Battle Not Identified By Name Or Type

COUPLE OF TROPICAL DISTURBANCES MOVE TOWARD MAINLAND  CARIBBEAN HURRICANE AND GULF STORM MAY ROTH HIT TEXAS COAST

VALLEY INTERESTS  PROTEST DELAY IN  NEW WATER TREATY RIO GRANDE SITUATION  IS NOW AT CRITICAL STACE IN TRYAG

VALLEY INTERESTS PROTEST DELAY IN NEW WATER TREATY  RIO GRANDE SITUATION IS NOW AT CRITICAL

American Planes Destroy 2,611 Nazi Aircraft This Year   London News Estimates Ger _mans Have Probably Lost 4000 Planes Since 10423

ENEMY AIR FORCE GREATLY WEAKENED BY INTENSIVE RAIDS SINCE FIRST  . OF YEAR .

CHILDREN REMOVE OHELLS FROM TANK   {nvestigation Proves Projectiles Dangerous After Loss Is Noted by Army

Two Submarines Strike Deep Into Jap Waters  American Ships Sink 13 More Enemy Merchant Vessels

OPERATE IN ENEMY TERRITORY   Submersibles Account For 447 Jap Ships Sunk

U.S. Subs Raid Nipponese Waters; Americans Expand Beachheads on Eniwetok

Two Submarines Strike Deep Into Jap Waters  Remeron Chine Cin   American Ships Sink 13 More Enemy Merchant Vessels

Yank Subs Bag 13 Jap Ships   U. S. Boats Report Toll Before Returning To Home Ports

TwoU.S. Subs Sink 13 Jap Cargo Ships   ACTION BRINGS TOTAL BAG TO 597 SINCE START OF SEA WAR

13 MORE SHIPS SUNK IN JAPS’ OWN WATERS   Enemy’s Merchant Vessels Bagged By 2 U.S. Subs

Spanish: Embassy in Paris Denies Reports Franco Has Resiqned Premiership

Counterfeit Gas Coupons Found  Here, Says OPA   Widespread Probe Now Being Made in Rocky Mountain Area

Counterfeit Gas Coupons Are Found by OPA   Investigation Spreads Into Montana, Mountain States

HAYES RESIGNS POST IN SPAIN   Name Armour Ambassador To Fill New Vacancy

ARMOUR NAMED ENVOY 70 SPAIN   Replaces Carlton Ha yes Who Has Resigned Diplomati¢é Service

Nominates Armour  Spain Ambassador   Lawrence Steinhardt Given Czech Post

U.S. Only 24 Miles  FromRome   Bold Advance On Beachhead Developed By Series Of  Center Thrusts.   Japs Shoved Back From kind To End Of Fronts

Americans Wam Enemy To Quit Fight in Italy   New Advance on Anzio Front Puts U.S. Troops Within 24 Mi. of Goat

Lupe Velez Dies of Drug Overdose   POLICE FIND NOTE, SLEEPING TABLETS BY SCREEN STAR’S BODY

Velez Suicide; Feared Becoming Unwed Mother   Fiery Lupe Took an Overdose of Sleeping Powders

On Hollandia Beach,.as Jap Bombs Send Yanks to Foxholes and Stampede Natives

Vice President Wallace's Campaign for Renomination Declared Slipping

Filibuster Threatened   St. Lawrence Seawa!  Se REGS meee ie nee re

LABOR ASKS VOICE IN POSTWAR PLAN!   AFL Lines Uy Up Behind President Roosevelt's Goal °.

JOB PLAN GETS BACKING OF AFI   Pledge For No. Strikes Renewed For War's Duration

GERMANS HAPPY TO SEE YANKS   Americans Astonished By Reaction Of People In Town Of Roetgen

@ THEIR TERROR TERMINATED  Reaction of People in Germany Astonishes U.S. Troops

FRD And Mrs. Roosevelt Observe 39th Anniversary With First Lady On Trip

Fighting on ® Broad Front. Reports Say   Germans Claim Defensive Victory After Heavy Battles

NAZIS REPOR DEFENSIVE VICTORY   Reds Say 500,000 Germans Killed In Two Months   65,000 POINTS   Taken Since Last Summer: 310,000 Square Miles Of Land Regained

Russ Forces Plan To Continue Drive Right Into Germany   Complete Rout of Nazi Legions Intention of  Red Leaders

CARPATHIANS 10 BLACK SEA SAID SCENE OF DRIVE   Soviets Say Army To Drive Into Germany To Finish Nazism

GERMANS DEGLARE ADVANCES HALTED   Moscow Remains Silent -On Reports Of Major Land Fighting ~   WAR REVIEWED   Soviets Announce Intention Of Carrying Con flict Into Germany

‘Nazis Assert Reds Stopped By Defense   Offensive To Be Continued, Soviet Announcement Say:

GERMANS CLAIM A VICTORY OVER THE RED FORCES   Soviets Have Opened Assault On Wide Front In Southern Russia; Intend To Drive Into Germany  To Finish Off Hit ler’s Legions.

REDS LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON BROAD FRONT   Their New Assault Extends From Carpathians to the  Black Sea.   Germans Claim They Drive Into Red Lines

RED ARMY LAUNCHES BROAD FRONT DRIVE IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA _ GERMAN COMMUNIQUE DE  ~ CLARES NAZIS SCORED VICTORY AT ONE POINT

New Red Drive Started, Report  Offensive In Black Sea, Carpathian Area

NAZIS REPORT ATTACKS ALONG FRONT IN SOUTH   War Review Says Soviets Ins tend To Drive Into Germany

Gerinans Report New Offensive by Reds   Communique Declares Soviets Strike on Broac Front, but Attacks Are Frustrated From  - Carpathians to Black Sea.

SOVIETS BE NEW ASSAULT, AXIS REPORTS   Russians Promise To Drive Onto German Soil Until Nazis Are Smashed

No Confirmation ‘of German. Report of Large Scale Fighting in. Carpathians; Reds to Synchronize .New Drive With Western Invasion.

REDS LAUNGH NEW ATTACKS ON BLACK SEA   Soviets Intend To Enter Nazi Territories

BEGIN ASSAULT ON WIDE FRONT IN SOUTH AREA   Germans Claim Great Defense Victory in  Early Clashes

Defensive Cains In South Russia Claimed By Nazis   Fighting Declared Haging - From The To Coast Of Se ee Sea

Russians Hit On Wide Front   Nazi Communique Claims Complete ‘Defensive Victory’

Russian Armies Open New Drive On Broad Front   Offensives Aimed At March Into Germany  Launched Today

FROM CARPATHIANS TO BLACK SEA RUSSIANS OPEN ATTACK WITH GERMANY PROPER THEIR GOAL   Mighty Continuation of 1944 Offensive,to Finish Off Hitler’s Legions and Bring About Final Capi“tulation Is Begun. German Losses Cited

Soviet Plans Advance Into Germany   Advance Intended To Collaborate With the Allies as Knockout Blow

Nazi Reports Say Defensive  Victory Won   Claim German-Romanian Forces Smashed Soviet Preparations For Big Offensive   RUSSIANS TO CARRY ATTACK TO GERMANY   Soviet War Review Piedges' Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europa With Allies 

SOVIETS RENEW OFFENSIVE IN LOWER RUSSIA   Enemy Claims Drive Extends From Carpathians to Black Sea

GERMANY POINTS TO SOVIET DRIVE   Nozis Claim. Russians Now Launching Extensive Assauilt to Black Sea

REDS LAUNCH ATTACK OVER BROAD FRONT   Enemy Communique Claims Nazis Have Scored ''Complete Defensive" Victory After Hard Fighting   MOSCOW ISSUES REVIEW

Reds Launch New Assault ‘on Nazi Foe   Review Says Soviet Intend to Continue to Soil of Germany

RED ATTACK HAS BEEN LAUNCHED, GERMANS CLAIM   RUSSIANS OMIT MENTION OF ANY HEAVY FIGHTING

SOVIETS OPE NEW ATTACKS ON WIDE AREA   Germans, However. Claim To Have Checked Reds In Lower Dnestr

AEDS LAUNCH NEW ATTAGK?   German and Romanian Reports Tell of Drive on Broad Front.   ENEMY CLAIMS VICTORY

Germans Report New Red Attack On Broad Front   Russ Pledge Drive Into Germany In Collabora: tion With Allies.

Russ Launch  New Attack   Germans Believe New Offensive Aimed at Gap in Carpathians

Attack on Bread Freni irem  Carpathians to Black Sea— Brive into Germany Predicted

New Soviet Power Drive Is Reported   Germans Say Reds Are on Offensive From Carpathians To the Black Seq

Nazis Claim A Defensive Victory, Too   Reds Plan to Finish Off Hitler Soon With Allied Collaboration

Temperatures   Red Army Aims to Drive Into Reich, Finish Off Hitler

Drive Info Reich Seen By Moscow   To Collaborate With Invasion From Enaland

Russ Launch Attack on Wide Front   Nazis Say Soviets Are Repulsed; Moscow Is Silent

Reds Launch Broad Attack   Russian Army Means To Drive Into Germany To Finish Off Hitler Legions

CONTINUE 10 MEET SCANT RESISTANCE   Straddle Appian Way and Rail Line 15 Miles From Coast  4

ANY BODIES ARE FOUND IN MANGLED MASS   Battle Casualtie: From Normandy Escape

United States Ready to Hit Japan Anywhere Along Huge ~ Arc in Pacific Admirals Say

TO INVESTIGAT! WARD SEIZURE   Byrd Resolution Adopted; Judge Hol. ly Studies Case

WARD AFFAIR — TO BE AIRED -—N CONGRESS   SENATE VOTES INQUIRY AND HOUSE TO ALSO AUTHORIZE INVESTIGATION OF COMPANY SEIZURE

3 ARMY INSPECTORS FACE COURT MARTIAL   Neglect Of Duty Charged At Lockland, 0., Factory .

Navy To Spend. . Enormous Sam  -OnRocket Guns   Ordnarice Chief Sees Cost ~, Of Ammunition Rumniig To 100 Million Monthly

TOOK ONLY THE SCOTCH   Thieves Broke Into Wolferman’s Last Night

Attack Americans At Aitape In Effort To Break Out Of Closing  Trap And Escape  _ Starwatinn 

Japs Seek fo Break U. 5. Ring   45,000 Enemy Troops Attack Americans in _Effort to Escape Trap

Japs Attack Near Aitape   By-Passed’ Forces: Seek ‘Eseape Path -

BYPASSED 18TH NIP ARMY HITS VANKS AT AITADI   Threatened Starvation Said Forcing Enemy Into Open Attack

45,000 Bypassed Japs Strive to Break Trap  Threat of Starvation Drives Army  Tntca Descnerate Detwe an Udeu Carne

JAPAN'S TRAPPED © 18TH ARMY ATTACK AMERICAN FORCES   Faced With Starvation or Erasure, Japs Try Hard To Break Through

45,000 Japs Trying To Blast Way Out Of New Guinea Trap   Ending Two Months Of Smoldering Quiet, Nips Attack Yanks Fiercely

DOUGLAS SEEN AS THREAT TC HENRY WALLACE   [8TH NIP ARMY DESPERATE AS TRAP SQUEEZES   Entrenched Americans Near Aitape, New Guinea, Negate Attempt by 45,000 to Escape

‘Trapped Japs On New Guinea Launch Attack   Fierce Charges To Break Out of Ring Are Checked By U. 5S. Veterons

Trapped Japanese In Bitter Attack   Enemy Masses New Guinea Force In Effort to Open Escape Route

DEWEY TRAILS IN STATE VOTE   Recheck of 81 Wayne Precincts Cuts Margin Over FDR to 1,657.   GOV. KELLY SWAMPS FRY

GOP Polls Top-Heavy State Win   All Candidates Behind Kelly Have Large Margin; to Canvass Wayne Votes Today

FDR. Is Ahead In Michigan’s Vote Recheck   Roosevelt Polls Two-Thirds ‘Of Service Vote Now Counted

EUROPEANS GIVEN ANOTHER WARNING   Told to Keep Off Roads When Invasion Armies Strike Continent.

Ike Instructs Europeans On Invasion   ‘Keep Off Roads,’ General Eisenhower Tells Underground

Europeans Told To Keep Off Roads When Allies Come   Berlin Promises ‘Quick and Reliable Invasion Reports

Keep Off Roads Europeans Told   More Invasion Instructions Given

CAPITAL-AWAITS, “HID SOVERNOF   Bricker To Speak At Lin ‘eoln Day Dinner Thurs day Night.

NORTH DAKOTA AGE {5 CLOSE   Official Count of Canvassing Board May Be Nenesegry.

NYE BROADENS PRIMARY LEAD   Ahead of Stambaugh by 893 in North Dakota

(By International News Service)   STH ARMY SMASHES TO WITHIN 12 MILES OF BOLOGNA

DEMOTIKA AREA INSIDE GREECE HELD BY SOVIETS   Other Red Forces Outflank - Warsaw On North By  Honome Narew   GERMANS IN BALKANS IN HOPELESS PLIGHT

REDS REPORTED IN GREECE NEAR TURKISH BORDER   German Radio Says Soviet Forces, Moving Across Bulgaria, Have Reached Demotika Area.   RUSSIANS IN NORTH OUTFLANK WARSAW   Nazis Said to Have Withdrawn Across Narew to Prevent Break-Through  Into Prussia.

Reds in Area Of Demotika,  Germans Say  Reported Fanhing Out Across Bulgaria — In, Push to Aegean  JOIN FORCES WITH. YUGOSLAV PARTISANS Reds Hop Narew River At Point 25 Miles ~Relaw Fact Prussia   Reported Fanning Out Across Bulgaria In Push to Aevean

Soviet Troops Reported to B  Inside Greece   Reds Said to Have Joined Tito’s Army  East of Belgrade

FIGHTING REDS ARE REPORTED INSIDE GREECE   WARSAW FLANKED ON NORTH NEAR EAST PRUSSIA

Germans Claim Russian Forces Are in Greece   Also Report Soviet Forces Outflank Nazis in Warsaw

Russ Drive Into Greece  Perils Nazis   260,000 Germans Menaced by Advance of Reds

REPORT SOVIET FORCE ACROSS GREEK BORDER   Nazis Say Reds Span Bulgaria; Warsaw  Is Outflanked

AEDS REPORTED INSIDE GREE   Reach Area of Demotike Near Turkish Frontier   OTHER RED FORCES   Outflank Warsaw on North By Hopping Narew River; Fan Out Across Bulgaria

Soviet Troops Inside Greece, Berlin Claims   Germans Declare Bulgaria Overrun—Russians Race eh Frontier

‘Germans Admit Soviets ‘Inside Greece in Blitz ‘Drive Through Balkans   Yugoslav Radio Says Russian, Tito Forces Have Joined; Reds Outflank Warsaw By Hopping Narew River

Red Troops Cross Border Into Greece   Nazi Army In Balkan: In Serious Position

Four Key Cities Fall To Troops Of U. S. Army   Citizens Of Capital Of France Now Can Hear Battle Roar

‘Yanks Meet With Small  Resistance  EBimaeme Pitertetnece   Enemy Divisions Are Now in Danger Along Seine River

Only Four Cases On Trial List   Two Aggravated Assault And Battery Cases And Iwo Moral Cases Scheduled.

‘Russians Press Forward In Drive To Knock Hungary Out Of The Wa:

v Russians Drive Near Nazi City of Tilsit   Other Forces Are Within Five _ Miles of Riga

Soviet Troops 9 Miles From Town of Tilsit   Action Hurls Enemy Back Across East Prussian Frontier  Along 110-Mile Front

Reds Get Se To Roll Into East Prussia   Moscow Announces Other Forces Within ‘Five Miles Of Riga

Strong Red Forces Ready To  Cross Into Pre-War Germany   Russian Troops Are Within Nine Miles of German " Rail Center—Other Soviet Forces ' 5 Miles From Riaa

Russians Near East Prussian Rail Center   Red Army Only Nine Miles From Tilset; Riga Threatened

Reds Prepare For Advance Into Germany   Battles Still Rage in Port Of Memel

Soviets Prepar e For Big Push.  lato E. Pr ‘ussia   “Reds Within Nine Miles Of: German’ Rail Center Ti Western Lithviania

ussians Batter jay Closer fo rewar Germany   Approach Tilsif, Big Rail Center

GERMANS HURLED ACROSS FRONTIER OF EAST PRUSSIA   Reds’ Lithuanian Army Smashes to Within Nine Miles of Nazi Railway Center of Tilsit.   ADVANCE IS ALONG 110-MILE FRONT   Tank Battle Reported Raging Short Distance From Memel — Other Soviet Forces Threaten Riga.

Russian Troops Are Nine Miles From Nazi City   Berlin Claims Great Tank Battle Is Raging In Memel

County Short Of “E” Bond Quota In 6th War Loan   Gillespie Men In_ Service Have Purchased $10,000 In Bonds, Kaderli States

Bond Drive Goes Over The Top With Plenty To Spare   City Precincts Give Drive Big Boost As Final Figures Are Released

Most Booby Traps in Belgium — Set by Kids, Shaking Down Yanks for Candy, Chewing Gum

Lowlands Kids Create Booby Traps To Snare Sweets from Liberators

COLD WAVE TO FOLLOW HEAVY FALL OF SNOW   Storm Passes Great Lakes Area Threatens To Tie Up Seaboard

BULLDOZERS LEAD IN aI. LO BREAKTHROUGH  Heavy. Armored Blow Takes Foe

TROOPS SPRING DRIVE TO REOPEN ROAD TO CHINA   Action F ollows Stilwell’s Recall

DRIVE STARTED TO RECAPTURE ALL OF BURME   Operation Begins After Stilwell Recall; His Aides Planned It

EIGHT BOYS REGISTER IN JANUARY   Will be Listed with  Those Liable to ‘Drag in Future Calls

EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD YOUTHS REGISTERED —  Will be Listed with   Will be Listed with Those Liable to Draft in Future Calls

GOVERNOR....ALSO” VQICES ALARM AT ClO POLITICAL:  ACTIVITY, IN TRENTON  ol gp EEEOH i

 Kirke L. Simpson Says: German Report of "Encirclement’’ Of Allied Beachhead Looks False

ati w—wBY Kirke L, sinipson (7)  Rome Beachhead Cannot Be Driven Into Sea

Harrison Nearly Became a Doctor  CW. BH. Harrison, 9th U. S. Precident)

Sees Opposition To Higher Taxes  Minnesotan Warns G. 0. P. Will Fight

Airborne Allies Tighten Hold On Vital Waterways   British Capture Dutch Communication Genter

President’s Health Good, Seeks Rest, Early Asserts   Presidential Secretary Questions Accuracy of New York Times Story Reporting Roosevelt ‘Incommunicado’ from Press

Chief Executive Takes Vacation   President Leaves Stormy Washington

PRESIDENT GETTING REST. RELAXATION   Has Been Slow in Shaking Off Effects of Recent Influenza Attack.

FDR Away For a Rest   Chief Executive _Avoids Reporters As He Strives to Shake  Off Effects of Flu

F.D.R. Is Resting At A Retreat   While Locale Not Named, He Is In Close Touch With. Canital.

President Getting ! Measure! Of Rest and Relaxation From Politically Stormy Capital   Having Tr ouble  Shaking Off Flu   Weight Dropped Ten Pounds During Illness; Newsmen Near; Isolated From Executive

PRESIDENT IS AWAY FROM WHITE HOUSE DURING BIG FUSS   Chief Executive, However, Is In Close Touch

Roosevelt Is Taking Rest At Unnamed Spot   President Remains In Close Touch With White House While Away From Capital

Roosevelt Resting Away From Capita!   President Slow ta Shak Off Effects of Recent Flu Attack

FDR, Yet Il, Taking: Rest    Personally Isolated From Nation’s Press

PRESIDENT ON TRIP FOR A NEEDED REST   Secretary Early Reports Chief Executive Keeping In Closest Touch With White House   HEALTH IS UNIMPAIRED

PRESIDENT IS GETTING REST   Reporters Follow Party To Hideaway Out Of Capital

PRESIDENT TAKING NEEDED REST FROM HIS HEAVY DUTIES  QOCUWICeL CYOCCITIWUGC CUCA   CHIEF EXECUTIVE EVEN ISOLATED FROM PRESS REPRESENTATIVES

Roosevelt Leaves Washington for a ‘Rest; His Retreat Not Disclosed

Roosevelt, Taking Rest   Still Feeling Effects  Of Influenza Attack

PRESIDENT WOULD END LEND-LEASE AT END OF PRESENT WAR BRITISH REVERSE LEND- LEASE PLACED AT OVER  THRDEE DITTINNC

Lend-Lease Report Is Made Two Ways   President Tells Congress Mutual U. S.-British War Aid Shoulc End With Victory in Europe and Japan — Churchill Reveals British Participation

Reverse LendLease Is Over  Three Billions   President 8 ‘aves LendLease Should Finish With End of Pacific  And European Wars

LEND-LEASE TOTALS REVEALED TODNY   President Tells Congress ‘Lend-Lease Should End with Close of Wars’

F.D.R. Says Lend-Lease Should End With Close Of Eurove, Pacific Wars

Bricker Demands PRalance Budget For U.S. After War—Hits Government's “Quizzers”

J. S. ‘BOMBERS OF TOMORROW’ COMING OFF ASSEMBLY LINES   FASTER. SPEED; HIGHER ALT: TUDE CEILING AND HEAVIER BOMB LOADS . . ARE REVEALED

80 People Escape  Pittsburgh Blaze   Six Companies Are Sum: moned to’ Flame-Envel- . oped Apartment House

Americans Raid Five Enemy Bases, Destroying Ships And Pianes In Operations

YANKS DESTROY 10 NIPPON SHIPS   2 Combat Vessels Included; Down 26 Planes in Raids on Seven Islands

0 JAP ISLES   Attacks Nip Help For (;,uam, Tinan   pare   SWUGCEth, 2 GRU GEAE  Nimitz Strikes East of Philippines

TEN SHIPS AND 26 JAP. Sirs’ DESTROYED IN SURPRISE "BLOW NEAR PHinhp. 0 °°  a To

» sAP BASES RAIDED TO AID U. §. DRIVES   Attacks Delay Help for Nipponese on Guam and Tinian

Nippons Make Broad Claims   Report 35. B.29's, Downed Or Damaged

NO B-29°S LOST DESPITE CLAIMS   Japs Contend 35 U. S. Bombers Shot Down, Damaged, But Reports Denied

Republicans Take Big Leads In Maine Vote   ‘Democrats. Supported By CIO Commitiee Fail To Make Showing

ClO Candidates Run Behind in — Maine Flections   Republicans Far Ahead On Basis of Third Of Returns

Maine CIO Candidates Far Behind   WITH HALF THE VOTE REPORTED GOP WILL APPROXIMATE 70,000 MARGIN OF 1942 FOR WHOLE STATE,   Heavy CIO Setback

4900 WORKERS. VOTE IN WARD UNION ELECTION   Ballots Will Be Tabu lated at 7:30 P. M. After Polls Close

Montgomery Ward Workers Ballot Today   Collective Bargaining Election May Be Most Important  In NLRB Historv

Chaplin Mann Act Charges Still Stand   BOTH SLAVERY CHARGES HOLD IN JURY TRIAL

BUDAPEST HIT HARD TODAY BY YANK BOMBERS   First U. S. Raid of War on City

U.S, PILOTS HIT PLANTS, R.R.'S OF YUGOSLAVIA   100 Nazi Interceptor Planes Destroyed in Austrian Raids Sunday

Russians Defend War Executions   Paper Says Move Nazis Must Face [rials

SOVIET JOURNAL UPHOLDS TRIALS   intimates Further Similar War Criminal Cases tr FEoliaw

War Production Board Relaxes Restrictions On Sale Of House Trailers

UP. WRITER SEES BOMBSDROPPED ON  OLD MONASTERY   Became Necessary When the Nazis Began Using it As An -Artillery Base.

FLUID MILK SALE INCREASE APPROVED   Few Cases of ‘Inspired Dumping’ Conceded

Japs See Poor Christmas For U. $. Account Liquor, Cigaret, Sugar Shortages

} oe Le ti in cet Seer ane [LINN COUNTY. PREPARING FOR THE FIFTH 'WAR LOAN DRIVE

Allied Planes Bomb Romé Railroad Yards for, Second Day. )   ROME FRONT NOW BLAZING IN ACTION   American Fliers Active on the Cassino Front to the South,

Rome Front Is Blazing In Action   Allies and Germans Are Locked In Desperate Batnile In Italy

Second Nazi Offensive Stopped Without Gain; Allied Bombers Active

Germans Being Fought To Standstill On Rome Front By Allied Bombers and Fighting Men.

Tulsa Firemen tn Bold Bit of Work   Dash Inte Garage, Extin guish Flames an Butone Gas -Fransport

Dewey Plans Another Swing   Will Attend Services For Willkie in New York Today

Gov. Dewey Will Attend Willkie Rites   To Leave Albany At 9:40; Funeral Fou. Noted American Citizen To Be Held At 3 P. M. Today

CIVRIAN SUPPLY SHORTAGES FELT   Average American Cautloned Very Thin Time Ahead Untit Peace

Civilians Soon To Feel Pinch   WPB Finds Scarcity Of Many Supplies

CIVILIANS WILL FEEL SHORTAGES   No Large Scale Relief Car Be Expected Until War Ends, Official Says

AMER: LEGION CONVENTION OPENS TODAY   26th Annual Meeting Held In Chicago

MANILA FALD REPORTED bY TOKYO RADI   Claim 5 Bombers Shot Down in Raid on Tokyo, One Nearly Intact.

Naval Planes ‘Attack Manile  Tokyo Reports Five R90’. Shoat Down

Fifth Raid This Month Is Reported   Tokyo Says Sixty “Carrier Warplanes Bomb Manila Area.

*fav Figeht For Toewn   Details of Immense New Transport Plane Revealed

Hitler Orders General German Mobilization   Sweeping Allout Wardrive Under Direction Of ‘Big Four’ To. Extend: To Occupied Territories As! Well: Goebbels To Speak

GERMAN LEADERS PREPARE NATION FOR FINISH FIGHT   ‘Nazi Foreign Office Spokesman Declares Germany ” Will Create New, Import ant Military Reserves,   GOERING A DICTATOR OVER PRIVATE LIFE   All Available Man Power to Be Put Into War Service Under Mobilization Decree and Order.

Expect Hifler To Mobilize All Reich Manpowel  New And Important Reserves Soon To Be Created For A Last  Stand Against Hitler

NAZI MANPOWER TO BE PLACED UNDER HITLER   New Last Ditch _ Defense For . a  ee ~*~, rit oC eee,

Hitler Preparing Mobilization For Final Stand   All Manpower S#ill Under Nazi Control to Serve

HITLER GETS READY FOR FINAL DAY   All Nazi Held-Territory' Being Mobilized for Last Ditch Defense of Naziism

TIDE WILL TURN, GOEBBELS SAYS   Predicts Change for Better “Soon” in Russi

NAZIS PREPARE FOR LAST DITCH STAND IN REICH   HITLER PLANS TOTAL EFFORT AS DECISIVE BATTLES DRAW NEAR

Nazis Gird For Last Ditch Stand   Fight to the Death Is Seen in Mobilization Of Europe Under Iron Hand of “Big Four”

BELIEVE NAZIS PREPARING FOR DEATH STAND   Places Reich Under ‘Big Four’ Goebbels To Address Nation

Nazis Big Four Take Control Of Germany   Hitler, Goebbels, Goebbels, Himmler To Mobilize: Forces

Hitler's Europe Under Ruthless Rule of ‘Big 4   Last Ditch Defense Of Naziism Seems To Be Fuehrer’s Plan

‘BIG FOUR’ NOW DIRECTS REICH   attiticr’s Helpers Probably Will Mobilize All Manpower To Fight On

Nazi Chief Is Getting Set To Put Full Mobilization Order Into Effect At Once

HITLER 1S BELIEVED PREPARING COMPLETE MOBILIZATION OF MEN   Germany to Create Reserve:  of Troops for Last-Ditch Strugele ;   GOERING CIVIL DICTATOR

Hitler and "Big Four” Plan to Mobilize All Manpower in Europe Under Control of Nazis

REICH PLACED UNDER “BIG 4   Hitler Believed Preparing Mobilization of All Manpower.   LAST DITCH DEFENSE

Nazis Planning New Military Reserves   ‘Big Four” Believed Preparing to Mobiliz All Manpower in That Part of Europe - Under German Domination.

BIG FOUR SET UP IN GERMANY   Hitler, Goering, Goebbels And Himmler Plan Total War

Hitler Plans Final Stand   To Mobilize All Nazi Manpower for Last Ditch Defense

Nazis Planning Total Draft?   Believed Preparing For General Mobilization

Nazi ‘Big Four’ Maps Desperate Final Defense   Will Squeeze All Possible Manpower From  Hitlerized Areas.

Hitler Believed Preparing General Mobilization Of All German Manpower For Defense Of Naziisn

Hitler Plans To Mobilize All Europe   Goebbels on Air Today To Lay Down Law

Goering Made Dictator of German Life   Full Mobilization of All Manpower Believed Under Way

Nazis Map Plans To Draft Last Reserves Of European Manpower For Final Stand   Goebbels To Address German People, May Disclose Plans Of New Leaders

NAZI BIG FOUR SEEK TO BUILD NEW RESERVES   All Manpower In German. Controlled Europe To Be Mobilized

Hitler Prepares To Mobilize All Reich Reserves   Goebbels To Address Reich By Radio Today; He May Tell Last Ditch Plans

Nazi Big Fou Now at Helm   Formed for ‘Death Battle’ by The Hitlerites

Hitler Planning For a Last Ditch Stand of Reich   Germarty Intends to Create New and Important Military Reserves.   Naziism ‘Big Four’ To Direct Defenses

Nazis Draft Plans to Fight To Last Ditch   Last of European Manpower Reserves Will Be Mobilized

Hitler is Believed Preparing Round~ Up of All Manpower   Last Ditch Effort Seen bs Fuehrer to Defend Nazi Creed

NAZIS ROUND UP ALL MANPOWER   Hitler Puts Reich, Occupied Areas Under ‘Big Four’

ARMY EXANIS GIVEN NOW 10 RECRUITS   17 Year Olds May Apply At Indianapolis For College Training

SLAUGHTER IS MOST IMPRESSIVE!  FEATURE OF TITANIC STRUGGLE BETWEEN RED AND NAZI FORCES)

Today’s War Moves   Few Germans Surrender To Russians, Nazi Losses High

The. War Today   Germans Served Own Medicine  Ta OCannnoa an Divectan Tiennt

Germans Slaughtered as Reds Continue Advance Battle of Annihilation Continues

Reds Advanee Over Nazi Dead   Stalin’s Strategy Takes Shape: Sucker’s Punch Tricks Nazi:

RUSSIANS EXACTING HEAVY TOLL OF LIFE AMONG GERMANS AS RED ARMY GRINDS ENEMY UNDER FOOT

The War Today   fue Wak fVuay eee Slaughter One Of Most Significant Aspects Of Busso-German War.

Allies Approach. Bologna in Italy   All-Out Drive Aimed At Po River Valley

Allies Prepare For Decisive Drive in Italy   Bologna and Po Valley Are Seen As Major Objectives

Allied Forces in Italy Gather  for New Drive Rich. Industrial   Rich, Industrial Valley of Po River Next Goal *

COOLER IN KANSAS   Showers Bring Relief After Hot, Sticky Week End

Germans Flee in Disorder   Fight in Streets of Lublin and Lwow; Al. lies Mass for Normand) Battle. Gain in Italy

Germans Flee In Disorder Before Soviet Armies   Allied Spearhead Near Periers Is Driven Back

GERMAN PLANE CITY BATTERED   Flying Fortresses Smash Brunswick Third Time Within Week

CONTINENT OF EUROPE ROCKS LINDER BOMBS   Brunswick Smashed By U.S. Forts  io eae  COAST BATTERED  een cs  Today’s Armada One of War's Greatest

FORTS BOMB LANE CENTER   Batter Brunswick for Third Time Within Month

FIGHTER PLANE FACTORIES IN BRUNSWICK BLASTED AS ONE OBJECTIVE OF MASSED ASSAULTS ‘TODAY

SMITH DENIES HIS PARTY WORKED -T0 CURB WAR EFFORT   Claims America First-Group Did Not Oppose Rationing Plan As Whole

CREDITED WITH 26TH JAP PLANE   Major Boyington Ties Record Set by Foss

BOYINGTON SHOOTS DOWN 20TH PLANE   Washington Marine Ties Re. cord Set By Major Joe  Eace

Marine Flicy Brings Down  His 26th Jap   Royington Ties Foss? Score; His Uncon. firmed Total 40

EXCELLENT SERVICE CREDITED TO BRICKER   Maryland’s Governor Praises Him in Baltimore

BOB SMITHWICK TO HEAD COUNTY FREEZER LOCKER UNIT AS MANAGER   Commissioners Reveal Agent’s Resignation

FINLAND MAY ASK US. INTERVENE   Plea Expected Be Rejected  ‘With Sympathy’   RUSIA DISCLOSED   }  Peace Terms to United States  And Britain Before Making   Them Public

FINNS MAY ASK AID OF AMERICA   Intervention Of. &: A In Russian Peace Terms Unlikely

Finland May Ask US. Intervention In Peace Parleys   Stockholm Reports Indicate Finnish Diet Has Rejected Soviet Demands For Nazis’ Internment, Restoration Of ’40 Borders

U.S. To Reject Finnish Appeal   But May Extend ‘Sympathy’  6 On Red Peace Terms

Finns May Ask U. $. To Soften Red Peace Term:   State Department Reported Advised Of Soviet Offer

Larry Allen Says: Germany Ciaims To Have 5,000 Fighter Planes To Meet Allies

Carrier Planes In Hazardous Night Landings  Some Forced Down In Sen But Ouickly   Some Forced Down In Sea, But Quickly Rescued By Warship:

GUAM REVEALED AS SITE OF 1ST BLOW IN BATTLE   “Second Chapter” Resulted in the Routine of Jap Fleet Without Fleet Salvo Being Fired

Far-Flung Forces United in Holy Easter Worship   Sunrise Rites Around  World to Reach  American Soldiers

Thornton Academy Exceeds Bond Quota By $13,000 And ‘Additional Reports To Come

Thornton Ups Amount Of War Bonds Purchased   Students Hit $50.000 Mark

Reds Pour Into Bessarabia On  31-Mile Front   German Bastion Of Vin. nitsa Evacuated; Rumanians Flee.

German Withdrawal Widens Red Army’s Break-Through in Bug River Sector

RUSSIANS ON OLD RUMANIAN BORDER TODAY   Germans Fleeing Area; Towns Evacuated

Thousands Of German’ And Rumanian Troops Stain As Victorious Reds Cross Dniester River; New Disaster Awaits Nazis

Soviet Ar my  ‘Widenmg Its  Break In Nazi Bug Line   Another Powerful Drive By Reds Is Impending [n North In Pskov Sector

Nazis Admit Evacuation Of Vinnitsa Plunge ‘Into Bessarabia   Poses New Threat tu  Germans RUMANIANS FLEE Red Army Units in Po— Jand Poised for New  Derive on Tacow

Reds Cross Dniester on  31-Mile Front   Vinnitsa Abandoned; Rumanians  In Flight

Rumanians Flee As Reds Crush  River Barriers   Zhukov’s Armies In North Preparing Ta Launch Big Drive On Vital Lwow

London — (7) — The Red army has captured Mogilev Podolski on the Dniester, Marshal Stalin announced tonight.  Ea. ke wD on'gwentwTeet «at&t

SOVIET T PUSH FORWARD IN BESSARABIA   German Retreat Widens Red Breakthru On Middle Bug River Sector

MYTH OF POWERFUL RIVER LINE SMASHED   German 6th Army Wiped Out, Soviets Say; Berlin Fears New Northern Push

RUSSIAN PUSH MOVES DEEPER INTO RUMANIA   Bessarabians Said Fleeing As B. B. C. Warns To Seek Truce

Soviet Forces Push Forware to Bessarabia   Pose New Threat — to Germans as Well as to Rumania

Reds Cross Dniester on 31 Mile Front   Soviet Forces Also Gain in North as Nazi: Evacuate Outflanked Bastion of Vinnitsa

Vinnitsa Is [Evacuated By Germans   "LONDON, - ‘March 20 (UP)Premler Josef Stalin an: Rounced.. today: that: the, Red. Army had - captured. -Mogiley  Podolsk,. big German: bane: on. the Dniester river.”

Rumania Faces New Crisis as Soviets Retake 400 Towns   Mogilev Podolski Latest Large City To Fall To Advancing Reds on Dniester River

Americans Repulse Hitlerite Force Frow Russia Which Attacks Wedge Driven Into Broken Siegfried Line

Air Troops In Holland Reported 5 Miles From British 2nd In Belgium   Duration Of War In West Depends On Success Of Surprise Attack Said To Be “Going Well”

END TO DISCORD IN CAPITOL FORESEEN   Reconciliation of Southern Demos and New Dealers ’ Apparent.

EXTRA!   Allies Seize Jap Stronghold Of Myitkyina   Garrison Of More Than 3,000 Killed Almost To The Last Man As City Is Captured

Allies Capture Myitkyina In North Burma   Removes Last Major Bar To Reopening Of Supplv Route

BRITISH, U. S. AND CHINESE TAKE MYITSKYINA   Fall of Jan Stronghold in North Burma Ojen Sapply Line

Myitkyina Falls To Allied Troops After Long Siege   Garrison of Over _ 3,000 Enemy Killed Almost To Last Man

Jap Garrison Killed Almost To Last Man   Obstacle to Reopening Route From India to  China le Qvarcamad

MYITKYINA IS CAPTUREL BY ALLIES   Jap Garrison of 3,000 Wiped Out To the Last Man

MYITKYINA, JAPS’ STRONGHOLD IN’ NORTH BURMA FALLS TO ALLIES; ‘GARRISON WIPED OUT TO LAST MAN

ALLIES TAKE MYITKYINA, IN BURMA   Last Obstacle To Reopening Route to China

RUSSIA BLUNTLY WARNS FINNS — TT WON'T CHANGE PEACE PLAN   PEACE OR CONTINUED WARFARE PUT SQUARELY BEFORE FINLAND'S GOVERNMENT IN SOVIET REPLY

TITO WOULD SET UP DEMOCRACY IN HIS NATIVE LAND   American Soldier-Correspondent Says Yugoslav Army Leader Is Man of High Intellicence.   GIRLS IN HIS FORCE BATTLING GERMANS   Discloses in Hour’s Interview That Nazis Have Ceased to Execute Partisans They Capture.

WAR IN WEST PLAYED DOWN BY RED PRES   Declares Allies Face Small Relative Strength of German Force.

SOVIET PRESS ~~ SLIGHTS WEST   Says Most German Units Used on-Eastern Front

LOCAL MAN ON BOND FOR THEFT IN BALTIMORE   Robert L. Grove, Grocer And Legislator, Accused Of Cigarette Robbery   TWO OTHER MEN ARE ALSO UNDER ARREST

FREDERICK GROCER ACCUSED OF THEFT   Robert L. Grove and Twe Other Men Face Charaes

Handling of Home Front Is Assailed   26 Republican Governors  Charge ‘Friction’ Invites  ‘National Disaster’   PEACETIME JOBS UP TO INDUSTRY   Six Points of Proposed 14Point Policy Released by Conference

GOP Governors Charge New Deal Is Blocking Jobs  Assort Problem of Peacetime  Employment Can be Adequate! Met @alv by Private Busines:

Governors Map Six-Point State Program   New Deal Scored On Handling Of Home Front

26 Republican State Governors Agree on Statement of Policy   Complete Unity Prevails at Meeting With Gov. Thomas E. Dewey

GOP Governors’ Say New  Deal Handling Invites ‘National Disaster.’

POSTWAR PLAN LACK ASSAILED   GOP Governors See New  Deal As Obstruction

G.0.P. Fights Peace Chaos   Governors Agree on: Six of 14 Points at ' St. Louis Conference

Governors Map Campaign Program   Removal of Areas of Friction Between States, Washington Urged

Statement Of Policy Issued By Governor:   Prompt Termination O War Contracts Wher Hostilities Cease 1 Major Proposal

PLACE A CHARGE AGAINST NEW DEAL   The Handling of War-Related Problems on Home Front Invites “Disaster”

Private Enterprise Gets GOP Backing   New Deal Handling of Domestic Problems Invites ‘National Disaster,’ Republican Gover nors Say at Conference In Planning Peac etime Employment

New Deal Handling of Home Problem ‘Invites Disaster,’ Governors Say

‘National Disaster’ Foreseen   GOP Conference Flays ‘Washington's Listlessness, Airmlessnes:

New Deal Fumbles Post-War Plans, G. O. P. Governors Say   Policy Invites “National Disaster’ Executives Declare ir Statement at Republican Parley.

New Deal Invites ‘National Disaster’   Governors Attack Home Front Policy

Denounce New Deal Policies On Home Front   Tactics Invite ‘National Disaster,’ Declare Repub rt CO anwaennave a

GOP Governors Flay New Deal   Declare Handling of Wartime Problems Invites “Disaster”

Republican Governors In St. Louis   Prepare Statement Of Policy They  Believe Necessary In Post-War Plans

Republican Governors Charge New Deal Handling of Home Front Invites Disaster

\Condemn New iDeal For Home  Front Policy   GOP Governors Say Me. thed of Handling WarRelated Problems Invites Disaster

Antiadministratior Democrats Say  Cause Is Gaining  Group Will Hold Its Own Convention; Support Is Pledged

Proposal to Hold AntiAdministration Meeting Gaining Wide Support

Kilgore Eyes Hotel Deals   W. Va. Senator. Says Army Explanation Wanted

INAUGURATION ON JANUARY 8   All the Glamorous Pomp, Tradition in Inauguration, Will Be Put On.

Colorful In augural January 8   Phil Donnelly, Democrat. Will he Sworn in as State's 41st Governor

Big Inaugural for Donnelly January 8      Usual Ceremonies To Be Held; No Gaudy Uniforms for Colonels

MANCHURIA BLASTED BY SUPERFORTS   Largest Force Yet Employed Hits Japanese Industrial Empire With No Planes Lost.   Raid Rail Yards

AMERICAN AIRMEN BOMB MANCHURIA   CHEMICAL AND EXPLOSIVES PLANTS ARE TARGETS—~ NO PLANES LOST. -

SUPER FORTS RAID PLANTS IN MANCHURIA   Blast Chemical, Explosives Factories in  Anshan Area

JAPS IN DRIVE FOR FOOCHOW   Foe Makes Surprise Land ing in Effort to Take Big China Seaport

JAPS DRIVE ON BIG CHINESE SEAPORT   March on Foochow Seen as Move to Counter Any American Plans for Landing.

B-29’s Blast Jap Arsenal In Manchuria   100 Superforts Reported in Biggest Assault

Labor Draft Act Before Congress; Reception Coo   ‘Prussianizing’ Of US Is Charged

Men Of Armed Forces Demand Labor Draft Law At Home, Stimson Tells Senate Group

STIMSON ASKS LABOR DRAFT   War Secretary's Plea Is Made To Largely Unresponsive Congress

HENRY STIMSON FAVORS_LABORDRAFT MEASURE   Congress Cool To Demand; Knox To Be Heard

Invasion Wall Blasted by 6,000 Planes As 8,000 Tons of Explosives _ Rock 150-Mile Strip on French Coast

(Terrific Blows Landed On Hun Coastal Forts   Greaiesi Mass Assault Of   War Staged: 3,000 Tons  Of Bombs Arve Dropped On Wall   Br rittany-Belgian Sector Is Pounded   16 Rail Junctions And Eight Airfields Hit Ia~ Mammoth Attack By BRAF-Yanke

GREATEST AIR RAID OF WAR SHAKES REICH   OVER 6000 PLANES ARE HURLED AT WEST WALL

6,000 Airplanes Stage War's Greatest Attack   8,000-Ton Bomb Load Dropped On Nazi Defenses

Record Mass Raid Rocks Nazi Coast   8,000 Tons of Explosives Fall On Enemy Tarvets

Hammer Nazi Defenses In Mass Attacl   Allies Carry Out Greatest Raid Of War On Western Europe Installations.   HIT RAIL, AIR CENTERS

At Least 8,000 Tons Of Explosives Blast 150-Mile Strip From Brittany To Belgium; 19 Rail Junctions And Eight Airfields Are Attacked; Total Of Only 21 Planes Are Lost By Allies

Unleash 8,000  Tons Of Bombs In Heavy Blow   Greatest Mass Attack Of War Haurled Against 150-Mile Strip From Brittany To Belgium

Greatest Mass Raid of War Is Stared   19 Rail Junctions, Eight Airfields Bre Bmonag Tarcete

Large Strip Of German Held Europe Is Pounded   Record Mass Raids Staged During Day

8,000 Tons O1 Explosives Hit 150-Mile Strip   19 Rail Junctions, 8 Airfields Plastered in Mass Assaults

Drop 8,000 Tons Of Explosives In Greatest Attack   Pound German Inva ion Defensives ‘Twi Around Clock = With Sever Damage. Ow Reported Light. Set the Pa

GERMANY’S WEST WALL IS DEALT HEAVIEST BLOW   Six Thousand Allied Planes Bombard 150-Mile Strip From Brittany to Belgium.   19 RAIL JUNCTIONS ARE AMONG TARGETS   Kight Airfields and Numerous Other Installations Are Lashed in Unprecedented Assault,

OF COAST BATTERED   19 Rail Centers And ¢ Eight Airfields : Are Targets

Bombers Blast 150-MileStrip Back of ‘Wall’   6,000 Planes Drop 8,000  Tons on Nazi Defenses; HW} DBlawec T met

ALLIES UNLEASH GREATEST AIR ASSAULT OF WAR   8,000 Tons Of Bombs Batter Brittany-ToBelgium Invasion Strip

Greatest Air Armada Hits 150-Mile Strip   Nineteen Railway Junctions Behind Hitler's West Wall Pounded at Will

150 MILES ON COAST ROCKED BY EXPLOSIVES   Record Aerial Attack Is Fxended Twice Around Clock

‘Congress Back: At Work After  ‘Summer Recess   Reconversion Bills First. Measure On Legislative Calendar

Fascists Fleeing From Americans   ft eee, ee         Few Are Found By Fifth Army

oat Stages Mid-Ocean Kidna   Italian Fascist Officials Keep Clear of Allied Armies ™

Big Shot Fascists Avoiding Capture   Mussolini Moguls Flee Ahead Of Allies Larnely Fram Fear Of Their Qwn Peoole

NEW ATTACKS OF GERMANS REPULSED   ‘Nazis Send Reinforcements From Russian Front   Win La Forge, Near St. Lo; Indicate Rommel Takes Personal Command

Germans May Have 2,000 Tanks in 7 Divisions Being Thrown To Check British at Odon.   BELIEVE ROMMEL IS IN ACTIVE COMMAND

ROMMEL SEEKS QUICK DECISION IN PANZER USE   Commits Armor to Local Drives Rather — Than Big Counter Move

British Stand Firm in Battle for Caen; Nazis Thrown Back   Furious Attacks by Panzer Divisions Are  Repulsed

American Forces Advance To Within 21% Miles of St. Lo   Smash 30 More Nazi Tanks; German Veterans From Russia Now Fighting in France

British  Firm —  At Caen   ‘Lull On Battle Line  As Foes Regroup After Tommies Repulse Nazi Panzer Counterattacks

Many German Tanks Wrecked In Battles   Americans Nearing St. Lo As Heavy Fighting Rages

‘Battle For Caen Rages ‘British Stand Firm   Rommel Believed In Personal Command Of Bridgehead Front And Using Panzers As He Did In Libyan Desert.

BRITISH STAND FIRM O8 ODON RIVER SALIENT   Rommel Reported To Be Leading Men Again

Tigers and Panzers Are Hurled Back   RAF Helps Check Counter-Attacks; Americans Gain: .

Yanks Push Closer to St. Lo   Believe Rommel In Command—Some Nazis Moved  From Russia  a

142 Nazi Tanks Destroyed Since Invasion Started   Rommel Reported To Have Taken Personal Command Of Bridgehead Front

SURPLUS SALE FRIDAY   War Materials Will Be Soldia Pavilion by Clyde Coffman

iO, R HIGH TARIFF POLICY “A$ MODIFIED IN PLATFORM   PARTY COMMITTED. TO POLICY OF ECONOMIC COOPERA- ~ TION WITH OTHER NATIONS ~   By WILLIAM S, NEAL Intemational News Service

ADOPT ‘SOUNDEST PLATFORM EVER OFFERED PARTY   Republica Modify High ton ee ®@

Rain, Sleet, Snow Help Texas Crops  New Year Brings tas t Ea «=   New Year Brings Welcome Moisture To Most of State

FRENCH TROOPS. CAPTURE SIENA      FRENCH UNIT OF FIFTH’ ARMY TARES HISTORIC FVALEAN  SCTTY OTHER GAINS!  ooo. ReEORpED ¢

ITALIAN PORTS TAKE SIENA   Slash Toward Import: ant Cities of Livorno and Ancona

Allied Forces Take Historic City Of Siena   Advance In Italy Continues As Allies Approach ‘‘Gothic Line’’   GOERING DIVISIONS HEAVILY BOMBEL

At 75  Too Old, They Said, But She Hasn’t Been Off The Job Since. Pearl Harbor

‘Thinkers’ Oppose Disarming Plan ‘Victory Program Is Sharplv Criticized

Says Railroads Almost Stopped Competition   Miss Perkins Reports There  Were 3,750 Strikes Involving 1,900,000 Workers Last Year;  Subsidy Hopes Fade

SEEK SLAYER OF DETROIT WOMAN   ESTRANGED HUSBAND IS QUESTIONED IN CHURCH STABBING

TWO MEN ARE HELD IN DETROWT MURDEE   Woman Was Stabbed to Death in Church Where She Was Working.

POLICE SEEK SLAYER TODAY OF SECRETARY   Two Men Held In Church Murder

Church Killer Clues Sought  Estranged Husband Held For Further Questioning; Tells of Friendship

2 Are Held In Slaying   - Police Questioning  Husband And Friend

SOVIETS STRESS PEACE PROPOSAL   Russions Point to Foreign Press Comment Supporting Terms for Finns

SOVIETS BACK UP TERMS TO FINNS   Red Papers Print Rebuttals Against Foe’s Arguments

Russians Bolster Peace Offer With Rebuttals   Finn Delegate Plans Trip to Moscow, Swedish Paper Says

New Penal System Is Proposed   State Director in Request for Coniplete... Study of ‘Missouri Set-Up   LAWES SUGGESTS MANY: CHANGES   And Loyd: Miller Joins In Move Telling of Several: : Needed: Changes 

SALLY’S NEW STORE - OPENS AUGUST 30   Mrs. Joe Rustan Will Open New Grocery Store Near Bank Next Wednesday.

Finns Fear Nazi Coup   Government Handicapped In Armistice With Russia for That Reason

Danish Strikers Win Concessions   87 killed. 664 Wounded in Riots

Warren Speaks OnReconversior  Urges Federal, State Postwar Cooperation

Peace May Become Crisis {Governor Warren Tells’  Conference At Hershey

No Major Legislation on Hand  Congress Will Meet Tuesday _ But No Measures Are Reads

Wi ire TLS: Songress' O.tie:- 4ac <, oes Sar v Zeconve sion /.ccion

NO WORK READY FOR LAWMAKERS   Sudden German Collapse May Find Congress Unnrenared

Congress Opens Tuesday With No Bills Ready   Legislators Face Empty Calendar Despite Need for Measures To Ease Impact of Reconversion

Reconversion   Conaress May Soon Pass Needed Laws   Committees Preparing

Third of Fleet To Go to Soviets  ee   President Also Announces Stettinius Will Go to Moscow Kor Further Conferences

President Reveals Plans Are Being Made to Turn One Third of Italian Fleet Over to Soviet Russia's Navy

PART ITALY'S FLEET GOES TO RUSSIA  Reds Will Get   Reds Will Get Third of Italian Ships

FDR Hints Stalin Asking ‘Fair Share’ As Big-3 Partner   Underseeretary Stettinius Plans Dinlomatic Mission to England:  L ts 5 President Vague in Conference

PART OF VESSELS USED BY UNITED STATES. BRITAIN   Germans Apparently Give Up Third Major Attempt © to Crush Beachhead After 36-Hour Beating.   AMERICANS BOMB ROME . TARGETS THIRD TIME   Rumania Reported Taking Steps to Follow Finland and Bulgaria In Seeking Separate Peace,

U.S. and Britain Share Italian Fleet With Russia   Roosevelt Announces Equal Division Of Over 80 Fighting Ships In Answer to Recent Stalin Query

Plan Shift of Italian Fleet To Russ Navy   Disclose Efforts To Facilitate. War With  Surrendered Vessels

England and United States to Share Italian Navy With Russia   Undersecretary of State Will Make Diplomatic Mission to London.

White House Retracts  FDR Charge   Misstatemept on GOP’s ‘Free’ Speech Admitted

FIGHTER PLANES MACHINE-GUN NAZI CAPITAL   Bombers Hit Other Targets

Record Allied Armada Hits Europe Target   Giant Escort Takes -Big Bombers to Blast Plane Targets

Raid Is Made By Daviiont   Rome Is Bombed For Third Time By Biq Bombers

U. S. Hits Berlin In Daylight Raid   Citizens See American Insignia First Time

Vast Air Force Bombs Targets Ir North Germany   Escorts Beat Off Nazi Fighters; Down 18 Planes —

Jap Sub Sighted Off California ' While Roosevelt Was In Vicinity

Ey-Senator Norris Dies   ‘Great Insurgent’ Had Long Service Record

SHOT RY GESTAPO   French Parachute. Troops, Fighting Behind Nazi Lines

HAS PRESS-RADIO PLANK   G.O.P. Platform Calls for Equal Opportunity for Newsmen

PRESIDENT RAINEY TEXAS UNIVERSITY  VES HIS VIEWS.  OUTLINES CONTROVERS' WITH. INSTITUTION’S  BOARD OF RECENTS

5th Army Captures Cassino   March on Rome Is Resumed By Clark's Army

Luftwaffe — Struck Hard Bomb Blow   RED ARMY ROUMAMAN DRIVE CAUSES BRUIEF ROUMANIA TO GIVE UP SOON, ae

Allied Drive "Is Seen Near   Resumption Of March To Rome Js Forecast

Upper Chamber Acts Swiftly On Course Set By House   Michigan Senators Vote Aqainst Veto

u a ” Program * 41-Year-Olds » Start In July   High School Graduates Under 18 Eligible For  Specialized Training

Freight Rate Verdict Soon   Southern Governors Expect Reduction.

All-Out Aerial Offensive Begins lts Fifth Week   Cassino By-Passed In New Drive to Break Gustav Line

Tense Europe Braces For Big Invasion Blow   Britain Suspends All But Most Urgent Travel Permits

Americans Push Japs on Saipan   Fierce Fighting Marks Drive Toward Harbor

American Forces Sweep Forward On Saipan Shores   Jap Counterattacks ‘Repulsed In Drive To Charan Kanoa

Invaders Gain on Saipan   U. S. Forces Widen Beachhead, Nimitz Reports Progress Good

Foe Battles To Save Key Isle Bastion   Nimitz Reports Progress ‘Guod’; Beachhead Firm

AMER. TROOPS SWEEP AHEAD IN MARIANAS   Land Troops on Saipan Beachhead, Push Inland

AMERICANS ADVANCE IN MARIANAS   ierce Nip Resistance Is Met; U.S. Forces Widen Beachhead

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE ON SAIPAN ISLE   Nimitz Says Good Progress Made; Fighting Heavy

U.S. Invaders Sweep Forward Into Saipan   Island Would Provide Excellent ° Base for Fleet

Yanks Advance In Invasion of Saipan Island   Central Pacific Base Is Object Of New Landinas

YANKS MAKING ‘PROGRESS’ ON SAIPAN ISLAND   Invasion Of Marianas Is Going Well, Although Fighting Heavy

DRAFT DEFERMENTS — WILL BE GIVEN 600   Comparatively Few Men Under 26 Years Of Age Affected By Newest Regulations

State Solons To Take Up Only 5 Bill:   Legislature Reconvenes With Soldier Voting. Rehabilitation, Bank Law To Be Considered

Action On Proposal For Uniform Tavern Law Is Ruled Out During ‘Republican Caucus

EGISLATURE HAS FIVE-BILL PROGRAM   GOP Proponents of Short Session Clamp Brakes On Lawmaking.

Republican Caucus Cuts Down Legislature Agenda to 5 Bills   Rescind Tavern Bill.

CIVIL SERVICE WARNS WORKERS   3,000,000 Prohibited From Political Activity

0: HOLDERS © ~ ARE WARNED   FEDERAL EMPLOYES IN. ‘STRUCTED: BY CIVIL SERVICE “- COMMISSION TO: AVOID  POLITICAL ACTIVITY

CIVIL SE nVG EMPLOYED BARRED FROM PULITIGS   Warned Against Partisan Activities in Any E,uections

CIRCUS RAINCHECKS NOW WITHOUT TENT   Ringling Show Opens i in Akron Sans Big Top

‘5th Inning’ Is Problem. Of Ringling   Circus.Shows At Akron In First Performance Since: Fite

Finns Turn Down  Reds’ Peace Plan   Vishinsky Says Terms Rejected

REDS ANGERED, BLAST FINLAND ASNAZI VASSAL   Negotiations Over, Vishinsky Tells Press Confab

Russo-Finn Peace Negotiations Fold; 7 Points Announced   Helsinki Government Denounced As Favoring Ties With Germany; . Reparations Main Stumbline Bloe!

Moscow Says Finnish Refusal Of Soviet Terms Has Ended Negotiations to Restore Peace

Don Gentile Rests After Fete At Home   Ohioans Honor  Ton U. S. Pilot

Capt. Don Gentile Is Welcomed Home   Wild Demonstration Followed Arrival of Pilot

Incessant Rains Have Seriously — ~ Delayed Planting   All Citizens, Who Possibly  teer for Farm Work

Huge Aircraft Works Hit by U.S. Bombs   Raging Fires Are Left by American Raiders

Tough Assignmen Most Successful; Plant Damaged   Twelve Of A Fleet Of Japanese Fighter Plane Rising To Attack, Were Shot Down. One B-29 Lost To Fighter Action.

Tokyo Plant Hit Again In B-29 Raid   Superforts Leave Plane Unit Afire; Lose Craft to Nips

Two Parties Keep Active      GOP Pool Resources; Demos: Plan Meeting

[Democrats Talk Platform Anc IV. P. Problems; G. O. P. To Poo  ‘Governors’ Abilities For Dewey;

F.D.R. MUM ON VICE PRESIDENT   Platform, Presidential Run: ning Mate Discussed By Party Leaders

DEMOCRATS TALK PLANK PROBLEMS   Wallace's Position Is No Clearer Following His Confab With Boss

Democrats Talk Platform, Vice. Presidential Problems; GOP To Pool Governors’ Abilities

DEMO PLATFORM MAIN PROBLEM OF POLITICIANS   Roth Parties In Firet Phase In Fall Campaign

Both Parties Look Eagerly To November   Democrats Busy with Platform While Republicans Line Up 26 Governors for Busy Campaign.

900 ARE IDLE IN MINE STRIKE   ‘Coal Loaders Walk Out In  Dispute Over Pay

GERMANY 15 STILL  STRONG AND UNDER  CONTROL OF HITLER CHURCHILL PROMISES  VAST EXPANSION OF AIR ' ATTACKS ON GERMANY

NAZIS HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET DECLARES CHURCHILL WHO MAKES NO PROMISE OF WAR END   British Prime Minister Says Great Air Offensive Will Precede Invasion by Allies. Declares Hitler and His Generals Still Control Germany and Have Army of 300 Divisions

Churchill Says ruture Expansion Beyond Imaaination   American Bombers Coordinate Attacks From Britain, Italy

Uni0 BARLEY GUT ABUARD  Miller Boosts Buckeyes On Tromen Bandwaree Before It Stops Rolling

BRITISH PRESS FIGHT AGAINST RIOTING GREEKS   Seek To Qust Leftists From Athens And Port Of Piraeus Areas

BATTLE NEAR CLIMAX   Japanese : Holding Thei eir Ring About City of Hengyang 

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Allied Armies Maintain Be achheads South of Rome

ALLIES HOLDING THEIR ITALIAN BEACHHEAD   Maintain Positions Against Repeated Nazi Attacks

_ ALLIES YIELD THEN REGAIN ’ LOST GROUND   . Many Germans Taken Prisoners  SEIZE HEIGHTS  ee  Hitler Using —.ack

Directors of Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Assn. To Meet at Fort Stockton

Directors of Sheep & Goat Raisers Assn. Coming Here For Quarterly Meeting Sept. 1!   Barbecues at Baker Ranch and in Park Feature Entertainment

ROAD-RAIL CITY FALLS TO SOVIETS   Battle for Budapest Enters Last Stage

Berlin Admits Reds Have Taken Hatvan   Reports Indicate Final Stage in Budapest Battle

RAGING SNOW, BITTER COLD BLANKET U. $   Worst in N. Y. State in 3 Years With at Least Six Lives Lost. Te Warm up Slowly.

SNOWSTORMS STRIKE EAST COAST TODAY   Death Toll of Cold Wave Reaches Nine In Midwest

Nazis Battle British Near Rome, Hammer At Yanks For Cassino   Pace Of German Fighting Mounts Indicating Decisive Struggle For Italy Is Shaping Up   Mussolini Turned Deaf Ear To Edda’s Plea For Husband

Two Fron Are N Miles Apa             BRITISH SMASH NAZI COUNTER: ATTACKS BELOW ROME; SECOND. ACTION IS IN CASSINO AREA .

cea PROBING FOR WEAK SPOTS TN BEACHHEADS   Battie for Cassino Developing Into Bloody, See-saw Affair.

NEW STRONG NAZI STAND FOUGHT TO THE DEATH   German Blows Against Beachhead Repulsed With Heavy Losses

REPEATED NAZI ASSAULTS FAIL BELOW CAPITAL   Foe Sends More Troops To Cassino: Decisive Battle Looms

Seeking Man In Army Uniform In Girl’s Death   Forced Attentions on Partly Clad Bathtub Victim  At Hollywood: Canteen Night Before Crime

JITTERBUG SOLDIER SOUGHT IN INQUIRY INTO RAPE MURDER   Body of Heiress-actress Is Found in Bathtub

POSTWAR BONUS FUR WORK URGED   Gen. Somervell Suggests Extra Pay for Workers Who Stay On Jobs; Says Problem Must Be Licked

Post War Bonus For War Workers   Somervell Warns That “Manpower Problem Must Be Licked This Month.”

STEWART-LAUSCHE RIVALRY HEATS UP FINAL VOTE DRIVE   GOP Nominee Says Foe’s Election Would Revive ‘Davey Boodling’

CANDIDATES GN HOME STRETCH   Political Race Nearing Finish in Ohio -—  Lausche-for-Governor Headqharters Predict Victory by Plurality of 250,000 Votes,

French Moroccans Join Cassino Fight with Flank Move   Americans Attack Center of Line and Take Cervaro

Cervaro Is Taken By Yanks   Moroccans, French Knife-Wielding Poilus in Battle

French Set  To Attack  Cassino ~ Bloody Battle Expected for Key  German Base; Cervaro Falls

KEY OUTPOST OF GERMANS IS CAPTUREL   French and Moroccans Slash Deeply Into Nazi Mountain Defense Line.

YANKS ISOLATE JAPANESE FORCES ON GUAM PENINSUL   Strategic Arm of Land Contains Island’s Best Airfield—Port Menaced   Tinian Invasion Going Well—Marines Meet Only Light Resistance

CUT STRATEGIC POINT ON GUAM   Japs Isolated on Peninsula Containing Biggest Airfield

GAIN ON GUAM AND TINIAN   Japs in Orote Area of Guam Cut Off From Main Body of Troops

MARINES - “DRIVE. Across HABE ON PENINSULA TO ISOLATE - AIRFIELD AND EN. * BMY TROOPS

SENATE S NEW SOLDIER VOTING PLAN      Provides Federal Baldet Only in Stat Having No Absen-

FEDERAL VOTE FOES BACK NEW SERVICE BALLOT   Would Permit Federal Ballot Only Where States Fail To Act

NEW SOLDIER VOTE’PLAN CONCEIVED   Proposed As Amendment to  Lucas-Green Bill

New Soldier Vote Plan Is Advanced   Would Authonze U.S. Ballot Where States Fail to Act

COALITION VOTE -PLAN UNDER WAY   Senate Administration Foes In Move For Amendment - To Lucas-Green Bill.

VERDICT DUE FRIDAY IN FEDERAL - STATE SOLDIER VOTE FUSS   Compromise To Permit Both Ballot Types Is Possible

New Voting Plan Offered   Federal Ballot Asked Tn ‘Negligent’ States

COMPROMISE ON BALLOTS LOOMS   Final Decisions Due Friday in House. Senate

CHURCHILL SEES VICTORY IN 1945   Evil Gang In Europe Soon To Be Wiped Out, World Told

BREMEN HIT BY BOMBERS LAST NIGHT   British Mosquitoes: Hit — Northwestern German Port and Destroy Docks

Mosquitos Hit Port of Bremen  Three Miles ef Docks Filled With Mfreckage

BRITISH MOSQUITOES POUND BREMEN LAST NIGHT IN NEW ATTACK   FIGHTERS AND LIGHT BOMBERS HIT GERMAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM

MORE WRECKAGE LEFT IN BREMEN   British Mosquitos Hit Port: German Transport Torn

RAF Again Hits Bremen Port   Destruction Wreaked On Nazi Transports In France.

NAZIS CLAIM _ ~NEW THRUST   MOSCOW SILENT ON BERLIN REPORT RED ARMY OPENS FRESH OFFENSIVE iN PRUSSIA

Bear Bites Off Arm of Girl   Animal in New York Zoo Awakened From Sleep Grabs Arm

To Bear    New Jersey Industrialist’s Daughter Victim Of Angry Polar Bear At Central Park Zoo

Her Arm Bit Off By a Polar Bear   Awakened by Early Morning Visitors Central Park Zoo Bear Is Vicious.

Polar Bear in Zoo Bites Girl’s Arm When She Teases Him in His Cag

Girl Loses. Right Arm    'Polay Bear: At Zoo Strikes At: Visitors

Bear Bites Off Girl’s Arm When “Baited” In Sleep   Prank Proves Serious Matter

ARM BITTEN OFF BY POLAR BEAR   Attack Comes After Animal Is Awakened In Cage Early Today

Investigation UWoger Way   Girl’s Condition Critical After Bite From Polar Sear

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie  Zoo’s Bear Bites Off Arm Of Girl In Party Teasing Animals

NELSON'S SIDE OF ROW WITH ARMY DISCLOSED   WPB Chairman and Somervell  At Odds on Manpower Situation

Nelson’s Side of Story Told By Senators   Investigators Reveal WPB  Stand in Dispute With   Army Service Chief

Somervell Complained Of Shortages   Such Information Was Given Senate  Group by Nelson

MORE INFORMATION GIVEN BY NELSON ON ARMY MANPOWER IDEA  SAYS GEN. SOMERVELL CRIES SHORTAGE ON EV! OF PLANE CIITRACK

NELSON TAKES ISSUE WITH ARMY CRITICS   Says Nothing Can Be Gained by Letting Loos Blunderbuss Against Manpower Program

Nelson Testifies Most Munitions Goals Being Me  2 Only. 100,000. Men ’ Needed ‘For:War. Jobs   Only 100,000 Men Needed For: War. Jobs WPB:Head ‘Asserts.

FOURTH STRAIGHT DAY. OF. AS—~SAULES-ON ENEMY BASES 1,000. MILES FROM ~ TOKYO .

Allied Troops Shatter Siege Around Kohima   Garrison At Vital Supply Base Said Completely Relieved

Allied Troops Break Siege AroundKohima   Vital Supply Base Completely Relieved And Road Opened

BRITISH BREAK SIEGE OF KOHIMA GARRISON   Clear 30-Mile Road Stretch to Relieve Indian Sup: ply Base Near Imphal; City Was Nearly Encircled

Kohima Siege Broken by Allied Drive   Indian City Securely in British Hands

JAP SIEGE AT KORIMA IS BROKEN   Road to Dimapur Open; Nips Suffer Losses in N. Rurma

ALLIES BREAK JAP KOHIMA SIEGE LINE   Nips are Driven From Road Between Cohima and Dinapur

ALLIES BREAK UP JAP SIEGE LINES AROUND KQHIMA   Garrison Relieved As Enemy Fatls Back—Imphal Position Strengthened.

RAG DRIVE TO QPEN IN CITY ON THURSDAY   Two Days Will Be Devoted by Forces of Salvage Committee.   Plan Rag Drive On May 18-19

Paper Drive Is Rated as Huge Success   PLAN RAG DRIVE ON MAY 18-19

CALL OFF PLAN TO ENTERTAIN IWAR PRISONERS   American Legion In Protest 01 Party Planned In Jeannette

British Coastal Batteries Sink Big German Ship in Channel; Nazi Guns Reply, Shell Southeast English Coast

COASTAL GUNS SINK NAZI SHIP   Heavy German Guns Reply by Shelling England’s Southeast Coast

COASTAL GUNS SINK GNE SHIP   Heavy Trans-Channe!l Exchange of Gunfire as German Ships Attempt to Steal Through Fog-Covered Straits.

British Sink Cargo Vessel   Germans Counter By  Shelling English Coast

Giant Artillery Duel In Straits   Believe Nazi Convoy At. tempts To Sneak Through Straits Of Dover   BIG GUNS OPEN LENGTHY ATTACK

GIANT GUNS ROAR IN CHANNEL DUEL   German Ships Tried to Run Dover Straits

DE GAULLE IS GIVEN OVATION IN FRANCE   General . Visits. Homeland for First Time in "Foie Vears

 Crowds Gather to Catch Glimpse of Leader  Frenchmen Greet Gen. DeGaulle as He Visits  ‘His Homeland for First Time in Four Years

OVATION GIVEN GEN, DE GAULLE   Citizens Of Liberated Areas Acclaim Him As Their Hero

' DeGaulle Given Tremendous Ovation By French Citizens ‘In Visit To Normandy Front   Police Forced To Hold Back Crowds; Relations Between Free French Leader And Anglo-Americans Deteriorating; May Not Meet Roosevelt

Outlaw W.LB. Union Ruling   House Group Says Ruling of Union Contracts Illegal; Hits W.L.B. Powers.

WLB PRACTICE IS DENOUNCED   Maintenance  of Membership Orders in Labor Cases Called Unlawful

WAR LABOR BOARD PRACTICE SCORED   Smith Committee Accuses Agency of Violating ' Constitution

CLARK PRESSES OFFENSIVE ON ITALIAN FRONT   San Vittore Battle Described As “Stalingrad”

Shatter Life Line Of Anzio   Fortresses Score Man Direct Hits On  Nazi Rolling Stock And Warehouses.

GERMAN TROOP ROUTE BLASTED BY FORMATIONS   Nazi Fighter Bases Also Attacked During Day

British Tanks Attack Greek Leftists in Athens Uprising   Troops Intervene, Suffer Number Of Casualties at Besieged Prison

BRITISH TANKS USED AGAINST GREEK REVOL}   Fighting With EAM Spreads Over Athens

New Assault Destrovs Ships At Hollandia   Enemy Air Reinforcements Battle Futiley to Ward Off Blow.

Hifth Air Force Again Scourges Hollandia Base   Accelerate Attacks of Last Two Weeks; Bong Nabs Two More.

1,334 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Japan Base   Hollaudia, Duich New Guinea, Scourged By Allied Air Force, General MacArthur Reports

123 P lanes - Hitler Says   New type-Lulig Kdlige Pietdi Ata company American Boinbers on Raid Deen Into German Territory

123 U.S. Planes Bagged in Sky Battle, Say Nazis   American Bombers, Fighters Meet Furious Opposition in Running Fight That Lasts Three Hours

NAZI BOMB HITS. ATR RAID SHELTER   MANY: CASUALTIES CAUSED: IN ENGLISH COASTAL ‘TOWN BY RAIDERS.

SUBS SINK 14 JAP SHIPS, 652 TOTAL   806 NIP VESSELS DOWNED OR DAMAGED DURING WAR

Montgomery Ward Store Strike In Detroit May    Spread To Other Cities

Now at the Very Heart of the German Defense Line.   BIG OBJECTIVE IN CENTRAL ITALY   Allied Bombers From Italy Hit Factory Town of Klagenfurt.

GERMANS LAY BARRAGE ON ALLIED LINES   Obviously ‘ Puzzled As To Where Fifth Army Might Strike Next; Enemy Patrol Scattered Near Village.   Blast Railroads

Artillery Barrage Is Laid Down After Unsuccessful Attack   ALLIED GUNS POUND NAZI STRONGPOINTS   Patrol Clashes on the Anzio Beachhead Renorted

Allied Positions at Cassino Under Heavy Artillery Fire   Nazis Show Mounting Uneasiness About Their Flanks; Enemy Assaults Thrown Back by Infantry and Heavy Field Guns

Allies, Germans ‘ age Cassino Arfillery Duel   Nazis Are Puzzled As to Where Fifth Army Will Strike

Germans Direct Steady Artillery Blast on Allies   Enemy Shows Uneasines: About Flank Lines  Around Cassino

Germans Shell Allied Positions Below Cassino   Nazis Thrown Back afte Attack in Hills North of Stronghold

ALLIES’ CASING LINES SHELLED   BOMBARDMENT INTENDED TO BLOCK MASSING OF TROOPS FOR FLANK ATTACK.

CASSINO ENEMY FORCES UNEASY   Germans Wonder Where Fifth Army Will Strike Next

Capture of Port by American Doughboys Announced at 1:16   NAZIS HAD PUT UP DEATH STRUGGLES   Big Barrage Ordered Laid by General Mont aGAomery

BLAST LAST POCKETS OF RESISTANCE   NEW OFFENSIVE CAN BE UNDERTAKEN BY ALLIES

Points of Resistance Wiped Out With Grenade and Bayonet in Final Phases of Bats tle—Capture Gives Allies Better Landing. Facilities — Montgomery Advances Four Miles in Drive in Caen Area.

Fall of Port Announced  Atl:16 A.M.   Finally Is Cleared Of Foe After Fighting From House to House  BRITISH BREAK OUT IN NEW OFFENSIVE  Drive Ahead 5 Miles At Caen Following Great Gun Barrage

Bitter ‘Last Ditch Defense Crushed In Vital Port City   Russians Take Vitebsk and Zhlobin, German Stronghold in White Russia; Advancing Allies Seize Port of Piombino, on Italy’s West Coast

Victory gives allies initial — French port  Troops liquidate  nazi strongpoints

WACs Act as Censors of the Soldier’s:Mail   “Watch Your. Lansiage, Boys”, Advice. Current Among U.S. Forces.

: Emergency Field Established Under Heavy Fire _ Engineers Set Up Landing Strip

POLITICANS REST BEFORE OPENING FINAL CAMPAIGN   Henry Wallace, Governor of Kentucky Speak in Ohio

OHIO ELECTION DRIVE TO HAVE WEEKEND LULL   ‘Tempo Due to Rise Next Week; Wallace, Willis Speak Last Night

Wallace Lashes Dewey; Willis Lams New Deal   GOP Heads Called ‘Capitalists . . . and Cartel Builders’

Wallace Declares Dewey Would Be Forced To Adhere ‘To Old Guard Republicans; Says G. O. P. Confused

ALLIED AIR ~ FORCE HITS AT GERMANY   Luftwaffe Heavy Loser as It Is Forced Into Massed Action Effort.   Nazis Prepare for Another Drive Against Anzio Beachhead,

FIGHT INTO SIEGFRIED LINE TWICE   Third Army Bearing Down on Saarbrucken, Key to Germany's Rich Mineral Basin.   US POLICY

U. 5. MAY WARN GREEK HELPERS”   STETTINIUS SEEN IN NEW “HANDS OFF” MOVE

Avery No Newcomer to Litigation With New Deal Agencies   Head of Ward Co. Has Had Several Jousts With Government

SLAPPED AT CONVENTION   Texas Delegate Reports Incident at Democrat Convention

FIRED BY MONARCH   King Peter Forces Purle Out in Move Thoaght Fave : . orina Tito

MORE SKY-BORNE ALLIED TROOPS LAND IN HOLLAND   Round No. 1 Is Won By Allies In Flat Lands

1ST ARMY IS 20 MILES FROM COLOGNE, RHINE   Canadians Break Into Boulogne To Procure Another Supply Port

Round One In Holland Held Already Won   Reinforcements And Supplies Sent To Invading Forces

Continuous Stream of Reinforcements and Supplies Flowing Into Netherlands Following Initial Landings Sunday—British Advance From Schelde-Meuse Canal to Link Up With Paratroopers—First Army Repels Screaming German Attackers.

Huns Surprised By Bold Stroke  Of Eisenhower   Continuous Stream of Re: infareements and Supplies by Air Flow. ing Into Areas   Plan to Beat Way Around Siegfried   ‘Meanwhile, First Army   Jlolds On Grimly to Po  silions 20 to 25 MileFrom Cologne

Germans Report Landing of Greatest Airborne Forces in History to Attemp Allied Invasion of Reich Home Land

BRITISH FORCE SPEARS ACROSS DUTCH BORDER   Press to Join Sky-Bourne Forces; 20,000 Nazis Quit En Masse

Air Army Prepares North German Lands for Thrust To Skirt Siegfried Line

FirstRound Of Battle Won by Units   Britons Push on  To Link Up With Air-Troops— First Smashes Attacks

20 000: Prisoners ‘Taken In Pocket ‘South or Loire.   SUPREME ‘HEADQUARI TERS ALLIED: EXPEDITION‘ARY FORCE. (@) ~--.Addition‘al’ airborne Y¥einforcements and ‘supplies. were’ landed ‘by. glider in Holland today, it: was announced: officially. . -

Secrecy Hides Newest Invasion; Germans Mowed Down in Fierce Counteratlacks

Arms Program Shows Deficit   WPB Says Production Lag Mav Delay V-F Day

FDR Trying To Aid Democrats   CONGRESSMEN TO GET FINANCIAL HELP FROM PARTY

Anti-New Deal Men to Be Aided   Robert E. Hannegan, New Chairman, Seeks Democratic Harmony

Arrange Pat Aid Democr Up Reerect   Hannegan Preaches Fch. ing Up of Party Differ ences; To Aid Anti-Ad. ministrationists Up For Reelection.

DemocratsSeek To Close Ranks  Anti-Administration   Anti-Administration Men To Be Supported

Arrange Party Aid Democrats Up, Reelection   Hannegan Preaches Patching Up of Party Differences; To Aid Anti-Administrationists Up For Reelection.

Democrats to  Get Aid From  Party Funds   No Lime to: Be Drawn Against ‘Anti-Roosevelt Candidates

Allied, German Tanks Conduct Slugging Battle   Crews Battle Four  Hours On Flatlands  Northwest of Cisterna

German, Swedish Relations Taut   Berlin Calls Envoy To Stockholm Home

PERISHES IN FLAMING HOME   Five Children Saved From Fire Started By Exploding Stove

Mother Of Five Fatally Burned   Stove Explodes In South Haven Home

SEES PADDING IN WAR BUDGET   Rep. Taber Says Many Items Could Be Reduced 15 to 25 Per Cent.

Hundred Billion Dollar War Budget "Padded", Ranking Republican Says

TABER SCORES FOR’S BUDGET      ‘Whole Thing Padded, Declares Appropriations Group Member

Taber Charges Whole Budgel Being Padded   ‘Both War; Tar; Peacetime Costs Estimated In Excess Of Needs’ «*

Democrat: Terms Message  Heartening; Republican  Charges Budget ‘Is *.   “Padded” .

CLOSER CHECK ON FEDERAL SPENDING IS BEING URGED   Republicans Charge Big 100 Billion Dollar Budget Appears to Be Padded

GOP Says FDR Budget Padded, Seeks Economy   Slice In Requests For Administration And Agencies Asked

DECLARES FOR'S. BUDGET PRODEL   Members Of Both: Parties -Demand Tighter: Check On U. S.Spending ©» ”

Rep. Taber Sees Big War Budget Wholly Padded   Talk Seen Opening Salvo Of Running Battle With Administration Forces

 Taber Charges FDR's 100-Billion Dollar  Budget Is ‘Padded’; New Economy Fight Seen

TABER CHARGES BUDGET PADDED   FIRES OPENING GUN AT REQUEST FOR 100 BILLIONS FOR WAR

TABER IS LATEST CHALLENGER OF FDR’S NEW BUDGET   Declares “The Whole Thing Is Padded” — His Remarks May Be Opening Gun in Running Battle With .AdMinistration Chiefs ;

Taber Calls FDR Budget Well Padded   Republican. Senators Ask Closer Check on _Feéderal Spending

Taber Assails ‘Padding’ in 745 Budget   Republicans Demand Close Scrutiny of Roosevelt’s $100 Billion Request   CHECK BACK. BILLS   Some 106 Billion Pre: viously Appropriated, Not Yet Spent, Is Claim

Rep. Taber Charges FDR’s $100-Billion Budget “Padded;” New Economy Fight Seen Brewing

TABER ATTACKS FOR’S BUDGET      Will Allow War Quotas, Claim: Agencies Can Be Cut

UNION WARNS OF NEW WARD LABOR CRISIS   Avery Says Company Will Fight Closed Shop Agreement

(10 CARRIES MONT. WARD ELECTION      Gov’t Withdrew From Plant When Voting Ended

Union Leaders Dissatishied with Action of Government in Turning Plant Back After Collective Bar. rainine Election.

FREE WARD OF U. $. CONTROL; UNION ANGERED   CIO Leaders Threaten More Strikes Unless New Pact Signed

CIO1S WINNER BY 2440 TO 1593 IN VOTINE   Wolchok, President of Local, Demands Enforcement of Con-  tract.

Truman ’; Mother Does Not Want Him To Seek Second Highest Office In America

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BAPTISTS BLAME SUBVERSIVE GROUPS FOR RACE TROUBLES   Broad White-Negro ( operative Educational Program for Negro Preachers Urged

Romanian Stronghold Is Seized   Bucharest And Ploesti Oi Fields In Path Of Drive — Germans Stage Counter-Attack

Nazis Open Baltic ‘Lane’   Pay ‘Tremendous Cost for Escape Route

REDS CAPTURE IASI, MENACE PLOESTI FIELD!   Stalin Orders Special Salute to Troops for Victorious Drive

Stalin Order Tell Victory ‘On East Front   \Reds Hit Smolensk Gap. Shortest Route to Rerlin

New Attacks Are Launched In Cassino   New Zealanders Making Slow Progress in Rubble

CRACK ENEMY OUTFITS HANG ONIN CASSING   HOTEL LOBBY MADE INTO FORTRESS WITH TANKS

Verdun-Like Battle Of Cassino Goes On   German ’Chute Troops, Ordered to Hold at All Costs, Pin New Zealanders Down in Stubborn Struggle

NEW ZEALANDERS PINNED OWN I BASSIND SECTION   Nazi Paratroopers, Ordered To Hold Positions at All Cost, Fight Fiercely   LITTLE CHANGE IS MADE IN GENERAL SITUATION   Germans Have Advantage o! Ancient Tunnels Througt Which They Are Reinforce. ing Front Line Defenders. Shells Rain on Beachhead

Nazi Parachute Troops Pin Dowr New Zealanders  Cassino And A Beachhead Shake’ By Artillery Dnele

Germans Hold New Zealand Troops Back   Nazi Paratroopers Dig In For Grim Battle In VerdunLike Cassino Sector.   ARTILLERY FIRE HEAVY

Nazi Troops Pin Down Advance By  New Zealanders   Cassino Rubble Is Manned By Tough Nazi  Paratroops  Told To ‘Hold’

NAZIS STOP ALLIED PUSH IN GASSING   TONS OF SHELLS HURLED IN BATTLE BETWEEN NEW ZEALANDERS AND FOE.

Nazis Strengther Cassino Defense   Punches At Anzio   jee Cimswatliaa

Nazis Pin Down New Zealanders   German Parachute Troops Fight Hard Inside of Cassino

NEW ZEALANDERS PINNED) IN ITALY   Held To Section Of Cassino By Trained German Paratrooners   NAZIS MOVE MORE TANKS INTO CONTINENTAL HOTEL

Nazis Pin Down New Zealanders  Cassino Situation Not Much Changed

Report Start Of New Allied  Cassino Blow  Strong Attacks Begun In West And North Sectors. Savs Radio

Germans Inch Into Cassino   Enemy. Usea_Old. Tunnels To. Hold Un Alliea:

ee irra cee eae pees  Nazis Have Regained Quarter Of Cassino   Network Of Tunnels From Monastery Hill Aid Germans In Holding City

Nazi °Chute Troops. Halt Zealanders’  Drive West   Cassino Situation Is Lite Changed

BIOFF AND BROWNE, CONVICTED IN FILM INDUSTRY SHAKEDOWN. RELEASED

LIGHT BRITISH PLANES BLAST WESTERN REICH   Nazis Lose 152 Fighters in Tuesday’s U. S$. Attack on Three Air Plants

Germany Hit ~ By Mosquitos   Details Of U.S. Attacks Being Gathered; Plane Toll Is Heavy

LIGHT PLANE HIT WESTERN GERMANY   Medium Bombers In Action Today Over France   COMPLETE STORY   )f Attack On 3 Aircraft Plants In Reich May Never Be Known

F HITS WESTERN GERMANY   Americans Work On Report of Tuesday’s Enie Sky Battle

RAF. Mosquitoes Sting Germany; French Coast tit  Nazi Air Losses Raised To 152 Planes

152 NAZI FIGHTERS DOWNED IN LATEST UJ. §. AIR RAID COUN)      Army Officers Still Work Or Final Accounting; Our Loss Set at 60   NAZ! RESERVES TAPPED

Yank Officers Compute Results   Tuesday’s Bombing Reveals 152 Enemy Planes Lost

‘Unknown American Hero Hailed After Daylight Raid on Berlin   All Not Well for Japs at Home As Allies Keep Grabbing Bases

WESTERN GERMANY AGAIN HIT BY THE RAF MOSQUITS:   '  First Raid Since Monda}  Night When They Made an Assault on Berlin.   ONE PLANE WAS LOST   Typhoons and Fighters Sho Down Eight Enemy Planes Yesterday.

R.A.F. Mosquitoes Again Blast Nazis   First Time Mosquitoes Have Ventured Out Since Monday’s Raid.   Yanks Over China Down Jap — Fighters Attacking Allied Base

Accounting Of Tuesday’s Big Air Fight Is Compiled   German Airplane Plants Heavily Damaged As Foe Lost At Least 152 Planes To 65 Of Ours

Germany Bombed by Mosquitos   Tuesday’s Epic Sky Battle Costs Nazis 152 Fighters; 60 American Bombers Lost in Raid .

GERMANS LOST 152 PLANES IN EPIC BATTLE   Mosquitos Bomb Nazis Again In Resumption Of Air Raids

BRITISH LASH WESTERN REICH      Compile Final Accounting Of Tuesday’s Epic Fight  Over Germany

R.A.F. Hits Germany As Tuesday's Toll Of Nazi Fighters Increases

Military Training Urged By Knox To Fill Needs Overseas After War

HIGHEST MILITARY OFFICIALS IN PLEA FOR LABOR DRAFT   Urge Full Strength B« Mobilized On U. 8. Home Front

Need for Labor Draft Emphasized   High Army, Navy Officials Speak Out

SOVIETS, NAZIS CLASH AT IASI   Moscow Reports Attackers Suffer Heavy Losses

FLEEING JAPANESE ON LEYTE LEFT BG STOCK WET GOODS  SANT AND BEER LEFT   SAKI AND BEER LEFT BEHIND USED BY FILIPINOS IN CELEBRATING

15th U.S. Air Force Makes Heavy Attack On Targets   Nazi Airdromes Hit; Munich Area Plastered With Bombs; Also Rak ME Assembly Field

Militarv Targets In Mun: ich Area Hard Hit by Strong. U.S. Force: Striking From Italy ly Follow-up to Heavy RAF Attack Last Nicht.

Huns In France Pounded From Air By Yankees   Several Hundred Big Bombers Smash At Air. dromes Behind Battle Lines

ONE SABBATICAL LEAVE OTHER 15 RESIGNATION   22 Percent of Summer School Students Failed   89 TAKE STUDIES OVER

Within 130 Miles Of French Capital   Nazis Move Offices From Paris to Nancy: British Cross Orne River

German Occupation Authorities Fleeing   Vire Anchor Falls; Fight Rages Inside Besieged Port of Brest

Fall of Lorient, Brest and St. Nazaire Expected In Several Days.

TANK FORGES VEER TO EAST FROM BRITTANY   Bid For Speedy Capture Of French Capital In New Drive

Germans Swinging Whole Line Back   British Cross Orne and Americans Over Mayenue on Six Highways eading to french Capital

Budapest Rail Yards Smashed   Invasion Targets Hit As Air Assault Moves Into 21st Straight Day; Calm On Other Fronts

Americans Renew Raids On Europe’s Invasion Targets   British Bomb Budapest To Halt Nazi Army Move

Stream of U. $. Planes In Assault   Both Russian And Italian Areas Relatively Calm Today

Invasion Coast of Franee Is Raided by Liberators  On 21st Dav of Offensive

Budapest! Railroad Yards Tangled by Bombs of RAF   Invasion Coast Of France Again Target for Yankee:

TAIL OF ARMY SLOWS INVASION   Move Delayed Until Certain ity That Punch Will Result In Victory. °

Weeks and Months of Bloody Fighting on Continent Declared Necessary Before Hitler Will Collapse

Americans Spend Much for Drinks   Cost Last Year Over 6 Billions

\form Darnace fs Being Der aired  68 Persons Are Marooned by Snow

British Coal Strike Breaks   One-Third of 100,000 Strikers Return to Pits, Reports Soy

COAL STRIKE IN WALES IS BREAKING UP   Early Reports Indicate Third of 100,000 in the Walkout Have Returned to Pits—Military Ef fanta Gapiaia

WAXD AIRDROME IN NEW SUINEA IS KNOCKED OUT   Liberators of U. S. Rifth Fail to Find Planes

Wakde Airdrome May Haye Been Knocked Qut   U. S. Raiders Find No Enemy Planes There

U.S. Fliers Raid Wakde Field, Again Fail to Find Jap Planes There

FOUR JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK BY U.S. LIBERATORS   Attacks Followed By Few Hours Sinking Of Eighteen Other Ships

U. S. FLIERS SINK 3 JAP WARSHIPS   China-Based Planes Destroy 2 Cruisers And Sub Chaser

Jap Shipping in South China Sea Attacked   Sub Chaser Sunk; 2 Light Cruisers Are Damaged

China-Based Liberators Are Active   Nip Sub Chaser Sunk, Two Light Cruisers  Damawad hu Planac

U. S. Warplanes Bag More Jap Naval Craft   China-Based Liberators Sink Chaser And Damage Two Light Cruisers

Hit 3 Jap Warships In China Sea   Sub-Chaser Sunk, Two Cruisers Damaged By U. S. Planes.

TOLL OF ENEMY SHIPPING GROWS   CARRIER AND LANDBASED PLANES ACCOUNT FOR MANY

Ch’ # £ Based US. Pas Register Added Victories   Assault Follows Attack By Carrier-Based Craft On Luzon Saturday

F. D. ENDS VACATION; HEALTH FINE’ AGAIN   President Back In Washington After Month’s Stay In South; Plunges Into Conferences; Ward Case First Headache

FR Wades Into White House Desk Work  President Back On Job After R Rest

President Ends Long Vacation   Spent Four Weeks on Baruch Estate

FDR Feeling Better, Back At Desk   Pow-Wow with Dem. Leaders First Rusiness Todav

Roosevelt Back At White House After Vacation   President Eager For Work; Spent Month in South

PRESIDENT  RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE   Well Rested and In Good Health  Following Vacation

ROOSEVELT BAGK, FULLY RECOVERED, EAGER FOR WORK   Attacks Busy Schedule After Weeks of Recuperation on Baruch Plantation.

PRESIDENT HOME AFTER MONTH RES   Ready To Defend His Seizure Of Mentgomery Ward & Co.

Delegates to Security Conference Cenier Attention On Peace Agency

Current Issues Are Ruled Out   Basic Principles to Be Blocked Out at Security Conference

POST-WAR PEACE PLANS IN MAKING   CURRENT DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS PUT ASIDE AT SECURITY CONFAB

Group On Road To Workable  Peace Agency   Security Conference Bypasses Current Diplomatic  ce ,   SESSIONS START

Security Talks Weave Pattern  For World Peace   Current Problems Not Considered

Willkie Urges That GOP Back Security Talks   Advises Dewey’s Agent Against Opposition To ‘Bie Four’ Efforts.   Dumbarton Oaks Parley By-Passes All Current Diplomatic Problems

Conference To Center Work On Basic Plan   Big Three Representatives Rule Out Current Diplomatic Problems

CONFEREES SNUB CURRENT ISSUES   Security Talks To Center Or Basic Peace Principles

PEACE PLAN ONLY GOAL OF BiG 4 TALKS   Current Diplomatic Problems Ruled Out of Dumbarton Oaks Conference to Map Post-War Se _enrityv.

Peace Setup _ Main Issue Of Conferees   Dumbarton Oaks Parley Rules Out Current Problems

WORLD SECURITY PLAN IS RUSHED   No Political Campaign Issue Expected To Develop

Basic Principles Get Green Light InSecurity Talks   Say Diplomatie Problems Ruled Outs Organization Hangs On U. S. Decision

Present Problems Are  Ruled Out Of Parley   Dumbarton Oaks Postwar Security Talks To Deal Only With Mapping Out Basic. Principles Of  Peace Organization

Security Parley Sticks to Future   Current Diplomatic Provlems Are Out

All Diplomatic Snarls Evaded At Peace Meet   Dumbuerton Oaks Sessions To Be Concentrated On Basie Principles of Security

, Planning Postwar Security   Conference Opens With Statement Peace May Come Sooner Than Expectec

PEACE PARLEY AVOIDS SNARLS   Will By-Pass Diplomatic Woes In Search For Workable Agency

PEACE PLANS TO BE RUSHED   Diplomatic Problems Out But Action Sought Immediately

lowa Demos Instructed for F. D. R.   Wallace Will Head Delegation at National Convention This Year

FOR, WALLACE TO GET OWS OD DEMO VOTES   References to G.O.P. Leaders Stricken from Report on Resolutions.

20 IOWA VOTES TO 60 TO FOF   Democrats Pick Delegates; Including Cody and Glenn

BY ‘CHARTER’ HULL INSISTS   First Aim Is ‘Win War’, Ther Co-operate With World to Keep Peace

HULL OUTLINES WAR AND PEACE AIMS OF U. S.   Answers Charge That America Has No Foreign Policy

SECRETARY OF STATE IN-FORMAL, STATEMENT GIVES. 17‘POINT PROGRAM FOR WAR AND PEACE .

Towed 2 Miles In Water After ‘Chute Leap ‘Sub’s Periscope Saves Cincinnati Flier Off Jap-Held Isle

British Near Breda, Nazi Strongpoint   Germans May Be Quitting City Break Through Above Tilburg

Canadians Take Bergen Op Zoom While British Near Breda, Last Strong Point That Might Shield General German Withdrawal Across Maas And Waal Rivers — Allies Contnue Reinforcement And Expansion  Of Positions On South Beveland Island

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Gen. Eddy Commands One of  Our Best Combat Divisions  Commander Dares Enemy Fire to Be With His Fighting Troops  _ By Ernie Pyle

Gen. Eddy Commands One Of Best Combat Divisions _  Commander Dares Enemy Fire to Be With His Fighting Troops _

With Ernie Pyle at the Front  Gen. Eddy Commands One Of Best Combat Divisions  Commander Dares Enemy Fire to  Be With His Fighting Troops

Gen. Eddy Commands One of  Our Best Combat Divisions  Commander Dares Enemy Fire to Be With His Fiohtine Tranne

ALLIED BOMBERS RENEW RAIDS ON FRENCH TARGETS   Attacks Break Lull Caused by Weather, Support Land Invaders

Big Fleets Follow Up RAF Attack   Pound Areas In Rear of Nazi Lines In Normandy

Big Bombers Again Blast Rails, Tanks   Improving Weather Brings Heavy Aerial Assaults on Invasion Frent, Mosquitos Hit Berlin

ALLIED BOMBERS. AIT ENEMY ROAD AND RAL POINTS BEHIND LINES   American Flyers Follow. Up Night Pounding by RAF; Air Fields Blasted:   ‘BERLIN GIVEN DRUBBING

American Airmen Slash at Nazis -- In French Area  Rip Air Fields in Northern France Following RAW Attacke

Bombers Give Support. To Infantry   Slashing Attacks Made On Enemy Forces Along NormandyFront

Huge Bomber Fleets Batter North France   Americans Delivering Blows After British Carry Out Stiff New Assaults By Niaht

FLEETS RESUME GROUND FORCES SUPPORT ACTION   R.A.F. Was Out Over Berlin as Well as Back of Lines in Normandy During the Night

USAF Sets Up Base In France   Headquarters Of Ninth Now On Continent -

POUND FRANCE   Powerful Squadrons Rock Nazi Airfields; Mosquitoes Hit Reich

U, S. BOMBERS CONTINUE TO BLAST ENEMY   Railway Lines Damaged; Aid  Ground Forces

BOMBERS HIT NAZI LINES IN NORMANDY   Powerful Fleets Resume Operations After 15Hour Lull Due to Bad Woaathear

Bombers Hit Nazi Targets  In Nor manly   One Purpose Is To Keep Foe From Building Air Support

Strong U.S, Aerial Fleets Smash Targets Back of French Battlelines. Today

Turn Air Fury on Foe Behind Battle Lines in Normandy   Powerful Fleets of  U. S. Bombers Stage Thunderaus Follow-up To RAF Assaults

Bombs On ~ Rear Line _ of Enemy   American Planes Follow Up British Night. Raid on Enemy Aufields   RAIL. JUNCTIGNS ARE HAMMERED   » Air. Arm Breaks Lull Caused by Weather to Hit Rommel’s Reserves:

Yank Air Blows Rip France   Railroads, Highways Behind Invasion Wall Blasted by Bombers

Powerful American Aerial Fleet Strikes On Behind Normandy   German Airfields In North France Also Blasted

Great Air Fleet Hits Behind Lines  Blast Nazi Airfields In Northern France

Powerful Air Fleets Back Up Invaders   Targets Behind German Lines Given Pounding

Powerful Fleets of U. S. Bombers Hit Objectives Behind Battlelines.   RAF IN NIGHT ATTACKS

POWERFUL U. S. BOMBER FLEETS BLAST AT NAZIS   Attacks Made Behind Normandy Battle Lines In Follow-Up To Similar RAF Blows Last Night.

BLOWS DEALT IN NORMANDY   Powerful Fleets of 'American Bombers Blast Airfields and Attack Enemy Defenses Close to the Battle Lines.

ALLIES PREPARE TO OPERATE AIR BASES IN FRANCE  POWERFUL FLEETS   POWERFUL FLEETS OF BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN AIRFIELDS

Enemy Airfields, Railways And Highways In France Plastered   Powerful Fleets Of U. S. Bombers Follow Up Similar R.A.F. Night Assaults; Secret Devices Used Near French Coast.

TARGETS E BEHIND ~ NORMANDY. LINES — BLASTEN TORY   German Airfields in‘ Northern France, Also Attacked in a Follow-Up.   15-HOUR LULL BROKEN   Five Hundred U.S. Planes Took Advantage of: Clearing Weather.

Benson Named Parole Director  Succeeds E. Paul Moser Appointed Judge

THREE YOUTHFUL ‘SAN QUENTIN PRISON FUGITIVES ARRESTED  MEN JAILED IN MEMPHIS AFTER CONFESSING SE-

Three Young Bandits Captured   San Quentin Fugitives Confess Robbing Jackson, Miss. Hotel

WPB CALLS FOR THANKSGIVING WORK SCHEDULE   Says Nation's War Plants Should Keep Busy.

MUSIAL REGAINS BATTING LEAD FROM WALKER   Defending Champ Topples Rival From Ton. Perch -

Oil Conclave to Ban Secret Trade Pacts   ANGLO-AMERICANS MAKING ARRANGEMENTS IN WASHINGTON PARLEY

You Can Dance in Slacks in Swanky ‘Hotel Ballroom If They’re Rolled Up .

STONE TALKS 10 REPUBLICANS   Program For Nov. 2 G.O.P. Rally Given

FDR SUPPORTERS WORRIED OVER: TEXAS SITUATION   MANEUVER TO GET 4TH TERM BACKERS ON PRIMARY BALLOT

YANKS BATTLE AT ROSIGNANDO, NEAR SEAPOR]   Push Through Key Town Despite Mud, German Resictanre

Yanks Fight Thru Mud, Rain in Italy   Germans Pushed Back in Slow Advance Toward  Florence

Americans Battle For Rosignano   Allies Checked on Italy's West Coast

ALLIED GAINS  CONTINUE IN ITALY   Advances Range From One to Five Miles

Allies Advance Towards Florence   Guiis Up to Five Miles Reported

YANKEE ARMOR BATTLING IN ROSIGNANO   Despite Rain and Mud Allies Continue To Make Progress

U.S FORCES BATTLE 5 MILES TOWARD LIVORNO   Driving Rains and Mud Hamper Proress of Allies

U. §. Armor Pounds Path Through Nazis   Germans Fight From House to House in Itely

ARMORED FORCE HITS LIVORNO   General Advances Of One Tr Five Miles Made

Germans Fall Back At St. Lo   Yanks, Driving Down Peninsula, Continue Their Advance.

- Entire U.S. Army Moving - From St. Lo To Sea Front   American Forces Hold Outskirts Of City Despite Heavy  Brome Avtiilare Tra

Americans Capture Two Towns Southeast Of Carentan, Allied Headquarters Says

Nazis Make ‘An Orderly ' Withdrawal   ‘Americans Advance on 10Mile Front in the West, Closing In on Lessay      S£.-LO IS STUBBORN   British Pushed Out of St. Honovine by Rommel’s Heavy Armor

Push On Lessay Nets Americans Several Towns   Yanks Within 2000 Yards Of Highway Community At Base Of Peninsula

Americans Near Lessy At Base Of Peninsula; Bad Weather Hampers Planes

Two Hamlets Southeast — Of Carentan Are Seized    “Bad: Weather: Still, Menace To Flying”

Clergymen Protest Mass Bombing Raid:   Bishop Lawrence Among Those Decrying War's Turn

European War Will End This Summer  ls Optimistic Prediction Of Churchill   Allies Pounding Nazi  Defense Lines In Italy: Meet Stiff Resistance

CHURCHILL =MAKES PREDICTION IN A SPEECH LAST NIGHT   SAYS A MILLION TROOPS NOW IN TITANIC STRUGGLE FOR AND AGAINST ALLIED FOOTHOLD ON CONTINENT.

 Churchill Is Optimistic Tn Prediction   Thinks Allies May Win War In Europe This Summer   AMERICANS ARE ‘PRPEPARING FOR THE SIEGE OF CHERBOURG   Front Reports Indicate Nazis Mean To Fight To The End

Tough Battle In Prospect For Port of Cherbourg, Where 30,000 Germans Are Trapped.

TRAIN WRECK FATAL 10 30 OR 35 PEOPLE   Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight Cars

Denison Dam’s Power Output Still On Temporary Basi   Reservoir’s Water. 16 Feet Below Normal Production Pool Leve'

They'll Do It Every Tim:   Combat Unit To Come Here ‘For Bond Show On Dee. 13

Battle- Scarred Vets Join Home Front Leaders to Launch 6th War Loan Drive

Italian War Front Bogged Down!nMud   U. S. Bombers Carry On 24-Hour Assault On Germany's Lines

MUD BOCS DOWN CAMPAIGN IN PO   Attack Bombers Make 12-Hour Assault On Pontoon Bridge

Tydings Credits Record for Win   Doesn't Believe 4th Term Involved   Florida and Alabama Primaries May Provide Line on New Deal

Re- Election Bids for 4 Senators Take Today’s Election Spotlight

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COURT 10 RULE IN WVU GASE TODAY   Question off Whether Courts Have Auhority to Settle Lawall Ouster up to Judge Bouchelle of Kanawha

Justice Can't Understand How AP Suit Can Be Decided Without Trial

Hit Belgium, France, Italy In Great Raic   7 ¢ a.  Four Bombers, 12 Fighters  : . ’ *  Lost In Bombing Freight  yw “wate   NO ATR. OPPOSITION

Masses of Alhed Planes, Estimated  at 5,500 in Attack   Vital Installations in All _of Hitler's Europe Pounded Today

Aerial Assault Perhaps Greatest Yet Made in War   American Heavy Bombers from Italy Cross Alps to Strafe Vienna, Avisio Viaduct on Brenner Pass Line   Craz. Zagreb Bombed

500 RAF PLANES DROP BOMBS ON AACHEN, BERLIN   GERMAN RADIO TELLS OF BIG AIR ATTACK ON SOUTHERN REICH

Vast Aerial Assault      More Than 5,000 Allied Planes Take Part in Blow at Axis Capitals

4.000 Yank Ships Hit at West Wall    Big Coordinated Assaults Made » From Britain  And Italy

~—$,000 PLANES STRIKE-—   YANK PROCESSIONS MILES LONG SMASH AT ROOFLESS FORTRESS OF HERR HITLER   Attack From Italy.

Dual Strike By American Planes Seen  Near Record   French Coast Gains Huge Bomb Tonnage

Air Armadas Blast Berlin, Paris, Vienna   More Than 5,500 Planes, Mostly American, Stage Mightiest Assault.

U.S. Airmen Bomb Berlin, Vienna, Paris   Force of 5000 Planes Attacks Three Cities; Great Armada Crosses Alps to Hit Vienna

Today’s Blow Is Greatest Air Assault Of  Kntire War   Awe-Inspiring Stream Of Fighters And Bombers Keeps Up Fox Kour Tours

5,000 Planes  Smash at Axis   2,000 U.S. Craft Strike Berlin, French Airftelds

Bombs Batter Europe   5,900 Planes Assault Airfields and Rail  Centers in Northern France and Belgium

Berlin, Vienna and Paris Are Pounded *By 5,500 Planes   Air Blows, Delivered Mostly by American  Aircraft, May Be Greatest of War

AMERICANS HIT AIRDROMES AND RAILS IN RAIDS   RAF Pre-Dawn Blows Land on Berlin And Aachen

4.000 Planes Blast Hitler’s Wall Defense:   Another 2,000 Carry Out Other Blows As Continent Undergoes Terrific Hammering

5,900 Planes In Air Attack   Mighty Strafing of Ruropean Foriress Coes On

Big 2-Way hier Blows _ Ait Nazis   Reich Staggers Un— der 7500 Tons of  } Bombs

OVER 6000 PLANES DROPPED OVER 8000 TONS OF BOMBS ON REICH AND INVASION AREA   Miles-Long Procession of Planes Across Channel And from Italy Pound West Wall of Europe, Transportation Centers and Other Strategic and Vital Points   FAST MOVING EVENTS IN ITALY  ARE CROWDING NAZIS IN CORNER: SUPERB ALLIED LEADERSHIP SEEN   Wholesale Disaster Seemingly Threatens Germans in Southern Italy As Allies Capture Terracina, Cisterna and Other Vital Nazi Strongholds

5,000 Planes Soar Over Hitler Europe To Hit Vital Areas   Nazis’ First City and Airfields Fringing French Capital Blasted By Amerie ‘an Heavy Bomber Force

Berlin, Paris And Vienna Are Bombed   Airdromes and Other Military Targets In France Are Hit

9000 PLANES BOMB BERLIN, VIENNA, PARIS   American Raiders Stage Greatest Raid Of War

HHT EUROPE IN RECORD RAIDS   Believe 2,000 Heavy U. S. Bombers Used Against Berlin

Berlin, Vienna, Paris Hit By Bombers From Eneland And Italy.   Wave Upon Wave Of U.S. Medium Marauders Lash ‘Threatened French Invasion Coast; Outpouring Of Aerial Strength Awe Inspiring

U. 5. BOMBER! POUND NAZI ~ AIR BASES   Berlin, Aachen Are Main Targets Of British   Thrown At Germans In Belgium, Italy, France; Britain Raided

Most of Great Armada Was American Planes With Around 2,000 Heavy Bombers Taking Part. Germans Report Intense Air Battles Over ‘Berlin and Baltic

youth France Among Day's Raid Taraets   4,000 Bombers Pound Enemy's Western Wall

Yanks Make Two-Way Attack Throughout German-Held Europe   Greatest Allied Air Assault Is Made By Force Of Largely American Planes; French Coast Of Channel Pummeled

5,500 Allied Planes Blast Nazi Capitals   Greatest Raid of War Hits Berlin, Paris and Vienna

6,000 Planes In Sweep Over. Axis   West Wall of Europe Assaylted by About 4,000 Allied Craft   MANY AIRFIELDS HIT   Bombers From Italy Strike South France at Toulon   and Lyons

5,000 Aircraft, Largely U. S.,  Blast ‘Fortress’   Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Other Targets Thunder With Explosions

Berlin, Vienna, Paris Targets Of Big Assault   English Houses Raitle As French Invasion Coast _Is Shaken By Bombs

Allied Planes Raid Europe   Assault Is Perhaps Greatest Allied Aerial Blow of War With 5,500 in Operation

Masses of Planes Surge Over Europe   Invasion Areas Again Bombarded By Mighty Fleets of Allied Planes

BLOWS RAINED ON NAZIS FROM BRITAIN, ITALY   French, Belgium, Italian And German Areas Under Bombardment

Great Aerial Battles Rage Over Europe   Berlin, Vienna, Paris Hammered By Bombs: ltaly-Based Planes Join In Assaults  :

Allies Send 6,00C Planes to Hit European Targets   Northern France, Belgium, Berlin and Othe German Cities Are Rocked by Heaviest Blows: Airfields, Rail Centers Are Hit Hard

BERLIN, PARIS AND VIENNA HEAVILY HIT   French Invasion Coast Shaken With Great Bomb Loads

INVASION COAST MAIN OBJECTIVE OF U.S. FLIERS   RAF Attacks Berlin, Aachen 7,000 Airplanes Hit Continent Wednesday

ALLIES HIT EUROPE’S WEST WALL   About 5,500 Planes-In Raid On Continent

ANOTHER FORCE OF  dUO0 PLANES BLAST  EUROPEAN POINTS — ABOUT 4000 HIT WEST WALL; OTHERS RANGE  EAD ANNI WInk YAY DATING

0000 Planes Hit Targets In Europe   8000 Tons Dropped On 21 Rail Centers, 15 Airfields, in Sweep

ARMADAS OF 0,000 PLANES MAKE ATTACKS   Warplanes From Both Italy, Britain Round Week of Unceasing Attack on Hitler Fortress

Lash Europe ‘From Italy And Britain   ‘Great Coordinated “Blows Dump 8,000 Tons of Bombs on Flaming Continent

Air Bases and Rail Yards Hit by Americans   Pre-invasion Assault of German Territory Goes Into 7th Day

Big 2-Way Air Blows Hit Nazis   Reich Staggers Under 7500 Tons of  Bombs

6,000 OR MORE PLANES BATTER EUROPE BY DAY   Great Coordinated Assaults From Britain And Italy Give Germany, France, Belgium And Italy Severe Pounding.

4000 Planes Strike West Wall of Nazis   Heavy Bombers From Italian Bases Hit at Toulon and Lyon in Southern France

Aerial Armada Agaln In Action   OVER 4,000 ALLIED. WAR PLANES ATTACK EUROPE

Twin Allied Aerial Fleet Stuns Reich   4,000 Planes Jolt French Coast Area, Toulon and Lyon

WEST WALLIS MAIN OBJECTIVE OF 4,000 CRAFT   Belgium, Northern Italy, Toulon In France Also Hit In 2-Way Blow

Greatest Air Attack Of War In Its 6th Day   American Planes Play Major Role In Aerial Assault

Strike at West Wall of Europe   5,500 Allied Warplanes Launch New Attacks Today With American Bombers Hitting Rail Yards and. Airdromes in France and Belgium.    BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN

HIT EUROPEAN TARGETS AGAIN      6,000 Planes Bomb Ger. mans in Occupied Areas And Reich Also.   ASSAULTS COORDINATED

ASSAULTS WEST WALL   Italian-Based Armada Hits Rail Yards In  Southern France

5,000 Allied Planes Stage Great Attack   Pound Berlin, Vienna and Paris Airdromes and Coast Military Targets

BOMB WEIGHT IN EXCESS OF 8.000 TONS   Raiding From Italian Front to Berlin, . and _ Along West Wall, Fliers i Hit 21 Rail Centers, 15 i Aypfialdc.

AIRFIELDS NEAR PARIS PUMMELED   Over 5500 Planes Take Part In Day’s Heavy Assaults

Invasion Coast Again Batfered By Great Armadé   Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Military Targets

Assault by Huge Armada May Be Greatest of War; Red Radio Warns Bulearia

Chinese Battle Desperately To Save Loyang   5500 Allied War Planes Rip Nazis Defenses

9,000 Planes Hit Targets In Europe   Berlin, Vienna Paris Fields, French Coast Points Bombed

Objectives In Belgium And Franee Devastated   _ Planes From Italy ‘Assist With Blow

Estimated 5,500 Planes Blast Hitler’s Fortress —   Yanks from England, Italy Hit Targets in North, South; Toulon, Lyon, Aachen, Berlin Among Centers   Toulon. Lyons Bombed

Over 5,000 Planes Take Pre-Invasion Onslaughts to Foe   Berlin, Vienna, French Coast, Paris Under ‘Terrific Attacks

21 Enemy — ‘Rail Keys Blasted   At: Least 15 “Airfields Also Bombed: in Massive Nut-. cracker Blows’: 2

France, Belgium. Defenses Bombed InDaylight Raid   Brussels, Charleroi Among Targets; Mile-Long Armadas Over Channel

Attack Is Believed Greatest In Aerial War History; Great Fleet Reported Predominantly American; 25,000 Tons Dropped In Six Days

3,000 PLANES HIT GERMANS IN HEAVY ATTACKS   Rocket Fire Augments Flak Barrage; Coast Searchlights Revealed

3.000 Planes  Blast Berlin   Other Targets Include Vienna. Paris Airdromes. French Coast,

AERIAL ATTACK SEEN SETTING NEW RECORDS   J Bomb Total Passes 25.000Tons For Sixth Day Of Assault

VAST TONNAGE IS DROPPED BY 5.000 PLANES   Berlin, Vienna and Paris Are Attacked in Targets of Giant Armada Over Continent   OPPOSITION IS MILD

Long Processions Of Planes Encounte1 Resistance Close To Invasion Base

Ominous Pause ‘On Western Front   Major Blow May Come Hourly; U.S. Outlook Improves

Ominous Calm On Western Front May Presage Battle ©  Each Side Feeling Qut Other’s Defenses

One Sector Of Front Still Quiet   Ominous Atmosphere Seems Cheerful After Nazi Attack

ARTILLERY OPENS” BATTLE FOR PISA   AMERICAN AND GERMAN GUNS EXCHANGE FIRE ACROSS ARNO RIVER,

BIG PRISONER DEMAND   Requests for Labor Are Many  Times the Supply Available

H. S, SENIOR CLASS TO GIVE PLAY   “Campus Quarantine,” » Hilarieus Comedy Slated for Taoshay, April 18, at Auditorium

Chairmanship GOP Attracts  Few Seekers   Draws Almost “As Many * Non-Candidates ‘As ’ Party's Noriii-  nation. Race

‘ No Parallel Between Them  Wrong to Put War Workers “On Par With Soldiers--T aft

‘The Weather   Kilgore Bill ‘All Wrong’      Taft Scores Measure Which Would Pay Up to $35 a Week

SENATORS ROW ON DOLE BILL   Vandenberg Hits ‘Pollyanna Economists’ As Dems Rap Dewey

Taft Hays C.1.0. Jobless Pay Bill   Placing War Workers On Par With Service Veterans Condemned

Taft Critical Of Kilgore Bill   Tax Burden Would Destroy Private Enterorise. He Savs

Senate Debates Unemployment Benefits Plan  CIO Back of Move To Give Workers

Senator Taft Criticizes Pay  Bill In Senate   Says CIO-Sponsored Mensure Would Put HighEarning War Worker On Par With Soldier

MURRAY-KILGOREBILL BASICALLY WRONG. TAFT SAYS   Declares There Is No Parallel Between Servicemen’s Pay ‘of $50 a Month and High Wages of Others in War Industry

Taft Opposes War Worker Benefit Plan   Fails to See Paralle _ Between Services   ‘And Laborers

WIDER K. U. SCOPE   Expansion of Aeronautical Instruction Discussed at Kansas City

Nazi Poison Gas Threat Reported   Desperate Effort for Lenient Peace Seen

Students Push Lawall Fight   Governor Says He Wants  * Rest? for University

AWALL SILENT ON PLANS FOR FUTURE   Neely Says Successor to WVU President Rests With Board; Students Return te Classes, Continue Protest

GOP To Get New England Votes   Predict Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine To Follow GOP.

Dewey Assured  Df New England   Talks Vote Prospects; Dulles, Willkie Confer

DEWEY VICTORY IN NEW ENGLAND SEEN   Governor ..Confers. With GOP Candidate From  - Maine

DEWEY AND BRICKER FACE NEW CHARGES   Retraction of ‘Defamatory Utterances’ Demanded

TO SHUT UP RADIO   Move Made to Coerce Stations Into “Editing” G.0.P. Talks

RUTHLESS PURGE IS ORDERED BY HITLER   Army Officers-Ousted and Marked for Treason ‘Trials

Hitler Orders Ruthless Purge of Army ‘Traitors, 12 Officers Up for Trial

HITLER MARKS OFFICERS FOR TRIAL, DEATH   Army Purge ‘Ordered As Aftermath of Plot on Life

HITLER URGES ARMY PURGE: OUSTS HEADS   Selects Five-Man “Court of Honor” of Most Trusted Men to Execute Orders.   Deserts to Russians

Hitler Orders Ruthless Purge Of German Army   1? @senerais Arrested

HITLER ORDERS ANOTHER PURGE   Army Officers Ousted: Will Stand = Trial As Traitors

Hitler Orders Army Purge, 12 Officers Ousted   Accused Face Early Trial as “*Traitors” By People’s Court

DAWSON PROPOSES GUT STATE COSTS   Says Slash Possible Without Curtailing Functions   DECLARES OPPONENT   First to Introduce Custom of Party Leaders Choosing Sides in Primary

Artillery Fire Heard in Basel, Switzerland, And Long Lines of Civilians Seen Fleeing Toward Rhine; Belfort Outflanked by Allies; Americans in North Push Deeper Into Reich

Third army enters Saar basin; French poised on the Rhine   German lines break under impact of six assaultine units: Metz overrun

Fortress Of Metz Overrun In Drive   British, American and French Divisions in Greatest Advances Since Normandy Offencive

 Germans Try Feelers With Unmanned  Goliath Tanks in Forecast of - Large-Scale Use at Anzio Beach

COAST GUARDS EARN LAURELS   Cheered by Seeing ‘Beachhead Go In And Stav In’

French Armor In Battle for Paris   People Celebrate Libera_ tion as Fighting Goes on  in City   SOME NAZIS HOLD OUT   Carillons. and Churchbells Ring as French Forces Roll In

Jap Defenses Weak; U. S. May Speed Action   War Goods May Be Moved Through Philippines. Before They Get Through Burma

DOUBT JAPSHAVE PLAN TO SAVE EMPIRE   Pacific Defenses Are So Weak That Military Observers Wonder What Nips Can Do Next to Protect Themselves.

separ’ s Weakness Shown To U.S.   NEXT DEFENSE STEP OF “JAPANESE HOLDS INTEREST

JAP WEAKNESS IS SURPRISING   Allied Military Authorities Puzzled About What Enemy Can Do Next To Protect Himself.

WEAKNESS OF JAPS’ PACIFIC DEFENSES PUZZLES: PREGICT AN EARLY U.S. SMASH INTO PHILIPPINES

Jap Defenses Proving Weak, Experts State   Allied Authorities Frankly Puzzled Over Nip Weakness

PACIFIC DEFENSES OF JAPS PUZZLING TO MILITARY MEN   Nip Set-ups Seem To Be Weak And Unable to Bear Brunt Of Allied Drives

Japs’ Pacific Defenses Are  Found Weak   What Enemy Can Do Next Is Puzzle ‘To Military Leaders

Jap Defense: In Pacific  Prove Weak   Allied Pressure Provides Problem

Jap Defense Is Feeble.      Experts Believe Nips Unable Now to Stop Any Heavy Allied Drive

Jap Defenses Puzzle Leaders   Military Authorities Wonder What Enemy Can Do Next For Protection

JAP DEFENSE WEAK   A Few More Allies Moves Will Open Way to the ‘ Philippines .

Japan In Such Fix Military Authorities Wonder What She Can Do To Protect Her Lines   Her Pacific Defenses Prove Woefully Weak Under U. S. And Allied Pressure

JAP DEFENSES shuhiahe WEAK   Military Leaders Doubt That Nips Now Have An; Well Developed Plan fo Defending Conquered  Areac

Japan's Pacific Defenses Weal   Allied Leaders Believe Nips Impotent

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Calais Nazis In Death Fight      Canadians Storm Ynside Fortress

Calais Truce Ends After Evacuation   Fighting Is Resumed After 24-Hour Lull

Assault Marks  End Of Truce ForEvacuation   Four Thousand Germans To Fight To Last Man And Last Cartridge.

Over 2,000 Planes Smash Augsburg; Drop 76 Enemies   Ulm And Friedrichshafen Among Targets Blastec As Yanks Lose 22 Bombers And 13 Fighters From Hugh Fleet.

Finns’ Going Whole Way With Germany is ‘Last Straw’; DeGaulle Visit Almost Sure

, §. BREAK WITH FINLAND NEAR; FACING DEFEAT   Nazis Win Support Of Finns; Little Country Face To Face With Crushing By  Russia.

United States Is Expected To Break Off All Relations With Finland Any Hour

SNOW FALLS IN MOST OF IOWA   Continued Cold and  Frost Are Forecast

HARD FRELZE, COLD WEATHER ARE PREDICTEL   Snow Falls Throughout Most of Jowa; See Little Damage to Crops.

Film Players Deny They Shirk Jobs On Tour of Battle Areas in Asia

Film Stars Riled by ‘Army Newspaper Story   Claim That Entertainers Shirked Jobs in Burma Theater Anarily Denijed

Answer Charge  In C.B.L. Paper   Vehement Denials Made By Movie Group

FILM PLAYERS DENY SHIRKING   REPLY TO CHARGES MADE IN EDITORIAL OF GI BURMA PAPER

Order Increased Tank Production   Expenditure Higher Than Expected

Tank Building Will Be Rushed   . Expenditure in Battle Of France Runs Higher Than Anticipated

MORE TANKS ASKED FOR SINCE INVASION   Expenditures Three Times Expected Rate

U. S. Guns Blasting At Narrowing Gap   tnemy Also Drives Farther Back From Meuse—Converging  Forces Onlv 13 Miles Apart

No Enemy  Gain for Three Days   While Germans May Be Poised for New Blow, Indications Are They Will Not Attempt It

ACUTE QUESTION CONCERNS NEXT GERMAN MOVES   Allied Air Forces Support Ground Fighters With Powerful Assaults

TRIPHAMMER YANK BLOWS CUT INTO BULGE   Deepest Nazi Spearheads Flung Back 12 Miles, Report

GERMANS LOSE 3RD OF SALIENT TOU.S. ATTACK   Escape Gap Reduced to 13 Miles or Less as Americans Push In

Third of Land Taken by Nazis In Winter Drive Now in Hands O: Allies; Enemy's Escape Corridor Cut to 19 Miles   BULLE TIX

First And 3rd Armies Gain 13 Miles   Salient Is Narrowed To 16 Miles At One Point Raked By Artillery Fire

Yanks Regain One-Third  Of Lost Area   Field Marshal Von Rundstedt Throws Three Fresh Divisions Into Drive to Close Relief Gan: Enemy Salient Cut to 16 Miles

‘Von Rundstedt’s Escape Gap i ut To 13 Miles; Enemy May Be ‘Pulling Armor Out; Germans  Held 3 Days Without Gaining

Biggest Question Whether German Commander Pulling Back Armor or Restine Troops for New Assant

Nazi Salient is Narrowed To 16 Miles   Americans Throw 25 Divisions Into Battie, Nazis Sey

Doughboys Reduce Width of German Bulge To 13 Miles   J.S. Hurls Huns Back Total of 12 Miles; Weather Gives Von Rundstedt Chance To Regroup Troops

GERMAN SALIENT IS NARROWED DOWN TO ONLY SIXTEEN MILES  HAMMER BLOWS BY U. S. THIRN AND EIRCT ADMIT

GERMAN LUNGE INTO BELGIUM HAS RECOILED   Bad Weather I: Giving Nazis  Great Break

Yanks Narrow Escape Gap To Bare 13 Miles   Enemy Spearheads Thrown Back 12 Miles As Third Army Widens Relief Corridor In  South; Americans Nearing Rochefort

Almost One-Third of Area Overrun by Germans ; Won Back  COVER ESCAPE ROIITE      COVER ESCAPE ROUTE   Allied Artillery Reaches Most Areas Occupied by Enemy

Nazis Recoil rom Powerful  12-Mile Drive   Triphammer Blows Cut Enemy Bulge As U, S, 3rd Widens, Hardens Corridor to Bastogne

Nazi Escape Corridor Reduced to 13 Miles Now Under Fire of Yank Artillery; Enemy Must Strike Soon Or Withdraw Forces from Pocket

Three Enemy Divisions Smash At American Wedge To Bastogne   WIN BACK A THIRD  Qe FAK Ct AWE AST EY

Salient Cut To 16 Miles At One Point   Yanks Continue Power Blows At Bulge From North And South.

Yank Blows — Forcing Back Nazi Bulge   Von Rundestedt’s Armie: Held Without Gains For Past Three Davs

U.S. Attack Recovers One-Third Area Lost, Cuts Salient Down (To 16 Miles, Develops Trap

ONE - THIRD OF LOST GROUND REGAINED   Nazis Held Without Gain For Three Days   Fight Into Outskirts Of Rochefort: Four Towns Taken By Patton

CUT SALIENT TO A WIDTH OF 16 MILES   Doughboys Again Widen and Strengthen Bastogne Corridor as Germans Are Held Gainlesg for Fourth Day.

Nazi Corridor Is Narrowed To Only 13 Mile:   Yon Rundstedt Driven Back 12 Miles By  American Drive

Reduced to Width Averaging 20 Miles; First, Third  Armies Advance. .   FLYING WEATHER GOOD!

Under Triphammer Blows  Which 48 Hours Ago Had Sliced Width of the Nazi   Bulge to 13 Miles,   SPEARHEAD FLUNG BACK TWELVE MILE‘   The U. S. 3rd Army Corridor  Strengthened and Widened - to Bastogne Friday Morning. - ..

Third of Lost Area Recaptured   Enemy Reels Under Heavy Blows of U.S. Ist and 3rd Armies,   Trap Is Readied   Von Rundstedt Now Faces Problem Of Withdrawing Armor.

VON RUNDSTEDTS MEN FORCED TC RETREAT 12 MILES   PATTON’S TROOPS NARROW WIDTH OF SALIENT TO 13 MI.

Yanks Retake Third of Area Seized in Nazi Winter Drive   Von Rundstedt Thrown Back 12 Miles from Best Advance

American Corridor Into Bastogne Strengthened; Haze Hides Foe’s Moves

Yankees Drive Enemy Back Bit By Bit In West   Triphammer Blows by Doughboys Have Sliced Width of Boche Bulge  to Thirteen Miles   Gap Narrow Enou For Artillery Fire   Deepest Spearheads of Hitler’s Hordes Hurled Back "72 Miles in Past Three Dava

Widen U. S. Relief Line To Bastogne   Von Rundstedt Held Without Gains for 3 Days; May Pull Armor Out

Winter Offensive by Germans into Belgium Reported ‘Po Be Gradually Beaten Back.   NAZIS MAY LAUNCH NEW ATTACK, REPOR’

ENEMY BULGE IS NARROWED TO 16 MILES   Von Rundstedt Soon Must Attack Again Or Pull Armor Back

Nazis Hurl Three” Divisions Upon §} Relief Corridor ‘§   ‘  Counterattack Is Apparently Aimed To Encircle Town   EXTRA

German Salient Cut To 13 Miles At Sinale Point   Patton’s Force Four Miles Above Bastogne In Push For Junction With Ist Army

KEEP ON: +--+  : Brcchsing the Attach! « ‘  WITH WAR BONDS ; ‘  + *+ & 2 9 & wie ee aiatux   Bronchitie’

Churchill's Lapse In Reference to Poland is Explained   Makes Slip Confusing Wording of Atlantic Charter With British Government Statement in 1940 on Foreign Policy

W.C. In Error,  Aide Declares  Confused Charter With  Foreign Policy

~HHURCHILL HAS LAPSE OF MEMORY  British Prime Minister Makes Slip in Speaking on Poland

Churchill Has Memory Lapse During Speech   Confuses Wording in At lantic Charter With British Government Statement Made in 1940

Memory. Fails British ‘Head In Statement  Upon ¢ Cc harter   U. Ss. Senators: lredBy Churchill's Talk

GHURGHILL Ad MEMORY LAPSE   Makes Slip in Speaking on Poland; Confused Wording Of Atlantic Charter; May Broadcast Today

‘Slip’ Is Made By Churchill In His Speech   Seemed To Have Confused Wording Of Atlantic Charter

PRIME MINISTER TROUBLED WITH A BAD MEMOR}   Aide Says Churchill Made ‘Slip’ in Reference to Atlantic Charter

Churchill ‘Lapse Of Memory’ Is Acknowledaec   Atlantic Charter Reference Brings Official Correction

WAR © TODAY   LU. S. Vietor:: At Truk Rocks Mikado’s Capital; Tokyo Admits Gravity In Pacific

Tokyo Government Makes No Attempt to Minimize Gravity of Situation and Changes in Military Leadership Follow Daring U. S. Attack on Truk 

The War Today  Japs Make No Effort To Conceal Bad Effects Of Truk Victory,

The War Today U. S. Victory At Truk Is A  Dream Come True   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE becnnintad Drece War Analyat

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIF  Lhesemeivial to,se Chan AO mated

Planes Again Hit German Rail Centers   Allies End Month In Which 148,000 Sorties Flown

Aerial Assault Over Europe [s ~ Biggest Of War   About 3,500 American Ships Blast Targets Over Reich

Airmen Bombard  Oil, Rail Centers   Ploesti In Romania Target Of Heavy Bombers. Other Planes Pound Railway Yards And Airports Inside Germany

Mh a a a gk at   WHAT OUR BOYS Aaa ARE DOING TO ‘WIN THE WAR  = & =] & = os oo 2. a8" o.”’ a8)

SILVER WINGS FOR ZELLMAN      Ernest Flier Given His Lieutenancy at Craig Field

FATHER OF FORMER JAP PRISONER SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD KNO}   RICHARD T. DYESS OF ALBANY RESENTFUL OF WHOLE SITUATION

‘God Save This Country’ If Bonds Don't Sell Now.’ Says Dyess’ Fathe

Allied Planes Hit From Bases On Beachhea¢   Blast at Enemy Troops Tanks, Gun Positions And Airdromes With Hundreds of Planes

Better Weather Enables Planes To Break Quiet   Invaders Covered by Strong Aerial Protective Roof

Allied Planes Hammer Foe  After A Lull   Troops, Tanks And Airdromes Blasted By Big Air Force

Texas On Cash Basis—Permanently,  Officials Hope; ‘Hot Checks’ Out

RED ARMY, TIT FORCES LINKED IN YUGOSLAVIA   Fast-Breaking Offensive Under  Way To Liberate Belgrade

ADVANCE IN YUGOSLAVIA   Join Partisans, Surge Within 30 Miles of Belarade

United Army  ns Drive  On Belgrade   Forces Advance Within 30 Miles Of Slav Capital.

REDS DRIVE ON BELGRADE WITH TITO’S PATRIOTS   » Yugoslav Capital But 30 Miles Away After Forces Joined

Surges Within 30 Mile Of Belgrade From Two Sides   TO SPLIT GERMAN: ARMIES IN BALKANS   Hurling Back 12 Furious Counterattacks. Reds Plunge Forward

Quick Fall Of Belgrade Is Indicated   American Jeeps Speed Red Drive Across Yuvoslavia

RED ADVANCE ON BELGRADE GAINS SPEET   Russians United With Tito’s Forces 30 Miles From City

Push Would Free Yugoslav Capital, Split Nazi Armies   Units of Russ Army Spill Out Onto Plains From Three Sides

Reds Have Joined Gen. Tito’s Force   Merged Armies Surge To Within Thirty Miles of Belgrade

Movement Made To Split Nazis In the Balkans   Malinovsky’s Army Spills Out Into Yugoslav Plaine

Edmund ‘Mercer Of Kingsley Dies  ‘Passes Away. At.  FS vac: Ll ane

Willkie Gets Last Homage  Of Thousand:   Body Is Shipped to Old Home for Burial Today

WILLKIE RITES WELL ATTENDED   35,000 Wait Outside Church As Service Being Coandicted

Thousands Pay Willkie Tribute   Dewey, Mrs. Roosevelt At Church Service

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Many Pay Tribute To Willkie  Leaders From Many Walks _ Of Life Gather For Services

Many Pay Tribute To Willkie  Leaders From Many Walks   s . x *  ~ Of Life Gather For Services

HUGE CROWD PAYS WILLKIE TRIBUTE   CHURCH FILLED DURING FUNERAL SERVICES—-35,000 STAND OUTSIDE.

Thousands Bid Wendell Willkie Final Farewell   35,000 Wait Outside Church during Funeral Service

Japs Go All Out In Saipan Battle   American Marines Under Heavy Fire   Jap Snipers Active

‘STRUGGLE FOR SAIPAN 13 STILL RAGING   Desperate Street Fighting in Outskirts of Garapan with Every House Sniner Hideout.   New Supply Base

BITTER FIGHT RAGES FOR SAIPAN CAPITAL   American Marines and = Army Troops Battle Japanese in Streets of Garapan.

BITTER FIGHT FOR PACIFIC ISLAND RAGE!      All-Out Infantry Battle in Saipan May be at Hand :

ELECTRIC CHAIR AWAITS KILLER   Only Dewey's Reprieve Can Save Buchalter From Death Today

 Substandard Risk”  Execution of Lepke May Cost Insurance Firms $1,600,000

LEPKE'S INSURANCE SAID OVER MILLION   Only One Escape Avenue Now Left Condemned Publie- Enemy

Racketeer Slayer .  “Heavily” Insurec  Death Chair May Rub  Out Buchalter

Story of Horror Told by Escaped Jap Prisoners   5200 Killed by Mistreatment in One Year; 2500 More On Verge of Dying.

INDUCTEES OFF TO GAMP CROFT   Gastonia Sends 80-Man Con tingent Tomorrow Morn-  jng For Final Induction.

68 GASTONIANS TO CAMP CROFT      Board No. 1 Issues List Of Those For Final Induction; Louis Hovis Is Lead ny

Gastonia Sends 272 Men To Army Monday; Many Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads

GASTONIA SENDS 19 MEN TO CAMP   New Contingent Of Selectees Leaves For Croft Tomorrow Morning At 7 O'clock.

Talk Over Labor Row at Curtiss   Union,-Management Will Meet Today

olrategy Simed AL JQUpply -ines— ETA SRA Rae SaaERA eS  Admiralty Conquest Threat To Jap Skins

River Breaks Levees Line   ‘More Extensive Flooding’ Southwestern lowa Farmlands Forecasted.

Second Levee at Hamburg Breaks Open   More Farm Land Inundated in South Part of District

Orlemanski In America Flying Home   Polish Priest Refuse: To Comment On Russian Trip

Orlemanski BackInU.S.   Brother .of Former Lucerne Priest Had Conferences with Stalin

DEWEY TAKES  NAME OUT OF ° WIS. PRIMARY  Gives No Reason; * Still in N. J.

New Clash on GI Rights Bill   Attributes Delay to Hatred by Some for Colored Soldiers

HATRED COUNT IS VOICED OVER "G. 1.” MEASURE   Iron And Steel Industry Declares Resistance To Union Wage Plea

VETERANS’ BILL CAUSING RUCKUS   Controversy Flares; Senator Clark Says Delay Occasioned By Certain Congressmen's Hate For Colored Soldiers.   —-f8Y ERNEST B. VACCARO—

DEBATE FLARES IN CONGRESS ON GI RIGHTS BILL   Sen. Clark Says ,Rep. Rankin Responsible For Delay In House

WMC CHIEF IS CALLED IN QUIZ   Solons Ask Explanation Of Deferment Plan

Nazis Say Bonins Hit by B-29s   U. S. Silent On Report; All Planes In Prior Raid Safe.

Superfortresses Make Raid With No Casualties   Enemy Aircraft Fire Weak and Fighter Oppo sition Reported Light.

All Of B-29s Return Safely From Attacks On Manchuria ‘And Bases In Occupied China   Berlin, Quoting Japs, Reports U. S. Attack On Bonin By Superfortresses

Superforts Reach Bases   War Department Says Not One Ship Lost In Raid on Manchuria

Not A Superfort Lost In Raid   Aerial Giants Also Plastered Military Targets In China.

ALL B-295 ON RAID RETURN   War Department Reports No Losses On Manchurian Mission

Darien, Loyang,  Kaifeng Bombed  By Super-Forts Geed Results Reported a! Anshan and Other Jap Heli  Benne 'o Mennlkuntan Mh

SUPER-RAIDERS ESCAPE LOSSES   Berlin Says B-29s Also Hit At Bonin Island Bases

Reasons Given For Nazi Coup   Allied Intelligence Bad; Overconfidence Aided Break-through

Nazi Drive:'Came Within  Few Miles Of Succeeding   Had Germaus Reached Liege They Might Have. Destroyed U. S. First and Ninth Armies and British and Canadian Armies ‘As Well; December 90 Was Critical: Day’

Success of von Runstedt’s Lunge Could Have Prolonged War for Several Years

LEOPOLD TO BE MOVED TO JAPAN   ee ae i Prominent, Prisoners  ‘to Be ixchanved for Hitler if Taken

LEOPOLD MAY BE MOVED 10 JAPAN   TRADE FOR HITLER OR OTHER NAZIS PLANNED

Nazis To Move Key Prisoners ‘To Japan Area   Plan To Exchange Them As Hostages If High Men Captured

NAZIS TO FIGHT CRIMINAL TRIALS   Would Hold Hostages to Trade for Hitler

NAZIS’ HOSTAGE PLAN REVEALED   King, Other Prisoners May Be Moved To Japan

Nazis Plan To Take Important Captives to Japan To Hold as Hostages Against War Trials.

LEAFLETS GIVE GERMANY LAST WARNING, SAID   Nazi Jitters Increased By Hint 2nd Front Not Far Off

GERMANY SHOWS ACUTE SIENS OF NERVOUS TENSION   invasion Jitters Afftict Reich As Threatening Leaflets Dron.

Nazis War ned Zero Hour Is Near at Hand   Goebbels Calls in Officers for Pep Rally as RAF. ’ Showers Leaflets

GERMAN PEOPLE ‘WARNED HOUR OF DEFEAT AT HANI   Nazi Invasion Jitters in crease; Berlin Boasts of Defenses

German Invasion Jitters Reported To Be Increasing   British Leaflets Say Zero Hour For Second Front Near At Hand

FINES ASSESSED IN RECENT RAIDS ALONG VALLEY   Fraternal Organizations In River Zone Pay Fines After Troopers’ Raids

Doctor-Owned Insurance Company May Be Formed   Would Offer Policies Covering Births, Long !IInesses and Surgical Operations

Believe Army Plane Lost In Lake Ontario   Flies North In Blinding Storm

U.S. 3d Army Shut Off Foe   Germans Say Patton Leads Whirlwind Yank Force

AMERICAN 3RD ARMY IN FIGHT   Closes Southern Arm Of Pincers On Germans In Normandy

Military authorities officially disclose U.S. Third army is fighting in France

Nelson Returns From Trip to China   Thinks Nation Can Increase War Effort

Nelson Returns From China trip   Keeping. Quiet On WPB Situation; Praises Chinese.

Donald Nelson Enthusiastic About Ching  Datimmed Ciumdayv FEace   Returned Sunday Eager  To Raise Chinese Contribution

ALLIES WERE FORCED TO RAZE OLD ABBEY   Never Again Will They Hesitate To Bomb Any Structure Used As Fort   HAMPERED ADVANCE

34TH DIVISION MADE GALLANT CASSINO BID   Was Case of “Too Little, Too Late” As Far As U. S.  Forces Concerned   MANY CASUALTIES

ES SE OE RN: cM TE NITRO E SPMME ATTEN LOT E SLIM EERTOO SHEE  Meat Shortage Getting Serious!

BORERS JAILED LARCENY GHARSES   Construction Workers Are Turned Over To Other Authorities

LABORERS JAILED LARCENY CHARCES   Turned Over To Other Authorities

Units Of WPB Are Abolished  Division And Bureau Wind Up Operations

Lewis Beats Union Autonomists  ‘Miners Censure FDR. Give Praise to Dewey

UMW Assails Roosevelt, Lauds Dewey   Miners Pass Resolve Assailing Administration

Dewey Praised, _FD Condemned  At UMW Parley   Resolution Is Not Viewed As Group Endorsement Of Republican Nominee

UMW Convention Condemns FDR, Lauds Gov. Dewey   GOP Nominee Not Specifically Endorsed by Besolntion Voted Overwhelmingly on Lewis’ Lead

Miners Adopt Condemnation  Of President   Resolution, However, Did Not In So Many Words Enderse Republican Nominee Dewey

Mine Workers Praise Dewey, Condemn FDR  Action No Direct  Endorsement Of  > a i Cs \ [ng ae

Mine WorkersAdopt Resolution to  Condemn Roosevelt  Republican Candidate For President Praised by Miners

UNION MINERS ADOPT RESOLUTION AGAINST PRES. ROOSEVELT  DEWEY PRAISED IN RESOLUTION BUT NOT OFFICIALLY PNDORSED

Mine Workers Praise Dewey   Resolution Flays Roosevelt; Action Comes  After Short Debate

UMW Condemns FR, Praises Gov. Dewey   United Miners Adopt Resolution, Without Strictly Endorsing GOP Candidate

PATTON’S FORCES CAPTURE NANCY    United Mine Workers Flay FDR, Praise Dewey

John L. Lewis’ UMW Condemns Roosevelt, Praises Gov. Dewey   Resolution Adopted at Cincinnati Convention  After Short Debate

FDR’S GRIP ON LABOR JOLTED   Mine Workers Assail President, Laud Dewey in Ohio Meeting

UMW CONDFMN FDR AND PRAISE DEWEY WITH RESOLUTION   Claim That Endorsement of FDR in 1936 Was Ill-Advised Move by Union

UMW Adopt Repor Condemning FDR   Committee Resolution Does Not in So. Many  Words Endorce Deawavy

Mine Workers Censor FDR,  Praise Dewey   GOP Candidate Not Endorsed

DEWEY GIVEN ENDORSEMENT OF MINE UNION   UMW Action Condemns Roosevelt After HalfHour Debate

Mine Workers Praise Dewey, Condemn FDR   Union Lists * Its Grievances Against President

LEWIS’ U.M.W. AGAIN BLASTS AT ROOSEVELT   Autonomists Whipped Down In Convention

Hold On Mindoro  Secured   American Troops Hammer Out Gains O Eleven Miles Inland From Beachheads.

Drive 1] Miles Inland on Mindoro Islanc   Americans Tear Bic Gaps in Nip Lines on Leyte

ARMY CURRENTLY RETURNS 30,00) SOLDERS A RQNTH   That Number Is as Many as Fighting Fronts Can Spare

ANAT GURACHTLY CTURND 30,00) SHLDIERS A MONTH   That Number Is as Many as Fighting Fronts Can Spare

PROGRAM INCLUDES - USE OF PRISONERS   ‘Back-to-the - Woods’ Plan May Help Relieve Newsprint Shertace.

De Gaulle Sees Karly Aceords  With Allies   French Leader Hopes For Smoother Relations In The Future

Always Have Bombs . . .  COMMUNIST STRIKE IS BROKEN UP IN BUENOS AIRES   Two Injured and Property Damaged Before Uprising Quelled.

Navy Medicos Treat Wounded at British Base   Swift Treatment Given Men From Battlefields

WPB SENDS OUT RUSH ORDER FOR SHELLS, BULLETS   77,000 MORE WORKERS NEEDED IN MUNITIONS PLANTS, SAYS KRUG

PRODUCTION OF SmALL ARMS 10 BE STEPPED-UP   Cigaret Shortage Investigation  Will Be Made

Rush Order For Shells   Mere Ammunition for Small Arms Needed; War Workers Sought

More Small Arms Needed Nation Told   Senate Probes Smokes Shortage

WPB Rushes Orders For Mere and More  Small Arms, Shells   13 Munitions Plants Are Asked to Meet Gen. Ike’s Urgent Plea

WPB Calls For More Small Arms Supplies  Senate To Prabe Cigaret Shortage For Men Overseas   Compromise Social Security

PRES. WILSON’S DAUGHTER DEAD   Margaret Woodrow Wilson Passes in India; Religious Student

Long War With Japan — Still Ahead, OW! Says   if The European Conflict Moves Into Winter, Allies  Can Maintain ‘Schedule’

To Review Deferred  Workers   Hershey Declares “Al Men Of Military  Age Must Go Into The Service

ORDER BOARDS TO REVIEW ALL PA, DEFERMENTS   All Eligible Registrants Up To 26 Must Shortly Go Into Services

‘Auto Mechanics: Course For Scnior Boys At High School.   Twelve Have Signed: U For Classes By C. Rickabanush -.

Open Course In Auto Mechanics For LeMars High School Students   Pat Rickabaugh Is Instructor In New Special Course

EXPECT GERMANS WILL QUIT FRANC   Political Impact of Such Move Might Be Enough to Force Collapse.

Nazi Withdrawal From France Deemed Likely   Allies Expect Action Within Next Two Months

Tokyo Radio Says Japan Offered to Send Ship to Vladivostok to Get ‘Supplies, Mail for-U. S. Prisoners

HALMAHERA FALL WOULD BE DANGEROUS   To Japanese Conquests of South China Placing Them in Peril of Flank Envelopment.   Pinned Down

GOP WINS EASY IN MAINE VOTE   Defeats Two Democrats With CIO Backing

Republicans Carry State of Maine by _ Two-to-One Margin   Horace Hildreth is New Governor; Texas Democrats Fightine

Sound Drubbing Given Democrats By Maine Voters   CIO Candidates Overwhelmed in Republican State

REPUBLICANS WIN MAINE'S GOVERNORSHIP   Nation Watching Outcome Of The Texas Split

Republicans In Maine Smother  Demos And CIO   Texas Democrats Bring Interparty Squabble To A Showdown.

Republicans Win Signal Victory In Maine Voting   Candidates Supported By PAC Lose; Texas  Dems In Uproar

GOP WING: IN MAINE VOTING   Cellerate Sweeping Victory - Over Demos, Two-Had CIO Support.

Republican Majorities In. Maine Greatest In. Years; PAC Fails To Help Demo:

‘Sweeping Victory. ForG.O.P   “As Goes’ Maine, So Goes the Nation,” In Finals of Yesterday’s Election

GENTILE ANGRY OVER ACCIDENT   Incident Delays His Adding To Plane Score

TEMPERATURES:   Our City Charter   Facts About Benton Harbor Government

FLOODS SWEEP THROUGH SOUTH   ‘Troops Ready To Help With Evacuation Work  

To boost quantity of shells  en ae pee LT!    ‘Doubled’ output is coal of WPB

SUMMER COURSE PLANNED AT BECKLEY SCHOOLS   Board Hires George Parker As Trap Hill High School Principal

GREATEST AIR STRUGGLE OF PACIFIC WAR      Ground Forces Take Important Field At Southend

Waves of Nip Craft Shot Out of Sky In Futile Attacks on Task Force; Only Minor Damage to U. S. Ship

U.S. Ships- Planes Wipe Out Big Nip Attack On Saipan   Landing Forces Capture Big Aslito Airdrome, 4 Hours From Tokyo While Pacific’s Biggest Air Battle Races Overhead.

Enemy Attacks Task Force in Marianas   Ground Forces Are Driving Ahead to Major Victory

Atfack Made On American Task Force   One Warship Slightly Damaged in Battle

Albania Nazis Yield Tirana To Partisans   Reds Rip Hungarian Front in Attempt To Outflank Budapest

SOVIET TROOPS REACH EASTERN BUDAPEST AREA   Cossack Horsemen Infiltrate Into Nazi Rear

Berlin Admits Lines Pierced Near Budapest   Massed Artillery Supports Red Tanks and Infantry

URGES GRAND JURY PUNISH NEWSNAN   Story That ~ Probe Was to Cover Liquor Control Commission Arouses Sigler

SIGLER CITES DETROIT NEWS MAN IN PROBE   Accused of Contempt As Grand Jury Cracks Down On Leaks

AMERICANS USE THREE FALLEN JAP AIRBASES   Only 1,000 Miles From Mindanao After Hollandia Victory

Philippines In View As Likely Aim Of Allies   Capture Of Hallandia Gives Advanced Air Bases For MacArthur’s Forces   CAPTURED BASES ALREADY IN USE

Two Severe Earthquakes Rock Los Angeles Area, But Cause Little Damage

Death AndDamage Follow Daylight Landings Of Craft   Radio-Controlled Rocket Ships Fly At Great Speed And Explode On Contact With Ground Or Near It

German “Secret  Weapon”   Pilotless Planes Drive into England, Explode, Cause Deaths and Damage

Allies Flank  Japs in Burma   Enemy Deeply Committed Ry Thrust Inta India

Japs In Burma Cut Off By U.S. Marauder Force   Chinese Division Continues Drive In Mogaung Valley

North Burma Battle Grows More Intense   Struggle to Stop Jap Thrust at Imphal Is Undecided

North Burma Battle Grows   Yank-Chinese Troops Drive On Myitkyina; Jap Offensive Meets Hard Going

Burma Battle Grows as Tanks Clash   Kamaign Is Next Goal Of Marauders And Chinese Forces

Yanks, Chinese Hitting Japanese  Nips Lose Five Tanks In Initial Clash

[Allies Again ‘Cut Into’ Jap ‘ Burma Flank   Merrill's Marauders Seize Town in Push Down Mogaune Valley   EIRST TANK CLASH   Stiff Fighting Reported in Main Nipponese Offensive

Soviets Hurl Nazis Back In   i Warsaw Sector   Russians Making Steady Envelopment of Polish Capital; Patrols Probe  German Positions

SOVIETS HOL THEIR LINES INSIDE PRAGA   Troops Repulse First Big Nazi Armored Blow at Warsaw Suburb Taken From the Enemy—Patrols in Capital. —

Soviet Army Scouts Nazis At Warsaw  Reds and Poles Drive Back Big Armored

Nazi Armored Drives Are Hurled Back   Russian Patrols Have Crossed River to Scout Foe at Warsaw

Polish Capital Scene of Devastation, Scouts Report as Reds Map Nazi Defenses in City for All-out Assault—Fighting Between Finns and Germans Threatens To Increase

SOVIET TROOPS GAIN NORTH OF POLISH CAPITAL   Red Patrols Drive Out o Praga, Cross Vistula River

Soviet Patrols Scouting Warsaw; Nazi Armored Assault Hurled Back 

Reds. Capture TI Villages ‘North Praga   Germans Make First Big Armored Attack on Soviet and Polish Forces East of Vistula at Praga -

BIGNAZI ATTACKS HURLED BACK BY REDS WHO CLAIM INITIATIVE AT ALL POINTS

Reds Edge On Warsaw   Patrols Crass Vistulu, Scont Nazi Defenuges

Soviet Forces Knocking at Warsaw Doors   Pressing Attack on Polish Capital From Captured Praqa

Russians Scout Warsaw Positions, Hurl Back Attack  ferns Report New ial Driv.  Meds for Antuma fei

PATROLS SCOUT NAZI DEFENSES ABOUT WARSAW   Blazing Polish Capital Is in. Full View of Russian Attackers

Bitter Tank Battle Rages Near Praga   Gutted Warsaw in Ful View of Russians Poised for Assault Across the Vistula

PRESoURE UPON WARSAW GROWS   Red Army Patrots Cross Vistula, Scout German Positions.

Polish Capital of Warsaw Visible as Reds Push Forware   Capture Eleven Towns North of Praga; Fall Offensive Due Soon

Warsaw Sites Held By Nazis      Think Violent Battles Rage In Many Other Areas Of Wide Eastern Front

Hurl Back Nazi Armor At Praga   Reds Check Terrific Counter-Blows Led By German Tanks; Warsaw in Ruins

Red Patrols Are Across Big Vistula River Today   Armored Army : Hurled Back By Reds, Poles

Soviet Patrols Cross Vistula   Russian. Polish Troops Hurl Back  Attacks on Praga

—EASTERN FRONT—~—  sQVIET PATROLS ~APANES VICTHLA   Praga Captured As Russians . Battle Germans For Warsaw *   TANK WARFARE:   Fighting Between Nazis And Finns Is Reported By Berlin

REDS ENVELOPE POLE CAPITAL   Hurl Back Great German Counter-Attack On Praga

SOVIET TROOPS CROSS VISTULA: NEAR WARSAW   Russian Patrols Scout Nazi Positions In Flaming Polish Capital

Attacks Of Germans Are Repulsed   Czech Planes Take Part In Slovakia Fighting

Soviet Patrols Cross Vistula  Flames Gut Warsaw,   Flames Gut Warsow, Besiege Polish Capital

Russians Hurl Back Nazi Tank Attack At Praga   Red Patrols Scout Warsaw; Pressure On Polish Canital Increaces.

SOVIETS CROSS VISTULA RIVER IN NEW DRIVE   German Attempt Te Aid Troops Is Failure

Red Patrols Cross Vistula, Scout Positions   Nazi Besieged Defense Of Warsaw Probed By Advancing Units Of Russian Army

NO RELIEF FROM HEAT   But Western Kansans Welcome Dry . Weather for Work

Abolition of FSA Urged by Committee   HOUSE GROUP: WOULD GIVE FUNCTIONS TO HOME CORPORATION

250, 000 Ger ‘mans in Yugoslavia and Greece in Bad Wav   Biggest Trap of the War Appears ta Have Been Sprung and All Escape Routes Have Been Wrecked by Coordinated Units

ALLIES SPRING BALKANS TRAP   250,000 Nazis in Serious Plight; Soviets Sweep Into Bulgaria

Reds Pour roops In Bulgaria: Extenc nr _—   Moscow Issues Plea For Austrian People  To Launch Revolt

Barrier Stretches Across Balkans To Trap German Units  Nazis Can't Escape From vaaclavia

German Armies Facing Debacle In the Balkans   Retreat to Germany Appears Impossible

Sabotage and Allied Bombing Wreck All Main Rail Escape Routes From Greece and Yugoslavia and Retreat to Reich Seems Out of Question — River Traffic on Big Danube Waterway Hindered by Aerial Mine-Laying.

NAZI ARMIES ‘REPORTED IN BALKANTRAP      More Than 250,000 Cut Off by Drives: of Allies

Destruction In Japan Equal To Germany With Less Planes   General Channault Says Only One-tenth the Air Power Needed.

GN Re eC aC ne  Cpl. Tom Phillips Reported Missing   Was in Action With Artillery Unit in Italy

Mother, Son. Meet Deaths   “Plunge 7. Stories In Murder, Suicide

Shoves Mother fo Death, Then Jumps   Witnesses Tell of Woman’s Struggle To Save Life

Vesuvius’ Flaming Cone May Collapse; Two Foot Rocks Sent 2000 Feet In Air

MUSTERING OUT PAY BILL PASSES HOUSE   Measure Provding $300 Maximum / Yo Service Personnel Is Sent Over To Seuate

Yank Troops deading for Rhone Valley   French Troops Within 3 Miles Of Large Naval Base

Invaders Only 9 Miles From Marseille Port   Americans Join French Patriots and Reach Point 50 Miles North of Toulon

ENTERS TOULON   Germans Show No Signs ot Determination to Make ~ Real Stand.   EASTERN SECTOR STABLE

Yankees in ‘Toulon, Capture Valensole; French Take Redor   Forward Elements of American ‘Army Are Near Marseille

Yank, French’ Units Join In New Advance   Forward Elements Only 9 Miles From Great City of Marseille

YANKS NEAR THE TOULON NAVAL BASE   Port All but Encircled as Other Columns Drive to Within 15 Miles of Marseille and Head for the Rhone Vallev.

YANK FORCES ENTER TOULON   Take Valensole, 50 Miles Inland; Lay Siege To Marseille

Ith Army Enters Toulon, Heads For Rhone Valley   Germans Claim Hits On Several Ships In Shelling of Base

Great Naval Base Hit at  Two Points   Invasion Moving at Fast Pace; Americans Move 50 Miles Inland

Toulon Entered: Town 50 Miles North Captured   Southern France Invaders Driving To Rhone Valley

ALLIES FANNING OUT, HEAD FOR RHONE VALLEY   Toulon Virtually Is Encircled; Press Against Marseille

Yankees Smash Into Big South  France Base   ‘Americans Also Capture Valensole, 50 Airline Miles From Seaport and Naval Depot   Fan Out Through Durance Valley   Heading For Rhone Against Disorganized Eneriiy” Resistance; Nazis In Hyeres Isolated

Latest News. From French Front Gives , War Picture.   “Germans. At ‘All Points “Are-reported Checked

REDS PLUNGE FORWARD OW ATTY. MATIOR FRONTS   Orders Covering New Dratt Rules Dispatched In Texas

Nazi Defense Line Broken As Allies Push On In Htaly   Three Large Towns Taken And Troop: Raneh Outckirte OF laductrial City

[HREE TOWNS CAPTURED BY ALLIED ARMY   Troops -Break Through New German Line in [taly

GERMAN LINE BEYOND ROME BROKEN AGAIN   FIGHTING AT TERNI, 45 MILES NORTH OF CAPITAL

NEW NAZI LINE “IN ITALY GRACKED   ALLIES CAPTURE ORVIBTO, AQUILA AND NARNI~REACH TERNI OUTSKIRTS.

Nazi Defense Line Broken As Allies Push On In Haly  Three Large Towns Taken And Troop:  Pp. - — bk. fr, ab < wan FAL i. ee Ty * nef f"\4,,

SHATTER NEW DEFENSE LINE; TAKE TOWNS   Orvieto, Aquila and Marni In Path Of Advancing Allied Armies In Italy; Clear Highway 74.   2,000 Sorties

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Allies Capture Trio of Large  Italian Towns   Fighting Rages in Outskirts of Terni, 45 Miles From Rome

French Detain P. Wodehouse   Authorities Agree Not To Press Charges Against British Novelist.

Republicans Move Toward Tying Up Federal And State Actions On Absentee Ballot

Service Vote Plan Gains G.O.P. Favor   Republican Speaker Says No Change In Military Rule Is Contemplated

CONVENTION OF GOP TO BE JUNE 96 IN CHICAGS   ‘Committee Supports Plan to Enable Armed - Forces to Cast Votes

GOP Supports State Action On Soldier Voting Nati ional il Cae venti ion   ‘National Convention To Open In Chicago ‘Around June 25

GOP Convention — To Open June 26  Chicago Is Selected As Site Of Meeting

Chicago Is Chosen For Convention   National Committee Of Republicans Votes To Hold Convention In  * Week Of June 26

Halleck Says GOP President Would Hasten War’s End   Republican Convention In Chicago June 25.

GOP Convention To Be Held at Chicago June 26  National Committee Also Urges Laws to Facilitate Voting by  TL. g-~g.. __ 4 »

Service Vote Question No. One Problem, Principal Business Before GOP Committee

National Committee To Endorse Policy Of Cooperation Between States And U.S. To Facilitate Voting By Service Men.

Republicans To Convene In Chicago    National Ticket Will Be Selected On June 26th

GOP Chooses June 26 for  . s  Convention Chicago to Be Scene Pa oS ee es —

Republicans Concentrate On Army Vote   Chicago Session Puts ON Action  On Convention

GOP Will Nominate — in Chicago   ‘National Convention Will Begin June 26; City’s Bid of 275.000 Accepted   FAVORS GIVING VOTE -TO SOLDIERS   National Committee -Aiso Asks for Legislation on. Disposal of War Goods

NAME CHICAGO GOP MEET SITE   Republican Convention Will Get Under Way June 25

CHICAGO PICKED FOR CONVENTION OF GOP JUNE 26   ADOPT RESOLUTION URGING LAWS TO AID SOLDIER VOTE

Soldier Vote Setup Backed   GOP Committee Acts On Endorsement; Chicago ' Convention ‘Site

GOP Leaders List Stand on Soldier Voting   Favors Co-operation Between States and Federal Government

Republicans Name Chicago As Their Convention Site; Meeting to Begin June 26

GOP Convention In Chicago  Will Meet to Name Candidates On June 26

Service Vote Plan Approved By GOP Leader:   Chicago Named For Convention; Set for June 26

Republicans to Chicago for June 26th Convention   No Serious Offer By Any Other Cities

G.O.P. Favors Unity.Plan on Service Vote   Chicago Expected to Win Convention; June 25 Is Seen Likely Date

Chicago Chosen As Republican Convention City   Conclave Begins June 26; Soldier Vote Speedup Move Is Urged.

GOP CONVENTION CALLED JUNE 26   Chicago Chosen as Site for Party Meeting

Chicago Chosen  By GOP   .. Federal Serrice Vot« Legislation Endorsed

CONVENTION 10 BE IN CHICAGO   Republicans Nominate Candidates at Meet Beginning June 26.

Chicago Selected; Committee Desires  All Soldiers to Vote   Party Pledges Military High Command Will Not be Changed

6.0.P. Advocates  U.S. Unity  On Soldier Vote Republican Win Viewed as Aid to Victory

REPUBLICANS CONVENTION BEGINS JUNE 26   Committee Urges Federal, State Laws fo Facilitate Absentee Vot ing of Servicemen

SERVICE MEN STAND FRAMED BY GOP GROUPS   Party Worried by Democratic Charges They . Would Deprive Sol. dier Ballots In 1944

Strike Hitler On 4th Front; Resistance Reported Light      American, British and French Assault Wide Beachhead On Mediterranean Coast in Toa lon Naval Base Area   BULLETIN

British Force Pounding Foes  Into Collapse   Avalanche of Tanks and Troops Beat Within Mile of Conde-Sur-Noireau West of Falaise   Nazis At Conde Are Jeopardized   Capture St. Denis De Mere; Berlin Says Violent Battles Unprecedented In Living Memory

Ex-Child Prodigy Dies in Poverty   William J. Sidis A Wonder as Baby

Former Child Prodigy Dies An Obscure, Unsuccessful Clerk   Man Who as Child Astonished Professors for 75 Years Asked Only He Be Required Not to Think

1940 BORDER PIERCED AS ~-YAMPOL FALLS   Red Armies Advance On Seaport of  Nikolayev

Russians Reach 1940 Rumanian Frontier Point   Other Advances — Are Reported On 775-Mile Front

Reds Near Bastion of Nikolayev   Russians Shell! Western Bank of Dniester River

New Gaps Torn In Nazi Defense Lines   Soviet Forces Now Within Nine Miles OF Black Sea Port Of Nikalayey: Losses Hiah

Alhes Approach ‘Complete Control Huon Peninsula  :   Aussies Defeat Japs In Armored Action And Cross Buri River.

BONTAOL OF HUCN PENINSULA WERE   Aussies Defeat Japanese In Tank And Artillery Baitie

ALLIES GAIN HUON CONTROL   Aussies Win Battle To Drive Trapped Japs Toward _ Americans.

Huen Control » Within § eet         Aussies Defeat Japanese In Tank Fight; Buri River Is Crossed

Australians Drive Japanese Toward  Yankees On Huon   Complete Allied Control Of Peninsula Is In Sight

Japs Foreed Back On Huon  Coastal Area   Aussies Cross Buri River Af. ter Defeat Of Nips In Fierce Tank Battle.   STEP UP AIR ATTACK

Complete Control Of Huon Peninsula In Allies’ Sight   Aussies Defeats Japs In New Guinea Tank, Artillery Action

AUSSIES DRIVE J APANESE BACK INNEWGUINEA   Complete Control of Huon Peninsula Expected As   - Japs Are Defeated : In Tank Baitle

Two-Fifths Of Quota Is Sold   County Still Has Long Way To Go if Sixth War Loan Goal To Be Reached 

JAP SECRECY AT TRUK MAY HAVE FOOLED WORLD   Naval Base May Be Elsewhere

Lack of Facilities At Truk Puzzles   Jap Fortifications May Be Elsewhere

JAP NAVAL FACILITIES MAY BE  IN THE BONINS   Allies May Have Been Fooled By Truk Subterfuge

CAPITAL SCURCES BELIEVE FOR WA VETO TAKING ELL   Forsee Blis‘ering Rebuke To Congress For Revenue Cuts ©

TAX BILL MAY: RUN INTO VETO BY PRESIDENT   Such Action Would Be Accompanied by Hot. Rebuke to Congress.

TAX MEASURE ~~ 1$ IN DOUBT   SOME SOURCES SAY ROOSE\VELT MAY VETO BILL SENT  1O WHITE HOUSE BY. * CONGRESS

TAX BILL VETO IS POSSIBILITY   Roosevelt May Give Blistering Rebuke To Congress

BoyLosesLong Ballle Against  Chronic Ailmen  ‘Blood Plasma Widel  Offered Fails to i Save Younaster

Black Cats Carry  Bad Luck to  Jap Supply Line Flying Boats Deadly,  Lone Marauders Cause Destruction

Rafioning Periods On Canning Sugar   New Arrangement puts 10 Pounds Now, 10 In Second Period

Wallace Postwar Program   VICE-PRESIDENT OFFERS NEW PLAN THROUGH HIGHER NATION INCOME

 Red Army Traps German Garrison At Estonian Stronghold; US. Wins Back Initiative On Angio Front   RAF MAKE NIGHT ASSAULT ON REICH

BULLETS END: ESCAPE PLOT   ILLINOIS GUARD KILLED DURING UNSUCCESSFUL PRISON BREAK BY TEN MEN

West Texas Drouth Broken   Rain, Hail Storms Drench Most Sectors Halting Farm Work

FDR Will Veto ‘Inadequate Tax Bill, But GOP Plans to Override Objection

JAPANESE DRIVEN OUT OF POSITIONS   British Tanks Help in Al. lied Gains in Imphal Area

Blast Japs From Three Positions  - Nipponese Suffer Heavy Losses

LOAN CFFICIAL TELLS OF VOTE BUYING FUND AT GRAFT HEARING   Says Small Loan Companies Decided to Fight Effort Of Chicago Concern   ASSESSMENTS OF $8,000

COURT HEARS OF LANSING’S BRIBERY FUND   LOAN AGENTS CHIP IN $50 TO $100, WITNESS SAYS

FIRST TRAIN HAS. __- ENFERED ROME   Secretary Stimson Is Aboard a! on Trip From... “Naples. f

SECRETARY STIMSON ARRIVES IN ROME   Train First to Enter City Since Its Fall—Greeted at Color ful Coramoanv.

US Air Force Guarded Patton’: 400 Mile Flank   Forced the Surrender of Nazi General Elsner and 20,000 Troops of His “Lost Army” in France

20,000 Nazis Yield to U.S. Air Strafers   Gen. Elsner’s ‘Lost Army’ Gives Up. Syracusan Aid in Surrender

‘AIR- GROUND CO-ORDINATION BY AMERICANS WHIPS NAZIS INTO [SUBMISSION AND SURRENDER

Surrender Of 20,000 Nazis Fine Example Of Land. Air Co-Qoeration

Jap Tank Attack Is Hurled Back On Biak Island  Allies Cut Vital Enemy Supply Line

Japanese Repulsed In Biak Assault   Advancing Americans Destroy Eight Jap Tanks in Bloody Battle Just Before Dawn

News Editor Sees At Firs Hand Organization's Great Work On Peleliu

MILKWEED PICKING ~ SOON WILL START   Drive in the County Will * Begin in About Two . Weeks

MILKWEED PICKING. © SOON WILL START   Drive in the. the County Will Begin i in About Two  Weale -

PRISON LABOR ~~ FOUGHT BY AFL   Union Executive Commit tee Says Working Prisoners  Compete With Free Labor

W ar Prisoner Competition  Worries AFL   Will Stir Resentment Among Free Workers, © Executive Council Savs

Military Court Convicts Captain  Recommends Dismissal Eeam Army Service

GROUP DISCUSSES POLISH SITUATION   Hull Emphasizes Intent of “U.S. to Deal With Exiled Government.

Four Thousand Planes Smash Hitler’s Europe   6,500 Tons of Explosives Wreck War Plants in 12 Hour Period.

Another Huge Air Fleet Hurled At Nazi West Wall   ‘Sky-Filling Parade Of Allied Planes Swarms Over Europe; France, Belgium Bear Brunt : Of Blows

2,000 Planes Hit France, Belgium   Rail Yards and Airdromes Bombed

Round Out Full Week Of Violent Assaults On Defenses   RP ee Be BERS RD  6,500 TONS ON AXIS IN 12 HRS.  9000 Planes Striking From Britain And Italy

4,000 Allied Planes Smash Broadsides In Nazi Defenses; Railroads And Airdromes Hit

West Wall Gets Big Air Blast   Railroads, Airdromes in France, Belgium Pounded, Ending Week of Full-Scale Hits on Germany’s Anti-Invasion Defenses

COLLINS HIGH SCHOOL BURNS   Fire of Unknown Origin Destroys 2-Story Building

Public Service Award ls Made   Ceremony Is Feature O Newspaper Week

Kiwanis Presents : Citation To Leader For War Contribution   Part of Club‘s Habit Of Observing National Newspaper Week

HERALD - PRESS GETS CITATION   Presented By Kiwanis It Recognition of War Service

‘STRIKE NOW’ IS ORDER BY TITO   Calls On Partisans Tc Hit Nazis Hard

MARSHAL TITO URGES PARTISAN ARMY TO STRIKE   Says World Is Now on Verge of Final Blow Against Nazis

Tito Orders Men To Strike Heavily   - Communication, Rail Lines Main Targets

POLIO EPIDEMIC SEVERE   Dr. Dublin Says Outbreak Is Seceond Only to One in 1916

Hitler Forms Puppet Regime In Budapest, Cuts Communications   Move Seen As Last Desperate Attempt To Foil Soviet Advance Thru Balkans

Hungary May Defy Germany   Horthy, Kallay and Ghyczy Reported German Prisoners In Political Coup

ESTABLISHMENT OF PUPPET. GOVERNMENT BY GERMANS BUDAPEST IS REPORTED  AT STOCKHOLM

BODY OF WILLIE ARRIVES IN STATE   Funeral Services Pending Arrival Of Son On Convoy Duty

SUPERFORTS BOMBED MUKDEN IN CONTINUED RAIDS AGAINST JAPS  YANK INFANTRYMEN DRIVE JAPS INTO HILLS  EC ee a ES ee ce es

Mukden Struck  Smashing Blow  By B2) Bombers   in Meantime, Battle Of Leyte Drawing ‘To Quick End

B-29'5 HAMMER MUKDEN AREA   Organized Resistance By Nips On Leyte Near  Collapse

Conquest of Leyte Nearly Completed ~ With Japs On Run   rSuperforte Blast Nip War Plants in Mukden—Yank Advances  On Mindoro Continue With Virtually No Opposition

MUKDEN FEELS BOMB WEIGHT OF SUPERFORTS   Jap Manchurian Arsena Blasted: Yanks Near End of Leyte Fight

Yanks Shatter Last Units of Yamashita Line   Begin Mopping-up Nip Remnants Still Remaining on Leyte

Bomb Mukden Tn Fourth Day Of B-29 Raids   Jap Industries Hit By China-Based Aces As Infantry Drives Enemy To Leyte Hills

Leyte Battle Fast Nearing Final Staqes   Complete Victory Seen as Reports Come of Superfort Bombings

B-29s Attack Mukden Again For 4th Dav   U. S. Infantrymen Shatter Last Vestiges Of Yamashita Defense Line.  DRAWING TO AN END  eaqumenemmenianibanneeniti:

Battle for Leyte is Nearing Finish Asserts MacArthur   Nips: Driven ‘Into ‘Hills on Island; Superforts Raid Maachuria

STRONG B-29 FORCE MAULS ~MUKDEN AREL   Yanks on Leyte Erase Last Vestiges of Yamashita Line

MASS B-29 RAID MADE AGAINST MUKDEN TODAY   Jap Highway Is Cut Off Along Leyte Sector

— emer gis ££ 2i¥ C713  RESISTANCE ON LEYTE SMASHEI   Last Vestiges Of Yamashita Defense Line Rlasted By Yanks   NIP LOSSES HIGH   Force Of 60 B-29s Strike Japanese Arsenal In Manchuria.

B-29s Hit Mukden Yanks Shatter Leyte Defenses  Japan War arned of Great U.S. c Aerial Offensiv

Jans Cut Off From Escape, Lose Supplies   M’Arthur Says Island Fighting Will End Soon; Casualties Are Heavy

B-29s Bomb Mukden in  Manchuria   43,000 Enemy Troops Killed on Island, Swelling Total for Philippine Campaign

Planes Blast Nazi Lines For Gains   Great Enemy Cities Of Cologne, Hamrr And Kassel In Raic

2 200 Planes Blacken Skies  Over Germany   Seek To BlastPath’ .Through Siegfried Line For Advancine: Allies

ALLIES BOMB HAMM, COLOGNE AND KASSEL   Blast Path Through Siegfried Line —Twelve “Heavies” and Seven Fichters Lost.

More Than 2,500 Allied - Planes Crowd the Skies  DAMhLAPor AReE Rea thirer   BOMBS ARE RAINED ON GERMAN CITIES   Residents of Two Dutch Islands Warned by Eisenhower

Bombers Lash Reich Centers   Cologne, Hamm, Kassel Hit Im Michtv Air Strike

PLANES BLAST PATH FOR PUSH   2,500 Allied Craft Pound At Siegfried Line, Hit Big German Cities

More Than 2,500 Allied : Planes Crowd the } Skies  BOMBS ARE RAINED ON GERMAN CITIES  Residents of Two Dutch islands Warned by Eisenhower

As Premier Pierlot Rushes Back From  Luxembourg to Deal With the  (Crisis.   Leopold Not Popular

Belgium Facing Alarming Crisis As Riots Spread   Communists Battle With State Police

Civil Emergency In Freed Europe   Belgium Reacts to AntiGovernment Riots; Italian Government Resigns But Continues.

Bloody Clash Brings Crisis ‘In Beleitum    Premier Calls Cabinet As Opposition Leader Issucs Ultimatum

CRISIS FACED BY BELGIANS   Pierlot Hurries Back te Brussels After Bloody Street Clash

Enemy Troops Continue Gains On India Front   Japanese Forces Being Engaged By Allied Army

Japanese Battering At Gates of Imphal; Move on Rail Artery   Enemy Flying Columns Engaging British Garrison at Fortress; Mounthbatten’s Supplies Periled

Now Infiltrating Into Ter. ritory Slightly West Tu Direction of BengalAssam Railroad   Endangers Gen. Stilwell Lifeline   Japanese Being Engaged By Allied Troops As Fhey Push Westward, Mountbatien Sars

JAPS EXTEND BURMA DRIVE   Infiltrate Area Near Amer: ican-Operated Bengal Railroad

JAP COLUMNS EACH COGE OF IMPHAL PLAIN   Invaders Pressing Attack on Kohima in Spite of Many Reverses.

JAP INVADERS HAVE REACHED IMPHAL AREA   British Positions Under Attack From “Small” Nip Column:

British Garrison. Throwing Back Enemy At Kohima   . Invasion Colionn Less Than 16 Miles From Allied Center

SMALL UNITS OF JAPANSES REACH IMPHAL   Vanguard Of Invasion Forces Engaging British

Jap Forces Push Toward Railway   ‘Enemy Troops Threaten Assam-Bengal Road

Jap Invaders On Outskirts Of Imphal.   Enemy Heads for. Railroad—Hollandiz Blasted by Bombs

JAPS REACH IMPHAL, ARE REPULSED   Believe Attacks Made By Advance Flying Columns

Japs Drive Deeper In India, Approach Siilwell’s Lifeline   Coiumns Head For Bengal-Assam Railroad; Repulsed Near Imphal!

ALLIES RETARD JAP INDIA DRIVE   Throw Back Several Blows In Vital Imphal Sector

Japs’ ‘Eng: age Defenders of Imphal Area   All Thrusis by Advance Columns Beaten Back, Mountbatten Savs

JAP FORCE REPULSED AT KOHIMA   Nips Seek to Take Base Before Monsoon Rains

U.S. Bomber: Blast New Jap Railway  In Burma   Locomotives, Cars, Track And Bridges Damaged: Japs Enter Area West Of llighway

At Kohima Base      Japs Push to Edge Of Imphal Plain; Big Battle Looms

JAPS AT EDGE OF IMPHAL PLAIN, INDIA   Hurled Back At Point 60 Miles  North, However

Imphal Area Is Reached By Jap Forces   British Positions Are Brought Under Attack By Invaders Driving In From The East

[County Agent Advises Care In (Cutting Newer Varieties Of Oats:   Should Be Cut Four or Five Days After Appear Ripe

Some Resistance By Jap Defenders   Enemy Shows Some Activity In Marshalls And Carolines Says Report

Mighty Soviet Attack Aimed At Important Rail Hub OF Tilsit   Nazis Fall Back Like Driftwood   Reds Race Across Doomed Hungary Toward Austrian Border

BOLIVIAN LENDLEASE IS HALTED   Economic Pressure Being Exerted Against Nazi Sanctioned Government.

Germany Prepares For Underground Warfare When German Army Colliapues

Nazis Plan Five Years Of Guerrilla War Against Allies  Everything Possible To Be Done To Make Allies’ Task Of Occupancy Hizhly Difficult

Nazis Ready for 5 Years of Guerrilla Warfare After German Army Collapse:

GERMANY PLANS FIVE YEAR WAR AFTER COLLAPSE   Underground Move Disclosed; Nazis Storing Food

Gestapo Will Cause Peace-Time Trouble  Menace Of Beaten Nazis Is Post-War Underground

Nazis Reported Ready For Five Years Underground Warfare After German Army Quif

Nazis Plan Five Years, ‘Of Underground War After Army Collapse   Himmler Training Men and Women In Sabotage; Sets Up Strongholds In Bavaria, Austria and Italian Alps.

Nazis Prepare for War After — Army's Defeat   Special . Loyal: .$8 Troops - Drilled. for Carrying On Fight . Underground   TO HAMPER ALLIES WHEREVER POSSIBLE   Propaganda and Sabotage Planned; Hideouts: Already Selected, Men Placed

Nazis Prepared For Waging Long Underground War  = . HT Va   Plan To Hold Out Five Years

Hitler's Followers Planning Underground War against Allies   Nazis Prepared for 5 Years o Guerrilla Warfare, Sabotage

> Years Of Underground Warfare  Seen Plan Of Hitler And Cohorts Following Collapse Of Nazi Army

' Himmler Plans Underground War  Nazis Scheme to Balk ‘Justice in Hilly Lairs

NAZIS SET FOR GUERRILLA WAR   Himmler Lays Plans For Five Years of Underseround Resistance

(Hitler's Closest Followers Preparing To Wage Underground Warfare Against Allies for 5 Years

Followers of Nazi Creed Prepare For Underground Blows   Himmler Plans ThreeFold Strategy to Keep . German Hopes Alive

H immler Lays Groundwork for Underground War Long After Collapse of German Army   Nagoya Is Hit by Superforts in Heavy Raid   Armada Comes in at Lower Altitude and Slower Pace

Nazis Prepared For Five Years Of Underground Warfare Against Allies After Army Collapses

Germans Reported Preparing  For Long Underground Ficht   Gestapo Chieftain Heinrich Himmler Started Laying Plans Two Years Ago

Nazis Plan For Defeat      Make Ready for Five Years of Guerilla War After Army Collapses

Civil Aviation Delegates Hold  Secret Session   Seek To Agree Upon Authority

Red Forces Capture Port Of Constanta   Romania's Great. Black Sea. Port Wrested ‘trom the - Nazis—Seizure of City Represented” - 855- Mile Advance

Russian Forces Take Constanta. Black Sea Porf   Seizure of Romanian Cit Puts Reds 29 Miles from Bulgaria

Big Sea Port Falls To Reds   Constanta, Main Nazi Base, Taken As Russians Slash Near. Bulgaria Border

BLACK SEA BASE ISTERMINUS OF OIL PIPELINE   Harbor Has 37 Petroleum Storage Tanks And Spe cial Tanker Basin   BULGARIAN BORDER  29 MILES DISTANT

Romanian Base of Constanta  Falls to Reds   ‘Combined Land-Sea Assault Takes Nazi Stronghold

BiG ROMANIAN SEAPORT WON BY RED ARMY   SOVIETS 29 MILES FROM BULGARIAN BORDER

Reds 29 Miles From Border  Of Bulgaria   . “Also Continue Strides Deep into Romania,” Ploesti. Trap Looms  PORT IS BIC PRIZE -

RED ARMY TAKES CONSTANTA, BIG BLACK SEA PORT   Seizure. of Romanian City Puts Russians Only 29 Miles From Bulgarian Border.   ROMANIANS HEMMING IN NAZIS AT PLOESTI   Soviet Advance Into Hungary Threatens to Trap Hitler’s Garrison in Oil Fields.

Port Of Constanta   Romania’ $ Great. Black: Sea. Port Wrested from the 2 » Nazis—Seizure: of City. Represented: . oe oy cals . 855-Mile Advance   Fano Is Captured © By Polish Forces

Romania’s Biggest ‘ Seaport Captured.   New 85-Mile Advatice Pais Reds at Oil Terminus

REDS CAPTURE ROMANIA PORT OF CONSTANTA   Main Nazi Naval Base On Black Sea Taken In Daring Attack

CAPTURE TWO LIMA ESCAPEES   Police Find Fugitives in Woods . South of City

Congress Pushes Compensation Lav  Revercomb Attacks Bill As Dangerous

HURRIGANE ALERT FOR TEXAS GOAST BEEN DISCONTINUED   MOISTURE, RANGING FROM SHOWERS TO DOWNPOURS COVER STATE

NEW VERSION OF SOLDIER-VOTE BILL BACK TO SENATE   President Expected to Veto Present Form, If It Ever  Gets That Far.

Soldier Vote Set For Senate   Bill To Be Changed. From Federal Ballot

HOUSE SPLIT OVER G. 1 BIL!   Educational Provisions o' Measure for Veterans  Stir Debate

GI School Bill.  Arouses House   Groups Aceuse Each Other Of Bureancratic Plan

Row Over GI Bill Provisions  Splits House   Each Accuses Other Of Seeking to Gain Control of Schools

School Fuss Split House In 2 Groups   SENDING VETERANS TO SCHOOL PROVIDES BASIS FOR ARGUMENT AND ACCUSATIONS IN G-I DEBATE.   Bureaucracy Opposed

249 MORE JAP PLANES DOWNED   Two-Day Total Now 440; 30 Nip Ships Sunk or Damaged.

BRICKER FLAYS SPENDING ORGY   DECLARES RECENT VICTORY IN MAINE WAS ‘BLOW. AT BILL © MAN. FACTION. HOPES

Anglo-American Parachute Troops Bailing Out On  Normandy Peninsula    FRENCH ARE TOLD TO AWAIT INSTRUCTIONS

Red Forces Strike Northwest And Southeast Of Vitebsk On Eastern Front And Gain Up To Nine And One-Half Miles

BiG. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE 3 WAY SQUEEZE   Summer Drive to Crush Germany From West, South and East Underway Reports Berlin.   Take 20 Towns

BOND QUOTO ~~ STILL SHORT   BONDS MAKE IDEAL CHRIST. MAS GIFTS. RETAIL STORES REQUESTING BOND PUR’ING

Bond Drive Ends With County Still $63,570 Shy Goal   “\g, F, G BONDS, C TAX NOTES CAN YET APPLY, HOWEVER: UNION LAGGING BADLY ON E QUOTA LATEST ‘HEADOUARTER’S COMMUNIQUE’, SAYS

New Blow At Reich Air power   Heavy U.S. Bombers Smash at Aircraft Factories in Germany Reds Drive on Pskov

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS BATTERED GERMANY AGAIN   Hit at Aireraft Factories a Gopha and Ball-Bearing Works at Schweinsurt.   WAS THE FIFTH ASSAULT   Powerful American Raid Be. gan Last Sunday, Continuing Through Yesterday.   ‘Red Cross Mobile Unit Will Collect Blood Here On March 21, 22, 23 and 24; Coming From Kansas City

Plants In Two Reich Cities “Are Lambasted   Aircraft Factories At Gotha and Ball-Bearing Works — At Schweinfurt Feel  "Weight of Attack   Berlin Reports . ‘Heavy Dog-Fights   War’s Greatest Aerial Of - fensive Cutting Down _ - Enemy Fighter Strength

REICHBLASTED  IFTH DAY BY f 5. BOMBERS   \ircraft Factories in Gotha, Ballbearing Works At Schweinfurt and Oth er Targets Assailed   >N DEEP PENETRATION

GERMAN AIRCRAFT FACTORIES BOMBED BY AMERICAN HEAVIES   TWO IMPORTANT MANUFACTURING CITIES DEEP IN GERMANY BLAST

YANK BOMBERS VER EUROPE   Pound Dutch Airfields ; RAF Hammers North ern France

YANK ROME HIT WATLAIRPLANTS   Factories At Gotha And _ Schweinfurt, Deep In Reich, Are Battered   <TH STRAIGHT RAID   Anrierizan Marauders And ‘British Typhoons Blast Channel Targets

American Planes Hit Reich Plants   Allies Carry Raids Into Austria. As Nazis Retaliate

Incessant Blows At Europe Continue  Gotha And Schweinfurt Battered By American Bombers In Day Attack

PLANTS OBIECT ALLIED ATTACKS   Swarms of American Heavy Bombers Ranging Over Factories in Germany and Austria

U. 5. BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   Batter Aircraft Plants at Gotha, Bearing Works At Schweinfurt Today

CTORIES AT GOTHABOMBED   Schweinfurt Ball - Bearing Work Also Hit in Fifth Dav of Raids.

Schweinfurt, Gotha Are U.S. Targets   American Raiders Hit Deep Into Reich On Fifth Straight Day

Ball Bearing And Plane Plants Hit   Reds Win Dno While Italy Is Quiet

Hit Roots of German Air Power   American ‘Bombers. Go'-Deep Into Reich to Again Blast: Fighter Plane: Plants.”   VITAL CONTRIBUTION: ?-TO THE- INVASION   Air: Assault’. Now. ‘Hitting Germany. Where. It. “Hurts the Most.

U. S. FLIERS BLAST GERMAN PLANTS AT GOTHA,SCHWEINFUR]   Heavy Bombers in Their Fifth Consecutive Day of Attack Smash at Rocts of Nazi Air  Pe

U.S. Heavies Strike Deep  Into Germany   Gotha And Schweinfurt Attacked: London Is Bombed Anew, Heavy Damage Reported

Air Assault In Daylight Cc ontinued By Allied Planes   310 German Fighters Shot Down In Three Days; Enemy Output Greatly Reduced

Russians Press . On Toward Rail Hub Of Pskov  ADVANCES MADE   American Heavy Bombers Hit Europe Again

Report Great Air Battles Rage Over Northwest And Central Germany

Planes Sweep Across Channel   Resume Allied Aerial Offensive Today

Heavy Bombers in Fifth Day of Blows At Roots Of German Air Power; London Still Smoking After Fourth Sharp Raid By Luftwaffe in Six Nights

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST GOTHA, SCHWEINFURT   Carry Air War Into Fifth Day Af ter Co-Ordinated Assaulis from Britain and Italy   ‘LONDON HIT AGAIN   Berlin Radio Reports Extensive Air Battles Over Northwest and Central Germany

U.S. BOMBER: BLAST GOTHA SCHWEINFURT   Fifth Straight Day of Heavy Operations Aimed at Nazi Plane Factories.

American Planes Hit Schweinfurt And Gotha Today   Russians Capture Dno and Rogachev In Push Westward

U. $. Bombers Smash af Nazi War Factories   Hit Aircraft Plants  ' At Gotha, Ballbearing Works at Schweinfurt And Other Nazi Targets

U.S, FLIERS HIT SCHWEINFURT, GOTHA PLANTS   Soviets Driving Nazis From Dno; Germans Reorganize for Beach Attack

Russians Press On ‘Toward Rail Hub Of Pskov  ADVANCES MADE  American Heavy

‘Yank Bombers Batter Gotha, Schweinfurt   Strike Deep Into Germany in Fifth Straight Day Attack

U.S. Heavies Batter Vital Nazi Plants   Sehweinfurt, Gotha Factories Blasted In Daylicht Raid

American Bombers Batter Factories Deep Within Reich   Schweinfurt and Gotha Are Targets; Other Planes Swarm Across Channel

Schweinfurt And Gotha In Bomb Parade   Every Fighter Knocked Out Now Is Vital, Say Allied Chieftains

Aircraft and BallBearing Factories in Germany Bombed   Dno, Important Railway Junction in Russia,  Captured by Reds

SOLDIERS BEING RELEASED FOR MUNITIONS JOBS   Men Will Be Used To Help Ease Present Critical Manpower Situation   W.P.B. RECONVERSION APPROACH CAUTIOUS

Churchill Secures Delay in Report On De Gaulle Setur  Prime Minister Says  Showdown Now Wrniled Aleat Bo Cond

British Defer Action Now On French Issue   Churchill Wins Move To Postpone Decision On Relations; Returns . From Beachhead

Churchill Avoids French Showdown  More Harm Than Good at This Time, He Says

FRENCH - ALLIED DEBATE HALTED   Commons Postpones Discussion of Controversial Issue

Churchill Stops Debate On De Gaulle   French Leader Said To Have Kept Men From Invasion

Churchill Has Debate Postnoned   Warns Showdown  ~ Now Would Do More Harm Than Good

Churchill Secures Delay in Report On De Gaulle Setup  Prime Minister Says Showdown Now Wauld Nat Re Good

FRENCH ISSUE SHOULD WAIT, COMMONS TOLD   DeGaulle Reported to Have Held French Officers Back

Debate Over DeGaulle In Commons Is  Postponed   Would ‘Du More Harm Than Good Now,’ Charchill Tells Members

CHURCHILL WINS POSTPONEMENT OF DEBATE IN COMMONS ON HIGHLY © COMPLICATED FRENCH RELATIONS   Declaring “It Would Do More Harm Than Good Now” Prime Minister Asks That Question of British-American Relations with French Committee Re Not Discuased Publicly

Prime Minister Says Little About War  Churchill Wins Delay In Debate On Touchy Issue Of De Gaulle Relations

CHURCHILL HALTS FRENGH DEBATE   British Prime Minister Parries Demand For Showdown

Germans Stage Mass Prison Riot   Warden Demands Strict Discipline of Group

Total Injured May Reach 500 Fifty Serioush   Estimate 200 Naval Person. nel Among Injured In * Port Chicago Disaster   NOT A BUILDING ESCAPED DAMAGE   Martial Law Virtually Declared As Military Takes Over Town

EXPLOSION DEAD MAY REACH 372   500 Hurt, 50 Seriously, New Figures of Navy Reveal

TOLL OF DEAD IN BLAST MAY REACH 375   At Least 500 Others Injured; Only Four Bodies Recovered

DEATH ‘TOLL: ESTIMATES REVISED UPWARD IN WEST coast (MUNITIONS © DISASTER,

Party Tests Near im Seven States  Balloting Set For Delegates To Convention

State Primaries Start Next Week   Tests of Strength In Seven States

MARCH WINDS CARRY HOPES ~ OF PARTIES   7 States Will Pick Delegates For Conventions

Germans Reported Fleeing   Finland Reported to Be Changing Leaders

Dig Culbacksin-War Production. Planned for 1944   Consumers, However, to ~-Gct-Liltle More —> 1h wn in 1943

Cutbacks in Production of Small Arms, Bullets, Non-combat Planes Are Forecast by the OWI  Decreases Will Be More Than Offset   Decreases Will Be More Than Offset by Boosts in Warplanes; Little Gains in Civilian Manufacture Seen

Service Slice In Production  No Public Aid   Cuts im Varions Military Needs Will Be Balanced  - By Inereasine Oihere

WAR PRODUCTION IS  BEING CURTAILED   Manufacture. Of Small Arms, Bullets And Aluminum Will Be Curback In Near Future

Cut in Some War Goods Production  Seen by OWI  Small Arms, Bullets,   Small Arms, Bullets, Non-Combat Planes, Anti-Aircraft Gear And Aluminum Listed   BUT INCREASES IN OTHERS FORECAST   Few New Articles For Civilian Use Ex ted, However

0.W.1. Predicts Army Cutback    Decrease Teo Be Offset By - Plane Production Boost and Other .Munitions.

Big Cutbacks In War Goods Seen in 1944   Consumers Won't Get Many Additional Articles, OWI Says

Cutbacks in Production of Small Arms, Bullets, Non-combat Planes Are Forecast by the OWI   Decreases Will Be More Than Offset by Boosts in Warplanes; Little Gains in Civilian Manufacture Seen

POPE’S HOME 70 BEBOMB TARGET   Summer Residence Is Used By Nazis

GERMAN PROPAGANDA ‘FEELERS’ ~ NOT. MAKING ANY IMPRESSION   ALLIED DEMAND FOR UNCON DITIONAL SURRENDER RECEIVING SUPPORT IN CONGRESS.

GIANT BATTLE LINES EDGING INTO GERMANY   DESPERATE NAZIS USE ROBOTS TO DEFEND RUHR

Temperatures   Ruhr Defenders Hur! Robot-Bombs At Advancing Allies

Ist Army Is Under Fire Of Robots   Greatest Battle: Is East of Aachen

GERMANS USE ROBOT BOMBS FOR DEFENSE   Ist Army Moves Near Groshau, Kleinhau In Ruhr Battle

Doughboys Are At Edge Bloody  Hurtgen Forest   American Troops Under Mounting Robot-Bomb Fire From Nazi Defenders of Rulir   Hun Places Yanks On East Side Roet   Town of Hurtgen Under Afttiftlery Fire; Ninth Army Battles Nazis Outside Kosiar

Nazis Report Seven-Mile_ Allied Gain   10,000 Enemy Prisoners Taken: At Strasbourg —

Cologne Plain Goal of Hirst Army   Mounting Robot-Bomb Fire Confronted From Nazi Defenses

Troops Come Under Mounting Robot Bomb Fire From Ruhr Lines   Nazis Say Yanks Advance 7 Miles   Seventh Army Teag Through German Lines North Of Strasbourg

Ist Army Brings Hurtgen Under Fire by Ar tillery   U.S. Ninth Army Units Engage in Heavy Fighting Outside Koslar, West of Roer River, Last Natural Barrier to Rhine

Germans Stiffen Resistance Alonc Cologne Plain   Americans Gain Despite Attacks From Robot Bombs

American First Ary. Reaches Edge of Bloody Hurtgen Forest in a  ’. gus Fichtine. ee       NINTH APPROACHES ‘THE ROER RIVER       sheim, Five Miles West of the Rhine. :

Yanks Pushing Steadily For Cologne Plain   9th Army Engaged In Stiff Fight; 7th Drives Wedge; Weather Aids Allied Airmen

REPORTED GAIN PUTS MEN OVER BAR TO RHINE   Hurtgen Forest Penetrated; Ninth 2 Miles From Julich

REACH EDGE UF HURTGEN FOREST   Yanks Under Mounting Robot Fire From Defenders   FIGHTING IS HEAVY   Allies Said Gaining East of Aachen; Seventh Tears Through Nazi Lines

Allies Fight Toward Rhine   Ninth Army Fights to Less Than Mile of Roer River, Last Natural Barrier

Reach Edge Of Hurtgen Forest Under Robots   First Within Few Hundred Yards Of Groshau, Nearer  To Kleinhau.   100.000 PRISONERS

New Activity in Pacific Forecast   May Attempt toSeize Jap Islands

EFFORTS SOON TO MAKE GRAB FOR JAP BASES   Indicated by Increasing Intensity of U. 8S. Air Activity on the Central Pacific Front

NAZI DEFENSES TOPPLING ON WIDE FRONT   22,000 Germans Killed as Red Army Advances

W. Va. Flyers Make History   2 Men From State Lead Tokyo Attacks

JAP NAVAL BASE AND FACTORIES BLASTED BY YANK SUPER-FORTS ‘FROM CHINA BASES -- NONE LOST   Meanwhile, Americans Seize Another Pacific Island Air Base; _ Sick and Starving Nips on Saipan Shuffling from Pheir Caves To Surrender as Yanks Drive Them  Toward Slaughter Pen

GERMAN ESCAPE SHIPS ARE SUNK   Russians Open Offensive On Romanian Front, Scoring Gains

Soviets sink five enemy  transports  800 nazis killed and 200 woundec

Russians Sink Five Axis Troop Ships  i A   Germans Report Offensive on Romanian Front

SOVIETS SINK 5 MORE AXIS _ TRANSPORTS   Reds Blast Fleet Trying to Take Enemy From Sevastopol

Reds Blast Nazi Evacuation Fleet At Sevastopol   Germans Say Russian Forces Reopen Drive Into Rumania

Russians Destroy 5 Hun Transports      Many Nazis Killed Near Sevastopol

Axis Reports New Red Push  In Romania   Reds Tell of Sinking Vive Axis Transports Fleeing from Sevastopol

‘Romanian Attacks  By Reds Reported   Soviet ‘Warships, Planes Win in Rarents Ser

Five More Axis Vessels Sunk Off Sevastopol   Large-Scale Offensive On Romanian Front Reported by Germans

AXIS SHIPS SUNK © BY SOVIET FORCES   New Red Offensive on Ro~ manian Front Report-  ed by Berlin

RUSSIANS SINK 5 AXIS TRANSPORTS OFF SEVASTOPOI   Attack German Convoy Far to North of Black Sea Port: and: Send Down  Four . Vessels.   RED DRIVE REPORTED ON ROMANIAN FRONT   ‘Offensive Said to Be Aimed at Bessarabian Capital of Chisinau and the Galati Gap.

REDS DESTROY 5 TRANSPORTS FOR GERMANS   Damaged Two Others in Past 24 Hours, Moscow Announces; Continued Activity in Old Poland.   Open Offensive

TAYLOR HENRY, TEXAN, TELLS OF CONDITIONS INSIDE GERMANY THAT MEAN BARD FIGHT AHEAD

‘It Will Be A Hard Task To Convince the German People They Are Beaten--Henrv

2 Boys Go On Spending ,   Spree In Atlanta Zoo: ‘Say They Found %766

FIVE PEOPLE DIE WHEN HIT BY CAR   Auto Plows Th Through a Group of Bystanders at ~  Sceene of Crash

MIDWEST CORN SALES GAINING   VURSELL SAYS WFA ORDER STARTS FOOD FAMINE IN SO. ILL,

First Day's Drive * Hastens Movement of Midwest's Corn   AAA Committeemen Re. port Fine Response to Army Appeal

Other Satellites Likely To Follow Romania— a ae  Hitler Sees Hold On Balkans Crumble

lt ne War f oday—  ‘Romania’ s About-Face Is Big Blow ‘To Hitler, Gigantic Gain For Allies

ROMANIA’S DOUBLE BACK-FLOP WILL RENDER BALKANS TOO HOT FOR HITLER. BUT HE’LL FIGHT

 MACKENZIE SAYS—  Balkan Fall Is Blow to  Hitler Gang   Bulgaria Expected To Follow Romania Out of Nazi Camp; Has  Fane. E.lA Teemaw

WAR TODAY   Romania’s  Surrender to Allies Makes: Balkan Peninsula Untenable For Hitler; Ih. portance Four-Fold

Allied Forces In Italy Synchronize Heavy Offensive   Front Line Dispatches Indicate That Final Battle For The Capture Of Holy City Gets Off To Good Start.

Yanks in Swift 60-Mile Push  Toward Paris   Bitter Battle Near Dreux and Chartres Is Reported

Germans Say Yanks Driving Toward Paris   Reports Columns Striking Eastward In 40 Miles Of City

NAZIS REPORT A YANK DRIVE TOWARDPARIS   <4 High Command. Declares  Another Swift 60-Mile  . Eastward Advance Puts  Doughboys Within 40 Miles of. Capital.

Germans Ha Stopped In . Tracks — :          ALLIED PLANES, TANKS AND MEN™ SUCCESSFUL THUS FAR BUT HA FIGHTING STILL UNDER WAY: ’

Nazis Hurl New Offensive at Sth Army Beachhead   Allied Ground Troops and Pianes Halt Enemy

ALLIES REPORT NEWEST DRIVE STOPPED COLD   Second Major Assault Also Centered In Aprilia Area

New Push Stronger  Than First   Clear Weather Gives Allies Gooc Aenal Support

Fierce Fighting Rages With Tanks, Men And Planes Hurled At Nazis

ALLIED LINES HOLDING FAST UNDER ASSAULT   Soviets Hammer German Sute vivors Deeper Into Cherkasi Area Trap

OFFICIAL REPORTS SAY TEAT FOE IS ONCE MORE REPULSED IN TERRIFIC BEACHHEAD BATTLI   Enemy Uses Many Tanks and Massed Artillery in Fighting at Aprilia

Hitler Fails To Appear for War Tribute   Adm. Doenitz, Substitut. ing, Harps on “Brutal Aims” of Enemies

DEWEY TO WAGE HARD CAMPAIGN, GOP HOPES HIGH   Challenges Administration As Old Dewey - Bricker Form Strong’ Ticket

WILL ROGERS’ BODY HOMEWARD BOUND   REMAINS OF OKLAHOMAN TO BE INTERRED IN STONE ORYPT AT CLAREMORE.

Nation's Total May Set Record: Line Up Early   Count In First Wartime Election Since 1864 May Hit 50 Million

Heavy Vote Of Eastern: Areas May _  Be Decisive   Pennsylvania, New York’ Are ‘Puzzles

Close Contest May Be Decided  By Service Vote   Both Parties Claim Majority in Next House—26 States Elect Governors

First Wartime Tilt Since 1864 Grips Nation’s Interest   Quarter of New York City’s Vote Cast by 9:30 A. Mi Pennsylvania Tally Heavv: No Trouble Reported

Voters Swamp Pollimg Places Thruout Nation   Early and Heavy Turnout Unpreeedented, Indicat\ing Possible Record _Batlotine

SWAMPS POLIS ACROSS NATION   Possible Record Vote Of 50,000,000 Is Indicated

EARLY VOTING INDICATES NEW RECORD RETURN   Americans Line Up Long Before Polls Open to Cast Ballots

CANDIDATES AWAIT VOICE OF AMERICA   Peace And Victory Is Last Appeal By Dewey-FDR

People Go To Polls As Campaign Ends With Big Vote Plea   Influence of Women Increases and Service Vote May Delay Decision Several Weeks—Bulk of New Congress Also Being Chosen by Voters With Thoughts of Victory and Peace Uppermost

Voters Of Nation Turn OutIn Large Numbers   Heavy Cast In Cities; Precinct  In North Carolina Cives Roosevelt All

Early Turnout :dicates 50 Million Americans to Cast Ballots for Leaders

Voters Line up In Many States As Polls Open   From Coast to Coast Rush to Vote Reported And in Larger Cities Voters Stand in Line ™.

‘Vote Is Heavy in Nation   New York City Votes 25 Per Cent By Mid-Morning

SEE POSSIBLE RECORD TURNOUT OF 50,000,000   Unprecedented Early Vote Turns Out At Polle All Over The Ce satry.

Early Turnout In All Sectors Fills Balloting Places   Ohio’s Rural Voting Described As Heaviest Ir History; Quarter Of New York City Vote Reported Taken By 9:30 A. M.; Major  City Reports Similar

Sedate Met Quakes In Jive Session”  Nation’s Hep Cats Invade Opera House Te Ranct Wae laan

Boogie-Woogie Invades Met   Staid Opera House Hears Jazz For War's Sake

Selective Service Chief Asks Returninc Vets Be Given Preference for Jobs

BOMBERSROAR DURING NIGHT OVER EUROPE   After Bad Weather Restricts Daylight Operations; Blast Brest and Holland.   Operate From Russia

Coast Facing New Cut in Gas  Holders of Band C Books Face Checkup, Cc... mi g* Peat ig

Clear Air For  ‘Big 3’ Meet Clash Over Greek, Italian Politics Viewed

New Attempt To Wreck Train   Railway Employes Discover Boulder And Tie On Tracks.

Special Committee Expresses Conviction Farms Can Absorb Virtually All Agricultural Labor That Has Gone Into Industry and Armed Forces - - Recommendations Made

T4TH BODY TAKEN FROM RIVER TODAY   Tentative List of Seven Missing Persons Established in- Crash.

14 KNOWN DEAD INBUS MISHAP INNEW JERSEY   Passaic Disaster of Interurban Bus from Ice-Covered Bridge Takes Heavy, Toll

14 Bodies Recovered  from River   Seven Missing Persons Listed; Bus is Brought up from Bottom of Channel —

14 BODIES RECOVERED FROM BUS WRECKAGE   Seven More Passengers Are Listed as Missing

Rocket-Firing Weapon Aids Nazi Smash   SECRET PROJECTILE USED IN SMASH ON RETREATING TANKS

Tax Simplitication Now Is Unlikely   Republicans Plan Future Action

Dramatic Rescue Of 2000 Persons From Transport Off Canada Listed

REVEAL 2,000 LIVES SAVED      ‘BURNING TRANSPORT , NEAR HALIFAX .

JOHN NANCE GARNER HAS 76TH BIRTHDAY   WHOLE BLOOD IS FLOWN TO PHILIPPINES

PRAISE TRIP. BY CHURCHILL   British Papers Laud Conference in Athens

Dewey Regarded As Sure Nominee   Victory Possible On First Ballot

Miss Ivadel Cleal Weds Sgt. Porter   In Ceremony at Fresno, Calif., November 10

Peace Terms Fall oLikeCold Shower On Finnish People   Russian Armistice . Is ‘impossible of Acceptance;”’ Battle Action Is Renewed:

FINNS QUIET OVER SOVIET PEACE TERMS   Press Gives No Hope Of War  Settlement

Finland Is Cool  -To Peace Terms   ‘Swedish Newspaper Reports View Is  Taken at Helsinki That Conditions ! Offered by Russia Are Thypaniile  a ee ee   PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED

Finns Deem Terms Harsh   Many Leaders Say They Are Impossible Of Acceptance

RUSSIAN TERMS HIT FINNS HARD   Armistice Appears Farther Away as ‘Wait and See’ Policy Develops

FINNS COOL T0 RED PEACE BID   Terms Like ‘Cold Shower’ On People, Is Report

PEACE TERMS DISAPPOINTING   Conditions Fall Like ‘Cold Shower’ on People of Finland.

Finns Assert Soviet Peace Terms Severe   Doubt Expressed That They Will Be Accepted; Finns to ‘Wait and See’

Finnish Press Brands Soviet Peace Progran   Puts Terms As Unaccept, able; Publish Proposal: For First Time.   HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT

Russian Terms Fall Like Cold Shower On Finns   While Peace ace Issue Was Being Disclosed Finnish Communique Reported Lively Battles on Fighting Front.

SOVIET PEACE TERMS LEAVE FINNS RATHER COLD TO PROGRAM   GENERAL VIEW IS THAT CONDITIONS ARE IMPOSSIBLE OF ACCEPTANCE

FINNS SHOCKED — BPE TERS - fF SBMIETRESSI   Fall Like “Cold Shower” On People Of Finland   ALL REGARD THEM AS IMPOSSIBLE

PEACE TERMS FOR FINLAND DISPLEASING   Publication of Offer In Newspapers Falls Like a “Cold Shoulder" On Populace  DPM iOmcaAtlL Ce €CfPrmranaDer

FINNISH PRESS SAYS PROPOSAL GIVES NO HOPE  merRARF ARELAIO TIC LC   REPORT ARMISTICE TERMS HAVE BEEN COLDLY RECEIVED

Finnish Press Labels Peace Terms Too Hard   Russian Conditions To End Hostilities May Be Rejected

Finnish Press Says Red Terms Not Acceptable   Soviet Armistice Proposals Called Disappoint inolv Severe.

FINNS COLD TO SOVIET TERMS   Russian Peace Proposals , Declared Impossible Of Acceptance

Finn Press Scores Russ Peace Terms   Declares - Capitulation Under. Such Conditions Impossible; Believes © Acceptance Unlikely

FINNS COLD ’ TO RUSSIA'S PEACE TERMS   People in Helsinki Take View That Conditions  ” Impossible to Accept.   Fighting Is Renewed ¢ On the Finnish Front

Russian Peace Terms Leave Finnish Cold   Conditions Declared To Be Too Severe; May Not Be Accepted

Finns Cold TowardRed  Peace Plan   Conditions Viewec As Impossible By People

FINNISH PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED BY RED TERMS   Press Sharply Critical of Russian Proposals as Lively Activity Reported on Front

FINNS COOL TO RUSSIAN TERMS   Believe Proposals Are Impossible to Accept .

PEACE TERMS COLD SHOWER TO THE FINNS   Swedish Correspondent Says Even Advocates of Armistice Concede Conditions Are Impossible of Accentance.

Finns Brand Peace Terms ‘Impossible’   Writer Says . Proposals Fell Like ‘Cold Shower’ : on People

FINNS PUBLISH PEACE TERMS   People Believe Armistice Price Too High

Finns Dislike  Peace Terms   Correspondent Says Disappointment in Soviet Terms Obvious

Finns Cool to Soviet Terms   Evidence of Great  Disappointment Among Finnish People

Finland May Reject Soviel Peace Terms   Armistice Proposals Too Harsh, Is Claim; Populace Depressed

FINNS HESITATE TO ACCEPT RED PEACE TERMS AS TOO HARSH; RUSSO-FINNISH FIGHTING ON   Publication of Peace Terms Falls on Populuce “Cold Shower” and Many Finns Hold Terms ‘Impossible of Fulfillment by Their Nation

ALLIES SLAP AT NEUTRALS   U. S. Refuses to Recognize Sales of Gold Looted By Axis Nations

Axis Gold  No Good   Allies Will No Longer Accept Tainted Gold From Neutral Countrie:

Shut Door On Gold OF Axis   J. $.. Russia. United King: dom Combine In Refusing To Accept Deposits.

Axis-Ts Tainted Gold Banned   New Economic Noose Is Wielded By Allies

‘Axis Gold Is Decreed Worthless   Allies Warn Swiss, Turks, Spanish

Allies Bar Ayis Gold   No More Accepted By United Nations From Neutral Lands

"German Gold’ ‘Is Rejected .   Allies Will Refuse _ To Accept Loot From Conquered Peoples

One Supreme Command For  U.S. Urged   Military Leaders  Turning To Single  SL eee ee ae ee kt, eee

Armed Force Merger Seen   ‘Unification Of U,, S., Army, Navy Is Goal .

U.S. Military Merger Sought  One Department for All Arms Seems to Be Aim of Leoders

STREAMLINING U. 8. ARMED FORCES UNDE ONE COMMAND SOUGHT  SOME WANT QUICK AC. TION WHILE OTHERS ARE MORE CAUTIOUS

Unified Command Of Army Sought   American Military Leaders Favor Complete Overhaul of the Military.

Single Command For All Armed Forces Sought   Overhaul Of Military Setup After War Favored

Single Department of War Considered in Capital Circles   Opinion Divided on Best Time for Big Consolidation

Plan To Unity Armed Forces Gains Support   Military Experts Favor Overhauling Of Present Program

Merger Of Country’s Armed Forces Under One Supreme Command Loom:

Armed Forces “Unity Discusse Jn Washington » Idea Approved But  ~, Disagree On How ® To:Bring It About —

U.S. Military In Favor Of Change   ONE SUPREME COMMAND ADVOCATED FOR NATION

NEW SET-UP FOR ARMY PLANNED   Integration Of Armed Forces Under Single Command Under Consideration; May Take Some Time.

Consider Merger  Of Armed Forces Single Department With One Staff Chief Seen

ARMED FORCES MERGER SEEN   Streamlining Into Single Supreme Command May Be Delayed Awhile

Military Leaders Consider Merging Of American Armed Forces After War

LEADER WANT  ONE WAR UNIT   Wonder If Unification of Services Should Be Attempted Now.

PARTY CHIEFTAINS WITH EYES ON CALIFORNIA GETTING WARMED UP FOR MORE MAJOR VERBAL BATTLES.

Politicos FOCUS Party Strategy On California   Rival Nominees Seek Big Block . Of Electoral Votes

Berle Denies Dewey Charge   Aide Says Nominee © Distorted Meaning Tn Sentence Quoted

F.R., Dewe Rest in Verbal Vote Battle   Parties’ Nominees for Vice President Drive For California’s Vote

Vice Presidency Election Drives Hold Spotlight   Bricker And Truman Out For California’s Big Electora! Vote

LEADERS EASE FALL CAMPAIGN   Assistant Secretary of State Defends Statement Dewey ‘Used in Branding Dems ©

Veteran's Views   Gen. March “Says Intelligence Failed, Enemy Not Being Hit On Nose.

American Troops Now Stand on ~ Swiss Border   Capture Salon in Advance into Bhone Valley, Bordeaux Also Reported Fallen

Yanks From South Reach Swiss Border   Salon, Near Rhone River Route To North.

Marseille, Bordeaux Captured   American Troops Reach St. Julien On FrenchSwiss Border

Salon lis Taken In RhoneArea   “Troops Are 20 Miles From Arles, Gateway To France

Hitler’s Grip On France Slips Unbelievingly Fast: Large Areas Are ‘Set Free

ABOUT 30,000 OVERSEAS MEN RETURNING HOME EACH MONT   ARMY REVEALS CONGRESSMEN MAKING 5,090 ‘REQUESTS PEE MONTH FOR RETURN "OF CONSTITUENTS _

PAC Assailed as Democracy Foe   Nazi Tactics Used, GOP Woman Avers

State Policy Faces Test   ‘Stettinius Program. Probed: By. Senators

Stettinius Under Senate Crossfire    To Be Questioned On Foreign Policy —

Air Offensive Rolls on Into 17th Dav   100,000 Tons Bombs Are Dropped on Continent in April

Anti-Invasion Points Target  Of Americans  About 100,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped

Airdromes, Railways in France Hard Hit in Aerial Assault; 100,000 Tons of Bombs Used in Month

'CGASTAL DEFENSES AND RAIL YARDS RECEIVE EXPLOSIVES FROM 3000 ALLIED PLANES WINDING UP RECORD BOMBINGS OF APRIL.

Sustained Assault Thunders Into 17th Day in Wake of Ruinous Attacks on Airdromes, Railyards

RAF Bombers Carry Air Offensive Into Month of May  BOMBING RECORDS SET DURING APRIL  About 100,000 Tons Are Dropped on Continent © During Month

ae  "rvas. on tvé” Som dings _n A Sraig 7: cay "NE fic “nvasion “‘arae-s Sine ec 7 1-

Anti-Invasion Area in France Heavily Bombed   Daylight Raids Do Much Damage

2 Groups Texas Dems To Meet      Greatest Political Muddle Of Century Is See In Texas After State Split

TICKETS GO TO CHICAGO   Backers Of Roosevelt e Beaten Twice, Hold Own Convention

Regulars Vote For Unpledged Chicago Group   Resolutions Criticise Administration, Condemn Strikes *

DEMOCRATS SPLIT IN TEXAS; HOLD TWO CONVENTIONS   Roosevelt Followers Bolt Regular Party Gathering. and Laud President in “Rump” Meeting.   “ANTIS” SELECT UNPLEDGED DELEGATES   i Condemn Creation of Federal  Bureaus and Call for TwoThirds Rule in National Pow-Wow.

2Democratic Conventions For Texas   PARTY SHARPLY SPLIT ON QUESTION OF RENOMINATION OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; SUFPORTERS WALK OUT.

FDR FACTION BOLTS TEXAS ~ PARTY MEET   , Democrats Split Over Fourth Term Into Two Conventions

PRIEST DENIED HIS PRIVILEGES   Canonical Penalties Impos. ed on Fr Orlemanski, Returned From Nioscow.

Discipline Traveling — Clergyman   Superior Takes Away Priestly Privileges

PRIEST WHO WENT 10 ‘MOSCOW GIVEN CHURCH PENALTIES      Priestly: Privileges Denied by Bishop Few Hours After Return to Home

Church Bans Fr. Orlemanski  Priestly Privileges Denied Cleric Who Conterrod With Stalin

Suspend Priest for Visiting With Stalin   CANONICAL PENALTIES IMPOSED PROHIBITING OFFICES OF CHURCH

OWT Says Axis Is Preparing For The Next War Now Througliout World

AXIS GIRDING ~FORNEXT WAR   Nazis And Japs Realize This War Is Lost,  OW! Savs

 THE ENEMY AND TOMORROW  Axis, Knowing it Has Lost The War, Prepares For Another One

Axis Is Reported Laying Lines For Next Great War   Nazi Propaganda Drive In Turkey Cited By OWI As Example

Axis Realizes It Is Beaten, Now Planning Another War   , BY JAMES MARLOW  AND neanenw TITEL er

NEW.DRY BILL “APPEARS ‘DEAD!   HOUSE. COMMITTEE’  CANCELS {*HEARINGS ON “DURATION’ . . PROHIBITION -BILL 7

Dry Issue Appears As ‘Dead Duck’   House Sub-Committee Calls Off Hearing Slated On Prohibition Bill

U. §. CASUALTIES SINCE INVASION OF ITALY 1921¢   Stimson Reports 2,985 Killed, 12,504 Wounded ann 4791 Miccinn

2,985 Killed In Action, Reports War Secretary   January 11 Air Raid More Successful Than Previously Believed

U.S. CASUALTIES IN ITALY 19.210   Stimson Reports. 2,985 Aye Listed as Killed

ITALIAN GASUALTIES 4,472 IN SIX DAYS   11,103 Killed in Italy Since September

19,210 Men U.S. Loss in War in Italy   Nearly 3,000 Killed, Over 12,000 Wounded So Far,  Sec. Stimson Reveals

Lose 19,210 In Fighting On Tialian Front   Casualties Since Landing In September Include 2,985 Killed, Reports Secretary Stimson

19.210 AMER. CASUALTIES IN ITALY   Number Killed Is Placed at 2985; 3721 Are Missing

WAR CASUALTIES NN ITALY 6200   6,800 Names Added During Nine Days of Fighting South of Rome

STRONG WINDS WHIP CHANNEL   Conditions at Sea Ave Reported Extremely Bad

BAITISH BAN RECOGNITION   Argentina Must Cut All Axis Ties For U. S. OK, Stettinius Declares

British Ambassador Yer Argentina Ordered Not  : ee ED cut oe a Cearrell

BORDER OF RUMANIA   Believe Break-Thru Will Force General Nazi Withdrawal

Enemy Unable To Establish  Resistance   Reds Advance Within Nine Miles of Odessa-l wow Railroad

Red Army Drives Now Within 28  Miles of Rumania   Germans In Full Flight Before Attack  In Russ Advances

Reds Sweep Within 28 Miles of Rumania  ae ke TS Te ES Oe ee   Last Nazi Hope Fades lor Stand At Bue River on Southern Front

MONSIGNAR. RAPS VISIT TO RUSSIA   Polish- American _ Priest's Chat With Stalin Said *Stanad”

Jap Prisoner Speaks to Nin Troops   Disillusionment Pointed Out in  Ipnele Addrace

CASH IN ARMED SERVICES CITEL   150 Billions Unexpended,  Congressmen Learn

Lewis Withdraws Plea to A. F. of L.   Asks for Return Of $60,000 Check

Mine Union Head Hits AF L Leaders nn ES  Lewis Withdraws Application For Reinstatement Of UMW

Mine Union Head Hits AFL Leaders Lewis Withdraws Application - For Reinstatement Of UMW

UMW APPLICATION FOR  AFL LINK WITHDRAWN   John L. Lewis Asks Return Of $60,000 Check In Scorching Letter To President Green And Executive Council

Lewis Recalls  Plea to AFL   Asks Retnrn of $60,000: Chareves ‘Hypocrisy’

Jap Base 1300 Miles From Tokyc ls Bombed Again   Kurile Islands Stronghold Hit 4 Times in 3 Days

Predict Allied Mid-Pacific Drive   Kurile Attacks Mask  More Important Blows

Naval Base Hit Again by U.S. Planes   May Be Diversionary in Character, to Cover Up Other Attacks

Navy Airmen Blast Kurile . Bases Again      Paramushiro Raids May Be Mask for Attempt to Seize Marshalls - -

New American Thrust Into Jap Territory Believed Imminent; 2 More Raids Made Sunday on Paramushiro

Aleution-Based Navy Bombers Strike Enemy Base 1300 Mi. North Of Tokyo   Air Activity Designed To Draw Jap Air Strength Away From Marshall Islands

PLANES RAID KURILE ISLAND   New American Thrust Into Ja. pan’s Mid-Pacific Defense ‘“Cushion” Believed Imminent.

NEW AMERICAN THRUST LOOMS AGAINST JAPS   Australians Bottle Up Enemy Force on Islanc

SEE LONG-RANGE ATTACK ON JAPS IN MID-PACIFIC      New Thrust Into Japanese Mid Pacific Defense ‘Cushion’ Is Seen

ALLIED THURST AT MARSHALLS APPEARS NEAR   / Kurile Isle Air Blows May Draw Off Jap Plane Strength

B-29s Strike Tokyo Again. Start Fires   Japs Admit Big Bombers Drop Many Incendiarie:

‘Chairman May Places U. S. Casualities in ‘First Month of Invasion at 150,000

EXPECT HEAVY INVASION COST   Loss of 150,000 Men Per Month Forecast

Invasion Cost Estimated At 150,000 Men   Chairman May Scoffs At Fears of Heavy Initial Loss

PUTS INVASION CASUALTIES HIGH   CONGRESSMAN MAY ESTIMATES U. 8. WILL LOSE 150,-" 600 MEN. FIRST MONTH,

FIRST MONTH OF INVASION WILL COST U.S. 150,000 CASUALTIES, SAYS REP. MAY

House Military Chairman Quotes Casualty Prospecis   Says Army Expects Top Invasion Lists  ~~ OFf 150.000 g Month

Sets Losses  About 150,000   House Military Group Head Estimates Casualties In Invasion.

2,000 Italian  Troops Revolt Against Nazis   Soldiers Drawn into German Army Successfully Rebel

Italians Revolt  Against Germans  2.000 Taken Into Nazi Army Ficht Back

RUSSIA TENSE OVER INVASION   Atmosphere of Zero Hour Shown in Press

Daily Washington Merry - Go - Round  BY DREW PEARSON (Trademark.)

American Top Command  Accepts British View _ Rome’s Capture Needed

COMBAT MUNITIONS BACK OF SCHEDULE  :   October Production Is Essentially The Same As In September WPB Reports

War Production Behind Schedule  ‘Critical Programs’ Gain Six Per Cent

G. I. Vote Favors All  Democrats   Complete Returns Confirm Myers Election to Senate, Davis Edged Out

ELMER THOMAS DEFLATES RIVAL   Incumbent Carries All But 25 Counties in U. S. Senate Race

JAPS GAIN IN INDIA, CHINA   Fall of Loyang, Important Chinese Base, Held  Imminent

Allied Airmen Carry Heavy Loads Deep Into Indies   Pounce on Convoy Off Mangole Island, Bomb Namlea—Landing at Bougainville Reported

Local Doctor In 5th Army Now. In Italy   Major Jasper A, Smith With Famous 175th:-Field-Artil. lery Battalion In Sector

Cpl. Bert Jones, Peoria, Serving With Unit Ot Fifth Army Having Enviable Record

FARM BUREAU ~ MEMBERSHIP AT NEW HIG   Membership Goal Now -Exceeds 75,000 In 1944 Drive. 

HOSPITAL BOARD HEARS REPORTS   Hanover General Will Have Served Community 18 Years October 22—-Opened For Patients In 1926

HOSPITAL BOARD HOLDS MEETING   Three-Months’ Revorts Ove Busy Summer Seasor Heard By Directors — Improvements  Effected

Over. 600 Persons Die in Series of Accidents in Nation Last Two Week:

OPA Ceilings On Used Cars Go In Effect On Monday   Aimed To Stop  Rising Prices

It Begins Next Monday, July 10 Ceiling Prices on Used Cars May Halt Exhorbitant Prices

OPA Price Ceilings on Used Cars Expected To Stop Inflationary Rise

Bond Sales in County 5293.035   Sixth War Loan Drive Here Continues Toward = L.000.000 Goal

County War Bond  Sales $1,483,023   New Allocation of Purchases to County Give Another Boost

BONOMI CABINET FORCED TO QUIT UNDER PRESSURE   Italian Government Falls After Six Months; Internal Bickerings   SFORZA MENTIONED AS NEXT PREMIER

BONOMI CABINET RESIGNS IN ITALY   Successor to Badoglio Quits Under Fire From Left Wing Factions

ITALIAN GOV'T OUT RESULT OF CRISIS   Bononi Regime Quits After Failure to Get Proaram

RUMANIAN KING LEAVES CAPITAL   May Indicate Trip to Talk Peace, Say Diplomatic Quarters

Nazis Give Plans For Organized Guerrilla War   To Make War Virtually Without End; Civil Ad ministration Impossible.

Nazis Promise Unending War Against Allie:   Goebbels, Himmler Assert Guerrilla Warfare Plan Bars Anv Civil Ralo

Nazi. Chiefs Beat Guerrilla Drums, Term Eisenhower Plea ‘Arrogance Of Reneaade’

Introducing the B-29: War Department Reveals Details  Of the World's Greatest Plane   Billions of Dollars Being Spent i in Big Plants To Produce Gigantic Four-Engined War Machine   Flies Parther and Faster

[t's Enemy Who Is Guessing Now, Halifax Declares   Fe Te ee eee: oes   British Ambassador Discusses War, on Visit to Santa Fe

COUNCIL PLANS CHTY-WIDE TREE REPAIR PROGRAM   Resurfacing of All Oil Mat Streets Will Begin Within Month

GUUNGIL PLARG GHNY-WiDe olhitt REPAIR PROGRAM   Resurfacing of All Oil Mat Streets Will Begin Within Month

EXPLOSIONS SHAKE HEART OF JERUSALEM   One Killed in Gun Battle With Bomb Setters

YANKS ATTACK CASSINO FROM REAR, FRONT   Rome Beachhead Battle Nears Decisive Phase; Reds Take 40 Villages

Yanks Storm Cassino From Front, Rear   Rome Beachhead Battle Raging

American Advan €: Threatens to Encirgle Nipponese Defendit iz Southern End of Front;        STRONG DEFENSES : OF FOE SMASH#S   Operation, as Well. -. Fighting in North, Developing on Terrain Ideal for Tanks. :

MAIN COASTAL APPROACHES TO LEYTE ARE HELD   Japanese Are Driven From Dominating Hills By  Americans   VALLEY FAVORABLE FOR TANK WARFARE

Stubborn Japanese Are Driven From the Hills  GAINS THREATENING NIPPONESE FORCES     Heavy Bombardment Carried on by American Vessels

GROUND GAINS ARE EXTENDED IN PHILIPPINES   NIPPONESE CHASED UP VALLEY, FACE ENTRAPMENT

MARSHALL MAKES REPORT   Chief Tells President About Trip To Liberated France

MINES CLOSED AS HUGE STATE BALLOT LOOMS   Lines Formed Before Precincts Opened In West Virginia Cities

‘Red Successes Believed Reason tested nina Sinntinén th oettscaltntanslMnceritosetd  Finns May Make Direct Peace Overtures Soon to Russians

U.S. Troops Batter On in Italy   Air Forces Thunder: To Assistance With Good Success

AMERICANS LAUNCH STRONG ATTACK ON FIFTH ARMY FRONT  HALF OF LONG-CONTEST ED VILLAGE OF SAN

New Offensive Launched by 5th Army Troopers   Germans Forced Back Mile During First Day of Drive

TEMPERATURES:   Hand-To-Hand Battle Rages In Streets Of San Vittore

Allies Open Offensive In Italy; Make Gains   Fight Hand-To-Hand For Possession Of San Vittore; Backed By Aerial Assault

Lt. Gen. Clark's Offensive Breaks Week of Minor Activity Along Italian  Front   HAND-TO-HAND BATTLES

Americans Push Ahead For Mile Toward Cassino   Waves Of Bombers Hammer German Gun Positions

Fifth Army Batters Into Pillbox Maze of Vittore, Italy   Americans in Hand - toHand Fighting With  Germans for City   Difficulties Increased

San Vittore Object Of New Push   Hand to Hand Battles Rage in City, Half Taken From Nazis

AMERICANS LAUNCH STRONG ATTACK ON FIFTH ARMY FRONT  HALF OF LONG-CONTEST ED VILLAGE OF SAN VITTORE OCCUPIED

YANK TROOPS SLOWLY SMASH AHEAD IN SLEET   Wave After Wave of U. S. Planes Drop Salvos on Enemy

FIGHT AMONG PILLBOXES OF SAN VITTORE   Both Americans and British Battle Germans Hand-to-Hand for Pos< session of the Remaining Half of Town.

San Vittore First Goal Of New Push   Objective Is Cassino Which Opens Way to Plains of Rome

FIGHTING FOR  REST OF TOWN   American Troops Smash, Batter Way inside Pillbox Maze of San Vittore.

U.S. TROOPS OPEN OFFENSIVE ON NAZIS IN ITALY   British Join Americans in Driving Sleet and Rain On Ten-Mile Front

Mile Gain Made Into San Vittore   Hand-to-Hand Fight on For Second Half Of Town

San“ Vittore’s -* Fall Expected   Mud-Caked Yanks Blast ‘Way Into Pillboxes;.  F ighting, Fierce

Open Offensive On 10-Mile Line In Sleet, Rain   British Join In Smashing  wey Into Pitlhox Maze Ff Gtantoaie man ittare

HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE MARKS ITALIAN DRIVE   ,Mud-Caked Americans  , Loose Long-Awaited Of :  fensive In Driving Slect and Rain   GRIND OUT MILE GAIN WITH AID OF AIRMEN   ‘U.S. Dive-Bombers Lay   Salvos of Bombs On Hun   Gun Positions As Allied Artillery Blazes Away

Battle Hand To Hand, Take Half Of Town   Mud-Caked Americans Open Long - Awaited Offensive On Ten-Mile Front With British In Driving Sleet and Rain.

Yanks Sweep Toward Cassino In Gain Of Mile   Batter Way Inside Pillbox Maze Of San Vittore In Breaking Stalemate

Allied Foree  Opens Drive   Americans Battle Germans Hand-To-Hand In) Fight ing At San Vittore.

Fifth Army Opens Offensive in Rain For San Vittore   With British They Engage in Close Fighting Against Germans.   Low-Flying Bombers Aid Ground Forces

5th Army Rips Ahead Along 10-Mile Front   Fight Nazis Nazis Hand-to Hand in Pitlbox Maze : of San Vittore

5th Army OpensBig Offensive   YANKS ENGAGE GERMANS IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT FOR SAN VITTORE HOLD

Fifth Army Opens New Offensive   Hand-To-Hand Fighting Rages For Possession Of Town

Yanks Open Major Drive  WithBritish   Italian Pillboxe: Smashed During Heavy Storms

FOR m ITTRE   Advance Mile In First _ Day of Their Offensive    AIDED BY WAVES  OF DIVE BOMBERS

YANKEES ARE FIGHTING IN SAN VITTORE   Gen. Clark Opens New Offensive In Italy

Yanks in HandTo-Hand Combat For San Vittore   Drive on 10-Mile Front Supported by Waves of Bombers

AMERICANS IN HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE TORAY   Seeking Capture Of San Vittore  From Germans

YANKS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE ON 1O-MILE LINE   Long-Awaited Assault In Italy Strikes San Vittore

U. S. 5th Opening Offensive In Driving Sleet Batters Wavy Incide San Vittore

Yanks Attack — On 10-Mile Front   Fighting Germans Hand to Hand. With San Vittore as Prize

ADVANGE MILE IN SLEET, RAIN ON 10-MILE LINE      Drive Toward ‘Cassino, Battle _ Nazis Hand-to-Hand ‘on - San'Vittore Streets

ALES PEN ic ~ DRIWEFOR ROME   U.S. Fifth Army, British  “Eighth Army Fight Way. Into City :   -10-MILE FRONT   Allied Troops Plunge Forward In. Driving ‘Sleet And Rain _

3 AREAS IN JAPAN BOMBED, TOKYO SAYS   Two Stabs Reported at CapitalThreats Against American Alrmen Renpecated.

JAPS REPORT B29 ATTACKS   Says Superforts Hit Three Areas, Reiterate Threats Against Airmen

SUPERFORTS STAB AY JAP TARGETS   Smali Forces of Sky Giants Hit Three Areas Including ‘Tokyo; Japs Renew Threats Against Fliers

Superforts Strike Three Jap Areas  Nips Repeat Threats Kaainst Airmen

YANKEES PUSH : ELEVEN MILES * INTO MINDORO   MacArthur Declares Hold ®on Newly Invaded Island Now Secure

. ADORO HOLD AOW SECURE MARTHUR   Gains Ranging From Seven to Eleven Miles Inland Made by Yanks

CZECH DRIVE IS REOPENED   RUSSIANS MAKE SUDDEN ON-“SLAUGHT AGAINST NAZI POSITIONS AFTER LULL © FOR MONTH &

CSOP AND TOKAY FALL TO SOVIETS   Russians Renew Their Drive Against Nazi Defenses in Czechoslovakia

Russian Forces Capture (sop And Intensify Drive in Hungary, Taking Tokay

REDS TAKE TWC IMPORTANT CITIES   Capture Hungarian Wine Capital and Csop, Vital Rail Center

S SGT. RAYMOND WOODRINCG   LT. GEN. J. L. DEWITT TAKES M’NAIR’S POST

NEW CHARGES OF ATROCITIES AGAINST NAZIS   Disease Spread in Hospitals and Prisoners Buried Alive in Ukraine, Reds Say.

COLLETT SEEKS ANOTHER TRIAL   Appellate Court to Heal Appeal on Oct. 10

Primary Filings Will Open Today   Governor Proclaims June 6 Llection

21 Below Zero In N. Y. State   Record-Smashing Cold Wave Also Strikes Parts Of New England.

Hickenlooper, Senate Observer, Js- Greeted by Seitsitor Gillette

Ee  REGISTRATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SET   They Are Asked to Preserit Then selves For Registration on the Dates Sot.

REGISTRATION FOR “HIGH SCHOOL » ‘STUDENTS SET      They Are Asked to Present. Then!  selves For Registration on the Dates Set.

Top Grade Beef Will Be Scarce   Civilian Shortages To Last During 1944 Institute Predicts

PEACE: DELEGATES ARE OPTIMISTIC   They Feel Sure of Winning the Peace as Well as the War

STROY 300 NIP PLANES Ih AIR BATTLE   Take Important Aslito Airbase; Part of Jap Fleet at Sea

Foxhole-to-F oxhole Bond (Campaign Finds Ohio 37th Division On Top As Usual

G-1 ACQUITTED ON CHARGES OF FAKING TESTS   Verdict Ends Case Which Hac Started In Spring of 1943

Two Injured In Weekend  Auto Crashes   Woman Hurt, Man Arrested After Mishap Kast of City—Youth Suffers Broken Leg

LOSSES HIGHER IN SECOND WAR   U. S. Dead Three Times As Great As In 1917-18

Patch Pours Troops Onto German Soil   Three Divisions Take Lauterbourg, Pound Siegfried Fortifications, Csave Favret Pillhnvecin Ravaria

Tth Army Hits First Pillboxes Inside Bavaria  Troops Pouring Int New Invasion; Hear   Troops Pouring Into New Invasion; Heavy Artillery Harasses let Army Sector

More of Seventh Army in Germany   Additional Grounds Gained in Four-Pronged . Tnvasion   ROER BRIDGES BLOWN   Germans Apparently. Give Up Hope of Holding’  - West Shore

U.S, SEVENTH ARMY POURED MORE TROOPS INTO GERMANY TODAY  GERMAN WEST WALL AR. _ TILLERY ACTION HEAVY;  WATIC Tene’ ADMND

Pour More Troops Into Seventh Army Drive To Rhine   Nazis Rush In Armored Division To Stop Thrust

Seventh Army Pours More Troops Into 4-Pronged Invasion of Reich Today

General Patch Forces Only 2 Mi. From Rhine   More Doughboys Poured Into Four-Pronged In  vasion of Germany;  Beat Against Siegfried   Nazi Artillery Reacts Violenthy   First Army Adds to Holt: ings; Third Score Fresh But Slow Gains; Hun Resisting Frercely

Nazis Rally To Meet  New Thrust   Pour in Reserves  In Effort: to Stem’ Seventh Army Drive; Third Armv Advances

MORE TROOPS BEING POURED INTO FOUR -PRONGED INVASION: NAZIS BLAST BRIDGES ON ROER

Yanks Seize Lauterbourg, Border Town   Seventh Army Beats At Siegfried Line In Pa latinate.

USING PANZER ‘DIVISION, GUNS OF WESTWALL   Patch’s Veterans Drive On  Siegfried Line Despite ' Heavy Fire: Are Two ” Miles From Rhine.

Nazis Launch Counterattack Near Duren   Seventh Army Takes Villages In Fierce Advance; Nazis Transfer Divisions

FRONTIER TOWN CAPTURED, NAZIS FIGHT VIOLENTLY   First Army Also Adding To Its Holdings While Third Army Finds Advance Rather Slow

SAVAGE FIGH IS REPORTED IN BAVARIA   Fresh Troops Rushed Into Battle By Russians   THIRD ARMY   Boring Through Saar Area; 17,078 Germans Buried Since D-Day By First

Nazis Hit ‘Back at U.S. (th Army   Bring Up Armored Division to Lash   At Spearheads Now Inside Germany

More Troops Are Poured  Into Germany   French Border Town of Lauterbourg Falls Fresh Nazi Armored Division Flung Into Battle; Third, First Armies Gain

Both Sides Pouring In  More Men   But Germans. Are Forced to Weaken Other Fronts to Battle New Threat   18T ARMY CLEANS OUT MORE POCKETS   Third Edges On Slowly In Fierce Fighting; Enemy Steps Up Artillery Fire

Beating Against First Pillboxes — Of Siegfried Line   Gen. Patch’s Troops Facing Fresh Nazi Armored Division

French Border Town Of ‘Lauterbourg Is Seized ‘By Yanks   ARTILLERY ACTIVE   Uv. S. First Army Cleans ‘Out Enemy Pockets "West Of Roer-

Seventh Seizes Several Towns In Drive Toward Rich Iron Basin; Other Armies Meet Stiffening Resistance From Nazi Defenders

eventh Army ours Troops ito Germany   Town Two Miles From The Rhine ls Captured

Patch Army Collides With Bavaria Wall   New 4-Way Invasion Threatens Palatinate Along Spreading Front

FRENCH BORDER TOWN 15 TAKEN   German West Wall Artillery Reacts Violently to  New Thrusts.   DEMOLISH ROER BRIDGES

REINFORCE LINE ‘AS PATCH'S MEN SPEAR GERMANY   HEAVY FIGHTING IN BAVARIA PALATINATE AS YANKS PUSH AHEAD

MEETS HEAVY OPPOSITION FROM NAZIS   West Wall Artillery and Added Panzer Division Axe Employed Against Troops Crossing Frontier in Four Places.

FRESH GERMAN ARMOR DIVISION PUT INTO FIGHT   Big Guns Open Against Yanks in Effort to Halt New Drive Into Reich

YANKS PRESS FOUR- PRONGED REICH ATTACK   Fresh Troops Enter Battles Raging Along Border

U.S. Four-Pronged Invasion — Into Reich Is Reinforced; German Piil Boxes Blastec

Nazi Aitillery In West Wall Fires Heavily   Germans Fiitig In Reinforcements. in Attempt To Halt Advance

Probe Women’s Pilot Program   To Determine Continuation of W.A.S.P.; Many Men Pilots Out of Jobs.

Japs Make Gain In Their Drive Against Honan   Seek to Link Their North and Central Forces in China

ALLIES WILL TRY TO SPARE ROME FROM BATTLE   Command in Italy Will Take Every Precaution, But Say Its Fate Up to Germans

Allies Say Enemy Must  Quit City   United Nations Ready To Fight for It. if They Don't

Allies Pledge Every Effort To Spare Rome, Put Fate of City on Action of Germans

‘FATE OF ROME IS UP TO NAZIS   Allied Command Pledges ‘Every Precaution’

ALLIES SAY ITS FATE IS UP TO NAZIS   Announcement Declare: Eternal Gity Will Be Spared if Enemy Evac:uates; Otherwise He Will Be Hurled Out.

Allies Pledge Rome Will Be pared If Germans Fail fo Defend Eternal City by Arms   Special Communique Places Burden Entirely on Shoulders of Germans, Declaring Allies WIN Continue to Use Precautions Against Damage

Soldiers Among Dead In Wreck   29 Believed Killed In Mail Train Crash

MANY ARMY AIR FORCE VETERANS WRECK VICTIMS   Death Toll In Indiana Train Crask Now 32. Claim 65 Injured

TOLL IS 32 IN TRAIN CRASH ..   Air, Vets of Italian. --: ‘Campaign Among Dead

12 Killed in Train Wreck   43 or More injured When Crack Southern Pacific Is Derailed

Russians Draw Noose Tighter About 100,000   All Efforts Of Germans To Break Out Have. Reen Frustrated.

Soviets Seal Off Estonian Escape Route   Draw Noose Tighter Around Nazis Trapped 'n Ukraine

REDS 9 MILES INTO ESTONIA   Soviets Tighten Trap On 100,000 Nazis In Ukraine

Nazi Disaster Grows In East   Surrender Or Death :  Foe’s Only Choice

Estonian Land Strip Sealed Off: Surrounded Nazis Are Being Slain

NAZI ARMY SQUEEZED IN LAKE PEIPUS AREA   In Ukraine, 13,000 Germans Die in Escape Efforts During 48 Hours

SOVIETS SEAL BALTIC NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE   Occupy Strip Above Lake Peipus; Kill 13,000 Ger_ mans Trying to Flee Trap  aa Tlheraine.

SOVIETS REACH NAROVA RIVER INSIDE ESTONIA   Russians Tighten Steel Ring Around Germans in Ukraine

Reds Advance Along Finland Gulf Coast   Ukr: aine Trap Containing 100,000 Nazi Troops Holds Tight

CAPTURE UBACH AGAINST BITTER FOE RESISTANCE   Nazis Admit Huge Allied Forces Prepare Mighty Offensive

CRESHERESSUTTSURERRRTRES y  His Excuse Was Good, But Not Good Enough

are Gallup Poll — GOP Chances Favorable to Win  House Control in November

BEEF RATION POINT VALUES ARE RAISED      One and Two-Point Hikes Apply Also to Lamb and Veal, Effective Sunday —Cheese and Pork Loin Rates Increase.

Increase Meat Ration Values  1 to 2 Point Hikes For Most Cuts of mf Leauwkh Veal

OPA Announce Raise in Beef Ration Points   Pork Loin, Lard, Cheese, All Are Raised—Butter Unchanged

Hike Point ‘Values On Meat      Most Cuts of Beef, ‘Lamb and Veal Upped One to Two Points; Pork Mestly Unchanged

Point Value Many Food Items Raised   Canned fish Reduced While No Change Is Made in Oysters; Big Cut in Meat Supply Available

Boost Point Cost ~ on Beef, Lamb and  Veal for February   One to Two Point Hikes Will be Effective Sunday

Point Values Up on Mos? Cuts of Meat   Beef, Lamb and Veal Wil Be Boosted January 30; Cheese ond Lard Hicher

RATION HIKES IN FEBRUARY   Most Cuts of Beef, Lamp and Veal Included by OPA

INCREASE POINT VALUE OF BEEF, MUTTON, VEAL   Raise Most Cuts Two Points: Butter Remains Same

Orders Increase In Ration Points For Meat, Cheese   New OPA Schedule Will Go Into Effect Next Sunday

One To Two-Point Increase In Meat Ration Point Cost Takes Effect On February I

OPA Announces Hikes Of One To Two Points On Most Cuts Of Beef, Lamh, Veal

Point Values Of Meat and Cheese Go Up      Ration Cost of Pork Loin Cuts Also Increased One Point

Beef and Lamb Points Increased   Except for Loin Pork Is Unchanged  (Point table on page g¢

MEAT AND CHEESE - POINTS BOOSTED   Butter Stays At. 16 Points A Pound; More To Be Avatlable oe fF

ANNOUNCE NEW HIKES IN MEAT POINT VALUES   ‘Most Cuts of ; of Beef, Lamb,  Veal Raised; Chuese  Also Affected

Increase Ration Points on Meats   Also, More Brown Stamps Will Be Required for All Types of Cheeses.

Meat Ration Points Raised For February   Beef, Lamb and Veal Hiked; Certain Pork Cuts Also Increased

OPA Boosts Beef, Cheese Point Values   Pork Cuts, Except Loin, Unchanged: “Butter Still at 16

FEBRUARY MEAT POINTS HIGHER   BUTTER CONTINUES AT 16 PTS, POUND BUT MORE AVAILABLE

Meat Point Values Are Increased  IBy The OPA   One To Two Point Hikes Announced; Cheeses Also Go Up Sharply

MEAT POINTS HIKED   More Brown Stamps Required For Cheese, Pork Loin

Point Values On Beef, Lamb And Veal Hiked   Pork Loin Cuts And Al Types Of Cheese Alsc Take More Stamps.

Beef, Lamb, Veal  Ration Values to  Go Up Next Month Increases of One to Two Paints Slated,  emer

TWO POINT HIKES: ON CUTS OF MEAT ORDERED BY OPA   Beef, Lamb and Veal Affect ed, Cheese, Pork Loin, - Cuts Are Also Boosted- hy Fabriuarv.   OTHER CUTS OF PORK TO REMAIN UNCHANGED   Butter Values Same, Lard Up One Point, All Canned Fish Cut Four Points to Value of 12. 

Meat Ration Points Upped For’ February   Cheese Also “Will Cost More In Coupons

SOME MEAT POINT VALUES BOOSTED   Increases In Most Beef, Lamb And Veal Cuts Listed For February —- Cheese And Pork Loin Higher

OPA Orders Meat Ration Points Up   Cheese and ‘Lord, as Well as Meat, Raised; Butter Is Unchanged

MORE POINTS ON MEAT REQUIRED   OPA Orders Hike in Ration Values for Cuts of Beef, Lamb, Veal

BEEF, LAMB VEAL TO TAKE MORE POINTS   New Ration Schedule Shows One To TwoPoint Advance

0.P.A. Hiking Ration Point Values On Most Beef, Lamb, Veal Cuts   More Stamps Required In February For All Types Of Cheese, But Butter Remains Same With Slightly More Available. - :

Ration Points On Most Meats To Be Boosted   Becf, Lamb and Veal to Cost One to Two Points   More Beginning Midnight January 31   Cheese Points Up  2 to.4 Points   Ali Canned Fish, Except Oysters, Given 4-Point ‘Reduction: Some Can ned Meats Decreased

Point Hikes Announced On Meat: Cheese   New. Schedules for Month, Effective Sunday, Brings 1 to 2-Point Increases   LARD GOES FROM ONE. TO THREE POINTS    Butter Remains at 16 Points; Beef Steak Cuts Up Two. Points

’as De Calais—the SoCalled Nazi RocketGun Area Hit. Allies. Gain Slowly In Italy.

They Struck by Daylight This Morning Without a Loss.   BERLIN STILL BURNS FROM R.A.F. RAIDS   Great Ball-bearing Works Near Turin Paralyzed by Raid.

Japs in Leyte-Trap Battling: (Jap Perilto  to Death in "Limon Pocket" China Grows

Japs Slip Past Yank Road Bloek   Suffer Heavy Losses In Taking Help to 3 000 in Pocket

FIERCE FIGHT TO THE DEATH IS NOW RAGING   Light Tanks Crash Road Block Set By Yanks

Noose Tightens Around 3,000 Japs on Leyte   Two Small Enemy Transport Ships Sunk Off Coast

1S FIERCE AT LIMON   American Roadblock » Bypassed; Airmen Sink Two Ships

3,000 Japs Are Caught In Pocket   Enemy Tanks Succeed In Passing Block Across Highway.

Half of Kbeye Is Occupied By Soldiers   80 Japanese Planes Smashed in Air Raid On Wewak, N. Guinea  7s) KRETT! ret MLA TR T.

ap Resistance Encountered, but osses Are Few   Nimitz Reports Good Progress

Half of Ebeye Occupied By American Seventh Division; Planes, Ships Blast Other Parts of Atoll

Half of Ebeye Island Occupied Despite Re- ~ sistance   U. S. RULE IS SET. UP IN MARSHALLS   Casualties Continue Moderate, Adm. Nimitz . Reports

Mrs. Edith Brown Early Resident Taken By Death  Was Member of Pioneer Family In Pleasant Valley

Mrs. Edith Brown Early Resident Taken By Death  Was Member of  Pioneer Family In

Stilwell’s Soldiers  Capture End of  Myitkyina Airfield British Troops Speed  Push to Drive Japs Out of India

Northern End Of Airfield In  Burma Taken   Report Success For Stilwell’s Troops; British Make Gains

Part of Burma Airfield Taken   Stilwell’s Men Captured Northern End Of Myitkyina Field

srEPART OF TAL AIRFIELD   Stilwell’s Tyroo ps Hold North End Of Myitkyina Base é

ALLIES ADVANGE INMYITKYINA   Stilwell’s Troops Capture Part of Nip Airfield

RAID RAILWAYS AND AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE   U. S. Bombers Follow Up 1,000-Plane Attack by R. A. F.

GREAT FLEETS OF WARPLANES POUND EUROPE   1,000 RAF Bombers Work Last Night  eel  RIP AIRDROMES  meee mine nent en  Railroad Lines Attacked Today

YANKS DESTROY 72 JAP PLANES   MacArthur Reports Heavy U.S. Blow on Ciark Field at Manila

Governor, U. S. Tourists Slain At Mexican Fete  Assassin of Official Escapes; Stray Shots Catal +. Othere

Mexican Official, Three  “U.S fourisis Shot in Masquerade Rall Melee

HOLD DEMONSTRATIONS      Workers in England Oppose British Policy in Greece

WORKERS IN BRITAIN IN DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST GOVERNMENT  POLICY IN GREECE DISAPPROVED; BRITISH LAUNCE DiiVE ON GREEK:

Scottish Workers Protest British Policy In Greece   Armistice At Once Demanded

GREEK RELATION GROWS INVOLVED   Workers In Britain Demonstrate Objection: Fighting Continues Within Athens.

Gen. Bradley Says Quick Conquest Of Chertiourg Sample of More to Come

Cherbourg Victory An Indication’ To Enemy of What He Can Expect From Now On, Gen. Bradley Says

Announces Sharp Cut in Coal Use   Ickes Attributes Cut To Scarcity of Bituminous Coal

Coal Searcity Alarm Sounded         Southern Smokeless Supply Baling Tekec Sava

Drastic Cut In Soft Coal Is Held Inevitable   St. Louis, Which Burns Much Smokeless Coal, To Be Hard Hit.

Certain Coal Supplies Cut   Domestic Coal Mined In Southern Appalachian Areas Will Be Scarce

Keep Your Ration Books; OPA Will Still Be in Business After V-Day

Spare Those Ration Books, For They Mav Be Needed After War Is Over.

HAWAIIANS KEEP EYES ON NIPPON   Military Law Continues; Danger Of Invasion By Tokyo Still Imminent

PLANS TO EXPAND PROGRAM OUTLINED   State OPA Officials Meet Workers From Four Counties

Expansion Of OPA Planned   State Officials Meet With Workers Of  Four Counties.

REDS OVERRUN ALL BULGARIA IN NEW PUSH   Wide Uprising Against Nazis Reported by Yugoslav Sources

Bulg: ars And Nazis Clash  Near Serbia   Bulgarians Seek Peace, Adopt Program Seeking Allied Favor

A Three Pronged Drive Designed to Cut Off Balkans   Moscow Is Silent On Reported Push To Greece; Bulgar Situation Static

WILL REPORT ON ROBOTS   Churchill Will Speak to Commons About Flying Bomb Attacks

10 COUNTIES — REAGH QUOTAS   State Headquarters Reports on Progress

Their Final Dewey And o Cast Votes   Neither Truman Nor Brick.. ery Have Announced Their Last-Minute Plans       PRESIDENTIAL i CANDIDATES WILL GIVE TALKS TONIGHT    Thirty-Five Senatora Are Running For Election In Tomorrow's Contest

VOTE APPEALS BY BOTH CANDIDATES TONIGHT   Both Dewey and President Will Wind Up Campaign With Short Talks Tonight.

Triple Production Called Essential   Nelson Warns of Chinese Urgency

WARSAW DRIVE REACHES VISTULA   River Is Last Water Barrier Before Germany.

Reds Forging Pincers Against Warsaw; Yank Fliers Support Drive   Open New Assault

ROMANIANS IN BATTLE WITH GERMAN TROOPS   Russians Near Pioesti Oil Fields Now

RUMANIAN UNITS OPEN FIRE ON NAZI SOLDIERS   Reds Drive Through Galat Gap on Way to Bucharest, Ploesti Oil Fields

Reds Race Toward . Bucharest   Pour Through Galati  Gap; Pitched Battles Rage Between German And Romanian Troops

Red Steamroller Nears Bucharest   At Present Rate Russians Will Be in Romanian Capital Tomorrow   A TERRIFIC NAZI TOLL   Soviet Armies Watch Romanians Fight Germans  in Pitched Battle

REDS MAY BE IN BUCHAREST BY TOMORROW   Rumanians Fight Germans, Second Soviet Army Aims For Ploesti

Russians Buf 15 Miles From Ploesti Fields   Germans Mercilessly Attacked By Former Balkan Allies

SOVIETS SPEED FOR BUCHAREST   Russians, Romanians Fight Side By Side Against  Dazed Germans

Speedy Drive Threatens 12 Reich Outfits   Romanians Reported Battling Erstwhile Comrades in Arms

RUSSIANS DRIVE FOR BUCHAREST   More Romanians Reportec To Be Turning On Nazis

ONAN ND “GERMANS CLASH   Russians) Pouring Through Galati Gap In Drive Toward Capital   NEAR OIL FIELDS   Soviets Watch Pitched Battle Between Romanians, Nazis

Soviets Rush On Toward Capital City   Charging Russian Troops May Reach Bucharest Sunday; Many Nazis Are Killed or Taken  Detennar Atturkere Hit Enemy Relentlecslv:

Russians Less Than 100 Miles  F rom Bucharest   If Present Pace Is Mainiain ed They Should Reach Objective by Tomorrow Night   Within 75 Miles Of Ploesti Oi   Romanians, Fighting With Russians, Turn On Huns, . Killing and Taking  Them Prisone

Soviet Troops in Bucharest Drive   ROMANIAN SOLDIERS FIRING ON NAZI FORCES

Romanian Troops Torn Savagely on Nazi Army Units   Rapid Sweep of Reds May Carry Soviets to Bucharest By Sunday Night

Pitched Battle Witnessed By Soviets; Reds Within 100 Miles Of Bucharest

homanians and Germans Stage Pitched Battle   Soviets Within Seventy-Five Miles Of Rich Oil Fields of Ploesti

Red Drive Is Nearing Bucharest   Troops Eye Oil Fields; Romanians Reported in Battle With Nazis

ROMANIANS. AND GERMANS FIGHT PITCHED BATTLE   Soviet Advance Units 75 Miles From Ploesti Oil Fields

Nazi-Romanian Battles Reported   Russians Continue Westward Sweep

NAZIS FLEEING ROMANIA UNDER HEAVY ATTACK   ‘Report Antonescu Killed; Bulgars Tottering; Greece Revolts

Soviets Rush On Toward Capital City   Charging Russian Troops May Reach Bucharest Sunday; Many Nazis Are Killed or Taken  Deiennar. Attrrcvbare Wit Enamvu Doalantlacely

ROMANIAN TROOPS WERE REPORTED. TURNING ON NAZIS   Killing and Taking Prisoner German Trgops, Moscow Reported.   iRED ARMY MOVES FAST   Sped Through Galati-Gap Toward Bucharest at a Swift Pace.

ROMANIANS TURN ON NAZIS; FIGHT PITCHED BATTLES   RUSSIAN TROOPS DRIVE WITHIN 75 MILES OF PLOESTI

Mav Reach Sucharest Sunday Night   100 Miles From Capital—_See Nazis-Romanians In Battle

SOVIET FORCES PUSH CLOSE TO DANUBE RIVER   Rail Line Between Estonian And Latvian Capitals Seized

Romanians hill. Capture Many Nazis: - Germans Lose Galati Gap Defenses

Russians Speed Through Vital Galati Gap   Soviet Forces Drive Ahead In Attempt To Reach Bucharest, Ploesti As Germans-Romanians Fight

Two Soviet Armies Drive on Polesti, Romanian Capita   Romanians Are Reported Turning on Germans in Merciless Fighting

ROMANIANS IN CLASHES WITH GERMAN TROOP!   Russains Barely 75 Miles From Ploesti Oil Fields

Red Forces Driving for Bucharest   Expect to Enter Capital Tomorrow; 75 Miles From Ploesti

Russians Rip Sevastopol Siege Anchor  ' Capture Balaklava,   Capture Balaklava, Advance Onto Plains Before City

Back Door Entry  To City Attacked   Maritime Army Has Broken fnto Flat Area In Sector Where No More Barriers Are Possible

Russ Take  Balaklava   Sevastopol Back Door Opened By Capture of Old Town

Quislings in America? Justice Department Says 28 Men, Two Women, Seek Nazi Form of Rule

“Victory Plan” Is To Liable Germany  So She Can’t Wage War Again

Britons Argue on Pest-War Treatment of Nazis; VanSittart Would Hang Them All

‘State Department Program Outlined   Teamwork Stressed By Stettinius In Announcing Plans.

Stellinius Plans Tightening Up of ~ State Neparment  Rivided Responsibility   Divided Responsibility Eliminated, Teamwork Stressed

New Pinnacle  Of Fury Seen In Air Attacks   Huge Bomber Formations Hammer At Weakened French Coastline   NAVAL VESSELS IN BATTLE OFF CALAIS

SCHWEINFURT, AUGSBURG AND ECHFELD HIT   Renewed Gunfire Indicates Naval Battle in Calais Vicinity

FOREIGN POLICY. PLANK APPROVED   CALLS FOR AMERICAN PARTICIPATION IN LEAGUE : TO PREVENT WARS, 

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Strikes Reported In B-29 Plants   Five Factories Crippled By Striking Workers

6 Killed, Missing As Ships Collide    Destroyer Damaged In Hampton Roads

Gollision’s_ ‘Tell Heavy   “Three. Sailors: Lost At Hampton Roads

ONLY 7 TIRES ON HAND     These are to Go to Doctors, Veteri nariang and Mail Carriers.

GAIN OF 35 MILES   Japanese Are Battling Chinese Defenders West  of Tushan

Japs Penetrate Deeper Into Southern China  Soong Advanced To Premier To Aid Chiane Direct Military

Japs Push Deep  Into Kweichow   Ledo-Burma Road he Of Future JapaneseAmerican Operations

JAPS PENETRATE INTO KWEICHOW   Chinese Defenders Drop Back 35 Miles, Near Tushan, Strategic Point Of Burma Road.

JAPANESE AR MAKING STEAD) PUSH IN CHINA   Penetrate Deeper Into Kweichow Province Area

Trap Closes on Nazis at Cassino   1100 Planes Hit Withelmshaven; Russians Advance Into Estonia

Hillcrest 5th Grade Has Profitable Trip To Vickshura, Miss.   Learns Much In Connection With Cady af Civil War

Tech Training School Students Take Trip To Vicksburg, Miss:   Seventh Graders Enjoy Cemetery, State Monuments

His Uncle Sam “Dood It” to Red Skelton  Five Other Mi Movie _and  ye

Carrier Force Hits Sumatra   Berlin Predicts U.S. Troops Will Fight in China; Anshan, Manchurian Industries and Shanghai Get Blasting From Bombers

‘Lottery For Life’ Stirs up Strange Emotions As Yanks on Jungle Isles Draw Trips Home

37th Division Uses Lottery in Operating Home Leave Rotation Plan in Far Pacifi:

Greatest Yankee Army in Action   GERMANS IN NORMANDY ARE BEING CHOPPED TO BITS

3,700 Actual Strikes Last Year In U.S.   ‘But Federal Agencies Handled 200,000 Labor Rows

Congress Seeks 60 Day Recess   Must Complete Action On Pending Measures

Stabilizati on   Economic High Command Says Cost of Living Held for Solid Year; Willkie Strength Expected to Go to Dewey

22 ARRAIGNED IN BRIBE PLOT   Each of Accused Stand Mute Before Judge Carr

2) Defendants In Legislature Graft Arraigned   All Stand Mute; Trial Date Will Be Set Later

INNOCENT PLEAS ENTERED FOR 22   ‘Setting of Trial Date to Come  Later: All Stand Mute Befor Two Judges

DATE OF TRIAL SNOT DECIDED   Group Named in Legislative Graft Conspiracy Warrant Stands Mute.   NAME ANOTHER WITNESS

Soldier Vote Is At Head Of List Of Bills   Bonus Question Also To Be Considered When Legislature Resumes Session Wednesday

Legislature Prepares for Opening Tomorrow; Votes.and Bonuses for Soldiers, Take Spotlight

Negotiations of Poles Suspended   Talks Halt at Least Temporarily

Russ Army Nears Lwow   Heavy Condition of Terrain Fails to Halt Red Advance

Nazi Resistance Mounts In Russia   Red Troops Continue Advance Despite Handicap of Heavy Mud

Russians Roll On Through Mud. As  Germans Stiffen   Move Within 70 Miles Of Lwow

REDS ROLL ON IN NEW DRIVE ‘DESPITE MUD   Get Firm Hold On Important Odessa-Warsaw Railway And Hit Nearer Lwow

Mud Slows Red Offensive Today   TERRIBLE FOOTING HITS RUSSIAN BATTLE CAMPAIGN.

Reds Roll Nazis Back Despite  Almost Endless Sea of Muc   Soviets Hitch Sleds to Tanks To Plow Through Mire Caused By Early Spring Thaw. ‘

REDS ROLL ON THROUGH MUD   Soviet .Troons.Soizg Firm Hold On Vitai OdessaWarsaw Railway

SOVIETS MAKE ADVANCE THRU MIRE OF MUD   Seize Firm Hold On OdessaWarsaw Railway In Approaching Tarnopol

REDS REPORT GROWING NAZI ~ RESISTANCE   Push On, However, Toward Rumania, Also Conquering Some of Worst Ground Conditions of Russo-German War.

et -—-RUSSTA— :  TOMILES FROM ~ MPORTANT CITY   Use. ‘Sledges Plitched: Behind Tanks-To Trans~ port ‘Tommy-Gunners   TOWNS CAPTURED   First Ukrainian Army Has “Firm Hold On Vital Rail Link

Reds Roll On Despite Resistance  Moves Within 70 Miles of Industrial  ("saee af  waw

REDS ADVANGE TO WITHIN 70 MILES OF LWOW   Soviets Plough on in Mire of Mud, Threaten Tarnopol

Russ Army Plunges On Despite Mud’ And Germans   Early Spring Thaw Makes Terrain Terrible Nazi Resistance Is Reported Increasing

RUSSIAN LINE RESISTANCE 1S INCREASING   Despite Intensified Opposition, Red Army Moves to Within 70 Miles of City of Lwow   ROADS ARE IMPASSABLE

Russians Move Toward Lwow   Stiffened German Resistance Fails To Stop Drive

Russian Troops _ Battle Sea of Mud  But Reds Still Roll on Despite Weather and  ee ee Dacictnmea

REDS DRIVE ON DESPITE HEAVY NEW OPPOSITION   Jkrainian Army Pushes Forward Through Some Of Worst Ground Conditions Of Campaign; Nazi Resistance Growing.

Expect White House Phone Strike Action   Move Forecast for Late Today, Unless Operators Go Back to Work—Prospects for Settlement of Spreading: Walkout Good.

OHIO-BORK WALKOUTS SPREADING   Chances Are Good Fo1 » Settlement Claim; Capital Tied Up

Telephone Strike Hits Washington   Great Production Centers of Michigan Affected by Communications Walkouts; Long-Distance Calls Most Affected

DEFINITE ACTION 15 FORECAST IN PHONE STRIKE LATE TODAY   OHIO-BORN STRIKE SPREADS TO WASHINGTO} AND DETROIT OVERNIGHI

»~hone Strike Spreads East To Washington   lefinite Action Will Be Taken; Prospects For Settlement “Good?   TARTEDILN OFLU

‘Definite’ Federal Action Is Forecast as Telephone Strike Threatens to Spread

DETROIT JOINS WASHINGTON IN NEW WALKOUTS   Other Cities Debate Question of Taking Sympathetic Action

PHONE STRIKE SPREADING   ‘Definite Action’ Promised For Late Today

WLB to Refer Case To U.S. Economic Stabilization Head   Michigan Great: Production Centers Affected by Spread

Walkout of Operators in Ohio Spreads to U.S. Capital and Detroi:

More Phone Operators Go On Strike   Switchboard Workers Quit Jobs in Washington, Detroit and Most of Ohio;: Long Distance Affected

U.S. Action Due In Phone St rike   ae ee 2S 4 oe   Federal Officials Take Hand as Tieup Hits Detroit, Capital

soviet Lroops Roll Swittly From Minsk  Red Army Seizes Polotsk, Gateway to Latvia and   NAZI FLANKS CUT

Polotsk Taken By Red Forces   Is Gateway to Latvia, Lithuania; Russians Smash On Past Captured Minsk

Soviets Turn Attention To Polotsk   Swift Advance Leaves Large Nazi Units Surrounded in Rear

BIGGEST RED “CITY NAZIS STILL HELD   Finnish Command, Mean. while, Says Russians Have Started a New General Offensive or  * Karelian Isthmus.

Russ Advance Traps Great German Armies   Captives Taken In New Offensive Reach Huge Total

RUSSIAN STEAMROLLER AQ MILES PAST MINSK:   Thousands of Nazis Trapped; Prisoner Toll Set at 125,000; New Finn Drive On

Prussia Is Less Than 150 Miles 0f Soviets   Soviet Steamroller Drives Through Polotsk

Driving Against Germans Reeling Toward Warsaw   Russian Advance So Rapid Great Nazi Units Cut Off In Soviet Rear

ADVANCING REDS ROUND UP MANY NAZI PRISONERS   Finns Report New Offensive Along Karelian Isthmus As Germans Admit Polotsk Has Been Evacuated: Escape Cut.

Russians Roll Toward Warsaw  And E. Prussia   Reds Also Take Polotsk, Gateway To Latvia And  I sthuania.

PRESS RAPIDLY BEYOND MINSK: TAKE POLOTSK   Nazi Prisoners in 12 Day Drive Expected to Reach 125,060

Minsk Falls, SovietsHead For Warsaw   Reds Stamp Out Final Resistance In Polotsk Buse

Streets Of Minsk Bathed With Blood As Civilians Aid In Ousting Huns

Soviets Roll On  Thru Nazi Lines   Russian Armies Moving To_ ward Warsaw and East  Prussia’   START NEW OFFENSIVE   Summer Drive Already Netted Reds About 100,000  Prisoners

Reds Push Swiftly Toward Wa rsaw And East Prussia   ‘Russian Forces Overwhelm Last German Defenses in Polotsk, Gateway to Latvis and Lithuania on the Baltic

EBERBACH, NAZI CHIEF CAUCHT   Captured While He Is Eating Breakfast

POLISH PREMIER GOES T0 MOSCOW   ATTEMPT TO SAVE EXILED GOVERNMENT

Main Force Has Landed, Wilson Says      Extend Beachhead Four Miles Inland, To Peril Enemy Highway.

Allies Mass On Widening Beachheads   Threaten to Cut German Transport Lines to Army of 100,000 Men

THREAT 10 MAIN “GERMAN FORCES IS NOW ROWING      100,000 Troops Squeezed. Fifth Forced Back Across Rapido In Smalt Sector.

Bulk of Forces Landed   Main Objective Is Rome, Top Allied General Reveals

Bulk of Invasion Forces Landed, Ready To Strike   Allied Troops Fan Inland With German Resistance Negligible

ARMY COMPOSING BEACHHEAD LANDS COMMANDER SAYS   Germans Are Stow to React While Allies Land Great Number, 100,000 Believed In Enecy Army.   NEW DAYLIGHT ATTACK * 4§ MADE UPON REICH   Americans Follow Up Nigh’  Raid of RAF But Places . Raided Are Not immedia  tely {dentified.

ALL INVASION TROOPS LANDED, WILSON SAYS   Germans Caught Unprepared

ALLIED INVADERS FAN INLAND FROWN (TALIAN BEACHES   Appian Way Within Artillery Range; 100,000 Nazis  Face Tran

ie Committed No Crime, ’ Chaplin Shouts Anery Reply to Joan Barry’s Attorney.

‘I Have Committed No Crime, Cries Charlie Chaplin, on Witness Stand   Actor Says Lawyer Makes Him Seem Like ‘Monster.’ Denies He Is Father of Barry Baby

Fresh Gains Precipitate New Perils to German Border, Communications

20-MILE ADVANCE INCREASES PERIL TO NAZI BORDER   Thrust Puts American Forces Close to Marne—Germans May Make Stand Along Somme.   FINAL ENEMY LINE BEFORE SEINE CRACKED   Airmen Pounding Foe Along River Down 41 Planes—Far to West Battle for Brest Rages.

163 MILES FROM GERMAN BORDER   German Resistance Being Wiped Out South Of  Seine River   ENEMY ABANDONING ROBOT ROCKET COAST

City 85 Miles Southeast of Paris Entered   Allies Only 130 Miles From Boundary of Saar Region

GEN. PATTONS TANKS ROLL INTO TROVE!   Reach Battleground Known to Firet *: World War Lo

ALLIES REAGH SEINE MOUTH CRACK LINE   Of Nazi Defense West of River; Nearing Scene of World War One Battles.

‘Tank elements 163 miles from Rhine; Seine line cracked   French again report liberation of Paris: expect strong German stand

Patton’s Mén Nearing 1918 Fighting Zone   Allies Stamp Out Last German Resistance South of Seine

Germans in Paris Surrender, Says Capital City Radio   Americans Capture Cannes and Antipes In Southern France; Remaining Strong Points in Marseille Under Fire; Bombers Hit Gerraany

TANKS REACH TROYES NEAR SAAR BORDER   NAZI RESISTANCE SOUTH OF SEINE STAMPED OUT

Forces of Patton Raise New Peril to Reich’s _ Frontier   MARNE IS NEARED  IN ALLIED DRIVE   Part of Nazi Forces Pulling Out From Rocket Coast -

American Tanks Roll Into Toryes   Advance Of 23 Miles Scored !n Record Dash Toward Western Borders Of German Reich

U.S. TANKS FIGHT WAY _ INTO TROYES   New Advance Puts Alliec Troops But 163 Miles From German Border At Rhine

13-Mile Advance Gives Troyes fo Patton's Forces   Scenes of First World War Reached

Nazi Forces — May Fall Back  ToSomme —   _ Allies Capture Troyes, 130 Miles from Reich, _ After 23-Mile Gain  ate aaa aa

U. §. TANKS IN 23 MILE PUSH, REACH TROYES   Only 130 Miles From Reich; Battle on Somme Looms

'U. S$. Planes Hit Hungarian  Rail Targets   RAF Bombers Give Their Attention To German  Gm Emplacements In Schelde District

Fires Blaze ‘Throughout Entire City      YANKS ENTER TOWN UNDER COVER OF DIVE BOMBERS AND ARTILLERY FIRE

Yankee Troops Plow Into Rub! Strewn Streets From East, Roete-Erde Factory District   SIEGE FORCES NOW WITHIN CITY LIM

Fighting Yanks Advance On Hill Dominating City   Germans Driven From Slaughterhouse And Factory Districts

Americans Plunge Into City’s Rubble   Counterattacks Stopped; Nazis Leavine Antwern

Divebombers And Gunfire Cover Push  Toward Hill   Tremendous Fires  Set By Bombardment Throughout Aachen; Counter-Attacks Fail

STORM TOWN UNDER COVER OF ARTILLERY   Big Guns and Bombers Blast . City Ahead Atfack by Ground Troops. n

Captured Jap Says, .. “You €an Retake Gitar But Never Califomia”

Japs Worried by Repeated B-29 Attacks   Successful Raid on Toyko Sunday Brings Plea From Premier

CIO Head For  Fourth Term   Murray Advocates Roosevelt's Election

CIO President  Phil Murray Urge:  Roosevelt Election CIO Chiel Tells Steelworkers FDR Has Shown Will, Conrage,  Ristiasecumelin: kas Wattes

Philip Murray Out for F. D. R.   President of C. . O. Comes Out Squarely For Fourth Term

Murray Backs FDR for 4th Term   Calls For Unity At Home And Abroad And Reelection Of Roosevelt.

U.S. Ups Ceiling Price on Wheat  By Four Cents  Move Won’t Affect Bread and Flour Costs, Says OPA

GREEKS FIGHT WITHIN 2,000 YARDS RIMINI   Meanwhile Offensive of American Fifth Army Slowed in Northern Italian Campaign by Rain

FIGHT TO HOLD VALLEY OF THEPO   Germans Put Up Desperate Defense In Northern Italy; Canadians Break Through Near Rimini.   —RBY NOLAND NORGAARD—

Greek, Canadian Troops Slug Up  Closer To Rimini   [Intense Fighting On Both Ends Of Front; Rain  Slows Yanks.

NAZIS CLING DESPERATELY TO POSITIONS   Greeks Drive To Within 2,000 Yards Of Port Of Rimini

Greeks Just 2000  Yards From Rimini  Fifth Army Is Two Miles Southeast

Germans Battle To Keep Posts In Italy   Greek Troops Near Rimini, Americans Capture Heights

DANE ON RIM G1 QWED RY RAIN   Greek Troops Of Eighth “Army Only:2,000 Yards From Italian City

Rain Slows  Fifth Army   Greek Troops Close In On Rimini; German Resistance Desperate

FIGHT HEAVY AT ENDS OF GOTHIC LINE      At Adriatic Terminus, Greek Forces of Eighth  Army Are Within 2,00 Yards of the Ancho. City of Rimini.

GREEK TROOPS NEAR RIMINI; NAZIS RESIST   Rains Slow Down Other Advances In N. Italy

BITTER FIGHTING RAGES IN ITALY   Canadians Set Trap But Rain Slows Adriatic Advance

Canadians Flank Riminia as Greeks Advance Frontally  Americans Drive Dewn Slopes

Sth Army Closing In On Rimin;   Greeks Only 2,000 Yards Away; Rains Retard American Advance

Eighth Army Is Closer to Rimini   Greek Forces Now Within 2,000 Yards Of Adriatic Anchor

RAIN SLOWS FIFTH ARMY OFFENSIVE ON NORTH ITALY FRONT  GREEK TROOPS FIGHT TO WITHIN 2000 YARDS OF  DIRMIAll OA ANDIATISC

EIGHTH ARMY INCHES NEARER RIMINI IN ITALY   Rain, Heavy Resistance Checks U. S. Push on Gothic Line

Greek Troop: 2,000 Yards  From Rimini   Fifth Canadians Advance to San Lorenzo; Desperate Battle Rages on San Marino Ridge

INTENSE ITALIAN BATTLE GOES ON   Allies Fight To Within 2,000 Yards Of Rimini Base

Greeks Within 2,000 Yards Of Rimini; Fighting Intense Along Italian Front

BAIN SLOWs DOWN FIFTHS OFFENSIVE   Greeks of 8th Army Fight te Within 2,000 Yards of  Rimini.

156 Nazi Planes Downed In Day Of 2-Way Raids   Great Fleets Roar Across Channel, Follow Up. Blows From South, West

RAF STRIKES IN NIGHT  (By Areven Reatriccant   Bombers From Italy Smash At Nazi Plants In Austria

Great Aerial _ Assault Into - Reich Center   ‘Unprecedented Offensive Against Aircraft Plants Thunders Through Sixth Consecutive Day

Raids Bring Great Fires Over Germany   Reich Covered With Pall of Smoke From Bay and Night Attack:

RAF Takes Up  2-Way Scourge Of Reich Plants   Pilot Thousand Bombers From Britain And Italy To Aircraft Factories

HUGE BOMBER FORCE BOMBS NAZI PLANTS   1000 Planes Hit  German Targets During Night

AL DRIVES bee ANEW AT PLANE PLANTS   Yanks Lash Regensburg, Stuttgart After Heavy RAF Attacks at Night

STUTTGART AND REGENSBURG HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS   1,000 RAF PLANES RESUME ATTACK ON SCHWEINFURT, STEYR

RAF Takes Up Pincers Blows On Nazi Aircraft   Bombers Based In Britain, Italy Hit Reich Targets

TWO-WAY SCOURGE OF GERMANY COSTS ‘AMERICANS 49 BOMBERS FROM ENGLAND AND 16 IN ITALY   Report Shows That 156 Fighters Were Knocked Out of the Air by the Allied Forces With 37 More in South Germany

796 NAZI FIGHTERS FALL 10 U.S. GUNS   57 Bombers, 13 13 American Fighters Missing After Bearing Plant Raids

Reich Baffered By Heavy Waves Of Allied Planes   Great Formations Of Bombers Carry Death, Destruction

Blast German Aireralt Plants   Bombers Smash Regensburg. Stuttgart In Round-TheClock Assault.

1,000 BRITISH BOMBERS REHIT SCHWEINFURT   Berlin Reports Evacuation of Vitebsk; Allies Better Beachhead Positions

Aerial Raid Kept Going By The Hour   Americans Strike Deep Into Heart Of Germany

U.S. Bombers Again Strike Mighty Blows   Aircraft Plants at Regensburg and Stuttgart and * ‘Other Targets Hit™ In Great Non-Stop Offen sive.

Two-Way Attack On Steyr, Schweinfurt Continued By RAF After American Blows

Americans Raid Cities In- Reich   Bombers Are Sent Deer   Inte Germany During Sixth Day Of Allied Aerial Offensive

: Two-Way Bombing Goes On For Sixth ‘Day; Schweinfurt, Steyr Hit Again

Schweinfurt Hit By 1,000 RAF Planes Last Night   Follow Up Daylight Assaults By U.S.; Americans Shot Down 156 Enemy Planes

Big Bomber Fleets Pound Reich Plants   Smash Deep Into Germany For Sixth Straight Day

RAF Takes Up 2-Way Scourge Of Germany   Schweinfurt) and = Steyr Hit in Punches From West and South

ALLIES CONTINUE  AERTAL OFFENSIVE  SMASHING GERMANY AMERICAN HEAVIES IN  DAYLIGHT RAID AFTER RAE IN NICHT ATTACKS

(Great Forniations of. “Heavy  Bombers Scourge Plants “In. Regensburg and _ . Stuttgart ©   Fly 1100 Miles  ‘To Land Punches   (Returning ‘Airmen ‘Report Good Results; 156 Hun- Planes Bagged. In Yest terday’s Assault

RAF Takes Up 2-Way Attacks On Germany’s  War Industry.   Schweinfurt, Steyr Raided Last Nicht

American Bombers Smash Deeper Into Heart of Germany   USAAF and RAF Team Up in Unprecedented Air Offensives

RAIDS CONTINUE FOR SIXTH DAY   American Bombers Smash Deep Within Germany at Aircraft Plants.   ROUND THE CLOCK RAIDS

‘Plane Plants Deep in Reich Made Targets   Regensburg, Stuttgart Blasted; RAF Joins In Two-Way Assault

Great Fleets © Of Bombers ' ‘Hit-Europe   Day light - .. Raiders Take Mp Massive Attack for ’ - Sixth Day    RAF Blasts Schweinfurt “After Heavy Attack by. 4 U.S, Raiders  ;,

1,000 BRITISH BOMBERS RAID NAZI TARGETS   Great Daylight Attack Launched to Continue Unending Assault

Night Raiders Take Up Two-Way Scourge of German Indusiry, Guided by Fires Americans Se!   100 BOMBERS LOST   italian Based Planes Add Fiume to Program, Those From Britain Hit Gotha, Holland, Belgium

CARRY AERIAL ATTACK INTO SIXTH DAY   Schweinfurt And Steyr Hit In Two-Way Drive   49 BOMBERS   Lost In American Attack; 156 Nazi Fighters Downed In Day

Big Bomber Force Again  Hits Nazi:   Today’s Daylight Raid: Follow RAF’s Nigh Blow At Schweinfurt:  i onmeenes ET manme Blac

Great Air Fleets Pound: Germany   Foe Being Dealt Almost Continuous Blows

Great U. S. hir Armada Jolts Reich   ‘Mighty Round-the. Clock Air Assault  ‘Smashes at Aircraft Plants in Many Cities

Triple Raid Today Keeps Aerial Offensive Rolling  U. S. Bombers Follow RAF Night Attack’ With Three Smashes

YANK BOMBERS ROCK GERMANY   Blast Regensburg, Stuttgart In Wake of Twoway Attack

a en a ah ra at Nah re eens ena eee nit ane arene eee  REDS INVADE CZECHOSLOVAKIA, NAB TOWN 4 MILES INSIDE BORDER   GERMAN RESERVES ROUTED AS RUSSIANS DRIVE THROUGH WATER BARRIERS TO RIGA

Reds Win Czech Town. Berlin Reports Soviet ‘Push Into Yugoslavia

FATE OF JAPANESE EMPEROR UNCERTAIN   U. S. Probably Will Not Decide What to Do With Hirohito Until Yanks Reach Tokvo.

Anti-Poll Tax Bill Taken Up   Early Showdown On  Controversy Seen

Nazi West Front ‘Collapses Before : Yank Armor Drive   70,000 Germans in Chaotic Retreat From Three-Way Squeeze on Coutances Stronghold

Gain 15-Mi; Three _Armies Racing To Trap 70,000 Nazis   Greatest Victory In U. S$, Armored Force History Scraps Hitler’s Master Plan For Showdown In Normandy; Stalemate Is Broken.

U.S. Tank Forces Rip Hole 15 Miles Deep in 25-Mile Nazi Front; Closing Trap on 70,000 Germans

Americans Drive to Cut Off Fleeing Foe After 15-Mile Breakthrough; Lessay, Periers Fall Without Fight

Demobilization Bill Comes Up In the House   To Renew Battle On State’s Rights in Unemployment Pay

Federal-State Rights Battle Looms As House Studies Demobilization Bill

“WAS ‘PASSED. SEN      of GION Aon Mey RArED mt 408 vane ove setup RoR DEMOBILIZATION 

Demobilization Legislation Now  Shifts To House   Senate Decisively Pasess George Buill—MurrayKilgore Measure Is  Defeated

SENATE. PASSES CEORCE MEASURE   “Passed by 55 to 19; © George Demobilization _ Bill Goes to House. .

RECONVERSION BILL TO HOUSE   Passes In Senate By 55-19 Vote  em   State Compensation Systems Saved

FIGHT IN SENATE MOVES TO HOUSE   Demoilization ‘Bills Before — House Committees

SENATE. PASSES CEORGE MEASURE   Passed by 55 to 19, George Demobilization Bill Goes to House

SENATE PASSES GEORGE BILL ON RECONVERSION   Battle Over Demobilization Shifts to House

AMERICAN RAIDS GARNER TOLL OF YL JAP PLANES   Carrier-based Planes Hit Luzon Isles; Three New Smashes at Iwo Jima   HARBORS, AIRFIELDS ON ISLAND BLASTED   M’Arthur Says Enemy Casualties 82,554 On Leyte And Samar; Advance North Of Ormoc Further Oloses Vise on Trapped Foe

Q{ JAP: PLANES ARE DESTROYED    ENEMY AIRCRAFT KNOCKED OUT BY AMERICANS IN RAID ON LUZON ISLAND,

American Troops Battle In Outskirts of Lessay; St. Lo Bastion Imperiled

New Peace Story Is Reported In Berlin Today   Allies Pavina Little   Allies Paying Little Attention to Propaqanda Account

New Peace Story Is Reported In Berlin Today  Allies Paying Little Attention to Propaganda Account

U.S. Planes Stab Vital Jap Military Bases   Celebes. Halmahera Hit by Bombers As Yank Air Force  Holds Supremacy

Yanks Blast Forts Below Philippines   Celebes and Halmahera Bombed in Sweeps by Liberator Raiders   ANSHAN HIT AGAIN   Nimitz’ Carrier Planes in Hard Blows at Yap and Ulithi Islands

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT AT CELEBES AND HALMAHERA   NEW AIR ATTACKS NEAR PHILIPPINES REPORTED BY TOKYO

HARD NEW AIR STABS AT VITAL JAPANESE ISLAND FORTRESSES  CELEBES AND HALMAHRA ATTACKED BY SIXTY BIG ROMRERS IAPS SAV

Blast Japs On  Pacific Isles Stiff Blows Landed Or Halmahera. Celebes

Report Celehes And Halmahera _ Again Hit Hard   Jap Forces Successful In China, Seizing Lingling, Locale OF Yank Airbase

New Aerial Blows Precede Invasion Of Philippines   Japanese Report Another Raid on Manchuria Today

Allied Bombers Hit Vital Fortresses Below Philippines   Tokyo Reports Attacks On Celebes, Halmahera

REPORT RAIDS AT HALMAHERA AND CELEBES      MacArthur's Airmen Win Control of Southern Philippine Skies

NEW YANK INVASIONS PREDICTED   Unconfirmed Reports Fit Into Pattern Of Aerial Stabs

Celebes, Halmahera, Receive New Blasts From Yank Airmen   Axis Broadcasters Speculate on Invasion of Halmahera

NEW AIR STABS ON JAPANESE ISLES TODAY   U. S. Air Force Dominates All Philippine Area

Hitlerite’s Now Telling Germans There Was No Such Thing As A Hit'er Line. Red Armies Prepare for New Drive in East As D-Day Talk Goes rn.

WAR  TODAY   Allied Offensive. in ltaly Causes Nazis Great Concern; Get Set For Defeat

Today’s War Moves  Now Alliad Pich in lhaly   New Allied Push in Italy May Become Turning Point of War

B-29 Superfortresses Roar Dut Of China Bases To Hit Jap Targets In Manchuria

26 Nip Warships Sunk Or Damaged; May Speed End Of War   Stunning 3-Fold Defeat Strips Emperor Hirohito’s Navy Of Greater Part Of Its Known Power; One Of History’s ‘Great Clashes’

Greatest Of 3 Battles Fought Near Formosa  U. S. Loses Escort Carrier; Reports Still Incomplete

\Nazis Will Fight Desperately On All Fronts, Retreating When Forced, Experts. Believe

Probable Nazi Tactics: Cling To Outer Wal   Norway, Finland First?

Goodland, Kenney Papers Are Filed  Governor Candidates Appear Same Dav

Road Maintenance Program Approved Village Bd. Hears   State O.K.'s Use of Funds for the Improvement of Arterial Streets

REPUBLICANS HOLD LEAD IN INDIANA   Democrats Count on Help From 288,041 New Voters

BARKLEY WINS NEW PRESTIGE   Seen as Leader With Greater Power and as Presidential Possibility

BARKLEY WINS NEW PRESTIGE   Seen aa Leader With Great ar Power and as Presi-

REVOLT INCREASES BARKLEY’S POWER   SOME BELIEVE PRESTIGE NOW MAKES HIM A PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY: _

Barkley Looms As Possibility For Nomination   Break with F.D.R. Boosts Popularity   Two Possibilities

Yanks Welcomed By Luxemburgers Recalls Visit Of  Princess To Remsen

Yanks Welcomed  By Luxemburgers Recalls. Visit Of.  : Pincoce- Ta Bere.

Henrv Kaiser to Be Speaker al Mines Graduation  Forty-first Annual Commencement A OB Ce tet en   Forty-first Annual Commencement to Be Held February 25; 14 Are Candidates for Degrees

Henry Kaiser to Be Speaker at  ‘Mines Graduation   Forty-first Annual Commencement to Be Held February 25; 14 Are Candidates for Dearees

STATE BALLOTS ARE FAVORED   Congress Winds Up Work On Compromise  Vote Bill

Governors Favor Vote Compromise   Executives Want State Ballots   Position of Governors

STATESDRAW. UPPLANSFOR ‘SOLDIER VOTE   Most Governors Put Emphasis on State Ballntina   FEDERAL BILL. IS WHIPPED IN SHAPE   Some Governors Question ~ Right to Use Government Ballot

Dempsey Favors Federal Ballot Plan If Needed   Conferees Vote To Limit Use to Servicemen Abroad

STATESDRAW UPPLANS FOR SOLDIER VOTE   Some Governors Question Right to Use Government Ballot

Governors Indicate Approval Of Service Men’s Vote Plan   Some States Set to Use Own Ballots; Legislatures of Many to Hold Special Sessions; Kentucky Soldiers May Be Denied Vote

Poll of Governors Indicates Approval Of Compromise on Servicemen’s Vote

States Okeh Soldier Vote Compromise  House, Senate A ntirnewe Gang   House, Senate Action Set For Next Week

Absentee Vote Plan Approved By State Poll   Governors Place Federal Ballot in Background, Back State Comte}

FAMED FLYING ACE REPORTED MISSING   Maj. Gregory Boyington, Who Downed 26 Planes, Missing

American Ace Tied with Foss For War Record   Mother Confident He Will Show Up

U. §. FLYING ACE MISSING IN ACTION   MARINE MAJOR BOYINGEON LOST SOON AFTER DOWNING 26th JAP PLANE,

British Second Army Masses Amazing Power for Quick Smash into Holland

Assault Carries Within 25 Miles of German Frontier  In At Least Three Places

Ready With More Tanks And Guns Than Germans Have Ever Seen Before

Brands as “Malicious,” Rumor That Chiang and Wife Have Separated

DENY CHIANG, HIS WIFE SEPARATED   Chungking Source Says There Is Nothing to Rumors Which Reach Calcutta

Chiang Kai-Shek Marital Rift Rumor * x * a * Declared Malicious Without Truth

SOURCE CLOSE TO CHIANG DECLARES SEPARATION UNTRUE  REPORT CHINA LEADER AND WIFE SEPARATED

China Denies Rift Between Kai-sheks   DOMESTIC CRISIS DISCREDITED BY CHINESE LEADERS

REPOR AS MALICIOUS   Chiang Kai Shek and Wife Not Separated, Says Chunakinag Source.

Allies Continue Moppine Up Jap Invasion Of India   Jap Installations Hit In Hollandia Vaicinity

Allies Take Strongholds Of Japan   India Invasion Fails to Delay Allies Road Work

JAPS MOPPED UP: LEDO ROAD WORK PUSHED   INVASION OF INDIA FAILS TO HAMPER SUPPLY ROUTE

Mopping Up on Jap  Invaders   Nipponese Unable To Delay Finish Of Road in India

Work On Ledo Road Goes On   Japs Losing Around Kohima; Invasion Fails to Delay Completion of Road

Ruhr Situation Quebec Problem   Americans Desire To Share Responsibility

Titan if Deopped’To" Satety : Before 2° Women. Leap: _From 2d: Floor: Window:

Five Perish ‘As Home Burns   Mon, Four Children Die; Three Other Persons -Escape

Trio C OFF liers Are Safe In Sweden After — ‘Amazing Escape Through .Nazi Territory

USS. F LIERS GET UNDERGROUND HELP TO ESCAPE FROM NAZIS TO SWEDEN

F liens Treated Royally by Underground Agents in Flight to Safety

Trio Of Fliers Are Safe In Sweden After Amazing Escape Through Nazi Territory

Hundreds Of Planes Blast At Targets —   Even Roam Above Rome At Will In: Attacks On Lines

SPAIN STICKING TO NEUTRALITY   Cabinet Holds Special Session: Oil Embargo Now In Effect

Third Yank Fleet Keeps Up Assault   900 Jap Planes, 350 Ships Knocked Out Since Attack Onened

JAPANESE TRY TO KNOCK OUT CHINESE ARMY   Effort Made To Counter Naval Campaign

Jap Counterstrategy ls To Kayo Chinese   War Against Japan in Months Ahead Looking To Engaging Jap Army Proper, Well-Equipped and Fanatical

Give Views On Jap Strategy   Effort to Knock Out China Seen as Counter To Yank Sea Drive

Military, Naval Authorities View. ae -€ounter-Action® In- Pacific  -Effort To Push China Out Of Wai

Jap Strategy Seems Clear   Reply to Our Naval Victories Will Be To Knock China Out

Japs Counter U.S. Naval Blows With  China Drive   American Forces  May Have To Soon Engage Nip Army Jn Great Strength

Hour Approaching When U.S. Must Tangle With Big Land Armies of Japs in Pacific

POST-WAR NAVY CAN POLICE WHOLE WORLD   Gates Says He Is Against Merzinz AN Of Nation's Armed Forces Into Single Unit

U. S.. Navy Can Handle Police Job   ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF NAVY  GATES AVERS IT WILL BE LARGE ENOUGH TO WORK ALONE.   Largest Ever Known

For Dropping Inquiry Now   Suggested That Agitation Over Pearl Harbor End

“Pearl Harbor ‘Defendants ®*Not Guilty   Proposal Demanding Congress Air Charges Against Ad p mirol Kimmel, General Short Probably Will Fail; Not Enough Evidence to Justify Court Martial.

Pattons Forces Slash at Flank of Nazi Salient   Airmen Batter Panzer Troops From Ourthe to Rhine; Luxembourg City Reported Held by Germans; Yanks Smash Enemy at St. Vith

f GOP PARLEY ON WEDNESDAY   Y. Governor Will Await Actual Nomination Before Leaving

Reds Forge Ahead Through Carpathians   BREST LITOVSK BOMBED IN SOFTENING PUNCH

Bricker Says Multiple Terms Threaten Leader Development  Ranuhlican Candidate Claime Pame   Republican Candidate Claims Dems Afraid To Get Rid of Roosevelt

Dhio Governor Warns That Political Power Of Office Becomes Too Great

Bricker Advocates Limitation on Tenure of Office  GOP Nominee Asserts Political Power Of Presidency Grows

LIMITED TERM, BRICKER PLEA   Definite Tenure for Presidency Advocated, By Ohio Governor ~

Bricker Declares Roosevelt Blocks Party Candidates   Contends hrs Keeps Othar Democrats From Running

RACE SOUTH 37 MILES IN SINGLE DAY   Constanta, Rumanian Port, Bombed by Russ Planes

Capture All Kerch  Peninsula   Mobile Columns Continue Great Conquest: Strike 37 Miles  Into Crimea’s Heart.

ILLINOIS’ NEW  SOLDIER VOTE  LAW APPROVED LEGISLATION DOES  NOT APPLY TO THE PRIMARY IN APRIL

ILLINOIS HAS NEW SOLDIER VOTE LAW NOW   Will Not Apply To April Primary, Leaders Savy

PLANE PLANT, RAIL CENTER ALSO BOMBED   Carry Out Assaults In Daylight      FIERCE BATTLES

ALLIES RESUME ALL-OUT AERIAL BLOWS AT REICH   Rail Center of Osnabruck and French Coast Also Blasted

BERLIN BLASTED BY’ one OF  THE LARGE SQUADHONE OF  AMERICAN - DAYLIGHT” : RAIDERS :

RAILROAD TO VIENNA UNDER SOVIET ATTACK   Last Practical Escape Route From Budapest Is Exposed To Attack

RED PINCERS CLOSING ON BUDAPEST   Last Rail Escape Route Brought Under Fire

RED ARMY TROOPS IN SLOVAKIA   Soviets Tighten Jaws Of Pincers Around  Danube Bastion

Budapest- Vienna Railway Brought Under Russ Fire   Japs of Red Pincers On Hungarian Capital Only 15 Miles “Apart

Russians Overrun  Nazis In Slovakia   Drive To Join Armies In Hungary—Poland

Reds Shell Rail Lines  To Vienna   Last Escape Route Closed To Germans In Hungarian City.

RUSSIAN SHELLFIRE ROCKS LAST ESCAPE ROAD FROM BUDAPEST   RED ARMY PINCERS ONLY 15 MILES APART, NARROW CORRIDOR SWEPT BY RUSSIAN GUNS

Last Practical Escape Route From Budapest Is Under Fire   Jaws of Soviet Army Pincers Are Now Only 15 Miles Apart

4-Mile Gain IsScored By American First Army   Is Largest One-Day Advance Made Since Fall Of Cherbourg; Kev Towns Resiewed

American Invaders Seize 16 Towns in One Day’s Fightin:   Record Biggest Day’s Gains; Encounter Nazi Artillery

RED ARMY OPENS NEW DRIVE ALONG ENTIRE 750-MILE BATTLE FRONT   Two Soviet Armies In Ukraine Are Pressing Battle Of Annihilation Against 150,000 Nazis.

Soviets Attacking Trapped Nazis Below Kiev; Reds Extend Gains l- Eetitte

150,000 Nazis Are Said to Be Completely Encircled.  FALL OF NARVA NEAR AT HAND  Powerful Red Forces Are ‘Attacking Around Bitebsk.

State Loses Liquor Case   Liquor Consigned to Fort Sill Cannot Be Seized, Court Rules

Oklahoma Loses In Court Liquor Test   Supreme Court Holds One Seizure Was Without Right

NIP POSITIONS ON MOUNTAIN ARE ASSAILED   Peak Guards Enemy Stronghold At Borgen Bay

Marines Battle Japs on Top Of Hill 660 in Attempt To Capture Vital Position

American Flyers Shatter Munich  26 Bia Bombers Area   26 Big Bombers Are Lost in Attack

Munich Shattered By Record Attack   More Than 1200 Liberators, Fortresses Drop 3300 Tons of Bombs on City

American Flyers Shatier Munich  268 Big Bombers Are Lost in Attack

20 Sandusky And Erie-co Men Will Enter Services At Cleveland On Sept. 6

WAR FAR FROM WON, THREE TEP OFFICERS WARA   Marshall, King and Arncld Cau.ion Nation. Aoanst Cver-Optimism

WAR FAR TRIM Woe, TREE TCP OFFERS VAAN   Marshall, King and Arncld Cau.ion Nation Aga.nst Cver-Optimism

MARSHALL, KING AND ARNOLD COMPARE LETDOWN IN PRO: DUCTION TO FIGHTING  . FRONT DESERTIONS 

Americans  Gain West Of Carentan   Now Within Six Miles Of Rail, Road Junction Running to Great Port   ‘NAZI RESISTANCE CONTINUES STRONG   British Lose Troarn, But Yanks Fight Way Back into Montebourg

COOL AIR ON THE WAY   Mercury Drops Down to 33 Degrees at Sidney. Neb.

HALSEY FORCES MAY BE MOVED   Informed Sources Indicate Distribution to Other Theaters

Inside Story of Nazi Collapse In Paris Told   Mass Strikes by Parisians Started Germans’ Downfall

Jittery Nazis Sued for Peace In Paris Before a Single Allied Soldier Had Entered

LAST DAYS OF GERMAN PARIS RULE RELATEL   Story Behind Sudden Collapse Of Nazi Garrison Bared

“Only Thing Missing in Naples Is Beer-Running---There’s No Beer”  : (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK.)

Report Nazis Lost Most of 4 Divisions as Cherbourg Falls: Open Drive on-Caen

Important Airfields Near Rome Are Pounded by Yanks  Rail Communications Of Eternal City Broken Temporarily

ALLIED AIRMEN CUT ROME’S COMMU NICATIONS  gear om —_— =~ & ee oe

Important Airfields Near Rome Are Pounded by Yanks  Rail Communications oF Eternal City  a ee ns

GERMANS ARE DRIVEN BAK AT MINTURNG   British Drive Two Miles From Front  Taken Wednesdav

ROME  -TALWAY LINKS ARE CUT   15th Air Force Hammers . Most Important German Airfields in Area.   GROUND FORCE ADVANCE

BREACH OPENS — WAY TO TOKYS   Allies Eventually Will Pou Through Marshalls Says Official

Allies Driving Onward Despife Jap Resistance   Airfield 170 Miles From Rabaul Captured By U. S. Marines   Philippines Goal Of First Cavalry

Ernie Pyle Describes the Preliminaries   Despite Army Denial Correspondents Knew Hour Was at Hand

Times Correspondent Among 28 Reporters Making Landing In France With Troons

SCHOOL MUSIC BAN CONDEMNED   Vandenberg’s Bill Aimed At James Petrillo; Action Promised

56,000 Hogs at Omaha Monday  52,000 Sent in Monday; Plea Made to Farmers

U.S, AND WARD: LEGAL TILT ENDS   Chicago Judae- Dismisses Federal Petition for Injunction

Skirmish With  Ward Firm Ends   Judge Dismisses Petition For Injunction

UMW, OFFIGIALS TRY TO REACH WAGE SETTLEMENT   To Meet Terms of WLB Approved Wage Con.-ract

BARANOWICZE EVACUATED BY NAZI TROOPS      Opens Way To Red Army For Westward Push Through Foland

GATEWAY TO NEW ADVANCE IS BLASTEL   Red Troops Storm Key Town Guarding Northern Gap Through Marshes.

Germans. Admit Loss of Rail Center in Poland   Hard Fighting In Progress Outside Wilno

Reds Open  Route to Warsaw   Germans Leave Baranowicre, Key Gateway of Invasion Line

RUSSIANS ENTER BARANOWICZE ON WARSAW ROUTE   Other Reds Cross Bor. der Into Soviet. Lith. uania Near Wilno.

Fall of Baranowicz Paves Way For New Soviet Threat to German Forces Around Pripet Marshes.

NAZIS ADMIT BARANOWICZE HAS FALLEN   Key Base of Axis Defense Line Is Captured

RED ARMIES ENROUTE 10 OLD WARSAW   Drive Ahead Along Inva son Route As Another Column Crosses Border Into Lithuania.

REDS FIGHT ON FRINGES OF WILNO   Martial Law Ordered By Enemy In City Due To Sabotage

Berlin Admits Germans Fleeing Baranowicze, Base Of Shattered Defense Line - Across Poland  Key

Soviets Break Into Outskirts *Of Baranowicze   Other Troops Near Lithuanian Border ’ 19 Mi. from Wilno

Baranowicze Is Evacuated, Say Berlin Reports   Violent Fighting On Outskirts of Wilno Claimed By Germans

Soviet Troops Near Border of Lithuania   Capture Losha, Only Mile from 1939 Boundary

Venray Taken By British In Maas Sector   American First Army I: Squeezing Aachen Into Submission As New Assault Nears

Aachen Seige Continues As Ring Tightens   Simultaneously, Berlir Looks For An All-Out Assault in Cologne

Capture Venray As Hodge's Men Doggedly Mop Up. In Citrcled Aachen :

Nazis Awaif New Attacks   Canadians Force Enemy Farther Back from Antwerp; Progress Slow, Methodical

Cologne Next, According To Nazi Leaders   500,000 Troops Facing Each Other In Netherlands

Major Battle Imminent on Reich Border  arpmnnae Evnectina   Germans Expecting Drive Towards the Chey of Coleane

Half-a-Million Troops Facing Each Other in North --- Berlin   Small German Assault Beaten Off East of Aachen

Germans Say 500,000 Men Facing Each Other In This Sector   Terrific Battle Expected Hourly,   Aachen Still Being Beaten Into Submission By American Forces

Prepare for New Assault Berlin Say: Aimed at Cologne:   Canadians Reach Ijzendijka, 6. Miles. South of Breskens

Solid 10-Mile Front In Holland 33: Miles From Duisburg Formed by Brits

Berlin Says Half Million Men Squared Off For Battle In Netherlands; Third Army Advances A Mile Toward Metz; Slow, Hard Fighting Alt Along Front.

NAZIS SAY NEW BATTLES LOOM IN NETHERLANDS   ‘lke’ Describes Fighting i1 Aachen as Mopping Up Procedure

British Occupy ‘Venray, Solidify 10-Mile Front   Berlin Foresees Early New Yank Drive, Aimed At Cologne.

British Capture Venray and Form 10-Mile Solid Front   Canadians Gain in Battle to Free Port of Antwerp

BRITISH TAKE HOLLAND CITY   Aachen Still Being Beaten Inte Submission; Cana_ dians Advance.   FRENCH FRONT ACTIVE

CANADIANS GAIK IN DRIVE T0 AID USE OF ANTWERP   . British Consolidate  Front Facing Reich From Holland, Free Venray

British Troops Capture Venray   Germans Assert Half Million Men Facing Each Other In Netherlands Ready For Battle That May Flare Up

BRITISH CAPTURE VENRAY; FORM 10 MILE SOLID FRONT   BERLIN ESTIMATES HALF MILLION MEN FACING EACH OTHER

Allied Forces Effect Solid 10- Mile Front In Eastern Holland   Germans Declare Half Million Men F Face Each Other In Netherlands ~ Ready To Battle At Any Moment

Yanks Drive Within Four. Miles of Mefz   Canadians Push Nazi In Pocket Blocking Allied Use of Supply Port of Antwerp

VENRAY TAKEN BY ALLIES; NEW OFFENSIVE ON   Aachen Beaten Into Submission; Canadians Battle for Use of Antwerp Port.

Berlin Declares Half Million Men Face Each Other in Netherlands, Ready for Conflict.   BATTLE FOR AACHEN STILL IN PROGRESS

Half Million Troops Wait In Netherlands   Aachen Being Beaten Into Submission As Nazi Attacks Subside; Canadians Press Antwerp Nazis Back Into Pocket

SOLID FRONT FORMED TODAY NEAR VENDAY   Aachen Is Being Beaten Into Submission

ENTE AON aGPORTED ACTIVE   U.S. First Army Continued Lo Beat Aachen Tato Submission   METZ MENACED   Patton’s Third Army Reported 4 Miles’ From - -Fortress City

Half Million Ready for Battle Nearing . in The Netherlands      Yanks Hold Firm at Aachen; City Being Beaten to Knees

BERLIN DECLARES HALF NILLION MEN READY FOR BATTLE  BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE VENRAY TO HOLD TEN MITE ERONT

British Mould Solid Front In East Holland   Venray Captured By Advancing Tommies Aschen Still Holds

British Capture Venray  *   Form Solid Ten Mile Front in Eastern Holland; Third Army Active

Major Battle Is Imminent In Netherlands, Nazis Say  British Strengthen Hold On 10-Mile Erant in Halland: New Offensive Seen

Bombers Hit Cologne, Aachen Again   Berlin Says Half Million Men Are Ready For Netherlands Battle; Canadians Push Back German Forces Near Antwerp

Nazis Near  Antwerp Are Driven Back  U.S. Assault On “ Aachen. Continues _

BRITISHOCCUPY ROAD CENTER IN DUTCH FIGHTING   Nazis Report 500,000 Men Poised On Holland Front; Aachen Duel Goes On

Rail Base in Holland Captured   Solid Ten-Mile Front Formed by British, Who Take Venray   YANES MOPPING UP IN AACHEN   Berlin Says Great Battle May Flare Up at Any Moment: Troops Poised

CLAIM 500,000 TROOPS READY FOR STRUGGLE   British Capture Venray To Solidify Front  In Eastern Area

Early Flare Up Expected Among Half Million Troops Facing Each Other In Holland

Venray Is Captured   .-. Allies Make Slow And Methodical Progress

Ten-Mile Front Formed in Hollanc   Berlin Reports Troops Are set For Battle That May Flare Soon

NEW OFFENSIVE MOVES NOW BELIEVED IMPENDING BOTH IN HOLLAND AND ON RHINE

First. Army _ Is. Preparing New Assaullt, Berlin Says"   Ts: Expected: To! Be Aimed. At Cologne.

Lewis Seeks AFL Membership For His Mine Union   Question Mark Stamped On Year Old Application For Readmission.

AFL Undecided On Lewis Move  Miners Acceptable, But Not District 50

Gen. MacArthur Again Promises Philippine Return   In Australia To Get High British Award

General Deuglas MacArthur Makes Statement on Second. Anniversary of Arrival in Australia — Given Great Britain’s Highest Award.

Great Offensive To Get Back Philippines Again Promised By MacArthur

Gen. MacArthur Renews Pledge To Return to Phillippines, Declares Great Offensive Will Be Launched

BOMBERS IN TWO ATTACKS ON JAP BASE      Paramushiro Key Point of Air Raids

AERIAL BLOWS BRING ISLAND WAR TO PEAK   Japan's Northern Defense Anchor Subjected to Four Consecutive Raids.—Army Planes Opposed

U. S. PLANES BOMB BASES   Hit Big Base of Paramushiro Twice in One Night — Air Offensive ir Intensity.

Paramurshiro Hit Twice In Night © By Allied Planes   Central Pacific Forces Continues Offensive Against Jap Islands.

PARAMUSHIRD HT BY YANK BOMBERS IN AIR OFFENSIVE   Kurile sland Attack Goes Inte Fourth Straight Day. Truk Visited.

PARAMUSHIRO IS HIT BY BOMBERS   Air Action Intensifies Against Jan North-  ern Defenses

U.S. FLIERS AGAIN BLAST PARAMUSHIRO   Air Offensive Against Kuriles Gains In Intensity

WEA Freezes Sale Of Corn From 125 -Midwest Counties  Stan Talurn to Diver   Step Taken 40 Divert Grain to Industries For 60 Dugs

125 Midwest Counties Urniar Federal Order for Next ~.. 60 Days oa

Freeze Corn Sales  In 125 Counties   U.S. Acts to Aid War Industries

Jap Plane Losses Mount to 747 In Pacific Fray  Defense of Marianas Has Cost Japs Six Aircraft Carriers

AHEAD. ON SAIPAN   Japanese Fruitlessly Spend Main Part of Carrier  Task Force

JAPS LOSE SIX CARRIERS, 747 PLANES 10 U. S.   20,000 Enemy Troops Pushed Northward; Capital Appears Evacuated   By The Associated Press U.S, PACIFIC FLEET HEAD. QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR

LIST OF NIP LOSSES 1S ON THE INCREASE   Score Against Enemy in Recent ‘Battles Now Six Flat-Tops Sunk or Damaged and 747 Planes Destroyed.

747 Jap Planes Lost in Marianas  Six Carriers Are Also Destroyed   Six Carriers Are Also Destroyed In Fruitless Defense of Islands

Six Japanese Carriers Lost   Entire Task Force Sunk or Damaged; 747 Airplanes Downed

Japs Lose Six Of Flat-Tops   Also Spend 747 Airplanes —And Still Didn't Stop Yank Advance This Month

Six Jap Carriers Sunk And 747 Planes Downed When Caught in Pacific   Meanwhile, Yank Jungle Fighters Close in on Enemy Troops Trapped on Island Bases

Japs Pay Big Price in Defense of Marianas   Six Aircraft Carriers And 747 Planes'!s Cost Of Unsuccaccful Eioht

Sinking Or Damaging Of Six  Flat -Tops Gives Invaders Of Saipan Security Against Japs

Japs Lose 747 Planes, Entire  Carrier Force   6 Carriers Disclosed Lost In Futile Marianas’ Defense; Americans Wid en Hold On Saipan.

Six Japanese — Flattops Sunk   Main Elements Of Entire Carrier Task Force Lost In Defense.

SIX CARRIERS OF JAPS SUNF   Enemy Has Also Lost 747 Planes In Effort to Stop Americans

747 Aircraft Lost by Japs In Mariana:             Six Carrie in Foe’s Futile Effort to - Block U. 8. Drive

RECKLESS JAPS LOSE HEAVILY   Main Elements of Carrier Task Force Destroyed by Allies.

‘Futile Effort To Save Mariana Islands ‘Costs Japs 747 Planes, Six Carriers

6 JAP FLATTOPS SUNK, DAMAGED   Nipponese Expended. 747 Planes In Battle

Jap Navy. Has Lost 747 Planes And Six Carriers In Reckless Effort To Halt U. S. Offensive In Marianas

Japs Lose Six Flat Tops, 747 Planes   Fruitless Defense Of Islands Costs Japan All Time Record Loss; 402 Nip Planes Lost Off Guam; Advance On Saipan.

s UP FLAT TOPS "SNK BY YANK   Fruitless Defense Of Marianas Cost Nips 747 Planes   CRUSHING DEFEAT   Americans Back 20,000 Saipan Defenders Into .. Mountains

CZECHS ASKED 10 ARISE T0 FIGHT GERMANS   7,000 Nazis Wiped Out In Trap Above Besieged Odessa

Russians Also Stab 40 Miles Inside Rumania,  Take 480 Towns   Third Army Starts Closing On Odessa   Benes Congratulates Stalin, Says Troops Back In Homeland

AQ-MILE STAB INTO RUMANIA ALSO CLAIMED   Russian Victories Over All Fronts Reported By Official Moscow

Soviets Push Forty Miles ito. Romania  Two. Powerful Armies  Attack on 230-Mile : Front  RE ACH T ATA AR PASS  "Third Russian Army Only Eight Miles Fram Odpeza

Another Red Army Captures 30 More Localities, Including Gildenof, Eight Miles From Odessa,, Moscow Celebra

STAB 40 MILES INSIDE RUMANTE   Russians Capture 480 Vil lages in Swift Chase   THIRD RED ARMY   Surges Around Odessa; Wipe Out Remnants to Trapped Nazi Divisions

Third Army Surging Around Odessz Captures 30 More Villages; Liquidates Tyap Néar Razdelnaya

Soviets Drive 40 Miles Tnto Rumania   Nearly 200 Towns and Villages Reported Captured

Soviet Troops Stab 40 Miles  Into Rumania   Russian Forces Hurl Enemy Back On 230-Mile Front In Powerful Drive.   RING ODESSA ON LAND

2 SOVIET ARMIES SCORE GAINS ON 230-MILE FRONT          Menace to Hungary Grows Stalin’s Forces Arrive at Tatar Pass in Carpa- * thian Mountains, .   MORE THAN 480 TOWNS: CAPTURED IN SWEEPS                Noose Being Thrown Aro Black Sea Port City With. Stalingrad Hero Attack- ; ing Outlying Villages.

Russians Reach Czech Frontier.   iNazis Flee to Present-Day Hungary; Two Red Armies Joined After 40-Mile © Advance Into Rumania; 8 Miles to Odessa

40-Mile Gain In Rumania Is Told  Stalin Orders A Record Volley Of 548 Guns

480 Villages Captured By Two Armies   Seven Thousand Ger: mans Wiped Out by Victorious Soviets. .

Russians Advancing On 230° Mile Front Push Axis Back: Benes Conoratulates Stalir

SOVIETS PUSH. NAZI AGROSS P7ECH RORDE   Push 40 Miles Into Rumania and Capture More Than . 480 Villages.

Odessa Hemmed In by Surging Soviet Forces   Battle for Port City Expected to Continue for Days

Reds’ Sweep In Balkans  Unchecked; Toll Heavy   Odessa’s Besiegers Take 30 Localities

Benes Calls On His People For Aid To Invaders   Two Powerful Forces Send Nazis Reeling Back; Third Army  Surrounds Odessa

Soviet Armies Rout Huns And  Cross Frontier   Axis Troops Uurled Back On 230.Miule Front As Reds Surge Inte Moun tain Area   Ring Is Tightened On Port Of Odessa   Town Eight Miles From City Taken in Driv e: 7,000 Killed and 3,200 Capuuired

(zechoslovaks Inte Homeland Along With Red Soldiers   Stalin Announces Series Of Victories Against Broken Enemy Forces

Reds Stab AQ Miles Ip  Rumania   Third Russian Army Wipes  Out 7.000 In Drive For Odessa

Soviet First Army Reaches the Tatar Pass   Germans Driven Back Across Hungarian Held Czechoslovak Border

SENATE CONSIDERS HUGE TAX MEASURE   Declines to Lower Point a Which Taxes Apply on Corporations.

ROSES... TUR TEST arg mee as uci  Weather In State Due To Be Warmer

Move for Kimmel  Trial Blocked      ‘Aetion Faces Attack  From Senate Floor

Yanks Take Several Towns, Also Kill Off25,000Germans   Have Reached Bottom Of Peninsula; British Second Army Opens Coordinate Offensive At Caumont, Advancing 5 Miles.

Americans Capture Three Big Towns In 15-Mile Advance to Close In  On Avranches, Gateway to Brittany

JAPS DRIVING FOR KWEILIN   Cavalry, Tanks Surge West From Canton

Japs Push Closer To Chinese City   Nip Cavalry Within 19 Miles of Kweilin

WHEAT MARKET DIVIDED   Wickard Reports “Agreement of Four Producing Nations

CARROLL COUNTY IS OVER 4TH WAR LOAN ~ QUOTA BY $17,000   COUNTY MEETS GOAL FOR FIRST TIME; FINAL 4-DAY SPURT DOES THE TRICK }

Complete Story of Italy Battle Coming To Light   Failure of Allies To Exploit Initial Success Revealed

Charge Of BR  Bad News, Miscue By Allied Command  VN  Withholding

REPORTS ALLIES ON DEFENSIVE IN ROME BRIDGEHEAD   Failure to Exploit Initial Suc cess Gave Germans Time to Rally

American Invasion Forces  On Defensive At Beachhead   Fai! To Bring Allies Closer To Capture Of Rome. Ts Stated

FIFTH ARMY UNIT WITHDRAWN FROM HANGMAN’S HILL   Fierce Artillery and Morta: Duels Shake Cassino As. In: dian Gurkhas Depart From  . Hangman’s Knoll on Mon: astery Hill

Allies Order Troops Back From Heights Near Cassino   Stubborn Artillery Duels Being Waged

Allies Quit Cassino Hill   Indian Kurkhas Retire From Hangman’s Hill; Violent Artillery Duels

Positions Termed Valueless Due To Failure To Force Nazis From Town

ALLIES QUIT CASSINO. HILLS   Troops Withdrawn When Posi tions. Turn: Out To Be Without: Value.» -

Allies Abandon Hangman's Hill  Indian Gurkha Troops ’ Withdraw From Post

Allies Abandon Knob Below Monastery Hill; Artillery Battle Fierce At Cassino    Gurkha Troops Withdrawn; All Rail Lines To Nazi Frontline Are Cut

Allies Withdraw From Two Hills Around Cassino   Railways Between Italy, Germany Cut By Air Attacks

Allied Troops Withdraw in Cassino Area   Importance of 2 High Points Lost When Assault Failed

GERMAN RAIL LINES BROKEN ALONG FRONT   Violent Artillery Duels Reported At Cassino

New Zealanders, Indians Give Up Cassino Hills   French Hold As Big Guns Duel

Allied Troops Are Withdrawn From Two Cassino Hills  Bombers Have Cut Al Nazi Rail Lines From Northern Italy

ALLIED FORCES LEAVE SLOPES ABOVE CASSINO   Indians and New Zealanders Withdraw from Slopes of Monastery Hill as Battle Bogs Down   ARTILLERY IN DUEL   German Formations Broken Up, Attacks at Cassino and Beachhead Repulsed

Allied Units Quit Hills ‘At Cassino   Gurkhas and New Zealanders Withdrawn From Hill Positions

Indian Troops Abandon Hill  Near Cassine   Gurkhas Withdrawn “From Hangmans Hill Below Peak Of Monastery Hill.   RAIL LINES DISRUPTED

PALL —  BIG aN NG ROAR AROUND GASSINC   Indian Gurkha Troops _ Are Withdrawn From  Exposed Hill —

Allies Yield ‘Two Positions   Quit Hangman’s Hill And Hill 202, It Is Disclosed

ALLIES QUIT TWO CASSINO HEIGHTS   INDIAN TROOPS ~ a THDRAWN FROM ANGMAN'S. HILL

Indian Troops Withdrawn In Cassino Areas   Artillery Duels Continued On Monastery Hill; Nazi Forces Beaten Back In Anzio Sector

ALLIES WITHDRAWN FROM HILL ABOVE CASSING DEFENSES  HEAVY ALLIED GUNS CON _ TINUE TO- BLAST AT GER MAN-HELD HOTEL

EXPOSED KNO EVACUATED B NDIAN TROOP   Hangman's Hill, Just Below Peak of Monastery Over looking Cassino, Is )  Abandoned   ]   ASSAULTS ARE SMASHED

Allies Leave _ Positions On. 2 High Spots   Military Value Ceased as Assault For Cassino Was Repulsed - :

Hangman’s Hill Evacuated By Indians As Violent Artillery And Mortar Duels Rage At Cassino

SURRENDER OR BE RAZED   Nazis Have 24 Hours to Decide— Ultimatunt Says an All-Out Attack Will Follow if Enemy Doesn’t Quit. aii

Vow Ruthless Attack Unless Nazis Give Up   There's No Middfe Course, Besieged Garrison Told

‘Ruthless Destruction’ Is Threatened In 24 Hour Ultimatum To Nazis.

Ultimatumm to Surrender in 24 Hours Goes In   While Sealing Off City, U.S. First Army Prepares to Smash Path to Rhine

German Town Is Surrounded By First Army   {. S. Commander Tells Defenders That Ground And Air Forces Will Proceed With Ruthless Bombardment Unless City 1s Surrendered Unconditionally 

Surrender or Die  Defenders Warned   Gen. Hodges Says Air, Artillery Bombardment Will Blast City Into Submission If Offer Is Declined

First Army Masses For Big Smash Toward Rhine   Allies Take  Corinth, Greece

NAZI GARRISON GIVEN 24 HOURS ~ TOSURRENDER   Yank Leader Promises Ruthless Destruction Of German City

NAZIS GRANTED DAY 10 DECIDE ON SURRENDER   Mighty Bombardment Of City Threatened If Terms Fail

Ordered by Uz ‘Ss. Com anders Give Up Aachen Unconditionally  or Face Destruction

Build Forces For New Blow   Prepare for Breakthrough Drive Toward Rhine Along 25-Mile Front Inside Reich

Must Give Answer in 24 Hours   No Middle Course: City Must Be Yielded Or It Will Be Destroyed   PEOPLE CALLED UPON TO ACT   Shower of Leaflets Telis American Position; City Is Surrounded

AMERICANS SURROUND NAZI CITY   “Surrender or Die’ Is Message Sent to Germans

Ultimatum sent German garrison sealed in city   _ Twenty-five mile front   Twenty-five mile front built up to punch Rhine

ALLIED STEEL RINGS DOOMED FORTRESS CITY   New Gains at Nancy, Belfort

Must Surrender Within 2: Hours o: Be Conquered by Ruthless Attacks, U.S. ist Army Announced.   THE SIEGFRIED LINE CITY IS SHEARED OFT   Wall of Troops, Tanks and Guns Building Up.a 25 Mile Front 6 to 10 Miles Inside _  ~ the Reich. -

Siegfried Line City Sealed Off By Americans   Doughboys Plunge 6 To 10 Miles Inside Reich

Nazis in Doomed Aachen Get 24 Hours To Decide After Americans Close Vise 

Nazis Have 24 Hours To Give Up   Or ‘American Army Ground, Air Forces Will Proceed To Reduce’ City

Land and Air Bombardment Will Follow Refusal to Surrender   ‘TIGHTENING THE VICE

GERMAN {ITY 5 SURROUNDED   Mile Wide Escape Cane Chocked Off By Curtains Of Gun Fire.   ULTIMATUM [S_ ISSUED

YANKEE GUNNERS CONTROL ESCAPE LANE FROM CITY   BUILD UP PRESSURE FOR BREAK-THRU ON FRONT OF 25 MILES

American Commander Issues Unconditional Surrender Ultimatum; Patton Straightens Line on NanayMetz Sector

ALL-OUT DRIVE READY IF NAZIS REJECT ORDERS   U.S. Troops Surround Key Siegfried City; Patton’s Men Wipe Out Bulge

Germans Given 24 Hours To Surrender Or Suffer Destruction   Big Guns ‘Trained On City For Kill   Other Gains Re ported Along Length Of Western From

- COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY ULS.FIRST ARMY GERMANS ARE: CALLED ON TO GIVE UP

AMERICANS BUILDING UP LONG FRONT DEEP IN NAZI TERRITORY  FORMER SIEGFRIED LINE FORTRESS CITY HAS

Cordon Of Steel Set Around City   Deliver 24-Hour Ultimatum To Trapped Garrison.

Germans Get 24 Hours  To Surrender   Canadian Forces Advance in Effort to Clear 15,000 Nazis From Schelde Estuary; Patton’s Army Straightens Out Nancy Line

Huns Ordered To Surrender Besieged City:  In 24 Hours   No Middle Course  For Commander:

Encircled City Given Ultimatur To Surrender      Americans Build Up 25-Mile Front For Breakthrough Punch To Rhine

24-Hour Ultimatum Handed  ToDoomed Nazis as 1st Army Loops City with Steel Cordon

NAZI GARRISON ORDERED 10 SURRENDER   Enemy Given 24 Hours To Give Up City   Move Into New Positions Above Nancy: Losses Of Germans Heavy

City Is Encircled:  1,500 Nazi Troops To Give Up Or Die   Air and Artillery Pounding Threatened Unless German Garrison Surrenders Unconditionally—’Useless Bloodshed and Destruction’ Would Be Averted by Quick Foe Decision.

German City Circled By U.S. First Army   Industrial Center Of 165,000 Doomed By American Power; Leaflets Call On Soldiere Civilians To Give Up

Nazi Garrison In City Faced With Ulfimatum   Area Surrounded By American Ist Army Men Todey

Nazi Garrison Given 24 Hours To Quit Or Face Destruction Of Entire German City   City Completely Surrounded By America’ Troops; Air And Artillery Assault Only Alternative Remaining For Defenders

‘Surrender Or Die, Defenders of City Told   American First Army Forges Steel Cordon Around Nazi Bastion

Nazi Garrison Is Given 24 Hours To Cease Hostilities   Doughboys Bound for Germany's Industrial Ruhr and Rhineiand Squeeze Gap East of Aachen to Less Than Mile   DESPERATE COUNTERATTACKS ARE REPULSED

Gen. Hodges Prepared To Reduce City   Yanks Shower Leaflets On Doomed Town Urging Capitulation

Trapped Nazi Forces Told To Surrender in 24 Hours: Or Suffer All-Out Bombing   U. S. First Army Drawn Up Along 25-Mile Front Inside Reich, Ready Fer Bia Push Teward the Rhineland

City Besieged By Troops Of U.S. 1st Army   24-Hour Limit Is Set On ‘Surrender Or Die’ Edict; Destruction Of Town Will Follow If Offer Is Refused, General Warns

German Garrison, Holding the City, Is Given Ultimatum To Give Up Within 24 Hours.   IMPORTANT CITY IS ENTIRELY ENCIRCLED

Gen. Hodges        Yanks Shower Leaflet On Doomed Town Urg ing Capitulation — -

Destruction Will Follow Expiration Of 24-Hour Limit   Canadian Troops Advance in Clearing Schelde Estuary

YANKS PREPARE FER BiG DRIVE INTO GERMANY   “anadians Move Forward In Drive To Clear Schelde Estuary

City Completely Encircled: Forces Being Built Up for. A Drive Toward the Rhine.   “,  Third Army Eliminates German’ ix Pocket in the Nancy-Metz Sector

Ultimatum Is Given Aachen Garrison   Germans Are Given 24 Hours to Surrender

[RON RING IS FORGED ABOUT NAZI GARRISON   American Artillery With Infantry Is Now Poised for Final Cleanup.   BULLETIN

Must Yield Or Be Razed Germans Tole   Nazi Commander Given 24 Hours To Quit City Now Surrounded.

Hodges Promises Ruthless Assaults: On Nazi Garrison   Ist American Army Sufficiently Equipped With Planes, Artillery To Destroy City If Necessary

German City Sealed Off By Yankee Guns   Ruthless Battering  Ahead If Nazis Fail To Quit; Mass Force Far Punch To Rhine

Land and Air Bombardment Will Follow Refusal to , Surrender  i     Te ITrRTATO TRI trTreor   "TIGHTENING THE VICE   Amphibious Forces on South Shore of the Schelde  Advance

REICH CITY SURROUNDED BY YANKEES   Surrender Within 24 Hours or Be Cenquered, Ultimatum for Sealed-Off German City

US. First Army Delivers Ultimatum To Surrender  After Hemming In City

Encircled Siegfried ‘Fors tress Faces Ruthless Attack If Ultimatum Is Ignored; Yanks Build Up Power For Punch To Rhine.

Yonks Build Up Pressure on 25-Mile Front From Six to 10 Miles Inside  Germany for Attempted Break-Through

Garrison Completely Sealed Off   Given 24 Hours to Decide; Yanks Build Up Pressure for a Breakthrough to. Rhine

GERMAN GARRISON IN BESIEGED CITY ORDERED SURRENDER   FIRST UNITED STATES ARMY POISED FOR MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH TO RUHR

All-Out  Smash Routed   SIX ENEMY DIVISIONS THROW STRENGTH INTO ATTEMPTED ADVANCE

Then Force Enemy Back   Naval Units, Airmen Help Halt Massed Nazi Attack

American and British Forces Checked Supreme Effort. by German Troops in an Attack.   ENEMY THROWN BACK TOWARD CARROCETC   Nazi Steam Roller Advance, Aimed at Center of Allied Beachhead, Checked in a ~ 48-Hour Battle.

AMERICAN, BRITISH FORCES STOP GERMAN BEACHHEAD ATTACK   SUPREME NAZI EFFORT TO WIPE OUT INVASION FORCE THROWN BACK

NAZIS A TREIR LINES ARE BREACHED   Berlin Radio Says TankLed Infantry, Striking in Anzio Area, Has Inflicted “ vonsidlexabie  Oaenaltiag

NAZI BEACHHEAD ATTACK SMASHED, LOSSES MOUNTING   ENEMY IS DRIVEN BACK TWO MILES TOWARD CARROCETO

LAUSCHE RUNS FOR GOVERNOR   Mayor of Cleveland Ends Long Indecision With Announcement

LAUSCHE IN ~~ STATE RACE   CLEVELAND. “MAYOR _ AN. NOUNCES. HE WILL SEEK DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR

U. S. Casualties on Guam Listed  Junction Made by Landing Forces

Four-Power Meet May Eliminate Peace Conference  No Versailles Treaty May Be Neaded After Present War

World Security Being Plannec   Peace Conference May Be Eliminated

Think World Security Organization to Eliminate Need for Peace Conference

Truck Driver. Away: “So Much Ie Forgets’ His Younvest Child’s. Name

Busy Truck Driver Has Trouble Remembering  Names Of His Children

Sixth War Loan Bond Box -Score   Allies Repel Nazi Drives Near Faenza

REPULSE NAZI COUNTER DRIVES   Germans Fighting Fiercely in Italy

Fierce Attacks of Nazis Are Stopped   Allies im Healy Hold Bridge. head in Hot Battle

Nazis Repulsed In Italy Attack   Foe Loses Heavily in Clash With 8th Army

STOP COUNTERATTACK    Nazis Battling the Allies West of the Lamone River :

ip. tinued on Page 90, Col. 6)  President Goes  To Bethesda For Checkup

He Didn't Like Jap Wallpaper At All   Not With Two Sons Fighting in Solomons Now

Murdock Scores Liquor Industry   Says Prohibition Is Remedy if Business Isn’t Conducted Renutably

RED ARMY TROOPS IN SWIFT DRIVE TOWARD AUSTRI   Reach Point 50 Miles From Frontier, Plunging Through Sagging Nazi Lines in Hungary.   RETREATING GERMANS ABANDON SUPPLIES   ’  More Than 120 Towns En guifed in March—Thirty ' Mile Front Seized Along Lake Balaton.

SOVIETS ONLY FIFTY MILES FROM AUSTRIA   NAZI OPPOSITION SAGS; 120 MORE TOWNS TAKEN

Soviet Forces Only Fifty Miles From the Nation  MARCALI CAPTURED "IN DAY’S ASSAULT  Strategic Railway Junctions Are Also Seized

Riiss Terms to Romania Liberal   Quick Agreement on Armistice Expected

PLANES HELP GROUND FORCE STAND FIRMLY   Terrific Artillery Bombardment in Effort to Get Past Stubborn Barrier at Cassino

Secretary Stettinius May Visit In London Preceding Big Three Meeting

Steffinius May “ Go To London For Eden Parley  proline ry Mov For Big-3 Maetin sy

Pre- Big Three  Confab Looms   British Are: “Anxious. For. Stettinius - Visit.

STETTINIUS MAY VISIT EUROPE   Trip Would be Preliminary to Meeting of Bio Three

Eden Defends British Policy   Admits Disagreement Be tween Allies; Suggests Quarterly Meetings.   I a a ae een ne —_———™  Stettinius May Visit London; Preface To Big Three Meet

Stettinius May ‘Confer in London   Secretary of State’s Visit May Precede Big Three Meeting

STETTINIUS MAY PRECEDE ‘BIG 3' INLONDON TRIP   Eden Asks Restoration Of Meeting Of Foreign Sacretaries

Stetfinius May Go To London Soor   Serve as Preliminary Move to Stalin, FDR, Churchill Meet

Inland Inland Seas Of Floodwater Leave Chaos In Sweep Toward Mississippi

WATERS UNABATED   Thousands Laboring to Save Levees Along Three Midwest Rivere

MANY ARE ROUTED. BY RISING WATERS      Cities Along Mississippi River Menaced and Crops Ruined

Damage ‘Mounts In Flood Areas .   St. Louis Death Toll Now !s Six

QAKHALIN   AAF Strikes Southwest Ger rmany      WRECK SWISS CITY BY MISTAKE

Units of First Army Only 87 Miles From French  Capital   CANADIANS IN DRIVE   Americans’ Push Nea Angers on the Loire : River Line

USA UNITS SURGE PAST LEMANS   Canadians Smash Second Nazi Defense Line On Road to Paris

CANADIANS PUSH BELOW CAEN FOR GAIN OF 15 MILES  AMERICANS CAPTURE   AMERICANS CAPTURE LE MANS, 100 MILES FROM FRENCH CAPITAL

-Canadians Also —  Break Thru On Left   Kx K& Ke KW Huge AAF — Fleet In Action

NAZIS DECLARE U. S. TANKS ON RAPID THRUSTS   Americans Take LeMans and Storm Unchecked Toward French Capital

Less Than 100 Miles From Paris   U.S. Front Broadened and Germans Say One Unit Is 87 Miles From Paris    YANKEES CHARGE  . BREST DEFENSES      Nazis’ Counter Attacks. On Canadians and British  Are Renelled

Canadians Penetrate  6 Miles from Caen   Wings of Two Armies Curling Around Germans in France; Brest Garrison Refuses Ultimatum to Surrender.

Germans Report Yank Spearheads Now Only 87 Miles From Paris; &°-~=««

German Broadcast States Spearheads Are Only 87 Miles From French Capital

U.S. Forces Are Racing To Paris   Canadian Treops Into Open After 16-Mile Smash, Join Avalanche

U.S. Force Now 87 Miles From Capital, Report   Canadians Breaking Enemy Defenses; Pus! 16 Miles Past Caen; Brest Assault Opens

‘Nazi Defense Line Cracked By Canadians   Some U. S. Motorized Forces 87 Miles From Paris, Berlin Reports

Retreating Nazis May Offer Little Defense Until Just Outside French Capital.     CANADIANS NEAR

American TroopsTake Le Mans and Drive on; Attack Brest Defense   - Maple Leaf Acmiy 15 Miles from Caen; Berlin Says St. Malo Yielling, But Fighting Ritver at Lariest

Canadians Break Through Second Defense Line To Point 16 Miles Below City Of Caen

SECOND DEFENSE LINESMASHED BY CANADIAN ARMY   Allied Wings Curling Around Bulk of German {Forces

Canadians Break Nazis SecondLine   -, . Berlin Says U. S. Forces 87 Miles From Paris

ONLY 87 MILES TO PARIS, NAZI SOURCES CLAIM   Canadians Thrust 16 Miles Below Caen  In New Drive

+ Units of First Army Only 87 Miles From French ee Capital  CANADIANS IN DRIVE   RA MUEREFESR ALN BENS Be  Anvesioums? Push- Near _ Angers on the Loire  Beis: dee

CANADIANS ARE NEAR FALAISE   Allies Curling Around German Army, Threaten to Poeket it.   FORCES BOUND FOR PARIS

Roar On Toward Paris   Twin Drives Threaten To Trap Big Part  Of German Armies; Pound at Brest

Citrus Retail Prices Are to Be Reduced   Opa Regulations On Pricing Are Revised

ALLIES DRIVE TO TRAP ENEMY DELAYING ADVANCE ON ROME: 6000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED   Sezze Seized As Heavy Guns Are Leveled At Vale  montone; Rail Junctions Blasted As 5,500 Planes Push. Assault

‘Work Begun on Bill to Liberalize Election Laws   Committee Named To Draft Plan for  Special Session

May Reach Frontier By Tonight   CAPTURE OF WHITE RUSSIA STRONGHOLD OF VITEBSK BY RED TROOUS ALSO IMMINENT

FAST-MOVING SOVIET TROOPS MAY CROSS BORDER WITHIN DAY   Believe Rail Station Only Seven Miles From Old Frontier Already In Russian Hands; Foe’s Retreat Near Rout   Ry HENRY SHAPIRG

REDS RACE TO CATCH NAZIS   Pace Set'to Hurl Vanguard Across Old Polish Frontier Yet Today— —lussian Armies Smashing Forward with Increasing Momentum.

RITISH ON TWO-MILE FRONT UT NEW WEDGE OVER RIVER RNE IN THREAT ON CAPITAL   il of Major Communications Center of Vire Opens Way for Linking Initial Normandy Cleanup With New Eastward Drive   WO VITAL PORTS ARE WITHIN EASY GRASP

AmericanColumns — Pushing Eastward On 50-Mile Front   Broaden Line By Taking Domfront; British Cut Wedge Across Orne; Other Allied Units Seige Vire

British Force Threatens To Outflank Enemy   Wedge Across Orne River Cut In New Drive

ALLIES OCCUPY VIRE AND NEAR 3 VITAL PORTS   British Also Aim Threat At French Capital; Nazis At Lorient Ask To Quit

Bradley’s Troops Widen Front To 53 Miles; Closer To Paris : Than To Rrest Week Aon 

British Threaten To Outflank Foe         Americans Tighten Stranglehold Brest; Bradley's Battering Ram Moves Toward French Capital 

U. §. PATROLS NEAR DOMFRONT IN PARIS DRIVE   German Garrison At Lorient Is Capture<i

Drive Aims To Isolate Nazi Armies   200,000 Germans May Be Trapped In Greek Sector.

Attack Aimed At Cutting Off 200,000 Germans In Greece   Vistula Drive Gaining Power   Grim And Costly Battle Of Warsaw Rages On Unabated

Russians Enter Sofia; Prepare Ring on Warsav   Drive Hinted Trap for 200,000 Nazis in Greece, Aegean

RUSS ARMY IN CAPITAL OF BULGARIA   Capture of Warsaw Next Geal of  Soviets

HULL NOT PROMISING TO SAFEGUARD ROME   Secretary Of Stafe Sars Fale Of Holy City Rests Entircivy Witt Germans

Chavez Says GOP May Win State   Wants Strong Democrat Ticket, He Asserts

Local Red Cress Appeals  For Applicants For The Nurse‘s Aid Corps

LOCAL RED CROSS CHAPTER APPEALS FOR APPLICANTS FOR NURSE’S AID CORPS -

Waves, Spars Will Stop  Recruiting  Wert acl Marinas Evil   Nomen Marines Fill Quota First; Wac’s Yet Need 120, 000

Navy Will Close Enlistments For Women’s Service  Rep. Smith Says Quatac Reached

Injunction Is Denied Truck  Owners’ Unit   Sought to Prevent Enforcement of WLB Wage Directive

CAPTURE JAPANESE AIRDROME   Gen. MacArthur Says Operations Proceeding on Schedule

Take Airfield In Advance   Gen. MacArthur Well Pleased With Developments.

RUSSIAN PLANES AIDED FINNS IN FIGHT ON.HOGLAND ISLAND   STOCKHOLM SAYS GERMA? BEACHHEAD WIPED OUT BY ‘ FINNISH GROUND FORCES -

LEADS BIG THREE   Superforts Blast 63 Japanese Planes in Manchurian Atfack   TAPER RAID SAIFAN

Superforts Bomb Tokyo Manchuria   Sixty Three of Jap Defenders Shot Down

62 FOE PLANES ARE BLASTED IN MANCHURIA   Aircraft F actory Target; Fires Set in Nippon Capital

63 Japanese Planes Bagged By Superfortresses During : Attack On Manchurian Plant   Tokyo Also Bombed Again On Anniversary Of Pearl  Harbor Attack; Three B-29’s Lost; Saipan   Base Raided By Nip Airmen

B-29'S KNOCK OUT 03 JAP PLANES IN MANCHURIAN RAID   Shoot Down 26 Fighters, Probably 13 Others and Damage 24—Three Superfortresses Lost.   MUKDEN AIRCRAFT -. FACTORY iS BLASTED   Two Bombers Hit Industrial Heart of Tokyo—Set Five Large Fires and Two Smaller Ones.

GOP Convention Raps New Deal Labor Pslicies:      GOP Ianores Willkie, Adopts Foreign Plank

Realty Market Has Busy Week; $150,000 Total   Many Homes Among Transactions Recorded On Land Records.

Another Banner  Week For Realty   Sales For Period Ending Today Total Around $125,000.

Snowplow Pushes Way to Summit of 11,314-Foot Pass Where “Group Had Been Marooned Since Sunday — As Stalled Cars ‘Are Freed and Supplied With Gasotine Motorists Start Toward Id4ho Springs and Denver.

MAJOR VICTORY AT ~ TRUK IS FORECAST   Secretary” ~ Knox Believes 7 _ Americans Scoring = pe ‘in Attack. .

»Yanks  nvade Second Marshall Island ‘Landings Widen Bridgehead in Pacific   Knox Acclaims Attack on Truk a Naval Victory’

ASSAULT ON TRUK ~ CALLED VICTORY   KNOX INDICATES THERE Is NO PLAN TO INVADE JAPANESE STRONGHOLD.

Knox Acclaims Truk Attack As Yank Victory   Hints Air Operation Includes No Present Plan for Invasion

Victory at Truk Hinted by Knox   Invasion Unlikely Statement Asserts

16,000 Canadians Ordered Overseas   Stand on Conscription Reversed in Crisis

Canadian Government Decrees Duty Overseas for Home Defense Forces

Friends Wager Willkie Will Vote for Dewey   May Keep Democrats and Republicans Guessing Until Only Few Days Before Election

Willkie Is Keeping ‘em  Guessing Friends Think He Will Support GOP

Willkie Silent On His Choice   Friends, However, Expect GOP’s 1940 Standard-Bearer To Stay with Party

Friends Believe Willkie Will Support Dewey   Asks Candidates  For Viewpoints

Willkie Still Mum Over His Voting Plans   May Keep Republicans and Democrats Guessing Until Few Days Before Election in November.

Willkie May Keep Both. Parties Guessing Until Election Day Is Near

MAY EXTEND PRICE CONTROL ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   STATEMENT SAYS REGULATIONS MAY. BE MADE TO COVER "LESS IMFORTAN1” COMMODITIES

Rains Delay Closing Of Jap Trap   _ Kat Americans Are Expected to Complete the Maneuver At Any  . Moment, Dominate the  - Vital Ormec Koad With Small Arms

President Signs Price Control Extension Act   Fears Changes Made By Congress Will Hitider Enforcement -

NAZIS ADMIT WAR OUTPUT HAS SHRUNK   Concede Production Drop Has Affected Sub Warfare and Fighting in Russia, but Say Setbacks Temporary.

Germans Admit  Production Down Allies Have Edge Over U-Boats, Says Doenitz

Nazis Admit Reich War Production Has Broken Down  Propagandists Assert Setbacks Are

Nazis Admit Reich War Production Has Broken Down  Propagandists Assert Setbacks Are  Pinlie Tascsmavecrvu Oimace

Uncle Sam Will Help Almost Any War  Veteran To Get a Free Education

Year's Free Schooling to Be Given Every Serviceman Who Wants It, Regardless of Rank

Request View of GOP Candidates  Platform Committee Makes Known Position

BEGIN WRITING GOP PLATFORM   Dewey, Bricker, Stassen Assured Voice In Policy Making

STASSEN ASKED T0 WITHDRAW FROM GOP RACE   Campaign Manager Says Request Will Be I[gnared

Dewey Better Qualified To Serve Than Roosevelt, Bricker Declares

ricker Receives ecord Welcome  t Philadelphia  Roosevelt, Dewey Give wo 0 [UC Gla lf... CULL   Roosevelt, Dewey Give Final Major Speeches Of Campaign Tonight

Philadelphia Gives Bricker Great Ovation   Governor Scores New Deal Record

ASSERTS DEWEY IS BETTER QUALIFIED   Governor. Bricker _ Points Out Qualifications of -GOP Nominee

SL Se  A COLUM ABOUT 10\ - .   Mowry of Newton Runs for Congress

Mrs. Roosevelt Warns Parents   Speaks In Regard To Washington Murder

Allies Shatter  Grip on France   Eisenhower To Increase Pressure Steadily Along Western Front

Japs Born In U.S. To Vote   But Most of Them, Being In Relocation Centers, Will Use Absentee Ballots

County Boy Killed; Was On Bomber   Sergeant James L. Mitchell of Crawfordsville Killed  in Action Jan. 5

GIESLER CROSSES UP JON HALL IN DORSEY HEARING   Glib Lawyer Has Actor On Ropes

NEGRESS HELD FOR KIDNAPING CHILD   Nursemaid Described - a: Darkening Face of White Baby

Kidnaped Detroit Baby Found In Negro Home  With Sun-Tan Disguise

HEAR RUMANIA TO OFFER PLAN FOR SURRENDER   Ex-Premier Reported On Way To Cario With 6-Point Terms

EXPLOSIONS NEAR CALAIS BRING HINT OF NAVAL ENGAGEMENT,   Two-Way Program   RAF Blasts Hungarian Capital— Planes Reported Over. Swiss Skies.

Hoover Pleads To Youth To Cut Shackles Put On Nation By New Dealers

U.S. Subs Sink 17 Jap Vessels   British Submersibles Also Dewn 21 Enemy Ships

Subs Sink Two Jap Boats A Day   Nipponese Lose 69 Vessels During July

JAPO L SHIPS PER DAY   As Result of Torpedos and  Deck Guns From Allied Subs; Destroy Seventeen On Latest War Patrols

Japanese Near - Foochow Port   Fukien Province Invasion Revealed by Chimeca

ADMISSION Ut MOTIVE READ IN NOXON GASE   Attorney Charged With Death of Baby, However, Holds to Denials. :

Noxon Admitted Having Motive   Testimony Given As Trial For Son's Death Pushed

Yank Seventh Streaks Ahead 6 Miles: In Half Mile Of Reich Frontier

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   BATTLE OF WISSEMBOURG GAP RAGES FIERCELY

Japs Confer on U.S. Navy Attack   Public Warned Fleet Still Near Mainland

COUNTY ORGANIZES FOR WAR FUND DRIVE: SET QUOTA AT $6887   MILES A. FREEMAN GENERAL COUNTY CHAIRMAN; NAMES WORKERS

Immunization Of . School Children Through County  Plans Announced Fo  - Conducting Clinics At. Varinue Datinbte

Immunization-Of School Children — Through County  Plans Announced Fo! Conducting Clinics. At Various Points.

Reo.  BRYNES GIVES VIEWS ON PAY FOR JOBLESS   Favors Middle Ground During Demobilizing Period

Byrnes Urges $20 Minimum Pay To Jobless   Some difference of opinion 6n benefits to be set up for demobilization périod:

Wet Weather Apt to Reduce Grain Planting   Situation Not Serious As Yet But Continuance of Rains Is Feared

Cold, Wet Weather Causing Much Delay in Work on Farms in the Midwest States

Army Status To Partisans      Eisenhower Warns Nazis to Treat French Forces in Interior as Regular Combatants

Eisenhower Warns Germans French Forces Of The Interior Constitute A Combatant Fores

Allies To Trace Atrocities On French Fighters   Eisenhower Declares French Interior Forces Combat Troops.

Eisenhower Sends a Warning to Nazis   Says French Forces Are Combatants and Must Be So Treated

Debate Team To  Go To Iowa City Will Enter State  Debate Tournament

Noemfoor Isle  Gain Recorded   Two More 'Dromes Songht By M’Arthur’s Force

Largest Demonstration Ever Shown At Any Convention  ON PRESIDENT’S RE-NOMINATION Sen. Samuel D. Jackson  Of Indiana Makes Key: — note Address

Yank Invaders Make  Two More Landings  Beachheads Are Gained On New Guinea

Isolationists Will All Vote GOP, Wallace Says; Warns of ‘Return to Harding-Hoover’

BALL-BEARINGS PACT 1S HINTED   U.S. Envoy And Officials 01 SKF Agree, Report

Dewey Budget Estimates ‘New $17,600,000 Surplus   Governor Proposes Diversion of $19,300, 000 More to Localities, Continued 25 PC Cut in State Income Taxes

UNION HEAD OUSTED FOR NOT KICKING IN   President Of Packers’ Local Says He Refused fo Give $1,500 For Political Activity

KIWANIANS HEAR nr CB EPOXALL   Methcdist Minister Speaks on ‘‘Crusadefor a New World” -

Trak Bastion To Be. Useless To Enemy Soon      Promise Made By ‘Successful American  Landings On Saipan Island _ -

Sever Jap Life Line   Saipan Landings Cut Off Enemy Garrisons To Southeast From Source of ‘Supplies

Saipan Blow Cuts Lifeline   Would Leave Truk, Thousands of Jap Troops Useless, Many Could Starve

MARSHAL ROMMEL WITHDRAWS TANKS FROM EXPANDING BRITISH SECTOR   German  Counter-Attack Fails To Halt Allied  Drive In France.

CAEN BREAKTHROUGH WIDENED BY BRITISH   Rommel Withdraws Bulk Of Tanks To Escape Trap; Allies Sweep Up 5 Towns; Rain es Drenches Front

ROMMEL SEEKS TO ESCAPE TRAP   Allied Forces Push Ahead Despite Normandy Rain

ALLIES GAIN IN BATTLES NEAR CAEN   Rommel Forced to Withdraw Tanks to Avoid Encirclement

ALLIED DRIVE IN NORMANDY OVER “HUMP   Marshal Rommel! Withdrawing Tanks to Avoid British Encirclement.

Allies Take Five Towns  In Normandy   Officers Declare Offensive Is “Over The Hump”

BRITISHATTACK ~ SOUTH OF CAEN, NAZIS WITHNRAW   German Marshall Romme' Pulls Back His Tanks From Expanding British Arc Along Paris Road.   1100 YANK BOMBERS HIT GERMAN TARGETS   Hammer an Assembly Plant at Regensburg, Some 55 Miles Southeast of Normandy During the Night.

Allies Renew Aerial Drive Over Germany   American Heavy Bombers Attack Many Targets In Northern Germany As Others Hit Austria

G. A. HODGDON _ PASSED AWAY IN CONCORI      Was Reformatory, Officer Many Years; Had Been Ill But Three Days

Jap Airdrome: In Philippine Isles Bombed   First Raid in 27 Month: Is Aimed at Davao: Attacks Take Place 3 Successive Nights

JAP AIRDROMES AT DAVAO IN. PHILIPPINES HIT BY ALLIES   First Bombing Attack On Islands Since The Fall Of Corregidor 27 Months Ago; Entire Nipponese 18th Army Of 60,000 Men Is Destroyed   By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

a  Stories Of Despair And Desertion From German Army Told By Prisoners Of Russians At Odessa

Odessa Captives Sick of Nazis Tell of Their Despair and Desertion

War Prisoners---German. Romanian. Others---Tell Stories To Reporters

 Nazi War Prisoners at Odessa Tell Story of Discouragement, Despair and Desertion

WAR PRISONERS TELL OF LIFE UNDER HITLER   Deserters Lined Up Along Wall Near Odessa

Many Reasons for Deserting Nazi Army Given by Prisoners at Odessa

War Prisoners Tell Stories To News Men   Discouragement, Despair and Finally Desertion

Nazi Prisoners Area Sorry Lot   Those Taken at Odessa Had No Heart For Fighting; Wanted to Desert.

Tales of Despair, Desertion Told by Captured Germans   Soldiers Held in Odessa Prison Camp Odds and Ends of Nazi Army

Miss Myrna Eilers And Milton Foley Wed Wednesday  The Groom Is   The Groom Is Serving In This Country’s Navy 

Miss Myrna  Eilers And Milton Foley Wed Wednesday  The Groom Is Serving In This —  Coauntryre Nawe

RECORDINGS BAN MAY BE LIFTED   But James C. Petrillo of Musicians Union Wants Companies ‘On Line’

Petrillo Isn't Co-Operative   Replies to FDR Request by Demanding Other Two Companies Sign Contracts

Reported To Have Cut Railway Line to Paris Vital to the Germans   Believed Fighting in Caen 13 Miles Inland and To Have Landed af Several More Points; Axis Radio Says Several French Ports and Towns Are Being Atfacked

Reinforcements And Supplies Landed Despite Rough Weather; Nazis Are Jittery   German Radio Expresses Fear Of Further Landings; Huge Allied Naval Force Reported Off Cherbourg: U. S. Battleships And Cruisers In Action

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 35 (Proposed by petition of the people)  fra anslme, 62 UWP wta +   Silence not Golden

New Attacks By Buzzbombs   London and Southern England Struck Hard After Extended Lull

Yanks Open Attack Against Robots  One Fighter Pilot Shoots. Down Three, Ground Fire Brings -_ ee Sm anttaeme OF Terror'Weanons Hit

BOY PLEADS GUILTY TO DOUBLE SLAYING   Bible Reading Youth Says Devil Made Him Do It

Reporter Rides Landing Craft   AP Correspondent Describes Trip to Invasion Beach

NERVELESS ACE OF JAP WAR IS SCARED BY THOUGHTS OF MAKING SPEECHES BACK HOMI

Top U. S. Ace Dreads Coming Home To Face Microphones and Rallies

MAJOR BONG IS OK IN AIR, BUT FEARS PUBLIC   New No.  American Ace Nerveless In A Dogfight, But Wilts At Thought Of Microphones And War Bond Rallies Back  Home.

New American Ace Miffed; Reporters Keep Him Off Work   Would Be Posting New Picture of Girl on  Plane If Allowed

Total Casualties  for U.S. 217,131   Increase 19,504 Since May 26th

Casualties In Italy Mounting   2,379 In Three Days Before Rome’s Fall

King Of Italians Picks Umberto As Stiecessor   Vittorio Emanuele Decides To Relinquish Authority When Allies Enter Rome

Umberto To Head Regime - Of New Italy   Political Groups Are In Apparent Agreement to This Move

UMBERTO CITED FOR POST WITH FALL OF ROME   Aged Monarch’s Decision : Seen As Step Toward National Unity

King Emanuel  To Relinquish PowerTo Son      Announcement Made_ to Demands of Liberal Leaders We Must  Krtear Raina

Umberto Will Act For King Vittorio After Rome Falls   74-Y ear-Old Monarch To Retire; Opposed By Party Leaders

ITALIAN KING SAYS WILL ABDICATE DAY ALLIES ENTER ROME  VITTORIO EMANUELE TO TURN OVER THRONE TC SON. UMBERTO

‘Paves Way For Naming New Cabinet   Most of Haly’s Parties Show Disposition to Accept—Prince Umberto fo Succeed Father

Vittorio Emanuele Will Turn Over Power Of Throne To Son When Allies Enter Rome

Vittorio Will Retire When RomeReached   Son, Umberto, - To Take Over Power of Threne

Action: Opens Way for New i War Cabinei   Italian Political Leaders’ Had Refused to Act. While He Remained on Throne   43-YEAR REIGN NEARING AN END   King’s Influence. Dwindled After He Surrendered to Mussolini’s Demands

ITALIAN KING TO QUIT DAY ALLIES ENTER CAPITAL   Vittorio Emanuele to Turn Power of Throne Over to Son

King Victor Will Retire When Rome Falls, He Say:      Will Turn Power Of Throne Over To Son Yields To Pressure Of Liberals

_Emmanuel Pledges’ To Retire If Allies “Advance Into Rome   ltalian Monarch Will Set Up Lieutenant-Generalcy to Seek ‘Liberation Against Nazism’

UMBERTO DESIGNATED SUCCESSOR   King Yields To Pressure Of Liberal Leaders

DAY ALLIES ENTER ROME KING QUITS   Allied Representatives Express Approval Of Decision, Which Was of Monarch’s Volition   Murphy Sees King

Italian King Announces Intention to Abdicate When Allies Enter Rome: Yields to Will of Ita  dlian Liberals

KING DECIDES © -TO.QUIT POST, ~ HE ANNOUNCES   ITALIAN MONARCH SAX¥S SON 0 BE “LIEUTENANT GUN-— ERAL” AFTER ROME 18 CAPTURED

Delegates Power  ToSon   Paves Way for Creation of Democratic Form of Government; On Throne 43 Years

KING SELECTS CROWN —PRINGE ~AS SUCCESSOR   Umberto Slated To Sarve Nation In Capacity Of Lieutenant General   MOVE AIMS AT UNITY   ® Question Of Monarchy Vs. Republic To Be Decided After Hun Ouster

WILL RELEASE THE THRONE WHEN ALLIE!  MARCH INTO ROM!   This Was Proclaimed Today by King Victor Emmanuel  to His People.   WILL RETIRE ENTIRELY   He Announced That His De cision Was “Final and Irrevocable.”

Emanuele Awaits Capture of Rome   "Monarch Says Hel Turn Kingdom Over to Son-—Liberals Win Major: ~ Vietory: With Allied Approval

King to Turn Over PowertoSon When Allies Take Rome   Monarch Proelaims to People He Will  Appoint Son Lieutenant General of Realm And Would Retire From Public Affairs

King Emanuele To Retire From Throne   Umberto to Succeed Monarch When Allies Enter Rome

THRONE TO GO TO HIS SON UMBERTO   Vittorio Emanuele States Decision Is Final   NATIONAL UNITY   Declared Object Of Movey Believe Action Has Allied Approval

Italian Monarch To Turn Over Power To Prince Umberto Of: Dav Allied Armies Enter Rome

King of Italy Plans to Retire   Son Succeeds When Allies Enter Rome

REINS OVER TO HIS SOM   (Monarch Tells People Um berto Will Be “Lieuten; ant General of the  Realm,” That His Deci : ogtan Te Binal.

Italian King To Retire When Rome Falls. Son Taking Over His Throne

Emanuele Will Give Power Of Throne To Son   Italian Government To Be Ruled By Militarist Umberto

Italian King To Give Up Throne   Emmanual Replaced  “By Son When Rome Falls

Emmanuel Plans To Quit Throne   Italian King to Give Way to Son Umberto, the Prince of Piedmont, on the Day That Allies Enter Rome, He Proclaims to His People Today.    DECISION IS FINAL

Will Turn Over His Power to Son Umberto   Move to Take Place When Allied Troops Enter Rome

ITALIAN KING TO WITHDRAW FROM PUBLIC AFFAIRS   Victor Emmanuel Will Retire The Dav Rome Falls

WHEN ALLIES REACH ROME   Irrevocable Decision Is Announced by 74-Year Old Monarch

‘Htalian King to Surrender Throne To Son Umberto   Vittorio Emanuele Tells People He Will Step Down on Day Allies Enter Rome

ITALIAN KING TO QUIT WHEN ROME IS TAKEN   Names Son As Suecessor

Italian King Says He'll Retire When Allies Enter Rome   Vittorio Emanuele _ to Turn Over Power to Prince Umberto

Vittorio’s Ready To Quit   He'll Turn Powers to Son On Day Allied Troops ‘Enter Rome

King Emanuele To Release Throne To Son Umberto   Promise to Give Up Leadership Upon Day Allies Enter Rome

ITALIAN KING PLANS TO QUIT   Says He'll Turn Powers Over to Son When Allies Enter Rome

Emanuele II Will Renounce His Power in Favor of Prince Umberto on the Day That Allied Troops Enter Rome.   Yields to Pressure of Liberals Who Refuse to Form Government

Italian Monarch Plans To Withdraw In Favor Of Humbert   King Says Action To Further Unity   Decision Comes Afte. Parley With Allies And Badoglio

KING TO QUIT WHEN ALLIES REACH ROME   Victor Emanuele Dedicates Powers to Son, Umberto   ALLIES EXPECTED TO GIVE APPROVAL   Leading. Italian Political . Parties Opposed-to—— Ruler

ITALIAN KING 10 DROP REINS   UMBERTO TO BE CROWNED WHEN ALLIES TAKE ROME

ITALY'S KING TO RETIRE iWHEN ALLIES ENTER ROME  Emanuele to Turn over Power

King Victor Decrees Transfer Of Power To Son On Fall Of Rome   Predicts Italians Will Take Place Again As ‘A Free People Among Free Nations’

PLANS 10 QUIT ON DAY ALLIES CAPTURE ROME   expects to Turn Over Power of Throne to Crown Prince

King Ready To Give Up Throne   Negro Attorney To Invoke Law Against Interference

King Emanuele te Abdicate the Day That Rome Falls   To Turn Throne Over To Umberto When Allied Troops Take Capital. .

Italian Ruler Offers To Give  Throne To Son      To. Abdicate When Allied Troops Reach Rome. He Announces In Radie Speech To World

ITALIAN KING T0 ABDICATE WHEN ROME {S ENTEREE   Victor Emmanuel to With: draw In Favor of His Son, Prince Humbert.

KING EMANUELE READY 10 QUIT   Italian Monarch Announces He Will Retire And Turn  Affairs Over To Umberto “Thee Day Allied Troops, Enier Rome.”  “

HOUSE GROUP GIVES PRAISE TO OWI WORK   Agency Wins Bouquet in Reporting Appropriation Bill

MID-WEST TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE SET FOR JUNE 30  WALKOUT DI ANNEN   WALKOUT PLANNED UNLESS OPERATORS ACCEPT WLB ORDER

Strike Will Start Midnight June 30 Unless Agreement Is Reached...

AMERICANS ADVANCING ON GUAM   . Jap Resistarce Increases: On. Northern Tip

SIXTH AIRFIELD IN MARIANAS TAKEN BY AMERICAN FORCES   Cornered Japs Fighting Harder On Guam As Yanks Close In

Jap Resistance on Island of Guam Grows   Yank Forces Are Closing in On Northern Tip

Jap Resistance Grows on Guam   Americans Close in on Northern Tip of Island After Capturing Air Field

Guam Airfield Taken: Yanks  Press Forward   Japs. Driven Into Northert Tip Of Island, Increase Resistance

Jap Resistance — On Guam Heavier   Yanks Surge Through Mud To Capture Tiyan

JAP RESISTANCE INCREASES ON GUAM TODAY   Americans Close in on  Northern Tip of Island ‘Crawling Through. Mud

Naples, June 2.—(AP)—The Fifth Army has captured Velletri and occupied Valmontone.

= ONISIONS “f <M ANNIMILATED   Mid-Dnieper Victory Frees Two Red Armies for Other Blows

“2, OMISIONS ‘of GERMANS ANNIHILATED   Mid-Dnieper Victory Frees Two Red Armie for Other Blows

General No Different To Other Dads Tears Flow As Grave Of Son Lost On Namur Is Decorated

General No Different To Other Da Dads — a ‘Tears Flow As Grave Of Son ‘Lost On Namur Is Decorated

Reds Nearing Borders of East Prussia   Soviets Gain Foothold on West Bank of Sviloch River

JAP LOSS WORST SINCE BISMARCK   5 Vessels, Including Three Warships, Sunk off New Ireland

BOMBERS SINK 19 VESSELS IN JAP CONVOY —   Almost All Enemy Personnel Aboard Shins Killed

Bombers Sink 15 Jap Vessels   Convoy Northwest Of New Ireland Smashed Out Of Existence

Ist, 9th Yank Armies Begin Big Assaults   At Least 12 Towns Taken as U. S. Mystery Force Attacks; Patton’s Men Narrow Metz Escape Route

U.S. First And Ninth Join In  Great Winter Assault On Western Front   FIERCE FIGHTING IS -RAGING NEAR METZ

Six Allied Armies Attack Along Front Of300 Miles    U.S, Ninth Appears  After Long Silence, Drives into Germany In Area of Aachen

American Ninth Joins in Drive Against Reich   Infantry Captures Four German Towns

LONG-HIDDEN U.§. STHHITS GERMAN LINE   OFFENSIVE BLAZES ALL ALONG 300 MILE FRONT

General Simpson's Forces Capture Dozen Towns in First Two Hours of Assault; Big Push Held Up Week Due to Weather; Third  Army Closes Nuteracker on Nazis at Metz

Whole 300-Mile Front. Ablaze  As General Offensive     Tc TL armehed   Is Launched

Eisenhower Hurls Tw More Armies, First ang Ninth, Against Hitler’ West Wall. a   OFFENSIVE POINTER STRAIGHT AT BERLIN   New Blows Dealt as Note cracker Closes on Metz —Whole Front Now Ablaze With Battle. =:

Fali of City to Nippons Believed by Foreign Ob-— servers To Be  Tmauinent

Frontier Reports Reach AP   Churchill Believes Revolt May Bring An Earlier Peace .

Aerial Wedge Driven Over Pacific   MacArthur's Flank Protected by Bombing Attacks

U.S. Front 500 Miles Nearer Philippines; Enemy Islands  Blasted Along 900-Mile Arc

‘Nips Bombed on '900-Mile Front   Towering Fires Left By Bombers at Truk

FLORENCE 10 TOPPLE SOON   British Relentlessly “losing In Americans Stalled In Pisa

British Iron Ring Draws Closer To Florence; Nazis Report Empoli Has Fallen

BRITISH DRIVING NEAR FLORENCE   Nazis in Desperate Battle for Hill Line Six Miles from City

FIERCE. FIGHTING . UNDERWAY ALONG HILL LINE POSITION GUARDING APPROACH TO THE CITY   By JAMES L. KILGALLEN  a? nn

Barbara J.. Cullinane Bride _ of Thomas H. Ryan in Sunday. Ceremony ¢ -

W. CONCORD ’  ; Pe A Ree eee eee eee ee ae aed 8 M ‘ Gt ‘ RES Shee eas  :

Simon Davidian Last Speaker For Rotary Club’s Institute Of International Understanding

SOORE ON SIX:TIME BLOOD DONOR LIST   That Many Qualify At Feb. 21 Visit Of Plasma Mobile Unit For High Standing— Eight Give Fifth Pint

ARE CANDIDATES FOR GALLON CLUE   Forty-Five Five-Time Donors To Blood Plasma Bank Here May Qualify This Year For Membership

Sees Landing From the Air   Newsman Sees Only Allied Forces Pushing Inland

Landing Forces Move Forward  Writer Has An Aerial View Of Operations

Yanks, Britons Land South Of Capital To Meet Little  ‘Opposition From Nazi Forces

Sen. Vandenberg Backs FDR Plan   Favo rs Administration -. War- Ballot Bill

VANDENBERG WILL SUPPORT SOLDIER VOTE   Michigan Republican Splits GOP Opposition to AdinistrationBacked Federal Ballot Plan

Senators Split Gn Ballot Bill   Sen. Vandenberg With Administration

Vandenberg To Back Federal  Vote Measure   Action Splits Republican Oppesition to Administration-Supported  Bu

Split Republican Vote Opposition   Vandenberg Will Vote for Measure To Assure Participation of Service Personnel In Election; To Offar Amendment.

Vandenberg To Back Roosevelt On Soldier Vote   Senator Splits GOP Opposition To Bill; Criticizes Charges

G.0.P. Oppositior To Soldier Vote Has Been Split   Senator Vandenberg Says He Will Vote For Federal Balloting.

VANDENBERG TO SUPPORT BILL   Michigan Senator Says He Will Vote for Federal War Ballot Plan

GOP SPLIT ON SOLDIER VOTE   Vandenberg Says He Will Vote For Federal Ballot

‘Vandenburg Splits GOP Opposition ‘To Support FDR’s Soldier Vote Bill

Vandenberg Splits GOP On Ballot Bill   He'll Vote For Administration Service Vote Measure

Big Axis Losses Revealed by Russ   111,000 Men Killed or Captured in 35 Days

U.S. Tank Destroyers Smash Attempts To Save Remnants of Big Panzer Force

Shatter German Columns   Yanks Chop Enemy Outfit to Pieces  As They Attempt to Rescue Trapped Nazis

Nazi Tanks Churn in Circles As Yanks Wipe Out Armor Seeking to Break U.S. Trap ,

Allied Countermeasures in North Beginning to Take Effect.   PATTON’S MEN ADVANCE

ENEMY IS NOW ONLY 14 MILES BELOW LIEGE   Attack Is In Two Deep Wedges; Northernmost Prong Halted RII rTiw

Reds Race on Less Than 17. Miles ~ From Bucharest  DRIVE IN HUNGARY FAST DEVELOPING  Many German Prisoners Bagged During the Doy -

Soviet Forces Clear Germans From Ploesti   Reds Drive info Bucharest and Link Up Two Armies in Romania

Ploesti Oil Field Taken By Russians   Is Greatest Blow to Germany's Supplies

Reds Advance To 17 Miles Of Bucharest   Ploesti Conquest Hailed As Greatest Red Army  Victory of Invasian

GREAT SOVIET THRUST AIMED AT BUCHAREST   HITLER LOSES HUGE OIL SOURCE IN ROMANIA

ROMANIAN OIL FIELDS TAKEN BY RED ARMY   Over 200 Other Towns Fall Into Hands Of Russians

SOVIETS REACH POINT 17 MILES FROM CAPITAL   Two Russian Armies Linked For Concentrated Blow  At Hungary   LINES NEAR WARSAW REPORTED BREACHED

SUVIETS FACE OM TOWARD CAPITAL   Push Lightning Drive to Eliminate Nazis in Romania   POLEST! CAPTURE   Hailed as Greatest Victory in * Romania; Another Big Bag of Prisoners

REDS 17 MILES FROM BUCHAREST, CAPTURE PLOEST   Day’s Drive Deprives Nazis of Rich Romanian Oil Fields and Nets 15, 000 More Prisoners.   SECOND FORCE TAKES 4 CARPATHIAN PASSES   Russians Resume Offensive North of Warsaw and Breach Enemy Lines in Number of Places.

PLOESTI IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Rich Prize for Reds; Greatest Single Source of Oil for Germany; Significant Victory.  — ee ee   6,000 Men

Red Army Captures Ploesti And Adjacent Oil Fields;  Bag of Prisoners Is Increasec

New Tax Law  Is Signed By President   30,000,000 Taxpayers Won't Have to  Clamnutea Returne

SIMPLER TAX ‘BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT   Relieves 30 Million Taxpayers From Computing

i: ack Of Munitions Delaved Offensive   Kisenhower Couldn't Start Lntil Steck Built Up

Oh, No, There’ s No Glory i in War Peer Tnto “This Lost Girl’ § Heart

Willkie Opposes Foreign Plank   Says Republicans May Back Out Of World Organization Again.

SENATOR TAFT OUTLINES GOP PARTY'S PLANS   Presents Post-War, Current Republican Legislative Policies

Taft Outlines Broad Policy . For Republicans   Postwar, Current Issues Studied By Ohio Senator

Taft Ouflines GOP Plans To Develop Policy   Ex-Yale Professor Named As Consultant On Post-War Program

Republicans to Develop Prograrr  Steering Committee of Senate Launches Move

GOP Prepares To Present Broad Legislative Plan  Former Yale Man Assists Solons

MILITARY HEADS NOW IN LONDON   Marshall, Arnold Anc King Confer With Staff Chiefs

GOVERNMENT TAKING CHICKENS FOR ARMY   Those Im Large Part Of Eastern Area To Be Consigned To Military Alter December 11

JAPANESE BASE AT SABANG HIT BY TASK FORCE   Harbor Installations Destroyed Medium Merchant Ship Ts Sunk

Allies Confirm Attack On Sabang   Task Force Achieves Complete Surprise

SURPRISE ATTACK ON SABANG BASE   Jap Base 600 Miles Of Philippines Given A Naval Bombardment

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   German Forces Evacuate Rovno, Rail Center

FIRST CANADIAN TROOPS   Are Welcomed in Australia by High Commissioner

OHIDANS BASK IN'HEAT’ WAVE   June In January Becomes Reality As Mercury Hits 52 In Salem

FDR Demands Passage Of Federal Vote Plan for Soldiers   President Labels States’-Rights System As “Fraud Upon American People”; Crariaql Mescaae Is Sent to Conaress

Denounce Senate Soldier Vote Bil  President Steps Into Congressional Wrangle

President Demands Vote Action  Senator Taft Resents FDR’s Calling Present

FDR Demands Adequate Vote Bill   President Says Measure Passed by Senate Is Meaningless; Favors Green, Lucas, Worley Substitute

Roosevelt Demands ‘Adequate’ Soldier Vote Legislation   President Labels  States Rights Plan “‘A Fraud Upon the  American People’?

FDR DEMANDS CONGRESS GIVE SOLDIER VOTE      Brands ‘Measure Now Before Honsa “Frand on Soldiers and      WANTS REAL LAW   Endorses Green-Lucas and Worley Bills, Demands Holl Call Votes on Issue in Congress

FDR Makes * Strong Plea Fa Soldier Vote ~  Calls Present Bill . Meaningless And Ask

FDR Demands Voting System For Service Men  President Urges Roll Call Vote

Service Vote Bill - Inadequate—F. R.  President Speaks Out For Lucas Plan

F. R, DEMANDS SOLDIER VOTE   States Right Vote Plan Branded “Fraud on American People” In Special Message.

PRESIDENT WAVES  BIG STICK OVER  CONGRESS ON VOTE DECLARES STATES’  RIGHTS PLAN IS FRAUD AND CHALLENGES HOUSE

FDR Backs Ballot Right For Soldiers   Message Hits Bill Passed By House On December 3

Congress in Uproar Over FR. Charge   Soldier Vote Meosure ‘Fraud,’ Says Message, 4th Term Plea: Taft

into Soldier Vote Battle   Roosevelt Demands Adequate Voting Legislation for: Men  and Women in :‘Service

SENDS SPECIAL MESSAGE 10  CONGRESS   State’s Rights Vote Bill Labelled Fraud   Issued To Congressmen To Show Views Publiciy: caks As Citizen

Roosevelt Hits Proposed Bill   Steps Into Service Ballot Dispute

Soldier Vote Bill Is Rapped   President Calls Senate Approved Measure “Meaningless.”

Proposed Soldier Vote Plan Hit by Roosevelt Today   “Plan Meaningless;" A “Fraud on American People” and Servicemen.   President Asks For Adequate Legislation

FDR DEMANDS CONGRESS GIVE SOLDIERS VOTE   President’s Message Explodes Like Bomb—Republicans Guffaw and Boo

VOTE BILL FRAUD SAYS ROOSEVELT   Hits ‘States’ Rights’ Bill: Taft Asks Ballot Include All Candidates

FDR DEMANDS SOLDIER VOTE LEGISLATION   Bluntly Labels State’s Rights Vote Plan “A Fraud Upon American Paopnle’”’ .

State’s Rights Plan Fraud, Says Prexy  F.D.R. Demands Federal Machinery For Handling Ballots Of Service Men  2:4 =e

F.D. R. ENTERS VOTE DISPUTE   Issues Sharp Criticism O1 Measure Passed By Senate   TERMS BILL FRAUD

FDR Demands Service Vote From Congress   Sends Vehement Special Message To Congress Demanding Adequate T esislation.

ederal Ballot Scheme Asked bv Roosevelt   F,D. R. Demands Adequate Vote Machine; Label: State's Rights Plan Fraud.   REQUESTS ROLL CALL

Says Senate  Soldier Vote Billls Fraud Upon People   President Appeals For Right Of Service Men To Vote; They Have Ne Bloc On Capitol Hill

President Demands  Soldier Vote Bill  we Geo: Ieee   Roosevelt Steps Into Wrangle Over Legislation in Congress

F.R. Declares “‘State’s Rights” Vote Plan Is Fraud: GOP’s Guffaw

SENATE-PASSED SOLDIER BALLOT IS CRITICIZED   President Renews Demand Fo: Federal Vote Program For Servicem2

Demands a Soldier Vote Law   Roosevelt Assails Measure Passed by Senate as ‘Meaningless’   FRAUD ON SERVICE * MEN, HE DECLARES   Requests Roll Call Vote. on Issue and Endorses New: Substitute Measure

State’s Rights Plan Is Fraud Says Roosevelt   President In Bitter Demand For Soldiers’ Vote

Fraud Charge Made   FDR Message Asking Adequate Vote Bill Is Booed By Republicans

FDR Sharply Demands Vote   Says States Riglhtt Vote Plan For Soldiers Is Fraud

PRESIDENT HITS * AT BILL SENATE PASSED DEC. :   Chief Executive Indorses Lucas’ Proposal — Declares First Plan ‘Meaningless’

ROOSEVELT TERMS STATE'S RIGHTS ‘VOTE PLAN “FRAUD”   President Beccmes Belligerent ‘and Demands Federal Machine to Insure Service Men’s Votes

Soldier Ballot Plan Upheld In. R. Message  Hopkins Letter, World Relief, Labor Discussed

F.D.R. Demands U.S. Service Vote Plan       Tells Congress Present States’ Rights Bill I: Fraud on American People—Repub-. licans Laugh at His Message.

Ancient Structure Used by Nazis as Fortress Is Now  Reduced To Ruin

Three Hundred Germans Fleeing Ancient Abbey Caught By Yank Cannons

Americans Blast Abbey Converted Into German Fort   Nazis Are Caught In Allied Artillery Fire As They Flee Ruined Structure

Allies Open Attack on Famed Abbey in Wake of Warnings   Nazis Routed From Mon. astery They Converted Into Fortress

Historic Benedictine Edifice, Converted By Enemy Into Dangerous Bastion, Target Of American Planes— Fleeing Germans Engaged By Allied Artillery— Ground Troops Maintain Pressure Both In Gateway Town And Anzio Invasion Bridgehead Area

Guns Shell 300 Nazis as They  Flee Structure  At Mt. Cassino   Ancient Building Served As Observation Point for Enemy   By LYNN HEINZERLING and GEORGE TUCKER

Aged Benedictine Is Knocked From Path To Rome   BY LYNN HEINZERLING and GEORGE TUCKER

Allied Land Forces Shell Abbey After ~ Air Bombardment   Fire on German Soldiers Fleeing Strueture; Berlin Radio Claims No Nazi Troops Were in Vicinity

U. 5. FORTRESSES RAINED BOMBS UPON FAMOUS MONASTERY  ATTACK CAME AFTER WARNING THAT NAZIS USED IT AS FORTRESS

MANY GERMA ROUTED FROM FORTRESS   Waves Of Fortresses Raid Observation Post   INHABITANTS   Of Monastery Are Warned Beforehand By Leaflets To Flee

300 Germans Routed From, Roman Shrine   Ground Fire Sweeps Area As Unifor med Nazis Flee Posts

Observation Post Directed Murderouw: Fire Against American Soldiers

Rout Nazis from Monastery to Help Clear Rome Road   Turned into Fortress By Germans, Ancient Abbey !s Scorched By U.S. Bombers

Rout 300 Nazis From Lofty Tower   Allied Big Guns Start Shelling Old Abbey

Bombs Rip Famed Abbey   Explosives Follow Leaflets Warning Monks to Get Awoy

GUNS OF ALLIES OPEN FIRE ON ‘ROUTED TROOPS   Ground Observers See  Uniformed Germans  Running From Structure By LYNN HEINZERLING AND

‘Score Direct Hits on Nazi Lookout Post   Rout 300 Germans; Smoke Pours From Abbey After Attack

AERIAL ATTACK 5 DESCRIBED   Eyewitnesses Tell About Bombing of Centuries Old Monastery.   INAZIS FLEE FROM FORT

Nazis Routed From Buildings   After Heavy Bombs Dropped, Guns Start Shelling  GERMANS DENY CLAIMS  Allies Say Lives Lost By Use As Observation Post

Age-Old Building Attacked After Nazis Fortity It   Had Been Holding Up Cassino Advance; First Bombs Rout Defenders

Famed Monastery Used By Germans ‘As Fort Blasted   BY LYNN HEINZERLING AND GEORGE TUCKER

Rout Germans From Position   Monastery Had Been Converted by Nazis  Into Fortress.

‘Germans Fleeing Bombs Caught In Artillery Fire   Allied Onslaught Directed Against Enemy Fortificatiois: Abbey is Hit

300 Germans Try To Escape Bombs From U. S. Forts’   Artillerymen Open Fire on Nazis as Big Guns Are Trained on Abbey—Enemy Has Been Using Monastery, Overlooking Town of Cassino, as Fortress.

Allies Blast Mt. Cassino in Air Attack   Flying Fortresses Pour Salves of Heavy Bombs on Old Monastery

AVER $790, LOST THRU OPA DISCRIMINATION   Seek To Force OPA Te Make Belated Price Boost Retroactive

Nazi Garrison At St. Lo. Still Holds Out   Bad Weather Delays Aerial Support On Normandy Front

‘Doughboys Ar e ‘Near. Fringe Of  Goal In Fr. ‘ance!   Also Close Two Other Ger: nan Roadline Bastions of Lessay and  Peric      Artillery Duel Heaviest Of Push   Meanwhile, Lull Persists on British-Canadian Seetor to East of American Battles

KEY RAIL HUB IS UNDERGOING HEAVY FIRING   Yanks Reach Outskirts Of Lessay, Battle In Suburbs

Yankees Near 3 Key Points in Normandy   St. Lo, Lessay and Periers Witnessing Terrific Struagies

Airdromes In AreaPounded   Surfaced Submarine Js Sunk Durina Raid

Allies Silence 26 of Nip  Defensive Guns   Score Direct Hit on Surfaced Enemy Submarine

Churchill ‘Sees War's End Nea   Victories. Hastening Hitler Collapse

j  RED ARMY CLOSES “AIRLE OF DEAT” AROUND CERMANS      Trapped Nazis Being Slaughtered by Russians in Dniener Bend

REDS DIMINISHING CIRCLE OF DEATH IN DNIEPER BEND   RELENTLESSLY CUT DOWN ALL NAZIS WHO REFUSE TO SURRENDER

Trapped Nazi Troops Being Slaughtered ‘Like Sheep’ By Great Russian Steamroller   Seven Red Spearheads Hacking Enemy Salient In Dnieper Bend To Pieces

Red seven Spearheads Hack Nazis   Salients Cut Dowr All Who Refuse  To Surrender

Reds Slaughter Nazis Like Sheer  Circle of yeni Tighten und Trap

Soviets Blast Nazi Salients   Kill All Germans Who Refuse to Surrender; Reds Move on Korsun

HUNS BEING SLAUGHTERED LIKE SHEEP   Corridor Around Ancient Town of Korsun Reduced to a Bare Five Miles   GREAT DISASTER NEAR

Red Army’s Advancing Forces Relentlessly Cutting Down All Who Refuse To Surrender In Dnieper Bend— Annihilation Of Ten German Divisions May Produce Greatest Enemy Disaster Since Stalingrad— Entrapment Looms At Krivoi Rog

Russians Hack Nazi Salient Into Pieces   Two Entire Garrisons Are Exterminated In Dnieper Bend

Slaughtering The Germans Like Sheep.... .  7 Spearheads Of Soviet Army Hacking Nazis To Pieces In Dnieper Bend

GERMANS ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED LIKE SHEFP BY REN ARM)   Hacking German-Held Salients to Pieces, Moscow Announced.   GARRISONS ISOLATED   Cherkassy May Prove to Be One of Bloodiest Spots on * Eastern Front.

Red Circle Of Death Is Diminishing   7 Spearheads Thrusting at Germans Trapped in Great Dnieper Bend

Russians Slash At German-Helc Salients Today  Nazis Who Refuse To Surrender Are Delamtlaects Clete

Nazis Slaughtered In Their Shrinking Circle of Death   Soviets Are Hacking German Forces to Pieces in Bloody Dnieper Bend Battle

RED ARMY NARROWS TRAP ON GERMANS. ESCAPE LINES CUT   Corridor 15 Miles Long, § Miles Wide Contains Last Nazi Troops   STALINGRAD IS RECALLED!

NAZIS BEING SLAUSHTERED LIKE SHEEP   All Germans Killed Who Refuse To  Surrender

REDS CONTINUE SLAUGHTER OF TRAPPED NAZIS   Seven Spearheads Thrusting Into Dnieper Bend Reduce Corzidor to Five Mile Width   UNITS WIPED OUT   Presence of Russian Inhabitants Within Rings Prevents Using Heavy Artillery

RAIDERS STRIKE ~ AT LONDON AGAIN   ‘THOUSANDS ‘FILL SHELTERS— . ATTACK. COMES: AS. RESCUERS DIG FOR BODIES.

dondon Hit By Air Raid   ~ New Rocket Guns Hit Nine Enemy Bombers

Workers 100% For War Bonds   Extra $100 Bond Is Aim In Medina Plants

Gen. Leese Succeeds Montgomery   Nazis Rush Work On. Giant Defense Line In Italy

Vast New Defense Lines In ~  Italy Being Built By Nazi:   Engineers Rushing Italian “Siegfried Line” as Powerful as Those in Western Europe, German ‘Prisoners Report

Germans Buildin Big Defense Wall To Protect Rome   Siegfried Line’ Near Completion

SIMILAR TO POWERFUL FORTIFICATION IN WESTERN EUROPE IS REPORT OF GERMAN PRISONERS; TANK EXPERT, WITH 8TH ARMY.

Leese Becomes  8th Army Head   British Force Continues Drive Taward Raman

NAZIS BUILDING “SHEGERIED LINE’ ON ITALIAN SOIL   Defense System to Be as Strong as Fortifications in Western Europe-—-War of Attrition Seen.   TANK EXPERT TAKES COMMAND OF 8TH ARMY   General Sir Oliver Leese Assumes Duties Montgomery Relinquished for Invasion Job.

NAZIS RUSHING STRONG FORTS ACROSS ITALY   TANK EXPERT LEESE TAKES COMMAND OF 8TH ARMY

German Engineers Rushing. Work. on Italian Nefenses  ‘Siegfried Line’ Built as Tank Ex plert Takes British Command

B ritain Releases Gandhi F romInternment Today   IH Health Brings Unconditional Freedom For Spiritual Leader; Action Indicates  Authorities No Longer Fear Influence

Landon Declares Foreign Policy Prolongs War   Asserts ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Has Never Been Defined

Something Inside Him Said Nay When Writer Took His  First Bite of Horse Meat

Decides He Could Never Be Hungry Enough to Eat Horse  W’Pawee OCVONW & WAR CORREFQPONDEN TT’. NOTEROO K      (LEAVES FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOK,

CROP INSURANCE FOR NEXT YEAR APPEARS LIKELY   Stettinius Is Approved for Secretary of State by Senate, 68 to 1

CROP INSURANCE BILL APPROVED   Senate Committee Favors House Measure

FOR CROP INSURANCE   Senate Agriculture Committee Approves Draft.

JAP, GERMAN AMBASSADORS MUST LEAVE   “Sensational Revelations” On Axis Spy Ring Promised

Members Of High Society Of Argentina Involved And Sensational Revelations Promised; Envoys To Get Passports.   Last Of Americas To Break

ARGENTINA IS THROUGH WITH GERMANY NOW   Passports Given German And Jap Envoys Today

Vast Axis Spy System Is Discovered, Ramirez Says      Last Nation In Americas Finally Ends Machinations With Berlin, Tokvo

SAYS ITALIAN KING SHOULD GET OUT NOW   Sforza Won't Enter New Cabinet Until  Emmanuel Resigns

Sforza Believes Victor Emmanuel Will Retire Temporarily   Move Would Settle  Political Crisi«

Sfora Thinks Italian King Will Abdicate   Does Not Expeet ‘Him To Wait Until ’ Fall of. Rome

JAPS HOLD TIGHT TO TRAILS SOUTH OF IMPHAL TODAY   Retain Grip Cn Important Bis- henpur-Silchar ‘Route But Suffer Casualties North of the Manpur Capital

Nips Hold Fast Near ‘Imphal   JAPANESE FORCES ON BISHENPUR-SILCHAR “  , pRAI:

Small Jap Groups Still Hold in Southwest India  Enemy Takes Losses In Northeast; Kohima Is Static

Pep aecarene es, Naps se Ton re ea we  Ship Honors Three  Haskell Counties —

Six Appointees Confirmed By Senate Action   Belated Stamp of Approval Given to Nominees to the State Department After President Roosevelt Personally Intervenes-

Stettinius Aides Confirmed, Under  Roosevelt Spur  MacLeish Vote Closest As Decks Are Cleared  For Adjournment

SENATE APPROVES GREW AND OTHER STETTINIUS AIDS   But F. D. R.’s Intervention Needed to Bring Sanction of State Department Appointees.   MACLEISH INDORSED BY SMALLEST MARGIN   Others Overwhelmingly Favored Are _ Rockefeller, Clayton, Dunn and Gen. Julius Holmes.

senate Puts Stamp Of. Approval On State  Department Appointees After FDR Intervence

SENATE GIVES APPROVAL T0 SIX NOMINEES   FDR Intervenes, Ends Fight on State Department Aides

Six Aides.To Steffinius Are Approvec   Long Battle Ends in Time for Adjournment

SIX APPOINTEES ARE CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE   Men Selected For State De. partment Overcome  Opposition      ROOSEVELT BACKS COMPLETE SLATE

Senate Confirms Six Appointees Of President   State Department’s Nominees Approved AsF. D. R. Intervenes

Remind Carbon  - Monoxide Time Is Approaching   Tell That Three Iowans Have Already Died from This Gas During 1944

Says Carbon Monoxide Time Is Approaching   Three Iowans Died of Gas During 1944

NEW CANNING SUGAR RULING EXPLAINED SEASON DIVIDED INTO TWO PERIODS —   limit Of 10 Pounds Per Family Member Placed On Each Time; First Period Ends July 29, OPA Says

Nazis Hit Supposedly Surrounded Troops Which Are Americans.   ALL ATTEMPTS TO BREAK TRAP FAIL   Yanks Take Town of Cassino in Fierce Street Fighting.

Fierce Battle Rages  On Beachhead Near Rome; Germans Thrown Back

NIPPON WAGES LOSING FIGHT IN PHILIPPINES   PLANES CUT OFI AID FOR LEYTE GARRISON

Yank Bombers Hammer Enemy 'In- Philippines   Torrential Rains Preclile Gains in Ground Battle Aontnst Levie Fars’

Nimitz Reports Terrific Blow Af Enemy Fleet   Heavy Cruiser Sent fo Bottom

Leyte Land Action Slows Down in Face Of Terrific Rain: Airmen Blast Jans

Leyte-Based Planes Smash  Jap Airfields   Heavy Tropical Rains Bring Fighting in Ormoc to Standstill

Jap Airdromes Subjected to Aerial Pasting   Ground Fighting in Philippines Is at Standstill

Resistance By Leyte Japs  Decreasing   Rains Halt Advances, But Yanks Succeed In Battle of Attrition  OTHER ISLANDS HIT

 CEBU - NEGROS AND DAVAG ARE BOMBED   With 235 Tons Landing on Airdromes; Eight Out of 30 Japanese Planes Shot Down.   Cling To Hill

JAP RESISTANCE oN LEYTE WANES   American Successes in Air At Sea and on Ground Em phasize Desperate but Los. ing Fight of Japs

Leyle-Based Bombers Hit Cebu, Negros   Japan Loses Fights In Air, At Sea, On Ground In Pacific

BATTLE FOR ORMOC HALTED BY RAINS   i FOUR JAP PLANES BAGGED OVER LEYTE, EIGHT IN ' OTHER AIR ATTACKS,

British Seize Esquay in New Assault  Capture of Lessay  PB ananta.l] ne Vn~tl-.

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Roll Germans Back More Than Two Mile:   Americans Push to Within Mile of St. Lo and Enter Outskirts of Lessay at Western End of Battle Line

 East Of Periers U. S. Infantrymen Win A Foothold  Across Lozon River Two Miles From  Periers-St. Lo Road

Germans-Are Rolled Back Over Two Miles in Drive      AMERICANS GAIN IN SECTION OF ST. LO   At Least Eleven Towns and Villages Cap$s tured

bombers Help Yanks Fighting Way to St. Lo   Montgomery’s Men Align Major Push From Caen; Lessay’s Fall Near

Americans Push Into Lessay on Normandy Line   Three Villages Taken by Yanks

Spokesman Reveals Serious Situation :   Fighting Reported N ear La Roche, 40 Miles From Original Nazi Lines Where Drive Beaan

Germans in Center Sector Penetrate to Within 37 Miles of Sedan; Situation in That Territory Critical; Report Weather Hampering Enemy

German’s Center Rolls Onward To Forty Mile Depth   Patton’s Counter Attacks Bring South Flank T Stop After Bitterest Fighting Of War; North Flank Is Stopped Cold, Center “Critical.”

TAX BILL ROLL CALL DEMANDED   ‘Near-Unanimous Approval Ex  pected In House

HOUSE TO PASS ~_NEW-TAY BILL   ALMOST UNANIMOUS PASSAGE OF SIMPLIFIED MEASURE ‘PREDICTED—EXEMPTIONS:  ARE REVISED wy

LEADERS oEEK HOLL GALL VOI   Neir Unanimous Action Expected on Tax Simplificatiin

Japs Begin Withdrawal In Burma; Trv To Seize Philippines Offensive

DESPERATE ATTEMPTS OF JAPANESE LAUNCH PACIFIC (IFFENSIVE   TOKYO REPORTS AMERICAN HELD ISLAND INVADED; U.S. SHIPS ATTACKED

Japs Retreat In Burma Area   Foe Makes Desperate Ef. forts To Seize Offensive In Philippines.

JAPO IN BURMA ARE IN RETREAT      Make Desperate Efforts to Seize Offensive in Philippines.   CHINA SITUATION GRAVE

JAPS TRYING TO TAKE OFFENSIVE IN PHILIPPINES   Enemy Claims Landing or Morotai — Rising Sun Units Flee in Burma

Enemy !s Withdrawing From Burma; China Is In Very Grave Situation

Japs Attempt Offensive On Leyte Island   Nips Retreating In Burma; Chiang Bids For Communist Pact Morotai Invaded?

i CATTLE SOLD FOR $17.50   Highest Price on Kansas City Market in Past 16 Years

CANNOT UTILIZE GOOD OFFICES’ TO ADVANTAGE   Soviet Action Prevents Us From Helping Poland To Establish Pre-War Roundarv.

Russians Reject U.S. As Mediator In Polish Dispute   wiels Claim Time Is Not Ripe For Using Offices To Good Advantage

Russ Reject Hull's Offer   Mediation of Polish Diplomatic Dispute Politely Refused

RUSS REJECT UL S. OFFER   Relations With Poland Not Right For Mediation,  Moscow Says

British Not To Recognize Land Changes   Red_ Investigating Group Blames Germans For Katyn Forest Massacre.   ANNOUNCED BY HULL

Russia Refuses to Accept U.S. Offer Regarding Poland   Time Not Right for Resumption of Diplomatic Relations

No, Thank You, Not Ready, Is Reds’ Renly   Situation Regarding Poland Not Ripe for U.S. to Use: Her Good Offices ~~   SO THE AMERICAN . OFFER IS REJECTED   London .’ Sidesteps Show: down on Ticklish Question as Eden States Policy:

HULL REPORTS U.S. OFFER IS REJECTED   Offered to Helo Russia Restore Relations With Poland.

Russ Reject U.S. Offer   Refuse Effort to Restore Diplomatic Relations With Poland

Russia Rejects Offer of U.S. to Bring Poles and \Soviet Union Together

Time Not Ripe tor Etforts To Settle Differences With Poland, Moscow Tells U. §.   Crisis Over Boundary Dispute Grows More Serious as Result Of Soviet Attitude Toward Offer

Russia Rejects U.S. Offer Of Mediation   ‘Feels Situation  Not Ripe for Polish Border Settlement

Reds Reject U.S. Offer To Intercede with Poles   British Policy of Not Recognizing War Boundaries Reaffirmed but Door Left Open to Agreement   Russians Charge Germans  Massacred 11,000 Poles   Special Soviet Commission Reports Finding Bodies Buried With Uniforms in Katyn Forest— . Toaleta: On Prahe

MEDIATION BY U.S. DECLINED BY RUSSIA   Rejection of Offer To Settle Polish Row Polite

Russia Rejects Proposal of Hull  ede. Ctoanebteme   Eden Sidesteps Border Dispute

SOVIETS REFUSE OFFER OF U. S.   Hull Reports Russia Has Turned Down Aid in RedPolish Situation

BRITAIN WON'T RECOGNIZE POLISH CHANGE   But Way Is Left Open Accepting RussianPolish Compromise

REDS REJECT OFFER OF U.S,   Bid to Seek End ~ Polish Dispute Is Refused

Russia Turns Down U. S. Offer of Help   Situation “Not Yet Right” For Use of “Good Offices" In Soviet-Polish Dispute

Reds Reject U. S. Offer Of Mediation   Britain Not _ Recognizing War Made Boundaries

Hull's Offer Rejected by Russians   Believe Time Not Right to Employ Use of US “Good Offices” to Restore Polish Relations

————— ee —“‘“—SOS—~—  Russia Rejects U. S. Offer in Polish Dispute

MacDonald's Return to  Office Fought   State Employees Charge He Ignored Civil Service

Called ‘Pikers’ By MacDonald, Say Employes   Charge Commissioner Of Public Works Acted In Autocratic Manner

Barkley Action Called Mistake   Mrs. Driscoll Says Chance Many Raciilt

Barkley. Action. Called Mistake.   Mrs. Driscoll Says s Chaae Maney Dabilk

Platforms of Major Parties Hold Attention   Will Be Short, Designed to Avoid Debate

U.S. Smashes Truk Islands   Pre-Dawn Blow Finds Only One Jap Intercentar

ENVOY RETURNS TO WASHINGTON   Ambassador To Report To, President And Hull On Crisis With Argentina.

TEMPERATURE TO 92; MAN COLLAPSES   Second Heat Prostration of Yea) Is Recorded Here—E. D. Phillins Victim.

Patriots Call for Aid After German Trick   Allied Forces Fight Toward City to Help Outnumbered Maquis   BULLETIN

Nazi Try to Flee  Thwarted   Bombers Hit Warships Attempting to Escape Doomed Le Havre Port

BORDEAUX NOW LIBERATED IS LATEST REPORT   Other Towns On Spanish-Frenct Border In Hands Of Patriots

Hull Describes FR As Wel Fitted for Task By Nature and Experience.

Baltic States Appear Lost  To Germans   Nazis Unable to Stem Advance of Surging Soviet Armies, Face Collapse, Entrapment

Annual Fire School At C. S. T. C.   Program For Third Institute Se For Sept. 4 To 8 Announced

Warsaw Problem Grows:  Roosevelt Is Silent, but Other Officials Express Grave Concern

FDR Silent On Warsaw Matter   Fate of City Settled When Reds Unable To Crack Nazi Defenses.

HOG. MARKETS ~ ARE SWAMPED   a F 4 MORE THAN QUARTER MILLION HOGS NOT SOLD AT END OF . JHE DAY YESTERDAY

HOG RECEIPTS GLUT MARKETS   Monday’s Receipts Biggest For One Day Since 1925

YANKEE PATROL STABS ACROSS ARNO IN ITALY   Germans On Monte Pisano Open Long Range Artillery Bombardment

YANKS MOP UP ITALY POCKETS   NAZt ARTILLERY POUNDS U. S$.-HELD LIVORNO

U.S. TROOPS MOVE ACROSS ARNO RIVER   Nazis Bombarding Livorno From Monte Pisano

Yanks Probe Nazi Line Along -Arno   Gefman ns’ Bombard Cantited Livorna-

U.S. Combat Patrols Cross Arno River   Germans on Monte Pisano Are Shelling Livorno

PATROLS CROSS ARNO TO PROBE PISA DEFENSES   Germans Start LongRange Shelling Of Livorno

American Combat Patrols in Italy Cross Arno River; German Guns Shell Livorno

U. S. Patrols Get Across Arno River   Germans Bombard Newly Captured  Livorno

Germans Bombard U. S.-Held Livorno   American Combat Patrols Stab Their Way Across Arno River

OLD TIME TRADE POLICY SHELVED   U. S$. Plans To Encourage industrialGrowth in Other Nations

“SAVINGS. CITED   Bowles Credits OPA With $169-A-Person “Plug” During 1943

Blasting Of Rotterdam Harbor Installations Indicates Possible Nazi Breakup In Holland

Signs Point To Nazi Breakup In Netherlands   Americans In Factory Section Of Battered Reich City; Battle Is ‘Greatest’ On Front

2 ENEMY RESCUE ARMIES SMASHED AND TURNED BACK   SIGNS APPEAR OF GERMAN BREAK-UP ON HOLLAND FRONT

Approaching Motherhood Motive For Velez Suicide   Coroner Demands’ Investigation ‘by District Attorney.

WANTS LUPE'S DEATH PROBEL   Coroner Dissatisfied With Handling of Case

Service Vote Bill Facing Senate Test   War Ballot Suddenly Shelved for Vote on “States’ Rights” Plan

SENATE STOPS CONSIDERATION OF U. $. VOTE   ‘State’s Rights’ Bill Switched for Federal Ballot Measure

Senate Does Flipflop on’ Soldier Vote   ea Shift t ou Debating gion Pronosal

Final Vote On Tax Bill  Ta = ep Te a   Congress Expected to Get Measure to White House by Nightfall

Federal War Ballot ‘Gets Run-Around   Senate First Rejects, Then Ok’'s Debate on States’ Rights’ Plan

Senate Turns fo States’ Rights Plan   Administration Bill Was Near Passage

Sidetracked the War Bollot Bill   immediate Consideration of ‘State’s Right” Bill for Service Voting, Given.

A Surprise Switch on  Vote Bill   Senate Turns to States’ Right Measure! When’ About to Vote on Federal Plan   CLEAR CUT TEST AGAIN DELAYED   ‘Change Comes as the Ad ministration Plan Is Ou Brink ‘of Passage

MOTION LOSES ON 2NO BALLOT   Administration Beats Off Second Attempt to Sidetrack Service Vote.

RENEW FIGHT ON FEDERAL BALLOT   OPPOSING SENATORS SEEK TO SIDETRACK ADMINISTRATION BILL

House Passes New Tax Bill   Approves Measure Adding 2 Billion To 1944 Tax Income

Federal Ballot Bill Sidetracked  Measure Ready, Then Shoved Aside

CHINESE 6 AIN ON BURMA ROAD   Retake Mangshih in New Salween Drive

Solons Start Work on New  Revenue Bill   Cry of ‘Filibuster’ Expected in Action on War Ballot Bill Not Forthcoming

SOLDIER VOTING ISSUE GROWING HOT IN CAPITAL   Development of Tax Bill Is Overshadowed by Fight Over Next Elections

New Tax Bill Nearly Ready   Expect Approval in Next Few Days; Bitter Row Over Soldier Vote

TWO SPEAKERS OF OUTSTANDING RANK AT MEETING   County Supt. French Announces Program For Annual Session Of County Teachers In Prince. ton On February 11.

OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS AT TEACHERS MEE}   Annual Session Of Bureau County Instructors At Princeton

GERMANS PLA GREAT WINTER ROCKET RAIDS      Claim Rockets Will Be Fired From Norwegian, Danish Rases

Bombers May Hit From East   Report Allied Force Being Built In Russia

German City Wiped Out  Brunswick Smashed by   Brunswick Smashed by RAF; Allied Bombers Based in Russia

OCCUPY TOWN NEAR FAENZA   Canadians Smash Nazi Lines To Take Bagnacavallo; : Enemy Retreating

NAZIS LOSE ROAD CENTER IN ITALY   FIERCE CANADIAN ATTACKS BREAK ,GERMAN RESISTANCE NEAR FAENZA.

Nazi Resistance on Italizn Front Broken by Hard-Fighting Canadians

Pretty Wedding Is Celebrated At Zuehl Home  Melvin Botsford Weds Miss Arlene Schule af Mearrill

SCHULZBOTSFORD EXCHANGE VOWS   Popular Young Couple Tc Live on Farm West of Merrill

SCHULZ-BOTSFORD. ~ EXCHANGE VOWS   Popular Young Couple. Te Live on Farm West ~  of Merrill

yap Armies Closing Vice On Changsha   Stronghold Is Threatened With Seizure; Fleet Sweeps Pacific

CHANGSHA tl]  ON ALL SIDES   Attempts to Cross Liuyang River Checked So. Far, Chinese Say,

éaps Launched Hew Offensive   CHINESE FORCES FACED SEVERE TEST AT CHANGSHA

CURRENT DRIVE ON MAINLAND SEEN AS MOVE TO CUT OFF ALL ALLIED APPROACHES TO CHINA   Chineses Troops Ordered to F ight to Last Man Are Putting Up Determined Battle. Jap Victory in China Seen As Prolonging Pacific War for Years

JAPAN'S ALL-OUT DRIVE IN CHINA 1S MOVING TO CLIMAX  SITUATION ON OTHER FOUR PACIFIC BATTLE FRONTS GOOD FOR ALLIE

Japs Close Vise on  Changsha   Struggle For City Nears Crisis With Defenders Far OutNumbered: Palau Hit

CHANGSHA BEING ATTACKED FROM ALL DIRECTIONS   Gravity of Battle Stressed; May Prolong Far for Years.

Changsha Fall  Draws Nearer   Japs Hit Key Link In Hankow-Canton Railway From All Directions.

Assault Changsha From All Sides  Japanese Forces Are Battering at Gates

FURIOUS BATTLE  FOR CHANGSHA IS  NEARING CLIMAX CHENAULT DECLARES JAPANESE VICTORY  Can DOnI nan WAD

Changsha Hard Pressed By Japs   Planes Hit Islands Guarding Philippines

Japs Assault Changsha from All Directions   Allied Airmen Make First Daylight Raid on Palau: Chinese Capture  Lungling

Motor Industry Looks at Future  Expect Control to Follow After War

May Control CarOutputFirst ‘Year After War   Industry Expecting Greatest Competitive Era In History

$4 Finnish Firms  ablacklisted By U.S.   ssi ’ Blow Delivered Because Finns Refuse To Quit .

NEW ARGENTINE COUP CRUSHED   OFFICERS ATTEMPT TO RESTORE RAMIREZ

Argentine Plot Again Thickens   Report Says Attempt Is Made to Put Ousted President Back into Office

Revolt Aimed at Restoring Ramirez To Power in Argentina Has Failed, ‘Says Farrell Administration

ARMY REVOLT IN ARGENTINA TS THWARTED   Government Officials Claim Backbone Of Revolution Broken

Je  REVOLT INARGENTINA A FAILURE   Army Group Tried To Restore Ramirez To Power ¢

Argentina Coup Ends  In Failure   Attempted Revolt By Army Units Ends, Farrell’s Regime Claims

Tempo Of War In Pacific Mounts, With Fate Off All Eastern China In Balance   Heroic Chinese Furiously Resist Jap Plan For Far East ‘West Wall’

Task Force Hits Jap Bases Again: 18 Ships Sunk  In Enemy Drive; Situation Critical

Tempo Of War In Pacific ‘Mounts, With Fate Off All Fastern China In Balance  Haren Chinese Fustously J Resist . lft

BESIEGED CHANGSHA RESISTS FURIOUSLY   American Task Force Continues Air Attacks Against Marianas Subs Sink 18 Jap Vessels

Amerie: alls. C ‘hinese U losing  Trap On 2,000 Burma Japs   Allied Forees Captures Village Of Shinghan To Tighten Noose; Japs May Attempt To Blast Way  Qut Or Eseape Via Jungles

CHINA, U.S. TROOPS FIGHT   Mirv Driving Sid by Side in Burma Offensive — Tightening Trap Asound More than 2,000 Japanese.

Chinese Push On   Capture of Rail Key Clears Most of Kweichow of Jap Invaders

Chinese Seize Railroad Town  In New Drives   Tuhshan Area Is Clearec ‘of Japanese Forces; Chungking Newspapers Issue Extras

Reverse for Japs In China Battle  Attacking Chinese May Drive Nips  Joe a.

CHINESE TAKE ~ ANLROAD CIT   Military Spokesman Warns, However, Situation Is Still Serious.

SHANGSSU ! RETAKEN BY CHINA FORCES   K weichow Province Is Being Cleared Of Jap Troops

Negro Rights Asked of Demo:   Spokesmen Seek Commitments Against Poll Taxes, Lynching, “Jim Crowism”; Farm Bloc Seeks Plank for Economy of Abundance

JAPS REPORT HEAVY DAMAGE 10 U. §. CONVOY   Tokyo Says “Great Fleet” of American Ships Is Heading for Mindoro or Luzon.

TOKYO REPORTS HUGE AMERICAN CONVOY STEAMING TO PHILIPPINES   Enemy Doubtful It’s New Invasion Attempt

Japs Report  50-Ship Fleet Near Mindorc   Foe Says 17 Ships Sunk in Censeleas Attacks on Convoy

Fire Power Being Built Exceeds That Of Nazis Fou  Times, Patterson Says

Four Times Greater in Fire Powe:   Allies Build Tremendous Suot rity Over Nazis; Good: a in-Pacific: ‘Eoo~

Iire-Power In Europe, Great   Patterson Says Allies Build Greater Armed Strength Than Germans.

Allies Build Up Fire Power   To Be Four Times Greater Than Nazis, Patterson Soys

Allies Firing Power Greater   Patterson Says It Will Be Four Times Greater Than Germans.’

Allied Fire Power To Excel Nazis Four Times   American And Britist Fotces Building Up Great Strength, Says  Pottarcan

Four Philadelphia Transportation Workers Discharged by Gen. Hayes

Lt. Gen. Clark Predicts Italian Capital Will Fall Soon   SATISFACTORY GAINS ALONG ITALIAN LINE   12,000 German Prisoners Taken Since Start Of Offensive

Capture Is Forecast by Gen. Clark   Allies Battle Into Last Ger. man Defense Line Be low the City

YANKS BATTER LAST DEFENSE LINE OF NAZIS   German Resistance Stiffens Along Most Sectors of Italian Front.

Capital's Early Fall Predicted   Americans Wedge Into Nazi Alban Hill Defenses, Push to Lanuvio Outskirts; Artillery Pounds Velletri, Valmontone

Big Bombers Level Assault At Europe   BRITISH) FLRET GUNS TS WAY TO” MASTERY OF ARCTIC. 25 t

FIFTH WEDGES INTO GERMANS’ LAST DEFENSES   Allied Gains Measured In At Approaches To Eternal City

STRIKE WAVE IS LAID TO WAR NERVES   2 Major Disputes Have Been Brot to  An End, However

800 NAZI CASUALTIES IN  ITALIAN TRAIN wreck   Ranger Who Never Saw Dad — Killed Without Seeing Son

Son Who Never Saw His Father Is Killed Before Seeing His Own Son

 Liectenant Who Never Saw His Father Killed Before He Saw His Son

French Marquis Said Marching On Vichy, Attacking All Over France

Into Action Behind Lines   Full Tide of Revolt In France Rises to Help Invaders

French Units Seize Towns; Trap Nazis   Use Armored Detachment For First Time in Liberation Drive

French Forces Drive Germans From 12 Towns   French Patriots Operate in Close Cooperation With Allied Armies

STRIKERS LOSE DRAFT DEFERMENTS   St. Louis Walkout Sweeps Out of Control of Leaders

Storm Smashe: Across Three States   Leaves 660-Mile Trail of Death, Destruction

t00-Mile Gale Hits  Resorts   Enormous Losses From Georgia To Maine; Atlantic City  Is Hit Hard.

STEEL PIER AT ATLANTIC CITY IS SHATTERED   Hurricane Roars On To Connecticut Coast

FINAL VOTE COUNT SHOWS FOR MARE!   Wayne County Completes Canvass; Roosevelt Wins by 22,476 Margin

Churchill Reviews Yank Paratroopers In Surprise Visit   Tells Americans They Will Soon Have Opportunity Of Landing In Nazi Europe

It Won’t Be Long Now Says Churchill   Nearer Promised Land _ Says Montgomery

Prime Minister Visits U. $. AirBorne Troopers   Recognizes Great Gathering of Yank Strength in Britain

Promise Of Early Invasion   U. S. SOLDIERS TOLD THEY “SOON” WILL HAVE CHANCE OF LANDING IN EUROPE

YANKS GREETED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Reviews. Ait ~ Borne, Troops: ‘ate 2 ‘Army ‘Base.

Soon To. Alight Over Germany   CHURCHILL REVIEWS U.S. TROOPS IN GREAT BRITAIN

CHURCHILL VISITS U.S. AIR TROOPS   American Airmen Praised After  Inspection

CHURCHILL VISITS YANKS   Tells Sky Troops They’ll Soon Be in Europe _

“Soon You Will Have Opportunity Of Landing On Soil Of Europe,” Churchill Says On Inspection Of U. S. Airborne Troops In Britain

Churchill Inspects U. S. Paratroopers   Accompanied by Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Brereton, He Pays Surprise Visit to Men, Tells Them Invasion Is Near.

Churchill Tells Yankee Fliers ~Tnvasion Neat   Premier Makes Surprise Visit To Airborne Units In English Countryside

SURPRISE WSIT 10 SKYTROOPS   Churchill Inspects American Unit With Eisenhower And Others.

Prime Minister Pays American Fighters A Surprise Visit... . .  Churchill Informs U. S.  Troops Invasion Nea

TEMPERATURES:   Tells American Troops Big Day Close At Hand   Prime Minister, Army Chiefs Pay Visit To Bivouacs

Premier Tells U.S. Paratroops ‘You'll Soon Hit Blow at Axis‘; ‘Chutists Demonstrate Attack

British Leader Sees Americans in Action   Prime Minister. Sure of Victory. Reviews Yank Paratroopers Preparine for Attack

Churchill Says Yanks Soon To  Invade Europe   Surprise Visit  To U. S. Soldiers

Yankees Told  Invasion Near   Churchill Tells American  Air-Borne Troops In Eng/ land They Will Soou Land On Hun-Held Soil

‘British War Chief Inspects Americans In: ‘English Camps And Tells Them They'll Be: Going "Over' Soon, To ‘Play. Great Part’.

Churchill Visits U.S. Paratroops  Tn England   Prime Minister Makes Short Talk, Telling Them They Will Soon Land On Nazi-Held Soil

YANKS VISITED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Watches U. S. Airborne Troops Stage Demonstration

CHURCHILL SAYS INVASION HOUR MAY BE CLOSE   Eisenhower Hears Prime Minister Tell Yanks to Prepore for Big Battle

Churchill Pays Visit To Yank Paratroopers   Soon To Have Opportunity Of Landing In Nazi Furane. He Talle Te an

VITAL ROLE FOR AIR TROOPS IN INVASION CITED   Prime Minister Watches as Skytroops Leap From Waves of Airplanes

U. S. AIRBORNE TROOPS VISITED BY CHURCHILL   Tromises Americans They ‘Soon Wil! Baye Gocortunity’ of Land = Upport FG sates:  ing on Hitler's Europe

REVIEWS YANK TROOPS, SEES “ACTION AWEAL   Montgomery, in Speech, Says Victory “Not Far Off,” Asks Backing.

Churchill Informs U. S. Skytroopers They Will See Action Soon   British Prime Minister Inspects American Troops in Field; Gen. Montgomery Predicts European War to Last Year More

3,000 TRAPPED JAPS SLOWLY BEING WIPED OU]   300 Killed In One Engagement by 32nd DiVision.

DRIVER IS ACCUSED FOLLOWING CRASH      Two Cars Badly Damaged in Crash on Route + a 

DRIVER IS ACCUSED  FOLLOWING (RASH   Two Cars ‘Badly Damagec  in Crash on Route VJ

2 MORE U.S.. SUBMARINES FEARED LOST WITH DIVISION COMMANDER. 150 MEN

U.S. Loses 2 More Divers, 150 in Crews   Division Commnd’r From Palo Alto Among Missing

Eisenhower Flashes First Pre-Invasion Order To Europe’s Underground   Alllies Inflict Heavy Damage In Air And Sea Attack On Soerabaja

Now The End Is Near Hitler’s Conquest of The World Began 5 Years Ago

ow The End is Near .... . Hitler’s Conquest of The World Began 5 Years Ago

Marshall Chosen Five Years Ago   Jumped Over 30 Seniors To Four-Star General, Chief of Staff

FINNS URGED TO QUIT WAR   Roosevelt Appeals Directly To People to End “Hateful Partnership”

KING ADVISES FINNS TO ACCEPT RED TERMS   Moscow Dispatch Says Russian Peo ple Are Aggravated Br Finnish Attitude

BORDER STATES PROVE DECISIVE   Five Hold Balance Of Pow. er In Election, At torney Declares

"Get-Out-the-Vote Club’ Head See "Border States” Deciding Election

5 BORDER STATES MAY DECIDE VOTE   Analyze Trends Since 1920  In Mississippi, Oklahoma, ~ Kentucky, Maryland ane West Virginia

5 BORDER STATES FIGHTING GROUND   SIMON MICHELET BELIEVES THEY MAY DECIDE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Guam Shelled as U.S. Build: Saipan Base for New Blows   Nimitz Discloses Another Smash by Carrier Force; Rota Isle Also Hit

German ‘Tanks Spread Terror In N. Florence      Civilians. Police Killed: Food And Water Situation Is Critical

NAZIS ON NEW MURDER RAMPAGE   ‘Return to North Florence and ' Mow Down Civilians and City Police.

NAZI TANKS IN FLORENCE ARE!   Germans Open Terror Reign In Northern Sector

German Tanks In Florence Suburbs Again   Return To North Section To Kill Civilians And Carabinieri

American Forces Seize Harbor  In Admiralties  Japanese Planes Make First Attack nh. ee oe Leland

Jap Positions in Admiralty s. Near a Collapse   Eriemy Launches: © Counter Attack on Eniwetok Atoll

DAMAGE LIGHT AS NIPPONESE HIT ENIWETOK   ENEMY POSITIONS NEAR COLLAPSE IN ISLANDS

All American Craft ~ Steam In Unmolested   p Planes Counter-Attack On EniP vetok Atoll; Yankee Subs Sink 16 More ‘Merchantmen

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Germex nnan Retreat To 1939 Line In Progre  alae1 Grip On Baltic States Slipping  Fast

America Broke Faith With Veterans, Legion Head Says   Asserts Soldiers Must Be Given Chance To Help Make Peace Planc.

To Campaign for Stassen  — in Wisconsin   Backers. to Enter’ Former Minnesota Governor in Presidential Primary   AS RIVAL OF DEWEY, WILLKIE MacARTHUR   Republican. Leader; Now in Naval Service, Also to Go. on Nebraska Ballot. --

State Presents Charge Against Wayne Lonergan  Prosecution Contends  ' Wife Strangled by RCAF Cadet

JAP SHIPPING IS DEALT BLOW   U.S. Airmen Destroy Two Freighters, 30 Small Craft At Wewak

Bombers Down  9 Jap Vessels   23 Burges Are Destroyed Off Enemy Wewak Base

Allied Air Force Presses Attack On Wewak Base   Gun Positions, Ships, Grounded Planes, Buildings Bombed

ATTACKS PRESSED  BY ALLIED FORCES   Japanese Positions Bombed in Wewak Base Area

ARMY Alf FORGE HITS WEWAK AREA   Intent on Making Japs Helpless on Land’and Sea   SHIPPING BLASTED   Airmen Smash Two Freighters, Seven Smaller Vessels and 23 Barges

Eight Heavy Jap Guns Are Blasted   Japanese Fail to Put Up Planes 1o Meet Attacks

Destroy Freighters, Smaller  - Vessels And Barges; Powerful Fleet Of Aircraft Sweep Coast For 90 Miles.   Visit Rabaul

ALLIES BLAMED FOR FAILURE OF POLES   Gen. Sosnkowski Says Patriots Were “Abandoned” During Fight Inside Warsaw

With Ernie Pyle at the F ront:   Wounded British Flier Fights Death Eight Days  Americans Rescue Cheerful ; . Tommy From Badly Wrecked Plane

With Ernie Pyle at the Front:  Wounded British Flier Fights Death Eight Days  Americans Rescue Cheerful  Tommy From Badly Wrecked Plane   Pilot Released Shows Courage

CINCINNATI FACTORY IS SWEPT BY FLAMES   Fire Threatens Section o Commission Houses

Flood Waters Pour Thru “Levee Break to Force Suspension Rail Opera- tions Near St. Louis

GOES THROUGH A NEW LEVEE   Flood Waters Suspend Some Operations of Railway Freight Yard.   ‘TRAINS ARE RE-ROUTED

Mississippi On Rampage   ace UE etc a = 10,000 Fighting Flood Waters in Missouri; vest Diese Tasmarraw

Pravda Reports Failure Of Nazi  Rumor - Mongers   Vichy Still Broadcasts Discord Among Allies

Railroads Baek Now In Private Owners’ Hands   Wage Hike Settlement Brings Order To End   -Army’s Control —

Rails Back in Private Hands   Sen. Waceler Warns of Manpower Problem as U. S. Operation of Roads Ends.

Ar ‘my-Control . Of Rail Lines   Ts Surrendered   Wheeler Warns _Manpowe) Problems ‘Critical, As Roosevelt Says: ‘Pay Dispute Settled

RAISES VOTED RAN WORKERS   Nation's Carriers Reiurned - To Private Ownership As Dispute Is Setiled

Nation’s Railroads Returned to Owners at Stimson’s Order   Action Taken After Announcement of Wage Settlement

ARMY CONTROL OF RAILS ENDED   All Workers Get Increase In Wage Settlement

SYOTEM FACES  HELP PROBLEN   FDR Announces Settlement Of Rail Dispute With Pay Raises for All.   BACK iN PRIVATE HANDS

RAILROMUS HANDED BACK TO-OPERATORS   President Ends Wage Disoute With Raises For All

Railroads Again Under Control of Their Operators   With Wage Dispute Settled The Owners Take Ove:  From the Army.   Manpower Shortage Still Faces Nation

U.S. Returns Railroads To  Their Owners  FDR Says Wage Row Is Settled

Nation’s Railroads Are Returned to Private Operators   Settlement Reached With Pay Boosts All  Around; Manpower Problem Still Critical

RAIL LINES ARE AGAIN IN CHARGE OF THEIR OWNERS   Pay Increases For Workers Estimated at 240 Million Annually, Pledge Is Given Against Strike.   ACTION IS TAKEN AS SETTLEMENT IS MADE   Railway Personnel Ranks Become Thinner With Mer Becoming Interested In War Plant Jobs.

Nation’s Rail Lines Back In Private Hands   Wage Controversy Is Settled, With Increases All Around.

WAGE DISPUTI IS REPORTED s SETTLED   Pay Raises Are Announced By Roosevelt  ONDER   Zffective Last Midnight: Wheeler Warns Of Manpower Shortage

Rails Return to Owners With Pay Hikes for Mer   Roosevelt Announces Wage Settlement Giving Non-Ops Nine to 11 Cents More Per Hour, Others Nine

Railroads Are Back In Hands Of Operators   Increases Of Nine To Eleven Cents An Hour Are Provided Under Wage Settlement

Railroads’ In Hands Of Owners   Restoration Follows Final Agreement On Wage Issue; Manpower Shortage a Worry Now

Return Rails to Private Operators   Wage Increases From 9 to 11 Cents Granted to Union Employes

U.S. RETURNS RAILROADS 10 THEIR OWNERS   Raises Granted All Around; Wheeler Sees Serious Manpower Problem

RAISE WAGES, TURN RAILS BACK T0 OPERATORS   Salary Increase Will Cost Roads 240 Million Yearly

RAILWAY SYSTEM BACK IN HANDS OF PRIVATE OWNERS   Wage Fight Settled, Government Gave Up Control at Midniaht

Railroads Turned Back To Private Onerators Today   ‘Wage Dispute Is Now Settled But Solon  Warns Manpower  Still Short

RAILROADS TURNED BACK TO OWNERS   Warned Draft and Man Shortage Pose New, Critical Problem

LABOR PROBLEM STILL SERIOUS, CONGRESS TOLD   Hopkins Letter Mystery Takes Spotlight, However, in Capital Variety Show

Rails Returned To Operators  Settlement Reached le Wlann Nienutac

RAIL WORKERS GET INCREASE OF NINE GENTS   Roads Returned To Owners; Labor Shortage Serious 

WHEELER SEES MORE TROUBLE FOR RAILROADS   Rails Back In Hands Of Owners; Agreement Reached

JRAILROADS ARE BACK IN HANDS OF COMPANIES   Estimate Settlement . to Cost Roads About $350.000.000, Annually

Rail System Goes Back To Private. Operators Today   Wage Dispute Over, With Raises for All =: And Retroactive Pay

Railroads Return To Private Hands   Wages Increased, As Wheeler Warns Lack Of Manpower Critical

Railroads Back  In Private Hands   Manpower Shortage Faces Lines Senator Wheeler Warns Country

Nation’s Rail Transportation System Back In Hands Of Private Gperators With Raises All Around

Private Owned Railroads Face Labor Problem   Nation’s Rail Transportation System Is Back To Private Chyuoner:.   WARNED BY WHEELER

ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT ON. WAGE   Government Has Operate  Roads Since Dec. 27; Ctfinatiues ot Lit aAieke

Army Turns Rails Back  To Owner:   Wheeler Warns Draft. Manpower Shortage Pose New, Critica] Problem

Government ~ Returns Rails To Owners   Wherier Warns of A Criticai Manpower Problem; Workers Get Desired Raise.

Railroads In Private Hands Once More   Wage Dispute Settled; Warning Comes of Critical Rail Manpower Problem

CHILDREN TO HAVE PART IN WAR JOB   Douglas County Youngsters Asked To Pick Milk_ ‘weed Pods    QUOTA OF 5,000 BAGS

CHILDREN TO HAVE. PART IN WAR JOB   Douglas County Teen Asked To Pick Milkweed Pods ‘   QUOTA OF 5,000 BACS

15 Nazi Divisions May Be Trapped By New Red Offensive In The Baltics

Reds Surge Across Lithuania   Swift Baltic Advance Threatens to Cut Off 15 Nazi Divisions; Smash On Budapest

15 Nazi Divisions Trapped in Balkans   Russians Driving Close to Budapest

New Soviet Drive Traps 15 Divisions   Baltic Break-Through On 175-Mile Front  Menaces Prussia

2,000 Communities Seized In Four Days; Capture Of Memel Expected Soon

BREAK THRU LINES   Russians Surging Ahead on Wavering German Bal tic Front

NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE CRACKS BALTIC FRONT   Reds Appear to Have Virtually Cut Off at Least 15 Enemy Divisions North Of Memel   MARCH ON BUDAPEST

Memel Falf Is Seen Probable as Reds Gain   15 German Divisions Apparently Cyt Off North of Port City

GERMAN BALTIC FRONT WAVERS   New Red Offensive Surges Ahead 62 Miles; 15 Divisiogs Cut Off.   REDS NEARER BUDAPEST

Red Legions’ Breakthrough Perils Nazis   15 Reich Divisions Virtually Ci Off . By Soviet Advance

German Disaster In the Making North of Memel   Seviet Forces in Hungary Now Only 72 Miles from Budapest; Resistance Crushed

RED FORCES MAKE GREAT NEW SWEEP   15 German Divisions Cut Oft Wear Memel In Big Baltic Thrust   RED THRUST INTO PRUSSIA LOOMS   Russians Invading Hungary Reported Only 72 Miles From Budapest

MORE GERMANS   Powerful Russian Offensive Cracks Center of Nazi Baltic Front

BALTIC BREAKTHROUGH ON 62. MILE FRONT TAKES 2,000 TOWNS SOUTHERN NEARS BUDAPEST

Red Power Drives ‘Smash Germans in Baltic and Balkans   Russians Cut Off 15 German Divisions in North and Invade Hungary from Romania - - British Race Across Greece ~ To Set Trap for Nazis Caught There

15 Divisions Believed To Be Cut Off   Russians Advance In Push Through Hungarian Area

New Red Drive Covers 62 Miles On Baltic Front   15 Nazi Divisions North Of Memel Seen Cut Off; Gain In Budapest Push

Drive In Lithuania Threatens New Trap; Endangers E. Prussia Anew

FIFTEEN GERMAN DIVISIONS SUT OFF BY SOVIETS   Russians Surge 62 Miles In  New Advance

Reds Slash Forward on Baltic Front   Appear to Have Cut Off 15 Nazi Divisions  North of Memel

ARE CAUGHT IN FAST NEW SOVIET DRIVE   Red Forces Surge 62 Miles Through Baltic Front in Powerful Offensive —East Prussia Is Their GOnal

15 German Divisions Face irap   Threaten Breakthru Before Cologne, Duesseldorf.

Reds Smash 62 Miles  Into Baltic Defenses _      ‘Memel Threatened; ‘Invasion ~ ‘ Of East Prussia Seems Near; Hiunoarian Deve Cains + °

Soviets Crack Nazi Center on Baltic Front   15 German Divisions North of Memel Virtually Cut Off

Soviets Crack Center Of Hun -- Baltic Front   Reds Avaice.to Within-72 Miles of Budapest, Hungary, in: Powerful Offensive

Yanks, Nazis Lock in Giant Air Battle  Hour-Long Parade ol U.S. Planes Streams Into Europe FOLLOW NIGHT RAID  RAK Stages Mosquito Atlack on German  To ted

Bombers Stream Into Axis Area   Allies Follow Up RAF Raids On Berlin

YANK BOMBERS EUROPE-BOUND; BERLIN RAIDEL   Photos Indicate German - Capital 40 Per Cent Destroyed

Mosquito Bombers in Raid Last Night Over Berlin.  HEAVY BOMBERS CROSS CHANNEL  Allied Planes Based in Italy Raid Sofia Second Time.

Central Germatr ‘Blockhusted’ By U.S. Armada  Nazis Report Huge Aerial Battle Raging

NAZI FIGHTERS ATTACK HORDE OF U. S. SHIPS   Wave After Wave Roars Across Channel; Mosquitos Hit Berlin

Americans In Air Battle  Over Europe   Nazi Fliers Rise In Great Strength To Meet Them In Combat

U. S. BOMBERS BLAST NAZIS   -Air Battle in Central Germany {fs Reported

AIR FIGHT OVER EUROPE RAGES   Bombers Locked in Battle With Nazi Fighters _

FORTRESSES, LIBERATORS HIT GERMANY   German Fighters Swarm Up to Meet American Bombers

RAID AXIS FUROPE   Radio Berlin Says Big Air Battle Is Under Way

YANK PLANES STREAMING OVER EUROPE   HoursLong Parade Swept Over Axis-Europe Today

HEAVY AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACK GERMAN TARGETS   Daylight Raid Follows Smash at Berlin by British  Planoc

U.S. Bombers Over Central Germany   Luftwaffe Rises in Force to Meet Yankee Challence

DEWEY CARRIES OFF DELEGATES FOR WISCONSIN   Willkie, Who Made Spirited Bid in Badger State, Fails to Get Support of Even One

(rovernors Disagree on Industry,  Public Works for Post-War Jobs   ‘Unly Prolongs Agony,’ Washington Man Says Jt Gov, Dempsey's Program for Employment

Nazi Killers ‘Turn Yellow.’ Surrender by Hundreds As Odds Turn Against Them

PEPPER ATTACKS GOP CANDIDATES   REPUBLICANS STRIKE BACK, SAYS NEW DEAL MUST FEAR STRENGTT

Taft Replies To Pepper Views  Florida Senator Hits GOP -Foreian Policy

DEMOCRATS, 60? TRADE PUNCHES   Senator Pepper Raps at Dew. ey, Bricker—Taft and Nye Reply

PEPPER CRITICAL OF DEWEY AND BRICKER   Says GOP Potential Nominees Are Retreating, Shifting Candidates.

 Trend To Foreign Languages  Students Reported To Be  More Language Conscious

Trend To F oreign Languages ROE SS  Students Reported To Be  More Language Conscious

Kansas Over the Top In War Loan Drive   Total at Noon More Than A Million Over Quota;’ © 86 Counties Reach Goal

President Sees No Peace Slump   Plenty) Of Jobs, High Wacaes Forecast

FDR ASKS WAR OUTPUT BOOST   Urges Workers To Stay On Jobs In Crisis

Worker In War Plants Urged To Stay On Job      Postwar Employment and Pay Security Held Out As Incentive In Pro. duction Crisis

Postwar Wage Security Lure For Workers   President Says - Tendency Will Be To Keep Pay High

Postwar Job, Pay Security Held Out As War Worker Incentive   President Assures War Workers Government And Industry Working Hard To Provide Peacetime Jobs.

War Workers Fear Peace Situation, But  High Wages After War Are Forecasted By FDR  6 2 ee

Postwar Jobs, Pay, Assured By Roosevelt   yovernment. Industry Working Hard ‘To Provide Peace-Time Employment.   CONTINUE PRODUCTION

Pay to Stay At War Level F.R. Asserts   Calls on Workers to Stay at Jobs in Production Crisis

Postwar Places Assured Workers By Mr. Roosevell  Production Chief ~  Suggests Bonus To  Retain War Workers

HIGH WAGES AND PLENTY OF JOBS IN POST: WAR ERA   President Makes Plea to Wat ‘Plant Workers to Stay at  Their: Tasks ©

Japanese Broadcasts Tell of Landing of U.S, Motorized Detachments   Motorized Detachments  tee aeRO 4 ch nnalignanmmnragmNte:  WORLD ANXIOUSLY WAITS DETAILS Marine Pictures Show Heavy Concentration  of Jap Forces at Great Base

Jap Reports of Truk Fight Doubted   U.S. Navy Seeking New China Route

SERVICES LIFT POLITICAL BAN   Army and Navy to Permit Office Seeking

Servicemen May  Have Nominations  Agreement Announced By President

Army, Navy Regulars Can't Run   They Can Accept a Nomina. tion But. Not Campaign Tor It, Roosevelt’ Says   RESERVE OFFICERS - RULING :DIFFERENT   Stassen Could Seek Oftice, But. Not. MacArthur, It Is Explained’ 

Service Men May Accept  Nominations  Army and Navy Make  Formal Agreement on Public Office Activity

ARMY AND NAVY HAS  AGREED CONCERNING  TROOP CANDIDACIES IN MAKING ANNOUNCE MENT PRESIDENT SAYS NC CONTROVERSY INVOLVED

ARMY AND NAVY ADOPT POLICY ON CANDIDATES   Regulars, Like MacArthur, Ma; Accept Nominalion Tenderec Without Activity on Their Par   CANNOT CAMPAIGN    Mea in Reserve, Like Stassen, May Become Candidates Without Be  ing Nominated

GIVES RULING ON SERVICEMEN   FR Says Army, Navy Agreement Largely for Clarification Purposes.   NOT FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL

Army and Navy Announce Rules For Candidacies   Men May Accept Nominations If Tendered Them

Service Men Ma) Run for Office   Army and Navy Agrees to Let Men Accept  Namination«

Military Men Mav Run For Publie Office   Army, Navy Rule That Unsolicited Nominations May  Be Accepled

Army and Navy Men May Seek Offices   Agreement Announces By President In Capital Today

Service Men May Accept Offices   But Only in Cases Where Nomination Tendered Without Activity.

SOVIETS BLAST PATH THROUGH HILL DEFENSES   Shock Troops Storming Great Black Sea Naval Base

DEFENDER OF CITY BENEATH HAIL OF FIRE    Soviet Siege Army Batters  Through Maze Of Fortifications  In Two Days Of Violent Fight ine At Navel Race   READY TO HURL NAZIS INTO SEA

REDS STORM IN FOR KILL AT SEA BASE   Blasting Artillery Barrage Sets Off Battle Again After 18-day Lull in Fighting.

BASE IS IN FINAL ACT   Hand-To-Hand Battles Raging In Streets Of City, Claim’

Axis Troops At Sevastopol Get “Hail Of Fire”   Russians Storm In For Final Blow At Besieged Port

Sevastopol Siege in Last Stage   Russians End 18-Day Lull With Sweeping Artillery Barrage

Germans Back to Black See   Defense of Base in Last Stages, Counterthrusts Fail

Fortifications Blasted Into Pile of Rubble   Defenders Fight Back Bitterly To .  Prevent Dunkerque

‘SHOCK TROOPS ‘STORM TO GATES OF CRIMEA BASE      Smashing Of Nazi Naval Defenses Reported In Final Stage

German Defense Of Sevastopol In Final Stage   18-Day Lull Ends With Sweeping Artillery Barrage

Bitter Fighting Underway   Reds Poised to Hurl 25,000 Nazi  Defenders in Sea

"RUSSIANS USING MUCH ARTILLERY   German Positions On Sheer Cliffs Are Staormed

Reds Move in for Sevastopol ‘Kill’   Advance Four Miles in Two Days Through Fortitications—In Final Stave

AXIS TROOPS THROWN BACK BY HAIL OF FIRE   Russiarls Gain Outer Defenses

NAZI DEFENSE OF NAVAL BASE IN LAST STAGE   Siege Army Is Poised To Hurl 25.000 Axis Defenders Into Sea

Defense of Great Black Sea Base In Final Stages .   Soviet Siege Army ? Struggles Through Massive Fortifications

GOV, BRICKER NOT TO DROP OUT OF RACE   GOP Platform May Include International Police Force

Republicans Draft Plan  For Action   Platform Plank For World Peace

War Contract List Will Get  ‘Senate Action   Committee Bill Provides Plans for Change-Over Tea Post-War Effort

WAR CONTRACTS BILL IS READY   Senate Proposal At Variance With House Measure

Neutrals Aiding Nazis to Suffer _ Post-War Penalt   Nations Shipping to  Geinsany Threotened With Blocklis?

May Prove Toughest Objective   With 25 Years to Fortify Marshall Islands,  Jap Defenses Could Be Virtually Impregnable

Marshalls May Be Toughest Objective of War in Pacific   Invasion Takes Aimericans First Time into Areas  Held by Japs Before War

BROADCASTS “SHOWDOWN” COMES SOON   ‘Chairman Dies Feels Radio in Some Cases Furthering Program of Un-American Propaganda

Have You Voted  in the school election? Polls Close at 7 P.M.   Dies Charges Subversion by Broadcasters

American Planes Hit Philippines  Airstrips at Davao Rea RiawctaaA

Yugoslav Envoy Renounces King  Peter Is Spurned For Marshal Tito

Defense Begins — Grim Fight in Lonergan Case   Try to Block Admission Of Canadian Flyer's Confession:

e“ense Scarcs + Aig. r. 70 2 ocx  A.C mission 0-7 ~ onergan ON-eSSiONn

‘Defense Maintains Lonergan  ww . r i Made Confession Under Duress

GAS RATION COUPON COUNTERFEITER HELD   Bogus Stamps and Press Are Seized in Middletown

Congressional Battles Brewing   Congress Comes To Grips This Week On Recon version Legislation.

CONGRESS NEARS FIGHT OVER JOB COMPENSATION  Payments Made for Unemployment ‘After War to Set Off Verbal Clash

Knotty Problems Faced by Congress   Recenversion Legisfatian, State's Rights Fight, Promise Fireworks This Werk.

Solons Face. Heavy Slate   “Compensation. Fight To Start ‘Fireworks

RIVAL RELIEF BILLS PENDING   States’ Rights Fight Brewing in Senate; House Repubiicans Hit Rich Unemployment Pav Plans

Jobless Pay For Soldiers To Start Fight   Senate To Take Up Controversial Bills  In Qpnecian TF nea nearness

States Rights Shapes Up For Senate Battle   Congress Is Getting Ready For Bills On Re conversion.

States Right Battle Brews In Senate   Truman Sponsored Bill Assailed As “Idleness Promoter”?

Senate Fireworks Explode Tuesday Over Kilgore Bill   GOP, Southern Senators Fighting To Leave Compensation To States

States Rights Battle Looms In Senate Over Unemployment Compensation As Congress Begins Work On Reconversion.Law

Congress At Grips With  Reconversion   States’ Rights Fight Brews in Senate; GOP Condemnation Voiced

Battle Brewing on Reconversion  Fireworks Expected to Start Tuesday

RECONVERSION TO BE STUDIED      States’ Rights Fight Brews In Senate On Unemployment Pay

Chinese Pursuing Badly Mauled  Japanese Forces  Enemy Has Escaped From Trap With Severe Casualties

CHINESE CHASE JAPANESE WHO ESCAPE TRAP   Japs Suffer Severe Loss On Salween Front, Command Says

New Leader Takes Over In Tammany   Kennedy Resigns : and ‘Loughlin Is Elected Immediately to Vacancy:

Christmas Is Bleak Affair In Hollywood   Gay lrappings Of Past Gone

London Times For . Productive Reich   Agsails Suggestion Ger many Be Reduced to Agricultural Nation

YORA SAFE AND LOCK CO. TAKEN OVER BY NAVY  “Unsatisfactory Managamant (Candi_   “Unsatisfactory Management Conditions’ Cited   NO LABOR FIGHT   All Company’s s Plants Are Involved In Order

York Safe And Lock Plants Taken Over By U. S. Navy   Department Acts Because Ot “Unsatisfactory Management Conditions,’ Fourth Naval District Announces

Navy Takes Over Plant at York   Unsatisfactory Management Conditiorsa Given As Reason for Action

OF IRITED DEBATE ON UNITY HEARD   Sen. Brooks Protests That While U. S. Soldiers Fight Desperately, Russia and England Race for Power

Widely Scattered Targets Feel Weight of Bombs When Heavies Range Over Europe

Nearly 4,000 U. S. Planes Took Off From Scattered Bases To Blast Europe Yesterday.

SOVIETS SEND ENEMY BARGES TO BOTTOM   Aerial Blows‘ Against Europe Are Continued

Axis Targets Raided From Both British and  Italian Bases   112 NAZI PLANES ' WERE DESTROYED   Growing Artillery and Pa: trol Duels Reported North of Rome

Another Big American Air Parade Rolls Over Germany For 7th DayIn Rov   Americans Hit 4 Enemy Bases In Kurile Isles; Raid Carolines And Truk

General Arnold’s Boy Is Gn The Jeb Viewing The War At Anzio Beachhead From a Foxhole

Rep. Fish Seeks Reelection in N.Y. Primary   Determine if Dewey Can Read Congressman Out of the Party

MURDER HINTED IN LAKE CASE   Grandson Held For Slaying Of Wealthy Woman

Woman’s Body  Out Of Lake   Believed To Be Mrs. Jewett, Who Has Been Missing

Nude Body Of  Woman Is Found   May Be Socialite Who Was Lost May 10

North Carolina Lake Gives Up. Body Missing For 17 Days   Wealthy Mrs. Edward M. Jewett Disappeared May 10; Grandson Being Held on Murder  Charge

Yanks. Bomt Ploesti Oil   Installations:   Gen. Eaker ~ Discloses That:  Recent Cassino Bombing  Took Some Yank Lives

RUSSIAN TROOPS PUSHING THROUGH SUBURBS OF CITY  I & ROMRERS BLAST GEF   U. S. BOMBERS BLAST GER MAN OIL SUPPLY AT PLOESTI WEDNESDAY

200,000 MEN FACE DEATH WITH LAND AND SEA ESCAPE ROUTES BLOCKED AND BEING BOMBED   Third Ukrainian Army Closing in From Three Sides on Germans. American Planes Wreckins Transport and Supply Lands and Great Ploesti Or! Bialede

Black Sea Port Is Be. *: sieged On Three ‘Sidee'   Americans ‘Hit Ru manian Oil. Fields  Again

RUSSIAN TROOPS PUSHING THROUGH SUBURBS OF CITY  U.S. BOMBERS BLAST GER

Russians Surge  Through Outer Odessa Suburbs   200,000 Axis Face Doom In Black Sea Port Trap

CASSINO BATTLE FLARES UP WITH ARTILLERY DUEL   Allied Warplanes Support Soviet Drive Into Balkans By Blasting Oil Center

Close In From Three Sides on Black Sea Port   American Bombers Deal Ploesti Oil Fields Heavy BlowNazis Need Oil

Battle Rages In Suburbs Of Odessa   Red Army Presses in On Three Sides of ~  City; American Bomb< ers Hit Ploesti Railway

Within 9 Miles of City’s Center   Bombers Lay Barrage On Sea And Ferry Escape Channels. —

Russians Pushing In on Big Port From Three Sides   American Bombers Stab at Germans’ Ploesti Oil Supply

Oil Refineries at Ploesti Shattered by American Bombs   Blow Delivered as 200,000 Nazis Face Death  in Odessa

Reds Into ‘Outer Ring ~~ of Odessa   Roar of. Battle-Heard.in ae “Proper: as Soviets: ‘Drive: 2 = Inte Suburbs”      AMERICANS RAID «. Se -.. PELOESTI FISLDF.   Great: Assault. on; Vital Oi “> Refineries; 40°" "Nazi =‘Planes Downed -”

CARVERSVILLE MAN IS HELD IN ATTACK   Vincent J. Radosin, 30, In County Jail Under $5,000 Bail

CARVEROVILLE GARAGE MECHANIC HAS CONFESSED   Identified Positively by Girl While Confronting Him   TIP HELPED OFFICERS

Patton's Tanks Gain Four Miles In Major Drive   Infantry Advances Through Snowstorm

Report Germans leaving Metz to avoid Yank trap   Patton’s tanks and infantry drive forward alone 70-mile wide front

American Troops Fight Through Snowstorm; Germans Driven From Chateau-Salins

N azis Hurry To Escape Metz Trap    « .Allies Pound Ahead With Rising Momentum In Drive Toward Saar  ADVANCE 4 MILES

Tanks and Infantry Slash Across Rail Lines  DRIVE OF PATTON GAINS MOMENTUM  American Forces Are Wheeling Around: Metz

Patton’s Tanks and Infantry Smash Ahead Along 70-Mile Front; Two Nazi Counterblows Repelled

GERMANS SEEN ‘MOVING TROOPS IN METZ AREA   Patton’s Tank And Infantry Divisions Advance Four Miles   NAZI DEFENSES ARE BEING SOFTENED

FLOOD WATERS BREAK LEVEES IN SOME AREAS   Federal Troops On Duty At Fort Chartres

Allies Attack Jap Supply Route   Destroy Enemy Craft . In Siang River Area

STATE FAIRGROUND TO BE RELOCATED   Committee Named To Select More Spacious Site

JAPAN SET FOR "TOTAL OFFENSIVE’ IN FOURTH YEAR OF WAR, SAYS TOKYO   Large American Convoy Under Attack Claim

Russians-Nazis Locked hi Bloody Battie; Reds Steadily Gaining Ground

Russians Gaining Ground Steadily West and South of City.  REDS SCORE NEW RAILROAD VICTORY New Peace Rumor From  Turkey: German Peace With Russia.

Soviet Troops Are Advancing Through One of the Toughest Defense Belts In the World.

Americans Driving Way Into St. Malo   Trapped Garrison Fights On Under No-Surrender Order

Finish Fight Expected at St. Malo   Nazi Commander Refuses. to Give Up

Legionnaires Hear Bricker Pledge  Jobs To Veterans   Unshackle Industry, He Urges, To Build Healthy Economy

Bricker Demands Aid for Veterans   Tells Legion Conclave Business Must Be Free

World Focused on Final Battle. Marshall States —   Battle ta. Death

ENEMY AERIAL OPPOSITION IS OUT AT RABAUL   U- S. Warships And Planes Blast Distintegrating Jap Stronghold   RUNWAYS ARE BADLY DAMAGED BY RAIDERS

VARIED MATTERS HEARD ASU WEARS TERM FH   Will Fited for Probate and Divorce Case Is Heard

VARIO MATTE RG HEARD Ao COURT Nthho TERM END   Will Filed for Probate and Divorce Case Is Heard

REDS POUNDING INTO SLOVAKIA IN TWIN DRIVE   Two Columns Rush Kassa To Join Russ Armies In Poland, Hungary

REDS ADVANCE      Past-Breaking Brive Designed — to Wipe Out Narrow German Salient Separating Red Armies in Hung i Poland,

Nazis Strike Back   Reds Closing Nazi Salient   New Push May Unite Pole. Mayyar Fronts

James F. Keating Claimed By Death  oF armed. In Perry _ Twp::-Many. Years.

James F. Keating Claimed By Death  Farmed In Perry Two. Manv Years

State Bill to Boost Teacher Pay Prepared   Governor Kerr to Throw Matter Open At Special Session Under Relief Plan

Americans Enter Outer Defenses of Livorno   Fast Moving Patrols By-Pass German Points

Yanks Break Into Defenses Near Livorno   Major Stand by Germans Indicated 12 Mi. from Port

Nazis Fight Hard To Stop  Italian Drive   Americans Edging Forward Into Livorno Defenses

YANKS, BREAK... INTO SUBURBS OF LIVORN!   Advance Through Network of German Minfields and Pillyuxes

Slow Gains Being Made Tn Italy   Strong Nazi Force Makes Death Stand Before Rosignano

YANKS SLASH LIVORNO DEFENSES, IN DRIVE TO 10 MILES OF PORT   PATROLS BYPASS NAZI FORTIFICATIONS IN ADVANCE TO CASTIGLIONCELLO, HURL ASSAULT AT ROSIGNANC

NAZIS MAKE DEFENSE IN COAST ARFA   Hope to Hold Back Allies But British and Canadians Also Gain and Refuse to  Gauawn

Yanks Pierce Livorno Defense   Allies Gain in Italy, Expect Enemy Stand

YANKS BATTLE TWELVE MILES FROM SEAPORT   Troops Crash Nazi Line, Move On Livorno From Two Directions

Americans Push Ahead Slowly in Livorno, Italy   Germans Dig in For Death Stand At Rosignano -

Nazis Adopt New Robot Technique   Send Flying Bombs Over England In Batches

USE NEW TECHNIQUE FOR FLYING BOMBS   Nazis Send Robots Over in Batches; Lull Between Onslaughts.

Mass Attack of Rohots Stacved   Defense of Marianas Costs  Death of 50,000 Japs

A NEW “MASS ATTACK”   Germans Sent ‘Over Flying Robots in Bunches Last Night

NEW TECHNIQUE FOR NAZI BUZZ BOMB ATTACKS   Send Nuisance Bombs Over Chan nel In Batches with Brief Lulls Between Attacks

Death Strikes in Robot Form Near Correspondents   REPORTERS GIVE VIVID DESCRIPTION OF RESCUE WORK IN RUBBLE FOLLOWING HIT

Agree On Simpler Tax Form   Senate And Treasury Ready To Make lax Return  Mystery Solvable.

Soap Box and Labor Unions, and High Privilege  Of Throwing Pop Bottles at the Umpire,  Lieut. Gen. Somervell Says

What Are We Fighting For?  **+¢% + +++ 4 General Somervell Outlines Simple Goals Of U. S.

Lieutenant General Somervell Lists  The Things This Nation Fights For

4 Marooned In Snow Storm ‘in Colorado   Soldiers Transport Medical Supplies to Aid Sufferers

34 Marooned By Stormin Colorado Pass   Avalanche Carries Women in Car Down Mountainside

34 Still Marooned  In Colorado Storm   Soldiers Take Food To Stranded Party

31 Adults and 3 Babies ‘Marooned by Snoiwatarm   Soldiers Take Water and Medical Supplies to Group at Top cof 11,314-Foot -Pass_ in Colorado — Food Available at Small Inn—WAVES Officer Injured When Motor Car Is Swept 150 Yards:Down Mountainside. by. Avalanche.

AMERICAN FLIERS HAVE DESTROYED 25,000 ENEMY PLANES SINCE PEARL HARBOR GENERAL ARNOLD REVEALS

20,000 Warplanes Destroyed by U.S   Yank Aerial Combat Losses Total 5,718

American Fliers Destroy 25, 000° Enemy Planes While Losing 6,900.

YANK FLIERS HAVE DONE: G00D JOB   {Have Brot Down 25,000 Enemy ‘Planes During War

Local Banking Firm Changes Name to Smethport National Bank   * Grange National Bank, Founded in 1907, Has Shown a Steady Growth Through the Years; Present Resources Over $1,500,000

Grange Bank In Smethport Changes Name   Institution in County Seat to Be Known as Smethport Nat'l Bank

Polish Chief Of Army Forced Out   Bid for Russian Favor Results in Naming General Bor to Post

Gen. Sosnkowski Ousted As Chief ‘Of Polish Forces   See Move Paving Way For Resumption Of Friendly Relations With Russia

- Makes endly Move oward Russia   Leader Of Armed Forces Replaces Long-Time Friend

GENERAL ‘BOR’ HEADS POLISH ARMED FORCES   Sosnkowski Is Ousted As Commander Un ) der British Pressure

GEN. SOSNKOWSKI OUSTED AS LEADER OF POLISH ARMIES   ACTION SEEN AS EFFORT TO PLACATE RUSSIA AND - RESUME RELATIONS

Gen. Sosnkowski Ousted as Head Of Polish Army  Lan Ber Mamed to Succsed   Gen. Bor Named to Succzed In Move Designed to Placate  Reuecian favaernmen?

POLES ACT 0 PLACATE REDS   * Qust Sosnkowski as Commander-in-Chief

Inspection Of State Guards . Held At Armory  Number of Key   Men Join Army  pD..t RA..alL

Inspection Of — StateGuards . Held At Armory  _ Number of Key  - Men Join Army

PEAK OF EMPLOYMENT WAS PASSED IN 194;   Babson Says Most Of This Year’s Increased War Production Will Be In Aircraft; Men Will Be Laid Off In Other Industries.

‘Congress Preparing For Hard Grind Following Brief Easter Recess

EASTER RECESS FOR CONGRESS   TWO WEEKS REST FROM OFFICIAL DUTIES STARTS TOMORROW —MUCH LEGISLATION AWEAD

British Commandos Overrun Vlissingen   American First Army Opens Attack Near Aachen Into Hurtgen Forest; Passes to Rhine Flatlands Gained

HIGHT TO FREE ANTWERP PORT NEARS FINISH   Yanks Plunge Tow ar _ Fortress City of Hurtgen  In New Assault

Old Dutch Port Captured After Bitter Fighting   Month-Long Battle To Open Antwerp Port Over

ANTWERP'S PORT NEARLY CLEARED FOR ALLIED USE   German Air Force Runs Into Disaster as They Attack Yanks Over Germany

Flushing Won After Raging Street Fights.   Antwerp Estuary Battle Near End; Rhine Push Gains

BRITISH COMMANDOS AND INFANTRY ENTER PORT OF VLISSINGEN  AMERICANS CONTINUE   AMERICANS CONTINUE ADVANCE THROUGH HURTGEN FOREST

Battle To Open Antwerp Port Nearly Over   Americans Southeast Of Aachen Advance Through Forest

Dutch Port Is Overrun As British   Clear City.        scattered : Snipe ‘Harass, Attack

Only Few Nazi Snipers Leff To Make Fight   American-British, Forces Succeed in  Regaining Bridgehead Near Moerdijk Bridge

British Troops Engulf Ancient Dutch Port.of Vlissingen — Fight Bitterly Through Blazing Streets — Americans Still Gain Southeast of ‘Aachen.

Battle for Antwerp Is Nearly Over   British Fight Through Blazing Flushing Streets

Only Few Snipers Remain   British Commandos Overrun Ancient Dutch Port.

Nazis Running Out Of Ammunition On Walcheren [sland   U. S. First Army Continues Drive Through Hurtgen Forest Against Heavier German Resistance

British Overrun Last Nazi Fanatie:   Bloody Fight From Street To Street Clearing Antwerp Pnitrance Yanks Cain Cronnd

First Army Hits Heavy  Resistance   Breaks Through Hurtgen Forest  Making Gains of One to Two Miles

Renew Hold Across River   First Army Attack South Cf Aachen Still Advances, Resistance Gains

First Army Continues To Advance  awtie { RB ade   Yank / Meeting Increasing Resistance—Drive Into Vosges

Americans On New Advance in Aachen Area   British Commandos Overrun Port of Vlissingen After Month Long Battle

NAZIS BEING OVERRUN IN DUTCH PORT   Meanwhile, Around Aachen, Allies Continue Advance Against Stiffening German Resistance

FIGHT T0  OPEN PORT NEARLY OVER   Only Few Scattered Snipers Remain To Homper Use Of Antwerp

Nazi Resistance Smashed By Allies In Battle to Open Port of Antwerp

Battle To Open Antwerp’s Port Just About Over   British Conumandos and Li * fantrymen.Overrun Ancient Dutch Port of Flushing

Bitter Fight in Streets Climax of Antwerp Clearance   Resistance Grows To Americans in Push Near Aachen

Battle to Open Antwerp Port Nearly Over: Allies Again Cross Mark River

Long Battle For Antwerp Nearing Close   Americans Meet Mere Resistance In Advances Today

Menth-Long Battle For Antwerp Nears Speedy Conclusion   British Troops Overrun Viissingen; Snipers Delay Conquest

Battle To Clear Port of Antwerp   ‘British Commandos Overé running Dutch Port of ingen   ‘A FEW SNIPERS LEFT   Month-Long Battle to Open Important Port Is About Over

Battle To Open Antwerp Nears Its Completion   Vlissingen Falls After Fierce Street Fighting; Just Snipers Remain.   RESTORE BRIDGEHEAD

BRITISH SEIZE FLUSHING; LONG FIGHT NEAR END   Resistance To Attack Below Aachen Stiffening

Allies Capture Highly Needed Facilities   Great Fortress Of Vlissingen Yielded By Nazis

Vlissingen Port Captured By British; First Advances Southeast Of Aachen

Allies’ Battle For Antwerp Is Just About Finished   American First Army Runs Into Stiffer Resisiance In lis Limited Assault Area

BLEAR MOUTH OF SCHELDE RIVE   BitterStreet Fighting Still Continuing In Anowent Port   } GAIN BRIDGEHEAD   Americans Drive Across Mark River, 6 Miles From Moerdijk Bridge

ISLE DEFENSE! OF GERMANS FOLDING   ‘Dutch Port Of Vlissingen Overrun By British   U. §, FIRST ARMY   Advances Through Hurtgen Forest; Fight Deeper Into Vosges Hills

Capture Village On Roer River In New Smash   British Overrun Flushing to Bring Antwerp Struggle To Virtual End

STETTINIUS UNVEILS MODERNIZED STATE DEPARTMENT SETUP  SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS WILL MAKE HIS DE PARTMENT EFFICIENT

ettinius, Grew Work As Unit   Won Assistants; Further  Swear In Team of Hard hanges nae EY

Reveals State Department’s Reorganizatior   Stettinius and Grew to Work ns One; More Changes Coming

Reveal State Department’s — New Syster   Stettinius Wins Fight in Congress, But Strings Attached By FR

Policy Strings Attached to Secy. Sfetfinius Authority   Grew Confirmed as Undersecretary; Five Assistants Win Senate Approval

Strings Halt State Plans”   Nominees’ Approval ‘Ends Senate Turmoil

STETTINUS TELLS OF NEW SETUP   STATE DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS SWORN IN

FDR Seen Swinging From Lett in Forcing Senate to Contirm Six State Department Aides   Washington Prophets Puzzled as President Brings Big Stick to Bear Upon a Group of Down-the-line New Deal Senators

Limit Power Of Stettmius   President, Senate Attach Strings To Re-Organization Of State Department.

Stettinius Unveils Modernized State Department Setup   Grew Relieved of Detail Jobs, Crossing Duties Cleared Away

Strings Attached To Confirmation Of Appointments  Reeseveli Promises te Fire Any Whe Bo Net Follew Polic, ar Stick te Ailastic Charter

SIX --NOMINEES ARE CONFIRMED   Reorganization Of State Department To Be Effected

BY STETTINIUS   New Secretary and Grew To Work As Unit: Aides Are Sworn In

Senate Finally Confirms 6 New Stettinius Aids   But State Department Chief Finds Some Policy Strings Attached.

STRINGS SEEM ATTACHED 10 STETTINIUS WIN   Senate Confirms Appointment of 6 Assistants; Insists on Charter Policy

Senate Approves § Cabinet Aides   state. Department Given ‘Course Of Action

Stettinius Bares Revamped State Department Plan   New Assistants Sworn. ins  Hard Tasks Ahead

Holds Strings on State Department   Roosevelt to Insist Appointees Follow His Policies; Uphold Atlantic Charter

aIX STETTINIWS AIDES APPROVE   Strings Attached To Authority Of New Secretary Of State

Stettinius (Outlines New Setup   Undersecretary Grew Has Been Relieved of All Detailed Jobs

STETTINIUS TO REVISE QEP’7   Strings Attached to Cen. firmation of Six New : - Assistants

Atlantic Charter Seen as Basis of Foreign Policies   New U. S. State Department.A ppointments. Approved While In England, Churchill Declares Allies in Agreement On General War Aims

JAPANESE VESSELS DAMAGED BY FLIERS   Enemy Oiler Hit and Escorting Small Ship Sunk

EXPECT FALL OF SEVASTOPOL   Desperate Resistance of Fleoing German 'Troops Somewhat Less— Russian Offensive Path Without  angle Natural Obstacte.

Early Fall Of Seaport Is Forecast   Turn Main Axis Defense Lines In Flanking Movement is Reported

7TH ARMY APPROACHES BELFORT GAP   French Troops Advance 31 Miles in Day

FRENCH TROOPS SWEEPING CLOSE TO BELFORT SAP      American Forces Stepping Up Campaign—Guns Heard In Switzerland

French, American Forces in South ln Twin Advances on Reich Border

YANKS WMASSED FOR DRIVE   CERMANS TRAPPED   7TH ARMY FRENCH ADVANCE 3¢ MILES, 25 MILES OF BELFORT

FRENGH DRIVE TO WITHIN 25 MILES OF GAK   ‘Sweep 31 Miles In Day Up Swiss Frontier Toward Belfort

REEN DEFENDS LABOR AGAINST PUBLIC ATTACK   FL Head Says 99 Percent f Workers Have Adhered To No-Strike Pledge   OVERNOR ADDRESSES UMBERLAND SESSION

ATTACKS ON LABOR  ASSAILED BY GREEN   AFL President Says Workers Have Adhered to Pledae

The Day’s Almanac   fodayv’s Harald   To the People of this Cammunitv

Avery Defies Seizure Edict   Store Head Refuses To Budge From Des

‘BUT DON’T FENCE ME IN’   Avery, Still Defiant, Vows Not To Leave Office Under His Own Power

Ward Boss Defies WLB Order   ‘I'm Still in Charge,’ Avery Tells Government

SEWELL AVERY AGAIN DEFIES GOVERNMENT   Says He Is Still In Charge of Montgomery Ward

Labor Charts  New Demands   House Postwar Unit Proposes Transition, Employment

U. S. Patrols Reach Domfront as Bradley's Steamroller Heads Toward Paris

AMERICANS SEAL  ESCAPE CORRIDOR FOR JAP TROOPS OROTE PENINSULA   Navy’s Big Guns Con: tinue To Pound Enemy On Guam Island.

AMERICANS ON GUAM OCCUPY CABRAS ID,   Seal Escape Corridor For Jap Troops

Occupation of Cabras Island Completed  Yanks Seal Off Escape Corridor

LONERGAN GETS 35-YEAR TERM   PLAYBOY SENTENCED FOR WIFE’S MURDER

Wife Slayer Given 35- Year Prison Term   Wayne Lonergan Sentenced On Second-Degree Murder. Conviction

LONERGAN GETS 35-T0-LIFE TERM      Must Pay for Murder Of Heiress Wife

PLANNED AS GREAT OFFENSIVE, ALLIES NEAR ROME STOPPED   FAILURE TO EXPPLOIT EARLY SUCCESS OF LAND. _INGS GIVEN AS CAUSE

BEAGHIEAD ON DEFENSIVE NOW   Position Due to Failure to Exploit Early Success Of Landings.

Allied Plans for Rome Campaign Go Astray   Failure to Exploit Early Successes May Prove Costly, AP Writer Savs

Delay At :Anzio May Be Costly   But Beachhead’s  Pace Wlatch teak,

Gain Is Lost in Deciding on. Cautious Role   Allies Now Face Costly. Job in Maintaining Rome — Beachhead Forces   ON DEFENSE AFTER BRILLIANT START   First Reversal of ‘Trend in Mediterranean Since Eisenhower Landing

British, American Air Losses Set At 2,300 Men   Majority Believed Captured by Nazis

2,300 Allied Fliers  Fallin Air Invasion ‘373 Planes Lost in in I1- -Day # Assault;  meres BT

BLITZ COSTS 2300 AIRMEN   373 Allied Planes Lost in History's Greatest Air Bombardment

2300 AIRMEN FALL TO COME BACK IN 1) DAYS OF RAIDS   Dthers, Kiled or Wounded, Are Returned to Base,  33,000 Planes Fly Over ECurana 272 fre Lost.   TRAINING AND PLANES REPRESENT 100 MILLION   Most of Missing Airmen Are Believed Prisoners In Nettral Switzerland or Swedan,

Cost of Allied ‘Attack On Hitler's Continental Fortress. Ex: Coeds 100,000,000—Destruction of.'700 Front Line Nazi ' Fighters, Together With Damage Inflicted On Axis “plants ‘and Rail Centers, May Shorten ‘War.  :

375 Planes Of Allies Lost In 11 Day Attacks   Offensive Has Cost U. S.-Britain at Least $100,000,000

‘Raids Cost Allies 373 Planes,  Valued at About $50,000, 000.  Dut Germans Loge Over 700

11-Day Allied Aerial Blitz On Continental Europe Has Cost Nearly $100,000,000   :2,300 American And British Airmen Have Been Lost  Along With 324 Planes; Crushing Blows Seen i Bringing Day Of Western Invasion Closer

He Hopes They Will Knox Believes Nipponese Plan To Repeat Russo-Jap Strategy

SOLDIER VOTE, SUBSIDY BILL BATTLES SEEN   Taft Warns of Legal Difficulties of Federal Ballot

Sen. Taft Fears ‘Legal Tailspin’ On War Ballots   ‘Write In’ Plan Is Decried As Likely to Produce Céenrt Aniitan

Taft Says Election Might Be Thrown  ‘nto Legal Snare  New Complication Injected Into Muddle Over Soldiers’ Votes

SERVICE VOTE, FOOD SUBSIDY UP THIS WEEK   Sen. Taft Warns Whole Election May Be Thrown into Tangle

‘Taft's Warning f Election Taiispin Adds  New Complication Tc Service Vote Debates

SOLDIER VOTE BILLIS HIT BY OHIO SENATOR   Measure Is Giving Members of Congress Big _ i Headache   SECRETARY STIMSON HITS THE PROGRAM   Food Subsidy and Taxes Also on Calendar  of Solons

Taft Attacks Legality of  Service Vote   Lucas Write-In Ballot Offers Complications Opponents Charge

Tait Against New Soldier Ballot Bill   OHIO SENATOR POINTS OUT DANGERS OF COURT ACTION THAT MiIGUT RESULT. DISAS; TROUSLY DURING. WAR.   Senate Bill im House

Enemy Oil Stocks Blasted By Yanks   German Lifelines In France Being Cut

Bombing Of Nazis’ Western Europe Defenses Enters 17th Day; 1000 Planes Take Part In Attacks

Nazis Reel Under Grea ‘Air Attacks   Heavy Bombers Smash Crumbling German Supply Lines

PLANES HIT NAZI TRANSPORT, OIL   7 U. S. TASK FORCES RAID GERMAN DEFENSES

SEVEN FORCES OF PLANES HIT KEY OBJECTIVES   Carry War Into Twelfth Day, Hit Transportation Ou Stocks

GRAND JURY 10 GET CHARGES ON ROBERTS   Former City Police Waives Hearing. Before Magistrate

WEST GERMANY BOMBED AGAIN    Mosquito Raiders in Night Attack Without Loss.—Few German  Planes in Foray Over Isles.

Mosquitos Sting German Targets   Nazi Planes Strike Weakly At England

LIGHT BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Nazi Planes Strike Back With Weak Attack

RAF Mosquitoes Attack Germany; Enemy Retaliation On Britain Weak

Dewey Nomination Assured; Warren, Vice-Presidential Name, Sounds Party Tocsin

G.0.P. Sweep Is Predicted By Warren  California Governor Pummels New Deal Iu Keynole Speech. FAVORED AS NO. 2 ON G.O.P. TICKET - Nomination: of Dewey On First Ballot  Annears Certain

onvention Seems Intent On Choice   Of N.Y. Governor   Jawey’s Opportunity

GOP Hears Keynote, Gets Ready to Name Dewey on Ist Ballot   Warren, Favorite for Party’s No. 2 Spot, Predicts Republican Sweep in November in Sounding 1944 Rallying Cry; Convention Starts Undramatically

REPUBLICANS ASSEMBLE 10 HEAR WARREN   Possible Candidate for Vice ‘Presidency Make Speech; Already Dewey Has Enough Votes.   Draft Platform

Montreal Strike ls Called Off   White Collar Group To Return to Work

Heavy Blow Is Struck by U.S. Planes   Wollows Raids by British Aircraft on French and Belgian Railway Lines

2,000 U. S. PLANES RAID IN GERMANY   British Drop 4,032 Tons On Targets In France, Belaium

British Raiders Batter Belgian, French Junctions   Fortresses, Liberators Strike Hard Blows At’ Bernburg, Oschersleben

Strong Forces of U.S. Planes Attack Germany   Up to 2000 Heavy Bombers, Fighters Enqaae in Raids

2,000 Heavy Bombers And Fighters Strike Factories Near Berlin   Attack Follows RAF Night Raid Hurling 4,032 T. Of Bombs On Nazi Rail Yards

MASSIVE BLOWS AT NAZI AIR, RAIL SYSTEMS   Allied Blitz at Record Pitch

2000 U.S. CRAFT BATTER AIRCRAFT PLANTS (IF AXIS   Bernburg and Oscherslebeh on Visiting List of Wreckers of Supply Bases and Repaired Jobs.   BERLIN SAYS HEAVY AIR BATTLES OCCUR   Other Bombing Fleets Strike German Supply Lines In Southern italy, Yankees Renulse Attack.

Nazi Plane Plants Hit in Today's Raid   Laige U.S. Force Stnkes Bermnburg, Oschersleben

LS co) Ow ig S  Air Age ault              BRITISH CONCENTRATED ON. ; FRENCH AND BELGIAN RAIL CENTERS; RAIDS HIT NEW PITG#

Daylight Sweep Follows Greatest Raid Of War By Night Bombers   Weather Permits — Pin-Point Attack   Returning Airmen Report Feeble Resistance By German Fighters

Yanks in Heavy Ai Assault   900 R. A. F. Raiders Strike Railways on Invasion Coast

GOP In Appeal For Emancipation From Democrats   Lincoln Birthday Used For Hot Politics

PARTY LEADERS HEARD AT MEET   Nation-wide Observance of Lincoln’s Birthday Appeals For Emancipation From New Deal

Report German Effort To Break Thru Yankee Lines To North Frustrated   Front Line Dispatches Continue Contradictory As Allies Clamp Censorship Blackout Over News  From Entire Front In France

‘BLACKOUT” OF OFFICIAL NEWS FROM SCENE 0! GIANT GERMAN OFFENSIVE RESULTS IN CONFUSED REPORTS FROM WESTERN FRONT— INDICATIONS ARE THAT FORCE OF DRIVE . HAS BEEN SLACKENED

FRONT LINE DISPATCHES STILL VARY   Bitter Tank Duel in Progress; New Enemy Attack Repulsed

NAZI ONSLAUGHT HAS BEEN BLUNTED AND SLOWED DOWN   Nazi EF fforts To Make Break. ! Thréugh Have Been Frustrated   CONDITION IMPROVES

Five of Ther. in Service: - Milford Lawson Wounded te European Fighting

Five of Them in Service; Millard Lawson Wounded In European Fighting

BVVVIVITVT IVI VV  Sure Cure for Asthma — Muskrat Pelts — Announced

No Liquor Blame At Pear! Harbor   Admiral Hart Flatly Denies Intoxication

HART DENIES LIQUOR: LED TO WAR TRAGEDY   Admiral Says Conduct of Men 2 Pearl Harbor Was “Exemplary” On Eve of Attack.

LABOR PREPARES TO. RENEW WAGE INCREASE. FIGHT   Watchful Waiting Attitude of Past Weeks Is Now Abardoned

Aerial Invasion  BO ey ae  Blows Continue       ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST _.GERMAN TARGETS “ANEW,

PARIS, BERLIN HAMMERED BY R.ALF. FLIERS   U.S. Planes Hit France And Belgium As Air Assaults Roar Into 26th Day

Aerial Invasion Blows Continue   ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN TARGETS “ANEW: .

Heavies Attack Aircraft Plant In France; Berlin Hit By Swift Mosquitos

BERLIN AND PARIS HARD HIT IN RAID   Both Cities Bombed During Night By RAF Planes

Germans Handed Fresh Big Dose Of Blockbusters   Main Allied Attack s Centered On Paris And Rarlin

Yanks. British Team Un   American Heavies, RAF Give Germany Worst Pounding

British In © Heaviest Attack Yet   DROPPED 3300 TONS OF BOMBS. OVER FRANCE, GERMANY LAST. NIGHT; AMERICANS FOLLOW TODAY Z

BOTH FRANCE AND GERMANY ARE ATTACKED   American Daylight Foray Follows on Heels of RAF Sweep During Night.   BULLETIN

Germany Rocked With Heaviest Air Assault   Over 3300 Tons Of Bombs Dropped In Niqht Raids

MORE THAN 1,000 BIG BOMBERS DROP 3.300 SHORT TONS   Stuttgsrt Gets 2,800 Alone; Area from France to Reich Attacked.

KIN OF MEN HELD AS PRISONERS OF WAR WILL MEET TUESDAY   Information Exchange I: Set Up; Camp Scenes to be Shown

Relatives Will Be Given a Chance  To Ask Question:   Meeting in Englewood ‘Y’ to Hear of Prison Camp Conditions.

THIRD ATTACK OF MONTH HITS JAP STRONGHOLE   Three Enemy Ships Hit As Nipponese Expect Invasion

KAVIENG HARBOR BLASTED AGAIN   American Destrovers Pour Tons Of Shell Into Jap Bases

Enemy Craft Sunk, Others Set On Fire; Planes Blast   Wewak, Rabaul Hit In Bombing: Attack

ADKRAL KING LISTS LOSSES OF U. S. IN PACIFIC   Gives'‘Names Of Ships Withheld In Past Communiques

DEMANDS KELLY T0 STAY OUT OF FIGHT   Stenson Asks Him to Quit Drive to Oust McKay As Committeeman.

G.IS WANT COFFEE   Could Replace Bouillon and Lemon. ade in K Ration

Dunifon Running Third In Contest For Lieut. Governor   \ttorney General Reduces Cincinnati Mayor’s Margin From 20,723 to 5,004 With 304 Precinets Out   LAUSCHE WINS NOMINATION

Kennedy Invited  To F. R. Cabinet  So Says Boston Herald ‘On Authority’

GOP GOVERNORS SEEKING UNITY AMONG LEADERS   Conferences Will Continue Today In St. Louis

GOP Chair mar Finding Unity   Brownell. Pleased With Cooperation *

BRITISH MAKE NEW PROGRESS ON BURMA FRONT   Japs Claim American Bombers and Fighters Have Raided Hainan Yesterday.

American Air Raids on Marshalls And Hainan Islands in China Sea   British Troops in Burme Make New Prog race _

British Troops Show Progress In Akyab Drive   Mountbatten Reveals Capture Of Japanese Strongholds Tuesday

Intensive Campaign for Waste Paper to Be Staged Here   Vigorous Drive to Be Launched With City-Wide Effort on Friday; Emergency Pointed Out by Chairman

Intensive Campaign for Waste Paper to Be Staged Here  Vidorous Drive ig Be TLounched Wh   Vigorous Drive io Be Launched With City-Wide Effort on Friday; Emetgency Pointed Out by Chairman

Crosby-Sinatra Differ on Voting   Bing’s For Dewey and Frankie’s For Roosevelt

BATTLE WILL OPEN ON 2 HOUSE BILLS   Republicans Will Wage Fight to Cut Down _ Appropriations

Cash-Saving Watchword In Conaress   Republicans Expect To Continue Slashing Bills

Appropriation Bill Battles Expected To Flare in House   Republican Bloc Gets New Economy  Chance This Week

Republicans . Plan To Push Drive To Cut U.S. Spendine   Fresh Opportunities Offered by Measures Appropriating Money For Four Agencies REACH HOUSE FLOOR LATE THIS WEEK House Bloc Leaders  Ready To Make Issue Maior Political One

Rival Leading Rush Holt In W. Va. Vote   Young Ex-Senator Trailing in Governor Contest

Plymouth. County Still Far Short Of Meeting lts War Loan Quota   Ranks 91st In .E Bond Sales: In The State: :

BRICKER SEES 1944 BiG YEAR   Role of American, Individua!’ will Netermined, Governor Declares

JAP RESISTANCE IS WEAKENING IN MARSHALL ISLANDS   Seven More Isles in Kwajalem Chain Taken by the Yanks,

SEVEN MORE TINY ISLANDS ON END OF CHAIN TAKEN BY OUR MARINES   American Losses On Kwajalein Have Been Uncommonly Light So )

"Marines Take 7 More Islands Near Kwajalein   ad  Fighting Continues As Troops Dislodge Japanese Garrisons

FARM WORKERS TO FACE DRAFT   Deferred Young Men Are Told They Must Keep Up Food Production

oys on Farms id To Produce   nned Vegetables Given Lower oint Values, Meats Are Higher

Deferred Farmers fo Face Draft Unless They Are Vital to Food Production

DRAFT WARNING GIVEN FARMERS   INDUCTION LOOMS FOR DEFERRED WORKERS WHOSE PRODUCTION IS LOW.

FARM WORKERS GIVEN WARNING   1,700,000 Told to Help Produce Food Or Else

Production Must Add To Nation’s Food Supply, Draft Official Warns

Elas Troops. Battle on An Athens   Peace Prepeset Sy EAM is-Rejected By British Commander As Nof  ~~ Satisfactory

Fighting Continues  In Athens   Crowd of 20,000 In London Condemns British Intervention  CHURCHILL ASSAILED

Tax Bill To Be Vetoed, Report  Not Enough Revenue. President Relieves

REPORT F.R. 10 VETO TAX BILL AS INADEQUATE   Administration Chiefs Surprised; Say Congres: Won’t Pass New Act

FDR Is Ready To Veto New Tax Bill   Solons Are Informed New Measure Does Not Produce Enough

FDR MAY VETO ~NEW TAX BILL   Measure Fails to Produce  Sufficient Revenue, Congress Is Told

FDR Plans ~ fo Reject > Tax Bill   Reported Decision to -: Veto New. Measure Comes as =  ~. Surprise to Leaders   THEY HAD URGED. HIM “TO GIVE APPROVAL   yPresident Contends Program Is Too Small, Not Fair to ‘Future Generations

Veto Warning On Revenue Bill Given Congress   President Reported To Have _ Told Leaders He Will Op- pose the Bill as Not Suf ficient.

Say F.D.R, Will Veto Tax Bill ©   Failure of Measure To Produte Enough Additional Revenue Given As the Reason

TAX BILL VETO BY FDR IS REPORTED   President Holds Measure  Has Some Vital  - Loopholes

President Will Get Anti-Subsidies Bill Today; Veto Certain   Opponents of Subsidy Plan Think They Have Chance to Win

Report FDR Will Veto Tax Meusure   2-Billion Dollar Bilf “Fails to Produce Sufficient Revenue”

FOR SAID READY VETO TAX BILL   Reported To Hold Measure Has Vital Loopholes And Falls Far Short Of Treasury’s Demand For Revenue

Solons Told by President He'll Veto New Tax As I nadequate   Reported Decision Comes As Surprise to Party Lieutenants

NEW TAX BILL DUE FOR VETO   Congressional Leaders Surprised By Stand Of President

PRESIDENT WILL PROBABLY VETO REVENUE BILL   - Congressional Leaders Said to Have Received Work to That Effect

FDR TO VETO TAX MEASURE   President Believes Bill Has  Vital Loopholes and is Far Short of Request

Estimate Of Revenue Is Far Below - Figure Originally Requested By U. S. Treasury

EDR Plans To Veto Tax Bill   Roosevelt Says Measure Fails To Produce Sufficient Additional Funds.

FDR TELLS SOLONS HE. INTENDS. TO VETO TAX MEASURE   Congressional Leaders Told It  Fails to Produce Enough Ad ditional Money —- Some of - His Lieutenants Surprised

F.R. to Veto  Tax Measure  Fails to Provide Suiictent Additional

F.D.R. Reported Ready To Veto New Tax Bill   Contends That Measure Has Vital Loopholes And Is Much Too Smal!

AIR CANOPY IS PROVIDED BY 2,000 PLANES   Offensive Embraces All Seetors From Swiss Border To Luxembourg

RECONVERSION PLAN , DUBIOUS AS NELSON, ARMY CHIEFS ARGUE   Byrnes May Interfere To '  $top Dispute With Military Staff

FDR MAY ENTER NELSON DISPUTE   War Mobilization Director Said Yesterday He Would Take Action If Necessary.

CHINESE PUS ON TOWARD NORTH BURMA   Expect to Clear Japs From Area In Few Weeks

CHINESE MAKE PROGRESS ON. SALWEEN RIVER   Four Strong Cclumns In Advance Qn 100-Miie Front. Near Border

Four Chinese Columns Advance On Burma Front   ‘One Force Breaks Across Mountains  To Approach Border

CHINESE COLUMNS 16 MILES FROM BURMA IN MAJOR OFFENSIVE   New Drive Expected To Shorten Allied Campaign To Clear Japs From North Burma; U, S. Air Support Strong

A CHINESE LINES MOVING IN BURMA WITH AIR SUPPORT   Japs Are Losing Two to One According to Communique, Enemy May Be Cleared In Few Weeks.   RUSSIANS MASS GREAT ARMY FROM INTERIOR   Weight of Impending Campaign May Be Thrown Across Flatlands Over Short Route to Germany.

FOUR CHINESE COLUMNS GAIN IN BURMA   One Attacking Force Within 16 Miles of Border

Chinese, With U. S Air Cover, Push Ahead In Burma   New Campaign Should Shorten Time To Clear Out Japs

CHINESE: NOW BUT 10 MILE  FROM BURME   Advancing Celumns  Inflict Heavy Casualties on Japs.

Report Nazis Withdrawing — from Gustav Line in Italy; Chinese Advance on Burma

“T2 CORN PICKERS   Board Had Sixty Applications for the Dozen Machines »    ITO DO. CUSTOM WORK

COUNTY ALLOTTED 12 CORN PICKERS   Board Had Sixty Applica tions for the Dozen Machines  ones or Pall ee mea ATO TE

GETS FURLOUGH OF 13 MONTHS   Overseas Tail Gunne Catches Up On Hunting And Fishing

Soldier Is Told to Await Orders, He Does -- and Gets 13-Months Furlough

Army Finally Locates Gunnery Vet:  [End Comes to 13-Month Furlouagh

Panic Prevails Within Capital City Hungary   Batile Noise Swells As Tanks, Guns and Men Rumble Toward Metropolis’ Outskirts   Soviets Smashing nto Outer Guard   Russians At Domsod Within 100 Miles Ausleain Frontier, 140 Miles From Yienna

RED ARMY SMASHES INTO OUTER DEFENSE OF BUDAPEST FRIDAY   HUNGARIAN CAPITAL EXPECTED TO FALL DURING  PRESENT WEEK-END

Soviets 23 Miles South Of Budapest   60 Towns and Villages Taken In Advance  On Capital

Russians Nearing Budapest   Only 14 Miles Away Germans Say; Gain  On 65-Mile Front.

Reds 14 Miles From Budapest   Sixty Towns, Villages Captured Along With 2,080 Nazi Prisoners

REDS HAMMER AT OUTSKIRTS OF BUDAPEST   Sixty Towns and Villages are Seized by Russians in Advance on Hungarian Capital  PAI owseimn 1¢ TAWEAI

SPANGLER HITS F.D.R, PROGRAM   GOP Chairman Says Regime Fails in Foreign Policy and on Home Front

Vital German Seaports  Are Blasted   Berlin Also Gets Its Share of Aerial Pounding

Yanks Smash Forward in Normandy   Coutances Taken Sweep Threatens Nazi Defense of Interior France

YANK FORGES TAKE COUTANCES IN PUSH SOUTH   Capture 5,000 Prisoners as U. S. Troops Advance Over ” 15 Miles

Yanks Pursue Routed Nazis Escaping Trap; Rommel Shifts Unit:   1500 Prisoners Rounded Up In Day; Americans May Force Enemy To Withdraw To Whole New Line

Welsh Tells Strike Probe ‘ToFind Why   FEDERs«L JUDGE SUGGEST: THAT THERE MAY HAVS BEED A POLITICAL MOTIVE BACK OI WALKOUT.   Philadelphia Jury Begins

TRANSIT. STRIKE ~ POLITICS HINTED      Judae Asks Grand Jury to "Hunt All Motives Behind Walkout

Jurors Charged In Strike Probe   Court Tells Jury To Seek © Out Any Political Motive

Jury Will Seek. Political Motive In Phila: Strike   “Judge Says Situation. Could Have Influence « On November: Election

GRAND JURY IS TOLD TO FIND STRIKE MOTIVE   Philadelphia Judge Hints Politics May Have Played Role In Walkout

Jury Told to Search For Any Political Motive In Philadelphia Strike 

Battleship, Aircraft Carrier. Several Cruisers, Destroyers Are Sunk   AMERICAN LOSSES SO FAR REPORTED LIGHT

Battle Seen As Decisive   Several Major Warships Sent Down, Others Smashed: Fight Continuing

E inemy Carrier, Battleship And ~ Other Vessels Have Alve eady” Been Sunk

Battle         Several Major Warships Sent Down Others Smached: Ficht Continuina.

3 Battles Fought, Twoin Philippines, One Off Formosa   Small American Carrier Sunk; Kincaid Splits Seventh Fleet  To Take on Japanese Groups

Losses of Foe Include Battleship, Carrier, Cruisers, Destroyers Sunk: Our Losses Light

Enemy Carrier, Battleship And Other Vessels Have Alre eady Been Sunk 

Remnants of Fleet Flee From Scene   Big Naval Victory Triumphantly Announced By Admiral Halsey And General MacArthu;

Landing Strip In France Set Up In 6 Hours   Three Plane Bases In Operation; American: Put 2,000 Fighters Into Sky In Day

Allied Airmen Refurn To Back Up Ground Units   Planes Operating On Schedule Now From French Bases

AERIAL POWER FELT AGAIN IN BEACH HEADS   BOMBERS RESUME THEIR SUPPORT OF INVASION

2,000 PLANES AID DRIVE OF GROUND FORCES   Explosive Loads Being Dropped Behind Battle Lines =?

France-Based     Blt German   Concentration: of ‘Troops and Tanks, Big Guns and Airdromes Targete; Balkans Raided

Allied Aerial Power Sweeps Back fn Action   Clearing Weather Enables Bombers To Roar Across English Channel.   HIT NAZI SUPPLIES

Planes Resume Battle In Air  Ploesfi Refi inery Hit;  a®*a Narman L inact      Ploesti Refinery Hit; Nazi Norman Lines Blasted by Allies

Airmen Smash at German Troops, Tanks   Bombs, Rockets and Bullets Are Poured on Nazis

RACES IN FRANCE   Allied Air Power Sweeps Back Into Support Of Invasion   BETTER WEATHER ENABLES HEAVY BOMBERS TO RAID

2,000 Planes Attack Behind German Lines   Better Weather Brings Revival of Air Activity

ALLIED PLANES USE AIR BASES ON BEACHHEADS   Clear Weather Allows 2,000 Attackers To Take Off

Heavy Raids Are Staged  Over France   Allies Blast Enemy And Concentrations

Allied Planes Sweep Back To Aid Invasion   Fighter Units Alone Send 2,000 Planes Into Bia Rattle

2,000 PLANES IN ACTION AFTER 15-HOURS’ LULL   Nazi Radios From Paris To Budapest  Leave Air As Raids Resume

SPEGIAL BOARDS “ARE APPOINTED   Will inquire Into Circumstances pf Pearl Harbor Attack.

- Inquire Into  Pearl Harbor  Boards. To Gather _ Data: On Attack -

TRIAL OF PAIR ~ LOOMS, BELIEF   Army, Navy Name Boards In Pearl Harbor Case

INQUIRY BOARD STARTS MONDA\   Naval Group to Inquire Inte “Japanese Attack Made on Pearl Harbor.

Courts Martial May Begin For Kimmel, Short Before December 7 Date Now Set

PEARL HARBOR INQUIRY SLATED   SPECIAL BOARDS ARE NAMED; MAY CONDUCT TRIALS BEFORE DEC, 7

20 TONS OF BOMBS ON THE MARSHALLS   Important Jap Airdrome Believed Knocked Out.

Yanks Blast Vital Jap Airfield On Marshalls; Meet Stiff Opposition   Down Zeras

Allied Balkans Landing Denied   Small: Parties Aid   Dartiéamce! Enrrac =

BIG YUGOSLAVIA LANDING DENIED   Only Small Parties 0! Allied Specialists Aiding Partisans

BERLIN AGAIN STAGGERED BY BRITISH FLEET   91 of Hitler’s Planes Knocked From Sky By Yankees

NAZITARGETS ATTACKED BY ‘DAYBOMBERS   ‘Smashing Blow Is Delivered Against City of Brunswick   91 GERMAN PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE   Assault ‘Follows Heavy Raid on Frankfort Saturday

[Nazi Capital Given 14th Major Blow   Two Factory Cities Rocked in Daylight And 91 Nazis Downec  25 LOST BY ALLIES

British Again Rain Bombs Over Berlin   103 Nazi Fighters Are Shot Down in Daylight Raids

91 Nazi Planes Shot Down in New Air Battle   20 Big Bombers Fail To Return

RAF pounds flame ridden Berlin anew   U. S. heavies hit  Vital naziindustry

Berlin Struck Again by Big RAF Bombers   Night Assault Comes After Americans  Hit Other Cities

Northern France And Hol land Struck In Other  Operations Sunday   25 ALLIED AIRCRAFT REPORTED MISSING

103 Nazi Planes Shot Down as Great Bombing Offensive Goes Through Fourth Day: Allies Lose 25

R. A. F, Again Blasts Berlin After Yanks Pound Hanover, Brunswick, Down 91 Planes

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STARS’ BRAWL T0 BE PROBED   Jon Hall Seriously Hurt ) Fight With Dorsey

PARTY AT OF TOM DORSEY GROWS ROUGH   Pre-Dawn Battle Royal Leaves Actor Jon Hall Searred

U.S. DROPS CHAPLIN CASE   But California Supreme Court Orders Trial Of Baby Case

8th Army Scores 14-Mile Advance  _ Air Force Attacks Northern Italy

8th Army Nearing Big Italian Port   New 14-Mile Advance Scored Along Adriatic

JAPS EXECUTE 3 AMERICANS   Charged With Killing; Policeman in Escape

PAC DEFEATED IN WISCONSIN   ClO-Backed Candidates  Trail In Demo Primary Vote

RICH BOOTY BEING TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   Large Quantities Of Guns, Materials Being Gathered Up

Nazis Reel Back Over Old Polish  Frontiers   Germans Are Unable To Rally Smashed Forces At Any Place Along Battlefront

Extend Income Tax Deadline to January 15   Taxpayers Have Three More ‘Weeks to Make Final Quar. terly Payment

REMIND INCOME TAX PAYERS OF JAN. DEADLINE   15,000,000 Americans To Make Quarterly Payments By January 15

EXTEND TWE ON TAX PAYMENTS   DEADLINE CHANGED TO JANUARY FIFTEENTH

U. S. Taxpayers Given Reminder  Deadline Delaye   Final Installment,‘  On Estimated Ince: _ ‘ Set At January 15 -

Termed A Rowdy, Murray Is Irked  Tells Goodland To File Charges Or Apologize

CONGRESOMEN 10 VISIT BATTLE AREA   ‘Invasion’ Js Arranged By Eisenhower After Members Protest,

Old City Of London Squadron Is The Hottest Group Of Night Fighters In War

Federal Jury To Investigate Phila. Strike  4 Strike Leaders Lose Jobs; Transit 4

Strike Probe Begins Tomorrow   Possible Sensational Disclosures Looked  For in Inquiry

MASS DATA ON. TRANSIT STRIKE FOR GRAND JURY  PHILADELPHIA LOOKS   PHILADELPHIA LOOKS TO FBI AGENTS FOR SENSATIONAL REPORT

U.S. Grand Jury Probe Of Transit Strike Slated To Begin Wednesday

‘SENSATIONS’ WAITED AS FBI PROBES STRIKE   U.S. Goes After ‘Big Fish’ Ir Philadelphia’s Walkout

FBI Pushing Philadelphia Strike Probe   Possible Sensational Disclosures In Transit Walkoul Expected; Unionists Make Charees

Traction Strike in Philadelphia Ends; Jury Probe Coming   Sensational _ Disclosures Possible; Four Leaders Arrested

‘BIG FISH’ IN STRIKE HUNTED   F. 8. I. Agents And Fed. eral Grand Jury Are Investigating

FEDERAL JURY PROBES STRIKE   Sensational Disclosures Expected In Quiz of Transport Tieup

Strike Time Loss Equal To > Destroyers  Grand Jury Will Start Probe Into _ Affair Wednesday

FB. L. Masses Date On Transit Strike   2 Million Government Workers  To Be Dropped After War Ends

Sensational Disclosures Expected  After Probe Opens on Transit Strike

FBI CONTINUES STRIKE PROBE   Federal Official Says Agents After ‘Big Fish’ In Philadelphia Case

SENSATIONS HUNTED IN TRANSIT STRIKE   Grand Jury Is To Make Probe In Philadelphia

Philadelphia Looks To FBI ‘And Grand Jury   Sensational Study Of Transit Strike Gets Under Wav.

Transit Strike Cause Sought By FBI, Grand Jury   Armed Soldiers Still Riding on Buses ond Trains

FBI CONTINUES TRANSIT PROBE   Expect Sensational Events to : Follow Investigation

Full Probe of Transit Strike Will Be Made   FBI and Federal Grand Jury Ready to Start Inquiry Wednesday

F BY WILL GATHER DATA ON WALKOUT   Federal Grand Jury to Con: vene Tomorrow—Will Hear 35 Striking Employees.

Go After “Big Fish’ In Strike   FBI Wants to Know Who Was Behind Philadelphia Transit Workers Strike

FEDERAL JURY TO INVESTIGATE TRANSIT TIE-UP   Striking Workers Called ‘Pawns in a Sinister Game’

Federal Jury; FBI To Look Into Tram Strike in Philly —   “After Big Fish,” Federal: Spokesman CoveatDenha .

Enemy Activity, Company Collusion Charged in Strike  Disclosnres Expected as FBI and Federal Grand Jury Prepar: Probe in Philadelphia

AWAIT DISCLOSURES IN TRANSIT STRIKE   Grand Jury Called: FBI Charges Enemy Activity In Philadelphia

FBI TO PRESENT TRANSIT STRIKE DATA TO JURY   Federal Agents ‘After Big Fish’ In Philadelphia Tie-Up

TWA Plane Crash Still Unexplained   Sky Chief Goes to  Pieces in Midair

PROBERS SEEK FATAL PLANE CRASH CAUSE   24 Aboard Skv Chief Killed: Explodes in Midair

2 ARMY PLANES COLLIDE OVER TRAINING BASE   7 VICTIMS WERE FROM ELLINGTON FIELD IN TEXAS

CHANCE SEEN FOR JIM DAVIS TO GEI SENATOR NOMIATION WITHOUT FIGHT

10 Martin Mars Air Giants Are Ordered by Navy   Flying Boats Will Be Used in Naval Air Transport Service

Navy Torpedoes Big Jap Flattop   Japs Threaten Heavier Attack As Americans Advance in Marianas

Japanese Carrier Probably Sunk by  ’ Yankee Submarine   Three Torpedoes Find Mark in Big Ship;  News of Pacific

Carrier  Added to Nip Toll   Saipan Invaders Advance to Laulau on Eastern Coast

Mighty Flattop Hit in Battle Of Marianas Sunday; Probably Sunk,   DESTROYER SUNK, ALSO

Enemy Carrier Believed Sunk In Pacific Battl   Navy Dept. Also Reveals Jap Destroyer Sunk By American Planes

Another Loss” Sustained by Tokyo Navy   Giant Enemy Flat-Top Believed To Have Been Sunk When Hit Three Times by American Undersea Craft

JAPANESE NAVAL ATTACK AGAINST U, S. IN MAKING   Japs Say Entire Fleet To Meet  American Navy

Nips Say Day of Attack by Entire Jap Navy in Marianas Area Approaching

MIGHTY NIPPON CARRIER SUNK   U. S. Sub Torpedoes Flat top; Yanks Continue Saipan Drive

Mighty Nippon Aircraft Carrier Probably Sunk By American Submarine

American Sub Shells Japan Plane Carrier   Warship May Be At Pacific Bottom

TORPEDOES FROM U. S. SUB BLAST BIG JAP FLATTOP   MIGHTY CARRIER IS REGARDED AS PROBABLY SUNK

Another Japanese Flattop Added To Enemy Losses   American Troops On Saipan Island Continue Advance

“R” Gasoline Coupons Must be Used for Bulk ‘Purchases After Anril Ist

Tipsy Island Private Concerned Lest Supplies on One Side of Leyte Tip Island

US, ACE DOWNS 27TH IN ACTION   Wisconsin Fighter — Pilo First to Beat Rick’s Record in Air

Ned Shepler Chosen To Head Press 5 Group   Succeeds Galen Dunn, Shawnee News-Star

UNEXPLODED SHELL KILLS 3 OFFICERS   Crackshot American Private   rases Nazi Trio, Refille Gun

Seeking to Close Trap on Force of 500,000 Germans   Berdichev, Former Headquarters of Nazis, Evacuated

Noose Tightened On Enemy Forces In Dnieper Bend   Von Mannestein’s Attacks In Kiev Bulge Fail Tc Gain Ground; Scores Of Villages Captured

Violent Attacks Resumed On— French Coast   NAZI-BROOPS,. EVACUATE EASTERN SECTION . OF BERDIOCHEY  weeaarerm ar hUmFlUrKF AT!

Berdichev 25 Miles South of Former German Ukrainjan Headquarters.   OSFER REDS STRUGGLE

GERMANS ADMIT EVACUATION OF RAILWAY TOWN   Eastern Section of Berdichev Seized by Rampaging Soviets in Ukraine  an * 2£enseena a. es 2a. 2&6 ee

Drive Through Mid-Ukraine to Block Eseape Of Half Million   Foe Evacuates Part of Berdichev, Former  Mannstein H, Q.

Rail Center Once Base Of Invaders   Reds Race Through Middle Ukraine Seeking To Trap 500,000 Nazis.

Over 500,000 Nazis Face Trap in Great Dnieper River Bend   Berlin Claims Soviet Attacks Repelled in Zhitomir Area; Reds Continue Drives in Northern Sector

Nazi Line » Split. Rail Key Falls   Germans Acknowledge Loss of Eastern Part of Berdichev,Former Headquarters   KEDS MAKE VERY DEEP PENETRATION    Winter Line Cut Into “Two  Fronts,Great German Force Faces Eniranment

GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF PART OF BERDICHEV  RAILWAY TOWN IS LOCATED 25 MILES  SAIiITLI Ar FuIToOasl

SOVIETS SEE TO ENTRAP « 900,000   Berlin Says Other Drives On City Turned Back   4,000 GERMANS   Killed By Vatutin’s Men; Velikie Luki Rail Line Cleared

BERLIN ADMITS EVACUATION OF KEY RAIL BASE   Nazis Counterattacking In Desperate Attempts to Check Surging Russian Armies   HUNS MENACED BY CLOSING RED TRAP   Soviet Forces Battering Fleeing Foe In Pre-War Poland; Dnieper Force Periled

Smash Through Middle Ukraine In Attempt To Trap More Than 590,000 Germans

Vatutin Turns One Wing South; Baltic Army Clears Vital Rail Line to Nevel

SOVIETS PUSH GERMANS OUT OF BERDICHEY   Red Army Drives to Trap 500,000 Nazis la Dnieper Bend

Soviets Fast Closing Net ir Dnieper Bend   Von Mannstein'’s Army Facing Fate of Troops Trapped in Stalingrad

Russian Troops Drive Ahead in Fierce Batfle   Poland Alarmed Over Red Thrust Across Frontier

Enemy Leaves East Section Of Berdichev   Danger Grows Greater in Each Hour for Forces Now Outflanked

TROOPS QUIT EASTERN PART QF BERDICHEY   Reds Score the Gain in Drive to Trap 500,000 Nazis in Dnieper Bend —Enemy Clearly Is in  Wypnawine DNanoar

NAZI TROOPS EVACUATE ITS EAST SECTION   Reds Seek To Trar 500,000 Nazis Below Xiev

Berdichev Is Evacuated,  Nazis Admit   Over Half Million of Hitler’s Men Face Entrapment Below Kiev After Belaya Tserkov Is Captured by Russ

TRAP AROUND NAZI TROOPS   Russians Smash Through Middle Ukraine, Taking  Fortress Below Kiev.   Battle to Drive Nazis From Dnieper Begun

Powerful Soviet Flanking Movement Threatens to Trap More’ Than 500,000 Germans—Only Possible Escape For Mannstein Forces Is Mass Retreat Across Bug River Into Ru mania.

Vital Rail Town South Of Zhitomir   Former Headquarters of German Ukrainian Force; 500,000 Nazis Face Trap

NAZIS DECLARE RUSSIAN FORCE 1S IN BERDICHEY   Soviet Troops Trying to Trap Huge German Force in River Bend

Half Million Nazis in Bend of Dnieper Facing Entrapment!   Reds Repulse German Counterattacks on Polish Frontier

—RUSSTA—  GEAMANS CAUGHT INDNIEPER BEND   Important Railway Town Of Berdichev Is Partially Evacuated   FORTRESS FALLS   R ussians Surging For ward After Capture Of  Belaya Tserkov

1,600 War Prisoners Exchanged   5). American, Aritish Repatriates Figure -- In Transfer With — —. Masi Captives

Sen. Bushfield Charges UNRRA Planning 'to Strip U.S. of Needed Farm Machinery

Final Returns In On Primary   Figures For Governor, Lt. Governor, Given

WORLD PEACE PARLEY OPENS IN WASHINGTON   U. S., British, Russian Representatives Seek Security Formula

U.S, Britain Promise World Peace Group   Claim Big and Little Nations to Be Partners

All Nations To Share In Global Plan   U. S., Britain and Russia Map Set-Up Of Organi zation.

OPEN POST WAR PEACE PARLEY AT WASHINGTON   American, British Statesmen In Pledge To Oreate’ Peace Organization

Begin Talks To Outline World Peace   Reveal Big Three Generally Agreed on Security Organization

Partnership of All Nations Is  Parley Promise      Three-Power Meet.On World Organization Officially Launched

Big’3 Piedge Peace Rights te Little Nations   Dambarton F Parley Opens "With Promise of Part nership

Fall Of Sarny Would Cut Another Nazi. Supply Route — Spearheads.-of First Army Within: 15 Miles of Bug River’ Other Units .- Slash Southward To Entrapment Of Smela Gao."

Defeat Looms Over Nazi Army in West   Soviets Seize Army, Threaten to Clamp  Trap on Large Force

VATUTIN’S ARMY ONLY 15 MILES FROM BUG RIVER  OTHER UNITS IN OLD POLAND ARE WITHIN

ITALIANS WANT TO MOVE KING   Clash Between Generals Seen As Big Problem For New Regime

King ls Doomed, Ex-Deputy Says   Badoglio Clique Clashes With Group Of Civilians

One Squadron Gels Many Jap Planes   Oklahoma Cityan Among Pilots Who Destroyed 73 in 51 Days

U. S. Bombers Strike Again At Budapest   Bad Weather Holds Down Support of Troops In France

BUDAPEST UNDER HEAVY ATTACK BY BOMBERS   Italy-Based American Heavies, 500 or More, Strike at Hungarian Capital

U.S. Planes On Second Heavy Raid Of Budapest   Bad Weather Slows Down Support Of Troops

U.S. Bombers Blast Budapest   More Than 500 Planes Attack Hungarian ~ Capital, Reported

Italian-Based American Bomber Strike Budapest  Bad Flying Weather ‘In France Limits Air Support There

Yank Bombers Hit Budapest   Bad Weather Curtails Support for Ground Forces in France

ITALIAN BASED YANK BOMBERS HIT BUDAPEST   5 American Planes Downed As Freight Yards, Aircraft Plants And Oil Refineries Are Severely Damaged.

500 U. S. HEAVIES ATTACK BUDAPES1   BOMB RAIL YARDS, AIRCRAFT PLANTS, AND OIL REFINERIES

BUDAPEST HIT AGAIN TODAY BY AMERICANS   Rocket Bombs In England Kill  General

IS. Heavy sombers Attack Sudapest Area   leavy Damage “Wreaked  ‘On Industrial & Communication - Targets; “Bad. Weather Limits Activity ‘Elsewhere.

\Boy, 14, Kills 10-Year-Old Girl Neighbor   Lad Admits Crime; Body Brutally Abused, Sava Coroner

Americans Riddle Nazi 19th Army In Swift 40 Mi. Dash To Montelimar Below Lyon

Tanks, Artillery Closing Behind Nazi 19th Army   Bridges Across Rhone Razed By Bombers To Trap Enemy Troops

Yanks Dash to Montelimar Shell 15,000 Trapped Nazis   By ELEANOR PACKARD

NAZI ARMY DECIMATED IN RHONE VALLE   Yanks Inflict 15,000 Casualties In 40 Mile Dash

Yanks Race 50 Miles Overland fo Rhone Valley   15,000 Germans Trapped Against River's East Bank

Nazis Trapped on Rhone   German Casualties High as U. S. Tanks Advance 50 Miles

YANKS RACE INTO RHONE RIVER VALLEY   Trap 15,00€ 000 Nazis Against East . ‘Bank of River

Troops Race Fifty Miles Into Valley   Murderous Fire Turned On Nazis Trapped On Rhone

YANK COLUMNS KILL OR CAPTURE 15,000 GERMANS   Americans Cut To Pieces the 19th German Army In Several Days Time.

Reconversion Plans Junked For Full Year   Partial Shift to Goods For Givilians Upset By War Trend

INDUSTRIAL CONVERSION POSTPONED   Plants Face Full Year of Peak War Production

WPB CALLS FOR FULL OUTPUT OF WAR MATERIALS   Reconversion Plans Are Set Aside As War Needs Grow

Yankee Carrier Craft Blast at Philippines Area   At Least 200 Jap Planes Destroyed; Opposition Stiffens

200 JAPANESE PLANES ARE DESTROVED   As Carrier Based Aircraft Make Raid on Philippines; Cebu, Panay and Negros Targets.   Are Neutralized

CARRIER-PLANE ATTACK ON JAP ISLES CONTINUE   Central Philippines Hit; 200 Nip Aircraft Destroyed

CARRIER RA IN PHILIPPINES IS CONTINUED   AT LEAST 200 JAP PLANES WRECKED ON 3 ISLANDS

Tommy Gannon Kicks Over Typewriter, Shouts At Jury At Opening Of Trial

Allies Holding Firm In Fierce Battle On Lines South of Rome   30th Sides Throw Tanks, Planes Into Fight; Allied Aircraft Rehit Ruins of Mt. Cassino Monastery

LULL IS BROKEN BY FIERCE BATTLE IN SECTOR BELOW ROME  ALLIED FORCES REPORT.   ALLIED FORCES REPORTED HOLDING NORTHERN CORNER LINES

—ITALY—  GERMANS LAUNCH UPA AeeH Te   Allied Lines Reported Holding Firm In Area South Of Rome   TANKS ARE USED:   Nazis In Second Allout Attempt To Smash Fifth Army At Anzio

U.S. AND BRITISH LINES HOLD FIRM IN HEAVY FIGHTING   Nazis Launch Afl-out Drive Following Terrific Artillery Barrage

Enemy Said to Be Throwing Full Force of Infantry, Tanks and Artillery Into Struggle, Which Is Growing in Violence — Germans Struck North of Anzio in Wave After Wave All Through Yesterday and Last Night.

ALLIED FORCES HOLDING. AGAINST STRONG THRUSTS      Second All-Out German Attempt To Smash  Reachhead   WAVE AFTER WAVE - IS BLASTED BACK

Stimson Says Beachheads Established   Americans Still Battling In Cassino Streets

Nazis Launch Heavy Drives In North Area   Allied Forces Holding Firm; Heavy Artillery Fire Precedes Smash

ALLIES HOLDING AGAINST EVERY ENEMY THRUST   Second All-Out Effort  By Nazis to Remove Threat to Rome

ALLIES HOLD LINE AGAINST GERMAN FORCE   Fierce Battle Is Again Underway On Beachhead

Nazi Forces Renew Attack On Beachhead   Anglo-American Forces Grimly Hold Positions Against Terrific Pressure, It Is Said

AlliesHolding DespiteHeavy New Aitacks   Germans Throw Planes ‘and Tanks Into Second ~AN-Ont Smash Near Rome   ‘BATTLE ALL NIGHT   Allied Bombers Range Over Fighting Area and Far to North of Italy

Nazis Forces Renew Attack Against Anzio   Allies Holding Firm in Fierce Fighting South of Rome

Allied Lines Hold Firm Against Renewed German Attacks On Anzio Beach

Allied Forces Hold Positions Against Continued All-Out Thrusts By German Troops

Nazis Open Hard Drive But Allies Are Holding   Both Sides Throw Heavier Tanks Into Battle

LULL IS BROKEN BY FIERCE BATTLE IN SECTOR BELOW ROME  geeTm RARATA NPYrRADRs

ALLIED FORCES HOLD LINE IN NEW NAZI ANZIO ATTACKS   HEAVY ARTILLERY TANK FORCES IN FIERCE RENEWAL OF BITTER FIGHTING ON BEACHHEAD

Nazis Launch New Heavy Attacks on Positions at Anzio   Allied Forces Apparently Holding Against Enemy Pressure

Allies Hold To Positions   Fierce All-Out Attack Of Germans Fails to Break Beachhead Defenses

Evidence Indicates Allies Are Holding Against Enemy Thrusts.   CASSINO FIGHTING BITTER

FIERCE BATTLE BREAKS OUTIN ANZ!0 SECTOR   Allies Holding Own As  Germans Launch Second All-Out Assault

Allies Hold Own Against Heavy Blows   Second Attempt to Smash  Toehold Frustrated By Reinforced Allies

GERMANS LAUNCH HEAVY ATTACKS IN ROME BEACHHEAD   A Fierce Battle Has Broken Lull in the Sector South : of the City.   ALLIES ARE HOLDING   Germans Struck Yesterd: Morning After a Heavy Artillery Preparation.

Nazis Make Heavy Beachhead Attack   Allied Forces Apparently Are Holding To Positions   Tremendous Pressure By Enemy ; Germans Strike Time After Time: Our Forces Now Stronger

Allies Hold Under Heavy Nazi Assault   Violent Tank Struggle Swirls; Enemy Blow Struck Behind Stiff Artillery Preparation

GERMANSLAUNCH FIERCE ATTACKS IN NORTH SECTOR  ALLIES HOLDING AGAINST SECOND

Allies Holding Against Attacks   Fifth Holding Grimly Against Great Pressure by Foe—-Allied Air Forces Meet Strong Aerial Power—Fighting Less Intense in Cassino Region

Nazis Launch Heavy Attack   Allies Maintain Positions Under Strong Pressure.

Allied Troops Hold Against Enemy Thrusts   Germans Strike After Heavy Artillery Fire

Tanks, Planes Take Part in Fierce. Action   Fishting Eclipses: Struggle on. Cassino Front; Wide™. Assault by. Planes      CORROCETO AGAIN Be CENTER OF ACTION:   ‘New All-Out Enemy. Drive: Follows AlliedCommander’s: : Expression of. Confidence-:*

FIERCE FIGHTING DRAW   Americans and British Hold Positions Despite Heavy German Pressure

Germans End Lull With New All-Out Blow Near Rome   Allies Are Reported Holding Firm Against Violent Assaults;  Air Battles Raging

Allies Hold Against New Blows   Fierce Battle Breaks Lull in Italy; Tanks Join Fighting

20 PAGES   ALLIED UNITS HOLDING OWN NEAR ANZIO   Second All-Out Effort Te Smash Beachhead   Hit Second Straight Day: Fighting Less Intense Around Cassino

GERMANS OPEN FIERCE ATTACK ON BEACHHEAD      ‘Armored Units, Infantry Fail to Dent Allied  Defense Lines

Allies Holding, With Both Sides Hurling Tanks Into the Battle   Nazi Shock Troops Attack After Heavy Artillery Barrage

Allies Hold . Own Agate ' Heavy Blows        Second Attempt to Smas Toehold Frustrated ' ‘By Reinforced Allies —

Nazis Throw Full Weight Infantry, Tanks, Artillery   British and. Americans Holding  Against. ‘Tremendous Pressure. as Struggle Hourly Mounts In Violence.

Anglo-Americans ‘AreGrimly Holding To Their Positions   Meet ‘Air Aftack Blow-For-Blow; Tanks Are Used By Both Sides; Full Nazi Force Felt In Strucscle

Axis Aircraft Swings Into Action In Unusual Force With 130 Sorties on Front Line Objectives   ROME TARGETS BOMBED

Americans And British . Hold Grimly   Germans Afieck ck Wave on Wave Throughout Day and Night, Aided hy Tanks Artillery   FLIERS BLAST FOE   Abbey Hill Again Aitacked by Airmen, Rome Rail Yards and San Stefano Pori Bombed

Bricker Accuses Administration Of Corrupt Work  Collection System Is Seen as Obvious Deviation

Ickes Denounced By John L. Lewis   Says Production of Coal is Not Lagging

COBLE ORDERS DRAFT REVIEW   Local Boards to Reconside 26-37 Registrants Now. Job Deferred

DRAFT BOARDS PLAN. REVIEWS   STATE HEADQUARTERS DIRECTS CHECKUP OF DE- FERMENTS GRANTED MEN BETWEEN 26.  -AND 37

MacArthur Men Stagger Nips In — Surprise Raids   Strategic Airdrome ls Off Spat, Of Dutch New  Gulnea

Americans Win Strategic Wakde Airfield Control   Quick Flanking Move Pins Jap Defenders Into Small! Pocket

ALLIES CAPTURE WAKDE AIRFIELD   Shatter Mortar-firing Jap Defense Positions   JAPS HEMMED IN   M’Arthur Says Oapture of Airfield Presages Conquest Of Dutch New Guinea

WAKDE FIELD CAPTURED BY SIXTH ARMY   Seize Field Same Day They Storm Beachhead on Dutch New Guinea; Take It by Surprise.   Five Airdromes

Strategic Wakde Island  Airfield Won by Yanks; _ Jap Defenses Shattered

6th Army Gets Wakde Drome   Leap-Frogging Yanks Seize Strategic Teland Field

WAKDE AIRFIELD SEIZED BY YANKS IN FLANK ATTACH   Japanese Troops Pinned Into Pocket Half Mile Square— Defense Positions Shattered.   AIR RAIDS CONTINUE OVER A WIDE AREA   Gen. MacArthur Announces Fliers Have Knocked Out All Five Airdromes at Rabaul.

Americans Control  Big Wakde Airfield   Ground Forces Reported to Have Attained Objective, General MacArthur Says—-Soerabaze, Java Heavily Bombed

Flanking Move Pins Japs Into Small Pocket   Enemy Strikes Back  Weakly at Hollandia; Reconquest of Dutch New Guinea Is Nearer

Allies Speed New Guinea  Campaign    Presages Reconquest Of All of Huge Island, Gen. MacArthur Says  IAPANESE FLANKED

Sailor Tells of Stassen Rescue   Writes Home His Ship May Have Saved Next President

HAROLD STASSEN RESCUED AT SEA      SAILOR WRITES HOME ABOUT _ SAVING -G. 0. P. PRESIDEN' NAL POSSIBILITY.

“MAYBE WE SAVED NEXT PRESIDENT” SAILOR DECLARES   Rescue of Lt. Comdr.. Harold _E. Stassen at Sea Told By Wisconsin Gob In Letter— Navy Confirmation Lacking

Helped Rescue Stassen, Says State Sailor   Lieutenant Commander Was Aboard Disabled Boat Discovered Near Island, Letter States

‘Sailor on Rescue Craft In Pacific Writes Home, Diselosing fucident

Stassen, GOP Possibility,  Rescued at Sea   Wisconsin Sailor on Rescue Craft Tells Of Incident in Letter

Stassen Rescue: At Sea Is Tole   Former Governor Of Minnesota Saved .

COMM. STASSEN IS RESCUED -AT SEA   Sailor ‘Tells of Rescue of Former Governor: of Minnesota

Minnesota Sailor Tells of Rescue At Sea of Lt. Comdr. Harold Stassen

House Overrides Tax Veto   Angry Solons Vote 299 To 95 For Defeat Of F, D. Action

Barkley’s Stand Given Senate 0.K.   Resigns in Split With Pres ident, Then Given Vote of Confidence

raf  Roll Call — Shows Vote 299 to 95 ~      SENATE IS ALSO EXPECTED -.. TO MUSTER NECESSARY TWO: THIRDS VOTE TO ENACT BILL

Tax Bill Upheld 299 to 95   VOTE MORE THAN NEEDED TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY; BILL GOES TO SENATE

ROLL CALL IS” 299 TO 95 TO PASS MEASURE   Legislation Is Sent Immediately to Senate for Action There.

Kentuckian Reinstated As Leader   Senate Expected To Follow House Lead on Tax Bill

Vote Is 299 To 95 And Measure GoesAt Once To Senate For Action ©   Chief Executive Flayed By Con gressmen After Resignation Of Senator Barkley As Democratic Leader In Senate; Republicans Jained Rv Demacratse Tn Attack.

293-95 VOTE REFLECTS ANGER OVER MESSAGE   Senate Vote Is Delayed

HOUSE VOTES T0 REECT VETO CN TWO BILLION BIL   Opponents to President Had 36 Votes to Spare In Securing Required TwoThirds Majority.   BILL SENT IMMEDIATELY TO SENATE   Similar Action Anticipated But Date For Voting !s Not Determined, Then Becomes Law.

VOTE REFLECTS ANGER AT TONE OF MESSAGE FROM FR    Senate Expected to Act In  Like Manner Ouring Eriday’s Session.

299-95 Ballot Against F.R. Stand on Bill   WASHINGTON (AP)—Iowa’'s eight house members voted with the majority Thursday when the house overrode the President’s veto of the tax bill.

Japs to Send Ship For Prisoner Aid   Vessel Will Start For Russia Oct. 28

November 30 Proclaimed As Thanksgiving Day In  Texas by Gov. Stevenson

3a.iv'an Jou? sngineerec “rot g 1 Aree--ina, _&. a-ion "rove S30ws

GERMAN IS NAMED AS TAKING PART INS.A. UPRISING   Bolivian Revolutionary Leaders Met Argentine Nationalists at Home of German fount.   GATHERING WAS HELD BEFORE DEC. 20 COUP   Karl von Luxburg Returned  * to Buenos Aires With Ostensible Purpose of Residing on Lands.

TWO -RUSSIAN VICTORIES SHAPE UP IN CRIMEA   Red Army Column Advancing Through Central Plains Is Nearing Simferopol.

F rench Coastline  Is Again Assailed   Allied Warplanes Also Strike Bucharest—French Rail Yards Pat Under Bomb Fire

PAS-DE-CALAIS RAIDED TODAY BY YANKEES    British Planes Based in Italy Bomb Hungarian Capital And Destroy Much Rail Equipment.

(Allied Planes Bomb. North France ‘West Germany, Budapest. Crefe

Endless Line Of Yank Planes Pound France   Traffic Movements Of Germans Choked In Fierce Agsanit

Pre-Invasion . Air Blows Continue Into 2ist Day   American And British Flyers Blast Europe  Last Night, Today

U. 8. Liberators Pour Explosives OnPas-de-Calais   North France Railyards Are Hit By Liberators; No Nazi Resistance

TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF AERIAL RAIDS SUCCESS   German Shipping Damaged By RAF Night Raids

New Breakfast Menu Dropped by U.S. Fliers   Start Twenty-first Day of Invasion War With Daylight Raid

ALLIES IN 21ST DAY OF OFFENSIVE   Morning Raids Follow Assault On Budapest, Germany

Small. Force of: Liberators Stages Pre-Breakfa Assault on Pas-de-C

‘Small Force Of Bombers Strikes At ‘Nazi Nest   Installations In Pas-De-Calais Area Bombed Again; Rat  Warde tlen Atianabad

Calais Area Is Blasted By American Liberators   Planes From Htaly Pound At Budapest

U.S. Liberator Blast Area of Das. de-Calais   Small Force of U. S. Bombers, Escorted by Fighters, Make Hop To Northern France

Small Liberator Force Stages Attack After Night “Assault on: Budapest; 21st Straight Day of Offensive      ire 2 ys ot i 1 iss  a, nti a aC Cae ‘

ALLIES MAKE FLANK ATTACK --QN GERMAN LINE IN ITALY   POLISH AND ITALIAN TROOPS ADVANCE, ALONG ADRI-ATIC IN NEW MILITARY . MANEUVER

Settle Strike Of Inmates Of  State Prison   Grievances Are Aired As Result Of Failure To Properly Heat Cells During Zero Wave

ALL-OUT EFFORT TO SALVAGE PAPER   Chairman of War Production Board Says There Is Vital Need for Paper  Naw)

Nelson Emphasizes Need for Greater Effort on Part of People in Waste Paper Drive

‘Local Papers Lauded for Efforts  WPB Appeals to Citizens Here To Salvage All Waste Paper

‘Waste Paper Salvage To Continue, Says Donald Nelson   Private Homes Must Cooperate to Reach Goal for 1944

Save Waste Paper, Is” Plea Of Head Of WPB   Donald Nelson, In Telegram, Urges Every Man, Woman And Child In This Vicinity To Redouble Their Efforts In Salvace Drive 

Vital Need Of Scrap Paper " Stressed By Donald Nelson In Telegram To Sentine'

REDS 10 MILES FROM POLISH BORDER TODAY   Mannstein’s ‘Troops Menaced   2ND STALINGRAD

Doughboys Cling to Hard-Won Footholds Atop Bastion as Nazis Counter-Attack From Tunnels. Some of Enemy Burned Out of Works With Oil. 3 Corners, Center Held

Germans Fight From Numerous Tunnels, Yanks Burning Them Out with Oif

[Doomed _ Kille: Case Reache: ‘Supreme Cour   Petition Filed to Save Louis (Lepke) Buchalter Fron Execution in Sing Sing Tonight

Trains Meet  At ‘Crossing:   Undetermined . ‘Total. Injured. Down South.

Several Hurt In Train Wreck At New Orleans   Mlinois Central Train Crashes Into Southern Pacific's Crack Sunset Limited

Trains Collide At New Orlean:   Louisianne And Sunset Limited Crash

TAX PICTURE IS A BIT BRIGHTER   Congress Prepares To Send Simplification Bill To White House; Expected To Cut 30 Pet. Cabaret Toy.

White House To Get Tax Bill Without Delay   Measure Designed To Dead Pain Of Extraction Of Money Is Passed

Tax Prospects Brighter Today For Bill Payers   Congress Sending Plan To Simplify Income Bill To President At Once

Bloody Revolution Upsets Ponce Regime   Democratic Government Established In Guatemala By Fast-Moving Coup

AE BES cee: LN, ETN ee  aes Harness Describes  Close Calls In Pacific Area

Completes 25 Missions  Sergeant Harness Describes  Close Calls In Pacific Area

C10 to Seek Removal of Wage Freezes   Delegates Work Over Holiday to Winds Up Session

ClO ENDORSES PAC AT MEET   Ask Union To Urge Removal Of Wage Ceilings

Wage Freeze Facing © CIO   Convention Expects. “To Demand Removal

No Last Ditch for - Germans   AP Staffer Thinks Main Fight To Be On Beaches

Priel Firm in Nazi Dealings   CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF STUBBORNESS OF FRENCHMAN

INCREASE IN DRAFT CALLS TO BE MADE   Boost of 20,000 a Month for January and February Asked

War Department Asks Army's February Dratt Calls Be Boosted to 80,000

Draft Calls Stepped Up For January   Febsuary Totals Also Micht Be Increased

Jap Invasion of India Stalled By  British Forces   Allies In Cortrel Burma Gain Ground In Myitkyina Drive ©

JAP INDIA INVASION 1S STALLED   British Stiffen Resistance Near imphal and Kohima

Br ‘itish S Stall J ap Dive to Take Impha!   Tn, Central Burma,’ Allies  Gain Ground in Smash - Toward Myvyitkvina

British Defense Stiffens in India   Japanese Attacks Slacken at Kohima

TIFF BRITISH OTAND STALLS JAPS IN INDIE   Enemy Held Up in Kohima and Imphal Areas: Chinese Drive South.

British Stall Jap Invasion of India   Allies Gain Further Ground in Drive on Myitkyina Base

Holiday Death Toll Over 210   Traffic Accidents lead Wirth 96 Dead: 55 Persons Have Been Drowned,

CLUES ARE SOUGHT. ~ INMURDER PROBE   Fingerprints of Woman Being Studied by Officers

Police Study Fingerprints in  Trunk Murder   Victim May Be Woman Who Had Been Living In Small Chicago Hotel

Police Study Fingerprints   Nearly Nude Body Sent in Trunk From Chicago to Coast

Police Seek to Fix Identity of ~ “Body ar Trunk   Woman's Prints May Reveal Connactions - With John Lopez

British-German Peace Reports Stir Russians   Reported Talks Much Discussed

RUSSIANS STIR "NEW CONCERN   Latest Eventi: in Coie. of Pravda Rumor Story Worry Diplomats

Diplomats Show New Concern As Reds Fail To Publish Text Of British Peace Talk Denial

NAZIS KILLED, CAPTURED NEAR 150,000 MARK   Soviets Prepare Crossings On River Gateway To Capital

PREPARE FINAL DRIVE ON GIT)   Plan Mass Crossing of River, Last Natural Obstacle To Minsk.

Heavy Battle Rages on Berezina Line   Great Swarms of Red Air Force Attack Planes Keep Aerial Offensive Rolling as Strong Units Smash Into Severe Enemy Fire

Engineers Rush Pontoons Into Place On  Last Natural Obstacle Before White Russian Capital; Have Strong Air Cover.

Begin Pouring Across  . Berezina River Against Strong Fire From Qpposite Shore; Great Swarms Of Planes Continue Withering Offensive Against Nazi Ground Forces.

Soviets Cross Berezina River 'to Move on Minsk   First Units Pass River in Face  of Stilf Fire, Airmen Subject  Nazis to Withering Blasis

RUSSIAN ARMIES SURGE ACROSS FIELDS OF DEAD NAZI TROOPS   Russians Claim 150,000 Germans Killed and tured During Past Five Days and Magnitude of feat Indescribable. Minsk Next Objective of Gre Offensive mS

GATEWAY T0 MINSK OPEN TO RUSSIANS   Germans Unable To Make Stand Along River

Minsk Under  Full Assault By Russians   Reds Prepare to Cross Last Obstacle to Capital City

Sharp Fighting Rages in Drive In White Russie   Retreating Nazis Unable to Locate Place for Stand

Reds Reach Last Barrier Before Minsk   Troops Cross River Under Heevy Fire

Minsk Objective Of Direct Attack By Red Armies   Soviets Erect Pontoons In Preparation For Mass Crossings Of Berezina

Reds Crossing Last Natural Minsk Barrier   Outflanking Movements Threat To Nazi Position

SOVIETS SMAS ACROSS RIVER IN MINSK DRIVE   - Twin Prongs Are Closing Trap On Capital Of White Russia

Westward Drive Of Soviet Army Gathers Speec   Germans Holding White Russia Capital Are Doomed To Defeat

SovietArmy Units Cross River Near  Minsk Fort   Engineers Hurry Up Pontoons For Major Drive 

Reds Advance in Drive in Minsk   Plunges Into Berezina River, Last Natural Barrier

Reds Hurdle Last Minsk Obstacle   Cross River Northeast Of White Russian Capital in Grim Fight

SOVIETS REACH LAST OBSTACLE BEFORE MINSK   Red Troops Cross Berezina River, Continue Air Attacks on Nazis

Great Swarms — of Planes Are -Hitting Nazis   Pontoons Placed - Across River for Mass Crossings; Nazi Losses Huge   FIELDS OF DEAD AND WRECKAGE   Looks as If ‘Tornado’ Had ‘Passed Over Area, Correspondent. Says

Minsk’s Fall Near; Reds Are Crossing Final River   Capital's Gateway Now Appears Clear

Soviets Near Minsk; Nazi Rout Growing   Destruction of German Equipment Along Three Routes Unparalleled

Reds Crack City’s Last Defenses —   Russians Report German Losses in ‘Five Days Now Is Near 150.000

SOVIETS REACH LAST OBSTACLE BEFORE MINS}   Crossing Berezina River Where They Are Meeting Stiff Op-  position From Nazi Forces 

Reds Cross Berezina As Minsk Loom: As Big Prize   Gates To Capital Of White Russia Appear Open; Vast Destructior To Nazi Equipment

Russ Batter ‘Last Defense Before Minsk   Gateway to White Rus. sian Capital Appears to Be Open

RED ARMY UNITS DRIVING ACROSS BEREZINA RIVER   CLAIM 150,000 NAZIS KILLED OR CAPTURED IN LAST FIVE DAYS

Red Units In Force Plunge Into Berezina   First Groups Meet Stiff Fire From Strong German Forces On Bank.   DOWN 71 NAZI PLANES

Reds Throw Pontoons Acros: Berezina River as Drive for Minsk Rolls Alone Quickly

Russians Get Ready To Go Into Minsk   Troops Massed to Hurdle Last Obstacle to City

Russian Tornado Leaves Death,  Wreckage Along Path To Minsk   Soviet Armies Drive Forward In Direct Assault On Gateway To Warsaw And Berlin; German Casualties Heavy.

Reds Set To Cross Berezina   Meet Stiff Fire from Germans on Weatern Bank of River

Reds Prepare To Cross Last Natural Obstacle Before Blow At Minsk

refit ofA .  GERMANS NG FLEEING IN WHITE RUSGIA  Gateway To Capital’ City Of Minsk Apnears Open      PLANES ARE BUSY   One Of War’s Largest Protective Coverings Furnished Troops

Call Biddle, Avery Ward ‘Witnesses   eetentenn inele  OPEN HEARINGS IN SEIZURE OF CHICAGO PLANT PROMISED NEXT WEEK BY CHAIRMAN M’CARREN. oe   Dewey Resolution Out

Senate to Call Biddle, Avery In Ward Probe   NLRB Orders Election Within Seven Days: House Gets Resolution

Bidtile, Avery To Be Witnesses      To Testify In Senate Ward Investigation; Union Poll To Be Held.

Biddle, Avery To Be Called In Ward Probe   Open Hearings Due Next Week

AVERY, BIDDLE 10 FACE COMMITTEE   Montgomery Ward Chairman And Attorney General To Be Questioned in Senate Probe of Plant Seizure

SENATE TO QUIZ BIDDLE. AVERY   House Also Holds Own Probe; Troop Use Power Questioned

SENATE TO SIFT WARD'S SEIZURE   Avery ‘And Biddle Will Be Called To Capital As Witnesses

PROBERS WILL CALL BIDDLE AND SEWELI   Both Senate and House Plan Investigation  Of Seizure

Senate Group To Call Avery And Biddle  As Witnesses   Double-Barreled . Probe Of Ward Seizure Looms As House Receives Rirlee ReenhHan   NLRB ELECTION TO BE HELD SOON   NF BPA AAR RE NAL   McCarran Says Probe To Determine If New Leojslation Is Needed

Hearings Scheduled In Ward Co. Seizure   ‘Attorney General Biddle and Sewell Avery, Mail Or.  der House Executive to be Called in * Senate Investiaation 

BIDDLE, AVERY TO BE CALLED AS WITNESSES   Byrd Wants Senate Probe Into Use Of Troops At Ward Plants   NLRB ELECTION WILL BE HELD IN FEW DAYS.

SENATORS TO QUIZ AVERY AND BIDDLE “IN WARD SEIZURI   Open Hearings to Start Next ~ ‘Week — Second Inquiry by House Committee  ’ Seems. Certain, :   GOVERNMENT ACTION - -~ RAPPED BY CAPPER   McCarran Says “Nothing . Within My Memory. Has - : So Aroused the Ameri “ ean Public.” -

Ward C.cirnsan, Altorary General to Tastify Before Sei7te  ' rary ee to

Senators Call Biddle, Avery In WardProb   Labor Board Plans Voting By Company’s Employes Within Nexi 7 Davs

Reparia Say Bulgaria _ Trying To Get Out Of  War; Turk Entry Near

Nazis Predict Turkey Break  Bulgars Open Talks in Move To Dodae War

Say Bulgaria Negotiating  With Allies   Reported Significantly Simultaneous With Turkish Dev elopments,   WANT OUT OF WAR

CLAIM BULGARIA SEEKING PEACE   Reported Negotiating to Get Out of War

nanny © Serre SS teeIe PerTeszes ie        aRiE re + ee  ee  Get Out Of War, Tarks _   ‘rported Negotiations With Ailies Significantly Simulaneous:- With Ankara Developments

ENEMY WITHDRAWAL IN BULGARIA CLAIMED   Allied’ Peace Terms Hinted To Be On Way To Sofia

GERMANS ARE WITHDRAWING FROM BULGARIA   Believe Country Offered Terms Of Surrender

Bulgaria May Get Out of War   Negotiates With Allies for Peace, Ankara Reports

Bulgarians Seeking Way Out, Report   Turks May Try To Enter War Soon, Capital Hears —

BULGARIA WANTS OUT OF WAR, IS REPORT   Negotiations Significant as Turkey Embroiled

BULGAR PEACE BID REPORTED   Impending Changes In urkish Gov't Hinted

ARMISTICE NEAR, TURK REPORT SAYS   German Withdrawal To Be Completed Within Few Days

Report Bulgaria Seeking Peace — With Russians   Reds Demand Permission To Open Consulates; Expect Turks To Act

Report Nazis Quit Bulgaria   Seize Arms of Troops Fleeing from Romania

Yanks Halt ‘Biak Drive   Bad Weather Grounds Vital Air Support Needed for Attack

Yank Invaders Of Biak Island Slow Advance:   ‘Bad Weather Deprives  Them Of Air Support In   Violent Bid For Three   Jap-Held Airfields

YANKS. BREAK. OFF BIA AIRFELD BID   Air Support Lacking Because of Bad Weather; Halt Made  ee se .. a ee

Yank Invaders Are  Held Up On Biak By Heavy Jap Defenses   First Heavy Defense In Pacific By Enemy Aided By Bad Weather; Allied Planes Unable To Help Ground Forces In  Violent Bid For Three Airfields

BIAK FIGHTING HAS DIED DOWN   Yanks Momentarily Let Up Violent Battle For Three Airfields After Gaining Control Of Part Of Island.

McCormack Head: Platform Group   Senator Hatch  Named on Committee

SMOKE SITUATION MAY GROW WORSE   Senators Told That. the ’ Worst Is Yet to Come -

SENATORS PROBE CIGARET SCARCITY   Solons Discover That Wors' Is Yet to Come; Uncover Practically No Suspicion. 0' Skullduggery

PUTS RLAME ON PARENTS   Cigar ette Scar ‘city Investigators Discover Worst Is Yet To Come

CIGARETTE SHORTAGE DUE TO GET WORSE, SENATORS LEARN         Thirty Percent Of Available Supply Going Overseas Where $2 And $3 Are Being Paid For Pack; Civilian  Conswanption Has Increased 15 Percent

Shortage of Cigarcts to Grow Worse   Senators Probing Inte Scarcity Discover the Worst Is Yet To Come

BULGAR CAPITAL HIT BY THIRD ALLIED ATTACK   Connection With Belgrade Is Thought Severed By Bombs

Rail Yards Of Sofia Are Smashed By Allied Bomb:   Rail Line To Belgrade Believed Cut; RAF Drops Thousands Of Explosives

CRISIS NEAR IN BULGARIA   Debate German Ultimatum Council Refuses To Goo Hitlor

*BIG EVENTS DUE AS BULGARIANS * GET NAZI EDICT   Regency Council Reportec » Declining ‘Invitation’ to Meet Hitler

$25,000 Bail Is Set In Valley Swindle Case Trial   ‘Hillary Mayen Pleads Innocent Today In New  Orleans To Bilking Valley Widow

“Alcoholics Anonymous to Hold Convention in  Des Moines Sept. 2, 3

State Veterans’ Administration Facilities To Be Enlarged Soon   Moving of Headquarters fo Baltimore Is Practically Complete

REPORT SOVIETS STARTING NEW DRIVE IN SOUTH WHITE RUSSIA   Moscow and Berlin Both Agree That Tough Fighting Is Under Way.

Berlin Reports New Soviet Push   Russians Striking On Krivoi Rog Sector, Nazi Communique Says

FIERCE FIGHTING IS RAGING IN WHITE RUSSIA   Red Army Opens Hole in Outer Defenses Leading to  Minsk,

Sen. Taft Offers Six-Point Plan For Postwar Jobs   Demands Progress Without Socialism

iDUNLANGAME TC JOIN THE OWL. EARLY IN JULY   May be Sent to Southwest Pacific Hopes to Reach Tokyo

rts Indicate Eleven “American Bombers Lost.   NO ANNOUNCEMENTS OF NAVAL LOSSES   Jap Broadcasts Claim to Have Sunk Two U.S. Cruisers.

LATEST BiG RAI IN JAP WATERS NETTED MANY ENEMY VESSELS   Secretary Knox Gives Statement on Palau Operations

KNOX SAYS U. S. TASK FORCE SANK OR  DAMAGED ALL SHIPS AT ANCHOR IN THE HARBOR DURING RAID ON THREE ISLANDS

Turkey Spins  Toward War   Turkish Ships Ordered Into Harbors: Black Sea Navi gation Suspended,

TURKS MOVING CLOSER TO WAR   Order All Ships Into Harbors; Suspend Black Sea Shipping

Early Entry  Of Turkey In  War Forecast   Vichy Report Says Turkish Ships Are Ordered Into Ports at Once

Jap Remnants Make Attempts To Flee Leyte  U. S. Uses Mindoro Airdrome; Superfor

Japs Trying Futilely to Leave Leyte   B-29 Raid Made on Mukden; Iwo Jima Hit  by Liberators

Joe Bell has resumed his duties as marshal and donned his star last Thursday.   Notice! Truck Operators

Peace Conclave Outlook Bright   Senate Approval of Proposals Seen

Senators Laud Security Ideal   Tri-Power Parley Proceeds Behind Closed Doors

HOPES BRIGHT FOR SECURITY PARLEY TALKS   Three Senators Predict Agreement On Points By Russia, Britain And U. S.

LASTING PEACE OUTLOOK BRIGHT   Delegates Settle Down To Task Of Framing World Organization

Senators Forecast Bright Prospects For Conference at Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks Conference Wins Senators’ Praise   Sen. Connally Predict: Senate Approval of © Parley s Findings

PEACE CONFEREES  LAUNCH BIG TASK   Three Senators See Bright ‘Prospects ‘for Post pwar Plan

Dumbarton Oaks Prospects Bright   Delegates Settling Down To Task of "raming Peace Organization.

SUCCESS SEEN FOR SECURITY PARLEY WORK   Approval by Senate of Agreement Reached Is Predicted

Poles Punch Route Toward Nazis’  Italian Defense  Eighth Army Battles Within Five Miles  7S an Pa ees fm mel

POLES HAMMER PATH THROUGH NAZIS’ LINE   Advances Pace Eighth Arm\ Units In Adriatic Sector

Nazis Retreat  To Gothic Line   Last Ditch Defense Of Northern Italy; Pole Troops Advance

POLISH TROOPS PRESS GERMAN UNITS IN ITALY   Eighth Army Within 5 Miles Of Pesaro—Huns Back To Gothic Line

POLES 5 MILES FROM PESARO AS NAZIS RETREAT   Fano Captured In New Advances On Adriatic Coast

Polish Forces  In Italy Advance  In Heavy Fightinc Drive Through Nazi Defenses  Behind Metauro River, re Way Across Arzilla

Poles Push Forward in North Italy   Fight Way Across River  + While Ma-is Withdrew   For Stand 8shind Gothic Line

Poles Punch Route Toward Nazis’  Italian Defense  Eighth Army Battles Within Five Miles  Of Imnartan?t Goal

POLES SMASH CLOSER T0 DO VALLEY   Fiercely Attack Nazis Withdrawing Into Gothic Line

ADVANCING TOWARD (MPORTANT SEAPORT   Polish Troops Attack Withdrawing Troops of Germans.

POLISH TROOPS SCORE IN ITALY   Fifth Army Captures Over 47,000, Splits Up 15 Divisions

Poles Punch Path Behind Metauro   Fight.on Across Arzilla to Push: 2.) Within 5 Miles Pesaro

FDR HINTS VETO ON TAX MEASURE   Baer crete realistic: Predict-{t’lt Be Sustained 

French Clamor To Get Out Of Lorient,  St. Nazaire In France  _ eee ee ee ee eee ee,

Bricker Says Destruction of New Deal Is More Important Than Presidential Ambitions

BRICKER GIVEN © ~ UNANIMOUS VOTE   OHIO GOVERNOR'S NAME ONLY ONE PRESENTED FOR “ VICE ' PRESIDENCY, -

RUSS PEACE RUMOR CLINGS TO SPOTLIGHT  Red Papers Now Print Report Proviogusly Publiched in London

NEW STORY FANS FIRES IN RUSSIA   People Convinced England Listened To Nazi Proposals

Russians Print British Denial  Wvek Dawn Weccwwoie Tx:      But Peace Rumor Is Back Where It Started

Russ Publish British Denial Of Peace Talk   No Editorial Comment Made But Another Peace Offer Printed

RUMOR Io oTILL VITAL SUBJECT   Russian Press Gives News Of British Denial.of Peace Proposal.   NO EDITORIAL COMMENT

IRUSSIANS MAKE NO COMMENT ON BRITISH DENIAL   Print Foreign Story in Papers Without Comment Tell of Other Peace Talks

SEPARATE PEACE RUMOR REVIVED   London Paper Breaks Out New One as Reds Print Denial

Three Indianapolis City Officers Wounded in Fight With, Man, Woman

THREE POLICEMEN WOUNDED IN BATTLE   Indianapolis Couple Hele After Gun Fiaht

POLICEMEN ARE SHOT BY COUPLE   Three Officers, Gunman And Woman All Wounded in Indianapolis

Helen Steichen  Becomes Bride  Weds Raymond _Glassmaker. Marvhil

BATTLE WITH SNOW CONTINUES IN OHIO   Roads Not Yet All Open and Some Schools Closed

U, S. COMPLETES OCCUPATION OF NAZI BASTION   Yank Casualties Lightest of War in Operation of This Nature   GERMAN CITY LEVELLED

RAF Brave: Storms to Hit Berlin  ‘Allied Air Attacks © To Soften Europe For Invasion Are

AIR WAR OVER EUROPE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE   Speedy Mosquito Bombers Brave Gales, Drop Bombs On Berlin

Big Bombers On Four Day Lull Enforced By Bad Weather  MOSQUITO BOMBERS KEEP UP RAIDS  Germans Attempt To Bomb Russian Troop Formations

Bad Weather Holds Up Allied Bombings   However, Invasion Timetable is Far Ahead of Schedule

Aerial Offensive Said Not Yet Behind Schedule   Four-Day Lull Due To Bad Weather Will Not Upset Plans

Allied Air Offensive Against Europe Is Deemed Far Ahead of Schedule ‘Despite 4 Day Weather Enforced Lull

Allied Air Blitz to “Soften” kurope Far Ahead of Schedule   U. S. Steps Up Aerial Attaeks In Marshalls

BRIGKER HAS ~~ JOURH: TOUR   SCHEDULED FOR 28 SPEECHES. ’ IN-FIEST SIX DAYS OF HIS.‘ 9,250-MELE: CAMPAIGN -

Pair Taken On Ride Of Terror   Sleek Bandits Sing, Threaten, Then Release Their Victims.

Ciano To Die  For Treason   Say Duce’s Son-In-Law Was Shot By Captors

COUNT CANO CONDEMNED TO DEATH   Reported Shot Trying to Escape; 18 Others Sentenced

Reds Open New Offensive In North Before Trap In Ukraine Is Sprung

Nazis Expect Bad News From Southern Russia   Much-Bombed Home Front In Germany Is Being Prepared For Shock Of Red Debacle

RICHARD Y. ROWE NAMED SEC’Y OF STATE BY GREEN   SUCCEEDS HUGHES WHO DIED IN N. Y. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28

Rowe is Named to Fost Made Vacant by Hughes’ Death   Constitution Prevents _ Gov. Green Appointing GOP Nominee

Cathedral Still Stands At Aachen   Fewer Than 300 Other Buildings In City Of 160,000 Remain Habitable Today

Great Disaster Japs Dealt Our Air Force Dec.7, 1941, 1s Revealed   350 of Our 526 Planes Wiped Out By Enemy in Few Hours, Gen. Arnold Says

ONLY 176 OUT OF 526 PLANES   REMAINED AFTER SNEAK RAID    Army Air Commander Says December 7, 1941 Found United States Military Staffs With Plans But _Few Planes; Japs Dealt Devastating Blow

Jap Attacks Destroyed 350 I lanes 'O£ £26 In Pacific December 7, 1941

Allies Rush. ‘On in CaenBayeux Area   Attempting Control Cherbourg Point; Forces Joining.

WONDERFUL AID FOR AMERICANS BY GUERRILLAS   Invasion on Mindoro Caught Japs by Surprise — Opens Corridor Through Archipelago

SUPERVISORS MINE STRIKES STILL SPREADS   Three Near Montgomery Join Walkouts Now Affecting 43,100

JAPAN SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES FROM US PLANES   Sank 200 Ships In September—-Begin October With Sinking Of 11 More Close To Tokyo.

THIEVES TOOK LITTLE   Only. 85 is Missing in Two Early Morning Burglaries

Russians Near Rumania  In Swift Push   Extend Crossing Of Bug River To 62-Mile Front

Reds Cross Bug On 6: Mile Line   Shatter Last German Defense Line In Ukraine; Nearing Rumanian Border

Sparks May Not Show Letter To Federal Jury   Jury Will Begin Inguiry On Next Wednesday

Allied Forces Press Ahead In New Guinea   Americans Kill 3.000 Japs Since First Landings In Admiralties

AUSSIES PUSH DRIVE TOWARD MADANG BASE   Rabaul Comes in for Another Pasting By Bombers

Yanks Seize i Philippine Cities, Towns   3 Adjacent Islands Also in Control of American Invaders

Widen Offensive Front To 23 Miles, Take 11 Towns And Three Nearby Islands; Raid Airfields In Manila Area   (RULLETINS)

Congress Will Return to Work Monday   Law Makers Face Complex Domestic, War-time Problems

Lively Calendar Faces Returning Solons; Roosevelt Message Awaited

Bitter Fights On National Issues Loom   Problems Range From Winning War To Postwar Plans.

Solons Eye Var, Voting; Work Ahead   Siormy Session Ahead As Congress Returns After Holiday; Fight  On Domestic Issues

Congress Faces Many Problems   Solons Will Return to Work Monday

Congress Faces War Effort In Full Accord   Domestic and Political Problems, However, Promise Plenty of Fireworks During Coming Months

War Is Given Spotlight On Calendar   Many Fights Are Seen On Problems of Domestic Importance

FCC Chairman Denies Illicit Radios Used To: Send Military Data To Japs Prior To Attack

FCC Says Japs Used Own Radio   Claim Nips Maintained Setup At Pearl Harbor

Allies Attack From Four Directions; Face Hardest Battles Yet Encountered

Invaders seize third Jap airfield to end Hollandia campaign   Put three dromes in operation in bombing range of Philippines

Little Resistance Met In Whole Drive   Three Captured Airfields Being Made Réady For Use In Future Attacks Against Japanese

THREE AIRFIELDS AT HOLLANDIA ARE PUT INTO SERVICE   Capture of Third Field Puts Allies Within Bombing Range of Philippines   HOLLANDIA CAMPAIGN CLOSED IN SIX DAYS   ind of Japanese Resistance Is Announced by General MacArthur; Aussies Move North From Captured Madang to Take Alexishafen

3d Hollandia  Drome Taken   Counter-Attacks Hit Foe Reaching for Loveane

FIVE JAPANESE AIRFIELDS FALL WITHIN 6 DAYS   Australians Are Now Mov ing On Airdrome At Alexishafen

Allies Take Main Airdrome  At Hollandia  All Three Fields Are Placed in Operation  q 7 aia ace icielieet ill i lane

Three Captured Airports  in New Guinea Put  in Operation  JAP RESISTANCE FINALLY ENDED Conference Held by Gen eral MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz

HOLLANDIA AIR FIELDS IN USE BY AMERICANS   Campaign Closed In Six Days With Capture Of Third ‘Drome

Americans Complete  Hollandia Operation   Main Japanese Airfield Last to Fall to Pincer Forces After Six-Day Drive; Aussie Troops Move North to Take Alexishafen

Last Hollandia Airdrome Taken   Gives Yanks Base To Raid Philippines

YANKS OCCUPY LAST AIRFIELD AT HOLLANDIA   Close Campaign in Six Days; Philippines in Bombing Reach

YANKS GLUSt ING-DAY DRIVE ON HOLLANDIA   All Three Airfields Taken From Japs Have Been Put into Operation; Only Light Opposition.   Close To Philippines

Three Captured Airports in New Guinea Put in Operation  S.A kr Pr Meer, hd ee   JAP RESISTANCE FINALLY ENDED   Conference Held by Gen. eral MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz

Main Airfield At Hollandia Is Captured   All Three Airdromes Quickly Put to Use  By American Forces  SLX-DAY CAMPAIGN

Krug rejects plea for auto reconversion  ‘Munition needs in wav of move’

WPBChieftaix Turns Down ° Car Industry Priority Plea   Announced. by Krug, Who Replaces Nelson When Latter Resigns .

KRUG TURNS DOWN ~AUTO-FIRMS! PLEA   WPB Chief Denies Requests for-Resonversion

WPB Chief Turns Down ‘Auto Heads   Will Not Give Priority Fer Machinz Tools Fer Production of New Auhaebiles

KRUG TURNS DOWN ~-AUTO-FIRMS® PLEA   WPB Chief. Denies. Re. "quests for-Reeonyersion

Start On Making Of Autos Denied   WPB Says No Priority for Tools

Record Breaking Munition Schedule Blocks  Machine Tool Priority Bid of Auto Makers

AUTO MAKERS PLEA IS DENIED   Krug Refuses Request for Machine Tools Priority For Reconversion

‘Krug Says Government Will Not  ‘Give Industry Priority on Tools

AUTO INDUSTRY’S PLEA IS REFUSED BY KRUG   WPB Chairman Says Manufacturer: Cannot Be Given Machine Teel Priority

No. Priority For Autos ts Krug Ruling   RECORD BREAKING MUNITION SCHEDULES FORBID MACHINE TOOLS TO GIVE FAST START  TO MAKERS   Shorter Lay Off Period

Greatest air e i foree Diasis  Rabaul base   Shoot down 20 Jap interceptors

Record Blow Dealt Rabaul  20 Of 50 Jap Attackers Go Down Aaqainst Two Of Ours

250 BOMBERS HIT RABAUL: HEAVY RAID   Cin Jap Stronghold in New Britain; 110 Enemy Planes Destroyed During February, Wewak Gets 200 Ton Blast.   Destroy Barges

More Than 250 Allied Fighters And Bombers Pummse Once Formidable Jap Base Guarding Turk Approaches

New U: 5. Blow: Land On Guam, Tokyo Reports   Nimitz May Be Ready For Another Thrust In Mid-Pacific

Marines Seize Maniagassa Island Off Saipan; New Raids On Guam Reported

George R. Shepard Is Taken by Death in Bozeman  Automobile Accident Injuries Prove Entnl for Attarneyv

MURPHY URGES FREE PORT FOR REFUGEES   Would Be Patterned on Commerce Import Plan.

DISPUTE RAGES OVER CHARGE ‘AGAINST LABOR   Administration Gets Blame

Says Strikes in War Time Are Treason   Sen. Reed Lauds Gen Marshall’s Weekend Cri ticism of Labor.

Reed Backs Criticism Of Strikes   Says President Lack Courage to Make Same Charge

20,000 Nazis Are Killed, Reds Report   Column Is 60 Miles From Czechoslovakia, Five from Bucovina  TRAP GROWS TIGHTEE

Move within five miles of  old Rumania Only 60 miles to  Cryecho-.Slavakia

Red Smash Kills 10,000 Germans   Troops Within Five Miles Of Bucovinia  By TOM YARBROUGH RAeanciated Praee Stati Writer

4-WAY OFFENGIV MOVES FORWART   Reds Near Former Rumanian . Province of Bucovina   TRAP TIGHTENS   Places Soviets 60 Miles From Old Czecho-Slovakia; Nazi Losses Heavy

Heds Kill  20,000 Nazis Seize Many   Troops Within 5 Miles Rumanian Province, Buchovina

Russians Only Five Miles From Former Rumanian Province Of Bucovina   THOUSANDS OF NAZI TROOPS ARE MENACED

Russians Push Within Five Miles of Bucovina; Another Enemy Escape Railway in South is Severed

Reds’ Ukraine Army Kills 20,000 Nazis   Soviets Are Within Five Miles of Bucovina Prevince

Soviets Break Through at Gateway to the Balkans  CZERNOWITZ NEARED  IN DRIVE OF REDS  \Troops Near Key to Ru manian Province of Bucovina

Red Smash Kills 20,000 Germans   Troops Within Five Miles Of Bucovinia

Break Through Below Tarnopol; Cut Lwow Line   MMoseaw Reports 20,000 Germans Kiled and 3,500 Captnived in Four-

Russians Slay 20,000 in New  Dniester Drive   Flanking of Tarnopol Threatens to Trap Thousands of Nazis:  400 Towns Overrun

Germans Lose Many Menin Soviet Attack   Nazis in Danger in Poland and Southern Part of Russia

Entrapment of Large Nazi Force Threatened   Other Soviet Units Cut Lowow - Tarnopol Railway, Crash Into Proskuroy

REDS ADVANCE TO BORDER OF BUCOVINA   Former Rumanian Province And 60 Miles From Old Czecho - Slovakia; Smash Blow Threatens Nazi.   Voznesensk Falls

TRAP CATCHES THOUSANDS OF FLEEING NAZIS   FALL OF TARNOPOL EXPECTED; FEEDER RAILWAYS CUT

kt i meee [ens eae ain  AT BALKAN Gl td enact           Four Hundred Towns: ed as Reds Sweep to Wi " 5 Miles of Former  manian Province..   PLUNGE THREATENS :               Path Cleared for Three-W:  Drive On Lwow as. Feed Line Into: ‘Tarnopel s  Is Severed.

Allies Pulich — On in aly Germang Flee   Nazis Retreat North as 5th Army Advances; . Withdraw in Adriatic

Allies Punch On in Italy; Germans Flee   Nazis Retreat North as Sth Army Advances; Withdraw in Adriatic

ISLA i WILL BE URGED   Action On Resolution To Be Sought In New Congress

Growth of U.S. Navy Disclosed   Forrestal $a y's United States. Now Greatest   Naval Power in  Whole World

OCIJECH FIGHTING UNIT   United States Has Built 65,000 Vessels In Past Five Years

NAVAL POWER   65,000 Vessels af All Types Built in Last Five Years.

Says U.S. Navy World’s Largest, 9 Million Tons   Built 65.000 Vessels In Riven Of iteiek 1150 Are Fighting Craft

1,150 Major Warships i in Fleet; 65: 000 Vessels Added in 5 Years

SAYS U.S, NAVY NOW GREATEST   ‘Early Extermination’ of Japs Anniversary Promise of Forrestal

U.S, BUILDS 65,000 GRAFT FOR NAVY   Giant Armada Represents 9,000,000 Tons

U. 5. Has Built A Victory Fleet   Navy Has Added . GE AA livnteae lAriek:,

U.S. Navy Now Has 1,150 Fighting Ships, Secretary Forrestal Says

Asserts Peace Terms For Finland Made  Known By Russia   Stockholm Paper Says Terms Disclosed To Both U. S.  And British Governments

REPORT RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS — HAVE BEEN HANDED TO. FINNS   STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER QUOTES TERMS SAID TO HAVE BEEN OFFICIALLY _ - GIVEN FINNISH GOVERNMENT

Equality Fo r Small. Nations Upheld by Hull   Secretary OF£ State Say: . United States Cham  pions. Liberty For   _* All: People

CHURCHILL TALK NOT AGREEABLE TO IDEOLOGIES   Secretary Also Differs On Prime Ministers Views Toward Spain

Hull Sticks To His Plan For Liberty   Wants Small Nations To Chagge Governments; Differs From Churchill

Hull's Views At Variance With Churchill   Secretary Of State Strengthens Plans To Free Nations

Hull Restates U. S. Ideal Of World Liberty   Gives Hopes To Small ' Nations Seeking Freedom’...

Hull Says U. S. Upholds Liberty   Welfare of Each Nation To Hinge On Welfare of All Says Secretary.

Hull Reported Determined on  Post-War Plan   To Encourage Small Nations to Seek Liberty: Differs With Churchill

JAP SHIPPING SMASHED BY U.S. FORCES   Yank Airmen Spot Hideouts on China Sea Side of Philippines; Go te Wraul  Lose 10 Planes

JAP SHIPPING HARD HIT BY AIRPLANES   Heavy Strikes Made by Fliers in- Recent. . Weeks .

Yanks Take Two Key Bases   Troops Strike Rome Gates, Cut Nazi Route for Escape

Rome Situation Left To Nazis   FR Says Germans Have “No Religious Attitude”

OFFENS ~ AIT HA   NAZI GOVERNMENT. LEFT TO DETERMINE POSITION OF ROME

WOMEN’S GOP CLUB CONVENTION OPENS; DEWEY TALK FRIDAY   Cite Feminine Voting Strength Of 60 Pet. This Year

6.0., WOMEN IN SESSION THURSDAY   BY DOROTHY WILLIAMS U.P. Staff Gorresnnndens

Recognition Of de Gaulle Not on Agende   French Leader Looks For France To  Be Free by 1945

DE GAULLE, ROOSEVELT HOLD TALKS   Question of  Allied Recognition “Not Discussed

ihe War Loday World Anxiety For Italjan Capital's Welfare  Reeomes Intensified.   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Aceociated Press War Analvst

WAR TODAY   ron Anxiety For the ‘Mtalian Capital’s Welfare Intensified As Fighting Nears Rome

FATE OF ROME LIES STRICTLY WITH GERMANS AS ALLIES NEAR ETERNAI CITY IN OFFENSIVE

The War T oday—   World Hopes Rome will Be Spared: ‘Fate Of City In Hands Of Nazis

“ Doughboys Can See Dome Of St. Peter's: Anxiety For Rome Intensifies

FATE OF ROME NOW HANGING IN BALANCE WITH UNCERTAINTY AS TO GERMAN PLANS FOR DEFENSE   Furious Fighting Now Only 15 Miles from City. Whether Nazis Will Spare City,in Their Retreat Still Undecided. Kesselring Fighting Strong Battle of Withdrawal

Local Soldier Dies In Actior   Pyt. Rufus Smith, 20, : - “Killed In Belgium

TWIN CITY MAN DIES IN BATTLE   Pvt. Rufus Smith Fatally Wounded In Fighting  In Beleiuin

U. S. WARSHIP OKLAHOMA, SUNK AT PEARL HARBOR, REMOVED FROM SERVICE

GREEKS REDS ARE FIGHTING WITH BRITISH   Greek Government Pre dicts Quiet by Tomorrow; Piraeus Clashes Giuhside.   Ticklish Situation

BATTLES SUBSIDE IN GRECIAN CRISIS   Quiet by Today Predicted as British Battle Leftists

British And Elas Clash In Greece   Authorities Believ ¢ Near Civil War Will Be Ended Today

End Is Seen in Near-Civil  War in Greece   Intermittent Firing Is Heard in Athens During Day

Germans Claim Island Captured   Yugoslavs Report Mainland Successes

GERMANS CLAIM SEIZING MLJET   Adriatic Island Near Dalmatian Coast  Said Occupied

Fifth Army Advances On Civita Castellana Important Rail Cente:   Enemy Tenth and Fourteenth Divisions Completely Battered, Unable to Reinforce Other Fighting Units

CLARK’S FORCES PLUNGE 26 MILES IN SWIFT DRIVE   Battered Remnants of Ger. many’s 14th Army Offers Only Slightest Re-  sistance to Advance.   IMPORTANT SEAPORT  , CAPTURED BY ALLIES   Kesselring’s Former Headquarters Seized — Americans Now 32 Miles North of Capital.

Only Slight Resistance Encountered   Fifth Army Captures Civitavecchia, Civita Castellana

Fifth Army Captures Town 32 Miles North of Rome In sLightning Dash, Wins Port

Allies Chase Reeling Nazi Army in Italy   German Radio Report: Russia Launches Powerful Offensive

ITALIAN FRONT IS 38 MILES BEYOND ROME   FIFTH ARMY SEIZES SEAPORT AS NAZIS REEL BACKW ARD

Allies Make Spectacular Advances _ Above Rome   Take Civitavecchia, Rome’s Outlet on Sea, And Civita Castellana As Resistance Wanes  2 GERMAN ARMIES SERIOUSLY CUT UP  l4th Army Reduced To Battered Remnants, Allied Spokesman Says

ericans Gain iles in New ves in Italy   ith Army Takes ivila Castellana

Clark Seizes Town, Port  Northof Rome   Advances 26 Miles In Pursuit of Disorganized Nazis

Jowns Seized In Swift Drive Of Fifth Army   Civita Castellana, 32 Miles North of Rome, Falls as Allies Press Onward With Only Slight  Roecictance Rennrted

Nazis’ Flank Ripped Apart At Budapest   Bolstered Russian Armies Cut Defense Rarrier al 6 Points

RUSSIANS RIP NAZI LINES IN CTY KRY AREAS   Berlin Admits More Soviei Troops Entering Battle for Budapest as Attack Shifts to North

Reds to Explode New Offensive   Center in Poland and East Prussia

Russians Ready to Explode   Berlin Claims Soviets Massing Men for Assault

Reds Crack Nazi Wall to Budapest   Hur! 500,006 Fresh Troops Into Great  Winter Offensive in Poland. East Prussia

SOVIETS MASS IN NORTH FOR WINTER DRIVE   Half - Million Russians _€rack a Lines . Near Budapest

FOE’S LINE > CRACKED IN SIX PLACES   Soviets Massed For Great Winter Drive In North, Claim

Reds Crash Thru North Of Budapest   Soviet Armies Launch Powerful New Blows  Timed with Allies.

Russ Northern Armies Reported Set To Open Up   Reinforced Troops “~€rack Through Flank In Budapest Area

RED HORDES WHEEL INTO LINE FOR BIG ASSAULT; NAZI LINE CRACKED   GERMAN HIGH COMMAND SAYS RUSSIANS OPEN POWERFUL OFFENSIVE IN SOUTHWEST LATVIA

CRACK LINE IN HUNGARY   Reinforced Red Army Pierces Nazi Flank In 6 Places

Fresh Soviet Troops Pouring Into Battle For Budapest Hourly; Claim 2nd Ukrainian Army Is Stalled   SOVIETS FORCE AT LEAST SIX BREACHES

REDS CRACK THRU NEAR BUDAPEST   : Reports Current _ That Winter Drive ‘In Poland Near

OVIETS CRACK -RMAN FLANK T BUDAPEST   New Drives In North Hinted

Reds Ready For Big Offensive   Soviet Shock Troops Crack. Through Budapest Defense System

‘Decisive’ Battle Of North About To Be Fought   Malinovsky Has Army of 35 Infaniry Divisions And Seven Mobile Corps

Hint Reds to Launch North Attack Soon   Fresh Russian Forces Smash Nazi Lines on Budapest Front

6 SPEARHEADS SHOOT TOWARD CAPITAL CITY   Nazi Seventh Army Imperileds Battle For Brest Is Developing

INVASION OF MINDORO TOPS PACIFIC LIST   Expected to Provide Three Major Advantages for American Command Over Japanese

Operation Key To Luzon Reconquest —  Mindoro Assault Hazardous Move

PARACHUTED GIFT IS BEING PROBED   Locket, Camera, Book, Land In Soldier’s Wife’s Yard

15,000 See Dream Ship Shangri-La Take to the Water af Portsmouth, Va.

VICTORY HOPES ON SHANGRI-LA   Great Aireraft Carrier Built With American Dimes Launched

Truman Declares. Experienced Man Needed for Jot  fecommends. Roosevel As Man of Proved Leadershin

F. D. B.'s Election Urged by Truman   Vice Presidential Nominee Speaks

HITLER RECEIVES OSHIMA   Had a Conference on the Conduct of the War

Yanks Blast 44 Vessels, 107 Planes   Warships and Bombers . Smash Bonins; Raids Cover Entire Pacific Area 

WAR MAY LAST INTO 194, SAYS PRIME MINISTER   Commons Told Allies Have Two To Three Million Men In European Field   AMERICANS WIN PRAISE   Enormous Additional Yank Forces Ready If Needed, Leader Declares

BIG U.S, FORCE - YET TO STRIKE AGAINST REICH   Churchill Says Nazis Lose $02,000, Four Times Allied Casualties

Find First US. Flag to Fly ( Over: -— Janan’s Islands   Discover” 13- Starred Relit i Of Perry's Visit eee e 375%)

‘Perry’s 91-Year U. S. Flag May ‘Lead Yanks In Invasion Of Japan

REDS CONTROL SOUTH SHORE FINLAND GULF   Germans Continue To Flee In Some Sectors Today

Red Fores Drive Ahead 'n North   Now Control Entire Southern Shore of Gulf Of Finland

REDS STRIKE INTO ESTONIA; ~ NARVA PRIZE   ' Control Entire South Shore of Gul! of Finland Opening Way for Fleet to Participate   Berlin Admits Nazi Lines Being  Shortened in North, White Russia and in Ukraine

Reds Advance Swiftly Toward Narva  Soviets Speed Drive   Soviets Speed Drive For Liberation Of Estonia Region

* SEITED THE BORDER TOWN OF KEIKING   Russians Pressing a Strong Campaign for Liberation of Estonia.   MADE SWIFT PROGRESS   Soviets Now Control Entire Southern Shore of Gulf *.- of Finland.

Reds Advance Swiftly Toward Narva   Soviets Speed Drive For Liberation Of Estonia Region

Reds Seize Estonian Border  City, Control Shore Of Gulf   Soviets Pressing Toward Narva, Greatest Prize Of Northern Drive

NEGRO TROOPS ATTACK GROUP   24 Italians Hospitalized And One Found Hanged From Tree

ITALIANS INJURED. ~ IN FIGHT AT CAMP   Attack Made by Negro Troops at Fort Lawton, — Woach._

ITALIANS INJURED —INFIGHT AT CAMP      Attack Made by Negro Troops at Fort Lawton, Wach.

SOLDIER SAVED BY MONKEY 3 TIMES   Army Man Owes Life to Pet Eaund in Africa

Soldier Returns With Monkey Mascot Which Saved His Life on 3 Occasions

MODEL PLAN FOR GL. VOTE IS MADE LAY   Martin Signs Bills at Joint Session of House, Senate

G.I. Vote Bill Is Signed By Gov. Martin   REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS SHELVE PARTISAN POLITICS TO RUSH MEASURES THROUGH IN RECORD TIME.

Assembly Enacts G-l Vote Bill, Adjourns   Model Program Put on Statute Books in Precedent-Setting Five-Day Session: Martin Thanks Solons for Quick Action

43 AUTO LICENSES GOOD UNTIL MARCH   Motorists Asked to Wait Receipt of Applications Before Applying.

Persistent   Advance Is Made By J aps Into India    Main Communications Of Vital Manipur Plain Entered; Claim Imphal Well Defended

Second Front Alr ~ady Has  Begun, Declares Montgomery   By EDWARD W. BEATTIE

Montgomery Carefully Maps Plans For Assault On Axis   By EDWARD W. BEATTIE

CATHOLIC COMMUNIST PARTY IS DENOUNCED   Pope Renews ‘Condemnation Of Party in Italy

Yankee Doughboys Gain Slowly Upon Cherbourg Nazis   Formidable Resistance  Is Met In French Port

KNIFE-GUN FIGHT IS FATAL TO GIRI   Rival Gangs of Students in Fight in Harlem

YOUNG HERO WINS CONGRESS MEDAL   ASKED TO BE DROPPED FROM DAMAGED PLANE TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD

: Honor Airman Who Asked  To Be Thrown From Plane   Livonia, N. Y., Soldier Awarded Medal Of Honor; Saved Life of Gunner and Repaired, Manned Radio Although Hurt

Wounded Hero's Plea to Be Thrown from Damaged Plane Not Mentioned

REPORTS MANPOWER PROBLEM CRITICAL   Somervell Says Jobs Are Plentiful for Entertainers {n Plants.

Mav f‘alendar   Somervell Sees Manpower Key Ty Padlocked Clubs, Poolrooms

Nation's Critical Labor Shortage Must Be Solved   General Says Plenty Of War Jobs Open To Idle Entertainers

MUST SOLVE JOB PROBLEM   Close Night Clubs, Bowling Alleys, Demands  Somervell

Jobs Available For Entertainers  Close Up Cabarets Suagests General

If Taxes Close Night Clubs "Let's  Lock Them ‘Up," Somerville Suggest:

Show Jap Weakness   Allied Raid on Marcus And Wake Meets Very Little Aerial Resistance

JUSTICES DISAGREE AMONG THEMSELVES   Supreme Court Hustling to Get Cases Decided By End of May.

It's Those Superforts Again *  Yank Airmen Bomb Jap Mainland At Two Point:

ie to] Resume His Law Practice     asa ee: \ ill g , ¥ v r      Defeated G.-O. P. Candidate Arrives in Naw York After Midwest Campaign Tour

FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CALLS. THIRD ‘PARTY RUMOR RIDI‘ euvous

WILLKIE PLANS TO RESUME LAW   Political Future 1s Undecided, Newsmen Told

Brides Veil Is Fired By Candle   Young Woman Escapes Iniury At Wedding

VETERAN BILL ~ BEFORE HOUSE   SPEEDY PASSAGE OF SENATEAPPROVED “G. I. BILL OF “RIGHTS”, PREDICTED - BY LEADERS

TASK FORCE BOMBS TWO BONIN ISLANDS   Pacific Fleet Makes Closest Approach of War to Japan Proper; Carrier Planes Destroy 47.   Neutralize Truk

Fleet Strikes 388 Miles  From Japan   Carrier Planes Sink Two Ships, Damage 12 And Down 47 Aircraft  RESISTANCE SMASHED ON SAIPAN BEACHES Yanks Resume Gains  After Forced Back By Fierce Shellings

Task Force Blasts Bonin Islands, 600 ~ Miles From Tokvo   Assault Smashes 47 Japanese Planes, 14 Ships; Yank Invaders Drive for Mariana Capital After Fierce Rattle an Sainan Reach

Carrier Force Makes Closest Approach to Japan's Homeland   ATTACKS INTENDED "TO DESTROY BASES   Americans Strike Within 558 Miles of Yokohema

U.S. CARRIERS HIT CLOSE 10 JAP MAINLAND   ENEMY SHIPS SUNK; 47 PLANES ARE DESTROYED

"AMERICAN THIRD ARMY NOW BATTLING NEAR BREUX AND CHARTRES 40 MILES CAPITAL

FD Backs New Plan for Labor  Deferments   Ration Idea Similar To That for Scarce Materials Advanced  By High Officials

Occupational Deferment Restrictions   AreTightened   Regulations in Effect For Those 18 to 22  Extended to Workers In 23-25 Age Bracket   DEFERMENT ‘RATION’ PLAN IS STUDIED

Deferment For Men 18 to 25 More Limited   Move to ‘Ration’ Deferments in War Plants Likely

FDR. Indicates _ Favor for New ~~ Deferment Plar   Proposal of Production, Manpower Officials Being Studied

TIGHTEN DRAFT ‘DEFERMENTS FOR “WORKERS 18102      Officials. Ban Granting of Occupational Delays Except With Approval of State _ Direciors, —   “RATIONING” SCHEME - APPEARS IN MAKING   Roosevelt. Reported in Favor of-Plan to Keep Most Vital War Plants Supplied  - With Labor.

Selective Service Prohibits Occupational Deferments; FDR Favors Manpower ‘Raiion’

DEFERMENTS OF NEN UNDER “96 RESTRICTED   + Banned by New Orde: Except in Certain Special Cases

DEFERMENT AGE LIMIT EXTENDED   Policy Spread To Men 2325 As ‘Ration’ Plan Is Aired

F. D. R. Indicates Favor of Plan to Ration Occupational Deferments

Poliey Extended To Include Men Aved 23 To 23   Ration” Deferments to Workers In War Plants Is Favored By President Roosevelt. —_ Discretion Left to State Drath 1 Die  pectars

TIGHT CONTROL OF DEFERMENTS PUTIN EFFECT   Men, 18 To 25, Inclusive, Affected By Newest Draft Regulations   PLAN IS ENDORSED BY THE PRESIDENT

Selective Service Curbs Deferments   Men I8 to 26 * Affected by. Order

Occupational Draft Deferments Tighten   industrial Age Limit Raised, With All ‘Cutbacks Requiring Snecific Anmenint

CHECK PLANNED ON DEFERMENTS   Arms Production Needs To Be Guide In Call lor Fighting Men

DRAFT DEFERMENT PROGRAM REVISED   Men 18 to 25 Must Go Except When State Direc tors Order Change

O’DANIEL LASHES ‘OUT AT NEW DEAL   a SENATOR SPEAKS AT G. 0. P. RALLY IN OKLAHOMA ON EVE OF ELECTION.

O’Daniel in Okla.,Speaks AtGOPRally   TEXAS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR URGES REPUBLICAN TO CONGRESS TO SAVE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.   Election Next Tuesday

New Deal Is Bitterly Assailed By Senator O’Daniel, Texas Democrat

Texas Senator Urges Ousting Of New Deal   Demucrat O'Daniel Hits At ‘Mismanagement. Bureaucrats’ at Capital

Texas Senator in Hai'sh Allacks on All New Dealers  O'Daniel Says Taxpayers Face Debt as High as €10 000 a Eamily

A-13 EXPIRES THURSDAY   Six A-14 Coupons in A Gas Books Becomes Valid Friday

LCC. “Class” Rates Probe Nears An End   Examiners Recommend That The Commission Establish Nationwide Uniform “Class” Rates.

Germans Claim 136 Planes Downed   Great Aerial Battles Foucht As Americans Hit Near Berlin

Germany Says 136 Downed   ~ Hint Nazi Defenders Used New Secret  Device.

Nazis Claim 136 Planes OfU.S. Lost On Tuesday   London Press Makes Guess At Loss; Yank Air Force Headquarters Tells Of Heavy Battle

Aerial Blasting Takes Big Toll   MANY U. S. BOMBERS SHOT DOWN BY NAZIS -

GERMANS CLAIM 136 PLANES SHOT DOWN   Swedish Papers Say Magdeburg, Halberstadt and Ber-lin Suburbs Were Hit

U. §. Airforce Suffers Heavy Loss in Raid   60 Planes Probably Shot Down Tuesday; Germans Claim 136

ALLIED PLANE LOSS IN RAID I$ REPORTED   Sixty Fighters And Bombers Fail To Return To Base

BATTLESHIPS SHELL DEFENSES ON GUAM   Biggest Ships in Admira Spruance’s Fleet Bombard Japanese-Held Island.

‘Operation Through 13 Days  Big Battleships Add Their Guns To Thunderous Attack on Guam

U.S. Battleships Move on Guam; Invasion Seen  Sustained Attacks May Indicate Early Landings

Pacific Fleet Attacks:  American Battleships  Shell Island of Guam

ASOAULT ON BASE EXTENDS 19 DAYS   Fifth Fleet Contains Navy’s Newest Battlewagons   HELP LEVEL DEFENSES   Gun Emplacements, Installa. tions Shelled; Shore Batteries Return Fire

Big Battleships Join In‘Thunderous Attack On Guam   Sustained Operation Extends Through 13 Days—Gun  Emplacements and Other Defense In-. a  etallatione Bombed 

Powerful warships hit Guam  Aun bee eee? J   Attacks carried on thru 18th day

JAPS GAIN IN CHINA, LOSE OUT IN INDIA   Hold Complete Control Vital North-South Railway Line Linking Pieping-Hankow

Japs Advance  On China Rail   Cross Yellow River Southward From Shansi Area. Cut Railway.

Shore Installations On 65-Mile Sector Of Coast Are Attacked By Planes For Carriers

Soviet Tank Foree Moves  On Viipuri   Russians, 30 Miles Away From Great Port, Strike Main Finn Reserves

REDS WITHIN 30 MILES OF VIIPURI   FINNS RESISTING STUBBORNLY ALONG KARELIAN ISTHMUS

Reds Within 30 Miles Of Viipuri Port      Now Striking At Main Body of Finnish Re serves.

ADVANCING UP HIGHWAY TG VIIPURI   Striking At Main Body Of Finland’s Army Reserves

Russian Tanks Roll 30 Miles  From Viipuri   Red Army Strikes At Main Body of Finnish Reserves In Continued Gains

Russian Armor Rumbles Toward Vital Finn Port   Viipuri Less Than 30 Miles Distant As Reds Strike at Finnish Reserves

SOVIETS NEARER FINNISH HARBOR   Red Army Within 30 Miles of Viipuri Despite Fierce Enemy Fight

RUSSIANG a0 MILES FROM ViIPURI PORT      Red Army Said to Be Striking at Main Body of Fin nich Racarvac.

SOVIET ARMY STRIKING AT FINNISH PORT   Russians Taking Care Of Finns In Own Way

Russian Tanks Roll Towards Vital Viinuri   Terrain Slows Drive On Finland In Some Sectors; No Change On Southern Front

CASUALTY DELAYS GIVEN EXPLANATIOD   Adjutant General Says 10 Pereen Due To Failure To Give Change Of Address

Urges Poland To Seek West Allies   Stalin Says Friends Should Include U. S.

Robert Lambert, Technician At 56th Evacuation Hospital In Italy, Wins Commendation

Kyushu Hit ByB-29s In Major Raid   Assembly Plant Hit In Raid by Bombers

NANKING. SHANGHAI OMURA HIT   One B-29 Is. Reported Missing In Triple Aerial Assault

Task Foree Rains Bombs On Japanese   Attack is Seventh On Jap Mainland, First On China.

B-2d0 oMAH JAP BASES IN WAY AAIDS    Bomb Shanghai, Nanking and ~ Qmura on Island of Kyushu.

NEGROES FOR PRECINCT UNIT   Houston Group Is First Organized In South

CIO Action Is Defended By Hillman   Congressman’s Charges  That Anti-Strike Law  - Has Been Violated Are Denied By Committee

PREPARED TO GIVE INFORMATION ASKEL   CIO Political Ac Action Committee Charged With Law Violation.

Bulgaria Calls Up  Reserves   Curtew Is Set For Sotia While Nazi Pour In

Early Curfew Is Ordered In Sofia   Attempt To Control Panic of Population

BULGARIA CALLS ARMY RESERVES   Curfew Invoked in Sofia as Panic Mounts

Call Reserve Officers to Quiet Bulgars   Six O'Clock Curfew Is Ordered in Move to  Control Panic

'Bulgaria Calls Up Ail Reserve Officers, Orders 6 P.M. Curfew in Sofia to Control Panicky Population

Red Troops Rip Into Nazi.Lines  Near Lake Pskov   Campaign To Destroy 300,000 Germans Greatly Intensified

Third Baltic Army Takes Offensive ‘To Break Enemy's Main Defense Line

300,000 NAZIS MAY BE TRAPPED IN BALTIC AREF   New Russian Drive Breaks Through Main Defenses

REDS SQUEEZE 300,000 NAZIS HELD IN TRAP   Baltic Pocket Grows Smaller As 2Soviet Armies Attack

Soviet Forces Seek To Destroy 300,000 Germans Trapped In Latvia And Estonia

REDS INTENSIFY PLANS AGAINST TRAPPED NAZIS   Tanks, Infantry Rip Deep Into Enemy Below Lake Pskov

ADVANCE IN BALTIC AREA   Drive to Destroy 300,000 Germans Is Intensified

Jap Navy Flees As Strong Force Makes Bold Dash   “Attacks Continue” On Islands Only 460 Miles From Philippines and 1055 Miles Beyord Truk. Where MacArthur’s Planes Strike.

MISSISSIPPI AT RECORD HEIGHT   Father Of Waters Stands At Highest Flood Stage In 100 Years

RIVER LEVEL iS HIGHEST IN CENTURY   MISSISSIPPI! NEAR 100-YEAR WIGH WATER MARK AT  ST. LOUIS—LEVEES  .  BREAKING...

Siege of Hengyang Is Broken   Chinese Throw Jap Forces into 25-Mile Retreat; End in Sight of Saipan; MacArthur Hops Again

Chinese Break Hengyang Siege   Japanese Thrown Into 25 Mile Retreat By Chinese

Nips Menacing Central China Are in Retreat   Sudden Change Is Severe Blow to Only Offensive of Enemy

Chinese End Siege Of Hengyang With Smashing Victory   Americans Close In For  Kill Of Japs On Saipan

Chinese Break Hengvang Grip   Throw Japs Into 25 Mile Retreat. Menacing HankowCanton Railway.

CHINESE JAPANESE BACK   Break Seige Of Hengyang, Force Nips To Retreat; Saipan Drive Nears Climax

CHINA’S TROOPS GAIN VICTORY AGAINST JAPS   Seven Years Of War Crowned By Chinese

Nips Hurled Back From  Rail City    Ally Saves Rail Line. Balking Biggest Enemy Threat

Chinese Force 25-Mile Loss On Enemy Army   Hengyang Siege Broken; Hankow-Cauton Railway  Menace -Is Removed

Chinese Break Hengyang Siege   Stunning Defeat Hurls Japanese Into 25-Mile Retreat; Enemy Attempt To Cut China In Two Is Thwarted.

CHINESE BREAK HENGYANG HOLD BY JAP FORCES   Stunning Blow on Anniversary of Oriental War. Ul-Fated End For Troops on Saipan

Big Jap Army Thrown Into Swift Retreat   China Crowns Seven Years of War With Feat. As Pacific News Bad for Nips

JAPANESE ARMY FORCED TO FALL BACK 25 MILES   AMERICANS LAND ON MANIM ISLE; END OF SAIPAN BATTLE NEAR

PUSH JAPS OU OF HENGYANE   Nip Troops Driven Back 25 Miles; Saipan Fight Ending

Great Jap Army Thrown Back 25 Miles As Siege Of Henagyanag Is Broken

“Chinese Gain Smashing Victory In Breaking ‘The Siege of Hengyang

Stunning Blow Handed Tokyo Warlords as Yanks Drive Enemy on Saipan Into Corner for Annihilation—Five More Ships Sunk by U.S. Naval Forcein Attack on Bonin Islands

Siege of Hengyang’ Lifted; Today's War News Bad for Jans   End of Operations on Saipan is Near; More Jap Ships Sunk

GHINESE BREAK HENYANG SIEGE, DRIVE JAPS BACK   Crown Seven Years of War With Sudden Stunning Victory

CHINESE BREAK JAPANESE SIEGE OF HENGY ANG   Push Nips Back 25 Miles; Offer Civilians on Saipan Sanctuary

BESIEGERS OF . HENG! YANG ARE ‘THROWN. BACK         cope ‘Forced To - Retreat. -Twentya ena V on ea :   CHINESE. WINNERS   Offer Nip ‘Civilians On Saipan Escdoe -. - Route.-

DEEPEST PENETRATION SCORED: NAZIS ATTACK AT CARENTAN, CAEN AND MONTEBOURG   Situation on Cherbourg Peninsula Fluid, With German Tanks Forcing Changes in Battle Line at Some Points

ARMORED UNITS STRIVE 10 HALT ALLIED ADVANGE   Invasion Forces Capture Caumont, 20 Miles in Normandy

PRESIDENT OF PHILIPPINES DIES IN NEW YORK   Death Followed Long Illness Since Escape Rrom Japs ir  Homeland.

QuezonDies At Saranac   President Of Philippines Hac Suffered Several Years

Pres. Quezon Of Philippines Dies Today   Chief Executive of Islands Was in Poor Health Lone Time

Drive To Within Two Miles Of Coutances Today   TANK OFFENSIVE ENTERS 4TH DAY   Slashing Forward Under Mighty Umbrella Of Dive Bombers

Bradley's Men Crack Nazis in 15-Mile Advance   Panicky Enemy Retreats Before Big Tank Push

BREAKTHRU IS EXTENDED ON TS-MILE FRONT   Germans Hammered Southward In Chaotic General Retreat

FRENCH CITY OF. COUTANCES IS NEXT OBJECTIVE   Brilish Continue at Stalemate West and South of Caen; Canadians Help Smash : Counter-Attaeks

May Wipe Out 7 German Divisions By Flank Thrust   Battered Foe In General Retreat Toward Coutances;  U.S. Breakthrough Now 15 Miles Tleen

American Troops Only Two Miles From Coutances; Germans Appear To Be In Panicky Retreat.

Americans On Leyte Encounter Almost Im passable Muck And Bitter Japanese Re sistance After Liberating Eleven Town: Tn Canteal Philinnines

YANKS PUSH . FORWARD IN. HEAVY MUCK   Australian Writer, Meanwhile, Says Americans Have Secured a Bridgehead on Samar. Island to the North.

Fifth Isle Reported Invaded   MacArthur’s Tanks Said to Have Landed on Samar, the Link to Luzon   11 TOWNS, 3 ISLANDS ALREADY LIBERATED   Tough Going in Swamps; Japs Make Bitter Stand Near Palo

Battle Muck And Bitter Jap  Resistance   Eleven Towns Liberated ; Tank Unit Establishes Another Island Beachead

11 TOWNS IN PHILIPPINES GET RELEASE   But Americans Finding It Harder Going Because of More Jap Resistance, Mud

7th Division Takes Airfield At SanPablo   Tacloban-Palo Road Entirely in American  Hands

Leyte Going Tough   Yanks Grind Out Gains Against Mud and Stiff Jap Resistance; Landing On Samar Reported.

Battle Japanese  In Mud on Leyte   Americans Drive Ahead “Against Bitter Resistance on Island   SIDE TRIP TO SAMAR?   Melbourne Bridgehead Re_ port Is Without Confirmation

Eleven Towns in Central Part of Philippines Have Been Liberated by Advancing Troops.   JAPANESE RETREAT IN SOME SECTORS

ft Towns Fall To Americans In Philippine Push.  Bloody Japanese Counterthrusts _

Allies Drive On Against Mud And Japs   Palo and Dulag Anchors For Potential Trap for Part Of 16th Nip Division

Eleven Towns  Liberated By U.S. Troops   Bitter Jap Resistance and Almost impassable Muck Slow Advance in Philippines; Australian Reports Bridgehead on Samar Isle

YANKS THREATEN ENTRAPMENT OF JAPS ON LEYTE   ADVANCE TOWARD DULAG, TACLOBAN ON EASTERN COAST

REPORT YANKS SMASHED INTO SAMAR ISLAND   Drive Through Muck, Bitterly Resisting Japanese on Leyte

U. S. Forces Get Foothold On Link Between Leyte And Luzon; Opposition Bitter

Yankee Forces On Leyte Advance Through Tough Terrain, Jap Resistance

Yanks Liberate Eleven Towns on Leyte Island   Potential Trap Is Forming Result of Recent Gains; Stiff Opposition Renorted

American Land Forces Free 11 Towns on Leyte   Melbourne Newspaper Correspondent Reports American Landing On Samar Island

Yanks Capture I] Towns On Leyte Island, Make New Gains Through Mud   AMERICAN STH ARMY TROOPS THREATEN SEVERANCE OF PO VALLEY MAIN ARTERY

FLEEING JAPS LEAVE BEER AND SAKI USED IN WELCOMING CELEBRATION BY NATIVES —

T1 Towne in’ ‘Philippines: t By Yanks = New Pros gress on Leyte.

ELEVEN TOWNS ARE LIBERATED   Yanks Drive Ahead on Leyte Through Almost Im- ~  passable Muck. 4   INEW LANDING REPORTED

a ee ee ace ae ee a a ee a a ae   YANKS: YANKS BATTLE FORWARD IN MUCK ; i  DO BO OB BOO siaianigladicial  11 TOWNS IN PHILIPPINES LIBERATED

Resistance, Mud Check 6th Army In Philippines  Manavyu Eauinment Raa:   Heavy Equipment Bog: Down; List 11 Towns Already Liberated By Advancing Troops

U.S. Forces Continue To Drive Ahead   Advance Through Muck And Bitterly Resisting Japanese

BALTIC ARMIES CHOPPED INTO ISOLATED UNITS   Four Soviet Forces Riddle German Defenses On 200Mile Front

GERMANS REEL BAGK BEFORE SOVIET DRIVE   Massive Red Army Riddles Ai Nazi Defenses Along 200-Mile Front Through Estonia And  Totus   FOUR SOVIET ARMIES ATTACKING GERMANS

herman Baltic Forces Face Encirclement   Sovicts Hurl Four eArmies into Attack To Chop Up Enemy

Campaign To Liberate The Baltic States Is Nearly Won  TRAP ENEMY INTO _ DOOMED POCKETS  Launch Big Assault On _ Warsaw, Foothold 500 Yards Deep In City

Riga, Tallinn Goal of Four Red Column:   Army at Leningrad Freed by Surrender Of Finnish Forces

«PLANS FOR PACIFIC   Nimitz Holds Conference .on- New Operations

Montreal Aix Crash Fires Houses, 16 Die   Europe-Bound ‘Liberator Mows Down Riverfront Homes

‘Nazi Airfields In France ‘Hit By U.S. Bombs; Aerial Invasion Continues 12th Day

AIRFIELDS HIT IN 12TH DAY OF ALLIED BLOWS   B 12.000 Tons of Explosives Dropped On Germany in : Last 36 Hours 

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  oe Be Be ie  Bac Ce 0 os ee hecees Risaesthe

Drop 12,000 Tons Of Explosives On Nazis In 36 Hours   Pre-Invasion Hammering Of Europe Continues With No Sign Of Letup   FRIEDRICHSHAFEN LEFT SEA OF FLAMES

ROBOT-PLANE NESTS BOMBED   American Forces Carry Out Widespread Raids

German Robot Nests Raided  By Americans   Two Other Yank Missions Blast Hitler’s Crumbling Transportation Syslem   Fr rance Invasion Plotted As  Early As °40, It Is Revealed

Attacks Renewed On Rocket Ramps   Assault Made As Flying Bombs Fall On England

KAP. wings out to pound robot ramps  Nazis end lull in flying bomb war

R.A.F. wings out to pound robot ramps  - Nazis end lull in — f{lvinge bomb war

Americans Blast Flying-Bomb Nests in France  Robot Bombs Fall Again After Tall af 18 Mavec

Count 8,288 dead Japs on  two islands Heavy fighting  raves, Peleliu

Tropical Storm In Atlantic   Striking Point Not Certain; All Atlantic Coast Braces For Hurricane.

As Long as We Live Under Our Present Code Of Ethics, There'll Always Be War, Says Captain

Allies Launch New Greek © Invasion; British Battle Toward Borders of Reic

Allies Open Second Battle of Greece   Invade Mainland by Air and Sea; Seize Airfields

Air-Sea Forces Launch Second Battle OrGreece   Several Airfields Reported Seized: Land Forees Enter Port Of Patrai

MAINLAND OF GREECE UNDER ALLIED ATTACK   Invasion Opens Final Phase of Liberation of Balkans from Nazi Grip.

MAINLAND IS... ‘ NVADED BY ~-AIR-AND SEI   Latid. Forces ¢ of Adriatic Enter Medieval + Port'of Patrai -

TAKE LANDIN FIELDS, DRIVE INTO PATRAI   Fourth of Peloponneses Believed Captured, Surrender Ultimatum Sent to Germans.

Air And Sea Forces Seize Several Airfields, Capture Nearly All Of Peloponnesus   Jnvasion Opens Final Phase Of Liberation Of Southern Balkans, Menacing Nazis Still Fighting In Albania, Yugoslavia

Virtually Whole Of Peloponneses, Nearly Quarter Of Greek Mainland, Is Believed Already In Allied Hands   LAST STRONGHOLD ON PENINSULA ENTERED

OF PATRAI IS ENTERED   Most Of Peloponnesus Area Is Seized By British Troops

Allies Land Large Foree In Greece   Surrender Ultimatum Re. ported Given Germans By Invaders

elake Airfields, Drive on Strone “Port of Patrai   British Paratroops, Avenging 1941 Losses, First to Swarm Down

Invasion Forces Drive Into Patrai, Peloponnesus Port;  ‘Put Airfields In Operation

‘YUne-Fourth of Greek Mainland Already In Allied Hands  PRINCIPAL GREEK POKT IS CAPTUKED  No Opposition Encountered In Early Stages Of Invasion

Invaders Drive Into Fortified Port of Patrai   Peloponnesus Now Virtually Under Control of Allies

Advance Made Into Fortified Port of Patrai   All of Peloponneses Reported Virtually In Control of Allies

Port of Patrai, Airfields Taken In First Attack   Invasion Opens Final Phase of Freeing Balkans

Air, Sea Units Grip Peloponnesus Cape   Bold Strike Perils 100,000 Nazis; Planes Land on Captured Airfields

LANDINGS BEGIN LAST PHASE OF BALKAN BATTLE   Report Allies Control Most Of Lower  Poeninanla

Patrai Is Entered By  Invaders   Allied Forces Believed In Control Of Most Of Peloponneses In Their   Northern Drive

GQaanar oo e ssn eeeeneane sh,  “MV oe <iniver” Loses T .%0n to Bees

Seventy-Five  Take Physicals   Three Busses Take County Men to Indianapolis—No Unit Change

Guam Invaders Take Hill Above Town of Agat  Tojo Is Retired to Jap Reserved List; Yap Bombed Again

14 Missing From Crashed Plane   Wreckaye Sighted In North Pacify   12 Killed in Florida Bomber Crash   HELD IN GEM THEFT   SARBEDINS DRAFT ¢ ASE   PRESIDENT LAUGHS--WITH OR AT?

Winds Fall; Weather Is Moderating   Roads. Being Opened All Over State — Highway 71 Now Open

ONLY ONE-WAY OPENINGS FOR SOME ROUTES   Five Deaths in This State Blamed On March Storm. — Many Draftees Were Stalled.

NAZI WITHDRAWAL IN ITALY REPORTED   GERMANS SAID TO BE FALLING BACK TOWARD ALPS AND BRENNER PASS.

Weather Delays Harvesting of Crops; 2400 Bales Cotton Ginned In Tahoka; Grain Shipments Here Reach 220 Cars

New Order Issued On Gill Nets   Permits Will Be Given To Fishermen To Use 234 Inch Mesh Nets Until October 9

FURIOUS BATTLES AAGE IN CLOUDS   Marks Second Straight Day: light Raid on Capital   49 U. S. PLANES LOST   Total of 119 German Fight. ers Reported Bagged; Nazis Crash Bombers

Jap Islands In Pacific Are Bombed   Carolines Group Is Again Hit By New Assaults From Air

Airmen Batter Jap Bases lin Central Pacific   Neutralization Campaign Is Carried Out

Mediterranean Allied Air Force Shoots Down 750 Enemy Planes in July

WORLD‘ TREND  -. S ASSAILED   C.'OF C,. PRESWENT. SAYS “TITTANIC” STRUGGLE  BE. TWEEN ECONOMIC:

PARLEY CALLED ON MEMORIAL   Park At Harpers Ferry Wil Be Discussed At Con ference Tuesday

72 Pledged Delegates; 70 Unpledged   IS RULE FOR’ ELECTION IN PENNSYLVANIA TODAY; DEMOCRATS FOR FOURTH TERM, REPUBLICANS UNINSTRUCTED.   186 Members

COP Write-In Vote Will Be Eyed in State   State Organization Leans Toward Dewey; Light Vote Expected

STRONG SOVIET “COLUMNS PUSH FOR BUG RIVER   German Escape Route Along Odessa-Lwow Railroad Latest Target

BUG RIVER NEW RED OBJECTIVE   Seize Five-Way Rail ‘Junction Slaughter of Nazis In Trap Near End

ET FORCES RACE TOWARD BUG RIVER   Seek to Block Nazi Escape in Ukranian Offensive

Russian Mobile Forces Racing For Bug Rive   Seek To Cut Off German Escape Route After Seizing Shepetovks   REDS BIG GUNS POUND KORSUN

Martin Predicts Peace and Sanity   Declares GOP Will Restore Prosperity

eerv,  “1S “$ 2e03.e's War, ” * Farin Save, ~ AS ing. 2 Aims in —ouse

Interest Lagging In Primaries © Spee TE EEE  Small Vote Expected To Be Cast In County Next Monday

nterest Lagging In Primaries Small Vote Expected To Be Cast In County Next Monday

No Interest  In Primaries Now Only 10 Days Distant   Average Man In The Street Unaware Of Approaching Contest For Few Offices

Chinese Reds Tell Progress Against Japs   Report Broadcast Over Chungking Censorship; Record Is Outstanding °

ANOTHER DEMOGRAT IN GOVERNOR RACE   James W. Huffman Tosses Hat In Ohio Ring

BOY MAY BE SAVED BY LIE-DETECTOR   Instrument Backs Him Up In Denial of Killing

FOX RIDGE'S “BASS LAB” OPENED   More Than 60 Fish Caught in Ridge Lake Wednesday

Yanks Reach Outskirts of Lessay Citadel In France   BY LEWIS HAWKINS

Latest Move Extends East Front   Advance Soviet Units Now Are Only 20 Miles From Prussia

REDS OPEN ~NEW DRIVE IN POLAND   Barricades Going: Up As- Ruse sians Push Enemy Nearer “to German Soil - _.;   [RAIL LINE THREATENED.

Reds Extend Front Into South Poland   Their Offensive in North Challenges Last-Ditch String of Forts Guarding Junker Homeland, Only 20 Miles  Away. —_,.,   Russians Strike From Northeast Of Tarnopol, 20 Miles From Lwow

OF NEW ORWE   Say Russians Have Launched Offensive in South Poland.   /REDS ADVANCE IN NORTH

Strike In South P oland   Nazis Report Drive Is Aimed at Lwow; Reds Less Than 20 Miles  From Prussian Border

Long Expected Offensive In South Poland Menaces Forts Guarding Prussia

SOVIETS OPE POLISH DRIVE   New Push Surges Forward Near Luck; Grodno Under Fire

Russians Launch Great Offensive In South Poland   Reds At North Of 500-Mile Front But 20 Mis. From Border Of Fast Piwesis!

South Poland ° Scene of Drive ‘Against Germans   Soviet Troopers Keep Up Swift Pace Along Front

Tarnopol And Luck Sectors  Of Red Action   Extends to S00 Miles Front Which in North Challenges Last Defenses to German Homeland   Brest-Litovsk Flank Threatens   Russians, Silent on New  Drive, Continue Breakeck Pace Through  Wavering Nazi Defenses

20 MILES NOW TO PRUSSIA BY NORTHERN WA\   500-Mile Front Challenges Last Ditch String of Forts Guardine Junker Homeland

Five Russian  Armies Push Westward   ‘Germany Says Long Expected Tttack in Tarnopol Area Started

Nazi Announcement Says Russians Are Striking From Northwest Of Tarnopol; Northern Drive Only 20 Miles From East Prussia

SAY SOVIETS: STRIKE INTO SQUTHPOLAND   Such a Blow Would Pose Southern Flanking Threat to Brest-Lito« vsk, Anchor of German Bug River Defenses...

ARE NEAR FOE’S SOIL   Soviet Offensive In Tarnopol Sector  Is Under Way

Nazis Report Offensive South Poland Under Way   Nazis Prepare to Defend Grodno, Already Under Artillery Fire, and Bialystok. Brest Litovsk Street by Street

Reds Launch ‘New Push In South Poland   Soviet Smash In North Carries Almost To East  Priecia Rorder.

POSE THREAT 10 BREST-LITOVSK ON WARSAW ROAD   CONTINUE SWIFT DRIVE THROUGH BALTIC STATES

Reds Open  New Drive   Berlin Says Southern Pokind Offensive Finaily Launched

Nazis Tell of Attack in South   Russians Are Reported — to Have Extended Front to 500 Miles   STILL PUSHING ON :. IN THE NORTH   Germans “Erecting Street Barricades in Plan to Defend 3 Kev Points

EXTE TO 500 MILES IN BIG PUSH   eep Up Break-neck Pace In Baltic States   GERMAN BORDER   .ess Than 20 Miles Ahead Of Onrushing Soviets; Report Other Gains

Armies Storm Front Guarding Fast Prussic   Russians Striking Or Broad Front In Southern Poland

Russ Launch Drive on South Polanc   Nazi ‘Last Ditch’ Forts Periled as Army Nears Prussia

Last-Ditch Fort String Being Tied Into Battle   Suwalki District Is Struck; Soviets Near Prussia

Soviets Start Offensive in South Poland   Active Russian Line Extends 500’Miles; East Prussia Only 20. Miles from Advancing Reds - :

Russians Maintain “Break-Neck Pace in Drive Against Foe   Berlin Reports Reds’ Front Extended to Over 500 Miles

REDS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH POLAND   500 Mile Front Is Challenge  To Germany

\Red Army Strikes Between Tarnopol And Luck; Grodno Is Under Artillery Fire   ¥ortress Guards Approaches To East Prussia; Gaping Breaches In German Lines On Many Parts Of Front; Soviets Gain 23 Miles A Day

Offensive On In Southern Poland   Reds Launch New Drive While Continuing Dash for East Prussia   GRODNO IS UNDER FIRE   London Radio Says Nazis Dismount Koenigsberg Installations

Germans Report Soviets Strike in Vicinity of Lwow   New Offensive Is Aimed at Warsaw From the Southeast: forward in Baltice

Keep Up Pace In Baltics By Terrific Drive   Encounter Wavering Defenses Of Nazis In Drive To Prussia

Soviet Front ixtended to 500 Miles Now   Red Army Less Than Twenty Miles From Kast Prussia as Whole Front Flames

New Offensive by Russians Is  Admitted Today   Germans Announce That the Reds Have Launched New Drive in Southern Poland on 500-mile Front.

NEW OFFENSIVE IN SOUTHERN » POLAND LENGTHENS LINE TO OVER 500 MILES IN EAST   Reds Keep Up Break-Neck Pace on Baltic BattleFront and Move on Toward Est Prussia. German Fortress of Konigsberg Being Dismantled

PUSH BEGUNIN SOUTH POLAND   Other Reds Roll Ahead Near Grodno To Hit 20 Miles From East Prussia

Germans Declare Russians Launch South Poland Push   Tarnopol Drive Would Make Front 500 Miles Long

Attack Extends Front Over 50) Miles   Assault In Southern Poland Made From Near Tarncpol

Hundreds of Allied Bombers Hammer French Invasion Coast   Second Day of Attack by American and [British Bombers.

PRICE CONTROL ACTION ASKED   G. O. P. LEADER MARTIN REQUESTS LEGISLATION

GOP Leader Would Keep Price Rule   Price Control Necessary, He Says, Urging Haste In Considering Law

KEEP PRICE CONTROL, CONGRESS IS ASKED   House Leader Calls Calls for Speedy Action

MARTIN BACKS PRICE CONTROL   Says Congress Must Act To Prolong Life of O.P.A.

Crosby Hypnotizes Death Snake Ten Thousand Miles Away: Saves a Life

Attention Sinatra Bing Sends Snake Into Swoon From Ten Thousand Mi. Away

Foreign Workers In Ruhr. Rhine Given Instructions   Allied Broadcast Tells Them That The “Time Has Come’ For This Precise Guidance As They Are Told What To Do When German Armies Are Driven Out

YANKS DRIVING NAZIS SLOWLY TOWARD ROER   Two More Towns ‘laken; Battle In Streets Of 4 Others

INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN NAZI» FORCED LABOR   Allies Tell. Foreign Workers What to Do

Heavy Bombers Blast Path  for Offensive ltalian-Based Craft   lialian -Based Craft Swarm Over Hungary, Yugoslavia

“Work Or Fight’ Bill To Pass If President Gives Approval, Says Brewster      FDR Likely To Await Labor Shortage Report

Party Votes To Seat Two Delegations   Stevenson’s Elector Plan Called Sleaal

Three Members of Congress Suppor Marshall Raters  “Det end $ _... About een

Marshall: Defended On His Labor View   Members Of Congress Speak Out !n Supporting Army Chief Of Staff

Union Chiefs Offered Free Trips To Frontline War Zones To Learn View Of Soldiers On Labor Strikes

Strike Threats Prolong War, Leaders Insist   Congressmen Back ‘High Official’  To Answer Green

Assert True Strikes Aid U.S. Enemies   THREE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DEFEND STATEMENT ATTRIBUIED FD -GENT. MIARSHAT} ,: REED RAPS PRESIDENT.   Reply to Pres. Green

DEFEND VIEWS ON LABOR LAID 10 MARSHALL   Three Congressmen Jphold Statement As Dispute Grows

Statement About Strikes Defended by  3 Lawmakers   Suggest Union Leaders Who Doubt Charges Be Taken to Fronts  To Get Soldier Reaction  PEOPLE KNOW TRUTH VERMONTER ASSERTS  Reed Says President Should Have Spoken  - An S@uivect Tange Avo

STRIKES ASSAILED BY THREE SOLONS   Statement Regarding Ef. fect on the War Effort Defended

NEW INVASION MAY BEGIN IN NORTH AFRICA   150,000 TO 200,000 MEN REPORTED SET TO JUMP OFF

CORSICA VIEWED AS SPRINGBOARD FOR INVASION   German Commentator Says Allies Have 15 Divisions In North Africa   MESSAGE BROADCAST TO OCCUPIED NATIONS

PREDICTS ALLIED BLOW AT EUROPE’S SOUTHERN FLANK   Nazi Commentator Says 15 Divisions in North Africa Will Strike at French or Italian Riviera.   D-DAY NOT FAR OFF, BRITISH ADMIRAL AVERS   Turkey Reported Likely to Move Into War Against Axis Powers When Signal Is Given.

Gigantic Thrust At South France May Be Planned   Attacks Likely From All Sides

Germans Predict Blow From Africa   Nazi Claims 15 Alhed  Divisions Poised There

Crooksville Man Kills Wife, 4 Children with Axe as They Sleep  ‘l Thought  Was Doing Best Thing’,

Senate Set for Tax Bill Vote  All Phases But Renegotiation  Disposed Of

“BIG FOUR” IRK LATIN AMERICA   Exclusion From Conference Stirs Fear Of Powers Following War

SENATE READY FOR SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDIES   Barkley Rejects Suggestion CCC be Extended Temporarily to Per mif Longer Debate

Senate Takes Up Food Subsidies  Another Hot Potato Like Soldier Vote

Truman Favors Power Projects Similar To TVA   Says Power Dams Will Help Solve Problem Of Flood Control

Dewey Charges Incompetence as FDR Cries Distortion in Closing Talks of Campaign   GOP Candidate Says Blundering of Morgenthau Has Postponed Day of Victory by Months, While Roosevelt Deplores What He Calls Distortion

Dewey Says Roosevelt © Prolongs War; Republicans Falsify, Roosevelt Says _

President Declares He Is Anxious to Wii Because of “Misrepresentation, Distortion and Falsehood” in Talks

‘Campaign of Lies Decried By Roosevelt   President Flays G.0,P, in Closing Speech at Boston

FDR Calls For Fifty Million  Votes Tuesday   President Says Never Been ‘Such Misrepresentation, Falsehood.’   FINAL MAJOR TALK

Roosevelt Declares He Is ‘Anxious’ to Win the Election   Says Never in His Lifetime Has He Seen a Campaign Filled With Such ‘Misrepreseniation, Distortion, Falsehand’

FDR CHARGES GOP PLAYS UP INTOLERANCE   Distortion, Falsehood In Campaign, He Says in Boston

President Calls For 50 Million Votes Tuesday   FDR Points Out GOP Inconsistency In Campaign Talk

FOR MAKES FINAL MAJOR ADDRESS   Calls for at Least 50,000,000 Votes on Tuesday; Declares Himself Anxious to Win; Speaks in Boston

Intolerance Is Alleged By President   Appeal Made for Vote of 50,000,000 Or More Tuesday

FDR Asks: 50. 000. ,000. Votes. Tuesday; Eagerness To Win Incited By Foe’s Campaion-

PRESIDENT SAYS GOP PARTY HAS AVOIDED FACTS   Thousands of P $ Hear Chief Executive in Closing Address at Boston

Charges Efforts To Stir Religious, Racial Intolerance   President Says No Campaigr In His Lifetime So Filled With Falsehood

SAYS DEWEY LACKS TRUST IN AMERICA   President Charges GOP Working on Both Sides

Nation’s Chief Asks For Fifty Million Votes   Assails Dewey Campaign As One of Misrepresentation, Distortion and Falsecliood   Works Both Sides ‘Of Street, He Says   Denounces Before Boston  Crowd Attempts To Stim ulate Racial and Keligious Intolerance

CALLS FOR a MILLION VOTE: NEXT TUESDAY   FDR Declares He Is Anxious to Win Because of Dirty Campaign.

FDR Accuses Dewey of Lack of Trust in Nation In Last Major Speech

Roosevelf Calls For Record Vote In 44 Election  Final Major Speech Palivarad At Racbhan

40,000 CHEERING BOSTONIANS JAM FENWAY PARK   Points To GOP Reference To Both Communism, Monarchy; Asks ‘Which Is It’

FD. R. WINDS UP CAMPAIGN BEFORE 40,000 IN BOSTON   President Tells Cheering Throng He Desires to Win Because of Misrepresen . tation by G. O. P.   CALLS FOR TURNOUT OF 50,000,000 VOTERS   Not Since 19278, He Asserts, Have There Been So Many Attempts to Stir Up  Intolerance _

Roosevelt Calls For Huge Vote   Distortion Is Charged In Final Major Address Of His Campaign

F.D.R. Wants Win Owing to G. 0. P. Tactics   Campaign Filled With. Distortion, Falsehood And Misrepresentation,  President Charaes

Fourth Term Pledges Hit Record Total  Connecticut. Utah   Connecticut, Utah Democrats Vote To Back President

onnecticut,  tah Join Parade or Roosevelt Boost Delegate  a I a   Boost Delegate Strength to Record Total of 906 Votes

Connecticut, Utah Add Support To Fourth Term  Roosevelt Has Record Total -¢h send  i

Connecticut, Utah Add Support  To Fourth Term   Roosevelt Has Record  Fotal of 906  Pledged Delegates

VOTES PILE UP FOR ROOSEVELT   Fourth Termers Emerge Victors In Utah And Connecticut

Fourth Term Convention Votes Pile Up for FDR   Convention Delegate Strength Now Record Breaking Total of 906

NEWVOTE BILL   Senator Will Introduce Service Personnel Legislation en Monday.

Absentee Vote Bill Offered   Senator Lucas Presents Measure In Place Of Leave-lt-To-States.

LUCAS OFFERS NEW ABSENTEE VOTING MEASURE   Iilinian Says Im Man Can Stop A Bullet He Should Be Able to Vote

New Absentee Vote Bill For Soldiers To Supplant Plan Of State Balloting

SOLDIER VOTE BILL WILL BE OFFERES MON,   Illinois Senator. Against State Ballot Plan

New Absentee Soldier Vote Bill Proposed   Senator Lucas Offers Substitute For State-Ballot Plan.

LUCAS REVISES AGT TO ASSURE SOLDIERS VOTE   Seaetor Revamps Bill to Give Those In Service   Chance to Take Part ; Tn Elections

NEW ABSENTEE SOLDIER VOTE BILL OFFERED   ILLINOIS SENATOR TO INTRODUCE A REVISED PROPOSAL

New Service Voting Bill Is Prepared  Powers Of Federal  Ballot Commission 26 8S Pb Phd tnd

Senator Lucas Offers New Absentes Vote Bill To Aid Service Personnel Ballot

Flack-Searred Fortress Veteran Of 48 Missions Over Europe Back in US.

Japanese Forces Attack Hengyang   Kev City In Hunan Provinee Rice Bowl Again Under Jap Assault

Japanese Pilots Not as Good as They Used to Be, Bong, Pacific Ace, Tells Rickenbacker   By William K. Higginbotham United Presa Stialff Cerrespendcu   Rw TRarmrenbp Perae

Storm Is. General in New Mexico  , Show. Everywhere... : " Bot NE Carner

Railroad Wreck Kills Fivein Northern Arizona   26 to 40. Injured . As Streamliner Lurches Into Ditch

Train Plunges From Rails, 5 Dead, 50 Hurt   12 Cars, Engine of Santa Fe Chief Wrecked Rounding Curve in Arizona Indian Country, Army, Navy Give First Aid; Actress Hurt

Five Killed, 26 Injured In Wreck Of Crack Train   ‘Santa Fe’s Chief Leaves Rails On Curve In Northern  Arizona: Film Starlet Among Those Hurt; Repair Work Is Speeded

1,220 JAP SHIPS LOST IN MONTH   At Least 10,000 Nipponese Wiped Out In Palaus

JAP SHIPPING HIT HARDEST IN SEPTEMBER   1,220 Vessels Sunk Or Damaged Last Month; Palau Secured

JAP SHIPPING LOSSES MOUNT   Yankees Establish Firm Con. trol Over Palaus

MONTH'S TOLL OF JAP SHIPS REACHES 1.20   okyo Loses Record Number During September; ourth  v. S. Air Base alken.

a8 OCEAN GOING, sus DESTAOIE   American Sea And Air _ Attacks Deal Severe - Blow To Nips   CHINA NEWS BAD   U. S. Air Forces Forced . To Give Up Fourth Advanced Base

Japanese Air, Sea Losses In Month At Peak  1,220 Vessels Sunk Or Damaged; Total

1220 JAPANESE SURFACE. CRAFT ‘HIT BY ALLIES   Were Either Destroyed ot Damaged Last Month, Allies Announced.’   303 OCEAN-GOING SHIPS   Were Definitely Sunk, It Was Disclosed hy the Allies Today.

1,220 Jap Surface Ships Destroyed by Allies During Sept   Total Includes 303 Ocean Going Craft; Air Base in China Lost

303 Oceangoing Vessels Sent to Bottom by Allies   Yank Air Forces . In China Lose 4th Advanced Field

Allies Strike Territiec Blow  AtJapShipping   fotal Of 1,220 Surface Craft Reported Destroved In Month

1,220 Nippon Vessels. Sunk Or Damaged During Month   303 Ocean: Goin x ‘Ships. Destroyed 

SINK 1,220 NIP SURFACE CRAFT IN SEPTEMBER   Japs Captured Fourth U. S. Air Base in Chinese Advance

Report Reveals 303 Ocean Craft Definitely Sunk   Top Total For One Month; _.._ China Says Aid Lacking; Philippines Entry Seen

1220 Japanese Vessels Sunk During Month   Nips Hurt Most By Loss of © 803 Large Shins

Great Destruction Of Jap Ships in September   American Air Forces Lose Their  Fourth Advanced Base in China

1,220 Jap Ships Sunk, Damaged in September, Yanks Lose China Base   Marines Mop Up Foe In Palaus, Hold Nine Isles

Allies Destroy or Damage 1200 Aip Ships in Sept  Chinese Bitter Over Lack Of Allied Aid

1,220 JAP SHIPS DESTROYED OR DAMAGED LAST MONTH “INCLUDING 303 OCEAN GOING SHIPS SUNK

Many Jap Ships Are Destroyed During Month  U. §. Air Force Loses Advanced Denn ‘a Mbhinn

But at Least 1, 0 Jap cos Craft Are Wrecked   Include 303 Ocean. Going Ships Reported As Definitely Sunk.

1,220 Japanese Vessels Damaged Or Sunk in Month   303 Were OceanGoing Ships Known Sent to Bottom

1.220 Jap Craft Ruined in Month   Record Loss Hurts Nips—Fourth Allied Chinese Air Base Lost

JAPANESE LOST 1,220 SURFACE CRAFT LAST MONTH REPORT SHOWS  AMERICAN AIR FORCES IN CHINA LOST THEIR FOURTH AIR BASE TO JAPS

JAPANESE LOST 1220 SHIPS IN THIRTY DAYS —   Firm Control O: Nine Islands Is Reported

Jap Shipping Toll Terrific   1.220 Surface Crafl Blastedt Last Month

1,220 Jap Shins Lost Last Month   Terrific Losses Suffered By Enemy

1,220 Ships Sunkby Yanks  in September   Number Inclues 303 Transports; A. A. F. in China Loses Fourth Base

AP SHIPPING TOLL (5 HEAVY   At Least 1,220 Vessels Are ’ Destroyed Or Damaged in Month.   303: DEFINITELY SUNK

TAKE BIG TOLL OF JAP SHIPS   1,220 Smashed In Month. Including 303 Oceangoing Craft

1,220 JAP VESSELS HIT LAST MONTH   Recapitulation for September Shows Toll Includes 303 Ocean-Going Ships Listed as Definitelv Sunk.

MILITARY PROGRAM STUDY WILL START   Army and Navy to Work With Experts on PostWar Command

Nimitz Believes Seven Other Ships Destroyed By Naval Flyers   Attack on Island Base Costs U. S. 17 Planes, One Ship Is Damaged; New Aerial Blows Struck at Rabaul Region

\Pacific Fleet Repays Part of Pearl Harbor Debt, Nimitz Announces 

/CROSSLEY POLITICAL POLL    Attitudes Of ’ Roosevelt And Dewey Voters Comparec Re Archibald M. Crossley - ¥

US. Stens Up Navy Raids On Marshalls   Nearly 50 Attacks on Islands This Year to Be Further Increased

STEP UP RAIDS ON MARSHALLS   NAVY ANNOUNCES NINE‘NEW BLOWS AGAINST 6 ATOLLS

INCREASE U.S. PLANE ATTACKS ON MARSHALLS   Army, Navy Airmen Blas Isles Nine Times in Last Two Days

Easing Of Pay Freeze Is Proposed   Subsidy Repeal Bill : Slated For Senate Pas. sace Today.

Solon Urges “General U.S. Wage Boost   Pepper Would Relax ‘Little Stecl Formula’ For 3 Per Cent Raise

SUBSIDIES BUMP INTO WAGE ISSUE   AMENDMENT OFFERED TO REPEAL BILL FOR INCREASE\IN WAGES

Pepper Adds Voice To Subsidy Row   Senator Wants Wages Increased If Subsidies Are Ended

Increase In Pay  Formula Proposed  Would Boost Wages If Subsidies Go

Wage Increase To Meet Food Costs Proposed   Senate Prepares For Final Action On Subsidy Bill

ANTI - SUBSIDY FIGHT SNAGGED   Runs Into Proposal Little Steel Formula Be Relaxed

ASKS WAGE HIKE OF 3 PER CENT   Pepper. Poirits ‘to Effect of -..-Subsidv:- Ban.

HIGHER WAGE RULE URGED IN SUBSIDY FIGHT   Pepper Proposes Relaxing Little Steel Formula—Senate Votes Increased Milk Prices

NO RATIONING OF FAGS   Cigaret Supply for Civilians Will  main Tioh+

BOULOGNE PORT IS BATTERED BY BLOCKBUSTERS   Second Straight Attack Made On Concentrations Of German Boats

Hitler Said Rashing To French Coast   New Landings Follow On Normandy Coast

bsent From Skies  erman Resistance s Planes Hit Coast   Naval Losses and Airborne Troop Losses Are Very Small; Warships Move In Close To French Shore.

Nazi Air Force Weak  SUPREME HEADQUART.ERS. ALLIED FYXPREDITION.

ALLIED NAVAL LOSSES “VERY VERY LIGHT   German Opposition anc Losses in General Less Than Expected. SHAEF Optomistic.

ILO CONDEMNS FASCISTS IN ARGENTINA   Representative Denied Seat At Conference Will Be Seated As a Delegate

ILO Delegates . Protest Fascism An Argentina:  Deiegate Seated; .  ) U.S. ‘Australia .

‘Soviet Bombers Blast Sey astopol  Wednesday Night   Softens Up Crimean Bastion  lor Kall

Soviets Bomb Germans in Sevastopol   Russians Report No Essential Land Front Changes

Troops Join in  Battling Floods   Parts of 5 Midwest States Inundated

Half of Japanese On Leyte Killed   General MacArthur Lists Jap Casualties on Levte at Ratio of 13 to Each One American

GERMAN USE OF GAS IS PREDICTED SOON   Chemical Escaped From Cylinders Aboard Heavily Guarded Train, Correspondént Says

GERMANS REPORTED MOVING POISON GAS   Heavily Guarded Trains Said to Be Carrying Lethal Vapor to Channel Coast.

Friends Believe Wallace Will Have New Role to Play in U.S. Government

WALLACE MIGHT GET HIGH POST   Vice-President May Be Offered Place in FDR's New Cabinet

Wallace May Stay In Public   Associates Prett ve Well Agreed Wallace Will Stay  In Polities.

HOUSE GROUP AMENDS SENATE PEACE. PLANS   Committee Would Limit Life Of Congress’ Reconversion Machinery To  One Ye 2r

Reconversion Machinery May Get Time Limit   ‘Year of Life Favored , By. House Committee “In Executive Session.

Committee Favors  Year’s Limit On  Reconversion Time Proposal Has Many  Supporters in House ; Vacation Plans Fade

House Group Tentatively Fixes Year Period for Federal Supervision

House Group Wants Limit On Reconversion   Doughton’s Ways and Means Committee May  Set Year Limit.

FRENCH INVASION COAST HAMMERED BY 1,400 PLANES   Attack Continues All Day and May Have Exeeeded Record Raid on Christmas Eve.   FEW GERMAN AIRMEN RISE TO GIVE BATTLE   Pas de Calais Area Believed to Have Taken a Heavy Pounding — Allied Losses Licht.

CONTINENT {3 BLASTED BY U.S. PLANES   British Based Fortresses And Liberators Make First Attack Since Mammoth Air Battle Over Germany.   “200 Planes”

Mixed Allied Air Force Strikes French Areas; Reds Push on in Poland   Bitter Struggle Continues on Cassino Sector Of Italy, Much Artillery Pounds Nazis; Allies Capture 8000 Germans on ‘Boot’

CLAIM BULGARIA IN BREAK WITH GERMAN NATION   Romanian Troops Begin Expelling Nazi Forces From Their Soil

Germany’s Balkan Coalition Falling Apart; Romania Declares War On Nazis.

BREAKS WITH NAZI REGIME   Move Follows — That of Romania; Hungary to Be Next

Balkan _ Coalition  Rocking   Severance of Relations Paving Way for Truce With Allies

Moscow Reports Bulgaria Severs  Ties With Axis   Cabinet Shake-up In Hungary; Greeks Fight Germans

Moscow Says Bulgarians, Nazis Break   Hitler’s Balkan Coaltion Seen -Falling--Apart..

Moscow Claims Bulgaria Break   Romanian Troops Expe Nazi Forces From Area

1,000 AMERICAN  BOMBERS BLAST  GERMAN CAPITAL NAZI BROADCASTERS  ADMIT DAMAGE AND HEAVY CASUALTES

BERLIN HARD HIT TODAY BY AERIAL FLEET   More Than 2000 Planes Make Long Trip

U.S. Planes Blast Berlin In Daylight Then Fly On   Shuttle - Bombings From Britain Indicated

Berlin Broadcasts Terror Raids Made By Allied Planes; Reprisals Hinted

U. §, Heavies Blast Berlin ©   1000 Fortresses and Liberators and 1000 Fighters Make Attack

BERLIN HIT BY 1,CO0-PLANE BOMBER FLEET   German Radio Hints Raiders on Initial Shuttle Raid from Britain to Russia.

STRONG FORGE “BLASTS BERLIN   Germany Reports Possibility Of Britain-Russia Shuttle Raid,

BERLIN HITIN SHUTTLE BOMBING   More Than 1,000 American Bombers Blast Nazi Capital

2,000 Planes Make Great Raid, Some Go On To Russian Bases; Almost No Fighter Opposition Encountered Over Reich Capital.

1000 FORTS IN SHUTTLE RAID ON BERLIN   Planes from England Hit Reich Capital and Other Targets Then Go On to  Riurecia

IN SHUTTLE RAID?   American Bombers Fly on Eastward After Bomb- — ing Berlin

Berlin Blasted By. Allied Fleet. Of 2000 Planes   Part Of Attacking Armada Thought Continuing On To U. S. Russian Bases

Berlin Rocked By Allied Shuttle Raid   2,000-Plane Force Fails to Stir Nazi Fighter Foe

Hint of First Shuttle Raid From West   1,000 U.S. Forts, Libera: tors Bomb Berlin, Some iv On East

Shuttle Raid On Berlin Now Hinted   2000 Planes Attack Capital; Nazis Soy Some Fly to Russia

RAIDERS HIT BERLIN AREA   Thousand Fortresses and Liberators Drop Bombs Near Nazi Capital

HINT FLIERS RAID NAZICAPITAL, GO ON TO RUSSIA   Enemy Threatens to Reply With Bigger, More Robot Planes

Hint of First ~~ - Shuttle Raid From West   1,000 U. S. Forts, Libera tors Bomb Berlin, Som Fly On East

Bomber Fleet Hits Beriin   Over 1,000 Heavies Crack Capital and Other Areas of Germany

Berlin Blasted by American Bombers   May Have Been First Shuttle Raid from Britain te Russia

SHUTTLE RAID ROCKS BERLIN   Bombers Fly to New Bases  In Russia, Nazis Indicate

ATTACK OF WAR MADE   Planes Continue Trip ® Eastward, Possibly To Soviet Bases

Berlin Blasted In Shuttle Raid   Germans Threaten RetaNation For “Terror Raid” By Armada.

Huge American Aerial Armada Batters Berlin   First Shuttle Raid Between Britain And Russia Hinted.

BERLIN BOMBED BY OVER 1,000 YANK ‘HEAVIES’   Forts and Liberators Find Ne Nazi Fighters—Damage Admitted

Thousand Heavy Bomber: Batter German Capita And Outskirts; Shuttk Raid Between Englanc« And Russia _ Indicated Other Planes Head To Taward Rocket Bases.

Heavy U.S. Bombers Hit Berlin Area   Germans Report Some of Planes Flew On Eastward, Possibly te U. S. Bases in Bussia

1.000 Forts Blast Berlin And Basdort   Germans Admit Damage And Threaten Heavier Attacks By Flying Bombs

1,000 Yank Planes Blast Berlin Area   Germans Say Some Flew East Indicating Shuttle Bombing

AMERICAN PLANES. BLASTED “BERLIN. “ONCE MORE TODAY      resses-and ‘Liberators: Pais :: ticipated in the Raid.      1000 FIGHTERS “ESCORT          Probably. First Shuttle’: _From‘Britain to- Ameri

2,000 American Planes Hit [Heart Of Germany In What ‘Apparently Is Shuttle Raid   Germans Report Some Of Attackers Storming Berlin Fly Toward Russia

Reich Capital ls Smashed by U. §. Bombers   Some of Big Fleet May Have Continued to Base in Russia

Berlin Blasted by American Bombers  in Shuttle Attact:   Nazi Luftwaffe Puts Up No Opposition to i Attackers

1,000 American Bombers Blast Berlin Today —   German Reports Indicate Some Flew On to Russian Bases

1,000 Heavy Bombers Hit Berlin Area   Shuttle Flight From England to Russia Seen by Nazis

U. S. Heavies Paste Berlin   More Than 2,000 Planes Take Part; Some May: Have Gone On to Russia

2,000 Planes In Daylight ‘Attack Made On Berlin   1,000 Fortresses And Liberators Hit Nazi Capital; Not A Single Fnemvy Plane Met

Flowers  Mean Death   80,000 Mines Underneath Field in Coastal Area

President Signs Flood Control  Authorizes Use of a Billion Dollars

Flood Control Bill Approved   FDR Signs Measure; W. Wa. Plan Included

Flood Bill is Signed   FDE PUTS HIS SIGNATURE ON HUGE POSTWAR PROGRAM: WON'T INTERFERE WITH MVA

Postwar Flood Control Bill  Becomes Law   Provides For Expenditure of $1,000,000, 000, Largest For Such Purpose in: History

Britain Hard Hit Again Saturday By Robot Bombs   New Type Glides In Silence Just Before Striking

Germans Use New Type Robot Bomhs  /   Main Difference Reported to Be Psychological

Trucks resume service  Limoanmatmamwe ets   May Last a Long Time.

Dewey's Home State Calls Convention   To Select A 41 Man Delegation To GOP Convention; Dewey In Lead.

WARREN CHOSEN GOP KEYNOTER   Dewey Forges To Front in Presidential Race

41 Michigan Delegates for . Dewey Seen   It Is His Home State and the Sixth Largest Block of Votes

Michigan’s © GOPs Will Name Large Delegation   Strong Sentiment For Dewey Exists

Dewey's Native Michigan Votinc Qn Delegates  New York Governor Fast Ahead i Fladged  Amueantiam Vantae

MICHIGAN NAMES GOP DELEGATION   Strong Dewey Sentiment  Exists Among Candidates For Delegates

Michigan Names 6.0.P. Delegates; Dewey Sets Pace   Republicans Laud Selection of Warren as Keynoter

REPUBLICANS KEEP EYE TODAY ON MICHIGAN   G.O.P. Pleased By Selection Of Key- — noter

U. S. Bombers Lead New Air Smash   Northwest Germany And French Fields Blasted

Thousands Flee Midwest's Floods; Rains Forecast   5,000 Soldiers Aid Civilians in ’ Effort to Plog Crumbling Dike: on Mississingi, Missouri

LTE SOS OI LITO NL  LIVE HAND GRENADES ARE BELIEVED USED AS TOYS BY EL PASO CHILDREN

Berliners Display Concern  Over Piercing Of West Wall   -“Where’s Rommel’s Troops?” “What Happened To Luftwaffe?” They Ask

Put Nazis On Spot   German People Asking _How Allies Cracked Atlantic Wall Soe Easily

Thousands of U. 8. Workers to Receive Shock of Their Lives  Income Tax for New Wage Earners

OVERSEAS FIGHTER'S CHILDREN STRANGLED   Mother Found Unconscious Beside Porch of Home

MOVES TO CONTINUE   Senate Hopes FSA May Go Or With Loans and Lunches

Bats Emerges To End Queries About Situation   - Unfit Classified Men To Be Depended On For Production

A-F'S SEEN AS SOLUTION FOR LABOR SHORTAGE   May Be Drafted For War Jobs

Trapped Men May Be Facing Death, Capture   Paratroops Lose Northern End of Arnhem Bridge

Only Immediate Relief Can Save Gallant Group Under Murderous Fire   Eisenhower Orders Blackout On All Operations In Holland As Germans Brag Of Success

§ THAN FOUR MILES FROM CITY PROPER   American and French Armies Also Gain in Other Sectors

UP-T0-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International Nev   I S. FORCES BATTER WAY TOWARDS MET7

Japs Given Another Blast By Task Force   “Most Important Target South Of Japan” Is Hit Hard By Super Planes Of United States

Italy Ports Bombed by U.S. Planes   Seven-Hour Attack Seeks to Block Move to Land Supplies by Sea

Japs Threaten Allied Supply  Lines in India   Enemy Units Ambushed In Imphal Drive; Hollandia Bombed

Japs Pushing On In India   Allies Ambush Units Near Imphal; Supply Lines Open

Registration Hit: Record in Cities  St. Louis Alone in 13 Shows a Drop-Off

wHigh truck in gistration   on'’s Largest Cities ow Large Incr="se Over Number  In 1940 a

RECORD MARK HIT IN REGISTRATION   Increases Over 1940 Figures in Large Cities Reported

Reds Halt’ Count-r - Drives Of Nazi Troops — HEAVY ASSAULTS Momentum Of Soviet Pushes Is Slowed —  Down

AIR ASSAULTS AGAINST EUROPE ARE EASED OFF   Fighting Flares in Cassino: Turkey Reported Ready To Halt German Trade

Nazis Stage Final Drive in North Area   Germans, Romanians Offer ‘Stiff ‘Resistence, to Reds Charging into Sevastopol

Fierce Attacks Sought To Upset Offensive:   Cornered Axis Fights Hard In Crimea;  Swedes Scorn Plea  Of Allies

Reds Throttle Heavy  Nazi Counter Drives   Germans Hurled Masses Of Planes, Tanks And Infantry Into Assaults Aimed At --Stonnine Russisan Drive-Lhru Poland.

RUSSIANS ANNOUNCE BEATING DOWN HEAVY ATTACKS IN POLAND  GERMANS THREW MASSES OF PLANES, TANKS AND TROOPS INTO BATTLE

Throttle German Threat   Russians Beat Back Counterattacks in Poland; Momentum of Other Drives Slower

Russians Declare Nazi Thrusts Have Been Beaten Back   Hitler Remains Silent on His 55th Birthday

Germans Resist Violently in See-Saw Battle   British Planes Bomb Bulgarian Rail Yards. As Nazis Retaliate

RUSSIANS ANNOUNCE BEATING DOWN HEAVY ATTACKS IN POLAND  GERMANS THREW MASSE: OF PLANES, TANKS AND

Thrusts Of Nazis Repelled   REDS BEAT DOWN STRONG COUNTER BLOWS IN POLAND; TIGHTEN SEVASTOPOL RING

Reds -Halt™ Counter Drives Of Nazi  : Troops  HEAVY r ASSAULTS  Momentum Of Soviet Pushes Is Slowed  Down

British Army May Be Used in Greek Crisis   Churchill Promises His Full Support of Present Government

Churchill Cites Policy To Commons  Endure Greek   Future Greek Government Up to People

MONTE CASSINO ABBEY WRECKEL   Only Eight Monks Left With Civilians When Allied Guns Start

Monks Flee Ruins Old Monastery   Civilians Say Many Monks Had Left Weeks Ago

8 MONKS IN ABBEY ° ~ DURING BOMBING   Some Reported Killed. and Woundia in Destruction of Cadtlnd Monastery.

Berlin Announces" Soviet Offensive   Moscow Reports New Gains dhe: Wixelol sivas Sina

GREAT OFENSIVE:« AIMED AT HEART. OF THE PROVINCE   Great Concentrations of Are tillery Support Reds, Mov--.  ing Forward on 25-Mile _ Front in Lithuania.      STUBBORN FIGHTING REPORTED IN PROGRESS   Nazi Commentators Say Lines of Defenders Have ‘ Been Penetrated by Soviets at Places.

RUSSIANS AIM AT HEART OF EAST PRUSSIA   GERMANY ALARMED BY NEW THRUSTS AT BORDER

_ Russians: Admit. ‘Assaults. BY. Soviet: -Warplanes, os "As Far.as Insterburg....

Red Offensive Opens Into  East Prussia   Nazi Broadcasters Tell Of Tremendous Drive Accompanied by Heavy  Air Attacks in Reich

Russians Open New Offensive Ontast Prussia   Germans Say Drive Is Launched Along 25-Mile Wide Front

Berlin Reports  Big East Prussia  Drive by Soviets Reds Tell of Heavy  Air Force Blows On Path of Advance

First Important Goal Apparently Is Insterburg, 37 Miles From Border; Old Men, Women and Children Construct Fortifications

Soviets Begin Great New Drive Aimed at Heart of East Prussia, Nazis Say   Alarmed German Broadcasters Report Hugs Assault Preceded by Heavy Bombings; Gains Made in Transylvania

Nazis Say Forests Of Artillery Used   Street Fighting Continues in Belgrade as Germans Set Up Pillboxes in City’s Streets.

Berlin Radio Says Giant Soviet Offensive Launched  MOSCOW IS SILENT ~ ON NAZI REPORTS  Forces Reported ‘March. ing Toward Insterburg

NEW RED DRIVE IS ANNOUNCED BY NAZI RADIt   Tremendous Soviet Drive Is Aimed For Heart Of  East Prussia   FIGHTING FLARES UP IN WARSAW SECTOR

Kidnappers Of Farmer Caught   F. B. I. Nabs Three Escaped Virginia Con. victs; One Wounded.

Fugitives From County Are Caught   Convicts Taken In North Carolina

President Roosevelt Says Drive Into Philippines Redeems Pledge Made After Correridor

Roosevelt Congratulates MacArthur   ‘We Are Going to Teach Japan Her Lesson,’ The President Declares

PLEDGE REDEEMED, ROOSEVELT STATES   Landing of U.S. Troops in the Philippines Hailed

ITALY'S LABOR ACTIVE AGAIN   Organization Comes Tc Life After 20 Years Of Suppression

taly’s Reborn Trade Unions At Convention   Once Great Organization of Italian Workers Comes to Life After 20 Years; London Meet Opens.

Bialystok Falls; Stanislawow Is  Seized By Reds   Victory Clears Path For Two-Way Push Against East Prussia

Red Fleet Preparing For Action   . Fall of Tallinn — On Baltic Makes Cruise Possible;  - Ahead in Balkans

Fall Of Tallinn Loosens German  Hold On Baltic   Red Fleet Taking Over;  Pressure On Latvian Cap: steal Imtanetfiad.

Clear Baltic. Channel   Soviet Minesweepers Prepare for Action _ By Red Fleet; Press  Battle for Hungary

Red Fleet Is Preparing To Enter Baltic   German. Hold On Baltic Crumbles With Estonian - Capital Fall.

Nazi Hold On Baltics Broken; Tallinn Taken  Russian Troops Now Fight In Outskirts Of Riga; Hundreds O

Russians Plan Naval Action In Baltic Sea Following Tallinn’s Fall

REDS CLEARING BALTIC FOR USE OF RUSS FLEET   Soviet Forces Fight Within Outer Defenses of Latvian Capital -

Russian Fleef Gets Ready for Action in Baltic   Soviet Land Forces Score Gains in North and South

RUSSIAN ARMY TAKES TALLINN   Soviets Preparing Channel So Fleet Can Make Comhat Orica.    FIRST iN THREE YEARS

‘Tallinn Fall ‘Opens Baltic .To Russians   Red Force Strives To Cut Off Enemy Entrenched at Riga

Red Fleet Clearing Baltic   Transport Sunk By Fliers in Port Of Captured Tallinn

Minesweepers Clear Channel!  For Red Fleet   Hungary Target Of Artillery Fire From Soviets Only Ten Miles Away

Baltic and Balkans — Under Red Attacks   German Grip on Northern Sector Crumbling After Russians Drive Through Estonia While Soviets Press Battle In Hungary

Russians Act To Clear Baltic Sea   Capture of Tailinn Opens Way for First Battle Cruise

Russians-GlearBaltic Channel For War Cruise   Tallinn’s Fall Upsets Nazis; Riga Threat Increased; Advance On Budapest

Red Army Captures Tallinn, Estonian Hub of Baltic Sea   Battle for Budapest on as Soviets Seize’ More Than 800 Towns

Soviets Take Tallinn in  Baltic Push   German Hold Crumbles; Increase Pressure on Riga to Cut Escape

Reds Have Use of Fleet in Baltic   Soviet Ships . Make First ‘Combat Cruise in Three  Years   PRESSURE IS ON RIGA   Soviet Artillery Fire Rains *” on Southeastern Hungary

SOVIETS CAPTURE TALLINN, NAVAL BASE IN ESTONIA   OTHER RED FORCES STEADILY INCREASE PRESSURE ON RIGA

Soviet Fleet Plans First Combat Cruise As Capital Of Estonia Is Captured

Soviet Fleet Ready To Sail Baltic Again   Fall of Estonian Naval Base Paves Way for First Combat Cruise in Three Years

MINESWEEPERS CLEAR WAY IN BALTIC TODAY   Russians Take 800 Towns In Drive Friday

Russian Fleet To Make Trip Into Baltic   Cruise To Follow Capture Of Tallinn; Budapest New Goal

WILL, CRIIISE BAITIC SEA      Fall of Naval Base at Tal. linn Gives Them Firs: Chance in Three Years tc Tala Part in War.

Russians Clear Safe Channel for Fleet Into Baltic   Way Opened for Warships on Capture of Tallinn, Reds Appreach Hungary on 50 Mile Froni

SOVIETS SEIZE TALLINN BASE IN ESTONIAN PUSH   Reds Drive Near Latvian Capital to Cut Nazi Escape Route

REDS PRESS GERMANS IN RIGA SECTOR   Pressure on Outer Defenses. of City Is In_ creasing Steadily as Other Soviets Clean Up  BHNeotania

CIVILIANS WATCH TRUCKS ROAR BY UN WAY 10 FRONT   Jeeps Race Through As Though Rocket Propelled   JOURNEY NOW IS RISKY BUSINESS   ee Oe eS yy Se a ee ee  Germans Disguise Paratroopers In American I nifarms

But Allies Make No Mention Of Big Offensive   German Artillery Lays Heavy Barrage, Spokesman Admits

Germans Say 3-Way Drive Has Started   ‘Claim Allied Lines Have  Been Broken At Number Of Points

Tokyo Admits Nip Losses Are Higher   Price America Pays To Win Sea Fight Held Not Too High

BASKETBALL SCHEDULE   May Tighten Farm De. ferments it is Announced

42,000 JAPS DIE IN INDIA, BURMA   4 Of 9 Nipponese Division: Liquidated In Campaigns

42,000 JAPS LOSE LIVES IN INDIA THEATER     4 of 9 Enemy Divisions Liquidated by Allied Forces

42,000 JAPS ARE KILLED IN BURMA   Nine Divisions Liquidated By Allied Forces

42,000 JAPS DIE INBURMAFIGHT   Stilwell’s Men Influential In Routing Enemy In Burma, India

KILL 42,000 JAPS IN INDIA, BURMA   Four Of Enemy’s Nine Divisions In That Area Liquidated

Attack Coming, - Japan Warnec   Premier Koiso Admits Situation Is Grave

FRANCE, REICH HIT IN DUAL AERIAL BLOW   British Attacks Follow 4th U. §. Daylight Assauit On Berlin

Navy Names 2 Warships Lost at Sea   NEW U. S. S. TURNER SUNK IN N. Y. BAY; LEARY ATLANTIC LOSS

Allies Try To Flank Hitler Line At Rear   Bloody Fighting Reported In Widespread Sectors

BLACKEST DAY FOR HITLER, YESTERDAY      Major Battle Impends Friday in New Guinez

: ‘Major Struggle Seen When Japs Try To Escape   Desperate 18th Nip Army Believed Set To Attempt Break

BIG BATTLE ON N. GUINEA NEAR   45,000 Trapped Japs Still Formidable

JAPS GAIN IN CENTRAL CHINA DRIVE   Chennault Warns Nip Victory Might Greatly Prolong War

CHINA'S PLIGHT CRITICAL, VIEW OF CHENNAULT   U. S. General Warns Of Grave Consequences — For Allies

Japs Stage New Drive In China   s  Fear Changsha Has . Fallen To Enemy Army

Allies Capture Carentan and Extend Beachhead in France: Japs Launch Drive.in Chin:

Second Airstrip On Tinian Seized   ‘Marines Control Half Of Isle; U. S. Forces On Guam Advance; Nip Casualties High

KILL AT LEAST 30,000 JAPS IN MARIANA ISLES   Marines On Tinian Win Second Airstrip And Half Of Island

Guam and Tinian  Invaders Gain  “30,000 Japs Killed In “hAawianas: Drive

YANKS KILL JAPANESE AT 7T01RATIO   Marines Capture Half of Tinian, Gain On Guam

MARINES WIN OND AIRSTRIP ON TINIAN   Two Miles Gained’ on Guam; 27,825 Japs Kill led

U. $. Bombers Pound Nazi Synthetic Oil Plant   Americans Advance On Guam, Tinian Islands

Americans Gain on Tinian, Guam   Yanks Killing Japs at Ratio of 7 to 1

Marines Control Half of Tinian,  Continue Drive      American Forces On. Guam Smash Inland  For Two-Mile Gain

Leaders Believe United Nations Have Not Really Begun Their War  ‘Against Japan, Long Fight Predicted

WAR ON JAPAN NOT EVEN BEGUI LEADERS THINK   Epect Long, Expect Long, * Hard Struggle

WINE TO TARE OUT Don's Grill N Erie St.—Ad   CREFAPEST oT sit Tn Paty

Chinese Army Is Advancing On Hengshaw   Troops Launch Offensive After Breaking Out Of Encircled Hengyang

“WAR TODAY   Eisenhower’s Mighty Fighting Machine Crushing Steadily Forward With Inevitability of Landslide

The War Today  Success of Allied Drive for Heart of Reich Undecided

WHETHER WAR WILL END THIS YEAR NOT KNOWN BUT CEN. IKES MIGHTY FIGHTING MACHINE STILL ADVANCING

NazisGamble To Cling to Defenses West of Rhine   ‘Even Though River Strongest Natural Barrier Against:Allies

[PRESENT ALLIED OFFENSIVE IS NOT ADVANCED FAR ENOUGH TO  DETERMINE WHAT RESULT TO BE

Major Rivers Are Flooding Lowlands   One Man Is Missing And 33 Are Injured In One Of States Worst Floods In Recent Years

EIGHT LOSE LIVES IN TEXAS FLOODS   HEAVY DAMAGE THREATENED IN WAKE OF TORRENTIAL RAINS AND WIND.

15 Selectees te Ft. Leavenworth   hil Be Inducted Into the Land or Naval Forces Upen Arrival.

Eight Men Go to Ft. Leavenworth Today   The Selectees Will Be In ducted Into the Armed Forces.

MORE SELECTEES TO “FL LEAVENWORTH, “TAS, THIS MORNING   ‘They Will Report at Reception Center for Induction Into U. S. Army.   NINETEEN IN THE GROUP   Four Registrants Who Were Scheduled to Report ‘ Transferred.

TEN SELECTEES TO FT. LEAVENWORTH   Frank Ranes,.Ju,. Whe Was . Schedufed to Report on - This Call, Transferred.

43 SELECTEES TO ) FT. LEAVENWORTH FOR INDUCTION   ‘They Will Report to the Unit  ed States Army Recep) tien Center There.   ‘FIVE ARE TRANSFERRED   Induction of Donald Wiliam  F. Schneider Postponed Un"til He Finishes School.

DEWEY LEADS IN ONLY DOZEN OF 48 STATES   President’s Margin May Even Surpass Defeat Of Wendell Willkie   ISSUE DECIDED IN CITIES   America Gives Mandate To Win Global Wars And Secure Future Peace

ROOSEVELT LEADS 36 STATES, DEWEY CARRIES ONLY 12   ¥.D.R. May Win £9 States and Have an “lectoral Vote of 48

NATION GIVES HUGE MARGIN TO PRESIDENT   Dewey Leading 12 States Having Electoral Vote of Only 101

ROOSEVELT LEADS 36 STATES, DEWEY PARRIES OMY 79   F.DB. May Win 19 States and’ Have an  ‘Electoral Vote of 423

SIMPLE RITES ARE HELD IN TRIBUTE T0 DR. GEO, W. TRUETT   DALLAS AND ENTIRE BAPTIST WORLD MOURN AT PASSING BELOVED PASTOR

TOKEN SYSTEM IN EFFECT THIS WEEK   New Ration Money in Circulation to Simplify Point Buying of Foods.

TOKEN SYSTEM IN EFFECT NEXT WEEK   New Ration Money in Circulation Next Week to Simplify Point Buying.

114 NAZI PLANES   tilway Junctions of Lwow and Sambor Bombed By fs Pnesian Forces.

Reds Pierce Carpathians In Romania   Nazis Hurled Back in Fierce Battles Among Foothills

RUSSIANS ADVANCING IN ROMANIA   Moving Up In Foothills of the Carpathians

Soviets Push Slowly Into Carpathians   Berlin Reports Big Battle Rages In Romania

BERLIN TELLS HEAVY BATTLE WEST OF IASI   Reds Claim 114 German Planes

ADVANCING IN ROMANIA   Moving Up In Foothills of the - Carpathians

Red Army Battling In Foothills   Nazis Report Soviets Stepping Up Attacks In Kowel Area of Pre-War Poland

RUSSIANS POUND BIG NAZI BASES   Germans Repeat Claim Of Heavy Fighting In Iasi Sector

RUSSIAN FORCES ADVANCE SLOWLY IN GARPATHIANS   Berlin Reports Heavy Fighting In Three Places Where Reds Attempt to Break German Lines.   ALLIES OPEN ATTACK QN JAPS, SUB IS SUNK   British Troops Fight Way to High Ground on Arakan Front, Forces In Control nf Hille

REDS BAG 114 NAZI AIRCRAFT   jround Fronts ‘Quiet’ 12th Straight Day

SOVIET TROOPS IN SERIES OF LOCAL BATTLES      Push Methodically Up Valleys Of Carpathian Mountains In Romania

Carpathian Area Scene Of Battles   Red Armies Pushing Meth odically Ahead — Start  Fires in Lwow

Cards 202 001 Browns 000 000   Thousands Pay Last Tribute to Al Smith Tadav

NEW YORKERS BADE FAREWELL AL SMITH BY THOUSANDS TODAY  CATHEDRAL WAS CROWD ED AND OTHERS LINED NEARRY STREETS

Final Rites for Alfred E. Smith  Thousands Gather to Pay Tribute

Conduct Rites For Al Smith At New York   Bishop Francis McIntyre Is Celebrant Of Mass Attended By Thousands Of Smith’s Admirers

RED ARMY STORMS ACROSS VISTULA   Joins Polish Patriots In Wild Street Battles Against Nazis

‘Third Army In Great Tank Battle’   Reds Storm Across Vistula, Battle In Warsaw Streets

Wild Fight Takes Place In Streets   Russians Under Rokossovsky Rinem Vietula

RUSSIANS REPORTED IN WARSAW   Gen. Bor Says Soviets Have Joined Polish Patriots

Red Legions Smash Inside Polish Capital   Street Battles Raging; Soviet, Pole Forces Unite

Report Red Troops Are in Warsaw   Poles Say Russians Help Partisans in Fighting in City Streets

Reds Join Poles In Street Fights - Against German:   Berlin Acknowledges Retreat From Estonia Where Onrushing Soviets Took Port of Tallinn

Russians Storm Into. Warsaw, Says Pole Report   Soviets Cross Vistula, Join Polish Patriots In Street Struggles

‘PARACHUTE TO SAFETY   All 12 Crew Members of Fortress Jump Near Copan, Okla.

There Are Two Kinds of Pensions For Survivors of Servicemen. Veterans

Nazis Hang 21 Persons   Entire Rhineland In Chaos; Families Are Broken Up

Travelers Report Gestapo Hanged 21 in Cologne Yesterday for Urging Germans to Surrender

HANG 21 FOR OPPOSING WAR   Travelers From Cologne Report Executions

21 Germans Hanged For Favoring Peace   Cologne Residents Publicly Executed In Gestapo Move To Stop Open Revolt.

GESTAPO HANGED WAR OBJECTORS   21 Persons In Cologne Hanged For Objecting Continuing War

Nazis Make Poor Attempt to Impress Finns   Men and Equipment Sent, Inferior in QOnalitv. Save Writer

Mercury fo Drop Near Zero Tonight   State Gets Thicker Blanket of Snow

BELOW ZERO TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT   NO BREAK IN PRESENT COLD WAVE Ig EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST 24 HOUKS

Reds Move For Peace With Finns   Jap Internees Make Demand For Privileges Of Citizenship

Odds Now Favor Finland Getting Out Of War, Depending On Attitude Of Army Leader And Any Nazi Gounter Actions

Russia Asks Finns To Moscow For Peace Conference   Germany Not To Be Helped During Negotiations

All-Out City Bond Drive Starts Today   Three-Day Push In Fourth War Loan Gets Under Wav With Two Kick-Off Meetinas

SUSE RR eeer nt RE ROR Le SAS a Ene en a a en GR  All-Out City Bond Drive Starts Today   Three-Day Push In Fourth War Loan Gets Under Way With Two Kick-Off Meetinae

NO HANNEGAN CHANGE   National Chairman Was Slated for a Post in the Cabinet

DENIES ‘CHILL’ BY ROOSEVELT   No Jobs Mentioned, Says Party Chairman

HANNEGAN DENIES RIFT WITH FR.   PRESIDENT REFUSES COMMENT ON STORY

Los Negros Attacks Are Speeded Up   Heavy Jap Casuaities Reported—Air Raids Cover Wide Area

MATTOON JOINS WITH NATION IN D-DAY PRAYERS   Americans Bow Before Almighty God as Invasion Starts

TOWNS RETAKEN BY FOE IN ITALY   Savagé Nazi Blows Force U. S, Fifth Army Back on Central Front

Nazis Intensify Pressure Aacist Point Below Rome   Germans Predict Beachhead Will Be Pushed Into Sea

PRe FE WEEEERe The § Bet ER ee We OF PRE ee EF Nazi Gunners Pour Shells Into 100-Square-Mile ‘Goldfish Bowl’

Sooner State Gretna Green Of Doughboys   Remote Control Marriages Are Legal Under Oklahoma Laws.

Plymouth County War Fund Campaign To Be Conducted Week of Oct. 2.   Drive In Entire -. County October 5” And 6 os

MISSION CONFERENCE PLANNED FOR MONDAY   Lutheran Sessions For Societies Of This District Will Be Held At New Oxford

BY ARTILLERY FIRE OF YANKS   Marines Repel Cape Gloucester Bid  of Enemy

Marines Thwart New Jap Thrust For Gloucester  Enemy Losses Heavy As 43 Troop Barges Sent to Bottom

Attempted Jap Landing On Cape Gloucester Is Smashed by Yank Guns

HEAVY COST IN JAP LIVES AND BARGES   In Attempt To Evacuate Trapped Troops On New Guinea; Marines Mow Down Attempt To Land.   Bomb Formosa

Marines ‘Thwart Jap. Landing } on Cape Gloucester   Many Jap Barges Sunk; MacArthur Denies Arawe Recaptured by Enemy

43 Nip Barges Are Sunk: Deny Tokyo Reports   * MacArthur Refutes Japs’ Claims Of Recapturing Arawe

DEWEY MAPPING TOUR OF NATION   Governors Consider 14-Point  Home Front Agenda

PACIFIC. WAR NOW ANEAD OF SCHEDULE   Chief of Navy Personnel Tells V-12 Students Of Progress.

Armisticé Day Has Familiar  Ring To GI   Sgt. Hill Stands At Imost Same Spot As In 1918

American Army !s Before Metz Again But This Time There’s No Armistice

NO ARMISTICE AROUND METZ THIS NOV. 11   FORTRESS CITY HAS NEVER BEEN TAKEN IN ATTACK

Soldier Before Metz Recalls Preparing to Attack Same City at Time of Armistice 26 Years Ago Today

JURY WILL GET CHAPLIN CASE   District Attorney Calls for Unbiased Verdict In Closing Argument

Chaplin Jury Hears Plea   Prosecutor Reviews Evidence Against Movie Comedian

Search Widens for Kidnapped Boy; Son of Army Private Now Overseas

Future For Toolmaker Is Brighter   Speculate Over Various Postwar Markets Of Industry

vy APER GENT AT HALF MARK   Gogebic Residents Urged te - Buy Bonds to Meet County Quota.

$7,409 IN BON SOLD IN CAMPAIGN   100 Per Cent of Employees At Peterson Camp Make Purchases.

CAMPAIGN IN CITY PROGRESSING BEST   Ironwood Sales 29 Per Cent Of Quota, County 18 Per Cent.

: a aE aAbe BeweTeh ‘MEXICO HEARS MEETING TO ‘SOON LIQUIDATE LEAGUE

Civilians Frantically Digging New German Defenses on Russian Front

eee  BOMBERSPOUR BOMBS INTO FLEEING NAZIS   Also Down 23 Fighters in Battles; 6,000 Allied Planes Fly Into Four Countries.   Poles Lose Plane

Phone Operators  Strike Cripples  Service in Ohio Ten Cities Affected Friday as Walkout  Continues to Spread

PHONE SERVICE. HIT BY STRIKES      Long Di-tance Unit  Trouble Starts  In Dayton   PLANT HERE PICKETED, SERVICE IS MAINTAINED

Strike Cripples Phone Service  In Three Cities   Four Smaller Towns In Ohio Are Affected By Operator Walkout

NEW PREMIER SEES WAR AS BAD FOR JAPS   Warns Empire It Is Confronted With Very Serious Difficulties

JAPS ARE SCARED   Premier Foresees National Difficulties Of Unprecedented Seriousness

Japs Told Situation Is Serious   Marianas Campaign Cited As Indication U. Ss. Planning Drive On Homeland

Koiso Appeals for United Effort as U.S. Forces Close in on Jap Homeland

JAPANESE FEAR NEW ASSAULTS TO ‘HIT HOME   Premier Koiso Warns People Of Serious Plight; U. S. Gains Are Cited

TOKYO FEARS ALLIED BLOW: AT HOMELAND   NEW .WAR LEADER SPEAKS oF “SINGLE BLOW’ DURING: BROADCAST—G UAM ° ‘CAMPAIGN ENDING '

Premier Warns J: aps \O£-Sexious Difficulties As ‘Allies Progress 

Allies Smash German Tank Attack at Caen   Gunfire Shreds Nazi Reinforcement Columns as British Win Battle of Armored Forces, Bypass Hamlets, Seize Main Strong Points

GERMANS REPORTED HAVE THROWN TWO ARMIES INTO LINE   GEN. MONTGOMERY, HOWEVER, SMASHED MANY COUNTERATTACKS

First Hand Story By William Worden Delayed  Eyewitness Tells About . The Battle For Eniwetok

Reporter Describes Scene As Great American Ships Closed In Upon Eniwetok

American First And Third Armies Batter Forward Into Center Of German Defenses

BATTLE SHIFTS TO SOUTHERN REICH FLANK   Patton Moving Doggedly Through Stiffening Hun Resistance   FIRST ARMY ALSO GAINS   Hodges Advances’ Near Prum And British Halt German Attacks

YANKS. SMASH  ~- STRONG FORTS      FIRST “AND. ‘THIRD ARMIES: ‘BREAKING. THROUGH  “ JENEMY. POSITIONS IN OFFENSIVES LAUNCHED AT -.  ““~ CENTER OF WEST WALL WHILE SECOND AND.  a ‘SEVENTH ARMIES HAMMER BACK NAZIS. “AT ENDS OF LONG FRONT... ~ :           By: ITERNATIONAL -NEWS SERVICE

Assaults On Siegfried Line   Smash Fortifications And Liberate Towns

all res ae  Compromise Is Offered By Canada   Written As Safeguard.

Canada Yields Aerial Version   Attempts To Break AngloAmerican Deadlock On ‘Fifth Freedom.’

FINLAND'S ACTION OF HOLDING ONTC GERMAN SKIRTS INDICATES HITLER STILL RETAINS POWER

WAR TODAY   Little Finland’s Ex. pressed Belief in NaziPower To  _.dchieve Stalemate in War Is Warning

The War Today   By DE WITT MACKENZIE eccarinted Prese War Analyst

FINNISH REJECTION OF RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS BASE ON BELIEF GERMANY. WILL WIN STALEMATE   Finns.Said to Believe Germans Will Be Able to Resist Coming Onslaught. -Germans: Say Great est Battle in History Impends and They Are Ready for It

Cross-Channel Raid Made By U. 8. Bomber:   Objectives In Northerr France Is Hammered By Marauders A nc  Havocs Today

Allied Aerial Invasion of Western Europe Is Now in Its Fifth Day

Wallace, Stettinius And Byrnes Mentioned For . Cabinet Office   Vandenberg Regrets Hull Resignation

French in Battle For Paris Using Light Artillery.   Patriots Surround Bordeaux, American Moiorized Columa Reported Closing In

LLAPSE IS RAPID   French Patriots and Germans Fighting in Many Cities

Early Settler —  At Remsen Dies  _ Mrs. Wm. Siefke  ~ Well Known Resident

Early Settler  At Remsen Dies  Mrs. Wm. Siefke Well Known Resident

NEW ASSAULTS AGAINST JAPS BELIEVED NEAR   May Overshadow Previous Action in Importance

HOUSE TEoto LEGALITY OF Bi-W PLANT SEIZURE   Ramspeck Says House Has No Authority to Frobe Confiscation

DEMOS’ SEARCH FOR CANDIDATE 1S CONCLUDED   Pick Holland Man to Carry Pariy’s Flag Against Kelly

Democrats Pick Candidate For Governor's Jot   Ernest Brooks, Holland Business Man, Entered In Race

DEMO STRATEGISTS SELECT CANDIDATE   Holland Business Man, Pre: sent Chairman of State Group Named.

DEWEY AND BRICKER HOLD ALBANY TALKS   Meeting Will Be Concerned With Governor’s Parley

CANDIDATES HOME STRETCH   Ohio Candidates Re-state Campaign Themes; Vote Hours Unchanged

Bricker Rejects Demands For Longer Voting Hours  Ohio Candidates Plunge Inta Final Waak of Their‘ Campaian for Votes

Bricker Refuses To Extend Voting Hours in Ohic Candidates Busy As Final Week Of Race Opens

Enemy Defenses Buckle Swiftly Under Terrible Aerial Assault, Naval Bombardment and Operations of ‘Air-Borne Divisions Behind Lines

LABOR SYSTEM. COSTLY SETUF   “LABOR RENTING" HAS BE SULTED IN MANUFACTURERS . PAYING. AS! HIGH AB © ’ $12 PER HOUR”. -

Gov. Dewey is scheduled to speak for 30 minutes tonight, from 8:30 to 9 o'clock, Manitowoc time.

Dewey Asserts Administrative Change Urgent   Republican Blasts New Deal Poliev  Gf Dole. Not Jobs, For War Veterans

CHARGES DEMOS FEAR’ ANIERICA   Nothing Wrong With Nation That Change Won't Cure—Dewev.   AT LOUISVILLE TONIGHT

DEWEY PICTURES NEW DEALERS AS BICKERING MEN   AFRAID OF PEACE, NOMINEE CHARGES IN OPENING BLAST

New Dealers Doubting Their Postwar Duties   Gov. Dewey Charges Administration Plans To Keep Big Army Rather Than Restore Jobs to Veterans.

“New Dealers Are Afraid of Peace” Says Gov. Dewey   Rongrelle “Ready for Anothe Depression Nov ines Blasts

FDR Claims State Vote Bill ‘Fraud’   Congressmen Declare  Message Is Insult To Members

Allied Subs Sink 17 Jap Ships  Navies Launch   a 3 Navies Launch Campaign in Indian Oeean

Subs Destroy 17 More Jap Ships   Cmiser, 3 Destroyers Included in New List

Allied Subs Sink 16 Jap Ships; Giant Anglo-American Naval Squeeze Coming

Anglo-U.S. Squeeze On Jap Ships   Submarines Sink 17 Nip War Vessels, Including Destroyer;  Yanks Get 12.

Sinking Two _USS. Cruisers   Tokyo. Also Says’80 Yank Planes Are Downed in 3-Day Air Attack

LIST CARRIER, BATTLESHIPS AS DAMAGED   Tokyo Communique Also Says More Than 80 Planes Shot Down.

State Democrats To Gather Here   Various Candidates To Be Banquet Guests

U. S. Appeals Fail to Keep Trains Clear   Vacation Travel Boom Reported in Every Resort State

YANK, GERMAN PLANES IN BIG AERIAL BATTLE   Say Total Evacuation Of Nazi Capital Under Discussion

Massed Bombers Concentrate On City’s War Plants   Nazis Report Furious Fighting Going On In Northwest Germany

U.S. Fliers Fight Way Over Capital   Second Great Attack in Three Days Hurled Against City— 200 000 Incendiaries Dropped

OTH AIR FORGE HITS AGAIN AT OTRIGKEN GITY   Drops 10,000 High Explosive  and 350,000 Fire Bombs  in Day Attack.

U.S. Warship: Bombard  Iwo Island   Causes Explosions, Fires Visible 35 Miles at Sea

ISLAND ‘ATTACKED BY U. 5. WARSHIPS   Surprise Raid on lwo Island Made . by Raiders

Yanks Pushing Japs Back To  Central Area   San Pablo Airbase in U. S. Hands, ‘Third Field On Island   PLANES AID ATTACK   Japs Crippled By Lack Of Supplies, Loss Of Aerial Defenses

CHINESE & U. S. AIRMEN SMASH AT JAP FORCES   Blunt Jap Threat Of Isolation of Loyang; Chinese Pincers Develops South Of Burma Road.

Jap Columns Ripped by U.S. Airmen   Enemy Drive on Key Chinese City Blunted by Allies

CHINESE MAKE ADVANCES IN SALWEEN RIVER AREA  eae een ey pe a a mk

U. S. AND CHINESE AIRMEN SMASH AT JAPANESE FORCES   Mile-Long Columns of Nip Infantry and Cavalry Southwest of Loyang Fiercely Attacked by Fliers

ENEMY BASE BESIEGED BY ALLIED FORGE   Stilwell's Army Rings Up Smashing Climax to 21-Day Campaign Over Rough Terrain

ENEMY BASEIN NORTH BURMA UNDER SIEGE   Gap Between Converging Allied Armies and Ckina Now Less Than Eighty Air Miles   NIPPONESE SURPRISED

Chinese Press New Advance   Guerrillas Seize Pass In Yunnan; Japs Forced Back In Loyang Offensive

Planes Bomb Jap Lines   Yank and Chinese Strike Advancing Foe Southwest of Loyang

DISRUPT NAZIS ATTEMPTED DUNKERQUE   Germans Shoot Own Men in Effort to Halt Retreat

Fifth Nullifies Counter Attacks   Italian Fascist Troops Deserting To Allies At Increasing Rate.

Fifth Army Halts Nazis  ) Check Counterattacks Near Bologna; Eighth  onl 2. 2 tse...

Fifth Army Smashes Enemy Attacks In Italy. South of City of Boloana

Repulse Nazi Attack South Of Bologna      British Battling East Of Faenza

FINAL BATTLE FOR BUDAPEST - 1S UNDERWAY   RED ARMY UNITS CRACK IW. ' NER DEFENSES AFTER SUR . ROUNDING HUNGARIAN CAPITAL .

SOVIETS ATTACK BUDAPEST'S HUB   Drive to Center of Capital; Last Escape Bridge Cut Off

REDS COMPLETE BUDAPEST TRAP   Russians Occupy Nine Enemy Centers to Clese Encirclement of City

Allied Forces Swing In Toward Florence  Clear 49 Miles of South Bank of

Allied Drive Nears Florence; Yanks Capture 5 Towns   British, U.S. Forces Clear 49 Miles of Twisting Arno River

Allied Forces Swing In Toward Florence  Clear 49 Miles of South Bank of Twisting Arno Rive

'U.S., British Push to Within 12 Miles Of Florence, Free 49 Miles of Arno

Freight Stalls Inside Tunnel; 500 Asphyxiated   Investigation Made Following Tragedy In Southern Italy

67 Jap Planes Are Smashed   Wewak. Rabaul Suffer Heavy Attack by U. S. Bombers °,

65 Zeros Downed In Two Raids   Japs Sustain Smashing Blows At Wewak And Rabaul; Ground Forces Gain.

Missouri Pouring Flood Waters Info Mississippi Now   New Rains May Send It Past Record; River Cuts Through Old Channel

Turbulent Missour  Waters Swell  Mississippi River New, Higher Crests  Feared as More Rain Is Forecasted

Mississippi Near Record Flood   Missouri Hits Peak:  2 Towns isolated

Jap Outpost Near Truk Bombed  Navy Search Plane: Hit Orcluk Ato}}

JAP OUTPOST EAST ~ OF TRUK BLASTED   Oroluk Atoll Bombed for First Time—Ponape and Kusate Also Raided.

Navy planes  hammer Jap  held Oroluk   Seven additional isles are pounded

Navy Planes Hif Jap Outposts At Oroluk Atoll   Island Is 190 Miles East of Truk; Ponape, Kusaie Also Bombed

Babson Predicts Erratic Markets   Nation Warned Wild Trading Period Ahead

CAPT. DON GENTILE DOWNS 27 NAZIS FOR HIGH RECORD   Piqua, Ohio, Man Becomes Ace of Aces In American Ale Cornea

OERALE OFPUSEL 10 AnADAN OIL PROJEG!   Policy Committee > Telis Admin.stration Majority Against Flan

Mechanized Units Are In Action, Reports Tokyo __No Word Is Received From Fleet

Tokyo Claim Of Land Fighting Unconfirmed   Forty-Mile-Wide Lagoon Is Packed With Nip Warships

MECHANIZED UNITS ~ USED IN AMERICAN ATTACK ON TRUE   Fighting With Our Troops 1 Now Going On, A Jap Broadcast Said Today.   SAY FIGHTING IS FIERCI   Strong Motorized Japanes Forces Are. Involved in the Battle. ‘

Official Silence Hints Assault On Foe’s ‘Pearl Harbor’ Still Going On.

Total Is Not Available But Local And OutOf-Town Concerns  Give To Fund

: Revision Requires Considerable Time  G. w. Hunt, ‘Ghittenbérg, is

Yanks Capture Mountain  Near Cassino  Now Overlook That Bastion Only

Yanks Capture Mountain  Near Cassino Now Overlook That   Now Overlook That Bastion Only Two Miles Away

LAST MOUNTAIN FORTRESS BLOCKING WAY TO CASSINO; FRENCH TROOPS SWING LINE CLOSE FROM NORTHEAST

French Swing  Line Close to Nazi Bastion   Mt. Trocchio’s Fall Brings Fifth Army Two Miles From Base; Germans Pushed Back

Yanks Capture Mt. Trocchio,  ‘Near Cassino   French Troops Swing  In Toward Nazi Bastion From Another Direction

Americans Take Mf. Trocchio in Cassino Advance   Last Mountain Bar To Key City Falls

MT. TROCCHIO IS CAPTURED BY YANK FORGES   Last Mountain Fortress Blocking Way To Cassino Taken By Americans   FRENCH TROOPS IN POSSESSION OF TOWN

Enemy Bastion Only 2 Air Miles Away French Swing in Upon Base _ From Northeast

MT. TROCCHIO TAKEN AFTER BITTER FIGHT   American Infantrymen Win Slopes in TwoSided Assault

NAZIS- PLANNING NEXT WAR: EDEN   MAIN BATTLE NOT WON, FOREIGN SECRETARY SAYS

Eden Says German General Staff Plans for Next War Says Civil Rule by Germans Not Military  mma mbinn ta han Alliac’! Ld neawedant Denkl anne

Nazi Generals Drawing Plans  For Next War   Allies Have Information On German Preparations, Eden Tells Commons

Germans Claimed Already Planning For Another War   Eden Asserts Nazis _ Recognize Inevitability  of Allied Victory

Says Nazi Chiefs Think of New War   Recognize Preseni Struaale Is Lost

Eden Says German General Staff Already Planning for the Next War

EDEN WARNS OF NEW PLOT BY GERMANY   Nazis Hatching New War, Eden Tells Commons

Strikers Are Called Back By Leader      MONTGOMERY WARD EMPLOYES COMPLY W)'TH (REQUEST OF PRESIDENT. ROOSEVELT THROUGH UNION HEAD.   Immediate Hearing

Ration Holiday As Nearing End   Meat And Canned Good: Surplus Vanishes ©

OPA Hints Ration Point Holiday on Meat, Canned Goods to End in July

Meats Ration Point Holiday May End in July   Some Major Canned Vegetables May Be Put Back on List

HALSEY'S FLEET CUTS. WIDE. PATH   Destruction Campaign. _ Promises Early Freeing of the Fhil:ppines

Halsey’s Fleet Widens Path Of Destruction In Pacific; Shell Japanese On Palau

HALSEY 5 FLEE CUTS WIDE PA't   Destruction Campaign Promises Early Freeing of the Fhil:ppines

College Issues Data On Butter, Oleomargarine  Comparison Is  Held Favorable

-French Coast Also Receives Attention  By Many Raiders   Forays Over Enemy Territory Cost Allies 34 Heavy Bombers And 13 Fighters. Pas De Calais Badly Rocked.

Yanks Bomb Oil Plants in 3 Nazi Cities  Raiders Blast 93   Raiders Blast 93 Of Luftwaffe From Sky, Lose 4:7

CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM BEING REVIVED AGAIN   Politics, However, Is Claiming Major Interest in Capital As Conventions Near

CROP INSURANCE MAY BE REVIVED   Strong Bi-Partisan Support Given Proposal

Yanks Battle Nazis in Hand-to-hand Fight   Enemy Nearly Ousted from Maas; Start Clearing Antwerp for Allied Shipping

Senators Ask Dad Draft Be Halted  Sharply Criticize 4-F Report: States Not Mekina Quotas

Demand Letup In Dad Draft  Pending Review   Physical Standards Ot Army Are Criticized By  es Gian

Senators Voice Demand to Hall Fathers’ Draft   Too Many 4-F's Playing Football Asserts Johnson

DEMAND HALT OF DAD DRAFT   Review of 5 Million Occupational Deferments Is Pending.   REPORT 1S CHALLENGED

Senators Again Demand Halt in Father Draft   Declare Physical Standards Too High. As States Fail To Meet Quota

BE HALTED   Would Await Review of 5,000,000 Occupational Deferments

New Protest In Senate on  Father Draft   Johnson and Wheeler In sists Army Physical Standards Too Hirh   ISTATE QUOTAS FAIL   At Least Nine. States Drop Behind From 10  to 50 Per Cent.

SEEKING MEANS FOR STOPPING FATHER DRAFT   Physical Standards To High, Senators Report Today

All Northwest Russia Now In Cerman Hands Is Threatened      “Aemands That Pop Drafting Halt Renewed By Senators

Halt To Dad Draft Sought By Senators   Drafts Are Not Being Met: Criticize Physical Standards.   CHALLENGE GROUP

Resume War on Father Draft  Senators Criticize Commission Report

Armed Force Leaders Have ‘Sights too High’, ‘On Draft Deferments

DRAFTING FATHERS WOULD BE HALTED BY NUMBER SENATORS DEMAND REVIEW OF 5, 000, 000 OCCUPATIONAL  RFePrResrarrTro Fp

Senators Urge Father Draft Delay Pending Broad Review Of Occupational Deferments

Solons Vemand . Temporary Halt To Father Draft  Physical Standards   Physical Standards Criticized By Group of Senators

WHEELER ASKS FATHER DRAFT BE DELAYED   Joins Johnson in Criticising Physi cal Standards, Wants Halt Pending Deferment Review

SENATORS RENEW DEMAND TO STOP DRAFTING “DADS”   CRITICIZE PRESENT PHYSICAL STANDARDS OF THE ARMED FORCES

Today in  W ashington   A Roundup of Developments From. the Nation’s Capital

Report of Medical Commission on Physical Stand ards Challenged  oa rat 4A. Or AF tREPNIT PRT A KI

HALT IN FATHER DRAFT S ASKED   Delay Demanded Pending Re. view Of Deferred Men

HALT TO FATHER DRAFT SOUGHT BY SENATORS   Demand 5 Million Deferments Be Investigated, Physical Standards Lowered

Solons Claim Army Physical Standards Off   See No Reason Why 4-F ~ Football Stars Can’t Be Soldiers

Senators Ask Dad Drafting Be Stopped   Johnson, Wheeler Assert Standards By Army Too Hich

Renew Demand That Dad Draft Be Discontinued   Senators Challenge Report O£ Medical Commission On Service Standards

DENSE FOG BLANKETS AREA  Covers Eee: ane "Of Army Private Prom F airfield County Jail

DRIVE ON 4-F°S IS INITIATED BY COMMITTEE   House Body Favors “Work Or Be Drafted” Program For 1 Million Men   OBJECT IS CONTROL GF JGB ACTIVITIES

‘WORK OR BE DRAFTED’ PLANS RECOMMENDED   Military Committee Suggestions Designed To Assure Essential Occupations Be Followed By Draft-Age Men

Work Program For Draft Agers Mapped   House Committee Draws Plan Designed to Assure Es- sential Occupations Are Followed by 14,000,- . 000 Men—Primarily Aimed at 4-Fs

OPEN PATHWAY 10 LIFE FUR UPS   Single Highway Is Designated as Road to Surrender for Nips

Yankees Poised For Knockout Blow On Saipan   Japs Huddled Together In Ove Area Face Doom;  Civilians Are Given  Chance io Surrender 

Death Blow For Jap Garrison On Saipan Nea   Remnant Of Jap Force On Island Trapped In Small Sector Of Island   JAP CIVILIANS ARE HIDING OUT

Surrenders.  Are Sought   ‘Saipan’ 8 ‘Civilians.  Of fered Good. Care

Way Opened For Civilians On Saipan To  Surrender   U.S. Invites 10,000 To 15,000 To Walk Out As Marines And Army  rm . . =. we ..43...8.

STRONG WINDS CAUSE DAMAGE IN WIDE AREF   Western and Central Oklahoma Report Losses—10 Persons Are Injured

State Hit By Heavy Gales   Western, Central Oklahoma Suffer Storm Damage

CASSINO AREA BEING SLOWLY WON BY ALLIES   Reach Western Edge of Village   NAZIS STUBBORN

GERMANS STILL HOLD OUT IN CASSINO   Succeed in Re-Enfore: ing Defenses and Retake Hill

GERIMANG REGAIN HLL UN BITTER CASolKO BATTLE   Allied Infantry and Tank Forces Batter to City’s Outsk rts.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Infantry and Tank Forces Battle at Cassino

SEARCH FOR 11 HALTED BY SNOW   TWO SURVIVORS GIVEN GOOD RECOVERY CHANCE

DEMOCRATS CAN COUNT ON SOUTH NEXT NOVEMBER   Southern Governors Say There Will Be No Break In Ranks This Year   SOME DISSATISFACTION ISREPORTED, HOWEVER   BY NORMAN WALKER AND CLAIR JOHNSON

Governors Say South Regular   Democrat Party Troubles Tho Ava Wieraunta,l

Unhappy South Still for FDR, Governors Say   White House Guests Pledge Assistance

Nazis Re] ort : Vi Alont ee fey rht  LULUAL tu i Assy  At Sevastopol   Heavy Artillery Barrage Likened to Hurricane Over Lines

CLAIM VIOLENT BATTLE RAGING AT SEVASTOPOL   Russians Launch Offensive At Big Black Sea Naval Base

Reds Attack Sevastopol In Force   Fierce Fighting On Defending Slones Reported

LULL PERSISTS ON RED FRONT   Sink 11 More Axis Ships Off Sevastopol

Black Sea Base ‘Inferno’ in Fierce Attack   Germans Admit Soviets Drive Two Wedges Into Defense of City

VOTE UPSET 6.0.7, CLAIMS   DEMOCRATIC GAINS IN HOUSE REVERSED EXPECTATIONS OF. REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN LEADERS

DEMOCRATS GET CONGRESS LEAD   ‘Senate Is Secure, _ With Hovse Working Mijority Up 24 Votes

Superforts Start Fires In Tokyo   Berlin Reports Night Raid On Jap Capital

Better Quality Christmas Toys To Be Available  Santa Claus Is Given Priority

SANTA GETS PRIORITY, BETTER TOYS THIS YEAR   Flimsy Gadgets of Last Season Replaced by Better Quality Goods

Santa Gets Priority So Toys Will Be Somewhat Better This Christmas

luestion-Answer Columnist Dead   tederic J. Haskin’s Fea lure Appeared in Over 100 Newspapers

Pacific Bases Of Japs Bombed   ALLIED PLANES DROP EXPLOSIVES ON ENEMY.

Bomb Jap Base Within 700 Mi. Of Philippines   Hit New Guinea’s Western Tip And Schouten Island Air Strips.

Strike Nearer Philippines   Bombers From NewlyCaptured Bases -Hit-! Bases 700 Miles Awav.

Big Allied Bombers Move Steadily  Westward in Pacific  Newly Captured Bases Used for Planes Nearing Philippines

Allied Fliers Strike From New Guinea   Air Assaults on Sorong Only 700 Miles From Philippines

Raid Schouten and Sorong;: Deal Crippling Blows To Wewak and Rabaul.

Allied Fliers Hit Jap Bases   Use Newly Captured New Guinea Airdrome To Launch Attacks

Allies Extend Aerial Blows Against Jap:   Foll-Scale Assaulis Launch. ed From Newly-Gained New Cninea Airdromes

Allied Planes Driving for Philippines   Heavy Bombers Hit One Target 700 Miles From Islands

Launch Air Blows from Bases on New Guinea   . Edging Westward, Allied . Bombers Hit Target: Only  700 Miles from Philippines

Hit Target 700 Miles From Philippines  Planes From Newly-Won New Guinea Bases Open Full-Scale Air Assault

BASES IN NEW GUINEA USED T0 MAKE ATTACKS   Target 700 Miles From Philippines Is Among Those Blasted

BOMBERS BEGIN FULL SCALE ATTACKS ON JAP BASES NORTHWEST OF GUINEA

CAFE MURDER TRIAL STARTS   Complete Jury For Coffee Trial, Commence Testimony

Allied Air Fleets Knock Out Panzer Forces; U. S. Columns Unchecked in Sweep Toward Capital on 53-Mi. Front

MORE BLOOD DONORS » NEEDED; RED CROSS UNIT HERE FEB. 1   LEGION AUXILIARY, PSI IOTA XI, NURSES TO AID WITH

RED CROSS URGES. BLOOD DONQRS TO REGISTER BY MONDA\   SEVENTY MORE VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED; MOBILE UNIT TO BE-HERE FEB. li

Arrogant Nazi General Captured By Doughboys Refuses to Tell Name

WIDESPREAD ATTACKS ON ENEMY ISLANDS.   American Raiders Active From Kuriles The Western Carolines And Marshalis

NIPPON'S OCEAN BASES BOMBED   Kuriles, Yap, Mariana: And Marshalls Hit In American Raids

13,122 BRITISH CASUALTIES FOR 10-MONTH SPAN   Covers Period From Italian Land. ings to Fall of Rome, Including Maior Engagements

“WE MUST MEET CALLS MILITARY MANPOWER” HERSHEY DECLARES  REST OF US MUST WORK   REST OF US MUST WORK HARDER TO REPLACE MEN CALLED, HE SAYS

Draft Boards Told to Meet Calls for Men   Figures Given On Deferments Of Younger Men

The Weather   Draft Demands Must Be Met, Boards Informed   Sacrifices Asked Of Those Who  Remain at Home

Draft Quotas Must Be Met, Says Hershey   Industry, Agriculture  Required To Make Any Needed Adjustments, Tiirectar Declarcc

Draft Quotas ’ Must be Met, Hershey Says   Industry, Agriculture Secondary to Needs Of Armed Forces,  Bulletin Declares

SKELTON'S FIANCEE GETS SPEED TICKET   But Red Gets License To Wed In Los Angeles

UNJUST PEACE WON'T BE HELD BY FORCE’   Norman Thomas Said Nazis Have No Hope of Decency

THOMAS RAPS PEACE FORMULA   Says Terms Must Be Based -On Reason And Justice

ALLTES CRUSH IN WESTERN WALL “OF POCKET   Canadian Troops Storm Into Falaise Squeezing Gap to Six Miles or Less

2,000 Enemy Troops — ~ Face Extermination -.. In- Yunnan Province

Fall of Tengchung Matter of Time   2,000 Japs Face Extermination At Ancient City By Chinese Troops.

CHINESE BATTER AT TENGCHUNG LIMITS   Some 2,000 Battle-Weary  Japs Facing Exterm-   ination

Many Japs in Turkevw   Chinese Troops Enter City Limits Of Jap Base in Yunnan Province

Chinese Fight  Japanese Inside  Of Tengchung   2,000 Weary Nips Face Extermination; Fall of City Near

WEW ORLEANS COTTON   LEW YORK COTTON   Woman To Face Charge Of Kidnapping Baby At Meridiar

Chinese Holding Ouf af Hengyang   Japanese Attack Over a Wide Area

Chinese Resist Fiercely Around. _ Vital Hengyang   Hold . Ground in’ Bitter Fighting’ for Rail. Junetian

Sabath Peeved At Officer Reports   Checking Up On Report 30,000 Army Officers Have Nothing to-Do

Reds Tighten Ring Around Germans in Dnieper Bend Trap   Nazi Leader Seemingly Unmindful of Army’s Terrific Losses

Red Army Halts Nazi Tank Attack To Escape Trap   Two Soviet Units Move Nearer Pskoy, German Stronghold

‘Tank Drive On Cherkasy »’ Is Stopped   Von Mannstein Fails in Try to Rescue Large Force Caught in Pocket

Rescue Attempt By Nazis Foiled   Reds Halt Attack By  German Tanks

Russians Halt Nazi  Attack   Rescue Efforts Stopped; Advance Toward Pskov.

Soviet Army HaltsHeavy Tank Attack   Attempt Of Nazis To Rescue Army Proves Failure

ATT HALTEI BY RUSSIANS   Hopelessly Trapped Large: Numbers of Nazis in Death Pocket Fight Desperately 

ITANKS FAIL 0 FREE TRAPPED NAZIS IN RUSSIA   2 Soviet Armies Push Nearer Stronghold of Germans at Pskov _

SOVIETS REPULSE CHERKASY POCKET RESCUE ATTEMPT   BELIEVE NOT MORE THAN 50,000 NAZIS NOW ALIVE IN TRAP

Soviets Halt Nazi Efforts to Rescue Trapped Divisions   Fierce Tank Attack Aimed at Cherkassy Pocket Beaten Back With Heavy Losses

Halt Nazi  Tank Attack   Effort to Rescue Forces Trapped in Russia Fails; Finn Peace Near

HEAVY GERMAN TANK  ATTACK WAS HALTED  DNIEPER BEND AREA ON NORTHERN FRONT TO  RED ARMIES DRAWING NEARER TN PcvoYy

Russians Stop Nazi Tank Blow Seeking to Open Cherkasy Trap   Divebombers and Guns Blast 73 Enemy Machines

Nazi Rescue Attempt Hurled Back   Tank-Led Attack Suffers Heavy Losses From Russians

Nazis Unable to Break Red Death Trap   Attempted Rescue of Encircled Men in Cherkasy Pocket Fails

SOVIET ARMY HALTS GERMAN TANK ASSAULT   Fighting Fierce As Nazis Try  New Tactics

Russians Crush  Nazi Tank Attack  Germans Unsuccessful In Rescue Attempt

THE RED ARMY HAS , HALTED A HEAVY _. NAZUTANK ATTACK   Launched by the Germans Northwest: of Zvenigorodka, Moscow Reports.   DRIVE WAS REPULSED      Were Attempting to Rescue Nazi Forces Trapped in Cherkassy Pocket.

Russ Troops  Take Korsun   eo weeew 4242 ws Ww Vee  Remnants of Trapped Nazis Fight Desperately; Defense Core Captured

NAZIS FAIL TO BREAK OUT OF RED TRAP   Launch Fierce Assault in Cherkasy Pocket, but Are Halted—Only 50,000 of Big Force Believed Alive.

HEAVY TANK DRIVE HALTEC BY RUSSIANS   Desperate Effort To Rescue Trapped Germans Smashed

Russians Stop Rescue Tanks   Other Forces Moving Closer To Big Base of Pskov

Soviets Halt Tank Aifack   Germans Fail in Effort to Rescue Trapped Soldiers

Desperate Nazi Rescue Attempt  Heavy Tank Assault O: Cherkasy ‘Death Pocket Te Halted

RUSSIANS STOP BIG TANK DAIVE   Germans Made Unsuccesstul Attempt _to Rescue. Trapned Forces.

Soviets Halt Immense Tank Raid By Nazis   Unsuccessful Attempt To Rescue Large Forces Trapped In Cherkasy.   THINK 50.000 REMAIN

German Communications Being Bombed — Clearing Weather Gives Promise of Heaviest Air Activity Since D-Day Over Battlefields: of Normandy.

Bombers Hammer Escape Corridor   Berlin Says Doughhoys Pass Alencon In 30Mile Drive

100.000 Nazis May Be Caught By Swiit Drive   “Ghost Army Unreported Office ially Since Leaving Le Mans Five Days Ago

15 Miles Separate Allies   Yank ‘Ghost Army Races North for Meet With British

Location Of Yank: Front Uncertain   Official Silence Keeps Germans Guessing About Where Next Blows are About To Fall

Yank ‘Ghost Army’ Narrowing Exit Gap   Germans, Completely Confused, . Staving General Retreat East ©

Speed of Yank Drive Has Nazis Befuddled   American Ghost Army, Anglo-Canadian Columns Reported Within 15 Miles of Closing Trap on Bewildered Fnemy

200 U.S. Planes Help to Block Path of Retreat   Report Places Yank Troops in Ardentan Area

26 Japs Refuse Training   ..in United States Army; To Face Court-martial

Fr. Orlemanski Says Mass but Shuns Soviet   First Service Since Ouster; Lange Sees Stalin

School District to Receive Funds   $10,713.69 Allocated As Quarterly Payment

YANKS HIT NAZI PLANE PLANTS   Friedrichshafen Targe Of Italy-Based Craft

Two Big Armadas Strike At Reich   Italian-Based Bombers Hii Friedrichshafen, Second Abhove Bavaria.

HEAVIES BLAST PLANE CENTER   Reich Reports Attack by U. S. Bombers on Friedrichshafen Today

U. 5. BOMBERS RAID BAVARIA   Also Strike In Great Strength In Western Germany

RAID REICH FROM TWO DIRECTIONS   Planes From Italy Hit Frederickshaven; Other Areas Blasted

750 Bomber: Hit Targets In Germany   Industrial Points Near Swiss Border Pounded -—- Planes  Over Bavaria

NAZIS REPORT DUAL AIR RAID   Hit Friedrichshafen Plants; Claim Bavaria Attacked

U.S. BOMBERS FROM ITALY HIT FREDRICHSHAFEN   Planes Over Switzerland Set Off Sirens ‘In Eastern Area

Liquor Drought Will End In August When 50 Million Gallons Leave Distilleries

British Advance ‘Mile Along Roule Nine Near Fouli  Bod Weather Virtually  Stalls Other Armies In Nar tl, thuly

GERMANS WITHDRAW FROM MODIGLIANA   British and Indians Find Town Deserted After Nazis Had Defended It for a Week.

HURL DOUGHBOYS BACK IN ITALY   More German Attacks i Serchio Valley

Yanks In Western Coastal Sector Forced To Fall Back; Eighth Army On Eastern Front Advances

NAZIS ATTACH IN SERCHIO VALLEY   Town Of Barga Enveloped In Enemy Drive   GERMANS REPULSED   In Drive Against 5th Army Defenses At Monte Sole; Casualties High

Full Jap Navy Hit By Yanks   Smashing Defeat May Bring Quicker End Of War

Naval Officer Dies In Crash   Admiral Charles P. Cecil Killed In The Pacific Area.

Admiral Cecil Killed in Crash   Plane Victim Won Henors in Pacific

Soldier Vote Bill Approved; Survey Begun By Roosevelt   President Telegraphs Governors to Determine How Many Men Can Cast Ballots Under Provisions Before Deciding on Veto or Signing

Service Ballot Plan-Is Passed   Telegraphic Survey Is Opened By EDR.

Service Men’s Vote Measure Passes Congress   FDR Wires Governors Relative to State Law as Bill Is Enacted

PRESIDENT IS MAKING SURVEY ON BALLOT BILL   Wires Governors Of States To Learn How Many Serv seaman Can. Vara

SOLDIER BALLOT SURVEY BY WIRE ~ BEGUN BY F.D:R   President Seeks Information From Governors on Num> ber That Could Vote Under Bill.   ACTS AFTER PASSAGE OF MEASURE BY HOUSE   Veto Seen as Likely if He _ Finds Existing Laws Enfranchise More Than New Legislation. _

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President Polls Governors on Service Ballot   House Approves Bill by 273-111 Vote; May Be Vetoed

SERVICE BALLOT BILL 1S PASSED   President Checks With Governors, May Veto Legislation

Service Ballot Bill Voted, but May Be Vetoed   FDR Asks Governors For Their Opinions

TRUK SOFTENED UP BY BOMBERS   Only Meager Groundfire Encountered; Ponape Atolls Jolted

V HEAVY PEANES         GIVE BATTLE “AND GROUND:      “TRE IS ‘MODERATE,

Gen. Bradley Has Place on Invasion Staff   Eisenhower Indicates Satisfaction With Plans for Attack

Invasion Plans Are Speeded Ur   General Bradley U.S Ground Troops Head

PRE-INVASION PLANS SHAPING   Gen. Eisenhower Gives First Interview In London

Gen. Eisenhower Pleased with  invasion Setup   Lt. Gen. Bradley Named Senior Rank Conmmander  Of U. S. Ground Troons

IKE FINDS LONDON PLANNING THRUST   PRE-INVASION MACHINERY MOVING RAPIDLY AS HE ARRIVES IN. ENGLAND.

Invasion Plans Move Ahead,  General Finds Gen. Bradley Gets  TP aia pore. a   Gen. Bradley Gets Mention for Important Command

Invasion Plans Move Ahead,  General Finds  Gen. Bradley Gets Mention for Important Command

GEN. BRADLEY SLATED 10 BE INVASION AIDE      Tunisia Veteran Is Next Ronking American to Eisenhower   COMMANDER HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE   General Finds Pre-invasion Machinery Moving © Cmaathiv amen

BRADLEY HEADS GROUND FORCES   Eisenhower Finds PreInvasion Machinery Running Smoothly

Gen. Eisenhower ls Pleased with Invasion Outlook   Praises Officers And Men in Ranks

Eisenhower In England For Invasion   Says Machinery For Coming Invasion Is Now Rumbfina Briskly

Bradley Named Chief In Britain   Eisenhower Takes “Over. Invasion Joh

Invasion Army Excites Praise  Of Eisenhower   Gen. Bradley Named Aide; 2d Front Chief Girds

Kisenhower Pleased  With In-asion Work   General, Optimistic, Finds Machinery Running Smoothly: Bradley Named Senio U. S. Commander of All Ground Forces

GEN. BRADLEY SLATED TO BE INVASION AIDE   Tunisia Veteran Is Next Ranking American to Eisenhower   COMMANDER HOLDS * PRESS CONFERENCE   General Finds Pre-invasion Machinery Moving ©

Foretold!  Seress Predicted Fi nancial Reverses.  Willie Mae Lost ‘ton

Advance Units Find It:’ Heavily Defended; Caen Fiohting Front Exnand:

Japs in Pacific Suffer New Losse:  Long Series of Victories Scored

Strike At Japs — By Sea And Air  In Pacific Area  oo BESS” seen ee      Destroy Enemy Planes. Barges

26 Jap Planes ‘Shot Down in  Wewak Raid   Gun Bases Wrecked anc Fuel Dumps Set Afire by Yank Attackers

120 Tons Bombs  Dropped On Base   Twenty - Three Barges Sunk By Other Planes   LOS NEGROS TAKEN BY U. S. FOR KEEPS

Wewak Hit With Heavy Bomb Cargo   Other Successes Recorded All Along Allied Lines In Southwest Pacific

BLIMP WRECKED, A ARE MISSING   Storm-Downed Craft Discovered In G. ule Of Mexico Today.”

Wreckage of Blimp Found  Airship Brought Down By Storm in Gulf;  )  ° ee wee = SON

Allied Aerial Bloués In Pacific Strike Japs From Three Sectors   To Speed End Of Isolated Enemy, Neutralize His Positions And Soften Strong Points For Invasion

Three-Fold Strategy Of Aerial Onslaught Apparent  Air Offensive Has Three Main Targets In Pacific

Air Attacks in Three Pacific Theaters Describe Pattern For Next Invasion

Pacific Raids Patterns For New Invasior   Attacks, Concentrated On Three Major Areas, Forerunners With ThreeFold Purpose

7  With Ernie Pyle at the Front:  Bombers March Across Sky, Crack Troops’ Breakthrough’  Ernie Joins Infantry and Finds Men — Tops and General Real Leader

Bombers March Across Sky as Crack Troops ‘Breakthrough’   Ernie Joins Infantry and Finds Men Tops and General Real Leader

CLEVELAND PLANT . IS SEIZED BY ARMY   Soldiers Take ‘ake Over Strike. Ridden - Graphite ~ Bronze Co.

CLEVELAND PLANT -ISSEIZED BY ARMY   Soldiers Take Oy Over Strike a Ridden: Grephite’  _ Bronze_Co._

Encirclement Of Aachen IsCompleted  US Forces Join  East of City   New Mexico Will Observe Victory in Europe With Prayers for ItsMen Who Were Lost in Philippines

Finland Agrees To Remain In War at Side of Germany, Nazis March Toward Front   CHINA STILL WEAK SPOT In Allied Pacific Strategy

NAZIS SEND SOLDIER AID TO FINLAND   Finns Stay in War On Side of Germany As Result

R. W. Patrick. 20, Admits Killing Three   Accused Given Army Medical Discharge Recently

TRIPLE SLAYING IS CONFESSED   Missouri Youth, 20, Kills Counfe. San

3 Killings  ‘Confessed in Monroe   R. P. Patrick, 20, «Held ix Slaying of Mr, and Mrs. A. R. Foltz and Son   BODY OF WOMAN NOT YET FOUND   Son Killed Thursday Night, Father Friday and . the Mother Saturday   Tien lPeches Tider War

War Il Veteran Admits Killings   Monroe Citian Confesses to Triple Killing of a Farm Family

Seventh Army < Now In France   Veterans of Sicily Fighting Under Bradle

Americans Are Closing In On Aachen   German City, Attacked From All Sides, Is Burning Battlefield

COUNCIL HEARS ROUTINE REPORTS IN SHORT SESSION   Lower Operating Crests. in. Pumpinz ‘Water Peporfed

GunGlt HEARD AEGULAR REPOR   ' Street and Water Plant Work Reviewed at Regular Session

COUNCIL HEARS ROUTINE REPORT NN SHORT SESSIN   Lower Cperating Ccsis in Pumpiny Water Reported

WALTER J. SMITH SUFFERS WOUNDS   Letter To Parents Here * Gives Little Information —

WALTER J. SMITH SUFFERS WOUNDS   Letter To Parents Here Gives Little Infor owen Pe cive

§-SGT. HUBER REPORTED ON MISSING LIST   Missing Since September 18 Over Hungary, Family ts Advised

Cpl. Jack Fry Missing, Wife - Here Informed   Veteran of Campaign In  ftaly Reported Lost On French Soil

es a  LIEUT. JOKN fi, WIGHSER LISTED AMONG MISSING   Young Man From Bristol Served As Bombardier on Liberator   OVERSEAS FOR 3 MONTHS

2ND LT. WICHSER IS REPORTED AS MISSING IN ACTION   Son of Councilman is Bom. bardier On A B-24  Liberator   OVERSEAS 3 MONTHS   Enlisted Shortly After The Pearl Harbor Incident

4000 GRECIAN REBELS SEIZED BY BRITISH      Much of Southern Athens Cleared of Insurgent Forces

4,000 ELAS NOW HELD BY BRITISH   Extended Section of Athens Now Clear of Greek Insurgents

CRACK GERMAN UNIT ATTACKS IN ALBAN HILLS   Heavy Gunfire Hurled Against Advancing Americans

“Considerable” Advance Is Made In Alban Hills   Americans Within 15 Miles Of Rome; Both Sides Lose Heavily In Men And Material As Foe Receives “Fight-To-Death” Order.

British Units Make Good Gains on Left   On Right, American Tanks By-Pass  Ruined Velletri

DESTROYER AND 2 SMALL BOATS LOST   Vessels Go to Bottom at Sea During Last Week’s Huricane.

U.S. Destroyer Reported Lost During Hurricane   Death Toll Is Said Heavy; Two Coast Guard Boats Sunk

DESTROYER IS LOST DURING HURRICANE   Two Coast Guard Vessels Also Go Down

Destroyer. Two Smaller Vessels Lost in Storm  Heavy Loss of Life, Navy Reports, But Withhkalde Daotaile

DESTROYER LOST INHURRIGANE, NAVY REPORTS   Heavy Loss Of Life On Warrington; Two Coast  Guard Craft Also Sunk

Destroyer, Two Coast Guard Vessels Lost   Three Ships Sunk During Hurricane

THREE U, S. SHIPS SUNK DURING GALE   Destroyer, 2 Coast Guard Vessels Sink; Loss of  Life Heavy

Hurricane Takes Destroyer, Two Smaller Vessels  “Warrington” and Twe Coast Guard Craft

3 Navy Ships  Lost in Storm   U. S. Destroyer and Two Coast Guard Patrol Craft Sink

Olive Branch Is Extended In Break  By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK Associated Press Staff Writer

Kentuckian Writes President Urging Closer Gov't Unity SENATE ACTION ON _  OVERRIDING TODAY Revolt Makes the Senate  Leader Power in Democratic Party

Roosevelt Urged By Barkley To Work for Unity   Majority Leader Writes an Appeal

Kentuckian .Writes President Urging Closer’ Gov't Unity      NATE ACTION ON OVERRIDING TODAY   Revolt Makes the Senate Leader Power in Deme- © cratic Party

Barkley Voices Hope Dispute Will Be Starting Point for Closer Governmental Unity   Senator Addresses Letter to President Roosevelt After Democratic Caucus Re-elects Him Majority Leader

Senate Democratic Chief Sets Forth Hopes in Letter to Chief Executive

Barkley Bids President Seek Unity   URGES CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO HAVE CONFIDENCE _ IN AND SEEK COMMON GROUNDS WITH CONGRESS.   Must All Seek Unity

Senate Due To Override Veto Today   Barkley Writes F.D.R. He Hopes Argument Will Increase Unity  HAS FULL BACKING

HOPE’ OF ONE KEPT AT POST   Democratic Caucus Unanimous In His Support

BARKLEY GETS FULL SUPPORT FROM SENATE   VETO OF TAX BILL IS REJECTED BY HOUSE. 299.95

CLOSER COOPERATION URGED BY BARKLEY   Re-Elected Majority Leader Ke quests Roosevelt To Foster Spirit Of Caity

Barkley Asks Roosevelt for Closer Unity’  Senate Re-Elects   Senate Re-Elects Majority Leader In Historic ‘Revolt’

Hope held for closer agreement   ‘Have confidence in one another’

Lopes For Closer Relations Twixt  FDR Aad Congress   Kentuckian Acc epts Unanimous Re-Election Of Democratic Caucus After He and Doughton OLN. CG. Wad Parted Jompany With  Presidept On “Pax Veto

Jap Soldiers Kill Selves in Cave Shoot Civilians Who Try. to Leave

“Joe the Raider” Lives 1 in Luxury  Sets a Good Table at Jax Expense

iM aaa *aeeiel  Hopkins Son Died Heroically  After Saving Comrades’ Lives

Fijian Jungle Troops under White Officers Prove Best of Fighters

It's a Young Man's War, but Few Stay Young after They Get into It

NINE-YEAR-OLD'S STORY OF TRUNK IMPRISONMENT IS EXPOSED AS HOAX   Little David Was Just Having Fun

Trailer Kid Good At Fibs  Not Locked In Trunk A Week, Boy, 9, Admits

EXPANSION OF SOCIAL SECURITY PROPOSAL MADE   Would Cover Millions Now Denied Benefits; Five Point Program Advanced.

Expansion of the Social Security System is Recommended   Five-point Program Is Set Before Congress by Board.

American Armor Reported Closing in On German Seventh Army; Nantes Is Captured; Loire Crossed

TEMPT TO CLOSE ESCAPE. RAP ON GERMANS REPORTED -LEEING WEST OF CAPITAL

Nazi Retreat West of Paris Is Reported   4, American Columns Strike with Speed, To Entrapment Move  ANE CROGSES TOTRE

U.S. Closing Circle In France; Report Drive Nears Paris   Reds Report Strong Gains in Southern Estonia: Planes Lend Strong Support to Allied Campaign; Poles Make New Gains in Italy

Tien Facets      American Armor Lashing in Every Direction Across Northern Plains of France

Fast-Moving U.S. Tanks Are Closing Trap  - American Armor _ in Complete Control

Bewildered and Frightened Nazi Prisoners Claim That Field Marshal General Guenther Von Kinea Hae Diedared a Caneral Vabeant

“DIME NOVEL" CAPTURE OF TWO BANDITS   The Gunmen Entered a  Huntington Rooming  House Two Days Ago,  Robbing Two State  Police of Revolvers   TROOPERS LAUDED

Take Pair Who Robbed Troopers   State Police Head Lauds Men for “Dime Novel” Capture

Quick Thinking Of School Girl Aids Capture   Apprehension of Bandits Who Robbed State Police Reads Like ‘Dime Novel'   ONE FUGITIVE IS SHOT

Probes Ahead As Congress Re-Convenes   Houses Get Back To Work Tomorrow; OPA Bill To Come Up

CONGRESS 70 END RECESS TOMORROM   Legislating May Give Way Largely to Investigating In Session.

War Legislation Facing Congress   Ktems Noted For “Must List” In House Cleaning Before Convention.

Fierce Battle In Burma Rages  Allies Stand Firm Pafarea Tan Attacks

Judge To Speed Conspiracy Case   Orders Selection Of Jury at Once   He $1,000 Heid

To Pick Jury for Trial of 30 With No Fur ther Delay   Bond of Edward Smythe, Last To Be Arrested,  Raised to $10,000

EAGLES FRIDAY: NIGHT Fresh. fish fer —Ad_         REWCnROYS  waeetren

NATION AVOIDS PHONE STRIKE BY AGREEMENT   Break in Work Stoppage Comes Suddenly and Long Distance Service is Fully Restored.

PHONE STRIKE CALLED OFF BY UNION LEADERS   Break Comes As Government Prepared To Seize Dayton Facilities

Telephone Strike Brought To End By Union Action   Government Seizure of Struck F acilities Thwarted By Move

OHIO PHONK: STRIKE IS CALLED OFF   Government Seizure Had Been Authorized

PHONE STRIKE ENDS, OPERATORS IN XENIA BACK ON JOB FRIDAY   'Week-Long ‘Sympathy’ Walkout Here Called Off;  Sudden Union Decision Averts U. S. Seizure Of Ohio Bell Network >

PHONE STRIKE IS CALLED OFF   DETROIT TRAFFIC CRIPPLED FOR 84 HOURS

Telephone Strike Called Oif By Union Leader  Workers Will Allow   Workers Will Allow War Labor Board To Make Settlement

2100 German Airplanes, 16 Factories Destroyed By U.S. in Eight Weeks   German Airfields in Northern France Raided With Little Opposition; Enemy, Worried About Flanks in Cassino Area, Open Artillery Barrage

REICH BLASTEN BY SKY FLEETS   Over 1700 Bombers Rip At Railway Yards And Factories

YANKS BAG 41 NAZI PLANES, LOSE 49   SAVAGE AIR BATTLES FOUGHT DURING ALLIED RAIDS ON INDUSTRIAL TARGETS,

A2 Big Bombers Lost in Raids  OnGermany    1,700 Pound Plants ‘And Military Targets, 2.500 Fighters Aloft

1223 QUALIFY TO VOTE HERE   Rush of Citizens to Register May Bring Another Special Day in City   Germans Blasted  By 4,200 Planes

Aerial Campaign Reaches Highest - Pitch in Weeks  12, U.S. Bombers and Seven Fighters Are Lost in Alhucks

DESTRUCTION OF TARGETS iS HEAVIEST   In Many Weeks With 1,700 Bombers, = 2,500 Fighters Assaulting  ~ German Points.   Heavy Flak

ALLIED TROOPS REGAIN GROUND AT BEACHHEAD      Bloody Defeat For GermansReds Clear Way For Latvia Push

Report Chinese Still In Foochow   Troops Retain. Foothold In Last Open Seaport

KIMMEL’S $0 MISSING ON SUB   Commanded Craft Now Overdue, Presumed Los

Admiral’s Son Is Lost in Overdue Sub   Lt. Comdr. Kimmel Was Robalo Skipper For Year and Half

Reds Accept Full World Bank Quota   Monetary Conference  Ends After 3 Weeks

Russia Boosts lis Bank Quota   Increases Its Shares to $1,200,000,000 From $900,000,000

FORCES MOVE UP ANOTHER MILE 10 REACH OBJECTIVE   Allied Army Pushes Deep Into Enemy Lines 13 Miles From Capital, Battle 's la Fourth Day.   YANKEE BOMBERS HiT 4 RUHR RAIL POINTS   American Airman Shot Down In Central Germany Mobbed By Infuriated Group of Church People.

ONLY 15 MILES FROM ROME IN BITTER FIGHT   BKighth Army Pushes Ahead

Fifth Army Is Within Nearly 15 Miles of Rome   Strong Tank Counterattacks of Nazis Futile

AMERICANS GAIN MILE ON ANZIO ROAD   Showdown Battle Raging In Hills South of Rome

GROUND IS GAINED ONLY. AFTER HAR DFIGHTING WI TANKS PLAYING A BIG PAR’

Tankmen 15 Miles of Capital   U. S. Tanks Sweep to 15 Miles of City, Shell Genzano

Chinese and Americans Drive  Into Outskirts of Myitkyina; Airborne Troops Reinforce Merrill’s Infantry

Allies Pierce Stronghold of  Japs in Burma   Triple Push Moves Upon Bastion From West, North

Allied Jungle Fighters Hit Myitkyina   Japanese Burma Headquarters Expected to Fall

‘Allies Enter Outskirts ‘Of Strategic Myitkyina  , Air-Borne Troops Stab At Nippon-Held Burma City

CHINESE-YANK TROOPS ENTER MYITKYINA   After Taking Main Japanese Airdrome South of Town; Elements on Nerth Burma Converge   Planes Active

Allies Piercing Myitakyina Base   American and Chinese Troops Close in on Jap North Burma Head quarters

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON BIG JAP BASE IN BURMA   Jungle Fighters Push Into Outskirts of Myitkyina

ALLIES CLOSING IN ON JAPANESE BASE      Chinese and Americons Seize Myitkyina Airdrome

Yanks, Chinese Close In on Big Burma Base   Three-Pronged Drive Converges Upon Japs at Myitkyina

ELAS FORGES IN. GREECE HIT BY BRITISH PLANES   Four Classes of Military Reserves Called Up in Athens

lfalian Groups Near Agreement   Formation Of War  Cabinet Planned  By RICHARD G. MASSOCK Associated Press Staff Writer

Beverly Biggs Led State Last Month In Navy Recruits   Lumberton Man Desig nated ‘Recruiter of the onth” <<   = ,

Beverly Biggs Lec State Last Month In Navy Recruits   Lumberton Man Desig: nated ‘ ‘Recruiter of the - Month.”

Time Out to Iron Out Difficulties ‘Within the Parties   Very Few Grudges Carried Over from Primary Fight

Party Machines for Fall   Expect Fireworks To Start In September

Political Activity Slackens During Month of August   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent

Swedes Join — In Appeal for Finn Peace   King Gustav Pleads With Country to Reconsider — Stand

SWEDEN URGES FINNISH PEACE   Reported to Have Delayed Reply to Reds

Sen. Ball Bolts Dewey To Help Re-Elect FDR   Minnesota Republican Says Roosevelt’s Foreign Polier Wan Him

BATTLE SHARPENED BY STAND OF BALL   Position of Minnesota Senator Is no Surprise

Germans Face New Trap on Channel Coast   Eisenhower Visits Paris as His Armies Stream Across Seine; Nazis Reported Fleeing Le Havre

ALLIES ARE NOW 118 MILES FROM GERMAN BORDER   American Spearheads Reported To Have Crossed The Marne At Vitry   NAZI RESISTANCE IS BECOMING STIFFER

‘Yank armor veers ‘north in new drive   Flanking blow against battered foe takes form; smash beyond Troyes

One Probing Spearhead " Reaches Marne in Vicin- F ity of Lagny, 15 Miles , East of Paris.

NE FORCE REACHES MARNE WHERE GERMAN ARMIES WERE HALTED IN WORLD WAR ONE

All Germans Cleared from Lower Seine   Nazi Resistance Grows 118 Miles:from Reich, May Abandon Le Havre

American Spearhead Reaches Marne Near Lagny; Foe is Being Mopped Up Between Paris and Troyes

Algiers Reports Drive 45 Miles  From Verdun   Eisenhower Arrives In Paris: Movement on Coast Continues as Flanking Drive Opens

Against t Retreating Nazis From Channel to Reich   Russians Smash Through Galati Gap in Romania, Approaching Rich Ploesti Oil Fields— Allies Advance in South France and Italy

Another Force, Just 118 Miles From German Border, Meets Stiffening Enemy Resistance; Pockets Mopped Up

ENEMY IS CLEARED - FROM SEINE AREA   Units Reaches Marne In Vicinity Of lagny; To Southeast, column thrusts Toward Arcis-Sur-Aube, Encountering Stiff Resistance

American Armor Reaches Marne East of Paris   Americans Making Flank ing Drive against Nazi Retreat Route

FLOODS CONTINUE THROUGH MIDWEST   Hundreds of Army Trucks Help Evacuate Many Residents

1,000 Truckers Stage Walkout   Drivers Protest Stall _ In Wage Raise Demands

Conferefice At Quebec Ends Today   Clears Way for Future Deliberations on  _ Cracking German  : Power

QUEBEC MEET WILL BE ENDED BY NOON TODAY   FDR, Churchill May Continue Talks Elsewhere

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QUEBFC VICTORY TALKS FINISHED   Roosevelt And Churchill Will Meet Newsmen At Noon Today

QUEBEC PARLEY 10 BE FINISHED TODAY   Joint News Conference at Noon Will Draw Curtain

QUEBEC CONFAB END SEEN TODAY   Additional Meetings Hinted in Settling Future of Eurqne —

RUSSIAN FORCES PUSH WESTWARLE   German Radio Says Army Units Have Entered Southern and Eastern Suburbs of Beleaguered Budapest

SOVIETS PUSH INTO SUBURBS OF BUDAPES   MOSCOW IS” SILENT ON BIG ASSAULT IN LATVIA

Red Troops Advance on East Front   Russ Communique Ignores Germans on Budapest Attacks

Hard fighting Soviet Army  Moves Along: Vienna Road   Southeastern Front ‘Flames: Into Action

Reds Within 100 Miles Of  Great Vienna   72 Miles From Bratislava: Reds Ignore Budapest In New Assault.   CAPTURE NINE TOWNS

Swing West Nets Gain Of 16 Miles   Several Towns Are Captured By Red Troops

Russians Within 100 Miles of Vienne   Enter Suburbs of Budapest in New Frontal Assault

Liberated  In Advance  On Island ©   . Outnumbered. Enemy Being Forced ; Back :

Leyte Valley Drive Welds Trap for Foe   Tanks Spearhead - Drive ‘into Interior, Advance 7. Miles Against Stiff Opposition

Leyte Drive Threatens To Entrap Japs   Tanks Advance 7 Miles Inland, Says MacArthur

YANK COLUMNS LAND IN SAMAR, REPORTER SAYS   Americans Hurl Back Hard Jap Blows; Tanks Lead 7-Mile Inland Push

Landing on Second Island Is Reported   Eleven Towns Freed Despite Fierce Jap Resistance; Tokyo Reports Our Fleet Attacked

TO HELP FILL JOBS   Local Employment Service Finds Priority Referral Good  dea

TO HELP FILL JOBS   Local Employment Service Finds Prionity Referral Good Idea!  Idea

Kuriles Hit Again by U.S. Air Raiders   Matsuwa, Shumushu and Paramushiro Bombed in) Three Attacks

Matsuwa, Kurile Isle Near Tokyo ‘Raided By Yanks   Single Liberator Hits Jap Homeland Isle; Paramushiro, Shumushu Also Attacked; Ponape Said Virtually Eliminated By Bombin

New Kuriles Bombing Is Nearer Tokyc   Matsuwa, 960 Miles From Jap Capital, Hit in Latest Raid

Kurile Island Blasted In Raid   Single Plane Attacks Matzsuwa Island-——960 Miles From Jap Capital.

Matsuwa Island, Less Than 1,000 Miles From Japanese Canital. Hit By U. S. Bombs

nd Based avies Blast riles Group   iberator Bombs land Only 960 Miles rom Nip Capitol

Bomber Goes Deeper Info Jap Islands   Liberator from Aleutians Drops Bombs Only 960 Miles from Tokyo

Revoke Charter of Gentile League   Wisconsin Court Orders Dissolution

CHURCHILL SAYS TALKS PLANNED   Further ‘Consultation Between Principal Allies’ Pledged By British Leader

New Conferences On Application of Atlantic Charter   Churchill Says Conferences Necessary Under Changing Phases of War

CHURCHILL TELLS ALLIES PLAN FOR NEXT CONFERENCE   Commons Are Informed o! New Consultation Between Principal Nations t¢ Clarify Charter.   “CHANGING PHASES” OF WAR GIVEN AS REASON   Foreign Secretary Eden Says United States, Britain Are Now Deliberating on Future France,

Churchill Will Sean Charter during Action   Renewed ConsultatidA Bétweéh Principal Allies Hints of New Big 3 Meeting

‘Principal Allies’ To ‘Meet Again; Date Not Sei   Churchill Says There Will Be Renewed Consultation Regarding Atlantic Charter

Atlantic Charter To Be Reviewer   Churchill Says Consultation Plannec

CHURCHILL SAYS MEETING ON TAP   Further Conferences Planned, Prime Minister Reveals; No Elaboration.

Especially Vigilant.   Churchill's Talk Hints At Allied Conference

Allied Heads Plan New Wa: Consultation   Churchill Says  Charter Tonic

NAZIS CHEERFUL OVER ADVANCES   Berlin Reports Through Stockholm; Citizens Behind Allied Lines Fear

Nazis Declare Units Of 1st Army Beaten   High Command Communique Asserts Tank Forces Have Broken Through and Smashed Yank Formations Deep Into Allied Lines.

Claim Allies are Suffering Loss of 6,000 by Death, Or Wounds. Daily

Russians Blast German Ships   Sink Four More Enemy Transports in Gulfs Of Riga and Finland

RUSSIANS LASH NAZI SHIPPING   Four Transports Are Sunk In Baltic Assaults

Reds Sink Four Transports in. Riga, Finland Gulf   Strike Made Prior To Timed North to Black Sea Offensive

Reds Sink Four More Nazi Ship:   20 German Pianes Ranorted Downed

Reds Continue To Blast Nazi War Shipments   Attacks Preliminary Te Strategically Timed Of. fensive from Far North to Black Sea

Moves Across Sodden Forests, Hills. \ Valleys Towards Germany’s Industrial Border

SAAR BASIN IS OBJECTIVE OF NEW OFFENSIVE   Patton Opens Full- Scale Attack On 55-Mile Front

Enemy F ears Offensive In:  Pk  ~ Holland Area   Dozens of Towns Fall. i 55-Mile Arc Around Bi French Fortress :

*ATTON’S TANK OFFENSIVE ‘OUTHEAST OF METZ DRIVES HRFE MILES PAST DELME   rtillery Pounds on Both Sides of Maas In Holland As Enemy Displays Nervousness Over Possibility of Renewed Action   RIDGEHEADS ACROSS MOSELLE ARE DEEPENED

Tokyo Radio Indicates Yanks Land 400 Miles From Manila After Two-Day Bombardment

Assault on. Central Portion of Islands Reported by Tokyo   Japanese Radio Reveals MacArthur’s LongPromiséd Attack Got Under Way . Tuesday, with Three American Commands in Action

Temperatures   Three American Commands Hit Vulnerable Isles   Manila Attacked By 270 Planes; Four Waves Hit Clark Field Continuing Week-Long Assaults

Long-Promised U. S. Invasion: With Forces Of 3 Commands Striking At Central Islands

JAPANESE DECLARE  RE-ENTRY AMERICAN  FORCES INTO ISLANDS NIPPON NEWS AGENCY SAYS “REINVASION OF

Landings Said to Have Been Made In Central Zone   U. S. Warships and Transports in Leyte Gulf, Tokyo Declares

THREE AMERICAN FORCES STRIKE   Leyte Gulf, Suluan [sland Invaded, Tokyo Radio Says: Manila Hit By Carrier Borne Planes

LEYTE GULF FOCAL POINT FOR ACTION!   General MacArthur Making Good On His Promise to Return to Avenge Bataan, Corregidor.   By LEONARD MILLIMAN {AP Ware PaAaitar)

JAPANESE DECLARE RE-ENTRY AMERICAN FORCES INTO ISLANDS  NIPPON NEWS AGENCY SAYS “REINVASION OF  PHILIPPINES” BEGUN

PHILIPPINES INVADED BY U.S. FORCES   Tokyo Radio Says Americans Hit Isles Tuesday

U.S. Transports In Leyte Gulf   Carrier-borne Planes Drop Bombs On Manila, Clark Field Airdromes

MacArthur Goes Back to Central Philippines Exactly 30 Months After He Said, ‘I Shall Return’

Arnold Mentzer And Merleen. Moritz Wed  Ceremony At Little Brown _ Chairch NI a chisa

FIRST DAY OF FILING FOR THE CANDIDATES   Saturday, Feb. 5 First Day; Three County Offices To Be Filed

Russian Troops Approach Pskov   Take Rail Junction In Furious Drive

REDS SHATTER NAZI FRONT IN WHITE RUSSIA   Muscovites Hammer To Within 20 Miles Of Pskov Base

Rogachev Falls On Gomel Front; Nazis in Retreat   Smashed German Divisions Falling Back Toward Latvia

REDS CAPTURE ONO JUNCTION NEAR PSKOV      Also Take Strategic Points In White Russia; Germans Abandon Equipment In Retreat Toward Latvia.   Nearing Rumania

Red Troops Converging On Pskov; Rail Junction Falls   New Three-Day Russ Offensive Shatters Nazi   New Three-Day Russ Offensive Shatters Nazi Lower White Russian Front: Raaachey Token

Reds Claim   Rail Junction Captured  And Soviets Drive on City of Pskov From © Three Directions

RUSSIANS WIN RAIL JUNCTION IN PSKOV AREA   Nazis Falling Back on Latvia Abandon  Equipment

Berlin Broadcast Tells Gf Renewed Fightiug 90 Miles Tustde Poland

Reds Smash On Toward Pskov   Village 20 Miles From City Taken  _ By TOM YARBROUGH 

PAIGE GONTAUL AG) MAY oct MODHGATIONS   Cificials Start Necotia.ions With Lankin; Committee

Russians Close Upon Belgrade InBalkanPush   Big Baltic Break-Through Carries Over 60 Miles On Far-Fluneg Front

USE FIELD ON TINIAN   While Assault Forces Close in on Guam’s Important Orote Airfield, Wrested From Japs.   Bomb Troop Area   400 Japs Killed

Petain Wanted To Surrender To de Gaulle Agent August 21   Ry NANA ADAM SCRGO—nNY

Nazi Threats Defeat Petain   Rockets Rake N Italian Liner D   Marshal Prevented From Surrendering

TELLS OF LAST DAYS OF VICHY COLLABORATIONIST REGIME; PETAIN CALLED GERMAN ENVOY A LIAR   By DANA ADAM SCHMIDT  eee Te ee, eR ay A eee ae oa ny

Petain And Hitler’s Agent Had Violent Quarrel As Marshal Tried To Surrender

Made Nazi Captive Under Threats Petain Wanted To Surrender To French, Reporter Told

Petain Offered to Surrender To de Gaulle Before Vichy Fel   Rv DAN ADAM SCINUDT

Germans Say Positions On Lower Dnestr Pierced, Give Figures on Crimea

NAZI VESSELS ARE ~ SUNK BY BOMBERS   Land and Sea Transportation Hit by Russian Airmen

REDS BREAK UP CERMAN CONVOY   Six Vessels Are Sunk, Including Three Transports

RED AIRMEN SINK 3 TRANSPORTS IN GERMAN CONVOY   Three Others Set On Fire— Barge, Auxiliary Vessel and Cutter Blasted to Bottom.   POSITIONS ON LAND FRONT UNCHANGED   Nazi Railway Concentrations in Old Poland Biasted— Damage Inflicted On Rolling Stock.

Soviets Sink Several Nazi Convoy Shins  Group Located In ee a rr . an oe

SOVIET FLIERS BLAST 41-SHIP NAZI CONVOY   Enemy Military Trains And Supply Depots Also Hit

Soviet Airmen  Attack Convoy   41 Ships Canght in Norse  Port af Kivkenes

Russians. Continue Air Raids   German Land and Sea  _ Transportation Hit,  “Céhvoy Battered Off No: vay  *

AIR ATTACKS BY RUSSIANS ANNOUNCED      With No Essential Changes on Land Front; 41Ship Convoy Caught in Norwegian Post.   Fvacuate 128,000

RED BOMBERS SINK SIX SHIPS IN FOE CONVOY   Soviets Report Lull is Continued on Land Front

Leyte Japs Fleeing Into Mountain Range   MacArthur Reports Foe on Whole  Philinonine Front Facing Disaster

(st Cavalry  Gain 32 Miles In 24 Hours   Speedy Drives Take MacArthur to 65 Mi. Of Luzon Island

Yank Forces Now’'65 Miles  From Luzon   Invasion Group Races Up West Coast of Samar; Jans Withdraw

Yanks, Racing Up Samar, Are Within 65 Mi. Of Luzon      Gen. MacArthur Reports Japs Crumbling On 80 Mile Front

YANKS GAIN ON SAMAR AND LEYTE   Japs Bordering On Disorganization And Disintegration

YANKS RACE UP SAMAR, STRIKE TOWARD LUZON   MacArthur Says Japs ‘Disorganized’ Along 80-Mile Front

‘American Troops Within Nearly 65  Miles of Luzon   Practically Entire Island Now Under U. S. Domination

Reach Point 65 Miles ©  From Luzon      JAPS ALL ALONG FRONT IN PHILIPPINES NEAR COMPLETE DISINTEGRATION

Third Army Held Up, bul First Is Advancing   Belgian Defenses Reported Broken

Third Army Held Up for Over Week While First Army Tanks Move Eastward Toward Leige on 25-Mile Front Across the Meuse.

First Army Is Nearing Range Of Nazi Lines   Intantry And Armor Push Directly To Hitler Domain

Third Army Is Stalled By Lagging Supplies As First Smashes On For Naziland   Hodges Starts Real Thing In North As Yanks Pour Across Meuse On Big Front

REAL BATTLE FOR GERMANY IS UNDER WAY   NAZI HOMELAND TO BE IN RANGE OF BIG GUNS SOON

Yank Troops Cross Meuse  In Hard Fight   Patton’s Army Stalled by Lagging Supplies; German Resistance to Invaders Reported Increased

Allied Shells — Soon To Drop  On Germany   Ist Army Has Started Battle for Germany, Correspondent Says

Patton’s Drive Stopped. for  Supplies and Regrouping NAZIS REINFORCE.  DURING THE LULL  Allied Forces Sweep Ahead on Other Main ~ Fronts 

Infantry and Armor Pushing Relentlessly: Forward on 25-Mile Front After Capture o Hordes. of. Nazis — Hitler’s Units Mak Stand Béfore Metz Against Patton’s Forces, Delayed by Lagging Supplies:

Enemy begins first big stand; Ist army stabs. toward Liege   Real battle for Germany opened as Americans leap across Meuse

BITTER STAND -ON FRONTIER   Brunt Of Battle Against Reinforced Enemy Turn ed Over To Infantry   FIRST ARMY DRIVES CVER MEUSE RIVER

Asking What FDR Meant   Fear “Social Angle” _ To Ideas About PostWar Military Training

aerwcemscemconuse ete ale Troi  Capitol Hill ll Frowning On        Di... ya R REks   Many Cangrecsumen Sue. pect Effort to Revive CCC; Against Compulsory Military Duty

BE MORE SPECIFIC, CONGRESS ASKS FOR      Postwar Government Youth Training Program Cause

ASK DETAILS OF YOUTH TRAININC   President Roosevelt Request  ed to Be More Siecific In His Recommendations.

Straight Military Youth Training Backed By Solons   Congress. Asks F. R To Be More Specific on Plan

FDR Proposes Post-War CCC   Military Training Finds Support In House

Gen. Montgomery Says Promised Land Of Peace is Not Far Off But May Not Come Until 1945

Nation Asked to Back Armed Forces   Peace in Sight, Says British General

‘MONTY’ THINKS PROMISED LAND OF PEACE NEAR      Gen. Montgomery In Speech At Luncheon, Asks Nation To ‘Back Army

4000 PLANES RAID EUROPE WITHOUT LOSS   Historic 7000 - Mile Foray Across 10 Countries

4000 Warplanes Hammer (,erman Military Targets   Triangle Shuttle Bombing Raids Are Completed

4000 Warplanes Hit Nazi Areas  Shuttle Raiders   Shuttle Raiders Return to Britain

Robot Deaths Set at 2752 By Churchill   Many American Soldiers and WACs Casualties

Robot Casualties Exceed 10,000, Churchill Reveal:   Victims Include Many U. S. Soldiers, WACS, Red Cross Worker

Plans for Coming War Bond & tles In Schools Told hy Regi sentative of Committes:

Greece Becomes  Nazi ‘Dunkerque’   Planes Blast Enemy, Allies Nearing Corinth

RALLY DAY OF COUNTY'S 4-H CLUB PLANNED   Annual Frolic Is Set for July 5.

AHRALLY DAY SET-FOR JULY 5   " Gomntittees Named To “Arrange For Program

Moscow’s Latest Political Move Causing Considerable Speculation In World Capitals

U. 5. Diplomats Puzzled Over Russ Program  e..* , wm... ge   Soviet Republics May Handle Own Foreign Affairs

Reorganization of The Soviet Union Poses Questions   A. Commonwealth of Nations Is Seen As Result of Russia’s Revolutionary Move.

Soviet Union Reorganized, Proves Puzzle   Commonwealth Is Set Up th Surprise Move, May - Give Russia Edge At - Peace Table

Reorganization Of Soviet Union  Poses Problem   Capital Wonders How Plan For Commonwealth May Work To Red Advantage

REORGANIZATION OF SOVIET UNION GIVES ADDITIONAL WORRIES   SOME INTERESTING POLITICAL QUESTIONS CONFRONT ALLIES

Allies Rush New Units T Halt Nazis   American Soldiers Withdraw From Town Of Barga

ENEMY ATTACK GAINS IN ITALY   Americans Driven From Important Road Town Of Barga

Reinforce U.S.  Lines in Italy   Planes Aid Doughboys Pushed Back by Nazis

NazisDrive Yanks From Road Town   [Air and Ground [forces Thrown Into Battle As Americuus  Lose Barga

Allies Hasten To Block Nazis in Italy   Har! in Strong Air, Ground Force to Halt Enemy Drive

NAZIS LAUNCH DRIVE IN ITALY   Allies Battle to Halt Foe Assault; Yanks Driven From Barga

Xmas Parcels To Be Mailed Sept. 15-Oct.15      Must Be Packed in Strong Boxes Well Marked

MAIL XMAS BOXES EARLY OVERSEAS    Postoffice Department Is Urging Mailing Christmas Packages Early This Year.

CHOICE FOR SENATOR MADE BY DONNELLY   But Governor-Elect Will Not An: nounce Selection Until After Hise Wnanvcuration.

Patrol Boat Hits Vessel _   Cutters Stand By To Rescue Survivors

GREAT BLOW IS EXCELLED BY YANKEES   Vertical Attack on Ste Mere Eglise _ belov Cherbourg  Brillianth, Carried Out.  Storm Pillbox

Pre-Invasion — Air Offensive Roaring Ahead   Hitler’s Fortress Europe Is Heavily Hammered For Sixth Straight Day   NEW NIGHT ATTACK MADE ON COLOGNE

Wave After Wave of Bombers. Including the Heavywéights _ Stream Over the Channel

T. Sgt. W. O. Thomas’ Plane Hit On His 50th Air Mission   Cullman B-24 Bomber Engineer Has Been In Navy “Hot Spots” Over Europe

GERMANS QUELL DANISH UPRISING   POLICE CHIEF, STATE SECRETARY INTERNED

U.S. Long Toms Pound Reich For Ist Time As Allies Close On Aachen   Mystery Cloaks 3rd Army Drive On Rhineland; Canadians Inch Ahead Through Le Havre Defenses

German Border 10 Miles Away From Yanks, British, French; Hundreds Of 155’s In Action

Last Belgian Defense Barrier Crushed By British Tommies Who Plunge  Past German Forces Along Escaut Canal

RED PUSH AIMS TO CUT ESCAPE FROM DNIEPER   Part of Vatutin Units Turn at Right Angles from Army in Poland

New Ration Rules Hurt Montana Beef industries  Galec af Mutton. Parl   Sales of Mutton, Pork Increase Fast; Many Flay Situation

New Ration Rules Hurt Montana Beef Industries  Sales of Mutton, Pork Increase Fast; Many Flav Situatian

BILL IS OFFERED TO ABOLISH FSA   Assets And Duties Would Be Transterred To Other Agencies

BILL SUBMITTED TO ABOLISH FSA   House Receives Plan From Group On Investigators

Abolition of FSA Sought in Measure Offered in House   Agricultural Subcommittee Finished Investigation of Agency

INTRODUCE BILL TO ABOLISH FSA   WOULD TRANSFER DUTIES, ASSETS TO FARM HOME AGENCY

Farm Security Setup To Be Abolished Under New Measure  Drastic Limitations On Policies of  ANY  we Dunnwncoel

Farm Security Setup To Be Abolished Under New Measure  Drastic Limitations On Policies of Program Proposed

‘George Rosenow ‘Man Is Killed —   Lt. Rosenow Was Reported’ Missing Now Listed Dead

Pvt. D.B. Brackett Fatally Wounded In Belgian Action   Attended School  In Two Cities

George Rosenow Former Liberty Man Is Killed  Lt. Rosenow Was R annrta] RAS we ter

Also Reach Approaches To St. Lo   BRITISH SEIZE NUMBER OF © VILLAGES EAST OF CAEN IN MOVE TO OUTFLANK NAZI DEFENSES

Seizure Of Carentan Expected To Pave Way For American Smash Across Normandy Peninsula

Nazi Garrison  Abandons City   Allied Spearheads Near Cherbourg; Clear Weather Helps Air Support

Kind Illegal Luxuries In Army Probe   Truman Committee’s Fan Mail Tips Help Spot Irregularities

BYRNES APPOINT KEY OFFICIALS   War Mobilization and Reconversion Director Announces New and Intensified Production Drive

vommission Calls For One Hundred And > sixty Million Dollar Postwar Program For Ohic

Proposed Ohio Post- War Program  Asks 160 Millions in Public Works

U. S. 14TH AIR FORCE SINKS LARGE JAP TRANSPORT   Nios Raid U. S. Positions

Chinese Grimly Defend Rail City   Japs Closing In at Heavy Cost in Troops

YANK FORCES — ADVANCING: ON ~ GOTHIC LINE   FIFTH “ARMY ONLY: EIGHT MILES FROM PISA AND. SIX.’ -; ' TEEN MILES FROM: “ FLORENCE

HFTH ARMY 16 MILES FROM FLORENCE   Yanks Smash Forward Beyond Captured Port of Livorno

YANKS 16 MILES FROM FLORENCE   Fifth Army Prepares For As. sault On Gothic Line

ALLIES TAKE LIVORNG; PUSH ON 10 PISA   Fifth Draws Up Along Arno to Strike Gothic Line

JAPS REELING: IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA   Suffer New Reverses in M’Arthur’s Growing Offensive 

FOR lo SILENT OM 4TH TERM URGE   Resolution Presented by Group of Democrats Cap: Activities Preliminary te Committee Meet Today

Noncommital ‘Oh’ reply to  Ath term idea   Favor Hanneganas national chairman

OUP BACKS: FOURTH TERM   FDR Replies “Oh” as Mid. westerners Pledge Support to Him

FOURTH TERM RESOLUTION IS PRESENTED TO MR. ROOSEVELT    Mid-Western Democrats Agree To Support President For Another Term; National Committee Will Elect Chairman And Select Convention City Today

Democrats: Strive To Gain Harmony  Some Mid-Westerners  Want FDR

They're Dissatisfied, but Loyal Midwest Democratic Leaders Close ‘Complaints Session’ With Formal Call for Fourth Term

FD. R. Replies ‘Oh’ to Bid For Fourth Term   Midwestern Bourbons Present President Their Resolution

ae Ne eRe SA UY A) See eee  Midwest Democratic Leaders Close ‘Complaint: Session’ With Formal Call for Fourth Term

ROOSEVELT ASKED TO BE CANDIDATE   Mid-Western Democrat: Fevor Fourth Term for President

RERUN REQUEST 1S PREETEA WITH ‘OH   Democratic Leaders Present Fourth Term Plea to

THIRD ARMY ESTABLISHES BRIDGEHEAD AFTER TAKING SAARLAUTERN BRIDGE   Pierre Huss, I. N. S. Correspondent, Gives Eyewitness Account of Seizure of Vital Structure

NAZI POCKETS ARE WIPED OUT ON SAAR BANKS   Offensives Being Shaped Up For Drive Toward Ruhr Valley   Surprise Move By Yanks Saved Saarlautern Bridge

Tennessee Troop Train Wrecked; 17 Lose Lives   15 of Victims Said To Be Soldiers; Over 100 Injured

Troop Train Wreck Kills At Least 17   Train Plunges From Mountain Rails Near Jellico, Tenn.

TRAIN WRECK KILLS JO SOLDIERS TODAY   Train Carrying Soldiers From Fort Harrison, Indianapolis

17 Dead, Many Injured When Troop Train Plunges Into Mountain Gorge

Troop Train Plunges Into Tennessee Gorge  At Least 15 Soldiers, Eneine Crew Killed

Hundreds of Thousands Imperilled By Severance of Railway as Nipponese Close in On Loyang—Enemy Reported Using 100,000 Men and Large Number of Tanks in Effort to Destroy Chiang’s Army in Honan,

Japs Cut Main Escape Artery   Many Thousands 0 Chinece Mannced..

Japanese Cut Chinese Retreat Line  Nips Draw Noose Tighter “Around Loyang

ANCIENT LOYANG IN JAP PINCERS   Main Retreat Line For Chinese Cut Off As Noose Tightens

Japanese Cut Chinese Retreat Line  Nips Draw Noose Tighter  “BReniwwd Tagen

245 Labor Day Holiday Fatalities Reported in Natior  15 Deaths Recorded in Upsiaie   15 Deaths Recorded in Upstate New York, Including Seven Due to Traffic. 4 Drownines

1 Lose Lives  - Over Labor Da   Michigan Reports Ten Holiday Fatalities

Mishaps Take 245 US Lives Over Holiday   Total Greater Than Last Year

HolidayDeath Toll Is 245   More Than Half Are Treftic Accidents.

210 VIOLENT DEATHS OVER THE HOLIDAY   Total Is Higher Than A Year Ago But Stil! Under 1941 and 1942 Figures

Labor Day Holiday Deaths Reach 245   Oklahoma Escapes With Only Two Fatalities

More Work Needec To Finish County War Chest Drive   Harper First And = Only Community Over Top As Drive Enters Final Week

Workers Urged To Finish-Make Report Saturday   With Only Scattered Reports Received, Job In County Is Far From Complete

Senator Chavez Issues Plea To Congress ToSpeed Work  Demobilization Program

Missouri River Development Plan Outlined   Projects Would Cost Estimated Sum of $1,378,000,000

ROOSEVELT TELLS STIMSON 10 TAKE - CHARGE OF PLANT   Executive Makes Move on First Municipal Water System at Los Angeles Ir 4-Day Strike.   2500 WORKERS GIVEN ORDERS TO RESUME   Mayor Bouron Makes Request as Workers Refuse to Make Repairs and Cease Interruptions.

; tArmy to Run ils Power Plant: Up InLosAngele   President Orders Stimson to Take Over StrikeCrippled City Generators

Army To Take Over Los Angeles Utilities, Crippled By Strike   War Feeder Plants And Some 125,000 Homes And Business Firms Hit By Walkout Now In Tenth Day.

LOL LLG LLL OO LLL LN A  AUTHORIZES ARMY TO OPERATE POWER PLANT IN CALIFORNIA

ARMY ORDERED TO TAKE OVER POWER PLAN]   Strike of Municipally-Operated Los Angeles Power and Water Plants Ties Up War Industry

LOS ANGELES A  LGHTLESS CITY   Schools and 150 War Plants Closed by Strike and Storm.

Roosevelt Seizes Ohio Steel Plant   Takes Action in Strike at Sandusky

U.S. STEPS INTO POWER, WATER ROW   President Orders Stimson to Take Over and Operate Strike-Crippled Municipal Services in Los Angeles.

U.S. TAKES OVER SANDUSKY FIRM   FDR Orders Seizure After WLB Strike Report

STIMSON TO RUN A COAST PLANT   FDR Orders Him to Operate Strike - Bound L. A. Power Dept.

Seizure oo Plant "Ordered   President Directs. Army © tt Take Over. Municipal Wa~. ter Plant at.Los: Angeles   SERVICE STOHPED i “ BECAUSE: OF STRIKE       AFL, Head Repudiates the Walkout; Says ‘Action Wil: Do Harm to Labor ”

160 WAR PLANTS HIT BY LACK OF FLECTRICITY.   2,500 Employes Of City Striking For Wage Increase

FDR Orders Stimson to Take Over Strike-Bound Utilities of Los Angeles

PRESIDENT. ORDERS  SECRETARY OF WAR  TO TAKE OVER PLANTS STRIKE-CRIPPLED LOS  ANGELES WATER AND POWER TINITS TO RESUME

Army Is Ready To Move In At Struck Plant:   Union Leaders : Say Men Will: Return If Troops Take Over; ‘Hundreds “Of Workeré idle:

FDR Orders War Plants Seized   Davis Says Company Refuses To Avide By ‘Terms Of WLB Orders.

ARMY ACTION IS ASKED FOR LOS ANGELES   Mayor Seeks Army Operatior Of Crippled Power System Of City

Government Seizes ‘Los Angeles Plant   Municipal Facilities Have Been Paralyzed By 10-Day Strike

ARMY TAKES OVER CITY POWER PLANT   President Acts in Strike at Los Anoelec

Power Strike Is Critical:   Army. Intervention . Asked By Governor

Army Ordered To Take Plants Of Los Angeles   President Roosevelt Acts After Strike Kept Power From Homes and Plants

ARMY IN CHARGE OF POWER PLANT   FDR Orders Stimson to Operate Los. Angeles Municipal Utility After Strike

FDR Orders Seizure Of Steel Plant   2,500 Employes Strike In Defiance Of WLB

FDR Orders Arm) To Take Over  Los Angeles Plants  Strike Has Crippled Water and Power Departments There

U.S. to Seize Nickel Plant   President Orders Troops Inte Huntington Plant

Painless Tax Bill Given To House      CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON  FORMALLY PRESENTS  MEASURE; WILL EFFECT ABOUT 50,00,000 TAXPAYERS. '

VIL SERVICE WORKERS NEEDED   Twenty-one Vacancies Are Announced by State Office.

GANDHI A VERY SICK MAN   His Followers Alarmed As He Shows Mental Relapse At Times

GANDHI'S HEALTH CAUSES CONCERN   INTIMATES SAY HE FREQUENTLY FADES INTO STATE OF COMA

Physical Condition Of Gandhi Deteriorates; Mental Powers Affected

‘Mental Powers ‘Of Gandhi Are Now Affected   Causes India’s. Nationalist Leader Frequently to. Fade. Into State Resembling Coma

8 CONGRESS SEATS OF THREE STATES STILL UNDECIDEL   Demo Majorities Stand At 25 In House, 7 In Senate

8 Washington Jobs in Doubt   GI Vote to Decide Convressional Races

Six House Seats  Still Undecided   Delayed: Counting of Soldier Vote Blamed

4 GET TOP STATE DEPARTMENT JOBS IN A Blo SHAKEUP   J. C. Grew Named Undersecretary; A. W. Clayton, Archibald Macieisi, Nelson Rockefeller Assistants.   APPOINTMENTS STRESS ECONOMIC ‘AFFAIRS   Sweeping Changes Give Stettinius Own Team and Leave Only One of Hull’s Former Aids in Office.

GREW NOMINATED — UNDER-SECRETAR\   Career Diplomat Named in State Department Shake-up

U.S. For eign Affair ‘s Put  In New Hand: By President   Grew, Rockefeller, Clayton, MacLeish © Appointed Aides . To Sec. Stettinius  BERLE. LONG OWT

State Department Gets Complete Shakeup; New Team To Aid Stettinius

STETTINIUS GETS FOUR NEW AIDES   Joseph C. Grew, Former Ambassador to Japan, Named Under-secretary; Three Assistants Named

TOP-LEVEL SHAKEUP IN STATE DEPARTMENT   Direction Of Nation’s Foreign Affairs Assigned To Grew, Clayton, Macleish, Rockefeller

Poles Weigh Red Offer   Care Taken in Framing Reply Indicates It May Be Conciliatory .

Poland May Be Conciliatory   Government in Exile Is Framing Reply to Russian Proposal —

POLES MAY SEEK CONCILIATION   Believed Framing Answer To Soviet Proposal

Poles’ Reply To Be Mild   Believed Note to Russia Conciliatory in Attitude

Poland’s Views Conciliatory  Cabinet Considers © Denhklan fin Ath rece

BELIEVE POLES FRAMING REPLY   Government -In-Exile May Be Preparing Conciliatory Answer To Russian Frontier Proposal.

Bi-Partisan Bloc *Back Discharge , Pay Measure   Show Down Monday; Service Men’s Ballots Before House

Service Bills Top Agenda  For Congres:   Muster-Out Pay, Soldier Voting Stir Discussion

MUSTERING OUT DEBATE BILLED   Move Launched to Raise Discharge Payments Up to $700

Soldier Bill Biggest Job For Congress   Bi-Partisan Bloc Be hind Drive to Hike Discharge Pay

Mustering Out Pay Tops Work Facing Solons  TR? Daortican Rina   Bi-Partisan Bloc Backs Movement To Increase Sum

Bloc Proposes Mastering Out Payment Raise   Service Legislation Gets Priority With Ballot

Bloc Supports ‘Muster Checks   Non-Partisan Group. ‘Asks Increase In Payments For: War’s Vets -

~ BILLS PACED   Mustering Out Pay and Soldier Vote Stir Congress Debate

Servicemen's Legislation First On List   Mustering Out Pay And Voting Occupies Congress

‘Army Legislation Gets Priority In Congress Plans   Bi-Party Bloc Rallies Behind Drive To Boost Mustering-Out Pay as Showdown on Bill Looms Monday

May Boost Discharge Pay   Showdown Slated Monday; Soldier Vote Comes Up Next

WICKARD PLANS DUBUQUE TALK   Secretary of Agriculture to Talk for Roosevelt

ll-Mile Gain Carries Nazis Close to Meuse   At Least 2 Full German Armies In Great Drive; Yank Salient at St. Vith Wiped Qut By Enemy

Available Information Reveals that German Armor and Infantry Sunday Night Had Driven Within 4 Miles of Meuse River, South of Namur 50 Miles Inside Belcium

Enemy Holds Solid Front In Belgium   Offense Hos Carried To Four Miles From Famous Meuse River

NAZIS NEAR MEUSE RIVER IN BELGIUM   Hold 35-Mile Solid Assault Front Across Country, After Wiping Out Us   ”  _ St. Vith Salient. ar! i   YANKS IN BASTOGNE NOOSE FIGHT ON   American Supply Troops, Clerks, Truck Drivers; Mechanics and Cooks Thrown Into Battle. —

Foe 4 Miles From Meuse, Eight Miles  From France   Germans Now Holding Solid 35-Mile Front, Ven Rundstedt Using Probably 3 Armies ~  BASTOGNE HOLDING

Enemy Holding 35-Mile Front  Across Belgium Germans Only Eight Miles From  French Frontier at One Point: Vantbe Det Tle Faetane Baclelens

Force Of Heavy Bombers Strike Railroad Yards   Enemy Transportation Hub Blasted By Yanks Second Time In 8 Days

Plans Of GOP Governors ‘Vo Influence Service Vote  Stand Of Chief Executive

Resistance by Germans Said  To Be Cracking   ‘Rattle On to Put Final Seal of Doom on Nazi Garrison

Doughboys Backed by Planes Artillery Closing in to Put Final Seal on Doomed Nazis

Blast Nazi Tanks + Massed For Push  Against Fortress   Shock Troops Strike Across City Into Heart of Key Bastion

German Armor Blasted   Americans Have Field Day With Big Nazi Tanks

TRUK, WOLEAI ATOLLS JARRED   172 Jap Planes Lost Over New Guinea

Woleai Island in Carolines  ‘Also Attacked   Special Communique Discloses at Least 200 Direct Hits Scored on Eton Island; Seventh Air Force Also Attacks Tan Base

Artesia Policemen  Accused of Assault   3 Suspended in Series of Events

BOLD RED STRIKE   Russian Troops Attempting to Open a Road to Vienna

Soviet Troops Striking Into Slovakia Area   Attempting io Smash Open Roads to Vienna, 115 Miles 10 Weat, and. io  Trap Nazt Division *

Russians Press Offensive Into West Slovakia   Reds In Determined Attempt To Open Up Roads Leading To Vienna.

Reds Strike Into Slovakia   Trying to Smash Open Roads to Vienna, 115 Miles Away

SOVIET TROOPS TAKE IPOLYSAG   PRESS OFFENSIVE TO SMASH OPEN ROADS TO VIENNA

NEW ATTACK IN SLOVAKIA   Striking Into the Western Part of Nation for First Time, Soviets Seek a Path to Vienna and Entranment of Nazis.

Vienna Faces Russ Smash   Red Hordes Roll Ahead In Drive to Control Roadway to Capital

Ipolysag Falls After Bitter Night Battle; 800 Nazis Killed In Fight.

RED TROD  OPS IN BOLD OFFENSE   Try to Smash Open Roads  To Vienna, 115 Miles  To West.

Russians Press Offensive into West Slovakia   Drive Attempting to Smash Open Roads to Vienna, Trap Germans Defending Budapes!

Trapping Of Nazi Divisions To The West Aiso Aim; Ipolysag Captured

SOVIET TROOPS IN SLOVAKIA; TRAP GERMANS   Ipolysag Seized In Red March To Danube

SOVIETS ENTER WEST SLOVAKIA   Gain In Drive To Smash Open Roads Leading To Vienna

Strike Into West Slovakia For Ist Time   Attempt Made To Trap German - Divisions In East

Reds Strike Into Western Slovakia   Attempt To Open Roads To Vienna

SOVIET STRIKE INTO WESTERN CZECHOSLOV AKI   Trying To Trap German Troops. Smash Open Highways Leading Into Austrian Capital

Soviets Enter Slovakia First Time   Russians Attempting To Open Road Leading to Vienna

Soviets Move Into Slovakia   Attempt to Smash Open Roads Leading To Vienna, Austria

Willingham Wins For Solicitor In Flint Circuit   ON THE BASIS OF UNIFICIAL BUT BELIEVED ACCURATE FIGURES ‘INCUMBENT HAS MAJORITY 558

Fortress of Brest Litovsk Falls to Reds   Escape Corridor of Nazis Narrowed to Six Miles

BREST LITOVSK, KAUNAS GIVEN UP BY BOCHES   Soviets Have Now Clinched lf Major Victories In 24 Hours As Germans Fall Back

Historic Polish Fortress Taken In Epic Advance   Berlin Acknowledges Loss of City; Says Troops Falling Back

Pistol Packin’ Parson Fights Slot Machines   MINISTER DONS GUN TO GUARD ON REPRISALS AFTER GAMBLING RAID

MAY ANNOUNCE NEW MANPOWER PLANS TODAY      Expect All But Small Number Of  Men Under 26 To Be Drafted

NEW MANPOWER ORDER AWAITED   President's Report On 26Year-Olds Believed Ready

EX-FRENCH PREMIER REPORTED EXECUTED   Leon Blum Said To Have Been Killed in ‘Death Factory’

Nicobar Isles Hit. Japs Say   Allied Task Force Pounding Islands for  3 Days, Claim

FARIGLIANO RIVER CROSSED BY FIFTH ARMY   Bombers Continue Pounding North Central Italy

Greatest Air Raid Of War Jolts Berlin   Americans Lose 43 Bombers, 15 Fighters In Fight

Berlin Pounded By Americans In Record Raid   43 U. 5. Bombers Lost in Atfack

NEW GUINEA AID AS BLASTED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   FOUR OF AEVEN JAPANESE WARSHIPS ARE SENT TO © BOTTOM BY ALLIED AIR ATTACKS.

‘Sink Four J ap Destroyers   Break Up Attempt To Aic  Biak Garrisons

Patton’s Troops Destroy 82 Tanks, a Nazis Back in Metz Sector; New Wedge Drive by General A ob

Americans Smash 3 To 5 Mi. Deeper Into Lower Wall   Seventh Army Explodes New Smash To Within Ten Miles Of Belfort Gateway; Patton’s Army Destroys 82 Tanks In Record Day.

Americans Drive on Lower End of Siegfried Line   Seventh Army Smashes to Within 10 Miles of Belfort Gateway to Germany; Third Army Hurls Nazis Back Five Miles

TERRIFIO. STORM LASHED SEA“BOARD FROM CAROLINAS TO oS SHE NEW ENGLAND .! . Pos gape US

Hurricane Leaves Much Destruction Along East Coast   Beach And Shore Communi ties Are Worst Sufferers In Severe Storm   ATLANTIC CITY FEELS STORM FURY

Fireman Dies As Rescue Workers Seek To Free Him After Train Wreck

Fireman Dies  Under Train   : Engine’ Crew Fatally , Injured Near Detroit

Fireman Dies Under Tender  Of His Engine   Asks Rescuers To Please Hurry, He Can’t Last Long

Train Strikes Stalled Auto, 2 RR Men Die   Two Passengers  Hurt In Wreck

Stalled Auto Wrecks Train   Engineer And Fireman Killed, Passengers Among Injured.

Truman Calls on Dewey To Demand Defeat of  § ‘Isolationist’ Senators

Aussies Smashing Japanese   Veteran Troops Drive Relentlessly Against Enemy. Japs  Abandon 100 Dead.

HOUSE OKAYS STATES RIGHT VOTE BILL   Administration Is Still Hopeful For U. S. Ballot Plan

Soldier Vote Debate Goes On in Senate   Coalition in Lower House Accepts FDR’s Challenge

Administration Soundly Beaten On Soldier Vote   House Decides To Let States Handle Ballots

SOLDIER VOTH MATTER MORE COMPLICATED —   House Votes to Leave It to  The States

HOUSE DEFEATS ROOSEVELT ON SOLDIER - VOTE   Fight On State - Federai Ballot Shifts To Senate

Lullin RAF Activity Cited as ‘Barometer’   . German High Command Reports Invasion From West ‘Innninent’

Nazis Say . ~ Attack Is.  ~ Imminent   Swedish Press. Filled With “Invasion Stories From Berlin   ALLIES ‘EXPECTED TO GAIN FOOTHOLD   But the Germans Claim There Is Unlimited Optimism as Coricerns Outcome

Britain “Sealed” Off As Invasion Rumors Mount   New Regulations Guard Plans; Nazis Are Convinced Blow is Close at Hand

Invasion Blow Due At Any Moment. ‘Europe Feels   Allies Expected To Gain Beachheads; French Are Warned Te Store Their Food

GERMANY SPECULATES   Opinion Is That Invasion From the West Is Imminent

Travel Ban Speeds New Invasion Rumors   Nazis See Storm Breaking On West Coast Soon; As Usual, Secret Weapon Skeleton Is Rattled

DIPLOMATIC RESRICTIONS ARE NOW ON   Secrecy Needed Or Invasion Fronts Is Reason

Southern Democrats Favor Return Of Two-thirds Rule in Convention   Senator Maybank Would Re-establish South's Control of Party

SOUTH TO BACK TWO-THIRDS RULE   FIGHT FOR ITS RESTORATION IN DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION PREDICTED,

DIXIE’ DEMOS SEEK CONTROL   Southern Members Want Two-Thirds Rule Returned

COLLEGE TRAINING URGED FOR BONG, 1   Best Possible Way for Youths to Serve Country, President Savs —

American Marines and Soldiers Win Beachheads on Eniwetok: Radio Silence Veils Truk Battle

Score major triumph at Truk--Knox   Results of action still undisclosed

Beachheads Established On Island   Eniwetok 750 Miles Northeast of Truk, . Has Sone Airfields   BATTERED BY PLANES

Take Beachhead 150 Miles from Jap Base al Truk   Nimitz Extending Gains in Pacific   No Definiie Parts

Army Forces And Marines Establish Beachheads On Important Island   LAND ENGAGEMENT IS REPORTED BY ENEMY

island in Marshalls Group _Invaded by Americans   NO FURTHER WORD ABOUT TRUK GIVEN   Operation Still Masked by Rigid Radio Silence —

Island Invasions  Roll Westward   Land Assault On Japanese Carried Out At Same Time As Truk Attacks: Atoll Valuable As Air Base

SILENCE ON ACTIVITIES IN TRUK SECTOR   Presumed Battle Still In Progress; Tokio Broadcasts Impression Operation Not Terminated.   No Details

Maior Victory By Americans Seen By Knox.   New Landing Aimed at Establishing Base for Heavy Bombers

Knox Says Big Victory Being Scored At Truk   Attack Against Japan's Gibraltar Believed Still In Progress; Yanks Strike 400 Miles West Of Kwajalein

ATTACK ON TRUK: STILL UNDER WAT, KNOX DISCLOSE!   tablish Beachheads' on # Eniwetek Atoll in: Latest Thrust, °                  Two Major Actions by, Nimi Forces Shows Agni

Annual Legion Convention Ends   Vets Favor Universal Military Training

All Around Our Town   Practices  Law In Army Vawter Gift To U. of M. Snow! A Sailor Whoops  ACI Neh.  awe! Yalac

Superfortress Base Raided By Japanese   16 American Aircraft Damaged; Nips Reinforce Columns Smashing Against Kweilin; Hold on Leyte Doubled

JAPS SMASH AT KWEILIN   Damage 16 Planes at Superfortress Base  By LEONARD MILLIDIAN Associaled Press War Fditor

Japanese Smash Near Kweilin fo Offset Big Loss   MacArthur's Forces Make Rapid Advance In Philippines

‘TRYING TO OFFSET LOSSES IN. PHILIPPINES AND AT SEA JAPS OPEN NEW DRIVES IN CHINA —

British Imperial Troops ‘Score First Major Victory Over Japanese In Western Burma

Defeated Jap Offensive on Arakan Front in Western Burma.  28 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK IN PACIFIC 1,191 Jap Vessels Sunk by  Americans So Far to Date.

Jap Offensive On Arakan Front Meets Disaster   Nip Casualties 3000 During Three Weeks Of Jungle Fighting

Russian Orthodox  Faster Is Observed  Great Crowds Fill Mos. cow Churches

Great Crowds Cram Moscow's Churches For Russian Orthodox Easter Services

6 Horse Team Will Exhibit Here Noy. 25   Wilson & Company’: famous —_ Clydesdales coming here to boost war bond sales.

Ford Plant Crippled: 6,000 Workers Halt Production  In Great Highland Park Factory

COUNTY BOND GOAL ANNOUNCED TODAY   Dr. E. V. Bull Will Act As Chairman During Drive

Strikers Refused Union Support  Recalcitrants at Ford Plant Lose Gu?

PUSH FORDS ~— CRACKDOWN   Fifty More Suspensions Listed In Wildcat Strikes

‘Dodging Japs on Tiny Guam 2 Years. ‘Sailor ‘Dreamed of Bread and Butter

Pepper, Hill Leading in Fla. and Ala.   HILL RUNS BETTER THAN 27TO 1 AHEAD OF HIS OPPONENT; PEPPER LEADS FIELD OF FIVE CANDIDATES.   Gurney Leads in 5. Dak.

Pepper Leads — Florida Vote   Hilt Appears Nominated In Alabama Primary

PEPPER LEADS FLORIDA RACE   New Deal Exponent Is Aparent Winner  In Alabama

NEW DEALERS LEAD IN VOTE   Pepper Holds Edge in Florida Primary, Hill Fa: Ahead in Alabama

'PEPPER, HILL LEAD IN - FLORIDA AND ALABAMA   Outdistance Opponent Critics Of Administration Home Front Policies; Senator Gurnet Leads In South Dakota

Administration ” Victorious in 2 o Primary Races   Senators Pepper, Hill Win Against Anti-New Deal Election Foes

PEPPER AND HILL GET EARLY LEADS      New Deal Senators Hold Leads in Florida and  Alabama

Incumbents Hold Early Leads in Primary Races   Florida, South Dakota And Alabama Ballot On Senate Slates

SEN, IKE DENIES LINK IN ARNHEM   Situation of Yanks Critical - but Not Hopeless Says Headquarters

HUN RESISTANCE NEAR NUMEGEN GAINS STRENGTH   Bridge Across Waal Aids Speedy Movement Of Allied Relief Troops   PORT RIMINI CAPTURED   Russ Forces Advance In Estonia, Batter Nazis In Baltic Sweep

DECLARE JAPS GAIN STRENGTH   COLONEL CLEAR SAYS NIPPO POWER GREAT

Red Troops Press Drive On Krakow   Major Oil Center In Old Poland Falls to Soviets

REDS POSE NEW THREAT TO WAZI OIL SUPPLIES      Soviet Troops Seize Fortress Guarding Czech  Frontier

Other Units, Driving On East Prussia, Cross Dubissa River And Capture 30 Villages ; No Mention Made Of Fighting In Warsaw

SOVIETS TAKE OIL BASE, GAIN ONBROAD LINE   Drohobycz, Bar To Assault On Czechoslovakia, Falls To Rampaging Reds

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PATRIOTS FREE VICHY, FRENCH RADIO CLAIMS   German Resistance In Capital Almost Ended Now

French Free Petain Capital; Allies Advance   All Organized Nazi Resist. ance in Toulon Ends; Bir Rhone Drive

Troops in Reims Cut  Nazi Path   U. S. Troops Force Marne to Sever Route for German Escape

French, Allies In Firm Control Of Paris As Nazis Lay Down Arms   DeGaulle Take Over Government Of France; Whereabouts Of Vichyites A Mystery

ALLIED ARMIES START PUSH UP RHONE VALLEY   Huge Area Of Southern France Already Has Been Liberated

American Labor Party Dominated By Communists   Was Formed In 1936 To Support Roosevelt In New York State — Its Right Wing Leaders Quit Group

Right Wingers Break With Parent Party   ALP Communist-Dominated, benders: Of Split Declare

Right Wingers Quit Labor Party  _ Charge ALP Now — / Communict Cantralled

Cherbourg’s Fall to Give Allies Base   Military Holds Highly Touted Flying Bomb of Germany a Fizzle

 fhe War Today—  Be Will Give Allies Strategic Base For Their Drive Into Germany

CAPTURE OF CHERBOURG DEPENDS ON HOW MANY GERMANS WANT TO DIE BEFORE PRIZE PORT FALLS   New Phase of Invasion Will Start When Port Falls and Allies Begin Establishing Continent Bas For Full Scale Attack On Germany

WAR TODAY   Capture of Cherbourg Would Bring Another Phase In Invasion, Provide Continental Base for Allies.

IN FURIOUS DRIVE   Germans in Cosmo San Damiano at Meals When  Yanks Arrived

Nazis Leave Food On Tabte In Rush -. cles From italy   Gan Sebastino Seized

FURIOUS FIGHTING TROOPS GO INTO AUSENTE VALLEY RAPIDLY AND CATCH NAZIS FLATEOOTED

RABAUL-ATTACKS BY U. S. FLIERS IN 21ST DAY   Solomon-Based Bombers Hit Keravat, Vunakanay and Vunapope

Allies Bombard Mandang, Wewak   Airmen Sink 500-Ton Jap Cargo Vessel

JAP SUPPLY SHIP SUNK OFF WEWAK   Americans Mopping Up In Admiralty islands

Yanks Continue Jap Assaults —   Smash New Britain Bases In Heavy Raids

Allied Bo eeping Reinfurcements 1 Supplies from Reach. ing Northern New Guinea ‘Coast.

Allied Fliers Rip Coast of New Guinea   Jap Cargo Vessel Sunk in Sweep From Wewak to Madang

Two Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged   Wewak Airdromes Pasted With 178 Tons of Bombs

Bombers Blast Enemy Shipping   Wewak, Hansa Bay Area Left In Dust and Smoke

RABAUL GIVEN 21ST BOMBING   Allied Fliers Unopposed For Fourth Day

Fires Cover Rabaul Ruins In 2ist Raid   Three Jap Supply Areas Blasted: Two Barges Sunk by Yanks

RABAUL BASE BOMBED AGAIN   American Fliers Ccutinue Aerial Assaults on Big Fapanese Base— New Britain Sironghold Hit 21st Consecutive Day.

Allies Are Nearer To  City Of Rome   American and British Troops Storm Ashore Ir Western Italy

Yanks, British and French Capture Harbor of Nettuno In Brilliant Amphibious Move

American and British Troops Storm Ashore Along Wide Front In Western Italy.

AUSSES SES STOP “PRISON BREAK   JAP ESCAPE~ PLOT’ IN. AUSTRALIA ‘RESULTED. IN 231° DEAD NIPS AND 108— -. WOUNDED

Baltic Drive Is Trapping Germans   Berlin Radio Says Memel Surrounded

Red Troops Seven Miles From Memel   Another Trap Of Nazi Troops Being Fashioned

TWO GREAT NEW RED ATTACKS REPORTED NORTH OF WARSAW  BALTIC SEA DRIVE OF RUSSIANS TRAP ABOUT 160.000 CERMANS

-MEMEL SURROUNDED BY SOVIETS AS GENERAL ATTACK ON EAST “PRUSSIA IS NOW UNDERWAY

BERLIN oAYS HUGS TROOPS ING MEME!   ‘Nazis Abandon Tourage anc Report New Attacks Near Warsaw.

BALTIC PORT OF MEMEL IS SURROUNDED   Russian Troops Have Reached the Sea North and South of the East Prussian City, Berlin Radio Savs.

EAST PRUSSIAN * PORT ENCIRCLED BY RED FORCES   ® Memel Surrounded, Nazis Admit—2 Attacks Launched Above W1rsaw

Reds Circle East Prussian Port of Memel   Germans Report New Attacks Now Raging at Warsaw

Reds Within 7 Miles of Memel and 15 from Tilsi   Ten German Divisions Are  Trapped North of Memel

East Prussian Port of Memel   Berlin Says Russians Have Launched Heavy Attacks Near Warsaw; Nazis Evacuate Tauraae

Germans Claim Fall. Offensive “In Dull Swing’   ‘Other "Russians. Reported gr 7° Miles: From Memels sit Also Threatened

Soviet Troops Surround Memel Port   Russians Launch Two Heavy Attacks On North of Warsaw

ussians Surround  Memel   150,000 Germans Believed Bagged In Lightning Move

Soviets Trap 150,000 Nazis Along Baltic, Threaten More lin New East Prussia Drive   Rv FDODY GILMORE

Red Army Seals Off Memel   Berlin Reports Two New Soviet Drives  Launched North of Warsaw: Shell Tilsit

NAZIS QUIT BASE AT TAURAGE ON LITHUANIAN LINE   Second Trap Closed As Soviets Are Reported In New Attack

MEMEL CIRCLED BY RED TROOPS, BERLIN CLAIMS   Germans Say General Push Begun On East Prussia; Belgrade Neared

SOVIET TROOPS FIGHT WITHIN SIGHT OF MEMEL   Death Trap Set By Russia For Germans

GERMANS SAY RUSSIANS OPEN FALL OFFENSIVE   East Prussian Port Of Memel Surrounded By Red Armies

SURROUND MEMEL, BERLIN ANNOUNCES   Soviets Have Reached “the Baltic Sea North and South of City.   GERMANS QUIT TAURAGE      Bastion, Just Across Border in Lithuania From East Prussia, Abandoned.

REDS BID TO CUT OFF NEW AXIS POCKET   Russians Sweep Along Niemen River in Lightning Move to Trap Three to Five Divisions   PROBE RIGA'S DEFENSES

Reds Encircle East Prussian Port of Meme   Berlin Radio Admits New Soviet Gains

Memel Surrounded By Russian Troops   Cluj, Transylvania Capital, 220 miles Of Budapest. Seized

Soviet Troops Draw Nearer:  East Prussian Rail. Junction   Another. Death ‘Trap . Closing Below Memel

den IS SURROUNDED BY RED FORCE      Land Routes for Escape of German Troops Cut Off by Russian Advance   TEN NAZI DIVISIONS ARE REPORTED TRAPPED

Port Of Memel Com pletely Surrounded; ; Armies Attack Above Warsaw and German: Say General Attack Ox  ~ East Prussia Flas Open oa

Red Armies Reach Baltic North and South Of Port; Hurl Back 20 Counter-attacks

Russians Also Launch Two Heavy Drives North of Warsaw, Take Taurage

NEW GAINS BY SOVIETS MADE   Memel Surrounded, Reds Launch New Attacks In Warsaw Area

Russian Army Opens Attack From North   Soviets Smashing Toward East Prussian Border

ASSAULTS REPORTED   New Soviet Drives In Area Of Warsaw Are Claimed By Nazis

German Land Route In Baltics Cut   Russians To Within Seven Miles Of Memel Base

Berlin Reports Red Offensives In Full Swing   Russians Strike In General Attacks Germans Evacuate Bastion On Borde:

REDS CLOSE ON MEMEL, TILSIT      150,000 Nazis Sealed In Baltic Port; Warsaw Drive Reported

2 Great New Red Attacks   Assault Opened North Of Warsaw; Soviet Army 7 Miles From Memel

SAYS LIBERATION OF FRANCE IMMINENT   DeGauile Appeals fo Al Frenchmen to Join Final Blow.

Yanks Still Wait for Buddies to Return After /Two. Tanks Battle Alone in Cassino

GOP GOVERNORS RAP DEM PARTY   lilinois Executive Claims ‘Bosses’ In Control

3 GOVERNORS LAUNCH DRIVE FOR DEWEY   Green, Warren, Baldwin Speak; 7 Dewey Dates Announced

Guam and Rota Are Pounded by  Navy's Task Force   Sea and Air Bombardments Soften Up Islands South of Saipan; Truk Also Blasted by Land-Buased Bombers

SOUTH ANETTA COUNTRIES TJ RECOGNIZE BOLIVIA   Three Nation; Will Not Wait for U. S. to Act

SOUTH AMERICAN GOUNTRIES T) RECOGNIZE BOLWIA   Three Nations Will Not Wait for U. S. to Act

REGORDER LISTS RECENT CHANGES   Property Transfers Made in Office of Frankie Justus.

REGENT TRANSFERS ANNOUNCED TODAY   County Recorder Lists Real Estate Changes for Week.

RECORDER LISS RECENT CHANGES   Real Estate Transfers Are Made During Past Week

REGENT TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE   Recorded For Transfer In Recorder’s Office At Bloomfield

House Group Stops Contracts   Rules Committee To Decide Thursday If Bill Will Go To House.

Farm Labor Picture for 1944 Brighter — With More Men Reentering Agriculture

BRIGHTER ‘PICTURE PAINTED = OF FARM LABOR SITUATION   WFA SPOKESMAN SAYS DEFER: MENTS TO CONTINUE AND MANY NOW IN .FACTORIES WILL RETURN

Donnell Wins Senatorship, Margin Small   MckKittrick’s Only Hope Now is in Tabulation Error

MacArthur Reports  707 Japanese-Held  WarPrisonersF reed Sikhs Tell of Seeing Chinese Mailed to Trees; 1200 Died of  ent af Paad Wadlae!l Pana

Fresh Account: Of Jap Cruelty Are Unearthed   Chinese Prisoners On New Guinea Crucified By Being Nailed Through Forehead to Trees

707 PRISONERS HELD BY JAPS ARE SET FREE   Fresh Accounts of Nippon Cruelty to Captives Released

TEMPERATURES:   Sikhs Herded Like Cows; Chinese Nailed To * Trees By Nips

New Jap Atrocity Accounts Revealed  700 Prisoners Freed By Americans

Japanese-Held War Prisoners Relate Vivid Stories of Captors Cruelty

NEW STORIES OF ATROCITIES BY JAPANESE   Liberated Sikhs Tell of Seeing Chinese Nailed To Palm Trees With Iron Spikes   CLEAN UP HOLLANDIA

Liberation of 707 Captives Brings New Japanese Atrocities to Lighi

Jap Prisoners Liberated By MacArthur   Captured Sikhs Tell Of Atrocities Committed by Japs

ee, tee Se  Fresh Stories Of Enemy’s Cruelty 707 Jap-Held Prisoners  Rescued In New Guinea;  New Atrocities Related

PRISONERS TELL OF JAP PRISON HORROR   707 LIBERATED RELATE STORY OF MEN NAILED TO TREES, KILLED FOR ILLNESS, STARVED

Jap Atrocity Tales Related By Prisoners   Rescued Party Says Captives Herded Like Cattle

707, JAP HELD PRISONERS OF WAR RELEASED   Conquest of North-Central New Guinea Revea More Horrors and Jap Reaitalitey

707 Jap-Held Prisoners Of War Freed By Yanks In New Guinea   New Accounts Given Of Enemy Atrocities In Malaya Areas

707 Prisoners Freed In New  Cuimea Actior   American Conquest Releases Allies Held By Japs In North-Central Area.   TELL NEW CRUELTIES

Chinese Nailed To Trees With Spike in Head When Captured in Malaya

More Atrocities on Jap Prisoners Brought to Light   Liberation of Prisoners on New Guinea Tells of Horrors

07 Prisoners of Japs Freed by Yanks Tell New Story of Nipponese Atroci ty

LIBERATION NUMBER JAP-HELD PRISONERS REVEALS CRUELTY   WAR PRISONERS HELD ON NEW GUIENA TELL OF ENEMY ATROCITIES

THIS 18 THE ENEMY Stories of Horrible Death At Bands of Japs Are Told

707 Jap-Held Prisoners Freed, Tell Atrocities   Chinese Nailed Io Palm Trees With lron Spikes Through Heads, Say Sikhs

More Jap Cruelties Revealed   Prisoners Released By Allied Conquests . On New Guinea Tell Of Torture by -Enem

Atrocities Inflicted On Prisoners By Japs Told As Yanks Set 707 Free

Fresh Accounts Of Japanese Atrocities Revealed With Liberation Of 700 Prisoners By U. S. Troop

1,100 ON STRIKE IN CLEVELAND   G. O. P. Will Center Campaign On Border States, Midwest

GOVERNORS’ CONFERENCE UNDER WAY   Dewey at St. Louis with G. O. P. State Executives

LARGE Fi FLEET OF BOMBERS. WIPES OUT JAP. AIR BASE      HOLLANDIA. RAID WAS CLIMAX OF ATTACKS THAT HAVE DESTROYED 288 ENEMY PLANES

JAP AIR BASE AT HOLLANDIA OBLITERATED   288 Enemy Planes De stroyed   RECORD ASSAULT

HOLLANDIA LAID WASTE IN HUGE YANK AIR RAID   Japan’s Once Strongest Base in New Guinea Area Blazing Ruins

HEAVIEST AIR ASSAULT OF SOUTHWEST PACIFIC WAR DEVASTATES ENEMY AIR BASE AT HOLLANDIA IN NEW GUINEA

JAP AIR BRo AT HOLLANDIA 5 WIPED OUT   Greatest Sky Assault in New Guinea Area Cleans Out Jap Planes.

Jans Lose 288 Planes As U. S. Bombers Attack   Terrific Damage Done To Enemy In Attack At Hollandia, New Guinea   FORMIDABLE JAP BASE NOW RUINS

Individual Deferments For Farmers  Upto Boards   - Selective Service Seraps. ‘Unit System’; Men To Be Deferred Must Be Irreplaceable  PHYSICALLY REJECTEL RECEIVE ATTENTION   Army and Navy Asks Power To Place 4-F’s In Labor Battalions

LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS MUST DECIDE CASES   Selective Service Farm Deferment Program Scranped   4-F LEGISLATION. WILL BE DRAFTED   Plans for Labor Battalions Will Go to Con aress

Committee Plans 4-F Labor Draft   18 to 37 Group Faces Induction

House Group To Prepare LF Draft Bill   Selective Service Leaves Farm Cases to Boards

DRAFT SCRAPS FARM WORKER ‘UNIT SYSTEM   LABOR BATTALIONS OF 4-F MEN MAY BE CALLED

House Committee To Draft Labor Battalion Bill   Selective Service Puts Farm Deferments Up to Local Boards

POWER TO ACT ON FARM MED   4F Labor Battalions Poscible Under - New Law ~ —

= . : re _ ee i 14 Toca. Soarcs siven “ree = anc +s. Farm Jecermen:. Aue Scrzqe2; ‘2.9 9) _ra’> aw ‘avorec =, °°

Farm Workers’ Deferments Pui  Up to Boards   Army, Navy Demand Labor Battalions for 4-F’s Between 18-37; Legislation Promised

Labor Draft Of 4-Fs May Be Next Step  nen Awarane Tt":   House. Agrees Ti ry Draw Legislation

line ‘Induction: Delays Is ‘Abolished by Selec                 LABOR BATTALIONS © . OF 4-F’S IN PROSPECT   ouse Military Group: Agrees ‘to: Draft, Legislation. to Conscript : ‘Those From.  . 18 ‘to 37.

EARM WORKER DEFER MENTS ‘UP TO BOARDS   House Group to Draft € Bill for 4-F Labor  Battalions

MEASURING ROD FOR DEFERRING FARMERS ENDED   Matter Is Placed In Hands Of Local Draft Boards By Hershey      MAY PUT 4-F’S IN LABOR BATTALIONS

Selective Service Scraps Its Measuring Rod fo Deferment of Farm Workers; House Group Will Draft Legislation for 4-F Lahor Battalions

Bill to Draft Labor fs To Be Prepared   Deferment for Farm Workers Is To Be on New Basis

New Draft Decision: Hershey Preparing To Announce Status of Older Men This Week

Reds. Gaim. 800, Deaths   Attacks By Germans. -Thwarted In Poland’

Russians Kill 800 Germans   Wipe Out Battalion, Soviet High Command Announces at Moscow

Germans Believe Another: Soviet: Advance ‘Toward ‘ ‘CarpathiJan ‘Mountain: ‘Passes Is ‘Near at: Hand—Hungary. Tells of "Violent Attacks: by ‘Reds. in. Kolomyjaared—Moscow’ Says Axis Attacks’ Near ‘Stanislawow Were: Repulsed.       Be TOM. YARBROUGH.

REDS REPULSE COUNTER - DRIVE   Berlin Says Soviet Push Toward Carpathians Near

REDS WIPE QUT NAZI BATTALION   Berlin Says Soviet Reinforcements Indicate Another Red Army Push Toward Carpathian Mountain Passes

Axis Battalion Killed By Reds  Another Russian Push Imminent. Belief

800 AXIS TROOPS ARE KILLED AS PUSH IS STOPPED   Stanislwow Area Ls Scene Of Pitched Rattle

Reds Repel Nazi Counfer-Thrusts At Stanislawow   Russians Claim 800 To 1,000 Axis Troops Wiped Out

$18,909 GIFT MADE TO U. §. TREASURY   Anonymous Donor Calls It “at Elementary Way of Expressing Belief in a Democracy.”

Anonyfnous Donor Sends $18,909.38 Check as Gift to U. §. Treasury

Soviet Commission Offers Evidence Refuting Nazi Charge 11,000 Polish Soldiers Were Slain at Smolensk, 1940

(2 ee aEEEeEaeEEEOoEEeEeeeooorrrrrresrmle mh rttt—  MASS SLAYING OF POLES CHARGED TO NAZIS IN NEW SOVIET REPORT

PRIMARY BRINGS RISE ING.O.P VOTE   Democratic Falls; Stewart Winner Over Tom Herbert by 2,262 Votes

‘OVER HERBERT “INCLOSE RACE   Margin Slashed To 2,262; Republican Vote Jumps,  Democratic Drops  }

tise in Republican Vote anc Decline in Democratic Shown in Ohio Primaries

MORE REPUBLICAN VOTERS IN OHI   Survey Of Primary Voting Shows G.O.P. Improving Position

Primary Shows Republican Vote Gain: Democrats Decline   G.0.P. Improves Position by 109,000 Ballots: Herbert Mai Ask Recount in-Some Wards. . ‘

All-Fools’ Day to Be No Joke as New  Taxes Become Due   New Levies on Dancing, Drinking and Dining Start at Midnight

Taxes Go Up Tomorrow   New Excise Rates No April Fool Joke to Taxpayer

EFFECTIVE TOMORROW   Treasury Expects $1,000,000,000  In New Levies

AXE EFFECT APRIL 1   New Excise Rates to Yield Estimated $1 Billion Or More Annually.   ‘MANY ITEMS AFFECTED

Treasury Not Fooling--New Taxes Go On   Every Citizen Affected by New Revenues Which Become Effect ive at Midnight

New Taxes To Be Effective At Midnish   Tomorrow's All Fool’s Day But No Joke To  ' Taxpayers; Levies Hit Drinkine. Dining

“Fool, Silly Dollar Sign” Not Overlooked In New Tax U. S. Setup Now In Affect   Only A Fifth of What F. D. R. Wanted But It Car.”  ries Sting

LOT OF NEW TAXES BECOME EFFECTIVE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT MAY BE ALL FOOLS’ DAY ' FOR SOME BUT NOT FOR  Tt @ TPDEACIIDY

NEW TAXES TO GO INTO EFFECT   ocketbooks To Suffer Harder Blows Beginning Aoril 1

All-Fools Day To Find Boost  In Taxes W. ith Jewelry, Furs, Luxuries Of All Kinds Upned

Nation’s Taxpayers Will Fail to Find Anv Humor in “All Fools’ Day” Saturday

NEWTAX BOOSTS BEGIN SATURDAY   Steeper Liquor Levies Wil Bring Half Of Increase

No Fooling On April I About These New Taxes Youll Pay   Handbags, Wallets, Key And Pass Cases, Phone Calls, Cabaret Charges, Chub Dues All Included

No Joke Either  April 1 To Bring  ~ Lot of New Taxes For U. S. Citizen:

New, Steep Tax Boosts To Take Effect Tonight   Cost Of Luxuries And Various Other Items’ ” Will Be Hiked

TAXES ON FUN UP TOMORROW   New Levies On Drinking, Dancing and Dining  In Effect

Don't Accept Ncw Texes As Fool \Day Prank --- They Are The Mc Coy’

Europe Needs  After Defeat  Of Huns Aired   United Nations Scraping Bottom of Barrel for Several Basic Supplies,  ‘ UNRRA Told

Old Clothing Collections Possible For Taking Care of Victims of Wa}

UNRRA SHOR! OF SUPPLIES FOR EUROPE   Will Collect Used Clothing In United States

‘SUGAR MAY BE SHORT IN 1945, SAYS LEHMAR      Also Says United Na: tions Scraping Bottom of Food Barrel

Lehman Reports to Conference  UNRRA Is Scraping Barrel for Basic War Relief Supplies

Lehman Tells Massive Needs For Supplies   United Nations’ War Relief Director Makes First Public Report

‘Needs For Clothing And Food For Europe’s People Far Above What Is Available

UNITED NATIONS ARE SCRAPING BOTTOM OF BARREL FOR SUPPLIES  DIRECTOR GENERAL LEHMAN TELLS UNRRA CLOTH INC TO RE VERY SHORT -

War-Torn Nations Need Food, Clothes UNRRA Is Told   Collect Used Supplies, Salvage Army Equipment

War - Wrecked Nations’ Needs Will Be Great   Lehman Says Drive For Old Clothing Will Be Made In I]. S.

Allies Short Of Many Needs For Europe   Clothes Especially Are Lacking, Lehman Sarvs

United Nations Are Scraping Bottom of Barrel for Basic Supplies To Aid War Victims

UNRRA LACKS BASIC ITEMS FOR RELIEF   Clothing, Meat, Milk and Sugar Far Short of Needs Expected During First Six Months After Germany Falls.

ISLANDS ATTACKED BY CARRIER FORCES   Atolls in the Pacific Area Are Severely Pounded

Hundreds on hundredstons are unloaded   Second successive day of U.S. raids

U. S. CARRIERS, WARSHIPS IN HEAVY FORCE BOMB, ‘SHELL MARSHALL ISLES

8 Million To Be Jobless As War Production Ends   Expect President To Announce New Manpower Policy

Post-War Goal Of 200 Billion Output Urged   Large  seale:. production necessary if we are to haye “healthy domesti¢: eeononiy,’? ;

8 MILLION WILL LEAVE INDUSTRY   ‘Gigantic Production Program Required For “Healthy  Domestic Economy.”

GERMANS RUSH MORE DIVISIONS TO BEACHHEAD.   Caen May Be In Allied Hands. -

strategic Heights Are Taken   German Columns Are Shredded By British Artillery

Reinforced Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Beaten Off   Allies Widen Salient Across Oden and Take Strategic Heights

Tommies Beat Off German Counter Blows to Advance on Strategic Hill Position

British In. New Advance Near Caen   Heavy Fire Turns Tank Battle To Allie’s Fa ’ wor.

BIG GUNS RIP REINFORCED NAZI ARMY   Crucial Battle of Massed Tanks Turns In Favor of British

Violent Tank Battles Turn in Favor of British   German Columns Are Battered Southwest of Caen

f  Allies Shred Columns in Last Stand   British Beat Off Reinforced German Counter Attacks in Tank Battles

Counter Blows By Nazi Tanks Are Repulsed   Salient Across Odon River Is Broadened By Allied Forces; Enemy Relief Units Are Pounded In Thunderous Bombardment

Fire More Than 10,000 Shells Four Hours This Morni Againts German Counter-Atta In Odon Sector   GERMAN COLUMNS RACE ON NORMANI

Charge Forward For New Gains Near Orne River   Allied Air Forces Destroy 57 Nazi Planes In Last 18 Hours -

Crucial Battle Of Maséed Tanks Turns Definitely In Favor Of Tommies   Number Of Towns Are By- Passed   Several Normandy Strong Points Now Held By Allied Forces

LAST SPEECH BY BRICKER   GOVERNOR WILL END CAM PAIGN WITH BROADCAST  OVER O10 STATIONS THIS EVENING

Jap High Command Fires Both Army And Navy Chiefs   Tojo Assumes Role of Head of the Army General Staff in Sweeping Shakeup

Toky o Admits Truk Loss Heavy; Army. Navy Heads Fired   Both Chiefs * ‘Relieved Of Their Posts.” — Tojo Takes Personal Command of Army.

Two High Jap Officers Out   Chiefs of Army and Navy General Staff Relieved  TOJO TAKES ONE JOB  Tokyo Admits Japan Suffered Heavy Losses at Truk

HEAW LOSSES   Army, Navy Chiefs Relieved Of Posts As Result of Truk Operations.   TOJO TO COMMAND ARMY

Army and Navy Heads Ousted; Tojo Becomes  Military Chief   Tokyo Concedes 2 Cruisers, 3 Destroyers, 13 Transports Sunk

Tokyo Badly Shaken by Destruction of 19 Ships, 391 Planes in U. S. Attack

TOKYO ADMITS HEAVY LOSS AT TRUK: CHIEFS OF ARMY AND NAVY GENERAL STAFFS REMOVED

Japs Acknowledge Heavy Losses Are  Inflicted at Truk   Chiefs of Jap Army and Navy General Staffs Relieved of Duty

TOKYO ADMITS HEAVY LOSSES IN TRUK RAIL      18 Ships Sunk, 120 Planes Lost; Nimitz Says 19 Ships, 201 Planes

Tokyo Admits Heavy Losses In U.S. Attack   Enemy Switches Chiefs of Staff Of Army and Navy

Nippon Shakeup Follows Reverse  Army and Navy Head: Replaced by Emperor

Jap Army and Navy Heads Fired After U. S. Raid on Truk   Tojo, Himself, Takes Over Job of Chief  Of General Staff, Tokyo  Radio Savs

Tojo Named Chief-of-Staff   TRUK BLOW JS “PARTIAL SETTLEMENT” OF PEARL HARBOR RAID, NIMITZ SAYS, AS HIGH ENEMY WARSHIP TOLL IS LISTED

Army And Navy Chiefs Fired By Hirohito   Two Cruisers, Three Destroyers And 13 Transports Admitted.

Premier Tojo Shakes Up © Imperial Staff as Defeats Pile Up in Central Pacific -

Fire Jap Chiefs Of Staff   Shakeup in Army and Navy Apparently Due To American Assault  On Truk: Admit Losses

Assault On Truk Leads ToShakeup   Army And Navy Officers Removed As Japanese Admit Severe Losses  ‘ In Truk Naval Base

Tokyo Admits Heavy Losses  “43 Wf. ph Diu seal   Chiefs of Army and Navy Ousted; Premier Tojo Takes Charge

Old Tojo io ~—- Personally Takes Over Role of Army Chief —   ONLY PART OF JAP LOSSES ADMITTED

Chiefs Of Jap Army and Navy  Staffs Removed   ‘Tojo Becomes Army Head In Sweeping Shakeup After Staggering _ Blow In Pacific   Acknowledge Loss Of Five Warships   Wild Claims of Damage In flicted On American Fleet Accom panies  Tokyo's Report

General Staff Of Army, Navy Forced To Quit   2 Cruisers. Three Destroyers, 13 Transports, 12 Planes Lost.   ALLIED LOSSES LIGHT

JAP EMPEROR MAKES CHANGES IN COMMANDS   Both Chiefs of Jap Army And Navy General Staffs Relieved of Posts

NIPS OUST WAR LEADERS AFTER LOSSES AT TRUK   Tojo Takes Over Command o Jap Army, Admits Loss of 16 Warships

TOJO TAKES COMMAND OF LAND FORCES   Shake-up Seems Due tc Admittedly Heavy Truk Losses—U. S. Reports Toll of 19 Nip Ships anc 201 Planes.

JAPS ACKNOWLEDGE HEAVY LOSSES WiTEN TRUK WAS ATTACKED  BOTH ARMY AND NAVY  CHIEFS RELIEVED OF THEIR COMMANDS

Japs Admit Truk Loss Is Heavy   Tojo Takes Over Chief o Army General Staff Ir Shake Up; Relieve Jay Army, Navy Chiefs O! Their Post.

Chiefs of Army and Navy General Staffs Relieved of Posts, » Tokyo Announces

Tojo Admits Loss at Truk, Fires Army ‘And Navy Heads, Becomes Staff Chief

Tojo Takes Over Command Of Land Forces After Truk Blow Dealt By U.S. Nav   Enemy Fleet Dealt Crippling Blow By Los: Of Cruisers, Destroyers And Oilers; Also Deprived Of Most Important Auxiliarjec

Japan Shifts Staff After Truk Attack   Tojo Assumes  Charge Of Army

SHAKEUP RESULT OF U.S. ATTACK ON BASE AT TRUK   TOKYO BROADCAST ADMITS HEAVY LOSS OF SHIPS, PLANES

Teja Takes Post cf Chief of the Army. General Staff. in Shake-Up Believed ‘to Be Direct Result of U.S. Assault gee “Tesiks <

NIPPON ADMITS HEAVY LOSSES INTRUK ATTACK   Sweeping Shakeup Seem: Direct Result of U. S. Raid on Iste Bastion

Tokyo Admits Big Ship, Plane Losses   Chiefs of Army, Navy General Staffs Lose Their Positions

JAP LEADERS RELIEVED AS ARMY CHIEFS   Tojo Takes Over Personal Rule  Of Armies

FLYING BOMBS COST LONDON HEAVILY IN CASUALTIES, DAMAGE  MORE THAN 5,000 KILL ED AND OVER 14,000  §ERIOUSLY INJURED 

FLYING BOMB DAMAGE LISTED   British Report Nazi Menace All But Ended

Flying Bomb Secrets Are Revealed   Of the Approximate 8000, Projectiles Fired Only 2300 Penetrated England

OVER 5,000 DIE IN ROBOT RAIDS   Germans Launch 8,000 Bombs Since June 12

Heavy Rains Delay - Vital Garden Work  Good Week Of Weather Will Fiy 4

Hinton -Man:Home:.: From: ‘Military 5 Service In. Near : East _ >

ROOSEVELT TOSTEP UP CAMPAIGN      Will Make Several Speeches  Last Two Weeks

ROOSEVELT PLANS ACTIVE CAMPAIGN   Two Major Radio Speeches Scheduled; October 21 And 27

frmnie Fylie i~€iis OF Sete: Ste eee OF  Mosquitoes in Hedgerows of Normandy

SITUATION IN HUNGARY IS CHAOTIC   Adm. Horthy Is Taken Prisoner by Nazis; German Forces Seize Budapest.

NAZIS FIGHT TO HOLD CONTROL OVER HUNGARY   Horthy’s Government Ousted After Announcing Armistice With Allies

HORTHYS PEACE GOV'T OUSTED   Swiss Reports Say Hungarian Forces Sur. ‘round and Are Preparing to Attack : Capital *

NAZIS SEIZE CONTROL OF BUDAPEST   Action Follows Horthy's Acceptance Of Armistice Terms

Horthy Held For Meeting Allied Terms   Hungarian Patriots Reported Bauling Germans al Capital

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PLANES SOW MINES ALONG DANUBERIVER   German Traffic Along Highway To Balkans Reduced

Sharp Cut Slated For Army Budget   $15,676,652,700 Set As Need for Year

Army Still Has Money On Hand F.D.R. Reveals   Only 1512 Billions Needed Next Year, Conaress Is Told

Paroled Convict Sought In Brutal Murder Of Women   Slaying Near Site O! Dr. Hunt Mystery: Manhunt _ Involves Cars, Planes

TWO ARRAIGNED IN - GAS COUPON CASE      Harrisburg Solicitors Re leased on Bonds of  $5060 Each

TWO ARRAIGNED IN GAS COUPON CASE   Harrisburg Solicitors Re. leased on Bonds of .  . $500 Each

ALL IN READINESS FOR PRIMARY VOTE   Leaders Urge’ Members of Parties to Cast Their  ots   POLLS OPEN 8 TO 6

ee FOR PRIMARY VOTE   Leaders Urge'Members of Parties to Cast Their   Ballots: _   POLLS OPEN 8 TO 6

Violent Figh"' “ Rages In Si. °  of German Tove   Nazis Battle In Vain To Cut Off Spearhead, Isolate First Army

BATTLE RAGES IN VOSSENACK, TANKS ADVANCE   Blazing See-Saw Battle Thought Preliminary To Winter Camvaign

Germans right Desperately  In Vain to Cut Off U.S. Drive   Berlin Says Allies Have Crossed to Schouwen Island

Yanks hight Nazi Hordes In Vossenack   Violent Street Battles Raging; Allies Mop Up Antwerp Route

BATTLE SWAYS IN STREETS OF CERMAN TOWN   Yanks Retain Part of City

righting in Vossenack Is Not Decisive   Nazis Seek in Vain to Cut Off U. S. Sypearhead

Vossenack — Seene Of . Hard Battle   FIRST ARMY TROOPS HAVE REACHED DEEPEST POINT IN GERMANY YET ATTAINED

Japs Again Say Plane Over Tokyo   American Carrier Plane: Blast Manilla — Leyte  Conquest Near

NAZI LOSSES IN HOLLAND 46,000 MEN   Allied Forces Mopping Up In Southwest Holland

Tightening Of Shoe Rationing Is Reported Imminent By Washington   ee  Bureau Predicts Wet New Year’sIsn’t It Always?

SHOE STAMP DATE MAY BE SET BACK   Plan to Keep Present Stamps Valid but Tightening of Restrictions Inevitable

Shoe Ration Tightening Up Indicated   OPA Not Expected to Validate Next Coupon Until Early Summer ~

Current Policy of Two Pairs a Year Cannot Be Con* tinued in 1945.   COUPON NEXT SUMMER   Three Shoe Stamps Now In Use Expected to Be

Shoe Rations To Be Slashed  OPA Will Announce Change in Validation Date of Next Stemp

Fewer Shoes to Civilians Coming Year   One Pair Instead of Two Probable But Present Stamps Good

CUT IN SHOE RATIONS IS COMING SOON   Tightening of Rationing, Now on a Basis of Two Pairs a Year for Each Person, Is Reported to  Rw TImmenont

To Tighten Up Shoe Rationing   Two Pairs a Year Policy Abandoned;  _ Next Coupon Valid In Mid-Summer

SHOE RATION REDUCTION IN PROSPEC]      No New Coupons Before Midsummer; More Shoes for Children

Tighten Up. On Shoes   ' Say Two Pairs a Year Policy Cannot Be Continued in Coming Year

SHOE RATIONING MAY TIGHTEN   ‘Scare Buying’ Noted - - Two - Pairs a Year Unlikely

See Tightening Of Shoe Ration   Current Policy Of Two Pairs A Year Cannot Be Continued.

Reliable Sources Say Current,Policy of Two Pairs a Year Cannot be Conlinted in 1945

Allies Ready New Drive In Normandy   Low Clouds Ground Air Forces as Supplies Move Up

Allied Armies Open Attacks on Wide Front   Heavy Fighting Rages in Area Just South of Caen

Commons Holds Secret Meeting On Canada Draft   Prime Minister Says Lack Of “Reasonable” Unity Might Create Anarchy

French-Canadian Troops Demonstrating Against Overseas Act Called ‘Mutineers’

RAMSEY FILES IN GOVERNOR'S RAGE   Will Oppose Meadows and Holt for Democratic Nomination: Congressman Joe L. Smith Eliminates Himself

Fayette County: Goes Over by 165 Per Cent      Fite. Chiirman Praises ocal Chairman Miller

PER CENT OF COUNTY . QUOTA RAISED WAS 165   fale of Fourth War Bonds tf Fay~ ette County Was Far Beyond €280,000 Goal Sought

DIES 10 QUIT SEAT IN HOUSE   lll Health, Private Business Cause Texan Not to Seek Reelection

Dies Out of Politics as  CIO Rises   CUONGRESSMAN’S HEALTH NO’ EQUAL TO BATTLE WITH SIDNEY HILLMAN AND HIIs PO. LITICAL ACTION.   Starnes Loses Primary

Dies Quits Race To Retain Seat In Congress   Move Expecied To Mean End of House Commitice He Headed for Six Years

DIES SAYS HE WILL NOT RUN IN 1944 RACE   Texas Congressman Withdraws From Congress Fight   END OF COMMITTEE LIKELY TO FOLLOW   Piloted Un-American Group Through Six Stormy Years

Rep. Martin Dies Plans To Retire   Gives Ill Health As Main Reason

Announce Sub Scorpion Lost   Fourth U. SS.) Submersible Listed Presumed Lost In kight Days.

4THU.S. SUBIS LONG OVERDUE   Scorpion Presumed Los! In Pacific, Bringing War's Total to 23

U.S.S. Scorpion Is Missing And  Presumed Lost   Loss Brings To 23 Number Of American Submarines Sunk

Loss Of 23rd Sub Reported.   Fourth U. S:iSubmersible Reported’ Missing In » Hight Days - ;

Loss Of Scorpion Admitted By Navy   Fourth Submarine In Week To Be Reported Overdue

Scorpion Is Reported Sunk   Fourth U. S. Submarine Lost In Eight Days; 23 Sunk To Date.

xg - .'S Suan omarine Scorpio - “ong “ve-Cue. 4e00-~eb -0 3e _0S7

AMERICAN SUB LOST WITH CREW OF 75   The Scorpion, One of America’ Largest Submersibles, Guves Down in Jap Waters.

U.S. SUBMARINE SCORPION LOST   Navy Announces Crew of About 75 Officers, Men Missing in Action

) US. Subs Lost Hunting Jap Shipping   U.S.S. Capelin and Sculpin Overdue; Undersea Toll Rises to 22

LOSS OF FOURTH U.S. SUB LISTED   Scorpion Is Long Overdue, Says Navy Report

NAVY REPORTS SUB SCORPION NOW OVERDUE   Fourth Listed as Presumably Los in Eight Days, Bringing Teta for War to 23

NAVY REVEALS LOSS OF TWO AMERICAN SUBS   Twenty-Two Yank U-Boats Is Toll Of War To Date

JAP INVADERS OF INDIA STALLED   New Drive Started On Burma By The Chinese

Se aes ins eeeiscaiieitinennteieentictinitiinidtinnetesinmamsins  BRITISH TEMPORARILY STALL JAP INVADERS OF INDIA; ALLIED FORCES GAIN IN BURMA

Japanese Prepare Vast Trap in  Honan War Zone  Chinese Are Fighting Valiantly and Refuse to Lose Hope

JAPANESE ON DEFENSIVE IN PACIFIC AREA   From Burma in West to China's Salween River In East, Allied Troops and Air Power Go Ahead   CONCENTRATIONS HIT

NEW SERIES OF GAINS REPORTED ON CHINA FRONT   Furious Fighting Raging Around Loyang; Additional T owns And Villages Captured By Chinese Forces.

Enemy Springing 115-Mile Wide Trap on Chinese   Loyang Remains in Hands of Defenders Despite Hard Blows

Allies Hammer Japs, Try To Reopen Road   Coordinated Drive Launched in Burma, China. To Gain Burma Road. Railway   Bulletin

Japanese Fashioning Great Trap in China   But Bitter Fighting in Loyang Continues Despite Sweeping Advance by Foe

CAMPAIGN FOR REOPENING OF ROAD IN BURMA   On Land and in Air Allies Ham mering Away at Japs With Chinese Sharing in Battle   Ry ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jap Forces Fashion Trap For Chinese   Furious Battle Still Rages for Loyang; Chinese Gain Railway

Most Meat Likely To Remain Ration Point Free thru July, Bowles Hints —

British Capture San Silvestro   Push Through Nazi  Resistance Near Faenza

Fighth Army  Takes Towns  Cantures Follow   Captures Follow Crossing Of Lamone

pusement Park fe Injures 125   pas Sweep 2N. Y.  creation Centers

‘Halt Million Dollar Fire Sweeps Palisades Amusement Center in New York Area Injuring Estimated 125 Persons: Manv Flee

VET BALLOTS OUT IN FIVE STATES   Army Disclaims Responsibility for Premature Mailing. Then Returned

Vatican Seeks Immunity for Home of Pope   Denies Nazis Are Now on Premises

Pope Protests Palace Bombing   Denies Nazis Using  Castel Gandolfo

URGED 10 SPARE POPE'S RESIDENCE   ALLIES TOLD 10,000 REFUGEES . . JAM VILLA AND NO NAZIS . ARE THERE.

RITES HELD TODAY   Services For George Ststtery, Freda St. Celumben Charch.

ermans Reported To Hav: Used New Stratosphere  Bombers   NEW TYPE BOMB IS DROPPED ON CITY

LONDON IS RAIDED FOR 12TH TIME   This Month; Fourth Straight Night; Bombs Drop On Coast Town Also; Fly At Higher Altitude.   175 Bombers

GERMANS RAID LONDON AGAIN   Casualties and Damage Reported in Heavy Foe Aerial Attack

berman Planes Launch Another Raid on London  Nazi Flierz Adieat   Nazi Fliers Appear  Over Capital for Fourth Niaht

HOUR-LONG RAID MADE ON LONDON   BOMBS CAUSE CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE—FOUR GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN.

WILKS, KRAMER DUEL IN THIRD SERIES TILT   Perfect Weather Will Mark Game At St. Louis Today

Cards lead Browns 1-0  In The 3rd   Score Unearned Run: In First To Go Out In Front

Bright Sun for Third Game   Ted Wilks to Face Jack Kramer in Series Today

Skies Clear As Cardinals And Browns Start All Over   Rookie Wilks Faces Kramer, Fans Appear fo Be Leaning To Browns

 WORLD SERIES— Warm Sun  _ For Third  Series Duel   Browns, And Cards, All Even, Play Before Capacity Throng

“ONE GREATEST AIR BATTLES IN HISTORY COSTLY BOTH SIDES  ae eS ee LL le he eT ATT   RAIL YARDS NEAR PARIS BLASTED. LAST NIGHT IN CONTINUED DRIVES

Yankee Gunners Send 17€ Enemy Fighter Craft Dowr In Terrific Aerial Battle

68 U. §. Bombers Lost in HistoryMaking Battle   Russians Driving Closer to Rumania In New Offensive

Berlin Raid Costs U.S. 68 Bombers   American Fliers Bag 176 Nazi Fighters And Dump 2,000 Tons Of Bombs on Capital

79 American Planes Fail To Return In Giant Reich Attack   British Fliers Blast Paris Region in Night Assault; Soviets Cut OdessaLwow Railroad

176 NAZIPLANES SHOT DOWN IN BERLIN ATTACK   Russians Surging Toward Rumania and Taking Big Toll of Germans

Yanks Bag 176 Nazi Planes in  ‘Berlin Raid   Heayy Casualties In Rome Assault, Creeman Radin Clot,

Americans Lose 79 Planes in  Big Sky Fight   Rome Is Bombed Today—Russians Advance Swiftly Toward Rumania.

Yanks Lose 79 Planes In Battle   68 Bombers Fall: 176 Nazi Fighters Shot Down

U. S. Downs 176 German Planes; 2000 Tons Dropped.   By RICHARD McMURRAY

‘ONE OF GREATEST AIR FIGHTS =< IN HISTORY OVER BERLIN AS = MANY PLANES LOST TOBOTH ~~   176 German Fighters, 68 American Heavy Bonew. if ers and 11 Fighters Lost. More Than 2000 Tot ie Of Bombs Showered on German Capital ve a te

79 American F ighters and Bombers Lost   Russians Sweep Toward - Rumania After Cutting Odessa-Lwow-Warsaw. Railway:

New Air Assault On Rome Reported By Reich Radio: Casualties Appear Heavy   sritish Bombers Blast Rail Yards Southwest Of Paris’ To Keep Offensive Going; Americans Plaster Nazi Capital With Some 2,000 Tons Of Bombs

WPB Job Falls Into Krug Lap By FDR Order   Just-Returned Officer Told To Take Board And Run It

ty i NAMED TOWILSON'S” Ps POST      Will Be Acting. Production Head. While Nelson Away

Roosevelt Names New WPB Boss   Vice-Chairman Quits, Denounces Nelson

6. 0. P. Contest Nip-and-Tuck Tn West Virginia   Rush Holt Trailing In Democratic Gubernatorial Race

G.0.P.RACEIN WEST VIRGINIA ~_CLOSE-TODA   D emo cr patie- Fight One- sidéd,, With - Aloit Tr ailing’ *

HOT PRIMARY RACE   Voting for West Virginia Governorship Nomination Close

Holt Trails in West Virginia   Nip and Tuck Race For GOP Gubernatorial  Nomination

Republican Race Close In W. Va.   srmeér Senator Holt Trails 3 to  in Demo Contest

BEATEN   EX“BOY SENATOR” WEST VIRGINIA LOSES IN TRY FOR GOVERNORSHIP

aps Putting p Desperate esistance   Chinese Situation Admittedly Dark— Allies Still Trying To Open Burma Road

Desperate Japanese Disregard Cost Of Life In Attempt To Stop U.S,  7

Doughboys Meet Tough Resistance   Japanese Attempts to Break Roadblock And Run Supplies to Belea quered Troops Fail

Japs Fighting Desperately to Hold Limon Sector   Battle for Leyte Island Grows in Scope for Show-Dowr

Yanks Seore New Gains  On Leyte —   Roadblock Near Limon Cuts Jap Supply Route

Stubborn Japs Dig In for Leyte Crisis   Doughboys Compress Limon Pincer; Stop Supply Trucks

JAPS BATTLE BITTERLY 10 HOLD LEYTE   Seek To Improve Positions For Impending Showdown

Japs Spurn Death In Effort To Hold Limon  Other Nips Hastily .   Other Nips Hastily  Ready Positions For Showdown Battl.

Severe Shortage  Children Noted   Scarcity In Diapers, Underwear Revealed In Big City Survey

TEMPERATURES:   Warrant Names State Senators Delano, Howell   They Are Accused Of Accepting Bribes To Support Bill

SEN. DELANO IS FREED ON BOND IN BRIBE CASE   13 Are Named In New Indictments Issued By Judge Carr

Soldiers for Equal _ Liability   Stimson Says Service Act Is Needed to Support Troops, Maintain Morale   ‘WAR IS NOT ALMOST OVER.’ HE DECLARES   Reports Men in Army See Country as Divided Into Two. Classes

STIMSON URGES LABOR DRAFT   WAR SECRETARY SEES RESENTMENT IN ARMY

STIMSON PUSHES DRAFT OF LABOR   Claims Servicemen Resent Home Front’s Attitude

Stimson Proposes Universal Service   Says Industrial Unrest Arouses Resentment Among Armed Forces.

Labor Draft Urged   Soldiers Demand All Accept Equal Liability, War Secretary Arers

SECRETARY OF WAR ASKS CONGRESS FOR NATIONAL SERVICE   MEN AT FRONT RESENT LACK OF PATRIOTIC HOME FRONT SPIRIT. HE SAYS

STIMSON ASKS FOR NATIONAL SERVICE LAW   Bitterly Opposed By Some Members Of Senete Body -

Stimson Bids Strongly For Labor Draft   Says Discontent Gcrevw ing In) Minds of Soldiers Overseas

Stimson for  Labor Draft   Measure Would Boost Morale of U. S. Troops; Secretary Tells Congress

STIMSON ASKS FOR NATIONAL SERVICE LAWS  TELLS CONGRESS SOLDIERS RESENT

Tells Senate Commitice Soldiers Resentiul, Weat AH Mpericens Accepl Liability They D   Johnson Charges Labor Draft "Prussianizing, Other Foes oi Legislation on Commitiee

STIMSON AVERS A LABOR DRAFT ACT IS NEEDED   Men in Armed Forces, H Declares, Resent Home Front’s Attitude

Stimson Called For Service Act   SECRETARY OF WAR IN PLEA TO CONGRESS TODAY

Stimson Gives Talk  In Support of  Drafting Civilians War Secretary Says  Measure Would Add to Army Morale

Stimson Urges Labor Draft to Aid War Effort   Home Front Strife Hits Army Morale, He Avers

War Secretary Says This With Industrial Unrest Arouses Feeling of Injustice in ; Fighters; Urges National Service Act 4

STIMSON ASKS A NATIONAL SERVICE ACT      Tells Senate Military Committee If Strikes Are Continued They Will Affect the Morale of the Armvy.

Stimson Asks Draft Of Labor   Men In Armed Forces Resent Attitude Of Public, Secretary Of War Contends

Stimson Asks For National Service Law   Feeling Of Injustice By Armed Forces Held Growing

SEC, STIMSON IN AN APPEAL FOR NATIONAL SERVICE   He Asserted That Industrial Unrest Has Aroused a Strong Feeling.   AMONG ARMED FORCES   Secretary of War Appeared Before Senate Military - Committee.

Stimson Urges Civilian Draft Plan Approval   Cites “Industrial Unrs at! On Home Front” Causes. Resentment Ameng.  Men In Service ~*~;   Says dt s Mistake T ‘oO » Belittle Facts   Knox Is Also Slated to -Appear Before Senate Commitiee; Congress  Cold to Idea

Stimson Asks For National Service Law   Strikes Have Aroused Resentment From Men In Armed Forces.

STIMSON SAYS TROOPS RESENT LABOR TROUBLE   Declares Industrial Unrest Must End to Keep Up Soldiers’ Morale _

abor Unrest Stine Troops, Says Stimson  Would Be Tragic to Have Resentment Fester in Their Hearts ALL MUST SERVE Talk That War Is Almost Over Called Wishful  . Thinking

Boys Need Morale Help  From Homes   Secretary Points Out Unrest On  Home Front

“A Blow To Army Morale”   Stimson Says Service Men Bitter Over Failure to Draft Labor As Well As Soldiers

Stimson Urges  Labor Dratt  As Backing Army Fears Morale Drop,  Senate May Terminate Subsidies June 30

Stimson Asks Congress For National Service Act   Says Men In Army See ‘Patriotic Responsibility’ Lacking At Home And They Resent It

Stimson Asks Labor Draft fo Back Up Troops   War Secretary Says Men Resent Industrial Unrest

Sec. Stimson Asks Congress for National Service Measure   Senate Committee Told Industria! Unrest at Home Causes Dissention Among Troops.

Labor Draft Is Urged By  Sec. Stimson   industrial Unrest And Lack Of Patriotic Responsibility Arouse Resentment. He Savs

HOLD OPEN HOUSE   Visitors Inspect the New County Convalescent Hospital

TRAP JAP COLUMN IN NORTH BURMA   Was Seeking to Reinforce Troops At Myitkyina

TRAP JAP COLUMN IN NORTH BURM   Yanks Close In on Japanese In New Guinea, Forces at Maftin Airdrome.

Allies Press Germans Along Appian Way, Expand Front; Trap Jap Column in Burma

JAP FORCE IS TRAPPED IN BURMA   Bitter Fighting Continues At Myitkyina

Nippon Column Claimed Trapped Near Myitkyina.   Bitter F ighting In Area of Jap Burma Stronghold Continues

Allied Bombs Start Blasting Siegiried Line   American First Army Only 14 Miles From German Line West Of Aachen.

Troops Deployed For Drive In Quest Of Victory This Year   First Army Within Range Of Aachen   Hodges’ Army Drives Com: pletely Through Ardennes Forest

Aerial Bombs Hit At Siegfried Line   American First Army Tanks Reach Meuse But Seven Miles South Of Bia Dutch Fortreee

BOMBS CRASH ON SIEGFRIED DEFENSE LINE      First Cold Winds Sweep Across Battlefront

Big Push Expected Hourly   Allies Want to End War Before Winter Sets in

Hitler Interpreter Is In Switzerland   To ‘Take a Cure’ Which Observers Suspect is For ‘Diplomatic’ Disease

Black Pencil Suspension on Bricker's Desk   Both Houses Alsc Okay Additional School Funds

SHEPPARD A DANIELS BILLS PASS ASSEMBLY   Measures Provide School Fund, Ease Balloting By Soldiers   RECORD BREAKING SPEED   Senate Gives Unanimous Approval Without Debate In Five Minutes

Offer Little Resistance To Russians   Reds Plunge Westward Across Poland and Are. Nearing Rumania

A Word To the Wise  ---[t’s Pneumonia   Annual Rise in Prevalence of Disease Is Due

Couldn’t Shoot Nazis For Laughing  Calmest Doughboy Reads Comics While Watching Snipers - - - Shell Takes Barbers Customer

Old:‘Settlers To. Meet August 25 In LeMars  Judge Pitts Will Be Principal Speaker

HIGHWAY TO TOWN IS CAPTURED   Furious Fighting Is Reported In China City Of Loyang

Closing Trap On Kamaing   Stilwell’s Men Close in On Jap Base, Chinese Near * Squeezeb on Myitkyina

‘GEN. STILWELL TIGHTENS TRAP ON BURMA JAPS   One Force Only Nine Miles From Kamaing

STILWELL’S MEN CLOSING TRAP ABOUT KAMAING   Main Highway To Kamaing Cut By Allied roops; Bombers Attack Enem Troops In Nort Burma.

erial Forces are ng AH-Out Attempt 2 To Open Road       FIGHTING IS  RARING ARGUND LOYANG

“Vinegar Joe” Closing g Trap  On Nip! Force:   General Stilwell’s Jungle  Fighters Push Closer to    Eameing; Chinese  : Get Tank Support  ,

Trap Closing On Jap Base At Kamaing   ‘Salween Offensives Carries Within 150 Miles Of Stilwell

Gen. Stiiwell’s Mer Are Closing Trap on Japanese  Chinese Forces Catch Enemy Troops In Northern Burma

‘E BOND SALES STILL LAG A BI   Total Individual Purchases in v,, WarLoan Roll On. Cabal (of

Metropolis G. O. P. Club Members Won't Vote If Willkie ls Nominated

RUMOR VITTORIC TQ ABDICATE   ITALY CROWN PRINCE SUGGESTED FOR THRONE

UNCONFIRMED RUMOR ITALIAN KING TO RESIGN   Communists Call for Formation of Coalition “War Government’ Without Insisting on Abdication

Abdication Of Vittorio Hinted Again   Umberto Unavailable For Comment — Badoglio Is . Said Agreeable

King of Italy May Abdicate   Crown Prince Umberto Would Become Head of Badoglio Government

Would Abdicate in Favor! of Crown Prince Um. berto, ‘Unconfirmed i Reports Claim t   Ruler Visited By His Son Yester day   Would Remove - Virtually Only Obstacle to “Democratizing” of Badoglio ‘Government

Italian King May Renounce Throne   Rumors Persist That Emanuele Will Abdicate in Favor of Umberto.

Coalition : " Rule Asked « for Italy   Communist. Party Leader Proposes: Move “Without . ; Ousting King Now   CAN MAKE CHANGES AFTER THE WAR   y- Rumors Again Heard That King: Will Abdicate: in Favor of Crown Prince

italian King Reported Ready to Abdicate   Unconfirmed Rumors Are That Umberto Will Take Throne

S. Set. Gorton Killed in Italy September 27   Former Resident of Ormsby; Graduate of Local High School

S/Sgt. Gorton Killed j in Italy September 27   Was Stationed There With Medical Corps; Inducted May, 1942

S EXPANDS BRIDGET ILAD CROSS STREAM 1) WIDITI OF IWO ANI A TALL MEPS

Patton's Troops In Outskirts of Siegfried Line   Casualties Heavy As Battle Rages

Saar Crossed In New Spot By 3rd Army   Yanks Advance Up To Three Miles In Vital Basin Drive

NEW YORE. Bec, 5~-(AP)— Yohe Soran. vac tonight ‘daiwell re oO e city of oo The broaicast was  jaar by the Blue network.

Patton's Men, Armor Thrust Inside Germany Along 40-Mile Front; Blackened Industrial Saarbrucken Is Pounded Incessantly by American Artillery

RUSSIA THROWS MONKEY WRENCK INTO AIR PLANS   Will Not Attend International Aviation Meet In Chicago Because Spain And Switzerland Invited.

SOVIETS REJECT U.S, MEET BID   Refuse to Study Plans With Pro-Fascist Countries

Russia Shuns Aviation Talks  Irked at Presence Of Neutral Nation:

Russia Quits Air Conference   Soviet Opposed To 3 European Countries

U.S. WORLD POLICE IS UP TO CONGRESS   Rep. Ball Says Lawmakers Have Authority

MOSCOW ROCKS PLANNING AGAIN   Reds Refuse To Attend Talk: Bulgarian Terms Aired

Reds Refuse to Attend Meeting  Will Not Be ot Aviation Conference

Montgomery Says European War May Last Year or More    Says Invasion Will Be Tug of War and if Allies Let Go Rope,  They Lose the Match,

War In Europe May Last Year Or Longer   -- “And We Shall Win,” Gen. Montgomery Say:

Year More War Warning Issued By Montgomery   Predicts Magnificent Party Salute Te, Soldiers: erms i Proper Job

British Commande: Thinks Victory May Be Year Yet in Coming   OFFERS BATTLECRY   ‘Let God Arise and Let His Enemies BeScattered’ Bishop’s Son Quotes

Pair Murdered By Hatchet Man   Two Others Wounded  In Serious Condition

hon Accepts  utineer Terms   Guard Captors Ask Publicity for ‘Cause’

REBELLIOUS CONS AGREE TO GIVE UP   Prison Officer OK’: Demands For Publicity

MANILA RESIDENTS STARVING, DECLARES FILIPINO WHO ESCAPED INTO U.S. LINES

People of Manile Face Starvation  . Sweet Potato Leaves Only Food for Many

Red Army Takes Staraya Russa   Eastern Anchor Of Nazi North Line Falls

NAZI BALTIC. FRONT FURTHER WEAKENED   Russians Say Staraya Russa Battle Was Fierce

Shimsk Falls To Russians; Raise Hope of Nazi Baltic Front Collapse

SOVIETS PERIL GERMAN LINES   Fall of Staraya Russa To Reds Hints Collapse  Of Nazi Forces

Collapse of Nazi Line in Baltic Looms   Capture by Russians Of Staraya Russa, Brings Great Break

Painless Tax Bill OK'd By House, Goes to Senate  Measure Slated To Cut Down On Tax Returns

MEASURE SENT TO SENATE FOR FINAL PASSAGE   Unanimous Vote Given Proposal; Reduces Tax Figuring

Simplified Tax Plan Receives House Approval   Bill Expected to Go to Senate Before Nightfall

House Approves  Simplified Tax   30 Million Citizens Would Get Relief

WOULD FORM CO-ORDINATING ~ COUNCIL HERI   Relieve. Group V Would Aid tion Activities in “Advisory Capacity

WOULD FORM CO-ORDINATING ~ COUNCIL HERE   Believe ‘Group Would Aid Recreation Activities in Advisory Capacity

- Doughboys Get Turkey In Front Lines _  GI’s Thankful They’re Still Alive

Widely Known Salesman Drops  Dead In Store  W. H. Heinlen Victi  £frlf ty... Re

Widely Known Salesman Drops  Dead In Store  W. H. Heinlen Victim  Of Heart Attack

Crop Outlook Declines, but Production Of Milk Eaas. Veaetables Satisfactory

d WAR PRISONERS ESCAPE YESTERDAY   State Police Blockade Sel Up Throughout Upper . Peninsuja.

DSGiS5 EMBARGL ON FOREIGN REEF   ' Propose’ ‘Argentine ' Purchases. Be Stopped iky Uy s. and England. -

DISCUSS EMBARGL ON FOREIGN BEEF   Propose Argentine Furchases Be Stopped ky U..S. and England.

Senate Delays Showdown On Renegotiation   Chairman George Will Talk With Officials; Group To Meet Again

Mrs. Mary Sullivan Dies Saturday —  “Spent Most Of Her . Life In: Thid Coisiy =

Mrs. Mary Sullivan Dies Saturday  Spent Most Of Her Life In This County”

RED'S ARMORED COLUMNS DRIVE BEYOND PITESTI      Carries To Within 100 Miles Of Yugoslavia In Fast Advance

Russian Columns ‘Within 100 Miles  of Yugoslavia   Rail Center of Pitesti Seized Or By-Passel In Lightning Advance

Soviet Armored Units Advance Past Bucharest   Pitesti Falls in Fast-Breaking Russian Campaign

Soviets Head For J unction With Yugoslav Forces   Seize Rail Center Of Pitesti, Mass Along Bulgarian Border

RUSSIANS 70 MILES BEYOND BUCHAREST   Are Within 100 Miles — Of Yugoslavia

Allies Rush Past Old Maginot Line   Advancing Reds Now Only 100 Miles From Yugoslavia

Soviets 70 Miles Past Bucharest, Near Yugoslavia   Bulgaria Expected To Declare  War on Germany

SOVIETS ON BULGARIAN FRONTIERS   Fast-Moving Russians Reported 70 Miles ° West Of Capital

17-YEAR-OLD VET IS ON WAY HOME   Boy Enlisted at 15: Comes Back from England

U. S. Planes Resume » Heavy Blows at Foe   Strong Liberator Force Sweeps Over Invasion Coast in Dawn Assault

French Coast Hit On 40 of 54 Days   Bad Weather Keeps RAF Heavies Home

LIBERATORS SWEPT OVER THE FRENCH ____ INVASION COASI   Resumed Pounding of Nazi Defenses Which Has Been Going On Some Time.   A DAYLIGHT ASSAULT   It Was Made With a Cover of Thunderbolts and Mustangs.

AMERICANS RAID INVASION COAST   British Bombers Blast Reich Last Night

YANKS BATTER INVASION. AREA   Allied Formations Slam Nazi-Held Europe In — Heavy Assaults

LIBERATORS POUND TARGETS ON NAZI INVASION COAST    Swarm Over the Pas-De- Calais Area in Strength Today—Is Fortieth Raid on Region in Past 54 Days :

Invasion Coast Again Battered   Nazi Defenses On French Coast Pounded For Fortieth Day.

INVASION COAST POUNDED AGAIN   U. S. Liberators Roar Over Pas-De-Calais Region

HIT DEFENSE: 40 OF LAST h4 DAYS   200 German Bombers Raid Southeast England  LL =   Smash Unidentified Area In Germany: 37 Planes Lost By Enemy

Relentless Air  Raids Continue  Coast Attacks Follow Assaults On Germany

‘Nearest Neck Of LandFacing  Britain Target   American Liberators in,  Strength Keep Going Re-  ~— Tentless Pounding of Nazi Defenses .    Attacks Kept Up ‘Throughout Day   Thirty-Seven Nazi Planes Bagged Yesterday During U. S. Sorties; Yanks . Lose Twenty

PAS DE CALAIS AREA POUNDED BY LIBERATORS   American Planes Resume Bombing Of Nazi European Defenses, Which Has Been Going On For 40 Out Of The Past 54 Days.

Resume Pounding Of Nazi Defenses  In Area   Thirty-Seven German Planes Are Downed  By Allies

U.S. BOMBERS HIT FRENCH COAST AGAIN   Pound Invasion Point: Few Nazi Planes Manage To Reach London

FRENCH COAST POUNDED AGAIN BY LIBERATORS      Other Strong: Allied Aerial Formafions Continue Show After Raids on Western Germany

BOMB INVASION COAST TARGETS   LIBERATORS SWEEP TO ATTACK ON NAZI DEFENSES IN FRANCE

Pounding Of French Coast Is Continued   Liberators Strike At Pas-De-Calais Area Once More

LIBERATORS IN WAKE OF RAFIN ‘BOMBING ATTACKS   French Invasion Coast And German Targets Pounded in Day and Night Blasts

Liberators Hit French Coast Today   Continue Offensive Which Has Gone On 40 of Last 54 Days

U.S. PLANES RAID FRENCH TARGETS   Pas-De-Calais Invasion Coast Under Attack

Keep Bombing French Coast   Yank Liberators Hit Pas-De-Calais Area 40 Times in 54 Days

Liberafors Hif Invasion Coast   Sweep Across Channel On Bombing Mission

Bombers Hit Nazi Defenses   Pounding of Area Kept Up 40 Of Last 54 Days.

Calais Is  Lashed   American Heavies Strike French Invasion Coast

French Coast Struck Again By Americans  Liberators Continue Pounding of Nazi Defenses

U. §. LIBERATORS SWEPT OVER FRENCH INVASION DISTRICT   RAF MOSQUITO BOMBERS   RAID WESTERN AND * CENTRAL CERMANY

Liberators Return To Hit North  Coast of France   Mosquito Bombers Again Attack Berlin; Later Formations Follow Early Assault on Pas-De-Calais Area Today

Guerilla Army ln Philippines Takes Two Town:   Meanwhile, Rains Stall American Operations On Levte Island

FILIPINOS TAKE TOWNS ON SAMAR   Rains Continue To Stall Operations On Leyte Island

TWO PHILIPPINE TOWNS CAPTUREL BY GUERRILLAS   Taft, Oras Fall, Heavy Rain Stalls Americans Operations , On Levte

MOTLEY FILIPINO ARMY WINS TOWNS   Jap Premier Warns  Islands “Must Hold’”’

Guerillas Take Two Towns On Island of Samar   American . Operations On Leyte Island Stalled By Rains

Taft, Oras On East Coast Of Samar Seized; Naval Units Blast Jap Ship; Rains Hamper Advances

Lepke To Be  Surrendered   But If Death Sentence Commuted He Returns To U. S. Custody.

Willkie To Speak On Labor Tonight  Delivers Address In Milwaukee

Russian Forces Push Drive Into Pre-War Polant   Reported Seven Miles Across Former Polish Frontier Pursuing Germans   ESTIMATE MILLION NAZIS FACING TRAP

GEN. VATUTIN SHIFTS PART OF ARMY SOUTH   Other Spearheads Continue to Drive Into Poland

All-Out Efforts On Home Front Are Necessar)  re Gate Rancava {   Congress'Gets Roosevelt Message On State Of Nation

Reds Deep Into East  Prussia   Power Drive Plunges 19 Miles Into Junker Land On 87-Mile Front; To Border of Norway

sReds Push 19 Miles Inside *Prussian Line   Rampaging Soviets Overrun 400 Nazi  TT wwe and Villages

Reds Report Deep Gains in Fast Prussia   Port of Memel Cut off, German Troops Marooned

First Announcement of Break Through German Frontier Defenses Made by Russians After Troops 19 Miles Inside Germany

Russians Drive sNineteen Miles into Prussia   Frontier Defenses Reported Broken on 87-Mile Front; Reds Surround Memel

Russian Armies 19 Miles Inside East . Prussia, Reds Say   First Official Word Credits Third White Army - With Invasion

SLASH FRONTIER ON 87 MILE FRONT TO 19 MILE DEPTH   GERMAN BROADCAST SAYS REDS ARE 35 MILES IN E. PRUSSIA

Moscow Announces Great Drive into East Prussia  Reds Break Through Frontier   Reds Break Through Frontier Deenses on An $7-Mile Front

Russians Have Taken 400 German Towns   Red Army Penetrates Into East Prussia To Depth of 19 Miles

Russian Armies On German Soil In East Prussia   Reds Penetrate Ninsteen Miles Inside Reich; Junkers Generals Homes Face Soviet Occupation

ANOTHER RED ARMY NEARS FAST PRUSSIA   Troops, in Fact, May Already Have Crossed the Border, UDuplicating Feat of Force Now 19 Miles Over Frontier.

Soviets Take 400 Places In E. Prussia   19-Mile Advance Made on 87-Mile Front, Moscow Announces

Nazi Defenses Split on 87 Mile Front   German Garrison At Meme! Cut Off By Soviet Troops

Moscow Guns Herald Gains In E. Prussia   Germans Say Red Army Elements 35 Miles Inside Reich

Reds Penetrate 19 Miles Inside East Prussia   Baltic Army Occupies All Memel Territory Except Port’ Itself —

RED OFFENSIVE 5 ANNOUNCED   First Moscow Announcement of Drive in East Prussia is Given.

Reds Pushin. Deeper Into East Prussia   19-Mile Thrust  Across German Border Reported

Russians Dig Deeper in East   EAST PRUSSIAN DRIVE NETS REDS 19 MILES

400 Nazi Towns Are Captured By The Reds   Much of Memel Territory Has Been Occupied

Powerful Red Army Captures 400 Towns   Penetrate German Territory to Depth Of About 19 Miles

REDS ADVANCE ON NAZI SOIL   Russians Penetrate Ger man Territory, Drive Toward Insterburg

REDS 19 MILES "INSIDE REICE       Russians Capture 400 Towns And Villages

Reds Batfling Slowly Ahead   Powerful Offensive Grinds Ahead in East Prussia; Memel Region Occupied

Break Through German Defenses On 87: Mile Front.  Red Army Penetrates 19 Miles Ir*o Prussia: fake 400 Towns

REDS 19 MILES INSIDE GERMAN TERRITORY NOW   Memel Occupied Entirely By Russians

Red Army Is Now Deep In East Prussia, Moscow Says   Penetration Of 35 Miles Made, Berlin Says: Russians Admit 19 Miles Inside Line

19 MILES INTC EAST PRUSSIA, SOVIET CLAIMS   Moscow in First Announcement of Powerfu! Offensive Along Front of 87 Miles

RUSSIANS ANNOUNCE DEEP PENETRATIONS INTO EAST PRUSSIA   FIRST SUMMARY OF ACTION AGAINST GERMAN

RUSSIAN DRIVES OVERRUN 400 0F REICH VILLAGES   Moscow Gives First Details Of Offensive; Insterburg Appears First Goal

SWEEP INTO E. PRUSSIA IS PRESSED   400 Nazi Towns Already Seized; Memel Cut Off

RUSSIAN FORGES DRIVE 19 MILES INSIDE PRUSSIA   Soviet Troops Capture 40C Reich Towns in New Offensive

400 Towns Fall As Russians Smash Deeper into Germany   BY DANIEL DE LUCE

Russians 19 Miles Inside East Prussia   New Red Drive Engulfs 400 Towns; Memel Port Is Cut Off.

Russian Army 19 Miles in Enemy Countr   Insterburg and Konigsherg Are Obiectives af Red«

Red. Thrust Of 19 Miles Tn Prussia.  Is Revealed   ‘400:More Villages Taken: In Offensive

Bagramian’s Army Clear Area Around Memel And Is Massed Along Nieman River Form. ing Northern Border.

SOVIETS ROLL DEEPER INTO EAST PRUSSIA   Penetration of Depth of at Least 19 Miles Proclaimed In Moscow Announcement  Ors Shae gee pt fn om

ODT HEAD OPPOSES SHIFI OF BIG GAME   Declares Shift To Another City Would Be "“Outraac”

Yanks Put Pincers  On Metz   Noose Being Drawn Around Enemy Bastion

10-MILE GAIN WOULD CLOSE SNARE ON CITY   Are Of Steel, Forged By Patton, Scores 5-Mile Advance

American Arc Being Drawn  Around Metz   German Fortress Is in Danger of Being Completely Encircled

Yanks Draw Steel Arc Around Bastion of Metz  Less Than 10 Miles Separate Two Flanking Forces

Steel are strangles Metz fort  10 miles divide   10 miles divide flanking forces

ONLY 10 MILES BETWEEN TWO PATTON UNITS   Yanks Gain Five and Seven Miles on Two Separate Advances

Ring Already Two-Thirds Around City   U.S. Third Army Smashes Ahead Five Miles Across Highwavs And Rivers

POLES REPORT ATROCITIES   500,000 Persons Killed in Gas Chamber at Camp

500,000 Persons,  Mostly Jews, Die In Polish Camp, Ministry Reports

500,000 PERSONS KILLED BY NAZIS AT POLISH CAMP   Polish Ministry Releases Atrocity Figures of ‘ Startling Nature

Dewey Visits Pittsburgh On Monday   REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARER WILL ARRIVE AT 8:55A.M. FOR BUSY DAY OF CONFERENCES.   Reception 3:30 to 5

Bricker Asserts New Deal Not to Be Trusted   Says It Dragged U.S. to Bottom of List of Nations

Bricker Says New Deal Not lo Be Trusted for Job:   Declares U.S. Slow Te Recover from Period Of Depression

New Deal Cannot Be Trusted, Gov. Bricker Asserts   Sees Change Needed To Produce Jobs

FOOD POISONING ALLEGED CAUSE (IF FIVE DEATHS    Mother. Four Children In Erie Family Die After ‘ating Meal

Biddle Defends Ward Seizure   Contends Law Gives President Authority

Ward Seizure Investigated   Power of Government Defended By Biddle

Biddle Testifies ‘On Ward Issues   Says No Room For. Legal Disagreements.

BIDDLE ON STAND IN WARD PROBE   ; Defends Action in * Advising Seizure Of Plant  anes

¥.  Ariny, Navy to Pool Draftees . To Fill Calls   Assignments to Be General  Starting July 1

Aces Still In Fight    Eight of 19 Top . Fighter Pilots On Active Duty Today

‘Admiral Bagley Declares Showdown In Pacific Is In the Offina: Jap ‘Fleet will Be Annihilated if lt Fights

Showdown Near in Pacific, Says Admiral Bagley   Jap Navy Will Be Destroyed if lt Makes Stand

Reds Begin Assault on Galati Gap  ‘Drive to Outskirts “OF Ismail on   ‘Drive to Outskirts “OF Ismail on  Danube Estuary ?in Romania

SN A ee LLL.  30 Mile Drive On Bucharest Traps 12 Nazi Divisions   Nazis Report Soviets Open Offensive On Warsaw

WEATHER   Other Soviet Forces Chop Up 12 Trapped Nazi Divisions   Divisions NEW DRIVE OPENS Germa ns Report Offen sive ‘of Greatest Extent? A ct: se VW. [Loa et he   NEW DRIVE OPENS

REACH THE DANUBE   Begin Assault On Galati Gap, Last Barrier to Bucharest

RUSSIAN TROOPS LAUNCH GREAT OFFENSIVE NORTH OF WARSAW CITY   Soviet Forces Now Reported Only 100 Miles From Bucharest.

SOVIET TROOPS BEGIN ASSAULT ON GALATI GAP   Smashing At Last Importan Barrier To Romanian Oil Pields

Instructed Delegation For Dewey Sought At State Convention   Montana Republican and Democratic Sessions Scheduled for Helena Tuesday; GOP Ta Select Natianal Committeemen Tonight

Believe State GOP Delegates Have Enough Strength For Dewey To Send Instructed Group To Convention

Nazi Ammunition Dump Is Blasted In Cassino Area   Allied Artillery Fire Hits Giant Munitions Dump Of German Forces   MINOR NAZI THRUSTS REPORTED REPULSED

Italian Troops Stave Oii Light Nazi Attacks; Inflict Casualties On Enemy

ALLIEo olan CAOUING AREA BY SHELLFIRI   Big Nazi Ammunition Dump Goes Up in Flash of : Flame, Smoke.

NEW GAINS IN BOLOGNA AREA ARE REPORTED   Flooded Streams And Deep Mud Slow Troops

= rr a Ls  FIFTH ARMY TROOPS MAKE NEW GAINS ON ITALIAN BATTLELINE

Kozane Ca ptured By Allied Troops   Weather Conditions Better; Advance Units Reach Casalecchio

ALLIES GAIN. S, E, OF BOLGENA   Weather Conditions in Italy Improving

bth Army Lunges Nearer Bologna  Weather Conditions Show Improvement

TWO OHIO BANKERS GET PRISON TERMS   Both Had Pleaded Guilty to $77,000 Charges

ltaly-Based Allied Planes Hit Sofia; Fifth Army Gains   Infantry Offensive, Backed Up With Tanks, Pushes Toward Outskirts Of Cassino, Nazi nafence Bastion: Important Heichts Taken

Allied Airmen and Troops Pound at German Defense: In Italy and Balkan Areas

Sofia Battered, Fifth Drives On   Big Bombers Using  New Italian Bases By WES GALLAGHER

Sofia Battered, Fifth Drives On:   Big Bombers Using New {tafian Bacac

TANKS TAKING PART IN PUSH TOWARD ROME   FORTRESSES FROM BASES IN ITALY BOMB SOFIA

Communications in Bulgarian Capital Get Heavy Blow  PLANES OPERATING FROM NEW BASES  Nazi Forces Driven Back in the Cassino  Sector

Blow at Sofia Marks Start of New Big Attacks   Fifth Army Drives lo Edge of Cassino

Forts Batter Sofia; Allies  Near Cassino   Planes Operate From New Italian Bases:  Nazi Base Menaced as Troops Gair 2 Miles

FIFTH ARMY AIDED BY TANKS STRIKES BLOW ON LAND WHILE FORTRESSES BOMB SOFIA, BULGARIA AT NOON.

Allied 5th Army Pushes Toward Cassino Suburbs   Big American Bombers Move up to Italy

Development Revealed As Yankees Use Tanks In Drive Against Cassino

Canadians Killed By RAF Bombers   - Number of Dead’ Not Yet Fully Estimated

CANADIANS KILLED BY BOMBING ERROR   Third Accident Takes Toll i In France

NEW PLANE CARRIER “LAUNCHED FOR NAVY   Hancock Slides Down Ways At Eastern Shipyard

) Capital Ships Join The Fleet  Carrier Hancock And Missouri About: Ready

Big Carrier Slides Down The Ways   Hancock Is Third Warship.To Carry Proud —Name

Mighty Flattop Launched Today   New Carrier Christened U.S. S. Hancock

Carrier Hancock Launched Today At Fore River   In Effective Armament _And Defensive . Powers.

Navy Launches Big New Plane Carrier   U. S. S. Hancock Follows Lexington, Wasp 

German Aides Warned to Get Out Now   Italian Campaign Ties Many Enemy Units To Southern Sector

New Blow-Oft Seen in WPB   Others May Resign; KKrue Secking Aimity

Renewed Flareup in WPB Forecast  More Resignations Are Anticipated

TAR HEEL HEADS COLOSSAL COC   Multi- Billion Dollar Commodity Credit Corporation Is Led By Oxford Man.

BULGARIANS SUICIDE TO ESCAPE TRIALS   All Who Abused Yank Airmen Are To Be Punished

rGHl NAZIS BESIDE REDS KING 1S TOLD   Romanians Asked by Soviets to Earn Their Peace Terms by Driving Germans From Homeland.

F.B.!. RETURNS DEFENDANT IN SEDITION CASE   Capture of Edward Smythe Erases Threat of Delay In Proceedings in Washington   FURNISHES AN ALIBI

CAPTURE ABSENT DEFENDANT IN SEDITION TRIAL   EDW. JAMES SMYTHE APPREHENDED BY FBI IN NEW YORK STATE

Didn’t Know Trial Was On, Says Smvthe   Defendant In Seditéon Case, Caught By FBI. Says Mail Delayed, Tampered With

Smythe Says He Did Not Know Trial Was Started   'Taken- Into Custody By FBI Agents, Defendant In Sediticus Conspiracy Is lumediately Placed On Stand

OMYTHE TAKES WITNESS STANE   He Was Absent Because he Didn’t Know Trial Was In Progress.   HIS MAIL WAS DELAYED

Missing Defendant in Sedition Trial Captured on Border   Erases Threat of Delay in Hearing of Thirty Accused

Smythe Nabbed By FBI Men In Sedition Trial   ‘Publisher Arrested and Taken to Washington; Defense Counsel Asks For Postponement

» FBI Captures New York Publisher   Trial Will Continue For 30 Charged With Factious Conspiracy

ABSENT DEFENDANT  IN SEDITION TRIAL  PLEADS IGNORANCE . EDWARD JAMES SMYTHE  SAYS HE DID NOT KNOW TRIAT IN PROGRESS

WAR WORK EDICT EXTENSION URGED   Official Would Broaden Prohibition Against Quitting War Plant Jobs to Cover Men 38 to 45

YANK PRISONERS PUTIN 4 CAMPS   Germans Are Puzzled Over Communications Carried on By Those Held.

Relates Experiences as a Flyer and  Fighter Over Foreign Lands.Returns

Hull Reveals 17 Points of Foreign Polie   Statement Aims To Eliminate Misinterpretation

U.S. Foreign Policy Set Forth by Hull in - 17-Point Summary; Security Called Basis

A Second Jap Attack Fails   Allied Lines Hold Firmly When Enemy Seeks to Escape Trap

Allies Defeat Two Jap Blows   Allies Established Along West Bank of Driniumor River.

NIPS BATTERED ON NEW GUINEA   Part of Enemy Columns Isolated After Push Across Driniumor River

SOLDIER VOTE ~ DELAY IS SEEN   Outcome In State May Not Be Determined Until December, Official Says

13 Jap Ships, 670 Planes Destroyed Since Oct. 9, Admiral Nimitz Reports

SECURITY PLAN ACCORD LOOMS   Note Of Optimism Surrounds . { Impending Talks

BRITISH AGREE ON PEAGE PLAN   Roosevelt’s Proposals Are Accepted, CadoganSays

Optimism Prevails on Impending Talks On World Security Plan by Big Three

Reveal United States And Britam Are In Accord Or Post-War Peace Program; Three Powers Uniting In Parley

Says Britain, U.S. United In Peace Aim   Ideas Exchanged in Advance on Coming Conference

New Optimism Surrounds Impending Conversations on World Security

Disclosure Made Here by Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Undersecretary of State for Forcign Affairs

World Security Plans Exchanged   U. S. and Britain Are in Aqreement

94 Nazi Planes Reported Downed   Force of 500 Mustangs, Thunderbolts Hit Reich

People’s Queen Princess Elizabeth Prepares For Goodwill Trip of Island

400-TON BOMB LOAD DROPPED ON FOE TARGET   Air Assaults on Truk Are Continued By Yank Airmen

Entire Japanese Air Force At Hollandia, New Guinea, Wiped Out by Allied Bombers

Jap New Guinea Base Left Useless Smoking Wreck By 300 Bombers   288 ENEMY AIRCRAFT REPORTED DESTROYED

300 U. §. PLANES WRECK JAPS’ BiG HOLLANDIA BASE   Nipponese Air Force at New Guinea Coastal Town Wiped Out by Heaviest South-west Pacific Raid.   MORE THAN 200 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYEL   Twenty-Six Blasted From Skies and Others Knocked Out on Ground—Great Fires Started.

‘Hollandia Smashed In Record Assault   '288 Jap Planes Destroyed Against One U.S: Craft; Another Island Occupied

Over 300 U.S. Planes Wreck Big Jap Base   Hollandia Left in Flames; 288 Planes Blasted; Isle Occupied

Great Air Fleet Bombs Hollandia In New Guinea   More than 300 Planes Cas cade 400 Tons of Explosives on Target

GREATEST SINGLE RAID EVER ATTEMPTED BY GENERAL GEORGE C. KENNEY’‘S FIFTH AIRFORCE; ONLY LASTING AN  HOUR AND HALF.

Suggest Grain-Rubber Industry Be Continued   Committee Seeks Sure Market for Nation’s Surplus Grains

Nazi Armies In North in  Full Retreat   New Line Expected To Be at Latvian Border

GERMAN FORCES BELOW ILMEN ARE IN FULL RETREAI   Railway Junctions of Pskov and Dno Threatened By New Red Trap.

Attempting to Hseape New Soviet. Trap — Red Armies Cat Deeper into Northern Flauk amd Boda. ger Route of Retreat.

Nazis Menaced By New Red Trap   Soviets Close in  On Pskov and Dno

2 GERMAN ARMIES REPORTED RACING TOWARD BEACHHEADS: ALLIES POUR IN NEW TROOPS   Early Landing Of Tanks Aids Americans Under Lt, Gen. Bradley In First Thrusts; Pas De Calais Assaults Are Reported

AFL CONSIDERS GI'S PROBLEMS   Delegates Hear Call for - Supplies by McNutt

HENDRICK’S CANDY SHOP OPEN FRIDAY, 12 NOON, FULL ASSORTMENT OF CANDY

Slovakia Revolts  Nazi Rule   Bulgaria and Rumania Peace Conference to Begin in Cairo

JAP GENERAL STAFI   Tojo Confesses Great Concert Over Saipan, Says Real  War. Inet: Recinning

CHIEF OF STAFE   Takes Over Important Post Formerly Held By Premier Tojo

UMEZU ARMY CHIEF OF STA   APPARENTLY STILL PREMIER: WARNS JAPANESE PEOPLE OF “GREAT NATIONAL CRISIS”

Tojo Relieved As Chief Of  Japan’s Army   Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu Has Been Named As Commander Of Nipponese.   A®F TER SAIPAN LOSS

Umezu Made Jap Chief of Staff   Pust Taken From Premier Tojo, Jap Broad ist Savs

Tojo Gives Up Army Post   But Still in Firm Control of National Policies, Belief

Tojo Is Replaced — ~ As Chief of Stafi   Tokyo Broadcast Does Not Say Whether Los: of Army Post Affects His Status as Japanese Premier and War Minister.

JAPANESE ARMY STAFF REVISED   Gen. Umeza Takes Ove: Staff Job From  Toio

TOJO YIELDS HIS POST AS ARMY CHIEF   Replaced As Head Of Staff In New Military Shakeup

NIPS NAME NEW ARMY LEADER   Gen. Umezu Replaces Tojo on General Staff

GEN. UMEZU IS NEW LEADER OF NIPPON’S ARMY   Premier Says ‘Real War Is Yet To Be Fought’; Would Ease Emperor’s Mind

TOJO IS OUSTED AS ARMY CHIEF   Shake-ups in Tokyo Follow Defeats - - Guam Battered

Premier Tojo Is Shorn Of High Military Pos!   Relinquishes Chief Ot Army Staff Job To Gen. Umezu

Part Of Tojo’s Job Taken Over By Gen. Umezu   Named Chief Of General   stall; renner. Uti: Saipan, Urges “Fight”

Umezu Heads  N ippon Army   Replaces Tojo With Crisis. Facine © Japs

General Umezu Becomes Chief Of Japs’ Army  Takes One Post Held By Toio

Gen. Umezu Takes Over One Of Posts Held By Tojo   Premier Says Real Wat Yet To Come; Appeals To People To ‘Set Mind Of Emneror At Fase

T0JO RETAINS FIRM CONTROL   Japan's Navy Reshuffle Nothing More Than Face-Saver

NAZIS DOOMED BY ANZIO DRIVE   Kesselring’s Forces Lucky if They Escape Peninsula Without Disaster

DRIVE IN ITALY FAST BECOMING HISTORIC FIGHT   Smashing Assault At Anzio Death Knell For Huns On Peninsula   HITLER SCENTS DEFEAT   Battle Only Comparable To Verdun And Flanders Field Of War 

‘Decrease of ASTP Students Finished   Pre-Induction Courses  Planned For Boys 17

Willkie Body EnRouteTo. Rushville   Will Be Placed In Crypt, Awaiting Retwn of Mis’ Only Sdn, On‘Convoy Service In Atlantic

JAPS MAKE AIR COUNTERATTACK ON MARSHALLS   Origin Of Enemy Planes Unannounced; Jap Islands Raided

‘Undersecretary of War Warns That ‘Home Front Complacency Must Be Dissolved—Says War Is Not Won

Argument List For Common Pleas Court Announced   Session Will Start Tuesday, May 23 At Court House Here

Argument List Amounced For  Court Nov. 28   Number of Divorce Cases Also te Be Heard Next Week

Eisenhower Tells Belgians of Victory to Come  Allies’ Top Leader Is Cheered by Throng in Brussels

“Tke”’ Speak: To Belgians   Pledges Aid to Civilians in Address ‘Before Parliament

Force Is Only Answer, Says Eisenhower   Allies Are Fighting An -Enemy Who Knows Nothing Else, Asserts Supreme Commander

Enemy Knows  Only ‘Foree   Kisenhower Speaking To Belgian Parliaments Says  We Will Apply Force.

BRITISH ARMOR DRIVES ACROSS DUTCH BORDER   American Forces Take Luxembourg in Push Toward Germany

FIRST U. §. ARMY FIGHTS WAY TO OUTER DEFENSES OF REICH  BRITISH ARMORED UNITS BREAK INTO HOLLAND AT NORTH END LINE

First Army In Siegfried Line Barrage, Minefield Zone; English In Holland

HIRST U. 8. ARMY FIGHTS WAY TO OUTER DEFENSES OF REICH  BRITISH ARMORED ‘OBITS RDRAY 1  > TIOTT ARIA At

British Enter Holland North of Albert Canal   Allied Airmen Strafe German Forward Positions, Oil Refineries as Allies Tighten Assault Front

DRIVE INTO BARRAGE ZONES — AND MINFIELDS AS BRITISH TROOPS MOVE INTO HOLLAND

British Tank Units Drive Into Holland: Yanks Shell Reich   American Troops Within 10 Miles of Nazi Border on Two Fronts; Capture City of Luxembourg

Luxembourg Captured By Americans   British Burst Into Holland; Fierce Opposition

British Armor Advances Across Holland Border   American Sheils Fall in Germany In Aachen Attack

Shell German Soil First Time; Under Heavy Enemy Fire   British Burst Into Holland North of Canal:  Defenses

TEMPERATURES   U. S. First Army Fights Way To Outer Defenses; British Invade Holland

British Enter Holland; Shells Fall On Aachen   U. S. First Army Blasts Into Outer Zones Of Siegfried Line; Luxembourg Capital Freed; Fighting Rages On Moselle

130 German Planes Knocked Down InA Great Aerial Battle   Yanks Batter To Outer Fringes Of Siegfried Line; Shelling Of Aachen, Germany, Reported

U.S. Army In Luxembourg: Less Than Ten Miles From Nazi Border At Two Points

Americans Are Less Than 10 Miles from German Frontier at Two Points 70 Miles Apart.   LUXEMBOURG TAKEN IN SMASHING DRIVE

‘British Break Into Holland In Push North   Americans Less Than 10 Miles From Frontier of Germany at Two Points

LEAD TROOPS ONLY 10 MILES FROM BORDER   130 German Planes Shot Down As Bombers Bom. bard Reich

British Crass Holland Line; Luxembourg in Hands of Allies; Reich Soil. Shelled

Luxembourg Taken : British Enter Holland   Britons Sweeping Northward; U. S. Shelling Aachen; Opposition Heavy

BRITISH BREAK INTO HOLLAND; BIG AIR BATTLE   150 German Planes Shot Down as Yankees Battle Way Into Outer Part cf Nazi Lines

Luxembourg Falls to Yank Force   British Enter Holland And Shells Fall On German Country

Luxembourg Captured; British Tanks Crash Way Into Holland   U. 8. First Army Fights “Way Into First Barrage Zones And Minefields Of Siegfried Line As Reritich Plinoo Tnta Halland

Yanks Capture Luxem< bourg And Enter First Minefields. And Bar. rage Zones of Siegfried. Line As British Drive Toward North End Of Fortifications.

Reich Bordex City, Shelled; Nazi. Traéps. Slaughtered   130 Planes Bagsed. In Great Air Duel

BRITISH DRIVE FOR NORTH END OF NAZIS’ LINE   Americans Shelling Aachen; Capital of Luxembourg Duchy Falls

British Break Into Holland; Yanks Shell Targets In Germany   x «kK *k *  South France   Bulletins

British in Holland; Luxembourg Taken   Yanks Come Up Against Outer Defenses of Westwall—First Army Shells Land on Reich

Long Toms Are Turned On Aachen   Luxembourg Capital Captured as 2 U.S. Armies Push Into Outer Nazi Defenses   BRITISH POUND INTO HOLLAND   12,000 Prisoners Taken in ‘Deep Thrust; Americans Go Into Minefields

BRITISH TANKS BREAK INTO HOLLAND   Capital Of Luxembourg Is Captured By Yanks   Under Heavy Gun Fire From Nazi Guns: Within 10 Miles Of Germany

BRITISH BREAK INTO HOLLAND   First Army Fights Way Into Barrage Zones, Minefields of Line.   LUXEMBOURG CAPTURED

Military Law For Germany   ARMIES TAKE OVER GOVERNMENT AS FAST AS REICH CONQUERED

ALLIED MILITARY ~ GOVERNMENT FOR GERMANY PLANNED   Will Be Established as the Invasion, Armies Move in, It Was Announced.   UNDER EISENHOWER   He Will Exercise’ Supreme Legislative Judicial and Executive Authority.

tied themselves across the harbor and Liane River from the north, capturing hundreds of prisoners.

B-29s Find Jap Opposition Light At Bangkok, Tokye   Tropical Downpours Bring Leyte Campaign To Virtual Standstill

NO PLANES LOST;  ~- FIGURES REVISED   Nipponese Enemy 48 Vessels; Leyte Rains Harmful

TELLS STORY OF JAP TORTURE TO TOKYO BOMBERS   Nipponese Treat U, S. Fliers Unmercifully Before Execution

IREDELL’S BOND SALES $1,574 106   But “E” Bond Sales Still About 50 Per Cent Short of Quota

Allies Make Progress On French Front   Tanks, Infantry Pour Through Shattered German Battle Lines On Roads To Paris, Brittany   YANKS MAY BE NEARING RENNES

YANKS PRESS RENNES RAIL HUE IN PARIS PUSH   Lightning Thrust Aims To Cut Off The Breton Peninsula

Tanks Blast Gaping Holes in Foe’s Line   British, Yank Armies Plunging Unchecked Toward Rennes, Paris

Forces Pour Along Roads To Paris   Churchill Reveals Approach To Rennes By Fast-Moving Army

Mrs. Bassett Stil Demanding Changes   Threatens Fireball Campaign Among Wemen to Get Them

REDS WIDEN BRIDGEHEAD ON DANUBE      Column Circling To Attack City’s Defenses On West

‘Rain Shells Into ‘Burning Warsaw   @ Reds Hammer At German Lines On Both Sides Of Polish Capital, Preparing For Frontal Assault

Soviets Push Deep in Nazi Warsaw Line   Tanks, Infantry Prepare for Flanking Drive Across Vistula   BATTLE GAINS FURY   Main Weight of Attack Is Centered on Triangle Above Praga

Massed Russian Guns Blast At  Burning Warsaw   Fierce Fight Raging North, South of Fallen Praga Suburb

Warsaw Afire As Red Guns Rake Streets   Massed Artillery Fires Point Blank Inie German Lines

REDS TRAIN GREAT GUNS UPON WARSAW   Massed Russian Artillery Firing Point. Blank Into Burning Capital.

REDS PLANNING FLANKING DRIVE ACROSS VISTULA   Massed Russian Guns Fire Point Blank Into Burning Warsaw

POUR SHELLS INTO WARSAY   Fierce Fighting Rages North of Suburb of Praga

Russian Guns Fire Into Burning Warsaw   Soviet Tanks and Infantry Push Inte German Battle Screen for Flanking Drive Across Vistila

CLEVELAND EXPLOSION DEATH TOLL EXPECTED TO REACH 200   Only 37 Of 115 Victims Have Been Identified Thus Far Ruins Are Still Too Hot To Work Properly;  Investigation Being Made

Cleveland Fire Deaths Reach 115   Total Number of Bodies May Be 200, Is Belief

Disaster Toll May Reach 200 In Cleveland        92 on Missing “List; Investigation Starts

Cleveland Death Toll May Be 200   List of Dead Climb: To 115 Yesterday With Ruins Yet To Be Combed

OHIO FIRE TOLL MAY REACH 200   Identify Only 36 of 115 Dead ~~ jn Cleveland’s Big Fridav Rinze

EAPLOSION DEATH TOLL INCREASES   Ruins of Homes and Rubble Of Industrial Buildings Continue to Give up Dead in Cleveland Blast Area

CLEVELAND FIRE KNOWN DEAD 113   Coroner ‘Expects Tota! Toll Of 200; 84 Homes Are Destroyed

Rail And Steel Strikes Blasted   WAR EFFORT HURT BY - TWO THREATS SAYS WHITE HOUSE

LABOR ROWS PROLONG WAR, SAYS U.S. LEADER   Germany Uses ‘Chaos-in-America’ Line on Sagging Satellites, Claims ‘High Figure’

Labor Troubles Unduly Prolong War In Europe   Nazi Propaganda Pictures Country In State of Chaos. Effect Has Been to Stiffen Resistance of Axis Allies and Delay Revolts.

Unions Deny War Effort Is Impeded   War Prolongation Is Charged Up To Labor

Strikes Blasted ‘As Aid to Hitler   Union Chiefs Resent Charges, Voice Criticism of White House

Stunning Statement Made By High-Up Allied Leader.....  Union Leaders Deny They Are Hindering War Aims

Unions Assert Strike Threats Badly Handled   Protests Made to High OF ficial Statement That War Prolonged.   Say It’s Propaganda Story Against Union:   An Important Firure

Labor Blamed For Adding to War’s Length   Union Leaders Protest Statement From Washington

Handling of Strikes By White House  Draw Harsh Words  High Official Asserts Labor Troubles  Hurt Victory Drive

PLEAS OF INNOCENCE  COME FROM UNIONS IN AXIS AID CHARGES  _ STUNNING STATEMENT  _ THAT RAIL-STEEL TROURLES PROLONCS WAR

Recent Lebor Wars Called Great Tragedy   Statement Inspires Harsh Charges for White House Handling

Charge Rail-Steel Labor Troubles Have Prolonged European War; Axis Propaganda Says Such Conditions Are Typical Of America

“Strikes An Aid To Axis”   Accusation By High  Official Stuns Nation; Unions, Quick to Deny Guilt, Blame President

‘CHARGE THAT RECENT RAIL-STEEL ‘STRIKE HELPED AXIS AND SERVE 'T0 PROLONG WAR STARTS TEMPEST   Person High in U. S. and United Nations Counci Makes Statement Which Draws Quick Torrent  Of Reaction from Union Leaders °

Cheering Republicans Begin Noisy Chant In Big Stadium As Convention Gets Under Way; Favor Warrer! For Vice Pres.   BIG STATES FALL IN LINE FOR DEWEY

“FIRST BALLOT DRAFT ‘SEEN AS BIG STATES -MOUNT BAND WAGON   , Ttinois Starts Ball Rolling And Others Fall In Line; New Yorker Has Lined Up At Least 668 Votes

DEWEY WAITS. WITH TIGKET IN HIS POGKET   Miracle Believed Only Way New -Yorker Can Lose Nomination.

Sergeant Farmer Charged With Two Murders   Two Dead As Result Of Attack On Post Midniaht Sunday

Flaming Battle Rages for Island  ee ge EE ke   American Troops Come to Grips With Four Jap Divisions on Leyte

Forces Locked In Bitter Battle On Ormoc Road   Fight Begins When Advance U. §. Units Are Isolated, Collide with Japs

IN BITTER BATTLE   Japs Shell Yanks Advancing Along Road to Ormoc  on Leyte

Japs Slow Yank Push On Levte   Road to Ormoc Scene of Bitter Battle With Nips Holding Ridges   PROGRESS MADE  "IN CLEARING ROAD   Tokyo Sends . E Five New ‘Leaders Into Battle to Hold Philivpines

Japs Slow U. S. Drive  for Ormoe   24th Division Locked In Most Bitter Battle Of Leyte Campaign

U. S., Japanese Stage Grim Fight for Philippine Position   Bitter Battle Rocks Road to Ormoc; Yanks Batter Enemy Despite Clever Artillery Fire Upon Ridge Holdings on Leyte Island

Bitter Fray Raging On Ormoc Road   Yanks Liberate Isolated Units After Night Of Fighting

Japanese Slow Dow n Advance  Of Americans   Shell Yank Positions Along Carigara Bay

Collision of 24th Division and Units of Four Jap Outfits Rock the - -Road to Ormoc’. ” -

Bitter Fight Rages Along ‘Ormoe Road   Bloody Engagement Flames All Night As Reinforced Japs Cut Off Yank Units.

Bitter Battle On For Ormoc Today   Savage Fighting of Japs Slows American Advance

JURY SELECTED IN GRAFT TRIAL   Judge Denied Motion to Dis. miss Jury; Start Drawing All-Over. 2 - ..

Slavs Fight “ Hard Battles   Partisan Offensive” Reported In Bosnia

Finland Is At War With Germany   Cabinet Decides Amid Rising Tide of Anger Against  Nazis

DECLARATION OF WAR ON NAZIS HELD IMMINENT   Finland Is Enraged Over Burning Of Villages By  Retreating Huns   RUSSIAN ARMISTICE TERMS HELD HARSH

Finns Ponder ~ War on Nazis   Soviets Demand Occupancy Of Northern Finland

Formal Finn Declaration Of War Seen   National Fury Mounts _ Against Nazis After Wanton Burning

FINLAND WARS AGAINST REICH   Germans Burn Villages, Farms On Retreat  From North

Nazi Soldiers Feel Force Of  Finnish Fury   Formal Declaration of Wai Against Germany Expeeted From Hel. sinki Today

Finns Fight Nazi Troops, Stockholm .  Sources Say   Formal : Declaration : Of War. Is Expected As Cabinet Meets,   WITHDRAWING NAZIS ‘APPLYING TORCH’:   Developments. Hint Germans. Attempting  To Blockade Finland

Finns Near War With Germany   Formal Declaration Expected As Fights Continue.

Fury Against Nazis Mounts In The North   Formal Declaration Of War Imminent— Germans May Be Attempting Blockade

Finns’ Fury Rises Against Germans  Formal Declaration Of War Appeared Imminent Monday

Finns Expect Declaration of  War on Nazis Fighting Already  oing On as

GERMANS RAZE MANY TOWNS IN FINLAND   Some Finns Are Already In Fight Against Hitlerites   RUSSIANS   Demand Gulf Islands, Ail Bases In Various Parts For Duration

War Between Finns, Nazis  Is Imminent   Finnish Fury Grows a: Germans Burn Village: And Farms

Finland Is Near War With Germans   Hitlerites Burning Villages in Retreat

Probable  Declaration Of War, Finns   Cabinet Met Last Night; Press-men Claim Split. Already Exists

Expect Finns To Declare War on Nazis   German Troops Wantonly Burn Villages in North Finland

FINNS TO WAR ON THE NAZIS REPORTS SAY   Storm of Anger Follows Destruction by the Germans

Finns Move Nearer :War ~ With Nazis   Fury Mounts Against Germans for Burning poo. le. eV ibfa wes. -- ----

Formal Finnish Declaration Of War On Germany Imminent   Helsinki Press Says State Of War Exists; Germans Wantonly Burn Towne

Finland Ready To Declare War   Already Fighting Nazis. Says Press

Lausche And Bricker To Map Future   Governor, Governor-Elect Slate Parley With Ohio Post-War Board

NEW SUBSIDY BATTLE LOOMS IN CONGRESS   Two Billions Required Annually To Support Level Of  Farm Prices

French Land“On Elba And Drive inland   Fifth And Eighth: Armies Lunae On

Fierce Fighting Is Reported On Elba   French Invasion Forces Capture One-Fifth Of Isle; Allies Gain On Italian Front

FRENCH TROOPS TAKE OVER FIFTH ~ OF ELBA (SLANE   Allied Naval Units Support Landing—German Resistance Reported Strong at Places.   YANKS AND BRITISH ADVANCE IN ITALY   Fifth Army Occupies Grosseto, 100 Miles From Rome —-Eighth Pushes Forward 12 Miles.

rench Troops Land On Elba, Make Progres:   Pianosa Secured Quickly Without Opposition; Mak ing Serap For Elba.   HEAVY FIGHTING OD

ISLE OF ELBA IS INVADED BY FRENCH ARMY   MAINLAND FIGHTING ROLLS TOWARD FLORENCE

FRENCH INVADE ELBA ISLAND: GAIN ON NAZIS   Allies Capture Numerous Towns 100 . Miles North Of-Reme

\Win Control Of One-Fifth Of Napoleonic Exile Island; German Garrison Making Stiff Scrap For Isle

French Land on Elba as Allies Gain in Italy   French Battle Nazis For Control of Scene Of Napoleon’s Exile; 8th Army Advances

FRENCH DRIVE ON ELBA WINS PART OF ISLE   Allied Mainland Push Moves Nearer Nazi  Line in North

French Storm, Partly Occupy Historic Elba   Despite Nazi Resistance, Invaders Seize Fifth Of Naneolenonjc Isle

French Troops Land On Elba   Take Fifth Of The Island Against  Nazi Resistance

Freneh Troops Make Progress On Elba Isle   Allied Naval and Airforces Support Troops in Landing

French Land On Elba Isle   Set Out to Win Island Off Italian Mainland; Fifth, Eighth Armies Advance

French Land on Elba on laly’s Coast   Germans Also Lose Mere Ground on Italian Mainland

GERMAN SATELLITE BULGARIA BREAKS RELATIONS REICH  BERLIN REPORTS RUSSIA   - BERLIN REPORTS RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE DRIVEN INTO CREECE

GERMAN SATELLITE BULGARIA BREAKS. RELATIONS REICH   BERLIN REPORTS RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE DRIVEN INTO GREECE

RUSSIA'S BALTIC ARMIES ADVANCE ON EAST PRUSSH   Capture. Towns Three Miles From German Province— Nazis Assemble Troops to Meet Onslaught.   -MEMEL THREATENED BY SOVIET DRIVE   Red Forces in Hungary Cross Tirza River and Storm Szolnok, 50 Miles From Budapest.

SOVIETS PERIL NAZIS BALTIC ESCAPE ROUTE   Reds Smash Close tc Memel; Make Gains In Hungary

Russians Within Range of .Nazi Escape Road in Baltic   FLIGHT ROUTE CUT IN HUNGARY AREA   Many Villages Are ‘Overrun in. Western Lithuanio

RED PRESSURE AGAINST HUNS CLOSES ROADS   Soviets Maintain Relentless Battle On All  Fronts

Soviets Closing Last Nazi Escape  Route in Baltic  Major Gains Also   Major Gains Also Reported as Hungary Drive Continues

Red Army Shells Nazi Baltic Roads   Soviet Troops Cros: Lower Tisza River To Flank Hungary

German Escape Route Out of Baltic Shelled   300 More Villages In Lithuania Freed

Soviets move to sever last  Baltie hatch  East Prussia is three miles away

ESCAPE R tROM BALTIC ARE CLOSING   For Germans as Russians Capture Points Only Three Miles From East  Prussia.   Protect Berlin Gates

Churchill And Eden Go  To Moscow   Group of Nearly 50 Travels by Plane For Talks with Stalin

RUSSIAN GUNS SWEEP BALTIC ESCAPE ROUTE   SOVIETS ON VERGE OF BREAK INTO EAST PRUSSIA

Normandy Invasion, FDR Re-election Lead List Of Top Stories in Past Year

oe ay ay WEARERS EW 2 WR Fe OR TO  “LONDON — EISENHOWER’S HEADQUARTER: ANNOUNCE ALLIES LAND IN FRANCE.”

‘WINS BY TACTICS  MacArthur's Skill with Limited Resources in Pacific Theatre is Lauded.

World Monetary Parley Delegates Due To Approve Conference-Agenda

Monetary Experts Discuss Problems   United Nations International Mone tary Conference Is” Pro pressing

CIO DEDLEGATES HIT AT J. LEWIS   Convention Expresses Opposition to Deporting Harry Bridges.

COMPLETES HIS AIRFORCE WORK   Karl Gaston Is Second Lieutenant, Ready for His New Assignment

* Bomber Fleet » Batters Af Nazi Lines   British Planes Blast Pens For Naz: Shins

Three Big Allied Bomber Fleets Attack Germans   Five Transportation Centers Along Rhine And Main Rivers Hit

AMUSEMENT PARK WRECKED BY BLAZE   19 Injured cs Flames Sweep Through the Palisades

Palisades Park Swept by Fire, 25,000 Routed   -19 Sent io Hospitals, ‘73 .to 100 Cars Destroyed, - Dainage: Over::$1:500.000

‘Says Minority Groups Must Be Given Hand In Shaping U. S.’s Destiny

Three Nazi Ships Sunk Off Norway   Planes Brave Shore-Based Aireraft To Make Attack

British Attack  German Convoys   Two Supply Ships. Sunk, Others Damaged

RESUME WORKING ~ AT BOMBER PLANT   Work Stoppages By Crane Operators and Riggers Closed Piant.

Americans Arrive At Arno in  Pursuit of Nazis  More Ground Falls To Vanguard of Conquering Army

RESISTANCE FADES   American Troops Are ir Hot Pursuit of Germans in Italy

Allies Pursue Nazis Retreating To Gothic Line   Last Captured Town Around Ten Miles Southeast Of Pisa

Fifth Pursues Fleeing Nazis  Seven Miles North 7 Miles Northeast

Colle Salvetti Is Captured By US Troops   Americans in Hot Pursuit of Nazis Fleeing to Gothic Line Defenses; Other Allied Armies Gain

Yanks Reach Arne th Hot Pursuit Of Fleeing Nazis   Now 7 Miles Beyond Liverno; Enemy Retreat:  ing 7 To Gothic Line De , cond River,

YANKS 7 MILES NORTH OF PORT   Chase Germans Fleeing to Gothic Line

Yankee Troops Seize Town Of Colle Salvetti In Speed  Drive After German Forces

GERMANS FLEE BEYOND ARNO   American Troops In Hot Pursuit Capture Colle Salvetti   RESISTANCE WEAKER

Yanks Pursue Fleeing Nazis ‘From Livorno   ‘American Troops Seize ' Colle Salvetti, 7 Miles     From Big Port

YANKS PURSUE FLEEING NAZIS   Routed German Troops Re. treat To Gothic Line In Italy

Yanks Pursuing Fleeing Nazis Near Amo Area  Disordered Huns  [ ees een YY ee: mraeeaees

Yanks Pursue  Nazis To Gothic Line Defenses   Another Town Falls To Allies On Italy Front.

AMERICANS PUSH AHEAD IN DRIVE TO NORTH ITALY   Take City Seven Miles Northeast of Captured Livorno as Nazis Flee Toward Gothic  . Line .Defenses Bassad Arno River

Americans, Pursuing Germans On South Banks-Of Arno, Take Colle Salvetti, Moving Ahead

Report Capture Of Colle-Salvetti By U. S. Forces   Fallen Italian Town Is On Road Leading To Pisa, Vital Nazi Anchor Base

Chase Enemy Beyond Arno   American ‘Troops Reach South Banks Of River As Nazis Flee To North Haly.

Americans Push Close to Pisa   Have Driven 7 Miles Beyond Livorno

YANKS 10 MILES FROM PISA IN CONTINUED PUSH   Poles Capture Great Supplies In Ancona Area

Torrential Rains Slowing Advance  Germans Retreat to Gothic Line Defenses

NAZIS RETREAT SWIFTLY FROM LIVORNO AREA   Trying To Reach Gothic Lines Along Arno

Yanks Pursuing  Nazis Reach Arnos Banks   Capture Colle Salvetti, 7 Miles Northeast Of Livorno

Boche Seeking Refuge Within  \Gothie Barrier   Americans Pursuing Enemy Beyond Captured Leghorn; Seize Colle  Salvetti €   Vital Foe Anchor Of Pisa 10 Mi. Off   German Opposition Con fined Largely 1o Sniping Parties; Enenry Abandons Much Equipment

Nazis Flee to Gothic Line  American Troops Reach Arno River Pi. SP AAtl. Pomme

Germans Flee To Gothic Line   Americans Capture Colle Salvetti, Seven Miles From Livorno

AMERICAN TROOPS IN HOT PURSUIT FLEEING GERMANS IN ITALY  COLLE SALVETTI. ON DI.   COLLE SALVETTI, ON DIRECT ROUTE TO PISA, HAS BEEN CAPTURED

Mrs. Andrews Freed of Murder Charge   Jury Acquits Socialite in Carmel .Valley Death

‘Titlerites ‘Are Now in General Retreat   Battle for St. Lo Rages Unabated; Yanks Out to Unhinge Nazi Western Anchor

Four More Towns Taken   Entire 42-Mile American Front Flares Into Action; British Slowed Before Caen As Montgomery Regroups for New Strike

Push Within More Than A Mile Of Lessay, Nazi Western De. fense Anchor; Fight Unabatec On St. Lo Front   BRADLEY'S LINE HINGING ON ST. LC

Attacks by Enemy Are Broken Up   Battle for St. Lo Still Going On—Germans Retreat  Elsewhere

Grim Battle Is Raging for City   U. S. Forces Nab Four Villages, Widen Atlantic Coast Hold West of Lessay; Nazis in General Retreat on 42-Mile Front

First Army Surges Forward Along 42-Mile Front      Fighting Rages Around: St. Lo   U. S. Control Along Atlantic Extended As Far South As River Ay

YANKS DRIVE AHEAD, TAKE FOUR TOWNS   Bloody Battle For St. Lo Rages Unabated Today

GROUPS ARELEFT ON FRENCH LINE TOPROTECT ARM   Americans Dig In at St. Lo to Await Arrival of Other Forces After Engaging In Bloody Fight.   500 BOMBERS SMASH HUNGARIAN POSITIONS   Faulty Mechanism Is Believed to Cause German Flying Bombs to Fall at Points In Normandy;

FIRST ARMY CAPTURES 4 VILLAGES   Grim Battle Of St. Lo Rages On Unabated

\First Army Gains Ground On Entire Normandy Front.   Grim, Bloody Battle For St. Lo Continues With Little Progress

YANKS ADVANCE ALONG ENTIRE 49-MILE FRONT   St. Lo Battle Still Rages

U.S. Ist Army Drives Forward on Entire Front   General German Retreat Described in Official Report

Nazi-Occupied Italy Divided in Six Zones for Waging Guerilla Warfare

German People Are Desperate  Fear Extermination If They Lose War

Nazis Fight Like Trapped Gangster A.P. Writer Says   Taylor Henry Back In United States

(Germans Divided Into 3 Segments By U.S. Infantry   Barrage of ‘Aerial Artillery’ Moves Only Few Yards Ahead of Yank Ground Force _  As Binal Ascanlt an Port Reoinc —

JAPS ALARMED AT FORTS’ RAIDS   Bombing Of Homeland Discussed At Meeting Of Cabinet

Jap Cabinet Talks B-29's   Paper-Figures They Use Relay Base in China; Numbers Indicate Reserves Amnie

British Open New Drive  On Cassino   Advance on Nazi Stronghold After Fording River

British Troops Launch New Thrust   At Mountain Svronghold of   Cassino—Twin Russian Drives Start South Of Oranienbaum   SHIPPING ATTACKED ON JUGOSLAYV COAST

CLAIMS HOME FRONT UNREST MENACES WAR   Urges Legislation to ‘Equalize’ Burden  For Everyone

BILLY SKIDMORE DIES IN PRISON   WAS KEY FIGURE IN CHICAGOLAND'S GAMBLING SET-UP

U), $. WARSHIPS BLAST MARCUS, RUIN DEFENSES   Day - Long Bombardment Deals Shattering Blow To Base

Halsey’s Powerful Third Fleet Attacks Marcus Is. Near Tokyo   Great Destruction Wreaked Without Op. position; Tokyo Claims Destructive Raid On BIO Base.

Surface Force Makes Aftack on Marcus Island   Bombardment by Navy Lasts All Day

Base 1,135 Miles From Jan Capital   Coast Defense Batteries Silenced; Air Opposition Missing

Marcus Island Under Fire By U. 5. Warships  Defense Batteries  Silenced By Guns £ Bi. Waeeale

Warships Blast Tiny Marcus Isle   Important Eastern Outpost Bombarded for Fourth Time

U. S. Fleet Shells Jap Defenses on Marcus Island   Shore Batteries Are Silenced in All-Day Bombardment: No Aerial Oncoasition

U.S. Warships Smash Japs Marcus Bastion   Resistance Offered By Enemy is Feeble

Big Guns Silence Batteries on Important Jap Outpost in Fourth Attack of Sea War

U, 5. WARSHIPS POUND MARCUS   Bombardment Silenced Most Of Coast Batteries

Surface Attack First of War On Nippon Outpost   Most of Jap Shore Defenses Knocked Out In Shattering Blast

WARSHIPS HIT MARCUS ISLE   Japs’ Vital Eastern Outpost Shelled Heavily Throughout Sunday

Qne of Japan’s Most Important Eastern Outposts; Big Guns Reared All Yesterday.   HALSEY’S FLEET BUSY      Silenced “Greater Part of the Coast Defense Batteries.”

Marcus Island ‘Bombarded By Big U.S. Guns   Tiny, Important Post Ot Japan’s Defenses Suffers Damage.

Marcus Is. Pounded By us Warships  Coast Buttariee:’ a : Are Silenced: °°":

i, &., Warships Bombard Tiny Marcus Island   Gunfire Was ‘Deliberate and Destructive

IMPORTANT JAP EASTERN OUTPOST HIT   Damage On Shore Defenses Reported By Adm. Halsey

SHIPS SHELL AAP MARCUS ISLAND BASI   Units of Third Battle Fleet Meet Little Resistance in Sunday Raid.

U.S. Warships Bombard Smal! Marcus Island   Heavy Units From Halsey’s Third Fleet Silence Most of Jap Defence Batteries

American Warships ‘Shell Marcus Island   Day-Long Bombardment of Important Outpost 1,135 Miles Southeast of Tokyo Hits Buildings and Starts Fires.

MARCUS ISLAND HIT GREPPLINE BLOW SUNDAY   American Warships In All-Day Bombardment, Spread Fire Aud Ruin

AttackSmashes Shore Defenses Of Jap Bastion   Battleships Strike Crippling Blow Within 1.155 Miles Of Tokvo

Warships Bombard East Pacific Outpost   Raiders Unopposed; Enemy In Last-Ditch Stand On Peleliu; 25 More Jdpanese Ships Are Sunk Or Damaned

U.S. Ships Blast Gateway fo Japan   Marcus Island Hit By Halsey’s Fleet

BLAST JAP ISLAND   Big Guns From American cites Bombard Tiny  Marcus

Marcus Island Is Boldly Shelled by U.S. Warships   Japanese Claim Surprise Raid on Superfortress Base

No Air Opposition Met; Heavy Damage Inflicted With Foe Guns Silenced

American Third Fleet Bombards Marcus Island   Ship’s Big Guns Inflict Damage, Silence Shore Batteries.

Ranging Boldly Within 1,135 Miles Of Tokyo   ACHIEVED COMPLETE TACTICAL SURPRISE

Jap-Held Marcus ls Blasted   Important Outpost Of Enemy Hit By Our Battlefleet.

MARCUS ISLE BOMBARDED BY WARSHIPS   Allied Bombers Hit 25 Jap Ships In New Raids

U. §. Warships Hit Hard Blow At Marcus Isle   Important Japanese Base 1,135 Miles Of Tokyo Crippled

Fleet’s Guns Smash Japs’ Marcus Base   Surprise Attack Knocks Out Shore Defenses, Batteries Sunday

U.S. Warships Bombard Marcus Isle   Important Jap Post Is Pounded by Heavy Battleships

MARCUS ISLAND IS BLASTED BY YANK WARSHIPS   Nimitz Tells Of Hammering Key Jap Outpost   DAMAGE HEAVY   Greater Part Of Coastal Guns Are » Silenced

HALSEY FLEET BOMBARDS TINY MARCUS ISLANE   No Mention of Carrier Planes Participating in Surprise Communique From Nimitz

Japs Base al Marcus Is Shelled   Halsey’s Fleet Inflicts Considerable Damage On Enemv's Eastern Outpost   NO MENT      TON"AD E: OF AIR ACTION   Gunfire Is Deliberate; Buildings Hit; Many Fires Break Out

Big Guns of Battleships Pound Marcu:   Most of Coast Defense Batteries Silenced Savs Admiral Niiitz

Const Defense Batterics of Vital Enemy Outpost, 4,335 Miles From  Tokyo, Silenced

Navy Guns Bombard — Marcus .   No Aerial :Opposition ,To Day-Long Hammering of Tiny Jap Is.  -Jand: Peleliu Bombed

IMPORTANT JAP QUTPOST LASHEL   Coast Defense Batteries Silenced, Adm. Nimitz Reports   DAMAGE HEAVY   Navy’s Big. 16-Inch. Guns Take Part In Destruc’ tive“Assault-

American Fleet Attacks Marcus  In Surprise Blow  Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet Silences Great Dewi MH Pancta] Ratariac

TINY MARCUS ISLE POUNDED ALL DAY BY BIG NAVY GUNS   U. S. Battleships’ 16-Inchers Silence Most of the Japs’ Coast Defense Batteries in Day-Long Atiack Sunday ~

ACCORD REACHED ON FRENCH RULE   DeGaulle Representative Oft for London With Text of Agreement

Civilians-Get U.S. Warning   Jap Gains Presage Yunnan Evacuation

CIVILIANS TO EVACUATE. NORTH YUNNAN   Jap Advance In China a Serious Threat

U. S. Nationals Urged To Leave  Yunnan Province   Threat of Japanese. Advance Through Southeast China Grows

U.S. NATIONALS TOLD TO LEAVE AREAS IN CHINA   Fifty Americans Live In Districts Periled By Swift Jap Drive

IN SOUTHEAS CHINA AREA   U. S. Nationals Are Advised to Leave Northern Yunnan

KUNMING WILL BE EVACUATED   U. S. Civilians Warned To Leave Key Chinese City

Ground Troops Go Forward Yard by Yard   Germans Putting Up Stiff Resistance Along Entire Front

Plight of Troops in Dutch City Said ‘Critical’; Nazis Counteratlack Along Whole Front: Boulogne Taken

ISOLATED UNIT STILL FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL   British Second Army In Bitter Attempt To Re lieve Air Troops   PLIGHT IS TERMED CRITICAL BY ALLIES

Nazis Hurl Heavy Blows At Forces Embattled In Lower Rhine Area   Bad Weather Hampers Allied Advance; Ground Troops and ‘Lost Division’ of Sky Soldiers Six Miles Apart; Gain Elsewhere

‘Lost’ Division's Plight is Said To Be Critical   Force in Arnhem Pocket Holding Off Waves of German Tanks, Infantry; Fighting East of Aachen Heavy

Dritish 2nd Sull Unable — To Reseue _ Trapped Men  Warriors at Arnhem   Warriors at Arnhem Hold Off Fresh Waves ‘Of Charging German Tanks and-Infantry

Position of Trvops-Crittcal ~~ As Relief Columns Still Six Miles South of Arnhem

ORDERED TO WORK   Lawrence Is Affected. by Strike of Kansas City _ Truck Drivers

Russian Troops Go Thru Sofia; Gain at Warsav   Germans Hurled From Positions North of Praga

Reds Tighten Warsaw Vise; Sofia Entered   Armies Moving To Ring Blazing sh Capital

Russians Are Now in Sofia   Germans Blowing Up Installations In Polish Capital

BERRY CEILING PRICES SCORED ON ALL SIDES   Growers And Buyers Joir In Ovposition To OPA Order

Growers, Buyers Oppose Ruling   Resentment Over $5.20 Maximum Grows

‘Sink Five Jap ‘Ships, Down 88 Enemy Aircraft   U. S. Task Force Strike: Bonin Isles; Wind-up Or Saipan Is Near.

FLEET SLAPS AT JAPANESE   Enemy Loses Five Ships In Bonin Island Clash; Battle Still On

Bonin Islands, 615 Miles ‘ From Tokyo, Hit By U. _ §. Task Foree

U. S. THRUST INTO BONINS ALARMS JAP   -AIl Pacific Fronts Aflame; U. S. Strikes 615 Miles From Tokyo

American Fleet Stabs Deep Into Bonin Islands   Chinese, Surrounded In Hengyang, Refuse To Yield Vital City

5 Japanese. Ships Sunk By US Fleet   68 Nip Planes Downed; Paratroopers Land on Noemfoor; Allies Gain in Burma

American Fleet Attacks Japs 615 Miles From Tokio   Paratroopers Used In MacArthur's Latest Leapfrog

Four Paeifie Fronts Flame Into. Aetion   Plane-W arship Attack on Bonin Islands Invites Jap  Fleet To Fight   Paratroops Land.

Bonin Attack Continuing, Tokyo Says   Blast Isles 615 Miles From Tokyo Sink Five Ships Down 88 Planes

Tokyo Reports U.S. Attacking Bonin Islands   Blows Continuing In Pacific; Noemfoor  Invasion Brings Yank Paratroops Into Fight

JAP HELD ISLES ONLY 615 MILES FROM TOKYO HIT   Yanks Again Dare Nip Navy To Fight - - Conquest of Saipan Nearing End

Japs’ Fleet: Faces Dare   5 Ships, 88. Planes Bagge ed Near Tokyo.

Conquest Of Saipan Area Is Imminent   Enemy Makes Final Stand On Northwest Tip of Prize Island

CHALLENGE JAP  NAVY 10 FIGHT  IN NEW STRIKE TOKYO RADIO SAYS  JULY 4TH ATTACK STILL GOING ON

‘AMERICAN FLEET STABS INTO JAPANESE WATERS TO DESTROY FIVE SHIPS, ATTACK ISLANDS   88 Planes Wrecked and Compelling Invitation IssueSto Jap Wavy to Come Out and Fight in Waters Only 615 Miles from Tokyo. Was Carrier Plane.Warshin Attack ,

ANKS ATTACK RONIN STANTS   American “Fleet Destroys Five Ships and 88 Enemy Planes.

U.S. NAVY HITS BONIN ISLANDS IN NEW ‘DARE   Tokyo Radio Reports Attac! Still Rages; Paratroops Battle On Noemfoor

Yank Carrier Strike at Bonin Isles Continues.  Tokyo Asserts   5 Jap Ships, 88 Planes _ Destroyed; Saipan Victory Near

U. S. Forces Attack Only 615 Miles From Tokyo  HIT BONIN ISLES Nips Report Today Assault Still Is  Going On 

Tokyo Claims Bonin Attack Still Raging   U. S. Fleet Bags Five Jap Ships, 88 More Planes

U.S. HITS 5 NIP SHIPS IN JAPS OWN BACKYARD   Down 88 Jap Planes in Sea, Air Battle 615 Miles From Tokyo

SMASH 5 SHIPS IN HEAVY RAID ON BONIN ISLES   88 Planes Destroyed in Task Force Attack 615 Miles From Tokyo

DARES JAPAN TO OPEN FIRE   Battleships In New Attack On  Bonin Isles

Navy Strikes 650 Miles From Tokyo   Jap Radio Says Yank  ttack on Bonin Still Raging -

Blows Struck But 615 Miles From Tokyo   Americans Closing In on Tip. Of Saipan

YANKEE FLEET MAKES STAB AT BONN ISLANDS   New Action Is Reported Along All Four Pacific War  Fronts 

Sen. Holman Declares the Differences Over Soldier Vote Bill Centers Around FDR's ‘Being Fourth Term Candidate   RIBBENTROP DECRIES ARGENTINA’S MOVE

Von Ribbentrop Decries Argentina's Surrender To U. S. “Benevolence”

‘Surrender’ By Argentine Decried  Ribbentrop Declares   Kingland Ie lager

British, Reds Agree on Greece   FR Initialed Plans, Bevin Reveals

BRITON SAYS REDS OKEHED GREEK ACTION   Also Initialed by FDR, Declares Bevin in Defense of Policy

Says ‘Anglo-Red Agreement Made   Claim Proposals About Greece Initialed By FR

Briton Says Reds Agree on Greek Policy   Also Claims That Proposals on Greece initialed by FDR

Drops Children Into Arms of Passersby   Young Fitchburg Mother Saves Them From Fire

ROOSEVELT AND DEWEY GIVEN GREATER LEADS   New York Governor. Keeps Spotlight Despite Winois, Nebraska. Votes.

N. Y. Democrats Re-elect Farley   Dewey Remains Out In Front; N. Y. State Democrats Endorse 4th Term.

Political Swing to Dewey and F.D.R   Primary Results Point to Pair As November Opponents

Roundup Of Primary Election News  Events Point More And More To Roosevelt And ~ Dewey As The Nominees

Primaries Show Dewey And FDR   Results ‘of Yesterday's Elections Indicate These Two Will Be 1944 Standardbearers

Political Events Indicate More Convincingly Than Ever A FDR-Dewey Race

Roosevelt -and Dewey Still Tops   Political Events Point More Than Ever to Their Being Nominated   BIG MacARTHUR VOTE IN ILLINOIS   Stassen Runs Well; New York Democrats for F.D.R.; Farley Re-elected

Political Events Show He And FR As Probable Entrants in Fall Race.   ASSURED N.Y. SUPPORT

Nebraska GOP Leans Heavily TowardDewey   Write-in Yote Tuesday Impressive; MacArthur Strong in I!linois

N. Y., Illinois, Nebraska  Primaries Boost Dewey   Three-State Results Point To November Lineur In Spite Of Impressive Showing Made For MacArthur

Dewey Support Grows as States Name Delegates   MacArthur, Stassen Win in Voting in Iinois, Nebraska

WILL OPPOSE AUOEVELT IK FALL, BELIEF   Prediction Made Despite Big _ Primary Vote for Stassen  and MacArthur.

FR. Dewey Political Tide Runs Strong   Stassen, MacArthur Primary Victories in Midwest Discounted

BROADER PROGRAM URGED BY BARUCH   Reconversion Bill Called Inadequate by Financier

BARUCH ATTACKS BENEFIT MEASURE   Wants Broadened Post- War Unemployment Compensation; Says House Bill Seems Certainly Inadequate

Baruch Says House Bill Inadequate   Takes Up Cudgels for Broadened Post.var Unemploymeatt Payments

72 Ton Blast Of Dynamite - Investigated   EBS :Checks :zExplosion "That Caused Panic in _ New: Hampshire.

Explosion Rocks Large Area, Creates Panic In Villages   Terrific Dynamite Blast Blows Up Warehouse: Felt 50 Miles Away

HomesRockec by Dynamite Explosion   NEW HAMPSHIRE BLAST IN PLANT STOREHOUSE CAUSES WIDE PANIC

Terrific Explosion Shatters Glass In 70-Mile Region  Eastern City Shudders Under Concussion OF Bia Dynamirze Store

Americans and French Take Three Town And Hilltop Positions, Drive Germans Back Up to Three Miles

AIR OFFENSIV GOES INTO OTH WEEK   Nazis Acknowledge Attacks Pave Way For ‘ Invasion   150 PLANES   Downed By Allies In Day; British Lose 14 Of  750 Bombers :

Three Towns and Numerous Nazi Strong Points Seized In First Phase of Offensive   Alfies Advance From Two to Three Miles at Some Places, Beating Off Frantic German Counter-Attacks

U.S. Heavy Be.nbers Again Strike Deep Inv. Reich; — Blast Many Vitai.“argets

Bié Formations OF US. Bombers Batter Germany   Nazi High Command Views Persistent Air Raids Prelude To Invasion

Grim. Struggle Along Entire Gustav Line         Allied Headquarters* Gi Word: of Caution: Against Any -Undue Optimism:         STIFF FIGHTING: — TS CONTINUING   Initial: Assault Succeeds: in Driving: ‘Inte Enemy’s:* Outpost: Line ~

Nazi Forces Putting Up Stiff Fight   Advances From Two To Three Miles Made In Some Sections

U. S. Bombers Hit Deep Into Germany   Airplane Assembly Plants Raided By 750 Big Ships

Precision Air  Attacks Made ‘(On French Area   Medium and Light Aircraft Open Assaults as NonStop Bombings Enters 29th Dav   ‘Germans Lose 150  ‘Ships Against RAF   Put Up Desperate Battles to Save . Synthetic Oo Factories From Brit-   ish Night Raiders ;

5TH ARMY TROOPS CAPTURE VENTOSA IN FIERCE BATTLE   DRIVE ENEMY FROM STRONG POINTS IN CATELFORTE SECTOR

Three Towns, Many Hilltops Fall to Yonks and French   Eighth Army Forming Bridgehead Across The Rapide; Advance Up to Three Mile<

THREE TOWNS CAPTURED AND WEDGES DRIVEN IN FORWARD POSITIONS OF GUSTAV LINE   Sea and Air Power in Unprecedented Volume Lend Aid to Ground Forces in Cassino’ Sector. Bridgehead Being Established Across Rapido Rigar hu Allies

Yank Bombers Strike Deep Into Germany   Entire Berlin Area Admits Heavy Aerial Battles on 29 th Day

Germans Strike Back Violently— Positions Change Hands Many Times—Whole Front Ablaze

PENETRATIONS OF GERMAN POSITIONS DEEPENED: FIERCE COUNTER ATTACKS REPULSED   Great Battle Rages Along 25-Mile Front From Cassino To Tyrrhenian Sea In Second Day Of All-Out Italian Offensive

Land Offense In Italy Sees 3 Towns Taken   Two To Three-Mile Advances Are Made On 25-Mile Front

U.S. Planes Strike Deep Into Nazidom   Rip Aircraft-_Assembly Plant At Tutow, Rail Yards At Osnabruck.

Aerial Drive Stabs Deep Jn Germany   Heavy Air Battles Mark Twenty-Ninth Day of Non-Stop Raids .

Allied Air Smash Enters 29th Day   American Fleets Strike Toward Berlin While Other Planes  Hammer French Coast

SHOW ADVANCE OF 2 10 3 MILES IN SOME AREAS   Fierce Counter-Attacks of Nazis Beaten Off; Allies Take 3 Towns

Allied Planes Advance Into Berlin Area   Precision Attacks Are Made At Rail Centers In France

STRIKE DEEP INTO GERMANY   Pre-Invasion Attacks Enter 29th Day: 150 Nazi Planes Downed

Berlin Admits Yielding Town  Of Castelforte   Fierce German Counterblows Repulsed in Soine Sectors

No-Stop Bombing Meets Resistance   Heavy Air Battles Develop On 29th Day of Allied  Thrust   NAZIS ADMIT DAMAGE   Berlin Radio Mentions Invasion Officially for irst Time

‘Numerous Hill Stron gholds Also Captured   Meanwhile. Eighth Army Forces Below Cassino Are Forming Bridge +  head Across Rapide   Hun Counter Blows  Being Beaten Off   Gains of Two to Thres Miles at Some Points in Allied Offensive Re  ported From Front

bombers Drive Deep Into Reich To Raid Berlin  Germans Regard   Germans Regard Air Activity as Invasion Prelude

Fierce German Counter-Blows Are Beaten Off   Gains Of From Two To Three Miles Listed In Allied Offensive On 25-Mile Front From  Cassino To Sea: French Take Mountain

AREA OF BERLIN IS HIT, CLAIM   150 Nazi Planes Shot Down By Americans  In Friday Raids

Nazi Radio Mentions ‘Invasion’ For First Time; French Rail Centers Hit As Allied Planes Keep Up Non - Stop Assault For 29th Day.

Berlin Claims Tell of Yank Armadas Hitting in Berlin Ares —Leuvain, Hasselt Bombed

Bombers Over Berlin Area, Nazis Report   29th Day of Raids Marked by Heavy Aerial Combats

Heavy Bombers Hit Nazi Plane Assembly Plants, Rail Yards   Wireacuan Downs Nasi

Reich Raids I ath Week   750 U.S. Bombers Rip Aircraft Plant, Rail Yards in Deep Foray

MANY HILLTOP STRONGHOLDS CAPTURED   8th Army Forming Bridgehead Across Rapido   Reported At Some Places; Opposition Is Stern, Communique Says

Allies Meet Hard German Resistance   Eighth Forming Bridgehead Across Rapido River

“HIT DEEPLY INTO REICH   Targets Include -Aircraft _ Assembly Plant at Tutow and Railway Yards   at Osnabruck — 750  ». Bombers in Group.

Unprecedented  Fire Power In  Italian Battle   8th Army Now Forming Bridgehead Across Rapido River; Enemy Opposition Stiff

Strong American Formations Reported Attacking In Berlin Area Amid Heavy Air Battles On 29th Day Of Non-Stop Aerial Offensive—150 Nazi Planes Shot Down In Yesterday’s Raids On Oil Plants At Officially-Stated Cost Of 52 Aircraft

Sky Armada Wings Deep Into Reich   ‘Nazis Report Heavy Air Battles with  U. S$. Formations In the Berlin Areg

Significant Gains Made. by 5th and 8th Armies in New Campaign in Italy   Headquarters Spokesm an Cautions Against Optimism as Result of Early Gains, Declaring Much Herd Fighting M ust Come Before Victory

Waves of Bombers Roar Over Europe  For the 29th Day   Thousands of Planes To. day Follow Last Night’s Raids

Many Hilltop Positions  Are Captured   Fifth and Eighth Army Gains Up to Three Miles Are Recorded Despite Severe Resistance; Cassino Bridgehead Formed

Fighth Army Units Forming Bridgehead Across Rapido River   Drive Nazis From Several Hilltop Positions; Repel German Counter-Attacks Along 25-Mile Front

BLOWS FALL ON MANY TARGETS   Nazi Chiefs Admit Attacks Paving Way for Allied Invasion

AMERICANS HiT DEEP IN GERMANY   Round-The-Clock Air Offensive In 29th Day

RUHR RAILROAD CENTER, PLANE PLANT ARE HIT   6,800 Tons Dropped As mpaign Enters  Fifth Week

Other Hilltop Positions Won In Slow Advance;  Resistance Bitter.

Heights And Three Towns Taken; Allies Establish Bridgehead Across Rapido

Gains Reported In New Drive Against Germans   Fierce Nazi Counter-Blows Are Beaten Off

Allies Forming Bridgehead Over Rapido    Advances Scored In Offensive On 25-Mile Front

Heavy Bombers Blast Belgian Railway Point   Waves Of Planes Keep Up Pre-Invasion Air Assault —

Allied Armies Are Gaining But Meet Fierce Resistance   Americans and French Have Punched Several Wedges in Line

sa Heavy U.S. Bombers Strike Deep Into Reich   Plaster Plane Plant a Tutow. Osnaabruck Rail Yards

Great Italian Offense  Smashes Ahead In  ~—- Bitter Fighting   Advances Of A Mile To Three Miles Announced As American, British And French Forces Batter Stiff Nazi Defenses

BRIDGEHEAD 15. BEING FORMED      Headquarters Officially Announce Gains of Mile to Mile-and-a-Half,   FRONT 25 MILES LONG

Northern France Heavily Bombed   Cologne Also Target Of Night Raids; Rebot Bombs sent Inte Engiand

Patriots Are Really On Go   Shoot Up Everything In Sight, Are Roving Eyes Of the Army

Warren Gels Soldier Vote, Prison Bills   Governor's Signature Awaited as Special Session Is Adjourned

California Legislature Adjourns ‘After Passing Prison Reform and Soldier Voting Measures

RUSSIANS DRIVE INTO YUGOSLAVIA ON SECOND FRONT   Push to Within 37 Miles of Belgrade, Capturing More Than Dozen Towns in Advance.   ESTONIAN ISLAND FALLS TO SOVIETS   Amphibious Forces’ Seize Ristna in Campaign to End German Domination of Baltic Sea.

OPEN SECOND FRONT IN YUGOSLAVIA   Red Army Breaks Into Country on  55-Mile Front; Drive Toward Belgrade.   Romanian Troops

REDS OPEN UP SECOND FRONT IN YUGOSLAVIA   BELGRADE ALREADY UNDER SIEGE OF TITO’S MEN

SOVIETS OPEN SECOND FRONT IN YUGOSLAVIA   Push Over Border on 55-Mile Stretch Near Belgrade

Moscow Announces New  Break Into the _ Nation       ICENTERS CAPTURED IN DAY'S ASSAULTS   Capture of Estoriian Island of Ristna ts Announced

Moscow Announces New Break Into the — ‘Nation   CENTERS CAPTURED IN DAY’S ASSAULTS   Capture of Estoriian Island  of Ristna Is An-  nounced — 

Soviets Open Second Front  In Yugoslavia   Petrovgrad, Bela Crvka, Important Centers, Captured

Reds Report Second Front Opened in Yugoslavia as Troops Near Capital City

New Front Opened In Yugosiavia   Reds Take Two Towns, Weld Arc Around Belgrade

RUSH SHIPS © FROM BLACK. SEA PORTS      Action Appears to Fore« shadow Complete Collapse of Germans’ Bro«. ken Southern Flank in Vast-Scale ‘Dunkeraue?

Complete Collapse Of Nazi Southern Flank is Predicted   Masses of Russians Splash Through Mud From Captured Kherson Toward Nikolaev In Climactic Campaign of Winter Drive   75,000 ENEMY CASUALTIES IN PAST TEN DAYS

Ships in Race to Odessa Port   RUMANIA FRIGHTENED AS RUSSIAN DRIVE SENDS NAZIS FLEEING BACK ONTO BORDERS; SEE GREAT ROUT OF SOUTHERN GERMAN ARMY FROM UKRAINE

GERMANS MAY EVACUATE FROM ODESSA HARBOR   Rursian-German Battle Line May Soon Be Formed in Rumania. Soviet Troops Unchecked

Collapse of South Flank  Is Imminent   Battle Line May Have To Be Withdrawn Inside Rumania

“Atoll Busters’ One Year Old   Targets Read Like Pacific Directory

‘Atoll Busters’ One Year Old  Targets Read Like   Targets Read Like Pacific Directory

Yeggs Fail To Crack Safe by Towing Tt Behind Car, Banging It on Curb

Soviet Northern Army Approaches Estonian Border   Soviet Forces Reported Fighting Onlv Nine Miles From Estonian Frontier   NAZIS UNABLE TO HALT RED ADVANCE

REDS § MILES  FROM ESTONIAN FRONTIER   Germans Fleeing Through Narrow Corridor

REDS CLOSE } TO FRONTIER DF ESTONIE   ONE SPEARHEAD WITHIN NINE MILES OF BORDER~NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE UNDER _ BOMBARDMENT

RUSSIAN ARMY ROLLS TOWARD ESTONIA LINE   Only Nine Miles From : Border  NAZIS IN FLIGHT  ee oe nme  More Railway Lines Captured

HELPLESS NAZIS FLEE 10 ESTONIA BEFORE SOVIETS   Reds Reported at Kingisepp. Unly Nine Miles from Boraer

U.S. Air Bases  Won, Japs Say High Command Claims Kweilin, Liuchow

Japanese Detected U.S. Carrier Force Afternoon Preceding Marianas Attack

AMERICAN PILOTS  SHOW GREAT BRAVER}  IN MARIANAS ATTACK WRITER WHO KNOWS  TELLS OF RECENT PI ACTING Net TAPS

Report From Correspondent Who Was Burned On Hornet. .... Gives Graphic Analysis Of Assault On Marianas

135 Jap Planes Destroyed. Several Ships Blasted; Guam Bombed, Adm. Nimitz Reveals   il

GraphicAnalysis Of Attack On Marianis Is Dispatched By AP Writer In Honolulu   Re CHARLES M'MURTRY

Allies Drop More Bombs On Europe   Fifth Army Scores Anothe1 One-Mile Advance In ; Central Italy

New Attacks on French Coast Made hy Allied Bombers Night and Day   Berlin and Western Germany Get Nuisance Raids.   GREAT ALLIED AIR DAY ALL AROUND  All Planes Returned With Mir tee GOREN Nens. Coe, cM YA

Greatest Allied Air Offense  Still Rolling Over Europe; Invasion Coast Gets Blasting

POUND INVASION COAST IN GREAT SWARMS TODAY   trong Bomber Formae tions Follow On Heels Of Yesterday’s Tremen dous 3,000-Plane AtLan

REDS OPEN BARRAGE FOR RUMANIAN DRIVI   Mass Along Prut River Border as Germans Rush Reinforcements for What Looks Like First Recent Determined Stand.

Paving Way For Thrust Into Balkans   Russian Armies Push Of fensives Against Retreat ing Germans

SOVIET GUNS MASSED ON PRUT RIVER   Russians Expected To Cross Into Rumania Soon

Russians Mass Along 53-Mile Front On Prut   Early Thrust Across Border River Indicated; ‘Germans Won’t Get Breathing Spell,’ Says Pravda; Konev Extends Grip Southward

Heavy Guns Pave Wavy Into Balkans   Reds Crossing Prut River on 53-Mile Front—Moscow Warns Nazi Satellites Thevre Coming

Reds Blast Way to  Rumania   BBC Reports Russian Advance Elements Already Across the Prut Into Balkons

VANDER HAMM RATES MONDAY   Pioneer Ireten Resident Died Wednesday Night Burial Monday

Doughboys Primed For Terrific Battle--Lack of Fighting Brings Letdown

Nazt Underground Blochs Allies’ Efforts In France   Nubbins Can Hardly Wait: Santa’s To Arrive Tonicht

GermansIn _ France Form ‘Spy Rings   40,000 Said Hiding Out; Aided By French Collaborationists

FRANCE BATTLES NAZI SABOTEURS   40,000 Hiding Out In Paris Spearhead Resistance

40,000 NAZIS LEAD FIGHTING   Enemy Resistance Movement Reported Developing Inside France.

40,000 Germans In Paris Area Head Resistance   Report They Handle Espionage, Sabotage; Cables And Pipelines Affected By Actions

RECORD ATTACK MADE ON TRUK   Nipponese _ Interceptors Fail To Appear; Biak Gains Continue

LIBERATORS BLAST TRUK BREAK RECORD   Bombs Also Dropped on Dublon and Eten in Heaviest Days Attack; No Interception.   Hit Noemfoor

Allies Shift Air Bases In  South Pacific   Attack Japanese Lines Of Supply

ALLIED AIR BASES SHIFTED FORWARD   Yanks Smacking: Japs Along Their Vital Supply Lines

Air Arm Keeps ‘Japs: On Run   MacArthur Sloy Slowly Pushes Enemy. Back By. Steady

oosevelt, Dewey Both Take Stump in Critical Areas  President to Make Several Personal Pleas for Support

DEWEY WILL HEAD FOR MINNEAPOLIS   Governor'to Discuss Post. War Farm Program Tuesday

MORE SPEECHES BY CANDIDATES   Dewey On Western Swing This Week; Roosevelt In Philadelphia

2 CANDIDATES PLAN PREVOTE MIDWEST TOUR   Personal Contest Due For Final 2 Weeks ! of Campaign

REGULATION OF LOAN AGENCIES IS SUGGESTEL   All Organizations Loaning Money, Including Banks, - Would Be Affected

TWELVE KILLED AND OEVENTY-FIVE HURT TEXAS TRAIN WRECK  ONE PASSENGER TRAIN CRASHES INTO ANOTHER DURING SNOWSTORM

TRAIN WRECK VICTIMS ARE IDENTIFIED   Account Given Of Tragic Death Of Youth In. Passenger Train Collision

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TEXAS EXES DECIDE REGENTS ARE. WRONG  CALL FOR RE-INSTATE‘MENT OF DR. RAINEY AS TINIVERSITY PRESIDENT

University Exes’  Council Urges.  Rainey Re-!nstated On Record Believing  Regents Wrong . And’ Rainay Riaht.

Resignation Of All Regents But Mrs. . D. Fairchild Urged; Reinstatement Of President Is Requested

[a apture Kerch Fortress in East, Drive Westward to Join Armies   Defeated German Army Pinned Between Odessa and the Dnestr; Many Enemy Killed Others Surrender; Black Sea Fleets Strike

AMPHIBIANS IN ATTACK ON GERMANS   Under Gen. Yeremenko; Capture Kerch Fortress To Strike West Toward Ukraine Army Union.   Heart Of Crimea

ARMIES PUSH INTO CRIMEA   Nazi Forces Retreating From Odessa Being Smashed

THO BIG RED ARMIES PUSH INTO CRIMEA   Nazi Forces Retreat:  ing From Odessa Being Smashed

Descend With Speed Upon 100,000 Beleaguered Nazi, Romanian Troops

New Russian Army Pours  Into Crimea   Reds Also Cleaning Up In Huge Odessa Trap, Gaining in Romania  NAZI LOSSES HUGE

Maritime Unit Joins Attack on Isolated Nazis   Reds Drive to Within 155 Miles of Great Ploesti Oil Wells; Axis Resistance Melt«

NEW DRAFT RULING I$ EXPECTED   -A’s May Soon Be Separated in Regards to Age

Patton Army Gains Mile In New Drive   Germans Continue tc ~ Hammer Yanks in Aachen Sector

Patton Army Drives Ahead  Yanks Gain 3 Miles on Metz Front; Advance

Doughboys Pushed Back ‘500 Yards By Violent German Assault.   REPORT GAIN IN SOUTH

3RD ARMY TROOPS CHARGE BETWEEN METZ AND NANCY   SCORE GAINS ALONG 25-MILE FRONT AND SEIZE FOUR VILLAGES

American Attack  Is Thrust Back   Most of Ground Taken Southeast of Aachen Is Lost to Nazis   BACK TO HIGH GROUND   Third Army Line Between Nancy and Metz Is Improved

Yanks Land in Northern New Guinea to Trap Japs Battling Against Aussies

Yanks Invade Guinea Coast, Trapping Japs   M*Arthur’s Surprise Blow Wins Nippon Airfield   Americans Bomb  Deep in Thailand

SAIDOR INVADED BY AMERICANS EARLY SUNDAY   Little Opposition From Japs Encountered In New  Guinea Landing   ENEMY FORCE CUT OFF AT ONE POINT

American Forces Landed At -Saidon On New Guinea Coast   Invaders Quickly Take Possession of Airfield and . Harbor—Trapped Japanese Forces Said to be Facing Annihilation 

Yanks Land At Saidor on New Guinea   Third Invasion Meets Little Resistance From Surprised Japs  AIRFIELD CAPTURED

Americans Land On North Coast Of New Guinea   MacArthur Strikes Lightning Blows

Americans Land On New Guinea In Third Swift Stab   U.S. Troops Storm Ashore At Saidor Beach Without Opposition, Push Inland To Capture Airfield

PAYROLL THEFT OF $280,000 — PUZZLES ARMY AUTHORITIES   STEEL BOXES CONTAINING PAY FOR TROOPS DISAPPEARED WHILE ENROUTE- TO  GLAND

GERMANS WIN DIPLOMATIC VICTORY. AS BULGARIA GETS PRO-NAZI PREMIER

Valmontone Line Cracked By Americans   Heights io Alban Hills Captured by Yanks in Stoutly Contested Advance of Nearly ‘Two Miles in Etaly

Nazis Form New Bulgaria Government   PUPPET RULE INDICATED, GERMAN TROOPS POURING INTO COUNTRY, TOLD

GERMANS TAKE OVER BULGARIAN CONTROL   Balkan Nation Threatened by Russian Onslaught

Nazi Puppet Takes Over In Bulgaria   Pro-Axis Bagrianov Named Premier As Nazis Clamp Same Hold As In Hunaary

NEW BULGARIAN - CABINET FORMED   GERMAN ARMY IS BELIEVED TO HAVE TAKEN OVER BALKAN COUNTRY:

NEW PUPPET GOVERNMENT FOR BULGARIA   Germans Take over Reins in Sofia in Same Manner as They Did in Hunvary.   Army Leaders Flee

NEW RULE BOLSTERS AXIS BULGARIAN HOLD   Bagrianov Named Premier Of German Puppet Unit

evryvyvyvyyrr rrr rr rrr rr" Nazis Reinforce Bulgar Garrison  As Tension Grows

Reich Sends New Forces To Bulgaria   Turk Border Closed As Tension Increases In Balkan Satellite

TURKISH FRONTIER CLOSED, GERMANS MOVE UP TROOPS   Bulgarian Regent, Former Premier Summoned For Conference With Hitler In Rarchtasnadan.   CHINESE CLEAR JAPS IN MYITKYINA AREA   Americans Extend Bridgehead In Dutch New Guinea as Enemy Offers Vigorous Resistance,

SAREE AS AACHEN FALLS   Defenders Lay Down Arms At Noon After Savage Doughboy Attacks

800 TROOPS IN AACHEN GIVE UP TQ HODGES’ MEN   Complete Fall Of German City Opens Way For Further Advance Into Rhineland; Other Ad vances In West.

800 Quit Fight As Yank Troops Mop Up In City   Last Defenders, Ordered By Hitler to Fight to the Death, Surrender  Unconditionally   Canadians Gain ‘In Antwerp Area   Berlin Again Threatens to Use Secret Weapons In  Combatting Yank,  British Invaders

All Resistance In And Near City Ended   2,000 Prisoners Are Captured By First Army Men

Last Germans In Aachen Are Captured   American Prisoner Bag for City Exceeds 2,800 Men

Last 800 German: In Aachen Have  Surrendered   Organized Resistance Ends; Canadians Advance Near Antwerp.

Canadians In Four-Mile Gain Against Nazis   Seek Use of Antwerp As Supply Base; Prisoners Taken

RESISTANCE IK OLD CITY ENDS   Troops Give Up Despite Hitler’s Orders to Fight Tn Death.   CANADIANS GAIN 4 MILES

Resistance Ended Inside of ‘Aachen   800 Defenders of Ruinec ~~ City. Surrender to  Americans   FIGHT ABOVE ANTWER?   British and Canadians Battle to Clear Approaches to Port

REMNANTS OF AACHEN GARRISON GIVES UP UNCONDITIONALLY   LAST DEFENDERS, ORDERED TO FIGHT TO DEATH BY HITLER. SURRENDER

ALL OF AACHEN TAKEN AS NAZIS LAY DOWN GUNS   800 Remaining Battle-Torn Germans Surrender To Yanks In Torn City

CANADIAN ARMY PUSHES NEARER ANTWERP PORT   American Troops Hunt Dowr Remaining Germans in Aachen

Canadian Army Pushes Four Miles In Its Latest Three-Pronged Drive

Surrender to Yankees at Aachen   Ali Resistance Inside City and Suburbs Is Ended Today   ILAST 800 GERMAN : : DEFENDERS TAKEN   Canadians “Make Gain in Antwerp Campaign; U. 5. Planes Bomb Dam

All Resistance in Suburbs of City Ends at Noon   Canadians Gain In Three-Pronged Push Above Antwerp

Last Aachen defenders surrender unconditionally  All resistance ends as first large German city falls to American forces

EIGHT HUNDRED NAZI TROOPS SURRENDEREL IN AACHEN SATURDAI  LAST DEFENDERS OF GER MAN STRONGHOLD GIVE NP UNCONDITIONALLY

CANADIANS PRESSING OFFENSIVE   800 Nazis Surrender Unconditionally As Aachen Fight Ends

RESISTANCE ENDED IN NAZI CITY   Russians, Yugoslavs Move Toward Budapest

Resistance At Aachen Ends; Nazis  Surrender   Last 800 Of Enemy Garrison Lay Down Arms; U.3. Bomber: Breach Large Dam

ORGANIZED GERMAN RESISTANCE ENDED IN AACHEN TODAY   ALLIED TROOPS PUSHING THREE-FORKED OFFENSIVE IN HOLLAND

800 GERMANS IN AACHEN GIVE UP UNCONDITIONALLY AT NOON AND RESISTANCE IN CITY ENDS

Last Defenders Of Aachen Give UpTo Yankees  anadians Push Out For Rosendaal, Bredc

COMMANDING OFFICER AT AACHEN FEAIRNG REPRISAL ON FAMILY HESITATED TO QUIT THE FIGHT 

All Resistance In City And Suburbs Ends As 800 Nazis Quit; Estimate Yanks Take Total Of 10,000 Prisoners

GERMAN DEFENDERS OF AACHEN QUIT   Surviving Troops Surren der as Resistance In City Ends

Last Remnant Aachen Nazis End Struggle   Resistance in City and Suburbs Brought to End Saturday

Last Germans Inside Aachen  Surrender   All Resistance Has Ended; Canadians in New Holland Push

CANADA TROOPS PUSH DRIVE TO FREE ANTWERP   Americans Mopping Up In Outskirts Of Aachen

LAST GERMAN DEFENDERS OF AACHEN QUIT   All Resistance Ends In Historic City; Antwerp Drive Gains

Canadians Make Four Mile Gain   Yanks Mop U; In Aachen— Belgrade Falls  To Russians

ALL GERMAN RESISTANCE NOW ENDEE   Nazis Give Up When ‘” Pressed Into Traps in Suburbs of First Major Reich City to Be Cap cece ST Bag Awmnai)SPana

Canadians Push Ahead in Drive   Americans Hunt Nazi Remnants in Outskirts Of Captured Aachen

ALLIES MAKE GAINS TODAY NEAR ANTWERP   Americans Hunt Germans Hiding  In Aachen

Resistance Ended In 1st Nazi Prize   800 German Troops Give Up Unconditionally; Canadians Push Four Miles to Antwern

Allies Make Progress All Alona Front   Canadian Army Slugs Ahead in Drive To Free the Port of Antwerp for Use of Supply Ships.

Hopelessly Trapped Foe Quits Fight   All Resistance Ends; Canadians Push Three-Way Drive Above Antwerp.

LAST GERMANS SURRENDER IN AACHEN TODAY   800 Weary Defenders Lay Down Arms In . Ruined City

GERMANS EVACUATE MINTURNO IN ITALY, WINTER LINE ANCHOR   Abandon Key Stronghold To Escape Two Converging Spearheads Of 5th Army; Allies Batter Rome Airfields

British Capture Points North of Garigliano River   Seven Key Air Bases On Rome Outskirts ‘Battered By Allies

BRITISH WEAPONS CLAIMED SUPERIOR   Army Officer Says Australian Mare Found Them Better Than American Equipment

Historic Battle Now Rages in West Normandy   Germans Reel Back Under Heavy American Pressure

Historic Battle Now Rages in West Normandy  Germans Reel Back Under Heavy  BRmeri rom Deace: r,s.

REDS RECOGNIZE BADOGLIO RULE   Similar Action Expected By United States, Britain

Soviet Accords Recognition To Badoglio Regime   Exchange Of Ambassadors To Take Place ‘Without Delay’; U.S., Britain Were Not Consulted On Latest Move Of Russia

Walters Back  At OPA Job In Chicago   Investigators Find No Reason For Any Kind Of Change

1.000 Planes Attack Enemy Rail Centers   Principal Rail Artery From Berlin To West Has Been Knocked Out.   1.000 BOMBERS RATD

Yank Bombers Tn Van Assault On Nazi Push   Allied Planes In Belgium Holland and France Join In Attack On Enemy

THOUSAND U. 8. PLANES SMASHED AT GERMAN OBJECTIVES  SECONDARY RAIL TRAFFIC POINTS HIT; MAIN  RAIL ARTERY OUT

{000 PLANES IN. TODAY'S AIR RAID      Rail Traffic Centers in Wes. tern Germany Are At, tacked.

AIR ACTIVITY STEPS UP ON ENTIRE FRONT   Planes Based in Belgium, Holland and France Join Attack Against German Offensive

Americans Check German Armor Near Meuse, Apparently Regain Initiative Slowly on Nazi: Flanks

Principal Rail Artery From Berlin West Knocked Out   British-Based Bombers Raid Secondary Rail Traffic Sites in Reich

Heavy Snowstorm Centers in Helena Vicinity  Homeward-Bound Yule Travelers Are Hampered by Weather

Russians Lash At Sevastopol In New Drive   Axis Broadcasts Assert ‘Ex iraordinarily Powerful? Red Forces Assault. ing Besieged Citv

Sevastopol Under Powerful Attacks,  Germans Report  Red Troops Assault Besieged Crimean Pori—Moscow Tells of Heavy Air Attack

Sevastopol Siege Nearing Crisis  Bombers and Fighters Hit Over Week-end

SEVASTOPOL NOW BEING HAMMERED FROM AID-EAND   Russians Putting Forth Great Drive to Wind Up Crimean Battle with  Navic

Soviet Bombers Smash Sevastopol   Germans Say Reds Staking All On Taking City

Nazis Claim — All-Out Drive. - Being Made   Axis Garrison Is Under Heavy Fire From  Siere Guns

SOVIET BOMBERS HIT SEVASTOPOL   Nazis Say Land Assaults Growing in Power

Russians Launch All-Out Assault At Sevastopol?   Germans Report Great Land and  Air Blows Aimed At Crimean Pare

Soviet Planes Raid Beseiged Crimean Port   Powerful Red Army Forces Assault Sevastopol; Fluetuating Battle.   FOES CAPTURE HILL

SOVIETS INCREASE SEVASTOPOL ACTION   Besieged Crimean Port Under Heightening Air and Ground Preeenrea Over Week End

SOVIETS PUT AIR POWER IN HARBOR RAID   Sevastopol Hit By Bombers In New Offensive

Bombs Raze Sevastopol Defense Arc   Nazi High Command Hints Reds Piercing Fortress Perimiter

RED@HAMMER AT SEVASTOPOL   ASSAULT BESIEGED CRIMEAN PORT FROM LAND, AIR AND SEA

SOVIET PLANES HITSEVASTOPOL   Nazis Say Reds Trying For Decision There

Land and Air Forces Strike At Port   Germans Report Russia in All-Out Effort to Overwhelm Garrison

SOVIET PLANES LASH AT NAZIS IN SEVASTOPOL   Axis Broadcasts Claim Heavy Russian Forces Are Assaulting Port

Russian Planes Lash At Besieget ‘Sevastopol Base   Estimate 25,000 Germans Still Holding Out In Crimean Port

Soviet Forces Lash At Beseiged Nazis Within Sevastopol   25,000 Men Thought Verging On Utter Defeat By Russian Land, Sea, Air Powers

Reds Batter Sevastopol   Intense Air Attacks Over Weekend; Germans Still Holding Out

‘Berlin Hints Axis Lines Cracked At  Sevastopol   Moscow Announces Intense Weekend Assault On Blach Seg Stronghold

Russians Hit At Sevastopol   Bombers and Fighters Attack German-Held Black Sea Port

Batter Sevastopol From the Air Over Weekend Say Reds   Axis Claims Powerful Soviet Army Is On The Move

Russians Oper Final Drive On Sevastopal   Red Air Force Aids Land Troops in Assaulting Bastion

WEEREND HITS ON SEVASTOPOL   Soviet Bombers and Fight. ers Lash Port in Intense Attacks.

Russians Attack Sevastopol : By Land And Air In Attempt To Knock Out Nazi Garrison   Germans Tell Of Intense Week-End Assaults With Battle ‘Fluctuating’

Estonian And Latvian Areas Soviet Bombed   German Military Trains and Stores Attacked, Touching Off Violent Explosions

Germans Stop Resistance  To Fifth Army  Dic aedmmea Dimes mbna   Americans May Enter Livorno During  This Weekend

MAJOR ITALY BASE SEIZED BY FRENCH   Capture of Center of Pog. gibousi Near Florence Announced

FRENCH TROOPS SCORE IN ITALY   Resistance Disappears In American Drive Toward Livorno

YANKS DRIVE TOWARD PISA AND LIVORNO   Doughboys Push Into Out: er Defenses Of Nazi's Gothic Line As Enemy Retreat

FRENCH SEIZE POGGIBONSI MAJOR BASE   Kor Allied Drive to Florence or Down Elsa River Valley toward Empol; Yanks Push Line.   Six Planes Gone

» Sen. Truman Committee's + Third Report   Statement Appraises In Detail U. S. Defense Program

HOFFMAN TIES HOUSE IN KNOT   Goes on One-man Sitdown Strike Against Easter Recess; Puts Body Into Parliamentary Tangle

Hoffman Bar To Recess Of Congress   MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE HOUSE UNTIL SATURDAY TO GET BOBTAIN BALLOT RESULTS FROM PRESIDENT   Postponed to Saturday,

MORE PLYMOUTH MEN CALLED FOR PRE-INDUCTION   All Are Under Thirty Years Old—-None Are Called From Farms

Men:Ordered To Report For Their” Physical Tests  No Induction Orders ‘Received For Month Of April

Men-Ordered To Report For Their’ Physical Tests  No Induction Orders Received For Month

CHURCHILL SAYS  NAZIS WILL USE NOVEL WEAPONS   Attack on Germany to Be Stepped Up Beyond Any-thing Imagined.

[Allied Attacks To Be “Beyond Any Yet Employed”   Warns People of Nazi Strength, Believes Allies Very Powerful

Indicates Nazis Are Planning Retaliation With Rocket Weapons   60 Jap Ships Are Sunk by Allied Airmen in Southwest Pacific in Week

Hitler Gang Still Strong, He Reports   Hopes of Victory In 1944 Dampenec By Pnme Minister

To Increase Relentless Bombings   Sees No Likelihood of Ger Man Collapse This Year,  Tells Commons

Warns Allies To Expect Nazi Counter Attacks Or Larger Scale, Refuses To Predict End Of European War In 1944

Warns Allies Facing Pilotiess Airplanes, Attacks by Rockets   Prime Minister Seeks to Allay Over-Optimism; Believes Hitler Resime. Army Far From Collapse

ALLIES UNITED IN WAR AIS. SAYS PRIME MINISTER   Task is Heavy, Trail is Long, but Victory is Certain, Mae Accoric

Churchill Warns of Rocket Raids on Enoland: Predicts Rise in Air Activity   LAST MINUTE NEWS

Addresse  Common  4        AIR WAR ON NAZIS TO BE BEYONE ANYTHING YET SEEN; U.S. . PRODUCTION TREBLES GERMA

WARNS BRITAIN NAZIS PREPARE 10 RETALIATE   Says Victory Over Axis gs Not Be Far Away For United Nations

Reassurance of Victory Voiced By Churchill   WARNS AGAINST OVER-OPTEM. IsM AND TELLS OF WRAP. ONS FOK WILL EMPLOY, 

AIR ASSAULT ON NAZIS TO BE INCREASED   Prime Minister Refuses to Predict End of European War Irv 1944,

Alhies to  Men Up Air Offensive Says Churchill   Prime Minister Gives First Address Since Conerences

WHITE SUCCEEDS RAY EDMUNDSON   NAMED BY LEWIS AS ACTING PRESIDENT OF UMW DISTRICT 12

FORTRESS CREW ESCAPES NAZIS AFTER LANDING   Ten Americans, Forced Down In Denmark, Reach Safety In Sweden

Ten Fort Crewmen, Shot Down In Denmark, Arrive In Sweden   Americans Aided By Natives, Reach Safety In Small Fishing Vessel

PLANE FORCED DOWN IN DENMARK MEN REACH SWEDEN   Ten Crewmen of A Fly. _ ing Fortress Have Reach  ed Neutral Sweden Afte: Forced Landing in Den mark

U. 5. Fliers Forced Down In Sweden Make Safe Arrival   Dodge German Patrols Perhaps to Win Them Chance to Fiqht Aqain

Flying ‘Fort’ Crew Safe In Sweden   Ten Men Shot Down  Over Denmark Escape With Aid of Friendly — Danes: May Be’ Released

U.S, FLYERS GAIN SAFETY OF NEUTRALS   Ten Airmen Are In Sweden; Had Crash Landing

HIT WAR CONDUCT   Members Demand Immediate Publication of Terms to Germany

Twister Hits Cambridge, Md.   Several Blocks Of Homes Flattened, Over Score Injured.

35 Hurt In Cambridge  Twister Splits   Twister Splits Negro Hich School

Russians Trap Big Nazi Force Inside Budapest   Estimate 8 to 10 Divisions Caught With All Escape Routes Severed

Russians At ‘budapest’s West Limits   Eight To 10 Divisions Of Germans, Hungarians  Reported Trapped.

15 Mile Advance Cuts Off Germans   Eight to 10 Divisions Are Reported Trapped in Budapest   ONE ROAD OF ESCAPE   Russian Army Drives te Western Limits of Hungarian Capital

SOVIETS CIRCLE BUDAPEST NAZIS   Russians Are Closing Ring Around Hungarian Capital, Trapping Nazi Di visiong.

Reds Knocking  At Hungarian Capital Gates   Fight tc 10 Divisions Of Germans and Hungarians Reported Trapped Within Metropolis

Reds Trap 10 Divisions In Budapest   Possibly Only One Road Usable At Night  Remains

REDS AT GATES TO BUDAPEST   Last Rail Escape Route For Nazis Cut by Soviets

Reds Cut Nazi Escape Route From Budapest   Trap Eight To Ten Divisions In Capital City

Red Army » Io Edge . Of Budapest   - Only One Narrow Es - cape Route Left to «—  - German Garrison; Con: tinue Slovakian Push

Russ Troops Close Trap At Budapest   Eight to Ten German And Hungarian Divisions Caught in Capital

REDS TRAP EIGHT NAZI DIVISIONS   Russians Drive To City Limits In 15-Mile Advance

Thousands Of Nazis Caught In Budapest   8-10 Divisions Are  In Trap; Encirclemen Virtually Complete As Reds Close In

Encirclement Of Budapest Is Completed By Russians   Systematic Shelling. Of Airports: Begins

LARGE FORCE IS ENTRAPPED IN BUDAPEST   Russian Army Drives to the Western City Limits in a Fifteen-Mile Advance

Soviets Trap 8-10 Divisions At Budapest   Red Army Drives to Western City Limits in 15- Mile Advance

EIGHT TO TEN NAZI DIVISIONS TRAPPED BY REDS   Russians Drive To City Limits Of Budapest

Russians Close Budapest Trap   Eight To Ten Enemy Divisions Caught °=

Nazis Trapped In Budapest   Capital Encirclement Nears End As Shells Strafe Airfields   Nazis May Flee.

Soviets Trap 8 Divisions   Germans. Hungarians Trapped In Budapest; Cat Off From Escape.

RUSSIANS BLOCK GERMAN ESCAPE PATHIN DRIVE   Eight to 10 Nazi, Hungarian Divisions Are Trapped In Budapest

8 DIVISIONS ARE TRAPPED AT BUDAPEST   Reds Close Ring Around Capital, With Only One Road Usable by the Germans for Escape by Nioht.

Russ Advance Traps Nazis In Budapest   Beleaquered Capitol Cireled; Shell Airport To Prevent Escape

REDS ADVANCE ON BUDAPEST   Enemy Believed Ready To Make Stand; Railroad Escape Is Cut

10 DIVISIONS SAID TRAPPED IN BUDAPEST   Russians Drive on City Af- ter Practically Sealing Off Last Escape Route Te Nast Clarricon.

RUSSIANS DECLARE MANY DIVISIONS OF GERMANS CUT OFF  SLIGHT CHANCE FOR ES CAPE FROM SURROUNDE

Ten German Divisions Arein Trap   Red Army Encircling Budapest Gains 15 Miles in Drive

Over 8 Enemy Divisions Trapped In Budapest   Soviet Guns Being Systematic Shelling. Of Two Nazi Airport:

SOVIET FORCES TRAP MANY MEN IN BUDAPEST   Air, One Road Only Way for Germans to Escape Hungarian Capital

NAZIS IGNORE ULTIMATUM ON PORT SURRENDER   Allies Poised For Gigantic Frontal And Flank Drive Against Cherbourg   BITTER BATTLE LOOMS   Fight To Come May Be As Bad As First Invasion Thrust At France

New Terms Cited In Report Via Stockieim: Russians Coen Two Cifen-ives On Far Northern Front

Frerichs - Witt. Wedding  Leona Frerichs and Reinholdt Witt were marired las! night by Rev. Fenske at the  Tree etree) 6m mMehkiien  6T wtharnr   Olla Podrida  Anton J. Sartori  no 2. # --t«crm woke   Los Angeles, (4), Gahfornia

BRICKER CLAIMS C10 TRYING TC DOMINATE DEMS   Says Union Attempting to Swing Election With Cash, Intimidation

BRICKER FLAYS ClO POLITICS   Declares New Deal Allied With Corrupt Political Machines

Oregon Primary  Election Held   Write-In ‘Campaign For GOP Nomination Seen

CARDS TO DEPEND’ ON. LEFT: ~ HANDER: IN. EFFORT. TOOFFSET HURLING  : OF JAKUCKIY:

CARDS SEEK 10 EVEN SERIES   Harry Brecheen Sent T Mound—Browns Pin Hope On Jakucki

NINETY-SIX PUPILS WILL STUDY MUSIC   ; That Number Recruited From “Join:   The Bands” Campaign In Schools To Receive Instruction 

MUSIC CAMPAIGN BRINGING RESULTS   More Than 100 Public School Pupils Plan To Take Up Instrumental Study

JAPANESE NAVY UNIT  ATTAGKING MINDORO  WAS BADLY WHIPPED FAIL TO DO DAMAGE AND  WERE HEAVILY ATTACKEI RV Tl © PIANES

JAPANESE NAVY: UNIT ATTACKING MINDORO WAS BADLY WHIPPED  FAIL TO DO DAMAGE AND WERE HEAVILY ATTACKEI BY U. S. PLANES

Joplin Man Bombs Jap Battleship. After Spotting Fleet Off Mindorc

Jap Attack. -on Mindoro a Failure   Attempt To Bombard American Installation is Smashed

Ina Ray Hutton Granted Renewal ‘B’ Gas Rations   «Manager Out On Bond

Helsinki Raid:  Only A Starter   “Hour of Retribution Is Coming” Soviet Paper Declares If Finns Continue In War.

FINLAND IS WARNED OF BOMBS T0 COME   Let Ruins Fall on Heads of Fascists, Reds Say

Helsinki Bombing Was Just ‘Prelude’   Russians Tell Finns Blunt] Worse Is to Come

Rathel C. Bennett Is Promoted S. Sergeant, 8th Airforce, England

HUGE CONVOY IN SULU SEA, JAPANESE SAY   Hint New Yank Landing Soon

Carrier Planes Blast Luzon Installations  Nipponese Airfields Blockaded

War Prisoners Total Over 20,000 as Allied Troops Refuse To Let Nazis Reorganize Northeast of Italian Capital

Complete Allied Occupation Of Eternal City Announced; Nazis Leave Capital Intact   German Prisoners Number 20,000 In 25-Day-Old Offensive in ttaly; Retreatina Enemy Blows Up Bridaes

PLANES HAMMER FLEEING NAZIS   Little Fighting Is Reported In Streets; Enemy Losses Heavy At Gates

Yanks Complete Reconquest (Of New Guinea  Take Islets With Little Opposition

U. S. FORCES LAND IN WESTERN NEW GUINEA   New Landing Places Americans Within 600 Miles of Philippines

New Landing Is Made Near Philippines   MacArthur Forces Take Over Islands Within Bombing Range of Mindanao

MacArthur’s Forces Move To Within Easy Bombing Range Of Philippines

AMERICAN UNITS LANDUNOPPOSED AT SANS APOR   New Guinea Base Within Four Hours Flying Time of Philippines

Hold Tightened  On New Guinea   Landing on Tip of Great Island Completed Reconquest of Region

Chief Reports island Fight Is Completed   Unopposed Landing Puts MacArthur Near Philippines

NEW GUINEA RECONQUEST . COMPLETED   Leapfrog Landing Puts Americans Only 600 Miles  of Mindanao. .- .   Squeeze Japs Tighter On Island of Guam

Hop Farther Up Coast of New Guinea   Landing On Northwest Tip Virtually. Unop-: posed; Push Japs Back On Tinian and Guam

ROOKE ISLAND IS OCCUPIED BY ALLIED TROOPS   Gorissi Village On New Britain Is Also Seized  1 From Japs   STARVATION TAKING HEAVY TOLL OF NIPS

ALLIES OCCUPY ANOTHER ISLAND   Gains On New Britain Extended: Kavieng And Rabaul Hit

Allies Seize — Rooke Island   Nine Jap Planes Downed In Rabaul Raid

M’ARTHUR FORCES TAKE ROOKE ISLE   U. S. MARINES EXTEND HOLDINGS IN THE CAPE GLOUCESTER SECTOR.

WAR MAY LAST NINE MONTHS---CHURCHILL   Thinks Japs May Hold Out 18 Months After Hitler’s Fall

Churchill Dubious Of War’s End Before Next Spring   Tells Parliament “Difficult To Believe War Can End By Christmas

CHURCHILL DOUBTS WAR END IS NEAR   Looks for It To Last Until Next Spring

CHURCHILL CAN SEE NO PEACE BEFORE EASTER, COMMONS HEARS   Prime Minister  Has Gloomy Words

No Letup To Blows At Night   RAF Lakes Over PreInvasion Softening On Lhunderous Seale  Set By Yanks.

KIMMEL, SHORT MAY LEARN FATE BEART SC. ]   Final Determination of Pearl Harbor Expected Within a Few Weeks

KIMMEL, SHORT CASE MAY COME UP SOON   Decision on Their Fate Expected Before Dec. 7

Pearl Harbor Again   Decision Expected In Washington Before December 7

KIMMEL, ‘SHORT MAY LEARN FATE BEEARE DEC 7.   - Final Determination of Pearl Harbor Expected Within a Few Weeks _

CARRIED BACK 10 GERMANY   n Follow-Up of Heavy Raid on Essen; Made Despite Winter’s First Snow Storm.   14 Oil Tank Cars

Follow-Up _ NaviReich   Report Hannover And  Brunswick As Last Night’s Targets Of Msdiuiis

Collaborationists In Belgium Imprisoned In Stockade With Germans

COMMITTEE CUTS FUNDS FOR THREE U.§. DEPARTMENTS   Japs Refuse to Resume Negotiations for Exchange  aft Pricanearc

JAPAN REJECTS SRD EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS   Refuses To Resume Talks Broken On Flimsy Excuse —

Japs Refuse To Swap Nationals   Enemy Bases Action On U. S. Camp Reports

JAPS REFUSE TO EXCHANGE NATIONALS.      Negotiations for Third Exchange Are Broken Off

FUNDS CUT F 3 DEPARTMENTS   State. Justice, Commerce Offices Feel Knife

Huge Flood Bill Passes Senate   Job-Creating Program Calls for $1,000,000,000  Post War Construction.

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TANKS SCATTER NIPS IN BURMA   Yank Machines Lead Stilwell Chinese

U.S. Tank Forces Leading Allied  Advance in Burma   Jap Setbacks Grow;  Invasion Forces on India Front Isolated

NO AIR OPPOSITION   Air Officers, Speculating On Reasons, Expect A  Battle Royal Soon

Novelist Killed On Italian Front   Frederick Faust, Known a: Max Brand, Was Correspondent

“Kina of Pulp Writers” Die! Shortly After Italian uve, Derive Gnens

THREAT ; IN SEW’ <   Such =). May Kill F.D.. .” Nominees to State Department.

FILIBUSTE® THREAT IN SEV’   Such . May Kill F,D.. ~ Nominees to State Department

STORM STRIKES AT COLLINSVILLE   No Lives Lost, None Seriously Hurt—Damage Hundreds Of Dollars

Administration Worried By Threat of Revolt In the Southern States

Dissatisfaction In  Southerr States Nears Proportions af Organized Revolt — Want FDR Supporters on  Texas Primary

Southern Revolt Causing Worry  Delegate Wrangle May Go to Courts

South Trend Being Watched   Administration Seeks To Get 4th Terms On Texas Ballot

Texas Situation Worries Leaders   To Demakgg FDR Supporters Be Listed On July 22 Ballots.

Adminstration Forces Seek To Get 4th Term Supporters For Electors Through Texas

STUDY POSTWAR SERVICE NEEDS   Public Hearings on Need for Materiel to Start on Tuesday.

Eisenhower Studies Plan For Invasion   Allied Commander. Arrives. in London After Conferences

PLANNING FOR BIG INVASION IS UNDERWAY   Eisenhower Arrives In London; Sees FDR, Churchill

ROCKET WEAPON ORDERS RUSHED   Armed Forces Plan Ta Spend 35 Million On Highly-Secret Gun

 Await Arrival of Allies Partisans, Deep Inside France,  Holding 140-Square Mile Area

Albert King Loses Life In France   Was Private tn Infantry; Was Killed July 20

Patton's Troops Penetrate Deep Inside Germany   3rd Army Chalks Up New Gains Along Wide Front; Foe In Retreat

Patton’s Mer Well Within Nazi Line   Troops Enter Sarreguemines~— Shell Plants  In Saarbrucken

BRIDSEHEAD ESTABLISHED IN SAAR AREA   Saarlautern Lost Completely Says Nazi Bulletin

GEN. PATTON.S TROOPS ARE ASSAULTING PILLBOXES AND TRENCHES IN SIEGFRIED LINE   eril to Saarbrucken, City of 135,000 Centering 70 Square Miles of Coal Fields, Increases By the Hour        7000 CASUALTIES A DAY BEING INFLICTED

SAARBRUCKE THREE MILES AHEAD TANKS   Third Army Wresting All of Alsace and Lorraine From Hands of Resisting Germans

Dou }  ghb  Outer a  of Saar Ca ital pital   Patton Troops Break Into Nazi Westwall, Say German Reports

Saarbrucken Plants Blasted by Shelifire   Yanks Use Flame Throwers, Guns And Bayvonets on Nazi Defenses

Patton Makes New Crossing Of Saar River   Assaults Siegfried Defenses With Flame Throwers, Artillery As Well as Bayonets

NINTH MAKES SLOW ADVANCE; NAZIS BITTEF   But Allies Continue Their Remorseless Grinding Up of German Legions Before Them

Patton Troops Are Well Into Siegfried Line   Saarbrucken Under Heavy Attack By American Army

Plunge Deep Into Germany   Five Divisions in Swift Advance That Throws Germans Back and Puts Americans at Gateway to Saar Basin

Siegfried Line Penetrated by U. 5. Troops   Advance Units Eight Miles Inside Germany

Patton Breaks Into Westwall, Germans Admit   American Vanguards Sweep to 3 Miles from Vital Bastion

Nazis Imply Saarlautern Lost to Yanks   Nazi Garrisons Wage Tough Battle Against Advancing 3rd Army In Northwest Section

Saar-Brucken Factories Under Open Gunsights Of U.S. Third Army Artillery

Flame Throwers, Cannons, Bayonets   Hit Siegfried Line   3d Army Enters Saareguemines; Saarbrucken Factories Shelled; - River Spanned ‘At Four. Places

German Troops Quell Uprising In Copenhagen   Danish Police Battle Nazis; Several _ Leaders Interned :

Germans Quel Dane Uprising   7 Nazi Sailors Die in Clash with Police

Many Nip Warships Sunk  In 3-Fleet Engagements   Germans Falling Back ~ Along 15-Mile Fron:

Adm. King Reports Entire Enemy Sea Power Involved; Nip Sortie Believed Aimed at U. S. Invaders; . Qutnumbered American Unit Loses One Plane Carrier

ir ONESE WARSHIPS.FLEE - . FROM ACTION; YANK TROOPS ON LEYTE CONTINUE GAINS

RED ADVANCE PERILS NAZIS IN BUDAPES!   Russians Break Middle Tisza Line Along 40-Mile Front

Russians Crack German  Line On 40-Mile Front   100,000 Nazis And Hungarians ‘Captured By Soviet  Forces Since October 6; Red Units Now Encircling Budanest

TISZA RIVER LINE BROKEN BY RUSSIANS   Who Advance 17 Miles te Within Mile of Vita Railway; Report 100,006 Axis Dead.   Front Nears Collarze

Line of Germans Broken  on Front of 40 Miles  MANY NAZIS SLAIN”  IN FIERCE FIGHTS  Budapest - Slovakian Railway Reported Cut

Soviets Break Tisza Line on  40-Mile Front   Axis Suffers 142,160 Casualties Since  Invasion of Hungary; Soviets Cross Danube

Crack nazis’ Tisza line on 40-mile front  Imply reds have cut key railway

MIDDLE TISZA RIVER LINE OF NAZIS BROKEN   Second Ukraine Army Has Killed More Than 100,000 Of Enemy Since October 6   BUDA DISTRICT IS ENTERED BY SOVIETS

Soviets Break ‘Nazi Line on Tisza River   ' Advance to Within Mile of Railway Entering Budapest

Italian Prisoners Strike af Omaha   Dissatisfied With Work Assiqnments

Peace Terms Are Revealed By Moseow   Include Internment Of All Nazi Troops And Ships in Finland  PARITTAMENT MEETS

REDS DEMAND FINNS BREAK GERMAN TIES   Soviet Peace Hinges On Six Points, ’ Report

SIX DEMANDS TRANSMITTED 10 HELSINK   ‘Moscow Calls for Internment of Nazi Troops  ~ and Ships as Preliminary to Formal Talks. .   SMALL REPUBLIC  DEBATES QUESTION   Parliament in Secret Session — Announcement Does Not Say Whether  - Decision Reached.

PEACE TERMS SENT BY RUSS TO FINNS   Official Negotiations Re‘ported to be in Preparatinn

IMMEDIATE BREAK WITH AXIS BEING DEMANDED OF FINLAND    —— SSS SS 'Moscow Also Decrees That All German Troops And   Ships Inside Nation Be Interned With Russian Help : lf Necessary: Parliament Helds Meetine

Official Red Term: Outlinéd For Finns   Russians Demand Break With Nazis And Internment Of German Troone And Chine

Soviets Demand Finns Break Off With Germans   Insist on Immediate Internment of Troops; Offer Armed Help

Offer Aid If Finns Cannot  Handle Task   Also Demand Immediate End to Diplomatic Relations With Germany

Finland Given Russian Terms in Peace Move   Insists German Troops and Ships in Finland Must Be Interned

FINLAND GETS PEACE TERMS FROM RUSSIA   OFFER MADE TO AID IN DISPOSING OF NAZI TROOPS

Reds Publish Peace Terms  Offered Finns   lnternment of Germans Restoration of 1940  vy Demanded

Russia Demands Immediate Finland Germany Break  Offers to Help Intern All Nazi Troops:   Offers to Help Intern All Nazi Troops;  Gives Peace Terms

Soviet Terms  Named   FINNS MUST BREAK WITH NAZIS BEFORE NEGOTIATIONS START; RESTORE 1940 TREATY

SOVIET TERMS FOR ARMISTICE GIVENHELSINK!   F innish Parliament Debates Demands With out Decision

nmediate Break ‘ith Germany Is  emanded as First reliminary Move   fficial Negotiations on Termination of Military ‘Operations Are Now in  Preparation

Offer Aid It :             Also Demand Immedi End to Diplomatic Rels tions With Germany: :

‘TWO MINOR ACCIDENTS   t Damage to Cara Resulted Bligh damage Collicies

TWO MINOR ACCIDENTS   ‘Slight Damage to C Cars Resulted In Two Collisions

PEATFORM PLEDGE STRESS-ON-PEACE      Force, If Necessary, Prom: ised to Maintain World Free of War

PLATFORM ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRATS   Association of Notions to  Keep Peace Is .  *  - "-" Pledged

PLATFORM ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRATS   Association_of Nations. to . . Keep Peace-Is :°: “" -° Pledaed-

Democrats Declare for ArmedPeace   IGNORE SOUTHERN PLEAS FOR STATES’ RIGHTS DECLARATION; DECLARE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY FEDERALY ENFORCED,

Maintenance Of Peace Goal. Of Democrats   But Platform, Ignores South’s Revolt and Plea For States Rights Stand

Hundreds Americar Heavies Blast Nazi  Aircraft, Factories  Raid Includes Attack On Belgian Rail Castes «KE Lleceale

1500 American Fighters Blast Nazi Air Plants   92 German Planes Downed; U. S. Loses 59 Aircraft

Americans H German Plan And Airdrom   Yanks Lose 34 Bomb And 25 Fighters; 92 German Planes Dow: Others Hit on Grou

Plane Plants At Brunswick Are Battered   Thirty-Four Bombers and 25 Fighters Miss ing in Massive Raid

Americans Down 94 Germans In Brunswick Rai¢   Yanks Lose 59 Ships In One Of Biggest Air Scraps Of War; Airdromes Hit

 Yankee Flyers Rain Bombs lon Brunswick   Fierce Air Battles Are Fought With Intercepting Nazis

1,500 American Planes Strike German Taraets   Losses Total 59, Fighters Knock 92 Nazi Ships From Air

U. 8. Bombers Hit Burnswiek  Nazi Air Field:   Fleet Of 1.500 Planes Pounds Aireraft  Plagts. Airdromes Of Reich.   BOMB BELGIAN CENTER

BELGIAN RAIL CENTER, FIVE AIRFIELDS HIT   Fighters Down 92 Jerries In Tremendous Air Battles

Americans Bag 9) Nazi Planes  1,500 Armada Blasts Brunswick and Ruhr

Yank Bombers Hit Brunswick, Ruhr ’Dromes   Fighter Escort Downs 92, Wrecks Others;

Yanks Hammer Brunswick And Ruhr - Airfields   1.500 Warplanes Used In Raid On Reich: Sorliy Says Losses By U, Forces Heny   Bomhers Aided By Cloudless Skies   Fierce Battles Fought With luterceptors In Frankfurt and Other German Sectors

U.S. Air Fleet Baffers German In Record Raid  More Than 1,500 Planes Blast At   More Than 1,500 Planes Blast At Brunswick, Ruhr

American Air Forces Blast German Plants, Airfields; Brunswick. Ruhr Attacked

AMERICANS DOWN 2 NAZI PLANES IN BITTER FIGHTS   Thirty-Four U. S. Bomber: and 25 Fighters Lost as Big Fleet Blasts Germany.   BRUNSWICK AIRCRAFT FACTORIES POUNDED   Airdromes North of Ruhr Attacked—Many Planes on Ground Destroyed and Damaged,

BOMBERS POUND AIRCRAFT PLANTS   34 U. S$. Bombers and 25 Fighter Planes Are Missing   BRUNSWICK HIT   Yank Fighters Shoot Down 92 German Planes, Damage Many Others

1,00 PLANES BET 92 NAZIG (N DAY RAIDS   Americans Lose 34 Bombers and 29 Fighters in Wide Sweep.

About 1500 U.S. Planes Blast Foe   Down 96 In Raids On Airdromes—34 Bombers And 25 Fighters Missing

Americans destroy 92 enemy airplanes in raid on continent   Important nazi industrial plants are hlasted as Rrunewick is sctrnck anew

Allied Fleet  Hits Sumatra   Carrier-Based Planes Hammer important Japanese Ports

Allied Fleet Smashes at Sumatra   Five Jap Ships Are Sunk and 25 Airplanes Desirovad

German Flank Is Threatened iW ith Rollback   Meanwhile. Yanks Rip Into Huns Before Cologne, Strasbourg and Mulhouse   Haims Gird to Meet Skyborne Forees   Rush In Heavy Artitlery In Desperate Attempt to Halt Shove of Ap. prouching Allies

Seventh Largest Dutch City Falls; Treops Pouring In   Areas Of Attack Identified; Yanks To South Begin Battle Of Rhine

ew has Zee CAL YOR ghd UAL  British Join . Air Army In New Allied Drive ~ Toward The Rhine ~   Seventh Largest Dutch City Falls As British Charge Forward 16 Miles In 24 Hours; Battle On Rhine Begins On Broad Front

Blackhawk Meet   CIVIC CLUB AID BOY SCOUT CAMP PROGRAM FUND   Sponsor Drive To Aid Work; Committee At Post-War Planning Meet.

CIVIC CLUB AID BOY SCOUT CAMP PROGRAM FUND   Sponsor Drive To Aid Work Make Solicitation Drive This Week.

STORMS MAKE. LEYTE DRIVE TOUGH GOING   QUICK VICTOR Y®SCORED BY TROOPS ON ISLAND GROUP OFF NEW GUINEA COAST

INVASION OF ‘TSLAND WILL TRAP ENEMY   MOVE HAILED AS STEP TO CUT OFF JAPS IN NEW . GUINEA.   New Grip On Leyte   Air Raids by American Aviators Continue on Jap Territory.

Allies Use 3,500 Planes in Support Of Ground Troops   Aerial Armadas Smash a German Frontline Positions in France

NORWAY'S QUISLINGS TO AID ALLIES, TIP      Reports Say They Are Ready To Kill Leaders

NAZIS TO GIVE UP ROME, CLAIM   City Will Not Be Defended, Vichy Radio Says

GERMANS WILL ABANDON ROME WITHOUT FIGHT      Nazi-Controlled Vichy Radio Re ports Decision To Retire North

Germans Will Yield Rome Without Fight, Vichy Says   Claims Nazis Will Take Up New Defense Line North Of City

Vichy Says Units Will Fall Back   To Defense Line   Claim Collapse In Italy Due To Refusal To Divert Troops

Sea Battle In Pacific May Be Decisive   Fleet Movement Shrouded  In Secrecy

ME N WHO LEAVE ESSEN TIAL WORK MAY BE DRAFTED   Selective Service To Put Pressure On Registrants Between 26 And 37 Who Are Not Essentially Employed.

WMC States 850 Quit Critical War - Jobs in 1 Week!   Issues Figures as Draft  Chief Warns Men About Liability.

‘Draft Bds. Ordered To Reclassify Men Leaving War Jobs   State Director's Text Outlining Latest Edict is Given in Full

Revived Crop Insurance Plan Gets Powerful GOP Backing   Rayburn Puts Farm Measure __ On Schedule for Present Session

Crop Insurance Gains Favor In Congress   GOP Leaders To Back New Farm Program

CROP INSURANCE FAVORED BY GOP   RANKING MINORITY MEMBER OF HOUSE FOR AN EARLY O. K,

GOP to Back Up Plan for Crop Risk   Rep. Hope Looks For Passage of Bill Rafare Chrictmas

Substantial Support !s Lined up: For Federal Crop Insurance Bill

Support Given Crop Insurance   Leaders in Both Parties Favor Legislation At an Early Date

The Wor Today Red Drive Opening of Final Phase of the War in Europe

Classified      Written Today and loved by by Telegraph       Wanted to Rent   Wanted

DECISIVE AND FINAL PHASE OF Fig IN EUROPE UNDERWAY WITH R TAKING INITIATIVE AGAINST:

Three Airfield: About to Be Captured   Single Enemy Plane Provides Only Hollandia Opposition

Capture Of 3 Airdromes Is Imminent   Leapfrog Forces Closing In After Daring Blow At Hollandia

Fall of Airdromes In Hollandia Near   Little Opposition Is Reported In New Guinea as Allies Advance

U. S. Seizure Of Key Hollandia Airfields Looms   Invaders Within Arrtillery Range; No Serious Resistance Yet.

Aerial Umbrella Covers Ground Troops Converging On Japanese Prize

Yanks Near Main Airport At Hollandia   Enemy Opposition Still Weak, Says Report Of Gen. MacArthur

AIRDROMES IN HOLLANDIA ARE DOOMED   Sixth Army Continues Virtuaiiy Unopposed Sweep Through Japanese Positions on Island   UJELANG ATOLL TAKEN

Conferees Search Vote Compromise   Prospects for Federal Ballot Bill Seem Far From Bright; May End In Complete Deadlock. :

The Day’s Almanac   Fadeavic blarnld   To the People of this Community

Japanese Wear ~ Of Labor Strife In Fall River   Kansas City Truck Strike Also Given Publicity In Broadcast From Tokyo

Jans Keep Up With 1.5. Labor Problems   Tokyo Radio Mentions Two Incidents Directly

Nazi Guns Blast Yanks At Aachen   Germans, Fearing New U, S. Offensive, Attempting To Hold Up Advance

Nazis Proclaim New Offensive By U.S. Budding   American Doughboys Digging Out Boche From Acchen Houses

ENEMY FEARS ri DRIVE IN AACHEN AREA   Line Bends Under Steady Pressure; German Arrtillery Fire Heavy

Two Victorious Allied Armies  Mop Remnants   Withdrawal Means Port of Antwerp  Will Soon Be Open For Flood of Supplies

REICH’S LEGIONS CHASED ACROSS HOLLAND RIVER   British and Canadian Forces Pursue Routed Enemy; Russians in Gains

VICTORIOUS BRITISH AND CANADIANS NEAR END OF FIGHTING  RUSSIAN TROOPS STORM ED INTO IMPORTANT

British and Canadian Troops Mopping Up After Hurling German Forces in Retreat.   FOG SAVES FLEEING NAZIS FROM AIRMEN

Plea For Peace Less Vengeance  But Punish Germany, Churchmen Say

Warn Against A Vengeful Peace   Church Leaders Say Germany Must Atone For Suffering.

A CANDIDATES   Republicans Sure State Wil Send Split Delegation to Convention.

Heavy Artillery Fire On Anzio Beachhead Also Indicates Allies Preparing for Big Drive F rort This Point.

Allies In — Italy Make  More Gains      Gustav Line DefenSes Smashed; Lull In AjZr War Over Europe

_ Sete mie ~ }public works construcuon,  ndove Pao Tribute To Triumphant Army Of Workers

Government, Army Leaders Praise U.S. Workingmen  Unions to Observe Labor Day With No Official Panes

50th Labor Day In U.S. Observed      BUT BATTLE ON HOME FRONT KEEPS WORKERS BUSY SUPPLYING MEN ON FIGHTING FRONT.   Speeches Plentiful

America Pays Tribute to Labor   Great Contribution To Victory Acclaimes By National Leaders

Nation Pays Tribute to Labor Today  Plants Schedule No Letup i in War Production

Labor Is Warned Job Not Yet Over   Eisenhower Thanks Amer. ican Workers In 50th Labor Day Observance.

Hungarians In Terror Reign   Puppet Regime Presses “New Reforms’: Deprive Jew: Of Property.

Hungary Is In Grip Of Reign Of Terror Under New Reforms   Puppet Regime Presses Restrictions Creating Great Despair And Apathy

In Reign Of Terror   Hungary, in Throes of “Social Revolution” Is Torn By Fear, Despair

Today Deadline For Removing All Jews Into Ghettos .. .  People Of Hungary Torn Between Despair. Apathv

Puppet Regime Trying To Repair Allied Bomb Damages, Get More Men

Hungary in Grip of A Reign of Terror   Pouplation Reported in A Turmoil As Ragime Tries "Social Revolutinn'

Hungary tin Panic   Many Shipyard Workers, Who Gypped Navy, of Draft Age

Hungary in Terror Reign   Puppet Regime Presses New Reforms; Jews Deprived of Property

CHAOS PREVAILS IN HUNGARY AS JEWS PERSECUTED   Country Torn Between Terror, Despair and Apathy As “Social Revo.  lution’? Goes On

ppet Regime Creates Terror Inside Hungary   Say Jews Being Removed From Budapest Area To Designated Ghettos

Report Hungary In State of Terror   Today Is Deadline For Removing All Jews From Budapest Areas.

Reign of Terror Sweeps Budapes!  Puppet Regime Seizes Jewish Belongings

New Reports Hint At Unrest as Hungary Mobilizes  Jews Are Being Sent To Ghettos and Property Is Seized

STAMP 4 WILL BE USED FOR CANNING SUGAR   Local Ration Board Says Stamp To Be Good 13 Months

2,500,000 Men Are Landed on Continent   General Reveals Stupendous Invasion Figures

Blitz With An American Accent  2,900,000 Troops Landed In France In 109 Invasion Days

Americans added new accent to naz ward Bite when tevustlon wad  [ean nis €vieTin MTS tO re SIGSZca

Blitz With An American Accent annie naciienete ogee mene ee  2,900,000 Troops Landed In France In 109 Invasion Days

Somervell Gives D-Day Statistics   Reports Nearly 2,500,000 Troops Landed During First 109 Days Invasion.

2" Million Troops Land In109 Days   Somervell Disclose: Remarkable Record of U.S. Inyasion Forces

American Accent Given Blitz As Allies Land 2,500,006 ‘ITyoons. 500.000 Vehicles And Vast Supplies In France

Nazis Withdraw As More Britons  Arrive In Greece   babs English Naval Force Said To Be In Port Of  Athens—Berlin Radio Admits Retreat   2,500,000 Troops Landed  In France During Invasion

Since D-Day Allies Have Landed 2,500,000 Troops With Eauipnvent3 in Europe

RLITZ IS GIVEN YANKEE ACCENT   Nearly 2.5.00,000 Troops Landed In 109 Days, Says Somervell

14 Indicate No Action Is Planned To Validate Federal Soldier Ballot

FDR Receives  Answers on Army Voting  Only Six Governors  Offer Much Hone far   Only Six Governors Offer Much Hope for Use of U. S. Ballot

42 Governors Reply to FD On War Ballot   No Intimation Given Whether Chief Will Okeh or Veto Bill

13 States Won't Validate Federal Ballots, Governors Tell Roosevelt   Twelve Say They Will Recommend Authorization ; New York, Pennsylvania, Mic higan Evade the Issue

A2 Governors Submit Views  On Vote Plan   President Doesn't Reveal Action He Contemplates On Service Balloting

‘FDR REVEALS VOTE STAND OF 42 GOVERNORS      Six Say Their States Permit Use of Federal Ballot

Replies of 42 Governors to -_ Inquiry Giver  _ Regerding War Vote rth Dfectem se  afr ey. Tl

PRICE CEILINGS REMOVED FROM 12 MINOR ARTICLES   Described As Unimportant to Cost of Living.

AMERICAN TROOPS REPORTED ENGAGED IN HOUSE-T0-HOUSE FIGHTING FOR ANCIENT CITY   Claims That Yanks Are Battling Fiercely Inside Vital German Garrison Carried in Three London Newspapers   ENEMY RESISTANCE TO THE NORTH IS MELTING

ENEMY ESCAPE GAP NARROWED 10 FOUR MILES   Nazis Fail In Bid To Reseize Vital Heights; Canadians Land Behind Foes

—WESTERN FRONT  U. S. Forces Threaten Break Through Nazis — On 20-Mile Front      Americans Reported Within Mile And A Half of Complete Encirclement Of Aachen; Patton’s Army Makes Slow Progress

Main Road to Cologne Is Slashed   Ouly <A Few Secondary Roads Left Over Which Nazis Can Escape   DESPERATE FIGHA F BY DEFENDERS   City of Great Importance To Hitler; Yanks Battle To Reach Its Main Highway.

Yanks Squeeze German Escape Gap-To-4 Miles   Doughboys Batter Way Across Main Aachen. Gladbach Road to With.  in 7 Miles Julich © ~         American Grip OnCrucifix Hill Kept   Whole Dent in Nazi Line  Threatens to Develop’  Into Breakthrough on -. 20-Mile Frent

Nazi Escape Gap Narrowed te Mile and Half After Road to. Julich and Cologne Is Cut

Hodges’ First Army Pincers Cut Main Road To Julich And Cologne  -— Report House-to-House Fighting brs Streets Of Aackven

ENCIRCLEMENT OF AACHEN IS NEAR   Escape Gap Is Narrowed To Mile And A Half   DENT IN LINE   Threatens To Develop Into Break-Through: Patton Army Makes Progress

1,500 Troops — Are Trapped In City Ruins   ‘Encirclement of Industrial Center Is Nearing  Completion Today

Fighting In Streets Reported   German Escape  Gap Cut to Only Mile and a Helf

Wide Break Through Lines Now in Prospect   German Attacks Are Hurled Back By U.S. Ist Army

LEPKE’S GAGE TO SUPREME COURT   Reprieve Again Stays Chair for Ganaster.

ThlO GRANTED SIXTH REPRIEVE   Lenke and Two Others Assured of at Least Two More Days of Life.

LEPKE GRANTED STAY BY DEWEY   Now Slated To Die Saturday Barring Another Delay

MURDER, INC., CHIEF MISSES DEATH CHAIR   Two-da y Execution Stay Granted Lepke

LEPKE HAS TWO MORE DAYS LEFT   Gangster Saved From Chair Sixth Time By 11th Hour Stay Ordered By Governor Dewey.

CRIME RING HEAD TO LE FEW DAY!   Louis Buchalter, Two Aids {n 1936 Murder Arrange Another Appeal.

Buchalter Given 2-Day Reprieve  Gov. Dewey Grants Stay at Last Moment

LEPKE GETS 2 DAY REPRIEVE FROM ELECTRIC CHAIR   One Time Head of Murder,  Inc., Given New Lease on  Life By Gov. Dewey Pendling Court Appeal

Lepke Looks To Highest Court  Execution Stayed: Fer Two More Days -

2 MORE DAYS OF LIFE FOR LEPKE   WINS LAST-MINUTE STAY; PLAN APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT

 Murder, Inc. Chief Has One More Day of Life   Lepke Given Last Minute Stay; His Execution Scheduled ’for Saturday

Stay Is Issued To Buchalter   Head of Murder Ring Hopes Supreme Court Will Save ‘His Life

Buchalfer Gets Death Reprieve   Dewey Allows Time For High Court Appeal

LEPKE, TWO PALS GRANTED SIXTH REPRIEVE   Dewey Granis Two Day Stay of Execution io Permit Appeal te U. S. Supreme Court

ALLIED STOCKPILE FOR INVASION.   Dewey Delays Execution Of Lepke, Aides Pending Last Ditch Appeal To Supreme Court

Lepke Joytul Over Outcome   Looks Hopefully Toward. Highest Court To Keep Him From Chair.

Lepke Assured of at Least Two More Days of Existence   New York’s Governor Gives Murderer Appeal Opportunity

L, J, BURK, 67, LAID TO REST AT RIPPEY   GREENE CO. REPRESENTATIVE   Death Came Oct. 20 To State Legislator; Services Sunday at Rirney Methodist Church

Rank of Full General in Army of United States Urged for Stilwell

STILWELL MAY BE PROMUTED   Leader of Chinese Forces ir Burma Would Become Full General

Stilwell Nominated To Be Full General      F. D. R.’s Desire to Rank Burma Commander With Other U.S. Four-Star Officers Suggests Important New Role Ahead.

President Raises Veteran Leader  Action Indicates New Move Against Japs

FDR NOMINATES STILLWELL FOR FULL GENERAL   Proposed Promotion Raises Him to Rank Held by General Marshal Fe Al

GEN, STILWELL HIKED IN RANK   China-Burma-India Chief s Made Full General

Stilwell Is Slated For  Promotion   Move Suggests China Activity

Full General Nomination For Stilwell   Move Suggests Greater War Effort in Asia Areg

F. R. Proposes Promotion for Stilwell   NOMINATION SUGGESTS NEW ASIATIC STRIKES

STILWELL IS UP FOR PROMOTION   NOMINATED BY FDR FOR FULL GENERAL IN ARMY OF U.S,

Stilwell to Be Promoted   F. R. Has Nominated Commander of Forces In Burma for General

STILWELL MADE FOUR STAR US. GENERAL BY FOR   Probability Of Important Work In Burma Area

Stilwell To Be Full General  See Important Work Ahead In His Area

Advance Stilwell To Full General In Asia Theater Suggests Probability of New, Important Work  In (China. Rurma Area

Diehard Pockets In Metz Silenced By Patton’s Men   Nazis Counter-Attack With Violent Fight At Belfort

“King Tigers’ Bow To U.S. Tankmen  Yanks Lick Germans in Four Day Nip and Tuck Tank Battle

Formidable Nazi Tank Force Gets  Decisive Beating   70-Ton “King Tigers” Included In Bag By  Simpson’s Armor

Yanks Win Four Day Tank Battle Northeast of Aachen; 67 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out, Including 42 King Tigers

Yanks Win Four Day Tank Battle; ~ Northeast of. ‘Aachen; o) Mazi Tanks»

Paramushiro Is Shelled by U. 5. Warships   Americans Extend Bases in Marshalls

VICHY REPORTS INVASION OF JAP ‘HOME TERRITORY   Nazi-Controlled. Radio Quotes Nip Communique as Saye ing Yanks Landed in - Kurile Islands.   AREA BOMBARDED BY U. S. WARSHIPS   Delayed Dispatch From Cor . respondent Indicates Task  ° . Force Withdrew After Shelling.

BLASTING GIVEN TO NAZI WAR PLANTS   American Airmen Hit ir Germany and Hunaarv

RAIDERS WRECK REICH BRIDGES   Heavy U. S. Bombers Hit Hitler's War Plants And Oil Supplies

OIL PLANTS IN REICH BATTERED BY U. S. PLANES   American Fighters Strafe Enemy Airfields Destroying Vital Rail Equipment

2,000 American Bombers Attack Hitler's Plants   Oil Facilities, Sub Pens Raided

Chinese Clear Long Stretches Of Burma Roat   Capture 10 More Towns In Offensive in North Burma

OPA to Spot (Check Books after Monday   iPlan to Start in State, Motorists Will Be Asked to Show Books at Stations Only

Enemy Positions Buckling Along Road From Tessy: Sur-Vire To Coutances, As Doughboys Continue Powerful Offensive

Third Tank Column Threatens to Cave in All Defenses in Western Normandy.

Enemy’s Western Normandy Defenses Quake Under Fury Of Assault   NAZI ARMORED FORCE IS QUICKLY BEATEN OFF

Suicide Squads Defend Coutances As Yanks Pierce Northern Edge; Dive Bombers Rip Fleeing Enemy

Nazi Defense Lines Caving   Yanks Enter Coutances In Blasting Out Road Inland.

ENTIRE ENEMY LINE BUCKLES INNORMANDY   U. S. TANK FORCES OPEN ROUTE TO INNER FRANCE

BAG 5,000 PRISONERS. KILL 8,91   Powerful American Drive Threatens to Smash All ~ Enemy Defenses in Western Normandy.   YANKS AT EDGE . OF COUTANCES   Il lee ee EN     Field Littered With Vehicles — Rommel : Believed Moving Men From Caen to Meet Menace.

Drive Threatens to Cave in Enemy's Normandy Defenses  ATTACK OF ROMMEL __: FORCES REPULSED  Fluid Fighting Spreads Over 200 Square Mile Area

Steady U. S. Advance Continues; Reds Take Three More Stronghold:   Soviet Troops Advance Within 20 Mile: Of Warsaw, Move on Riga; Blasting Of Famous Pisa in Italy Appears Near

Nazis’ Lines In Normandy Area Buckle   Prisoner Bag 5,000 As Americans Close In on Avranches: Foe Flees in Disorder

Tanks Smash Into  Edae of Coutances   Nazi Suicide Squads Fight Back In Doomed City In Attempt To Delay Allied Advance

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Chinese Take Jap City Near Burma Road   Allied Junction Near; Carriers Raid Philippines

Red-Faced Demo Leaders Explain Platform Pledge To Erase Non-Existent School Debt

NEW TURN IN RUSSO - FINN NEGOTIATIONS   Despite Almost Airtight Censorship Associated Press Is Advised Finnish Diplo mat Is Contacting Moscow.   Press Quiet

PAASIKIVI IS BELIEVED ON MOSCOW MISSION   Soviets Said Desirous That Mannerheim Be In Any Delegation

Hint Peace Efforts Are Still Open   Finnish Envoy is Reported on.New Mission to Reopen Armistice

NewHopeAroused lor Settling Red Finnish Armistice   Dramatic Developments Appear Imminent In Negotiations

Finn-Russian Peace Talks  May Resume, It Is Reported   Dramatic Turn in Armistice Negotiations Rumored— Finnish Diplomat Said to be Making New Contact With Soviets

Finland Reported Making New Peace ‘Offer to Moscow   Envoy May Already Have Made Confeet With Soviets in  Bid for Armistice

Red-Finn Peace Talk Is Revived:   -Noted Diplomat Is -Reportéed Enroute’

Red-Finn Peace Talk Is Revived   Noted Diplomat Is  Reported Enroute _ By EDWIN SHANKE —

New Finn Peace Contact Seen   Paasikivi Reported With Moscow Officials

Paasikivi is making new Russ contact  Modification of terms hoped fo:

NEW PEACE MOVES — IN FINLAND HINTED   Helsink! Diplomat Said to Be Mak ing New Contact With Russian Officials.

ELECTION WORKERS HECK WAYNE VOTE   Tabulators Neglect to Make Official Record of Presidential Ballots

ETROIT VOTE ERRORS (OSU   Question Arises Whether Several Hundred Were Disfranchised.   RECHECK NEARING END

Red Army Expands DanubeBridgehead In Hungary   LONDON —(?)~ The German radio said that the eastern section of beleaguered Budapest waa being evacuated.

SOVIETS CAPTURE 50 MORE VILLAGES   ADVANCE NINE MILES NORTH ALONG WEST BANK OF DANUBE

Sixth War Loan Bond Box Score   Soviets Head For Budapest And Hungary

DRIVE WEST OF DANUBE PICKING UP   Two German Strongholds Are Captured

REDS EXPAND BRIDGEHEAD ON DANUBE   New Drive of Russians In Southwest Hungary Envelopes Fifty More Communities   ADVANCE OF NINE MILES

Reds Captured Many New Towns   HUNGARIAN — OFFENSIVE IS GAINING MUCH GROUND

Russians Expand Danube Bridgehead Southwest Hungary   Troops Move North Within 78 Miles of Outflanked Budanact

Reds Envelop Fifty Towns In Hun gary Drive   Troops Move North to . Within 78 Miles Of Outfianked City of   Budapest

REDS FREE 60 MORE AREAS IN DANUBE SECTOR   Soviet Forces Within 100 Miles of Austrian Border

Russians 78 Miles From Budapest   City Outflanked In Northern Mavement

Soviets Make § Mile Advance Along Danube   Envelop 50 More Communities In New Drive Toward Austrian Border.

SOVIET TROOPS MOVING NEARER AUSTRIA TODAY   Fifty Towns Are Captured; Cut Railwav Line

Austrian Border Neared by Reds  Gain New Ground in Outflanking Budapest

Reds Take 5t ‘Communities In Hungary   Now Less Than 100 Miles From Austrian  Border

Russian Troops Are Within 100  Miles of Austria  Red Army Envelops Another Fifty  Tawsne im Miunaaryv

Russian Troops Ar Within 100  Miles of Austria  Red Army Envelops Another Fifty Towns in Hungory

REDS OUTFLANK NAZIS IN EAST   Russians Within 100 Miles Of Austria, Drive Up The Danube, Cut Rail Lines, Capture Towns.

Russ Take 50 Towns   Within 78 Miles of Outflanked Budapest; Seize Axis Strongholds

9-Mile Gain Is Recorded By Russians Alone River   '50-More Gaanisied Takei In. New Drive

WAC Vanity Ils Wounded When Males Are Sent In To Clean Their Kitchen

British Say Allies Driving 13 Miles Inland, North Of Caen; Main Attack Developing Between Orne And Cherbourg Peninsula; Secret Weapons Used

Make Progress On 60-Mile Front; Battle In Caen   Complete Tactical Surprise Finds Weak Spots In West Wall; First Day Moves On Schedule With Americans First To Go Ashore.

Senior Class To — Present Comedy  Centers Around ‘American Family Life

Annual Class Play Next Friday  Event Advanced To Earlier Date. .

GREAT TANK BATTLE RAGES NEAR RIMINI   Fifth Army Scores Limited Gains in Savage Fighting North of Florence. .

Tank Battles Rage in Italy   Enemy Stonily Defending Key City of Rimini

British-Nazi Tanks Battle in Italy   Bitter Struggle for Rimini Reported

GATEWAY TO PO VALLEY CRACKS      Rimini Defenders Must Stand Or Die; 5,500 Prisoners Taken

Tanks Locked InGreat Fight Before Rimini   Bichth Army Awaiting Breakthrough to Hit Gothic Line From Rear

Joan Berry Tells Of Series Of Intimacies With Charlie Chaplin As Camedian’s Trial On Mann Act Charge Opens

Barry Admits Chaplin Relations   Trial Opens With Testimony of Illicit Relations In N. Y. and Hollywood.

CHAPLIN TRIAL IS UNDER WAY   Joan Berry Testifies In U.S. Court Against Screen Actor

Jap Columns Rip Through China   Capture of Foochow  Officially Disclosed

RAIN. CLOUDS GATHERING  molt 4 PAD AL Oe Tah GU Len “an Ota cae Gad

ALLIES URGE SATELLITES 10 LEAVE NAZIS   Pre-Invasion Ultimatum Issued by United States, Great Britain and Russia; Warning Given.   For Revolution

Satellites Get Ultimatum  To Quit Nazis   Allies Tell Peoples To Turn Against German Rule Now

Axis Satellites Told to Turn  Against Reich   Pre-Invasion Allied Ultimatum Urges Them To Leave War Now Or Suffer Disaster

QUIT GERMANY NOW, PUPPET NATIONS TOLD   ULTIMATUM ISSUED TO TURN AGAINST HITLER

ALLIES CALL ON AXIS SATELLITES TO TURN ON NAZIS   Four Nations Warned They Will Suffer Disaster if They Continue to Fight, at Side of Germany.   ULTIMATUM SENT DIRECT TO PEOPLE   Governments of Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania Are By-Passed in Radio Anpneal.

Axis Satellites Are Served With Ultimaium  Warned to Abandon _ Germany or  Suffer Disaster

WARNING GIVEN TO SATELLITES   Allied Radics Pound Euro. peans With Pre-Invasion Ultimatum

Hard Terms Face Satellite Lands   Finland, Balkan Nations Receive Blunt Advice

ALLIES BAN GOLD LOOTED BY NAZI   Refuse to Buy from Nations LCeiandlivu ta Awie

CURB NAZIS’ USE OF LOOTED GOLD   U. S., Britain and Russia Refuse to Buy From Axis Friends

BLACKLIST OF STOLEN GOLD   BILLION IN GOLD SEIZED (BY GERMANY IN CONQUERED COUNTRIES 18 AFFECTED ~

‘Weill, the OPA caught everybody with thelr noints downi      Taday’     Forecast

Rains Soak Kansas Nearby States   Oklahomans Given First Comfortable Night Rest in Weeks

HEAVY RAINS FALL IN THREE STATES   MISSOURI, KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA DRENCHED—STREAMS OUT OF BANKS.

August Floods Sw ell Streams   Floodgates At The Bagnell Dam Are Thrown Open

Floods in Kansas After 6-Day Rain:   Oklahoma Drouth And Heat Wave Broken

New Bolivian Revolt Staged Paper Claines   Report Leaders Of New Regime Jailed In Latest Coup

Bolivians Stage — ‘Counter Hevalt - Leaders. Jailed      Nationalist Government,  Recently. : Established, Is Reported: Ousted

Counter Couy Th Bolivia Is Reported   Nationalist Regime Said To Have Been Ousted

Revolution In Bolivia  Ousts Heads   Reports Claim Leaders In Jail

Pro-Axis Chiefs Are Ousted By Counter-Revoli   Phone Connection: Out And No Officia Word Is __ Issuec As Yet

New Bolivian Government  Reported Ousted, Leaders Jailed In Counter-Revolt   Regime Established In December But Generally Unrecognized Said Overthrown

REPORT BOLIVIAN LEADERS OUSTED   Recently Established Nationalist Rule is Unofficially Said to Have Falien

Counter Revolf ‘ls Now Reported   Villarroel Regime in Bolivia Overturned, Rumored in Santiago

REVOLUTIONS FLARE IN TWO COUNTRIES IN SOUTH AMERICI   Political Feuds Erupt i Bolivia and Colombia

MUSTERING-OUT PAY OF $300 . ~ PREDICTED AS FINAL FIGURE   CONFERENCE COMMITTEE EX PECTED TO APPROVE BILL PASSED YESTERDAY IN  ° THE HOUSE

British Submarines Sink Five Japanese Ships   JAPS CLAIM U. S. CARRIER DAMAGED   U.S. Troops Continue To Reduce Enemy Hill Positions.

a KILLED... IN EXPLOSION        EXPLOSION SIN ELEVATOR CAUSES DEATHS OF AT  ‘EM AST FOUR AND  INJURIES TO MANY.

Filled Milk Conviction  Is Upheld    Shipment Of Carolene In  Interstate Commerce Is Found In Violation Of Federal Law

State University Director Resigns  Charges Rights Have Been Usurped

Measure Omits Poll Tax Provisions. .... Compromise Soldier Vote Bill Appears To Have Strong Support

Log Jam Is Breaking on  Soldier Vote   Senate Committee Comes Out With Compromise Which May Pass

‘Compromise Vote  Measure Offered  Leave Counting Under Control Of States

SOLDIER VOTE BILL GOES 10 SENATE AGAIN   Compromise Bil Proposed; May Pass Committee

Soldier Vote Log Jam Seen As Breaking   Compromise Provides For Federal Ballot, State Countine.

COMPROMISE SOLDIER VOTE BILL TO SENATE   Commitiee Approves Uniform Fed era! Ballot but Leaves Vot Counting to Stales   POLL TAX BAN OUT   Registration -Requiremenis and Other Controversial Sections Omiited from Bill

Soldier Vote  Compromise   New Bill Provides Federal Ballot But Leaves Vote-Counting Up to the States

CONGRESSIONAL JAN ON SOLDIER VOTE IS BREAKING UP   Compromise Measure Gets Approval in Senate Committee   STATE RIGHTS PROTECTED

COMPROMISE SOLDIER  VOTE BILL GETTING  BACKING LAWMAKERS UNIFORM FEDERAL  BALLOT WOULD BE COUNTED PV CTATES

COMPROMISE ON SOLDIER VOTE BILL INDICATED   PROPOSE UNIFORM FEDERAL BALLOT, WITH STATE COUNT

Soldier Vote Accord Ok'd   Uniform U.S. Ballot But Vote Counting By States Approved

UNIFORM VOTE BILL OFFERED BY COMMITTEE   -omipreniey Suggested fe Solve Problem of  Service Ballots

Soldier Vote Compromise Now in Sight   Uniform Federal Ballot Planned With State Control

~ AIR PLAN OKEHED   Selection of an Executive Council By Equal Voice : sd Baereved

THURSDAY IS HEAVIEST DAY IN BOND DRIVE   Campaign $1.122.385 Behind Schedule As Half-Way Nears

Satellite Blows Expected To Pay   Dividends Forseen In Allied Efforts To Wean Nazi Satellites.

Axis Satellites =~ Expected to Turn When Blow Falls   Germany Likely To Be  Stripped of Support  -—- Aftar-hiveusion -

BURNING GERMAN CITY ENTERED BY U). §. GROUND TROOPS  DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO RELIEVE BELEAGUERED “GARRISON SMASHED

BURNING GERMAN CITY ENTERED BY U. 5. GROUND TROOPS  DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO   DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO RELIEVE BELEAGUERED GARRISON SMASHED

FORMOSA RAID DESTROYS 336 TOKYO PLANES   AIRMEN BAG 63 JAP VESSELS, WRECK HARBORS

Now Reports 77 Jap Ships Sunk Or Hit in Raids   119 Enemy Planes Lost or Damaged

Nimitz reports new figures for Pacific raids: net 14.0 ships   Jap held island struck third straight dav: eink 4 subs in Rvukvu assault

Big Superfort Force Again Blasts Formosa   Huge Plane, Shipping Toll Taken During Raid Last Thursday

FORMOSA BOMBED BY LARGE FORCE “OF SUPERFORTS   ‘Raid Comes on Heels of Battle Over Island in Which Yanks Destroy 396 Jap Planes.   DETAILS ARE AWAITED ON LATEST STRIKE   Sixty-Three Enemy Ships Sunk or Damaged ‘in First Attack — Ports, Air Bases Raked.

3rd Formosa  Raid Staged By Superforts  Army Planes Hitin Wake Of Navy Craft

ROME TOPSYTURVEY IN SOME RESPECTS   Conditions Described Following a Week of Occu- pation By Americans.

Negro Gir Stabbed By schoolMates      ‘GS  WEARING HALLOWE'EN MASKS ‘TWO 12-YEAR-OLD GIRLS STICK PAPER KNIFE INTO CHEST OF ANOTHER ,   Burn Evidence

TWO GIRLS, 12 SLAY ANOTHER   Negress, 9, Stabbed Fatally In New York School Because She “Tattled”’

Two Girls Held In School Slaying   Stabbed Playmate Who ‘Tattled’

MASKED GIRLS KILL PLAYMATE   School Student, Age 9 Is Slain Because “She Tattled”

Smnall Girls Stab ‘Playmate’   Twelve Year Old Girls Kill Friend Before Horrified Group.

2 Schoolmates Stab to Death Negro Girl, 9   Harlem Girls Aged 12 Say ‘She Tattled on Us;? Qne Held for Honiicide

Nels Girres, 67, Palo Alto Pioneer, Called By Death  Funeral Held At Mallard Saturday

REGISTRATION TO _ BE OPENED TODAY   Red Cross ‘Bloo Blood Donors Are Asked to Vol unteer

REGISTRATION TO BE OPENED TODAY   Red Cross Blood Donors Are Asked to Vol ‘  _—unteer

No Statement Yet On Wallace  Leading Democrats See Wide-Open Race

Democrat Battle For Running Mate Position Forseen   Leaders Say ‘The Boys Will Have A Little Fun’

DEMOS EXPECT PEPPY SECOND PLACE RACE      Say Contest for Vice , Presidential Nomina_tion to Keep Convention From Being Cutand-Dried Affair.

RUNNING MATE BATTLE IS SEEN BY DEMOCRATS   No Cut and Dried Affair Is Forecast For Convention In Chicago

Hot Fight Looms On Democratic Nice President   Sen. Barkley Agrees To Enter Race as  F. R. Running Mate

NOT CUT-AND- DRIED: All Signs Beginning to Point Toward a Lively Convention

Picking Running-Mate For F. D. R. To Be ‘Fun’   Democrats Still Await White House Pat On Back For Wallace; Senator Barkley’s Name ¥ ill Be Whntored

Speculation High As To Next Vice President   Barkley In Spotlight For Job: C.I.O. Wants Wallace.

Democrats Expected. To Have Lively’ Time At Convention; Wallace Is Backed By Union

Invasion Craft  Needs Fulfilled Landing Vessels Set. Savs Navy Chief

All-Out Buying Urged In Bonds On Eve Of Drive   County’s Goal $1,923,000 For 4th War Loan Campaign

Yankees Bomb Three Afolls in Mid-Pacific   Americans Kill All Defenders and Take Three More Islands In Marshall Group

Allied Troops Begin Battle For Germany   Americans Take Namur and Mons as Gen. Patton’s Men Punch Through Metz: British Near Brussels

Town Within Reich Taken, Reports Say   Allied Headquarters Are Silent for ‘Security Reasons’

Reports From Stockholm State Perl Taken, Just Inside Frontier, by Yank Tankmen; First Army 30 Miles From  Brussels.

Germans Offer Little Resistance Against Rapidly Racing Armot   American and French Forces in South France Capture Lyon, Cutting Off Retreating Nazis; Gothic Line in Italy Pierced

Yanks Reported On (German Soil   Yanks in South France Take Lyon. Pen Nazis

‘Battle for Rhineland [s Opened by Victorious  American Armared Tt Inite

Perl, Inside German Frontier Taken By American Tankmen, Stockholm Says   LOW COUNTRIES ARE BEING LIBERATED

Report Battle for Nazi Homeland Has Begun; Namur and Mons Fall in Belgium; Axis Claims Americans Have Crossed Line Into Holland

Germany Stronger Than Estimated —      Demands For Big Shells,  Guns Increases Daily

German Strength Is Far Beyond The Expectations Of Allied Governments

Reds Closing Death Trap On  Doomed Nazis  Ce erm ea   Rudians Drive Within Three Miles Of Core Of Resistance   BATTLE NEARS END   Germans Make Feeble Effort To Supply Their Troops

REDS CLOSE IN ON 10 TRAPPED NAZI DIVISIONS   No Escape for Doomed Army

Report Nazi Raider Sunk By Warships   South Atlantic Action Told In Brazil; Say Vessel Carrving War Caoaod« Fram lanan

NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNER SUNK   Brazilian, U. S. Planes Score Atlantic Victory

German Runner Is Sunk   Combined U.S., Brazil Fleet Units Destroy Ship In South Atlantic   Planes Aid Warship

70,000 Threaten Strike Tomorrow   Cleveland Workers Anary at Lausche

Cleveland War Workers Face Strike Threat   70.000 Mechanics Will Walk Out Tomorrow Unless FDR Intervenes

Mechanics to Strike In 64 War Factories   70,000.Called Out in Protest  On Arbitration Board Set Up

70,000 Mechanics Ready To Strike   Walkout To Take Place Unless FR Steps In

Allied Threat To Jap Base At Madang Seen   Nipponese Almost Isolated  By Ground Forces and —   Bombing of Nearby  : Air Fields .

ALLIES STEP UP  BID FOR MADANG  IN NEW GUINEA CONTINUES FURIOUS  AIR ASSAULTS AS ANZACS ADVANCE

ALLIED BID FOR MADANG GROWS   Second Sizeable Assault in Two Days Indicates Drive Is Resumed.   DROP 150 TONS BOMBS

Madang Area Is Pounded By Allied Planes   Intensifying Of Raid: Indicates Resumptior Of Operations Alon; Ramu Valley

Allies Nearer Madang Control   Bid for Japanese Rase Growing With Effective Air Blows

State-Auto Law Being Enforced, Officers Say   Failure To Post Security Following Accidents Results in 630 Drivers To Suspend Operations.

Tito Urges Partisans  To Strike   Yugoslav Leader Calls For Attacks On Nazi Stronghok

Nimitz Will Move Closer to Fighting   Headquarters May Be Set Up on Guam

Nimitz _ To Move West   ‘Will Set Up Fleet Hegdquarters Closer To Pacific War Action; Mav Be Guam or Saipan

Nimitz Ready To Move Staff Closer to Japan  Baca Sarzancuw Meo? dn. S27.   Geam, Saipan Considered Sites for Headquarters of Pacific Landings in China Expected

FORWARD AREA MOVE TO BEAR DOWN ON JAPAN   Japs Lose 82,554 In Leyte Samar Fight Says MacArthur In Philippines

HIS HEADQUARTERS CLOSER TO JAPAN   Guam and Saipan Seen as Likely Spets as @attle Conditions Necessitate a General Headquarters Cloter to Scenes of Conflict

Nimitz To Move Headquarters Closer Japan   Guam Or Saipan Believed Being Considered As Sites For Setting Up Advanced Office

NEEDS CLOSER BASE   Nimitz Will Set Up Advanced Headquarters in Pacific

Headquarters to Move Westward  U.S. Advanced Base May Be on Guam Or Saipan. Renort

NIMITZ TO SET UP 2ND HEADQUARTERS   Site Will Be in Forward Area of Pacific—Main Offices to Remain at Pearl Harbor.

ZHITOMIR = RETAKEN; LULL IN AIR ATTACK AFTER RECORD RAID   American Troops Seize Three More Heights Overlooking Rome Road; Nazis Retreat On 200-Mile Ukranian Front °   Ry UNITED PRESS

Americans In Italy Take New Heights   29 U.S. Heavy Bombers Lost in Raids Over Europe

Warships Hit Nip Defenses   Shelling Drives Foe From Hill Positions Which Infantry Then Takes

Tank-Led Doughboys In Drive Which Threatens Japs With Entrapment

HOLD APPROACHES TO LEYTE VALLEY   Invading Yanks Win Domlnating Hill Positions   PURSUE JAPANESE   Americans of 24th Division Knife Out From Palo in The Northern Sector

Foe is Driven From Hills By U. S. Invaders   Japanese on Southern End of Front Threatened by Trap; Warships Shell Nipponese Positions   San Pahlo ix Ohijective

YANK TROOPS AT SOUTHERN © END OF FRONT THREATEN TO - ENCIRCLE RETREATING JAPS

Troops Push Japs From Hill Points   Bombardment By Warships Drives Japs From Positions

Cross Swamps Impeding Way Info Interior   Seventh Division Pursuing Japanese

CAPTURE OF BIG JAP AIR BASE NEARS   Bold Landings Isolate All Enemy Forces In Southwest Pacific

SLANDINGS MADE EASILY ISOLATES: GREAT JAP ARMY   ‘sland Hopping Yanks Ara 500 Miles Nearer Philippines With Few Losses Suffered In Landings.   ALLIES BREAK SIEGE OF JAPS AT KOHIMA   Bombers Bag Three Jap Ships In Making First Strike in Saigon Area, Three Tankers In List.

Large U.S. Force Nears  Hollandia   Triple Landing Carries MacArthur 500 Miles Closer To Philippines

Large Yankee Invasion Force Seizes Hollandia   Landings Made On North New Guinea Coast; Three Airstrips Captured

Make Thre  Landings Or New Guin   ALL ON NORTH COAST; NOW CLOSING IN ON HOLLANDIA  AIR BASE; MacARTHUR ON SCE :

MacArthur Leading Surprise Attack Which Isolates and Traps 60,000 Nip Troops    Three Airstrips Already Taken in New Guinea Landing —Americans Put 500 Miles Closer Ls ree Phibeaninec

U.S. Forces Get Nearer Philippines   Landings on New Guines Mean Advance of 500 Miles—MacArthur There

Japanese Army of 60,00( Below Hollandia Cut Off by Invaders  AIR AND XN vAVY HELE  Terrific “Shelling Fron Sea and Bombing Precede Landings -

TRIPLE TROOP ACTION DRIVES JAPS TO COVER   Landing Columns Closing in on Big Jap Air Base Near Hollandia.

Hollandia Invasion Has Jap Army, Once Headed For Australia, Trapped   American Army Takes 3 Airstrips, Closes In On Dutch New  Guinea’s Main Base

MAC ARTHUR TIGHTENS HOLD   Main Forces Take Hollandia, Continue to Base

Yank Invasion Army Closes in On Hollandia   Three Airstrips of Enemy Are Already Taken

Invasion Advances  Allies 500 Miles —   Mammoth Force Landed at Hollandia in What MacArthw  Terms Bataan in Reverse

Triple Landing Carries McArthur 500° Miles Nearer Philippines   Action Isolates 60,000 Japanese   lfown Of Hollandia Falls; Patrols Now Driving For Air Base

GUINEA COAST ADVANCE MADE RY MACARTHUR   General Strikes 50( Miles Nearer to Philippines

Hollandia Air Field Is Objective   Invasion Isolates Jap Army of 60,000 Men, MacArtkur Reports

U.S. INVASION ARMY IS CLOSING IN ON 2 SIDES OF BIG HOLLANDIA AIR BASE

LUFTWAFFE IS ABSENT WHEN TROOPS LAND   From Navy Transport Thomas Jefferson, Concussion of Allied Bombs Makes Shoreline Shake.   Untoad In Hour

BOMB GERMAN AIRFIELDS IN PARTS AREA      Allied Planes of All Types Swarm Across Channel

Yanks Hit Airfields  In France   Large Force of  Marauders and Heavy Bombers Attack Today

U.S. Bombers Smash Deep Into France   Paris Area Reported Under Attack; Air Fields. Also Blasted

Greene County’s Worst Coal Mine Catastrophe In Several Years; Seal Section To Avert Second Blact   HOPE ABANDONED AND SEALING ORDERS GIVEN

Berlin Radio Indicates Official Statement May  Be Comina On Shootinas

Total Of $2,534,628 In Bonds Purchased During Fifth War Bond Campaign

COUNTY GOES OVER WAR BOND QUOTA   Total Sales Reach $1,913,620 Or $13,620 Over Quota

Pacific Pounding Dealt To Japs   HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES IN LATEST U. S. RAIDS.

Jap Losses 6 to 1 In Yank Mop-Up Of New Britain Bases   Enemy Freighter Sunk by Big Bomb from Catalina While Four More Nip-held Atolls Attacked - - Allied Drive in Burma Revealed To Offs et Jap Thrust in India

Japs Pounded On West Coast Of New Guinea  Jap Losses Six To One In West New Britain Battle

PACIFIC FIGHTING “COSTLY TO JAPS  Enemy Losés At Least Six      ‘Enemy Loses At Least Six For Every American \ On New Britain   HANSA BAY LASHED   Shelled By Destroyer  Foree And Battered By Heavy Bombers

Jap Losses Far Above Those Of U. 5. Forces   Enemy Base Pounded By Warships And Heavy Planes

MacArthur Reports Nippon Losses Six 19 One Yank Tn Baitles On New  ~ Britain Island

U.S. DESTROYERS SHELL JAP BASES   Sea, Air Forces Lash Nortt Coast Of New Guinea

New Guinea Gets Heavy Naval and Aerial Pounding   MacArthur Reports Japs Lose Six Men For Every American Lost.

Eye- Witness To McCoy Slayings Discovered, Hint   ‘Surprise’ Witness May Testify Monday In Collett Trial

OECRETARY STIMSON REVIEWS IMPORTANT RECENT WAR EVENTS   REPORTS CAPTURE OF RENNES AND BULLSEYE BY SUPERFORTRESSES

Stimson Puts Clincher on  ‘Taking Rennes   U. S. Casualties, Up IL. 5000 -' In Week. Now Top sae

Stimson Reports Fall. of Rennes   Secretary of War Also Says Anshan Raid in Manchuria Was Most Effective

Stimson Tells Of Victory in Rennes Area   Super-Fortresses Make Direct Hits On Japanese Targets In Manchurian City

U.S. Fliers. Hit Alpine Plane Plant   Fifth Army Cracks Outer Defenses of Cassino to Within  Mile cf Rome Road   Wor in Brief:

REPORT 30,000 NAZIS TRAPPED AT CHERBOURG   Peninsula Cut, Yanks Poised For Attack On Great Port

TOWN and FARM ; % in WARTIME 4  Prepared by OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION Il! le   WORK CLOTHING PRICES  mreuiricrrm

SEVERAL WARSHIPS DAMAGED IN FIGHT   Navy Does Not Identify Damaged U. S. Vessels

SEVERAL U, S. SHIPS DAMAGED IN RECENT PHILIPPINES BATTLE   Withhold More Details For Reasons Of Security

Extent of Damage and Names Not Revealed a+ This Time; Jap Losses Total 60.   Plane Losses

Several Vessels Listed Damaged   Identity of Craft Not Divulged By Chief

LIST SEVERAL U.§. WARSHIPS AS “DAMAGED"      Nimitz Withholds Names  of Vessels and Amount of  Injury: Carrier Planes Continue Attacks.

LIST DAMAGE TO SEVERAL U. S. SHIPS   Names, Condition Kept Secret by Adm. Nimitz

Nimitz Discloses Vessels of Third and Seventh Fleets Carried Away Scars of Battle Without Identifying Them— Loss of Carrier Princeton, Two Escort Carriers, Two Destroyers and One Destroyer Escort Previously Announced.

NIMITZ ADMITS FLEET DAMAGE   T  ‘Several’ U. S. Warships Hit In Philippines Sea Battle

Damage to U. S. Fleets Revealed   Nimitz Reports Japs Hit ‘Several’ Warships

SUGAR SUPPLY CUT THIS YEAR   Household Rations Will Probably Stay The Same As In 1945

SUGAR RATION TRIMMING DUE   Some Civilian Users Ma) Lose 10%; Household + 5 ete: “Bete .

Civilian Sugar  Ration Reduced   Householders to Get Same Amount

 NO CUT ANTICIPATED IN HOUSEHOLD SUGAR   OPA Expected to Make Up for  Pet. Shortage by Reducing Industrial Allotments.

Curran: For Senate on  N.Y. Ticket      MANHATTAN REPUBLICAN LEADER WILL OPPOSE SENATOR WAGNER IN NOVEMBER; N. Y. SECRETARY OF STATE   Close to Dewey

NEW YORK 6. 0. . SELECTS CURRAN   Dewey Friend Named to Oppose Sen. Wagner, Veteran Democrat

JAPAN'S ATROCITY CHARGES DENIED BY U. §. OFFICIALS   Viewed Crude Attempt to  “Save Face” for BaSen bhitcolave

Jap Protests Are Attempt To Save Face   Prison Camp Officials Deny Claims Made By Tokyo Radio

JAP'S CLAIMS BEING DENIED   Informed Officials Brand Jap  Keports as Not Too Clever Attempt to Justify Own Atrocities.

CAPTURES TUSCANIA   Allied Troops Push 50 Miles Northwest of Rome

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE TUSCANIA AFTER ADVANCE   Plunge Forward Fifteen Miles - In Single Day On Tralian Front

14-Mile Advance Made By Allied Troops In Italy   Tuscania’ 50 Miles Northwest of Rome, Reported Captured

LLIES GAIN 14 IILES IN ONE AY IN ITALY   ( Germans Unable  To Make Stand

Tuscania Falls to Allies   Clark’s Men Spurt 50 Miles From Rome in Five-Day Drive

Allies Gain 14 Miles in Italy; Seize Tuscania   Battered Nazi Forces Fleeing All Along Front

FOUR JAP- DESTROYERS * ‘ARE SUNK NEAR- BIAK   Red Forces, Open Offensive on Karelian'Isthmils Witt Violent Artillery. Fire Make Gains.

Allies Plunge Ahead 14 Miles In Day On Italian Front As Nazis Flee

14-MILE GAIN IN ONE DAY NO. OF ROME      Allies Take Tuscania, 50  Miles from Capital

Allies  Advance 14 Mi. in’ Italy   Fifth and Eighth Armies Pursuing Battered Germans On Entire Front

Nazis Emphasize Human Toll of Recent Allied ‘Air Raids in Eurone

Today’s Bond Total   Report Chinese Forces Capture  Burma Village

Chinese Capture Town Of Taiphaga   Take Point on Main Jap Supply Route in Bitter Figh

Tub Murder Is Still Unsolved  Suspected Soldier Absolved in Case

Girl’s Death In Bathtub Real Mystery   All Leads Fail, Soldier Cleared

Clues Fail In Murder Probe   Authorities Say All Leads In Bauerdorf Slaying Valueless.

Commentator Admits Nazis Cause Lost   Berlin Radio Sends Out New Peace Fealer

NEW HOSPITALS ARE PROPOSED   Governor’s Committee Studie: Group of Recommendations

Gen. Mark Clark Has Pin-Up Girl   Mrs. Clark Says She Is Her Husband’s

CONGRESS IN RUSH'T,   fo Clear. Calendar of Important Bills, Junk  the Rest

Congress Leader:  Start Clearing  Calendar Of Bills Many Will End Up In Discard

SOLONS OUT T2 CLEAR DOCKET      Will Consider Important Bills, Toss Others Into Ashcan

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS   (By International News Service)   STEADY PROGRESS MADE AGAINST GOTHIC LINE

second Bill of Rights   3-Y ear-Old Girl Fatally Injured When Hit By Taxi

Time Limit Outon Russo Bulaar Sreak   Young Scientists Big Contributors to War Progress   Invasion Weather On Channel Good

ROSETTA FALLS TO CANADIANS   SNOW BLANKETS FRONT IN NORTHERN ITALY

EWEY ASSAILS F.D.R.S RECORD AS BAD FOR U.S.   :. O. P. Presidential Candidate Blames President’s Errors for “U. S. Misery”

DEWEY HITS FOR TACTICS, RECORD   Heads Home After Calling Present Administration ‘Desperately Bad’

‘Dewey Lashes Out Bitterly With Answers ‘To Roosevelt’s Charges Of Falsehoods

Scathing Denunciation Of Roosevelt Sounded, Record Cited As “Bad”

GOP “PRESIDENTIAL ..” ‘CANDI“DATE BITTERLY. ASSAILS _ ROOSEVELT IN. REPLY £0 SATURDAY NIGHT  4 ADDRESS . -

GOV. DEWEY IN BITTER ATTACK ON PRESIDENT   Speech Described as One of Sharpest in American History

YANKS ON JO AFTER RECORD R. A. F. BLOW   U. S. Airmen Bear Down on Southern Germany in Great' Strength Following 3,360-Ton Night Assault on Stutteart. .

Huge Air Punch Hits Germany   AMERICAN FLEETS FOLLOW R. A. F. BOMBERS IN FIERCE, DESTRUCTIVE BLOW AT STUTTGART, MUNICH, AMIENS JUNCTION AND OTHER TARGETS

SOVIETS PERIL ESCAPE ROUTE   Odessa’s Fall Provides Reds Amphibious Avenues Into Balkans

SOV”. CHASE W’& FLEEING SM ODESSA   *, ithin Three Miles of Escape Route for 200.000 Germans

Press Drive To Trap Nazis   Odessa Offers New Base  For Soviet Operations

Russian Forces Pursue Germans Fleeing Odessa   Soviet Troops Also Follow Up Odessa Fal! With Drive In The Crimea   BALKAN OFFENSIVE IS NOW PROBABLE

SA ODESSA   f, ithin Three Miles of Escape Route for 200,000 Germans

JAP CASUALTIES MOUNT RAPIDLY   Yanks Kill 63,388 Nips In Marianas And Palau Campaigns

MARIANAS AND PALAU DRIVES — COST JAPANESE 63,388 DEAD   ONLY 3,267 ENEMY TROGHPS CAPTURED BY- AMERICANS ON THE TWO ISLAND GROUPS

Casualty List Grows   Announced Numb Number Including Two Weeks Of Big Invasion is 244,158

—PACIFIC—  JAPANESE REACH HUNAN CAPITAL   Enemy Columns Reported On Outskirts Of  Changosha

ROME SUPPLY LINES HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS   BEACHHEAD BATTLE IN LULL; GERMAN THRUST FAILS

Italian Land Drive Enters  New Deadlock   Eternal City Bombed For Fourth Time by Allies: Nazis Suffer Heavy Casualties

U. S. Bombers Hit Rome Railway Yards   Nazi Supply Trains Are Thoroughly Blasted in Attack

Bombs Rain On Rome Rail Yard:   Italian Campaign Hits Deadlock Following Breakdown Of Germans’ Third Attempt To Smash A! lied Bridgehead

RAILWAYS IN ROME BLASTED BY AMERICANS   As Italian Campaign Enters New Deadlock Following Breakdown Of Third Ger man Attempt.   Destroy Tanks

DIRECT HITS MADE. ON ROLLING STOCK IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Communications ‘Throug. bh. Capital to Battle Front and. Enemy Air Bases => Are Pounded.   ARMIES DEADLOCKED  ON ANZIO BEACHHEAD       More Rain Falls and ne Mud—Nazis’ Recent Surge Cost Them Half of Tank Force. .

U.S. Heavies Pound Rome Rail Centers   Anzio Beachhead Hits Stalemate

Yanks Rain Destruction On Enemy Rolling Stock   Few German Fighters Meet American Heavy Bombers Over Italy’s Capital; Nazis Routed At Anzio Beachhead

PUBLIC DENUNCIATION OF JAP EMPEROR ADVISED AS MEANS T0 POSTWAR DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA   Denunciation and Condemnation of Hitler Okeh, But Since Emperor Hirohito Is Held in Reverence By Jans More Cautiousness Is Deemed Advisable

THE  WAR TODAY   Allies Refrain Fron  ser Emperor Nasty Names Because They Hope To Use Him After War

IT IS 0. K. TO SPEAK VERY DISPARAGINGLY OF HITLER BUT EMPEROR HIROHITO IS IMMUNE

The War Today  dap Dynasty May Be Useful In Postwar Reconstruction.

Mikado Is Political ‘Sacred Cow? << =~ = OU You Can Damn Adolf, But ‘Spare Hirohito!’

Both Register Wide Margins Over Opponent   Hoey Has More Than 100.000 Margin: Cherry Leads McDonald By 10. 000.

Bombs Rip Up Jap Defenses   American Fliers Pick Out New Target; Hit Atoll in Carolines

Japanese Bases  Handed Pounding  Oroluk In Carolines : Added To Targets

COAL CRISIS NOT SETTLED   FEDERAL ‘OPERATION’ OF. A’ - LEAST 100 MINES PREDICTED AS BALLOTING CONTINUES

RABAUL HIT BY RECORD AIR ATTACK   20 Jap Planes Are Shot Down By Allied Airmen

Allies Pave Way For Another Push In New Guinea   Drop 98 T. Bombs On Rabaul, Down 20 Enemy Planes

Allied Forces Blast Rabaul; Down 20 Planes   Report 1,200 Japs Dead Following Occupation of Huon Peninsula

AU.S. Attacks Blast Rabaul Field m Day   20 Enemy Planes Downed as 98 Tons of Bombs Rip ‘New Guinea Air’ Base

250 PLANES IN ONE DAY RAID RABAUL BASE   Only Two Allied Craft Lost; New Guinea Bases Hit

RABAUL HEAVILY BLASTED AGAIN: DOWN 20 PLANES   Only Two Ailied : Planes Lost Out

Record Force Of Airplanes Attacks Rabaul      Blasts New Britain Jap Stronghold With 98 Tons   9-0 PLANES USED   Allies Hit New Guinea ‘Bases With 260 Tons,  - Ranart Sava

MANY PLANES ATTACK RABUAL   New Britain dapanese Stronghold Blasted with 98 Tons of Bombs —~—20 Enemy Planes Shot Down.

NAZIS DECLARE INVASION NEAR   Date Advanced, Propaganda Broadcast Reports

8 eeEeyEeEeEeEeEeEeeeeoererer eeteernneen te SS ee pene  MANY CITIES IN OHIO HIT BY GAS SHORTAGE   Consumers Are Warned To Self - Ration Supplies

PLANES POUND AT D NAZI TARGETS   American Bombers Strike at Vital Areas of Munich and Toulon: RAF Planes Hit French “Buzz-bomb’ Sites

4,000 Bombers Hit Three Nazi Targets   Sky Fleets Pound Munich, Toulon, Flying-Bomb Sites

" Zom eT, ant. Tig “ers TEs 3erman " “Enzers OL: “rene. Teen inte ran JLon .

Vital Nazi Targets — Pounded By Fliers   Munich Area, Toulon and Robot Launching Sites ir  Northern France Blasted by Some 4,000 Bombers and Fiahters ,

THREE NAZILAND TARGETS RAIDED   Buzz-Bomb Sites, Munich And Toulon Included In Great Air Sweep

4,000 PLANES POUND VITAL NAZI TARGETS   At Various Points on Continent; Squadrons from Britain and Italy Operate, Clear Weather   Attack Berlin

‘American Day’ Is Celebrated ° By Millions   1,400,000 in New York Proclaim Their Support Of Service Men. Women

Final Rites Held For Capt. Brown  Return Body Of Flier From Florida

Funeral of Capt. Ralph Brown To Be In Sioux City Tuesday   Former Hinton Flier To Be Interred In Graceland Park Cemetery

SAYS HITLER IS ALIVE   Newspaper Reports -Fuehrer jt German, a Broken Man 

Fighth Army Moves Ahead.   Enlarze Bridgehead * Across: Lamone River

DRIVE ON THRU STORM   British and Polish Troops Enlarge Bridge Head Over Lamone

Lamone Crossing Enlarged In Italy   Bridgehead Widened by British and Polish Troops In Fog and Rain.

Deepening of Lamone Bridgeheac  Ouiflanks Faenza  Enlarged Over Two - Miles With Capture “OF Castel :Raniéro

SOVIETS ORDER DEATH BLOW TO NAZIS ON OESEL   Germans Trapped On Island Holding Control Over Gulf Of Riga

REDS MAKING GULF CLEANUP   RUSSIAN FORCES WIPING OUT GERMANS ON ISLAND AT MOUTH OF RIGA GULF

Reds Plan Death Blow to Germans On Oesel Island   Nazi Garrison To Be Wiped Ou Soon, is Belief

JAP RESISTANCE ISNOW CONFINED: TO FOUR ISLANDS   Veterans of Attu and Kiska Extend Holds on Ebeye and Kwajalein, May Take Two Others Soon.   NAVAL AIR FORCES POUNDING FOUR SPOTS   80 Jap Planes Are Destroyed In Devastating Attack Upon Enemy Key Base al Wewak, New Guinea.

MARINES TAKE OVER SEVEN MORE SMALL ISLES IN MARSHALLS   New Bombardment Aimed At Crushing Resistance At Corner Of Kwajalein Atoll In Marshall Group

BIG GUNS OF U. S. BATTLESHIPS JOIN ARTILLERY   Heavy New Bombardment Aimed at Crushing Finally Enemy on Four islands at Corner of Atoll

Warships Join in Bombarding Kwajalein Site   Army Veterans from Attu, Kiska Extend Control

Warships, Planes, Land Artillery Bombard Japs.   Army Troops Set to Invade Loi and Gugegwe Islands;-Seaplane Base Taken

Fleet and Air Forces Pound Two Additional Bases: U.S. Law Imposed by Nimitz

Men Attack Behind Sea, Air Barrage   Murderous: Fire -Reduces:Pillbox, Gun Placements’

WARSHIPS SHELL JAP SURVIVORS IN MARSHALL GROUF   Army Veterans of Attu Ex tend Bridgehead on Kwaalein

ATTU VETERANS EXTEND HOLDS ON KWAJALEIN   Fleet Guns Aid Artillery

U. S. Forces Find Little Opposition Near Kwajalein.      Call In Battleships To Hammer Japs Left In Southern Defenses

7 More Isles Seized in Marshalls  Warships Begin New Bombardment To Crush Last  Jan Resistance

SEIZE 7 MORE ISLES AT NORTH OF MAIN ATOLL   Attack Under Cover Of Sea, Air and Land Rombardment

Bombardment Is Designed to Crush Dwindling Resistance In Pacific.

PLANNING T0 CRUSH JAPS   Desperate but Dwindling Japanese Resistance on Four Islands Being Encountered by Americans.

WARSHIPS SHELLING 4 ISLANDS   Troops Advance On Kwajalein, Ebeye Islands

Warships Join In New Bombardment Of Japs Defending South End   Nimitz Proclaims U. S. Rule On Ist Enemy Territory Taken During World War II

THINK 200 DEAD IN AVALANCHES   Rescue Workers Hunt Bodisean Chile. Tawat

BROWN TANGLED UP IN CAR DEAL      Ration Board Refuses To Let Him Buy 1942 Model

Report Gain Made In U. S. Flank Attack      Chute Supplies To Yank Force Holding Out At Belgian City.

RETAKE CELLES, TIP OF ENEMY: BREAK-THROUGH   New Thrust :by : Rundstedt Seen

Robot Hits Cafe Killing Many   Clothes of Women Walking In Streets Were Set Afire.

Drops in Worst Place at Worst Time  Robot Bomb Blows Up Crowded Restaurant; Kills, Traps Many

Robot Bomb Traps Many in Restaurant ‘Nazis Use Artillery Salvo Technique

Allies Drive Nearer Akyab  Copture Of »f Burma a May  numthattan Maal

115th Infantry Took St. Lo; 29th Was In Toughest F ighting  Blue And Grey Division In Bloody Combat Bram Time It landed Qn Beaches On D-Day

HOLT TRAILS IN WEST VIRGINIA   Judge Meadows Piles Up Big Lead Over cca “Boy Senator’ For Gubernatorial Nomination. 

NEW DEALER LEADS HOLT IN WEST VA.   Meadows Increasing Margin Over Foe Of FDR Administration

‘Boy Senatov’ Far Behind   New Deul Supporter Ha ‘Two-to-One Lead

NEW DEALER WINS IN WEST VIRGINIA   Former ‘Boy Senator’ Beaten For Governor Nomination

LAVAL, THE TRAITOR SENTENCED TO DIE   French Collaboration Leader Not Yet Caught, However

IN KWEICHOW 1S HALTED   Chinese Reserves Arrive From Communist Border

IOWA INDUSTRY THREATENED BY DRAFT STEP-UP   Labor Bureau Survey Shows 427 lowa Firms Have 2.4% Less Manpower Than in March

Allies Smash German Attack   BRITISH CRUSH NEW NAZI OFFENSIVE AIMED AT SMASHING BEACHHEAD NORTH OF APRILLA; YANKS, FOE LOCKED IN BITTER CASSINO FIGHT

Hopkins Letter Mystery Clearing   Ickes Suspends His Secretary Who Was Interested In Getting Letter Published.

Final Chapter in Hopkins Leffer Mystery Near   Lettera Forgery . Official Says; Ickes Suspends Assistant

Ickes Suspends Aide In ‘Hopkins’ Mystery   Justice Department Says Letter Probably Forgery; Interior Secretary Offers to Go Before Grand Jury Investigating Matter

HOPKINS LETTER BRANDED BOGUS   Federal Agents Predict Solution Of Mystery; Ickes Fires Aide

Giant Assaults on Munich Continue   Nearly 10,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit City

Munich Takes lis Third Heavy Pasting   Special Target Is Believed Object of Allied Bombers

POSITION OF AIRBORNE SOLDIERS ADMITTEDLY CRITICAL; BRITISH TRYING TO REINFORCE GROUP

BRITISH ARMOR AND  AMERICAN AIRBORNE  TROOPS FIGHT AHEAD BERLIN ASSERTS STRONG GERMAN FORCES CLOSING  war AAT rR lai it

102 Japanese Vessels Hit!   Daily Carrier-Plane Assault Aqainst Luzon Continued

102 Enemy Ships - Sent To Bottom   Troops Spring  Twin Drives On Jap Remnants In — Northern Leyte

‘102 Japanese Ships Damaged, Sunk In Raids   Finemy Losses Are Revised Upward

HULL GIVES OUT LONG STATEMENT   Secretary Tells Critics Policy Is To Defeat Enemy at Earliest Date. =»

One Policy 01 J, S. Set Pelon Public   Hull Says Defeat Of Enemies ¥irst Tob

HULL OUTLINES FOREIGN AIMS FOR AMERICA   17 - Point Statement Is Issued; Fast Victory First Objective

Fives Principles of American Foreign Policy —- Says Aim Now ta to Defeat Enemies Quickly as Possible. * : ”

Dewey Set For Further PDK iiits   Will Trade Blow For Blow if President Wants It That Way, Aides Say

Governor Dewey “Completing First Campaign Tour   Republican Candidate’s Tac tics In Remainder Of Campaign Depend On President

M.E. Drop: Pacifist Position   General Conference Reverses Committee Report On Attitude Toward War.

CLEAR THANKSGIVING   Sunshine, But Cool Weather Forecast for Kansas

anita neal  ) Charged With Draft-Evasion Bribes; "@ias Racketeer Sought

Allied Offensive Cripples German Railroad Centers   16 Heavy Bombers Fail To Return

Record Blows Shake Nazis   Most Devastating Pounding Of War Is Dealt Many Areas

19 Vital Rail Centers, Airfields Hit   7,000 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped in Widespread Raids

English Town Rocked When Boulogne Hit   Day Attack Followed by RAF Night Assault  on Coast of France

COAST SHAKEN BY EXPLOSION NEAR BOULOGNE   English City Is Rocked Short Time After Bombers Crossed Channel   TRANSPORTATION OF GERMANS HAMMERED

NAZI CENTERS DEALT WORST BLOW OF WAR   KEY RAILROADS AND AIRPORTS HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS

TECHNIQUE SPEEDS — TRAVEL OF PLANES   Process. Developed by the “Fairchild -E1 Sond

Faster Airplanes Help War Effort   Fairchild Company Makes New Models

TECHNIQUE SPEEDS TRAVEL OF PLANES   Process Developed by the ~“Fatechild- Engine~ond— _Airplene Cerp. _.

YOUTH ADMITS RAPE MURDER      Former Soldier Kills Woman at Farm Home Near Lebanon

RED ARMIES — TIGHTEN NOOS! NEAR BALTIC   Report Heard In New York Says Soviets Smash Into East Prussian Defenses Of Claremansc.

PRESS UPON BALTIC AREA FROM 3 SIDES      Force in North Once Totaled 20 Divisions—Reds Drive Deeper Wedge  . Through Poland Toward  Garman Silecia.

WEDGE WIDENS FOR POSSIBLE FINAL THRUST   German Baltic Forces, 20 Division Remnant, Trapped by Fast Driving Red Armies

Russians Crash Reich Frontier  ‘And Peril Riga   Soviet Forces Tighten Big! Noose on Nazis Trapped in Baltic Area, Push Ahead in Latvia   Drive On Warsaw  From South Opeus   New German Disasters ip Vistula Sector Seen as Reds Tuke 50 Towns in New Assaults

Soviets Tighten Noose   20 Nazi Divisions in German Baltic States Caught In Russian Net

Nazis Are Digging in at Danzig   All Men and Women Are Mobilized to Prepare tor Defense of Area   NOT. CONVINCED REDS ARE SPENI   Great Advance Is Slowed But Not Stopped by Nazi Reserve Divisions

Bricker Describes Post-War Debt As Post-Poned Taxes   Offers GOP Plan For Reducing Costs Of  Government

Democrats See Victory as Result Of Okla. Election   Republicans Claim November Will Change Picture

Democrats Laud  Oklahoma Vote   Claim Victory For Administration

Russians Take Fatherland Line Bastion Of Bobruisk, Clear Rails To. Murmansk

RED FORCES ARE 37 MILES FROM MINSK   Are Now Pushing the Germans Swiftly Back Over the Same Road to Warsaw and Berlin Which Napoleon Used.

British Tanks Fight Nazis in Sight of Caen   Nine Enemy Counter-Attacks Beater’ Down Southwest of Nand Port as Reds Continue Drive Toward Minsk

RUSSIAN ARMIES IN DRIVE ON MINSK ARE PUSHING NAZIS BACK  GERMANS RETREATING ALONG SAME ROAD OF NAPOLEON’S DEBACLE

EXPLODING SHELLS KILL TWO BROTHERS   Anne Arundel County Youths Found Missiles On Fort Meade Firing Range

EXPLODING SHELLS KILL TWO YOUTHS   Mortar Shells Found on Ft. Meade Range Fatal to Boys

Oil Pipe Line Could Cause Another Wa   Ickés Proposed,.. Sec’ Knox Backed Project Is Dangers Says Ralph Zook

Believe Russia Will Reject U. S. Offer To Mediate Border Dispute

Russ Likely ToRejectHull Mediation Bid      Moscow Believed Determined Not to Treat With Present Polish Regime

EXPECT RUSSIA TO DECLINE U. S. MEDIATION PLAN   Believe Russian Rejection To Be Based On Government In Exile

Increasing Tendency to Act  Boldly Marks Soviet Diplomacy   Badoglio Recognition Seen as Proof Stalin Isn't Trving to Communize Kurope

EXPEDIENCY IS RED WATCHWORD   Russians, In Bold Diploma  tic Actions, Going Af ter What They Want

BOLD DIPLOMATIC ©  POLICY LAUNCHED   Russia Paying Little Heed to Pronouncements  Abroad

‘Men, Tanks Pour Through Defense Gap   Germans Battle Fiercely And Bring Up Troops, Guns to Halt Drive

AMERICAN ARMOR AND INFANTRY DRIVE INTO WIDENING GAP  GERMANS BATTLE FIERCE   GERMANS BATTLE FIERCE. LY TO SAVE IMPERILLED SIEGFRIED LINE

‘Tanks and Infantry Drive More Than Mile Through West Wall at Ubach,  For New Gains.   BEGGENDORF TAKEN IN ALLIED ATTACK

Massed Guns Help Widen Siegfried Line Breach As Patton Battles For Fort

AMERICAN ARMOR  AND INFANTRY DRIVE  INTO WIDENING GAP GERMANS BATTLE FIERCE  LY TO SAVE IMPERILLED SIECERIEN TINE

DRIVE MILE THROUGH THE WEST WALL   Doughboys Capture Beggendorf, Which the Germans Had Hope to Turn Into an Anchor of. a Backston Line.

REPORT TAKING OF BEGGENDORE   Germans Had Attempted to Turn City Into Anchor of  Backstop Sline. i   TANK BATTLE DEVELOPS

TANKS, HEAVY GUNS RIP. NAZI DEFENSE LINES   Advance More Than Mile Throvgh Shattered  Barriers

GERMANS MASS BIG GUNS, TRY TO HALT DRIVE   American Tanks Churn Through Gap to Exploit Infantry Breakthrough

American Tanks Advance More Than Mile Through West Wall Defenses

Fighting . Mounts in Bitterness   Allied. Forces Plunge Deeper Into Germany In Spite of Desperate Resistance By Enemy

AMERICANS GAIN MILE TO KNOCK OUT FOE POINT   Beggendorf Falls to VU. §$ Troops As Wedge in Defenses Is Widened

Tanks And Infantry Push Through Battered Fixed Defenses Of West Wall

‘AMERICAN TANKS POUR THRU ‘GAP TO SUPPORT INFANTRY AS BIG GUNS POUND DEFENDERS

U.S. Tanks, Infantry In Mile Plunge   Major Battle Of Armor Developing; Nazi Fixed Defenses Shattered.

Widening Wedge, Yanks Also Capture Kerkrade On Dutch Border   Fierce Battle Is Now Mounting   Tanks Behind Break. through Exploit Gains Of Infantry

American Infaniry, Armor Cut Through West Wall Breach      Masses of Artillery Tear Many Germans From Defenses

TEMPERATURES:   NAZIS FIGHT SAVAGELY TO HALT ALLIES   Americans And British Carve Out New Gains On Western Front

Major Tank Battle Is Developing   Allies Exploit Break-Through by Plunging Into Enemy’s Secondary Defenses; Nazis Concentrate Artillery Near Ubach

Yankee Force Smashes Into Hole In Line   Germans Turn Record Number Of Guns Into Corridor, Rush More Men To Front Area

American Tanks and Infantry Advance More Than a Mile  ‘?   "TWO PLACES CAPTURED   First Army Scores Gains Against Artillery on Western Front

ELECTORS BOLT IN MISSISSIPP   State Legislature Called ta  Consider Problem

_ SEES HARD FIGHT AHEAD  Veteran 6th Army Chief Says Japs Are Licked But Plavine For Time

QUES OF WOUND   Michigan Toil From . Gunfire Reaches 10; Total Fatalities 29.

UnitedNation: Plan Talks — On Security _   ‘Russians and Chinese ' Will Not Attend Same  Conferences, However  DUE NEXT MONTH

World Security Conferences Planned Soon   Exploratary Meets To Be Held in U. S. Early in August

(German Defense Met Near Bologna   Within Nine Miles of Gateway To Po Valley

Nazis Stiffen Bologna Line   Americans Within Nine Miles of City

STRONG BID 10 HOLD BOLOGNA   Americans Edge To Within Nine Miles Of Gateway To Po Valley

FIFTH ARMY DRAWS NEAR TO BOLOGNA   Germans to Make Bid to Keep Key City

Germans Put Up Battle  For Bologna   Yanks Mecting Stifening Resistance As They Near Po

Germans Make Bitter Stand Near Bologna   Nazis Are Concentrating Strength In Ltaly Along Fifth Army Front

WILLKIE DECLINES  TO MAKE COMMENT   1940 GOP Presidentis] ‘Nominee Gives No Indication Of His Reac-  tion To Forrign Policy Plank

Willkie Silent On Future Plans   Refuses To Discuss His Foreign Policy

GOP To Complete Delegate Slate In Nevada Today   Dewey Continues Far in the Lead

NEVADA TODAY FILLS ROSTER OF DELEGATES   Revublican Ticket Nomination Majority 529  \

Cattle, Hogs Liberated ‘By Truck-Car Crash Rounded Up in Chicago

WAR CRIME IN LITHUANIA   Russians Discover Evidence of German Executions

Jap Island Defense Hit By Bombers   Resistance on Biak Stiffest in Pacific

U.S. BOMBERS” SWEEP SKIES EXTENSIVELY   Deliver Triple Blow at Carolines; Hit - Kuriles

Road To Tokyo Raided _ By Daring U. S. Flier:   Record-Breaking Sweep Made Against Kuriles South Pacific Bombers On Loose

Strike ‘Triple Blow At the Carolines As Fighting Ou Biak Island In Southwest Subsides to Artillery Exchunges. 679 Japs Fliled

U.S. Flyers Poun¢ Kurile Islands In Wide Attacks  ericans Mee  Nnvasion

Extensive Sweeps Made On Kuriles; Carolines Lashed   Fighting On Biak Settles Into Patrol Skirmishes After Japs Repulsed Twice

Allies Checked in Push For Air Bases on Biak; Japs Advance in China

” FREANS BREA   State Department Keeps Quiet as Rumors Fly in . Washinoton

Romans Told To Do Duty   Allies Ask Them to Locate All Mines And Booby Traps

Diplomats Study Polish Affair  Poles Welcome Offer Of U, S., Britain

Eliminates Much Jap Artillery Fire; Japs Fight With Only Death Ahead

Mt. Tapotchau On Saipan Taken By Americans   U.S. Officers Are  Confident of Big Victory in Marianas

Towering Peak On Saipan Is _ Taken And Held By Americans   Much Jap Mortar And Artillery Fire Eliminated U. S. Officers Confident Of Victory In Marianas

Merger ‘Three Armed Forces Is Advocated   Reported Consolidation  Being Considered With Gen. Mershal Likely to Head. New Setup

Single Command Plan Studied.  ‘ Three Branches May Bea Cancolidated

Only One-Fourth Of Red Cross Total Is Raised   Today’s Tabulation  Shows $7,000

Only One-Fourth Of Red Cross Total Is Raised   Today's Tabulation Shows $7,000 Has Been Received

‘Many Married Women Have Scrammed out of Kitchen Into Jobs for Good. Savs Labor Devartment Bureau

Surrendering Nazi Soldiers Dreary Lot   Citizens of Eschweiler Lament. Their Fate, Claim Thev’re. Anti-Nazt

Mother Tells How Her Son Met Death   Society Woman Accused Slayer

Gallup Poll Surveys FDR-Dewey Campoign ‘Four Major Issues Likely iTo Decide November Vote

Americans and French Reach lialian River   Flying Fortresses Invade Ausiria in Devastating Raid

Nazis and Soviets Tell Of Struggle; Allies Set  For Assault on Cassino   New Mediterranean Chief Predicts Early Victory in Drive on Rome; Eisenhower  Takes Over London Office, Pleased With Outlook

150-Mile Line Hit by 250,000 Soviet Troops   Reds Also Advance On Southern Front

25: -.A.e ine S-re-¢.1es rom ~eningta = 70. eve. Region:  ‘azis Scr. cing 4acx in . <reine

Sharp Fire Raid Made On London By Nazi Planes   Incendiaries Dropped By Hundreds But Big Blazes Extinguished

Trial’ Invasion By Allied Forces Is Reported By Vichy Radio As Soviets Warn Blows Are Nem

SOVIET WARNS OF ASSAULT IN EAST AND WEST   British And Americans Are Forced Off Mainland, Says Vichy Broadcast   ALLIES MUM ON CLAIM   Transportation Facilities Of Huns Disorganized As Assault Nears

BY AMERICA OR BRITAIN   Vichy Fails: to- Say. Where “Rehearsal” Took Place —

VICHY RADIO SAYS FEINT MADE (IN EFFORT TO UN‘COVER DEFEN SE—MOB-, . COW WARNS GERMANS   By CHARLES A. SMITH Infernatlonal Newe fervica

Overloaded Fortress Crashes At Sea; Taxies 70 Miles To Home Base

South Coast Buttons Up Against Great Hurricane   Gales of 140 Miles an Hour Approaching, Weather Bureau Warns~-Florida Passed By

Storm Warnings Hoisted Along Carolina, Georgia Coastal Areas Thursday

Violent Hurricane Is Headed For Carolinas But It Shows A Slight Tendency To Swerve   If Great Storm Is To Miss Coast lt Will Have To Turn In 18 Hours

Hurricane Moves Northward With Increasing Speed  Storm Warnings Along Atlantic

HURRICANE IS MOVING CLOSER   Storm Warnings Posted Along Carolina And North Georgia Coasts.

Pincers Perils Belgrade Nazis   Partisans Guide Russians in Drive for Capital; Nazis Cleared From Territory East of Danube-Tisza; Hungary Pounded

NICKEL FOR COFFEE COMES BACK MONDAY   Old American Institution Has Passed Some Places

Clear Way For City’s: $ Capture   LOSS OF CITY BY GERMANS.      IN UKRAINE TO A QUICK EN

Seaport Is Last Large Soviet City Still In Nazi Hands   Reds Within Gun Range Of Bastion   100,000 German Troops Caught In Pocket Appear Doomed

Red Artillery — Move up within Range of Prize   Germans Fail to Break Seala Trap as End Approaches

City In Range of Artillery   Way Is Cleared For Storming of German Fortress

RUSSIANS ARE ~ TO MILES FROM DOOMED NAZI   Thousands In “Dunkirk” Pos: ket Stumbling Over Each Other tn Panie.

YANKS PLUNG INTO LEAKY DEFENSES   Germans Battle Fiercely To Check Advance   VITAL BATTLE   Flares Along Arnhem-Nijmegen Cofridor: Fort Driant Fight Rages

Masses Of Armor, Men Pouring Into Breached Lines   Nazis Striving Feverishly To Prevent Crumbling Of Defenses

British Advance Along Corridor From Nijmegen   U. S. Troops Use Phosphorus Grenades And Burning Oil In Effort To Seize Ancient Fort Driant On Metz Battlefront

IN MASON CITY   Nazis Used Guns to Keep Civilians From Fleeing Abbey

MUCH PROGESSED FOOD REMOVED FROM RATION LIST   Effective September’ 30 Bluc Tokens Will Have None of Value; Many Grocery ‘Items Involved, ‘i

Refund on. Tax. a oes ‘Payments Lag       “Several: Months. Ye “Department Asserts,

[Munificent ‘Bookkeeper Blamed   Merchant Leaps to His ~ Death; Says Cash Given Away

a Na ta cacti il  GIRL ROBIN HOOD’S D'S BOSS PLUNGES TO DEATH; NOTE SAYS ‘THEFTS RUINED ME’

Funeral Services Are Held Today for Mes. Janie Fife, 72   Merchant, Ruined Financially by His Blonde Bookkeeper, Plunges to Death

GREATEST 24 HOUR ASSAULT IN ALL HISTORY   Ninth U. S. Air Force Credited With Destroying 132 Enemy Guns Opposing First And Third Armies.

Aerial Assault Greatest Yet   Ten Thousand Allied Planes Pound German:  And Holland.

10,000 BOMBERS SMASH AT REICH   History’s Greatest Air Blow Struck Over Week-End

10,000 Planes Hammer Reich   Holland Targets Also Hit Over Week-End

10 ,000 100 Planes Blast Holland And Hun Areas   Greatest 24-Hour Assault in- History of Aerial Warfare Carried . Out Overt Weekend

American Troops in Firm Contro! of the Southern Palay Islands   lhree Airfields Occupied, 10,000 Japs Killed In Nineteen Days

10,000 Nippons Reported Slain In Palau Battle   Americans Hold Firm Control of Three Important Airfields

Yanks in Control of S. Palau   Three Hours Flight From Philippines After 19 Bloody Days

10,000 JAPS KILLED ON PALAU ISLES   2,000 Nips Hold Out in Pockets On Angaur, Peleliu

10,000 NIPS ARE KILLED IN FIGHTING   ‘Bloody Nose’ Ridge Still Held By Foe On Peleliu Isle

U.S. HOLDING FIRM CONTROL QVER PALAUS   Surviving Japanese Fanatics Holding Out In Two Small Pockets.

Southern Palau Islands in  U.S. Control   Surviving Japanese In Two Pockets on “Bloody Nose Ridge”

AMERICANS ARE HOLDING FIRMLY IN SO PALAIS      Three Airfields Within Three Hours Flight Of The Philippines

U.S. Controls Southern Part of Palau Isle   Airfields Three Hours Away From Philippines

Yanks Herd 2,000 Japs Into Corner Of Palau Islands   10,000 Enemy Dead f U. S. Conquest Of Strategic Group

CHAPLIN JURY SELECTION SPEEDED; QIL MAGNATE TO TESTIFY FOR ACTOR

Nazi Overthrow Is Promised By “Ike”   Says We Come as Conquerors But Notas Oppressors of Germans

LUPE VELEZ, FILM STAR, TAKES LIFE   Actress, an - Expectant _ Mother, Leaves Two  Notes.

FILM ACTRESS TAKES HER LIFE   Note Beside Body Reveal: That Lupe Velez Was Expecting Child

Note Found On Bed Beside Body ot Temperamental Star Discloses She Was Expecting Baby

LUPE VELEZ, FILM PLAYER EXPECTING BABY, KILLS SELF   Sleep-Producing Tablets Are Found Near Side—Note Accuses Man of Faking Love for Her.   BODY IS SPRAWLED ON SILKEN SHEETS   Actress Recently Announced She Would Marry Harald Ramond, but Later Said Romance Was Off.

‘Spitfire’ of Movies, Lupe Velez, Suicide  Former Wife of ‘Tarzan’ Takes Sleeping Tablets

Film Actress Lupe Velez Kills Herself   Takes Sleeping Tablets: Leaves Notes Disclosing She Was Expecting Bab:

Reds Launch Third Drive, Stalin Says   Russians Pounding at Gates of Prussia, Nazis Reveal

Third Red Offensive Sweeps 31 Miles Toward Brest Litovsk   Germans Retre at Across Arno; May Attempt St and Before Pisa

LEGION AUXILIARY FOR WHEELCHAIRS   Start Drive To Purchase One To Keep In Each of  Sty Towns

S0MBERS DEFY Elt PLOUDS TOTA HIT TARGETS 5T   Deep in Germany, Normandy, Austria with Munich and Others Badly Shaken By Blasts   14 Planes Missing

BOMBERS HIT TARGETS DEEP IN GERMANY   SD  Over 1,000 U. S. Heavyweights Smash Munich, Saarbrucken And Other  Important Targets

1,000 American Bombers Blast South Germany   Munich, Saarbrucken Hit; Italy, Normandy, Austria Also Bombed

ALLIED FLIERS HIT IN MANY SECTIONS   Fortress Europe Rocks -- Under Cascades of — Bombs .—

Fortress Europe Rocked by Tons Of Allied Bombs   Huge Air Battle Waged af Vienna

Mighty New Air Blows  Sear Europe   Nazi Lands Rocked From Normandy To Italy, Austria

Nippon ‘trap was a costly  undertaking  Reporter relates ananint aft hatila

Fifth Army Troops Take Sezze, Near Escape Route   Advance Units From Anzio Beachhead Have Driven to Within 2'2 Miles of Via Casilina; Trap Set for Germans

Spearhead Nears Vital Via Gasilina   Other Advancing American Forces Take Sezze, Ahave Terracina.

(Nazis Beaten ‘Back in Anzio Front Thrust   Fifth Army Units in Vicinity of Artena On Centra! Front

Sth Army Closes In On Flaming Velletri   Enemy's Main Escape Route To North Imperiled

SEZZE, CITY OF 20,000 FALLS TO FIFTH: ESCAPE ROUTE FOR 8 GERMAN DIVISIONS MENACED   Capture of Sezze Puts Americans Within Two And One-Half Miles of Cutting Via Casilina, Main Route for Major Part German Army. Heavy Losses in Men and Materials Face Nazis €

Advance 5th Army Units Poise Threat   Thrust Into Position In Path Of Enemy In Flight From Littered Liri Valley Area

German Escape Route fo Rome Now Threatenec   Beackhead Army Slices Through Flank of Enemy

GERMANS LOSE TANKS, MASSES OF EQUIPMENT   Conquering Armies Within 21/, Miles of Cutting Via Casilina

Still Going Thru German Defenses   Allies Are Close to Last Nazi Escape Route Toward Rome   ATTACKS BEATEN OFF   Groups Hurriedly Asembled . Fail to Stop Allied  Progress

~ Yanks Reach — “New Defenses   Other. American Forces Are * Only 2°1-2 Miles:From Via: Casilina‘Near: Valmentone:   $8 NAZI DIVISIONS MAY BE CUT OFF.   German Losses in ‘Captured: Alone Now; 13,000; renee Continues. Retreat-- 2.

Heinz Co. Finds Newspaper Ads Most Effective   Annual Budget Much Increased

Says American  People Deluded   Claims U. S. Expected End of War Too Soon

AIR ARMADAS SPEED END OF EUROPEAN WAR   Batter Stuttgart and Berlin  HIT ROBOT SITES  Kngland Suffers Krom Flying Bombs

Maas Challenges Administration  ‘On Pearl Harbor   Solon Says Officials Knew Pearl Harbor Attack Was Coming

LEGISLATURE ENDSWITH 18 BILLS PASSED   Soldier Voting Measure Quickly Signed by  Governar   ONLY ONE DISPUTE MARKS FINAL DAY

LEGISLATURE ENDSWITH18 BILLS PASSED   Soldier Voting Measure Quickly Signed by Governor   ONLY ONE DISPUTE  MARKS FINAL DAY   O'Conor Announces He Will Approve Teacher

Assembly Ends Extra Session In Quick Time   18 Measures Get Final Approval

O'CONOR SIGNS SOLDIER BALLOT “BILL INTO LAW   Governor Announces He Will Also Approve Teach er Bonus Measure   EMERGENCY SESSION OF ASSEMBLY OVER

CAMPAIGN ON  LEYTE ISLAND NEARLY OVER   JAPANESE IN HOPELESS STRAP  AS AMERICANS, CLOSE IX  AND AIRMEN PATROL  OVER PORT

TRAP LAST JAPS IN LEYTE ISLAND   Fall of Valencia Provides Yanks New Airstrip in Good Condition

KEPT YOUTH HID FOR FOUR YEARS   Miami Boy and Parents Face Federal Charges

Fifth Army Makes Gains Ten Miles   From Rome   Lake Of Bracchiano Section Approached

, Fifth Army In 10-Mi. Advance «North Of Rome   Presses Pursuit Of Retreating Nazis; Resistance Is Sporadic.

Allies Making Progress Today North Ot Rome   Fifth Army Captures Important Port and Pushes To Maintain Contact with Retreating Nazis.

Kesselring’s Army Still Retreating   Russians Are Jubilant; Plan Great Offensive

FIFTH ARMY NEARS TIBER IN NEW PUSH   18,000 Prisoners Taken By Allies  In Rome Area

Rome’s Principal Port Captured by Allied Fifth Army   Thrust Up West Coast of Italy Pursuing Retreat- ing Enemy

Fifth Army s Still Driving Beyond Rome   Disorganized German Rear Guards Beaten

Rout Nazi Troops in Italy   British, Americans Race Toward Lake, in Sight of Sea

Fifth Army Forces Take Port of Rome   Civitavecchia, 38 Miles Northwest of Capital, Falls; Germans Fleeing

ALLIES TAKE PORT OF ROME   City: 38 - Miles Northwest 0 _ Capital Falls to: ‘Aavancing Fifth Army, ©

Civitavecchsia, 38 Miles Northwest Of Rome, Captured   Germans Showing No Sign of New Attempts to Hold

‘ifth Army Punches Ten Miles North of  Rome Chasing Nazis   \lso. Drives: Ten Miles Northwest of Capital ‘After Crossing Tiber

Nazis Report Allied Breakthrough in Italy   Assert New Big Attack Launched; Fifth Army 0 Miles North of Rome, Within Five Miles of Lake Bracchiano.

STRATEGIC RAIL AND HIGHWAY POINT CAPTURED TODA)   Allied Forces Driving Against Fleeing Enemy Troops, Take Cavita Castellana.   CIVITAVECCHIA TAKEN   ix One of Rome's Principa Seaports, 38 Miles Northwest of the Eternal City.

ROAD, RAILWAY CENTER TAKEN   Allied Armored Forces Take Junction 32 Miles North Of Rome.   HOLD PRINCIPAL SEAPORT

Fifth Army Gives Nazts No Respite  Eighth Army Alone Meeting With Any Baal MOnnacitian

Your Powerful Allied Col umns Sweep L5 To 40 Miles Beyond Rome   Nazis Apply Torch To Things In Wake   Low-Flying Planes Strafe Fleeing Enemy And Blast Supply Lines

Rome’s Principal Port Is Captured   Civitavecchia, 38 Miles Northwest, Is Taken by Allied Armies.

OTHER UNITS IN TOWN 20 MILES NORTH OF CITY   Fall Of Civitavecchia Gives Allies Valuable Port On West

Fifth Army Has Pushed Ten Mile: North of Rome   ‘Big Attack’ Gains Major Break, Nazi Communique Admits

Fifth 10 Miles North Of Rome In Offensive   Major Break Through Reported By Nazis With New Attack

Fifth Army Takes Port, And Drives After Foes   Civitavecchia And Bracciano In Fold.

ALLIED ARMIES PUSH 10 MILES ~ NORTH OF ROME   New Gains Reported a: Appeal for Aid is Made to Italian Patriots

Rome’s Main Port Taken By 5th Army   Allied Troops Thrust Swiftly North in New Advances in Italy   Naples (/P) — Allied troop have occupied Civita Castellano,

BATTLE RAGES JO EAST OF. ETERNAL CITY   Advanced Columns Nearing Lake of Bracchiano; Resistance Spotty

‘Major Break’ In Line of Germans   Allied Forces Push Toward Civitavecchia Northwest of Rome   PUNCH AHEAD 10 MILES   Fifth Army Forces Encountering Only Spotty  Resistance

Fifth Army Captures Braceiano   Nazis Retreating In Italy in Bad State of  Demoralization

Allies Advance Beyond Rome's Principal Port   Civitavecchia Seized Early; Nazis Withdraw Rapidly With No Sign Of Stand

Rome’s Main Port Taken By 5th Army   Allied Troops Thrust Swiftly North in New Advances in Italy  Perit y Erwrwar   Naples (.1’) — Allied troop have occupied Civita Castellano.

Fifth Army Forces Drive Hard In Pursuit Of Nazi Troops NorthwestofRome

ALLIES 10 MILES NORTH OF ROME   Score Major Break In German Lines West of Rome ..

Allies Driving Steadily North Beyond Capital  m1...’ 1.¢   Clark's Infantry Is 10 Miles North Of Eternal City; Little Opposition Reported

FIFTH CAPTURES VITAL PORTIN SWIFT ADVANCE   Civitavecchia Falls to Allies 38 Miles Northwest of Italian Capital

FIFTH ARMY 10 MILES 10 NORTH ROME   Another Big Attack Against Flee. ing Germans Whose Strength in Italy Has Been Broken

CIVITAVECCHIA CAPTURED; STH ARMY LEADS ON   Germans Retreat In Bad State Of  Demoralization

RACING ALLIED ADVANCE FROM ROME PRESSED   Alexander Says Enemy Strength Broken in Central Italy

ALLIED COLUMNS DRIVE 10 MILES _ NORTH OF ROME   TOTAL OF GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN RISING STEADILY

Allied Columns Drive 10 Miles Past Rome   Hard Fighting East of Capital; Alexander Says German Strength Broken in Less Than One Month

FUN] 30 MILE) . NORTH OF ROME IS CAPTURED  Civitavecchia Falls      Civitavecchia Falls As Fifth Army Gaihs   GO NORTHWARD   Nazis. Withdrawing, Appearing Demoral"  azad 

Fifth Punches Way 10 Miles North of Rome   Clark Lauds Men Fer “Magnificent” Offensive Tob

Fifth. Army Into Chief Rome Por!   Allies. Take Civitavecchia _ 38 Miles Northwest of Capital «   FAST. DRIVE UP COAST   Disorganized Nazis © Are ‘Withdrawing Along -Entire Front

GERMANS ARE WITHDRAWING IN DISORDER   Allied Forces Capture the Former Headquarters of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring  FIGTH PUNCHES AHEAD

U.S. INFANTRY DRIVES 10 MILES NORTH OF ROME   Other Allied Troops Pusb Toward Sea From Italian Capital

General Alexander Says Strength Of German Armies In Italy Broken   yRear Guard Fights To Stem Advances      Low-Fl in “Planes Bomb And Str Mire ating Foe Along Highwavs

Germans Chased North of Rome   Fifth Army Alone Ha: Taken More Than 18.000 Prisoners

ALLIES CAPTURE PORT 38 MILES NORTH OF ROME   Germans Still Withdrawing in Bad State of . Demoralization _

45th Captures Port of Romein Rapid Advance   Other Units Make Important Gains  As 8th Army Pushes North From the Tiber

Yanks Push Ten Miles from Rome; British Battle   Spotty Resistance Encountered hy Filth Army while Eighth Rans Info Delaying Action

Fifth Army Gains 10 Miles in Italian Region  German Forces Flea North of Rome, Yield Vital Ground

Nazi Retreat Disintegrating Into Near Rout   Disorganized Germans ' Flee Allied Armies In Italy:

Battle North After Fleeing German Forces      Nazis Admit  Breakthrough on _ Coastal Road West of Capital

ROME PORT FALLS TO FIFTH ARMY IN {TS SWEEP NORTH   Civitavecchia, 38. Miles Northwest of Rome, is ~Captured   ‘ENEMY IS DISORGANIZED

ALLIED ARMIES ROLL IN ITALY   Fifth Army Now 10 Miles North of Rome, Chasing Harried Nazis

FIFTH AMY DRIVES FENG ENEMY FAR NORTH FROM ROME  CAPTURE OF CIVITA CAS TEITLTANA RAITT. AND HICH

ALLIES CAPTURE PORT IN ITALY   Above Rome Fifth Army Continues in Pursuit of Fleeing Nozi Armies

Fifth Army Is At Point Ten Miles  North Rome   Kesselring’s Army Is In Flight At  Bracchiano

Allies Push Ten Miles Past Rome   Fifth Army Meets Only “Spotty” Resistance,  But Eighth Engages in Brisk Rearguard Fight

Fifth Army Takes Rome’s Port As Enemy Flees  Civitavecchia Falls As Allies Speed Up Western Coast

Germans Flee North of Rome   Nazis Admit That Allies Have Made Break in Line West of City

YANKS NEAR BRACCHIANO   Allies Score Major Break In Nazi Lines West Of Rome

Nazi Retreat Fast Nearing Rout Stage   Fifth Army Captures Civitavecchia, Main Por? Above Rome

Are Pursuing Fleeing Nazis   Vivita Castellana Strategic Road, Rail Point; Rome’s Seaport Also Falls ©

Italian ‘Towns North of Rome Fall to Allies   Civitavecchia Taken As Germans Appear To be Withdrawing in Demoralized State

German Army In Italy Broken Alexander Says   Enemy Troops Continue Speedy Retreat North; Several Cities Taken

Allies 38 Miles North of Rome   Vital Rail Junction, Principal Rome Port, Captured by Yanks

Fifth Army 10 Miles N. OfRomeIn Chasing Foe   Resistance Spotty But Eighth Runs Into Stiff Battles; Air Force Hits Ralkans

Principal Port Of Rome Falls   Fifth Army Captures Civitavecchia, 38 Miles Northwest of Eternal City, in Rapid Drive Along Italian Coast to Maintain Contact With Retreating Foe.   BRACCIANO ALSO TAKEN

Seize Rome Port   Civitavecchia Falls To Swiftly Advancing Fifth Army; Germans Retreat: in Disorder

ALLIES CAPTURE VALUABLE PORT NORTH OF ROME   German Armies, Badly Demoralized Still Fleeing From Pursuing Fifth Army.

Eneounter Only Spott  Resistance   Fifth Army Now Claims More Than 18,000 Prisoners Have Been Taken

Germans Still Flee In Disorder   - NAPLES, June §,—UP)—~Allied trnps have occupied Civila Castel.Janc,

Allied Armies Harass Fleeing Nazis In Italy   Fifth Army Infantrymen Punch Way 10 Miles North Of Rome.

- + ¥PALY—  ALLIES 10 MILES. NORTH OF ROME   Fifth Army Continues Pursuit Of Fleeing Germans

LOSE IN ON ORT 40 MILES ORTH OF ROME   ‘Nazis Retreat On Broad Front

Allies Gain 10 Miles In Italy   Punch Way Only Five Miles Short Of The Lake Of Bracchiano.

ALLIES 1 WAY 10 MILES NORTH OF ROME   Alexander: Strength of German Forces in  Italy Has Been Broken

Fifth Army 28 28 antt 20 Miles North of It§lian Capital: Planes Attive 

CLARK’S MEN MOVE TOWARD CIVITAVECCHIA   Important Port on Tyrr ~ henian Sea Is 40 Miles Northwest of Rome — . Another Group 10 Miles Raetad Capital:

Fifth Army in _ New Successes      ANOTHER CITY TAKEN IN DRIVE I'ROM ROME

. um & & £28f RO  Allies Now 38 Miles Northwest Of City   Victorious Allied Troops Thrusting Swiftly U -. West. Coast Of Italy In Effort’ To Maintai Contact With. Fleeing Germans =

Key Rome Port Captured; Nazis Demoralized   Fifth Army Captures Civitavecchia In Swift Advance.

BIG ALLIED ATTACK IS "REPORTED   _ Cormans Admit Major ® Break In Lines’ As  Patrols Advance

Troops Advance  North Of Rome   Fifth Army Presses on Heels Of Kesselring’s Fleeing Germans

Fifth Army Ten Miles Beyond Rome, British Eighth Meets Opposition .

EIIEMY PUSHED FROM BEACHES, LINKS FORGE!   Allied Reenforcements for Troops First Landed. Situation Lends “Sober Satisfaction”

Yanks Take Rome's Port.  Push North   Civita Castellana, Junction 32 Miles North of Rome, Taker as Allies Push Steadily North

Rome's Best Port Taken By 5th Army   Germans Still Withdrawing in Bad State in Italy

Fifth Army Occupies Two Important Cities Nearly © 40 Miles Northwest Rome

Fifth Army Gains in Italy   Keep Chasing Harried Germans North of Rome; Meet Spotty Resistance

Fifth Takes Chief Port Of Rome   Allies Thrust Swiftly Up West Coast Of Italy

ALLIES GOING AHEAD RAPIOL   Enemy Retreating in Direction of Town 49 Miles Northwest of Rome.   GERMANS ADMIT ‘BREAK’

Wife Refuses to Testify ‘against Mate   Attorney Robert . Miller ts Free on $15,000 Bond Following Downtown Slaying

Historic Monastery— Is Heavily Blasted Following Warning   100 Flying Forts Used In Attack; Gunfire Catches Fleeing Nazis; Allies Gaining On Beachhead

Tar. avica._ ‘“azi Dara-ro, 03s Yecarure - =072, fig™ or eo 71's “7e2NnC S-roneo. C

The Weather   FR. Signs Bill Freezing = Security Taxes  Vandenberg Calls For Plain ‘Talk   Vandenberg Calls For Plain Talk On Polish Question

Neutralize Island of  Halmahera   American Bombers Raid Jima in Broad Daylight

Halmahera,’ Last Island © Block Before Philippines Practically. -Neutralized

CLEAR ROAD 10 PHILIPPINES IS WITHIN GRASP   Air Raids On Jap Bases From Timor To Bougainville Revealed

Hammer Out Path To Philippines   Halmahera Island, Last Major Obstacle Now [s Neutralized

BASE NEUTRALIZED   Halmahera, Last Island Obstacle to Philippines, Rendered Harmless

Big Jap Base Of Haimahera Neutralized   Paralyzed by Bombings. Says MacArthur; Yap Also Made Useless

Halmahera Neutralized By Allied —  Air Attacks   ‘Last Major Island Block  Devastated

American Flyers ‘Neutralize’ Japs Halmahera Fields   Airdrome Attacks Threaten Foe’s Defense  Of Philippines

Clamp Blockade On Leyte Coast   Report Martial Law Declared In Manila

Japanese Barges, Luggers In At —tempt.To Run Reinforcements Across Camotes Sea From Cefu Are Wricked   DECLARE MARTIAL LAW IN MANILA

Ships Attempting To Reinforce Jap Troops Wrecked   Ground Units Continue Advance Up Valley Unchecked By Enemy

BLOCK EFFORT TO HELP JAPS IN LEYTE AREA   MacArthur Forces Pus! Unchecked Toward West Coast

TWO MEN, ARRESTED AT TROY, ESCAPED PRISON IN ALABAMA   ’ Removed To Dayton, Pair Will Be Charged With Other Crimes

OVER THE TOP IN ALL BOND QUOTAS   Over All Total in the County Last Night Was $2,107,540

ARMY PLANE WITH WOUNDED MEN SAFE   Transport Reported Overdue Run: Into Storm and Turns Back to Land at Amarillo,

BARIUM RECEIVES GIFT OF $20,000 FOR BUILDING AT ORPHANAGE   Donation Made By Family Of Late Mrs. Kate Fields Grannis Of Fay etteville.

U.S, BRIAN 10 FEED GERIVANY   Russia “Probably Will Seize” Foods in Eastern Germany

U. 3. ERAN TO FEED GERIVANY   Russia ‘‘Probably Will Seize” Foods in Eastern Germany

HAMM FISH WINS AGAIN   t ws es Re: NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN WON REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BY  NARROW? MARGIN °~ YESTERDAY"

FISH 1S VICTOR BY 3,000 IN N.Y,   Sen. Reed Leads in Kansas: Clark Trails Missouri Balloting

Jap Opposition at Truk Was “Weak, Amateurish,” Pilots  Puvaal in First Interviews   ae FARK AVATION

Dance Hall Blaze  Claims Five Lives   44 ‘istered Critically; Search Ruin For Bodies

Judge Boose Names Fike County D.A.   TO SUCCEED THOMAS F. LANSBERRY WHO IS NOW SERVING IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY

Retreating Nazis Use Greek Women, © Children As Hostages During Flight

WOMEN, CHILDREN USED AS HOSTAGES   NAZIS TAKE THEM ALONG TO PREVENT GUERRILLA ATTACKS IN GREECE.

Nazis Fleeing Greece Use Women,  Childyen to Hold Off Guerrillas

Nazis Take Greek Women, Children Hostages in Flight  Turkey Reports Start Of Salonika Evacuation By German Forces

Nazi Papers Themselves Reveal It... ..  Once Powerful Weapon Of German Propaganda Forced Onto Defensive

EVERYBODY Sets NAZIS FINISEIC!   Sweden, Switzerlandand Portugal Dare To Offend Hitler

REICH CHANGES TACTICS SINCE DEFEATS GROM   Propagandists Switch to Defense In Europe; Americans Outdistance British

Army‘s Reverses Force Nazi Propagandists On Defensive   They Bemoan Flood Of Film, Books From U.S. And Enaland tn Portucal

 Definite Retreat of Once-Powerful Nazi Propaganda in Europe Is Noted

Nazis Retreat On Propaganda   German Paper Moan: Pro-Allied Tone In Neutral Presses

DEFEATS FORCING HITLER’S PROPAGANDA ARTISTS TO CHANGE THEIR TUNES   eh Reed FORCING HITLER'S PROPAGANDA BeTioTs TO CHANGE THEIR TUNES Reverses Force Nazis To Take Defensive

Cleveland Faces Street Car Strike   Union Votes to Quit Saturday

BUDGET HEARING 10 BE -OGT. 19:   ‘State to Review:. Appropriations Asked ’ by 14 Tax’ne- Units

BUDGET HEARING TO BE OCT. 19:   state to Review Appropriations Asked by 14 Tax’ng Units

True Shangri-La Story of Five U.S. Flyers Forced to Bail Out Over Forbidden Tibe'

Five Americans Tell of Thrilling Escape From Shangti- La, After ‘Parachuting in Icy Tibet Mountains

REPUBLICS. PLAN ARGENTINA PROBE   South Ameriéan Nations Irk ed Over Speedy Botiylan Act

See Liquidation of Kohima Japs   Allied Troops Attack Nips From Two Sides

‘JAP SUPPLY LINES - INTO INDIA OBJECT  :  OF ALLIED THRUSI   New Drive May Signa Big Push To Clear Out Invaders

ATTACK JAPS IN BURMA FROM 2 SIDES   Major Drive Is Started By Allied Troops

ALLIES OPEN OFFENSIVE AT KOHIMA   Major Drive Under Way to Drive Japs From India

Drive Started To Clean Out  Kohima Area   Attack Is Made From Two Sides In Strong Move To Force Japs From Border Region

ayburn Leading In Texas Primary  +   Other Congressmen, How ever, Are Trailing

GIRL CHARGED WITH SHOTGUN SLAYINGS      Janice Graham, 20, Arrested For October Killing of Two

Peace Fades As Texas Democrats War On Policies   Electors Not Bound To Party's Nominee By One Faction

Solons Consider Funds Measure And Labor Draft   Foreign Relief, Rehabilitation Program Studied

GRAVE PROBLEMS AHEAD  Caution Sounded  Bw Ehull   War Not “All Over But The Shouting”

Slash Looms in FBI, State Fund   SUMS FOR STATE, COMMERCE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS UNDER DEBATE; $231,000,000 TOTAL $6 MILLION UNDER ESTIMATES

House Studies $231,304,700 In Allocations   Appropriations Committee Sends Legislation For Three Departments   VOLUME OF TESTIMONY

Departmental Appropriation ~ Before House   Commerce, Justice and State Department Needs Listed

3-Department Budget Measure To House Floor   $231,304,700 Is Sought For State, Justice And Cammerce Sections.

Approve Fund For Agencies   Sends State. Commerce. Justice Department Appropriation Bill To Floor.

War Not All Over But Shouting, Hall Declares Flatly —   Jones Says Much Plane Plant Investment to Be Loss; Hoover Says Juvenile Delinquency Sweeping U.S.

$231,304,700\Nazi Protest Appropriatior To Argentina Is Requested Near To War

‘Hull Warns War Is Not Over Except For Shouting   Confesses, Toe, It Is ‘Too Late In Life’ For Him To Become A Rureaucrat

BOY SCOUTS TO. HOLD COURT OF ~ HONOR JUNE 2      Captain J. E. Conley,.Home  From Service in Europe ‘To Spealc

Biggest Battle Of New Guinea Campaign Is Or  Enemy Is Unyielding A:   Enemy Is Unyielding As Yanks Struggle>For Airfield   U. S. Fleet To Move On Japan—Nimitz

NEW BLOWS AT JAPS PROMISED BY NIMITZ   Planes, Warships To Strike - Where Only Subs Go Now

PREDICTS NEW DRIVES ON NIPS   Says U. S. Task Forces to Strike Japs’ Home Areas

Lone Private Hoodwinks 19 Germ ans Into Thinking They’re Surrounded And Forces Them To Surrender

Fast-Talking Yank Makes 19 Germans Think  They're Sumounded; Takes Them. Prisoner:

GERMANS ARE HOODWINKED BY DOUGHBOY   Captures Nineteen As Prisoners In His lst Battle

YANK TALKS NAZI CAPTORS INTO GIVING SELVES UP   Little American Privats Talks German Officer and 18 Men Into Believing » » They Were Surrounded

Billy Miller Of Peoria New Hero Of Battle Of Italy.....  Private Tricks German Platoon Into Surrender

He Changed Places  Fast Talking Doughboy Takes 19 Germans Singlehanded

Fast-Talking Yank Hoodwinks German  Officer, 18 Nazis   ieee  Marches Them, SingleHanded, to His Lines After Surrender

Private Pulls Trick Worthy Of Sergeant York; Makes Single-Handed Capture Of 19 Germans

German Captors Surrender To Quick-witted Doughboy   Pyt, Billy Miller Fools Nazi Lieutenant and 18 Men Into Believing Selves Surrounded

American Private Captures German Lieutenant And 18 Enlisted Men In Daring Act

» PVT, BILLY MILLER OUTTALKS GERMAN OFFICER AND MEN   TOLD THEM THEY WERE SURROUNDED, MARCHED THEM BACK TO OWN LINES

Doughboy Hoodwinks 19 Nazis. Marches Them Into Captivity   Peoria, Ill, Youth Tells Germans That His Comrades Have Them Surrounded

Fast-Talking Doughoey Captures German Officer And 18 Men Singlehanded   RY KENNETH L. DIXON

AMERICAN DOUGHBOY CAPTURED BY NAZIS OUTWITS HIS CAPTORS AND CAPTURES ENTIRE GROUP OF 19   Pvt. Billy Miller, 21, of Peoria, Ill., Hoodwinks German Lieut. and 18 Enlisted Men. Tells ‘Them They Are Surrounded and Cannot Escape

Brings in 19 Germans Who Captured Him   Doughboy From Peoria, I. Hoodwinks a Lieutenant and 18 Soldiers

Tito Asks For Gold, Ships For Slavs As Well As Recognition   Says Partisans Comprise True Yugoslav Government, Should Get Frozen Bank , Assets In Addition To Allies’ Support

Tito Urges Allies Grant Recognition To His Government  Asserts Reasons Against Such Recognition, Not Formally

Tito’s Forces Ask Recognition  As Slav Leaders  Help From Allies Als¢ Is Requested by Partisan Chieftain

‘Ruston Households Have Waste Paper That Can Go To War   Surrounding Farms Have Approximately 57.5 Lbs. Per Family

HALSEY HINTS PUSH IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA   Campaign is Successfully Completed  eet  ENEMY ISOLATED  Rabaul Is Reduced to Rubble

ADVANCE 10 MILES BEYOND  AVRANCHES IN TWO PRONGS, TAKE MANY ‘NAZI PRISONERS

Yank Columns  ‘  Drive Ahead Into Brittany   American Armor Is Pointed at Heart of France: Thousands of Prisoners Taken as Enemy Divisions Are Shattered

Germans Unable To Reconstruct Lines   Bag of Nazi Prisoners ts Swelled to More Thon 18.000 in Rapid Advance by Americans

Cross River’ Barrier Guarding South; Believe Germans will Try to Halt Drive.

Doughboys Strengthen Their Hold Along See River And Capture City Of Brecey, A Road  Ee } ers

American Armor Sweeps Down Coast While Infantry Forces Surge Inland: Many Nazis Taken

Yanks Enter Brittany at Four Points   Resistance Crumbling All Along Inland Side Of Big Break-Through  PRISONERS MOUNT

Infantry Drive Crumples Line - Jn Inland Area   Von Kluge Making Effort To Prevent Americans’ Slachine Into OQnen

CRETE, RHODES GARRISONS ARE NOW ISOLATED   Capture of Scarpanto Wipes Out Nazi Military Power in Eastern Mediterranean.

7,893 JAPS ARE KILLED ON GUAM   Nips Trapped in 7 By 10 Mile Area In North

Guam Area Still Held by Japs Narrows Steadily   7893 Japanese Dead Counted on Island

Desperate Japs — Battling Yank Troops On Guam   Dense Undergrowth, Heavy Mud Hold: Up.  Marine, Army Drive.

To Relieve Head Of Polish Army. Of His Commane   Sosnkowski Dismissal To  Result from Red's  Demands

' News Behind the News   omanamer typadicn   WASHINGTON fix Ray Tucker

BULGARIA READY TO QUIT HITLER   Nazis Fight Losing Battle in Tottering Balkans

NAZIS EXPECT  LIVORNO LOSS. ' TO THE YANKS   WEDGE DRIVEN ACROSS HIGHWAY FROM FLORENCE TO SEA—-LIVORNO FIRES  . ARE STARTED

YANKS ADVANCE FROM VOLTERRA   Strategic Wedge Is Driven in Nazi Line on Road to Florence

YANKS PUSH 4 MILES BEYOND VOLTERRA   Drive Strategic Wedge in German Line in Italy

YANKS DRIVE OIAATEGIG WEDGE IN GERMAN LINE   Advance Beyond Important Italian Communications Cente

American Forces Drive Four Miles Beyond Volterra   Strategic Wedge Is Driven Into German Lines On Italian Front   YANKS NEARING VIVORNO PORT

ALLIED FORCES . DRIVING INLAND SOUTH OF ROME   Fifth Army Is Exploiting Surprise Invasion Be hind German Lines   ENEMY IS CONFUSED OVER BOLD VENTURE

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POPP PPP LEE PI PPL LLP PLS  Yankees Forced Back To Rapido River Line

Advance Inland In Great Drive To Take Rome   Widen Bridgehead Behind Nazi Line

Report Allied Landings on  80-Mile Strip   Clark’s Men Advance Several Miles Inland; No Official Report on Invasion Points Giver

Fascist System Eliminated it Soother th  Action Follows Sor After Recognitic; Ry Buccian

U.S. Third Army Captures Major Nazi Positions   Advance Four Miles In Bitter Weather

Bastions Surrender With Astonishing Speed; Germans May Give Up Defenses   VILLAGE OF CORNY TAKEN BY AMERICANS

Yanks Push Forward In Biller Cold   Gen. Von Rundstedt Indicates Citadel  Has Served Purpose

YANKS WITHIN 19 MILES OF SAAR BORDER   NAZIS DROP BACK; 4 MORE TOWNS ARE TAKEN

Third Army Plunges Ahead on 40-Mile Front; Captures 15 Towns   Americans Fight Through Snow and Bitter Cold to Outflank Metz And Drive Closer to German Border

ONE KEYOTONE IN DEFENSES TAKEN   Nazis Fall Back Into City’s Inner Defenses   TOWN CAPTURED   Drive Southeast of Metz Presses to Within 15 Miles Of the Saar Border

Germans Believed Falling Back to Inner De— fancas   FORTS TAKEN WITH . ASTONISHING SPEED   Wheeling Movement Presses Close to Saar Border

American Doughboys Capture Four Towns South Of Fortress, Gain Four Miles

Fort l’Aisne  Is Captured Without Fight   Germans Indicate That They Plan to End Their Resistance

Now Within Three Miles Saar Border   me. * least InAlay Not “Strongly tz. DoughCaptire ‘Cory

Troops Brave Snow, Cold on 40-Mile Front   Indication Nazis May Not Try to Hold Metz; Tanks Drive Into Many Thicourt, Near Saar

Drive Nazis Into Inner Defenses As Eneircling Units Fight Fifteen Miles From Saar Border

L’AISNE FALLS TO AMERICANS WITHOUT FIGHT   Yanks Storm Ahead in Snow, Bitter Cold on 40-Mile Front

[Keystone barrier is toppled as Yankees  eapture three forts   Defenses abandoned with astonishing sneed as nazis retreat to inner fort

Nazis Appear To Be Leaving  Fe ort Defenses   Allies Skirting City To Southeast Forge Closer to Saar Border

ONE IS KEYSTONE™ OF NAZI DEFENSE: IN SOUTH SECTOR   Germans Cede Port L’Aisne and Two Others to Third’? Army Without   a Fight.           FALL BACK TO INNER. RING OF DEFENSE   Patton’s Men Gain Four ees  and Heighten Peril of Encircling the Fortress.

STIMSON SAYS FOE -SHIFTIN   Troops Moved to Strengther West Wall; Secretary Gives Caciualtias

iDawson Loses Rubber Plant, Major Industry, In $60,000 Fire Yesterday   Seventy Persons Out Of Work And Expansion Of Plant Abruptly Halted

20 MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK   Bomber Sinks Cruiser and Subs Take Toll of 19 Enemy Ships

Some Details of Raids By: Super-Forts: Revealed: Vital Industries Targets

Jap Shipping Attacked by Planes, Subs   Two Cruisers Among Latest Maritime Losses of Nipponese

Air, Underseas Blows Hit Jap   Two Nip Cruisers Included Among Pacific Kills

20 JAP SHIPS  ADDED TO... AIR SUB TOL   Bomber Sets. Three Direct Hits on  Cruiser

Prime Minister Of Poland in U.S.   Will Discuss Border Dispute With F.D.R.

1 300 PLANES OPEN ASSAULT, BLAST ENEMY   Bombers, Berlin Says, Start Winter Offensive

Searchers Now Two Miles From  Wrecked Plane  Army Rescuers  Deen In Woods

Catholics Approve Blasting Shrine   Say Monastery Was Death Trap

American Catholic Troops Agree Monastery Should Have Been Bombed Sooner

Photographs Show Monastery Almost Complete Wreck   Life Of One American Doughboy Worth All Th Churches In Europe Catholic Soldiers Agree

10 Killed in Bomber Crash   Two Parachute to Safety at Phillip, S. D.; Tail Fell From Ship

WARPLANES nll AGAIN AT RENCE   Nearly 3,000 Yank Planes From Britain, Italy Pound Military Objectives Third Straight Day

REICH FACTORY CITIES POUNDED   Great Raid Rounded Out By 3,000 U. S. Planes On Ten Targets

3,000 PLANES LASH TARGETS IN LEIPZIG   American Warplanes Pound Military Objectives In Munich And Friedrichshafen

Troops, Naval Guns, Bombers Used by US to Achieve New Gains; Rabaul, Kavieng Heavily Bombed   Vessels Battered, Shore Batteries Silenced as Rabaul Is Left Flaming; Engebi Falls to 22nd Marines; Allied Subs Sink 18 Vessels

Yanks Capture Engebi Island,  Field On Atoll   Destroyers Shell Rabaul, Kavieng: Dozen Small Vessels Damaged,   LIGHT CASUALTIES

Marines Capture Vital Engeb Island in Marshalls; Navy Guns Shell Rabaul Fortress   Lightning Victory Places Our Outposts Within Bombing Reage of Truk; Adm. Nimitz Believes U. S. Casualties Have Been Light

VITAL AIRFIELD SEIZED; SHIPS BLAST RABAUL   Tokyo Radio Stresses “Seriousness Of Situation”

Eniwetok Atoll, Airfield Is Captured By Marine Attack   Destroyers Challenge Rabaul Shore Guns, Leave Jap Fortress In Flame, Ruins

ENGEBI ISLAND, PIVOTAL ENEMY BASE, SUBDUED   U. S. Destroyers Shell Rabaul and Kavieng; Four Ships Sunk.

Marines Take Island With Airfield From Japs On Eniwetok Atoll   New Heavy Toll of Tojo’s Shipping Taken By Planes and Submarines; Tokyo Says Battle of Pacific in Actual Phase at Truk

PEACE BID MADE ~ BY FINNS, BELIEF   QUESTION OF REPUBLICS EXIT FROM WAR SAID TO REST WITH MOSCOW.

400 Red Planes Bomb Helsinki  Fer Nine Hours   Developments Indicate Fivland’s Peace Terms  Not Liked by Russia

Finland's Peace Overtures Sent On To Russian:   Her Exit From War s Now Depending Upon Moscow Action

Dewey Calls for Change   Victory to Shorten War, Insure Peace, Says Nominee

BALLOTS CAST BY DEWEY, F. D.   GOP Nominee Votes At New York City

DEWEY CASTS VOTE IN NEW YORK CITY   Made Final Appeal in Last Night’s Talk

Enemy Is Thrown Back on Many Fronts in India  Japanese Take Losses Generally During Week of Heavy Fights

C10. Committee Branded Outlaw   Congressman Asks Report for President

NXT RYE  HALIVIAHERA ISLE   Southwest Pacific Is Next Likely Target in Drive to Philippines

NEAT BRVE Al MAHERA ISLE   Southwest PacificIs _ Next Likely Target in Drive to Philippines

Party Leaders Are Meeting In St. iit   Both Parties Form Organization,  Draft Platforms

BOTH PARTIES HURL CHARGES OF “BOSSISM”   ‘Allegations Come as Dem‘ocrats and Republicans Gather in Jefferson City to Draft Their State  ' Platforms.

Hurl Boss Charge Ai Each Other   Party Keynoters Use the Same Theme at Meets in Jefferson City   (ORGANIZE FOR ' HOT CAMPAIGNS   Both Sides Confident, But  Democrats Are Told Not 4 to ‘Kid’ Themselves

Jap Flip-Flop ls Remarkable   Propagandists Betray Glaring Defeat of Jap Strategy In Formosa ‘Air Fight

JAP MILITARY ~ TALK GARBLEL   ; Propagandists Now Trying te '» ‘Smooth Over’ Bad .News Off Formosa

Other Islands BetweenTruk.  Palau Raided   No Details Available On Task Force Attack On Powerful Palau  TEWMRVSIET TT OaAaAWNRTTITI Orr

Series of Raids Continuing in Central Pacific   Japs Force British To Retreat in India

Smashing Air Attacks Back Naval Assault On Key Palau Islands   Dismounted Cavalrymen Seize Another Admiralty Isle; Jap Column Forces British Withdrawal in Southwest Burma

U.S. Heavies Blast Truk —   Two-Way Blows Strike Jap Fortress: Navy On Prowl: _

Land Based U. S. Bombers in Two Way Strike at Truk   Pityliu Island Taken Over in MopUp of Admiralties

U. §. BOMBERS AGAIN ATTACK TRUK ISLANDS   ‘Raids Made From Two Directions Cover Palau Assault

Truk Islands Raided Again   Is Fourth Big Raid In The Post Two Days

TRUK HIT 4 TIMES WITHIN TWO DAYS   Palau Attack Details Lacking; Raids Being Staged By Land-Based American Bombers

E nemy Columns Driving  British Back in India   IN THE BANK .. $114,505.12 NATIONAL CREDITS 627.00   POTTER QUOTA OVER THE TOP  se ees  se eeee

Hoffman, Rankin Assail CIO Leader Hillman as ‘Foreiqn-Born Racketeer’

CIO Political Domination Is Charged   Hillman Accused o Attempting to Run Congress

RAMIREZ MAY BE RECALLED   Argentine President’s Reinstatement May Be Demanded

OTHER AMERICAN COUNTRIES MAY DETERMINE ARGENTINA'S FUTURE   RAMIREZ MAY RETURN TO OFFICE IF FARRELL'S NEW GOVERNMENT DOESN’T RECEIVE RECOGNITION

RAMIREZ MAY BE RECALLED TO PRESIDENC'   Seen Possible If Other American Republics Refuse Diplomatic Status For Argentina

RECALL OF RAMIREZ TO PRESIDENCY OF ARGENTINA POSSIBLE   Pro-Axis Group Awaits Reaction Of Other Republics

RAMIREZ MAY AGAIN HEAD ARGENTINA   May Be Recalled If Amer. Republic: Don’t Recognize Farrell

AWAIT REPOR ON SHELLING » OF PALAU   Five Island Strongpoints Of Great Base Raided   50 CARRIERS   Now Plying Pacific Area, Knox Reveals: Japs Lose 31 Planes

New Blows Rain On Foe in Pacific   American Naval Task Force, Attacking  Palau is Protected by Radio Silence  Jap Stronghold of Truk is Bomb-'  ed Again.    50 CARRIERS ACTIVE

‘Another Air Raid Staged Against Truk   50 Aircraft Carriers  Involved in Operations With Naval Task Force

Silence Cloaks Action at Palau   Truk Strongpoints Pounded by Planes

Navy Protected By Radio Silence Which Prevents Reports About Palau.  ATTACKS ARE CONTINUED 

Blows Rained mn Truk From Y Directions    Silence Still Cloaks Attack On Palau Island

Silence Screens Devastation Of Jap Palau Base   More Supporting Air Blows Fall Upon Truk

U.S. BOMBERS ATTACK TRUK IN NEW RAID   Reports Yet To Come On Devastation Wrought By Task Force

SUPPORTING AIR BLOWS FALL ON 5 TRUK ISLANDS   HEAVY EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES TOUCHED OFF IN ATOLL GROUP

RADIO SILENCE ENSHROUDS WORD   OF NEW ATTACKS ON PALAU AND TRUK NEAR THE PHILIPPINES  f   Secretary Knox Reveals Gigantic Aircraft Carrier Force Now Operating in War Zone and Admiral  Nimitz Reports “Our Attacks Continue”

Radio Silence Covers Palau Attack Knox Reveals 50 Carriets In Pacific

Task Force Still Is on the Prow!      Radio Silence Protects Na ~-val Units in Pacific, Including 50 Carriers   MORE AIR BLOWS RAINED. ON TRUK   Japs Enlarge Threat: to Indian Border Town; New “Warning From China

RADIO SWENCE: ‘PROTECTS AMERICAN HAVAL TASK FORCES   50 Aircraft Carriers Prowling Pacific Included in Group.   NO REPORTS GIVEN OUT   The Devastation Wrought on Paulu, Japanese Seabase, Kept a Secret.

Pacific Blow Shrouded In Radio Silence   More Air Smashes At Truk Reported; U.S. Force Wields 50 Carriers

GREAT NAVAL FLEET MOVES KEPT SECRET   Truk Island I: Heavily Hit By Bombers

Army Air Force Also  Hits Truk   Radio Silence Preventing.   Further News of Palau  Assault

Radio Silence Hides Results Palau Attack   Air Blows Being Rained o1 Truk in Support of Task Force Action; 50 Car riers Prowl Pacific

ow  Five Islands” OnTr ukGiven  Hardiiauimg  Atoll Bypassed  br Fleet as It Steamed West to Hammer Palau .  FLIERS START START FIRES  Naval Silence Cloaking Progress in Thrust East of Philippines   PLIERS START FIRES

Pacifie Task Force Silent:  News Awaited Action At Palau Is Not Yet Revealed But More Supporting Blows Fall  ry... *.....t./ Ax... Of

Silence Shrouds US.NavalActions In Pacific Area      50 Aircraft  Carriers Said - With Forces On Prowl; Trunk Is Again Bombed

Radio Silence Protects Task Force At Palau   But More Heavy Sup: porting Air Blov': Are Rained On Truk.

Silence Protecting Roving Pacific Fleet   Nimitz Says Attacks Continue; Fleet Boldly By-Passes Truk Whose Five Island Strong Points Were Blasted By Liberators.

‘Silense Cloaks Operations of “J. S. Naval Force   No News of Damage At Jap Sea Base of  ' Palau; U.S. Airmen Found Truk Anew ~°

REDS SCORE BiG GAINS ON 15-MILE FRONT   Seize Nazi Positions Only 50 Miles From Austrian Border

REDS MAKING ~ ~ SWIFT GAINS   ADVANCES UP TO 20 MILES REPORTED ON THE FRONT “THREATENING AUS TRIAN FRONTIER

Russians Seize Key Cities in Budapest Stab   Capture 100 Towns In Campiign to  Knockout Hungary

Reds Smash Into Hungary   Soviet Juggernaut Rolls Over Last Big Axis Satellite On Broad Front

NEW OFFENSIVE INTO HUNGARY GETS UNDERWAY   Russians 100 Miles From Budapest And 15 Miles  Fram Svaced   AUSTRIA IS NEXT ON MOSCOW’S SCHEDULE

RUSSIAN TROOPS DRIVE 13 MILES ~INOIDE HUNGARY   Reds Smash Forward on 75Mite Front, Capturing Key Towns and Important Junctions.   LEAFLETS URGE NATION TO ABANDON GERMANY   Moscow Dispatches Hint That Knockout Blow Will Be Followed by Invasion of Austria.

Soviets Smash 13 Miles  Inside Hungary Russians Seize 100  Localities on r7Ir LAST. CEF* .. Og

HIMMLER HOLDING REINS, SIGNS SHOW   Mystery Clouds - Where. abouts of Adolf Hitler

Nazis Try fo Persuade World Hitler Has Not Been Replaced by Himmler

Proclamation By Fuehrer  Is Labelled  Ghost Written   Increasing Signs Seen Himmler Has Taken Over as No.1 in Reich. Possibly Even Army MYSTERY DEEPENS

WHEREABOUTS OF HITLER PUZZLES; BELIEVE HIMMLER HAS TAKEN OVEI   Goebbels Tries To Persuade World Hitler In Excellent Health; Fuehrer Reported Under Care Of Four Doctors

Goebbels Trie: To Tell World Hitler Is Well   Four Doctors Said Caring for Fuehrer;  Speech Ghost-Written

Hitler Mystery Deepens; Fuehrer Reported Under Care of Four Physicians

Signs Are Increasing That Hitler Has Been Deposed as No. 1 Nazi, Even Militarily — Latest Report Is That the Fuehrer Is Under the Care of Four Doctors With Gestapo Leader in Control.   By RICHARD KASISCHKE      Disarming of Saar Planned at Paris

Connecticut GOP. ‘Spe aks EF or Baldwin   State . ‘Conveiition. Urges He:Be Considered for Presidential Race

Nazi-Swedish Affairs Near Crucial Stage   German Minister Reports To Berlin As Swedish Police Round Up Gestapo.

Reich’s Envoy Rushes Home to Make Report   Stockholm Reported Rounding Up Cestapo Agents in Defiant Stand

Several Still Missing After Big Snowstorm   Search Under Way For Boy, Gir! In Area; Light Bnow Falls Today

Big Plane Fleet Raids Continent   : Heavy Bombers, Including American, Sweep Over Channel In Strong Force   (RETLLETIN)

May Announce Raids in Advance   Gen. Spaatz Notes Luftwaffe’s Reluctance to Give Battle

RAIDS BY ROBOT BOMBS ON U, S. HELD POSSIBLE   War And Navy Depart. ments Warn Of Likely Attacks By Nazis   COULD EMPLOY SUBS TO LAUNCH MISSILFS

ROBOT BOMB RAID — ONU, 5. POSSIBLE   War and Navy Departments Discuss Possibility of Attacks

Robot Attack On America  Said Possible   Departments of War and Navy Say Germans May Strike at U.S.

PLAN CODE FOR FOREIGN LOANS   Americans Expect Rush For U. S. Investments

U.S. Offers Code For Extension O; Investments In World Enterprise

U. S. Delegates at International Business Conference Lay Down Code For Investments in Foreign Countries

Deferments To Be Fewer   Especially 18-21 Year Olds: Pre-Induction Physicals For All Now

BOARDS GRAPPLE WITH NEW RULES   Face Doubly-Difficult Task Of Switching Induction Machinery Without Slowing Flow of Men to Services

CHANGE ENLARGES DRAFT BOARD TASK   MUST OVERHAUL SYSTEM UN4 DER. NEW PLAN WITHOUT SLOWING FLOW OF MEN.

lajor Changes for Drafting Start Tuesday   hifts Hit Draft Boards A: They Strive To Meet 600,000 Quotas for  January and February   Deferments Stand;  \ot ToBe Renewed   \o Registrant To Be In ducted: Until He Has Passed Physical Exam 21 Days Previously

DEFERMENTS CUT IN NEW DRAFT POLICY CHANGES   Pre-Induction Furloughs Lengihened To Forty-Five Days

Local Draff Boards Face A Double Problem  Must Keep Up Flow of Men While Overhauling Routine

LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS kl BY CHANGES   Shifts Will Burden Selective Service Machinery

DRAFT CHANGES DUE TUESDAY   Pre-Induction Physicals To Be Given, Deferments Cut

NATION’S DRAFT BOARDS SEEKING 600,000 MORE   Selective Service Alters Program, Giving Inductees More Time to Report

Draft Boards Overhauling Old System   New Major Changes Effective This Week; Seek Larger Pool

Draft Boards Overhaul Work   Pre-Induction Exams To Slow Down Service Inductions at First

PRESIDENT HAILS INVASION OF PHILIPPINES AS MOVE TO TEACH JAPS AN UNFORGETTABLE LESSON

JAPAN GIVEN NOTICE U.S. IS ON MARCH   Americans Hit Base Two-Thirds Of Way to China

DEEP THRUST IS MADE INTO ENEMY EMPIRE   American Forces In Central Pacific Extend Their Striking Range.

PONAPE (SLAND = IN GAROLINES 1S ~ HEAVILY BOMBED   Land-based Liberators Begin Thrust Westward Toward China Coast.

Yanks Bombard Caroline Isles  Tn Pacific Area   Enemy Bases Pounded In Push To Extend Allied Range To West

Caroline Island Base of Enemy Given Bombing   Bombers Range 3000 Miles West Of Pearl Harbor

Striking Range Of U. S. Planes Increased; Island Ponape Is Raided

YANK PLANES BLAST PONAPE IN CAROLINES   Demonstrate Jap Islands Vulnerable

CAROLINES ARE LAID OPEN 10 DIRECT ATTACK   Striking Range Of Land-Based Liberators Extended, Ponape Hit

WATERLOO SNOW IS 3 INCHES   ‘Report Highways Are Slippery, Dangerous

CHOICE BEEF HAS haifa   NEBRASKA SENATOR DE. “CLARES 41 PER CENT FEWEE « “CATTLE ARE NOW ON  ° FEEDLOTS.-: a

AAF Pounds Aircraft Center And German Flying Fields   b coe Guan ees ‘Narrow Squeak on Rome Front

British Escape German Trap At Beachhead   Fierce Fighting Puts Quick Halt To Desperate Move

Nazi Counter-Stab on Feb.3 Trapped Big British Force Several Hours Near Rome

British Had Close Call   Thousands Temporarily Trapped in Salient North Of Carroceto

Disclose German Vise on British   Thousands of Troops Trapped for Several Hours Near Rome but Extricated Later

Thousands Of British Troops ‘Cut Off In Salient But Trap Is Broken In Confused Battle   Germans Pinch Off Large Force Near Beachhead But Positions Are Restored

OPA Announces New Schedules  Fresh Apricots, Plums   Fresh Apricots, Plums And Cherries Under Price Control Now

SEND MILITIA TO KASKASKIA RIVER   TO PATROL LEVEES AT BARTELSO, NEW BADEN, GERMANTOWN

BURMA ACTIVITIES GIVE HINT OF BIG MOVES IN ASIA WAR THEATRE SOON

IOWA VS, OnIC IN PAPER DRIVE   State Accepts Challenge on Per Capita Basis

Iowa Accepts Ohio Challenge in Paper Salvage Contest   Paper Now Nation's No.  Critical Material; Bor Canita Mallardian bined Ba Deamcdadl Cunn

Navy Radioman Is Rescued From Guam After Spending 31  Months Hiding From Japanese

Navy Radioman Who Eluded Jap Capture For 31 Months Is Rescued From Guam

Navy Radioman Rescued After 31 Months Hide-And-Seek Fiaht With Jans On Guam

REACH AIX IN RRONE VALLEY DRIVE   Marseille, Toulon  Isolated; Durance River Crossed

Marseille, Toulon Are Isolated by Yanks and French   Greal Naval Base Appears Doomed

Marseille And Toulon Outflanked   7th Army Spearheads Cross Durance in Drive in Rhone Valley

Troops Thrust Withir Outskirts Of Aix-EnProvence; Marseille Isolated

MARSEILLE, TOULON. * SEALED BY ALLIES   Seizure- of French. Cities Reported to be Im  minent

Allies Sweep _ Over Durance In S. France’   ‘Seventh Army Reported —> Ehosing In Swiftly. “On Great Naval Base  MAOUIS CLOSE TRAP’

MARSEILLE IS ISOLATED BY ALLIED TROOPS   reat Naval Base Of Tow. lon Is Being Cut Off By French Forces   AAQUIS DISRUPTING NAZI WITHDRAWAL

New Nazi Long-Range Rocket Is Long As Telegraph Pole, Weighs 15 Tons

 lowa Farm Price Index Advances One Point; Report Grain Stocks in State

Russians Widen  Danube Control   Nazis Lose Bridgehead; Reds Drive 7 Miles

Nazi Bridgehead on Danube Is Wiped Out   Russians Control 240- Mile Stretch of River

SHIP'S CAPTAIN. SHOT TO DEATH   SLAIN IN EXCHANGE OF FIRE WITH NAVAL GUN CREW ABOARD HIS VESSEL.

Naval Captain Shot to Death:   Karl J. Larsen Killed Aboard Merchant Shir SS: Thomas J. Walsh

NAZI BATTLESHIP HIT BY BRITISH   16 Other Enemy Vessels Are Claimed To Be Damaged

LARGE, MEDIUM BOMBS CRASH BATTLEWAGO}   16 Other Enemy Vessels Damaged In Series of Attacks in Waters

British Planes Hit Tirpitz In Attacks   16 Other Nazi Vessels Suffer, Admiralty Says

British Score Hits on Tirpitz   Damage at Least 16 Other Enemy Ships In Shipping Attacks

Battleship Tirpitz Again Damaged By British Fliers  Sixteen Other Enemy Vessels Are Hit By Raiding Planes

TIRPITZ IS BOMBED   British Naval Planes Raid Installations on’ the Norwegian Coast

Tirpitz and Other Ships Are Bomhed   British Naval Planes in Raids On Nazi Battleship In Northern Waters   6 RADIO STATIONS ALSO DAMAGED   Attack Along Route Nazis Would Use in Leaving Finland

R.A.F. Fliers Hit — Battleship Tirpitz   Damage at Least 16 Other Enemy Vessels in Recent Attacks on Enemy Shipping in Northern Waters, Admiralty Says.

Battleship Tirpitz Again Damaged By British Fliers  Sixteen Other Enemy  Vessels Are Ett

BRITISH PLANES ALSO BLAST 16 OTHER VESSELS   American Bombers Lash Big German Industrial Centers, Including Stuttgart

British Planes Bomb Tirpitz   Repaired German Battleship Hit Anew In Norway Foray

Congressmen Learn Service Men Not Only Want To Vote But Intend To Seek Office

. Not Only Do Soldiers Want To Vote, But Some Are Planning To Run For National Offices

NATIONAL OFFICES BEING SOUGHT BY SOME WAR VETS   Cengress Finds Many Intend Not Only to Vote But to Run For Office—Trend Pointed By Special Elections

Men in Service Are Office Candidates  in Many Localitie:   Men in Service Run _ for Office From President  Down

Congress Discovers Some Service Men Not Only Want Vote, But Are Candidates

WAR VETS TD ~ SEEK OFFICES   Congress Discovers Fact in Issue of Vote for Service Men, Women,

‘Keeping King  Of Italy’ Flat   Count Sforza Opposes Churchills Thesis Of Keeping King Emanuele.

Count Sforza Expresses Opposition To  Churchill's Plan To Keep Emanuele On Throne

HARD FIGHT IN PACIFIC AREA SEEN BY SEC'Y   Japan's Air Forces to be ‘Tougher, Forrestal Savs -

Japs Stiffen ToU.S. Blows   Forrestal Predicts Long. Hard Pacifie Struggle

Japan's Air Forces Will Prove Tough   Forrestal Says Pacific War Will Be Long and «Hard as_ Enemy's Planes Imnrove

Jap Planes Improved © And_ More. Concentrated; Secretary Points Out _

Nazis Retake Cassino Fort   Allies Face Critical And Grim Situation

NAZIS SWARM INTO CASSINO VIA TUNNELS   Secret Subterranean  Passages Used In — Counter-Attack 

POLES TAKE OVER   Underground Army of Gen. Bor Seize Buildings  In Warsaw

Russians Only 91 Miles From Hun Territory   Other Soviet Army Groups In North Shell Towns and Villages Inside East Prussia   Reds 5 Miles From Czecho-Slovakia   Germans Chased From Jabonkow; Official Sources Silent On Siege Of Warsaw

Poles Battle In Warsaw   Underground Reported To Have Captured Several Major Points

Russians Shell German Positions Inside of Prussia   Polish Underground Army in Warsaw Captures the  Chief Skyscraper.   Other Forces Closer To Big Polish City

Official Sources Silent on Warsaw, Germans Calling uf Reserves There

Underground Army Captures Several City Strongholds   Russian Forces Advance to Within 91 Miles of Nazi Silesia

Poles Capture Warsaw Points  Principal Buildings Of Capital Fall to Gen. Bor’s Partisans

Flanking Drive on Warsaw   Germans Evacuate East Prussian Area Periled by Russians

DE MARIGNY AUCTION BRINGS HIGH PRICES   Washtub. Sells for ‘Ten Times Its Worth—Second-Hand - ‘Bicycle GQGnersr far 2117.

President Joins Britain  In Last Appeal to Finn:   Roosevelt Asks “Hateful Partnership” Be Ended— RRC Points To Comins Disaster

British Forces Advance In New Offensive Around Caen; Canadians Face Stiffer Resistance.

Armor Columns Encircle Nantes, Angers, Lorient   Bordeaux Said To Be Under Siege of Allies

PUSH FANNING QUT 10 FLANK CITY ON SOUTH   Other Forces Put Noose Over Nantes, Angers and Sub Base at Lorient.

Cpl. Ray McNeill Injured In Action   WAR DEPARTMENT REPORTS ALPINE MAN IS HURT IN BURMA AREA

PRESBYTERIANS If LIQUIDATE DEBI   C-. A. Demarest of New York Is Campaign Director

RESBYTERIANS' TC LIQUIDATE DEBT ~   C. A, Demarest . of New York Is Campaign Director

Soviets Tear Huge Gaps in ~ Nazis’ Lines      One Russ Column Close: In on Key City of Lwow   Other Forces Crashing Outer Defenses of Brest Litoysk

Soviet Tide Overpowers Nazi Lines   Six Red Armies Pour Through Gaps Reach Outskirts Of Brest Litovsk

Eastern. Fror   One- Spearhead Point ' Lwow in Poland, ‘A er Drives Into La :

Six Soviet Armies Push ‘Nazis Back   Russians Pouring Through   Huge Holes Battered Into Hitler’s Eastern Front; Closing Upon Lwow

Soviets Twenty Miles Inside Latvian Border   New Breakthrough Extends Front To 950 Miles in Length As Reds Rush Ahead

Reds Crash Defenses of Fortress City   Other Soviet Troops Cross Curzon Line, Reports Say

Still Another _ New Offensive Along Baltic   Reds Driving New Wedge in Enemy Line South: of Ostrov, Stalin Says   DEEPLY-STAGGERED D=#FENSES BROKEN   Main Centers All “Along Eastern Front Threatened in Continuing Drives

SIGNIFICANT OBJECTIVES JUST AHEAD   Offensive To South Breaks Through On Front Of 125 Miles

LWow IN NEW DRIVE   Breakthrough Scored » By Konev’s Forces In South Poland

REDS REPORTED CRASHING INTO BREST-LITOVSK   Armies Are Now 20 Miles Inside Latvian Border On North

Six Russian — Armies Pour Through New Line Breaks   ‘Lwow Circle Being Closed By Soviets

Russians Strike  West Of Kowel   Nazi Resistance In Italy Slackens

Soviets Open  New Drive on Baltic Front   Stalin Reports Gains South of Ostrov in Order of the Day

REDS ENTERING BREST LITOVSK   Soviet Units Cross Curzon Line Into Poland Proper

REDS LAUNCH THIRD OFFENSIVE OF WEEK AT KOWEL, TAKE 400 TOWNS   RUSSIANS FIGHT TO LWOW OUTSKIRTS, REACH SUBURBS OF BREST LITOVSK IN NORTH POLAND

6 RED ARMIES POUR THROUGH NAZI LINE GAPS   Break Extends Along 129Mile Front; Berlin Radio Admits Danger.

Red Armies Crash Outer Defense Of Brest Litovsk  Several Soviet Units Pierce Curzon Line to Enter Poland

One Reported To Be Crashing Outer Defenses Of Brest Litovsk: Konev Strikes Hard   125-Mile Break-Throuzh Scored In South; Berlin Commentators Say Situation Serious On Eastern Front; 550-Mile Front Aflame

Russian Armies Pour Into Holes On East Front   Berlin Sees Aim To Bag Southern Nazi Forces;

Soviets Smash At Defense of Brest Litovsk   Other Red Army Troops Cross Curzon Line Into Poland Proper, 45 Miles North of Fortress City

NAZI DEFENSES TOTTER BEFORE SOVIET ARMIES BATTLE FLAMES ON  7 FRONTS; GERMAN MORALE WEAKENING

Six Russian Armies Aim For Berlin   Soviets Fightin In Suburbs Of Brest-Litovsk

HITLER'S EAST FRONT PIERCED BY RED ARMIES   Russians Inside Latvian Border In New Drive

Russians in  New Attack   Offensive on Third Balkan Front South Of Ostrov Announced

British Smash Counterattack Below Caen —   Americans Clear Germans Out Of St. Lo; Red Army Reported Crashing Wall of Brest-Litovsk

Six Red Armies Pour Through Hitler's East Wall Despite Nazi Counter-Attack

Russians Open  New Offensive   Stalin Announces New Drive West Of Kowel: Reds  Reach Augustow.

Reds Drive On Lwow In New Ukraine Push   Other Soviet Forces  In Latvia; Some Have Reached ‘39 Border; Skomorokhi Taken

RUSSIANS CROSS CURZON LINE   Troops Sweep Upon Lwow Like Tidal Wave

SOVIETS PUSH TOWARD LWOW IN NEW ATTACK   Six Russian Armies Score Big Gains on 550 Mile Front

Soviets Crash Outer Gate Of Brest Litovsk   Other Russian Troops Cross Curzon Line Into Poland Proper.   NAZI LEADERS FIGHT

b AED ARMIES BAT TERING AT GEANIAN LINE   Attacking Outer Defenses of Brest-Litovsk, Drive Closer to Lwow.

Russian Armies Pouring Throug! astern Front   Six Armies Reported Making Breakthroughs in Big Holes on Hitler’s Eastern Front.

GERMANS DECLARE SOVIETS AIM AT ISOLATING WHOLE NAZI ARMY IN SOUTH AT LWOW AND KOQWEL   Brest-Litovsk, Warsaw and Other Vital and Strategi Centers May Fall at Any Time As Great Russian Drive Envelops Great Areas following 125-Mile Rreak-Through German Lines

Soviet Army Pours Thru Huge Holes Over Front   Major Objectives Are Just Ahead Of Russians

LWOW BEING CIRCLED BY RED ARMIES   Great Offensive Aimed to Cut Off All of German Army on Russian Front  Berlin Declares. .

POUR THROUGH HUGE HOLES IN LINES   Wide Breakthrough Made 4 By Red Troops   SOVIET FORGES   Reported Only Five Miles From Point Where Germany Started War

6 Red Armies Pour Through  Eastern Front   One Spearhead Points at Lwow in Poland, Another Drives Into Latvia

Breakup of Nazi Army Seems Near   German-Held Cities Totter as Red Forces Push For a Decision

NazisDrivenBack To Starting Point   Reds Have Pushed Them to Near ithe Frontier af  Poland '   TANKS CROSS THE BUG   German Lines at Lwow De. fend Direct Invasion ‘Route to Germany

“550 MILES IN LENGTH   Gains Range From Northern Latvia to Lwow Area, Where New Offensive May Pocket All Nazis in South.

BRED ARMIES PUSH FORWARD   Konev’s Troops Make New 125-Mile-Wide Breakthrough on South.   INSIDE LATVIA BORDER

Reds Crashing Outer Lines of Brest Litoysk   Other Forces Reported Across Curson Line Into Poland Proper

ROBOT BOMBS FALL ON SOUTH ENGLAND   London Alerted: At Least Five ‘Are Killed —s &

RUSSIA SAYS POLAND IS STILL MILES AWAY  Saviet Army Craccec Old Border   Soviet Army Crosses Old Border But Reds Recognize Lines of 1939

REDS STILL MILES AWAY FROM POLAND   New Border 150 Miles South Of Russia

Moscow Considers Polish Border Still Far Beyond   Government Refuses  To Recognize  Partition of Area

Where Is True Pole  Frontier ?   Russians Not Yet Saying Border Is Reached

Greek Troops Make Advance   Spearheads Fighting In Italy With Br itish Smash Across Marano River

spearheads Cross Marano Despite Fierce German Resistance; Americans Gain Toward Bologna

NOXON GUILTY OF MURDERING SON, JURY DECLARES   Secially Prominent Attorney Faces) Same Kind of Death He Devised for  Bahv._

Congress Plans ‘Easy Way Out To Get Recess   May Put Off Disputed Parts of Conversion  Till After Election

HEAVIES BLAST BOMB CARPET TOWARD BERLIN   10,000 Pounds Of Explsive Laid Down By 5,00° Bombers

Allies Make Greatest Air Attacks Of War on Numerous Nazi Positions

Germany Suffers Greatest Air  Blow in. History 10,000 Tons Bombs  Are Dropped Ine Allied Rambkare

Germany Blasted By Great ~ Concentrated Air Assault   Overwhelming Formations of Between 5,000 and 6, - 009 Allied Planes Drop 10, 000 Tons   at: Renlactonn.:

Germany Blasted By Great  _ ‘Concentrated Air Assault   Overwhelming Formations of Between 5,000 and §,~ 000 Allied Planes Drop 10,000 Tons  [ ie ; » a«f-Exnlocivce 

FRED Ht KELLY RE-ELECTED AS M.S 0. HEAD   Mrs. F. L. Lyons Jr. Renamed Chairman of Women’s Group

Advance 15 Miles Below Caen; Yankees Plunge Past Le Mans; Heavy Battles Raging In Area   St. Malo Garrison Yielding, Germans Intimate;  oy  U.S. Troops Driving East On 50-Mile Front; 100 Nazi Subs Believed To Have Escaped

To Observe World Community Day © Church Women Of  LeMars Meet Sunday

Plan Ways” To Rafat Freed Lands   England and U.S. Map _ Program _to Provide ° Food and Relief ~ To Civlians

U.S. Task Force Strikes Within 650 Miles Tokyo   Six Japanese Ships Sunk Or Damaged

TANAPAG PORT ALSO TAKEN BY AMERICANS   U.S. Ships, Planes Hit Rota, Iwo Jima in Same Region

U. S: Subs Sink Better Than One Jap Ship Daily —   Total of 203 Enemy ~Nessels Destroyed Since November, 1943

SUBS SINK FOES’ VESSELS AT RATE  OF ONE EACH DAY   Jap Vessels Being Sent to Bottom Faster Than They Can Be Replaced.

Enemy Trapped on Main Isle of Marshalls   Americans Take Roi Atoll, Land on Rest of Group

SEIZE NEARLY ALL OF LAST ENEMY AIRFIELD   Opposition On Marshall Isles Gradually Shrinking

U.S. MARINES AND INFANTRY SEIZE ENEMY AIRFIELD   U. 5S. Fleet Pouring More Troops Ashore on 90 lelondc«

Airtield Is Taken By Yanks   Most of 90 Isles In Atoll Occupied By U. S. Invaders

Troops Grip Half of Final Aerial Base   Roi Island Overrun ‘By Invading. Forces; Defenses Pulverized

American Units Closing On Last Jap-Held Airfield   Planes Pound Remnants of Enemy Forces After Capture of Roi Island

‘MARINES HAVE TAKEN ROI ISLE,  AND BIG AIRPORT   Defenders Feel Power of !nvaders As They Fall Back Into Poekets.

KWAJALEIN FIELD ‘IS NEAR CONTROL OF ALL ED FORCES   U.S. Marines and Army Occupying 90, !slands, Inlets as Rapidly as Soldiers Get Ashore.   JAPS, DISORGANIZED  STARVING, FLEEING   German DNB News Agency Declares Tokyo and Kyoto Are Being Evacuated, Fear Air Raids.

U.S. Marines and Infantry Gain in Marshalls Action   Conquest of Japanese-Held Atoll Is Near

Marines Corner Enemy on Atolls   Defending Garrisons Squeezed Into Pockets, Face Annihilation

Land And Naval Guns Pound Jap Defenders   5,000 Tons Of Bombs And Shells Pulverize 20 Yr. Old Defenses

Roi Captured, 2 Other Isles Soon to Fall  American Invaders Find Enemy Opposition Crushed by sheiling AIR FIELDS TAKEN Yank Fliers Get Bases for Direct Air Attack on Truk Fortrese

CAPTURE OF ROL TS ANNOUNCED   Remainder of 90 Islets in the Atoll Being Occupied as Rapidly-as U.'S. Forces Go Ashore -- :

Truman Resigns As Investigator   Chairman Refuses Pleas To Continue In Post

Japs Say Three Waves Hit Manilla   YANKS TAKE ANOTHER ATOLL   Is Only 100 Miles From Jap Naval Base On Yap Island.

Japs Start Evacuation  Ot Tokyo:   School Children ” And Civilians Flee Bomb-Menaced City

Tokyo Plans To Move Children  Announcement Made After B-29 Attack

ADMIRAL KING REPORTS ON NAVAL ACTION IN ALL THEATRES OF WAR SINCE HE TOOK OVER COMMAND; NOW ON THE OFFENSIVE

ADMIRAL KING DECLARES EN: EMY POSITIONS IN  EUROPE CAND PACIFIC IS INCREAS. .  ' INGLY DESPERATE

COT. AWOORMICR WARRIES   GERMANS ACCOMPLISH Chief Purpose of Offensive

WAR: INTERNEES — OFF FOR LISBON   GRIPSHOLM LEAVES N. Y. FOR EXCHANGE OF U. S. AND AXIS PRISONERS.

WAR INTERNEES ARE EXCHANGED      Motor Ship Gripsholm To Bring Back 307 Americans

Capital Is Drafting Plans For Hike In War Output   Cuts Proposed In Funds For Non-War Agencies; Russo:  Polish Boundary Dispute Due For Study; Crop Insurance Bill Passes, Committee Shake Ups

ittle’ Opposition Encountered In. Bill.'te: Give. Protec ‘tion to Fdtmars:

REVERSES A STAND   House Passes Crop Insurance Bill to Redeem Campaign Pledges

House Votes Crop Insurance   Reverses 1943 Stand; Terms Eventually to Cover Wide Range of Products

House for Insurance on Crops   ‘Reversing a 1943 Stand, It  Passes Measure, 254-16, on Roll Call Vote   GIVEN SUPPORT BY BOTH PARTIES   Campaign Pledge Redeemed in Action; Cost of Procram Is-Not Estimated

Crop Insurance Passes House By 254-16 Vote   Action Is Reversal  Of Stand Takenin "1943; Party Pledges  Have Been Redsemed

CROP INSURANCE MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE TODAY   Bill Protecting Nation’s Farmers Goes to Senate After Lower House, Reversing a 1943 Stand, Passes lt— Poth Parties Endorse It 

HOUSE PASSES CROP INSURANCI   Reverses Stand Taken on Measure in 1943

DE GAULLE IN WASHINGTON FOR PARLEYS   French Leader Given Wel come by President Roosevelt

Gen. de Gaulle Begins Parley With Roosevelt   French Chjef Gets Warm Greeting Vests, President At White Hanco

DeGaulle And Roosevelt Meeting To Smooth Out ~ French And U.S. Friction

Advocates Peace By F orce, If Necessary Foe Ruvoa Chief Urees U. S. Take World Leadership

Advocates Peace By F orce, If Necessary  Bove Bareau Chiet Urees U.S: Take World Leadership

O'Neal Urges World Pact For Peace   Farm Burcu Beas Says Force Control Wars

FARM LEADER WANTS POLICE   World Peace And Prosperity May Depend On Organs ized Force; Wants Econe amv OF Planty.

ADVOCATES WORLE CURT PLAN   Edward A. O’Neal of American Farm Bureau Says Nation Forced into Leadership

Oklahoma Vote Tests 4th Term, oosevelt Policy   4, Congressional Nominees Overshadowed by Political Issues

OKLAHOMA BATTLE CLOSELY WATCHED   Congressional District Be comes National! Political Backaround

Labor Rifts Continuing With 15,000 Off Of Jobs   Arms Output Slash Seen Over Country

Work Or Fight’ Move Growinc   Numerous Strikes Add Fuel To Law Demand

Labor Dispute: Keep 15,000  Workers Idle   Work-or-Fight Legis. lation Gains Strength In Senate

WIDESPREAD DISPUTES   Walkouls Halt Vital Work in Many Sections of Country

b, N DOZEN STRIKES   ‘Work Or Fight’ Pian Supporters Look to White House for Sicnal.

FRESH LABOR ROWS DEVELOP OVER- COUNTRY   Pronosed Teamster ’ Strike in Detroit Averted

DOZEN STRIKES KEEPING 19,000 WORKERS IDLE   Add Support. for Enactment of ‘Work or  Fight’ Law

Labor Strikes Keep 15,000 From Working   Disputes -‘Coincide With “Work Or Fight” Legislation Now Being Considered

WORK-OR-FIGHI LEGISLATION IS GIVEN BIG PUSH   Widely Separated Strikes Keep 15,000 Idle

- More Than Dozen Labor Disputes Over Nation ~ Keep Approximately 15,000 Workers From Jobs

13,000 IDLE IN DOZEN STRIKES   TEAMSTERS WALKOUT AVERTED BY CONFERENCE

YANKEES DRIVE HALF THROUGH SIEGFRIED LINE   Berlin Says American Army 200,000 Strong Paced By 1,000 Tanks   RELENTLESS MOVEMENT   3,000,000 Allies May Be Engaged In Furious Push To End War

British More Than Replacing Planes   Have Put Out More Than 90,000 During War

British Plane Output 90,000   Production Figures Since War’s Beginning

IG INTERVIEW U. 0. NAVAL APPLICANTS   Lt. Walker of the Naval Reserve to Be In Terre Haute

RUSSIANS NOW WITHIN 25 MILES DNIESTER RIVER   Hard - Pressed Germans Struggling Desperately To Escape Onrushing Red Army.

Russians Within Thirteen Miles of Black Sea Port.   MacARTHUR TO TAKE THE PHILIPPINES   THE PHILIPPINES Pledge to Philippine Peo ple That He Will  Return.

Argentine Crisis Nears - Climax Today   ‘Navy Hinted Ready to Act In Restoring Ramirez to _ Presidency

Move Made By Navy To Oust Gen. Farrell      Extensive Troop Movements Around Buenos Aires Last heey Bar   CENSORSHIP TIGHT

Revolt Brings Fresh Crisis in Argentina  Navy Reported to   Navy Reported to Be Attempting to Restore Ramirez 

Fuehrer Makes Desperate Attempt To Stamp Out Rebellion   Leading Military  Chiefs Executed   Von Runstedt And Von  Brauchitsch Among Those Reported Killed

Hitler Gives ArmyCommand: to Nazi Fanatics   Fight on,He Begs German Soldiers as Revolt Wanes

Junkers Appear Balked As Nazi Party Fanatics: fake War Front Posts

U. §. Troops Killed 31 Japs For Every Doughboy Lost at Hollandia

GIVE FIGURES ON OPERATIONS   American Troops Kill at Least 31 Japanese for Every Doughboy Lost During First 17 Days of Operation in Hollandia Area.

- Americans Lose Only 28 Men In Hollandia Area   ‘American P-T Boat Lost In Struggle In North Solomons

Will Rogers’ Body Home ‘on Range   “PRIVATE SERVICES HELD IN MUSEUM BY HUMORIST’S STATUE

WILL ROGERS IS  BURIED IN OKLA   Humorist’s, Rody Re turned From California Yesterday

GOV. GREEN RUNS AHEAD OF TICKET IN STATE VOTING   ROOSEVELT, LUCAS SET PACE; MERRITT DEFEATED BY 13,836

REPUBLICANS INCREASE LEAD IN STATE VOTE   Green’s Majority Over Courtney  Now 63,000

Illinois Republicans Win All But ‘One State Administrative Office

TOP POLITICAL ADVISERS SEE EARLY CHOICE   Governor Will Accept, Says Sprague—To Have Hand In Platform Making   NEW YORK CLAIMS HIT   Bricker Manager Declares Figures Of Easterner Are “Wholly Fantastic”

DEWEY CHIEFS GREASE THEIR BANDWAGON   New York Governor’s Advisers Say He'll Accept Nomination

FEDERAL PAYROLL Is CUT FROM 450 TO 70   Federal Crop Insurance Corp Is Being Liquidated

Allied Airmen Seek to Clear Philippines Path   Lash Wakde Island Base of Japs With 220 Tons of Bombs

YANKS POUND WAKDE AGAIN   Press Drive to Immobilize Jap Airpower on Path To Philippines

Allied Airmer Press Drive Against Japs   Immobilization of Enemy Air Power Is Goal of Attacks

ALLIED FLIERS HIT NEW GUINEA BASE   Total of 220 ~Tons of Bombs Rained on Wadke Island

Dutch New Guinea Bombed by Allies   220 Tons Dropped On Wakde Island

ANUPAM SR BY Se ae enema  HAL F. MILLER IS NEW SUPERVISOR, FILLS VACANCY  ey   Toulon Township Board 0: Appointment Fill Post For Three Years.

Here Are Answers to Questions on Demobilization After Germany Falls

FORCE IS TO BE CUT AT WRIGHT FACTORY   Big Lockland Plant To Make Superfort Engines

CLEAR WEATHER BRINGS THREAT OF NEW PLASTERING BY ALLIED SKY FLEET

Allied Planes Batter at Reich Again   Weather Improves; Bombers Make Two-Way Assault

AIR FLEETS BELIEVED OVER GERMANY AGAIN   Better Weather May Resull In More Heavy Attacks

Huns Prepare For Another Air Raid   Weather Gives Promise of Repeat of Yesterday’s Attack

Allied Bombers Again Out Over German Areas   Heavy Battering Of Enemy Targets Kept Going By Air Force

ALLIES WIPE OUT GERMAN BASE TODAY   Fightine Begins In Italy With Great Attack

Nazis Driven Back By British Troops On Beachhead Front   New Action Opens On Italian Front As Good Weather Returns; Ground Still Soggy

Freeman Field Promotions Made   Ranks of Fifteen Officers Raised, Col. E. T. Rundquist Announces

Major WV. Coxe Is Lt. Colonel   Promotion of Freeman Administration, Servlees Deputy Is Made

Promote Sixteen Army Officers   One Man Advanced te Major in Changes At Freeman Field

U.S. Bombs Hit Yankee Troops  Casualties Expected, Savs Gen. Brereton

U.S. Casualties From Front Line Allied Bombing  OR oh ee bd.   Smoke; Dust Hid: Targets’ From . Yankee Airmen

Gen. Brereton Says Air Force Inflicted Casualties On U. S. Troops In Pre-Offensive Blows

SEVENTH ARMY PUSHES DRIVE AGAINST DIJON   Advance Toward Junction With Patton Forces To North

E. Pike Hotel Purchased By Church Group   Will Establish Homme For Aged Members of Sect

Raiders Out Over Europe   : Strike ‘From. West,  South: During. Day

AIR FORCES HIT BRANDENBURG   Mass Formations Take Advantage Of Good Weather

NAZIS REPORT AERIAL ATTACKS   Hints Raids Near Berlin as Weather Clears

Allied Bombers In Air Again Over Germany   Attack In Area Of Reich Capital

Allied Air Fleet Again Hits Reich   Planes Reported From South and West For New Blows.

Far-Flung Aerial Armadas ‘Hammer At All Quarters Of ‘Crumbling European Fortress   Great Fleets From Two Sides Pound Vital Targets; Berlin, Coloane Hit

ALLIED BOMBERS RAID NAZI AREAS   German Radio Reports Blow From West And South

UP-TO-PRESS-TIME WAR BULLETINS  (By International News Service)   ALLIED AIRMEN DAMAGE OR DESTROY 500 NAZI TANKS

ALLIED AIRMEN mT HARD   Destroy Over 500 Gers man Vehicles; News Blackout Still in Force

RELIABLE REPORTS SAY NIMITZ WALL BE PACIFIC. HEAD.   ‘Under Nimitz, MacArthur “Would Command the Entire Ground Forces -

PEARL HARBOR INQUIRY ENDED   Information All Secret: Navy Secretary Will Study Reports

Biddle Says Ward Attitude Peril to U. S.   Attorney General Defends Government Action

BIDDLE RAPS AT WARD’S DEFIANCE   DECLARES ATTITUDE HURTS U, S, POLICY ON LABOR DISPUTES

Augsburg Hit Twice In One Day By U.S., RAF Planes   142 Enemy Fighters Destroyed; 70 Of Our Bombers Lost In Fridav’s Assaults

Air Fight Is Moving To Peak   Seventeen Thousands Of Tons Of Bombs Fall In Week

Doubt Losses In Battle Can Be Replaced   Greater Blows Will Come; Two Big RAF Smashes on Augsburg

Foe Probably No Longer Can Replace Craft Lost in Battle   Reich Believed Unable to Prevent Bombing of Any Chosen Target

British In 2 Bombings Of Aerial Engine Center Following U. S. Foray.

Germany Helpless Under Bombing, Spokesman Says   'U. 5. Airforce Officer Says Nazis’ Twin-Engined Fighter Production Cut 80 Per Cent, Single-Engined Fighters 60

GERMAN AIRCRAFT PLANTS ARE BEING BOMBED TO DEATH   ENEMY FIGFTER PRODUCTION CUT APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY PER CENT

THINK LOSSES WILL EXCEED REICH OUTPUT   U. S. Spokesman Says Since Jan. 1, 80 Per Cent of Two-Engine Fighter Plane Production Has Been Erased. —

U. §. Officer Believes Nazi Plants Will Be Unable To Keep Up With Current Losses

Combat Losses Believed. to Be Exceeding Output Due to Non-stop Bombings of Reich

STILL STRONG POTENTIALLY   Lacks Only Former Ability to Strike. At Long Range

Tokyo Navy Still Strong, Experts Say   Great ‘Sul’ Fleet Believed Husbanded For: Showdown: Fight

California Storm  Tol! Reaches 8   New Rain and Snow  Polts Wide Area

Dewey And Roosevelt Heading Down Home Stretch  Six More States Select ~ Delegates During Week

Dewey, FDR Lead Into Homestretch   Six States to Name Delegates to Sessions This Week

Dewey, FDR Lead Into Homestretch  Six States to Name Delegates to   Six States to Name Delegates to Sessions This Week

Continues Tops In GOP Fold   Roosevelt Assured Of Renomination If He Wants It

Delegate Choice In Home Streteh   Dewey Sets Fast Pace For Republicans— Roosevelt Coasting

Dewey’s Race For Delegates Sets Fast Pace  FDR Coasts Along With  ey eee e ye.

EXPECT DEWEY AND ROOSEVELT AS CANDIDATES   Six States Will Select Delegates For Conventions

CHOOSE DELEGATES   Six State Primaries Wil Pick Convention Representatives

Dewey’ s Race For Delegates Sets Fast Pace     FDR Coasts Along With  Demo Nomination Vir tually Assured

Streamlined Tax Bill Marches On   Goes To Senate Where Passage Predicted

Str eamliner Tax Act Goes To Senators   Passes Ho ou s e U nani= mously:; Sw ift: Upper...  10 on heeen a aa ta  “Wouse Action Seen

Streamlined Tay Bill In Senate Final Adoption   House Adopted Simplified Income Measure Unanimously Friday.

Streamlined Tax Bill Unanimously Approved hy Hous:  Swit Senate Passage Predictes   Swit Senate Passage Predicted With Chairman George Saying Bill ‘Bes? Thai Gan Be Dene’

TAX BILL HEADS TOWARD SENATE   Streamlined Measure To - Cure Filing Headaches  Passed by House

Bill To Relieve Taxpayers Goes To The Senate.....  Simplified Tax Measure Apparently To Get Okay

STRIKING WORKERS FACE UNION WRATH   Goodyear Co. Plant Scene of Labor Pledge Test

Russians Seize Ploesti Oil Field   Third of German Supply Cut Off

Ploesti Mil Fields Renorted Liberated   Germans Have Last One-Third of All  Datenlasse Sannhac

Nearly Half Of Eastern Romania In Hands Of Soviet Troops--German Forces Disorganized

BRICKER’S TALK AT ST, LOUIS WILL GIVE PAC CHIEF ‘WORKS'   Ohioan Planning To Give Hillman ‘Hiding’ Of Campaign

Critics Are Provoked at  Draft Orders   State Whole Problem Is Fogged by Home Front Fighting

TODAY ON THE HOME. FRONT CRITICS GET OUT AXES OVER DRAFT MUDDLE   Raking Military Now for Not Discovering Sooner Men Under 26 Make Best Troops

Gen. Marshall Warned Last Fall Army Wanted Young Men  Needed Yor r Replacements For Combat Trompe; :  os ae ses. 1. We. wk

Kimphasis on Draft for Younger Men foretold by Gen. Marshall Long Ago

Yanks Make 2-Mile Gain On Guam Isle   Last Barrier Ridge of Mountains on Island Taken: 7,000 Civ ilians Go Behind U.S. Lines

Civilians Being Cared For By U.S. On Guam   Entire Front; New Guinea

Japs on Guam In Retreat   Nearly All of Island in American Hands

Reds Hammer a Budapest From Three Sides  AllQOut Ratetla      All-Out Battle For Hungarian Capital Rages

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON BUDAPEST   Nazis Reported Abandoning Hungarian Capitat

REPORT SHOWS ILLINOIS CROPS NEAR NORMAL   All Are Doing Good After a Lote Cold Spring

ILLINOIS CROPS ABOUT AVERAGE REPORT SHOWS   Late Wet Spring And Scarcit) Of Labor Fail To Retard Food  ‘ Production In Middle West As Of June First.

BOSS’ CHARGE MOTIVE BEHIND KELLY SWITCH   400 Votes For Iowan Claimed

Opposition is Broken By Wallace   Truman Loses Ground When Big Ilinois Fades

Tlinois Swings Support From Senator Truman   Hannegan Denies Reports Missourian  Has Given Up Race

“Kelly Swings glllinois Votes To Scott Lucas   Pulls Away from Truman; Enhances Wallace’s Chances

WAGEPAY REPORT READY FOR BOARD   Raising the Li.tle Steel Fo:mula Rests on Cominz Report

WAGE-PAY. REPORT PEADY FOR BOARD   “Raising the Little -Steel Formula Rests on Comins Report -.

12 BELIEVED LOST — IN.CRASH OF: PLANE   Bomber Believed to Have Fallen in Atlantic Ocean Southeast of Yacksonvilie.

Awaits Word From FDR   Senator Truman And President are To Meet Soon

HOME TOWNERS GREET TRUMAN   SPECULATE AS TO CONFERENCE WITH PRES, ROOSEVELT

MESA WORKERS TOLD TO RETURN   “Delicate Settlement” 01 Strike is Effected

Bullets Strike Near Churchill   Sniper's Firing Seen. As New Attempt on Prime Minister's Life

MACHINE GUN BULLETS MISS CHURCHILL   Thought to Be Intended for Him; Hit Greek Girl

KILL BRITISH CHIEF FAILS   Bullets Hit Within 30 Yards of Prime Minister Churchill

Bullet Of Sniper Misses Churchill   Second Attempt On Life Of British Leader Made In Athens As Peace Talks Remain Deadlocked; Fighting Rages

Bullets Fired At Premier   Greek Ruler May Resign as Means To End Conflict

Marks Second Try On Lives Of Officials   Negotiations Reach Temporary Stalemate

ATTEMPT 10 KILL BRITISH CHIEF FAILS   Bullets Hit Within 30.-Yards. of Prime . Minister Churchill

Death Misses Churchill 2nd Time in Athens   Machine-Gun Bullets Fired at Briton, Wounds Greek Girl

MACHINE GUN BULLETS INJURE GIRL FATALLY   Incident Disclosed as Political Conference Ends in Stalemate 

Churchill Has Narrow Escape From Being Machine-Gunned   Second Attempt on Prime Minister's Life Made bv ELAS

Germans, Keeping 232 Italian Civilians As Hostages, Cling to Mountain Menasterv

10 Nazis Use 23? Civilians as Shield In Italian Abbey to Fire on British

FINNS REJECT PEACE TERMS OF RUSSIANS   Moscow Places Full Responsi bility Of Consequences On Finnish Government In Broadcast.   Willing for Peace

Finland Rejects Terms Proposed By Soviet Russie  Moscow Declares Ful  Responsibility On

REDS’ PEACE TERMS REJECTED BY FINNS   Final Breakdown of Negotiations Indicated by Statements of awn Governments.

FINNS REJECT SOVIET OFFER OF ARMISTICE   NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE BETWEEN NATIONS FAIL

Heroes From Bataan Tortured, Starved   Escaped Officers Reveal to War Department Details of Brutal Treatment

Nine Killed In ‘Train Accident   Over 50 Injured When Passenger Hits Freight

14 Jap Ships Damaged or Sunk In Pacific   Navy and Marine Fliers Harass Supply Bases

14 JAP SHIPS SUNK, DAMAGED IN NEW RAIDS   Ten Hit in Heavy Air Assaull on Rabaul — Allies Progress on Three Fronts in Burma

14 Jap Ships Sunk by Navy, _ Marine Fliers   ‘Port of Rabaul, - Japanese Pivot, Takes Third Heavy Aerial Pounding   DEFENDERS LOSE STILL MORE PLANES   Damaging Blows. Continue in Other Sections; Ledo Road Front Active

Sink 14 Jap-Ships   Many Other Enemy Vessels Damaged in Allied Air Assaults

14 Jap Ships Sunk, Damaged   wane Sew)" Foe Loses 24 to 28  Planes in Attempt Te Defend Rabaul

14 JAP SHIPS   Air Blows Take Heavy Toll a} Vessels from Foe's Supply Line.

American Bombers Sink Or Damage 14 More Jap Ships; Rabaul Hit Hard

OR DAMAGE 14 JAP VESSELS   New Assaults on Enemy’s Long Supply Lines to War Bases in Pacific Take : we Pall.

ALLIES SMACK JAPANESE SHIPS   14 Sunk Or Damaged In New Blows At Supply Lines

JAP SHIPPING   Bombers Sink, Damage 14 More Enemy Vessels In Far Pacific

14 MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK   Enemy’s Long Supply Lines Take New Beating From Allied Bombers

14 Jap Ships Destroved By U.S. Bombers   Ten Vessels Hit By Flier In Third And Heavies Rabaul Blow.  JAPS. FLY LIKE KID:

[), 8. Fliers Smast 14 Jap Ships, Down 24 Planes  Planes, 26 Ships in Month

AMERICAN BOMBERS SINK OR DAMAGE 14 MORE ENEMY SHIPS  JAPANESE ALSO LOST MANY PLANES IN DEFENSE OF RABAUL PORT

U.S. Bombers Hit 14 Jap Ships in New Air Sweeps   Over a Score of Planes Destroyed When Rabau! fs Given a Pasting

American Bombers Sink Or Damage 14 Jap Ships On Pacific Supply Line

\DVESSELS ARE. HIT BY BONS I MN AABALL  Third. Hea. a fase Blow Of   Third, Heaviest Blow Of _ Month Inflicts, Great ‘Damage On Foe. .   “94 PLANES LOST   Japs Have Had More : Than. .350. Aircraft ‘De: stroyed In January

U.S, FLIERS HIT 14 JAP SHIPS, SEVERAL SUNK   10 Vessels Attacked in Rabaul Harbor; Down Over 24 Nip Planes

Bombers Hit {4 Jap Ships   Allies Continue Assaults on Nip Supply Lines

Rabaul Shivers in New Air Rap   ENEMY LOSES 24 TO 28 PLANES IN TRY FOR DEFENSE OF VULNERABLE NEW BRITAIN HARBOR; GROUND FORCES SLASH AHEAD AT ARAWE, BURMA

Allied Fliers Hit 14 Ships Of Japanese   Heavy Blow Deliverec On Rabaul; Enemy Loses Planes

{4 Nippon Ships Sunk Or Struck   10 Destroyed At Rabaul, 24 Planes Downed

14 Ships Sunk In Japanese Supply Lines   Ten Vessels Hit at Rabaul and Enemy Lost 26 to 28 Planes Trying to Protect Them; Activities Other Fronts

AMERICAN BOMBERS SINK OR DAMAGE 14 MORE ENEMY SHIPS  JAPANESE ALSO LOST  ECwUCE

BIGGEST RAID THIS MONTH — ON RABAUL   24 More Planes Are Lost In Defense Of Base   LAND OPPOSITION   On: New Guinea Is Light: Chinese Units Gain Around Taiphaga

—. At Least 40 Direct Hits Scored By B-29’s _ Jap Plane Plant Heavily Damagec

DIRECT HITS ON JAP PLANE WORKS   Photographs Show 40 Direct Hits On Hatsudoki Plant

B-298 STRIKE FROM INDIA, HIT THAILAND   New Raids Follow Heavy Blow Dealt Jap Aircraft Center; One Superfort Appears Over Tokvo

Rain Brings Moisture fo Parched Land   Every Section of  Oklahoma Benefits As Showers Relieve Drouth Conditions

Rains Soaking Entire State   Drouth Broken Here With County’s Share of General Rainfall

Predict Allied, Spanish Pact   Oil Embargo Continues Until Agreement Signed

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SOVIETS GAIN INNEW DRIVE TO HUNGARY   Red Troops Battle Their Way Into Czechoslo vakia   30 LOCALITIES ARE SEIZED IN ASSAULT   Gains in ‘Southeastern Hungary Are Announced

Russians Cross Czech Frontier, Gain in Hungary   Reds Filter through Lup. kow Pass; Nazis Say Yugoslavia Invaded

SOVIET TROOPS DRIVE 3 MILES BEYOND POLANI   Russians Are Inside Czechoslovakia; Also En ter Yugoslavia

REDS ON GZEC SOIL, 3 MILES: BEYOND BORDER   Battle Way Into Country From Poland—Other Soviet Forces Make Gains in Hungary.   RIGA-BOUND RUSSIANS TAKE 50 LOCALITIES   Still Other Muscovite Forces Have Entered Yugoslavia East. of Belgrade, Berlin Says.

Congressional ‘Medal For Late Billy Mitchell  =... Appreved By Senate

TWO MEXICANS HEAVILY FINED AS DISTURBERS   Peter Torres Was Also Charged With Beat, ing His Wife

JAP TROOPS HOLD ISLET   NIMITZ REVEALS SMALL FORCE CAPTURED TINY ISLAND IN THE PALAUS GROUP

LUCE ATTACKS POST-WAR PLAN   Claims White House Fears National Security

Congresswoman Ask: Whether White House Fears for National Security After Peace

Rep. Clare Luce Thinks President Has Misjudged Great World Situation

Speaker Looks at Peace Era   Mrs. Luce Questions. Purpose of Mrs. Roosevelt's Pro- posal for Training.

Yank Answers German Girl’s Jeer  Nazi Communications Hampered as Cooks Roast Messengers for Doughboys’ Dinner

PALM SUNDAY AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH   Lenoir Rhyne Choir And Ensemble Heard In Evening

99 JAP PLANES BAGGED AT MANILA   AMERICAN CARRIER AIRCRAFT SINK SIX SHIPS AND DAMAGE 23 OTHERS.

Carrier Planes Sink 6 Ships  in Manila Area   Sensational Development Lacks U. S. Confirmation but Comes as No Surprise Either to Janan or America

CARRIER TASK: FORCE RAKES MANILA AREA   RAIDERS BAG 6 JAP SHIPS AND 99 WARPLANES

Third Fleet’s Planes Batter Manila, Sink Gv Chine Bag 99 Additional Nip Planes

More Gas: for ‘B’.Card Holders _ Proposed---But Don’t Get Excifed

HULL APPEALS FOR ISOLATION OF ARGENTINE   Brands Present Regime ‘Deserter’ As Rift Grows Wider

HULL ARGENTINA AS A DESERTER   Believe U. S. Stand Has Backing Of All Latin America ~

HULL BRANDS ARGENTINE A DESERTER   Says Rest of « Americas Cooperate Agains Axis

Argentina Called Allied Deserter   Present Regime Attacked by U. S.

CRISIS FOLLOWS HULL'S NOTE ON U.S. POSITION   Future Of Goud Neighbor Policy Hanes tn Ralance

Argentina Is Deserter to  Her Neighbors   Hull Delivers Bitter Castigation of Gen. Farrell's Recime

Hull Charges Argentina as Deserter, With Aiding Axis   Rv R. H. SHACKFORD

Argentina Branded Deserter By Hull   Oral Attack Poses Grave Problem For Future Good Neighbor Policy.

HULL BRANDS ARGENTINA AS A DESERTER   Believe U. S. Stand Has Backing Of All Latin America

Argentina Called Deserter, by: Hull re  an y:- u   Urges Americas to: Isolate Neiahbor. 

U. S. Denounces Argentine Policy In Bitter Report   Hull Charges Nation Has Deserted Neighbors During Hour of Need

MUNITIONS SUPPLY FOR ARMY, _NAVY  Aon at ies cas Lees  NO “LONGER SECRET

To Meet Iu Des Meimes  July 29   Will Name Presidential Electors

A lied Wockeying for Position as the Speaker of House      Two Republicans Are Out After the Job.

GOP State . Leaders Meet   Delegates Will Not Endorse Any ‘Candidate For President

Japs Try to Build Defenses in China Before Allies Land   Battle of China May De. pend on Current Hengyang Fichtine

Merchantmen  Go To Pacific Ocean Depths   Allied Planes Attack Foe’s Bengal Bay Base

AMERICAN SUBMARINES SINK. 16 NIPPONESE VESSELS AS JAPS GAIN IN DRIVE IN CHINA

“FIGHT TO DEATH” ORDERED BY HITLER    SIXTEEN FRESH DIVISIONS THROWN INTO STRUGGLE TO KEEP SOVIETS OUT OF EAST PRUSSIA; COUNTER ATTACKS STALL RUSSIAN POWER DRIVES.   (By the Untted Press)

3,000 Of Enemy hilled By Texas Cavalrymen In Five Days   Wave After Wave Meet Lethal Fire   Americans Prepare lo Continue Advance On Beaten Foe

3,000 Japs ‘Stopped’ in Los Negros   Enemy Losses in Fight For Island Revealed By MacArthur

3,000 Japs Casualties af Los Nearos   American Losses Are Small,, MacArthur Report Declares

3000 Nipponese Slain Or Wounded in Fierce Fighting for Air Field   American Losses Small in Los Negros Battles; Enemy Bases in Carolines  And Marshalls Are Bombed Again

‘Thousands Of Japs Slain .   Wave After Wave Thrown Into Futile Momote Drive

9,000 KILLED OR WOUNDED IN 5-DAY BATTLE   Liberators Make Stabs At Outposts In Carolines

Jap loss 3 thousand dead or wounded in Los Negros ‘assault   Encounter determined Opposition by reinforced Texas cavalrvmen

T0J0°S FORCES ARE CUT DOWN ON LOS NEGROS   Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Foe Since Friday by Texas Cavalrymen

Allies Massed Along Frontier From Switzerland To North Sea   SIX TONS A MINUTE ON SIEGFRIED LINE   Security Censorship Obscures Advance Of Americans Into Germany

RECORD AERIAL STRIKES BLAZE INVASION PATH   (Six AlNfied Armies Mass -— Qn Long Front For General Drive

U.S. 9th Army.  Now in France   Allied Forces Set for Crossing Reich Border at Six More Points

 Six Tons Of Bombs A Minute Fall On Siegfried Line To Open Path For Six Armies .

YANK BOMBERS IN ATTACK ON BUDAPEST   First Raid On Hungarian Capital, Now in Nazi Hands

BUDAPEST WAS HEAVILY HIT BY YANK BOMBERS   Capital of Hungary Blasted Following RAF Smash At Stavr -

CINCINNATI FIRE IS INVESTIGATED   Arson Squad on Job Where Seven Lost Lives

German U-Boat Sunk in 2 Minutes   American Pilot . Cireled Vessel Till Other Planes Arrive

Planes Sink German U-Boat   Carrier-Based Planes Send Sub Down in Two Minutes

PLANES SINK NAZISUB IN TWO MINUTES   Concentrated Fire Makes Quick Work Of Prowling U-Boat

SINK NAZI SUB -INTWO MINUTES   Patrol Flier Sta ys Above U-Boat Until Help Arrives

YANK PLANES BLAST SUB IN ATLANTIC   ‘Navy Flier Sights Plane on : On Patrol Flight

A TWO-MINUTE ATTACK   H : German U-Boat Was Sunk in ConH . , eentrated, Action

German Sub  Sunk Quickly   Carrier-Based Planes Make Quick Work of Enemy

‘Davao Airdromes On Mindanao H:t In Three Attacks   _ Assaults Indicate .-Extent of. Américan * Drive In Pacific

Bombardment 0 of Philippines Is Announced   Strike Airdromes on Mindanao for First Time

U. S. FLIERS BOMB DAVAO, ON MINDANAC   Airdromes Blasted Three Nights In Succession

U.S. Planes Open Philippine Attack  FDR Pledges Invasion Liberatian af lelec

U.S. PLANES ARE HITTING PHILIPPINES   Airdromes at Davao Supply Targets

ATTACK OPENED IN PHILIPPINES BY Ble BOMBERS   General MacArthar Reveals First Bombing On' Mindanao Island .

Territorial Demands Cause U. $. Concern   France, Belgium, Holland, Poland, Seek New Frontiers

U.S. Subs Sink 13 Jap Ships   12 Merchantmen, Three Warships Bagged In Kaid

Liberator 400 Miles to Japan   111 Japs Killed in Mopping Un Wakde Ieland

Lone Plane In Assault On Kuriles   Minor Attack Derpe st me Bion Tg BY Norihem Road  To Tokyo

Lone American Liberator Attacks Within 400 Miles of Japan Proper

HERD JAPS BACK TOWARD RABAUL   Enemy Expected to Make Last Stand on Island in That Area

MAJOR DRIVE SS UNDERWAY. FOR JAP BASE   TROOPS UNDER MacARTHUR IN FULL-SCALE OFFENBIVE TO WIPE OUT 40,000 ENEMY SOLDIERS

ISECOND NEW DEAL  PLANS TAKE SHAPE   Weeks ‘Since Election; _ Steel Case Latest

POLES DISCUSS BORDER ISSUE   Cabinet Seeks Basis fo  Accord With Russians  On Frontier Dispute

Wisconsin Setback As Reason   Republican Politicians Speculate on Possible Next Move of the 1940 GOP Standard Bearer

Willkie’s Strength Lneertain In Race   Hail Willkie Defeat  As American Victory   Willkie Withdraws From GOP Race   “Something Personal’

Withdrawal Is Result Of Vote  In Wisconsin   Willkie’s Announcement Of Decision To Quit Race Is Made At Close Of Omaha Address

Decision To Quit Blamed On Failure To Win Delegate In Wisconsin Vote

Willkie Reaches Chicago After He Quits G.O.P. Race   Concedes He Cannot Win G. O. P. Nomination

‘40 CANDIDATE SAYS HE HAS NO CHANCE   Disappointed With Result Of Wisconsin Primary   FOREIGN POLICY   Criticized In Final Campaign Talk In Omaha; Goes To New York

ENDL L. WILLKIE HAS WITHDRAWN FROM THE RACE  AS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE   Concedes He Has No Chance to Win the Nomination After the Wisconsin Primary Vote Placed Him in Last Place with No Delegates

WILLKIE OUT AS CANDIDATE   Says Wisconsin Results  Prove He Can't Win

Dewey's Chances Boosted: Willkie Says Can't Win   1940 Candidate Of GOP Asks Friends To Drop Campaign; Act Unexpected

Republican Party’s 40 Standard Bearer Withdraws in Omaha   Willkie Says It Is Ob. vious He Cannot Be Nominated

PRIMARY CAUSE OF WITHDRAWAL   SAYS MIDWEST SUPPORT NEEDED FOR NOMINATION

Decision Following Wisconsin Primary Told In Dramatic Statement During Omaha Taik

Omaha Talk.     ZY Political Toui   Former & 0.P. G:0.P. Standard  Bearer Says. ‘He Has No   Chance to Win   CALLS FRIENDS OFF   This Country: Desperate: ly Needs New Leader: ship, ” His Last Word

Says It Is Obvious That      Gerald L. K. Sr Smith, Claims America First Group Beat Willkie in Wisconsin

GOP Standard Bearer of 1940 Withdraws Unexpectedly After Wisconsin Setback

Candidate's Action Comes Unexpectedly   Wilikie In Quitting Concedes He Has No Chance Now To Win

ADMITS FIGHT   Fails To Commit Himself Te Support G.0.P. Choice In Primary Election

Willkie Drops Out Of Running   Still Hopes Republicans Will Pick Man, Platform Representing His Views

WILLKIE HAS QUIT RACE AS GOP CANDIDATE   Standard Bearer Of 1940 Admits His Defeat

~—WILLKIE— Defeat In Wisconsin iIs Reason   Makes Dramatic Announcement At End Of Speech In Omaha, Neb.   ON WAY EAST   Concedes He Has No  Chance To Win Party’s  1844 Nomination

Willkie. Says. Hel Can't Win  / Asserts Mid- West. Votes: “Are: Needed:

Willkie Quits Race For GOP  Nomination   Makes Intention Known Following Defeat in Primary In Wisconsin

WILLKIE WITHDRAWS FROM PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION RACE  DECLARES “IT 1S OBVIOU   DECLARES “IT 1S OBVIOUS I CANNOT WIN” IN QUITTING

Omaha Audience Puzzled As Willkie Announces Decision; Comes at End of Address

Willkie Quits As G.0.P. Candidate   Abruptly Withdraws From Race for the 1944  Nomination   STATEMENT AT-OMAHA   Nominee Must Have Support of Midwest to Win, He Says

GIVES FAILURE IN WISCONSIN AS HIS REASON  CONCEDES HE HAS NO CHANCE TO WIN

WILLKIE QUITS FIGHT FOR PARTY NOMINATION  No Chance to Win, He Announces As He Withdraws From Contest

Willkie Admits He Cannot Win: Abandons Race  For President   To Continue to Work for His Principles, He Announces

Aspirant Concedes He Has No Chance To Win GOP Nomination This Year

Willkie Says ~ He Hasn’t a ’ Chance Now   Failure to Win Wisconsin Test Convinced Him Cause Hopeless

WILLKIE WITHDRAWS FROM PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION RACE   DECLARES “IT IS OBVIOUS    CANNOT WIN” IN  OUITTING

WILLKIE OUT AS CANIDDATE   Admits Little Chance of Winning Nomination After Wisconsin Primary

Willkie Concedes He Has No Hope For Victory.  GIVES UP FIGHT  Decision To ‘Quit As Caused By Defeat  In Wisewanein #2

TROOPS LAND UNOPPQSED ON NEW GUINEA   Aussies Advance Ur  Coast of Huon  Peninsula

Americans Put Squeeze on Japs  In Island Move  O88 a ST gc   Ships and Planes Help in Surprise Landing at Saidor

TEMPERATURES:   Tried To Bribe Fy-Rep. Handy, State Charges   B. H. Man Reindicted By Grand Jury Probing Graft Conspiracy

STATE SENATOR BEFORE COURT   Howell Surrenders and Is ” Released Under $2,500 Bail Bond.

OFFICERS ELECTED FAIR ASSOCIATION AT MONDAY MEETING  J. N. EDENS RE-NAMED PRESIDENT; NEW DIRECT

OFFICERS ELECTED  FAIR ASSOCIATION  AT MONDAY MEETING J. N. EDENS RE-NAMED  PRESIDENT; NEW DIRECT ORC ATEN SELECTED

ASK PARTITION, TWO DIVORCES   Plaintiff "Wants Greenfield Property Divided; Two Decrees Granted

THREE. ACTIONS FILED 1 N COURT   Partition of Lots Asked; Two New Divorce Suits on Court Docket

Deadline Tonight: Millions Struggle with Toughest Income Tax Returns of All Time

DEADLINE NEAR ON INGOME TAX   Mail Sacks Pile Up In Revenue Offices From 50 Million Returns

Millions Race Deadline on Tax Returns   Collectors Close All Offices Today at Midnight

WORKERS MAY GET PAY RAISE   Adjustment of Five to Ten Cents an Hour Expected From WLB

100,000 STEEL WORKERS MAY GET PAY RAISE   Adjustment of Five to Ten Cents an Hour Expected From WLB

Ne ee Rg Rae Rh mee  BIDDLE APPEARS AS WITNESS. BEFORE WARD INQUIRY eROU   es ATTORNEY : GENERAL SAYS IF CONGRESS -RELIEVER ADTHORITY EXOCKEDED IT "SHOULD OLARIFY = © POWER

Americans Beat Off Nazi Thrust   By ROBERT V. VERMILLION,  1’ DP Wer Carrecnondent.

TOMMIES BREAK WEEK OF QUIET ON BRIDGEHEAD   German Radio Says AIllied Troops Caught In Trap

British At Anzio Take Offensive   Two Strongpoints Taken From Nazis  Re VEWWE TE? TT RRWiKvaw

BRITISH CAPTURE: 2: STRONGPOINTS ~ ON ANZIO FRON   Drive Germaris. From. Posi. tions Southwest of Carro-— _ cote: After Two Days. of Fighting.   ACTION BREAKS WEEK _ . LULL ON BEACHHEAD   Enemy Attempts. to. Infiltrate Allied Lines Frustratéed by American Artillery Fire.

AlliéS seize Strong Points On Beachhead   U. S. Cruiser Runs Close Inshore to Shell Artillery  Of Enemy Forces ,

PATROL FIGHTING ON ANZIO FRONT BITTER   British Units Drive Germans From Two Well--Fortified Farms; U.S. Guns Repel Attack In Aprilia Sector   Rv ROBERT V. VERMILLION

FIERCE FIGHT BREAKS LULL ON BEACHHEAL   Anzio Sector Artillery Duel Reaches New  Intensity

British Troops Make Advance On Beachhead   Capture Two German Strong Points After Two Days of Fighting

Allies Capture Strong Points On Anzio Beach   Yanks Beat Off Nazi Attacks Along Aprilia Sections

Anzio Skirmish Forerunner Of  3rd Nazi Drive   Germans Bringing Up Replacements For  15,000 Dead

BEAT OFF NEW NAZI RAIDS   British Units Capture Two Enemy Strongholds — American Artillery Beats Off New German Attacks South of Aprilia.

British Capture Nazi Positions On Beachhead   Take Over Offensive in 2 Day Battle; Near Moletta R.

ALLIES CAPTURE 2 STRONG POINTS ON ANZIO BEACH   Fifth Army Beats Off New Nazi Attack South Of Aprilia

British Troops Report Gains Tn Anzio Beachhead Battle   Attack Breaks Week of Comparative. Quiet on Front —Artillery Duelling Rises to New Intensity ~ : . During the Assault

Germans Lose. 2 Strongpoints Near Carroceto   Enemy Command Claims Two Allied Battalions Wiped Out on? “Moietta

BRITISH TARE STRONGPOINTS FROM NAZIS   Breaking Week Of Comparative Quiet On Beachhead Front; Germans Report Two Battalions Wiped Out.   Strong Artillery

British Take Points to West (f Beachhead   Yanks Beat Off German Attack South of Aprilia

BRITISH BREAK LULL IN ITALY, BAG 2 TOWNS   AMERICAN CRUISER JOINS GUN DUEL AT ANZIO

British Seize 2 Strongpoints In Anzio Area   Attack Ends Week of: Quiet on Beachhead: Nazis. Report. Victory

Allies Capture Two Nazi Points on Anzio Beachhead   BITTER FIGHTING RAGES AS GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO INFILTRATE LINES ARE BEATEN BACK

CAPTURE TWO NAZI POINTS ON BEACHHEAD   Beat Off  German Attack in Another Sector

Enemy Strong points Captured by British  : Hitlerites Unsuccessful in Jabs  hed tune Wleewhere Alone Front

POPE REFUSES TO YIELD TO GERMANS   Pontiff Intends To Remain In Rome Despite Attempt Of Nazis To Get Him Into Germany

Heat Wave Is Really Being Broken; Relief from Drought Called Genera

Captain Tells His Crewmen Troops Must Be Delivered Regardless Of Every Cost

Tense Moment on Warship. When Skipper Gave Order for Army. Landing Near Rome

TENSE MOMENTS PRECEDED NAVAL TROOP LANDINGS   Warship Captain Tells Members of Crew What To Expect and What The; Must Carrv Out

LABOR RIFT IS GROWING ANEW   AFL and CIO Won't Be Sc Friendly After Election’s Over

CIO,AFLMay Open Labor Feud Soon   ‘War Labor Board Refusal to Recommend Pay Raise Hurts Both, ClO Most

AFL, CIO May Have Conflict   Gap in Labor Movement of Losers in  WLB Decision Widens

CLO, AFL. Seen. ‘Trading Blows _ . By End Of Year   Gap. In ‘Labor’ Movement - Viewed: Widening’ Over “Little. Steel? Formiuls:

Labor At Odds Over WLB Step In Wage Issue   AFL and. CIO May Soon Start Swinging. at. Each _ Other; Murray  Overplayed Hana, Is Claim

Future Labor Dispute: Seen   AFE. And: C1O May , Start Swinging.

AFL, C10, LOSERS IN WAGE TEST, MAY BATTLE SOON   Despite Ostensible Unanimity of Both Organizations Who Lost in the WLB-FDR wae,  Diactetaen: <

China’s Effort to Com; pose Grave Internal Differences aud Pre:. sent United War  '. Front May Be Too E Lute

The War Today   Ig China’s Effort To Achieve United Front Too Late?

CHINA IN GRAVE DANGER FROM JAPANESE INVASION AND HER OWN INTERNAT DIEFICUT TIES

MacKenzie Says—  China Near Collapse as W ar Power   Bickering, Internal Rows May Have Delayed  Efforts to Form Unit ed Front Too Long

China’s Effort to Compose Internal Differences May Be Too Late   MANY DIFFICULTIES

WHETHER CHINA CAN SUCCEED IN PRESENTING UNITED FRONT AGAINST JAPAN IS BIG QUESTION TODAY

AFRICAN HOMELAND FOR NEGROES, PLAN   Advocated by Presidentiaj Candidate from Michigan

Jap Ships Sunk at Manila Reach 16   Revised Report Shows Five Warcraft Lost

Cruiser, 4 Destroyers  Are Sunk   800 Naval Planes Blast Everything Military In  Big Bay Area.

PENSIONS VOTED FOR WAR  WIDOWS   SENATE PASSES BILL WITHOUT DEBATE — BENEFITS UP TO $74 MONTHLY.

Dewey To Face Storms In Hop  To Convention   Plans, Despite Prediction Of Bad Weather, to Fly to Chicago to Accept Nomination

AWAIT MEETING ON NAZI POLICY   Expect President to Call Committee Together

FDR Said Against Morgenthau Plan   Telis Peace Planners Will Not Accept Idea Gt Aaricultural Reich

EDR Wants To Patch Split Over Policy   Decides Against Morgen thau Plan for Crushing Germany as Industrial Nation

SEEK POST-WAR GOVERNMENT FOF EXILED NATIONS      Agreement Still To Be Reached With Governments Of Four Countries

Civil Gov't. to Be Restored to Three Nations   But Problem Unsolved In Cases of Four Post-W ar Setups

Allies Puzzled Restoring Certain Civil Governments   France - With Internal Unrest - Presents  Worst Problem

2,000 Planes in Action over Reich As Yanks Resume Battle of Berlin

Americans Break Month’s Lull in Bombing of Berlin   Large Force of 4-Motor Bombers Strikes at Capital

2000 BOMBERS IN RAID ON GERMAN)   Bitter Skirmishing, Artillery  Duels Are Staged Along  Adriatic Sector.

se ph a he  Month'Rest  Is Ended for  Nazi Capital New Campaign Opens to  Strike Death Blow at  Nazidom VIOLENT AIR FIGHTS  Staggering Blow Also  Struck at Other Reich ©   Largets

Heart of Nazidom Battered   Strong Forces Of Yank Planes Hit Nazi Capital

Weather - Enforced Lull Jn Major Operations 1s Broken Today By Raid On Berlin

AGAIN BLAST NAZI CAPITAL   Indicate 1,000 Biq Bombers Taking Part In Attack

U.S. Bombers Lash Berlin In Mass Raid   2,000 Raiders And Fight. ers Start Parade For Death Blow At Axis

FIRST BLOW ON THAT CITY IN NEARLY MONTH        Other Objectives, Including — Pas de Calais Strip Also  Blasted.

Stimson Says War Crisis Being Approached Now  No Early Terminatior Of War Sighted Ry ll S$ Seareratarv

‘Near Crisis  War Effort   Tell People To Admonish Against Expectations Of Short War.

BOMB COBLENZ AND BINGEN ON THE RHINE   In 50 Below Zero Weather With No Interception From German Planes: Hazardous Flying.

RAIL YARDS ON RHINE BLASTED   2,000 Yank Planes Pound at Coblenz and Bingen  Installations   Fieht Planes Lost

RAIL YARDS IN REICH BOMBED   «000 American War Planes Pound Coblenz And Bingen

Charge nazis make refuge of monaster y   Located on crest of Mt. Cassino

Allies May tind It Necessay_to. Bomb Monstery  Gores rmans Tur rm Famous odteat Alban,   Germans Turn famous Benedictine  Abey Into Fortre;

CONVENTION IS DELAYED TWO HOURS   Many Are Unable To Get Into Hall For Dallas Meeting

RAILROAD TARGETS BLASTED BY FLIERS   Night, Assaults . Follow _ Great. Daylight  Blitz

PLANES HAMMER REICH’S RAILWAYS   SLEET CUTS OFF AIR SUPPORT FOR GROUND TROCGES FIGHTING GERMANS.

RAILROAD TARGETS ‘BLASTED BY FLIERS   sNight Assaults . Follow .. -Great.. Daylight . Blitz .

—Legislative Hearings Concluded—  Labor Opposed Public Ownership Of Power Co. Due To Benefit Loss   Longtime Employe Testifies Before Group; Chicago Bond House Brought Into Picture

Chicago bond firm financed intervention  Public hearings  on power ended

TO LEASE OR NOT IS THE QUESTION   Council Debates Letting Organizations Use Com munity Building   BARKER: TO BE PAVED

Council Debates Letting Or ‘ganizations Use. Com munity Building   BARKER: TO. BE PAVED

Berlin Radio Reports New Landings Near Cherbourg Threaten To Isolate Seaport

Germany Admits Cherbourg Gains   Reports Landing Of-Air-Borne Unif

Germans Report New Allied Air Landings   Concede Cherbourg Has Been Nearly Isolated

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TOT STRIKES HEAD IN FALL FROM AUTO   Gerald Strelitz, Phila., Aged 4, Has Possible  Concussion   OPENED REAR DOOR

Put Pressure On Portugal   Seek Agreement Limiting or Stopping Wolfram Exports to Reich

Portugal Cuts Shipping Qre   Allies Press For Agreement To Curtaii Wolfram Shipments To Germany.

LISBON MAY PARE TRADE WITH REICH   In Fact, Complete Suspen‘sion of Wolfram Ship . ments Needed by Nazis May Stem From’. Negotiations With Allies.

Jap Ship Sunk in Waters of Philippines   Lone Bomber Hits Freighter. . in Davao Gulf

Military Blows ary Germanv  Reach High Peak   Russian Multi-Pronged Winter Offensive Moves Southwestward

ARTILLERY ACTIVE ON ITALY FRONT   Ground Fighting Is Limited to Patrol Clashes

es oe  Italy. Guns “Trade Blows  On 2 Fronts   Allies Destroy  ‘Observa:  tion Tower at Littoria : and Tanks at Cisterna

Big Guns Swap Blows in Italy   Allied Artillery, Planes Hit Nazis

AERIAL BLASTING OF NAZI SUPPLY ROUTES CONTINUES IN ITALY   Little Land Action Beyond Patrol Clashes, Artillery Fire

Allied and Nazi Artillery Trades Blows in Italy   Enemy Rail and Road Lines Are Attacked by Air

Big Guns Duel on Italy Front   Allied, Nazi Artillery Trading Heavy Blows

Allied, German Heavy Artillery Exchange Blows   Warplanes Attack Rail Lines, Roads North, East of Rome

Big Guns Trade Blows at Anzio   Altied and German Artillery Active and Patrols Busy — Try to Blow Up Bridge

First Division Spearheads Drive  Famous Body of American Troops Heads Invasion Alongside British

Noted Troops Again Battle Side by Side   American 1st and British 50th in Van in Normandy

Veterans Spearhead Invasion   Sea Landings Led By Britons and Americans Who Proved Metal in Africa, Sicily, France

FIRST DIVISION MEASURING UP TO TRADITION   American and British 50th Northumbrian Division Spearheaded Allied  Invasion

First Division Leads Invasion Drive In France   Side By Side With British

First Infantry Spearheads the Drive in France   These Veterans and British Northumbrians Were in Mediterranean

Four Star Revue Will Show Here   Benefit Performance Of Popular Army Show Will Help Red Cross

Revue Is Called Best Army Show   Benefit Performance Here Tuesday Night To Help Red Cross

30 Hurt As Wind Wrecks  Grandstand   Storm Strikes As 5,100 Fans Watch Milwaukee Ball Came

SAY PERPIGNAN NEAR SPANISH BORDER TAKEN   New Allied Landing On Bay Of Biseay Still ot Confirmed

French Reported In Perpignan, City On Spain's Border   Algiers, DNB Tell Of 2 Landings On French Atlantic Coast

Perpignan Is Captured By French   Ancient Fortress On Mediterranean Falls To Patriots

PERPIGNAN IS CAPTURED BY FRENCH   Report of Allied Landing at Bordeaux is Unconfirmed

NEW LANDING BY ALLIED TROOPS CLAIMS REPORT   Ancient Fortress City Of Perpig  nan Reported Occupied Br FFI

LANDING NEAR BORDEAUX IS UNCONFIRMED   Algiers Radio Also Claims Perpignan Occupied

RABAUL BEING PARALYZED BY ALLIED BOMBS   Base Rapidly Nears Destruction     DEFENSE CRACKS  Six More Jap Barges Sunk

Call on Japs To Give Up   Americans Risk Lives To Give Enemy Chance To Surrender on Saipan

Yanks Give Japs Chance To Quit   Risk Lives To Set Up Saipan Loudspeaker

Reds Battling in Outskirts of Budapest   Fate of Hungarian Capital in Balance; Defenders Dia in

FSA To Liquidate Family Projects  Will Deliver Deed On 379 Units In Ark sippi

SEN. TRUMAN’S WIFE ON FEDERAL PAY ROLL   Nominee Says She Does Much of His Clerical Work—Draws $4,500 a Wenr. Is Report.

Nazi Officers at Cherbourg Are Reported Shooting Those of Their Men Who Attempt to Leave Positions

NAZI “SUPERMEN” DIE FROM OFFICERS’ FIRE   COMMANDERS SHOOT GERMAN SOLDIERS DEFYING ORDER TO “FIGHT WITH HEROISM TO DEATH”   By RICHARD PD. MeMILELAN

Coal Operators To Seek End Of Travel Pay Tiff   Would Settle Argument With $40 Retroactive Pay Per Man

MORE COOL WEATHER   Temperature May Drop to 35 in Northwest Tonight

Nazis Are Again In Full Retreat North Of Rome   Sth Crashes Through Hill Defenses On Broad Front; 8th Puts Foe To Flight From Adriatic Qartar

Allied Forces Break Through Nazi Defenses Above Rome;  Capture Orvieto And Aauila

AVECAPAS SEEET © SFU EDD S 7a Broad Front 50 To 80° Miles Above Rome   ENEMY IN FU LL RETREAT NORTH  Serious Threat To Big Railway Center Of Florence

Allied 5th and bth Army Forces Push Northward   Makeshift Nazi Hill Defenses Are Penetrated

Units Sweep 50-80 Miles  Above Rome   Hundreds Of Nazi Rear Guardsmen Are Captured.

NAZI ROUT AGAIN ON ABOVE ROME   Break Thru Makeshift  Defenses On Broad Front

ALLIES PUSH ON 80 MILES ABOVE ROME   Nazi Resistance Cracks 'Aloriq Entire Front

Makeshift Line of  Defense Breaks   Sweep North on 50-80 Mile Front

Allies Crack Nazis’ Lines In Italy Hills   Fifth Army Again Puts Battle-Weary Germans to Fiicht

ALLIES SWEEP NORTHWARD ON HEELS OF NAZIS   German Resistance Cracks Along Entire Defense Line In Italy

Allies Moving North In Italy   Battle-Weary German Soldiers Rounded Up By Fifth Army Units

Nazis In Heationg Fignt   Allies in Italy Continue Pursurt North of Rome

Germans Fleeing In Italy   Allied 5th and  8th Army Break Through Makeshif Hill Defenses

CRACK GERMAN LINES IN ITALY   Makeshift Defenses North Of Rome Fail to Hold

ALLIES DRIVE 10 BENGODI IN ITALY   FIFTH, EIGHTH ARMIES CRACK NAZI RESISTANCE

Allied Troops Push 80 Miles  Nor’’.# ‘ Rome   aes . .  < . .an Reinforcements »~ seat In Hills  ear Etruscan Plain..

SMASH NAZI DEFENSES IN HIGHLANDS   Allied Forces in Italy Push  on After Reinforced En _ emy is Beaten and Forced ta Flee.

Second Degree Conferred Gn Four Candidates Tuesday In Knights of Pythins Lodge

British and Airborne Armies Doom 70,000 Germans; ’Chutists Make __Rhine Useless as Defense Barrier ©

Allies Fight Off Counter Attacks By Trapped Army   British Armor And Paratroops Develop Great Drive Around Siegfried Line Into Rubr:  Germans Evacuating Rhineland.

WAKDE AREA IN NEW GUINEA NOW UNDER ALLIED CONTROL; JUNGLE \VETS BEGIN DRIVE ON MYITKYINA   Clean Up of Wakde Area Seen As Move to Get Air Base for Attacks on Palao and Philippine Islands by Air. Burma Road Battle Being Widened

President to Addr ess N ation Tonight in Attempt to Bring Unity Into W ar Effert

Pfc. Temple A. Nichols of Scurry With Glider Troops That Held Off Two Nazi Divisions During Landing

Airborne Division Has Two Boys From Ruston Area   Glider Troops Play Important Part in

Supplies Of Japanese In Mvitkyina Are Captured   U.S. And Chinese Troops Gain In Battle For Enemy Base; Report On Battle In China

May Lift Ration On Canned Food   “Purchase Permit Plan”  On Gas To Be Tested

Nazis Retreating To Florence Line In North Italy   Perugia Is Freed Of German Forces

ALLIES DRIVE NAZIS OUT OF ITALIAN CIT}   Enemy Falls Back Thr Hills) Beyond Perugia

CHASE KEPT UP BY FIFTH ARMY   Axis Defenders Ousted From Perugia; Enemy Losses Enormous

PUSHENEMY BEYOND CITY OF PERUGIA   Nazis Again Reel in Retreat across Breadth of italy toward “Gothic” Defense Line.   Cather Regola

5th, 8th Push Nazis Steadily   Allies Advance 5 Mile: Past Fallen Perugia

Nazis Stil Retreating In North Haly   Allied Armor Speeds After Fleeing Enemy

Nilies Press on Beyond Capt ed City of Perugia   Geran Annies Resting  “eck to Flors..c0 ; Detaite Lik

NAZIS RETREAT TOWARD GOTHIC DEFENSE LINE   Allies Gouge Last Stubborn German Defenders Out Of Perugia, 85 Miles North Of Eternal City

Battered Nazis Reel In Retreat   Perugia Is Freed By Lunging Allies  By LYNN HEINZERLING Associated Press Staff Writer

8TH ARMY SWEEPS BEYOND PERUGIA   GAINS 5 MILES AFTER CLEAR‘ING STRONGHOLD OF LAST NAZI DEFENDERS.

Allies Finish  Conquest of Italian City   United Nations Men Go More Than Five Miles Past Perugia

CORPS JOINED ONEAST COAST   15 More Towns Liberated by American Invaders

Inductee List Here Announced   Those Accepted For Service And Branch Assignment Announced.

Announce List Of Inductees   Many From Here Accept ed For Army And Navy~ On April 11.

Police Pin “Gas Prowler” Charge ‘On War Plant and Gentle Breezes

INDUSTRIAL PLANT SPREADS GAS FUMES   Hysteria Blamed Fer Heperts That Prowler Was Spraying Sickening Gas Inte Rooms

60,000 Nazis Menaced by British Drive   Tommies Fighting In Cathedral City Keystone Defense

British Second  . Army Pierces . Nazi Key Town   Capture of ‘S Heretogenbosch in West Holland Would Imperil Estimated 60,000 Nazis

KEYSTONE OF NAZI DEFENSE THREATENED   In Holland as Gen. Demp.  ~ sey’s Second Army Cap tures Section of Ancien Cathedral City.  . Swing West

Germans Are Struck With Great Fury at ’S Heretogenbosch   NAZIS IMPERILLED > BY BRITISH ATTACK   Capture of City Would Help Break Blockade of Antwerp

BATTLES INTO NAZI BASTION   Big Foe Force is Menaced by Smash at  ( *s-Hertogenbosch

British Moving To Trap Nazis Below Antwerp   Tactics Of Second Army May Break German Blockade

British in Holland Enter Keystone  Of Nazi Defense   Second Army Takes Part of ’S Hertogenbosch In Strong Campaign

Draft Boards Get Notice Affecting Men in 4-F and 1-€ Classifications

Men 30-37 Gel Indefinite Stay in Draft   Men of 26 Through 29 Necessary Employes, Not to Be Drafted "“Eor Time Being”

Older Mer Get Draft Reprieve    Necessary Men Over 26 and Ones Over 30 In Essential Industry Are to Be Deferred

Revised Policy On Deferments Effective Today   Indefinite Stay Giver Men Over 29 In Essen.  tial Industries.

Draft Stays For Essential  Men30T037   Other Deferments Are Indicated In — Re-Drawing Of U. Manpower Picture

An. Indefinite: I          a ew Draft Po Policy Which: . Hoped to Stand for: six “Months ‘Announced: -

Indefinite Stay is Granted Men 30 by Newest Army Order   Local Boards May Ignore Quota if Men Are Not Available

Draft Authority To Be Returned To Local Boards   Quotas To Be Ignored If Men Over 30 Are Needed

Essential Men Over 30 Not To be Drafted   “Necessary” Men Over Twenty-Six Not to Be Taken “For the  Time Being”. Rule

Men 30 and Over Escape Draft If in ‘Essential Industry   Deferred For Indefinite Period Whether ‘Necessary Men’ or Noi Under New Policy

Men 30 To 37 Get Indefinite Stay From Duty   National Selective Service Rule Settles Uneasy West OF Thoneanda

Men Over 30 In Essential Work Deferred Indefinitely   Necessary Men 26 Through 29 Also Will Not Be Drafted “For Time Being,’’ Hershey Makes Known

Men Age 30 Through 37 in Essential Work Given Indefinite Stay.   OTHER CHANGES TOLD

Definite Policy Includes Restoration of Full Authority to Local Boards

MEN OVER 30 IN WAR WORK GRANTED STAY   Deferment Ordered for ‘Indefinite Period’ In New Policy

MEN, 30 T0 37 NOT LIKELY T0 BE IN SERVICE   New Policy Made Public By L. H. Hershey

New Draft  Policy Is Released   30-37 Age Group Gets. Indefinite Stay

BROADER POLICY ON DRAFT RULES GO INTO EFFECT   TEMPORARY STAY GIVEN NECESSARY MEN 26 THROUGH 29

New Draft Rules Are Announced At Washington  Older Men Get Chance to Keep Out of Service

MEN OVER 30 IN INDUSTRY ARE DEFERRED   Policy Announced by National Selective Service May Continue for Six Months   AID TO DRAFT BOARDS

MEN. OVER 30 NOT TO BE.CALLED FOR DUTY IN SERVICES   New Draft Policies Announced With Gnly Younger Men To Be Drafted

New Draft Policy Halts Induction Of Men 30 to 38   Deferment for an. Indefinite Period Ordered for Those In Essential Wark

All Men Over 29 Get Indefinite Draft Deferment   New Policy Adopted To Give Men Idea of Where They Stand fo Next Six Monthsaand To Soothe Irritated Draft Boards

Revise Policy On Deferment:   Men Age 30 Through 37 In Essential Work Given Indefinite Stay From Duty.

PARISIANS END 3 DAY CELEBRATION   Return to Arranging Scrambled Fragments of Prewar Existance.

Parisians End 3 Day Celebration   No Public Transportation, And Meals For Three Cost $50.

YANKS PARADE PARIS AVENUES   THOUSANDS CHEER AND PRAY ALONG LINE OF MARCH

CELEBRATION IN PARIS IS ENDED   Things Remain Orderly In City But Far From Normal

Paris: Views.  Yank Parade   City Nears Normal: With Nazis Moving.

YANKS PARADE IN PARIS AS CELEBRATION CLIMAX   Situation in Capital of France Is Orderly But Far From Normal

PARISIANS FIND” PLENTY TO DO   Celebration’s Over and City Goes to Work—Parade By U. S. Forces

AMERICAN TROOPS PARADE IN PARIS      Bradley Places Wreath on ' ‘Tomb. of Unknown Soldier of First World War

Liberation Celebration In Paris Is Climaxed By Parade Of U. S. Troops

After 3-Day Celebration Parisians Work to Restore City’s Normal Life

POLITICKING   Says He Wants to Announce It Ahead of “Hue and Cry”

ROOSEVELT 10 — MAKE SPEECH   FIRST CAMPAIGN . TALK” ARRANGED, FOR SEPTEMBER © _ ) RED DOEINT. PLAN “ "-! NATIONAL TOUR

 Normandy Sector in Dead Silence As.  Eight Nurses Returned to German:

Americans Return Captured German Nurses to the Nazis   Nurses Leave Impression They Are Doubtful Germany Will Win, But Express Admiration for Hospitalization Furnished by Americans—There Was No Exchanve of Prisoners

CAPTURED GERMAN NURSES © “. RETURNED TO NAZI LINES   AMERICAN AND GERMAN GUNS SILENCED FOR SHORT TIME TO GET RID OF  « . PRISONERS

Promotions For Bataan Men Asked   Japs Delaying Shipments of Supplies to Prisoners

Indian Troops Used In Efforts To Capture High Peaks Held By Germans

Allies Hurl 50,000 Shells Into Hills Around Cassino   Din Of Great Guns During Allied Attack Said Almost inconceivable

MOSCOW. DEMANDS FINLAND AGREED TO BY GREAT BRITAIN  FINLAND TOLD TO BREAK   FINLAND TOLD TO BREAK WITH GERMANY AND INTERN CERMAN. TROOPS

Finland Makes No Remark Qn Reds Demands      Moseow Demands Cease Of Military Operations; Break With Germany.   BRITAIN OKS TERMS

Russia Demands Interning Of All Nazis {n Financ   Red-Finn Peace Would Also Mean Britain, U. S. Also Would  “~ ee. C2 a me   ‘MASE FIRING!’   Concrete Agreement Of Terms Offered As Soon As Finns Quit War

LEADERS MAP PLAN FOR "AIR POLICE”   Occupation - nForce to be Installed in Germany ' After War

Occupation Air Force Planned By Allied Heads   Believe That 15,000 Bombers, Fighters To Be Usedin Reich

Occupation Army In Germany Will Need Air Support   Allies May Have To Set Up Force of 15,000 Planes in Reich

ERMANY FACES "AIR OCCUPATION   FLEET OF 15,000 BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS MAY POLICE REICH AFTER WAR.

WISCONSIN TEST FOR WILLKIE   4 CANDIDATES WATCH PREFERENTIAL PRIMARY

Wisconsin To: Hold Primary :   one GOP Gets First Test’, To Determine Support 

MacArthur Letters Increase Boiling  of Political Pot   Washington Circles Have Varied Views About  Situation

Connecticut Offers Baldwin For President   Asks Governor’s Name Be Slated for GOP List; Elect 16 Unpledged Delegates.

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RUSSIANS ENTER RIGA SUBURBS   Others Cross Polish Border Into Slovakia

Russians Cross Into Slovakia  Moscow Does Not Confirm Enemy Reports of  verre invacian

Reds Burst Into Suburbs Of Riga   Three Armies Close In On Desperate Nazi Garrison; Russians Enter Hungary From Poland In 2-Wavy Drive

Russians Enter Suburbs of Latvian Capital   Other Red Forces Drive Four Miles Into Slovakia

Main Attack Is Launched  On Garrison   Reds In Southeast Cross Polish Border Into Slovakia.

Soviet Troops Storming Into  Riga Suburbs   ‘Estonia Mopup Ended; _ Report Yugoslavia, Hungary Invaded

DRIVE STARTED TO BREAK NAZI SLOVAKIA HOLD   Axis Reports Put Soviet And Romanian Soldiers Already In Romania

RED TROOPS OUORM INTO AIGA LINES   Make Frontal Attack On Cornered German Garrison Dug In Behind Buildings, Harbor Works of Latvian Capital   OTHER RED TROOPS ENTER SLOVAKIA

Russians Storm Suburbs of Riga  Other Red Troops  Bragk Into Slovakia

Reds Storm Nazis Inside Latvia Capita   Frontal Assault Opens on, Germans Dite in at Riva

Germans Use Reserves for Final Stand   Moscow Radio Tells. Hungarian People to Overthrow Leaders

Red Units Storm Into Suburbs of Latvian Capital   Other Russian Troops Break Across Polish Border Into Slovakia

On Resisting Germans Dug In Ruined Works Of Latvian Capital  GERMAN RESISTANCE REPORTED TIGHTER  Last Major Citadel Held By The Nazis In The Baltic States

TROOPS IN SOUTH CROSS BORDER INTO SLOVAKIA, CAPTURE TOWN   German Garrison  Digs In for Fight

Reds Smash Both Ends. Of Nazi Line      Pave Way for Attacks Along Historic Routes Leading to Berlin   5 NAZI DIVISIONS TRAPPED AT VITEBSK   Three Other Bastions, Mogilev, Bobruisk And Orsha. Menaced

BBC Reports Red Avalanche Of Tanks And Infantry Circling Above And Below Mogiley And Bobruisk

VITEBSK AND ZHLOBIN ARE HELD BY RUSS   Way Paved for Attack: Along Invasion Routes to Berlin

Tabloid Blitz On  London   Germans Give British Capital Seventh Alert In Five  Nights; Some Killed.

Reds Closing In On Pskov; Mobile Guns Pound City   Germans Driven from 250 More Localities around Ancient Trade Center

Reds Take 250 More Towns In Pskov Drive   Believe Russians Now On Outskirts of Big Nazi Railway Bastion

Soviets Begin  Shelling Pskov   Russians Now Within Six Miles of City

NET TIGHTENED AROUND PSKOV   Reds Chase Enemy Out Of 250 Localities Near Key City

David Lloyd George Blames U.S. for This War; Says America Must Keep Word to Stop Another

Britain’s First War Prime Minister Says World-Peace Future Depends On U.S.

Aging Lloyd George Says Third War Can Be Prevented “Buy America Actina”’ Right

‘Lloyd George Says Way To Prevent Another Wars ‘By ‘Americans Acting Differently: At Peace Table

George Tells Sure Way fo Prevent Third World War   Says America Must Act: Differently in Dealing With Reich

Holds Things Would Have Gone Differently After World War I if U.S. Had Kept Barerin

LLOYD GEORGE VIEWS FUTURE   Says Surest Way of Preventing Third World War Is for America to Act Differently This Time

lemon Deal Sels Record For Valley   Shipments Surpassing t All Previous Years

No Indication Yet Luxembourg Thrust Has Been Stopped; German Gamble May Be Turned to Defeat

iT urn Hitler’s Gamble . Into His Worst Defeat Is Plea Of Eisenhower

Eisenhower Calls On Grim Soldiers To Turn Hitler’s “Great Gamble Into His Worst Defeat”

ALLIES DESTROY [34 NAZI PLANES IN 2-WAY ATTACK   Armadas From England and Italy Raid Five Aircraft Cities in Germany and Hungary.   SWARMS OF ENEMY FIGHTERS GIVE BATTLE   One. Great Combat Rages ' From 30 to 45 Minutes— British-Based U. S. Fleet Loses 44 Ships.

AUGSBURG AND GYOR VISITED BY HUGE RAIDS   Total Of 36 Bombers And Eight Fighters Fail To Return To Home Bases

U.S. Bombers Attack 5 Nazi Aircraft Cities   Strike From Both Britain and Italy; 134 Nazi Planes Are Shot Down

BIG AIR FLEETS HIT AT FOE IN TWO-WAY RAID   Planes Based in Italy And Britain Raid 5S Axis Cities

NAZI PLANES GIVE BATTLE TO ARMADA   swarms of Fighters In Path of Planes Attacking Five Aircraft Cities In Southern Germany   Oth on Augsburg

Cities cked by Planes   adas Fight Wa) Nazi Swarms id Aircraft "enters

STORY NEW TEXAS  RANGERS AND THEIR  INVASION OF FRANCE SURLY ENGLISH CI'AN.  NEL WATERS HAD BIG PART IN LANDING

TEXAS RANGERS  Epic Story of Their First 34 Hours on the Freach Beaches

Story Of TexasRangers’ First Hours In France A Crim Tale Of Courage

GERMANS REEL BACK BEFORE FLORENCE   Leave Their Defense Posts,  5 Miles from City

NAZIS REEL BACK TOWARD FLORENCE   Report Famous Leaning Tower of Pisa Destroyed

Counterattacks Fail In Florence   German Troops Reel  Under British Fire

BEF Backs American Landslide With Gains in Caumont Area   GERMANS REELED BACK BEFORE FLORENCE WITH HEAVY LOSSES

Nazi Attacks At Florence Are Failures   Enemy Falls Back Round Historie City

Germans Lose Heavily Defending City of Florence   Allies Are Less Than Fives Miles Away From Goal

BLOODY FIGHT RAGED ABOUT SAN MICHELE   Veleran New Zealanders Stand Fast Under Day-and-Night  Sieve

DEWEY SETTLES NEW YORK RACE   Republicans Expected Te Name Curran For Senate Contest

Capt. Stowe, Fellow-Doctor Save Life of Chinese General by Operation in Lantern-Lit Mud Hut

WILL USE X-RAY FILMS IN FIGHT ON TUBERCULOSIS   Akron One Of Three Places In County Where Films Will Be Taken

Unconfirmed German Radio Report Of Allied Landing In Western Part Of France

Broadcast Of Invasion Discounted   Allies Makes No Landings ‘On Coast Of France, London Declares

MYSTERIOUS BROADCAST HEARD TELLING OF INVASION THRUST   AUTHORITIES SAY REPORT OF ‘LANDING NOT GIVEN OVER : THE BIG GERMAN STATION

Russians Advance In New Offensive   Moscow Makes Its First Report On Gains in Latest Drive on Nazis

Russians Are Taking A High Toll Of Nazis   Plunge Ten Miles In New Offensive And Slaughter Foe.

Connecting  ee  Nazis Cut      Soviet Troops Capture Zamostochye, Inflict Losses on Enemy in Drive on Vitebsk

AMONG LIFE’S VAGARIES:  Professor of Economics Finds GI’s Shoot Crans!

SERGEANT DIES OF © “SKULL FRACTURE   Ralph °H.: Buchanan, Ho. : gerstown, ‘in London

SERGEANT DIES OF SKULL FRACTURE      Ralph H. Buchanan, Ha gerstown, Expires in London

Soviet Drive Nearing Vital Railway Line   Danger to Germans in Smela Gap Increases— 12,000 Slain Yesterday

50,000 German Troops Slain Or Captured By Two Russian Armies In Great Advance

Last Escape Line To Rumania Threatened; 12.000 Germans Slain   New Russo Attack In Crimea Reported By Berlin; Nazis Sav Sarnv Evacuated

Reds Drawing Net Tighter Around Nazis   12,000 Germans Listed as Killed as Soviet Forces Press Forward

Spearheads Drive Steadily Toward Rumania and Vilal Odessa-Warsaw Read   BATTLE FOR SARNY   8,000 Germans Wiped Gut by Ko nev's Forces in Drive to En circle Smela

WOULD CUT OFF NAZI SUPPLIES   Capture Would Impose   Biggest Burden Yet   For Rumania

Ukraine Army Is 15 Miles  Over Dnieper   Severing of Supply Line Brings New Threat tn Nazis

RUSSIANS ARE DRIVING NAZIS INTO NEW TRAP   Germzns Are Being Killed By The Thousands

Russ Drive On Toward Rumania And  Rail Line   Warsaw-Odessa Road Threatened: Konev’s Army Near Smela; New Attack In Crimea

Reds Smash Toward Vital Railway Line   Drive Ever Nearer Rumania; Tighten Squeeze In Smela Gap.

Russians Driving Close to Rumania   Germans Report New Offensive Launched by Reds North of Kerch

A SEVERANCE WOULD BADLY HURT NAZIS   Forces Would Be Thrown  Back Upon Rumania for Supplies and for the Use of Rail Lines and  Hlichwavs.

RUSSIANS PUSH NEAR BORDER OF RUMANIA   Spearheads Threaten Vita Railway; Scouts Reach Bug River

RUSSIANS DRIVE DEEP TOWARD A VITAL RAILROAD   Advance Scouts Captured a Long Stretch of Land Southeast of Zhinerinka   ‘ON THE MAIN RAIL LINE   To the Rear, 2nd Ukranian Army Fought Within 15 Miles of Smela.

—_RUSSIA—  BUSGIN FORGES, NEARING AUIEN          astern] Bank Of Southern Bug River . °*        STEADY ADVANCES   Moscow Says 8, 000 ‘Nazis - Are ‘Wiped Out’ North . Of Kirovograd =...

REDS NEARING RUMANIA AND BUG RIVER   First-Ukraine Army Threatens to Sever Vital Odessa-Warsaw Railroad

Germans D Declare New Russian Attack ‘Rages In Crimea   Sanus Rail City, Battle Continues; - Soviets - Wipe. Out .8000.North Of Kirovograd,: ‘Drive On Smela

Russians Reach Bug River; Nazi Railway Escape Route  Thuas anand ls Da A dase inreaiened Dy Red Advarice   Remnants of Shattered Enemy Armored Divisions Wiped Out By Ukraine Army in Dnieper Bend

SPEARHEAD OF SOVIET ATTACK NEARS RUMANIA   Russian Threat to Cut -Odessa-Warsaw R.R.  Line Increases

Other Forces Fight To 18 Miles Of Smela   Menace To Warsaw Odessa Line Grows Hourly As Reds Sweep Closer. To Rumania  _ —Danger to Smela Gap   Mounts.

RED TROOPS DRIVE NEARER 0 RUMANIA   Fifth Army Closing: In On Cassino

REDS ADVANCE IN-LOWER BUG RIVER SECTOR   Germans Report New Sovie' Drive in Crimea, Kill 8,000 Nazis Near Kirovograd

Take Land Near Zhmerinka   Second Ukraine Army Fighting Within 15 Miles of Dnieper Bend Town of Smela; Wipe Out 8,000 Trapped Nazis.

» SOVIETS HACK AT NAZI POSITIONS   @ Odesse- Worsew Railway  Prize Awaiting Fast-Moving Russian Troops

REDS STEADILY DRIVE TOWARD RUMANIAN LINE   Smash Toward Vital Odessa-Warsaw R. R.; Approach Bug River

SOVIET DRIVE PERILS VITAL NAZI RAILWAY   Russian Force Closes In   Smela; 8,000 Germans Wiped Out

SPEARHEAD OF RUSSIAN ARMY NEAR RUMANIA  ) wraerarerat TA AUT   THREATEN TO CUT ODESSA-WARSAW RAILWAY IN DRIVE

Russians Drive Toward Vital Rail Outlef   Branch Lines Cut, Main Railway Escape For Nazis Threatened

SOVIET SPEARHEADS STEADILY BRINGING WAR TO RUMANIA   FIRST UKRAINE ARMY INCREASED THREAT TO ODESSA-WARSAW LINE

Wipe Out Trapped Germans   Disaster Looms If -Odessa-Warsaw Line Cut.

‘War Moves "Closer to ;Rumania_   Reds Drive Toward Odessa-Warsaw Railway and Push To East Bank af Bua

SOVIETS REACH EASTERN BANK OF BUG RIVER   Sev ering: of Railway Would Force Huns Back On Rumania For  _ Supplies. *   SECOND ARMY. NEAR  SMELA ON. DN IEPER   Berlin Reports New Red! Offensive In-Crimea;. -— 8,000 Nazis Encircled ~' ~ "Near Kirovograd-

NONEV ARMY 1S PUSHING UPON SMELA   Sarny Is Claimed Evacuated By Conqueror 

Russians Drive Nearer Rumania   SOVIET CAPTURE BIG STRIP OF LAND ON RAILROAD

Russ Bring War Nearer ‘To Rumania   8,000 Nazis Wiped Out Near Kirovograd ; Kerch Drive Reported

Vital Center Of Rail Line IsObjective   Bug River Is Felt Out By Advance  Troops Today

8,000 GERMANS WIPED OUT BY SOVIET FORCES   Losses Reported North of Kirovograd; War Comes Closer to Rumania

DANE TOWARD VITAL RAILWAY   Russian Spearheads Are Advancing on OdessaWarsaw Line.   WAR NEARER TO RUMANIA

Russians Near Vital German Rail Line   Thousands of Nazi: Killed as Reds Continue Gains

Drive Toware Wital Odessa Rail Line   Second Army  Within 15 Miles _ Of Smela—Wipe Out 8.000 Nazis

~ LINE GOAL OF DRIVE   Konev’s Men Move Within 15 Miles Of Smela   Reached By Advance Units: Germans Report Drive North Of Kerch

Fifth Army  Forces Gain New Points  In Cassino   Hills Around Town Are Being Occupied

Allies Encounter Stiff Resistance From Nazis Penned In Ruins Of Town

FIFTH ARMY FIGHTING ITS WAY THRU RUINS OF BLASTED CITY N FACE STIFF RESISTANCE   Germans Still Occupying Ruins of Ancient Cas: sino Monastery and Direct Artillery Fire at Allied Troops Converging on City from Many Direction:

Fifth Army Forces Drive Germans To Outskirts Ot The RombDemoaliched Cit

Germans Hold Southwestern Corner of Town, Guarding Road Leading to Rome   SOFIA HIT AGAIN   American Troops Repel German} Atlacks on Beachhead Points Taken Two Days Ago 

‘Most of "Cassino in «Allied Hands   Fifth Army Drives ‘Germans from All But One Corner of Demolished Town

GERMANS HOLD ONLY ONE ROAD LEAVINGBASTION   Fifth Army Troops Shell Nazis Still Holding Positions in Monestary

Germans In One Corner Of Town   Nazis Still Occupy Ruins Of Ancient Abbey

Fifth Drives Nazi Snipers From Cassino   Clears All but Corner in Blazing Charges; Shells Monastery Ruins

everal Prominent ills Overlooking 3astion Captured   lew Zealand Troops, Who Plunged Into Ruined City Immediately After 2,500-Ton Aerial Raid, Meet Strong Resistance   SF ERMANS STILL OCCUPY ABBEY ABOVE THE TOWN

Allied Forces Fight Through City OF Cassino   Capture Several Prominent Heights Overlooking Devastated ‘Town.   NAZIS FIGHTING HARD

ALLIES OCCUPY VITAL HEIGHTS   Fifth Army Forces Fight Way Through Bomb-De' molished Cassino.    RESISTANCE IS STRONG

Allies Force Germans into Cassino Corner   Enemy Retains Hold on Ruins Of Old Monastery

New Zealand Troops Drive  Germans Back   Fight Way Through Bomb. Demolished Town To Southwestern _   * Outskirts   Girded For Move — — Jnto Liri Valley   Nazis Still Occupying Ruins Of Monte Cassino Abbey; Directing Artillery Fire On Allies

FIGHTING RAGES ON IN RUINS   Nazis Forced Back Into One Corner  Of Rubble

Fifth Army Holds Most Of Cassino After Hard Fight   Allies Battle Way Up Hill Toward. Monastery

Capture Some Key Heights   Germans Now Occupy Only Small Corner Of Town.

New Zealanders Plunge In Rubble ( Ruined Sector   Nazis Fight Back But -Are Routed; Hill: @Near City — Stil “Defended

In Southwest Outskirts Of Cassino  Nazis Driven From All Weed Sha, Pincus we   Nazis Driven From All But One Corner Of Italian Town

Most of Cassino is in Fifth Army Hands After Record Attack   Allies Battling Way Up Monastery Hill; Fighting Fierce

OTH ARMY CAPTURES PROMINENT HEIGHTS OVERLOOKING CASSING      New Zealanders Plunge Into City, Taking All But Small Part of Town:   GERMANS HOLD ABBEY HILL

ALLIES FIGHT GERMANS FOR ALL CASSING   Fifth Army Reaches Southwestern Outskirts of Bomb-ruined City

Fifth Army Is Now Fighting Above Cassino   Germans Driven Out of Ruins, Cling to Hills Bitterly

ALLIES SEIZE HEIGHTS NEAR CASSINO RUINS   German Counterattacks On Beachhead Beaten Back By Yank Troops

Heights Near Cassino Are Taken   Only Small Portion Of Town Itself Now in Nazi Hands

FIFTH ARMY FIGHTS WAY TO CASSINO   Towns Demolished In Attack By U. S. Raiders

Residents Asked Not to be Upset  Over Tax Letters to Men in Service

REPORT MADE ON TELEPHONE CALLS FROM ” POLITICAL ° ° ACTION COMMITTEE TO \. MANY NEW DEALERS ~

20,000 Nazis Who Surrender To 24 Americans, March 200 Miles to Turn in Arms

20,000 Germans Surrender to Group Of 24 Americans: March 200 Miles

Prisoners Allowed To March 200 Miles Armed  20,000 Surrender To 24 Yanks

24 ‘Crazy’ Yanks Bluff 20,000 Germans Into Surrender With Borrowed Planes

20,000 Germans Surrender to 24 Yanks, Then March, Armed, 200 Miles to Camp

20,000 Germans, Fully Armed, Give Themselves  Up To Yanks; Fear French

24 YANKS NAB 20,000 GERMANS   PRISONERS ARMED FOR MAQUIS PROTECTION

Explain Chaplin Case Blood Tests   Trial Is Recessed Until Next Friday

SUS MRI aR SS an” sat ma <a el REVOLTS IN AUSTRIA RELATED BY BEEN ANVieKrs

Jap Troops Take British Hospital   Bayonet Helpless, Deny The Dying Water

FORS CLOSING   Russians Ten Miles From the Last Rail Junction in Ukraine Area: Gain Despite Spring Thaws.

Cut Vital Railway Supplying 500,000   Germans in Ukraine Behind Red Lines—Peasants Along.  Rorders in Wild Flight to West

2,800 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES HIT KRUPP WORKS   Aerial Offensive Is Being Carried On Unabated By Night And Day

G.0.P. to Control Both Houses in Legislature   Assembly Race in 33rd District Still in Doubt

Berlin Suffers 2  Diplomatic Blows   Turks May Wage War On Germany; Helsinki Ready To Ask Separate Peace

Berlin Says Turkish Action Must “Be Regarded As Prelude To War”   Mannerhein Lakes Over In Finland   Veteran Leader Is Expected To Open Peace Discussions With Russia

BRITISH PLEDGE ANKARA HELP IF REICH ATTACKS   Quick Repercussions Loom In Balkans As Saracoglu Tells Of Severance

TURKEY BREAKS WITH GERMANY: FINLAND READY   Repercussions im Shaky Balkans Indicated as Bulgaria Backs Out

TOWN RAIDED   RAF Attacks Trier, Chief Nazi Supply Point for Great Offensive

Jap Positions On Arawe Peninsula  Blasted By Allies   Pressure Increased By American Troops Around Beachhead

Allies Step Up Drive Against Arawe Japanese   U. S.: Planes,,.Continue  vg  Blasting Of Enemy ©  Airdromes

ALLIES IN. NEW ATTACKS NEAR ARAWE   Both Air and Land Forces  Take Part

LAND AND AIR ATTACK ON JAPS MADE IN ARAWE   Texas Cavalry Units Fighting as Infantry, Hit East of Peninsula

Soviets Capture Polish Oil Center, Prod to Within 5 Miles of East Prussia Border; Nazis Shell Allied-Held Sections of Florence Despite Declaration of Open City; Airmen Strike Anew in Reich

Mate Confesses InL. A. Trunk Murder Mystery   Husband of Victim Seized in Texas; Describes Slaying

STRIKE IN HELSINGFORS   Has Begun i in : Protest to Nazi Slaying of Otte Bulow

FLOOD WATERS FORCING MANY TO FLEE HOMES   2500 Militiamen Patrol Levees  In This Area

Reds in Control From Budapest To Black Sea   Railway Station At Solt Seized In New Advance

SOVIET AR GETS CONTROL ALONG DANUBE   RUSSIANS GAIN NEW POSITIONS IN BITTER BATTLE FOR THE CAPITAL OF HUNGARY 2

Russians Hurl Germans West Qi Famed Danube From Black Sea To Hungarian Capital

SOVIETS HOLD CONTROL OVER FAMED RIVER   New Sledge Hammer Blows Are Directed Against Capital City

REDS IN GAINS NEAR BUDAPEST   Russians Rule’ Danube River from Black Sea West to Capital

REPORT 20,000 NAZIS CAUGHT. NEAR BELFORT   Escape Routes To Reich Cut By Two More Allied Units

Trap Is Sealed Agi ainst Nazis a S. France   French Armies Forge Solid Line Through Central France

Nazi Horde Trapped In Southwest France   French Troops Forge Solid Line; Allies Close German Escape Routes.

Junction of Two Armies Clinches  Doom of Nazis   Additional Columns Pour Across Escape Routes Into Germany

NAZIS. TRAPPED IN SOUTH FRANCE   FRENCH SEAL FATE OF GERMANS iN SOUTHWEST

Doom Nazis in Franee  Ree cee ae  nn Anh A.   Estimate 20,000 Are In French Trap

ALLIES SEAL TRAP ON THOUSANDS OF NAZIS IN FRANCE   Troops Forge Solid Line Across Nation

SOLID COLUMN THROWN ACROSS ESCAPE ROUTES   French Troops Porge Solid Line Across Central France

ALLIED UNITS MERGE, TRAP 20,000 NAZIS   All Germans In Southern, Western France Cut Off

Meat Supply to be Short Next Year   Date of Victory In Europe Will Determine Amount Available.

Allied Fliers Down 24 Japs   ENEMY INVASION IS MAKING GAINS IN _ INDIA.

NIPS FORCED BACK IN CHIN HILLS SECTOR   Enemy Force Loses 24 Planes In Assault On Allies In India

Jap Bombing Attack Is Smashed   Invasion Columns Suffer Heavy Burma Casualties

Sky Battle Staged Over Indian Front   Enemy Ground Forces Pressing Toward Imphal

FLEET HEADED FORINDIAIS TURNED BACK   Invasion. Column Keeps Up Pressure Despite High Loss

Jap Bomber Thrust Into India Smashed by Allied Fighters   However Nipponese Invasion Column Keeps Up Strong Pressure

ALLIED FIGHTERS SMASH BOMBER THRUST AT INDIA  . JAPANESE INVASION COLIIMN MAINTAINS

Battle for Burma Flaring Fiercely  Jap Bomber Thrust, Broken Up With Loss.

ENEMY DRIVES FORWARD TODAY TOWARD IMPHAL   5,423 Japs Killed By Americans In Northern Burma

BOMBER THRUST SMASHED   Nip Ground Forces Maintain Drive  On Imphal

Allied Airmen Smash Thrust Nip Bombers   Fighter Planes Hit Force Supporting Jap Troops Invading India: 24 Craft Downed

Allies Take ‘New Positions’ As Tap Pressure In India Mounts   Destroy 133 Planes

BURMA FRONT RAGES   Japanese Launch Assault to Gain the Manipur Plain

Allied Planes Smash Big Bomber Thrust By Japs  a in, ae ny   Enemy Ground Forces Press Hard As Our Troops Take New Positions

smash Bomber Thrust ix Jap Invasion Of India As Enemy Gains Ground

BiG BOMBER THRUST OF JAPS IN INDIA SMASHED BY ALLIES ENEMY GROUND FORCES,  HOWEVER, ARE PRESSINC TOWARD IMPHAL

NAZIS ROUTED "IN ARNO VALLE)   Captured Nazis Bewildered By Breakthrough Of  Americane

GERMANS FLEE BEFORE STH ARMY   AMERICANS OROSS ARNO RIVER VALLEY BETWEEN PISA AND FLORENCE.

Germans Retreat In Florence Area   Americans Cross Arno River Valley

AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE IN ITALY   Bewildered Germans Retreat Across Arno River

CROSSING MADE IN ARNO VALLEY   Surprised Nazis Retreat To Gothie Line After Yank Breakthrough

YANK TROOPS PUSH ACROSS ARNO RIVER   Allied Planes Continue To Destroy Enemy Communications In Po Val ley Of Northern Italy

Russians Drive For Warsaw   Red Forces Only 90 Miles  From Former Polish  Capital

Russians Make Supreme Bid For Warsaw   New Offensive Launched Against Finns; Nazi Baltic Lines Falter

RIP DEFENSES NEAR WARSAW   Nazis Swept Out of Ost: rov: Brest Litovsk Tottering

Soviets Capture Ostrov, Leave Pskov Isolated   Russians Pour Through Dozens of Breaches Onto Polish Plains as Giant Thrusts Reach Out to Envelop Warsaw

Russian Forces But 90 Miles From Warsaw   Germans Pushed Back Along Battle Front; Latvia Neared

ROLL GERMAN REARGUARDS BACK ALONG 260-MILE BATTLE LINE; 19TH DIVISION TOOK ST. LO

SOVIET FORCES ONLY90 MILES FROM WARSAW   GERMANS GALTIC POSITION GROWS MORE DESPERATE

SOVIETS ALS PUSH DRIVE ON WARSAW   Making Supreme Bid for Polish Capital, Red Tank and _ Infantry Forces Roll Enemy  ‘Back on 200-Mile Front.

RUSSIAN TROOPS 40 MILES FROM WARSAW, REPORT   Positions of Germans in Baltics Where Hitler Once Swaggered, Grows Worse Hourly

SOVIETS ONLY 90 MILES FROM POLISH CAPITAL   German Position Grave in Baltics as Reds Take Ostrov Friday

Soviet Forces Only 90 Miles From Warsaw   Tank and Infantry Units Making Bid for Polish Capital

Reds 90 Miles From Warsaw   Céntinue ‘to Rolf Back German Rearenards

Nazis Rolled Back By Reds  German Positions Now Grow Hourly Worse

REDS STRIKE BACK NAZIS IN WARSAW PUSH   Some Soviet Forces on 200 Mile Line Only 90 Miles of Canital   Red Tide Is Pouring Through Many Holes

RUSSIAN ARMIES OVER 200-MILE FRONT MAKING SUPREME BID TO CAPTURE OLD POLISH CAPITAL   Some Red Army Forces Now Reported Only 90 Miles from City. Russians Report New Gains Ostrov and in Other Séctors

Soviets Make Big Bid for Warsaw   Red Forces Approach Within Ninety Miles Of Polish Capital

GING ON INOMILE LINE   Dispatches Say Some Forces Are Only 90 Miles From Polish Capital.   ENEMY FACES DISASTER

Red Troopers Within 90 Miles Of Pole Capifal   Sharp Bid Made For Warsaw by Russian Armies

Soviets Push Toward Warsaw Goal  German Forces Fall Back on Jagged ONnf_hAtia Crant ling

SOVIET TROOPS ONLY 90 MILES FROM WARSAW   Russians Stage New Offensive Against Nazis

Soviets Pour Out Upon Polish Plains   Bug River Crossed; New Drive Points Tnaward Huneary

Soviets Push Nazis Back on '200-Mile Line   Some Red Forces Only 9 Miles from Warsaw; Ger. man Position in Baltics Grows Steadily Worse r

Soviets Push Toward Warsaw Goal  German Forces Fall Back on Jagged

Reds Drive  For Warsaw   Tanks and Infantry In Supreme Bid Roll Back German Rearguards

REDS 90 MILES FROM WARSAW   Soviets Roll Back German Rearguards In Drive On Polish Capital

REDS WITHIN NINETY MILES OF WARSAW   Germans’ Position In Baltics Grows Worse By Hour

Soviet Units 90 Miles From Warsaw   German Positions In Baltic State Reported Worse Hourly

Red Vanguards Are Within 90 Mi. Of Warsay   Russians Roll German: Back Everywhere Alons 900.Mile Line.

Russian Arm Is Within 90 Miles Of  Warsaw   Red Tide Pours Over Polish Plains; Nazis Rolled Back On Front 900 Miles Longe

SOVIET FORCES NEAR WARSAW   Only 90 Miles From Polish Capital; Red Power Appears Inexhaustible

REDS 90 MILES FROM WARSAW   German Baltic Position Also Takes Turn For Worse

Marines ‘Advance on New Britain   Jap Strongholds in Southwest Pacific And Burma Bombed

JAPS BEING WIPED OUT O} NEW BRITAIN   Veteran Marines Killing Hundreds Of Nips In Battle

MARINES KILL 60 JAPS IN BATTLE ON NEW BRITAIN   Allied Planes Smash ai Enemy Buses in South  Pacific

Ike Joins in Liberty Fete   General Presents Plaque to City From Headquarters

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Furious Tank Fight Raging, Nazis Report   Metz-Sarrebourg Railroad Menaced By Yank Armour; Earth-Shaking Battle Roars Into Fourth Day; Town Of Luppy Captured

AMERICANS STAB FIVE MILES INTO METZ’S DEFENSES   German Defenders Split South of Fortress and One Group Is Falling Back On City.   GEN. PATTON’S TANKS MENACE SAAR BORDER   Doughboys of Hodges’ First Army Battle Nazis in Hurtgen Forest Southeast of Aachen.

iThreaten To Sever ‘Rail Line   Germans Flung Back Near Aachen; Reds Outflank Budapest.

Americans Slash Deep in Defense Profecting Metz   Tanks Penetrate Five Miles Into Enemy Stronghold

ARMORED DIVISION CROSSED RIVER AND CONTINUED ADVANCE  THIRD ARMY OFFENSIVE IN METZ SECTOR MOVES INTO ITS FOURTH DAY

Yankees 19 Miles From Saar Border   «+»Hundreds Of Tanks Clash In Fierce Battle

BAIN FIVE 1 SEVEN MILty TOWARD GIT)   Germans Say Patton Making “Notable Progress” on Richt Wing.

Yanks Slash Way Forward   Cut Five Miles In Defenses Of Metz, Tanks Cut One Rail Supply Line

THIRD ARMY'S DRIVE PASSES LINE OF 1918   Advances Made All Along 75-Mile Front: Metz Near Encirelement

Patton Makes Gains of Five To Seven Miles   U. S. Third Army Men Split Nazi Defenders Of Fortress City as Tanks Push Forward

American Ariiy Deepening Its Wedge Into Foe   All But Stice Natz-Sarrebourg Raiiroad in Ad-_ vances Within 20 Miles °  of Saar Border   Line Virtually Denied To Nazis   Gerntan Transocean News Ageney Says 600 Tanka Are Engaged in Aled Offensive

Third Army Advances on Metz Defense   Patton's Troops Split German Lines; First Army Still Held

THIRD ARMY TANKS AND INFANTRY MOVE AHEAD NEAR METZ  RUSSIANS THREATEN WID   RUSSIANS THREATEN WIDE OUTFLANKING MOVEMENT AGAINST BUDAPEST

Yanks Slash Deeper  Toward Metz  Gains of Five and Six Miles Are Racked Up

Fighting Advances Within 20 Miles Of Saar Border; Patton Thrusts  As Deep As 14 Miles in Four Days of Driving

Huge Tank Battle Raging Near Metz   Patton Advances To Within 20 Miles Of Saar Border.

PATTON'S UNITS POURING ACROSS THE NIED RIVER   General, Observing Birthday, Directs Troops to Point Near Saor Border

INFANTRY AND TANKS SMASH ACROSS RIVER   Vital Rail Line Severed As Patton Forces  Gain

Troops Within 20 Miles of  Saar Border   Thrust Carried  L. S. Forces Beyond 1918 Armistice Day Line

Germans Say 600 Tanks in Huge Battle   Third. Army Drive 20 Miles. From  Saar Rorder

DEEPEN. WEDGE SOUTHEAST OF FORT OF METZ   Berlin Claims 600 ‘Tanks Engaged in  American Offensive

600 Tanks _ Baitering Metz Area   But Rain, Minefields and: ; Stubborn Resistance Keep:  ‘Yanks at Slow Pace.   NAZI RAIL LINE  VIRTUALLY CUT   Nine-Mile Advance On_a.75Mile Front Carries Close. to Saar Border

TANKS LOCKED IN BATTLE FOR NAZI FORTRESS   Move In From Two Sides; First Army Repulses  Bitter Attacks

EARTH - SHAKING BATTLE: RAGING NEAR GERMAN BORDER AS U. S. TROOPS DEEPEN WEDGE AT METZ

Nazis Report 600 Tanks Are Engaged   First Army Throws Back Savage German Counterattack— Rain And Mud  Halt Progress

KEY RAILROAD LINE ALMOST SLICED   Fight Within 20 Miles Of Reich’s Saar Border   3 BRIDGEHEADS   Established Over Moselle River Near Luxembourg; Opposition Moderate

YANKS SLASH 9 MILES INTC METZ SECTOR   GERMAN DEFENSES SPLIT; BIG PUSH IS UNDER WAY

RESIOTANGE OF ” ENEMY GROWS   Fight up to Nied River, Nirte @ Miles East of Metz   NO ARMISTICE   SD oughboys Slug it Out With Foe Near Aachen and In Hurtgen Forest

Gains of 5 To 7 Miles Are Scored   Nazi Resistance Has Stiffened

Patton's Men Gain 9 Miles In 3-Day Push   Battle Rages Within 20 Miles Of Sear Border

Allies Defy Snow to Hit Nazis Hard   JAPS HURLING FREH TROOPS TO BOLSTER LEYTE FORCR.

PATTON'S UNITS GAIN TOWARD SAAR BORDER   Third Army Deepens Broad Wedge Southeast of Metz

TANK BATTLES RAGING IN AREA AROUND METZ   Limited Attacks in Forest Mark Fighting on Sector East of Aachen

Yanks Deepen Broad Wedge Beyond Metz   Patton's Troops Now Within 20 Miles of Nazi's Saar Berder

Railroad Almost Cut By Fighting  Amerieans   Germans Say Earth Shakes In Gigantic Tank Battle; More Towns Are Taken

Patton 20 Miles From Germanys Saar Border   Budapest Push On, Nazi Says All-Out Red Attack  Opened. Report

Yanks Slash 5 Miles Deeper In Metz Defenses, ‘Fight Up To Nied River

Enemy Forces Dislodged  From Forest —   U. S. Tanks Cross Nied River as Gen. Patton's Men Push Offensive Now in Fourth Day; Curving Battle Front Is 10 Miles From Saar

Third Army Within 20 Miles of Border  of Germany's Saat   Rain, Minefields and Stubborn Resistance Slow Yankees

Tanks and Infantry Cut Wedge Near Metz   American Forces, Now Well Beyond 1918 Battleline, Approach Within 20 Mlles Of Saar Border; Yanks Advance Widely

Yank Wedge Driven Deep In Metz Area   Railroad Periled by Push of Gen. Petton’s Infantry and Tanks

Yankees Deepen WedgeBelowMet2  Dattnan’c 2rd Army Cute Slash   Patton’s 3rd Army Cuts Slash Nine Miles Inside Lines of Enemy

Patton Rolls Ahead   Wedge Is Deepened Southeast of Met As Saar Border  Is Approached

—WEST FRONT—_  DOUGHBOYS AND TANKS ADVANGE   Broad Wedge Southeast ‘Of Metz Deepened In Relentless Attack   CITY THREATENED   Berlin Says 600 American Tanks’ Engaged In Great Battle

Tank Vanguards Cross Nied River, Capture Village 13 Miles Southeast Of City

Fighters Pass 1918 Frontier   Patton’s Men Thrust Nine Miles in Three Days, Reach Lucy

U, $. TROOPS WELL BEYOND LINE OF 191i   Fight to Within 20 Miles of Saar Border as Patton Observes His — 59th Birthday

 rive In (9 Miles Of Saar Border Sarrebourg Rail Line Is Severed

4 KILLED IN OHIO BOMBER CRASH   B-17 Plunges To Earth Near Williamsport

<atierican Forces Strike Closer To Japan Proper   Virtually Destroy Nip — Convoy But 600 Miles  From Enemy Mainland

JAP CONVOY DESTROYED BY TASK FORCE   38 Ships Sunk Or Damaged 600 Miles from Tokyo

CARRIER FORCE SINKS OR HITS 38 JAP SHIPS   Town Destroyed In Raid Bonin, Volcano Island Groups

JAPS BATTERED ALONG 800-MILE FRONT BY POWERFUL US. ATTACKS   Nip Convoy Is Virtually Destroyed 600 Mi. From Tokyo

38 Jap Vessels Sunk or. Damaged   Navy Hammers at Doorway to Japan

Carrier Task Force Steams Within 600 Miles Of Tokio:  Guam Trooos Advance

38 JAP. SHIPS DAMAGED OR SUNK BY NAV'   American Forces On*800 Mile Front Maul Nips In Three Day Attack Nimitz Reports.

JAPS VICTIMS OF MANY BLOWS BY AMERICANS   28 Ships Destroyed, Damaged; Marines Take Two Guam Villages

38 Ship Convoy Wiped Out As Nimitz s Forces Roam Within 600 Miles Of Nippon Doorway

U.S. Carrier Force Sinks  Jap Convoy   American Lond, Sea, Air Forces Batter Japs Along 800 Mile Front

Sa cecaeniencemaleai iam  Uz U.S. Task Force Deals Hard Blow To Foe Off Bonin Isles

YANKS BLAST JAPS ON 800 MILE FRONT   11 Ships Sunk, 27 Damaged By Task Force In Bonins

68,000 MAY QUIT WORK THURSDAY   Walkouts Scheduled In 64 Ohio, Michigan Plants

70,000 in M idwest Factories Threaten Strike Thursday, And All Because of Elmer

‘Strike of 70,000 Union Workers ‘In Three Big Cities Ordered Thursday

MESA Members Vote To Strike  Walkouts To Close 64 War Industries

DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF THOMPSON ©   Three-Term Mayor of Chicago Dies of Heart Attack

EX-MAYOR OF CHICAGO DIES   “Big Bill’ Thompson Succumbs To Heart Attack

SWIFT MOVES AIM TO GUARD BALKAN FLANK   Premier Antonescu Reported Conferring on Surrender to Russia

ALSO REPORTED MOVING INTO BULGARIA   German Spokesman Quoted as Admitting Latest Thrust .

SATELLITES IN GALKARS WAVERING   Romania In State of Panic  SOVIETS FEARED  Antonescu Calls Military Aides

DAYLIGHT RAID -BLASTS BERLIN   GERMAN. TROOPS TAKING OVER DIRECT CONTROL OF TWO MORE BALKAN COUNTRIES. AS RUSSIANS ‘ CONTINUE DRIVE INTO ROMANIA—AMERICAN — ., REANES MEET NO FIGHTER OPPOSITION ‘ IN RAID ON CAPITAL      Py INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

Australian Unit Pushes Ahead In New Guinea   Offensive Resumed After 4-Week Lull In Bogadjim Area

Aussies open Faria river valley drive   New offensive develops as Japs heavily pounded by aerial blows

AIR ASSAULT MADE ON NAZI TARGETS TODAY   Several Thousand Planes In Raid On Airdromes

Widespread And Furious Air Attacks  By Allies   Targets In France  And Germany Assaultec Ceaselessly ; Nazi Transport Devastated

AIRMEN ATTAGK NAZIS BEHIND FRENCH LINES   1,000 British Bombers Hi Rail, Oil Center in — Ruhr Valley

HEAVY BOMBERS POUND AT NAZIS NIGHT AND DAY   Airdromes, Railways, Fuel Dumps And Moving German Reinforcements Bombed And Strafed; Munich Hit; Oil Center Is Target.

Yank Planes Pound Bases Behind Lines   Others Strike Into Reich After Big RAF Night Attack

Munich Hit By Bombers; ‘Line Pounded   Hundreds of Big Ships Struck Targets Behind Beachhead

Fortresses Hit French Targets  Airdromes and Battle Line Are Blasted

NAZI AIRFIELDS UNDER HAIL OF ALLIED BOMBS   Several Hundred Fortresses Strike Battle Line: Pianes Range Far Inland.

Nazi Europe Is Subjected Heavy Bombing Attacks   Heavies Blast Airdrome Behind Battle Lines  In France.

PLANES POUND NAZIS TO REAR OF BATTLELINES   Transport Facilities, Air dromes And Oil Center Being Smashed

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK NAZI AIRDROMES   FOLLOW YESTERDAY’S ASSAULT WITH 1400 DAYLIGHT RAIDERS

Forts Pound Nazi Airdromes Lighter Planes Hit Targets From Beachhead Far Inland   Air Blows In Support Of Invaders Continue; Report Blows From Italy

Hope Defends His Programs for Soldiers   CHURCH PUBLICATION’S CRITICISM “ASTOUNDS” COMEDIAN OF FILMS

“Astounded’ By Criticism, Bob Hope Says   Archdiocese Paper Criticised Comedian For Camp Shows

FDR REVEALS U.S. POST-WAR PEACE PLANS   Suggests Council of All Nations for Security

F. R. Outlines International Postwar Body   SECURITY COUNCIL WITH MEMBERS ELECTED ANNUALLY IS PLANNED

Reveal U. S. Post-War Peace Plans   International Security Or ganization Proposed By President Roosevelt

PLANS FOR POST-WAR COUNCIL   President Makes Known Tentative Setup Considered

DEWEY GIVES PROGRAM FOR NATLUNITY   Governor Says Govern. ment Bickering Must End

“GOP CAMPAIGN TO ofllT AT GONFLICT UF GOVERNMENTS   “Success to Settle ‘Responsibility’ Areas Would Unite Party, Dewey Says   REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS TO MEET IN ST. LOUIS   Nominee Says Conflict Between Federal, State, Local Governments Has Been Constant Source of Friction  _ For 12 Years

Dewey To Base His: Campaign  On ‘Bickering’   To Assail Conflict. Between Federal, State ° And Loeal Governments

Gov. Dewey Hopes To End Friction In Government   Discusses Camnatqn With Running Male

Ann Sheridan In Hot Reply © To GI Paper Charge She And Other Stars Shirked On Tour

36 ENEMY FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN   Large Fighter Escort Protects American Bombers

Incendiary Raid Made on London   Reported Heaviest Since ‘‘Blitz”

Mass Sedition Trial Again  Is in Turmoil   Prosecutor O. Rogge Tells of Alleged Plot to Set Up Nazi  ~~  Regime in the U. S.

Sedition Trial Scene Of Chaos   Judge Tries In Vain To Keep Order In Court Among Shouts and Hisses.

Sedition Trial Proves Exciting   Defendants Shout Denials to Charaes

Shouts From Accused Mar SeditionCase   OBJECTIONS TO PROSECUTION’S OPENING STATEMENT MANIFESTED IN REPEATED COMCENTS FROM PRISONERS’ BOX.   Mrs. Roosevelt Quoted

C. OF C. HEAD PRESENTS BROAD PLAN   Involves Putting Industry Back On Peacetime Basis.

FHA’s Project Gets Green Light   War Workers’ Colony At Airport Planned

GOV'T SEEKING LEASE ON NYA, AIRPORT LANDS   Plan To Bring More Work. ers Here To Relieve Labor Shortage

‘Jap HeDone,’ Natives Sing At Isle Feast   ‘Fuzzy -Wuzzies’ Guests of Aussies: Celebrate Allied Victories

TRAINING PROGRAM SUGGESTED BY FDR   Says Public Opinion “on Youth Training Should. ~--' be Form

F. D. R. Suggests Year’s Training  For U.S. Youth   Says. Service Camps Offer Prize Sites for Purpose Jn. Post-War Period .-

Need for Training Of Ail Youth Seen by President   Military and Civilian  Education Would

Roosevelt Urges People To Consider Postwar Training Of U. S. Youth

FDR SUGGESTS PLAN FOR POSTWAR TRAINING  Would Place Youths of 17 to 23 In Great Army Camps After War

TRAINING PROGRAM SUGGESTED BY FDR      Says Public Opinion: on Youth: Training Should. be Formed

ON YOUTH TRAINING   President Wants Opinion Formed on a Post-War Program

CONSIDER \OUTH TRAINING, F. D.R. ASKS AMERICANS   In Request That People Form an Opinion on Need But Does Not Mean Military Training

Roosevelt Urges Study of New Type Training   Military-Civilian Program Suggested For Youths in Postwar Period

Peace- Time Draft Setup Is Suggested   President Urges People ‘To Form Opinion on Need of It’

URGES YOUTH TRAINING PLAN   FDR Suggests Public Opin. ion Be Formed for PostWar Program

Executive Suggests the Need For Post-War Training of American Youths

FOR SUGGESTS WE TRAIN BOYS IN WAR CAMPS   Says Surplus Housing Facilities Available After the War

POSTWAR YOUTH TRAINING SEEN   Both Military And Civil Teaching Would Be Given

Would Use Camps For Training Youth   F.D.R. Asks Public To Form Opinion

TRAINING CAMPS ARE SUGGESTED BY ROOSEVELT   President Outlines Possible Post-War Program For Youth Of Nation

YOUTH TRAINING AFTER WAR IS STUDIED BY FOR   President Also Tells Press Allies Have Understanding Regarding Occupation

FDR Urges Nation Consider Postwar  Training Of Youth   Outlines Course Along Military, Civilian Lines

Solve Camp Housing Surplus FDR Asks Public to Consider Post-War Training for Youths

POSTWAR YOUTH TRAINING URGED   FOR’ Asks Study of Plan for  Waar in Camn

Postwar Youth ‘Trainin ¢ Asked By Roosevelt   'Preaident Th inks Tt Would Be Good And Teach Men Discipline

Congress Begins Fairly Crowded Legislative Slate   Proposal To Freeze Social Security Taxes Introduced

Congress Open: And Adjourns “Until Thursday   Vandenberg Offers Proposal to Freeze Social Security Tax  4

Session of Congress Is Opened   Lame Duck Session Sees Two New Members Sworn  in Today

REDS STEP UP ASSAULTS ON EAST PRUSSIA   Patrols Jab Into Nazi Territory to Get Information

SOVIET PATROLS IN EAST PRUSSIA   Russian Units Withdraw After Procuring Vital Information

SENIORS 10 PRESENT CLASS PLAY FRIDAY   \ 3-Act Comedy Entitled “Qodie of the IT. S. A”

Anti-New Deal  Action Deferred   Southerners Get Small Group for Conference

Great fires rage in doomed reich city   Suicidal attempt to remforce penned varrison results in bloody death trap

RELIEF FORCE CRUSHED NEAR DOOMED CITY   ANCIENT BUILDINGS SHATTERED BY BIG AMERICAN GUNS

NAZI RESCUE: COLUMNS ARE SLAUGHTEREE      Division of 10,000 Troops Moving On City Caught   in Cross-Fire of Amer   can Guns. °      ‘CITY BLASTED a   Some Terrified Civilians Flee to Safety—Othen Shot in Back. . 8

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Nazis Reject Ultimatum of  Allied Forces   Enemy Attempt to Reinforce City Ends in Bloody Failure

Yanks Slaughter Germans Trying To Bolster City   Huge Blazes Rage After Shelling; Reinforcements Run Into Withering Fire in Daylight Dash

Torce Gity Results in _ Slaughter YANKS SMASH INTO SUICIDAL COLUMN  Big Guns Turned on City,  as Ultimatum A  Expires

Defiant Attempt to Reins force City Resultsin . Slaughter ‘YANKS SMASH INTO —  SUICIDAL COLUMN  Big Guns Turned on City, as Ultimatum Expires

FIGHTER BOMBERS, HEAVY ARTILLERY PUNISH CITY BY AVALANCHE OF FIRE, STEEL

Nazis Fight Desperately At Aachen  Relief Column Raked by Yank  ts. TS.

‘Yank Bombs, Guns Turned On Germans  Moving Up   Major Battle Develops As Armor, Infantry Smash into Column Trying Suicidal Relief  STRANGE STRATEGY.

Suicidal Relief Effort Reported Complete Failure   Deserling Germans Shot by Officers

Nazi Attempt To Reinforce  City Blasted   Germans’ Suicidal Rescue Maneuver Results in Slaughter; 2,200 Guns And 300 Planes Pound Enemy

Americans Blast Relief Columns as Fire Sweeps City  Assault on German Garrison Renewed After Ultimatum Expires

FRESH TROOPS ARE CUT DOWN BY ARTILLERY   Ancient Reich City Is Left In Flaming Ruins Af ter Bombardment   CANADIANS ADVANCE ON SCHELDE ESTUARY

No Interruption Of Wax ProductionFor'E’Award   Corning Glass Works Plants Gel Army-Navy Production Award Stars

‘CCW HONORED ELEVEN TIMES IN TWO YEARS   Receives Army-Navy War Production Awards for Onictandine Arhievement._

WPB MAPS INCREASE IN TIRE PRODUCTION   Some Soldiers Wili Receive Furloughs in Plan to Hike Output 30 Per Cent

F.R. Presents Road Program   34,000 Mile Highway System for Economic Welfare and Defense

Would Spend $750,000,000 Annually..... 34,000 - Mile National System Of Highways Is Proposed By President

President Asks Congress For 34,000 Miles Of Highway At $750.000.000 Annual Cost

National Road System Sought   Fr. D. R. Submits Proposal For 34.000 Miles Of Modern Highway.

National Highway System for U.S. Is Proposed  Program Would Cost $750,000,000 In Several Years

FDR Proposes National Road Program   Highway System of 34,000 Miles Would Cost $750, 000,000 Annually “Over Reasonable Period of Years”

President Offers New Highway Plar   34,000-Mile Network of Roads Proposed in Message to Conaress

Proposes Highway System _   President : Offe Offers Con: gress Program for- ‘Development of 34,000-  Mile Network of Roads

FOR PROPOSES NEW HICHWAYS   Submits Plan To Congress For 34,000 Mile Network of Roads

F. DR. PROPOSES HIGHWAY SYSTEM OF 34.000 MILES   Cost of Construction Estimated at $750,000,000 Annual_ ly “Over Reasonable Period of Years.”   CONGRESS IS URGED TO TAKE EARLY ACTION   Project Would Provide Direct and Indirect Employment for 2,000,000 Men After War.

US. Highway Plan Offered By Roosevelt   Svctem Would Provide 31,000 Miles of Modern Roads

National Highway System for U.S. Is Proposed   Program Would Cost   Program Would Cost $750,000,000 In Several Years

NATIONAL ROAD PLAN OFFERE(   FDR Proposes Highway System of Approximately 34.000 Miles.

Washington Roundup  FDR Submits 34,000 Mile Road Building Program To CongresS; House Military ‘Puts Finishing Touches On Veteran Bill

Production Halted At Four Coal Mines  Transfer Of Men Causes Walkout

NAZISPLAN EVACUATION OF FLORENCE   Five Hundred U. § Heavies Batter Enemy Communications In Southern France

Germans Prepare To Leave Florence As British Army Approaches City

GERMANS TO PULL OUT OF FLORENCE   NAZIS MOVE BACK OF GREVE RIVER PREPARATORY TO WITHDRAWAL FROM CITY.

GERMANS FALL BACK IN ITALY   Withdrawal From Fiorence Reported; Plan Stand Behind Greve River

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Nazis Plan Withdrawal At Florence   Pull Back Behind Greve River, Eighth Army. ” Ofily fhrar Miles = ' Beam Cle

Germans Flee At Forence   British Eighth Army Near Historic City

F lorence’s   FE all Nears   Nazis. Withdrawing. Beyond: Greve Line

Florence Near Capture By Allied Troops   Germans Driven From High Ground; Defense Begins Crumbling

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‘Americans Plunge Within _ 18 Miles ‘of Port of Cherbourg   AN ASSAULT ON’ CAEN   Alhed Headquarters - Reports Satisfactory Progress Made :

‘Doughboy General’ Bradley at Head of Powerful Beachhead, Units Join for Assault on Caen

CALL FOR MEN 38-45 BROUGHT UP BY MAY   Kentuckian Fights Any Plan For Lowering Draft Age

CHANGE IN DRAFT AGE IS TALKED   Calling Of “Over-Age” Group Favored Over Youths

CHANGE IN DRAFT AGES SUGGESTED   CALL OF 17-YEAR OLDS, NON-FATHERS, 38 TO 45 DISCUSSED

Wants Better Use of Men  in Service   House Military Committee Won’t Consider Use of 17Year-Old Boys in Draft

USE OF AMERICAN ~ SOLDIERS OPPOSED   5 ‘Bricker Sars People Will Not Per   mit Doughbors To Police ; Post-Wer World

Akron Man Has: Entertained Many Men Overseas _  Spent Three Months   Spent Three Months With Band In Army Camps Of Far East

Akron Man Has Entertained Many Men Overseas  (7 _e eee ot ce    Spent Three Months With Band In Army Camps Of Far East

Port 32 Miles South of Rome Taken by Allies   Quick Action May Bring Fall of Capital

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND RAILROADS IN CENTRAL ITAL'   Nazi Communication Lines _ Ripped Up North and South of Rome

PLANES POUND RAIL CENTERS (NITALY   Rip Communication Lines Both North And South of Rome

Air Fleets. Pound Centra Italy Rails   Smash Roads to  Be Used for German  Reinforcements Ry Nonald GCG. Coe

Swift Trend of War May Force Japs to Risk Fleet in Sea Battle; Challenge Stands

DRIVE. THREATENS JAPAN’S SUPPLIES   FLEET MAY BE FORCED TO _ FIGHT BEFORE HOMELAND IS MENACED.

Japan May Be Forced To Risk Big Naval Battle   Critical Hour Looms for Nips   Reason for Change   Farly Decision Prebable

Trend of events may force Jap  fleet to fight   May open supply  line to mainland

Price and Wage Controls Upheld.   Coffee Boost Denied; Pay Revision Unlikely

Avery Blasts FR On Petrillo Deal   Ward Chairman Again Challenges Seizure

ORDER TO CEASE COLLECTION FOR 9 MONTHS SOUGH   COMPLAINT REVEALS TREASURY SURPLUS OF 73 MILLIONS

Halt Sales Tax to Cut Surplus, Suit in Supreme Court   Former Democratic Senator Would Enjoin State Tax

STATE SUPREME COURT IS ASKED 70 LOWER TAXES  State Supreme Court Is Aslzed  To Lower Taxes

Offensive by Air on Again In FullForce   Thousands of Planes from England Blast Targets  in Europe

Detroit Workers Return To Jobs.   Cleveland Transit Strike Threatened

SAIPAN BASED B-29'S REVISIT NIPPON HEART   ‘Americans Level Aircraft Plant By Daylight; Say Pinpoint Bombing Is Most Successful

Japan Again Is Raided By ~ Big Bombers   Big Aircraft Piant-in Tokyo Hammered in Mid-After: noon Assault by Saipan Based B-29  Sunerfortresees

Aircraft Plant Hammered by Yank Planes   Heavy Damage Seems Probable

Eden Firm  Barring   Foreign Secretary in Unyielding Mood; Set House Debate Friday

Polish Leaders Fly to Moscow   Agreement Sought at Meeting with Stalin

AMERICAN AIRMEN HIT STRONG BLOWS   Italy Based Forces Strike Germans in Two Countries

POWERFUL AIR BLOWS DEALT ADOLE HITLER   FIGHTING IN ITALY BOGGED DOWN IN MUD

FRENCH COAST HIT FROM ITALY   German Bases Pounded By Bombers During Lull On Ground

J. $. Bombers Based in Italy Strike Heavy Blows at Foe; Fighting on Ground Bogged Down in Mud

Other Allied Airmen Based in Italy Hammer Railroad Yards in Rome—Large-Scale Ground Fighting Halted by Mud —Americans Jab at Nazi Positions Inside Batteréd Cassino and Draw Heavy Fire From Defenders.

Italian-Based Planes Strike Furious Blows   Fliers Report Good Results, Little Nazi Opposition in France: Florence Area Hit

ITALY AND SOUTHERN FRANCE RECEIVED POWERFUL BLOWS FROM BOMBERS BASED IN ITALY. NAVAL BASES AND RAILWAY STATIONS AND YARDS.

Ground Fight Is Slackened   Cassino Battle Still House-To-House Way

Italian, French Bases Battered by Allied Bombs  Ground Fighting in Italy Is Bogged Down

Russians Race Up Danube, Near Austria   Motorized Infantry , 43 Miles From Imperiled. Budapest

AUGOIANG RACE TOWARD GAPITAL   Push Toward Budapest Alone West Side of Danube; Drive To Within 74 Miles of Aus: trian Frontier

Soviets Driving Toward Austria  Spearheads Within   Spearheads Within 74 Miles of Frontier

REDS ADVANCING UPON BUDAPEST   All Of Western Hungary May Be Lost Soon, Berlin Fears

Reds Close . On Budapest And Border OF Austria   La re Breakthrough ‘Endangers Hungary

Soviet Forces Also Within 74 Miles Austria   Berlin Declares Russian Spearheads Only 43 Miles From From Hungarian Capital   300 Localities Overrun By Red:   Germans Say Breach Nazi Lines “Appears Tragic”; Russians Move Mile An Hour

Russians Drive Within 74 Miles Of Austrian Border   Berlin Says Soviet Spearheads Only 43 Miles of Budapest

Bulgarian Troop Reported Mov’ ‘Out of Greece.   Way Being Paved For Formal Armistice  With Allied Nations

Bulgarian Government of Premier Bojiloy Shaken  MEETING OF POLISH CABINET IS CALLED  Attitude of Government to be Announced Shortly

Bulgarian Crisis  Not Established   Hungarians Said Prepared To Submit Surrender

SOVIET VICTORY JOLTS BULGARIA   Peace Cries Also Heard In Hungary: Poles Fear Crisis

Bulgar Troops Streaming Out Of Greece   Sofia Government And Hungary About Ready to Ouit Axis

Red Advance Rocks Bulgari  Covernment   Hungarians Sound New Peace Plea; Pole: Say Thrust Serious

Poland Thrust Alarms Balkans   ‘Polish Cabinet Sees Serious Crisis,

RED ADVANCE INTO POLAND: ‘MORAL CRISIS’   For Poles Who View It As Most Serious, While Bulgarian Government Is Shaken.   Anxiously Wait

Russian Advance Shakes Bulgaria; Hungary Aroused   Poles Describe Red Thrus as Most Serious Crisis of War’

: Russian Advance Into Old Poland Shakes  Bulgarian Government to Its Foundations

yssiatt Advance into Poland Has Europe on Filge   ect Felt Chiefly ir Bulgaria,” Hungary And Poland

BULGARIANS ARE LEAVING GREECE.   Paves Way: Fer Armistice: With Allied: Governments

RED DRIVE ROCKS BULGARIAN REGIME   New Teace Cries Go Up In Hung ary as Russians Storm Across Old Polish Rorder,

RED VICTORIES ROCK BULGARS   New Peace Cries Are Heard In Hungary; Poles See Serious Crisis

Bulgars, Poles Are Distressed.   ‘Polish, Group Soon os DK las Wi ape

FRENCH LIBERATION PLANS ARE STUDIED      General De Gaulle Concludes Talks With the  President 

Armored Units Drive Over 37 Miles In Dav In Effort Ta Flank Sienfried

Congress Irked By Roosevelt's Ballot Demand   Taft Says President Trying to Corral Soldie: Vote for Fourth Term

PRESIDENT GALLS PENDING BALLOT MEASURE FRAUD   Immediately Charged With Trying to Corral Soldiers’ Fourth-term Vote.   TAFT SAYS MESSAGE INSULT TO SOLONS   President Takes Stand That State Ballot Plan Presents So Many Difficulties Soldiers Will Be Unable to Vote; Backers Irked

SENATE SOLDIER VOTE PLAN CALLED “FRAUD” BY FDR   President Lashes Out at “State’s Rights Measure” and Demands “Adequate Legislation.’   MESSAGE IS TERMED “INSULT” BY TAFT   Ohioan. Declares Executive Is Trying to Win Support of Armed Services for Fourth Term.

Soldiers’ Vote Dispute Flares   Roosevelt Demands an Adecuctie Law

Atate Ballot Plan Fraud Roosevelt Says e sen: Be pt rges  reeimnqeaenr  rieé

Ballot Proposal Termed A Fraud   FDR Charge Draws Fire Immediately

FDR's Message On Vets’ Votes Creates Furore   Insult fo Senate, Says Senator Taff

German Spies Wear U.S. Uniforms. Ride In Jeeps Behind Yank 1 ine;

ARMY-NAVY ADOPT POLITICAL POLICY   Regulars Cannot Seek Nominations But May Accent Them

Military Can Accept O {fice   Members Of Service. However. Cannot Solicit Nominations

POLITICS OPEN TO SERVICEMEN   Campaigning Banned For Members Of Armed U. S. Forces

Roosevelt Holds Service Men Can Run for Office   Bul He Forbids All Campaigning

TEN LOCAL MEN LEAVE FOR NAVY ©   Part of Group Of 29 From ve Local Draft Board

20 LEFT HERE TODAY FOR NAVY LIFE   Group Included Five Men From Marshall

JAPANESE CAPTURE CHENGHSIEN BRINGS NEW THREAT TO CHINA, ALREADY TERRIBLY HARD HIT

acToRrR’s KSTAT. TVALUATED   Terribly Hard Hit China Faces Serious New Threat From Japanese

Japanese Drive In China Offers Serious Threat   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst

WAR TODAY   Japanese Drive Brings New ,Menace to Chinas Nips Seen Preparing for Long Confliet

Ultimate Aims of Japs Not Yet Revéaled in Nev Offensive But Evidently They Are Preparing to Buttress Their Land Fortress Against an Allied  Invasion

The War Today  Jap Threat Serious One To Already Terribly Hard Hit China.

Near Campoleone Meet Increasing Nazi Resistance   Pile Up Rubble On Via Casilina, Foe’s Main Escape Route

Nazi Resistance Said Stiffening All Along Front   Germans Say Allied. “Shells, Bombs Raining On Italian Capital

Germans Contesting  Each Bit of Ground   Flame Throwers Fail To Stop Steady Advance of Fifth and Eiehth Armies

GERMANS SAY DUTSIRTS OF PITY SHELLED   ‘Nazi Resistance Stiffens as Allies Drive Closer to Capital,

Only 16 Miles From Objective   ALLIES rUSH ~~ AFR WAR. HARD AGAINST FOR ‘ 2 % KUDOPE,

ROMANS PRAY FOR SAVING OF CITY NNTH YANKS NEAR   Americans Within 16 Miles of ftalian Capital, Enemy Is Reinforced With New Men From North,   3 ENEMY DIVISIONS NEARLY DESTROYED   Russians Beat Off Germans In Reconnaissance Thrust! By Enemy, Nazis Loss Reported Heavy.

POLAND ARC IS POUNDED   Germans Rush Reinforcements To Italy Front

RESISTANCE OF NAZIS IS STIFFENING   New Fifth Army Drive Launched From Beachhead

U.S. Forces Are Pushing Nearer to City of Rome   Resistance of Nazis Reported as Stiffening

Last Defenses Below Capital Are Threatened   Nazi Reports Say Bombs And Shells Rain ‘Ceaselessly’ Upon Outskirts

AMERICANS 16 MILES FROM CITY   New Drive Threatens to Turn Enemy’s Alban Hill Defenses from South.

Seize Strategie Heights it Sight Of Italian Capital   SHELLS AND BOMBS FALL IN OUTSKIRT;

SHELLS HIT OUTSKIRTS OF CAPITAL    Nazi Resistance Grows  $tiffer All Along Italian Front

Yanks in  17 Miles of City   Allies Shell Capital’s Outskirts as Drive From South Indicated

ROMANS UNITE IN PRAYERS FOR THEIR  ANCIENT CAPITAL   Some Units Seize Heights Within Sight of “Eternal (ity.”